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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-12-15, Page 7of 4 croARTANT TOKCS Passim -4r Cisernrelso Sent Iltok tha deed for a corner lot presented him by. his !ad- mirers in St.. Foul, and 4 hie taken twe- thirds+ of the time el the good wives of Minneapolie to keep buttons sewed en the vests of tickled lginnealMlitans. Wexo Cum Foci, the naturalized Chine - man who was recently taxed 050 on the Canadien border by the Dominion Govern- ment, is in receipt of a letterfrom Secretary Bayard saying that he has forwarded Wong Chin's formal complaint to Minister Phelps in London, wheswill lay 3 befere the British * Government for explanations. NATURAL gas has been known and ex- tensively used in Asia and China for si long time. Histery tells us of 0, well in Frappe in the time of Julius Caesar. The Snit in the United States was in Charles- ton. The Taylor HOMO, in Fredonia, N. Y., was illuminated M1824 in honor of La- fayette. A few years ago a gat well wags discevered in Ocean Spray, near Boston. The nature and efficiency of natural gas ifs but partly ilnderet0001. jOAQUIN Musshe had a vast amount of trouble in his domestic affairs. Notlong ago his favorite daughter married an actor against her father's will, and now " Hal " Miller, a son of the famous pdet, is in jail pi Nevada City for horse stealing. Hal is a young feliow not yet 18 years of age. He offers another illustration of the fact that father's life has been one of verses and reverses. Tim first stetue of Lone,fellow' to be erected will be set up in Portland, Me., the poet's birthplace, and wilt be ,the work of Franklin 'Simmons, a Maine sculptor. The play model hes just been finished in Rome, and represents the poet in a sitting atti. tude, the right arm resting in an easy pod - tion on the back of a richly carved and ornamental chair, while the other is thrown carelessly forward on his lap and loosely holda a mass of manuscript. M. PASTEUR, of France, has Perfected a scheme which he thinks will result in the extermination of the pestiferous rabbits of Australia and New Zealand. He proposes to introduce chicken cholera eimong the animals hy means of microbes. But who can establish the fact that the microbes will not be a greater .nuisanee than the rabbits ? •Chicken cholera microbes do not bear a very good general reputation. They might kill all the rabbits in Australia, but would they stop there? Ir the condensed breath collected on the cool window -panes of a room where a, num- ber of persons have been assembled be burned, a smell as of a pinged hair will show the presence of organic matter ; and, if the condensed breath be allowed to re- main on the windows for a few days; it will be found, on examination by microecope, that it is alive wiih animalciilie. The in- halation of air containing suchputrescent matter causes untold complaints, which might be avoided by a circulation of fresh air. THE Compulsory Education law in New York State 3 a failure. The Superin- tendent of Public Instruction gives two conclusive reasons for it. He says: School trustees elected to supervise the !schools, and serving without compensation, naturally object to being turned into con- stables; and police officers for the purpose of apprehending delinguent children or the children of delinquent parents. Moreover, the schools are full." The number of chil. dren who attend the schools in New York as compared with the number entitled to attend has been decreasing since 1870. MEN have often been driven to crime by hunger. Dr. Charles Bradley, formerly of Chicago, became a forger and thief through his passion for cocaine. A victim of the use of the drug, he reduced himself to poverty, lost a good practice, went to New York, and was the other morning placed in the hands of the police. His practice was to write letters from dootor to another, seising the loan of a hypodermic syringe and some cocaine for immediate use. His condition induced his committal to the penitentiary. • The saddest part of the story is the fact that he made his wife and six children also victims of the drug. NORTH Canotratt takes; the paint fornegro mechanics. Within her border are to be found wholesale merchants, wholesale manufacturers and dealers in tobacco, architects, silversmiths, locksmiths, boot and shoe dealers and auctioneers. Stewart Ellis, of Raleigh, has filled a Government contract for carpentering on a building worth 3300,000. W. C. Coleman, whine - sale and retail merchant at Concord, owns several of the finest breed of horses in the State. Miss Drake, an Africo.American, of Nash, took the prize at all the State fairs for the best 'production of cotton. There are twenty individuals in the State worth from 310,000 to 330,000 each. Acconinee to recent experiments of M. Hamlet and Richet, of which an ccount has been given to the French Academy of Sciences, the ventilation of the lungs is increased by inuseulat labor y In moderate work the ventilation is mere than sufficient for the excretion of the cite:ionic acid produced,and above all for the absorption of the necessary oxygen. In hard work the proportions of carbotic acid produced and oxygen absorbed rise slightly the herder the work; but it is chieflythe proportion of carbonic add i which ncreases. During rriusoular exer- tion the ratio Of carbonic add produced to oxygen absorbed tends; to become unity, although normally it is lest; than unity. A isms magazine rifle is to be adopted by the Italian army which seems in some re- spects quite as effective as the French arm. It is called the Fredcli rifle, after its inven- tor, Capt. Freddi, Who has jitst made knovrn his invention. The rifle weighs but seven poen& four ounces; the bore is .315 cali- bre or a trifle larger than an ordinary lead. pencil ; the bullet sveighe but 225 grains, or half tho weight of the Springfield bullet ; the charge �f pdwder iseighty-three graine, which is heavier' than tbe Springfield, arid tho muzzle veloeity i.e 1,640 feet a geciond, 300 feet greater than that of the Springfield. A soldier can carry 200 cartridges'which weigh but eleven potinds four ouncegl mid he can fire twenty.four rounds in it minute. CARTER H. Hanenson, ex -Mayor itif Chioage, writee from Japan that he is sorry that the women of that country have adopted the European style of dress. He says they might ;meth better have thosen the costume worn by the ladies of Chine. I would like to build well around China," he says, " out of which no ehnond- eyed Celestial could escape, but I weuld he delilshted if the costume of their ladies could ts iillroduced alnpng Western nations, We would then have our better halves dressed th please an eristic eye, without the present waste of femele health and strength." Mr. Varrisen does nOt Men- tion 'feet," but doubtlesti he dins no 'wish the ladies of Chicago to follow the example of the Chinese belles in keeping down the mze O their pedal extremities. A Tom of no email importance from the standpoint of public health has been excl.- plains the its of the leading medical men of New Midst The discussion begen in an article in the Medioal Itecord, which main- tained that cholera wee stopped by cold weather and that an epidemic) et this time of the yeer would be impossible. Dr, Reginald H. Seyre, of New 'York, holds, on the contrary, that cholera is st scourge of which the march cannotbeetayed by either cold or heat, dry or gimp, and, in aupport of his views, he gives the dates Pt the viol- Othe visitations; from 1800 onwards, In that year it appeared at Moscow in October, and in 183t in Great Britain in the seine month, being retest fatal in December. In March, 1832, 3 was at its worst in Paris, 861 per- sons; dying in ten days. From these and other 'statistics Dr. Sayre argues that it is madness to trust to any notion of the cold season being less susceptible of its magas. In -matters; of sanitation, indeed, there is only one safe principle, that is being always prepared, go far as human precautions can Tau other day, Field -Marshal von Moltke delivered himself of the following opinion concerning the French and German armies. At a military gathering at Berlin, held in honor of the veteran's 87th birthday, he said "The next war will be above all a war in which strategic science and the art of commanding will play the greatest part. Our campaigns and our victories have taught our enemies, who, like us, have numbers, Armament and courage. Our strength will lie in the handling, in the commandment. —in a word, in the head. quarter's staff, to which I have devoted the last days of my life. Our enemies+ may envy us this force, but theydo not possess it." This i speech, which s not over -modest, does not seem to have given any offence in France; at least one of our Paris contemporaries, after quoting it, simply observes "11 the opinion of M. de Moltke is correct, let us try to sequin; the only quality in which, according to him, we are still wanting." Previous to the war of 1870-71 the French military attache at Berlin, Baron Stoffel, frequently warned his Government to be. ware of the Prussian staff. Hie warnings were disregarded. Will those of the old Field -Marshal meet with more serious con- sideration 7 ,THE transmission from the cow to men 'of scarlet fever and tuberculosis was the subject of the opening address of Professor Hamilton at Manias' College, Aberdeen, in which the lecturer gave an excellent account of the investigations conducted by Mr. Power and. Dr. Klein into the relation of a cow malady to scarlet fever in man. He referred also to the observations of Copland, who believed that both the dog and the horse could suffer from the latter affection, and stated that a febrile condi- tion of some kind can be communicated to animals by inoculating them with the. blood of persona who are the subjects of scarlet fever. He further expressed the opinion that itibercle could be conveyed to theal by means of milk from tuberculous cows. While the possibility of such ocourrence cannot be denied, it must be borne in mind that Klein has pointed out that there are certain important dif- ferences between bovine and hareem tuber- culosis ; and again, Creighton has shown that man occasionally suffers from a feral of this disease which resembles the bovine malady, making it probable that by far the greater number of cases are not of bovine origin. NeVerthelese, the subject deserves much greater investigation, and certainly every effort shoulcebe made to prevent the distribution of milk front turberculons cows. A Lady's Outfit for Manitoba. 40 "Felix"in London Queen writes: The warmest of clothing will be requisite, the cold being intense the greater part of the year. Every article of dress should be made as simply as possible'dresses in thick woollen materials, and bodices suf- ficiently loose to enable plenty of wraps to be worn underneath, such as a knitted bodice; those in pine wool are warmest. Shetland veils, boote and shoes ishould be large enough also to allow of thick etockings, and woollen leggings even over these; nightdresses in flannel, and knitted night - Books •, an irediarubber hot-water bag, and a good-sized square of mackintosh ; some yards of flannel, thick -lined gloves, strong calico sheets, blankets and pillows—the letterer() a comfort to have amongst the wraps on the long railway journeys. The raidges area real plague, and mosquito netting is useful to have. DO not forget to take a good supply of cottons, pins, hair- pins, tapes, stationery and all such etceteras—daily articles one is so acme tamed RI have at hand &theme, and become a .considerable inconvenience when unpro- curable. Warm weather must alto be con- sidered, though �f short duration. Some print dresses. Norfolk jacket bodices; as si better dress, black in alpaca, a washing silk or cashmere. A few pieces of unmade prints will be useful, a folding deck chair, plenty of wraps and gome light literature. A n Ott -Worked bodgei Ei.millionalre—My son, you hat,. ruined , Son—Have 1? "1t1r *hole fortune has been squandered in paying your debts." "Haven't yoti any real estate you can mortgage ?" , Nothing. We MINA Move next week tel rented house. I can no longer support you. Yon must go to work." " Well, I'll go hato Politics." "Papers which kilo*your regard will oppose you." " That's all right. I'll claim they are opposing no because I am poor." Ex.Senator Tabor, of Colorado, is said to have struck another gold bonatiza near the Matohlese mine at Leadville. The Matchless+ has elkeinlY yielded 31,250,000, and the new Mine gives promise of egnal. ing its -record. CtisS1116 ouT eAn EitS. Cases of Espocial Interest io Tiour of This Crow_ n In the amphitheatre et the New York hospital the other day Pp:dealer R. F. Weir wore si long white operating gown, which reached almost to his feet, eaye the New York San- A sgaara table* -set on wheels, and having e shelf half way from the floor, bore at glees tray filled with sis solution of carbolic. Is this liquid lay the professor's' instruments. " The casesfor operation to.day," Reid the professor to the 100 medical studentand 25 doctors present, " are of peculiar interest, both being cases ot epithelioma, which firat attracted such general attention in the case of GeneralGrant, Audis at present creating greet interest in the muse of the Crown Prince of Germany. I have not studied the case of the prinoe so as to be able to criticise the diagnosis snide in it, but one thing is certain, hie case proves that we must not trust too much to microscopie testa. In hie cairn several section' of the growth were examined, which, according to the microscopist, were non-rnalig. nant. Later mations were undoribt. edly cancerous. We must judge for ourselves as to the advisability of eper, ating, even when the paioroscopist pro, nounces it non-malignant." The profess& signplled to his assistants, and they wheeled in s, stretcher on which lay the patient, He was under the influence of ether. On his right cheek was the growth. It was about the sing and shape of a big egg and looked like an ulcer. "Eighteen months ago," said the professor •a small pimple appeared. on thia man's cheek. It enlarged and he consulted a physician, who burned the growth with osmotic. This treat. ment, according to modern authorities, is not good practice, as it irritates the tumor and promotes its growth. Within the lest year it has grown to its present size." The patient's face had been carefully cleansed by the professor's assistants with a diluted solution of biohloride of mercury. "Give me a scalpel," said Prof. Weir, "a sharp one." Taking the knife handed him, he carefully eut out the tumor, removing about one quarter of an inch of healthy tissue on all sides of the growth, in order to thoroughly extirpate it. Each artery as it was severed was seized by a pair of self.clamping artery forceps, until six or eight . pair were hanging to the wound. The big tumor was removed, together with a small section of the masseter muscle and a por- tion of the parotid gland, with which the tumor seemed to be incorporated. Some exfolliationa on the molar bone were re- moved with a pair of forceps, and the cut- ting was dressed as an open wound,to bring the edges together would distort the mouth. Gauze or cheese cloth, impreg- nated with iodoform and covered with a mass of cotton retained by a bandage, com- pleted the dressing, after whichthe patient was removed. Professor Weir retired to don a clean white gown, and then his eecond patient was brought in. He, too, was under the influence of ether. He had an epitheliomatous growth on the left side of his tongue. This man," began the professor, "has confessed to the im- moderate use of tobacco, but I do not be. lieve that caused his trouble. Epithelioma seeing to be contagious. Houses appear to become affected with it, as cases occur which can be explained in, no other way. We know two or more members of the same family become victims to this disease, when there is no previous history of tha malady in the family, and the onlyreasonable explanation of the theory is contagion. Two years ago this petient bit his tongue, and this cancer seems; to have developed from the wound." A stout silk ligature was passed through each ;fide of the tongue by means of curved needles. Then the tongue was pulled for. ward by the silk threads by an assistant. The professor made a small incision down the middle of the tongue. He then tore the tongue with his fingers down nearly to the hese, as if it were a piece of cloth. He ant off the half which contained the tumor. As quickly as possible the .severed arteries were seized and tied up with strong sills ligatures. After passing a stout silk cord through theater:tap so este enahlehint to con- trol it in case of secondary hemorrhages, the professor skilfully cut off the other half of the tongue and also tied up the arteries. This patient, he said, would have had the same lingering death as General Grant if the cancer had nct been removed, as it was increasing in size, and would in time have eaten away the tongue and throat. A Vexations Tax in Paris. , One of the greatest impositions in Paris is the octroi or duty on eittebles and drink. Males collected at the various barriers or gates. As each market -cart passesthrongh the fortifications in the morning 'it is stopped and a. small teas charged on each and every article brought into Paris. The same ystem its vigorously practiced for all articles going out of Paris. The suburbs are now composed of some dozen townships lying outside of the fortifications, and numerous straggling villages which extend for Miles around Paris. Each a these places has its; barrier and custom house. An English friend of mine, recently settled here, had O, dreadful experience with this system yesterday. He lives at Connelleas a suburb some three miles out of the oity proper, and to reach which he is obliged to pass through six different townships. lie had purchased at an English butcher's, on Rue Sainte Honore, a leg of Southdown mutton ass a treat for his wife. He Was stopped at each of the six custom houtes ori his way home, and was obliged to pay a sum equivalent to 10 cents every time on the unfortunate leg of inuttoti.-AsNew York World. Mme. akevy thinks thea her huaband and son-hidaw are the victims of a politi- cal conspiracy. A lady in Milton, Pa., who was aacosted by a rascal just at dusk the other eSening, defended herself in a novel way, She Was returning from marketing and had in lier headset a piece of bologna eausage, which she painted at the What, crying out," You anciundrel, if you tenth rde I'll shoot you." Supposing it vies a pistol she had, the man teak to his hooks Professor Wiggins lista returned to the prciphetic business. He is Of opinion that there will not he A reourrence in North Anierico of the disastrous earthquakes of the Scnithein States and Centre' Anteriea before the year 1306. HO cannot say the ; BEMS of Europe and the Far East. WASIrrrt 1,4'4 Vlso Cold an Wise 4sard n N°11g In the Nigilt =Id Tilouilli4 o1 nolliffs In the isuiet welting room of the Grand Trunk depot in LeWmitiall sat a grey whis- kered old fellow in a laroad-brimmed het. die bed been studying a timetable with acme perplexity and had just laid it *side. A. question from him relative to the staid., ing of the trains for Oxford county was in- troduction enough. His voice was hoarse, but not unpleasa.nt. Hie inflection was odd. Being a Drawn Easter, it wag safe for the writer to guess that the stringer was from the West. "Prem the West?" " You bet," was the reply. '4 Going to Oxford County?" "That's where I'm going.' Conversation was desultory until the Westerner opened up. Said he, "It's thirty-two years since see the hills of Maine. I was raised up in old Oxford County. I reckon 1 ain't thought o' these hills since I were a boy in copper -toed boots with a good old daddy— too good, God bless 'dna, for nary such a youngster as I were, I left home he I wits 16 and went out West, then I came back and went to sea. coasted eight yews and in '55 went on a deep-sea voyage and brought up in California. I've been there ever since.Have come back now." Alone?" " Alone? Yes, alone That'e the bother of it, my boy. Nary.. darned soul there nor here as I know of that mires whether I get here or not—a lonesome old mon. Don't you do it. Take my word for it, it'a awful. For thirty.five years nothing to think of but work and dig and dive. No wife. Never had none. No friends, except boys in the diggings when I first went there, and in town where I've been ronnin' a little business of my own for the past eight years. Nothing ahead of me for the past twenty years but getting rich. No letters from anybody as I knows of. Nothing in my dreams but money. Nothing else in the visions of the moun- tain peaka, nothing else in the changin' sur- face of the Pacific whenever I've caught a glimpse of it. I've been a sordid, mean, low -lived skinflint part o' the time, and a roisterin', tearin' fellow rest of it. Loolsin' back it makes a lump in my throat, boy, it do honest, and I agree that a wasted life is the awfullest thing beneath the canopy of blue. It makes me sick. I don't like to think of it, I like to talk, ye see, to keep away from thinking of it. "Goin' back to the old plaice?" "Tho old place 7" Eh! Yea, the old place. Leastwise that's what I reckon on. What do you suppose made me? Hadn't thought o home for forty-five years. Hadn't been to church any to speak of. It were only just a song as did it. A little old-fashioned song that I heard in the evening, three months ago 'bout a mother who wanted to know where her wanderin' boy was. It came up out o' the night way off there beyond the mountains and I thought of my old mother. God bless her, and of the old place. I couldn't sleep for a cent that night. I turned and twisted and sweat great drops. I kept •thinkin' about home and about all I'd ever read or heard abont it. Seems as though I could see the old lady's face looking into mina, with eyes full of love, as good se she did when I was a kid. I thought it over for a day or two. Life didn't look half so rosy out there. Fact is I wanted to go home, just home, nowhere else, and you bet I started when I made up my mind. I think I only kind o' want to see the grave of my mother and fix up the family lot, you know, and, do you know, my boy, I been sort o' holdin' on to have a good ory (gomethin' I ain't known for thirty years), and when I'm done with that, and when rye shied around and seen all I want to of the old place, I'm goin' to Boston and see a brother of mine, and go back again beyond the Rockies and die there with my face toward the East. I could Word to do it and I ain't the sort to be ashamed of it. Le' me tell you one thing, though—all of life and all its; gold ain't worth the loss of your mother's love. Put that down to keep; for if you was me yoa would be able to prove it, and wouldn't run any risk of being lured away from it by any of the other things of earth. It's the best thing the Lord gives us, and the last thing, •I'm thinkin , He ought to take away."—Lewiston .Tounua. How the Sparrows Keep Warns. How do the sparrows keep sworn these nights? From the way they chatter in the trees and about the leaves, it may be eup. posed that they have comfortable nights somewhere. But sometimes they make it bold and desperate shift. A citizen says that one evening avhile passing a pole upon whieh a number ea fowls roosted, he was surprised to see eeveral sparrows fly away from the roost. Not fully satisfied withhis conclusion—that the birds were roosting under shelter of the fowls—he stepped be. hind a board fence to watch for a verifica- tion. Presently the birds began to return and alight within a few feet of the rooet ; then one, with more courage than any of Ole Others, flew over and alighted !squarely on the back of a large rooster, and a moment later disappeared between the feathers of the rooster and a hen at hisside. Boon the other sparrows began to settle be- tween the fowls, and in a short time all had found a waren shelter' from the storm, and protection from noxious animals beneath the soft feathers of the goodalatured fowls,/ —Landon Free Press. 4. Lord Dufferilee Gift to the Stish. From Teheran comes the news of the arrival of an elephant from India as a present from Lord Dnfferin to the Shah of Persia. The animill ig described as a very fine one, harldsoinely caparisoned and attended by some thirty 'Undoes+. This, insinuates a Tiflis newspaper', is not the only English gift and attempt to curry favor with the Persian Court which has lately been made by the English. In view of the Shah's recall of his lete Minister And another ftmetionary from exile, into which they were sent for conniving at the escape of Ayoub Khan, and the bestdwel of harthres upon theta on their return to Teheran these English presents do not seem to 'heve n300h effect.—London Time. T. Barnum 'Says that his favorite novel is "IVanhoe." 110 is of course, espeolallyinterested in the scene which de, MA•60CSI A curious Leese or them in New York City. (Neu York World.) OopigonalthikassOnnso awuechre a, tuhnintigl also' tae+ cohfintetse Magon existed. One gentleman said belied amen Arabs and Turks who were good Massone, but to the best of his knowledge, 00038C:win, tahmear aWrelsnnitnwt4s r. ver mNer as;nvns-, but right here in New York there is a Chinese Masonic lodge intuit blast with a membership of oyer three hundred. 18 1. native organization, not allied directly to the Free and Accepted Misers, but said to be feanded on principles very nearly akin. The ledge.room is at No. 18 Mott street, locoed floor, front, end has recently been remodelled and refitted in very good shape, all newly painted and cleaned. The lodge furniture is of Chinese design, end imported from China expressly for the society at a great expense. A tall flagstaff with a rope for running up colors 15 00 top of the building. Above the door as one °Mere the lodgeroom 3 a red sign in native diameters aignifyipg Chinese Ildssionic Society," and down the eidee are two long slips of red paper bearing mottoes. One of these Is "Do good to one another," and the other relates to tbe bisines of the Order. The interior is like most Chinese quarters, only lighter, and not full of odd turns Ana unsuspected cornere. Immedi- ately on entering one is led into a sort of ante.room and thence into the main or lodgeroom. At the lower end of We room is the altar'and a very valuable one it is, coatingin China 31,500. Above it is an 'alcove in which a colored drawing is sus- pended. It 3 not the least curious thing in the place, the design being three figaitee, one seated awl two others bending over his Shoulder. The seated figure represents the venerable father of Chinese Masonry. The face is heavy, placid and adorned with a long black beard. The other two are re- spectively the spirits of light and darknese, who are supposed to be giving him counsel. In front of the altar a lamp is hong. It is never extingnished, and burns m com- memoration of the dead of the Order. Another emblem is two sticks of sandal- wood punk thrust into a box of sand. They keep smouldering away and fill the air with a faint but sweet perfume. On the wall is a long board, and on this are pasted a great number of sheets of paper covered with Chinese hieroglyphics. These are the lists of members voted on in the New York lodge. Near the roster hang two books. One of these is sent mit from the Supreme Lodge at San Francisco, and gives a de- tailed account of a number of cases of those in distress and sialmess, and the where- abouts of etch one who needs help. The other is a subscription book in whicila the various amounts subscribed are entered. At intervals these two books s.nd the amount mind are transmitted to the Sus preme Lodge, from which the dependent members are relieved. Meetings are not held upon regular nights, but at intervals decided upon by the dignitaries of the Order, as the necessities of business may demand. The members are notified of meetings, held generally on Sunday nighta, by the appearance of a triangular flag at the top of the pole on top of the house. This flag is white and bears the picture of a huge red dragon with its tail towards the point. There are igrips, signs and pass- words exactly as n an A.metican ledge. 4' The travelling card of this society is quite a curiosity in itself. It is a square of red silk inscribed with Chinese charac- ters, and is a document highly prized by all its possessors. Perilous Work on Great Bridges. "In a lecture given at Dundee, Scotland, Mr. Baker, one of the Forth Bridge engi- neers, tents a fine storyof modern heroism," says the St. James' Gazette : " Six men were one day working at the bridge, standing on a plank 140 feet above the sea level. One of the hooks supporting the plank gave way. With great presence of mind three of the men sprang et the steel works of the bridge and held on; a fourth dived, was rescued, and, it may be added incidentally, almost immediatelyresnmed work. Of the three hanging to the eteel work by the arms, two were in particular danger; yet when the rescue party reached the first of them, all he said was, I can hold on ; go to the other man; he is dazed.' In all, thirty.five men lost their lives during the five yeirs the bridge has been building, and 2,300 is the average number of workmen employed at a time. Mr. Baker says that though many superior workmen were needed, there was no lack of them. As for the magnitude of the undertaking, as a grenadier guardsman is to a new-born infant, so is the Forth Bridge tothe largest bridge yet built in Great Britain.' " Some Sutural Differences. Between France and England there is as =fah difference as between a man and a woman—both capital in their own way, and. neither understanding the other. Freneh- naen imitate Englishmen Englishwonien copy Freedwomen. Fr'enchman drink coffee and eat veal; Englishmen drink tea and at beef. Fratice has but ane religion; Frenchmen are prepared to die for it, but refuse to live up to it. In England we have 365 different religions -and practise them all—on Skindays. French newspapers fill their columns with romances; English newspapers fill theirs with facts. Francs& men marry their daughters by contract; we marry Ours by auction—to the highest bidder. These are but a few and the leas important Of the contradictory characteris- tics that exist between the two nations. It is not, theeefore, gerprising that constant petty disagreements shoeld Occur, any one of Which might, if not treated with straight- forwardness and tact, lead to deplorable results. Like Were' quarrels, what begins in a pout may end in a bouts—Vanity Fair (London). Rev. F. W. Warne, of the late Methodiet Episcopal and Methodist Chinch of Can- ada, now of Austin, Ill., COnferoncei and son-in-law of the Rev. T. M. jefferie, Niagara Conference, has been appointed by the Beard of Foreign Iliissiorie of the M. E. Chtiroh, IT. S., to Calcutta, India. Prof. tell has constriicited n machine on, the general prineiplessof the typewriter, for facilitating conversation with deaf mutea, Premier and madame Mercier have returned to Montreal. from Quebec. The scribes the burning of rroOt•de-Bcenf'll Premier is still Very ill, and it is expected cestle. that lie will have to take a trip sorith.