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COLUMBUS AND might a. A Great Woman's Share In the Glory of America‘s Discover)". Between G runs and files, in that incompar- ably lovely curve of olive and palm~crowned land known as the Rivsira, that bends with infinite beauty into the blue of the sea, there stands in a dingy, somewhat bedraggled street a stone and stuccaed house, now a shop frequented by the simple peasant folks. The tswn isCogoleto, and this house is its one show place or treasure, for on the mil- dowod, saffron wall an inscription states that Christopher Columbus was born there. It is not of much moment whether he was born in this small town or in the grand city 0 palaces, then not so grand, however, fifteen miles away. The interest and beauty . of Columbus’ life are fadelese. Fired with ‘ scientific zeal and the adventuresome spirit ; of the real navigator, one sees him as he was, '3 i across the centuries, crowding into the ' court ofa king, waiting with his charts in 1 l anterooms for audiences, repelled, cheated, put aside, penniless but patient, rich in ’2 the hero stuff, pushing on and certain under ‘ his uncertainty that some day the sun would shine for him and his plans. _ _â€"â€". -0 s d ' t a thatahe cannot fail to no “my . cm‘f‘gzidioue li:t1e lady in the please the most The Willinz Heart. land. The model is about eight inches tall, handsomely dressed in modern style, and is One bitterly cold November day a colonel "in the Union volunteer army gave a hastily really quite a work of art, and would be, if the little ones wished to help a charity, a considered order to ditch a stream that was flooding camp. The ciiicer of the day ex. desirable contribution to fairs and bazaars. A corn cob is the foundation for the body. ccuted the order, but the men grumbled all the lorenocn. The colonel himself came Measure and mark the waist line; below this wind layer after layer of husks, leaving out, later in the day, to look at the work. them full size and fluffy at the bottom, but It was indeed a freezing job, The men cutting out gores at the top, so asto makeit stood up to their waists in the icy water much of the time. Yet it named necessary shapely ; stick a pin through anywherc it is necessary to keep the skirts in place. Small to turn the stream, or the whole brigade would be deluged. strips of hunks are wound closely and pinned " How is it, my boy," he shouted to a big, to the body for arms after having wound a few extra strips across the shoulder to make frank, child-faced young fellow, “ that you don't fret and growl with the other men 2" the requisite breadth. A bit of cotton is “ Well, colonel, I don‘t know. But my laid over the end of the cob for the head, shaping it as well as pussible ; this is covered motherâ€"God bless her lâ€"nsed to teach me that a willing heart makes a light task." with a very smooth piece of husk, and the eyes, nose and month marked with a pen or Years have passed since that day. The pencil and a little bit of carmine is put on raw Vermont boy is now the successor of the the cheeks to give her the flush of health. colonel in the presidency of one of the Some ofthe best husks are selected for the largest manufacturing establishments in New dress, a few of them being stained With pink England. And it all came from that quaint, aniline dye for trimming. Two full widths ready reply in the Virginia ditches. The of bucks are used for drapery in the back, ROLLING UP WEALTH. â€"â€"â€"~ Pullman Plhce (‘ar Corporation. BUB-MARS JADE. MINES. Where They Lie and the fielhods of Work- in; Them. According to a recent British official re- port on Burmah the jade producing country is partly incloesd by the Cnlndwin and Urn Rivera, and lies been the twenty fifth and twenty-sixth parallels of lati- tude. Jade is also found in the Myadaung district, and the most celebrated of all jade deposits is reported to be a large cliff overhanging the Chindwin, or a branch of that river, and distant eight or nine days‘ journey from the confluence of the Urn and Chindwin. Of this oliii‘, called by the Chinese traders “ Nantclung," or " dificult of access," nothing is really known, as no traders have gone there for at least twenty years. Within the jade tract described above small quantities of stone have been found at many places, and abandoned quarries are numerous. The last old quarry of any size is Sanka, situated seventy miles north-west of Mogauug. The largest quarries now being worked are situated in the country of the Merip Kschins. The largest mine is about 50 yards long. 40 President George )1. Pullman supplement. ed his annual report with the following general informatiin : . . . Wart»... s.» XXTBAGI‘S- “There have been built and placed in service during the your 141 sleeping. parlor. dining, and special cits, costing $17 281.23 each. or an aggregate of $2 511,596 17. “There are now under construction at the company's works 64 cars. the estimated cost of which is $985,000. These care when completed will, with the 57 Mann, 127 Wood- rufi, 51 Union Palace, and 3 miscellaneous cars purchased, make a total of 443 standard cars, besides which there are now being operated 9.39 tourist care. “There has been expanded during the fiscal year for additions to the company’s shops and plant the sum of $63 098 '20. "The value of manufactured product of all the car-works of the company for the year was $8,652,746 89, and of other interests at Pullman, including rentals, $1,735,417.64, making a total of $10,388,- colonel never forgot it. the join and puff being fastened with pine, life, he sought out the cheery soldier, tcok ’ which are hidden under the folds. A full him into his office, made him in time his draped apron front covers the front and the partner. He says I may tell this story. He sides ; the edges are vandykedâ€"that is, tells me the secret of his hard-working life’s tquares cut out and a row of the pink husks health and success with men is all in that cut in fringes sot underneath. Where it is line, “ A willing heart makes a light task." impossible to hide the pins stars are made by How is it, young men? Are you willing cutting a tiny disk of the straw-colored husk tobe useful? Or is it simply to get the and one of the pink, and sticking the pins wages? The most valuable man is not the through the middle, giving the appearance ablest man, but he who does his work with of a very small rosette. a cheerful spirit. “'8 like to have such a A bunch of the corn silk is fastened on to fellow around us. He wears a smile. lie is the head for hair, the back falling loosely to hopeful that a thing can be done. the waist. while the front is cut into shapely “Send Jim 8â€",” cried the head of a bangs. The bonnet, made of colored husk, firm whose members were consulting who fits the head closely. A coachman’s cape should be dispatched to Austria to introduce covers the shoulders. By using different an improvement on their patent. “ Jim is coloring matter a great variety of dolls and one of those fellows who isn't afraid to take dresses may be made; whole families of a bit of extra trouble to make a thing go.” fathers and mothers, little children, sailor “Yes,” responded the secretary of the boys and gypsy girls can be made to spring corporation, " Jim is one of your willing into being almost like magic, for the bucks chaps. Send him to Europe. What be are very pliable and not at all troublesome dtesn’t know yet, he’s willing to learn." to handle. The upshot of that1 35 that a boy not; yet â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"--‘ twen -thtee ears 0 , the sono a p ain, honest: farmefi. is off for six months in the WIRELETS. land of the Ferdinands, and will return __ with that polish on him which travel alone can give, wages going on, expenses all paid, and a big prospect ahead in the house. You can hardly do anything for the un- willing man. He will not let you help him, for he will not let you use him. He repels you. if he works he does it ungraciously. He has no interest in the job. You dare not ask him to lift a hammer after the whistle blows for shutting down, not even if the place was in peril of fire or flood ; no, you either go and do the extra thing your- self, or you bethink you of some employee who is always willing to lend a hand, and send for him. And a cheery helper becomes dear to you. You do not forget this favor. It seems so strange that we do not all of us realize this more, for every one is in some one's employ, and has sooner or later tho chance to show the willing heart. As a giant elm lifts up a woodbine,willing, strong, and neighborly among trees, so can the vine return the favor in many ways ; it can pre vent cormorant‘s from ascending and gnaw- ing out the giant’s willing heart, it can pm- tect from borers by the shade it spreads round the trunk where the big fellow has no leaves of his own; it can offer its own leaves to the first batch of the omnivorous insect life that ofccn strips on unwilling elm, and the leaves of the woodbino poison the insects, so that they desist. The willing man, I repeat, is approach- able ; he lays himself open to kindness; he exposes himself to a good turn; be in open to a favor in return. The world is not all ungrateful, and somebody remembers. The sun may be clouded much of the time with many of us. But he who stands in the open field of goodwill is sure to get all the sum shine that is falling. if there is any cheery, jolly, whole souled good nature among men, the willing fellow gets it. No doubt the willing heart is often impos- Earthquakes have done considerable dam- age in Italy and Turkey. The estate of the late Hon. James Turner, of Hamilton, is valued at $177,000. Lord Charles Boresford has been appoint- ed commander of the worship Undaunted. The (Z ir has invited the Emperor William The strike movement at Bristol is spread- ing to the employee in the hemp warehouses. Three steamships of the very best type have been ordered in England for the C. P. R. Pacific line. Emperor Vt'illiam has conferred the decoration of the Order of the Black Eagle upon the king of Greece. _Ground has already been broken on the site of Dr. Talmage’s new tabernacle in Brooklyn. Mrs. Evans, matron of the Children’s Home at Hamilton, who was injured in the St. George accident, is dead. Superintendent James, of the Manitoba railroad, has been arrested in connection with the crossing dispute at Cookston, Mind, and the fight will now be continued in the courts. It is reported that the Washburn and Pillsbury flour mills at Minneapolis will shortly pass into the hands of an English syndicate. The consideration is said to be $5,200,600. A London despatch says Lord Wolseley has accepted an invitation to be present at the unveiling of the statue to Gen. Lee at Richmond, Va. _Rschab Tandy, the well-known tenor, of hingstin, is singing with great success in Glasgow. He has established himself in London. ed upon. Yet so are we all. Who is so shrewd that no one gets the advantage of W him! And, besides, do we not all and each Sarah sometimes impose upon others? The willing heart has this satisfaction, that he does not deserve the ingrate‘s kick, nor the mean man's contemptible tricks; he smiles and whistles his song as he goes on his way, just as willing to do the next man a favor. His sun is still shining. He knew that it is the gouge who is the mean fellow, not himself. And he knows, too, that imposition on a generous heart always has its remorse and its punishment. He spends no time in kick- ing himself. But your close and hard heart is as mad as a hear when, in spite of all his shrewdueas of self-protection, he has been imposed upon ; he does not get over it for days. He reminds me of a snake on which I put a shullls-hoe last week, and the crea- ture writhed, twisted, and turning, even stung itself hack of the blade that pinned him down. No, to save one's life is to lose it ; to lose it is to find it. Awilling heart is protected by the oodnees of all decent people in a commnn ty. if a kind-hearted neighbor is abused, the vicinity cries out “Shame l’ Conscience and all good angels are on his side, in this selfish world. But when a orabbed neighbor is severely used by some sharper, over body laughs, even though it were a bit on awful and the laugh be in the sleeve. Is it not worth everything to have the best of this world on your side? And things come back again, they do i Breadâ€" that is, seed of riceâ€"cast upon the Nile waters returns again after many days. The kindness of a cab-driver, in the streets of Boston, to an aged man was rewarded once by aiegicy of $20,000 nearly six yer-rs sitar. As i heard the story i asked, 1‘ Was no: cabbio surprised? ” Yes," was the reply, "but he is a kind-hearted fellow. and alwa) s doinr some one a good turns” Willing hands wear longest, willing eyes , see the most. wi'llog muscles and nerves . have the has: health, and cndurcbsyonci the Li:tlo Brotherâ€""Y es, I know, I should selfish. Willing hearts beat on when the , Sly ‘thsnk you.' but i was so s'prised I for. close, stony hearts are dust. For my pm: i got. hon said he hadn't a cent.” 1 am sure 1 have not observed ircirrectiy ; ' they who endure most, accumulate, and en- joy. and preserve most, are they who work willingir, L‘ivo and take. Til-3y certainly are the best men to work for. the l'. : rmn to have in your employ, the bear men to work beside, .r. bench or count-rt, in cilice Resources of the Language- Guest (at cheap restaurant)â€"“Bring me a ham sandwich ani glass of milk." Waiter (fortissimo) â€" “Maoadamize a pork 1 One whitewash l"-[Chicago Tribune. Couldn't Understand It. Surprised Passengerâ€"“My goodness l You don't expect a man to sleep in a little place like that, do you?’ Sleeping-car Porterâ€" “Yo' can have awhole section if yo’ want it, sah." Passenger -“What a section 2" Porterâ€"“This ere berth an' that one above it, sah.” Passenger (looking at the berths, both of which have been made up needy for occup- ancy)â€"“ Hm! Dye think I’m a Siamese twin 2" Explicit Instruction. “ Do you want me to' call again at Mr. Brown's for the bill he} owes you 2" said the office boy to the physician. i " Yes, and use every possible effort to get I." “If he won't pay may I do him up?" “ Yes." ” G sod and brown?" " Yes ; dun Btown expresses the require- ments of the case exactly." A Surprise- hir. Nicefnllmv (.‘o adored one’s little brotherjâ€"“Tnerc! You did that errand very nicely. Hero’s apeuny for you.” Little Brotherâ€"“Oh, ma 2 Mr. Nicefellow gave me a penny." hisâ€"“Well, my dear, you should say There can be nothing more gratifying than the progress of u Tusirion in the North- ‘l‘v’est. Luz-st statistics shoc' that there are now in the j-Jriadicrion of the Northwest council ldi ordinary and two high schools. azzrnded by 4,374 pupils and conducted or field. As for home-life. i: is the light of by 1133 $18155“ teacher“. This shows an llsauty in {on or fidushug' 1,353,155, wife, in ‘reasc in l§>il OVSI' “35.5 Cl 33 schools and or friend. , 1121 children. rzzopir; ', "in an increase __.__ j for 1588 over 1857 of only '21 schools and 240 3 4 , , , 3 children. an esteemed contemporary A Do'1 MIL" Of OJ‘n Bug‘s‘ ‘ . says: “ The pioneers of the nations yet to A doll made of corn builis and dressed , hair: the far west are laying their founda- onzire in the same material is uneven} , \zzd . tion in the right p‘ace.” 104 53, against $0,823,235.18 for the previ- ous porary lull in the demand for freight-cars in the spring of the present year. payrolls at Pullman for the year was 4,541 ; the wages paid $2,629,531.78, making an average for each person employ cd of $579 06, against 604 the previous year ; but still a high rate per capita compared with the av- erage of other manufacturing establishments of a similar character. the year was 4,242,542. The number of ' miles run by cars was 144,842,618. contracts for the operation of the cars of this company is now 117,854, an increase of 11,723 miles over the previous year. the census of July 31, 1889, was 10,610 per- sons, a gain of 529 compared with the pro vions year. surrounding Pullman has considerably in- creased during the year."â€"[Chicago Times. to attend the Russian review next summer. A Variety of Sources 'Ihat Carries 0pc Over many of the very fine colors. Among due to a tem- yoar. The reduction is "The average number of names on the “The total number of persons in the em ploy of the company in its manufacturing and operating departments is 11MB paid during the year. employee for the and the wages paid 55,516 201.55. Wages $5,770,345 26. The previous year was 10,530 “Tho number of cars employed in the service is 1,760 standard and 239 tourist or second class. “The number of persons carried during ” The total mileage of railways covered by “ The population of Pullman, as shown by The population immediately â€"_â€"-.-â€"â€"â€"-â€"- WHERE COLORS COME FROM. _â€" the Globe. 534‘... The cochineai insects furnish a. great them are the gorgeous carmine, the crimson, scarlet carmine, and purple lakes. The cuttlefish gives the sepia. It is the inky fluid which the fish discharges in order to render the water opaque when attacked. Indian yellow comes from the camel. Ivory chips produce the ivory black and bone black. The exquisite Prussian blue is made by fusing horses‘ hoofs and other refuse animal matter with impure potassium carbonate. This color was discovered accidentally. Various lakes are derived from roots, barks, and gums. Blue black comes from the charcoal of the vinestalk. Limpblack is soot from certain resinous substances. Turkey red is made from the madder plant, which grows in Hindostan. The yellow sap of a tree of Siam produces gamboge; the natives catch the sap in cocoa- nut shells. Raw sienna is the natural earth from the neighborhed of Sienna, Italy. Raw umber is also an earth found near Umbria and burned. India ink is made from burned camphor. The Chinese are the only manufacturers of this ink, and they will not reveal the secret of its manufacture. Mastic is made from the gum of the mastic tree, which grows in the Grecian archipelago. Bistro is the sect of wood ashes. Very little real ultramarine is found in the market. Itls obtained from the precious lapis lazuli and commands a fabulous price. Chinese white is zinc, scarlet is iodide of mercury, and native vermilion is from the quicksilver ore called cinnabar. _____.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" I Shall be Satisfied. BY M. S. C. “ I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.”â€"Psa. xvii. 15. Knowing the way, and yet so often straying, Hating the sin that keeps me from thy side But sipping still; loving, yet disobeying-â€" Courage, my soul I thou shalt be satisfied. Yea, even to thee the victoy shall be given, Poor doubting one, through Christ, the Ctucified; Thou shall awake, and in the light of heaven, Seeing thyself, thou shalt be satisfied. 0 joyful change 1 0 wonderful transition ! Sipping and sorrcwiug now, then glorified ; Doubting and fearing changed to glad fruition. Thou in his likeness shalt be satisfied. Like to thy Lord 1 0 rest the vain endeavor, 1-1 iger and rash, to tear the veil aside ; This is enoughâ€"thou shalt be with him over, Wake in his likeness and be satisfied 1 â€"American Messenger. Anceymoas Letters. “The munest thing in the wurruld,” said hlr. Del-an, “is,writcn’anonymons lctthers.’ “Did you never write anonymous letters 2 ’ “Maybe oi Cid ; maybe oi wor always man enough to reign me name to them.” ._.â€"â€"â€"â€" The Retort Commercial. Mrs. Grnbbâ€"“Have ye any more sugar ike the last ye sent me I ' Grocer (briskly)â€"“Yee, madam, plenty of it. How much do you want 2” Mrs. Grnbbâ€"“Dan't want none." broad, and 20 deep. The season for jade operations begins in November and lasts till May. The most productive quarrirs are generally flooded and the labor of quarrying is much increased thereby. In February and March, when the floor of the pit can be kept. dry for a few hours by baling. immense fires are lighted at the base of the stone. A careful watch is then kept in a. tremendous heat to detect the first signs of a splitting. \Vhen this occurs the 1;.50lll115 attack the stone with pickuxss and hammers, or detach portions by hauling on levers inserted in the cracks. The heat is almcst insupportuble, the labor severe, and the mortality among the workers is high. The Kachius claim the I exclusive right of working the quarries, and there is not much disposition on the part of others to interfere; traders content them selves with buying the stone from the Rs. chins. All payments are made in rupees, and Burman or Burma-Shun brokers are employ~ ed to settle the price. The jade is than rAiken by Shan and. Kaohin coolies to Narnia Kyankseik, one long day’s journey from Homo. Thence it is carried by dugouts downa small stream, which flows into the Tudaw River, about three miles below Sakaw, and down the Tudaw River itself to Mogaung. The Sawbwa of the jade produc- ing tract Kansi levies 5:. on every load of jade that leaves his country, the local chief at Namia Kyankseik takes another 25., and the farmer of the duties obtains an ad valorem duty of 33§ per cent. The Kaohins and Chinese-Shun coolies who work in the mines pay to the Sawbwa, Kauai, 10 per cent. of the price they get from the jade merchants. T;e farming of the jade duty of 333; per cent. ad valorem for the year ending June 30, 1883, sold for £5,000. .______.,â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"- The Great London Strike. The current number of a leading mega zine contains a composite articleâ€"or, perhaps, rather two articlesâ€"on the great dock strike in London. The authors are the two man who figured most conspicuously in the con test, Cardinal Manning and John Burns. As the two men, each in his way, are interest- ing personalities in the highest degree, so are their utterances pregnant with instruc- tion for the guidance of laboring men and employers the world over. When tne vener- able prelato came down from his retreat at Brompton to mingle among the angry mobs strikers and capitalists alike, restraining each by moderate counsel, soothing each by his exalted philosophy, he was a figure be- fore which all the world dofl'ed its cap in reverence. When Burns, on the other hand, a man of toll, an ardent socialist and a professed agitator, assumed the leadership of the strike, and exercising supreme central over the impassioned men under him, held them in check, taught them to endure in silence and patiently to wait, be furnished another spectacle for which humanity did not restrain its admiration. Mr. Burns' paper is an interesting “resume” of the strike and its results, from his standpoint. He sees not only the battered condition of EastEnd labor,but the improved spirit result- ingfroma long struggle inwhich principle was the chief stake. He sees in the outcome a promise of still other victories to come. His praise of the moderation and honesty of the strikers is without stint. “I have been,’ says he, “ in the thick of starving men with hundreds of pounds about me (they knowing it), and not a penny have I lost. I have sent men whom I did not know for change for a gold piece, and have never been cheat- ed of a penny. Not a man through all the strike asked me for drink money." A West Ender came down to the docks in search of Burns and was guided by a striker to the committee room. a distance of two miles. The man refused to accept a shilling for his services. One is not accustomed to such examples of independence among the English lower classes. On the whole, Mr. Burns rejoices at having discovered what he calls two powerful lovers in the hands of labor against capitalâ€"organization and self-repres- sion. Contrast with these couclusionsthe lessons which Cardinal Manning deducrs from the strike : i. The immense suffering which falls on women and children, the ruin of careful thrift which is drawn out from savings banks and prudential societies, the bankruptcy of lesser tradesmen. 2. The unknown and incaiculable dangers which in a moment by the act of a feel or a madman may be let loose on a community. 3. The spread of arcstlcss sympathy in the labor market all over the land. 4 The certain and permanent injury that comes from frightening capital away from tho strike center. The Cardinal adds his praise to that of Mr. Burns for the self-repression cf the strikers, “ Since the cotton famine of the North," he says, “there has been no uobier example of self-command than we have seen in the last month.” Thus, adop- ting either view, what lessons may not be learned from that memorable conflict over the sea? A Professional Hitch- A mildlosoged farmer came to a young Vermont minister the otherday and said: “ Parson, I don’t want to trouble ye too much. but I wish yc‘d tie the knot for mo and ' Lizabet’n over again." “ Why so?" asked the young man. “ Weren’t you legally married before '5 ' “ Yes, I suppose so," was the reply, " but 'twas done by a justice of the peace and was a kinder cheap job. I’d be willin' to $57ng dollars for a ginooine perfeshisual w I of the East End of London to labor with . When we understand a philosophy, thrill to an epic, it is because the same fine qualities that wrought them are in some snaps in ourselves. It takes a diamond to cut a diamond. Being cut and exquisitely fashioned. the commonest mind may admire. A poor, feeble na- ture cannot have much influence for good. A little nature never inspires us. Manya man and many a woman dio dumb and in- glorious because there was no diamond-like influence to illuminate his or her own na- ture, no chissling force to sculpture out all the possible facets, free the imbeddod cry- stal and give it tho divesting power that should show it off in all its many-sided beauty. Christopher Columbus would not be the pedestalsd great man, imperishably great,‘ that no is today had it not been for the large brained comprehension, the sympathy, the intuition and the faith in him of a wo- man. It took a woman to discover the man who was to discover a new world. There are some who may say that what a woman does not discover is not worth knowing, and women like that fine, enterprising, brave‘ natured Isabella of Spain who was behind the door of the great fame of Columbus, prove this true in so noble a sense that at her name every fez and turban, every stove- pips but should be removed in honor of her. Great men have almost always been back- ed up in their most notable and adventures some enterprises by some great women. Every Columbus has had his Isabella. Men might just and deride, might suspect and. ridicule, but she was rocklike in her belief ; her intuition marked out unerriugly the path his genius would take, her heart and her hope shot ahead of him like a star light- ing the night of his sky. A Bishop Speaks His Mind. At 0. missionary council of the Episcopal Convention in New York on Monday Bishop Johnston, the missionary bishop of Wostarn Texas, gave an address which will stir the dry bones in the Church if anything will. Among other things he said : “l‘his great Church of ours, with its four hundred thousand communicantsmt the close of the present year. in September, will have given $125,000 to Western mission work, a contribution of less than thirty cents a head- We havn had to call up:n the dead to make up the $180,000 of our appropriation. Our great need is what the Methodists call a re- vival of true and uudcfilerl religion. Our Church needs a John the Baptist. I am not ashamed to say itâ€"I would to God this Church had life enough to produce even an- other John Wesley. We have something better to do, my brethren, than tinkering canons and patching the Prayer-Book. Our old men should dream dreamsâ€"not of cor- ners, trusts, villas on the Hudson, palaces, falsely called cottages, by the sea, and steam yachts on the Sound. They should be dream- ing how the world may be reclaimed for the Redeemerâ€"of how it is that after eighteen centuries of the Gospel more than two-thirds of the human family have not effectively heard of Him. Oar young men should be dreaming, not how they should accumulate wealth, but of a world converted to God and made a fit habitation for the Son of God. Our ministers should not be crying for soft places in Eastern communities, but for a hari‘cp’to go to the frontier in theMastor's wot . White Hair Turned Black. The patient wast woman aged 72, who had snow white hair for twenty years. For the symptoms of commencing unuznia due to contracted kidney twenty to thirty min- ims of extract of jiborandi was prescribed several times daily. The drug was taken from October, 1886, to February, 1888. Dur- ing the autumn of 1887 the eyebrows were becoming darker and the hair of the head became also darker in patches. This con- tinued until the patches of hair were quite dark, contrasting with the natural patches of snow-white hair. The hair did not up- iversally change before her death. In 1881 Dr. Prentiss had published anoth- or case of kidney disease, pyloc-uophritis, treated with pilocarpinc. The hair of the patient, a lady, aged 25, changed from light blondeto black und er the infinenceof the drug The pilocarpine was administered hypoder- mically (one-sixth of a grain (twenty two times in the course of two months: the dose was then increased. In one month after commencing the treatment the hair changed from a light blond to a chesnut brown ; four months later it was "almost a pure black.” it issatisfsctory to find that eight years after ward, the hairis again a dark brown. Dr. Prentiss ascribes the phenomenon to the j iburandi aod its active principle pilocropine. Cases where, as the result of the influence of the nervous system in pain or fright the hair has changed color, are pathologinl curiosities. 83 little is known. however, of the pliysiologicil infliction of the norvoun system over the growth :znl nutrition of hair, that it is at present quite impossible to understand how a drug administered intel- nally can alter the color of the hair. It would be interesting to learn from other practitioners who have used jihuraryli or pilecarpine for an extended prtiod, Whether any change In the color of the heir been noticed.-â€"-[ therapeutic G izztte. W .A horse at Glenelg, N. S.VV., swam hrce miles out to sea of its own occur and return, being in the water three hours. Singers, and public speakers. chew A’lams' Tutti Frnttl Gum, to preserve and strength- en the voice. Sold by all druggiafs £1.21 confectioncrs 5 cents.