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ESMEDTf OS DOHSUMPTIOB L Results of Recent Experiments in Germany--Fifty Per Cent. Cured. At the last meeting of the Medical Society of Berlin there was presented by Dr. Danelius and Prof. Theo-dor Sommerfeld an elaborate thesis describing their experiments with the Bystem of treating tubercular diseases by tho inhalation of the combined fumes of eucalyptus, sulphur and charcoal. There experiments have aroused the interest of tha foremost medical men of Berlin during the last six months. Concisely stated, the history and nature of the new method are as follows: During his extensive travels in Australia, Robert Schneider, a German merchant with a practical knowledge of chemistry, noticed that the natives of the northwestern part of Australia used a decoction made by boiling the leaves and roots of the eucalyptus tree as a remedy for consumption, which is a prevalent disease in many parts of that country. He further observed that the natives living in districts where the eucalyptus tree grew abundantly were generally immune from the disease, and that natives suffering from tuberculosis frequently came from other regions to live in the eucalyptus district and with generally favorable results. From all that he could observe and learn by inquiry, Hcrr Schneider concluded that the effective remedial agent was the eucalyptus, which is a germicide and an antiseptic of recognized efficiency. With the aid of a physiological chemist, he prepared a combination of flowers of sulphur, powdered charcoal and tho pulverized eucalyptus leaves, impregnated with essential oil of eucalyptus. This mixture has been named sanosin and is the material -that has been used in the RECENT EXPERIMENTS. . Since the time of Galen, the fumes of sulphur have been known to exert a curative effect upon sufferers from phthisis, and it appears that the combination of sulphurous acid with eucalyptus and carbon has a peculiarly effective potency in attacking the bacillus of tuberculosis. On account of its extreme volatility, sanosin is put up in sealed glass tubes. each containing a dose of about two grammes (31 grains), in which condition it is to be sold, like other medicines, through authorized druggists. When used, the tube is broken and its contents poured on an earthenware plate heated by a spirit lamp, i The volatile eucalyptus quickly evaporates, and, in combination with ai small quantity of sulpr.i.rous acid1 furors generated, medicates with an aromatic, penetrating course, too brief to form tho bas-DEFINITE CONCLUSION. There is a general unwillingness among physicians to accept the arrest of tubercular disease for so short a period as six months as proof of a permanent cure. Others doubt whether any process of inhalation alone can reach the ultimate so*t of the disease. It will probably be safe, Mr. Mason thinks, to accept for the present the conservative but positive statement of Dr. Engel, the expert charged during the recent experiments with the examination of the sputum, in which he has had a long experience under other forms of treatment. His statement is that under no other the majority, realising their danger, treatment has he seen the character and probably fearing their own weak-of the sputum change so rapidly and ness, fled without tho capital, and uniformly, through the diminution raised the standard of one of the and disappearance of bacilli and the most sanguinary civil wars recorded elastic fibres peculiar to tubercular. *n modern history. disease as under the treatment with j Tho Chinese Emperor Yepwang, of sanosin I tne third Imperial dynasty, To this may be added the test:!- greatly attached to a young -mony of Dr. Danelius and Prof. Som- h-osts of pretty women was responsible for the "War of the Lovers," in which fell more than sixty thousand of France's bravest and best. Catherine de Madicis was at the bottom of this. "I will melt with smiles What I cannot break with iron," she said, alluding to the cold steadfastness of the Huguenot leaders. So, in pursuance of a settled policy, she invited them to her Court, which she had previously caused to be filled with hundreds of beautiful and fascinating "maids of honor." These, acting on secret instructions, laughed long and loudly at tho grim old puritans' scruples, and smiled kindly on all such as would listen to their blandishments. Many among them succumbed. But merfeld as follows: "The inhalations act with greater ""."'f" "/ certainty in removing the catarrh ^eneth which accompanies pulmonary phthi- -- " . .. sis than any other medicinal or physical measures directed to the same end. This is shown especially by the fact that tho expectoration on tho one hand decreases or disappears entirely, or, on the other hard --in acute cases--changes its charac- uamed Paotse, whose gravity was proverbial throughout all Pekin, He tried by various expedients to •ithout avail, the following He caused the tocsins to be run as if an enemy wero at the gates, and Paotse was so diverted at the sight of the panic-stricken people pouring into city, that she laughed immoderately. The Emperor, delighted at the success of his trick, repeated It .... again. But at last an "The fact that the patient general- onemv really did come, and when the ly is quickly relieved from the trou- alarm was given In earnest no one blesome and irritating cough is of paja ally attention to it. More the greatest importance, especially than twelve thousand of the princi-as the sleep which is absolutely re- pai Inhabitants of the capital were quisite for a recovery from funda- put to death by the invaders, among mental disease can then be obtained, the first to fall being the Emperor The appetite in almost every case and his lady-love, Paotse. increases under the influence of the Ill-timed jocularity has probably inhaled vapors, and through an in- cost Belfast fully a million sterling creased consumption of food. the during the post fifty years, and has second preliminary condition for the certainly resulted in the deaths of cure is furnished " j considerable numbers of her citizens. . A typical case in point occurred In August, 1864. An Orange proces- LFES LOST BY L1BBMB ^Tb^S _ 1 chins started laughing at the queer looking regalia and insignia. The | wearers of the former and the bearers , j of the latter showed . their resont- "- ! ment by soundly cuffing two or three Laugh Exploded Sever- of the foremost of the jeering juven-f this trivial incident HUMOR WHICH HAS LED FATAL RESULTS. One M: al Drums Full of Nitro- Glycerine. | fg***^ An accident, said to be the most were kille extraordinary on record, has just oc- than 150 eurrad at some new oil-fields in the injured. Baku district of Russia, on the bor- ln 1886 a similar ders of the Caspian Sea. again, only on this One of the big "gusher" oil-wells an "Orangey" child who jei choked, and, with a view of blowing SOme Catholic processionists it clear, a number of iron drums full fighting that followed, eleven per-of mtro-gly.cerine were brought down sons lost'their lives, and more than by rail from Derbend, and deposited o50 wcre injured, while certain quar-night in a large shed which ters of tho city resembled a place of fierce conflicts, f which nine persons .right, while no fewer more or less seriously milar tiling happened culous patie live whic tests and practical expe Sommerfeld, who is a m f the Univers : the of 1 d a leading t disease, and Dr. Danelius, also lung specialist, took charge of the '.fin meats, and a special clinic or Ipital ward was opened for that rpose in the Moabit quarter, rher physicians were assigned to : various details of the work. One t ir regular and freque ■Vis of the sputa of kcepin; e changes ii THE PATIENTS jspital showing that eated there and was s regressive tuberculosis. by the canteen. The steward of thi Mailment, a Gteek named opened one of the drums fo reason best known/ to himst of which had been sacked by ;Sby the n Si enemy' the havoc maddened c fai -This appalling were the result! dangerous liquid into a long thin up0n an instance of ill-natured levity glass used for mixing vodka. This at Palermo, in Sicily, towards the he placed on a shelf behind the bar. ciosc Df the thirteenth century. Shortly afterwards there entered a At that time the French were in workman named Borkovitch, who possession - of the island, anfd they " -ulad with a rod of iron. The s famous for the boisterous ity of hii sight of tumbler st ian guffaw. and especially for happy inhabitants were plundered ; laughter. The anci oppressed in every way, but as -glycerine in a vodka they were forbidden to bear arms, ted his risibility that they had to suffer in silence. the custom among the Sic- set the hali-filled iijans at that glass "ringing," and the treacherous the Norwegians contents immediately explodec!. lor a young woi The concussion sufficed, in its turn, r|e(i to proclai: to explode the rest of the stuff in world--if enti'.l the drums, entirely demolished shed, and killing five persons. is* among ,t the present day, n about to be mar-her purity to the to do so--by a distinctive head-dress. certain Fkister Monday there Thus fai 120 f ring from • beei 1 of whom, than 50 per cent, have been discharged as cured. Some have been able, while under treatment and sleeping in the hospital at night, to spend parts of the day at their usual occupations. Ths purpose of the meeting was, first, to listen to formal theses prepared and read by Dr. Danelius and Prof. Sommerfeld, describing the process of treatment and giving the detailed records of a number of difficult cases, and, second, to present in person, for examination by the assembled physicians, several of the patients who had been treated for tubercular diseases by one or more of the physicians present, had received ccrwificates from them on entering the eucalyptus clinic and were " clared to be cured. Mr. within Mas the province of s report to venture ai value of this new remedy. So sensational cures have been ed in recent years for phthi trd other widespread human dis- the the £ vith t the same time, Mr. Mason says, ist be conceded that, in view of dominating importance of the t.'.., the record of what sanosin hus far accomplished is entitled more than mere passing rccog-n. TJ>* y-wiod of experiment is, who were in it at the time. The pasSed through the streets of Paler-barman escaped through having gone luo a bride, attended by her train, down into the cellar just previously, DUt minus the so-called "maiden's whence he distinctly heard the laugh- crown." Her appearance was greet-ter, followed by the musical "ring- ed, by some Frenchmen lounging near ing" of the thin tumbler and the the cathedral with derisive laughter, two explosions. whereupon a male relative of the in-When the advance guard of G'engis OTlted damsel rushed at the nearest Khan's army reached Nishapur a ter of thc scoffers, and stabbed him to the conquest of Merv, they were death with his sword. A frightful weary and footsore from their long turriult ensued. Two hundred march across the desert, their uni- French were instantly murdered, and forms wcre in rags, and their weap- thon> drunk with the, lust of slaugh- rusty and broken. Tho Nishapuris had assembled on the walls, silent and pale with apprehension. But no sooner did they catch sight of the leading files of the collection of limping tatterdemalions who were advancing against them than their fears vanished, and a great shout of laughter went up from all and sundry. Gengis heard it afar off,, and smil- , with- nraged popuh through the city crying, "I French die." and slatighterin out. distinction of rank, age, or sex, all of that nation they could find. Five thousand perished that night. Three thousand more were killed the day following. This was in Palermo alone. Throughout the whole island of Sicily ther that number--r MANUFACTURING A GLOVE KINDS OF SKINS WHICH ARE USED IN THE PROCESS. Gloves at Various Times the Theme of Many Fanciful Theories. The principal material from which gloves and mittens are manufactured is the roans, including all kinds domestic sheepskins. Horse, c seal, hog amd dog skins were also used. A horse or cow hide is generally split up the back, and it is estimated that in each hide there is 30 ire feet. Mocha and imported are used for fine lined and un-lined gloves for men, women, and children, and the domestic kid is mado into tho more common varie-The Cabretta and Brazilian sheep-skins are cut into men's medi-grade gloves for driving, while roans or domestic sheepskins aro made into men's low grade gloves mittens, the cheapest leather gloves manufactured. The horse and hides and the goat and seal s aro used as a substitute for deerskins in tho manufacture of s imitation buck gloves and Probably the most notable glove-making machine is the multiple needle machine, for stitching the back of es, which sows two, three, four even six rows at the same time. Tho automatic trimmer, which is attached to the' head, or needle bar, of the machine, was introduced in 1893, and has greatly facilitated the rk, as it trims the leather much BETTER THAN DO SHEARS. Lt various periods and in different countries the glove has been the theme for many fanciful and poetic theories. It has been a customary offering on occasions of joy and sorrow; the pledge of friendship, of love and of safety; the symbol of hatred, defiance, humiliation and honor; the token of loyalty and the tenure by which estates have been granted or held. Tho origin of the glove is unknown nd its material history is not aid-_i to any extent by the history of the world itself. From all the evidence obtainable the glove probably tituted a part of man's dress from time immemorial. If recent discoveries in the geological world are to be credited, it formed part of the costume of tho pre-historic cave-dwellers. It is supposed that the gloves of the cave-dwellers wero made of roughly-dressed skins and sewed with needles mado of bone, and were not of ordinary size, hit reached to the elbows, thus anticipating the multibutton glove of the Victorian era. They were known to the Greeks and also to the Persians and Romans. Among the Greeks they were chiefly used'by the labor-is a protection for the hands in gathering harvests. Among the Parisians and Romans they were al-i toorn as ornaments, chiefly by the ^or orders, ^lartlcrrtarly the- miii 1%ey were considered a necessary adjunct to the regalia of royalty, and they were not generally worn by women until about the period of THE REFORMATION. In the early period of the industry this contenent tho Indian process of tanning was exclusively used. The distinguishing feature of the process was the use of the brain of a deer, which insured a durable as well as a soft and pliable leather. The brain of a hog was subsequently tried, but it was not entirely satisfactory, as it lacked certain properties possessed by tho deer brain. At the present time the sheep and lamb-skins used are received in what 3 known as "salt pickle," which is _pplied to the skin after the removal of the hair. When the glovemaker gets tho skins he stretches them and then shaves them down to the desired thinness and then they go to the cut- .leather, which has assumed the shape . glove, goes to the "silkers," who embroider the back, and then o the ""makers." Some sew the ngers and put the thumbs in, while others welt or hem the glove around tho wrist, and others, called "pointers," work the ornamental lines or the back. So ended French NEW WEDDING CUSTOM. ed bitterly. "Let the dogs laugh t; ; (lie while they miay," he cried. "Not one among them shall either laugh kil]ed bv a mocklng laught.--Pe'ar-or cry ever again." And as he said, so he did. The unfortunate city was taken by assault, and the whole of its ordinary inhabitants, together with every ono of the vast multitudes that had I At a recent society wedding a poured into it for safety from the 0ity was introduced. Instead of the surrounding country, were put to throwing of the conventional and un-the sword. In order to ascertain doubtcdly hard-hitting rice, the the full extent of his vengeance, the prettiest' and softest of tiny shoes Emperor ordered the corpses to be made of silver paper, with "Good counted. The task occupied twelve Luck" printed inside, and tiny silver days, the tale of tho slaughtered horseshoes made of the same harm-amounting to 1,474,000 men, worn- ieRS material, were used by the en, and children. bride's well-wishers, and thrown at Innumerable single individuals are parting, said to have died of laughter. An __4 _. „. A ragged ° ttmp ! WONDERS OF ENGINEERING, told him he would never live to 1 The great' iron bridge over the drink of the wine of the grapes then Danube near Jullor, which is nearly growing in his vineyard. When the 800 yards long and weighs 3,000 wine was made, Ca'lchas, at a great tons, has been shifted to a new pos-feast, sent for the fellow, and ition about 450 yds. distant. The laughed so immoderately at the 11011- whole work was done in 44 min. fulfillment of the prophecy, that he _. broke a blood-vessel, and expired as ! he was in the act of drawing the' You never know how little you c cork from the neck of the first flask, do until you try. Zeuxis, the great painter, again, Kivcry 'man is a volume if 3 died of laughter at the sight of a known how to read him. withered old hag he had just depict- „ , ^ „ ed on the canvas. A fit of hilTrity! Presumption lies at the bottom induced by seeing an ass eating- the mieh that we caU success' figs provided lor his own dessert! Fortune may find a pot. but y< similarly ended the career of Philo- j own industry must make it boil, menes, while the mighty Margutte' It requires no strength of mind guffawed so heartily on seeing a be mean--it does to be generous, monkey trying to pull on a pair of The things that make life worth boots that he choked to death. living are usually the things The sweet, languorous Hssghter of have not got. WE ARE IlfAIB AT 20JBEETE AT U1AGAEA FALLS MANY THINGS A MLvTOR MUST NOT DO. Until the Age of Twenty-one Is Attained We Are Practically Infants. In these days of higher educatio and enligh . tell 1 , for twenty that he is a child probably give rise to a rebuke which to many a lay mind would appear quite justifiable. And yet, so far as the law of the land goes, it would hardly be wrong to say so; fo ty-ona is attained, legislature practically tells us that we are infants, and hardly capable of conducting our own affairs. Infant, derived from "infans," one who cannot speak; surely there is something of a misnomer about this, especially when we speak of the fail and so it will re a nation to drop these interesting relics of language, however abstruse the derivation may be. There is something of the heads-I-rin-tails-you-lose nature about the position of an infant. He may -bor-freely as people will oblige him, and unless he is possessed of a conscience sufficiently per-bring him to a sense of his moral duty, he cannot be sued with success, even though he may obtained the loan for the purpose of paying for necessaries; for, learned judge once said: "It may be borrowed for necessaries but He may sell his horse, and give a warranty that the animal is sound in wind and limb. And yet should it turn out that the proper purchaser should have been the cat's-meat man, the new possessor HAS NO REMEDY. 1st make the best he can of a bad bargain, for the law in its wisdom has decided that a warranty is not worth the paper it is written on. The fickle youth of eighteen may year by all his father's exchequer 3 be true to one, and one only; and there may be abundant proof of a promise to marry, perhaps frequently repeated ln black and white. But 3 goes on and this infant re-his sight after a period of blind love, and realizes that after all has made a mistake, the law once re steps in and relieves him of f further anxiety; for a breach of uiiFO action will not lie against 1, as the lawyers say, and his epistles will not be laid open court for the amusement of the public, and to the chagrin of the transmitter. In these days of smoking the tobacconist who conducts his business ready-money principle will prove himself in the' long-run a wis-d richer man than his neighbor, fftttr, on the pretext that-- b» may increase mtr Connection, allows a youtn-f to r 1 up f 1 the c havanas for the use of himself his friends. The law has practically decided that it is unnecessary for a young .n to smoke until he is of age; and the tobacconist must add no more the number of his bad debts and go away empty-handed. There is, however, a law which ays that an infant is liable for all necessaries supplied to him; but this though it sounds a statement which would be very easy to construe, is SIMPLE AS IT APPEARS, is left to the Court to decide what arc necessaries, and it depends he circumstances of each case to determine the point. Clothes, food and medicine have, of >urse been decided to be necessary, it it has also been propounded that servant's livery and horse exercise •e essential under certain conditions i life. So that if a doctor orders ml exercise, arid the ambitious youngster runs up an account at the livery st ables, he must not be surprised if he finds himself faced with a long account which he is actually liable to discharge. And should an infant lead a tradesman to believe that be has attained man's estate, a plea of infancy will not hold good, the liability, whatever it may be for, will have to be So a gilded youth may be extravagant, but he must also exercise a degree of honesty; but it may always be said that the old maxim, "he who acts prudently obeys the command of the law," will be the ono which will receive the most regard whatever the --London Anst THE STORY OF A FRENCH-CANADIAN'S BRAVERY. By An Ingenious Contrivance He Secured Sounding in the Rapids. Almost from the day the first white man looked upon the great cataract, Niagara Falls has had its heroes, says The Niagara Falls Gazette. During the past few years a large number of names have been added to the list of those who for the saving of human life or furthering the cause of science or industry have dared the perils of the Niagara River in one way or another. This week another is added to the roll. One of tho most amazing tasks in connection with the present power development is that undertaken by Battle Bros., contractors, of Thor-old, who are building a great wing dam at the head of the White Horse Rapids for the Niagara Construction Co., builders of the works of the Ontario Power Company. This dam is being thrust out Into the deep silent, swift-running water at the head of the rapids for a distance of two hundred and sixty feet, and then down stream seven hundred feet, Involving a work of almost incredible difficulty. The first section is now completed, and four hundred feet of econd have been built. a few ago the contractors decided to obtain, if possible, soundings of that part of the river in which the rest of the dam is to be built. At first they were at a loss for a method of doing this, but the matter was referred William Larocque, their French-Canadian foreman from below Montreal, and in a few hours THE PROBLEM WAS SOLVED. Larocque first built a sort of float, 2 feet long and 14 feet wide. The upstream end of it was only about a foot thick, but at the other end it sloped up to a height of three feet. On this a mast twenty feet high was erected and securely braced, and to cable was attached. Two other cables were then fastened the front of the float, and tha er craft was started down stream from the extremity of the dam. Another cable led out sideways to aid directing the float. The current s over fifteen miles an hour at 3 point, and as soon as the float 3 fairly started the water rushed ir the low front of lt, and bore down so hard as it was forced up .•er the higher back that the float , ent to tho bottom like a stone, his was exactly what Larocque had tended. The two cables were paid it slowly and carefully till the float had gone down stream about two dred and seventy feet. It was found then by pulling on the cables that they would stand a strain as <. if the float, were anchored rock at the bottom of the tached to "the cable stretched tho float to a mast on the dam, and into this he got, and ordered his men to let him slide out the cable. Tho box was hung to the cable by a pulley, and the mast the dam was higher than that on tho float, so that the box would slide out. The rope attached to the box was controlled by the daring foreman's brother, Napoleon Lar-sother man named Philip Clarmont. They were on top of the "shore" mast, and directed the whole operations on the dam. A life line was fastened round the waist of the man in tho box, and a gang of trusty men held the other end of OUT ON THE THIN CABLE, vaying to and fro in his crazy box, Larocque slid, foot by foot, till presently he signalled that the box te stopped. '1 hen he lowered an inch and a quarter steel sounding rod into the water, till he touched bottom, and the engineers on the shore levelled their instruments and took the level. Out again went tha box, and another sounding was made, and so on again and again, until the intrepid foreman was close to tho sunken float, and only about fifty feet from tho break of the rapids. Every few feet be signnlled for the box to stop and let down his rod. By an ingenious arrangement he was able to lower the box near-and once he was NOT A NAPOLEON. Husband (looking up from a book) --Do you know what I would have done if I had been Napoleon Bonaparte. ? Wife--Yes; I know. You would have settled down in Corsica and spent your life grumbling about bad luck and hard times. upon it, I sup-letween us; b*1 urn my letter A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. , j : "If you ini pose it is all ov I wish you would She : "Why, you are not afn shall make use of them to yo intage ?" He: "No; bu my eye on another girl, f > feet < "You say I things I want Mr. Bluff : iting t jk here, young man, ling about with m; want to know wha ire regarding her ?' really have no in . Bluff (angrily) Many a man is forced to plaj game of life who doesn't hold single trump. You may tip the soda clerk a v but you can't tip the Pullman ter that way. ...en what do you mean .... ing yourself at my daughter's expense?" Young Man (airily: "I'm not amusing m>self at your daughter's expense, s'r, but at my own expense. I always pay for the theatre tickets and refieshments." out there before and returned to tell the tale. Death in the boiling rapids and a final ptoage of a battered corpse over the cataract was always the inevitable fate. Larocque did not seem to realize the terrible peculiarity of his position, but went on making his soundings till all was completed. Then he gave the signal, and was drawn up to the dam without accident. A crowd of contractors, engineers, photographers and other spectators crowded forward to grasp his hand, but the Frenchman seemed unable to realize why they should make such a fuss, lt was all in tho day's work to him. The sunken float was dragged back, and to-day, if you visit the spot, you will seo no sign of where a brave man in blue jeans risked his life and saved it by his own skill and inventiveness. steps neighborly criticism. People whose nerves are on edge are incapable of cutting much of a; figure. You can estimate a man pretty correctly by the men whom he does "I reckon you don't often have such a jolly little party as this to drive ?" remarked one of a rather noisy company of young fellows during 'a days drive in tha country. "Not now !" was the quiet response of tho driver. "I ain't druv such a lot sin' I left my last job 1" "What was that ?" "Coa»hmr>» at a lunatic asylum !" cars* *&<\ Pu-oi reply*