Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1871-02-02

'4inste Suxf forfy two years $50 s1e
residc111 Ii fashionable Ioudon street |
we're aspased after midnight by cries OF
lire. They SION discovered that il vas
raging d The house Of Lord Wslsiagham. |
and tn1 tkcre seemed-fcr in those days
6re-esespes we're not-no chance Of res
cuins - unhappy inmates. Presently
piercing scream. which those now living
can sfsu vividly recall. rang through the
night. Il came from Lady Walsingham.
IS she lnng herself from an upper cham
Der and feIl dead upon the pavement
Her huuband persisted in the flames
His nefkew and successor has lately per-
ished under circumstances equally sad.-I
A few ueeks ago he entertained the Prince
Of Walk q his fine old seat, Merton Hall.
in Nose1k. where his ancestors (the DE
Greys) have been seated since the Con-
quest During the last week of the year
his sou. young man Of eight-and-twen-
~. NJ. p. for Norfolk. had joined a shoot
ing party. which included the Prince at
Gunson uord Sufheld's). in the same
county. On the day Of his return a tel
egram vas placed In his hand when he
reached Norwich. It stated that his faith
er was dad. Lord Walsingham had died
by his avn hand. On the last day Of the
year he locked himself into his room and
cut bis throat. and it was only on the door
being ~ that the horrid discovery was
1t is most mysterious affair. There
was no madness in the family; he was an
excellent. amiable man, a model country
gentleman, very wealthy and apparently
altogether in the happiest circumstances
The coroner's verdict is Of course "tem-
porary insanity" but the world will con-
tinue to think that there was some special
cause for the alteration which led man
who had six weeks previously been able
to receive with splendid hospitality the
heir to the throne. and who was go well
that his eldest son had, day or two be-
fore. gone of on shooting excursion, to
suddenly put an end to his existence.
Fox HUNTING IN ENGLAND-Fox hunt
ing is indeed a national amusement in
England. 1t is not strange that there
should be so many good riders in the
kingdom, when We take into consideration
the humber of dogs kept for sporting pur-
poses. Of stag-hounds there are 205
couples. or 40 single dogs. Her Majes-
tvs pack numbers forty couples the mas
ter is Earl of Cork. the huntsman. Henry
King, and the Whips, NJ. Hills. r.
Edrupt, and ". Bartlett. The kennels
are at Ascot Heath, the hunting days
Tuesday and Friday. and the place of
hunt is at Windsor. Fox-hounds arc
most extensively patronized. They out
number some three times all the other
dogs. Among the largest packs. are
Duse of Beaufort's, - couples: Belvoir,
GIL couples. Duke of Rutland, master !:
Berkeley. go couples. Lord Furnishings,
master Bicester, 60 couples. Sir. A. W.
Payion, master; Duke of Graftoa's, 60
couples; Heythrop, II! couples. Mr.. \.
w. Hall, master; Pytchley, II couples,
J. A. Craven, master; Earl Of Wemyss.
GO couples. and Sir. W. W. Wynn, 60
couples Ofstag-hounds. the largest pack
numbers 81 couples, Brighton. w. T.
Dewc. master; and Pendle Forest, 80
couples, Lieutenant-C Colonel lie Gendre
NJ. Starkie, master. is the second largest.
Of bcagfes there are but 111I couples re-
ported, the largest pack numbering 20
couples. But Of stag hounds. fox-hounds
and beagles. there are S,155 couples in
the table before US. or total Of 16,310
dogs. Msny gentlemen requested that no
mention be MADE Of their hounds, there
fore the record is incomplete. But it is
safe to say that not less than $4,000 dogs
will aid in giving life to the hunting fields
of 1871. Keeping so many dogs for the
chase necessitates keeping at least Is 200
horses for the same purpose. A glance
ut these figures and rapid calculation
enable us to form some idea in regard to
the cost to the English people of one
branch of out door amusements.
NUTRITION FOR THE BRAIN.-Some time
ago Professor Agassiz. in speech before
a Boston assemblage, asserted that FISH
diet, on account of the quantity Of phos-
phorus contained in it, is especially adap-
ted to nourish the brain. and that those
persons who subsist upon it largely are,
consequently, more likely than others. II
possessing the same natural powers. to be
distinguished for their brightness and in.
tellectuality. Professor Agassiz is gen.
orally regarded as being in such matters,
the highest authority in the United States
if not the very highest living, and this es.
innate is undoubtedly correct. but DR.
ID. NJ. Boards excellent scientific author
ity. opposes the Professors theory, in an
able magazine article, arguing that brain.
work requires richer and more substantial
food, and a larger amount of it, than me.
chanics or laboring men because:
1. Labor of the brain causes greater
loss of tissue than labor of the muscles,
three hours of hard study producing more
important changes of tissue than a whole
day of muscular labor.
.. Brain-workers, as a class, are more
active in their work than mechanics and
laborers the thinking powers. the tools OF
trade of brain-workers being always q,
hand and alksys idle.
g. Brain workers exercise. more or less.
all the other organs Of the body as well
as the brain.
DIR. Beard, to corroborate his views,
cites various nationalities. For example
the Romans, Persians, and Baby lonians,
were dominant nations among the nations
and they are free and luxurious in the
habits of eating. In modern times the
English, French and Americans are run
ming nations, and they are good feeders,
and some of them pretty hard drinkers.
So our brain-uorkers have two theories