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THE JOURNAL HAS FACILITIES FOR FINE JOB PRINTING Call cr Write for Prices. THE JOURNAL ....IS THE.... FAVORITE PAPER witk H iltn (ivirtliin. DEVOTED TO THE TRUE INTERESTS OP THE PEOPLE OP SENECA COUNTY. V O L U M E 18. SENECA FALLS, N. T., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6,1802. NUM B E R 20 Sei^eea^o .journal PUBLISHED EVEKY WEDNESDAY BY THE JOUHNIl PUBLISHING GO. (LIJIITEO) PARTRIDGE BLOCK, SENECA FALLS, N. Y. 't'E U iflS : Cmnty Snb»crlherB, $1.60 when paid In advance; Sabsoribere oatslde the county, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid; Hubacrlptlon (or ill months, $1.00 In advance. RAT E S O F A P v E R T ISIN C ; and like notices, B l T S in f B S S C A R D S . EKNE5T Q, QOULD, L. FOSTER CROWELL, S ekkoa FAIX.S, W. Y. SHELDRAKE HOUSE. 7 comforts guaranteed. ____ ____ 1 Sheldrake, Seneca Co., KELLOaO’S LIVERY. C. B. HOWE, M. D. NRWYORK ^T^TRAL & HUDSON RIVER R. R. THE FOUR-TRACK TRUNK LINE aE=3®'’='===« e s s s T S i \ i i P i i l i i i p a Gen. Agem, Buffalo, N. Y. 1. SMITH. Supt., Now York. 3STO A t R y a n ’s F u r n iture Store. Our large stock was purchased before the manufacturers raised their prices. For that reason we can give you better value for vmur money than can be had else where. Come and see our Veranda Chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Pictures, mattings. Window Shades, Hammocks and Go Carts. E. J. RYAN, 27 STATE STREET. EYES THHT H I T O T a . w . golder , P U I l l Optician. Tired eyes are Nature’s warning. Sight is priceless and its presrvation should be a matter of earnest consideration. J.H.McDonald Bnccoior to William HilU General Fire Insnrance And Real Estate Agency. Seneca Falls, N. T. J Q o 5 ii 7 ^ 0 u t 5 al^ Only a few m ore days left to procure th e s e goods at le s s than m a n ufacturer’s cost. A l l goods m u s t go at som e price. O LOSIIMQ Q U T . STOWBLL’S BAY OF QUINTE ROUTE T O T H ^ 1,000 ISLANDS. Steamers NORTH KING and CASPIAN Leave Summerville (Port of Rochester) daily, except Sunday, at 8:30 P. M. A complete review of all scenic beauties of the Bay of Quinte and 1,000 Islands, reaching all points of interest. Also daily trips to Coboiirg and Port Hope, leaving Summer ville at 9:45 A . M. The shortest route to all Canadian fishing and sporting resorts. Electric cars convey passengers and baggage from railway station to steamboat landing. For information and tickets apply to F. J. A m s d e n , Powers Block, L e h i g h V a l l e y R a il r o a d O f f i c e , 13 E. Main St., L e w is & Co., 167 Central A v e ., opp. N.Y.C. station, Rochester, N . Y. R a ir d s ^ t o r e Is now at its best. Stock is complete with new goods for Spring and Summer selling. Tailor M a d e S u it s in the most desirable styles. Separate Skirts in silk, wool and wash materials. W h ite Goods are shown in large variety including Madras, India Linen, French Lawns, Pique, Organdies, etc., etc. This week we open our new stock of SHIRT WAISTS which excels in variety any assortment we have heretofore shown. Priced 50 cents to $3.00i each. Our Carpet Room contains the best things in Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, etc., etc., which we offer at the lowest prices. Dry Goods and Carpet Store, 73 Fall Street. \ Detroit & Buffalo r S team b o a t Co, Queens of the Lakes STB*. CASTCKN kTATES 4 WESTERN STATES O O S A V E D TO ANY POINTWEST I«v. Buffalo daily 5.3 B A N N E R SALVE th e m o st healing s a lve in t h e world. W e are Sole Agents in Seneca Falls for the American Importing Go.’s Hion Grade Donees Celebrated for their strength, purity and flavor. W e shall^be pleased to have you call and get sample free of charge. A. M. SHEPARD. dddlson’s 104 F a ll Street, Seneca Falls, N. Y. PETE’S BABETTE By IZOLA L. FORRESTER ' Copyright, 1801, by A. S. Richardson There had always been Pete. At least SO the people down at St. Michel said when a stranger would ask where he had come from. Even before the gov ernment had built the lighthouse on Presque Isle Pete’s fishing hut had been there, and every night he had hung out ills lantern on tlie end of a pole so thathat thehe boatsoats roundinsoundins flicker and steer t t b r the loint a mile or two below would see Its clear of the long sand bar that ran out like an ant eater’s Presqi Everybody' along the strait knew the ]ualnt old figure, but no one knew of 0 dress the one bright spot t \ the grays and browns ( color among the grays n Presque Isle. The day before Pete been seen rowing over to the Mackim shore, but no one knew of his return except Mere M’rie, and she was so old and deaf that all she could do was cook Pete’s fish and sit out in the shine all day smoking In the kitchen doorway. When Landry Dubois from Algonac eyes, deep sot In the small brown face, watching Babette build houses with the red bark chips around the light house steps. “She has no one but me,’’ he said, with a dubious shrug of his thin, stooped shoulders. “Babette, who art thou, petite?” Babette stopped playing long enough to flash a merry glance at him under the shelter of her thick brown hair. “Pete’s Babette,” she laughed. And so, all through the Isles of the strait, as far as St. Ignace and ei manner of wonderful things In fish lore and shiperaft, and before long she knew all the boats that passed by Presque Isle from the great Iroi and grain boats bound for• le gaj' little yachts that fluttered like •bite butterflies here and there. But, vu to Mackinaw, she was known as :e’s Babette. Pete taught her all It iron kings [ Buffalo to best of all, she loved tlie schooners, the old nionarchs of the lake, when they came sailing up the strait on a still summer’s eve, like wondrous phantom ships, with the glory of the sunset be hind, and she called them Babette's And the them, slow by one, as the wild geese fly to the southland, and each one left Pete browner and more wrinkled and small er, while Babette grew up tall and slender and strong as a young ] ' tree, with hair and eyes brown as oak: leaves. Then came the ten winter of ’94, when boat after boat went out on the lakes and no more was heard from them until spring waves brought In the wreckage. It was cold leaves. Then came the terrible len boa •ought In the wreekaj t the little, low house back of the lighthouse on Presque Isle, colder than even Pete could remember, and every week it was harder for him to row down to St. Michel for provisions. ;ht he came home half frozen i a dreadful cough. Babette to bed and said he should go 'riiey must make what food they had last until warmer weather. But Instead of sunshine and fair seas the clouds swept low and gray like gulls before a storm, and the waves ame rolling In, with a deep, heavy well that sent a dull, threatening oar as they broke, up to the light- louse. And here and there in the dark green waters could be seen something else, a clumsy, swaj'liig mass that glinted blue white. “The ice has come,” Babette thought When she saw it from the lighthouse window one morning after she had trimmed the lamp, and there was a It was three days later when More H’ric showed her the empty meal bag. she smiled. There were still bacon and •ice and dried fish. They were rich. At the end of the week there was no ba con, and they had saved the last of the rice for Pete, who lay on the old lounge near the stove coughing, cough ing all the time. .The following day Pete was delirl- . Babette stood In the old kitchen, :ing from the flushed, wrinkled face the pillow to where Mer< ous. Babette knelt over by the stove praying. lere was no rovlslor Babette took the fur Jacket from its ill. Before she went out of the kltch- 1 she leaned over the old halfbreed Oman’s bent form. “To St. Michel,” she said slowly, pointing eastward and then at the empty meal sack and flour bag thrown In a corner. Mere M’rie understood and stopped her praying long enough to watch the strong, erect young figure pass down to the shori wind blowing the ends of ' backward over her shoulders like red wings. !er hands worked quickly over lines of the boat, and, taking adi tage of a momentary lull, she pushed from the small, tumbledtumbled dowiown :r and s d ely for St. Mi- Pete when the waves were as high as now, and she loved the excitement of It all. The low. flat shore of Pres( vanishedanished entirelyntirely behindehind could catch a Isle v e b the of waters, but she could cat( glimpse of the dear old lighthouse and Us round top above the tallest wave, and the sight strengthened and nerved her for the five mile Journey to St. Michel. Suddenly, when scarcely half a mile at, the boat seemed to strike a irrent Babette caught her breath irply as she felt the strong, resist- ciose Ups and tense muscles, but It was 'elling rush of carried her northward, straight useless. The deep, led her ii liddle channel of the strait, had come up again and waters c on to th( The wind had come up again raged over the lake like a wild t Then, without warning, there rose fore her the Jagged, cruel line of floe, and the next moment the •es had thrown tlie boat as if it had rose be- been a leaf full upon it. Instlnctlvel; Babette had risen at that last awfu Instant. As the boat crashed into the Ice -with a shock that made it leap and tremble she sprang forward and gained a footing on the ice floe, a lerilous one, to be sure, but one that meant safety for the momenr at Already the little boat had'disap peared In the whirlpool of dashing v ters, and Babette’s heart beat fast she looked about her on her new craft. It was large; It seejned as large Presque Isle Itself, and at first It ap peared Stationary. But when she had reached Its center she could feel the slow, steady motloi ward Lake Huron. And now came the division of the channel, and Babette’s heart almost stopped its frightened beating as thought of what would happen If the floe drifted north of Algonac island and out on the great pitiless waters of the lake. With hushed breath laving so hardly retain her place, but at la the pine crests of Algonac showed t her left, and she knew she would pai St. Michel. 'With fingers stiffened I the cold she untied the red scarf fro: about her head and let the wind bio it like a danger signal above her i she caught a glimpse of the lighthouse on the west pier. So near, it seemed. She placed her hand to her mouth and shouted, but her voice sounded like a reedblrd’s pipe in the noise of the rush ing waters. She was opposite the town could see the waves break on the pier. she struggled to her feet and !d the scarf wildly, and suddenly a figure appeared on the lighthouse ladder. Again she waved and tried to call. The figure signaled back and ran along the pier toward town. It was Landry Dubois. He burst into the warm back room a t old Mme. Por- teau’s breathless and hatless. “It Is Pete’s Babette,” he cried to the crowd of fishermen and sailors hud dled about the big wood stove. “Sbe Is on the ice, drifting out to the lake.” In five minutes the news had spread, and the shore was crowded, while the strongest boat in the place was manned, with Landry at the rudder, and stout arms pulled away to the res cue of Pete’s Babette. And when they brought lier back half frozen and half dead and gave her Into Mme. Por- teau’s care she told her errand In the warm back room—told how Pete 1 dying without food or medicine a how unless help was sent there woi ling from Presque I ight shall shine,” proj Landry, and the waves that had lauglied at Babette’s little boat bowed before the masterful stroke of ten pairs of St. Michel’s strongest arms as they manned the boat that bore Ba bette and provisions and medicine back to Presque Isle. “Thou hast saved his life, little one,” ?y stood in the prayed. But Babette only smiled and nodded her head, and she went on to the ligbt- The winter twilight was falliug swiftly, and the wind had gone down like one tired with Its mad play. Far to tlie west she could see a boat strug gling slowly up the strait, its lights ti'cmblcd, and tlie broad path of light streamed out over the point. Babette’s birds could fly in safety tonight, and below Landry Dubois held aloft a red scarf and told strait—the story of Pete’s Babette. How She HnAe n Pre.it. In Paris a gentleman who is fond of flue francs Abydos” and was congratulating him self on becoming its possessor when he suddenly remembered that his wife Paris a gentleman who is very af flue paintings bought for 15,000 s a work entitled “The Bride of No; I’ll say 4,000.” By this time he had reached home, and when he saw his wife he told her unblushingly that he had a beautiful woi nnl sum of 3,00 she seemed more disconcerted pleased, but said nothing, and the painting was hung up. Next day the gentleman was obliged to go to the south of France, and when he returned after a week’s absence his wife met him with a beaming coun ty. You know that painting you bought for 3,000 francs? Well, I sold it yesterday for 4,500, a clear profit of 1,500 francs!” School chaff is wholesome in most ases, but it may cramp what should lot be cramped. As to the chaff which i man gives and gets at a university, however, we do not think there can be pinions. It must do good, and it 3 open to receive it. The quiet ----- who wishes to read or to think apart need hardly ever come Into con tact with his fellows unless he so swaggering or bump- opinionated man, the offensive m an-these are certain to be chaffed, and the chaff usually goes home; not a t once perhaps, but it usu ally gets there in the end with satis factory consequences. The personal lark may be rude, but rudeness is often a very salutary weapon. It Is certainly one of the most valuable In struments of English education. In deed It may seem a strange thing to say, but it Is surely true that contin ued experience of calculated, formu- larized and well iuteutioued rudeness teaches people to be polite.—London L Irishman who wares kept a donkey cart, with which he visited the different villages. On one occasion he came to a bridge where toll was levied. He found to his disappointment he had not enough money to pay it. A bright thought struck him. He un harnessed the donl In due course he was hailed by the toll collector. ‘Hey, man!” cried the latter. ?haur’s your toll?” ‘Begorra,” said the Irishman, \just lard woi And yet everybody Is looking places In it.-Boston Xrau- N E C E S S ITY O F S L U M B E R .^ Pnnishment. “A person absolutely without sleep die,” says a writer aware of it. . tain point sleep is inevitable, no m ter what the bodily condition, the ternative being death. Prisoners hi Slept on the rack of the Inquisitl And the Chinese found th.at only greatest Ingenuity and vigilance co carry out a sentence of death by sleep lessness. This mode of capital punish ment was long in favor In said to be so today, whlli torture deprivation of sleep is consid ered one of the most efficacious weap ons In the Chinese Judicial ai In some such cases the prlso; kept In a cage too small to stand up o lie down in and constantly prodde a sharp rod. Death by stan Chinese punitive process and t! would think, more calculated to appeal arvation, method. Is a tfierefore, aiuK, more calculated to a to the oriental mind if it were not that death by sleeplessness is thought so much more painful. In the lat ter case the brain Is the first affect ed of all the organs of the body, while in case of starvation the brain longest retains its normal weight and charac- “A corresponding: ints is said the animals of sleep when first caught. mode of tamir wild elephants is sa to be deprivi inlmals of sleep when In a few days they become compara tively spiritless and harmless. The brain of the elephant Is held to more highly developed than that any other wild animal, but of course as compared with a human brain can be easily fatigued by new Impressions and so made very dependent on sleep. The wild elephant In his native Jungle, is said to sleep very little—a could have Imagined— If transported to Mars, say—would doubtless need extraordinary amount of sleep a t fii There is the almost parallel German boy, Casperasper Haiauser, boy, C H who up J age of eighteen was kept In one where he had no Intercourse with human beings or sight of object, not even the sky. At eighteen he was brought to Nuremberg and abandoned in the street. For the first WHILE WE SLEEP. The Xnsclea aad Orgaum o t •the Body Are Still Workinar. If the organs of the body cannot be said to sleep, neither can the volimtary muscles. Witness the phenomena of sleepwalking, the postilions in stage coach days who slept in their saddles and cavalrymen who do it today, In- itry who have been Jknown to sleep forced marches, sentinels who walk their beats carrying their guns In fixed position while they sleep. For all we know policemen may do It too. People who talk In their sleep are fa miliar to all of us. Experiments made by Spelr, Armstrong and Child on 200 college students of both sexes showed that 47 per cent of the men and 37 per cent of the women talked In their sleep. A number of things might be proved by these statistics. Of these Seep talkers one-half of the women tnd one-third of the men are able answer questions while asleep. More which they had been talking. It men could answer tions on any subject, not alone thi liat most sleep talk ers are under twenty-five years of age. Evidently, then, with the muscles and organs of the body all working, It Is the brain only that sleeps, and by no means all of the brain. The senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste may be very much awake while the subject sleeps. A sleeping person :perlmenter tickles it. A child Is broken of the habit of suck ing his thumb while asleep by putting aloes on It. He is conscious of the bit ter taste and dreams of wormwood. The nerves, then, and the brain >ndingnding t(o ters correspo t them are awake. A busy lawyer, exhausted by over work, one night went out to supper with some friends, ate, talked and walked with them, and the next day remembered absolutely nothing of the occurrence. He bad not been drinking, e man was simply asleep during the lole evening. His conscious mem- itself—slept FLOWER AND TREE. for their best developmer With house plants all extreme changes of temperature should be Too many trees prevent rapid growth and extend the time when a grove Is well shaded. . Grapevines like their roots to be near the surface, and the food for them should not be placed at too great a Small growth and too much small fruit go together. Thrifty growth fur nishes a few large and fine specimens of fruit. There Is no use In growing a tree very talk The top limbs are apt to be come Slender and break if fruit is pro duced on them. All members of the poppy family are lard to transplant. By choosing a ainy day and not exposing the roots Avoid strai)ight ble. There Iis lines as much as poss I no straight line in natun Ao Sm alctng. There Is one country In the world where it is considered a crime to smoke —Abyssinia. The law forbidding to bacco dates from the year 1042. It was a t first merely intended to prevent iriestsriests fromrom smokingoking In thehe to prevei p f sm in t churche but it was taken too literally, and now- 'ee to be care rs hav t loking. CoKceded It. There’s a burglar In the house, Ben- ^jamln,” said Mrs. Frett, arousing her husband in the dead of the morning. “Hear th a t?’ she continued. “It’s sure ly the sound of a chisel. He’s a safe burglar.” “You bet he Is,” sleepily returned enjamin, turning over for another a«p.—lUcL&u^nd Dispatch. fEESEBVED BT WAS FOUR HISTORIC PAINTINGS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL scenes iment of It is a curious fact that the sa combination of Chemicals which j 3d in a perfect state for ov 3 the remains and shrouds oj preseri torlcal paintings perpetuating In the foundation and establish) this government. These four paintings occupy perhi the most conspicuous place for obser vation In the nation. They are the work of Colonel John Trumbull and hang on the eastern wall of da of the capltol. The paintings were put in place in 1824 under the supervision of the artist himself, but not without much hesita tion and objections on his part because of the dampness of the walls and air In the rotunda at that time. The fears of the artist were proved to be well founded, for four years later the changes on the surface of the paintings became so apparent that passed a resolution authorlz removal from the walls of th(________ by Colonel Trumbull for Inspection and remedy if possible. It was at this le presi pound was drawi point that Colonel Trumbull’s knowl edge of the preservative chemical com- iwn on. 1828, Colonel Trumbull explains in de tail his treatment of the paintings at that time, and an inspection now of these four pictures shows that they are in a perfect state of preservation both as to brightness of color and con dition of canvas. In the letter referred to Colonel Trumbull says; “All of the paintings were taken down, removed from their frames, taken off from the panels over which they were strained, removed to a ^ y , warm room and there separate ly and carefully examined. The mate rial which forms the basis of the paint- linenin< cloth whose strength ings is a l and texture a In the topgal The substanc whose strei similar to t of a ship o dances em] proper surface for the artist together with the colors, oils, etc., form a suffi cient protection for the face of the can vas, but the back remains bare and ex- tbe deleterious effects of damp posed to t air. The effect of this Is first seen i 1 dreaded, and the examination showed that mildew was already commenced form of mildew. It was this which and to an extent which rendered it ne exposure for a few years longer would have accomplished the complete decomposition or rotting of the can vas and the consequent destruction of the paintings.” ilonel Trumbull then explained how irst thoroughly dried the canvases prepared them for the preserva tive. On this point he continues: “1 had learned that a few years ago some of the eminent chemists of France had examined with great care some of the ancient mummies of Egypt with a view to ascertaining the nature of the substance employed by the embalmers which the lapse of so many ages had proved to possess the power of protect ing from decay a substance otherwise SO perishable as the human body. This examination had proved that, after the application of liquid asphaltuzn to the cavities of the bead and body, the whole had been wrapped carefully in many envelopes or bandages of linen prepared with wax. The committee of chemists decided further, after a care ful examination and analysis of the lileroglyphic paintings with which the etc., are covered, that the ci ors employed and still retaining their vivid brightness had also been pre pared and applied with the same sub stance. “I also know that toward the close of the last century the Antiquarian Society of England bad been permitted to open and examine the stone coffin deposited In one of the vaults of West minster abbey and said to contain the body of King Edward I., who died in July, 1307. Ou removing the stone lid of the coffin Its contents were found to be closely enveloped in a strong lin en cloth, waxed. Within this envelope were found splendid robes of silk en riched with various ornaments cover ing the body, which was found to be entire and to have been wrapped care fully in all its parts, even to each sep arate finger, in bandages of fine line which had been dipped In melted wa; and not only was the body not decon lot only was the body not decom- >d, but the various parts of the 'ess, such as a scarlet satin mantle 1 a scarlet piece ( s placed over thehe of sarsenet which face, were In per- even In their colors.” all then states tt owledge, he melted cc on beeswax and mixed with an eqi quantity of oil of turpentine, wh mixture was applied hot witli brusl Che backs of the paintings and aft- ?ard rubbed in with hot Irons until the cloth was perfectly saturated. The niches in the walls were backed with cement aud the puiutings so placed in them that air could circulate behind the canvases. Spring doors were also ordered placed in the entrances to the rotunda by Colonel 'TrumbulL Since that trentm* had nothing present appearances they need noth- Anotber peculiarity in one of these pictures Is pointed out to persons being shown the capltol under the care of a guide, and that is in the scene of Washington resigning his commission. The two daughters of Charles Carroll, who Stand embracing each other, are given five hands.—Washington Star. An architect of New York says that with the modern steel frame a build ing can be carried to a height equal to seven and one-half times the diam eter of the base. By this rule on an ordinary city block could be erected a building 1,500 feet high, 500 feet higher than the Eiffel tower. It would have 123 stories and cost about $30,- 000,000. __________________ A Pointer. ow do you a handsom< say you. never saw her. Griggs—No, but you should hear how other women talk about her.—Bos- ■Bomebody figures that there are 1,437 remedies for rheumatism. But it gets there Just the same.—New York World. A boy Is usually r e a d y to e a t e v e ^ tim e h e stops playing.—A tchison Q leb^ FACT AND RUMOR. Mtoxrj’ On« Fostpoxked C o u n c il In E n g lan d . Cabinet councils give rise at times to rumors that dodge fact and mislead public expectancy. One of Lord Beac- ;en Victoria, s anxious s wave In t Princess Louise happened then to t lord In waiting knew Cessor who was a weather diviner. crossing. A I professor who and to him he went with a message from her majesty, who sent also a mes sage to Lord Beaconsfield. The lord la waiting was sent to a theatrical supper-it was Sunday night—in search of the professor. Him he found In this lively company and was himself constrained to listen to the game of words that was passing round. Which would they choose if they had to mar ry, Gladstone or Disraeli? All said “Disraeli” except one, and she said 10 that I ml break his h The lord in waiting, much diverted, went forth and, finding Disraeli in rather low spirits, told him this tale as an Instance of his great popularity Witli all classes of tlie queen’s sut>* The whimsicality o congenial to Disraeli )t .waiting next day a council for the arrival of an Importai colleague. To pass the time he told t l assembled ministers the story c theatrical supper. Lord Cairns omen), hearing, did not smile, and his solemnity put out of countenance the prime minister, who a t once made the nonarrival of the colleagi story of th« Cairns (absil il for a couple !he “balance' of poweF' then unstable, and that afternoon for postponing of hours. Th was then unstable, and th a t after) the papers had headings: “W ar It nent A Second Cabinet Council Sum moned.” For once the ladles of the stage made history and staggered the Stock Exchange.—London Chronicle. . TOW N HAD O F F S E T S . So HI* Cloim F o r HAmoffes In oulr f 119 . 34 , had been knocking about a Kan- sas town in the evening,” said a drum mer with a limp, “and in heading for my hotel I walked plump into an open sewer which had no red light of warn- and next day the city attorney called on me to know what I was going to do. “ T am going to sue the town, of course,’ I replied. “ ‘But what for? he a!*«d. “ ‘For personal damages. There should have been a railing or a light, but there was neither, and my Injury will lay me up for weeks.’ “ ‘But don’t you know what you es- by falling into the sewer?’ he “ ‘Then of the hotel fell In lai •ee men. you that the roof ist ulght and killed and if you had been in your 'ould have been crushed to ). You really owe this town som Instead of talking about dai “When able to get out,” c the drummer, “I found that public opinion was against me and the people ready to stand a suit, aud by advice of a lawyer I settled the case for $125. “I didn’t even get all that. In tum bling into the sewer I broke two planks and brought on a cavein, and the dam ages were assessed at $5.66 and taken out of the money.”—Dallas News. The Sense of Feeling. i Some of our most important organs— for instance, the heart, the brain and the lungs—are, strange to say, quite Insensible to touch, thus showing that not only are nerves necessary for the sensation, but also the special end or- The curious fact was noticed he greatest astonishment by, who, while treatiiijitiiig a p cavity in his side, f put his fingers into the cavity he could actually take hold of the heart without the patient being in the least aware of what he was doing. This so interested e man’s bedsicIde himself behold ai dinary a thing.” tha e might nose, aud it is stated t ’^at the patient,' oddly enough, feels as if the new nasal part were still In his forehead and may have a headache in his nosei —Chambers’ Journal. In the Same Situation. . A funny story Is told about a physH clan at Monroe City. A resident of the town set out shade trees for the In-law of the man who had set out the . After pay! thought of the trees and td present) he trees di the doctor. “So did my n )sented a bill f les died,” protest) lother-in-law retorted the other man. The doct paid the bill.-Kansas City Journal. made out and them. “But Having paid by the waite did “not inch “Waal,” saiu waiter, did l?” And as he loc “Tip” Queai bill, he was informed iter that what he had paid e the waiter.” i the stranger, “I ate no )oked quite ready to do so on any further provocation the sub- dropped.—^London Chronicle. ' s he sing well?\ slugs as well could teach hii good singer! Billingsley, heard Billingsley. Is he a a t ilerj Analysis. | She—After all, what Is the <iiffereac« between illusion and delush He—Illusion is fhe lovely have about ourselves, and the foolish fancies other people have swJ about themselves.—Life. Uncertain Footing. The fellow who stands on his dignil may discover that dignity is Just slippery as a banana sktoj—S ^ \ •Republic.
