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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-9-20, Page 7NEWS OF THE DAY CANAArAZ.f. Coal aa,vanced 2$ cents, in Montreal .on t Saturday, and is now t^6 75 a ton. Some of the Patten manufacturers have formed a combine affecting dyed cotton The Montreal term is a;a 44e/really },cavy one, there being no leas than five murder cases to be tried., The North American 'United Qaledania Asseciation will holdits conventime le Termite next year. Montreal atlengtie bee decided to renew Toronto's, example, and take active ntepa against the }ticket shop, The Quebec Llevexnmenls have decided to otablislia permanent proxinciel polioe force, with headquarters in Montreal.. A company le being formed in Xentrestl to hand abridge from Point St.: Chula to Longnenil, by way et St..Helen's lamed. The orthodox Jews of Hamilton leave pun• chased the old St. James' E' episcopal church and will upon it as a .eynegogee next Mon- day. The American tug Gladiator has been We- ed by the Cenadfan authorities at Algoma Mille for towing a raft of toga in. Cienadian waters, The young girl Lena Voest, whoe raft away with a stmt. car nota itotar las litontreasl, wags married to Mini, with the omelet of the -dire mother. The entries la the live stock einem for tits Provineiel Feir at Nineteen helve been ntimerima tlia*adadttcenal Abele will leave. ..eta lee eree.ed, Miss Sere Jeneatetta Deanne, the Qatataw• dian joindiellst, better known as "Guth Grafton" weeentertained at Staten laland by Alr. Moan, 1 ut tbreo vera Rath the Gueteree and inland reeeuaa re. eelpts at Hamilton for Net mouth showed a falling oil' as competed with the gor+ispand• in .mouth haat year. The cotton Gambino has ceased to exist. It wan decided at a meeting of the mateufaot. urera jai bio $ ea1 that all tba mania might charge their own Agurea, S.att McVeigh, asaietant bookkeeper 1'n the Methodist Boob Room, Toronto, baa aabeaaaded. Hie peeeletiane aniouut to ov.r, $5,000, but partial reststeation has been mat, Mr, Courtney, DeputyMinister of Finn nee, is et pewee in Toronto eonfeeriug with the Provinelal Trosasarer ra'gerdieg the ac,couuta between the :esleraiaaaat Pcoeineled Govern. meat's, Revert anerebanta in Montreal have been =titled from Neweeerlo and (Ilan ow that no tannage whatever eau be given from those porta to bMoutreel on the regular line of ateauaerala Servcye are to he macre of Sen. Juan bar• bor, hi Vancouver Ialaud, withthe object ot ,*cert ling Its capabilities as a harbor of refuge and a strategic point for defence purposes. The Nude= bey railwny promoters say that nothiugcan bo done at present owing to the refusal of the Mauftobe Government to guarantee Mere titan two millions mid a half, whfob they declare to be Insufficient. Mak Howes, well known in Manitoba during, she boom Period, who was arrested iu Toronto and taken to Ingorecll on a charge of obtaining money under false pre• tet eo in ounection with comm laud transac- tion, was honourably acalnittc& The Imperial •Government, in conjunction with that of Canadn, are said to be about to have surveyy a made of tho Straits of Fuca, through which rune tho boundary line be. tween the United States and the British postman= on the Nellie Coast. Mr. Abram Slaw, surveyor of the Cut. toms Department, while Bailing from St. Zotique to,Valleyfield on the St. Lewrenoo, had his boat cepa:zed by a equal!. He clun to the upturned boat and was carried through the Green (Auto, an experience never before had by living man. aatxnicmg.. A banana treat has been organized. The number of yellow fever came at Jaok- eonville in increasing, Heavy reinsure seriously injuring the cot- ton crop in Alabama. On Saturday a true hill was found against Jacobi), the Caughnewaga. murderer. Hot Springs, Arkansas, has been swept by a. flood and thirteen people drowned. The Retaliation Bill was reported back to the House of Representatives on Saturday. The tropical fruit men of Now Orleans have formed a combination, representing a combined capital of $19,000,000. The indications are that the debate on the Retaliation bill in the House of Represent- atives will last for a week or ton days. Mr. Crowley, the Liberian chimpanzee who attracted so much attention in New York Central park, died Sunday morning. An explosion of gas in a mine near Scran- ton, Pa., yesterday killed a number of pec- ple and destroyed a large amount of pro- perty. Randolph Huntington, of Rochester, N. Y., has imported the thoroughbred Arabian mare Naomi and will breed her to a Henry Clay stallion. Senator Gray, of Delaware, is of opinion that both aides of the House will agree to give the President the extra powers he asks for to enable him to carry out retaliation. Yellow fever is increasing in virulence ie Jacksonville, and every one who can is leaving.tho city. A case of the fever is re- ported in Philadelphia, and ie causing great alarm. • The Alaska Commercial Company's steam- er St. Paul daring its season secured 100,000 sealskins and a largo quantity of other skins', and furs, making the value of her cargo $2,000,000. During!afarsin,Baltimore(yeeterdaynlorairlg a section of the fire brigade entered a burn- ing buildiiig,'which fell, caging the men, who were roasted to'deathdespite the brave attempts of their comrades to rescue; them. A;number of Buffalo men, together With three Toronto parties, have formed an aeso- eietion to buy 20,000' acres of timber lands in the State of Mississippi, with theobject of exporting lum3er and timber to the Euro. Bean market. ry etPictonCM* Verde is eltarged as vat= el wbfela sa The L endonTi nee says the Anerioaraa hive a traditional respect for legality, and if the rights of the eetaliatfoa cane be made clear to them, they are not likely to be tempted into a policy of aggression for the sake of either Cleveland or Blaine,. Uaited Staten S,eoretary Fairchild says there is a disposition to relax the vigorous measures against Ganadiaa poachers me seal fishing in, Alaaka waters, begauae the Eng - lisle Government are now proposing logiele. tion which will entirely stop depredations. Gen. Butler declaree that President Cleve- land has not been aggressive ,enough and would have hint take action againet the Cunard liners, Gen. Butler might remember a little interference with a British mall steamer mined the Treat, and that the job was found rather tee big to handle. Tension.; Fifty peraona have been arrested at Sofia on suspicion of their being spies. Several alteska of earthquake were felt in Now Zealand yesterday, China refuses to ratify the American treaty restricting Chinese immigration. Five hundrea dervishes were defeated with great slaughter near Wady Haifa, The divorce snit between King Milan Siad Queen Natalie bas beta adjourned for three iaonths. ca`everal veeesla were wrecked and many livea loot is a hnrrlcaue in Algae Bey on Thursday, The Irieh r'a'tional League is urging asst a Parnell defence fond ahould be raised in the States. . Rayel. Sparer,*deorealit gitbliehed pro- vidsQg for eneiget.c ae ttan agataat the spread of phyllexcraa, Leaden, tonere have increased the price of bread in exfaestation of a imam oho;tage in the 13r;tish whe=t crop. Over one thousand bbitiroit ere repert•d t*have died front measles in Seutiego,t hili, iia: the het twe menthe, It is repot d tot three eF editiona rent by the Mnbdi age ust the White Qhtef tt Beineel•Ghezel were repulsed. Eiiaen'e p ouogreph was exhibited yes. terday to the Landon, Eng , fracas Club, and peeved a complete ea ;OM "United -Ireland,” Mr, 'Milieux Q'l3rien%a paper, aaya Cleveland is avenging Wand's wrongs by lila retaliation measure. The colours' strike in Australia still con - tinges, and ie aerlcusly interfering with the nataveanent of steamers in Melbourne. Klug .ilum3est unveiled monuments to Giaribaldi andthe meitjre to the cause et Italian liberty in. Ravenna oo; Saturday. A heavy rants, a .oinpaaniad by a gale, pro. veiled over England anTneaday night, and did greet aaddttiou al damage to the craps. Tile Begiiah and French. Ambassadors hiave made lecollettive demand upon the Sultan to sign the Suez Canal Com:elation, M. Vo»bard, a French Socialist leader, and five of his colleegues, have been srreated et Amiens for Ina itiug workmen to strike,. It is repacked utast the Klug of Abyssinia has emend his troops ou the Crean Table Lend, to reaiaat a possible Rail= invasion. The Lend= Times has come to the eon. duel= that B.ttellattot will work its own euro witaout any action on the part of Can- ada, A desppteh from Sofia nye Utica Fords• mud in recent a interview declared that he would never leave Dulgerie of his own tun card. It is reported that another Nihilist plot has been discovered in St. Petersburg, and twelve men and throe women. have been or meted. The aged French scientist Chevreul at - tanned lath ono hundred and second birthday on Tuesday, thus beating Sir Moses Monte. Bore's record. Premier Flcquet and Admiral Krantz aro greatly pleased with the recent naval. mauoanvree at Toulon, which were a perfect moose as an experiment in mobilization. A number of ovations were made an Sat• urday on Lord Clturioarde'a edits, the ten- ants resisting with guns, pit:hforke, boiling water, and other resources of modern civili- zetion. An English court has just deoided that railway servants cannot eject persona from trains who say they have lost their tickets, the only remedy being to sue the proton ger for breaoh of contract. A new sub•marine'boat has been construct ed in the French naval department which can dive beneath the largest iron -clad, at. tach torpedoes to ber side, and subsequent - 1y explode them by an electric wiro. The New York Times' London correspon• dent estimates that Europe will need to buy from 70,000,000 to 80,000,000 bushels of whent this year, and The Times thinks that the United Stara will be able to eapply a very large proportion of that quantity. STATISTICS. enee The pin factories on England, France, Holland, and Germany acre weld to turn out 77,000,000 pins daily. There are 621 newapa'era; printed in Ber- lin. -Fifty-four ate offia a1 paper's, 70- Poli - OW, 165 have toe de wit)z literature, science, and art, 217 are oomaiereial. and 30 religi- oue. ANDREW OA$t,EG E't MOM. Oat) year,.. ..'$1,500,000 00 One month,, 125,000 00 Onoweek..., 28840 01 Otte day, .. ,. ... . 4,120 85 One hour.. .. 343 40 One minure. .. fi 72. One second,,,,,„,,,,,,.,.- „ 95 This, thee, is Peoteotion'ak'et i --(Philadel- phia Record. The syetena of distributive co-operation bee been a great success in Great Britain, The U itsd Kingdom mol tsaaz 1,350 co- operative atorea, supplying micro than 920,. 000 members. Their sales amounted as more than $120.000:000 that year, and the greatest craving, the eight of tate icy, the profits shared reached nearly $15,1100,0.0. army, mswcenvripg and tiring of£ its guns Thr$ last sura repreaeete the annual saving in bloody earnest. After irritating Prance. now sereoted by dispensing with the 'profits with hire grata+toas brag about 46 0.10,000 of middlemen. Germans lying dead on toe le:031 debt before THE ruvE OF EVUOPE. Germany's Venom and. Anebltleste Emperor '^ severely Creticirede it becomes mere and more .evident that if war wines Prance is detarnained it shalt not be her fault. Premier Goblets reply to the lent insulting net, on the 3dassoceeh diffi- culty, sent by Premier Weird, of Italy, is most temperate and patient, so much so that Italy cannot continue ia her provocative coarse without alienating the sympateiee of all theindependent pxowere in Europe. The belief which is $antng ground that Biemarclt warned Griepi that be could pot rely on the support of the triply alliance if he provoked France aitlout cause strength- atetth acope of peace aroused by France'$ a. The real clanger to. European peaoeseems to be In the contest endeavor ot Germany's young, ambitions and ineepelde Emperor t get hireeelc` And iiia country 4444 trouble. Shotslt Iliamarek's esetraioing induence be removed, it seemed. certain that the new. rulerwouliaeon find a pretext to sat try his The Statistical Abstract for 1887, jus issued, gieeothe foliowiag interesting figures in regard to the achoo1a of the United, $mutes. In 1871-72 there were rte Ode couetry 15.- 828,847 c+til.frea of reboot age,of whim 7,479,656 were enrolled in the pnbilo seaoole. Theca recalls were taught by 81,309 mate and 124,180 female teachers towboat aggre- gate aalariee of n37,503,339 were paid. The total expenditure far the echoole that year Iva' $70.691.374. In 1834 S5 the aebeol population had iarcreaeed, to 17,764,638, mei the uumber of pupit.s enrolled in. the public schools to 11,401,601, The number of mele teeeltere was 109,032, and of .female 199 422, to whelp e.alerfes emanating to $73 932 052 were pa:ld, The, total eapendituree open the seboale far the latter year were $111,- 521,542 •.-•l.Publio Opinion, ZeGtu era in a recent article gives acres} stertlieg ,figures of French army expendi• tures ata the peat aeveateoa yore. The ".lqufdetion account for providing fertiti- cabana, munitions et war, ere, over and above the ordinary military budget, bee alreadyreaobed n44e,600,000, 4 seconder eupplementaryaccotint boa now been formed. of $74,000,000, and three years berme ailed of $124,000,000 will be needed, T__1 make° a taint of t.U11$,600,000 isi tR°etaty year' Besides this the taxpayers here to meet the ordinary military budget, wbie t lam ale= 1871 averaged fully $100,Q01,C00 Isar ane um, No wonder that urians are lxsrl. Sven the =vague productivity of France wind the eeonomlcsl h*bite of her people cannot forever hold out agasinat suela a strain. ata that, To spend mare than two and a ball billions for a war of revenge iu tweaty. Tease of peace Tuley be naaguibaeut; hut it iia utagnificant madness, The London carretpontlent of the blah "Times" professes to have useerteined the saleriea paid by the "Than" to its foreign correspondents de Biowitz, the Paris correspondent of the "Times," is pais) 80,- 020 Amine, or ;35,"200 per annum ; Mr. Lowe, at Berlin, has t:2, 5000; the Vtenee carre- upondeutauequel salary ; the correspondent at Rome £2,000, with rent of a residence Mr, Simpson, at St. Petersburg, the same. Even the lesser correspondents, who do not wire a dczan ora ball a dazia columns in the course of a twelvemoath, are ppeid on stales varying from £1,000 to ,tenor Diaz, at Arad• rid, down to £a:0 to liar Julius—a nanne whichl will be familiar to many in Dublin gaud more in Cork—who represents the "Times" In Bruecels, and so an to the mini- mum of £2330 paid Mr. Heinrich. at Christ- iana. This seems small, but seeing that the eorreepondenee wired or writen to feinting House /quart occurred only ;fifteen times throw hent 1887, he was fairly well paid for bins labours at the rate of nearly £17 per message. The correspondence budget of the Loudon "Times " salaries alone is nearly (:30,000 a year ($150,000), firing up is foot of conquereel territory, had a:lowed hie matte acs endanger the Luuders:t,ndiog of hie eopntry with :n,land. ' Ragland," this ailly imperial braggart is repeat:4 4, taavo said. „would be dead hilt for ber colonies. Thee t are only at tithed to lies by a thread. I will cat tttat thread, and Englaiad will die a death accel- erated by the ?poen of Liberalism." If the preceding are net an exact repric- dua tion of his words, kat Las said sametuiug at:fii.itr.t'y like it to stupidly interfere with tae work of hie advisers,, witoare laboring t t forward. German bet ereets of the asxpen eeof Eacletid on the Zanzibar coesat in New Guinea, South ulnen and elsewhere. 113 tae mount of his political bluuderitig :MS German Majesty buds titre far ine:cla meek launnility, oetmtatione prelee of hie uevtr•to- he fargetten father, whose every Isiah he - i's (114.. a3dmg,I d of hie ever to.be•remem bared grani1ather, 'whose great wont is angered by his grandsom nn contrast to the braggadocio ranee), of the grandean are the wards of ler William, written at important of hie life, and only made mitotic The worde of the old Emperor *Wapiti piety and modem' which dercendant mightpreatebly espy; In he writes ; "In years.now closing G<ad.'aa e haat eon poured cut over Inmate, and elconapansntea her for all elm bas auf• feral: $manly do 1 acknowledgetliisj)ivine fever uabich atiected me at my aids/need age ass the brieger,about of events which seem ala atimed to be a blessing to Prussia and to Germany. At this serious turning point et the year ruay the army in all its parte iac•ept my hearty thanlaa for the 'duvo tion and self-eaerafaee with which it obeyed my gall and conquered before my eyes, an experience for which I stammer out to God my humble thauke. May Qed'o blueing be withPrusein, and may lsruesleprove worthy of this Messy&, Nay my arta And his sue- coesors behold spelt a aecple and such an artny around them, and nay they be einem- spot and by thusly action carefully promote toe welfare and prosperity of both, and thus secure) to Pruesia the position which has been plainly eesignedto ber by Providence, May Gail in His gracewill it so. " Midnight, 66 67 lyierteter,' Attlee close of the war with I+ranee when he sees himself the mott powerful man on earth. las utt.ranece are the eamo a With a humble and thankful heartI enol God agrecowhiehhas foundueworthy to ecbieve such mighty tillage according to Ilia will. May this grace bo further accord. ed to us in banding up and extending re. united Germany, tete foundations of which only laevo been Isla,. and ,may peace be granted to ns to enjoyut humility thol.less. Inge which were won in hot and bloody bat - ties. Lord, Thy will be demo on earth oven as it .is in. Heaven. Amen. "Meitner." It is easy to imagine wbat the old war. rior'a feeling would bo could he behold his grandson, who baa never dere anytbinebut bragging, endangering his country's peace and malting himself generally obnoxious on the strength of tbo reputation of bis pro. no:eaaors and the army built up by them, What's in a Name. The name by which we know an article sometimes Rives very little idea of its character. Take the following list as an illustration : " 011 of turpentine " ie not oil, neither is ""oil of vitriol," nor "coal oil," nor kerosene. " Copperas "is an iron compound, and con- tains no copper. " Salta of lemon " have nothing to do with the fruit of the " Citrus limonnm," but is the extremely poisonous_ exalic acid. ""Carbolic: acid" its not an acid, but a phenol. "" Cob tlt" contains none of that metal, but arsenio. " Soda water" has no trace of soda, nor dons ""sulphuric ether" contain any sulphur. ""Sugar of lead" has no sugar, "" cream of tartar" has nothing of cream, nor "milk of lime" any milk. Oxygen means " the acid -makers," bub hydrogen is the essential element of all acids, and many acids contain no oxygen. ""Ger- man "Ger-man silver " contains no silver, and "blank lead" no lead. "Mosaic gold" is eimply a sulphide of tin. „ This list might readily be extended, both in chemistry' and other natural sciences, and it is only fair to state that these terms' all come from the older writers, andtare' giving. way to o more solentifio nomenclature. Drift': It' Was in a Dakota oourtrooni, and^the judge wound up hie'address to the jury as follows : "I don't deny that the prisoner done the shootin',, gentlemen, but, think of'the provocation. The corpse was partite' up bills for a Boston firm that said -" Do you wear pants ? And,. begosh, the pris'ner just riz up and he sez, sez he, ' No, sir I wear breeches 1 1 And, then he shot." Verdict, "Not Guilty." FOR AND ABOQT WOMEN.. LADY Fo* nESTOY S Canteens*. Lady Folkestone'sorchestra of girls is de. scribed as about the most lively digression from the conventional itiethwey that Lond=. bas known for many a year, and, "consider• lag sex, its musical achieveinepts ere worthy of All praise. The fair musiciaue belong te. the aristrooraey of birth, if not of art, and when their noble conductor trots them oat for charity's sweet sake, the show is well worth seeing and ]rearing." ,AinurcA',1 AIR$. Another .Arnerieenwife, dating from Poria, appears in Eagiisb print, bearing testimony regarding the mistime between American hnebande end wives. She protests age neb the American custom of husband and wife livingmucle apart and recites aoiueidle Wash- ington gossip of other days. She expresses her veritablebelief that there is not a single big city in the world which eontaipa as many worthless wives as Chicago, The lady owns; to 35 yearn of married life, and con- fesses that there h nothing more galling than lo see the airs manned by young and pretty American women to ward Hien of in- tellect and petition, AS SHE SAW IIEessr,$, Ina the memoirs of Prinee Ad= Czerto- rvekI, just published, hie wife, I'rinoeesa Elizaberh, thus deeerioes herself . "I was never handsome, but I have often beenprat- ty, and I have beentifat eye!) , and as all my ieelinge are reflected in them the expression on my face is always interesting, My com- plex -lea is whits enough to be almost bril- liant when I flash ; as ereneth forehead does riot make my fare *gig, end my casae eur.pleteee the symmetry of :tuy feetaree,. lily mouth la largo, any teeth: white, my smile amiable end the shape of my face a lr acOil oval. I have e:tauell .hair co rusks eta rza y and'becamieg heeddre;s. My'fgure a elegant, arty beet perhaps too thin my there is much greet) in ray anevesstenta.. I have en extreme desire to please and. am,. skillful in shoaling both my physical and mental qualities to the beat advantage. Though vain Arid ill•tcmpered, I am en - dewed with ouch tact that I never do any. thiny whiches dotat give pleasure," Qts. hands u g1 , lsut y, m feat aro =seining g arid. How vast and camplioatod is the problem which the United Statea has to eolvo in the aaaimilation of the whole communities of foreigners who immigrate yearly to its chorea may be inferred .from the statistics jest published for the seven months ending July 31st. The total mumbar of cmigrantu who camp to the United States was 337,125, of whom 113,000 came from Great Britain, 67,000 from Germany, 11,600 from Bobemia and Hungary, 25,000 from Russia, 59,000 from Sweden and Norway, 38,000 from Italy, 3,000 from Franco, 6.000 :from Danmark, and 4,000 from Poland. All these nationalities have to be educated into triumphing over their old-world prejudices before they can be converted into useful American citizens, Judging from the smallness of the emigration from Franco, the French must either be the moan happy and contented of the great European peoples, or the most destitute of the enterprise. Tho disadvantage of the increasing Italian immigration may be inferred when it is said that, according to the official atheistic!) of 1882, 54 per Dent, of the male Italian population could neither read nor write. Miss Alice Vickery, M.D., an English lady doctor, has been quoting various statis- tics to prove that France is the happiest country m Europe. She points out that while the surplus ot woman in Great Brit- ain and Germany amounts to 750,900 and 1,000,000 respectively, in France it isonly about 92,000. If a man had cited this foot as a reason why France should be happy, his reputation for gallantry might have suffered Dr. Vickery, however, proceeds to state that marriages are more prevalent in proportion' to the population in France than elsewhere, and this is of courae a very happy state of affairs. On the other hand, France has the lowest birth rate of all European countries, 23.8 to a thousand, against 31 for Great Britain and 38 for Germany. The avers go number of children in a French family is now 2.3, against 4.6 in England and Wales, 5.25 in Scotland, and 5.4 in Ireland. Ger- many has nearly 5 to a family. Franco has a greater proportion of grown-up persons than any other nation in Europe, the num- ber of. persons in each 10,000 between the ages. of 15 and 60 being, in France, 5 373 ;;'. in Holland, .4,984 ; in Sweden, 4,954;'in Great rBritain , 4,732; in the United States, 4.398.'' Framer bas the highest ayerage ages of the living, :31.06 years, against,.. Holiend, 27.76 ; Sweden, 20 66 ; Great. Britain, 26.5 ; the United States, 23.1. In France, out of every hundreds deaths, those of persons over the age of 60 are 36 ; in Switzerland, 34 ; England, 30 ; Belgium, 26 ; Wurtem- burg, 24 ; Prussia, 19 ; Austria, 17. NOTES. Sara Bernhardt ie gaining Beale and. Maas bought an apothecary a scale to keep the raoard, A Sedalia women who was dtsappeinted itt failing to receive a premien) onpertain articles which she exhibited at the county fair bundled theta up without ceremony and carried there home. This was contrary to the rule ef the arsaeels tion, but it wags b'antifulty etetaral A Muscatine woman went to aleep with a rmelon rind tied ou .her face to improve cmplexien. A burglar enteral tla oat *het night, saw the apparition in bed and wail ea frightened that he was paralyze ed, and was found in that condition in the morning. He has since begonia a raving maniac. Whirl and High Pressure. The children of this world having within the last fifty years found some new toys—to wit :.steam, electricity, telegraphs, tele- photea, tickers and other rapid transit ap paratus for mind and body—are playing too bard with them. There is a spectres of men- tal intoxication evolved out of all this "rush- ing things," which is even more subtle and deadly than that coming of alcohol. In this whirl and high presanre of bnainese there are those Who, in mind as well as body, are on the run from morning till night and every act of theirs, every epistle they write, every letter they shape with the pen is in the do- ing pushed and hurried in mind by the thought of the next, of many other pressing things which muse be done in a given time. There is no repose, no rest for the mind from morning till night, no time or incli- nation to dismiss thought or care if for ever so few minutes, and at last there is no capacity for so doing. This habit of mind grows into a fixed one. It leads away from precision. It leads away from exact - nese. It leads away from order or method. It does lead even brilliant intellects into a sort of helter skelter way of doing every- thing. Ie leads to forgetfulness, for the memory cannot make a Olean record when so much is forced on it. This babit of mind goes with its owner everywhere. It goes home with him. It goes to bed with him. et keeps away sleep It gives only an un- healthy, feverish sleep at bast to the body. It leads, and has led, to the insane asylum. But' if you owned the whole state of New York—lands, lots, houses rivers and all, and next the whole United States -lands, rooks, rivers, mountains, and' all, and last both continents, and, finally you held a bill of sale for. the *hole earth in your trousers pocket, and effort and strain and excitement in gaining it caused softeniug of the. brain, 'What 'au aggravating thing it veottld be fee you to be imprisoned in'.,axe in- iitne asylum you -owned yourself and guard- ed by your own hired' keepers 1—[Prentice Mulford in New York Star. The happiest man is the benevolent one, for he owns a stook in the happiness of all mankind. Great Fortunes. To what an extent America lana become the land of promise to men of enterprise, offer- ing them greater possibilities of wealth than any other country, some figure* recently giveu of the grcateat private fortunes is the world show. Ulu stated that the five rloheat persons in the world are Mr, Jay Gould, Ida, J. W. Mackay, Ltrd Rothe - child, the head, cf the Englhah branch of the house of Rothschild, b.1r, George Van- derbilt and Senator J. P. Jones, Of these, all. but Lord Rothschild are Americana, and their fortunes were accumulated in this country. Mr, Goold began his career as a pedler of mapa,and acquired hie immense fortune in railways and speculations connected wlth them. The Vanderbilt fortune was also chiefly acquired in railways, while Moore. Mackay and Jones acquired theirs, for the moat part, in mining. The Rothschild wealth was accumulated. more slowly than were these colossal Ameri. eau fortunes. The Rothschild family bas banking.houses in Germany, Austria, France and England. A11 rte members of the name are descended from Anselm Moses Bauer, a Jewiab dolor in curiosities and old medals, who kept a shop in the Juden- gesse, or Jewish quarter, of Frankfort. For a sign he used a red tablet, or shield, and. from this his house derived the name of Rothschild,which means red shield. Anselm Moses's son, Mayer Anselm, who was born in the year 1743, was intended for the Jewish priesthood, but became a banker and broker instead. Hewes entrusted with great sums of money, and, while taking care of them faithfuly, used his opportuni- ties to acquire a great fortunefor that time. One of his five sons, Nathan, went to Lon- don, established a house there, and became the leader of English finance. The Court of Austria made him a baron, but he never made nee of the title. On one occasion, however, he used it as the subject of a jest. Happening to meet the French Baron de Montmorency, who, on account of the an- tiquity of his title, was called the "first Christian baron," Rothschild said to him : "1 suppose, sir, that I am just your equal." "How is that, pray 1" asked the French nobleman. "Because you are the 'first Christian baron,' and I am positively the first Jewish baron 1" ` The present head of the house, Lord Rothschild, is really the first person of the Jewish faith who was ennobled by the Brit- ish Government. He was elevated to the peerage in 1885 by Mr. Gladstone. Baron Nathan's bearing toward the po- tentates who wanted to borrow money of him was the reverse of obsequious. On one occasion a prince, belonging to some petty German reigning family, who called on him, was astonished to see Rothschild go on writ- ing a letter after he had entered the room. " Do you know, sir, who I am 1" asked the pritce " Yes, I have just been told. I will be at your 'service in a moment. 1i. the mean- time, pray take a chair." "But, sir, I am the Prince von X-- 1" " Very well. Take two chairs then I" The Rothechild's is not by any means the only vast fortune in England. Three English noblemen, the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke. of Northumberland and the Marquia of Bute, are included in the list of the twelve riohest men in the world. Two other English noble- men, the Duke of Bucoleugh and the Mar- quis of Breadalbane, poems ;landed estates of vast extent.