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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-24, Page 2TERRIFIC ELECTRIC STORM, Great Loss ensile and Property hi Peuneyl- Vania and Qhio 60ENES OF DEVASTATION. A, Pittsburg deepen% a last night says ; Western Pennsylvania Was visited by a severe rain, wind and electric storm thie morning. Great damage Was done and at least two lives were lost. In thie eity a number of howes were eteuok by lightning end several pereone etunned, but not, sertouely injured. The rain fell in torrents for several noure,flooding cellars and causing small streame to overflow. At West Elizabeth two children a George Beattie, a boy and girl aged 7, were drowned on their way to echool while crossing a foot log over Lobb's Run. The girl lost laer fooling and fell in the water, and her twin brother, in trying to resone her, lost his Meals°. At Indiana, Pa., light- ning streak the flouring mill of Wegley & Wilson, and it was burned to the ground. The loss was $1,500. In Westmoreland county greet damage is reported. For two hours the rain fell in torrents, and nearly all the streams overflowed their banks, washing away bridges, fences and every. thief; to their way. FLOOD DAIIIAGE. At Penn Station a number of families were compelled to vaoate their houses and seek shelter on high ground. Up the Manor Valley the greatest &linage was done, as most of the bridges along the strearc,e were carried away. The Deaner Valley Railroad at Claridge, ite northern terminus, was badly damaged, 300 yards being washed away and traffio entirely eue. pencled.. In Greensburg the High School building was struck by lightning and elielatly damaged. In se.ctione of the county the roadbeds are nearly washed away, rendering travel dangerous and very difficult. At Tyrone, the Juniata is away over its banks, houses and lots are inun- dated and people have been compelled to move to higher ground. In Cambria County the rainstorm was partictaarly severe, The Conemaugh River and Stoaey Creek are again high, and the lower por- tions of Johnstown are under water. Several bridges have been washed away, and operations have been suspended at the mills along these streams. • Ohio's visitation. An Akron, 0., despatch says : Two clouds came together Tuesday evening about two miles northsvcst of Sharon, Medina county. Two minutes later they began to revolve in thread° fashion and bear down upon the village. The tornado's pro,gress was marked by roaring and grind- ing sounds. In ten minutes it had levelled everything in its track, over sin miles of farm lane for a width of 30 rods, demolished dozens of buildings, killed one man, fatally injured a man and a woman, and seriously injured several others. Forests in which were trees two feet in diameter were cut down as if they had been cornstocks. The first building °taught up was the barn of Jarnes Hartman. It was torn into kindling. Then in turn were taken the house and bean cf Unieh Woerster, the house and barn of Isaac Brown and Frank Lacroix, the buns of Richard Brown and C. Crane, located just north of Sharon. The tornado then mowed down a mile or so of timber land and fences and jumped into its work anew at the farm of Christian Wall, east of Centre. The large bank barn was torn into little pieces, which Were strewn along over a mile. The large two-story house of Reasonable Wall was blown off its founds. tion and tipped over on its side, and a horse barn near by was demolished. The bank barn of Mat. Bromley, just ocean the road, was then given a whirl. ORCHARDS SWEPT AWAY. Mr. Bromley was caught up and de. posited several rods away badly crushed under the timbers. He oennot recover. His son landed at the hay mow. The hones of Frank Bromley, a quarter of a mile further on, was blown several rods from its foundation and toting fire burned with all its contents. The family eacaeed by taking refuge in the cellar. An orchard of fifty apple treee, back of the house, was mowed clean. just a quarter of a mile southeast of Bromley's house was that of Hugh Franks Here destruction was most complete, not a stick of timber that a man could not easily carry was left. Abont 150 feet from the hcase Mr. Franks' dead body was found with the brains oozing from a hole in the head maie by a flat iron. An ear was torn and legs and arme were broken. In clover field, twenty rods from the house, lay Mrs. Franks unconecions. with her collar bone and several ribs broken and. serious internalinjuries. She cannot live. The family dog lay dead beside her. There were no children in the house. About $300 in naper money and silver that was in the houee was strewn over the fielde for baif a SEEKING SAFETY IN CELLARS At the end of its six utile sweeti through Sharon, the tornado evidently rose high in the air, and, jamping over the southern part of this caty, dropped on Springfield townehip, southeast of Akron. The house of Scott Sweitzer was whirled item He foundation and scattered over a ten-aore field. Sweitzer, who had le.aglieel at hie wifo's fear for going to the celIer with her baby, was pitched down the oellarway headforemost, and the family ensconsea uneer the debrie escaped injury. A pen f all,of pigs was hurled to their death. Of two carriages in the barn only a few spokes confa be found, As Fred. Harwicke WES unhitching his horae the tornado came on and be was blown away with the Ilene teed waggen, and received eerious injuries. :Daniel Brown owned five scree of timber, on which not a tree was left standing. Geo. Wises ten-aore forest was also mowed down. The houses of Robert Callahan John Roberteon, Eliati Kuntz and Eli Funk were riddled and barns blown away. The stinne trailed along into Stark county, leaving the debris scattered over a strobe]) of fi:teen miles. The loss amounts to tens of thousand. VIRGINIA FEELS IT. A Roanoke, Va., despatch says: The greatest tornado for many years passed over this oity this evening. The oast -house at the Crozier iron furnace wee blown down, add tlaree laborees were biflei and one was mortally wounded. English Capital fez' teestom After a aeries of rumen, privet° advicee from London to.day confirin the report of the sale of tociton'e to largest breweriee to a British syndicate. The present •Own,ere continue to stubbornly refuse to give partieulars, but it is learned that after much' diecuesion tbe following companies sect pted that twonthirde of the sitiptilatad price be peid in cash and the ran:lair:mg third in titook of the new consolidated cote, potation, thee pertnitting the present owners 10 retain an ititerest. The sums decided on are: 'temple Brewery, $000,000; Boyletot, $800,000; StIffolk, $350,000 ; and Stanley, 4300,000 ; total, $2,350,000. Poa• eleseititib tcr be taken on Jtify THIS D0911T-Enenteurewse Fleeing From San Francisco and the Wrath to come, A San Prancisco despatch oyo: There was a big meeting of negro door -sealers at the railway etation at Oakland yesteeday afternoon, and uobelievers he the dire prohheoies that hove been uttered as to the, coming destruction of tbe town by a tidal wave were warmed in' doggerel to flee froin'the wrath to come;• Mee away to de mount itin top, 'Comae sometninhyo,r am gone' to drop, So flee away. an dont you stop, EaUojeab 1 Hallelujah! Dose (-tat stay behind am los', Like buds in series am nip by fros', And on de flood troves dey'll be tone, Hallelujah! halleluiah 1 Those verses were shouted vooiferouety by the doom -sealers. They did not seern particularly worried at the impending calamity, but sang and beat time with their gripsacks and umbrellas in trim ree vival style. Tbey left for St. Helena on the 4.40 train, This train carried away to safety many white believers also. Their faith affected them differently to whet it did the colored peevish. Tlaey were mainly foreiguers, and their pale faces told how muoh they were impressed by the awful. nese of the things that are to happen on April 14. There were traces of tears on the rause of the women among them. According to the original propheoy none of these persons should have been left at Oakland. It was foretold that after April 7 no trains could leave, and escape would be impossible. They appeared to consider the holding off of the event as a mark of Divine favor, and were humbly thankful that they were given additional time to escape. Probably 30 people took the train for the Sierras to.day, and many others fled to the hills back of Berkeley. The example Bet by the more fervent Woodworthites has stirred up a big rush for the mountains. Yesterday and the day before the departures took more the form of an organized exodus then ever before. Those who left earlier quietly went aboard the trains separately, one, or possibly two families to a party. A great many went in this way, and it was yesterday estimated that fully 300 people had left their homes. Not a eingle person who was prominent at the meet. rugs where the propheoy was first announced was to be found in Oakland to- day. All have fled to the mountains. A correspondent interviewed several departii g oranka and elicited the same answer in every MISS : " We are leaving because God. has pleb le revealed the approaching catastrophe 01 a we dare not neglect His warning." Tbe weather to day is unneually wer., and tide, taken in connection with thetu. er rainbow a few niehte ago, is regarded as ominous of the epprosching upheave'. A. Reverend Forger Confesses. A Dayton, 0., despatch says: Lettere have been received from Rev. Edward Mason, a re•ideut or this city and pastor of the Prog,ressive Brethren Church at Mia. misburg, confessing he is a forger, and tbat he is on his way toWales to reclaim an inheritance, or, failing in that, to kill him- self. He leaves a wife destitute, having squandered a small inheritance of hers. He left home April 3rd, saying he was going to St. Louie to preach a funeral sermon, bat instead he went to New York, whence he wrote to his wife and others making the above statements. He forged notes and borrowed money from a number of banks. The amount is not known, and it is a mystery what woe done with the proceeds. Rev. Mr. Mason had a high standing in religious circles, and is an author of some repute. It is said he Was addicted to the use of opiatee. A. Girl Pobsoner Confesses. A Chicago eiespitteh says: Emma Stark, the Servant girl who is under arrestcbarged with putting poison in the food she cooked for a family named Newlands, which re• stilted in the death of Mr. and Mrs. New. lands and the dangerous illness of their two children, has made a full confession. She admitted to -day that ehe put "rough on rats " into some canned corn she was coohing for the Newlands' supper, wishing ouly to test its strengtla. The girl said she had beim betrayed and wished to put an end to her existeuce, bat had no intention of killing the Ne Invade. She ate some of the corn leered:, but it only made her elightly sick, and supposing its effect would be no more serioac on the others she served it for supper. Dwelling Together in Unity. A Chicago despatch of yesterday cue : The conference of the German Evaneelical Church dele- gates being held here to -day in the Sheffield avenne church was inaugurated with a row and the police were called out. Soon after the meeting assembled, the crowd in front of the doors became so dense that the street cars were stopped. Deacon Bergman and the Biehop Dabs' faction, who were inside in possession of tbe church, locked the doors and prevented the entrance of Biebop Esher and his followers. The greatest commotion, followed. The followers of Bishop Esher finally with- drew, and !started rip a conference of their own in a neighboring church. Brutes In al Purring Match. A Liverpool cable says: A horrible fight occurred. at Wige,n, Lancashire, yes- terday. Two noted wrestlers, Moran, of Wigan, end Heigh, of Standish, were the nrinoipals. They were naked, with the ex- ueption of short trousers and cloge, but in the first round the trousers were torn to shreda and the clogs were then used as weeper:it. The bodies of the men presented is sickening speotaole at the close of the Liget. They were seamed, scarred and geshed in all directions. Haigh was de- clared the victor. Moran was carried borne unconsoiown The Cost of Tying Shoestrings. One of the managers of a big Eastern knitting mill heti made a calotdation that the ehocstrings of a working girl will come untied on the average three times per diem, and Met % girl will lose about 50 seconde every time sho stoops to retie them. Most of the employeee have tveo feet, so this entails a loss of 300 ecioonds every day for each girl. There are about ,400 girls em- ployed in this factory, and therefore the gentlenaan finds that 43,000,000 gametic:Is are wasted in the course of a year, which time, at the itvere,ge rate ' of wages, ie worth $043 17a. Orden have accordingly been issued that girls must wear only buttoned gimes or Congress geitere under penalty of dischaege. --The man who takes things as they come never has any "go" to him. "Oyster (nature " by the Marquis of Lorne, with ilhietratione by Prirgiese Louise, is, perhaps the moat noticeable °entente of Good Words. The vieit described to the oester nurseries of Arcachon is very intetestingi and the baidnitation that 200., 000 peOple get their living in France in con, nection with Ws and similar traserite, obtaining else felt' *ogee, is o stronos reconimedation to the Marquis' plea for the eneettraglog of the induattat On British shores THE EUMMER Her Fancy Lightly Turns to Roman "Aitteirtse4threWBAttlit 'TreLsilltirs44atnINISultipnir Tnings in Wane Style. 4‘law or deenatob says; The summer girl is going to look like a maid of aneient Athlone when in a gown of ebeer white wool, girdled at the waist and clasped on the ehoulder, she twists her Inter in a loose, olaesio knot thrust through with an antique gold hairpin and, adjuets mstlaetioolly in place a little toque a la Grecgue made of three fillets of gold rib- bon, jeweled and embroidered, with a puff of white tulle to fill tlae crown and in front O butterfly enola as Cupid might havd chased, witia wings of gold and gauze, fluttering down from tlae bands to her white hairh Te surneuer girl will look very demure and goquettish behind her loose flowing veil. In the miming you will meet her in a wide flat hat of black straw, simple as a school girl's, with a bunch of black tips at the back, a band of gold tineel about the crown and a fall of black gauze half a yard deep from the outer brim, which corn. pletely envelops in its nun -like but trans- pire= meshes the vehole upper part of her figure. You turn for Roother glimpse of the shy, veiled maiden, and in the after- noon you meet her again. Thie time she is wearing a flapping hat like a sixteenth century courtier's, except that it is made of lace straw, with beevy feathers standing erect on top like fluttering plumes, and with a full veil of Chantilly lime like the Empire bag of last season, except that it is loose at the bottom, finished in a pattern •of Vandyke points, and lost at the throat in the puffy bow of blaok gauze, which gives the bait chic touch to her walking costume. The summer girl is going to look likei foolish, pretty little Dora Copperfield, ready for a walk with " Dody," where she frames her math dimpled face in one of the simple " " benuets of Tuscan straw, With a dainty wreath of rosebuds beneath the brim, and with the chin snugly tied up with ribbon bows. The high -crowned hat looks book long. ingly from the door of oblivion. The Bum- mer girl argues with herself whether she banal invite it to re-enter the world. It appeals to her fancy with its rosettes of blue and gold velvet ribbon trimming an English shape in black straw and its black veings fronting forward. There are some extremely pretty novel- ties in bridesmaids' hate, for which a use will be found soon after Easter. One ji a wide -brimmed, flat hat ot gold -colored lace straw, with a thiok ruff of pur- plish toirik ribbon, bo -pleated about the outer brim, Blaok velvet flower pete.le show themselves here and there. Another is a Leghorn flat, turned up behind. Nar- row blue velvet ribbon is laid in a circle of long loops about the brim, and ,the garnitures are blae bachelors' buttons. The tulle and gemze hats grow more airily fantastic) wale each passing home. They are not oloaely shirred as in past sea- sons but are fairy-like gossamer puffs which only the weight of the flower wreaths trimming them keeps from sailing away. One of the prettiest seen this spring was worn by a demure young woman at the last meeting of the Collegiate Alumece. Its frame WSB loosely woven of thorny rose stems without foliage and tangled with gold-oolored gauze, which hung to the waist line in streamers caught together by one immense pink rose. The eummer girl seems to have tt-fancy for things Roman. Little crowiiless toques, with soft twists of silk in Roman stripes about the brims, are Shown by all the fashionable milliners. A young girl who saw an Italian opera favorite on her opening night wore as successful a one as has appeared. It looked like a eoarf of red and gold wound about the head, with a metallic blue butterfly fastening it in front and another behind. For early spring the most che.racteristio bonnets are those whioh are nothing more than wide fillets of coarse straw not joined behind or simply tied across with narrow ribbons. A very pretty one is cf dark blue straw edged with blue and blaok velvet, and with a small bleadebird oa either side. Gray and white make an equally effective combi- nation. RIOTOUS ANTI-CAULTSTS. Military and Mob Coutes t for Possession of Madrid. A Madrid cable of last night says The arrival of the Carnet leader, Marquis Ger- ralbo, at Valencia to -day was ruade the °maiden cf an anti-Carlist demonstration. Thousands of anti-Carlists met at the station and followed the Margais to his hotel. They smashed many windows of the hotel, and tried to set fire to the build- ing, when a detachment or troops charged and dispersed the mob. Many persons were wounded. Later a mob of 2,000 per- sons invaded the Carlist Club and set fire to the furniture. When the firemen came the mob tried to obstruct them. The mob then smashed and burned a carriage in the courtyerd. Another mob tried to burn a church, but were prevented by the troops. The troops have failed, however, to dis- perse the constantly gathering crowd. The latter have built tcvo barricades in the streets. The military authorities have taken possession of the city and the whole garrison is under arms. Midnight—The rioting continues. The troops laa,ve made several charges. Many pereons have been injured, and it is re. ported some have been kit1d, though orders were given to avoid bloodshed as long as possible. HE LOVED irnaximi, And Stole Gilt -Edged Securities to Gratify His Taste. A Worcester, Mass., deepatob says: Frederick /Umbel], the young and trusted teller of the People'e Savings Bank, has fled, after stealing from the vaults gilt. edged seoutities of the bank amounting to $43,000, but on the market worth $50,000. He comes of a moat prominent family in the State, has an interesting family and e, social position of the best. Ile has, how- ever, ten ineatiato passion for travel, and that fells maid object in leaving. He bad not been seen abuse n'xiclay, bat left a nbte showing he had gone to Canada, baying he would never return and advising.hits wife to go back to her ;amity. She is heart- broken. As he may calque of his plunder in Canada, the foliowins is the fiat of the eeonritiezi he clieappee,teed with ; Doeton de Lotion Reflected, 4a's, $5,000 ; Beaton & Maine Peeilterid, 71e, $9,006 ; Boetoni °Heinen & Fitchburg, 5's, $8,000 ; Eastern Railroad, 6's, $&000; Vermont & Massaolitidette, 5'8,84,000 ; Old Colony, 1'8,, 0a,000 ; Maine Central, 7's, $500 ; ItatiSS9 City at Fort &tett (aellateriel),. $5,000; Maims ity consols) (ecilaterel), 10,000;$ total, 043,500. All tilts bon& are readily negotiable, ' The Bake of Bedford hie haat a private t orematorinm at'Woking, C01•14•4100, The seermau Govermeat'a Soolatistec Scheme and How lit works, In the" Newbsry House Magazine." /dies Helen Zimmern gives an mount a those vvarkmen's colon* On the German plan to I)Ieath aeoentlY referred in terms of omaniendation. ABBE; Zimmerli's leant thetirst !moon= in English of these prOnaieing inetitutions, soya the Louden .7344,1y News, bit it • will be a novelty to ineny readers. The wean:tenni colonies balm prospered greatly; the first was founded no further baok than 1882, yet twenty.two of them are already ha a flourishing condition, while their number increases daily. They are established on the assumption that with meet men the strougeet deeire is to possess a home'and on a system well known in this isountry by whioh the mon become first temente and then owner's of their houses. The system is unly adapted to districts where men are in,permanent employment. Each house stands in ita own grounds of not less than an acre, and it is built with two inde- pendent entrances'a plan that allows tbe owner to sublet a part of hie dwell. ing without inoonvenience. The ()spite' is provided in great part by a building savings -bank, vehicle pays current rates of interest to depositors, and lends at current rates to those engeged in building opera. tions. Colonies of this kind are now to be found in all parts of tho empire, and they present a pleasant, country -like aspect in the neighborhood of the manufaeturing towns. The first of them was named after the Emperor Williannwhe manifested the greatest interest in the scheme, The idea brie been adapted, of course, with im- portant modifloations—to the relief of the floating population of the large towns. Here the colony is a large workhouse, or, rather, house of work, established by private enterpriee, where the needy may have their choice of six or seven simple modes of earning board and lodging by their labor. Mies Ziznmern thinks we might try each of these experiments in England with a hope of good remits, The worst Obstacle here might be found in the workmen's complaints of the competition of what they would persist in regarding as oharity-fed labor. ORCHESTRAS OF WOMEN. A. New and Popular Departure in lustre- ' mentai ramie. A peculiar feature of amusement lire in NGW York is the growth of the women orchestras. Women now furnish all the instrumental music in the immense Atlan- tic Garden on the Bowery, in tlae Volks and Gander's Gardenia and in more than one dozen smaller places on the east side. Experience has taught the managers of. such establishments that the women play as well as the average man instrumentalist, that they are reliable as to hours, that they never get drunk and that they never go -on O strike, and with all these excellent quali- ties they cost muola less money than the male performers. They receive from $10 to 630 a week lor eeven nights and three day performances, for which a man, according to the commands of the Musioal Union, would be obliged to demand and receive either $5 or 26 for each of the ten performances. Other cities have inaugurated this change to a slighter degree, and this new condition of things is growing so rapidly that already the demand for women musicians is far in excess of the supply. The girls come mainly from Vienna, Ber- lin, Leipsio and Buda-Pecithe I am told by the head of a German amusement agency, which does a brokerage business in this class of public) entertainers, that they have now on hand fourteen unfulfilled °en- tracte for orchestras of this kind, and that the necessary number of women plsyers have started, or are about starting, from the other side of the ocean. It is a some- what unexpected peoulie,rity tlas.t these blooming foreigners do not lose their heads and fall victims to the wiles of that un- mitigated and pestiferous nuisance the Amerioan "Johnnie." For instance, Fran Roller and Fratilien Ricci have been in- stalled as queens in the Atlantic Garden for a long time, where their music has frac- tured many hearts. They are renearke.bly beautiful women. Nightly scores of adore. ors worship at their feet, but they go on wielding their bows just as though a man had never existed, and rio one yet has been able to boast that he has brought an en. conraging smile to their faces. Which goes to show that they have bet- ter hoods on their shouldets than their American sistera.—Philadelphia Inquirer's New York Letter. Be Was Only Out of Work. Fred. Roberts, 21 years old, wee arrested in NSW York city Wednesday with a placard on his back. Roberts told the jus- tice that he was out of work and had an invalid wife depending upon him. "What am i to do, judge? I cannot starve, nor can I let my wife starve to death," he said. " will not steal. I have not coin. mitted any offence. I am tired at asking for work and being refused it. I thought this sign would create some excitement and Make my poverty known to some who Might be disposed to take pity on me." Hs was dischttrged. Following is the placard Roberts adorned his back with: "I am not Bret Harte, Berry Wall or George Francis Train, simply a married man, a street railroad emploe es out of work, who has used every M8SDa to find employment. I ao not wish to say anything againstthe circu- lation of the New York press. I am an earnest bard worker, willing to a, any- thing. Please do nee stare at me, as 1 am modest. Yours very.truly." Aimoet Nine Miles Decli- ne greatest known depth of the sea is in the South Atlantic ocean, midway between the island of Tristran d'Aotteha and the mouth of the Rib de la Plata. The bottom was there reached at a depth of 40,236 feet, or 8. miles, exoeedieg by more than .17,000 feet the height; of Mount Everest, the loftiest mountain in the world. In the North Atlantic ocean, south of New- foundland, soundings have been nide to a depth of 4 580 fathoms, or 27,480 feet,while depths equaling 34,000 feet, or en miles, at•e reported south of the Bermuda lalends. The average depth of the Pacifio ocean between jimen and California is a little over 2030,fathoms ; between Chili and Now Zealand, 1,500 Whom. The average depth of all the °cecina is from 2,000 to 2,500 fathoms, The Bang, The bang, one of the moat maligned of feminine fade as well ex the Most self- assertive, may alined be said to have come to stay. It is now in the 19th year of be continuous reign. In the face of ridicule and criticised it he held ite ‘oveti ,einee 18714 when in some ineepliceble naantier, it Made WI appearence anon Certain 'fashion able brows In it short time it'll Oleesses lead adopted the White Magni as tt wee thee styled by the aewepapers. The ‘geterel adaptability to almost any type or face AC - Mints for its pepulatity; sind althoogh 4e. 'dried ciaid caricattired, it bite never 'bet ite ho1d.--7111teiiis1 teletiranz. ' A LILVDIG WOMB. Since Sing Dells for Ittorderere Condemned to Electrical Death. Lawyer Heinslerean, of New York, re trieited bis giient, 4arneS J. shmum; who is' confined at Sing Sing under asiteet hope, of death by eleeteloityi and he thu* Yla " relatea what he saw : I visited by client, S ster'Sla said 10aWyer Heinzleman, 4' in the execolti° chamber at Sing Sing. I have yika at largiik peofeesional experiences in 04900. of,peoat confinenieut, but nothing tlaatj havkever seen approaohes in ite awe•inspiring attei- butee this terrible prison. It is a one.story granite huilcling about forty feet square, diecionneoted with all other parts of the building, except by the deadly wire that oonnecte it with the dynd'mo shed. The granite walls are five feet thiok, I am told, and they certainly appear to be. There are three iron doors, one within one another, at the end of the death chamber, facing the the river. ,The keeper'a Beat is within the third door. At the further end of the chamber, freeing the keeper's seat are four cells. The walls between the cella are of granite, and two feet thick. The inmates of the cells are alwaye 'under the keeper's eye. Owing to the thickness of the Walls and of the three doors not a sound of the world outside is audible. It is a veritable living tomb. When a lawyer, or priest, or minister sees one of the condemned men, If heavy green baize curtain is dropped over the doors of the other cells, 60 that their inmates cannot see the face of the visitor or hear his voice. The same thing is done when any one of the condemned men is taken out of his cell for exercise. The oondemned men, therefore, see no other face and hear no other voice than that of their keeper, except,me I have said, when tbeir counsel or epiritual adviser is per- mitted to see them. It is a terrible ordeal, and it seems almost incredible to me that they oan retain their reason until the hour of exeontion arrives." ' The Knouting of Popoff. "Tia him to that bench and fetish a nag- aile„a! l Nicholas turned deadly pale. The nagaika is a knout, a etrip of leather with two knots, the end of whioh is forked like the tongue of a serpent. After 100 blows the flesh is generally gone from the bones, and no man is able to bear 500 blows. " Nicholas was tied to the bench, and they orily waited for the man who had been sent for the knotty, which was kept at the inspector's house. " Obey me !' said Palkin to Popoff; you have a moment's time yet to con. eider. Don't be obstinate! Tell me your secret !' Yon may murder me, wretched hang- man,' replied Popoff, • but you shall never learn my searet. I'd rather bite off my tongue, you wretched spy and traitor! I shall yez live to see you overthrown!' " Palkin laughed cruelly and sat down facing the bench. 'Ihe nagaika was brought in. " • Well I Now begin and strike elowly, so he may have time to reflect and give me the answer I want I' "The knout whirred through the air and fell upon the bare back of the wretched victim. Instantly a dark blue mark ap- penrea and Popeff uttered a heartrending cry. He bit into the wood ot.the bench and aid not complain further. " After the twentieth stroke the blood poured forth in streams and large frag- ments of flesh were torn off. Tho pain was tco fearful ; Nicholas let go the bench, in which hie teeth had made deep indenta• 'dons, and began to ory madly. /Whin was calmly smoking hie cigar. . At last I' he exclaimed. • Have you opened your mouth at last? Perhaps you will now be kind enough to answer?' " With a gesture of the band he ordered the gendarme to stop. The fellow coolly wiped the leather strip with hie fingers; pieces of flesh came off, which he coolly threw aside. Popoff's threat rattled like that of a dying man. " Where 16 the paper want?' asked the colonel. " Nicholas turned his face to the cruel man, and in his bloody, tearful eyes invinc- ible reaolution still spoke nothing. ' You shall get nothing from me, cureed hang- man I' he hissed. " Well, let us see!' "And down cense the Linear, again."— Prom Prince Luntbontirski's New Novel. The cost oi a wan -of -War, 1189-1889. A hundred years ago the expense of building a shinotthenine of 100 guns in the Royal dockyards was 467,600. This included the cost of copperiug and copper bolting, and of masts, yards, rigging, sails, anchors, cables, and all other boatswain's and oarpenter's snores. This was the original expense of Royal Georce,a 100 -gun ship, launched in 1788 at Chatham. She was of 2,286 tons, and was about 190 feet long and 52 feet broad. The modern equivalent to the old wooden line of battle ship of the first rate is the first class iron. clad battle ship, and the Trafalgar may be reeorded ae a good apecimen of the finest and most recent vessels of this type. Her original cost, exclneive ot arrnanent, was no Ices then 4862,794. She is of 11,940 tons dieplacement, and is 345 feet long and 73 feet broad,' Tleue, while the firstmlass bat. tie ship of s hundred years ago cost only about 429 lis. 4d. per ton, the first-class battle ship of to -day costs over.472 6s. per ton. In the ammo of the oeetury we have quintupled the size, and increased by about twelve times the expense; of our mend -war of the first.ola,es. The nest of smaller line -of - battle ships in 1786 was : For a 98 -gun ship, 457,120 • for an 80 gun ship, 453,120, for a 74.gnn ship, 443 8e0. "the smallest me -going ironolad of the present era, the Hntepur, cost, as is first oharge, over £171,500. The frigates of 1789 were the equivalents of oar. present second.olasa emblem A 44 -gum frigate then , cost £31,000; a 38 -gun frigate, 420,830 ;" a 36. wan frigate, 41.9 070 a 32mun frigate; £15,080; and a 28 -gun frigate, £12,420. The original coat of some modern second. ohiss cruisers were as fellows : Inconetent, £213,324 ; Forth, :U01 952 ; Mercury, £213,252; Phioten, 2145,198. We may take it, therefore, then roughly speaking, a large cruiser nowadays costa ten times as much an she did a hundred years ago.— Daily News, ee Cheap Children. Children must be oheap in Italy. The authorities were recently notified that the pimento or five little boys had sold their off- spring for a bottle of olive oil and 10 francs apiece The purchaser took them to Ham- burg, whence, be intebeled to ship them abroad to peddle plester images. The police were ieformed, however, and the children Were returned to their unnatural parents. . Yesterday japon opened ler third Na- tional Industrial Exposition. That 'snob an exhibition, composed entirely. of home prodects and mantifacturese ie possible in Japan shows the rapid deVelepectent o that people and their adaptability to the formS of Westerxicivilieetiort. ' Surgeon•Generel John B, Hamilton Says that not one,third of the Amerleart, lation of a 'Minter* 'age 'ban visa the examination of* radruit, '' • ". TEA istommuo 1,40ilEirmit. Inanortant IrXilOituYteito OPA ni sraotti Attrthf# fso apes. :To t,019 itb;a40p4x1,10tiebetwioeirbrxe 106h) rag4 4t:csizwt nsi yte7 eual itlises.einnt loinuoagflut:011 ,eoxi4geos4h000wever,eithut as oneatibeenb regardednotntre had amairong slaut, else he would have bat the bleak Ana aterile ebores of baohelordora and eutf4e4 into the sunny and rainhoWt tinted' edam of the beneciiot. Theis idea still prevails too' largo extent in gounery tOwnft and provinoial citiee—and not without good cause, for tbe old.tinie bachelor was an Un- social, cranky sort of individual at best—a in out of tune with his serroundinge, cynic, a woman hater. But the modern baohelor in New York,is all tnat hie ,prede- (lessor was not—affeble, generous, Sunny— % man devoted to ladies society, and al- ways in the foreground of the social world, says a writer in iklunsey's Weekly, • , • It is estiniated that there are over 100,- 000 baolielors in Now York to.day, whose ages vary all the way frone25 to 75, and perhaps it is eafe to say that 95 per bent, of them are mon of social tendeumee, who enter into society in its various sett, and devote themselves religiously to the fair sex. • I3aohelor life, then, in New York is not the gold, qbeerlese existence that it formerly was. A glance at many of the costly bachelor apartments, fitted up with every conveni& nue and furnished in regal splendor, would convince the moat sceptical that its surroundings, at. least, are all that heart could wish. With so large a propor- tion of single men in our population one not well iuformed as to the true state of things would naturally expect that a visit to the olubs and botel lobbies would reveal an army of bachelors. But the exact reverse is the foot. Many bachelors, to be sure, are club men, and many live let hotels, but they are not the men who sit there to talk finance, discuss bueiness schemes and tell storicat, smoking meanwhile till the room becomes bine with the clouds of the vanishing Hevanas. They, as a rule, see enemata of their own sex during the day and at their meals. and naturally seek the sooietY of ladies in the evening. Their expenees are Moderate as compared to those of married men, and their earning capacity is no lees because of the single' blessednees te Abele they cling. It follows, then, that they can afford to spend money much more freely cin th'eir friends than the family men, and there is no one to say them nay, as might be the case with the letter. That bachelor life is'increasing in popu- larity Very rapidly in New York is beyond question. The causes that lead to this, are, perhaps, numerous, but the chief hi the enormous expense of supporting a family in good style in the 'metropolis to -day. It may be that they are deceiving themselves, and that, after all, they are not getting the quiet, restful enjoyment out of life that their married brothers absorb, with all the cares and anxieties whioh to the bachelor mind are such grievous burdens. Hann. nese, in its best sense, is not always gained from the utter absence of care, and it is just possible that the bachelor over- estimates his good fortune in having no one to quicken hie interest and stir his anxiety. he -weight of Groceries. Ten conaccionsized eggs weigh oiie pound. One pint cf acffee A linger weighs 12? ounces. Soft butter, the size of an egg, weighs one ounce. One pint of beet brown sugar weighs 13 ounces. One quart of sifted flour well heaped, one pound. • Four tesepoortais are equal to one table- spoonful. One pint, heaped, of granulated sugar weighs 14 ounces. One and one-third pints of powdered sugar weighs one pound. Two teacupfuls, level, of granulated sugar weighs one pound. Twoiteacupfals of soft butter,well packed weighs one pound. Two teacupfuls, well heaped, of coffee A sugar weigh one pound. One tablespoonful, well rounded, of soft butters, weighs one ounce. Two tablespoonfuls �f powdered sugar or flour weighs une ounce. Two and one half teacupinle, level, of the • best brown sugar weigh one pound. ' Two and three-fourths teaaupfids, ,level,. of powdered sugar weigh one pound. A tablesp000ful, well beeped, of granu- lated, coffee .A. or best brown sugar equala one onnce. Teaspoons vary in sizeeand the new once hold about tWie0 SS inutile as an old-fash- ioned spoon of 30 years ego. A medium- sized, teaspoon contains about a drachm. Mies Parket- says one generous 'pint of liquid or one pint of finely -clumped meat,. packed solidly, weighs one pontie, whichit would be very oceevenient to remember. , A. Freud Father Overcome. On board the City of Paris, whioh ar- rived yesterday, WWI an Englishman who, from tbe time of leaving Liverpool, was - busy telling all hie acquaintences that he expected to becomea rathet daring his voyage. His wife WS8 at Liverpool 11 11 should be a boy be was to set a cablegrana at Quarantine, New York, saying "James" • if 0,01 it.would read " Mary. ' Some of the passengers ,preparedmi hem. cablegram, which was heeded to the prem. pective father as soon as the ship reaohedl Quarantine. Ho took it proudly, but a little trembling', and read it. Then he fell badk on a eon; with 0 cry. His face was ashen Pale. Friends tan for et glass of water. The paper fell to the floor. It read: " Jima and Mary."e—New York Horning Journal. • How She Lost Der Character. Here is a true si ory of a Scotch setvant lassie. In the old thne, and. it may be now, it wen oustoznary for a girl, on leaving her situation, to receive a written statement se to ouldnot, which was called her "character." . One night a girl, stending on the Brig o' Doan, was showing this document to bee sweetheart, when a gnat of wind came and blew it away. "Oh, whist shall I a. ? Oh, what shall I do?" exclaimed the 'mode; " I've beet my ohmmeter I " "Never mind, Janet," said: the eveaini "I'll give you a certificated" And this is the way he did it: , This ie. to eertify that Jetta McFarlane lost het. character wi' me on the Brig o' Deon, thita day. Signed Donald DicPberetini" ntilraiinno.Beeto.ti Wonattide Mrs .S.-e/rave another etitieO:f 'feet dear tire. H.' --hank yeti, dear tthati Must i get home. Ors, should; ibt,bitity ''Yetir- hfishapi youl if. you'tIs •',, r • e grise,11.;Leltzg nol rny'hoebanfi but tay ,foar ; h� itS ataying. •• )nbroiclertis ueed,for len:dieting natttle and eta:hit:tele dreatiell, • '