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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-16, Page 7- A DAY IN QUEBEC "AlIguICA.N." Never was there a greater inbitake than taking this trip te Quebec so hurriedly and without, warning; it would ;mem as if any half-educated pereen wenld know better 1. woold. he moze censelons of the eternal pro- prieties than, without proper 'study mei pre- pa.ration, to thrust Ma ignorant euFsity tnto the midst of eurroundings .wheee, eine eat part SAVOre of hietory, real eau legenn, tory z lee, French renweee and Englisla 'Winery, history Vonadien and, above all, America* hieteree for 9110 o ho keenest pletwuree e pleee afferda ts the aeneotime that this spot or American ; thet the landscape, with ie autumnal glories in their heiglet, ite ouch ait can be aeen Only.en the Anlerlin W11011014 ; and, Whila gitetng at the varied viewo, fer-otretehlog mad elite dealer on one eide eed the other* with broad reaeheet of woter wed hillstdes both rugged and dram whIch lure the climber thiough promise of muele reward for little eneforeoqpeled diatinctioembetsveen Crew -ellen and aankee, etod feela at once at home ktul yet, wheo the eye leaves the wok of nature and seek e that whioh. waren hands brave produced, the feelieg of betng a streeger in a feeeiga couetry is verpower- The planets riela la emesetherw aud hen prevelone. Hem men Weeee TICTORIOrS Sgr'47. 13, 1759, tkea the retailer ea be geed !Peeler column on the verge el t araharil Oa the Nest Impressive tp 41001 ern! greyed, reey esteontereter oh FOUN'sav. Ita brevity tells a louger tele thee weeld many arid high-eouudieg weralo. Its leek of title or pevticelere el ay hied kr the meet thetterin tribute thee meet achievement mead ectk at tho hands of pesteritert It Wetly *eta eeide the possibility that rev one lu any sage might a* " Who wee Wolfe, mod. what did he cher It le A neble WA A Ottbg reemel, aud perhaps helve to keep hie memory green—feeelser then thet ot oeldier thee ever died ors ehreerlean got,. Tee idabitaults twee a way of tseeehleg ef him art or- e matt they had then -Patentee blieWn, whine (Write they bed pereonel ve whese fettle Aerie e ref:ler:4ml glotty on ell. No, it dove not do to vita chnbee withent Cot reirethiug the mastery too to 401110 of the eveuts lu Ile blistery and the peetieulen of the bieteriee et the men whese thread of lite bee teen oeveral at QM poiet or aw4ther et Au -seri -A% meet fameree bettledeld. weeld he epered the hemilletienO Weal. doting vizo /deetgeeeery MS-141CD the haute erten that reelly ilmetrierse American emzeral brenthed hie tattle veleta out, he meet he,ve Akin -reed throw:II a gale beak leaet, end not truest te 1100ra-time and The len forgotten ettellee of hie tialool dap% A prefer Cantan fluvemigetien might eibly mitigate the eurprite with which would enceneter in the otter's -slug little 1. lap of Beeuport, neer by, the 1ife.4140 nudi Aonneted wooden atatue of a French colonel, who in U the glor' of freehleopAiuted ceat of slay with Asbita haelogs, eeeked het and plume, eurileg Week whiskers, poliehed bota end weving sword, Is esivaneleg with vigor. ens step upon the main door of the Church et Notre Dune jelie across the footrith. The driver called him Coleuel Selliere—or eittelet truth name, but for weer or rue:eras renreet. of guide.books the geutleman could not b leitstorlesily placed. Evideutly, the painters who had been decorating the interior of the church with arena 200.000 worth of their handiwork--zuttl very creditable work it wee tee—conceived that title rniliter,y personage would winter more menfertably if he were furnished with A thinher coat and lead acted accordingly. The &totem was not helf a hati one, but being placed pkia phi, without a pedestal, and seemingly burstiug hie way through tura tell end taugled grate in his eagerness to get at the prteet, nerhaps, the effeet was somewhat plovocatioo of leughter. But all the same, one does zwt encounter each memorials ae tbl n notobistorlo town. St., Augustine und Q iehno are the only fortified towne in this counery where the help of the real tmlitery engioter was bought into play, and in both placca the fortihca- tient( a.re amongst the most attractive pinta of intereat, yet, as onelooks at Quebec, with, its =dual advantages re-inforced by the works :of the engineer, and reflects how innall a spot this la compared with all the vast country around, THE trren. AreeheDITX Or WARS ibet the landeeepe architeet could give it, but it skeletal hopeless to expect that any- thing will be done that wilt be of much avoil, One thing mild he earried Met which would probe* prove. effective ; while the building amnd! on perhaps the highest epot in the eity the laud falls away more abruptly toward the tread that pewee it On the ,imst side, and, if the maia aPhrhach of the buildieg yeere to be over this road and the greeted properly terraced, and broad MOM ef etepshalf the leogth of the front, built up from below,an effect woeldi be gained which i would be n 0441$04- aems with the general tyre of TUE StraFACE or Txm isna;go, But now the imilditne is nothing 'ethee thee would be built in nny ett c 04447, and an anene4 A little tame and. 014 of key with etwroundinp. Ver all this, taken -by heat, it to onaithatt gives ;peels pleasure to the beholder, aa there le A general air el •Ottance eitedreithentent 4400 bertetedeing the work. of one trained in $heeteh: rather than Englieh eehoole, To P-014044 that no ,Attelnpt;WAS mode to eve the -hoilding from every eidee nor yet -to ,diecov.er whether the 'iuternel treatment wee aa preieeworthy res 'the exterior :demi net imply leek of tn. teteet or -ehergy, but only eltows hew po- tent wao the feelingthett the. city ,conteineel erreugle of thieve utnepre to All all the eeastey lemma at command we:he= epeeding any 4:f , them 91.4 an object which, however good in might he ea approve/04y pieced in Ornalsa AS in Qatleto. :Tte demo to be . penetrated he, este epirit of the piece aae. whole' *teed en the way of speodiote time in ennenientinga architentntal exesnieetien ef the ropy ether beddirsee of inteeeet. Beeeziptioneof tow pertieelsar nan ' he toned in the glaine.hooka ha .rptibt ae abin and intareatleg'forra ets le would hoped elide to give them here. • It wee plemsete eueugh to .delve About the WWII without de. talteittlinerieu. torelog down otte.etreet 9r another aecordieg oe the Stet gleasee (heated to premiers zemettsieg et intereet; now delve int down a MU an preeipiterw that the erse, nage threeteued to turn e toomereeult ever the hore' a haek, the ettilful deecent of which *Vett both for the antelOOtedneaa Of t and the sounduess ef bii harn.ete. Mug about through. the lower pert emu, deetroy$d hy Ore menus but etUl haeong .ao air of pieturee- epite of the beticlhege. being little one at tweee.toey, Bet -roofed et perhaps four TOO= OUlt; • Alen the wateref.reer". en the et of the totem wherethe wet:k- ettle few winds give %be plue . 4& Maltrraln Aire and conqueets is very suggestively present. ed, and eh° andaciens claim of the handful of men that could he gathered there in pre. tending to hold the vast outer territcry in aubjection, while there were a thousand other points which other groups of men could oecapy in the same way 'without in- terfering with the actual living rights of any other group. finds a perfect parallel in the praotice of pugilists and oarsmen who give themselve out as " champions " of this or that, and feel that they are so eimply be- muse a stronger or better man does not take the trouble to convince thom that they are not. The lower gates having been done away with, the visitor does not realize that in mounting the hill from the steamboat land- ing he has passed within the walls, and when, not long after. he comes to the gates rebuilt by Lerd Dafferin, he imagines that at leugth he is enterine the stronghold, but on looking back at the view finds that if the embrasures were filled with cannon they would be pointing at him, and that he has already passed through and beyond the for- tifications. The real esteem in which the preeent inhabitant regards these fortifiea. tions is betokened by the doing away with the lower gates and the building of the new Houses of Parliament just outside the walls. The site chosen for this building is a com- manding one—almost or quite the highest spot in the city; but the building suffers for vtatat of space about it—space which could not be easily obtained, for just here are three roads of equal importance passing out of the oily by three gates, not more than two hundred yards apart, and advancing into the country in nearly parallel lines. Between two of those roads lies the Par- liament,' House with a side facade abutting upon each. The ground in trout is approxi- mately a square' with sides of the length of • the main frontof the building—obviously too small an area to furnish proper setting for so large a building. So excellent a de. signwas worthy of all the embellishment a Veatch corvette in the road. whiteepeinted g1.111e. Crea411‘ d White•Clail bailer.% give *be place a ok Axed evaded •meet inet the Avecrailoria eeesidered by ble Enlists blether rthvr a fair weether ereatere when all eeld. Vrnm this lower level to the rempert awe rine the istelined reilviey, or nether, elevator, which tuakee tries every few minute% and whielt is a Illhat ropuinr contrIveocee Boilditm material of all kinde, /Ave Iron and terra-cotta, are used in the most call -1M Bo manner: atoue, brier and wooden build-, Ings stand cheek by jowl told ba.ve a home. like itir, vaetly differeat from the melancholy formailem of Montreal. The *done used is of several kinde end, calorie the moat common a whitielt limeatono tehout the color of Concord granite. Other then this the most rodeo. able material wee an exceedingly agreeable dark great limeetorto, too twilit la color to be called serpentine, of which was built the large all just Imelda Wolfe'd mom:tent. It juae euotugh color to seem to be .• *egret part of the lanclacape, to be an outgrowth of the soil itaelf, anti not an 1m - position upon it. Here, again, the elonming effect that, at certain atagett of its existence, an unpainted tin roof may give to a spire or a dome could be noted in ovary direotion; it :teemed al together a noble metal, and itamodeat eheen Wan quite superior to TUE hOLD ereneteTellY A little feet that Wee to ligne la answer to a question about taXes seen* to Phew how strong is the tendency to eherieh tradition. The currenq Of Oviedo be Ion been oee ef dotter* and centre, and no one thinks of naming a price io any other terme, but taxes are atitl wooed—in pounde and Panne. If aoy ene hem any mtagw1uaa to. whether his nature Ate ision to enjoy end proOt by telp to Kerope, let him take My dollen( and spend a Week at gheihee. If he find; 01407/kept and bele enthastesin there, he caet safely spend the larger aura a Enron:male trip requirea but if he fuede it dull, per. fuectery work, and cannot see what there ia to admire or WPM in emoked buildinge, eteep and narrow Ittreeta and an naintelll- gible poo 4 that oatteet he bend In the elume of hie owa neighborhood, let him etay at berile. Queben and its eurronndings is a memory that will not lowe luatre aa time passee, even if ooe hale ae014 Edinburgh, Gibraltar, Ehrenbreitstein or any of the 'among Euro- ilean place* which belong to the same gene- ral glaze, of the gilded saints and aroma that crown- ed some of the buildings. Attention being called in tide way to the tin roofs, it could not escape notice that the local method of laying a tin roof was peculiar; the plates were laidwith a simple looked joint with. out solder, and were laid in iuelined oeurees, the angle of inelinatiou secrung to approx Motto the pitch of the root, though on some ateep rode the inclination was certainly less than the pitch. However tight a roof that manner of laying the plates may give, it certainly produces a very ugly effect, as the whole roof covering has the air of sliding with more or less rapidity into the atreet From the terraces and the Place d'Arrnes there 1.13 an admirable chance to atudy the roofs in the lower town, which lie jaat below and wisely have no egad Sky- lights to irresistibly tempt the small boy to drop miasiles urn them. Whether he ab- stain from throwing things down the yawn- ing and unprotected chimney fines may be doubted. From this point could also be discovered another local custom which ma,y be enforced by law or aivocamd only by experieuce ; against almost every chimney was iea.red a wooden ladder, while another led from it to the scuttle or to the eaves for the use of the Lome firehrigade. The only ether local peculiarity noticed, for natural. ly a lookout was kept for any device which had been found lawful in tnis northern lati- tude, was the treatment of the down -spouts. The inevitable is frankly accep•ed ; water will freez cause a bursting of choked cm- duotors and when the thaw comes do dam- age whioh is as likely to befall the walls of the houee as the clothes and person of the unwary waefarer. Like prudent souls, the inhabitants prefer that their house walls shall be kept as dry as posseible, and con- sider that it is their neighbor' s affair TO TAKE CARR oF nIsISELF as he passes their houses; and as the beat relief the eircumetances afford and the best proteotion they can give their own walls, they use iron conductors with holes about a quarter of an inch in diameter drilled in the pips every three or four inches up the whole length of the pipe. The system has in some cases been carried farther, and some pipes are used which have a slot running the full length of each joint, the cylinder being complete only at each hub. Little building seemed to be going on, so that nothing could be noted as to local methods of building practice. The directory, how- ever, contains the names of thirteen erohi- teas, all hot two of which were Freneh, so that there is probably a good deal et work going on, and --judging by the Parliament Howie and the Church of St. John tile Bap. tist, just rebuilt—work of extremely lgood character. Indians Danviez The Indium at Betableneits, Cansele, end at Moiele honored me with an exhibitleo of their national daeteem The balhoom waa a bare leg•house, dimly lighted by 4 Imp on a high ?bell, A.great ehadow motered the timely faCea a,st nuder the beams of the gaging, and fell aelent tho circle of inert, equewe, and children &pan tin- an the floor In front cf these eteedin ebent the well% An aged nenple and same doge sneered a hed In One Perner, along WAth a number of babies dm up in albs and eerde4 nairett the well. The old -emu gave the dee eed be hutheud to driuk ferms a oeueepap, mul the Old 41414 often ley beet; en the pillow with Oen lee aereee the other to firmer hie tee% Now eud thee pe eghew pieked her way meg the crotothiveitturee on the fleor to the bed, battled kW herrofl nI baby, and geve it to ;seek. The woreeu wore their national eepe of Wank And red, but the men Formed mow variety, weerleg felt hate 9r red ,landkerobiela that fleeted about the ehouldero, er letting their long. straight, greaey hair whip %laud down on thole eheeke. The bend eremites' of a dregs like A common atom bung from the cellieg by A etring in front of the drum - ;tore WAX very aithple and yet the km notes et Ow voice, at mut a toilette below the drreas, were quite effeetiee with a sombre eeler melted to the ehadowy, fantestiva semwe Tim Oust set Walk like all the red iet geueral form ; number of men mune au et the crowd, stud began Mewls* ea mother around the eteve near the centre the room. Their step eetwitted in al "ranaing One foot, dltelginZ by bending I, lames, emu eliding balk the esivauced fon neerly to the other erse. Their ehiertuotien was therefore, decking, ea if the cutlers ceropeuy u Wenn heti trodden upon one another's cores ; although they took three etepe forward on h foot, yet by drewieg this beck, the anew but an inch or two In eae and their legs, like thoze of a dem aek, Retuned to he jointed only at the knees. The keeping of time was in the duckieg, for there wee no stereping. Alter a number of rounds thus le Angle Ole about the *ton they retired, end tome of the equews came reluctantly out to pt - form. Theydencedae the mendid, ducking, how. vermill more auddenly, and Advanoing 1.11' lees at eAch atop. They woo ex. cutely funny, notwithetanding their great deeoturn, their rather heavy Oguree, erect nd rigid an statnesewithdowneart eyes and shy turn of the head, bobbed up and down with everpowering ;solemnity. They soon gave place to the men again. The young Huron 11141cm:tow took the drum, and rang a snore apirited and. a veriest. air to erdivea the deuce. The men closed up the file formirn a continuous circle of duoklug figure. Their steps were loner and freer end they begen moving their Arnett about; and gruntiug, "e 1 he 1 he !" Aethedrummingquieleened, they increased their grotetque contortion* and their about- ing ; here asol there a man turned about to face his neighbor, and the two carried en with the ducking an extravagant pan- tomime portraying the hunt or the war; the mum rose in the most frantic crescendal and savage dither& ; the unarm bounding about, bent over and tore the scalps front their prostrate viotimm while yells and groans filled the air. It was the ancient war -dance, lacking only the lurid fire on the plumes and bloody tomahawks of the naked, painted savagem—C. li. PAIESnitat, in Harper's elfagezinee A RIDE To Rrssu. With a Passes Glance at -Cologne. Br HEN UV XI/ WIP"Or. From Ameterdam to the anoient City 9 Cologne (or "Kobe 1—from Geleeih, an old Amon celony el41griepre time—le a ride of &mut ;sixty pence through ta country, part of whiets its very beeentifel, lead path of whiela 1! very achdY, bete and uteintmeetieg. But when Cologne CAMAS into TieW and the greet eethedrel lifte up it tower above the city, one forgets all the fatigue ef a hot, duetY dsyht trop. There is only one thin that I regret, and, that is that the eatbedret breve the town end not the Blaine. As 11 now stands the boot is surrounded with old, tumble-41;mo etrueturem which are so elese to the towers tiro it is alreceet eihte to sannre a view from tow dietance. However, this is being remedied as rapidly as postible, and every year A lerge oppeopro atioa Is made by the city, which is A very hich citY, for the purchase and removet of time buildings Pear eheeathedral, whieh are being tern down ono by one and replaced by gardelea and becle ef flower*. Au antiquariau would revel inCotogne, there lam miteb of the old to trace down to the Pew. There is an old Reman tower awl h part el the wall and many booms dating hack te the thirteenth century. The foundetiene of the Cathedral were Uhl 123$, although it Wa, not entapleted and censeerated ;omit 1899. The engravings of it gtve littte idea of Ate leogth, breadth and Iseight, or the tleeteterceeee on 'Ina }INV CantrING rilth witleh it is ceveeed trent the friends. tieu to the eummit et ite two great towers. The interior la equally 044 and the beauty of the stained windows and chepele an etelle outl tepestrite hall hardly be a (4. fortunate le having friends meddle epered nn palm to make my vielt as eetereeting and etejoyeble As pee. tiittie. They were very proud of the In reventen4s Which er#131.4.1y being Malkin alt ireetiotte—the now etreets, whieh hey@ been laid met, the due veltmeitenent wields will eame follow the Mims tor miles in front of the towrs, ote. Bet we have enough that ieneW et home aud we deeire to epend ell the time peeside in and around the Cethe- drel, which low ghtee the city its werklh wide fame, and throe& the quaint, old, arrow ettette there is an old paved warket place, in the ceeteret which 4$ A heeutthilly weed, awl lefty *Uwe drinking feu -Mehl, awl we step to listen to ite etary. About the yeer ice% there lived *farmer , Jan Van Werth by nereh, teed he fell in WO With a pretty serving maul by the naroe lingerer.% or Greta. They plighted eir teeth, but Jan was tweed veto the y and elelliged to go off to the wave awl t the betilea of hie cauntry. Fifty Teeth ere went by and in the meauthne dm twee ems bad rites) otep hy etep uutil he Leveed home for the lime time, a C -.m. rnandieg GutertI, wad right herein the year IC42. he ands his Greta, old, and yet wlth ouslerfully verse AND LOVELY FACE, but forced to earn her bread by aellitig fruit in this same norltet plane. He reergeizeit her at once and, el comae, her life la seuehlue ever After. You don't believe.' the Wel Well, the people of the City. of Cologne did, at any rate ; awl the whole story is woven In and about this lovely fountain rooted by her thieves to commemorate the event; and there you may have every vet- tige of yonr doubt reratved to -day. A. fine stone bridge erhISICe the Rhino in front of the oity. A ranid nightti ride through Dosseldorf tied Hanover bringe tw to Berlin. As we pass through Charlottee. burg we oleo tee the tower of the pelace which poor Kaiser Frederick made his home. Of Berlin, something later on. 1 am off for St. Peteraburg to -night, and, unfortunately queer Deaths of Morse& Sitigular accidents have befallen eastern Cooneotieut horses teeently. A few days ago V, X. River's fine pair, at Woodstock, ran away with the mowing machine in a field, and the keen saw-toothed blade, worked at a terrifie epsed by the furious pace, slashed off both the hind logs of one of the animals. The wounded horse was shot. The other horse was nob scratched. Not long ago Henry Burk of Brockville while out driving, trotted his fast stepper, valued at $600, over a stable fork that had dropped in the road from a cart which had. just passed; the horse's hoof tilted the handle, and the ant - mat was epitted upon the tines. So fiercely was the weapon driven that it penetrated the ingninal region, backward through the pelvic eavity to the vertibne, thence forward into the diaphragm, passing through the left lung, and nearly perforating the skin at the left shoulder, a distance of four feet. Tne horse lived several hours and was then shot. At New London, Tyler B. Earl's livery horse not long ago nearly ended its life in scratching its ear with its left hind foot. The calk of the shoewas caught in the horsed teeth, and wedged in so tightly that it could not be removed. In its struggle the horse fell, and the force of the fall ripp- ed the shoe off the hoof. The shoe was dangling from the horae's mouth when its owner, alarmed by the tumult in the stable, arrived. $.1-,MUOtT,Nroan yarn OtrAtins on every Ade, Doe't you believe IL! The fects are that he titles aboat the street in all open carriage frequently and utterly unat- tended, eximpt by his driver. Of °memo there are parts of the eity where he proba. bly wold 129t venture in that way; and are there not in Leaden and New York eectime where it would not be wise for a.nyoue to go without,pretretiem ? He is not only one of the mom; fearleaa but kludest it arthd of mem and it in said to be a very common ocarrence for hireeelf arid the Etnprena ta visit the, hospitals and asylums entirely atone, go seems to be very popular and hla pleture 13 exleihiMd iia alreoet every window. So mach for the facte which 1 ntere been careful to verify. Petersburg is a moat latereatieg city. The street e are very broad and web paved with atone and wood, and they are kept Me manner which would pue our Authorities to the Muth. The butitirms Are many of them very due, especially the cathedrale, oae of which, that of St. bow, is, magnificent. On either eide of the altar are large aolunum of 'Apia liseuti not less than thirty feet high, and outaide of these ail' larger Polo:nos of realechite, four on e.aeli aide at teeth bity feet In height, wbile between these COIUMnA are verylarge and tfinely executed pietureo in mosaite The wealth of gold, silver and, preeieue stones -need in oroarnenzation eue would iseareely believe withoue havirg gem). The meek as telt the cethedrata a; very esee. There are no inatraments in any of the Greek churches, but the tirect ef the great choir competent of men and Jeep ia grated. The Resale= are VgnY AN14440t'S rgori,w, There are hundred* et chorehea hesidee the eaeltedrelo, era 440 UItlebuitainge torprayer in many plaites ert the /Arcata ; they are very erefal oat to pate One of any el them with- ut the etniost reverence, Yen are riding toe atreet mar when ouddeuly every het will nome eft and all. Are ereseseg themeelverh Tu leek argued to eee what le the matter siOnd you are passing some dwelt, thougk 11 may be at a dimwit, from in Been the crake," drivent, though it reuet aeeeaai- tato the utmost legeanity at times to pick thek way through the crowdrd atreete at Ibm pace they go, atilt ern alweye an tile lookout for the preying pitmen and seldom pan one without removtrig that het hewing end croatiog theiniselvee. Of all the a/Idea we have seen Sr. Peteree burg in the Met bewddering, am' WM gal* agargely be placed in A more coeftwed potit lion than to be set dreg oloae in one of thea e etreets. ‚Ie eleete aro all Rneliall, ot COUree, and leek like Gnash wrineu hack- arde, while the etrauge leugssege on every e readers the peuitiart still. more difiltnit. vet, at long us cue can make sighs no in ;tome way—but mere et this this letter meet g4 to the raall, for us, the fate train has not yet been put ore so we have a ride of two nights and tre divert the ivory trade trona the long Laud ex. days before we can zeaeh the " Toem s W- be retteued, hut Stanley's resat object wee to pensive Z we bar line to the cheap and Bath dole." waterway of the Cmgo. The Wee, is excel. If it is May or June do not come to lent. By this means Belgium reaoups the &male without the heaviest winter -clothing millione wasted upm expeditions and sta- and the heaviest of winter Wraps, (Men tho 1 tions, Zexteletr also, under the unprejudie. you may have left England all ablaze with 1est annexationist, cur cousins German, can hawthorn° blossoms, Holland earpeted with have the profit ot the slave exportation; nor tulips, and, Berlin at summer heat. Remelts. 1 irotaa a Teuton of thtm all raise s hand ber that the Ruesian calendar is twelve days 1 against what brings grit to their mills. hater than ours, Remember that St. lettere. Stanley has thus, ay ono tench cf, his burg is on the shores of the llaltie Seat magic wand,stnoerteg ;he tempt nee Remember else that you are via the dive: State, the hoe py hunting ground of Tippoo road to the North Pole. Already I have Tip and hie merry tiewatali men—abeurdly seen two hard. snow storms, and our teeth named Arats—iuto a Congo Slave State have been on a continual chatter since reseal- par ezallence. 'The great slave mines are ing here. In the country (May ').3) the now tranaferred from the Unyarawezi coun. peasants are just plowing and Bowleg for try, the old. Ale:anteing of the Moon, to the their ;summer croes, and. in the city Upper Congo. These freeh diggings remain ItEAVOVERCOaTs AND to be exploited, Tippoo Tib Is made gov- Y VCRS Sir Illtebarti Iturtou"s Opinion. Sr Rieliard Barton, the vetetau Afrieen treveller, who its at preseet oral info Parke hes written the followinse letter ;- ".1 do net deepair et Stanley even if the myaserions white leethe et the Bahr,e1 Wm - I :should turn out to be Emits, which is beble. Stanley le nu anise in the tw- ice% catastrophes, wed peopertlea of a, theme'en well AS in Its deeceeenittn. Ile le, in feet, ra sort of geoereptind Serdon. read when the world, pond out he cambrio hentlieerchlef he will probably come up emilt fogand tisk, ' what the deuce is the matter r I sin a great admirer of Stanley. He is eimply tee prince ef Afriieux explorers of thia day ar of Any day. But as an adminis- trator 1 rank hint below pre and the beat proof of thie la that of alt the new stations be has fonacied an the tio' ago, at a cruel ex- peaee and waste of life and labour, as welt as of gold, there's hardly ono that has not been abconioned and, left to fall in ruins. STICSI.EX'S AVOWED ($11,11,CT, "On the 'present oceiwien Ids avowed ob- ject ism the moue of L'inin Pashto who nam dietinotly and determinedly declined M erten (God save the mark !) of those new . ',seem quite at home. Thera is one thing, eltive reserves, at a ealary of S300 a year, however, that strikes a Canadien very where he eau easily make £30,000 a gee; ana neu agreeably as well as strangely, and that is e ere hie followers are pretty mire to shoot the suddenly increased length ot the days, him if he talks any nonsense about the abo- Even now the sun does not set until about lition of slavery. You must not expect to to hear any truths of this kind in England, where the imperious and tyrannical cpito ion of society subdues even the boldest spirit. There is a man in Palatka, Fla., who im- agines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly sane on every other subject, but nothing Cali convince him that he is not a teapot, and an aarthern one at that. He stioks out one arm to represent the spout, bends the other to represent the handle, makes a hissing noise to represent the ethaping steam, and then, if any one comes near him, is very un- easy lest they hit him and break oft either lobs handle or hie spout. 9 o'clock and rises no one knows how early; and soon the longest days will have reached here when the sun is only nomiaally below the horizen from one-quarter past 10 till one quarter before 2, but really the twilight is so bright that one can read with ease all night. No doubt this has much to do in maturing the harvest so rapidly in the few months of summer. The journey from Berlin presents nothing of special interest until you reach the little stream which makes all the difference be- tween Germany and Russia. Wirballen is the first town on the frontier after passing the border, and there of course passports are examined and baggage searched, but no more thoroughly and with quite as much politeness as a foreigner is apt to meet on landing in America. In fact, I have receiv- ed no more courteous treatment anywhere than right here in Russia from the first day I entered it, both on the part of army offi- cers, police and civilians, and I believe that no one unless he is very obstreperous and bound disobey. the laws, need have the least difficulty in going everywhere and with the utmost freeclom. Of course, with a swarming population, oomposed of such varied elements, regulations must be strict and obeyed to the letter; hut would 11 not be well if Borne of the American cities, which are similarly situated,. were under discipline as 'Aria ? There is very Bede show of force here; one sees More armed soldiers in Berlin in an hour than in Peters- burg in a day, and everything ie more quiet and orderlyhere than in any Cana - din city of its size that I know of. We have been educated to think that the Em- peror its all day, cowering in his palace, entirly unapproachable, and Failed to Suit. There are times when it behooves the wisest and most dignified of men to descend to the level of more commonplace people. A learned and good bat very grave and. reserved minister, making his first round of pastoral calls, visited the family of a member of his church, and was so favorably impressed with the lady that he stayed a long time. Unfortunately, he had not made an equally pleasing impression on her. "How did you like Mr. 33attie 1" asked her husband, over the tea -table. " Well, I can't say that I liked him particularly,"was the reply. "Why, I felt sure you would be pleased with him, he is such a thoughly good and earnest man." Oh, I don't doubt that, and I do like his sermons. But I don't think much of hin. for a pastor." "Why, what is the trouble t" The wrath and disappointment that has been increasing ever since the ministet's departure broke forth. "Well, I don't care who a than is or how learned he is, when he comes to make a friendly call at my house, and I have my baby. all fixed up and brought in for hid specnel benefit, I think it's as little as the man can do to pay SOMS attention to the child, at d that man sat here a Mb hour, with that dear, sweet baby under bis very nose, and never even looked at her, or asked her name. He don't seem sympathetic. and I know I shettt like him."