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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-08-29, Page 3_4..9.Ktist, 884. . ). el-•• 1 4.•-•".` cURFigkt_troics. panics Binfeseit eaten principally now from nerve patine in face and head, and the doothrs tell hitn that if he will nob have come decayed teeth removed his aches and atigniell will continue.. But he is unwilling to have the old tusks drawn. He suffers slightly from sciatica, but not much. He has entirely giveu up smoking, and leads altogether a healthy life, but, except taking German veatsre, hes no spacial regimen. cf, paper read before the California Wine Growera Aesociation an ingenious Philological theory wan propounded. "The old Aswan wine grower," said the writer, found in his tube and vats the ;same sea. inent that botheruo today. He had no chemistry in those times, but he did have e, healthy protenity. So he called his substenoe a hell of a stuff,' and probably so regarded it, Hell in Latin is Tartarue, and from thie anoient oust word come ip dueot descent tartar, cream of tatter and tartario acid." IN New York a 'man has been turned ant of a boarding-house beosuee he - snored. Some persons raay suppose that as their noses are their own they may the them as they like, provided they do not poite them into other people's businese, and that if they pay their board they cannot be put it the etreet for nasal trumpeting at eight. But the police justice before whom the enoring boarder was taken was of a different opinion and decided that, nose or no nose, u. raan can- not insist on living where he is nct wanted. Tits old faehioo of home brewing, which • r ,abowcpo ten:Addible, a tendency to geytve a few Tears ago, einiCaris to beegain rapidly declining in Englaed. After the possieg of the Beer Dety Act a great number cif persons who did uot formerly brew' tbok out licenses for private brewing, under the impreseion diet by could thus obtain bees at a lees ooet than they could purchase •it from the brewers. The . operation of brewing, however, - is troublesome in an ordinary docuestio establishment. The English Commissieners of Iulaed Revenue express the opinion that it oanuot be con• - ducted economiosely on a email scale, and ethst no doubt mealy of those pinions have found it more couvenient to revert to their former pramme of obtaning bier direct horn the brewer. ' ALTIMaGii the rabbit Origin OBI 'neat the Australian erpietter, he ie threatened by wither plsgue even more deadly. This time it is a once ol'erished friend who has gone astray. Feur hundred and' fifty' nselees doge, odd' Sir Samuel Davenport at a recent deputation of the Royal Agricul- tural and Horticultural Society to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, had ,been destroyed in the viereity of Adelaide. All, these culprits had killed sheep, some e of them being concerned ip a wholesale slaughter of 150 wethers. Such ice the degradation of tile Australian canine reels that not only terriers, spaniels and New- foundlends do the mischief, hut sheep, cattle and womb (legs ilia] the ranks of the destroyers, end bits and worry and destroy in their nocterel attacks. . do-openeSiii-hTtliiS/ riiniing is a SIMMS at Guise, France. In a late hews of Le Devoir, the cffioial organ of M. Goeih, who is the governor of 1 he familisters at that place, it is stetect th.,t the birth rate under his bommunal system i 8 about the same as ID French towns of the same population, while the ,infeet mormlity is 50 per cent. lees. The baby farm comprises . a baby house and a baby gerdere The house con- tains 100 beds and one hew:litre play -roemi especially fitted up ler its inmates. It opens flush with the earddo, and te sur- rounded with hpacww, verandas. The administration it by a ge.wruese, with two assistaets and,the inothere that volunteer to. serve. The children are generally brought there in the naorningand taken to their homes at night but alew ma,keit Penetineht home. CompesemMeece with Queen Vioteria by letter is one of the Prime Minister's regular and almoet daily duties. When' there has been an important revision ordebate in Parliament, and members the hastening home tired, to bed, the Premier alone can take no rent lentil he has written to the Queen his official report of the proceedings. These. letters are couche&. in the third per. eon: Mr. Gledetone presents his duty to Your Majeety, etc..," and Her Majesty's replica, usually dictated to a secretary, also run in the third in. reon. 'Though never dieoursive, the% re felt mere formal acknowledgmeets se often enter sato Moody into the qu erten at issue. The Queen devotes ye, el hours every Morning to the study of State buteness, and her time is no longer wasted uow as it .was during the first 25 yearn of her reign by having to sign all commissions for the army and navy. In 1862 lila Ant relieved her of this tedious task. • She was in that year still engaged in siguiug the commissions. of the year 1858, ' , CORNWALL, the Postrnaeter of Dublin, who 10 on trial for such a hideous orime; is the eon of a landed proprietor in Meath, and „e• Mar a short service as' olerk in the London office was appointed hi 1850 to his recent position by the Merquis of Clanricaade, •when Postmaster-Geueral, at thee inetanoe of the Maxobioness, who was fascinated by musical accomplishments ankdravong - room graces. Be staeale six feet; is ef handsome prase:Joe, but pompous and pretentious. and with a great deal of vulgar swagger both in his air and conversation, There its nothing, however, repellant or re- pugnant -in his appearance, or which would give the least index of crime, •.Me iB 61.. Mr. Kirwan, who figures beside him1. and who will probably be found less of a criminal than a foolish friend, ill of is Gal- way family of remarkable gentleness and purity of ciharaoter, and ie a nephew Of Lawrence, author of "Guy Livingstone." Be has that thin fair hair and cream- ooloyed complexion which speak the slender mind. The fleet meuti Ai of hie name in the matter killed his mother. None of the' amused are genuine Irisb.. They all belong tie the Protestant colony., limo are some hints to the city authori- ties whoehatty find difficulty in disposing of ownerleadecurs. At the recent meeting of the British Royal Sooiety for the Proven - tion of Cruelty to Animale, Dr. B. W Richardson described a tilethod releently adopted at his suggestion for destroying lost and starving dogs by a painless death. This consists ia submitting the aidinale to the influence of 'carbonic oxide gas in a closed chamber, the• carbonie oxide being charged also with chloroform by being made to pass- over a portnis surface. saturated with that drug. The reeult is, that the animals to be killed fall at once itito a deep, Peinlelie sleet), Oat ot whioh th g° th len of pam, and the apparatus he describes is the fruit of hia researcher'. He 19 sauguilie that by., and -by the humane system of elaughtering will be applied even to the destruction of animate intended for f ood ; and he has hine- self applied . the method with, complete success In the oche of sheep; which ere liret driven into sleep, and, while thue *moon- ' seem, killed. The good wiehes of every humanitarian wit' be with Dr. Richardson in this. Tinc Hebrews] are often spoken ot aa " race without paupers." Though not etrictly acenrate, this statement gains color from the proverbial thrift of the rime hnd from their excellent system of charities ii the large cities. For the pest ten years the Hebrew community in New 'York has steadily had in operation a scheme for re- lieving the needs af the poor 'among them that is worthy of attentiou by all Chrietian philanthropists. The city is divided into twenty-four districts, and in each district a visiting committee investigates all applh cations for relief. Distribution of clothing and money is waded out by the executive committee,and there is also a well organized medical °ems, whh.a competent phyeichen in [tech di•striot. One of the best elements , of the work is a pension seldom by which .rent is paid for poor widows and helpless families. There are 'nearly 500 of these pensioned familiee now in the city, families which, but fof this aid, would inevitably be in the poor houses or other public institu- tions. The true beneficence of the whole system of the United Hebrew Charities is shown by the fact that all of the work is done by velunteers. All the officers serve without pay,and deepest et distribution iii never negro, thau 10,. ciente 14 eachalotter ot benefit. In many bbarita,ble sooieties the cost of 'distribution is nearly half ot the straormtdistributed. * • 'Tag 1,200 pound turtle caught in the .Atlantio the other day by a Menhaden steamer is whatie known as a "leather; batik." It is the most ueeleee of the turtle family, its meat being rank and boaree, and its carapace unfitted for tortoise -shell' iiiiiiiefieturers. It ie a good swimmer, and has been known to weigh a ton. Its native Neaten are believed to be the Carib - 'beau, but it has been found as far north as Labrador and emit as Europe: " qt never re. long time nticg with a of kill - Am a meeting of the British Medical Association at Belfaet, Dr. Cameron, M. P., read an exhaustive paper on•" The cholera °microbe and how 50 meet it.", In andel- potion of an invaeion . of the epidemic he. recommended .the daily disinfeetion of public sewers and steioter attention so the character of public water' supptiese India was the breeding -place of cholera, so far as England was coneerned, and if Britain couldremove causes of disease there muoh would have been done to free theivorld from cholera poison. Art engineer, who has been at work 'upon the Panama Canal for the past two yeare, and hae just returned to his home in San Francisco, 'tells some interesting facts. Beginning at: Colon, the eastern end,. the oanal has been , dug for two miles, one hundred feet' Wide and fourteen' feet deep. Thi5hasco5t4le000,000e-Men-on-thcrwork- believe that the cast of the oonspleted canal will come up to $1,000 000,000, which was the,. estimate made by the United States engineers in', 1850, and that the great job will not be finished ler fifteen or twenty years to come. .• „ THE project of cutting &ship oanal &doss the Province of Holstein, connecting the North Sea with the Baltic, ie now being taken up by the German , authorities 'in earnest. The 'canal is to run fromnear the 'mouth of the Elbe to the harbor of Biel, Germany's phial naval port .on the Ostsee." heath be oonstrpoted of such 'dimensions ae to permit the largest imp - dada in the German navy steaming from the Baltic to the German' -Ocean, or vice .versa, thus avoiding the neceseity of - malo: mg,as at preseut, the long "voyage•round thaPeninsnlaof Jutland. Detailed draw- inge on thee,ubject itre to be submitted to ehenew Reichstag. ° ^ jOurl41,0/4:4401:071,,BOStOR,Itl pree editing an imaginary convereation between teacher and pdpilemakes the former advice the latter to 'breathe through his nose. ." At, She' roof of the nose," he remelts, "the All -wise has provided a sieve -like bony plate that keeps Out the atoms of dirt and seeds ofedisease, ' and "silts the duet 'before it gets to the lungs." The, Fort Wayne Journal of the blediacil Science's infornie the Boston manthat the ethmoid bone has holes for the filaments of the ol- factory nerve and the nasal branch of the ophthalinio nerve, but that it is not a -dust °sifter and no air passes through it ; if it did tt would go to the brain. The West- ern' writer wonders if it is always an ad. vantageto sent children to the East for their education. • • Mn. Baena, It. A. has been engaged for the last two months in deeigning the new equestrian etatue of the Duke of Welling- ton, which is. to take the place of the Wyatt statue, now tieing removed to Alderehot from Hyde Park, • London. The design, which has new boot completed, has been approved by the present Duke of Welling- ton and all the artiste who have had the opportunity of seeing ft. The stattief whnih will be of colossal size', will represent .the Duke 'sitting upon his charger bareheaded, and attired in the uniform of a field =r- efute modelled from the uniforna worn by the Duke at the battle ot Waterloo. . The horse, the modelling of which (coupled most of Boehm' e time, will represent the Duke's charger, Copenhagen. The position of the ihatue will be faoing'the apex of the grand triumphal arch, and•the statue itself WIll face Weetwarde to Hyde Pork, instead of eastward, as the old statue did, • TUE annual bombardment of the ,earth by the .Auguat meteors has been going on during the last three or four evenings, but BO silently,that few except the astronomeni have known of it. ^ Those who had occasion to be in the open air, in this neighborhood, were treated to an uhusually fine display. If these celestial- missiles could penetrate the atmosphere without being consumed bythe heat evolved hi their pessage they might make the earth an uncomfortable dwelling Place. About the 135h of Novem- ber another well-known shower of meteors will be, due, and various other showers, occurring at different times of tbe year, have been reoognized. In fact, itis known that Millions of Meteors plunge earthward every twenty-four hours, hut the air pre. eente a shield that very few of them eau get through. With its transparent buckler the earth twinge 'safely along, ,through swarms of flying fireballs, and men aeldorn, think of the poeeibility of danger hidden in .the hide depthii of the sky., Mara before* perhape, in modern times hail the world rewarded those who amuse 8. end material etti: cre- tin hia haw 411• arch, the law, or the army, and le at: aotor draws a galaxy larger than the income of the average member of any of 'the learned professiona. In London espo Wally he lives luxuriously, has his club, movee in high circles dievee hle own Pima^ Oh; and, if he has performed a military i part, sticks a 000kade n his servant's hat. Four or live solireeees bevy, within the 'set ewe yeers, married noblemen or noblemen presumptive, and thereoine no longer hs doubt of the siege having lived down the rebuke and reproach under which it for- merly cowered," and Loudon moiety is ready to receive an actor or actress' if only well talked about, without regardto any rumor of scandal, which would be fatal to the pretensions of a member of any other .'ielnectiee gives* with all the soientifici mini the subject del:amide. "the latest state of the question " as to She adoption of the repeating rifle for the field of battle. G-errraciey, ceentrarY to a recent report, has not definitely adopted this weapon 1. execipt as a theorem.' It has been clouded that the quiokeet firing arm is of sentimental advantage .to the oddier in giving him coefidencs of victory, and in this way, but not in any other, is the repeating rifie in nee in the German army. Germany he's yet to fled her repeater, And she has Wert at least a dozen systems. The Mouser, of whioh we hear so much, is but oae of them. Some thou. kande of Mainers have been made at Spandau, and three battalions and a part of the fleet have been armed with them ; that is all. Nothing has happened as yet po compel Franike to vendmillions in"'a new: transforraeti9n,and, fot,he prose/et Bhp can effoett eir *attimilwritoh her greet rival. rot that niattef, all the nations of Europe are in the same istate Of expeotanoy-Austria, Spain, f taly, Rus- sia, ited ^ The only two or three that appear to have made up their mind are precisely those that do not count - Norway. and Sweden and Switzerland 'Auother technical prbblem; of even higher interest, ie. meanwhile pressing for seta - tion --the reduction of the calibre of tier - vice small -arms, and ooneequent elonga- tion of the bell. The happiest remits have been already attanied ; the improved ball vvilthileat 2,000 roetree. 'The article winds up with a proud and patriotic boaab "Vila shall not be taklin unawares ;- if one of the great military Powers suddenly decided to remodel its armament, we should be ready to at' ones follow its example." No one concerned in the real progress df civilization can reasonably require more. . ASYLUM ISCANDAILis. •• Teeing Man Incarcerated in a Cell tor^ Waywardism. • A Philadelphia despatoh says: The exposures recently made regarding the ill-treatment of insane in this) State are bringing other owes to light. It is said that another case of cruelty was discovered three weeke ago in Backe county almshouse. The victim was' a young' than who was confined in a cell with a ball weighing 50 pounds tied to one leg. He Wa8 recognized as the son of a prominent citizen whq had been sent to the asylum as a punishment for waywardness, rather than on account arental aberration. The chain and ball were removed under threats of exposure and prosecution. • The Deadly Caeunther. Mr. Martin Tanner, who resided on the stone road about three miles west of Inger- sollon West Oxford, died.very suddenly last Sunday. On , Saturday evening he ':ata largely of potato oske, oncumbdis and vinegax, and also paelook freely of milk. After doing so he travelled some distance for hie cows, and worked until late in the evening. The result was that his digestion was arrested, and he was taken with imams, and although all was done that medical skill could do they oould not be. broken, and on Sunday evening ho -expired, death being produced by paralysis of the heart, arising from indigestion. He was about60 years of age* and leives'a wife and si; large family to mourn his sudden taking , • .• Kulg,h.S.• • Principal j. W. Dawson, of • McGill dole Montrealeiteto beq•knightede with the title of Sir Williarn Dawson. He he now at Quebec, whither he was called by Lord Lansdowne some days ago. 15 18 believed that the ceremony of his installation will ID ie public at the opening of the British Asenoiation meeting on the 275h. He will be Kdight Bachelor of St Michael and. St George. This creation will be, when annoueeed, exceedingly popular in Mon- treal, and do something, no doubt, to make .knighthood respectable in Canada. , • • 111 Demoralized Him F— • After making an excellent speech in the House of Lords the other day, says the Atlanta Constitution, the Duke of Argyll rather ,spoiled the effect by sitting down on a glass of water placed near him for refreshment, , Some of the prohibition people may jump to the. conolimion that the Duke weeitonlyecommitted assault and battery upon their favorite beverage, audit may yet be necessary for him to write a card explaining the matter. The noble Duke certainly found himself in an embar- rassing positiot for an orator.'' Terrible Thauderstorin. • A Pittsburg,Pa., despatch says: This even- ing this section wee visited by the wort thunderstorm of the semen. Rain fell in tor; rents, the wind blew a hurricane, and hail as large as marbles fell. Daneiger's trim- ming store was struck by lightning and the 'roof partially torn off. -The rain poured in the opening, and dattaged goods worth 810,000.- Library Hall was also • struck. Many buildings were deenoliehed. Daniel Duggan, for disturbing the Salva- tion Army at Guelph on Tuesday night, has been fined O. • . In California, the waste from the wheat harvest hi frequently allowed tore -seed the land, and le second or eolunteercrop is raised without any plotighing or* additional Needing. • Lica% the pianist, has become blind at Bayreuth. The euggeeted ohne is smoking and brandy, 15 18 odd that he consumes daily a frightful quantity of liquor and often falls Wi eep n the theatre. Gomez anti Maoo, two prominent Cuban leaders, are reported to be on their way >from Cuba to Key Wed, Florida, alld a revival of filibustering operations on an increased 'Beale ie appreheaded. Mary Clertmer, "Mrs. Madsen," died at her residence in Washington last night of hemorrhage of the brain. She hiad been too ill and feeble for several months to keep up her.nsual literary work. To be belie& the passion must be Cheer hal arid gay, nob gloomy and melancholy; a propentsity to hope and joy is real ; one te fear and sorrow, real poverty. LATE OLD WORLD NEWS. Sir Lepel Griffin is.oalled by a Paris paper "the lueldeEnglph yepeptio.'" The Eniptis of Garin 3+,1 who is in feeble Width, will pass the autumn et Baden-Baden. Tie ex, Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, has permanently taken up bis residence in 'Emmen. Female students are to be allowed to com.pete for positions se surgeope in the d Pas hospitals. • lieregay is free from oboleris, quarantine and accusations of dynamite oarrying, to travellers. leave days' quarantine is enforced on eoileg through the St. Gothard and Mount Cents tuunels. Id, Alexandre DMUS inveighs against the extravagance of women In Vrallhei where they epend enormous BOMB on their dresses. Mr. Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia" is being translated into Bengali, and is also very likely to be reproduced in India in a Sanskrit version. iiielteatiefied linguist to Frenoh diplomat -" How much would I have to say before you 'UMW by my pronunciation that I was not a Frenchman e" 10 One word," wee the prompt and decisive reply. t The new English Church opened on the Riffel Alp, above Zennatt, is 7,000 feet above the sea level, and it is the loftiest place of worship in the world, with the exception of the Monastery of St. Bernard. it is said that thesGranct Dukaof Hale contemple,tea abdicating in favor of his sod, Prince Eirnst Ludwig, who is only 17 years old. fins recent marriage and consequences have seriously oompeomieed his position amonghis Buie ote. • The Czar et Cracow announces that thd meeting of the Enipefor of Austria aud the Czar will take plebe at Granioa, in Poland. Thence their Inaperial Majesties will pro- oeed together, 'via Warsaw, to 'Aleitandroff, where they will be joined by the Emperor of Germany. The Englith railway companies, improv- ing the occasion and taking advantage of thsoholera there, which will keep thousands of people in England this Hummer and autumn, have made extensive arrange. Wents for trips to well.keown English watering and pleasure pieces. Sir William Gull sayethat for many peo- ple who are susceptible to seasickness a pill of cayenne pepper and opium is the cornet thing to take On hour before era - barking. Then keep youreyes shut and don't movtfaticiut, sad the chances are that you'll escape the horrid Mal de mer. De Lessips organ, La Bulletin du Canal Interoceanigne, tells at great length how the Ptomain' Canal is to be opened in 188e, and yet, according to its own allowing, only one-thiltieth of the work has been done in three years and a half. ,There has been 'spent there about $49,090 000. . Ur. Biggar, the Irish Home Ruler and menaber of Parliament, gave • notice to the Clerk of the House "50 ask the Chief Sem retary of the Lord Lieutenant of Irelaud it it is true that Sergeant Corbett,. of , Strad - badly, is.in the habit. of firing shote out of thebarraok dcior and on the barrack pre- mises killing birds andscirows." Gabriel Max is exhibiting his last grand painting, " The Conversion," which fie -making---quite-a-auffsAtiefrin-M-M1117-Ir represents a Roman girl, who for having embraced Christianity is imprisoned and sentenced to death, and whom three young 'Romanis vainly attempt to eave by per. her to renounce the new faith. The mithetio bOom' inaugurated by that shrewd aPoetle, Oscar Wilde, is completely defunct in England. To bemethetio now is to be'out of the fashion, -and the greenery, yellowery maidens are looked upon with contemps by their more robust sisters and brothers. Mr. Wilde hillneelf has settled down to a quiet and prosaic citizenship, broken occasionally by lectures which are quite sensible and commonplace. Mean- while the man who made the mathetios ridiculous made Decor Wilde famous, and, gave Gilbert his theme for " Patience" -- the man, in fact, who was responsible for the whole testheties graze, and who started ID on his. own, boorn-is oompere.tively unknown. Del Meader, of Punch,, deserves all the honors and gets few of ie probabhe that Parliament will rms. seeable either,on Thursday, Ootober 28r5, or on. Tuesday, 98th. • The infant Duke of Albany is to be chris- tened at Osborne before the Queen leaves for Scotland. 'The Prig% of Wales and the Crown Prinoe of Germany are to• be god- fathers and the Queen will be godmother. Ismail Pasha, the ex -Khedive of Egypt, is about to .return to Italy. His stay in London and his presence at many of our great social gatherings during the past month have been among the features of the now departed season, Mr. Gladstone will probably take a short oruise in Lord Wolverton's yacht Palatine during the early part of the rooms. He is to stay at Dalmeny Park .with Lord / and Lady Rosebery during his visit to Mid- lothian, and will arrive there on the 28th. A certain Mr. Walter Browne has con- ceived, or borrowed from Amerioa, the idea of buxlesquing the Gilbert & Sullivan ex- travaganzas, and will ehortiv produoe, at a morning performance at the Vaudeville, IraPatience, a Piratical ana Pinaforical Operatio Ini healthy." , Williameltiff, one of the wealthieet and best, known colored man of Philadelphia, a co.worker with Garrieon'Phillips and Luoretia Mott in the anti -slavery cause, and the anther of the book "The Under- ground Railroade' hoe announced hiniself forCleveland and Hendrioks. Mr. Steubingemunsel for Mr. S.M.Dyleps, the champion draught player, has filed a bill for divorce ageenet Eliza Draper Dykes in the Fort Wayne Divorce Court, Indiana. The grounds upon which the champion lake for separation are . desertion and incompatibility of temper. At Ceres, near Turin, a young woman poisoned herself hot month on the marriage of het youeger sister, from fear of boom - ng an old maid. . The black ex -Queen of Assab, Turin's royol gueate refused the aid of dootore dur. ing a recent indisposition, on the ground Shat it was against African court etiquette for white hands to touoh her. • The celebrated painter Franz Limbach, of Munich, has just finished a portrait of the Pope, with which hie Holiness has expressed bis extreme satisfaetion. The Pontiff hats further desired Herr Lenbaoh to execute for him a likeness Of Prince Biemarok in the same style. The spade at Zoar, Egypt, has just un- earthed a huge sarooPhague in a royal tomb, LB extraordinary dimensions are 14i feet in leegth, 7 feet oi inches in width, 8 feet in height and the material is hard granite. Mr. Petrie recently exeatrated the broken wheelie of Reanesee It, the ore premier of the Israelites" oe proportions Unknown in Egyptologioal annals of colossal Statuen. The sareophagus hae net yet been assigned a_king or dynasty. -; EFFECTS OF TUE BEAT. idaivalIon Avow 61011.111ed. On Saturday night a terrible aoeident eoeurred the Salvation Axiny Berraehei elicit are eituated on the third story of :lie Metropolitan Block, Belleville. A Youtut woman named Mary Elizabeth Glenn, aged 23, who resides in Amelias - burg, boug seriously affected by the heat, walked to an open door 'at the rear ot the hall, which was formerly used for bringing in baggage front the hole% and which opens Into a passage between this and an adjoieing buildieg. A. young man tried to warn her of her danger, but she paid no - Attention to his cry, aud fell from a height of about 40 feet. She struck on her breast, instant death being the remit. , Baulk Fires Feared. A Barrie despatch says: The 'exception- ally dry weather of the past few days has roused fears on the part of saw -mill owners in this vicinity, Mr. 0. J. Phelps, M. P.P 7 who owns extensive newts ip Floe town. ehip, states to your correspondent thee the situation is very critical. We have, satet he, 8,000,000 feet of lumber which a very common accident might ignite and destroy. So tar as our mills are concerned, he states, we have every proof against fire, but there is no protection against careless workmen- who might drop a match and destroy my whole busineee. In 1881, when the' groat ° bush fires occurred, the whet° centltry Was swept, and we among the rest suffered. In -this dry weather the least thing possible may produce a fire. As it ie, though bush fires are raging0.11 around our men are on the alert and determined to fight Off the approaches pf the fire fiend. Sultry Weather in England. A London cablegram says: ThoWeither in London contimies sultry and almost tropical. Many persons have been prom' trated with minstrokes, several of whit% have proved fatal. Severe 1.1 roUght in the !States. The torrid Wave ieeterday caused a gen- oral suspension of outdoor Work at Dove,'. E. H. The mercury reached 100 ati 11 o'clock. Several people was prostrated. §I The weather Is so hot atrfroy, N.Y., that apples have been baked in the sun. . Certain portions of the Alps have been covered with enow this summer to an un- precedented extent Not only did the winter enow not melt, but a fresh supply fell in- july. • The effulgent August sun has been too strong for the "cool wave" which on Mon- day peemed to be creeping over the North- west. The heat is in full -swing again. - A Croderich despatch says the weather continues dry and bob. Vegetation is suf. fering very much for the want of 'moisture. No rain has fallen in this neighborhood for some time. Serious bush fires are raging tbrough the county. Notwithetaning the dry spell the grain crops are splendid. A Bismarck (Dale) despatch says the heavies; rain of the season is now falling. Reports from the West show muoh damege. • At Belfield the crops are entirely destroyed by hail. At Little Missouri it is reported 11 miles of railroad was washed. out. Hare vesting here is needy finished and will be. but little damaged Ad East Timms" despatch says serious forest firee are raging in this neigh,' borhood. Two houses were burned. Farmers are desertiug their hotties mid burying their household goods. Froru Columbusse) Theeterribleeelleats of the past ten Sysha had the effect of drying pp and withering the pastures. At the present time -vegetation of all kinds is in drooping condition. ,It is feared the crops will now fell short of the estimate' glean on the lst inst. The rivers 'and' streams are all very low, and the Majority of springs are drying up. The roadway, • through Central Ohio are oovered with dui t to a depth of several inches. The west)). r • oontisues burning hot. NO rains have fallen far about four weeks. • , ,•, From Chicago; Despatches are pour'Eg in to the, Board of Trade cperatore ft om widows pow te in Illinois, Iowa -9n5 Win °media cornerning the threatened damage to -crops in come quenoe of the extreme heat and prolongel drought. In this oity for the - ^ past few days the heat him been excessive,. the therniometer at times reaching 9,5 'ti- the shade. • ' A Bit of atxperlence. I have met with a good many people iottelee ceer liftee varied way', I've eneountered the °toyer, the 'maple, r The crabbed, the grave and the gay; I have travellee with lawny, with virtue, have beau with the VS', the bed, I bave laughed with the ones who were retry And wept with the ones Wl20 Were Bad. One thine I have learned in my learney- Ne^er to judge one by vrbat tie appear Tbe eyes teat seem sparkling with langlater Oft battle to keep back the tears, And lone, sanctimonione.races Hide often the Bolas that are vile, while theherat that ianierry and cheerful Id often die freest from And I've learned not to look for perfection In one of our frail horn -an -kind, Iii /marts the most gentle and loving Some blemisn or fault we can lieu, But yet limy.' neer found the greaten) do tow, So depraved or so mean, But hacl ecome good impulse-oome virtue Tbat Meng his bad traits might be peen. And, too, I have learned that most frlendslaipe We make are as brittle as glue. • Jest let a reverse overtake us- • Our "friends" on the "other side" pees, But, ah 1 I bave trend florae tew loyal - Some hearts ever loving and true! And the joy and the peace they have broughtns Bave cheered me ray whole journey through The wayfarers. Young man with the keen hlue eyee, Clear and bold, Why, as thou dost fare, With sasearelaing air Scanned thou each faue thou dost behold, each small flower, faint-eolored like the skiee, Growieg by the way? Why gazest thou • • O'er the round hill's brow? "Alt, in every bearded face, Looking deep, . My heart's friend seek I; La each maiden shy My heart's dearest, dreamed, upon in sleep • Ana hi each fair flower, a hope I trace; thabill may hide the flashing sea Tbat doth call to me 1" iole-raan with Dui letie'loue eyes, - , • Mild mid clear, .• Why, as thou dost fare, With that pondering air, Into passing faces dost thou peer? Why dust pause where dim, like autumn Aloe • StarrYakstere grow ? Why gazest thou O'er the round hill's brew? 'Alt, from each gray -bearded face Would I know 'What tbat heart hath found; and in youths that bound , Sce a youth that vanished long ago; Ili each flower a memory can I trace; O'er the hill the green, still place may be That doth wait for me." Poor Tired Mather. , They were talking of the glory ofthi land beyon th. e skies, na Of ffie ligh: and of the gladness to be found Of dteatrorre ie'rs ever blooming, of the never; Of thieginuciC:igonngssihrongh'llae golden streets Of appy white -robed throngs; And said father, leaning cozily back in his easy* chair (Father always was a master-ha/id for comftel. - ever wh r • ''What a lapin thing awould be to know tha5 when this life, is o'er Ore would straightway bear a welcome from the blessed shining shore 1" • All CI Isabel, our eldest girl, glanced upward frontl, „the reed She with pan:thug on a water jug, androurmurede "Teo', indeed." a • And Marian, the next hi age. a moment droppete b er book. And "Ye,, indeed!" repeated with's., most Nista. tioloolt. , • But mother, gray-haired mother, who had coma _•to sweep the roma, With a patient smile on herth,in face, leaned , lightly on her broom- • 'Pcier mother f no one ever thought how much she bad t d 'And said, "I hope it is not Wroag.not to agree But seems to me that when 1 die, before I iotXi. the blest, I'd like just for a little while to lie in pay gale, end rest." • . • • ran SUTER. She never knew that musks soft and sweet- . The patter of a little baby's Saab; She never knew tne world of joy and bliss That lingers in a husband's tender kiss; She neinieltnew the heartache•and the pain Ot.livieg loving, and that loving vain; • :she never knew the sbrrow and the woe 01 losing light from eyes whose radiant glow Was all her sun! . She lives in vain, you say lf, then, to live in vain, is day by day Tap among the lowly Lind the poor - 5 ray of sunshine to eaela darkened door; To, soothe with gentle words and gentle touch Wretches who sinned,and sinned to suffermuch To be the link that ji.ine a weary life • . ` to %ad; to be the comforter of strife; truly lives kraan m vein IF tat grand we the soothing balm for every e a . „ , WHO IS UNACQUAINTED WITH THE cEO'ComeNv OF TailS COUNTRY, WILL SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE • Ue a V n yy„ nag4, " lat• , .O.P. *O..' .4/ CHICACO, ROCK ISLAND 84 PACIFIC R'Y9 Being the Great Central kire, affords to travelers, by reason of Its unrivaled gee - graphical -position, the shortest and best route between the East, Northeast and Southeast, and the West, Northwest and Southwest. • It Is literally and strictly true, that Its connections are all of the principal lines Df road between the Atlantic and the Pacific. By Its maln line and branches it reaches Chicago, Joliet,. 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