Show HIGHLAND MUSIC MUSIO WHAT A SCOTCHMAN THE BAdiI badil pes PEA drone MONE at a recent sociable gathering of the congregationalists Congregationalist sin in glasgow rev dr macleod made a humorous little speech on the peculiarities of highland music he said 1 I remember hearing a 8 tory story of ofa a scotchman who was in india and who asserted that the scotch had national music that no other country in the world had some englishman who was present said nonsense Won sense we have far better music than yours ill wager you said the scotchman that ill sing bangs that 11 mak mahi the company greet laugh and dance W a within a guarter quarter u ar 1 e ol 01 0 an hour and he did it H he e f first 1 r st played the land 0 the leal and he was interrupted by some one saying ing goi 0 O man what for are ye makin us I 1 gree greet t that waysl way then he played another tune im not sure but it was we are nae fou were nae that fou a drappi drappier le in our eye ee renewed laughters an and then he struck into Tulloch gorum applause and every man in the room to his legs danced loud applause in regard to myself I 1 dont know now what it is about abbat the highland music but I 1 have for a number of years been hearing music of the best est kind and played by the worlds best performers and I 1 can listen and enjoy it with all my heart but the jhb moment I 1 hear that auld bagpipe it me by the throat if ever you find a highlander that does not care about the bagpipe take care to get a receipt from him win when you pay him ari arf an account roars of laughter if he has no musical ear dont blame the poor fellow but pity him but if he has a musi musical calear ear and dont like the pipes take you care carb of that chap I 1 thereisa thereasa The there relsa reisa is a great deal of talk ju just now about and I 1 think there is a great advantage in an instrument which is not liot filled with wind by the handle or a bellows but by the strong hearty blea biva breath of an out but and out high great laughter h t cr did you ever hear of an organ ilein being g played in advance of bf a regiment going up in the charge h against agrist i the rench french JF what would your organs igans ha have ve done in egypt and at waterloo why a single shot would have destroyed them what could they do in the G galway dway boat with a heavy breeze blowing in a grand highland glen gien or on the top of our mountains there is k 1 no musie music a ye I 1 in t the 9 world omi H to 0 l be e c compared 0 mpa r e d w with 1 t the bagpipe I 1 say it serious seriously iye lye you cannot improve the bagpipe it lathe best of its kind consider its associations people who N yh 0 dont know our associations don dont t understand them and the moreli mores the pity when you and I 1 hear the bagpipe it is not merely hearing in 9 the sounds that come from its drone it is more than that for we dream of the old glen and the old oid old oid fireside where ever yoi rhear it throughout the world and I 1 have heard it in many places it always sets a highlander dreaming dreadin 9 he begins to dream odthe of the old house in the old glen and he sees in it his father his mother and his kinsmen he dreams of the old kirk and he sees the people in it of the churchyard and he thinks of those who are lying in it all comes up tr to his imagination at the call of the bagpipe loud applause J it is very difficult to define what this music is there is music in nature that you cannot set down for the pianoforte it is in the roaring t of the winds in the moaning of the wa waves ves and in the cry of the wild widd bird and all this you hear in the bagpipe it is the music that highlanders High landers understand best and though a highlander may live till he be is four score years ornge of age and mayshear may hear all the music that was ever composed yet there is something in the bagpipe t that iet ket at will cheer him when nothing else can in the southern states of Ani america rica amidst all the war and all the difficulties of late years there are arb sixteen congregations of highlanders High landers who have existed for one hundred years ears I 1 without aid from emigration I 1 ire are re member once when abroad of asking a servant at a hotel to give a gra gratuity to my driver he did not understand my english nor my french but when I 1 accidents and it was a good idea tried him with am bhail gaelic amhad he at once replied tila tiia GROUND COFFEE AS A disinfectant dr barbler barbier a london physician affirms that ground coffee possesses some slome remarkable properties as a disinfectant in iu several cases where he had to make postmortem post mortem examinations of bodies under very disagreeable disa greable circumstances he found that a handful of coffee strewn over the body and about the room roon 1 quite ove overcome reome any bad odor POISONING FLOUR it Is said tha half therill the mill owners in orange NY N Y have been in the habit of filling up cavities in their burr stones with lead instead of cement As a conse ground by several of them is pois poisonous onous DEPOSIT OF A nino fino deposit of kaolin hast hasi has recently been discovered within within about three miles of virginia city nevada evada the deposit is about seven feet in thickness th ekness and is said to be or of superior Au perlor quality kaolin is the material from v which ich porcelain and all the fine nine fine China wares are manufactured it derives its name from the china word kao kno ling meaning high ridge the name of a hill lair near fu where the mineral awe ral rai is obtained in abundance RETURN OF or MR PEABODY mr peabody was born at danvers massachusetts feb 1795 iga and is therefore upwards of seventy years fears bears of age he began life as a clerk with a danvers grocer at the age of eleven years and was afterwards cemp employed loyed in the same capacity at thetford thefford vermont and newburyport massachusetts gradually rising in 1812 he became managing partner in a wholesale dry goods house w with 1 th mr elisha ellsha riggs at georgetown D C the latter furnishing the capital the next year the house was removed to baltimore in 1829 29 by the retirement of mr riggs mr peabody became the senior partner in the house and in 1837 he took up his permanent residence in england in 1844 mr peabody established himself as a merchant and banker in london and his house became prominent as the headquarters of americans in that city and where he ultimately acquired the bulk of the immense fortune a goodly portion of which he has at ac various times lavished upon deserving objects both in england and this country in 1852 1853 he sent to his native town of danvers to be expended in in I 1 founding a free town library afterwards increased it to with an additional gift of for a branch library at north danvers he also contributed to the first grinnell expedition to the arctic ocean and in 1856 7 gave to found a scientific and literary institute at baltimore with a pledge arledge to increase this sum to his largest and most notable donations however have been made to the poor of the city where the most of his fortune las has been made they amount in all to sterling a gift so magnificent ent as to have lately received the especial acknowledgment of queen victoria ex how SPEECHES ARE MADE A letter from washington states hat ahat the ne newspaper WS correspondents and editors sojourning sojo at the capital now charge for preparing hour speeches for members of congress from twenty five dollars to one hundred dollars according ac cordin to the reputation of the writer once one a week every saturday the members have a chance to orate 11 and in order to save time some of tu the lame ducks ask permission to print instead of speaking their pieces these at twenty five dollars a piece do not make heavy inroads on their purses GOOD reporters REP so difficult is the reporters art that we can call to mind only two series serles of triumphant efforts in this department mr russels hussels Rus Bus sels sele letters from the crimea to the london tims and N P Williss 1 illings by the may way addressed to the new york mir aop fop rom rop each of these masters chanced to have a subject perfectly adapted to his taste and talents and each of them made the most of his opportunity charles dickens has produced very exquisite reports many ignorant and dull men employed on the new york berald herald have written good report reports 4 because they were dull and ignorant in fact there are two kinds of good reporters those who know too little and those who know too coq much to wander frond front twe the th point and evolve a report from the depths of their own consciousness the possible reporter is one who has a little littie talent ta lint and depends upon that to make mako up for tor the mea meagerness gernes s of his information the tho best reporter is he whose sole object la to relate his event exactly as it occur occurred redi redl and describe his scene just as it appeared nid nid n 9 sid id this kind of excellence is attal attai attainable navle navie by an honest plodder and by a man of great and well controlled talent it if we were forming a corps of 23 03 2 0 3 reporters we should desire to have five of them thein inert wert of great and highly trailed ability and alitt the rest indefatigable unimaginative exact shorthand chroniclers caring for nothing but to get their chaband relate it in the plainest english borth borta K orta orth american review for fol aemil april curc buitron Cu itron eor FOK hydrophobia sometime some time ago it was stated that dr buisson of lyons had announced the discovery of a remedy for hydrophobia A restatement of the circumstances circumstance of the discovery and of his theory will no doubt have a renewed interest now in connection with the cases of this terrible disease so recently reported in our columns in attending a female patient in the last stage of canine rabies the doctor imprudently wiped his hands with a handkerchief impregnated with her saliva there happened to be a slight abrasion on the index of the left hand hafid and confident in his own curative system the doctor merely washed the part with water however he be was fully aware of the imprudence he had committed and gives the following account of the jhb matter afterwards believing that the malady would not declare itself until the fortieth day having numerous patients to visit I 1 put onn off from da day das to day the application of f my remedy that is to say vapor baths the ninth day being in my mv cabinet I 1 felt all at once a pain in tle the throat hront and a still greater one in the eyes my body seemed so light that I 1 felt as if I 1 could jump to a prodigious height or that if I 1 threw myself out of a window I 1 coald sustain myself in the air my ty hair hair lair was so sensitive sensa tive that I 1 appeared able to count each separately without looking at it saliva kept continually farming in the mouth any movement of air inflicted great pain on me and I 1 was obliged to avoid the sight of brill anft lant objects I 1 had bad a continual desire to run and bite not human being but animals and all that was near me I 1 drank with difficulty and I 1 remarked that hat the sight of water distressed me more than the pain in the throat I 1 believe that by shutting the eyes any one suffering ring under hydrophobia can always drink the fits came on ever every y five minutes and I 1 then felt the pain start from the index finger and run up the nerves to the shoulder in this state thinking that my course was 1 preservative e serva tive and not curative I 1 took to ov a vapour japour bath not with the intention of cure but of locating suffocating myself when the bath was ata at a heat of 52 deg centigrade 93 deg 3 min 5 sec fahrenheit all the symptoms disappeared as if by magic and since then 1 hav never felt anything more of them I 1 have attended more than eighty persons bitten by mad animals and I 1 have not lost a single case when a person is bitten by a mad dog he must for seven successive days take a vapour japour bath a la russe busse as it is called of 57 67 deg to 63 deg this is the preventive remedy when the disease is declared it only requires one vapour japour bath rapidly increased to 37 de deg g centigrade then slowly to 63 deg the he t patient must strictly confine himself to his ehat chat chamber hber until the curels eure cure is complete dr buisson mentions several other eurious curious facts an american amerlean had been bitten by a rattlesnake about eight leagues from home wishing to die in the bosom of his family he ran the greater part of the way home and going to bed perspired profusely and the wound healed as any simple cut the bite of the tarantula is cured by the erx exercise of dancing the free perspiration dissipating the virus if a young child be vaccinated vaccina ted and then be made to take a vapour japour bath the vaccine does not take talce tue THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH the northern overland kle kie telegraph raph enterprise prise e is a gigantic affair through british america 1200 miles through russian americ america across behring strait across ahe the gulf of anadye and thence overland to the mouth of the amoor river 1800 1600 or a total of miles at the amoor it is to be continued by a russian line connecting it with through western siber siberia a communicating comm uni cating eating alth with niini II Nov N ov g gorod arod a and n d moscow and thence to st P petersburg arg the capital involved amounts to ten millions of dollars GREEK CHURCH IN NEW YORK the berlin correspondent of the london times says that some priests of the greek church are to be stationed in new york at the expense of af the government of russia to meet the wants wanti of many russian bussian subjects whom business or pleasure bring to this port A church edifice is about to be built at a cost of of which one tenth is to he be raised by private subscription and the rest is to be paid by tile russian government partly it is said for the purpose of showing that there is a religious ri 9 lous ious life in the russian church to fr free le the members of this clerical mission from orom the rest restraints mints incidental to an official capacity it is proposed notto not to place them un under er C the e exclusive control of the russian bussian washington ashing divine service in the newchurch new church will be he conducted conduct edin in greek and russian sacramento suk sue su K the sacramento union says the first samples of sacramento silk ever produced may now be seen at the pavilion the worms which have already begun work are of the japanese species they produce silk almost white in color of very fine quality but their cocoons are smaller in size than those of the ordinary worm the japanese worm does not attain so large a size as the native california which L prevost has raised for a number of years A STORY FOR MARRIED PEOPLE the new york correspondent of the boston gazette writes that a fashionable couple up town married but not mated as the tile story goes quarreled a few mornings since and the irate wife by the advice of her parents sued for a divorce the case is only noteworthy from the ridiculous cause of the quarrel one morning it seems seema that the husband washed himself as usual in the bowl used by both but the lady for some reason refused to use it that morning and rang the bell for another it was brought when the no now indignant husband threw it violently to the floora floor b breaking tr eak I 1 n g it into pieces the wife thereupon jere n c called a 1 I 1 ed III lil him m hard names when he 10 locked eked t the he bedroom door and insisted that she should use the first bowl she vowed she if she went with adart a dirty face for a week he swore she sie sl should J ul d and so filling the bowl he seiz selz seized her hands and using sufficient clent elent force washed her face for her he then unlocked the door |