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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-10-03, Page 3A Bostonese Lullaby. (x7,1R�lIlIN 1 -. ..,,.V �.,��,"_'•.'. ='_�faiiy s7brain `ie�r�d-of�h`l�king ,. �.,.;:.:... On the wherefore and the whence; Baby's precious eyes are blinking With incipient somnolence. Little hands are weary turning Heavy leaves of lexicon : Little nose is fretted learning How to keep its glasses on. Baby knows the laws of nature Are beneficent and wise; His medulla oblongata Bide my darling olo.e his eyes. And his pneumogastrics tell him Quietude is always best When his little cerebellum Needs recuperatiye rest. Baby must have relaxation, Let the world go wrong or right— Sleep, my darling, leave creation To its chances for the night. Brazil's National Anthem. %�i• WbGl4t.i3`r� 4 THE FLOUR WALREE. '4k�r1.1iYr iftsr�r+iuir=731utg'et iio tiiribaied i von to Discharge—Qualities Necessary to Make One Successful. " A man needs to be something of a judge of human character, something a little above the average, to thoroughly fulfil the dlitiea of the floor -walker," said one of those tireless beings who stand bathe front of all large Dt-zres-acrd lkrr , m(erable questions all day. . " Yes, I feel safe in saying that a man has to possess more than ordinary intelli- genes to be a competent floor -walker. Every man ca'n't do it. It takes years of the hardest kind of work toacquire that insight into the, business that will make a man almost unerring in his judgments of men, goods and pride. And lush a knowledge must the floor -walker have if he aims tdeatisfaotorily perform his work. BOOR HIINUEB. `a�sy�r_^:. �:='Trrr « ..:.. � ..nq,�...,�,. ..,ti ; • , ; ��" ., . e....;r'*, •...,r �,a Too Mncb Reading of $colt'' Creates Mental Dyspepsia. I have a picture. hanging in my library, a lithograph of whish many of my readers may have seen copies, says Oliver Wendell Holmes in the "Atlantic." It represents a gray-haired book lover at the top of a long flight of steps. He finds himself in clover, so to speak, among rare old editions, booke he has longed to look upon and never seen before, rarities, precious old volumes, incunabula cradle books, printed while the art was in its infancy -its glorious infancy, for itwas born a giant. The old bookworm is eo intoxicated with the eight and hand- ling of the priceless treasures that he can- not bear to put one of the volumes back after he has taken it from the shelf. So there he stands, one book open in his hands, a volume under each arm a ' " """dla — ifl ar do "o owing is a rang a- non of the national anthem 'of the new Brazilian republic : " The eyes of the Day God never more will see The slave in his chains pine and die ; ' re brothers who'd die for our liberty. ants all, we, your power defy. All are free in our glorious nation, In the future united are we, Wnile our flag waved with wild exultation We will sing of our land of the free. From the Yperanga, hark I 'Tis the cry sublime Of faith and of hope for our land. Come, arise, 0 Brazil! 'tie the holy time ; Forward, all—'tis your country's command. From thy minds the royal purple banish And in glory advance to the fore. Then, Brazil, all thy foomen will vanish, And triumphant thou'lt be evermore.' The " Spooney " Couple. (Chicago Times,) It doesn't matter where you stray, Go where you a ill by night or day, Sly Cupid's ever " rushing hay" He doesn't waste a minute. Between the daylight and the dark. Ia railway trains, hotel and park,. There's not a spot you cannot mark A spoonoy couple in it. 7 A , church or play, there, too, ono spies me couple making, honeyed eyes, itff`stvaRest smiles and softest sighs— They're certain to begin it. Until at length you gravely doubt, If you should search tho wand about, That you could find a spot without A spooney couple in it. And who would have it changed? Would you? I love to hear the lovers coo, And in their -softest -lisping woo Some gentle heart and win it. In all of life there should not be, ' o From Eden to eternity, A place without—it seems to me— . A spoonoy couple in it. An Australian National Anthem. Maker of earth and sea, What shall we render Thee ? All things are thine— Ours but from day to day Still with one heart to pray " God bless our land alway This land of Thine." Mighty in brotherhood, Mighty for God and good, Let us bo Thine. Here let the nation see Toil from the curse set free, Labor and Liberty One cause—and Thine. Here let Thy peace abide ; Never may strife divide ' This land of Thine. Let us united stand, One great Australian band, Heart to heart, hand in hand, Heart and hand Thine. Strong to defend our right, Proud in all nations' sight, Lowly iu Thine— • One in all noble fame, Still bo our path the same, Onward in freedom's name, Upward in 'Thine, Do Them Both Good. Light : Mra. Tawker-"How do you do, Mr. Prey ? What are you going to preach about to -morrow morning ?" Rev. Lettus Prey -"Well, to tell the truth, I haven't quite finished my sermon yet, but--" Oh, I'm so glad; because then I can persuade you, Iain acre, to say something about the practice of talking about one's neighbor's. It will strike right berme to Mrs. Nextdoor, you know, who is always saying things against my children and me ; when if she would stay at home once in a while and attend to those horrid, dirty faced little imps.ef hers it would be a great deal better for every one 1 Now, you will, won't yon, dear Mr. Prey ?" When They Will Burn. It r vires 1,^000 degs. of heat, Fahren- heit, to induce toads) emit fire. When eulphnr reaches a temperature of 600 degs. it will begin to flame. Wood will resist heat up to 800 degs., at which point it loses; its reeistance and the fire shows itself. The phosphorus on a match is raised by friction to a temperature of 150 dogs., Fahrenheit, at whioh it ignites. Too Warn;. First Editor -What ! Your building burned downed ? Second Editor (sadly) ---Yes 1 " How did it happen ?" " 0, one of those eratio roams by a young lady was sent in and I foolishly threw it in Ate wast° basket along with a lot of • othenatper and it sot fire to everything." - Exchange. He Toolc the flint. Father (at midnight) -Sorry to disturb yon, but I thought I would show yon my new dog. Daughter -Oh, papa 1 How kind of you.. isn't he cute, Harry Harry (who takes the old man's hint)) - Just in time, sir. ' I was going to go, any- how. The partition of Africa gives to British dominion and protection 880,000 equate miles and 5,650,000 population. Within the sphere of British influence are 1,650,000 sgnaro miles and 30,000,000 people. The figures for France and Germany aro as fol- lows : French dominions and influence, 2,720,000 square miles ; population,17,000, 000. German dominions and influences, 650,000 square miles ; 250,000 population, with two large rogione containing an arca of 458,000 square miles not oven guessed at as to population. The boat reason alleged y horticulturists for the growing of.tho daff dil is that the flowers last well when cut.- With ordinary -carer in• paoki thny-tetreu itafely, atirl E13cy are exceptionally well adapted for arrange- ment in vases or bouquets. ooa ion o every • epartment of the store, no matter how vast the emporium may be. He must be able at a glance to deter„ mine the correct value of goode sold, and, without hesitation, be able to settle dis- putes. Such are the incidents which make up the day in the life of the average floor- walker. " A floor -walker's position," centime he, " seems to the unobservant to be a ni one indeed. The orbwds notice the we dressed man standing around giving dire tions here and there, and apparent enjoying rather an easy time compared the oleriss. That is as far as the obser ante of the crowd goes, and, as is usual the case with opinions formed by the pu lio, is incorrect. They don't see the dei hardehips and trials we are compelled endure, the actual work we do, and t responsibility that rests upon ne. Ove oohing the hard things, they see us as w occasionally stand on a dull day havin nothing to do, and foolishly imagine th hat is a fair example of the way we wor " The average floorwalker lean ordinar ort of person. Commencing life probabl s a oashbo he hae, by aeetdnons anplioa ion t e wor , raised himself to somethin enter. But he has spent years in th nsinees, and knows nothing else. Com menoing,,work at 8 a. m. and finishing at . m., he finue the day long enough. H as many things to look after, and, if h ttends to his duties, is 'thoroughly tire nt when night comes. Let me show_yo hat a head 'hoer -walker has to do. H as charge of the oaehboys-no light work bat. He hires and discharges them, an e supposed to attend to them properly elides that he must stand at the head o he aisle or "floor wherehe is planed an ireot customers to any department the ay ask for. This necessitates the floor alker being thoroughly acquainted wit he entire location of the house. " Then he must, in a sort of way; be th ead of the department in which he i laced. It is true the clerks are not'anode ica� but -iso -is; never Bless, supposed t eep an eye upon them. If a customer i 05 being waited upon he is to see that she attended to as soon as possible. Very ften a disagreeable person will insist on etting into a row with the clerk over the ale of some article. The floor -walker is upposed to be diplomatic enough to settle he affair up without letting it go any fur - her. Suppose the row is about the price f some article. The floor -walker must be isoreet enough to make a satisfactory ar- ngement without hurting the interests of e house or losing the customer. It is the oor-walker who is appealed to in all snob see, and be must be able at all times, no atter what may be the trouble, to afforda lotion of the problem. And then some- mes a clerk will become impudent to a stomer, and it is then the duty of the oor-walker to report .the olerk to the onager. If ho - fails' in this and the stomer makes the complaint the .floor- alkor is held responsible. So it goes, one ing and another, to keep the floor -walker's is active. " One of the greatest tests that marks the coessfnl floor -walker is his thorough owledge of business. That is, in every nee of the term. Beyond fulfilling the ties assigned him he should be a praeti- 1 basiness man, and act just as though was his own store and he was doing all could to promote the growth and wel- e of the concern. He must be thoroughly quainted with the prices of anything in a department, and able to tell a g'lsnoe , whether or not the clerk is aling fairly with the customer and the use. Now, for instance, this oashboy riga me this pair of gloves that has just en sold ; I will sign the check, and then money, gloves, and check will be sent the wrapping counter. It was my busi- es to know positively before I signed that eok that the proper amount had been arged for that pair of gloves. This is a business that requires a cool 3, it mind adapted to business, and hing else. If the floor -walker attends his bnsinese he picks np a list sof naintancee that are invaluable to him. should be able to have hie particular tomors, and be able to recognize them en he sees them. These are the points ich constitute a good floor -walker." ed ere Il- ly to v. ly b. ly to he r- e g at k. y y g e 6 e e d e f d y h e e r 0 e to acq He cue wh wh The Swedish Cure for Drunlcennes. The habitual drunkard in Norway or Sweden renders himself liable to imprison- ment for his love of strong drink, and dar- ing his incarceration he is required to sub- mit to a plan of treatment for the onr° of his failing which is said to produce marvel - cue results. The plats, says the " Family Doctor," cgnsists in making the delinquent subsist entirely on bread and wine. The bread is steeped in a bowl of wine for an hour or more before the meal is served. The first day the habitual toper takes his food in this shape without any repugnance ; the second day he finds it less agreeable to hie palate ; finally he positively loathes the sight of it. Experience shows that a period of from eight to ten days of this regime is, generally more than sufficient to makea man evince the greatest aversion to anything in the shape of wino. Many men, after their incarceration, become total abstainers), It Cheats Honest Men. Chicago News : At the very beat the personal property tax is atax on oonnoience, and as such it puts a premium on lying and becomes a special burden to the honest and the unsophisticated. The brnnette who bleached her hair _to pioatt h r"'young; 1 ii Digo/it to be exhi bited in a dime museum as " the girl who dyed for levet" many as. he can possibly hold at the earn time. Now, that is just the way in whioh th extreme formof book -hunger shows itsel in the reader whose appetite has bosom over -developed. He wants to read so man books that he overorams himself with th orude materials of knowledge, which be come knowledge only when the menta digestion has time to assimilate them. never can go into that famous " oorne book store " and look over the new book in the row before me, as I enter the door without seeing half a dozen which I wan to read, or at least to know somethin about. I oannot'empty my purse of it contents and crowd my bookshelves with a1) these volumes. The titles of many of them , intereet me, I look into one or two perhaps. I have sometimes picked np a line or a sentence, in these momentary glances between the uncut leaves of a new book, which I have never forgotten. As a trivial, but bona fide example, cote day -I opened a book on duelling. I remember only these words " conservenons 1a-cette , aypble in - se tit ntion,"--lobs;-nevembeforirderrdur=l o called a noble institution, and I wish I had taken the name of the book. Book -tasting isnet 'necessarily profitless, but it is very stimulating, and makes one hungry for more than he needs for the nourishment of his thinking marrow. To feed this in- satiable hunger the abstracts, the reviews, do their -beat. - But -these; again; -have grown eo numerous and socrowded with 'matter that it is hard to find time to master their contents. We are accus- tomed, therefore, to look for analyses cf these periodicals, and at last we have placed before' tie 'a formidable looking monthly, The Review of Reviews. After the analyses comes the newspaper notice ; and there is still room for the epigram, which sometimes makes short work with all that bas gone before on the same subject. Isis just as-weld-to-reoognlee-the-"fact that if one should read day and night, con- fining 'himself to his own language, he could not pretend to keep up with the press. He might as well try to race with a locomotive. The first disoipline, therefore, is that of despair. If you 'could stick to your reading day and night for fifty years what a learned idiot you would become Iong before the half century was over 1 Well, then, there ie no use in gorging one's self with knowledge, and no need of self-reproach because one is content . to remain more or less ignorant of many ' things which interest his fellow-oreatnres. We get a good deal of knowledge through the at- mosphere ; we learn a great deal by acci- dental hearsay, provided we have the mordant in our own consciousness which makes the wise remark, the significant fact, the instructive incident, take hold upon it. After the stage of despair comes the period of consolation. Wo soon find that we are not so much worse off than most of onr neighbors as we supposed. The fra,ptional value of .the wisest shows a small numera- tor divided by an infinite denominator of knowledge. A Profane Blatherskite. From Senator Ingalls' Pittsburg speech If a man is a Democrat; in''God's name let him be a Democrat. He that is filthy let him be filthy still. (Great laughter and prolonged obeering.) The Repdblioanparty has always been right and the Democratic party has always been wrong, and it will continue to be wrong, world without end, amen. (Pro- longed cheering.) The worst Republican that ever lived is better by far than the beet Demporat that•' ever lived.., (Great applause.) There wasone who betrayed his Master, and there was one less winked, but weaker, who, when interrogated as to the Master, denied Him ; and I have no doubt that all the brutal, savage, sensual. soldiery of the army of Herod and the entire democratic party of Jerusalem (langhter) and P, suns Pilate and the independents (laughter) and all the civil service reformers of Palestine inveighed against Christianity and appealed to their false and abominable idolatry ; but Christianity survives and the sun still shines. (Howie, laughter and tremendous obeering. The Democratic party is the streetwalker of the nineteenth century. '(Laughter and applause.) Polly's Poor Opinion. Texas Siftings : Polly sent ns a joke the other day. It was in a daintily scented envelope and carefully insoribed, with all the little dotlets over the i'e, on a small portion of one page of a large, expensive sheet of elegant linen paper. This was the joke: Some men aro born great ; some achieve greatness, and some have groatneos because they cannot avoid it, but the great majority of men do not know a polonaise from a dustpan. Site Stopped the Clock. Rochester herald : Tho Board of Educa- tion of New Britain, Connecticut, has dis- charged a teacher in the Normal School there because she was " too homely." The members of that Board will bear watching. Tho Dolor used to denote mourning hue often been changed. In Rome males wore black for mourning, while the women indicated: their grief- by wearing- Bite garments, In Turkey at the present day the monrning hue is violet, in China white, in Egypt yellow and in Ethiopia brown. LL n„ _.r "'"�",2. u .. a.ex..,, The announcement that the German Emperor has resolved to found a newe- paper leads the New York Herald to indulge in some pleasant anticipations and also to bestow some valuable advice. He will have, it says, those privileges dear to the beginner in the rural press -passes to the theatre, free rides on the railways, invitations to the opening of beer ealoone, a sure thing on every " blowout " that comes along. His Majesty will find in this great profession much to improve the mind. He will learn some phases of human nature which even the fierce light which beats from the throne cannot discover. How tohandle his musical people, for instance ! We wish him joy of his first criticism of a prima donna, not to speak of eminent tragediane who attribute their failures to a corrupt and envious press,, and gentleman of the prize ring, who, ' eeneitive to oritioiem.He will have a good time with his city department, arranging for " spreads " and " scoops " and seeing that the hanging matches, 'elopements and Salvation Army riots are well reported. His Majesty will enjoy, himself especially about election times. Then the boys will begin to swarm upon him ; gleaming with diamonds, whiskers duly dyed, rank and not well -fitting gloves, and. steaming with patriotism. If His Majesty is not sensitive to tobacco, the aroma of bear's grease and In Dumfries one cannot look upon a sin- gle olden structure, or follow with the eye any close wynd, vermeil or street, witholib knowing that at some time it was mom famtliar to Burns than and portion of the old city is to any one of its inhabitants today. In the ancient Bank street house where he first lived in Dueafries, in t.`.8 three tiny apartments, more th4 n one. third of the more than 1x0 poems he: pre- duoed in Dumfries were composed. Then in the MW, now Barns, street home, which was hie last, ` the remainder were given birth, Among these were " Auld Lang Syne," " My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing," The S :idier's Return," " Willie Wastle," •' Contented wi' Little, and Centie war !Tait,' Thou Hast Left Mo Ever, Jamie," " Ye Banks andBraes o Borgne Donn." "Mv r ,: e g Sair, I Daunts Tell," "O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast," " Dancr,n Gray," '• Flow Gently, • Sweet Afton," and that 4rand martial ode, "Bruce's Address." 'Fee old, though still spruce; King's Arnne Inn could never have so long stool the assaults of time and tourists had not Burne, in a forgivably irreverent and delicious mood, scratched upon its window pane. -Cor. New York Commercial Advertiser. the blended odors of the cocktail, the patriots will be interesting. He will learn, fpr 'instance, how much clear, cold out lying the human intellect can evolve in the shortest given time.' His Majesty may have trouble in hie cir- culation department at rarst, as it is some- times difficult to hire men who will swear affidavits up to the proper notoh. But with the imperial prerogative of pardon hie affidavit swearer need have no fear of the penalties of perjury. That will be an im- mense advantage over- his rivals. He will, as a general thing, find it useful in select- ing his associates to avoid men who have ideas or miisoiina Ln cif 1- -ho- - s et3err better days ; " born journalists " and editors who are invaluable. Escaped Nihilists, writers of Irish poetry, young women who address the falling autumn leaves and elderly ladies with odes to tears and memories should be dissuaded from his columns. not in harshness, nor__from_a_ spirit. of -criticism, but -for- the peace of his editorial mind. In conclusion His Majesty is advised to deal generously with his advertising patrons and subscrib- ers. He must try and have his pay in cash and in advance. It :vi11 save trouble on both sides. At else outset, as may be eeen in our new communities, he may be com- pelled to take it in kind -watermelons, photographs, canned tomatces, kindling wood, hair oil, pickled salmon, cabbages, or even detective cameras. He should not encourage this longer than is necessary. _His -Majesty -,-however, has a largeaarmy and control of its oommiseariet, and busi• nese reasons'may tolerate what world not be desirable under lees favorable circum- stances. A Dinner in the Ha••em. Wewent to the harem at Cairo at 3 in the afternoon, and till the sun set we were entertained by dancing and singing girls with interludes of short, funny stories told by two dwarfs, who made, 1 was told, a large income by attending marriage feasts and " dilating the hearts " of the guests. As I did not understand Turkish, I tried to talk to some of the women in my halting Arabic, and was not sorry when Mme. Hekekyn Bey tcld me that we were to have dinner. Little did I think of what an ordeal -my first Turkish dinner was going to be. Sitting cross-legged in -a heap is not difficult for a short time, and on a low divan one leg can be put down for an occasional rest ; but at dinner I was obliged to sit close to the little inlaid table under pain of spilling the food into mylisp, and cramp was the result. The first time of eating withone's fingers is ileo rather a puzzle ; but the dinner was excellent, and I wonder Turkish or Greek cooks have not taken the place of French chefs. There was rather a jumble, accord- ing to onr ideas, of soup, e.weets, roast, eto., the dishes seemed to come ,np whenever they were ready, puddings and creams be- tween var-iouspreparations of moat or vege- tables, and the rapidity with which they were served was extraordinary. Our kind hostess pre seed ns to eat until I realized what the schoolboy at onr village feast felt when he answered the curate' timidly : " Please, sir, I think I conld eat a bit more if , I stood np."-Mrs. Ross in Hurray's Magazine. A Queer" Mania. The Standard reports a strange case that was heard in a Vienna Police Court yester- day. A monomaniac, who was formerly a well•to-do master baker, and ruined him- self by a mania for collecting handkerchiefs Which had been need by ladies. At the commencement of this singular hobby he used to buy the coveted monohoirs, some- timespaying as tnnoh ae £4 or £5 for what was intrinsically not worth as many shillings. His devotion' to this fad brought him to poverty, and then he fell to stealing, in order to enrich his already unprecedented collection. '- At length he was apprehended at the recent choral festival; when as many as fifteen ladies' handkerchiefs were found upon him. On a search being made by the police in his apartments there was found in oneroom a collection of 1,434 of these articles, all classified according to the special perfumes with which they had been scented. The magistrate ordered the un- fortunate man to be taken to a lunrttio asylum. -St. James' Gazette. Td Cure Consumption.. Dr. Koch, the German physician who claims to have disoovered a method of onr'• ing consumption by inoonlataon, is about to begin experiments on people who aro suffer- ing from the disease, and we may, there. fore, soon expect a wordy war amongst. scientists over the professed discovery. The matter is, however, one of great interest to the world, and it is snob researches that aid in bringing about a clearer oempre- heneion of the principles of life, and advance the art of healing( A. strayer. Tonawanda IXerald : The carnation is a • cheerful liltloblossonethat~lastsa-•for•days- WPM its stem in a glass of water, and smiles frankly and contentedly all day long 'when thrust in a buttonhole and uncheered 1' - by a drop of moisture A Chess -Playing Village. In the Gartenlaube is an account of the village of Strobeck, near Wernigerode, in the Harz, where every five years since 1885 a ohees congress is to be held, and it• w.as this year, at the end of June. Thu child- ren of the village for many centuries have been taught -oiled in their homes as soon. as they could understand the moves, and at the present day they show what progress they have made every Easter .in the presence of the pester school teachers, and • village-- h The three girls and three boys who remain victors, ' receive each a Owes board made th Q—.silllsge end • ; .,neoribsd---v'it'rs----- the words " A reward for preseverance," There are -regular obese -clubs for men and. women, and on Sunday afternoon people pass the time in playing chess in the inn " Zum Sohaehepiel," where, if a tourist happens to come in, he is invited to play, and is generally beaten. The inhabit ants, about one. thousand . two hundred and fifty in number, are almost all farmers, and in easy circumstances. The appearance of the village is pleasant= solid houses, Olean, paved streets, a church with a weather - cook in the shape of a chess board, schools`,, inn, and an old equate brink tower which plays a part in the history of the place. - London Daily News. A Happy Expedient. " I think you may send me a quart_ of huckleberries," said_ _the..,landlady to --the market -man, as she looked about for bar gains in wilted eggplants. " Have you many boarders this summer, ma'am ?" he asked mildly. " Nine." " Isn't a quart of berries rather -rather lights}for nine ?"-he ventured. " Not with me," she snapped. " Four of hay boarders don't eat huckleberries for breakfast and five don't eat bananas, so li alternate and ketch half either way." -New York Tribune. Opposed to Slang. Light : Mr. Tangle -Tommy, your mother tells me that you are falling into the evil habit of talking slang. Tommy Tangle -Yea, pa, but I'll try. not to. Mr. Tangle -Well, you'd better not let me catch yon using slang. I'd teach you. I'd pound you for a home' run, young fellow, and just everlastingly knock the stuffing out of you ! I'll have ang in this house. What 1t Costs. On her last trip from Liverpool to New. York the Teutonic burned 325 tone of Welsh coal every day, and the cost of the coal, consumed on the voyage was $7,500. The City of New York burned 350 tons a day on her last voyage over. The expenses for feel on these, fast steamers run from $10,000 to $16,000 for the round trip. The other expenses of the trip bring the total amount np to $50,000 or $60,000 for such ships as the two named'above. The Weddlne; Ring. The fashion for men to wear wedding rings is greatly on the increase. It is a pretty fashion and one which all women are likely to support. Not vary long ago a young lady of advanced views, who was just about getting married, was asked if she intended to wear a wedding ring. She looked at her betrothed and said : " Cer- tainly, if he does." -Women's Penny Paper. Subject to Change. Ilumoristische Blaetter : " Then yon have made np your mind, young lady, never to get married ?" " Yes sir. I'll die an old maid!" "But if some young man were to propose to you ?" " Ab, that would be a different thing altogether." THE Behring Sea dispute will settle itself before long through the extirpation of the seals if something is not done to prevent their extinction: The San Francisco Examiner points out that five years ago it was intimated that from 5,000,000 to 6,000,- 000 visited the Pribyloff Islande every year for breeding purposes. This was after the Alaska Commercial Company had held a lease of these islands for fifteen years, and had taken from 60,000 to 100,000 seals an- nually. This year the new lessees of the lislands were only able to find 20,000 Beals which they could kill. TH ' Portuguese are keeping up their agitation against England with great are. cue, but what they expect to gain by nobody can tell. The agitation does not help their Government to niake any better terms with England in regard to the African territory in dispute, it paralyzes trade, and the idea of her forcing a quarrel with Britain is simply silly. Tho Portu- guese may bo right, bnt, in the wads of Chauncey Depow, the dispute is a back •number. . _,.,..: ,haat .was--+ the vtorof` a power o!' the ancient. Greeks ? " Slow echo!, desperately --It came from their know' of Greek. People who aro able td that lap :ua:0 (mold Aoogmtilislt An 1.