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MR. ESHOLTS YOUNG WIFE. BY T. W. SPEIOUT. CHAITKK XII. 1 1 was doriog the eaily hour* of the following morning before any of the house hold were aitir that Agnea nixie her con- fession to her huihand. Mr. Kaholt had lent soundly during a great part of the night, but whenever ne woke up for a few minnle* there wo* hi* wife by hi* tide, milling and ready to minuter to all hi* re- quirement*. When he finally awoke there wai upon him a sense of deep con- tent ami reslfulness ; the phantoms, bred <f weakness and much solitaiy l<r<Kxling, which heretofore hid haunted his pillow by day and flitted on huge dusky wing* t.irough hii dreams by night, had vanished utterly ; instead, there breathed round him auft sum mer air, and all hi* being seemed tilled with sunshine and sweet inmie. "OLove, of all nugician* thou art chief." Then it was that Agnea began to tell her tale. First of all, *he told by what chance the lcame a listener at the interview be- tween Wilmot anil Mr. Vampy ; and then *hr went on to repeat all that had |uu*d between the two, which, with tint f.-nii:un< gift of memory where dialogue is concerned, she wa* able to give nearly word for word. Alt'" that the proceeded to narrate how hi- had locked up the first bottle of mrdi- -iii.- and had sent for another to replace it; how the had met Wilmot or a moment on lh. Uniting ; and how, after much inward rxtnrliation, the had taken upon henelf to and him three word* of warning. Tliuu (he sat silent, not ki.owmi; win thor her hns'oand would approve or disapprove of tin* last action on her part. He had listened to her in silence, but with the duepeit attention. Hi* tint word* were a great lelief to her. " You did quite right, dearest, in acting u you did. You have re- lieved me of a disagreeable duty. It would have I < PI m t painful to me to have to tell him \erllly that which throe words from your pen have made known to him. Fore- warueil i* fotcurmed. IIilitnd hoi been ! : he inusi needs mike Inn next move wiihui tlif in t few hour*, whether he like* it or not." Il<- lay silent for a little while, evidently d< ; M. ' in .-lit ; then In- hi' raid : " I'nor Wilmot ' I'oor miRguided young man' Wit)i all his fault*, and they are many ami %\ \>-\ mi . I c.uuK.t help 1'ityii-g linn. Why iliil IIP not come to me when In- first foiimi him elf beginning Ui flounder among hoals ami .|ir. knaiid* ? A helping hand held mil to him at that Urn. might have changed the while course of his futun life. And then how attractive he wan how every onciecin- edtotaketo him ' Who coulJ ha\e ' vlieved uch depth* of dissimulation ami worse lurked under so fair an ouUide ' That he wa* in monetary difficulties I had some urn* reaion to know, and my mtrnuoii wa* to challenge him on the point to day, or, at the latest, to-morrow ; but I could never have i-reilit<l thai he would lend his .-auction to a plot *o nefarious aa that propound) d by his lail evening'* strange visitor. Hut " smooth runs the water where the brook i* d'-. p " ' Ague* ha<l not yet aaid all that ihe had made up her mind to aay. " Koliert, are you aware thut Wilmot Kurrell ami I were atone time engaged?" A vivid bluah dyed her f*cc a* she pu 1 . the question. " It i* only mm e I have been ill tuat I have become aware of the iact," he replied. ' U In n I tint asked Mis* Cranhy'* permi*- :I.M to apeak to yon about marriage, *he U>ld me that you hail alieady lieen engaged, but lli.il. owing to the change in yuur fur tune*, the person to whom your promiw hail been given hiut seen tit to changu his mind. I believe that at the time I expressed my iipiiii'in nf his conduct rather lining's N ' for a moment had I any suspicion that Gug Kurrell wa* the man in ijucstion; I been aware of it, a* a mat- ter of coame he would never have *et fool acroas my threshold. On this pr<iul, a* on other*, I was led away by hi* frank, sailor like 'waring, ha* contagion* laugh, ami hi* manner, which seemed a* open nml candid aa the day ; no doulit also, to a c -miderable extent, by mv predilection foi <>n< who, leav hinnwn qiialitie* out of <|iip*ln>n, wa* the aouofoneof my dear brother'" oldest friends. My suspicion of the truth was first aroused by ome tutl.-. I scarcely now know what, that da) at Itmhmrrr, ami I then and there made up my mind to ascertain the facU of > he lane. .lut at that tune, however, I wa* much put alxnit in liuiinea* matters ; and shortly afier, a* you will lememl.ci , I wa* rilled from home ; while on the h> el* . .f my i "I urn t-aine my prc-ent lllnea*. Still, the Hiibjrcl had by noiiipansesuapediny memory; i. nt it wii not till Kudu in last week that I nei tamed, through a eontidi -ntial cltannel, that which I wanted to know. I will not li! ite on the feeling* wilh which I h. ud the new*. I'nwillmfilj. I had ilone you a great injury, ex (>-. d you to a great temptation I'.ut my failh in you never watered for an mutant. " Although it wa* my hand* that liiruit her into the liery fur naee, she will emerge ipolleiui and iimicath- ad." That was what I *aid to myncll nnun without numl*". Iioul.l d nothiitii ju*l i In n, my weakness wa* an extreme. hut I ne\er trembled for you in the Iraat ." He lifted her hand to hi* lips) and kise.l it wilh all a lover's devotion aa he ceawii speak- inc. There wa* (till one matter more on Agnes'* mind respecting which she felt that she ought to say something to her hunlmnd, and -he h.inlly knew how to liegin. She wanted to tell him about the torn letter she had Inuiid in his private drawer. It had much in her mind during her long night watch, but the thought of it no longer rankled there a* it had before " It wan my fault that the letter wa* written which l.r ..IK lit forth inch a it ply," (he aaid to her aelf. " He loved me. when he married me; and luil I Iwen a dilleienl wife to him, he wo'ild never have had occasion to make a tidant of any man " There is one thing more I wiih to con- ies* to yon, Robert," *he aaid with down- rait eye*, for ihe recognised now what a I. reach nf confidence ihe hail been guilty of in reading the letter at all, although at .he time th temptation had proved too in.iig for her. "Confess away," ho aniwered wilh that Minle in hi* eye* whu h toftcnsd hi* face so \i..ndcrliilly " I promise yo plenary ab solution beiore you begin." " Von . einemoei that day when you gave Mi Iturrell your key* and rent a menage liv him. aikinf to OJIBU I be pi Halt drawer in your itmlyand giveliim a certain memorandum book I nhoiild Und there ? Well" " Stop a moment. I have no recollection of *endmg any *uch message. " " Hut iiiiisi hive sent it, dear, otherwise how should I have known anything about it?" " Proceed." " On opening the drawer I found lying close by the book I had come for lorn |H.riiou of a letter, oue of the paragraph* of which caught my eye. Then my cunosjity overpowered me, and I took it up and read the whole of it." " There was no harm in that : you are my wife." " It wa* part. It wa* 11 was very wrong on my a great breach of confidence. ' Tut, tut ! It was nothing. But do you happen to remember the content* of the letler?" Did she not ' She hod felt at the lime a* if it would be impossible for her ever to for- get them. " I rvad tho letter more than ouce," *he aniwered, lluihiug a little, "and I have a good memory." Then she repeated the letter to him almost word for wonl. "My poor darling! and this ha* been rank ling in your mind ever since? No wonder, either." " Had I been the wife I ought to have been lo you, dear, had I been all tha' you had a right to except, the letter would never have been written which called forth t hat reply." _ A curiou* expression flitted across Mr. i Ksholt's face. " II you don't mind the! trouble," he said, "I should like you to go at, once and fetch me that letter." Three minutes later she was hack again, " The letter is no longer there," she said a l-llle blankly. " Of course it isn't, he coolly answered. "The same hand that put it there took it away. I to yon not coinprehemi ?" " No, "she said with a ihake of her head. " I am very stupid, I know." " To >peak plainly, then- no such mes- sage a* the one given you by Wilmot Iturrell was ever sent by me. No u"h teller as the one read by you was evi r n .cued by me ; i 01, -e |ueiitly, ii could not be an answer to anything written by me. \Vi!mot Iturrell wa* the author of that precious effilMon, or some one eUefor him. It was he who put it there ; and it was he who took it away after it had MTved his vile purpoae, which wax neither more nor leas than to sow dissension between the woman he onco professed to love, but had cast off, and the man who hail I" i n nded him and at whore table lip hod broken bread. Thi* ii *oiiw, mtinmdy worse thin oil that has gon<. before." Agnes was overwhelmed - powerless to give utterance to o word. What must her huid*nd tlwiik of her aft ei h.-r c intension that she had taken the forged letter aa being in answer lo one written by him ' Blind i.l it Dial l.e must have beca/to dream for one moment that Itohvrl Ksholt would under any circumstances have penned anything which could have elicited such a reply ' I Hi. how she ha<l misread him ' And \. t, iii-nl.ci by word nor liM.k hail he i.-|>r. .i>. lied Ity this time it was |u<st .-ijlu o'clock. Mr. Kshdlt rang the Ml which |,,,ng by the n.|. .f hi iN'd To the servant who came be said ; "Go to Mr. I'.nrrell's room and tell linn that I wiah to . e h>n as noon as possible." Then, when the door wa* shut, lie added sternly ; " Not another hour hall he remain under tin* roof. " Presently the servant came back, looking somewhat scared. "Mr. linrre!! is not in his room, sir, nor anywheie ul. .ml t IP house. Hi* bed ha* not ln-en in ; and i i- carpet Iwg, which was in hi* room I., .t i.icht. n not there now." " Thai Hill do, Bridget ; th.ink vou,"uid Mr Kholt. Then tuniing to hi wife : "It is better so, ' he said. "Your l-nef warn- ing was enough. He ha* solved ttiedilti- culty after his own fashion, and m all pro liability we shall never set- i.nn or her of bin. more. And now," h" went on. " I w ill tell you something whi< Ii may perhap* sur- pii.. V'i'i* little. Mr Va.npy wan a pri vatu dt-ie. live . mpl.iyr.1 specially by me. -..m. doul. Is having arisen mil m.l ..' the hoidci *Jl lo Ihe gl-lmm.-lK-M nt the). ill for the two hundred and fifty pounds, it VWK r.ibiiniied (iruately to .UU-/ K unli.-r. who at once pr ii.oiin. ed it to ! wh.it it wa a forgery Without a hint to Hurrell. hn ut once . aunt to consult me in Ihis matt, i After some consideration, I determined to take up tin- bill, although it would not fill due foi houn tune 1 wi di I<M mined to so ' far shield ihe culprit that the cMl.m.-ni of the alTair should ) . in i matter Iftwren ! hmrelf and me alone ; hnl at the same tnnr I wa.-. unman* and curious to know by what mean- IIP. had proposed to hinitelf ti -.-I Ihe hil.ihly when it nhould fall due It. Inn. I Ihe one trai'.i i ln.li an form natels brought to light might ]>o-il.'\ link other- more dangerous stilf. ] H.-iice my mploymein ul Vampy- uhoao leal name, however i* i thine .it'...;, il.rr , dilliri-ni .'.iid I xhall no ihiub: iecci\c hi* rpjH.rt of hist night's interview m lh of a day. Th idea of frightening Wilmot into c.iimciilingto t.iui|.ei with my medi. me was an einaii.ln.ii o! ln .. ovnr-ingenious biain, and ought in itself to have ai. the other's suspicions. I can only suppose his object lo have ln-en tn an-ritam to what extremes Wilmot would lie prepared to go iu order to sen-en bin own turpitude. Hut it was rather alwurd to suppose that a man w h.- had come on the errnnd he wa* pro aumed to have come 011 nhou Id happen at that particular time tn have alxiut him a drug, or essence, possessing the remarkable pi ..pBiticH attributed to it by him, and that they should IK' prociiely lliu properties need- ed lor carrying out the nh|c.-t be had HO in- sidiously suggested. I Hunk that bail I been 1.1 Hurrell'i placu the proposition would have had Inn much <>t the air of n prearranged scheme not in make me feel *ure thcie was someti.ing more in the hackgronnd. But one can never tell. No duiibt \Vilmot had been goaded to the point of desperation, and was scarcely master either cf hi* thoughts or hi* actions. In any cose, it is just as well that ho ha* cut the (ionium knot in the way he has." When l>r Pyeflt arrived two honn later, he found hii patient so much better that he wai quite jubilant. "Aha!" be exnloinitd as he rubbed his hands gleefully ; "our last change of medicine seems to have effected a remarkable improvement We cannot do bsMar than ursvero in it, I think." " Indeed, you can't, doctor," replied Mr. Ksholt with a smile. " The last medicine ha* done me more good than all that went before. " Hut before thi* Agnes had gone to her own room. She had passed through so much during the la-t do/en hours that she was worn out both mentally and physically ; besides, as Mr. Kiholt sensibly remarked, if she did not take a few hour*' rest now, what would >he be lit for when evening should come round again ? Dr. I'yetitt hail not been gone many min- utes, when Miss Ksholl wa* wheeled into her brother's room, havry having first reconnoi- tred to make sure that Agnes hud vacated her post for the time Ifing. Of course the liter's firitt words framed themselves into an inquiry after her brother's health. "I am better, very much better, this morning Kveii I'yetitt wa* struck with the change." " I am truly rejoiced to hear it, Robert." "I am *ure you are, Janet. liy-the-way, 1 had a freih nurse last night, ri.-< Mrs Juki's auperiedcd. Hut pri.l-.il.ly you ore aware of it already?" "Ye*. Agnes told me what ihe wasalxiul to do. 8eemg her so self-willed in the matter, I made no attempt to dissuade her." "You muit make it right with Mother Jukes aa regards money matters. She's a good creature; but when aaleep.ihe certainly doe* more like a trooper." "I have something to say to you thi* morning, Robert, which I would r.. uch rather have lelt unsaid, if the affection and duty I owe you would have allowed me to do so." "'Mat's rather an ominous beginning, Janet ; but go on." " What I have to say refen to Mr*. K* holt." "To Agnes!" He raited his eyebrow* iligntly, und there came into hii face a look he knew well the keen, hard, slightly ag- gressive look which he habitually wore when at business, and sometime! forgot to lay aside at home. " I am all attention ' " Yesterday evening, a stranger -a gen- tleman. I suppose he would term himself called lo see Mr. Hundl. Wilmot conduct- ed him to your study, where the two re- mained shut up tiyither for more than half an hour. Two minute* l>efore the stranger's arrival, Mrs. Ksholt entered the study ; three minute* after hi* departure, *he .putl cd it. Consequently, she must not only have been present at the interview, but have known beforehand at what moment the stranger might lie expected, snd, one may reasonably assume, have Wen equally well acquainted with the object that brought him here." " Who saw all this? From whom did you derive your information ?' "From Ihnry. She saw Mrs Kiholt both enter and leave the study. " "So. Anything more?" "There'* ore thing more which I 'hink you ought lo be made acquainted with. About an hour later, Mr*. Ksholt gave Bridget a note fur Mr. Burrell with ipecial instruction! that it was to be lure to reach him." " Anything else ?" " Nothing else, Kohert. i nave thought it my duty as a sitter to make these cir- cumstances known to you, more especially follow ing as they do upon certain other circumstances which I ought, perhaps, to have brought under your notice long *gn indeed, I now see how weak it was on my part not to have done so." She p tilled as if to draw a longer breath ti an usual " l.i other, from the Hist hour Wilmot I'.ur rel set foot under your root my suspicions were aroused that there wn4 Fome secret utidiTHtainling between him and your wife, that they hod, in foci, at one true been, even if they were not (till, in love with each other, and that" "Janet, not another word, I insist '.' hrcke in Mr. Ksholl in In* harshest tones. " All that you have told me liner you entered this room ii alieady known to me." "I have a little history to relate to you," resumed Mr. hsholl after a silence which to one at least of the two people there must have Iwen anything but a pleasant one ; " and it may bu M well that I should tell it overcame it. She acknowledged to herself, not without extreme bitterness of spirit, that she had bee.i in the wrong; but with her such an acknowledgment did not fail to bring with it on unflinching determination to make such amends t* lay in her power. That morning's solitary communion with herself wss oue she was not likely ever to forget. W hen Mis* Kaholt wa wheeled back to her brother'! room, she found Agnes there, and for the first time in her life ahe was glad to see her. She hod never been a woman to hesitate or beat about the bush when she saw what ihe deemed her duty clear before her, and ibe was not going to liegin now. Shu bad a disagreeable tank to perform, ar.d the sooner (he got it over the better for all concerned.' "Agnea," she brgan, and it wa* very rarely she had ever called her by that name before, " I have to ask your forgiveness for the wrong I have done you in my thought*. I have been unjust towards you ; but I piomiso you I will endeavor never to be so again. I have been blinded by prejudice, but am so no longer. Robert has told me everything. From first to last you have be- haved nobly, and I respect you for it 1 offer you my friendship, if yoo care to ac- cept it." Agnei was deeply moved. Tears gather- ed in her eyes, and it wa* all ahe could do to keep them from falling. Crossing to Miss Ksholt'i chair and kneeling on one knee, she look one of her wonted hands and pressed it tenderly to her cheek. "Not your friend- ship only, dear Janet, but your lore a liv ter i love. Nothing less will satisfy me. Ah ' 1 ow I have longed for it and prayed for it lince the first hour I knew you." Miss Ksholt laid her other hand, which trembled strangely, on the young wife's glossy hair. " Who con forecast the future," she said gently, " or say what may or may no*. come to pass in the dayi yet unborn ?' Hut little more remain! to be told. Through Mr. Ksholt's liberality, Mrs. Stroke was enabled to take a much larger house, and in a much superior locality to the one bail vegetated f in which she had for so many you now, becauw n will nerve to open your eyes on many poi.-it* respecting which 1 wa* c.|ii-lly a* blind a* yourself only a few hour* ago." I he story Mr. Ksholt I. .d n. tell will lilv bo c; ie-d, but no: . i -. woi.ld I', lie to dlk Hit* With what \ . M ,_ emotlolli h'* -ister listened to ih* recital. As it hp pc.i"d, >he hod not heard of Wilmot'* dis- appearance, nnd now that she wn* told of it it sei i:ied only a titling and natural climax t.. the - P IIVI ,,- -i ,i w > h hid ju*t been I into her ear*. '''.I d t," she said after an ii-terral, " I shall have something to *ay to you and Agnes in '.he course of the day, but for the pr. M ni I will leave you " \Vith that she ' ' \ I twu bouts ihe sat in her room deep in i i H'ljhl. Hal ahe, in truth, wr->i,_,..l her bro'liri '.-i yi ,111^ wife in her own mind It >; lirel tola^t ' IC'.Uit's narrative had moved her '. more deeply than hv irsprcl- '.I The girl must love her hml.and, li.\c him ic.ii''c! elv, devotedly, whati ver her fooling* might have In CM inward* another in ;inie gone by, otherwise she would never have a.-'..,' towards him aa she had : ihe would never have revealed to him I hat which he ha I overhrarJ by accident iinleai he, and not her fornlV lover, hrld whole ami sole pues*ii>n of her heart. Could it !* porainlu that *he, Janet Ksholt, had misread linn flimplc-irtiiidod country parson's daugh- ter from the first ? If so, what a grievous w i ong had *ho done her! I'udp ami prejudice were two important factor* in Miss Ksholt's mental iiliosyiicnuv, but dominant over both w.i* strong inherent set se of justice. Hitheiln, *he had secret- ly pridnd herself that, what* ver the cost might be to herself, he had never knowing ly wronged or injured any one in word or deed ; hut could *he truthfully atlirm the same thing now ? From the first, she had w rouged her brother's wife, if not in word .. i deed, then in her thoughts, which are the unwroiight actions of the mind. She hail seen her, ai <die believed, walking straight toward* a precipice (the word was her own), whether uonaciomly or unknowingly she had nevor cared lo ask, and had uttered! no warning cry, had held out no saving hand. Had that catastrophe come about which she now idiuddr-eal to contemplate, would not the recollection of it have overshadowed her last moments, and have clogged the as- pirat ions on her dying lipi? U hat her brother had told her had gone u long way towards brooking down the uar- i n i of prejudices sh had erected of her own free-will between herself and Agnea, and now her urong snnie of righ and justice did battle with her pride, and in the end yearn She was thereby made one of the happiest of women, for her house was alwayi full of lodgers, indeed it wai a common say- ing with her that if she had twice a* .mny rooms to let she could find tenants for them ; but in that cue it is to be feared that she would have killed! herself in her anxiety to pleav every one. Dear, kind-hearted Mis* Mario I ask her pardon Mrs. Ludtord, who spent a month in Live, pool every year, never failed, accompanied by Agnes, to call upon her, on which occasion* one may be lure there was much talk over <dd limes, and trials which bod now happily become mere bitter-sweet memories of the pail. After all, the ('ration I 'up irru Pn-- * l>hn,,'. A few day* (alter, Mr K-holt icceived two hundred andlilly pound* in hank-notei in a sealed envelope, accompain- ed by these word* : " From one who being leinpted fell ; who wronged you but re- penis ; and who now bids you and yours farewell, indeed it proved lo !.<. for uo further tidings ever reached the con of our tr n ml* witn regard to the after-career of Wilmot liurrell. A few year* went by, and then a tiny Janet wai toddling about ihe houw, and a small Hobby was doing his best to tyramse over everybody : and, strange to soy, no one wo* more completely under their sway than the Aunt Janet whom they both loved o dearly. Infant caresses and th soft kisses of baby lip*) bad broken down the last bolts and bars of the dungeoi. in which for year* she hod sat apart from all the hopes, fean, joy*, and sorrows of her kind, and had let in the blesvud sunlight and the free iweet air of heaven. Sometimes Itavry would soy to her mistress : "Them bairn* Hess em twit u* round their lingers juit as they like, and make right-down ml lies of both of us." HI. t.lt l> IN 41 KM i . noaumeil .rrrlnl to Dr. Markllgai at Is IHrllit.lM. . . On Sunday, a monument was unveiled to the memory of Dr. (iustay Nachtigal, the great German explorer, at hi* birthplace, Stendal, Prussia. Hi* humble grave is at Cope Polmoe, Ubero, where Mr. llottikofe' discovered at five year* ago after tramping some time through the jungle that surrounds it on all sides except the sea Dr. Nachtigal was Governor of the German colony of Cameroon*, whence he took passage on the man-of-war Mowe to recruit hi* healtn at home. He died on board a ship of African fver, on April 25, 1885, and was buried at Cape I'almas. Mr Buttikofer photographed the grave, from which, however, the body has since been removed to Cameroon*, of which Nachtigal was the tint Governor, in whose oil the body now rests. It was the lot of Nachtigal to wander for year* among the Mohammedan States of the Soudan south of the Sahara De*ert, and to give the world more information about these countries than any explorer except Hariri has contributed. He was sent 10 Hornu by the German Government in 1869 to carry present! to the Sultan of that country in recognition of his kindness to earlier explor- er*. After he hod fulfilled his mission he visited the countries of Konern and Korku, north and northeast of Lake Tchad, and later he spent many months in Bagiruil and among the black tribes in the southern part of that country. Then he explored Wodai, the powerful native State, whose name had been the terror of explorers. It w here that Vogel was murdered by the Sultan's orders nearly twenty years before Nachtigal, in hU thirst for exploration, braved the same fate. Vogel did not li/e to write a detailed report of his notable discoveries, though he rendei - ed valuable services by his determination of the geographical positions of many place* and his many accurate observations of other facts. But Nachtigal passed unscathed through all dangers, and, after extending his travel* through Darfur and Koragan, he reached Germany seven yean after he had started on hi* long wandering*. The great oil vantage geography derived from Nachtigal'a travel* was that he was well trained in several branches of science, and wai one of the most conscientious and thorough observers that ever lived. It U the custom of many explorers nowadays to publish the record of their work within a few months after their return. Their nar- rative is apt to be carelessly written, and tho amount of verbiage is out of oil propor- tion to the solidity and value of the infor- mation. Nachtigal would not hove written anything at all had he been compelled to produce copy under such pressure. He was over six years writing the Urge volumes that record his discoveries. He pro- duced perhaps the raoit ixhan*tive and s lentihc work that has been written on any part of Africa. The work hoi never been translated into Knglish, but students of K'c 'graphy have been known to acquire the German language for the particular purpose of reading Nachtigal'* volumes on the Sou- dan. Ssiiokr <> Weal due to meat which KIT.-, i .>f Tobiiiu-- i Coses of poisoniug seemed thoroughly wholesome have occur- red, am' have remained unexplained. In /;. fur <f Hyytt>, M. Bourrier, Inspector of Meat for Paris, describe! hii exptriments with meat impregnated with tobacco tmoke. Some thin slices of beef were exposed for o considerable time to the fumes of tobacco, and afterwords offered to a dog which had been deprived of food for twelve hours. The dog, after unelling the meat, refused to eat it. Some of the meat was then cut into small pieces and concealed within bread. Thii the dog ate with avidity, but in twenty Miss fcholt seemed quite conteut that it 'minutes commenced to display the most should U- so. distressing symptoms, and soon died in [TH i u r i... in. - 1 1... ..i Beans. Of all edible pod*, it u believed that t! I.- 1 can ha* been the longest known and must wi iely cultivated, s%ys the St. Ixnii* !! fi-ii ''-. ft wa* usetl as food by the anc.ent .1. wi and coiuidered sacred by the Greeki and Komani. A temple dedicated to Kyane ie>. the god of beau*, formerly stood on the sacred rood near Kleusis. Kyancte* was railed the god of beans because he was the tirst to cultivate thorn for food. The bean feast, which the Athenian* celebrated in honor of Apollo, was characterised by the excessive use of beans. The Kgyptian*. contrary to the na'ionralmve mentioned, con- nlcrvd bean* unclean and would not venture to touch them. I'ythagora* admonished his scholars, "Abitoin from beans." The natives of Ki-ypt and mont all oriental na- tions look upon '.he black speck on the wings of the IHMII (low cr a the written characters of death. A Cure far i .. i. .. A t rciiblcM.iiic cough may he relieved by a sirup of onions made by slicing row onion* inlo a bow I m allernole layei* with white sugar. Cover and set in the oveu until the juice is extracted ; but to ovoid wane through great agony. All sorts of meat, both raw and cocked, some grilled, roasted, and boiled, were exposed to tobacco smoke and then given to animals, and in all cases pro- duced symptom* of acute pensioning, hven the process of boiling could not extract from the meal the nicotine poison. Grease and similar substance* have facilities of abeorption in proporlion with their fineness and fluidity. Fresh killed meat ii more readily impregnated, and stands in order of susceptibility as follow* pork, veal, rabbit, poultry, beef, mutton, hor-c. The effect also varies considerably according to the quality of tobacco. All these experiments u!d teem to denote that great core should l>o token not to allow smoking where foods, especially moist foods, such as meals, fata, and certain fruits [Canada Health Journal. t n 4llil Jewltk ?*<. At the home of a well known Jewish citi/cn wai recently *een a tiny flame burn- ing in a handsome goblet. Kxaminatioa showed the goblet to be half filled wilh water, on the top of which floated about an nidi of pure olive oil A miniature float of rorks, fastened on either side of a met- allic ring, rented upon the oil. On the wa* placed a wax taper, hardly thick- harm. upptr < wa* lighted as above mentioned. taper The oil slaying tress and the fourth t > tultiug a c. .in;i.t:,l >n. Their I. in,,- vnie Smller, Slocum, Wood (a nrgroi an. I .lugiru |o Jap- anese. ) Tli. % men were strapped lo a wo.xlin armchair and ihe current wa* applied to their forehead* and the calf of one of each of their leg*. Tney all took their scuts calmly and died without a struggle, although after theiir*t shock, which lasted twenty sex- .n U. there was in each signs of return- ing life. A second shock wa applied ami then smoke began to come from the legs. New York hoi formally adopted tnii niude of death, which is called electrocu- tion in picfcrem. to hanging as being nwifter und more iiaiuleas. The utmost spvreoy is maintained. The current ; . turned on from a cabinet erected behind Wiien that taper bnrns nearly out we will lulatitute another, no that the flame, like tho vesUl fire, ne\ .-i ^ is out. We light the taper when oi.r tv.itive dies and let it burn a year, the In t one being allowed to burn out. We atlend lo these light* with great core, thus keeping olive the memory of our loved oue. It is on old custom of ours, and one seldom now observed. Some burn it only for a wejk, while others burn it for a month. Our family adheres to the custom in all its p-irity, always keeping tho flame olive for o year." Karle; Bree. The .Vn'ii.wii/ nf'.ii rrrr (London) tells of a Krvuc.li v me manufacturer who has discov- ered that the vinous bou.iuct i* a matter not s bou.iuot the chair, the operator in which is wnriipd, ' of original constituent*, '>' "f fermenting by signal belli when to turn hi* nrmaratu* agents, and who has succeeded in malting ou or off. Klectrocution BUYV be more I delirious vintages, both red and white, to say nothing of irresiitihle brandies, out of hurley, without so much as a suspicion of or off. Klectrocution may be more merciful than itriingling with the ropo, but in one ua*o tha victim seel the instrument of torture and know* what i* going to hap- pen In the other he i* perfectly ignorant. \l ' i pci. pie prefer facing the known to the unknown. y, grape juico in them. The containers of these beverage* keep up bygone tradition* by itill speaking knowingly nf vintages ana bouquets and aromas and ity 'es and so on. \