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A THRILLING ADVENTURE.
qiporting Advantaiaes in the Wilds of
Northern Oanada.
JX.R1.1 BY AN " IDEAL GUIDE"
Some of the Peculiar Ways of un Eccentric
Backwoods Character—Fishing in the
Bush Country—A Night of iPuo, for the
Bear.
went up into Northern Canada for met
and change I 13ot1I eaone in decided meas-
ure. There were three more or less kindred
spirits in our party—tile doctor, the lawyer
and the writer, whorn our "phagos" dubbed
the professor—and Cooper, the guide, that
elphagoo 1"
Ah, the guide ! He was a specimen, to
be sure. His tiredness Wile guiding the
guileless Amerioen nomad to places where
would be secured the 1115XIMUM of sport,
with the minimum of work—for him ! His
etoriee of what he and "them odder gentle.
men did a ketchin' fish le.s' summer just a
little furder on" was more than stereotyped
—they were gold-plated and studded with
great gems. He was the greetest fellow to
whet a sporteme.n's appetite that the Do-
minion ever produed, and when the semen
wee over he could assume, with rare tact
and grace, the genuinest regret that " we
hadn't had better luck," and that next year
sure the "run" would be "the odder way."
SPORTING Mc:WT.7E1MS AFFORDED.
A day's ride due north from Hamilton,
or Toronto, brought us near midnight at
North By on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way. After leaving Gravenhurst, a great
IV mill town,e,t the foot of the Mnekoka
lak the country is rough and unshaven.
Ten years ago it was a bleak wilderneas of
rook and woods. North Bay is on Lake
eNipissing and has grown up within half 'a
decade. Here are the repair shope of the
Canadian Padua Railroad. Three miles
northeast in the bush is Trout Lake full of
t the finest trout and bass and raukallunge,
with a gorgeous fringe of black flies, loons
-and beer°. At South River juet below
North Bay, several good troutstreams go
a purlingihrough 'thick underbrush and
bush, and in the broad, shallow island -filled
Lake Nipiesing all manner of fish abound
z in their native simplicity as yet nnvexed by
the wiles of the voracious Waltonitee.
Tierce the bush in any direction in the
season and moose, deer and bear pay
generous tributes to the sportsman who
knows their habits and how to hunt theca
• successfully. The Canadian Government
very wisely has prohibited the shooting of
moose and deer for several years to come.
It is hoped, therefore, that such; splendid
game will not at once be annibilieted.
A R0001I RIDE.
One hot day in July we made up part of
a company which went to Trout Lake over
what is called the "government road."
This thoroughfare wag censtruoted in its
swampy sections of logs in the corduroy
.style, but as they were f reahly laid and no
earth had been put over them, they were
decidedly rough. The other eections were
of earth and forest leaves and debris and
native boulders. The prevailing bush
fires had consumed all the vegetable part
of the roadbed, leaving uncovered rooks
and unsuspected ruts under the smoking
atehes. Now, then, fancy a company of
eight persons in a springless waggon making
• a fishing pilgrimage over such a highway 1
The equal of that experienCe none of na—
no, not even our guide—had ever known,
but after struggling manfully for about
'three hours we reached Jessup's oebin near
the west end of the lake, and in the excite.
h meat of getting ready to fieh in this
" fresh " and abounding body of water we
soon foreet the rough and tumble of the
ride. Our party, however, determined
never again to tempt fate and a broken
back by riding over that road, and that
is why oar thrilling adventure happened
• to us. •
GREAT Luoic."
We had great luck fiehing that day.
' The conditions were all favorable—a
clouded eky, smooth water—and the four
- caught fifty as fine black bass, weighing
from two tafour pounds each, as are often
anywhere seen. The fish were gamier than
• urinal and some very lively thrills of excite-
ment ran through our anatomies all clay.
I Indeed, suchduak were we having and it eo
increased as night came on that we reeked
not of the heavy clouds coming up from
the north and the indiattions of a furious
etorm. Whea the big rain drops warned
no, we hastily put for Jessup's log cabin
cottage just in time to escape a perfect
deluge af bail stones. Daring our sojourn
On this lithe of nnutteriehle ioneliness the
only sounds heard all day were the cries
of the lam, the distant gramblings
of bears, the bellowing of the mighty
moose and the occasional scream of the
wild cat. When the storm came down we
recalled these dismal sounds with a
shudder, and arose thankful for even the
protection of this rade cabin. For cora-
panyht sake then we were willing to make
friends even with the e mammon of nn -
righteousness," and the lawyer and the
nide did take many a loving pull thereat.
This seemed to brace them np, but it bad a
fatal effect on their judgment and a fiery
one upon their imagination.
Blessings on the man who invented
potteal meats and genie and canned fruits
and aegetables, for he has literally put a
possible Delmonioo even in the waste places
of the wilderness. After a generous repast
oflread and milk, potted corn beef and
canned peaches, with a middle course of
tootheome black bass, sot forth in simple
but tempting style by Mrs. Jessup, we
sauntered out upon the stumenstralaed,
goat-oropped lawn and made wise weather
observations.
A THUNDER STORM IN THE FOREST.
Did you ever" enjoy' a thunder storm
in the wild woo& ? ! what multitones,
what Inridity, what destruction, as tree
Natter tree, on every hand, yields up He life
to the remorseless lightning and sends up
-the forked flame e of its own funeral pile
•and writes its epitaph upon the lowering
and darkening donde Then indeed are the
-shades "horrible" as Virgil calls them,
and the shadows like sephulehres of
•damned spirits! I know a bank officer who,
when a thunder storm is raging, sleuth him.
Self up in the vaults, so terrified is he by
the sight and sound. Even the savagest
•beast of the forest bows his head and
trails his tail when nature begins theozone-
%making demonstration, and 1 don't blame
thine. Self-conceit and lighthing are an-
-tagonistio, and the latter alwdys prevents.
"1 wonder," remarked the professor, as
,he olimbea the dizzy heights into the see-
ond "chapter" of the Jessup cabin, " I
wonder if the tramps got out of the for.
-est before the storm broke 2"
A DISALM =non,
But the " tramps!" Where were they?
'Curled up on the muddy bottom of an
•abandoned bushman's cabin, about Mile
mot, Suet it the foot of the lake. The
storm in returning strulik them without
Warning, and they hastily made fox. this
,ambin. Here they kept their courage tip AS
beet they could etc:hanging wit and etoriee,
And braoing up on the universal game bird
of tho ilsherman—swallowa. The oab
was a dreary place at beet, without door
sash, foil of black flies and MONUitOS a
redelent with the etench of animate of
degrees of iniveetnese. They naanaged,ho
ever, to pull in enough pine and spru
boughs to make a passable "aha
down," whose odor was at least a grater
compensation for other deficient comfort
About 3 A.m. the lawyer seemed to be
dreaming and shortly blared out lusti
and with bacchanalian emphasis "0
sing to me of heaven when I am called
die." This sugeestion of death natural
enough aroused the doctor, who made
specialterothereoe in hie practice."
Wh•what's that, Jos? Anybody going
to die? Hold on! 'Taint fair 1 Let me
give you a helping hand
Oh " r -a -t, zed," grumbled Cully,
annoyed at the dieplay of sentiment and
business under such cirourristancea, " whatai
up 2"
" Holy smoke ! doctor—what's that
whiepered the guide with bated breath as
heyointed towards the open °door.
A bear, by gracious, or I'm a
turtle!"
With that each man jumped from his
bough bed, glanced furtively toward the
opening, and then snoh scrambling you
never saw for a hole in the roof reached
by thematic. and almost rungless ladder.
Of course Culley was firet on the roof and
out of danger—that's what a guide is for!
The dootor perched upon the dilapidated
atone chimney, the lawyer got upon the
ridge pole, and the guide crept over to the
front gable to watch the "varmint."
A THRILLING AmENTIME.
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N HUSIENTS.
epeolmene of the Saroge Laws of the
English Tudors.
w- The Tudora were , particularly fond of
oe savage punishments ; most readers will re.
ke member how, in the reign of Elizabeth, a
Ed man named Stubbs loet bie hand for writ.
0. ing a pamphlet of Radical tendenoies, And
a in the reign, of Elizebeth's little brother
ly the was an Aot passed to the effect that
h. anyone strikieg with a weapon in a chterch.
to yard should lose an ear. New, readers of
131 adult Twain will remember a certain dog
a named Andrew Jackeon Viido enacted that
any dog fighting with bicn should lose a
hind leg, But Andrew had not foreseen
tho case of a dog who iihould have no hind
leg to lose. Consequently, when the case
arose that legislator was taken aback, and
the result was serious. But if that dog
had read the Steatites at Large, he would
have been put ore his goard by an nualogous
eau duly provided for in the statute now
tinder ooneitieration. The makers of that
Act, wiser than Andrew Jackson, foreseav
the case of an offender who should have no
ears to lose. So they enacted, "and if the
persons so offending have none ears whereby
they should receive snob punishment, that
then they may be burned in the cheek with
O hot iron having the letter F therein,
whereby they may 'be known for fray.
makers and fighters." But this Aot was
mild and gentle compared with one passed
in the reign of Edward's father, whereby
the crime of poisoning was punishable by
boiling alive Mr. Fronde apologiz,ee for
thie Act 1 But even Mr. Froucle noes not
venture to apologize for the Act peased in
the thirty-third year of hie hero, whereby
the prinishillent for etriliing in the king's
palace a blow whereby blood wss shed was
that "the right hand lee stricken off before
the Lord Great Master, or, in his abeence,
before the treasurer of the Mushalsea."
Then, with the most cold-blooded ferocity,
the statute goes on to prescribe all the
details of the savage Act. There is to be
nresent, we are told, "the king's chief
surgeon to sear the stump when the hand
is strioken off." The sergeant of the pantry
is to be present "to give bread to the party
that shall have leio hand so stricken off."
And the eergeant of the cellar ia to attend
"then and there with a pot of red wine to
give the same party to drink nfter hia hand
is so strioken off and the stump geared."
Mark the Moe attention to detail so char-
acteristic of great minds.
I I
This was a °irate, to be sure! The bear
circled round the cabinheeveral times and
then made for a tree whioh overhung
Culley's refuge. As soon as this movement
was comprehended, Culley gave the alarm,
and in his zeal to get a better place he lost
control of his legs and slid plump off the
slippery roof, striking the ground not
twenty feet away from the bear. After a
vain attempt to regain the roof, he, for-
getting the abilities of his enemy, ran to
the nearest SpruCe, closely followed by the
now interested bear. The mistake was seen
too late., The bear was certainly following
him, and the spruce fairly trembled under
the quakings of the demoralized guide and
his pursuer. When he had got as near the
tree top as he dared go, he shouted out his
"last will and testament" to the lawyer,
and bequeathed what bones might be re.
coveiea to his dear but too distant friend,
the doctor. Then the other two heard:
" Now I lay me" and snatches of other
simple prayers arise from the midst of the
dense spruce boughs!
Colley was getting ready to face his
lies 1
From his secure retreat the doctor saw
some of the huraor of thesituation and
taunted the poor guide.
But suddenly a new danger developed.
The Iawyer discovered two brilliant eyes
staring at them from the woods. A freez.
ing vision of panthers overoame him 1
Then he heard a low growl and detected a
quick jumping movement toward the cabin
roof. So his bewildered brain fancied. Not
knowing what he was doing or what to do,
he stood erect and tried to yell. He had
scarcely began when down he went over
the edge of the greasy roof; out of sound
and eight! He had fallen V shaped into
an old half -hogshead, the cover of which
gave way before his weight and came down
upon him, leaving only his holanailed boote
above the line of the tub's horizon! He
was in pickle; the tub was half full of dead
water and all manner of bags and amphi.
Wong reptiles ! It sobered him, but he
couldn't get out 1 Several times the beer
came around and took a sniff at his feet,
but it wasn't yet so far gone with hunger
as to yield to this " terrible temptation "1
THE RESCHE.
"Yell, Doctor, yell," cried Gulley; "Per.
hp we oan wake up Jessup and the
Profeesor."
Thereupon the doctor pulled out a Globe,
made a made 1 annel and blew a blast like
Roderick Dim's. Colley aaded his falsetto
"war whoop" and the Lawyer groaned
sepulchrally from his pickle jar 1
The professor heard them, awakened his
host, and with guns and pistols they
hastened to the rescue, arriving just at
break of day.
Gulley was up the tree! The Doctor
was on the chimney. The Lawybr was
shut up like a juknife in a rain tub!
"Shoot thee --- bear," exclaimed the
now reCusant sinner in tbe tree.
"What boar? Where ie it 2"
Jeesup and the Professor carefully crept
toward the door, peered within, and there,
quietly sleeping, side by side, were Jessup's
brown calf and his ever watchful shepherd
dog—the " bear " and the "panther" of the
terrified "tramps."
GEORGE W. ELLIOTT.
Rochester, N. Y., July 31,1800.,
Stop Their Salary.
Editor of Agricultural Paper—Lok
here ; here's a man who asks the silliest
questions!
Assistant—How about it 2
"Why, he asks me the beet way to cure
hams, and doesn't state in his note what's
the matter with them 1"
_men_
Two Views of 10.
"The best thing about a vaoation is the
(lenge it brings,' said Mr. Bjenkins in a
tone that showed he knew.
"1 Yes," assented. Mr. Bjones ; "and the
worst thing about a vacation is the ohange
it costs."
No Settlement.
"11 I have ever used any unkind words
to you, Sarah," said Mr, Henpeck, calmly,
"1 will take them all back."
"Yes, indeed," she replied : "1 suppose
so you can use them all over again."
Two rotteriee.
First Boarder—Why do you always look
the door of your room when you go out?
Second Boarder—How does it happen
that yon know it is always looked 2—Epoc1.
A clergyman says : "1 once married a
young couple, and as I took the bride by
the hand at the close of the ceremony and
gave her my warmest congratulations she
tossed her pretty head and pointing to
the bridegroom, Paid : 'I think he is the
one to be congratulated.'"
The youngest son of Dickens, a young
matt named after Bulwer, the novelist, id a
member of the New South %lea Pulle-
n:tent. A spiteful Sydney paper, which is
in the Opposition, says of him "He pos.
OMAN raerely his illustrious father's nose,
and wae chiefly elected because he bore his
father'e name."
An average of live feet of Water is esti-
mated to fall annually over the whole
euth ; and, aseuming that condensation
take e plug at an average height of 3,000
feet, Scientists oonolude that the force of
evaporation to supply such rainfall must be
equal to the lifting of 322,000,000 pounds of
water 8,000 in every minute, or about 300,-
000,000 horse power constantly exerted.
Many New York people who have a
taste for ice cream are trying the fad of
eating Boston brown bread With their
Cream.
A Reminiscence of Kabu1-184P.
(From a deceased ofhoer's journal.)
Nov. 1. How cool and refreshing is t
evening breeze after thehiokening heat a
anxieties of the day. As I turn the leav
of this journal each evening, it often own
to ine that some ono else may speak t
epilogue. Well —ehe sara, sara, as Inc
Avitabile says. 1 suppose 'we could hard
be in worse plight, at least if the enginoe
in.chief is to be believed. Sir William Ma
naghten has agein and again &olio
better positions, end for some inscruiab
reason has refueed the Commissariat
place within Cantomnents. What orimin
folly 1 and jut to please a crafty nati
piece.
Nov. 3. In spite of our worse them b
position we all think that with prom
action we oan be extricated. But with t
usual tardiness and blindness whioh 13
cursed us throughout the campaign, o
portunity is allowed to slip by, and we, if
mistake not, shall realize the old beho
proverb, Hera pereunt et imputantur.
Nov. 4. The faries are on our track t
day ; about 15,000 Afghans and Afrid
have occupied Fort Mohammad' and 0
off Warren with the Commissariat fro
the Cantonments; oaths relief is sent
once Warren and the stores will be too
7 p. m.—Warren has gallantly fought h
way in ; all the stores are lost.
Nov. 6. M -- lei a storrnieg party
hie Jezeilchis thie morning agaiust For
Muhammad, took, it, but was obliged t
retire through the overpowering number
of the enemy. in the storming of tb
Richabashi Fort an inoident has ocuirre
which will shore the' Afghans the tempo
of a British soldier. The stormers of th
44th regiment missed the gate ana there
fore set to work to blow in a sale wicke
into which Col. lelackerill and a few me
forced themselves. Saddenly a body o
Afghan cavalry °barged the remainder an
a general sauve qui peut ensued; tbe fe
ineide the fort were elanglatered, and Lieut
Bird and another officer retreated into
stable, the door of which they barricaded
Thera they stood at bay, probably fo
twenty minutes, -keeping up a deadly fire
and when the fort was taken by the rein
foroeoients the two were discovered grim
and deadly in death having only fiv
cartridges lefv, but surrounded by thirty
five dead Afridis.
Nov. 22. Little thought that I should pen
another line. Constant' fighting for the
last 18 days; attacked Bela/tiara, bat to no
purpose except to employ the men.
Nov. 25. On 23rd, Shelton's brigade
again attacked Behnaaru, as our supplies
are drawn thence. For some inexplicable
reason, instead of assaulting immediately
he formed his brigade in eqnsres exposed
on the brow of a, small hill to a galling fire
for seven hours. No wonder the men lost
heart. About noon the fire became so hot
that Col. Oliver ordered a charge, but not a
man would follow him. Shelton tried in
vain to induce them to fix bayonets. In
the middle of it Afghan cavalry charged
the square and the latter broke. The field
artillerymen died at their guns like heroes.
Shelton rallied his men with difficulty, bat
wouldn't retire, whereupon it is said
Oliver sbragged his shoulders, saying,
There'll be a general run to Canton-
ments immediately and as I'm too fat to
rum I had better get shot at once." He
exposed himself and was hit almost imme•
diately, and moreally. The venue then
broke again, and had it not been for gallant
Colin Troop dashing to Cantonments for a
body of infantry and a mountain train, a
general massacre would have ensued. Even
plucky old Elphinstone, sick as he is, went
out to endeavor to rally the men. Some
one or other 20 constantly performing a feat
of individnal heroism. On 23r1i a sergeant
natned Mulhall, of the Bengal Horse Arbil.
lery, with six gnnners and his gun was oat
off from the retreating brigade. Seeing
their plight they limbered up in a trice
and dashed down hill at a gallop, cutting'
their way by eheer impetus arid audacity
through a crowd of at leaot 2,000 Afghans.
Font of them were desperately wounded
and are dying; the gun is safe.
Nov. 27. Pottinger and Haughton have
just come in from Charekar in sad plight.
for eight days they defended the foreeant at
last the Mohammedan eepoye no injed
and attacked Haughton while Pottinger
was asleep. Haughton's wounds are ter.
rible—right land out off, shoulder and left
arm gashed, and ell the muscles on left
aide of mink severed so that his head hangs
forward on his right bread. The sepoys
then deserted in a body. At night Pot.
tinger mOunted and placed Haughton on a
horse with two faithful servants, one on
each side to hold him up arid a cushion
tinder his chin to support the heed and in
thia plight they had antie 40 miles as the
orow sales. A gallant bngle•MajOri who
was too badly Wounded to travel, said he
wotild oraviil to the bastions and sound the
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Dee, Q. Matters seem to be drawling to
a climax. Akbar Khan has been in eon.
stant oommuniostion with Sir William
Dlacnaghten, and has prOpOSed a confer.
0000. It is rumored that Akbar is having
difficulty with the different Sirdare and
Wishes to conciliate Sir "William. One
never knows how much to believe when an
Afghan speake.
Deo 10. 'All is arraugea; Akbar and Sir
William are to •'meet outside the WAY-
Altbar nflers to allow the British to remain
eight months longer to save their honor
(forsooth), and the "Feringhis " to subdue
the other tib es and then to evacuate the
country of their own accord. Fee this
precious pieoe of treachery he wants 40
lakhs of rUpeee dOWn and 4 lakhs annually
during life. It reckons one to deal with
such canaille. Sir William had actually
consented and has eigned a paper to that
effect. I don't feel assured as to the result
of all this.
(Written 14 months after, on being re-
leased from captivity.)
About noon an 27113 December, Sir
William, Captaina Trevor, Lawrence and I
set forth on that fatal expedition. We had
arranged that two regiments should be
kept under arms with two field,guns. It is
curious that as the envoy approached the
great gate he remarked that death seemed
preferable to the anxious life he had
hitherto lived. I do not think, however,
that he had any suspicion of Akber's
treachery. At the gate Sir William re-
membered that he had promised a oharger
to the wily Sirdar and sent me back for it,
and on rejoining them I found that the
field eeoort had halted, ana the envoy, with
Trevor end Lawrence, had advanced to-
wards the fort of Muhammad, the scene of
so much desperate fighting. At this time
we were about a quarter of a mile from the
bastions. Here were some hillooke, and on
these carpets were spread, the snow being
light, and Akbar, who had arrived with a
coneiderable retinue, sat down to converse
with poor Maonaghten. I felt a queer kind
of preeentiment e,nd it was with great re-
luctance 1 ciismounted and sat down to talk
with an old acquaintance of mine, an
officer 01 the Kabul native police. Jut
then I heard Akbar ask Sir William if e
were ready to carry out his agreement of
the night preeeding. Sir William replied,
"Why not ?" Some commonplaces fol-
lowed and Akbar commenced to handle a
pair of pistols Oxen him by the Envoy.
Meanwhile Lawrence had pointed out that
contrary to arraneernent we were gradually
being surroundeeby armed men and the
Birders affected to drive them off, but
Akbar shouted in Pashto, "No matter;
they know all." Un turning roand to
speak to my Kabul acquaintance I heard
Akbar yell, " Bigir—Bigir " (seize, seize),
and wheeling rapidly beheld him grasp
poor Macnaghten by the left arm, dis-
charge rapidly both pistols into his body
and dragging him down the hillook by the
aid of another Sirdar sabre him with a
talwar. Trevor was out down instantly.
Lawrence was dragged roughly past me and
had it not been for my native friend I had
not been alive to write these words. All
was over in an instant.
A Compressed -Air Hospital.
Many of the men employed in the
caissons of the Forth bridge were greatly
affected by their work in an atmosphere of
compressed air and were in the habit of
relieving the pain by spending their Satur-
day afternoons and Sundays in the air
chamber. Mr. Moir, the engineer for
Messre..g. 'Pearson & Sons, of London,and
who itenowlin charge of the Hudson tun-
nel works, 13tis, eating on the same . idea,
constructed a oompreseed-air hospital- for
the men employed on the tunnel, ameneg
whona there have been several severe cues
of "bends," although the air preesure is
not psrtionlarly high, never, indeed, ex•
Oeediug 30 pounds per square inch. The
hospital is a cylinder 18 feet long by 6 feet
in diameter, constructed of steel plates
3 8 -inch and i-inoh thick, and divided into
two chambere by e transverse bulkhead.
One of these chambers acts as an air -look
for the other, and both are fitted rip with
beds and everything neussery for the com-
fort of the patients. The air pressure is
maintained by a pump, a constant supply
of fresh air being secured by keeping a pet
cock in the shell of the hospital open,
through which the air continually leaks
out. A safety vedve is also supplieei to pre.
vent over pressure should the pumps run
away.—Engineering.
The Virtues of Coffee.
It is asserted by men of high proles.
aortal ability, says the Epicure, that when
the system needs a stiratilent nothing
equals a cap of fresh coffee. Tho3e who
desire to rescue a drunkard from his cups
will find no better aubstitute for spirits
than strong, new -made coffee, without
milk or sugar. Two ounces of coffee, or
one-eighth of a pound, to one pint of boil-
ing water makes a first-class beverage, but
the water must be boiling, not merely hot.
Bitterness comes from boiling too long. If
the ooffiee required for breakfast be put in
a granitized kettle over night and a pint of
cold water poured over it, it oen be heated
to just the boiling point and then set back
to prevent further ebullition, when it will
be found that, while the strength ie ex-
tracted, its delicate aroma is preserved.
As our country consumes nearly ten pounds
of coffee per capita, it ises pity not to have
it made in the beat manner. It is asserted
by those who have tried it that malaria,
and epidemicare avoided by those who
drink a cup of hot coffee before venturing
into the morning air. Burned on hot wale
it is a disinfectant for a sick room. By
some of our best physicians it is considered
a specific in typhoid fever.
Nobody to Blame.
" Did the coroner render a verdict on
the horse -thief they lynched 2"
"Yes. He said the man died of heart
failure, induced by a broken nook."
A Practical Girl. .
Elder Sister—Why don't you improve
your mind, Belle, instead of continually
dawdling about the house 2
Belle --What's the noo? I'm engaged.
In Maine a man has been found who
has sold liquor freely for the past thirty
years, aead who has never missed attending
district, county and state conventions and
advocating and voting for resolutions as.
serting adhesion to the principles of pro-
hibition and demanding thorough and
effective enforcement of the law. Well, is
he a curiosity 2
Detroit's population is estimated at 207,-
791.
—Prof. Putnam, in his report tothe Pea-
body Illtiaenin for the current year, sap
that man has existed for 10,000 years xn
thia country. There are very few of our
first families that can trace back much
further than half that distance, however.
—In tingston no boy under 18 years of
age is allowed in the police court de a specie
Won
The first elevated railway was projected
in NOV York city in 1871 and completed in
1878.
AIELLIONti OF 1UJI OXEN.
Wow lear We etre Newel Beating Our
tilPtAra Irate Plowdharee,
The 'Meet official figeres in regard to
the nurnerioal forme of the principal Baro.
peen armies have been furnished during the
000000 dieoneeiou of the war budget at the
seskli 4n of the delegationS of Andre.
Iluxmary. Frain January e, 1891, the Aus.
trian army will have in excess over the
present year 2 225 soldiers, 167 officers and
947 horses. The numerical strength of
European armies hove boon shown during
the disouesion of the budget at Path to
stand as follows:
Germany—Field army, 1,350,700 men;
garrison army, 920,000 men, with 47,510
ofliaers and 3,950 guns.
Austro-Hungary—Field. army, 1,260,000
man; garrison array. 350,006 men, with
35 600 officers arid 1,70 elms.
Russia—Field array, 1,240,500 men, with
36,000 officers and 2,730 mune; reserve
army, 1,102,300 men, with 2l,200 'officters
and 1,170 guns ; frontier battelions, 41,480
men ; Coseacks, 143,000 map, with 3,750
officers and 204 guns. Tbe Government
can also call the militia, to whioh belongs
every man in tlae country «0 100 45 years,
and which would give more than 2,000,000
men.
Italy—Permanent army, 760,000 men,
with 13,000 officers and 1,040 euns ; mobile
militia, 342,000 man; territorial militia,
1,100,000 men.
France—Active army on peace footing,
534,100 men, with 26,763 officers and 135,•
239 horses ; territorial militia of first line,
426,000 men; territorial militia of Bound
line, about 1,000,000 men.—Neto York
Tribune.
DIPLOHATS DISACiRBE.
Foreigners at the Court of St. James Crave
Each Other's Blood.
There is great stir in social and diplo-
matic circles in consequence of a viobant
dispute between Count Deym, Auatrian
ambassador to the court of St. James, and
his honorary secretary, another oount of
noble Austrian family. No names have
yet been published, but it ieknown through-
out society that there is a lady in the case
and that she is uf the highest social atand•
ing. Count Deyrn was so provoked with
las secretary last week he omitted his name
from the list of invitations to the official
reception. The result was a soandalous
quarrel at the embassy, in which insulting
remarks were passed, and which would
have culminated in blows but for the inter-
ferenoe of others. The secretary has
resigned in order to be able to ohallenge
Count Deym to a duel to be fought in Aus-
tria. He sent the challenge on Monday
and has given Connt Deym a fortnight in
which to consider ilae matter. The ambits.
sedor bee decline i to accept the ohallege,
giving extreme si health as a reason and
accompanying hirefusal with a doctor's
certificate. The ernbassador is euro to be
condemned for bi action in Austria, as
acoording to the code of honor in that
country he should have fought. The affair
is the talk of thww clubs, and the most
strenuous efforts are being made to keep
the name of the 'may from publicity.
A Highland Proclamation.
I found in my wanderings, this which
may interest some, a oopy of a proolama.
tion made at the Market Cross of Inverary,
last century:
Ta boy! Te titter ahoy! Ta boy
Three time!!! an' To hoy—Whist 11!
By command of His 1Hajesty Ring George,
An' Her Grace, Te Duke o' Argyll:
If any lady fa found fishing above te loch,
or belowe te loch, afore te loch, or ahint te
loch, in te boob, or on te loch, anon te loch,
or aboot te loeh,
She's to be parsecutit, wi' three perseon•
times:
First, she's to be burnt, syne she's to be
drownt, an' then she's to be hangt, .
an' if ever she come back, she's to be per.
Fianna wa a far war death.
God save the Ring an' Her Grace
Te Doke o' Argyll!
uesertIna the Highlands.
The Select Committee of the'House of
Commons on Colonization resumed their
inquiry on July llth, under the presidency
of Sir James Ferguson. George Malcolm, t
an estate agent, in business in the north.
west highlands, gave evidence in regard to
e state of the population now AB cora.
pared with fifty years ago. He said that
in the northern counties the mutation has
increased as it has in the counties . ooming tat'
under the Oroftera' Act, but in the high- is
land counties there had been a decrease of
about 7 per cent. In Ayrshire the pooula-
0,
tion numbered 100,473 in 1831, while it r
had decreased to 76,000 in 1881. There
had been no inorease in Inverness-slaire„,
and there had been a general decrease in e.,"°
the population. The 'decrease in the "
southern counties was, he said, more
marked then in the northern. —Pall Mall
Gazette.
V4IIIi017E; Bap/Eng.
some Feats of Swimmers vIlhich 4re
• Timely Beading.
Few young people require urging to go
into the water at this season, but many of
them need to be reminded that 'they oan
bathe too often, swim too far and May in
the water too long. Some of them re-
turned from the seashore last summer half
siok, and were not in their usual health
until after Christmas. Too ranch bathing
in cold water was, in many instances, the
clause, eaye the Youth's Companion,
The celebrated swimming,feats of whioh
we read wore mostly performed in southern
enter. Last euraraer the Q aeon of Spain
walked clown to the beach of the By ot t.
Sebastian, accompanied by one of her
ladies and four stout bathing men, and
swam out to a man-of.war lying at anchor
half a mile away.
The lady who accompenied her soon
gave up and WaS taken on board one of tho
small boats that went with the party. The
Queen, however, being one of the best
female swimmers in Europe, accomplished
the feet with considerable eau in three-
quarters of an hour. Bat the water was
of semi-tropioal warmth. Off Mount
Desert, on the coast of Maine, she might
have failed.
Probably, as she is a woman of sense
and knowledge, she would not have at-
tempted a swim of forty-five minutes in
the cold water of Bar Harbor.
Byron swam the Hellespont itt an hour
and ten minutes after having cense tried
and failed. The distance, as ae told his
mother, was not more than a mile in a
straight line, but to accomplish that mile
in such a tide he had to swim two or three
Compared with the performance of eome
of our swimmers of to -day it was not
extraordinary, and is was done in rather
warm water, in the month of May, which
is one of the hot months in that part of the
world.
Dr. Franklin, who was, perhaps, the best
American swimmer of his time, lived so
near the warm and tranquil Delaware at
Philadelphia that his garden extended quite
down to the shore. We must bear this in
mind when we read of his remaining in the
wetter "two hours " and "an hour or two,"
and when he recommends ." much swim-
ming " as an excellent and almost sure
remedy for the most common of eurnmer
maladies,
He evidently had the river Delaware in
his mind when he spoke of "rivers thet
have been thoroughly warmed by the sun."
In July, as Philadelphia boys know, the
Delaware along its banks is very warm.
Dr. Franklin would doubtless have
greatly modified his remarks upon bathing
if he had been in the habit of going into
the cold water that washes all parts of the
New England coast north of Cape Cod.
He doss, indeed, caution one of his cor-
respondents to avoid plunging into oold
spring water, and mentions an instance of
form young men who did so when they were
heated by harvesting. Two died upon
the spot, another the next morning and
the fourth recovered with great difficulty.
Many observant parents who live or
spend their summers on the Northern sea-
coast have come to the conclusion that it is
better for most young people to bathe not
oftener than every other day and no longer
at a time than twenty minutes.
Who Wouldn't?
Clergyman—How is Brown coming on
since he failed in business? Rather down.
hearted, I suppose.
Smite—No, I think not. The last time
I saw him he was looking up and trying to
be hopeful.
'1 Ah, I'm glad to bear that I"
" He y7aS trying to drink from a jug."
MISS JENNIE TEEPLE, a graduate of
Alma Ladies' College, St. Thomas, Ontario
whose paintings were so universally
admired a few years since at the Fine .A.rt
Exhibition of the Educational Department,
has been appointed Art, Director in Lans-
downe College, Man. Scores of Alma's
graduates are now engaged in teaching
private classes Or in Schools and Colleges
and are thus proclaiming the practical
character of Alma's instruction. For at
pp. Calendar address Plummet", A usTnt,B.D.
elow Insects Feed.
The butterfly pumps nectar into itself
hrough a tube, and bees and flies sack up
eir food with their long tongue or pro-
boscis. The spider's month is quite a com-
plicated affair. It has fangs for holding Ite
prey, masticatory organs for braising
se•
ood, and a sucking apparatus for
king op the fluids. Quite as complicated
the month of the mosquito, which
nsists of the lances, the saws and the
weeping tubes.
One of the prettiest dress patterns for all
und wear is a black Indian silk flowered
ith pink and green posies.
A. Contented
"It's pretty hard work earning an
honest living," said the tramp to the far-
mer's wife.
"You don't mean to say that you
work 2"
"Oh, no My remark is simply the
result of my observations along the high-
ways and byways. When I see how hard
some people work and how little they get
for it, I am encouraged to fol/ow my simple
vocation withont a murintir."
Wants One Bore Summer.
"013, papa, please don't go to the menu -
tains this year."
"Why, my dea'r, I thought you liked
them?"
"So I did, bat Tom's going there, and as
I'm engaged to him it won't be so much
fan. Lei' i go einEurope."
One of the deepest coal mines in the
world is at St. Andre du Poirier, France,
which yearly produces 300,000 tone. The
mine is worked with two shaft, one 2,952
feet deep and the other 3,088. The latter
shaft is being deepened, and will soon reach
the 4,000 feet level. The remarkable feet.
tnre in this deep mine ie the comparatively
low temperature experienced, which seldom
rises above 75 fahrenheit.
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