| Show F THE ile lle ORIGINAL australians the religion of the aborigines says a traveler in all parts of australia includes a belief bellef in sorce a dread in numerous demons spirits of the wood the river of the mountains and the tile pool some of these are the spirits dead men I 1 once met a party of thirty or forty men and women who were trai trap traversing ersing ensing the country along tile tiie bar wan as strolling play actors performing a pantomime in the presence of every camp of thein their countrymen with the tile avowed design of driving away the ghosts of dead men all night long the choir continued to sing in the morning having marked clr kir their bodies with earths of various colors yellow and blue ish grey they went through a mimic fight with unseen foes beating the air with branches and rushing abolia in a frantic manner after alternated alternately alter natel y marching dancing and charging to the sound of music they de declared clarel that the ghosts were all gone and would trouble the inhabitants of tie tae the place no more the general name naw for ghosts or spirits is 41 bunds and this name they give to white men probably from the impression lon which has hag spread among them that thai white people arc are rim nisen risen from the dead the chief of all ail the bundas tile the arch demon is said to appear at their boras or public meetings in the form of a serpent and there are figures of serpents cut on the trees in some places to which they pa pay V religious homage parental affection af is generally very strong in the aborigines j and when a child dies the tile parents testily testify their grief in the same manner as the ancient heathen Canaan ites by cutting themselves I 1 have seen a number of women sitting down to mourn with a bereaved mother their skin plastered with white clay and blood streaming down from large gashes made with the tomahawk in their heads in conjugal af affection savages ars generally deficient As a traveler in distant parts of th the interior I 1 can bear witness that aborigines have treated me with kindness and with a polite consideration which I 1 did not expect to meet in such a quarter and I 1 believe they are as a people remarkably susceptible of impressions from kind treatment the they recognized me as one who sou sought ht their good and were evidently pleased ked sed and anil thankful to see that I 1 thought them worth looking after their musical power is strong of heir very simple melodi melodies cB some have a wild mirthfulness and others a most plaintive melancholy Th chevery every soul coul of the people seems to breathe out in id their brief isings arid tinder linder training their musical taste has been successfully used as an aid in their civilization A PAPER house houge A london paper t gives ives the following follo whig account of the mode of application of naper paper nor for p poses os e s an exhibition of a novel and interesting character will shortly take place and one designed to illustrate the varied and almost exhaustless uses to which paper may be applied M St eremey whose inventive invents ve genius is ig only ri by his perseverance under many difficulties cul ties has been for some time past engaged e aged in the preparation of the materials nials rials for this exhibition he ile proposes to build a house of paper to construct the walls of paper ti tiles taper paper tes les to floor it with paper boards to supply the tile water through paper pipes and to supply a large portion of the furniture and household utensils of paper the tile inventor in the preparation of the materials makes use of a peculiar description of gum which lie he calls which is found in large quantities in the east and which lie he contends is the same material as that th at used by the ancient greeks and romans as a coating for their shoes and by the ancient artists for encaustic paintings such as adorned the tombs of egypt and the dwellings of pompeii 21 Ster liney now a political exile exlie from hungary was formerly colonel in the engineers of the austrian service and was appointed by the imperial government one of the members of the to enquire into and report upon vari varl various ous subjects connected with archaeological science and in the course of his extensive travels in the east ear he was enabled to throw considerable light upon many questions of interest respecting the encaustic and process of the ancients ancient the gum treated in various modes according to the purpose for which it is required possesses very remarkable pro pr 1 serva tive qualities it will or oi harden stone as may be seen by thoe those portion portions of the exterior of the house of commons an ou wa river ivr ivy front frat which have hanc been treated with this substance its effects may also be seen in a portion of the front of the bank of england it lias has been employed by mr penrose as the base upon which to plant the tile frescoes on oil the interior of the doom of st pauls cathedral and if its merits be as great as are claimed for it we ve may soon have reasons to regret that this material was not employed for tile the frescoes of the tile houses of parliament and that mr nir herberts magnificent picture was not painted upon lipoid rather than upon the so called water glass the gum has not only been successfully cess fully applied to atone stone but bri bricks eks and soft plaster casts when immersed in or coated with the compound become hard as granite and sparks may be struck from a tv sub substance siance which but a few fe tv days before was only onis apiece of soft chalk iron may be equally protected from the tile decay which was rapidly eating ill it away by several coatings r of this re remarkable I 1 nar kable kabie substance I 1 I 1 antidote FOK FOR ur dr J edmonds I 1 a prominent nent london physician ab writes as allows follows to the london times I 1 a simple safe and accessible prescription gor for for the whole range of acid corrosive poisons vr which if promptly used will almost invariably save life mix two ounces of or powdered chalk or magnesia agnes a or one ounce of washing soda wit with i a pint int of milk and swallow it at one dr draught ug t then tickle the back of the th throat at with a feather or linger finger so as to produce vomiting afterward drink freely of milk lulik and water and repeat the vomiting so as to 0 o thoroughly wash vash out the stomach any quantity of chalk or magnesia may be taken with safety but soda in large quantities J H injurious I 1 may aid thattie narcotics are excepted milk is an in antidote for almost all the poi pol and especially followed by vomiting MANNERS AND CUSTOMS A traveler says that in great britain well to do people never appear to go to business until noon and then they move with a slow and stately gait in france all is politeness and bustle in egypt the motto of the people would seem to be cursed be lie he that does docs today to day what lie he can do tomorrow to morrow in london lie he sometimes mounted the seat with the tile driver of an omnibus who usually a i grum rum heavy man would answer his inquiries with a good english grunt and then willingly nide ride on if allowed for hours without speaking in III iret irel ireland he took his hia seaton beaton seat on tile the lively ively flying y jaunting car and started oti with a great flourish a crack of the whip and ano overflowing of good nature and fun he found a man full of anecdotes and odd dd jokes which would have forced the severest monk in the tile world to break his vow had he ever made one against laughter in dinall all ali france after leaving pans parn lie he saw sav scarcely a wooden or 01 iron fence and seldom a stone wall A fine comment on the respect of tile people for law and order in london lie ho saw ministers preach with kid gloves on in arabia syl sylia syria la and egypt no moslem takes wines but it appears that they have got a drink which not called by y that name is similar in its operation women in the south of france are vilely used bet bee beaning bearing iring tring tile the burden of agricultural labors etc A short way from jerusalem he be saw a arab holding the plough to which were harnessed a mule and a woman and lie he acted as if it did not concern lim him much which of the two it was that belong thelong spear like rod he held heid in his hand liand louid should strike first or hardest as he labored them on throughout the east woman was looked upon as an inferior being income places tile the birth of a daughter was ai a matter of condolence of the friends with the father he noticed many other becu peculiarities I 1 I 1 ari ties some of themos them of patriae patriarchal chai chal antiquity ty none however so deeply affected him as the custom of tile eie efe hebrews every friday to repair to one pf af the ruined walls of the temple and wail wall over jerusalem and their disappointment at the delay of the messiah WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A GOOD NEWSPAPER newspapers we receive at this tills office thirteen daily newspapers and from sixty to eighty weeklies I 1 all of which we make it a point to read rea d from this mass and labyrinth of matter we carefully select such articles items gems and tit bits as coin coln comprise rise the mis miscellany of our col coi columns dumns each aeh ach editor acts c upon this principle hence each a ch individual paper is an c epitome I tome of fl the I 1 e whole and in proportion fo 1 0 the extent of the editors judge judgment I 1 ent contains I 1 the jot of the whole it requires quires more talent to make mako good selection s than it kiges to write d a I 1 good leader I 1 herlee hence vre we imagine that tin the larity of a paper paper depends to fo a great extent oil on its selections that editor eltor is a fool who imagines lie he can write better oil on all subjects than any of ills baries we all have our specialities some peculiar gift in which perhaps erli eril aps we may excel many others it tt is fhe the art of combining these aliese gifts and cull ing their choicest gems that makes the tile readable eagerly sought for splendid journal such is our idea of what a good paper should be but bless few of us fill the bill 11 caf soi jose ja mercury fe felir J CORNELIUS S ODOWD ox ON AMERICANS there is a rough unvarnished yankee that I 1 like iueli much ii I 1 like his ills self reliance ills his vigor his dar daring darlng in earnestness and I 1 dont dislike his ibis intense and I 1 forgive his ill III humor with england it is your traveled philadelphia philadelphian your literary gentleman from boston or your almighty swagger from boston that I 1 cannot stomach this tilis be bc ringed and gold chained m masticator sti is positively odious to me his imitation of the usages of society is at once so close and rem remote ote as to afford alford a cruel mockery of our actual civilization and I 1 long to read my ny darwin backwards and fancy the time when he will go back to his native woods and prairies and be as wildly fantastic and barbarous as nature intended him liim these people arc not the nation they are not even like it they are tile the off shoots of an over wealthy and purse proud society who not daring to exhibit their where they are arc known come over to europe to display themselves in all the tile extravagant ces of a mistaken culture when a good ft american dies lie goes to paris 11 it is said and I 1 am almost tempted to to wish that lie would wait for his immortality on his ills own side of the tile atlant atlantic ic suell such people have helped to make the conti continent dear ar and done very little to make it pleasant pleasanter plea piea santer cy blada dooris mag acine tim tile SUEZ CANAL mr ferdinand de lesse lesseps s gives ives public ubi e notice that his rejected S ship lip canal uniting the red bed irea S ea with the tiie mediterranean was so far completed that a daily bo boat 1 at has been run from port said to suez since the of last month montil a lar lare large c bark towed rowed by a steamer and egil coil conveying vey ng twenty to thirty passengers ers having easm passed from sea to sea within twenty four hours As yet the depth of water would seem to be but four or five feet with a width of thirty to forty but it is confidently calculated that the tile canal wIllbo will be prepared for effective transportation by april when six steam tugs are to be ready for service upon it this canal is ninety miles long and is to have when completed a minimum depth of twenty feet with a width of feet at the them surf surface aee ade it was commenced in 1859 by a private company on a subscribed capital of we infer that 11 de lesseps does not expect to complete it immediately but to deepen it by degrees without interfering with its use A british railroad 21 2 miles ion lon long passing from Alex aiex alexandria andria andrla through cairo to suez has for some years afforded expeditious transit be tween the two seas A Y tribune I 1 population OF SWEDEN the swedish i census taken december 31 is published published the total population of sweden weden is and t there here are more women than men the increase of population during the last five years has been iper cent about three and a half millions live in the country and the rest in the towns stockholm containing gainin ta inin nearly inhabitants the population bAlon of norway is about which would give the united kingdom about five and a half millions of inhabitants SELLING IN 12 CHINA the esperance of nancy publishes the particulars tic ulars respecting the proceedings of the society of the sainte enhance En fance in china extracted by a lady a native of nancy at present residing at hong kong hong ali ail all that you have heard about chinese children is but too true they are not indeed given to the pigs here but that is the case further in the interior at hong kong mothers come to the asylum of the sainte enhance and ofner offer their children for sale as ali I 1 myself saw only a day or two ago I 1 have just visited this asylum keit kept by the nuns nulls of st paul whose principal al establishment is at chartres while W h lip I 1 was there the bell rang a nun went to open it and returned in an instant after with a female infant only a few days old the irice irlee 1 price rlee rice paid was sa peAs pecks but tile tiie mother a hideous creature wanted sll sti niora or 0 or ele eie eio elo to have the ilie childs clothes returned re tu which babli were vere accordingly given to her hr the nuns told me eliat tiu tin rp were women who carried on quite a trade in these poor pur babes babe one had brought no less than forty to the asylum and slie she confessed that before she had the tho opportunity of selling them she had thrown above six hundred into the sea I 1 stood godmother to the poor thing purchased in my presence the great cause of these horrors is that the bliff chinese mese iese can repudiate their wives and mant many again every year the divorced wives according to the tile chinese law have the right of life and death over their children and if unable or unwilling to rear them they get rid of them in any way they choose 11 A KIND JUDGE A ve very learned earne and compassionate judge 10 in a western state oil on passing sentence on one jones who was convicted of murder concluded his hia remarks as follows the ithe fact is jones the court did not at first intend to order you to be executed before next spring but the weather is so very cold our jail jall is unfortunately in a bad condition oil much of the tilo glas glass s in in the windows is is broken the chimneys are in such a dilapidated dila state stage that no fire can be mato mate made mado to render your apartment comfortable for table besides owing to a great number of prisoners riso ners nor nov not more than one blanket can be allowed to each and to sleep sound and comfortable is therefore butof out of the question in 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