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A MEDICALJ1ISSI0NARY SIS EXPERIENCES AMONG SAVAGE TRIBES. Treating a Turkish Woman--Work in a Plague-Stricken City. Dr. Lyman B. Brown, now retired as one of the wealthy men of Bost has practised and studied medicine twelve parts of the world £ adapted from native practises of the tribes with which he has been thrc scores of new ideas as to the tre ment of the sick and the injured. "I was first sent into Turkey a medical missionary," said Dr. Brown "That was in 1866, at the beginn ing of the missionary attempt t Christianize the Ottoman empire, practised medicine there under dii Acuities, contending with supersti tions, customs and habits that wer enough to discourage any young man. Civilized medicine and surgery were too new fangled for tl people. I remember well my first stetric case. The mother was doing well and I was working hard to save her life when suddenly ' learned that my methods were n at all ethical. The mother insist on calling in a local physician f consultation. His methods were i jque. First he started a fire under brazier, and when it was red hot he dropped a clove into it and the clove burst open. That, I learned, indicated that the 'hazar,' or evil eye, had been averted and the mother would get well. I continued my treatment, however. The native physician, having discovered that the danger was passed, proceeded He c visp tiair from the head of the infant a lock from the head of the mother and burned them together in the brazier. The woman got well--and we both claimed the credit. "His treatment may have been the best, but I kept contending with those Turkish doctors for several years, and I never could convince them that killing a calf in a public place would not cure measles. THEY WERE HOPELESS. "I labored among the Turks tho three ipecac to help prove their innocence. The witch doctor then took the poison and I withheld the ipecac--but he got well anyhow, having taken poison before. "I was sent up into Ovampoland, among the Hereros, and encountered scurvy. Every man in the tribe was suffering from it. I secured lemon juice and held up a Portugi steamer for a peck of potatoes, AND CURED THEM ALL. it all, and ; the juice with salt itil late in 1871, then I was moved to help cure and convert the people of Kerbela, in the Irak country. I did well there. They had little medicine except herbs and incantations, but the general health was good until December in 1873, when I began the experience of my life. In that year the bubonic plague broke out in Kerbela and the surrounding country, brought there, I suppose, by pilgrims who had been down into Persia. The treatment accorded the plague sufferers was brutal--and effective, for all men were treated by the local medicine men died sooner than they otherwise would have! done. They treated them by burning! Pretend he is cured, he ,s killed, brimstone and applying the hotjsaved a c°HPlc °f Patients by mas-mass to their backs. I tried scicnti-j s^ing stiff muscles, fie treatment according to our best I That Poetise was too strenuous . raeJl.ods. but, despite my efforts and:for ,me- and the next ^ f°und thoseUTl-- nafive^ocrofsT 2lrtU0: new died in live months. Toward the!™ the Austral It was a strange form of i the tribe will eat no salt i I was forced to squeeze from potatoes and mix it to get them to take any, gued that the disease resulted partly from lack of salt in the sy ' "The following year we moved up into Nyasaland, among another of the Bantu tribes, and had more trouble in practising medicine than a faith curist would have at an allopathic convention. They believe there that death results from three causes--from the will of God, from warfare or murder, and from witchcraft. All persons who die a natural death are supposed tches. I had most of tho practice there, for while they were giving pil saved them and made repu "Then I got worn out ai sionary service and start) )wn investigations. I practised first miong the Veddas, in Ceyli ,'ear. They arc the strangest,, people [ ever met. They □lace, tho thinnest and most emaciated race in tho world. The anti-fat specialist who would advocate meth-Kls would grow rich. I tried to fatten a few of them and succeeded, but they did not appreciate it, for in the eyes of their friends they were hidc-'"hese people never wash and augh--so they never grow fat. n there I went into Burma ung up my shingle among the Chins, one of the finest people I ever met. They are akin to the Chinese. Cholera came among them while I was there, but this time I did better. The native method of ing cholera bushes with guns and hunt evil spirits. The lessons I learned in the Irak country proved valuable. I succeeded in stopping human sacrifices. The people of Banzam, where I practised, claimed that some one had been cutting the sacred groves and they hunted for those criminals all the time, letting me do all the practising. "After that I determined to get into a colder climate, and for one winter I practised among tho Koriaks, up near the base of the Kamchatkan peninsula. My methods were too ild for them. The way a native IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND PIGMIES ARE IN LONDON ANTI-THIRSTS IN MAINE BRITISH ARMY MAKE-UP NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Csin-mercial World. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has been presented with the freedom of Eastbourne. Mr. George Woodger, head of the fish-curing firm which originateel the "kippering" of herrings, has died Yarmouth. A British delegation is to attend fetes which are being arranged by the municipality of Caen, about Aug. 15th, physi i thei tch him by the heels and dra; around the house. Then if h does not get up and go to work an managed titled my system for weeks with, "I was sent into Africa after that, and my first experience was with the doctors in the Suds They worked among ' Galen with ■ the. good results, although their system boats homeopathy all hollow. Old Galen would have rejoiced to see them. They worked on the theory of opposites--their medicines being hot, cold, wet and dry. They give water for fevers and heat for colds--and they get some good results. They are the best practi-; I have found outside of civ- iliz "It v Sudan, despite the fact 1 the ; they when I cured headaches by administering a cathartic. "My next experience was in practising on the Apingi--down in central Africa, where the Church had estab-lisheel a mission station. They are' a strange people, and cannibalism is; by that rapidly disappearing. Fine fellows]The won they are, and I performed some great flanneb amputations among them. I also discovered down there a leaf juice that is better than cocaine for deadening pain and apparently has LESS PERILOUS EFFECTS. The Apingi pull, their two upper Incisor teeth, working them loose with their fingers, and they sharpen all the rest of their teeth to needle "Tho effect on a stranger who knows their cannibalistic tendency is immense. I witnessed some interesting surgical and medical treatments while among them. :ti bush. Here I in conflict with THE 'BLAC1CFELL0W' DOCTOR, who is quite as effective as the ordinary American quack. These doctors fly up in the air at night and come down trees, and they throw Bristol diamonds at patients during the darkness. They have, according to their patients, a bone in their stomachs, and splinters of it are caused to enter their patients and euro the disease. They see old man kangaroos in their dreams and they carry 'plongges,' or big clubs, with; which they touch enemies and them to die. No man among ever dies a natural death--but killed by witchcraft and the leaving them alone and hunting the witches--which is tho best part of their system. They did not take kindly to my treatments. "For two years I fought galloping consumption among the Maoris in New Zealand--but it was useless. One can't cure consumption and it would take a century to educate the na- Conquerer, who was buried the Mr. Victor Cavendish has informed Sir W. E. M. Tomlinson in the House of Commons that a Government expedition will observe, probably at Morocco, the solar eclipse on August 30. Evans Roberts, the Welsh revivalist, has announced his intention of coming to London in the autumn. The actual date has not been fixed >n, but he will probably be there ionic time in September. Petrol driven motor cars are bong ordered by the Brighton Railway Company to run on their line be-,ween Hastings and Eastbourne. There will shortly be unveiled in Camberwell 'Art Gallery a memorial 3 the Camberwell Volunteers, who ill in the South African war. Somerset House, Lincolnshire, the birthplace of the late Lord Tennyson, shortly be offered for sale at the London Auction Mart. The Presbyterian church of St. Columba Leeds, is to be sold for £2,150. When the building has been pulled down the site will be used for isincss purposes. Tho Lord Chancellor has introduced a bill giving effect ition concluded betweer try and the United States to include bribery in the list of i t the end of last year's working of the Central Public House Trust fociation, said the Earl of Lytton the annual meeting, there W£ cit of no less than £1,400. 'he burial took place recently Putney Vale cemetery of Lieut. John T" i, who fought under Garibaldi and was wounded four timesj the only British officer to receive Italy's national hero back into Naples. Maling's Old Pottery, which situated in Byker Bank, Newcasth . is to be closeel in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of the pottery trade. Five hundred hands will thrown out of work. Messrs. Mating aro the largest firm of jam-spot makers in the world. While the trade of the port of London increased 60 per cent, hist year, that of Antwerp increased by 160 per cent. After this statement w made at a meeting of the Thani Conservancy, it was decided that t : members should visit Antwerp, Hai burg and Rotterdam next month. Tulips from the Emerald Isle wo a feature of the show of these b<•'_ tiful spring flowers, held in the h: of the Royal Horticultural Society Westminster. It would seem th Ireland can be a very formidable Holland in the matt. The Only Representative of Their Race Outside of Six amazed pigmies from Central Africa were landed from a launch at Charing Cross pier the other afternoon, and with wide-open eyes they were placed in .cabs and whirled through the busy streets to the London Hippodrome, where they will make their first public appearance on Monday next, the .Thirteen days ago this party of diminutive negroids left Cairo on tho cargo steamer Orestes, and when the Albert docks were reached in the rg and they were informed by .udanese Arab who is in charge of them, that they were at their journey's end their delight was ss. They left off eating. The =n of the party at once threw aside all clothing but their apron-loin covers-, and thev abandoned themselves to the joy of dancing. Maroupi, the elder woman, is ideously ugly. She is from 35 to 0 years of age, but to European res she appears to have lived twice s long. With her walked the beauty 1 the party--Gorrigi. She is young, 9 black as ebony. Both wore na-iral wool clothing, short cloth arts, und dark blue ulsters, their ■ads being uncovered and their feet. and legs bare. But round their necks they wore strings of gorgeously-colored beads, of which they are very proud, and their fingers were cover-1 with bead rings. MAROUPI'D ESCAPE. The elder of the women narrowly ;caped death shortly after leaving Cairo. Sho suffered from sea-sickness. "Death is upon her," her companions reasoned, and it was entirely due to the efforts of the Soudanese Arab that they were restrained from killing her. The men are Magani (the leader), Mafante Mengi, MattuJea, and Mon-gongo. They wear woollen underclothing, dark loin aprons, and heavy dark overcoats, while perched upon the head of each is a red fe? Magani appeared to be tho only on of the party who was not astounde by the vastness of London'. H walked with quiet dignity along th pier and up the stet-s, puffing at long cigar, and swinging his flyflap-per as a European dandy would hi: The first descre of the party seem: to be food, the next sleep, and the next food. . During the voyage they have been fed on boiled eggs, rice, bread, tea, boiled beef and mutton, fish and fruit, and under the diet they are waxing fat. They have come under the c tng influence of soap. During last fortnight they have been tubbcel dailv. Alcohol -Uu handkerchief with can de Cologne-1! frightened them. They we larmed on seeing a sheep ai Even Hollow Wooden Legs vey Rye Juice to the Dn county, Maine, is ler prohibition, but if the description be true Washington still slake , though with great dif- rllg; tulip culture. The Government having decidexl to apply turbine engines to battli ships, engineering funis were on Saturday invited to tender for turbine machinery for a new battleship tc be laid down in a Government dockyard. The engines must develop 23,-000 h.p. The battleship will be the most powerful and fastest yet designed. BOOKS BARRED. seek plei ; they will all be dead, .vear furs, heavy cloaks, i and wraps while mak-and then come home and i thin cotton skirt. They urc at the dampest spot find and the edso of a thei fa-vo: e huih all live together. "They are dy: they refuse to ch _ ! theii r and they > sheep, but ;ring f < hoi j Physi He leprosy a.nd displaced by treatment we the patient down on the ground then marked off a large cheekcrb on her back with a knife. Then poured on cayenne pepper and juice in copious quantities and her a massage rubbing in the bineel juices. She seemed glad I applied cocoa oils--but she eli "There was a sub-chief who sick with neuralgia--intercostal i nlgia, superinduced by being ki oing the^best I c< rival doctor, of his ated the die they hunted hat thoy need is grave diggers. "Finally I wound up my career a physician among the Hawaiia and combated the ethical and got little trade. "I was present at one 'cure.' The girl patient had an acute attack of indigestion, and I persuaded her tc take some salts. Meantime the priest, accused a man of inciting evil spirits to enter the girl's body and and make her sick. The accused required to hold his hand over bowl of water. If it trembled he guiltv. I noticed the priest rise id the w 3 ripples md the the ) left th but he called i burnecT thei into chalk and then marked on his body with them. After that the doctor lighted a bunch of grass in the fire and proceeded to scorch his body, spitting upon his patient during the process. The treatment did not appear to be doing any good, so the doctor claimed witches were persecuting the patient, and he accused three men in the tribe of employing the witches. They all denied it. To find out whether or not it was so each of the accused had to drink poison. They gulped down bowls poison, they sweated and trembled in agony, but finally recovered and proved their inno- "I will admit that I gave each of left her another dose rted home. "Even so, these strange peoples whom I have tried to cure are but little worse than we. I found several valuable herb remedies among them, and, even in their witch hunts they are but little more superstitious regarding sickness than we are. "Whenever I see a man carrying a buckeye in his pocket to cure a local disease I think of the witch hunts--and I must say that the witch hunters usually gave strenuous doses of herbs just before starting ) hunt the itch." key needs £ for him. Instead of remaining at the torn of the ladder some maft c farther down. The Education Committee of the London (England) County Council has prepared a new Index Expurga-torius. Over 120 books, toy books, pictures, and toys are to be removed at once from the prize list for day schools, and eighty other books will J disappear at once as soon as the ": is exhausted, the future no school boy will bo rewarded by a copy of Burns' poems or Charles Lamb's "Essavs of Elia." Two hooks on cricket, including Blackwood s "Jubilee Book of Cricket," have been taken off the list, and perhaps Sir A. Conan Doyle's "Rodney Stone" is too pugilistic for the rising generation. When the stocks of the "Ingoldsby Legends" and of "Smiles on Thrift" arc gone they will not bo renewed. A good many looks on war, Whit-tier's poems, Hearty's "Treasure <>i tho Incas," and "With Stanley or the Congo" are to be barred. Furthermore. Mrs. Heman's poems. Leigh Hunt's essays, "Nelson anci His Captains," "Shakespeare's Heroines," "The Four Georges," and "Cromwell and His*Times," are condemned. "I thought some one would be smiling at the list," said Sir William Collins, the Chairman of the Education Cammifctee, when seen regarding the matter, "but I defy any- ot political question behind it. We have simply revised tho prize list of the late School Board, that is all, and it is absurd for anyone in all Scotland to find fault because we have left out Burns' poems. Books have been added that we thought should oe added, and books have been removed for various that they were not suitable, of date, and so on." Washingti following i of their thirst ficulty. Right across the St. Croix River is St. Stephen, N. 13. The first building across the bridge is the Custom House, the second a saloon, and the ;d-eye dispensary has goi nmcnt annex lashed to the rigging > far as business is concerned, says the writer. At early morn the law-abiding citi-ri of Calais arises from his couch, d before he has complained to his fe about the coffee is reminded that he has pressing business in St. Stephen. He saunters forth to join tho numerable caravan which moves to the abode of the tinkling glasses and the home of the frajabeous bun. He may have gone across the dark and rolling river with sadness gnawing at his heart and sorrow clutching at his appendix, but soon, also later, ho returns singing joyful tidings, and with a small bunch at His rear pocket where men in a non-prohibitory State are sometimes wont to carry a wicked flask. STRANGE DEVICES. By teams, by trolleys and on foot travel the good citizens oi Washington county, a grand, united committee on public irrigation. But to those who either by distaneo from the bridge or home duties aro unable to take the trip across the river, there are other and scarcely less easy methods of obtaining a glorious, gladsome slant. Washington county teems with pedlars able deal out the ardent from all queer receptacles. Of course there the ancient book and cane device, i favc notoriety which they cleric lookii io%0i, a half-sovereign was scon r Magani. He threw it away fr m after closely examining it. -f-- GIRL MARRIED A MOOR. HAPPY LITTLE BIRDS. Fair Friend (to released convict)-- I suppose, sir, that the singing of the birds relieved the monotony of your dreary life?" Ex-Convict (profoundly nonplussed) "The singing of the birds, miss?" Fair Friend--"Yes, sir; the little gaol-birds, you know. They must have bee» such a comfort to you,"- er news has been received angier of the English girl orne time ago married a Moorish acrobat, and whoso parents demand that sine shall be sent !. The girl's name is Clara Casey. She is 17 years of age, and her husband 27. Miss Casey, who is irk, and handsome, is the daughter of a couple living at Sel-ford. She had been engaged as at the Queen's Theatre, Man-under the professional name of Clara Earl. Her marriage with the Moor, hose name is Mohammed ben Bulk-hassen, took place in the Liverpool Mosque on March 13. The ceremony as performed by Billal Quilliam: ey, in the absence of Sheikh Abdul-h Quilliam Bey Efendi (head of the Moslems in the British Isles), Constantinople. The Moor was one of the group of .unrblers engaged at the Empir Theatre, Ardwick, Manchester. Telegrams received from Ta'ngie •eport that Bulkhassen ill-treatexl his vife, and this is confirmed by ter from Miss Casey, received by her parents in which she says: "I wish" I were in England again I am fiuito miserable and lonely here, and it makes me feel it more when I see how Mr. Abdullah treats his wife and the way Mohammed "There is a great difference. He always hitting me. He laughs at i now he had got me here, and tells me that I shall nwer see you again, that I shall live and die here. "Dear mother, I hope and trust to God I will soon be able to return to England again. What a fool I have been to give myselfv to this man!" The girl concluded by asking her parents to do all they could to enable her to return home. "-1- QUITE ANOTHER MATTER. Irate Customer--"Look here, young man, I bought this hair tonic from you, and it is absolutely worthless." Drug Clerk--"We can't help that, sir." Irate Customer--"But you guaranteed each bottle?" Drug Clerk--"Exactly, sir; but we didn't guarantee the tonic." NOT USED TO IT. Mr. Meakin (who is boarding out >r a few days)--"By-the-way, Mrs. Perkins, I must confess the mutton e had for dinner to-day is mot the nd of meat to which 1 have been accustomed." Mrs. Perkins--"Wery likely not, sir. I alwiz gits the best."- walking trip to study the geological formation of the State," made qui" a mint of money. He was quite d tinguished appearing, never bei: seen with his silk tile. As the farmers began to get bett acquainted with him lie took off I hat to them, turned a tiny faucet the tin compartment which filled the Upper part and let out the fluid. THE WOODEN LEG. Never in the history of the State has there been so many wooden-legged men travelling abi ' But all the artificial limbs plodding about the country appear to be h low, and a careful search reveals small cap, which can be unscrewed let out the contents. One versatile man drove a "fr h-psed calf- all over dhiatpunty, tensibly endeavoring to sell the-' mal. Not for weeks did tho shei discover that the reason the calf never was sold was because its fifth leg had been nicely plastered and strapped in, then covered with hair, and was no more than a receptacle for about two quarts of that which made John B. Gough famous. Bicycles with tires inflated with Kentucky mountain dew instead of air, suit cases with false bottoms, leakable dolls, nice for the baby if ter papa has tnd iigns for t make life i prohibitie le first b little wo i State." ither ingenio id the leg, ; de- THE NATIONAL ELEMENTS IN THE REGIMENTS. How the Irish, Scotch and Eng* lish Compared During the Last Century, In the year 1814 the number of volunteers from the militia into the line was composed of 2,357 Englishmen, 320 Scotchmen and 566 Irish* men. The 41st Regiment was com* posed in 1810 of 537 Englishmen, 30 Scotchmen, 110 Irishmen and 29 foreigners. In the case of a corps nominally Scotch, the 1st Battalion ol the 92nd, the inspection report of 1813 shows that it was Scotch, both in reality and in name. On the 15th of October of that year it was composed of 822 Scotchmen, 34 Englishmen, 62 Irishmen and 1 foreigner. It is to be presumed, anil tho presumption is borne out by all the facts ascertainable, that the troops with which Great Britain encountered French or American ambition, in Spain, France, Flanders and Canada (at a period when British resources were strained to the utmost, and men for the army were sought with great eagerness in all parts of tho British Islands) were made up of Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotchmen, in due proportion to "relative population. ONE REGIMENT'S RECORD. Returning to the 41st it is found that in 1823 there were in that corp3 386 Englishmen, 35 Scotchmen and 147 Irishmen, but that in 1829 the Irishmen of the regiment formed a majority, the numbers for that year being 282 Englishmen, 43 Scotch-' 127 Irishmen. In 1840 the regiment was composes of 272 Englishmen, 36 Scotchmen ai.d 341 Irish-1844 of 548 Englishmen, 21 Scotchmen and 222 Irishmen, and in 1850 of 451 Englishmen, 3 Scotch-' 491 Irishmen. There were, however, some regiments much more English in composition than the 41st. The number of recruits inspected in the year ending March 31st, 1844, was 17,540. Of these the relative number from the different countries was, from England 10,229, from Ireland 4,038, from Scotland 2,622, from Wales 167, and from foreign countries 17. THE IRISH ELEMENT. It may be affirmed almost with certainty that the Irish element of the British army was at its strongest in the period between the close of the struggle between Napoleon and the outbreak of the war in the Crimea. In 1840 the British army was composed of 47,394 Englishmen, 13,-388 Scotchmen and 39,193 Irishmen. These figures do not include the artillery and the sappers and miners. In the combination of these two corps there were in 18-10, 4,-165 Englishmen, 1,851 Scotchmen, Irishmen. The i f these of THESE ARE SMART COWS. Trained Bovines on a Farm in Minnesota. It is an interesting performance to watch the performances of tho train-farm of Herried Watcher of Platton Township, Minn. Mr. Watcher used to be an animal trainer with P. T. Barnum, and when he quit that business he bought a! in Minnesota, and ho has lived) 674 He took with him | Scotchmen, 237 into private life many af the ideas! four with which he used to charm the spectators when he chief stays and supports of the great show man and finds use for his skill in getting his row lake that separates his -pasture from the rest of the farm, The lake at the place cattle have to cross is about fifty feet wide and is deep. Mr. Watcher strung a wiro rope and fastened It by pulleys a small ferry boat about large enough to carry two cows. Then he trained the cows ferry themselves over as follows: One after another they run down slight incline and jump upon the boat, stopping suddenly when they alight. The force of the jump sends the boat flying across the lake, and when it has reached the opposite side the cow jumps on shore she can, and the force of the jump kicks the boat back to the other side again, where the other cows, one by one, repeat the process until all have crossed. Tho last cow, how-ever, walks slowly and carefully ashore, so as to have the boat re ' for the trip when the herd want; return. The calves do not have aught now. They inherit talent, but cross with their mothers 1 they are two years old, each dng side by side with the mother, both jumping at the same time. the opinion that in 1840 the 1 element in the army was at its ro-■■MMMJMK. b'>t subsequently ascertained lnloiiiiaAw- him that ten years previously to that year tho Irish element was still greater. The figures for 1830, as before, not including the artillery and the sappers and miners, are 40,-649 Englishmen, 11,774 Scotchmen, and 40,979 Irishmen. The arillery and the sappers and miners wero made up in 1830 of 3,680 Englishmen, 2,026 Scotchmen, and 1,918 Irishmen. A very large majority of the Irishmen in the army wero In the infantry of the line. In 3 830 that infantry was formed of 30,208 Englishmen," 10,506 Scotchmen, and 37,740 Irishmen; in 1840 of 35,785 Englishmen, 12,046 Scotchmen and "5.531 Irishmen. ENGLISHMEN INCREASING. At both of these dates, the Life Guards, the Blues, the line regiments of cavalry, the Foot Guards, illcry and the corps of sappers and miners were all composed to the extent of a very large majority, of Englishmen. Since tho middle of the 19th century th« army seems to have become more at-the Englishmen; in 1873, every thousand British soldiers Englishmen, 85 wero ishmen, WHAT HE WANTED TO KNOW. A small boy had been told repeatedly that he must never ask for anything at table, but should wait patently till he was served. One day, while dining at a neigh->or's w'ith his mother, the little fel-ow was accidentally overlooked. Patience finally ceased to be a vir-,iio, and in an audible whisper he asked: "Mother, do little boys go to Heaven when they starve to death?" foreigners. In the last IF WE CHANGE THE SUN. It is amazing to consider the f sibilitics if the sun were same ot color. If it were blue, for instai there would be only two colors in world--blue and black; or. if it w red, then everything would be or black. In the latter case should have red snow, red lil black grass, black cl« clouds. There would De a iety, however, if the sun i 'things that aro now yell still remain that color, 1 would be no reds, purples or pinks, and very fe^ cheery hues that make th bright and pleasant. sky, A POLITE ENQUIRY, ing the South African w: rship of soldiers' letters he regiment, which ace lys blotted out by th a plan for rovenge. A of his next letter he wrot, meter the stamp." The c o, afte1- spending consiclei n steaming the stamp fror 'elope. And ho found thi 'Was it hard to get off?" CUPID'S CONVERSATION. Cupid is blind," said the senti-fital youth. Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, o I have heard. And Ir.j tonvor-ion of some love-sick people makes wish that he were also deaf and dumb,"