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NOTES ON CIJICREN AICS.
The attempt of an English company to
establish a bonanza farm in the neighbour.
hood of Regina has tailed, and the corpora.
tion retiree from agriculture mints its in•
'Vestment and $22,G00 in debt, How any-
one could expeot to manage a Canadian
farm from London bailee investigat' h,
"Six hours in gaol," is a very s 1 pun-
ishment, Yet Judge Wurtele the. ht it
sufficient for two politician oharge .,with
misappropriating money voted by the Que.
bee Legislature for oolonization purposes..
If a poor man had stolen a etiok of wood he
might have been sent to prison for a month,
The present year has so far been singular•
ly free from strikes in New York city. The
tendency to refer disputes between employ-
ers and employed to arbitration, or to hold
conferences with the opposite side when dif.
dimities arise, is becoming more general, and
in consequence many threatened dangers to
labour and capital have been averted..
A Woodstock gentleman is responsible for
the statement that in Hamilton a returned
missionary who was wanted to fill a pulpit
left vacant by illness was found in bed,
being weak and ill through sheer hunger,
and that when restored by food he went out
and preached two excellent sermons. His
theme presented a most dismal appearance.
It has been recently discovered that cig-
arettes are a source of disease. An :male..
els of a package recently made showed that
the tobacco was adulterated with opium,
and the wrapping or rice paper saturated
with arsenic. The first result of the com-
bination, it is said, is to create a desire for
opium or some powerful narcotic, and to
break down the health.
The Legislature of Manitoba is responsible
for a novelty in the way of insurance.
At its last session it passed a bill allow-
ing municipalities to raise, by. means of a
special rate not to exceed a cent on the
dollar, a fund to be know as the "Hail In-
aurance Fund." When in consequence of a
hail storm crops are damaged, the owner of
the crops may be paid out of this fund a
sum equal` to one third of his loss.
The Latter Day Saints of Lee's Creek,
Alberta, use neither liquor nor tobacco, and
they never indulge in tea or coffee. Danc-
ing, except the harmless quadrille, is strictly
prohibited. No one is allowed to remain
poor, the relief society taking up and deal-
ing with every case of poverty as it arises.
Having no particular vices, the community
has not many cases of poverty to worry
about. The relief committee have therefore
a sinecure.
A great and long -needed improvement is
now being made in the manufacture of en-
velopes. The mucilage is placed on the
lower part of the envelope inateed of on the
flap, so that the latter can be moistened
without bringing the tongue into contact
with an adhesive mixture often of a very
doubtful character. The manufacture ;is
carried on in England, but the improve.
meat was suggested by a Yankee. If the
plan had not been so simple it would have
been found out long ago.
The higher education of women, judging
by results, is evidently making progress in
the United States. Lastweek thirty-six
graduates of Vassar College for women,
eleven graduates of the Elmira Female Col -
loge, and one lady graduate of Columbia
College received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. The lady from Columbia College,
Miss Pond, was the first of her sex to receive
the baccalaureate from that institution in
the whole of its long history, and she won
the distinction in competition with men.
Molasses Cake.
This is voted "excellent" by all who have
eaten of it. One-half cup of white sugar and
butter size of an ordinary egg rubbed to a
cream. Then add one cup of molasses, half
a cup of milk, two beaten eggs, and two and
a half cups of sifted flour. When thorough-
ly mixed add a teaspoonful of soda dissolv-
ed, or wet rather, in a teaspoonful of cold
water. Beat the cake mixture briskly as
you drop the soda in to jt. Flavor with
ginger or lemon peal.
A Lucky Girl Graduate.
Boston Herald: The young woman who
took the degree ot bachelor of arts the other
day at Columbia College is the first of her
sex to receive that honor from Columbia in
all the 134 years of the existence of the
institution. The graduating class number-
ed ninety-seven young men and only this
one young woman. She must have felt a
little lonesome . at.timee during her college
career, but now that she has ceased to be a
spinster, and become a bachelor, she ought
to be happy,
A Nice Time All 'Round.
Bobby (to caller)—" Ma and pa had a nice
time at your party last week."
Caller—t0 1 am very glad, Bobby."
Bobby-" And I had a nice time, too."
Caller—" But you weren't there, lobby.".
Bobby—" No, but pa brought me a lot of
the cake and fruit."
The Rev. George Schwartz of Jefferson-
ville, Ind., is the oldesb Methodist preacher
in that State. He was licensed to preach
sixty-six years ago, when a young mt.n of
22, and was married the same year. His
wife is still living, and both are vigorous.
A traveller in Norway says that the horses
in that country have a very sensible way of
taking their food, which perhaps might be
beneficially followed here. They have a
bucket of watoriput down beside their allow-
anee of hay. It is interesting to see with
what relish they take a sip of the one and a
mouthful of the other alternately, sometimes
only moistening their mouths, as a rational
being would do while eating a dinner of
such dry food, A broken -winded. horse is
scarcely over seen in Norway, and the ques-
tion is if the inodo of feeding has not some-
thing to do with the preservation of the
animals respiratory ergots.
Tho following is ono of the rules of a liv-
ery stable in New 'York, where the horses
of many of the Wealthy men aro boarded :
" No man will be employed who drinks in•
toxicating liquors. No plan must speak
loud to any of the horses, or in the stable
where they are. Horses of geed blood are
nervous, and loud, excited c'nversation is
felt by (very horse in the stable who hears
it. Excited words sddrcssed toono
l
horse aro felt by every horse who ]cars
them, and keep thent all nervous and un.
easy. No man may use profane language
the hearing tithe horses." It would not
Emperor William II,
POTSDAM, June 26.—The troops in this
city have taken the oath of allegiance to
Emperor William Second.
THE EMPEROR'S ADDRESS TQ THE ARMY
Emporor William Second has issued the
following general order to the army
W bile the army has only just discharged
the outward signs of mourning for the Em-
peror King William the First, my deeply
revered grandfather, whose memory will
ever live in all hearts, it has suffered a fresh
and heavy blow by the death of my dear and
warmly loved father. This is indeed a seri-
ous and sorrowful time, in which God's de,
ores places me at the head of the army. It
is from a deeply moved heart I address my
first words to my army, but the confidence
with which I step into the place to which.
God's will calls me is immovably strong, for
I know what a sense of honor and duty my
glorious ancestors have implanted in the
army, and I know in how great a measure
this feeling has always at all times been man
ifested in the army. A firm, inviolable
attachment to the war -lord is a heritage
handed down from father to son,
from generation to generation, and in the
same way I refer you to my grandfather,
who stands in all your memories as the per-
sonification of the glorious and venerable
war -lord, suck as could not be more finely
conserved or in a form more speaking to the
heart. I refer you to my beloved father,
who as Crown Prince already won a place
of honor in the annals of the army, and to a
long line of glorious ancestors whose names
shine brightly in history, whose hearts bea
warmly for the army. Thus we belong t
each other ; thus we were born for one a
other, and thus we will stand together
an indissoluble bond in peace or atom
God may will it. You will now to
oath of; fidelity and obedience to me, and I
swear ever to remember that the eyes of my
ancestors look down upon me from the other
world, and that I shall one day have to ren-
der an account to them of the glory and
honor of the army.
The address was dated at;Friedrfchskron,
and signed William.
GENERAL ORDER TO THE NAVY.
Emperor William the Second has issued
the following general order to the navy :—
I have to inform the navy with a deeply
moved heart that my beloved father, the
Emperor of Germany and King of
Prussia, Frederick the Third, departed
this life peacefully in the Lord, and that
I, stepping, into the place assigned me
by God's will, have assumed the goo.
ernment of the land falling to me by
hereditary right, andherewith also the chief
command of the navy. It is indeed a pro-
foundly grave period in which I address my
first words to the navy, which has only jest
ceased wearing the outward signs of mourn-
ing for my ever to be remembered and be-
loved grandfather, Emperor William the
First, who, only last year during his presence
at Kiel, expressed in the warmest words his
lively satisfaction at and appreciation of the
development of the navy under his glorious
government. The flags are already lowered
for my much beloved father, who so greatly
rejoiced and took so strong an interest in
the growth and progress of the navy. Yet
ar time of deep and sincere mourning chas-
tises and fortifies men's hearts; thus we
shall look confidently toward the future,
faithfully preserving in our hearts the mem-
ory of my grandfather and father. The navy
knows that not only does it give me great joy
to belong to it by external bond, but tbat
since my earliest youth a warm and lively
interest has, in complete sympathy with my
dear brother Prince Henry, united me to
the navy. I have learned to appreciate the
high sense of honor and the faithful fulfil-
ment of duty prevailing in the navy. I
know every member of the navy is prepared
to joyfully give his life for the hgnor of the
German flag wherever it may be. Thus, in
this sad hour, I can say with all confidence
we shall stand together firmly and surely in
good and evil days, in storm as well as in
sunshine, ever remembering the glory of the
German- fatherland, ever prepared to shed
our hearts' blood for the honor of the Ger-
man flog. In this God's blersing will be
with us.
Dated Friedrichskron.
(Signed) WILHELM.
LEOPARDS IN INDIA,
An English Lady Relines Some Experiences
of Her Own with the Beasts.
In an Indian bungalow, says a lady writ-
er, every bedroom has a small ante -room at•
tached to which the important function of
bathing is performed, The floor is of ce-
ment and uncarpeted, to allow of splashing,
and round the tub aro placed the ghurras,
orearthen pots of water which are required
for the bath. The little room had always
two doors, one opening on the outer air to
admit the bheesti with his supply of water,
the other opening into the bedroom. On
the evening in question, just as dusk was
falling, I had finished the unpacking of a
box in my bedroom and was moving away,
When I fancied I heard a slight sound in the
bathroom. It was an unusual hour for the
bhcesti's visit, so I opened the door, and, to
my horror, saw just in front of me
THE BEAUTITUL SLEEK: BACA
of a large leopard, which was orouolt,eij on
the floor and drinkingout of one of th ghurr-
as. The room was so small that found
myself quite close to the leopard, d could.
indeed have toughed the spots on s glossy
coat from where I stood. I was o fright•
ened to move, and stood perfectly Gill, and,
fortunately for me, the outer door y which
the creature had entered still_Stood wide
open, and with a single hi -Anent cleared the
threshold and disappeiyted up the hillside.
Had the door blown to], or been closed from
the outside by a sery ant, the animal would
have had no resource but to seek an exit by
, .
-in 'Which I was standing, and
dge of my narroweseape made us
ul ever after about ahutting up
the afternoon.
ew nights later we were awakened by
aging the watchman call out loudly that
there was:a leopard in the veranda, and we
ran to the window in time to see the waving
of the branches where the beast had sprung
out among'the trees. The bearer, who was
lying rolled up in his blankets in the same
veranda, slept soundly on moanwhile, un-
conscious of his proximity to the stealthy -
footed creature. These leopards
ARE COWARDLY CREATURES,
and will never attack a human being if they
can avoid it; their special fancy is for little
dogs, and they will so haunt the neighbor-
hood of any house where dogs are kept that
the greatest Dare is necessary ;to pre-
vent the little quadrupeds falling victims to
the big ones.,
As the weather became better they grew
less bold, and it was only towards the end of
the season that we saw them again. When
snow fell on the farther hills they were
driven to seek food lower down, and then
again they began to infest tke station.
Often in the month of October, when com-
ing home late at night, I have heard the
hoarse sorb of purring noise they make as
they rub their sides, like huge cats, against
the trunks of the trees. The men carrying
my dandi (light palanquin) would then step
out, and talk very loud, to keep up their
courage, while the mate would flourish his
lantern and shout. No leopard would come
near so noisy a party, and the only danger
on such occasions is of the men to king a
panic and dropping the, dandi, when the
situation would bo awkward. This how-
ever, never happened to me, and I was
equally fortunate when riding.
In the chemical laboratory ; " Professor,
what has become of Tom Appleton? Wasn't
he studying with the class last year Y" " Ah,
yes ; Appleton—poor fellow 1 A fine student,
but absent-minded in' the use of chemi-
cals—very. The discoloration on the ceiling.
Notice it 1" Yea," " That's he."
Rev. Mr. Rainsford, now rector of St.
George's Church, New York, but formerly
of Sb. James' Church, Toronto, recently
made the somewhat startling proposition to
his congregation that those of them who
were leaving town for the summer should
allow poor families of the parish who were
well recommended to occupy the basements
of their houses during their absence, and
that he would bo personalty responsible for
the conduct of the inmates. By this means
valuable property would be safely guarded,
and poor families would live rent free in
comfortable and healthy houses during the
most trying season of the year. To the
credit of the congregation it may be said
that a great many of the wealthy members
profited by the suggestion; and now be••
tweon twenty-five and fifty poor families are
living in handsome brown -stone houses.
This plan has about it a practice( side which
ought to commend it to the benevolent
minded. Sohemes for the amelioration of
suffering and povert.y are now attempted
whioh fifty years ago would have boon pro.
pounced visionary and Quixotic.
The French lottery loan for the Panama
Canal is likely, it is now said, to prove a
failure. It would be a surprise should the
event be otherwise. The very fact of resort
being had to such a malted of raising funds,
even under Governmenb emotion, should bo
sufficient, one .would suppose, to condemn
the scheme in the eyes of all sober capital -
ids, • When a company appeals to the
gambling mania so far as to promise prizes,
varying in amount from 100,000 to 500,000
francs, ib is pretty clear that their
enterprise cannot stand on its own merits.
In the case in question a French financial
writer prediote than not more than ono -half,
possibly not more than one-fourth, ofthe
amount required will be subscribed. It is
thought that a large part of the sum thug
raised will have to be deposited with the
Government as security for the successful
prize drawers. The prospects for M. de
Leasepe' corn •lotion of his great enterprise,
THE NEW EMPEROR.
incidents in the Life of Germany's New
Ruler.
Prince William, the eldest son of the
Crown Prince, and the future heir to the
German crown, received the title of major -
general as a birthday present from the Em-
peror on January 27th. The advanced age
of the monarch and the frail condition
of the Crown Prince's health have
certainly had much to do with the
grandson's rapid promotion. Two years ago
—he is now 29—Prince William ranked only
as a major, and people in general spoke with
surprise at the slowness with which he ad-
vanced, yet all praised the thoroughness of
his military education. Innumerable
princlings were then above him, as well as
untitled men of not much longer service,
for a Prussian prince receives his straps at
the age of ten. He war oompelled to work
like the rest of his comrades, equally subject
to military disoipline. Early and late he
was with his regiment, ordered about as an
ordinary major, saluting his superiors, with
little or no attention—in a militay way
—paid to his royal rank. But all this is
changed, and he wears now the brilliant in-
signe of a Prussian major -general. The Em-
peror appointed him by telegraph—tie being
stationed in Potsdam—and a few hours late
he presented himself to his grandsire in his
new regimentals, beamingly happy at his in-
creased importance. Any hour may make
him Crown Prince—yea, may make him
King and Emperor—and the proud old ruler
has at last thought it best tc recognize this
possibility, and prepare the young man for
its realization.
Yet Prince Willian is a young looking
major -general. He lacks the prominent
rugged features of his father and the hand-
some lines of his grandsire. The. Hohenzol-
lorna have no hereditary physical character.
istics. Even Prof. Richow failed to find
any cranial ones in his scientific examina-
tion of the ancestral skulls. They have
never intermarried, having the purest blood
of all royal families—a custom which tends
topreserve and intensify peculiarities.
Prince William has the appearance of a
young man of twenty-five. His upper lip
shows a sparse blonde moustache, his
nose is slightly Roman, with a me-
dium forehead and hair stands back like
Beethoven's. But despite the compara-
tively weak chin, his cold blue eye has a
brave, daring expression, whioh reminds
one a little of the great Froderiok, whom he
is fondly said to resemble in character. Ho
is slender in build, and shorter in stature
than his brother, the "naval Hohenzollern."
His right hand is badly crippled, and his
right arm at least two melees shorter than
Ms left, a defect which has caused rs much
annoyance and mental pain as ever Byron's
deformity did. He trios upon every occa.
sion to conceal it, but tries, of course, .in
vain. Yet the skill he resection is remark-
able, He tarries his sword upon parade as
wall ag any officer, and bas beoome a most
excellent fencer, rides like a Comm*, and
shoots with unerring aim.
No officer in the army is more popular
than this royal scion and none more clever.
No wonder that his men are attached to him.
He has a pleasant word for all, and cracks
. t wlfih tilt oommot fibro ei tbou�h he
very demooratic, Ile attended sohmol at
Cassel, boarding with one of the teachers,
and treated exactly as one of the other boys.
Taking his lunch one day, he noticed one of
his comrades eating the black bread which
the poorer classes use in Germany. Wish.
ing to taste it, he offered to "trade" with
the boy—the son, I believe, of a poor me•
ohanio--who, of course, was only too glad
to do so, it pleased the Prinoe's palate eo
much that he made au agreement to ex-
change lunches with the boy every day—
and thenceforward he always feasted upon
the blank bread, baked in the house of the
mechanic. He was graduated after several
years at Cassel among the first in his oleos, to
the great satisfaction of his parents, who at-
tended the commencement. He afterwards—
as is the Hohenzollern custom—attended the
university at Bonn and joined the famous
Saxo•Borussen corps, over whose annual
meetings he still presides, and is as eager as
any in relating the pranks of his student
clays. And to -day one meets him in the
streets of Berlin in civilians clothes, ming-
ling with the people like the " citizen king."
The malady and suffering of the Crown
Prince leave roused the sympathies of .the
whole population,'but despite his popularity,
despite the way they love hint, it is aafe to
say that the majority of the nation spend
more enthusiasts upon his sou, look upon
Prince "William as the wearer of the mantle
of Frederick the Great. and believe him des.
tined to fulfill the cherished hopes of Ger-
many, further the plans of Bismarck and
Moltke and cement the union of the Father-
land.
The " Sweating System,"
In two stories, published several months•
ago, Walter Besant, the English novelist,
described the condition of the working
people of the East End of London under
what is known as the " sweating system."
He pictured, in dark colors, the wretch-
edness and poverty of the many men and
women who, under this systsm, are little
better than slaves, and who work for a mere
pittance.
Mr. Besant's novels aroused general and
excited interest throughoub England about
the sweating system, and so general was the
demand that its abuse'should be looked into
and corrected, that the House of Lords ap-
pointed a special committee to get infor-
mation on the subject. The facts brought
out by this committee show that the de.
scriptions of the novelist were little, if at all,
overdrawn.
A " sweater " is a man who makes a con-
tract with a number of laborers by which
they agree to work an unreasonable number
of hours each day £or a very small amount
of wages, and these laborers are called the
"sweaters."
It is the sweater who is the "middleman,"
who stands between the tradesmen who sell
goods and the workmen who make them.
He is not paid a salary, as is the foreman of
a factory, but is paid according to the
amountofwork he can get out of hislaborers,
His object, therefore, is to make them work
as hard as hepossibly can, and to make them
do so on very small pay.
In an overcrowded district of very poor
people like that of the East End of London
the sweater, or contractor, is able to maks
hard terms with men and women, whose
choice lies between working twelve or four•
teen hours a day for a pitiful sum, and
actual starvation. .
In moat cases under the sweating system,
as this form of labour contract is called, the
laborers do their work in their own homes,
aided often by their families. And these are
wretched and comfortless enough, They
are dirty, ill -ventilated and ill -drained;
they are overcrowded and are the prolific
nests ot disease and death.
Tho English factory laws, which protect
those who labor in factories, by limiting
hours of work, requiring provision for the
health of, operatives, and forbidding the
employment of children under a certain age
do not, unfortunately, apply to the over-
worked " sweatees" of East London.
Of course the people who are so much at
the mercy of the sweaters, are, for the most
part, unskilled workmen and workwomen;
they are ignorant and shiftlesssad only do
the mosb ordinary work. Skilled laborers
are able to command fair prioes,zto limit
their hours of work, and to choose the lo-
cality of their employment. But the poverty
stricken swarms of East London must be.
come the slaves of the sweaters, or starve.
The sweating system enters into almost
every variety of trade. It exist among the
dock -hands; in the tailoring, trunk -making,
boot -making and furniture -making trades,
i'he wages of the sweatees vary, of course,
according to the terms they can secure from
their masters. In one instance, laborers in
the boot -making trade were paid 2d. (four
cents) an hour; or, working twelve hours a
day, aboutfifty cents a day.
It is the abuse of the contract system,
and not that system itself, which constitutes
sweating." The reduction of thousands
to a condition of virtual slavery and the fact
that these thousands not only are cruelly
overworked, but live in unwholesome,
crowded, dismal homes, has compelled the
attention of the English public.
The result will probably be, to apply the
factory acts to the sweatees; and to produce
measures whioh will at least leesen the hard-
ships of the wretched lives which now depend
upon harsh agreements and starvation wages.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise
as to hold thy tongue. --[Quarles,
After his blood that which a man can
next give out of himself is a tear.—[Lamar.
tine.
To a gentleman evey woman is a lady in
right of her sex.—[Bulwer.
Handsome women without religion aro the
flowers without perfume.—[Heine.
Devote each day to the Object then in time,
and every evening will find something
done.•—[Goothe.
The experiment which was initiated two
years ago at Harvard College of abolishing
compulsory attendance at the devotional ser-
vices has been attended with gratifying sum
nen A report recently issued states that
tinder the optional attendance system the
services have been thronged, and that there
has been an increase of religious life and
activity at the college. Ab the same time,
it is only fair to state that when compulsory
attendance was abolished a committee was
appointed with lnetruotions to make the
eervioee as attrative as possible. The result
has been cited by a oontemporsry to show
that denominationalism in acollege is not
essautial to the exiebenoe aitd. feobivaness of
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFLL.
NIoUNTAIt s IN THE MOON.
Of course the first thing the amateur as.
tronomioal observer will wish to see will be
the mountains of the moon, for everybody
has heard of them, and the most sluggish
imagination is stirred by the thought that
one eau look off into the sky and behold
1: the eternal hills" of another planet as
solid and substantial as our own. But the
chances are that if left to their own guid-
ance, ninety-nine perhaps out of one .puu-
dred would choose exactly the wrong time
to nee these mountains, At any rate, that
is my experience with people who have come
to look at the moon through my telescope,
Upless warned beforehand, they invariable
wait until full moon, when the flood of sun-
shine, poured perpendicularly upon the
face of our satellite conceals its rugged
features as effectually as if a veil had
been drawn over them. Begin your ob-
servation with the appearance of the nar-
rowest crescent of the new moon, and fol. -
low it as it gradually fills, and then you
will see how beautifully tke advancing line
of lunar sunrise reveals the mountains, over
whose slopes and peaks it is climbing, by its
rugged and sinuous outline, The observer
must keep in mind the fact that he is look-
ing straight down upon the tops of lunar
mountains, It is like a view from .a balloon,
only at a vastly grander height than any
balloon has ever attained. Even with a
powerful telescope the observer sees the
moon at an apparent distance of several
hundred miles, while, with a field -glass
magnifying six diameters, the moon appears
as if 40,000 miles off. The apparent dis-
tance with Galileo's telescope was 8,000
miles. Recollect how when seen from a
great height, the rugosities of the earth's
surface flatten out and disappear, and then
try to imagine howthe highest mountains on
the earth would look if you were suspended
40,000 miles above them, and you will, per-
haps, rather wonder at the fact that the
moon's mountains can be seen at all,
EDISON'S FLYING MACHINE.
Flying machine inventors usually have to
stand the gibes and aneera of an unbelieving
generation. Even the individual who cap-
tured the hearts of a Congressional commit-
tee at Washington the other day to the tune
of $75,000 is regarded with latent suspicion
that his scheme May turn out to be another
Keely motor. Thomas Edison, however, is
fixing his mind on aeriel navigation, and it
behooves the doubters to prepare for a sur-
prise. No one feels quite Eure what Edison
may accomplish, and a trip to Europe next
year by air ship is;within the possibilities,
if Edison takes things seriously in hand with
that end in view. It is interesting to know
something about the great inventor's meth.
ods, and this is what he tells an inquirer
about aeriel navigation :
I began the other day by weighing a motor
with fans attached, on a Fairbauk scale.
After getting the exact weight of the motor
we set the fans to working, They, of course,
lightened the weight to a certain extent, and
we thus got figures as a basis upon which to
calculate the lifting power of fans or wings
of certain sizes. I intend to` measure the
pulling power of birds soon, by tying a
string to their feet, fastening the Ocher end
toga spring registering 'scale, and then let-
ting them fly away. Almost all .persons
when they think of aerial navigation imagine
the necessity of rising to a great height.
But why do this ? Why not go along the
roads at an elevation of about ten feet ? Of
course, when necessary, we could rise
higher, but, as a rule, a few feet above the
ground would answer all purposes. If aerial
navigation is possible, I believe this will be
the popular mode of travel; in future. One
advantage it has is the small power neces.
sary,for the propulsion of anjair ship and the
great speed which could be obtained.
With characteristic modesty, he added
that he was not at all confident of success.
The number of electric wires that are put-
ing men underground is greater than the
number of men who are putting electric
wires underground. 1.
The New World is likely to get ahead of
the Old World in the Matter of railway
speed, A New York civil engineer has ap.
plied for a patent for a 1pcomotive and ten-
der designed for making faster time than
has ever been made in any country. It is
claimed that the new locomotive will easily
make sixty miles an hour with ten coaches,
and ninety-five miles an hour with the same
load when driven at full speed.
Mr. Edison's latest invention, the phono-
graph, is his most marvelous, for he not only
records speech but repeats it. It is now
perfeoted for ordinary use and, a test exhibi-
tion was recently given before a company of
electricians and others in New York, which
was thoroughly successful. It is said of
Edison that he can invent and dictate let-
ters at the same time ; that his brain works
as easily in one direction as the other.
" The Pipe of Peace," published at the
Genoa Indian school in Nebraska, says that
Indians are becoming bald-headed as a re-
sult of the change in headgear from feathers
to hats and caps. Perhaps there is a sort of
retributive justice in this. The Indians
have deprived a great many white men of
their hair. The white man doesn't retaliate
by scalping, but he gets there almost as
effectually by forcing the Indian to wear the
deadly hat and cap.
Animals of quite differonb eatures in re-
speot to primitive selection of food, possess
the power of changing their modes of feed-
ing, and of passing over, as it were, from
one glass to the other. This change is die.
tinct but limited, and we must accept it
with all its extension on the one side, and
with all its limitation on the other. The
fruit•eating apee can be taught to subsist on
animal diet , a dog can be taught to subsist
on vegetable diet. But it would be as im-
possible to teach a sheep to eat flesh as it
would be to make a lion feed on grass.
A spike -nosed pike was caught in take
Elysian, Wisconsin, that Weighed 192
pounds, and measured 0 . feet 2 inches in
length.
hoandalous scenes occurred lately in the
parish church at Ivry., near Paris, during
the burial of the old rector, the Abbe Collas.
The priest not being on good terms with the
local 1Vlayor, the latter declined to allow the
police to keep order during the funeral, and
some of the riotous characters in the neigh.
borhood remained outside and insulted and
hustled the bystander to such an extent
that friends and mourners were oompelled
to resort to vigorous measures t0 prot'eob