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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-10-25, Page 6senewistmeweeieweemetemeetwo T,64,. GROWING 111 °MON, ,wee lemma ot New lanierprise tn. ibut • B r Dorm nee It tonne to be a matter of course thet there, to stautl ad the hring oinong the dead, idlarlitho hos to write upon. eater eubjeet iota meek with their ire.* Manny green the &whir begin by, toitawog epee every sew, dreary bereness of their 'blighted brethrem jet* in the world eaceet the cute en Welt Bat in a sheltered. hollow beneath u$ be ha4 to write. Oa thispriaciole I nweelf, eue taerohlY ledge notoh of coffee!, which having gone ell the wayoue Chylcnforthe rem5 b4v4 etreeWed the destreyer, and e 20 xpre44 trapeae of examtnine the mewing "ere 8m3g Qt TAtkat oeolies—about itheem, includbm, women rued children—are engaged io " pickleg." Oae of their num- ber cerriee on his back huge laesket, into which the others heep emptylug the ooffee berrleis from the smell panolere sung et leaving the long ham roweta sapless ohm eration, As hope it will be next week setiennint GAUNTLY OP Like my word for it, ell Ceylon will bay endwise perspective, like an Array of ewe. gone inth tea growing in another year e taus. And that uethiug might wanting to two, and real Oh:melees' will be as wel melee Wife grim lactate eoroOlete, the etiprice /mown ia the English market 44 'Rawer Valley' itself. By the bye, that remold of the vest had filtered a few plante bore seed me that I mustn't let you go away withou eample of it." And be tripe perfeet *Melt of neatly poked lealapoande a tea, compactly don up 14 ar-tight leaden wrappers, lie Awai ing our acceptance. It is hind to refire what 44 freely offered, aa ea eta pr atom in, itself, bet -the necessity of on portmanteau apiece has AO taw, Auld w can oolit accept three out of the twelve, " now," ear our obligiug best, lee ing the way to the further end a the buil log, 41 rra gang to sheer you, by way of appropriate wind up, wbat I don't thi you'll ever itee again in them pazte—the method et preparmg coffee," In e desk, corner about two feet below the genera ley - gong, ire ----------- t, come, own t el of the deer we fled * long narrow stone Beatteet by, etotas to a spiritk" fadtion tatty w4tb few inehea of wider in it, in whith. prop/aims more plainly thee wbiehia baltdczen here-lin:and netivea are werdietheir conecionsuese thee Wing raffia' altiaellioiti about like Indian peasants tread - raga le over, end, that they may lie every "g 4 witteP""i ezeePt that in thb eme and preperetion of the famous Cingelete tem have &milted everytbing Om in the island without ever mentienieg its tea *Pali - I do not filid, however, that I reliatt a cup et tee ;my the mine 4OW th4t I kcOOW „ amtit its manufacture than I dia when R weir sides ; and the group ef dusky tacos, was present to my Wed may aa mysteri,IwItlte zurbeno, Azia long brown limbs, room cue pewetery stuff that cue from China iitgaemelesely to arid fro among tbe green queer boxes covered with ggeree nete tbeileavea and bright emolett burble ba yen. dolls in 3 tey ehop„ and was semeternee waenildetureswee effect. Bet every one to of the and 44r4etinitee green wIthoat :my apozwent he reason. -While I W44 mode:lug the promse I re - nada myna of nething GO mueh ae one them Oreedful irnaroctive beelis" beloved 'DIE GREAT Rim= To Goi one, that ima mapped, and accepted its services for tbe duty, The passenger an commodation was ruthleseli, torn out and Instal, a the earsest steamship laver Con. three great tanks were bui t in the fore, •strutted—From the very Reatnatng the vessel was einencey Red the Owners I.ost Money, middle and aft holds from fifty to piety feet m diameter, and the4,000 tone of cable mils were placed in taezn. In July, 1865. the Great Eestern atearned out of Valenti.; on Aug. 2 the cable snapped, on account of the strain imposed, on la and sank 2,000 fathoms dome ne64 miles front Ireland. For a week, with a grapuel and a dveonile rope, the lase cable WS$ dredged for, but un- successfully, and all the available apparatus for dragging with Whig been either broken or lost in the attempt, tbe Great Eestern returned to England. footing Omen all iM 4,030 tone of cable at the bottom a the Adamtic. In July, 1806, she 4et forth Again with a new cable, and itecompanied by three emriliary ateansees. 04 the 27th the reached Newionialand, having succeed- ed in rejoieting America and "the old country" by electric wire. TWA good work done, the Great Etstern up at Heart's Content till the net sommer, when, pro. ceetliug to michAtlantio, 'aim dredged for 4 Utile more than two weeks for the formert ly loot celiac, and had at length the luck, after mow ellen of fishing it up. Joining the recovered end to the portion, in her hold, the great vessel steamed back, and. by Sept. 6, 1866, lea etretched her mond gelato from Ireland to Newfoundland. risen es A SUQW SUM. These cables laid, the wizens of the Great Emit -era were agein in the sed coaditiou of havinga gigantio Wainer on their halide, which, tot the honer of two evile, they mut perforce et -militant in idlenees. In 1867 a tarty of epeculators came to their MORO with a eche= of refitting Brit:tors stem. :dap as a pastiengericerrying Tema, iota employing her to convey visitors to the Perla IntereAtionel Expiation from New York to Havre and back again. At greed coat the traueforination wets effeeted, bite the orowd visitore that tied laeen expected to cross the Atlantile in the big eteamship did mit put in tUA appeereMei Awl neither profit for the speculatere nor pee? for the widen, or englucere wee realiziel. 1u the evil fortunee at the Great Eastern there woe a break dawn when. in 18U8, the ctible laying cetapiew that bed formerly borrowed her took ;he vessel over for ferther proaeoution of the work in whigh elle had beau Moue tango were SACO ?MIS nein by oar fethers, in whittle mine unfortunate sees° a the %Tea' tolte It tolthe. thity are treeding coffee berries instead, Knell Inv iti mereilmay cateehieed right in But kiri W. gees by thie game with ouly in order to Waelk etr the inner bit* wimp ttio maddit a wit btentititt (tt tient awl, a few paip!og weeds ce advic eed eueoar. aofteneil hy water, time leavinti the smooth 1 before beteg allowed to begin breakdeet eemelit, :or the real beeinein of toe deo creern-colored been vrithin re'sady fur deist fOresp;41,g thernauufoduro everythiuIlea be elbow of the ridge. be t0 two dere expesitre to the sun which is the oat he pets tate hie moitewthe beee,a, tire which the teehidentetioos lergim IL -re the au*„1 stdde at the Proms- Mr. W. °Pow mama, tee tee" tee onset the beceawiew la picking tie bei eg conducted in the same way 4 u14_ 4, de" a4c1 shows 4,6 eever41.1 sheets a reguier order. 'rim mow p-rfe,ct iratetwe ttot there ere at leaat titre times as maw omitting Out:Tread t29 ground la an open of this st; it oitg whieh 1 ever eriteunt. hditdd engagell in it, 414 the' briskne4e with ered reel We. woe o Etschaded valley WhI;G'l the work le geldw forwiitli tend Uzi spehe jast at the Nide of the factory, upen which lee strewn several bendtede a ado- rm coffee beens, expand Rho euelent mar - tyre to the fell hot of the bunting tem. " Coffee he this Qtle 4dV44tAge OPer WA," he obeerree, ay we leeve the feetery and begirt to awed the hill agau, thAt it certaoly requiree leee prepeentlee, but in every other gaegt twinge over the eaoliee teem reepect the superwrIty 14 trite the other To retina, ;hero to the entiect a tee plant- bedi it it to be tittiteg ;bet toe bigeetty has Simile= Italie and bine ikon out to differ- tttadh maal 4,4E4 P 444 PreM4t MatetY ottly develepttliteelitteaoappreelebleeemat eat pienier nitivina bounty icoal to 4 et,*titee, vo,You ,4140 the ethaololoster -melee tee wet ewe Tee". ewe taat It le scuts per heed up000ll the labwereeegagial. ddioi 'Rion 4 D4Y "4044 helf•YearlY itt eweeg the wawiteipe of weeterie weee-a own Mom Ot Wert from the teat lebere I lied oil tho legreclAtmo of cup et ieteade a tell nom wIth two greeted eticke atwite voider iah, —ea tweeze dete,,,,tho swig hen urn hie tali, whiek I eoutecture te owe eta a ievesteeed„ the cern-a views be o, Inuti of (Meta Woe. Aud 49 14 ideog the ideate, wad the gime geeing liptu Pr*91 1°1 Mei W' Pait113 hncrt 4" " the tep us of the ridge, the itautiaa " or rodeo oveneer of the chitty cenfieed to elm distriet which acerrie "It'd drdat thing to h*r**it ff h t f admirably fitted for the porpene, Fifty or oderetermd eAftl hes «0u0 who gen teeth 60 redive inland. be a direct Itue front the mete fellows to do their piehing prepirly, weewra own et Ceoloe, the waif nu detneie for Ya4 114'74 44 ii4'4 )1(4w "Igh haval ulaY Q taa 1.'4141 4"14° thttt 4-4:11 vitter15"1-.5 04. In *PtPed rdad holed* the BatehaY Sat" igeldle; hita it !atone bottle conteinieg five be dorm by carelees or elumsy *Meg. reer "was he like my alligetor P asked Bryce,. Very like him the only.difference being that while your 1:11igator ze about sixteen iuchis long, my cowmen was a little over eixieen feet, aed lie ugly a lookieg monster as evar 4WAre. I had been detached front the .Poreoiss, and ordrred to explore a per., tiou of Venezacia, in comp Any with a perty of American engineere, woo were construct, leg a teleereph dee for the government a that country. We were following down a tribatary of the greet river Grimm, and reeted one Snaday et ei village on' the beek of the streem. Dwain the afternoon, as we were al lying Weep la our Warnecke, there came a terrible =earning and crying from, the viltage, and are ran te watt; woe up. mewed that !leveret Iola had been Whims le the river pot below the Wino, i.ben ell oil ouce, without the slighteet waroieg, cue of them bed been gazed ad drawn under the terbld watere by tho great " devil ceouniti," as the laiiims milled one a them creeturea which hed long been a tenor to the caninuniry, "1 auggeated to the chid of the engineera, fine youne fellow tamed Roberti', and we g eet a trap for the men-eciter, awl eater ex the heRee and wae malty added *I planing my idea, got him to agree to wy noticed. e. great! falling off in him We we were to be in that viaieity for eeveral daye, we waited until we thought it was Bow a. Tiger Eta and Wats Re Prey. about time for thz caw:nen to be hungry Th h fat k ewea eneweitar anoalia: from every freth root eao leaf, a bud, ana - • - . by 4 circular .roup of auenntaine (eireaded the belt of another leer. Now, if in deteg des'imiked in my letters iron Needy, Tat* Ite beppeps to breek the eye of the sprout, After experiencing off the lsle of Man a few of her customary inimeiventures the Great Eesterzt has been brought from the Clyde to the lefereey, where, at Treatment, the giant eteareehip is to be beached and broken up. fri twelve months, it is promis- ea the will have been entirely taken to pieces. So ends the "strange, eveutful history" of the menintoth creation of Brun- el arid Scott anesell It is little exagger- atime to say that to thousands of newspaper rodent the Information that the Greet Eastern is to be broken up has come home jase a trifie molly. They bare no pecuni- ary interest in mippieg, and may never have had any; they may never have gone "down to the see in. ehipa ;" they may never have men the Great Emmrn ; but all the sante the men of the end of her course arid her imploding destruction brine the alma% ewe of regret, TUE GREAT aAsrertx, The Great Elden W*4 certainly COPeelV. ea wader limitless stars. With the excepi tioe. a the short interval during which the great weed was employed for the laying down of the Atlantic and other cables, her eximence bee been one loog chapter of die aste r, dieappointutent and gerteral failure. Seareely evey example of modera lege:unity bee become so completely, or ote to gmeatie * eeale, 4 moneeroleveuriug white elephaut. Fortunes Wive again and ogau been mink in the Greet Eaetern, And dividends in one- nection with her hove hardly ever limn heard. of. Many of as are toe young to re. member the bedding of the great ship that wee to revolutionize ocean treveillog. It wait in Isn fleet the Eaaterei Steem getion 0er41)447 was etArteil to prOvide ti 4t0=11.04te to the klub via the (Jape; end e next year the direetors, halug come to tbo conoluitiou that the mat of maintaining coaling ataticas along the mute would pre- yeut the venture paging if 9, ehip could not be obteined big enough to carry an automat of coal eufdoient both for the outward and ura. ustory ociety reeve. y, and Pa pounds of pewder, ineerted in it the Etude ot the home voyages, ma to stecomituaiete ed U8*amnia, Me. Inverarity, noted twa ieeg eoue of LM) wire bourn; theee to large 'lumber of paeseregeremid a very beery autl Attune as Plotlredietly m we vett this little thtog herr, no ther oeseuesed the habits of the tiger, strong roPe3 ef 4(04 leagtil, And cane -cote eargo, conaniesione 1 Mr, Scott Reseal pelia, .Feak) iioow• let-rt.-hand the mato di which It higi„ Aug Wet) avail broken tbose of af etteneenii4hed wm song elom it ally exact and whet, eci.to ?icy. shun dila tei4t4 tdd ttligtowitroerzeddeact with the little teat Watery beta a matinoth ateamehip thee would otd ferniludd though WI ti vtrY 411" Yen thizt; hew uw,PY tliede eYt* j -, nu (where by the nepe of the sleek from( all the demaude that could be made u " When all wee reedy eve neeted our her, emle, hind of Ciugaieve Soitzerlemil. 1;141;111a pleher tow breah la eingie dee' you tibeett iter oeverarity orie exartiked eceree edam by too lufwea bietidere, neer Tit% set to work. What they produ the doett, eheiteted valte,ya and open the,Joeu iteaelati how imperteur It ia to beve the of emu auwala awe tiet kiti=ny e op's el these reettotatie mew thliteule ereperty ertieed." 641 Tqfa4"4 to:Mitre the peer boy had been ireized, aud was t 1ar4ezt stentrishiP lid the wed %hie pact, aua ie every euE,1 but Quo the ©roughed ha the bailee to await develop, as the following detailed. %emu NS very lately the seffre pt4Uta and CmeziO4'1 " What wave do they get:Vieth "The throat W44 &zed from below. NVeether meets. we wee waited, m perfeet elle/ice show.: Urea that Yitirdeil the edifte rkud 'rum 16 cane a alayt the W=44 and burl hhididocetion of tee neck taros altdo doithtil for more than ao. hour, and were about TArietli . , • wait 04 'ND III'S Wig h fanitue but . •• 0000000000 • ••• •••• • 692 feet , u • 44g le le tme utt ItB 'velt3t i 4 reedy to give it up. when there came a tap- theat ate nog hang f At reVaezi tiff tet'' to -,eu I dare ee ' hat I eau v urn ou that laill by preesure ou the wiridalpt, W* (4 i pie in the water, and it huge head, with hor- Alai-re' green l'ideVea feint' tdiuddiwid ted*, u'hteeerding to eativeldeas WO A very hir TOM lereelio're the 0 in , alwil ii. t oer , tad ?pen peva, eyes 04140)441y haled. Then baturca the (i'w et'eu':g04 — dd%-a•ewDa you tee that you% giri to our left there, iu the mine woe,. It is eulY by"dti theveuJews cloted with a map upon our belt, tee."—a, "itervlrel if the flume " iehidit be one with the Ka slaver hVnwle.3 eu her if at all, thee tigers in killiug tame any the bead msreetly dieeppcariel, and tbe Witii0 have ehiguieil DA Doritin If he *dull sulfas! She% oue of the host pleitera ine tize imperteut vein or ortery. MA no blood to ropes hope to ruu owiitly out, showing that have lived to see it. w , whole eatate. She% game to marrY olio of tbe momter W43 malting Inc deep water. I "I doubt very melt whither Fiat.* wetinty uative tieteeints neXt Week, and fil right had °lenge of the battery, and quickly coo- tWer reeove,r iteelf irt thete ntaitts"' lam Que 'geed wife atoll make him. duet watele how nected the wires. Wm it ilaeli there came a 14 ;:',Z Fizieillai pleutere in tee Agra ?Atonal neeely ehe brings off them learee. never houieameng the bills of the Tamarac die- ere nitrAys better than men for tide kiud, cif adt"riinPeinduwWaAter ewxPaitioirro' wnt9hrriger inc'fthbel°;:rrs- speak a lion from the throat eventide. nevi:3g killed, the tiger almost ievarietly begin') eating a bluditpuirter, consuming one or probably both. Aniniels are never eaten where they are kilted, but aro always dragged a short dietertem They ere not lifted clear a the ground, but dragged. Having gorgeu himself, the tiger amens:we lies clam by his prey, but if it is hot weether end there anthills in the neighborhood he will go a long disteoce off befoze reefing for the day. no returns next night and finish. way from here to Telowakele width Is 14 es whet is left, but he never eats a aecona. miles if it's 4t1 inch. He did: though, andi time on the same apot, dragging theremeins dieetwes of the coffee plant are more punier - out by far than those of the tee plain, thought very little of it when it WAS 4:1004." of the pray 40 or 50 yerde off. Tbe tiger " Are these tea plants here full rown 'VI tame about two hours' ateady eating—en. n. te4 em417* 4t wh°" ProttY Bttle "untrY hrtaliing nor hurtignthere 4 bit. Women and mingled with it wore iregmeete of the trio:We ?vent a very pleasant wech ht. the work beeonte there teneh bs El !kilt, only may hide of the monster, ha whom aide 4 COMO of our travels through the interior of ee worm they cannot do so mob, work in a hole two feet equate bed been blovrn. Corloth "But '°''ell if lit weie to teffanitd day. Leak at thet men mow, who le picking " The poor 44t1V03 were at drat terrified, old peigo te-morrow it would always be at jot in front of us. ' You would hardly thou mystified, and Madly overtoyed at the disedwintege al cornpeeed with tee for think, seeing him as he stands moo tint be names of our experimeot, and ever afters d'4117 Put' redstneli Vint mid foteme3ti once :tarried a Oiapound chest; oi tett all the ward they treeted us like beluga possessed anhougn TVS eaters ik good ilea from ' red of supernatural powers. Notwithatanding milder' mid other thingi of thet sort, the thin wo noticed that *obeys did not mem m care for bethire for mime time after - When they Qom earn -.t they inquire ea NVO UM OD. " NVO1fthey're finieb. the forequarters of a bullock. Tigers Meanabsolute deetruction to the wholegrowa ituffieleutly to yield a good crop, aro cennibale ; they will make their xneabi crop. Then, too, when a crep of coffee is there what you mean; but theYhe not come err eaoh other. They aro supposed to kill destroyed or blighted you have nothing more to thew, bow yet, nor anytideg like. Wo once in five or eix days, and no doubt the to hope for es rtwarde that year, ethereal if tiger after a heavy feed does not ewe to hunt much for a few days it but a tiger kills whenever he can. limy We been known to kill on 14 consecutive nights. Mr. Inverarity believes thet animala killed only began &Meta about three years ago, anything happen' to a groevth of teo You you know. dVe consider a tea plant fie for will have the eanifort of knowing tbat thereevielaing at 2 yeere old, and after that it will be another ' lab,' as we cell it, in 10' iota on inereaimit days'time, o Lich, if it turns cut ereII, may ear agi till the extd cf tbe sixth en it is et its best We keep on recoup all your km and more." pruning the plante tilt they're 18 inches by tigers suffer ludo beyond the peek: of "But it mum to me," $41.1 1, "that that lash, wad when they reach 2a ieelies wei few seconds, The shock troducea a stupor particular adveutigo is confined to the tea of Ceylon itself, for I remember that when wo went in the t et growirg dittricts of Northern India it few yeara ago, the plaza- tee tee mate raceme them with a I:mese-nick and pluck everything almve the 22-ineh level. Nowshall we go down tithe factory and aeo bow era told us that there arnuld not be another As we descend the elope I have leisure to flash 'all April, and. it was then about the ef February." • "That's vtry true," anewered Mr. W. end that's teat where we Ciagaleee plaeat- ors have the advantage of the fellows 111 ASSSID DD4 the Kano, Valley ; they can awatufacturo their tee. stitea tow-. vats, whereat we CND keep on at it all the year round. And now, if you two come for a walk round the plantation with nee, rm. going to see how the Lollar° the beauty of it plantation. of oin. ahem. trees, Shooting up straight and elm - dor as it fountain jet and thea breaking off ia one great gush of green, leaves, many of which are now dyed with A oonosons temasoar, sock as any painter would love to copy. But Mr. W., noting the direation of my approving glantle, seem with rueful. : me you're admiring those crimson leaves, 'but I can assure you tint such bits of color - are not at ad beautiful in the eyes of ne planters, for the moment we see those red leaves upon any cinchona tree we know that it's blighted and that we'll never gat it single ounce of quinine from it again." A. few minutes later we enter the factory —a long, low building of the genuine East Indian type down in a hollow not far from the bank ofthe river. The first thing that we see on entering is it kind of gigantic squirrel's cage, 8 or 9 feet long, which a tall cootie is turning by a handle at one end and showering a rain of green /leaves -upon the floor like pepper from a caster. A nearer view of this queer machine shows us that it is made of twisted wire and half full of tea leaves, and Mr. W. explains that this is the "sifter," used for separating the coarser from the finer leaves, width are then spread out to be withered. "And here," he concludes, " le the withering going on now." There, sure enough, are three or four strange -looking objects exactly like over- grown Venetian blinds, except that the horizeptal " slate are formed not of painted wood, but of sheets of stout 00.11VSS in wood- en frames, upon which the tea leaves, mat- tered as thoroughly as possible, are drying apace. Next we proceed to the adjoining room to witness the third process, viz., the rolling of the withered leaves. Here we find something which looks like an insane coffee pot fixed on top of it copying machine, and performing a kind of demon dance over it hole in tbe centre of it flet round stone, while absorbing mouthful after mouthful of looms shoveled into it by it watchful native, only to cast them forth again thenext mom- ent rolled neatly up in those tiny cylinders with which we are all familiar. Innen= meties ()a riesstm ' aro getting Gni and when that's done, we'll just Step down 40 my factory at the foot at the hill yonder, and, show you the whole prouss of tea making from beginning bit end." "Have you been successful with your tea an far 1" asked I, as the three of na picked our way in single Me along the narrow, threadlike path that zigzagged up the steep hillside among the glossy green leaves of the fresh tea. "Well, I've nothing to complain of at present, although of mune I can't do very 'much in this manufaeturine line till I get up that new maehinery that I'm waiting for. But so far as the mere growing of the tea is concerned, there's no fault to be found. If I make my fortune by tea—and I've both made it and lost it again by coffee, I can tell you, since I first came out here - 1 can put on the panel of my carriage the same motto that Dr. Johnsoa gave to an Indian tea planter in the last century : Tu domed (thou teachest,) which everybody who saw it read : Thou tea chest'" "Or else,' suggestee I, "you might mai propriate Theodore Hook's epigram upon Twining, the tea dealer: "Beneficent nature has curiously plant ed hlen's names with their lives should agree; There's Twining, the tea Man, who in the Strand, • Would be whining if robbed of his T,„ • But, now I think of it, (alt true that someof the tea estates round here have been produce lug 1,000 pounds of tea per serer "Perfectly true, although some of the Madras newspapers wouldn't believe a word of it when the story first came out, and sent over correspondents to look into it But by the time the correspondents arrived the same plantatiOne were yielding fully 1,200 pounds per acre, and the worthy reporters went back again with a consideralale enlarge- ment in, thew ideas of Cingsaese tea growing. Now, hewe come to a patch of coffee and you'll have a chance of seeing what prospeot we've got of making any profit in that Way." It was indeed a hopeless spectaclefor any planter to behold, and one, whose ghostly desolation wag intensified. rather than re- lieved by the glorious sunshine around it and the bright blue sky overhead. Ear and wide beneath us, the whole slope rimmed blasted as if by fire. In some spots the withered leaves hung shriveled and lifeless, stirring slowly lit the morning breeze like the hair of dead men upon a battlefield. In other places they had fallen!away altogether, wed dreaminess in whish t ere is no sense of pain or feeling of terror. The powerful awoke of the fore pew of the tiger is it fietion ; he clutthea with his claw as ono might with the fitment but does not atrike it blow. Tigers wander immense distances at night, and, as they like may going, they go on roads and paths. They do not liko The Opium Habit. We find an interesting and somewhat tartliug article in Popular Science Monthly on this subject, by Virgil G. Eaton, who pato the responaibility for the increase upon tho physicians who give the prescriptions. They know that in zany cams it abets an immediate relief, and be feela that they are the meet who need reforming. We quote from the article For the past year or more I have atudied the growth of the opium habit in Beston. It is increasing rapidly. Not only are there more Chinese " atiore " and reapeoteble resorts kepaby Americana than there were it year ago, but the number of individtiels V7110 4' tho pipe" at home and in their to move during the twat of the day, as the effices is growing very fast. Aewhole opium hot ground burns their pada alY± nukes "lay out," including pipe, fork, lamp and them raw. They can on occasion climb spoon, can now be had for less than SW trees. In Sasette one climbed after. a certain. Eluded, but could not reaeli turn This affords a chance for those who have and retired. Pandoo, thinking the coast clear, got down and ran toward home, but on the way was eauelat by. the tiger and killed. • The, ingnent report stated that "Panetta died of the tiger eating him ; there was no other cause of death. Nothing was left except some fingers, which probably belonged to the right or left hand." Natives have a belief that the ghosts of the man, eater's victims ride in his head and warn him of danger, or point the way to fresh victims. Whatever the politicians and labourers of this continent may think of Chinamen coming into this country, and however atorlons they may be to keep them out, it is evident that American Christiane are btund to look after the souls of the Chinese, and try: if possible tt convert them to Christianity. One batch after another of missionariee are being despatched to the Flowery Land, and the zeal for the work is growing as the supply of workers increases. The Pirobyteriaes of Canada have long had it prosperous mission in Formosa, and they have lately opened another in the province. of 1Ionan. Already five missionaries have been sent out to that fertile and pros- perous province and another was on Thursday last designated for the same locality and leaves in it day or two for his far off sphere. What is remarkable about the last case 'is that after the young missionary's offer had been declined through want of funds it was renewed with the ad- ditional proposal that he should go out on half the salary thought necessary for a de- cent maintainance in that locality. When such an offer was made it was felt that it could not be rejected and the result is that one congregation, that of St. 'James Square in this city, have agreed to bear all the ex- pense and send out and auppore the mission- ary for all time to come. This will no doubt stimulate others to go and do likewise. 11 it is found that missionaries can live and work successfully on $500 there will bone reason for giving $1000 and if uernseried missionaries do the work more effieiently than those who have wives, that too is worth ascertaining, enough TRITTEL more than doubts about the face But then" when all this hurrying Chine.ward is going on, what about the way in which the poor Chi- nese are treated when they come to Canada? What is sauce for the goose may be thought to be also sauce Inc the gander and if the Chinese Emperor ordered all Anglo-Saxon missionaries and traders out of the country or put a very heavy poll tax upon thembould any one complain? It is not easy to see how or why. And yet it is ten ',Winces to one that the cry of persecution and the demand Passing lightly over the "re -rolling" --a proems to which may a certain proportion of the leaves are' subjected—we go back into the large room to study the details of the two final processes, "fermenting" and "firing," after which the tea is ready to be packed and sent off. The firing is perform- ed in two different war, the second and most complete of which is managed by a seven -chambered steam furnace of improved construotion, the beauties of whose working are explained to me by Mr. W. in an ela- borate discounts, which, like the Majority scientific explanatione given to unecientiao men, leaves me just as wise as I was before. "There are three kinds of tea here," he tada, " broken Pekoe, Pekoe and Souchong. We're manufacturing it good deal of all three just now, but nothing to what we that do when our new machinery's in op - aequirea the habili to follow their desires in private, without having to reveal their secret to any one. How largely- this is preticed I do not know, but, iudging from the telltale pallor oi the faces 1 gee, I feel sure the habit is claiming more attires every day. In order to appreximete to the amount of opium, in its various forms, which is media Bostont I have made it thorough scrutiny of the physicians' recipes left at the drug. stores to be' filled. As is well known all recipes given by pbysicians are numb:red, dated, and kept on file at the drug -stores, no that they may be referred to at any Wine. To these 1 went in search of information: I was surpriard to learn how extensively opium and its alkaloids—particularlysul- phate of morphia—are used by physicians. Mound them presoribea for every ailment which flesh is heir to. They are used for headache, sore eyes, toothache, sore throat, laryngitis, diphtheria, bronchitis,' oongestion, pneumonia, consumption, gastritis, liver complaint, stone in the gal-duct,carditis, aneurism, hypertrophy, peritonitis, cal- culus, kidney trouble, rheumatism, neural- gia, and all general or sdecia meladies of the body. It la the great panacea and oure- .. all. bedth 83 feet Depth at the :tide die feet Depth in the hole , .... .. 21 feet Tannage, 'builders' metwurentent 22,927 tone Tonnage, regiatered, including mimeo mace 18,014 tons Stowage Inc cargo Coal be:Aerie capacity Draught of waterOloaded florae -power of paddle emblem nomitial ... .. . ... Horse -power of screw engines, nominal e ...... Horawpower of peddle enginee, indicated . ..... geRgt. Home -power oi mow megfues, indicated ..... . . eveeol, 6 000 tons 10,000 tone 30 feet 1,000 1,600 3,076 3,076 Number af cylinders, peddle... 4 Number of eylinders, aotew..... Diameter of cylinders, paddle.. 6 fie 2 in. Diameter of cylinaeri.aorew.. . 7 ft, Daly coal conatimption, paddle 123 tons Daily coal coneumption, acrew 180 tons Total coal emmumption 303 tons Piteh of screw .. . 44 feet Number of bladea of earner e feet Weight of Berm SO toes Iron in hull 8.250 toes Woodwork , ... * ( 2.500 tow War of anchora 10) ark caes...........•.• a—. . 253 tone umortant lees, Bat there is an end to gable laying, auto Met thio, and latterly the leviathan degraded to the =annex ole mere hulk, boa auoh to the work of it "Show alio." A firm of proviuoialuoiversa provident start- ed a 1:20i000 company at Liverpool! and bad tho (trot Batelle brought around 24 May, 18S6, to the Money, were, filled with con- thwer, entertaurnente, coneartleome, and penny thaw°, she mamma to realize a good. round min for her temporary owners. enmeoes or NAMS ROT ROT OP nerminere From Liverp eel, when Aer uovelty bad worn off, the mammoth was conducted to Dublin. Thence, brought, it was said. by the, liendon and Auetrelian Steamship Com- pauy for £26,000, ahe wee sent north to the Clyde. There, it was renewed, ate was to be refitted with neer rottoleinery, at a coat of 4)20,000, in order to be eamterted into "a lime °lass paseenger and mogo steamer," Appareutly ber ownere home thought bet. tiara their intention* 11 11 was really eve• entertained, for we have heard no mode of the Greet gamma till the tug Storni, cock bait twought her froniScotland to Tran - mere, that the might be broken up for old iron. When lyine at Dublin, it was de- clared that she WWI enormously etrong, that slie had bon thoroughly overhauled and re- pot:Wed, and that the possented a Board of Trade certificate of seaworthiness. As thie is but a abort, timoeinomiit would seem that the Gnat Filiatern, thougn. she has et limit ignominiouelyi lino the bends of the wholeatile mama -store dealer, and is to be torn in plecee in hie yards, le not oven now the battered derelict hulk that ahe might possibly be popularly pictured. It roey be of interest to add that through. out her long, eventful career the X4Artee Frankenstein has soughtfortu,ne under other nemes than that of the Great Eastern; she has been known as Leviathan, as the Great Ship and again as the Great Eastern. By this last and present title she will, though 'smashed up tneo waste iron and effeatually removed out of existence, be remembered for some years to come, apart altogether from her interesting record in the chronicles of shipping, be the wellknown "Floa.ting City" of Jules Verne. The clever Amiens romancer made, as will be remembered, the Great Eastern the subjece of one of not the least hitereating among hisannful awonder- ful books for boys. GittrBlat. DM MOWS& About 10,000 iron platen weighing each about one-third ef it ton, were used, etteh plate being. fastened by 100 rivets. The number of meta used was therefore 3,000e, 000. There were 5 funnels 100 feee high by 6 itt diameter, ad 6 masts, 5 of iron, and 7,. 000 yards of sail provided for them, Most of the masts and spars were iron and the shrouds and rigging were of iron wire rope. The united length of chain cables eras a mile, the links weirrhing 50 pounds each. Cate or two of the 10 anchors weiehed 10 ton apiece. There were 20 boats. he paddle - boats were 56 feet in diameter by 13 feet deep and had each 30 etrokes. The origin- al plan provided for the Accommodation of 800 saloon passengers 2,000 second- class passengers 1,200thirdichiss passengers, 400 offieers, oak crew, or 5,000 emigrants or troops. Christian Union. Perhaps the most significant, if not the mese humattly interesting, portion of the resolutions and reports is that which deals with -the movement towards the union of re- ligious bodies. No such liberal peonounce- ment, no suoh heartfelt sigh for religious unity, has ever proceeded from any body of episcopa. representatives in this country. USED. AS A TROOP MP. The Great Eastern was, by November, 1857, in readinesa for launching. From 1859- to 1857 building operations were carri- ed on whenever the company's treasury had money in it, for again and again all resources were exhausted. When her launching wan attempted she declined to launch. Her immense bulk of 12,000 tons stack on the ways upon which it rested, and it required three month& planning and tugging and the expenditure, of some £60,060 to get her into the water. She had been built with her broadside to the water, with the notion that it would be a dangerous matter to launch so long a ship stern foremost. At length she was floated, and her works put in as fast as her owners could furnish money—which re- quired a year and threequarters more. Ready at last, her directors decided -upon a trial trip tet America. It was begun but never accomplished. When the great vessel was passing Hastings, Sept.8,1859, a steam pipe explosion occurred; seven remora were killed and several injured, and the voyage was ended almoa before it had begun. Ex- pensive repairs and lawsuits Mled up the time until June 17, 1860, when from South- ampton the transatlantic voyage was again attempted. It was successful. New York was reached in eleven days. Further trips were made but neither the cargo nor the The Conference "earnestly req.:tests themon- number of passengers was sufaolent to meet stituted authorities of the various breaches of our communion to make it known that they hold themselves in readiness to enter into brotherly conference with the represen- tatives of other Christian communions In the English speaking races, in order to consider what steps can be taken, either towards cor- porate reunion or towards such relations as mow prepare the way for fuller organic unity hereafter. ' Mr, Robertw Burdette, the genial humor ist, has been licensed to preach by the Bapt ist Church, to winch he belongs. He has hitherto frequently preaohed and undergone all the experiences of a preacher from pastor al visite to a. donation party. He didn't want the latter, but they forced it upon him in lieo of a salarytwhicla he positively refused to accept. All he took away from the dona- tion party was one silver dollar, whioh he preserves as a memento, even current expenses, and the owners only lost more and more money. In the winter of 1861, when troubles arose with the States, the Government obtained the services of the Great Eastern to convey several battalions of guards to Canada. So far as the comfort of the 2,000 passengers was concerned, the voyage was everything that could be desired. But troops were not always requiring con- veyance ; there were never enough voyagers to the States; there was no paying employ- ment to be got, and the company plunged deeper and deeper into debt. No passage to Australia was ever attempted. There were few ports to which the Greab Eastern could go. CONVDRTED INTO A TEBBGBAPIE It WAS'a godsend to the mammoth mons- trosity's owners when the Telegraph Con- straction and Maintenance Company want- ed to lay it amend cable between Ireland SlId. America iu place of the previously laid Log Cabin Success. What ails the young men 1. Robert Garrett's father left him a fortune of twenty millions. He was from childhood reared in luxury; he received a splendid education with SD especial training into it thorough knowledge et railroad manage- ment and was expected to succeed his father as a railroad king. Within three years after the responsibil- ities which Obi father's death threw upon,— him were assumed, he is reported it broken. down man, with mind and health perma- nently shattered. George Law is another young man balI with millions of money, who is reported among the "wrecks." His father, bred it stone mason, was of gigantic size and strength, with commensurate brain power. so he became a great contractor, then it railroad king and left half a dozen millions for his son to dissipate. The young man is it success as a dissipater. The founders of both these great estates were born in the most humble walks of Wind grew strong, mentally and physically, by simple living and honest labor and developed into financial giants. Their sons were reared Ln the lap of luxury and developed into in- tellectual pigmies. The great men of our country have not as a rule, come from the elegant mansions o the cities, but from the log cabins of th rural districts. Simple ways of living, free, dom from dissipation and enervating pleas ores, simple remedies for disease, effec tire and which leave no poison in the system ' develop brawny, brainy men, who comps' the world to recognize their strength and power. "Mamma " said little Edith, "do peoples what get cirownded ever go to Heaven ?" "Why, what ever put that idea into your head? Of course they do." "Well, mam- ma, I irporte you know, but ib always SEWS is the paper when a man -gets drownded that 'he sank to rise no more." Livery Stable Proprietor to Younglrfan— " What made the horse run away ?" Young Man—" A cow jumped out of the bushes by the road and frightened him." Livery Stable Proprietor—" Ilea a email horse. Couldria you hold him ?" Young Man—" Yee, but I couldn't hold him And the girl, too."