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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1888-1-19, Page 6• MISOBLUESOTJf3 ITEMS. An Italian at Islanafield, Ohio: wore a pairof very tight shoes two days.The re- sult was inlurieato his feet that were follow. ed by gangrene, so that he hes hadlfe toes end other parts of both feet amputated in order Weave his life.. A hock ,of about 100 crown Pawling, over Guaaminille,Ohio, 'wereattacked the other aftereoou by thrice their number of ltng- Beh, sparrows, who completely routed the bfigbirda. Severalcrowsweredieebled, end one was found with both eyes pecked out Elias Cohen, is negro railroad hand frame Lawtanville, G. A., came to S.an eunab the other day and we tied to ire admitted into the Charity Hoeprtal. The doctors looked at trim and ram lie had leprosy..Re wan. shipped back to Lawtonville right away. but she refused to make it good, So I fas- tened it to my watch Chain rind kept on sup- plying, her with milk. But now .every day mate her emelt one-fourth water, and once a week I credit ber with one-fourth the amount of her milk bill. When the sum total standing on her ereditis 84.95 she shall have pure milk Duce more, and not until then, She knows the milk is watered, but whenever she shows an inclination to complain, I handle the nickel and say that my t le as c pore as gold.' That settles Paris alt Statistics. The budget of the expenses of the city of Paris Aruouuts to $03,5.00,000 francs. . The city debt absorbs forthe payment of interest and liquidation l05„004,000; the streetrea- les and cleaning costs 20,00',010; the wat- er and wearer servioe, 3,000,000; street lighting, and watering, 9,500,000 • pollee, Ghee are whole towns in Germany that 253000,000; publio charities, 21.007.00 d little. else than make delle for American primaryandsnperiorinstruction„ 25„000 ,000; children. They are mostly simple eountry Architecture and fume arts, 4,000,0.00. folk. England's ehrleeen spend almost The principal sources of revenue are the rued 00.000cfo F ren a o octroi, or tax on eatables and drinkablee almost double that l,Ov' 000 for French andlmS'aermarr .dolls, brought into the city from outside, .137,000,. I. children, ('00 francs ; taxes, 33,000,000 ; per eeutage paid by the gas oonapa'y,17,0. 0,000 ; war- errates 12000000; an mute YA , ,taxes .... d ren of the nmar Eta AR •a uRf+ The daily oorrsuzmptie n of water at Parte is 510,000 enble roes. er 231 litres per ialuabitaut. The eity counter .97 mouumen- tel foanntaine, 74 drinking fountains, 349 Quilk teotlrpicke eeme from France The Olio tape, 1,359 Ore plugs,. The sewers of largest faeteay in the wethi rs neer Paris, 1'aris measure a total length of 303 kilo- metres. or 41iri miles; Paths lighted by 55,000 pa tete. The ssarface o"f retie devoted tii Streets, eajn- es, bti lgee, gleta}s, $e„ ii 15,000.000 Rune metre, ef whits fi,C04,U) a4lcare metro are raved with etpr;e, 2,07 ,1100 The colored ebUdrea at fix°prd, i io, unaeasiairirizesl, 359,044 rsartres asphalted, dames D'«, R'Iohneon, of Pittsburg, has eaed gaures t3. .Flowere r, a dentist, for £r"-AA030 damages. Two years ago.Flower pulled ,Johnson's tooth nand broke lints ,jaw a+; the sane tinea. The Viet n ba„s spent $5141C.Orsza •doctor's bills sfnoe then and Is an ,eQidtrmed invalid yet„ where there is an annual product of 201,000; 000 geminal The factory was etarted to melte quill Peas, bat when these w.extt Qat el &se it WW1 totzsedssrtoastoethplek iaai0l. 'ltoia1en thpiesizaareMade p arcipallyhtIficbigau, lam 'lm, I di a sze1 Or tissue 414.4Y4bird Publlo "144* sen 1Fate 2$.1.000 metres leaved with weed. The Feet frame the w41to 4114'4' aclsaobt lint 444 ble Is slabbed with atone or aiiiaple estth p -sibs A length of bvalevsrde, avenue, and year they reiaaed to •+tiered them anal in. street* manaaning 150 /linin is bordered by 44444 ‘114bite going tit the "4”04'4 v Hist F 000 tr. eea of different kande. the white children attended. Theo- were I,a; 'a besets 10,001► oabs, 000 ouimibuses, =Need salmi sion axed brought an actio p s a1uat the gseiaookeoths>titiee, h k fi r. tram + ux eT'um of yc beet decided in haver of the negine,a. ,:1 o the rasrx lisle Is over 10 mike, A driving wheel of a 1OOO mtive that was rias be 2.120 streets, 109 avenue*, 79 drawing; A neer trait burst rocentlyr I bouleverle. 257 blixrd alleye.134 pisses or near 3lsile.. Pa, Ode .s c lei ed equstee,,aaogalleries, 2i bridges,40quays- The pr eeuades end gardens tealude the weeds, of Paulo .. a and Viuceinnea meas - y rt , RF - tog each. over 2,000 Areas; three parks, aletuceaxi, Desks•Ohaasiarosst„And-0,latatasosrria=, and sial gardens, the whale e*timeted In the traarni;ipso dezuet a at 272,210,178 iranea. The number of eeanweteriea in Parka Is 21, Zvi Camgbell at l"airigsr6axy, bfst., set a bank 15' ora ilia rinitt b rima' Rix am the left boar traps and a bear Irate it, Be darting• of the Settee. tla#aide the wally ere ged the men a good' Moen, until le was eatuy,lat in a► log„ nen Levi c#me tap tied Week the bear with ea axe Tho eszz real ttarned sad. eely, ssreargbed the trap loom. grabbed, Levi, and sem iR a fair way to teslse au cud of bins wbeu his degpitebed in, ;raid attracted the be*ws atteratiosx anuli Levi could drag himself away, eew sx p p the aromas; heat!" ;i .. ars p*% d, ssreamfug like .a then from a cannon, through the baaggage as, the smoking car, and a;aaseett ger excels without defog =jury to away persest on the train, The train wear:traning tie the sante of ferry tRir:es +rut hast wiito use accident stemmed. cemeteries. Theprin.cipa1 slistoe titer home, at La Vil- tette, covers ea time( 112 acme. There are 21 theatree, a circusez, 4 pee creme; and accrete of cafes. concerts for the al sasaenattit of the la oilatiasan, Peri* Is eism: a ted by a wall sueaeuring 33,99:0 metres, snruo 21 mtlesiona, forming ramparts width are aurrouuded y ditches 1,1 metre wide, and pierced by 70 gates. To build thiswell cost 'a00.000,U0O francs, which mown voted by 1'aatiiareeut In 1340, at the euggeetloa et Thiers. The movement of the population of Paris during the country is as fellow 1799, 05.000; 1008, (50.000;1827, 800,400; 1140, 94,060; 1840,1,055.0001651. 1,01:,,. 000; 1801, 1,000.000; 1072, 1,050,0€0; ISM, 2,223,010; ISSO, 2,344,350. 3l bot that bas been fru several mouths *caring the engineers at a certain trestle, ori *railroad rear Atlantic, watt found, a few days a6,o, iyia ag tinconsaioue stud nearly fagot to death to a pool of water 'near the spot, She had neither shoes nor etockiu um and few other clothe, *.rid was evident 1 demented, although she could talk retioma ly on tonne subjeeta. She seemed to he ef good birth mid had evidences of re0noxnent about her. She said she woe Annie Garrott and bad tarsen to the woods because ahowas , HO Wan Partial to Double Marriagen. disgusted with the world and lacked • taxa Courage to commit Weide. A hole was found dug out beneath the trestle and in that she had lived. I.f the Marquis of Elybasacted like a sou• Able and prudent.man in reducing his Inert rents by ono half, and in reinstating all his evicted • tenants, the Marquis of C'fau,icardde bas taken exactly tho opposite course and has shown himself exactly the opposite kind of man, for when his agent urged reduction of rent upon him again and again, he only abused him read told hien to do his, duty, with tho moat unsatiafactorr rcaulte positive Amman thereat a lawauit izt which his tato agent, fir. Joyce, prosecuted the Marquis for libel and got damages to the extent of £2,500. Ciauricardo has long had au abotn- ineb]e record and as usual bo apparently grows always worse the older he becomes. It is a great money that there is some- thing like justice going sometimes for those who try to make rich at the expense of other people. Harper, the wrecker of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati. got something the other day is acoordauco with bis deserts. He got ten years impris, onment in the State prison. If not good for Mei it is at least good for the people• and good for the law. Le;, every monetary scoundrel, whether in Canada or the States, get the same or even something more severe, and the world will be all the better for the new departure. .. In her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik was, says the London, Daily News, remark- ably methodical. Though many of ber works appeared in periodicals, she would never under any circumstances consent to a beginning of a publication before the work was entirely out of her hand ; and what is very singular, she is said that during the whole course of her forty years' laborsnever to have begun writing anything whiohtithe did not carry straight through, and it is be- lieved that she has not Ieft behind a single. line of unfinished work intended for publi- cation. Indeed, everything she ever wrote with the view to publication has been pub- lished. Eliza P. Heaton says : The house of the future will have in most of its rooms hard wood floors, hard wood walls and hard wood ceiling. The tendency in that direction is already noticeable. An inspection of the finer houses built within a year or two shove a liking for wood paneling every where. As best arranged, the darkest wood for the floor, a lighter shade for the walla and the lighest overhead. Oak, ash, mahogany, maple, sycamore, holly, rose -wood and ebony are the woods that figure most prominently under the new regime, and properly treated they make apartments that are not only beautiful:esthetically, but hygienically, good to live in, Rugs take the place of carpets, and hangings are used in sufficient quantity to give a warm, furnished look, but nof'to breed dust and germs. ' A Buffalo milkman wears a niokle five - cent piece as a watch charm, and gives this reason :—” Over a year ago I took this nickel, whichwas then beautifully gold plated, as a 55 gold piece, in payment of a bill. As soon as I detected the fraud I took it back to the woman who passed it on me, "Sutter Mamie itis going 'toet married' next week," said the young lady upon whom Mr. Illiven was catling. Iudeed 1 To whom!" "To your friend Mr. Sellers." "Is it possible? I must congratulate them." "Do you believe inrorantie nrnrriage& 2" "I don't know. I mover hnd any experi- ence with them." "1 rnean anything ]tko double *marriages, you know." "I don't believe in any other kind," "Aren't you joking?' "Of course I ain't. 1 don't very well deo what use there would be for a young man or a young woman going around trying to got married all alone. It couldn't bo done." Is it *apt. Kidd's Tread ire? Tho report of rho finding of a pot of gold tbat had long been buried in the aandaof the coast of New Brunswick is of interest to the old -thee searchers for Capt. R.idd.'h buried treasures. The search for thecae treasures has extended as tar as the travels of the great buecanoer, whose ravages in American waters an etched from Newfoundland to the *Wed Indies. There are no grounds for the belief that he buried other treasures along the north-eastern coast or in the lower part of the nucleon than those which were found soon after he Lad buried them on Gardiner's Island when be sailed up to Loner Island Sound and went into Oyster Bay. The only prize that Kidd captured near the New Brunswick coast was a French fishing ves- sel, which, so far as is known, did not con Iain a pot of gold worth $400,000. A Bequest Granted. Long-haired Man (to bartender)—Can I leave a few tracts in here, my friend 2 Bartender—Yes, you canleave afew tracks in here, and I want the toes to point toward the door. The Shape of the Barth. Teacher—" What is the shape of the earth, Johnny ?" " I dune." "But didn't I tell you it was round?" " Yea, ButI don't believe it all the same." All Up With Him. Wife—I am afraid, my dear, that Clara's quarrel with young Mr. Sampson is a very serious matter. Husband—Nonsense they will be as de- voted as ever in a few days. Wife—No, John, I think you are mistak- en. No girl will quarrel with her lover just before Christmas unless there are good and sufficient reasons for it. • If your house is supplied with a fresh air duct, and it ought to be if it is not, be care- ful to see that it is clear of leaves, dust, cobwebs, or whatever may have lodged in it during the summer months, when it was not depended upon for a fresh -air supply: Sometimes small animals get into the fresh - air duct and die, and the resulting decom- position poisons the air of the whole house. This inspection ought, of course, to have been made some weeks ago; but if it bas not been, .attend to it now. They were not Anarohis` s.. Peek says that it is to be regretted that the accomphcee of the men, lately hanged.in Cbice.zo haveao long beets permittec1 to bear unchallenged the high-sounding .names they have given to therm:elves, It :s rank non- sense to call these petits of society ".Anar- ,:lhiate,,: "Scoialiats," "Communitits" or "Nihilists. ; " The Chicago r' tern ere' not theorists or reformers;; they kava no grieli eueo nuder our laws --they do not even know whet our laws are. That' • ]save no vomprehensiblo complaint to make against our eysteua of government. They bare no definite change to propose; no bonest desire to better their fellow -teen. l,itey acre, iu plaim .+hmoienfs:aio?ftnhgitleh-ifsh?,a nett ofr,oWhsy rurwrcsalna There are such people en Anarchists, wed boeialieta ixa the world -but not in this part of it, • At least there is ao place toe them here; no reason for their exietenee-• The Anarchist in the product of a despotism, Lige as the etrsbedia)aent of a revolt against tyranny, in. a country where the people make their own laws, he is an anomaly,— nay, an impossibility. There are men here who do whet the Anarebista of kurope have n do @ , but the difference: between their taxa- rivea and the motives of the Harvpeen Anar- chists mnkie the diflcrenee in 'their gavial statue--ahe. difference. tbat there is .between the murder and the men who take*. life in self<defeose In iterssis, thoe r angle of honest men are striving to overthrow the garera• ment by violent Mears; .and aline the meene may shock us, we*cannot deny that the re- velut Canetti have seemingly nes ethers where- with. to gain their cut?, and they are the loot rears: of aarely-tried. risen, Thera is uo free speech in Rteesle; the people eazd-er from heavy to etioa and cruel tint" unwieo laws, mad they have n' retaaedy whatever. That they elo aald seek s. viclett redre.11 for their wrellga is not to be wondered at, Powerbol Snow Bhevele, The Northern Peoldo €a;lwey hen this year put foto Ma four iraw rotary steam ss119W shovels. The npparatue eomewhet re. eetiiblea a ben car, eeptailaing a etationary engine, which works the shovel. On tine front of the car la the rotary ehovel, which gatbars tip the now, and it can he two as last a* 300 revelations per minute. The srrraw- paa esa baGlt and le . e spelled from sa Vent on top of the ear, being thrown fax to sue eide The opparratas is pushed by: a locomotive, and can go through a enow drift *ix er seven feet deep at the rate el fiiteou +x twenty Nuri An hear. Ileet4toot Snare Chau* Spreckels, the "ex<Suger Ring" et the Saudwteb Islands, who is zauw iving his atteatieatotideeeanentof at•su,gs,r culture in Nortbean Celiifernia, raya Haat the beet.sugar industry coot be established hs al• meet every State to the ljnian, and that it wall give a net prat of from 530 to 473 an UM to the farUltrs. Ilanebmen near hlorague, N. Yd., are try- ing - ing to ceteli a big bear tlsat has already kill- ed over Due hundred gears and thus far eludes ali pursuers. Of the Davy family, of Rochester, the eldest girl is in the workhouse us inentrl- able, the tither la gaoled l\as a drunkard, Dud s:•au, the eldest son, aged nine, being left at borne in charged his tbreo aiattte, aged five,. six and eight, took them to a church where the whole party loaded up with lliblee, hymn books and fans, and got well away before they were ovcrhaulcd by a policeman and taken to the station. £hero three silver w ttelses were fermi in Esau's packets; Be and hie sisters were sent to a charitable in- etitution. The United States Bureau of Labor pub- lished some startling figures regarding strikes, allowing tbat ]n six years the ag, greg,oto leas by "labor movements" amount- ed to close upon 860,000,OCD as follows: LA►aaea to atrlkera during the six years cov- ered by the inveatigationo, 551,816,105, Loss to employers through to koute for the same period, 58,132 71?, or a total wage loas to employes of 559,93S,8S2 This lose occurred to both atrikcs and lookouts in. 24,518 establishments, or an average loss of 82,440 to each ent ablishront, or otnearly 840 to each striker involved. Tho assiat- auce given to strikers during the same period, so far as ascertainable, amounts to 53,325,057; to those suffering from lock- outs, $1,105,536; or a total. of 84,430,505. These amounts, however, the report eaya, axe undoubtedly too low. The employers' loaners through strikes for the six years amounted to 530,732,653; through lockouts, $3,342,261; or a total loss to the establish- ments involved of 534,164,914. The losses to employers, in so far as they dinrinieh the fund out of which labor must be paid, are in effect in a line with the policy which world kill the goose that lays the golden egg. We have several times nrged that our governments should devote some attention to the encouragement of horse -breeding in this country. As showing what they are doing in England in this direotion we would call attention to the fact that the Royal Commission, appointed to deoide what shall be done with the money hitherto devoted to the Queen'aPlates, has agreed that the money shall be expended by giving twenty- two £200 prizes for the beat throughbred stallions calculated to raise the standard of useful riding horses, and especially of cavalry remounts, and that these prizes be describ- ed and known as "Queen's premiums." It has been further decided that England be divided into seven districts, and that the the Queen's Plate money should be expend- ed amongst six of these. The seventh divi- sion, which includes Nottiegham, where the Royal Agricultural Society Horse Show is to be held next February, will be left to the Royal Agricultural Soorety. Advantage will, however, bo taken of the Nottingham exhibition of stallions to have a general competition for Queen's premiums. Eigh- teen of these £200 Queen's premiums have been assigned to England and Wales, and four to Scotland. This expenditure of five thousand pounds is very small considering the requirements, but it is something, and if a like amount were expended in the Dominion every year the beneficial effects could not help being marked. We most confess, however, that we should pre- fer that a number of Government stallions should be bought and travelled through sec• tions; of the ceuntry at a nominal fee, rather than that money should bo distributed in prizes, believing that that part of the sub- ject can well be left to our local agricultur- al sooieties and fairs. DUBLIN'S LATEST SENSATION. Ezatrawrdinaary Career of the Men •them neonate Dunne $JAeti &t. The` shooting affair in. Dublin, of •whieh yon have received some particulars,, is at- tracting a good deal of attention, here be- cause of •the high social position of Berne ef the people engaged in it. The Rev. Henry Whyte Melville, who betrayed t,apaain Dame's daughter, and narrowly escaped death at the bands of the infuriated father, has no blue blood in bis veins. Be former ly rejoxeed in the nnrorn"antic "patrenyoue of Higginson,. tud worked as a jcurssalrat for some time in Dublin, and also, it is said, Ameriee. Later he entered tee serviee of the Irish Customs, nraarried duti started raising a lerily, 'Alts, Whyte Melanie was the daughter of Lord Betenan, grand- daughter by marriage of the fifth Dake of Leeds. and cousin of no less a person -then Lord Salisbury. Her daughter by her late • husband ie married to Viscount ;lfassereene, a peer of the realm. How -Higginson be- came acgaainted with a lady so immesaur- ebly Above him in the social scale is at pre. sent zomewbat of a u,yetery het Mrs. Mel- ville was elderly, vein,_ romantic in ,tier ideas,and e:sermonsl rich --'eat the sort of e. oman to fall .rnprey to any handsome, auserupulona and fairly yoang adventurer. Bigginsow fled these conditions to the letter, awl as ata excuse for the. ol4 widow xt met kept= Qn reenrd that straw he mys. terierly disappeared from Diddle he bast acgn red tbeadditional attraction of a clerk- ship to holy orders. In other words, he had become as Episcopal clergyzeiao, booing been ordatwd i Soeth Africa after a abort and exciting carer. dating whioh .he was room familiar with taverns and pudding belle than with churches hies. ',4lelvtlle bee:ante auaaoared. of Rigginson, who, she *append, was aa, oiuglemon. Aa as matter afoot he had a wile 'living, and had do- *erted her slid her childrea alter a vein and internees ettem 't to obtain a divorce. Big - esteem beano $.71 ..eulty iaa asce;teiaiog the social deeding and penuniary position of thelnve-teas old wldaw, She trawl riot long bolero inherited' egmethinu like X860,009 under the will at the late Duke of L.eade He responded to her advance with stiusu- lated ardor, and attended her publicly and In privet° like as lap dog, The 'l'iaaousateas Maasere_ene beard of her mother'a i nletu"a. tion and passivuat_e ly protested, Lit vain the invoked the uneizsery at her idolized deed father, Ia sates the family in&uenete frazu Lord Salisbury dowstwexd was b eoglat to heir to break of thee threatened mesel- liatiee. The strangely *asserted couple were married, Mogi-mom taking the urine of Winyto Weft is order to evade certaa4R sssrkwerd ,;louses in the Duke of Leeds' will. A few days afterwards V.ixcountesa Mee• erteaecer►ted her Fief and ladienation iu form of a memoriam notice publirsiaed in the obitartary ',cQlartrrtm of all nowspapeas, in which, after resiting in moat pathetic term* the wrote of her late father, she concluded with the eianideauat words, "I o was the last of his race." But lliggirason la not a senaalt]ve roan and he found ample nnoenola• tion. If he needed any, lathe widow'.* £40,- 000 a year and her lovely hankers' belauce, of which boquick'ly proceeded to make the freest nsa, aairhough hirer. Melville bad on the wedding day settled,012,000 on him. Higginson tired et bit wifo'e :nature chorine, and turned his baneful eyes* on plass Dunne, a. pretty woman of twenty-four, who lived with hie wife as half friend, half com- passion. She was of goad birth, and her wonderful necompliabinrnte bulbul a fluent knowledge of French, German and Italian. Her father, Capt. Dene, had heath) reduo< ed c]rcum.mtaucea hence her dependent poli- time Dunne is related to the beat families in Ireland, and the position of governor of one of her majesty's prisons, it roust he re- membered, is in this,country eonaidered a dignified ono. Poor Moat Power, the gal- lant young journalist who was Gordon'a trusted noanrade during the long siege of hhartonm, and who. with Col. Stewart, perished in avain effort to break through the Mandi's grint cordon and join hands with Wolsoley's advancing molnaina, was the dearly loved nephew of Manna Not. witbatanding his family connections, Dunne was a good nationalist, and enjoyed the. friendship of Lente Butt, the father of Home Rule. Higginson found favour in Miss Dunno'a oyes, and he soon acquired extraordinary in- fluenco over her, rumor says partly by mes- merism, of the remit of welch the cable has already advised you. Mies Dunne arrived in Dublin last night with the avowed inten- tion of seeing her unfortunate father through the trouble. Sho was in terrible distress, but firm in her resolve to remain. This morning, however, her paramour gained access to her and ordered her to return to London. She wept and implored, and even went an her knees to the scoundrel, but ho was obdurate, and finally succeeded in so bending her to his will that she obeyed hie every word and gesture, and elle is now on her way to the British metropolis. It is comforting to learn that Mrs. Whyte Melville now seea Higginson in his true colors as a heartless, ungrateful, unscrupu- lous villain and will do all in her power to help Capt. Dusae. It is additionally grati- fying to know that Higginson has made him- self liable to prosecution for bigamy, and that he will soon be enjoying the pleasure of penal servitude, unless Lord Salisbury should try to hush matters up in order to prevent *public recital in the witness box of his cousin's abame and folly. This is the time of the year when bona Me news is scarce. Hence, we hear one day that war in Europe is unavoidable, and on the next that the situation is improved. While it is utterly impossible to know what to believe, it is certain that the state of affairs between Russia, Germany and Austria is no worse to -day than it has been any number of times during the past few years. That war must Dome some day is certain. Russia's restlessness will not allow us to expect anything else. The Czar has a large and ponderous army that frete and rusts in times of peace. They longfor action and to override the world, hey will assuredly get the former at possibly some date not many years off, but the latter they will never accomplish. Meantime while wo cannot but regret bloodshed and useless expenditure of treasure, we in Can- ada can afford to Iook silently on with a guilty conviction that while Russians and Germans tear each other's throats and pierce each other's breasts we shall profit by an increased demand for bread -stuffs and pro- duce. This, perhaps, appearsheartless, but it is the truth, and, after all, we all profit at times by other's harm. STATISTICS. The ,chipping tonnage of the Maritime Provinces shows a decrease. of 40,795 tons dariog thepast year. The traffic receipta ef the Grand Trunk railway for the week ending December 24th; were X5,7 71, a decrease of 528,079 corn,- pared with the corresponding week last year. Dun, Wiman 84 .Co. report a total of 1,382 failures in the Dominion during 1$87, en in- crease of 130 over 1836. The total liabilities were $16,311,000,, being 57,925,000 greater than the total for 1836. ot German publication; gives etaatistict to show that cr►auo of all kirula is more frequent int the autumn then at any other season of the year. Of 317,404 crinaea nommitted zn a certain year it was found teat 50,073 mimeo fell to `whitey;, :3,7799 to spripg, 31,262 to summer, and S''.270 to autu.[nn, These figures give a new significance to the linea •bout the Coming " of the melanchvly days, 44 trite. saddest of the year," - eto Trek Yoke : In Philadelphia there e has been a count of stos% and it has been found out that of the 8,000 persona in that city eaageged in the liquor business only 300 are native American$ The ealoou is not an American lnetitetiou. If Darr foreign broth- ers don't like ells ways in thin comotry, a motion is he order that ;bey hove "nemesia liberty" to go home. This is a fia:mst•clase motto : A7•n. e,-icu fbr• Anaerieap inaltralores. _ The development of the telegraph system fist this country le omen of the rrsarvele of modern nivllizstiou. btoaxa a Mere expert• sanest on a aiegle wire between Washington and Baltitnere ht 1844, with -10 the memory* of many persoasn yet living, it hse grewaa to be otso of the governing forces in our philoa. ophy of wateriel and social progreea The Western [fetes Company allose now bee 580,000 miles cf wire, and the messages winch it handled duciag the year toiling Jana 39, 1887t resobedi total of 47,394,530. These dguree iodinate at a slam the prat. Beal value of the Invention, and the chase retakes *Mob it bears to that daily ,stla re of Mein every direction, It requires no argument to show that England to .seriously overpopulated. The inelease in the lasts tatty years to under-esti• mated at 8,000,0(0 andhe X159 value per head caleaala d by thelate Dr. Farr, wile died its 1883,15 converted tete a debt teeter. Human over production IS evident isa every ppredeetfon and trade, and while duration of life Inas Assets tdnetee m year*, the popaalatlest gots on inereawing at on stlaumacg taste of composed i aterest, Between 1801 and 1671 irr round nenibere our pnpulstion its- creasea. 3,000,100 ; between 18771 and nil 101, 3,400.000 ; and between 1831- 1891 it will he found to *tend as nearer 4 000,000. S4'lten a carnuaunity is obliged to take up stock of may kind Il ut especially live stock Cat the rate of 41-0,000 ta510,000 a cuurse its not a ble ping atoeiC be- comes The co sssmptfon of coffee In Great Brit. sin shows a eteady decreaee, while that of tea is increasing. The consumption per hears of coffee at present is .Eul Fistulae against .261 pounds ixa 1877. 'rile total moo suinptian is 1850 was 31,608 301 pomade against 32,283,016 pounds+ le 1887. Qt the other bend the tea consumption per head Is now 4.87 pounds per head against 4.52 pounds in 1877. Tile total eoueumtion in 1380 was 178,909,831 pounds *gainer 151- 274,852 paunch in 1877, The changes which have occurred in the course of Great Britain's tea supply are inatructive. In 1876 64 per cent. of the British au ply.come from Calm and Hong -Kong and only 15 per .cent. ensue (roan India and Ceylon. In 1530, or ten years later, tho farmer aupplied only 63 per cent, ot the total and India and Ceylon supplied 25 per cent.--Beaid,lreet'e. What startling results one finds in our railway etatiatiea l Amcdaa hada 330,000 miles of tract --.enough to girdle the earth o. dozen times, with :several thousands utiles left for aide -tracts. More then half of these hues woro laid down at a cost of 50.000,000,000 —enough to pay the public debt four tinges over. There are 00,000 engiuea, 50,000 passengers coaches, and a million freight. ears, and over 4,000 patents have been token out for inventions iit railway ninchi- nery and appliances. Every year 300,000,000 tons of freight aro carried. Dor moving this freight tho companies receive an average of 1. 29 centa per ton per mile, and for coon passenger carried they got 2.51 cents per mile. Itrequires a half -million employee to run all these roads. And yet it was only fiftysix years ago that Peter Cooper ran the first eteam car from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills at the unparalleled speed of a mild in every four and a third minutes 3 All human attempts at as accurate and uniform measurement of time for man's own convenience have hitherto failed. The number of days that have been proclaimed to make a year hada varied in every astmao- mical edict for human observance. Romu- lus made a year of 304 days and divided it into 10 months, A little later Numa added 50 days in 2 months, Julius Caesar on di, - covering the year to be a quarter out of all proper reckoning re -constructed the year with the -help of the sage Sosigenea and gave it 365 days, with an extra day every fourth year to balance up ; the first Nerty Year of the Julian era was celebrated no doubt with extra ceremony and rejoicing on the let January, B. C., 46. On that day all the public: offices and the places of business were closed ; publio and private eacrifices were offered in the temples; grand proces- sions were made, which visited Crews at the Capitol; private persons exchanged friendly visite and presents; rich men giv- ing slaves, horses, eta., and poorer people such as their means would allow. Masquer- ading, feasting, drinking. dramatioperform- ances and races were freely indulged in and a holiday, not much inferior to the Saturnal- ia occurred. Extinction of the Beaver. The presence of the white • man on the Western plains means death and extinction to the animals which formerly shared with the Indians undisputed possession of the country. The buffalo is no more ; deer are becoming acaroe ; and now the busy beaver promises soou to disappear. .It .is only by limiting the catch of seals that the supply of these animals is kept up in Alaska. Some such limit must be applied to the business of destroying the beaver, .or within a few years our national emblem will be without a living representative.