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' ‘ “1‘3. 1-: aazaw_w..MW .M...._m. ;: is; Q. , N0 725 A ND COMMENTS. A good deal of speculation has been indulged in as to the pomibility of comâ€" municating with Mars. the planet which nearly rambles the earth. Assuming that Mars is inhabited by beings like ourselves, and under conditions m- uembling our own, various plans have been seriously proposed for attracting their attention. Among these schemes are illuminations of a large portion of the earth's surface, repeated with such regularity as to convey to the Mar- tials the idea of design; pyrotechnic diz+ plays in set figures; sun flashes, search- light signals, and, latest of all, Mr. Nikola Tesla's plan of artificial electric disturbances. The transmission to the earth in the form of thunder showers of electric disturbances in the sun Mr. Tesla regards as conclusive proof that waves of electricity are propagated through all space. It should not, then. be an impossible matter to create an artificial disturbance on the earth’s surface which would produce sufficient effect upon Mars to arouse the attenr ticn of its intelligent inhabitants. The feasibility of this and other schemes must, of course, depend upon the existence of beings on Mars not only with much the same organization as ourselves. but with intelligence equally developed, and possessed of like artificial aids to sight. Evidence of those conditions is not though many observers deem the arguâ€" ments in favor of their existence plausible. Certain bright points, or prominences. on Mars have seemed to some astronomers to be fires or lights artificially created by the Martials in order to attract the attention of the dwellers on other planets. More con- vincing still are the bright lines or streaks on the surface of Mars, which are thought to be canals, though the fact that they are not permanent, and at times appear to double,tends some.- what to invalidate the theory. For acceptance of the theory that they are artificial waterways must also invnlve belief that the construction of some of them is at once followed by so rapid a. development of traffic that they have to be paralleled. Perhaps a more reasonable theory. and certame one more calculated to endow the Martials with like intelligence‘with ourselves, is that they are clothes lines, the light reflected being, not that of water, but of clean linen. It would,beside, account fully for their lack of permanence, the lines being in use only on wash days; while the theory that they are controlâ€" led by government would explain their great length. The doubt remains, however, whethâ€" er the people on Mars, assuming them to exist, are at a stage of development nearly approximating our own, especi- ally as respects sight and the aids thereto. Unless they are in nearly the same stage, the attempt to communi- cate with them must prove futile. Ac- cepting the theory that civilization dif- fers with the amount of solar heat re- ceived by different. portions of a plan-’ ct, it seems probable, as Mars is remote from the sun, that the Martinis are far behind us in knowledge, and wholly ignorant of telescopes. The dwellers in our own frigid zone are, we know. greatly the inferiors of those in the temperate zones; and reasoning from that analogy, it is not unfair to as- sume that the Martinis are so illy de- veloped as to rench any attempt at communication useless. Moreover, even if we could attract their attention by sun flashes or electric disturbance. and be quite certain that we had done so, how in communication to be carried any further? To create any useful communicd‘tion, it would be necessary to so associate our signals with concrete things as to establish a comprehensible code of signs. But. how could we im- press upon the Martinis the. idea that so many sun flashes meant a canal, and so many a clothes line. and so sat- isfy our curiosity as to which of the two the bright streaks on this planet really are? “'ithout scientific discov- eries now undreamed of, the probabil- ity is that we should never get beyond an exchange of flashes. A FORTUNATE HABIT. Read This and It may s'nvc You From Dcth sonic Du). Among the various instructions given for the guidance of persons in imminent I danger of bcing struck down by a street car is one which urges the person inl i danger to seize the car and hang on to it, if it. should be so near thatcsmpc is impossible. The value of this rccom~ meudation was shown recently in Bul- timorc. A fire engine was coming down a crow slrcct \Vllllt' a trolley car was gm‘ng at right angles. The motorman : P iut on full power to speed his car ra id- v. in order l9 cross the street before the fin- cnginc. A tall locomotive en- gineer was standing in the middle of , the track. watching the fire engine. He? did not see the approaching car. nor did ' the motor-man ace him. Every one. held‘ his breath. expecting to see him dashed ‘ to 'ccce. The car “as within 20 feet of im. going at full speed. when hel realili his position. Instead of trying. to rush off I 9 track. he caiml reach-i ed out. took hold of the to i of t conclusive, _ SOCIALâ€"Emma The Ten Commandments do not cover the whole ground of modern immoral- it)". Of course they tabulate certain grave elcmlntal crimes, the infraction Of which brings society to hopeless ruin; but they do not touch on vices like bet- misdemeanors, however. are many and grievous, and fertile in pain and annoy- ance to those who suffer therefrom. In the matter of invitations now. what criminals some people are! They send you a friendly and informal invi- tation to dinner, worded so that you expect no one but the family as it is. You go in your tidiest home gown, but it is a home gown at the best, and you find an assemblage of eighteen. all pranked in festal array, whereby you are made to look like a dingy London Sparrow among humming birds and par- rakeets. Or contrariwise, you get a formal card presaging a-"statcly spread," and you find a shabby, little. irregular bunch of five, among whom one man is in his morning coat and the ladies are all “high up to the throat." The discrepancy between the form and the thingâ€"the implied prom- ise,and the practical fulfillmentâ€"is one of the social crimes for which the per- petrator should be somehow made re- sponsible. It may not be so bad as theft or murder, but it is bad enough in all conscience, and looms very large in that list of social crimes of Which all good conformists do well to take heed. - Side by side with this crime is that otherâ€"delay in answering invitationsâ€"â€" which makes the life of an intending hostess a veritable burden to her, and adds so infinitely to her difficulties. In spite of the request, in the corner, for an early anSWerâ€"in suite of the gen- eral knowledge that this early answer is essential to the peace of mind of the hostess and the success of the dinner â€"-the unconscicntious among the an_ll3- ed neglect this primal law of soctal morality, and keep back the answer for daysâ€"perhaps a weekâ€"for no good rea- son whatever. One of the' most flagrant. instances of this not uncommon socral immorality was in the action of a cer- tain lady, who neglected for a. whole week to answer a. dinner mutation. The intending hostess called; left a card with a penciled query: "Am I to have the pleasure of seeing you and Mr. â€"â€" on the 18th? The next morning came a curl; and formal acceptance, without. a word of a ology for the de- lay. At 7 o’clock on he day of the din- norâ€"which was for 8â€"a note was brought regretting unavoidable absence, as Mr. â€"â€" had a. bad cold. Now here was crime upon crimeâ€"a Pelion upon 055:). of social misdemeanors, either of which ought to have been sufficient to insure ostracism up to a certain point. Another case, just as had, was thahof a young man who was engaged to dine with all due ceremony at a rather im- portant dinner. At the eleventh hour he sent an excuse. The day was fine; he had an offer of a moonlight row on the river; the temptation was too strong for his social virtue to resist. He‘th‘rew over his hostess and the dinner, and chose the moonlight instead. Needless to say he had his reward; and the doors of that special house'werc forever after closed against him. , Another social crime is the intrusion of comparative strangers on your priv- acy, indifferent to the fact. that you have a day when you are at home to your world of aeguaintanccs not tak- ing rank as .friends. These comparative strangers have no right to call on you at all. They have neither asked leave nor been requested; but. suddenly, for their own convenience and to while away an unoccupied hour, they make an in- cursion out. of calling time and not on your day of reception, and plant them- selves thcre. like old and intimate friends. This. too, is a. social misde- meanor that. deserves both punishment and rebuke. Of the same class is ne- glect to return a. formal visit which the one has prayed the other to make. “'hen acquaintance has ripened into friendship, then the counting of visits, to and from, is an indignity and ridicu- lous. But while things are. in the. early stages, before the husk has been removed or the starch washed out, we ‘huve to be careful and exact; and a "blazer" in an evening party is not more. out of place than the careless freedom of intimacy attempted with one who is q only on the first line of an undeveloped acquaintance. To intentionally ovordress for a small and informal gathering is. again, a so- cial crime mcriting (instigation. To in- tentionally undcrdn-ss for a gorgeous affair of diamonds and orders, is the same crime turned round and showing the other side. The one man is an 05- tentatious kind of reproach which brings shame and confusion into the ranks of the entertainerâ€"a reproach of poverty and meanness. of insufficiency and be- ing below the mark. unpleasant enough to the one on whose head this special vial has been poured out. The other is in its essence an arrogant insult. as who should say: “ You are not worth makin a fuss about. Your best is only uralle with my second-rate. when all is said and done. I. in my older clothes, and by no means "spiffy" in my get-up, am uite as ood as vou in your dia- mon s and or erS' and so 1 would have you understand." This was the verbal translation of that famous appearance. when a man of light and leading in his own way arrived at Mrs. B's grand evening party. in muddy boots and with trousers turned up over the ankles. On the same plane. as far as heinousncss and serial offense is concerned, is the d ,sin of unpunptuality. which in its spe- aSh‘ l rial essence 13 also an arrogant insult Nd. and 5“““fi hims“! “1’ 5° as to i and the very soul of ill-breeding. gain a footing on the narrow ledge’ which runs around the front of the 'l‘hesc are the chief of what we ma . call the circumstantial crimes of whic dashboard. His escape seemed to thelghosfi gn society an. Emmy, The more bl‘filflpdt‘rs almost miracmous- bl" he i spiritual misdemeanors are even worse. 611’“de “(WI‘WGT‘B ‘3 ‘ Weret "mt Chief of these spfruual immoralitics is it was the rule unong all locomotive en- , glut-ere when the are on the track and i a locomotive is a vane-lug to jump upon the coucntchcr and hold on. He simply I followed the some rule. and did not re- l Jilin that he use in any danger wining |‘\"\l . the habit of av speaking in general. and specially of evil-speaking against those from whom vou have just this moment accepted hospitality. Those sncers at the dinner! those pibes at the music! those ill-natural icsls to the disfavor of the host, of the lustcss. 1118. gambling, drinking, extravagance ~which yet are disastrous and perni- cious enoughâ€"and they do not so mm‘h as brush the skirts of those misdemean- ors we have called social crimes; which of the guests. of the whole arrange- ments! How hateful they all are! and what a bad heart. if not a weak-fem ther-headed brain, they show! This indeed is one of the worst social crimes we know, coming as it does into the category of immoralities of a profounder nature than itself. All this group of faults needs the knife: and none are more _common. And none are more contagious for the one partâ€"more deep- seated for the other. The habit of ill- nature is like a cancer that eats daily deeper and. deeper into the flesh. poi~ sonmg the blood, and finally destroyin the life, which here means truth an charity. “'e may attack types as vigorously as possible. but individuals should be sacred. \Vhere the cap fits. so much worse for the head whereon it IS set; where the individual falls into the ranks of the type, the lash cast round his shoulders is undirected by the design of the. executioner. This is a very different thing from the per- sonal ill-nature which permeates soci- ety and eddies round in poisonous talk, besmirching all on whom it fallsâ€"that dishonorable and dishonest treachery which smiles in the face and stabs at. the back, which pretends friendship and practices hostility. Yet how many of this kind one knows in what. is called the world! People of whose loyalty no one can be sure, disloyal indeed as they are all. Yet we are simple enough to think that we individually shall be ex- empt. iveryone else, but not we. The sugar given to us is pure, though that to others is poisoned through and through. \Vhen we come to the knowâ€" ledge that we fare just as badly as those others, we. are then indignant, and cry, "Who would have thought it i" hold- ing up our hands in horror at the trea- chery every one could see but we our- selves. Cognate with this crime is that other â€"the betrayal of confidencesâ€" with its weaker shadow, the retailing of gossip and _the repeating of conversations, qua-stâ€"confidential and not meant to be repeated. All these are different shades of the same thing; and a bad thing it is. More than half the mischief that takes .place in society has its rise in this dishonorable chatterâ€"now repeat- ing things not meant to be scattered broadcast; now carrying from house to house that hideous ragbag of gossip; now more gravely breaking trust, and betraying positive confidences, to the infinite damage of all concerned. Is it not Horace who says that even a quarâ€" rel w1t_h your friend does not absolve you,_hts confidant, from the duty of keeping sacred his confidenccs? And if not a. quarrel, where it is to be supâ€" posod there has been wrong on both Sidesâ€"you naturally thinking the wrong done to you as big as a mountain. and yours done to him no heavier than a ossamer threadâ€"then assuredly not or idleness; not for the desire to show {Bur own importance and how you have en trusted; not for the bascr love of destroying the prestige of others. that you may appear all the whiter and high- er; not for any of the puerile motives which create that mean wretch. a gosstp, are you justified in betraying what has been confided to your honor. The betruyer of confidences is a social criminal of the deepest dye; and though he does not come into the list of the Ten, he is in the index expurgatorius, together With his brother, the “Mau- valsc langue"â€"him of the bitter speech and ill-natured commentary. . Social crimes are that heedless speak- ing before strangers of religion, poli- tics and eople, by which we so often tumble athoms deep into conversa- tional. bogs, and that ferret-eyed in- quisitiveness which wants to know. you know, all and everything there is to k.an about all and every one within ball. This last is a common hotel fault, and the others are rather of the drawâ€" lng room and the club. Of the mis- takes made by the unwary about people anecdotes are rife; and ludicrous enough are the efforts by which the culprit has sought his release from that coil wherein he did so wilfully entan le him- self. "'l'hat ugly woman?"â€""l\ y wife” â€"“No, that other‘l"â€"“My sister," is the norm of all the rest. For almost always these incautious blabbers speak in (llspraisc, not in praise, and so are flung over the rocks, with no hope of redemption. No man pities them. for when we come to think of it.it is an evil thing to fall foul of even the looks of an unoffcnding stranger. against whom you can have no kind of grudge. If she be homely to the extent of hideous- ncss, what business is it of‘yours to say so? Can not you keep your opin- 1011 to yourself? Are you the edile sent out to arrange the world's standard of good looks, with leave and license to trounce. all those who do not come up to the mark? Behind that homely mask â€"we will call it muzzle if you willâ€"- may hide a soul of purest: loveliness. And this goes further in the long run than the most exquisite face that ever made your dreams" like hours spent in Paradise, with a vacant mind or acor- rupted heart. As for religion or politics. he who in- troduces among strangers these vexed uestions must be such an absolute idiot as to call forth pity rather than con- demnatton. It is one of the first things we are taught to avoidâ€"one of the first practical lessons we receive while we are yet young and callow and ignorant of the precepts of worldly wisdom. In these days of multifarious shades of faith. and passionate partisanship in politics. reticence is more and more im- perative, and it behooves us to keep a. calm sough indeed, if we would not come to humiliation. \Vith excitable folk politics act. as the proverbial red rag to the bull. Discussion is impossible. Fury in attack and unbridled wrath in de- dcfencc are like the clangin of sword and shield. And only fear 0 that hel- meted and blue coated guardian of the public peace. stolidly marching out.- Side. keeps the belligerents from fisti- cuffs and mutual pummeling. Social crime as the discussion is, the combat- ants have sense enough not to let it broaden out into a legal misdemeanor; but_ at the best. it is a sin which adds to its sinfulness the further disgrace of being a blunder. ADVERTISING IN LONDON. It is estimated that £4,000,000 is spent in advertisements and that something like 1.500.000.000 copies of newspapers are sold in London every year. NOT IN IT. _ Pap'a. said little Johnny. they’re not In I. ‘ '0' What are not in it, m be 3 Why the other twenty- our otters of the alphabet. A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise than by inspect- injf everything in his {wayâ€"Sir P. .‘Sic my. l fimum THE HUUSl. The (‘hlcl’ or the Mcxlran Central Railroad “'cnt Away on a Long Trip. Leavlng Mrs. “'cllmnn In Charge of the House --â€"-Thc Itqu Re Found on Ills Return. Several weeks ago President A. A. Robinson, of the Mexican Central Rail- road started on a long trip through the Southwest, taking his wife and fam- ily with him. Not wishing to leave their house. which was one of the hand- somcst in Topeka, Kim" to the cure of the servants alone, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- inson invited Mrs. Ida. \Vellman. a HOMEâ€"COMING \VELCOME OF A GENTLEMAN AND FAMILY. friend of many years' standin‘ g, to oc- Mrs. cupy it. during their absence. \Vellman promptly accepted the invi- tation. ' "And you are to feel perfectly free in it. Ida," said Mrs. Robinson, as she bade the vice-mistress of the mansion good-by. “If you want to entertain. by all means do 30. Everything here is at your disposal. You are to act just as if the house were your own.” This is exactly what Mrs. \Vellmanl did, with the result that the Robinson house is now probably one of the most extraordinary dwelling (places in the country. Very shortly after the depar- ture of the owners, Mrs. lWellman began to develop ideas of her own huh- erto latent. First she turned her at- tention to the parlor, which was cor- petcd with a very handsome carpet of floral design. This failed tlo coincide with her idea. of the fitness of things. She went down town for two carpet men. To them she proceeded to ex~ pound her theories. ' “Flowers were never meant to be They should not be put in a. carpet. Being there, we have uvo remedies. Either r Me ‘an cut the flowers out and give them a chance to grow, or take the carpet up and fix it where it won‘t be trodden on under foot. Go to work.” But the carpet men didn't like the job, and they said so. IN GREAT \VRATH Mrs. \Vellman dismissed them and sent for three carpenters, who, under her supervision, took up the flowerâ€"strewn carpet and nailed it firmly to the ceil- mg. "\Vhere,” said Mrs. \Vellmnn, trium- phantly, “I don't think anybody will tread on it unless the human fly comes around this way." In the big Robinson [library hang. the Robinson ancestors done in oils. a half dozen of them. To these Mrs. \Vellman next turned her attention. Reform was necessary, and she was just the woman to bring it about. She sent for a. frame maker and an impecu- nious painter of signs, and set to work to bring those ancestors up to the mark. i "Now there’s the greatâ€"great-grandâ€" father," said she to the framer. "From" all I hear of him he. was a piratical old scalawng. He ought to have been: behind the. bars. Maybe he was for all} I know. Any way. we’ll put; him there: now. I want a strong iron grating made to cover the whole front of the picture.” - A“ It was done as ordered. “And old Andrew Robinson," she continued, turning ‘to the painter. “Just look what that fool of an artist} has made of him. I want that nose! painted the reddcst red you’ve got in: your box.” ; So the ancient Andrew was decorated! with a. proboscis that fairly threw ai gleam over the rest oflhe portraitsi Another ancestor appealed to the censori as posseSSing potentialities of beauty if he were shaven, so his beautiful Van Dyke beard disap seared under a blob of paint. Still nnot er didn't appeal to- her at all, and it few broad splashes ofi black relegated him 'to an ' obscurityl denser than antiquity itself. Not one! of the lot escaped free. Here it. .wzisl an eyebrow, there a lock of hair, that, had to be changed. The progenitors of the Robinson family looked like a col-i lection of TEA-STORE CHROMOS when Mrs. \Vellman got through wilhi them. i \Vhile this was going on nobody out-i side knew anything about it. but soon‘ after there was a public scandal. it! arose from Mrs. \Vellmun's scheme for! morning bathing. At. her orders the. guest chamber was fitted out with ai hanging bath tub swung over the bed which could be filled and overturned by a mechanical device operated from without, the idea being to give the sleeper the morning ablutions before using. \Vllen it was all fixed she filled the tub and invited an ancient maiden lady of high repute for godliness, clem- liness. and eneral excellence of charac- ter to spen the night there. At bed- time the ancient maiden lady was conducted to the .chzunber. At 7 o'clock on the followin morning the ancient maiden lady, loo ing like Aph- rodite new risen from the sen, rushed forth.from the Robinson mansion. pro- claiming in a loud voice that Mrs. “ell- man had abtemp ted to murder her. That barely escaped being a police case. Nor was the damage to the visitor all. Very carelessly the designer of the niatutinnl bath had neglected to irovide for the drainage of the water. .t leaked through upon the parlor ceil- ing carpet, saggcd that down, and final- ly causcd its fall, smashing all the bric- u-brac in the lroom. Cleanliness was her next fad. She soaked all the Orien- tal rugs and curtains in boiling walcr, With amazing results of shrinkage lo the designs, She “wished the piano in- side and out, which didn't decrease its usefulness as an ornament, but serious- ly affected its tone and tune. the ar- ranged for a streamlet of running wa- ter to "purl," as she poctically called it, from the kitcth faucets throughthe dining room in a zinc-lined trough, and empty into the garden. "In time I shall have my watercress alnél ducks fresh from the brook," said 3 . . When the waterworks‘man came up to complain of the waste consequent upon_a Stead ' flow, she turned the hose on him. on t e principle of "like cures like}: Being threatened with arrest. she finally gave over her watercress and duck scheme and started in upon 1hr servants. The cook she ordered to wear bloomch and the second girl was. to take bicycle lessons, so that she could wmt on table on the wheel. Whm they L!qu 001.208. the prom )lly raised their Wages 8": a month 830 , and pro- trodden on. vllldtllllS. In the miscd to forage her ideas about bloom- ers and bicycles it they would learn to pl the banjo. so that they could sero- na 43 her at night, in company With tho watchman. who was learning the comet. . \l'lthitl. Mrs. \Vellmun was ex ‘ ‘ ing life immenseLv, but it disturbe her soul to think that the chickens. horses and dogs about the lace were not fare mg as Well as she. ‘hey ought to have all the comforts of home, too. she do. l‘ltlt‘d; so she employed a- force of car- penters and had stables put IN THE READING ROOM and a row of sanitary hencoops in the conservatory. as it pro oration for on- tertaining the live stir." in style. Her ideas expanded with time. One morn- ing she confided to tho ooachman that she didn't believe in the prevailing fashr‘ ion of arranging furniture. A grace- ful abandon “as what suited her, she said. With the aid of two other mcn. hired for the purixwe, be transported all the down stairs furniture to the up- r hall at the head of the big stairway. y way of attaining her graceful aban- don. Mrs. Wellnnin slid the bulky arti- cles down the stairs and dropped the small om‘s over the bunisters. The reâ€" sult was a brilliant success, particularâ€" ly as regards such furniture as was fit- ted with loss doors. The Robinson front hall ooked liked a railway wreck in full bloom when Mrs. Wellman had finished. ‘ It was 'ust when she had worked out these to er own satisfaction and was about to enter upon work at her scheme of removing the second floor and substi- tuting a hanging garden that the Hub- insons returned. Rumors 'of some-thin wrong had reached them. They wen‘ direct to the house. where they were greeted by Mrs. \Vcllman, who was su- perintending the unloading of two dozen ilters just arrived from New York. "Come right in," she cried hospitnbly. “I've had :1 glorious time. I'm lsuro you’ll like the arrangements. There are a. few bills for carpenter work and such’i things, but you won't mind those when you see what I’ve done." ; They didn’t. All thoughts of bills‘ or a-nythin else were forgotten when they bohclt the wreck of their parlor. the_ruininthc front hall, thcremninn o irrigation in the dining room, and t. eir fiery-nosed ancestor looking out over avista of improved stables and sani- tary chickencoops. What tlicysaidl has not transpired, but Mrs. \Vcllmun dc.- clzu'ed indignantly that she would go home whcre she was appreciat- ed. the llobinsons are now in a. boarding house waiting for their home to be made inhabitable. Mrs. \Vcll- man is m the insane asylum. ANTITOXIN. FF! Favorable Itcport on Its l'sc In the London Ilonplluln. ' The report of the London Board of Metropolitan Asylums shows the reâ€" sults obtained in six hospitals in which antitoxin has been employed in thd treatment of diphtheria. In 1894, bu- fore antitoxin was employed, there were 8042 cases of diphtheria in the six hos-y ipitals, and 902 of the patients rcprw- scnting a. mortality of 29.6 per cent. In 1895 the-re were 3529 cases and 796 deaths wprcscnling a. mortality of 222.5 per cent., or of 7.1 per cent. below that of the previous year. The reduction. the report says, must. be fairly set down to the use of antitoxin, for there was no other change in the treatment. The average Schrity of the disease was about the mine in the two years, while the proportion of juvenile patients, to whom the disease is most. fatal, was somewhat larger in 189:) than in lth. But these figures do not tell the whole. tale, for the new‘ drug was not. usml in all the crises, winch cumc'undcn treatment, but, as u. rule, only in the seven-r cases. The lives preserved; therefore, were just those which were most likely to belost. The results at the Northern lumpitul in postscarlatinal CilSi'S were more favourable still. in 1895 them were 119 (uses and four three prcvmus ycam an aggregate of 119 . 'l‘hc there had been ' cuss-s and seventynrnve deaths. -rt-ilu_ction in l895 is ascribed by the Illt'lilClll superintendent wiholly to lhel use of antuoxiu, which caus'd the rt'l- covvry of cases which would formed] have lX’l'll regarded as hopeless. in order, however, to suture the full of:- lcct of the drug, it. is necessary that. it should be employed at. an early stage of the dist-use. So allruinistcrcd, it served in 1895 to reduce mortality from. 22.5 to 4.6 per cent, in cast-s which came undi-r treatment on the first day of the disease, and from 27 per cent. to 14.8 in cases which wine under treatment: on the second day. in laryngeal and tracheotomy cant-s it has also been marlsl edly efficacious. -â€" 7â€" â€".~â€"«â€"â€" vâ€"~ SUGAR IN TOBACCO. 'l‘hrcc Kinds Discovered llcrclofore I‘l- lunm n to ('hcmlsls- The last number of the "New Bullo- tin" (English) contains some parlivu). lars of a. Very interesting problvm, which some years ago was submitted by the Treasury to the Kew authority. The question was: Does natural hug]- aroccur in loiiacmn’ and in the invosti» gition of this point some striking facts have been brought to light. The 'l‘rvau- ury authorilics were. of course, chief,» ly interested frcm a fiscal point of: view, lhc_lluly on tobacco (other than cigars) being is fill, excl-pt in the «use of "Mycclont-d“ lulucco, which IS citarg} ed at 45 Hill. but cigarettes madr of the sworelvnl'd article are not allowed to be. imported at. all. flit-fore this inâ€" vestigation H- was generally admitted that tobacco did not (:ulllfllll more than a trove of saccharine matter. On the; advice of l’mf._ Church. Ur. Hugo .‘llllcl‘ was called in, the latter making a thorough rxmmnation of the (lifesthn. Commercial samples of bright \ir tuna loiacco. undoubtedly free flow adu teration, were found to mutations much as 15.2 per cent. of saccharine matter. Sum-dried loaves of nimliuna lalncum. grown at Kmv, conlauml ".2 per cent. and those of the saint: i-gmcieI-l grown at How“ railwa ' station as murli 3:4. fl .pcr (will. llr. MI in finds the «au- cliarine nmllcr to be optically inart- in: when tested by the polariscopc. lie is of the opinionth muffler vane bum- ;ir nor glucose c; present in the pan- vhanme mam-r. but limb]! is costumed. of at ivabt .three sugary-like: minimums. prolably hitherto unknown. ..