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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-08-22, Page 3AtIO11091-'1884. ' kaim,olosiff Tins Ban en sac Vence. BY R. a., 81:a1DSTT9• Oh, I am the man On the fence die mortal can drive me from thence, I sit at my ease, And.1 think as I please With an easy indifference. It is quiet and cool on the fence; The shadows are charmingly dense, 1 climb to my eeat, And wait for the heat, And hurrah for the fight to aommence, • I have prcsperous times on the fence, I am free from all care and expense ; I will not voluntari- Ey contribute" nary A shadow of dollars or cents. I can see all ray friends from the fenee, Mier the crowd on each side is Immense; • And this way and that _I keep doffing my bat, With a heartiness simply intense, But I'm bothered somewhat on the fence ; For the parties have both left their tents, And they wind in and out And turn round and about TM I don't know just where is the fence. A STOLEN KIM Hie Excuse. As I bade her good night Could I help Just une stealing? The moon's mellow light, Au 1 bade her good night, On her face shone so bright. Those red lips revealing - As 1 bade her pod night - Could I help Just one stealing? Her Idea. To take only one • And then say Good night (How quickly 'twos done l) • To take only Olie I Next time he'll get gone; For I don't like it quite To tette-only one - 'Arid then'say "Goon; night I" —.73u.ralo Courier., IVIIIAW AILED DIM • ' — All bpeeeldess but the Omnipresent, Old Woman. r. Dalt' hlteheettAlla 1-4- • effeeeellten trona an* AlSill; , Let MS give your readers, says. corres- pondent of the United Stater Economist, the benefit Oahe replies I have recrived from leading men of our country to the question, "What, in your observation, have been the chief causes nt .the numerous failures in life of businesi and professional men ?" Governor Bt. John &hewers : "Idleness, iaten3peranee." Alexander H. Stephens answers: "Want ot punotuality, honetty and truth." Hon, Darwin R. James answers: "Incorrect views af the great end and aim of life. Men are not oontented to live plain lives of integrity and uprightnoese They wane to get ahead too fast, and are led into temptation." President Bartlett, of Dartmouth College, names as 083113011 Of failure: "Lack :of principle, of fixed purpose, of prover. 'woe." Preeident Eliot, of Harvard, replies: "Stupidity, lazinese, rashness and dishoneety." 'Dr. El. M. Dexter, of the Congregationalist, answers: "1; Want of thoroughness.of preparation; 2. Want of fixedness of purpose. 3. Want of faith in the inevitable triumph of right and truth.' Anthony Comstock% aLl6Werli are: ," Un- holy living and dishonest .praotioes, lust and intempermice, living beyond one's means." Mr. H, E. Simraoite, of the American Tract Society, replies : "Fast living, mental, • epiritual and bodily; laok of attention t3 the details of businese.". "General O. Howard answere in sub. stance ; " Breaking the diyine, laws 9f the litely by vice, those of the mind by overwork andidleness, and those of the heart - by making an idol of self." Professor Homer B. Sprague, of Boston, anewers t 91. Ill healtb. 2 Mistake in lhe choice of eloyment. 3. Lack of persietent aud protrentedeffort, 4. A low ideal, 'mitking'%nocees to consist in personal aggrandizement, „tether than in the training and.developmeet cf a tem and noble character." • ' Dr.-, , PYMan Abbott answers: .." The coMbined e pint of lazi- ness and self-oonceit thee' melees a man unwilling to do anything unless be clan, choose just what he will do."• A. W. Tenney, of Brooklyn, ee- 'pities : . "Cubed° of intemperance, fail.. urs to grasp and hold, 'nattering too much, want of integrity and premptnew, unwillingness to netnews success burning it in the old-fashioned way." The Atter- ney.General of a neighboring State replies: "Living beyond income and ' speculating with borrowed funds ;•• unwillingness to begin at the foot of the ladder and work up. Young men want to be masters on the start, and spume to know before they have leaped.' . And another reason in the same line"- "Desiring the successethat another has withoutbeing willing to -work as that, man does. Glebe money -making a first place and right -doing a second place." Judge Tourgee, author of "A Fool's Errand," considers the frequent cause of business collapse to bo: " Tryhreeto carry too big a load." As to others, he says: " I don't known, about- a erofessional man's. failing, if he work'', keeps sober andsleepo at home. ' Lawyers, ministers and doe - tees live on the -Bins of the people, and, of puree, grow fat under reasonable exertion, mikes the competition es too great. It • requires reel genie', to .feil• in • either of these walks set life." : Hou. joseph. hledill, ex -Mayor of Chicago, pewees : "Liquor drinking, gambling, teckleee speculation, dishonesty, tricky conduct, °heating, ME: eees,shins-in hard work, frivolous reading, lack of manhood' in .the battleof life, failure to improve oppertunitiee." . . . . • Among the dames of failure given by my correspondents many , may be oluseified 'under the general fault of wavering, such as "wavering pnrpose,""non-stick.to-itive- failure to grasp and hold," ... scat- tering toe mull," " trying,to do too many thiegg rather than stick' to the one thing one knows most about." A young Men speeds Hoven yearirin a grocery store, and j when he has ust learned the business he nonoludes to into dry geode. By failing to ithoose the fleet he has thrown away seven • • years' experience. • lercitiebly, after learniog the dry gads twill) nese, • he will oonolude ' nn ., to • bee; a watehmaker, - and, at laist 'become ei, no 11 jack -at -till trades," geed at n e.• , A bre- thineet merobent !Aye : .", early all !sheep in legitimate businelet erne from ;net . serving an apprenticeehip to it," that is, frein •leaving a beakless one drnaws ;or ateother which he dose not under tend. ' !Another cense of failure is 't e dispoei4 eiceeto Knipe hardewerk;•and g t rioh in; •liteste--" demring•the E llamas another man has without being willing to work 103' that man does, and begin, aa he did, at the too of the ladder." How many who n haste to get rioh to reap without riiitimit industry in sowing, have learned the truth of the old proverb: "Tho more Pets, thee - worse speed 1" . The (.:inetesta of Cutting el Women's Noses In India. ' The horrible•orien of mutilating women by Cutting off their noses is so common in Bombay as to call for the most stringent repression, and nothing, we imagine, will repreee it but thkfree uae of the lash. In the Sessions eliding ably 8th, Mr. Juetioe Scutthad to hear three -we might say five -of these oases, one after the. other. • He postponed his eentenoes for a Week, and we were' in hopes that he would in eaoh Pee order the criminate to be flogged within an aoe of their hem.. Eventually, however, hp eentenced them severally to -what he had asoertained to bo • the usual punishment, three years' rigorous imprisonment. We are inclined t� regret that the learned Seesiono Judge, newas he is to the coun- try, did not throw precedent over altogether. Surely these pre cases in which the lash would be at once the most fitting puniola ment and the beet deterrent. e Estimated by the misery inflioted, even the most -severe ponaltieci would. seem: too trivial, and if the law doesnot permit of flogging • in the oases of mob cruel mutilation, the law should be attend. The Miserable women who are mutilated in this way are, of course; rendered hideous ever afterward, and, because they are women, it is simply imhomibld to calculate the misery and aegeadation that they will experience during the reels of their lives. No amount of imprisonment will entdioide a oritne that in still evidently' a customary form of marital punishment, among ,the lower classes. But a wholoome terror of the cateo'.ninetailt, is coromon to the degraded classes- all the world ever. -Times of India. A bey ebout. AO' years sold who Was •yea- terdaY detaching around the Bates street end of the Central market suddenly gave yell, clasped both hands on his 'etomaoll,• and began a war dance that ROM, drew a crowd, says the Detroit Free Press. "1 %petted as much 1" shouted a welsh as she waved her hand toward the ,boy. " Them 'ere boys. eat anything, from a green melon down to peaoheotonee. Serves him juet right 1" "I thought he looked kind o' stolidity around the mouth afore he tackled them spited gooseberriee," added a man who had. come in with a load of potatoeo. "I don't see how they keep from dying,. really I 'don't," pm in a woman with 'a cucumber in . eaolo hand. "1! there was any way -any lawful way -to open that boy and look into his etomaoh, you 'would find three or • four old bananas, a piece of watermelon, eix or eight green apples: four or five tomatoes, at least two oueumbers and a lot of sour berries.e. • • " Say 1" yelled the boy, as be capered around. ".Somebody git• the perbieoe Or somebody•• • " Oh, it's all ve'ry nice to want the polioe. and the dootore and the medical •college ambulance," peered a fat man who had some tomatoes in a basket, "but why don't you think of theee thinge before?" •• ' " And with t ee cholera raging in Franco and likely to Oome bver here any day 1" added a peak -faced woman who had been buying a fish. The boy laid shown and rolled over and' sat up. "Well, I don't want te be on the coro- ner' jury," ea.id a man whop hair 'Mid. whiekers had just been, dyed in a barber - 'bop nearby. •• "And I wouldn't seo him die for a 610 bill," added a ycung man with eye-glassee on. Just then a•polioeman peshed. his way into the crowd mifl asked the trouble; and ; some one eeplied that a boy had been eeized wittithe beams colic. " Seized.me right here 1" wl3ined the lad, as be stood up and clasped his stem:toll, He had on a etart torn down the front and held by e eieglepin, and his pante were held up by a strap. •The officer opened his lhirt, sine a bumble -bee, looking as large se a walent, crept out , and was bruited to the .ground. Just belew the boy's breast was a red swelling huger than his flat and still growing. "No colio about that," observed the officer, as he crushed the sputtering •bee. Only one person in the crowd bail a re- mark to make, as the bey loped off. That was the woman with the cucumbers. She sort of o' shoOk them after the retreating figure, and called out: "Tbis orter be •a great moral lemon to that boy, but I doubt it -can't help- but doube it. IF we had an right, -,any, legal right -to open him toniorrow. . and look into hie stomach, we'd wonder • why that bumble -bee fooled hie time away, instead of tackling a grindetone 1"-Boston'News. Talking in Cie Town. • Fitzgoober had sent a note to his wife, by his eon Pinder, informing her that work would detain him at the store until late. "Yes, juet like him," wrathfully 'snapped alpout Mrs. Fitzgoober, "ho Imams to have, work on hand every time I• want 13 go any- where." • . , • She was turning to her work again; *hen Pinder asked : • "Ma, does they have prayer meetin' ever. We'nesday night ?" • "Yee, and your father knew' I was crazy t3 go to -night." "An' does pa have to take care of ' the town ever prayer meetin' night?" "11 appears so," •she replied ; then a dark euspicion flitted behind her bangs, and she asked:- .9,Why do you ask poll e question ? " _ , I j WV wanted to know," anowered Pin - der," 'Cause pa told a man • today that, as this was We'nesday night, he e'posed he'd have to take in the town, an' I 'magined that if be had to take it anywhere", he'd take it into the store, an' if he Welt it in there it mud bo his duty to take proof it." Mr. and Mrs. Fitz oeoupied the same pew that night, and somehow or other Fitz wasn't as happy as usual.-Atianta Constitu- tion. r0‘1414P. ranee retain as the reins of foreign ample° Well in hand. Within a year Idie has become an Asiatio power 0000nd ouly to England end Etninda, and imparter In population to the later, by planting her. sett firmly in India. It is len than a mouth since the wee in Tonquin reached fruition in the treaty of peace with Anna, by which that eimplre 'becomes a French protectorate like the native Stetes ot Hiudosten, which, though nominally rated by-Hindoo nrintsee, are as absolutely British' possessions as though the fiction of native government were not preeerved. Thio added to the French 'dominion a territory comprising 200,0_00 oquare miles -an area nearly BB great AB that of the Etbgraan Empire -and having a population ealimated by the beet authorities at 21,000,000. Only a day or two ohm thecable despatches announced thiet the Ring of Cambodia, another Far- ther Indian State, had transferred his empire to France, receiving in return a fixed income for the met family. Cam- bodia has been a semt.proteoted State since 1867, when licence founded its Oriental Empire by getting posesseion of the provinces of Cochin China.. It now be- comes an integral part of the French dominion, 'It has twerp ot 32,380 square milee, and a reputationof oomething less than 1,000,000. Theee two States added to the Coohin-China provinces gives the French Empire in Farther India a total area of 472,000 tquare inflect with a pope lation of 28,000,000. Besides these there are ,l'ondiohery, Keened', Chandernagore ; and:Mahe-the four °Mee that alone re- main of the former French Empire in Hine dostan-whioh contribute a total of 2$6,000 ..soule, to the present possessions of France, in Ladle, . It is 100 years Biwa:Frame, !thee-D.19dg and • sanguinary °Detest' that •litetally- bathed-Hither India in blood, was driven out of India, retaining only tilo peer rem - tient' of its large, domaineahove mentioned. But she has .now became powerful in another portion of India. Between her possessions and those of England now lie, only the native States of Siam and Bur-, men, rich Morphs for which the European neighbors may one day be battling. A.nd it is- not alone in Asia' that France has lately been liggrandizing beneath Her African colony of Algeria-oongeeree in the last half century -has withinthree ydars been expanded by the addition of the Re- gency of Tunie, with an area of 45,000 equare mile," and a population of 2,100,000. Sne has aloe extended her control over the tribes of Senegambia,' gained .great In- fluence in. Madagascar, with ti onetime, • of territory, and is about to Itt3BUM0 control of Egypt, from the Soudan to the Nile Delta, jointly with England. In Pplyneide, several groups of islands have been seized, and her American colonial p3esessione have been increased by ehe Penton of the Swedish West- Indies. France, with her 'oolomee and tributary $tatee, not including Madagesoar, now has an area of 1,022,797 square [dip, and a population of .66,821,580, makinkber, &nee the Chinese, . the Britieh • and the RUBBiall. • Empires, the most populous country of the . world. Her recent development of power .has been but another instance, like then with eelaioh her peke history is crowded, of her ability to remover after seerhingly crushing defeats. ' Her dominion is to day greater than it •Inis ever been Melee she loot her American territory in 1763 -excepting daring the brief period that the first Nape - leen controlled half of Europe -and the ;growth hae hardly boon observed by rival nations. They have undoubtedly diso covered, with the tension of Atom and 'Cambodia, that she has -risen from the con- dition of it State prostrate before its vie - tenons' neighbor, to more than its old prominent place among the greet nations of the earth. • ' • Nuturiteviehretittv iimerituADoze. Establishment of the movie Thieves on the • Border -B4,000 Worth mieteck suffice . • in One Bald. • • . The northern Forgone! Montana and Dakote west of the Tilitie ..Mountaikeeeti now infested with a bend of lawlees horse thieves and desperadoes. In Montana they have not been 813 troublesome: of latens in Dakota and the Northwest. The Mounted Police petrolliug the international boundary line Materially check incursions of horse thieves from Montaneeinto Canadian terri- tory, but thejurisdiction of the Northwest Mounted Police only extends easterly to theweetern boundary of Pitaeitoba* Thep horse thieves consequently find more e for their Piratical occupation of cattle driving and horse stealing along the 'unguarded boundary' extending be- tween Emerson and Antler Ceeeks on the Souris River streteh country, 200 miles in length, on the Canadian Bide: This country18all thicklysettled on the i Amerioen aide, especially n the western portion. A number of desperadoes have established peplum", as headpuarters,on the southern slopes of the Turtle Mountains and in the vicinity of the Pembina Noun - take,. From there they make frequent raide aoross the line and .forgibly walk off with Mock, and in many oases implements of Canadian -settlers. • Word has - been received of a late raid of 04,000 worth of stook. ' Farrabro in the vioinity of the -boundary ere compelled to sleep- armed in their • stables, and the Winston of a vigilance committee has been found neap - pry. Four horse thieves were captured a few days ago and strung up to a•tree.The tuatter has become one of such imperialism that the Local Goveinnient is making active preparations for the establishment of a local mounted pollee force, to do duty along the line. Arrangements have also been made for the Northwest Mounted, Police to patrol along the' lino easterlyin& the Province of Manitoba. Wmeeumemmmesmmmnememtessseee , fiNIBURNN AT DINIAKTOVIII• Nothing to prevent Ilis Safe Denim treat the tisadata-Vlewit,etlIterary 111, Stabler. The Loudon Times July 28th eays I Lent night at 11 o'clock the British and African Royal Mail steamer Kineembo, Capt. W. jelly,earrived in Plymouth Sound, having on, hotted Mr. H. M. Stanley* the African explorer. Mr. Stanley has been 10 Wed Africa, eatelliebing etetione on the River Congo in count:lotion with the miedon ot the King of the Belgians for the npening up of the dark continent. In con- sequence ot some slight indisposition, which he hp surmounted, Mr. Stanley , determined to return. 13 England much earlier than was originally arranged. The traveller had naturally thought that on arrival in Europe be would be met ,by Gen. Gordon, who was under an engage- ment with the King of the Belgians to pro- ceed to Africa on an exploring tour, and who would have met Mr. Stanley in that intereeting expedition. Last night in the puree of *oonvereation with a correspondent no board the Kin- semby, Me. Stenley deolared that Gen. Gordon might leave Khartoum whenever he chop, and had three • routes of escape open to him. Ile was a soldier, but nob a traveller. He would never leave /Khartoum ingloriously. Be would probably remain in Khartoum until he . finally decided to escape by one of three routes. He could escape by means of the Congo, the Nile, and prop the desert to Zweibel.. He could force his way through the country, because the people would be afraid et ah armed force. He in perfectly well supplied with eters'', and ammunition, and ie quite' strong enough to meet the Mahdi. Mr. Stanley-, derides ' the suggested ex- pedition to Khartoum, and saye thee men would die like flies when the Penner sun is waning. He eat% that Gordon only requires to act like soldier, as' he believes hewill, to Bettie the whole difiloulty., Me,,Stioney added: .1 I now return from a voyage which cone - prism, almost two years' absence, having on this occasion been exploring that part of the dark continent which ,extends to the place named niter me, the Stanley Fulls. did not proceed on this travel in attune°. ton NV iGh any work which I may Bilbao. quently undertake on behalf of the Ring of the Belgians. I have not been to Khar- tum during my travels. • have been to Assonan, but never to Kharteurn. Gen. Gordon could easily mope from Khartoum by way of the Congo if he wants te do so. It is just 188 easy as going from here to London. If, 813 the papers represent, the Mahdi and hie followers are on the north Bide O. Khartoum, that le, on the River Nile,' it is very eaey for Gordon to epape. Ho has a large force under his command, • The Favorite Pupil., In one of the...school homes on the Weet Side are a teitelier and pupil bet ;Pen whom there are no tender ties such 'tepees which united the soule of Diekenee sick scholar and his teacher. The:West Side tember-- tend is not a entitle school -went to ehe favorite,' soholer an Friday, just before wheel was °ailed, and, stroking the little fellow's hair gently, said: • "1 have a seherne , •Tho boy looked up into the .face of the teaoher and answered:"This is straight?" . " Stringbt and on . the dead q. t.," the teacher repiied. . • "And rm in with it ?" asked the lad; e 4' You are," said the kind-hearted tetteher. 1' All right; what's the racket ?" asked the boy with GWO black eyes. "1 want. you to turn up missing next Monday. I will read a note signed by your mother saying that you are sick and . not expected to live. But you ere not sick underetand ?" • - • • " What day biteo be ?" asked -the boy. " Monday.' • ' • - ' "Well, if Monday,suits you it will suit me. Go on with the Pheine," odd the boy. " Then I tell the children that I can't teach oollool when one of n3y scholars is. dying. I tell them of the unceitsinties of life and spread &gloomy feeling over them. I tell tnem to go home and not to go away and play, as that would he'very wicked. I diernies wheel." ' " Yes, and I am dying," said the boy. "Exactly. You kern it. Dying to go to the oirous. You meet me behind Blinkum's blacksmith khop ' at I o'olook." " Mike it 12," said ehe boy; . •• "Can't do it --can't dismiss Gavot too early, you know. Well, as I -was saying, you meet me there and we'll eikett in." ".Good enough; I am with you," pia the boy, and as the kind-hearted teacher took him by the hand he asked "Got any tobacco ?" " Nothing but fine -ant," the bright -faced child antswered, as be handed out a wad to the teaoheree-Chiegge Herald. Wanted to Avoid the Cholera. One day last month a Man in welching. Man's attire knocked at the gate of a prison it Lyons, and said to the janitor: I am a Marseilles man ; just tell • me, is it true that the cholera never comes to Lyons ?" "Possibly," mid the janitor, "but what have I to do with that? If this is all you cisme for get about your business." "Par- don Me. I want to relieve my oonocience." And then he prooeeded to explain that he' had been condemned, 'in default of appear - same, to eight months' imprisonment, but dreading above everything the &Wore, he 'wished to undergo his sentence in a town suppmed to be exempt from it maga, and lento come to Lyons. His papers were all in order and he was a000intaidated. --1-2CifrAa sort of straw hat is made from Pa grass. The maker says thet rain afirengthene and improves the label°. :$1( The Most Difficult Thing. " How glorious it to be engaged in a purely intelleatual ()pupation," murmured a Boston maiden, gazing rapturously into the admiring eyes of a country editor; "your own mental faculties for tools and the whole univeree for a workshop. Now, tell Me," ehe added, "what do you fled the moot diffloult thing oonneoted with your profession 7" "Paying the hands," said the editor.--Phitadephia Cent. '-Potatoes are now selling at St, Boni- faoe, Man., for from $1 to 61 50 per bushel. Large quantities are being hroeght 10 from rural districtS. o u00 --,0,400.11401,A,0000.0-0.004 — • - A DILI/LLD ON ICE. Vehicle Wields retmallses Decease Popular, Dr. Porter S. Kinne, a native of central New York, and a prominent phyoician of Peterson, N.J., and Charles 'Sandford have received * patent on a new and novel vehicle. A Paterson paper says: It is practically a • e bloyele ' to go on the ice, and, judging from its appearance, it pro- mises to meet the expectations of the patentees hi travelling at the rate of a mile a minute over a good 'surfaco. The base of the vehicle is in the shape .0! a Wangle, resting on three skates, one in front and two behind. The front skittle is movable said constitutes the rudder of the concern, operated by a handle similarly to a le,nd bicycle, with the exoeptiou that the atom - mg lever, after raising it to turn the rud- der, can be reeted in e, blot, leaving the hands at rest,either in going straight or on a turn. ' There are two styles of this invention, One for ladies and the other for gentlemen. In the latter the rider Bits astride the wheel, which he works with pedalo, the same as an ordinary bicycle. That for ladies has a seat behind, and the wheel is operated with treadles or levers, not unlike a Star bicycle. The ladies' machine is also provided with guards for the dress end a netting Underneath, upon which a rug can be spread if desired. There are a lantern, a, flag and a brake on the machine. The propulsion of the vehicle is by means of the wheel; but this does not run continualiy on the surface. It only touches, the ice twice during each reveler - tion, by means of Pare eteel pies that pro - 001 from the rim. The remit of this wil be a series ot rapid pones, each one sendl ing the vehicle forward, BO that the *lied can be a pod deal faster than that ot the wheels. This is the most important point in the invention, and the element which is relied upon for the attainment :of etieat velocity. -If the wheel -touched -Pe doe continually it would have to revolve as fast art the machine travelled, but . by the , plan . adopted it is expected that great speed will ea 7"secured with comparatively little effort. A pine of eplendid epeoimens of the vehicle are to be made for exhibition at the Amer - 10180 Institute fair • in November. It is expeoted that these vehicles ill be used on the river above thefalls'on Dundee Lake and in New Mirk Central Park, while along the Hudson, the 'St. Laweence and other rivers and lakes that are covered ;veith ice several months in the year, 11 18 antioipated that they will be very popular and that there will be a large demand for them. The inventors artrin quite a quan- dary as t what to call these novel machines. The name of ioycle toot icicle) is the beet suggestion they have received. Novel 4 Kidnapped Sheldon. The case of Sheldon, the Englishman, alleged to have been kidnapped in Kansa. and held for ransom4was brought up in the ,Britieh Commons yesterday, Mr. Arthur Arnold, the Liberal member for . Saleford, making it the alibied of an ipiquiry. In reply Lord Fitemaurice, Under Foreign Secretary, Mated that the latest deepatohes from the British Ministry at Washington, Mr. West received Aug. 6th, brought the intelligence that all efforts up to that time to diecover Sheldon had proved futile. Search, however, will be oontinued. Arnold then saidthe brother Of the missing MAO had received letters from hie. friends in Halms, which asserted the authorities were malting no efforts to find him. Lord Fitemeurioa retitled this was contrary to the inforraetion whioh the Government bed received. He asked to Bee the lettere and .promised every attention to. the met- ier. STRANGLED TO DEATO.—A Old accident hapeened on Monday noon to the eldest child of Mr. Sohn Lacy, 8th con. of Greenock. The parents, after dinner, went out to bin,degrain, 'sieving Willie, the eldest, bi'oharge or the three smaller children. In len than One hour they were called and found that Willie hied in Rome way got the roller towel fastened round his neck and. WAS strangled to doable He was only Q retro old and a bright boy.-Gueiph Mer. miry. • • •'Balloons in Warfare. - WADED DAUM 111119.1.11TIES. JProsteated by tke AllatItet Value and Inthatate Made The faded A.donis of 00 has' found the o tuntelial beide ot the Beason this year tell Upon him ssevefely. Until the middle of Juno he bete' up bravely, but the two or three weeks of warmth end outshine which theit stipeevened -Went 'tee much; and he sighs fdr Iiitxton, or limits for Hamburg. ' 11 may bo that it ha takes sedulous osse or hiniselt he will for Pew/ masons remain fairly pereonable. But just now he does as unwhiely in pluming himself in his club or in the park in the gaudy glare of day .as mature matrons whop complexions are in- debted even more to art than nature do in failing to eeelc 'subdued lights or in lingersug at festive gatherings ;ill the last saraband has been danced in the hall. Twenty years ago the male beauty, who to. dayiein 18 state of eemporaryprostrationevas a remarkably handsome man. His 13033Vere eaten was made up of insipiditiee' but they were uttered in . tone whichwas , deferential and winning.Seemly a trace of these attributes remains. The player of hearts has not 'acquired the mellow dignity which age ought to bring ; be lute only sub, stituted for his old charm of talk and man - neva feebleness and incoherence Which are ouggeetive of inoipient paralysis. Some- thing in ite pristine shape is retained by the figure, thanks to the cunning arrangements of the man-miliinery of the period. Butthe young exquisite bee not blossomed into the old buck. The conetitutional indisposition or ability to accept the doom of years • bas generated an air eof nerveleos lation-as one who cannot brace him- ee self to take the plunge and stands pitiably shivering on the brink of age, with- out being able te retreat to the pleasant ewer& of youth. An attitude, physical in its origin, hue become moral in ite effects. It is painful and ludicrous to wiener* the convulsive efforts, which seem to have a ' touch of epilepsyein'therovamada by the faded male beauty to Resume his old place • in moiety and to ply his varnished arts. No one would grudge_him the sort ot 13120. cess which occasionally waitsupon his • effort]. He inducee a widow of quality to accompany him to the altar; or be imposes upon the .credulity of the proprietress of a . tees experienced heart. The relics of heavy ewelldom have their marketable valueemed it is luokyfor the gentleman to whom they constitute their sole capital and stook in trade that the stuttering imbecility which years have brought is not always regarded as a diequalification.-London World. • The Electric Light in Wartaire,. • The electric light is evidently destined to play a considerable part in the warfare a the future. If properly employed by.any army in oamp or bivouacs it ought to make' night attecke and eurprisee impoesible. A • storming party might as safely attack a town at noonday tie at midnight under glare of `a dozen aro lights. In mtval battles also it ie to be largely used, end the mast- head eleetrie light M to be relied upon as one of the great defenoes of • an ironclad against torpedo boats. Yesterday, at Alder- shot, experiments were tried for a more benevolent purpose. Movable eleetres light waggons will be used to illuminate at night- fall the area on which. a battle has been fought during the clay, so aa t3 reveal the wounded men who lie there to the Bestehen; • of' the bearer ciompeny STA' the ambulance A London cablegram says: The use of balloons in European warfare dates from the last Franoo.German ware They` were then chiefly employed for thee purposes of observation, signalling and escape from .beleaguered towns. A German -American eoheme of aeriat warfare has been under the coneideration of tbe War Moe here, in which not only captive but free balloons are proposed to be utilized for aggressive operations. The inventors suggest the dropping of explosive limas upon an Pony from the balloons. In addition to this, by the use of captive balloons, the whole of the enemy's force may be watched and his taetice amity observed and couuteracted. It is understood that ther forthcoming report will be favorable, certainly as to part of the scheme, if not as to the Whole. . Blew one Ills Eyes. . . A report from London says: A deplor- able accident happened to Mr. Robert Beattie, of the Ord 001100811i013 of Westmin- sterinn Monday. He was out ehooting, using_18 breech -Wading elan. By oome means the weapon viks net ow -fir -61Y fastened in the break-off,-iiiid. when Beattie discharged the tem, the load and cartridge flew baokwards in his face, completely destroying one of his eyee, and very little hopes are entertained by the medical at. tendants of retying the other. As human ourosity is never satisfied as to the precise moment of death in the case of beheading, the amount of the latest experiment on a decapitated orb:Meal, which is; communicated to the Remit &Jen- tifigue by a French aoientist, who made his observations on the head of Carapi, ie of interest* This time the results are more oetiefactory than has hitherto been the. case, and Dr. Petitgand makes the following statements with regard to the manifesta- tions of consoiemeness atter the head has been 'separated from thh body: 1. That the head, on Wive separated from the body, temaihe in possesslon of all its faculties if the hemorrnage does not pass certain limits, and if the proportion of oxygen in the bleed is 13111110i0ilt for keeping up the nervous functions for a few Abort momenta, which 433,n never exceed half a minute. 2. That repeeted sioneulaive maxillary move. Meets Sifter the separation of the head from the body, generally oiled "biting tho dust," are nothing but the reflex motion Common in Pm of Route ashbyxilt• • Land et Easy Ilarriager. ChicagoAride-Thank bertune, the fuse ie over and we are off at last. •' Chicago Bridegroom -Yee, 132. Y pet, I . agree with you in that as • in . everything. •• How perfectly we are suited to each other. , . I wonder if it alwaysbe so? • • Chicago Bride -Always, darling ; for even if not 'matrimonially suited, we ceet easily be divorce Suited, you know.. A correspondent of the London Standard Mates- that at Grenada last year he -heard Signor Tamberlik sing in the chariteter of Mantic° in "11 Trovatore," and give the celebrated" Tee de Pcdtrine " with •almost the tome atootitth of spirit and vigor as he did at Covent Garden thirty years age. And . this in spite of his 64 years. •' It is not neceesary for the force of an epigram that it should be strictly tent,. Lord Randolph 'Churchill, being aeked what • he thought of Irving, phi : " I dent know that I should oall him a great actor; buthe corps. The operations yesterday were sue ie certainly a curious one. He is always . easeful enough to encourage further experi- Irving on the stage, and always Hamlet in- ments.- St. James' Gazette. private life."• ' • Do no.deepise the opinion ofthe world; Knew What Because et Them "My son," said it • benevolent looking conferencentcharities man oitting near the door o street oar, to a common probe, " do • know where little boys go who oatoh on to cars and Meal ridea ?" "Yes, sir," said the bad little boy, "they goes to the -next epee meet, and then the flunk of a driver etops aed licks 'era off." --N. 0. Picayune. Earl Derby has advised ' the Government to consent to theeedeption of the Australian colonies. Ytiu might as well toy you do not care for die light of the tun because yen can use a candle. 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