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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1881-09-23, Page 6-A Dream of -11arsie, _ - , -.-IheardtheithitiO Shig_yestree_u Upon aliaWtAtteli-teee,' Where:hennt01540,111- a' itePridest • '....ciangswinain'-taertileflea.; • Ale as he pipe elieerfU'Aang •Atear draptattfraamy-0,. Haelainwas 1 tae hear the strain, Theitwhenalbarniewee, 04•01Ydeefeir shore I heard before,•. . ,.` -.-..WhOUspo.;WfWetglee.: • .•• - ---•Iealtthewee:thaelchoose.yestreerv : ,••••• Adaenthe bushyglen;:i -- Whereiwasbornareantatmnaorn7- Washrliaith but ailiberk; • An'illt.acornerroon an! tooik • • eyed earefif cee„ auce againaswhen awean • Aboot ray =tether's knee, • heard her Bing "the. auld Scotch: ganga" • laaceentssweet an!Ire•e.- • . -,I.Tpon.thehanks-Oelydeyestreen. .-- A-WhereI_h_aeafteu.-beem,„ 'Wandered wr_ companions_ dear . Throeilli_sequeStereclseene„ - -Aeiniedrthe."-erirasontipit ficorer • •-• _Thatcleekedthegisettlea, . Them tineaix' e Cried hip, hurrah Ant' danced -ale sang glee, -tjpon theside re- bonny Clyde, • Far, far across the sea. • SWAIM DANCE- itim.kkitit. • Illeartkle Anettiatationis arid Dinniniterilesaf -Aril-ulna. Indians. • - . A:Chicago despateh• gays :-Lieut. Bourke, .-3r& U.' Si- Cavalry, orie . of the Commis- itionera appointe_d by Lieut. -General Sheri,: . - dat to investigate the habits of the Indiana •'living_ within or contiguous to the division ,of. the Missouri,:, reports witnessing a• _ strange'dance of the Moquis; of northeast- ' ern Ariiono; used. to propitiate the Great . Spirit in times_ of drought. - The- Indians divided their procession into : two parts„ one Of choriaterg an& gourd, • rattlers, the other- cif forty-eight -Men and • children, twenty-four of whom carried -stakes. ad. the- . other tWentytour. eagle • feathers,: - -with . - which : they farmed -. the re.ptiles,, .1.•The stake - were car= tied in the.' - . hands and - in„ the' mouth. 1 Their number was about. one , -- - hundred, and, the half:Of thorn. Were isttle- snakes. It . was a loathsome- sight to See thelong file of naked,men tramping round -funeral dirge of- rattles, and mono- tonous chanting, twirling the huge reptiles •[in: their outstretched arras? and holding • 'the five foot mensteri betwe.en their. teeth vhile the atto:adante -iclistraefedthe atten- ition of the reptiles by fanning with eagle . . .. feathers. -In front of a grim pile thirty . . ,. • feet ; high -a weetherwora sandstone, resernbhng a human head; Petite offerings .,iveremade, andthe High -Priest Sprinkled - • he ground with water, using -at earthen , w1;inad =eagle's feather ass's, sprinkler; second Medicine mat. twirled a peculiar ling, and made a noise like the falling -of . mph:sus showers.. • As the precession filed .Past -the squaws the latter . ew cornmeal ttliagrciund. Then thesna werethroWn the earth, and sho*edthemselves •to be vidous by striking at any one near. • cornmeal was thrown.upon .thena,- and the. •i ssistants, running up, fanned.theni with he. eagles' • feathers until they coiled up, --Vhenthey were --seized by the back of the •- headc put under the buffalo robe covering the. sacrediedge, when a prayer ended- this :part.of the. perfornaance: The close of the ' :part Consisted in seizing the snakes - by ones, tWeg and, half dozen, and throwing _them into a. cirele, where they were .cov- red Fith cornmeal: A signal was then 'Yen, a number anklet youngmen grabbed - • e makes in handfuls, ran" at full soeed dawn the almost vertical paths. in the`face- •. -Of the mesa, and upon reachingthe foot let fhem go free to the , north, the south,he east and the.viest. The Ion)* Men then • bounded -"hack, and atefull run difslied through 'the croWd- and .on to -one of -the •.. estafas-,. where they swallowed & potion to • inatee;copions vomiting, and underwent Other treatment to neutralize the poison of - • the snakebites-. •- - .1- • .•- ••-__ .., . • WorthKnow/Ulu :stela litenitembetring: distinguished American physician. • -Writes to • the Detroit News: It is not • _ - 'generally . understood by the- niciss of -yil people that, persons fainting,. either from' w heart disease, apoplexy •_ or • sunstroke; pr si.untld not be raised to a'Sitting- posture even, as : but. should lie flat diothe back, or side, With sh , ,Sorrietinies (not'aIways)- the heed, slightly ea .vsieed 4oti a pilloW. . An upright semi- in pittingposturaiiyin- this class of cases, if. ac • )(Ong continued, 4 almost .sWre 'death.. The m , „heartis already enfeebled in its action, the m • brain I pborly .. - supplied. -with, ' blood th (hence- , .the • fainting condition) and Sa • -an uprighf4tcsition of the body only •- sada. to theUdaugerous conditions already •iresent. In:•.,Sases. Of exhausting heirior- rhages fromencidents, or excessive weak-. neSS fromexlaa.usting and long :cozititted .. diseases, are other cases where the upright -w bOature s.hoteld:04 be allothed. Heart-oldts th _foria easily inider these conditions and .w • hence ' sudden death is liable therefroin. w The. gonditidn Of patients laboring under tw any Of ttie. abeve and. meaty other diseaEtet. flit- a should miiitivel; preclude -the -die of coupes ha or_oarriages for their transportation.. They " co . size:tad:lie at full_kngth,f either imam:alai:I- _A • lance or an ordinary expresswaggon witlia unf m no , . ._ -Her ratkiestie mot th 1 e Patient:. .., ,:-Ort-the Qrieen's recent; to_ tiutHdit- burgh. -Royal -Infirmary e gracious arid Itindik attention litHIE Majesty was arrestedby the appearan 0 e la:little: girl in the fernale ward.. who. W 7114 Under .4 kind• of- little tent,. ereate ov r a bed: at the end of the ward. - The ox of - the deli- caterappearagoe- seen ' i!Jee. ona ,passang Out of a "serious illness, a., he emitted. a at one told-them-atm:to ea . that Shelied i peculiar wheezing noise b- athing Which recently been the waked fthe very serious- operatioh Of opening th Windpipetlsrtrgi. -belly -known as -tr attomy. • The peouliarappearance or t ef:yttle sufferer; .and the arrangements- labout the bed, rcanse:dr_ He -Majesty :1 . 4. Vire of Mr.- Eall. as., to t_the-fliature. f t e .case..: The case, as appeared,: was i 0- e-- of 7 special mterest, from, a -general- a w llas- surgical poirtt-of View.- --Thalittle .tent who -had been -sent in from the Olin ,;-, was One .daystiddenly seize&Witly 4 of convulsive breathing, whieh threa ne :• an instant fatal bate. -In the" course_ '1 le* Minutes, however, from the outs t O the lt, the ,breathing became . more re ar, and the child, to all. appearances, m de a perfect r4overy. •The.cause of es remarkable symptoms could not at t t • me be ascer-• :Veinal and, aa thesecon uls eparoxysins of difficultbreathing, ara t g to stifroc& tiorit,fronitirrie. to time ect ed,- it was thought --adviltable to ring -, the -:_ chil-d into ' the Royal Infix . On • :her arrival_ . there her thro as: carefully . examined, but -nothing pe uli r was at llrst,,,, -discovered. After a time . as 31r. Bell was making his visit. in. an Adjoining Ward, wordwai brought, to h' •'t at the child_ had been suddenly seiced kg another and Whert-he arrivedin- t e ward she WO prondunced, to be already 4e641; Mr. -.Bell, . who had the girl at. once lcarried Into- the Operating theatre Of his . kids, there. found that the pulse and respir 'pion had...entirely ceased; In the hone, la Wever, of -saving the- child, . he inatandy f.- peformed ornied the- • operation of tracheoto ,. y, ut; thie was withont .any - apparent\ -4 en oial result; NotwithstiMdingthis_the SUS metuistorin- duping artifioialrespirati were.persevered in for upwards of halt an !limir _before -the, _slightest indloation.of a. eWal of respire, tion could be detected., er that period, •howeveri-natutalrespirat on- ralthe pulse= wave were 'gradually re tor d,, and ulti- mately:the child recover -d , c nSciouiria_ess.- Sincethen, it has, been p. sib4e to submit the interior of the windpi e _ _trachea, to ,a..more careful eXtinlin-a ion,with the re- sult that it has been disc ete that .a por, .tien.of -the skin of a,geos err has become' impacted in one of the lig t- cavities - or • vantrrcIps of the trio*, . I ,ia proposed at an early ;date,. as ii -..,4 A the irrita- bility of the parts ha, an sided, to re- move, • by means ..4 , • .nstrinnhents, this -peculiar foreign- bpd And thereafter to allow the viround„cailsedb • th -operation in the Windpipe to..cIose.• , $wing tOthiSinter: eating case, Her Viajeity ivies led to spend a propertienately long • ime pi this ward. On visiting .the -little - 'Went after the Queen had _ left tbli. •' ,ilding,--one Was. strhek With, the alight ft alt Of pleasure on the face of the child arid t . e pleased eipres: Edon wlaich had been c Ted -f-forth by the• kindly and maternal pt , on the cheek which she had:received Om er Majesty , before she loathe bedsi e, • -•• .11_ remission put en A fatal -duel has ta district of Potsdam, and with such a lamentable r •hoped thia barbarous an of settling a quarrel wil the force of an -outrag The story is soon toi as sullt AntiqUated mode he put down by - public opinion. number of ofeicers were engaged. a practice in the regimenfol gyranasiuni. One`of them, a • Lieutenant-Yan Geyser as attacked With a sridden fit of nervolisn s, and hesitatOd to, take.a. leap which ; several of _- his gomrades had previou ly- acconiplished ace in the en attended e,titis to be tit. =mesa- They -ra e . :ina_ cin his. ant of courage, but as- , was a• rnEin of even gallantry, he.treo d their remarks. mere -good-huniore&P han r. But he ortly. perceived. -:th t the . were in t riles% and as they piii tedI ' nicknara-, g him poltrooni,he deCi, ed calltherii to count for -the insult A' or gIy he sent- eisages to three of the ofdears who were ost . prominent in-the'•4 itockety, asking' ern _to withdraw their ' prde ;sr give him tisfection by arras. • ElY p eferred the . ,,, arranged. Th 'e tVro first icarne Off without latter alternative, and t e threi, duels were -grave consequences. e th' d,- with a Herr Von Wochen, will th p stols. Tvio )hots were exethangedWi hout esult. One. quid think that_this w tilcb.11 ve satisfied e' exigencies, and the, I td* admission o.uld_be -Made on. their und that the man, ho had faced. two, ad i ravine:Si and. bad ice stood. the fire of !.. a third without clang, was no, poltr on. That_ -wonifi- lie b,ean the - glum Mt it' • soldierly ume. ,..:-.But the duelli were inexorable. tblia, sltot was di :clam d- and the ortiinate hientenan .- Von G.SYso fell- ortally . wounded: erybo y 'adnatte w, when it is too -1 te, th t he was a brave o-ffiepr, and an es abie, gentleman. If all wha-participated in,t • unhappy' businei3s are caiteinto pi op for • few years as- eorairion acceSsoriest - mans augh.ter no sensibl,eMiti -wilt be_ .s eckiid; and if the inful. emotion -it- has Create lead- to a vision ot German mikary b quette, the emature d-eith-ofthis: poor=- viiiigTfilitlow I not have .,beeif alt ether- barren- of od fruit: shade of some ‘sortover them. • Comnietelot • volue. Eleetileol - inventions.: -, • The value of electrical inventions has • received alresh illustration in the case of •-thssohoonerYermihi�n,which wa,s.wrecked - Lake, Brie it 1840. The vessel Was Pa • loadedth -wi. copper ingots of the value. of re •!i00,000,-hnt her prebisiiiiiiati.bn far dowt . lit, deep water- was for •, thirty-four years• niYitery. It remained for electricity to WI ' solve- it.' With a newly -invented electric • indicator- on board a cruising schooner, eYide-nceS of the proximity of -submerged nrietalwere at. last. obtained, and last Satur- cal • day divers were sent ,dd.wil to search. They co • ded plump on the. deck of the sunken oily and rea,ppeared at the- surface bear- raj tpo eta in Air col a-LucaSes, wereoriginally Quakers.- One - mo - hied the:Roman- Catholici:Chtiroh, estab- The he& -the Tablet newspaper, and repre- ggc; •' Aiding the- ii ekeo• : As the full praportion qf the forest fire amity _become lino thro gliout the untry the vvholapeopitealiz - the neces- of extraordinary eff rts.being-madeto tigate as far aspossib a the iniffetitiga, of i se who- passecIthroug the ordeal. Sub-- ntialevidmicei of sy pa,thy -are-pouring from tinclirectiots,whi e the collections in e-citrare fo-otitik Up hai4tonie tail., eady tearly 0'30,000 .in cash lias been leder': in this city, . an nearly as much re in clothing and ripplies. , Nor is re any fear that . theI public) -will - soon w weary of -the good. ork. - The'geal of` _ing one of the copper ingots. The. entire ricovery of the valuable cargo in =dam- • aged condition is now a, question of tt: few • days , Mr. John Bright's two brothers-in-law, sante(' an Irish constituency. in Parliament ; the other became a Itadieal of Radicals. • SDK the brothers Harcourt, now in Merit;• one is a Tory;.the other a Libbral, and Newman, - prince of the Roman • Church, has a brother. afloat on the ocean _co • beism. • It is sai&-that dwarfs die of premature qri. �d age and giants of ex.hauStion.• has the gentlemen., in- charg grayn; with each day, mid' the generbsi of the public increases as' thedemands upon it becomes more urgent. is a npe tacle owhich we may all well 'be' =proud'. `; ; t ere so any _ ippensation for sq frig tfriVallcilarditY it inthe contempTatio of , t ose nobla alities of the people w the calamity started inte.ection. Petroi4 News. M.! constantly on • hind. D'elivered 'to Any Part, Of th TovYne /*AlSo • ricketafor Win low,est rates., • lillekneso a-D14.roee.: :All- bodily ailments are .nnote or _ less 'urgent 'apppalefOrheIp; nor can we 'doubt in what' that, help should consist. - The more .fully we understand the nature .of any disease the More clearly we spe, that the 'discovery of the cause -Means discovery of the cure.. Many' sickneSSes are caused by poisons foisted upon the SYStem under. the name of tomebeverages or remedial's:16gs ;_ the only cure is to esehew. the poison. ,Others,-byliabits More or lesa cit variance with the bealthlawdof nature; te cure such We have -to re orra.out habits. - There is nothing acteidenta ,_ and., rarely anything inevitable,- about the. disease; we clan safely assume that nine out of ten complaintsLhave been _caused_ and °On be cured by the, sufferers (or their_ nurses) themselves: God made man upright"; every prostrating "malady _ is_ a ,deViation, • from. _the:State of nature... The 'infant, " mewling and puking in its nurse's arnis," is an: -abnorthal ;phenomenon.. Iifancy should be a period bf exeeptionaLhealtli ;- tho young of other creatures are healthier, as well as prettier, purer, .and merrier, than the addltS, yet the childhood. yearsof the human -animal are the years of ' sorest sickliness; statistics show that among the Catioasianracee. men of SO have more hope to reach a good old age than a new-born. Child has la reach the end of its'. second, year:: The -reason is this: . the- ,health th,eories of -the, average Christian men and women are so egregiously yncing that only the opposition: oftheirbeiter instinctshelps- them-against their conscience, as it were -4o maintain the struggle for a tolerable. •existence. With anything like success, while the helpless infant has to donforra to those theories --with the abrive results. • "1 have long ceased to doubt," Says Dr.. Schrodt, -." that, apart from the .effectsof .wounds, the chandee of healtivor disease are in Our own hands ; and, if -people Rile*, only half the -facts- pointing tlitt Way, they: would feel • ashamed to be ' sick,. Or :to have sick children." -Dr. Felix L. Oswald, iv. .Popular Science -Monthly for. Septeniber. - EPIPikPEOF A. turauwAlimari.- Allegatiok that -the- Authorities of nor-. ritton Connived at the Aistape of- a -Itiolther - On August -30th, in the- daytime, on Lewiston avenue, Robert Cennollyforcibly rebbed David- Craig -Of $35 in money and then eseaped to ,Canada:. . Police Officer Maloney followed after lira and, laid the facts beforathe police aulliOrities of Chi: ton,' who deputised 'him to go in pursuit of the robber. He did so arid finally found and -arrested his -:man- near Ifferritton. • He took him to the Merrittdn station • handcuffed, where, just before • the train started, he was ordered: by a man whorci Maloney Suppdsed to be the station agent, tOtake the-cuffs:off of Connelly and lethira -go, as an American officer.- had no right to arrest anybodyin'Canada. In Vain Maleneytried to convince the Man that he ivastnerely acting as`the deputy of the Cliften:Authorities and that he- was only going with the prisoner to Clifton. Finally; he appealed to. the kcal authorities to arrest and detain the criminal. • Bilt-they all refuSed, and. he was compelled to see this highway :robber --walk -off before -his -eyes,- -The 'action 'of the Merritton -man and authorities _under the eircuhantances is uhaccountable oh • the supposition : that theywere honest men.-Saspen,sion 'Bridge What Medical science Will DO. v s An English doctor, Dr. Granville,: has started in the London Spectator al#tle ceri- trovers'y as to whether the .prolangation of life, which medical science loads to have acconaplished fartherace, is not al"glOwer. • dying "rather than a " longer living," and: *hence of doubtful benefit- 'He finds, for instance, that the average age of persons •dying in the public insane asylums Of Ili& dlesex,.5urrey and London has -risen from. 1840 to 1875 trona 44.5 years to 51.6, showing • that these lunatics have gained an -average in longevity of overSeven years, which he thinks isno advantage ;to thetra • .A. more careful analysis of his statistics,. , how, -ever,. discovers that the patients at the- -age of 1),(1mi-salon- in 1875 averaged 42.8 instead of 30.6 as in 1840, and that the age of those who recovered had alsci risen Irona,37 to 40, In other words, the average person njoye sanity for six year longer than fo merly, but 'when, he doesTbreak 'down - as -much less chance of recovery, since hose wlzo recover _average two year's.: .younger than the average age of admission; That is, only tile younger patients recover, , but this has always been so, We give the table in -full; ...as itwill be of interest; to our alienists: - • . - - , -- ' . , , , --• Av: age at • At• recoV-• , At adnfsn.; - ery. death. • ' 35.5 '37.0' ' 38.2 - 37.0 ' - 49.0 ' 39.1" • . 34.6 . 40.1- 35.4 ' • 47.0 38:7 •37.6 . 50.6 , 42.8 40.4 , 51.6 Undpubtedly the use of. ancesthetics and tonics. in many .diseages -simply *prOlcmgs and softens the process Of -dying. .., 1840 1856. 1861 - -1566 1871 2875 ' • _ . The. Grievance -of lieing-0Yer4stiniated... . _ . . . . . _ . • - To* parson of 'Ordinary rightmindedriesit• and honorable- -feeling thereare feiv.more, detestable Sensations than -that Of being in -a false..position„ yetthatis neeessarily_the. situation of any inditichial.whose friends and •acquaintancespersist in: attributingto him excellenciesof.:teind; body Or estate which -helloes not really &Swiss.. -- Great ,expectations are , entertained- abOut,-bina, .1.- Which he is liable to -fulfil, - -: A -burden is laid'upon...Mini -.which; it is beyond.. hie strength to srip.port -:.And the hordihip of_ it is - that when liePareaksdOwe-pedee itlas • he Must.. infallibly-. do,-- sooner -Or -- later); and the - .eirat •• -that- has been ' made 'becomes, -. apParent-;:... then those ' who Overrated Jure are sure to be ju8t --as• Much disgusted at .his failure as though their.- Mistaken: estimate ...cf. himhad been caused by: faige professions on -the part -.of their Victim. 4-The.y feel 'virtuenslyZindig_,_ mint at haying: been taken iii; atidfOrget that they are themselves -the -aiithorg of the alluring' prospectus that has deceived thein. Take a -Men. .ef-,triederate ineana, Who somehow gets the ne.nie of Croisiis. .. People think he is bolind_to keep openhousa and pirae,. to subscribe largely - 1: . . - • - , to everything under the =sun, and to launch out into alOminrierkf -.iintfr-aYagances, under. penalty of-beingileentedstingyand a miser if . he , fell' Short of. these -,_•.eXpectatioiis Another, again, may: have abilities. not aboVethei 1 average, . which have,, by acei- _ dental circumstances, ..bee.fi-':-'-ma4§- :un-. usually prominent, . and I .-:.-on - .-. -that account - he ..• is - -c.redited. 2.1 by .every one with ...I- superior . talents,.... then& , he , himself 'knows well that,. he. has no more -Wit orgenhis .t.ii4.ii4:- other ".peOnle,,-and- has •fieVer...A.Spire4 to -be thought -elc.vo...- He, -WO, is • to..be .pitied, for he.-nas Constant annoyance of feeling ,that good things ft..4 expected from .-Iiiin.Which he. 'cannot- pos.- gibly. supply, and must look forward to the daY.-when,his friends', discovering the delii,. sion -Under: which they have labored and regarding-- hire- as - an impostor, will --very probably turn froth him with: contemptuous ie ' . A. - '. ' . : -: - ..._ • : -''• . - ' :. ..-: .--. - • . ' -. • The Centlpede wrillaPPY.-, 0Oite, , ' '-• - '... Until -the Toad, infer!) -.----. ,_. - - •-S id "Pr` y Whieh leg goes after which?"-•-• ' That worked.,-herniinclto-soch R. ,pitclai-: -••- • • Shelaydistracted'in a ditch, , • - • , . Cerisidering ho* to run. There ii driyieri-sly , more than . Oneview thatniaYbe take, as to the- zners61 inctil, cated in these lines;J: Where -ignorance is bliSs„-"tlst011y-t0 be Wise, is : bni::-,pesithle moral-;->theillareipt thoughtless .-'questions and:. impertinent curiosity _W another, - 4 gentlethae fat WlloSe- aPhuon We have : ' -the- utmoist -respect has Suggested' the - -evil of self- conscion sness as it third.--:; Bat;,; after serious consideration, we have Conie.tethe canoluSibia' that the troubles of - the centi- pede -Vera, caused by -.-- -the -- confidence With, Which; the teed attributed •to: her ' an attiOrintef self knowledge Which she had not 'got; . -She-found. • it - taken ••• for granted, bat • she should understand the proper• eqtience• and „ptedeedings Of her own legs, and'from. that moment began to.itakeher, elf -Miserable with,feeple efforts to cottes: ondla thatexpeetatiah, ' Some people, fieding themselves ligithis ...hind. of. -Rage asitien ;take to notice -A the . too, exalted stimation inWhioh-theY- are: held; -, and go traight en"' their. Way . Plat the --Oame. whereas Others, like- the ce.ntipede, :are heated into a half doubt :whetter there may not, after, all; be :more in 'then' • thari hey had mipposed„ ' and torment theni- slV0a:.in ' Vain with feverish ' ,endeavors: 0 :justify:: the :,characiter. --,given:l.ithern. Btit•---' both •_ ClasSeS :alike. , are 'oppressed .y A. 'sense.., -:Of' the dispropettion between -- what is expected of them ant.t.' What" they an give • ,_ahd- by the anticipation cif , the • t, . , . , . .. . ., corn and Wrath,Which they ---Will , have to • • • Fashion Fteihtes..,. The- rage•for Japanese. erhaments is on the,increase, -•: • - • Beaded"plusli:banda will trim -handsome - •- - • Copper and-brickdrist:shadea are istaBh- ionablehn teira Cotta.. • .,'$tanding. high eollarA and: law rolling collars are equally fashionable. I Small,hats and bonnetz'begin te` :appear among imported Shapes.. . - • ' • ,A new darned lace for lingetie.and dress 'trimmings is Called ,Mauresque., Cheviot , mixtures in--. What are. termed leather shades are-11inch• , Basque of moire, black and in dirk rich 10 ;colors, will be: Worh it skirts of Yariouskin-- • Pcilus'eh'stri; ea On grounds • _ . • naseaerintietitt7sQ.Zi• 1:°1.3t1:6!kr at. :al, with pp ruby, or emerald eyes ere favorite orna- ments . : . • • Quaint littlebaskets.of:-Split.bainbOO are ° • favorite pendantorhamentS sonie of our best houses. •• . t Large, dOts Ou black, white and colored .1'1 net 18 :the novelty of the passing moment for street wear. . : wi. Ath,:nroywitingudfaosfliaifsnkii. tiliat. o_ f de:07477_ la -bigots, made- cif --stuff -that, can ' worn ..• . • . ,s Movententi oftheFishing Fleet. The receipts .of mackerel at Cape Ann th thP past Week hace been larger than for any previous week of which we -have any record,_exceeding the large receipts for the closing .week of Jtily by 1,104 lbs. _ Halibut have also been in improved receipt over • the Wevious week, when thirty-eight..fish-. ing arrivals were reported at Cali port, with 784,300 lbs. codfish, 88,070 lbs„ halibut and -2,765 bbls. Mackerel. Since -our last issue the folloWing arrivals have been reported: Two from:Western. Banks with 109,0001bs. codfish and 3,000 llbs. halibut; 1 from Grand Banks, with 240,000 lbs. codfish ; 21 >from Georges' with 314,000 lbs2dodfish and ndnre-Whenever they Shall be found to all . Short . of their: reputation: . That this frightfullY-utijrist is evident; but then the world Seldom- trimbles jtself On that score: -. -Its first instinot. when any-... thing .goesi wrong is lay- the blame -on. any shoulders' except its own,. and it is by no mpaneready-te admit that any verdict' it may have passed has-. been , . _one. -It is, of course, only. those:Who have never acted, . Bill' Nye, "with intent to ,leceiVe," Whom' We, think deserving of y pa y.. - --„. . . 1- 'tied Noses. - .Correspondents of the New. 'York Sup. rite: "Old Heicler.-: Can OUTS -red.' iaOse- caugedby anything by ismiffing. powdered._ earnplier, a good while, But he -must- get the right kind and the .best. • • 'IknOwalady afflicted with a red nose- • non-arcolielic-Who found: that, it would. -disappear when she stopped drinking coffee. She tried it thoroiaghly, and 'found that tobe _the pause in her case. _ Sarah Bernhardt's sen Mauricele study- ing art, - and - the • Prince, Of - Wales has proniised Sarah th- buy his first pictUre-7 According-Ie.:Olive Logan.- The lad is 19, and devoted to. " lIadeznoiselle• nutmere.". . - - . 3 200.5s, halibut 3 f o Ba of F d w 57,000 co_dfish ; 3,_ -from _Cape Shore, 98,000_ ; 3 from off . shore_ tripe, - 72,000 lbs, hake ; 7 3 -froth, do., 55,900 lbs. haddoek ; .7 frona Bank halibuting _249,6001bs.;.de. ;_4&froteniackerelbrulbes, 39,079 bbis. •Whole' tumber of .arrivals, 93. Redeipts,_818.000 lbs. codfish; -25,206 IhS. halibut; 72,000 lbs. hake;- 55,000lbs.' haddock and 15;079 lbs. -Mackerel., Cape- ; r La y tin Y9 Ann Advertiser: • - , • - The physician of the' Kentucky peniten- tiary:said that Toe - Josh, the negro who deliberately chopped off his own hand, did so because he was threatened with the tortureof suspension by the. thumbs, and not to,escatie work. The warden said that thAphysician was a liar. They have had akfist fight. without staisfactorily settling thesestion. - Bing Charles of Wurtemberg is reported la have secretly embraced -Catholicism dur ing his stay at Nice tliis summer through the influence of Baron ,'Spitienberg, an ardent Catholic. •- •- itliew---- 'IstrIt111$41430#111elteiteifindiA-0:1d(erili4'51:fitife1Pantri'erMiliiiiiiite11tOnlrigiaf , a _Or, Beatty•Lipeof-Steamers• that purpose toAti_e_ • - -`!--.ajuitY's Superior ()gods OfJgaw, •at-Nerotito,;"--tianct ipcg,,Sed all points :west, at, 1414311,44ithe f.- - ' '-•heBy,lakw.,.-...-. ' -.- • . - •''-- ' r:V.. CAMiliiii14:.--:iii. c; - _ Towite J 1r. . .: . '':.., -,•` ' -. Oil; Tel.- Co.' -4.ra.- ki :frailly,: .- : :- .-',. 6'42 . . • • .. . • , . • ‘,. ...,...-- ._ . ,.... etr.:: ,t, 9.,+*,,..ra -4.4*_.6-4? .r•e: -_ 4LIVIIC7RE 111RIGA1I3S. _ • Train 'Wrecking oul 'Frain Robbing-_-' Missouri Extraordinary - 5304100. -, asntodteap-aTshszi-glZsainmaiez Oitvoeurlib.Pedw.tgAd. _ . • ' 1PluckY Express Mess'enger.. , ' AnIndependence (MO.) despatch reports - that masked robbers stopped- theChicago -- - .., -Alton western mail train on Wednesday. niglattwo miles west of Gundell by waving ,;•" a signal lantern. - The robbers had .913,0 •Piled a great quantity el stpter3 and logson ' the •track, t3ufddient to. Wreck the train. The robber d Were heavily armed and When the trani stopped the leader shouted, "Now, . Men, to your work. Fire 1" At the word the air was filled with the noise of discharg,_ ing _firearms. • The shots . succeeded one .another _With such - rapidity that , .the trainmen and -passengers imagined the attacking .patty = to -. be ' in overwhelm- -• ing numbers. -• The - 'effect " of the - firing WW1: to render - the passengers and engineer an ..eitu prey to the brigands.. Before the first -.shock was- over umber of robbers tOok Possession of th: -. in, the shooting beingall the time vigorori ly car- ried on. The:engineer, fireman and brake - mai.. weredriven into the -woods.. The conductor offered resistance, but was Soon overpowered and compelled_to run for his life., A:_few. of the , thieves boarded the passenger cars,: drew cocked arms, covered all the exits, = • and.: ordered: every One to .. refrain from making a_single Movement' at the peril of their lives. There wilts abso- lute Complience,withlthe.erder. - Two high. waymen boarded .- the . express -• can The ---.. eipreSs messenger made , a • bold. . stand and -- refused to • yield, • although ' \the- - ratt,C2leik of - . two revolvers were . held against his temples,. The 'thieves knocked him. dotvii and pounded him until he -was- - unconscious, they then rifled the . ear, throwing -out everything of value tilo was. moveakole. I -They :filled the, lleylael. of the - - 1i safe with explosives and blew1 ,.:.:-,., open-. - From the sale they secured many vi)uables - and' money, estimated' at $30;000. The work on thecxpress car -was :done quickly and withl uncommon skill. • -Trained. con- federates- outiiicle carried the - booty swiftly ay -ray,. The rabbets then- went from the express car to the -pasSenger.coaehes: ,The- passengerg --were Ordered. to hold up their. hands and the robbers -emptied the pockets of -every passenger of his valuables. • ni,*v they libel the reriners. - A case wastried yesterday in the. Toronto Division Court,..before Judge, Boyd, -.Which should be taken -note Of by farmers:ana others residing iiitherural districts. Some time age Henry Bingham, ef the township._ of Bentinck, was waited 6A -by anagent-for an "Excelsior garden pump,"Who desired to appciint him sub -agent for the district. -Mr. Bingham thenght-he saw a chance, to the agent's terms being. very willingly galled a piper which, when read -to him-, purported tobe a simple agreement about the piic-ips. What was his surprise some time!t -terw ards , when he - was asked to provide , for a- _promisSory•-note for ..$45. It eeras the . “. agent ", had substituted- a promissory note forthe afbresaid agreerneht, aud Mr. Binghani's eveeight not being aged had not. oticed the d.eception:-. He refut3ed to pay, ' hence the aCtion in court._ It was ,not-tne original agent whci sugd--he heLd . left- for parts -unknown -but &third pary who had acquiredthe tete.- The Ji1dgc3 was Con- . vinced from the evidence that ia fraud had been practised,,.and granted a TIonsult. - It is said that ten other categ•wero depending ou the decision inthe suit agaiii.44 Bingham.- _ _ , =, . . _ : Itegimenial Coppre(, general .order has been- issued -by the . - Duke of Canibridge- to the effecitt- that regi - •mental colorsare not future -to betaken - , on -Active _service with the reigiment, but . Are to be left in the_dtrot... ever, abattfilion goesabroadinthe ordinary course of relief- :the colors will_ betaken. - This decision has been collie -tc33 .after oare, . ful consideration of eighty'•thifee- replies te- a birCular---livilich was sent _lacy .the POIXt= .mander=in-Chief to All generafl• officers and dolonels•corintandink, -batta ons -Art the . United kingdom., inViting_th _ir opinion .On the subject Now that m -st . of the Old fighting regiments hive:lost- heir alityi and have been rename with the title. of some county with.which n Many:leases - - •they never had any. connee tion, it is per- - haps as,well that the recor s Of •their gal- lant deeds- should be left at home and pre- servi_a.d em.:oodigii ryof •tthse. eparted mentafnumbers, -titles; 'and railitions. Oliver Doud Byron will .appear during -this week at )Elaverly's:The tre, New York, in his celebrated -:play_ erosS the -Con- tinent." - ,• In consequence of the s access made -by the American prima d )1311/1, Miss Gris- wold, at the Paris Op era House, 'the Manager, M..Vaueorbeil, as doubled her salary. _ • The two " IYLascottes, " at Haverly's Fifth Avenue -Theatre an the4l3it. Opera, oVse, Naw York,: are r • iiing ad race - • for popular support,- brit o far the betting . May hes- saictto be in favo • of. e Bijou. Among-th,v arrivals fr m and last •• week were Jelin Howson,- Cherie .Harria and Frederick Leslie, w • 0 immediately commenced rehearsals att' e Fifth Avenue' -Theatre With the Conale -.Barten Com, pan -y. &me of the intentions to- amuse the - American public next winte r have ;already' been thwarted. • Six . of 1• e numerous_ - 'travelling theatrical ccimpani .,s have dis banded, and as many more failures are looked for Within. a week. _ • - It Will be: curious to note i hether the production 01- Gilbert and Sul wan's new aesthetic, opera "Patience" wil net have : the effect of giving a _boom to t e prospects of. the "impressionist" '.painte If the - music is'etlythinglike-as " catc . as that- -.- Of "Pinafore," it is just possibl otht1the excitement caused by that Vo k -May be repeated, in Which case there is certain to . be a strong incres,seof theutter.ess whieh- is already Making itself -appa ent - and the increase will naturally direc attention to the litter paintings of the pression- is-ts." :It will be pretty bad. for rt Should such a state. of affairs collie to •,pass,•bilt unfortunately the public mind s ems to be • drifting in that direction. -Y. - . Mr, W. H: univai2-14,0'-_been donfirtaed" in the appointment at .Deputy arden of the Kingston/Penitentiary. LI VW -01011.-- t.nexiterm • sof. tbe jahants ' "•-• .•••• .•.