HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-7-4, Page 7IN THE TIGER COUNTRY.
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Some Curious and StartHet iii.d'Velltltres.
While tigere are to be found In almosit
every pare of Hindoodan except; the menu,.
tain rangee in the north, there le •oneparticu.
lar region which, is el exert of Gerden of Eden
for them, and from which they will not be
driven for the next hundred yeareX ie the
Bengalee dietriele lying between the Gengee
on ths north and. the head eraters et the
Walawala on the eoutb.
Here le an xpause 0oountry 600 miles
lug by as any wide, wlthoub a railroad,
only three or four towns 0 any size, and
not over three Government highwaye. It
is acountey of hill and valley and creek and
jungle and extensive forest, full of fevereend
eubject to epidemics, and any increase of
population le prevented by natural calteeS,
A direct 11_41,.@ freeCelentlitnereee to Boni -
bay would cut this district iptwo and open
it, tub they refuels to an the railroad mom
I put in four months in that district in
company with two English neturaliets and
party ofarrayoffiews, and every day brought
its adventure with reptile or wild beast.
Getting as near ete we tumid by the
railroad which runs Awn Indur to Allah-
abeed, we etinek WA on foot and were soon
beyoad civillzttion, and n the mideb
premittve matinee.
We bad nob gone five milee from the rail-
road when a panther which had made hie
lair in a thicket was &Ivan out in atarne by
the noise pf our womb, and three or four of
the heaters fired and dropped him. We
had been out a week before 1 °aught eight
0 a tiger, and it Wee then under each dr.
cured:anon an to reek° Me &obi; whether 1
should ever dee another.
We had four army rattle, which were
packed in scalene ell the Imeka of the M4-
tiVee when we were on the move. Tbeee
were for the on of the whitee, and I WAS
gee of three who occupied cite of them in
ramp,
We had 'been out for four deem when I got
thoroughly wet and was taken with chills
and fever, gidnine would broth it itudde-of
two or three dem bat in the ramentime 1
nauat go dew and not over -exert myeelf.
I stuck to camp, and on the third day,
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, went nound
asleep in my hammock. Title was alung
ander the tent about twofeet from the ground,
and within three feet of the ear wall,
it Wee 4 Warlitielt day, but with a delight,
ful breeze, ands as the fever heel genes I fell
into a deep sleepjut about the time I
went to aleep Copt, William, who lied been
°utter a couple 0 bourn with Ma gun, canto
in and eoperted a tiger hz 4 dry aortae shoot
s mile away.
Ire bed bed two Sharp shots at the heat
hut had mined him. Ileharl carefalty mak-
ed down the leedieta, and After getting*, bite
o ette most 0 the party eet out with him to
finish up the beast Oae =dentist remain-
ed behind to overhaul some o Ids tree%
the other took a native and went off after
birds, and three of the natives were left to
mind the camp.
The party had =too= gone Menthe trio
stretched out in tbe dente and went to sleep.
The uathie 0 ladle in like the rade* of
Africe in that reepeot and never lone an op.
portunity to °etch a nap.
When the party reaoluel the spot where
the tiger WM last seen, the beaten were
sent In, but they worked for half an hour
and failed to arouse him.
Be had done wed tigera often do, bolted
at the first alarm. They turned out abig
hyena. however, and ib wee eorielnded thee
the tenet had miataken thisbeett for a tiger.
He contended to the contrary, mid WAS not
eatiatied until the beaters had examined
every lurking place babe ravine.
When the tiger bolted he mat have
made direct for our camp, and homiest also
have been pretty badly frightened. Some-
thing broke my sleep and I opened IV
eyes.
I was lying on my tight flight facing the
open doorway, and in that doorevay, not
over Eve feet away and looking tull at me,
was a igent My heart hounded into my
throat, the bllood ratted to my head and
for a moment 1 thought I should ea°
elite. Then I went to the other extreme
and was as cold as toe. Iliad not made the
slightest movement; mide from opening my
eyes.
It wee nottrom nerve, however, buthimply
because I was incapable. I was not sure
for half a minute but that my eyes were
playing me a trick.
'Allen I knew that the dreaded beast
hovered o'er me I could do nothing but
stare at him. Had I not been so leadly
urset, I ehould have obeerved that he was
skulking.
He stood there with his tail down for a
couple of minutes, uttered two or three
whines of anxiety, and then bounded straight
over me and crouched down between
my hammock and the tent. I had my back
to him now, but I could hear his every
breath and movement, and I grew so weak
that everything turned dark for a few min-
utes, and the tent seemed to be whirling
around.
bar &limy I could hear the row created by
the beaters. The tiger probably heard more
of it than I did, for he moved uneasily, and
continued to whine.
Men bell about how slowly time ticks
away in moments of peril. The tiger, as
near as 1 could afterward calculate, vraa in
hiding about fifteen minutes, and no week
ever spun out so rouch time for me.
When he got up he put his nose agabiat
my beek and sniffed and muffed, and just;
when I expected to feel his teeth he walked
around the foot of the hammOck, atood in
the door for a moment, and then bolted for
the nearest cover. 111 was well that I had
witnesses, or I should have been set down
as light headed from the fever.
The naturalist and his man, who had been
prowling around the outskirts of the camp,
both saw the tiger leave the tent, and both
mune running in, expecting to find me a
-" victim.
About three 'weeks- later, when I was .in
the best of health, Capt. William and three
more of us left camp to rid a village ten miles
away of a man-eater.
The weather was oppressively lot, and in
following a ravine to keep its cooltaess aselong
as poesible we lost; our course and went
several miles out of our way. We were still
two miles from the village, and it was nearly
sundown, when a thunder storm came up.
We were in pretty open ground when the
first flash of lightning came, and knowing
that it would soon be followed by a down.
pour 0 rain we made a dash for a grove to
our right,
gob to my feet thunder shook the earth, and
the rain drops began to patter. I rushed
ahead in what I suppoeed was the direction
my comrades had gone, but as ib afterward
appeared I bore off to the right, missed the
grove entirely, and just as the flood gates of
heaven opened I dashed into a native hut on For several years there was a standing of -
the edge of a clearing. fer of $10 for a partridge's nest containing,
I did not see the hut until close on it, and more than twelve eggs, the records at the
entered ib supposing it to be inhabited. Even Smitheonian Institute giving that as the
when 1 called aloud and gob nn response, greatest number of eggs of that epodes, to
and knew by the sound of my voice that the a nest). A party of Worcester girls recently
but had been abandoned, I reasoned that I won the money by finding a nest With -fifteen
was on the outeleirts of. the village, and that eggs. .
my companions bad token abetter in bun
near by.
Thostorm had long been gathering an
its bleicknese lsrought night at once,
soon as the lightning began to play I eon
see the 'Wexler of the hut by the fleshee.
There wes only one room, with the ueu
mud flea, and the only article lett behin
waa a hamper, such AB the nativee strap
their backs to carry loads.
Thiel stood in a corner, and I supped
Contained somepersonel effects to be caul
away at the owner's convenience. Had
not seen this hamper, and, thereby got t
idea that the hat had just been vacated
should not havaillited cross it and Bit do
on the floor with my back to the wall
wait for the storm to ceam, aa every hut
taken possession of by serpenta 85 soen
abandoned.
The root was in pretty good rep*, and
had nothing to worry about The thund
and lightning were soon over, but the r
continued to fall for at least two hours.
Then it cemed ahnosit in a moment, au
the donde rolled away and allowed a ne
moon to ishow ite face.
The remainder of the party had take
shelter =der the trees, and as mon aa th
rain ceased they came out into the open an
began to call tor me, 1 was resting easy an
half Weep when I heard the Arse call, an
and at the second I drew my feet under rn
and etiffly pulled myeelf up. Am 1 did SO
heard a anal and a growl, followed by the
fall (Atha hamper and a rush, and I was
thunderstruck to see a tiger spring out of the
door.
Ale enhaegeent invedigation proved, be
was OrMlehed between the Worm and the
wall,. end bad been la Whig all the thee I
W44 m the hut. Why he did not atteciettle ?
au might Iwo been frightened at the uteri?,
44 many etivage beton are, or my beldam en
Walking In upon him may have nettled
trefortunately, he recovered Ms courage as
soon tie 110100 the hut.
The geerobleg party was directly In his
path to cover, and he charged right among
the men anetineeked one of the nativee
dovrnt and stopped long enough to Jetta a
bite which resulted in death.
On a attinequeut trip, a year dutere and
further to the South, 1 la,ad another odd en -
(outer with a tiger. It ought to have coot
me my life and whyitdid not no tigerhunter
hate ever b'een Able to eatiefactozily explain.
We had been in the village of Syclerpul
for three dart t tree white men and a Sent
• attendentet attekies to destroy 4 mereeeter
• who bad meted great !moot when the
bud came one a a junto taint at unidadet
• Weed, an old mentimited in trent of 9. hut
not 200 feet from ye, and reatbed 0011er with
his proy before we got the aburn,
Wo rased a greet about and Mother ed
urriilee after him, but be raplied wi
growl and kept on. In thin cue, and in
Ws alone, low the tiger'etnethed of carry.
ing off a bureau being. He nivel the men
by the !Imelda and gave the body e Wet
MAUI the weight of it rested on Ma huh,
and he traded off under the burden au if tti
did not weigh ten palladia
There was a howl allover the villege, and
the old manti relatives, who were many, set
up a wailing ite mule evoke; hideone.
WO Mid do nothing that eight, but wore
aatir early mat moron, and wore not long
in treeing the tiger to a dune thicket In the
bed of te ravine a. utile may. Hotted not
carried the body there, however.
Being either Wimp mit with hunger or
overabold in self cooddence, he had dapped
within forty rode of the village for his hart.
hie feed, and only some fragments of clothing
and 4 few bones were left to tell the] poor
man's fate.
Our beaters not only found the tiger at
home, but he was defiant and nady for
fight. Twice he charged up the deep bank
to find that his tormentors had taken refuge
in trees and escaped him. He finally retired
to the centre of the thicket to bide his time.
We flung donee at hirn, end fired several
bullets into his eetreet, but while he growled
hie rage he planned toyatt WAIL be could get
an advantage.
The leader of our party was afraid the
beast would sneak 4, ff unseen, and he station
ed US to prevent such an ocoutreece. I went
• to the heed of the ravine, and there found a
great rook.
I took my station on the left of it, looking
down upon the thicket, and the buten
redoubled their exertions to drive the tiger
out.
I had been at my etalion about ten minutes
when 1 felt, rather than heard, the presence
of something, and I wheeled ebout to find
that man. eater standing before me andhard-
tee arm's length away:
Wo looked equare into each other's eyes,
but that was the only effort I could make. I
was memingly frczen the earth. I had
been perspiring as I turned. Within ten
seconds I was as cold ase naked man in
midwinter. I don't know how longwe stood
there, but presume ite was not over a min
ute.
The beaters were yelling and shouting
and ringing bells, but my ears did not take
et angle sound. The tiger dropped his lip
and growled, or seemed to growl, ad-
vanced one forefoot, as if about to spring,
then suddenly turned and bolted across the
open into the jungle.
Then, like a WOO:WA I fainted away, and
it was ten minutes later before 1 O&M
to midtown' myself flet on the earth and
three or four of the beaters standing over
me and crying out that the sahib had been
mauled to death by the retreating tiger.
I was not injured inthe slightess, but the
scare I got unnerved me for long weeks.
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New Light on the Subject
A widow whose hueband had loot his life
in a railway accident received from the com-
pany 10,C00 francs by way of compensation.
Shortly afterwards she heard that la tra-
veller who had lost a leg on the same occas-
ion had been paid 20,000 franos. The widow
at once put on her bonnet and shawl and
trotted off to tbe offices of the company.
"Gentlemen, how is this I.'" she said.
"Here you give 20,000 francsfor a leg-, and
you have only allowed me 10,000 for the
loos of my hueband."
"Madame," replied one of the clerks,
"the reason is quite plain; 20,000 franca
won't provide the pow man with tenew leg,
whereas for 10,000 you can any ' day get
another husband, perhaps a better one."
The lady who is still young, after a mo-
ment's silent reflection, walked away appals
ently satisfied.
The Sword of Damascus.
Van Bibber. "Why BO silent, Mie
CI emus 1"
• Miss C. "To tell you the truth, Mr. Van
Ribber, the thought of leading the german
to -night is hanging over me like the Sword
of Daraaecus."
"Week 011agee
Week 0 Ham keit for toe 14
Through the. Image tike words are ringing
Uttered by a lieleing tenglin ;
Listen, 'tie our darling singing :—
$4 WO* tt'Seges, keit for me,
E; me hide mysel in Thee."
Papa in hie sthelywriting,
As ine hears the Benet refrain,
Penees10 hie work to listen—
Waits to catch the word* again :—
‘4 Wook °Tager), keft for me,
me hide mysel 10 Thee,"
"Week Oldiges, loft for ute-."
And the voicele xott and low,
And We baud 10 latch, the meaning,
For ;he breathcoulee hard zunt :dew ;
"Wink Oltzges, keit far me,
Et me hide myael in Thee."
In a darkened room holies,
Yet the emu eweet Peng is staging
And to our breaking hearte
1-eace and resignation, bringing.
11 Week 0 Beets, heft far me.
Eb me hide naysel 10Thee."
"Week 0 /3tgere, keit for met
Mamma, sing it, you know how—
Charlie's dyIng—mesante darling
Won't you—eing it -for him—now
Week OTegem—keft-der—me,
Eh me—hlde—inyeel—in—Them"
"Rock 0 Agee, eleft forme,"
'Tie 4 Mother einging now-,-
D?ath boa marked her Precious ba
And the damp la on hie brow;
"RiOOk et Ages, oleft for met
Let me hide mytiell in UM"'
Let Ate hide myeelf in Thee
Theo who haat the video pren ttod,
Spare me., yet, title agony,
Reis all we have, 0 Oed
Fether, motet we drielt the cup?
Mat we give ellt darilug up I
"Week 0-Begun—end Onr baby.
Sang the rest to Chriat &Ione,
Ae the vegeta tenderly
Bore him to the great white tilt e ;
" Week Oliages, kelt for me 1"
And he hid himself in Thee.
Hatte
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Re who come* up to We own 14
great:mu. rand ;twilit have bed
low standard 0 it In hie awn imbed.
The manila= Hewett epeelutai
To govern others, should Mullett &at learn
To bend hie pledges to the sway of reason.
Only the refined and delimit° pleasures
timt epring front research and education nut
build up berrlora between different nuke.
If a Marl empiteet hie purse Leto bia head,
no man min take it from him. An invent -
relent in knowledge elweye pays the beat
intermit
'The oil 0 black birch bring, f 83 a gallon.
In the beleyito diva o1. vette the ordinery
bleak birch uted to bieug— tears, ueuelly.
At whatever period 0 life frIondahlpe aro
famed, 44 berg aa they continue sincere and
attootfonete they form undoubledly one 0
Otto greeted blentuga we can enjoy.
After being totally Winner fifteen yeere
blres Todd lattice...cif Bronson, Mieb., was
suddenly cured. ;Cho first portion that she
sew wee her daughter, and her first rematk
waif, "My 1 how youv'e grown,"
In the Johnstown disester dimity, the
coroner's jury found that the South Fork
Hunting and Fishing Club are reaponsitde
Lor tbe lo ot life, becaeao of grou if not
criminal negligence
,
and of carelimenesa in
making repairs fromtime to time.
A new indnatry is developing on the
friend of Guadalupe. There are now about
50,000 wild goats there, and they aro being
killed for their akinand tallow. Steamers
have already arrived at San Diego, GAL,
with cergoes of goettkins and tallow.
Thirty years ago the Thomas Dickason.
New Bedford whaling ship, was lost in the
Othotak Sea. Led ;summer the bark Cape
Horn Pigeon took a whale in the same aea,
and embedded in the 'Webber was tit° iron
0 a harpoon, with the words "Thomas
Manson stamped on it. It was as brtglit
and sharp as when it was fiat attack into
the whale, at least thirty years ago.
Tho Posh effiso of Centre Rutland, Vt.,
is in a store. The other dey when mule
Sheriff's deputies were taking an inventory
of goods a package of 2000,letters and
papers marked " unclaimed " was found.
Some of them bore date of sixyears ago, and
why they were not all eent to the Deed
Letter tale long since has not yet been ex
plained. A deputy 'United States inspector
was summoned, who examined the lettere
and sent many of them to their proper desti-
nation. It is aaid that the finding of these
letters explains many heretofore mysterious
circumstances in which Rutland merthants
are intereeted.
Ib ie said that the electric light companies
have had something to do with the appeal
proceedings in the oase of the New York
murderer sentenced to death by electricity.
They are strongly opposed to thenew method
of execution, fearing that, as soon as it has
been ascertained how atrong a current must
be in order to kill, it will become much
easier than at present to obtain damages for
accidental death by electricity. It ia very
improbable, however, that the appeal will be
successful, for 16 is brought on the ground
that the new punishment is cruel and un-
usual," and therefore unconetitutional. As
compared with the barbarous process of
hanging execution by the electric current is
moat meroitul.
Probably few people in this country are
aware that i
there s an exbradition law in
the United States covering the transfer of
persons amused of crime from one State to
another. It is under this law that Governor
Hill, of New York, has refused to surrender
Maroney and McDonald, who aretsuspected
of and charged with complicity in the Cronin
murder, on the requisition of Governor Fifer
of Illinois. Governor Hill's objections are
ahnost entirely teolanical, and lb is very
broadly hinted across the line that his action
Is dictated by fear of a certain powerful po-
litical influence in his State. This influence,
moreover, it is alleged, is going to make the
conviction of Dr. Cromn's meirdererei a very
difficult matter.
An extraordinary instance of long halm
of labor earn° to light through the Sweating
Committee of the house of Lords. A Roum-
anian Jew, about 35, small, and of poor phy.
sique, was examined through an interpreter
In a mixture of Hebrew and Garman. He
arrived in Hull via Hamburg, intending to
proceed to Amerioe, but not honing money
enongh to pay his fare, ha was sent to Man- h
ebeiester. There he worko from 5 o'clock in t
Otto morning until twelve at night, and i I
sornetirnee until 1 or 2 in the morning, mak- '
ing an average of 20 hours a day for 6 clays a
In the week, leaving only 4 hours for sleep, t
He earned 33. a day in the busy time, last. b
ing aboub 10 weeks, and from 65. to Ss, per r
Week itt the Jack season, and on thie he had
to support a wife and six alb:Item e
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YOUNG FOLKS.
Miss Noriarite.
Miss Morlarity
Was dressed, for the party',
In satin, and ribbon and, /ace.
She oiled on the eat,
And inquired, " How Is 010,0?"
And the cat laughed one in her facie.
bilge Moriarity, •
All drenecl far the PertY)
Went ont to get int* the gig.
She waa white es eitecte
For there ori the weat
Set the widow Mt Geffex ty's pig.
hieriarity,
• Deemed up for the way,
Inquired of et froggy the way,
• The free with a pia
Sad 'twits time to go in,
For the chickens were raking hay',"
Miss eforiarity,
Complete for the party
114 larelingel, bodice papa frin,
Theo gazed at her clothee,
Till *be fell to a doret
And dreamed that she, 14 010 quadrille,
Mint Moriarity
hee Too late for the party
With her leen and Patin and, silk,
tiVae ready to cry,
But an owl said "Ott, fie 3"
444 an elephant eeetked her with mfr,
4ieabierierty
Sa dreamed 0 the y,
810 clawed Montt ell out et breath ;
Aud ere It wee day
The Meat heard her eey
"Why, blest mei tired to destb."
g SA= ialtiZog,WM/iICZU,
A STOW foll MY&
Villitt you are now, my boy, 1 cm on
t it 14 MOM than belle enemy ago. Th
ay that eld Men remember thine *het he
pelted long, long ago better than event* 010marred recently. In the geography whi
I need fa embed when I wee a bey like y
wag a picture 0 a acme in the gait to
whose Polish Panle is AVM:1 fibeVe. The te
WM a wondexful dory fit things a loos vra
setlergronnd, end I walled very meth
waterier alma in the bowel% of the ear
amen the SPenea detoribed to the text
Tee picture represented a workm
(bedded up in narrow place, 'Vulva
great blocks of ult. land to thlok
mast farm the bukathe, ao I looked et Id
year alter year born that thoo to tide, for
have mu that man, and I 11940 indined
paint him wIth a bettle of liniment, fa
inlieved that be Eccae4 10.
We were told in the book ado whole vi
inn 0 prattle lived in this mine end th
um 0 them nominee°, out. thts w
shindy dotiou, for no clue Eva io the Wee
but, in spite of the big derive it did tel
the cavern is vainly more wonderful Oho
the den:Option, Atter I bad milked alma
eeven Mike through thew subterrainan go
idles I wee moo that Oho helf had not bee
told. Wieliczka ie about e10milea fro
Cracow, the ancient capital of Fol end, wher
one may look upon the edible of Joh
tioldeski, Poutitowski and Therldeus Kea
etude".
Wiollake le a town 01 5060 people, Th
earth under 10 18 honeycombed With eXelVa
thane, beginning about 200 feat below th
autfece, for three miles in one direr:diem h
nen toile in the other. The ult was die
covered 050 years ago, and the mine h
been worked ell the time dna. Teem at
old to be over 400 miles of galleries an
tunnels dug out; but did not mediae them
though four:deo rumen to doubt the date
to In fact wben I got en the face o
Otto mirth again I felt as though had reall
walked 200 of them, though I had really
made but About moven miles. These mine
yield an annual revenue of $1,000,000
Though pure white milt is found there, mos
of the product is mixed with a dark green
It is 'taken out in plecee of the leverage alt
of ona'a bead, or a football, and in thla
shape hauled to Cracow In wagone.
Oar party of three were on the way from
50. Pettrahurg to Vienna, and we stopped to
ee this wonder of our boyhood. The ftra
o
trmality at the entrance a the mine was
o pay a fee 0 about $9, which covered all
expenses of the party. Our retinue con
isted of an official guide and four lamp
boys, and the atores coneisted of a large
npply of fireworks. We were provided with
n11 uniforms of :steal balm, The lamps
were even pans, with several wicket at the
ma, held by throe chains, so that they
onld be dropped to the floor, to light the
ay.
There were two methods of descent—one
no
a windlan, the visitors being seated In
ope allege, the other by a staircase. We
ere taken down the stairs. They consisted
f seven steps down from one platform to
nether, on eae'a of which one turns around,
epeati:g the operation until the bottom is
eaohed. We went down 750 feet, but it
corned to be about 200) when we walked
p. Some say the latter is the withal depth
f the mine, but ib is better to discount about
alt of the statement.
The mussagea or galleries are very like
he corridors 0 a building. In places where
here was any looseness in the walls or cell -
g they were planked, but generally the
sitor sees nothing but walls of salt rook.
ear the foot of the damage we were con-
noted to a (Ample dedicated to the patron
int of the mine. The apartment was *-
out 50 by 30. In a niche at the book of a
age was a lifesize crucifix. At the ends
the stage were a statue of the King 0 Po.
nd and the saint. The latter was a dull.
s, and on spot they believe that the mine
m discovered by men searching for the
's wedding ring, which she had lost,
here is another statue and some ornament.
work, all of which carved out of the
lid rook of salt.
After looking at the chapel we look a
ry long walk through the gloomyvaults,
11 we cam . e to an immense cavern, whioh
a deem city churches could be comfortably
stowed. The boys touched off some Roman
candles', and the place was brilliantly illu-
minated. This is the point, or one of them,
where ib would be quite proper to go into
ecstasies and "gush," for the cavern 0
grand, and the idea of being hundreds is
feeb below ground is appalling; but there is
no danger that the thing will Mamie in."
We went into another tremendout vault
of the same kind provided with wooden gal-
leries above for the paesage of the miners
from one part to another, Then we walked
more miles, passing monuments, statue* a
banquet hall, and following a railroad miles
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orses buried as they were. In one of
hese Immense excavations we come to'
aka 47 feet deep. Moored to the shore was
flatboat, big enough to seat twenty lem-
ons, on which we embarked for a sail 00
hese Stygian waters The Craft was drawn
y wires, /the many ferryboats in the upper
egions.
When we were hall way aoroos the lake
boy let air it heavy cannon- oraoker, the echo
ea of -which resornied over and over agal
through the aWiLli OBVern. We paned un•
der a gracefully turned arch into another
grotto, and then lauded on the af:lid salt
again. A bong welk down inclined planes
gi
and an oecaenel Right of entire brought us
tO the IWO 110* *0 the eXeavatleele -which
was a bell reign, brilliantly lighted,' or our
reception. The Emperor ot Austria, atter
where it le named, 10a1014d cone. here. le
ieprovided with gellea, and is lighted
with obandeliere made of salt. The drop;
exe of.the whiteet kind, and they sparkle
like diemende.
At one; melee in our welk We. Were told 'that
• the lake over which we bed erased was
direetty Oyer our de ; but the Deer -wan
dry and there eves no oozing overhead.
The ascent of the ataira was ezeeedindlY
trying after the long walk In the depths he.
low, The light -boys deemed to ba not at all
fatigue& They were forbidden to aak via -
Item for money, and the efittials enforce
the rule ; bub the by are continaelly
tbeuatieg their hands very elyly bite poem
tione wbete a few kreu zero cauld drop in-
to thenn Unseen by the incorruptible guide;
and it Is very amoaieg to see them do tide
at every opportheity.
At the heart of the stairmee cextain pro.
eens are permitted to Sell carving?, Kick Pe
book* end toys in pure white salt, as eenVe.
Dire et the 'mit el which our party car.
ided Off 4 full deeply, I had realized my
dream m a boy, and the hook I brought
&way rendrided me for yeast.tfil it melted,
ot the geography which had winced me to
hieit the miltek
SIM SWIM Di TUB SOUDAN,
ky Aurae, NOW Pt an Arnerlesu
tenet
Min Jambe. Da013114, head num of award
In Jaime liophina floreital, audt
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log superintendent of neon wading the
Arrival 0 14141 baba Hareptom of
Caudle, 10.1111 intereeting bletory.
Par401111 IS one of the Norden Matto,
Nightingeleettree, tubed in 1370 at St.
Thomas lioopitel. Lembo. FloreeceNight.
ingale, after the Crilneen war, stetted thin
field et inetructien under the name of Sr,
Thoma*' Training &hoot for Nurses. Fey
eervloes in Egypt during the Soudan war
Min Patents lets been highly cemmended
and headeomely decorated. She ;valved
from Qemen Victoria the Revd Reel Crean
witieh the (Zucca. the Primus 0 Waite and
other enemberet of the rowel badly 0 Bag
and wear; amber medal from the Hoeft
%trainee, and 4 braze medal :roue Otto
Khedive et Rapt,
Mite Parson le en Rogibett woman of inc
1010 stature and ective moven:mon. She
seled from London far the Studien March 3,
88.1, and
1.4,10140 AT srsz,
rem which piano *he hod 4 two
belt dile trip to Sulphite,
es stationed on the stream
!port Chagas, fitted up 1411 a heated
9:be bmt received ito ocroplerneut of peak
rem tbe meet et war, wounded and fever-
tricken. There were about 4C0 tick on the
dose when blIss Poems WA% enigma to
hat peat. Daring her stay on the ateamer
he ship was cleared of all who could be
tend, Tatty were traneforred to, the
ud sent to London, thatch* is add to he
he botteat plate in the world—so hot thet
ies can native there. The Int popular bt.
of, Ills* Ear$01111 'ens, le a mistake, for she
w and feught million* of flies there and all
beplaguee of Ideal.
Zits'' Browne, 'whit two otherSistera, took
ek ta Englaind 4CD patents on the Iberia,
only lot four an the wane She returned
verb:nut to Brindial mid eroded. the Medi -
roman to Alexandria, whew° she went
o Satz by rail, paesing the
11.1.TTLEFIELD OF TEL XX. EXnalt,
here the Ara% in 1443 roar sow in killed.
he journey is ileacribed as terdble on eo.
tint of the heat. With three other Sistera
e was stationed at Sum, and received all
ck forwarded from Suakirra Al soon as
nvaleseenb they were put aboard home.
und ships.
It was intensely hot ab Suez, and Mies
arsons had a thermometer, from excess ofe
et, to bursb in her pocket. The hospital
rd was gorgeous with beautiful &warn
t they 104 to be gathered before 4 o'olook
the morning or the hot atmosphere robbed
em of their fragrance. In some of the
arches the men, suffering with dreadful
fret, would drink water that had been ly.
g in tbe sun for days in, the akin bags.
he result wits always a largely increased
tuber for the hospitais. She was heraelf
tegked with typhoid fever at Suez, suffer -
a relapse on the homeward voyage on
e steamer Ganger, and had a second re -
pee after she reheated her home.
Mille Parsons sent her resignation to the
ar Office before coming to this country.
e came to the United. States on a visit,
1; circumstances caused her to remain
ger than she expected, and finally to
oent a -place in the Johns Hopkins Hos-
talr. She has never served in any other
spital in the United Sates.
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Prefers the Canadian (lirl,
Boston Herald Two points of advantage
Otto Canadian girl possesses over the Ameri-
can, and these are precisely the qualities that
particularly appal to men; she is more re -
mantic and more submissive. Waite as full
of sentiment as the ideal love letters tied
with blue ribbon, rhe still regards man as
her lord and master. She rarely dreams of
disputing the sapremacy of husband, father
or even brother, and her privilege and plea. -
sure is to minister unto them. She is so affect,
tienate in her home °bale that the average
man has only to be admitted there to straight-
way fall head over heels in love with a owl
who worships her brother, is forever kissing
her fond father and diepates with her sisters
Otto honor and delight of warming the pater-
nal ;slippers. Even when of "high station,"
she takes her turn in making the tea and
preparing the toast and superintending the
breakfast; generally, a task which mamma
relegates to her daughters. The Canadian
girl breathesthis engaging air of domesticity.
Man doesn't say, How she 0&11 waltz,
how well she looks an the opera, how she
surpasses all the other girls in the cotillion!"
No matter to what advantage she may
appear in evening dress, under the soft
ance of the wax candles, what the most in-
veterate bachelor whispers behimself te this;
"By George 1 What a wife she would make 1
And what a home I"
What the iTapanete Did Not Imitate in Us.
Japan nob only knows when to begin
imitating Western civilliz Alen, but when to
stop. There was no hesitation about adopting
educational institutions and our civic insti.
tntione. • Newspapers followed, and tele- I
aphs, and railroads, and constitutions,,
ut when teem° to women's dresses, there
WOW a halt, French men milliners and
English women millineri were dropped and
their needles rusted for want of patronage.
Tide was wise. We are exactly 500 years
behind the Japanese, and in the rear of
common sense, in our method of dressing
womee.We should do well to imitate onr
Oriental freenue in several particulars.,, butt I
particularly in female costume
Md.ILS AT 250 MILES AN ROUX
ellierne to Carry Peon 'be an Electric.
Elevated; Wire et oad.
Within a twelVetnelAth from the pre
(tete. Maile will be monied irate Seaton 04
ihW York CitY in sixty minutes. SO ley
the capitalists Who are making arrangement*
for the eatabliehment 0 a transport line on
the so willed " porteleakie sydem " for the
convenience of letters and packages between
the metrepolis and the omelette Athens. Eveot
the teed sanguine baeliers of the entierpriba
are 001.44ent that if the; xpected public sap..
pent is .given to the echeme eot more them
two lode wAll be rctloired et meet for tha
eatablidement of the neceuere plant 10run-
Wog outer to bring the tiVO CtUtrem or
population within au hetardi diatence by wain
The said plant will resemble, en to ire mods
ementhil part,. a Uttlet olovated railway top, '
ported on a amgle Inc of tell iron oprighta
and stretching from the Poet-effiee bete t44
that on the bland of Xanhattati. Meng the.
track on top dues e email Par Wen with
rnail fretght, which at cernao interval11 due-,
meete trent; tie seen to go under gas( rdookilog
latz sbapeel areleest Teeee ben iikeerrazge-
menta oontain each oneai , a Rof wire, paseneW
beneath the rail below and exoand oyer thet
arch, se thet the tittering mail carriage ranee
asit were, through 4 succienitta of *oiled wera
helve. And thou latter oetianaueientet thee
motive power to the 'Thiele.
The *peed to lee attained by the car in this. s
manner in 14OBietti410. .&a BB BBOOPIZed Ir
mechanics, a OCIninent repelling form)
pradoctive of nearly infielte velooitta °he
• stunted tasty by the residence of frietinne
In this system the Only frietitni come from,
the elr end the alight conteetot the ar with
the refire, Two 111411dren siud ilfty mike an
or la net thought ra be au overeariroate ef
he apeecl eaelly to COMp4411011 by the
• • perteleettie deopetch. At the etartireg
point the wirecailo will Wave to be eloen
together end on upgrades, but chew/met,
and updating on down wedeln they may bie
few and fer betwevo. the motive pewter
needed being allght STA atetions. Aimed at
int:weal* betweee here aud New Yotk, v411
ly the rtgalaite correlate from dyeemom
Many txperte tiaink that the eyetem in
des!ined to rovelotionize the poetal, service.
rn thea country. For instance, it le expected
thet feetead cf houra ;mut between&
Beaton AO New Yak eerriegwe will be met
over the betake from tither end of
the line at five uilitute late:eel*, those
randerleg nuneeeesary the width% for mai*
tt close, and giving people in 171#4 city ate
pertuulty to reed their lettere two hewn
er they ere written In the other, Oetto
prove the neaten a secede here Audit wilt
be gutekly adopted tvelywhere, epply-
hag non laxgor scale, toot wine known
that it eller not *erre for transportitie of
paseeogere unto day? thereto of 2.5%
taloa an hour one could put girdle around
the earth ,In four dela I Truly, it le a WINS,.
derful century we live In.
Headgear of Zama Queens and PriLcAser.
A. well-known Perisise medieto givee *ace
Warming detain With razawl to the hate
and hoonete Watch She Inakee for 50100 00 her
royal cuetomers.
The Cement) de Peri* &cues In a stover*
and abriple etyle, and elweys weer* rounelb stet
never barmen. Hide Er hare small and of
it special variety, of the ague shape, which
propired purporely for her, Desk brown,
and black are her levet Ito cetera. Her Mar-
rled deughter, the Dachesee de BrligatX41,
'Wernher mother'* alum:Jetty of taste. The,
Duchene Chatrrea, thealatenholew 0 thee
Cordele° de Paris, is one et the most ole.
gent revel ladles ha Europe. Iferneudatyte
heitclimer is the aspen" bonnet in black
and gold, or araern-white, or red, an of whicdo
contra or combinetion of color are eery be.
coming to her. Her daughter, the Princesa
Waldemar et Danmark, prefers a style of
headgear whith is gotten up especially for
her. It !a of the tcque thape in front, cave
ng down at the back in something of the
oapoto form. She likes atraight, high trim-
ming set 1 efront of the crown, never weira
trings, and partinularly diellkes hanginy
whether of ribbon or lace. As she ham
fresh fair complexion she delights in dell'.
*0* titmice of pale blue or sliver gray.
The Empress 0 Resale, likeheraister, the
tin cue of Wales, never wean high. orowned
r large.brimmed hats. Everything must be,
mall and neat and compact, whether hat or
onnet. Ber favorite colors are pale blue and.
dive.
Her sister -in law, the Grand Duchess Vied-
imir, who was it princess of the ducal house
f Mecklenberg-Sehwerin, is one of the royal
eaders of European fashion, being extemely
tylieh in manner and possesaipg infinite
aate in dress. I have jut carried cut for
arms idea of her own, which waa to am-
ino in a toque a crown in real sealskin,
ith trimmings of white eilk gauze. Thin
neon of fur and ganzp, of dark brown and
hite, was daring and novel, and perfecitly,
nccessfnl. She delights in wearing fitwerm
er favorites being chrysanthemums and
iolete.
The wife of her second' brother, formerly
the Princese Elizabeth of Saxe -Weimer
wears compact capotes with close bordering
and. strings, the bow under the throat being
very becoming to her. When she was mar-
ried three years ago I furnished the bonnet's
and hats ef her trousseau, comprising some
thirty in all. Everycostume was made wibh.
a hat to match, and every carriage or recap-.
tion or theatre dress had tins bonnet to.
correspond in material as well as color.
It Puzzled this Dentist.
les a mystery to me," said a dentist of
large practice recently, "that a woman will
make up her face to come to a dentisb's
char. Yet many of them do. Hardly a,
day passes that 1 don'b have soine women in,
here rouged, powdered and penciled to t10.
last degree. You would think they would
hardly care to face the strong, cruel light,
vehioh I employ in my work, or my own
close if involuntary, scrutiny, but they
don'tiseem to mind either. Only yesterday,
I worked for three hours over it woman,
whose lips were so besmudged with sonie.
vermilion paste that it came off generously
with every use of the syringe to wash Dub
her mouth. The powder on ber face dusted
my coat sleeve with every motion almost,
and I discovered before I was through with
her that even the veins on her templies,
owed their delicate bine look to some out-.
side influence."—[New York Sun.
Not an Every -Day Commence..
Two teamsters °erne into collision itt the
street with their vehicles the other day.
First Teamster—" My dear dr, l'in very
sorry for this accident. Will you kindly,
excuse me 1"
Second Teamster—" Pray do not mention,.
it, my dear sir. The fault was as much mines
as yours."
After getting their outs clear of eaohe
other they bowed politely, and with a plea-
sant " good day " proceeded about their
letaMess
It is a great pity they had not had their.
photographs taken 1or curiosities