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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-08-29, Page 8g9 :1864 CANNIBALISM UNDOUBTED, Grapkio Recital of aSurvivor as Wile lode , of ObtAiolog Haman Jesh r'(""8"4"--' r . TERfilikE EFFECTS OF THE INDULGENCE. • &silly's Narrative of the Exptdrer's Doings • , in the Frozen North. A Portsmouth, N." S., despeteh says ; One of the junior officers ot the Thetis sees : 4' Here, on this very spot, one of She 'survivors held uti throughall one night telling, if wordcan iell, o bis ant tate for human &eh. He would give years from r his life to forget it, but, be eaid, the first ' taste, the seneation ofhaving between hie ' teeth the flesh of one who bed often been his friend, was with him always. •• Waking or sleeping, be seemed to feel his lips pressing the smooth, flabby meat that must be choked down eomehow if he would live. And then the inhuman, savage way of getting it Each feeder upon such food must rend off bis own shreds of flesh. No friend' could be found to perfortn this horrible office. Every man, if he would east, must of necessity be hie own lbeitcher, and them oannibalistio. orgies, Inane Mideiglit feasts; were secret. The :little beaten Path, worn* ethaooth between, the graveyard and the *ratchet? tent, told its own tale. But every. dweller in that tent shut his eyes and refused to see. Body after body • wa,s stripped of flesh, but none of thoee that trod that little path dared 'epeak Of this. No men asked a question M the two born-. mon eight of a 'starving wretch, oreeping up to the onlyfire at midnight, (saying in hie hand a strip of flesh. As he thrust thie ,into the flame on the end of a pointed stick no one of file companions says a word. And When tearing the smoking flesh With hie teeth he 'lies down and another of the wouldbe sleepers risesup andgoes silently down that mysterious path, knife in hand, it is easy to guess his horrid purpose. And the after effeots of these ghastly Meats were as awful as the descent upon the mangled corpses. The bare thought of what theyebad eaten brought on nausea, , and in thew weak etate the stomeoh refused to retain this human flesh. Is it wonder - lel that theee men will carry that sensa- tion of ohewing human &eh forever I hope and pray I may forget it when I die,' was the onty prayer the wretched cannibal could truly pray. • It was his heaven of heavene to forget that awful, sickening take." Lieut. Greely, in an interview to -night denied that there was any difference bee tween him and Kislingbury ; on tee eon. trary, he had promoted him. Greely admitted that late events showed 'canni. balterra to have been praotieed in•his oamp, but declared again that itwas done seoretly and without hie consent and contrary to • his disoipline. Greely further paid, " Since my retire from Newburypprt every one of men has called upon me. They came in a body and assured 'me emphatically that they knew nothing about the condi- _ thein_fellensionaradee, mama solemnly swore that he was inn°. vent. Perhaps those died who fed upon the bodies of those who died before, but this is only supposition. I oan but anewer for myself. For days and weeks I lay on xay bask' unable to move inan enfeebled condition ; If one or more fed upon human Sash it was beyond my control and , cer- tainly beyond my knowledge. I know I Jettee been criticized for not • telegraphing thelect of the shociting ef. Henry as soon sal arrived at St. Sohn, but you must re- member I was in a wretched condition, both in body and mind. I was in a quan- dary whether I would be tried for murder, as Henry was =et on my own responsi- bility and not by order of a regular court- martial." ' Since the exhumation of Kialingbury'e 4striains a diligent examination has been made of the'inteetinal pardons,' with the result that evidence has been gathered that deceased must also have been a partake of hum= jesb.' — One of the crew of the Bearewliosie name for very obvious reasons is witheeTd,, gave a reporter the kelowleg interview this morning: He wee one of the parties which removed the dead bodies from the graves behind the Greely camp. The burial place where the bodies were reported found was in the rear of the soapalled " summer tent," and distant about 30 �r 50 yerds. Four of thelive men whose bodies * Were reported afrwashed away are said to have died in June, 'as followe : Coop, sailor, June 3; Burgeon Pavy, June ; Bergt. Gardner, June 12 ; Private Bender, June 16. It is admitted that the bodies of Lient Kislingbury and Schneider were not buried. . v When asked as to the fate. of Dr. Pavy, who is reported to have died of starvation,' the sailor said: • , "That story about the doctor having starved to desib ia all Wrong. He was court-martialled three Mee and at last committed suicide. The skeleton found without a head Was that of Dr. Pay." "In what condition were the remains of Dr. Pavy when you found them 2" "We found the bones scattered all over the toe. They were gathered together and placed in a blanket, and the bones were eo light that it was easy to carry the loaded blanket with one hand in taking the bundle down to the boat. There were marks of a knife on several of the dootor's bones where the flesh had been cut off." " Did you find anything that led you to believe °there were shot as well as Private Hem 2" " Yes ; we reeked up the bodies of two men who were found later to lia,ve been eburt-matialled and shot, One of the dead we found on the ground with the limbs tied to the body. It was the body of a little fellow of deek complexion. A sailor opened tile mouth and the teeth preyed to be as black as coal, aud we were needled the man had been suffering from scurvy. .We examined the body closely and found that mu limb' had. been out from it, probably OWN to the fact that the poor fellow was abased when he was put out of the way." "What do you mean by 'pub out of the "Why, I Mean that the unmistakable mark of pistol shots were dieobvered ,on the body of the man. All of the party examined these marke and were borrIfied to End them, ooneidering the condition the man must have been in when he warishot." "How many from your knowledge would you say had been wished away?" "The only one who met his death from drowning was the Eakin° White, out searching for game, as I learnedlfrom one of the survivors; his canoe wee dashed against a rake of ice 'and upset and the mats sank with his beat," "What do you believe bah beeome of the seiner holes reported to have been washed away, Beide from that ef the native and Dr. PaVy 2" - "1 obtained =Meet proof to °olivine° mo beyond a doubt that all reported miss- ing except tbe nMive served as food 1or the enniectea vibe Trot 4004.40 lintreetiOn. At present 1 do not care to give my name to you, bat as soon as I am discharged, whit* will be in a thort time I snap be ready eq, appear tal a ing/0 eat'hr any lb- vestigationWhiee Mapionie np." • "How do the other sailors on the Bear express themse1veg2" "Well, they are %freed to talk now, but at lint they were -theeting About the horeible thing ell day long. We Mee been •givim the$lp bo neap our moths JIM, and as it is as inutile ae our bread tima Mutter is worth M this time, df course we obey orders.. You tepid not have got a word from me if you load not promised to keep my name out of the papers. In a short time all of us will be only too happy to tell everything we know." Gemmel Mumma. Greely te-day narrated the oirourdstanees leading to their settlement at Lady Frank- lin Bay. It was on the day the Proteus left them, August 281b, 1682, that they had the first touoh of Anti° winter. They then commenced tbe making of their house, and it was finished about a week after. This life was then varied by scientific observa- tions, camp routine and fun, and wbile they remained there they did not suffer from ennui. On the 15th of October tee etinjeft them for 138 days, and twilight, yore -nog.. horn half-hour to twenty-four hours, succeeded. For two months it was so dim that a dial watch could not be rdad. Oa April llth the Bun came above the horizon and remained • 135 days. The thermometer registered 'on June 301h 82°, the highest temperature at Lady Franklin Bay which 'we knew during our stay; the lowest was in February, 1882, 660 below. As far as Greely could observe, no oraokling sound accompanied the die - Wes of aurora borealis, and the general shape was that of a nbbon. The south- westerly horizon was the quarter in which the brightest dieplaes were seen; _ Sir George Nares reported in 1876 that no shadow was oast by the auroraebut Greely says he distinctly observed his shadow oast by it. . There were to elearioal disturb - awes .e&ve those manifested by the rum- bling of distant thunder heard twice far away -tit the north. Perhaps the greatest • surprise to . the expedition was taking from Lake Alexander, a fresh • water • lake 45 feet above the sea level, a four -pound salmon. From the bay or sea only two very small fish were teken during the entire two years, and very few were to be found north of Cape eitthine. On the trip of 1882 Lockwood reached the highest altitude ever attained -83 deg. 25 min. This was about 300 milts directly north .of Lady. Franklin Bay, but to get there he travelled over 1,000 miles. Open water and broken packs frequently caused him to retrace his steps for fifty miles. In February, 1883, preparations for a retreat were made by establishing &depot at Cape Baird, twelve miles south. • Dae after day the anxious men booked ' off over Lady Franklin Bay expecting the ioe to open so that they might commence the journey home. •At last, August 19bh, 1883, the welcome news that the ice was open was brought:. All had been made ) ready, and that...very day the party einberked in the little steam launch. Be hind them they left the doge,: as they could not be taken, and four barrels. of pore. Some seal oil • was left for the -anintalsea-Tfie-retreat-waseenarked-with- great privations and sufferings caused by the contact with ioe.floes, and the boats were several times =not lost. Caught in an °Me peak and • free= fast, they were compelled to abandon their Warn launch ten miles south of Cape Hawkes, and in thirteen days they dieted wenty-five miles southward on floes, buffering horribly ,frem cold. On the 22n5 September they. were at the mercy of a terrible Arctic gale and • tenfpecit tossed; their sufferings were beyond description; though on September 201h they gamed land at Esquimaux Point, where they wintered, From that day their starvation sufferings began, which were only ended by death to some and deliverance to a few. ••1 FRANFO.CUIMESE WAR. Great Excifetneut tin' Britain. Over the Alleged Declaration of Dostilities. • A London duvet% of last (Sunclayenight Bays:• There is great excitement in the city over the Franco -Chinese question. , War between France end China, accordieg to the intelligenee of yesterday morning, le declared; andieverybody here dreadeseri. ous international and trade complications sure to be involved. France's task is consid- ered very difficult. If she fight by laud she.must rand 40,000 men at a moment when Toulon -her great port of debarks, tion -is usetess. It she fight by sea she will have to . attack (great • ports; and in this way will interfere wish both German and English trade, and, per- hape'lead to the sacrifice of English end German lives by exasperated phinese mobs. M. Ferry's position, despite the splendid triumphs of his strategy at the Versailles Congress, is made difficult by the holy terror of all France of war, and by the utfer unscrupulousness of his oppo- nents, who, on Friday, when the vote of credit was under , consideration, resorted to the worst forme of Ilibuetering, twice trying to wreck the sessiou of the Chamber by breaking up the quorum. The best point in the situation for Frame • is the acquisition of Kelung.. All her naval operations in Chinese waters have hitherto been terribly hampered by her .being com- pelled to resort to the Eagle& or Chinese for coal, 'is they had all the mines in their hands. Rat Kelung has the finest coat mines in Asia. The chances of the con- flict are the aubjeot of the usual amount of discordant calculations. The Tildes con relipondent at Foo Chow declares that the Chinese are utterly unprepared for conflict, and that their entrance into the quarrel Is, the result of the terrible ignorance of their rulers. • ' • • The harbor of Canton has been blook- aded with torpedoes. TWo Eccentric Peers. A London cablegram Bays: The two Peers who have just died suddenly were among the most eccentric) of their order. Lord Lauderdale, disappearing for years, was finally disooveeed acting as a baggage porter on a railway line. The Duke of Wellington was chiefly remarkable for his fierce quarrels with Lea illuatrioua father; Onbe the old Duke was condoled with by a friend beettuse of a caricature of him in a comic paper. His reply in the presence of hie haplees eon was that the only careen tuna that annoyed him was that -pointing •to his heir. The point of this remark was that the son bore an extraordinary but grotenque likeness of hicefather. Ile had the hooked nose and the high cheek bones, but all this was rendered frightful by a emelt and week chin and thin, irresolute aw. Following the, example of the artist Browning in painting his father, Millais ie now making for Planet Church,. Oxford, a portrait of 'the Premier in marlet robes, the progress of estheticism acquiring that even Mr. Gladstone shall be painted red. At Winnipeg potatoes are down to 750' per bushel. Lietafitatiaelia leestireakells • Mx. U. W, Scott, of Balm, Will be a oan- didate for the representation of Dundee Sit the general election. Arrangements; are in Progress for the reception of thePrinees.nd•Prineem Of Wales in Aberdeen on the 28th ink., where they will present new eaters to the 3rd Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Mrs. Tarbat, of Forfar, bag =weeded in rearing end domesticatingaewellow-an exceedingly diffioult thing to do. The bird obeys her WI, and trash' her with the utmost aonfidenoe. ft would apaar that Mr. Gladstone's visit to Mid -Lothian is to be followed by a political tour in Sootlaud in September on the part of Lord Salisbury and leir Stafford Northoote, The Conservative leaders are to address meetings in,Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Speaking on July 291h, at the dinner of the Governorsof the Edinburgh Merohant COMpanY, Lord Young referred to the great deorease of mime in Scotland, •whioli, he said, Was now less than when the popula- tion was one-half whet it is at present. This happy state of matters His Lordehip attn. buted to the spread ot education. • Landed estates are et present quite a drug in the Scotch market. One week recently eight estates were exposed -to atto: thin in Edinburgh, and there was net a bid for one of them. They were: Balhaldies, Perthshire, at £30,000; ROW% Perthshire, at £18,000; Rossie 'Debit, Perthshire, at 624,000;'Colzium and Wester Cairns, Mid- lothian, 227,000; Drongan, Ayrshire Soutramaine, Haddingtonehire ; Cattonside, Boxburghshire ; Belhaven, Haddington - shire; beeides several small estates near Lochmaben belonging to the Marquis of Queensberry. TUE DEAD DUKE. Career and Who Will be Ills Succes- sor—The Lie ot the Latter slighted by a Scandal. •• A London cablegram eat s: The sudden death from heart disease of the Duke of Wellington as he was entering a railway train at Brighton yesterday bas caused a sensation in society circles, and recalls the death of his illustrious father, the Iron Duke, whioh occurred almoet as suddenly, • in 1852, at Weimer Ceetle.. The -duke Who has 3ust died was 77 years old, and child - leas. He was married in 1829 t3 Lady Elizabeth Hay, who was the dsughttar of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and a celebrated beauty, but the union was never blotted with children. The present death raises to the ducal dignity the olden': living nephew of the late duke, Henry Wellesley, a lieu. tenant-oolonel in the' Grenadier Guards and formerly a member of Parliament for Andover. • The new noir preemptive is thee new duke's • younger brother, Lieut. -Col. Arthur Charles Wellesley, of the Grenadier Guarde, whose domestic life has beee clouded by a sad scandal. He was married twelve years ago to Miss Kathleen - Williams, by whom he has had tbree children'now aged respectively 11, 8 and 5 years. After a few years of marital pro- priety, the dashing grenadier became enamored of Kate Vaughn, a pretty and popular danseuse at • the Gaiety Theatre. Last summer he accompanied her upon her provincial tour, and the swede,' became so enotorioturthat-Dine-Welleeley-hadamediffie malty in obtaining a, divorce on the ground • ot adultery. 'The climax of Col. Wellesley's infatuation for the 'pretty dancer Was refueled a few weeks ago, when he took her to Paris and made her hie wife. As there is now but one life between Col. Wellesley and the dukedom, it is not at all impossible that the whilom queen of the ballet may yet wear the coronet of a duchess. • • MANITOBA WHEAT. • A System of Grading tor the Northwest. A Winnipeg despatch of the 121h inst., to the New York Tribune, Bays : The Cana - than Paoifio Halfway authorittes have made qemellent arrangements for the marketing of the enormous crops Of grain graving this year in Manitoba, and out 400 miles from Winnipeg along the Sakatohewan. The Inspector will have headquarters at Port Arthur. The simples of grain prepared by him will be sent' to „every station agent: along ,the•main„ line.end 'brim:shed of the • road, and whea'brought in by fanners will •be graded by that etandard. This 'will protect the setter as "againetthe buyer, If the farmer is dissatisfiedwith the grading put upon his wheat by the latter, he may call upon the agent -to- produce the • type sample, and both roust abide by it. To - further protect the_ farmer, telegraphic bulletins giving current prioes in the prinoi- pal markets of Canada and the States will be posatd at every station daily. There ' will bee brisk competition among buyers this fall. Whena there was one buyer last year there will be five this year, and any attempt on their part to fotm a pool will be defeated by the safeguards thrown around the faroaere by the railroad company. The Canadian Paoifio is now putting the best and most improved cleaning maobines that money oan buy into their huge elevators at Port Arthur. • TRAGEDY ON BOARD spew. The Captain Poisoited by Ills Crew. ' A Philadelphia despatch says: Captain Craig, who was sent to Key Wealby the owners of the schooner Julia . Barker, reports that a tragedy occurred on the seventh day of passage. Captain Lewis had not been well for three days, but had been about Ins duties as usual. There were ie the cabin the mate, Walker, and Gomez, the steward. Lewis had -previously been given medicine by them men, and fell down as he was crossing to go on deok. The man at the wheel heard the captain groan and ask for something to relieve him, and said the mate and steward poured reddish fluid in his mouth from a peouliar bottle. No sooner had the dose been ad. ministered than the captain put his heed to his stomach and oalled out, " Oh, my God, give me something to drink." The men then held a flair containing a whitish liquid to ehe captain's lips. He ohm& his head, seek° no more, and was dead in lees .then five minutea. The body was thrown overboard three lime later. Walker. Will be tried in November. All the orew are held at Key West as witneepes. • A French almanao protessies the death of both the Emperor of Gernottey and General Von Moltke before December, 1884 A stroke of lightning bas oured Mr. Abraham Cuddlobaok, of Danissons, Pa., of a strake of paralysis. - The French crown diamonds were fre: quently worn by Marie Antoinette, wbo had a great fondness for preekes atones, as was, indeed, amply shown by the unfortu- nate affair of the .neoklace-one of the causes, historians have raid, of the dean - fall of the Frenolanonarchy. Both the wives of Napoleon L wore colored stones in pre- ference to diamonds, Josephine because ehe was too dark, end Marie, Louise because she tvag too fair. The Einpress Ettgenie made little use of the Froneh crown jewels, and was the last person to wear them. ealirkellaNtelefe PellatiOneeN* Me Plucky Potence et salostreemos and Inctowisae,testilee *a Ike Beetesers. A Cairo correepondent forwards tbe text of General Gordon's letter to the Mudir of Dongolse It is as follows: Khartoum and Smatter are still bolding out up to the present, and the messenger who brings thie, Mohammed - Ahmed, will give you news of we. When he arrives give him all the uews you have, and tell him at what place the expedition coming from Cairo now is, and the numbere oorpieg. We have 8,000 soldiers at Khartoum, The Nile has risen. ewe 1,100 from the Government to tbis messen- ger. Dated 28th Sheehan, 1301." Tbe cioneeponeent adds the following partioulare; The man who brought this letter reports' that General Gordon, Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart and Mr. Power are all sell, but that they bad received m newe from the outside world. The besiegers had retired from their first positions, but still kett up the blockade. Vheir numbers were • estimated at 16,000 men. Gordon has seven armed steamers on the river, and makes sorties in all direc- tions. Lately he set out with three ateam- ere to capture a supply of maize that was on the way to the rel3e1 camp under a large ,convoy. He welted till the rebels bad expended their ammunition and then landed and defeated them, capturing all the provisions." SHOCKING ININUMASIT V. • Maniacs Chained in Outhouses tor Years • --Only at Death is the Tile 'Told. ^ A Philadelphia despatch says : The State Board of Charities has iatined a oir- outer to the medioil profeision cif theStater inforsning them that within the past year two it:stances of cruel treatment of insane petiolate iti the oharge of private individuals have come to the knowledge of the Board. In one wee an old man was found naked in an outhouse in a very, included put of the State, what, he had been confined for over thirty years, °Mined by the leg. In. the other case neither the public nor the • Board had any knowledge of the inhu- manity' praotioed upon another old man who had iikewise been chained for over a quarter of a century, and not until his death were the patioulars brought out. •The objeot of the Board is to find out if -any euch oases are known or believed to exist, and if so the pnysioians are requested to Bend them to the State hospitals for the insane. • Blanitoba and the Northwest. A Winnipeg despatch Bays.: According to the crop bulletins a big orop is anticipated 'generally throughout the Province, the wheat, barley and oat mops being particu- larly large. The recent heavy ram•• did very little damage to the crops. Harvesting has commenced. Monsignor Capel,the eminent Catholio divine, lectures in the Opera House to- morrow evening. He was presented with an address by the Catholics of thia city. • • •The ficomineenonere who are examining the stats of Emerson's financial affairs have not yet concluded their jnvestigation, but it ia stated the affairs of that town are not' in such -9, bad condition as has been egenerallyerepresented—...— • Mr.. N. T, Williams, who has charge Of the garden pert of the C. P. R. experi- mental farm at Gleichen, 785 miles west of Winnipeg, in a letter to the Land'•Com- missioner under date of Mat ult., says; "Farm crops are in splendid coedition. Wheat has growneicely, is iromlour feet to four feet six inches high, and is very even. Oats are about the same, if any; thing a little higher. Prespeots for good orops all over are excellent. We are now having a beavy rain, which can only im- prove them. Tomatoes are doing splendid; so are,equash, pumpkins, melon and corn. The last len days brought out the corn ' well. Cabbage is doing well. I have turnips My= inthes in diarcieter." ' One of the farmera of Si. Anne's expects to have 6.000 bushels of potatoes in a field of about 20 gores. In an tate:esti= between four white men and a number of Indians, at Winni- peg; on Mondayaight, one of thelatter • was Shot in the ancient= and died, shortly &inert ' • '• • - • Sir Heater Langaio will arrive on Saturdey. He will be given a reception and 'presented with an address at the Will Shed that eight, and on his return fromthe Rookie° a banquet will be tendered . him. Calgery will also give him a banquet. In the Winnipeg City Council on Mon- day night notices of motion were given ask- ing the Chamberlain and Ald. Wilson, Chairman of Finance, to resign. An ani- mated debate took plats on irregularities dietitivered in the oity•floanoes, the Mot being ascertained that 113,000 of eity funds had been loaned to , private individuals. This had, however, been replaced by the Chamberlain. Ald. Wilma was pregent ab the Counoil meeting, but left the room be- fore the discussion commenced. 440111 14A.01(Ef34 COLUMN: The Gordon Expedition Route. A London oablegraen says: Scarcely had the Government announced its foal - detainee as to the route by whfoh the expe- dition for the relief of General Gordon was to proceed to Khattoura, thee a chorus of hostile criticism arose from ocertain old fogies of the military service, •whose days for active campaigning are about over. The reeponsibility of advising the Govern- ment has rested with General Wolseley. Guided by the rapid success tot his move- mentS against Arabi and tbea effective assistance rendered to the military by the naval eavioe, he thinks that Jack •Tar may just as well be made of use on the Nile ail on the Mahmoud canal. The expedition will . be half naval and half military, and for the overcoming of these difficulties to be .met • with on the route, caused by the cataracts and other natural impediments, the bulk of the work during the advanpo will fall on the naval service. The counter proposal of the -Pelted Service Club loengere is to reach Khartoum from the Red Sea'via Swaim and Berber, 13 which would e a purely military under- taking and would give whatever heavy and hard knocks that were going to the Horse Guards. Our unfriendly oritio says that before Mr. Gladstone has done with him be Will make Jack Tar a land arab ; but publiie opinion takes but little stook in the various arguments,addmed, as- long as an °epode tions starts by any of the routes recom- mended. The troops are likely to meet but little opposition on the road until they have pentad Dongolee and any danger from the enemy is but trifling as compared with that involved in an attempt to march heavily' armed British troops aortae the desert, The general opinion of the experts is fatorable to Lord Weilseley's Bohm°. There is a possibility of the Exchange Bank depositors receiving 25 per'nent. "ndAllinthjeluimumanrtIrging mammas among the English nobility are arranging to bring Out the buds " eimultetteMisly with the Prmoe of Wales' two daughters, respectively 17 and 16, who will be launched on the sea of English gaiety in the coming BeAUOfl. Seasonable DreasuSa, Bxtrawasant and Economical, • A BUSINESS THAT NEVES GETS DULL Bottum of Roses. . One of the old-feebioned flame, too little mad nowadays isthe ropewater, or essence of rose. It used to find a place in every closet, and was a constant and valuable adjunct in cooking. It is too bad thee so delicate a flavor should be allowed to be crowded to one side by the more positive and aseertive flowers which reign supreme M printout. One may, with a little care, make a roes preparation for flavoring -that shall be much nicer than the (Willed rose- water. It is a southern rule., one that is in high favor with the women in that portion of tbe °Sentry, where cooking is regarded as one of the floe arts. It is given by Stuart Smith. Gather leaves from fra- grant roes, taking care not to bruin the delicate patale ; fill a, pitoher with them, and oover them with 'French brandy; the next day pour off tloe brandy, take out the leaves and fill the pitcher with fresh ones, and return the brandy, ; repeat this pro. vise until the brandy el strongly iiiitireg- tasted with the rose; then bottle it. The pitcher should be kept closely covered durieg the entire process, that none of the aroma may Amapa. Ladies who have rose gerdens ma utilize the Women en this way; . Of mune, it goo without saying thst only the fragrant varieties ars. of use for this purpose. • Fashion In rtilveyware. The fathien in eilverware just now is not only that of antique designs, but the real antique, says the San Francisco Alta, _even though it be of unknowu history and has seen the world from the shelves of the brio-a-brac dealer, is used by those who love beauty and antiquity under any small Mount of rust sed the grime of time. Wedding gifts' in antique eilver are con- sidered recherche, and. are valued more if they can be truly endowedwith an inter. seting and oldworld history. This mode has rather the air of buying one's noir- e:gime and giving them as preeente. At the Beene time fashion .decrees that it .is the thing to do and it is done. One may polish it up, or not, as one ohooees, before pre- senting it. •. A Staple Business. One branoh of trade, says tee Albany Journal, shows no effects of the,putio. "1 am a manufacturer Of babies' °apse' 'said a New York merchant, "and 1 regard it as the most eteple business in the country. Babies are coming into .the world all the time, and every mother will stint herself before ehe denies her infant a cap. No panics interfere with my business. some Dresses Seen inni.ondon. At a recent gathering in London the fol- lowing dresses were seen: A =id of white tulle over satin; the front of the ;Inas covered with flcunces of lace; end at one side a carelessly knotted rash of blue satin, with a °luster' of frag- rant Jane lilies; the low boles of tulle and lace, with a silver trimmed white satin corselet.; bracelets qf palehlue satin clasped the arms above tbe elbow, and the wearer ottrried-a-moesterebouquet -ofelitiewand-- foliageewith =eh ends of xibbon to matoh. Another was composed of clonds of crim- son tulle and a corselet bodice of satin, botdered with a paean:mkt:irie. of, shaded and deed gold laeade. . Lady Conetanoe Howard was in dark blue tulle and satin,. with trimmings of aoarlet poinsettas ; tetrad diamond stars in -the hair, Lady Buchanan wore bleak lace over white satin, relieved by pale blue feathers, 'diamond brooches on the bodice and in the. hair. Th'e low berthes, which were getter - ally worn, were in some instances literally trimmed with diam de in chains of single stones festooned 1r0 the shoulders . and fastened in the centre of tem chest by a large 13r000h with riviere drops. One lady in a handsome toilet of white terry velvet and satin displayed no lees than fourteen diamond broophee of all eizsa and of fan- testi° shapes on the lace covered bathe of her bodice.• A noticeable drese was of blaok net over satin, earauged as a ballet skirt; the upper one was seattend with closely placed groups of email =ernes of yellow chenille nen g- lee by their stalks and one or two dull green leaves; on ,the skirt was a large cluster of orange -hued oath& tips, which also wets placed on the right shoulder of the low -out black satinbodice, and again ett the edge of the bisque. Two sisters wore bleak tulle skirts and. satin bodioneboth being trimmed•with red birds and long loop's of, waist velvet. The very short eleevee were merely of folded tulle, Named on the top of the shoulder' by a solitaire diamond stud, and tbe bodice had no sort cf tuoker on the left shoulder and on the back of the akirt, which was edged with a very thick -ruche, was a large- sized orange -heed bird, and the blue . feather fan had also a bird in the centre. Tulle was rauch affected by married ladies as well as by quite young girls; 'indeed, every other dtess was of this metered, with bodice of velvet or satin. Many of the bodices were outlined with colored beads, with several nem festooned on the arms and curiae around the berthee Mies Bigelow, an American. belle, wore a °beaming dress of the palest apricot • tulle ; it was beautifully draped and devoid of all triniming ; the only addition was a knot of tesestiented roses, • attached to a palm -leaf fan and fastened with Mosely-tied ribbons. ' • Extravagance in Dress. Tbe expenditure for dress is extravagant or not, according as the indulgere can't or can well afford it. Hard limes have not appreciably leasened the display of costly olotbes. A few of the Wearers in former years have dieappeared, but their places are taken by fresh dressers. On thewhole there is no deterioration. I was chatting on OM subjeot with .an operator . in Long Branch real estate, when & particularly fine equipage rolled past. In it eat a middle aged woman with all the repose of a duchess. I asked who ehe was. 'Mrs. Connolly, the dresemaker," he replied, " or Dime. Connolly, as she puts it. She does business 10. Nem York and has a sum, mm Manch of It hers. She is the 'owner of six houses, ranging from exceedingly handsome villas down to no lower than pretty fino cottagee, and worth in theitggre gate $200,000. That represents only a part of her iramenee wealth, all acquired by deoorating the women of New York within ten years. 1 am agent for wavers! liner - sem companies, and, upon my word, I sometimes feel that I ought to °barge Mrs. Connolly e higher premium than 'other per- sons. Why Because it seer= to me that florae day the husbands and fathom of her' elastomers are going to get revenge by burning her property -and that makers it extra hazardous, don't you see 2" But if thee° husbands and fathers stop to think that the loss will all figure in subsequent bills they will see the futility of anon in any scheme of vengeanee.-Lone Branch letter in Galveston Neu* Smell Economies. • We do nob honeetly think, says a writer 011 tietedi esopmelee, woman -ma reek ass extravagant in large linings, and they wall elmerfully make large sainittees Oat la emelt things they do pot usee113r And moue only pleasant. This proceeds chiefly from. ignoramus, false shame,. and, in extreme ealles, from idleneSe. Mistresees far WO - often do not koow bow to make the Moittof things, though, asfaz as teeir lights go,. they will use thorn themselves, and oblige those oonneoted with them to do likewise. Then, again, them pate cloonomiee are BO small that one dreads to encounter the motets lam of horror at such unheard-ot meanness. The thinly; are BO petty 1. What difference oan they make ? The whole thing would pot save sixpence in the 24- hours, etc. Granted; but look through your amount; and see how your money goes. It is mostly carried off by odd six. ponces, that at the• tinae seem almost too unimportant to consider. None,antil they try, realize how tiny faunas wilbmount up in a short space of time, and how far scraps will go in making dainty dieing,. tenapting. to eat and saying the butoherea book. It Jo just in these small economies that Vench women are =oh eplendid managers. They know exaotly how far everything will go, and have no false shame at any manage- ment that will save even a penny.. It is a mistake te keep pleaes of stale bread in an etarthen ja, as it will surely mould. It should be put into an open disk - and covered with a wire -cover or coarse muslin. It will then dry and keep sweet tillrequired. When a woman boasts 1010 she has spent the leisure of ten years he making. tapestry betake for four oh,eire, it is fair to oonolude she has not found the portion of ° work that belongs to her in this world„and that somebody else is doing it. The low corsagea of young ladies' evening • dresses are now seen with- full gathered waists and full sleeves in the simple Mollie= worn twenty ,years ago. Theee are called baby-waiats, and Me worn with a wide su,sb tiecebehind. The felines is gathered, to a band of insertion and hos around the top, and again below to a belt. The jaunty jackets ot light cloth wttir braided borders now imported, fur extra, wraps at the sea -side are made quits short , and p1010 behind to lie moonily. on the tournere, and the fronts are longer and pointed. • Feminine Fancies. . . "Dear me, look at this," said a fashion. ' able young lady in a blue jersey and spoke bonnet with aavbite feather'as she paused with her friend to look into the window of a store. "See the cunning little frog me- ting under 'an umbrella," said she, indicat- ing the well-knownpioture of Leto= quietly seated beneath a toadstool. . The'English royal family sets an excel- lent example to ,the publio in 'the neatness with which its young girls are alwaye dressed. Recently at a Marlborough House garden party the three "Wales" Princesses wore simple gray foulards with black sashes and found black hats, and the daughters of the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia were dressed in whits and black, trimminga. On Saturday, when the °outline met again at the Coombe House representation of. "As You Like et " the Eagle -di ones wore gray tailor-made dresses and the Germans gray silk, . all having, simple black jackets and hats. ' , .--Queen-Victorbes-,Litst-Portralt.— In the colonnade I saw the last photo- graph Queen Victoria has had taken -with her daughter the Crown Princess of Ger- many, her granddaughter and her little greengranddaugbter - four generatiorile • says Margery Mei= in the Boston Tran, • script: The Queen looks ill and old, and - 1 must say it -not lovable, good as ehe, may be. The little great-grandohild nestles lovingly, in her arms, quite unconscious thee all her grandparents anteueens or emperors or brown primes. Tina photo- graph was taken at Darmstadt at the time of the recent wedding. Court mourning 10- a curious thing. It was ordered that dur- iog that period 'dreams should be out low, in front, only -in the back high. The, Queen in this pioture is in Maps, with a. eorape cap upon her head, btit about her; neck is a piece of Velvet, pinned with' sw, jewelled brooch ; her cella 10 fafitened by a still lager' one of gold ; luet below, from a . chain, .depentla ,a locket, and just below that a' bunch of chaimean a gold chain. Thiele not exatly whit %velem mourning attire hi Americo, and teere does seem an incongruity between crape slid a profusion of gold jewellery. 'There are no women ' wear so much jewellery asEnglish•women 'whet travel, especially silver. One is in- clined to thiuk that by mistake they have slipped their napkin rings on their arms, so massive are their. 'elver bracelets. Lightning Freaks. _ Nathan Miller, of Maryville, lean.'lost his ,four daughMre; aged reapocaively 18,. 17;9 and 7 years hy a smgui , stroke °f- light:deg. • Three men were working in a tile yard, at Bement, Ill., • when a tbutideretorm • cane up. One of them With brought to bite knees by a stroke of lightniegence her Epee • Broiled like a toe from its effects, wkile the- , third, who was wheeling a. barrow, was. instantly killed. • • When lightning ettuok the house Of John, Queen, of Jacob's Creek, Pa., it knocked • from the wall hie loaded gun, and at the, same instant his daughter Nancy dropped, dead. The gun was discharged and the contents struok her in the breast. Whether' she met her death by the lightning or the • shot will neve t be known. Several persona were riding on horseback. ab Shawnee Mune, Jackson Township,. Ind.efleeing from an impending rain storm, when ligbtning struok a colored boy, Who • Was one of the peaty. It burned his face alimet past noognition, Mad peeing to hie shoulder, left an ugly wound, but he will. reoover. His horse was killed under him.. None of the others were injured. Oysters Growing on Trees. ' United States Consul Richard Lambert • Writes 10 the State Detainment on the • subject of Mexican oysters. He says: " These popular bivalves are found plentifully distributed. along the entre coast of northwestern Mexico. The oysters °aft be had -for the simple taking, and at this mason they are large, fat and tender, and will compare favorably with those found along. the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. Not withaending the ease of obtain Rig and the inexpensive prioe--about 25 , cents a bushel -not many are brought into . towel, except -rare came oil Friday. Generally Heeaking, any one who wants oysters either orders them privately or sends hie servant with a basket tolhe Conchal, about two miles south of E4'all Blas, where they are emily gathered frotn the roots of Mem skirting its banks. There are no ownershipeto the oyttar beds yet -- everything is fres." No sooner has California seconded in con - timing the East that it isnot desolated by grasshoppers, than information comes diet large areas of Texas have beeti made" ver- durelese defeats by the neaps of prairie dogs. The heat 01a Greenland whale is a yard - in diameter.