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Knowing that her mother would not listen to the proposed re-marriage she agreed to elope with him from her mother’s house on Greenwood avenue, and it was arranged that Stultz and a friend would haveahaok around the corner from the house at 11 o’clock last night. At the ap- pointed hour Stultz and J. M. Miles, the friend, drove down to the appointed place in hack No. 34, driven by John Nagle. The two friends went to the rear of the house, where Mrs. Stultz told them that her mother was still awake upstairs. When she had fallen asleep the men were to go up and bring down Mrs. Stultz’s trunk. While awaiting the opportune moment Mrs. Stultz handed a self-occking pistol to Mr. Stultz, saying that she was afraid to leave it in the house, for her mother would shoot her. or them, if she awoke. Stultz took the pistol and handed it to Miles, with the request that he go out and give it to Nagie and ask himto wait for them. Miles told Stultz he had better go himself, and Stultz started out to the hack. In a. mo. ment :1. shot was heard, and the cries of a man in the alley attracted Miies and Mrs. Stultz to the spot. There they found Stullz, who told them that he had accidentally shot Nagle while handing him _the pistol. A Carriage Driven flurrledlv Through Louisville by a Man Upholding u Corpseâ€"unilglncident 0! an Elopc- ment. A Louisville (Ky.)despatch says : Joseph H. Stultz, employed at the " Golden Palace ” keno rooms, No. 432 West Jeffer- son street.shot and killed J no. Negle, 9. hack driver, last evening at halt-past 11 o’clock, near the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Greenwood avenue. The affair was the ending of aremerkable elopement, that was to bring Stultz end his divorced wife, Maggie Brooks, together again in the bonds of matrimony. They were married on March 5th, 1882, and lived together until about six weeks ago, when they were legally separated. The divorce was obtained on plea of abandonment, at the instigation of her mother, Mrs. Georgia. Brooks, who objected to Stultz because he was a. gambler. Day before yesterday Mrs. Stultz went to her husband‘s room in the Abstract Building. on Jefferson street, with her little baby, and while there Stultz asked that the past be forgiven and that she marry him again. He declared that that for the future the life that he was then leading should ceese, and upon that promise she agreed to remain-y him, feeling that, for the child’s sake, they should be legally united, Stultz and Miles then burned into the house, secured Mrs. Stultz’s trunk and put it upon the box at the feet of the dead man. Miles and Mrs. Stultz entered the hack and Stultz got upon the box seat and, with one hand around the corpse, drove rapidly to Mrs. Edwards, No. 730 West Green street. Here, believing that Nagle was not dead, he jumped from his seat and carried the body into the hallway. Mrs. Edwards soon obtained a physician, but life was extinct. The body was viewed, as it lay upon a bier in the rear of the house, by a large crowd of people who had learned of the accident, until Police Captain Hard- ing ordered the body removed to the home of the deceased, No. 2,213 Griffiths avenue. Mr. Stultz had proceeded the moment he ascertained that Nagle was dead from Mrs. Edwarde’ to the jail, where he gave himself up. His wife and little child accompanied him. The killing seems to have been accidental, and it is probable that Stultz will be discharged from custody to-morrow. Four Persons Poisoned by Ilse Deadly Poisonâ€"A Faun] Cup at Tea. A Muskegon (Mich) despatch says : Four persons have been poisoned by “ Rough on Rate” while drinking coffee at break- fast. The victims are Wm. Fritz, his two daughters, aged 5 and 17 years, and a boarder, named J. Spriok. When Mrs. Fritz went to the kitchen to prepare the morning mealshe noticed something wrong with the water in the tea-kettle, but thought at first the white covering she noticed might come irom the eggs boiled in the kettle. The oofiee was prepared from the same water, and she told the family what she noticed. Her husband laughed at her suspicious, and to show that he had no tears drank down a cup of coffee and started for work. The others only cupped their coffee with a spoon. Almost im- , mediately those at home became sick and were attacked With most violent pains in the stomach. While they were being cared for a waggon drove up to the door with Fritz, who had fallen down on his way to Work. He was the worst sufferer of all and his life is despaired of. Two doctors were surn- moned and all but Fritz were soon brought out of their trouble. It appears Sprick, the boarder, has lived with awoman named Mollie Mulligan, but afterwards left her. She importuued him for money frequently which he refused to give her. On Monday night after 10 o’clock the woman was seen hanging about Fritz‘s place, and suspicion points strongly to her as the person who stole into the kitchen and put poison into the kettle. She had been at work as cook in a hotel here, but when the police went there to arrest her they found she had left there Monday night and had not been seen since. She was arrested in Chicago last night. A Sensation on the Streets 01 Fredericton. A Fredericton despatch says : A sense.- tionalafiair occurred on the streets the other afternoon. Mrs. CharlesL. Richards was proceeding along the street afew even- ings ago, and it is alleged that, in passing Mr. Hannah,a bank clerk, and Mr. St. John, a visitor, who were standing together, they laughed at her. This is said to be the cause of the disturbance to- day. Mr. Richards, armed with a thick cowhide, met the duum virate on the corner of Queen and Regent streets at 5 o’clock. He proceeded to lash the two of them right and left, and they returned the attack with canes. Mr. Harvey Strick- land took Mr. Hannah to one side, and there was a rough and tumble encounter between the other two com- batants. Constable Boone now appeared on the scene and succeeded in wrenching the whip from Mr. Richards, who got it again and used it till Collector Street in- terposed and snatched it. Then a crowd joined in on both sides. The collector eventually relinquished the weapon, so that the owner, urged on by a comrade, recom- menced the attack on Mr. St. John. Another melee ensued and the belligerents were finally separated. Mr. Richards came onto! the struggle breathless and unscathed, and the other combatants received a few hard knocks and scratches. About two hundred people were on the scene, and there was a prospect at one time of a riot, as the feeling on both sides was running high, each party havingwarm sympathizers. Prince Kmpotkine, the Nihilist, will be liberated from prison this month, it is re- ported. He has refused numerous linerary offers. M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, as Chairman of the committee charged by the Academy of Sciences as to the discovery of steam navigation, says: “ If Papin conceived the idea of applying steam as a motive power, the practical application of the idea was first realized by the Marquis de Jouffray. In 1780 he built a. boat 140 feet long by 14 feet wide, which steamed up stream on the Saone at the rate of two leagues per hour. This was the first pyroscaph, and it preceded Fulton’s steamboat by a full quarter of a century. The American inventor fully acknowledged the fact in 1802." DEATH ON THE Box. PUBLIULY THRASIIED. ROUG ll 0N RATS. Filthv Condition of Toulonâ€"Burial of the Victims. A Marseilles cablegram says: I have made a few days’ visit, says a special cor- respondent of the New York Times, to this city and to Arlee, in order to learn and re- port the facts and scenes in connection with the cholera epidemic. I have visited every room in every cholera hospital exist- ing in Marseilles and Toulon, and have seen the wretched people dying in the hospitals and in low hovels. On leaving Paris to begin my tour in the infected cities, I saw nothing unusual until Arles was reached. Here every window of the houses was closed, so far as I could observe them, and in the streets of this town of 25,000 people not a soul was to be seen. 0n the first view that one gets 01 Marseilles, no one would suspect from the appearance of the city itself or the people he could see, that a pestilence had seized the town. It was estimated at the time of my arrival that fully 100,000 people had left the city, but their absence was scarcely noticeable from the appearance of the streets. In the Rue De La Cannebiere, in which are all the finest shops and business places of other kinds, only nine were closed, but the poorer quartersâ€"and God knows there are enough of themâ€"revealed another side of the picture. Passing along the narrow and squalid Rue Caisserie, over one-half of p the shops were closed. From the tens- ment region on the hill above a stream of fetid water flowed across the street and plunged over a precipitous descent on the other side, through dark lanes, crowded with towering rookeries, swarmed below with idle men and ohilren, playing in filthy gutters. A single glimpse of any of these streets is enough to turn the stomach of a healthy man. Finally we got on the street known as Toulon road, a wide thoroughfare without a shade tree. Along its gutters ran rivulets of drab- colored water, which had overflown from the canal, and which was dammed now and then by heaps of rotting vege~ tables and worse substances, including dead oats and dogs. Four out of every five houses were closed. Those which remained open were mainly estamincls where, under dirty awnings and on dirty sidewalks, men and women sat drinking or were already reduced to stupor from previous drinking, and junk shops, in which filthy people were sorting rotten rage in an unspeakably vile atmosphere. Fostering filth was around them and a tropical sun beat fiercely upon the Scene. Blinding the eyes as its rays were reflected from the white road, across which is the Quartier Capelette, courses a stream about the size of a sewer winding its way uncovered among the houses on its journey to the sea. This stream was laden with sewage of the vilest of Marseilles Quarters, Capelette and the adjoining one, which have furnished much over one half the deaths in Marseilles, and it is an inter- esting fact that the largest proportion of them were Italians. After this experience Idecided to Disoription of the Doomed Cities. A young English physician was my escort through the wards of the building now called the Hospital Auxiliare de Pharo. During the tour of the rooms, I saw eighty- four patients in all stages of the disease. from the last agonized breath to the period of cheerful convalescence. Every face in these eighty-four, male and female, was the face of aperson from the lower walks of life and this I am told has been the rule among the patients from first. At the beginning nineteen-twentieths (f the patients received at the Pharo failed to recover. For the last fortnight matters have so far improved that only two- thirds of those received have died. This excessive mortality at first was largely due to the fact that most of the cases when received had developed into a hopeless con- dition. The highest number in the hos- pital at any one time was 110 and the largest number received any one day was 37. The treatment here and at Toulon in the first stages is twenty drops of laudanum with three grains of ether and ice in the mouth to stop vomiting. In the second stages,when thepatients become very cold, from ten to fifteen grammes of acetate ammonia, the same quantity of alcohol, and two injections of morphia given daily. If the patient cannot breathe, artificial respiration of oxygen is produced and the limbs are rubbed with turpentine. The third stage is the coffin. Late at night I drove outside the city to the Cemetery St. Pierre to see the burial of three patients whom I had observed in the Pharo Hospital in the afternoon. Soon the first of the hearses appeared, then fol- lowed the others. After a brief burial service intoned by a pale young priest, who looked badly scared, three boxes were hurriedly lowered into a trench eight feet deep by twenty feet long, and a goodly quantity of lime was shovelled on top. It was a ghastly trench and there was plenty of room for more coffins. It was a weird and saddening sight. Those gaping trenches were blg enough to hold their thousands. I went back to the central part of the city and it was gay enough. Bands were play- ing and cafe lamps gleaming. People in throngs were walking the streets laughing merrily and many heads were poked out of the windows of the houses. It was hard for me to believe that I had just visited hospitals, had witnessed death, or that that terrible scene at the cemetery was a reality and nota mere phantasm of the imagination. My visit to Toulon was necessary in order to show me more plainly what were the effects of the epidemic. The country people seemed to have lost their wits. Stations along the road were deserted, save by the railway officials. As at Arlee, and everywhere else, where there was a stopping-place, piles of;baggage, bed- ding and household furniture incumbered the platforms. The surgeons in the ser- vice and the Sous Prefect estimate;the peo- ple in town to-day to be about 25,000. If in a sanitary sense the condition of Marseilles was frightful, that of Toulon struck me as simply murderous. Although Toulon has a background of mountains, the city itself is situated on a flat plain a few feet aboie the level of a tideless sea. The consequences arising from imperfect drainage, With the natural want of slope. are that the sewers have only a fall of 18 inches, so, with the sluggish movement, the filth of the town drops into an almost stagnant sea. At the points Where these drains flow. they are only covered with a plank. and the filth is disgusting to the nose and impresses itself on the eyes. You not only then smell but see _»u~â€"man¢~’db‘omfioma‘g VQQTQQrEVoL-wwu THE GREAT PLAGUE. UOWARDICE OF THE PEOPLE VOL. XXVII. VISIT THE HOSPITAL. an antidote for many diseases. The doc- tore drank wine and beer freely. I put a piece of tobacco in my mouth, and chewed away during my visit. To-day’e news indieatea the spreading of the disease in the south, but it in epomdxa, and easily accounted for. The vast number of refu- gees must have distributed cholera, though, over a. considerable area. Fright, fatigue and bad food are exactly the elements which predispose human beings to attacks in vogue acentury or more ago. It has been receiving cholera patients since the 14th of July. I saw there 36 cases of cholera. The condition of the patients differed in no respsct from those in Mar- seilles. There were, however, no children in the hospital. I noticed that the doctors smoked cigars and chewed considerable quantities of oamphor. Thirty years ago oamphor was considered in France to_ be of cholera. As I said before, there In little danger of contagion provided precautions are taken. I think that fear kills many a. man and woman. I stopped over one train at Toulon, during my investigation, and then went again to Arles, but had no time the garbage of Toulon. Just fancy a people living in this city of 80,000 inhabitants, Without the first glimmer of common sense in regard to public hygiene. The Toulon streets and shops displayed nothing of their former bustle and activity. There was same few signs of life only on the streets of Republique and Lafayette. Here the shops were open, but elsewhere they were closed. No business seemed to be the rule and the visit paid to the outlying sections of Toulon showed how the dreaded disease had made of the streets 8. solitude. I Visited the hospital in the suburbs, con- structed in that unfortunate way so_muoh to visit the Hospital theré. I found no one who could give me an intelligible account of aflairs. An 91d priest} expreasgti himpelfin no measured terms in regard to what he called the cowardice of the people. He said Arles was deserted and so panic-stricken that the dead in some cases remained un- buried, and that offensive refuse still in- oumbered the street. Rumors are heard here that the disease is spreading along the Riviera. into Italy. The statement is con- fidently made that many cases of cholera have occurred on the Italian coast, and that panic reigns at Spezzia,where several deaths have occurred. As no English- speaking journalist has this season been before me in this portion of Southern France, though the condition of affaer is bad enough, the reports of the panic and ambulance reported to English and Ameri- can newspapers, 1 think, have been grossly exaggerated. Remarkable Electrical Apparatus for Examining lhc Interior 01 the Human Body. One of the newest adaptations of electric illumination is in the shape of a. very small lantern, which can be introduced into the stomach, for the purpose of aiding surgical and dental operations which cannot be car- ried on without light and for which it has been extremely difficult heretofore to obtain light by mirrors or other means. The lamp primarily consists of a delicate glass bulb, from which the air has been withdrawn and as nearly a perfect vacuum created as pos- sible. The bulb varies in shape, being sphe- roidal, flat and compass-shaped, and also cylindrical, with a conical termination. Through the thin walls of the lantern run the conducting wires, connected by a carbon arc, on which the electricity centres, and which thus becomes the place of light. The glass lantern is very small, the cylindrical shaped being scarcely half an inch in length, and with a diameter not nearly so great as that of an ordinary lead-pencil. The compass-shaped lamp is about one-quarter of an inch thick, and has a diameter of bhreequurtars of an inch to an inch. while the spheroidal seems scarcely larger than agood-sized pea. The lamp is attached to a handle, from seven to nine inchesl long, and about half an inch thick, through which run the wires connecting with the‘ battery. The handle and the lamp can be separated, and thus but one handle is ne- cessary for use with the difierent forms of the lamps. The intensity of the power. and hence the brilliancy of the arc of light, can be regulated by moving along the handle a ring which connects with the wires. The handle has several joints, and its position can be arranged in almost any way so as to adapt it to the shape of the cavity which it is proposed to illuminate. Mirrors can also be fastened to the lamp and light reflected to planes where the lamp cannot be introduced. To prevent the too great diffusion of light and the radiation of heat, the lamp may be par- tially covered with a hard rubber or gutta percha case. When the lamp is placed in the mouth of a patient every portion of the throat, even to the lowest parts, and every recess of the upper places can be plainly seen. This will greatly facilitate the work of surgery and dentistry, and enable an operator to conceive a. much more thorough diagnosis of a case than the use of any other means previously known. Placed behind the teeth, the intense light renders not only the teeth, but even the gum above, highly transparent. If the teeth are good and, undecayed, no lines will be visibleâ€" but the presence of a filling or of the mere beginning of decay may at once be seen. When the lamp isplsced within the mouth and the lips are closed, the entire front structure of the mouth is brought to view. The bone and tooth formations are easily‘ discoverable, and even the interior of the nasal passages. In the same way the in- strument is of great value in the treatment of obstetrical disease, and in studies of the stomach. No unpleasant sensations are experienced by patients, even in cases of protracted use, no other effect being notice- able than that which follows the drinking of a hot cup of coffee. Mr. E. '1'. Starr, of Philadelphia, is the inventor.â€"Philadc1phia Press. We speak of some persons as tender- hearted, says the Boston Budget, but as a matter of feet, every one is, literally, very hard-hearted, the heart being a very tough muscle, so insensible that one would not feel it if it could be seized and held in the grasp of a giant. The heart is no more the seat of our affections than is the stomach or liver. It causes no more pain to out a nerve or the brain than to pare one’s nails. Large portions of the brain may be lost without any impairment of the intellect. An entire bone may be removed, and, pro- vided the periosteum, the membrane which covers it, is retained, the bone will grow again as good as belore. A new nose may be reconstructed with a flap taken from any other part of the body. A person ‘dying from the loss of blood may be re- lstored by injecting blood from another [person's body. A NE‘V INVENTION. Physiological curiosities. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1884. A Murderous Suggestion in a in late Medi- cal Societyeflr Ltflmnn’s Paper on line Proprion oi Killing ldiols and lllonstrmilicsâ€" “’in Should me [In- lmppy Lire? A discussion, which occurred recently at a meeting of a State Medical Societyâ€"not more that 472 miles from New Yorkâ€"has not received the attention it justly deserves. The subject under consideration is one which is of grave importance to individuals and the general public, but it is one, also, which is generally handled, if at all, “ with gloves." The learned Dr. Leflman, who read a paper at the meeting in question, handled it without gloves. In the present examination of its merits, it is designed to cover the field which the question opens, even to a fuller extent than Dr. Lefi‘man. Like quarantine, disinfection and crema- tion, this subject should be treated regard- less of individual opinion or prejudice, and in the interest of the race in general. “ Is LIFE wonrn LIVING 7” The frequently asked conundrum con- cerning the desirability of living can surely be answered easily and accurately with regard to the class of unfortunates considered in Dr. Leffman’s paper. These were idiots and monsters, or monstrosities, and certainly there can be no reason for supposing that life to them is worth living. In the instance of the imbecile or idiotic, We can hardly say that they know they are alive, and they could not possibly miss what they do not know that they possess. Now Dr. Leffman (who appears to be an amiable theatrical benefactor of his species) suggests the propriety of putting these unhappy creatures out of their misery and their doubt by killing them. Said he: " Within reasonable bounds it would be wise endjustlfiable to remove from life the classes cf persons mentioned.” But the application of this humane sug- gestion would depend for its general extension upon the definition given to the words “ within reasonable bounds.” Where would we draw the line? Who would be the judge and what would be his standard? These are Serious questions to entertain, in view of the possibility of adopting Dr. Leflman’s suggestion, which, says the Baltimore Hcmld, “ shows that scientific men are year by year becoming more bold and fearless." HOW ABOUT Ibrors? Now, taking the different classes men- tioned as ripe for killing, let us begin with idiots. Difficulties stare us in the ‘ face at once. There are so many different l opinions with regard to idiots. The school- ‘ master characterizes the dunes of a class as an “idiot,” yet such often grow into wisdom and capacity, become barkeepers, alderman, prizefighters, repeaters, Con- gressmenâ€"in fact, an honor to any com- munity. What would no . the country lose if they were out off in their youthâ€"under the dictum of the ichoolmaster, who is supposed to know more about them than anybody else? Then there is the dude Now there are not wanting plenty of people who do not hesitate to call dudes “idiots.” But who could really have the cruelty to kill the poor, harmless, gentle, useless little dude ? The tender heart throbs piti- fully at the mere idea. One universal cry would go up in the face of an adverse judg- mentâ€"a cry of “ spare the dude." But if you spare the dude, you open the gate to a whole procession of idiots that you would be forced to let live. There is the idiot who looks down the barrel of the gun to see if it is loaded; however, he killshimself, so it does not count. But his near relation, like the poor, is “ always with us”â€"the idiot who points the gun at somebody else. We should be glad to kill him, and yet he is notaworse idiot (as idiots go) than the dude. Then there is the jumping “idiot,” who always leaps at a ferryboat after it leaves the dock, and never, never gets drowned, but is invariably fished out by some kindly-meaning but weak-minded person at his own life’s risk. We would all like the jumping idiot killed. The idiotwho dcluges thslpress with “letters” upon every imagina’o.. topic is a suitable subject for killing; yet, under the dude classification, we couldn’t do it. How many sweet young spinsters there are who, if all the “idiots” of their acquaintance were killed, would be absolutely compan- ionless; yet the most of these are dudes and the rest only temporarily idiotic by reason of madness of love, “ which levels all ranks and lays the shepherd’s crook be- side the sceptre,” and the idiot besideâ€" himself. Ohl the idiot class is full of ob« stacles to wholesale fool-killing. musmsn THE “ MONSTERS." This class is much larger than is gen~ orally supposed. If a woman’s husband crosses her in a matter dear to her heartâ€" or her imagination, which quite commonly is the feminine substitute for that organâ€" he is a “ monster.” The girl who marries , against her parents’ consentâ€"though she , is the one to suffer for it in the long run. 5 and not the parentsâ€"is a “monster of , ingratitude," though why she should be , considered ungrateful for taking the respon- . sibility of choice of a husband upon her 1 own shoulders is not exactly clear. We , should have to reform our definition of , monsters before we commenced killing or 1 some very innocent persons would suffer. _ Then there is the “moral monster,” and 3 here no refinement of cruelty would be too _ severe and the general public voice would 1 consider “killing no murder.” The t drunken parents who add to the terrors of . living by forcing their little ones to y labor in the streets, to the end that 5 they may be supplied with liquor; _ the brutal farmers 13 children to their service and abuse 8 and ill-treat them ; the heartless mongrel e creatures in human form who beat their ,f wives for failing to support them; the ,, slimy, impish beings who, like fat spiders, g sit concealed behind webs to lure the inex- ,f perienced, the unsophisticated, the un- happy into toils that bind them like chains. while they poison them from fangs that pierce their hearts and spread corruption through all their lives; the professional gambler, the coxrupter of youth, the sly, spying corner watcher for the den of in- a famy ; the agent and accomplice of those 'y of the rich who would oppress the poor ‘h the slanderer, the character wrecker, the go-between, the mischief-makerâ€"these are the “moral monsters ” who are sharp enough or influential enough to avoid the law, and who, being consciencsless, are a without earthly punishment. Such as these could properly be considered within Dr. Leffman’s category and killed for the good it. of society. who apprentice ‘ ...A_.4â€".4â€"»mma~m-mmaawnmmnnâ€"ao.qburn~F~¢H49mnnn¢n.omfimaronmotn Of the class included by Dr. chfman under this title let us speak only with com- misezation and regret. I, that am curtailed thus of fair proportion, lheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and untaahionable That dogs bark at me. as I halt by them. THE FOOL-KILLER. AS TO MONBTROSITIES . For such as these the human heart opens its stores of pityâ€"which is; however, quali- fied, when, as is too often the case, with a. crooked body occur a. warped mind and a distorted soul. And it is note. little re- markable that while this latter is fre- quently the case with male humanity, who display no better ingredients in their com- position than “ the plain devil and dissem- bling looks” among women who are deformed, we commonly find amiability of temper and tenderness of heart. To destroy the llves of unfortunates whose only crime is lack of finish, or physical beauty, would seem wanton cruelty. Yet this is among the essential conclusions we should reach it we fully adopted Dr. Leffman’s ingenious but some- times objectionable scheme. And then, when it comes to malformation, we are, necessarily, in doubt where to begin and where to end. Is an abnormal nose deserv- ing of death to the possessor? Are “ the lame, the belt and the blind” to be de- prived of life because of their infirmities ? Must we treat “ Humpty Dumpty” end “ Three-Fingered Jack " alike, quotha ? Truly, the further we enter this field of discussion the more we encounter obstacles to a just decision. “ In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king;" must he, then, order the promiscuous slaughter of all his subjects ? The fact that public sentiment is, for one reason and another. mostly against murder (as a. rule.) must also have its weight. It is 8. melancholy truth that we don’t even kill our moral monsters, to say nothing of our physical ones. So pow- erful is public opinion‘on this question that a man who is tired of his life, who may or may not be deformed, who has possibly been crossed in love, or squandered his sub- stance, or played ducks and drakes with the assets of the bank of which he is cashier, who has run away with the Wife of his employerâ€"and found her not according to sampleâ€"who ,for any of all these objections to life (as a steady thing), desires to deprive himself of it by suicideâ€" is ruthlessly pre- vented if possible, and if prevented punished for the attempt. This is sadâ€" very. One may well cry, “Is this your boasted freedom ‘2” and while society is cast in this mould Dr. Lefiman’s theories are certain to fall flat. EUTHANASIA. When it comes to the practice of“ eutha- nasia," or the smooting of the path to the grave of those whose dying moments are accompanied by severe physical suffering, as to this there are differing opinions. On the face of it it does seem not only cruel but absurd to permit totally unneces- sary sufferingâ€"when positive, certain death is a foregone conclusion and only a question of that miserably conventional and conservative old sinner Time. [“ Time,” who wickedly makes bright days fly swiftly and dark days “ on leaden wings,” and who seems to exist only for the purpose of prosecuting a chronic iced with ” Opportuniy,” who would, it let alone, occasionally permit a gleam of hap- piness to pierce the customary gloom] If, by a taste of nepeethe, or hydrate of chloral, or morphia or other drug. the pas- sage of the agonized moribund to the un- known may be rendered less painful, in heaven’s name why not accommodate them? Then might they sink (or glide) by way of the gates of slumberâ€"dreamless, or peopled with Visions, as the case might beâ€"into that blissful state in which The wicked cease from troubling And the weary are at rest. [low the Learned Men of Ancient Nineveh Made Their lenrles. Far away beyond the plains of Mesopota- mia, on the banks of the river Tigris, lie the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh. Not long since huge mounds of earth and stone marked the place where the palaces and walls of the proud capital of the great Assyrian empire stood. The spade, first of the Frenchman, then of the Englishman, has cleared all the earth away and laid bare all that remained of the old streets and palaces where the princes of Assyria walked and lived. The gods they worshipped and the books they read have all been revealed to the sight of a wonder- ing world. The most curious things preserved in this wonderful manner are the clay books of Nineveh. The chief library of Nineveh was contained in the palace of Konyunjik. The clay books which it con- tains are composed of sets of tablets covered with very small writing. The tab- lets are oblong in shape, and when several of them are used for one book, the first line of the tablet following was written at the end of the one preceding it. The writing on the tablets was, of course, done when the clay was soft, and then it was baked to , harden it. Then each tablet, or book, was numbered, and assigned to a place in the library, with a corresponding number, so that the librarian could easily find it. just as our own librarians of to-day number the books we read. Among these books are to be found collections of hymns (to the gods). descriptions of animals and birds, stones and vegetables. as well as history, travels, etc. The Assyrians and Babylonians were great students of astronomy. The method of telling time by the sun. and of marking it by an instrument called a sun dial, was invented by the latter nation. None of our modern clocks and watches can be com- pared to the sun dial for accuracy. Indeed, we have to regulate our modern inventions by the ancient Babylonian system.â€" Printer’s Circular. I first sew Thackeray at the house of my brother-imlew, with whom I was then staying in Gloucester place, says James Payne, the novelist. They had lived to- gether as young men at Weimer. but had never seen one another since, end their meet- ing was very interesting. Their lines in life had been very different; but the recollec- tion of old times drew them together closely. Aeurious and characteristic thing hap- pened on the occasion in question. There wesa dozen people or so at dinner, all unknown to Thackeray; but he was in good spirits and made himself very agree- able. It disappointed me excessively, when, immediately after dinner, he in- formed me that he had a. most particular engagement. and was about to wish good- night to his best. “ But will you not even ismoke a. cigar first?” I inquired. “A cigar? Ohl They smoke here, do they? ‘Well, to tell you the truth, that was my engegementl” and he remained for many hours. The will of H. R. H. Prince Leopold of England has been proven. The value of the personal estate amounts to over $230,- 000. The operative part simply states: “ I give all my property of every descrip- tion unto to my beloved wife Helen Frederic Augusta, Duchess of Albany, for her own absolute use and benefit." Thuckerav and Ilia Cigar. BOOKS OF CLAY- WHOLE NO 1,361 NO. 9. M Teefy The Movements of Gladstone, Granville, Lord Huntington and the ()IIlcr1 Big “’13s. 1 A correspondent of the St. James’ Gazette writes to that paper 2“ The following psra- ‘ graph appeared in most of the newspapers ‘ the other day : ‘Mr. Gladstone attended divine service this morning, and in the; afternoon, assisted by Mr. W. H. Gladstone j and Rev. Stephen Gladstone, was engaged 1 in telling an oak, which, three feet from the ground, measured eight feet in circum- ference. Mr. Gladstone threw off his hat, collar, tie,ooat and vest, and his braces hung by his side in true wood‘cutter style. A large number of spectators were present, and many of them carried away chips as mementoes of theoccasion. Mr. Gladstone afterward assisted Mrs. Glad- stone at a mothers’ meeting. the Premier presenting each of the members with a bunch of flowers which had been made up by Mrs. Gladstone.’ Now, this is very interesting; but the following extracts from various local papers prove that the doings of Mr. Gladstone’s colleagues are quite as interesting and rather more dig- nified; and I really do not know why they should not be as generally recorded : ‘ At Walmer yesterday Lord Granville was unfortunately prevented attending divine service. After breakfast he read his letters and newspapers, and enjoyed the family circle till luncheon. After luncheon he put on his red coat and cord, and, mounting his favorite hunter, jumped three hurdles, measuring three feet from the ground and placed thirty yards apart. A large number of spectators were present, and Lord Granvrlle was much applauded. The hurdles were after- ward broken up, and tied up in neat little , packets by Lady Granville, and presented ‘to the spectators as a memento of the occasion. Lord Granville then resumed his ordinary dress, and assisted Lady Granville at a grandmothers’ meeting.’ ‘At Newmarket, yesterday, Lord Hartington, after attending divine service, inspected his racing stud. After luncheon he took off his coat and vest, tied a hand- kerchief round his head, fastened his braces round his waist, pulled his socks over his trousers, and in true jockey fashion was hoisted into a four-pound saddle and galloped one of his 2-year-olds three iurlongs. Lord Hartington was much applauded by the crowd assembled, who pulled out every hair of the filly’s tail as mementoes of the occasion. Lord Hart- ington afterward sent off official despatches to the War Office.’ ‘The Lord Chancellor led the choir at the early service yesterday morning, and after luncheon, having put on a white surplice, sang From Greenland’s icy mountains, etc., with great fervor in front of his drawing- rocm windows. He was enthusiastically cheered by a large assemblage, and the surplice was afterward raffled for as a me- mento oi the occasion.’ “Sir William Harcourt attended divine service at Derby yesterday morning and read both lessons. the Gospel and Epistle. He also wished to read the communion service and to preach, but was dissuaded by the incum- bent. After luncheon he put on his flannels and proceeded to the lawn-tennis ground where, having out 28 consecutive balls under the net, he bowed to the large crowd assembled, and retired amidst great applause.’ ‘Owing to his having left his prayer-book in London, Mr. Chamberlain did not attend divine service at Birmingham yesterday morning. After luncheon he put on a gardener’s apron and proceeded to his hot-house, where, in true workmanlike style, he illustrated to a large audience the practice of propagating orchids. His illustrations were received with great applause;and an attempt was made by some of the most impulsive of his friends to carry off some of his most valuable plants as mementoes of the occasion. This attempt, however, was frustrated by Mr. Chamberlain, who adroitly closed the door, humming at the same time his favorite melody, ‘Not for Joel’ ‘ Yesterday beings. very wet day, Mr. Dobson contented him- self with walking up and down the broad path in front of his house. protected from the weather by an umbrella, macintosh and galoshes. The honorable gentleman was immensely cheered by an enthusiastic crowd.’ ” i I l 1 ‘ Italy. What Cook, Ihe Tourist Agent, Says oi the Panic and its Results. A London cablegram says: Cook, the . tourist agent, was interviewed to-day and said: “ It is almost impossible to exag- gerate the efiects oi the cholera outbreak in France. Besides the depression which it has brought upon general business on the continent, its efiects upon European summer travel, both commercial and holi- day, have been simply enormous. It is true that the present rush from the southern and eastern countries to England somewhat compensates for the losses in the regular transportation eastward and southward, but the general effect of the cholera panic upon European travel has been disastrous. The quarantines are probably driving back as many tourists as the plague. Take Ventimiglia, in Northern There were at last accounts 2,000 travellers imprisoned there under quaran- tine. The rich, the commercial travellers and the poor emigrants were all herded together like animals of a common breed. 0n Lake Maggiore the steamers were pro- hibited by the zealous authorities lrom carrying travellers. The hotel-keepers and boat owners, in despair, refused to respect the prohibition, and the military have been placed in possession of the lake to sup- press travel upon it. The city of Toulon, despite the almost incessant work to make it sanitarin habitable, still remains almost indescribably filthy. The heat there has been terrible and the atmosphere moist and humid. In the work of reno- vating the town an old sewer has been dis- covered running right under the chief hospital of the city. This sewer reeked with filth, and had been untouched for three years past. Ten of the workmen who were employed to open it when it was found were overpowered by the escaping stench and fainted. As for England, there has been a revival of uneasiness here since the arrival in the Mersey, from Marseilles, of the French steamer Saint Dustan with cholera on board. The fact that two per- sons died from the malady during the trip from Marseilles has evidently shaken the public faith in the eflioacy of French quar- antine methods and intensified public tear." Paris is suffering from her annual scarcity of water. “ Just to think,” said a. vassar graduate, “ here’s an account of a. train being thrown from the track by a. misplaced switch. How utterlyflmreless some women are about leaving their hair around." And she went on reading and eating caramels. MINISTERIAIJ DOINGB. TBE CHOLEBA SCARE- The Transmlgrulion- or an Anecdote llluelrnted by a Bright Example. There is a story about a wedding trip that has been knocking about the country for some time. We have tried to keep it out of the “ Drawer” but it is no use to kick against it any longer. It was first told to the “ Drawer,” editor in October, 1883, by a clergyman of strict temperance princi- ples and high character â€"-in fact, a total abstainerâ€"who had it from a friend of his, first-hand, who had just returned from the west. This friend, mind you,» saw and heard what he related, and he was 3. pers son of undoubted veracity, though perhaps as an abstainer, when travelling, not 30 total as the clergyman. It was, in brief, to this effect : In the car on a train from Toledo to Chicago was a man who sat alone, looking absently out of the window and. appearing dejected. During the passage an accident happened to a newsboy and the generous passengers passed round the hat for him. The solitary man alone of all the oarful refused to contribute anything. not even a quarter. Somebody remarked audi- bly upon his etinginees, when he turned round and said : “ Gentlemen, it may appear strange to you that I give nothing; but I haven't a cent of money. The fact is, I was married yesterday, and I am on my wedding trip, and I hadn’t money enough to bring my _wiic along.” In December following the editor of the “ Drawer" was seated with two other gen- tlemen in a library In New York. One of them said: “ I heard a good story the other day from a friend of mine who has just returned from Europe. Going down the Danube from Pesth last summer he noticed on the steamboat a. melancholy-looking men, who did not appear to care much for the scenery, but leaned over the guards and vacantly regarded the river. Falling into conversation with him, he ascertained that the man was a Prussian. Remarking that the journey did not seem to interest him, the Prussian said: 'No; I'm rather lonesome. The truth is, I’m on my wed- ding tour, and I could not afford to bring mzwifei’f’ The editor of the “ Drawer” said that it was a good story, and that he began to think it was true, as it was confirmed by so many independent witnesses. Thereupon he took from his pocket a letter which he had received that morning from Paris. In ittho writer, agonflnman,,nLnul.tum.nnfl_ travel, said that a. curious incident hap- pened to him lafltfiummer. He and his L n. LL __ l ife were on a Rhine steamer, when they noticed a melancholy passenger whom all the beauties of the scenery failed to rouse from his dejection. He was an object of nterest to them all the morning, and at length his wife’s sympathy was so much excited that she proposed to go and speak to the melancholy stranger and find out the cause of his sadness. The husband said that would be a foolish thing to do. and she might get into trouble. But the wife in- sisted (tor though American women have little curioeity, they have warm hearts), and crossed over to where the stranger stood, and accosted him, and they engaged in conversation. In a. few moments the lady returned, laughing. “What is it?” asked the husband. “Why, the man is a South German. He says that he is on his wedding trip. and couldn’t afford to bring his wife.” The editor then related the original true story as it was told by the T. A. clergy: man. So it appeared, on unimpeaohable testimony, that the same strange incident happened in the experience of three per- sons the same yearâ€"one near Chicago, one on the Rhine, the other on the Danube. Did it happen to any one of these voracious people? When the editor had raised this question, the third member or the party, who had been silent and had not interfered with the story in any way. said: “I can tell you the real original of that story. Several years ago, in a well- known wholesale house in this city, an old bachelor bookkeeper, who had been many years with the firm, suddenly announced that he was to be married. The partners gave him a week’s holiday, and his fellow- clerks raised a little purse and presented it to pay the expenses of his wedding trip. A couple of days afterwards one of the mem- bers of the firm went down to Newport, and there, lounging about the Ocean House, and apparently enjoying himself immensely, he saw his recently-married old book- keeper’but alone. ‘Where’s your wife ‘1' 'She’s at home.’ ‘But I thought you had money given you for a wedding trip?’ ‘ So I did, but I didn’t understand that it was intended to include her.”’ Now we are not saying that this is an unwise way of taking what is really one of the meet perilous journeys in lifeâ€"a. weds ding tour. But what could have induced all these different respectable people to ap- propriate this particular instance to their own personal observation? It sometimes seems as if people are not what they should be.â€"IIarper‘s Magazine. A good story is told of Dr. X5, who is the physician in charge of the female words of one of our best-known charitable institu: tions. One evening about 9 o‘clock Mary, 9. new Irish servant girl, knocked at his door, saying: “ Doothor, the head nurse wants you to come down to supper.” The doctor, swelling in his pride of superiority above the nurses, sent the Irish girl to an unnamed place. Half an hour later the head nurse came to his room, looking serious. “ Doctor.” she said, “ No. 8 is very bad, indeed, I think you ought to see her at once." “ Why did you not let me know before ‘2” was the reply. “ Why, doe- tor,” said the nurse. “ I sent you word by Mary half an hour ago.” “ The tool," said the doctor, “ she told me to come down to supper.” “ Why,” said the nurse, “ I sent you word to come down to eight.” An in- quiry made the whole thing clear. Mary thought it more polite to say, “ Come (him to supper ” than to say “ Come down to ate.”â€"New York Sun. A very interesting series of oflensive and defensive military manoeuvres will take place in Russia. at the usual coming autumn camp exercises. The Emperor. as usual, is expected to be present, as also .the Grand Duke Nicholas and the Grand Duke Michael. We were coming ; and. we listen For the [all of merry feet, For the voice of music sweet: But the eyes with quick tears glistefl, Childish hands are wild with glee, Pattlng all the window o'er, Childish kisses thrown at me, But they’re all "mside the door." Oh. the world would all be lonely, If one little darling only, Vanished from the open doorway, Of this life to endless day! Bolts too strong for little fingers, Flew before the father’s hand; How my loving memory lingers O’er that little household band I Cons its treasures o’er and o'er, Treasures just “inside the door." So :1 Father's hand is keeping All our trust and love in store; So without we stand in weeping, While they’re just “ inside the door ;” And the door's the gate of heaven. Where our trousures all are flown, When the earthly bonds are riven He will give us back our own. Once when twilight shades were creeping Over spire and busy streetâ€" And the evening stern, w-peeping From their fer-ofi blue retreat, Seemed to whisper words of home To the hearts that weary roamâ€"- We were eomin to the door, Where elittle w ile before, Kisses thrown b dimpled finger From the lips w are kisses linger, Kisses thrown with childish laughter, Following all our footsteps after, Kisses thrown through open door; Promised welcome evermore. Ills WEDDING 'l‘BIPo she Wanted to be Polite. Inside the Door.