HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-7-5, Page 2STAXISTIVS.
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More then, one willime men are employed
by the varions railWay lines ef the Unitiel.
States,
Ile War of 1Slitt.
Seveaty-4x yr e tea° ea Mee the leth
Jure, u31.2—the Cemess a the Uaited
States declared war egenret Beamed. At
A few figterea t—During the Denmeratie tot eight migiat seem a plueley, aleeme
Couveatien etiI51,791 woree were. sent from clueralrons thine fee a peoele minetteriag
St. Louis over the Western Unioa wire, ei htmtllion smile to bora theTititislItien,
The Tfebrews are returning to deruealme„
The recent Ruesiars persecutioas haw led
thousands to mho up their resiameee in the
ancienteity, the Hebrew pepuletion of whiele
bee letereased Irene 0,00) to 30,000 slaw
18$8.
The greatest feat et beptign in the hie,
tory el the _Baptist Churets in medera tberee
was that pereorreed in July, 1878,, by J. C.
Cloughea IUMicalarh who, with the wig -
Melee 0 dye antivepreachen, immerged
2,2s4 pergolas within six Imam
The begot oesar, SteaMet is the City ef
Rome, winch consumes alio= 270 One et wshee the days of the Wer Indepeu-
coal a eley. The Utabeiw alaa ,Ftrati* 4 the deuce thew ima extenth
d in e !Jaded States.
to dare to. atteck, the mile itower that wee
Ole to haa its awn agatnet the militery
gerins ena atioriestereng ambition a the
et Napeleon, Bue a. closer serutiny
pets the dlusioas of the chiealele ohar-
Aoter the deeet removes the glamour a
reteence and herotera from at eoucerned in
carrying the meow, audIneveels the teens-
antioan a the decieratise a the a the meet
wicked. wanton ware 0 eggremioa that have
ever beea toned on an infant tOOMMUnity by
powerfel neighbeelug 'Patten In ite mad
lust a comeneet and of =righteous territor-
ial agmendieement.
Cunerrl ime, although, eaeh Abe= 100 on
smaller than ;be City of Ronzeilu actual ton.
age ueeerthelees menu= from 323 to 330
tone of creel daily.
The totel ent-pet of coal from all ranee
.0 tiro United Suites in 18$7 wen 120.925.-
Ze7 there ton; veked, a$182,401sS37, en
lecrease a 1412943 to over the previ-
elea seer, le will be seen thet eitie vaeue ia
rest dowel a z311. 59 per tom bat it is almost
certain eime acute eonanneera have paid
more than that.
Nor eourent with the Tirarheaspien ai
way. the Ceefe Goveratneet IA4 determined
to 'build a ZrAliSeantinent41 read %geese
Siberie with a terreitum ou eho Pecifie
eeeen. 3 The whale leugttraef theme/ will be
Aimee 5.00 miles and it is estimated that
It will heat 4000 roublee. The tint
meet:main be elm= fl,e90 miles to, end
wiU eatea be begum
Immicy la Eaeleatl le 3.12 111Crng
lector, There were zio fewer then S2.043
ltinatlea regletexed at the beg $g 0 the
yeer. Of theee only 37,e01 were weir and
45.0 gt were womem 74,171 are sepperteil
peuper asylum. Theuen there eve enure
female titan mete luealice, there ere fewer
eupperna mtt of private fund mthe aguree
being 074 to 3,5:11.
Since the hut Preeidentiel eleetion ;here
12.9.3 bteli €41% inereeee of 7,000,000 is tbe
pepuletieu of the United Statee, Thie will
give at leesta additiorAl roilliou of venue
=lag 11,000se00 vette to be ceete Over
40,e0,1 tliege aew vothe are b New Teel;
Sten, Wilere the Democratic; reajerity bet
election wee only ;ZOO. It will be seeu
that there b gayal deal Of MarZin ta pley
up; but there u ue remou simples, thet
the united. Demomehy boa net =Ade ati
mew friends anne;g4 the Tower VOters a*
neve beta made by the die:meted Re-
nublicene.
The important rake ceveley qua
artilleey play in the art of moaern warfere
make It eeteretiting to know the total num.
be of aulinels which the leullug countries
of the world can throw into the field of
battle. Here, atetording to the bunt statis-
tic*, le the list ; Rustle, 21,570,0e0 hareem
America. 9.300,0e0 ; the Argentiue Repub
Ile, 4,000,000 ; Auatrie, 3.00000; Ger-
many. 3.3e0.000 ; France, 2,800,000 horee.s
and 30000 mules ; Engleind 2,790,000
boreee ; Canade 2,024,000 ; Spain, 60,000
home and 2,300e0e0 mulee ;It4y, 2,000,-
000 horses ,- Belgium 3%020 ; Deumark,
310,000; Ametralia. 341.0E0 ; Hollaud. 123,-
000, Ihmtugal, 8%000 horaee aud 59,000
mules. It will be rex:naked that Russia
heads **list by an enormous tnejority.
t—eruestshipea---.
tarbulent party' eeinposeri a the !teener
less reputable elms of American eetizens, the inteeteoude and eichest =theta of Cep- ay leamtu,na perthh Thhy meet ith pre.
and augmented from time by coueldereble tral Afetea. Aa if to. leave the wey hared to some quick blow, and within e
eA3W-na beielleme3 a the haeer*ert-: °Feu for .rge341en le the tide", short time of the oatbreak o hoetilities.
ecialistie propegeudieta from tbe 811411491 the eliartee, it la end, states thee the extent They mut recluee the wetzut to be carried
Gurnee cities, red republica4 who had be of the territory weatWaWI oi the great Ceth by every soldier ehh evol.y. horse; they
ems! discredited France. the 6un$ eniorrtes era African lakes, "has flon esi yet beene'
deltuntette Mon wenderful el
thie new empire time bawled over to A priv-
ate eourpeny b said to be " peeplgil by ante
eeventy eadeetriens geld relative-
AfrilY ireenr°sPeCotl"panyinhafelboiz:tuto8.nly Tauhtehorredt
t*Ue .peSseSainok of dila vasir ATea bat
eNerciee ipstice, to collect tevenne,
deg with refeateery atebjeeta " ley
of enue " in thert, to wield ad
powers of enuttindependent lo the the abseuctiof fuller lefermatiou
The East African Company.
An, atumuneeteent, which seems to have
awakeued a siegulerly small amount ot
tercet in comparison with jot latrine/0 im-
port -thee, is that concereing t Naivete and
prerogatives granted by the ereie:m. Govera-
meat to the East Anemia Oompanys We
had auppesed that the days lit which civet
and, militery rule ever immense treete of
country and millions of people could be en-
tinsted to priVate coropthies were at au end,
If the meagre cable reports can be relied
en, this. is far from being the calm. A
royal charter based me the linea of that a
the old EaSt India Corapeny taia t) ban
been granted ta an asseciation of Exigible
eheitertiette incorporated feeder the title
above meutioeteri. The imendariert 0 the
met domain handed over to title eompany
extend, it ie said, from Zeamibar uterthward
as far as Abyselnia, With a aeabOard of over
lumdred melee ill tetigth, while
weetwarel it reaches to beyond the Victorla
Nyaeze arid the other Nreat lakes about
the sources of the thus ineludiag
Modern Armies.
At a meeting Oi the members 0 the
Royal United Setviee Institution held recent-
ly ur London a paper was read by Col, H.
L Heeler on the equipment and transport
a modern. armies.
Col, Hczier called attention to the preseut
attitude of foreign netione, with large Indies
o cavalry watehing each other on eech side
of frontier lines. In any future war he be-
lieved that there wield. be an ineremed
number a engagements beeweth
.and that by their means much damage
would be done at an early period a any war
to road e and railways, But theee cavalry
engagerneuta would tiover be deeisive a the
war, and victory would depend uprat whith
aide would he able to bring np.infantry with
the greatest rapidity-. 'Vile involved rail-
way transportetien. There were neWAVery-
where in foreign lauds fortresa% command-
-
hag the lines Of reilways, and et the first
oper.ing" a war upon the Contineut no
doebt dath would be tried° 4 them for-
tresses to prevent them. being vietaelleel for
ought net to bendicap the aoldiers by umke-
and in shear, the riff-reff, seem atisl off- mg then% carry enerreena weiglite. Next,
ecourirg et the European contineig su gen, they =Okay§ efficient railway carp; able
eral--and this pertYs eteeelille 44Cremb8 to repair railways hfadvauchig, and to break
numerical etreegth front thew IIMPa them down when they were not wanted,
than queetimethle aeurees, had coustahtly Thirdly, they mast do without camp eqinip-
held. to ape idea in he political ment aad tents, becalm they WOUK nQt be
eTeed, PAraglym that Canada slieeld have able to eery thein in the future,
been ceeoled Or wreeted from 1140 BrIttele The whale face of the coeutry everewheze
Crowe, se thee no feethedd ghee% be left in Europe lied ehanged in the aeventeefive
fee Britian leiyalg on thu cuutiugut a f yeeni which bad elapsed airtee the laat gt'eat
North America, The party wee foreveihret tbewar ; and there Watt no Inger the neeetaity
the loole•out for opportanities 0 attacking m for suei). triemiires to etimum the Bghtiug
England ; it had adopted a motto by au in regr4 to the.neeemity for tide mov.erneut mett 44 ic444015, were abethetely lieqemary.
ininenteloUe plagiarisni from .Demoettenea, and tbe end ta view, extvglea. cram= IT. 4,1,0,,e4 be ,odiora weerieo a gray
" mid Beglaesi's diffisulty m the United woeld lee out of pleete It le perieeps ;mane- dreee he vote et war. Tile it 104512 he ro„
Steteie opportemity," became the unwrtes ly neserble in thew daye thee 'the deepotie deeed in whteht thothh ospeowitli wood
ten low by which. their polley was guided. sway and unpiet entertiens for which eneh et 02 poi judc wiltch v;
it waa t preeent. met,
The !ceders of the perty thought thee the ceinpanlea Made thenatelVea bay fenioue in should hheyhe not more hhell h0 1,0=4 a
oppertunity had now mime, Etigleud wall' earlier days thonla he repteted. But if '-',' - ' '
ammunition at a tiMe. FaVer had been
down to taking Infautty into aerien On
horeehack, but then one Man out of every
Lour would be req,uired to hold the horeem
and he recenuntuded the eutetitution of
Irteh cam—each cer drawle by four horses,
and cerr-yieg fifteen armed ream With
geed to the arum carried by a cavalry
gonna, he reeoininentled that a trieuguier
aworil ebould be eubetititted for the present
fere; becetete in fighting a Mali alwaye did
mote damage by thrwitieg than by eutting,
and that a pistol aliould bo enbetitated for
a. carbine. The revolver, he thought, was
not a lawful weapon for a eeldier to carry.
The weight which the horse ought to carry
shoold be lightened au far as potible.
Cid. Sir 0. Remold In thel.iatin mutiny
they need to put ten men on an elephant,
and in that way go long distance'. Ile
thought the eltemeleu in the form of the
Ward WWI very degraige, as aometimea Men
WOUld ride through the enemy without
1,4,et.gdaumtyge4::::.gelfwe hbverpeend t.tihTeltelheweereu. ni‘rajorm", C. Browne, an .Englithinan, writ.
ntieswcZla rtveuptheirkaabout the aequatien oBurmah by he
rtyebeeetooddoettbtuktbey
tiab, deeetibea the effect upon the natives
the that exhibition a the electric light.
great ray of soft light," he ways, 44 mhoota
aerate tbe heaveos from herizon to horizeu.
A Rood a light is east on a spot in the vil-
lege, but it ba off with more then lightain
Iffity to illumine another. It heaps au
bdba end bouncea about the earth in meet
canny Bullion, The village ta illumined.
visits every portion of it and teems to
eritertat the door and whitlow& At firet
the people rush away, but finding that In
many eases the light follows they throw
themselves down with their faces to the
earth. In a few minutes the village saaa
river banka Are cleared, and the terrifi-
ed people take refuge in the bush or at
the backs of the bousee. But this only
laza* A very ebort time, •Curiosity is
stronger than prudence. So far the light
has struck no 0110 deed. Perhaps it may be
harmless ; so the eblldren, clinging to each
other, venture into the glare, then run to
their mothere arms screaming half with fear
and half with delight, Some of the big
boye then rieh out, have a good atare, attd
having dared so mita, once more disappear.
The ladies aeem to gain confidence next to
the children. Their curiosity cannot be re-
atrained any longer,ao they get together in
groups and hide their faces and scream and
giggle. Some of the more cheeky ones
actually put out their tongues a us and.
begin dancing and gyrating about. The
men, last of aJl. moodily emerge from their
cover, and still not half, liking it walk
cautiously about, and. gradually the village
is gay,"
engaged In Tionle draggle in bebalf
the liberties 4 Europe, and these profeasora
of the doctrinea of liberty were not ashamed
zo countenance and aid to the utinost el
their power the eifortne a the great despot
the Old World to ash The only Chem -
urs of liberty who were now able to aphege
The infamoue Berlin and Mian
ef the Corsican naurper. were
ie to by the " Ordertoin Cenucti "
Goverment ; the, Freuth
aud Regliele mazine pelloy alike told
with dientrem effeet on the commerce
0 neutral Stamm but the blame Wiie fairly
chargeable en the Imperig demo in which
the commercial troubles began. Nap?leen
waa the prime Cause,, and ea him alcuosneuld
have been bid the blame of ell the siteutere
at befell the meroantile maxim of the
United States in camomile§ of the zeatrie-
thins impend upou the thipping trade .
ueutrels by the Euglish wanes thierrehen.
But; thia vieiv did not euit the eon -Britten
envoi the Saito. Mr. atiforson hoped, to
u the mean spite of a small faution into a
tele a national hostility; he refused to
atify the treaty of amity, %miner% aad
navigation that bad been agreed upon by
the American bliniger te the Court of St.
Ames and the Britieh Government ; and in
an angry meesage to Congress he furiouidy
inveighed +walnut the " OrderaneCouncil,"
while he had not a word to say againet the
Berlin end Milan decrees of the would-be
despot of Europe and the world. This waa
followed by the etticidal volley of the "ctn.
bargee' whereby Ur. Jefferatnes friends did
an immense injury, as it eval probably he
tended abould be dome to the -commerce of
the New England Steno, then and ever the
moue ardent advocates of liberty, and for
that reason themost etrenuously optima to
a war with England, from whicb the only
conceivable advautage would accrue to Na-
paleon, thegreititest enemy of liberty then
alive. The " embargo" was withdrawn;
but in the meantime, and all the time,
trouble was arising from the complicated ma-
estro of the claims on which England stead-
fastly insisted, namely, that she, aa mistrees
of the seas, bad the " right of search" in
all vessels in which the had reason t
believe that deserters from her mervice were
being concealed. The affair between the
Leopard and the Chesapeake neither re
fleeted credit on the English captain for
good some, nor on the American for
personal courage, honor or veracity ; but
it merited to increase the tenrsiou of the al-
ready strained relations 'between the PeePlee netted auttee, infanticide, the brutal rites of
of both cow:Aries, and the war party m the superatition and other unspeakable horrors.
States made all the capital that could Pawns But that a herculean task is still before as
bly be made out of the incident. Prom
month to month encl....am year to year this
party was steadily gaining the ascendancy,
till at length in January, 1812, Congress by
a vote tit one hundred and nine to twenty-
tivo, reaelved to increase the regular 'troops
to 25,000 men and to raise an immediate loan
of ten millions of dollars. What this por-
tended. required no political Zadkiel to pre -
diet; and accordingly no person nor party
was very much surprised when the same
Congress declared war against England on
the 19th of June, and deoided that the brunt
of the war must be borne by the mere hand-
ful of settlers, only 300,000 all told, who had
then made Canada their home. The ol3noxi-
ous Order -in -Council were removed about
the same time, so that no decent pretext for
the war existed ; all the best and most hon,
orable politicians in the United States de-
nounced it as unjust, ungenerous and :im-
politic ; Randolph, of Virginia, opposed it
Congress in one of the beet speeches ever
delivered in that hall of oratory, and
a apecial convention of delegates met in
the fall of the year at Albany on put, -
pose to denounce it. But it was all of
no avail ; the war party thought they would.
make an easy conquest of Canada, and that
was all they wanted ; they, perhaps not, un-
naturally, supposeds that a population of
300,000 would fall an easy prey to a popula-
tion of 8,000,000, and that the 25,000 regu-
lars of the United States would very sPeed-
ily demolish the 5,800 men, of all arms on
whom the young colony had to depend for
the protection ef more than a thousand miles
of frontier. The inexorable logic of stern
facts has demonstrated how completely the
war party was aetray in its calculations ; the
War of 1812 was one of the most scathing
rebukes ever administered to a partyof Wm.
rice end aggression.
rnluropy Mediums.
The spirit mediums are heving an awful
hard tune of it lately. A /ergo number are
languishing In jells throughout the country,
charged withheingNo. 1 all-wooleandeayerd-
wide frauds, and, and to relate, the omits
that condeaceuded to bob around et their
beck and mill themed to have retained enough
of their human characterietiee to defied the
medium just when the latter needed them
Most. But the etrong hand of the law is not
all that mediums have to fear. Judging
from the reports that aro coming in from dia.
tricts -where mediunas most abound even the
spirit' themselves are having troublous
times.
At Chicago, a few evenihgs since, a medi-
um had theceeded in bringing enough spirite
out of a cabinet, that if formed into a pro-
cession might have taken twenty minutes in
pagsing a given point. The lower jaws of
the audience were vesting in their laps with
awe, and all went well until the spirit of
Joan of Are aupearrd, and a fresh young
man fractured the icy stillness by blurting
out in a hoarse whisper t "There's a rat just
run under the spirit's drapery?" Then the
spirit of the valorous and heroic Joan of Arc
suddenly grabbed for the bottom of her
skirts with all the hands she had, and gath:
ering her feet together, jumped fully four
feet in the air with a shriek that startled the
audience out of their seats. The girlish
spirit still further surprised the audience by
making a break for the interior 0 the cabi-
net with so much enthusiasm as to kiok it
clean over, and when the lights were sud-
denly turned up the unfortunate materalized
spirit of Joan 0 Are was then sprawled
out on the floor and groaning dismally with
the weight of the cabinet across the email of
her back. One 0 the spirits playing a
week's engagement with a western ixtedium
also catae to grief a few days ago. The
medium had won considerable fame and
dollars by causing spirits to come out of
her cabinet and Stoat in the air above the
heads of the audience. One evening when
a particularly big spirit, which a young
lady in the audience declared to be that of
her grandmother, was sailing gracefully
about in mid air, the wire suddenly broke
and the heavy weight spirit fell down into
the pale upturned faces of twelve old gentle-
men of strong chare.cteristies but weak
necks, and knocked them silly. The heel
of the mothexly old spirit also struck her
eelf-confessed grandchild in the mouth and
knocked out four of her front teeth. The
• old gentlemen were pulled from under the
spirit and sent home in marines, in a more
or less dilapidated state while the spirit
still lies in a hospital sukering from three
• broken ribs and a badly, skinned shin.
Spirits cannot be too careful nowadays how
they come back and cavort about on this
mundane sphere. They will be fooling
around until some one of them breaks a leg
if they keep on.
"This is about the slimmest dinner I
ever sat down to," he said as he surveyed
the table ; "but I s'pose I ought to Make
• certain. allowances." Yes, John," replied
his wife, "if you would make certain allow-
ances you would have no ocoasiOn to quarrel
with your food."
reakOnOs_ either tate er ef 'plArlauthrepy,
rendered anuexatiorr, on ecele Owlet cone
tiaeretlal, .desirable or necesitery, moat per- •
tows till be /Relined to regret thee the
Britigh Governmeut dia net a ono, in ite
owu 414=0 -44541WM the reep ouethiletiee rather
than hinefaver the reale and all their in -
termite, preeuembly Without ''cousent asked
or given, to the tender etterciee of A tretiteg
vonmeny.
SeetalRtforat.11etore •
ay per 4 y
be Incidents an proof that me maim; to
be done In the dueutIon eeetal reform be.
fore it will be pareible to give the netivee the
franelilee, In QUO MO a tenant termer, lu
the presence the Fauenabled villages mad
mitt the noting Odom* and the alugiug
of wage, deliberatele goesed out the eyes of
le young 'wife, who had been bound by the
neighbors, beemise le bad Inert tula by a
demon that they would be repined by
olden eyes. The whole neighbourhood
haled irs‘the supemtition, even Wight
the police, who asaeged tbat the victim ha
ertened by chelem. The rieene of the wouldbe able, under all eiremustancee, to
*her lucideut WM the tetnple of a Ilindoo derma upon railwaya,
edam. A erowd of ;Wive* had nackea to Heeler' be rea13h said be Preferred a
ietea three buffaloes, in when blood some brown to a gray nuttorm.
d about; white others, geetieuietihg
fitriously, whiriedabove their hemlethedrip- Britain After Waterloo
«
ping limbs of thellaughtered betaits. Another
animal, whiels was also tan !terribly lacer- As sum to the battles of Waterloo was
ated, was still elle° and iti awful. bellowInge fairly ;ought and Napoleon put away at St.
wero added to the din. At a short distance Helena, the Continental Profesaors, 111E44 -
several men, with their Wiwi naked and nus, political students, and journalists all
painted, held a goat by the legs while they began wita one accord to propheey the ep-
tore away, with their teeth ruouthfule of preaching downfall of Great Britian, which
bleeding flesh from the otill living end some affeeted to deplore. and others reser&
quivering Indy. Other animals were welt. cd with complacency, Everything conspir-
hig their turn, and around them a crowd of ed, it was evident, not only to bring about
women smeared with blood, apparently in. tide deollum but also to accelereto et. The
toxiostenl with drugs, were deeming and paraell of Carthago—England has alwaya
shrieking wildly. The purpose of these re- been set up as the second Carthage—was
oohing Orgies was to eppease the wrath a fecely exhibited, espoeially in those coml.
the goddeee, who is aupposed to hold in her trim which felt themselves celled upon and
hand the scourge of stnallpox. The liombay qualified to play the part a Rome, It was
paper, commenting on these horrid thence, ointed out that there was the dreadful
attya selweight a Ireland, with its incurable
"Wo vtature to say that no cannibal poverty and discontent; the approaching
feast amone he moist brutalized Southeera decay 0 trade, which could be only, in the
savages ever exceeded in horrible details the opinion a the.se keen -sighted philoephere, a.
two scenes just described. If such things matter of a few years; the enormous weight
are possible in the India of to -day, we may of theNational Debt; the ruinedmanufectur.
readily picture what the country was before era; the wasteful expenditure ()fhb° Govern.
beanie into content with Western civilize- meat in. every branch; the corrupting infla-
tion. A century of British rule has over a ence 0 the Poor Laws; the stain of slavery;
large area of the peninsula. all but extermi- the restrictions 0 commerce; the intelorance
of -die Churoh; the narrovtness and prejudice
of the Universities; the ingerance of the peo-
ple; theh• driuking habits; the vastness a
the Empire. These causes, togetherl with
discontent, chartiam, republicanism, ttheiam
—in fact, all the disagreeableisma—left no
donbt whatever that England was doomed.
Foreigners, in feat, not yet recovered from
the extraordinary spectacle of Great Bri-
tain's long duel with France and its success.
ad termination, prophesied whab they pertly
hoped out 0 envy and jealousy, and feared
from self-interest. Therefore the politicians
and professors were always looking at this
country, writing about it, watching it, visit-
ing it. No, there could be no doubt—none
of these changes and dangers could be de-
nied; the factories were choked with. excel -
sive production; poverty stalked through
the country; the towns were filled with
ruined women; the streets were cumbered
with drunken men; the children were
growing up in ignorance and neglect incon-
ceivable; what could come of all this but
ruin? Even—and this was the most wonder-
ful and incredible thing to those who do
not understand how long a Briton will go
on enduring wrongs and:suffering anomalies
—the very House a Commons in this
boasted land of freedom did not represent
halt the people, seats were openly bought
and sold, others were filled with nominees
of the great men who owned them. What
could possibly follow but ruin—swift and
hopeless ruin? What indeed? Prophets of
disaster always omit one or two important
elements in their ealoulations, and it is
through these gaps that the people basely
wriggle, instead of fulfilling prophecy as
they ought to do.
Even now the outlook of thewhole world
is truly dark, and the clouds are lowering.
Yet surely the outlook was darker, the
clouds were blacker fiftyy ears ago. • Read
Carlyle's " Past and Present," and compare.
There may be other dangers before us of
which we then onspeeted nothing. But if
we still preserve the qualities which
Rulo
we beret -
FOREIGN NOTES.
The Austriati Government has ordered,
thirty automatic Maxite guns. n
W. G. Grace, the greatest cricketer i
the world, will be 40 years old on the 18th
of 'July.
The Zuyder Zee may be drained before'
long for the assecietion for that purpose is
abut te try it.
A gun for projectiles 0 100 poends has
beee complete 1 by Armstrong. It fires seven
shells 11511111te.
The income of the VaiVereity Clime
bridge of thie year will be $1$0,900 and ex -
pensee, $170,000
A Emecle engiuger ham conferred m
a blea
log On All players of etriegetlinstrurneete by
inventleg a peg which will not slip.
The new wire gun at Sheebureneee has
thrown a 500 -pound Libel! a (Ustance el
twelve miles, the areateet distance ever
covered by a cannon hall.
The Pea lourna? recently appealed to
Bieraaralt to reetm Alsace and Lorraine to
France, to histiancrmalte up, and thee both
have a go 4 England.
Admiral Hornby says that Ent:rimed
would empire at !met 180 crubera O. pro -
me her merchant vemele from the eaemethi
embers: mad that ehe hoe but forty-two,
The Frenett are aohnowledged to have the
fluesteguns and prmectilee Europe, Their
Ferminy shell has hem shot threngli an ar-
mor plate twenty being tnick, and come oue
witn ite env! pelut Uninjured.
There ban been bug tearelt for euedesa
melt: he the Red Sea upou which two Brit -
Jen eteamud
ers fouered. IMO at ieSt Wen
found. It LI a. very email cool petelt with
only fterlie feat water over it.
A smith:rower Louden, firm of reireelement
contracters recently aavertized for 4,000
additional waiter; and 10,00 apPlicatione
were received response, the whole of the
candidates elairaleg to hevehad txperiene,
correepeudent 0 the Pail" Telegraph
arys that thowiencis of R11851414 Vgallalita
• helot died et hunger during the peat az
weeks. be the district of Zveraigoretlke the
peasants Imbed tile gado a the rich land.
Admiral Hewett of the Britieh Navy,
wbo was drowned the other daye was a, very
sinceeseful blockade ruiner dome, the Ave.
trieen war. See were Hobart Peelle and
Burt goyne who coattneuded the ehip
Captain, whieheepsieeil About tea yeara
ago.
A cause of disageeemene between laatser
Eritz and Eismarelt is res,,avaing the rester -
ion of the private fertune ;helm King
f Hauovelewhich b$been' eonfiesated by
?maim Iliereerek preveutedelhaber
llittri fremeeeteiriug ie and now he and the
Emperor have looked'hortui too.
Bobby ,(whoee uncle has given hira a dol-
lar)—" I wish yon would give me a nickel,
4of
Unoleames, instead a dollar," Uncle
Jaines (astordehed)—" But, Bobby, a dollar
is better than a nicker." Bobby—" That's
the trouble; if it's a dollar, pall want it ; if
it's only a nickel, I can have it"
is proved by the tales a4 forth above. A
few natives of India are men of the higheat
intellectual endowments. A considerable
proportion of the population possess at least
a veneer of education. But the vast majority
away from the towns and centres of thought
are steeped in barbaric ignorance and super-
stition. Yet we hear the baboos of Bengal,
who constitute an insignificant, or rather
infinitesimal fraction of the population,
prating of India as a nation, and demand-
ing self-government for the country, and
electoral privileges for the masses. Are
the men who stand by while a 'wretched
woman's eyes are gouged out, or a living,
quivering dumb brute is torn to pieces
mouthful by mouthful by human devile—
barbarities committed, too, • in the sacred
name of religion—are these the men to ex-
ercise a vote, or take, any part whatsoever
in guiding the destinies of the Empire ? "
If it be true that such incidents as tome
referred to are common among the masses
of badia outside the cities and towns, it is
quite evident that the time has not yet come
for the adoption of the scheme of the Na-
tional Congress. The first endeavour of the
reformers should be to secure the abolition.
0 degrading social customs, to crush out
brutalizing superstition, and to hasten the
spread of enlightenment, education and
Christianity generally. When a fair amount
of progress has been made in this work, it
will be time enough to give the natives poli -
deal privileges which they do not at present
desire, and which they could not use pro-
perly if they heel them.
A Paris costerrnonger quarrelled with hie
mother, and to get square hung himself from
a nail on the wall. He pulled his hat down
over his eyes and held his pipe in his mouth,
BO that she would think that he was them -
ming until she went up to him, and so would
be soared at finding hint dead. .His scheme enabled us to stand up, almost alone,
worked perfectly, and the mother nearly
had a fit.
A South Carolina girl married five times
in seven weeks, and is now in gaol trying to
settle in hen own mind as to which of the
men is her hiisband.
against the colossal force of Napoleon,
with Europe at his back, and which carried
us ' through the terrible troubles which
followed the war, we surely need not
despair. --" Fifty Years Ago," by Walter
13esant.
A. Long Plight.
Au extremely intereating experiment has
been made by .Mr. 1 Wagner, of Beaton,
Mass. He sent nine carrier pigeons te Lon
don by mail atetuner on October 9, 1886.
Shortly after their arrival they commenced
their long flight home across the Atlantic
Ocean. Up to January 10, 1887, three of
these birds had returned; one arrived in
Boston direct from London, the second was
recovered near New York City, and the
third was found in the Allegheny Mountains
in Pennsylvania. The owner's addrees was
painted on the bird's wings, and, when they
were found, the birds were returned to the
owner. The other six birds were not re-
covered.
All doubt in regard tie the disease to which
Emperor Frederick succumbed afterlong
months of patient suffering has been set at •
rest by the post-inortem examination. The
fatal malady was cancer of the larynx. The
larynx, indeed Witt nearly destroyed ; it was
found to contain a large cavity, and its oar-
Maginous character had almost wholly dis-
appeared. It is marvellous that the Emperor
survived so long. Nothing but the best
medioel skill postponed the evil day and
permitted the brief reign which will be
memorable in the history of Germany. To
Sir Morel' Mackenzie the Gernaen people
owe a lasting,debt of gratitude. .But for his
skillful treatment, in spite of opposition and
abuse even, in all probability Frederick
would never have ascended the throne. t
The American Brewers' Association has
been enquiring into the relation of liquor to
orime, Ir reports tha-b "of 859 murders re-
ported in the New York papers, only 93
were due to liquor, and of 554 suicides,
liquor was responsible for 98." Exactly. 14
per cent, of the lives thus lost were there-
fore taken through liquor. The report does
not mean that beer was the source of all this
crime' but that liquorti in general, spirits no
doubtalmoot exclusively, were responsible
for it, The showing it not so favourable to
liquor after all,