ly engaged in large monetary transactions, which were naturally a
source of anxiety. He had a house in town; but, having been advised by
the late Doctor Todd to live at Brighton, he had taken a house there, and
travelled to and fro daily by the express train. The symptoms of which
he complained began to appear about four months after taking up his
residence at Brighton, and he had undergone a variety of treatment
without benefit, and was just hesitating about trying homaeopathy when I
saw him. I advised him to give up the journey for a month, and make the
experiment of living quietly in town. In a fortnight his rest was
perfectly restored, and the other symptoms rapidly disappeared, so that
at the end of the month he was as well as ever again. After three
months, he was persuaded to join his family at Brighton, and resumed his
daily journeys. In a few days his rest became broken and in two months
all the old symptoms returned. By giving up the journeys and again
residing in town, he was once more perfectly restored; but, it being the
end of the season, when the house at Brighton could not readily be
disposed of, and yielding to the wishes of his family, he again resumed
his journeys. In a month's time he was rendered so seriously unwell that
he hesitated no longer in taking up his permanent abode in town; and
since that time--now more than two years ago--he has enjoyed perfect
health."

AN ELECTRIC TRAMWAY INCIDENT.

The following appeared in the _Irish Times_ (Dublin, 1884): "It is not
generally known that the country people along the line of the electric
railway make strange uses of the insulated rails, which are the medium of
electricity on this tramway, in connection with one of which an
extraordinary and very remarkable occurrence is reported. People have no
objection to touch the rail and receive a smart shock, which is, however,
harmless, at least so far. On Thursday evening a ploughman, returning
from work, stood upon this rail in order to mount his horse. The rail is
elevated on insulators 18 inches above the level of the tramway. As soon
as the man placed his hands upon the back of the animal it received a
shock, which at once brought it down, and falling against the rail it
died instantly. The remarkable part is, that the current of electricity
which proved fatal to the brute must have passed through the body of the
man and proved harmless to him."

DUTY IN DISGUISE.

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