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& For This arW Doctors.^ PatLnt"Doctor, I don't feel^ST at fall. I have a dull pain in my head near ly all the time, and a pressed feeling in my chest my food distresses me I'm low-spirited, feed and languid, 'in shoit, I'm completely broken tip. I'm very careful about eating, and though I eat graham bread exclusively, I have an uncomfortable feeling here the ches after every meal." Doctor-"Ah! I suspected as much. My dear sir, don't you kn thought" 3 that graham buvxd is the very worst thing you can put into your stomach Patient_"Why, doctor, I a way Doctor"Of course you did, and so do thousands of other people but nev ertheless it's bad for you. How can anv man.no matter how well he may be, di gest good-shavings? And that's what graham bread isa good part of it. No you can't digest it, and it lies in your stomach, where it irritates and causes everything you eat to ferment and evolve gas which causes that pressed feeling in your chest." Patient"But what must I eat?" Doctor"White bread is good enough for me, and it's good enough for you. In fact, it's just what you need. What do you drink with your meals?" Patient"I used to drink tea and coffee, but I thought they hurt me, and now I drink water exclusively." Doctor"No wonder you don't feel well. Do you know, sir, that there is nothing so hurtful to health as this ev erlasting drinking of cold water? Why, sir, it congeals the fat about the stom ach, retaiding digesting and impov erishing the blood. You'll have to stop that right off A little warm tea or coffee won't hurt vou a hundredth part as much as a goblet of ice water. On the contrary, it suj^plies just the needed stimulus, and aids in the assimi lation of food. You're a teetotaler, I suppose Patient"Well, yes that is to say" Doctor"I understand. You are"con scientiously averse to drinking but if it Was essential to your health you wouldn't offer any foolish objections?" Patient"No, I don't suppose I should, if it were really nesessary." Doctor"Well, 1 want you to getthink some pure whisky, and drink a wine glassful, say, four times a day, be fore meals and upon retiring. If you have that dull feeling at any other time, you can take a dose it won't hurt you, never oar." Patient"How about my smoking? Must I quit that?" Doctor"No,mdeed. It aids digestion and soothes the nerves. Smoke all you want to. You don't needjjanv medicine. Leave off vour graham bread and cold water, and that, with the whisky, will fetch you round all right. Come and see me again in a week." Patient"How much,doctor I might as well pay vou as I go along." Doctor"Five dollars, please. Thank you." Patient"Good day, doctor." Doetot "Good day, sir." Patient (soliloquizing as he walks away)''Dr. Smart is a sensible man, a Jry sensible mau. Ho understands my svmptoms exactly. He talks like a man who knows lus bubine&s." I\v?oi "Ah, Mr. Brown, how d' ve do? .Not sick. I hope?" Pc'fewit -"Well, no, not sick exactly but I don't feel just right. Pood dis tress AIIM, you know troubled with a dull ytiih in my head and a pressed feeling in my chest am tired, languid and low-spmted." Doctor"I'm afraid you eat too much white bread." Patient"Why, isn't that good for mp?" Doctor"No, indeed worse thing you can eat." Patient"But what shall I eat? They sav graham bread isn't so whole some as it has been cracked up to be." Doctor"Nonsense! An old woman's notion nothing else, I assure you. White bread contains starch, but it hasn't any ghiteu and gluten, you know one must have it if he would be well. Giaham flour contains both starch and gluten. It is a perfect food, and it's just what you require." Patient"But they say it is the greater part woody fibre." Doctor4-"All the woody fibre you'll find in graham flour wouldn't hurt a flea. Leav off your white bread and eat nothing but graham. That's the first thing.s pw what do you drink?" Patient* *Ji*a and coffee." Doctor"* wonder vou are bilious. I shall ask Ju to give up your tea and coffee and take water instead." Patient"But I always supposed that cold drink" Doctor"Another fallacy. Water is Nature's own beverage. Who ever heard of an animal suffering from bil ousn ess You nev. drink any alcholic stimulants, eh?" Patient"Never drank a drop of spirit in my life. Don't believe in it. sir." Doctor"Glad to hear that. Al cohol is a virulent poibon, and half *f ."the people who come to me are so im pregnated with it that it is almost im possible to do anything for them. I can help them, but that's all. When a drinking man comes to me, I make him forsake his cups before I'll undertake his case. Better a man should die in hissoon right mind, you know, than live a cen tury half-fuddled. Ha, ha, ha 1" Patient"He, he. he! Just so, doc tor, just so." Doctor"I take it vou don't use to bacco?" Patient"No, sir, and wouldn't to save my life." Doctor"It does me good to hear you say that. Tobacco never did any body any good, and its responsible for half the ills that flesh is heir to. Nowcocaine I want you to take this [holding up a bottle] three times a day before eating, and one of these powders on arising and upon going to bed, and one in the fore- noon) and'one in* the afternoon., 6ome and see me again in aiday or two.'"" Doctor"Five dollara^-just the changethanks." Patient"Good day, doctor."' ^Doctor"Good day, Mr. Brown." Patient ("to himself, outside)"Doc tor Smart is a sensible man, e, very sen sible man. He understands my svmp toms like a man who knows his, busi- ness.'??. TEE MAGICAL DRUG. Which Takes Frcm the Kttff* of Sttr Kery Its FainWonderful Snoocss of the H*ew AnsesthoticJL Oxst Demand, for Cocaine. From the New York Tribune. A prominent eye surgeon was remov ing the bandages from the eye of a patient at the Post Graduate School of Medicine recently when a Tribune re porter entered the room and asked, "Do you still use cocaine as an anaesthet ic ?w "Well, I should say so. In operations upon the eye I feel now that I could not get along without it. In general practice it has driven ether and chloroform out of the field. It is not only a wonderful discovery, but it is astonishing how rap idly it has risen into favor. Even the mostconservativeTin my profession, who look with disfavor upon anything new, will acknowledge that they have at least, heard of it." "What is cocaine?" It is the alkaloid of the leaves of a shrub, originally wild but now largely cultivated, known as the crythroxy Ion coca. It grows in South America, prin cipally in Peru and Bolivia, and looks much like the ordinary tea leaf. Dr. A. Neimann, of Goshir, Germany, gave it its present name in 1860. But little was then known of the properties of the drug. I some experiments it was found that dogs could be killed by it when given in large doses. Its effect was to paralyze the respiratory organs. Experiments have been made from time to time with it since but it has never been looked upon as of much value as a therapeutic agent. That it would pro duce local an sthesia%was unknown un til it was accidentally discovered by a young medical student named Koller, at Vienna, last September. Its merits have since been thoroughlv tested and discussed all over the civilized world. I that it has been tried in more cases in this country than in any other, and I believe that the palm for bold ex perimentation and demonstration of its anaesthetic properties in many branches of minor surgery should be awarded to America. There is hardly a field in which it has not been used with success. Too much cannot be said in its praise in surgical operations upon the eye, ear and nose. Almost every conceivable operation has been tried in these parts with cocaine, and in cases, the first the patient knewso far as feeling wentthat any cutting had been done, was when the wound was being bandaged. It is much easier to tell where it has not been used than where it has been. It has brought sleep to eyes that would not close, soothed an gry wounds so that they were painless, stopped acute hemorrhages and distress ing asthmatic spasms, has allayed the irritability of the mucous lining of the mouth, so that laryngoscopic examina tions could be made without distress, and food could be given in the last stages of consumption, and has made the boring of the dental engine almost a pleasure, and the pulling of teeth painless. Its value is incalculable in gvmecology and genitourinary sur- gery." "Is it true, as reported, that injurious effects have been found to follow the use of cocaine in some cases "So far as my experience goesand I have treated hundreds of cases in which it has been freely used I have yet toonly report the first case of injurious conse quences. I have heard of ore case of hysterical paralysis and a number of cases of nervous prostration following its use. do not believe these condi tions were the results of the cocaine, but I think they grew out of another cir cumstance that appears in all the opera tions in which it is used. It is only a local anaesthetic th* senses remain per fectly active, and the operations of the mind normal. Although no pain is felt when the knife or other instrument enters the patient's flesh, yet the glistening knife and thedo spurting blood can be seen, and if the patient has not strong nerves the sight of these things will awaken horror in the mind and rapidly exhaust the vital energy. It is fear more than cocain that produces an ill effect. There are also special cases in which cocaine can not be used to advantage. Take, for instance, a person of delicate nervous organization, troubled with squint or some other eye difficulty where an opDouglas, eration is necessary. The eve could be anesthetized, but not the mind, and the patient would become exceedingly troublesome, and twist and squirm from purely mental impressions, and render the surgeon liable to inflict an injury that might bs fatal to the eye.from In cases of this nature the old anaes thetics must be used." "Is cocaine made in this country?" "Yes, it is made by a number of firms. When first used last fall it was put up only by Merck, a German chemist, was very scarce, and worth more than its weight in gold. It was made by a secret process. American chemist, as as there was a demand for it, how ever, began to experiment, and after months of patient trial and the destruc tion of a large quantity of coca leaves, have at last given us an alkaloid as good, and many think better, than Merck's imported preparation. The price, though it has been reduced some what, is still exorbitant and has notday reached a normal basis. The demand has mcreased beyond the supplv. It will take probably two years to bring to its proper position as a com mercial article. The demand for coca leaves has been so great that the market has been cleaned out of all those of good quality, and chemists will have to wajfLnntil the plants grow to get theii material. The plants ^are raisedInTa comparatively small section of country, but on account of the prospects of thV future, preparations are being made: to raise them on an extended scale." "How does cocaine compare withetfcar in price "It is difficult to make a comparison. Quantity for quantity, cocaine will overtop ether enormously. I actual use I think cocaine the cheaper. While it may take six ounces of ether tov anaesthetize a person, the same praati cal result can be attained with a few drops of a solution that contains only four per cent, of cocaine, this differ ence quantity makes the actual, cost for a given operation about the same, and in time the advantage will be large ly on the side of cocaine. The future of cocaine is a matter of supposition, but I believe that its uses are yet ia.the infancy of development, and it wi& be a greater boon to suffering humanity than we have any idea of at present." I i JTJBAL'S JEALOUSY, Seasons Why Early Bates E? esyHody,. Eepeeially General Grant. Speaking of Jubal Early recalls two incidents we do not remember to. have seen in print, or, if given, on^r par tially related. Shortly afterithe battle of Winchester the Richmond govern ment forwarded to Early's araiy, thee at Fisher's Hill, ten or twelve- Napo- leon guns, admirably equipped. The guns were unloaded from tiu* ears at Staunton, and packed ini the wide street near the railroad track just west of the depot. The day af tm their ar rival an orderly sergeant, named May, belonging to company ifc, Twenty Eighth Virginia Veteran Infantry, Pickett's division, then stationed on the lines below Richmond, ariivod at Staunton on his way to has command. May, who was a wag seeing a youth about 15 years of age connected with the quartermaster's department, then under the orders of Major Edward Mc Mahon, engaged with pot and brush marking and directing-barrels of mess beef to Early's command, and learning from him who the guns were for, May borrowed the boy's outfit and proceeded to direct each gun in plain letters, much to the amusement of the soldiers gathered around: Major-Goneial Kill Sheridan, Caio of Lieutenant General Early, Near Winchester, Va The arrival of the guns thus directed at their destination some days later created a good deal of mirth and some anger in the artillery camps, and a re port of the matter reached Early's ears. Mounting his horse, he rode out to the different batteries to which tho guns had been assigned, and saw for himself the indignity the wag had put on his command. Towering with passion, with a volley of oaths, he ordered the offensive lettering to be removed, "he did not care a dn how," by the next review day under the penalty of cashier ing and reduction to ranks of every commissioned officer who failed to obey. On his arrival at his tent he ordered an inquiry to beat once instituted for the offender, and the facts as related by the boy were placed before him. A long list of double and twisted charges, with accompanying specifications, were drawn up'against the orderly and for warded with the usual request, to the War Department, that the offender be arrested, tried, and dealth with as pro vided in such cases. Before the Department could act the battle of Fisher's Hill was fought, and Sheridan had the guns. A few days later the charges were returned to Early, then at Mount Jackson, with the shat tered remnant of his command, with the printed indorsement thereon sign ed by Jamas A. Seddon, then Secretary of War, that "His Excellency the Presi dent had ordered a court of inquiry to investigate the late disasters in the val ley, and as the guns had duly reached their destination as directed by theoff. known method of delivery at the earliest possible day for such an event to happen, and the consignee, General Sheridan, the only person who had a right to complain, had expressed no dissatisfaction as to the direction or mode of delivery, the charges, with specifications and accompanying papeis, are respectfully returned to"the general commanding the Department of the Sh' nandoah," and soon thereafter Early was relieved of all command by order of General Lee. This piece of drunk en folly was a fitting finale to a long career of inconsistency, military brava and official incompetency. Several of the capturei guns, with their prophetic direstiona partly oblit erated by use and the weather, could be seen as late as July, 1865, at the Mar tinsburg depot, whither they had been sent after the battle, If *f* The other incident occurred while General Grant was acting secretary of war, during Johnson's admm station. Several Viiginian's, headed by Beverly called on Grant, and proceed ed to intercede for Early, who was then a refugee in Canada. Grant in his quiet way replied, "that General Early seemed very desirous of being made a martyr of, but he will be disap pointed. His case in no wise differs that of many others now living peaceably at their homes he was clear ly included in the terms of the surrend er, which will be sacredly kept on my part, and he can return to the United States whenever he sees proper to do so. This department, so far as I know has no charge to prefer against Gener eral Early, and no other department of the government has any thing to do with him or his alleged actions during the late war." Early came home soon after a thoroughly disappointed and disgusted man, and, it is needless to say, this indifference has had more to do with his carping and bitterness than if he had been subjected to trial and conviction, for form sake, and could to show an'executive pardon.Lynch burg (Va.) Cor. Inter-Ocean. i More complete roturns from the election in Michigan for justice and regentsof the univer sity indicate a decided majority for Morse, Democratic candidate for justice, and the elec tion of the entire Democratic ticket The De troit Free Press (Democratic) claims a majori ty of 20,000 for the head of the Democratic ticket #*"g* ifLM&m Bo%.Ikat 9eubenteui Jomod. & ^'Secret Society." "IpeliewFll shoust pelong to one-of dose seegret societies," said Ike Ruben stein whe^keeps a store in a siib.urb.of Austin. "Den I be brothers mit lots.of peoples already, und it vill helup-my peesiness* I reads in dose bapers apout a Mason-vat vas going to haff his head cut off by a Turk, ven dot Mason some signs made, and dot Turk did not dot Mason's head cut off, but he took him home nad made him sbustis off' de beace und married him mitea gouble- off young womans for wives*^ It vas a nice diaflf to be a Mason, don't it? I vill join von off dose societies.," Ike was recommended So join ,tbe Or der off the Arctic Circle, a nl lnew soeiety lately/started. He sent,in his applica tion. A night was appointed OJS his in itiation. Ike was mujh embarrassed when he was admitted to the, ante-room of the Lodge to find that besides the door-keeper,who was his shirtsleeves, there were six men -who ware dressed in blue gowns, tin.. helmets* on their heads, masks on theitfaces^and drawn swords in their hands. Thedoor-keep er put a green flannel night-gown on Ike. blindfolded him with a handker ehief that smelled,of.tobacco, and made his eyes smart, and. theni one of the knights took Ike by the arm and led him into a darkened chamber where he was marched around eleien times, while Grand Marshals-and the Past Pluperfect Chaplain read all manner of wise ad monitions to him out of a book, and the knights' swords clanked as the proces sion moved around. There was an air of mystery surrounding everything, and a premonition af something dreadful yet to come took hold of Ike. He sincerely wished that he had nev er heard oSa secret society, and he reg istered a solemn vow in his own mind that if he got out of this with his life he would never join another. His guide made him kneel down on the flooj, and with his right hand on his throat and his left hand on a human skull made him swear that he would never divulge the secrets of the Order. The- bandage was taken from his eyes and he was. conducted out to the ante room. A gray Mother Hubbard dress was put on him and he was escorted back to. the chamber of mysteries. Here, after some, preliminaries, he was led in frost of a small circular saw that was revolv ing with extraordinary rapidity. A walking cane and a piece of stove wood were successfully sawed in pieces, that Ike might see how effectively the* saw did its work. He was then marched around the chamber, brought up in front of the saw again and informed in a se pulcral voice, by the Grand High Past Something-or-other, that, as a test of his courage, he would be required to place the index finger of his right hand in front of the saw and allow it to be cut off at the second joint. "I vill not any such dings do," said Ike, his hair standing on end with terror. "Vat sense is dot for seegret societies to cut a man up Off I had been acquainted mid dose dings you seegret society men does, I would not had nodings to do mit you already. I vant to go avay from here und stop does foolishness." The Past Grand Guardian of the Post ern Gate now told Jk^ that he was act ing in a manner that if he persisted in would draw down the dire vengeance of tl Knights of the Arctic Circle. He said that by Ike's lack of confidence he had already incurred an additional pen alty, and it would now be necessary ac cording to the laws and by-laws of the Order, that he put two fingers to the saw to be cut off before he could be ad mitted to full fellowship, and the P. G. G. of the P. G., advised him as a friend to pioceed at once and saw them Ike said, "I want no such fellowship. It would be a tamf jol fellowship to cut off my fingers to please you fellows mit tin watering pot3 on. I tells you I vants to go from thib blace avay. 3 "Brethern, it pains me to use harsh measures, but as this candidate refuses to obey the orders of the Lodge he must suffer the penalty. I command you to take him, bind him, and hold his wrist against the saw until hi3 hand is cut off. See that a doctor is in attendance." Four Knights caught Ike. He struggled and howled, but it was of no avail. His legs were tied, his left arm was secured to his waist, and he was brought in front of the saw. He begged for mercy, but no mercy was shown him. One Knight suggested that a vote be taken to de termine if it was not bettei to saw the candidate's head of. Then they brought his right hand closer and closer to the revolving saw, and the closer it came the louder Ike begged for mercy. There was no mercy for him. At last his hand was pushed violently against the teeth of the saw and the Knights yelled as the soft paper saw, polished with black leadand had been substituted for the real saw while Ike was being escorted around the roomwas torn to pieces and Ike fell back breathless and faint but unscathed. Loud and long was the laugh of the Knights, and Ike soon joined the hilarity. He was so happy to find that it was enly a "joke off dose tin helmet fellers." Then he received a lecture on Obe dience, and was given the signs and passwords of the Order. When the Lodge adjourned Ike was so overjoyel at finding that he had got through without the loss of any of his limbs that he recklessly invited the whole Lodge to accompany him to a saloon and join him in a glass of wine. Some of the members stayed with Ike, who was determined to make'a night of it, in commemoration of his escape from bodily mutilation. They took many drinks, and when about to leave, Ike was in a very mellow condition. He discovered that he had no money, but he ordered a parting drink, and felt rich enough to buy a distillery. "Charge does to me," he said to the bar-keeper. "I don't know you, sir,w ear, moved his left leg three times-from north fo sbutfi, and'feH up against the **_, tanch counter. Tneci The bar-keeper said hldidn'tieeog nize anything but cash. "O, then, you haff not does- dagree? all taken yet?" Ike had got the idea into his-chaoti brain that everybody in town' was a thi?'\ im ik gave the hailing sign.by hold ing one hand over his head and putting \tmue 1lp 8, ,l he was, with the other -hand, reaching back to his hip pocket for his pistol, so he knocked Ike down with a bung starter and set on him until a policeman came and put handcuffs :afc him. "Let me up, boUceman, tsQ I make does signs of distress. Dake-does hand cufls off right avay.v How ean I does distress signs givs unless I ean hold up my hands "Take the desperado to-ifae lock-up," said a hackman,.. "I, saw him trying to get out his pistol to shoot the bar man." "I vas not vanning to shoot nobodies. I supposed he TS one of. does tin vater ing pot seegret society fellers. Dot seegret society vas a fraucL" He was loc^d up. Next morning he was still intoxicated when brought before the recorder who adjudged hind-a harmless imbecile (and discharged him), because he made such extraordinary signs at A court and the lawyers. "Does seegret societies vas not a& much goot for my peesaiess as I thoughts It vas all tarn lies about does brothers, helping cae another aa trouble."Tsx.- as S if tings. Be Was a "White Man." B. Macbray in Harpe*. One of the Hudson Bay company's officers has with iim his young wife and &..child, a tiny girl three yeass old, a pretty, prattliag, fearless, fasainating young woman. She is everybody's pet, from the rather dandy wheelsman, who tries to entice her up to his pilot-box, which towers above the vesssl, down to the grizzled^ grimy deck hands, whose acquaintance she has some how orbe or other made on the lower deck. On the floor of this lower deck, whither she has been taken by her nurse, she has seen three men lving bound,, chained hand and foot. They are on their way to be tried at Fargo, and the sheriff, who has affected their capture, never leaves them for they are known to be desperate. The little child came to them and looked at them curiously they had prob ably never seen anything so dainty or so sweet before. She saw nothing in them to frighten her. So she advanced and spoke to them in her broken ords. she even touched the fetters on the hands of one of them, and smiled his face and asked him what they were. The man smilen too, without replying, and the child moyed away. As" she walked there was a sudden quick jerk of the whole ship, its further side ground jar ringly against some unyielding sub stance hidden in the water it tilted over slightly, the child lost her balance, and, with a scream, she fell over the side in to the water. The vessel for an instant was stationary. The three prisoners saw her disappear. The prisoner to whom she had spoken, and whose hand cuffs she had for a moment touched, exclaimed "God! don't ye shoot, Bill!" Then quickly rolling himself over and over, he dropped into the water beside the child. As hislapse hands were bound behind him, he caught the child's dress in his teeth, and treading the water with his fettered feet, kept the child abeve water until help came. As everybody's attention was diverted to the opposite side of the steamer, it was some time before the boat from the vessel reached them. But the child was saved. Needless to relate the thankfulness of the poor young mother or the gratitude of the father. "I guess you air a white man, Bik, after all,"said the sheriff. A purse was made up among the pas sengers for the man, whose name was Erikir, a Scandinavian by birth. It was afterward learned that the sheriff told the story to the "judge," and the judge, with western freedom, and that admiration for a gallant act that covers a multitude of Eins, so arranged that when it was found that Erikir had mysteriouslv disappeared, nothing was done beyond a little official bluster, and he escaped. said the bar- keeper. "Maybe you recognizes dot,* said Ike, and he placed hia right hand behind bis 4 mamm^L, Industrial Pursuits in Paris. Philadelphia Press: Statistics show hat more than half a million of Paris ians are employed in commerce, trade and banking operations, while of the artisan class there are considerably more than a million and a quarter. The liberal professions seem to occupy but a small proportion of the population. All combined do not amount to 200.000. The great majority are in public service, which employs more than medicine, law and divinity combined. But after the public service it is art which gives employment and livelihood to the great est number of Parisians. Forty-two thousand get their income from this branch of industry. The doctors come after, but a long way after. Medicine, in its branches, supports 18,000, the branches, of course, including chemists and all compounders and vendors of medicine. Then comes the law, with its 16,000 votaries, from judges to crier. Literature figures very low on the list, for, grouped with science and journ alism, it gives employment to only 11,- 000 people, while all the clergy of all the persuasions amount to but half that number. On the whole, Paris would seem tc be more industrious, more ar tistic, less literary and less religious than the ordinary visitor would sup pose, while the proportion in which the working class exceeds those who live on their income is more remarkable, as Paris is the recognized center of ex penditure and extravagance for all France. uantlt Diabetes. taracteristic of this disease is an abnormal amount of sugar in the blood. Tbe cause of it is quite uncer tain. Accordinngo tio Flint, itthen occurs *in the vasto majority of cases between ihe ages of thirty and fifty in men of tenet ced and con if befr Knight of the Arctic Circle. i than in women. It may tim Md J^ttyJgrand 7 XM^Ite*- exisfatai^. a ro y**11 i It befor 8 the other behind his hack. often gires a fatal issue to otherwise The bar-keeper thoughdt that? Ikei was I mild diseases. Its chief teswater,large?asit S2?wW 5 Percentag of sugar in the th tte Writer, also, generally, not always, being increased. Among the earlier symptons are-great thirst,, a strong appetite, dryness of the mouth and acid saliva later, emaciation, increasing muscular feeblenessy. and in manyreases irritability, melancholy and mental weakness. To arrest it* it*must be taken in its early stages. One-third or more of its cases end is}consump tion*. A3 diabetic patient, when the disease has*, become confirmed, ia.liable to sudden death. The heart may fail from paralysis of its nerves cr, the blood poison affecting the brain*the person may sink into a state of insensabilitv, delirium and coma (fatal lethargy). A alight cold may bring on this result So may mere constipation and uniue physical exertion, mental emotion, or anxiety. Flint says, "The d^ease seems less formidable than heratoicre, provided proper treatment be .adopted! and per sisted in." The main.thing is to arrange for the patient a diet which excludes, as far as possible, sugar and starch and induce him rigidly to. continue it. while cutting off so many articles of the ordinary diet, pains, must pe taken tc supply their place with others sufficient ly nutritious ami: appetizing. Gluten bread may take the place of common wheat bread. It contains only one third as much starch as that made fron: entire wheat, and is acceqtable to the taste. The body aaould be carefully pre-, tected againss the influence of atmosv pheric changes, and the skin be kepi in a good condition. There should be exercise in the open air, but it shejd moderate. Mental relaxation and recreation should be secured.Youth's Companion. Origin of Masonry. A writer in a recent number of the Voice of Masonry upon the origin ol the order, gives a variety of \ie-ws. held by high authority, but holds shat it an tedates the Christian era, oi 1$, at least, not Christian in its inception. The writer says: "The whoie ritual oi Masonryblue masonry as we techni cally call itin its system of woids, grips and signs, as weli as it? tradition, points to a non-Christian oiigiu, and most unequivocally is Judaistic in its conception. Its hieioglyphic and mnemonic lecords, its oral transmission, its impressive manner of imparting in struction and fixing valuable lessons, and its thorough consecration to law and order, all go to show that it is not modern in its origin and conception. 1 believe, then, in the antiquity of Mason ry that it was once specially Egyptian in its character that subsequently it was purified by Solomon, perhaps,"and by him consecrated to the noblest pur poses that, becoming then the heiitage of the Israelites, it assumed its un doubted Hebraic character that it has been largely modified by successive generations and nations that in the of ages it became, under the Providence of God, the inheritance ol the Anglo-Saxon race, who, after per petuating it for centuries as they re ceived it, finally, under the inspiration of genius, following the example of others, remodeled and reconsecrated it, giving it its Christian character, and yet, in the broadness of its chanty and the glory of its philanthropy, not ex cludmcr anyone who, believing in the tiue God, has the other necessary quali fications for information. The Astor Millions. New Yoik Letter. Another million or so of the Astor morey is about to be spent on a large office building. The location this time is in Pine street, just off Broadway. A few years ago one of the Astors put up in Wall street, between Broadway and Nassau street, and it has paid pretty well. The building in Pine street will back against the costly Equitable Life structure, which is to be enlarged pretty soon hy running through to Nassau street, and taking in on Broadway a building hat is now occupied as one of the Delmonico restaurants. Almost that whole block bounded by Broadway, Nassau,Pine and Cedar streetswill*then belong to the Astors and the Equitable Life. Pine street has been for years the headquar ters of the real estate brokers, and a whole swarm of them will be turned out on the 1st of May, when prepara tions for putting up the new Astor building will begin. The Astors are still true to the family traditions in the matter of investing their money. Near ly all their accumulations go into real estate. All their millions were made in real estate and they still prefer that kind of investment to anv other. Wall street never had any charm for them, and probably never Will. A few vears. ago they bought a large track of land up. in Westchester County, with the expec tation that it will time prove as good an investment as some of those made by the founder of the family when land was as cheap on Murray Hill as it is Westchester County now. They are nob a very brilliant family, but they have & full share of solid "Dutch sense." a costly building of this kind The President has made nearly all the leading foreign appointments, and they are generally approved of by the argans of both parties. The gentle men selected are not likely to discredit (bis countrv abroad.