Newspaper Page Text
,,IBiW, r&ffl J ... r 3 t ti jri" SSt.'19WW r r S'- v It" V vlft. I' J c JS rp ifO " fftf i ' if 7:' v I. l rVT! rt, 1$ fw ; w 5 V' 7 P?T'. ." IS K ' ft? '! ' r g&? 1 raided by the police. It cah't 1h tWtr lio W, a counterfeiter. ! iNonc bf ihe quests, can haVc Bqncnlctl Wont ttTOHeylosf it ca?dHPrbuabl5, though, it is only ill-feeling against him as a Reactionary; nil the pciisnnts nroutulltcrts arc Republicans. Count X. That must Wit! Political malevolence. i M. do hi Baste: Precisely, and ,Homepf his victims arc stirring tip ,thc ,mpli to avenge their private injuries. Candy mis shot at the other day, and we expect an attack ' on the ciintcau sonic night. ( 14 Court X. Hut, good heavens, vrhy? , M dc la Haste: Oh I don't exactly know, hut Candy has ruined no end of the peasants by borrowing money of. them, and as for women Count X. "Women? Candy? Women? f M de la Baste: Maybo they weren't, injured fathers, but qitly editors; still a man doesn't go to dun a fellow with a gun, does he? Count X., Bless my soul lthis is incredible and I'm no end obliged to your for letting me know; it's friend ly; but Candy is innocent. Ho ought to have his traducers before the courts , M. dc la Baste: But how can he? The moment he did it would all come out. Count X. All cpme out! What? Candy is a repectable man ; not a genius but a gentleman. His wife is reserved, but clever; his married daughter is dressy, but there is no harm in her ; nud little Louise M. de la Baste : Well, of course, you'll And out for yourself, but since you ask me as a friend, it is only right that I should tcllyou in advance what suspicious facts theanre. .They say hut tthat gamekeeper Candy shot by accident the one with the pretty wifc--well, never mind ; of course it can't be proved that it was murder. I leave it to you, now, if it isn't pushing things to the verge of public scandal for the gardener to tackle the butler with a spade during dinner time because he thinks the lady of the house is paying too much atten tion to the butler? As for, Mine, de l'ort-France, you'll find put. all about her wjicn the divorce case comes up next winter that is, if her husband doesn't commit suicide or kill her mid the other fellow .before then. As for Louise by Joye,' sir, I should never have believed jit of. her a mere child, Just home from the convent; but she is a onflrmct tlipsomanidc though flic Police. MKglstrite-lnit he's an enemy of the fulnijy wouldn't accept that plea when he 'sent her up for shoplifting. But come along I've kept you waiting with my gossip. Now that you're posted you'll enjoy the. chateau : it's funnier than Zolii. Count X. murmurs vnii inaudible lie about going back" to' Paris for his umbrella, buys a returlj ticket and flies from thcncctiiscd spot.) , (.Scene II. The grand tg'rracc at the chutciiq. Present M. de Candy, his, wife, their daughters, Mine. do Persil, the reigning beauty ,of the season; Princess Sangolf, etc., etc. To them enter M. de la Baste.) Omncs: And where is the count? ,,M. du la Baste: Gone back to I'm is! I scared him! (Loud ajt plause and cries of "Well done, de la Bust!" "Our preserver)'' ".Saved! saved!" "Let! have breakfast!'' "The ass!" "The idiot!" "1 breathe again!" "Hurrah for do la Baste!" quick curtain.) , SMITH'S EXPERIMENT. ".Smith," 8Hid a well known Chicago merchant to his cashier, "you are going to the devil." "Sir ,f 'Now, there's no use denying it. 1 1 ace it in your face. You were drunk lust night, and the night bc foro last, aim you're bracing up on whisky to-day, It won't do, sir ; it won't do. You can't stand it, and if you could why I can't." "Well, sir,' replied .Smith, "I ad mit I have been going it a little too strong lately" "A little Well, I should think yoti had a little. Look here, .Smith ; you're a good cashier and an honest one, I believe, and I don't want to lose you. Now tell mo, why do you drink?" "I am sorry to say, sir, that it seems to be a genuine love of liquor. I am always thirsty for whisky." "That's bad, very bad, but not incmable. I was one of the boys myself ortcc, and I got over it. You try my plun, nud I think it will work with you." "What is your plan, sir?" "Pll toll you. When I was a sales tmuij about tlf teen years ago, I got to i mining around nights and drinking and' carousing until J. began to look Just as you do now. My employer cajnp o me pne day nud lemoust rat ed. 'This tiling has got to stop,' suid he. 'You muatclthor Jet some body eisc do your dunking for you CHRISTMAS. DECEMBER, MY ELEGANT STOCK OF GOODS Bullublcfor the Benson, Are Now Open and Ready for Inspection ! Kleoant Nkw Now Dclgni In Solid Stirling Silver (Gorhnm) Watches, In G6ldimd Slrvcr Sec my window. PERFUMERY & TOILET AJTIGkES, Hosiery nntl Furnishing Goods, .Ladies' Bags ancLSatchels, Now Stylos ; Qlovoo, Tlos, and Suspenders, in groat varloty. In fnct, CYcrything Bid table for Young and Old I isl tut. axorNinucvY. Iij , - - . fcoeac$3oagDcc SEWING BASKET S, "vitn -iuttii'iBe. i. .i Ilinuiivl'K Cologne, Curd Cuhcn, Plush AlbmiiM, FniiM, Feather, Flowers, gmUV gw (fomuts, ($tt$s, X"ICII'UW, &?., In omtleMH variety, ,j ' V At unliciinl ot prices. WHITBY JET JEWELRY. For all these and ninny other articles suited for Christmas Precntsi, Go to A. M. MELLIS', 101 Fort Street. !7ecijM$3ecG0G& fill ifil K.AZ A Jt A. W. Richardson & Co. Arc now offering iome of the finest quality of GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS 3 ever imported into thh KiugUom. Amongst them arc in the most fnscionuhle sliapeu. B'X'CICXiB SEIXrE&TS oaaJ-y a, fe-wr'loft. Fancy Neck Wear for every occasion. And nn j Invoice of French Gaiters, whioh are just to hand.- J iS Cull mid jl A. W. JtlCIIAltDSON & Co., Jit ' Coiner of Fort and Merchant Strccl!. J5 mmmmsmsmsmsmmmm J. T, WAT0RHOUSEB 3tTo. lO r'OT'BTSaaE'T, Till: FINEST ON THE At the Fort Xho.UBual display of Usoful Goods, for all seasons, "vvill bo found at 3SS$$$$$3$$7SS35&3 "U 1882. Designs in I . "What d yilaoJs? purchase from STOaK OF ISLANDS Street Store. the other Stores. or jUnve fiomobotly else do your.woi k' That give mo nn '' idea, and I acted upovit. Stepping into 'the'neare'eit Baloon, I invited nil hands up to think. Thov rcsnondfcd witli alaeritv. I nicked out tho toughest customer in mo ioc nun nsKcu mm wuair uc uiti for n livjng. .'Nothing,' he replied. How much will you charge a week to do my drinking forme?' 'Wot d'ye mean?' he asked. I explained to him that I had .a perpetual thirst, and thnt whisky unfitted me for business, sol wanted him to do my drlnkiiiR forme. 'I'll do it for $5 n week an' found,' he replied. 'That is, found in whisky?' 'Yes, that's it, boss.' 'Well, it's a bargain,' said I, nnd wo shoolc hands on it. I took him to tho store with mo and sat him down in a corner out of sight. When I began to feel thirsty 1 took him out and mnclo him drink a goon big class of whisky. Somehow, I felt -bettor after Boeing him-drink. Well, I had to take him out several times that day, nnd Jicforo night lie was pretty fulh By bedtimo ho was helplessly drunk. I had been out with tho boys and taken him, along. Theyjdcked at flist nt having mich a iricaaly looking tramp along, but when I explained they thought it a good joke. I got thnt fellow drunk every day for a mounth, 'and then lie threw up the job. My appetite for di'ink Jjitnn po strong ,sfor him. I hired another drinker, and ho stayed by me for three weeks. Then I caught him throwing a glass of whisky oyer his shoulder, and I dis charged'him. Well, I' used up nine ablcbodicd drunkards before I ab solutely quenched my thirst; but I quenched it nt last. I never think of taking a diink now." "I believe I'll try your plan," said Smith. " "Do," said the merchant. "I am sure it will work. It may take a long time a jenr, perhaps but you stick to it, and you'll down your appetite to dead ccrtaint. f f ypu find it is costing yu m6re than you can stand I'll increase your salary." People who arc not intimately ac quainted witli Smith think he is going to the dogs at lightning express speed. They judge so because is always seen in the company of a drunken bummer of tho worst po3si bio description. But Smith's friends know thnt he has not drunk a drop since ho had that talk with his em ployer. Ho has already used up three drunkards, and is looking around for a fourth. Chlcago Hcrald. IRON-CLADS AS FIGHTERS. Vice-Admiral von Henk has pub lished an article in a military periodical on tho value of iron-clads with reference to the bombardment of Alexandria. As military history has as yet furnished but few mat erials for forming a final judgment as to tho value of iron-plating for ships, tho purposes aimed at m its introduction, and . tho question whother these purposes havo reall3' been attained, the writer thinks it desirable to draw as mtny lessoiu as possible from every event in this hold, and thus to incrcaso our ex perience. Ho begins with a history of iron plating. The introduction of shell guns, soon after 1850, much dimin ished tho value of Nclson'H battle ships, witli 80 or 100 guns. Tho necessity of protecting sliips-of-war better against artillery became still more urgent when tho introduction of steam made their construction more complicated. In the Crimcaii war tho ilussian shells did great oxecutiou on ships. Opinions differed greatly howover, especially in England, us to the value of ironclads and tho necessity of their introduc tion, until the fight of the Confederate ship Mcrriniiic with the wooden ships of tho Union in Hampton IJoads, and lior light ' with' tho Mon itor, placed tho great superiority of ironclads beyond 'a doubt. On tho 8th of JJarcTi, 1882, tlm Mcrrimao attacked four woodon frigates and completely destroyed two of them. Next day she Unexpectedly met tho ironclad battery-ship Monitor, a mere dwarf in comparison, and was compelled ,to retreat, severely damaged. 'Tho impression mado by tins light was enormous, and it showed two things tho necessity of frail-plating for pattlo-ships, and of arming them with guns of largo calibre and great piercing power. Tho fust opportunity of estimating tho vnlueofiron-platlngin a conflict, ship to ship, on tho high K'cnJ, was alfordcu' by tho battlu of Lissa on tho 20tli of Jury, I860. In that action tho roJatidns between armor and guns -were nbout tho samo as thoy aro now. Sovcn Austrian ironclads wore opposed to cloven Italians. Tho urniOf of the ships was pretty cqitiil in strength. R") both sides; the Italians wore utowgjSf ;n artillery. The tesult is well kn.own, Deducting OllO who perislicd wijth tho llo d'ltaliaand tho Palmitro, tho Italians lost onK 110 'ittbn ontof. frjOOO., ThoftoSd t-tta UmitlieUus trianV sido waeWthiriy-thrco '-.killed andiSi vfoumied out'of 7,000, tho Ihc wholb'TT'lio GattlcTdf 'Lissa was an eloquent advocate for tho incipient system of iron-plating shins of. war. In tho war in South America in 1877 two tonamfdrcd English ships had diflioulty in repulsing tho at tacks of tho Peruvian monitor Huascar, and had in tho end to let it go unmolested. Of that new malignant and deceitful wenpon, tho fisli torpedo, wo havo as yet ho ex perience, for tho published reports of the Ritsso-TurkiBh war aro do un trustworthy that ono can found no opinion on thorn. Tho result of .observation up to this dato may ,be condensed na follows: First, unar niorcd Bhips counot maintain a fight of any duration against tho heavy guns of ships and forts; secondly, iron-plating is still an effectual defense against tho heaviest guns, and consequently indispensabio for battlp ships: thirdly, rams and torpe does arc, indeed, formidablo weapons in sea fighting, but cannot supersede artillery as tho chief weapon, and they promise moro chance of success in ironclads (because of their better protection against tho enemy's ar tillery) than in unarmorcd ships. Medeclal. . Wo clip the following from Holes on popular science, by Dr J.' K. Taylor, P. G. S., &c, in tho Mel bourne Argus. It can hardly be wondered at that any wcllconducted researches as to the nattlrc and origin ofihuig disease should immediately obtain attention. I havo already forwarded the latest information concerning tubercular diseaso, and now we have SI. Giboux's demon strative evidence thnt the air breathed out by consumptive people is con tagious, llahbits (as usual) were the vicailous patients. Four young ones were kept for 105 days, and were obliged to breathe in for a short space of time ovcry day air which had been) ,breathcd out by consump tive animals. They began to sicken, and were killed, nnd on examination their lungs were found affected by tuberculosis. Another pair of young rabbits were subjected to exactly the same experiment, except that tiic infected air introduced was made first to pass through cotton wadding impregnated with carbolic acid. These came out of the ordeal unaffected. It would appear, there fore, that a respirator armed by being soaked in this acid would, prove a safeguard against attacks of tuber culosis, ami ought to bo worn by those whoTiaveto wait upon or nurse patients who arc far gone witli this insidious descasc. The result of a scries of careful experiments lately carried on by Professor Iloppc-Scylcr shows that an excess of oxygen greatly promotes the development of such microscopic fungi as Jiacteriiun and Micrococci,' whilst it excite a retarding influence on the productioirof yeast nud true ferments, hindering fermentation by the trniuformation of tho organic Mibstnncc-4 which result from it into carbonic acid," water, and ammonia. Speaking of the above fungi reminds me that an important tran slation from llabenhorat'H(r0t7rt-mcn-Jb'lora 1ms just appearedi In Science Gostip giving a detailed account tit those species of Micro cocci which produce &pceiflo diseases. One species of these fungi is known to pioduce small-pox, and may bo regarded ns an nctlvo clement in vaccine lymph; another species, called Micrococcus diphtheritica, produces the well-known diphtheritic membrane of the throat and else where, spreading through tho lym phatic vessels and the tissues which surround them. This fungus grows rapidly, stops up the capillaries, and thereby ruptures them. Still another species of Micrococcus flourishes on wounds, and produces pyoiinin. It is more than probable, according to Itabenliorst, that many other epide mics, such as cholera, scarlet fever, measles, typhus, &o., arc caused by allied species of fuitgi Leprosy has been long known to Iks due to the presence of these ubiquitous micros copical plants, and tho latest scientific discovery adds consumption as also due to tjieir ravages. .ii i Pride hath two seasons a forward spiing and an early fall. Poetry has been the guardiai) angel of huintuijty in all ages,. , It is the hub cat thut catches the early bootjack. T i T 1 - II ' H Charge and cottntci'-clinrgot itl'O identical in a dry-goods store. The Loiidon Graphic announces tho birth of " tlirec young children." A wwk nftcr mdrringo he snitl ; Wfiuo; I hjy'bccn bugging n Uclii- I.I .Mi.. fc I I I I ! loss bn tho unnrmored ship jKniscr be-biir twenty-two killed. nndMiighty k. v . irsHft1- .7'1'ji--sr- 'm3r$r j- "i in muTVri&inm ..