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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-24, Page 2THE TIIR KAD OF LIFE; OR. 81INSIIINI3 AND Bx.AFE. CHAPTER 11. -Dow;; &Rome, uardly room for the self-sacrificing Tide nerved next mornin at eleven - andvolunteer who. undertook the functions of T'i g _ , n beetle - rasher h turn in. purveyor ,ore d batt ras er to to about y Werra lathe minute—for, bows beteg But the lockers were amply stored with, fresh bread, tinned meats, and other ample mecessariea few aweek'scruise, Thusegeip- ped sad accoutred, Warren Reif was avcus- tomed to live me otredoer life for weeka to- gether with his ome like-minded chum and oouipanicn. As for Hugh Mnasinger, a confirmed landsmen, the first few hours' sail. down the crowded Thames appeared to hien at the outset a perfect phantasmagoria of ever varying perils .aaad assorted terrors, He oomperwel bye soul to instant death from the very beguning ; not, indeed, that lie lobed• ed one hit for that ; the poet dearly loved danger, as be loved all other forme of sense - tion and excatemeest; they were J cod for the evident that Warren Reif did not mean to . ASese; d the muse, like Blauehe Amory+ ploy at yachting. i san r% apt to ezclaina, "'Il me fiat des emotional "We've been raging a night of it, I'm Bat the manifold novel forms of enterprise afraid Maasfng" he said a�a their a as the leEebetfmg little yaawl suave her way i aer' Fee '-- atmong, the great East-Indiaaoeu s.poet, he prided himself on Ina qualities as e man of business—Hhgb. Mas%tpeer aur- zeedered himself in due eonxse by previous% appointment on board tate elfird Tert'e at the Pool by the Tower. But his eyea were heavier and redder than they lead seemed leas night;; and his languid manner allowed et mace, by a hundred little signs, thet he bad devoted but smell time since Haff left hien to what Mr. Iferbert Spencer pe ripbrastieally* deecribea as ;" reparative wroema;tsea ' The peiuter, attired for the sea like s eotartaeon sailor in jersey and trousers and knitted woollen cap, rose uu frozk the deck to great him hospitably. Hts whole appear- ance betokened oedema business le was timet. " Bed preparation, you /now, fore, and big ocean- cin steamers, 'shirting bald - day down the river. We shall have a loppy , S g g g sea, if thea wind holds, when we pass the ly now' athwart the very. bows] of a huge .Nero, You ought to have gems straight to , Menareh•liner, insinuating herself now nee whea'you eat the olti a with nae last with delicate preeisiou between the broad- wooing,"Fsides of two heavy Rochester barges, and I ]mow I ought," the poet aeaapeeded j,lliver fraumc 41i collision unit ewe mat leo% later .e elNIted ebeerfalmess. TI.® pats 0 i ,. duty's. as plait sea pIkeataff ; but the thing i complicated au 1 too evar.ptetsiug et the I ought to do I meetly leave undone; and tae atet blush for Afassanger .fully to take in thimgs'1 Aagght: not to do,1 fled, an the Gia.. ! their, meaning at a 0111$10 glance. /legit trary, vastly attractive, 1 may at well +' Messaoger was et MICA amused and bewilder - Make a cleans breast Qf it, I strolled rimmed ! less uunfideneo with whieb his ► ed by tmaa Gyre to pailaviciai a atter you v4eated the Row sea feruag !dead dashed boldly hi and out not night, and found thea, ]saving a term' among brigs nod schoeuera, ansaelei sun or two et lansqueuet. New. lin . urneta's eteenethip+a, unpert oraterbeerd tool:, la Am. Annieeet,etmt 3 never eau resist. The gee. " eel*" "4044% . imo%, backing the little Mud' Ise uaaice wog,to oleo ltour,i 1 rays pretty; Turtle to bold Iaerown in thsunequtl contest well cleaned out of ready caab, ,sad shwa agatust the b gges and awiftes craft that have to keep myease to the grinlatoue ac- matted the river. His opinion of Rolf rose caozdiia;iy all through what ought by rights rapidly many degree's in mental register as to have been my sumnerholiday. Thiscou- he watched hint tacking and *offing and clutively shows the %vita of high play, acid seuddiug And darting with ecoluncoreern iu the moral superiority of the wise men who j lata toy tub aaatong ad many huge and :twrft• goes borne to bed Aid is toned asleep when 1) Iu0viug uronetere. r ttbe clock Mao. Fort your helmet Reif cried to him Bel£'a face fell severe! team "I wish, hastily voce, as they crossed the channel Xessinger; he said very gravely, yogi;liJnatsiGbreuto#Greenwich Hospital. "Here"ra snake map your iniad never to touch these auvther emddeax death loxia imp <u tis round hateful garde again. Yea% roto yourlhealth. the -foneh yonder r Attd'vee as bra spore* your mind, and your pocket with diens, If ; a big eael iteaafaer, with a black dlsemmend you spent the tiara yon Spend upon ploy in erritiug notate rcelly great bank now, you'd rage ie the orad ten titres ata munch by it." The posd;�s?aaiied a calm smile of saperier ar, doing his bit to obey orders, wisdomm, Coad bay 1' tto cried, "to S fi y 11e1f Q, the baa:c in u¢os;l: sppto" ataoe at 1' pidty of chis f erd`a 4 tararea oda the Hebssas perfectly reedy to acct as bo Ives bid when once lie understood hie iustritctious; butthe seefsaringg mind seems unable to comprehend that landsmen do not pourer anintuitive kucwlerige of the Omega aemea lyestow eed. by technicaal, sculeupon ropes, booms, gaffe, and aaizz+n-insets; so that Maesinget's attempts to carry out ids orders to a prodigious] hurry proved productive for the most part rather of blank confusion than of the effect intend. ed by the .nmasterskippc-r. After emeeing Greenhithe, however, they began toiled the channel so,newhat clearer, mind, Reif ceased for a while to skip about the deck like the little ]cilia of the 1'aatrnist, while Masaiuger felt his fife comparatively safe at times for three nmiuutes together, without a Stogie danger t enaciug lum ahead in the immediate future from port to starboard, from bow to stern, from brig *racemes., from grounding or collialon. pahued elluely, ly ou her bulky fuua el, turn- ing the Dow point of land tbee closed their view, bore bastily dove open tltetufrwua the opposite direetielieWith mueneelsg awiftne s, his morel advice. "Yen talk for en the world like a Seudeysaeboel Ors -book. Honest itndustry Imaa its relearn; while itch -end -rota and wicked improper ganmea and one at: hist in prison or the workhouse. My dear Relf, how on earth can you, who are asenriblc man, believe all that aut'qua. tedtaureery rubbisht ,dtamatter of teen is it always goo;] boys who pull the plume with eelf•ap recietivo atuileoutof the world's pudding? Jrar frotn it; quite the other way. :Owe seen the wicked flourielain fah my time like agreenbay-tree. Honest in use try breaks atones on the road, wh ilc euc «eta f ul robbery or successful gambling rolls by at its easel cigar in mouth, lolling on the cusp ion of de luxurious oarrra- e. If you atfek to honest industry ell your life loog, you may go an breaking stones contentedly for the whole term of year mauled existeme. But if you speculate boldly on your week's earnings and land a pant, you m1y in time ret another fellow to break atones for you, and then you beocmo atones], a respectable ram, a capitalist, .and a baronet. All the set fortunes We a..9 in the world have been piled up in the last resort, if you'll only believe it, by successful gambling." "Every man has aright to his own opin- ion," Warren Rolf ansa Bred with a more serious air, as he turned ;side to look after the rigging, " I admit there is a good deal' of gambling in business; but anyhow,hon- est industry's a simple necessary on board the .3,f:id-Turk.--Come aft, here, will you, from your topsy-turvy moral p'nliosophy, and help me out with this sheet and the mainsail." Messinger turned to do as he was direct- ed, and to inspect the temporary floating hotel in which he was to make his way con- tentedly down to the coast of Suffolk. The Mud -Turtle was indeed as odd -locking and origenat a little craft as her owner and skip. per had proclaimed her to be. A centre. board yawl, of seventeen tons registered burden, she ranked as a yacht only by cour- tesy, on the general principle of what the logicians call excluded middle. If she wasn't that, why, then, pray, what in the world was she? The .P.fttd-teirtla measured almost as broad across the beam as she reckoned feat in length from stem to stern; and her skipper maintained with profound pride that she couldn't capsize—even it she tried—in the worse storm that ever blew out of an English sky. She drew no more than three feet of water at a pinch ; she could go any- where that a man could wade up to bis knees without fear of wetting his tucked -up breeches. This made her a capital boat for a marine artist to go about sketching in; for Relf could lay her alongside a wreck on shallow sands, and run her up a narrow creek after piatureeque waterfowl, or ap- proach the riskiest shore to the very edge of the cliffs, without any reference to the state of the tide, or the probable depth of the surrounding channel. " If .she grounds '• the artist said enthus- iastically, expatiating on her merits to his new passenger, " you see it doesn't really matter twopence ; for the next high tide '11 set her afloat again within nix hours. She's a great opportunist: she knows well that all things con e in time to him who can waft. The Mud Turtle positively revels in mud ; she lies flat an it as on her native heath, and stays patiently�without one word of reproach for the moon's attraction to come in its round to her ultimate rescue." The yawl's accommodation was opportun- ist too : though excellent in kind, it was limited in quantity, and by no means unduly luxurious fn quality. She was a working- man's yacht, and she meant business. Her deck wan calculated on the most utilitarian principles --just big enough for two persons to sketch abreast; her cabin contained three wooden bunks, with their appropriate coni- plement,of rugs .and blankets s and a small and primitive open stove devoted te the ser - 'vice of the ship's cookery, took up almost an the vacant apace in the centre of the well, About two o'clock, after a hot run," they oast author awhile out of the main ehennel, where tradera ply their flaw of intercourse, and stood by to eat their luneh in peace and quietness under the lee of a projecting point near Gravesend. "If wind and tide servo like this," Rolf observed philosophically, as he poured oat a easeful of beer into a tin mug—the dim/- Turf/We appointments were all of the home- liest--," Wo ought to get down to White. strand before an easy breeze with two days' sail, sleeping the nighta in the quiet creeks at Leigh and Orfordneas." "That would exactly suit me," Massieger answered, draining off the mugful at a gulp afterhis unusual exertion. "I wrote a hasty line to my cousin in Suffolk this morning telling her I should probably reach White- atrand the day after to -morrow, wind and weather permitting—I approve of your ship, Ralf, and of your tinned lobster too. It's ftm coming down to the great deep in this unconventional way. Tho regulation yacht, with sailors and a cook and a floating draw - legroom, my soul wouldn't care for. You can get drawing.rooms galore any day in Belgravia ; but picnicking like this, with a spice of adventure in it, falls in precisely with my own view of the ends of existence." "Ws a cousin you're going down to Suf- folk to see, then?" " Well, yes ; a cousin—a sort of a cousin: a Girton girl : the newest thing out in won- en. I call her a cousin for convenience's sake. Not too nearly related, if it conies to that; a surfeit of family's a thing to be avoided. But we're .a decadent tribe, the tribe of Messinger ; 'hardly any others of us left alive ; when 1 put on my hat I cover all that remains of us; and oousinhood's a.l capital thing in its way to keep up ander certain conditions. It enables a man to pay a pretty girl a great deal of respectful atten- tion, without necessrialy binding himself down in the end to anything definite in the matrimonial direction" " That's rather a cruel way of regarding it, isn't it?" " Well, my dear boy, what's a man to do in these jammed and crushed and overcrowd- ed days of ours ? Nature demands the safe- ty -value of a harmless flirtation. If one can't aford to marry, the natural affections wfll.find an outlet, on a cousin or somebody. But it's quite impossible, ea things go now- adays, for a penniless man to dream of tak- ing to wife a p nniless woman, and living on the tom of their joint properties. Aeoord- ing ito Cooker, nought and nought make nothing. When a man has no patrimony, he mast obviously make it up in metra mony. Only, the great point to avoid is letting the penniless girl meanwhile get too deep a hold upon your personal feelings. The widest men—like me, me, for example—are downright fools when it comes to high play or the domestic instincts. Even - Achilles had a vulnerable point, you know. So has every wise man. With AehiIles, it wee the heel ; with us it's the heart. The heart will wreck the profoundest and moat deliberate pt:i`osopher living. I ackhowledge it my- nrlt. 1 ought to wait, of course, till I catch the eminent alderman's richly endowed daughter, Instead of that, I shall doubtless Meg myself away like a born fool upon the pretty cousin or some other equally unpro- fitable investment." " Well, I hope you. will," Relf answered, cutting himself a huge chunk of bread with his pocket clasp -knife. "I'm awfully clad to hear you say ao. For your .own coke I hope you'll keep your word, I hope you 'soiree stifle everything you have go that's beset withiu you for the sake of money and position and success. -- Have a bit of this corned beef, will you?-,•. tl women who sells herself for money is bad enough, though it's woomine way—they've alt oeee trained to it for generations. Bust a Man who sella himself for money—who takes .hi.nself to market for the highest beemee-who m;,kes capital out of hie face acid lois manners and his couversasation� . is absolutely contemptible, and nothingshort of it. ---1 could never go on knowing you, if I thought yon capable of it, But [don't tlaiele you so. I',n sure you do yourself a gross injustice. You're a great deal better than you pretend yourself. If the occasion ever actually arose, yoe'd follow yam bet- ter ate] not your worse n:..ture.—I' l tremble you for the mustard." (T4 nt: CONTrt t;euP.) She Got Liitn Hosie, A womwtt up at St, l elect's, sage the As- teria I'ioueer, is the wife of a man who lotto to bang monied a cettaia grog Mazar, and iu iso doing he sorely uegleota the helpmeee. who silo patiently at home, Many e. time and eft baa she reasoned with him in her quiet, motherly way, and tried to point out to him the disgraceful way in which he was. using her, bat all to no purpose. She even went so far as to rrquest the teller in time aforesaid booze emporium tbet he cerci' eellieg her itueband liquor. But the poisoat, mixer bade her go hence and exeb►nge New Year't; calla with herself; but elle turfed vn her heel and left his hateful preeaee. That evening as she sat aloud she beard a racket down cellar, and upon investigation fouud that a elaunk had got Iiia tacit in the rat.trap. Now it is a well-known feet haat s, slurp Will hold its peace as long as hia. bathy tail hi held, whether in a trap or the hied, and remembering that she had no fear. Suddenly a bright thought mitered her heed. The clink in the house Was Wk - log one and alio wanted papa to eons home. %I a quiet. movement eta throw a bee, over the auluml's head, and, after weeping its tail, opened the trap, and thus armed headed for the salvor, it was only a abort tiiataauce away, and flw1ing the, door partly Opal, site to sed the skunk into the uild:tof the crowd, and swiftly stole away. It bad the desired effect and per. chine home. The saloon keeper, who never mole a vacation before in his life, bas gone into the eouutry tar visit relative'", ;wattle stilton is closed for repairs. Why tite Tette' 1940 Will Not be Counted Autoug Leap. Tears. The year le 305 dope, 5 hours and 49 min- utes long; eleven minutes are taken every year to mala the year. 3051 days long, and every fourth year .we have an extra day. This was .fulfua C;eier'a arrangement.. Where do these eleven minutes come from? They corona from the future. and aro paid by omitting leap year every 100 years. Bet if leap year is omitted regularly every 104th year, in the curse of 400 years it fe found that the eleven minutes taken each year will not only have been paid back, but tbat a whole day will have been given up. So Popo Gregory ler,, who improved on C,-e;ar'a calendar in 185., decreed that every centur- lel year divisible lay 4 should be a leap year alter all. So we borrow eleven minutes each year, more than paying oar borrowings back by omitting three leap years iu three. conterial years, and square matters by hav- ing a leap year in the fourth centurial year. Pope Gregory's arrangemeut is eoexaot, and the borrowing and paying back balance so closely, that we barrow more than we pay back to the extent of only tree day is 3,800 years. The German Empress. "The German Empress," says a writer in the .Tow -nal des Debate, "is the soul of the Imperial household. She is much better loved there than outside, where people are unjust to her. She has committed the mis- take of remaining English --as all the Eng- lish, do—and. to carry the pride of her race into the middle of a people which admires itself with a naive and enormons complais- ance ; she brought the pride of her birth into a family which believes itself the first in the world ;; her aristocratic tastes into a town where art shows itself in clumsy im- itation and patchwork ; the independence of her views into a court where everything is regulated and prearranged ;; and the liberty of her religious and political senti- ments into a centre where religion has its narrow form, as the polities of which it is the servant, The independence of the Princess, and the wicked habit which she had contracted of thinking for herself, rather aufed the old Hohenz�ollerns. But entire harmony exists between the Empress and her husband. She reads serious literature— Adam Smith, Thornton,John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and other political econo- mists. The Emperor enquires into tho social problem, and studies the theories of the Socialists. This accounts, perhaps, for the Socialist flavour of his address to the German people. The Loss of Temper. Temper, too, there is no question, is good to keep; yet we ourselves remember occasions when we would have given all the world to have been able to lose our temper thoroughly, completely, irrevoca- bly. Stimulated loss of temper is a great gift ; but a real, genuine loss has a power of closing a controversy or putting an end to a situation where stimulated lora can effect nothing. No doubt the losing is ex- pensive; . it generally means apology or compensation of some sort ; but for the moment it carries a man through a diffr, culty unconsciously, and, as it were, on wings. The wounds :received in the ex- citement of battle are said at the timE not to hurt, and loss of temper means an :.r- citement where wounds given and re - waived become almost a pleasure.—[London Spectator. From the.. Hans Shaking. man with the limp, damp,ex- presisionless hand -shake, all through the list of the side -motion abakers, the pimp -handle shakers, the vice -grip ahakera and all the others there are many varieties of hand- ahakers. You may get an idea how the cus- tom beganby reading thia taken from the Some Journal: history tells us that hand -shaking first came into fashion in the time of Henry II. Up to that time our ancestors were more affectionate in their greetings than we, their colder -natured descendants, embracing and kissing each other muscle in the same fashion as that now prevailing itt some parte of Europe, Gerutany especially, Tho historian who is pleased to date the commencement of hand -shaking in place ot osculation and embracing about Heairy IL's time la;,aerheps in error, as it is more probable the close enibraee of acquaintances began to be din. continued later on, perhaps when tobacco was drat introduced. This certainly seeins a probable eurmiee, as even in our present year of grace a man who has been emokrng a cheap cigar er 4 rank pipe is eertaiuly not the moat embraceable object in the world ; and only tbinik what the tobacco of Raleigh's time must have been like ! However, wheth- er Tlea>ry IL did or did not begin the fashioia of "sbakieg betide" it is now rapidly be- comingoverdone. 'Everyone bands with everyone on every occasion, on enter- ing and leaving a roam, on meeting en the street, and on saying "good morning,,. "good night," or "good bye." The hue "Ilene deo peso," the "crenae do le creme,' thea gmite too -too people are the only eXeep UMW the rule. Seething eau be more dignified tbautine weer Molly orientate ealnte a friend; their tshee or bin welfare, of these dear to him, expressed in afew words, are to the pont; yet nothing can exceed the eubliape Imbecil- ty of soiree tribes of Andre, who teres each other's right iaatad thumb in their right hand, and go on through the entire net of their relatians ehmegiug the ;gratia as cacti Motive ie earned. How to your father, .e.. grasps B.'s thumb; hoer Ie your mother, B. ramie A. a thumb; hew is your *mole, grasp; ow ma your aunt, grasp; your nephew, year Ween, your .eousin, your grandfather, etc., grasp, grasp, grasp, and SO Qn for a quarter of au hour, The Persian ammo bowel( al Ole wear nud tear by simply touching hie forebead at you, something like your groom does QA being told to go hotue, while the Chiuese,1iutiutae, and meet other nations do acu:ething nearly as simple. Considered at a Farmer's In- stitute. stitute. Tho biaok kuot en %berry and plum trees was shown to be a league disease penetrat- ing the Barb. The only wife remedy is to mat it off ami then rub the spot affected with turpentine, The tomato rot was alta dealem ell to be a limp%, the preventive being suI• pahur psiwder. Gal. F. A. Curtin spoke upon pigs as a dairy and fruit farm meoeaaatty, ant. how to feed then lean. He advocated a redleel change, and said it was a rnlstaake to think it impassible to keep -pigs without coria. Corn is the farmer's ideal of everything, and it le all wrong. Pigs ought to be fed but twice a day, to give time for rest and an opportunity for digestion. Tine food should be strongly impregnated with phos- phate nitrogen. Feed them with meals, turn them into rye fields, put them in clover Bolds and tipple orchards --.that le nitrogen. outs food. Follow up with sweet carnttaika and sorghum. The bent quality of pork is made out of apples alone. Ile pictured the difference between the et%Gta of carbonace- ous and nitrogenous food, and mush a pis; could be fed so long on corn as to be starved to death. Dr, 3. S. Woodward addressed the farm - era upon "Nitrogen, Potash and I'hoaphoric .Acid." He said the air was the great store- house of nitrogen; another source was the coal fielda, He described the ammoniacal liquor of the gas factories, and said it was one of the best forms of nitrogenousmnanure. Potash is found in plants in the mines of Germany. Phosphoric said builds up the frames of animals, and is found in the bones of animals. It also exists in the slag of iron furnaces, fu natural dopoelta in the south, along the St. Lawrence and in the Oneidas. Authors and Sentiments. Nobody but us literary people knows holt closely grows the attachment between the author and hie cbaraeters. It is related of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe that when from the ages of her manuscript she read the death of little Eva, the entire family eat bathed in tears, nor could ono of therm speak a tvordt but all mournfully eepstinted, going to their rooms as thengh they had just attended the funeral of a dear freed. Some friend% mnet Thaeheray on the street one day, and his countenance bore traces of 'intense grief. " What le the matter 1" they skied, " I have jot ]tilted Colonel Newcome," be sobbed, bnrsttngg into team es he hurried away. Charles Piohens had the saute experience, So did I, Mme wair even more harrowing. When I wrote my fiat fenny story about Mr. Bilderbaek go. fug up outhe roof to shovel off the anew aed malting an avalanche of himself and eliding down into a water barrel, 1 Was 41.- meet l.-most heart -broken, I didn't kill Dir. Bit- derbaek a meel%. Ala, indeed, I hadn't Ills heart to .do that, The managing Otter, that dear, considerate soul, saw how 1 £elt Omit it, and. be kilted. him for rine. He aim killed all the other dear,. loving gentle characters in the sketch. And as I was leaving he remarked that he would kilt nae if A ever esmo back with any more each stuff. He meant it, teo. People who SAW me coming out of the einem, scraping dust, and lint, and pine slivers, aid gouts of pasta off my beck, naw at once, by my grief-. stricken foam, that souething had happen, ed. But 1 could no; tiell them what. My peer, heretivg heart was tae full, -[But# lrierdette, - • The European Situation. The untertaiutIta et the European ;ata. a ,tion seem to be ;increasing rather than dins, in tithing, The rupture of daplornatiorelation; between Oreeee and Turkey has brought a new element of oornpIication, To the on looker, noting. froth raeiateuce the persistent. Intrigeeee carried on nader Busmen iutlnenoe to bring about disterbancet hi Bulgaria and Rormssnia, itwould seem is indicate that the long -predicted oonvnlsioa is inevitable, and ate outbreak simply s. question of time. The uuudetakablo tezLsion of feeling in. Ans. tris, pointe to the ,same conclusion. On than other hand, Prince Biemarek, whose oppor- tunities for taking in the whole situation; era probably unequalled, and tvbeeepoeiticn mt+kee bion ia a auanner the arbiter in ell European diapates, is reptetented as assn, guine that penes will not be brokeu. It is possible dant bit knowledge et the tneuf- #Gleucy of Russia's preparatlona may give warrant and confidence to bit opinions, or inay be that :be has some inscrutable ob. its xis view that aro beat promoted by fnfng ]alta ebaraeteriati;a attitude of imperturbability. It ie very likely that if Retssia eau menage by any course of dipalo*e. icy and intrigue to bare tier ehestauta pull- ed from the ;'ire by scale other rneaua she will prefer to avoid the tremendous risks of A great war. But that oho will ever eon- elude, save under coustraint of the direst necessity,,to abandon her cherished objects, and espezially to leave Ferdinand in poaee- fail ppoassession of the Bulgarian throws, fa in- credible. To relinquish a purpceo once form- ed and attempted, would be to break the historical record of the moat pertinacious of numareidea, The One -Armed Pianist. Count Ziehy, the exrraordtuary pianist, says The Queen, of London, never plays itt public except for eharitabte purposes, being not only of high family but also posaeaeod et ample means, And the singnlir and romantic facts: with whioh his present extraordinary efficiency is connected insure Mtn crowded endfineeawhereverheappears. Count Etch; has from Childhood been a great lover of muaio, for which he bad extraordinary na- tural gifts. As a yoath he devoted htnivolf to tbo study of the violin, en which be had already attained great proficiency, when a terrible accident while out shooting tarred the comae of his life. It was found :noes. awry to amputeto his right arm, and it wotli4 have appeared to moat persons that with this all hopes of an active career in art must be abandoned. But thoindomitablo charm - tor of the young Hungarian noble triumph- ed. In a year front tho time of his recovery he had mastered the most extraordlnery difficulties on the pianoforte with the loft hand, wbich remained to him, and now this onc.handed pianist produces effects whioh, if the eyes were closed, would eonvixco the listener that he was listening to two, and even sometimes to four, hands upon the in- atrument. A Romance of Compressed A gentleman who, by the way, is quite a celebrated organist himself, was wander- ing through the organ loft of St. Andrew's Church in New York when he slipped and fell into the diapason pipe of the huge in- strument. He went down feet foremost into the cone of the pipe until he was firmly wedged. Toe more he atruggled the tighter he wedged himself, and, being about twelve feet from the top of the pipe, the air soon began to give out, and he became frigbtened at the idea of dying in the prisonwhere accident had lodged him. iiia frantic shouts for help did no good. After spending a night in this dangerous and dismal hole, and having in his :strug- gles stripped off his coat, he wotmd it about his waist, so that no air could escape from below. Soon he heard the sonorous tones of the organ, and ascended the pipe until he oould reach the top with his hands. Then he knew that air had been pumped in below Min' and that by gradual compression of the air, he had been forced up as througha pneu- matic tube. As he drew himself out of the pipe, lie gave one hearty and fervent shout of "Saved 1" which rang above the tones of the organ, and nearly frightened the organist to death. The Sang of a Flirt. Oh, a dainty toy is the heart of man For all toys known since time began Compare with this one what one can ? What rapture to watch it chill and burn And burn and chill and tremble in turn— Then with dainty shod feet to carelessly spurn 1 Oh, 'tis rare, indeed, with a victim smitten— This delioate game a la mouse and kitten— To cajole, soothe, caress—then "give him the mitten." Take all other toys, then, but leave me mine;. Take riches and pleasures and palaces fine; Take all but myplaything—the heart mas- culine. Ram Avis. The followingadvertisement recently.ap- peared in the ondon Standard "A lady of good family, without moans, . with a thorough knowledge of everything, would be grateful to anyone who would give her occupation, not particular as to what. " The Carrot. The carrot, like all other root crops, de lights and grows to great perfection in a deep, well enciehed, light, loamy soil. The seed should be sown in shallow drills about sixteen inches apart. Sow early in the spring, just as soon as the ground can bo properly - prepared. If the sowing is delayed until later, it is advisable to soak the seed for twenty-four hourain tepid water, and then dry it by mixing with dry sifted ashes, when it may be sown. If the ground is dry at the time of sowing it is advisable to firm it well over the seeds, An ounce of seed will sow 120 feet of drill. In out fine soil the farmer, if he have time to spare, may find it profitable to try a good sized field patch of shorthorns, inter mediates and long Reds, thinning to five inches or so in the row, and drill two feet wide to admit of horse hoeing. A soore of years ago the exploits of the Monitor, an experimental waroraft designed and built in the United States, drew the at- tention of the maritime world, and did much to inaugurate the revolution which has aims been wrought in the construction and equipment of navies. Another experi- mental vessel, the Vesuvius, was launched the other day from the American Navy Yard, which bids fair to attract no less at- tention, and, should opportunity 000nr, to. outdo thefeets of its short-lived predecessor. The two chief novelties] in regard to the Vesuvius are the high rate of speed antici- pated, twenty knots an hour, and the unique character of her offensive armament. The • latter is to consist of three guns,' each fifty-four feet in length, and adapted to throw a dynamite; shell of two hundred pounds weight a dis- tance of one mile with precision. If this can be accomplished, and the dynamite cartridge made to explode on striking, it is evident that no ironclad could`. withstand the shock. 'Whether, however, the long range guns, now so much in vogue in naval warfare, would leave the little slumbering volcano many chances of coming within striking range of itsintended victim is one of the uncertainties of the experiment.