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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-08-24, Page 3IRIS LAND BILL. Its Olaueee DiS()Med by the Loo in Benin, AMENDMENTS MADE TO THE BILL, A last (Friday) night's London cable says : In the House of Lords this evening, en motion to coneider the House of Com- mons amendments to the Land Bill, the Duke of Argyll warned the House that the Bill in its present form Was an immense development of the Gladstone Land Act of 1881, and one that in the future would lead to the development of some defection. The Mill, he declared, would foster among the Irish not industry, but laziness, making tenants more unthrifty. It would give tenants the privilege of regulating rents to such an extent as to enable them, however lazy or ignorant, to remain on their hold- ings. The Bill was a violation of recognized truths. If politioal reasons foroed the House to accept some of the amendments he hoped that the members would have the courage to rejeot others which simply pro- posed the robbery of land -owners. Earl Granville admitted that the Bill Was imperfect, but it was a compromise measure and the beat obtainable under the cirounistitnces, and it was therefore advis- able that the House approve it. Nothing could be gained by discussing the Bill on abstract economic principles. Lord Salisbury said he felt ,the justice of the Duke of Argyll's criticism. The Bill was undoubtedly a consequence of the Liberal Government's land legislation, in which a departure was made from the principle of freedom of contract. But it was only a temporary measure, preceding larger proposals, by means of which the Government would try to mitigate the evils of previous legislation. The Government had not accepted the amendments Without anxious consideration as to what the result of their rejection would be. The abandon- ment of the Bill was the alternative, and the Government could not accept that responsibility. Therefore he urged the House to recognize the difficulties of the position and accede to the amendments. Lord Selborne (Liberal) said he thought the Government would, have been unwise to throw up the Bill. He would rather have out off his right hand than have been a party to the passing of the Aot of 1881,if he had thought for a moment that its author had entered upon a course that would lead to such a disastrous develop- ment of the Irish policy as was now troubl- ing the peace and prosperity of thecountry. Baron Howth, Liberal, said that the Government appeared to entertain the idea that they should reduce the value of land in Ireland as much as possible before pro- ducing the land purchase scheme. The Earl of Dunraven proposed to amend the fifth clause by providing that the court revising judicial rents shall state the scale of prices of produce affecting the holding. Lord Salisbury objected, saying that the publication of such information wouldmul- tiply discontent and encourage agitation. The amendment was withdrawn. The Earl of Dunra,ven next proposed the rejection of the House of Commons amend- ment relating to town parks. ' On Lord Salisbury's advice the proposal of Earl Dunraven was accepted. , Earl Cadogan, Lord Privy Seal, moved that revision of rents be, based upon the difference in prices in 1887 as compared with prices froni 1881 to 1885. Earl Spencer and Earl Kimberley op- posed the motion, but it was carried -29 to 17. The remaining House of Commons amendments were adopted. colliMmyr PF A senator midienies the court, is pined, Jailed end Released by aiffolii A Winchester (Va.) despatch says; United States Senator Riddleherger, 'rVvho was sentenced on Saturday at WoOdsteek by Judge Newman, of the County Court, to pay a fine of $25 and be imprisoned for five days for contempt of court, wasreleased from jail last night by a mob. The cir- cumstances leading up to his arrest Are related as follows by an eye...witness On Thursday W. W. ,Tonewas tried for lar- ceny and the jury found that he was insane. Jones was it client of Senator Rid- dleberger4 and the verdict made the Senator angry. He was accused of writing a placard and giving a boy e2 to haul Jones up and down the town, the latter display- ing the placard meanwhile which had written on it : 4, Verdict, Bill Jones Not Guilty, But Insane, jury Insane, Lawyers Insane, Court Insane in the Main." The noise occasioned by this display disturbed the proceedings of the court then in ses- sion and the Commonwealth's Attorney, J. C. Baker, had the Judge issue, an order for Sena* Riddleberger to appear before Judge Newman and show cause why he (Riadleberger) should not be fined and imprisoned for ridiculing the judge and jury and disturbing the court. At 5 o'clock Senator Riddleberger appeared before the court and defended himself. He saia that judge Newman had no jurisdiction in the case, which the judge denied, and asked Senator Riddleberger to eft down until the evidence•could be taken to prove that he (the Senator) was the one who instigated the ridicule, and then, he said, the court could hear the argument. Senator Riddle- berger would not sit down, and the court fined him $25. He then defied the court and said : " This court shall not send me to jail." Judge Newman then told the Sheriff to take the Senator to jail for five days: Senator Riddleberger said he would like to see the irian who could take him to jail, and Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the Senator and locked him up. This action caused much excitement, and this morning at 2, o'clock a mobs of 200 men, supposed to be from Edinburg, in this county, scaled the walls of the jail yard and took the ,Senator out on ladders. t I PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.'IN DETROIT. The Bleat Inspector Iteports Many Fatal Cases in the City. A Detroit despatch says : The existence in Detroit of pleuro -pneumonia, will prove a surprise to citizens generally. On Mon- day last George Kantzler, Meat Inspector for the Western District, was apprised of the fact that it number of mil& cows in the vicinity of King's Cattle Yards, were suffering from the malady. Mr. Kalitzler at once drove to the locality and says that as nearly as can be ascertained five fatal cases of the disease have occurred, and that upwards of twenty-five cattle in the .first stages of the contagion have been butchered and sold to the public for food. The first fatal ce.se, the Meat Inspector says, was in the herd of a milkman whose stables are on Twelfth street, near King's Cattle Yards, and occurred onMonday last. On Tuesday two more cows died, and one is at present in the last stages of the malady. In another herd near by, ono cow .died on Wednesday and one last night. Avneigh- bor of another rank dealer asserts posi- tively that she saw two of the latter's cows lying dead several days ago but this is de- nied by the owner. It is asserted by Meat Inspector Kantzier, however, that the milk dealer had a herd of nineteen head only a short time ago and had disposed of thorn ell to it butcher near by. On Tuesday he reported the matter to Health Officer Duf- field, and that official, recognizing the im- portance of the matter, at once hastened to make a thorough investigation. He came to the conclusion that it was the genuine Texas lung plague, which has wrought such terrible ravages in other localities and is be- lieved to have been communicated to local stocks! by Texas cattle on their way East, which have been unloaded for food and water. Locked up Ills IloY and Starved Him: Sevin° Vinceno was arrested by the Tenth Precinct police yesterday for neglect and cruelty to his aim. Joseph, 0 years old. The father has been in the habit of locking his boy in the room while both parents were at work without furnish- ing him food or water. The key was turned on the unwilling prisoner at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, and an hour and a half later the lad attempted to make his escape. Ile crawled from the fourth story window to the fire escape at No. 21 Spring street, and, on attempting to descend, became dizzy and fell headlong to the pita. He was se badly battered about the Mita ' and body that his recovery is doubtful. He had been deprived of food for twenty-four hours and attempted his perilous descent in search of something to eat.—N. Werld., POISONED CONFECTIONERY. Over Twenty Pittsburg People Sick Eating Sweetmeats. A Pittsburg (Pa.) despatch says: Yellow chrome or some other equally deadly com- pound seems to have become an active in- gredient of Pittsburg confectionery, as no fewer than twenty-three persons living in the Seventeenth Ward are lying more or less ill from the effects of poison. A little daughter of Charles Baker, a contractor, who lives on Forty-sixth street, bought a custard cake at the grocery store of L. J. Logue, corner Centre and Forty-fifth streets yesterday. This cake was partaken of at the morning meal by the entire Baker family and one or two boarders. By noon all who had eaten of the confection were suffering violent pains, 'coupled with nausea. Emeticsomder medical aid, were promptly administered, and; although for a while it was doubtful if any wOnld re. cover, at a late hour last night the patients were supposed to 'be out of danger. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Baker and their three child- ren, Lizzie McCarthy, servant, William and Robert Rice and John Craig, boarders, were the other viotirns. Mrs. Logan and Minnie Caudeller, nurse girl, who had eaten some of the grocer's cake the night previous, were also very sick, with indica- tions of poison. Mr. J. 3. Shafer, a grocer, and family, who lives on Forty-fifth street, also bought and ate a quantity of the eake and are more or less ill, Besides the Shafer's, two sistere of Mrs. Shafer and a niece constitute the family. They are all affected to a greater or less extent. A butcher named Simon, ,who lives in the same locality, his wife and four children ate of the deadly cake and are yet very sick. L. J. Logue, the grocer who sold the cake, alleges he purchased it at a baker shopin the East End. —It is atter it Mimi bag attained it ipo old age that he begins to fall Off. • 1, _± TUE figeo4T OF THE SOUP. bYT Palmer Giving it Giimpse Of Hindeo The follOwing Weird" incident is from — Praeltier'S "Wales Before Supper"; : priest of the temple of Tirupamelay, te whom 1 disclosed illy intentions, told me of ayegi who dwelt 10 .one of the grottoes of i the sle of Elephanta, andwho had reached the highest degree of sanctity. I found him propped up against the 'wall of the cavern. Robed in packcloth,, his, knees drawn up to his chili, 'his fingers olaspea around his, legs, he,ereuchedthere motion- less. His upturned pupilsieft visible only the whites of his eyes; bis drawn lips exposed his teeth his, skin ;olung to his cheek bones; his hair, thrown haok, hung in stiff locks like over -hanging plants ; his beard, divided in two 13.00aS, nearly touched the ground, and his nails curved inward. like, ' an eagle's claw. His skin, naturally brown, had been dried and darkened by the sun till it resembled basalt, and, thus seated, he looked both in form and color like a Canopic vase.. At firet I thought him dead. His arms, that were anohylosed in a oateleptic I shook in vain; in hist ear I shouted the most powerful of the sacramental words which were to reveal me to him as initiate, but he heeded them not, nor did his eye- lids quiver. In my despair of amusing him I was about to leave, when suddenly '1 heard a Bingular rustle swift as a lightning spark a bluish flaah passed before my eyes, hovered for a second on the half -open lips of the penitent, and disappeared. Brahnia- Logum (such was the name of this holy personage) heemed to awake from a lethargy: He opened his eyes, ,gazed ,t,.me. in , a natural manner, and antiwered my questions. "Your wish ; is fulfilled," he said; "you have seen a soul. I have succeeded in free- ing Mine from kay boay whenever it so pleases me. It goes ' and returns like luminous bee, perceptible only to the eyes of the adept. 1 have fasted, I have prayed, I have meditated so long, I have dominated the fiesh,so rigorously, that I have been able to loosen the terrestrialbonds. Vishnu, the god of the tenfold hicarnatiens, has re- vealed to me the mysterious syllable that guides the soul in its avatars. If, after making the consecrated. gestures, I were to pronounce that word, yotmeoul woUld fly away and animate whatever man or beast I might designate. I bequeath you this secret, which of the whole world I am now the pole possessor. I am ,glad you have, wine, for•I kiiig to disappear in the bosom of the increate as does the drop of water that falls in the sea." And therewith the penitent whispered feebly but very dis- tinctly a few syllables which made a shudder run down my back. FIGHT FOR A CHILD. A Mother Charged with Kidnapping her • Own Daughter. ' A London despatch says: A somewhat exciting incident took place on Saturday at the Grand Trunk station. It seems that about a year ago Mr. and Mrs'. George White, of Oil City, Pa., who formerly lived in London, agreed to separate, and placed their children With different parties, their girl Nettie, 10 years oia, being sent to live with Mrs. Daniel Gales, bf this city. Sub- sequently the couple becarcie reconoiled and decided to gather their children around them and start housekeeping again. Mrs. White's mother came to London for the girl Nettie, but Mrs. Gales refused to let the child go, so Mrs. White came herself, arriving yesterday morning. Driving to Mrs. Gales' house on Richmond street, the mother chanced to see her child playing in the yard, got her into the cab and drove back to the station, Nettie screaming and fighting all the way. At the station the mother procured tickets for Oil City. and was about starting away on the Wabash Atlantic express, when Nettie's boisterous conduct attracted the attention of the pas- sengers, who imagined that the child was being kidnapped. The result WU t1itt5 both mother and child were taken to the police station, where Mrs!. Gales also appeared. A hot dispute between mother and guardian ensued, in which, however, the former finally triumphed and obtained perraission to take her child home.. Not the Place for Him, " 'You'll find this a very quiet house," said Miss Poundsteak. "Mosta the board - era are single ladies and members of a sew- ing circle." "Any poker' going oil ?" asked Reed. Geed gracious, no!" exclaimed the pious landlady, horrified. . 44 Well," returned Reed, " if that's the case / giiese it wouldn't pay ine to board hero.' —The Epoch. An Esquiniank Will eat twenty patinas of Meat per client, lubricating the Medd with as much oil as he can swallow; yet Torigouee will go twenty pounds better, for he can got away with forty pounds of reindeer meet in the same space of time; Both of thein bluish for their feeble potvore when they see three Yitkutes clerriolith Whole reindeer at one eitting and flee aPpitiontly Mine the Weide for the feed. IJiw YORK EXpECTATIONS, Of Catchiug up to Louden in the Race for Population. ; On the basis of the number of names in the new city directory, the population of New York, from the Southern boundary of Yonkers to the Battery, is not lees than 1,600,000. The population of Brooklyn is probably over 750,000, and, taking into account other communities immediately dependent on, and geographically united to, the port of New York, the present popula- tion of the Metropolitan district is more than 2,500,000. At the present moment the population of "the area' known as the Registration District of London is about 4,250,000, so that there is a long interval to be covered before we can begin to rival the populousness of the great English "province in brick and mortar." But if New York keeps up its accelerated rete of growth the difference before another generation is over may be wiped out. London is growing at the rate of about 66,000 a year, while New York's growth is about 60,000. But,in the ten years between 1870 and 1880 the average annual addition to our city population was less than 27,000,80 that we, have already more than doubled the annual increment of the decade preceding last °ensue, and have for the last six yeare established an average of 58,000. This kind of geometrical pro- gression has only to be maintained to make the size of New 'York as unexampled as its growth. --New York' Epoch. SpURGEOI4, AND THE BAPTISMS. The Great Prciacker on the Broadening of Dissent. A London cable says: Mr. Spurgeon is reported to be at variance with the Bap- tist Union, and ,itis said will consider him. self fn nowise bound by the deciaion of the coming conference between the Baptists and the Congregationalists. In a remarkable article on. The Broadening of Dissent,' Mr. Spurgecin writes: ," A new religion has been initiated"' which is no more like Christianity than chalkis like cheese. A religion, destitute of moral honesty, palms itself off as the old faith with slight im- provements, and On thisplea usprps pul- pits erected for the purpOse of preaching the Gospel. At the back of this doctrinal falsehood 'comes' the natural' doctrine of spiritual life, which, while it is wanting among certain Dissenters, is becoming ful. ler of zeal and force in the Episcopal Churh, where the Gospel is fully preached. With the Hely Ghost sent,down from Heaven, our churches not ony hold their own but win converts, but their strength is gone when the Gospel is concealed 4ind the life of prayers slighted, the ;Able thing be- coming it raere form and fiction and for this our heart is sorelygrieved." The arti- cle is aimed at the preaching of the Con- gregationalists, and not at their character, which, in the main, Mr. Spurgeon approves. The fact that it makes no mention of Dr. Parker, of the City Temple, is somewhat commented upon. Connected With the Road. "1 have met with queer characters in my day," remarked a 'conductor on one of the city roads last evening. " All sorts of excuses are given and all old fakes are worked to get a ride. One of the nerviest men it has been my luck to meet was a well-to-do old skinflint that used to ride frequently when I first came on the line. The first tithe I attempted to collect his fare he smiled knowingly and in an off- hand manner said: Oh, theta all right.' I was young in the biz' and. passed him by. He worked the way' to death. Not only did he ride himself but frequently in- vited some friends tci accompany him. At last I tumbled and made some inquiries at headquarters touchinglis right to ride free. The very next morning, which was one of the hottest of a hot July day, he boarded the oar. Fare l' 1 yelled in his ear. 'Oh, that's all right,' he placidly replied. No, it isn't all right; you can't play me any longer,' was my answer. Assuming an air of injured dignity' the old fraud said: Connected with the road.' 4 In what capacity?' My son drove the snow- plough on your road last winter.' That man never rode with meagain unless he had the dust."—Syracuse Courier. Culinary mysteries. How true it is that few of us know what we are really eating. The manner in which .a cultured• appetite can be deceived with it • plebeian morsel is thus related : A bet was recently made by two French gour. mends, one of which asserted that he could detect the component parts of any dish that Was set before him, the other betting at great odds that lie would not be able to tell the material wherewith his cook would prepare it " savory dish " for them. The cook, a Frenchman, of course, exerted all his talents andtsurpassed all praise. The dish was placed before the knowing epicure. He tastes'smacks his lips, tastes again, smells it, tastes again. Alas! it is redolent of all rich odors ; such gravy, such Bolide —so soft, so tender 1 What can it be? A wondrous prepared tripe? No Calf's head in a new shape? No, no, no, a thousand noes. Our epicure gives it up. " It is old white kid gloves I" is the cool explanation when the bet is resigned as lost. —Boston, Traveller. Asking Too Much. The party from the Buccaneer House started At 3 n.mto go to it peak from which it 610 view of the sunrise could be obtained. They wandered around Until 12.30 trying to find the peak; then they wandered around until 5 p.m. trying to lind the hotel. Then they becarrie hungry and weary and impatient, as summer boarders will sonietimes become, and the boldest of theme dark-browea, Silent Mart, who seemed to be perfectly devoid of fear, And who, it was reported, had once tomb -lifted a murder, and, as some said, had OVOLI asked the waiter not to change his seat at the table during the meal—now asked the guide timialy : "Do you know in Which direction is the hotel?" The in- dignant ittide turned on him like it lion at "Gaul slam it, no 1 I clUn't know hawthin about What We bo; I ain't never guided in these parte till thie Summer. Dew ye 'xpect a man to kern tho hull State of Maine in one trip."—Brooklyn E It has been conjectured that the extra- ordinary heat this summer May bo due to those laced -in tailor-made 'gowns, as they raise a Wearer's temperature about ten aegreed, It is an idea. • A SUN 1) The editor of the Fort Haoleoa Gazette has been attending a sun dance at the Blood Beserve near that town, and has come back to labs sanctum considerably disgusted. He says "it was the, seme old thing, the same old song and the same old tune."- Theworst feature connected with this heathenish ceremony is the "making of braves," On this occasion there did not appear to have been any candidates; but the whites present, greatlyo, to their discredit be it said, got a victim for the torture by the payment of $3. Lying on his beck on the ground, three or four Indians got about this man and the operating began. Pinch- ing the flesh between two fingers, it was pulled out, and the knife run through it A. small stick, about two inches long, wets run into the incision, and that was done. The same operation was repeated on the back. To the latter a shield was fastened. A raw hide lariat, doubled, hung from the top of the centre pole, and one of these ends was fastened to the stick iu each breast. 'Taking one in each hand, the candidate for honors yanked at theiu all his might. Then leaning back- wards, he threw his full weight on the ropes, and suspending by the sticks in his breast, danced backward and forward around the pole. Finally the flesh gave way, and he fell on the ground and lay there, a full-fledged hreve. Before the operation began, an oia party got out and counted the young man's coups. The list was not a very long one. He stole a gun, and he stole some horses, and he stole some arrows. and probably regretted that he had not stolen more while he was about it. The ova party did not relate how many clothes- lines or hen -roosts he had robbed. The young man then blessed the old fellow, threw his arms around the medicine pole and prayed to the sun. This evidentlyput him in better spirits and the Elbow related above proceeded. Then, tired out, every one rushed for the waggons and said good- bye to the,sun dance of 1887, each one vow- ing secretly that it was the last onethey would ever go to. But they all said the same last year." Such an exhibition was certainly pitiable enough, so far as the poor Indians were concerned, but it was utterly disgraceful in view of the fact that it was prompted by whites. How to Grow Plump. The famous Mr. Banting, who reduced his weight by more than fifty pounds in one year, found that sugar was the most fattening thing he could eat. Hence, to increase your weight eat cakes, puddings, syrup, honey, candy and pastry, always taking care that it be crisp and digestible, for indigestible food is a chief cause of leanness. New England pie -crust is probably responsible for the appearance of the typical gaunt Yankee. Other fattening articles of food are tender lamb, salmon and eels, milk and cream, corn bread and butter, and those vegetables which grow underground and of which sugar is made— beets, turnips, etc. Boiled or baked pota- toes, mashed on the plate and seasoned with salt and fresh butter, make a delicious dish, rapidly fattening. Eat often and very elowly, for it is not the gnantity that id eaten but the amount that is thoroughly digested that nourishes the system and rounds the bodily contour.—The Epoch. In an the.hand.‘Vay. "Dan," said a contractor to one of his trusted employees, "when you are down seeing about that line this morning, I wish you would mention to Dempsey that I would like to have that little bill paid. Yon needn't press it, you know, but just men- tion it to him in an off -hand manner." " Yes, sorr." "1 got the money from Dempsey, sorr," said Dan on his return. "I'm very glad; you merely alluded to it in an off -hand way I suppose." • " Yes, sorr, I handed him the bill anti towld him if he didn't pay it, I would let off me hand and give him a wipe in the jaw that he wouldn't forgot for a while, and he paid it at wanst." Superstition Dies Hard. The following note appears in the agri- cultural department of the New York Tribune without a word of comment, or anything to show that the editor is aware that the age of astrology has passed: " I always build my fence when the horns of the moon point up, and stake and rider it when'the horns point down; the two draw together, and my fence never falls. The moon should govern us in all our opera- tions. Our school house, contrary to my advice, was roofed in the light of the moon, and last winter nearly all the children had the measles, and now the roof is leak- ing badly." Squeezed lip Pro& Her Dress. A London paper tette it good MO* Of a lady Who, all dressed for a ball, went to the nursery to kiss her little daughter good night. The child looked at her Mother ie astonishment, titul a meineet after tlie tears canie into her big, blue eyes, and elle eobbed Out, Poo' matanut I Poe' Nellie's malting 1" " What's the matter With your indbarria, ?" naked her tether, who was standing by. Pod' mamma's all squeezed tip fro& e top of her dro§g l'—Albany Journal: In &tiling it new Street at Buffald all of ono man's land t,'-oopt it nine -inch strip was taken, and on this aniennt he hat to pay taxes. The litW is so strict that tO more land ecin be teken in such it case theti the notiee of intention calls for. During the recent visit of Mr, Chamber, lain arid Mr. Jessie Collings to Sootland, twe Skye croftere were discussing the politi�al eituatioM Quoth one—" 'Weal, Angus, tald what do yet think Of this Meister Chamberlain that's to be hero the thorn ?" Te 'which the ether replied— " Wool, Donald, he math be a very bad Mani travelliiig about V it Woman wi' different name 1" "Wi1 a woman 1 Eli, Mon, some one Ilea been fOolin' yo.” ha 1 its true, They felled file She'd eine Seesio Collings," How to Eat Corn. The head of one of the biggest restaur- ants in Chicago came very neat losing it customer the other day by asking him if he knew how to eat corn in the ear. The cue- tomer,.Yankee-like, .spunked up with 'this query : ." Do you take me for a hog ?" After a reconciliation therestaurant man talked as follows: "No one man in fifty knows how to eat corn in the ear so as to get* the good of it. In the first place, I Radii% that no man or woman looks very pretty with an ear of corn in his or her mouth. The fact is there is no artistic way to eat it. Take your ear of corn and lay it across your plate, or leave it on the side dish. Hold it with your fork in your left hand. Take your knife and run it over the row of kernels, cutting them or lancing them. Take the next row, and so on until you out all the rows. Put on your salt and pepper and butter and then eat. llify word for it, if the corn is not too old, you will relish the corn as you never dia before. The husks remain on the cob. And yon can then see what sort of indigestible stuff has escaped your stomaeli," Affectionate Relations of Three Royal • Sisters. It is well known how attached the three daughters of the Xing of Denmark are to each other. His Majesty is fond of relating an instance of this attachment. While the Princess Thyra was still unmarried, the Princess of Wales and the Czarina with their children came on a visit to Freaens- borg. One morning the King was going out on a very early expedition and deter- mined to go to his daughters' rooms to bid them good-bye." When the father tapped at the Princess of Wales' bedroom door he got no answer, and opening it found her room empty, and on going to the Czarina's he knocked with the same result. On arriving at Princess Thyra's simple bedchamber he found his two elder married daughters had each taken a mat- tress from her own splendid guest chamber and established herself thereon in the young girl's room. They were all chatting merrily, but were girlishly anxious to con- ceal the escapade from their ladies-in-wait- ing.—Modern Society. European Dress in Japan. The Court of the Mikado is being great'. idly stripped of every vestige of its Oriental coloring. It was4 only the other day that:, the Empress made the European fashion of female attire obligatory on the Japanese ladies admitted to the Court receptions, and the domestics of the piece are now to, be rigged out in liveries imitated from those worn by the servants of the Iniperiel household in Austria. Prince Komatsu, who has spent the last few months in Vienna, was so taken with the appearance of the Court servants that he asked per- mission to have copies made of the different. liveries. This was, of course, readily granted, and the niodels are new' on their way to Japan, where powdered periwigs! and silk Stockings will no doubt before long be SS regular a feature in the economy not only of the Court, but of every household which respects itself, as they are in our own part of the world.—Japatese Herald. At Fotheringay. The Auty Queen of Scots tercentenary, besides the exhibition of relics more or less. eeritieeted With her at Peterborough, has bad a quaint draniatio reeognition: At the little North Hants village -of rotheringay, the Beene of her execution, the Other day many hinidred visitors Witnessed a series of tableaux viVants done by ladies of the. neighborhood, tinder the direction of Lon- don experte, depicting the tiltief scones in the Queen's life, iron her marriage with the dauphin to het execution, One of the tektite of the Peterborough Exhibition Will be the erection of it hoine thenadriaI Of her hi the cathedral there,Where shewas buriea maP, A man weighing 154 pounds contains 97 pounds of oxygen, the volume of Which, tit ordinary temperature, *Mid exceed 086 cubic feet. The hydrogen is 'reinali lase in quantity, there being lege than 15 pounds, - but Which, in it free state, Weald 000npjf it volnine of 2,800 cubic feet. The three other gate% are nitrogen, nearly 4 pounds; chloride,. about 26 OntiteS, end Attain° 3t Minces.