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BY IRS HENRY VAR!) BIXCIIEB. Long gnements \ml early marriage. on quest no otten dis mined and never set- fled: Ibis umurel than parents should be unuouely “re-mm lost, their none or daugh- ten Ibould I-ecntrkppul into an en agement or uxurlege before me" scluxoldeyeare end- ed, and business prorpeczs settled on a sure bull. Eutlepped is not a plemut word, but the guardian: of the) 3mm; should be vigilant that line denger it implies may never befull those under their supervillon. Yet one must be Argue-eyed, indeed. who all under all circumstance: «Hwtually but the enhance of love a n we aide, «ml «price. eqpidity or guile on the other. Women are more easily deluded by pit-unlit attentions, tender words. and min, persuasive flecierien men men, and in prudemiel matters far lee- mopioinus. It is here that parents are the moat troubled. and this in Mure lurk. the ”intent danger. But this in only one View of the question. We are no advocate of very long engage- ments, or unreasonably eurlv Ilml‘riagel. but, when “no love finds an enhance with the young; there is loss danger of its being npuriuur. than in later years. Although most potent: ol‘jwuo this, they hue far “longer grounds to hope for happineee for their children then after the rxcnement of buei- none and the love of nruuey has secured a Itrong hold on Ihe young man, and slew mesons in the height of fashionable ne- oiety have given the (lemael uowe lessons in the game of coquetry, and a taste for dress end geyetv which ehe econ believe: will he beet secured by a meninge for that which riches e lll yield her rn'her than the Illnpler, punr joys that true love inmlree. 'lhe happiru'niarriugea are those whose love was early pledged, and close obeerva fion will prove that such are the most like- litoaund the test of time, and will pass rough the many rough and hzurdouu who of married life with the most cheerful mode. Winn moraine in delayed Iill hohita have bacon a too firmly eazahluhrd to give way kindly to another]; wishes, or to gently overlook nnother‘a peculiaritiu, the pro-poets of a. pleasant. hurmonioua life are not the moat encouraging. An early union given {hirer promisa that. \he wedded pair may go down to a peaceful, happy old age, not only without losing iha love that first united them, but with a. film hope that it will grow brighter and brighter, until that pol-frat day, when both, having passed over the rim r. will stand with clearer vision 3nd whâ€"fiéd-a'fliértâ€"iéfiviefdre the throne of their jet. When young people have finished the education which was intended to tit them to begin their life's work, if they are so fortu- nate so to love and be loved at that period, then there can be no doubt that on early ”Hinge is best for both parties. There is no period in a young man’s life when he so much needs the counsel, sympathy, and in- Qiration, born of pure love, us when, in his flesh, uncontaminated young manhood he begins the battle of lifeâ€"a battle that all must fight in their first efforts to secure the hir prospect of a future independent sup. port. He who enters the arena of life for contest with seen and unseen obstacles, strengthened end shielded by the love which godly unites with him to lay the foundation of atrue home, is the safest, and by for more certain of success. Knowing that his wife presides in his sim- dwelling, and wh le she seeks to sid him afi‘ectionate care sud judicious economy [there must provide the means for their mpport, how can this thought fail to give impetus to every exertion? All toil is sweet, ell self-denial a leasure. because it in for her, or, rather, or both made one. Whatever the avocarion or height of intel- lectual culture, the supreme love shielding, the new home is the some. The Woodman s exe swings lighter, the ring of the hammer u the anvil has more music than fatigue on it, the former whistles more hlithely over n-. '“v .w- _--_ the work of seed-time and harvest, the sharpest toil of the mechanic is of joy when he knows that his fair young partner, while watching his return, is providing daintily forhis comfa't, and is ready to give him a. loving Welcome. Fairer visions are can ht and transferred to the artist's canvas - «use colored with the thoughts of the one who presides over his home. Tue dullest migrate are clad with vigor and freshness in e author’s mind because he cares more to lease the gentle critio at home than the pa lie. The inn 0 of the young wife, whose thoughts wi i follow him with faith andconfidenoe in his success, enables the hwyer to think more clearly and plead his «use with more efl'ective energy. The thysioisn, as he goes amen his patients, nows there is oneâ€"now al his ownâ€"who preys that his efforts may be ri htly direct- ed, and this knowledge so til I his heart and enriches it that this very presence by the sick-bed has healing in it. The young mr will work with morssealand ten- ess because of the loving encourage meat that will cheer him when he returns I {Is any one inclined to cell this sentiment ai remnneing 3 We pity those who, having poled through thtir experiences of youth end middle age, or beyond the iourscore rg, are not ready to accept this as eober ru ln eve position in life an early marriage that enab on two faithful heeris to become fie united architects of is home is a blessing that seems not to be fully understood. It halides: a more perfect manhood and wo- mnh that can be secured in any other we) . Each is a shield to the other against the snares and tem tations that lie in wait for the unwary, an thoee who walk alone. A hnppy early marriage is the strongest in- surance oi a pure life. The advice is to wait till one has time and opportunity to know nomething of life no es to jud o with prudence, puttin all romantic no one out of the mind, too 0 ten proves a fearful temptation to evil and wrong-doing. Any one, men or women, who ventures to assume the merria e rela- tion chiefly from rudentiei reesonsfinsteed of through the r ch romance of the heart, if such they chooae to term it, has simply made a business bargain, instead of acee t- in whnt God lute designed it to beâ€"t e figment and most blessed gift to mankind. If betxothai or marriage is deferred, the young are easily caught in the fatal nets of society life, and submit to be vovorned chiefly by such regulations and ideas as are motioned by custom. Soon thoy find that the than ht of “ position " in tom ting them to t o t“ idea of marriage nnt I ohmce $31103"! _whioh o_yon_ng _mon con soot-Inc Ml offer. which 3Â¥onng mm on: secure pnly by gnawing h a had to govern his A. _, L-___.-_ t. Then, imbitlon, noHovo. become: EARLY ll t RItlAGl-IS. The young lrl who love. early but is tempted to NH. until the enjoyed a few Ibuuul infuhlonablo lilo befom she onu- ueuta to consummuo her betrothal, is in danger of throwing aguy her fairest oppor- tunity to secure true, solid happiness just r“ .. -..-.a..... "nut. .hlnpa to bewilder nud tun-e: ev _-_--- --__. for a shedow “that. shines to lutwilder hnd dazzles to blind." She begins to think that it in but prudent for her to Wait until her lover shall secure the means to enable her to begin their life in an elegant and genteel 3 style as her taste under fashionable train imperiouely demenund. or at least, M high e financial position In her perente,elter long years of toll. have attained, just as their deughtar errhee at an age to be greibed in to another stock, forgetting that “ e gr aft should always be willing to be it graft. pa- tiently waiting until by legitimate growth it ha- meie its own top," and has become strong enough by this patient waiting to vie with the pirent_t_ree._ The yJung girl who, after engagement, use, "1 Will not merry until my lover can provide {or me as abundantly at the begin- ning of our married life an my father was able to do at the close of his," is sowing mrrow, "for her reaping by and lny.” But blessings will follow her who willing] goes forth to help build up another home now- ing that she may 6‘: CODDNX‘ many dniflicultiee rhups some hurdehips, and may find cause gr much self denial. \Vhile she cuties into her new life all the delicacy and refine- ment. of thwght and actirm which was mat- ered in '_the luxury and abundance . fiber father‘s bouee, she in ready to uccept’het husband's lean prosperous, it may he strait- ened circumstances, and thus both together oheerfu 1y endeavor to build up a fair and honomble sition by beginning at the foun- duzion. lpt0 is the greatest folly _w profrmat an engagement anger the lover has finished education and entered on his business or profession, until he shall have accumulated anflifient wealth to keep his bixd in a gold en cage. Begin your life‘s work together. That is the true way, and all the sweeter and hep pier if you begin small. The 10-: style there is, the has of real wealth there is, the more time and the more med there “ill be to be- come fully acquainted with each other'e complete cbnraoter, and a belter opportunity to learn how to bear and fortear, to aid each to tone down or {modify such peculiarities as are in (in ger of disturbing mutual Lufi- dence and umiuhility. It is no blot or dis- paragem n: that there are zome peculiar~ fliesâ€"they are (wed in all characttrs. It is quite right it; should be so, and if the same tenderness and courtesy which was so easily exercised in the days of courtship, in. by mutual consent or practice, carried inm married life, the early wedded become more closely assimilated, and find in their union an ever-incleuing happiness which mar tinge: of more advanced ages seldom realize after their habits become fixed and more un- yielding. a 1.“, ,nj, But noome young people say. “Thoaewho know us now in our father’s hcuso (lll that early homo chances to be one of luxury) would not stoop to recognize as if they found no in circumstances hem nth those we now are known in. Besides. If us. begin in a small way, with limited means, we will he subjected to some course, hard work. and than “lose canto" among Irienda." Such friends are not worth regrettiingn friends axe not worth regretting. Having outgrown babyhood and childhood none can expect to be always cradled in their pal-cuts: nuns. .T‘nose who “2° of any real u‘orth will cheerfully accept the life is they find it. “Its rough ascents or flowery slopes,” if trod together and in love, will insure senuine happiness. We often think one stores up quite as much real pleasure passing through the rough places as when walking among the (lawns. We know that the retrospection is an unfailing source of blqged‘er‘joyrnent. _ Work together, plan together. select and furnish the house cr rooms together. Be one in all home arrangements. The less tnlk of “ mine and thine" the better. We are satisfied that “my rights” should be erased from the dictionary which governs husband and wife, and “ our rights" aub- utiluted. But, notwithstanding short engagements and early marriage certainly nppeer to he the meet certain road to abiding happiness, there are some cases which necessitate a. long engagement. But it is full of dangers and uncertainty. Yet if both continue faithml, and swerve not lrom their plighted vows until the circumstances which compelled do. lay heVe wasted or been overcome then I long enge, ement almost invariably ends in a very happy marriage. A love that he. not been shaken by the long delay, and usually in- volving long absences. is not built on send but on a rock, over which the floods may sweep and the wind threaten in vain. If young people were trained to look upon an engagement as a solemn contract as binding in God's night as marriage, there would be very little danger. It in early youth, before eduootion is com- pleted, end some profession or employment ll; secured, two meet and are drawn to- gether, becoming devotedly attached, then the eng ement, even if of necessity it must be ong, in the wisest course. Any sacrifice in better than to relinquish the (int love. We firmly believe in uret love, given when the heart is young and tender, unstained by too close contest with the world and its bewitching, beguiling ettm~ tione. Such love, honestly given. and a truly returned. is next to a. mother's loveâ€" ihe safeguard of young men and meldene. The United States Secretary of the Tre' - lnry recently received a letter requeeti ; that one engaged in the lumbering hi "- nee: n the Counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin, N. Y. may be permitted to im- port from Canada for temporary use, and without yuleut oi duty. team of animals and artie ea for use in the lumbering camps. Which team: and articles are to be brought in by Canadians. The question waaeubmib ted to the collector of customs at Ogden:- bnrg, in order to ascertain the necessity for such action, and that officer has reported that during the past year many horses snit- ablo for use in lumbering have been import- ed from Canada. He alw expressed the opinion that the bringing in of (‘anadizrns with their teams for the pur one indicated would be in contraventim c the Contract Labor Apt. He said further that there was no immediate necessitv for granting the re- ueet, for the reason that animals needed in (the lumbering! business can be readily oh tained in the United States. Assistant Se- cretary Maynard has therefore informed the persona intereated that as there is no le al authority {or granting the requeat the do. partment decline: to interfere in the matter. Important to Lumber men. The Plan" mu ls Null-g Phllndelplue Photon-pier. In Philadelphia e photograph was taken in n sitting-room a few Weeks ego thnt has been puzzling amateur and profewionul pho- tographers alike ever since. The artl-t was W. Curtie Tayler. one of the meet exper ienced photographers in the city, and the subject wen A map of 18 young ladies. It we: not n 300 pl re. because aeveral of the Indies moved, i I! Mr Taylor had them lit again, lnt he finished up the negative and took a proof print {roux it, and then he new several queer thlnge in-it.' On the extreme right of the group one lady stood partly against a whim door, while another lady sat directly in front of her. The clear outlines of their faces show that neither of these ladies changed her position during the expomre of the plate; nevertheless the edge of the door trame, which appears above their heads, is con- tinued without a break down through the hair of the lady who is stsnding. just mie- ees her eye, and loses inelf in her chin; while the paneling of the door shows through her shoulder and through the hair of the lady sitting in front of her. Two indies stood against the closed shut- ters of a be. window. Both their faces show distincll'y in the photograph, but the lines of the moulding appear through the hair oi both. The light struck this section of the window. Two other ladies stoodâ€"â€" one against a dark section of the window, the other against a art of the frame which shows light. Both aces are badly blurred, but in neither case do the lines behind them appeargn their portraits. In all these Icases in which do young ladies appear so alarmingly transparent, photographers my there is only one way to account for the mysteryâ€"the ladies must have moved long enough for the high lights behind them to impress themselves on the sensitive plate, which they will do. under certain circumstances. like a flash. The ob~ vlons fact that to do this some of them especially the lady first mentioned. muss have swung their head: and shoulders an arc of 45 ° is not “omitted to interfere wijkh tho 1)) potheais. But the hr) pothrsle, such as it. is, breaks down completely before the problc to pre- aented by the central figure of the groupâ€" 3 lady sitting in a deep, comfortable elm- chuir with a wlid back of wicker-work. She could not have moved out of that chair with- out falling out, and her beautiful clear por- trait, the beat. in the group, shows that she must have out like a statue; yet through her face, through her neck and through her body all the way down to her waist the wicker plating of the chair back is seen al- most on diltinctly on if there were nothing between it and the lens. The lndy’o body appears on a dark shadow projected on the lighter surface of the chair: _.... - o- n aWhen asked to explain the phenomeno’nf Mr. Taylor promptly gave it up. The proof has passed through the hands of a number of photographers, both professional and amateur, one was discussed at the recent meeting of the Amateur Photographers’ Society, and alwau with the same result. As a. last- resource it was submitted to A. K. 1’. Trash. the hotographer of the Seybert Commission. w 0 has made a special study of ghostly photography. and can turnout " npirit photographs" in any quantity to order He accepted the movement hypothe. sis as to the door and window lines. but when his attention was called to the wicker chair he confessed that it was beyond his pl-ilou phy, and he could notaccount for it. A Port Elizabeth corree ndent writes (giving some particulars of dy Braesey's eath. It wauld seem that the party on the yacht consisted cf Lord and Lady Brae- sey, Hon. Mr. Braasey, and the Hon. Misses Brassey (three). They had had a delightful cruise, and were bringing away from Aus- tralia exceedingly pleasant reminiscences. Lady Braesey was continuing her book and whrn the yacht left Pout Darwin. Western Australia, on the 7th of September. seemed in the beat of health and spirits. The Sun» beam went for a short cruise along the northern coast, and it is assumed that there her ladyship contracted some sort of malarial fever which frequently prevails in that re- gion. Great uncertainty nevertheless pre- vailed as to the nature of the maladv, and until the llth of September no grave appre- hensions were felt. 0n the fol owing day, however, it " ecame apparent that her con- dition was becoming critical, and alarm was evinced b the family. No surgeon was on board an the exact nature of the malady could not be ascertained. On Monday, the 12th of September, it became evident that her recovery was hopeless and that her lady~ ship was sinking. Next day the scene aboard the Sunbeam was an affecting one. This I! the way the case stands now :â€" The photogrs h cannot be accounted for under any of t 0 known laws of matter, though it may have something to do with the “fourth dimension.” for which some theorists contend. It is not a " spirit pho‘ tograph,” for, if it were, Mr. Trusk would recognize it, and, besides, building mater- ials and articles of furniture do not have spirits. None of the known laws of optics seem to meet the case, and for the present it remains a curious scientific proLlcm. aboard the Sunbeam was en affectin one. Feeling that her end wee nigh y Bree- ley took us touching and affectionate fare- well of her femily, every member of which was on board. One of her last injunctions was that the bmk upon which she had de voted so much attention during the cruise should be pnbliehed. Shortly niterwerds Ihe became unconscious, in which condition she remained till her death. about 11 o’clock on the morning of the l-lth of September. The interment took place at sunset of that day. and was a melancholy and memorable ceremony. Lord Brussey read a portion of the service, and the other members of the family assisted in the loot eed rites. An Austin colored servant was told to bring some refreshments into the parlor. To the amazement ol the guests she came into the parlor holding the tray in one hand and carrying the house dog under her arm. “ What do you mean by bringing that dog into the parlor?" “You see m, dar is a. cullud gomman out in do kitchen, and he am cheered ter be 101' alone wid (ll: here dog, :0 I had ter hrnnz, him orlong." “Well, Matilda. We are very much obliged to you for not hrlpging your Mimirer in under your I 1AAKA_ .v. "v- v-7â€"Dwu ' -_ um um] leaving the dog in ‘tho' kitc'hon. We up late your kindness,” replied the hdy o the house. TRANSPARENT LABIBS. flow Lady Brassey Died. Not ion ago, when the (latch was com- ing from aborne, the detectives who ed ways trovel with her, noticed a stranger il- the car with tho-m. He Was Well dreeeen and appeared like a aentieumu. He said little, offered a wgll tilled cigar case, and seemed to be full) her a ith the names of the persons in the party. They took him to he emue attache oi the household. and asked no (in etions, till. on the arrival of the train at London. Col. Ponsouhy, the Qdeen'e neo- reury. was asked who he was. The latter who had taken him to he a detective, ex- pressed surprise when told that he Was not, and the men was arrested. When taken to the Great Scotland Yard it WM disclosed that he was a young gentlemen fron L mdon who had made a bet with some friends at hilmlnh that he could come from Ports mouth on her Majesty's train without de~ women. He wee released when his indenti- ty was established, with a warning not to attempt the trick again, but it was a leeeon the; tagght greater vigilance. 1 . 'l he Princgof Walt: has two detectives. who “company hum wherever he goes, and he leads them a jolly race. They lodge at Marlborou h House, hvs official residence and are a ways on duty. Whenever the Prince lenws the gates they go after him. keeping us close at his heels as is possible, and when he stops they step, too. they are dressed like gentlemen, and are Well paid for their wrvicsa. but seldom get a noliday. 1he Prince isfond of their, bur. it is not a jab that is coveted by men of their profession. W hen he amends the theatre they alwa s sit in the rear of the royal box ; when 6 goes to the races they are ever at his side, and when he is out in his curliage thwy follow him in another. If he is on foot they Wall! behind'him. A correspondznt writeazâ€"I had a tall: with the Prince's physician, who is also his friend, the other day, and he corrected an impression I had that. Albert: Edward wmxld like to summed to the throne. The Doctor says that. he Would nubâ€"that he would not want the Quetn on abdioa to in his Invor under my circumstances. He has no love of power, but is fond of leisure. ahitke responsibility, hu no politics, in friendly with the mm who are mat: hitter against the throne, and pate every one t n the back for a good fallow. ‘ .e‘. .I The3 Queen has never been partial to the Prince of Wales. The law Duke of Albany was the favorite among her sons, and \Valea has been in diefavor always. There in e p- ular impression that she might have a di- cated the throne on the fiftieth anniversary of her reign but for her lack of confidence in and respect for her eldest son, and it is said that she likes his wife, the Princess, no bet- ter, although the latter is the most popular and the most beloved of all the royal family. A somewhat rare variety of mental dia- ease, the monomania of philanthropy, has endgd in_ the up}; against which thg Everlgsg. ing has fixed his canon, a scrap of paper left by the deceased explaining that he found “this life :rop beta.” The victim was a young man named Eugene Orbecchi, of Paris. He had drifted into the fixed idea that his express mimon here below was to reclaim fallen women, and he had yielded likewise to the hallucination that the objects of his humanitarian generosity would, an a. matter of course, be all dying to quit their ways._ Dieillusion dogged his footgtepe. At length he encountered one Marguerite Mathis, who made him promises and acted repentance. He lodged her in a fur- ni-.hed apartment, and undertook to provide her with n dowry if she would espouse an honest artisan. Marguerite Mathis put the money of this ban mn'f into her pocket and augmented the number of her masculine ac- quaintances. One day Orhecchi discovered the pexfidy of the funale whom he imagined he was reclaiming, and in an excess of rage drew a knife and struck her with it. At the Assize Court the jury acquitted him. Two days after the acquittal of Orbecohi his counsel received the following note from him : " On my way from the Conciergerie pri- son. the day before yesterday, I met Mar- guerite Mathis. She was with a pair of the wrote-hen whom she continues to frequent. I see now that she is a. lost soul. The last aim of m life had been to save her : I give it up. here is nothing! more for me to do in this world. Mere existence is a burden to me. You will read in the newspapers to- morrow, mon char defameur, that a young engineer named J ulee Duval has committed null ide l3 taking chloroform. That will be myself. lam now looking for a. hotel where I can die quietly. When on have read the accoum of my suicide, p ease be kind en- ough to take the measures requisite for revemin me, in case i should fall, from Eeing but ed dive. 0;!»ch had selected a hotel in the Cite Bergen, ond, having entered the above de- scription of himself in the book kept for the Police, he wrote that “ life was crap bele ‘ (too stupid), out! he poisoned himself with chloroform. Colonâ€"Fill a large bottle made of color- less glass with water ; 10* k throvgh the wage; a agme black object. _ Odor.â€"Ponr out some of the water and leave the bottle half-lull; cork the bottle and plece it for a few hours in A warm place; eheke u the water. remove the cork. end critics y smell the Air 00 ned in the bottle. If it has en smell rtiou- lgrlyjf the odor_ie repn he. e water shofild nobbe used for aomentfc purposes. By heating the water an odor is evolved, mttwouldfiut othqrwine gppeu'n Tamâ€"Wm: fresh Him the well is usually mteku. ouen if it contains o large amount of putreacible organic matter. All water for domestic purposes should be r- fectly tasteless, and remain so oven 3 her it has been warmed, since warming often develops a taste in water which in tasteless when cold. The color, odor. taste. and purity of want cln be “confined u followa : A Kentucky woman who has seven eons, all born on Sunday, ‘n.e petitioned Gov. Buckner far e pension. She my: in her lot ter met she “ never herd of 7 boys ell Been Rom ‘ on Sunday.” and she thinks that such an uneumpled feet of maternity ehould be properly rewarded. 1:0 with for po ulnrity is not wrong. but. to seek it unwort fly I; nnpndonablo. Genuine modesty in '3 some of in fleotlon common only to tho who und goofQ (Gossip About the Qurcn. Life Was Too Stupid. To Tell Pure Water. At first it was declared that the entire trouble was from the drainage. The newer: Were in many places but woaden boxes. Thcbo had rotted and in the races: of do. cun:po~ition_ h_ad. ptodqced isefse germ! The typhoid fever outbreak which he: been raveglng the Capital during the pen twomonthe has been productive of en in- teresting conflict of o inion. Everybod agrees that there must a something red - cully wrong or the (ever would not have broken out; but where that something in in a point uwn which people differ. mien touud their 'way into the houses and into the human system. This theory held its ground until it was discovered that the lever was as prevalent on uudreined streets ason streets the beam 3 in which were con- nected with the maligned sewers. Then it was decided by a large seition of the com. munity that the wa'er had caused the inle- chief. A creek emp'ying into the source of supply and known as the Brewery Creek w I declared to be in a polluted state and every- body was warned against using the water. But the water was an! jetted to a chemical analysis by euiinI-nt at al, ate and was pro nounced pure. in this emergency a new theory Was set afloat, and l‘thli lound ad- hereuts. The (litmus, it was sai . prevailed to a greater or less extent, all over the country. The aunt»; conditions of drain-go and oi water supply could not exist every- where. The oisewe must then he carried i. the air and must be attributed to the great drought of last summer. - In reply to this Dr. Playter, who has given much at tention to sanitary questions, points out that epidemics elsewhere had been traced ‘ to the water, and that scientific autiiorities contest the View that the germs of yphoid can be carried in the air. A later theory than that which lilames the atmosphere at; tributes the epitrmio to the, si_. walks. Unexplained, this idea looks abédt" . It is not at all improbable, that the wOoden or rapidly rotting Sidewalks may, alkalleged, collect filth, which in a favourable sealon generates disease geims and launches sick~ ness and death upon the oomnwn'ty. While dm tors 'difftâ€"r so u llivly, it is of course diffi- cult lul‘ the lay mind to arrive at any con- clusion. Nave: tlteiess, it must he said that the water and drainage theories have‘more to support them than either the dunne- pheric or the sidewalk idea. The water and the drains have aIWuys been found to be most perfect. conductors of disease germs. The one brings diseases lrom long distances, the other distrlhuus it at short range. When the water has launched the epidemic the drain assists in spending it. from house to house. If this has non been the process in Outs-we, the Cspiml has had an experience differing from that. of other places in which epidemics have occurred. The great body of public opinion at Ot- tawa attributes the dxuease to the pollution at. some unknown point of the water of the- Ottawu. River. whom the city supplyisdrswn. If the majority is correct there cannot be- very good basis for the comfortable theory that the movement of polluted wahr '3 fatal to disease germs. Horrible Dem]: or Friday Iowa "on the line ul‘u Pet Butler. Friday Leme fur years past had been A during handler of the must poisonous snakes, and his torrih'n dent.) at his home in Chinchiila, l’ t. was received with feelings of horror all through the section, where he had fnquently shown his prowess in aubduing theuungeroua reptiles, which he mafia his huuae puts. On Thursday evening a party of friends were calling upon him.an.l, as usual, he took them into the unake room to exhibit his strange pets. As he Was handling a blacksnuke a rattler jumped out hi the box, and the gusts in the to an at once made a dam foraplncuof witty. Lvme quietly placed the blaslnnake back into its box and then rushed for he loose antke which was slashing the air with his tail and mak- ing the room rrsound With the clutter of his seventeen rattles. The snake charmer, who haul but one leg. having lost the other While fighting for the Union, vrezped a chair, and, moving it forward. reete him- self upon it while he roachod forward and grasped the snake by the tail. Swiftly the rattler darted round and sank its fangs into Lerue's left hand, but before loosing his grip the charmer dashed the snake into its box and secured it. . The poison toon hezanto assert itself,end. despite the use of every antidote at hand with which the man slweys kept himself supplied, it extendul through the arm into the whole body. The limbs and bolÂ¥l . gen to swell rapidly. The skin grew igh- ly discolored, unmixed with crimson end deep block. Three doctors were hastily summoned, but all their mediozl skill could do was to administer opiates to relieve the sufferings sud delirium of Lerue. The swelling also extended to the head, end the left arm increased in size until the skin fairly bursted. The suflerings oi the mm were of the most te’rrihle nature, and from the time he was poisoned by tre fangs of the serpent to his death the contortiuns of his body in the delirious attacks were mast repulsive. France. It is entitled '1 The Passion of Christ," and is neither written nor prin ted. Eve letter of the text is out out of a leaf, and, ing interleaved with blue paper, is es easily read an the best print. The labor end tience bestowed upon its com itlon must eve been excessive, especial y when the precision and minntenesf of the letters ere considered. A Book the t is Neither Written Roz Printed. Perhaps the mmt singular curiosity in the book world is a volume that belong. to the filmily of the f’rlncgdp Ugly}, mil ls pow in; The general execution in every respect is 'n leeul admirable. and the vellum is of the most delicate and costly kind. Rudolph I]. of (let-many oflered for it in 1040 ”.000 ducats, which was probably e ml to 60,000 at this day. The most remar able circum- stance connected with this literary treasure is that it bears the royal arms of England ; lmt when it was in that country. and by whom owned, has never been ascertained. Recently two United States revenue ofli‘ cers tried warren n smuggler who was bringing n lo‘d of gin from ow Brunswick into Maine. The smuggler may to tha woodl, pulled u cork whnl owned the gin cub, md newly m of the ( nor run out before the officer: could Ihnt It 00‘. A I!) sterlous Outbreak. SNAKE-C “ARMER'S FATE.