The Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-24, Page 7Allatilineenn
AeriGLAND% VAST' MellelitIns,
Retriking recto and tenures Moet fitrentlegin
Preeentedt
Under the auspices of the Institote of
Bankers, Mr. J. Suott Keltiet librerien, of
the Royae Geographical $001ety of Lon,
don, roently delivered, at the London
Inetetute. Finebeity (none, liett third (sourer)
Pe four !whites 011 CegnInerOial cieo.
graphy "
The tecturer stated ellen inolleding (Were'
scrap of land ov,er, whioh,we hen any claim
-the inother 'country, Ladle,, end her
feudatory States, the colonie'
s protector.
otes feud sphere s of influence -the area of
the empire Wee probebly not lees than
10,000,000 equare miles -very nearly one.
fifth of the whole land areaeof the globe.
it wile nearly three timo tbe azo Of
Europe ; 1,5,000Q scintare Mileelakeer ehan
the whole of the nuseiao empire in Europe
and Asa; tee timethe size of the,German
empire at home and abroad; eight million
square 'elites more than the whole of the
Trench dominione, even utejucling Madagas•
oar; and knit about a million lees than the
area's:if Africa. ,
On thie immense area their lived and
worked something like 350,000,000 people,
embracing almost every type of humanity
under the Sun. Than of the Petal popula-
Von of the globe, about one-fdurth or due.
fifth were our fellow•oitizens. An a,gricul-
tural theantry could nener support a very
dense .popnlation, and in so small a country
as ore, could never have much enrolee
capitol for great enterpriees, or surplus
inhobitants or purposes of oolonizonion.
Our coal and our iron had, to a great
extent, been the making of ne, and, lead
enabled us to avail ourselves of our geo•
graphioal advantages. Tile total value of
our trade had grow te enorrnooln Within
, the lest thirty years. In 1860 imiterts and
exports bogether amounted to ee365,000,000
sterling ; in 1889 their value was £740,000,•
000. Our inaportn Olney yeere 'ewe were
'valued at £210000000 sterlingnnow they
were £427000,000;. our exports thirty
Years ago weree,4164),0004(10eenterling, neon
they ware L30,00000.
About 40 per mot. of our imports gen.
sisted of loon peednotre end bout 3e per
cent. of raw materials of various ninds, to
be used, nireotly, or enceire,oely, for menn-
fenturiug parposee, Pierelee for our owe
• consumption, but Iliz•enely • also for being
iixp r tea , in a tuanuniethred state. Oyer,
aper cent. of bhe raw materiel consisted
mainly of raw cotton and raw wool, which
were manufactured ioto' textile materiels,
to be exp,orted lo all parte of the world.
Neenly one lient ofour exports of home
produce ooneisted of fabrics of raw
maeerials in various, stages ,tef manufao.
. tare. COMM] manufamaree and yarn
alone amounted to somewhat •less ;lean
one.third of the total exports, while metals
in various stages of manufacture (inelod-
ing maehinery) amounted to somewnat less
than one.fourth. Oar great Ow export,
coal, formed only about • one•neventeenth
part of our exports of home,produoe.
The relative importenoe of the mother
conntry, so far as size and population were
concerned, compared with the rest of the
Empire, might be seen from the Mot that
of the 10,000,000 equare miles only 121,00,0
belonged to the United Kingdom. ' The
population of the mother couutry was to:
day close on 88,000,000, or just about one-
eighth part of the whole of Her Majesty's
subjects. The whole trade of the Empire
might be vetoed, imports and exports, at
about 1,200,000,000 pounds sterling, of
which ebout 68 per cent. was the share of
the mother country, leaving just 32 per
cent. to the vast remainder, of the Empire.
Mr. Keine then dwelt M detailnon the
commercial, strategical and geograplaioal
features of the empire beyond tbe seas., the
the whole, he said, we were fortunate in our
colonial empire -much more fortunate than
France or Germany, Metope or. Spain,
who, exeept France, had very little beyond
the tropic°.
Whatever habitable parte of the earth
were available for European settlement
had fallen no the lot of Englieh-speakiug
peoples, and among thera we must reokon
the United States, whiehe We could not
treat as a foreign country, and which did
an annual trade of 0300,000,000, of which
$90,000,000 was wine the old mother
country, who in this minter stood iar
aired of all others. In OOMMerCe, as in.
some other things, blood counted for earned
tbing. Whether our colonies remained
steadied to ne, or whether the larger ones
-which now managed their own affairs -
might, like the United States, set up for
themselves,, the future alone could ten.
Whatever forth it might tele, however, he
thought, that, in the interest of °enamel:0e
as mnoh as for sentimental reasons, we
ought to stick together. The spread of our
race on the face of the earth, the enter-
prise of our explorers end adventurers, bad
helped to give ns predominance in the
,00mmeroial, as it had done in the political
world.
Tb e proportioris aeon colonial empire,
too, were well adapted to bar wants. He
bad stated that the_ total tenne of tbe.
pire might be estimated` at about 1,200,•
000,000 pounds eterling eaenuellyt That
• was just one.half efethe trade of annoreign
countries put together Of the 1,200,000,000
pounds sterling we must credit 460,000,000
pounds sterling to that portion of the em-
pire beyond oar shores. 01 these 400.000,-
. 000 pounds sterling anent 17(000,000
pounds belonged to the 7,900,0en ode,
square miles of what we called' colonies of
settlement, with their popelation of 10,-
000.000, mostly ithites, The remaining
290,000,000 peewee sterlinemust be credited
to the tropical and sub- tronioel poesessions,
which covered only about 21700,000 seinen
miles, but with e population of some 300,-
000,000, among whotenwas only a speinnling
of white. Of the 290 000,000 puede ster-
Bog of trade allotted to tropical po,sessions,
about 180,000,000 pounds nteeling nelenged
to our great Indian empire', Aboint five.
sixths of India's imports of merchandise
came from us, white of India's ownprodtice
tbout thretneighthe came to the United
Kingdom. , ete
In one 'form or another tbe Engliah lan-
guage was the medium of conthaunieation
for something like 400,000,000, people-.
nearly one-third of the population ef the
earth, and some who tried to foreeteet the,
future thought it might yet., become
the universal language." When.: we
remembered that more than one.
fortrth of the whole trade of the
United Kingdom was- with the est of the
empire, it was surely,
ear interest tend° all
we coneietently could to pFornote that oom-
itherae, atid to encourage the developnaeot
of or colonies and the judicious extension
of the British sphere. As yet our eoeonies
cent& not do without us. Wemeans
among others of enabling us to keep our
place with to meny powerful rivals in the
field wee to acquire a fall knowledge of the
geographical conditions which bore on the
• interestof conimeeee.
Capacity of the Lungs.
Every adult Man has 1,400 equare feet
of lung mutant; or, rather the mucous
, membrane lining the it cells Would, if
Spread out on a smooth plain eurface,
cover an entent equal to the above fignree.
A Man breathes eighteen inners a minute,
and nos 3,000 onbio feet, or abont 875
bogeheads, of air per hoiere-Pan Mall
Gazette.
114111 leInnennelliBleneenne eennesWeelft
4 Morena knojeet that wilt Modernize
China.
A. Shanghai aorreeponde;nt of the New
York Herald writes as follows:
"iJntil Raton& began to build the great
eystem of railwaywhich is slowly spread.
leg itself over the whole ef oorthere and
central ,Asie. the Chineee etatesmen bald ie
treaison to near the bare name of reilenens
uttered in (connection with thqir anieene,
secluded and haughty eonpire. But ow
that tbe ikon horse, penting ander " his
heavy load of Reseien soldiery, , owes
rigbt up to her western frootter, and the
ehilaing inertl arms of the ootopus are bee
ginning to stretch out along her northern
continee, over Siberia to the ocean, the,
startled adyisere of the young compel:at en
the dragon theone are oonvitioed that they
must be up and stirring and that the only
way offering a pooped of success is tO
meet the threatening invader with hie 'own
weapons.
0, For the lain year or two the min:hewn:
looking warriors wbo guard the northern
frontier of China have bee standing
despetches and memorialto their chiefs
in Pekin oontainiug commute' of the
strange preperations and Manoeuvres
which are taking place in the adjecent
territories of the Czar; of the numerous
parties of Russian, engineere who are sur.
veying over frozen riyere, snowy hills, and
bsrren steppes with, strange, suenioione
and evil -looking instrnfiaente and Been.
anent • of the vast quantiby of timber one
iron which is being tritasported ketetwerd
and southward from the great rivere by
the gray-ooated Russian soldiery, and all
of which ehe high Clhinese officers have at
last been reluotently atempelled to believe
mean .nothieg else thah the conarnence.
moat of the operetions of thennonsten they
have long been dreading -the leans.
Siberian railway, whioh is to unite, •the
vast , noseessions of the Czar froth, the
illuxine to the Pacific with bands of steel.
" I have it from the highest authority
that tient spring i,vi4 Rollie; line begun in
etch:lest. Grog 4reparatioos are being
made in the nollecition of material et •the
varions points along the road, and the
'route is at present overrun with Ruapiart
eneineering offioers. When the Musenv, ites
'commence th'eirnailway the sonied of eine'
picks will be ,Promptly echoed,' beck ley
these of the Cehitese navvies on a I counter
'line. The people 'of Pekin are fully alive
to the seriousness of what their situation
will be when the Siberian railway is au fait
,ciecompa. • Now they are merely holding
,back till they are forced to oororcience
similar operations on their own !mount
by the convincing argument of looking to
their own preservation."
PRINCESS MAUD 0,14` WALES.
The Beautiful Member of othe Family of
England's Heir Apparent.
The daughters and sons of the Prince of
Wales have never been accustomed to un-
bearable and irksonae restraint. They
have all been brought up like any other
well-bren children ot the century, and have
been %flowed a freedom of enjoyment that
would have seemed impossible to their
queenly erandroother. 11. R. H. Princess
Mane more nearly resembles the Princess
of Wales than do either the Duchess of
Fife or her second sister, the Princess
Victoria. In genered bearing she reminds
us of her lovely mother when, as the
Princess Alexandria of Denmark, elm was
first seen by English people. Princess
Mend is now, 20 years of age, but she is
still regarded as the " baby " at Marl-
borough house, .and indulged accordingly.
A' recent photograph of her, taken eon
after the marriage of the Prinoese Louise,
shows ne a rather slight, dignified -looking
girl, dressed in a simple frook of some soft,
clinging material, with limit° of ribbon on
the right shoulder and at the elbows as the
sole trimming. In her hand she carried 'a
bun'oh of roses looeely tied together.
Probably the life Which is most to the
taste of this young princess is thab led at
Sandringham, where, with her favorite
mastiff dog, the "Prince of Wales," and
her thoroughbred hunter, the is able to
revel uneoustrained in all the joy and
exhilaration of country exercise. Even as
a little* child the Princess Mend was a
" lassie " more in sympathy with green
laes than with Piccadilly.
Principles of Education.
,The beat physical development results in
heolth, strength, skill and graceful aotion.
The order and method of presentation
determine the Order and method of repre-
sentation.
The knowledge of general relettions must
be preceded by the knowledge of special
relatioes.
Motives are high in proportion to the
absence of selfishness and the preFience of
beuevolenoe. •
Physical skill reneires repeaten voluntary
action of thoee rankles whioli are to tad
skilfully. ;tete. i„ •
The conditions under 'which presentation
takes place determine the probability of
representateon.
The purpose of education is determined
by the civil institutions ofeettenneuntrn in
which the child lives. ' ' "
The development of the n,ioral chariseter
depenels upon the nature 'ofethe motives
whiob influence the will. h
The power of demonstrative eneeeninn is
developed later than the power of moral or
:probable reasoning. .
' tie action of the representative fain -
ties is conditioned by, the previone action
of the presentative faculties.
The highest type of moral character is
found in the man *he 'performs Fight
aotions from the high, st motives. .
That man is beet eduoated who beet
knows hie duty, is best able to deitita duty,
and is always influenced in his actions by
the highest motives.
s The mind is best developed whose nape.
city for happiness and useful action is
,goattest and whose intellectual faculties
are controlled by a firm will, which is always
influenced by right motives. -journal of
Education.
Enorifoons Western Dams. e
It is io be hoed that the dams which
theeren blinding for irrigation purPoses in
the arid region are being constructed so as
to prevent any snob digester as occurred at
Jobnstown. Sane sof the dame are inn
manse. The following are the dirnensiona
of fent' recently ,00mpleted : 1.:The Wal-
nut Grove dam, near preecotte A'
.T. 110
feet high, 750 acres, Opacity 4,000,000,000
gallone. 2, Merced darn, in Central Caen
fornia, 1 mile long, 60 feet high, 650 mores,
capacity 5,500,000,000 gallons. 3. Sweet-
water river darn, near San Diego, Cal., DO
feet higb, 125 Innen capacity 6,000,900,000
gallone. 4. The Bear Valley dam, San
Bernardino eetinty, Cat, 60 feet high,2,250
acres, capacity 10,000,000,000.--Nete York
Telegram.
English thieves are Oiling a contrivance
looking like an ordinary walking stick,but
which is so arranged that by preeeing
spring at the handle the ferrule will spreed
apart and term a IlOrt of, spring !nip that
Wiltike hold of dnything that is within
reach.: The thing is called " the (Ionian.
Mete' ,
801:1TO A.MERIOAN YARREELAND.
The Wonderful. Drogeees or the Argentine
iteponile ha Material Prosperity.
The Chilians are known as the English
of SOUth Ame6ta, frore their devotion eo
maritime life, bet the Argeotines outsider
thereseleeS'Veineable nettekeen acoorning to
edBuenoe Ayres correspondent of the New
York Tribane, Their eountry is tee tri the
bietoricel, °Het ' of settlement, Pedro de
elendeee neving Mid the foundation of
their soot , espies' as twig ago as 1535;
brit en its, exiseing etege of Jelitioal and
'nide:Anita 'develbereerd it in 'very •new.
The revolted the Argeetiue Provincee
nettinet Speen' in 1810 was felloeved by a
steiele period of 'civil ware ruieiiary'dio-
tatorelaip and disunion., It was not until
•1861,,when4ne feveleriel netpublio W tie iecen,
,gettleted °neer the letederehip of , Duenoe
Anion that a 'nev era of progressive
activity openede Fortwenty years jealeosies
wetie 'exoited • 'by rive' asnirations foe
the seat of the nitional government,
mad it was not until 1881, when this oity
was selected as the capital, that the danger
of disunion and a, renewal of civil war was
everted. During thirty years the country
has made tremendous strides in materiel
'preeperity. Diner* the last ten years it
has one ahead, ike one of our own western
states, by leaps and bounde. The Argen-
tine Republic hasetreeled its population
since 1861, its income being relatively
much more rapid than that Of the Meilen
States during the same period. Tho inti-
mates of the present population range from
3 500,000 to 4,000,000, in the place of
1,160,000 in 1857. Immigration has seept
up the Platte like a mighty Morning tide
during,the last decade, and tbe vast dothain
of the nation is filling up with E,nropean
settlers. The value of houses, land, cattle
and public works hes quintnpled intwenty.
five nears. A Wheat belt of enorneoue
extent has been opened fop profitable agri-
culture. The pastoral industries have been
developed, until there are new en000,000
(settle, 71,000)000 sheep, and between
4000;000 and 5,000,000 leterses non the
farmantthe &nose. The total valoe of
Mock has riden from $159,000,000 id 1884 to
,$369,000,000 in 1.888. The exports ofool
have pion from $31,446,495 in 1881 to U8,-
820,570 ie1888, The total exportetiOne
*eve inoreaeed from $261400,00,0 10,1871 to
$100,000,000 in '148,, while the importa-
tions for the same period limn risen from
$44,000,000 to $128,000,000, and the foreign
orrying trade from 1,114,000 tons to,
4,885,147 tons. Thonsande, of mules of
railway have been built; a banking eysterre
has been established: schools have been
opened in all the provinces; publto works'
of tremendous inagiiitocle have been under-
taken, and a prosperous nation with yast
undeveloped renames behind it has been
created. This is the work et barely more
than a single generation. The Argentine
people have a , record , for industrial pro-
gress,
commercial enterpriee, and enlight.
enedfaith in their awn future Mach can-
not be equalled in South America. They
are the'Yankees of the Southern hernia.
phere.
DO HMO WHIST.
Latest Game With Catlis Which Is Super-
seding •• Hearts."
Do youever play dom'no whist? It is
the latest game of cards extant, and is
rapidly imperseding poker, hearts and other
games involving a minimum, of science
with a maximum of luck in the home circle
and quite decorous medal gatherings.
Four people play the game, and one who
is familiar with the technical names of
oards informs the Memphis Evening Demo.
crat that the person who sits at the left of
the dealer -whatever that is -begins by
playing what is called , the seven -spot of
some snit -spades, heaets, clubs or dia-
monds.
If theplayer cannot show up a seven -
spot be is eloten to put a check in the pot,
though our informant says a nickel, e. dime
or a twohit piece is just as good awe check
and costs more.
Then the next person takes up the game
and plays a seven•spot-if he on -and after
a seven -spot is pieced en the table the other
cards in sequence are platted, eight -spots on
the right and six -spots on the left of the
severespot.
Every time a person eannot play a card
on one of the four piles in the centre of
the table down goes a cheek to the bottom
of the pot. When some one plays his last
card the game is at an end, and he takes a
eh etk tor each cardheld by the other three
players when the game ceased. •
•
Doostere Should be Mature and A ctlire
, There, is something to be known in pro-
.perly selecting a rooster for the flock. If
he has long sickle featheis and developed
Oily, the ptinets from laim will in all
probability be early leyere, as the full'
traokle and long sickles denote earlynna-
turity. The comb is an indiction of
health and vigor and ' should be upright,
and in color a bright scarlet red. He
should have stroog, clean limbs, With
,plenty. of bone, ,unless of the Asistio
breeds, whieh are feather. legged.
The whole _teppettrance ' should. indi.
°ate activity; while he slideild al -
Ways ' pay great attention no the
hens. If . the rooster is of Asiatic,
,beeeds, see that he is close and compaotiy,
built, nnn not long legged, but he should
net be to olese 'to the ground in his make
up. The smaller breeds, beteg*, may be
somewhat leggy, provided they are not too
much so, and especially if for crossing upon
large, heavy hens. It is considered best to
nee small rooters with large hens, mid .if
the rooster: ig an Asiatic nen Plymouth
Rook, he will give greater •satisfaction if of
medium eine instead of being extra heady
In weight. Aotivity in the rooster, com-
bined with good forint and robust consti-
tution, idevekeetninereant. The rooster, is
really denveltieted ottehitlf the flock, as all
thelohicke'will be impreseedewitle his ohar•
Been/3,80nel ,.r
Patti's Botti.d HAL
4, elms Pe tti pays leer bills for lodging
eAd '
and board out 'of her `awn pocket. It costs
her nearle 4400 a day to live at tho Hoffman
House. 10 one month io Chioago she paid
$1,080 for boatn•and lodgings. It will octet
her moreno live in Neesentork this trip. . It
will take 0500 sek tb'pay for a suite, of
rooms alone. There aro ten rooms
altogether'on the seeond floor of the Orien-
etal annex of the Heffninn. There are two
bedroom' cs, two dresitibg•rooras, a parloe and
Flitting room, a kitchen, dining room and
romp fon the diva's Maids in tee,suite.
, nne Dethog Passion.
..(eVeeping epouse-I shall erect a nionti.
tnnb to you dearest when you aro gone, I
eball have " Loving Husband" engraved
at the bottom on the column.
e Dying Adeneeiber nee Good' '‘ heavens,
Pauline, , ehat maven' tio'l, Top of
cidlitinn, eighth page, nein'reading nantter
-er-I rented tb afo!—Dry ooOds
Chronicle.
In a library in Paris, said tO he the
largest in Heel World, is a Chinese chart of
the heavens, in which 1460 eters aro found
to be correotly placeocording to the
Potentiate or the present day. The chart
Was Made in 600 B. 0.
eieeNDING PAZ
Ever/ Bousewife ehou14 Have One ifet
Avert In Dory week.
Every boesewife should test aoart one day
in (nob Week for a mending day-eits duties
ehealn be as religiOtaly Pnit9rAd,94 tte her
daily devotion ertena writen in "Good
Housekeeping." 'Winch day it than be
depende upon the Litman time of getting,the
clothes in from the waeh. If that disagree.
able work is doe at home, it should be as
eerly iu the week en, preeticenle e the entre-
nets stnale be ,weeben , out and -Vended
ceneenlY, so es to sheizik aslittlenteposeible,
end to allow plenty of Gime to aiithein, for
nothing is mere ruinotts' to the hath than
damp flannele.
If the clothee are all, in by TleurFfeiay
eyeping, then FridaY.Would ne aoioe oppor.
tunity to lay met every gnement ond put it
through a rigorous exnerunittiop. It onwell
te have a veinal shickinn basnet, in wbich
the spoke add seookiegs ere platted' refs:4Y
'for inspeetion. • It should be furieislied
with suitableneedle'in darningnotton of all
,colors to suie the fanoy hosiery,a par of
130ietiOrS, oto,, -so that it, may be picked up
at any of those odd momerits which se often
come to a housekeeper when • she ifi
not ready to settle 'down tol week which
• needs outline out and planning. After the
holes are mended, tlain plaoes should be
neatly darned, for then they present a
strong, even surface which is more omen
tortable than the hole when drawntogether
later
• The garments which reed ruending
should be placed in another basket. Every
button should be exanained, and if they are
pulling out by the route, as children's, knit-
, tons alwaye do, a double bit of cotton, or
material line the garoaent, can be hemmed
on the wrong eidee the 'edges at the hole
hen:mead down' len it, Fine the bunion
replaced, oonoealine the hole entirely.
It looks much better thin setting the
button higher' or lower to gain a foil
fonndetion. , • •
Strings have a way of wearing half off
jest wherethey ere. sewed ,ton. They
should be ctit, the old piece ripned off, and
,a new sevenag , taken ,up, oe else new
strings. Little elite ,hi onderolothing
should have a strong piece of neeferiaI /aid
nuder, mach larger 'than the "nit; when
that is darned down witha•few neat stitohee
it will hold much longer num if it is s: just:
ran op.'? . , • , • ,
Boys' olothipg shonle be furnished with
good strong pooleetheler , the foy of a little
chap's first pentaloone palet before "lis
of pockets, to held just everything."
Little girls enjoy pookettn too ; a reader.
ate sized one, in the seam of . a natio° or
gingham does, holds, her handkerobien
thimble and other neceesary things vehicle'
would otherwise be lett lying around and
,lost.
(find that a child's habit of neatness
largely depends upon the condition of the
clothing put upon. her from infancy. If
she is aocuetomed to whole clean elothes,
she will enjuy them then find them a
necessity, and finally learn to love and keep
them so.
The poor little ohildren who dive into
toireau drawers, palling out btabtonless
bodies, torn aprons and ragged dresses,
which they strew about until they find
some wearable garments, are greatly to be
pitied; nor are they to be blamed if they
grow up into careless and untidy men and
women. It is never wise to buy just enough
material for a child's dress, with nothing
left for mending. The elbows always rub
ont first, and if there is enough to make a
new underside to the sleeves, it helps the
drees to last much longer.
If there is a wiee sash like the dress, it
can be utilized later on for new sleeves, and
it will be all "washed alike," for nearly all
°telexed goods will fade in time.
He Had to Walk.
A Boston fether whose son last autumn
took it into his foolish- head to run saway
from home, taught the boy a lesson which
is not likely to be soon forgotten. The lad
had read a lot of sensational trash, aud
although he had a good home be was led
away by what he read, and [started off to
" enjoy life."
Hie funds and his courage gave out
together before he got neither than New
York, where he was robbed in one place, ill-
treated in another, and fell ill in a third ;
so that by the time he had been abeent
from home for about ten days he sent a
pathetic postal oard to his tinnily, begging
for the money to come home with. His
father had already followed hirn to New
York, put detectives on his traolennad knew
what Wen happening to him; but was leave.
ing him to his own devices in order thatthe
lad might see to what hie course would
lead. Leaving a friend to see that the boy
was watched and kept from actual berm,
the feaher reterned home, and when the
son's appeal came he simply wrote beak:
"Don't you think you had batter walk 2"
The poi prodigal 'VMS probably well-nigh
heartbroken at sttch a response, which, in.
it cost the father a good cleat of reso-
lution to make, bub he set out to walk from
New York to Boston.
A man was employed, by the father's
orders te come along ,With him.- The don
supposed that he wae•meretY &tramp with
whom he had fallen -in and vsno chose, to'
be kind to him The runaway reached
tome safely, but a ,enere damaged boy it
would not,be easy to And. His father has
ne'ver alluded te his adventure, and there is
non a respeet and confidence between them
Whine is really charming to see.-Youtles
CoMpanion.
luny's Queen.
'Queen Marguerite of Tealyie not fairebrit
she is fat and forty. As e. rule, fie which
there are few exoeptions, tne royal families
are not model° of physical beauty. The
Count de Paris looks like an amiable green-
grooer; Queen. Victoria' like a. prosperous
middle class, wonaa,n,•the Prince of Wales
lige a etiodniaturee bon-vivent. The Queen
of Italy affects literary taste, but her duo.
oese as an 'amateur author has not been
verybrilliann, for the story goes that, hav-
ing written a story, ;she Bent it to one of the
Italian journals under an asetuned naree,
and it wae declined with thanks.
Witchcraft in England.
Two fermiers were arrested near Pen-
zance a sheet time since and put under
hee.yy bonds.to keep the peace :toward an
old woman whom they amused ofebeing a
,witole. It appeaeed thentheie tome had
balked ,• and thereupon ' they ' charged the
pout woman, who eves 71 earns of age, with
bewitching the horeen Med were otually
proceeding to kill her when the authorities
interfered.
Realism.
Manteget (entering the restaurant) -
What I Eating, Mr. Bigsalary ?
Mr. Bigealary (Leading comedian)-Y•yes,
eie. I was hungry,
Manager -That's no entitle at all. If
you eat and have ne appetite, how do yoti
Oppose you're going to do joetice to that
hungry scene in the olive?. 9'11 have no
more of this.
The difference between a Ilse' ahd a
hypocrite is that the tier in not' always
namable. ;
The only daughter of ,Viotor Hugo is now.
n old Wortaan, confined in a lunatic
a,sylveth
ffeEtnnsTen
It is Troableeonee to /nee Peoperin, but It
l'aceuent etzullottetionundXtditinnoutlz4ne7veustOrnwenot
Ought Pi he Handled,
g r enetiet Idyl ectea ge (Levey?, ioalfin ,ot to: uzamotp ft ioown y obonry:
It was once regarded as inoterFeble; Wig
now regorded as °treble, if ehe treat -
'
went is begun early. It 'Van once re -
(corded as spepielly nresnarteietenee ; ea
umon so that oleildren of • ooneunneitiee
'reirentil oeu joked on thereeelvee as
doomed, a feetineWnieli ofitself muois
to induce the dreeded result, New the
elisease iteelf hi not believen tie be ton:mitten
but only eopudeenen of epeoielstneeptibility
to the diseasneseltioh may be overcoehe oz
guareen agaenst, by proper preoeutions.
Conetmention wen fern:only loolteei upon as
incommunicable. It is now lielieved to be.
leng te tlingreel oleo Of infections dieettnee,
mused by eniorobes. The discov ery or pao
microbe -the tubercle baoillps-was ,made
by,Koch in 1882, and ha e been confirmed
by numerous original investegatione con.
ducted liy other experts. • ,
Tests on animals prove that this miorobe
communiotes tubercular disease when in.
trodaced into their systems; arid fleet the
result, fetid or otherwise, depends mainly
or wholly upon whether tlae animate are
closely confined amid bad surroundings, or
are allowed fro exercise in the open air.
Aa to the curability of the disease, post-
mortem examinations at the New York
hospitals constantly sinew that large num-
bers of persons who heve once bean non-.
sumptive,have fully reeovered and hare
died long afev
terards of other disown In
ucsaSefpenCe of those new views, •
tion of prevention leas become extremely
important. But to know how to peevent
consumption, we must know hovnit is pro.
pegated. • .
,Typhoid levee, the seat of which is in the
walls of the intestines, is propagated =eerily
by the reiorobetein the disolaargee, which
later find their Way into the . ietestmes
again through infected dretakingevater.
Consumptiat on the other fiend, hen,
its specie', seat in the •Inngs, is mainly
,propagated by mier,obes contained in elle
expeotorations. The microbes are harm.
lees so long as they are in a fluid state,
but when ellowed to dry, they are tenen
up in the air es dust and inhaled. 'This
infected dust may lodge on the walls of
the room and eommimicate the ditsease•to
tenants of the house. It ' has been scraped
off with a sponge, and animals inoculated
with it have boom° tuberculous; while
animals inooulated with . scrapings' frere
ainsienato.ted rooms showed no sign of the
d
To prevent consumption, therefore,
Firet-Observe all the conditions of
vigorous health. Most kinds of nalorobes
are powerless against high health.
Second -Have all sick rooms thoroughly
ventilated. It requiree many microbes to
infect. Ventilation greatly reduces the
danger.
Third -Let the expectorations be in-
variably received in spit-oups and cerenally
disinfected.
Bat consumption may be communicated
by the milk of consumptive cows. There.
fore, let all milk.he boiled. This destroys
the vaiions kinds of microbes and should
be made a permanent habit as a guard
againet alt infectious disee.ses.-Youtles
Companion.
A. STORY OF THE D.
Amusing Account of the Sale of a Wife a
Public Ariction in England.
Wife sales among the ignorant donee of
England have not been infregoent. Quite
a number of eases are recorded in some of
the bldnnagazines end books. The "Annual
Reenter " for 1832 gives an amneing ac-
count of a traneection of this kind on the
75h of April of that year. Joseph Thom-
son, a farmer, who bad been married three
years, was dissatisfied with his wife, and
thought he oonle diesolve the tie that
bound him to her by platting her up,at
public auction. On the day of the sale a
large ember of persons assembled to wit.
nese the novel sight. The women was
placed on a chair in full view of the specta-
tors, and the husband, who acted es auc-
tioneer, openea the proceedings by saying:
" Gentlemen, I have to offer to your notice
my wife, Mary Anne Thomson, otherwise
Williams, whom I mean to sell to the
highest and fairest bidder. It is her wish,
as wele as mine, to part forever." He went
on to entnxterate her bad qualities, and
then continued, 14 Now, I have shown you
the clerk gide of my wife, and told you her
faults and failings. I will introduce the
bright and annoy. side of her, and explain
her qualificeseions end goodness. She can'
read novels and milk cows; she can laugh
and weep with,' the none ease that you
could take a glass of ale wben thirsty.
Indeed, gentlemen, the reminds me of what
the poet says of women in general:
, 'Heaven rave to woman,the peculiar grace
To, laugh, to weep, to clnah the human race.'
"She can make batter and ecold the
maid; she can eine M ,oreees meledies, and
oldie ieer frills and ceps • she cannot, make
men - gin, or whiskey, but she is a good
judge of their quality from long experience
in noting them. I. theiefore offer her,
with all her perfections and itnperfeotione,
for the stun of filty elaillings." Mr. Thom.
sae's eloquence was not as effective se
might have been expected, as he was oom-
palled, after waiting en bour, to dispote of
his wife for twenty shilling and a New-
foundland deg. • •
The Wonders of the Great Deep.
The Nona volume of " The Reiter) on
the Seielatifio Results" of the Challenger's
voyage has recently been published, and it
is no whin was interesting than it's prede-
cessor. The deep ott is full of wonders.
There are fish living 2,600 fathoms eown •
some blind, ()there alinciat eyeless, ey,bieb
are so compressed from the weight ot the
Water. that when brought to the surfithe
then; bodies expand.Three mile.s down
the% is no light aria im °nano ce tempera.'
tare, Being to light there ie no negetable
growth, and the fish feed cin each other-
- at least, so many of Mame as nave teeth
probably do so, Those without teeth, no
doubt, feed on animalcule°. From 'Prof.
Tait's experiments it seems that at a depth
Of six miles the sea is compreected about.
620 feet, May this oompreesion long, con-
tinue, for should it oeaee something like
2,000,000 equare reflect woold be inundated;
-Pall Mall Gazette.
rood nalii Eating. .
'It the food taken by the average man
were of bebter quality, and eaten with leas
haste; he woind probably be eteongee than
he linnove. If the average woman learns to
cook better, the average mate of the next
generation will bo better physioally end
mentaely than the average men of today. -
1). B. $t. John noose. -
A. Musical Bootblack.
Baroness (to men -servant who bee jest
oome in) nehmen, do not Wbietle in 'that
abominable manner -and oat Vulgar tunes
besides. , ; • •'
Johenn-tBut surely your ladyship does
not expeet one of Liezt's rhapsodies, when
bleolting the boots -that'll come on
_ _ovisel9;;;:oneeil4i.eeni Dtnetn Vritteret
don't nnew much of Ion guagee SUeb AO
Pthe
„at Due language of dumb critters unfleratalils4
And oil , 1 hiuir, iz', that tbeer
veloee reacli fee sey,
Ancl.I should• n't, be BurpriSod,', sir, if in the judg-
And tattato,tutboleialy.„ela,ker under.stand,s ,the pleading -
Some erne], heartless human folks should be ae,
. dumb as they. . • •
lieuso is not as elegant as InanY are,
But .imy cattle are all sheltered from the wintrr
, wink, and, snovr ;
441.0 ,b▪ nuOtt rations th a t leave
noththgGr. in. wth,beetslaporitrisityreeatunlroMetg, to the,. " dna from
Ah 1 God bath N. iseiy ordered, sir, that Br
Star.V"mwiligodnneayobtVeT,yi'ri e'rittbrs art; the things that
If any of my flock are sick or In irt lo any way, ,„
I see that they are cared tor, sir, by night as well
' lebatsrteadr:eal'
Myionktatohwei;r woo14 sir--that'e 11 1320
t
My lanamabks-e ttbheelynaleio•e. not tailleSa, for Gd didn't
Sonceietvaslreelp don't need. water, but I tell you
They're almott frantic fox it, ler, tha same as
you or 1.
My h 0;.ussets:hyaotathheayveseseemen; them, air ; they are
And; it do say it myself, they, 503 a splendid
They weartean:. no foolish blindera) and from hitch"
up reins they're freo ;
And they never had a hurt, SiT, that bas been
caused by me,
the way they do my bidding, now, 'tie really a
They tillng112y
1Be1- very step, sir, and thanit me With
.their eyes. •
ecte pigpen, over yonder, Pd like sir, to have
. shown t -
My hogs--thoy never are the "breed" that is but
skid and hone;
X know, sir, that to fatten them, they need bald
food and drin • •
A shener,and abed, sir, Fill help' it on, 1, think.
Ihave a yard on purpose, ti.V;jr can rOot whene'or
they choose -
et seems to me like cruelty, se rings e never use.
There's, ore ening more 1. want to show, 'tie
Hannah's hen house here--
Our poultry always pay us well, and just now
_ eggs are dear- , •
,Tis warm and Olean and bright, you. sue, with
gravel on the ground;
There's feed and Water standing bore all day the
whole year round.
Itut Maybe I have tired you, sir -forgive au olcl.
man's pride;
But somehow I love dumb critters, and I wane
their wants supplied.
WHY WOMEN ARE ITASAITNA.TING.
• __
Some of the Reasons that Attract the
Sterner Sex to the Gentler.
' The power of faseination inherent in
women may, moreover, be divided into two
kinds. We all, says tile Brooklyn Eagle,
have seen the old lady, generally white
haired, with kindly, pleasent features, on
which time has set no antriendly mark,
who still retains all her attraotiveness.
Note how the boys and girls adore her;
they will go to her and confide their sor-
rows, their hopes, their ambitions, and
when they would not broth a word to
their mothers. The kindly, loving intense
evinced in a lad's affairs by suoh a one
has time and again first implanted the
mpulses in the heart which eventually led
himon to an honorable eitreer.
Quickly, almost by stee,Ith, the good is
done by suede, and the good seed sown
which will ripen in after time into a rich
and e.bundant, or6p. On the other hand,
we have most of us seen, perhaps in real
life, certainly on the stage, Man faeoineting
e,dventurese who, by her enthralling
beattte de diable, enelaees men's souls
and leads them (on the stage) to do all for
her sabre. Such is directly opposed to
the sweet old lady in hew old.fashioned
chair, and these tveo form the opposite
poles between which tbe women who fasci-
nate vary.
Types differ, and any one you may
select has some position between these
two opposites. Take, for iestanoe, a
pretty and may be veittg women who,
hardly of leer own free will, makes
every man fall in love with her to a
greater or less degree. She may be inno-
cent of any evil intention, but her position
on the scale is not vastly removed from
that of the melodramatic sorceress. Or,
again, take the instance of the pretty young
matron who, while devoted to borne, hue-
loand and children, yet has Beveinl inti-
mate friends of the male persuasion. But
her influence is all for good. Her faecinis-
tion is exerted in 0 worthy cause, and she
has found out a great truth -that there is
no feiendship so lasting, so true and so
pleasant as one between persona of oppo-
site sexes, where a true feeling of bonne
eanzaraderie exists and therein. no pretense
no love -making. Such a woman, if she lives
long enough, bids fair to develop into a
snowy -haired old lady on whose friendship
the children will rely. ,
The fd:ze Of London.
Youhaveprobably all heard or toad of
'those buge cities of the ancient wcrld,
Babylon and Rome, and have been very
much impressed with deeariptioes of their
size, says a correspondent. Well, although
we tas,ve no meana of tellingexactly how
i
many people lived in them, it s safe to say
that the inhabitants of London to•day are
twice ne midterms as were those of both
these great places put ingethet. Those
who knoev Liverpool, Manchester, Glaegow,
Birmingham, or any other British large
cities, will ba surprised to hear that in
Initieon there are more than as many
bailees as there are people in any of them.
London contains as many folk as -the whole
of Irelandeand many, more than are to be
found in nootland. 'If all who on call
themselves "Londoners" were to walk by
yeti at tbe elite of 100 a mindte, never
stopping day ot night, it would be five
weeks,before they had Passed. Supposing
that you •wiehed to es alk throttle all the,
streets ,and lanes and allet, s '1 the great
metropolis, end were anle to arrange e our
trip, o cleverly that eon nevi r traversed
the same rine twine, y ou Would h ONO to walk
ten miles a day for ninnyeare before your
journey was let an end. Its London there
are nobre BoMan Catholics team eta to be
found in /lame, Mere JeWS than tee whole
of Palestine onatainn more Seotsmen than
Jive in Aberdeen, more Irishmen than call
Belfase their home, and more Welshmen
than Cardiff holds.
The Dagpipe controversy.
Mr Archibald Forties io the corstroverser
that still continues in the London papers,
as to the bagpipes being herind et the relief
of ,Ludenow, says the chief metier of tbe
Highland bagpines need in the rtiatisna
regiments is that net etettins sleet' sound
"savage and shrill" in the very climex of
the fiercest etruggle of the battle. When
the Word " oharge " is , given .the pipers
strike tip the pibroch, and it is te Inint of
honor that each piper ellen be with hie
company, end hie pipee in full bleet, so
long as there *attains in hini etreiaeth to
move ancl , wind to fill the instrument.
Therefore, 'lie oonoludee, the 7832 lligh.
lander e bee their bagpipes before the
relief, at tin relief, and after the eelief."
Elizebeth Cady Stanton; one of
thud enviable voterane who do not leg
stinerflons on the stage, has 'Ailed for
Ettrepte, to live henoeforth in London, near
tio,ughter and laor.olover,Eion, Theodore
later' When Pra cloning the miner I tan OIL