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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-06-01, Page 2THE THREAD OF LIF BIINSH.INE AND SHADE. less suspense in behind with the yawl,out a oat fling with true of rope in a ring towards Tingle seetarin dexterity eo that it streak iliaak the g - n tof his fa_. ' tr n nr t n t ul ra orator , g a quoit, enabling him to grasp it and a himself in without the slightest dUh. 1ltst The help came in the ugnit*ould hof aVe gibes woeldsjuuely. Hug oro*t•ts lust then to be able to dtsregthe tree pt offs ed a d, and to swim ashore by in lordly .inuependence without extraneous asaietauee. It is grotesque to throw your - loan wildly in, like a hero or a Leanderand nd ,then have to ne tamely pulled out again another fellow. But he reocgnisedthle hat that the struggle was all in vain, a nand of a we interests knineEnglish office in which he held well known imperatively demanded a sinal lone polish, art in the friendly res• acquiescencee.lgon his p Dae. He grasped the rope with a vary bad grace indeed, and permitted Relf to haul him, hand over hand, to the aide of the Mud- q'urtle. Yet, as soon as he stood, once moron the yawl's deck, dripping and unpt chin his clinging clothes, but with honourin hie and the lost hat now claspedtightoocur to triumphant right hand, it began ha him that, after all, the uittleesadveenture, noromad turned out in its way q to say effective, as could have been reason- ably expected. He forgave he handed the hat, himself his wet any unbecoming attire, as with as graceful a bow as circumstances per- mitted,from. theyawl'seideto W iuifred May, and who stretched out her reg regrets, from the ushes and sthanks and lapologetic the ed e, to receive roots of the poplar by g it." And now, Elsie," Hugh cried, with auoh virile cheerfulness as a man can assume e a who stands sh' pe in hapsot clothes we'd better make keen east wind, `p our way at once tge our ariz cents. hitestrand without Miss further delay to change g g Meysey, I'm afraid your hat's spoiled.—Pat her about now, R elf. Lets run up quick. Idon't inind how Boon I get to W hitestrand." W arren Reif headed the yawl round with the wind, and they ram merrily before the stiff breeze up stream towards the t 11laggee. so "0 Mete," cried Winifred, grand 1 Wasn't it just magnificent of him to jump in like that after my poor old straw? I never sew anything so lovely in my life.. Exactly like the sort of things one reads about in novels 1" Elsie smiled a more Hugh's appre. always so," she ' answered, with proprietary pride inher manly mend handsoe and made their wayupchivalrous to Whitestrand, and landed at last, with an easy run, beside the little hithe, At the village inn—the Fisherman's Rest, by orf Stunnawaya-Hugh Messinger, spite Itis disreputable dampness,soon n pained comfortable board aid lids g , habit recommendation. itesttralf was in the nd frequently, habit of coming " as the landlord and was " well ba•known, remarked, to the entire village, children included, so that any of his friends were im• house el the lwcome at ater s t ge quaint old public- " I'll change my clothes in a jiffy," the poet said to his friend n at has e le a new gore,1 • and be back with y ture." In ten minuteehe emerged again, es he had predicted, in the front room, another man— an avatar of glory—resplendent in a light - brown ve•veteen coat and Rembrandt cap, that served still more o viously than ever to emphasise the full nature and extent of his poetical pretensions. It was a coat that a laureate might have envied and dreamt about. The man who could carry such a coat as that could surely have written the whole of the Diving Comrdirt before break fast, and tossed off a book or two of Paradise Lost in a brief interval of morrninghleie sureaid as " Awfully pretty girl, he entered, and drummed on the table with impatient forefinger for the expected steak t "the little one, I mean, of course—not my cousin. Fair, too. In some ways I prefer them fair. Though dark girls have more go in them, after nil, I fancy ; for dark and true and tender is the North, according to Ten• nylon. But fair or dark, North or South, like Horniman's teas, they're " all good alike," if you take them as assorted. and dd she'll charmingly fresh and youthful naive." • �� Warren Reif " She's pretty, certainly, replied with a certain amount of,a bnut not stiffness apparent in his manner ; anything like so pretty, to my mind, or of graceful either, as your cousin, Miss Chal- loner." n to ownway, n" dOh,oubt," ,"lsie'e well nt on with a smile f ex doubt "gag " I like them all in expansive admiration, their own way. I'm nothing, indeed, if not catholic and eclectic. On the whole, one girl's much the same s another, if But she he gives you the true poetic thrill. ohoe other --Miss Meysey, o se It sounds wonder?_Good name, Ceya y. I s like money, and it Bugg was a Meybey a banker in the strand, you knower oho did something big,in the legal another w way—a judge, % fancy. He doubtless Bat on the royal bench of BrittishwTheneis nt h louse (which of immense d), and left his family a pot moneyssed), _ money. dyo, you see, o for a son et but one of there'll do, you , daisy. --How many more Miss Mo segs are there, if any 1 I wonder. And if not, has she got a brother'?So pretty a girl deserves to have tin. If 1 were a childless, rich old man, I think I'd incontinently te baauty and blish and endow her, just to improve the future of the race, on the strictest evolu- tionary and Darwinian principles." warren Her father's the Squire here,"trues Relf replied, with a somewhat uneasy g for nuha elofyr. manor acgreat dthe parish. Virg- villa Meyaeq's his full name. Hos rich, they pay, tolerably rich still ;; though a big. Aloe of the estate eon* sea, thebits b he swallowed up by the, the sand, or otherwise edisposed. holtallof, tight ut north of thpist) , the house in the field updbe kis p r I daresay' you r°nd the pools . for Ws built low— in r— in the tireea AA .4' r the big houses along the East Coast CHAPTER e tw sites awed ubA5Sare always planned rather hatrand ns Biot Ila escape the wind, The old stile Tor a minute the two girls etoad inautG1 here in the winter. T bankers in e - Warren Rel#, itle the man's memoted w the Strand—sono Bortof a cousined, Ifaother, more or leas sone distantly ,� And the eons?„ Hugh asked with evi• dent interest, tracking the 0ubjeot to its solid kernel. " The sons ? There are none. They had one once, I believe—a dragoon or hussar-- but he was allot, out soldiering in Zululand or somewhere ; and his daughters now the soleliving representative of the entire fam- ily." "So she's an heiress ?" Hugh i say atetde get- ting warmer at last, s and seek." r " Ye -es. In her way—- oat, but no doubt, an heir ess—Not a very big one I aupp still what one might fairly call an heiress. Shell Ware ry nxious to know all about her." seem very one naturally likes to knew where any stands before committing ured placidly. anything fthiss wi Hugh �� And in this wicked world of ours, where heiresses are scarce—and t breach f gromise panfullYommoneonenever knows beforehand nld onewhere s single made mis- takeshappen life ; I don't mean takes before now in my to make another one through insufficient knowledge, if I can help it." before He took up a pen that lay him upon the table of the little sit- ting -room and began drawing idly with it some curious characters on the the back'of an envelope he pulled from his pocket. Rolf sat and watched him in silegnce. Presently, Messinger beg " You're very much shocked unduly aenht ments, I can see, he said quietly, glanced with approval at his careless hieroglyphics. Relf drew his hand over his beard twice. "Not 1so much shocked as ed after h moment's rieved, I think," he replied Why grieved?" " Well, because, Massinger, it was im- possible for any one who saw her this morn- ing to doubt that Miss Challoner is really in love with you." Hugh went on fiddling with the pen and ink and the envelope nervously. ernes think so ?" he asked, with some eagerness in his voice, after another short pause. " You think she really likes me ? " I don't merely think so, Ralf answered with confidence; "I'm absolutely certain of it —as sure as I ever was of anybhin . Remem- ber, e e. Sine ber, I'm a painter, and Ihave aqui*you some. was deeply moved dealsn she savr to her.—I should. be It meant a greatfast and loose sorry to think you would pay with any girl's affections." "It's not the girl's affections I play fast loose with," Messinger retorted lazily. " I deeply regret to say it's very much more y own 1 trffip with. I'm not a fool ;, but y one weak point is a too susceptible dis- position. I cant helo falling in love—really in love—not merely flirting—with any girl I happen to be thrown in with. . s I w rite her a great many pretty a great many charming notes ; I say a great many foolish things to her ; and at tthe is j nle 1 really mean them all. My heast at that precise moment the theatre of a most agreeable and unaffected flutter. I think to atthe moon,. myself, This feel time, ie serions." I look sentiental. 1 apo- strophise the fountains, meadows, valleys, hills, and groves to forebode not any I of our loves. And go away and reflect calmly, what in the e solitude of my own chamber, a precious fool I've been—for, of course, the girls always aenniles et n —Minnie never er had the luck or the arty P heiress a and when it comes to breaking it all off, I assure you it cods me a severe wrench, a wrench that I wish I was sensible enough to foreseer or adequately r to guar a e against, on the p principle." " And the girl?" Relf asked, with a grow- ing sense of profound discomfort, for Elsie's she and manner had instantly touchedhi m. "The girl," Messinger replied,utting a as finishing stroke or two to the queer sketch he had scrawled upon the envelope, and fixing it up in theirs= of a cheap litho- graph that hung from a nail upon the ea wall opposite : well, the I irl sincerely obabltrust, so rs it also, though not, profoundly as I do. In this case, however, it's a comfort to think Elsie's only a coasfn. Between cousins there can be no harm, you will readily admit, in a -little innocent flirta- tion." " It's more than a flirtation to her, I'm sure," Reif answered, with a dubious shake rana se his head. " She you don't mean to give her .— hope I P xeso serk talk ea one oftaboutoe horrid ?—Why, wrenches your, what on lightly • g earth is this ? I—I didn't know you could do this sort of thing 1 He had walked acmes carelessly, se he peace' the room, to the lithograph in whose frame the poet had slipped the back of his envelope, and he was regarding the little ad- dition now with eyes of profound astonish- ment and wonder. The picture was a coarsely executed portrait of a distingushed statesman, reduced to his shirtsleeves, and caught in the very act of felling a tree in exact ; and on the sorap of envelope, gentleman's a ion own 1e the right h had written in familiar signatare, Hugh bold free letters the striking inscription, " W. E. Giadatono." The poet laughed. „ Yes, it's not so bad," he said, regarding itfrom one side with arentel fondness. I can imitate any- body's ny br ody's hand gat sight.—Look here, for ex. o ; here's! patown." And er from a bundle in his an- othert,ofpp pocket, heiwrote, with rapid and practised mastery, Warren 11. Rolf " on a corner of the sheet in the precise likeness of the printer's own large tghandwriting. Reif gazed over labs shoulder Inso enrpriee, nob wholly=mingled with a faint touch of alarm, "I'm a exti it Clots ;ngbut he said slowly, as he manned I couldn't do that, no, not if you were earto pay me for it, in heaven above, bth Math, or the waters that are under the earth; but I couldn't make a decentAfoe- siinfle of another man's autogrp .. do you know', on the whole �'ma toully do glad bhMM gicleekierifer mac .e x, the hands of the foolish," he said, addesa- ed at laghis soul no doubte asualt altlithiesare last arrived,, " liable to serious abuse," (To oIt COxTzxvxn•) Is Russia About to Strike? They who take optintis iovie s f he Eerisome pean situation, may p comfort in the assertion of an anonymous as- cwriter ured MraCa 1 Scht Prince urz that the iamarok recently of Europe would not be disturbed by Russia. But even if we could MUM() mediumt fore a pbOben- caller his chosen such a ed has never, we is orb. ghoul r urlec et , should recollect, pretended to be a prophet, but has, on the contrary, acknowledge that the war of 1870 was a surprise to him. To our minds the alleged revelations ofn- fiding statesmen are loss trustworthy cations of what this summer has in sage than the a•otual incidents taking piece Russia and southe a tern ete Europe. fipanoe of the In order tog g of the asoeudewy suddenly regained by ve- phils in Moscow, and of the commotions which have simulteneonely broken out in the Danubian States, it is well to recall the events curiously analogous' which preceded the last war between Russia and Turkey. It is well known that the late Czar, Alexander 11•, was extremely reluctant, to engeg in that conte,t and that for two years, notwithstanding the kr.esare of the pat! Hada party, he could not be prevailed Herzegov- ina e B ° to take any decisive step. The ins insurrection of 1875 ad the r la's aggressive movement against were, no doubt Sul- tan in the following year instigated by Slavophil committees ; but the Russian Government long refused to lift a hand to save its supposed protegee from 0 1877, thean reprisals,n'a speech expressed the con- vieti Queen's to Bismarck that the peace af Europe imp of Europe was assured. Within a fortnight afterward Slavophil Generale and atatsmenhad:become domi,tanntin the the cconn- ing of St. Petersburg, g of March Gen. 1 gnatieff was allowed to undertake a private mission to central and western Europe, professedly for nethpd se of consulting an oculist. 13.9 coin- cidence, on March 3 the Czordered mobilization of eight army ha specialists Ignatieff consulted in Berlin and Vienna can onlybe conjectured ; but what we know is that in afew weeks after he obtained the Emperor's full confidence, Alexander Ii, ordered his tr°nps to invade the Russians crossed od on June 21,1877, ant e Danube. The Slavophils are superstitious ; they may this year be waiting for the same date of departure, in order that shed next expedition, like the last, may be p ward within sight of the towers of Sb. Sop- hia. The Czar's armies are new in a reteeof far greater readiness then they n ears ago, and a week at the outside would suffice to transport an army from Bessara- bia across the Danube. All the information obtainable confim s the belief that three- fourths hreefourths of his active forces have since the beginning^of the year been concentrated in the south-eastern corner of his empire. It It seems an unreasonable hypothesis gthsa intended merelyd, us us (ispT Y merely to supersede Prince Ferdinand of Coburg by another ruler on the insignificant throne of Bulgaria. Is it not more probable that Slavophils, who rat a nborf hoo aat t S n - Stefano the prize lay aside all vinced that the hour has come to lay subterfuge and make shift and to strike bold• ly at Constantinople ? If ydid ff theot suppose the hour ripe for putting I ont mask, why should such men as g ieff Tchernaietf and Bogdenovich al at once emerge from their etirement and •re. the demonstrations repeat, point byre point,receded the last and manoeuvres which p Turkish war? Here is the Slav Association, of which we used to hear so much eleven ye .reago, ell at once rest soitated withTcher naieff at its head ; here is the co-operative agency, the Slav Committee of Charity, starting into fresh activity under the Pre- sidency of Ignatieff; here is Gen. Bogdeno. vioh, an avo wed believer in Boulanger, ab - raptly reinstated in the service eandrat t the same time permitted, or p 'e ly to visit France. Finally, that nothing might be wanting to perfect the parallelbeaen in the present situation and that p esente ri- d tke spring of 1877, here is an opo ortun ing in Macedonia and a Ministerial crisis at Belgrade and Bucharest directed against the anti -Russian party. To insist that the huge outlay madeefo by Russia on mobilization duringhea a change r months has norlarger pure of prinoelings•at Sophia seems to us the acme of absurdity. If Alexander III, wexeccar - able of so great a waste of his country' sources for an end so trivial, he would richly merit the execration of his subjects. If mee 0- oepts, on the other hand, the pros of the Slavophils, there is no sacrifice that Rue - ohms will not cheerfully ennd who hasN Nor is it t likely to be forgotten by been the target of assassination, thatuse Rus- sian hand would ever be raised against Czar who should rear the standard of Peter the Great above Constantin p e.of alEven l, a pat- riot; at 1u tt onist is, vo 'an revolutionist II. u err R Alexander an that A le wot; and. it is probable his armies in the would be alive today last war ventured to pluck the fruits of vie - instead of aneoumbina to the bravado of Lord Beaconsfield.—N, Y. Sun. 0 Eugli it FIIUUIces• The subject of Anon® is usu So a idrry, though of ten an instruetive,om 'stations arehowever, great financial op made which ar almo orations have romantic in thei - interest, Two eh op ly taken piece in the management of the English national finances. The first of thee operations was what was 'called "the onversien of thennational a the the purpose of which is simp Y to interest paid on the huge debt which weighs upon the English oto reduce ,t Off curse, in order snag Cob ,the credit of the govern on. n national door , high, and a genera con- fidence must t be by g , ros• fidenoe must felt in the continued in the parity and power of the nation, ability and honesty of its statemanship. Ratter more than two•thirdsof the Beitie pubic debt eaohof which an interest of three parities, on The tot per cent, has hitherto been paid. value of these securities is five hundred ndr atone fiftyeight million pounds, or, two billion seven hundred and ninety milli dollars. Tho Chancellor of the Ex chequer propos to reduce the interest on this debt from three per cent., first to two and thkee•q tars and ultimately totwo aal the debt per cent, After fifteen years pay interest at the rate of two and a half per cent. a year. articulare as Without going into further particulars said to this gigantic operation, it may b that•nearly the whole number of the atolders of the government stook have assented to the reduction, on the promise that after the lapse of fifteen years, when the interest on nd all the securities ahall have become two half per cent., no further reduction ofam- terest shall be .:node for twenty years. By this reduction of interest the govern- ment will make an immediate saving of six million dollars a year, and after fourteen years will mako an annual saving of four- teen million dollars. tion is sound, So muoh for a country w rich, and has faith in itself. The ah with achieve- ment is, to be sure, not to be comp that of the United States innetherreduction lower its debt and refunding rates; but the difficulties to be encountered tfar at the outset of the undertaking w greater in the case of England. The chief difficulty arose from the fact that the English "Consols, as the three per cents, are called, have ren f nitetime f or They are the payment of the principal. vernment can deal never due, and the g with them only with the consent of the holders. '�`_ PE1U O TAL. Thorn to a rumor that Cardinal Manning' is to bo male a life peer, Gladstone met Parnell for the Bret time only two weeks ago. Sir Morell Mackenzie' never aooepts a fee from a professional singer, finale Print Alexander of B a sor eteubergr, ps now in physician, on sEmperor Frederick, Queen Viet' zits t el hat it took an toh ur with s s muck to transfer it from the train to the boat ab Flushing. o ant Taaffe, president of the Austrian Council of Ministers, is an Irish viscount.. oftrolley um y He has recently sent a large h to the clergy of Dublin for distribution e e- among the poor. Michel Noy, due d'Elohingen, the de- al soendant and inheritor of the titles of Ne- d He matapatent an improvement l, is au expert on y He is about p °n the telephone, which will make the merest ed whisper audible.. Charles Dickens's n e28.aty Weller Gib. She was son, was buried on April gen- erally regarded as the prototype of Mary, the pretty house maid, in the Riakwick pa- pers. She always upheld the theory that Mioawber was really Dickens's father. It is said that the primrose was not Lord Beaconsfields'tfatorit who seflower atfro , and that the ttory Queen sent to grace his the fact that the coffin a wreath of those flowers with a card bearing the favorite flows,in her " Butwn snd- he writing, menethe favorite of her own Albert not of Beaconsfield. husband, Prince Melical Officer Russell of Glasgow says that during the last ten yearser,00e 000 00 articles of clothing from persons with every kind of contagion known in this country have passed through the Glasgow laundry, and that in that time he has never known a ease of interchanged discose, al- though the women engaged in the laundry have occasionally suffered from handling the linen before it was boiled. 0 ors. The other financial opsrtwea by thepre- sentation of the Exchequermet" of by him of the annual "budg This trea sury receipts and exp budget, with the annual revenue return which promptly followed it, a very sound sby of see the lithhe revenue of It appearsnby '. ase year has bean the Untied Kingdom the past dollars; about four hundred and fifty this sum is over eight million dollars more than, at the beginning of the financial year, it was eetfmsted that itwould oulddb e Oa the other hand, the government has spent, during the past year, four hun- dred and thirty-seven million dollars. The excess of what the golernt to nttuhkasirrecei ed, oover that which it has pa from twelve million dollars. This ire surplus, moreover, has been obtained n ee n spitund in the the reduction of a penny income tax, the reduction of the tax on to- bacco and the cessation of certain interest hitherto paid on local loans. The main increase of receipts has thethat from the customs duties, stamps, pt - office excise and the income tax; ally pf rosperity indicate a general and marked p p y throughout the general community. When the figures. moreover, which reveal to us the solid wealth and firmly based sol- vency of Great Britain are compared with thoae of the budgets of the great o ntp cents powers, the British; money power sen itself in a striking aspect. For either of the continental powers which succeeds in barely balancing its receipts and expenditures,of o re- gards gards such a result as & piece good fortune. Thirty years ago there was a tremendous contest, which was felt over almost all of k;urope, over the Jewish child Mortara, whom theArchbishop ytsof p he Rcjl�otana claimed Catholic the 0tproperty that;♦le had been Church on the groundhe Church baptized by a serving mai . Hprevailed and took the reappeared n t persfrom hisonarents. of an ascetic has now reapp anmonk of extraordinaryanndheeno learning, and fervor, preach- ing to great audiences near Madrid. The Queen and court have subscribed to help the convent chapel he has built on the Bas- que Highlands. He is called Father Mor- • tare, He is a Canon of the Order of Saint Augustin, u u s in, twenty-two among a other acomplishments s A lady's reticule is among the relies pre• served at Alnwick Castle. It is said that Wonater- loo, whenht thero Duketng theof Wellington wttle of astat- too, tending the Duchess of Richmond's bel in Brusse's, Mai ,r Percy became deeply ena- mored of a lady when he met there for the first time, and at the parting, when mid- night brought the trumpet sound of strife," begging from her some souvenir, he received this reticule, After the battle Major Percy was selected to convey to Lord Bathurst the Duke's famous despatch dated Waterloo, June 19, 1815, in which he gave an account ofhe reticule was utilized. the hcase for then od nement, becoming, there- by, the bearer of the first of the good tidings to the English Government. Its history ended there, however, for although the Mto find the owner or searched of the reticule again. he was never How to Guess the Speed o1Trains There is not one person in one hundred of the millions who travel on railways in the course of a year who has any idea of the speed of a train. Alargeper cent). of even tbeteg- ular trainmen of the country cannot tell with any degree of accuracy how fast a train is running. Frequently engineers are despatch- ed on a trip over a line of railroad with in- structions to run at a speedof a certain num- ber of miles an hour. The engineers do not carry an indicator, but have learned by var- ious methods to gauge their engines so as to make only the slightest variation from their orders. The majority of engineers use their driving wheel as a gauge. They know its circumfer- ence, and by counting its revolutions within a certain time can tell very accurately the speed at which they are running. Another method is to time the run between mile posts, and still another method is to make calcula- tions from the number of telegraph poles passed en a certain time. These poles, in a level country and where four or five wires are used are spaced so that they are thirty to the mile. If only a single wire is used they are spaced from twenty-five to twenty-eight to the mile. The most accurate method, and the one most in use by experienced railroad men,, is in train joints of r number of a nes the i the ant to co passes over in twenty seconds. The rails in nearly all eases are thirty feet in length, and d the number passed over in twenty is the speed per hour a train is runnin ng. For instance, if a passenger sitting in a sleeper can count thirty clicks of the wheels 00railjoint in 0 rain is m- ning at the peed oseconds f thirtym tethes an miles Rattlesnake Oil. Rattlesnake are among the few things that seem to thrive among the rooky hills of Pike county, Pa., and they are j ut as plentiful there now as they were when the country was opened. Recently they have become an article of merchandise, ow- ing to the efforts of Anton Hinderman, a little middle-aged German, who leaves his e wife and family in Elizabeth, N. J., y year and goes up to Bike oounty to live in a hut and hunt rattlesnakes• he rattles idustry is monopolized by Arn oeoasionally kill a rattler and lie about its length, but the little German hunts for them persistently and methodically, and catches or kills five or ten on every fine day in summer. He sells them alive to showmen and guests at the Pike county hotels oc- casionally, but his chief income is derived from rattlesnake oil, which he tries out and sells for one or two dollars an ounce, accord- ing market, the m ' b of t tion ua ant fl he t of in the He catches the rattlers tasking on rooky ledges, and after pinning them down with a forked stick ties strings around their nooks and binds them securely in the crotches of the stinks ahem innd raes them to perfo sled his hut, where hea puts packing ease to await death or seely. He has never been bitten, but he professes to have a botanic cure for snakebites, and says ho is not afraid of the biggest rattlesnake in the State. He does not use fire in extracting the oil, because he believes that it will spoil it. He says the snakes must bo hung in the sun and allowed to dry out slowly in its fierce rays, while the oil drips from their tails into wide. mouthed bottles which are suspended to them. A large snake yields several ounces of oil, and it is a very small snake that will not fill an ounce vial with the greenish oil which is reputed to bo a sovereign cure for rheumatism and kindred complaints. A Lively Pace. The English locomotives are built in one solid frame, and run over tracks compara• tively level and straight. Some of the Eng- lish train, suchasLondon, make very ose between fast tiow me. Edinburgh.heand ulna. `L see ° tlreight feetn nwdiale are meter, usually seven in this case cited from an sometimes, English paper, more than thet has Thera is no proof that any exceeded eighty miles per hour. This Pe d waone of s actually reached by son's broad. guage tank engines, with nine drivi mlway. When on the runti runol and ning this Exeter engin y rate the engine has to overcome a resistance of air equal to the far storm exertedby. ydestroyed cane. In fact, the at loss than the Tay Bridge was blowingn obstacle to sixty miles an hour. The great a higher p sed than eighty miles is the get- ting rid of the Worn. Lately an engine been constructed for a French company in- tended to minute, This is a y at higher velocity e mile and. tl third perperformance in this than any regular engine p oonntry, although more than a mile per minute le performed over oettain distance a regularli. Death to Trusts. The Iowa Legislature has takenaeat o bull the horns in he anti -trusts legislation. It has passed a bill prohibitingany poration, copartnership or individual from entering into any combination or confeder- ation to fix the prioe of any commodity, or the amount or quality of it to bop ace or sold in the State, The bill els provides further that on any trial of an 1 for violation of this law all °Meer are made competent witnesses, a compelled to produce books and shall not be excused from tes on the plea that their teetimon ate themselves. A proviso added that no such testimon against the person testifying Which he is a party. Th heroic be ''elation, and the law will be watched with in A. Joke o1u a Liberal Orator. Charlottetown Herald : One night during the session of the Legislature, while the House was in Committee of Supply, Mr, Bell was repeating his speech for the hundredth time, when he stopped and beckoned the messenger to bring him a glass of water. Thereupon Mr, Shaw rose to a point of order. points, br nofd hethe did chairman f thinkta windmill should be propelled by water. This sally caused great amusement to all present ex. oept Mr, Dell. Babel von Ense says t sent, to °soupy one's se talent of lining. dictment or agents d maybe oars, and nd ing, maycrimen• owever Mall be used suiin is certainly rking of the Mt.