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DR. GEORGE F. SHARDY, editor of the Medical Record, in an article upon the epidemic of influenza, says: "There is now no doubt that Influenza, or what is popularly known as 'the grip,' has become epidemic in this city, and is. icatiered broadcast over the country. It is also quite evident that its general characteristic correspond with those noted in connection with the prevailing type of the malady in Russia. Grmany and France, Fortunately, it is of such a mild type that, save for its invasion of
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The Marquis de Galliffet, one of the most beautiful women in Paris, is suffering from a strange form of insanity. She goes into convul- sions whenever she sees her face in a mirror.
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A SYDNEY contemporary thus reports a gun accident:-"The Rev. Mr. Mwas loading one barrel, when the other barrel-we suppose he didn't know it was, loaded-—suddenly went uff, without the slightest warning. We advise Mr. Mccordingly, now that his fingers are gone, to lock the stable door-or at least to have his barrels to arranged that one may be detached. and hidden tchind a tree while the other is being charged. It might be better, perhaps, to have only a si gle barrel, or perhaps a stack with no barrel ACCORDING to Sir William Harcourt the differ at all but Mr. M, being an old shooter, ence between most of the Unionists and Glad.doubtless likes to have all the circular vacancies stonians is merely a verbal one. One party he can cany, so that in case of the appear- ance of several kinds of game he wen't be obliged favours Local Government, the other clamour for Home Rule. The difference is infinitesimal to lose any. Sill, we have always objected to
barrels in guns.
We have authority for the IN catechking a candidate for cook, the epicure theory that barrels should be used solely as receptacles for whisky. Gun-barrels are con- asked, "How would you serve woodcock-withinually exploding whether they are loaded or or without their heads?" "Without," 'said the not. We call Mr. M's attention to countless disengaged culinary applicant. "That's enough," instances of this remarkible truth. You are said the questioner: I do not want you in my never safe from a gea-barrel until it is beaten up into a plough-share and sold for old in. We once knew of a gun-barrel which had ben sa "How did you like me as a statue asked Mrs used up that there was nothing left of ili ut the $1.00 Schmidt of her bushand on their return from an hole, and that gun-barrel cxploded one day and
entertainment at which she had figured con- killed the small boy who was using it for a spicuously. "To tell the truth 1 was dumb-opera-glass. A man once used a piece el cable founded," he replied. "At my statuesque as a charm for his watch-chain. In time a 1.25 appearance?" "No, my dear; at your mouth small hole was worn through it, and just because
keeping shut so long.",
1 looked like a gunbartel à suddenly went off, and is at this moment in the Museum. There is but one safe gun-barrel in this world, and that is the one which is at present under ground, and fallen into impalpable dust. And if Mr. M wants to be entirely safe hereafter he will have his guns made without barrels, and hire a man to do his shooting for him."
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Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, in a recent lecture on woman's dre's, makes the following interesting statement, which is at least picturesque: "Catch Edison and constrict him inside a wasp waists coat, and be sure you'll get no more Inventions; hind astle upon Bismarck, and farewell to German unity; coerce Robert Browning into corsels, and you'll have no more epics; pul 1.53 Parnell Into petticoats, and Home Rule is a lost
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A RUSSIAN newspaper of acknowledged authority in military matters, the Novos Fremya, estim- ates that 500.000 of the new guns which the Rus 1.50sian Government is thinking of giving to all its troops would be required by the infantry on the frontier. The is a virtual confession that Russia has many more troops at her western boundary than was generally supposed. The army thrown upon the frontier immediately after mobilization, the Novos Vremys thinks, would require from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 guns.
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dividends they could rely on large returns alter- wards. In conclusion he invited questions, but. none being asked,
Mr. A. G. Stokes proposed a vote of thanks to him, and, it having been acknowledged,' the meeting dispersed. --
ATHLETIC TRAINING.
Tux British royal family, we read, is much rlisturbed by the information which comes from Berlin that the Duchy of Sixe-Coburg;Gotha ir to be absorbed with the German Empire upon the death of the present Grand Duke. Prince
As the Athletic season is now on, athletes Alfred is going to Berlin to remonstrate against intending to go in for a course ci training will this step. This seizure of the Duke of Edin. And some valuable information in the following burgh's dominions, which would be his by inhe-remaks by Dr. A. H. P. Leup, Director of ritance and general understanding, will tend Physical Education at Pennsylvania Univer further to strain the relations between Russia sity and Germany, and may have very serious results.
THE TOBACCO PROSPECTS IN
BORNEO.
He said
Avery fair audience assembled in the Chamber. of Commerce yesterday afternoon to hear Mr J.J. Francis, Q.C., address them on the above subject. Mr. Francis presided for, himself, and spoke for something over halfan hour. that he had just returned from a two months' visit to British North Borneo, during which he took the opportunity of learning something about the country, the industries carriedon there, and their prospects, particularly with respect to tobacco- planting. They knew that there was a good deal of Hongkong capital invested in Borneo in this enterprise, and he had been told that there was a good deal of despondency among the shareholders as to the prospects of tobacco cultivation. At, on his return, he bad ventured to express strong opinions in favor of Borneo, it had been suggested to him that he might benefit investors if he stated the grounds for his opinions, and imparted such information as he had obtained. He had a very decided opinion that the future of Borneo was an assured success, and that it would rest mainly on tobacco-cultivation. It might be difficult to get then to come to his conclusions, but to assist them he would explain exactly
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He says: "The mining of athletes, whether professional or amateur, is nearly always left in the hands of incompetent trainert. Any person engaged in athletics is subject to no greater danger than that of being placed in the hands of the ordinary trainer, because of the latter's Inmentable ignorance of the human body as a mechanism. They generally diét a man regard- less of individual peculiaries. They restrict : the supply of water of all alike, without knowing the requirements of the body in this direction. This is only an instance of the innumerable complaints that could very justly be made against the common trainer, great though his reputa-' lion:
"Another danger is that, of overtraining because of its aptness to do permanent physical injury and, especialy in the case of students, by using up a larger supply of nervous energy than can be supported. The beneficial effects of general physical exercise are due to the increased action of the heart and lungs, causing the blood to be liberally and equally distributed to all parts of the body, in that way increasing its nourishment and growth. At the same time it promotes digestion and absorption and so adds to the nutrition of the body.
"The trainer must be able to judge when the body is receiving sufficient blood from an active heart without allowing the heart to become diseased or weakened from overwork. There are two kinds of dangers from overwork-the sudden and the gradu Sudden overwork causes what is called bad form and staleners, making the muscles much less able to resist the inroads and growth of disease, 'Another bad condition is due to long-continued training,
This weakens a man when he has to live on a especially if there be no intermission of rest. lower plane ever after, and is a more ready victim to the inroads of disease. The fact must always be bome in mind that a large proportion of even prominent athletes look up physical education to correct an original defective organization. It is the general impression that athletes are strong, robust, vigorous men, whereas the opposite t the truth. Any athlete in good co dition is hollow-cheeked and more or less lattern-jawed,
"The best athletic work is based on what is called head work, as trickery or knack, arda
large expenditure of nervous energy. The last is one of the most dispensable requisites for nearly all kinds of athletic work. From this it may be very readily seen that the men who are the most likely to engage as athletes are those who have much nervous energy, and they gene- rally have a poor or medium muscolar develop ment, are not endowed by nature to do bard physical work, and are at the same time naturally inclined to spur themselves on to efforts beyand their strength.
what had to be done when an estate was opened, before any tobacco could be placed on the market, and a profit realised. His impressions were based on information freely given by the Governor, Goverment officiais, and practical men, and his deductions based on personal observations of many estates on the Kinabatangan River had at Darvel Bay. There was nothing doing in Borneo except tobacco- planting. British North Borneo was practically one huge impenetrable Jungle, almost un. inhabited, except on the west coast, the whole coastline being fringed with mangroves, a mile or more in breadth, and whose unknown depths of water and mud made them impassable. The only means of communication was by water, each estate baving it steam-launch for that purpose Most of the estates-nearly all those in which the Hongkong capital was invested were on the "There are two classes of cases those who
from Sandakan, Darvel Bay being about 26 first class a great many come to grief, others from Kinabatangan river, which was some forty miles get ignorant training, and those who are trained
under competent medical supervision. In the. hours distant. Let them suppose that a Com-disease developed during training or by disease pany was formed-what had to be done? A already contracted by a premalarely weakened competent and experienced manager-English organism. In the second class are found a large colleges that have medical directors of physferl er Dutch--had to be engaged, assistanis ob- body of student athletes connected with thote tained, and coolles brought down. That would education. Injuries sustained by them during take some moribs. Then they had all to be training are usually caused by willful neglect, or transported by steam-launch, with every single competitions are entered into without any prolim- article they needed, tools, provisions, materials inary training, mach against the advice of the for building houses, everything down to a matchbox, to the selection. When they got there they found it simply thick jungle, with not even a path through it The first thing to be done was to clear a small patch for their temporary residence, the next to make a broad road along the whole front of the river. Then the forest had to be attacked, and, for want of materials to utilise it, all the timber had to be dried and
instructor.
Training of an individual properly conducted cannot possibly lead to any other but the most favouble results. In the hands of the ignorant, when wrongfully applied, it becomes a very potest agent for barm, causing much illness and ham; and often death. A person properly trained is in a much better condition to withstand disease than if such exercise had not been taken."
SAYS the Sydney Bulletins-Melbourne Age, in a conclusion that Home Rule for Wales, involving recent article, jumps to the false disestablishment of the Anglican Staic Church in Tummy's mountainous principality, cannot be an accomplished fact until the House of Peers is abolished. "So long as the Chamber," say the Age, continues in existence the way is blocked against the progress of the great consti- tutional change which Mr. Gladstone and his adherents advocate. Remembering how Glad- stone abolished purchase in the army, brushing aside the steadfast opposition of the Lords with a so-called Royal Prer gative (viz., the Frerogative of the Liberal majority in the Commons) it is safe to assume that the Grand Old Man would not allow the dukes and bishops to choke any great national measure that had been carried by his Government. The "Royal Prerogative" is a trump-card which only a Liberal Premier can play, for that the Tories would use it against their bereditary allies is not to be supposed. Who could imaging Beaconsfield or Salisbury commanding his Royal Mistress to squelch her faithfal peers and drive another nail into Monarchy's coffin? But Gladstone, back in burnt. It took six good men a month` to clear power-and his return is only a questionof health an acre of jungle, or rather to clear what were with him-would prefer to work the will of the called "a-lds," a space 60 feet broad and 150 people in the teeth of the Lords, inasmuch as
look after that area. But after the trees had those noble obstructionists might be encouraged fathoms long. Once cleared, one coolie could been felled it took six wicks to dry and to show further cause and reason for their ultimate suppression. That Gladstone will live to abolish
burn the debris, and a similar period was neces- the "Upper" House is not very likely. He cannot shake himself entirely free of his own aristo-Ary to grub up all the stumps and roots, so that
there were quite four months spent before.It cratic associations, and would rather leave to anything was done, even if the hands were ex- others the task which must be accomplished shortly, But that Gladstone will live to make many great constitutional changer," whether the Lords "black the way" or not, is, happily very likely indeed. If the Age imagines that no part of the blessed constitution can be wiped out without the consent of the Peers, bow does it perceive any possibility of them ever being wiped out themselves ?
THE SEVEN BIBLES.
The seven Bibles of the world are the Koras of the Mohammedans, the Tri Pitikes of the "
Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and i Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the the Scriptures of the Christians..."
The Koran is the most recent of the five, dat- ing from about the Seventh century after Christ, ita mpound of quotations from both the Old and New Testaments and from the Talmud, The Tri Palkes contain sublime morals and pure aspirations. Their author lived and died in the Sixth century before Christ
The sacred writings of the Chinese are called 1.
web of cloth. From this it is presumed that the Five Kings, the word "kings" meaning they were originally written on five rolls of cloth, They contain wise sayings from the sages on the duties of life, but they cannot be fraced back further than the eleventh century before our era, The Vedas are the most ancient books in the languages of the Hindoos, but they do not, Late commentators, antedate the according twelfth century before the Christian era.
The Zendavests of the Persians, next to our
Bible, is reckoned among scholars as being the greatest and most learned of the sacred writings. Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains, lived and * worked in the twelfth century before Christ 1 Moses lived and wrote the Pentateuch 1,500 years before the birth of Christ; therefore that
portion of our Bible is at least 300 years older than the most ancient of other sacred writings.
The Eddas, a semi-sacred work of the Scan dinavians, was but given to the world in the... Fourteenth century,,
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perienced. But they seldom were. The Chinese were useless at clearing away, and native labor had to be sought, though the Chinese were eminently adapted for field-work, being so patient and industrious, carrying water, carbine up the plants, and so on. It was no wonder, therefore, that there should be many delays the postion of a manager, with 100 or 150 coolies, the syrepings of Hongkong perhaps, attacking the dense forest, was not a pleasant AN American correspondent wires on the 2nd one. Mr. Francis then detailed at length ulto:-Mr. Langtry is once more the subject of the process of cultivation, and preparation, gossip, and her name in connection with that of and at the end of his description said that the first crop of tobacco, obtained two Fred Gebhard is on the lips of the club men. Last week she left the St. James Theater, to go years from the formation of the Company, would to Paris, it was stated, but it now appears that cost about 75 forin-cents per pound, and sold she has been living in strict seclusion, at readily at an average of 135. So far as he had Parish's Hotel, in George street, a quiet out been able to work out the figures, making a of the way private hotel. People, who are liberal allowance for everything, the cost of land, good authorities on the subject say that a recon- the cost of preparing the grund, the cost of cillation bas taken place between the fair Jersey preparing houses, the wages of all employed, he Lily and Freddy Gebhard. Cablegrams and thought no estate could be carried on under an letters have been daily passing between the two, expenditure of $5 000 per month. If an estate and there is little doubt from the preparations carried on at that expenditure could cultivate that she is making that Fred Gebhard's early from three to five hundred fields and get from adrent in London may be expected. A peculiar. each the avenge product of 7 picule, the Com, story as to the cause of the Langtry-Gebhard | pany would in three years from, the date of its fall-out is told in the clebs by man lately formation, with anything like the usual lack, be AT London and Bremen the longest day has returned from America, and who speaks with able to repay out of the product of its crop the 163 hours. At Stockholm it is 18 hours in authority. The primary cause of the quarrel whole capital expended and have something like length, At Hamburg and Dentic the longest dates some time back. Mrs: Langtry, it appears,
$100,000 to be used as dividend. Onéestate, asan day bas 17 hours, At St. Petersburg and spoke in an insulting manner to Maurice Barry instance, paid a couple of thousand dollars clear Tobolsk, Siberia, the longest is to hours and the more when he was leading man in her proft on the first crop, after replacing its capital, It loks as though the dispatch of the squadron of evolution to Europe, with Lisbon as its first shortest 5 hours. At Zornca, Finland, June company. She, accused Barrymore of putting per cent, on the next, and 55 per cent, on
port of call, bad an object beyond merely show. 21st brings a day nearly 22 hours long, and her shapl op in a rough manner, and after the the third. There were something like a million Christmas one less than three hours in length. well-known actor apologized for an imaginary scies it excellent tobacco land already conceded ng our new ships. It is said that Lord Salisbury? At Wardburg, Norway, the longest day lasis offense, Mrs. Langtry asked him; in the presence in British North Barnes, but the greater part and Secretary Blaine are acting if concert in the from May 21st to July and without interruption, of Gebhard and another, whether he was accus- was entirely ungpened. The tobacco was rival- matter of Portugal's confiscation of the Delagoa that is to say the sun is never set in that time, tomed to the society of ladies. "Oh, yes, Mrs, Eng the best leaf grown in Java or Sumatra, Bay Railroad, and the dispatch of British gun. and in Solzbergen the longest day is 31 months. Langtry, replied Barrymore. "I was born of and even of the present price was not maintained boats to Delagon Bay and the arrival of the At Philadelphia, the longest day is somewhat mother and i am married to a wife," said owing to the increasing production, there would American Squadron in the Tagus, are designed less than 15 hours, and at Montreal it is 16.
ladies," was the culting retort of the society always be a handsome prefit of from 50 to 70 per to make a joint impression upon Portugal. stor, with the accent strongly on the Indies. cert, with good luck and good matingement, TheEngland has a complication about colonial Ah, pardon me," answered Barrymore, thief drawback was the cost of getting labor-a boundaries in Afilca, but the American interest The nie of electilcity in surgery, says the New York Sun, is extending daily. It is now largely misundentood you. You mean, am I acquainted drawback which was always lessening, as free in the matter of railroad confi cation is greater employed in England in gynecological cases, It with ladies of the demi-monde ? No, never Chinese laborers were going there in numbers, than the English. has long been known to be capable of relieving before. Will you take my resignation and let ad in the faturs.women and children could be Advertisers are requested to forward all motions tooded for neuralgic pain, and has now been applied to cases me retire. Mr. Langiry was furious and employed in many of the processes. The Gov of ovarian neuralgia, the treatment of which thought that Gebhard should have taken the rnment had also practically arranged for the presents peculiar difficulties. Dr. Apesiall, in matter up, but whether that gentleman thought Importation of Indian coolies, and Javaness were giving the results of his practice, states that he that Mr. Langtry had only got what she had being introduced, He, personally, heard an The Honghong Tebyaßk has On largest circulacios of any has often had patients whose ovarian region was invited or that discretion was the better part of offer made to supply coolicial $35 each, whereas
hene mbished in the Far East, and in theeeten tha
was very angry with Gebbard, and, in To sum up, he was convinced of the great pediums for Advertisers. Terms can be learer on approad 10 painful and tender that they could not bear valor, he took no notice of the matter, Mese price ruling was $5 and $53
Honchong Telegrasi mumber at the Telephone Central the slightest pressure, but who cartent could fast, uy the present reconciliation the breach future for tobacco-planters fa Bornco-there was
minutes application of the inducted current untli submit to arm pressure without any indication of was never properly bridged. Now, however, all every essential there--it was simply a question pain, declaring that both pain and tenderness difficulties are smoothed over and the pair will of good tonnagement. The beginning was slow, but even if they had to wall z couple of jenis for Had entirely disappeared, one
, soon hays a happy'reunion,-
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