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of a hard ‘Grinker the heart action has become impaired and is coosequently abnormally â€" liable to the ‘‘alcoholic" Used in moderation, alcobol has no evil effect on the physical constitution. What effect it may have when used even in minâ€" ute doses ou the moral temperament is a totaily different matter, But, considered with regard to its effect on the physical constitution, there is a point beyond which ® cannot well go. Beyond that m&d mlcohol becomes & poison. GHt: This is what is likely to occur when a man becomes afllicted with analcohol heart. He has taken the drog so freely that all of the functions have begun to collapse, and the ansesthetic no longer acts as a mere stimuiant. _A few more doses will, when the patient has wrrived at this condition, almost always ro_snh in death, In the case on ts "The action of alcohol on the heart is quite well shown by means of an electrical instrument which is fitted to the body and so arranged as to make a tracing on a sheet ot paper. | Tnis tracing shows the force of the main beat of the pulse, of the interâ€" mediate or reflex beat, and the length and regularity or irregularity of the interval between the successive pu sation=, Theretore, instead of tending to stop the wction of the heart, alcohol, insomuch as it reduces the blood pressure, actuaily gives the heart freer scope and causes is to BEAT MORE VIGOROUSLY and frequently. in « normal case, then, the administration of an anaesthetic, or the swallowing of an alcoholic beverage,is quite harmless. It is hardly necessary to add that this fall of blood pressare is carefully to be distinguished from that which occurs in an overdose, for if the administration of the ansmthetic be pushed too far the blood pressure wili fall continuously, and its :rtfllion, t firet slight and harmless, ili floally become so great that the blood will cease to circulate and the animal wili Mn sys ul inss Butâ€"and this point is the saving clause for all those who are fond of an occasional glass of beer or anip of something stronger â€"another featuie of the action of alconol must be accounted fer bofore we stop the patient‘s breathing entirely. . Long before the danger point has been reached alcohol reduces the blood pressure. This is not dangerous, but, on the contrary, is raher wssociated with m rapid circulation and consequent stimulant effect which is so well known in the case of alconol. This fall of biood pressure may be useful instead of injurious in the case of a feeble heart by lessening the resistance it has to overcome, IF YOU HAVE ONE YOUD BETTER LEAVE DRINK ALONE. Aleohol Not Always InJQL!® Certain Poimi 1t is Bene! Physicat Condtrionâ€"After The effect of swallowing diluted alcobol is much the same as that caused by inhalâ€" ing chloroform, as far as the physical manifestations are concerned. An overdose of dilated alcohol will cause insensibility, und the same is true of the fumes of chloroform breathed too freeiy. But the sensation between a state of perfect sensiâ€" bility to one of insensibility is more or less stimulating. â€" The diluted anwsthetic does not have the peculiar power above noted of comgulating the blood and hence interâ€" fering with it« proper functions. Conseâ€" quently, when the biood has taken up a sufficient quantity, the RESPIRATICN IS PARALYZED, while the heart continues to beat. . In this respect the action of alcohol is precisely the same as that of the ordinary asphyxia produced by a clogging of the mucous of the bronchial tubes. %‘hc heart action remains unimpaired, but the re«piratory or breathing system is interfered with, It has been found that a period of time, longer in some cases and shorter in others, elapses between. the stoppage of the respiration ani the stoppage of the neart. _ 7 ! Alcohol heart is a term which is frequentâ€" ly used by physicians to describe an ailment which is rapidly increasing, espectally in cities, â€" The pablic probably usually underâ€" stands by the expression & generally debilitated condition of the patient, manifested by a quavering o fluttering of the heart,and due t excessive use of strong drink. â€" This conception is quite correct as far as it goes, but it does not cover th" ease. In some elaborate experiments recently performed wbroad by L. Sauder Erunton, Fellow of the Royal Society, it ELW +unt ulanhaot torether with some the heart,and due {) EXUCE drink. â€" This conception is far as it goes, but it doe ease. In some â€" elabora other ani the hear muscular subsiance of NC OFRMIN TMD DC coagulated and ite motion suspended or wrrested. These heart experiments are usually performed upon frogs. After a frog has been preperly cut open its heart may be easily seen to beat for a long time before death. y d iE Ne n understo _ Those who nave taken pure A the mouth with a view to cleani pip» or for any other purpose have experienced a very dissgreeable as if they had begun the op» swallowing a quantity of liquid : action of the aicohol on the muc brane of the mouth irritates the r pois substance into a cut it Wii it and burn of the check and makes ceusing a sudden barden of the albumen it contair could be used instead mesi the word poisonous ©NC) body having that quality â€" the body of man, If pure al ABOUT ALCOHOL HEART â€"Under Any Circumsiances he Well io Give Alcohol a w rimenter Fellow of the RoyAl ) hat alcoho!, together . w ithetics, has a peculiar . This effect is not 1 by physicians. , ether and chl This statement < nless you know : the word poison. mav be.swid to mo:als and habits and not ting their associates, al ways lnl-rlnu--tp to a wini 1t is BeneSclal to the ond ttionâ€"After That, Potson 1y Circumstances it Would Wive Ateohol a Wide Berth. ugh of it. When doctors use sonous they mean that the hat cuality is an enemy of A & 100 : it contains, _ If chluroform d instead of alcohel the would have a very fine the more powerful action of or it not only causes much itate only causes muc much more rapi ng or C loes not amoun roform &re sensory nerves not generally Almost ol be poure EDP ous memâ€" embrane ts e ce t en very is if on One of the commercicl new women has at one of the seashore resorts an electric fan for drying the ha‘r of women bathers and is overrun by customers, The ice cream freezer is a permanen fixture in so many homes that most house wives will be glad to know of choice deser thatis made from frozen cream and walnute. Crack and pick over enough nuts to make a pint of the meat, then pound them into m paste, and mix with a quart of sweet cream, adding a little at a time. _ Make a boiled custard from a pint of milk and four egga, add a cup of sugar when it thickens, then add the cream aod walnuts, and freeze. It is a great convenience if a bag of stout buriap or sacking is kept in the house in which to crush ice. ube, in Lower Austria, with is quain churches, houses and towers within the pentâ€"up space around which the city moat ran, bave, on the strength of a certain document in their archives referring to Krems as a "‘stadt," and signed by Emâ€" peror Otto III., in the year 985 A.1>., been celebrating in royalstylethenine hundredth anniversary of the event. The celebrations lasted a whole week, favored with pleasunt weather, _ There were battles of flowers and flower parades, bicyclist processions, fire brigade exhibitions and ritle competiâ€" tions at the butts. Or oneevening an ox‘s carcass was roasted, and on Thursday the climax was reacked, when the pageant illustrating the history of the city during the past 900 years moved from the Exer cierplatz to march through the various streets. . Krems has a population of 10,000 souls, well to do, hospitable people, whose plenteous vineyards, lying all sround the city, are profitable sources of income. of har'fnmil)fl There is ;mnn in Missouri whose feet wre so large that he has to put his trousers on over his head. | To inveterate tea aud coffee drinkers, says the London Graphic, we would comâ€" mend the study of some interesting experiâ€" ments maderecently by an eminent German scientist, Prof. Schutzsenstein, who has been investigating the effect on processes of digestion produced by these beverages. For this purpose the Professor prepared an artifical gastric juice and mixed it with coegulated egg albumen, with and without additions of tem and coffee infusions. The results obtained are extremely instructive, for while the gastric juice by itself was able to digest 94 per cent. of the egg albuâ€" men in the space of eight hours, when tea was added the proportion digestel was reduced to 66 por cent., while, when a deâ€" coction of coflee was mixed with the albuâ€" men, the gastric fluid was only able lo‘ digest 61 per cent., or less than two thirds of the albumen. ‘Lhe digestive power of the gastric juice appears to vary with the strength of the infasion, the disturbing effect being less when the solution of tea und coffec were weakened. The professor is of the opinion that the deleterious effect produced is due to the tannin, which ie extracted during the process of making, and not to the presence of thein and catfein, and he mentions that tea, which has not been allowed to stand more than two or three minutes in less injurious, because a smaller quantity of this undesirable inâ€" gredient, tannin, has been produced than when it is boiled up or left in contact with the leaves for a considerable lergth of time. But it shoulid be remembered that the weaker infusious, besides containing less tannin, also contain less of all the poisonâ€" ous properties contained in the tea leaf and coffee berry, and that it is not only the obmoxious tannin which is thus kept in subjection. In marching soldets take seventyâ€"five steps per minute, quick marching 108, and in charging 150 steps. The tclegraph wire used in the United States would go around the world something like fifteen times. Divorce is greatly on the increaso in England. A Maine mother has an old slipper, still in use, which has spanked six generations It is not every city in Europe that can boast of records extending back 900 years. The goodly burghers of Krems,on the Dan Pennsylvania produces 100,000,000 tons of coal every yearâ€"more than balf the output of the entire country. When a snuke has gorged itsel{ with a large meal, its skin is so stretched that the scales are some distance apart. A South Carolina widow became her own mothberâ€"inâ€"law recently, That i1 to say, she is now the wife of her busband‘s futher. Mocre mountain climbers have been serâ€" ious}y hurt in the Al{,s this season than ever before in an equal length of time. A Swiss scientist has been testing the presence of bdcteria in the mountain air, and finds that not a single microbe erists wbove an altitude of 2,000 feet. A West Virginia man is so peculiarly affected by riding on a train that he has tochain himself to a seat to prevent his jumping out of the car window. Wheat can be grown in the Alps at an elevation of 3,600 feet; in Brazil, at 5,000; in the Caucasus, at 8,000; in Abyssinia, at 10,000; in Pera and Bolivia at 11,000, A Minnesota girl of 15 can distingiush no color, everything being white to her, and she is compelied to wear dark glasses to protect her eyes from the glare. Fruit cools the blaod, cleans the teeth and aids digestion. Those who can‘t eat it miss the benefit of perhaps the most medicinal food on nature‘s bill of fare, A Minnesota judge was due in court at town some miles distant. He adjourned a referred case to the car, heard evidence en route and granted the petition before getting off the train. in color and. m than squirrele Experiments Indicating That Two Favor lte Eeverazes are Injurious, The rats came from the mainiand, which was only two miles away, and Mr. Butler affirms that they swam across, He says he hus seen them coming out of the water by hundreds. At first the rats contented themselves with attacking the vegetables, which were soon destroyed. Then they invaded the bomes of settiers. The latter made war on the rats, killing hundreds of them. Mr. Botier says he has killed as many as 100 at one shot, but others would rueh forward and attack him, bitfhg him In epite of the slaughter the rats got into the houses and attacked the women and children. _ Several of the latter were badly torn by the sharp fangs of the rodents. One baby was so severely bitten about the face thut its life is desy nired of. For three nights, Mr. Butler says, not a woul on the island slept, as that would have meant death. At last the people, in terror and worn out, fled in their boats to the mainland, where they are now camped in a destitute condition. Mr. Butler says the rats pursued them to the water‘s edge, and the women and children were repeatedly bitten before the boats could be pushed ofl, Every vestige of vegetation had been destroyed. . The rat« are described as gray in color and monstrous in size being larger COFFEE AND THE DIGESTION sOMEWHAT CURIOUS. A 900 Year Old City. n GVERRUN 3Y RATS. Walnut Iee Cream. At that time the rodents arrived,and by others, ::nbil in Didn‘t Order the Carriage. Little Miss De Fashionâ€"Mamma, my Toote hust 20 N000R m n C on n e en The German Emperor has original ideas on many things. He thinks that those of his people who live far away from the \cont are at a disadvantage, inasmuch as whatever knowledge they may have of military progress, they cannot but have vague ideas on what is being done in modern naval war tactics. He has had an ingenious model constructed. measuring 13 feet by 23 feet, the upper part of which represents the deck of a great manâ€"ofâ€"war, Konig Wilhelm. Everything is complete â€"the rigging, a siren, a search light, a number of revolving guns, euch capable of firing twentyâ€"six shots in succession, flagâ€" signal apparatus, lifeboats, etc. _ All these are operated by electricity,. When a butâ€" ton is pressed the signal lanterns begin to blaze, rockets are sent up, the beam of the search light fashes around and the guns go off. Orders have been given for the construction of sixteen similar battleâ€" ships for the purpose of giving the inland population some practical ideas of the doings cf the navy. _ * You must have been walking on them. «* While the pig and sheop are the best rcavengers and gleaners on our farms, we do not get the best results when we keep them wholly employed as scavengers," says Mr. Bonham. * They can make a living where the horses and cattle would starve. The pig can utilize the waste of the kitchen, the dairy, the garden, the orchara, the barnyard, the feed lot, the grain field, the grove or forest, and wili mnot confine his feeding to what is above ground. His taste and smell and vision are xo acute that he can utilize everything he can eat, even to brickbats and waste coal. From this fact we learn the pig‘s tastes and needs. He is omnivorous, and must have a.great variety of food if he is to be kept in perfect health and highest thrift. The nearer we come to securing for him the relished variety, the better he will grow and the less will be the cost per pound of pork, and the more wholeâ€" some. M ipcinE ebarig hhnetnows ~ Besides care in choosing potatoes of vigorous stock, it is important that some regard should be had to the potato itself, its srmpe, size and position of its eyes, Variety has much to do with this, but there are individual peculiarities,independâ€" ent of variety, which affe:t the shape and character of the potato. It is possible to change the shape of a variety to a very considerable extent by careful selection of seed. Each eye of the tuber perpetuates in its growth the characteristics of the parent from which it sprung, modified, it is true, by the circumstances under which the crop is grown. The large, roughâ€" shaped and pronged tubers are generally produced by fertilizing with an excess of nitrogem. These should ke avoided in selecting seed. A moderate sized potato of the right shape, a longisi oval, will enerally produce potatoes that will sell guz. Most of the long pota‘oes begin to run out by growing pointed ends,. This tendency to deterioration can be checked by rejecting such specimens when seed is being selected. Cf course, not all of the hill thus first chosen will be left at the finisb. The hili that is most thrifty one day may be atâ€" tacked with blight, and its seed will be worth nothing for planting. But by beâ€" ginning early and weeding out the hills that fall behbind, those that remain will produce seed that has the greatest vitality and will grow the strongest shoots the following season. This cannot be done if the selection is left until the potatoes are ripe, By that time all of the tops wili have died and comparative vigor of each cannot be determined.© If the best hills and the best seed out of each hill were selected for a series of years, the vigor and prolificacy of the potato crop would be greatly incremsed. . _ § * The fact that the pig has found a place on every farm and sround every dairy and mill where there are wastes to be utilized, wlong with the fact that he has shown wonderful power to adjust himaâ€"lf to his environments, has led to such neglect as to impair his health and to abnormal development, â€" He has even been confined in a narrow pen, to feed and sleep in his own filth, and limited to corn middlings, and yet has pard for the food consumed. Even a hog will die if fed only on sugar or fat, but our pig has lived on a fatâ€"former and made muscle and bone and pard for keep. Because he can and has so long endured semiâ€"starvation in a bed of ease with a trough full of food, his rations have been narrowed and his heaith and value impaired. It seems hardly necessary to say that middlings is a good food for pigs and for thoir milkâ€"giving dams, but it is ’ not enough, â€" ‘There are only two complete foods, and they are milk and grass, as lmnule made them. T t : ‘ Selecting Seed Potatoss. Most potato growers delay the selection of seed potatoes for next year‘s planting longer than they should, eays the American Cultivator, _ It is not enough, as some say, to select the hills in the field as they are dug. The careful farmer will go through the field while the potatoes are still in the most vigorous growth and choose the hills that have the most thrifty sppearance. These should be marked by setting a stake beside each of the most thrifty hills and digging these firs*, _ As potatocs are never dug until the tops have died down, it is impossible then to know by the vines which held their thrift longest. _ _ _ ~"The essentinls of profitable pig growing are grass and clover. After twentyâ€"five years in tne business, I would not try to taise pigs without both, and of the two, blue glass is my preference because it is available so many months in the year. With all the grass or clover a pig will graze, be is always ready to assimilate all the corp, oats and middlings he will eat. Grass is not only a complete ration, but it is a great corrective and distender of the stomach, enabling the pig to better digest the richer food. For the young things we save the milk, which like grass, is pot only invaluable alone, but enables the pig to digest a larger per cent. of his grain rations. â€" The best pig feed, then, is all the milk, grass ard grain he can eat." * And there is no best food for p‘g®, where neither of these are part of the pig‘s daily allowance. I may go further ; there is no cheapest food for growing pigs or sbhoats withont grass. Grass and clm;er are the foundation of healthy and profitâ€" abie swine husbandry, and without them 1 doubt if pig raising and feeding can long be conducted successfully. â€" Confining pigs to filthy, uncomfortable pens, and to corn or mill food and kitchen or dairy slops must, from the wide demands of the nature of the animal and the narrowness of the ration, sooner or later produce disease and loss, On the other hand, where these articles of food are supplemented by free range in the grove, clover field and grass lot, and such other variety as the orchard, garden and farm can cheaply supply, to fairly meet the demands of an omnivorous animal, we then have the beet pig food, â€" *Middling and corn are valuable, and o essential that on our farms we cannot profitably grow pork without them; yet neither, nor both, can be considered a safo ration. If our pigs can run on a good grass lot or clover field with shade and pure water, we can feed all the corn or middlings the pigs can assimilate with profit. Y 23 s io Mee e n es PC ai t nencnai hempit EC E and the bealthiest pigs and savory, wholeâ€" some pork. * Until there is a radical reform in the method of raising pig« in filthy pens and barpyards, and limiting them to . the narrowest possible ratide, without exercise and pure water, fresh air and sunshine, we cannot hope to successully meet the objections at home and abroad against the American corn fed pork. We can and have raised the best pork in the world, and every farmer should see to it that his herd has the best food to produce the best pork and Lest pay. § EBACY . w TL CCA ABIF PRACTICAL FARMING. Mrs. De Fashionâ€"You thoughtless child. The Best Food for Pigs. 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A correspondent assures us that he never knew that it was possible for an innkeeper to be too accommodating to his guests until he went down to Nova Scotia recently and put up at a pleansant little hotel in the country,. _ The landlord of this hotel laid it down as one of his principles of action to give people a little more than they asked forâ€"to be "extra accommodating," as h termed it. The â€" landlord brilliantly â€" illustrated his adherence to this principle the very morning after our correspondent‘s arrival at the hotel, _ The guest had to go away on the seven o‘clock train that mornâ€" ing,and asked the proprietor to call him at six. _ The guest went to sleep in the calm assurance that he should be aroused at the _ Mr. Squillsâ€"Wel impudence ! Nex‘ t be wantin‘ pay, 1oo. Adolph Sutro, mayor of San Franscisco, hasoffered to the California State University thirteen acres ofland on which to put up bui‘dings for the university. 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Such iz the preacher will tor las sent irth or fift e wants us %fi $ af (‘1:\\\\“3 ;,W E N ns U % u[ 4 in that vime, to pay MR w I is more extended, but accidents cannot possibly be provided against altogether. Coral reefs are growing continually in some parts of the ocean, solitary rocks crop up in the Red sea and elsewhere not far from the tracks passed over by hundreds of fine ships, weather forecasting has not yet arrived at a state of perfection in any part of the world so that the shipmaster may put to sea confident of clear weather, and stranding will always form a considerable percentage of the disasters to ships. Steamâ€" ers and sailing vessels carrying badly stowed cargoes of grain in bulk are always liable to a short shrift, and apparently the courts of inquiry are not always capable of determining right off a ship‘s stability, having given precisely similar information to that supplied the shipmaster, Collision again is anotber frequent source of dizaster for the steamships. Much has been written to warn the navigator of the risk attending an attempt to manceuvre in a thick fog by locating m sound signal. Too often the action resoived ugon precipitates the very. collision it was adopted to avert. Time is #o short for decision even in clear weather that the officer of the deck needs to have all his wite about him, and be always well in evidence on a steamer‘s bridge. Taking: everything into consideration thissummary of loases for 1894 clearly shows, if any eviâ€" dence were wanting to that effect, that there are not any ships of the world‘s merâ€" chart navies so safe as those belonging to the United Kingdom. Man that is borne of a woman is small potatoes and a few in a hill. He rises up toâ€"day and flourishes like a weed, and toâ€" morrow or the next day, the undertaker hath him. He goeth forth in the morning warbling like a lark, and is knockod out in one round am_l two seconds. In the middle of life he is in debt, and the tax collector pursues him wherever he goeth, The banister of life isfull of splinters, and he slideth down with considerable rapidity. He walketh forth in the bright sunlight to absorb ozone, and meeteth the bank teller with a sight draft for $357. He cometh home at eventide and meeteth the wheel barrow in his path, It riseth up and smiteth him to the earth, and falleth upon him, and runneth one of its legs into his ear, t 1 The statistical summary of shipping â€" ossesduring 1894 issued by Lloyd‘s Register of British and Foreign Shipping sets forth certain facts that should gladden the hearts of shipowners, and all those who go down to the sea in shipe under the British flag, whether as crews or passengers, says the Liverpool Journal of Commerce. Stiil, these interesting comparisons of losses and casualties can express only a tithe of the saperiority which our sailing ships and steamers bave over foreign vessels in the matter of safety. For example the United Kingdom shows the smallest percentage of loss, 28 per 1,000 of the vessels owned, compared with France 39 per 1,000, and Norway 64 per 1,000. Roughly speaking, then, so far as this compilation goes, Norway has a little more than double the percentage of losses that the United Kingâ€" dom has. Actuaily, if some system of weighting were introduced for the higher rate of speed attained by British ships as compared with those of Norway, the results would be much more decidedly in favour of our ships. Norway bas not a single ship like the Campania, the Majestic, the Scot, the Caledonia, and similar steam« ships moking passage after passage at a speed, and with a regularity bordering on the marvellous, â€" Such splendid speciens of naval architecture ‘run every risk from collision, or from stranding thatcan possibly be imagined, almost without accident of any kind. Yet, with ships as with men, it is the pace that kills, Hence the good monthly boats under foroign flags ought to show a smaller percentage of loss, caeteris paribus, than the leviathans whose passages are reckoned to In the gentle spring time he putteth on his summer clothes and a blizzard stricketh him afar from home and filleth him with cuss words and rheumatism. In the winter he putteth on winter trousers, and a wasp thut abideth therein createth excitement. He starteth down into the cellar with an oleander and goeth backward, and the cleander cometh after and sitteth upon him. He buyeth a watch dog, and when he cometh home from the lodge the watch dog treeth him asd sitteth near until rosy morn, He goeth to the horse trot and betteth his money on the brown mare, and the bay gelding with a bloze face winneth, He marrieth a red headed heirees with a wart on her nose, and the next day the parental ancestor gceth under with a bump and aiter a brief sojourn in the gaol cometh home to live with his beloved sonâ€"inâ€"law. BRITISH SHIPS THE BEST under the British flag,. .A norih eas country shipowner not loog since said that foteigners can sail their vesseis and navigate them as safely as Englishmen, and do not have more losses than the English, Stat« istics are altogether opposed to this view, which is m discreditabie reflection upon the ships and their navigators under the British flag.. The more favorable percenâ€" tage obtained by our merchant navy is not altogether to be attributed to better education or better seamanship. . Our carryivg craft as a general rule, to which every year there are fewer exceptions, are much more fit for their work than a large majority of the Norwegian wooden vessois, Moreover, they frequently carry larger crews than the forcigner. lt is jast possible that the superior education of the Norwegian officer and seaman prevents an even more unfavorable compurison _ for ships of their fatherland. This inference seems borne out by the fact that of the merchant navies having a total tonnage of over a million, the United Kingdom, the British colonies, the United States of America, France, Germany and Norway, as regards steamers, the average percentage of loss for the six countries is 2.3, whereas the percentage for the United Kingdom stands at 2.33. â€" Hence, given better ships, apparently the higher education stand a better chance of coming to the front. â€" For sailing vessels the six countries gave an average percentage of 5.5 egainst 39, for the United Kingdom. | Inquiries into THE FATE OF MISSING SHNIPS are seldom worth the trouble taken with them, The principal witnesses are full fathoms five, and all clse is conjecture, Those who believe that loss of life at sea is on the increase will not find it an easy matter to account for the persistent de® crease from year to year of the vessels belonging to the United Kingdom which are abandoned, are missing, or founder. In 1891 such vessels were shown as 62,in 1892 as 68, in 1893 as G2,and in 1894 as only 47. There is decidedly room for congratulation under this head. â€" Strandings are, as ought to be expected, the most prolific source of shipping casualty. Fog shuts down when pear the land, a master waits till the watch is about to be relieved and all hands on deck before taking a cast of the lead, and the ship goes ashore, _ Or perchance the master has left port provided ‘only with a general chart of most ratricate parsages where too refined detail would be impossible, He either allows too much for the sea surface, or not enough ; or he may allow exactly what is laid down on the chart, based on insuflicient information, only to find his vessel piled up and the \current running by her in just the opposite direction to that which the current chart led him to make the allowance he did. Shipmasters condemned by a court of en. quiry for neglect of currents should take care to find out whether the nautical msgessors alweys have the latest and most reliable information before them, _ No lese than fortyâ€"two per cent. of the casualties to steamers, and 48 of sailing vessels, are attributable to stranding. fn the days to come this should increase, even though the absolute number of casualties decrease. Ships must of neccssity become safer as the knowledge of Certain Facts That Shoeld Gladden the Hearts of Rritonsâ€"Steamsbips Making Passages and With a Regularity Bordâ€" cring on the Marvellousâ€"Each Year Shows a Becrease in Loas of Life on Vessels Relonging to the United Kingâ€" WHAT A STUDY OF LLYOD‘S STAT ISTICS SHOWS. dom An Essay on Man. FLOATING STRUCTURES THR NEAREST SECON Ti wharn on Foml ie Neg i enlete Tr onl cb Tovelo Netis w Is still in his old Hafing Completed our New Factory we are now prepared to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. We keep in Stock a large quantity of Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the differâ€" ent Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. Our Stock of DRY LUMRE is very Large so that all orderr can be filled. Lumber, Shingles and Lath always Sasgh and Door Factory. HARNESS SHOP! HEAVY AND :LIGHT HARNESS, | SADDLES, BRIDLES, | COLLARS, Etc. New Stock Horse Blankets. ~~="~* Whips, Combs, Brushes, Bits, EtG., mc« Repairing promptily attended to. Firstâ€"class workmanship guaranteed Young Wife (who took the chemistry prize at boarding . school)â€"I forgot to add the soda, my dear; but,never mind. After tea we can walk out and get some soda water. Young Husband(severely)â€"My love, these biecuits are sour, horribly sour. For Sale by McFARLANE & CO,, Wholesale Agents for Durham and Vicinity Durham, Jan 26, 1895 "I TELL ALL MY FRIENDS." ful in their important functional duties, head and heart, mind and body nre sick. â€" These were the feelings of Mrs. Galbraith, wife of Mr. A. V. Galbraith, the wellâ€"known jeweller of Shelburne, Ont., before she had learnâ€" ed of the beneficent results to be gainâ€" ed by the use of South American Nervine Tonic. In so many words she said: "Lifo was becoming unâ€" besrable. I was so cranky I was really ashamed of myself. Nothing that I ate would agree with me; now it does not matter what I eat. Itake enjoyment out of all my meals." Here are Mrs. Galbraith‘s words of testiâ€" mony to South American Nervine, given over her own signature : « Shelburne, Ont., March 27, 1894. "1 was for considerable time a sufâ€" ferer from indigestion, experiencing all the misery and annoyance so With indigestion it is not only that one sufiers all imaginable torments, physical and mental, but more, perâ€" haps, than anything else, an impaired dizestion is the forerunner of countâ€" lo:s ailments that in their course lead to the most serious consequences. Let tho stomach get out of order and it may be said the whole system is disâ€" eased. When the digestive organs _ Lady of Shelburne, Ont., Permanently Cured of Indigestion After Using Two Bottles of South American Mervine â€"Glad to Let Everyone Know It, Chemistry In the Kitchen. Hicuest Price Pamp ror Raw Furs CHAS. LEAVENS, Jr., i his old stand on Lambton Street, near the Post Office, where he is ready to fill all orders for MR3 A mt _ In Stocli. N., G & J. McKECHNIE. from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splinte, {Iweeney, Ring: Bone, Stifles, Sprains, all Ewollen Throuts, Cou;hl. eto. _ Save $50 by ase of one bottle. Warranted by McFacâ€" Dr. Talmage will go to Washington as pastor of the First Preabyterian Chureh, English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard:Soft orCalloused Lumpsand Blomises lane & Co. common to this complaint. South American Nervine was recommend. d to me as a safe and effective remedy for all such cases. I used only two bottles, and am pleased to testify that these fully cured me, and I have had no indication of a return of the trouble since, â€" I never fail to recommend the Nervine to all my friends troubled with indigestion or nervousness. " Mrs. A. V. Garsrarma." Th> testimony of this lady, given freely and voluntarily out of a fall heart because of the benefits she exâ€" perienced in her own person, bave an echo in thousands of hearts all over the country. South American Nervâ€" ine must cure, because it operates at once on the nerve centres. These nerve centres are the source from which emanates the life fluid that keeps all organs of the body in proper repair, Keep these nerve centres sound and disease is unknown. There is no trick in the business. Everyâ€" thing is very simple and common sense like. South American Nervine strengthens the digestive organs,tones up the liver, enriches the blood, is peculiarly efficacious in building up shattered and nervous constitutions. It never fails to give relief in one day, GALBRAITH CHARLES LEAVENS i Mrs. Wixstow‘s Soormxe SyRUr has been aued by millions of mothers for their children while teething. If disturbed at night amd broken ef your rest by a sick child suffering ‘ and erying with pain of Cutting Teeth send at ones and get a bottle of "‘Mrs. Winslow‘s BootkL,g Syrup" for Children Teething. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immedia; tely. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake Imt it. It cures Diarrhoes, reâ€" gulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums and reduces Joflamâ€"~ wation, and gives tons and energy to the whole system. ‘"‘Mrs. Winslow‘s Soothing Syrup" for children teething it pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Price twentyâ€"live cents a bottle. Sol% by all druggists throughout Kailway travelling in Norway is cheaper than in any Europesn country. Stark‘s Powders, each package of which contains two preparations, on in a round woodenâ€"box, the cover 01 which forms a measure for one dose, an mmediate relief for Sick Headache and Stomach, also Neuralgia, and all kinds of nervous pains, and another in ca (from 3 to 4 of one in an ordinary do: which acts on the Boweis, Liver an Stomach, forming a never failing perl fect treatmentfor all Head and Stomach complaints. They do not, as most pi and so many other medicines do, their effect or produce after copstipati and are nice to take. 25 cents & box, & A pound of cork will sustsin in the water a man weighing 154 pounds. Frank comes into the house in a sorry plight. 1 ooo ols ie ue Mercy on us! exclaims his father. How you look ! You are souked. Please, paps, I fell into the canal. What ! with your new trousers on * Yes, paps, I didn‘t have time to take them of. 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