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SOME PROMINENT PEOPLE, The Oldest Farmer in Britain-- The World's Champion Benedict. The late Sir William Brooks, the banker of London, had, it is said, a curious way of showing his moods in writing to his friends. If he was in a good temper, he wrote with a violet pencil, when he was angry he wrote with red, and when he was very wroth he used blue. It is stated that, with the exception of Mrs. Meynell--Ingram and Lady Metre, Mrs. Harry McCalmont is now probably the most richly dowered widow in England. Mr. Meynell-Ingram left his wife his vast fortune absolutely--a very rare act on the part of a testator. Mr. John Radburne, of Thrupp Grounds, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, who' has just celebrated his 100th birthday, is the oldest farmer in the United Kingdom. He is a bachelor, teetotaler, and non-smoker, can hear distinctly, and has eyesight so good that he has never had to use eyeglasses. Miss Janotha, the favorite piamste at the Courts of Europe, has- a great enthusiasm for mountain-climbing. As a very young girl she scaled the most dangerous peak of the Tatra range of mountains in the Carpathians, and she has watched the. sun rise from the summit of Ben Nevis. She is also a daring wild-boar huntress, and-tells many thrilling stories of hair-breadth escapes from the tusks' of these ferocious animals. An inhabitant of Creglingen, in Wurtemberg, whose name is Fritz Kottman, claims to be the champion Benedict of the world. He has been married no fewer than eleven times. His first three wives died young, the next two were drowned, one committed suicide, three died in succession, the tenth was gord to death by a bull, and he' has just recently married the eleventh, who had a leg cut off by a railway train last year, so that the wedding had to be postponed till now. Princess Ferdinand of Roumania, the daughter of the late Duke of Coburg, was married when only seventeen years and a few months old. One, of her hobbies is the collecting of perfumery bottles, and it is said that the late Empress of Russia, who also indulged in a similar fancy, left her a large assortment of the same articles, valued at $25,000. The future Queen of Roumania is a very good violin player, an accomplishment doubtless inherited from her late father. A Scottish. landowner, Mr. A. Butter, of Faskally, Perthshire a not ed traveller and big game sportsman He has enjoyed the personal friendship .of King Menelik of Abyssinia for some time, and the Emperor has conferred upon him the office of Chief Elephant Hunter. The species is threatened with extinction by the raids of stray spostsmen, and undi Mr. Butter's supervision the el phants in Abyssinia territory will only be shot by recognized hunters. Lord Dysart is devoted to mu£ic, and possesses every conceivable kind of musical instrument, including eight pianos, with spinets and harpsichords, at his fine old residence, Ham Hone---. Richmond, England. A great traveller, and notwithstanding his 1 uSrmity--he is almost totally blind--Lord Dysart has visited most parts of the habitable globe, and remembers more about his travels than a great many people who have the use of their eyes. Another of Lord Dysart's hobbies is homoeopathy. Mrs. Ames-Lyde, said to be the only lady in the world conducting *n ironworks, has been appointed Lady Ironworker to the King. Ames-Lyde started her industry twelve years ago, and has no' workmen. She has had many orders for art metal work from royal families, but King Edward himself was her first royal patron, the lady having been commissioned to supply a lamp for tho hall at Sandringham, and since then several other similar commissions have been The official title of the King • of Portugal is a rather imposing one. It is "King of Portugal and the Algarves within and beyond the seas, in Africa Lord of Guinea, and of the navigation and commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and of the West Indies." Don Carlos has a remarkable knowledge of languages, which he acquired while studying at Oporto under Portuguese professors. Ho served his apprenticeship as a ruler during the ill-health of his father, but until called to the throne spent a considerable portion of his time in hunting. The German Empress has the most magnificent diamonds, which she wears on great occasions at Court. They- are valued at one million dollars, but most of them are heirlooms of tire Prussian Crown. These jewels can be worn only by a reigning Queen, and a Dowager is unable to make use of them. However, the value of the diamonds which are the private property of the Empress amounts to $500,000, and the greater number of them were left to her by the Empress Augusta, who specially bequeathed to her granddaughter-in-law several . necklets and parures. The Empress possesses thirty diamond rings and a number of bracelets, brooches and About a dozen years ago, when the late Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was in London for the purpose of inaugurating the Irish Literary Society, writes a correspondent, I was frequently a guest of his at South Audley street. One afternoon Sir Charles, Mr. T. W. Rolleston, and I sat down to the tea-table. "Rolleston," said Sir Charles, "would you B»lnd doing the honors ? Pour out the tea." When Mr. Rolleston handed the cup to his host, Sir Charles turned to me and said : "Just think of the revenges time brings ! Here am I, in the capital of England, being offered a cup of tea by the grandson of the last judge (Baron Richards) who tried me for treason. Signora Luisa Cavallero is a fine old lady of Florence of seventy-four years, who says the chief recollection of her younger days is teaching Marconi. "Who would have thought," she says "that the In-glesino" (little Englishman), "as we used to call him because of his slight figure and sedate manner, would have turned out a genius ? He was always a model of good behaviour, that I will say for him ; but he was very far indeed from being a clever boy. I am afraid he got many severe punishments, poor little man ; but he took them like an angel. At that time," she added, "he could never manage to learn anything by heart ; it was impossible. 1 used to think that I had never seen a child with so defective a memory." LFPROSY FROM FISH. Dr. Hutchinson Finds Support of This Theory in India. Jonathan Hutchinson, F. R. S., has returned to England after a tour of investigation in India as to the cause and prevention of leprosy, especially in reference to the hypothesis which assigns the foremost position among the causes of the disease to the use of unwholesome Twelve years ago, the Prince of Wales's committee, which was bent to India, rejected this hypothesis, but Dr. Hutchinson's latest investi- ivinced him that it had pursued its deeply would not Dr. Hutchinson's i that the facts gations have the committee if researches more have rejected it. general conclusic do not controvert the hypothesis, while some of them afford unassailable support of it, the truth of which his inquiries in South Africa lost year convinced him. Dr. Hutchinson's tour of India included visits to Colombo, Madras, Lahore, Calcutta and Bombay, where he held public meetings and discussions, and also visits to the leper asylums at Colombo, Madras, Calcutta, Purula, Asonsal, Agra, Tarntaran, Jullunder and Bombay. He visited in Ceylon all the lepers who had been fish eaters. In Madras and Calcutta each of the lepers with the single exception of a high-caste Brahmin, denied that they had ever eaten fish. In Bombay there was one doubtful exception. In Agra, Tarntaran and Jullunder there were several exceptions. Of the 500 inmates of the Purula asylum, all had habitually eaten of fish, and many believed that this had CAUSED THE DISEASE. Some had left off eating it on that a'ccoi nt. The majority of those who hate contracted the disease in early life. In accounting for these, Dr. Hlutch-insor suggests "commensal communication" spreads the disease to a , slig.t extent in a community where it has once originated, without it becoming contagious in the ordinary sense of the word. Commensal or mouth communication, conveyed the disease by eating food directly from the hands of a leper, or otherwise receiving the bacillus by tho mouth. The prevalence of tire disease in the whole population of India is not greater than five in 10,000, which is about the same percentage as in Norway, but not a single district is entirely free from the disease. It is always more prevalent in or near the fishing places. In Ceylon, where the fisheries are so unproductive that the greater portion of fish consumed must be imported, the incidence of leprosy is less than two per 10,000. In Minicoy, the adjacent fish-exporting island, where the inhabitants eat fish four times a day, the percentage is 150 in 10,000. In the Bombay asylum there are 400 inmates, the majority of whom are fro.n the great fishing district of Koikan. During eight years there ha> ■ been no Jains anci only one Pasee patient. The yards. Indeed, it has been estimated that a single gallon of liquid air could, given certain conditioi made equal in deatructiveness thousand tons of gun powder. Or assume, on the other hand, that he had been a criminal of t Palmer type -- a secret prisoner, liquid air he had at his command far more deadly toxic agent than even prussic acid; and one moreovei which, had he chosen to keep hii discovery to himself, he might havi conceivably used with ALMOST PERFECT IMPUNITY. For even the very smallest quantity of liquid air, administered ' ternally, would prove almost immediately fatal, eating its way with vitriolic swiftness into the victii inmost vitals, destroying tiss muscle and bone, and yet leaving trace of itself. Marconi, again, the inventor wireless telegraphy, took all world into his confidence as soon most as his mscrvelous discovery \ first lighted on. But what if he had chosen to k< his knowledge to himself and utiliee it, as he could easily have done, further dishonorable ends of his It is quite conceivable that he might have made millions on the stock exchanges and bourses of Europe and America; for by means o his tiny instruments, while the cables slept and the telegraph offices) were closed, he could have transmitted and received -- through his accredited agent s, of course--exclusive information of vital importance. Or supposing that Professor Ront-gen, the discoverer of the X rays, had been a professional thief. He would have had at his beck an'd call a something which no other member' of the fraternity had ever even dreamt about--a something which would have enabled him to see how many and what valuables were this or that receptacle, or the ount of coin a person had in pocket, his purse, or his satchel. His "rays" would have been him, in fact, a sixth sense, i 6s ed by no other living creature ir WHOLE WIDE UNIVERSE. The story of the man who found' out how to split Bank of England notes into two parts laterally, and who was so honest and so disinterested that he went forthwith and made a present of his knowledge to the directors of the institution in question, is well known. In the main the details are as usually stated, although it is doubtful whether the discovery could have been turned to any practical acco if even the discoverer had been rogue in emfbryo instead of an I est and law-abiding citfcen. It is a fact, however, that year or two back a similar but fi more dangerous discovery w dentally stumbled upon by alien engraver, who freely matte present of his knowledge to Bankers' Association. This r founru out a method by which could imitate exactly the wa marking- on letters of credit and c er- similar documents. It wa simple method, and easy of appl: tion by even the veriest tyro; i there is no doubt that, had be chosen to do so, he might have swindled the London banks out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Since then, it may be menticned, perforations have been universally cited for the old-fashioned wa-marking so far as the inuicat f the Then, again, there is the very typical case of MM. Frerny and Vor-nouil, who first disrovevod how to produce valuable rubies artificially. By means of an electric furnace, de-velopiing the terrific temperature of 3,000 degrees centigrade, these two eminent scientists were able to fuse small and comparatively valueless stones, and minute fragments of stones, into a viscid mass, aid this in due course they succeeded in moulding under pressure into one perfect, and of course immensely valuable, whole. To the two savants in question this discovery simply represented an interesting scientific fact. That, there was a fortune in the process, if kept utilized with a certain egelui During the period the island of Salsjtte, phi h has a population of 50,000, vas the only Christian community vhich sent patients to the asylum. Phe Salsetters are all Roman Catho-irs who observe all fast days and Sm majority of them are actually ngaged in tho fishing trade. IF THEY WERE CRIMINALS They Could Blow Up the City of London With One Gallon of Liquid Air. It is a lucky thing for society at large that scientists are seldom, if ever, dowered with criminal instincts. For supposing the converse held good! Supposing, for instance, that Professor Dewar, the Bislcoverer of liquid air, had been an Anarchist! In that care he would have had ready to his hand a secret and deadly explosive which would be infinitely more powerful than dynamite, while needing neither fuse nor detonator to set it off. All that would be necessary would be to fill a steel bomb -- the bigger and thicker the better--with liquid air, and hermetically close it. Immediately the interior contents would begin to expand as the imprisoned and tortured atmosphere commenced slowly to return from its liquid to a gaseous state; and this expansion would continue until, if the bomb could be made strong enough, the well-nigh inconceivable pressure of 12,000 pounds per square inch would eventually be developed. Then the developing walls of steel, even if a foot or more in thickness, would inevitably fly into innumerable fragments, and with an explosive violence which would be sufficient to wreok anything and everything within a radius of probably thousands of of i utterly and entirely beside the point. They, in fact, took the whole world into their confidence; and although since then "reconstructed" rubies, as they have been christened, have been placed upon the market, it has been done entirely without the knowledge or consent of the original Or, lastly, take the discovery by Thiersch of the possibility of the artificial transmissibility of the cholera germ. No one else on earth then knew--none guessed even -- the terrible secret that he had unwittingly stumbled upon. Had ho been minded to evil, he might with almost perfect impunity have started a series of artificially-induced epidemics of this terrible disease that would have decimated humanity, and the cost of combating which would have bankrupted Christendom.-- Pearson's Weekly. Meerschaum was first used for pipes in 1723. Johnson -- "But why do you carry two watches?" Jackson -- "I keep one slow to go to work by, and the other fast to leave work by." Equal parts of honey, olive oil and pure home-made wine made from grape juice or currants is both soothing and strengthening for a bad cough. i Schoolmaster -- "What is a widower?" Pupil -- "A widderer is a man wot ain't got a widder." Schoolmaster -- "Oh! indeed --then what is a widow?" Pupil Herbert -- "Did > hat I deserved." hardly get that know. I should SOLVIS & A RIVER MYSTERY PROPOSED ARMY REFORMS IT IS AN AWFUL DISEASE' CURIOSITIES OF EXPLORATION IN AFRICA. Congo's Largest Tributary Well H-dden -- Col. Van Gele's Discovery. The Mobangi River, emptying into the Congo from the north, is tho largest tributary of that river. It is 1,500 miles long and larger than any river of Europe except the Volga and the Danube. Col. Van Gele, one of the famous explorers of the Congo basin, has just written the story of his discovery of the mouth of the gieat river in 1884. This discovery was actually made by the missionary traveler Grenl'ell as well as by Van Gele about the same time, neither of them knowing what the other was doing. It was one of the remarkable finds in the second greatest river basin in the world; a brief summary of the story told by Col. Van Gele is worth recording. He heard from the natives that there was a great river called the Mobangi emptying into tho Congo, on the northern bank. He lived on the Congo for years as a member of Stanley's staff, he had repeatedly steamed up and down the river, but he had never heard of the Mobangi. He had considerable doubt that such a liver existed, but finally decided" to take the little steamer En Avant and probe the mystery to the bottom. There were four Belgians in the party and ten Zanzibar deckhands. The information they ived Ml ICC an'd 1 only course before them was to keep close to the right or northern bank' of the Congo till they found the mouth of the Mobangi or proved that it did not exist. The Congo is miles in width, for a long distance above and below the confluence of the Mobangi, and it is strewn with hun-dlre'ds of islands separated from one another by a myriad of channels. The party left Equatorville, above the Mobangi, steamed 'down the riv-" er, ami in two days found themselves amid this tangle of islands. It was difficult to find the north bank of the Congo. Sometimes they skirted for miles what they believed to be the shore of the river, only to find at last that they had been following THE EDGE OF AN ISLAND. Finally they found a fishing village where the natives, with some hesitation, consented to have dealings with them. The bought some fish, bit the men refused to guide them out of the labyrinth or supply them with information. Their confidence was gained at last, and two of them were detained alnoard the steamer. A pile of brasfcs ro^ls and cloth were shown to them and they were told that these treasures would be given them if they would pilot the white m« mouth of the Mobangi River. The men promised to do so, and again the En Avant started down, the Congo^ infier the conduct of the two "Under their direction," writes Col. Van Gele, " SOME STARTLING SCHEMES ARE PROPOSED. To Improve the Pecuniary and Social Standing of the Soldier. The London Daily Express has the following excellent article on Imperial army re-organtzation. It remarks that though certain members of the Government are in favor of the militia ballot, the scheme - does not recommend itself to the more important members of that body. The Government, as we learn, has been seriously considering not only the lack of men, but the question of the increase of the army, and before any consideration is given to a form of ballot the voluntary system will be given another trial on lines which will vastly improve the soldiers' condition, and result, it is hoped, in the bringing in of recruits not now attracted by the terms offered. A large committee, in conjunction with the Army Board, is to consider by what means a sufficiency of men can be attracted to military The latest reports from recruiting centers are discouraging, and as it is intended to increase the cavalry by larger squadrons ar.d new regiments, it is considered necessary for the army to enter into active competition in the labor market. "TRAIN UP THE CHILD." It is proposed to "catch the soldier young," or in other words to undertake the training of boys for the army from the day they leave school, feeding and clothing them, and passing them into the ranks, rea'dy trained, at eighteen for home Another proposal is to abolish that heavy taxation on the soldier's pay--stoppages; an'd that the pri-pay shall be 7s. a week clear, food, clothing, lodging, fuel, epairs, boot-mending, etc., to De paid for by the State. Every class of unnecessary and irksome parade is to be swept away, and soldiers are to have the privil-1 ege of sleeping out of barracks, com- | ing in to parade and duty like work- j BABIES' MYSTERIES ARE STILL UNSOLVED. Disease Hydrophobia So Rare That Many Believe It Is Due to Imagination. Years ago the cry of "mad dog" was worse in its effects than the cry of fire in a packed theatre. Since then science has determined that only three snakes in all North America have . poisonous stings; "ghosts," almost by universal consent, have been "laid"; the germ theory has destroyed belief in many panaceas for many diseases; and yet there are more doubters of the existence of hydrophobia to-day than there are disbelievers in the vaccination theory of Jenner. This doubt has been inspired by the rarity of the disease as compared with other afflictions known to man; hundreds of doctors have never seen a case of either real or simulated hydrophobia, and the veteran Dr. William Osier of the medical department of Johns Hopkins University has seen only two real cases. Yet evet y ouo has been made familiar with the awfulness of the disease, while its source as popularly accounted for and some of the absurdities of its treatment in years past have cast much doubt upon the whole condition. SUPERSTITIONS AS TO CAUSE. Superstition once laid the cause of the disease in dogs and wolves to the bite of the ordinary skunk, regardless of whether the skunk was affected by rabies or not, The "maclstone" that some hunter had taken from the stomach of a deer, long before, was an object of vener* ation and awe over half a state. Stories of how the stone would cling the wound made by a dog's teeth the animal were mad, and how it Id stick to the wound t full of the learly every week Milk wa " his gree the n state papers, agent to take i the s af- hich the stone might be f plied again and again until the system was free of the poison. Further, there was the current belief that if a dog, not mad at tho time, should bite a person and afterward _._ opening'of the barrack gate|become the victt'm of hydrophobia and relaxation fram the stringent from a^r cause' *he Person bit even rules which were devised for the kf*rJL,bet0n * succumb to the rough, s:ra'tchcd-up armies of long ^ ago should prove a material factor 1 titing, and some of its punishments are ou : of touch with tho new century. I Opinion is expressed that the ab surd, belted, red dress of the infan tryman should also give place to f costume of some dignity. ABOUT RETIRING PENSIONS. The scale of pensions will also rating superstition and folk ] lore trom the truth, the medical fraternity has established the fact of rabies, or hydrophobia, in dogs and in either of the lower animals, and it has bren made certain that the disease is transmissable to man I from the bite of any one of these af-| fectcd animals. It is needless to say, however, that the theory of the adstone has been repudiated; also f the islands, of progress at full speed we round ourselves in a swift, wide current of yellow water. I was at the bow of the boat and looking back to Capt. Hanssens I shouted: " 'Captain, wo are in a new riv- 1 'We plied. >ugh,' i the r along i Mobangi, and soo: left bank a vast aggh illagcs. The people were a Mobangi tribe whom he had never met before. Before we touched the shore we loalded the two fishermen with the presents we had promised to them arid they sped down the river back their village in a canoe. The 3 day we were the guests of N'koko, the principal chief of that egion, and the following morning sw u'crned the treaty with him anil he other important chiefs of the lower Mobangi tribe. 'This is the way in which the Belgians discovered the mouth of the Mobangi and entoro'd into pacific pos-ession of the country by treaties! •oncludod with the native chiefs." At the same time GrenfeU was starting up the Congo on his little mer The Peace to find new sites for mission stations. He lost his way among the islands and by the merest accident got into the mouth of the Mobangi and did not dlscov-ntil he had proceeded 100 miles up the river that ho was on one of the tributaries INSTEAD OF ON THE CONGO. "The fact is," he wrote, "the Mobangi has so wide a channel, so many islands and a course so nearly identical in its lower reaches with that of the Congo that the mistake, though apparently absurd, is comprehensible." soon, however, as he had parsed beyond the first parallel of north latitude and failed to find the town of Libongo, where he bad expected ibtain provisions, it was clear that he was not on the Congo. It very difficult to induce the natives'to sell him any food. But vhey finally became his friends, an'd a little later ho steamed 400 miles up the great river. His report of this exploration was the first news the world received of the greatest Congo tributary. The s came to Europe just in time enable Stanley to insert the mouth of the Mobangi on the map he published with his large book, ;'The Founding of the Congo Free State." Stanley had lived five years the Congo and had never heard of its most important tributary. Three years later Van Gele ascended the Mobangi some 700 or 800 miles and proved that the enormous ' ' was identical with the Welle of Schweinfurth, discovered by the nan explorer seventeen years er. The sources of the Mobangi found to be not far from the Nile. The mystery of the great riv-as at last solved. extended, so that a man discharged 1 it is an absurdity that any after i after twelve years' service, who joins ! condition of a dog that has bitten a j the militia and completes 21 years' | person can affect the condition of its '-- will draw a pension. | victim beyond the first results of the •mmitteo will deal with bite; and as for rabies being inher-bite of the skunk, that, the "lot of the soldier. The volun- too, has been marked for dissolu-tarv system is to be tested tbor- ' tion. oughly, and if the new plans fail the RABIES AMONG SKUNKS, question of limited compulsory ser- j But that there are rabid skunks is vice may be seriously considered. a fact not to be doubted, and, re-The name Militia is to bo abolish- porting to the Medical Record a ed, in order to popularize that number of years ago on the epidemic branch of the service, the now name of shun!.: i allies in Texas, Dr. John being "The Imperial Defence Infan- . H. Jane way of the United States try," and as Militia and Volunteers army even went so far as to admit are to be b'ackete'd in work to some the possibility of the bite of a rabid extent, the Volunteer battalions will skunk being more deadly than the become "The Tmpeiial Defence (Vol- I bite of a rabid dog. unteer) Infantry.!' j In that year of hydrophobia among Each of the rew Army corps Is to the skunk family of Texas Dr. Jane-have an Army Board, on the lines of way remarked that thousands of the that at the War Office, with tho gen- little animals died from the ravages era! commanding as president. The of the disease, but that the epidemic members will be tie deputy and as- 1 war, expended of its force in one sea-sistant officers corresponding in re!-;son. Of the biting of persons by tho a'tive position to the head officials creatures, he remarked the likeli-eomprising the Army Board. i hood of it because of the large uuiii- Tbe question of contracts is also ber of people living in tents in that to be investigated. Some further section; at the same time, no exam-frarnls have been, brought to light pie of fatal consequences from such his notice. heavy 1 "That i . ,lt fro ately proportio the bite of a rabid tho bite of a rabid is probable, if mot NO ASSASSIN'S WEAPON During the siege of Paris, it the province of the city official so much to destroy theii from outside, as to prevent lioi Frenchmen and • others from bi unjustly condemned. This was times a difficult task, for fear in the air, and every third ma liable to suspicion as being a One night a. powerful feflow brought in before Captain G A spy iliating u ; but this he violent and a little drunk. His only proved offense was that he had been seen loitering near the fortifications. It seemed as if he must be armed, and with great difficulty a dozen men succeeded in getting off his coat. There, between his waistcoat and his shirt, was a murderous looking knife. "Proved I" cried the roomful of guards. "He is a Prussian spy." Captain Garnier examined the knife carefully. He tried to find the name of the maker, but failing in that, he put the blade to his nose. Then he took up a candle and looked more carefully still at the prisoner. "The man is drunk," said he. "The best thing you can do is to take him home." "But the knife !" insisted the ser- "The knife is ail right." "I should think it was all right," broke out the owner, "seeing that I'm cutting meat all day with it for these confounded Parisians !" He was dismissed. But the guards were not satisfied. They surrounded their captain, doubtful even of him. "Why did you life the knife to your face 1" inquired the sergeant "Was that a sign you made to the fellow ?'* "No, my friend, I was simply smelling of it, and it smelled abominably of onions." skunk than W> dog or r actually animal nocturnal in its habits, gen-' erally timid, but armed with a powerful battery to resist any injury or ; affront--one that will not bite until j the secretion provided by nature is ' exhausted -- loses that secretion by the disease. It is a well nuthenti-j rated fact that rabid skunks are en-leing ■ tirely free from the odor so characteristic of these animals, which, could not occur if the secretions were not exhausted; and, forgetting its normal timidity, it will attack any person or animal it may como in contact with, biting the most exposed portions of the body -- the nose, the lobe of the ear, the thumb, or the fingers. Here is probably the reason why these bites of the rabid' skunk are more fatal than are the bites of other rabid animals; they are always in a vascular part not protected by clothing, which prevents infection at times by wiping away the poisonous saliva from tho bite of the mad dog or the mad wolf." MADSTONE IS A MYTH. "In Dassing, it may be said that if suggestion can produce tho symptoms of hydrophobia there is no reason why a madstone should not remove them. Occasionally paroxysms appear in a remarkably short space of time after the sufferer has been bitten; which proves conclusively that the attack is by hysteria brought on by right . In symptoms of - hydrophobia appear in man from six weeks to two months after inoculation. "A little understanding of the disease often would allay the fears of timorous persons and relieve much' suffering of mind. For instance, if your dog has beer, bitten by another dog, supposed to be suffering from hydrophobia, it will show symptoms of the disease in three to four weeks as a rule; and the durt of the r rity