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*allure %bus Tear to moo a Profit on it.
we next)) HER.
•It is time that the ohroniole of our Asiatte
seXpedition should draw to a oloae ; but
Walt not C011ehicle it without some mention
14 Tie et the no interesting spote that we
vutted, in Higher Burnish, viz., the fatrious
Vettoleion field of Yenangyeong, on the
Upper Irrevadely, Now), muoh bee
been her al mo Uttlekuown during the
lent few years.. At the time of our visit to
it the apot hel ebeen barely two year in the
bands of the Englieh, and it WaS naturally
•ar too won to hazard any decided. jedg.
meat aa to its peasible development and
commerciel value; but the •geeerel opinion
among the mut competent authorities
appeared to be thatt14 Burmese petroleuni
nprlogs, like thee recently discovered ori
the shore of the Red Sea, uear Suakin, have
a scientific rather than a mercantile value,
end are not likely to exeretse any appreci-
able Lefleence upori the current a the
world's eommerce.
It must be remembered, however, that as eye and aee none the worse." This atrnek
et the experiment eau hardly be said to me as a very fair parallel to the Oxford per
eve been fairly tried. During the 28 ter's vercliet upon the Dean a Christ
Menthe whieh have eland since King Church "Well. you, see, Sir, Pin only a
splendor of the tropicalsanset, might have
star tied a supeestitioua man tvitli Nauru of
mermen, triteas, nicer% moire and ether
mythical reehz stioae of the ehoysman's fa.
mous definition "This 'ere °meter' ie
eaa aMPhibilieus leanimal Canoe it Can't
live on land and dies in tlie water." But
I had 8080,thie "amphibilious enamel" too
of terinot te teeognise itiustantly wine a tire
tame buffaloes which we had encountered in
every nart of India, and which had hir-
nished their white tallow -like butter to
many a breakfast of Imre among the bills
of the "Malaratta eountry,"
"This place +ought to be a good petroleum
field, and no mistake," muttered t eur Cep
tain, oyeIng the poor little village, with a
look of merked aversion, "for it's not a bit
of good ia any other way, and it never will
be, that's more," ''But Itve heard people
say," remarked 1, "tad it's net much good
even as a petroleum field. What do you
think yourself ?" "Well, it ain't for me to
speak, not being: a ecleatifie man," replied
tae Captain modestly ; "bat if you want
mY eamild opinion,. I believe I could put
all the profit that'll ever come of it in my
Theebew'e aurrender, the new mastere of
Burmah have been SO fully employed in
inaing railways, trausportiog stores,
COn,rtarcriNGeriteTeitY BeetTiS,
and runinug after those ansubetantial big -
ane who revexse the rule of the ideal "good
boy" by belug " alwaye heard and never
ewe,' ebat ae yet they iave had little ettmes
thee to spew ettleeefor thepetreleune apriugs
of Yenaugyeoeg or for thereby mines to the
north-east of hiendaley. Tae ShO oil wells
whIele the Yeaciegyozeg ehetriet us dal to
contairi have hitherto been werhed only ley Sea in ISSet, Bare (mumbling rulgea
the clumsy and expensive method in oogee nate with deep, dry gulliee, half ehoked bane ho will spemi cent er buy a sew. need, should crenattonhe Adopted, to pegeha
Among the aetives, taci coat of whica, ace with sand, while every here and there you gum like eulitteacen After diternig three& That la the reale emi arid aini of an (Aver. im m the elihhtest degree the cert mates
cording to reliable authoririea, la rather come ulteri a blaoh, harrow, and seemingly animal chareoal, the solution la evaporated taiemeut, and if you ever wen e, cement to aeleomittes whieh Were At preeeeit oh.
more than the value of the Petroleum pro- unfathomable elmem in the parched earth(' at a low temperatnre. The produot le a manufacture waling eurPilea and Weed. Nerved in couuectieu with the burml of the
theta by itr„,a. aloe which may serve to all Armand the mouth of Oh* the dusty transparent colouriese subttauce which is wetleing, don't try to get cuitemere tr come dead. Reatantital cauthierotieus of hoiattt
account tor the very lulowum zed diepley. nellowish.gray eurfece je spotted With Imola Oten-bYgrozeoltio, and hue edeutially the when they ere aleeady rIehirg out of the !accrued dietluctly tevour et oremathip,
ed tbe deeeiopieg es tate Rata iteheetry. ot thick, dark, &thyme liquid, ae if some IMMO neeful properelea guna swat% winclowe, but give them hour edvertitentent soul whatever might he alid In the neine
Row ter British energy mey be callable of boy gtant bed, beeu eat to fill a mounter of Fire-hlarehal Whittomb of Beaton, has al' a velum huoeltalowit right la the dull
effectieg any improvement the ?resent eolossial jars of molasses, and had done 'it 80 been, ee,ceety experimenting with rats ena 'made, and thereby you will wax rieh an
unpromteing date a afiaira is still AA open awkwardly as to sPill Predeue fluid all matches ehut up together in a cage in order own rroetor Kul:It; or b°411° 141344"4
The pethetehta we-tho otavenangyacmg (aa to ascertain whether they were likely to hone, to enable you itgoEutetebleclEratAroouri
question. ever the plaoe.
Tba village of Tenaegyoorig iteelf teltea cause Ord or uot. In the absence of other Your wbeOti on Your
ite name from a email etreem which fella in. have alreadyttitetd) are about 300 in num-
ealiege servant, and &rent steak my mend
freely—bat I wish he was dead, I do."
Bat aundry other fact* which I learned
later on made me suspect that the Oaptanis
trenchant criticism was nob very far wrong
after all.
The petrelenra field et Teueneyoeng en-
tombs ever an aver. of 10 equere miles, the
pleyeicel conformation of which rematch:led
alined eXactly that of the ail producing,
distriet at Baku in the Radian Otneasous
deeeribed in my letters from the Caspian
SOIENTIFIO 41,11) ttBkaL.
AL Germain Lee, bra recent eonorourdoe,
tiou to the Worrell Academy .of SeEQ13Ce% re-
commends the removal ef pans by the use of
hypodermic ieteetione of antipyrin. The
drug doeuot prodnee vertigo of sonmo.
enoe,
Telegraph -and telephone viu reo ohonsee
The Ti
We And a vresite psepene and
pigeon-1SO this artiele. We do net
kaew ote it; perhaps we did it our-
Selv 0 writing lookbetter than ours,
but it is juet on reeeoneble at to the point
as though we had. At any rate we give it
oar Meat hearty endorsement and approval ;
"There is nothing on earth somyaterieeeily
ops aometimes cause a dmagreoble hum- funny as a newspaper or periodical advertise
-
ming, It may be useful ta know that the went, The Fiala, first, lantana all-the,time
nolaci can be easily aid simply etopped by a object of an adveetisernent late drew custom-
ehert length of India -rubber tubrog fitted
on Ow wine at its attachment.
We may consider the atmosphere as form-
ed of two strata, the lower el whieh contains
eleude and dust and the upper of which is
Mere transperent These two strata, as re.
gerde their refrangibility and absorption,
betiaxe differently in the preaence of the
ft le not, was not, and never will he, design,
ed for any other lentenn 'perpeee. So the
me.rehent tveits until the busy Amason -coniee
and sto.re. :se full of .eushimemsthet
be eannot get bie hat off, and then he
•moire to the haeleeas .40u end pate
In Me. :advertifieesents When the dull
season eginee along, end them ta no tweet
OMmation. Old Taos Bela/Vide&
A great many otherwise sensible people What la the clitlerence between kg and
have quite an abeard and unreasoning her- a falling Oar ? One's mit on earth and
ror for orematlen as if_ it were shoeltingly 'the ether is miuecl in heaven,
anti-chrint-ian and poeitively heathen, But! Why is a matt caned 'honorable who le
in spite of all this the feeliag in its favour is epasesea beating bte erne? Tie is above 49,
unsirmally gettiering streagth, Men reflase mg .mean act.
What are the great astronemerel The
stem, beennee they havestudded the heavene
for ages,
thirty-two hi the feedieg peint, What is
the equeeing point ? Twesin the shade.
• What is theiviogin the eutskirte? Pielelog
lead' peekete.
In what place did the eoelt crow when ali
the world heard Noeitta Arit,
gasee to be treasured up mid let loose at When does the rain beeenle too faMilier
some future time to epreadatieease and death to. lady? When in beetle to pat her
tar, that trayeree them, arepueeteer green and lie wants te sell aoode ao bsdly he can't• threugli the couutry. What became of all (patter) on r,he ba.
Is the preeursor of rain. ; a rosy twilight pa Lel et. nt, Is,
sdoiraBtrotrth140eambro abeiventrottsecea: stheveeSne colreettubtaant phasosedur inlIwtbaeygraetatvhme crt4.0atapoef. tazWitero Yie mr47.6.474rPtehnwtegMasree400st9±4131:.Ybeeelft:eLsovv
sionally a level beaded man punt in a bigger of this Empire? IVA% Ciitfienit be. they never saw it •
(me and ecoops ba all the trade, while ais lieve that they could. all be interred ender Who are theleet men t d
ueighbore are malting mortgages to mite strict saultatY usuldithma- Awl hew weak Lawyers, because their chargee are so grea' t
money to pest the e'en, bill, Teem are tlines groand eamit they occupy, and to wbet ao one c4n steed shoe.
to believe in the. uncenitese .of laving Om
body redeeed. to, aelne by le Simple and clew.
ly Mooed ae %revved With having tbe same
Mettle brought ;WWI by aleugeed loetheetne.
as sse ditagerean protesee deeays
The results are the. .44u bat tbe .ptecertses
are Wonderfully different anti the denenneed
eneinfinitely better, riOW better geoid Pio
whOle gene be put than in the fehowieg
tmet Irmo eerinell On the eiikieet
Ner wssuld there be generatetlanynexione
announces feu weather.
To etch a Hanle on steel tools : Chlkei
thoroughly from grease, and then Ppread a
thin coat of bee'e.wax on the tool at the
place where the name is to be. This must
be as thin as possible. Then With A sharp
need -point write through, the wax to the
cited Paint tilts. over with a iniatare of
nitric and muriatio acid; and whee bubbles
COMO to rise tae work is done. Wash in
stneug soda water.
Another substithte for guln,arahick Made
from starch, has been recently patented in
Germany wet Setiummen. Two Unwired
puts ef starch are belled muter a presage
whie;tru ceuldn't atop pecmle from belying 'Minus must they in 'ugly came he Carried ? Wh t 1
eve ing you have for sale if you planted It would be odd, no doubt, that cremation Y a -nn.* IvaY" gentleman? Be.
a camel. behind the door, and right then was a pagan 0AstOmA unsailetioned by tleo eawie pllpg tbe "" of darkness' beeAnnev-
ie the time smut besiods men seed thele Bible ; and there might be these even in et he lettP-te-lignt
advertieeMent MA on ita ingy Miaelen. It theee erdighterted days, who would object Why are the makers ef the tArmetrong
znaleea light and easy work for the adverthm- that it woald emberrad and render MOTO gn,nn gT,eetelit tbfev€6 in Ilex :Union
meat, for a Chalk aim ett therdelewelle eould elifdenit the Reserrection—thet, in facts by "Pug°. 'ne.4nne thn7 eel' all the gene
do all that was needed, and lave a holt destroying the bedy it would oleo destroy forge the materials and 'steel all the gat;
beliday six days in tbe week; bat who the hope of he revival. Bat, in any eate, breeehee.
•wand to favor en sielvertiaemeet? They it was certeln that erematiOn did but effece Why was (oliath earprieted when he woe
are heilt clo hard weak, and &mid
of front two to three etneoepherea wlth Quo be releutadely vent out is Die dull dap,
tleondad parts of water and one part ef Om A est:stainer has to let etrack be. tedietat preede. It wee true thet cremate%
eulphurie or ultrie acid, Matti 'MO mixture twseu the eyes with bard Wife kteked was a Pageu mama, bat were we to rej tot
begins to be Auld. The seal hi taen metre. ueeneible with. etartliug teuleropt re- a preetleegood lit iteelf merely beeatme it*
Used, and the udnture is again treated uoder dnctions, eed &egged in end lea •on theroalise was reeognised by the wieeet nationa
a pressure of feone three tet lour Atineepheree, minter with irresistible eleueshter of prie f the Aneimit world 1 There would
uutil the starch toi completely cenverted, int
is rtfew innintegi wbat wethout the chem. eteuele by a atone .1- Beeeliee Mich a thing
lefty of aature weald ehetiamItele by a More never entered Me head Were,
known came, frequent Ord have beeu cite and win shekele thereby, and peritepe
to tele erreweddh teat above it. Isy her* and vary to depth fromath) to 320 feet.
hilelogiate the Mune is trarttleted " Rep'
iver," by others, "River of DIrty Water
and iteeppearance fully juditiesatleast ane
of the two ereasaletieue, for if uotpyticular.
" Inas" it is most undeniably
It was toward aumet en the eeeoud, evening
of our veyage up the Irrawsold,y (widela has
erthed to them ageney, whtle at the tame
They have beeu worked fee a conaderable time Many malerwritere affected to doff at
Pertod, but hitherto withaout tatleltotuteteete. the Mee. The queetien may however now
te
partly ou account en e unekutto* Luta he eoueidered aa Settled. On the very frat
costly syetern adepted by the natives and ni le; that aleeebes, whilombal ram were
partly on account of the ingrained rapaeity
of the Burnmee Government, which up to
the very lateat momeat of its existence,
Already been deecribed tu my recent letters never failed to lay
from Upper Burwell) when we fiat came in 1 ITS GilinIDT MAWS
eight et she tssesee 'Tot, Whi ell bad all the upon every native industry _which ahovred
Iseeeeinjesesea as well es the barber, the slightest token ofeyteldnag any profit
ism of the avenge Bantam village,wnatever, thereby verifynig to the letter a
Just below the point where the Yea. famous Pottier In the ancient Btainnin hYmu
augyettag dischargeditz ththe, brown to the five.headed deity of night "Tho
aoup-like etreara into the swift, dark current Priest Is oue of thy mouths, and with that
of the great river, a bold rauge of aandetone 1 mouth thou devoured thepeeple ; the King
cliffe roe sheerepout of the ewirling watera JisOne of thy mouths, and with that mouth outs fate, more strongly condemned. than
1e1 alone alone oath the metehes four fiTell were
caused, and not a' day wised while the t
What color lea field of grad WW1 coo'.
ered with enew? tuvlellele green..
Abet length there'd a Wye* dreta ha? A
little Above twe feet.
had te wallow a mina What kind
w pretext A little Loudon tenter,
Why iena.soll3carreleiptietliiskeallitadointhgerabet;
5014
mid the fly, en it crawled evened
the. bottle, " hate peewit through the
relfra, he theeinht that. lehe' was heat hatchInnage, the creepuig oge, mid now I
whieh hoed !hog regal' for the 'wen' el. pig Wan neVer knenn to W558 but but a
M'Sn'tnn' great maw people hen eeeti the pie trou,
t beteg dowered by wild belkS3 or steel -
owed by deice lathe dep,he of the 144110.1
Wan more to, twee:deur whoa, ; efht in tee eseeilegseentheu el eta*,
able to emoke a good cheer on tato Feria of- oot futertere either witb :be peteitleity er
July and Oittlatmae. Now juat write thie the hope of a reeareeettea, no mere can
down, where you will fell ever it every day: thefaet hang emeensnal in the deer light
The time to bele for and drew buieued le el a puritylutt tire la auy reematre inteefere
wbee, you want battled, awl not whets, yea with all the Celeditieile Of reennee.
alreadY have more hnettued then yon eau at, tien. If men meld only get theinselvee to
be reeeenahle and freed trom Cant i ie
the rebury ea mieehlef that in this matter
ey are so *low of iniderateudistig and dull t
imelog " riethinet' hi lint falling foto rbas
eSer. Yew *low aro.
experimeut was being tried that fires were
not aterted in this way, The rate were
well fed, but they omen to and immethieg
in the plwaphorcui which they liked. It
was noticed. that only the plioephorue crude
were gnawed, and m most untamed the
metaled were dragged away from the epot
where they bad been leid.
Nowhere is the evil ratio of malting
skixerellk cheese, "eurio ea" with name.
te a height of nearly 104.1 feet. These dint derureat everYh°d3h"
were divided into huge pillar -like prolamin Ihe oil yielded, by the Yeneneyoong Fells in the United States) where it originated cogincersaorttetrimenicuonthelcaomotives
is still moat extensively minted ou. of the approaching train, in the Mud Run
tortes la! the deep stony clefts of hell a8 somewhat lighter than the ordinary "d
.Profeesor Curtis polute out that. the disaster SeW or uuderettani the aignAl to stop
dezen torrent byte, which, almost severiug
The Nua Riau fismilanater.
%lieu :seventy people are killed and nor
then that number lwered by the ne Itgen
of then to whom their live; have
fanged it betorete important to
where the reeposesibillty Ilea It is to
hoped. ;hat further iuveatigetiou into the
Lehigh Valley Reihvay collition will result
in determluing thia But one thing is fairly
evident, and *het is that neither of ihe two
Rot Exattl* What we SqeMA
en' V tee etrIve to =eke eureelvee
see r little worhle? Da we net rather
all =cattier et elleguiwee de we
zeal better, hiudere mere logo.
wiser* wittier dime we am? Da
everybany the tedinces et our
we go same earolttiug freely
untruth dile liter:dog; that
liby el lisneitiog to what was
our ewe; that we ate a
t ; that we bud the feelimei
our Dimity by our malicious epeeelt ;
elennered an acinaintance; that
k more then our ebare of the
plealuree, the beets chair, the grit meatus
of thealally paper; that we =ebbed our
depeudents, and were rude to our superiors
and were altogether unlovely?
No 1 we carry the blituded expredlone
thee we know bow to wear, on the eine
toward the world, portraying the bed (Ilia
posttion that we know tow to vouuterfeit ;
wo turn up ear eyes in horror at the pawn'
who noes tell untruths; we speak with
'corn and old OWN of people who no Maim
to what was not meant for them to hear;
we wish aloud that we had more appetite,
for We eat no more than the girl In thereat:.
with her grain of ries; we despite pulp
and slender ; we rtse from the comfortable
chair when zniumnit comes in—it there la
any onepresent to see nu do It; we air the
pseer for gremlin,. without eo MIMI% all
gtancing at ; we speak with a voices of
Over to our 3i:deniers ; SO far as our =cora
seam power of impatiens goes, we appear
to be altogether too sweet and good for
aide. In :spite of the poor beautti violent taxmen lettuce 91 daily foal, et? to foot,
bounds hither and thither, he aeon rolled our aim to aeon SO much better than we
over, and in au astoniSlifnglY alert time the are that it arnounte 'morning whet we are
idliangforeesabhailtiptirotir acnerteanind tonawl,te ntritgglee• not, to an actual disguise, and if ono who
whilltered thinks he kuows as well should ever chance
the stookMan, and we began crawling on to meet our sed.wandering tho No Man'
ourabands and kned toward the spot, about Land of the other lift, he will certainly not
100 yards away, for a Shot at the dingoes, have the lead Wee that he has ever met
ettement of the ohaee to notice us. The
who heelbeen too much occupied in thoo'fietat that so,aI before.
slightest mike the chance breaking
color and unusuelly thm when grab talcen
out, Although After havieg been expadd to
the eir for tame time (more especially in
cold weather) it shows a tendeney to be.
value thick and et/heinous. As regards ite
quality tho real experts aro not Alto-
gether alone mind, but all alike agree in
pronouncing it far inferior to the Canadian
artiele, mid not likely to compare favorably
even with the best quality. of _petroleum,
yielded by the Rosetta oil wo at Baku'.
In fact, if the Burmese petroleum should
ultimately fail to find a market, it will be—
to quote the popular phrase—"nobody's
tilt but its own," With, regard tsefacili. leathery Abomination that is fit only for on the track further batik etill. Atad the
ties of tremrport, it certainly has nothing pigs. Probably before long the reanafao- train, he eitys, should have been nagged at
left to &aim. Jut as Battu lid the Caspian ture of this commodity will be prohibitee lout half e mile trick. These things do not
See and the 'Cauedisa Ranway at its elbew,
Tenaegyoong hue the Irrawaddy. Tt lies it is already
in every State of the American Union, se appear to have been done.
right upon the great niteral highway be- in severe!, hut even then If the utmost precautions ever should be
years inept elepee before the old repute: taken it would seem to be When eight traies
tweeu thecapital of Burmah and. its prin. tion of American cheeee in foreion medical crowded with humanity are run at Intervale
tape' seaport, Rangoon. It is passed every will be regained. of ten minutes en the tame track. Let the
day by welaappointed steamers. Ib is only Individual responsibility rest where it will
in this matter, them le e general prevalence
THE IIIIIITS OF TEE EARTH. • of eaveleaeuees involved in the eataetrophe
which, aasaila the method as we:las the men,
, The loss and grief (lemma aro not to be
Florida persimmons are sold as a novelty measured,
by New York fruiterers for GO cents eadoeen, and the indignation folt by the
community is merited and righteone.
Autumn leaves from aTew Jeteetethickete ...
are tastefully combined by liewYork florists,
and sold by the dczeo or the clusters, ,
Mr. I. A. Linfmer estiniates that there are
in the United States 1,000 species of insecte
consumer is not only defrauded when he until too late,
tiled' rocky towera from each other, gave unknowingly purchnet adulterAted. cheese; The plea of 'signalling in age presented*
u menace. he le clisguated As well with the incligedible thence for !Allure which would not have ex;
them the look of giant fingera uplifted AS If
stuff, And coneumes loss (abeam) than he idea if the best phut feasible had been
Winn we saw them, in the height of the would if all wore gamine. The artificial preothsed. There him been wrecks caused
" deny season," them gullies, which had fats introcluoea in places of the butter fat repeatedly by the neglect of the brekemeu
im lately been foamiug waterfalls, were asOn the rear Oar Of stopped traius to runback
dry and dusty at an Egyptian sepszletre.
led end bare though they. were
oth they and the rocks around them
ndant traces of the continued action
of ru g water. No French or Italian
cathedral couIdmateli with it t finest tracery
the monderful fretwork 'into which the
trieldieg streams from above had sculptured
the yielding sandstone, and this natural
erehiteasure Was fitly supplemented by ties
preset:fie of a. till, hite p•gotle. on the high.
est bluff a the range, the gilded cupola of
which bone like a star
THE SLANTING SUNLIGHT.
The larding place itself was represented. by
a huge, curribeotte raft, moored. alongside a s
broad. flat belt of sandy beach that extended I.- IOW hours' aaiT 'distant from a very lin-
tormat railwayt and practically 'within one
from the foot of the sand -stone cliff more
day'? 3gurnee of the sea itself. But all this
that 100 yards along the water's edge. The "I could write as well
hole rim of thia low bank literally bristled Profit It nothing
hake. mind to do it,"
small native boats, some of which were est Shaktalalate T
'made
fat with ropes of twisted grass, !azd, Tom Rood. in me of his best jokes,
"but the trouble isi that I haven't gob the
mind." Nothing could be tamer than to
transport the entire produce of the Yenang-
ycong oil fields to Rangoon, Calcutta, or
wherever else it might be wanted. ; but the
o but trouble is that just at present it does not
we ulided slowly in toward the bank,
extracted from the milk in the cue of
"enriched" cheerio do not really :amply the
deaciency,' at no other fat than that con-
tained in new milk has equally powerful
aolvent properties ler the casein°. There
fore, in.place of cheese that will melt in
the mouth and can. be digested with cont.
partitive dee, the adulterator* give ne
(middy or far enough to eerve the purpose.
Engineer Cook, on whom the burden of
e tide RKO Luzely PUCeds says
that it Was the duty of the conductar of the
stationary train to have seat his trainnian
to put a torpedo on the track hell a mile
beck, and then to put two more torpedoes
while othets were drawn. up securely upon
the sand,
a That's all vety well at this season," ob-
:served the Captam of our steamer, pointing,
with a slight etoile to the stranded boats ea
there won't be touch safety for shens In that
ealne place a few' months hence, when the
mine be in. Why, bless you, when the
at• ason on in- eareest the water
witslaes hell vray p those di& yonder, and
aei for tbe low grounds' they are covered
Whores deep for more aaten a mile on each
-de of the river. You'd think the Irriewaddy
aomething like a river if you were tp see it
the I can protnise, and that's the time
• whenewe like it beat bto bother then with
t -any of these rocks Or sand banks • wo can
sail,tight ever them without eveireknowing
t 're there and, the only rifiltAhat We rim
• fa the chanees ot getting pe top of a palm
• (Area stuck through our Iiianking or being
Attended upon the eoof of a temple."
Just behind the landing place, clustered
about a dczen athose queer little hovels of
• bamboo and drie&graes 'which' one Aire18
every part efTurtaah and Siam and' which
are eo exactly like enormous nests that any
disoiple of Din Daradn Would' conchde at
once that the original. aimestok of the Bur-
mese race had beerin birdedint-that he had
transmitted hie own peenlier style of archi-
tecture to his humeroied deseeeinants. An-
other, charaderistic fecethre of the scene
was tbe preeence of -foux me -five clumsy
native carts, the ereaking* of, swhiolt-a
ROW SO hideous as to scare away even the
ettekte beasts. of the Burmese jiingles—had
been audible for some time befere they
'came in'sighte bed pften heard it field
• that the proveraial letineeseof the Retinae
'reedit him to cut hie wheels Out square,
leaving the friction 4.)f •tile toad 'to viewed
them by degreee, instead of Wang the trouble
• to do it hinted( ; and, although ",I did not
find any palpably four -cornered wheels in
this congress of wagone, h cesteinly „did
nottee more than one which was undoubted• -
ly a oery reSpedeble oblong. -
•The pink skirts' and white sor parti-
-Tiered tunice of the variouN genre of na-
tives along the bank threvi into the picture
a life and color which •it'soratir neetledse f
the aspect of the bare gaunt rooks and seal
hollows and. half -liquid banks of bleak' Med
starting up through the :Julien waters was
dreary and depressing beyond. desoription.
The On y sign of vegetatiou wes a thick
• elm%) di trees, itelosecl by a wattled
fenee, jut behind the village, intensifying
• rather than relieving the dismal effect of
GAUNT DESOLATION AROUND IT.
And now' hoarse 'euerting bellow wait
eard, op through the thick slimy water
roge a huge, black herned head, with glar-
ing eyes aud eheggy hair clotted with mud.
• Such an apparition, seen in each a place
nightfall beneathhe weird unearthly
seem to be particularly wantied anywhere.
Tfle proof of the padding -m the eat-
ing, sure enough," said the chief engineer
of one of the Irrawaddy deaniers—a bright,
&matt young fellow, who spent nearly all
his time in Scientific studiee—in answer to
my questions upon t
'a point. "Good
petroleums not so plea el in these parts,
lean promise you, as,to be left lying missed
when it is to be had. 'If this gel doesn't
find customers, it must be because
THERE'S SOMETHING 'WRONG
with ittt quality, ycu may take my- word
for that. ' It's just the old story of that
Queen who said, when she wee told that her
people couldn't get bread to eat, 'Why
dou't they eat cake, then?' People at home
seem to think, when they read of there
being a petrohnuafteld outhere, that there's
nothing more needed to made the fortune
of the whole district attire one blow ; but
they forget that the aetroleum may not be
of the right sort - Diana you tell me just
now that the Ragesians are using the 're.
sidues' of the Balta. oil as fuel for the steam-
ers upon -the Cesspian Sea, and the locomo-
tives on the Ceueasus Railway ?" "ThaCs
just what they're doing, and that's what
they have been doing for several years pat,
and so far as I could make out when I was
there it seems to answer very well."
" Well, that's just where it is, goo see. If
they do it, andsmeice it pay, why don't we
do ile-too? ^Weir:got plenty of steamboats
and railri.ads,erut here. But if this oil isn't
good" enough to serve the steamere that go
•ast ereryslay, what chance has
it of making its way to the entlfilof the earth
and corapeting stiocsasfully et„ith the beet
foreign petroletim
"You think, then, that this Burmese oil
will 'never .come 4to anything ?" " Well,
no ; I woutdn't. go quite BO far as to say
that. Itaeapossible, of course, that they
•
may &Lauver scene new springs with a bet.
ter quality of oil, or that therm already ex-
isting may turn out better than they seem.
But all that requires poth labor and cdpital
Now people won't expend labor or capital
until they see a fair, •prospect of plenty of
customers, and the cesterners won't come
until they see that the oil is the sort of thing
that they want. So that's wliereit is. For
my own part, if I had any money to iWireEft
and oome fellow were to offer mer, lot of
sharee in this petroleum. concern' et a cheap
,figure, I'd see him and them considerably,
further before I bought any."'
The Dingo,
et rolled up cur Ifienkette aft
, preparatory to maiden up 11
tittles the !Alice on tube% when w
e heavy thud of a kangaroo leaping
ighboring scrub. "It was
the work of a moment," us the old-feehlened
UOVeliete used to lay, to get out our revel.
yen on the thence of a shut; but we paused
to %vetch an intereetlug sight. A dingo WM
steeling ewiftly along the edge of the scrub,
parallel to the couree qf the km:marine and
In ordinary cireunistances a leaden enact -
ger would hese been promptly sent after him,
with MI the more probability of stopping
liiiin'aft he psueed oceadenally to listen; but
erodible kangaroo steak WAS ittilt tlICR
permed in our roludis. In a minute or two
the kangaroo etnideuly broke for the open
country, and the dingo, for whom he wax
evidently unprepered, Tried° a aplendid
and pinned the tuarauplal by the shoulder.
Almostluatently afterward a demi dingo,
who had no doubt been drivina the gaine
toward Lis eompenton, rushed out of the
swab ana took the kangaroo on the oppante
The boa will be a fashionable article of
dead twig, or ;crimp the motion of a ttll women's attire during the coming season,
blade of grass, sufficea to alarm them, and
though the revolver bullets cut up the earth both in feathers and fur,
An Escape. Brom The Guillotine.
close to them, both went away unscathed. Andrew Carnegie is not a wholesome
. Prisoners are often poxdoned, but it rarely cimen of the successful American. By
Tho kangaroo was quite dead. How they igs
happens that one escapes when brought to mita bustle and brag be makes himself dab:w-
heel mauled him in them two or three
which are injurious to fruits,'and of ...these tessaheepsloateeehseof nefeelietiagsne' eeTsshnenreesnWeereeeeseRveefgeal
and his neck bitten through and through. sept his ostentatious benefactions are the
Mee 1 Ewe, cheat was torn ander the foreleg, lous, and even those who most readily ac.
210 are knave's to live at the expense of thri of Terror in France, in the last century:. moat inclined to laugh in his face. In no
These wild dogs aeem to know instinctively
appletree. , We of the most remarkable escapes ever
A Stead river plantsman is bleaching the made was made by M. de Onateaubran dur- where the great arteries are eituated, and, Place is he treated 'with less respect and
hash are a hot. ing the Reign of Terror inParis. Re was
tope of Russia. tur
perfectly well how to kill a kangaroo with. city of ola Dunfermline. Inspire of hiebathe
and hand stands, his libraries and hisprizes
house delicacy abroa hi& are pre- emittoexecutionwitlitwentyotherprisenere, out incurring the risk of A fatal stroke from
pared for the fable m e tame as sea- but after the fifteenth head had fallen the the shrewd weavers of the ancient citsr
its powerful hind. legs armed with those
kale. These and caule we so forced in guillotine got out of order, and a work -man "smoke" the vulgar upstart all the same, and
fornxidable chisel -like niiile. Some fresh -out
'hot houses, will be in murk t.Pliiist- as sent for to repair it. The six remaining
steaks off the loin put us in good trim for his aping the highland chief at Cluny Castle
mas. - - • , ' nns were left standing in front of the
unlike our domestic hounds, underetand more undiegnised ridicule than his native
the has capped the climax and tient Scotlana
.
Professor: eines angllee.that Is quite a ine yeah their hands tied behind them. day's work'
legitimatetoexpenctrederalmoneytoprevth coach crowd is very curious, and the into a roar. The ease is by one put in &la
the soil from flowing down mountem std o e kept preasing forward to see theman
What &an a man do more than "die" for
his coiintrymen ? "Live" for them. It is a
longer work, end therefore -a, morc difficult
a nobler A
Of Books, way and the one ts a type of the whole :--
very : The question of the annexation of Canada
and fillieg up rivers as it is to expend mone ' -s , ing the guillotinis e. ' •By degrees M. de The power of books now being continues to obtain a certain amount of
for clearing out their channels when once 'Oaken, who was to the rear of his completely illnetrated by the" reeks to the editorial Mtsntion on the other side of the
co panicres found himself in the front line query propounded to our distineunlied men
filled; and that rt ought to be perramsable to ;
expend Federal money to protect the stream of the epeotators, then in the second, and th
which appear under e heading of "Book line, It is doubtful, however, if there in
proper to ate* and re -stock anything very serious in it. The beet in -
itself, 11 15 be finehly well behind those who had come to that have infthenced me." Perhaps there iormed American puldie men know very
it with fish. see his head cut off. Before the man could
promising, get the guillotine in .working order night least distinguished, might furfiish something
are many of us, who, without being in the well that, however desirable from their
Juglans manchurica is a most point of view it might be to have Canada an
nut tree from. Japan. A tree in the Arnold began to fall, and. VI. de Chateatibrun slipped intexestingtand valuable tin its degree in a integral part of such a vast Republic as In
Aboretum, from upd planted inthe Fall of away. When in the Champs Elysees he told candid reviews' of the books that have in- that case would then extend from the Arctic
a man that a wag had tied bis hands and finenced ua. To the litterateur such iiiquiry te the Gulf of Mexico, the time has not
1879, .11ae -blab Air borne two bushels of
robbed him of hie hat, and this simple indis seems to have a. singular charm. Naturall.y
mita. The fruit is larger, more nearly yet come. There are annexationists in
vidual ent him free. A few deys later M. it takes somewhat the form pf personal eon-
epherioal and less rough than our common Canada, but their numbere are as yet incon-
de Chateaubrun escaped from Fre.nce. Missions. A man must inevitablashow some -
butternut arid is of very good flavor. The siderable. The currents ot feeling which
f his Shing of own character, betray the work-
-nuts are borne in clusters with from six to make for change are tending rather towards
ins of his inner self, merely in signifying .
thirteen together. The tree hassborne now independence of Great Btitant alien towarde
his personal choice of books ; still more in
for Ave pr six years, and beaides the vale.- annexation to the United Steam, Any st-
reaking clear the effeot produced upon his
able crops it yields, it giveleagood promise tempt to coerce Canada would only stiffen
life by them. But this may perhaps be only her luck and make her more and more
a furtheiattraction. 1VIen like to talk about
eth averse to closer relations. The unfriendly
themselves and other men, as a rule, attitude of the American Government- on the
joy such ti:llt. There is scarcely a literary fishery question has done not a little to in-
tensify those Canadian feelings of separation
from the Americans which time and neigh-
bourlinese might have dissipated altogether.
. TELE " MACCARNEGIE " IN' CLUNY CASTLE.
—Mr. Cernegie, the Scotch -American, is
stanca front lus capacity fer pleasant, path- keeping high festival at Cluny Castle, where
Another Expedition,
Professor 'Neures,yr, of the Hamburg
Marine Observatory, is, it is reported, fitting
out another Antarctic exploring expedition.
It is difficult to see what geed object Will be
served by so dangeroos an enterprise., • A
scientific authority saya :—" Attem ts to
y pro. mon who has web more of real affection from
reach the North -ole have been clue
ductree of saffering and death; hat ehs,,y thousande of 1111kIlOWII readers than Oliver
WendelrHohnes ; and this warm feeling for
have beers conducted by easy paths and m
She inert is born, in spite of all intervening
pleasant places when compared with the of distance, varying receptivened of thought-,
terrors .that beset the, Antarctic 'voyager.
or differenoe of tilne and place told °hum.
The wean currents of the North are wholly
lacking. Even in cniclautniner the tempera -
as an ornamental tree.
The "Tribene," of San Luis Obispo
county, California, reports some wonderful
yields of onions ni the valley of the Arroyo
Grande. Theproduct of one acre wail weigh-
ed, and amounted to 60,905 pounds, or
more than 1,194 bushels. One.of the.onions
measured sevenMen inches in eirettinference.
A radish in the ,aatne valley is said to have
weighed thirteen pounds, being twenty-one
inches in girth and thirty-eight inches long
Boulangerti Pretty Daughter.
The report of the forthcoming marriage
Gen. Boulanger'S .youngest daughter with
his ex-aide-de.camp must be taken with a
very good sprinkling of salt—the General
and hie former eubeltern not being on the
best 'of speakieg.
Boulanger, who has now attained her she.
teenth year, is prettY and dietingue. She
has receiyed a very good edueation and is
very pleasing in manner. She 18 been act-
ing for Some time' as aesistaut secretary to her
father, many.of the fetters addressed to whom
she answers in a style peetiliarly charming,
and with a caligraphy even more charming
If a church be on fire, why bas the organ
the emptiest chance of escape? BeeauSe the
engine cannot play on it.
tura of the air never rads above the freez
ing poitt. Pogo and snowa and whirlwinds
are almcst constantly prevalent. And while
lichens and sea-vveed wereefound by. the
meet adventnrous Northern explorer, there
i6" not the remotest trace of vegetable life,
en land or in pea, within seven hundred
Miles of the South Pole. In brief, there is
no reasonable latospeat bi eahlable attain-
• ment in Antarctic researeb, but onlyt as Sir
• Wyville Thompson saye, anticipation of
disasters, multiplied a hundred fold above
the stories of horror in the frozen North."
'Whet the most difficult railroad train
to catch"? The 12.50, becanse it ie "ten to
one "11 you catch it.
Whet elation is a leaf of bread to a team
engine a Mother, 'because a loaf of bread is
a necessity; e steam engine an invention,
and necessity the mother of itivintion,
otio, or gossipy selare-velation. Youhemem- he arrived some we.eks ago having driven
ber how he beetle one special ohaptereof the from London four-in-hand. The American
Autocrat, and &ado that the sentence ithould flag flies ,from the old hems of Cluny Mac -
have been saved for a motto on the title -page, pherson, lait, apart from this, Mr. Carnegie
—"Aqui este, encerada el alma del lieenciado assumes the habits of a Scottish chieftain
Pedro Garcia." "Here lies buried the eon]," as far as isecompatible with other circum -
might well be written on the title -page- of stances., Every morning a piper marches up
many a book which bear* with it the con. and down under the windows of the guests
eoioue, or passably unaware, utterances of wakening them with strident tootle. At
souboonfession. The desk IS the greatest of nine o'clock a proceseion is formed, and the
confessions -le. There is expressed the yearn- guests march in to breakfast, withea piper
Mg desire in the heart of man to be by others leedisig the Way and the MoCitriiegie beaming
completely uncleretood,—a vain longing, hospitality. The four-in-hand is kept in at -
while as yet no man can attain to the fulness tendance, end once or twice a week the
of that precept, "Know theself ;" but still guests are taken for a drive. There are
he hopes, eed those to whom the mighty fishing and, of course, shooting and dinner
gift of thought -expression cornea still send at seven o'clock, when ate piper oece more
out their meseages, in trust that somdwhere, appears, the procession is reformed, and the
even if hut here aid there, one solitary re- host leadthe way to the dinner table. The
spenee from that "great unknown world of guests just now are chiefly Amerioana, who
souls May anewer the Fenn; and uncleretand- are much impressed with Mr. Carnegiees
ing of these his fellowmen, ii
segnoral manner.