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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1881-11-11, Page 2i. . r The, -Craze which ttacks Lovers cif' 13.9t: Theories, ' : • L TALItillE. TELLS ilOW TO Slit I FORT*. Bev. Dr. Talmage preached in. the Brook; lt!n- Taberoaole- oh Sunday on the Modeta newspaper pt ss, paying it a high tribute. „ He stated that the newspapers of this con- tinentwere pre•entittently-theeducai ors of the Musses: He regarded the starting 'tif a newspaper as the - best way. to intik; a tontine. Said he: -.. : f ' * ; *- *. I think I couldarouseyour ap- preciation et thiagreatbleseing if I told yea of the money; the. brain,theexasperation, • the anxietiesttlielosses the wear and tear tr - • ' of: heartstriega involved in the publication of aneWSpeper.., On the .theory abroad tri the world that anybody_ canmakeone inexperienced capitalists every year, ate . entering the lists, and it is a ',Ample etatie- ticthat there is an average of, s. dead -newspaper- ry-clay:ot .the .year. -Genet-- Gener- ally tore ur fortunes are swallowed up before a nwspaper is, established. The .. largo - papers , . swallow , up the small . papers—one. Whale taking down fifty - minnows. Although we have - -otter seven thousand dailies . and .weeklies :in , the . United - Statesand the . • Ca:nabs MAY thirtY•six of them are a fialt century eld.. The average of floweret.. • per life is five; years. 'Most Of them die of cholera, tam uni. (Laughter.): It fir high i ti&e.it were ncierstood that the most suer- . oessful way o sinking. a, torten°, and keep- , tug it sunk is to start a newspaper.- Almost, every intelligent min during" his life is smitten with the newspaper mama; start 'a newspaper orhavehave stock in one he tenet - or die. This is Often the process: A. liter- ary man has idea„ Moral, secial,political :ot religious,- hioh,,he_Wialefl to ventilate. •- . He has no Money of his his own,---hteraty . ' men_ seldom ;nave—but he' talkshis idea emengothifidential Mende, au,d forthwith they are inflamed with theNidea„ and •- they buy tip° - and press and rent . a, composing :r0Qta1 and engage a corps Of . editor, and -then a- ' prospectus, whit* ;threatens to Conquer everything, goes- forth, *anti then, the Ora issup is thrown upon the attention of an itdmiti g world. After few weeks (*.months a..Plain stockholder - finds that th te is no especial revolution,ai -end that. neither the inn nor the moon has stood still, d that the world still pea on , lying and cheating and stealing jest at it dr before the first igen° Of the New .York . 1,' tanderet or ;the Universal Gazette. or .t4e- .11otlehtliali 21,elvaeafe. Forthwith the plain stockholder wants to sell his stock, but . nobody wants to, buy it, and &hers dis- gusted. with the investment want to sett . their .eiteck, .'and an' enormous bill of • s paper factory rolls in like oat avalanche, and the printers refuse to Work until they have .their hack pay; and the subscribers wooder: why; their paper does - not come. Let the tell,(Int oh, Mani: that if you haS,e- .,n an idea on y motel, social, , politteal Or religienes subject you had better charge on . the world through the columns t already .: established.- -, Do not take the idea so pre- valent that when - a man can no nothing else he can edit a newspaper. If you cart - not climbthe hill back of your house. you • had better not try the sides of the Matter- horn; if you Cannot -navigate,' a' sloop up. the North -River. you had better not try to engineer •the Great Eastern_ . pver to • Liverpool. To publish a newspaper require& the ;skill,. the precision; the vigil- .........._ citent, lieu utadAer-mmei a OWnprOWnie SHIS- _ . _ what she -will take." Cou.nsel-•-,." My good woman, His .Lordship-- aswliat you will take"- . "Wheteution the old Woman, with •-a---- ceirtesv replied "F. much I'lljtist tak' a grails o' pewits." '. '„.;•:.- obleeged to His Lordlup,, .as he's site kind • ' Twelve Aberdeensh' e proptietorekeply.- _ 'Ingle a. circular ttere he Faitteera'Zrstn- raittee meeting, teepee ittg. the relductien- of ,rents, said they were able to .:dealtwith their. tenants without /outbid° interference. The Free Chute& i Creebtidge, High- ar lands of SootIand,- h been on a wtgagle on the posture assuitte *prayer,. Some ate in•favor of sitting, egainst which Many' protested„ threateoing that- if the 'csom- • mullion were handed to them under such • donations they would.' fling them into the elders' faces. • I ' itticer the strategy, the - boldness.- of a; commandev h-chiet; to edit a newspaper 1 one needs to be. a_ itatesthan, an essayist, a geographer,. stattatiehin„ and, gofer as: all acquisition 1 concerned,- encytopaadie- Tci 4 man end t ::proliel- a newspaper requires -2120rolqUalitiOB than any ether -busthess- ort earth,„,' I sa . this to save:men from_ bank4. ruptoy.. If. .0.11 fed came, to starter pubt - lish a -newspaper e -it for granted. yoli are threetehed with_ ofteningof the:brain t• _ - throw yent !pocket-lc/6k into, your wife'• - tail; and, ruelt-up: to Blciorninadele Asylum -' . _ - _ andsurrehder yourself before pin do aoinei : thing despetate. Meenwhile lettthe. dead, newspapers ;be carried out. to their hut' . ' week = week, and let the nowspapeta that Until.quite recent date Old woraen in the Orkneys and Heikki; Made a living by • selling "fair winda" seilors—a knotted • string being given- to the n2ariner, and a 1:freezes, strong wind, 4-r .a. gide being Blip- _ . , posed. to follow ;the 1;osemng of certain knots.. Love philters. ould be putt:shaped -.which - would turn- th Most incliffereot lover into an atdentsti tor. -- • • The Earitt Scottish ext Society, as goon as its: compliment. of 300 subscribers is made up, will edit and: publish the more important textint earl Scottish literature iz down: to • the time • When - the . **ten language began' to Lase lit distinotive char- aoteristios.. The Earl of Aberdeen is its patron, and the leading scholars and men - of• letters throughout Scotland areinter. • /sited in its -success: ,• The subject of the. dectease of the meme bership in the Unified Presbyterian Mr* , cropped. up more •than ;once at 6: late meetieg of the Edihborgh Presbytery. of that denomination, ; aid while . :carping .- • referenceswere made to the correspondence which -had taken place oil the subject,'Mr. • T. Dick Peddie, 111.P., and oth,w_S-adtted that the tact was Undeniable -the. Member • for the.. Kilmarnock • District of Biirghs ' attributing it to the: insufficiefit tepresen- tation of_the lay element in the ; coutteof - the Church. •. . ' . . . - [ 1 1 • The Bishop: of St. Andr_ews, . speaking at • a diocesan synod at Pert the other day on ; the subject .of the teva ion 6f the. New -Testament in which he teak a part, said , that with alllis regard for his colleagues, 'in that work, and with the highegt estimate !of their learning and 'ability, he hactoer, itainly -felt. that -the !tea* to Whicah, as a lxidy,the revisers. had deliberately Come showed lees consideration for the work of • our pre.decessors than it 'might 'ha.ve done; and consequently theyhad toss reason to complain if if some seivertty was FihnVili to . . their ow -a -work: •' t•The.' Dowager-Marchioneere . of Lothian -ttaraes - to the rescue in the Times in the :matter of "hopping" • eciandids. She -pro- posee a gigantic Hop Harvest Reform As- socilation, with the hott country Mapped' Out intedietricte, contracits. to ihipply gangs - of registered hopper,endammheints, milt- sionaries„ hospitals, citateens, responsible wage -payers, savings hatilte_lionperirtraine '44 thoroughly cleansed betore use for ordi- • nary trafficiP etc. It is just conceivable that so 'Vast a schemenughtcollapse tinder Its own weight, or from the unwillingness or incapacity' of hoPitio 'erg ti submit to the rules, or farmer's- to pay the requisite • price -,for a more orderly cloaca harvester& • Taking Orkney an Shetland as separate 'counties, Scotland has thirty•four -counties. Seventeen of these count es have Conserva- • tive: lord lieutenants, sixteen have Liberal lord lieutenants and nesovacant When this vacancy is fill th parties will be equal. The counti a- tiring ibera ord 'lieutenants are Abetd -Argyll • . . _ • Anent this -subject Pr. Doppia; �f King- ston, Weites to the Kingston litiosigattllows: notke that in-yelit issue .of Thesday' evening you exoutte. the long absence of the Princess Louise from Canada by statingthat she was seripiisly ill item• the effecits of the broke which She received when thrown from her sleigh. I was -glad to. see that you had -the facts of the ease, as mattypereons end -some newspapers inoline tethe opinion that she made use Of that aceident as a pretextfor beingabeent from. Canada. I am able to -state on the hest of anthotitythat she waahurtite bEidly bythe ateident that her ultimate 'recovery from ilia after. effectit was for a time considered dolibtfuL In truly last,: at theltoyal College Surgeons, I was introduced to Erasmus Witson one Of the oldest and inost eminent surgeons ofEngland. As stones he knew that I was. ftorn Canada he entered ihtti conversation respecting our country. "In the cohrse of his remarks he epoke sentiething asollowei t "I_ 'always_ , like to -• meet Ciziadians ; but I tell you I shell not think so much of them hereafter it they do not use our Princesses better *lien we send them over there." This brought up the subjett of•her izijury,,and-I told, him that. most peisOns here supposed that she was not serioosly injured, and that her absence Was caused by her -dislike to. Canada. He said, "Well, I luipvt- better than that;; -I know that she was badly injured, for Viati columned on her • cage • as soon. as she - •came • home, - and . can tell you,. • sir; that 'she was very eericauily injured." The old. gentleman than went on and detalled to me the nature of .the injury. sod.' the consequences-. that had testilted from it,. and convinced that whet we had ignorantly considered as a trifinig bruise, not knoiving the faxite,:viati- an Jojurycit grave import. And•he forther informed me that it was by the. advice of -her medical advisers and of her friends that she remained at home. 'Also, another gehtlenten who is per.sonaily- acquainted with the Priacese-infOrmed me that -she Wag, inixious.to have retutnetto Canada, • buten account of the. serious :results that had followed the severe bruise she received on the side of her head her friends : and medical. advisers would not. sallow her to return. I think,. thereto* we should not judge the motives of our :Printaess nor atuttise her of dislike to Canada without knowing the reasons 'why she. has been so long and. so sadly separated from us. -How . 200. LIVES ' LOST A 'Captain W:itto Wanted- to Mahe a Rapid. • • Run -Terrible Results. of his Desire to Piave his: Vessel-1E41th of.1Liteboats.' The court of inquiry held at Cape. Town in the caseof the 'futon by whose founder- ing near Cape .Agulhae over 200 lives were lost,. brings to preinitiOnee certain first priociples with tregard to. • Beamansaip whioh, welleknown though they -ehould be, reqoire to be graven fresh upon the minds of all c.ommarideis of steamers'. -One :chief point ii that where the danger is palpable -the 'safety -of a:vessel and her .eargo..--ohght hot to be placed in.. the Scale against the precious lives of passengers- and - ere-w'r another. is that; valuable .as time; is, huntanlives should not be imperilled by the .ambition to save an. hour or two, or even half a day, on a _passage. The evidence given makes cleat that the whole ship, load Of passengers was. -saorificed in the desita to place the Steamier itself in safety in Simon% Bay. . From 7.30 P. in., when she struck, -till nearly 10.30 p. she - went down, she was taking in -Water et the tate of eight feet an _ hour - and. -wee at last Stopped, not to avoid the danger .of buret-. ing the alteadystaVe&-in btilltheadit throtigh • Ayr, the Pressure ofwater :at her high rate. of Bute,. Catimess, Cromert artoni speed, but because her . head had -finallY Elgin, Fife, Inverness Lanark, Linlithgow, settled do -wit till her screw would not work' Orkney, Shetland/. Satliaiiand and and she would- no longer answer her town. As the Duke og Fluiherlancl. is,Lord helin., , The :weather • was calm and Lieutenant of both Oromarty and Slither- nothing Prevented all the passengers from land, Lord Stair of bothWigtown and Ayr, being got safely away fraln_ the steamer aud Mt. Dundas both Orkney an'd. Shetland, but the desire to gave a vessel of which the the number of Libetal lord .1i61Xtellal*, company happened to be theft own ineur: thirteen. , • ers.-. The fact that the course fixed before dark.was such as to take the vessel Only a couple of miles, off a dangerous point is evidence of what risks ships' . officers will run• to save time on a voyage, it being renioinbered thet the adverse current on the c,oast in•question isnot nearly BO strong near the shore as out at sea. A further fact Which ought to be well noted by.steani- boat inspectors was that the Teuton was markedly deficient in lifeboat accOmmoda.- tionl Had .the sea been Otherwise than calm though. all the captain's effor s .12ed been devoted to sav-. ing J • these on board,. there Most ecittainly have been loee,of life through this defect ; but had a disaster occiirred On the main voyage from Englend,. when there werenearly a hundred passengers More, the situation viould„have been woree. The inspeptor had, however, passed the Teuton at Sciothampton as properly equipped, and one Ikeda only to note the number of passengers in • comparison 'with t e:hfo- saving acCommodation,on many well own steanters of well known lines betw New. York and Liverp661 to he bonvioce of the gross disregard of life etiiiced in the atter of steamship inspeotioa. - The rea er may well extehdthe inference in all t e above points to our own Canadian lakes. ;nye or your obituary. ; • ` • : nblusten, Dr.. Tel gs said ; Th6, newspapers ,setve" an i portant -function_ as the Chrontoleis of passing eventei: They describe lot the benefit of future' Iti$toriane all eientsitcclesiastical, literary,, politicl,i teinatioqal, hemispherical.. They ire the reservoirs of history.They are alto a- bleseng in their evangehaing influences. ;The Christian newspaper win! - bo ther ight Wing of the -apocalyptic, angel. The cYlinders of the Christian printing press will: be the front wheels -Of the Lords ; Chariot The music that it. maltei.t. mark not in clirctinuendo, but ittoreecertdo I" ' - . Travelling. styli. . At ttondon • the other day a passenger - fauna three fliewitt his' tea. at the eating.L • house, He 'called: • the waiter -to hAit and, said : 44- You. are .in error alioutme'You• ; evidently -thtult, I atn travelling in aepeciat , pi,t- and piing On a great deed of dig.. -,I'-ht -riding secozt class; without baggage,. and • aut. only entitled -to: one tiy-. Give this clip tothat; big fit Man at thecerner table. He • iB-:11.- diKectOr of that road, and is entitled, tO ,three Mee- in his tea and a deka oOokrnanh between hit- ':pancakes. • 1 cannot ' travel second olaaand usurp -' the rights of tratt elite& paSseligers.. Please paw the entomoi • legtea,t_musterci. before you. go, -and set- the ad,timaatine prunes iyhere -J • can reach_ ' them.. , 1-121 y- want to throw One at the• : heed watte oceasionally to attract ' hie. ' _.- - - - .- - attention." • - - I - : Under the; will, of an English dust coat • tractor a legacy of - 2,000, was left by- th•e „ testator' to hfie`doctori. to be paid only in . . the . event of the testator living _for two - .yeata_ after. the - date of the . will, to b• e increatted to 23,900 sheuld he live for five. ' t years; and is the testator , died a -week • after makin ' his. will the, bequest of - correct lapses., Th. plan Of , contracting with a. .doctor- to'. keep hispatient, alive by offering . - himpectulailty rewards in an increasing- - . ratio for continued oxide:zee- is one thatit ''. generally adopted -might-produce the - hap. , i ' „A„: sem of , Sir Andrew- Luski M.P. for Finsbury antiondo Lord Mayor of Loadont has adopted the stage = as_ e profession,. and , now travelling in the - English ptovittce - ! With Mr. Forbes Boltettsoft's cob:warty.. ' . . , , .Smailt-rox and FlIth.., Dr. J. F. Speed, Seere ary of the') State (Froni the Louisvillezerier-fournal.) Board of Health, 'returned 'honk on Tues- day aight from an pf.citt 'visit to Coting- ton, where he was a en by the Board to obtain definite inforthationeoncerhing the prevalenceof entail -poi in that city. - The •dector stated that he earned,from the -Health, Officer of Covih ten that cages had Occurred from August' 17th to October 18th, of- winch 41 proved fatal; • He. made, • special -inquiry as to the oFigin of the II, disease, and, found it to be the pre - Nailing , opinion that it was indigenous, as n0. evidence of its -i troduction could be found.- It made, it appearance in; and has beet', -confined to,' the -vicinity of •'S': . some slaughter -houses, hich ere situated -on a:ravine into whieli t e offal from these establishments, flow. 4 sewer has been • constructed down the tatitte; Which fs. net , Provide& with a proper outlet and the 4. , doctor thinks that thismatter, while under, going theprocess of decOraposition in the sewer, produced a loweted condition of living hear susceptible to; the d abase. The vitality, which rendered:. thIse persona malarial. product - of this point is . - not believe& to be the 'origin Of the small -pox, but .it is' a question tor ', the medical 'profession to 'decide ' w 'ether ' -this li lowered, cohdition -of - :jVitali, y is not sufficient to account bit th prevalence ,of the disease there rather than ihother - portions of the city notsubjeet to the sank ,infittences. As many ets folitteen cases ; w,ere reported in one day from. this locality; • but the disease has dimioished, until now but. two caseit a day are being found.. The exhaustion of Material in the locality tit believed to he. the cause'of the decrease. The health -officer informed Dr. Speed that -vaccination had been &sextet to in every family that wand permit it, but &large portion of the pomilatton :resisted, and would not petroit - it to become general. The disease was notconfined to. the poorer • class; but invaded the familiee of the best cititens. - . - • . pies t reenlist • . ' Recent statistics show that the mortal* einong the French troth's in Tunis has • been very giest. 4rAbout 12,000 haNe• WM' on the sick -list since the' conimenceraeht of- the expedition and 900 case4 have ended fatally. , Typhoid fever was the cause of ,85 percent. of the mortality - - Nellie- was a Lady. At Milwaukee, Wis., a few evenings ago, as Mtge Nellie Rogerswaspreparing supper two men Walked into the kitchen by the back iloor and demanded her Money. She took her pocket -book out of her pocket, i and taking a tight grasp of t, refused to surrender it, at the Mine -time backing into ait'adjoiningroom. After getting into the sitting -room she went to a dressing - case, took a revolver therefrom and ordered the Erten to leave the house As quick as lightning the burglars wrenched the re- volver from her grasp, Caret/ her upon the floor and took her pocket -book, containing §16. As they turned to leave the house they fired three shots at her, all of Which missed her. Milwaukee must lie a nice place to .live in. . •• At the ball given receutly by the Prince of Wiles e.t.'21bergeldie, the Queen danced in a- quadrille 'r -with the - Prince as. her partner. 1•-. The rue forbidding the iamployment of Married omen as teachers in the Chicago 13011001B,h B been cancelled. • • ' - • . • ---tiaaneonie people. Pawnbrokers, .—G-tiod sleighing- weit of-Brandi:in; Mani-- - ,-Sarattiga las le _44 Dilapidated Sitk_Hat 'Mb." .• • • . —Cigar brown is, trimmed -with cotimt- _colored satin. : i - L-SarAd is a nide_ -girl: to 'hive. at &- dinner; if she's Well.dressed. •• - - —A. penny edition ot 44-Itnole _Tem s 'Cabin' has been published in Lohdon.: "- -The man Who Would figure in the *Oka must hot confine himself to ciphers. —The popular.- "Ton -itod, Jerry" bination will•soon put in an appearance% • —Shelby, Pellmau & Haniilton's citetis will go into winter quarters at St. Catlt, Wines. : • : • .• • —A wise sawDon't judge a man's ehar• • . utter by the Umbrella. he carries. It -May not be his. - • - • _ • • —The. Toronto Ministerial Assock, condemns the Credit 'Valley Reilway running a Sunday train. ' ; - —Dr. Thomas thinks "the _doetrind Of eyolution is probably right and can ea§ily be accepted by a believer in the Bible.". • —The average • English jaibbird gs 2600U/108S of food, the average pauper 166 ounces. This is -hardly a fair 44 divvy.".__, • - —The funds already raised for the pro- posed testimonial to the late Di. Tassie; of Galt, amounts to §183. • - 11 : 7 -You'd naturally thinkpolicemen woId :play baseball well, they So - thoroughly understand mooing men in. .. - —Old:• gold or amber mingles -Well *With Venetian red for evening dresseer. '. So- des lemon or &tam color. - - ' • • -1,--- : --4s getting. off an old joke a poorre1a- tion?•1/.. Y. Express. , Yes ;and' yott have . a great many poor- relations. 4 _ , . : . -The -heart of the youngster willt bp' • gladdened, - Chestnuts in the wholedale Mullett' down East are rapidly failing in . price. . - - - . —Jones, getting up from his dinner, in 6 quiet way remarked to.hielittuiladythat he . • had found everything . on the' table:6p1i except the icii-,Creatn. •. - • - ,-- - - t4,1_ -•-•44 What is .yeur income? " was .ones- .. asked of a noted Bohemian. " It to hatd to tell," was the reply ; " but in:good years I Opm borrowat least $10,000." . - - - - —44 J. -C, Harden Butter "is the heatith-g of an article ilia country exchange. ' Thnee who live in the city ate aecustonted ti thid • plenty of -hair on batter. - • - - • '-Young meo, don't be, deceived-- btt'' .. girls. - It is not cheaper for you to get married, but it is mighty pleasant if she.,k- young and wealthY. . W . 4'n•i • --;-;Who.cen settle this memento ,q .tioo ?.- If you put two persons . int‘ 'the Mime room, one with the.tOOthad10 ail Te otherin love, hich-will ge to sleep 0, itti. e , • ;.,--It -Might have been:. A fashionable .young lady accidentally dropped one of .hn't fake eyebrows in her operalxix and greatly -frightened - her beat,: - who, on 'seeing ';i -t thought it was his moustache: _ • 7-A lady called at a (limo store :W11 4 they also kept books, and inquired of .0fit-'. of•the :fitrci :," Have you 4 Giete's Greece 231',' "No,' mum:" but we've: . some r. excelleflt bear's oil." - .i ; j ; . • .. -,Wishing- to pay his Mend a zoo - ment, a , gentleman remarken : - "1 .12 you have a Very industrious wife." ' " Ye' replied his friend; with a Melancholy emit& f' she's .. never: idlealie's always _Audi& somethingfor me to de" . -------44 Mambas, Where do the cows get -the milk?" inquired'Willie. - " Where .do -y�) get yOur tears,- my son ? ° 44 Mamma,. the•ttoWs have to be spanked? "thought. folly inquired Willie. ' . • •,t- -• —Lady lodger—" Your dog, , sir, as. iuthea,table.. He howls - all night."Male lodger—a Indeed"! : Well, he- , .might de _Worie than that ;' he might play the piano: all day.'" : ' • -. . ,_.. —When .a , man .-and a :woman leave 4, neighborhood because it 18, in Visit opinion, populated by a "low class .ef-people," ,the latteronerally. look -nom the move SSA . good one for the locality.- -. -J-There is less than half ' ah.., apple orbit this year, but don't he . foolieh.eitoogh to suppose thet, this will be followed by halt, the usual yield �f bidet. • It does not nooti apples to makeeider. --: . _ .. • ' . - - ' ' , —A. bad-tempered mao. He had lest his knife:and they asked him tha:n011al q1104." tiOn ; ,P DO .yoirknO7 where you ' lost it r _ ".'Yes, yes," he replied, "'Of course I db: I'm. merely hunting in these other placieS :for it to kill time." • - - Who never has a word to say, - But always has his own sweet way? May heavenlproleng his earthly stay— The baby.—Ex, F'ske thinks that by. the. end. �f thengiiitveaego mankind,: kitncl.. urythe e spoked. by 800,000,000 people, and hat Ultimately it will become the universa —The missionaries refuse to • admit Chinese; converts :to church ,mernberstup unless they give up opium:smoking. That is right.. Itnlesei the barbarian -can give tt opium and take- to whiskey he isn't hal —An eccentric minister was called ,upe to-marty three cOUpleS atonoe. The ,Patti were standing around prOmiscuouslyl, waiting for tleartitetof the minister, ithtt When -he canie in he in -arched- up to the& exclaiming, "Sort 'Yonrselvea I '" • A correspondent writes to the hortiou tined editor of: the Eye and asks ho to treat fowls.' Treat them kindly and Wit consideration. The aching Void in thg breast of the Modeth hen is:want of 'um! pathy. , Always look on them. with a gentle eye and. greet thenit with a bright smilet- Hens arewarranted to tioutiedi under-tlint treatment. - sharpers work this. swindle On buys a horse and makes .a sale at a .ver low priee to: Seine" farmer, telling atm plausible tatoikto accouut for - his- willio - hes§ to take hall What the animal 18 worth' •In -the cornet? Of . tout or Ate -days come e tie second; man, who- chains .to run aikteity§table,,ittul.he. _idelitifiesathe horse as the One stolen from him He talks lii - blusters -monad, and- either scares th twiner into giving up the Itemiser 4-4 settlin the case" by Paying a good -round etint. • inatistneittt -bat knovis!" • Seys,poor little Ned, • • Withitis earaas red • • -,A,s,tha heart ot a damask rose. ' "Nobody lost it!, -1 carefully . Put my cap just whereit ought to be, (No,:tisn't ahind the door,) - • • • Audit wont and hid, • Why, of course it did; • Pox I've hunted anhour or more. - _ "Nobody tore it! You know thingivill.' Tear if you're sitting just stock -stone still I was justlamping over the tenets- - There's some spikes on top, . • - • And you have.to drop " Before you can "half -commence." Nobody! Wieked Sir Nobody! Playing such txieks, on my children three!. •. -If I but-se.t ray eyes,on you' . • - You should find what you've lost; ' • . Bat that, to my cost, • I never am like to do! . -October Wide Awake. - • TORN TO PIECE. Yoling Man Drawn into she Cylinder of' a Thrashing Machine. " ThePilot Mound (Manitoba) Signaleit-- the-folk/wing :particulars Of a fatal .aeoident . that shooked the oettontinity, and which 1- happened on the -afternoon of Monday of • last week. The krone* 'machine of -the Woodside Thrashing Co. was being -stetted -,- en the term Of Fred, •Itersonagettnd Tal beittWoOd; eldest son -of George W�d,Atid one: el' the. fittest. yOung men inthe settle - tient, While adjusting a belt, had his right foot Caught by the teeth of the cylinder,. and : was in a Mop:tent dragged intothe very jaws . Of death -with such firimiess that the five. epen. , of horses attached to the horse- power were eiddeoly stopped.. Some delay - was -Caused in .getttng the unfortunate young- Mao 'out ;of =hisdreadful position; as the machine had -to be Partly taken lasonder,': yet ; he made no _complaint - although nearlytoin to _pieces. He was :taken -to his father's. honseand a-inesseri- ger :at once despatched- to 'NelsonVille for . Dr. Wilson, but -subsequent etentii- moved., - that lie was beyond ' human aid,andke breathed his last about 8. 'ecIpek in the evehingt The leg was not only. :shattered, butWas..elniost torn froth the body; Aini3: there were several internal injArkes. A feeling of the deepest &Strew exits in thel district, where, .on account ef.his many excellent cpialities,the-young-man Was universal :favorite. In atty undertaking where strengthand aCtivity .were.reptired he was itlwa,ys first.. Amiable 10 his dma position, Obliging in his manner,: andwarm in his -friendship,' his logs Will be long and his, untimely death deeply and stn:', cerely lainented. - - = _ The llitectrie Light in War. • , • -A London correspondent writes; E3enie interesting experiments have . recently .beenreade it.Chathant garrison, Under the personal direction of the -Secretary -Of State for War,the Right Hon. H. C. -.Childers, to ascertain whether the nee Of the electric:. , light would enable,. -a, .besieged garriiion to I I earn the moveinents. of . an attacking force duringdarkness. The experitnentspkovecl 1. 'in.eter-y way -successful; for :whoa force ; advanced" from_ -the_ direction af Dover to 'iriveet Chatham garrisoa by -the aid .ofttlie - electric :light the besieged force learned -that -• the . enemy Was opproaohitig and was • then , at • a distant*. of about two thirds ' 'of a mmle The light used was worked by one. of the. , " steeint sappers " and, was' eel powerful that: -the.garriken .eouldnot only cagily ifonovi- - the Movements �f the enemy, but could 'else see theni.even leading their rifles, -; A fire was open,ed by the. in -vesting force and for nearly: in hour: a eharpfusilade was kept-iipoluting the whole of whichtline - - the light - was successfully _. used by the .; garrison. These experiments aro very itaportant as showing- what' an thiportant 'part the electric light Will playin the siege operetiOne-lif the fixture, se :by. its Means eyety-actioh of the enemy can be closely - -watched during the whole of the night, while Belittle of the ground on the : light is weirized isshown.'that the enemy would not be aWa.re of . - -it „ A GOod-natured Engineer andhis-Engini. - . The :locomotive ha -the highest: typo of -1 machine work in: paint of _ durability. _We 1.. - cite -this One in eviden,ce. It made' at the Rode Island & PeOific shops iziAChtbego. Engine No 3.0g that road has been in-sek-- ticeeince. June, 1878, when it.,Was new. It !: has never been th the shop .sinee,aod-nene of the braises except those on the cross -heads have been taken Out for refitting, and these' , only. once.- •Its mileage during :the, three: years has been 116,369; miles:and- it is cone sifted good ,for -50,000 more -before geingin to the shop. Its drivihgwheels ate fifty -nevelt inches indiameter, and -have Krupp ,§ steel tires. • _Alaster Mechanio- TwoniblY gives . = the -.credit -of. this performance to jetty - ,Shea, the engineer, - who is .constitutionally : geed natured; and -never gets his engine excited. - - The- Pope and the Pilgrims. The Pope, When addressing the Italian pilgrims in St. Peter's the other evening, - was deeply moved • -He looked thin,- worn, and anxioua ; hie face hada-feverish glow and its muscles visibly twitched as he bent _ ION down, fitston, one side; then on the - other, blessing the people with Outstretched. -arms and sweeping gesture, and item Vine - to time throwieghitheelf -back in his ir -end gazing upwercl,as .if praying all the tithe. He appeared feeble, and he has • certainly grown to-lOok much . older:in the past two years than the time.' would- warraot The _emotion: with Which- • he . spoke again and again brought teats to his eyes. •. .• -=—President Arthur nominated Mr, - Folget as. Secretary of the Treasury, James 0.9 Postmaster -General; and Hatton asFirst • _ Assistant: Postrimeter-Genetal. The Sehate.- eubseqUeutly Confirmed, the enpo;ntmente. - Universal satisfaction will ensue at the retention of Jamas He has made an excel- lent-Pcistmaster-General, his experience as " postmaster of NOW York' standing him in ... goodstead. The President has shown. good sense .in retaining. him. So tar as , theyhave gone; the new nthrtinationsar of ,1 ,- • . aged- men.- Garfield, as jfar as he 6 - ld, .gathered arinindlim yo -ung men.: . Lillie Plover, the -1,ittrtiete, who ista- lnetnber of the„, stock 6ompany. of the - Chestnut Street: Theatre, -Philadelphia, has . retieived a legacy, variously estimated at . from 40,O0 to t80,000„ from an uncle cf- 'her:father, who died recentlyin Toronto.