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WW HEALTH. ‘ Smohng by Bay» That the essential principle of tobacco, that which gives it all its value to the smoker, is a virulent poison, is universally admitted. It is agreed also that its primary effect is upon the brain and spinal cord, with li’ paralyzing tendency. Even Beard, who defends the moderate use of tobacco, admits that its effect are disastrous on some classes of persons. It withers some, he says, while fattening others ;,ca.uses in some dyspepsia and con- stipation, while others it has a contrary efi‘ect. It is soothing tosome, but induces in others all the horrors of extreme nervous ness. He adds that among the brain work- ing class of our population the proportion of those who can use tobacco with impunity is yearly diminishing, as a nervous tendency more and more prevails among us. Now whatever may be urged in favor of moderate smoking later in life, all intelli- gent persons who have given the subject at» tention unite in condemning the use of. tobacco by the young. Young persons do not know whether or not they belong to the lass most liable to be injured by tobacco. No one denies the danger of its excessive use, and the young have neither the intelligence nor the self- control to resist the tendency of smoking to grow into an uncontrollable habit. Further, the brain and nervous system of youth are specially susceptible to the baneful influence of the poisonous principle of tobacco. That commanding medical authority, the London Lancet, says: “It is time that the attention of all responsible persons should be seriously directed to the prevalence and increase of tobacco-smoking among boys. Stunted growth, impaired digestion, pal- pitation and other evidences of nerve ex- haustion and irritability have again and again impressed the lesson of abstinence, which has hitherto been far too little re- garded.” It cites a case which lately came before the coroner for Liverpool,â€"death from a fatty change in the heart due mainly to smoking cigarettes and cigar ends,â€"-and adds: ’ “ This of course is an extreme example. It is, however, only a strongly colored illustration of effects on health which are daily realized in thousands of instances. Not even in manhood is the pipe or cigar invariably safe. Much less can it be so regarded when it ministers to the unbound- ed whims and cravings of heedless urchins.” Infectious Diseases- The term ” infectious disease ” is a very general one, and for the purpose of this article I shall include under it all com- municable diseasesâ€"all diseases that can be in any way communicated to one person from another. These diseases are: Asiatic cholera, ellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet ever, measles, typhus fever, ty- phoid fever, whooping cough, and a few others. So far as the treatment of a particular case of one of these diseases is concerned, that must be left;- to the attendingphysician. Any attempt to tell even the most enlighten- ed part of the public how to deal with a case of one of these diseases could result only in imparting the little knowledge that is so dangerous. The most that can be said, therefore, is that these diseases must have plenty of palatable, easily digested food, pure water and fresh air, and must be kept clean. So far as the public is concerned, the most important part of the treatment of communicable diseases consists in prevent- ing their spread from the sick persons to others. Some diseases that were once thought not communicable have been found in recent years to own their chief danger to the fact tlut they are infectiousâ€"communicable. This is true of consumption, which is the most dangerous of all diseases in the sense that it causes more deaths than any other disease. if we could only vaccinate against all other preventable diseases as we can against smallpox, it would be a comparatively easy matter to stamp them out and prevent them ; but they are spread in different ways, and the methods of preventing them are differ- ent. In each disease something goes from a sick person. This “something ” is capable of causing the disease in other persons. The actual cause of consumption, so far as we know now, goes out in the sputum (spittle, ex ectoration), and is thus scatter. ed where tile moist sputum goes, as well as by the dust after the sputum dries. The first step, then, in preventing consumption is to destroy or disinfect all the sputum from each consumptive. The germs of consumption may be in food or drink. The milk and flesh of consump- tive cows and other animals often contain the germs of the disease. Neither the flesh nor the milk of such animals should be used for food. Not less important than destroying or disinfecting the sputum of consumptivcs are fresh air and cleanliness. People who live in unclean and ill-ventilated houses or apartments are in a fair way to absorb and retain the germs of consumption. It has been suggested by some sauitarians that healthy persons should not sleep in the same bed norm the same room with a per- son that has consumption. It is the part of prudence to comply with this suggestion, since it has reasonable precaution. Next to consumption. diphtheria is the most fatal of the preventable diseasesâ€"and is one of the most difficult- of all diseases to deal with in the way of prevention. It is especially fatal to children; about eighty- live out of every one hundred deaths from diphtheria are of children under ten years of age. The only way to prevent diphtheria is to kce away from the disease, and to keep the t iseasc away from you. All clothing and bed clothing that come in contact with a diphtheria tient contain the germs of the disease. or this reason all such clothing should be disinfected, and aired or washed before it is used again. What is said of diphtheria is true also of scarlet fever and measles. The contagion of these \ll56&2¢3 is in proportion to the sever- ity of the cue from wnich it cemes. The less one given to ventilation and general cleanliness. the more active does the con- tagion become; but the contagion from a very mild case may cause very severe and fatal cases. no“, diphth and scarlet fever may be caused by milk {issued with the onus of these diseases. We are on recor at least fourteen epidemics of diphtheria caused by milk. patients suffering with ~ In only one of these epidemics did any of the attendants about the dairies have diph- theria before the disease broke out amon the customera In one instance it broke out among the dairy hands and the customers at the same time. In five of these epidemics the dairies were in very unsanitary condio tions ; untrapped or open drains allowed noxious gases to reach the milk and milk- pans. In this way a small amount of the contagion gotinto the milk, and developed so rapidly as to infect a great many people. There should never be a public or church funeral of any p :rsou dead of cholera, small- pox. typhus fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, scarlet fever or measels. The corpses of such persons should be buried as (uickly as possible, and should never be tramported in a railway train or other public vehicle. Public safety demands that all such corpses be wrapped immediately after death in a sheet thoroughly wetted with a solution of corrosive snblimate (h 11f an ounce to two gallons of water), and the coffin then closed immediately and permanently. Funeral services should not be held ' in the same room with the body. All this may seem to be a harsh way of dealing with the sacred clay of those we love. But we cannot get away from the fact that the safety of the living should be our first consideration. Necessary prudence does not implyâ€"disrespect to the dead. And surely none of us would wish to be, when dead, the means of bringing illness and death to the living. I have said nothing of the advancesâ€"made of late years in treating individual cases of these diseases, because the real progress has been in the way of prevention. , The in- dividual case must be treated .by the physi- cian, but the higher work of prevention cannot' be carried on without the heart cooperation of fathers and mothersâ€"of all the people in the community. Everyone can do something. Every householder can help by promptly report~ ing the fact when any infectious disease breaks out in his or her house, by warning his neighbors of it so that they and their children shall not be exposed to the danger. That is a part of your duty to your neighbor. If you live in a village or city it is your duty to notify the health officer so that he ennplace a placard on your house. Many people have a foolish objection to having an infectious disease placard on their houses. The object-ion is not only foolish, but it shows.,'a,disregard of the rights of other people. ;-It is a crime to be the means direct orindirect, of exposing others to un- necessary danger. As the treatment of cases of illnessbosts money, so the efficient prevention of disease must cost money. But prevention costs less than treatment in the long run. The efli- cieucy of a health officer is not to be meas- ured by the number of epidemics that he stamps out, but by the absence of epidemics. If he keeps his town in such a. sanitary healthy condition that infectious diseases do not occur, he is worth ten times the money paid to him. If each village and city were to pay annually for a health organiza- tion as much money as is spent for the fire or police department, the money would be invested at a high rate of interest. The three greatest advances in the treat- ment of infectious diseases are disinfectants, the health officer, and prevention. WILLIAM G. Eccnusrox, M.D. â€"â€"+â€"_ A Shower of Black. Poisonous Rain-' The meteorological records of the world chronicle scvaral incoutestable instances of black rainfalls, to say nothing of the more startling phenomena of “showers of blood, blue snows,” etc. Prof. Barker, in April, 1845, laid before the Royal Society of Dublin some observations on a shower of black rain which fell around Carlaw and Kilkenny, extending altogether over an area of about 400 square miles. During the course of his lecture Prof. Barker exhibited to the society a specimen of this uncanny shower which had been sent him by a friend. The specimen shown in the vial was of a uniform black color, much resemeling common black writing fluid, Dr. Barker found, however, that after allowing it to stand for a short period the black coloring matter separated from the water with which it had mixed, rendering- the color of the rainwater much lighter, but still dark enough to be called “black rain.” The shower, which was in broad daylight, was preceded by a darkness so dense as to make it impossible for one to read without the aid of a candle. After this darkness had continued for some time a. hail storm set in, attended with vivid lightning, but, without the least semblance of thunder. When this hailstorm was over the black rain began to full. On examination of the rain immediately after the storm was over it was found to have an extremely fetid smell, as well as a very disagreeable taste. All light-colored animals and all articles of clothing exposed bore dark spots and stains, and cattle re- fused to drink the water or cat the grass until after a shower of “real rain ” had washed off the black, poisonous matter. AN ALARM CLOCK- lt Gave a Female nniuggler bend Away. Smugglers have been doing quite a lively business betwoen \Vindsor and Detroit dur- ing the last few weeks. Many people have been attracted by the cheapness of the Christmas goods advertised by Windsor merchants, but they also have, in many cases, thought it unnecessary to pay duties ‘ on this side. The Custom Office detectives have been constantly on the alert, and at least a dozen persons have come to grief I during the fortnight. Among the articles seized may be mentioned shawls, dress goods overcoats. suits, and, in general, dry goods of all kinds. One poor Polish woman had a rather rough experience two weeks ago. She bought an alarm clock in Windsor and secreted it somewhere in her clothing, but before giving her the property the clerk mischievously fixed the hand so that the alarm would go about the time the woman reached the Detroit docks. She told the Custom Office Ins ector that fake had nothing dutiable on or person, land was about to be passed, when " Rank ! Tank 2 Whir l" 03' went that clock. The poor woman jumped about two feet in the air, turned three or four colors, and nearly fainted away, while the Customs in- uisitor shock with diabolical laughter. he clock was, of course, taken away from its owner. who swears in. broken English that she will get even with that Windsor clerk some day. 8 S 'g yt scssssmnasonsr. The Human Sacrifices Which Are Ann-II Occurrence. The military operations of the French against Dahomey have caused public atten - tion to be directed more than ever before to this little-known country, whose name for many years has been a synonym for savage cruelty, for of all the tales .of barbarity which Africa has given to the world, and they are innumerable, no one has ever ex- ceeded the story of Dahomey. The atroci. ties which are an every~day sight in this out-of-the-way corner of the dark Continent are all the more terrible in that they are perpetrated in the name of religion, and every massacre, however hideous, is really a. sacrifice. THE DAIIOMAS RELIGION. The religior of the Dahomans isa form of nature worship. They believe in one great supreme being, whom they consider too far removed from earth to concern himself in the least about human adults, but who dele- ates his power ten best of inferior deities, who have their homes in the fields, the forests, the springs; who preside over the crops, the rains and the sunshine. 1'0 these sacrifices are annually made with great pomp and ceremony of things as precious as the worshipers can procure. Nothing is more precious than human life, and the King, who rules Dahomey like a demi~god, being regarded as such by his people, makes every year such sacrifices as he deems becom- in tothe dignity of a monarch who terms himself the brother of the stars. These an- nual sacrifices are called the “ customs,” and every year from 60 to 100 victims are put to death, partly in honor of the gods and partly o carry newsto the dead. The Dahomans be- lieve in the immortality of the soul, and also that every soul enters the other world in pre- cisely the same condition in which it leaves this; that a Kin is forever a King ; that a slave can never ope fer freedom. Every year, when the season for the “ customs” approaches, a certain number of persons, sometimes the King’s own subjects, some- times captives taken_in war, are selected for the sacrifice. The native Dahomans are alone intrusted with the duty of hearing the King’s messages to the dead, and each, in turn, is brought to the King on the great day of the festival. The supreme ruler of Dahomey whispers into the ear of the doom- ed man the message he is to convey to the other world and he is immediately decapi- tated. In Dahomey no sanctity is attached to human remains. The bodies of the victims are dragged to the suburbs of Ab- omey, the capital, were clouds of hungry vultures wait for the coming feast, and in a few hours nothing is left of the unhappy victims but the bones. Nor are these in- terred, and hundreds of acres of ground in the vicinity of the capital are strewed with the whitened relics of mortality. The skulls alone are preserved ; carefully cleaned they become trophies, and are seen everywhere in the vicinity of the capital, on door posts, on poles, on the cornices of the houses, while the walls of the temples are almost entirely composed of these ghostly remind- ers. FATE or THE SLAVES. The King’s people are rarely subjected to the horrid tortures that fall to the fate of the slaves. The Dahomans are a warlike people, and every year raids are organized into the neighboring country to recruit the 8 number of slaves. In the palmy days of the slave trade sacrifices of the captives were by p0 means so numerous as after its suppressxon. Then a slave was valuable, and the cupidity of the King prevented such destruction of property as was involv- ed in the sacrifice of human life. _ But since the suppression of the traffic in human flesh the lives of slaves are com- paratively worthless in Dahomey, and hundreds are annually put to death with the most savage tortures. They are dismem- bered limb by limb ; they are tied to posts and bounds are set to worry them to death: they are securely fastened to the ground near the nests of the ferocious ants of the country, that attack them and tear their flesh, bit by bit away, the spectacle of a still living man with his body half eaten by the ants, being not infrequently seen. Near the royal palace there are long avenues, and when the King desires to receive an embas- sy with unusual pomp gibbets are erected, and on these are hung, head downward, doz- ens of hapless slaves, there to remain, guard- ed by the King’s soldiers, until death puts an end to their sufferings. Even before the breath has left the body, however, the vul- ture, in Dahomey a sacred bird, begins his work, and the screams of the sufferers, torn to pieces by the greedy birds, render the vi- cinity of the palace hideous. Such a. scene is depicted in an illustration, copied from a foreign periodical, the occasion being one when the King desired to show especial honor to visitors to his capital. It is from a sketch made by a foreigner who for some time resided in Abomey and witnessed al- most daily spectacles to make the blood run cold. Shocking as are the daily exhibitions of cruelty in this terrible country, they are far surpassed by the scenes which take place when a monarch is crowned. The new king provides himself as speedily as possible with a sufficient number of victims, and then cele- brates the “ grand customs,” in which from 500 to 1000 men are put to death in order to provide the deceased king with aisuitable retinue in the other world. Then blood flows in streams. On the accession of the present ruler so great was the number of those thus wantonly slain that a large trench was made in the ground, in which a canoe was placed. The blood of the murdered men was conducted by conduits into the trench until its quantity was sufficient to float the boat. , CHARACTER or THE COUNTRY. Yet Dahomey is a country the character of which recalls the lines of the old hymn, ” \Vhere every prospect pleases and only man is vile.” hear the coast the land is low and sandy, but a few miles from the sea the forests of the interior be- gin, aud present a scene of leafy grandeur such as can be seen no- where outside of the tropics. Most of the trees are of ' antic size, while intertwined creepers and vines, overhead and under foot, render the progress of the footmen al- most impossible. Further on, the forests give way to rollin lands of wonderful beau- ty and fertility. ii any part of the coun- try two crops are ssible in every agriculv tursl year, but so ittle acquaintance have the people \vith practizal agriculture that they never raise more than is necessary for their own consumption; famines are far from uncommon and the population of Da- homey is actually decreasing. There is ex- celleut reason for this fact, aside from the horrid sacrifices. Polygamy is common; every man has as many wives as he can get; the king has from 3,000 to 6,000. Besides, in connection with the royal establishment there is a body of tree , the Amazons, the like to which the worl elsewhere does not show a parallel. Nominally the King‘s wives, they are rarely so save in name, but are nevertheless kept in seclusion. They drill in rivate, and when they march abrcad a erald precedes them warning all men from the streets. They number rom 1,200 to 3,000, according to circumstances, form the King’s body guard, and from all accounts are far more savage and blood- thirsty than the men. From their earliest years they are carefully trained to cruelty. and the private sacrifices of the palace, where they alone officiate as torturers and executioners, are believed, from what- is known of them, to exceed in diabolical sav- agery anything that is ever seen in public. Human sacrifices and the practical celibacy of so large a number of women, have reduc» ed the population of Dahomey, once believ-. ed to exceed 3,030,000, to less than 500,000, and the decline is still proceeding at a very rapid rate. SCHEMES 0F 'rns. snsxcn. The French war in Dahomey is a part of a long-conceived plan to build up in the western. part of Africa a French colonial empire of grand dimensions. Already in possession of Algiers and Tunis, the French aspire to the control of the “'estern Sa~ bare, the Valley of the Niger and a large part of the Guinea coast. The Sahara is by no means the desolate sandy desert that has been depicted in the school books, but abounds in oases which are capable of supporting a large pOpulat-ion. Experience has shown that in many places water may be obtained by sink- ing artesian wells, and, this being the case, the desert may yet blossom like the rose. A railroad has already been projected to connect the Algerian possessions of France with the coast of Guinea, but complete sub- jection of the hostile tribes of the coast and interior is a necessity before such a line can be built, to say nothing of itsmaintenance. TheFreneh military operations anaiiist Da- homey are therefore in line with the French progress southward through the Sahara ; Dahomey must be conquered before the F reuch African empire can exist. Many months ago the war was begun by French aggression from the French colonies in Guinea. and has been going on with varying success ever since, The Amazons fight well, and the character of the country through which the French have been forced to make their way renders progress very slow. Hav- ing passed the coast, they are now pene- trating the forests and mountains a few miles inland, but the Amazons are skillful in bush fi hting and the French are placed at no sma l disadvantage, having repeatedly fallen into ambnscades. Of their ultimate success little doubt can be entertained, for their superiority of weapons and their mili- tary training gives them an advantage that the untrained courage, even of the Dahomun Amazons, cannot overcome, and their con- quest of the country will remove one of the most appalling blots on the face of the earth. Civilized races are not commonly gentle in their dealings with savages, and the stories from time to time made public of French cruelty to their prisoners may be all true ; but even when all this is taken into the account, the establishment of a responsible overnment in Dahomey and the abolition of the horrid sacrifices will rid Africa. of one of its most terrible curses, the wanton de- struction'bf life. W PEARLS 0P TRUTH. He is happy whose circumstances suit hi , temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.â€" [H ume. If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work; but when they seldom come, the wished for comeâ€"[Shakespeare Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.â€"[Pliny. Mohammad hearing one of his soldiers say, ‘ “ I’ll turn my camel loose and trust him to God,” said to him, “ Tie your camel, and then trust him to Gm .” Perseverance, dear my lord, keeps honor brlght. To have none, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.-~[Shakespeure. Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct dis. tinguished by it.â€"-â€"[ Washington. “ If you are in doubt,” says Talleyrand” “ whether to write a letter or notâ€"don’t E, And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter«writiug.â€"-[Bul- wer. Under the leaves, amid the grass, lazily thelday shall pasi, yet not be wasted. From my drowsy ease I borrow health and strength to hear my boat through the great life ocean.â€"[l\lackuy. "The last word” is the most dangerous of infernal machines, and the husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a light- ed bombshell.-â€"[Douglus Jerrold. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of man- hood and self-rcliancc.-â€"-[John Neal. You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. “I can not," never accomplished anything: “I will try,” has wrought wonders.-â€"â€"[J. Hawes. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body ; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us withoutâ€"[Addison He that marries is like the dogo who was weddedto the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; maybap .treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests await himâ€"[11. Heine. Bunnmnnk BlsCUl‘lfS.-â€"To one int of buttermilk one even toaspoonful o soda. (If the buttermilk should be very soura little more will be necessary.) One scant halfcup lard, a little salt. Mi: rather soft and bake in a very quick oven. In making rice pudding, if too much milk has been used and the pudding does not become suf- ficiently thick, stir in a little cracker dust, and the effect will be very satisfactory and no one be the wiser for its use. â€"-â€"‘ North is worth. I doubt if he knows him~ self. He has ventures in nearly every t of the world and his nitrate fields are t- ter than any gold mine in the world. Out of his most intimate friends told me in Lon- don that his expenses over year outside of his business are more than " ,000, and his income is sup mud to be more than $5.000.- 000 a year. c has cement works in Bel-v gium which bring him in a fortune and which were until he saw them nothing but a brick yard. Happening to pass by them in a trip to the continent he noticed the clay, saw that it was of a superior quality and at once bought the whole field. Ho has now in this place immense works which emâ€" ploy thousands of hands, and he has put up for his employee sanitary cottages, and has built churches and schools for them. He has never had a strike, and his people all like him. He has other works of various kinds in England, and his investments in Chili extend to guano beds as well as hit rate fields. During the war between Chili and Peru his fortune was fora time, in dau- ger, and Balmaceda was to 8 large extent his agent. It was he that helped the rebels, and it was his money that bought the arms Had he failed he that carried on the war. would have lost millions, and as he saw the silver go by bushels he never blinked his eye, but put up again and again until he won. He is, in fact, a big gambler, and his stakes are millions. ‘ During my stay at Col. North’s house I took lunch with him and the family, and after this, chatted with him for some time about himself and other matters. He is now about 50 years old and he weighs, I judge, about 160 pounds. He is about 5 feet IO inches high. His eyes are blue, his face is rosy, and his hair and whiskers are of a rich red hue. He puts on no airs what- ever, and as he walked around the grounds he covered his head with an old straw hat which looked somewhat out of place among his magnificent surroundings. He is an Englishman by birth, and he comes from Yorkshire. His father was a coal merchant who brought him up ass. civil engineer, and who put him into business as soon as he was able to do anything for himself. He was connected as an employe in n steam~ plow works when his father died, leaving about $30,000 to his family. Young North, though he was then married, at once gave his share of the estate to his mother, and shortly after this he went to South America with his wife to seek his fortune. He went there as a civil engineer and soon saw the “ immense possibilities for fortune-making which exist on the western coast of that country. He invested in a number of differ- ent speculations and made money. He then began to buy nitrate, and kept buying from time to time until he at last got control of the biggest nitrate fields in the world. He made millions by buying guano, and it seems that everything he touches turns into gold. CYRUS \V. FIELD ON NORTH. Shortly before Cyrus \V. Field’s death, in an interview with him I asked him if he thought we would ever have a billionaire in this world. He replied: “I don't know. A billion dollars is a greater sum than the human mind can grasp, but when we have a man like Col. John Thomas North, with the wonderful re- sources of acoutinent at his back, you can’t tell what will happen. I don’t know what Col. North is worth, but I am told that his‘ possession; run high into the tens of mil- lions.” While I was in London I heard a number of estimates of Col. North’s fortune, and the most conservative of them put him at about $520,000,000, or $100,000,000. He is wonderfully systematic in his work, and he manages this immense sum with greater case than Jay Gould did his vast fortune. He has an office in London and he comes into this every day. He has different sec- retaries for the different branches of his business, and he gets reports from these every morning and rapidly directs what is to be done concerning them. With respect to his South American investments, he uses the cable very freely, and on some days he spends what would be a big annual salary for an ordinary man in telegraphing dis- patches. He is not at all afraid of spending money and he believes in doing everything on a grand scale. I talked with Col. North about the condi- tion of times the world over, and he told me that the outlook for good times in the near future was by no means good. Said he : “There is plenty of money in the World, but the people are afraid to inVest, and they keep it in their stockings or in the safe de- posit boxes. They arc buying safe securi- ties which bring no interest, and the out- look for speculative enterprises is bad. The trouble which followed the financial crash at the time of the Baring Bros.’ losses iv still felt. “ What do you think, Col. North, of the chances of young men who want to make fortunes? Are they as good now as they have been in the past?" “lcan’t say as to that,” replied Col. North. “This is a big world and its re- huve as yet hardly been tapped. Take South America. It is a vast confin- ent, a great part of which is filled with gold . and silver, and will in the future add mun hundred millions to the wealth of the worl . I believe that it is a good field for invest ment fro-day, and the young man who will learn the Spanish language, and who has the right spirit of enterprise and busincsw capacity, can do well there." m... Col. Gore's New Year Greetings. January lst, 10 A. st.â€"-I have the extreme pleasure, my dear sir, of wishing you a very happy New Year." 11A. ii. â€"“ My dear sir, I wish you a very happy New Year.” I 1:! M.â€"-“ A happy New Year to you, sir." I r. M.--â€"“ Happy New Year (hie) to ‘ :2 r. M.â€"“Sha i’ New Year." 3 r. .\i.~“ ‘I’ hear l'ear."" ' 4 r. Elmâ€""’1" -p Newâ€" 51'. M.â€"-”P-p-p." Kind. friends now take him home and pu‘. him to bed. Music. of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passion. and. is tlmtw which the legislator on ho to give the greatest encouragement.â€"[ apoleon. Avarice is always poor, but post: by its own fault. . . E m- can mrsa'rs Kiss. A “8" I. John 'I‘. North. the Hearst In i. No one knows just how much John T. e Afr ‘35- ‘ ._\2€~¢»~'L.W 3"“ of; ' ' g.:.v2~:I:' w... ..... ..-...._...__ v. .-.._._. mi _~' ha...“