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Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-15
LEARNED FROM ANIMALS.
Reversing the Fayorfte Theory Tha
 Animals are Initiative.

Reversing the Fayorite Theory That
 Animals are Initiative.
 From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
 It is favorite theory of some that animals are initiative, and what man does they fol low after and try to perform. Possibly man learned first from the animals. Many ani- malls are born armed and weaponed both for effense, capture and defense when attacked or pursued. The gorillas of Africa fought the soldiers of Hanno, and apes use hand stones to crack nuts. In the days of Strabo, that historian tells US that Indian monkeys climbed mountains and rolled stones down on their pursuers. Take throwing, for ex- ample The primitive man learned it from beasts. The squid (euttle fish) defends itself by diseharging it's ink-bag, imbedded in the liver, and escapes in the blackened water. The toxotes or archer brings down insects with @ drop of water when they are three or four feet high in the air. The archer fish of Japan is kept in glass jar and fed by hold ing flies at the end of rod a few inches from the surface of the water, and it nev- CT fails to hit them. The llama or guana- co throw their aerid and fetid saliva some distance and with accurate aim.
 Men would learn to strike by watching the blow of the bear, and the kick of those animals which defend themselves by k1ck- ing, as the horse zebra, the camel and gi- raffe, while the ostrich, eagle and larger birds of prey would teach him lesson in assaulting with ready wings. The whale raises it's head with such force that it has sunk whaler. Combats of goats, stags, buffaloes and wild bulls, all of which rush forward with their heads down and drive their horns into their enemy's body, would suggest the thrust. The bittern, the peacock and the American white crane stab at the eye. And the black rhinoceros, the fercest of any, when angered his horn becomes hard and erect, and, diving beneath the canoe, he pierces hole in it's bottom and sinks it, and with the same weapon attacks and rips open the huge and ungainly elephant.
 The pheasant and partridge, the cock and quail, would suggest, with their spurs, the use of the poniard. Pliny says that dolphins which enter the Nile have knife-edged spur on their backs to protect them from croeo- diles. The bullhead fish has @ many barbed horn on it's dorsum which must have taught the Esquimaux and savages of South Ameri- ca and Australia the use of their spears. Poisoned dagger makers took hint from the sting-fsh, or adder pike, whose dorsals and spines have double grooves, in which poi sonous secretion is found. The sting-rays twist their long slender tails round their en- emy and cut the surface, inf1icting a wound not easily healed. The sting sometimes breaks off in the wound. The Fiji Island CTS, the Samoans and Tahitians use this poison extensively. These things in ami mals would suggest the poisoned dagger with which the Italians of the middle ages were so handy
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Monday, september 15, 1884.
THE CorM RFooRD.
city Court = Criminal sIde-Judge
 StudIey.

City Court - Criminal Side Tudge
 StudIey.
 The following eases were disposed ot Sat urday morning:
 Lester Delong, breach of the peace against William H. Edwards, $5 fine, $6.97 costs: Charles Baldwin, theft from John P. Thomp- son, to September 15; Henry Nichols, abusing female child of Adelia Jackson, to Septem- Der 16; Frank Cahil, breach of the peace against James Cahill, $1 fine, $5.39 costs Frank Foley, same against George Jackson judgment suspended; Peter J. Burke, violat- ing Sunday liquor law, discharged; Frank Massbrook, ineorrigible, sent to the Reform school Stoughton Freeman, same, judg ment suspended; Louis Bender, attempt at rape on Catherine Sullivan, bound over to the October term of the Superior court; Frank Thrall, theft from Thomas Bus bey, $7 fine, $6.18 costs and seven days in jail; Frederick s. Phillbrick, theft from same, same; Frederick s. Phillbrick, cruelty to animals, ST fine, $3.84 costs and sever days in jail; Frank Thrall, same, same; Will liam H. Ray, breach of the peace against Sa' die Christie, continued to Tuesday, Septen Der 16
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FafrHaven.


 The frcst yesterday morning did consider able damage here. Some of the vegetable growers will lose quite heavily.
 On last Friday afternoon and Saturday morning one of our sportsmen had some fine shooting, bagging twenty-seven pigeons and quite number of hammers.
 Captain Wykes arrived home yesterday morning from Long Island where he has been spending some time among his friends. The Republican banner was so badly torn in the recent blow as to necessitate it's being taken down and repaired.
 MT. Frank Gum and wife arrived home yesterday morning from their wedding trip. Captain William Dickinson, of New Haven, delivered a temperance lecture in Central Hall last evening to small audience The Quinnipiac Blaine and Logan club will give their first street parade tomorrow even ing.
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Hard to ReItoKe.

It is hard to believe that man was cured of a Kidney disease after his body swollen as big barrel and he had been given up as incurable and lay at deaths door. Yet such cure was accom- plished by KidneyWort in the person of II. N. Devereaux, of Ionia, Mich, who says: After thirteen of the best doctors in Detroit had given me up, was cured by Kidney-Wort. Iwant everyone to know what boon it is
 PwQuantity and Quality. In the Dia- mond Dyes more coloring is given than in any known dyes, and they give faster and more brilliant colors Ten cents at all druggists Wells, Richard & Co.,, Burlington, Vt. Sample Gard, B colors, and book of directions for 2c stamp.
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-15
VIII Stand By It.

When man says "You may recommend it for all it is worth over my signature and will stand by it, his confidence in the article under consideration is unbounded. That is what Charles J. Bright, of Midd1etown, Conn, says of F'Kallocrine," and well he may, for it gave him a new head of hair If you doubt it write to him. Fifty cents at druggists; nothing else will do as well.
 American Cough Drops Qiquid) is the s'old reliable" family remedy for all affections of the head, throat and lungs Keep it in the house. aug6 eod6sw2w
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chil dren teething is the prescription of one ot the best female nurses and physicians in the United States, and has been used for forty years with never failing success by millions of mothers for their children. During the process of teething its value is inealculable. It relieves the child from pain, cures dysen- tery and diarrhea, gripping in the bowels and wind collie. By giving health to the child it rests the mother. Price 25c bottle.
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Ei11a1rriaI.
A Dull And Quiet Day For stocks.


 The duliness of the stock market, it's petty huctu- ations and the utter indifference manifested by the public to all speculative dealings continue ad nau seam. Except that there was little bit more Of stock Jobbing and, consequently, little addition to the official record of stocks bought and sold, to- day. stock market in all it's serious aspect was the counterpart of that of yesterday. Supreme dull ness, with prices that may be described as being feebly strong, though upon the whole tending to- ward weakness. the chief characteristic of this mornings market Still, prices were pretty well sustained and closing figures were fractonaily bet ter than tke lowest ones of the day. There was no news from outside inside the market showed nc features of particular importance, except that on seller sixty options Delaware and Rudson Delaware and Laekawanna were sold at figures 519 and 35z per cent. respectively below the regular price Sales amounted to 157, ,764 shares.
 Money closed at 11A02 per cent Foreign exchange continues dull bn t steady, wltn rates practically unchanged. The nominal asking quotations for sterling are 4ss1s fo1 sixty days and 4s515 for common Actual business was done at 4s2s4 O 4ss for sixty day bills 4s4sl O 4.s5 for demand, 4.s5A O 4.851S for cables ano 4S1 O 4s115 for commercial
 Government bonds were strong.
 CIosing prices reported over the pri Vate wires O BUNNEII 6 SCRANTON. Bankers 1ld Brokers.
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Parties having large or small amounts of money which they wish to invest safely and proftably should read in to-day's issue ad- vertisement of manufacturing stock offered by the Foote Patent Pin company of New York, paying 20 per cent yearly.
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Chicago Grain and Provision Mar ket. Closing quotations Reported Private Wires to Edwin Rowe 6 Co.,, Commission Mer-
 chants 4o3 New York Produce Exchange, New York.
 The following shows the quotations at 2f80 p. m. lChicapn tinlel for the mast three days.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-15

The finest mayonaise dressing for all kinds of salads cold meats, raw tomatoes, pickled salmon, cabbage etc.. is Durkee's Salad Dressing. It is, be sides, more economical than homemade.
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Vegetine is the great health restorer, com posed exclusively of barks, roots and herbs. Pleasant to take; children like it.
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Po1IT1cAI-C Campaign Banners, ,riags Suits Capes, Caps. Helmets, Shirts, torches everything in cam pafgn Outfits. Send for iilusTated circular to
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Rai1rnada.
New Haven and Derby Railroad,
 Train Arrangement commencing July Is, 1884.

 New Haven and Derby Railroad. Train Arrangement commencing July 16, 1884
 LEAVE NEW HAVEN At TOO and $50 a. n., BOO 5:45, 6:20 p. m. Satur- days at 11:00 p. m.
 LEAVE ANSONIA Ats35 9:O5 and ii 40 a. m., 3:25 and 7:31 D. m. Connections made at Ansonia with passenger trains of the Naugatuck railroad, and at New Haven with the principal trains of other roads centering there. E. 5. OUTWARD, Supt. New Haven, July IS. 1884. Philadelphia and Reading R. R.,
 BOUND BROOK RoUTE)
 FOR TRENTON AND PHILADELPHIA Station in New York; foot of Liberty Street, North
 River.
 COMMENCING JUNE % 1884. Leave New York for Trenton and Philadelphia 400 7:45 9:30 11:15 a. m 130 400, 4S0 5:30, TOO and 12:o0 p. Sundays S:45 m, 5:30, 1900 p. For SSunbury, Lewisburg and Williamsport, 7:45 a m and 4 p. m. Drawing Room Cars on all day trains and Sleeping Cars on night trains. streets 7:30, S:s0 9:30, 11:00 m 1:15, 345 5:40, 6:45, 1900 p. m. Sundays S30 a. m 5:30 1900 m. Leave 3d and Berks ss. 510 SEQ, 800 10:30 @. l. 330 5:20, 630 D. Sundays S:15a. n., 4:30 p. Leave Trenton, Warren and Tucker streets, 1:25, 6:20 SOS, BOO 100S, 11:35 a. m., 1854 4:22 624 78 D. n Sundays 1:25, 9:18 a. m 615 p. 0. G. HANCOCK, H. F. BALDWIN, G. P. 6 T. A, Philadelphia, Gen. East. Pas. Agt,
 New York.
 J.E WOOTTEN, Gen. Manager.
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Naugatuck Railroad.

 COMMENCING JULY 17th 1884 trains leave New Haven via H. & D. R. R., connecting with this road at FOO a. m.-Connecting at Ansonia with passenger
 train for Waterbury, Litchfeld and Win
 stead $50 a. m.-Through car for Waterbury, Watertown,
 Litchfield, WinSted 200 D. Connecting at Ansonia with passenger
 train for Waterbury. 5:45 D. m.-Through car for Waterbury, Watertown,
 LitchfieId, WinSted. 6:20 D. m.-Connecting at Ansonia for Waterbury. FOR NEW dAVEN-Trains leave Winsted: 7:10 a. n1 28 D. n., with through car aud at 5:25 D. m. TRAINS LEAVE WATERBURY-At 530 a. m., S:26 a. m., through car, 10:50 a. nl., 244 p. n., through car, 6:45 p. m
 GEORGE w BEACH, supt. Bridgeport, July 17, 1884.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-15

COMMENCING JUNE, 16, 1884. Trains Leave New Haven via N Y, N. H. & H. R. R. at 9:30 a. m. and 4:07 p. m, connecting at Bridgeport for Pitsf1eld and Intermediate stations Albany via State Line. Line and @ Saratoga New York arrives at Pittsfeld at S:3O p. m, connecting for North Adams arriving at 920 D. m.
 H. D. AVERILII General Ticket Agent.
 W. H. YEOMANS, Superintendent. General Offices. Bridgeport Conn
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New Haven and Northampton Railroad.
Eastern Standard Time. COMMENCING JUNE 30th, 1884.
s. B. OPDYhE, Jr.s supt. New York, New Haven & Hart

S. B. OPDYhE, Jr.s Supt. New York, New Haven & Hart ford Ee. Es., June Is, 1884. TRAINS LEAVE NEW HAVEN AS FOLLOWS :: FOR I5 NEW sao 35ao @ 5l0 es0 oS way train to Stamford) *130 *230 $50 4:07 way to Stamford, thence Ex. to New York;, comrnodation stops at all stations except Glen brook Sound Beach, Cos Cob. Harrison, Larch- mont and Pelhamville. (S:0O way to Bridgeport, *S:38, p m:, 9:20 p. m., way train for Stam- ford, stops at all stations except West Haven, Sundays *3:58, *4:18, 500 a. m., 5:oO, 7:15, WASHINGTON NIGHT EXPRESS VIA HARLEM RIVER-Leaves at *1150 p. m. daily stops at Milford, Bridgeport, South Norwalk and Stam- FOR BOSTON VIA SPRINGFIELD night, 6:52, 500, *11:05 a. m., *1:16, 3:12, *6:26 p. Sundays, *1:02 night, *6:26 D. m.
 WHITE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS-11:05a a. m. through cars for the White Mountains on this train. FOR MONTREAL via Conn River and c. V. R. R. FOR BOSTON VIA NEW LONDON AND PR0vI dpaNfFmx1s42 E night @Io:25 a. m fast express Proyidence), *4:1o p. m. Fast Express, Sundays FOR BOSTON VIA HARTFORD AND N. Y. &N. FOR HARTFoRD, IA sPRiNGFfELD Si AND MER1DEN, Hartford s5a so *oss nh! &hoS 'G @ a. 4afo fo noon, *1:16, 312, 4:5o (5:55 to Hartford), *6:26, FoR sf REV E " IoRb6S sgHfaS 1GI Shf *SG 1Isf P m dhis train connects with steamboat at New Lon don for Block Island), *10:25, 1035 a. n., *3:15, ford goes no fartherl Sundays *12:45 night. VIA B. 6 N. Y. AIR LINE DIVISION for Middle town, Willimantic, Etc.-Leave New Haven for meet at Middletown with Conn., Valley R. R., and at Willimantic with N. '. 6 N E. and N. L.. Branch Trains arrive vein in New New flaw Haven at 8:oo a. m, 1;2s, 829 p. m .,,r,-,
 *Express trains.
 fLocal Express.
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alew aa5aren @ailg gllorning gonrnal ana Gonrier

Last evening the unfortunate young wo- man was quite low and her condition criti- cal. Dr. NJ. C. White is attending her and a special nurse is with her all the time
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g1ae gnaarmaI ana Gntrier.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CrrY, 1S CENTS A WEEK, 42 CENTS MONTH, $500 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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Hay Fever.


 From Col c. H. Mackey, 33d Iowa Infan- try: ''To persons afflicted with Catarrh, I would state that I have derived more benefit from Elys Cream Balm than anything else I have ever tried. I have now been us;lg it for three months and am experiencing no trouble from catarrh whatever. I have been sufferer for twenty years.-C. H. Mackey, Sigourney, Feb. g, 1882. eod&tw 2. A single bottle of the new specific for rheu- matism and neuralgia has been known to give more relief to the suffering victims than years of treatment with inefficient medicines have been able to accomplish. This is be cause it strikes at the cause. When the cause is removed the effect must disappear. Athlophoros drives out the humors of the | blood that bring on the agonies of the rheu- matic victim. Mrs. T. B. Neff, of Calamine, Wis, writes: Enclosed find s5, for which please send six bottles of Athlophoros. One l bottle has relieved the pain"
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STARIN'S LINE. Daily Except Saturday.

Leave New Haven from Starin's Dock at 1O:15 n n1o, m: The S1 JOHN H. STARIN, Captain McAlister every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. The BRAS 7VoS,, HDS CORNING Captain Spoor, every Monday Returning leave New York from Pier IS, foot of Gortiandt street, at p. m.-the STARIN every monday. Wednesday and Friday; the CORNING every sunday, Tuesday and Thursday The only sunday night boat from New York
 a, rare, with berth in cabin, $1; stateroom S1. Ex
 Free Coach leaves the depot on arrival of Hart Iord traln Leaves corner of Church and Chaps streets every half hour, commencing at 8:3O D. In
 T, i1ckets and State Rooms can be purchased at L., E Y. hyoer s. No 276 Chapel street, at the Tontine Hotel or of the Downes News Co.,. 351 Chapel street ana at the International Exchange 31 Center street IA c. M. CONKLIN, Agent,
 lIlSO New Enrnrn
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NatIOnaI Line of SteamsIliT.s. DGI !" FEN NEW YORK, LIVERPOOL. QUEENS c.. TOWN AND LONDON DIRECET
 xa1L Sa1lllng weekly from Pier 8, North River New i 1oFk, are among the largest steamships crossing Gne Atlantic. Cabin rates, $50 to $10O Excursions dC special rates; outward steerage S17 and pre- paid steerage tickets S10. Being g. lower thar most most other !ines.' New steamship America's frs trlp to New York, days, 15 hours and fl minutes
 . F. W. J. HURST, Manager
 Agents at New Haven, BUNNEIL& & SCRANTON " FITZPATRICK, A. MCALISTER GEORGE M DOWNES 6 SON. E. DOWNES " n11 rot
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-09

The last craze, which will reach its
zenith this summer, says New York
letter, is the passion for palmiStrv and
fortune-telling. 1t is one which requires
a little reading and trihe of thought.
In auld lang syne the fortune-tclling
witch was wrinkled. and barefoot. She
had blcary eyes and skinny hands, and
sent unpleasant shivers up and down
your body We are improving on these
things. The fortune-telling witch of
to-day has red lips and bright eyes, a
soft, little, white hand, with rosy
polished nails, and an electric battery
in every llnger-tip. She wears dainty
French slippers and a coquettsh smile,
and carries a lace umbrella with a rose.
pink lining big enough to tint a whole
afternoon for two. Besides all this, |
have heard it said that the modern
witch is twice as likely to r'veal to
you the true image of your temporarily
loved one as was ever the ancient arti-
Gle And then, too, with this change,
men have grown more sclf-sacricing
and humane. Instead Of burning
witches at the stake, as they used to do
in olden time men now lead them to
the altar, and mayhar, most likely,
dance sort of witches dance for them
forever after.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-09
WHOLE NO. 2l6G.


Some people are bright enough 10
enjoy good joke, bat do not have
retentive memories so as to be able to
repeat it to others. Failures of this
kind are sometimes very ludicrous.
We give some very good specimens.
The most famous of this class was the
college professor, who on parting with
student who had called TN him, no.
tictd mat he had a new coat, and re-
marked that it was too short. The
student, with an air of resignation,
replied; at will be long enough be
fore | get another"
The professor enjoyed the joke
heartily, and going to a meeting OF the
college faculty just afterwards, he en-
tered the room in great glee AMI said:
"Young Sharp got off such a joke
Just now. He called on me little
while ago, and as he was leaving, no
ticed his new coat. and told him it
was too short, and he said: at will be
a long time before get another"
No one laughed, an | the professor
SOLDERING down, remarked; ut doesn't
seem sofunny as when he said it."
a red-haired lady, who was ambi-
tious of literary distinction, found but
poor sale for her book. \ gentleman,
in speaking of her disappointment,
said: "lIrr hair is red (rcaD if her
book is not" An auditor, in
attempting to relate the joke else
where, said: "Shc has rel hair, if her
book hasn't"
The worst attempt at reproducing
anothers wit, was made by an Eng
lishman, who didn't understand the
pun, but judged from the applause
with which it was greeted, that it
must be excellent During dinner
at which he was a guest, a waiter let
a boiled tongue slip off the plate on
which he was bearing it, and it fell on
the table
The host at once apOlogtZed for the
mi,hap as a "lapsuS lingur" (slip of
the tongue). The joke was the best
thing at the dinner, and our frienl
concluded to bring it up at his own Ia
bic.
lie accordingly inyitcl his company
and instructed a servant to let fall a
roast of beef as he was lringing it to
the table.
"When the accident" occurred, he
exclaimed: "ThGt's a fapsnS lngur. y"
Nobody laughed, and he said again,
81 say that's a lapsus lingur,'" and
sun no one lauShei.
a screw was loose somewhere, so he
told them about the tongue falling,
and they did laugh.
"Why is this said a waiter, hold
ing up common utensil, "mJre re-
markable than Napoleon Bonaparte
Because Napoleon was great man,
but this a crater" Whan tho funny
man reproduced it in his circle, lie
asked the question right, but answered
it, because Napoleon was Il great
man, but this is a nutmeg CRATER
San Fr0RciSco NejCS-Lcfter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-09

"Step right in here and I'll tell you
all about the new process for the pre-
vention of badness" said well
known Griswold avenue barber, as he
led the way to room adjoining his
shop.
This process" he proceeded to say,
sis entirely new in Detroit found it
out in this way: \ friend of mine went
to Paris short time ago, and at the
time of his departure his hair was very
thin and continually falling ont. On
his return the appearance of his head
was entirely changed, being covered
with a growth of halr ever so much
more luxurious and thick than on his
departure. On inquirin5 the reason
for this change ! WAS informed that he
had had his hair singel. Here was
practical illustration of the good effects
following this new method, so made
up my mind to adopt it, and have done
so very successfully.
"How is it done? Well, just take
a lighted taper and pass the flame over
the tips of mans hair which is at all
thin or has tendency to fall out; that
is all. You see, every hair is hollow,
and more or less of the fluid necessary
for its growth escapes, When the top
of the hair is singed the aperture is
closed and the strengthening fluid re-
tained."
"yill not the same means beemploy.
ed to encourage the growth of hair on
the bald upper lips of some Of our
youth?" was asked.
Exactly. You see my mustachet
1t is thicker on one side than on the
other. That is caused by my smoking
my cigars just little short, and they
singe my mustache on one side and
make it thick there This goes TO
prove that singeing is beneficial.
have no doubt that before long you
will see in front of all the barber shops
of this city signs marked 'Singeing
done here "-DctroH Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-09
Growing Philosophers.

Any philosophy which hopes for
other than misery and disgust in life
must indeed seem strange doctrine to
teachers such as these-even as the
smiles Of the cheerful seem unmeaning
and offensive to those whose souls are
overcast with gloom and discomfort.
Sir Walter Scott tells a story of his
childhood which well illustrates the
unreasoning hatred felt by the ever
lasting growl school for the doctrine
that conduct should he directed to
the increase of happiness. One day,
his healthy young appetite made him
enjoy very heartily the brose, or por-
ridge of the family breakfast. Unluck-
lily, he was tempted to say aloud how
good he found his food. His father at
once ordered pint of cold water to be
thrown in, to spoil the taste of 1t,
Possibly he meant to ipculcate what
he regarded as a high moral habit:
but rather more probably Mr.. Walter
Scott, senior, objected to his sons en-
joying what he had no taste for him.
self. Much Of the sourness of the
growl philosophy my be thus inter,
preted, Popular Srience UmthlM