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, secure quietude. ~ ’ HEALTH. What is Cholera? Cholera. is the exaggeration of intestinal vermicular motion. This definition, ex- plained in language less professional, would do more good than all the popular recipes for the cure of cholera ever published, because it expresses the inherent nature of cholera and suggests the principle of cure in its early stage, to the most unreflecting mind. Thepublic is none the better, or wiser,‘or safer, for one of all the ten thou- sand “ cures” for cholera proclaimed in the public prints. with a confidence which it- self is a sufficient guarantee that however Well informed the authors may be in other - matters, as regards cholera itself they are criminally ignorant; for no man has a right to address the public on any subject con- nected with its general health unless he ‘ *-.,._uuderstands that subject in its broadest sense, practically as well as theoretically. A “live ” cheese, or a cup of fishing worms may give an idea of the motion of the intes- tines in ordinary health. The human got is a hollow, flexible, tube, between thirty and forty feet long; but, in . order to be contained within the body, it is, to save space, arranged as a. sailor would a coil of rope ; forever moving in health, mov- ing too much in some diseases, too little in others. To regulate this motion is the first object of the physician in every disease. 5,5 In headaches, tbilious affections, co‘stive- ness, and the like, this great coiled-up in- testine, usually called “ the bowels," is “torpid,” and the medicines are given to wake it up, and what that does cures the man. Costiveness is the foundation, that' is, one of the first beginnings, or it is the at- - tendaut of every disease known to man, in some stage or other of its progress. But the human body is made in such a. manner that a single step cannot be taken without ' tending to move the intestines ; thus it is, in the main, that those who move about on their feet a. great deal have the least sick- ness, and, on the other hand, those who sit a. great deal, and hence move about butl little, never have sound health ; it is an impossibility, it is a rule to which I have ' never known an'exception. Cholera being a. disease in which the bowels move too much, the object should be to lessen that motion; and, as every step aman takes, increases intestinal motion, the very first thing to be done in a case of cholera, is to It requires but a small, amount of intelligence to put these ideas together, and if they in every heart, this fearful scourge would ,be robbed of myriads of its victims. There can be no cure for cholera Without x quietude, the quietude of lying on the ' back. The physician who understands his calling is always or. the lookout for the in- - stincts of nature ; and he who follows them most, and interferes with them least, is the one who is more successful. They are l worth more to him than all the rigmarole stories which real or imaginary ‘invalids'1 pour in upon the physician’s ear with such facile volubility. - 'If, for example. a physician is called to a speechless patient, a stranger. about whom i no one can give any information, he knows if the breathing is long, heavy and meas- ured, that the brain is in danger; if hei breathes quick from the upper part of the chest, the abdomen needs attention; or if the abdomen itself mainly moves in respira- tion, the lungs are suffering. In violent cases of inflammation of the bowels, the patient shrinks involuntarily from any approach to that part of his per‘ son. These are the instincts of nature, and disease. Applying this principle to cholera, or even common diarrhma when the bowels do not act more thanthree or four times a day; the patient feels such an unwillingness to motion that he even rises from his seat with the most unconquerable reluctance ; and when he has from any cause been mov- ing about considerably, the first moment of taking a comfortable seat is perfectly de- licious, and he feels as if he could almost stay there always. The whole animal creation is subject to disease, and the fewest number, compara- tively speaking, die of sickness; instinct is their only physician. Perfect quiet- ude, then, on the back, is the first, the imperative, the essential step towards the cure of any case of cholera. To this art may lend her aid towards making that quietude more perfect, by binding a cloth around the belly pretty firmly. This acts beneficially in diminishing the room within the abdomen for motion;aman may be so pressed in a'crowd as notto be able to stir. This bandage should be about a foot broad and long enough to be doubled over the belly ; pieces of tape should be sewn to one end of the flannel, and a corresponding number to another part, being safer and more effective fastening than pins. If this cloth is of stout woolen flannel it has two additional advantages, its roughness irritates the spine and draws the blood to the surface from the interior and by its claminy condi- tion of the skin which takes place in the last stages of cholera. Facts confirm this. \Vhen the Asiatic scourge first broke out bers perished ; but an. imperative order was issued in the hottest weather. that each soldier wear a stout woolen flannel abdo- minal compress, and immediately the fatal- ity diminished of Eommon looseness of bowels, he will generally find the most grateful and instantaneous relief. The secâ€" ond indication of instinct is to quench the thirst. When the disease now called cholera first made its appearance in the United States, in 1832, it was generally believed that the drinking of cold water soon after calomel was taken, would certainly cause saliva- tion; and, as calomel was usually given, cold water was strictly interdicted. Some of the most heart-rending appeals I have' ever noticed were for water, water ! I have seen the patient with deathly eagernessl mouth the finger ends of the nurse for the . could only be burnti are invaluable guides in the treatment ofl \t everything else will fail, and that it will among the German soldiery immense num- perspiration, anoverpowering debility, and a pain as if the whole intestines were wrung together with strong hands, as Washerwom- cn wring out clothing. Not being willing to take medicine, at least for a while, and no ice being presently obtainable at the first stopping place late ice cream, or rather endeavored to swallow it before it could melt. I ate quantities of it continu- ally, until the thirst was entirely abated. The bowels acted but once or twice after I began to use it. I fell asleep, and next morning was at m ofiice as usual, although I was feeble for 3 me days. This may not have been an actual case of Asiatic cholera, although it was prevalent in the " city at that time ; but it was sufficiently near it to require seine atte lion; and this is the main object of these or icles, to wit ; attention to the first symptoms of cholera when it pre- vails. According to my experience, there is only one objection to the ice cream treatment, and that is, you must swallow it without tasting how good‘it is ; it must be conveyed into the stomach as near an icy state as possible. The second step then, in the treatment of an attack of cholera, is to quench the thirst by keeping a plate of ice beside you, broken up in small pieces, so that they may bis swallowed whole, as far as practicable ;- keep on chewing and swal- lowing the ice until the thirst is most per- fectly satisfied. PRACTICAL RESULTS, The first step then, to be taken when cholera prevails and its symptoms are pres- ent is to lie down on a. bed. 2nd. Bind the abdomen tightly’with woolen flannel. 3rd. Swallow pellets of ice to the fullest extent practicable. 4th. Send for an established, resident regular physician. Touch not an atom of the thohsaud things proposed by brains as “ simple” as the remedies are rep- resented to be, but wait quietly and pa- tiently until the arrival of your medical attendant. ; But manyof my readers may be in a condi- tion, by distance or otherwise, where it is lnot possible to obtain a. physician for 'sev- eral hours, and where such a delay might prove fatal. Under such circumstances, obtain ten grains of calomel and make it !into a pill with a few drops of cold water ; dry it a little by the fire or in the sun and swallow it down. If the passages do not cease within two hours, then swallow two i more such pills and continue to swallow two more at the endle each two hours until the bowels cease to give their light colored pas- sages, or until the physician arrives. In niauy bad cases of cholera the stom- ach will retain nothing fluid or solid, cold water itself being instantly returned. A calomel pill is almost as heavy as a bullet; it sinks instantly to the bottom of the stomach and noi power of vomiting can re- turn it. 3 It would answer just as well to‘ swallow it in powder ; but the same medium which would hold it in suspension while going down, would do the same While coming up. The first objectlof a calomel pill in cholera is to stop the passages from the bowels. The treatment lis effectual, it arrests the passages within two hour; ; and in any time from four to twelve hours after being taken it effects the bowels actively, and the passages are changed from a watery thinness to a mushy thickness or consist- ency, and instead of being the colour of rice water 1 or of milk and water mixture, they} are brown or yellow, or green or dark, 0r black as ink according to the violence of the attack. Never take any thing to work (id calomel, if there is any passage withiniten hours after it is taken ; but if there is no passage from the bowels within ten, or at most twelve hours after taking calomeli, then take an injection of common water,i cool or tepid. Eating ice or drinking cold water after a dose of calomel, facilitates its operation and never can have any effect whatever towards causing saliva- tion ; that is caused by there being no actidn from the bowels, as a. consequence of the calomel, sooner than ten or twelve hours after it has beeh swallowed. My own viesz, as a result of two and three years baffling in the midst of prevalent cholera, are, that when calomel fails to cure cure every curable case. The cure of this scourge depends upon the earliness with which the means are used. It can be said with less limitation than of all other diseases together, that cholera more certainly kills if let alone, and is certainly cure-i if early attended to. What, then. is the earliest and almost universal symptom of approaching cholera ? I have never seen it named in print as such. During niypersonal experience amidst the scourgewhenit last viSil‘aed this country. I could tell iiimy own office, Without read- ing a. paper, oriseeing or speaking to a single person, the comparative prevalence of the disease from day to day' by the sensation which I will name and I hope to the benefit of thousands, and perhaps not a single reader will fail to respond to the statement from his own experience. The bowels‘ may be acting but once or less than once in twenty-four hours, the appetite may;be good, and the sleep may be sound; but there is an unpleasant sensa- tion in the belly, I do not, for the sake of delicacy,say “stomach,” for it is aperversion of terms ; it is not in the stomach, nor do I call it the abdomen. Many persons don’t know what abdomen means. 1 Thousands have such good health that they have no 9‘ realizing sense” of being the owners of such “ apparati,” or “ usses,” as the reader may fancy, and it is a great pleasure to me to write in such a manner V-that I know my reader will understand me perfectly, without having the headache. Speaking then of that sensation of tin- casiness, without acute pain, in the region named, it comes on more decidedly after an evacuationi of the bowels. In health this act is followed by a. sense of relief or comfortableness, but when the cholera influeiice is in the atmosphere, even a regular passlage is followed by something of this sort, but more and more decided Silk? 0f theflmp 01' two 0f C°1d walel' there ‘ after each action over one in twenty-four while washing the face. There are two ways i hours“ The feeiing is not an ; there is a, of quenching this thirst, cold water and ice. sense of firm-1,1853 or weariness which in. Cold water often'causes a sense of fullness or ' dines you to take a, gem, ; to sit down, may OPPr65§1°na 1min“ alw‘l‘ys Satlsfxmg i M be to bend over a. little or to curl up, if on other tunes the stomach is so very irritable . a bed_ This sensation is coming cholem, that it ‘5 (Heated in 3‘ moment" Ice (1°65 “(it i and if heededi when first noticed would save give that unplfiu‘1‘t fullness: “or does ‘l' annually, thousands. The patient should increase the thirst, as cold water sometimes remain on the bed until he felt“ if he want. d095, "While “.13 qua'nl'my re‘llm‘ed- is Very led to get up and as if it would be pleasur- Imlch Yeduced- _ :able to walk about. While observing this some Years “g0 I was V}°lent1)’_ atmoked quiet and while swallowing lumps of ice, With cholera symptoms in a railroad car. nothing 5110 1d be eaten until there is a, v , - . ’ ' . . ' . ’lne prominent- symptoms were a continuous Ideemed appghte, and what ,5 eaten should looseness of the most exhausting character, g be faring, or arrow-root, or tapioca or corn- a deathly fain tness and sickness, r. drenching starch, orwbat isbetter than all, a mush made of rice flour, or, if preferred, common rice parched as coffee, 'and then boiled, as rice is usually for the table, about twelve min- utes, then strain the liquid from the rice : return the rice to the stew pan and let it steam about a quarter of an hour, a short distance from the fire ; it will then be done, the grains will be separate; it may then be eaten with a little butter at intervals of five hours. There can be no doubt that thousands upon thousands have died of cholera who might now be living had they done nothing but observed strict bodily quietness under the : promptings of nature, the greatest and best phySician.â€"[William Watson Hall, M.D. TRADE WITH Tdfl INDIES- .‘lr. W. A. Black Talks-of the Commercial Relations Between Canada and the Islands. A reporter interviewed Mr. W. A. Black, of the Pickford & Black steamship line, Halifax, at the Queen’s Hotel, Toronto, the other day. ' The Pickford 8:, Black is the only line connecting Canada and the West Indies. The line includes four large, first-class steamers. the Alpha, the Beta, the Tay- mouth Castle and the Duart Castle, which all run from Halifax south, touching at the English. French, Spanish and Dutch islands in the “fest Indies. Two of the fleet go as far south as Demerara, British Guiana, None of the boats touch at any United States port. Asked as to the passenger traffic on the line, Mr. Black said: “ Our business as a passenger carrying line is fast increasing. In the winter we carry large numbers from the north to the south, and in the summer a great many from the south to the north. The traffic greatly increased during the past winter.” “ \Vill the World’s Fair influence your business much ?” . .. _ ' " Oh, yes ; we expect to carry a great many passengers to the exposition this summer. These are landed at Halifax and travel over the Canadian railroad lines to ‘Chicago. And thena large percentage of . I. .~.. . the West Indian exhibits were brought as | far as Halifax by our boats and thence ship- ped to the Fair.” Mr. Black went on to speak of the trade carried on between the islands and Canada, \ “ Canada exports large quantities,” said he, “of agricultural products and manufactured goods to the Indies, and this export trade is fast growing in importance as well as in favor, with the people of the islands. The chief commodities which Canada sends south aie oats, potatoes, peas, split peas, hay, flour, live stock, canned and cured meats, condensed milk in tins, cheese, fish, dried and canned, box shocks and other box ma- terials, boots and shoes, ready-made cloth- ing, cottons, patent medicines, whiskeys in the wood and in the bottle, ale and porter.” Tris Gitoiv'rH or THE TRADE. Referring to the rapid growth of the trade Mr. Black stated that it must be re- membered that only two years ago there was practically no interchange of commerce between Canada and the West Indies. At first one steamer was quite sufficient for the Demcrara service, but now two large boats were required on the route. As an evidence of the increase in the flour trade alone, while only two years ago practically no flour was shipped to the West Indies, the last boat to leave Halifax carried 2,000 barrels for these islands. Until recently the United States monopolized the flour trade. “\Vhat does Canada import from these islands?” “ Tropical fruits of all kinds, sugar, raw and refined, rum, cocoa, coffee, pimento, greenheart, cedar and other woods for the manufacture of furniture and cigar boxes, and lastly asphalt froiii Trinidad’s pitch Here Mr. Black gave the reporter an in- teresting description of the ever fruitful source of the substance with which the streets of Toronto are paved. In conclusion, the steamship owner stated that the prospects for the West Indian trade were good. The islands have in all a population of about 5,000,000, or about the same as Canada. These 5,000,000 require the articles that Canada produces, and an increasing desire is manifested by them for still closer commercial relations with the people of the Dominion. An association is at present being formed in Halifax with a view to putting on a still better footing the trade with these islands. â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"oâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Dunning: a Man-0’ -War- Strange scenes marked the weighing of the anchor of a man-of-war belonging to a \South American Government at Toulon. It is said that the officers had contracted debts amounting to about 30,000f. in the southern naval seaport. Accordingly the vessel before leaving the roadstead was sur- rounded by boatloads of excited and clam- ouring creditors, who made attempts to get on board, but were threatened by the crew - oft-he man-of-war. Both officers and men, according‘to the report, said that they would prevent anybody entering the ship at the point of the sword. The French cooks and stewards, who had been hired for the mess room of the foreign man-of- war, then left the vessel, as they were afraid that they might receive bail treat- ment during the voyage. As the creditors were unable to git on board they had themselves rowed back to shore, and lodged a complaint with the justice of the peace. A “writer” was despatched out to the foreign craft, but the captain refused to see him. Soon afterwards the man-ofâ€"war stood out to sea, and the creditors finding that the naval prefect of the port could do nothing for them resolved to bring their grievances to the notice of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. _â€"__._.-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"- Story of a Family Bible. It is said that, some time ago, at a noble. man‘s house in the neighborhood of the Marble Arch, London, a dispute arose about a certain passage which was declared to be Scriptural. A dean who was present deny- ing that there was any such text in the Bible, the sacred volume was called for. After considerable search, a. dusty old Bible, which had lain on the shelf since the death of the nobleman’s mother, several years be- fore, was produced. When the volume was opened a book-marker was found in it, which, upon examination, proved to be a bank-post bill for £40,000. \Vhy it had been placed there was never discovered; perhaps the old lady had thought it a good means of inducing her son to search the Scriptures. YOUNG FOLKS. . JAGK’S VICTORY. It is delightful to meet a boy or a girl who has learned the meaning of the words, “ Seek and ye shallfind.” There is such a , boy in the romance fields of Norseland, and of him I am going to tell you to-day. His name is Esben, but we will call him Jack for short. Jack had two brothers, Peter and Raul, and the three boys lived with their father, =whosc stock of worldly goods was small. The poor man told his sons that some day they would have to go out into the world and seek their fortunes. He had never found the way torfortuyne himself, and his two older boys grew up with no more' light to guide them than he had. Jack made up his mind that he would find the way the rest of the family had missed. . ., ‘ Not far from the poor man’s cottage lay the king’s palace, and at the side of this grew a wide-spreading oak that shut out every ray of sunshine. The king thought he ought to have sunshine as well as other people, and so he said he would give a great deal of money to any one who could cut down that oak. It may seem an easy task to cut down a tree, but it was not so in this case. The oak was of a kind that whenever one chip was made to fly from it in the usual way two chips grew in the place of the one that was gone. There was still another wish very close to the kings heart. He wanted a well that would hold water all the year. - Every one of his neighbors had such a well, but he had none. He was positively ashamed of this, and so he offered a large sum of money to any person who would dig him one. Still the well remained undug, for the palace was near the top of a hill, and it was not pos- sible to dig far without striking the living rock. ‘ At- last the king gave out far and wide I that he who could cut down the mighty oak and dig a well that would hold water all i the year should have the princess and half the kingdom. Many a man came to try his luck, you -may be sure, but the oak grew stouter and the rock remained hard. Meanwhile Jack had learned the secret of using his eyes and his ears, and. he was wide awake to all that was going on about him. He brought home the news one day of what the king had offered, and Peter and. Paul thought it would be a pretty nice 3 thing if one of them could get the princess and half the kingdom. They thought they deserved to win as well as another, and so they said they would try their luck. Jack was ready to go with his brothers, but they laughed at him. So small a chap as he wouldn’t have a. ghost of a. chance when they were along, they told him, but Jack’s father said the lad might as well go. The old man hadn’t much faith that any of them would win the princess and half the kingdom, but, like many another office seeker, he thought that by reaching for the I highest, his boys might get some kind of a. 1 job. That was all he wanted. So one bright spring day the three broth- ers set out for the palace. Before they had gone very far they came to a forest of firs, l stretching up a rising slope, and the sound of hacking and hewing among the trees above came down to them. “ I wonder what that noise can be ‘2” said Jack standing still. ’ ‘ “ Don’t stand there gaping,” cried Peter, and Paul insisted that what they heard was only a woodman at work among the trees. “ I’d like to see for myself what it is,” said Jack, and off he went, regardless of the jeers of his brothers. “Then he had made his Way up the slope, what should he find but an axe, hacking and hewing all of itself at the trunk of a tall fir. “Good-day !” said Jack. “How come you to be at work here all alone ‘2” ” I am waiting for you,” said the axe. “ Well, here I am,” cried Jack, pulling the axe from its bait, and stowing both head and haft in his scrip. His brothers greeted him with shouts of laughter, as he came back to ' them, and asked what strange thing he had found. “ It was only an axe we heard, after all,” said Jack, simply. Walking on they found themselves be- neath an overhanging clifi‘. On top of the cliff they heard the sound of digging and shovelling. “ I wonder what that can Jack, listening. “Did you never hear a. woodpecker bor- ing at a hollow tree ‘2” asked Paul, sneer- ingly, while Peter, with a superior air. bade Jack stop his silly wondering and come on. “ I’d like to see for myself what is is we hear,” said Jack, and, without paying the least heed to his brothers, he scaled the dizzy height. . There he found a spade, digging and delv- ing away of itself. “ Good day l” said Jack. “How come you to be at work here all alone ‘2” “ I am waiting for you,” said the spade. ” Well, here I am,” cried Jack, cheerilv, and knocking the spade from its handle he put both away in his scrip. It was only a spade they had heard, he told his brothers when he joined them again, and he didn’t seem to care much for the taunting words they saw fit to pelt at him. They walked on now and presently came to alittle babbling brook. The boys were pretty thirsty from their long walk, and so they lay down beside it to have a drink. “ I wonder where this water comes from?” said Jack, gazing earnestly at the crystal stream. “ What a. dunce you are with your ever- lasting wondering l” cried Peter. “ Have you never heard how water rises from a spring in the earth '3” “ Yes, but I’d like to see for myself where it comes from,” said Jack, and away he sped, following the course of the brook. His brothers bawled after him vain ; nothing could stop him, and Paul declared that if the boy were not mad now he soon would be mad. If he kept on racking his be l” cried brain so foolishly. The brook grew narrower and narrower as Jack went on, until at length he came to a. large walnut. Out of this the water trickled and ran. “ Good day l” said Jack. “ How came you to be trickling and running here all alone ‘2” “ I am waiting for you, nut. “ \Vell, here I am,” cried Jack, and seiz- H said the wal- ,__'_A_-_-_.-s- Putting the walnut in his scrip, he that ran back to his brothers. “ It was only a hole the water ran out of, after all,” he said, in reply to their mocking questions, and it did not seem to trouble him in the least, however much they might scofi and sneer at him. He knew what he knew, and so he had the best of it. In: due time they came to the palace. Peter and Paul tried their luck in turn, ancl made such sad failures of it that they were sent home in disgrace. Their impudence and worthlessness had put the king so completely out of sorts that he did not feel very well-disposed towards Jack when he found the lad was their brother. He told him curtly he could be sent home in disgrace easily enough, with- out the trouble of a trial. ‘ ” I’d like to see for myself what I can do,” said Jack, and the king let him havd his way. Quietly taking the axe from his scrip, the lad lifted it to its hafr. and cast it at the. tree. “ Hew away 2” said he, and the axe be-- gan to hack and to hew until the chips fiew‘ so swiftly in all directions there was no; time for any to grow in their place. It was not long before the majestic treo lay prostrate on the ground. and the king’l palace was flooded with sunshine. ‘Then Jack took the spade from his scrip, and, fitting it into its handle ‘thrust it into th. earth. V “ Dig away l” cried he and at once a, showor of crumbled "earth and rock was whirling about him. It was not long before as fine a well as ever you saw was ready to hold water all the year. As soon as it was large enough to suit him, Jack took the walnut from his scrip, laid it in one corner of the well and pulled the moss out of the hole. “Trickle and run 1” said Jack, and the water gushed from the hole in a. swift stream. V In less time than I can tell you the well was full. So Jack got the princess, who was the loveliest maiden in the world, and half the kingdom. The wedding was the grandest you ever knew, and they all lived happily together to the end of their days. And if you, my young readers, will keep your eyes and ears open, and lose no chance to see and learn,‘you too will find the way to win the prize you best deserve. W A Thankless Sinner. A reader was looking over an old news paper the other day, when he found the following incident, which he thought would v bear reviving : It was in an English hospital. The chap- lain was making his morning rounds when he met a porter. “ How’s Robinson this morning ‘2” he ask ed, “ ’Ee’s dead, sor,” answered the porter. “ Dead l” “ Yes, sor.” “ But why didn’t you call me.’ I might have been able to comfort the poor fellow a little in his last moments.” “ Hi comforted ’m myself, sor.” “ You? Indeed 1 And what did you say to comfort him 2” “ Hi said to ’im ‘ Robinson, Hi suppose you know you’re werry sick ?’ “ ‘Yes,’ says ’ee. “ ‘ Robinson, Hi suppose you know you can’t last long.’ “ ‘ Yes,’ says ’ee. “ ‘ Robinson, Hi suppose you know you’ve been werry wicked.’ “ ‘ Yes,’ says, ’ee. “ ‘ Robinson, Hi suppose you know you can’t go to heaven.’ “ ‘ Yes,’ says ’ee. “ ‘ Well, Robinson,’ says Hi, ‘ you ought to be werry thankful that there’s a place provided for you fellows to go to.’ ’ “ ‘ Yes, says ’ee:’ “ And then ’ee turned ’is face to the wall an died without even thanking me for com. forting ’im.” mrrible Death of a Welsh Girl. .On Friday morning a girl named Mary Jones, fourteen years of , age, residing near nynnon Oswald, near Holywell, died at Holywell Workhouse after lingering and astonishing suffering. The deceased was a. domestic servant at Gorsedd Schoolhouse, and whilst attending to the fires in the or- dinary course of her work her clothes be- came ignited. In her fright the girl ran into the fields, but she was seen and follow- ed and the fire was extinguished, but not before she had been fearfully burnt upon her legs and side. After she had been attended to by. her employer, she was re- moved to her parents’ home. Here she re- mained for some weeks, her condition being pitiable, as she was unable to lie, and had to remain in bed resting on her knees and. forehead. Ultimately the girl was conveyed to the workliouse, where it was found that some bandages that had been placed upon the wounds had actually become embedded in her flesh. Although no vital part had been injured by the fire, the girl died from exhaustion after enduring the frightful agony. A Village 50.000 Years Old- Pompeii is but of yesterday and the Pyramid of Cheops of the day before, as compared, in point of antiquity, with the village which Mr. Armand Vire has discov- ered in the department of Seine-et-Marine, France. It is a prehistoric village of the neolithic or new stone age. The founda- tions of a whole street, showing remarkable regularity in the building have been un- earthed. The fire-place of one of the cabins is intact. It is of baked clay and of great thickness, exactly such a fireplace as M. Vire has seen among the Kabyles of the Djurjura, in Algeria. There are still cinders in the place. the residue of the fires at which the primeval men warmed themselves and roasted their supper. 'Why tileâ€"Was There. The prisoner before the Police Court bar had been there before many a time. “ I’d like to know,” [said the judge, “ why you get here so often?” “ It’s the only placein town where I can get credit, your honour,” was the ambiguous reply. “ Well, you haven’tmuch credit here, I can tell you.” - “Maybe so, your honour, but just the same I’m always charged with something ing a bit of moss, he stopped up the hole to When I come," and the 00““ 83"“ mm if“ keep the water from flowing out. 1 days extra. I: