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or Christian "Agnus Del" to succor the
devout, and the right or left side Of these
little images was worked as good or bad
was meant to others. Devils were sup
posed to be carried about in bottles; the
oil OF some holy sepulcher healed grave
diseases; the arm of the shift of q saint
WAS sovereign remedy; and the smoke
and even candles of saints shaines
guickened men back to life. The
Venetians found a treasury of
relics at Constantinople, and plum
dered in the thrift of trade both those
from whom they bought and to whom
they sold. No doubt some times mon
were cured by faith, in the strange sym
pathy which still exists between mind
and body. But the conditions of life
were highly unfavorable to medical
science. The terrible medieval cpl.
denies show so much. Yet in these ages
we'll known, such as pure air and water,
with the uses of the bath; the nobility
moved their families in summer to the
mountains; and even armies were led
out OF the plains to higher attitudes for
health. When Duke Leopold of Aus
tria, the jailer of Richard Lionheart,
flung from hi' horse in the Christmas
festival of 1895, in vain oesought his
physicians to sot the broken bones of his
foot, he himself held the battle-ax on
the limb while the court chamberlain
with Heavy mallet severed the foot at
three blows. The duke died, of course,
but the incident illustrates medieval
surgery.
The parent OF chemistry was Alchemy.
and the drug no less than the scalpel
went with the doctor to the patient.
Asia is the Oldest druggist of the world !;
she gave Rome and Europe also lessons
in pharmacy. Venice, as in all medisval
commerce, led the way, and the alchem-
lists stumbled occasionally on rare dis
coveries- absinthe, rose-water, and
brandy among them. Brandy became
almost panacea-a applied inwardly and
as a bath; and by curious blunder of
his servant, Charles the Bad OF Navarro,
in 1887, was burned to death in linen
bandages saturated with the famous
liquor. Of course, the philosophers
stone and gold played their part in the
current pharmacy, but it was curious
refinement in medicine to give golden
pellets to capons that the golden virtue
might accrue to the dinner on roast
chickens. Indeed, meoi@val medicine
was a conglomerate of all the theories
and superstitions of the world. At Sal.
emo, st. Gall, Cordova, Bologna, and at
Paris, medical schools under famed pro-
fessors brought together crowds of wild
and heady youth eager to learn and
grow rich. In many realms it was felony
to sell rare medical treatise, and the
life and liberties of the medimyal medi-
Cal student must have been picturesque
and unique. The doctor had honor, not
seldom brass, and sometimes ran risk of
his fee, and even OF his life if he lost his
patient.-Literary World.
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perceiving her condition, charitably re.
Trained from enlightening her. "You
are looking at my garden, SIR" her
white face lighting with wan smile.
''They are wild flowers, sir, SO my little
gal tells me, bnt she has to go ever SO far
to pick 'em. When the winter weather
went away and the sun came out began
to feel that craving for the sight and
smell of fresh flowers that couldn' ex-
press if l tried. 1t is through lying here
so many weeks SO dreary and dull and
so many hours all by myself, suppose;
but knew it was no use thinking about
'em ut the price they are when they first
come in the spring, though couldn't
help talking and saying that if I had a
few felt sure they would do me more
good than all the physic. And so, with
out saying word about it to anybody,
my little Kitty-a mere mite of seven.
sir-she gets up at five in the morning,
and before breakfast time she's back
with as pretty bunch as
ever you set eyes on. They
didn't last very long, poor things,
in this stuffy little room, and it seems
almost shame to bring em here out of
the fields where they grow, but THERE'S
thousands of 'em there, Kitty tells me,
and 1 don't think that those who have
their health to go and see em growing
would grudge me just few brough
away for roy share" mo one certainly
would, supposing the little girl you
speak of comes by them honestly" the
visitor ventured. "No fear about that,
SIR replied the sick mother confidently,
why, l happened only to hint some
thing like what You just said when she
brought home the first lot, and she fell
crying so that didn't know what to do
with her." So the kind-hearted park
official came away with his original pur.
pose unfulflled, and the magistrate
being informed of the circumstances, dis.
charged the terrified little prisoner with
a caution. Whether she went home and
made confession / cannot say; but I'M
less she did so within week it was too
late, for ct the end of no longer an
interval she was motherless. and it was
my privilege to assist in placing Kitty
and her two sisters in a country home,
far removed from the vice and tempta-
tions of London streets, and where wild
flowers in plenty may be had for the
picking. Telegraph.
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which would be no boon If the extension
were confined to the Psalmist's period of
Labor and SORROW" but it increases eff
cheney. More youths live and more men
and women in their prime, and youth
and early maturity are less suddenly and
frequently cut short. The reservoir of
force in the nation is deepened as well rs
the reservoir of vitality. and u generation
of English people, taken as whole.
gains more tine to do its work. whatever
it may be. Three minutes for mon and
five minutes for women is added to every
hour of their time on earth. That is
satisfactory, even to us, who see with a
painful clea rness to what extent crowd.
ing diminishes the happiness of life and
reduces it to a continuous struggle, for,
if effective vitality is increased, so also is
the capacity for emigration.-L London
Spectator
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John Bright, N. p. p. c.

Among the great orators of the British
senate, no one stands out more promi.
nently than John Bright, whose twenty
five years of faithful representation for
Birmingham, has just been celebrated
with great enthusiasm.
He was born in 1911, at Greenbank,
and after receiving an ordinary English
education, entered the business of his
father, in the firm of John Bright & Co.,
wool spinners. In 1889 he distinguished
himself by becoming vigorous member
of the anti cornlaw league. He was rep
resentative for the city of Durham from
1843 to 1S47, after which he was returned
to parliament for Manchester. The in
digLation which was felt against the
"Peace at any Price" party. led to his re-
lection by Manchester while he was trav-
cling in Italy for his health, but upon
the death OF Mr.. Muntz, few months
later, the constituency of Birmingham
invited him to become candidate for
the vacant position. He was elected, and
has, ever since, represented Birming.
ham. In 1868 he was appointed president
of the board of trade in Gladstone's new
cabinet.
On the eve of the bombardment of Al
exander. Mr.. Bright resigned his posi-
ton in the cabinet of Mr.. Gladstone, as
soon as he learned its determination to
give Sir Beauchamy Seymour orders to
attack the forts.
During our civil war, Mr.. Bright
stood almost alone among English
statesmen as champion OF the Union,
and he, to-day, holds the gold headed
cane of President Lincoln, las a token
Of the esteem which the late President
felt for him."
His name has been mainly identified
with reform in electoral representation
extension of the suffrage; more equal
distribution of the seats, with reference
to population, and alteration in the law
OF entail.
Despite the comparative unpopularity
OF his extreme, radical political views
Mr.. Bright is one OF the most highly
admired and esteemed men Of his
country
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Reads Like o Romance.

The gardeners of South London pub
lie park had on more than one occasion
discovered that larcenous liberties had
been taken with the newly arranged beds
OF snowdrops and crocusses, and set q
watch for the delinquent who was an
early morning visitor. The watcher had
noticed small girl, poor little ragged
urchin, who come frequently through
the park az soon as the gates were open !;
but she always emerged from the park
empty handed and her scan.y skirts gave
no sign of bullying pocket beneath ,sus-
picion did not attach to her. Neverthe-
less she proved to be the offender. It
made up of more make shifts of odds
and ends that she should wear bonnet
many sizes too large for her, and it was
in the capacious crown of this article of
headgear that the stolen flowers were be.
slowed. The gardener saw her pause at
a bed, after looking warily around, pro-
duce from her bosom a piece of slate fit
for digging with, and then she knelt
down, and taking off her bonnet, to
which half dozen tiny roots we're trans.
ferred rapidly, she placed it on her head
again and went on her way. to be pres
emily stopped in fright and accused of
the petty robbery. 1t was useless to de
ny it. nor did she attempt to do so. She
went down on her knees, however-this
time without producing the eliminating
piece of slate-and begged the keeper of
the park not to take her to police station
because, if her mother, who was ill in
bed, came to hear what she had done, it
would kill her. Presuning that the
story of the child was but an artful pre-.
tense. and that probably her mother had
sent the child for the flowers. TO be af-
terwsrds converted into buttonhole bou.
quets for sale in the street, the little girl
was taken before Q magistrate and put
back for Q while for inquiries to be
made. The address she gave was in .
squxlid back street in the borough-st
least couple of miles from the park
where she had purloined the snowdrops,
the child had told was quite true. The
poor creature WAS found confined in .
dark and mieerably furnished back room
and there she had laid dying of sonsump-
ton since last winter set in. The
father was in prison aod the
poor sick womap's only means Of
support we're her two children.
respectively two and four years older
than the child in custody. and they all
earned few pence esch daily by selling
cigar lights ne n London bridge. At
glance il Vas evident what had become
Of the stolen flowers. A piece Of board
was fastened shelf-wise across the foot OF
the sIck woman's bedstead, and on 1t, in
three or four old gallipets, were - many
baSches of croouses, snovdrops and
wsllHow overs, each in . setting Of green
grass. The poor invalid had not the
least 81. .oion that they had besn dis
honestly Obtained, and the person in
curing being in unof2cial costume, and
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MediriDe In the Middle Ages.

Primitive medicine everywhere was an
empiricism; sometimes an astrology
mixed with incarnation. Quacks, loud
mouthed, inpudent, and fatal, we're in
Rome b. fore the emperors. The Caesars,
with the Latin love Of order. tried TO
regulate that practice under viii h, and
sometimes by which. they died, and the
medical profession at Rome was rich or
held in honor. Thu legions had their
surgeons and hospitals. while the citi-
Gems we're dosed and charged 10 y freer
and more heroic fashion, uatil it WAS
rnmored, even in Cato's days, that the
Greek doctors came to town and bad
sworn to exrerminxte their couqusrors
with their drugs GAlen, 40 Asixtic and
a wanaerer, shows in his stormy and
vrxed life the trials Ut . physician OF the
empire. Tue medical art Vas . fsrrsgO;
ant. while electricity Was known and
used, the liver 81 y dead athlete was held
q sovereign remedy for epilepsy. At the
end Of tue third century spoI becaries ap.
peared. ami nre Damesl in the laws. Med
zeal practice wac cruel. At Al~xandris
Medicine mixe.i itself With NAL pi,iloso
ply, 10 the still greater confu son of
both. Chri.,iani'y in its humane temper
patronizrd medicine and softened il, yet
its ideas Of the spiritual world led it to
practice exorci~mr where It should have
nsed drugs. Yet Christian hospits.s
sprapg up. and the poor we're Dur~ed
without pay.
MEDIEVAL medicine vas, f,r obvious
reasons. largely monss,ic, and therefore
liable 10 be aominnted by religious
superstition. The northern mytholop les
coiored hoin ritual aud diagnosis. The
little Morse runes or images Of the
Upssls gods, used Of old 10 work veal or
woe upon another, nos became amulets
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ALL SORTS.

A case is on record where barber and
his victim were both happy. The form
or talked on without interruption and
the latter was deaf.
A tin pan carelessly hung en- bed
room door is said to be the best burglar
alarm yet invented, with the single ex-
ception of colicky baby.
Postponed on account of the
weather." as the timid city man said
when he didn't go through a sheep pas
ture with beligerent ram holding the
fort.
Kjaerlighodnas is the Norwegian for
love. How absurd it must sound to Q
Norwegian to hear IN Englishman use
the word love when he wishes to say that
he kjaerl,ghodnas anything.
1t is asserted that Vassar girls have
resorted to antl-fat to prevent obesity,
am, have thus become Vnssar lean. The
wretch who created this joke is beyond
the reach of the authorities.
Heard in the suburbs: "Are you going
to keep your brickyard running this
season. mo, I think I'll pnt bay
window in the kiln and advertise for
summer boarders."
A New York barber, who had lost his
wife by death, says he felt her cold hand
on his face the other night while lying
in his bed. He could not cry out because
his tongue was paralyzed with terror.
Some of the eastern papers are discus
sing the important question whether
"dude" is pronounced in one or two
sy Tables. Out west it is generally pro.
nounced darn ool.-Burlington II iwk.
eye.
II all the force expended in this coun.
try by city sportsmen in bagging single
duck were properly applied to hoe
handle, it would puta forty acre patch
IN excellent condition. But it would not
be sport, you know.
"There." exclaimed Mrs. Nikelplate,
who affects the antique, ''there is vase
that is very old!' Il can see that by the
dust on it," was the innocent reply OF
Mrs. Plainly, as she drew an arabesque
with her finger on the vase.
When we were ten years old we used
to think, while gazing in the window of
a candy store, how mnch we would like
to work in such a place. Now we are
affected with a similar feeling while gag
ing in the window of back.
Teacher: "Why, how stupid you are.
to be sure! Can't multiply IS by q. I'll
wager that Charles can do it in less than
no time" Pupil Il shouldn't be sur
prised. They say that fools multiply
very rapidly nova days. university
Press.
At the bank-Cashier: Excuse me,
madam, but your account is rather over.
drawn" Mrs. Maltravers whose hus-
band is off on business and has left her
check book: "Oh, Mr.. Cashierl that
cant be possible. I've got lots of checks
left yet. Columbia Spectator.
He was fivo-year old grandson of the
author of Uncle Toms Cabin, and he
was swinging on u neighbours front gate.
willie" said his mother, "Mr. Smith
doesn't like to have anyone swing on his
gate" II don't care for Mr.. Smith,"
was the reply, NOR his OK. nor his ass,
nor anything that is his. willie"
again said his mother, lido you know
who wrote those words you use so?"
"No," said Willie, II dino; spect it was
Granm Stowe, though"
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A London waiter.

Smith is q man about forty, but so I'M
assuming that do not think he would
assume to be so old or so young as that;
tall and straight, with scant, faded
brown hair parted in the middle, and a
defarental cough: clammy blue eyes,
thin lips, sedentary complexion, and
careful side. whiskers. He is always in
evening dress, and wears white cotton
gloves, which set your teeth on edge
during dinner service. He is person
whose gravity of department is such as
to lend robustness to the coal scuttle
when he replenishes the parlor fre-a
ceremony which the English April makes
i'm Imperative, the English Anrii being as
raw as an American February. =
He is not taciturn, but he gives you the
impression of unconquerab reserve.
Though he never speaks except in reply
to some inquiry he has managed in some
occult fashion to permeate us with q
knowledge of his domestic environment.
For the soul of me, can not tell how I
came by the information that Smith mar
ried Lady Hadelaide Scsrborough's first
maid twelveyears ago, nor in what man
ner / got hold Of the idea that Lady
Hadelaide's first maid rarher stopped
from her social status when she formed
a matrimonial alliance with him. Yet
these facts ar undeniably in my posses
sion. also understand that Smith re-.
CARDS Mrs. Smith-who quilted service
at the time of this "mesalliance-as a
sort of fragment IA little fnger-jo,nt, if
that will help convey my meaning) OF
Lady Hadelaide herself. There an air
OF very good society about Smith. He
evidently has connecting tendrils with
beings who, if they are not roses them
selves, have. the privilege of constitute
ing the dnst at the roses feet.
Smith has been very near to royalty.
To he sure, it was fallen royalty, so ]
shall waste no capital letters on it. II
fell at Sedan, and picked itself up in a
manner, and came to London, where
| Smith had the bliss of waiting upon it.
1.-The hemporer wss very civil spoken
gentleman" observed Smith, detailing
the circumstances with an air of respect
full patronage, and showing that he had q
nice sense OF the difference between an
English sovereign and an uncurreni
| N poleon.
The plain truth is that Smith is an ar
rant gossip about himself without in the
least having the appearance Of it. He SC
isgeniously embroiders bits of his auto
| biography on alien textures that one il
apt to get detail or two quite unawares.
do not know how or when six little
Smiths glided into my Intelligence (thes
cost me shilling head), bat think it
vas iD connection with AN inquiry on
my part as to what hour thG morning
train left Paddiugton station for STRAIT
ford-upon Avon. Two nighis ont Of the
week Smith retires to his domestic domi
cile; situated, infer, in some remote
suburb of Lon,lon, for he always takes o
bag with him-a respectable, drsb' col
cred hand bag. with a monogram on it.
At a little distance the twisted initials, in
raised worsted, resembled reduced
copy Of the LAGOON, the prominent ser.
pentine s having, suspect, no small
share in producing that effect. I'some'
how pose and mix up the six little Smiths
in this monogram.
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Mrs. Trollope In Cincinnati.

About the year 1885 there broke out,
one scarcely knows how, q sort of Gin
cinnah fever in England. In the British
Museum have looked at a uumber Of
books, issued about that period, written
by travellers who had returned from the
far western cou ntry, and had mounts
and marvels" but true ones) to tell Of
the wonderful fertility of the Ohio soil.
the splendid rivers, the astonishing en-
lightenment of tn. citizens, the desira.
bility of Ohio as q residence state for
English people, and so forth. Among
those who were touched by the oontsgion
was Mrs. Frances Trollope, whose terri
country in book entitled Domestic
Manners of the Americans have recent,
~ re-read. Her avowal and laudable
cure future for her son, the late we'll.
known novelist, Anthony Troiiope. A
dispassionate reviewer of the situation
easily sees the rights and wrongs Of Mrs.
Trollope's story. She was clever liter
ary woman, who ives at home in tho
salons OF what is now called Upper Bio.
hemia." both in Paris aud 10 London, .
lipguiss, and . person Ut refinement In
OtuCluuhtI OI COurbe sue Wbo III exile bu0
found herself surrounded w persons
whose daily battle for bread left them no
time for any thought Of LIES graces aud
adornments. Yet she absurdiy brought
these pioneers into comparison with tho
people whom she had left, and ridicuisd
Cincinnati men because they went out
with baskets on their arms and bought
the family marketing, and wal disguised
with Cincinnati women because they
scrubbed floors, washed dishes. and per-
formed al household duties OF . like
character.
Poor lady! she probably had very
unpleasant experience of the west. The
people were wholly uncongenial to her;
she had nothing in common With them,
and she felt herself to be isolated and
disappointed. She effected . certain
measure Of retributiou, however, on her
own account, by inflictiug very painful
building on tho town, her "Trollops's
Bszaar'--a dismal, i'll ooptrivad edifics.
with hideous windows, halt Gothic, half
Moresque in style, the whole now happi
y done away with.-HArper's Magazine.
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"Anglomania," says an American
writer, "has taken . strong hold Of q por-
ton Of our people. There is craze to
be English-English in appearance,
English in Eyeglasses. English in dog
cart, English in riding habit. English in
whip with loop at the end. the real
use OF which half OF these amateurs do
not know, and for which there 10 NO use
in America. English in composurc,
abpence OF enthusiasm, emotion. and the
cultivation Of general apathy. The last
is the growing capshosf Of idiooy." In
order to be superior in the English way
these folk imagine that the correcs tling
10 to suppress ell emotion. To prove
ones elevation in the intellectual world
il 10 treat existence and al belonging TO
it 10 "howwid bosh." To sit in win.
dow with an eye-glass screwed into ones
eye and drawl ont weak criticism and
sarcasm on all that passes; to treat every
effort Of humanity 10 better itself with
lofty superciliousness; to dread being
seen; 20 affect to be amused by their fell
low idiots; and to affect to be superior
to all human emotions, passions, or
appetites, are the ways in which these
imitators (?) OF English society show
their disease.
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Al Granville. Georgia, recently, . boy
blowing in . field turned up . gvil
watch end chain supposed 10 have been
buried there during the war.
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The price Of gas in Washington has
Just been Axsd d 81 80 per thousand
fest, and the cost Of illuminating she
street lamps hes been reduced from %
70 ga Per lamp.
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Vancouver Independent.

OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY.
Vancouver. Clarke County, Washington
Territory.
The Baltimore County union., 1883-01-13

"Will Kernel Algernon Bixby please
step dis way 2" asked the president, as
everything under the head Of communi-
cations had been cleared away.
The colonel advanced like man, ex-
pecting to receive gold medal for some
meritorious service, and Brother Gard
ncr continued
"Kernel Bixby, has received COM
plant from your wife to dc effect dat
she am bar -fut."
"Yes, sah-she likes to go bar -fut. I"
"An' dat de wood-pile am entirely
gone"
ave am no hans to burn wood in de
summer, sah."
"An' she says she am outer flour, tea,
sugar, butter and eberything else but
meat"
"Wc has been libin' on de Dio Lewis
plan for a few weeks, sah," coolly re-
piled the colonel.
al understan' dat you owe three
months house rentl"
eyes, sab, bu, I'ze gwine to move dis
fall"
"kernel Bixby, look At me IN de left
eye! Fur de las six weeks you have
been loafin' around an hatin' hard
work. You haven't Armed an honest
nickel since July. You am powerful
handy wild your excuses, but let me say
to you dat If you doan't start out on
Monday mornin' an look for work, an
start dc sweat on you back, shall call
fur you at dc mex meetin'. Dat call
will mean bizness II will result in
purceedin's dat will walk you down
stars TO steps At time? 1t am now
time to disorganize dc mectin'. Let de
glec club sing as sweetly as possible, an
eny member who picks up a hat belong
in to some odder head will be sot back
in his record fur virchew and honesty.