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The Exeter Times, 1885-9-10, Page 2YOUNG rOLKs. The First Tangle-. 0406 is ap Eastern palace wide little girl eat weaving : So patiently her task she plied The wen and woman at her side Flecked round her almost. grieving. "Bow fait, Littl000e," they said, " You always work so cheerily 3 You never seem to break your thread, Or snarl or tangle it, instead Of working smooth end elcariv. "Our weaving gets so worn and soiled. Our silk so frayed and broken, Far all we're fretted, wept andtofled, Wa know the lovely pattern's spoiled Salon the Sing hoe socket)." Tire little child looked in their eyee. So full of care and trouble : And »Ay chased the sweet surprise That Med her own, as sometimes fes The rainbow is a babble. " 1 only go and tell theiiing," She said, abashed and meekly, You know he said in everything-" 00 Why, so do we Y" they cried. " we bring Rim all our troubles weekly f" She turned lair little head aside ; A. moment let them wrangle ; 411, but.,` she edgy then. replied, 1 go and get the k not untied At, the tiratlittle tangle?' O little children—weavers all t Our broidery we spangle With many a tsar that may not fait, U os. our Sing we would but call At the drat %ogle. A iltesry;,Feallvai. A curious festival takes place in the Ger city of Hambrrg, when the ellarriea ripe. It is a feativel for the little folk, v i r ch in a proeeaaien tbrouglx the tit, waving cherry Wien branehes. The berry Festival has been held for alterethetr years, and it servos to put all the peo- e is mind of a victory won by none but e children over an army of fierce men -- old, old story that is very touching end eoeutiful, axed which the eitizecs of Hamburg not wish to forget. In the year I43amb n beats n r g wan Kr a groat army, The army of l lntunite t it !. Rea; its leader remembered iu history se l'r000pino the greet.;,,, The war had boon'. -aging for many years, and on both sides it &d become very bitter and cruel ; and sa be people of Hamburg were terribly afraid, or they meld not hope to hold ant against agreet multitude of men who bad been rained to war. A council of the chief Ott - ens was held to consider what they should lo ; and at length mule one suggested that hey should send out the little children, or when the great army cf soldiers saw them he sight would molt their hearts and they could do no more harm to the town. Then all the children were gathered to - ;ether from their homes, and they were put a order in the streets, and the city gate was awned, and they were told to unwell out ad meet the army. The soldiers lying cut- icle, and who had come to destroy the city d murder all who wore in It, were sur- d to see the gate awing open, and ter still grew their amazement when y saw the little children, clad all in pure hite robes, come forth, and wbcn they d the pattering on the road of little t; and when the little ones drew timidly to their tents, the eyes of the rough acl- tters began to fill with tears, and (as there rare cherry orchards all about) they threw Lown there arms and gathered beautdul xanohes oft the cherry trees, full of fruit, ad sent back the children to their parent's rith answers of peace. ,And that Is why the Hamburg children Own to this very day get their cherry feast very year, and the people tura out to look t them, and think with grateful tears of he army of little ones who gained the sweet, aoodlees battle, and saved the good old town m dcatruction 450 years ago. QUEBEC, W ,ADINGS. ";rkaugkt He'd Just Fetch Her 1Tp to tke Parsons>' A popular preacher was " taking turns" with the hired man in running a lawn-mow- erover his front lawn. Hehad pausedtoeach with a handkerchief a salty pearl of perspire, tion that threatened to drop from his nasal tip to the cavity beneath, and to remark about " all ileah being grate," when a slouchy -looking man stopped at thegate and asked if the preacher lived there. "I want to be married," he explained "and right away, too," The preacher pro- mised to get ready at once, and go to meet the bride with the groom. "You needn't mind puttin' on nothin' or goin' nowhere." said the man "Pat where's the bride +., "She's right here. I left her in the al- ley till I could find you. She's a backward sort of gal, and there's no use trying to get her to no church or into no parlor. But the license is all right, and yon come along and tie the knot." By one of those fortuitous circumstances which so often are meted providentially to the reportorial fraternity, a reporter hap- pened along, and was tailed as a witness. Ile followed the coatleae preacher and the innocent bridegroom to the head of the al- ley, and the groom cheerily called to "Claris" to come out, The papers wore ex- amined, the blanks tilled out in full, and the wedding ceremony performed then and there. " Do you have many calls of this kind+"' was naked ct the preacher. "A great many more than might be ;up - pined. Very often these quiet parties come to my house, usually having drat notified me, and are married in thapreeenoe of a few witnesses. I hada case of this kiod this week, and very reputable people they were. Not long ago I was stopped on the street and called up into a block to marry a cou- ple. After preaounoiag them husband and wife, in accordance with my canteen, I -said 'Let ea pray.' The groom abandoned his bride left her stamdiug in the noddle of the boor, and walked harass the room to a bed, where he knelt throughout prayer. I ad- mired a sentiment whfeh prompted him to a return, no doubt toe boyhood custom, but in pity for the loneliness of the bride 1 made the prayer uaorthodoltly short' "It hasn't been , ten days bias• a bride and brill Broom drove up to any door in delivery wagon. The groom was the regu- lar driver, and npna his rounds, be celled for his Pulcinea and "thought he'd just fetch her right up to the parson s.' He was is his shirt slaves a.xtd work clothes ; she was dressed i% white, with a great cluster of red ribbons knotted at her aide. She iooked and acted the part of a bride, but he wire more Itke a haat year's groom." " Cheats Never Shrive." SohoolBoard Inspector, says an English range, tells the following story : The oompeeition I examined was that of a particnlarly intelligent looking little , with a sallow visage, and lank, red hair, daily employment being to assist his dewed mother, who kept a " leaving shop" o neighborhood. Master Hollier had en for his theme the time honored axiom, heats never thrive," but his treatment of was remarkable chiefly from the circum• ce that he had altogether mistaken the nee in which it is generally applied. 'The way to thrive," wrote the widow's on, "is to make all that you have a chants f making. When you goes to buy a thing, led the man arstes you. ao much, if you do of bate him down then you cheat yourself, 'td so you wont thrive. So the same when bu want to sell a thing, and you do not pt so much as yon might get, though per - pe it might not be wath it to any one at knew, then you will not thrive. It is t" at anybody, but itis very foolish ourself. If any body wants to y money on an article you mite yourself if you lent her mor'n a quarter what she arat, then you ght be sure that you have not cheated 'ourself, and then you will thrive. The ray to thrive is to get all the money that ver you cam—Yours ever trewly, William fugustus Hollier." THE LONELY ARCTIC. Adventure% of the "Alert" Among the Serge During the three long weeks in which we were beast in ice, time hung heavily on our hands, although wo all had some daily duties to perform. O:caalonally we would get a shot at a marry or a gull, or, if the bee opened up a little, a shot at a seal. After II,I.TI{ED'S BIRTH. isreadrul demos or the Irish Rebellion of 1641„ The straggle lasted 11 years. Lord Clare described it in his great apeeoh on the Union as a war of extermination. Sir W. Petty calculated that, out of a population of 1,466,000, as many as 616,000 perished by the sword, pestilence and famine. When tranquility was restored, almost all the land belonging to the Irish In the proviuoea of Ulster, Leinster and Munster was confiscat- ed ; and the province of Connaught,. which had been almost entirely depopulated and leid waste in the pregreas of the rebellion, was selected by Cromwell as the future home of the dieinherited race. The princi ole on which the cm:ate: bone of Cranwell rested were capable of ani wide an apple. tion that hardly any one could escape. In the .drat place, all persona who had taken part in the rebellion before November, 164'2, or who had in any way assisted the rebels before that data, and also some hundred persons belonging to the aristocracy of Ire - tend, wore condemned to death and the absolute lose of their properties. Secondly, all land ownere who had at any time fought either for the rebels or for the Ring against the Parliament were to lose their eetatea, but to receive one-third of their veluel in Connaught land. Lastly, Catholics who had pot rosiated the Parliament, but who had not token the parliamentary side, were to be deprived of their estates, but to receive two-thirde of the video in Connaught. This disinherited people wore ordered to retire to Connaught by a certain day, and were for- bidden to recroas the Shannon on pain of death. This sentence was rigidly enforced until the Restoration, With the return of tiro royal family matters mended a 11tt1e, but no orient; attempt was made to remedy the groes injustice which had beta done by the Commonwealth, The confiscated land had been given either to the soldiers and officers of the Republican army in eatiafac- tiara for arrears of pay, or it waa heldby persons in payment for money in which they advanced with the royal emotion to the Parliament at the beginning of the ia- eurrectian. It would, of oaurae, have been a gross injustice to have disreearded their. iotereate. At the mum time it is quite itn- poealble to defend the act of settlement and explanation by which it was thought to satisfy the various claims to Irish land. New Naval Devices. The demonstrated feet that a huge iran- clad, costing millions of dollars, can be auak by one blow from a properly placed torpedo Inas caused all the heading nations to busy Ithenatelvee with the double problem how to make their own torpedoes effective and how to parry the attacks of an enemy's. France and Ragland have just made two noteworthy contributions to this problem, Dna on the side of attack and the other on that of de- fence. The new Bnglieh device, the invention of a young Australian named 13R1se:.As, who has already the guarantee of a fortune from it, has been tested for several months at Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness, Without going into minute details, it may be briefly living for some time on salt meat,a delicacy described as employing a steam engine for like curried gull or reel pie or boiled seal 1 driving and steering the torpedo toward its flipped was highly appreeiated. For amuse- fasten. fastened t To the drums of the engineiro soda of coils of wire wound on are meat and exercise we were obliged to can- t un- tent ourselves with pitokileg rope quoits on reds n the torpedo machine, and the deok, walling aver the iso, or, when spar- winding of those toile, with their rewind- detck, walurarly kivg large icerpan was near the ship, ing upon the drums of the engine, seta two by a game of 'rounders.' nose who, like snow propellers at work, which drive the myself, belonged to the great order of land otorpedo through the sea with the velocity ater blubbers. would make vain attempts to imf- p se expressone scrin.ew By the getting the the tor- tatethe aaiiorainclimbing aboutthe rigging, pressors a onescrewtsr other tor - and to impress the crew with the idea that pedo is steered. Lights screened from the enemy show its position at night to those we were old hands at it. who direct it, while the very small portion STRANGE ARCTIC $CENEs. above the surface of the water greatly de - But is spite of the occasional tedium of creases the chance of its seasonable detection. our monotonous lift While imprisoned in the Exactly what its capabilities of progress are ice there eras much to interest one who had as never been is Arctic regions before. At can yet hardly be said ; but on each •f times one would be impressed with the the many oaoasions of its trial, the torpedo supernatural thing, which the surroundings tnaohme, which Looked something like the would give. Everything seems odd. and the sectionof a boat, on emerging from the Sheer - world upside down and chaos came again, nese fort ran down a short raifty x to the where nothing was to be seen but ice—ice beach at a speed of forty or fifty miles an everywhere except where the black rooks of hour and plunged into the sea. It is obvin- Resolute Island broke the surface. On the ous that the principle of the new devise is evening of June 21, the longest day of the wholly unlike that of the Whitehead or the year, I remained a long time on deck. It ing torpedo. Indeed, one of its atrik- was bright clear and cold, the thermometer g peculiarities is that since the unwinding at 8 p.m., registering 31 deg. In that region of its tight coils proceeds moat rapidly will the variation of the magnetic needle is very ward the end, the speed of the torpedo will great, being 55 deg. to the west of tree apparently be greatest toward the end of its north. Sunset oeoured about 10 p. ea. on °OT eel or at the time most necessary. that evening. Ttwae difficult almost to con- The satisfaction of the British authorities vine myself, knowing the time of the night, with this new of apparatus is undisguised. that I was not dreaming. And strangest The experience of its inventor in beingWel- of all the nun was setting east of north by corned instead of snubbed is exceptional, compass. It was a weird, eerie, impressive and as a haveonsethe a the British Govern- eceae. It almost seemed that the sun had mint will have the device as its property, dstrayed so far from its course that it would instead of seeing kt taken in tet to some wander off into some infinitude of space and other country, like the Whitehheaead torpedo, never return. Soon after it disappeared and thence served out from a foreign factory behind the ice, as if conquered by obstinate to all who will pay for it. frigidity, the still Arctic twilight shed its The French device is directed to the con - pale light about. Clouds, like a funeral trary purpose, that of diminishing the de - pall, hung over the grave of the extinct atruativeneas of torpedoes, by finding anew prosun. Solemn, mysterious, gigantic icebergs thustitian against them. The substance thus chosen is a moat extraordinary one, moved slowly along, carried on by hidden currents which were powerless on the sur- face. consisting of a composition made from the face. The ghostly procession passed in re- fibre of the husk of the cocoanut. It was of view while our little ship lay motionless in first used as a shield for the nq er blank for- quays, and its extraordinary action under short range by a niue-iuoh gun. In each ceas no sooner had the allot passed through than the cellulose closed up ea firmly that a strong Dan was unable to insert hie arm into the holo. A tank of water was poured upon the place where the shot had entered, and only after several minutes a small amount of water began to trickle through ; and soon the soaking of the cellulose, byaug- menting its volume and density, stopped the slight trickling altogether. The cellulose having thus been proved practically water- tight, the experiment was concluded by showing it to be also incombustible, burning charcoal placed in and around it being unable toset it on fire. IIARPUOtdaG (LOGS. Central American Sport Tor Those Who Anse elle A man who has been engaged in the novel sport of harpooning hogs in Central America tells about it in this way : All the members of our party were at peace with themselves and all the world until the ubiquitous guide made a discovery which turned his yellow face to an ashen hue and brought him from the atreem, where be had gone for water, yelling ; "Chance del month 1 Chance del month 1" A aiender-legged hog was trotting about fifty paces in the frightened man's rear. It had a couple of glittering white tusks on either aide of its jaw which it pr,aooadod to whet on the route of a walnut tree in which Rafael took shelter. "Climb, climb, severs 1" he exoleimed, as soon as he waeaafely out of reach; "there la plenty of them coming. Take up much pow- der and much shots, or they will keep ua treed until we starve." But the more did notenean to be treed at all. They recognized in the aminal the hog against which the harpoons were to be used, and, instead of leaping into a tree, they got into the saddle and unstrapped the apeara, which were beside the guns on the mules backs ready for the march. A patter of little feet in the tercet told that Itafael'a "plenty of them" was coming and Davy' spurred at oucetaward the brute which, was nihil grunting at the foot of the walnut tree. Where it sawn me coming it trotted tsward arse, and it took all my strength in any left Laud to keep my mule from turning tail and bolting. But I kept her head well to it, and as the boar closed with us my blade caught him close at the baseaf the scull and shared away the skin along hie spine clear to the tail, It was awkward work for green hand, rand if my mule hail not aided violently to one side the rush of the pig would have certainly broken hie fora leg. The first taste of the harpoon seemed to make the brute furious, and with blood streaming down his back he name book at me gnashing Ma tusks with a noise like the rattle of a pair of bones at tha Minstrels'. This time I missed him altogether, and his sharp teeth took a. couple of square inches of akin from my mule's (Zion leg. Ilut at the third charge I gave him the harpoon at;uere in the eye. He reared up an his baunchee and fell over backward, taking the lance. out of my hand in his fall, By this time Smith had closed with the leaders of the drove, which had broken cover when they heard the straggle going on, and I saw there was no time to get out of the saddle and pick up my spear, so I tore my gun out of the fastenings which held it on the eaddlebehindmeand put n load of buck - abet into the throat of the bristly boar who was goring Smith's mule in the rear, After that I had all I could do to take care of my- self. The little beasts, none of them big- ger than an ordinary bulldog, Dame at me like a whirlwind, and for the next 10 minutes I expected to be thrown into the middle of them. The mule was doing bee level best to upset me, and all the indica- tions pointed to her being brought to the ground with broken lege. The skin was torn from her shanks into ribbons, and if I had gone down it would have been all day for me. Smith soon saw that the ease was too serious to trust to the harpoons any longer, and, after sticking one through the neck, he threw the spear away and joined me in thinning the drove out with his rifle. This was quicker work, and after we had bowled over six and wounded several more the whole party beoame panics stricken and raced away into the woods like so many deer. Horace Walpole relates that when the ,eautiful Countess of Suffolk married Mr. toward they were both so poor that they rent to Hanover, before Queen Anne's Leath, to pay court to the future Royal h amily. Having a : party to dinner, and" eing disappointed of a remittance, the ountess was forced to sell her hair to fur- bish the entertainment.' Long wigs were hen in fashion, and her hair, being very ung, fine, and fair, produced her twenty founds. icy fetters, Resolution Island, these circumstances caused it to be applied bidding, looked like the evil genius of this strange scene. Later on the moon rose and to the protection of vesaeIs. In pulverized filtered pale, flickering rays through the cocoanut tissue there Hee an extraordinary byhog- clouds which, mixed with the peculiar Arc- counterpoise to the damage caused to ins tic glow, made the most singular and super tile shot entering at or below the waterline. natural light I have ever neat). In sunray experiments at Toulon a target was composed of a felt -like mass of this cel - FOREIGN WHOMThe newspapers of the world have just been reckoned up at about 35,000, thus giv- ing one to every 28,000 inhabitants.FrommUnder seventeen was the Fromm girl who savagely murdered her father with a club because he would not let her marry her sweetheart. The Prince of Wales goes toNorwey and Sweden next month to s*e a regatta of a yacht club which has Ring Oscar for a Com- modore, and to hunt elk with a royal party. Artificial honey imported into England from this country has been found, on analy- sis, to be made of wheat or corn starch treated with oxalic acid. This fraud can- not be detected by the taste. President Cleveland keeps a scrap book of excerpts from the newspapers in order to be informed of all sorts of public, opinion. It is one olork'a sole employment to collect and preserve these things. The new Australian Cardinal, Patrick a Moran, inephew of the late Cardinal Cullen, and was born in Ireland 56 years ago, his mother being sister to the eminent Irish churchman and his father a prosperous farmer, The French militia having shown them- e/Mee in thirteen days of camp training are by competent critics pronaunoed mare like hastily reload bands than, an army, so poor was their discipline, and ao lacking were they in skill, A than became bankrupt with liabilities of 20,000, and in the settlement of the estate, which yielded 78 per cont. to the creditors, the Gaeta of the adtniniatration amounted to less than 83, This happonod away oil In Smaland, Sweden. .b'oaquin Miller tells how he and Bret Herts stood ;AL tomb of Dickens. "ilia' left hand sought minein silenoe," says Mill - or, in describing the na.omentoua occasion;' "hie eyes filled with tears. We lead never poen Mende before." Tho American Medical Missionary Soofoty organized •in Chicago, aims to provide med. feel men and women who will devote them - oleo to the work of healing the body: and thus be auxilfaary ea the mieionarie who work far settle. A nearly perfect skeleton of the ma- aasauruawas recently diaeoveredin equerry Helmut, Mons,. in the province of aut, Belgium. It baa an extaordinzry lengthh of 55 feet ll Inches. It is to be preserved in the Natural History Aluseum, Brands.Long ago tate .Portuguese supremacy In the Inman Cathalia church in India was bestowed by the rope, as against the Jesu. in, who are now revolting under his con- trol, and the coafliot tan mod to be the moat bitter ever known within the Church. .4. seemingly dead pigeon was pick• el up from the oceen near Dover, England, but le revived while lying in the atm, and proved to be a carrier pigeon with a letter. The bird had been waylaid by a hawk while .fly- ingfrom its master's yacht to his home. The lately diseased Anna, Counters of Mersin, widow of the ArandnkeJohn of Aua- ttaiia, was famous in her youth for a beauty which gained her an arhatooratic husband, by enchanting him suddenly as he stopped at the small Post Office kept by her father, Two New England paetarsexchanged put - pits, and one delivered a sermon which the congregation had within a month heard from the mouth of the other. The Baptiat Weekly vouches for this story, and would like to know the real author of the discourse. Being informed that amen whom he had discharged for drunkenness was the eels auppr,rt of a wife and six children, a Lowell mill superintendent replied: "It happens that the man who takes the place has a wife and seven children. It should he borne in mind that every expulsion of a bummer makes a job for a decent worker." The Chines Viceroy of Chen.ai and Kan- sa explains that the earthquakeazrhioh have done much damage in his jurisdiction were chiefly ccoasioted by the mildnsss of the winter, which caused an excess of the yang or male element of nature; but they were due in a measure to the perfunctory perform- ance of their public dntiee by the local offi- cials, who failed to call down the harmonise ing influence of heaven. Lawn tennis was being played on the Long Branch grounds of a wealthy family, and the game struck a speotator as being in.rdi nately elaborate in its movements. Every pose and stir was laboriously careful in its grace, and at the same time there was a atraage disregard of the real progress of the game. A glance at the adjacent veranda re- vealed an amateur photographer making a series of instantaneous views in whioh the players would be shown in a sncoeaaiwn of attitudes. A hundred prepared plates were in the holders, ready to be exposed one after another, and the acheme contemplated the printing of copies from these numerons neg atives so thatevery person portrayed could have a bound volume of the pictures. twenty years' penal servitude he availed con temptuously upon the Judges, and, turning, to his lawyer,, be said, while he shook hands with 1 im in quite a pleasant and somewhat• patronizing manner : "I will see you next year at the same time at the Cafe Morel. au revoir 1" TESTED RECEIPTS, SWEET APPLES BOILBn.—Prepare one dozen sweet apples the same as to bake; place in a kettle and sprinkle one large spoonful of sugar over them; pour on enough water to Dover, and Dover close and boll until a fork will go through them easy ; take them out carefully with a fork, drain well, and place on a plate; leave your kettle over the fire and boll your juice down to a thick syrup and pour aver the apples. Best cold. BLEED Sor n APPLES. =Peel nice tart apples, leave whole, remove the cora by running a narrow knife around it, set on a deep pie plate and fill the holes with sugar; drop on the sugar in each apple three or four drop of lemon extract or grate nutmeg over theta; pour one teaspoonful of water on each apple; bake in a moderately hot oven ;, serve cold; very nice, Try them. mes1 MElo*s ,AI T) CnZAX. .. Tal[a a nice ripe melon, cut is amen squares, cover thele with white sugar and poureweet cream over them; as nice as peaches. Ra nur:le ll's Coos. ---One coffee cupbutter, Dna of tbiok sour cream, two of white attar three egga, one small teaspoon of eocKouo nutmeg or one tabieapoon of lemon extract; do not roll too thin; bake in a quick oven ; for eXtra oceaalons wine% you get them roll led out cover lightly with grannlatsd auger; roll it in, and when baked cool separatety, and you have cool+fes you need not fear to have oriticleed, How T4 COPE PLnTAToS .—Don't polymer es potatoand throw away the beat part of them, but prepare them nicely "with their orate on," steam them until done; remove their skins with a knife and fork; place in a tureen or platter; spread butter on them quite freely; sprinkle with salt andpepper set in the oven one. moment to melt the but- ter ; ut•ter; then pour over them a liberal quantity of awed gleam ; serve immediately. Aa Anaslltkar.a 1'OrATO Peemen.—First boil two pounds of white potatcee, then pen end beat them in a mortar, small as not to be diseorered what they are; thea taken pound of butter end mix with it with the yelks of eight eggs and the whiten of three beat them very well and mix in a pint of cream and heli a pint of milk, a pound of re. fined sugar with a little maraud Plaice; bake it. AWlurr a SILLAurn.--bloat apint of cream' five spoonfuls of orange juice, the whites o two eggs, and throe mune of treble refined sugar together, with the whisk, till a gocd anon froth doth arise, then senor it, and put glance into your glaoa for use. A Cream; Pep1)IYG.—Take a quart of cream and beat three or four spoonfuls of flour of rico, a penny loaf grated end eleven egge, then put fn a little orange flower water, auger, nutmegs, mace and cinnamon\butter ye cloth and lye It up, but not to clans ; put bin when ye pot holies, toil it one hour, then turn it out into yo dish, stick os. i.. sliced citrons and pour over it butter and orange dower water, Iemon juice and auger. Unselfish Heroes. When, at the battle of Zutphen, the wounded Sir Philip Sidney was given water to quench his thirst he is recorded to have handed it untested to a dying soldier near him with the exclamation, "Thy necessity is greater than mine." A similar instance of unselfish thoughtfulness during suffering is recorded of the gallant Sir Ralph Aber- cromby. Being mortally wounded at the battle of Aboukir, he was placed on slitter and taken onboard O. ship then lying in the harbor. To raise his head and thus to place him in a more comfortable position, some one took a. blanket from a soldier who was standing by and put it under the hero as a pillow, Sir Ralph immediately experienced great relief from its use, and asked what it was. "It's only a soldier's blanket," was the reply. "Yes," skid the General, "but whose blanket is it ? " "Oh?' said the person addressed, "only one of the men's." " I wish," persisted the dying officer, "to be told the home of the man whose blanket this is.» "Well, then, Sir Ralph, it belongs to Dun - eau Roy, of the 42nd." "Then see," answered the thoughtful old veteran, "that Duncan Roy gets back his blanket this very night 1" It 16 said :that during the last twenty gulose, as it ie called, fourteen parts being yearsthere has been taken from the Sierra ground husk, and one part the fibre, which forests on Lake Tahoe and the Truckee ba- helps to . hold the mass together like hair in sin timber amounting in value to 5800,000,- mortar. ' The target, which was about two 000 and paid for at the Virginia (1" -,vada) feet think, as representing the lining that mines. would be given to a vessel,was perforated at The Body's Tolerance. Sometimes a alight blow on the head has reenited in death, or, what is worse, in the permanent loas of reason. A mere match on the hand, or a sliver in the foot, or a grain of dust lodging in the eye, or the tint eat fishbone entering the wind -pipe, has proved fatal, Such facts may lead us to ea- cept the poet's statement, "The spider's moat attenuated thread is cord, is cable, to man's hold on life." But there is another class of facto quite as surprising, that are different from these. An iron bar has been driven through the brain, with a considerable lose of brain sub- stance, and yetno permanent harm has come to body or to mind. The fact is, while a mere prick in a particular part of the brain (the medulla oblongata) may cause death, the great bulk of the brain is exceedingly tolerant of many forms of injury. Even the heart is march more tolerant than is generally thought. The physician may thrust his fine instrument through it with safety. An insane woman sought to kill herself by piercing it with a hairpin, but wholly failed of her purpose, although the pin interfered with the natural movements of the heart. A woman swallowed a paper of pins. The pins traversed various organs and tissues of the body, and yet she recovered from the local inflammation. A boy was brought to the hospital insen- sible, and nearly dead from asphyxia (want of breath). The doctor having run a cath- eter down the wind -pipe, a pieoe of.chea- nut was coughed up. The next day there was evidence that another piece was lodged — in another of the bronchial tubes. It was impossible to dislodge it. There followed all the symptoms of acute consumption (pthisis) : high temperature, sweating, ema- ciation, copious expectoration of offensive matter, and a large cavity. Yet the boy in three months returned home convalescent, the cavity had disap peered. White frocks are worn to excess in Eng- nd. The heir to Mr, W. E. Gladstone's Ha warden estate in England was born only last month. A smart thief has just been convicted in the Rhone Assize Court. His real name is Gresilion, but he travelled under the name of Walton, and pretended to be a rich Enyr: Lishman. He affected the accent and ma ners of the Britisher, played high, and lit rd in the fastest style. In reality he was a convict who had several times been arrested for theft and robbery. One of his recent ex- ploits was to rob the safe of the prison of Chiavari, in Corsica, where he was a prison- er, and from which he escaped with the. funds. He was arrested on a charge of rob bing several churches in the Department of the Rhone, and was tried upon one of these charges. His manner in court was cool and impudent. He was arrested at the Cafe Morel, one of the most fashionable cafes of Lyons, and when the Court sentenced him to and six months later In 1607 Virginia was colonized by Sir Walter Raleigh; in 1608 Champlain found- ed Quebec ; and the following year New York was settled by the Dutch. To these settlements, in 1620, was added that of Massachusetts after the historic landing. of ,,the "Pilgrim Fathers."