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NEWS BREVITIES.
The Latest Telegraphic News
Culled from Associated
Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.
A Washington special says: “The president
expects to be able to make a practical reor
ganization ofthe supreme court witliin about
eighteen months. Justices Miller, Field and
Bradley have signified their intention to re
tire within that time. Attorney General Mil
ler is not considered in connection with any
of the vacancies, as the president says he put
him in his present position with the inten
tion of keeping him there for the full four
years.”
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Senator Pettigrew has received a letter
from Charles Foster, chairman of the Sioux
commission, in which he announces that the
rolls containing the signatures of the Indians
have just been received from the agents. He
says the report he has made to the Secretary
Noble is only partial, but in the reply the
secretary agrees with him that the reserva
tion may be opened by proclamation of the
president without ratification by congress,
but that congress will have to ratily such
portions of the treaty as the commissioners
found it necessary to alter in order to secure
the signatures of the Indians.
RECORD OF CASUALTIES.
Falling slate instantly crushed out the life
of Henry Lawrence in a mine at Oskaloosa,
lowa. Several others were hurt.
Mrs. Oliva Knudson of Chicago and Miss
MaTy Lee of Milwaukee were asphyxiated in
Chicago by coal gas escaping trom a heating
store.
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The Chicago limited from Cincinnati was
wrecked at a trest'e near Frankfort, Ind.,
while running at the rate of forty-five miles
an hour. Several of the passengers were in
jured, but nobody was killed.
Herbert McCracken, contractor; Phil
Bricky, carpenter and G. M, Paine, carpen
-ler, were terribly mangled by the falling of
the new street car buildiDg at Sulem, Ohio.
All are injured internally and it is thought
fatally.
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The National Line Steamship company’s
dock at pier 39, North River, New York,
took fire recently and burned nearly to the
water’s edge. At least four blackened, dead
bodies were taken from the ruins. Many
more people were badly burned, some of
whom are likely to die. It was the most dis
astrous fire on the river (ront in sometime.
For two hours the fire resisted the efforts of
nearly the entire force of engines below Four
teenth street and seriously threatened the
adjacent piers.
SINFUL SIFTINGS,
Silcott, late cashieroftlie sergeant-at-arms
of the house of representatives, proves a
forger as well as an imbezzler.
Chinese troops suffered a severe defeat from
the savages in South Formosa, three or
four hundreds of them being killed.
At Rome, N. Y., James Gilson was shot and
killed by Mark Cheebo, an Italian. Gilson
was intoxicated and made a disturbance
near Cheebo’s house.
A duel with swords was fought near Buda-
Pesth,Hungary, by Count Karolyi and Count
Lazar and the latter was severely wounded.
The trouble arose over a quarrel in the diet.
The figures believed to be complete show
that the forgeries and stealings of W. H -
Fursman. the absconding real estate dealer
and loan broker of Pontiac, 111., amount to
fully $200,000.
Levi E. Fuller of Jamestown, N. Y., who
bae long been a devoted Wesleyan Methodist,
and who has publicly proclaimed sanctifica
tion, is in Canada. He kept up a systemat
ic banking business on forged notes lor thir
teen years, floating as high as seventy notes,
aggregating $6,000, a year.
A masked mob of seven White Caps at
Holyoke, took Col., J. S. Bennett and W. D.
Kelsey, two prominent attorneys, from their
beds, and, not allowing them to dress, drove
them two miles in the country, where they
administered the most brutal horse-wliipping
and warned them to leave the country. The
perpetrators of the outrage then left the
men and returned fco town. Bennett and
Kelsey, after several hours, reached their
homes, and are in a critical condition.
Four Kiowa Indians came from the reserva
tion and by some means obtained whisky
and became very drank, at Melrose, Kansas.
They started to take the town in true West
ern style, and City Marshal Snyder attempt
to nrrest them. A general tight followed,
which resulted in Snyder being stabbed to
the heart, dying almost instantly. One of
the Indians was shot, but his companions
succeeded in carrying his body away and
escaped across the line into the reservation.
Raphael Michel, living at 820 West India
na avenue, at Chicago was assaulted and
robbed near the Dearborn street bridge by
three unknown men and badly cut about the
head. Alter he had fallen the highwaymen
pounced upon him and took his coat, vest,
pants, hat and shoes. He was found in this
condition by an officer and taken to the
Dearborn street engine house where he was
furnished with a suit of clothes, and removed
to his home. The miscreants made their es
cape.
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While J. C. Patterson was standing at the
Deleware bank counter at Wilmington, Del.,
clipping coupons from bonds which he kept
on deposit there, an unknown man seized the
deposit box and ran out and away. The box
contained about $13,000 in securities, roost
ly negotiable. No one in the bank saw the
thett committed. Mr. Patterson had just cut
off too coupons and presented them at the
cashier’s desk, leaving his box on another
desk. While he was thus engaged the box
was spirited away, nnd nothing was learned
more than it was there one minute aaid gone
the next.
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August Schattenbcrg, secretary of the
school board, shot himself at Milwaukee be
cause of the discovery of crokedness in
liis accounts, Schattenbcrg raised the bill
of a Boston publishing house from $8.34 to
$808.34 and drew the money. When the
discovery was made lie refunded the money,
but an investigation of his books was order
ed and he killed himself rather than face oth
er crooked developments. Sclmttenberg was
a reckless poker player, and it is believed he
has lost thousands of dollars ol school mon
ey in bucking the tiger. Bchattenburg’s
death was instantaneous. He leaves a wife
and several children.
FOREIGN CULLINGS.
Na Con Qui Say and Kali Dos La. the two
Apache murderers, were hanged in the jail
yard at Florence. Ariz.
Confirmation of the massacre of Dr. Peters
and his party has been received at Zanzibar.
The camp was snrrounded by 1.200 Somalis
and attacked at midnight. No one escaped.
An Englishman was arrested at Sebasto
pol, Russia, while engaged in makimr sketches
of the batteri<% and forts at that place.
Compromising documents were found in his
possession.
The German steamer Duburg, which left
Singapore for Hong Kfcng Oct. 25 has been
heard of, and it is feared she may have en
countered the recent typhoon and foundered.
If so the disaster is an appallmg one, for she
had on board 400 passengers.
On the steamship Batavia there arrived at
Vancouver from Japan a Russian gentleman
who had just escaped from Siberia, where he
had been In exile eighteen years. The gen
tleman,who had assumed thename of Brant,
was eighteen years ago the editos of a news
paper in Russia. He was not a nihilist, but
his liberal views as expressed in his paper
displeased the government, and for the of
fense he was sentenced for life in Siberia.
For six years he was in solitary confinement.
After that he was twelve years on parole,
going from plaee to place. A few months
ago he drifted to the sea coast. There he
found a British ship, and explaining the
circumstances to the officers, he was taken
on board and landed at Nagasaki. There
his passage was paid on the Batavia by his
new found friends. On arriving at Van
couver the officers of the Batavia presented
him with a ticket to Washington, D. C.. for
which place he started at once. Brant is
forty-five years of age, but his long suffering
has made him prematurely old.
IN GENERAL.
Representative McCord’s bill throwing open
for settlement 200,000 acres of land in Wis
consin, known as water lands, has created
excitement among pine land men.
It has just been learned that on November
2 the plant of the Globe Oil company was
sold to the Standard Oil company, the con
sideration being $4,000,000.
The senate ofthe Cherokee council adopted
the report of the committee on the public
domain, which recommended that the offer
of Williamson, Blair & Co., of Independence
to lenso the ‘‘Outlet” be declined.
The suit of the Capital Bank of St. Paul
againßt a school district in Barnes county,
N. D., to recover the value of county orders
issued for material to build school houses, is
decided against the plaintiff.
The commission appointed by Chief Mayes,
of the Cherokee nation, to confer with the
United States Indian commission, sent a com
munication to the latter informing them that
they were ready to treat with the govern
ment for the sale of the Cherokee outlet.
The Northern Pacific Railway company at
Chicago settled for SII,OOO a suit for S2O,
000. brought by Mine Adele Nelson, the Aus
tralian equestrienne. The claim was on ac
count of bodily injuries in a railroad accident
near Gold Creek Mont.
About three hundred Sisseton Indians as
sembled in council at the ageney near Brown’s
Valley, Minn. The council lasted about four
hours. The chief subject of discussion was
the incorporation of what is known as the
scouts’ claim into the bill opening the reser
vation. Rousing speeches were made on
both sides. Renville, Two Stars and other
leaders opposed the opened of the reserva
tion. They appear to be losing their follow
ing, and the prospects of the Indians signing
are at present very bright.
A curious error was made in one of th
documerts relatiug to the admission ofNorth
and South Dakota, which, it will be remem
bered, are divided by an imaginary line
drawn for typographical convenience, known
as the seventh standard parallel. In one of
the documents—it is impossible to ascertain
which, as the state department officials are
as silent as the grave on the annoying sub
ject—the highly essential word “standard”
was omitted in describing the boundaries.
North Dakota, for instance, has been erected
into a state with its southern boundary line
at the seventh parallel of north latitude.
The seventh parallel crosses the Isthmus
of Panama, or somewhere in that neighbor
hood. An effort is now making to correct
the error.
A Court Scene In Texas
During a preliminary trial for the custody
of the children in the divorce case of Keller
vs. Keller in the district court room at Mar
shal, Texas, Alexander Pope was shot and
mortally wounded. W. H. Pope waß pain
fully but not dangerously wounded in two
places and James Turner slightly wounded.
Those shot were counsel for Mrs. Keller and
those who did the shooting were W. T. S.
Keller, the defendant in the case, and his
brother-in-law, C. R. Weathersby. The dif
ficulty was brought on by Keller
denouncing as false a statement
made by W. H. Pope to the effect
that Keller had practiced a fraud
in a similar trial before Judge Haz
elwood at Carthage in December, 1888.
When Keller said “It is false” W. H. Pope
threw a gold-headed cane at him. Then
Weathersby, who was sitting in front of
Pope, arose and firt 1 two shots, one of
which passed through W. H. Pope’s left
shoulder. All the shooting was done by
Keller and Weathersby, as none of the
others were armed. Alex Pope was shot
through the stomach from the left to the
right side. He is not yet dead, but his phy
sician says it is impossible for him to live.
Maj. Turner’s is a flesh wound. Alexander
Pope is a member of the legislature Irom this
county. W. H. Pope is state senator lrom
this district, and, like Alexander, is widely
known for nis brilliancy as a lawyer. James
Turner is a prominent attorney in this coun
ty. W. 8. T. Keller is ex-judge of this coun
ty. He now resides at San Angelo, Tex.,
where he edits the Enterprise and practices
law. C. R. Weathersby is a night watchman
for the Texas & Pacific railroad. Thedivorce
case has been called twice, but has never come
to trial.
THE MARKETS.
The Current Prices In the more Pro
minent Markets.
NEW YORK
Wheat—"No 2 red, 84%@85c.; elevator,
86!4@86%c; No. 3 red, 75c.; No. 1 hard
96>4c ; No. 1 Northern 92Vici Rye Western,
55@55Vfcc. Barley, Western, 50@65c.; corn,
No. 2 42@42V4c.: Oate, No. 2 white, 30@-
30V4c.; Mixed Western, 27<§)2914c. Eggs,
Western 28e. Butter, Elgin 28@28V4e.
Western dairy, 9@18c.; do. creamery, 18@-
27c.
CHICAGO.
Cash quotations were ns follows: Flou r
dull and unchanged; No. 2 spring wheet, 80c?
No. 3 spring wheat. 65@66c; No. 2 red, 80cJ
No. 2 corn, 31%@340; No. 2 oats, 20%@*
20Vie; No. 2 rye 44c; No. 2 barley, 58c; No 1
flax seed, $1.33V&; primetiniothy seed, $1.20.
Butter, fancy creamery 26@27c.; fine, 20@-
22c finest dairy 21@24c.; fine 15@19c.
Eggs, 23@24c.
MINNEAPOLIS.
Wheat, No 1 hard, 70c.; No. 1 northern,
77M;@78c., No. 2 northern, 73@75e.; Flour,
Patents Jin sacks to {local dealers, $4.60@-
4.80; patents to ship, sack, car lotß, $4.50@-
4.60; in barrels, $4.70@4.80; delivered at
New England p0int5,55.40@5.50; New York
points, $5.30@5.40; delivered at Philadelphia
and Baltimore, $5.25@5,35: bakers’ here,
$3.25@3.60; superfine, f1.70@2.25; red dog,
sacks, $1.10@1.25: red dog, barrels, $1.35-
@1.50. Corn. No. 3 yellow, new. 28c. Oats,
20@20M>c. Barley Samples, 40@43c.. feed,
23@25e.
rr. pacl.
Prices on incoming trams only: Wheat-
No. 1 hard. 78c; No. 1 Northern, 765; No. 2
Northern, 72@73e. Corn—No. 3, 29@30c.
Oats—No. 2 mixed. 19c: No. 2 white, 21 ®
22c; December. 21c; January, 21 Vic; May
24c; No. 3, 19@21e. Rye—No. 2. 33c.
Barley—No. 2. 45@50c; No. 3. 35@45c.
Ground Feed —$12.50. Corn Meal—Unbolt
ed. $12.50. Shorts—s7.7s
Bran, $6.75. Malt. 65@70. Hay. No. 1
unland, $7@S; No. 1. $6.50@7; timothy,
$8.50. Flux seed. No. 1, $1.27@1.27V&.
Clover seed, $2.90@3. Timothy seed, sl@
1.20. E<res, fresh. $6@5.30; held. ?5.70@6.
Flour, Patents. $4.75@5: straight, $4.25@
4.50; bakers’, $3.25@0.50; rye, $2.73@3.20:
buckwheat. $4.75 @5 Batter. Creameries
held at 15@18e; fresh. 20@24c: extra diary,
15@18c; medium, 10@15c; 10 I and print,
fresh. 17M:<3ll8c: old. B@l2c; packing stock,
6Mi@By2c; grease, 3@sc.
LO, THE YOUNG INDIAN.
Redskin Boys and Girls in the Nnrsery
and at Work.
How They Were Beared Before the Govern
ment Established Schools—Contrast Be
tween Their Education Then and How—An
Indian Medicine Man.
A popular error exists to the effect
that Indian babies are exempt from all
the infantile disorders with which
white children are afflicted, and that
they soon become sturdy and tough,
never fret or cry and at an early
period are able to shift for themselves.
That they cry less than white babies
do is true, but this owing to the heroic
treatment administered by their squaw
mothers. To evince feeling of any
kind is supposed to be unindianlike,
and as it annoys the warrior who sits
puffing his pipe in the tepee the moth
er covers the baby’s mouth with her
hand to stifle its cries or grasps it by
the nose until the papoose is almost
choked.
Before the reservations were located
and agency physicians employed, the
Indian papoose had a pretty hard time
when the mumps, colic or measles in
vaded the system, for the only reme
dies known were those used by the
medicine man of the tribe, who was
called in to charm away the sickness.
This he usually tried to do by hammer
ing for dear life on a native drum, the
object being to drive off the evil spirit
who was supposed to have bewitched
the child.
It must not be supposed that the In
dian mother is heartless because she
pinches her baby’s nose to still its cries
or calls in a base drummer to cure the
whooping cough. She is only following
in the footsteps of her mother and
grandmother, and firmly believes what
she does is for the best. Her love for
the sick child is fully as strong as that
displayed by her pale-face sister under
similar circumstances, only civilization
has taught the latter better methods.
Because the Indian baby is strapped
to a flat board and securely laced in a
cradle made of dressed antelope skins
one need not imagine the papoose is
cruelly treated. Soft grasses are
placed at its back and the little one
sleeps in this primitive cradle quite as
contentedly as does the pink and white
cherub in its nest of downy satin,
j When the squaw is obliged to leave the
| tepee and forage for wood or water the
cradle is suspended from the limb of an
adjacent tree above the reach of stray
dogs or prowling coyotes, and there the
baby swings in the breeze as happy as
clam at high tide.
The Indian boy has a much better
time than his sister. From the day the
young animal leaves the confinement
of the cradle to roll around in the tall
grass until the time he becomes a full
fledged brave his lot by contrast is an
easy one. He robs birds’ nests, tortures
the camp dogs, runs, jumps, wrestles
or goes swimming with his wild com
panions, sets snares for rabbits, shoots
the small game with the blunt arrows
provided by his proud parent, or when
at home gorges himself with strips of
meat snatched from the live coals.
At four or five years of age the
Indian girl begins to learn her lesson of
life, which is one of constant drudgery
and trouble, unrelieved by the slight
est ray of sunshine during her entire
existence. At six she can rustle in
wood, help to cultivate the corn patch,
and at a pinch, fill the water barrel
and pack it from the river a mile dis
tant. She learns to,strike the tents by
harnessing her father’s dogs to a minia
ture “travois,” and at ten years old is
a full-fledged graduate in all the les
sons of drudgery and toil to which it is
her cruel lot to be subjected. At
twelve or fourteen she marries, and at
sixteen has several children. By the
time she is twenty her freshness is
gone, her back bowed from constant
bending to the load and her face pre
maturely wrinkled.
With the advent of the Indian board
ing schools established by the govern
ment, of course the conditions change,
and the boys and girls enter upon a
new existence. In the past eight or
ten years a great improvement has
been made in the rearing of the young
Indians. At the present time every
head of a family living on a reserva
tion is compelled to send his children
i to the government school, or he is not
! allowed to draw rations from the
agent. This ruling acts a wonderful
incentive to the lazy buck, and is one
that he seldom ignores. As a conse
quence the youngsters are gradually
becoming civilized, and the restraints
of school life, together with the disci
pline enforced, have had a very salu
tary effect upon their young lives.
Still it is all up-hill work, for of course
the hereditary traits inherited from
generations of “bad” Indians cannot
be eradicated in a month, or even a
year.
A Remedy for Dropsy.
In diseases of the heart which per
sists for a long 1 time and finally end—
as a very large proportion of them do—
in a slow declining death, dropsy al
ways sets in. In the late stages it is a
most intractable symptom, and adds
greatly to the suffering experienced.
In the treatment, physicians have
been wont to depend largely upon a
diet of milk, which, in cases, where it
is well borne and can be persisted in,
always acts well. But there are many
patients who, for various reasons, can
not be kept on a milk diet for any
length of time. To some it becomes
abhorrent after a while, and others
cannot really digest it properly, as
simple food as it is. And, besides
that, a milk diet is unsuited to no
small proportion of patients affected
with cardiac diseases. We have refer
ence to those who cannot be kept quiet,
says a writer in the Boston Journal of
Commerce, but who insist upon being
up and about, often in the open air, if
not engaged in light duties. Prof.
German See, of Paris, has long been
engaged in study to learn what ele
ments in milk rendered it such an ad
mirable agent to stimulate the kid-,
neys, increase the flow therefrom, and
hence prove of such great service in
dropsies. As a result of his investiga
tion he is convinced that the one im
portant element is sugar of milk. Act
ing upon that theory, he selects twenty
five patients with heart disease, in all
of which there was more or less dropsy.
To each he gave 100 grammes of the
sugar of milk a day, dissolved in two
quarts of water. In all these cases a
marked effect upon the kidneys was
felt within twenty-four hours to forty
five hours hours, and almost all such
swellings disappeared altogether after
a series of treatments lasting from six
to eight days. This discovery is
likely to prove one of the most impor
tant which has been made in the
medical world for years.
Popular Science.
The scientific experiments of a Paris
ian have proved that daylight entirely
ceases in the waters of the Mediterra
nean at a depth of 1518 feet.
All plants and trees consume water
in large quantities. Sir John Laws
discovered that an acre of barley will
take up 1084 tons of water in two days.
Trees and plants are composed more
largely of water than any other sub
stance.
Lizards present a strange phenome
non. Their tail, brittle and easily
broken, lives for a considerable length
of time after being separated from its
bearer’s body; and, more than that,
the lost tail is in a comparatively short
time replaced by another, similar to
the amputated one.
It is a curious fact, so announced,
that if cider is scalded to 120° or 130° it
will not make vinegar, as this heat de
stroys the bacteria that forms vinegar.
Darwin explains the origin of giddi
ness from this cause in the following
way: He says that in learning to walk,
we judge of the distance of the objects
we approach by the eye, and by ob
serving their perpendicularity deter
mine our own ; and that at all times
we determine our want of perpendicu
larity, or inclination to fall, by attend
ing to the apparent motion within the
sphere of distinct vision. Hence,
when we are upon the summ it of a
high cliff, tower, or other eminence,
and look down, we become dizzy be
cause the objects below us are out of
the sphere of distinct vision, and we
are obliged to balance ourselves by the
less accurate feelings of our muscles.
All They Lacked.
I knew a maiden fair to see,
So sweet so good, it seemed to me
She needed but those feathery things
That angels wear—men call them wings—
To stand equipped from head to feet,
An angel perfect and complete.
I knew a second maiden once,
At school she took the cake—as dunce;
She used to do such foolish things,
I swear she only needed wings
To make what she was, in sooth,
A perfert goose; and that’s the truth.
—London Judy.
The First Thimble Maker.
There is a rich family of the name
of Lofting in England, the fortune of
whose house was founded by such an
apparently insignificant thing as the
thimble. The first ever seen in Eng
land was made in London less than
two hundred years ago by a metal
worker named John Lofting. The
usefulness of the article commended it
at once to all who used the needle, and
Lofting acquired a large fortune. The
implement was then called the thum
bell, it being worn on the thumb when
in use, and its shape suggesting the
rest of the name. This clumsy mode
of utilizing it soon changed, however,
but the name, softened into “thimble,”
remains.—Public Opinion.
A Skeleton’s Threat
Isaac Sprague, duing his life time
one of the best of “ living skeletons,”
was a character. He was the terror
of the showman, for one of his pecu
liarities was not to go to the manager
when he had a grievance to complain
of, but to wait until one of the proprie
tors or the manager would pass his
place in the exhibition, a good-sized
crowd being around at the time, and
then to sing out in a fearful voice:
“Now, see here; I won’t stand your
abuse any longer. Your’re robbing me,
and you know it. I’ll appeal to the
public if it isn’t a shame to impose on a
poor living skeleton that way.” To get
even with him, after thus standing his
abuse for a whole season, a Chicago
manager of his on the last night of a
season’s engagement, while waiting for
the train to bear the “ freaks” away
from Terre Haute, Ind., stood Sprague
(who was unable to walk) up against
the fence by the roadside, and a good
sized shower, interspersed with light
ning, overtaking them just at that
time, things became decidedly uncom
fortable for the skeleton during the
next half hour.
God takes men’s hearty desires and will,
instead of the deed, where they have not
the power to fulfill it; but he never tookth<
bare deed instead of the will.
FROM FLESH TO MARBLE.
An Italian Method of Eternally Preserv
ing the Dead.
The Process of Petrifaction, and the Results
Produced—A Life Spent in Efforts to De- .
▼elop the System—Every Kan His Own
Monument
Italy has not nowadays as much to
io with human genius and art as she
had in the splendid time of her grand
poets, philosophers, sculptors and
painters; but she has as she always
had, much to do with human anatomy,
and above all nations busies herself
with the ugly problem, “What shall
we do with our dead?” The anatomic
al museums of Italy are peculiarly
rich in curious preparations and
models, some of them too horrible and
ghastly for any one with only ordinary
nerve to inspect
Italians have of late years had lively
discussions on the question of the pres
ervation or destruction of the body. It
is more of a theological than a senti
mental question with them. Profs.
Marini and Gorini, eminent scientists,
have for several years been experi
menting in the line of petrifactions.
It was one of them who treated the
body of Joseph Mazzini, turning it in
to almost transparent marble, having
the great pear shaped head and the
dark, intense, worn, but still hand
some face, so wonderfully life-like .in
color, contour and expression that they
who loved him could scarce be recon
ciled to the sealing up of the coffin.
On the fifth anniversary of his death
that coffin was opened in the presence
of some of his faithful followers, and
one of them told me that they found
the face of their beloved chief quite
unchanged. He seemed to have fallen
asleep but yesterday. Dr. Marini
has received several medals from
expositions for his discovery, which,
after all, is only a partial rediscovery
of the secret process of Segato, the
Florentine, and which he in turn keeps
to himself. At the fairs in Turin and
Milan, a few years ago, he exhibited
in a special cabinet many specimens of
what seemed an .occult art Some
were solid, permanent petrifactions,
some provisional, capable of returning
to a fresh condition, all preserving the
fullness and transparency of life, while
most were in a pliable condition. All
the varied members of the bodies are,
it is said, hard at first, but become af
ter a time supple, and even capable of
furnishing studies in anatomy, of
muscles, veins, and nerves. Nelaton,
the great French surgeon, examined a
petrified foot in January, 1868, and on
February 26th wrote of it: “It has re
gained its suppleness to such a degree
that I was easily able to dissect the
fifth toe.’ 1
The most impressive of Dr. Marini’s
reparations is a Beautiful little girl,
dressed as in life, and lying on a sofa,
apparently asleep, her long curls
spread over the pillow. The face Is
pale, but round and di moled, and the
limbs are soft and flexible. The pro
fessor affirms that thus the gentle form
of little Maria Courier remains fixed
forever for those who loved her to gaze
on when they will —a painful privilege,
I should say.
But the pioneer in this field and the
master of all the workers was Girolamo
Segato, who died at Florence in the
early part of this century, taking with
him his secret
In the anatomical museum of this
hospital are treasured the matchless
preparations of Segato. He was a
most enthusiastic experimenter, be
lieving that his discovery would be of
immense benefit to science, especially
to anatomy. Priesta accused him of
sacrilege, of seeking to throw obsta
cles in the way of Omnipotence in the
final work of the resurrection of the
dead, and his brother anatomists lack
ed the courage to stand by him. It is
a sad story—the experience of Galileo
was repeated in the persecution he
had to endure —and yet he asked for
no great thing, only the dead body of
a criminal or a pauper to petrify en
tire. He had been allowed portions of
bodies, fragments fallen from the
tables of the hospital anatomists,
among them the head of a girl and the
bust of a peasant woman—the first an
astonishing piece of preservation, all
the features remaining as in life, the
hair exquisitely soft and lustrous, the
teeth dazzling; the second is a mar
vel of beautitul color and contour, and
ivory-like in smoothness and firmness.
On his deathbed he tried to describe
his process to his most intimate friend,
to whom he had promised the revela
tion, but voice and sight failed him.
JOHNNIE’S ORATION.
He Chose His Subject from His
Own Experience.
“Got your speech ready for Friday,
Johnny?” asked a school-boy.
“No,” said John.
“Well, I have. You’d better hurry
“Pshaw! what’s the use?” asked John.
“You see, a speech for Friday isn’t j ust
like lessons that a fellow ought to
learn. Ever so many things may hap
pen, so that I sha'n’t have to speak at
all. Visitors may come in, or some
other boy may recite something very
long, so that there won’t be time for
me. I sha’n’t bother. Maybe I’ll go
out in the country that day, and then
if I learned anything it would be of no
use. I’ll wait till the time comes.”
John waited, but he did not go to the
country; the other boys chose short
declarations, and Friday morning was
so cloudy that there was no prospect
of company. At noon John was in a
state of desperation. He flew here and
there about the house in search ol
something that would answer his purr
pose. Uncle Jack gave him a book of
old dialogues and orations, but before
he could learn more than a line or two
it was school-time.
The others spoke, but John listened
without hearing much, and when his*
own name was called he walked across!
the floor with a very bewildered feel-j
ing, and staring at the ceiling, leaned!
against a post in the centre of the)
room. Mr. Grey would not accept ex-i
cuses; John knew that perfectly. Hot
put his hands into his pockets and!
looked at the boys, pulled them outj
again and looked at the clock; then hej
began confusedly: “ ‘My name isj
Norval. On the Grampian hills—myj
name is Norval. On the Grampian)
hills my father feeds his—his—name is'
Norval ’ ” J
“Runs in the family, that name does,’*]
slyly whispered a boy near him. The*
others began to laugh, for they all new ;
how grandly John had talked of not
taking any trouble. Mr. Grey began
to look curiously over his glasses, and
John knew that something must ho
done; so he suddenly said: “I don’t
know much about Norval, but I know'
something about industry; so I’ll tallcj
about that: Industry is a good things
to have; it’s better than luck. If aj
boy is really industrious and get?;
ready for things why—he’s ready. If'
the man that invented telegraphing!
had waited for luck, I don’t supposer!
there’d have been any messages sent!
yet. Boys, be industrious; get ready!
for things beforehand, and don’t waitj
till the time comes.” r
John bowed and sat down, and the
boys applauded heartily. Mr. Grey, |
who did not understand the matter so<
well, hesitated a moment, but finally,
said: “This address seems to be origi-j
nal, and I suppose we must judge it
leniently on that account, though it is;
very imperfectly prepared. There is;
some valuable truth in it, however,*
which the speaker himself may profit
by: ‘Whatever is worth doing at all is!
worth doing well.’ Or, rather,” he
added more seriously, “there is a bet-,
ter motto still that I should like to give
you: ‘Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily
as unto the Lord, and not unto men.*
That will prevent all shams and care
less work.”
The boys thought John'had escaped
wondefully well; but he was certain of
one thing—that if he had not learned
anything to recite, he had learned some
thing else that day.—Morning Star.
Altogether Too Inquisitive.
An Augusta, Me., storekeeper was
formerly possessed with an over
whelming desire to examine the con
tents of every package which friends
deposited in his store for safe-keeping.
His propensities in this direction have
been effectually stopped, and this is
how it happened: A man who suspect
ed the weakness of the proprietor drop
ped into the store one morning, and
eft a bag asking that no one disturb
it. The proprietor walked round
awhile restlessly and then stopped
near the bag. He nervously fingered
the string that tied the top together:,
There was no one looking and he care
fully untied it. He was hardly prepar
ed for the result. A thousand of about
as mad hornets as were ever let loose
lit on all the exposed portions of the
man’s anatomy, permeated his clothing
quite thoroughly, and the way he shot
out of that door and home would haye.--
done credit to the prince of sprinters; *
Correcting a Prayer.
It was Elder Buzzell who called on
a worthy deacon to open a meeting
with prayer, says the Lewiston
(Me.) Journal, and was surprised
when the good man began his petition
with: “O thou great, insignificant
God.”
“Omnipotent, brother; you mean
omnipotent God,” whispered the
horrified pastor.
“Huh!” ejaculated the surprised
supplicant "What’s that you say?®*
The preacher repeated the correc
tion, whereupon the deacon continued
his prayer to a great length, and con
cluded as follows: «
“Finally, Lord, bless our eddicated
parson. Stuff him with religion as
well as with words; break him of the
habit of fault-findin’, if possible, and
at the ’leventh hour gather him with
the saints in thy kingdom.”
Elder Buzzell, who was'fond of telt
ing the story, always ended by declar*
ing that it was his first and last at~
tempt at correcting the speech of hit
brethren.
Beards as a Preventive of Disease.
Are not diseases of the throat and
respiratory organs dependent, to a con*
siderable extent, upon the habit of
shaving the beard? Speaking as a
specialist, and from a series of ob»
servations extending over many yeanv
I unhesitatingly answer in the affirma*
tive. Year after year I suffered with
that most painful of all the acuta
throat diseases—quinsy sore throat
Only those who have endured the tot*
ture and misery of this affliction can
form an adequate idea of the suffering
it entails. Since I have allowed my
beard to grow I have been free from it
The same happy result has followed
with hundreds of my patients, to whom
I have since then given the advice ta
allow their beards to grow.— Medical
Classics.