HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-4-18, Page 6" APP., POOL JOKE,
Att a dinner given recently by a ;moiety
medicAl etudents, �x ef the most celebrate
surgeone of New B zer' wed, who was a gue
of the young fellewe, in response to t
toast, "Ms First ear of Medic
Practice " reltd the bellowing enecelote
0 oneIdsiearly profeseional efforts.
4'1, took oty degree ed the Medleal Co
lege,' attid he, " twenty-aix yore age,
remember juat how fresh aud green t
whole -world lotted to me on therm Ju
days. The color may have been, pertly
refleotion froze somethieg !aside rate
deed, I had an intuitive Meting their this w
the fact. In considering -where it would
hest for me 0 settle 1 Accordingly axe
leaterally, en the mei distriets, where t
coetrest between the general. aspect
nature and, my awn condition would be le
shihing.
** I went to a eneell town 0 New Ham
shire and hung elm ray ' in a litt
kin d 0 21 v44Iage, where the poop
were mostly lambermen. wishi prinklm
of
'reireh-Cenadiane, There, I thought,
might; pick up -enough preliminary praeti
to cut my profeseioeAl teeth.
"But even with the advantages of th
rustic, green background, there was still
vernal contrast not iu my favor. I coo
see that evea the lumbermen's wives mad
fun among themeelves of the yoneg dect
aud hiss new tronle, but the old people of th
plaee particularly the old ladiets seemed
havetheugee theareelves authorized to as;
me any lerefeesional question that intereste
them, but tee for payieg cre! they had se
idea; 0 tieing -that, My advsce WAS wort
hAving it 0 we to belled for pothinee.
So, 0 aetuel pati ce whielt brims
we la my income. bad next to none
thet Immures- 011, I heel but two on
• calls" all that sealem, mad one case W
triezely cite of toothaelm. There Wee 4
older physielen settled five milee ditteo
and I tentatively imaghted thet be dispara
ed me,
" However, it did uot oot me inuth
live there, My cf-fiee rein wee but thit
ceete A week, 1 Rot fiord for 4 deller an
filty elute a week, and 1 kepe horse,
" .Duriag the eucceedime a inter I bad on
or two ceeee where them were etvere "eolde
and three or four of out leet eauteag the lute
barmen, but when there were any eeriou
ailment% the old doctor ' was Sent fe
Naturally treough, I may sey now, theugh
Seemed cruelly =Pater:it to me,
" By sprieg I wae gettiug pretty badly
fiomeially, in spite of severllethe
remitteeete from 116me, 1 wee needitesio
all aorta of desperate shifts and expedients
when pat At neon Pee by a lumberman
with A epee of hettey dreuehe homes and
eled, drove up et 4 round pace for so beAv
a team, and rapped loudly At my offie.
door.
44 44 fellow they call Pete, up at Jobu
ethea leggin' cetalt. 'a vet his ehouldee out o
fiat,were Ida fleet worde. Terry wart
you to come up au' set it. Yee're the doe
tor, Aint ye: he atsked.
'That's my profeesion,' I replied, wit
proper dienity, and inquired as to the plac
and the distance.
" take ye Week with me,' the matt re
plied. *1 Iota a-purpeee for ye.'
Ali slight,' 1 aaid, a good deal elated
with a vitiort of a five,tecelar fee dancing i
my mind, I ran in to pok up what 1 nugh
need, including my surgical erree and a bot
tie of chloroform,
" In two rainutea 1 wan out and on tit
sled with the teameter who had enntmene
me, and on the way to the logging cam
about six miles dietaut in the woods to dr
north 0 the little villege, The !MOW ha
begun to thaw, and the winter road wa
gettieg quite rougb. Onr progreas wa
rather slow, though the driver put their -tree
at their beet pee. As we floundered along
I made inquiries as to my prospective pa
tient, and the amuse of his accident.
"' 'Twae done treseefilize,' the testnete
replied. " Ye see the crew aint workin' to
day. They got ter loolite and ter amain
and in the fracas Pete'a shoulder gob pulle
out o'j'iut,'
"'Who is this Pete, a brench-Canadian
" ' Wal, I dunno 'zackly, He kern fro
up in the French country. I should se
that ye might call him French,' replied th
man, who seemed, I thought, somewha
amused at the question.
14 How old a person le he! I asked.
"'Wal,now, ye've gob me, doctor. It'
diffikilt tellin' how old them fellers are
They ainb jest like our folks, ye know.
That was about aU the information 1 conl
elicit from the driver, but I gained the im
pression that my patient was probably an
eccentric man. The teamster seemed to
prefer talking upon other subjects.
" When We had, gone about half -way. we
came to a hill so bad that we got off the
sled and walked. A team had lately brok
en down on the hill, and among other rem
nants of the wreck on the snow at the nide
of the road was a newepaper. I pioked ib
up and read the date on it—'Thursday
March 25' It must be a week old, for that
day was Thursday,
"Like a flash then it came into my mind
that the day was the first of April, 'All
Fools Day.' 1 had nob thought of it be-
fore. In an instant it passed through my
mind that my call to set a shoulder was
probably a case of 'April fool'; that these
lumbermen had planned and were carry
ing out an ' April Fool' joke on the un-
sophisticated 'young doctor.'
." The case now seemed so plain that
my first impulse was to take my 'traps
off the sled and start tor home; but 1 had
already come so far that they would heve
the laugh on me in any eveet. 1 began to
feel angry as well as mortified, and the
smattering of law taught at the Medias
College came to me. I could collect my
fee by suing for it, if I proceeded to the
place to which I was summoned.
" So without allowing the teamster to
mistrust that I suspected a practical joke,
I changed the topics of conversation, an
went on with him, mentally bracing my.
self for the result, whatever it might be.
"Ab length we came in sight of three
or four large, low log shanties which form-
ed the lumber camp. Nearly a score of
lumbermen were standing about the door
of the 'man camp,' as if awating our ar-
rival. Not a word was epoken by any of
theta as we drove up, but they looked to
me like men who were keeping their
faces straight by a great effort.
I had been aotioipatine a trick, autl then the
big laugh which those rough fellowe had
been storieg up burst ferth, a regular Hom-
eric peal whiele made the whole loose ring.
They lengbed long and loud and emote their
thighe. They evideutly deemed it the
rowingoke of the winter-
" I took it all very coolly, and, kept my
abeentien fixed ott the be; which 1 saw at
once -was chained, I notified aleo that the
animel was stauding ors three legs, .in, sue& a
4 7:canner AS to irdicate that 113 right fore,
thoulder wee aetually disitmated, and I made
up my mind that I would [set their shoulder
at all evente,
"I waited till terry had enjoyed their
laugh. Then I quietly remarked that I had
48 lief set a bear's 'shoulder ati a man's, sod
proeeeded th overheat my Cale And get one
el my eldereform.
1
Ss " ' Will one oi you bekind enough to fetob
a good strong line Awl stand by, in cam I
p- need env help ?" eahl 1, quite as a matter
le ' el Deleralit AA I pulled off my CO&
le They looked astonished; evidently they
g had expected to see me completely disown,
1 fited by their joke and, covered with centh-
eft store;
" 'Come, come,' I urged, 'it is oustomary
to aid a doctor in little matters like this, I
believe ; 1 maY net need any help, bet I do
want a. line.'
"They grinned and hesitated, hat finally
ene of them brought e, collet warping lige,
retched, hi used for rafting logs. I eeek it uPf
exereined it oarefully And outdo 4 dip noose
at one end. Then advancieg eeutionsly upoo
my patient, for he was au ugly and a dan-
gerous brute, I tvatcheed ler .an opportunity,
and presently, at the firth toet, threw the
nooee over hie head. Helloing bethward
then with ell my terve, 1 heuled the bear
forward to the extreme length ef Ma chebt
mut made the line—tight ea a fiddle,etrieg,—
feat around a stump.
"In two minute/a th o animal Wan choked
orepletely linm by the noose around its
throat, and hie tongue eame out from hie
is
or
to
14
all
a
as
n
t,
g'
nceuth, I then ope,ned lay chloreferre, eat.
1
to urated my pocket heeilkerehief And applied
ty it to the hear'e nose, As Seee AS the aesss-
ti thetic had taken effeet, 1 eette off the rope,
which would soon have chaked hire 0 deate,
e and at to work to reduce the dielocatiou.
" The euhetal'e musette were completely
• relaxed. I felt oat the clielocatieu nod de -
e tewinitted its cbaracter and poeitioe; I began
r.
it
to petit giving the leg a tweet as 1 did se,
" Twice I yelled about as bard ars 1 coni
and began, to think that I should have t
as for assistanee. Still I althea vary num
to de it unaided, awl collecting all 0'1
streugth, mede a third effeet. Thits time
wee eucceeeful, and lied the eAtiefaetion
threwieg the head of the humerus Imek Jet
the eeeket—nitle a imp.
"The men head it go back ; I was awar
el a little at among them, and a nuerten
eithei of amusetneat or approval. But
paid no atteution to them and did not eve
look around,
Ae I worked on the hear, I had bee
thinking what wield be my beet ours;
with them, It Was neceuary ahem there
that they could not 'mule open me with
impunity and get 4 laugh at my expellee
Iciest turn their joke, eomehow.
4" There,' I told, turning around, 'you
hear is all right, or will be es soon as la
comes to bis mate. And now who owns
the bear
"Na oue spoke. They at ono acented
dootor'a bill. I pat the question again
No reply. I then put the (potion to eaoh
men In turn, looking him full in the face
Emil ono denied ownership, either wholly
• or in part • and the wink went around
Don't think het'a gob any owner,' etweral
them remarked.
"1 applied ohlaroform to the animal'
nostrile again, for he was beginniee to re
vive. 'Very well,' eoutinued, 'if thi
bear has no owner, he is prat:Holly and ela
legally a wild beast, and. I must look to him
for my pay.'
"They grinned, but! old nothing.
" Once more,' I continued, ' does any one
of you claim him?' No one spoke.
Taking 4 knife from my case, stooped
down and opened the oreaturee jugular
veine ; and in e very few minutes he was a
dead boar. He had died unconscious and
quite without pain. Then without another
word I set at work to take off the animal's
skin, took care to remove with the bide,
the nose and ears, as by law required, hav-
ing it in tnind to secure not only the pelt,
but the State bounty upon bears.
No oppotition was offered me by any of
the crave, and not a word was apoken. The
men stood by and watched me.
"'Gentlemen,' I said, as I folded up the
skin, you are welcome to the meat. I hope
it will taste good to you.'
"I wiped my knives, put on my coat, and
taking the bear skin, went back to the sled
and sang out for the teamster to take me
home. I did not expect that he would do
it, but he took his place on the sled and we
started for the village, without a word in
objectiot. Neither of us spoke till we had
gone two or three miles. He then burst out
in a horse laugh' and looked around at me
for some moments. Well, ythatt the joke?'
I said.
"Oh, nothina' said he. I was only a-
thinkin' what a good thing 'twas fer those
fellers up thar at the camp that they had
their larf before you begun. Thar didn't
seem much ter larf at when you got through,
doctor.'
"'11 was to be an April fool joke on me,
I suppose,' said I.
" 'Yee; they was all the forenoon talkiti
it over.'
"'Well, how do you think it stands ?' I
asked him.
" I think we got the butt end on't 1'
"1 realized seventeen dollars upon the
bear's akin and. bounty.
"Those lumbermen were very civil to me
from that time on, and trivial as the incident
:seems, I have always been inclined to attri-
bute a great deal to it ; for I immediately
began to pick up practice. In a feta months
I had about all Leonid attend to, and by the
and of the second year, I was able to buy a
team and pay cash for lt."—C.A. STEPHENS.
" ' Wal, boys, here's the doctor l' shouted
the driver. He's got all his tools with
him. Shall we take him to see Pete r
" Serbia! sartml they all said, and
one of the crowd added that 'Pete had
takin' on awful.'
"'Lead the way,' I said, 'I'm here at
your call.
"The whole party at once proceeded to
one of the adjbining shantlee. „Every man
seeined to be repressing some very strong
emotion. The shanty door was thrown open,
and they all stood aide, so if for me to en-
ter, OM of them remarking in a husky voice,
that 4 Pete ' was inside. stepped to the
doorway and looked ib, when instantly a
big and savage black bear ma e a furious
prunge it me.
".1 naturally started bat& a little, though
rg SEA.R011 FOR THE SOU] E{ F014E
Hardly anything leas been Done be that
'Median An Hair a Century—Prospects
or Contemplated New Eatisedittons.
The first navigator who permed Cape Hero,
led by a spirit of discovery aitd. investiga-
tion, waa the French Ceptam Prezier, who
wee :mut by the King into thefts irozen
regions1716, /Lewes the Arst to put eurecord
deeeriptien ef the phenomenon, sallsa
aurora borealis north ,of the equator, and
by a name to indicate its leeality where
seep, in the direction of the oath pole, It
appeArs that betweme the northern lignt tied
the teuthern light there are some striking
points that tend to prove some difference
in naagnetio conditions. The electrieal
display at both poles eocura eimultaneeusly,
and, seems to correspond on an immense.
male with the clischargee from the partitive
and negative poles of a battery.
The French Ring, Louie XV. never ap-
peara to heve had many humans toward
usefuletzes, hub there vats one notable ex
eeptIon. Inapired by a eurioue work from
the pen of the President of the Perlientetit
of Dhoti, which. milled. attention to the en-
equai dietrilmition of land and water on the
surfaee of the glebe, be resolved to eeek in
the southern seas a new India, the explora-
tion of which could enrich improverieleed
Promo, So Bougainville was sent to esteb,
iish colony in the elaloceinees Ielande,
jeet imeta of the Straits ef atnellen, With
metructions to explore the ualcuown regions
further to the south- Waite Beugaioville
wan thus engaged ta the southwest of Gips
Horn, Kerguelen watt sent in 1872 to per-
form a similar task to the southeast of the
Ctpe of Geed Hope, or to the !math of what
we eall the Win% Ocean, It Wee clerk%
Uri" voyage that he diacovered the laud that
nove beam his nettle. It is
A Aan11 ISLANA.
tio coatineea -Vett aa Wilkes and Dumont
only sighted it, and Ross only sktrted its;
beedere far a distanee ef rebent WO miles,
may, after all, he a large island. Thiemyor
terione land is called Victoria Land, le surt
rounded by a pereendicular all of io, or
of rock coated with ice, 200 feet be height,
over which, alt that vessels could see, when
at eome distance, was tally two lofty voices -
noes, (mein active operation. No lay or
inlet appeared Anywhere to break this mo
notonons wall, and the vessels, tinter lowing
sans, dared, not appreaoti for fear of being
dashed te -acmes. .4. modern Aretie steamer
might be foot, in A short
time skirt it if it is an island, or move far
enough along its. shores to discover some
harbor where it might safely lie up for the
winter. pleee, time marked by two
volcanoes, 0 the point where
KtTorts Exer,enama nxrsorrlOus
must commence, It fa a feet to be neted
that the two shipe oromanded by Ileaa
were the Brelnla and the Terror, the eame
afterward commanded by Dr. John Praok-
lin in his ill-fated voyage toward the mirth
pole, aucl that be (Frankliu)was title time
Governor of New South Wales,
These three eXpeditioeta were begun lied
finished between 1838 and 184, or neatly
fifey yore ago. Since then nething has
been done worth mentioning to extend their
discoveries, In 1874 the U3allenger went
into The AntaretiO OPea13, but merely to dis-
cover what points would, be most eltgthle for
observing the coraleg transit of Venue.
It wee. supplied with appliances for deep,
seasouncliege. It vielted Vietoria Land, the
•paint of greatest; interest, but reeu3,e no
uereful obserweeione, enly deMonstrated
this fact that 4 Breen% Vessel c0414 aCCOM,
Aisle in a few deem with Qua and eempara,
tire safety what h reeuired aellieg yea,
eels menthe to accomplish. This. fa the
Isituatiou etpreeent, Tee Gernemeof Ham,
' burg and the AMetieane Are contemplating
a mew expielitine to the south pole, eud
the Fre:reit eelenelete, whose pavigetore
aucl whoee %worriment are not tor a
moment in 4 poeitien to undertake 4
earious work of the kind, are urging thorn
TO the effort by abewieg bow good and
Pottle it ia te perieh In the eanee of Settee°.
Toe daimon/ ebent the eolith emate teat
emu about the north pole, There la 4 vast
f ft 44 '4
A,utstelYrillexelepBeedfirtuiolunt:::eolltd:Ithat ag"718.1145ten
oeclipatten, balloted by strange birds and
uriouti emphibiene, with ite mounteiu tops
so covered with snow that it Maltee the BUM,
mers old even ler the latitude ; yet be rep, h
resented it when be reterned AS A paradise.
dimmer the truth, the command a which
strangely enough, wee givou to Herguelen
himself. That the truth might rot be aniQua" °Ntiog, ic°1 but th° '11Pa are
koow,,, he allowed no 000 14 jood. VigerOuS 0 veesel app!Mra ever to
cl cututuwigato the wend retetua te have been caught 4nd crushed in tide psck,
though ileum et the adventurone craft were
Emcee, But the truth could met: beconeerth
o ett, ere was trio b.. a, amrt totttiti de- mere coaltleehelle. NO velaid ever went pre,
4 .p,,, ,,, ,
pared to spend 4 winter in the lee, but
, rived of hie molt, and eenterwed to pyieen.
7 1 He was perdorted shortly„ alter by Luna the woltor°4 at eeme 'm41 fdlo‘ud or Rot farther
1. xvi, end dice, awed lee baud, ch,rieg the 'north. Thisexperiment email now be tried.
f i Revelation in 4 naval bettle with the Eng. 4 winter meet be Feasted At the incab VX.
e lien. In 1802, uuderthe birectoty, an ex. mrrt't Pc'tot, end a atvt wide as mil, 44
1
pegta„ was me to the Autvetie 040e, pesible in the ,rpriug in ender to go as near-
o le landed en Ring's Ieland, between T. V al Plmlibto to thoPolo and rotoralthe mune
/ Iowa and Now Haim, bat heie emued bummer. Sento think that open water will
he found beyond the iee psele. A. eceoad or
* airy the Hoglith, who were just begiouine to
a eend their crimitutle late the mien, left thid"Ire"'ll 514Q414b0 kept in merve to go
to the relief et the ether, or Otherd, the
witboat Aceomplishiug anything,
n fa 17n Cepte Cook left Piymeuth with ,4erc°44 2tInun"...
° the It olution and Adventure with the in- , --.----4.--...---...
mutton of passing tho Cape of Good Flops ..k Dozen Duels At Once.
d txplorrog the high southern 'Mimeo
• aoutti of the Indian Omen. In December of A Path! letter *says; --A nowepaper in
., that year la mot the firat floating tee, hild Teuton printed the other Ito. an "tie%
' later wee in dauger froca immenta at blOCite, headed
0 "Officers and Cade that gave offence
a coosiderable part of which WAS above ” t the gerrion at Oath pleee, and oue of
water, but bore little retembleuce to the ti:Ile etsteeet leg gtergeteet ealleg at the
icebergs of the northern aeae, fie akitted ' °filo of the paper and dapped the feet,
a the polar ilea, holding hits rearbe ellaiwards ' of Me Pyenet, the editor. There WAS A
• and pelted the winter in Wends near New : dem, and the editor was alightly wounded.
Zealand. The following Eagan he went fur- , Another officer tried to get on a fight
• thor eolith, nearly to the polar circle, eiiii 'with the man. who bad written the article,
holding his gensral course toward the ems 'gelling all the writera ou the paper "curs,"
• discovering several Wands, aud heving eta
f 'except the editor who had fought; This
meroua adventures. It is not vacessary to was printed in an opposition paper, and
follow him in his wauderings, nor rawat the tthe "aura" promptly challenged all the
a tale of his death, Curiously enough*, hii exe officers. The colonel put Me men under
• ?rested the opioion that no one would ever arrest, but they will be free in a fert-
8 dare go further smith than his nitima Undo, night, and then there will be A doeen
the dangers were no terrible. Hu could. or more &zeta, besides two that M. Le.
nob foresee what would happen in thie age seedier has on with other writers who
of steam, •oriticieed his notion. Editor Pyanet has
The Russians appeared on the acme in recovered from hie wound and superintontle
1803. Two vessel; the Nadedga and Neva, tee daily drill that hia auboultnates are
in that year doubled Cepa Horn, but return- undergoing preliminary to the beginning
ed without making any new disoveriete of totual hostilitlea.
In 1.819 Bellinghausen with tivo thips wont
aouth by way of the islands of South Geor-
gia, meeting the wall of leo at 60 degrees. An Elephant's Cunning.
Going further weet he ;succeeded in pushing
Thefollowing story is told by Dr. Romano:
on to nearly 61 degrees when he was again —" An elephant was chained to a tree in the
STOVIT.D BY ME WALL oY ICE, compound opposite 151.r. Townsend's house,
with no land in sight. It wasiaearly the ex- The driver made an oven at a abort distance
in which he put his rice oakea to bake ;
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Economical Maggie.
A lady tells this: " We needed eggs one
incrning, and old Maggie was sent to the
grocery to get some. Later in the day Mag.
gievolu nteerecl the genetal remark that:
' eggs is high." Are they?' 1 replied.
Bow much.' 'Forty cints a dozen, mum.
Sure Id be after buying no eggs at that
price mum, and rm I borried them of the
neighbora 1
'A Durable Otupet.
Carpet ,Dealer—Yee, madam • that irt a
fine stair carpet, and very durable. •
Woman—Will it last well?
Carpet Dealer—Madam, fourteen years
ago I sold a piece of that carpet to a woman
and she heed it ten years steady.
Woman -.:Then did she throw it away ?
Carpet Dealer—No, madam, I. should say
not. For the, last four years her boy has
worn it for everyday panto.
There Are five hospitals for leprosy in
Norivayethree of which are in Bergen.
treme point to which Cook had attained.
Moving atilt farther west, he succeeded in !aft caowvaayre.d them with stones and grass and
When he was gone the eleph-
penetrating considerably, within the Amtic "°""
ant with hie trunk unfastened the chain
circle, or, w alai i 1852 by Prince
as m - round Ida foot, wenv to the oven and tincov-
Galitzin, to the 83d degree. This is not ored ea' it, took out and ate the cakes, re -cover -
considered exaot, though the expedition ;
ed the oven v7ith the stonea and grasa as be.
succesaful. It discovered several
fore and went back to his place. He could
blends, some of there with high mountains, t
not testate the ehain round hie own foot, so
and finally returned safely Cronstadt. I
ihe twitted it round and round it, in order
To the Russians succeeded theEnglisb.
ot wtoot to look the oame and when the driver
Capts. Smith and Weddell, the
returned the elephant was standing with/As
made an adventurous voyage with two meal'
back to the oven. The driver wind; to his
Teasels, one of sixty the other of sixty-five
cakes, diacovered the theft:, and looking
tons burden, Betting out in 1822. He dia.
round, caught the elephant's eye as he look -
covered isla,nds which he named the Shit -
cd back over his shoulder out of the corner
lands, Oroades, and Farve, the heat being
h a of it. Instantly he detected the culprit,
on the sixty-fifth parallel. He re7'°-e- and condign punishment followed. The
latitude 74 degrees. It was an adventurous
whole occurrence was witnessed from the
and remarkable voyage for vessels of the
windows by the family."—[Exehange.
class. In 1830 Capt. Biscoe, in two vessels
better suited to the purpose, penetrated to
69 degrees and discovered Enderby's Land.
Soon afterward there appears on the reeords
of Southern discovery the n:srae of an Ameri-
can whaler, Capt. More% who does nob
appear to have added anything substantial
to the stock of Antarctic: information.
The French resumed the work of discovery
officially in 1817, when an expedition was
sent oub under command of Monsieur Da
Pram:Amt. It collected considerable valuable
information, ,,but was wrecked returning
home. The next was of great importance,
commanded by the. eelelirated Dumont d'Ur-
ville, the same who on a previous expedition
in 1820 in the archipelago of Morea had hap-
pened to land. on the Island of Milo just as
a Greek peasant spading in his field had
unearthed the atone of Ventue•now, known
by that name. He bought it and brought it
to France, and it is now one of the most
remarkable works to be seen at the Louvre.
Besides the expedition comnaancled by d'Ur-
ville, there were two others in preparation
at the sazne moment, one from America,
commanded by Capt. VI ilkes, the other Eng-
lish, commanded by Capt. Ross.' The French
explorer was the first in the field, The re.
cord of his voyage is like that of several.
predecestors,
ONLY Atom AnyENTimoriS.
He met the floating ice at about the same
point, and advanced into it boldly, changing
his point of attack when he found too great
a reststance. What he accomplished then
with a. sailing vesael shows What results can
now beaccomplished by Tools moved by
steam, strengthened and equipped with all
theariodern appliances of polar eXploration.
The Wilkes expedition:heti similar exper-
ienets, but showed less energy,. and spent a
short time comparatively In dangerous prox-
imity to the ice.
The results of the Ross eepedition are
more interesting. All three penetrated to
about the same degree of eouth latitude—
that is, between seventy-four ard oventy-
five degreea, where, if anywhere, • appears
to exist something that suggests an Antarc-
The Soubrette's Revenge.
The cleverest soubrette on the London
stage had a magnificent black oat, the ad-
miration of all who saw that "Enemy of
the Evil One." One night an ungallant lord,
her neighbor, cruelly ;shot the oat, and a
few days after she received the stuffed skin
of her pet. Miss Soubrette immediately
colleoted all the mice the could secure—
about two hundred—and had them carefully
boxed to the address of his lordship's wife
in the country. When the box arrived at
its destination her ladyship opened it her-
self, expectieg it to contain some of the
latest fashions. As she raised the lid the
mice jumped out and literally filled the
house. Of course there was consternation.
At the bottom of the box was a note, which
rend: "Madam, your husband killed my
eat. I send you our mice,"
Smeldes at Monte Carlo.
The item cabled the other day that fifteen
duels and Sixteen suicides had been the
ghastly record of Monte Carlo since the new
year awakens strange auggestions, and pee.
pIe ask why nothing is done to stop the car-
nival or crime which these figures indicate.
Monte Carlo is only a village of less than
4,000 inhabitants, and is the leading place
in the six equare miles of territory known as
OVER THE WIRES.
By an explosion in the Erin pit 00m:trap,
New South Wales, 25 pereens were Me&
11 ie stated that Enwin Booth bas entirely
recovered, and that he will start far she
•Wet* on Saturday,
Mr, C. T. Bate, the well-known wholoale
grocer of Ottawa, died suddenly of heart
diegatio recently.
The Government of New South Walea
prelims to Abolisk all apecific duelers and
retort to direct taxation,
Jobn Wilmot' was caught in a engine
Wt. at George Westni mill at Balaton.
Y., the other day, and killed.
Queen Victoria will visit the Prince and
Priecese of Wales et: SaAdringham the end
of thie month, remaining four days.
Tim resolution to submit a prohibitiore
amendment to the vote of the people has
been defeated in the Illinois Legislature,
The Austrian colony at Buenes-Ayree has
out A golden wreath, valued at 10,000 franeas
to be placed on Hildoll's Tooth,
A. war is impending between the antbraa-
114 companies. All have ebockeqn
hand and an disputing as to who will
aupply the Market.
Agent Herrion, of the Northern Bacifie
rasitroAd, bee perfected an oleettieel inV00-
t19, Which ringe 4 bell lo an hotel office and,
registers the room MUnber When Soule ver
dant person blows ant the gas.
Emperor Francis Joiteph /ma iteught the
afeyerling estate, which belonged to Prince
Rudolf, and the Owe wiR be mode into a
Carmelite nunnery, The re oinwhere Rudolf
enielded will he converted into A chapel,
The „Kite/tees Los,
"Look here, young man," *aid a face.
Ins individual the other afternoon in Pa
f the deWn TOW4 dairy innelt zoom,
ordered afiteW and here is an oyeter in it,"
shiog ar049C1 in hie bowl With Speen and
finally briegieg a lonely bivalve to the eur,
face.
"1 eant bello that." reapOnded the waiter
addreased, neVer erackleg a AMIN. "It'S
not my fault—We the kitohen'e loae."
a Prevalent Malady.
"4 Ow at Quo,' said a phyaician who had
bean celled in COMMITAtions "that Dr, Pel
let sdtagnesti was wrong, hat as he was in
ahArge of the eetee ot envie it weethlre't do
far me to interfere."
-.Tie the patient die
"013* yea, died of 4 prefeasional caortear
very common end fatal disease,"
Why Widows aee Wily and WittOOtttgrs
It ia fliadtbalfSble that widows are the
autocrats et eeetety, ...attelmen- figek bout
them wherever: they, go, . No One has ,ey!sx
denied their faseinationa;and.Weiter'eadvtee
to Ids Sent if he wiehed: to avoid matrimony,
14 "he.viare at viddere," has been Rnot.ed.
0404140S of times,. In Many ways theavIdoW
hee the advantage of her younger., etetere, -
She hoe the bene6t of a large _knowledge
and experience of the worlid, her arta and
hoquetrw,ore .p.exicteci, not in the exper-
imental and undeveloped etete of the debut-
antee, and, above all, She has the inestimable.
advantage 0 hnowing men with the .aceorate
and loth:nate knowledge gained by ;woe'
den With. '040, who wee probably a fair re
preeentatiVe of his sex, She knows how
give delicious little dinnere that make h
Meet hardened .bachelor thiok indolgen
of the.ntarriame state. She kuowe. that lent
ilk%) hia ase, and doge not MAO 04 bib
Jamming lo perpetnal attoodarkee MI her.
She deee not *Slat PP a .tleeP's tel13iPg.44.4tr
belle and theatres 4114 nOW ger.a4 Og,arvi
She follows rather hie Wicito hia *wit groon
and.listeta with eubtle flattery in igee
face wbile he deeeenteea hiefaeoerite hebb
yonng girl ia always self.eentred„ ahso
eel in her „awn effaira, her dreettes,her par
—it is only grape and art that USW 4 a
man to eink-her own perSorality in the p...
sence of the person with when) she is talk.
Perhaps (Me of thechief eitilme of
widows Is t"seie ouderatandhag 0 the fineo exl)
of sympathy. The aytnyatity ef a yemag .
girt who has it4OW4 Lathing but loy la 4
crude and UOSatisfying affair, the very, hooka
on which no ioveceold feed' be the Byrn.
patby 04 widows tenderly, del:tally express,
ed, -With a gentle Melanehely that tihewo
that she TOO iniesufforeu7-itas Me. ti40 oft
Shadows ha .4 picture, or the miner eherd Itt
:piece at minde that seta the pale%) threW
Ing. avin MOUrned for A Man 474 /MOWS
OW Moat tffgetively to MOttra With onto-,
ew Orleane Ineayn40,
Carried OW by an Eagle,
an the (lutantcek hilly, in Somer.,
England, ;tear the seacoast, has Nan
axed of late by the inyetwiene dleap,
peatance of young lambs which have taken
place. There were for a time numerous
remora of sheep stealers in the neighborhood,
but reeent4 an enormous eagle, evidently
el great strength, has been seen flying near
the coorobes, or vAlleye, round the Vireet
, 4
laW and it TB auppotted that it hes been prev.-
ing upon the lamb?. Ito depredettees do
net, however, etop At lamb)), still later
two ladies were riding on horseback near
Staple Plain, accumpanied by A mall rough
terrier, The dog etrayed away ter some
diatanee, when the eagle was seen to 'sudden-
ly ewoop down, and, eviziog it with IN
talon, !carry it off. There are several in.
0talleC.0 Ca record, saya the "1'411 Mall
( azette, of eagles herting been seen ement
ewUd bills af Semereet, and an the broad
Ma of Exmoor.
What he Was,
Western Lady—lrel vo yonr daughte
ing to marry a Weetern men 1, la ho A
mer, manufacturer or.—
Eastern Lady (haughtily)—Ile is 4 gentle.
af lelaure.
'astern Laxly—De you mean that he
makes money without working
"Vertainly."
"4111 1 ate. He'll& real estate agent."
[Philadelphia. Record
4 Gentle Sumstion.
They were OA their way home from the
ter.
eerge--"We had A very iutereeting
gleam lout night at the debating club. The
object WWI What %hell we do with ou
raw Material."
Aland (timidly)" 1 knew very little about
matron of that wintry, Geerge, but I think
some of our raw material should be also
ed of 94 the helfteliell.—illeston Bowen,"
Wished to be &membered,
An Beet Beaton mart who keep, a Uver,
steble bed a mule for sale, Asa hearing
that a friend in A neighboring town waoted
to buy ono tient him the following, 'written
on, a postal,card: 'Wear friend: If yen are
looking for a No. 1 mule, don't forgot me.'
Derieg 1888 the Feenda income amounted.
to 4504,000, of whieli 4372,000 eater: from
the obelus of Sb. Peter, and £132,000 born
the interest of moneys which are invested
out of Italy. The outlay of the Vatican
amounted to only f.340,000. This Is r highly
satisfaotory balancemheet, but it does not
take into account a cum of X480,000 which
hie Holmes received in money presents,dur•
ing hie Subilee. The Emperor of Rusela
and the King of Italy must be devoured by
envy at tt.e flourishing finanolel condition of
the Vatican.
Tho decenaploving orities of New York
seem to be of one mind in trying to orttah out
the literary nretentione of a female Author
named Gertrude Vranklin Atherton.
less her sensibilities are more tender than
her ideas of modesty and literary decorate
It does not seem as if the critics stand much
chance of succeeding in their laudable end
terprise. The probabilities are that: a
woman who can allow herself to write as
Gertrude Franklin Atherton has done is al-
ready pea/teased of a cuticle no tough thab
the, aharpeat darts of criticism will not pierce
it. It is a lamentable fact that a large
proportion of the writers of the day who
prostitute their talents to produce the
prurient stuff which unscrupulous publishers
find pay them beat, are women, who,
charity perhaps forces one to think, do not
realize the enormities of which they are
guilty.
• The peace of congregations has been dis-
turbed before this by the question of instru-
mental music, or that of a surpliced choir,
or that of a miniater's opinions or hie man-
ners, or his morals, or his wile's walk and
conversation, by some domineering official,
or by some officione sister. In these, and
many other ways the harmony which ought
to prevail, has been broken; but so far as
we kt ow, it has been reserved for a
congregation in Brooklyn to fall out about
the question of a gilded rooster on tne church
spite. One half of the congregation is bound
that the image of Chanticleer shall come
down, and the other half wants it to stay
where it is. It seems that a rooster on a
spire is a symbol of the Apostle Peter, and
recalls the memory of his moment of sinful
weaknese, and was first used as an emblem
in the early Christian Church by the dinip-
les ab Antioch. On the other hand some
hold that it has no religious significance at
all, and 11 11 symbolizas anything it sytnbol-
izes egregious vanity.
In the whole category of strange wills
there can be few that are stranger than the
will of a German painter named Rubel', who
died recently, and left to his native town a
large rum of money the interest: of which is
to be given yearly as a dowry to some poor
and deserving girl. But the gift is condi-
tioned on the willingness of the wedding
party to come to the donator's grave on
the wedding day and darns awhile
a
round it .i token of their gratitude.
strange condition, certainly. What
heathenish • streak there must have
een in the nature of a man who would clog
o humane and praiseworthy a bequest with
uch abaurd contrivance for keeping his
emery green. The matter is further corn
Heated by the fact that the townspeople
hink dancing indecent, and in his know -
age of this peoulierity of theirs doubtless
es the explanation of his aingulter condi-
on. They wish to compromise matters by
mply walking round the grave, but the
wyer declares that the conditions of the
eguest must be literally fulfilled, and to
ettle the matter a lawsuit is now in progress.
the principaliby of Monaco. •The whole A
principality has a population °Ness than 14e- a
000. Ite basineeti activity is Mainin
taed b
chiefly by the gamblers, who have made
Monte Carlo famous. Every business in -
tomb feels the stimulus of thie influx, and m
the moral sentiment :of the oommunity is p
overwhelmed by greed of gain. Monaco is t
an independent: State, or almost euch, and le
France naturally hesitates to interfere with 1
its debauched condition. • ti
ai
After eiveral failures to run hansoms in
Paris a sentiment in their favor appears to b
promise sucoese.
A.Last Resort.
"Look out, young feller ; what aro you
about ?" imia the policeman in a certiuu
Southern town to a young traveling man
who was tapping with he elute with the
evident intention of anumbleg in the glees
emenda street lamp. -
"Ah, there you are," atild the traveling
man, as the glass gave w.,y with a crash.
"Now if you will be good enough to arrest
me, Iwill he obligee to you."
"You seem mighty anxious to gob arrest -
tri," said the officer.
"Yea ;I. was a little afraid you wouldn't
notice mo. I've got to stem hero about
three days till 1 hear from ray firm on a
but:mesa matter."
"Well, you don't want to spend that time
in jail, do you f"
I've tried both the hotels here."
--Merchant Traveller.
Sarcastic.
"Look here," said Mr. 131ankorton, as he
Id t opposite his wife at aupper.
"What's the matter 7"
"I've found A pearl in my oyster."
"It's odd," said his wife after a pause,
"haw every day brings forth some illustra-
tion of an old proverb.,"
"I don't quite follow you."
"1 was just thinking olthe casting of
pearls before
The Obstacle in the Way.
"I fear it can never be, George." mur-
mured the fair girl. "There are obstacles
in the way."
" What are they, Laura ?" demanded the
young man, eagerly. Perhaps I can over-
come theta r
"Paps. has failed in business, and—"
"You needn't mention any more," said
the young man dejectedly, as he got up from
his knees. '
46.
The Sat Diego "Union" says: "Pew peo-
ple elsewhere in the world may ever have
heard of blasting hole, to plant shade or
fruit trees," said a cultivator the other day,
"yet the practice is common here, and shows,
good results. In most places there is found
sufficient top soil for any purpose, but as
land has become valuable people have oast
about for meane to utilize lands where the
coarse sand rook comes too near the surface
for successful tree planting. A blast well
put in, creates *a pocket for broken rook mix-
ed with top soil, which furnishes a basin to
hold moisture, as well as a deeper and cooler
hold for the reeds. It is yet too early to say
what will be the ultimate results of such
planting, but in a climate like ours,where a
superfluity of rainfall is not likely to occur,
it will no doubt be successful."
The boomerang of the Australians ie made
of hardwood and has the curve of a para-
bola, is about two feet long, two and a half
inches broad, and one-third of an inch
through. In throwing it the hunter takes it
by one end, holding it so that the convex
odge is forward and the flat side uppermost.
When thrown, it ascends gradually with
a rotary motion, and finally begins to retro-
grade, The natives of scene tribes call the
boomerang Wango or and the wood
known to botanists as Acacia, penduta is
generally selected by the boomerang•maltera.
If possiple, they choose a limb that is bent
to form an angle of about one hundred to
one hundred and thirty degrees. The weapon
returns te the thrower best: when thrown,
against the wind, but never returns when it
has fairly hit the object at which it was aim-
ed. Those who areexperb can place it where
they wish, and in warfare itis mot •effec-
tive, striking where it is least expeebed
and in hunting it eau be used at a distance oh
two hundred paces.