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Tho Blue Glass Mania Abroad.

The blue glass curative process, re-
Gently 80 recommended, and almost for
gotten already in this country, has come
to the front again in England, where
DR.. Davis, director OF the insane asylum
at Maidstone, Kent county, England,
reports some extraordinary results OF his
experiments with blue-glass lighted
apartments in the treatment OF insane
patients. On some of them the effect
was remarkably rapid, and on the third
day all underwent remarkable change.
Hysterical girls, suffering from mental
weakuess and commissions, after the
third day gave no signs Of either. Lun-
atics who constantly remained in these
rooms, after three days asked for water
to wash themselves, which they had
never before done, and they were aston
ished that they had previously been so
unclean. Raving patients, who broke
everything in pieces, after the third day
expressed their sorrow for their miscon-
duct. DIR. Davis states that always on
the third day, when the critical moment
of q change for the better had come,
the patient was affected with pains in
the head, which, however, were transi.
tory, and we're followed by cessation OF
mental and bodily ailments. It is said
that similar experiments, with like sue
cess, have been made in the health
establishment at Berndorf, near Cob
lenz, Germany.-Baltimore Sun.
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Cramps.

These most terrible of pains arise from
the veins being 80 full of blood that
they swell out, press against the large
nerves, and thus impede the circulation
of the vital fluid. In smaller nerves the
distension produces neuralgia, which is
literally nerve-ache." The cause OF
this unusual fullness of the veins is,
that the blood is so impure, so thick, 30
full OF disease, that it cannot flow by
Natures ordinary agencies. In proper
ton as it is thick, it is cold, and this
abnormal state is indicated by the feeble
ness of the pulse. In cholera patients
it is very marked, and exists days and
weeks before the attack. The following
is simple method of treatment:
When person is attacked with rramp,
get some hot water quietly and e1-
peditiously (for noise and e1clamations
Of grief and alarm still further disturb
the nervous equilibrium) put the suf.
ferer in the water as completely as pos
sible, and thus heat is impaired to the
blood, which sends it coursing along the
veins, and the pain is gone. While the
water is in preparation, rub the cramped
part very briskly with the hand or a
woolen flannel, with your mouth shut.
But why keep the mouth shut? You
can rub harder, faster and more efficient
", beside it saves the sufferer from
meaningless and agonizing inquiries. A
man in pain does not want to be talked
to-he wants relief, not words If all
could know, as physicians do, the in
estimable value of quiet composure, and
the confident air on the part OF one who
attempts to aid sufferer, it would be
practiced with ceaseless assjduity by the
considerate and the humane.
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Besieged TweDty.Thr Times.

Constantinople has undergone more
sieges than any other city IN the world.
It has been besieged twenty.three times
twice by the ancient Greeks; thrice by
the Roman emperors; once by the
Latins, the Persians, the Avares, the
Sclaves and by one of its dethroned sov-
ereigns, Michael Paleologus; twice by
the Bulgarians; once by the Byzantine
rebels; seven times by the Arabs, and
three times by the Turks. It WAS taken
but six: by Alcibiades, the Roman en-
perors Septimus, Severus and Constan
tine, the Doge Dandolo and Count Bald
win, the Emperor Michael Paleologus
and Mohammed II.
In 672, under Constantine IL, it was
besieged for seven years by the Arabs.
They made the surrounding country a
desert, uprooting trees, levelling villages
md habitations, and converting the
flourishing environs into waste. Then
came the Crusaders in 1904. The devas-
tation committed by theFrench and Ven,
etian champions of the cross exceeded
even that Of the Arabs. They burned
The richest and largest quarter OF the
city, and inflicted such blow on it that
it never recovered its former wealth and
prosperity. They profaned the Cathe-
tlral of ST. Sophia, broke into the tombs
of the Byzantine emperors, dragged out
their skeletons, and scattered their bones
in the streets. They fred the public
libraries, ridiculed the Greek religion
l:y decking their horses with the vest
ments of the clergy, and their heads
with the pontifcal tiaras.
Were it not for the Incompatible
beauty and advantages of its situation,
Constantinople could never have risen
again from its ashes and survived such
terrible calamities.
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A Dreadful Mistake.

She gave him a beautifully worked
pair of Slippers, and although they were
m inch too short, and pinched him
dreadfully across the toes, he smilingly
submitted to tile martyrdom which they
imposed, and vowed they should never
leave his feet.
This reckless statement must be re-
ceived by the reader with becoming
cautiousness.
And 80 the young man made return
of her offering. It was his picture, en-
cased in handsome frame. he wrote q
note to send with it, and at the same
time replied angrily to an oft-repeated
dun from his tailor, with reference to
AN uupaid-for suit of clothes. He gave
a boy ten cents to deliver the package
and notes, giving explicit directions as
to the destination of eachI 1t was an
unusually Intelligent boy, with freckled
face, and he discharged his errand in a
manner that should give him niche in
the temple of fame. The young lady
received note in her adored ones hand
writing, and few to her room to devour
it's contents. She opened the missive
with eager fingers, and read:
"I'm getting tired Of your everlasting
attentions. The suit is abont worn out,
already. 1t never amounted to much,
anyway. Please go to thunder"
And the tailor was struck utterly
dumb, when he opened package and
discovered the picture of his delinquent
customer, with note that said:
"When you gaze upon these features,
think of how much I owe to you"
When the unfortunate young man
called around that evening to receive the
happy acknowledgements OF his sweet
heart, he was very ostentatiously kicked
off the steps and over the fence. by the
young lady's father; and the next morn-
ing he was waited upon by his tailor's
lawyer, and imperatively ordered to SET
tie or suffer.
There is one less freckle-faced boy in
the city, He has suddenly and mystic
ciously disappeared. d.-Rockland Courier.
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All In a Lifetime.
By z. C. STEDMAN.

Thou shalt have sun and shower from HEAVIER
above,
Thou shalt have flower and thorn from earth
below.
Thine shall be foe to hate and friend to love,
Pleasures that others gain, the i'll they know
And all in q lifetime.
Hast thou golden day, starlit night,
Mirth and music, and love without all y?
Leave no drop undrunken Of thy delight;
Sorrow and shadow follow on thy Joy.
Tis all in lifetime.
What if the battle end and thou has lost?
Others have lost battles thou hast won
Haste thee, bind thy wounds, ror count the
cost;
Over the fields will rise to-morrow's sun.
'Tis all in lifetime.
Laugh at the braggart sneer, the open scorn-
Ware OF the secret stab the slanderous lie
For seventy years Of turmoil thou vast born,
Bitter and sweet are thine till'these by.
Tis all in lifetime.
neChon Icy 'oSaSe "ei', auo sPfea LILO Dali
Wind and calm and current shall warp the
way;
Compass shall set thee false, and chart shall
fail;
Ever the waves will use thee for their play.
lis all in lifetime.
Thousands Of years agone were change and
change,
Thousands OF ages hence the same shall be
Saugbt Of thy Joy and grief is eew or strange
Gather apace the good that falls to thee!
'Tis all in lifetime!
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A Lost Fortune.

He was a hollow.eyed, desolats and
forlorn-looking individual, and presented
a sad type of humanity as he leaned up
against lamp-post. The winter winds
sang mournful dir9es through the rags
that hung from his coat, and his neg
lected beard resembled the tibers on
cocoanut.
"Move on" said an officer, in grutt
voice, as he came up to him.
"That's ii" said the desolate.looklng
man: "that's what I've heard from the
world ever since lost my fortune. This
big world is too busy to allow me to
stand still even for a few moments, and
I must smove on, although l have
nothing to move and nowhere to move
it to. Oh, if I had only saved my
fortune this would not have been. I'd
been riding in a carriage with four
horses and red painted wheels; I'd had
diamonds, fine clothes, servants, dead
head tickets to shows, an aristocratie
case OF dyspepsia and" -,
"How did you lose your fortune q
asked the officer, who was perhaps
ignorant of the art and desired the
Information for his own private benefit.
"Well, you see," replied the broken
man.. II was in Chicago in 1878, when
wheat jumped twenty-five cents on the
bushel, and I knowed q man who had
400, 900 bushels for sale Oh the day before
the jump, and if I'd the money to buy
I'll have made cool hundred Thousand
the next day. So you see lost n fortune
in one day, and here I'm busted fiat-or
the tramp and out of mon"
"No-, then, you move on or I'll take
you in, said the officer, and he moved
On.-Detroit Free Press.
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EnOch Arden Again.

Providence, R. l.. has an Enoch
Arden case. Thirty-one years ago
John Thatcher and Ellen Valley were
married in that city. Two years later,
the gold fever broke out in Australia,
and leaving his wife and one child,
Thatcher departed for that far-off
country. For several years letters
passed between them, but the husband
lid not meet with the anticipated sue
cess, and could not or would not send
money for the support of his wife and
child. Finally. the letters ceased, and
for many years no tidings were received
from him. In the meantime Mrs.
Thatcher married MIR. Corbett Stowell
who died eight months after. After a
brief widowhood she married Mr.. James
Conwell, who died at the end OF seven
wears. After an absence of over thirty
years, Thatcher returned to this country,
md went to work at mill in Saco, Me-,
and thither his wife, having heard of
his whereabouts, went and found him.
On the last Sunday of December
Thatcher returned to Providence, and
is now living with the wife of his youth.
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Old Times in Washington.

A Washington correspondent writes :
Ever since the time of Polk the National
Hotel hops have been known as the most
enjoyable gatherings of the kind in the
capital. In 1851 and 1862, I see by an
cient yellow cards that Henry Clay and
John Hale figured as floor managers. In
those olden times at the hotel hops the
fascinating Mrs. Crittenden was seen.
And the Princess Salm-Salm yelled her
glorious black eyes and set the men
wild with her rich tropical beauty. Here
the stately Lady Napier watched her
lords hirtations with a fascinating
American, and Nine. LIE Vert sported
her wondrous toilets. The Princess
Salm. Salm, I am toll, once, after dane
ing all night, received word that Prince
Salm. Salm, with his regiment, was just
across the river in Virginia. She went
at early dawn to meet them and rode
through the streets of Washington at
her husbands side, at the head OF bis
men. Cheers and crowds followed the
be beautiful woman, who at the time was
said to be the most fearless horsewoman
in America. She led a gay lite, and
died sudden death. Nine. LIE Vert,
poor and friendless, not long ago bade
adieu to earth's vanities. Lady Napier's
heavy heart is at rest. Mrs: Crittenden
kept hold of life as a paralytic long
time, but at last loosed her grasp, and
sank into her long, quiet sleep. But
the places in the parlors of the old Ma
tisnal, where the celebrated of other
days were wont to "trip the light fan
tastic toe," are taken up by men and
women as gay and elegant as those OF
yore. Mrs. Crittenlen, the pretty wife
of the member from Missouri, trailed,
at the first hop of the season OF 1878,
her rich velvet over the floor where once
her kinswoman stood. The old crop OF
beauty has been gathered and turned to
dust; but here stands another ripening
for the relentless reaper.
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4 Office.Seeker's Experience.

The Washington Post tells OF young
Westerner who went to the capital IN
October to get a clerkship, and soon
found that he had undertaken WORK
that would require time for it's compile
tion. An examination of his finances
satisfied him that he had no money to
waste. He left his elegant room at
first-class hotel and took a cheap, fur-
nished apartment in an unaristocra1c
neighborhood, for which he paid only
six dollars a month. He cut down ms
bin of fare to bread, milk and fruit.
and satisfied his appetite at cost OF
twenty cents day. Meantime with gooa1
clothes and cheerful looks, be pushed
for an appointment, and, after many y
disappointments, achieved success IN
two and half months from the time OF
his arrival. Had he followed the usual
custom of expensive living his money
would have given out in two or three
weeks, then he would have subsisted for
a time on his wardrobe, and, becoming
too shabby for appearance in good so,
ciety. would have been driven to appeal
tor charity to help him back, crushed
.nd roe.hs. gone, 10 bin old home.
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The Belted Kingflsher.

All along the st. Johns river, during
the winter, may be seen birds catching
fish for living. They are more numer-
ous here in the winter than in summer,
because, upon the freezing Of the waters
at the North, they flock to Florida to
carry on their fishing in the st. Johns,
which, never freezing, contains an
abundance of fish.
The belted kingasher comes close to
the house. where I can watch him fish
ing as I sit at the window. The river is
five miles across here, and for several
yards from the shore it is quite shallow,
so that wharf two hundred and fifty
feet long was necessary to make it easy
to launch our small rowboats. A railing
extends along the side of the wharf, and
upon this railing the kingfsher perches,
watching for his prey.
He understands fishing much better
than most boys, for he seldom misses
his game. He takes his position on the
railing, and fixes his eyes on the finny
tribes below, and when fish that suits
him comes within his range, he dives
into the water and brings it up with his
stout beak, md then beats it upon the
railing to make it limp and tender before
swallowing.
It is not 30 very surprising that he is
such an expert fisher, for during the
winter it is his only occupation; he has
no family to look after now, and he is
80 very selfish and quarrelsome that he
will not allow any Of his brothers to fish
near him. he considers the whole
length of the wharf his f1shing-post, and
his brothers must not trespass upon his
grounds; if they do, he chases them
away with a rattling, changing noise,
enough to frighten any fisher not
stronger than himself.
In the spring he takes partner in bis
business, for now it is time to raise a
family, and he knows he can never do
this alone. he is very good and kind to
this partner, and helps her dig hole in
clayey bank for the nest, and then
takes his turn in sitting on the eggs.
After the eggs are Matched, they both
catch fish to feed the young until they
are old enough to feed Themselves
Mrs. Mary Treat, in st. Nicholas.
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Naval Signals.

On the surrender or close action OF war
ship the first duty of her signal officer is
to look after the signal book, which is
bound with leaden sides, to assure it's
sinking. Its body is generally con-
signed to the deep blue sea, and finds
security at the bottom, away from pry-
ing eyes. Naval signals in daylight are
made by q system of small flags, COM
bination of colors. Each flag is num-
eral q certain number of flags spell
out sentences. For instance, in signal
ing a passing ship with Nos. l, 2, 8, 4,
may mean: "Heave to ; will send a
boat" Sentences are formed and num-
bers designate them. Passing ships can
converse intelligibly at great distances
by use of the glass. Night signals are
made by the display OF lanterns, rock.
cts, or the burning of Costen lights,
which are similar to the bengola lights
used in the celebration OF the "glorious
Fourth of July" The Costen lights are
in different colors-red above, bright
yroen, nn2 blue. BY the arrangement
of colors. r. Diences ure made out and
can be read a. fsr as seen. A light can
10 distinguished very greet distance
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Increase Of HydrOphObia.

"It is hard that a strong and healthy
man should have to go for dog" said
Mr.. Buckland, Of Chicopee, Mass, as
he was dying of hydrophobia. His death
and that OF three other strong and
healthy men in Massachusetts and Con-
necticut, within short time, from hy-
drophobia, have alarmed many people.
Two of the dogs that bit two Of the men
have escaped, and how many more
deaths will result therefrom remains to
be seen. In the Connecticut valley it is
feared that rabies has been widely COM
municated. Even valuable horses and
other animals have died of it, and there
is strong feeling in favor of killing
every dog within q circuit OF thirty miles.
The Connecticut Legislature is consider
ing proposition to impose a tax OF
twenty dollars on every dog, with strin-
gent penalties for non-payment. Six
deaths from this disease, in various
parts of the country, have been reported
within a month--an increase that calls
for decisive steps to prevent ito fu-rher
! spread. d.-~New YORK. SUI.
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Governor McCreary and the Miner.

Without recourse, says the Frankfort
(Ky.) Commonwealth, we print the fol-
lowing incident connected with trip of
Governor McCreary: 1t appears the
Governor was travelling Oh railroad
train, and sat down in seat whose other
half was occupied by rough, uncouth.
looking stranger, who appeared not in
disposed to engage the Governor, who
was unknown to him, in conversation.
In his efforts in that direction the stran-
ger drew from his pocket handful of
gold coin, and announcing that "thar
was no better stuff to keep feller goin
in this ere country" he jingled it in a
self-satisfed way.
"It does have a pleasant lock-" said
the Governor, smiling in his usual bland
way:
eyes," she's good-reg'lar-built shi-
ners-and I've got a few more of the
same soff," said the stranger as he
pulled his vest up and showed a belt
around his body that was puffed out with
gold coin.
"Ain't no better to be found in all Col
GRADY" calculated the stranger with an
innocent chuckle.
The ostentatious way in which the
stranger paraded his wealth, and which
had already attracted the attention of
other persons in the car, suggested to
Governor cCreary the fatherly idea Of
warning the stranger Of the danger he
ran in thus exposing his money to pub
lie view.
"My FRIEND" said he, "you may be
long ways from home and not fully
aware of the great hazard you run in
showing your money to people. You
may be robbed by some desperate vii
lain who may even now be watching
you"
The stranger widened his mouth in a
broad grin, and reaching both hands
back under his coat, he drew out and
displayed to the astonished governor q
couple of navy SKIES, loaded to the muz'
zle, remarking as he did so;
oval, no, I guess not-not while
these ERE pups know how to bark. You
just bet yer pile they won't keep still
when feller calls for that little lot o
gold. I'm wus nor mad buffer or
Rocky grizzly when my dander is up
The Governor thought he was su6ad
| ertly advisedi
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A Glance at Japan.

The restoration of the present Mikado,
in 1868, was the signal for the opening
OF Japan to foreign influence. Teachers
we're invited to her universities, and
merchants and travellers were allowed
in five free ports and two cities. The
customs OF the people presented many
ludicrous scenes for the enjoyment OF
strangers. The condition OF woman IN
Jspan is shown by the dressing OF the
hair, which is very elaborate except IN
the case of widows who have sternly
resolved never again to trust the male
sex-these shave off all the hair. The
Japanese have recently acquired a
taste for coins minted in the foreign
style, and also for greenbacks. That
they have advanced in American civlli-
zation, is shown by the recent occur
renee of two bank failures, for $l,oO,-
OOO.
The Japanese language presents some
difficulties to the learner. A Baptist
missionary began work on q translation,
Of the Bible into Japanese. he had NOS
a. firm grasp on the fine shades .:of
meaning of Japanese words. For the
Greek word meaning to baptize, he Sc
lected a Japanese word which meant
literally to soak. A well-known pas.
sage read thus: "In those days came
John, the seeker, preaching and soaking
in the desert" etc. It was found nee.
essary to revise the translation. For q
blasphemous man The language of the
Japanese has no resources. You may
invoke the names of pagan gods, but
you can't construct an oath on genuine
American principles.
Social life in Japan has many queer
features. The young men do not
a-wooing go; they resort to the prosaic
device of q middle-man-a mutual
friend, one might say, if that phrase had
not been abused so much. The mar
riage ceremony consists Of the bride and
groom sitting crossed-legged opposite
each other and drinking nine cups Of
tea from three cups. We're the Ameri-
can styles introduced the Japanese
lovers proposal would doubtless be,
"My darling, will you go three times
three with me?" Divorce is easy in
Japan-for man. He may get sepa-
ration from bis spouse for several rea-
sons, chief among which are that she is
jealous, or disobedient to her mother-in-
law, or that she steals, or that she talks
too much A pithy Japanese proverb
fo- scolding wife is: GA woman's
tongue is only three inches long, but it
can kill man six feet high.
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back, allowing the Russians to reoccupy
Elena. On the 10Th the Serbians car
ried st. Nicholas Pass by assault on
the Oath they took Ak Palanka, and on
the 2sth Pirot, the last place, after two
days stubborn fighting. Gourko's ad.
vanced guard turned the Turkish left
flank on the Etropol Balkans on the
29th, the last notew, l::i,y operation OF
the year. On the same day England
announced that at the Sultan's request
she had consented "to approach the
Emperor of Russia with the view of
bringing about negotiations for peace.
On the 1st of January England ad-
dressed note to Russia that met with
an unsatisfactory reply On the 4th. On
the 9th the Turks proposed a truce with
view to discussing the conditions of
peace, but the Grand Duke Nicholas re-
piled two days later thht he should not
treat till he was in Adrianople. On the
10Th John Bright delivered speech
still favoring non-intervention. On the
18th the first definite news as to the
position of Austria wassMsde public in
the declaration that sh8sRouh insist In
participating in any negotiations for
peace.
Operations we're conducted rather Ian
guidlY after the fall of Plevna. On the
81 of January the Russians occupied
Sophia, in whose streets Christian
army was seen for the first time since
1884. On the 7th they crossed the Bal
kans through the Shipka Pass, and two
days later Radetzky captured the Turk
ish army of defense, over 25, 600 strong.
On the i1th the Servians took Nish, with
it's garrison 5000 strong. On the 18th
the Turks evacuated Adrianople, which
was occupied by the Russians on the
morrow. On the Goth Gourko admins
tered a severe whipping to suleiman
Pasha, who lost 1000 killed and 5000
wounded. Next day Widdin was invest
ed hy the Roumanians, while Komarot
defeated the Ottomaus in Asia, the last
important engagement of the war.