Show unsuccessful ATTEMPTS TO SCALE THE MATT ERHORN the alpine climbers who went forth early in june to scale sc alethe the mat ahorn and add tha the last triumph of skill and daring to be won in ift the tho swiss mountains mount aills altis have been again defeated rhe the peak defies all attempts mr whimper whimp P one of the be alpine club reached a haher h gher point than had hitherto been reache but bu t an accidental fall tall which maybe may be truly described as one ode of the tho most miraculous escapes from instant death on record caused him to abandon for the present and perhaps for ever all further assaults on the virgin summit in inas as bending the mass of ice and snow mr whimper wl wio 0 was alone was compelled in one place to cut a series bernes of steps in the ice knowing there was no difficulty of that kind to be feared be he left his hia hatchet behind him and on returning from his baffled attempt to mount he found to his bis horror borror that his steps were gone the sun bad melted them away aa As his hat babbet het could not be recovered he be leaned over the precipice and began to prod at the ice with his alpenstock alpen stock some snow gave gava way and be rolled over cider the ledge brazing his hia face and body on the rocks and ridges crash crash down the sides of a chasm eight hundred feet deep by happy chance be he wab waa caught in a rough bed of rock on the crest of a precipice scarcely equaled in the aipa alpa and there remained for a instant stunned and bleeding though not seriously hurt he is slowly recovering from the shock and froin from his bia wounds A few days later Pr prossor olessor andal reappeared on the scene of his last years adventures mr Whimp whimpers erPs erys tools and exp eap experience ermence were paced faced at bib bis dispo disposal baly and the conqueror of 0 the RUM set off full of confidence and courage but hla bia courage arid and endurance were taxed in vain again and again he risked his life higher than any one has ever been up the peak he crept and aud higher than mr whimper but the steepness of the highest peak repulsed him and the undaunted but unsuccessful mountaineer left the Matt erhorn unsealed london Athen mum aum THE RULING A story is told of washington allston ail All stoa that he once had an old jew to 11 bit sit it for a portrait a very beaky child of israel in whom angelic attributes were not commonly supposed to reside yet at a certa cetta ceilan n stage when the work was nearly completed hla hia hebrew countenance suddenly grew so radiant as to challenge not only the admiration but the curi curl curiosity esty of the artist your expression was uncommonly fine said mr All al ston stonas as the jew rose to depart if you will not think it impertinent I 1 should like to ask what you were thinking oty ot veil vell sir air I 1 shall tell you I 1 vos thinking how bow mich you would get for this picture when it is finished drunkenness CURED BY er ITSELF A phy ician at one of the paris hospitals cured a cage case of delirium tremens cremens tr emens brou brought bt on by excessive dronkin by the singular remedy of subjecting the patient to the constant influence of the vapour japour of spirits the plan is not new having been long used in sweden to radically cure drunkenness no the persons addicted to drink are shut up in a cell and all the food supplied them thern is impregnated with brandy at the end of four or five fire days they become completely disgusted with the taste and smell and they come out radically cured the slightest smell of spirit at last aku them shudder |