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The Exeter Times, 1885-8-6, Page 2rUBS OF SOLID SALT. anew, leateonai enriositp in Afghan• lstw►. Meeting of the Royal Geographi- , London, the other evening, Sir en read ,paper on the countries a had recently visited west of He gave tan interesting de- g f the geography , of theurghala the ouatoms of its people, and liegiugulisr account of the Namakser, es of rar-oilan, visited and ile- us by Capt. rate :— often means "the sunken ground," word can better .describe the gener- ae of the valley of these lakes. length of the valley from the Kan - on the west of the Band-i-Dozan which It on the east, is about 30 miles, and t breadth about 11 ,riles, dividing o parte by a connecting ridge which across from north to aouth, with an of about 1.,800 feet, but has a narrow rises to some 400 feet above the gen- rage: To the west of this ridge lies from which the Tokio Turkomans Margot their salt. The valley of thie la some nix rnilea square, and is sur - ed on all sides by a steep, almost pre - descent, impassable for baggage ale, so far as I am aware, except by the road, in the northeast corner. The the lake I made to be about 1,430 TO the sea level, which givea it a of some 400 feet from the level of eating ridge, and o£ some 950 feet be general plateau. The lake itself the centre of the basin above de. and the supply of salt in it is appar• y 'unlimited.. The bed of the lake is one d mass of hard salt, perfectly level and ererl only by orae or two inches of water. ride over it was like riding over ice or ce- t; the bottom wan covered with a alight ent, but when that was scraped away pure white salt ,hone ant below. How ;+sp this deposit may be it is lmposaiblo to for no one has yet got to the better, of To the oast of the dividing ridge is the d lake, from which the Saryka of n Iden take their salt. The valley in this lake is situated is much the larger two. The valley proper is iteeif come miler in length by about ten miles in th. The descent to it is precipltoua on meth and went sides (rnly, the eastern s ath-eastern end sloping gradually up suooesadon of undulations. The level lake is apparently lower than that of other; I made it out to be aome 800 feet ee iealevel. The salt in this lake isnot ;smooth as in the other, and did not look pure. It dug out in flake' or strata,. nersily of some four inches In thickness, loaded into bags, and carried oft on wa- fer sale without further preparation. Bueaisn Topics. om the moment the news of Mr. Glad- 's defeat reached St. Petersburg, the tical atmosphere changed Al if by magic. F talk of war, which during the last ` had quite ceased, is everywhere re- , :and the coming struggle again forma bjeot of conversation to the exclusion of the cholera and the inoculation of Ise. There is no doubt that the pre - tions for war, which have been carried t.1y in the careless, lackadaiaicai way 'ar to the Rusaiane, will be resumed more energy. If England bran no ue obstacle to the present project for line which gives Zulfikar and Moruchak the Russians, moat likely hostilities will postponed. Resale, is accused of encroach - more end more, but if any one is interest- inough in the subject to go into all the ails, he will be convinced that without territory claimed by Russia her aoquis- os in Central Asia would be almost 'useless ler. iaffirm that Russia desires to begin a zona and endless war with such an oppo- t as England in the present deplorable e of the Russian finances is to prove one's strangely ignorant of affairs in this ,try, and greatly to exaggerate the im- Fece attributed to the Central Asian -eata. The real interests of Russia are e Black Sea, and her dreams are of Con- tinople, not of Herat or even India. re storm of the 29th of May was "an ill that blew nobody any good." It caused wreck of the ironclad Kremlin in the ic, it canoed great mischief in the mill - port of Cronstadt, and it made the Neva r the streets of the capital. The equip - of the Kremlin was saved, and that al is being taken off the sand bank where ;uck and ignominiously tugged back pori. The Kremlin has a queer repute - it never goes outpf harbor but it gets some terrific serape. Of all ships ever it is the ugliest, and, except perhaps smous yacht Livadia, certainly the most eldy. Since the opening of the canal h permits the largest ships to enter her )r, St. Petersburg has put on an air of ation before quite foreign to this capital. possibility of sending goods without dia- ;mg them at Cronstadt will no doubt ly contribute to raise the commercial rtance of St. Petersburg. Cronstadt v to be exclusively devoted to military )nes. -�•��11.N1M1�•►M • A Legend Cup. a grand English collection of • such y and note -worthy relics is a stork ing-cup. On Its beak it bears an in - in swaddling -clothes, representing, an it German nursery belief that the king. storks is the bringer and protector of I. Very heavily phased is thi being left free from au quaint an Wish. is LIGHTNING} I'ktEAKS, Lightning struck a Chinese restaurant in Helena, Montana, and Ong Ong Jonk's face was changed from copper oolor to blaek, but he was uninjured. A colored man and his wife and child, were sitting upon a waggon seat, driving a mule, at Dermott, Ark., when a lightning bolt killed both of the parents and the mule, while the child tramped entirely, Aaron Lowe's cat had her hair singed off from her entire body by lightning, while Mrs. Lowe and her mother were thrown to thefioorof the sitting room of their home in New Haven when lightning struck the house. A little detached cloud hovered over Baker Hollow, near Brooklyn, and threw out from every side zigzag flashes of electricity that made it appear like au immense fire wheel. Ezra Foster went to his window to get a good view, when a bolt passed through hia head from ear to ear and killed him. Lightning woke up John Rouen of Ark- wright, N, Y. He found himself paralyzed and sibs wife unconscious by his side. After they were able to get out of bed they found Mrs Housen's bangs bad been burned off and a neat strip of akin taken from her fore- head, while the husband had severe burns on his arm, shoulder, and leg. Thomas H. Malony had just atepped on a rail of one of the switches of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, at Chattanooga, Tenn., when there mama blludiug Oaah, and he fell dead instantly. The lightning struck the rail, entered l4Talony'e body by the heel, cut gide shoe as if with a knife, cut his clothes open, and took the crown out of his hat, Dan Stone's umbrella was turned inside out and the cloth cut into ribbons by light- ning at (ltiefield. Then It ran down his erns and split open his bend, and so thoroughly destroyed a peck baaket he was carrying that no vestige of it could he found. Every seam of his shoes was cut open as clean as though cut with a knife, but without injury to the leather. ile aurviveu. A Frenoh-Canadian Bride - At ono of the smaller landings, where the boat did not usually atop unless signaled, a urea was soon, standing gesticulating wildly, The captain °ams forward and with an amused expression of oonntenance informed the passenger, that he knew from the excit- ed state the individual was in that a wedding party was coming on board. And his prog. noatioation was soon verified, for as soon as the boat touched the landing a motley pro- oession came trooping down—old and young and middle-aged, from the infant in arms to the aged couple, who, John. Anderson like, wore tottering down. The procession was headed by the bride and groom, the latter looking excessively uncomfortable and out of piece in his "" dressed up" condition; but the bride presented a great contrast to her new -made lord ; her self-eatiafaction was supreme. An the captain remarked, "If you really want to witness happineaa and con- tentment, you mast see a French-Canadian bride from the rural districts. She has at- tained to the height of her ambition ; she is at last decked out in bridal finery." She went straight for the saloon after coming on board, and looked round a little nervously at drat, then eat frigidly down on the extreme edge of the nearest benab, and cast down her eyes, as was auppoaed, in blushing modesty. But no ! it was not modesty ; it was her shoes upon which her admiring glances were directed. The rent of her costume was commonplace, consisting of a black dress of some cheap ma- terial, which one of the ladies designated as "lustre," She wore a hat trimmed with a wreath of tawdry-lookingpink and bluearti- ficial flowers, while bows of yellowand green ribbon relieved the sombre hue of the dress. But it remained for the shoes to give the true bridal character to this somewhat re- markable toilet. They were of white kid, low cut, with huge rosettes on the instep. Her pedal extremities, which were of rather colosaaI proportions, were augmented by home -knit woollen stockings, whioh appear- ed just a trifle incongruous. Her husband soon joined her, and took a seat beside her, and as he sat speechless, with his wife's hand lying in his own, it was supposed he too was lost in admiration and wonder at the beauty of the slippers. A half-hour late found them in the same position, with the bride still casting loving glances at her feet. When the newly wedded pair left the boat they were met by an old man and a young girl, who, by the way they embraced the bridegroom, were set clown as his father and sister. The former took the bride gently by the hand, who received them with rigid stateliness. The girl timidly ventured to kiss her newly made sister, The caress was passively permitted, not returned, and after- ward deliberately wiped off with a blue cotton pocket -handkerchief, The Iast seen of the kid shoes they were almost invisible as their owner trudged up a steep sandy hill on a hot August afternoon, Looks Like War. A despatch from Teheran states that 1,000 Persians are at work constructing the Trans- Caspian railway. War -like preparations are still being continued by Russia. Rum- ors are ixi circulation in the bazars of Tehe- ran that war will probably occur after the Trans-Caapianrailway is completed toMerv. The Russians are bridging the river Murg- hab on the confines of Afghanistan. Eight hundred Russian infantry are .at Old Sar- akhs. The Persians are fortifying the Per- sian Sa ::. = and building barracks there for een started at He- nna. A St. telegraph What to Take to Picnics. At this season of the year the question what eatables to take to pionies arises so fre- quently that a few suggestions may be ac- ceptable. Many people lose sight of the fact that good bread and butter and cold meat are articles of which there should be en ample supply, even at the cost of going without :some deliceciea. A small spirit - lamp will enable one to get, with very little trouble, a cup of hot tea, coffee, or chocolate; Here ie a short list of good things from which to melte selections for a luncheon in the woods : Buttered thin bread, buttered rolls, pressed chicken, broiled chicken, tongue, ham, pressed corned -beef, sardines, stuffed eggs, hard boiled eggs, broiled smoked sal- mon, pickles, olives, crackers and cheese, orange marmalade, hard gingerbread, cake, oold coffee, cold toe, lemonade, There are many fruit syrupe which, mixed with cold water make palatable drinks. Lemon juice for lemonade should. be extracted at home and carried to the picnic grounds in bottles, The sugar may be put with it or added with the water when ties lemonade is wanted. When ice can be transported the bill of fare may be improved greatly. For example, *dada may be packed in ice, and they will be found tempting when dinner is announc- ed. Ice cream and sherbet also will make the meal seem a hundred per cent. better on a, hot day, and a little ice in the lemonade will make it so much more refreshing as to repay one far the trouble of carrying the ice. But have good bread and butter any- way. It is well to distribute crackers and cheese among the party on first reaching the grounds, so 84 to relieve any feeling of faint - rem, The Apaohe Indians. The Apaches have smoke signals by day and fire beacons at night, and systems of telegraphy understood only by themselves. The displacement and overturning of a few atones on a trail, or a dent or broken twig, is a ante of warning like the bugle call to disciplined troops. The many crosses dot- ting the road -sides of Arizona and New Mexico mark the graves of murdered. men, "The country seems one vast grave -yard," writes. Susan E,,Wallace, "if we may judge by the frequency of these rude memorials." Trained by their mothers to theft and mur- der from childhood, they are inured to all extremes of heat and cold, hunger andthirst, They are cunning as the red fox, insatiate as tigers, and so ingenious in preparing for surprises that they will envelop themselves in a gray blanket and sprinkle it carefully with earth, so as to resemble a granite boul- der, to be passed within a few feet without suspicion. Again, they will cover them. selves with fresh grass, and, lying motion - lees, appear as a natural portion of the field. ......1••••••001MMImo.-.4116., She Caught Him. A certain lady suapeotedthat her husband was in the habit of kissing the nook, a pretty German girl, by the by, and resolved to de- tect him in the act, After watching four days she heard him come theme evening and gently pass through sato thekitahen. Now, Katie wan out that evening and the kitchen was dark, Burning with jealonay, the wife took some matches in her hand, and,haetily placing her shawl over her head, as Katie often did, she entered the kitchen by the back door, and was almost immediately seized and embraced and kiaeed in the most ardent manner. With her heart almost bursting withrage and jealousy, the injured wife prepared to administer a terrible re- buke to her faithful spouse. Tearing her- self from hia embrace, she struck a match and stood face to fade with Katie's beau, one of the factory boys. Her husband says his wife has never treated him so well since the first month they were married as she has for the past week, The Congo. Stanley, the explorer, expresses the opin ion that important steps will be taken this year towards building the railroad past the Congo cataracts 235 miles, The preliminary surveys at least will be made this fall by the engineers who have recently left Belgium to explore the two proposed routes. One route contemplates a through line on the eolith bank from, Noki, near Vivi, to Stanley Pool, to cost about $5,000,000. By the other route it is proposed to follow the north bank to Isangila, then use steam -boats to Many- anga, and lay rails on the south shore from that point to Stanley Pool, at a total cost, it is estimated, of $3,000,000. One of the two surveying parties, under Lieut. Van- develde, left Brussels for the Congo about June 1, and the other, under Capt. Zboinski, started on July 1. The choice between these two routes will depend upon the results of the studies which are soon to be made. Waste of Human Life in Africa. About 900 miles inland of Leopoldville, Africa, Stanley says in his book that he found a band of slave -traders having in their. possession 2,300 captives. " Both banks of the river," he says "showed that 118 villages and forty-three districts had been devast- ated, out of whioh was educed 2,300 females and children, and about 2,000 tusks of ivory. To obtain these they must have shot 2,500 people, while 1,300 more died by the way- side. How many are wounded and die in the forest, or droop to death through an overwhelming sense of their calamities, we do not know, but the outcome from the territory, with its million souls, meat be 5,000 slaves, obtained at the expense of 33, 000 lives!" The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well `ever you do without a thought of fame, 4s at all, it will come because it is e it is sought after, BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Pel, the Paris poisoner, has been granted a new trial by the court of caseation. It is understood at Paris that President Grevy will not be a candidate for re-election. A cloud of grasshoppers about fifteen miles long and two miles wide passed westward through the agate of Coahuila, Mexioo. James. Russel Lowell writes that he is not and has not been, a candidate for • the presi- dency of Cornell university nor for any other position. In the town of Momence, near Kankakee, Illinois, sixty persona were poisoned by eat- ing dried beef supposed to have comeefroru diseased cattle. The treasure thus far discovered by the French in the royal palace at Hue is valued at $2,000,000. The King of Amara is held. a prisoner. Christopher Mann, the oldest man in Mix- semi, is- so. uri, and a companion of Daniel Boone, died at his home near Independence, at the age of 111. Laborers on the Piaheen railway in India are deserting by the hundred on account of the ravages of cholera in the sections through which the road is building. By an arrangement with the Dominion government, twenty thousand Hungarians are to be nettled in the Canadian Pacific railway belt in the Northwest territory. 'Unpopular tax levies caused a serious riot at Lerida, Spain. The military were called out and fired upon the mob, killing three men and wounding a large number. One soldier wax also killed. The indebtedneaa of W. A. Jackson, the abaeonding Texan cattle king, is now known to be at leant $15,000. A more of cattlemen and pleats= are rained by the failure. Jack- son is believed to have carded $100,000 in cash away with him, At Ogden, Utah, Judge Powers, President Cleveland's appointee, from whom the poly. gamista expected clemency, imposed the ex- treme penalty of the law. --.air menthe' im- prisonment and 3300 fine—npon two prom- inent Mormons convicted of illegal oohabi. fatten. At Philadelphia, recently, is hotel runner known as "Charlie the Swede," plunged a knife into the back of Joseph Maguire, with wham he had long been at enmity, and then leaped into the Delaware river aau swam towards Camden. Next morning his dead body was found in the river. Maguire's con- dition is critical. At East Saginaw, Michigan, recently, seer era' hundred strikers visited all the saw -mills and salt works in operation on both sides of the river, and compelled them to ctos°. Mr. Warner, one of the mill -owners, was choked for offering residence, and two negroes, who went to his relief, were roughly handled, At Bay City the strikers merle an orderly street parade, headed by a band of music, after which a committee of their number hold a oonfercnoe with the mill -owners ask- ing that ten hours constitute a day's work and no one be discharged for participation in the strike. No agreement was reached, the mill -owners accepting the first proposi- tion but declining to entertain the second. Canada in. Belgium. A witty correspondent of The Tropical Times, London, Eng., who is "doing" the Antwerp exhibition with his "wicked uncle' and the "editor," after criticising the mean show of the British department at the inter- national exhibition, thus descants about the Canadian court : "Passing from the British Diagraoeries, we enter a really charmingly arranged court. Surely this must be Eng- land too. There are the royal arms, there are the Union Jacks, there are--- But no; two smart men with 'Canada' on their caps keep guard. We are on the ground devot- ed to the moat go ahead of all our colonies, the great Dominion of Canada, The aspect of this court only makes our appreciation of the humiliation to the mother country the greater. Mr Canadian Commissioner Dore deserves well of his Government. Good taste is apparent everywhere, from the neat cases of Canadian wood down to the very entrances and exits. Roast Horse in England. There are many people who prefer horse to beef, but, as it is a point in dispute, a practical step for solving the doubt is being taken in Manchester. A hundred horses are slaughtered in that city every week, and cut up and sold as "butoher'e meat." The trade is carried on in the poor districts where the steaks find ready buyers at prices rang- ing from 5 pence to 8 pence per pound. There can be no pretence for saying that the flesh of a healthy horse is not fit for human food. There are epicures who prefer it to the choicest beef, but it has been their rare good fortune to get " a dainty dish " which does not ordinarily come into the market. The question is not whether the flesh is fit to be eaten, but whether a wholesome animal is killed for sale. It will not pay a butoher to buy a healthy horse to slaughter and retail at prices lower than is paid for beef, and it may therefore be safely assumed that the animals ,which find their way tto the shambles are either diseaeed or so "used up" as to render them quite unsuitable for a poor man's table. There is no doubt then that a cruel fruad is perpetrated upon the buyer of this stuff by the butcher who deals in it, and the only way to check it is by re- gulating the sale under specific conditions, and this is what they are trying to bring about in Manchester. When the restrictions are enforced it will be interesting to note whether horse -flesh at 8 pence per pound can compete with American beef, Nothing cuts like neglect. There is a proverb that it i° pierces the shell of the tor- toise," On the other hand, nothing heal wounds, and _softens trial and cheers the soul like sympathy. Science and Modern Discovery The present occupant of Sir Isaac New- ton's Professorial Chair at Cambridge Uni vereity, Profeaser G. G. Stokes, F. R. S., who is also Secretary of the Royal Society of England, delivered a remarkable address, at the Annual Meeting of the Victoria In stitute, in London. Prof. Stokes gave as important account of the progress of physioal science during the. past quarter of a century, and, reviewing the results, specially noted that as sieentif e truth developed, so had men to give up the idea that there wasanyoppositionbetween the Book of Nature and the Book of Revelation. .He said that for the last twenty years or so one of the moststriking advances in licence had been made in the application of the spectroscope, and in the information obtain- ed with regard to the conatitution of the heavenly bodies. The discovery that there were in these particular chemical elements, which were also present in our earth, exalt- ed our Idea of the universality of the laws of Nature, and there was nothing in that contrary to what he had learned in Revelation, unless we were to say as the heathen did that the God of the Hebrews was the Goal of hills and not of the valleys. En- tering with: some particularity into the con, position of the sun, the Professor mad this gave an ides of an enormous temperature, since iron existed there in a state of vapour. Thia was utterly inconsistent with thepoaei- bshty of the existence there of living being, at all approaching in character to those we Imre here, Are we then to regard this es a waste of materials t Might we not rather argue that as in anima's we ascend by greater specialisation, so we weld consider the differentietfon of office in difierenturem- bora of the eater system as marks of super**.' enity, and oould regard the nun as perform- ing root important fmottoes for thetsyatem? In fact, all life on our earth was ultimately' derived from the radiation of solar beat. Referring to the doctrines of conservation' of energy and of dissipation, of energy, be pointed out at some length how the sun, so for as we could see, was not calculated' for an eternal duration in the same state end performing the same function aa now. We must regard the Universe on a grand scale, end *anthem 'was progress. 11weeontem- plated nothing but periadivity, perbae s we might rest content and think thing, would go on for ever as at present ; but, looking on the state of the Universe on a grand scale as one of progreaa, this idea obliged us to re - far to a First Cause. d r sive An a d ora was delivered rad bY Dr. J. .l<os- lie Porter, President of Queer's College, Bol - fest, the subject being "Egypt Historical and Geographical," is country with whish he bad been thirty year' intimately acquainted. Having referred to the antiquity of Egyp- tian records, which in ao many inetancea bore on the hiatoryofother ancient eau ntriea, he proceeded to describe the various changee through which that country had passed slam its first colonization; and, touching on its physical ,geography, concluded by giving the main results of recent exploration. Ona or two specialatatements may be here record- ed. Dr. Porter said :— " \Vere the Nile, by some oonvulaion of Nature, or by some gi gentic word of engineering skill, --neither of which is impossible,—turned out of he present channel away up to Khartoum, or at any other point aboveWady Hale, Egypt would speedily become desert." No tribut- ary enters the Nile below Berber, that is to say, for the last thousand miles of its course. "The arable land of Egypt is about equal in extant to Yorkshire." The White Nile, issuing from Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza, is broad and deep, never rises above a few feet and supplies the permanent source of the river of Egypt. "The other tributaries produce the inundation." Of these the dhara from the mountains of Abyssinia is the moat fertilising, as it brings down with it a quantity of soil. The depos- it of this soil is slowly raising the bed of the river as well as extending on each aide ; for example, on the plain of Thebes the soil formed by deposits has in 3,500 years en- croached upon the desert a third of a mile, " while the ruins of Hierapolia in the Delta. which once stood above reach of the inunda- tion, are now buried in a mud deposit to a depth of nearly 7 ft," In conclusion, he re- ferred to Egypt and its present condition, saying :--"" The commerce from the upper tributaries of the Nile, and from the wide region of the Soudan, forms an essential factor in the prosperity and progress of Egypt." SCIENTIFIC LAND 'USEFUL. A Texan has just invented a telephoning instrument which can be operated without the use of batteries, and which consists of two ounces of wire, one-half pound of steel and a horseshoe magnet transmitter. The instrument can transmit sound seventy-five miles. Tracing paper may be made by immersing beat tissue paper in a bath composed of turpentine and bleached beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch in diameter dissolved in half a pint of turpentine is said to have good results. The paper should be allowed to dry two or three days before it is used. Forest trees are now filled with dynamite. A cartridge of .the explosive substance is placed in a. channel bored directly, under the tree to be operated upon, and when exploded the tree is simply forced up bodily and falls intact on its side. In moat instances it is found that the tree is not fractured by the force of the explosion. A painless method ofextracting teeth has been invented by a Swiss surgeon. A thick square of rubber is pushed over the tooth The contraction of the rubber gradually lifts the tooth out of its bed, say in four or five days, and neither pain • nor hemorrhage attends the process. It will be a welcome. boon to sufferere. PEOPLE OF NOTE. The great English, painter Millais will soon add another portrait to his brilliant gallery, that of the Prince of Wales. Lord and Lady:Tennyeon are now:at the Isle of Wight, where they will stay several mouths, Lady Tennyson, has been in deli- cate healthier along time, The latent story about Patti, that she was once upon a time a poverty-stricken girl and sang onthe streets for a living, has not a bit of truth in it. Under the care of her excel- lent mother, and afterwards under the care of M. Strakosoh, Patti never lacked either money or comfort. At the funeral of Prince Frederick Charles, the German soldier, and father of the duch- ess of Connaught, the duke of Connaught who is a major -general in the British army, wore the uniform of a Prussian General. A Lancaster boy named Wilkie Collins Barr wrote to Air. Collin; recently for an autograph. The novelist replied : “Two of your names give you a claim to my auto. graph which ought to be the last person living to dispute. But there is another ream aon for my writing to you. I am especially pleased to hear that you like Armadas, for, if I may venture to pronounce an opinion, 1 thick drnwdala the best book that I have written.'" Air; G.W.Smalley, the Londoncorrespond- ent of the Y. ,ZV.;, Tribune ; " The peerages and other boners baatowed by the departing government excite unusual interest. The city is delighted with the reaognitierif'the bowie of the two great bailees of Rothschild and Baring. Sir Nathaniel De Rothschild'a appearance in the House of Lords marks the tote** disappearance of the last remnant of politioai proscription on account of race." Theeharacter of the English Queen is mg - gelded in this note sent fromLondon during the recent oriels: "The Queea'a absence from London is a standing grievance of the Lon- doner. She can not endure London, but she might endure it for a few days. She hates corning to Windsor, because next week is Ascot week, and Ascot is so near Windsor Castle that the noise of racing revelries, by night and by day, only a few miles off, dia- turb, or ere deemed to disturb, the royal re- pose. But if she would come to Laindon for a week, live in Buckingham Palace. give a dinner or two, and drive about London in an open carriage, she might enhance im- mensely both her popularity and the prea- tigo of the crown. A lady In Bath, who is a firm believer in Spiritualiem► was a chet time sgo paperingg bar room, and bad, completed her task all but in ane corner. It was- a difficult plat)* to match and put the paper on amoothly, and it did not appear that the paper would hold out to do the work. The lady wan thinking how she could da it, when the spirit of a deceased and well known painter and, paperer (as she alleges) appeared, and. on recovering from heraurpriseatthe strange appearance of the spirit it bad disappeared, and the paper was on the wall as neatly and as nice as if she had put it there herself. The Canadian Laborenn. To visit the .home of the Canadian laborer, says U. S. Consul Pace, one does not die- oover enough of difference between it and the home of the laborer in the United States to make the description of it a matter of in' tercet to the people, and the same isirrte in reference to their moral and phylicai con- dition. In Ontario there is about the same pro- portion of saving and improvident, of intem- perate and temperate, of virtnaua and vicious, as in the United States. More time is given to recreation, and more money is spent on amusements there, however. The laboring classes do not own their own homes to the ex- tent that the same classes do in the United States. The absence of this incentive to save may account for much of the reckless- neas and apathy that one aeea among the working olasaes in Canada. The hope of bettering their condition or the desire to give their children a better position in life than their own seems to be leas a vital and constant force than with the working classes in the United States. The cause of this is due in a large measure to the old -country idea of the son walking in the footsteps of his father, inheriting his social position and his trade, and therewith being content, A man is a " gentleman " there by act of pediment. The general condition of the masses differs but little from the condition of the same classes in the United States. Their methods of life, their homes, their food, their clothes, are all similar to thoseof the working people across the line, varying with nationality, habits, amount of income, education, and general character. Philanthropists have endeavored to improve the laboring people in Canadian cities provid- ing reading -rooms and libraries and opening cheap coffee houses, where the beat hood, could be obtained at low rates. Attempts have also;, been made to provide cheap and pure amusements for the workmen. But the great defect has been that all the efforts have flown too high. The promoters have adver- tised amusements and given lectures on as- tronomyl They have given notice of a free entertainment and furnished Beethoven piano recitals 1 The provisions for the safety of employes in mills are reported in some cases as wofully inadequate. Some of the railway companies oblige their 'employes on hiring to sign an agreement intended to release them from liability should the employe be injured or killed while in their service, by any cause whatever. The courts, however, have de- cided that, in cases of carelessness on the part of the servants of the road, at .least, such ;contraot shall be no, bar to a suit for damages.