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leeteseetina 13u.1giet VVOte the
adietleerlaud. *
Mx. Bright is completely oonvalefieent.
Prince Bismarck now Oinks a good deal
of Moselle when he Woke.
A female desoendant of Mirabeau has
come down to a Government to'baceo store.
The Hebrew manneoripte discovered lad
Week contain h poem on the fall of jeru-
ealera, Biped, '0 jacob, eon of Immo."
.Nr. Gladden°, dace Tuesday, has been
Lord Itosebery'e guest at the Darditne,
and is steadily improvine in health and
epirits.
The Gazette Italia contradiete the report
that litme. Picoolomini ie reduoed to
poverty. She le married to the Marquis
of Fargo, who lathe owner of large wattles.
Mrs. Egan says Daly,• the arrested
dynamiter, took the name of " Denman "
because he intended to make his debut an a
rausio hall singer under that -name. He
intended to return to Amerioa at theeend.
of April. '
The Conservatives in the House of Com.
mons have decided to oppose the extension
of the franchise in Ireland. When the
House goal into committee on the Fen.
ebbe Bill, Mr. Henry Chaplin, Coneerva.
4ive member for Mid. Lincolnshire, will
make a motion to that effeot.
The marriage of the Prim:wee Victoria of
Hesse and Prince Louis of Battenberg is
fixed for April, the 30bh.Tbe Queen will
attend, but she bas given orders that there
-shall be an entire absence of festivity. The
couple will come to England to reside. They
will occupy Sennicotte Home, near Chi.
cheater. The Queen trivets the Princess a
large private. dowry.
It is certain thee the lad estimate which
General Gordon Bent of the time he can
hold out is oulytwo months more. But in
View of the opinion of Sir Evelyn Baring,
General Stevenson and General Cerahath,
strengthened as it is by the report of Cepa •
Molynerix, of the formidable nature of the
orises with which a summer_oampaign
would be attended for the English, the idea
of a rammer expedition haebeen abandoned.
. The letters of George Eliot, Which are
now being prepared for publication
by her husband, Mr. Cross, abound
in reference to the American civil
war and the Franco•German struggle.
The writer showsmuoh interest in the
French Republic, but ehe was *entirely
with Germany in the war of 1870, Mr.
Cross is making such slow progress in his
work of editing that the book, is- not likely
to be ready before the beginning of next
year.
The private acceptance of Mi. Parnell's
schetith to raise a fund from whieh to Oay a
salary to the Nationalist members of Par-
liament is making rapid headway. The
smooth of the projeot is becoming assured.
The Catholic priests are giving active
assistance to Mr. Parnell's Land Purohaee
and Settlement Company. All the priests
in the diocese of Galway have purchased
ten shares each,and every curate five
shares. The same thing has been done in
most of the Irieh dioceses. ,
Mrs. Hope, widow of Henry Hope, brother
of Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., owner of the
Saturday -Review, and eon of the author of
the groat, but forgotten, romanoe of "Anas.
tame," has left instaense wealth during life
to her daughter, the Duchess of Newcastle:
-
The duchess was separated for many years
......._from.ber-httsbande•whoadied-beforee6Ore:
broken-down sport. She then married
,Tom Hohler, who after a brief and not
very successful career of an operatic tenor,
eettled down into aristocratic relationehip.
The duchese was represented at the funeral
of her not very fortunate &et husband by
a wreath.
A London coble despatch (Jaye the indi-
cations thetethe Government intends to
undertake -an autumn campaign toward
Khartoum are multiplying. Preparations
for such an event are being actively mada.
The survey of the Nile as far as the soceind
cataract, whioh Capt. Molyneux undertook
some weeks ago at the command of the
Admiralty, to determine the feasibility of
the use of gunboats, has been coinpleted,
and Capt Molyneux returned to Cairo lad
Monday. He has now been ordered to
report on the upper teaches- of theaiver as
far as Shendy. He is also to report on a
scheme for getting the English regircienes
acmes the Korosko desert. • •
Several of the Irish boroughs' are taking
advantage of the Easter recess to givee
welcome to their representatives in Parlia-
ment. Limeriok preserts the freedom of
the city to Mews. Miebael Devitt, E.
Dwyer Gray, owner of the Dublin Freeman's
Journal and member of Parliaraent for
County Carlow, and Charles Dawson, mem.
ber for Carlow Borough. On Tuesday
Drogheda will make Mr. Parnell a burgese
and feast him at a Corporation, banquet.
At Wexford, on 'Wednesday, a demonstra-
tion will be made in boner of Mr. T. M.
Healy, member for Monaghan, and of the
Redmond brothers, one et whom, John, is
member for New Rosso and the other,
'William, for Wexford Borough.
Bad Books for Boys.
EXPLOSIVE
several Meat Kept liner lattrelrilell En*
Fraction* Jokers.
A Now 'York despatch says; Penni Mee
or the ttstent to Which practical Jokes are
perpetrated May be formed ftotn the feet
that te tobacco firm on Essex 'street em-
ploys {levers' hands who are aepir oonstantly
busy•malting agate that are to all outward
appearanoes innooent and harmless, but
which really °entail" powder and other
explosives that buret in the smokerai few°
the moment he has **ea one or two puffs,
The manufacturers of these cigars told a
Herafri reporter that he tient thein to all
parts of the country -to Chicago, Cincin-
nati, Texas and California. "1 have more
orders for them," he said, "than I Oen
poesibly fiU, All clams of people buy
'here, but, as a general thing, adore are
ena bast patrone. I euppoee it is because
they have less to do than other people, and
have therefore more time for &ling
jokes on emit °thee. The day before pee.
terday an actor oanae in and leaked me if I
(mold pat dynamite in ow of my cigars.
Ile said he only wanted it for a joke, but
eornehow .1 didn't like the man's looks,
and, as I thought dynamite WAS too dauger-
oos a thing to play yokes with, a refused to
neake him one.
"By the way, I noticed the other day,"
continued the mgar.maleer, "that O'Dell°.
van Roses said he was sending explosive
cigars over to England to blowup Glad.
Stelae and all his Cabinet. Another person
laid that this could not be done, that no
suolt cigar .00uld be made, but if you will
wait here a few minutes e will show you
that it opal be made, and very easily."
The speaker took down about two thim-
blefuls of powder, slightly moistened it,
and then wrapped it very tightly in some
soft paper. Around this he in turn wrapped
some tobacco, and then proceeded_ in the
ordinary way to make a, cigar. 1 Now,"
he said, with a look of great triumph and
pleasure, "11 you give this to any of your
friends I guarantee it will blow his nose
off." Just then the °Ilia° boy !landed the
manufaoturer a' letter. Ah, he said,
"here is an order for a dozen boxes from
Chicago, and they say I must put plenty of
powder in, so there will be no danger of
their not 'going off. Well, the fools are-
oertelnly not all dead yet."
TUB SOVDAN.
Successful Sorties by 4ordon-I1C is,
Ordered • to Leave -Arabs' Curiosity
Gratified.
A last (Wednesday) night's London cable.
gram says e A despatch received at Cairo
from Gordon, dated March 30th, says that
on March 25th Gordon disarmed 250 Bashi.
Bazoulte who had mutinied. The following
day he shelled a rebel oamp on the Blue
Nile, 'killing forty . of the enemy. , March
271h the rebels fired upon Khartoum from
a village opposite.They were soon -forced
to evacuate the 'Village, losing fifty-nine
men. Bashi Bazouke occupied it and held
it until the 30bh. On that day the rebels
returned in force and drove them out, but
then retired. The White* Nile district is
quiet, Gordoniestimates the rebels about
Khartoum to number two thousand.
The British Government has sent posi-
tive Orders to Gordon' to withdraw from
Khartoum with the garrison as soon as.
-possible.
The latest advices from General Gordon,
dated April 4th, say in an engagement on
March 30th the rebels lost forty men killed
and eight wounded, together with sixteen
horses. • „e •
The Governor of Kassala in aeking daily
for assistance. elle reports 'that many
Baehi-Bazottkiliave joined the rebels, and
tho garrison is in -a, panicky state.,
In -an engagement at Khartoum on
eblainh 24th the rebel camp was shelled
and 116 rebels killed or wounded. A crowd
of.Arabs picked up a Shell and tried to dis-
cover its meohamera, when it exploded,
killing sixteen and maiming many others.
ATAN &WPC!. COST.
Woiltingmen on the Plip813111 Canal
.._ Dying by Thorisands.
The School Journal suggests as a topio Per
consideration at coming teachers' obnven-
tions, " Wbat means should be taken to
suppress the .publiestion of " pernicious
literature among our youth ?" The Jeurnai
Mee nuraerous proofs of the terrible•
affects of such stories as " Buffalo Bill,"
"Jane James," and the like, opal the
minds of children, and mentions that in
Montreal a boy committed a forgery, in
Toronto a lad shot his companion on the
street, and in such eases the ()raise wag too
much dime novel -reading.
Grew are the Idesonrces of the A.dvertiser.
In front of at eetablishment on•Grand
street . is • a small .glass phow- eaee
in which roosts two pretty httle yellow
bantam (thickens. A large number of dyed
eggs are in a basket in one corner, and near
them is a neat in which the hen lays an
egg daily. As the hundreds of people who
throng the street pass by they are some-
times attracted by hearing the rotator.
crow. On a card in the mom is ;he sign:
"Baster eggs given away to all chilaren
with parents buying shoes here." -et.
Journal.
A. Philadelphia despatch says: Capt.
-James Wiltbank, who has been for more
than a year"engaged in dredging operationa
on ehe Panama 'ship meal, has just're-
turned home . after a tough tussel with the
dreaded 'swamp fever. He says there is „
plenty of money there. There is oily Min
thing more common than cash, and that is
death. -Men die like the leaveli in autuniti.
Only the Italians appear.to live. The deed
are disposed of without ceremony. A
shallow grave, . no prayere, and all is in a
'moment forgotten. There are now 16,000
men at work ou. the canal, mostly negroes
from &maim, and th'e French West Indies.
These Magmas are brought over in droves
as fast as those at week die, and Captain
Wiltbank ventures to say that not two-
thirds of the 15,000 laborers now at work
will be alive a year from now. Five thou-
sand died, during the past three mouths;
but the large pay.tempte men to brave all
danger.. The company appears to have an
unlimited supply of money and -pays off
every two weeks.
Surveying the Northwest.
The Government surveying „parties are
preparing for Work in the NorthWeet. alf
• a dozen surveyors from Toronto Mid one
from Oakville will start for Battleford,to.
day. The appropriation for this 'work is
2800,000, dnly half ot the sum appropriated
last year. During last season 27,0601000
acres were surveyed and imbelieided into
160.aore lots,
Nothing impairs autherity more than a
too frequent or indisored use �t it. If
thunder Masada to be continued, it would
°mete no More terror than the noble Of ft
CliklED WAR.
The 'Assault on 'Protestants by Cathol:cs
--Orangemen on the wail:gem
A Carbonear• NIId.. despatch says: On
Sunday eight when the Protestants were
returning from church they were attithked
by Roman Catholics with pickets e,nd
stones. One man named Svuib was fatally
wounded. The Protestants then collected,
armed with pickets, and disperaed the
mob. Yeeteraay morning it man named
Brennan drew his revolver and fired at an
Orangeman. He was arrested in the after:
noon. A man named Hayden, now under
arrest,. shot , at James, the brother of the
Orangeman murdered in the Harbor Grace
riot, while etanding itt Hogarea door on
Water street. He fortunately missed hire.
The revolver is in the handeof the author-
ities'. The outrages Were followed by a
general turnout of Orange Protestants, all
armed with guns and bayonets, who kept
marching through the • istreete all night.
The, streets aro all deserted save by the
orowd in arm's. The executive haye ordered
Iler Majeety's war fillip Tehados !teen
Halifax, velneb, pert she left last night.
014L11011-0ENEILI-L BliOuting.
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The Saisation ArlssY ,lbeanlar IS a Naw
Jersey Jodi.
A despatch from Raw Brunewiels, N; J.,
says: MajorGenerel Moore, of the Salve,.
tido Amyl was ',relight here on the 12th
bet. and lodged in jail by Chief Volirratt,
on the obarge of defrauding people of money
furnished him to build barracks. He will
be held to await the action oe the Grand
Jury, now in Bowdon. Moore theta said,
"The Lord will protect nae," but further
refused to Bey anything. He sings Salva-
tion gouge and reads hie Bible to the
prisoners. His arrest has caused great
excitement itt thie city.
•
WHAT IS sem IN 3311001W411.
"Praise the Loral Thanls the Lord!
He is geed and:just; He will punish the
wicked Jerseymen who took from us Major-
General Moore. ele will noon be free and
with ne again. Halleluiah le" Thus spoke
Captain Light, in conammed of the head-
quarters' staff of tbe Salvation
Army, in Brooklyn, to a Telegram
reporter to -day in reference to the
arrest of Major-General Moore. The cep-
tain continued. The arrest is an outrage,
,and was brought about by one or two men
who Beek only to do berm. They are mem-
bers of the army, but bail ones. It's all a
lie. The majorgeneral never look a cent
of money that did not belong to him. He
ie a man of private fortune and hers been a
business man. He sacrificed fault' and
worldly things to fight for God. He cm
make money quicker than any man in the
army on this aide ofthewater. He wants
to save the world from damnation. We
have employed aceourteel and will make it
warm fax all parties concerned."
Considerable preparation is helm; made
for the grand festival, wbiela is to be held
on May 6tb, in the Temple, on Waverley
avenue. It is .hoped that Crenate' Booth,
the commander-itechief, will arrive in this
country in time tobe present. Capt. Light
Fifa to a reporter: "We shall take poems -
Oen of our new quarters just as soon after
the let of May as possible. At the festival
there will be preeent over 2000,delegates
from all parts of the United States and
Canada. The figures howing the progress
of the army on this side of the Atlantic', on
a rough estimate, are about an followe :
Corps, 52; outpoets, 17; number of
stations, 96 ; field offieere, 136 ; attached to
headquarters, 102 ; totarnumber of officers,
238. The array is firmly entrenched in 13
countriee and hate a good standing fax its
paper, which is published in varioue 'lan-
guages in different parte of the globe. Out
of 136e)fficeria iri this country, only 13 are
from abroad. The attaches of the head-
quarters' staff will charter a otearrier about
the end of this month to go from this city
to Troy, at which place they will take on
board delegates from,Canada, The steamer
will stop at the various towns on the way
back from Troy and take on board reoruits.
On arriving in New York a grand prooes.
aim will be formula at the wharf, and the
Artay will march through the streets,
acmes the bridge, and on arriving on the
Brooklyn side will proceed directly to Pie
Lyceum, in Washington street, where ser-
vices will be beld. On the 1.3th of May the
Army will occupy its new quarters in the
TeMple, ou Waverley avenue.
itVAARKABLE
THE STBINHANN
Captain sehooneaven ,A.ttributeb the
Wreck to the 'Westward (urrent.
A Halifax despatch says: The inquiry
lute the losti-of the steamer Diticl Stein -
Mann., was. resumed there yesterday by
Captain Scott, of the Merine'and Vislaeriee
Department. Captain SohoOnhaven, of the
lost vessel, appeared voluntarily with Mr.
Ronne, Belgian Consul. He gave it lull
account of the disaster as fax as he was
able, and attributed the less of the ship to
the strong current to the westyeatd, which
prevails in the neighborhood of Sambre
Woad, which had put him a few mike out
in hits teolioning.
••••..1.
" Happie Lillie," "Dlood-Washed Capt!
Maggie," "John the Parson," " Mother
Penny," Singing Ida," and "Emile Ever
Thine," answer to toll•eall in the Newburg
N Y liarraoke of the SalYstiOti Army
An Inland Ship Carpenter Who Has
Panned 90 Days Without Sleep.
A -Wheeling deepatoh • says: A most
remarkable came of insomnia has ant come
to light in this city. Joseph Sauls-
bury, a ship carpenter, about 60 years of
age, has not slept an hour at -a time,
nor more than ten home in all, eines Janu-
ary let Otherwise he seems sound and
healthy, and works every day at his trade.
When these fads first became .kttawie his
acquaintances doubted' his fitallifthent,
thinking that the matter was a dodge to
gain notoriety • but when. Joseph and hie
family peraided that such was the ease it
was determined that two persona should
watch with him every night after his work.
It was done for five •nighte in euccession,
aad during that time he manifested no
desire to sleep, spending the night
reading and smoking, and resuming
hie work in the morning apparently as
freeh and invigorated as though he had
just risen from a Bound night's sleere-Since
this test was made others have watohed
-him - closely; among them , Boyers'
physicians, who are at it loos to account fax
this remarkable phenomenon. It is safe -to
say that it has been at' least ninety days
since Saulsbury's insomnia commeneed,
and all this time he hasnot been in bed.
tootetem scianoe.•
--
justice Drops the et ealei and A snaffles
the Pistol. • • ,
A San Francisco despatch says: In the
Slatiron divorce ease yesterday„ Mrs.
Shawano a witness • for the defence, was
accused by plaintiff's lawyer with being it
disreputable person. She pit her hand in
her pocket as though to draw a revolver,
beet was °beaked by defendant's lawyer.
The witnees', son also attempted to ap-
proaoh plaintiff's lawyer, but was stopped
by.the latter's on, who threatenedto shoot
him if he attempted to draw a pietol. The
court Ordered the witness and her eon to be
removed froxn the mord and declared a
remiss. In the afternoon the court refused
to hear furtber testithony'in the case un.
less assured no one in'tbe coutt-room were
armed, ,and it would require the certificate
of the policebaan at the door to that
efleet.
THE liellIANCOADHINJOSIC
.1••••••.
Caviare of Iiittoolion Ord ist the
Campoigrt-Chintes Revenge.
A Paris cablegram Bays Genera) MHO
otioupie.d Huug-leros on the 12th 'without
fighting. The enemy Carried off their
artillery and destroyed the magazines,
with a few biome.
It is reported that the VrenOla fleet Jute
°Pimpled Amoy to secure payment of an
ettlemnity from .China, The capture of
Hung -Hoa tern2inates the ,campaign in-
Tonquiu. The Frani* demand on China,
will be very heavy.
The Chinese Government is greatly erer.
Weed at the successes et the French in
Touquin. Renames in any way reeponsible
or tbe reverses are being degraded and
Finished, and active measures are being
taken to prevent further lose of preetige.
The Viceroy of Canton has been publicly
degraded for refueing to obey orders. The
officers answerable for the lose af Beeininh
have been condemned to be beheaded. The
Governor ot Yunnan ha° been eummoned
to Pekin to receive punishment. A general
levy of men for the army has been ordered,
and adnoinietrative ohengee of great import -
awe are imminent.
Gen. Millet telegraplie: "Hung -Hoa is
ours. The firat brigade turned the enemy's
potation while the mond inomonaded it
from the front. Our artillery terrified the
enemy. The fall of the water prevented
most of the flotilla from giving assistance.
Both soldiers and milers behaved gel-
lantly.), • . •
The Viceroy of Canton confessed his
fault and begged to be puniehed. The
Empress, as an eat of grace, postponed
judgment, au. instructed Prince Li,Puto
inquire into the viceroy's conduct. Mean-
while the viceroy retains office. Prince
Chun, the Emperor's father, will regulate
important matters in the Grand Council of
the Empire until the Emperor mums the
Government.
The report that the E'renoh fleet has co.
meted Amoy is aimed ited in London and in
Paris. The French Government is unde-
cided in regard to the amount of indemnity
to claim from Mina. Repute from Shang-
hai my in the new •Administratton the
peace party forme a strong element. No
decisive step toward war will be taken until
it is known what ' terms M. Paternotre is
empowered to offer. ,
Gentle Spring in London.
The fairing is fully three weeks eitelier
than usual We year and the hyeetinthe in
Hyde Park, which share with tbe tulips the
beds between Stanhope and Grosvenor
Gates, are already at thole best. In a fort -
eight or eo the tulips will be aut also. North
of Cloosveney Gate will be found the pan-
sies; they are being planted fhb week and
their hloora will follow that of the tulips.
Happy tbe Londoner whose morning walk
during the next month takes him dailyfrora
the Marble Arch to HydePark corner. He'
could not have a gayer, a siveeter, or, we
may add, a more expensive parterre if lie
were the owner of Cliveden or Belvoir. -
Pall Malt Budget.
„Emmy removal envious.
Vulgarity, pure and }Ample, is effaced
ing to be what you are not,"
" Theft is not less theft because lb
countenancedby s�litioal usage."
• " The greet need of the day is men who
are nest for sale," .
80 long as the rich remain indifferent
to taeoutoaet poor the gulf between them
will widen end deepen."
Sorrow is the pdrohivay to Pay, the path-
way to maturity and peace. No one hats
ever become good and great who haft not
met and =whored sotto*.
The numeribal increase of population
during the period of nine sad a quarter
yearshas been twice as treat in New
South Wake, Ana nearly twice de great in
New Zealand, as in Vidoria. With the
exception of Tasmania, 'Victoria is the
colony in Welch the bAirealle Of population
• it slowest.
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• ,TIIIC POCAHONTAS II01H4011.
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Sickening Sight.; at she aline-Beco4rery
et the Bodies.
A last Friday) night's Pocahontas (Va.)
despatch says : The' work of .recovering
the bodies of the dead miners lam been
progressing all day. The entrance to the
mines has been so crowded .vvith sorrowful
men, wotaen and children all day that the
workmen were at times much inconverii-
enoed. Finally robes , were stretched
around the mines and the grief-etricken
mourners compelled to keep outside the
boundary. At 9 o'oloak this morning nine
bodies had been brought oht of the.mine
and all laid in a row on the ground, while
the crowd was allowed to walk by in single
file. The work was anxiously watched, and
on more than one occasion two or three
women would be kneeling beside a abet -
tared corpseeestetrohing eagerly for some
Mark to identify a litieband, son or brother.
,Each 'body has been so mutilated and
burned thet it is scarcely possible to dietin-
gulah colored men from white. The spec -
Mole of the laborers reverently endeavor-
ing -to find the bedy to which some
stray arm, leg or ' head belonged
was one ofthe many sad incidents of
the day. Most of the bodies were (lumped
nearly nude by-the-extimelestra No one but
what was terribly mangled. Several of
them were disembowelled, and others were
found looked in each other's arms, or grave
ing dinner -kettles or tools. From these
facts it is deemed certain that they were
instantly killed by the explosion, and were
not compelled to endure agony of suffer-
ings. Of the first nine taken out seven
were men and two boys; not one could be
positively identified, althougheaoh was
surrounded for several hours by weeping
and wailing women,who feared that the
siokening horror before them was all that
remained af a near relative, About noon
the bodies of- two colored men and a boy
were brought up, arid the excitement,
which had commenced to subeide, again
renewed. The colored inen were identified
as George and • 3. Maxwell; the boy was
Boone Maxey. ' The work of recovering
the bodies is necessarily slow, owing to the
terrible stench in the mine, which prevents
the rescuing party from renaaining long in
the mine. •
•
@MTV Pit/CRS IN (HAINS.
A Family Secret Bevenled by IN ath-The
Love That Existed BetWeen Brothers
A Huntingdon, Pa, telegram says: A.
Confinement of sixty yeare, whioh was the
result of ineanity-a secret long kept fiorn
the poblio-ternamated here yesterday in
the death of Daniel Hawn, in Juniata town-
ship, Rix miles frqm this city. He had
been confined since 1823 by his brothers,
and was 84 years old. The maniac was
one of five brothers who,' when young Men,
worked together on their father'e farm.
His malady is said to have been mind by
drinking from a cool etreane' while over.
heated in harvest time. He was kerne-
diately confined by his brothers,and was
ever afterward totally excluded from the
,world. But once in the subsequent Biaty
years did he regain hie freedom, and that
was about fifty years ago, when he suc.
oeeded itt esoaping from the house. . He
was somi captured and returned to bis im-
prisonment. The room ill Which he 'wee
kept Was of staall'ilimensions, with but one
Window, and to prevent Lem from reaching
the letter he was chained in an opposite
corner. A stove eves placed in it email
openingin the partition, with the front
'facingi
...nto a hall, so that fires couldebe
neado without entering . the room. His
brothers tamale -ad Unmarried and lived to.
gether, accumulating money and property,
which they held in common. Two of them
survive, and are the owners of 900 acree itt
the township. a
()HAMM POO IfIVENT01140
The Weald is Old, but Nobooly Teo ens
Clean Illriteat 'Thoroughly of Coekie.
A New York dealer in pain ran Ms
lingers through the wheat in a ehallow
etraw based box on hie desk yesterday as
he stud to a reporter;
eIf you newepeper reporter* would ap-
ply your inventive faculties to * problem
which I will place before you, I doubt not
some one of you would add wealth to his
preeent glory,"
The moving lingers were constantly
tending toward one corner of the box. In
a short time the brown graine of wheat in
that corner were thiokly mixed with a very
black grain of about the same size, though
a little shorter,
"That's coolde. The problem is to get
it out of the wheat." •
"How did it get there ?" said the young
man.
"It's the seed of a weed, it very pretty
one, too, when in bloom, that grew in the
wheat field. It was gathered with the
wheat."
"Why do you want to get it out ?" •
"Bacillus° it lute it bad taste arid darkens
the flour."
"Has the thing been Wed?"
"Frequently. The earliest effort of the
apprentice is to uutke a cockle
eeparater„ Won he is ola and on hip
death bed his 'Meet fantasy is it something
which does not take shape, except that a
large spout streams pure'goldan grain, ane
a small one pours out only bleier cookie and
dirt."
" Whitt bas hie craft done to take the
burden from his mind and to relieve the
pocket of the miller ?"
"Tho meet" common method of separa-
tion is an inclined vibrating screen, This
is a abed of thin metal with holee punched
througli it. The holes are large enough to
allow the mailer grains of cockle to drop
through) but too small to permit the wheat
or the large coolde to pass. The lwrge
grains of cockle are as large as ordinary
grains of wheat. So the wean is a partial
nueoese only."
' "What elee"has been done?"
"The wheat has been dropped through a
spout,'througb which it graduated blabs of
air rises, but the specific) gravity of 'cockle
is to near that of wheat that this wawa
total failure. One ingenious fellow notified
that when pressure was applied to a grain
of 000kle it was crushed to a powder, while
the same pressure applied to a grain of
wheat only fiettened it. This was it prom-
ising di000very, for, by running the grain
through rollere and -then over a scram%
with it gentle current of air to help the
dust down through, the prospects of a, good
separation were excellent. The details of
conetruotion and the fact that considerable
deur toaB lost when the wheat was fiat.
toned laid out this invention."
- Ireland •
Meurice Conroy died on Mardi 19 tb at hie
residence in Market street, Sligo.
The Kilkenny Journia on March 19th en.
tered urea its one hundred and eighteenth
year. •
Dr. Lyons; M. P., Mr. M. Brboks, M. P.,
and Captaita B. Lee Guinness 'have been
appointed deputy lieutenants oftho county
of Dublin. • -
Rev. De, Blaikie, of Edinburgh, Bayelbat
the miming Council at Belfast will be as
numerously attended and as influential as
either of ite prededeseors.
"Baroti DOWSO took eudcletily ill on March
20th in the Reeera Court, county Antrina,
owing to Severe bleeding from the twee. He
is recovering.
A hunaber of families have been flooded
oilt of their homes bettemen Athlone and
Sevea Churches, about Bix milee, and the
greatest destitution preVaile.
There aro many men who appear to be
struggling against poverty, and yet are
happy ; but yet More who, although
aboueding m Wealth, are rairibtable.-2'dbi-
tUf.
The reporter •had beeia handling the
grains of cockle while the dealer epoke,
and noticed that they were nearly all of
irreeular outline. •
"Tou are not the first one who has
noticed that," said the grain dealer. "A
Western man has coostruoted a horizontal,
revolving tiyligder ef 'sheet metal; through
whioh the greain is passed. Perforations
in this' cylinder supposed to be adapted
to those irregularities let the cookie out.
It isa. pretty fair machine, Find many are
in use, but it does not completely au the
bill."
" What is the beer thing in this line ?"
"It is an inclined screen, say three feet
long by two wide. A belt revolves around
rollers at each end of the eoreen so that
the under side of the belt•sweeps along as.
fax above the screen as a grain of wheat is
the*. That keep the grain of wheat from
tipping upon end when it reaches a hole
in the screen, and thus ie passes over a
hole the diameter of which • is lees than
•thelenglirof it grain ofewheat. The cockle
is nob so long, and therefore it drops
through." '
"Why is not that it practical machine 't"
" The bolt is so wide that it will not run
even on the rollere. It drags near the
middle of the soreen. Then thereis a diffe
malty in the holes in the Hereon. They are
too large for one grist of wheat e,nd too
small for there:1ot, Buteehenyou consider
that as high as 20 per cepa of some grids
is composed of cookie you evilil see there is
a need ca c eeparatore •
' Laughable ;erne* Prices.
•
.(Araerieso Dairyman, April 10111, 1884) . •
,
The editor of the weekly New York
Times is feign to acknowledge „that Jame
stook is still ott the rise, and after citing
several instancea of remarkable •prices
lately obtained, suds it paragraph with
this remark : " The Jersey farce is not yet
played out, but gets to be more laughable
as it eiroceeds." The theory upon which
that opinion is based takes its instances
from the Dutch bulb and the• late short-
horn excitement. The last looks like a
legitimate comparison, but let us look at
this point a, moment and eee if there is
really anything laughable about it. Those
short -horns were only bred for shape • and
color,. a matter entirely foreign to the
actual 'purpose of a beet animal,
and had the , Jerseys been continued
in the same eine of breeding for form misi.
color that they were ten years . ago; tee
.present prices would be equally absurd as
those paid for the,. short•horne. The true
criterion of prices lies in performance. In
this country just in the ratio that trottieg
horses have increased in speed by the
record has thee value increased, and so it
is with Jetheys and .Holemine. This increase
of price with performance, when coupled
With the thoroughbred nature of' the
aniinals, which tholudes the ' power -to
transmit, and then theline or family
breeding -which the mere safely inmates
the traneraisaion, gives .a decided ' color
of ooramon sense to . these prem. To
be mire there is it laughable point, but
where is it ? But some people laugh so
readily that -they are (failed silly; and
when a man has once established a family
of (lows that will, with reasonable cer-
tainty, produce a niajority„ of heavy
butter makers from the Darnel° offsprings,
what will be their intrinsic value? Take
into consideration the hundreds of millions
of dollen that the • dairy crop • of this
country is valued at, and then remember
how every writer harps uponthe melte= eee
of the average cow,and how Verdi') is to get
one that will certainly pay her way. Tinder
these oirounastancee, if Mary Ann (Mr.
Fuller's great cow) elm treble the 'best
commercial cow's yield, and With reason-
able certainty transmit that quality to her
descendants, then, from a purely com-
mercial point of view, what in her haring°
value? We do not think thirty thousand
dollars in tithe of it. To be auto, all the
high -primal cows will net pay, and' fame: of
the low•prieed will more than pay. That
risk whet be takenby the grout when he
buena Ms tea and auger, but aii long as the
element Of perforManoe in at the bottom of
these ptioes we fail to see anything
ridiculous al3Cont theta.
, •
' The west le nothing if not pradical
While the preachers of Now York and Now
England are lamenting the deterioration of
morals because young Men do not marry, a
minister out Weet advertises in the lsioal
paper " Matrimony Made easy --11.1 down
and baIanee in Monthly inistainiento."
1111110U 1011TOWIST.
101fall Time! In Ismail Poittics-.Attempf
to Oust Premier Norquay-journal.
foie Clutagef
Chlta are el a bushel at Edmonton.
Building operatione are boonilog M
Bittleford,
Two *citric towers are to be erected in
Wionipeg.
American coal i8. walling for §10,75 per
ton in Winnipeg.
A money order office hes 13een opened in
the post Of6,00 t Qu'Appelle.
The Brandon debentures have been sold
at 96 ciente to Scotch capitalists.
Seven thousand scree will -he under crop
On the Bell farm la Manitoba, this year.
The next seseion of the Northwed 001111.
Oil will be head hi Regina in July.
Com:aside Roes has been appointed
deputy sheriff at Prince Albert.
Edward Farrar has Elevated his comma.
tion with the Winnipeg Times, and has
assumed editorial charge ot the Sun.
The freight rate from Calgary to Edema -
ton next summer will probably be 2i oents
per pound.
Five or six mines are being operated at
Silver City, Buying and selling eharesbave
commenced. ,.
Thomas Sturdy, °biota Pollee of Erne --
son, fell on the sidewaak lest night and
broke his leg.
it is proposed to eetaablish it raounted
police station at Frog Lake, thirty miles
from Pitt, in the' spring'.
Ven. Archdeacon McKay has removed
frora Prince Albert to ()timberland, and will
take supervision of the miesion work in
that district.
Peter Smith, tp. 11 range 20, is goibg to
plant 600 evergreen trees on his fe.rm. ,411
enterprising ferment should follow the
example.
Manitou is to have an oatmeal mill 'with
a capacity ,,,of 125 barrels, that is, if the .
settlersqwill grant a bonus of 10,000
of oats.. . •
The hotel keepers of Winnipeg are kick-
ing against the variety theatres in Winni-
peg. , They attraot too much oustOra to
please the. publicans. ,
The citizens of Silver City have formed
an association to have their lots registered,
thereby enabling them to sell and prevent
olaini-jumping.
Two thousand bushels of oats were ship-
ped from Brandon to British Columbia this •
week. They will be transported by mulea
from the end of the track.
The Government have guaranteed it '
building lot in Silver City to every bona,
fide newer, on the payment of 410. No
doubt the trouble about 'timber dues Will
blow over. •
Moose and elk are very plentiful in the
Riding Mountains, north of Minnedosaa
this spring, add bears have been troubling '
fareners. around that piece and Neepawa
since theist° warm weather.
ea.
A Liverpool (Eng.) paper mill company
has offered to taco fifty tons of compressed .
straw a week, and have written to the De-
partment of Agrioulture, aeking if any one
in Manitoba, will take up the industry. -•
The editor or .tne uaigary Herald, in hia
paper of April 2nd, desoribei it triptaken
as far oouth .as Sheep Creek, during the
previous week. He " plumed through it.
lovely, couietry, dotted with settlers' house%
and showing sigos of spring improvements,"'
a " country of dry fields •and eummer sun-
shine." ,Some farmer& were ploughing and
others had already begun seeding. At Mr.
.Carroll'e, at Sheep Creek, there was "fine
garden pest, laid out in excellent condition,
already sown with potatoes, oitrrote, onions,
and cabbage, which lattee is peeping above '
the ground." Mr. Carrotthad oats already'
sown. This would he about • the 26th,
March. The • writer ' gives .a graphio
description of the country, with tee fine
scenery, natural terraces, rioh soil) - mica
(fateful farms, ranches, etc. '1 -
A Winnipeg despatch Bays It leaked
out to -day than tee Local Government ten-
dered itsresignation in it body to the
'Lieutimant.Governer et few days ego, be-
cause the•Dominion Governraent only pro-
posed to increase the subsidy by 33,200 -
Since the resignation of Attorney -General
Miller therehas been intriguing to form a
neve Government .and ' oust Norquay. ' in.
duoements in the eliepe of portfolios haveaeen offered members. There le aoplit in .
the French ranks,.'Prudhomme seeking to .
supplant Criviere by securing the leader-
ship of the Prowl' 'piety in the proposed
Conservative Government. Norquay will
invite the • Opposition to join him. The_
House will be pretty evenly divided; in,
numbers. An appeal to ' the country will
result in Noequay being sustained. 'When
the House rattesembles to morrow, after
the holidays, it vote of iwaiin of confidence.
iseenxt.pected. There is considerable excite -
m.
A, Never Smiled on Bachelors:0
' The Prince of Wales, as Duke of Corn- ,
wall, has just been granted letters of
administration Of the personal estate of a.
gentlemen who lately. died in the county of' •
Cornwall, and is •pielaily described in the
record as a " baelaeler, bastard and intes-
tate," says the St. d antes Gazette. Legal
phraseology is not always so curt and
unadorned; but then Engligh laW has,
never smiled'on bachelors. The Legislature
'has even Bought to make dellbaCy quaai-
penal, it tax having actually been laid
upod the members of this hapless Class -
in the reigns of William III. And
Anne. . Bachelor dukes (being 26 yeara
of age) had to pay 12 10s. per annum,.
"common persons" 1 shilling in proportion.,
Again, in 1785,babhelore were compelled
to pay a heavier tax on their eervante than
weeded folk. These atingle it ie true,
were done before Malthus wrote. English
charity, of course, has been catholio enough
to include bachelors in the sphere of its
benevolence. At Bowes, in Yorkshire, for
inatancet there is (or was quite recently) e,
fund fax the paynaent of a small yearly
sum of money " to two or olio of the older*
bachelors in the township." The fund,.
originally the beqeeet of some person whim° .
Men baS long since been forgotten, wan
gradually reduced by miitinanagement
fiera £60 to *Z16; which, at 3 per cent.,
would give 9 shillings a year. So that Mel
at Dowse a man has no excessive tempts -
tion to shirk what Baeon calla the ". dial)
oipline of humanity.'
Mrs. Upebur, wife of Col tlaishur, re-
dently, ict India, was staudieg On a rook
while a tiger was raging around. The lady
Mad the tiger at first shot.
As' in the sue's tiol.iptie we eau behold the'
great stare shining in the heaven!), so in
his life's eolipse have these men behel
the light° of the great ateinity, burning
oletanly and forever • •
Don't baa cynio ana disconsolate prom% er.
Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the nega- •
five propositions. Nerve us with inoessant.
affirmatiVes. Dotal waate yourself ie„rejed-
tion, nor bark against the bad, but °lint the,
beauty of the geed. '