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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-2-23, Page 2HE D1T6.011. BUZZARD. nteettitarttlea a Me letath-ntealinn Blast— acmes oreurrering and Ilerohm. • A peculiarity of thie most recent blizzard wee it deceptive character, As experi- eneed in Dakote, the euent fell heevily day Wednesday but without much word. Thersday reereepg °peed dear anol still, and epparentiy be storm was over. It Fovea to be only a lull, however, when ehteretl the school-hot:Kt was one they will tho elements seemed to be gethering them never feiroet during monument to hie memory. He had stripped himself of his outer garments and wrepped them shout the ehildren. Be had , brokeu the deskei to plecea and torn up the floor a the scheol•house to provide fuel, and when everything comleustible that.could be spared was gime, tortored by hunger and by cold, he boa laid dorm with leht pupils and with them died. Tlee eceue presented when the grietetrieltert nereiets and friends. tielves . together for the. meet feerfal on- e/aught 13.etweete9azd 10 °select.. the Anew :again .Itegeri failieg, When seddeuty Vetere denone was were, the . wind eetit. Mencen to blow With terride.forite. To .747, leetrate the eueldeoneee et the • chenge --A tidy *akin eleout the hose was la4kna by • her demthter to aotice how geOtly the .eweee was falling. ..4nother enoreene , end • Elie hearda Shlieh. Hesteeing •• to learn the eanSe Of it, elle finnedthe front: deer torn • - epee by the vio- lence of the and It regeired the united strength a her two „ sky, =rig frem a vast expanse 9f waters, deughters aud leereelf to eecure it again. No !plains, and mountains, is vieible from many 'wonder that people, lured from their home perts of the town; so that when tbe mui by the shioes ia thin exceptionally clear Nortbern ,e meteors or.unteeess os' swim air be beams on everything, ea agreat meth effneion re ie a city sus ; yen almeat take , the firing of the mid-day on for his upi. were "bewildered" when. the blizeerd mroek The oetedeor life of Qaeleec surprises a atreeger from 4 more soutleero clineetee Hann b nied the furious tinapeate of at Canna= winter, when very Oen neither men or beast is Safe out -door% he feels thet suering or even death is frequently set here when erMleMMA the hiese, And certainly Nature lookete Qaeleee with tirt. OOMMen freedene ; the entire dome of the versal :rolling throe& the cloud - them. All day eed nigh.t the Mane nett when a gala awaapa dawn , is ceatieuee With iGteneity 117413Ofpsibla tO beq,,v3 talcum yea familiarly even, with a ne snow W":33 415e' et)14.-- ; t engereeas end feroet4t ; end I tem y more properly• might Ite termed iceniest, reel rhet the melon end stars haver chee abonc Quebec, for when I go ent ore a clear eaglet they sere with lerge-eyed wonder—as well thet, may. at 4 peer view of spoil eregore But the Caueilien winter, eaeoptieg tiering 4 toNap4at, is a eteeen full of comforte and eiejoymente ; for blzeinca eleep3, the Low- er Town reenni enlpty* aud life earns eIth to froliestene out -door ars—for iele the good Air furehthee at vigor—oh to warm and intimete eoi;tpletteuree. Even if the thereto- mter be ea low as ten dogma below ;etre, you will often find the childrett out- deora—cherubie beadles of fur and wool wellewitie, tho spew ee if le were hey„ the hebee la their little elede, and people out enewitioeinge akatiog In the rink, or driv- 'ea in their cozy ceriolea ;" the horses tarty be silvered. over with frost,. and you own eyelashes laden with glohulee of ice, or now aud there yea mey here to nib your uoeis with SOW? to WPM it after freezing; but Ete a rale, everybedy ie Very ceenfort- eble fun with the help of moderate teenier we on to a &UAW etas** net more exerhihh. Tilts ptopk in America and was ewems pt alby the wind with such form that le would actually penetrate tbroegh epee elothiug. The tile -was so thiek With the flyieg unto than biasother largo objecte close at Woad were eus trycoucealed front vie.v. faee Allele a germ was out of the queatiou. The way eefety for any One Carlin (Art in i‘t Wae to tho ravel With the w,. Meney of the ineideute told in egunectiou with the dorm are cruelly pethetie. Think of 4 peer woman etruggliug to reaell her home end pet -14141g within 20 feet of her own door A farmer near St. 1.eivreecte Pk be bewildered in the storm and ped within 10 feet of a neighber'e barn withelit l;TIOWing it, and then wandered en for three van before he dually enceuvalted. Another farmer went out to water his gawk only eight rode away, but was unable to find the :gelato, and after eeehieg in vein ter shelter he peeeehed within a aorta% throw et eeighten'a house. eimiler case le reported from tree.r Yanleteet, where 4 tbstk 10 feet fro= the haute, but lot Ws SUM to have overcome the depeudence of their blued Una WarrG, sunny climate t They walk the etreete ire auy weather with e cote- forteble, moslomee. eitea whew a mincing gait, while their Etiglielt frieude tride over the emew with a martial earneetzwee. peer la:whew:a have the beetle% experience; to fur eget, and long buffalo cone with ellere coming up to the top of their heede, hey loele like beare nameneratilog they tighten the uatioval red nee abut their wahine etemp their feet, ovieg their arms, and keep up a contisitial am& lug and jolting to ahorten the tedium, of their way, aud hie frentu tetly wee toned the neat EINT131113 10 Oleo from hie Lento. Near Aberdeen, Bak. two iner. went out to attend to some eteek *a. shert diet:ince from the hottee. Gee turned heek, frighteried a,t the storm; tho other hieleted he ceuld dud the way, weet On, came temente:MN DMV11.1431740, and after eireeitig Awe blindly for 4 whil at of the OM on hits hands and knees emit; clown exhausted and died. At Melt: more, Minn., a woman, alarmed at the ob. Race of her Iteshaud, went out iu the storm to look for him. She was overpowered by 1°13,3 h°°F4 ; r9(1, should uut omit to odd the atom anti perlehed within 40 fthatet of that then' rttble°°4 uutes Prmiee wen to her owe house. Another ead ewe was thet of a family liviog neer Sioux Falls, Dak. The farmer was caught out in the storm, but hewed a heystaele in which lie buried himsell auti. Famed the night wifely. Hie wife and aon went out to hunt for Min and both were lost. At Cerro Gordo, Mind., e team drove up to a house and it wile notme1 that the driver did not alight On going out to him it was fouud that ho WM dead— frozen atiff in hie sear. Such are a few of the mauy dietreseing incideute whielt have (notated to make thie storm eo memorable. There have also been many instances of the xenneer neranser AND seenseeramee. Roland Char:there and bis son of eine years, living west of Huron, Dak., went out to water some cattle aril were overtaken by the storm. Unable to doll their way. hack, the father made a place for the boy m the snow awl wrapped him up as hob he could. The by urged his father to go and look for help,. but he refused to leave him. They remained together duriug the night, a St. Bernard dog with them. The boy was en- tirely covered up with snore and says he was quite comfortable, though he know his father was freezing, In the mornin' g the father was still alive and said. to his boy, "Now Johnny, you pray and ru pray, and then I know God will take yon through all right? They both prayed, and soon after the father breathed his last. The dog stood sentry over them and guided the searching party to where they lay; but the father had given his life for his son. An- other incident is reported from Iowa. A young lady, having in charge a lad of twelve years, was basely deserted in the storm by her companions two young erten, who went off and found shelter for themselves. Un. dismayed, she wrapped the boy in all the extra clothing she had and stayed with him until they were rescued. The boy was found uninjured, but the young lady was terribly frozen, though still alive. A man living near Miller'Dak., went out in the storm to get a doctor for his suffering boy who had met with an accident. Bo lost his way and was frozen to death. The boy also perished from the cold and the injuries he had receive& Miss Jacobsohn, a school teacher near St. Olaf, Minn., started home with a little girl and both perished. When found the teacher was clasping the little girl in her arms, having wrapped the folds of her dress around her, and a smile was on he face. MUER DAYS OF AWFUL AGONY. A recent despatch tells of the heroic self- sacrifice of George Patrick, a young school teacher in an isolated district about forty miles north of Mandan, D. T. His school consisted of five pupils. On the day the blizzard began raging, rather than brave its fury he concluded to remain over night in the school -house, expecting that the storm would cease before mating. But the fol- lowing/ day it raged fiercer than ever and the little schoolhouse standing all unprotected upon the wide prairie was wrapped in the icy folds of the Arctic hurricane and shaken to its very foundations. The horrors endur- ed by that doomed man and his little corn - demons, the wails and sobs of the hungry and horrified children, must be left to the imagination of the reader. None of them were left to tell the story. Three days lat- er they were all found stretched upon the floor of the school -room, frozen stiff, their featareselistorted by the pains of cold and hunger, and their forms huddled together as if in a desperate effort to prolong life as long as possible. Theleroism and self-sacri- fice of the dead school teacher will be an en - defy the &oat, In braving tho gloom and ferocity of a wiuter etorm the city Imo a rteiu aevago as well as pathetie ;emcee ; nortlocest gale comae up the St Lawrence in benuding guete, and =ling the cliffe of Cape Dimond, throwe the mow back de- fiently Into the eley ; and the battlemeuts shake out homy marten from their create. Rut the berme elemente of the Nene are more timid; the little houses crouching down into the enoweirifts look like tattered toques with tavola of white Knob floating out an the wind: mercy en any poor soul that cannot °snipe the snow -laden gnats, cutting as a mutt -blast 1 tidat bowed beetle, and occasional turning about to etch a breath, even the welheIad hurry on, and like silent phantoms soon flit out of sight into the white obscurity. 'When the brood- ing gloom settles over the eity at twilight the bugle throws its cheery notes into the arctic sileme of the glade; as you struggle along the ramparts the Augelus zings front over tlie monastery waU, wattle the cannon point to the night approaching over the mountain -tops. WWITAltito 'cli(n.VEn AND 41, DAY. " love nos love forever, Forever and full of high endeavour, She but *olio fan, We sang ttai4 song together,. Ln g siege in touraneO weather, This old-time Rivera' leY "1 love ray love forever, - Forever and a «i love my lave forever, Forever auda pb, she would fail me neYer, Arad Was berS for aye 'Twee thee oar treth we plighted, Twee thee oer heave u we sighted, When life was in its May ; " love my love forever,. Forever awl e "I love my love forever, Forever min a day." And Net we twain did sever, Each went a eeperate Nen, She swore her heart was breekleg know that lathe is achiog R'etk now, thoagh t era gray. I love nay lova forever, She loved me few 4 day. Leer Yoon, "I'm Ferry, Clare, he quietly geld) 44 Yet• I fear it would not do And added, es lowly she bersed her " Bet Tn. be a b,-otheryen." REN,1111i4n= Teliaenoh. M O. very faehloutible reeeptieu Riven tide city recently, MAO of the most chermicet toilete worn 'iv:4 remarked et the dree glance for the great beauty of the delicete eliver embroidery that covered the front. It 00eely reeerabled the inimitable eilver worie Waugh; oceasiepally from halite bath in tin; and desdem, eed was 9f a most un- common apd etriking derriptien. The akirt iteolf wax ot phi yellow %aka with a ()unit trate ef that velvet lined with the The bodice Wa.,„, also of the Meek et, that 40 decorated with tho silver idery, which here and there eleowe gold. A pectic toilet wan tif milk- eille embroidered down the entire @dyer manguerites. Above this ett end tram of tulle, with aline- d unda•coreege of the eilk. The tulle trimmed with lace and Silver A notable gown displayed rein et greeu gold -abet with tarn* sliver embed& rated with pale gold and hetticeet wee of white howl anti gold bead% gewa wee worn by e alene 04 Study healthful diversion of the mind and feeling. •One thought, one scheme, nurtured ceaselessly for a term of years, made the keynote of every meditation, the lever of every action, must result in the in- sanity or monomania of him who thee plans and broods and craves. This is as suttaral as that dammed up waters should breed pestilence and the concentrated faro of a comparatively harmless essence be deadly noison. The publication of the Austro -German treaty of alliance will largely offset the ef- fect of the semi-official statement of Russias intentions. While the treaty is no doubt purely for defensive purposes, it shows that the two Powers recognize the possibility of danger from Russia and realize that the in- tegrity of each Empire depends upon unity of action. The fact that the provisions of the treaty were made known to and accept- ed by Signor Crispi on behalf of the Italian Government during the progress of the ne- gotiations leading up to the Triple Alliance will undoubtedly make Russia pause. Al- together, the prospects for peace are more reassuring than they have been at any time since the beginning of the present imbroglio. Austria, Germany and Italy make too terri- fic a war team fer even tbe great Czar to stand in the wag of, and winter bluster will doubtless be followed by summer calm. In the past few days no less than three deaths, have been recorded in the papers from overdosee of whiskey. Possibly there is nothing extraordinary in that fact, as people die every day in all large centres of population as the result of their indulgence in "rot -gut." What is singular is that amid all the propositions to prevent the adulteration of food there has been none to prevent the adulteration of beverages. Why should the saloonkeeper enjoy immunity which the grocer does not? Why should the man who selle fusiloil and calls it "Old Rye," or who passes turnip extract for "Tom gin" or doctored apple- jack for "Old Cognac" canape punishment any more than the grocer who sells oleomar- garine for erearnery butter? More harm is ciente by the sale of adulterated drinks than by the sale of adulterated foods, and it is high time that the man who takes his drink and paya for it as such should be pr Mooted form the umuspeoting use of rank poiSonts. If the law licenses the sale of intoxicating drinks it is its bounden duty to protect the . consumer in every way poseible. yellow cede% e A rue ezel der, etately biende with a camplexion delimitely tinted as a ten rose. Tiro drees wee made of pale deve,colored ellk of lute trona diver Eileen. The eele trimmtng, and all thet nem needed on a febrile co deb, =t- ined of elaborate gonna arum:nage and paulete in diver paeeententerie, ttiew ork Poet ••• New York lady suggeste that the eersago is so ealled because it ye:tally mists tho wearer a $;:i douttiee visit the ;text day. giteme Vietorici %Woe the eleatrie light in all her palacea beaanee her pereoual friends, meat et whom are very well matured wo. men, protest that oil lampe are the only thine which, make their complezious peem able. A. bridesineid dropped a laramilet goiug p the elide of the church the other day, and as there is nothing espettlelly redden about her the stopped the proceasioa while ohogrielted It up, put it on and got in Hue avant. The r lucky and thoughtful yetneg ledy school teather at Mina Valley! Kele, whote beret= awed the lives of *erten of her puling during a recent blizzard, haa eince re- ceived as many lettere contenting offers of marriage. The Empress of Japan has become the ob. jeet of consideration from several drew' re- form societies. She ordered an entire ward- robe from Paris, whereupon a letter of re. =entrance from the London Dress Reform Society was immediately sent, The beat thing to your enemy is forgive - nese; to an opponent tolerance; th %friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, con - elect that will make her proud ofyou; to yourself, respect; to all men, cherity. Mrs. Cleveland kisees her huaband good- bye in the railread station when she comes shopping from Washington to New York. She puts her left arm upon his ample shoulder—she can't get it around his neck— and with tbe right draws his fade down to to hers, kissing it, as it were, in transit Though Brazil is noted for its birds of brilliant piumagethe Empress of BraziInever allow their feathers to be used for any part of her dress. Since she has been at Cannes she has assured a visitor that, "much as she admires the feathers of the magnificent birds of Brazil, she only likes them on their bodies." Miss Huntington, daughter of Bishop F. D. Huntington, of Central New York, is try- ing to perimade the working women of New York to improve their condition by leaving the city. She points out that in the smaller cities and towns women who go into domestic service are to a great extent companions rather than servants, and have the advan- tages of healthy country air. Woman with satchel enters oar, sits down; enters conductor, asks fares; woman opens satchel, takes out purse, shuts aatchel, opens purse takes out dime, shuts purse, opens satchel, puts in purse, shuts satchel, offers dime, receives nickel, opens satchel, takes out purse, shuts satchel, opens purse, puts in nickel, closes purse, opens satchel, puts in purse, closes satchel; stop the car please. Mrs. Alice J. Shaw, whose whistling has within a year or two become a popular feat- ure at receptions and fashionable enterthin- inents in New York, is a widow with four children. She was thrown on her own re - seethes for their support and education, and tried whistling. It has brought her a hand- some return. The notes of music for whist- ling as they appeen on paper would mystify ordinary musician, but when translated through the ruby lips of a handsome woman they become better understood. Miss Emma Nevada's manner of living is about the same as that of an athlete in train- ing. At 9 o'clock. in theanorning the takes her ohop, a cup of tea and two slices of bread without butter. At noon she goes to ohnroh and nye her prayers (in this she is unlike the athlete), thou she takes a long walk, and at three she eats Ler (Boner, which omelets of a bowl et bouillon, usliee of tiederdone tomb beef, baked potatoes, roast chicken, 'boiled rice and stewed prunes. After dinaer ehe takes e nap, and at eix dresses for the theatre, After the opera she has a beefeteak and a ghee ef beer awl then goes to bed, Wild, Animals In Captivity, The polar bear from Greenlend and the hippopotamus front the troptes eeent te them thie latitude; but thaternost intereeting animal, the gorilla, nthea end dies. It would be a fortene to any ohowinau if he could ex- hibit te this country a eetisfectery epeolinee of the gorilla, even if his accomplislemeets did not equal thoee of bit imexperthd, broth., rer, whose roar, according to Travellers, con be heard for four miles, and who can twiet 4 gme beraWbto a knot.. nreny home were based upoa the pro:mining young gorilla which was re eently tekea to Loudon to pilau the Zoological Gardeee, but though he teok kindly to civilized ways and teamed to feed himself with a tempo, he grew sick ass win. ter apprettehed, and a few weeks ago he de- parted tide life without any personal conso- latioa from the obiteary nedeets publielied after hie demixe. Among tbe mot noted collectioes of tiol- reale hi the world. tbe awe*, without doubt is the velvet* eolitione ef a retired potee- tate. The tate Niate ef Oude, wilted, left n tae banks of the Ifooglely, war Calentta, it,Ce0 lively specimene a the animal king - dont to teni re. hie lese. ilis redueel Meaty found hie greetest plerwore in watching ;he geetronototeal feete ef hie large zoolegleel feeilly. Frugal ledieee wins amain; Ito*, gel tl.gees elepleante might better le -eratano for e. living an the jeieglee theu liv Ing 044 the houaty el an enterithe monarch, rewarded hie Mate/ter as a 'Ivaco creek with a heredeas bet very expenelve hobby. Ifie menagerie pot Poly doomed the moat of huh miasmata theome, but also ate ito we through all the memv he could borrow, ae he died heevily 4141%leaving MO Allenals it is euppasetl, to, be divided among his cred- itors. Mt Dermal will have no ouch trouble in restocking his ogee as Its would have tied in the dew when -the hippopotamus was dret transplanted to Europe. The tinfortimate Nubian chief whit at tint time reeeived an order topple:140o at Coke POO et thew petty- dermetene produeite t Africe was peutfully oneeleate that if he felled to eppeor before bit PARC.With 4 lxiely eneeltaeohewoeld bie heed, owl thie feet woe all that OVO hiu ±0 ent 4.11Monit and divenrceeble eli. The cetelaieg et the river home ha3 OW been reduead to a re:leave, and aniende f all Kato eau he eepplied at cittalegue redo to any ahem= or fancier who Ileum the dealer with en order. It is tiara that the prim of zoolealital epeeinieue aro Innell MON etahle than three of limuy other commit -di - ties, but it is likely that a feW bontiree Ube Tame which 'Remitted Bridgeport a while age would. have 4 tendepey to stead quetetious upward. Meet menet...libelee hoe° exceedingly modeet beginninge. When we retell that juot aixty yeare ago the Lention Zoological Garde= contained ouly a few Hone and throne we have reaeen to hope time in time the collo- thin now quartered in Central Park, but soma we treat, to ba removed elsewhere, sedl rival the preeent tnacmideeat allow in Regenda Park. iany lutereatlogepechnens of our own fauna might be ;laded to the Central Park monegerio by the moms OM the Frenele employee to give the dardin des Plantette a mart 'The toroth wero made to contribute a large cm:tangent of wild beam, beam, wolves, and other anbuele of the temperate zone. The colleetion grew during the Reign of Terror by means that would not bo commended In loon violent epoch% The Itevolutionista seized many travelling ehowo on the pretext that they blockaded the Lighwaya and ecarad the horses and thus un assortment of trained beasts was added to the netioisal znerte- geries in Paris, where they speedily foreot all their accomplishments. The 'reopen of the Zoological Gardens in London have recently been made happy by a large number a contributions that did not corne from abroad. Among these aro 4 baby yak, a little kangaroo. Mesopote- raio.n and Jerome° fawns, to say nothing of Indian pigeons aid American thrushes that have been hatching tbeir young as merrily as in the freedom of their own homes. SCIENTIFIC AND TISKFIrli• A great really inventlens are being mede- to ill people easily, but what ts worse wanted m something that will enable us all to live eaeily. A novel way of exterMinating English sparrows :—The beet way to get rid, of Eng- lish operant it la to fed titeut with bread motes fte7 acifewWwm4inIteeYe, an?LtY hwelPlIkbkeedSeolsellirse apples under a tree." )3ailed aa'svduat is the latest output of the eaw nULs of Moiee. It is put up in neat halneord packages covered with buriaps. powerful hydraelto press es used ±0 preen tite pachea_oes, and the entire Sapply stiepepteodirt 000temo apt: 1,eow toe; eb eiataiien,gu sfol hboyratelase. pertiou of it is used for packing. The Cost of transportation in reduced Aimee one- half by elm telling peaces% The average watch is e.omposed o1175 dif. agent *cell comprising upward of 2,400 operate exiddietinet operations hiita mien- fae-ure. The balance baa 18,000 beats or davibyrztijor&e,ospoe,robooni nr, , n102, 961, 00ar,08; Olt int ratyliett y1 and 43,100 inches with each vibration, which ID equal to 9 miles in twenty-four hours, 292/4 milssID thirty days, or 3,4$1 miles in owe year. Water gas appears to be peoulitirly fatal to lemmacomparetively few of time who amitleedy inhale it for several house letiore caneble of resueeitetioe. Such aOci- cleats laAve beZOtae ahrniizigly frettoente el for this reeeen the Stete ef hieeeeplin. hes peeeed a kw forbidding the nee et gas eentaining more then frOM aye to per eent 9f cerhople oxide, Water gesh, it 15 add, contebee frail tweedy -Ave to thwty per mit. of tide pie" A totel Wipe of the MOOD SeeC44 to be almees the onty eetrenoreicel piteneinenen whielt helps na to beliOVO ;tett the earth ie, fen all, eoutethies pretty large aud inn It prone that the earth oath 4 whielaab thedietnitce of the moon, 24090 mike, Leen breed that it Ikea the mom 'Melt mime 2,003 :alio in ter. 4/4 beer and a belt to pase 18131bru%11ot if (i)rearCritrebe*abltuut9etviteles ireruYekillt; shadow as 'Md. A pee made of white peper Meleofee- toted from cotem or Item aud modified by ohendeei teetioo, le the newest ieveutiou for eteltrad windows. The mete° prepered is dipped lute a preperatiem of alcohol and camphor, whieh waken it like perehrecet. From title poiut it mut he moulded and cut ' roe:eatable tough ulnae, eudrely •t, and eau Im dyed with altneet 3mle oration colors, the melt being a teaushictuVeheet aiming far Meth viva hoot than the best glees exhibit% Ellahteea centuries of ditaltwee rent on Friday. Ali tame and all eervent girls, and eepeedally cooks, all who dielihe to alt thirteen at table,. and all who iraVO vivid dreams, regard tt with deep tittephion. Moreover, telilione who are not begonia. dons dislike beg,luning any long nedertalt. rig an Friday, or would be burn on that dey if hominid help it. From the earliest days of modern cried:eel jerisprudence it /4 been see apart 49 a pemilbely .oulteble day for the infliction of eapithl puniehtuent. urveyor who was caught in a thunder wbile eogaged ha the woods at Orlando, left hie compaes en the jachataff while he took eltelter under a tree. During the storm a ere° Very near the cOnlpars was etruck by light:dug, anti the effect upon the lustrument wee to reverse ic to as to melte the north point of the ?media eheuge petition end point aonth. The surveyor, ustaWaX0 Of the thee:Igo, On AtOrting ter home with bin eornpeas as hie guide, waudered eight or ten miles in the wrong direetion before he die - covered tho tact. A railway eousisting of a chain formed of a =Riser fiat platea 17 inches long and 1.1 inches wide, made °nerd wood, riveted be- tween two eked pletee, is the letest solution of the problem of au endless railway—that a road whieh is as mirth a part of the vehicle an the wheels aro. As the wheel re. volveu it brings the next plate into position without undlie !Arlan or friction. It has beau used to good purpose in South America, and is nowbaing used in the mvatopy land in Germany, whore large beet -root plantations aro. Experiments witk magnesine light wore recently made at Potsdam, Freesia. Rock- ets with the light rose to a height of 1,000 feet. The stations of observation at diet - tames of five to fifty miles could see the differences in the light signals with never. failing accuracy. The military commis- sioner was fully satisfied with the success, The inualaitants of Potsdam, not having. been informed of the intended experimental, thought it was distant lightning, and the morning papers of the day following brought full and detailed reports of the distant thun- derstorm and the great damage done by both lightning and flood.—Ex. The confusion in the question whether the year 1900 is a part of the nineteenth or of - the twentieth century arises probably from the comparison of the age of a man with the years of the century. We do not call a child one year old till he has lived a year, and we call him ten, for instance, all through his eleventh year. But the year one began with the day No. 1, and we call it the year one up • to and including the 365th day. So the years from 1 to 100 comprise the first cen- tury, and the second eentureebegins with the year 101 and ends with 200, and the nine- teenth century began with 1801 and ends with the last day of the year 1900. A natural gas expert—not an orator, but a person with a scientific eye who has looked into the natural gas question—estimates that gas can be carried by a pipe line a distance of 230 miles, and sold reputably at ten cents a thousand feet. This Is fine news for those who are 'within the area the wells can serve. But even better intelliganoe than that he the statement that the gas can be used as fuel, and that seven and a half feet will do the • work of a pound of coal. This means that the gee is equivalent to coal at $1.50 a ton. If Toronto were within reach of natural gas household expenses would soon be materially reduced But, of emerge, the gas would be subject to a duty, though it is not down in the Tariff Act at present. A Bad.Weather Sermon. First Omaha dame—" Do you mean to say you went to Church last Sunday? Why the weather was perfectly awful." Secood. Omaha dame— Yes, I went, but rarrived there more dead than alive." "What was the sermon about ?" "0, the minister scolded us for three home beoausathe rest.of you didn't come The Committee System. To those accustomed to the freer methods of the British and Canadian Perliamente it seems strange that a people priding them- selves on their absolute self government can be content with the Commtethe system of the American Congress. Under that esuirein no bill can come up for consideration in the House until it has been reported by the Special Committee th whoin it is referred. see the Speaker has the naming of all special committees, it is clearly in Ins power to shut off discussion of any measure to which he and his party day be unfriendly, by tak- ing care that the committee th which it shall be referred shall contain a hostile majority. Thus it resulte that the fate of many a bill which might be ielluentially supported, or even have a majority of the representatives ID its favour, is determined by the Speaker ID announcing his committee at the opening of tbe Session. It may be urged, of course, in favour of the Committee system, that much time is saved by preventing prolong- ed and useless discussion of measures which could not possibly pass the House, This is a consideration of much weight. But, on the other hand it by no means follows that because the final rejection of a bill is certain, the time spent in its dismission ia necessarily wasted. Most great reforms have been. at first supported by small minor- ities. Free nisoussion in the hearing of all the people is the prime condition of legisla- tive progress, and one of the best safeguards of national morality. While the eyes of all who are in favour of some measure which they think of great importance to the wel- fare of the common wealth are turned to the Speaker as the man in whose hands is the virtual decision of the question, they must feel that something is wrong with the machinery of government. When , they turn away disappointed, realizing that their measure is doomed by the personnel of the Committee, it • is hard to see how they can resist the conclusion that notwithstanding the boasted freedom of their institutions, they are still to a considerable extent under wone•man government. "Matrimony," coming from the Latin word "mater," which means, "mother," shows that the wife is boss. If the husband were it would be "patrimony." See?