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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-8-21, Page 7Awuoraluip. Old Farmer Boggs of Boggy 131'0k Went to the county fair, octooer around with endthere, "That borko," he said, "Gray Eagle Wiug, Will take the highest prize; But our old Dobbin looks as well Aud bettor to my eyes. /le is, I know, what folks call slow, It's far the safest way to go; Some men, perhaps might think it strange, I really should not like to change, "And those fat oxen ; 13uok and Bright Don't have so large a girth, g Nor match like them, just to a hair, But I know what they're worth They're good to plow, and good to draw, 'You stronger pullers never saw, :and always mind my' goo and' haw,' Some folks, perhaps, might think it strange, I really shouldn't want to change.. "That Devon heifer cost, I heard, A thousand dollars. "Now," Said Mrs. Boggs, "my Crumple horn Is just as good a Dow, Her milk I'm sure's the very best, ibex butter is the yellowest; Some folks, perhaps, might think it strange, really shouldn't want a change," "Those premium bogs," said Mrs. Boggs, "Pty little Cheshire pig Is better than the best of them, Although he's not so big. And that young Jersey is not half So pretty as old Brindle's calf; Nor is thorn in the poultry pen As Speckled Wings so good a hen. As Farmer Boggs to Boggy Brook Bode homeward from the fair, He said, " I wish my animals Had all of them boon there ; Audif the judges had been wise might have taken every prize. THE QUEEN'S PRIZE. ,A Few Interesting Facts eebout the Dian Who Captured 1t. The Qaeen's prize this year has gone to Birmingham by the aid of Sergeant Bates, of the lst Warwick, who easily beat the ,A,berdeenahire man, Murray, by eight points, the figures being 278 and 270, while Murray was only one in front of Private Lyte, of the Jersey militia, who tied with Lieutenant Warren, of the let Middlesex. All these three last did better at the first gage than the winner, who there made only 92 points against Murray's 97; but at the 800 and 900 yards rangee the Birming- ham man achieved a vory deoided enooess, making 77 points against the 66 of his Norah British rival. Seven bull's-eyes out of ten shots at 800 yards is notable shoot. ing, and in Bates' case thee° were supple. stented by four more at the longer distance. The winner is a gunsmith by trade, and his vocation of sighting rifles of course stands liim in good stead in a competition. The diffionities of enooessful scoring at these long ranges arta only understood by experts. The wind is for instance, an all - .important element in the celoulations, and yesterday it was particularly trying. At :one moment," an observer sage, " it would e blowing straight down the ranges, and at another with quickened force from the ;left, neoeesitating a difference of allowance for wind between two successive shots which could only be measured by feet in :many instances. Ceaseless watching of every ohange could alone enablea man to be aura of what he was doing. One unnoted item in these variations might have upset all bis calculations." It is carious, how- ever, that Bates ehonld have been so specially sacoeesful at the 800 yards target. Here he made 44 against Murray's 32 ; but et 900 yards Murray bad one point the best :of it, having snored 34 against Baton' 33, and it is noteworthy that Lyte and Warren here made 34 also. The teetotallers annn- 'ally endeavor to show that the winner of the Queen's, Prize is one of their body, but Sergeant Bates responded to the toast of Iiia health in beverages which do not meet w ith the approval of the local optionists — .London Standard. Forecasting Thunderstorms. When the daily weather charts are drawn, if we find there is an unevenness in the isobaric lines—that is, if these are wavy or bulge out irregularly—we know that than• deratorms are likely to burst somewhere or other over the country, but that is all we can eay. At each station the barometer is nneteady—the mercury moving up and iiown m the tube during the actual con- tinuance of the storm, but this oscillation of the mercurial column has nothing to do with the irregularity in the isobaric lines above mentioned. Forecasting these storms is, therefore, always an uncertain and a thankless task, for local success is rarely attained. Among the earliest symp- toms of the approach ot a thunderstorm is the appearance on the western horizon of a lino of cumulus (" woolpaok") clouds, ex- hibiting a peculiar turreted stripastore. I say on the western horizon, for niniet of our changes of weather come from that quarter, and it has been proved that thunderstorms, like windstorms, advanoe over the country generally from some westerly point. This bank of clouds moves on and over it appear first streamers and then sheets of lighter upper oloads—cirrus, or "mare's tail"— whioh spread over the sky with extreme sapidity. The heavy cloud mase comes up ander this film and it is a general observe, - lion that no electrical explosion or down. fall of rain ever takes plane from a cloud unless streamers of cirrus, emanating from its upper surface, are visible when the aloud is looked at sideways from a distance. —Popular Science Monthly. What's in a Name ? Among the relatives of the Earl of Dysart are Lynlph Ydwallo Odin Nester Egbert Lyonel ToegmagHnghErchenwyne Saxon Ess Cromwell Orma Nevi11 Dysart Plantagenet, born 1876 ; Mabel Helming- bane Etbel Huntinetower Beatrice Blazon. barrio Evan_: ou de Orellana Plantago;•'' ; 72 ; T,yo , . t - TRI PLIANT Le Ile Uee in All Agee and iu yssrioua Countries, The first mention of whipping as a pun- ishment 000rre in the fifth , chapter f Exodus, where we findthat P aroh wbiped the oftoere of the Israelites when they did not furnish the required number ofbrioks which they were compelled to make every day. In ancient times the Romans parried whipping as a punishment farther than any other nation, and them judges were surrounded with an array of divers kinde of whips well maculated to affright the offender who might be brought before them. The mildest form of whip was a flat leather strap called the ferule, and one of the most severe was the flagellum, which was made of plaited ox hide and almost as hard as iron. Not only was the flagellation in various forms used as a judicial punishment, but it was also a common practice to punish slaves by the same means. The Roman ladies were greater offenders and even more given to ;the praotioe .of whipping their slaves than the men, for in the reign of Emperor Adrian a Roman lady was ban- ished for five years for undue cruelty to her siavea. The practice of whipping was in fact so prevalent that it furnished Plautus, in several oases, incidents for his plots. Thus, in his ' Epioidue,' a slave, who is the principal character in the play, oonoludee that his master has discovered all his schemes since he saw him in the morning purchasing a new scourge et the shop where they were sold. From anoient times the use of whipping Dun be traced through the Middle Ages down to, comparatively speaking, more motion) times when it is easier to find records of the use of the rod. In Qaeen Elizabeth's time the whipping -post was an established institution in almost every vil- lage in England, the mnnioipal records of the time informing us that the uanal fee to the executioner for administering the pun- ishment was four pence a head.' In ad- dition to whipping being thought au excel. lent corrective for crime, the authorities of a certain town in Huntingdonshire must have considered the nee of the lash as a sort of universal specific, as well, for the corporation recordo of tbis town mentioned that they paid eight pence ' to Thos. Haw - kine for whipping two people who had the smallpox.' In France and Holland whipping does not seem to have been so generally prac- tised. The last woman who was publicly whipped in France by judicial deoree was Janne St. Remi de Valois, Compteese do la Motto, for her share in the abstraction of that diamond necklace which has given point to so many stories. In connection with the history of flagellation in France may be mentioned the custom which pre- vailed there (and also in Italy) in olden times of ladles visiting their acquaintances while eiill in bed the morning of the 'Fes. tival of the Innooents' and whipping them for any injuries, either real or fancied, which the viotime may bave done to the fair flagellants during the last year. One of the explanations given for the rise of this practice is as follows : On that day it was the custom to whip up ohildren in the morning, ' that the memory of Herod's murder of the innocents might stick the closer, and in a moderate proportion to act the cruelties again in kinds.' There is a story based upon this practice in the tales of the Queen of Navarre. Among the Eastern nations the rod in verione forms played a prominent part, and, from what we read, China might be said to be almost governed by it. Japan is singularly free from the practice of whip. ping, but makes up for it by having a re- markable sanguinary criminal code. Russia is however, par excellence, ,a home of the whip and rod, the Russiane having been governed from time immem- orial by the use of the lash. Many of the Russian monarchs were adepts in the nee of tho whip, and were aleo pertronlarly in- genious in making things unpleasant for those around them. Catherine II was so particularly fond of this variety of punish- ment (which she often administered in person) that it amounted almost to a passion with her. It is related that she carried this craze so far that one time the ladies of the court bad to come to the winter palace with their dreseee so adjusted that the Empress could whip them at once if she should feel so inclined. While the instruments of torture need in Russia were of great variety, the most for- midable " punisher " was the knofit, an instrument of Tartar origin, and of which descriptions differ. In its ordinary form it appears to be a heavy leather thong, about eight feet in length, attached to a handle two feet long, the lash being concave, thus making two sharp edges along its entire length, and when it fell on the criminal's back it would cut him like a flexible double- edged sword. " Running the gauntlet " was also employed, but principally in the army. In this the offender had to pass through a long lane of soldiers, each of whom gave the offender a stroke with a pliant switch. Peter the Great limited the number of blows to be given to 12,000, but unless it was intended to kill the victim they seldom gave more than 200 at a time. When the offender was sentenced to a greater number of strokes than this the paniebment was extended over several days for the reason above stated. Whipping after dropping out of sight for a time in England, was reintroduced in England in 1857, in order to put a check on crimes of violence. The law was so framed that the judges might add flogging at discretion to the imprisonment to whioh the offenders were also sentenced. The first inetanoe of this punishment being used was at Leeds, where two men received twenty five lashes each before entering their five and ten years' penal servitude for arroting. The whip used in this instance s the cat-o'-nine-tails. The whipping is also still used in some parts of this ry, notably at New Castle, Del.,. where 'oat" is still administered for minor s. The Rose Bath. nxury far off, desirable but unat. saya the practical mind ; but not luxury of the ancients Dan be the nineteenth•oentury maiden oond to nothing. The bath of can bo made as follows : The in quantity amounting to the firstement'of the bath, is ret soft. ing into the tub finely sifted which aleo is added half a erine lastly, put into it two ter of roses. It the massage e available, use it by all means; coarse towel and hard rubbing rposo of the massage system. simply fine, as it softens the ds perfume into enoh line of ter all, to obtain it is a simple e two drops of the attar of o groateat expense of ally— atron—Why didn't you e from your husband when oago? You could get it ere than anywhere dee, you rod Actress—'es, but it o a sensation there. TO WART) OZl'p' t3PN8'I'RQEE. Precautions to be Observed. to Guard Against This A ftlletlon. Sunstroke is one of ;the, afiliotione to which humanity is liable, in Bummer aut. ing the hottest of the weather, says the Boston Flerctld. Heat and meietnre to. gether seem to be the conditions moat favorable to its 'ooeurrenoe, for moisture in warm air prevents the radiation of heat from the body, and thermal fever, or sun- stroke, as it is palled, is probably an over- heating df the blood, producing ohemioal or fermentivechanges in it which are inimical to health and even to lite. When, therefore, during the heated term one who has been exposed to the sun's heated rays in a humid atmosphere begins to suffer from headache, giddiness, nausea and disturbance of sight, accompanied with sudden and great prostration of the physi. cal torose, sunstroke is probably imminent. If such a one is wise, he will, when the symptoms above given manifest them- selves, immediately seek a 0001 plane and make nee of simple restoratives, such as aromatic ammonia, eto., and he may avoid further trouble, but if he persists with his busineae he will doubtless soon become very ill, which illness renally takes the form of heat exhaustion, heat appoplexy or genuine eunatroke, the thermic fever of some writers. Those who are exhausted by the heat have a cools moist skin, a rapid, weak pulse and respiration movement, and the pupil of the eye is dilated. In fact, the symptoms are those of collapse. These patients will probably recover promptly,an event which may be hastened by the use of a tonin and restorative treatment. Those who suffer from heat apoplexy frequently become unconscious at the out set. The heart and breathing apparatus are not markedly disturbed and the pupil may be normal, but unconsciousness deep. ens and the case runs on to a final termina- tion. An artrey has been broken in the brain, and the poured out blood preening on the nerve centres brings about the fatal event. A treatment maculated to draw the blood from the extremities—bot foot baths, bleedings, eto•, promises to be the most useful in such oases. The thermic fever patient is unconscious and convulsed, and hie body temperature may be 108 degrees Fahrenheit -that is about 10 degrees above normal. The skin of this patient feels as though it would burn your hand when laid thereon. In this case the thorough and prompt appli- cation of cold is needed. Ice to the head and cold water to the body generally will be in order. Complete recovery from sunstroke is rare, the brain being permanently crip- pled or affected. Residence in a cold climate, it is said, affords moat hope for such patients. Paid Off1n Bis Own Coln. A remarkable case of "diamond out dia- mond" occurred in Boston recently, not far from the Providence Railroad station. A druggist had fitted up a neat corner store and had established at once a fine trade. One day another druggist entered hie store and said : " I want to buy you out. How much will you take ? " " I do not want to sell," was the reply. "I expeoted that answer," said the encroaching person, "and I am prepared for it. Now, if yon don't sell ont to me I will open a drug store in opposition on the opposite corner. How ranch will you take?" The draggiet, offended at this species of brow -beating, said he would sleep on it and report the next morning. At the appointed hoar the aspirant was in the store and a large price was named. The bargain was bound. The druggist who had thus been ousted from a corner which he had fitted up with a view to years of peace and profit, sought the owners of the opposite corner which had been head out to him as a threat, secured from them a long lease, worked night and day, and now has a drug etore in which any community might take satisfaction end repose confidence. What is more, he is doing a better business than he did in the former locality.—Boston Gazette. Tho Pioscope. Health Officer Dr. Keeney made inter. esting tests of milk today in the presence of Mayor Pond and Dr. Le Tonrnenx with an instrument called the pioecope. This device consists of a glass diol about two inabes in diameter with a white centre circle and six different colors radiating from the circumference of this circle to. the circumference of the dial. These colors are marked "less fat," "very fat," " cream," " very good," and " poor." A drop of milk is placed under the white centre and by some chemical process its color is changed corresponding with one of the six ehades, thereby indicating its quality. Milk which the laotomer regia• tered 80 per gent. was of the shade of pore but with 10 per Dent. of water added it registered very poor, that is less solids or cream. The highest test went up to 110 and the lowest down to 65, according to the lactometer. Dr. Le Tourneux is of the opinion that the best test was by means of the microscope, although the pioscops ex- periments proved quite satisfaotory.—San Francisco Bulletin. The Chinese in Australia. • The Melbourne Argus notes with ap- parent satisfaction that the act which came into operation at the close of 1888 to re- strict Chinese immigration is having a marked effect. Only one Chinese immi. grants may be carried to every 500 tons of the tonnage of any vessel entering a Vic. torian port. There were only last year 175 arrivals of, Chinese to the colony, 124 of whom were males and 51 females, and by far the greater portion were Chinese re. turning to Australia. Last year there were no departures for the flowery land, but an unwonted departure is noted this year, and it is thought that moat of the pig.tailed rage who have left Australia do not intend to return. The day may Dome when Australia may be solicitous of the Mongolian's help, but at present he is not a welcome guest. -London Star. A Very Able Effort. John Pendleton, who has compiled a book on "Newspaper Reporting in the Olden Time and To -Day," gives this example of how England's great journalist of the 'seventeenth century, Nathaniel Butler, kept his readers informed "A perfect mermaid was, by the last great wind, driven whore near Greenwich, with her comb in ono hand and her looking•glass in the other. She seemed to be of the countenance' of a most fair and beautiful woman, with her arms armed, weeping out many pearly drops of salt tears ; and after. wardebe; gently turning herself upon her back again, swam away without being seen any mora."—Philadelphia Ledger. A doctor practicing in the ordinary walks of life says that, in more than one.half of the cases'in which he ie Called he is tasked to fill out the sick blanks of some beneficial society, and often a hitifa'dozen are poked at him. 'Phis work has become so burden. some that physioians' are contemplating the advisability of charging ah extra fee for snoh servioea.--Philadelphia Record. —Glove boxes ere of silver. £TRIOS YAR CUILW1EN, The Culture of the Youthful Mind Should Merin in the Cradle. 7 t is not enough, ae manypa}'enta imagine, to feed and clothe theioffering, and when they arrive at a • proper offepring, e to place them in echool. There Is a ou quite as vital to ministeringto their phy . Moat eustenanoe v p y than devolves on the parent, though unrecognized by'nieny,—tile duty of developing the moral nature. The indifference of rets i tit r e eat is as inexplicablesa n is n i gait. o e ;1? as it disastrous _ to the individual and to society. A child whose ethical training be ins et the cradle, and is syetemati sill im reseed duringearl Dare byr yin l e 9 parents, who themselves f emphasize the tenths they enunciate, will rarely dishonor their name or prove other than a blessing to sooiety. So. serious is this problem, so intimate is its relation to the progress of humanity, so far-reaching and vital its infiaenoe, that no thoughtful student of human life can afford to ignore what our widening vision bas demonstrated is not impractical or visionary. Mach as the ancient Stoics impreesed the loftiest ethics on the minds of the young who sought them, would I have the cardinal virtues impressed on the plastid mind of every child, varying the methods to suit the age, condition and mentality of the child, beginning with object lessons, pica tures and stories with illustrate important moral truths and lessons in virtue. Al children love stories and pictures, and these, in the hands of parents who appre- ciate the solemn responsibilities of parent. hood, can be made wonderfully effective. As the obild grows older, teaoh him to valve above price truth, honor and integrity. Repress all selfish tendenoies. Make him dwell in the radiant and harmonious atmos• pbere of love. Above all, teaoh him tolera. tion. Show him that all laws or religions that would persecute- another for honest thought, emanate from other than a divine source, are not beneficial, nor do, they point upward. History is rioh in striking illus• trations, whioh, told as stories or in after years read to the children, will emphasize each important lesson to be taught. In this manner the moral perceptions will be quickened, and a broad etbioal foundation will be laid that will go far toward insuring a noble life,—B, 0. Flower in August Arena. Feminine Fancies., Tho Empress Eugenie is travelling in Normandy under an assumed name. Silver bangles are more fashionable than ever. The girl of the period cannot have too many on her arms. Mrs. Alice Shaw has signed a oontraot to go to St. Petersburg and whistle for the Czar and nobles. By her will Pars. Emily Pfeiffer, the Eng- lish poetess, who died recently, leaves $1315,000 to charitable and educational es- tablishments for women. The Maori 'women in New Zealand are killing themselves in their efforts to wear corsets since they have seen them on the missionary women. Sky blue does not now mean ciel, but is a shade paler than starch, and that can only be matched in the garden by veronica gentianoides or by school milk and water, which boys :slang as " sky blue," To have a fresh complexion and bright eyes, even to have white hands and a grace. ful figure, you meet be well. Health and the happiness which comes with it are the true secrets of beauty. - Blondes with myoaotio eyes and com- plexions of snowy white are contesting tbe right of the brnnettes to the possession of the artistic amber tints. Rnekin, the Lnglieh writer on .art, declares that it is sheer nonsense to say that a blonde should eschew the golden hues, and that she might as well be debarred from standing in the sunlight. Blondine and auburn are two of the new colors which have been adopted with effusion by both blondes and bra. nettes ; the former is, as ire name denotes, a golden yellow, like that of the lock3 of a blonde beauty. The cannon grim and terrible, Has cooled its fiery breath ; No more its awful shot and shell Spread devastating death. No more the sadly maimed or dead In countless numbers fell, The cannon's gone ; we've now instead A woman's parasol. Upon the overcrowded street, Where hundreds must convene, Oh, there is where you're sure to meet This terrible machine. And as it sweeps in beauty by, Of high and low—yea, all— 'Tis very sure to catch the eyo, This woman's parasol. Yon hear a great deal about the pinching and saving and hard work of the farmer, but if you go to his house you will often find that it is his wife and daughters who have pinched and saved and skimped enough to buy the new organ or the new carpet, and who have paid for the new pictures of father and mother that hang on the beet. room wall. A farmer's wife says little about it, but with her butter money and egg money she often accomplishes as much as her oomplaning husband.- Atchi-son Globe. Mise Gwendoline Caldwell, the Amerioan heiress, who was engaged to—but did not marry—Prince Murat, has a sister equally rich, who is soon to marry Baron von Zeobnitz, the•German Minister in Mexico. The Baron is rich and of a very old family, and his future bride, Miss Mary Elizabeth Breokenridge Caldwell, is one of the ten richest girls in the States. After the Murat dieappointment it was said that Mies Gwendoline Caldwell would take the veil like her friend and fellow -country woman, Miss Drexel, who entered a sisterhood and preeented her entire fortune—some n5,000,- 000—to the Church. But Gwendoline has thought better of the convent plan, and now proposes to accompany her sister to the City of Mexico when she is married. • !i Balloon Adventure. Two Austrian officers belonging to the army railway regiment made an interest- ing aeronautic voyage on Friday night in the military balloon "Radezky." They as. oended from the Prater at 9 o'clock in the evening, intending only to make a short voyage. They were, however, surprised by a high wind, and carried up into the Blonde, which were so donde that they Wild no longer see to guide the balloon, and were constrained to remain afloat till morning. At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning they dos- oended safely near the village of Braozkow, in Posen, a distance of pearly 350 miles, being a journey of 15 hours by express train. This is said to be one of the longest aeronautic voyages on record. The balloon carried four odrrier.pigeons, which returned to the plane of departure between 8 and 9 in the morning. They bore no meesages, however, as the tail feathers on which the mieeivos had. been fastened were missing. Telegrams received from the officers state that the voyage was throughout most ex- oiting.—St. James' Gazette. Be Sat Behind tier. ,Henderson -•-That wee a good thing your wife got off at the theatre last night. 11 pleased Me ever so much. WMMliamemi,-Whitt was it? Etenderson-Her bonnet. Girls swim more gracefully than Wye. TUB 1JIW 1T,14GLIlH STINEr*i. I1 'Weighs. ]eight Pounds and 'pgli} itain Bullets at 3,600 Yards. An oflloiel, army order givea all the detailo of the, Mechanism, of the new maga. zine .ride with vehicle the army ie to be supplied. The weight, with magazine (empty), is 9 pounds 8 ounces, the new sword bayonet 15,E onnoee, the eoabbard 4a ounces, the magazine when filled with eight. cartridges :13 ounoee,' The length of the 'rifle 10 four feet' one inob, and the sword bays;net one foot torr inches. The magazine oortaiets of a sheet steel box inserted from under the body in front of the trigger guard through an opening in the; body. It is held in position by a spring in the body engaging in a notch on the magazine. It will contain eight cartridges, and may be filled when in position in'the rifle, or when detached by inserting the cartridges one by one. A spring at the bottom of the mage. zine presses upward a moveable platform, forcing a column of cartridges also upward. A "out off! is fitted to the right side of the body, which when pressed in- ward slope the supply of cartridges from the magazine, sothat the arm may then bo used as a single loader. When the "out off " is pulled out the lower edge of the bolt on being driven forward engages the top edge of the uppermost cartridge in the magazine and forces it into the chamber, and so on till the magazine can be removed by pressing a small lever Meade the trigger guard. One magazine is attached to each rifle, being secured from lose by a ohain link. A spare msgazine is also issued with each arm. The stock, like that of the Martini,.: Henry rifle, is in two pieces, the fore -end and the butt. Under the hinder part of the email of the butt ie a projection form- ing a so-called "pistol grip." The butt is secured to the body by a " stook bolt." The bntt•plate is fitted with a trap giving so - cess to the unoccupied portion of the stock - bolt recess, which is arranged to contain an oil bottle and a jag. The rifle is provided with two sets of sights. The foresight and the backsight are fixed in the usual position on the barrel. The foresight is a equstre block with a ver- tical cut through it, showing a fine line of sight. Aim ie taken by fitting this square in a oorreeponding square notch in the backeight, so that lines of light in equal width may be seen on each eide of it, and aligning the central line of light on the point to be hit. The lowest or ".fixing sight" is that for 300 yards. Using, this sight, a head and shoulder figure can be hit at any distance between 375 and 150 yards, while a six-foot figure can be hit up to about 500 yards without in either oase aiming off the figures. The highest gradation is for 1,900 yards. The rifle is also fitted with extreme range sights. The front .sight, which is called the dial sight, is graduated from 1,800 yards up to 3,500 yards. There are two kinds of ammunition pouches, one bolding 40 rounds and the other 50. The cartridgeis made of solid drawn brass and is charged with ordinary gunpowder pressed into the form of a bullet, with both ends slightly rounded. Manchester Guardian. Chinese Tea. Experts in tea in Shanghai look, it ap- pears, on the growing taste for the rough Indian and Ceylon teas in this country as an evidence of our vitiated palates. It is, according to them, pretty much the case of a man who has become so much accus- tomed to brandy that fine hook or claret would be wasted upon him. The finest Chinese teas are, according to these know- ing persons, still without a rival ; but tbese go to Ruesia, where the tea -drinkers willingly pay a shilling a pound more for choice Ningchow than own be got, for it in our markets. Unfortuuately the Chinese tea cultivation has fallen upon evil days. The tea season of 1889.90 has, according to Consul Carlen, been "the most unsatis- factory ever known." The first crop was one of the largest, but also unluckily one of the worst on record, the greater part be- ing damaged by rain or spoiled in prepar• ing. The fine teas, of which the supplies this time were very limited, were seoared by Russian buyers at high rates.—London Daily News. An Amateur's Stained -Glass Idea. Stained-glass panels,traneoms or valances over doors or windows aro expensive, bat we eaw a rather clever idea the other day by an smatenr, which is not costly, and therefore is worth mentioning. He had collected a varigated lot of scraps of colored glees, no pieces being larger than 2x3 inches, some egnare, some in long slivers, in fact, in any shapes which a glazier's refuse stock would yield ; in each piece he bored three or four holes around the edges, and thus strung the pieces together with fine wire into a net work to fit within a a wooden frame of a desired size. The effect of this panel at a window was simply dazzling in its glintful brilliancy. A stony Barometer. A Finland paper mentions a curious stone in the northern part of that country which serves the people instead of a barom- eter. This atone, which the call " Ilma. kinr," tame black, or blaokiah gray, when foal weather is approaching; fine weather has the effect of turning it almost white. The Fins regard the stone with supereti- tions reverence, bet the scientists say that its changes in Dolor are due to the salts contained in its composition. Baby's Recognition. " Oh," says mamma to her hneband, " each good news! Baby talks. He has jag said his first words." "Really ?" " Yea; just fanoy. Wo were at the monkey cage in the park, when baby Dried out: 'Ah, papa!'" Advertising for a Husband. In the " wanted " columns of a German contemporary is the following announce- ment : " A pretty widow, with three ebil- ,dren from 8 to 12 years of age and a flour- ishing estate, with a cow and 100 thalersin hard cash, can be married at once.: Offers to be made to Mill."—London Daily Naas. The Chicago theosophists have passed a resolution oondemning the praotioe of hypnotism or meemerism, alleging it 10 be a source of serious moral and physical evil, the more dangerous became so little under- stood and beyond the complete control of its practitioners. A monument in memory of Todloben has been erected at Sebastopol. During a hunt a lieutenant fired at a rabbit, but missed it and narrowly missed the Major of his regiment, who was in front of him. " Donnerwetter l" exclaimed the major. "I say, lieutenant, are yea shoot- ing at rabbits or for poomotion 7'! The experiment of tanning leather with palmetto toots hes been suoces fully tried in Florida. T'he'leather thus. tanned was as a0ft and pliablo as the bract Dalt-akin. Progressive doctors now tiireot nurses to arrange bunches of pine branches with the stems in large water.bowls to be placed in the aiok-room, ' 1101030704 OF 4 Til IK ritIi JAIL. Whore & Fifteen Iiltform Vuo inateslop, 1a Heeded. A. Londou cable says : A epeoial oorrain pendent of the Daily News has emoceeded in obtaining' admission to the 'Toikieh prison at Uekub, Macedonia, a town dl European Turkey. Ile found that the building eon.. Mined 149 oche, which were 000upied by 1,811 prisoners, or over twelve to a Dell, As it rule the unfortunate viotirfs aro sent there to be confined Low one to ten years each, bat so. great are rh car enfforings arising from the barbarity of ,.hir keepers rind the .total disregard by t4w. latter ot all sanitary laws, that one rarej;i' tin lives five .ears. In one ' y cell, two ani r; half yards square, the oorrespondent die eared nearly a score of poor wretches ptotang for air and starving for food, having .dtr ,the way of the natter nothing but breed and water. The greater number were stere. naked and chained by the ankle and wrist, As if the jailers were unable to iniliot' tortures enough on their victims in the dews already deaoribed the correspondent fused a series of underground cells, said to be reserved for the worat prisoners,where r., e,lsing in total darkness were those whom Tn t kieh tyranny had singled out for especial barbarity. In order to force confessions, which oonfes- pions would have proved useful to those in power, the aid of the ant is called in. These ineeots are kept in small boxet.. for the pur- pose, and 50 of them are pieced atone time on the nailed body at the prisoner whom it is desired to torture- It is also customary to chain men all day in the scorching awn in snoh a way that they are unable to move. WANT THE FRANCHISE.. Brussels Soclaliets Demonstrate and Give Leopold a Hint. A Brussels cable says : Forty thousand persons took part in yesterday's Socialist demonstration in behalf of universal suffrage. A large number of people from the provinces participated in the parade. There were many women in line. The troops were confined to their berraoka all day. The police patrolled the streets, but everything was orderly. The route was thronged with sympathetic onlookers. .a terrific storm which Dame up at 1 o'clock caused the procession to disperse, but when the rain ceased the paraders re-formed their ranks and marched to St. Gille's park, where they were addressed by the leaders of the movement. Another shower finally dispersed the crowd. Delegates from the Labor and Progressist parties met in the evening and sent the following despatoh to King Leopold : " You have naked what is the country's watchword. It is universal suffrage." Violent revoluntionary speeches were made by several delegates. It was resolved to summon & congress to sit from September 10th to the 15th to consider the subject of a general strike. A GRAVEYARD EXPLODES. Natural Gas Bursts Up Ten Acres of a Bury- ing Ground in Indlana. A Shelbyville, Ind., despatch says: At 9 o'clock yesterday morning the farmers near Waldron, in this county, were etartled by a terrifle explosion. 'When they reached the Ogden graveyard, which is on a bluff near the Flat Rook stream, they discovered that folly ten acres of the earth was in a commotion. Geysers were shooting up to the height of six and eight feet, and gas was blazing from ten to fifteen feat above the water of the geysers. The river bed was torn up and the water Ltd stopped running below the graveyard. Flames are still shooting from 50 different fissures in the earth. The county had not been con- sidered in the gas belt, although local com- panies had sunk shafts. The skeletons of the dead can be distinctly seen in the frac- tures of the earth. Gas flows freely from the entire surface of ton aures. Stones were thrown two miles. Tho whole county was shaken up and the excitement is tre- mendous. Reparation for an Insult. A Washington despatoh says : Oh Friday the State Department received a telegram from Minister Mieener, at La Libertad, saying that during a battle in the city of San Salvador the forces of the Provisional Government seized the U. S. Consulate in that city, hauled down the flag and dam. aged the property. The department in. strutted Mr. Misener to demand full reparation, and to see that all rights of the United States and its citizens were observed. Last night the department received word from Mr. Mieener that the Provisional Government of San Salvador had hoisted our flag over the United States Consulate the day before, at the same time saluting it with 21 guns, and the con- sul had been reinstated, and the rights of the United States and its citizens were guaranteed. Members of Parliament Exchange Com- pliments. A London Cable says : There wee an ex- citing scene in the House of Commons this evening. Home Secretary Matthews was replying to speakers who had censured his dealings in capital sentences when Dr. Tanner, member for Cork, broke in with How about Dungervin ?" Mr. Matthews retorted, " I don't know who that vulgar interrupter is." Tanner appealed to the chairman, who guardedly justified Mat- thews' language. Tanner thereupon shouted at the top of his voice, "Mr. Matthews is the meanest and lowest skunk that ever sat on the treasury bench." The ohairman called upon Tanner to withdraw the ex- pression and to apologise. Tanner at first refusedto do so unless Matthews also apologised, but finally, on the advice of Mr. Sexton, be made an apology. Steer Clear of Icebergs. While the steamer Portia was making the voyage from Newfoundland to Halifax last week, the captain sailed alongside of a large iceberg that was in tbe track, pre. enmably to allow the passengers to examine the monster closely. While the steamer was close by the iceberg split into three pieces, with a tremendous oraeh. One of these pieces rose nndor the Portia lifting the vessel clear out of the water. The swell created by the collapse of the huge berg floated the Portia off, and pre.` vented a frightful disaster. The morel le that vessels ehonld give ioeberge a wide berth: —It ooanrred in the nursery, and the new baby at a neighbor's house was being dia. cawed. Nnree—" And would yon like to have a little sister, too, Tommy. Tommy —" Oh, yes; lot's git one and sdrprise mamma when she comes home." Physicians say that oases of norvono prostration are lees frequent sinoelow 110010 have come into more general uso. In the new audio -telephone that has recently appeared in England the prinolpal characteristic is the mouthpiece, the par. tionlar advantage of which is that it intelt•, Gilles the sound waves, making it possible *Cl carry on a conversation in an ordinary tone of voiee.