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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-7-24, Page 2TUE 911ill31N'a OltNIKTINO Ito the lOtthe and Oneness or connauant Their Areival Home, 'IIle Loudon Muer ol June 28rd, thue ae- Initibes the meetieg between the Queen and the Duke and Duobesa of Coto:taught t "The Queen, direotly the approach of the train bed been eignalled,welked mit upon the or. peted platform and awaited the coming of the Duke and Dubose, whoa° ealoon peaeea few minotes later opposite the waiting. room. Advancing towards the Duke and pullets ltureealatelY after they had a1ight- (3d, the Queen kiesea them. The same age°. genet° welcome we accorded by the other members of the Royal Family, while the olaildren, from whom the Duke and Duchess have tee n seperated for a short tern°, displayed Es very natural eagerenss receive the caresees of their parente. The Duke of Conneught looked bronze& but otherwise unchanged inappearauee' • and the Duoheas, who wore a grey felthat, brown grey jacket, and light gray costume, had apparently benefited by the change of scene and olimate whish she has eeperienced auring her absence from England. The Queen entered her carriage with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and their chil- dren, and drove through the Detchetmoad and up Thames street to the Castle, the epeotetors along the route loyally sainting the Royal yarty as they passed. Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg and Prinoses Louise followed to the Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught lunched with the Queen, and are espeotect to remain with Her Majesty for the pre. sent. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove to the Cavalry Barraoks and took luncheon with Colonel the Hon. Oliver Montagu, of the Royal Horse Guards. Upon quitting the barracks, they drove to Windsor Castle before returning to San- ningdale. PRINCE oPoRGE oat watnata To Pay a Visit to Canada and the states This Fall. A London cable says : A representative of the house of Guelph will visit Canada very soon. It is Prince George, second son of the Prince of Wales, the present corn. mender of the Thrush, and altogether a very lively young fellow. It is his intention to sail for Canada some time this month, and, after visiting Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, to continue hie joar- ney through the Eastern States ana per. haps eee a bit of the far Wost before returning home. If he follows his present programme he will be seen at several fash- ionable watering places during the season, and he may be counted upon to make the hearts of the young maidens go pit.a.pat, for he is a superb tennis player, a good man at the oar and as the Marlbor- ough House set say, "a divine waltzer." He is acquainted with many Americans, whom he has met in L °neon, and while not " fast " in the larger sense of that word,he is a very lively young mon, who finds a great deal of amusement in hunting the elephant in the big cities and in the most exclusive country resorts. It will interest the young men of Araerica to know that he is the proud owner of almost as many snits of clothing as his distinguished father. He affects loud jewellery. is fond of neckwear rich and radiant, and, in it word, is what would be termed " horsey " in your coun- try. He looks very well in his 'uniform, raid the London shop windows are filiea with his photographs, taken in all conceiv- able attitudes. He is bound to create a etir. ' DARING ttontaailer. A cleric Bound and Ragged and a Jewelry Store Plundered. A Danbury, Conn., despatch says: The most daring robbery ever committed in this town took place this evening while on the etreete hmacireds of people were stirring. Soon sfter 6 o'clock two men entered Larnes' jewelry store on Main street and inquired for a monogram which was ordered a few days before. The only clerk in the store at the time was Clarence Enox, 18 years of age. As he turned to get the monogram one of the men grabbed him from behind and choked him almost to in- sensibility; the other man forced a gag made of stone, covered with a handkerchief, into Enox's month, and threw him to the floor. The robbers then bound his hands and feet tightly with ropes, and proceeded to ransack the store. Knox, lying help. keg on the floor, could hear them as they went through the show case and selected such goods as they could take away. They carefully picked out solid ware, leaving the plated nntouohed. They secured diamonds, watches and other jewelry, valued at be- tween 59,000 and e10,000, from the safe, which was unlocked, and also $700 in money. It took but a few minutes to do the work, after which the robbers departed, making their exit through the rear win- dows, climbing a fence bordering on Doyley street. A cabman was standing near by. One of the men approached him with the story that they were medical student, and wonted to be driven to Mill Plain, a small town a few miles distant, in all haste, as they had to perform a surgical opetation. On arriving at Mill Plain they paid the cabman and started away. Ricked Again. It is just as well that the Carnival held in Toronto last week turned out a farce— an expensive farce certainly but all the same a farce. Had the thing succeeded tiae authorities might have been tempted to repeat the performance. As matters stand we think every rational citizen, except per- haps the hotel keepers and a few others who made money out of the affair, is quite willing to go out of the carnival business. Supposing it had succeeded of what use would the display have been to any human being except the few who were interested in it financially. To speak of such tomfoolery as advertising the oity is pure nonsense. There were not twenty people in Toronto kat week who do not know as much about the city as they caret° know. Perhaps some of them now know a good deal more about the Ontario Capital than they wanted to know. Suppoeing Toronto had bown to the world that the city oan get up a earnival what good would that have done Toronto? The thing shown is that the city can't get up a carnival. Perheme that is abont as creditable a thing to show aa that it man. What is a carnival anyway? —Canada .Presbyterian. TWAT WEltito MIMS BARGAINS. Three Women In Connect Over the Nee. tta ot 11$4th 'towel. One is had enougle ; two are Wm, bet three womee it ouneel over the merits of a bath towel, are enough to make a poor, worn-ont clerk wish he might depart from earth by tlae deotrioity method, Sap the Louis Caroni*. "It tmenve like quite a good one for the meney, aocezdt it," says the intending pur. °hazer. "Well, I don't know," says tin other holding the towel up at full lento e and eyeing it critieelly. I got one quite i%t: good for 87e ciente at White's. "You did ?" " Yes, but it Wee eight or nine weeke ago, and I don't s'pose they've any more like "1 elegy be mistaken, but I've an idea it would shrink," says number three, taking the towel from number two and wrapping a corner ot it over her finger. "See, it's a little thin." " Well, I wouldn't mid if it did shrink a little, because—oh, look at this one I Isn't it lovely 2" " Beautiful 1 How much is it?" "A dollar and a half." "Mercy 1 I'd never pay that for a bath towel." " Nor I." " These colors would fade." " Of course they would." "Do you know I like good plain as well as anything for towels.' " I don't know, but—Bee these towels for 15 cents. I paid 25 cents for some last week not a bit better," " Let's see; they are full length ? Yes. They are cheap. I've a notion to—but 1 guees I won't. I have so many towels now." " They're a bargain if one only really needed them." " How do you like towels used as tidies 2" e Horrid." " I think BO, 1100." " So do I—oh, let me tell you, I saw a woman on the street one day with an apron mado out of a red and white fringed towel." " Mercy 1 Looked like fury, didn't it? How was it made ?" " Oh, one end was imply gathered to a band, and—there, the towel was jusi like this one—and she'd taken it eta and path. end it in so, and—really it didn't look so bad, after all." "Do you suppcse the colors would run in this border 2" " Well, I hardly know. I bad one very much like it once, and the colors in it ran dreadfully the very first time I washed it ' "Then I'll not take this, for I -.--why, if it isn't 4 o'clr °It, and "— " I must go." " So mus. "And 1—no, I'll not take the towel to- day." Marks of civilization Telegraph poles are getting to be so dose together in eitiee that there is no longer much excuse for is drunken man falling down. • —I can tell you one thing, boys in *hie land are able to do something that you 01111, not, that is, make kite n that sing and fly with their tells upward. The latter feet is a etanding. puzzle to Inc. I can under., stand the noise for they tie pieces! of wire er something of the kind orosswise on the tail, making it often several feet long. This makes a sound singlet to that of the telegraph wites in winter, but a great deal louder, but why their tails fly tipwetd, cannot see, oan yott2—Frout a /atter by, lifaUde Pairbank,O Lthe China Inland IdisAn, to the Guelph boys. crash CATASTROPHE AT A LAUNCH. Fifty -Five Bodies Recovered ad many People maimed. A San Francisco despatch says: At Osaka, Japan, 55 people were drowned June 15t11, during the launching of a new sailing vessel. The munching excited con- siderable interest, and about 250 people crowded on board the boat. The owner, Mr. King, however, became apprehensive and ordered 100 of them ashore. When the launch began it wee ebb tide, and, as the ropes used in securing her were too short, the veasel keeled. The people on board immediately rushed to the other side, which had the effect of turning the vessel completely over, and those on board were thrown into the water. A terrible scene followed. Than on shore gave every assistance poseible, but their efforts were generally unavailing. Fifty-five bodies were recovered. About twenty persons were more or less injured. CHEAPER SUES. Competition in Sealing Likely to Bring Down the Prices. The San Francisco Chronicle states that the Alaske Commercial Company, which, until recently, had the exclusive right to capture seals in American waters of Behring See, hes now secured a contract with the leassian Government granting them the exclusive right to capture seals on the Siberian coast. The number of seal to be taken yearly is not known, but is believed to be very 'payee. The steamer Karbak, owned by the company, has reeently sailed for Petroffsky to capture Beale there. The competition of the Alaskan Commer- cial Company will be very severe for the North American Commercial Company, which was reoently awarded by the United States the sealing privilege in Behring Sea, and it is believed the effect will be to greatly reduce the price of seal skins. A Pretty Theory Spoiled. Some workmen in Canada the other day exhumed a lot of big bonito, whieh the savants dedered to he the bones of an ex. timot mastodon. But an old settler knocked their theory endwise by declaring that they were the bones of a worn.out oir. ens elephant that had died a few years before. All of which suggests Bret Hate's poem, "Truthful James Till Brown, of Calaveras, brought a lot of fossil bones That be found within &tunnel near the tenement of annea. Then Brown he read a paper, and he recon- structed there, From those same bones, an animal that was extremely, rare; And Jones then asked the chair for a suspension of the rules, Till he could prove that those same bones was one of bis lost mules. Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile andsaid he was at fault. It seems he had been trespasEing on Jones' family vault. Neu/York Tribune. ouarding Newfoundland's shores. A St. John's, Newfoundland, despatch says: Sir Baldwin Walker, captain of the British warehip Emerald, speaking in ref- erence to the closing of Baird's lobster fac- hides, 'mid to a reporter: have my in. structiong to darn' ont on the French shore, and have ea elternotive but to do so when glaring breeches of the law are pointed out to me by the French commander. To all intents I ignore the existence of all past treaties on the French shore question thia year. I am carrying out the modus vivendi, and shall do my duty regardless of cense. quences." Regarding the chances for a final eettlement of the French there goes - Sir Baldwin said:" The whole story hag been exaggerated. The lesg adid on the French shore matter pending negotiations the better for Newfoundlanders, and the more likely to restore to them the sole con. trol of their own want." FROM REAL LIFE. Woman' M ,Story That Would Rejoice Hymen -hating Tolstoi, ONLY A BLIGHTED LLEB. Just a faded little old wornan on the shady Bide of 50, living with a little 10 - year -old girl in a single upetaire room in a Hamilton tenement, and eking out a pre. minus subeistence Isy selling odds and ends of smallwares, whieh he carries in a pack or Meals in a child's waggon. Her husband is doieg ii1330 in the oity jail, and oircumstancee, never too enoouraging, have by reoson of his profligacy and her mis- fortunes, forced her to give up. the little house she was wont to call them home and seek lodgement at a rental that she could meet. Maybe you have seen her ? Oh, no 1 there's nothing peculiar about her story. Unfortunately it is one of a class too common in real life. A young girl's error in marrying a eloth, a drunkard and a brute; a wife's love that survives long years of poverty, wretchedness, gaunt starvation and cruel bloom, and would even in blighted old age shield from the cense- quencee of his crimes against hereelf the lover of her fondly.remembered youth. Tell me, ye unoo guid, what chance either as to heredity or training have the children of such ilbaasorted unions 1 e_ Mrs. Thrifty—Young Mr. Moneymaker hes been paying some attention to Ella. I de wish he would marry her. Mr. Thrifty —Thet would be a good catch. kick him ont of the house two or three times and tell him to keep away front here, That will eurely accomplish the object and without the expense of a long courtship, toO, NOSIT W9BOWS WIVICED StAXelet. How his Olvoreo and Illnerrtege to PhoUe ettrl has Slade a stir. A Fort Worth, Texas, despateh gays : citizens' meeting, called to take potion on Mayer Pendloton'e marriage to an ettractive telephone girl, was largely attended butt night by a number of indig. nant oitizeno. The resolutiona adented state that; Whereat+ Mayor Pendleton lived with his wife for nearly a yedr after he had obtainea, as it would seem to us, a meet divorce from her, of will,* ehe knew nothing; and whereas be married another while professing hie loyalty to her, be it resolved, that he, by euch mot, brought the name of our fair city into contumely and disrepute, proved neglectful to his friends and unworthy of the trust inaposed in him; that he bee broken the most sacred vows, and helped to bring disgrace upon his fenaily and friends. Be it further resolved, that this city condemn and hold as enlawful and dis- graceful such motion, and that he be requested to tender his resignation. (Signed) Frank W. Menke, W. P. Wilson, J. N. Holland, J. S. Davis, S. R. Early, Oscar Lynch, Thomas P. Martin, II. W. Willismas and C. W. Crane, Com- mittee. It was further resolved at this meeting that Mayor Pendleton be communicated with by telegraph and asked whether the divorce from his wife wee secretly obtained, and whether his wife was in ignorance of it ; and it was determined that in OMB° be answered, in the 'affirmative or refused to answer, that eteps be taken to bring clout his resignation from the Mayoralty. At a late hour last evening a telegram was received from Mrs. Pendleton stating that she knew nothing of her husband's divorce at the time it =eared. Wi' wind and tido fair i' your tail Bight 00 50 scud your sea -way ; But in the teeth o' baith to sail, It make an ono° lee-wav. But the story. To a lady who has shown her repeated acts of kindness she thtie re- lated it: My father was a paokman in the city of Cork, Ireland, and ever since I left sehool, when I was 16 years of age, at which time my father died, I have carried a pack. My mother also carried a pock. We had our regular routes; people were kind and wealthy patrons favored us so that we made a good living and were very comfortable. All, it was a bad day for me when I married a pensioner 1 Of course I only saw happiness ahead, but how differ- ently it resulted ! Instead,f him bting a bread -winner for me I fotima I bad taken another to support, and sick or well, se long as I was able to trudge, I have had to tramp with my peek and earn a living for myseef and him too. Even when my children were born I had but brief ex- emption from the work. His pension of 220 wile but a means of furnishing him with drink, and when he was drunk I lived in constant terror. Abused me? Ho best me before we were married a month; he has almost been the death of me at critical periods of my life, and in twenty-three years I have becomes° accustomed to curse's and blows that they do not hurt me as they once did. Well, my husband had been in America and would come again. I did not resist; I thought from what I heardthat we could make a good living (and we could if he would work) and that my three girls would have a better chance. My husband sold his pension good -will for 280, and we came to Hamilton about eighteen months ago. We did not find it what I expected. My busi- ness is not what it was where I was born and raieed ; but if we had the little money for the peneion and my husband would work and save his earnings we might be happy. It cost us quite a bit to get here, and when we came to the country we had 6200 in cash. My husband took $25 auto! that, and for s while played the lord among fellow passengers. He gave me e10, but afterwards got it away again' and—well, I and the girls had s hereaim° of it. When we reached Hamilton ha gave me 670 to furnish our house, out of whioh I saved $20, but that, too'disappeared frond ray purse. The last 6100 he also drew from the bank and got drunk and was arrested and fined. I had no money, but I knew he had e85 of this sum some- where, eo I went and told him to tell me where it was that I might get enough to pay his fine and save him from going to jail. He refused. Soon after he came to the house with a policeman, and \Odle he went into the bedroom the policeman kept me cm. I knew my husband took the money away; I knew if he got drunk I would never get a cent of it for the family, and I followed him to a grocery store and found him there with the policeman. I reproached him with his conduct and asked him for money. I suppose the policeman thought he did right, but I never was so humiliated before or eince ; he grabbed me and shoved me out doors. Only 15 cents of that money ever came into the house. My husband insisted I had it, but not a penny of it did I handle. Where did it go? Who knows? And so it has gone on. Then my oldest girl married a man who turned out a bigamist, lied, and as if to make it ail the harder she sticks to him and has left the country to follow him. When he is tired of her what will become of the poor girl! I thought a while ago that my husband was going to supplement my scenty earnings, but the second week he worked he was paid at a hotel. He oame home with a few cents in ems11 (lenge. Rent was behind, fuel and food were scarce; my daughter who worked out nave all elm could to help no, bat times were hard enough with it all, and whenever he took it in his head we had to semi for liquor for hina to avoid being beaten. At last he came home drunk, and because be did not get supper as soon as he wanted it, he threw a buteher's knife at me. Yes, an ugly cut. The doctor said if it had been a little further back on the neck it would have killed me. Well, my girl said that was the last straw, and if I did not prefer a charge she would stand by ime no longer. He got sixty days. I was laid up and got further belaind with my rent, and hall to give up the little house and get a room. I am tired of the "struggle and will try to eupport myself and the little girl and let hina care for himself. Only an every day tale, of course ; but it is a home one, and in real life. Perhaps thoagands of women in comfortable cir- cumstances in this fair city will treat it lightly. But, mothers, your daughters are not all comfortably married. What if one of your girls made such a nasteh ? What if your son-in-law led his wife such a life? Oh, yes; heroism is oheap when the hero or heroine is somebody else and is poor and modest. And you, fathers and brothers, don't you think the laws give such a man too much control over the woman who hes made the mistake of marrying him? Isn't it paying too dear for an error of judginent? Isn't it unfortunate that children must be reared in suoh a household? But that is aside from the story. It has been briefly told; the details imagination will scarcely paint too vividly. When the victim conies along treat her kindly. You don't know her ? Well, it. matternot; any poor old woman striving to earn an honest living and not be a burden on the public deserveg kind treatment, so that your Sitroaritanism will not be Wasted. Minutuntan. A man at Brownfield, Me to who has been married sixteen year(' and has moved thirty.fiVe times during thet period, thinks he has beaten the rederd as a roiling stone. ;Questions for the Prison commission. The commission appointed by the Ontario Government to exaraine the question of prison reform should give some attention to inequalities in the sentences passed upon prisoners. The subject has recently been discussed in England, and will bear investigation in Ontario. It may be quite true that the inequalities that startle the public) are sometimes more apparent than real. It is also true that the judge who tries a prisoner ought to know better than any one else the nature and extent of the punislarnent he deserves. The benefit of the doubt ehould always be given to the man who does the work and has to bear the responsibility. But admit- ting all this the fact remains that tb the average mein, who presumably has cone - mon sense, eentences do often seem very unequal. One prisoner seems to be treated leniently, while another, eo far as the pnblio can punished with marked severity. not at all probable that the public are always wrong in their judg- ment, and it is equally improbable that judges are infallible. If this is a question that the Ontario Government have pOwer to handle, the commission might do a much worse thing than spend some time in looking into it.—Canada Presbyterian. Queen Victoria's First Trouble. One of the earliest troubles—perhaps the first crumpled roseleaf in the the queen's royal conch—was the proposed diemtssel of her bed chamber ladies on the fall of the Melbourne ministry. Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington tried to persuade Her Majesty that her ladies were on the same level as her lords, but the Queen would have none of it, and wrote the famous letter to Lord Melbourne, in which she said; "They wanted to deprive me of my ladies, and I suppose they would de- prive me next or my dressers and house- maids; they wished to treat me like a girl, but I will show them I am Qaeen of England." The Elizabethan ring about these words hag eclat:led down the years until tmday, and Her Majesty has never failed to remember, and to make others remember, that above and before all else she is "Queen of England."—Lady's Pic. torial. A Missionary Murdered. A Rockford, Ind., despatch says: Let ten received here from Persia give details of the reorder of Mrs. John L. Wright, an American Presbyteririn missionary, at Saimaa, Western Persia, in April. Anative echool teaoher, half American and half Syrian, killed her with a dagger in her own home in revenge for her disoharge from her employer. Mrs. Wright was a historian, and was beautiful, well educated and accomplished. H'er father was a teacher of Ancient Syriaa in American colleges. She wse married to Mr. Wright four yeara ago. They were in this country last year. Wright was a native of Ohio. The mum across is in custody. Bigotry in the Highlands. There is dill a great deal of bigotry among the Scottish Highlanders. During the recent session of the Free Church Assembly an attempt was made to convict Profs. Dods and Bruce of heresy, but they were acquitted by a majority. The deci- sion does not appear to be popular in the Highlands, for at the half.yearly dispense. tion of the sacrament, in the Free Church of Femme the Rev. D. Matheson announced, while " fencing the tables," that all persons who shared the opinions of Profs. Dods and Bruce "must be (debarred from sitting at the table of tha Lord." This announce. rnent, whit& was practically a eentence of excommunication, met with the hearty approval of a congregation of 3,000 persons. London Truth. Value or a Passenger Train. Bat few persons who view a passenger train as it goes thundering past have any idea that it represents a oaeh value of from 1175,000 to 6120,000, but such is the case. The ordinary expreas train repfesents from 583,000 to 590,000. The engine and ten- der are valued at 1110,500; the baggage oar, $1,000; the pedal oar, 52,000; the smoking car, 115,000; two ordinary passenger cars, $10,000 eaoh ; three palace oars, 515,000 each. TIM ONDAY ImirAwas Peuouneed lAy 0 runner Goat merrym•• as an Enemy to the (Morel,. a rTeolleauSt anoeFrmfaannoi0s000aEdxdarraceisnear ftliDnar.tean.OrKte. Smith, formerly paetor of Knox Churoh, Galt, the largeet nongregation in Canada : con":ZettioeuengPretyetendeerthee Ritnedv.a j.vicer.ys Smith, when he slowly °limbed the stepo inti? bus pulpit yesterday morning in St. john'e Presbyterian Church. For some time past the BiZe of the congregations in the various churolaes has been gradually diminishing, and in looking about for the own the reverend gentleman decided that it was in his opinion, largely due to the presence of the Sunday newspapers in the homes of those directly under his pastorate. The small number of people in attend- ance was evidently a eore spot to the pester, for he became very vehement in his denunoiation of tlae practice of remain- ing away from church and the habit of reading the newspapers on Sinaday. The subject of the sermon was an .exhortation to those who were present to do more to aid in the work of Christianity, and espe- cially to lend tlaeir assistance in filling up the church on a Sabbath morning. He began to eurprise his hearers by declaring that he might be able to fill the church all by himself if he would condescend to preach sensational sermons or deal in the varioug topics of the day, but this was a speciee of progress with which be did not synapathise and emphatically declined to adopt, brand- ing it as im.Christian.like. One of the principal reasons people do not come to ehuroh," said he, 'is that every Sunday morning the carrier delivers a monster Sunday newspaper to each family, mad you sit down to ;dad it and you find it more interesting than the church. The Sunday newspaper is too large—in fact, a Sunday newspaper should u o t be printed at all, and those2printed should be suppressed " God's day should not be deeecrated by reading the newepapers. I do not believe in them and I will do all I can to suppress them. I would never let an advertisement of mine go in a Sunday paper, and you should not. To place the great Sunday newspaper in the hands of the people on the day when all should worship is directly against the 0e1100 of Christianity." The worshippers straightened up and listened with unaccustomed interest to the pastor who would not preach in a sensa- tional way. Raising hie voice, the speaker made an appeal to those present to assist him. Ile said : 'You should all of you refuse to read these newspapers. an should all of vou refuse tn have those newspapers delivered at your homes. A determined effort should be made to try and put them down so the pews of the churches may no longer remain empty and ote of the greatest enemies of Christian application be removed from your homee and your lives, for the com- petition between the church and the Sun- day newspaper is growing dangerous." Having thus denounced in a loud tone of voice the alleged eneray of a full church Mr. Smith turned hie attention to what he called the enemy of the prayer-meeting— the theatre. On this head he dropped his emphasis and took up sarciaero. He said, strangely enough, that he did not denounce the theatre, but intimated that church members who went to the theatre on prayer -meeting nights might be in better business The sermon created quite a flutter among the listeners, and after the sermon wae over comments were freely exchanged as to the boycott which the preacher declared it to be et Christian duty to start against the Sunday newspaper." A Woman's Argument. Mother-in.law -- Why is Jane in the sulks? Son.in.law—Wo had an argument this morning over a trivial affair. Main-L,—Tell me about it. S.in-L.—I said the winters were grow. log less cold and the summers less warm than formerly, and she said she didn't think so, end if I had to stand over a hot atove in simmer and hang out clothes in winter I would know better. Then I gave her the opinions of meteorologists, and she said, " Well, I don't care 1" I Raked her to judge by the weetliet itself, end she eaid, "Never mind 1" I wee about to point out other things confirmatory of my opinion, when she burst into tears and said wee a brute, and she has been sulking ever tined. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, and Mrs, Chamberlain have decided to postpone until next year their projeated trip to this country, owing to the critical condition of the Tory Clabinet. Austrian Women Advancing. Woman is coming to the front in Austria, and the Government- is practically recog uizing the fact. One-third of all the post and telegraph clerks and all the telephone duke, as well as the teachers in girl.' schools, are women. Lately a woman °enlist, Frau Dr. Kerechbaumer, of Salz- burg, was allowed to open a hoapital of her own. School teachers are well paid, their salaries ranging from $400 to $500 a year. A. census of Austria-Hungary takes place this year, and the Minister of Public Instruction has announced that girls and women, if they can prove themselves cora. patent, may apply for the poet of enumer- ators. Largest Leather Belt in the World. The Leather Trades Circular and Review of London, by publishing a paragraph from the Sun describing, as supposed, the largest leather belt in the world -160 feet long and 72 inches wide—now being made by Charles Sohieren dr Co., of New York, of two thicknesses of hide and to contain the hides of 175 animals, induces Sampson da Co., of Stroud, England, to write to the Sun that in December, 1881, they supplied a leather belt 75 inches wide and 154. feet long, of double thicknees, without croes- jointe, cut out of 200 aeleeted hides. The work was done by hand and the belt is now transmitting 600 horse-power.—New York Sun. DAIGLE. 0 ATE`1407iIiiti. ---•— Dootoro of liouclon and Paris Getting Ex, cited. Over Its Xerits. —Cabbaee leaf hats are worn by per- sons susceptible to sunstroke. A woman can do more harm to a rival by praising than by maligning her. " Ah 1" exclaimed Fangle, " I begin to smell a rat 1" "Where?" screamed his wife, jumping on a chair. " I acknowledge tho corn," said the hen, " but it Woks in my crop." When its too hot for a fanfaronade, take a fan for an aid to keep cool. " How did yon enjoy your vacation ?" had a great time. Couldn't go to work when I got back, I was so broke The Queen haa withdrawn her prohibi- tion of Sunday ramie at Windsor Castle, where the Strained the band have not been heard, on that day, for more than twenty. nine years. Princeris Beatrice has been importuning for this boon for years. The best shot of her sex must be the Countess Maria von Hensky, of Bohemia, who in one day last winter, on her estate of Chlamce, shot 138 hares. A. gold nugget worth $700 wag taken from a mine in the Big Bug distriot, Arizona, recently. It is now on exhibi- tion at Prescott. A flowering plant has never been found within the antarctio circle; but in the arctic region there are 762 kinds of flowers. Their colors, howevet, are not so bright or varied as those of warmer regions. In the post three years Pasteur treated 7,893 persons bitten by mad dogs, and only fifty-three aied, The tietial percentage of deaths is 15.90, rio that Pastenr woeld seem to have saved 1,265 lives. Cap.t. Spratly, of the BAH& steamer Biela, at Liverpool from Nees York, reports that he boarded the abandoned steamer Benguella on June 24th, in latitude 40 north, longitude 49 wet, 8,nd found 12 feet of water in her hold. Some of her sails were set. The yards were adrift and the hatches off, The paseengers' leggage Was on the deck, breakfast was on the table in the ealoon. Capt. Spratly would not riek towing the Vessel, SOME VER"Z itEXABICABLE .EXPERIMENTS Thrusting a Scarf-Piu Into a Patlennerrieels, Without causiva the slightest rain. The doctors of London and Paris are, getting excited over the merits of hypnOt- , The few believe it to be an inamenee gain and a blessing to ecience; the major. ity are either actively hostile to it or quietly ekeptical to the claims init lin on BB behalf. It requires a bola man to advocate the cultivation of the hypnotizing pOWerp or gift, as will be seen from what followe , D. Chatoot, the eminent professeur de oliniqoe at the Hospice a, Saltpetriere in Paris, is bold enough to publish in the fulleet way the particulars of the experi. meats he has for a long thne been making. So is Dr. Milne Bramwell, a physinian in Goole, England, who willingly shows hie experimentto seientiflo investigators. I will relate my own experience of hypnotiem, practiced in the preeence of a number of,'' medical and other gentlemen in London, following this with some of the doings of the two hypnotists named above, and then give some of the facts relating to the prao- Hee end the proportion of thoee able to hypnotize and be hypnotized. The person I elm experimented upon was o large.limbed Frenchwoman, young, comely and apparently of the peasant dam She was of a phlegmatic) tempera. went, dreamy -eyed, and generally what we Would call a weak-willed WoMau. This, description cerrenponds to that of the sca called -mediums ot tho spirits, at least to those I have found at all worthy of atten- tion. The operator was a very positive person, a slim, wiry, keen -eyed Mephisto. phelean Frettchruau. The woman_ vas dressed in a white gown, with short lielltes, Leaving her arms bare almost to the ehoule der. Wben she took her Beat the operator came where I stood, about twenty feet or more away from her. He simply asked her to look into his eyes, he looking into hers at the same time. In a moment elt was fast asleep, with her head sideways anti her arms hanging lietleesly down. We separately desired the operator to cause the patient to do certain things, such as lift a hand or finger or oroes or rearrange her feet. Though no word was spoken or whispered to the sleeping Woman, and though we were all at the opposite end of the room, she obeyed every oommandof the operator'e silent will. When it came to my turn to test the experiment I took the operator right baok to the door, quite forty feet distant frora the sleeping girl, and there I whispered es low as I could in his - ear something like this : "Let her raise her right arm, comb her hair with her lingers, and then take hold of her left hand on her knee." The operator never opened hie lips nor moved from the Tot, hat' he stared piercingly at his patient and in a few seconds ehe performed the movements I had requested, sin sem indeed, but without a feilure In any point. To prove the soundness of the girl's sleep and her insensibility to pain while in it, the operator borrowed a scarf pin from a spectator and thruet it right through the fleshy part of the upper arm so that the point stuck out an inch. She was then made to extend her arm and walk around us for close inspection, which lasted ten. minutes by the watch, a fest which few strong men could do without letting the arm drop, even without a pin throngh it. There was no blood, and when the pin kali-, withdrawn and the girl restored to con- sciousness she told us she only felt as. though she had been pricked slightly. Dr. Cbarcot divides the action of hypno- tism (which means the state of perfect eleep) into three stages—first, lethargy ; second, catalepey, and third, somnambu- lism. On the recent visit to his ple,ce of an investigation Dr. Charcot produced " young woman of 24, stoutly built, with a bright and intelligent face. She was a highly hysterical subject, habitually ine• sensible to pain an the left half of the body" Dr. Charcot showed this by pick- ing her with a pin on each side. She was hidden to gaze intently on a point near and above her eyes, when she soon went off . into unconsciousness, and the doctor closed her eyelids. Now the probe could be inserted anywhere without any signs of pain. By - touching certain muscles various actions were mechanically performed by the limbs and fingers and mueoles of the face. Then the doctor pressed on certain tendons of the leg, the result being the stiffening of tho whole body ; so rigid was she that the doctor could place her head on the book of.' a chair, and her heels on the floor without - the girl felling. The second or cataleptic stage was in- duced by the forcible opening of the girl's - eyelids, resulting in a stare as of entrance- ment. In this state the girl was made to believe everything and anything. A gong was struck and she was told it was a church bell, upon which she struck a de- - votional attitude. A bit of red glees was put before her eyes with the information that the house was on fire, and at once she became frantic: with terror. A number of ether experiments followed, which most of tut have seen done in exhibitions of paesmerisra during the last thirty years; . but whereas most of those vulgar perform- ances were impostures, these hypnotic manifestations are undoubtedly genuine. The third or soinnambulistio stage was induced by rubbing the girl's hair on the top of her head. She now saw t‘tings around her as they were, but the reasoning power was. deranged. Again she believed whatever wee told her. One man mai an iceberg, and she shivered when he came near her. She gnawed a steel file,belleving it to be chocolate, and so on. In this atage, the doctor could paralyze any linab at will. —Chicago News. A Level Crossing Tragedy. A. Bingheantort deepatoh says A spacial train on the Southern Central road, carry. ing Superintendent Titue, struck a carriage containing five ladies at grade crossing two miles north of Owego about 6 o'clock this evening. Three of, the women, Mtg. Cleveland, widow of ex.E3heriff Cleveland, of Tioga county ; Mrs. James Shay, and Dirs. A. Whithiarsh, were instantly killed. They wore thrown fifty feet from the train by`the force of the collision. Mr. Beahan and Dire. Van Duzer were amught on the pilot of the locomotive and carried some distance. They were badly injured, but it, is thought that they Will recover. Was glad She Told Him: " William, said Mrs Bixby from the head of the stairs to her husband, wbo had come home at ' an early horr in the Morn- ing "there is Some angel cake in the pantry, a new kind that I made to.day. put it where you can easily get at it." All right, dear," reSporided Mr. tiaby. "HOW considerate of yen. I might have eaten some of it without thinking.!" And the grateful hneband made a Innoll on °ea coma bee1,--13oeion Herald. ee lbe .da -a da • in , po „fr de 1B' se ne be tri ro th Lc th Ci hc , 'Do s0 ‘311