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suppose that e, hundred shimcome and
go where one is lost, bat when one reflects
on the clangers to whiee they are exposed
he muali movel that am many eecepo. I saw
a list of thirty -air missieg ehips the ether
day, missing front Araericen, Eoglish, and
French port, and.the tete of each was un-
known or guessed t. Sy that balf of them
foundered in mirloceen, five woe run diem
in collision, five more were wreolied on capes
or Wu:nets where all hands perished, and
what became of tee red ? Sly that three
of the remainder were destroyed by fire,
aud what fate shalt we atteelo to the other
Ave? From the moment a veesel leaves port
to begin her voyage Me is exposed to danger.
and though a senor may be ever so breve
and hardy, he cannot shake eff the know
ledee thee he lives on the verge of tile grave.
There are gales, and fosse and collisions,
and 'are, and hidden rooks, ana powerful
curreuta ; and ao I repeat deft it la a marvel
tome sailing cratt are not added to the Iona
some liest of raitistng whieh le recerded year
by year.
In the year 1855, as tbe leritieh bark
Lod ()labeler, of which I was eecond
mate, wee approaohing the Canary Is-
lands, and when about 180 mileeelletent, we
were caught in the tail tied. of A cyclone aud
Isedly knocked about, We go e out with
some slight lose and a great deal of dIscone-
hilt, and were bearlog upagain to our
course when a gime calamity happened.
Half an hour before midnight, while the
bare eras. doing her best under a fresh breeae,
a enteden Ana greae ehock was felt. Her
emote went by the board, and, tot I reached
the deck, a minute after the Shock, the hull
eeemed to aplit open from dem to atom 1
Intilgone below to get a slate of hitters,
leaving the sleek only thirty aeon& before
the shook came, I WAS knocked dawn and
ooninsed, but it could not have beau over
eiety seconds, before I regained the deck,
It Was je0 in time to be carried overtoord.
I went with a lot et raffle km the &ohs,
and amid the frighteued °dee of the men,
erad A quarter of an hour later, when
hushed mystelf isz the croestrece of the main
met, 1 could nob get= answer to any of
my oda to the rest of the crew, Hew it
was that all wore loot 1 never could mite
out, There was raffle enough to heve
ed 500 mon, and my watch were certainly
all wide awake at the moment of the col.
Beim The only explatratiou 1 can give ie
that they were Somehow caught and crush.
ed. 1 drifted during. the reel of the night,
and Was picked up tit the morning by a
vessel hand lee By that time the wreek.
age had drifted apert until nothing could
be found. Xothiug whatever Was picked
up or out upon any there, and had. 1 not
beers sieved, the fete of the bark could male
have been guereed at,,
Whet did the colltdo with 1 Tile tookente
were ou the tow, and siert, and the night
tio eletrthat A ship could have been acen A
mile away, The °herb bowed dear wilder moderete pee, I 'should not have Teethed
for a hundred milegi about, and we moat it, It waa a Moat shave, and alit 1 bun to
have run full tilt upon time relied which had the mown° for A moment 1 heard a great
been diemasted and bilged in the huraceno, mina= on the brig. It was nudity, of
If loaded with timber, her decks would have course, and I was the &at victim. My Mee
been awash, and the would have been as bad WaS to get nboard mein as soon as passible,
as a rock to collide with. There wag wily and the only way was to get into the yawl,
one shook, and the whole bowel of the bark pullher dose up, and then shin up the pain.
were meshed in by it, tor. After an effort or two I pulled myeelf
Titre° years later, while off the Banks of in, and just then there were seethe awl cries
Brazil in a mall Begliatt ship called the and piatol shots from the brig, followed by a
White Cloud, Another estrange thing happen. couple of eplealies Manmade, which meant
ed. I was first mato of this ship, and about butt two bottles, living or dead, had gone
10 o'clock in the forenoon, the weather be overboard. I had hold ot the painter when
ing very fine and the wind light, I had all its wee loosened from above, and I drifted
the men on deck setting up the rigging, rapidly astern. The neat continued as long
some of which had aleckened away. A man as I was within hearing. I was out of it en -
aloft suddenly hailed the deck with the ho Only, and could only hope thee our crow,
formatioa theta large whale was bowing who wore aU good men, would overcome the
down on. thq ship, hood on. We wore a mutineers in the struggle,
merchant vessel, and the eight of a whale After the brig was out of sight 1 gob sail
had no intereals for us. We went on with on the boat, and followed bar to the best of
our work for three or four minutes, when my itidgmento It was just in the gray of
the ream agalnhailei mo with: morumg tbatt was picked up by a Britiah
"If that fellow holds his cairn be will be ship bound into Rio. It wasn't so very meta -
dead on to ne, lair. He's a big follow, and terions thet wove:Iced up the boat and that
corning like an iron gamma" her crew attempted our (septum, but it car -
I ran forward to get a look, and the Minty was queer that from the hour she left
sea was so smooth that I had no difficulty me to thia day thatbrig has never been heard
in malting out the whale. He WAS Still a
mile away; cornieg down at about steamer
speed, and holding a course as straight as If
somebody aboard of him was steering by
compass. I w tut not a bit alarmed, expecte
Ing to see him ahow flukes every moment,
but the Captain mine on dealt and ordered
the man at the wheel to break off two or
hree points'. This brought the' whale on
our port bow. As I told you I expected to
see him sound every moment. It was as-
tonishing that he bad not discovered ns
long before. I could warmly believe my
eyes as he held on, and by and by we had
him alongside. I am telling yon the truth
when I say he actually rubbed us as we
passed each other, and the odor of him was
SO rank that soma of the men cried out in
disgust. Thee whale was ninety feet long
if he was an ineb, and he had a head on
bim like a brick wall. Se far as we could
see be was carrying no harpoons and had no
fresh wound, but he was mom grown and
barnacled awn he had knocked about for a
couple of hundred years. The fact of his
holding his own in such a bullheaded way
was alarming, and wheel we were clear of
him we fell to congratulating ourselves
over the close shave.
not seen ny of the men your met with anti
wrookege, I WAS again the only one saved,
end but for my testimony the f's,te of the
elatip would have forever remained a MY/story.
As to why the whale atteeked us was made
more clear otter my moue. TheKnox bad
raised, and (Mame him the evening before,
and he had been "gained" or annoyed no
often during the morel) pest that be had
become ugly. He came for us with the in-
tention, of seeding the ship to the bottom,
and he eumeecled only too svell in carrying
out his purpoae.
A third mystery was the ease of the Janet
Wilcox, an American brighOnad for Rio Ja-
iled°, I was second mate of her when the
ocourreuce took pima We had bad weath-
er for a pod there of the voyage, but the
brig was new end staunch, and WAS at no
thee
in imminent peril. About 300 miles off
Rio, while sehoying A hit of good weather,
we one mormog raised A longboat bit ot
Men dead ahead of mt. Indeed, the boat
had taken clowit her sail and was waiting far
ua to coma up. There were nine men aboard
of tier, and tbey bad plenty of water and
proviatenS. The story they told waa that
they were a part of the crew of a large
liritieh ship whioa had been bargee, two
days before, They eleitned that all hed
got off in the boate7but that the boata heel
i
become eeparated n the heavy weather.
They were a hard looklag lot, composed of
all nationalities, awl when we had taken
them aboard our chprain was by no means
satiaded with thew story- 000 of them,
claimed to be gegend mate. ands .44 the
crew had all got ann. two boats, et was a
puzzle that tee first mate was not in COM'
Anna ef one, Other strange things mime
up, and thsa sitory of the melt did net hang
together., and mall hands were Ordered to
hese an eye on the -relieve.
Wo got a good dent ef wind and had run
down to within fifty or sixty milea of the
coasts when the fellow* thawed their hende.
They hed been awed to roiegle fteely with
our crew, but heti carefully alastamed trona
o *meth to tedieete that they had an 0411
purpose in view, Thor beet NM lerge and
traktieldy, and we hail towed, It atter ue
rather than to cut it levee or to etteraph to
hoist it inboard. I WM on watt* from eight
to twelve, and nothing asuipiclone marred
during the fiat three hours. About 11
o'clock, eta I atood neer the Man at the
wheel, I was hailed from the fcrerestet
with;
"Or, Merlin, will you pleaae etep for.
ward and take it loah at sernethiug we gen't
make out!"
I afterward recalled thet it Was not the
veto of one of my watch, but I did notheed
the matter at the time. I started fersteard,
and bed reached the width of the vaned
Mem two men mind tne, lifted me clear ot
the deck, and before I could recover front
my astonialuneut I watt keg overboard head
tint It was more by inland than any
plan of my own that I swam for the boat
towing Went. Had the brig not been mil
ing close Muted, and therefore sailing at a
We were perheps a mile apart when the
whale stewed around. The moment we dis
covered what he was sioiug we knew that
he meant to attack. The breeze had now
died away until we could not hope to dodge
him, and he had not yet fairly turned when
we dropped the yawl fromthe davits and ran
her alongside to the bow. Two mer were
ordered to get water end provisions into her
and as the whale headed up for us we went
off before the light breeze to give him ea
the room we could. Three or four minute!
settled the question of whether he was after
the ship or sailing his own course. He head-
ed up for her, coming faster and faster, and
when he was two °Wes' length away
there was a great white wall of water
rolling before him and his speed
was fromeighteen tit twenty miles
an hour. He struck us full on the
starlieeri quarter, and the shook was as if
two ships had collided. Planks and ribs gave
way before him, oaid'as he recoiled from the
blow our ahip settled down 'stern first and
was under water within two minutes. Every
body was knooked clOwn by the shock, and
everybody got .up to rude fer the yawl. I
was suoket1 down almost as soon as I reached
my feet, and after a struggle, in which I
came out first best by a close shave, I was
abet to the surface amid a lot of deck raffle
There were two or three men around me at
first, and as I was heaved up I .caught sight
of the yawl with at least two men in her.
The whale was still at hand, lying very
quiet, but I feared he would mon be aroused
mid attack us in turn, and I seized the galley
door and paddled away to get out of his
reach. While doinse this a squall came down
and hung on for twenty minutes, and when
it had passed I could see nothing of boat nor
whale.
That afternoon, an hour before sundown,
I was picked up by tete American whaler,
Richard Knox. She already heel our yawl,
which she had found bottom up, but had to keep it going, but only one to end it.
of. But for my escape she would have been
l'AtQd As boat, and the ineurance paid. As it
was the insurance company contestee pay -
mime and won their case in court The uo
mance of that day, &eked, did not provide
for say such einergeney. 'the leaved and
merchant eervice of every power v9as notified
of the circumstance, and for two or three
years every tea waa under observation, but
the brig was never overhauled, nor any of
her old orew heard of, My idea is that she
foundered within a few days with all hands,
but others differ. She certainly did no turn
pirate'and she was never herd of as a
wreck. There was no amis. British ship as
the men amid, nor was any °ran burned as
they stated. They must bave been tying in
waft ; but it is queer that they would be to
far outto ma in such a boat, Taken all in
all, it was a strange cese, and no me has
ever got the rights end of the thread to solve
the tangle.
The Coat of Ocean Steamships.
•
An order for a new ship of the OlaPa re-
quired to compete in the modern passenger
service of the Atlantic is not by any means
a matter to be determined on without grave
coneideration. Speed is costly, and as you
inereate it ib is generally necessary to also
increase the tonnage. This forces upon
your consideration tides, channels, harbor -
bars, and dock accommodations, all of whieh
impose limitations upon you. And then
the coat of the ship herself is not a matter
which even the wealthiest of corpoiatious
aan provide for at a moment's notice: it is
not one hundred thousand dollars, nor five
hundred thousand dollars that the work
calls for, but about five times the latter sum,
for it is safe to say that a vessel superior to
the City of New York or the Etruria could
not be hunt for leas than two million and a
half of dollars.
Sometimes the shipbuilders are willing to
become pert owners of the projected vesael ;
sometimes they take as part paymeut for the
work sorne older vessels of the line, whieh
they refit, re. engine, modernize, and sell again.
The ability of the builders to make an ar-
rangement of this kind, of courise, influences
the placing of the centime in le measure,
but they must oleo be able to give certain
guarantees. They must enter into an en-
gagement that the projected ship shall be
able to carry so many passengers and so many
tom of °ergo, and to attain a specified speed
on n given consumption of cotil per day,
Let us say, for instance, that the stipule.
Hone are these: Accommodations for 600 sa-
loon pemengers, 150 intermediate passengers
and 1,500 steerage passengers; registered
tonnage, 6,000 ;. speed, 19 knots on a con-
sumption of 300 tons per day. If the ship
fans to fulfil these conditions the builders
agree to forfeit a part of the amount they
would otherwise receive for her, or they
may be compelle1 to take her back alto-
gether. This was the case with the City of
Rome, which Was built for the Inman line
hy the Barrow Shipbuilding Company .--
William H. Ricleing; in (Scribner's) fur Agit.
.ArawAN 8tT$JUGAT1ON.
The Vilssmann Expedition, aril Its Effect on
British Interests.
cePtaiU Wheeeleee, Who fe now trideavour
ing to recruit some black soldiere in Egypt,
has spared so pebse to eeoure the succeas of
thelittle force with welch he hopes to recon-
quer lesagara, Usegue, likami, and alguro
ter the Ger Mao Esiet African Cempeny, and
to impose a apaxGermanice" on all the siosee
line bet:weep Wane and Revemo. Bay..
With the Geveritmerie funds au hje dispoeal
he has hired or purchased a numberof small
Steamers, chiefly; cutters and pinuse,es, and
has engaged rune qualified cfacers of the
mercantile marine to command them. He
aleo been permitted by the Emperor to
hire the services of a number el eon- commie-
alossed t Moors of carloin fleid artillery rega
imam for A period of one year. Before his
departure from Germany. be 'selectee e0 of
these*charming only steno men with pram
deal knowledge of 'special handicrafts. For-
ty more have been selecttd since. Their
pay will very from 410 te 412 a mouth dnr-
iog their siteience, and upon their riaturn they
will he allowed to resume their old places in]
their old coring. prviaion heviug been made
for keepin those pleeee open Ceptaie
Willman*: will also have eerier hie orders 30
commissioned effisere, meat of where are at-
tached te
Ttie BI0111,44 MOM
er the reeerves. The uniform ot the Gar,
man "Colooliti Teeope," ea tbey are called,
ia provided by a Hamburg firm. The outfit
of every ofecer comprises one suit of blue
serge, tWo suite of cashmere, and flVe of
fi umel. The coat is of jecketi out; the Mit-
tens; Are of the yellow umform Army paeterit ;
And the hedge of rook is went upon ow*
elteve. All the Widget* are of this national
coleure, bleek, whtte, and red. The rep -
Won boots are of netarat loather, end shoes
made of couvee aro Ala° provided, Only
woollegs underclotbleg is to be worn. The
heed.drese may be either the white pith het -
met er the fez. The farole of the Oh sera are
the ride, eevetry ethre, and revolver. The
unliorme of the Europeen privatee will be
of the eeval pattern SAVO that the blowtee
wilt he out oloort eitoliti the neck. The men
will carry heyonete, revolves's, and rifise of
the meek M. 71. Bitch offieern camp equi-
page willfurther inelude two woollenblen-
iiet, end one Olken rug, a mosquito net, A
aiI cloth sheet, an airimehion, a waterproof
bag and eteet, and a menklietash, together
With A aeld•ftealt and filter, aeignel whiatle,
e pair of mire, a compeas, a hunting -knife,
and a leathern pewit end belt. Every cam,
Vete affixes outfit hes beeneeet to Zenzlher
eepantrely peeked in t4Wo lead-"itied teeter-
prooted Cates ot
all US= l'ORTAIII.E S128.
The entire force will, it is weileretood,
mutat *1 39 officer; 19 zion commiesioned
oftiCers, and 1,000 teen beetles 300 or 1.090
porters, if the laat can be obtained, Toe
tint heed•quArters Aud darting point of the
=podiums seal be Bsgamoyo, A port and
miaelontity station on to the mainland to the
aouthoveat of Zerelher. From Begarneyo
runs the main germ° or trede route hilend
to helm Tenpuyika. Another route, starte
log from Members, ohposite teaser, joIne
it at Simard, about 120 miles from the
omit ; and it hi an the lino of theee two
mince that Captain Whounom propane to
act, so far ea the interior is comma& Ile
will alma reek* nee oi the River Warne,
whichrune from the gentre of Tangent find
entera the Indien Oman by two mouths
between Seadani and WWI, lie does not
at present think of advancing %land further
than the mission stations at Xisokwoh and
hipetsputo about 190 miles frotri Bagemoyo
but his progrhea will be delayed by the
necenty which will existfor 'ponying the
tracts lying on each side of Ids line of march;
and as the territory of the Gorman Company
is nearly twice as terve aa Holland and
Belgium, it% expeoted that lie will be away
from the coast for fully three menthe.
Whothee he will at once proceed inland, or
will at firat deal with the auti-Gerinan
movement along the masa &prier to ho as
yet undetermined ; but sooner or later he
primmest to rotate order at Linda
Doven-Solatim, Paugatu, Tonga, and other
porta at which,
0ISTUILUANCES114,110000nkitn.
In doing this, he ie not likely to itefect Bri-
tish interest to any great extent, until he
commences to operate north of the Nugent
River, which forms the northern boundary
of what is properly German territory.
Then the -danger will begin. The Britieh
sphere of influence reaches southward to
the Umba River, and it is feared thee, as
soon as the Germane commence to sot in the
neighbourhood of that stream the anti -
European feeliog among the natittes may
spread wren it and lead to outbreaks at
Mealtime, Kisolutini, and the inland eta -
done. Already it has taxed all the tact
and resources of Admiral Fremantle and the
Beglish authoritim on ahore to prevent' that
feeling from spreading; and the presence of
Cha British fleet off that pert of the coast,
though ostensibly foe the prevention of the
slave trade, is in reality celled for more
particularly by the discontent which has
been stirred up among the /leaves by the
action of the Germans in the south. As a
matter of fact there is no 'slave trade from
or to the coast' between the fliers Tana
and Uraba—the coast, that is, which be-
longs to the sphere of immediate British in-
terests. As yet it is quiet at Mombasa.
But when Caetain Wissmann carries fire and
sword into Usambora and Masai Lend, it is
only too probable that the natives, who are
at presens friendly, may cease to diecritain-
ate between Engliehmen and eiermans, and
may attempt tp revenge the misfortunes of
their kinsmen by rising against the former.
It takes two to make a a quarrel and tw
Tag LATE COLLIERY DISASTER.
Tbe US AY VIto -Names or the victims.
Prom Eoglish papers just to Mina we ore
eneblectio give further perticulers of the
terrible demister, The scene of the ACeident
19 the Paulsen Pit. one cd; the Bryamally
Collierk§l% N,41•Sh Wales. It is titivated at
hilarniQuxi4ahlitr is o4wbQixueilt IbQy4redrcir.iicTshofsr.°CtalleVrytoire::
fefermetian of the fearful occurrence spread
rapidly la the intraediate neighborhood,
and word was sent to the managers oL cote-
tigeotiti ooil1enier. In a very ehisre time the
ceiliery nee besieged by a crowd, of excited
men and tearful women, anxious to learn the
nature 44 extent ei the digester, and the
fate 0.1 OW near and dear to them who
were KooWn to ham been In the pit At tee
tium Expicartog perefte were promptly
formed* sad, the wradiug gear not hay
ing been injured, the aVerlooker of the
colliery, Mr. Robert Parry, and °there at
once went down rhe pit, with a ViKAY to the
emote:ex or TUE SOMES
Of thoee wit° had been kiIlsd, and the laser.
Won of any whe -might be etili living -
Amen them who lent their aseistanee n the
prosecutieo of this lemerdons endertaking
were Mr, T. H. Clayton, tau of the propre-
etor t Mr, John Powell, Managerof the Vron
Colliery; Oldlington, of tbe Firw4 Col-
liery; and ter, Raft Beane, of the West -
minister Colliery. At the time cif the explo-
sion there were 103 woritere in the pith end
et there74 were in the lower level., AS the
9421 ANIMALS. 4:0T;
bova.viowe Pistakcs 141,14.0.UtiarrAYM
In WhIcAlriaqito.
latr..Gt A. Freemen in ii Nature" writee ;
"Liedee tele heading Sir 4-oatt Isubbessa, lo
his Tecont interns** book on The. Seimee
of Atiimels," aeverel ludencee of ap-
parent 0000tiog in the polite of imieets. He -
oeys. : (iiiitepeefte of Ketneeite atipeliee
Ise yeneg wleti Ore vietitoo,- one 10, another
10, And Ann even oe many as 24. Vie.
omelee:. is tottl: to be tesnetaell in each epeciee..
'low, thou, deem the iegget kneW W1304 her
taelt is ftielled • Not itv tbe oeli being.
Ailed, for if 4941.4 he reotaved She deo oot re -
piece teem„ the genus Eumenes
the stielee are smeller then the feutelee, In
nomeIl5rerEntOVS
the mother Icnows whether the egg wit
produce a mete or a female grub, and appor-
Hone the quantity of food Acoordingly. She
does not chetige the species or the of her
prey; but if the egg is male she Supplied Ave,
if female 10 victims, Does e1*count Cer-
Melly this seems very like earreneoCement
of arithmetio. Now, it seams to me that
this can be expleined la A far Simpler And
more rehab% mauner then by grappling
that bisects have any power of eonuting.
think wo may safely consider -0) That a
certain, AVerase amount of food ls reqnired
in each owe (2) TOO a certain Average time
la required by tbat bleeds to colleet vide feed.
(3) Toot the eggs oi the insect follow one
(leepeet team, whigh was the mane of the mother et aeeraditrete, over which eho hs
dieester. The exp:oeion took plate absut little or no control (4) That the eggs w bleh
half a ballefeem the hette2ief the &heap and are to produce metes, being elnaller. take
20 lives were lose. less time to form. and follow at therter Inter -
Touching the genre of the colAntity. it i vale then de these whigh are t rerblea
fern flee, tfaar take the gent of the HUMAN
which provide 10 'deft% She metes the
cell, wed goes on aiding caterpillars until
the egg comes to maturity and the cell flotelo.
ad off She thee repeeta the pro:sees. leylog
the eeg When IN 04Inte to meterity, as be-
Seenea were witocaecel 04 the bodies were fore.
brought to the perfects And conveyed, wrapp
est up le brettige glean to a woggereelied Tag ISTSliv.V. anWliftf,
about 46 yarde from the pleopouth, th°14Ylag °A° vgg "d the Pelt helea
drat three workmen brought up were deed, 1Q.Pg.00940.4 an ;he overage: to Provide 10
then hollowed three who were reintentated ; v441,t1c411 ta tho ogg LI produce s.
hut AU the reminder were beyond recovery. mows the 4.114ter lot•ervaioolY ailowa of A, ve
The medical men al the dietrioe were early Wog Pr,ovtdet Thhere tion oo,ueeq to
osa the spot after the explasioa reedy to give docile tile Mine steep. may power ta count-
assistaim Valuable aid woe Moo reudered, leoga or bnow„lug bebrebeed AuYthlog
to the exploring perttea by tlaelocel members a"th the g" " the °Sgt. It ie merely
at iathltrierjrobAwmAttrettwzonceeoloande:itotTnegtri atiether latteum cf the perfeht way la which,
by the pro*' at cf evehltten, me= are
itr fatal (limiter. Oa that net/alien there adoPted to ewle.Tbe tome exPlariativo
wee apptiee to other CASSA *motioned, The bee
A arelige Lennon lehoured to fill the ctn. (la which a hole hod
of water, and 14 Vivo woe mierifieed, About bun media Ito that the honey ran Ant agelu)s
13 year4gis eu expleilen (marred in the motile "when 41" 1144 brought the 11511.4
Crank cettogero, eougsios the death at three eemPicutent af hooeYs abro leR her eggs and
moonTha icqueat so the hodiereigte opened graveY up too eioPth
oancaTtigeounrshtvyto, itenfotrarreinrwitneissalmidrnenetdi: "flie mYst°d°44 m*°/3" tb6 /3" teela When
The faLlowleg ise Het of the killed t—
darnee Doviee a hey, lifitIceek ; B W.
DOwerde,o boy, Brymba ; WlULaun Kee-
drick, a young MAU* enrneY Thames
wards, a morried men (who leevee a large
ferolly), Cereey ; Tholusei Divies, a belt,
Pentte; Harry Tudor, o "'ogle mao. Cite
Polity; Smouel hilillugton, a boy, Mose;
Peter Griffith", a young Inttn. Carney Even
wiltiores, mooted, Cerney ; Robert TIUMSAS
Elwards, eon of Thome Bdwerde ; Arthur
Thome, a hose Cotney ; Thomiut Jones a
yonm men, Carney; Rawer]. Itowletid, a
bay, Halms& Willitime a bay,
stated that helf an hoar before the exploalon
the dremee whine duty it was to examine
the ;pot where It warred, found the plete
martial' hoe from gas Vila !coda to the
ouppoeition *hot the at:dawns was doe to sk
nddan ntbUrat of gas. Some toughing
FOREIGN NOTES.
There are but sixteen female doctors in
Paris, it is said.
Twenty hitherto unpublished letters of
Mendelsaohn have appeared in Germany.
Calvin's old chareh, the Cathedral ef St,
Pierre in Geneva, is, it is maid, to be re-
stored.
The women, in England exceed the men
by 3,000,000, and yet Englishmen come to
America for their wives.
The library of the British Museum will
not hereafter supply novels' to readers until
eve years after publication.
India rubber is being tried ata a substitute
for asphalt in pavements in Berlin, and the
result is sitid to be good, but expensive.
Amelia C. Edwards, the English novelist,
Is coming to this country to lecture upon
Egypt. She is An expert on Egypt, ancient
and modern.
There are marriages still at famous Gretna
Green. Oae wattle Lang there takes the
place of the anoient blacksmith, and in the
public house eplioes a dozen or so of runaway
couples every year.
Ztla hes obtained permission to ride upon
a locomotive during one of its longest and
foetest trips, and in his next book will be-
e troduce the experience, with reinarks upon
engine men and their work. "
einem ; Peter Jones, e boy, 'Carney ;
Chooloss Hughes, a boy, Mose; Henry
Gageten married, Windy -hill. Gweratillt ; '
Thomas 'Willigont, married, Flittli; Hugh
jewel, men ied, Mount Pleasant, Broughton;
Thomas Jaz-vie, a boy, Pentre.
ahe hoe provided ea mu* hooey as her an -
cetera had done before her, and regards
ber work as eecomplislted." I ehould wog
gett thot tho 'bee merely pea on bangle
heuey until the egg is ready. She the
starts another cell, and goes through the
sameroutine until the lieZt egg iv ready, etel
so on; the average auteuntl ot honey coiled;
ed being proportional to the tutored between
the hying at one egg and the oext. Aceord-
ing. to the theory of evoluthau, tide leterval
le met auffinent for enough food to he pro-
vided for the use of the grab."
IMING OLD FURNITURE.
•••=11••••
5. ReAnior llndusto, in Supplying the
Trude with eutiguet.
There le s. great puition nowedeye for An-
tique ertiolee of farniture, and it bas given
hitch to a world of sham antiquitiee. An
Twiny of limilloraftsmen aro beady eugaged
In the nitusufecture of theao wares, which
aro palmed off on gonfiding people as belay
200 cr 303 yearn old* and doted from any de -
eked landmark in history,. Old theirs, old.
tables, old drowns, old beititeade, and old
anything, even if made last week, have
great value in the eyee of many persons sat-
lefie,d, with antiquity in appearance,
Worm *Attu furniture la now one of the
rage*. This stuff is easily producea with
the aid of bird shot, tvhich is fired into it.
Old houses torn down furnish worm eaten
thnber, which is turned to good account in
fabricating old ade of furniture. Old door -
keys, meditevel bellowe, gilt flombeaux la
Lents XIV style, warming-paus and braise
tendons of the fourteenth century, vandals
Ora, and even DM enuffers and purchasera
as fast as these antique wares can be made
by skilful artisans in oneof.the-wey placea
of the gay capital. Old coins and Regency
clocks are cast by tbe ton every day in Paris,
but they are very amerce and bring fabulone
prices.
Ret Ihmulleg.)3114.
His name Wag Dot, and he wen the tiniest
mite—nob limier than a good -deed humble.
he* I found him one morning lansummer,
after a aevere windstorm, lying helpless,
with one at bia gauzy wings injured in tenth
a way then ho could. not use It far flying.
Howe:get atall frighteued when I approach
ed and picked him up, but Lashed Appealing.
ly at me out titbit very emelt black eyes. I
could not but admirethe elegance of his
dress, showing green and gotd, with a glow -
mg petrel of red on bie breat, while hi",
feathers were perfumed with the scent of
many flowers. Naturally so emelt a bird
did not require a mension to live in. Indeed,
Dot triad to tell me, in the way birds have
of talking, that a cosy abode would
mod with his approval. I found that a
paste -board box would answer the purpose,
and when I had strewn the bottom with
aweet-emelling.leaves and put a twig across
it in die wav of furniture, Dot was installed
in bis new home. He would neat .quietly
on his parob, dreaming, e.s imagined, of
the days that were gone, of the blue sky,
the sweet June breeze, untie, recollection
proving too Atom he would try to nee his
wings. Then, alas 1 irstead of bearing him
up, an they were wont to do, they could give
him no sapport, but let him hal to the floor
of tie home, there to lie patiently waiting
for someone to replace him in an upright
position.
Every morning Dot and I would snake a
too of the garden, his specks ot feet resting
confidently on my enormoue fioger. We vie
ited every bloat= in turn ana, he took a
little honey from each. idatty a time 1
thought I had lost hine he went so deep
down into the huge morning-glories.. When
the season of flowers was over I made a mix-
ture of eugsr and water to take the place of
his naturalfood. lie did not appose to dis-
tinguish any lack in the fisvour of this.make-
believe honey, and when I let a drop of it
form on the end of my floger, he was always
ready to run out hisionglongue (which look-
ed like a thread of silver) and sip it elf. Be
seemed to thrive on this artifimal diet, and
would no doubt bu living now had 1 not one
fatal day pieced the dish containing it too
near him. I lett him musing in his quiet
way over past delights, buteeturned to find
his body floating in this sticky sea with his
deer little feathers in sad disarmer. Poor
Dot 1 His trials were over, and I consled
myself by fancying that he War away in the
hummingbirds' heaven, happy in a garden of
flowers of whioh we have never seen the
like.
A Baby Seized by a Wildcat.
A NEW NETROD OF ADVERTISINO.
Ibo atuie Semen And Largo eiftee the Woke
Bound,
The euecessful Muslims mese At to -a#.1, -
freely admit that tee principle of advertieing.
hea heeeute an eV/Pulled quality in the con-
duct of any mercantile eetabllehment. De-
veloped aft it has been, into armee if nolt
quite, a distinct and separate art, le in
applicable to all departments cif tredete
to traesadiona of every sot between Mil-
er and buyer, from which, indeed It be
practically bemparable, and with h"
samosa of which it will alwaya he itlenti9ede
Ae the developmeut of tins pricdpio ben
progeeded by easy stages from, a period
when fecilitiee for attreeting the attention.
of a, wider circle of poenhle boners were
Ant provided by the weekly prate to on ex*
When competition hal% readered lb aberslutelY
necessary to increase the range of mote
mikes cooatittonsey, tbe methods of apply -
jog it hooto ohm gone tbren,gb akinti 01
reyontionizitng proceas. Formerly eater-.
deers seemed to he posseased ef an ides,
teat the wattee of the people at large were'
governed alratet ebeoliftely by the Mamas;
of tlie year, and at parti-ular times only
did they endeavoue Oa attract buyers to
their estoblishmente through a medium a
newspaper advertisement*. Hader thie
idea any aeripee of stock Intl aver after.
the lender:dal nth of bus/nesse in Aar
perticular reason wee left over to the wrest -
pending period el the next yeer, thus mem-
eerily summing open buyers a certain
proportIon of tartlet.* either ;somewhat.
ithoperone or old fashioned. 01 come
certain raiment of Waimea was done in the
ietervels hetweve gemosui but the average
merehaet Wag eentent to'drag Moog from
ecaeoa to memo, wog. eatisged it from one
interval to Another hie beoke thawed An san
;lone toes,
IJnW tviatio the lest few gem, theterorel,
the busy emelt* were apaamotlie in their
venire, involvieg coreful buyiug, lest
greeter dock alneeld soeured thou would.
be warranted by the prospective demigod,
and excellent bergeinis were cloubtleiv erten
geerifficed by the merchants theutteavesi
through the fear that the apparently advan.,
tageona purchase 'slight item an elepluintio
and MIlialable surplinl on their couutere and
thelven It ia ode to guy that no AnCh QUA,.
OM Are allowed to slip by, through any each
fear, in the present era of treats.
It was whee the enterprising merchant
finally realized thet the wants al the people
were conetant, in semen and out of moon,
WO their need* 'Were governed Ity the
degree of weer and teer as smolt as by
ehouglog fesittene or the evolutton er the
gement, thet began to cheep Lie
methods ef adveraaing, Initeed, of trying
to inereme hie sale* on certain perieds only,
therefore* he odvertised largely all the 3 ear
round,
Having found thie to have been prefitsble
braved bbs shrewdest eslculetiote,
uother stege le the progress of the Delver.
log are naturally followed, nut% to deers
he bat eempletely revolutionized the
metbode of Advertisiag, and expreatee bbs
Aokuowledgment a the potency of the prin.
tip% involved by his detailed aunouncemente
tn the rapers.
Eeteepriee hoeing taken the lead in the
application of the priueiple, compeatina
mule it neceasery for theirown welfare that;
others 'should fell luta line, one patent fector
to promptly effeeting which has been the
dente on the port of each %umlaut that bis
advertioug I the sump:Tern should not
bear utdaverable comparison with others in
the LIMO line of trade, for the public, lug
la well known, judge largely by cemperit
eon%
The Slave Trade in Central Africa.
Several eirmlnuitances have combined o
late to call particular attention to the trado
in slave's carried cite in Equatoyial Africa.
The venerable Cardinn Levigerte has been
preaching a orneade against it. The ques-
tioning eyes ol the oivilm.d world have been
peering intro the recessee of the Derk Con-
tinent to catch some teaseuriog glimpse's of
Stanley and Ernie Pasha. The recent ant -
breaks 10 Z tnziber have been more or lees
closely connected with the accursed trade.
And in spite of all that hes been said and
written end done about the matter, the
"open sore of the world." as Livingstone
called it, hes not been healed. The trade is,
indeee, staid to threaten the very exnuation
in oppresaed races, for the havoo the traders
make is frightful. .
So far from the slave trade being on the
decline, It is, by the unanimous testimony
of unimiumehable witnesses, vastly on the
increase. It has, indeed, entirely oeased on
the West Coast, by the general agreement
of the Powers originally interested in it ;
and this fact has led many into the error of
thinking that -the African slave trades as
such, was virtually abolished; but in Cen-
tral and Eastern Africa ie not only exists in
full aotivity, but has attained a develop-
ment which was never before known in his-
tory. In 1875 the annual drain caused by
the slave trade was estimated at 1,000,000,
10 19 now put down at 2,000,000 souls. This
number of course includes far more than the
slaves actually sold; these bear but a small
proportion to the numbers who are killed in
the slave raids, and who die on tte march
to the coast
The inhabitants around Good Hope, Ohio,
are in a state of panic from the appearance
of a wildoetefi This strange beast was seen
several times and the people were growing
more and more alarmed, when last Wednes-
day- it spread terror by seizing the little
child of Isaac: Thompson. About 10 o'clock it
walked up to the door of Thompson's house.
The' door was propped on the inside with a
chair, but the beast was so heavy and stout
that it made no halt, but went in and took
the babe—not yet 2 years old—from the bed
where it had been left asleep. There ate
three ether children in the family. They
raised a yell, but the bloodthirsty beast
wouldn't give ne its prey. It went toward
the lot, jutnped the fence, crossed to another
fence and when on top dropped the child on
a log in attempting to climb the ten -rail
fence. The child was not much hurt ' The
oat escaped and has not been heard from
lance.
Double-jointea People.
Nob everyone mitt be a 000tortionIsto
Some feats aro absolutely imponeible to
tbe average men, Others, again*depend
less ott peculiarities of etruoture than an
thoth of function. When we come to
cousider what, and how great, are the
deviations from the uormid struoture of
bones, joints. and muscles, we feel at
once the diffitulty of defining. precieely
what it terms!. The rouge of Individual
verietion is wonderfully great. I have
seen humen %boulder-1)1%am so Meow*
that if they were the bones of 'unknown
animals sent for examination to eluxley's
edentate inhabitant of Saturn it Is highly
probstee theft he would main theta to
different species. To take a more familia
illustration, it is wan known that *Waren
differ greatly in their ability to turn out
their toes. Failure to do so does not imply
awkwardness but often dependa solely an
the shape of ihe bones of the leg, which offer&
a hindrance which it is 'melon amity to
cell on the child to overcome at once, though,
it may yield to long -continued treatment.
Now. jest as some children naturally tura
out their toes more than others,so soma
ease bend their backs and twist them-
selves more than others, and in all like-
lihood the primary cause is in both oases
a peculiarity of atruoture which may wen
have been increased and accentuated by
suitable exercises, till in. some eases the pe-
culiarity has become so pronounced that it
must be called abuomml. Many carioua
questions are involved in this study, which
are puzzles to anatomists and surgeons as
well as to others. There are various points,
of litble practical importance, which are se
ftimiliar that one ie surprised to find out
how little they are understood. One of them
What is the actual condition in loom -
jointed or "double jointed" persons, as they
are called? What occurs when peewee "snap
their joints," or when some movement of
the knee causes a sudden report? I am not
aware that these latter petitions have ever
been satisfactorily answered, --t Dr. Thomas
Dwight, in the April " SoOner's."
Ash Wednesday no longer interferes with
theatrical performances in London. Where-
as all the theatres used to dose on that day,
only two thin year raid any attention to it,
and these merely announced that they would
keep open.
A Dubuque inventor has patented an
electric lights designed especially for the de.
tedion of burglars. The apparatus can be
so arranged Hutt a burglar in entering a
bank, office or dwelling, will, in his opera-
tions, touch something which will muse a
flesh, and the result will be his photograph
left indelibly on the plate. A number of
cameras may be platted in the room and a
variety of views taken simultaneonely. The
tell-tale wire can be fastened to the knob of
the safe or door so that he cannot avoid
touching it, thus disclosing his identity.
Spring.
t •
BY AROMA MACIS.
Sweet Spring with joy is ushered in,
Beneath her touoh the wild floaters spring
From winter's sleep, and hill and dale
Are clothed with her enchanting veil.
The trees put forth their thousand leaves,
The wind a softened murmur breathes
Upon the birds, and flowers*and grass,
Whioh lift their heads as itcloth pass.
All nature springs to life again
And bursts grim winter's icy chain;
In softened tones it lifts its voice,
And in new life now doth rejoice.
The Spring—the season for the mniust,
Which like thane into life has sprung,
Gives, in its quiet simple way,
A lesson to us, day by day,
E soh day some budcliug leaf or flower
Rep:tads or withere in an hoar.
How oft, we see, fair childhood bright
Cut off, as 'I were, in morning light.
Then let us learn this lesson well,
Which sweet toned spring doth ever tell,
That Spring 10 childhood's balmy day,
While many live—sesne fade away.
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Angeomanise—"That's the way it goes.
If we nunt foxes folkes say we're cruel; if
we hunt aniseed bags folks laugh at us.
What oan we hunt without exciting indig-
maw or ridioule 1" Smell boy—"Cabs V'