HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-6-26, Page 3Love is Enough—A Tragedy,
The groom was loving, the bride was fair ;
Her eyes met his with a witching air ;
flo was tender and meek as a maid could be,
And ehebed no more sense than a babe of three,.
"'Youngster, beware!" the old men said,
" We've tried the pass "—but he shook his head;
He shook that head oracularly;
In marriage, " Love is enough,' quoth he,
1lroakfast at home, .How'strange and sweet!
But eomotbing was wrong with the things to eat.
Something was queerin coffee and tea—
....
" Nay, give me a kiss instead,' said he.
Dinner at home—but he could not eat,.
O rawieh potatoes ! 0 kiln -dried meat I
You've left out the the taste from the epup,"
moaned he.
" lel make it all right with a kiss," smiled she.
Supper at home, and, he could not eat.
O bread like putty 1 0 mush of wheat!
O slimy pickles d 0 tea of tan I -
He rose from the table a starving man,
Alack i what aileth that bridegroom now?
He stamps and roars as he knots his brow;
00 bonne to your mother, and say from me,
That love is not nearly enough!" quoth he.
Letter to the Pope.
The following letter bas been sent to
Pope Leo XIII. from Pennsylvania : Your
recent utterances in favor of poor, down.
trodden and Buffering humanity have
affected me very deeply. As one of the
poor I thank your holiness most sinoerely
for your sympathy in our behalf. About a
year ago there came to my hand a paper,
entitled " Back to the, Land." It was
addressed "' To the clergy and laity of the
diocese of Meath," Ireland, by Thomas
Nulty, Bishop of Meath.
I read it very carefully and at once saw
the light, saw clearly and distinctly the
reason why " The poor ye have with yon
always," and fully comprehended that all
the misery, vice, involuntary poverty and
degradation was caused by not following
the Lord's command that " The land shall
not be sold forever, for the land is mine ;
ye are only sojourners with me." Beoom-
ing interested in the land question, I
considered it my duty to myself and my
fellows to study the subject moat carefully.
The conclusions arrived at are : That this
Earth contains sufficient wealth to give all
enough and to spare ; than the invention
and use of labor. saving machinery, and the
present means for exchanging products,
ahould make it easier to earn a living, and
should be a blessing to the laborer instead
of a curse ; that the Lord made this earth
in usufruct for all the children of men ;
that it is, therefore, manifestly wrong to
allow it few men to own and control the
earth and make others pay for the right to
live ; that we cannot do without land any
more than without air and water ; that the
.children of men, by their presence, give
value to the land whioh it would otherwise
mot poeeess ; that they also create govern-
mental expeuees, and -that, therefore, it ie
only just that the one should be taken for
the payment of the other.
This single tax upon the value of land,
.or ground rent, would be just and fair to
all. Created bythe people, it should not,
as now, be taken by individuals, but
Bhonld go where it properly belongs—to the
public treasury. Involuntary poverty and
the vices arising therefrom would then be
a thing of the pact. I most earnestly be-
neeoh your holiness to give the subject the
attention it deserves.
One in your exalted position, one upon
whom the whole world looks as the moral
teacher, baa it in his power to guide us, so
that we may not pray in vain : " Thy
Kingdom come. Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven." The sympathy
and support of your holiness in this move-
ment of practical religion is earnestly
eougbt.
The Lottery aod the Fools.
The Louisiana Lottery has offered the
State of Louisiana a cool million a year
for twenty.five years for the privilege of
selling lottery tiokete to fools. It is
generally understood that this offer is a
proposition to divide the fool's money
with the State for the privilege of fleecing
the foole. In other words the lottery
managers in the light of their past ex-
perience expect to gather in 550,000,00 of
tool's money during the next twenty-five
years if the State of Louisiana will accept
halt the amount as a bribe for allowing
them to do it. The Legislature of
Louisiana has thus thrust upon itself
the responsibility of accepting or reject.
log this offer of a portnership in the
business of fleecing fools. That it
should be rejected is the unanimous
opinion of honest men, but unfortunately
honesty doesn't always control legislative
bodies, and it is not at all impossible
that the fool -fleecing partnership may be
formed. Twenty-five millions in fools'
money would save the State of Lonisiana
twenty-five millions in taxes, and even
honest men hate to pay taxes. But what
a comment is this unblushing offer upon
the exceeding foolishness of the lottery
purchasing fools. To be publicly paraded
in the newspapers as willing and even
anxious to give the lottery sharps a cool
two million a year without a return,
should, one would think, open the eyes of
the fools. It probably will do nothing of
the kind, for the fool has not changed his
nature since it was written of him that,
•though brayed in a mortar with a pestle,
yet would not his foolishness depart from
him. It is a pity for all that the poor fools
should have so much good money to throw
away. Philadelphia Times.
' When He's Dressed in His Best Suit of
Clothes."
Look bow these prices affect the farmer
It now takes a Toed of potatoes to buy n pair
of boots, a big steer buys a plain suit of
clothes for everyday wear ; it takes a good
cow to buy a plain overcoat; a loae of corn
supplies cap and mittens ; a load of oats
will furnish a corresponding suit of under-
clothing. So that, when the farmer
returns home from the country store, he
carries on his person the value of a big
steer, a good cow, and thirty bushels or
more of Dorn, of oats and of potatoes.—
Chicago News.
Alae ! For Her Fame.
Husband of Authoress—My dear, you
are famous now l Yonr picture ie in the
newspaper.
(Authoress takes one glance and bursts
into tears.)
Husband—Why.', my dear, what is the
matter ?
Authorese—The horrid things have made
nee with a last year's' bonnet on !
--Ignorance is a power whioh destroys in
a night what knowledge has built in a
generation, and a good deed done badly is d
great evil.
The widow of the Crown Prince Rudolph
of Austria will shortly make her first ap.
pearance as an authoress, for she is at
present busily engaged til preparing a
selection from the journals of her travels
for publication.
—Some bonnets have real flowers.
Tenant (in top flat)—The roof leaks.
nd1 rd—N nsen e. ) h people
e
T.a o o s .Novo of the 0 1
In the other flats gay so'. P p
y
Watchmaker — There works are very
.nasty. Soedleight—Well, they ought to be ;
.bat wets& has been In tlotak for air Months.
TBLEGR44$x0 SIIncnIAEy.
Chief Ashfield, for 60 years connected
with the To;onto Fire $rigade, is dead.
Wm. Anderson, a carpenter, was killed
by falling from a barn near St. ahomas.
France will shortly declare her reoogni.
tion of the Brazilian Provisional Govern.
enent•
The first sod of the Kincardine do Tees.
water Railway was turned at Teesseater on
Saturday by Mayor Baoide.
Emperor William will attend the Aus-
trian mauosuvree in Transylvania, and will
then spend a week in Hungary.
It is stated Gen. Roberts will become
Adjutant -General of the British army on
the retirement of Lord Wolseley.
Princess Viotoria of Prussia is betrothed
to the Prince of Anhelt.Desean. The mar-
riage will take plaoe at an early date.
The Portuguese Cortes Saturday, in the
preeenoe of the King, formally declared the
King's Bon, Lcuia Philippe, the heir to the
throne.
From the reports so tar 'received the
Robson Government in British Columbia
appears to have been sustained, though its
majority is reduced.
For using defamatory language towards
a neighbor, A. Woohead, a farmer near
Emerson, has been served with a writ
claiming 15,000 damages.
Thos. Haran was struck by a train Sat-
nrdey night while walking on the Grand
Trunk track in Brockville, and so badly
hurb that hie recovery is doubtful.
The Czar refuses to recognize Prince
Ferdinand as ruler of Bulgaria, but would
favor either the Duke of Lenohtenberg or
Prince Karl, son of the King of Sweden.
Pater Davie' friends are endeavoring to
help him by circulating a report to the
effect that Lawreuce, the Marmora suicide,
confessed to being the murderer of William
Emory.
It is claimed that M. Barsual, the
French electrician, is the real inventor o!
the. telephone, having discovered and
applied the principle twenty years in
advance of either Edison or Bell
Mr. Coningsby Disraeli will probably be
a candidate for a seat in the Hensel of
Commons at the next general election. He
ie said to display talents not unworthy of
the immortal name which he bears.
An explosion of five tone of nitro-glycer-
ine occurred at Findlay, Ohio, on Saturday
morning, excavated a hole in the ground',
large enough to bury a four-story house,
and reduced the factory to matohwood.
At the. Toronto Criminal Assizes Joseph
Maroney, convicted of assault on a jury-
man who had served nn a jury that re-
turned a verdict of which the prisoner did
not approve, was sent to the Central Prison'.
for eighteen months.
As if to put at rest the rumors of inoreas•
ing friction between Germany and Russia,
the Emperor has requested the Czar to'.
allow him to command in person the
Viborg Regiment, of which he is honorary
colonel, daring the coming Russian man-
eeavree.
The body of Thos. Mackie, captain of
the schooner Jessie Brook, which was
wrecked off Nine -mile Point four weeks
ago, was found yesterday fleeting a quarter
of a mile below Cedar Island. It was very
much decomposed. It was taken to Wolfe
Island for burial.
In a recent conversation with a member
of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Prem-
ier Crispi declared that Italy's relations
with France and Russia had become cor-
dial, and that the epooh of European diffi.
culties had passed, and a long period of
peaoe was guaranteed.
A monument to the Duke of Brunswick,
on the spot where he fell at Quatre Brae,
was unveiled yesterday in the presence of
the German Minister et Brnesels and dele-
gates from Brunswick and Belgium. A
memorial plate was also affixed to the
house in whioh the Duke expired.
Archibald H. McPherson, Principal of
the Victoria Ward School, Galt, for the
past five years, who was in his customary
health and apparently a man of vigorous
constitution, died within half an hour after
being attacked with a convulsive fit, whioh
came upon him without the slightest
warning on Friday morning. He was 54
years of age.
A meeting held in Paris yesterday to
express sympathy with the arrested
Nihilists was disturbed by Anarohiets, who
entered into a free fight. The Egalite com-
mented severely upon the action of the
Anarchists, and in revenge thirty of them
made an attack upon the office of the news.
paper Sunday and demolished everything
in sight.
Jeff Merser, a negro gambler, of Argen-
tine, Kansas, dragged his wife from tho
house of a friend Saturday evening, and
npon her refusal to return to their home he
fired four ehote at her as she lay on the
ground. The firet shot broke her neck
and the three others entered her body, each
wound being sufficieut to produce death.
Mercer escaped.
The body of a young man was found on
the Grand Trunk Railway track between
Wanbuno and London early Sunday morn•
ing, with the head severed therefrom and
terribly mutilated. It is supposed that he
was stealing a ride, that he fell off and was
run over by the oars. The remaine were
brought to Kilgonr's morgue, bat have not
as yet been identified.
The Brazilian Government has agreed to
submit to arbitration the question of the
frontier between French Gaines and Brazil,
to relax the export duty on .robber and to
exempt French subjects from the applica-
tion of the decree that everyone who was
in Brazilian territory on the day the
Republio was proclaimed should be re-
garded as a citizen of Brazil.
There were nine deaths from cholera in
Puebla de Rapt on Saturday. Seven fresh'
oases were reported.,, Two-thirds of the
inhabitants have fled from the town. The
first oases appeared a month ago, the via -
tiros all being residents of a street whioh
had been opened up for paving. Seven
deaths have occurred at Montioheloo, a
village near Puebla de Rugat, and seven
fresh oases are reported there.
It is rumored that two regiments of in-
fantry, a battery of artillery and 150
marines will be sent to Mozambique.
Qaillimans advices say that the governor
and a committee of the inhabitants have
decided to organize a colonial marine ser-
vice and irregular forces for the Zambesi,
also to suppress English coin, and to adopt.
other measures to boycott the English.
The British vice-consul was compelled to
quit his residence and to take refuge at the
nenlate.'
ptahan consulate.
The St. James' Gazette siva a complete set
of the proofs of Henry M. Stanley's forth-
coming work, "In Darkest Africa,"
were obtained in a mysterious manner by
somearson, w
p who, offered copies to one
English paper and to two papers published
in the colonies. The copies were accepted
by the papere, but the publication of the
matter was thwarted by the items of a oir-
onler by the hone° whioh ie to publish the
book warning any person against pnbliehing
the book, and notifying anyone who did et)
that he would be held responsible.
A correspondent of the Aseooiated Proee
in Tokio, Japan, writes June let, as fol.
lows : The distress among thoueande of
the starving people of Tokio and other
large cities is being ameliorated to a great
extent by theioreignors as well as by the
Japanese noblemen. One nobleman is
feeding one thousand people a day, and
out of his own funds. Tho price of rice ie
higher than ever before, both in Japan and
Corea, and this is probably only a foretaste
of the Buffering to follow. The outlook for
the growing crops of rice is Clot good, owing
to heavy and aontinued rains.
To -day Quebec elects a new Legislature.
The apple orop ie likely to be a failure in
Elgin County.
The county judges of Ontario will meet
in Toronto tomorrow.
The barque Chatham has been lost at
sea and her captain drowned
The Caledonian Railway station at
Edinburgh was burned yesterday.
Thirteen thousand dock laborers at
Swansea have struck for higher wages -
Two cases of yellow fever have been
found on a British vessel at Chandeleur,
La.
The new Montreal oity loan, amounting
to £600,000, has been taken up at a fraction
over 83.
The cable between Halifax and Bermuda
is expected to be laid and in working order
by July let.
The strike of the Montreal coal handlers
is practically over. The men are return-
ing to work.
The twenty.eighth annual meeting of the
Anglican Synod of Ontario will open to-
day at Kingston.
The Government of India has heavily
subsidized a company to build a railway
from Simla to Kafka.,:
Stanley has been appointed Governor-
General of the Congo Free State, his duties
to commence in 1891.
A new and very rioh vein of silver has
been struck close beside the celebrated
Badger mine, near Port Arthur.
Mr, Fred. W. Johnston, Q. C., of Gode-
rich, has been appointed Junior County
Judge of the District of Algoma.
Smuggled goods to the valve of $300 were
found on the steamer Egyptian Monarch
yesterday by the New York officers.
The Toronto Methodist Conference yes-
terday passed a resolution in favor of the
establishment of an order of Methodist
deaconesses.
Admiral Lang, commander of the Chi-
nese north coast squadron, has resigned ou
account of the insubordination of the
Chinese officers.
Sir Hector Langevin and Sir John
Thompson yesterday listened to arguments
in regard to the issue of patents for water
lots along Toronto's front.
The German steamer Yengtsee, trading
between Chinese ports, was wrecked at
Heiehamsland June 13th. No lives were
lost. The steamer went ashore daring a
fog.
Walter G. Smith, who was to be made
Governor of Lower California by the fili-
busters, ie trying to show that the British
Company was most to blame for the in-
trigue.
A bill is now before the British Perlia.
ment aimed at such practices as Sir Hector
Lengevin and Sir Charles Tupper were
guilty of in connection with the Direct
Meat Company.
The county judge in Toronto has given
judgment in a oaee to the effect that when
property passes into the hands of a cor-
poration exempt from taxation it escapee
all local improvement taxation.
The steamer Yowyange, from Port
Pierre, South Australia, for Sydney. N.
S. W., has been wrecked off Willoughby
Cape, the eastern point of Kangaroo Island.
Part of her crew are missing.
The Archduchess Valeria yesterday pub-
licly renounced all claim to the throne of
Austria in order that she might merry the
man of her choice, remarking that a loving
husband would make a true woman happier
than a thousand thrones.
On Friday morning the condemned mur-
derer Dubois will expiate his terrible crime
of quadruple murder by being hanged
within the Quebec jail walls. The exeou-
tion will be private and the construction of
the gallows has been commenced.
Washington despatches say that owing
to the demands made by the agrioultnral
organizations the duty on barley has been
again placed et 30 cents per bushel. No
other changes of consequence have been
made in the agricultural schedule.
'Mr. W. J. Arkell, New York, received
yesterday from the Alaska exploring party
a despatch to the effect that they have dis-
covered a lake whioh they have named Lake
Arkell and whioh lies in British North-
west Territory, abont longitnde 136 degrees
30 west, latitude 60 degrees 30 north. The
extent of the Iake is not known, but the
Indians say it is many miles long and
many wide.
On Saturday afternoon about 5 o'clock
Mr. William Anderson, Queen street,
received fatal injuries by falling from a
barn on which he was working on the farm
of Mr. William Hill, lot 5, Edgeware road,
Yarmouth, about two miles north of Lon-
don. Mr. Anderson, who is a carpenter by
trade, had, it is understood, the contract of
building the barn, whioh was raised on
Monday. When the accident occurred he
was standing on a beam at the gable end,
it short distance from the peak, spiking the
end rafters together, and he either slipped
or overbalanced and fell to the ground on
his head.
The Duchess of Fife hoe been delivered of
a still -born ohild.
Deaf mutes will hold a convention in
Toronto this week.
Half a million dollars of gold wae taken
at New York yesterday for export.
Cleveland switchmen are on strike, and
only passenger and mail trains were run,
ning yesterday.
The Senate at Washington yesterday
passed the Silver Bill, much changed in
detail, by 42 to 25.
The anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill was generally observed in Boston and
vicinity yesterday. •
The re count in East Hastings bas so far
reduced Mr. Hudson's majority from 20 to
10. It is not yet finished.
The anbsoriptione to the Egyptian con-
version loan in London were twenty times
in excess of the amount of the loan.
There is very little prospeot of Congress
at this session voting the money proposed
for improvements at Sault Ste. Marie.
The building laborere of Boston, Somer-
ville and Cambridge, numbering between
2,700 and 8,000, strnok yesterday morning.
The extonalve tannery of the Cincinnati
Oak Leather Company WAS almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire last night. Toad,
1180,000.
Emperor William yesterday formally
announced the betrothal of his eider, Prin.
IMO Victoria, to Prince Adolph of Sehanm.
burg -Lippe.
Governor Waterman, of California, bee
repented the Attorney -General of the
prizState to take steps towards the abolition of
efighting,
Victoria Sackville-Weet, daughter of.
Lord Sackville -West, wan yesterday mar-
reedtle *0
and herestatcousine, Lionel, wbo.is heir to the
ti
The Lake of the Woods Milling g Company
will erect this year ten or twelve grain
elevators in Manitoba] with a opacity of
30,000 bushels each.
George Smith and Henry Howard, con
vioted of burglary at Barrie, and sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary, escaped
from
Monday the ponightlios, station cull at Kingstornon
Lord Lansdowne has sent 2100 from
India to be added to the fund for erecting
a monument in Quebec to Major Shortt
end Staff•Sergeant Waliiok. The fund now
amounts to $2,800,
Mayor Pearson, of Winnipeg,esterda
vetoed the motion of the City Council of the
previous evening granting $100 to the St.
Mary's Ladies' Aid Society, on the ground
that it is a Catholic and denominational
sooiety.
Arnemann, the German dentist who in
November last shot and dangerouely
wounded Judge Bristowe, of the County
Court, in the railway station at Notting-
ham, England, because the judge had given
a decision against him in a ease before the
court, has committed suicide in. prison.
Thos. Woods, aged 70, a native of Suf-
folk, Eng., and a resident of Guelph for
58 years, was found dead last evening in
Bell's lumber yard. He was in his dotage.
He left hone about 7 o'clock, and as soon
as he was missed a seeroh was made for
him by the family. No inquest will be
held. Heart disease was the clue° of
death.
Edward Louzon, from Tecumseh, who
yesterday was given employment by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, was drowned
off the Canada Southern dock at Windsor
Leet night. He knew he could not swim,
but foolishly determined to try it. He
jumped, sank and was fished out dead
about an hour afterwards. He was un-
married,
The Congressional Finance Committee
has finishea the Tariff Bill. There was a
change at the last moment in the agricul-
tural schedule. Barley is left in the Bill
at 25 cents, as it will be reported to-
morrow. It was fixed by the House at 30;
was reduced by the Senate to 15 ; and now
has been put back to 25. The farmers
triumphed over the brewers. The sugar
schedule remains as it was, and there will
be great trouble in getting it through.
A very sad accident happened at Blyth
last evening, by whioh Mr. Donald Calder
was almost instantly killed. Nobody kuowa
how it happened exactly. He was seen
going towards one of the hotel sheds, in
which he had hie team, and about five
minutes afterwards the team came out,
running away, and he was found a few
minutes later lying unconscious, with bis
skull fractured,
Gay Turner, of Augusta, Me., who last
January attempted to commit suicide by
shooting while insane regarding hie
aeoounts ae city treasurer, died yesterday
morning. His wound healed and he died
from brain trouble and starvation. He
had lately refused to eat, and for the past
two weeks took an occasional glass of
water. Turner had a orazy idea that he
was a defaulter, although an examination
showed that hie books had been justly
kept.
Mutuo.lty Crippling Trade.
Retaliation against the MoKinley Bill
has found a voice in France in the adop-
tion of prohibitory duties on Indian corn,
and now a report Domes from Mexico that
an export duty will be levied on silver -
lead ore in order to supplement the effect
et the Treasury regulations which have
interfered with that growing and profitable
traffic) along our southern border. The
more we have of this mutual crippling of
trade the better. There is it wide scope for
usefulness in the McKinley Bill. It would
bo a good thing if Canada, in retaliation
for the trebling of our duty on bar)ey,would
treble her own duty on corn, oZ whioh we
sell her 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 bushels
annually, or about the same quantity as
the barley we buy from her. The eyes
of a good many people would be opened by
this process of getting rich by taxation and
mutual scarcity. We should not wonder if
Senator Hisoock as well as Congressman
Farquhar might learn something eventu•
ally by means of the tax on barley. The
Senator had a debate with Mr. Plum, of
Kansas, a few days ego in which he held
that importation was not necessary to ex-
portation, because if we could sell our pro -
dads to foreign countries in competition
with their own similar prodnote, they
would be obliged to pay us in gold. A
vista is thus presented to ns of fleets of
steamers sailing to Europe with our pro.
ducts to be sold in competition with those
of Russia, India, Australia and South
America, and bringing bank nothing but
small iron safes containing a few gold bars
or bate of coin. Of course, under
such circumstances, the goods we ex-
port would have to pay double
freight, since the steamers would
dome back empty. This would settle the
question of competition with Rasssia,
India, etc., at once, and against ne. Then
the question would come up : What
should we do with the gold ? We should
soon get a sufficiency of that metal if we
have not a suffioienov now. Bat suppose
that the cunning foreigners should take it
into their heads to pass McKinley bills of
their own, as France and Mexico are doing
or threatening to do. We have no mono-
poly of tariffs. Very likely the foreigners,
seeing their gold going away to the United
States, would say t " It yon will not bny
our products, we will not bny yours." This
may seem incredible to Senator Hiscook,
but he will have a much simpler case to
deal with when the tax of 30 cents a bnshel
ie imposed on barley. If at the same time
a tax of 15 per cent. were pat on hides, he
would see things much more clearly.—
New York .Evening Post.
By means of a Mangin projeotor and the
electric aro light on the summit of the
Eiffel Tower, observers at a distance of
2,000 meters from the illuminated area
were able to distinguish objects the size of
a 'lumen being, six and a half miles from
the tower.
" Would you like to take another pose
for awhile b" said the artist to his sitter.
" Oh, yes ; a little repose," she quickly
answered.
Re—I have never yet met the women I
thought I conld marry. She—No, they are
hard to please as a rule.
—How sad it makes a man feel to ob-
serve a five dollar straw hat on a seven"
soot head.
—The hand that rooks the cradle is the
hand that goes through a plans pookets in
the wee, ems' hoare.
—A. young man named Lewis has been
selected by the eeneen as a snaceseor of
Tennyson se poet laureate of England,
A8 TO SITTING.
Bed Positions More ,iiatrnful Than Molt
PeOple X1nagIn B,
i
An erect bodily .. a attitude
• a i u a is of vastly more
amportanoe to health than most people
generally imagine, says the New York
Ledger. Crooked bodily positions, main-
tained for any length of time, are- alway■
injurious, whether in a sitting, standing or
lyingposition, whether sleeping or wak.
ing. l'o sit with the body leaning forward
on the etomaoh, or to one side, with the
heels elevated on a level with the hands, is
not only in bad taste, bat exceedingly
detrimental to your health ; it cramps the
stomach, presees the vital organs, inter.
rapts the free notion oe the chest and
enfeebles the functions of the abdominal
and thoraoio organa, and, in fact, unbal•
anoee the whole muscular system. Maby
children become slightly humpbacked or
severely round-shouldered by Bleeping with
the head raised on a high; pillow. When
any person finds it easierto alt or stand or
walk or sleep in a crooked position than
straight one, he may be sure hie muspular
system is deranged and the more careful
he should be to preserve an upright
position.
How a Charge or Shot Travels.
When standing within a few garde of the
gun's muzzle at the time of disoharge a
person wonld be amazingly astonished were
he only able to see the shot as they go
whizzang by. Experiments in instantane-
one photography have proved to us that the
shot not only spread out, comet -like, as
they fly, bat they etring out one behind the
other to a mach greater distance than they
spread. Thus, with a cylinder gun, when
the first shot of a charge reaches a target
that is forty yards away, the last shot is
lagging along ten yards behind. Even
with the choke -bore gun somo of the shot
will lag behind eight yards in forty. This
accounts for the wide swath that is mown
in a flock of ducks on which a charge of
shot falls just right. About 5 per cent.
only of the charge of shot arrive simetl.
taneonely at the target, but the balance of
the first half of the charge is so close be-
hind that a bird's muscles are not quick
enongh to get out of the way, although
those who have watched sitting birds when
shot at have often seen them etar:i as if to
fly when the leading shot whistled by them;
only to drop dead as they were overtaken
by the leaden hail —Frank Leslie's.
Lord Randolph Churchill
Speaking at the open'og ci a Wesleyan
Bazaar, Lord Randolph tehorohill recently
said, while he could understand and sym-
pathize with political etruogle and strife
when purely political questions were at is-
sue, what he co.rld not understand or sym-
pathize with was anything like party
rivalry in the work of social reform. They
found that all members of Parliament were
agreed as to the great evils of intemper-
ance, as to the great intemperance which
prevailed, as to the provision of temptation
to intemperance which to some e_ient
had been, it not created, at any rate per-
mitted by the State, and althor le they
were all agreed as to the ravages which
intemperance p; odnced on the health of
the people and the loss which it occasioned
to their resources, yet they seemed unable
to come together and unite in remedying
or removing these great evils. He thought
that was a spectacle whioh, so ter ..s putlio
men were concerned, did every little credit
to their hearts or heads.
Archdeacon Farrar on Meat.
Secondly, I vesture to believe that a'1
society wonid gain by diminishing the con-
sumption of meat. Qaeen Meal •th
ordered a fish diet on Wednesdays and
Fridays, not for any ec"lesiastical reason,
but (ostensibly, et any rate) to enctr-e. -a
the fish trade and to diminish the demand
for Ivsh. That interference with the mar-
ket was not wise, but I th:rk that the ad-
herents of the vegetarian sooiety will do
good if they persuade multitudes to learn
the value of whop -meal bread, and oat-
meal, and vegetables and fruit, and not
rely so exolusivoiy oa beef and mutton.
The poor cepeoia'ly might find in porridge
and lentil soup and well -cooked vegetables
a far cheaper, more wholesome and more
sustaining diet than the often nneatisfao.
tory, coarse and even nnwho'_esome scraps
whioh they bny f_om the butchers at a far
greater cost. .Archdeacon Farrar in English
Illustrated Maga:inc.
The Noble Art of Serf -Defence.
" Do you think it would be wrong for ms
to learn the noble art of self-defence ?" a
religiously inclined youth inquired of his
pastor.
'• Certainly not," answered the minister ;
" I learned it in youth myself, and I have
found it of 'great value during my life."
" Indeed, sir 1 Did yon learn the old
English system or Snllivan's system ?"
" Neither. I learned Solomon's system.
" Solomon's system?"
" Yes ; You will find it laid down in the
first verse of the fifteenth chapter of Pro-
verbs : ' A soft answer turneth away
wrath.' It is the best system of self-
defence of whioh I know."—Home Com-
panion.
CouIdn't Fool Her.
Mistress—Did yon tell the lady I was
'oat ?
Maid—Yes, m'm.
Mistress—Did she eeem to have any
doubts about it ?
Maid—No m'm. She said she knew yon
wasn't.
Every man bra Job when the boils are
on some other fellow.
The thermometer is not only a measnre
of heat, but of the price of ice.
The beggar cannot reach the luxuries of
life, because he is short in his alms.
Inquirer asks t " Can a judge sit upon
a jury ?" You ought to see one of the
New York judges sit upon one occasionally.
The Royal Clan of the Order of Soottieh
Clans is in session at Woodstock.
Since certain sections of the tobacco -
growing dietriot of the south have been
lighted by eleotrioity, the ravages of the
tobacco worm are said to have been greatly
reduced.
—Cleveland adopted the standard time
on Sunday.
k
If a man could sec himself as others
see him he would pull down the blinds.
--President of Daily Sensation Company
--Yon haven't printed any statement of
oiroulatienfor the last two or three Base.
Manager of Daily Sensations (much worried)
—No. The young man who bas been at-
tending to that department has joined the
church, and I hare t found anybody to
take his plane yet.
The cable to confect Halifax with Ber
mada ben reached the latter place. Ite
length is 874 melee, and throughout it is of
mach greater weight than hat hitherto
been need. A entrant survey of the bed of
theocean will be made, ao as to ditioover
the most suitable position for the cable.'
The temperature at different dephthe Witt
at the name time be determined,
MtISIoa.L A.ND DEA 44.W O,
Notes. -
Bosina Yokes will play at :both Pelmer's
and Daly's Theatres next season,
Duluth ie t"o have a new 1500,000 theatre
to be known as the Midway Grand.
Sol Smith Batmen's new play by Dion
ltoneioault will probably be called " The
Crank,"
Lucille Rutledge, ,late of the " Stepping
Stone" Company, will spend the sarnmer
in the Catskille•. "
Lawrence- Barrett arrived on the Icahn
last week. He will resume leis tour with
Booth in November.
It is hinted that a book will soon emanate
from the pen of Mrs. Potter, entitled " The
Stage as i Found It."
Madame Sarah Bernhardt will not .be
able to make her contemplated tour in
France, although she is reported to be
recovering from the affection of the knee-
joints elle ie said to have sustained in
posing in armor as Joan of Are.
The word "enteric)" was derived from
the place Oratorium, Oratory or small
ohapel, where these performances were first
heard. Its first known use was in 1631 by
a composer named Balducci,
Master Eddie Leo, of Cedar Rapids, Ia.,
11 yearn old, is about to take the concert
stage. His voice differs from that of young
Kavanagh, in that it is a boy's voice, while
Kavanagh's is a full-grown soprano.
Carmencita, the popular Spanish dancer,
is to make a tour of the prinoipal water.
ing places this summer.
The last theatrical sketches made by
the late Matt Morgan were those to be
used for Col. Stnu'3 " Good Old Times "
Company.
Eugene Olden has been engaged by
D'Oyley Carte to sing the baritone role
in Sir Arthur Sullivan's grand opera,
" Ivanhoe," to be produced in London
next fall
Great things are, it is said, expected of
Marguerite Marsh, the daughter of R. L.
Marsh, manager of the Academy of Linda,
Milwaukee, Wis., who will make her debut
next season in comic opera. Mies Marsh
possesses a voice of remarkable compass
and sweetness.
A young Rnsrian violinist named Gregoro-
witoh will aocompany Von Bnlow on an
American tour next season.
The cornet player, Liberati, with hie
military band, will make a tour of the
oountry, beginning in Boston Jena 15th.
It is said that the new Jewish synagogue
to be erected in Baltimore is to contain the
moat elaborate organ ever erected in this
coruty,
Sir A :thou Sr'livan'e opera, written for
Mr. D'Oylev Carte's new Shaftesbr".y
Theatre, London, is upon the subject of
" Ivanhoe," and the past of the hero is to
be en -salved by Mr. Ben Davies.
Mme, N'odjeska wi'l not play in this
con -tae next season. She is going abroad
to attend to some private matters. She
may, however, be seen on the stage 'n
Europe, but of that there is nothing C91.4:!3.
Mme. audio's salary in Paris is 2230 a
n' ;ht, playing seven nights a week, and
1125 for eve_y matinee I rrformance, the
management findeeg her a nrivate dresa'-ig-
room and a dresser. He' engagement
rlwayri atiprlat'.3 with Parisian managers
that every nese i:es she playa in must to
kept in the bi' $ :or eiaty nip'.rts, whether
it is it failure or not. Her benefit terms
are a clear half receipts of the house.
Professor F. N. Crouch, the composer of
" Kathleen Mavoarneen," is nearly 99
years of age, but was able to mare's in the
prooession at the unveiling of the Lea
monument at Richmond.
Loved for H.rae't Alone.
A yonng lady of *hie city who is said to
be worth not less than 250,000 in prespeo.
tive was the object of the attentions of a
young men with whom she was very
favorably impreesd, but who with encour-
agement continued to pause just short of a
proposal. The young lady managed to put
in circulation what appeared to be a relia-
ble report that her pecuniary expectations
were simply in the public mind, and in
two days the young fellow had proposed
and been accepted. It is not often that
250,000 constitutes an obstacle to a young
lady's matrimonial success, but it did in
this case; and the lady in gneetion doea'nt
feel in the least put out about it.- —Bing.
hamton Leader.
White alpaca, plain or sprigged with rose.
tilde, is one of the antique novelties of the
season. For a tea gown or garden dress it
is luxuriously cool and light.
A Jackson County (W. Va.) school-
teacher of 30 eloped the other day and
afterwards married one of her scholars
who had just completed his 16th year.
The lrmber oamps of Wisoonsin have
bion the scene of a remarkable work this
season. The state W.C.T.U. has kept an
itinerant missionary constantly in the
field and the camps have been supplied
with the best of literature, by the various
unions throughout the State. Croakers are
informed that then do read with eagerness
all that they receive and are gratefri for
the interest shown in their welfare.
A Denver paper say a : " Lord Lytton'e
daughters will be one of Mary Anderson's
bridesmaids. Tho rest of the oast for the
wedding is not announced."
Fon pertain concessions in Africa, Eng.
land has agreed to surrender Heligoland to
Germany. We do not know who bas got
the beet of this deal, as we are ignorant AEI
to the nature of the concessions made by
Emperor William. Heligoland is an island
in the North See, forty miles northwest of
the month of the Elbe. It had a population
in 1871 of 1,912 souls. The island is trian-
gular, about a mile long from north to
south, andone-third of a mile broad from
east to west. It was formerly mach
broader, hut the action of the sea is con-
tinually wearing it away. In 1714 it were
taken from the Duke of Holatein•Gottorp
by the Danes, from whom it was captured
by the English in 1807, for whose fleets
served as a station during the war with
France. It was formally ceded to Great
Britain in 1814. The inhabitants are
descendants of Frisians and speak the
Frisian language 50 well as the Low Ger.
man. The Government consists of a Gov
e.nor appointed by the Crown, aided by
an Exccutive Connoil, a form of govern.
ment eatabliehed by the Queen in 1868.
—Marriage may be a failure, but the
solitaire engagement ring ie not.
—Yon never know how mnoh muni° you
have had until yon go topaythe fiddle.
—The heat iltnatration of mingled hope
and fear is a lazy man looking for work.
—A milliner says•"'the sailor hat doesn't
look on right a girl with strong flo g featilree,n
Tnr printers' life is not a happy one;
That may be understood when it is stated
that it was found nOcessary at the recent
meeting of the International Typographies* Ty
e
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raphl
eplUnion to law prohibiting regular
0omsositorsfrom working more than eiedayin a week.