HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-09-19, Page 6A. SPOKANE FALLS EORROR.
'rorty or Fifty Yen Crashed to Death or
Blown to Atoms
-BY .A BLAST EXPLOSION.
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On: Saturday evening a premature blast in
stir; Northern Pacifico yards killed fifteen
persona and possibly more. The full ex-
tant of the. di:meter. tr not -known. It w
just before the hour of quitting work. A
large force of men was engaged in blasting
eut a huge rook pile in theNorthernFaoiflo
freight yard° in the eastern part of the city.
From 50 to 75 men were at work in the oat
at the time. Some of the workmen were
preparing blasts . to be toaohed off after
ether workmen and &,game. had departed for -
the night. One blast had been prepared.
In patting in the eeoond it wee exploded,
the jar also touching off the first bleat.
Twenty-five thousand cubic feet of rook
. NEW YORK'S NEW LAW.
Two Cigarette-8niolcing , Boys Arrested
Whine Enjoying Themselves Illlegally--
A Tonder-Rearted Policeman.
A New York espatoh of last Tuesday
night says : Policeman Dowsing, of
the Elizabeth street'station, was on duty
on the .Bowery yesterday when he was
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mass of humanity with terrible results.
WOB;E AND WORSE.
Time only heightens the horrors wrought
by the premature explosion of a blast in
the Northern Paoifio freight yards here last
night. At 11 p. m. the men engaged in
taking out the mangled viotims were forced
to desist, because among the rooks which
were being cleared away were five other
blasts that might be exploded in the task
of removing the mass of debris that buried
the viotims. Up to that hour eighteen
bodies had been taken out. There are yet
27 men unaccounted' for, all of whom are
probably buried beneath the mighty mase
of rook. The fatality wast terrible. The
men were given no chance for life. It was
either instant death or slight injury. There
were about 200 pounds of giant powder in
the blast. The aooident was paused by
some one's oarelessness. The man in
charge of the blast and three assistants were
blown to atoms. It is the custom to
prepare blade and charge them and
at the hours- of 12 noon and 6 p.m., after
the men have left work and gone to a place
of safety, to elloot them. In this case it
seems that one blast had been prepared and
the foreman, C. McPherson,was preparing
-'a second. The men had all finished their
work, and _were nuitia. • . i i .'r . ' a . , a
picking up their lunoh pails ready to go to
their homes after the day's work, when
they met a horrible and expected death.
Either the rook was too hotdrom the notion
of the drills or else the tamping exploded
he second blast, and that exploded the
first. A man who was tamping paid the
penalty with his life. A man who stood
beside him escaped with- slieht bruises,
although 20,000 cubic feet of rook were
hurled for hundreds of feet in every direc-
tion. Another man who was near the
deadly blast, and who was supposed to 'be
dead, was seen shortly after the explosion
in a half. crazed condition, walking around
with hie clothing torn to shreds.
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THE CLIFF FELL CN THEM..
The men were working in a out, levelling
off the ground for'the new freight yards.
The cliff of rook on the side of the , out
which was being removed was twenty feet
high. The blasts are so arranged that the
rook is thrown toward the -out. Not antici-
pating the blast, about 30. men were under
the oliff when the blast exploded. A great
mass of rock and earth rose in the air and
-pitched over into the out, burying the men
beneath its awful weight. None of them
bad time to run, but a few escaped in a
miraouloae manner. Over 100 men were
at work in the adjoining oats and at once
were on the scene of the accident and began
with picks and shovels to search for bodies.
From all over the huge mass of rock groans
and shrieks issued, and the air was filled
with the horrible noises and the appeals of
the wounded and dying. A short half hour
and all was still, except for the working-
men with picks in band, w(ao by the light of
lanterns worked late into the night remov-
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ENGLISH NIGHT MAIL
Comes to Grief on its Way to Paris—A Van
Goes Ovcr an Embank= Ont—Onee Elan
Killed.
A Paris oable says Early this morning
Paris was startled with a report that a
frightful accident had happened on the
Northern Railway. Information was soon
forthcoming that the English night mail
from London to Paris had come to grief.
The following is the official report ofthe
disaster whioh was embodied in the report
made by the Chemin de Fer da Nord to the
Minister of the Interior : " Between Allis/Allis/and La Faloise, the night mail from Lon-
don ran into a piece of iron work that had
been dropped by a goods train. The
consequence was that the engine, two car-
riages and the mail van left the rails and
went over an embankment between five
and six metres in height. Fortunately
there wall only one passenger in the oar-
riage that went over theembankment. He
was an employee of the Chemin de Fer du
Nord, and he was killed. The driver and
fireman escaped. The guard had oompomid
fracture of the leg and other injuries. The
passengers escaped without injury. They
were conveyed back to Amiens and brought
on to Paris by another route,"and reached
Paris at half -past nine with the mails.
There was no interruption to the London -
Paris traffio except a, delay ' of about a
quarter of an hour to the half -past eleven
express train through having to work tem-
porarily on a Bingle lino.
French Poultry Figures.
Poultry -breeders may read with interest
the following statistioe which have been
collected, says our correspondent, for the
French Department of Agriouitnre. The
income derived by Frenob people who rear
fowls, according to octroi and market re-
turns, is 337,100,000 francs, of which
150,500,000 francs represent the value of
the flesh and 183,600,000 francs that of the
eggs. The quantity sold in poultry ,aide is
immense, an is also the numberateed in the
'bonne of those who > ear fowls. Theee
figures do not find their way into stetie-
tios.—London Daily News. .
Tolstoi's last crusade is said to be
against tobaccoand alcohol. It is stated
that he has a work nearly ready for the
press, in which he strongly inveighs against
gluttony and drunkenness, and shows in a
vivid manner the effect of narcotics and
intoxicating drinkd on the human system.
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who said harshly :
" Where have yon been ?"
"I have been here all the while," replied
Downing. " Y] hyowhat's the trouble?''
rr A greas y' sr* iii man. "A person
is wilfully violating the law on your post,
and here I've been looking for you for ten
minutes. The criminal has probably
escaped by this time."
The policeman followed the man to the
oorner of Canal street, wherethe man
pointed to a dirty -faced, weak-kneed lad
not two feet high, who was standing com-
placently on the corner with a lighted
cigarette in hiahand.
"I'm not going to arrest that kid," de-
slaraa the nnljnamwn
your up o'oi,sr s'on
man. " What is your number ? I'll report
yon for neglect of duty."
When the lad felt the policeman's hand
on his shoulder he cried, and 500 persona
gathered in the apace of five minutes.
Abuse was heaped on the head of the police-
man by the onlookers, who declared it an
outrage to arrest a ohild. The policeman
never felt more uncomfortable, but he was
nnabbato explain that he had made the arrest
against his own inolination. The man
who had paused the trouble disappeared.
The boy was Meyer Levy, aged 7, of No.
16 Ludlow street.
" Don't cry, there's a nine little boy,"
tenderly said the newly -appointed Justice,
Clarenea, W. Meade, who is being " broke
in " by Justice Smith.
Justice Smith said, " Go tight home.
Don't smoke any more cigarettes. It is
against the law.'!
Riohard McManus, aged 15 years, of No.
242 East Thirty-ninth street, was standing
at the corner of Thirty-ninth street and
Second; avenue smoking a cigarette Tuesday
night, and Policeman O'Neil, of the East
Thirty-fifth station arrested him. In the
Yorkville Police Court yesterday the lad
pleaded ignorance of the law, and Justice
MoMahon discharged him after he had
romieed to give up.aiga ex tte..arnoking_n . ,11
e attained -the proper age.
STREET PAR HORROR.
A Locomotive Crashes into a Car Injuring
About a Dozen People, Some Fatally.
A Cleveland despatch says : A frightful
accident occurred at the Wilson avenue
crossing of the New York, Chicago, and St.
Louis railway in this city about 7.30 Satur-
day evening, by which at least a dozen
persons were terrible injured, some fatally.
The crossing is on a steep grade, down
which runs an eleotrio street railway line.
At the time the aooident occurred a freight
train was standing close to the crossing on
the south track. An eleotrio motor, draw-
ing one oar, was approaching from the
south. The safety gates were put np, and
the road apparently clear. Just as the
motor had crossed the railway track a
locomotive, running twenty miles an hour,
dashed out frombehind the freight train.
The pilot of the engine struck the electric
train between the motor and trail car, tear-
ing them apart and hurling one to each' side
of the traok. At least a score of persons
were .on the trail car, and they were
tumbled about in all directions, some being
hurled about a dozen feet away,and others
pinned under the car, which was demoliehed.
The street railway barns were close to the
scene of the -wreck, and a rescuing party
was soon on hand. The viotims were
hurried away in ambulances to the
hospitals. Following is a list of injured
Minnie Mock, crushed, died at hospital ; J.
A. Moore, right arm crushed, leg lacerated ;
Annie Nieman, collar bone broken, face cut ;
Louisa Mock, out on head and arms ;
Edward Watson, right foot crushed ; Chas.
Woods, body bruised : Geo. Somers, - leg
ont ; George Neff, several bruises ; Lizzie
Cable, badly braised; Lizzie and Eliza
Bragg, cut on head and bruised ; Mrs.
Mooney, leg sprained; Frank Rose, bruised
about the hip, arm, and shoulder ; Leone,
Howell, out about the legs and head.
A New Variety.
" Summer brave" is, according to the
New York Sun, the very latest thing out in^
way of polite slang. A summer brave,
says Mr. Dana, is not a dude, though his
apparel is gorgeous and his general appear.
mace wonderful to behold ; , he is not a
Masher, though he is a heartbreaker, and
he is not necessarily a brainless fop, though
the presumption is strong that he comes
close to it. He differs from these varieties
of the tailor-made man in that he makes
nis appearance in the warm season of the
year alone, and at fashionable summer
resorts exolneivdly.: He is not to be seen at
Coney .Island, Cheltenham Beaoh, or other
places where common people congregate,
but he is numerous at Saratoga, Newport,
Long Branch,. Waukesha, and Oconomo-
woc. Whether he hascome to stay, or
whether he will gradually fade away like
the dude, is yet to early to tell.—Chicago
News.
Composing Machine.
There has been on view for some littie
time in the city an ingenious composing
and justifying machine. It does not die•
pens° with the servioes of a compositor,
but assists him in his work. Ho pinks up
his type and drops it down v funnel, the
machine automatically planing it, the right
end and side uppermost, and as eaoh line
is completed it is fed into a galley. The
galley is then taken to the jnetifying
maohine, when the lines are spaoed so as
to exactly fill a column. Stveral machines
are in operation at the printing works of
Messrs. Clay and Sons, limited, Bread
Street Hill, RC. Partionlara can be ob.
tained from Mr. G. Hagborg, of the Lager -
mann Typotheter and Justifier . Company,..
85 Queen Victoria Street, E. 0.—Industries,
East Tawas, Mich., is mostly run by
ladies. One is postmaster, another runs
the telegraph office, and has female messen-
gers, another rus the best hotel, lady
printers get out the weekly newspaper, a
lone wdman manages a big tea house, and
two others have general stores, the school
teachers are women, and so aro the store
clerks.
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PBUULIAB BUFFALO SCANDAL.
In Which .a Former Beamsville Belle
igures.
610,000 DAMAGES DEMANDED.
• (Natio News.)
If a bridegroom was to cudgel hie brains
for a month could he think of anj'thing
more embarrassing than to be made de-
fendant, on the eve of his own wedding, in
a suit for alienating a wife's affection.
Suoh a case is before the Supreme Court.
Cards were issued for the marriage of
Edward C. Burkhardt, of the well-known
real estate firm of Burkhardt Brothers,and
Mies Laura Schmidt, daughter of Lorenz
Schmidt, a well-known German citizen of
High street.
The complaint in an action brought by
John F. McLaughlin against Edward C.
Burkhardt for 610,000 damages, for alien-
-a ..,;i.,, n n £%o 4 _ - • -
er, was ' e ' with the clerk ofthe Supreme
Court this morning.
John F. McLaughlin is a newspaper man.
For a number of years he was Buffalo man-
ager for the Elmira Telegram. - At present
he is special correspondent for a number of
out of town newspapers. He alleges in his
oomplaint that his wife, Myra McLaughlin,
was assaulted by Edward C. Burkhardt at
184 Main street, in October, 1887, and that
by threats Mrs. McLaughlin was made to
continuo an intimacy with Burkhardt for
two years thereafter. He olaims $10,000
damages. -
place indicated was the Buffalo office
of the Elmira paper, and Mrs. MoLaughlin
was frequently there alone in charge of the
office while her husband was away gather-
ing news and collecting money.
Mr. McLaughlin was found at his
mother's residence, 432 Miohigan street,.
anedead was at first adverse to talk about the
.
" It will do no good to talk about it," he
said. " The public will get to know all
about it when the trial eomea on."
" Where is your wife -now?"
" Living with some friends at 49 Seventh
street."
" Apart from you?"
"Yes. I am living with my mother."
,hen-didey-or diu;,r„hrr rover-wil&e-die-
loyalty 2"
" This summer—not very many - weeks
ago."
" How did you discover it ?"
"I found some letters."
"What sort of letters?"
" Letters from' Burkhardt. She called
herself Ida Brown and oarried on a olandes•
tine' correspondence with him under that
name. They were ordinary love letters."
" What did you do then 2"
" Confronted her with what I found out.
She denied everything at first and after
ward confessed all:"
Mrs. McLaughlin is a brunette, petite of
figure, dresses well and is rather good look-
ing. She is , 27 years old. Her maiden
name was Myra House and she name from
Beameville, Ont., a village lying between
Hamilton and St. Catharines. She was
married to McLaughlin in this city July
8th, 1884, by Rev. G. Chapman Jones,
formerly pastor of Asbury M. R. Chnrob.
McLaughlin is one year older and is a dark-
haired, bright-eyed, handsome young man.
Mrs. McLaughlin claims, her husband
says, that she was loyal to her marriage
vows until she met Burkhardt.
Lonis ,Brannlein is McLaughlin's attor-
ney. Fie appeared before Judge Lewis
yesterday and secured denial of, a demand
from the other side been bill of particulars.
The complaint was served several days
ago, but not filed till to -clay. The defendant,
through Roberts, Alexander & Mooser, his
attorneys, makes a general denial.
Divorce proceedings were begun, it is
said, some time ago, but abandoned for a
peculiar reason. Mrs. McLaughlin fell ill
and her husband was sent for and spent
the night at the sick woman's bedside car-
ing for her. Constructively this was a
condoning of the alleged offence.
Some surprises are expected when the
case comes to trial.
At noon today it was learned that Mr..
Burkhardt and Miss Schmidt were married
this morning at St. Louie' Church.
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Things to Remember.
Never fail to keep an appointment.
Never delay in answering letters or re-
turning books.
Never tell long stories\ of which, you
yourself are the hero.
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Never inconvenience .'people by com-
ing in late at church, theatre lecture or
concert. -
Never stop peoplewho are hurrying along
the street and detain them for ten or twenty
minuted:
Never call on people just at bedtime, or
daring dinner or before they are downstaira
in the morning.
Never, when _von see two people engaged
in earnest talk, step in and enter upon a
miscollaneone conversation.
Never speak disrespectfully of yonr
parents nor cf your sisters. People may
laugh at yonr wit, but they will &spice yon
for it.
Never begin fo talk about "this, that and
everything " to ono who is trying to read
the morning paper or a book or anything
else
Never talk when others are singing or
doing anything else for yonr amusement ;
and never -the instant they are finished
begin to talk upon a different topic.—New
York World.
Dontiats in Scotland.
" In Scotland," said a dentist, who is a
native of the land of the heather, " there
are many people who do not know who or
what a dentist is. But canned fruits are
being introduced there, and so destructive
are they upon the teeth that many more
people will require the services of a den.
tilt."—Detroit Free Press.
An Advantageous Position.
Mr. Knight—From where would yon like
to view the parade ?
Mrs. Knight—from a Given Point.
Mrw Knight Where's that ?
Mrs. Knight—I don't know ; but I notice
that all parades aro so long in passing that
plane.
0. S. Wheaton• has resigned the Presi-
dency of the Independeht Order of 'Railway
Condnotore, and E. D Naeh, of St. Albans,
31t., succeeds him.. -
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Pine
VP IN A . BALLOON.
k1lx'au Wt;;q m=arl E;
ROBE AND FELL 1,000 FEET.
Yesterday the people attending the fair,
says the Kingston Whig, saw a successful
balloon ascension by Prof. MoEwen, Jack-
son, Mich:, a famous aeronaut. He 18 a
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every eenee of the word. The balloon, a
brand new one made of ootton,was used for
the first time. It was inflated in the centre
of the field, and the operation wee seen
cf'ietinetiy from ea parts ' of the groups.
Before the canvas was ready to be filled
there was a great deal of confusion. Small
boys and men insisted upon crowding the
professor in his work, and only by assum-
ing a savage and determined attitude could
he get along. He did the work of three
policemen in keeping the .small boys out
of the way. He secured twenty men to
hold the balloon while it was being filled.
Henry MoCambridgo anted as engineer in-
side. The fire was made out of barrel
staves and with a enlendid draft__mad.w t.Tk
aar i is ns y tie annvae e`"gan
to swell, and the professor remarked to the
engineer : "Harry, is she filling rapidly ?"
He replied : "You bet she is, and it is get-
ting pretty hot inside." " We'll not be
long on the ground," shouted Mr. MoEwen,
as he leaped over the sod, In an instant
he divested himself of his frock ooat and
silk hat, and appeared in a glittering blue
costume, fringed with silvery lace. He got
his parachute in order and in a short time
was ready for the ascension. Slowly 'the
balloon began to rise upwards, while the
people watched it with intense interest.
When it left the earth the professor sprang
on the bar hanging from the canvas and in
hie flight sang out, " Good bye, Good bye,
remember Josie Mills to -night." He rose
over 1,000 feet, drifting to the south. He
then jumped with his parachute which had
been attached to the side of the balloon.
The supreme moment in the affair was
when he left the balloon, and before the
parachute opened. The drop was very suc-
cessful and the professor landed on Caton's
property near the Montreal road, in view of
hundreds of people, who had followed him.
One young lady was so overcome, by the
eight of the man doming down that she
fainted away. The balloon was recovered
a short distance from where the professor
landed.
"BOUT YOURSELVES."
What Happened at a Wholesate.Weddinf
in Penney 'van Ia.
There lived some years ago in Western
Pennsylvania, according to " Harper," an
old oiroait preacher, Father West by name,
whose genial humor and kindliness of heart
had g}eatl endepedrhim i,o all,the people
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with the young folks matrimonially
inclined, and his opportnuities to " tie ,the •
knot " were numerous. On one oceasion
he tonna- upon his arrival at a certain town,
sevefal couples awaiting hie blessing. The
old man was tired and wished to make
short work of the job. " Stand np," he •
began, " and jine hands." Which being
done, he rattled through a marriage service
that, like himself, was original. " There," '
he said, when it way finished, " ye can. go ;
ye're man and wife, ey'ry one o' ye." Two
of the couples hesitated, and finally made .
it apparent that in the sadden " lining " •
they had become confused, and has taken
the hands of the wrong persona. The old
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situation, but he instantly straightened up,
and with a wave of his hand diseersed
them. " I married ye all," he said ; " sort,
yourselves."
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Passionate Heroines.
The "Speaker's" second article addressed
to lady novelists is " on heroines who burst
and roll across the floor." This heroine -
(we read) is as " untiring in her efforts to
please" as an actress, and she begins at
once. ' She never merely laughs or cries;.
she bursts, whether it be into laughter or
tears, as recklessly as the circus ladies
burst through tissue paper. She does
nothing, indeed, in the common way.
When she visits friends she its down
(plump) on their invitation, and after the
Guardsman goes she falls heavily ou hie
departure. In her agony she rolls across
her bedroom floor with herbair down. In
real life, perhaps, she oonld not be quite so
regardless of her person (not to speak of
her clothes), but she is a nelioious sense-
tiontie read:. about. I notice that elle is _
nine times in ten a married woma The
most extraordinary thing about he and
her husband, the earl, is that the are,
madly, wildly passionately in love, but
eaoh thinks the of er hates him,
or her. . Shn dkwn rq irnmadWeb'
The Senator's Daughter.
Tho Chicago News says : If ycu ehonld
ask a'rustio for what Grosse Pointe—De.
troit'a amateurish Newport—ha noted, you
would probably receive the information :
"For frogs and for being the summer home
of Senator MoMillan." 7
Here the croaking of the very terrestrial
frog seems celestial music in the ears of
the knowing ones, and the antioipations of
petite soupor for which' this little French
suburb -is famous arouses a keen appetite.
Surrounded by rolling green lawns, ten-
nis courts, palms, and blossoming hedges,
here stands the summer homeof Michigan's
senator, James McMillan. Its russet•tiate
are thrown out effeoti1ely'by the contrast-
ing bine of July ekies.
Close to the pier, in sight from its piaz •
zas, lie a number of gay steam .launches,
dipping about merrily in the waters of
Lake St. Clair, and with them the yachts
Lela and Tenant.
Upon 'the shining deck of the Iatter may
be often seen a Blender, refinedrlooking
girl with a demure, fresh face and modest
manners.
Here yachting snit dine affectionly to
the person of Senator McMillan's only
tdan hter, Miss Aniv McMillan. 'Ihe
'white yachting cap covers a small, ele-
gant ehaped head. The brown eyes express
a quiet enjoyment of life, which have been
in th eir owner's possession just twenty-one
years. Sedate, reticent, simple in manner,
Mise McMillan is utterly unepoiied by her
hoot of admirers.
Dyeing Rosea.
It is said that the •proocsa of dyeing 'reeee
is becoming a remunerative brans± rf in -1
dustry with English .horticuisariste. In, l
stead of growing new varieties of roses, -
•which is a .process of yearn, th.-:v simply
grow ordinary white roee'a and dit; them
into a chemical solution, which in an hour
converts them into tie meet magnificent
yellow tea rosee, the rare, scarlet red or the
peculiar shade of blui.h violet whish has
been one of the favorites cf the serseon. In
a similar way pick rc._ea in turned into
blossoms of the deepest ren. Baran yemra
ego, before this breach cf chemis-
try" was developed, the first experiments
were auccesnfully nae in Frame with the
popular pink horten=_ia, which, hy being
watered..aith a scluticn of iron, azaumed a
bine shade. -
How Cities Grow.
New York city put up 6,722 new build.
inga last year, at a cast of '675,912,81ra
Boston followed with 4,431 i:nildinge, coat-
ing $32,400,000. Philadelphia came third
with 11,965 buildings; coating 826,000,000 ;
Brooklyn, fourth,. with 4,500 buildings
costing x;25,679,400, and Chicago fifth, with
4,931 building(' coating 825,065,500. The
nett city to Chicago was Denver, where
2,741 new buildings coot 810,807,377, The
amount of new buildings in no other city
reached $1x,000,000, although St. Louis
came pretty • near that figure, and Minne.
Apollo, St. Paul and Pittsburg stood each
at about $8,000,000.
A. Mixed W. C. T. U.
In Northern Wisconsin there is a W. C.
T. TJ. composed of Americans, Germans
and Norwegians. One week the devotional
exercises will be conducted in one language
and flap next week in another. Sometimes
the, Bible will be read in English, the
prayer made in Norwegian and the songs
sung in German, but the entire audience is
always attentive, and a remarkably friendly
feeling prevails among the different nation.
alities.
Too Bad.
" Did yon prbposo to Henrietta ? "
Yes."
"Engaged ? "
"No: I was for the League, but she pre-
ferred the Brotherhood."
Owing to the almost total destrnolion cf
the crops in portions of Northern Dakota,
it is expected that the destitution ,of last"
year will be eclipsed by that of the' coming
winter.
after' the wedding that lie is sup-
posed to have married her for her money ;
or he discovers that the other man once
kissed her on the lipe, and after that they
pass with a cold bow. They meet, how-
ever, at dances -at -their -own- house ; and in
the conservatory he asks her hoarsely to
dance with him. All" this time her eyes are
blazing like two furnaces, one on each side
of her none—though they used to be lakes
witha forest of pines planted round &bout
-e-and drawing her figure up until she
could fan the ceiling with her ripe hair
she says that if he dares to touch her waist
she will out it off. He then srrideahcarsely
away, and no sooner has the door closed
than she moans " Oh, my God !" and fling-
ing herself at the lender , begins to roll
across the floor with her hair down. Back
and forward she rolls, back and forward,
and any man's heart would be touched to
see her thus. If the earl"were only to re-
turn now ! But there is no use hoping for
that, and by and by she is back in the ball-
room flirting outrageously and cold exter-
nally as ice, though still on the boil inside,
and the earl gets hoarser. then . ever.—,7t.
James' Gazette.
A Scotch Mermaid.
An interesting spectacle has r&'gently
been seen in the Orkneys. It is probably
the firet of its kind ever authenticated in
living memory. A correspondent writes to
a contemporary : " What is said to be a
mermaid has been seen for some weeks at
stated time, at Sontbside, Deernees. It is
about six to seven feet in length, with a
little black head, white neck and a snow-
wh;te body and two arms. In swimming
ii appears just like a human being. At
ti -nes it will come very close inshore and
appear to be sitting en a sunken rocs, and
will wave and work its hands. It has
never been Been entirely out' c,f eater.
Many persons who doubter* its genuineness,
now euppose it to bo a deformed seal."—•
The'Table. -
A Temperance Man's Offer.
Here i a business offer from a grocer. in
Kirksville, Missouri. Could not any Can-
adian grocer make a similar proposal ?
The sum would be $73. 'Here is the ,pro-
posal : " Any man who drinks two drams
of whiskey per day for a year, and\pays 10
cents a drink for it, can have at ci ,.store
thirty sacks of flour, 220 pounds o granu-
lated
augur and 72 pounds of god green
coffee for the same money and get $2.50
premium for making the change in his
expenditures." That is a temperance lec-
ture in a very few lines.
She Lived to Learn.
Mr. Canatique--And so old Irirs. Gadd is
dead ?
Mr. Carry News—Yee, dead and buried.
Mr. Canstigne—Dead and buried!
Humph ! I'll wager that by this time she
knows all the fancily antecedents of the
woman in the adjacent lot.—Life
w
TUE DIMPL.E IN UER CIIEEK.
She really isn't handsome, for her hair's a't ugly
shade ;
Her eyes aro like a pale blue glass of x etas
lemonade ;
IIor nose is short, her chin 3s long, hor voice has
got a squeak ;
But, ah t )ou'd he delighted with the dinar le in
her shook.
I'mn ofto"n sorely Constrained her
cizo ;
I'in sorry that I can't admire her
her eyes ;
But of these unattractive things
to speak
Whenever I may gaze upon tho
cheek. -
looks to criti-
hair, her nose,
I'in powerless
dimple in her
Of all the many pretty girls my heart Las ever
known,
'Tie she of all the lot I would gladly call my
own
For While in many ways her' claini to beauty's
very weak
I'd simply like to own fol lifo the dimple in hex
cheek.
Praise Indeed.
Father—I tell you, young man, it is
pretty hard for a father to see his daughter
leave home and take np life's bin -done with
a young man.
Young'man--Well, Emily is an Ospeoially
good girl.
Pattie Good -1 -Why,' ', -.shell worth -
her weig tin too: ... ,
ea,