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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-9-27, Page 3NEWS OF THE DAY, ¢ANADtAN. Hon, Edward Blake's health is reported much better. Godericlt; ie contemplating the letrodue. tion of electric lighting. A Kingetonian hat givaa $125 to meet the, expenses of a Salvation. Army of icer to, India, Potatoes are se p'entitel en South li,e*ex that it is difficult to obtain a market for them at any price. An Indian has killed six out of a herd of seven buffele which he email at tbe Red Deer Forks, in the Northwest. Hon, Edward. Illasee has given ;$3,000 for sebolarehips in the Department el _Politica.* Science in Toronto University. The Windsor Society of the Home of tate Friendless will commence the erection of a fine building be Windsor immediately. Margaret Cunningham, a violent lunati in Cornwall gaol, died on Thnrsdaymorning, the result of a perawtent refusal to take food. The Dominion Government has vetoed the Act passed by the Qaebeo Legislature constituting a Dietrfct blagietrates" Court at Montreal. A determined effort will be made next ewe cion of the Dominion Parliament to have c+ num put in the estimates for the deepening of Rideau canal, The Montreal friends of the late Thome White iatead erecting awitcliovwtar We MOM - in St. GaorgQ a el.ureh, whieh he nosed, ed during Iiia life. The tabour congress le session in London pledgee itself to support any praetleal legis• ietion tending to rodooa the oonsurttptien of entc=icsting 'liquors. While out boetinf; on the St. Lawrene near Ganaatque, on Met:day, Mrs. Pierre - pont Morgan, of New York, lest jewels in the river valued at $lfi,000. The emoturtecollected by the vagieua o ,n• fereuoea for Methodist miaelone dudes the hast year aggregated nearly $220,00, To• roato dtatriee contributing 4'21,ta97. C enmatancea are awakening a suapiQion that Jerry Nickerson, of Sarnia, who was supposed to have been killed by a Grand Trunk trace et Iiapeer, hlieh,, fiefs murder ed. Wm. O'Cpunor, of Terento, le new ebam, pion oarsman of Asnertva, John Teemer 2 1►ieKeeaport, haviug forfeited theebatnpiou- ship by default le not aczepting O'Cousuor'a ebaUenge.. It is understood that the Termite poneet autboritiea have cabled. to Scotland hard to arrest G ideoa Israel Barnett, who is ucw in England, for complicity inthe wrecking of the Central Bank, The steamer Ballo, of theNorth•Weaatern Traneportatiou Company, ran ashore during Friday's gale on Elia leland, near Clapper. ton Inland, The captain at once filled her hold with water to keep her from pounds ing. A windier from the States, calling him. self Rev, M. C. Tallman, of Leakage, sun. oeeded in getting a L ingstvn tailor to ea. dome a bogie note ,fcr $300, whieh be cash- ed. and then took his departure to the other aide. Tho agreement entered into between the City and University of Toronto in regard to the Queen's perk is that the City shall have a permanent lease of the park on condition tbat they endow two chairs at '3,000 each and maintain the parks and drives, and at a special mooting of the City Caution on Satarday the agreement between the then vanity and City was ratified without din mien, Tenders for the new city hail and court•houao were also accepted. eukraeeen. It is estimated that eighty persona loot their' lives in the recenb West India burr*.' cane. The Pope, assisted by Abbot Peaet to, is writing a history of Berne in the Middle Ages. The Queen its settled et Belmoral,, where elle will remain till the third week us Nov ember, Qaeea Natalie, for the sake of her ace, is seeking a reconciliation with her husband, M. de lesseps feels confident Thai ten locks of the 1?eumea canal will be completed by 1690, It is reported that Kivg Vilma intends to divorce himself by edict,aanctroned by the Skupteehina, Two eerthquake cheeks have occurred at Ventm a on the "Corinthian gulf, doing: great damage. Capt, T,ugard'a Afrian takes 'xpeditfoa had a fight with Arab alava•dealere in the Nyanza district, The "North German Gazette" denies tbat Prince Bisreark intends to resign ea Minis- ter of Commerce, The London Times is slow to believe the glowing eflieial reports of the great Mae- aterzio Bever basin, A Franco Ruasean eonapausy has been formed to Unita the Bleck Sea, and tbe e.. pieta Sea by a canal. ee leen Icl'atalle's twontynintit birthday passed unnotfeed in Belgrade en Friday, by ling Milan"% ordera, FeeeenEentiaa company baa been formed to cvuatruot a canal between the tad Caspian Sects, tnperor impending visit to. Remo is eaualafi intense annoyattee and irritation at the Vatican, Baron Oppeuhelm of Coho$ae, has eub ribed 14,0'0 u arks to the fund fpr the in Boy relief escpedittere It is reported that King Leopold ba; of.. tared the Pepe a residence In Belgium in the avert et bis leaving Roum betrotbel of the Pdneeea Sept*, ter ref Emperor William, and, the Grown ince ei Greece, fs announced.. is reported that Bishop O'Dwyer, hith- erto hostile to Reale Rule, bats declared bleaself ht favor of that movement,. Ex-1"aapresa V]eteriaa expecte to leave Raril= in about a fortnight to spend sQuta Haute with the gee= at Theirnorel.: Coffee asivan,ced in Romberg last week from about 111 eetata to over rig and the "huUa " netted 'nearly $1Q,0041.131,0, There have bean eoatineal rain; through. clot the eastern pardon of Germany, and several districts in Silesia are Uoode i. The British warship Pyladea, which, eer- ie* same of the longest range guns in the vy, fa as 1p repeat to Montreal harbour. O$A,Roll'S SEOQ1T? VISIT. or ono. taoats, (In the eraeoo-Roman mythology Charon wan the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across the river Styx. Beck passenger paid an obelus, a small coin of about two cease value, Mercury or Rernrea, among ether date, was the herald of Jupiter, acid the ooninctor of the shades to, the Welke of the ricer Styx, The Greek writer, ,44aci!ur, who was born about 120 A. A., in one of his inimitable prose dialogues, represents Charon as oomiug up to earth for a aiay'a holiday. Ueroury finds frim laughing because as the had fallen from a roof and killed a man whobad just accepted an levitation to dinner- Charon persuades ]~fercury to show bin round. The m,ouateino, Pelton, Ossa and Ciywpee are piled oa one another, and from, that vantage ground the two view the world of men and pass conanaentathereon. Saab was Caaroe's first Visit. Bo, there 1 Cbaron—glad to see yea ---shake, old fellow—hors d'ye de'; tip again, to look abont you and, this world of men to view 2 W eU i how's baatnoss 2 hewn the ferry doee the Uttle 'bolas CUnkfng it his coffer', keep yea all el ie with inecua?` Did the aboders in tearful oherns vox your philosophic mind, Weepi'gg as they oresaed the river for ibe jays they'd left behind' So, owner did erten old PIetol' grantthe ere poor born yen craved. Qese more da7'a inveacivetion why the shadows time bebaved. What 1 04 Nisar -Eyes 1 don'* you know me. 2 non remember Mabee 4 1 Mercury, wile reeked Jens, anger jest ee show you all the :fan, Mercury the psi rhegoyos 2asZr*po#pee spirit guide, Spirit ¢ricerrather, erstwhile to the eevco fold Stygian tide. Sao of lerele4, de give that grizz".ed mrd of enure a pall, eon loge straggling Trine te.sether; don't stand stades like a fool, Thiel; of One e■ Q:yaipss, P.lt.n on Qsea gaited,, Int that for off golden spring ttaie. mut of me, trail Main's And, Hoar 1 sae elite beaide you, sirawrnaa at the woedrowri %show, Pointing downward sad cava reeating on the mentkiae Come below, Es ba, Iran I Coe 1 laugh any hearty, et you laughed that day of yore,, When the the to entexpeet.d, hurled a shale, to Patton shore, Well, by Jupiter, 0 Heinen, lien's 444413r1/641 me, no mistake, But ,'rn awtal�glad to see ;en, tooth fer old a cepiatetanpe sake And because tut badly rattled -ehade with en aathraatla cough. Hb Hardly more so tags d dace s heves Altered. I bad my last day et You yeuraelf, my It le Helsiraee, yon have changed like all the teat, Wherens your�cap, year video sandals, where your oteff with snaky' Ores 1144 the tthunderac dlaob+rged you for eine new audacivtws theft 1 Die you try to crib hie aerie, or corns bolt of aiighteat heft' Se yen too,§ front one Qlympue did he kick rill into Mr, And did you lope the beublea in the downward drop from there'.? 0, my liermoe, do eat leave are, '$a ram old oompeauioa bege, ]f you de, he's done for, really, lost et ewe as egg; aro eggs--- That's a prase I cnee heard a?,taUered by a nervone shade called Browse, When the beat wan overcrowded ,and be thought we'd caro go down. 411 tillage nhangc, my sample Char, warthleea thluga and thine of price, Tempers, you kon, now, metuntur et mnueamxr xrt *Ura, Cloud•ooatpelling Jove tno longer sheathe Olympus with ilia nod, Ae a deity, We nowhere, a di eredtted old freed, All these mildewed *meg Golestiele, all but me, nare log muco dead, Leek et adaptation kil act sheet, their en ironueen one . a tied, Ox eyed hent, Apltrod;te, glum Hip. m tate, pug -wised P , Maid bttnerva, dauap Poseidon. 'auks Appel°, sage Dian, All are gone, and yours, my +Charon, yours; this sena untoward fate, If youreelf to new nenditiona you minuet aroaatmodate. f'co dean: that, Al thtuga have altered, I hays managed to progress, Arad dove"s herald now blooms redtaut as a reeaaber of the Preva, I fit in like ball and eoeket, like a bo'tle and its crick, l'ua oturiisc€euee reporting tar the Resler :er of New York. So mime on, ray friend, I'm with you; Bloss you, yea, I'll See you Betty re—very ; bat, no resister, dile will snake an interview, I'll just take and lotroduoo you to old Bandit, aur Odra, Snell a {".scoop" ran thin wilt be will tiekle lea praat all belief, But, any friend, as first eeaeutlet, you mint have a shave, and then A 'bath will make you sweater, top, for intareourae Zahir men. Yea, and ton see, here's; a teller who will rig you out in .style, For where worth gore bat a furlenv, geed appearance gone a mile, Dtriag Augmart the English imports In. oreaxed 010,000, and the exporta tuereased l 4 O,C00, as compared wftie Anomie 1 S7. The Servian ladtee generally synpathtze with Queen Natalie, and nay Chet the cameo of her domestic trouble ase the jealousy of her husband. Twelve hundred spinners at Bolton have sttruck against the introduction of a now system at weighing cotton, and the strike will likely epread. At tbo Trades Congress at Bradford a re- volution was paused Waring the exclaaion front Eoglaad of semi•peuper immigrants unless they aro 'killed workers, On Taesdey night the Italian snail ran in- to the Perls express, which. was derailed, freer D j.n, and a bad wreck occurred, in whieh tnirty porous lost their Uvea, The horribly mutilated body of a lewd woman was found .in the 'yard of a aummor'' lodging house in. Spitaiftolde, London, on Saturdsy morning, making the fourth mur- der of a aalmllar character committedrecently and evidently the work of a lunette. It is announced that the Immigration treaty between Cr]ne and the United States has been rejected by the Chinese Govern. meat, and owing to the action of the Amer" can Minister noting has occurred in Canton andhis official reeldenuo was attacked. Ur. Miobael. Devitt made a very intern. potato speech at Kuockaroo on Sunday, is the course of whieh ho said that unless the Liberals did something soon to prevent evic- tions in Ireland, the Irish would bo compell- ed to adopt unconstitutional methods of dealing with licensed agents of cruelty. Tho British barque Gylife has arrived at Queenstown- The captain tells a different rtory to that narrated by some of his crew. who wore rescued at sea and taken to New York. The captain says instead of being guilty of • scuttling the ship as the men state, the Bailors mutinied and left the ship with the ceptain and mate on beard. Two business blocks in San Francisco were burned yesterday ; loss, $1,250,000. An attempt leas been made to steal the body of Hugh M. Brooks from the cemetery, Tho projectors of the Hudscn River tun - vol aro said to have procured capital in England. Mrs. Harriet Beecher -Stowe is aufferiue from subacute meningitis, and' is not ex- pected to live. Front prevailed Wednesday night through- out New Hampshire on low lauds, and the vines were aeverley injured. Mayor Hewitt, of New York, the other day issued an appeal ro the public for aid for the yellow fever sufferers.. Early frosts and heavy rains are doing great damage to the tobacco and corn crops in different sections of the States. The third annual convention of Christian Workers of the United States and Canada will be held in Detroit in November. The heavy purchase of United States bonds last week caused the treasury surplus to fall from to $110,000,00010 5103,950,000. A wheat expert from Chicago *sat present inspecting the wheat crop of Manitoba with a view of making a report to the Chicago Board of Trade. The question as to whether the St Clair Flats canal is built through America, or Canadian waters is occupying a good deal of official attention in Washington. (Yellow fever continues to increase in Jacksonville, Fla., and as business has been suspended, the Citizens' Association is mak. ing an appeal for outside assistance. The Acting Secretary of War has sent a message to Congress recommending that the use and administration of the St. Clair canal be placed entirely under the Secretary of War. The telegraph operators along the line of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway are notified to leave the Railway Telegraphers' Union or vacate their positions. There is a suspicion in some quarters of Washington that not only the St. Clair Flats canal, but that the river at Amherstburg and thej Sault Ste. Marie canal run in part through Canadian territory. rOREto r. The Parnelld efence fund in Ireland now amounts to £1,824. Prince Bismarck has recovered, and takes daily exercise in the open air. The Parnell defence fund is being very poorly supported in England. The Zanzibar natves will resist the landing of any white people on their coast. Prince Jerome. Napoleon has refused all offers' of conciliation from Prince Victor. Persia's Divorce Laws. In Persia, as in Turkey, if a husband wishes a divorce from his wife all he has to do is to order her out of the house. As a check up. n the free use cf this arl ibeary proceeniog, however, the Perelans have cen- stitated a very carious and ingenious cus- tom. While the Mohammedan laws make it neo easy for a husband to put away his wife, 11 secures to her all her own property. Under no consideration can the husband de- prive the wife of her own property. As a precaution against divorce, then, the hus- band in the marriage contract is usually required to promise a conaiderable sum of money as a wedding gift to his bride. Th is money is nt t f nthcomiogg at the wedding nor expected, but it is plao ed to the wife's credit as a debt owed to her by the husband. AB in case of divorce this money would have to be paid over, the amount is usally made so large that it is virtually beyond the hus• band's means. In that case divorce to him would mean financial ruin ; and as a Persian's pocket is the most susceptible part about him, it follows that there is no divorce, Owing to this ingenious arrangement, al- though a mere angry order to be gone is a legal divorce, there are fewer divorces in Persia then in the United States, A man is not to be known by how much money he has, but by what that money is worth to him. You must prb your hand into a man's heart to find out how much he is worth, not into his pocket. Some days seem to be characterized by some single sense. There are head•days, heart -days, there are eye -days and ear. days and promiscuous days, in which de- licious sensations of pleasure at life in general predominate. r4 There, now, Cllaros, you look deceit, neither eyes nor nose afflict, Have a soda, then we'll toddle over arid find Benedlot, After that we'll have some dinner, than I'll show yea through the town, Awl then once more we'll go aloft and do some hooking down. Yon aro civfl, Normos—very ; yeu give orders, I'11. obey, .811 these modern .Improvements unit me nicely, .I nano say. Bat now, teU mu—what's a "drummar2"--I have never understood, Yea, and by the bye,this aloe _you *suet toll roe—what's a "dude?' For ono day I ferrieover 'trade with such ontlasediek tongue, That it swept Ionise bit shoulder, and right o'er the gunwale hung, Then ilia ahoeks were jaat prodigious, and of quite a beauty hue, Ho wild he'd been a drummer" and had carried ell end glue, Ho asked me if I'd ever seen the leteeb thing in beats, Which a friend of Ilia lied patented, ono Jeremiah Oates ; It bad the cleotrio motor,.was n lovely kind of goods, And bad lockers, where, if needful, I could pack away the "dudes,'. Now what's electric motor 2 What's a drummer! What aro dudes At your leisure you can toil nit if you've seen that kind of goods. Certainly .1 with ploaaare, Charon; not jest now, tbough; later on. We've enough on hand at present; come away; wo mnat bo gone. • There 1 that's over ; as I told you Ben'diot's tinkled all to bite, This thing's bound to bo the biggest of my manifold big hits. So in headlines will the Moller blazon forth my Charon's name, Immortality conferring, deathless, honour fadeless fame. How would this sound, for example—IIaite :manic HADES —in hold typo v Then, below, of somewhat smaller, leas uncompromising stripe, —Great Pluto's Famous Ferryman, Old Charon, of the Styx, Has Como Earthward On A Jaunt From Tartarean Bailiwicks 's -- And. now this trioyolo we'll mount; tenth this buttou ; there wo go— Driven by cleotrio motor—aixty miles an hour is slow. Wait until we've cleared tho city, then .I'11 let her out a bit, As a substitute for sandals, not so very bad, is it 2 Electricity 1 my Charon, that gives wings to modern feet, Viewless as winds, than cbariot steeds of Helios * more fleet. Here we are, jump cub and help me to inflate this small balloon, No need of mountains nowadays, nor of incantations' croon, There, all's ready, wait a minute, this machine of ours I'li hide, Now, step in, I let her go—thus upward, birdlike, slow we glide. And now we're high enough, I think, what do you say 2 will it do 2 If you can't see jest quite clearly, try three glasses—how's the view! Why, my Hermes, thte is splendid, all I could expect and more, This is ever so much nicer than the way we did before, I do so admire the motion, something quite unique ; although If I wasn't used to boating, I'd feel sickish, don't yon know ; What a panorama, Hermes 1 what a grand, thrice glorious show 1 I don't wonder that the shadows hate jest awfully to go. Mighty mountains ! noble rivers ! lakes I—like oceans snfras dig, Really, friend, I had no notion that the .world was half so big, Bat It's all so novel, Hermes, all quite new to me I vow, I have never I'm quite certain, seen this landscape until now. No you never have, dear Charon ; you ne'er said a thing more true, This, if wholly freak no longer, is yet new enough to you, This is that great America, whereof you've doubtless heard From obliging shades some rumours in the regions which you guard. Look there where broad S. Lawrence rolls his burdens to tbe deep Past the Royal Monate proud glory and Quebec's historic steep, There the mighty Miseissippl labours southward to the sea, Ard northward there Mackenzie's undisturbed sublimity, While in the sunlight glinting there, like a band of burnished gold, You may see, far south, the Amazon's vast lineaments unfold, Then the lakes !—those giant mirrorswhere the gods themselves might scan, Ontario—Superior—Huron—Erie—Michigan. g Yea ! on that landscape feast your eyes, thou boatman of the Styx, For Demosthenes of Athens ne'er saw nobler from the Pnyx. t Down yonder stately Hudson flews between pictorial shores, Andthere's far•famed Niagara just listen, how he roars! . • ° L'Esvors. The Ferryman's impressions of "the Falls " will neer be known By the context what they "might have been" has possibly been shown— For something must have happened in those regions of the air, Mysteriously tragic—such things happen everywhere. The omniscient reporter was found dead on the sea shore. Bub of Charon to the Hustler cometh tidings nevermore. —The Week. Street in Cairo; d recent traveller in Egypt has called it Vibe land of maitre -steel Tho name is ape propriate, for two civilizatluus are there redo by side, Tho ruins: of magnificent temples, built of stoma gearried under the lesh of the Pharaohs, wonderful statuary and the remains of edifices of naegnaled grandeur, stand there in sharp aontraae with the mean, almost egaalyd, erections of a race al circa],, able of appreeiating the beauty of the Ancients edifices as they are of oonetructtng them. The traveler Soda at d:ffisnit to realize, aa. he looks upon the people and the Pities sank fa lazy indsfi'erence to all but the wants of the hour, that Egyptwes once mighty among tee ruling natier= of tbe world. Especially in Canto, the °vital of Egypt, is the eon. treat nonipiceons, There the impoaruggrain deur of the achievements et bygone generae tions ie close proximity to the tawdry work of modern tltnes,. 'readers the letter stili more contemptible. The elty of Cairo covers about three Nears ranee and ib surrounded by a Wal4, Taantafl *gabs, the former Khedive, spent enormous, annus in beautifying the city lie- OOraing to hes notions. New streets were opened, gorgeona banally; were erected, and a syatain of gas mains laid down. Yet even thane modern improvements oould not make Cairo a modern city. The antipathies of race and religion existlug emong ter people, rendered it unsafe to open the city to tree Intercourse, The gnartere inhabited re- epectively by Cbrlaceens, Jows Turks, ete.,, are still separated by; huge getee, at which. guard of soldier* is placed every night„ To get an Hea of the oily and aurr+ouodtng Oeuntry, t<4. it. whole, it fa only neee_saary* tra emend to the anratnit of the citadel, and it fa then w read oat be€ore the "predator Rice a map, no following le s4 graphic deserip. ion of the aocno a* described by 1)r. Jana** radion ; "'1 hat 'saver gleam. winding down aur left le the Nile, whose course ben been geographical enigma of all centuries, minuet overiiaer redeems from the a narrow ribbon of fertility, which curithed the mightiest empires. and ooatbinecl Mysteries .and b,arteeeenee uteri to wureblp ie in nee of the eariiext oda loflweutit.l ft -110)115 of mankind.' ' sad tate river, beneath tbe sands of :o Libyan desert, lie the burled rules of cleat Memphis, where the prostrate solos• l statue et R.,aiesea IL, like some giant guard asleep at hie post, hos been an duty for t'srse IlioosQaf *lunars,, A little to the north, and within an eat marriage drive of tb rnono1net , rise the great Pyramids, the largest asset eldea;, iaarks of raaa>. SP wee ere they, dant though they have been tee - meetly awl as (reunite ter pel.easos ford. el3oae and leo saes, they are net frern his alietatice vialbey diminished, ,Awned .tem are t.a br rand tetr,p°,r-a bit which are uriod the seems of rear.. test cut .. ity, arhich the Sphinx watches with his ro lips, side of the river lies ties either!) Old Cairo, by meny believed to nylon meotiuued in the drat Epee° r, rind certainly that Babylon to Abe refers, and whose old Boman rt is atil1viilble above than debbrio of two svttaand ysars. Directly before cm is we look north frons the citadel 1 es Cairo properTho city was fotwded by tbe ]fatemittt price** in II J A. D. Tim pplausit Man, ex' miser, being tben asoandane, they asuted tate city Bt. Kaherah, from which tee pretreat women. dation, Chits is derived The forest of minarets and donees, houses sad totate,. marks every generation *Ince. A natural division of the city would be into two sections, the one of the dead, the other of the living; Inc largo diatrlcta of it are given up to tombs. Mousy of thea) aro really mem-oriel mosques. in whieh lie the bodies of theCellpbs andMarnelukeprincess ,Her and there is a rich man's tomb, en the window of which is a running stream of water and %cup, that the thirsty tatty drink and bleu tlio memory of the departed. Mott of the tombs are uuiightlyslaba or plastered moundsehardly distinguishable in color from tho deep duan which, unlike our;groon grass, glares around them. Those cemeteries ate tricot Tophots of filth, the lair of mangy ora and ls. %red men, The city of til) by ing is majestic from a diistanee, with its homes of nearly four hundred thousand neo• ple, and its four hundred mosques. when we descendinto it we find 11 com- paotevith as :much rqualor and misery an can bo found elsewhere within the acme limits on tbo globe. u Milk and Butter Trees. The rich and little-known vegetation of Upper Senegal and Upper Niger includes cuxions forest specimens, whose 'ruin or sap furnishes men with fond prodncts analogous to milk and butter. In the first place, we may mention a sort of oak called the karite. This tree bears fruit somewhat like that of the horse -chestnut tree, having a white, aompaet flesh. These nuts, dried fn a fnrn ace and then decorticated, are crushed and powdered, and the resulting pastry flour is put into cold water. This forms a white substance of buttery aspect, which rises to the surface of the liquid, and which, beaten and pressed, constitutes a sort of butter whieh the natives use ae a food. Comman- der Gallleai, who has studied this substance and its production in situ, considers i6 very nourishing, and thinks that it might also be need in making soaps and candles analogous to those manufactured from paraffins. In Venezuela, flee karite has a vegetable competitor in a tree of another species, the tubayba. In this case, it is the abundant lacteous sap of the tree that is utilized. This is collected by the natives by simply making an incision In the bark. According to explorers, the milk of this tree is laity, bas an agreeable odor, and is nutritive. Perhaps the most remarkable of these milk trees is found in the forest of British Gui- ana. The pith and bark of this tree con- tain so large a quantity of sap that the least incision made in the surface caused the valuable liquid to flow. The natives hold it in high esteem es a food. This product, called hyahya, not only resembles milk in appearance, but also in unotuousness and taste. * One of the three judges of Hades. + The King of the lower world. $ A winged cap, winged sandals, and a staff with two serpents entwined about it, were Mercury's insignia of office. § Jove, in a fit of anger, once kicked Valoan out of Olympus. He fell on the island of ])amuos, and was lame ever afterwards. ' The God of, the Sun. t An Athenian place of popular assembly from which a splendid view of Grecian land - scene and architecture could be had. Demosthenes in his orations against Philip, took advantage of this to make strong appeals to the patriotism of the people. The provisional committee appointed to enquire into the advisability of building a ship canal between Liverpool and Birming- ham has reported in favor of the project. Critic—" The court painter, Borstt, has been so overrun by the dealers that he has been obliged to institute a reception room." Artist—"That is nothing at all. The deal- ers rnn after me so many at once and fight so at the stairs each to get up first, ;that not one of them has yet to the top got."