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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 ; -11600111 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.