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?HE MILAN EXCHANGE. W. A. "WADE, Publisher. i MILAN. TENNESSEE. THE TWO KEYS. slept and dremti'Ml: and !o! t wemod to sco An anirel clad In white come unto me. A slorlous form with faro as s-eet and mini As ot a mother nendinif o'er h-r child. No tear 1 elt I .oiirh win tho vrricct peace Hid presence (ruvo hut likoas joys Increase Till heart and soul can hear no more, I (fuzed Upon ll.evi-ion lor u apace; then rnlsed My voice and aald: "Why comest thou to me?" Tho anirel nearer drew, a Rlitterlnir key In eitlier hand outst.e rhed, then in a voice OI wonilrous power and beauty: "Tako thy choice," .... He said: "I am the keeper of all hearts; On all I Bx a look designed by arts Unknown to men. l-.aeta tins its proper key; And yet these two whioh now I brln to thco I n lock them all. The name of one is Love: The other Wealth. I.ove cometh from above, Ot workmanship divine, hut Wealth, you know. Is made of men and cometh from below. Tbouith not alike, both sometimes fit one heart; But If. perchance, one falls. Its counterpart Ih sure to tit and turn. To some men still Are riven both to ope' all hearts at will. Thou mayest have but one. 'Tia thine to choose Which thou wilt have; but ponder, lost thou lose The better." Hero tho anirel paused; but ! With bitted breath did instantly renlv: 'Give mo the key of Love I" The angel smiled A wondrous radlaut smile. " Be. happy, enna. He said: "for thou has chosen what is bost. For where Is love oan come in all the rest." 1 took the key, and with his voice still ringing In my ear I saw the vision slowly fade and slowly disap pear. Then tell me, dear, has Love's own manic key The power to open thino own heart to uier nm. B. Clark, in ltomurcC$ MonUUv. "SUGGESTION. Startling Experiments In Hypnotism by Kmlnent French Scientist Something Which Threaten a Revolution in Many Accepted Ideas Conceivable Evil aud Actual Good Results from the Mew Dis covery. I cannot resist the temptation of send- in? your readers a translation in ex tenso of an article I read lately, entitled KiifTcrtxitlnn " Tt. la a. at'irtlinfr reveln.. tion of the results of the patient study and experiments oi eminent scientists. The writer says: I have lately had the opportun ty of studying a delicate ques tiona question of deep interest to the medical world, threatening to revolu tionize the laws, upset consecrated ideas, and overthrow accepted truths, putting the most stout-hearted minds into such a statu of doubt that one can not help asking himself the question whether the old world has ended its time and an entirely new social state risen lrom its collapse. Its adepts are no longer charlatans or tricksters, draw ing an income from the real or feigned grimaces and prostrations of a hysteric al or shrewd gossip. They are ear nest and accredited men of science, decorated up to the chin, stuffed full of d plomas, and wearing blue glasses. The academics listen to their revela tions, the institute receives their re ports! and they publish pamphlets lined .and filled with discoveries which con s;gn to the rear rank the names of Mesmer.Potel, and Donato. If a surgcou I might name consented to lay aside his toga and cap to exhibit the experi ments which he performs successfully in his lecture-room he would realize a greater profit in one month than the Corps dos Ambassadeura in a whole season. EXPERIMENT WITH A GENDARME. . It is known that for several years past five or six pro essors of the faculty follow with ardor the special study of hypnotism, and show their colleagues and scholars whom they associate in their work the most startling sights. This is what takes place: Tho doctor seizes hold, not upon a weak, suffering, lymphatic, nneuric, or scrofulous creature, but upon a solid fellow in i good health, a gendarme. Ho puts him to sleep, without manipulations or gestures, by tho sole effort of his will; and piacing himself behind him in order to avoid suspicion of dece'.t, says to him: "Execute all ruy movements:" And according a.- the operator raises an arm, sticks out his tongue, or shakes his limbs, the pjvtient raises an arm, I draws out his tongue, or sliaKes his limbs. This is not all; tho operator 6ays to the sleeper: "Before you awaken listen to what I am going to say to you. In a month, at nine o'clock in the morning, you shall go to the Tuileries, cross the garden on the right, pluck a white rose, and bring it to m. The day and hour indicated, the gendarme, who had not been seen again, appears with the white rose, wnieh he presents to the doctor. "Hal lo!" says the latter, feigning surprise, 'Why do you offer me this rose?" "I don't know; I happened to pass by the Tuileries a moment ago. I noticed this rose. 1 felt an irresistible desire to pluck it. I plucked it; and, as I was walking this wa) the idea of offering it to you tame to me!" "Has no one ad vised you to do this strange act?'' 'Nobody." "Then you know me?" "Uf course I do? You called mo here a month ago and put mo to sleep." "You are mistaken.' "Still it seems to mo that I don't know I don't un derstand it all, maybe." A SECOND EXPERIMENT. You are not dono with surprises, dear reader. Tho doctor looks fixedly at tho same soldier, who immediately drops into the samo magnetic sleep. "Friend," says ho to the patient, "my colleague hero beside mo is blonde, slim and wears a mustache. By and by, when von awako, you shall take him to be M. Oevy and ask b in for the cross." The gondurmo is drawn from his torpor bv a simple breath over his eyelids. "The President of tho Re public:" murmurs he-, and, collecting himself, "Your Excellency," ho says, I have served twenty years, been at ten campaigns, received throo wounds, nil I borne an exemplary condui t. Am I deserving of the cross?" We all burs', out laughing, while tho gen darme, upright in niililary position, looks sober and expectant. ".You are crazy," replied tho doctor; ''this gen tleman is my colleague, nmi not (Jrcvy." "I. beg your par. ion," con tinues the gnntlarmo; 1 know the l'res dent well; I have been on watch at the Elysee." lie has to bo put to sleep again in order to tlisposses him of his error. STU.I. ANOTIfKH. Anotlicr experiment. The "-endarme Is again hypnoii.ed, and tlio following speech addressed to him: " When you j wake, seize tho wooden spatula on this table. It is a dairrer. J into the garden of tho hospital, and stop before tho fourth lime tree of tho central alley, which is the gardener of tho establishment. Get into a passion and plunge the weapon into his heart. When the drama is over return to tell mo about it." Tho gendarme awakes and hesitates; he stops to think a mo ment, goes toward tho table, seizes pre cipitately upon tno spatula, and gives a pretext for withdrawing. We feign not to observe his nets ana gestures; but we follow him with our eyes from an open window, and see him advanc ing unconsciously toward the tree in dicated. He seems tho victim of a painful obsession, looks right and left, makes sureire is not watched, and suddenly, with a violent movement, breaks the spatula against the trunk of the lime tree. He returns into the operating room in great haste, pale, trerabliug and beside himself. "Arrest mo!" he cried. "1 am a coward and a mur derer! I have soiled an unspotted life bv an odious and stupid crime! I have killed a man!" "Why?" "1 don't know. I don't know him. He looked at me with a defiant air. I held a knifo in my hand and .drove it into his heart; I heard the blado scrape against his ribs! Mercy! mercy!" and he faints. He recovers" his senses; they blow on his forehead; he is led before the lime-tree; theys-how him the pieces of the spatula and its bark hardly touched. They assure him he has been the sport of a hallucination; he is con vinced at last, and breathes like a fever ish patient coming out of a nightmare. GUARANTEES OF REALITY. O, do not smilo and shake your head; I once smiled and doubted also. If Donato, whose sincerity I no longer suspect, had made me witness theso experiments, I would perhaps havo fiersisted in my former incredulity, and magined tricks and devices. But such men of eminenco in nervous theraupeu tics as Charcot, Luys. Beruheim, Liegeois and others who take an active part in these experiments, were my guarantee of their reality.' 1 1 made sure, moreover, that the patients chosen were honest peop'e, incapable of false hood or deceit. Then I must bow down and believe! ? I choose the story of the gendarme on purpose. It strikes me as more typical and conclusive than tho ob servations gathered from women, whose weakness and nervous sensibility make them as impressionable and malleable as may bo desired. Besi les, tho operators in hypnotism agree in this: that tho experiments succeed bet ter with natures accustomed to obey. It is not so easy to put to sleep a merry and playful working-girl as a six footer brought up in the habits of dis cipline and prompt to obey commands. OTHER STARTLING EXPERIMENTS. A journal three times the sizo of this would not hold tho accounts of other startling experiments which I witnessed. A magnetized female patient is ordered to drink a glass of water. "It is Huu- yadi Janos water," says tho doctor. Hardly have three minutes elapsed when a colio ensues and the supposed cathar tic takes effect. She is told to open next day a book hidden in the nurse's room and learn the twenty-fifth paje bv heart; she does not fail to obey, and recites the given page. If you question her about the cause of this strange act she rep ies she was urged to it by an in . visible impulse. I Tho keenness of the senses is incred ible during hypnotic sleep. The doctor Cuts a woman to sleep at one end of a all, and runs to the other end, ninety feet apart; thence in a low voice, hard y audible to those near him, assures her that her eyes are black. "No, Doctor, they are blue. Why do you tease meP" The reverse is tried; he tells her that her eyes are blue, after having sug gested they are black. "Blue eyes! No 1. Look sharp; they are as black , as ooa's!" He requests her to go and k'ss the sick person lying on tlm bed near hers, but is warned she will find a dog in place of tho person. She obeys, neverthe ess, and soon returns, saying: "There was a bul dog on the bed; I reached out my hand and he bit me;" and she stops the imaginary blood flow ing from a wound which does not exist. BENEFITS IN MORU1D STATES. Tho doctors of medicino who havo de voted themselves to hypnotic investiga tions have chiefly in view tho beneficial etlects which "suggestion may cause in certain morbid states. Successful cures have crowned their experiments 1 and justified their efforts. Paralytics have danced, thanks to tho will of the magneti.ers; a starving and insano woman was made to eat; persons dumb through nervous strangulation have do- ! livered harangues. Tho great Trous seau had almost foreseen these super natural auxiliaries. He ordered a pa tient who eou'd not stand on her feet to be carried before tho high altar, prom ising her that after a short prayer she would be ablo to walk. "1 ho 'woman went Luc ft to tho hospital dancing, with i her crutches under her arm. HOW UK HTPWOTIZKA I have carefully noted the ways i hypnoticrs, and wris on tho point of describing thorn when I came across a document on the subject by Mr. Bern heim. Professor nt tip; University of Naney. The eminent savant expresses himself as follows: "This is thu way I proceed to hyp notize: 1 begin by telling tho patient that it possible to 'euro or relieve him by means of sleep, without recurring to anv hurtful orjextraordinary ageno.es such simplo bleep as any one in rood health mav enjoy calm, beneficial sleep, etc. If need" be, I put one or two persons to sleep ociore i""". u snow him that this sleep is not pa nful and is not followed by any bad effects. When 1 have driven away irom is nium in this way the anxiety produced by tho idea of magnetism, tne somewhat mystic fear attached to this unknown nent. he becomes confident and ready to submit. I toll him: 'Look steadily at me and think of nothing eUe but sleeping; your eyelids feel heavy; your eyes are tired; your eyes twinkle and become moistened; your sight is con futed; your eyes are closed.' Some subjects close their eyes and tall asleep at tinee. To others I repeat and 1 iy fur ther stress on my words; I ad I gesture (the nature of the eesture is unimport ant). 1 place two right-hand fingers before thu nerson: I ask him to look at them, or pass both hands several times up and down berore nis eyes; or i bsk him to look straight at my eyes, and 1 try at t he same time to concentrate all his attention on the idea of sleop, I say: 'You close vour eyelids- you can not open them; your arms and limbs seem heavy, you can not feel anything now; your hands remain motionless; you can not see anything; you are asleep;' and I add, in an imperious tone of voice: 'Sleeo!' This word often breaks down all resistance; he closes his eyes and falls asleeo. If the sub'ect does not close his eyes or keep them ' closed, 1 do not make nim iook into my eyes oi at mv linircrs very Ions, lor some keep their eyes open indefinitely, and, instead of feeling a desire to sleep, look rigidly before them. Shutting tne eyes sue coeds best; then, after two or three mo ment at the most, I keep the lids close, or lower the lids slowly and gently upon the ocular globes, closing them more and more progressively, im itatini what takes place when sleep t omes naturally. I end by maintaining them closed while continuing tho sug gestion. Your eyelids are down; you can not open them again; your need of sleep becomes greater and greater; you can't resist any longer.' I lower my voice gradually, I repeat the injunction. Sleep, ana sleep senium iuns to come at tho end of four or five minutes. DEALING WITH REFRACTORY SUBJECTS. I meet with better results with some by proceeding kindly; with others, re bellious to suggestion, it is best to be abruot, to speak iu r authoritative mood, in order to prevent tho tendency tolaurh or the idea of involuntary re sistance which is provoked by this op- eration. r am often successful with persons seemingly refractory, by keep ing their eyes closed a long while, or dering silenco and immob lity; speak ing continually and repeating tho samo formula: A numbness, a torpor creeps all over you, your arms and limbs are motionless; your eyelids are warm, vour nervous system is quieted; you have no longer a' will of your own; your eyes remain closed; you are asleep, etc At tho end of eight or ten minutes of this prolonged suggestion of sleep, I withdraw my lingers his eyes remain closed; I raise h.s arms they stay up. This is the cataleptic sleep. Many sub jects feel the impression from, the first sitting, others at the end of the second or third. After one or two hypnoti.a tions the influence becomes rapid. It suffices to look at them, to extend one's linger before thoir eyes, to say '.Sleep:' to have them in a few moments m- 6tautaneously, as it were close their eyes and experience all tho sensations characteristic of sleep; others acquire the aptitude ot going to sleep quickly after a few sittings. I often put to sleep seven or eight patents at once in an iueredibly short tin e; they fall like Hies, so to sp -ak. Mow and then tlioro aro some refractory ones; I insist only a few moments; a second or third sit ting often produces the effect which could not be obtained on tho first." further on tho ingenious professor sneaks of the hypnotic, sens bility ot animals, explains tho prodiges of snake-charmers, tho power exhibited by the taraors of wild beasts, and in stances the curious and pitiful perform ance of a sleeping chicken which had been ordered to follow an irregular line traced on the tloor! ' DEDUCTIONS FROM THE EXPERIMENTS. How many grave and ludicrous, ter rible and U vial deductions can bo drawn from these experiments. I see the Code destroyed in tho future, aud the Jury led astray by tho effects of hypnotism. How can we condemn an assassin who invokes in his defense the formal demand of a hypnotizer'1' What criminal will not think himself hereat ter tne irresponsible tool of a superior will? What murderer will not shake tho convictions of the Judges by al leging a mysterious encounter with a phantom which put a club or a revolver in his hand? But by the tddo of the conceivable evil wo find an actual good of the highest importance the utiliza tion of t;;o hypnotic state in tho relief aud euro of bodily ailments and mental aberrations. Wo know not yet to what far-reaching eff.-cts this new d'scovery may open tho way. 1'arU Cor. .V. ). JJumc Journal, An unknown and very hund-onic woman died in tho C hambers street hospital. New York, recently, iust as I she said: "My husband is ." X Youths' Department. OXI. Y A CUiCXF.X. a nrciTATios roii uunrr t.i n t. t oiiu.s. F.r-! . it Hirl. A wnnth-rftil !m-v lull ti-ll: A rh;vken c-rit i r. tji a brm.cn shell, Anil. Mtuii linn on it tmv fin t. It iK ojH-.t iiii-l in- 1 t iv e nmi) lo cut- ill) a Ui-ituului summi t- umiiiiiiik. .scfo-il Lit ft- lilri. Ilut out of a ilin-k Imic mi;iiic 1 t!to hcivl I if an olii tft ' i-itt : wit.i ucimtiou- lrinil He fti ilc moim In-i-t- i hi' l r.i - imk t luck An l iinicklv imiincc I oil Mr ptvpniir eliiok lr.it. Ktaiaiiiix oil lis tiny Ici-t. V us cry in i lor u 1 1 uinb to hi uu u l eaiiuiut n. minor morning-. TVifriJ ! r . Then out of a donr-wny li-iipi d a rut, Tlmt put lu-r p. in on tlm oid tiny rut. 1 1 1 in out or n mirK lin e p i . ;n neiiii. An I cicpt iuhik with ,i nullwii In n I, And a eruol look. Nylin- i n kims nv.h tliluk, lo iiiiIckiv pounce on tlio im-i-o.ii j- cluck, '1 tin t, Ktdiiiluijr on It tiny led, Wus cry in u for u cruiuuto eat uu a leuutitui KUiu:ner morning. Fmirfi I. II e f:tU round tho corner tceru llercely Hon A hiivrko dntr, of a yi-llmv- hue. 1 nut llxed Ins tefiti in the tui'iiy c-nt. That nut hnr i-hnv on tin- old ltuiv rut. Tliat out of n cl.irk hole poppcii h;s head, Ann crept alonif nvuii a enuiiotia ncmi And a cruel look where tho urn whs thick. lo iniickiv nouiico on I lie ix-cpinit cluck. I hill, stand, n on its liny lo I, v an crying tor a crunio to t-u Uu a b. autllul summer morning-. Fifth IAtHr Girl. Hut a naiiitlity boy with u wicked s'lnir (f a crotciicd slick und u ruliticr siriuir, Looked over til tuucu wii.i a int-nii intent. And a smooth, round pctinle nwiftly sent, 'J li.it struck the w of u yellow hue, That round the corner fiercely tie;. And flxi'd his teeth m the tnlihy cat. That put her paw on the old Kruy rat. That out of h dark hole popped. bt head, And crept aionr wit i a c-.iuticus iread And a cruel look where tne fiass was thick. To ipiickly pounce on the peepinif chick. That, standiuv uu its ti-y itet, Wua crj inn tor a crumb to eat Ou beautiful summer morning. Surlli Little Girl. Next rump a man on the doublo quick Who beat ti.e hoy witu a bluuki hm-ii stick, Kor huitiiiir li s doir of yellow hue. That round tho corner norcBly lleur. And fixed l-.is troth in the tahny cut. That put her paw on the old if my rat, That out oi a dark hole popped UN head. And crept ulouif with a cautious tread And a cruel luok, where the ifi-ass was thick. To iiiic iiy pounco on thu peepm-,r chick, 'That, standing on Its tiny feet. Was crying for u crumb to eatJ- un a beautiful summer morning. Serrnth L.t'Ie flirt. The tumult cntwht tho watchful eye HI a tail poiii'cuian pin-inn by, Who. Nvalkicg up with a pompous tread. Arrested n tut neurly br e tlio head Of tho man Nvhocamoon the double quick 'To beat tne boy with a blackthorn stick, Kor hurting his (luif ot ye low hue, That round tha corner fiercely Hew, And tlxed ins tcetli in tho tubliy cut. 1 hat put her paw on the old irray rat. That out of a dark ho e ponin d his head. And en pin onir with n caii'ius tread And a cruel look where tho grass was thick. iu uuiCKiy pounce on the poepluif cluck. That, slHiiillnif on its t.ny tcet. Wus cryinif for a crumb to eat Un u bcuutitul summer morning. JCinhth Li tie Ctrl. tn a court of Justice sternly sat The por.lv Indite, in a white cravat, VN ti) ld the sheriff, for luck ot bail. To put the man In tne enmity Jail, who came in sight on tne uouoio quien To beat the boy witn a blackthorn stick Kor tin it in if tils doir or yeuow nuo. That round the corner percelv How, And fixed Ins teeth in the tubby cut. That nut tier iiaw- on ti e old iriav rat. That out of u dark hole popped his head And crept aloiur with a cautious tread And a cruel look wnere tne irruss was tnicn. To quickly pounce on tho peepinif chick; That, stundintf on its tiny feet. was cryinif tor a cruuiu in car un u beautuui summer morning. All Tu r . 'it. Tho RTatest evil often sprinirs From the 111 oiloctsot the smallest tilings; And all this trouble on ninny fed Through aiit le eh ck irom a In iken shell, On u beautiful iiiimiii-r morniiiK. tujene J Jtiill, in i Viicujo Inter Ocean. "FATHER KNEW BEST, IT SEEMS." 'Oh, dear!" said Emma, and sho looked disgusted. "I think as much," said Laura, and she pouted. It was nil becau-e in n lovely wood they had comu miles to find there was a great picnic party, tilling the boats on the little river, Idl ing the swings, using the croipuot p-ruunds. us nir all the nice cyy sitting places under spro. tl ng trees, using tho tables ami benches; swarming every where. Now, the fact, was that Emma and Laura wanted that grove for their picnic, and the people who were to at tend it were mother nnd father, and baby Joe, and their two selves. It was quite an event to tho Law rence family; for father rarely had a day to spare. "Never mind,'' said the Toother, try ing to smile .away the frown on her daughters' faces. "Our party is so small, wo cau tind a pleasant place elsewhere." But the girls didn't believe it, and they spoiled two miles of that ride in frettinsr. They found a lovely old tree, anil smaller ones near it, and a stream of clear water trickling down from somewhere Oh, oh!" they both said. "Father, do. please, stop here! Mamma, only see what a lovely place!" But the father had been looking at the sky some minutes, and he shook his head. "It wouldn't be safe girls. There is a heavy st irm coming this way, I think. We must drive on and reach a place of shelter. It wouldn't be good for little Joo to get a wetting." Then you should have hcara hmiua and Laura, they grew so wise! They were sure it wasn't going to rain a drop to-day; and when their arguments failed to convince their lather, and when he further said that they must try to reach tho village, and cat their lunch at a hotel, then the misery of these unhappy girls was great. "The idea," they said, "of waiting all the summer to have a picnic, and then eat their dinner out df a basket in a miserable littb country hotol! They were nut going to do it. ' Then I regret to tell you that they sulked und rci'u cd to do more th-in to glance sli l y at certain pretty sights which nudher po'.ntod out on the way. Arrived at tho hotel they wanted no dinner, not they; and they touted their lietidn and looked in 'tired. Thev would go for a walk; and it was by their" father's command that they t.'iok an umbrelht. However, it, was just a dash of rain lasting long enough to wet the girls. ' . If we had been under the big tree where wo wanted to stop." they said, there couldn't a drop have touched u--" Much more of th'H kind they said; and when the horse was rested, they started homeward; father, sorry for his daugh ters' disappoin ment, remarked that, if the woods were not too wet, they would stop awhile. Too wet!" said Emma. "Why "it hasn't rained twenty drops." "No, indeed," said I.aurc. But as thev rode alone;, the wav crew muddier ami muddier, and it was evident that in this direction tho shower had been heavy. As last they came asrain to the great old tres: but" what do you think had happened? Why, the 'lightning had been there, and torn the branches, ami uprooled part of the heavy trunk, and ruined the beautiful tree. "Oh, my!'' said the mother. 'That would have been certain death to anyone under its branches," said the father; while the eirls looked at each other, and said not a word. That evening, while they were mak ing ready for the night, Emma said: "Father knew best, it seems." Yes, indeed!" said Laura, What a pity that they spoiled much of their day l y not remembering that before! Pansy. Why We (all tho Cat Tus." Did you ever think why we call tke cat puss? A great many "years ago, the people of Egypt worshipped the cat. They thought the cat was like the moon, because she was more active at night, nnd because her eyes change, just as the moon changes, which is sometimes full, and sometimes a bright little cres cent, or half moon, as we say. lid you ever notico pussy's eyes, to itce how they change? So theso peoplo made an idol with a cat's head, and named it Pasht, tho same name they give to the moon; for the word means the face of the moon. That word haa been changed to pas or puss, the namo which almost every one gives to tho cat. Fuss and pusey cat are pet names for kitty everywhere. 15ut lew know that it was given to her thousands of years ago. Harper's Young 1'cople. Suppression tit the Uiiillotlne. The members of tho French Senate have received from M. C'harton copies of his proposition in reference to tho suppression of the guillotine. M. Char ton demands the abrogation of the twelfth article of tho penal code, which orders that "every person condemned to death shall have his head cut oft';'' and in place of "the mutilation of tho convict s body," "the employment so long as it may be thought impossible to abolish punishment by death of a physical or chemical agency sutlk-iently powerful to destroy life instantaneous ly." In spite of M. Charton's proposal, tho guillotine may bo expected to con tinue its sangmuary reign for some years longer; and now that centennial celebrations are so much in fashion it is not improbable that in 180 the hun dredth year of its existence will be com memorated. It was the invention, as every one knows, of Dr. (luillotin; who, in the memoir on tho subject winch ho presented to tho National Assembly, recommending its adoption, declared that he had borrowed the idea from a machino of the same kind formerly em ployed in England. It was doubtless the decapitat.ng machine- known as "tho maiden," used at one time in Scot land, of which Dr. (luillotin was think ing. He, in any case, improved in various ways upon his model, which, by his own account, was a very rough contrivance indeed. A story (adapted from that t f l'halaris anil tho brazen bull) at one time got abroad to the ef fect that I.' r. (iu llotia was ono of tho first to perish by the portentous inven tion which he had introduced for tho samo humane motives as those which animate M. ('barton in proposing to replace guillotiuing by some still more rapid process. Dr. (luillotin died, how ever, a natural death before the formi dable ins.rumcnt named after him had come into uso. at. James' (Jazettc. The Jute Industry. The cultivation of jute in the south ern states must ere long become an im portant industry. The climate is favor able, and the low, moist soils in all the Gulf States, aud such as are not adapted to 'cotton, would make the finest jute plantations in the world. Jute fiber is now in great demand in all civilized countries, and although many millions of bales are anually exported from India, a much larger quantity would be used if it could be obtained at a moderate price. We ought at least to raise all that is required by our man ufacturers, and we believe t hat it could be produced with more profit to tho producer than is now derived from cot ton culture. Tho cultivation of such fiber-yielding plants as jute andramino must eventually becomo important in dustries in this country although, farm ers aud land owners generally do not appear to be anxious to try these staples, the great 'Value of which is unques tioned in nil tho markets of tho world. N. Y. Hun. Beautiful effects may bo produced 1 uiioii velvet by using liquid dyes lor pMmfr.i instead of the tube" pailita ci ranionly cm, loved. The work i iiitii h .smoother' and tho plastered ef- li ot thai tho oil colors ive is thus ' avoided. Exchange