The Cambrian

THE HEALTHIEST LIGHT. When the electric light comes into general use it is likely that at least 40,000 fewer people will die every year in the United Kingdom. Tins seems a "large number, but it is r. ally only a lowering of the death-rate by one per thousand. One of the causes why the winter death-rate is so high is the unhealthiness of gas, lamps, and cinciles. A single gas jet consumes as much air as four or live people, and, as it also gives off a lot of sulphurous fumes and poisonous carbonic acid, it is easy to understand why we feel sleepy in a gaslit room. The sleepiness is really a symptom of partial poisoning. But oil lamps and candles are quite as bad, seriously injuring the lungs, and predisposing us to consumption and bronchitis. Tne electric light, on tl:e other hand, consumes no oxygen, and does not cast a particle of impurity into the air. Besides, it more cr less resembles sunlight, and no doubt has some of the same good effects on the body, -so that it is well worth the extra expense, which is saved in doctor's bills and medicines. PUTTING ON GLOVES. The best mumn r of putting on gloves is to open and turn back the gloves to the thumb, and powder lightly; put the fingers in their places, not the thumb, and caretully work them p c en with the first finger and thumb of the other hand until they are quite down; never press between the fingers; pass the thumb into its place with care, and work on with the fingers; turn back the glove and slide it over the hand and wrist, never pinching the kid, and work the glove into proper place by means of the lightest pressure, always allowing the kid to slide between the fingers in finishing, care should be taken in fastening the first button. DRESSING THE HAIR. In dressing the hair women should study their own style. The trouble with most women is that they take up a style of dressing the hair because "it is new, not because it is individually becoming. The handsomest woman often disguises her loveliness with an unbecoming head dress. The classic knot, lowr on the nape of the neck, ber loveliness with an unbecoming head dress. The classic knot, low on the nape of the neck, may be vastly becoming to some women, and yet thoroughly ugly for others. Tall women look bad jfith a high coiffure, while a mijtnonne beauty will gain dignity and inches by having her hair dressed on the top of her head. Why, a skilful hair-dresser knows how to take off years from the face of his patron by the manner in which he puts up her hair. NICE DISHES. Cheese Aigkettes.—Put half a pint of cold ■water into a saucepan with an ounce of butter. When the butter boils sift in by degrees four ounces of fine flour which has been mixed with a pinch of baking powder, and cook for six minutes. Remove the saucepan from the fire, and as soon as the mixture has cooled a little add one egg, working it well into the paste with a wooden spoon. Then add another whole egg and one yolk. Mix well, stir in two ounces of grated cheese, and season with salt and cayenne. Have ready a pan containing plenty of boiling fn-t. Dip a teaspoon into the fat, and then fill it quickly with some of the cheese mixture, taking care not to smooth it, so that it may appear rough when cocked, and drop it into the fat. The aigrettes should take about ten minutes to fry. Drain them as they are taken from the pan on a sheet cf soft paper. Serve as quickly as possible, piling them up on a d'oyley a little grated cheese may be sprinkled over them before sending tbem to the table. Stewed FOWL and HICK-In this recipe, a fowl past its first prime can be used with good results. Dividft into the usual joints a fowl, which has been boiled slowly for three-quarters of an hour. Dip each piece into salad oil, and fry without browning. Place in a saucepan, add an onion stuck with cloves, a teacupful of washed rice, and the liquor from the fowl. Cook all slowly till tender, when the rice will have absorbed most of the liquor. Place in a deep dish, scatter chopped parsley over, and serve. Devilled Mutton.—Take as many fairly thick slices of cold mutton as you require, score them well, so that the devilling mixture may sink into the fibre and flavour it equally; moisten some made mustard with vinegar, add to it black Pepper, salt, and cayenne, brush it over the meat, and let it lie on a dish to soak in. Cook in front of a bright fire in a Dutch oven, and baste well with butter till brown; dust over vi tb cayenne and serve very hot.

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WISE AND OTHERWISE. The voice of a man popping the question has the true engagement ring. Binks: "Who originated football?" Jinks: "Some undertaker, I daresay." A large head is about as much evidence of brains as a paper collar is of a shirt. He: "Have you had your ears pierced?" She: "No, but I h,tve often had them bored." Jack: Why do you wear your stockings wrong side outward ? Jones Because there's a hole on the inside." Husband, angriiy, after a heated argument: "Do you take me for a fool P" Wife: <4No, John; but I may be mistaken." Cockney butler: "'Ow do you like the champagne, Dougal?" Dougal: "No verra. much, man. There's nae duration about b.er." Clara: "I have my photograph taken every three years. I think it's so interesting." Fanny: "Oh, whatever do you do with them all." Miss Sentimental: "Would you die for me, Charlie ?" Mr. Practical: "No, darling; I'll do better than that. I'll live for you and work for you." It is really wonderful the amount of assist- ance a young tady requires in holding up a five- ounce Prayer-book in church when she has a young man with her. Novelist: "Those confounded critics slated my new novel most unmercifully." Friend:" Well, you have your revenge. They had to read the book." No woman is so bad at mathematics that she can't tell in halt a minute how much her hus- band would save in the course of a year if he gave up smoking. Doctor, feeling Sandy's pulse in bed: "What do you drink r" Sandy (with brightening face): "On, I'm nae particular, doctor! Anything you've got with ye." Mother: "Where's papa?" Flossie: "He's downstairs." Mother: "What's he doing?" Flossie: "His bicycle is out of breaff, and lie's giving it some more Lady: "Now that you have had a good dinner, Hro you equal to the task of sawing seme WOO,1 ? Tramp: "Madam, equal is not the proper word; I'm superior to it." Mrs. Timid: "Did you ever find a man under the bed?" Mrs. Blufx: "Yes; the ni-ht we tb>ught there were burglars in the house. I found my husband there Village minister (to crofter's wife): "Well, Kirstie, how's your hubsand to-dav ?" Kirstie: "He's just like yersel'. He has plenty to dae, but he wi;mlt dae it." What English word is there the first two letters of which signify a man, the first three a woman, the first four a great man, and the whole a great woman ? "Heroine." "My husband tells all his friends that he drew a prize in the matrimonial lottery," she said, proudly. "He probably refers to your bank account,"returne.I her dearest friend. Mrs. Malaprop (horrified at finding her daughter's waist encircled by a. ycung man's arm): "Oh, and they told me he was descended from one of the old Hugmenot families "Madam," said a certain one to Mrs. Brown the other day" you are talking simply rubbish." "Yes, sir," replied the ever-crushing lady, because I wish you to comprehend me." Friend Why are you reducing the wages of your employés r" Philanthropic manufacturer: "I need the money just now. This is the time of the year I make my annual gifts to charity." A boy recently came to school, bringing tho following letter of excuse to the schoolmaster from his mother: "Dear sir,—Please excuse my b >y a-scratehiiig hisself. He's got a new flannel shirt on." Teacher: How do you account for the pheno- menon of dew ?" Boy: "Well. you see the ea.rth revolves on its axis every twenty-four hours, and in consequence of this tremendous pace it per- spires freely." Mrs. Henpeck (visiting, her first husband's grave) "Yes, here lies a hero. You would not be my husband to-day had he not been killed in the war." Mr. Henpeck (fiercely) "Yes; what a. curse war i3 "He," screamed the park orator, "who puts his hand to the plough must not turn back." Wiiat's he to do when he gets to the end of the furrer ? asked the man in the crowd. "What is the plural of man, Johnny ?" asked the teacher of a small pupil. "Men," answered Johnny. "Correct," said the teacher. "And what is the plural of child ?" Twins" was the unexpected answer. "Taking them one with another," said the Rev. Sydney Smith, "I believe my congregation to be most exemplary observers of the religious ordinances; for the poor keep all the fasts, and the rich all the feasts." A speaker once said that, "along the untrodden paths of the future we can see hidden footprints of an unseen hand and at another part of speech, "we pursue the shadow, t.b6 bubble bursts, and leaves the ashes in our hands." Pat: "Sur", and I'm heir to a splendid estate under mv father's will. When he died he ordered my elder brother to divide the house with me; and, by St. Patrick, he did it—for he tuck the inside himself and gave me the outside." "What would you think of a friend who would not venture to dive for you when you were pretty near drowning?" asked the scnti- mental member of the club. "I should say," replied Charlie Peppers, "that his friendship was all on the surface." Sunday-school teacher Why, Willie Wilson! Fighting again ? Didn't last Sunday's lesson teach that when you are strurk on one cheek you Ou»ht to turn the other to the striker ?" Willie: "Yes'm but he hit me on the nose an' I've onl; got ona." Scene: Police-court.—Magistrate: "You are accused of stealing six reams of paper, three gallons of ink, and fivo gross of pens. Whitt havo you to say ? Prisoner: Your honour, I am a novelist, and I was merely collecting material for a new story The pupils in a school were asked to give in writing the difference between a biped and a quadruped. One hoy gave the following: "A biped has two legs and a quadruped has four legs; there-fore, the difference between a biped and a quadruped is two legs." The foilowing note was recently received by an employer from an absent workman: "Honoured sir,—I am sorry to say I cannot say when I shall be well enough to be able to come back to work. The doctor says I have information of the left lung, which I hope wiH mjet wich your approval." Tenant (to owner of jerry-built housed "Some of the plaster in my kitchen fell down lastni^ht, and I want you to replace it." Landlord: "What caused it?" "The man who occupies the floor above sneezed." Landlord: "Well, some people think because they pay £40 a year they can carry on just as if they lived in a Roman citadel!" Flossie is six years old. "Mamma," she asked one day, "if I get married will I have a husband like pa?" "Yes," replied the mother, with an amused smile. "And if I don't get married will I have to be an old maid like Aunt Kate?" "Yes, Flossie." "Mamma, she said, after short pause, "it's a bard world for us women, ain't it ? A Yorkshire vicar received the following note from one of his parishioners: "This is to give you notice that 1 and Miss Jemima Arabella Brearley are coming to your church on Saturday afternoon nex' to undergo the operation of matri- mony at your hands. Please to be promp, as the cab is iiired by the hour. Forewarned is forearmed. Two lunatics were wheeling away a mound of earth on a hot day at Westgreen Asylum, Dundee, when one of them, given more to medi- tation than to over-exertion, remarked: "They tell me that long ago they could remove moun- tains by faith," to which his comrade replied: "Aye, aye, but thae days are lang past: we have to do it now by works, so shove on your barrow." Several years ago an alert Foreign Office clerk detected a curious error in a Blue-book, and fortunately prevent d its publication. A certain passage communicated to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the day a conversation held by one of our Ministers and a foreign Ambassador. The despatch ended thus: "His Excellency conclude his filthy remarks, and left." The word "filthy" had been substituted for "pithy." A Texas judge was robbed of a horse not long tco, and the thief, being arrested, was brought before him for trial. The judge eyed the prisoner with deep satisfaction for a minute or so, and then delivered himself of the following: "Owing to a personal prejudice the court will not hear this case. It will be tried by the bailiff, who will find a verdict in accordance with the facts. In the meantime," he added, impressively, "the court will go outside and bend a rope and pick out a good tree." Three shipmatps-English, Scotch, and Irish- were once rambling along the street looking fn at the shop windows. Through one they observed a charming girl behind the counter, and e-t- pressed to one another their admiration of her. At last the Englishman said: "Let us go in and buy something." "Toots," said Sandie, "naa need o' th.t. Let's gang in and ask if she can change a saxpence for us." The Irishman, who bad been gazing at the girl with admiration, taid: "Let us go in and ask if soe'll let us li^ht ^our pipes by the light of her beautiful eyes.'

Clarke's B 41 PILLS are warranted to cure, in eitber sex, all hc/mired or constitutional discharges früm the Urinary Organs, G-ravel, and Pains in the Keek. Free from 15.ert-ury. Established upward of 30 ears. In Boxes, 4r. 6(1. each, of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors tlironeiiont- the World; or tent îor sixty stamps by (tin Makers, Thk LINCOLN Ali.1) MIDI.van CoesxiKo DB\r;> COMPANY. Lincoln, **P* N t E& em NB att THE MOST REMARKABLE CURE EVER EFFECTED. Tnjs Yarrj Thr<?.2 ^In-iith.3 "Slctionless on an Invalid Chairl &P&T&CZ& upxi and ar|aia reiofooufc result. Cured fv-Ad Traiisfcrm-ad into an Active Rcsy Boy by fit- VlPJ11 ck v V- Ji iilii'i Jl I1I £ S ±L JL il Th" foUoivhi;i ••<? renrhife-l from (m Inelepeii- aent report made at' our r&(nier<:t b>j the *1CHELTENHAM MERCUUY." It is illustrated from actual photo graphs tahsn by 3.J1". E. M. Bailey, Photographer, Che Itenh am. I can verify from my own knowledge the absolute truth of the statement. Mrs. Dodd, •v.) ) is a widow, bi'e^s a la-ge grocer's and provision dealer's shop at Nc. 3, Townsend-placs, Tewkesbury-road, Cnelts-ihain. and at the time I knew her (three years ago) there was <> ■ t ,.f.. f, '=' '0 /T hrv'" /T hrv'" W-" f', i Two Years and Three Months Motionless." placed m tne corcer of the shop on fine days an invalid's chair on wheels, on which, laid at full length, was a little boy, nine years eld, whose large, bright eyes, pale, thin face, and con- tented smile through an his troubles, used to appeal to the sympathy of his mother's customers. Leaving the neighbourhood, I had lest si^ht of the child. On my calling now, however, the mother recognised me, and, when I stated the information 1 was in search of, immediately exclaimed, Oh you desire to know how my little boy was cured ? I shall be pleased to tell you, as I have told hundreds.' She continued: 'About three and a half years ago my child began to get weak in a most alarming manner, and, although several doctors were ccrsrlted, in about three months he had, from paralysis and disease of the spine, become a helpless cripple. I spent every penny I could afford on procuring him the very best of medical advice, but he still grew weaker, and eventually could only lie in one position—namely, stretched out on his back. I bought him an invalid chair, ar d on that he lay for two years and three months, as,' she added, you yonrself have seen bim, sir, looking for all the world like a little marble statue. Operations were performed on him by the doctors; he took a gre.it deal of medicine, and. in fact, everything was done that conld be done without avail, and I had really got to think that he was doomed to die. One m-rring, about twelve months I I:y ago, a celebrated consulting physician exaarnej huu, and said, Well, Mrs. D )dd, I cannot promise i". will save your lad, bat the only hope for him is anoth3r operation." Tired of having tha boy mutilated, and despairing of saving his life, I answered that I would not consent to his being en: about any more. "Very well, then," sa'd the doctor, it is of no use my calling again." With that ho ceased his visits, and I have had no doctor to my chill since, but to-day he is alive and welL' And to what do you attribute this fact ? To nothing in the world but the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. My mother, the child's grandmother, at the very commencement of his illness, had strongly advised me to try the remedy, having known cases herself where the pills had done so much good that she expected miracles from them, but I could ngt see, if the best doctors' advice was useless, how any medicine was going to be of benefit. But, after everything had failed, more to humour my m 3ther than anything else, I decided to give a box of the pills a trial.' "'Yes, and how long was it before you saw any bene u from thein?' It would be on about the sixth day that I noticed the child was anxious to take food. Previously I had had almost to force him to take enough to keep himself alive. But on the sixth d ty hi began to show a liking for his food, and I changed the quantity of pills from one to two a day. From this time on he improved at a marvellous rate, ate heartily, was presently able to sit up in his chair, and when he ha.d taken five boxes of the pills he was able, by the aid of a pair of crutches, to get up and'about a little. He exoressed a wish to go to school, and was allowed to do so, although for some little time be was obliged to keep seated throughout the school hours. Bit it was not for long, as I kept persevering with the pills he took in all no less thin twenty boxes, half a pill at a dose; his crutches were eventually thrown aside, and the lad stood up As Healthy and Well as any Boy in this district.' I should like to see the boy, if he is about here,' said I. r '■ "i/.§ \N -j C' Wv'i k \x A A vf. 1 n j Portrait f-resent ,wy. "As healthy aiul ivc'l as any by." (From a photograph by JIr. E. jj. Well, there he is at your shoulder, sir,' answered the mother. What!' I exclaimed, as I turned and saw a well-built, hea.lthy-loc king, rosy-cheeked boy. Do you mean to say that is the pale-faced little fellow who used to lie in the chair in that corner ?' Him, and no other. It seems impossible, doesn't ;t, sir? But if necessary I could gef Hundreds of People to Corroborate what I have said. Commercial travellers and others who only visit my shop periodically, on missing the child aioi ciiair from the r ;1 i-1 Stsirdu 1 k V- ;v« te h m>/ t rtoKcoc^ Otteouws vmyoxcfi ^).' j T r- 7, —•—- His Mother's Shop. corner, think that ht is dead, and are astounded 'hen I state the facts.' And what did the doctors Fay was the matter with your boy?' was asked. Paralysis and disease of the spine.' "'And you firmly believe that it was the pi]]s that cnivd hirn ?' Vv hat else c.n I believe, after trying what I did ? I am positively certain of it, and cut ef gratitude for the saving of my sen's "life I shall, as I ba\e already dene, recemr.e.xl Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to every suffering one I hear of.' Mrs. Dodd acded that she would be pleased to afford informa- tion personally to any one who wished to can en her, and would t-hew them the invalid's chair in which the child used to lie, and the crutches which, at a later period, he used to get about on." This iJ, of course, only one case among many thousands which Dr. Williams' Pink Pi. Is have cured, though from its exceptional nature it has at* traded greater attention. TViicii, how- ever, Dr. f,Viltia7l/s' Pink Puis 00"& su-ck hopeless casrs as this, still mi>rt will they benefit tÚ: less severe ailnun-ts of daily life. 7he tv.ns include c.ca of paruiysis, lccou:oic-r -■taxy, rhcuwaiism, and sciatica also o.u diseases arising' from impovcrishmt nt cf the hloca, scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the boiveis and tutfgs, ancemia. pale and sallow complexion. general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, fains in the back, nervous headache and neuralgia, early decay, all forms of female weakness, and hysteria. These pills are a tonic, not & purgative. Drg Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by chcmists, and by Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Holhorn Viaduct, London, at zf. gsl a box, or six boxes for 135. gd. Pink Pills sold loose or from glass jars are not Dr. Williams' Pin& Pi:!s, but a substitute and substitutes never cured any one J "What is the proper way of addressing I the Admiral of the Fleet?" Your war- ship/oi course." The average size of the British family, ac- cording to statistics, is 4.13. The fraction probably stands for the husband. Assistant: "That gentleman you sold a bottle of hair-dye to three weeks ago was here again to-day." Chemist: "Was he after another bottle?" "No, sir. He wanted to know if we kept wigs." Isabel Ouida Upton/J is the rather fanci- ful name of a little girl. Her initials being 1. O. II., it is presumably a child of pro- mise." A teacher in a certain school recently re- ceived the following note from the mother of a hoy who had been absent for a day or two: Dere Main, plese eggscuse Willy. He didn't hav but one pare of trowsers, an I kep him home to wash and mend, them, and Mrs. O'toole's cow come and et them up oif the line and that awt to be egg-xuse enuff, coodness nose. Yours with reepeck. — Mrs. B." Excited Lady (at the telephone): "I want my husband, please, at once." Voice (from the exchange): ''Number, please?" iExcited Lady, snapnishly): Only the fourth, you impudent thing!" Proud Cyclist: Yes; it took roe about six weeks' ha.rd work to learn to ride." Pedes- trian: And what have you got for you: I pains F" Proud Cyclist: "Arnica." Mistress: "What did the ladies say when you told them I was out?" Maid: "Just smiled and said, Friday's not always an un- lucky dr¡,y. Bounderby (after surveying the company): "Mixed lot! Hardly a gentleman in the room." Becky Sharpe (looking straight at him): "Not one—that I can see." "But, surely," urged Barlow, "seeing if; believing?" "Not necessarily," responded Dobson; for instance, I see you everv day* but as to believing you—He "never finished that sentence. Penn: Can you suggest any way in which I might improve my new novel?" Brushes You might put the last chapter first/' Penn: But all the characters die in the last chapter." Brnshe: Yes, I know:' That's a purty good pictur' o' them country folks a-loadin' hay. How much 1& it?" Picture Dealer: "Seventy poundS. sir." Seventy pounds for those common- people? Why, I've got a nictur' of the Koyal f amily at home that didn't cost but five shillings!" AS A SAFE, PERMANENT, AXi> WARRANTED CtrB5 for Pimples, Scrofula, Scurvy, Bad Leas, Skin and B1 op9: Diseases,Pimples olid Sores of all kinds, we can confidence recommend Clarke's World-famed Bio* \7ixtnre. It is certainly t!;e finest Blood Purifier that; science and medical skill hare brought to Thousands of wonderful enrea have been effected by Sold everywhere, at 2s. 9d. per bottle. worthless imitation.

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CHESS COLUMN I EDITED BY SELAH.J '1\ st-.te array the foemen welld their way, To tiuttle un Caissa's field." All 'joairnnnicaticms for this department slould be addressed to the Chess Editor. Chess JSeport. SWA'TSEA COUNTY CHESS CLUB.—Te-by Hotel, Walter-road entrance. Meets "il Friday, from 7.30 to 11 p.m. Yisitors are welcomed. Solution" TO Puoblem, BY E. Peadiunat. Kov move—Jvt—K 3 R x Kt 2 Kc-BS, &c. PROBLEM—By A. F. Mackenzie. Black—<,10 pieces). White—(12 pieces). Wkite to play, ana in 2 moves. Solutions are requested, and the Editor wil; be please to receive problems or i'.tere:3tiu(; 1 positions £ <,r insertion, and any other matter I com;: cted wich our Soyalgame will be appreciates. Svcrvtariei of Ciuba pii-a.-e note. Gaxae plays■! at the City of London Chess Cla;. in .he late tonrntment. The manipulation "t the t?; shops by White in this game is an in- teres:iag study. j EITI^NCH DZ5"ENCK. Vr-rixTE BLACK I (I-i. L (S. Pas-aio:-e.) 1 P-K 4 P—K 3 2 P—Q4 P—Q 4 3 3 3 B 3 4 P—X o K Kt—Q 2 5 P-K B 4 p-i) B 4 6 P x P Kt-QH3 7 b" Q 2 E x P 3 Q—Kt 4 Castles 9 Kt—153 P-B4 10 y-R3 P-K E 3 11 B-Q 3 E-B2 12 P-K Kt 4 P x P 13 Q x P IÙ-B 1 14 Ca-ties ■'Q Jtl) ?—R 3 15 Kt-K 2 P—QKt4 16 Kt-Ki: 3 K—K 1 17 Q—K5 Q-K,1 18 Kt—4 L—K 2 19 lÙ-Kt 6 ch Kt x Kt Position after Black's 19th move. Black (14 pices). White—(13 piece-). 20 B x Kt O-B 1 21 K ii-B I Kt—Q 5 22 B—B 3 Kt—B 4 23 KtxKt P x Kt I 24 P-K6 P-Q5 25 KxP RxP 26 R-Q 3 Resigns. Swansea Cotn-tt CHESS Club.—Members I '•"•'ill p'ea.s? note that this is the last evening for play of the season, and that tnere ouirht to be a good mui :er. The president is from honn, or he would doubtless be present. There is no business, so we shall not feel his absence so much.

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SCIENCE NOTES CAriXLA AS A BINARY STArt. One of the most beautiful objects overhead in winter evenings is the bright white star Capella, in the constellation Auriga. Profr-ssor Campbell, of the Li k Observatory, announces that he has found decisive evidence tha". Capella is a binary star, whose components are too close to be separated by any telescope, although the spectro- scope reveals their ex stance through their revo- lution about their common centre. He even suspects that Capella may consist 01 three stars, all very close together. TLe principal pair revolve around one another in about one hour less than four days. The wonder increases when it is recollected that these are suns, each more brilliant than our sua. HEARING WITH THE RYES. All over Europe to-day deif and dumb mutes are being taught to communicate with the world by articulate speech. The oral method, which develops the voice by training the sight, so that conge..ital mutes literally hear with the eyes, is entirely superseding the use of a sign language. This is accomplished by accustoming the eyes of a child to distinguish and remember the move- m 'nts of the lips that accompany cprtain vowel and consonant sounds. At the beginning the pupil is taught to hold one hand imon the throat and the other upon the chest of the instructor, in order to note the various different vibrations produced in the body by emitting letters and word-sounds. He then places his hands in similar positions on his own body and endeavours to imitate the sounds. Average deaf and dumb children are taught, by the oral method, to speak and write connected and often intricate sentences in sixteen months' time. They have, in fact, learnt to hear with the eyes. Pupils in the eighth year write elaborate essays and read anything at sight, carrying on a conversation with an en- tire stranger with perfect ease. The first man to teach pure cral speech to deaf-mutes was Samuel Hainecke, of Germany. GREAT BRITAIN'S EARLIEST tramway. Writing in Carter's Magazine, Mr. J. Clifton Robinson says it is a matter of history that the initial attempt to introduce tramways in Great B'itain was made at Birkenhead in 1860 by George Francis Train. The "st"p rail," which held its place in America for many years, was adopted by Mr. Tram. It was of rolled iron, weighing about 501b. per lineal yard. Failing to obtain statutory powers, Mr. Train patented his system in April, 1830, and in the following year he proceeded to lay down several lines under Divisional agreement with local authorities. "vom the Marble Arl'h along Bayswater-road, f-r-m Westminster to Victoria Station, and on the Surrey side from Westminster Bridge to Kenning- ton Park, Mr. Train's lines were opened; but there arose such a violent agitation against the system that the step rails were, after a brief existence, compulsorily removed, and thus tram- ways disappeared for a short time from London. Mr. Train had been more successful at Birken- head. In six weeks after sanction was obtained to lay this pioneer example of a street tramway the construction was completed, and the line was opened, amidst great public demonstrations of approval, on August 30th, 1860. EFFECT OF COLOURED LIGHTS os THE NERVES. French scientists have been making some very interesting experiments iu connection with the effect of certain col,urs on the nervous system. And people who have been somewhat scoffed at for caliing red warm, and blue cold, and yellow invigorating may now kindly regard themselves as forerunners of a great discovery. Henri de Parville, of Paris, asserts that the red end of spectrum excites the nerves, while violet, green, and blue are calming. Dr. Donza goes many steps further and attempts to cure nervous diseases hy the use of certain colours. Melan- cholia he treats with red, violent mania with blue, and nervous prostration with violet. The vjrv grave question arises as to how the woman already nervous will stand the prescription cf an unbecoming colour. Dr. Dor, another experi- menter, has brought on vertigo in patients by the use of red lights, and relieved the symptoms by charging the ray from red to green, in the photographic establishment of Messrs. Lumiere, at Lyous, France, sensitive plates are prepared always by green lights. Formerly when red light was used the workmen sang and gesticu- lated at work; now under the soothing influence of grenn they are quiet and serene. At the water cure at' Versinet patients are put in a violet room to calm them and in a red room when they require to be stimulated. Divested of all exaggeration and enthusiasm, the effect of colour on the human organism is an interesting study. THE BURIED ALPS. It is now well reccgnised that the granitia core of a great mountain-chain is not in itself the cause of tho eJevateç; highland, says Professor C le in KnovUfdge. It has not forced itself up, splitting asunder the superincumbent strata, and hurling them back on either hand but it be;:rs in its own structure all the signs of stress and pressure, and has clearly been elevated with the strata, along some line of wrinkling in the crust. Here and there, re-melting has gone on in the core, as the old rocks moved upward from Pre- Cambrian resting place3; at other places fresh molten masses have intruded from some cauldron far below. Along- the axis of movement, the old crust has been squeezed together like a sponge; the liquids have escaped from one hollow to another, and at last consolidated as crystalline ignfous rocks, destined to weather out in resisting peak; and pinnacles. The great arch, US it r se, became the natural receptacle for most of these flowing masses; hence, when •.•scttJatiou worked against the chcin, these -E-constituted types of the fundamental rocks— jncient gneisses that had renewed their youth— hegan to stand out pre-eminently as a great central ridge. The stratified covering was swept from them, and is now found only in the foot- hills, where its very structure, consisting ol folded layers, still renders it an easy prey. Rain :A1:d frost work in along the upturned bedding- olanes; and the strained masses are always ready to slip and settle down before the earth tremours that still attack the chain. The central core, then, marks out the axial character of the mountains where, on the other hand, it has not been pushed sufficiently towards the surface the features of the foot-hills may prevail from sida to side of the wrinkled area. Thus it is that, as we approach the end of a chain, the scenery is less austere and n.cre broken up into local landscapes—not so generalised as in the grandei altitudes of the range. Thi, becomes markedly felt in the eastern borders of th:> Alps, whera the hills ramify like huge fingers, grasping between them the inlets of the European plain. At times we scarcely realise the presence of the massive, the potential mountain-rang?, though all the time it lies burieu at no grosfc depth v>neath ua.

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