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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-9-26, Page 613'0USE13OLD. New Thinee in Werean's Deese. The welhiug skirt of the period has deed nudggeuea evelution. It le QUM one pieea, end only contains a single sem; and is, mozeover, made up what may he veiled the weeng wee, of the stuff. The rowing of this extraordinary state of thing e is that manufacturer have bethought them of Weaving materials that, takenirere *Wedge, to selvedge,. Meaente the average length of skirt required by any woman who b zia a giantesa. All along one aide le "Woven a border et Snipes er ether pattern imitable for the bottom of aekiete Thu:A When the one seam le SOWN yea haVe an ample petticoat absolutely ungered. but jug as wide at the top as at the bottom, The deemmakers at consists in arranging all this lances gracefully over is toutaletion Wet very effectively many of them •do it. It it: rather refreehing to ace the female form divine veiled by ample folds after se long a courae of garments that: "exptest " lather than "bid " it as we JAY° bad of late yea.rs. There are few fabrics for erdinuy nee that make up Millis style better than the bor- dered darnels, which are perfeetion for sea. eide wed countty wear, eineethey neither show duet norsoil, look daintily delicate, and yet eupply it'd the amennt of warmth ee desir- able in the, damp, chilly deys of this faU seasoe. Dui a greet many ex- pensive fabrics, are manipulated after a feehion that precInclea the !legibility of two people having dresse% unlemi it is their peeticular deeire. The epoItrnea- rae Saila certain quantity o thie wide kind et dna, say in elle 0 thefeebioneblegreeel, and halode tt to one of isle beet embroider - ewe, who forthwith worke aelebunte rtttorn of seelleps or Vantlailtee in meey- ()dared Silks and gold and ;diver threade aU along one selvedge, By the time ahe hat fieished, Abe is utterlY vrearY et reprodneleg the some pattere, wed in relI probability would net do may niere et it well. The next length, with another petterns beings a welcome iretlety te her eye And mMd, And tiara comes in the beaety of human hendiwoele aa con - trusted with Use productione of a Intsehine. The device resorted to for a toilet intended for a IvelliaA 'who is mueh taller than the reelerity of her Fox its to new a guipure lace all Wong the aelvedge of the materiel, and ea arrange the embroidery Sett It la partly on the *guff and wily on the lace, Toilets prepmed in tide manner can never began e neremon, neither oan they be cheap, Output::: u quite the lace of the days an come quietly the Irbilforme of it will come very =oh to the fore, They bare at least the limit of being I:abets:ninth an tbat very desirable in hog that are combined with, any fabrics thicker than 44 crepe de Chine" and &nab. Some of the loveliest of new tesgowne Ire turned cut. There is a wonderful csehee" of ;style about even tilos° thAt are lease expensive, but they excel in white cues Many et twhich are perfece drowns of dein- linen. There is nothing like white so loeg as a wonlan fi youlag enough to won It ; and judging by the example of norm) greet French leak' who have loug slug paged the Rubicon thet divide% youth from roiddle ago the period may extend over two thirds of the ordinary epee of inimen life. Ladles are wearingthe deintiret and prettleit little " li obe" maginable, made of tine gold chains's:sited by email ckoleti of engraved Creedal. They look very well in. doors, or with a, drew: that in nob covered by a Mantle °rim:ken Mat it is simply a pity that they should be :altogether -bidden. Sap - biros aro quite thogems of the year, wiped - ally when sot in brilliant* and it is dila- cult to sey whether the diamond* set off the sapphires or the sapphires the &amends, There is a pasting fumy for moonstones, also set in brilliant*, and the turn of faabion's wheel Is bringing turquoise!: again into fever. Almose every ornament made in brilliants is capable of being broken up into *variety of atilt:lee, as, for instance, a tiara will divide into a comb and two •breeches, or can be reversed u a neckleth or will even make a pair of bangles. This is move in a eery convenient directionespeciel- ly for those when coramaud of diamonds b limited, and who like to have as much aa poesible for their money. All these little changes are good for trade, and by and by sapphires and moon- :tones willyielti the paa to eineralde and rubies. 2he popularity ot the catheeye seems over for the preeent, but no doubt it will come in again, and so will the amethyst, and even the elehernian garnets among lesser valuables. The faehionef place Ing single brilliants as flower centres lost ita height on the Continent, but It ie not every one who has loose diamonds floating about, so to speak, and available for fancy rupee. eft. Choice Reoipes. 13nusswrcs STEW.—The Beason for this excellent dish having come round once more, directions for preparing it are re printed for the benefit of new subscribers. Take two pounds of meat, beef or mutton, or a tough old fowl that would hardly be eatable pre- pared in any other way, cub into medium sized pieces, and pub it over the fire with two quarts of cold water, letting them heat very gradually. Meantime peel and slice a quart of tomatoes and one onion, shell a pint of Lima beans, and out from the cob the same quantity of green corn; add these in- gredients to the meat, with a palatable sea- soning of salt and pepper; cover the sauce- pan, and wok the atew gently for about four hours, then add to it aix medium sized potatoes peeled and sliced; stir the stew frequently after the potatoes are added, to prevent burning, and when they are just tender, melt a tablespoonful of butter in the stew (unless the meat was fat) and serve it hob. STEAMED FRUIT PUDDING. —Mix tWo tea- epoonfuls of baking.powder and half a tea. spoonful of salt with a pint of flour bysifting all together twice. Beat the whites( f two eggs to a stiff froth. Mix a sinall half-oup- ful of melted butter with a cupful of sweet milk, and pour the mixture over the flour; then add the yolks of the eggs beaten with half a cupful of sugar. Stir well, then beat ID the whites of the eggs, and hot of all add a pint of any kind of berries preferred, or of sliced peaches, sour apples or pitted plums, cherries, ete. The fruit ehonld be first sprinkled with a little fionr, so that it may be distributed evenly through the pudding. Turn the batter into a buttered mould, a can, or a covered pail, which should not be full by two inches of its top. Cover the kettle closely, and boil three hours. This pudding maV be baked in a pan two hours, being covered with a plate during the first hour. Many cooks set the dish in which the pudding is baked in a pan In whioh is boiling water that is maintained as a depth of two inches; this plan prevents a crust forming at the bottom. Serve hard sauce, whipped cream, orwiththe following: Beat half a cupful of butter until lipht, and acid gradually to it, beating all the while, one cupful of powdered sugar. When light and creamy, add a teaspoonful of vanilla or lenton extract, and, a little at a time, a qualter onpiul of milk or cream. When al is beaten Pmeeth. Place the bowl in a basin of hot water and etir until the Deuce is smooth and creemy no tenger. It, will take only e few minutes. This la a eleliciens sauces and if well-bsaten, and not kept in the not waiter long enough to melt the auger, It Will be white and foamy all tnrengh, Bleotrio Oar Brakett, The expression, electric brake, is new often heard and requires & weed of, explaa, &den. There are various forme deo called eleetrie brake!: which are practicable, and even efficient, working devices.. In none of them, however, does electeleity furnish the power by Which the 1:rahee axe applied ; it, merely pure in operation emem other power. In one typo of electric brakethe active braking forgets taken from an axle of each aae, 4 small friction -dram IS made( fast to tho axle. Another frictionalrumhumg from the body of the oar awinga near the axle. If, when the car is in motion, thee:3 amnia are brought in contact, that one which hangs from the ear takes motion from the other, and may he made to wind a chain on its shaft. Winding in this chain, pulls on the brake,levers preciaely as if it had been wound or the elude of the band•btake- The sole futiOtion of electricity in. tide form of brake is rn bring the frietion- drums together. In 4 Ffeneh brake which has been used experimentally for some years with much incepts, an electric current, controlled by the eugioe-driver, energies an electro magnet which forms part of the awinging Immo in which the !cue friction -pulley is curled. This eleetro- • inegnet being vitelizad. 10 attracted toward the axle, thee bringieg the frietiou-drume in contact. In an Au:crime brake lately exhibited on * lug freight train, a timelier electro.megnet is need, but the gime end is eeeempliehed by inultiplying the power by the intervention of a lover and wheel. The other eye° el so,oelled electriol- eike is thee in whieh Vag motive power . compressed eir, and the frelotion of the eleetrie device is eimply to manimilete the valves ender eaoli ou by which the eft is let into the broko. cylinder or allowed to escape, thus putting on or releassing the )'rake. Ali of thee° devices Iseve thie advantages that, whatever the length of the train, the application of the brAkee le simultaneous on alt the wheels, aed *tope can he made from high speech:ebb, little shock.-1Scribeser'e. Why Sty ateende !fake a Blunt°. Wily bent hourdivideel iutosixty raluutee, each voinute into aixty woods, •hee. ? Slraply end solely because In Babylon there existed, by the side of the decireel ;lite= of notation, another oyster*, ;the sexegesimel, which counted by sixties. Wlay *et number should have been ohogn h clear enough— and it !pude* well lee the praotioal same of thelie ancient Bebyloulan morthente. 'there lino number which leg ee teeny divisor" as Sixty, The Babylonigh divided the aged daily jeurriey into twenty•four piraungs, or nevem buudred and ten stadia. Each paraesug or hour was eubdivided into sixty minutes. A pitmen is about a Garman andllebylanian tuitzonerners compared the progress wide by the SUD during one hour at the time :Atha equinox to the pro - grow made by 4 good walker during ilea same time, both agomplishing oue permaeg. The whole °aurae of the nun during the twerityIenr equinoctial hour" was fixed at twenty four peresange. or *DVSS hundred wad twenty stadia, or 360°. This system was handed on to the Greets ; and Hipper. chue, the greet Greek philoopher, who lived about 140 2, o., introduced the Babylonian hour into Europe. Ptolemy, who Wrote about 150 rt., and whose name still lives in that of the Ptolemaic system of *s- toner:1y, gave still wider currency to the Bebe:Ionian wee of reckoning time. It was carried Along on the quiet stream of traditional knowledge through the Middle Agee, and, strange to say, it sailed down safely over the Inagua, of the French Revolution. For the Sheath, when revolutionising weights, messuree, coins, and dates, and subjecting all to the decimal system of reokonitg,evere induced by some unexplained motive to respect our cloaks and watches, and allowed ear diAls to remain slexagesireal—that is, Babylonian, each hour consisting of sixty minutes. Here you see again the wonderful coherence of the world, and how what we call knowledge is the result of an unbroken tradition of a teat:thing descending from father to son. Not more than about a hundred arms would reach from ns to the builders to the palaces of Babylon and enable us to shake hands with the founders of tbe oldest pyramids and to thank them for what they have done for me." There WereNo Plies on Him. They had just begun tbeir courtship and were swinging on the garden gate, beneath the silent sitars, and they were silent, too, for they were yet in the dawning of young love and scarce knew what to say to each other. The silence at last became embarrae- sing and she said ; "I must go in." "What's your hurryV' "Oh, we're just like two fools 'swinging ant saying nothing." "I don't know what to talk about." "Well, I must go in." "Wait a moment. Say, you must be aw- fully troubled by the flies in Summer time." "Yes ; they molt light on you in swarms." "Sir ?" "It" "Because you're eci awfully sweet." She didn't go in. He Thundered Anyhow. Summer Poet -1 have here, air, a little poem which I have deoided to lot you have.' Editor—You mean you want it put in our paper? Poet—Yes, air. ream not for lucre, but I am ambitions. I want to go thundering down the nee. Editor (after reading the first stanza)— Well, the fact is, WO are out of ages just now, but I tell you what loan do for you: I clan send you thundering down the stairs inside of forty seconds by the watch. The Antwerp fire oaneed.by dynamite ex- plosiona has brought; upon this military stronghold and commercial centre of 13eigium a disaster of the first magnitude. Eighteen years ago the business section of the city was neseey destroyed in a single day; and the catastrophe has been repeated with the less of hundreds of lives. The docks and shipping have been protected by the direc- tion of the wind, but great destruction has been wrought among the warehouses and handsome business street0. Antwerp, in addition to its celebrated Gothic cathedral, has many quaint el:tun:hes and pre:nous art treaeures in ite Rubens and Vandyke col- lections. It is to be hoped that tlae stained glass in the cathedral is the ohief loss Sus- tained by art. The city is so rich and prosperous that the havoo caused by dyne. mite and flames will be speedily repaired, ntrandENT 01' VIE RCOR, Father fluntiogten contributes the fol- lowing paper to The Christian Union:— Fifty yore wee Lord Beaconfield wrote "Sybil ; or Two Natione." In the:mune of the story it transpired that the two nit-, thou were not separated by mountain chains or political boundarie., but were, the tWO great sections into which modern Beglieli finde iuelf divided—the eection of the present possessors of wealth, and that of these wI30 possess neither the one nor the other. These two section, divide between them, not Eogianel only, bue the sixty million people of Sabi land. The nations are earieusly named. One brilliant writer speaks of the Some of Have and the Rouse of Want ; auother characterises them as th, " privileged and unprivileged °Imam' another of " the satisfied and the discon- tented ;" hut the most common as well as the oldest nomenclature is " the rich and the poor." Undoubtedly theee terms ere relative, and the division into the two nations can only be made in a very broad and general way. The gradatione from THE RAILBOAD Rine to the ticavenger are so fine that: at firat it seems impoesible to Op & knife blade fee between the eloaely fitting Rae. Beakless • the names rich and poor have quite a differ- ent meaning to. people. I remember * little hey in the top storey of a tenement house Debiting down to someticrawny plants hawing a few pinched flowers on � lower roof, anil teeing, in a twee of awe, "Tholes are Awful ;tele Davie down thew' Auci with the rapid etiengett in our Social Cendi- tien the extenelon et the Orme ehifte and alters. A few yore ego A man widi a hue, died thousend dullars was regarded as a "rich man'; he would hardly pees for rub in New York witty to -day. yete :mite of ail his apparent vase:emu of meaning, the two nations OM rich and poor denote are becoming more oberly defined, More mutually exclueive, with even" week. Mul- titudes ere paging constantly from one nation to the other, and yet the rune one wey is beeoming daily Mere COMM'S—. "bale (been:MIS Averni." Do we not ourselvee 'Athos to the dean - Renate; of one of the terms by the way in which we speak of the poor? What does that word roily coutiote as we nee it? A greet deal is written and elution about the poor. We tem imeleties for investigating or improving the gonnudon on Tree Toon; weber° able exacta on the homing, feeding, clothhag, tithing of the poor; we bevel lignite's mad mailivel attendance for the poor, minion chapels for the poor, special Ousters in our cemeteries- tor the poor, oriel:images for the young of the peer. Car. taUly, in the lime of thia universal use of the term we cannot deny thee the word must mean moniebody or bodice. Who ere they! Who do you, my Orietien brother er sister, mean by the poor! Is it not fair to oey that when you melte use of the word yen have in mind s man of individuals, meuetventen and children, around which you insve (hewn in thought an invialble liuo thee °leerier differentiates MN company from other Individual', and sets it at acmelittle distauce from the rest of the community,. including yonnaolf, your family and your aceinainteuce And having thusloceted the poor, II I may soy lo, do you not regard them as eeperated from von and your" not ouly by someyresent outward conditionte lane by their very constitution and makeeip, tie being of A sosinwsraT COARSER IIERE u perhaps, as iltiller t-e9e .,e4Ibilie -tee, pooling as providentially pitted to their environment and the occupation in which they engage? In other word', do you not reglad them very much as if they were teeny a separate and inferior species of the genus homo, the peculiarities And trait* of Which muse be duly considered and the best way diecovered to develop and improve the breed, but which mud Atli remain 'ogres:at- ed from the rest of the race? I do not sup- pou that you have GNU promoted the :natter to yourself In this light, and I dare ay you Leal quite offended at the suggestion that you really entertain these tenements ; but, ID all honesty, my friend, do you toe? Does there not underlie much that is said on modal matters a tacit asiumption—it rarely finds expression—that whet the poor " are to -day that they are, not because of sur- rounding oircumstancee, acoidental condi- tion of education, oompanionahip, work, but bemuse of some intrinsic grosaness'obtuse. ness, lack of energy or ambition? Does one declaim against the foulnessof tenement homes, the anawer it calmly given, " the poor actually like the dirt; they prefer to herd together," as though it were quite as much a trait of the species as for eels to live ID the mud or rabbits to crowd together in their burrows. Does one advocate, an ex- tension of the eight hour system, one is met at once with, "Oh, the men will simply spend the extra two hours in the saloon. Doee one deplore the STABNATIoN WAGES OF GIRLS ID the cities, the reply comes promptly, "Why, they could all have good homes at i service n the country but they won't leave the city streets." "But you are forgetting the law of here- dity; these people have inherited vicious or perverted tastes and dispositions and you propose to treat them ae though' they were free from the taint of generation's of degraded progenitors." Not so fast, my friend. Let us settle one thing at a tirae. Are you not in a measure admitting my statement that arin regard these peOple-- the poor—as of different :stuff from that of which you are made? I do not forget " the awful, sacred law of heredity." I know that many of those you call the poor are handicapped for the race of life by evil propensities and passions inherited from their parents. Butyill you venture to say that they have contracted an ineradi- cable disease, thatehumanenature has sunk so low in them that it is no longer capable of restoration and uplifting 1 you have seen the lowest tribe of savages oleansed„ taught and civilised; you have esen them furnishing their heroes and martyrs of the Chrietian faith ;do you condemn this peo- ple—the poor—at your very doors, they and their descendants, to brutality and crime? "But," you say,, the progress must be so very gradual; we can only hope to accomplish a little each generation." Limy do you ,RDOW how many cues have you made a fair trial? Do you know how young women to -day are STRUGGLING Ur GUT or BASE SURROUNDING? Ah, my friend, did the Lord Jesus come with no better Gospel than you preach? did he con e to tell Men that, though they could not hope to be much better than their fathers, Some distant generation of their children might attain to a Christian manhood He said of the crowd of rude, ignorant fisher folk who sat about him, their dull minds slowly wakening under his, worda, "Behold my mother and my brethren 1" No wonder they heard him gladly 1 no wonder the new life sprang up within them, and that they found themselves renewed M the image of God 1 "My brother, my sister, my mother." They are words of divine power. Suppose we used them le place of "the poor,'' whet a Change would come over our thoughts and paufrom thought into action I A gifted and large -hearted weraan meetly repeated this story. ' Youeney have seen it, but you will net hear it too often or dwell upon it too inteah. Some men 1' WORKING IN. A SANDPIT were covered by a mese of sand falling from the bsnic above them ; their fellow -workmen hastened to try and shovel thea: out before they were suffocated. A group of speotators gathered and looked on. Suddenly a wo. man, bareheaded and breathleas, ran up to one of the men who was standing by and ought him by the arms "Jack 1" she pant- ed, "Jack, don't you know your brothers down thee° And the men fieng a hie coat and grasped a shovel, and sprang and shovelled desperately te save his brother's life. Yee, in the sight of God there are not twe nationa—only one: Hill children, our brothers, all the world over. The Father - heed, the brotherhood— havewe even begun to learn them? Do we realise that our bro- ther is down there ?" Are we prepared to say, not" the poor," but "my brothers, my staters,) "His bothers, my sisteral" hly brother tramping about wearily from shop to ehop looking for a job, or working ten, twelve, fourteen hours: a day at czneh- ing, ill -requited work, that exhauete alt eave the famines of the 'nate—the craving for food, drink, sleep! My Dieter toiling in that rearing factory for a mere pittance, and coming back when the day is over, to that tenement Meek,. With its teal tel4 and de- grading company, the oreving for city eights and Beende beetelle a Seeeltd,nature, se that she ehtidAlets at the "loneliness" of the green fields and blue airy 1 And if you loug to XIV,I,,E* Tata XMOVIER, this eider, of yours, don't eat them away from you in the undiatinguished ratiee of 44 OA poor," but take your piece beside them —feel their grea. Bow probe an 'tinfoil: evil? Wouldtit he tho peer man's friend Wet freeze with him, Tots eleeplese hunger, let thy crippled took Ache o'er the endless furrow, How was He, The Bleakeed One, made peewit ! Why, by grief, The fellowehip of voluntary grief. Re read the tettreastined boon of fear men's hearte As I must learn to read it. DO you egg yourself how you can do this! leg me sueggli to you one method requirtug but little time, of eaxy execution. Put on the dress of a wage -worker, go into some part of the city or into a neighboring town where you Are net known, and try and find work. Go from dace to office and etere to atom meet and talk witliZothers bent on the same quest; Walt, as you will ID told to do, in the draughty matey or at the door till the boss" or the "forelady" 13 reedy to see yon; ask as they mug do who ilaVe uo choice but work or death; determine that you will go without your dinner aud supper Unless you End a Job, and as night °QUM on and you drag your aelf wearily homeward, glad you have piece to sleep, remember One who never but once described ble awe Welt; "poor roan," aisd who said then. "Tho Sou of Men hath not where to leY Rie heed." kaul then think that such A day AS that, for weeks mid mouths together, h the portion of thousanda—not of 04 the poor," but of your brother' and aster". Forget -Mel ot. A mother's last gooddaysl A deer friend's parting sigh, A message from on high, 44 Forget.me•not." A love which God hath blobs A maidente heart oorileat, A eoldier's last requests "Forgeame.not." A patriot's love of fame, A sweet, familiar strain, A poet's last refrain— " Forgenme-uot.° A wish all haute) contain, A, voice from o'er the male, An echo back again— " Fergetrane-not." Lor Love of God. 0 pain of loss 1 0 pain of gain 1 Aro Ye not ono? The upward reach, the earthly strain, The shade, the ann. With vision dim, through strange, dark ways I, erring, grope, Striving to pierce beyond the hue, Nor dare to hope. 0 heart of fire 1 0 heart of pain 1 Be still, be still ; Thy God is God, thy loss is gam, Thy pain His will. Thy wayward feet are swift to ran. The path of sin, Yet would thy earth -bonne heart become More pure within. 0 love of man 1 0 heavenly Grace I Ye are not one, And yet behind the Father's face Shines one the Son. 0 weak, faint heart, oana't thou not bear The cross, the rod, Loyal and glad Hie pain to share For love of God? --(Harriet Bell. The National Armada Memmial. The national memorial which is to be erected on Plymouth Hoe in celebration of tercentenary of the defeat of the Armada, awl for the execution of which the tender of Mr. W. C. May, pulpier, of Penn House, Hampstead, has been unanimously adopted by the general committee at Plymouth, will ID of broom's, and will consist of a IMAtve square column, 601 t. high, surmounted by a huge statue of Britannia, with two etatuee, much over life size, of Valour and Vigilance, at the base. On either side of the column will appear medallion portraits of Drake, Frobisher, Seymour, and Hawkins, whilst in the front panel, under Drake's portrait, the soulptor will introduce a large relieve repreeenting the fight with the Armada. Oa the reverse aide there will be a relieve illustrative of the various types of modern wan:lips. The decoration will include the arms of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, and also the &FMB of a number of towns. The work will be proceeded with in sections, and the Prince of Wales has promised to un- veil the first section next July. Between eighteen of the prinoipal cities of Great Britain Li telegraphio money order ser- vice went into operation yesterday. The method varies from the regulex routine of the mail money order system in that the receive ID olerk endorses the order "to be sent by telegraph." Ab the postoffioe where pay- ment is to be made the recipient identifiee himself, gives the name of the remitter, and at once secured the cash. OTATISTIOS. , The production of soap in England Is about 45,000 WPM per week, in which between 3,- 000 and 4,000 tons are made in London. The "United Kingdom paid last yeAr more than £3,250,000 for margarine, The United Statea cowmen 45.000,000 lb. In the pre- vious year the oeuanniption WAS only 44,000,. 000 lb. . Last year India imported 1,347,148 683 yards et gray, 406,852549 of white, and 372,- 607.627 yarde of oolouredhprinteds or dyed piece-goode. The proportions. of these from countries other than the United Kingdom fractional;are but they how a tendency in all three canes to Moreau.. The erop o1 apples in Franco in 1887 was ao large that the total quantity of cider made Was 302,326,000 gallces, as'against 136,767, - ON gallons in. 1886. In 1835 the apple,crop. in France was iso heavy that nearly 450,000,- 000 gallone of cider weie made'and the average for the last five years hasbeen 331,. u0.000 gallons, As much as 185,556 000 lb. of tea were ooneumed in Greet Britain last year, and, paying a duty of 61. per lb., produced a revenue of £4,613,0e0. The average per head was very little abort of 5 lb. New Zeeland has en average per head per annum et nearly nib., and Australia of 7.4 lb. Canada's return le 8:80 lb.; the Veiled Stated, 1:46 ites'Holland, 1.20 lb.; and all other countrieshave an average of 1 lb. The collie etre* at the British Mint last year were of 42 diferent denomination, ID- cluding, in Addition to 15 Imperial coke, gold, deebie dollen, and eilver arid breeze ohm for Newfoundland ; eilver for (head*. Rougkoug,. and the Straits Settlements; nickel for Jamaica; and broese for Jersey, Britieh lionduree, the Maleritines and Cau- Ada. The total number of good Pl000e Btratk wee 52,153,700, as against 43,369,043 he 1887, and their Value, real or nominal, 303,524. The total number of good piece(' of the imperial coinage Wee 28,856,16% and their value £3,070,053. The immigrants who landed At Vow York last year numbered 370,822, being 8,000 more than in the previous year. Germany, as in 1887, contributed the !argot nnmber--- over 378,000, which was 3,000 fewer than la 1887. Ireland followed with 44.307—which show* a felling ell of more thee 12,000. England gut 7,000 tower eraigrante then in the preceding year, and Scotland, nearly 4.000 fewer. The ltellane numbered 827—a very slight, failing or from 1887, The Swedes and Aussiene, with nearly 38.000 and 33,000reepectively, were almost meetly the gime inilUrriblna al in the previous( year. On tire other hem& the Angelau continent was nearly doubled. The Chime, numbered five only. Daring the year an inunigrante were prohibited by the collegor of the pore front landing and gut heck to their own countries. Central Af4eau Onrlosities. Studeote of wage life will fled moll to interest: them intim tun -museum of African entioallies now on view At Mune. VAR der Woycle a audios in Regent streets saes the Landon Telegraph. Tide very Angular col: lection bite been brought home by Ehrhart \Verdi who darted under Stanley as a vole anger in the Bmin Pasha railer expedition - and who WM left at Yarnbuya camp, togeth. or with Maj. Bartteion J, S. Jamente Troup, and Mr. Bonny. Subsequent to the assaulnation of Maj. Berttelot and the sed death of the young triehmen (Mr. Arneson) at Bengete, Mr. Ward left the camp and Caine down the Congo elver to the coati) to send a report of these deperablo events to the Emin relief committee m London, and it was on hie return up -country that Stanley retuned to the Arnwlini. The articles on view vete colleoted 'during his five enters' travels in the cannibal districts of the Upper Congo, and they coneise of huge ivory war- horns—aorne of them measuring over mix feet —cub down from elephant tualie ; basket* worked shields of various shapes, according to the tribes who use them; native -woven grails cloth, and the ourioua beaten theme oloth worn by the cannibal tribes at Stanley Falls, the advanced poet of the notorious Tippoo Tip, the Arab leader, whose photo graph, with thou of other equatorial mote- rieties—beroee, heroines, and bables—h on view ; fetish images, such as "gods drain," "gods of luck," "gods of safety :" carved paddles, beautifully ornamented„ with whioh the tribes "paddle their own canoes," dug out of Eolid trees in a standing position, and weapons of all aorta. Theseknives, bows. and arroyos are in me by the Congo cannibal tribes for a distance of over 1,500 miles in the great dark continent, and many of them display marvelona ingenuity of design and execution. The javelines or carved throw- ing- knives from Uchna, used in warfare in the manner of the Australian boomerang, are similar to those employed in the southern Soudan, and very beautiful se well as dangerous things they are. The iron money,. formed in the shape of flet spear- heads, is used among countries between the falls and Nyangwe; and one of the larger please, probably the native equivalent for a 2100 note, ia as tall as a man, while it re- presents the market value of two slaves. The costumes worn by the native ladies are notable for their remarkable adaptability to hot climates'and consist for the most part of strings of tiny beads, relieved by an occialional feather. They suggest neoklaces that had sipped from their original position; but the reel necklaces used by these tribes consist entirely of human teeth—evidences of cannibal orgies. The gentler side of the natures of these central Afrioans is shown by their love of toys, dolls, rattles, and various comical musical instruments ; their art instinct is evidenced bythe carvings on t heir drinking cups, and ivory pestles for pounding the manioc flour; bat the grew - some fact remains that the articles on which they lavish most of their care and skill are directly connected with cannibalistic rites. There are some long metal "brain -spoons," with which, like the practical plagiariets they are, they s000p out and annex and de- vour the "gray thinking matter" of their conquered enemies' heads; and these spoons • have " marrow-extraoting• handles " of einster and blood-ourdling suggeetiveness. To these grim trophies are added some hun- dred sketches and photographs taken by Ward illustrative of the home life, the manners and customs, the humorous efforts to adopt costume, and the religious cere- monies of the strange people who,sing, dance, fight, and at intervals eat each other ID the,burning equatorial Veit. A Natural Consequence. Confectionery and Ice•Crea,m lose ten of our best customers next week. Assistant—We will? Are they going to Oklahoma? No; they're going to get married. There is a lady in Milwaukee who is the mother of nine children. None of them was named until it was twelve years old. They were aimply called by their nick -names and their numbers, "One, ' " Tyro," etc. When they were twelve years old each one chose his own name and wet baptiaed, " GREENLAND SEALEIr slabits orthe entenaten the Norih Allantle ocua. Young seals, are brought forth on large floating fields! of lee in March, says is 'abrader letter. The baby gale are born with white heir, which pen changes to a. eat silky brown fur, and they ,nettle on their frozen beds of ice as long me they are suckled by their !nether!. When bone 5 to 6 weeks old they can exist in water. Then they begin to follow their mothers about much after the fashion of human babies, for their attention and 'the Mod, of fish, which they most dutifully provide. During this period the mother seal ,is an alert and hardy fither. She wilt aetack the 'nut active fish of these waters, eave the shark, anci we had the teetimony of Capt. Dee- ohampa that instances have been known where battles betweee the foodhunting mother seal* and these rapacious ruffians of the deep resulted in the defeat and death of the letter. They are powerful swimmers, and will force themselves up the most rugged nalmonleaps to attack the largesb salmon. When the young swabs are 5 or 6 Menthe old they are left to shift for themselves:. Nor are they given up gradually. The mother mum to have determined that sufacient time and energy have been expended upon them. Inetently she is it stranger to the cub, and any further attempts itt intlinanoy are resented in the most savage manner, The Gulf of St Lawrence and the Newfoundland oven begin to fill with great horde of Greenlend gals in November. During the entire winter these break up into leaser horde in search of icebergs upon whit* to live. Rote they remain until after the breeding time is paste straggling along the coast until Vey or dune, when they (Reappear into the Attitude and head for Hudson's end Beffin's beys, Their migretients are as regular as those 0 birds, and WOW' perably mere certain than thou of the herring aid mackezei. The herber iwals (phacmvitelieri) are found ohne these equate at all eeiwone of the year, and isa oar aoheener threede the mazes ef geetwitte lamb or glides past reef and ledge of jutting headland, they ate oonatautly seen 4 in their eeemingly lifeless beekinge in the gm upon shelving rooke, occasionally turning and flapping their shining ilippeie as if for easier poi:Mona in their eieeta, or shimming through abellow weter and mob, while turning their almost human heads [ram aide to aide, like e bevy of aurprised and epaestioeiog tornado, intionithed at our approach and untimely intrusion, The Meet and Smallest Sect *1110 W011d There le to he found in the Imre et the small city of Nablus, in North Palestine, religione oommunity—now number- ing about one 'hundred and fifty seals— which bax dam the reverie of war and poverty and oppression nearly three thou. Nand years, (leak* the Vaudois, then Smnaritene heave had no hie:Idly ayetern of mountain buttresses to deiced them through the centuries ; and still More liplike the long-lived Savoyard Peotestente, they have been right in the petit -way along witloh the devastating atrelee have marched, back and forth, from the time of Sargon to Nepoloon. But they have lived on, and their unity has never been broken. They have clung to little Nablus and to their gored Mount AS the very ceatui mote to the granite tildes of the mare Bled thee con- froute them Moss their little enchanted valley. The feeling with widoh the pregint Sam, aritans regard the Mohammedans le of that intone° bitterness whioh, they have always manifeeted toward the Jews. And why not! Does not the Samaritan date Ida faith from Abraham, or rather from Adam; and has ID not e right to oil that an infant religion which baa been in existence for only the — trifle of twelve Naturism ? Is not the Koran one of your new cetohpenny romances, while that mysterion copy of the Pentateuch, made ot neredlembakins, which the Smart - tans have been readies; and kissing through these many ages, is the oldest copy in exist - eau, written down by Aaron's own grand, eon'and the veritable original of all the thePenteteuohs in the world? As the population of Nablus is just. about: 12,000, the little Samaritan community le almost absorbed by the surrounding Moham- medan masa. Save to a careful observer, tbe very existence and presence of the Sam- aritans as a distinct element of citizenship in Nablus would not be noticed. The Samaritans wear a. turban,much like that of their true Moslem neighbois, but be- tween the history and theology of the two classes there is not a single point of positive resemblance.—[Harper Magazine. Smokeless Gunpowder. The next war will find the Germans and the French, should they be participants, using amokeleas gunpowder. Austria would have had the benefit:of this powder had it not been for the !tepidity of the Minister of War, who, when asked by the inventor to exanline a specimen, hemmed and hawed and declared, without making any enquiry, that the powder was of no use. After this nub the discoverer hastened to Germany to meet with a reasonable and, in fact, warm recap tion from Von Moltke. A greet advantage ie said to follow the ine of thle powder. Both aides can eee what they are doing; and— this is a questionable benefit—the slaughter- ing effects of the firearms are quadrupled. The European military experts nem to have but one purpose in life, namely, to multiply and to render more efficient: the engines of death. Torpedoes have now been so improv- ed that any one will sink an ironclad of the first magnitude. Formerly wire nets were extended from the vessels to resist the ap- proach of torpedoes but the torpedoes are now provided with knives, whioh cut the nets and thus clear the way for the approaoh to i the ship's keel where the explosion s to take place. It may be of interest to know thatie real good torpedo, with all modern improve= manta, can be got for $2,000 cash. His Supposition Was all Wrong. "Every time I handed one of my batches of copy to the meaty -eyed clerk in the Char- ing Cross office," says an Airierican editor just returned from England, "1 notioed that he looked hard at the legend'News, im• portant,' which I always pub on every en- velope',and a smile of acorn would curl his upper hp . "One morning I gave a letter to this clerk to be weighed, and business being a. bitbla slack he took time to ay:s'Hi suppose you think that writin' "News, Hivaportant" on that letter% make hue 'urry t througb "'No,' Bald I, know of nothing that would make you hurry, unless it were dyna, mite.' "Ever afterwards when 1 went into the Charing Cross office I noticed that the pro- minent eye of the facetious clerk watched me warily."---[PIttsburg Traveler. ' Michael McNulty, an informant in the Cronin cue, ie threatened with mutder.