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The following summary of the forms
Of oath in use in foreign legislative rs.
semblies Is extracted from the reporli
received at the British foreign Office Ia
New y ork
Havaria-I swear SO help
me tod aud His no gospel
Ecnmark-l promise and swear 81
So help me God aud Ills holy word
Greece swear Ia the name OF tho
holy and consubstantial and indivishlu
trinity
lIessc Darmstadl-l swear 50
help me God
sake coburg and Baden-I swear. 20
help me God.
holland-I swear. 30 help me God
Fortugal-I swear on the holy gospels
russia-I swear by God. the Almighty
and omniscient So help me
God.
saXony-I swear by Almighty God.
Soryia-I swear by one God and with
all that is according to law most sacred
and In this world dearest SO
help me God in this and that other world
Spain-Aftcr swearing the deputy on
the gospel. the president says. Then
may God repay you but If you fail, may
he claim it from you.
sweden and Norway president or
vice president only swear before God anu
Ills holy gospel | will be faith
full TO this oath rs sIrc AS God shall save
my body and soul
Switlerland-ln tho presence of Al
mighty God | swear . SO help
me God.
United states-I do solemnly swear @
o So help me God.
In Bavaria. nom Christians omit the
reference to the gospel. In Holland and
the United States. affirmation is optional.
In Prussia and in Switzerland, a1irma.
ton is permitted TO those who object on
religious grounds to the oath. In Austria,
u promise is In every case substituted for
an oath. In Belgium and Italy. the ad.
~iuration is used without any theistic ref.
oronce and in France and Roumania. the
Ccrmnn reichstag and for deputies in
sweden and Norway. neither oath nor
alirmntion is demanded
, 1885-10-29

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There are moments In the life Of even
the wrctched country editor when his
odor Of ink and benzine vanish like the
drwy Jewels that sparklnE on the rose
when kissed by the morning sun, aud the
polluted air seems laden with riches per.
fumes Such d moment came 10 us
yesterday evening when three OF Brock
lilies best cilizons- urst In on Us oil ai
once. like a ray Of ght. and subscribed
for The Tribune, each paying a year In
advance
, 1885-10-29
TgRNIssA.
waiter sayaso IAn4or

Waiter savage Lan1orl
Terpissa, you AFRO fled
say not to the dead.
But 20 the happy ones who rest hollow;
For, iurely. surely, where
Your voice anc giaces nre.
Nothing Of leath ca1 any feel or know.
Girl, VII delight TO lweli
Whert grow mo I asphodel
Gather 10 their calm breasts each worl cl
peak,
Ths mild Per eplons
Place. you m her knee,
Aud your 6 oil palm smoothss down storm
plut - check.
, 1885-10-29

Persons desiring pure Lake Mahapalutl
ice should leave orders at Christ. Mauss'
baker, 3l7 Ferguson street, or with tn,
undersigned. SLOAN X Co.
, 1885-10-29

A lady in Lebanon, Pa, owns a por-
trait painted on a oobweb, The colors
are beautifully laid on, and simply per
feet as TO harmony. 1t is sad to have
cost O., 600. -Intsr Ocean
, 1885-10-29

According to a Now York coin col.
icctor a complete collection OF American
CENTS Is cheap at 500
, 1885-10-29

Legal blanks at the Leader Office,
, 1885-10-29

Floods Of them But poems are the
very most unmarketable product in the
literary line. 1t is a standing maxim
among the fraternity that a poet must
have at least twenty years experience
and reputation before he can be consid-
cred a profitable investment for the pub
Usher, = Boston Letter.
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EScaninr n Y

A celebrated judge, on riding up to
tavern, was surprised to see the land
lords daughter, o girl of eighteen, put
one hand on the fence and leap over it,
.'Do that again, my lass, and Ill
marry YOU" said the judge, possessed by
some whim such rs Eow and then seizcs
the most staid of men. The girl, with
out a moments hesitation, again put hel
hand on the fence and jumped back
again.
The Judge was as good as his word
for in a year or two there was an old
fashioned wedding at the old tavern.
Mrs. Barbauld. upon whose ''Early
Lessons" and "IIymns in Prose" Oil
grandmothers were brought up, once
jumped up q tree to escape a too-persist-
ent woorcr. When a girl, she was noted
for her lively spirit and bodily activity.
She could climb and jump as we'll as the
boys of her fathers school.
Her gymnastic fcats and the roses on
her checks made a deep impression upon
d rich farmer. lie called upon her father,
DR.. Aiken, and begged him to consent
that the youthful Letitia-shc was but
tiftccn-might become a farmers bride.
go and ask yourself" answered the
doctor, pointing to the Young lady, who
was walking in the garden. He went,
pleaded his case, and was refused. lie
demonstrated, urged, and become so i'm
Fortunate that Lctitia climbed up q tree
by the garden-wall, dropped into the
lane, and left her sutton, astonished ut
her singular way of running from q lover.
The disappointed MAN lived and died
q bachelor. lie was not a reading man,
and was never known to purchase any
book but THE Works Of Mrs. Barbauld,"
which, elegantly bound, adorned his
parlor during li~fc.-Iouth's Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-02-11
Fate OF a Chinese Parricide.

Just outside the west gate Of Shanghai
city is a small hamlet where lived an old
mar and his son. The latter made it q
practice of calling upon his father for
cash whenever he was in want of it, I'm.
til the thing got rather m]ontononous
for the father, who demonstrated with
his son, and being saucily replied to,
the father attempted to apply "paternal
correction" on his son; the son in rage
then caught hold of the door bar and
brought it down with such force upon
the fathers skull that he cracked it and
killed the old man. The neighbors
hearing the row assembled at the door
of the house where the murder was COM
mitted and captured the son as he was
~endeavoring to escape. The members of
the fathers clan were then called to-
gether, and at a solemn conclave it was
decided to administer on the spot the
law set aside for parricides. instead of
appealing to the magistrate, which in
variably causes much delay, and per-
haps the murderer might effect his es-
cape in the meantime. So the parricide
was bound hand and foot, and just with
out the hamlet a hole was dug, and the
wretched murderer consigned to its
depths. The mud was thrown into the
hole and the members of the clan stamped
by turns on the grave until it was level
with the ground, and so without leaving
o mound or any mark to point out the
parricide's grave, the assembled crowd
dispersed silently to their daily avoca
lions. The above occurred not o week
ago.--Celestial Empire.
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How Condensed Milk is Made.

When the milk is brought to the fac
tory it is carefully strained, placed in
cans or pals, which are put into a tank
of water kept hot by steam coils. When
hot, it is transferred to larger, steam
heated, open vessels, and quickly brought
to a boil. This preliminary heating and
boiling has for its objects the expulsion
of the gases of milk, which would
cause it to foam in the vacuum pan, and
also to add to the keeping quality of the
milk by destroying the mold germs.
A second straining follows, after which
the milk is transferred to o vacuum pan,
where, at q temperature below 1870 de-
grces Fahrenheit, it boils and is rapidly
concentrated to any degree desired.
The u pan employed is q close
vessel of copper, egg shaped, about six
feet in diameter. 1t is heated by steam
coils within and by Il steam jacket with
out, closing the lower portion. In mi
side of the dome is a small window
through which the gas illumincs the in
terror, while on the opposite side is an
eye.glass, through which the condition
of the contents is observed. The pan
is also provided with a vacuum guagc
and test sticks.
Much of the milk used in the cities is
simply concentrated, without any addi-
ton of sugar. The process of conccn-
tration is continued in the vacuum pan
until one gallon of milk has been re-
duccd to less than a quart. Condensed
milk intended to be preserved for any
length of time has ar addition of pure
canc sugar made to it during the boiling,
and is usually put up in sealed cans.
This sugared or preserved milk, when
prepared, will keep for many years.
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THE EARTH.

When I beneath the cold, red earth am sleep
ing,
Life's fever DER,
Will there for me be any bright eye weeping
That I'm no more:
Will there be any heart still memory keeping
OF heretofores
When the great winds through leaaess forests
rushing,
Like full hearts break
When the swoll'n streams, DER crag and gully
gushing,
Sad music make
Will there be one, whose. heart despair l
crushing.
Mourn for my sake,
When the bright sun upon that spot Is shining
With purest ray,
And the small flowers, their buds and bios
SONS twining,
Burst through that clay
Will there BIO IL still on that spot repining
Lost hopes all day?
When the night shadows, with the ample
WeepluS
OF her dark pail,
The world and all its manifold creation sleep.
The great and small
Will there be one, even at that that dread
hour, weeping
For me-for all?
When no star wrinkles with its eye Of glory
On that low mound,
And wintry storms have with their ruins
hoary
Its loneness crowned,
VIII there be then one versed in misery's
Pacing it round!
1t may be so-but this selfish sorrow
To ask such need
A weakness and a wickedness, to borrow
From hearts that bleed
The ~wailings of to-day, for what tomorrow
Shall never need.
Lay me then gently in my narrow dwelling,
Thou gentle heart!
And, though my bosom should with grief be
swelling,
Let no tear start;
1t were in vain-for time hath long been
knelling-
Sad one, depart!
William MotherWeU.
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Great Men and .GastrOnOmy.

DR.. Fordycc, the distinguished Eng
lish surgeon, ate but one meal q day.
DR.. Parr confessed his love for hot
boiled Holsters with n profusion Of shrimp
sauce.
Pope says:
One loves the pheasant's wing and one the
leg;
The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg.
Dryden said that a chine Of honest
bacon pleased his appetite more than all
the marrow buildings.
Sir Isaac Newton, when writing his
"Principia," lived on a scanty allowance
Of bread and water. and vegetable diet.
DR.. johnson was partial to new honey
and clouted cream, and all his lifetime
had q voracious attachment for q leg of
mutton.
DR.. Palcy, having been out fishing for
q whole day, was asked on his return if
he had met with good sport. "Oh, yes"
he answered, 81 have caught no fish,
but I have made a sermon"
Beau Brummcl, speaking of q man and
wishing to convey his maximum of con-
temptuous feeling about him, said: "He
is.a fellow, now, that would send his
plate up twice for soup"
Pepys, of Charles H. reign, having
company at breakfast, mentions: II
had for them q barrel of oysters. o dish of
meats tongues, and a dish of a%nchovies,
with wine of all sorts and ale."
Pope, who was an epicure, would lie
in bed for days at Lord Bolingbroke's.
unless he were told that there were stewed
lampreys for dinner, when he rose in
stantly and came down to the table.
Franklin at one time contemplated
practicing abstinence from animal food,
but having seen a cod opened which con-
tanned some small fish, said to himself.
"If you cat one another I see no reason
why we may not eat YOU" He accord
ingly dined on the cod with no small
degree of pleasure. -BOstsn Budget.
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Expensive Alderney Milk.

Mr.. Webster was favorably impressed
with turnip culture, and believed that it
might be profitably introduced into Mas
sachusctts, Notwithstanding the high
price of labor. He cndeavored to intro
troduce English and Scotch h~usbandry
to some extent on his farm at Marshticld,
beginning by keeping large numbers of
cattle and sheep. His farm ut Franklin
was cultivated in the old New lamp
shire style, and he was very fond of
making comparisons between the two.
lie had some of the products Of his farm
sent to Washington, and his blazing
black eyes would CLEAN with JOY, while
a smile of satisfaction would light up
his swarthy face, as he would ask a guest
at the dinner-table to boiled mutton of
his W raising, with potatoes and tur-
nips of his W growth.
What such q dinner cost him he never
explained. but he must have been some.
what like Mr.. Alvin Adams, who accum.
ulatcd a fortune in the express business.
and who said to some friends who visited
HIM at q magnificent estate which he
owned near Boston. "Gcntlemen, shall
1 give you a glass of Attorney milk or Of
champagne; the cost to me is about the
same. "-E0St0a Budqet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-02-11
A Great Singers Precautions.

On q damp, chilly afternoon this week,
says a recent New York letter to the Bos-
ton Herald, I was in a Central Park res.
taurant. simultaneously, two other
riders sought the same surceasc from the
wet diversion. They were .Nicolini and
his famous Patti; and you are wondering
what the great singer could have to pre-
sent her in a new phase, considering
how many columns have been filled with
descriptions of her personally. The
fresh point which this view enables me
to make concerning the only woman in
the world whose wages are thousands of
dollars per day was the care which she
took to keep herself from damage.
Without her voice, Patti would be
a handsome little matron of forty,
but of no public value. Therefore,
her very consequential throat was
wrapped round and round with a
silk scarf, which she removed on
getting into the house. On the way
from the carriage she had held a
handkerchief to her mouth on saying
something, so that no raw air should
reach her vocal organ. Her feet in Arc.
tic overshoes, her ankles in baby-like
leggins. and her mantel enveloped her
figure from neck to hem. But the odd
est protection against catching cold was
a wad of cotton in each ear.
"She must have had e%arache," I said
to n physician who makes a specially of
throat diseases, who has some of the
grand opera singers for patients, and Of
whom l subsequently inquired on the
subject.
mot at ALL" he replied; ''shc seldom
goes out of doors in winter without
plugging her ears. tits a strange fact
that the vocal cords are susceptible to
the slightest chill entering through aural
passages. There isn't any atfcctation in
PATHS extraordinary precautions. You
wouldn't marvel at the fiddler who
owned an oil treasure of q violin, and
carried it in cotton for fear of b~reakagc.
Isn't it sensible, then, for a prima donna
to guard jealousy the only voice she's
got!"
l judge, however, that PATHS stomach
is composed of sterner and not less able
stuff, for the beefstcak and onions that
she washed down through her rarely
sensitive throat with q bottle of ale were
astonishing in 0uantity.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY.

The beautiful's no-A bellies frigid
negative.
"A Winters Tale'-'Iw want a sealskln
sacque "--Boston STIR.
If silence be golden dumb people
ought to grow rich.-!sDtings.
Remembering the poor is we'll enough;
but it is much better to give them some
thing.-Picayune.
The ice man may not be much of q
skater, but he is able to make fancy fig
ures on ce.-BostOn Post.
II must shake off this bad habit"
said O tramp, as he gazed at his tattered
coat.-NeU York journal.
When q trotting horse diesit is always
one day after his owner was offered q
fabulous price for him. Press.
The camel is the only bird we yearn
to hear MARBLE after listening to a man
learning to play the violin. -FaU Rirer
Adrance.
An exchange asks: evil the coming
woman wor,1I" That will depend upon
how lazy her husband is.-Nev York
Journal
"Reportcrs, like poets, arc born
The writer might also have said the same
of shoemakers, tailors and grocers. Most
men are usually born. - Graphic.
"The wicked stand on slippery places,
The righteous only wear q CROWN
The preacher spake, and on the pavement,
Like a weight of woe, sat down..
Merchant Traveller.
She held my heart in a willing thrill,
She held my ring on her finger small,
She held my respect, this maiden young,
And she also knew when to hold her tongue.
Boston Courier.
When you hear the old veteran with a
head like an oyster bowl, telling the old
story of the weather back in the TWEEN
ties, you perceive that, in spite of the
progress of invention there has been no
improvement in lying worth mentioning.
-Ip1roU Touqjer
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Healthy Sleep,

l think we may safely say that every
n requires six hours sleep in the TWEEN
ty-four, and very many men and women,
not to mention fools, require even more.
Certainly, too much sleep is harmful;
but too little is vastly more so. l would
let each man regulate his hours of sleep
by what he feels are his real require
mcnts; always urging him to avoid the
suspicion of laziness, to take into con-
sidcration the bed he lies upon. and to
watch the effect on his health OF any sys.
ten of sleep he adopts. If you get up
when you first wake, providing you have
had six hours of sound, refreshing sleep,
you can scarcely get wrong. But make
sure of your six hours minimum, and be
wonderfully suspicious of the necessity
Tor further sleep, as it is apt to become,
not necessity, but indulgence. Yelling.
ton could sleep at any moment; Baron
Bunson could sleep for half an hour at
any time in the midst of his studies,
awaking refreshed, and resuming his
work with increased vigor. A blessed
gift this; such a faculty, combined with
that of early rising, is as good as q fortune
to o capable man, or, indeed, to almost
any man. Sleep is heaviest in the first
few hours, gradually becoming lighter,
and probably disturbed by dreams, as
time wears on, until q slight noise dis
turbs us, or our rested system esulncs
full work Of its own accord. Everybody
knows that in dreaming part of the brain
is awake and at work, while the other
part is aslecp-as much as the brain can
sleep; at all events, exercising lesscucd
function. 1t is therefore obvious that
drcamless sleep is most useful, as dreams
are evidence of work by some part of the
brain, dctracting from perfect rest.
A very important factor in securing
healthy sleep is the kind Of bed we lie
upon. Feather beds l cannot commend;
indeed, luxuries-and this is an un-
doubted one-are not to be sought by
him whose aim is perfect health and
strength. A spring mattress is very eX-
c%cllent, and the harder your couch, to
be comfortable, the more likely arc you
to securc healthy, refreshing sleep, not
unduly prolonged. 1t is q difficult mat
ter to rise early from a feather bed, dill
cult to awake in a reasonable time, and
more so to leave its warmth and c~osiness
in winter, But the luxury must be sac
riticcd to the more hcalthful influence of
the mattress. The clothing should DC
light and warm; and cannot but recon-
mend the sheet of paper placed between
two blankets as being very warm, for
paper is a poor conductor of heat. You
get warmth by this means without undue
weight Of clothing. Then your bedroom
must be we'll ventilated, for you require
to take in an extra stock of oxygen dur
ing the night to help out the supply for
the day. You will sleep too much if the
air is impurc. MeyrUyU.
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The Direction OF the Wind.


That the changing of the direction Of
the wind is due to the shifting of the
situations of greatest heat upon the earth
is substantially proved by the fact that
in certain regions of the terrestrial sur
face, where the situations Of the greatest
heat and cold do not alter the direction
in which they lie to each other, the wind
does not change, but always blows in
the same direction from one day to
another, and all the year round. This
occurs in the great open spaces of the
ocean, where there is no land to get
heated up by the sunshine Of the day,
and to get cool by the scattering Of the
heat at night. In those spaces, for a
vast breadth of many hundreds of miles,
the SUI shines down day after day upon
the surface of the sea, heating the water
most along the mid. ocean track which lies
most Immediately beneath its burning
rays as it passes across from east to west.
This midway track of the strongest sun
shine crosses the vide ocean rs a belt or
zone that spreads some way to either side
of the equator. Throughout this mid
way track the cooler and heavier air or
either hand drifts in from the north and
from the south, and then rises up, as it
becomes heated by the sun, where the
two currents meet.
In both instances, however, in consc-
quencc of the spinning round of the
earth, the advancing wind acquires i
westward as well as an equatorial drift.
The air current us it approached the
midway equatorial zone, where the on
ward movement of the sea covered sur
face of the earth is performed with the
vast velocity of 1000 miles IN hour,
does not Immediately acquire this full
rate Of speed, and lags back upon the
ocean, so that it appears as a drift to-
ward the west as we'll as toward the
equator. On the north side Of the equa-
tor the wind blows all the year round
from the northeast, and from the south
side from the southeast, both in the At
lantIc and Pacific oceans. Thee steady
and unchanging ocean winds are called
the trade winds, on account Of the great
service they render to ships carrying
merchandise across these portions OF the
sea. In sailing from England to the
Cape of Good Hope, through the entire
length of the Atlantic ocean, ships, be-
fore they reach the equator, have to pass
over 4 broad space where strong winds
are always blowing steadily from the
northeast. That is the region of the
northeast trades. They then traverse a
space near to the equator itself, where
the northeast winds cease to blow, and
where the air is very still and calm. and
they afterward come to a region TO the
south of the equator, where strong
winds are continually blowing from
southeast. That is the region of the
south trades. Science for Al.
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Hanging Makes the Muscles Rigid.

1t is strange how q little steady pres
sure on the windpipe affects people. OF
course it chokes them, but that is no
reason why they shouldn't be able to
move their limbs. They seem to loose
all control over their muscles and give
right in. remember case that occurred
in Brookville, Nc, when | was a young
man. 4 woman, the wife of u wealthy
sea captain, threw a skcin of yarn over
the top of an open door one day. and
sticking her head through the blight that
hung down doubled up her knees so her
feet could not touch and remained in that
position until she choked to death. One
would naturally think that when she be-
came unconscious her muscles would re.
lax and allow her feet to drop to the floor,
but such was not the case. Hanging or
choking seems to make every muscle as
rigid as iron.-BoSton GloM.