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Buckingham Palace. Buckingham Palace, which was built and is new kept up at a vast expense, contains innumerable suites of magnificent rooms, which are empty month after month and year after year. The Queen during the last twenty years has resided there on an aver- age for six nights in each year. The palace is open on four afternoonajor drawing-rooms (“courts” have been diecominued, and the Queen has announced she will not hold any more levees), and on four_ evenings for the State balls and concerts. “We, 1. Maine is becoming quite a. cotton manu- facturing State. She hat} twenty‘six cotton mills, with 686,182 spindles. and requiring an investment of 3124981400. The yards of goods manufactured last year aggregated 142,783 583. besides 980,184 pounds of other goods. 60,000 quilts. 1,060,000 bags, and 2,540,911 pounds of bags. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, the first water-works in the United States was constructed at Bethlehem, Pa., in 1762. Tue force-pumps were driven by an under- shot water-wheel. The works were calcu- lated to raise the water 70 feet perpendicu- lar height; subsequently increased to 114 feet. These works were in operation in 1832. The first raising main was made of gum- wood as far as it was subject to great pres~ sure, the rest of pitch pine. In 17561eaden pipes were substituted. In 1814 these were changed for iron. There were 1,676 accidents in the mines of the Pennsylvania. anthracite region dur- ing 1883. Of these 320 resulted iatally, making 153 widows and rendering fatherless 512 children. There were 986 apchations for divorces in Chicago durmg 1883, 650 of which were successful. New England cotton mills, representing 700,000 spindles, are to largely reduce pro- duction. Springfleid, Mass, has risen against the milk dealer, and subscribed $1200 of the $20,000 required to buy 1000 cows for 00- operative milk distribution. The Pennsylvani). glass workers’ strike has been ended, after the men had held out for seven months. J. B. \Vadsworth, of Morrisvilie, N. Y., proprietor of eighteen cheese factories, lo- cated in several counties, has failed “ith liabilities estimated at $27,003. Francis Gokey, a resident of Rudolph, \Via., who is now in his one hundred and second year, served eight years in the French army and was in the battle of \Vaterloo. UNITED STATES. A cremation society ha been organized in Boston. Two-thirds of the miners of Pennsylvania are out of work. Eight large cotton mill in New Euglénd, in consequence of low prices, have begun to run on half time for an indefinite period, or until the market improves. Miss Theodosia Gray, aged 90 years, of Darien, Comm, in amusing herself by cutting her front teeth. During the recent disastrous gale in Scotland, the keeper of Dalswinton beheld a. most curious sight. \Vhilst walking across the lands he came upon a large num- ber of pheasants and rabbits hudaled to- gether on an open bit of field, and, strange to relate, in company with a. fox ! It would seem that the raging storm had stricken terror into the hearts of the poor creatures, and had dulled the instincts of their nature. A bill forfeiting 21,000,000 acres of land granted as subsidies for railroad construc- tion has been passed by the lower house of the United States Congress. The quaint Epiphany custom of present- ing gifts of gold. {rankinceuse and myrrh on the part of Her Majesty took place on Sun- day, Jan. 6, in the Chapel Royal, St. James’, in London. Formerly sovereigns presented their gifts in person; but since the illness of George III. the custom has never been revived. During tghe_recent disastrous gale in Interesting Items from all Parts of the World. GREAT BRITAIN. A convention of farmers at Carlow has denounced the action of Lord llossmore and the Orangemen. It was resolved to prohi- bit hunting on the lands of farmers, and if necessary to grovent it, the farmers declare they will poison their grounds. 8:) extraordinarily mild has been the weather in England that an ascent of Snow- don, \Vales, was made on Jan. 6, a. feat 1::.ln:nmat unprecedented. No snow was visi- lo. The extensive alpaca and worsted mills at 'Saltaire, in Yorkshire, belonging to the estate of the late Sir Titus Silt, are idle, owing to the fact. that the recent floods car- ried away the reservoirs connected with the \Villiam Meagle, an important witness in the thnix Park trials, complains that his life is made miserable owing to the con- tinued persecution and frequent assaults Which he suffers at the hands of sympath- izers with the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and under Secretary Burke. The Queen has ordered Irish poplin for curtains and upholstery of State furniture in two suites of apartments at “Tindsor Castle. One suite for guests will be fur- nished in gold-colored brocaded poplin with dark crimson border and tassels, the other in rOyal purple with gold-colored fringe. mills The gardens of Under Clifl‘, Isle of Wight, are, like Florida, full of spring flowers. It is nothing uncommon for single can-nations to go on blossoming there tnroughout the winter, and for fuchsias to continue in flower out of doors long after midwinter. The popul 1881 was 34 in the army, A scheme has been Iroposed for the crea- tion of aland bank in Ireland to advance money to land owners to pay OE encum- brances and to tenants to purchase hold- brancâ€"as ings. NEWMSUMMARY. ation ( ;ion of the United Kingdom in S4 848, exclusive of absentees “40>” The presence of worms in the bowels of children is believed to produce paralysis in some cases. Such cases being due to a known removoble cause are described as re- flex paralysis. These are not seen alone in children, but in adults as well. Finally, changes in the structure of the brain or spinal cord produce paralysis, varying in extent with the extent of nerve structure involved. Such paralyses are especially ob- stinate in those of advmced years. Change of structure in the spinal cord usually pro- duces disability in the legs. Now, these are the almost common causes of paralysis, and, from What has been said, it will be ob served that paralysis is not a disease of it- self. Neither is it always incurable. This whole matter has been very thorough- ]y studied by many medical men, some of whom, for their proficiency in such matters, have attained a national _reputation.â€" Philadelphia Times. ' People who work in lead are liable to a peculiar kind of paralysis, which is first seen as a rule, in the muscles of the forearm, on account of which the patient is unable to ex- tend the hand upon the arm. At times the whole muscular system is involved. Change of occupation and the use of remedies which will assist the elim'nation of the mineral from the system is the proper coarse of such patients. Analogous forms of paralysis are caused by arsenic and mercury, probably by their ac- tion upon the nerve structure of the spinal cord. VVourall, the Indian arrow person, will also [roduce paralysis if introduced in. to the system in sufficient quantities. The paralyzing effect of large doses of alcohol are well known. Certain conditions of the circulatory apparatus predispose to exten- sive and often incurable paralysis. The ar- teries are elastic tubes. By age, hard work, care, and the prolonged use of alcoholic drinks, those tubes lose their elasticity and become brittle. By some event which de- termines an unusual quantity of blood to the brain one of these now inelastic tubes is broken, the poured out blood clots, as be- fore mentioned. and a paralysis immediate- ly follows. Owing to certain systematic conditions, fibrin, a substance normally sut- pended in the blood, lodges upon the flood- gatesâ€"valvesâ€"of the heart. Presently a part of this matter is dislodged and washed away into the blood ; perchance it reaches an artery in the brain which will not per- mit it to pass. This at cn:e cuts 011' the blood supply from a part of the brain, one of the immediate symptoms of which is palsy of the part of the body which receives its previous supply from that portion of the brain. These paralyses are usually exten- sive, and are not readily distinguished from those just mentioned. other "brachial monopolegizt,” but really pressure upon the trunks of the nerves which supply the disabled member has af- fected those nerves so that they are unable to perform their usual duty. The nerves which go out from the brain ani spinal cord to the extremities are quite comparable to the wires which are stretched from place to place for electric communication, and pres- sure upon any scction of these nerves pro- duces results very like those which follow an interference with the wire. The case just given illustrates very well a large num- ber of casesâ€"of palsy from pressure, for pressure upon the brain or spinal cord, or the nerves which have their exit therefrom, Will produce a palsy whose extent will de- pend upon the extent of the pressure, and whose curability will depend upon the chances for removing the pressure. Pressure upen the nerves which supply one side of the face produces a very characteristic par- alysis, and one which causes many‘aughable mistakes on the part of tyros and non-pro- fessional people by their attempts to detect the affected side. Pressure on the brain or spinal cord is mostly due to the presence of tumors, to fractures of the skull or bones of which the backbone is formed, and to blood- clots within the skull or spinal canal. Per- sons who recover from diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other acute sicknesses, are fre- quently paralyzed in some part. 'lhese casese generally recover by appropriate treatment, and it is quite probable that many cases would recover spontaneously. The re- marks before made concerning certain cases which recover will apply equally to the cases just named. “brachial monopolegia from the tire," which means simply that the : overwrought his hammer arm, and rest. To these causes the very app tame of "artisen’s paiy” is given. a. poor-blooded, nervously-construe eon, most likely a woman. meet great shock, or has to endure an and prolonged mental or physical Soon, and perhaps without warning dividual loses the use of some per body, often the vocal apparatus, pitient is unable to speak above a. V The doctor says "hysterical paral; "hysterical aphonia."â€"loss of voice. just how this comes about We funcy‘ puzzle the most learned doctor to as cerning this condition, however, as the one before mentioned, this I knownâ€"vim, that by appropriate tr they recover perfectly and prompt good evidence that no part of the apparatus is broken. The faith 0 apparatus is broken. The Iaith c: ported from time to time, are probab of the liind last mentioned. It sometimes happens that an intc person will fall asleep with the head upon the arm. with the arm hanging chair back. When a person wakens is numb; it tingies, and is paralyz Some Interesting and Profitable Medical Reading for Non-Medical People. So common has become the occurrence of paralysis in recent years that many use the tword for a slang expression; but for all that, it is probable that a. vast majority of the people who think at all of paralysis reckon that: it is a disease of itself. That some medical men so regari this condition is plain from the {act that deaths are ira- quently certified to have b en caused by It. The incorrectness of the notion will, how- ever. be plain when the conditions which give rise to it are clearly sut forth, and this we now propose. A carpenter, blacksmith, or some mechan- ic whose business requires him to wield a. A carpenter, blacksmith, or some mecha ic Whose business requires him to wield hammer, finds some morning that he is u able to raise his hammer-arm, or perha while at work the man suddenly feeela t arm become numb and wxak, it falls to i doctor to le become numb and Wt :11 and he is no longer able AT am the man nopolegia fro»: eana simply t!" .is hammerarl PARALYSIS IS. ae of some pain; of the cal apparatus, and the speak ab_ove a. _w}§isper. 0: voice. Now ve fancy it would :tor to say. Con- 'ever, as well as , this much is ‘pnate treatment pxjotpptly, very physical efl‘or warning. the i 7n, and it need: ry appropriam given. Again analysis,” ( cures, re- ably caées rx'icated resting over a. the arm .an- ally ual 3115 ed. About half-past 12 Mrs. Logan heard screams again, and went out to the place. A number of larrikins cleared off, and she found the woman naked, her clothes torn off with struggling, and her mouth bleeding. Mrs. Logan told her to go down to her house, and she said she would follow her when she had recovered herself a little. Mrs. Logan put a. shawl over her and left, and as the woman did not follow, and hearing no more, Mrs. Logan concluded she had gone to the other . house. Next morning the woman’s dead Body was found. Seven men from 18 to 25 years of age are in custody, and other arrests are likely to follow. A Sydney dispatch to the Adelaide Chro. nicle says : A woman named Catharine Owen, about 50 years old, of the vagrant class, was outraged to death by a number 0‘ larrikins. Her body was found at Mount Carmel. \Vaterloo, a suburb of Sydney. About 11 o'clock on Christmas night her screams were heard at the upper end of the street by two married women, the screams being accompanied by the laughter of a num- ber of young men and boys, and the women saw a crowd of larrikins bearing something toward the sand hill known as Mount Car- mel. The screams continuing one of the women went out and asked the larrikins to leave the woman alone, and the mob decamp- 11,.un .xur On the nay to the police station after the cartridge had been thrown the crowd want- ed to lynch the assassin, and was only pre- vsnted by the guard, who formed a. cordon round him. The man arrested is about 30 years old, and wears a. fair mustache. In order to disguise himself he had pasted a. false beard upon his face, which was torn 03 when he was seized. He has hitherto obstinately refused any information about himself. The prefect of police and two as- sistants went to Floridsdorf, and at noon the man, who exhibited great coolness, was .V.__, ............. 5w“... vuunuunn, mu taken to aprison in the town. The wound- ed workman, after having one ball extract- ed, but with the other one still in the joint of the right ankleâ€"causing a. dangerous woundâ€"was conveyed to the hospital. These {OE-1‘ run after the men. Mellon be- ing the first to reach him. The murderer turned round, and fired quickly two revolv- (r shots at him, both of which wounded him severely in the right leg. He fell down and had afterward to be carried away. The assasin fired a third shot, but stumbled at the moment, and the shot missed. Hia slip was taken advantage of by Sir-oh and Piller, who seized his hands, and wrenched away the revolver. The two workmen, who held each one hand of the prisrner and were supported by some constables who had come up, escorted him to the police station. On the way there the man in custodv attempted to carry out a. fiendish plan. He made a. movement with his left hand as if he were going to take a. handkerchief out of his pocket. Instead of this, however, he draw out a dynamite cart- ridge, which he threw with his full force on the ground. He had, of course, hoped that the cartridge would fall on a stone and would explode. Fortunately, it fell on soft ground and remained harmless. tion e across 1:} to stop h the dam day lab ' Detective Block. 3. man of 40 years of age and a. father (f two children of 8 and 3years respectively, has been attached since 1875 to the police force in Floridsdori. As one of the most active and trustworthy detec- tives in the service he was much valued by his superiors. then, after the murder of Hlubek, an order came to change the detec- tives, and one of them was actually trans- ferred to Vienna, Biock asked leave to re main, pleading that he could render better service in Floridsdorf than in the capital. His wile swooned when she heard of the murder of her husband. Block at Vienna telegram to the police officer has trio: of Floridsdc man The details of the murder of Detective [ock at Vienna are givi n in the following EQTOIjIA! Peyton-is lPecboria l m e oflficer has been murdel of Floridsdorf, and 11m ghb. Ferdinand Bicck, rusty detective, who ha ose accused of the murde 3r Hlubek, left his home this morning at 7:30 o" vould appros )llected tell t nger to their borers Ferdin .eopold Stroh The Last Vienna Murder. An Australian Outrage. m iall uff mg loosens the phlegm anti walksâ€"u?) £1; per bottle. Don't give up untlll you have all Draggiatu and General Storekeeper: live I Ch Ion, Johann Pil- August Birner. ‘11. Mellon be- The murderer kly two revolv- :h wounded him e fell down and ed away. The rut stumbled at Tr )n, L'lleV V tin 1 arrested great rgm daunt f them might in the dis- e in broad Throni up the fly for Love’s Young Dream. “ Oase sweet pwecious is 00 '3” “ I’se oorc sweet pwecious.” “ O‘ose hungry ittle bit 1" “ 1’88 could nibble itsy bitsy.” “O'ose Ball have lnncby, pweoious." “ Itsy bitsy chicy-wiug, sweetsy." “’l‘iddy iddv darl’, have a. cookey ‘2” “ No, ownest-ownâ€"a pickule.” They were not idiots on their way to a retreat for the feeble-minded, or lunatics going to an asylum. They were married lovers, had been married nearly two hours, and were taking their first lunch on the cars. And the rest: of the passengers did not rise up and s‘ay them either, which shows the degeneracy into which, as a. people, we are fallen. Vu‘y red little oranges, tomato shaped, with shiny skin. and done up in colored tis- sue paper, can be found this winter in every fruit store and on many stands. They are Mandarin and Tangierine oranges. from Florida. Tue two varieties are so nearly alike in looks and taste that persons urn:- customed to them cannot always tell which is which. The Mandarins came originally from China, and the Tangierines from the country whose name they bear. In Flori- da. they are called “kid glove oranges,” be- cause, it is said, ladies can peel and eat them without soiling their gloves. Between the skin and the pulp is a loose layer of fibres, which is easily separated from the pulp. The skin has only to be broken, when it can be taken off dry and in one piece. ‘Instead of the spicy flavor that is distinguishable in ripe and fresh Indian River oranges, there is in the Mandarins and Tangiexines a taste suggesting that of new wine. The pulp is very tender, and {here is little but :juice wiihin the delicate ining. fully ripe, core and quarter them. Tuke two quarts of vinegar, two pounds of sugar, one-half ounce of mace, one of cloves, and one of cinnamon, with a. spoonful of allspice. (These spices should not be ground.) Let it boil together ten minutes. Then put in enough of apples to cover the syrup and let them boil until clear. Skim them and lay on a. platter ; put fresh apples to cook until you have as many as your syrup will cover when placed in a. jar. These, after a. few days, sometimes need to be brought again to boiling point, and then will keep any length of time. SAWDUST USED MEDICALLY.â€" Sawdust, after being saturated with a weak solution of carbolic acid, can be usefully employed for absorbing the discharge from wounds. The sawdust, which should be coarse, must be allowed to dry, and then should be en- closed in a bag made of several layers of gauze or very fine soft muslin. Pending the arrival of a medical man, a. pad of saw- dust, carefully arranged to prevent any of the grains working through to the injured part, may safely be applied over the dressing of a. wound that has commenced to dis- charge, or if bleeding, has recommeuced from a. cut through the strapping. The pad of sawdust should be bound over the part required to be protected. Everyone is familiar with the value of the yolk of an egg as a hair wash, but perhaps may not be aware of its virtue in clothing cleansing. Beaten up with alcohol, eau ue cologne, or ether, like ox gall, it keeps bet ter ani is more powerful; or in simpler cases, it may be used alone, or merely mix- ed with water, to be rubbed on with flannel, for removing from colored materials the stains of mud, or of coffee and chocolate, when prepared with milk. It is frequently applied to velvet collars an 1 cuffs, etc,, ani proves a cleamer, as well as a spot extrac tor. When it has done its work it is washed off with soap, and the material thoroughly rinsed in pure water. Egg has a specially gocd efl‘ect on those annoying patches of wheel grease belonging to the compound class of stains, as they represent a mixture of stale grease, iron and other substances. ‘quf a. frosting with the USEFUL RECIPES. all: N<~->« Oranges gar. fiprea‘ :n: a. few seco: véhites of t if good sized very small r1 let stand. ilk stir two ixed with a. lree eggs. J mix with )wer crust. pour it over 13 in the er the rly rtwo apples I WEEKLY BETWEEN QUEBEC. Mon'l‘llEAL. AN“ LIVERPOOL CALLING AT TIN PLATEâ€"Different Brands'and Sizes. TINNED SHEETSâ€" do do CANADA PLATEâ€"Pen and other Bqands. INGOT TINâ€"Lamb and Flag and Stunts. GALVANIZED IRONâ€""Davies." “Avonfi'A And STAMPED GOODS. CHEAP. 70 King Street, East, Toronto. Large double Drivin Belts 9. specialty. Send or Price Lists and Discounts. your Saddler for it F. F. DALLEY 86 C For ILCPPKWV ‘ Sarnln. 28. | onturiof Mar. 20. 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