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How TO Dbown. — Drowning bas always 
been thought well of by the suicidally inclined. 
As a form of death it is perhaps the least pain- 
ful of the more common forms with which 
W0 a re familiar. “ Drowning persons," Dr. 
R S. Tracy, in the last Popular Science 
Monthly, tells us, “die in three different 
•ways- 1. By #yncopo and asphyxia while 
unconscious. Some of there die instantly. 
3 By apoplexy (usually congestive), common 
in plethoric and ag«-d persons, followed by 
asphyxia while uuconscious. 3. By asphyxia 
pure and simple. It is believed that the 
rapidity and painlessness of d-atli by drown- 
ing are due chiefly to the speedy obstruction 
of the circulation of the blood through the 
lungs. In ordinary asphyxia, by the simple 
deprivation of air the blood throughout the 
hotly becomes charged with carbonic acid, and 
the arteries as well us the veins become tilled 
with venous blood. Now, venous blood does 
not pass readily through the capillary vessels, 
and, when the accumulation of impurities lias 
become so great as to prevent its passing at 
all, the circulation comes to a standstill. But 
the dreadful distress of suffocation comes on 
long before this r oiut is reached. Now', 
when cold water is sucked into the lungs and 
comes in contact with their delicate and sen- 
sitive mucous membrane, it must cause an 
instaut and powerful contraction of the capil- 
laries, and obstruot the current of blood from 
the right side of the heart, thus indirectly 
damming back the venous blood in the brain. 
This state of things brings on unconscious- 
ness rapidly, preceded by the pleasurable 
tingling sensations, rapid succession of ideas, 
and flashes of light aud color, so often de- 
scribed by persons who have been rescued 
from drowning. . 
“ If death by drowning be inevitable, as in 
a shipwreck, the easiest way to die would be 
to suck water into the lungs by a powerful 
inspiration as noon as one went beneath the 
surface. A person who bad the courage to 
do this would probably become almost imme- 
diately unconscious, und never rise to the 
surface, as soon as the fluid filled bis lungs 
all feelings of chilliness and paiu would cease, 
the indescribable semi-delirium that accom- 
panies anesthesia would come on, with ring- 
ing in the ears and delightful visions of color 
and light, while be would seem to himself to 
be gently sinking to re6t on the softest of beds 
and with the most delightful of dreams." 
A Conscientious Judge.— Clinton Loyd, 
Esq., for many years Chief Clerk of the 
House of Representatives at Washington, aud 
-withal an enthusiastic trout fisherman, tells 
the following story of the late Hon. Robert 
C. Grier, whose example, a correspondent 
suggests, is worthy the imitation of all who 
are clothed in the sacred ermine : 
“The Judge had an utter repugnance to 
noy method of catching a trout other than 
with an artificial fly. On one occasion he 
went to YouDgwoman’s town on a fishing ex- 
cursion. Arriving late in the afternoon he in- 
quired of the landlord if he could give them 
trout for supper. ‘Oh, ys,' was the reply. 
When supper was announced the Judges 
eyes were greeted "illi the sight of a dish of 
splendid trout, cooked to a turn, and calculat- 
ed to tempt the appetite of a gourmaud. 
‘ How did you catch these fellowB ?’ asked 
the Judge iu an excited tone. ‘ With a grab.’ 
‘And what is a grab?’ It was explained 
that it consisted of a stiff pole, on the end 
of which were fastened three hooks, with 
which the operator leaned over a deep hole 
where the trout lay quietly, and hooked them 
out by catching them under the belly. ‘ Take 
them away, take them away,’ screamed the 
Judge, ‘i wouldn't eat a trout caught that 
way if I was starving to death, and if I couid 
get the scoundrel that, caught them into my 
court in any way I would send him to the 
penitentiary for life.’ ” 
• 
Holtum THE Strong M an. -They are 
opening their eyes in London at a Dane whose 
performances in the Westminster Aquarium 
are simply wonderful exhibitions of wonder- 
ful strength : 
Holtum stretches himself along a ladder 
on his face, his feet against one of the rungs, 
and his hands clasping another. Round his 
wrists are bands fastened to the ladder to as- 
sist bis grip. Over his shoulders and round 
his waist is a well-padded harness, fitting 
closely, with a tail, to which is attached a 
hook in which the chains of the traces are 
placed. Two good-sized van horses are fast- 
ened on, and strive their utmost to move him, 
but in vain ; the tackle may give way but he 
doesn't. The sirain seeuis to be distributed 
over his whole frame, and the tension, par- 
ticularly in the muscles of the neck and arms, 
is mo. t marked. Holtum has auother feat. 
It consists in holding, with arms outstretched, 
two horses pulling opposite ways. Holtum's 
measurement is as follows: Chest, 41 in. ; 
neck, lfiiin.; waist, 82$in. ; forearm, 13m. ; 
upperarm, 15£in.; thigh, 24^in. ? calf, 15fin. 
; height, 5ft. 9iu. ; weight, I4sl.31bs. ; ago, 
82$ years. . „ 
The idea of catching a cannon ball, another 
of his wonderful feats, which he exhibit e 
daily at the Westminster Aquarium, was first 
suggested to him in a dream. He draws a 
salary of about £40 per week. He has shown 
that the body supine can stand a direct ten- 
sion of over five tons. 
Medicinal. 
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Anothbb Pedestrian Started West. — ; 
The Hartford Timex, May 21, has this story 
of a tramp who has started on a loDg jour- 
ney : 
Mr. D. II. Willard, No. 51 Capital avenue, 
says that in the year 1838, on the east farm, 
half a mile south of the Newington railroad 
junction, he came across a very large and 
beautiful spotted box or hinge tortoise (so 
called from its power to close its upper and 
under shells firmly together). Turning it 
upside down ho inscribed on it. his own ini- 
tials, and the date, letting him free. In 18112 
he found the 6amo fellow again half a mile 
west. He had crossed two bridges or forded 
the streams, aud three railroad tracks. The 
new date was then add. d, the first inscription 
be'mg very distinct. He has not seen him 
since uotll last Saturday, 18th, when he es- 
pied him on his west farm, near the New 
Britain line, about oue and one-balf miles 
from the first point named, looking as hale 
and hearty as ever, but not increased in size 
perceptibly. He was duly marked 1878 and 
sent on his way with this query : “ At this 
rate of travel, when will you reach the Pacific 
coast ?’’ 
According to H-oyle. — 'fhi3 is the way 
theRodandGun editor of the Busies County 
Gazette nobely comes to the front as a repre- 
sentative of Eastern fish story mongers : 
A Western paper says : “ Fish from the Alle- 
ghenny river taste of coal.’’ Perhaps the lan- 
tern at the eud of the net was upset, or the 
cork might have dropped out of the bottle of 
benzine, which many fiisherman carry in order 
to keep from catching cold. That editor 
ought to know that they make light houses 
along the streams of Pennsylvania by unroll- 
ing a ball of candle wick, immersing oue eud 
. in the stream and carrying the other to the top 
of a long pole, where it is made fast; once 
lighted it never goes out until the stream dries 
^ up in summer. 
An Ecoentrio War Horse. — The New 
York World chronicles the death of “ Old 
Bill,” the roan battle-horse of Major General 
W. B. Tibbits, of the Second New York Ca- 
valry, which has died at Hoosick Falls. He 
was probably the only lnrse that served 
through the whole war and wound up his 
campaign with a visit on duty to the plains. 
He was a great pet of the men of the Gns 
wold cavalry and an animal of peculiar ways 
Id camp or on the march he was sluggish, 
would not allow a pistol lo he fired from his 
back, and if turned loose defied the efforts of 
a whole company to catch him, but once 
under fire he obeyed the slightest touch of the 
rein, would jump anything, paid no heed to 
pistol-firing from his back, uud could he turned 
loose with the certainty that he would not 
stray away. In his twenty odd engagements 
•• Old Bill” was only wounded once. 
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