The Utile One*.
Oh ! when at dawn the children wnko,
And patter up and down tho oUiirs,
The flowers and loavee a glory take,
Tho rosy light a splendor shares
That nevermore these eyes would see,
If iny sweet ones were gone from mo.
And when at eve they watch and wait
To fold me in their arms so white,
My burdens, whether small or great,
Are charmed away by calm delight
And, shutting out the world, I live
The purest moments life can give.
But when at bedtime 'round me knee
Wee, tender, loving, white-robed forms,
Twth hands upraised in fond appeal—
Ah ' then are hashed life's weary storms .
And heaven seems very near to me,
With my sweel darlings 'round my knoe !
THE CURFEW HEROINE.
J' kod quite half an hour of Cur
few toll. The old bell-ringer came
from under the wattled roof of his cot"
tage -toop atul stood with uncovered
head in the clear, sweet-scented air.
He had grow n blind and deaf in the
service, but his arm was as muscular
as ever, and he who listened this day
mar lied no faltering in the heavy me
talie throbs of the eathredral bell. Old
Jasper had lived through many changes.
He had tolled out his notes of mourn
ing b>r good Queen Hess, and with
tears scarcely dry he had rung the glad
tidings of the coronation of James.
Charles ,1. ha 1 I men crowned, reigned,
and expiated his weakness before all
England in Jasper's time ; and now he,
who under his army held all the com
monwealth in the hollow of his hand,
ruled as more than monarch, and still
the old man, with the habit of along
life upon him, rang his matin in sor
row.
Jasper stood alone now, lifting his
dimmed eyes tip to the softly dappled
sky.
The walls of his memory s med so
written over—so crossed and reero-scd
by tho annals of the years that had
gone before—that there seemed little
room for anything in the present.
Little reeked he that Cromwell's spears
men were camped on the moor beyond
the village; that Cromwell himself
rodo with his guardsmen ale igue
away ; he only knew that the lull that
hail been rung in the tower when Wil
liam the Conqueror made curfew a law
had been spared by Puritan and Round
head. and that his arm for sixty years
had n< ver failed him at eventide.
He was moving with slow step
towards the gate, when a woman came
hurriedly in from the street and stixid
beside him ; a lovely woman, but with
face so blanched that it seemed car vis 1
In the whitest of marble with all its
roundness and dimples. Her great
solemn eyes were raised to the agisl
face in pitiful appeal, and the lips wen
forming words that he could not under
stand.
"Speak up. lass ; I am deaf and can
not hear your clatter."
The voire raised, and the hands
clasped and unclasped, and rung them
selves together palm and palm.
"For Heaven's sake, Jasper, do not
ring the curfew to-night."
"What, not ring curfew ! Ye must
be daft, lassie."
"Jasper, for sweet Heaven's sake,
for my sake, for one night in all your
long life, forget to ring the bell. Fail
this once, and my lover shall live,
whom Cromwell says shall die at cur
few toll. Do you hear? my lover,
Richard Temple. See, Jasper, here is
money to make your old age happy. 1
sold my jewels that the Lady Maud
gave me, and the gold shall all be yyurs
for one curfew."
"Would ye brilie me, Lily do Vere?
Ye're a changeling. Ye've na the
blood of the Planfagcnets in ve're veins
as ye're mother had. What, corrupt
the bell-ringer under her Majesty, go-xl
Queen Hess ! Not for all the gold that
Lady Maud could bring me! What is
your lover to me? Haltes have been
Imm and strong men have died before
now at the ringing of my bell. AwaT'
And out on the village green, with
the solemn shadows of the heavens
lengthening over it, a strong man
awaited the curfew to toll for his
death. He stood, handsome and brave
and tall—taller by an inch than the
tallest pikeman who guarded him.
What had he done that he should
die? Little it mattered In those days,
when the sword that the great Crom
well yielded was so prone to fall, what
he or others hail done. He had been
scribe to the late Lord up at the castle,
and Laxly Aland, forgetting that man
must woo and woman must wait, had
given her heart to him without asking,
while the gentle Lily I)e Vere, distant
kinswoman and poor companion to her,
had, without seeking, found the treas
ures of his true love, and held them
fast. Then he had joined the army.
But a scorned woman's hatred had
reaches] him even there. Enemies and
deep plots bad compassed him about
and conquered him. To-night he was
to die.
The beautiful world laid as a vivid
jpictuve before him. The dark g;c.-n
wood above tho rocky hill where Robin
Hood and his merry men had dwelt;
tho frowning castle with its drawbridge
and square towers; the long stretch of
moor with tho purple shadows upon it;
tho green, straight walks of the vil
lage; tho birds overhead, oven the
daisies at his feet be saw. Hut, ah!
more vividly than all,he saw the great
red sun with its hazy veil lingering
above tho trees, in though it pitied him
with more than human pity.
He was a God-fearing and God-serv.
ing man. He had long made Ids peace
with Heaven. Nothing stood between
him and death—nothing rose pleading
between him and those who were to
i destroy him, hut the sweet face of Lily
|do Vere, whom lie loved. .She had
| knelt at Cromwell's feet and pleaded
for his life. She had wearied Heaven
with her prayers, but all without avail.
Slow ly now the great sun went down
Slowly the last red rim was hid behind
the greenwood. Thirty seconds more
and his soul would bo with his God.
Tho color did not forsake his check-.
The dark rings of hair lay upon aw arm
brow. It was his purpose to die as
martyrs and brave men die. What was
life that he should cling to it? He al
most felt the air pulsate with the first
heavy roll of the death knell. Hut no
sound came. Still facing tho soldiers
with his clear gray eves upon them, he
waited. The * rims-m banners in the
west were paling to pink. The kino
had ceased their lowing and had been
gathered into tho brick-yards.
All nat ire had sounded lor curfew ;
but old Jasper was silent.
The hell-ringer with his gray head
yet bared had traversed half the dis
taneo that lay bctw< -n his cottage and
the ivy-covered tower, when a form
went flitting past him, with pale,
shadowy rols-s hitting around it, and
hair that the low western lights touched
and tinted .as with a halo.
"Ah, Htildah, Huldah!" the old man
muttered; "how swift sli- Hies! I will
come soon, dear. My work is almost '
done." Huldah was the good wifo who
had gone from him in hert.uly woman
hood and for whom he had mourned all
his long life. Hut the fleeting f"nn
was not Holdall's, it w as Lily do Vere,
hurried by a sudden and desperate pur
pose tow ards the cathedral.
"So help me God, curfew shall not
ring to-night! Cromwell and his dra
goon- come this way. Once more I
will kneel at his feet and plead."
She entered the ruined arch. She
wrenched from its fast nings the carved
and worm-eaten door that barred the
way to the tower. She a-> ended with
flying and frenzied fee? the steps; her
heart lifted up t-> God for Richard's
deliverance from jw-ril. The bats lb w
out and shook the dust of centuries
from tho black < arvings. A- she went
up she caught glimpses of the interior
of the great building, with its groined
rixif, its chevrons and clustered columns.
Up—still up—Vyond the rainbow
tints thrown by the stained glass
across her death-white brow; up -till
up—past open arcade and arch, with
griflln and gargoyls staring at her fr in
bracket and cornice with all the hid
ousness and media va) carving—the
stairs, flight by flight, growing frailer
beneath her young feet, now but a slen
der network between her and tho outer
world, but still up.
ID-r breath was coming short and
gasping. She saw through an open
space old Jasper cross the road at the
foot of the tower. Oh, how far! The
seconds were treasures which Crom
well, with all his hlood-lniught common
wealth, could not purchase from her.
Up—ah!—there, just almvo her. with
its great brazen mouth and wicked
tongue, the bell hung.
A worm-eaten block for a step, and
one hapd had clasped itself alxve the
clapper, the other prepared, at the
tremble, to rise and clasp its rnato, and
tho feet to swing off, and thus she
waited. Jasper was old and slow, but
ho was sure, and It caino at last. A
faint quiver, and the young feet swung
from their rest and the tender hands
clasped for more than their pre
cious life the writhing thing. There '
was a groaning and creaking of tho
rude pulleys al>ove, and then the
strokes caino heavy and strong. Jas
per's hand had not forgot its running,
nor his arm its strength. The tender,
soft form was swung and dashed to and
fro ; but she clung to and rarrssed the
colli, cruel thing. Let. one stroke come,!
and a thousand might, follow, for Its
fatal work would lie done. She
wreathed her white arms alsiut It, so
that at every pull of the great ropes it
crushed Into the flesh. It tore her, and
wounded and bruised; but there. In the
solemn twilight, the brave woman
swung and fought with the curfew, and
God gave her victory.
The old bell-ringer said to himself : j
"Aye, Huldah, my work is done. The
pulleys are getting too heavy for my
old arms. My ears, too, have failed
me. I dlnna hear one stroke of the j
t -r.\w, D?-r old bell. It is my ear*'
that have gone false, and not you.
Farewell, old friend."
And just beyond tint worn pavement
a shadowy form again went Hitting
past him. There were drops of blood
upon the white garments, and the faro
was like tint faro of one who walked in
Iter sleep, and the hands hung wounded
and powerless ot her si<'.
Cromwell paused with his horsemen
under the dismantled May-pole before
the village green. He saw the man
who was to die at sunset standing up
in the dusky air, tall as a king and
beautiful as Absalom. ITo gazed with
knitted brow and angry eye; but his
lips did not give utteraueo to the quick
eomman I that trembled on them, for u
girl tamo flying towards him. Pike
man ami archer steppi d aside to let her
pass. She threw herself upon the turf
at his horse's feet; she lifted her bleed
ing an I tortured hands to his gaze,anil
onee more poured out her prayer for
the life of her lover; with trembling
lips she told him why lUehard stil
lived—why tho curfew had not
sounded.
Lady Maud, looking out of her lat.
tired window at the castle, saw the
grc at Protector dismount, lift the faint
ing form in his arms, and bear her to
iier lo\.r. She saw the guards release
the jr. n r, and sle heard the shouts
of joy it Ins deliverance. Then she
welcomed the night that shut the scene
out fi out iii r i n vious ' ye and • pultured
her in its gloom.
At til- next matin lll old .lasjiei
dud, and at curfew toll lie was laid
I '"side (in wife Who had died in his
youth, but the me!.i in of whim had
lie**n with him nlw ay <.
If We knew.
If we k:i' w - that every particle of
stale, musty, . r adult, rated f.*nl not
only | : ned but w uken <1 body and
brain;
If we kne- that a musty ■gg for
breakfast u. . eau.e us to make a
bad bargain 1. re dinner;
If we knew that the miik • f onenn
lualthy or fe\. ri-li ow will irtf• t with
its distcmfH r the i. Ik of tw• nty her
COWS ;
If wo knew that our • .il stoves
were continually sending f rth :n* • .1!.
vapors unfit to bp athe;
if we knew that every uncle s mu -
cular motion, the result of ha it, such
as leg swinging while sitting down or
walking n< rvously about to n<* purpose
is in cxptnditure of nerve force for
naught as is money idly flung into the
sea;
If we knew that every tight-fitting
binding and compressing garment was
in the expenditure of strength neces
sary in wiaring equivalent tothecar
ryingof |HIUIHISof insilli-s weight;
If we knew that the jk r'ii who can
s;t perfectly still and hold his or her
mind directly to the j p-*c;,t moment
and the things of the moment, and not
allow it to go straying off in longings
to the place where it most desires its
l .-ly to lie, was hoarding up strength
to lie us,si as occasion shall require;
If we knew that we who despise
thus the day of small things and g • ■ n
in a 1 things as we do now. would in a
few years' time be vainly applying to
some doctor to tinker up our worn out
Indies;
If we knew that every bodily pain,
•■very feeling of lassitude, weariness,
whether weariness of the plrit or
weariness of the body, was a r proving
and anmonishing sermon against some
act of disobedience cither near or
remote;
If we knew how blindly and stupidly
we warred at. times against our physical
and mental happiness ;
If wo knew that the mind, which
schemes, plans, studies, buys, sell*,
makes bargains, builds houses, navi
gates ships, gets us into difficulties,
gets us out again, acts in the drama,
paints on the canvas, cuts out of mar
ble the statue, thrills from the plat form,
writes tho story, fights the battle, dis
covers the continent, directs tho voice
in melody, manages the lingers on tho
piano, is not an unseen myth hut an
invisible power within us built up out
of our bodies, improving as the body
improves and influenced for good or ill,
for quickness or siowless, for keenness
or stupidity by every breath wo inhale,
by the quality and purity of what wo
buy, by the cleanliness of our bodies,
by the fit and ease of our clothing, by
the presenre and influence of the peo
ple aliout us, by our habits of method
and precision or the reverse ;
If we knew, believed and realized
fully all this, what then?— New York
Graphic.
A woman onee went for a pound of
candles, when, to her great astonish
ment and mortiflrntlon, she waijtold
that they had risen a penny in the
pound since her last purchase. "What
ran le the cause of auch a rise?" said
the old woman. "I can't tell," an
swered the "but I believe
'tis principally owing to the war."
"What!" exclaimed the old woman, "do
lii fight by candlelight?"
THE MOON AND THE WEATHER.
Kout Hiiprratlilnna Conn-ruing Fair I.nnn'a
Influence on Cropg, Kit*.
No belief is more general than that
the moon exercises an influence over
the weather. People who declare that
they are not superstitious in the small- i
est degree, believe that a change in the '
weather is almost certain to occur with
every change in the moon. Perhaps!
they inherit the belief, but if not they
acquired il very early in life and
strengthened it through years of obser
vation. Their observations were not
very accurate, and their methods of
recording them far from methodical.
T hey believe that the weather changes
with the uuHin, and when a sudden
change did occur at the appearance of
a new quarter, half or full moon they
remembered it and sometimes noted it
down. If the weather did not change !
at or about the same time the moon
did they did not charge their memory
with the failure. Hy means like these
they became more strongly convinced
of the influence of the moon on tie
weather.
Scientific men in different times and
in various countries have atti-n* ,tcd to
overturn the popular and almost uni
versal belief that the moon influenced
the weather. They have been at the
trouble of keeping an accurate account
of the prevalence of winds, tin- fall of
Water, the degree of temperature ami
other phenomena, with a view of show,
ing whether change are more likely to
occur at one time in the lunar month
than at another. They have all come 1
to the conclusion that no coincidem-i
exists lilt Ween the changes of the IIIOOM
and those of the weather. At the
mis ting of the JSri'i-h A mciation for
the Advancement of .* jenen, this vear.
Sir William Thomas stated tli.it "c are
ful observation with the 1 urometer
thermometer and anemometer, at the
time of new moon, full moon and half
inoon, has failed to establish any rela
tion whatever Ixtween the pha-es of
the moon and the weather," and that
••if there is any dependence of the
weather * n tin* pli.t . . f th< He or:, it
is only to a <1 gr< •• quite imp- r. < jribb
to ordinary ob-ervation." Still, it is
questionable if this announcement will |
in the 1- ,-t shake the faith of farm* r- i
and sailors who, inore than < tie r
< U—s of j rv>n. are directly int* r
ested m the weather, in their old ideas j
about the influence of the in---n upon '
it. Th<y will go through life t ex
pecting to we a "drought broken" or
the cessation of a continuous rain till
the moon changes. Xnthcrwill their
faith lie changed in the favorable or
unfavorable influence of the moon ori
certain ir.q planted at different time
in the lunar month. They will eon-i
tmnet i plant ] itatoes and other r—•'
crops "in the dark on the moon," are!
to sow small grains "in the light of tin
moon." They will slaughter their legs
• id their bull s 1,1, if they art intend"!
for home consumption, when the rnoou
non tho increase, o that "the m> a'
will not wast" away in the frying-pan.'
They will, however, lay up rail feni
w hile the moon is d< reusing in .? -
if- t • prevent the r.i Is from warping
and f; >m rotting mit I • fore their time.
It may l>e said that no evil remits
from U'lieving in a harmle s supcrsti
ti m. Such, however, is not alw ay s the
c.ie. l>r. Harper has shown that su-
I rstltious jieople are very likely to !■
conquered in war. They will not set
out on a march or engage in any haz
ardous undertaking unless all the sign
and omens arc favorable. If they place
reliance in lucky and unlucky days j
they will accomplish h-ss in a given
time than people who regard all day
as of equal value. If they relv on sti- .
jn rnatur.il aid thev will not use their '
!*est exertions. They will attribute 1
victory or defeat to other than human
and natus.il causes. If such are the
effects in a belief in sujicrstitlons on a
people engaged in war, similar unfa,
vorable effects would le observed
among jx-oplo engaged in a peaceful
pursuit like that of fanning. The de
lay of two weeks in planting a crop
would often result in failure. It is
likely that tho general lielief in certain
agricultural superstitions has had much
to do with rendering farming unprofit
able. It is generally very difficult to
discover the origin of a superstition,
on account of its great antiquity. Su
perstitious beliefs are the oldest we in
culcate. They are also among the first
wo receive in rhildhood. They are
taught in tho nursery long before we
learn to road, and many years before
we Itcgin to study science. Buch be
liefs aro very difficult to dispose of.
Our Judgment may condemn them as
follies, but they remain toinfluenceour
actions. Few persons are willing to
acknowledge that they aro supersti
tions, although they hold to beliefs
having no foundation on carefully con
sidered olwervation* main by them
selves or others. They hold to the
doctrine thnt relations exist lietween
certain things that cannot be explained
with our pros*-at knowledge of science.
—Chioayo "Umi.
SCIENTIFIC' SERAI'S.
Ether sjiray; in the jiractice of l)r
McColganan, has not only Immediately
relieved facial neuralgia, but has ef
fected a permanent euro, Tho intense
cold produced is considered to have act.
Ed on the affected nerve so as to have
jiroduced a complete change in the nu
trition and its action.
Diigong-oil, width is yielded by an
herbivorous cetacean of the waters of
Australia ami the Fasten Archipelago,
lias all the medicinal qualities of <-<* -
- oil, without tho repulsive taste
, ami odor and the tendency to decay.
I Tho dose i-s the same in quantity as
cod-liver oil.
In the neighborhood of the Thurin
gtan town of Kosen there are some di ■>
l used saltworks with considerable
j water-power. The latter is now to be
utilized for the electric lighting of the
i town, and Kosen will thus be the first
Herman town to introduce the electric
light for illuminating the whole town.
Mr. (}. if. Darwin maintains that
while there i, nunc evidence of a yield
ing of tho buly of the earth to the
tidal forces exerted by the attraction
of the sun and moon, that yielding is
\< ry small indi * d, and that the rigidity
<f the earth may as a whole bo set
down as equalling that of steel.
Chiceory will hardly be longer made
to serve as a ul -lituto for coffee if it
jh true that, as a European technical
journal a erLs, it can be male to give
i:i alcohol of a j h-a-ant aromatic taste
and great purity. An adulterant of
higher value than the ul taneo it is
■h tigiu-i ti simulate i, m v<r intro
■Juecd, and for very obvious reasons.
A /unl ('ourtdilp.
There were two unmarried members
of the house ; a m pie w an ! an adopted
girl. The m jihew was an over-grown,
beavy-faccd, the k-lipju-d, yellow
haired, bluc-eynl blonde—a specimen
•f the trilial albinism, a dandy, and the
darling of the white-haired "Old Ten."
' >ne day, after i had presented the lat
'cr with a pane of ruined negative
giass, she ventured to compare her fa
vorite with m>. My flattering acknowl
•slgment - of this* unpliment made dt
* id<sl winnings of the old woman's
j hitherto restrained affections. The
governor spand this youth no m-.re
•hui the others. With characteristic
rony, he called him "Th< Family Milk
man," < r "The Night liird," the latter
term referring to his <;.<•, "which,"
the governor usually added, "wiggled
like those of an owl in strong sun
light."
The maiden was jolly, pretty, and
'■•quettish—the Indie of "Riverside
troet." Her lovers were many, but
of the long row who wait<d under
'he ni'urn It cavo, only one was admit
ted—the g..\ • rtor's younger brother,
my sympathet i< friend. There was hut
room in th< h u in w hi< h the two
• iiild h' jie to le left to themse lves—
mine. Here they came night after
tight. Thy j i.d no attention to the
nely }f<-lik in his hammock, hut sat
: jH'site in the darkness i n the low
'"!• bench, h ur after 1 nr. stroking
i h other's hand*, giggling and cooing
m low t -nes just like so many of my
own j<eoj l" of the same age, only in a
different language. An occasional
smack, followed by feminine indigna
tion, taught me the meaning of "Stop
that !" in Zuni. and the pecuijaritiea of
the Fuehlo ki-. If the bl.-sful pair
remained text late, the slab door would
rumble on its wooden hinges, and the
governor, preceded by a lighted toreh
if cular sjilint<. would stalk in, and, as
near as I could make out, rate the
young man soundly for hi - want of n
[ spert to the W'f hiuytona Mf-U'kana,
| whereupon the jwir would vanish, the
; maiden giggling and the young man
cursing.— l'rauk J/. Cushiny, in the
Century.
Where Smoking Is Always Allowed.
It is strange that a people so scru
pulously polite and so thoroughly con
trolled in all their movements by the
iron hand of etiquette should not only
tolerate but encourage some of the
very things which the laws of English
and American society positively pro
hibit, says a Saxony correspondent of
the Chicago AVr*. Hut it is custom
which determines what etiquette is
and is not.. In Kaxony it is uot impo
lite to smoke in the soeiety of laities;
not any more than it is to carry a cane
or wear a watch. Smoking is allowed
in many of the first-class theatres;
smoking is allowed usually niter the
first part of the fashionable concerts.
Smoking is allowed at the dinner table
in the fashionable cab-sand cluls. The
Saxon ladies are accustomed to tobacco
smoke and pay no attention to it. It
is not polite to smoke in a private
house until you arc invited to do so,
hut the Invitation comes along ail
naturally as the request that you 1
seated on a chair or sofa At the
evening receptions and parties no
smoking Is allowed—that Knot in the
company rooms, hut then- is a smoking
chamber or a veranda or balcony close
fy, where the gentlemen can go oat
aid puff to Ibeir heart's content.
A MTBTKHIOI S DISEASE.
CklM W ko Prop* into a Hound H|r*-p WU4-
out iv.rilni ul any Xlnutr lu Ik* Umr-An
KmbnrrnMlnii Introdurliou.
A very strange cim of a little girl,
four years old, suffering. from narco
lepsy, has lx-en reported in this city.
'I he disease is a vary peculiar one, and
the patient is liable to go off into a '
sound sleep at any moment, which may
continue for several hours, and at
times, even two or three days,
A few weeks ago Dr. Robert 11. Por
ter w.i . called to . ec tie- child in quev
tion at her home, on Portland avenue.
She first developed symptoms about a
year ago, after an attaek of typhoid
fever. The first indications her mother
' Sad of the trouble was the restlessness
jf the child, which would often have
"nodding spdLs." These attacks of
sleep gradually increased in severity
and frequency until she used to have at
least twenty a day, and often as many
as five or six at the table while eating.
These attacks only lasted for about a
minute, but they were very profound
and it was impossible to wake her untii
the spell passed away. When she re
covered the child would immediately
resume whatever she had been doing,
perfectly innocent of the intermission
whieh had taken place. When the at
. tacks would come -<n she would fall
forward on h"r face, and a large tumor
was produced :i b'-r fop-lead from the
frequent contu-ions. A few months
ago she b' gan t" have •; a-rns in addi
tion to the narcolepsy, and became vi ry
destructive, having a de-ire t > kill ev
erything she cam'- in contact with,
! and it required great ' are to restrain
her.
The rase is a very remarkable one,
from the development of the disease so
early in life, as with children. The
u - ual tendency in such < a<o-s is to idiocy
instead of insanity, as it is a very rare
occurrence for a child not over five
years to lx-corne insane. The little girl
was put under treatment for th<- dis
ease. and ;s now j- rf• t!y recovered.
The freaks that have been produced
in cases of this kiii<] are very curious
and sometimes amusing. A couple of
years ago there v, as a man afflicted
with narcolepsy in the cjtj, whose at
ta< l.s of sb-cji ir- c<i t<> l.v fr en two to
three day-, an! < -u on .m < r twice
a month. Soin< time ago a wcll-kn >wn
sjs-rting man. who was a narcobpf.c
lived here and was a source of much
curi'e;tv. (>! as. -nailv ).■ would as
tonish his friend l.v g< ng to *!<■;. at
the bar while taking a drink and re
main perfectly uncortsf ions for a f< w
moments, when he w uid wake uji and
take l.is drink, j.erfc tly unconscious of
any interruption.
He created con-idi rable amusement
one night at ; gentleman's hous- by
falling s uind to sleep while just in the
.. t of receiving an introduction to a
young lady, mu h ti her discohifiture
and his friends' amusement. It is im
j ossible to sir uw the | ilicnt out < f
He sleeps, and th< attacks are liable
to come on at any moment, no matter
lew the vi< 'in; may l.c situateb This
mysterious and unaccountable disease
was first do-- r;.i*l a:tout ten \< ars ago,
and since then it has received much at
tention fr. in ncur -logi-ts, but its class
ification has not yet lon definitely net
tled. From fhe spasmodic character
of the dis'*a>c and its frequent associa
tlon with epilfpsy, physicians believe
;t one of the branches of this disease,
and ere long, no doubt, it will !*• given
its appropriate position with the epilep
tic class.— Louisrilte Co tirirr-Jou rnal.
Introduced Animals.
The bare enume ration of the animal
organisms that have in various ways
enlarged the area of occupnt ion thri ugh
the director indirect agency of civiliml
man would occupy the greiter jx.rtion,
if not the whole of the olumns of an
issue of the Record, and if to this were
added the more or b-s* exactly known
data respecting the dale and circum
stances of th'ir introduction, the*
various countries they are distribute J
In, and other facts of interest, a thick
quarto volume would not sufilce to
contain alb .So, leaving out insects
and invertebrates generally, as well as
fishes and reptiles, inanv sjiecies of tlio
former of which classes have lately
leen transplanted with success, we will
confine ourselves to a short mention of
some of the mammala and birds tout
have been brought into the hemisphere
we live in. Our domestic dog, cat.
sheep, goal, ox. pig. ass, horse, fowl,
guinea-fowl, peacock, goose and canary,
are all natives of the Eastern hemis
phere; only the turkry is a native,
taken eastward, domesticated and re
introduced, just as the .Spaniards rein
troduced the cultivated Indian fig or
prickly pear (a cactus.) All these
and more man brought, but with them
came the black and brown rats and the
common mouse—creatures which live
with man and at his cost, in spite of
all his efforts, aided though he may lie
by cats, dogs, auxiliaries of other car
niverous triU-s. and all the parapher
nalia of traps and poisonous fo<*!
Ph Uaddph ityJßtSini.