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This privilege was never contested, it appears by former owners, but when rewntly Mr. Menier undertook the island's development,not only as a private forest and game pre- serve but as a colony of farmers and fishermen, he desired to control the use of the shores as well as the interior of his purchase; It is said that he has tried to drive fishermen beyond the three-mile limit; but that the Domin- lon Government would not permit; Anticosti is in the Gulf of St. Law- rence at the mouth of the St. Law- rence River, and is, of course familiar to Canadian fishermen. Such of these as hold licenses for fishing within the three-mile limit insist on their right to land there. and one report is that Mr. Menier, or, rather, his agent and Governor, Mr. Comettant, does not propose to debar them absolutely, but to subject them to his rules, and to make them pay for the privilege. Their amertion is that they acquired their rights from the old company, and that Mr. Menier's purchase ,was subject thereto. Thus two questions really arise, one being that of the legal rights respectively of Mr. Menier and the fishermen, and the other the question of force or of peace. As to this last, which is perhaps the most urgent, although Governor Com- ettant has at his command the steamer Savoy, which makes regular 'trips to the mainland, and also, according to one account, an armed craft called the Valleda, yet the Gulf fishermen are numerous and apt to be pugnacious in standing up for their rights. But there are at least half a dozen cruisers in the Dominion fishery protection fleet within easy call, and one, La Canadi- enne, has its station just opposite Anâ€" ticosli. \Ve‘ may therefore, conclude that the peace will be kept in Spite of all menaces, and that the respective rights of the chocolate millionaire and the Gulf fishermen will be quietly de- termined by the Govrnment or the courts. DESERVED A DECORATION. A Son (‘uptuiu Who “'ould Not leave a “'oumlcd Seaman. The Queen has conferred the decora- tion of the Albert medal of the first class on Mr. William John Nutman. late master of the steamer Aidar, of Liverpool. The following is an account of the services in respect of which the decoration has been offered: At 2 a.m. on January 19, while the steamer Staf- fordshire, of Liverpool, was on a voyage from Marseilles to Port Said, signals of distress were observed to be pro- ceeding from the steamer Aidar, also of .l.iverpool, and the Staffordshire im- mediately proceeded to her assistance. As the Aidar was found to be sinking fast, three of the Staffordshire’s life- boats were at once launched, and, with great difficulty, owing to the darkness and the heavy sea, succeeded in rescu- ing,r her passengers and crew, twentyâ€" ninc in number. At 6:10 a.m. the only crsnus left on the Aidar were Mr. .‘utman (the master) and an injured and helpless fireman whom he was en- dcavoring to save, and whom he abso- lutely refused to abandon. The steam- er was now rapidly settling down, and as it was no longer safe to remain near her the officer in charge of the res- cuingboat asked Mr. ’utman for a final answer. He still persisted in reâ€" lllnining with the injured man, choos- ing almost to face u‘rtain death than to leave him to his fate. The men in the boat were obliged to pull away, and inuncdiately afterwards, at 6:17a. m., the Aidar gave one or two lurches and foundercd. After she disappeared Mr. Nutman was seen on the bottom of an upturned boat still holding the fireman. Half an hour elapsed before the rescuing boat could approach.but eventually Mr. Nutman and the fire- man were picked up and taken on board the Staffordshirc, where the injured man was with difficulty restored by the ship's surgeon. GREAT PARKS OF THE \VORLD. Hyde Park. the most distinctive of London parks. covers nearly 400 acres. The Paris Bois de BouJogno covers 2,- 200 acres. Central Park. the. moat dis- tinctive of New York parks. covers 840 Icrcs. Collectivelyâ€"and including those parks in suburbsâ€"there are in Lon- don 32,000 acres of park land. Includ- ing as parks the neighboring forests of Foutaiucbicau. _wilh 42,000 acres, and St. Germain. wrth 13.000, the park acre- age of Paris is 172.000 acres. * _._.___+_â€"â€"â€"â€"- BRITISH CENSUS. Population continucs to steadily ad- Vuncc in the Biitish Islands. The Beâ€" gistrar Gcneral estimates that on June so the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland numbered 39.466429? persons tugmud is; credited with 30,731,092; Seozland with 4.156.894. and Irelan; with 4.546.736. It is not the proper thing to 5m {bag 1 man will make a good husband. It is the. wife who mach the good husband. The lad ours only are the self-made article. TREATMENT OF SPRAINS. \Ve often hear it said that “a sprain is worse than a break ;" and as far 85 pain and the time which usually elapses before the trouble remedied are con- cerned, the statement may be cor- rect. r One great hindrance to the speedy cure of sprains lies in the. fact that not. sufficient importance is attached to the injury at the time. Under the impression that it is “only a sprain." a. course of active treatment is enter- ed upon which is calculated to increase the mischief and retard the recovery. What happens in a sprain is briefly this: the ligaments which bind the joint, for it is about joint-sprains that we are writing, become greatly stretch~ ed. especially on the side where the force of the, blow comes. . The result of this condition of things is obvious. An unnatural degree of freedom is permitted to the workings of the joint, and the part at once be- comes inflamed and swollen. The ac- tive uselo which the joint is put, under the imprcmion that thereby the in- flammation will be kept down. only serves to aggravate the symptoms. _ With the increase of inflammation the tissues of the joint may become directly attacked, and a predisposition to a chronic trouble be established. “'hen the joint itself becomes involved. sailftfness is the almost inevitable re- s . Although it is thus seen that a sprain may become a very serious af- fair. the remedy is equally simple, and if applied immediately and thoroughly, will prove efficient. . The first thing to be done is to im- merse the part in hot water. The wa- ter should be as hot as can be borne, and should be kept up to a constant temperature by frequent additions. It will be necessary to continue this treat- ment for a. long time, it may be for hours, or until every tram of soreness is practically dispelled. The part is then to be slightly strap- ped in a bandage in a position 'ust short of absolute fixity. The most article to uSe in such a case is what is called in medical parlance 8. “Mar- tin's Bandage." This is a lon .. nar- row strip of sheet rubber, of su ficient strength to withstand considerable strain and. fitted at one end with tapes for tying. It is easily seen that_ by the use of this bandage the deSired preemure can be obtained without com- plete immovability. \VHOOPING-C OUGH . 'A description of the symptoms of this disease cannot be necessary. No one who has once seen a child in a. par- oxysm of the cough ever forgets the sight, nor, in its typical form, is the disease ever to be mistaken for any- thing else. It is chiefly of importance on account of the many complications which are liable to arise from it, and it is to the prevention of these that the efforts of the nurse and the physician are chiefly to be directed. As a rule, the younger the child the more severely will the attack be felt, so that very young children especially should be guarded against infection. One of the worst features of the dis- ease is the violent. straining efforts dur- ing the paroxysms of coughing. which disposes to hemorrhage and to rupture. Many cases of consumption in chil- dren date from an attack of whoop- ing-con h, and children so suffering should y all means be kept from inti- mate contact with consumptives. while every attention should be iven to their proper nourishment and t eir hygienic surroundings. Those whose experience with the dis- ease has been largest are the readiest to acknowlcd e that medicines by them- selves are of ittle value. It: is all the more important, therefore, that the patient should have good nursing, and all that good nursing implies. Every day in which the weather perâ€" mits the child should be taken outâ€"of- doors. and in any event he should have a. constant supply of fresh air. \Voolien undergarments should be worn day and night. while daily bath- ing should be carefullv practised. Coun- ter-irritation 'of a mild character over the region of the stomach is of great value, and the diet should be of the simplest and most nourishing kind. V apors and inhalants rarely do good. but frequently the patient improves after their discontinuance. ' The salt air of the seashore has been.“ many times warmly recommended, and where possible this should be tried; but the principal benefit. derived from it is doubllcss due to the greater amount of time spent out-ofâ€"doors. DIGESTION AND TUBERCULOSIS. The condition of the stomach is of the first importance in consumption. and this fact, which is well known to all physicians. should be more widely recognized by people in general. especi- ally because consumption is so often a self-treated or homeâ€"treated disease. Medicine itself is of value chiefly in so far as it aids in building up the vital force of the patient; and it is evident that to that end nothing can contri< huts more than a good appetite and a sound digestion. Recent. laboratory experiment has shown that the living blood is one of the most. lowcrful destructive agents to the bacillus of tuberculosis; and that the. more highly vimlized the blood is. the more potent is it in resisting the attacks of disease germs. 'l‘his vitality of the blood must de rend upon the successful digestion an assimilation of food. In Ollicr words, nutritious ftod lhoroughl; digcsted is by itself n di- rect altar. upon the very origin of the disease. A method of trcating consumption has indeed been devised called “forced feeding." which consists in giving to patients willing and able to eat. six or more meals of easily digested. pala- table fcol every day. Unfortunately this method is not applicable in cases where much fever is present. or where there is .lstric tmuble. 'l‘h» inl‘ uence of the digestion upon tulnirclllar dismal LB .0 pronounced . that the physician is often more solici- ltous regarding the condition of the stomach than about the actual pro- gram of the. disease itself. It may indeed be stated as a general fact relating to consumptives. that WONDERS 0F SURGERY. .â€" The operator Ready to 'n-y Anythllx With Ills Knife. Needle and Thread. Practically no part of the human anything. even medicine. if it effects body is exempt from the, incursions of ,the stomach badly. must be ~tinued and a substitute found. discon' the. modern suigeon. The use of anti- To promote, digestion, pmiems should Septic substances and anaesthetics have i live as much as itxssible in the onen air. I .. made it possible for the operator to ';\vhile a reasonable amount of diversion venture into fields which absshed the lshould be furnished them. All who ahzive to do with them should remember l that cheerfulness not only provokes the iappetite but assists the digestion. THE USES OF OPIUM. â€"â€"â€"s most skillful of his predecessors. The removal of one kidney is a common practice. Nerves are frequently sewed together A broken spine is patched up by means of silver wire, whereas forâ€" merly such cases were hopeless. Tu- ]! “as Born Found Very successful in the mars of the brain are removed. with Treatment of )lalnrliil Fever. good results. Moteover, by the accur- In 1857 it occurred to Dr. Palmer at ate location in the brain of centers Ghazipur to treat malarial fever with which preside over various functions anarcotine derived from crude opium, the operator is 'able to remove tuni- Iinstead of with quinine. He was re- ors which manifest their presence by markably successful, and the drug Is various disturbances to sight. speech. now in common use as an antiperiodic hwring 51nd locomotion, But, as we have seen, the characteris- Dr. Fcngcr. the eminent surgeon of tie of Indian opium is the preponder- Chicago, was first to remove a part of ance in it of precisely this element. Can a diseased lung. Recently Tumor, of we. then, infer that opium is a. prophyl- Paris, cut “(my the top part of a com actic against malarial fever? To a cer- sumptive, lung, and um patient reocv- tain extent we can. for statistics show that those who take daily forty-five {at as auscultation shows_ ered, and is now free from disease as Sarcomas. grains and upward of opium take en- which are allied to cancer. and are al- ough anarcot ine thereby l30 PI‘OteCt most. if not quite. as malignant, have them absolutely against malarial poi- lately been cured by injection of pat- son. while an.v one taking over sixteen ients with the toxin of erysipelas. The grains Will be more or 1958 fortifit‘d- entire treatment. of cancer has under- It may be mBntIODPd. 11150: that the gone a radical change. The disease is morphine element contributes its share on at an earlier stage. and in. as a prophylactic. In thesefacts. it is interesting to note that in many districts opiumâ€"consump- the light of tion bears a'close relation to the great- remorseles-SIY ath‘kS the er or less prevalence of malaria. In Assam, for example, in the damp and low-lying country on both banks of stead of confining his cutting to the cancerous tissue the modern surgeon apparently healthy tissue in the vicinity. Of late years cancer of the larynx has been the anuputm’ the average annual successfully assailed. Doubtless the consumption per head is 357 grains, the 141; and in the Bhagalpur district of the Patna Division the most malarious late Emperor of Germany might have been cured if the diagnosis of Virchow had- been accepted. After the remov- part has 42 per cent. of the opium shops 8'1 0f the Dance-1’ 13am)?- of the. district for only 27 per cent. of the population. One of the! medical wit- nesses gave the following lively des- cription of the conditions of life in East- ern Bengal: “\Vhen aman wants to; build a house, he first of all digs 'al tank, and with the earth from which he has dug the tank he raises amound. and on the top of that mound he. places his home. " The elevation of that mound de- pends entirely upon the height to which the annual floods rise. The floods i rise with fair regularity; times they go 2 or 3 inches higher than the average and then the inhab- itants of those houses have to live onl rafts beside their houses, and their cattle are tethered up to their bellies in water. ly no boats. They paddle about on rafts made of the plantain tree. and the boys 0 to school in what I call washâ€"hand me. They earthenware the bottom 0 to school. are earthen gumlasâ€" These poor people are often five miles from their nearest neighbor, I and some 2.000.000 of them are depend-l cut for qualified medical aid on a Single European doctor witl1 one assistant. \Vhat. wonder that opium is their household remedy, and that, when a man, disabled by malarial fever, finds that a dose of a quarter or half agrain of pure opium makes him a new man. and enables him to do the day’s work Without which his family would starve, he takes it.” ADVOCATES SURFACE BURIAL. Sir F. Seymour linden Says a. Slight. Earth Covering Sooncst Resolves Bodies Into The” lllclncnts. Sir F. Seymour Haden. of London. has practically studied for ten years the best methods of disposing of the dead. The result of his investigations:mmlgl1 Sllbstimca there imbedded- he terms "Nature’s method of dispos- ing of the dead, by far the most prac- but some-l {can not be said that the operation IBl These people have generalâ€"i ts. The boy squats atj the gumla and paddles: I Buffalo, recon:in ' fatal, is plactzd in the throat. and. not long ago M. Guggenheim an ingenious sur- geon of Paris. was reported to have de- vised a. tube which permitted the pat- ient to talk. In 1 per cent of cases of typhoid fev- er the intestlnes are perforated by ul-J cers, and 6 per cent. of the deaths from] A SILVER TUBE l I:tbyphoid are occasioned by these ulcers. l oblong ago the perilous operation of cutting down and sewing the ulcers was attempted. Dr. Van Hook has re ported three cases of this nature. It a great success, but it gives promisel of advantageous development. l Not satisfied with invading the less; awful regions of the neighborhood, the; surgeon lS toâ€"day standing with knifel and needle and thread at the thresh- treat of_ e, the human heart. The pericardium has been tapped for drop- stcal effusion. Recently a stab n'vound: of the pericardium was sewed up. ' _ The * picture of the surgeon plying his deft! needle w1th_ the heart; of the patient: beating against his hand, when the! least unsteadmess would mean certain! death, is sufficiently thrilling to place] surgery beyond the precincts of the} stupid sciences. Prof. Roswell Park, of . suggested that in ; cases of bullet wounds, which with our 1 modern conical bullets are inevitablyi the surgeon, if called soon en-g ough. could cut down on the heart and | sew.up the wound. meanwhile mainâ€"l taintng artifical respiration. The operâ€"i atlon still remains conjectural, but no doubt it will soon or late be attempted 5 by some. courageous spirit. l One might write tor days an omit? One might write for days and omit] surgeon. Operation on the intestines§ are familiar. The Murphy button makes them comparatively safe. The! Wells telephonic probe permits the sur- l goon to poke into the brain and” locate' In ' diseases of the stomach the patient: swallows a small electric. light, and byg ,means of the illumination the surgeon tit-a] and certainly the natural method." 5 discovers what the trouble is. He has buried animals, large small, in his lawn. By digging varying from one. to five years. he found that buried at a depth of four and a half feetâ€"the depth required by the iGovernment for the burial of human average for the whole province being i bodiesâ€"an interval of from three to ‘four years was necessary for complete resolution. Buried at the de th of one font, a. year and a half he o‘iind was sufficient for the complete resolution of l large and a year or less for the smaller animals. A body simply laid upon the ground with a. covering of earth a foot thick completely disappeared (bones ex- cepted) in a. year. Dr. A. B. Poorc. after experiment, states that if a body is buried so as to further its cmnplete dissolution the land would be ready, after a short inâ€" terval to receive a second. body. and that if the cemetery were systemati- cally planted with flowers the earth would be urified and the air fresh- ened by the flurishing vegetation. An acre of ground would prove ample burial groum in perpetuity for a. pop- ulation of 10,000 persons. A CITY IN ONE HOUSE. There exists in “’ieden (borough of Vienna) an immense house called “ l’reâ€" ihaus." This colossal building has 13 ,courl. yards. 31 staircase. and 2.112 in- habitants. It has its own postman. and the letters, if they would reach_thctr destination. must bear the Christian. surname. and Him! nickname of the ad- dn-ssee, the number of his room. stair- case and court-yard. \VHCEE L IN CHURCH Anabel (in surprised whisperlâ€"VVhy. how recently has Dr. I'Iighchurch la- ken to wearing such lowly long gowns? Miriam (in whisper)-Ohl ever since we presented him with a wheel. They hide his bicycle suit. . w AN EFFECTIVE RUSE. What gave Mrs. Crassgrain the love- ly expressmn she has in her last photo- grog! T photographer told her that she had more negative beauty than any woman he ever saw. ' and I them 1 up and examining them at intervalsi In short, this part of the century marks the reign of the man with the knife. He has appropriated old diseases and invented new ones for his skill. He goes fearlessly into regions that More terra incognito to the best. of his pro-g deccssors, and his cunning. his pluck, his bold imagination arc blessings unrcck- oncd to suffering humanity. MODERN DRAMATIC TUITION. i Loud and angry voices were. heard in i the room above. A woman's piercingi scream smote the air. Tliulnpl Thump! Thump! - ii A woman's heartbreaking sobs broke upon the ears of the horrified listenâ€"l ers. With one accord they rushed up the? stairway and burst open the door of! the room from which the sounds pro-l (hooded. A woman with dishevellcd hair, torn; and dust-(mvercd clothing. and eyes red ' with weeping stood in the middle oil the room. 0 A man with coal. off, sleeves rolledi up, his eyeballs rolling in frenzy, and' the perspiration streaming down his face confronted the intruders. ' What do you want here? he demand- ' l l I ed. We- are here in the interests of huâ€"» manily. sternly answered one of them. ‘ but are brutally nlislrl-ating :t' woâ€"l man! Am I? he asked. turning to hr-r. Noâ€"o, she subbed, you are null Gen-l tlemen. Illfâ€"llc is leaching me how ml --to express theâ€"the natural emotions. i This is aâ€"is a school of dramatic art.| And the avengers slunk out of thel door and went slowly down the stair- way. ......_.._.._.,..___ STRA‘V NEVSPAPER EDITORS. Most Russian newspapers keep "a man of straw" as responsible editor. In return for the use of his name be drawn a salary of about $1,000 a year. In the event of prosecution the man of straw has to. stand fire. If the judgment ishgalnst the paper he has to go to prison. Some time o the man of straw of the Novoe remya was sentenced to four months' impris- onment. It was the first piece of work be had done [or some years. although he had been regularly drawing his salary all the time. lold. so tolisjpgak. of the 5301.083“th m_ l taught to read. rafraid of meeting NOBODY WOULD BORROW IT. the tulque Experience of the first .‘n to Carry an Umbrella In London. We have it on ngd authority that Jonas Hsnway. the eccentric philan- thropist. was the first person who walk- ed about the streets of London with an umbrella over his head. He was a man who did net want courage. a: we know from other deeds which he did of a more dangerous sort. Being a Quaker. he was not afraid of sneera or jeering remark. which Quakers have always had to enomniter. Very like- ly he was both manned and pelted when he appeaml with his umbrella in some streets, for the «(newbies of the reign of George III. did not keep order so well as our modern policemen do. Pmbably good Mir. Hanway's original umbrella was even larger than those to which. in allusidn to one of Dick- ens's tales. the popular name of "gamps" is often given by wagv d joke. The Georgian gmbrclltts are discribcd to us as being made of green oiled canvas, with cane ribs which mould not bear a strong gust of wind. Cowper. the poet, in his "Task." mentioned his umbrella as an article which people used to protect them from the sun, because it was the fashion then to cut down many of the fine old trees of parks and groves. so that per- haps this was Hanway's first idea. about it, that it made a good sunshade. Evidently the umbrella came to us from the East, whens it is employed for that purpose. but. THE FRENCH HAD IT BEFORE US. This was one thing which made people dislike it, for French fashions were thought silly. Mm-Ihmald. writing in A. D 1778, says that the London idlers and the lmcknoy coachmen shouted after him when he carriednn umbrella. and called him a "mmcm Frenchman.” His sister was iou walking with him. and she was so much insulted that he had to take re- fuge in a sh‘ . ,But I must. say someâ€" thing about; onus Hanway. for he is worthy to be remembered. _ He was born at Portsmouth in A. D. 1712. and travelled about the wdrld. & goal deal. and Published a book giv- ing an account 0 his travels in Persxa. \Vlth some other gentleman he foundâ€" ed the Marine Sooiety in 1756. which was intendedio benefit. beggar lit-vs and orphans, by givingthcm an outfit and starting them as spllors upon trad- ing ships. He was himself a Russmn merchant. Then he was one of the early friends of Sunday schools though the schools which he helped to start were different to those we. havepow‘, they were the means of taming children who were like youn savages. Illey heard the truths of tie Bible and were It was not till this century that a. mnrhine for sweeping chimneys Was invented zindlthe cuslorr: of em. lo‘yin boys as e mi )lllg swoo. ers grxiulualfiv amused, but before that Jonas Hanway did what he could to protect these poor little fellows. hey had often to go up chimneys on bitter cold mornings: somcltimes they stuck fast and died. often they golf; bad bruises and sores from this dangerous work. Some of the timid ones. too. were alwpys bogies in. the chim- nevs. Even at the. age of Six or seven. children were. so employed, because. when small. they could climb up nar- row chimncys better, and little girls were actually sent up sometimes. Mr. Hanway obling the masters to feed those, young swoops properly. to have them washed after them work. and to give them beds. not dirty sacks, ta Bicep upon; also he got their hours shortened. When he was in Londpn. Hanwny livod during many years in a house in Red Lion square. II'ilborn. and he had all. the reception rcbms there dot-orat- ed with beautiful paintings and de- vices. 'l'h~;‘ reason he gave for this was a good one; he said that. often Vial- tors did not know what. to talk about, and these wall scones gave them a subject. STATESMEN IN BED. . l ‘ flow )lr. Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle (‘onsullcd Together. \Vhen, in the old days of trouble bc‘ L‘vl-vn the English and li'rcnch. there .was talk of sending Admiral liawkc to sea to keep watch over the enemy's {let-t, there. occurred a notable interview. It was Now-mbcrl The weather was vstormy and dangerous for l’l'fisd‘is, and ’thc govurmncnl. was not agreed as to Sending them out. Mr. Pitt. who was in bed with gout, was obliged to rcccive those who had businvss with him in his chamber. This room had two beds and no fire. The Duke of Newcastle came to him to con- sider the sending out the. fleet. and had Scarwa entered the room when he criwl out, shivering all over with cold, "How is this? No fire?" "No." said Mr. l’ilt. “ When [have the gout, I cannot lx-ar one." The duke, wrapped! in his cloak, look a SPIN. by the invalid's bcdsido and be- gan talking; but he. found himself un- able to endure the. cold. _ " Pray allow mt- !" he (-xclalmml. sud- denly. and without taking off his cloak. be buried himself in the other bed and conlinumi the conversation. lie was strongly opptmml to risking the fleet in the Navulruber gains. Mr. .i'ltt was as absolutely rl-solvcd that II. should put to and both argued thu [nab II‘I' with much warmth. it was the only warmth. indeed, in the room. “I am posiliwdy deb-pruned that. ihl fleet shall mil." and Pitt, (zirconium);- ing his words with the most lth‘I)’ gea- ticulations. _ ' "It is immiscible] It Will Perish!" said the duke, with equal unplism. At the momrnt the dimus‘sion wax- ed hottest another riignilxiry of the realm came in. and found it, difficult to keep his countenance at the sight of two ministers deliberating on a mat- ter of so gravr- importance from such a navel situation. The fleet did put to sea, and Mr. Pitt's judgment proved to be. right. The enemy was crippled. and a singular ed- vantuge gained.