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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-10-05, Page 2INNEN. '11111111111111Vii October .5,185•2. The Riders ot the Plains. 1710ELAN BS -MOUNTED POLICED:LAN, FORT WILLSH. Bo wake the prairie echoes with The ever welcome Eound, Ring out the" boot and saddle" till It'sstirriug notes resound. . Our chargers toss. their bridled heads And chafe against the reins. Bing but! ring out the marching call Forth° riders of the plains. O'er roacy a league of prairie wild . Our trackless path must be, And round it rove the fiercest tribes Of Blackfeet and of Cree. But danger front their savage bands A dauutless beart disdains - Tis the heart that bears the helmet up Of the riders of the plains. The prairie storms Sweep o'er our way, But 'onward still We go,' 'To scale the weary niountkin-range, Descend-tho valley low. ( We face the broad Saskatchewan, blade fierce with heavy rain, With all his might he cannot check The riders of the plains. We tread the dreaded cactus land, Where, lost to white man's pen, We startle there the creatures wild With the sight Of armed "men. For wheresoe".er our leader bids . The bugle sounds its strains, Forward in Sections marching go The riders of the plains. . . The fire king stalks the prairie And fearful 'tis to see - The rushing wall of flame and smoke Girdling round us rapidly. 'Tie then we shout defiance, And mock his fiery chains, ' For safe the cleared circle, guards The riders of the plains. • - For us no cheerful hostelries Their welcome gates unfold,' , No generous board, no downy couch Await our troopers bold. ' Beneath the star -lit canopy, At eve, whex daylight wanes, „ There lie these hardy wa,nderers- Tile riders of the plains: In want of rest, in want of food, Our courage does not fail, As day and night we follow hard The deaperadoe's His threatened rifle stays'us not, He ffirdTrhope remains,' And yields at last a captive to. --The'relers of -the 'plains: We've ta'en the haughty feathered Chief, Whose hands weia red -with -blood, - E'en in the very Council Lodge We seized him as he stood. Three fearless hearts faced forty braves, And bore their Chief in chains . Full sixty miles, to where lay camped The rid.rs of the plains. But that which tries the courage sore Of horsemen and of steed Is want of of blessed water, Blessed water in our need. Wel( tace like men whate'dr betas. Of perils, hardships palm', Oh; God! deny not water to The riders of the Plains. And death, who comes alike to all, Has visited us out here, • Filling our hearts with bitter grief, Our eyes with nianyti. tear.. ' Five times be drew his .fatal bow,, His hand no prayer restrains; , Five times his arrow c,pecl'ainoug. The riders of the plains. Hard by the Old 'clan River, • Where freshest breezes blow, Five grassy mounds lie side by silo, Five riders sleep-boloW.' ' • Neat palings close the sacred ground, . No stranger's step profanes ' Their deep repose, anti they sleep:well, These riders of the plains-, There-is.no-inarble-columan, There is no graven stone, . To blazeu to a curious world The deeds they may have done. But the prairie flower blows lightly there, . And creeping wild rose trestle ts-wreatiroesarannor-beautysceer .„ The riders -of the'plains. " Sleep on, sleep on, proud shunberers Whoa -lied in this far west ; • No prancing steed will feel your hand, . No trumpet brea,k your rest. Sleep on till the great archangel . Shall burst death's mortal chainci, And you hoar the great" "Reveille," Ye riders of the plains.. We bear no lifted banners, The soldier's card and pride; No fluttering flag waves onward' Our horsemen as they ride. • Our only guide is• " duty*" call, And well its strength sustains The daudtless'spirits. of our men,- : Bold riders of the plaint.% We muster but five hundred ' In all this " great lOtris land," - 'Which stretches o'er this continent To where the ROckies'itand. But not one heart doth'falter, . No coward voice complains ; . That few too few in numbers are, The riders of the plains. , LAP neland's mighty empire . Each man must take his stand; Bbme guard the honored flag at sea Some bear it well by land: 'Tis not our part to fight its fciCs- Then *hat to us remains What duty dOeS our Sovereign give Her riders of the plains? Our mission is to plant the reig,n Of British frepdom here, • Bestrain the lawless savage And protect the pioneer. And 'cis a proud..aM.I., _ To hold these vast domains - With but five hundrectinounted The rideAs of the plains.• • 1 . • --, ----- • Andthougb we Win no praise or faine' —teethe struggle horoalone- To carryout good British law . And plant old England's throne ; Yet when our Utak has boon- Pea:formed,' .' And law withorder reigns';-' The peaceful.crett [or long will bless . The riders Of the plains. •' , lbatest-Northwest-News. A Winnipeg telegram dated last (Wed- nesday) night Bays ; Leveque, the Turtle Mountain murderer, was arraigned before the Provincial Ma,gietrate:here yesterda,Y. for anew preliminary trial, owing ..to alleged irregularities at the firee.hearing by Magis- trate Prudhomme. Counsel for the prisoner objected. saving that an examination had already been held and the prisoner com- mitted for trial. His Worship overruled the objection, and the examination was proceeded with, Mr. Ardagh, Deputy AttorneY.General, 'prosecuting. At the hearing this Morning the case was With- drawn, as arrangements are being Made ,lay the Crown to have, the body of Deslaurier exhumed and exatnined by a medical man. Chief Constantine will also proceed' to Turtle for such other 'evidence, ss can be Obtained. ' 2 A sharp frost has been experienced the last two alights. The crops through South- ern Ma,nitoba, are, fortuuatelysmOstly gar- nered. Snow fell twohours yesterday on the height of land between Thunder Bay and this city. , , , There is great anxiety here about the Ontario, which it is rumored is missing. - Freight is delayed at Erinee Arthur's Landing for want of cars. The Canada Pacific Railway have, not delivered the Government rollingstook to the con- tractors. An express from Rat Portage ran off a bad piece of the Thunder Bay Branch track where several accidents have occurred this year near Whitemouth. The train--gOing fifty railee..arahour to make up for lost time -ram Several hundred yards along the sleepers. No one was hurt. . A new nursemaid has been engaged for the family of John Leech. On her appear- ing in the nursery, she was thus addreseed by Master Leech: " Nurse, papa, says 1 ican one of those children that can only be tnanaged by kindness, and I'll trouble you 'to fetch ,nome sponge cake and oranges at once." , .. TICE TIT,%1SEL C011.11LIISION- Particulars .ot the eci4tentriee !fops issal -The Catiaic of the illotiision. A New York despatch of laet night's date says: The accident on the N. J. C. & H. R. Railway tunnel resulted as follows: Killed--Madance Eugene Aubert. eohool teacher; Mount Vernon, ,N.Y. '• Sherman Adamson, Mount Vernon; Stein, New Roohelle ; a woman, said to be Miss stnith, a school teacher. 'Ybe injured include Herald Meik, of New Jersey, face and left knee; Thomas Logan, of Mount Vernon, bruiees On -the face; 11:0. Houghton,' 267 West 4,5th street, scalp Wounds; H. Hough- ton,_his 80n, ankle broken; Miss Hitch- cock, Morisiana, sea two Mtsses Burnett, slightly ; George Briuckerhoff, severelyon the head and :neck ;' Wm. Brinckerhoff, Wni. Howe, Alonzo Bray, James R. Hae - per, Lizzie Conatnelene, all of Mont Ver- non, and twe daughters of J. K. Mathewa ; Howe is reported to, be 'dying. Shermen Abrahams, aged 17, of. New Rochelle, who was in the rear oar of the New Haven train, was injured very, badly aboat the head and face -it is thought fatally.'The Commercial reports twelve killed, forty wounded seriously and a large number slightly wounded... No acCurate list can be obtained as yet. It ia reported that seve- ral of the injured have since died. e . The accident was the result of gross-inie- management of the locomotive on the main line. The engine on the River road broke its driving wheel at 1.23d street this morn- ing and blocked the road; corasequently the New Haven trains that arrived were. switched on to.the south bound side track. The 7.53 train from Mt. Vernon was 35 minutes late wheu it reached the 86th street station. It had made frequent stops and backed out and in the tumael, as the engine exploded the signal torpedo on the track. It had hardly been a minute at the 86th .street station when a rumble was heard and in an instant a crash and the screams of a score of men and women Were heard: The engine of theHarlem lec,a1 engine and the two rear cars of the six composing the _New Haven train telescoped. The fthat- fered oars lie in the tunnel pild upon the -demi:dished-locomotives._ Tbe tuenel filled with smokeebut the police and firemen by energetic weak prevented an outbreak of . . -• • A New. York despatch says: Madame Eugenie Aubert, WDO' Was • killed, was the "wife of.Prof. Aubert, of the :Normal Col. lege. Rer gkull•waserushed- • On her body was foubdthelollowing letter: , On the train, ---,21, Friday 'morning. , My dear sitter,: ---Many thank e for your kind note- last eveuiugss, Mather Seerna very ranch weakened, but she Seethe a little better thisi morning. When We get to the 'city I do not know, nOr,do I knew Whs,t is the /natter. Every 'few :Moments 'we - stop, then back, then we start again. It %hi all the More annoyitag.that,1 have Jots of things to do to -they, and'we move on Satur- day, the 30th. • If 1 possibly oau 1 Will See you to -day, audit net, Mopday.We have come teat' dead stop' again'. about, One Hundredth street, I" think.' Hornig to 'see you to -day----"-. - ' It was a.dead stepindeed, ,and.her body. a ,few noinents later lay. in., the-- Eighty- eighth' street. station bowie, Two youug -ladies, who were terribly injured, weraput. into a drawing -room oar on the same train, ' Grand Centrale Depot. • The two young ladiee, nieces of - John K. Matthews; Local Iespector. of Steanaboats,thanifested.extraordinary eour- ege while the 212y8iOiatift were,dressingtheit ' Wounds. The effiertaliss Matthews Was dm - Most severely injured. Her, nogg was cut 'entirely off, and her, tight leg was broken' near the kneetoint, so that the knee -cap hUng.danglieg*looseiy from the limb, being-, held only by" the'Skins She was sevefety :bruised in the beck. • While the iDlinyklicians were ,dressing her wounds she said: "Now, • doctor, if there is any one else that is woree ' off thanIatn, I, would rather .you would at- tend tatheth fitst.", The doctor rePlied that 'the others were well provided for,and pro; ceeded 'with .his 'operations: , W13143 her limb . Was being. bandaged, a piece of flesh frone the Wound in 'her lace projected over the hraveyoang lady's • eye iu an annoying waystind She Calmly' requested the phyei- 'cian to out it .off, so that e;lie•ceulti see, The • • younger Miss , Matthews . waited .quietly until her sister was attended to, and then to the question of the ploysiciam, "Where 'do you appear tabahnit,'neY little lady ?" . she replied, •" 1 -don't really know; eny.back' hints" dreadfully, and there, is semething the matter with the back 'of ray hea,d." The "physieiasa raised her head., ad the 'whole baokof her head andneck appeared to be one mass.of blood and Contused flesh. A gentleman who Was standing by declared it to be the most horrible sight he had ever Seen, and he turned away sickened by the ghaetly Sight. The two young ladiea' were' conscious throughout the Operations, and , although-both-wereeaufferingeintenseLagony_ they were Wonderfully calm and brave chir- ing the whole ordeal. ' • it Gas Well Striven. A Courtwright telegram says: Consid- erable -excitement -prevailed here last night on account of striking an, exteusive gas, vein alt depth of a hundredand ten feet, while boring for Water on the property of -Mrlatties-D s e-beens attached to the well and the gas lighted, which illuminates the town. It is the intention of Mr. Dunlop to convey the -gas to his factory and planing mills, to be ueecl -Two Irishmen were asleep -in -the attic of a house which caught fire. One of them, :in the hurry to escape, got his pantaloons on front side back and jumped to the street below. His companion seeing' him falling all in a heapsealled to him," Whist, Jerry, are ye kilt enthirely ?" And Jerry, gather- ing himself up and discovering the strange adjustment of • his garments aforesaid, shouted back, 'Not intoirely kilt, but upon me worrd I'm fatally twhisted."' Dr. Coplestone, Bishop of Colombo; has recently brought himself into unenviable notice by dismissing a schoolmaster for engaging himself to marry the daughter of a Methodist. "lam deeply grieved," he wrote, "that you had not loyalty or cour- age enough to save you from the wretched fall you contemplate." "We are deeply grieved," adde the Leedom Echo, which tells the story, "that the Bishop had not sense enough to save himself frora tine wretched exhibition of bigotry." " war ory awhile ago was, "Egypt for the Egyptians." It is now "Don't hang me.' "Ah, ha," said Mrs. Partington," it takes all sorts of folks to make a world,- and I'm glad I'm not one of 'em." ,-- A celebrated tragedian haclattoltelinose. A lady once remarked th him, "I like your ,but, to be frank; with.you, I can't get Over you/meas." " NoVender, madam," -replied the tragedian, " thabridge is gone.' The victory in a debate liatnot in lower- ing an opponent, but in raising the subject in public, estimation,. Controversial wisdom lies not in destroying his error.; not iffmaking him ridiouleus, so -much, as in a making' the audience wise. -G. J. Ilhlyoake. COLLISION AT SEA. The seestanualp Edson sank la a Fog - Two Lives Lost. A last Sunday Cork deepa,tole' says: The .eteamship Lepanto,' which at•rived to -day from Hull, reporte that on the night of the 21st she collided with and sunk the steamship Edam in a fog. The Edam sailed from New York on the 20th hest. for Amsterdam with a valuable cargo, 21 passengers and a crew of 54 men. The Lepantoac boats were put out im- mediately after the collision as were those of the Edam, and all of the latter's people except the third engineer and his -assistant were saved. The Lepanto was badly damaged, but luckily Bemired a pilot 'soon after the collision and reached port safely. The debris Of the Edam indicated that ahe blew up on foundering. The Lepanto's officers etate that the,Edam dragged right across her bow from north to youth with her propeller going all the time. Stearn whistles had been blown at intervals. The Edam's whistle was heard before headlight appeared very close to the Lepauto. The Lepanto's master and second officer were in charge of the vessel at the Captain Tait, of the Edam, says he had thirty passengers, four being ladies. There were agouiiiug cries to be saved heard when the vessel first struck, but all were got into the heats except the two of the crew before referred to-. The .explosion of . the Edam was heard aboard the Lepanto. The boats cruised for hours in search of the missing men, but 'DO trace of them could be found. The Lepantahad a large - hole stove inher forward compartment and her etem'was broken. The aperture was covered with sails and the lower fire peak filled up with hage, eaW dust and planking. There was great .anger of the bulkhead bursting and jeopardizing all the lives on board. The ship, however, made uo•water and was able to proceed at a good Speed. Nothing whatever was saved from the Edam. The collision occurred in latitude 31.8, longtttide 66.50. Return ot a Relief Party: ---A-Washingtonedespatbh-saya: The ex- pedition that sailed bathe steamer Neptun.e from St. -Johne, Nfld., July, 81h, with ad- ditional stores for Lieut. Greeley'S party returned oaSaturday from St. Joh ns,h a,vi ng been unable to reach Greeley. A solid ice barrier Was encouutered extending from Cape Inglefield to Roes Bay. Greeley's station is In' latitude 81, degree 40. The vessel was only able to reach latitude 79, degree 20.The party remained ,until September '5th when the ice lead formed to considerable depth,' audto remain longer would be ta r,einain for the winter. The Neptime established depots , to secure *Greeley's • safe retreat should it become necessary a year or two hence. No anxiety for the safety ot tbe party is entertained, as they are amply supplied wishstores. of all kinds for two years.- The appoesibility of annually reaching the station was 'fore- seen and provided for. . • The Perils of the Lakes. A Port Ethron;1 Miph., telegram says : The schooner Homer,' Capt. McLeod, ar- rived at the 6 -rand, 'Trunk elevator from Chicago Wednesday afternoon wiala 32 000 bushel s% of corn. When off Presque Tele Mo e day n ightl ightning struck the schooner, splintering her foremast and 'fore truck. The captainand three of his crew, who were ou deck, were shocked by the light- erring-and-could-not-speakefor_fixe_minptes. Accident to a:Northern isaisivarintireetor ' Mr. -Noah l3arnhardt; one of the directors Of the 'Northern Railway, fell off the express: • last night north of Allendale and narrowly escaped being killed.MT.. Barnhardt was sittine.on the steps of one of the ears 'when the train was going slowly up a steep grade. ILI passing a culvert the train j Red and - the unfortunate inati •fell off. As. it was dark his absence was.' not noticed- until. Allandale Wits reached, when the ttlartn .was' Spread. A Special train was made ' up and sent back to- look for him. He was met Walking down , the track about. two Miles froui the place where be fell. Although no bones were broken, Mr: Baruhatdt was sufferinggreatly from contusions and intermit iejuries: He was 'brought, to the Pity last night ad- sent to his home on. Wellington !street, where he is doihg.well. THE difference :in national custhms is strikingly illustrated lay'sem.e of the adver- tisements which appear in British news- papers. Thus, in one Londonjournal there are in a, single issue more thaaforty. advertisements for 'barmaids.. There may be .places in *this country where wonien dispense intoxicating dtinks from behind* bars, but, if so, they are so few as not to -come-to-public snotice„In_EnglandLheyes "ever, the liquor is supposed to be spiced if dratvil and delivered by female hands. Judging by the advertisements referred to, it barmaid shOuld not be Over 30*yeare -in age, though she may be as young as 15 years. It ie 'desirable that she elaould, be tall-atloast,thia is put in as aerecommend-, ationt and it is Conceivable that in reaching for h bottle, or in banding glasses oyer the counter, a short woman wouldybeeat 'a die- -Tad vii-satages7-Thir-batreaidii aro contmonly epoken...of as respectable young -person's, and .we believe it is a fact that they are . . tnuch better than one would 'enproie, when the influences that surround than are - taken into account. • - Earl Spencer, who is travelling in Coime- maths has been received by the inhabitants thuafar with great cordiality. At West. port he .made a speech ,in response to the . welcome given hini, io which he wished.the Queen could go there to have 'such a recep- 0-00 andsenjoy Buell scenery. The remark,- - is said, its attraeting considerable atten- 00. . , . The most positive • men are the most credulous, since they must believe there. selves, and advise Meet with their falsest flatteries and worst enemy --their own self love. -Pope. , • • • • Selfishness mars the loveliest actions ; it stains* the :,fairest beauty ; it dims.' the brightest lustre ; it blotches the most muni licent charity. • .., • - • ' John Crawford, one of the last of.' the Trafalgar heroes, died this tnonth at East- haven,,near Dundee, 'in the . 95thyear of his age. He joined the navy when a boy, and was present at the battle of Trafalgar, where be lost "Ono of his ,arins. This in- -capacitated him for future service, and he returned to Dundee. He was,for many years station master at Easthayensen the Dundee & Arbroath Railway. . Mr. C. N. Warton, 'M. P. for Bridport,. England, boasts that he was absent from his seat in the Holism only twenty'rtainutes during the whole of the last session. • . It is probable that Prince Albert Victor of Wiles wilIsoon be gazetted to one of the regiments of the Household Cavalry. ,Lanctot, the Montreal lawyer who dis- graced himself in the. Circuit Court on Friday, niadea'"htiniblasapelogy_staludge Rainville and to the crier next day, attri- buting his offensiveneste to being intoxi- cated at the time. Tip oourb censtired- the delinquent severely. ... .,14TES11, IRISII NEWS. The Dundalk Emmet hese band has been preelainaed.• The iron ore trade in the county Antrim continues to.develop, and, another line, the Dungoniaell Mineral Railway, its about to be opened. • \ Sir .Richard Emmanuel Moore, Bart., has died in Cork City, aged , 72. The deceased was the eleventh and premier baronet of Ireland, the title laving leseu created in 1681. ' • Searches for arms in Ireland are gene- rally fruitless,, The weapons, well greased, are wrapped -in what may be called water- proof paper, and buried in &tilled field,, wiener alone knowing the precise spot, it a crop is grown upon it. Surgeon -Major Bourke, Who succeeds his brother, shot in Galway, commanded the sick transport corps in the -Afghan war,, and,the papers. significantly say, " is not 'unaccustomed to the use of firearms." He 7°Ittanate550,000 from the barony in compen- sation for his brother's% lose, and says he will provide for the murdered' eseort's rata- trves.if the Government doers not. ' . . The four officere of the Austrian army hiaheet in command, , in Bosnia are Irish- men.. The Governor of Livno is'Major. General O'Reilly. The second in command of the cavalry is Col. O'Herlihysand there are two Capt. O'Iullivahsunderhim. One of the generals ofbtigade is Rudolph Oliver Swanston, Whet comes of a west Cork family. It seems that still in far foreign fields, . from Dunkirk to Belgrade, the Irish soldier is foremost in the path of holier, glory and snaall pay. - • , There is a large tract of country, lying partly in the Queen's County and in the counties of Tipperary; famous for its rich anthracite coal fields, and its, flag and other quarries. Several companies are working in the district, but, owing.to the wretched railway adoonamodation, they can be re-- garded as ,only playing at a development of the splendid national resources at their. conamand: The best part of .,the district lice between Ballyhrophy and Slievarclagh, embracing the three towns of Rathdowney, Johnstown and Urlingford. Here there is nota yard of rsalroad:-, -The-coal from the collieries in the vicinity of Castlecomer has to be carted a distance of fully twenty-four English milee-that is, to Ballybrophy- before a railway is met. A $12,000 Haul. A yesterday's Baltiniore deepatch says : Thismoorningwhilst the clerk of Wilson, Colston & CO hiOkere "Was cutting off coupons Iran a number of Columbia and Greenville Railroad bonds in the cashier's' roans, Bank of Baltimote:tw,o men entered, and one engaged the cashier, in conver- sation and the other seized, a box contain- ing 512,000 worth of bonds. Both escaped. It is not thought that the bends will be negotiated, as the banks. and brokers have been notified throughont the • country. At the post office this morning a. man attempted to snatch a package containing 83,500 in money from a messenger of the Fanners' &Merehantai Bank.. Tbe rascal escaped. He:is supposed - to be one of the two bond thieves. A. -Terrible 1,light. A. terrible sight was witnessed a few days since 1u--Paniss-Ont-sOne-cf_the... patients of the hospital went .rrad, and, leaping out .of a window overlooking the street, perched on the cornice..' He ad- dressed the crowd below in incoherent -lauguageeaardethreatened-to-th re imself- down when any one approached'. the win- dow. Matteasses and rugs were spread on the pavement, and the -firemen were imme- • diately sent for One of the latter let him- - . self down by a rope affixed to the 'roof, and, be,ouring the* madman under , the arms, managed to thrust him into the open win- dow, where he was taken in 'charge bythe attendants. The plucky conduct of the fireman was loudly cheered by the crowd, as deserved to be. , - Testing lier BOX...rowing Capacity. /f,.. " Here's tiaat yeast," said a little girl to the lady of a -family who had recently. moved into the neighborhood. "-Why, Couldn't your mother use inquired the lady. • Oh, we buy all air bread at the " Buy all your" bread? Then what did you want of my yeast? " -"01, ma says she couldn't think of any- thing she needed to borrow just then, and she wanted to see if you could be depended on in a case of emergency, se she tried you on the yeast." Rev. John Pringle, late of Georgetown, Ontario,was on Thursday evening inducted pastor .of Kildonan (Man.) Presbyterian .Ohnrch, as euccessor to the late Dr. Black. Eloquence is the best Epeeoh of die- beet soul. Genii's and virtue like diarnonde are beet plain set. ' Language is not an instrument into which if a fool breathe it will make melody. ----Goldwin Snrith. The love that lasts -The love of money Love is never lost. lf not reoiproeated-, it will flow, back and Soften and purify the heart. -Irving. • That homely babies make the beat - looking folks is an "adiTge as old as time itself; but you cannot tell a mother her babe is homely. s , . -Prof. Ponfick, of Breslau, has been clearing up some of the "popular doubts concerning mushrooms. He says that all the compact' ones are poisonous, but that cooking deprives them of much a their poison, though the water in which they, are boiled should be carefully thrown away, raid , the esculent washed in two or three waters. Dried' mushrooms are only safe "after four months' keeping. Martitoba is about to adolot the system, of sanitary inspection of inantigrants in force on the United Staters frontier. It is possible, thank heaven.! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. -George Eliot. --There are few- husbands- whona the - wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks, which the soft waters penetrate in time. -Marguerite de Valois. -The *rag carpets of our grandmothers are coming into fashion in the shape of large rugs for bed -rooms and nurseries. How will our young ladies be able to,turn their attention from the testhetio Keneing- ton embroidery to this ignoble field of labor? -A worldly father, after the style of Lord"Chesterfield, is giving good advice to his son, who is about to enter society: "And, above all, avoid flirtation. But if you must flirt, or fall 'in 'love, sir, he sure that it is P with a pretty woman. -It is always safer." "Why ?" "Because some other fellow will be Bute to be attracted and to cut you out before any harm hafi been done.", ' Queen Victoria sent a yoke of Spanish oxen to,a cattle show on the ISle of Wight. They were richly caparisoned; and were ledanto the judge's arena hitched to it deco- rated waggon. They were not entered for competition. . ONE WAY .OF INTOXICATION. awning Foot to Whith:the UHYPOdermit SYringe is New EHIpJoyed. • ' 'A, DEPLORABLE RECORD. "There are 100 hypodermic syringes sold now ffeowr eyaecahre oange,,,theaatidfomundap dealetnrin-,- surgical instruments a, few mornings sincea leaning over his showcase full of gleaming tools. "People have discovered that they 'are not only of great Service in the allevia- tion of extreme pain, such as sois.tioa, for instance, but that they afford a convenient Sort Of respectable intoxication, otexhilara- tion, to speak more politely.- Good yolitng men -the kind. of ,young men who would look with horror upon a glass' of honest whiskey, and,would not for warble he seen entering a bar -room -are. very frequently slaves to this' peculiarly insidiouti and deadly phase.of the opium habit. And it Seems practically impossibleto, awaken to_ a consciousnese' of itb inevitably ruinous consequeuces one who. . once becomes addicted to it.. The 'drunkard and the. opium eater or laudanum drinker are much easier of reformation than the person Who gets.acdustomed 10 throwing it few drops of morphia under his skin. . • ,- '• I can.tell those who are devotees of the 'habit when I 'meet:thena in the street. Only yesterday morning a 'young man rushed ha herd, excited, in great haste, and trenahling all over like aleaf in the wind. . 1 knew at a glance, what* he wanted, and had the ease .open even before he ,could control his quiveriug jawe :enough to say, .‘ I've broken the. needle 'of ray hypodermic' Syrittge., I. want, ,it fixed, and won't you please lend nie one..qUickly for iefew moments, and give 'me. the Use of. your private room for a valuate?' I handed one •to him. He darted into the back -room, and in tefew nainiitee came out again, oath, staling, and steady: He had had his.dosel Meanwhile I replaced his broken needle With tt 80Und. One, forwhich he paid; and, carefully pocketing it, he strode out with:- . . . out a sign of the intense, nervousness- from whiah he waSsuffering when he entered. • . - -"If you have never seen a morphine victim of this class' itt th8 nervous agonies consequent upon temporary deprivation of the drug, you can have no idea of how they suffer. Many ydung. men have told me. that_they were lathe habit of taking three, four, or .even .fivq hypoderthic ipjections of • morphine -everyday, and even had to take them at night to get Sleep.' .01course, when the habit is ouee formed, the dose nmet be continuallyincreased, or else made more frequent for the ' 'sane results" tele attanied. Wernen bay a great many Of these instrum'ents., Generally they get. into .the habit of using them' through' ,fetniiiarization with the treatment by physician e foe -mitigation of pain. One lady I know of had a -violent attack of sciatica -which, -as you'may, or may not, know, hurts worse than a thousand tooth- aches at once --and :her family physician . 'gave her .a hypodermic injection of .mers. Ohne which afforded inetant relief. But itis not a cure, merely an -alleviation, .and had to -be' repeated three orsfour -times ever' - day. , the doctor abOut two minutes, and charged $2 each time. After a week or so, as% shagot to be such a-good;Tstirt-ds, rs trustworthy source of revenue he reduced his tate to $1. .Even that,. hewever, was% more than the husband'e,. , resources would stand, so -he canoe' to me for ,advice -and bought a'," syringe.I showed .him how to use it.. No-w;-althouglr7ther- women has. got. well of the .sciatioa, she keeps. up the rnorphin:e pr,actice,-finds it a necessity of her .elistence,, andher legs; .her husband tells me, are - pitted, all over. 'with that -narks of the application." tdon't. sup/Mee she ever,, will or can give it up, .Yes, the marks are ineradicable." " To. adininister the injection yen take .up• a. hat of skin between your finger and "thumb, jab the needle in 'and squirt away. It .dpesn't. hurt , at all, not as.. much as. poking aneedle into.skin not pinched in that way Would, but care must be :exercised 'to throw the solution tajuat the Proper depth or else it IS likely' to produce -hideous ulcers; difficult to cure.. '' Well, each 'of, 'those jabs leaves a little, hard; calloused - like lump...I'd rather, if I had a wife, that she should take to the Cologne': bottle than to the hyPodermic sttringe for 'her eihilara- " I suppose I sell, on an average, at least one of those syringes every day, and some days four or five. Then they are sold by a number of other surgical instrument dealers and by all the first-class drug stores. Why, here is the'best evidence of the magnitude - of the polar demand for them -the . . various styles in which they are gotten up. Here is one, animported article from France, that costs 510, in a silver-plated case, with' a finely made eyringe, an extra needle, wires to keep itt the needles when not in use, to prevent their clogging, a tiny bottle to hold the morphine, and all in a form cenvenient for the pocket. Here is another, of simpler Construction and fewet appliances, Mit equally effective, that sells for $1.50. There are none cheaperthan tine latter,but there are tench more expeneive ones than the former, gotten up in gold and fluiehed like jewels. The manufacturers Make them of gold, silver, baser metal, hard rubber, celluloid a,nd glass.. , In all, the principle is the same -a tiny syringe tube Of.glase, with a graduatingscale of minims engraved on it, and a hollow needle nozzle. And the result of the continued use .is alWays the samee-ruin,"7-N. Y. Sun. What They Owe to the Papers.. (Canada Presbyterian.) The religions denominations of Canada should he gra,teful to the press for the man- ner in which the proceedings of their supreme aourts are reported. During the recent meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian . Church of the United States a leading New York journalgave seven lines to the Amenably and two 'columns to a prize fight. The leading journals0f Catiada would probably give the same amount of space to the prize fight, but they Would put a good report of the Assembly beside it as a sort of antidote to the poison. At the present timesa good Methodist 'who reads the reports of the Conference at Hamilton may know quite an much 'about the business " as those who are present--" perhaps more. Ministers and others who read a good report of out General Assembly proceedings in the quiet of our homes often Iheve a better idea, of what Was done than some who were out and in during the meet!' ing. Church.going peOple don't know how much they owe the press for informing the people about our Church work. A memorial church to Daniel O'Connell is to be built in his native parish of Caber.civeen, County Kerr. Cardinal McCabe says: " In the preeent unhappy condition of our affairs it ie true wisdom to keep the life 8,nd labors of the Liberator before the minds of our people. In their struggle for juetice they should ,be reminded that if their banner is to leali them to true and solid victories' it tenet bear no unworthy motto: it must be Sullied by no aingle stain.". noW EL.TIEM Fil.11H. The Accepted Theory ot Suction la the Jet Herr H. Dewitz hat( communicated to the Berlin Society of Natural History BOD10 facts that bear yery stroegly against the generally received theory that flies adhere to perpendioular walls aud ceilings by.virtue of some pucking power in their feet He asserts that the feet of flied cannot possess the sucking property ascribed to them, for they are hard and destitute of musclea. The theory Las long been contra- dicted by the experiteente . of Black- well, whe found that fliee could °limb the sides Of a jar under the receiver of an air pump, where there was no atmospheric pressure, and Who asserted that the power of adherence was due to a sticky matter secreted from the foot hairs of flies. Thia assertion was generally regarded ae not proved. and the case has rested there. Dewitz reports that his i vest4,i •ati ne have o shown that Blackwell *wa:s right. -He has watched the exudation of the sticky matter from the feet of the flies by fastening one Jof the insects to the under side of a plate glass and viewing it under the microscope. ' perfectly clear liquid was. seen to flow from the ends of the foot hairs and attach the foot to the glass. When the foot was lifted upeto be put down in another place the drops of the sticky matter* were perceivedlo be left on- the glass fh, the exact places where the foot hairs had. rested. The adhesive fluid appears to case down through the hollow of the hair and to be derived from glands' which Leydig discovered in the folds of the foot in 1850. A similar adhesive Matter appears to ba possessed by bugs, by many larwe, and probably by all inswing that climb the eterns and the under sides of the leaves of plants. -Popular Science Monthly. Dig. WOOD ON ICAIECTIATI$111. . -- Cures Obtained by 'Feeding on Cold , . Water Only. - Dr. Wood, Professor of Cb.ernistry in the • Medical Depertm en.t of the Bishop's College, is quoted in 'Xmas/edge, the new English scientific) weekly, as reporting, in the Canada Medical...Record, a number of cases in which acute articular. rheumatism was cured by fasting, usually from four to eight , days. In no case was it necessary to fast more than ten days). Less positive results were obtained in cases of chronic rheuma- 'tisinss_The patients ware allowed to drink freely s of cold water, or lemonade in Modetait,11 quantities if they preferred.' No medicines were given. Dr. Wood says that from the 'quick and- almost invariably' good results obtained by simple abstinence from food. in more than forty oases in his own .practice. • he fit` • inclined to believe that rheumatism -is, after all, only a phase of indigestion, to he cured by giving complete and continued rest to all the viscera. - Popular Nothing About_ Death. • There are two popular notions about death that, though they contradict one, .. another, have a,dhereuts throughout -Ghristendorn. One is that what is called a natural death.takes place with the,ebb of , the tide ; the other, that itoccurs after • midnight, in what are called ethe small -hours before- dawn. The records show, as might have been expected, that the Black Rides,r who -respects neither age nor worldly; conditiot), is" indifferent in timing his visits. ,In New York city last week the greatest.. number of deaths took place at 11 o'clock in the day, when there were seven ;but there - were five deaths in each of the hours Of 3, 4, 7, ctnelVia'cloek."-rn-tlyermortring, and 3, 4 and To'cilock in the evening. Four per"- . sons died at 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, and 9 o'clock in the naerning, and at 1 o'olook- and 6 o'clock in the evening, and three persons ,'die.d,at each of the hours 'of 1 and 2 achiek. a.m. and 8, 10 ,and o'cloek p. ne. There • happens to be no deaths' at 5 o'clock in the evening. There were 10 more deaths before noon than after it. " ' The Na.panee Erpress.says that Michael Lee, tbe murderer, has recently been amusing himself by learning- to spell and. write. He is now able to write hie own , : name quite legibly,and is immensely' pleased with his, MICCeB13.. ooctiotonopy asks when his trial will come off, land naturally 'seeing to regret.that the 'hour is so close at hand. " -None are so seldom found alone, and are so Boon tiredeeLtheir own:: cempany, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. Sam Obrieght, an alleged lunatic) in Ne* - York, dioplayed a wonderful shrewdness getting his trunks. "frorn ta laudlady who hasa bill against hire.. He caused himself to be arrested by bogus -officers; wha in- sisted on taking him and the trunks too. As a souvenis of 'Mr. Sohn Bright's . twenty-five yeare' connection with Bur: rninghatn it is proposed to :issue "The Bright Birthday Book," the matter for . Which is being .aeleated from Mr. Bright's, speeches and letters by Dr. J. A. Langford. - Stephen E. Day, aged 70, secreted the savings of a ' life -time -$73,000 --in 'it tin hooc.- in his house at Mount Holly, Ohio. During the "absence of himself and wife an unknown person stole'the box; . A mill hand at Ottawa nained Deslau- -- riers has been arreeted on suspicion of causing Ins wife's death by.ill-treatment. Three of the six guns of H. DI. S. Phoenix, ashore on Prince Ed ward-101,nd, have been • Bayed. The crew have been taken on board , the Northampton, a,nd the con:inlander. will pe court-martiale.d on reaching England. Rev. J. B. Courtney was trying to write it sermon in London, when an • organ - grinder began to Play,under his window.. The minister felt no profanity, he declares, when he said to the musician, "You fel- lowsmake this street a hell upon earth." A woman' hi the seine' house, however, liked the noise and' paid for its continu- .ance. That led to- in. altercation, and all Were taken to a police cohrt, where they, were fined.. ' -A jolly -looking German was quietly walking down the street when he was approached by a. man who said "Hello, Joe I What are you doing here?" 'The old ma,n looked and said "But I am not here at all." "Not here ?" said the tioa,n ;. " what do _yeti mean by that..?" . now, you See my name is not. 'lees .a,nd 'so bow could I be here..? You must mean- . some other man." Murphy disturbed esmeeting of the Sal- vation Army at Oldham, England. Private Kerahaw, a muscular , exhorter, accepted Ins "challenge to go out and fight. The en- counter was a protraCted arid desperate ex- hibition cif pugilism, bot the ginner was • whipped: _ In France the Salvation Army has ex-, panded into a salvation fleet. A cutter - 'taking the liana() of The Sailors' Bethel has • sailed clown.the Seine from Henfleur'th. s Rouen. It is manned by, three clergymen' and a pilot, Who is said to be a converted , seaman, The cargo !smade up of traetti and Bibles in French. As the .orew-are, musical, they give, sacred concerts at the points where they touch.. ' , It is Mid that Louis Riel is at Benton Montana, , and that he intends visiting Winnipeg ,in autumn.