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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-2-18, Page 6AN EGYPTIAN• •.Rcvi.4No Captitin Donellv'a ad PtNonegnanti re- m yawn's, the rapidnOports go14,rumbnog and roaring into ltheitiameramet recetsee of the past subterraloane ^and awakeiiipg a score and mereef eohoee, whin!). were quick ly succeeded Jay thellitnet the shrieks, howls, ep male and exegratione of the wounded and the dying as they fell ohltteriug from their high demi-pig= saddles to the resounding (door of the peeeage, whilet theist) who dur• vived spurred forward over their writhing bodies with. shriller cries still, intent on taking vengeance on the slaughterers of their brethren before they oould reload, But Captain Donelly and Pat Monaghan had eix charges yet remaining in their re volvers, and now, stepping suddenly for- ward into view, they discharged them full in the faces and. breasts of their ewarthy foes, when eo near that their tossing and etraining horses' heads were almost within arm's length of their muzzles. Each bullet found its billet on this =ea- sion, anddown went the shrieking Bsdouine, one over the other, and amongst them the santon, with a hole in his throat, out through which the blood gushed like a fountain. As he went crashing down his weight beret open the basket at hie back, and the great flesh colored serpents, gliding forth, sprang upon the fallen men, and the plung- ing, rearing horses, hissing fiercely and buying their poison Emma in their prey. As for the Bedouins who still remained mounted and apparently uninj and, and in number they were but three, they whetted their horses round and galloped back into the darkness of the tomb, whilst giving utter- ance to loud cries of horror and dismay. Ere they had disappeared altogether from view Captain Donelly and Pat were in their saddles and ridieg calmly forward to rejoin Nellie. to PA's suagestion we have got wholly rid of the resettle, for the three who still survive will let us depart in peace, I imagine," said Frank, and then he added, as a puzzled expression came over his fine countenance " I wish that we knew how to recross the mountain, for we are now on the side of the great desert, which stretches for hundreds of leagues to e ard the very centre of Africa," "No, Frank, it cannot be," replied Nellie, "for I feel certain that that fs Cairo which I see over away ender. And there, there are the Pyramids, too'and I feel equally sure that I can just make out a train steam- ing in that direction, the direction of the North Star, which must be Alexandxim ward, I take it," " By all that s glorious, you are right, Nellie, Why, we must have come out on the same slim of the mountain as that at which we entered. We have described the half of a half, or more likely of an oval, within the subterranean. I dared not have hoped for such good fortune. It savee no end of time." " Be the taints, yer honor, an' it's a good (town that we are into the bargaim It's just meself that knows this blessed plum tree, be the bit branch that I tore off in plucking some of the fruit, an' there it lies in the middle of tho track to witness to the truth ov me words," observed Pat, Story d Live and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling Revela- tions in the Career of Arabi Pasha., Byi the 4t4OrOw of " Nnefh,eTIen NIBILIST," "TIE RIM So," " Tem RUSSIAN Su," ETC., ETC. CHAPTER XXIX, the mountains without ever seeing the day - Tau TERRORS OP THE Atenr7illst TOTBs, As he spoke the scorpion eater pointed to a vast fissure that at that point perforated the side of the mountain,- but which wa almost hidden by a luxurient growth o creeping pleats bearing great waxetnlooking flowers. "Have no fear, they are very tame," was the now thoroughly cowed scorpion eater's answer, and the next minute the entire party had plunged into the profound dark nese of the mountain tomb. Nellie, to -her no email terror, for the pitchy blaokness was well calculated to intpire that feeling. As for Pat Monaghan, he was a man of few words, or, when they could be acumen. newly spared, of no words at all; bat this may not have prevented him from thinkinz a great deal, and it would have been wonderful, indeed, if under the circum - stemma his thouehts had been pleasant. These mountains had, indeed, more than come been pointed out to him from the ram- parta that surrounded the Citadel of :Cairo as the haunt of the Djlns or Evil Genii and the Spirits or Giant Devile, who, with their powerful breaths, blow up the desert sands until they overtake and bury travelers be- neath them, and who are, furthermore, the guardians of buried tree.sure. So remem- bering these tales jest when he would have most liked to have forgotten them, Pat Monaghan was not quite im comfortable in his own naiad as when ha had ridden back to encounter with his single arm the three camel and dromedary dere. Great was his relieletherefore when, after they had ridden a Me way through the subterranean, trueting entirely to their horses to follow the one that led, he beard a muttered " Halt I" come back from what he knew to be his master's lips, and then the unmistakable snapping sound of flint and steel. A second Miter there was a star of light which suddenly leapt into aflame as mune kind of a torch was suddenly kindled, and then all three fugitives looked around them in an amazement that was mingled with admiration, for they were in the cen- tre of a vast hall whose walls and even ceilings were covered with paintings, both of animate and inenimte nature, with the color as bright as if they had been laid on yr s terday, yet which Frank Donelly and Nellie Trezarr, at all events, knew must have been antique works of art even in those to us ancient days when the Red Sea waves parted to permit of the goming of tho Is- raelites and rushed together again for the drowning of Phataoh and hie =et. This was not a time, however, for the studying of ancient art, fur the Ileciouine, did they but imagine that they had taken refuge there, might enter the tomb in turn and bestow on them the honor of making it tt eir own. Frank Donelly therefore sternly bade their guide lead on, not before'however, he had remarked that this was the recluse's usual abode, for there Wen sufficient evi- dences of the fact in the few necessaries that it contained, consisting of a mat, a pitcher and a wooden bowl, but even the ordinary Egyptian peasant has nothing more. Holding the torch (which aeomed to be composed of a buadle of sugarcanes bound tightly together and coated thick with a kind of gum) aloft in one hand, the santon atrode on again, his beard still grasped by his captor, who mild now watch the move- ment e of the scorpions as they continued to wander all about his person, apparently at their own sweet will, and which, whenever one ef them approached too near unto his hand, the young officer. dislodged and sent clattering to the ground with the point of his eword, For well he knew that the sting of these hideous vermin is as fatal to a European as a eerpant bite. And new they enter the great painted hall, in the centre of which a vast tomb had evidently once stood, for a wide passage whose wane (where they were not painted) were covered with millions of hieroglyphics, somewhat like those which we re s on Cleo- patra's Needle and the Obelisk of Luxor, yet differing from them in many essential respects. They had got down this high and wide passage very far, when they met a lynx and jackal walking quite amiably side by side, though the two animals are as a rule the emst bitter enemies conceivable. " If these are two of your infernal pets and you dare to set them on us your life shall pay the forfeit, remember , " said Don. elly, fiercely, and at the words the dull red glare that had come into the santon'e eyes died out of them again, leaving them the same dull fishy gray as they had been before. He spoke half a dozen words in shrill tones to the two beasts, at the same time wagging his left arm about with a gesture of menace •' and evidently understanding him, their tails dropped and they slunk away into a narrow side passage, from whose pitch dark depths their eyes presently gleamed like live coals. Nellie) whose heart had palpitated pain- fully at sight of the savage beasts, drew her breath more fri ely when they were gone, but one hour seemed to crowd fast upon the heels of anotiber, for as they presently peer- ed into a second and narrower passage a loud rushing noise greeted their ears, like a flap- ping of ghostly wings, so that Pat began to patter a Pater Neater, making mire that the Afrits, or Giant Devils, were upon them, while Nellie uttered a little scream, and even Frank became utterly disconcerted. Had he noticed the sly and exultant ex- pression of the scorpion eater he might have been better prepared for what was to come and how to avoid its consequences, for, lo, the uneanny noiees rapidly increased in volnme, the serni.darkneea became all at once full of fluttering winge, hideous little horned heads, and shrill Equeaks, and then all in an instant the torch was extinguished and the three fugitives felt themselves beat about their facers by quickly flapping, skin. ny leather subetances, whilst an intolerable stench metalled their nostrils, so that it is little wonder that in the purlieu darkness, terror and confusion Frank's hand for an instant relaxed the tightness of its grip on the santon's beard or that he, taking ad- vantage of the opporunity, with a wrench and a bound released himself altogether therefrom, and laughing shrilly and exult antly, rushed away with the oortainiy that he would not again be caught. In another minute they oould hear hien shading in the dietetic° : " Yallah 1 Yaliale 1 By the ninety-nine names of Allah and the hundred and 'our. teen chapters of the 11 Koran. By the dg d the Weil of /Chaired the ie in the bowels of light or the rnomeehine now, Yea, you shell so die and my lynx and jackal ellen pick your bones, whilst your amide ahat fiezle and fry forever and- forever in the, fiery fif Borlrt. You have cast dirt upon my beard and :wit my turban awry, you dogs, for is it not written that " he who lendeth sweat to the oppreeeor eir the unbeliever shall ere long etrike his knees in vain ?" Wherefore by every hair of the dogs that begot - thee, Abou Self the santon will take bitter ven- geance for the indignities -that ye have oast upon hien" And having thue spat out his venom, as it were, they could hear his rapidly reced- ing footsteps, mingled with fresh peals of chuckling laughter.' "I wish I'd spitted the old baste on me opear, which sure an' I'd have done if it hadn't been for the winged devils, an' the darkness, an' the not thinking ov it until too late, at all at all," grunted Pat Mona- ghan. "Just pass the spear over to me, Pat, to feel the way well in advance with, for I judge 'tis safer now to go on than to turn back, for that old rascal has gone to bring the Bedouins after US, and knowing all the ins and outs of Cale place we'd have no chance of overtaking him, even on horse- back," said Frank Donelly. "Lord preserve us from him and the likes of him," muttered Pat, as he passed the lance over Neltie's head, whom, as he took it, Frank comforted with the worda " I feel sure that this passage will event- ually lead to freedom, my darling, and the creatures that put out the lights and startled ue so much were but bats, I saw them dis- tinctly. Now that the accustomed darkness that they delight in has returned again they trouble ua no longer, you see, so let us get on once more," He waited for no reply, but urged on his horse as he spoke, feeling the way with the lone lance to that the animal should not knock its heart againet arything or plunge headlong down into some hole or pit. It was, in fact, that kind of darkness that writers say " may be felt," or " may be cut with a knife," and so on, so that is was anything but pleasant traveling when it was impoesible to know what possible dangers might not be in the way. More than once Nellie Trezarr felt con- vinced that she heard the pattering feet of the jackal and of the still more fearful lynx coming after th.ern, whilst Pet Monaghann fears were still chiefly of the supernatural, so that every instant he expected that Dila or giant devil would spring upon him and bear him away, where or for what purpose he did not even dare to conjecture. But imagination was soon tiestined to give way to reality, for when they had pro- ceeded in this 2low and cautious manner for about teu minutes, the path appearing to trend gradually downward the while, they heard the unmistakable sound of other hoofs in their rear and coming on at a much fast- er pace than their own. Then, far behind them, there suddenly flashed a glow of ruddy light, and looking round they beheld the hideous scorpion eater coming down the subterranean at a speed that was wonderful for his years, holding aloft a torch in either hand and closely fol- lowed by a dozen or so of mounted Bedouin?, whose bright lance points twinkled like stars above their scarlet shawl turbans. " Lost, lost 1 We shall bo sat upon and slain in this horrible subterranean," ' gasped Nellie, dropping her reins and clasping her hands together in an age ay of terror. "Darted, but any bow I'll kill some of them first, just for company, retorted Pat Monaghan cheerily, who looked upon the Bedouins (even with the scorpion eater thrown in) as a great improvement on Dj ins and giant devils. • Frank Donelly, however, had better words of coneolation than Pat's, for he suddenly exclaimed "If there's a red light behind there's a white cue ahead, Nellie, darling, and urn less I'm greatly mistaken we will be out in the mor nllght again before those fellows can come up with us." wan_ CHAPTER XXX. A COMBAT OF TWO TO TWELVE—AGAIN ON THE DESERT. Frank Donelly's words proved prophetic ones, for every minute now the light became brighter in their front, enabling them to push for ward every whit as rapidly as they were punned, so that presently they squeez- ed their horses one by one through a narrow fissure that was hardly large enough to ad- mit of their passage ; indeed, Pat went so far as to declare that it was very like a "rich man struggling to get through the eye of a needle," he should think. " An sure; yer Honor," he quickly add- ed, " I don't see why we should let the spalpeens as are either us come any further at all at all, for sure we might defend this narrow opening agin long odds from now till the crack of doom, if need be, like those old Greeks and Romans used to do we read of in the poethry and the story books." " Another tine idea of yours, Pat ; and by St. Patrick, your namesake, well put it in praotice. Is your revolver charged in every chamber ?" "Aye, I've reloaded it since I settled the c omelet and the drumbledollies." "Good ; mine is in the s •me condition. We will dismount, sling our bridle over our arms, and take up our positions one on each side of the opening, sheltered by the rocks, and, by George well give those reseals pep- per as they come up. Nellie, ride on a little way, my dear. We will overtake you presently." "Oh, Fronk I don't rush into any need. less danger," pleaded the fair girl. "No, darling ; that we will leave our enemies to do. They come on unasked, and so they must take the consequences, Do as I oath you, Nellie." She made no further opposition 6r obser- vation, but rode on a little way and then drew rein, Frank Donelly motioned to her) however, to move a triflle more to the right, fearing that she was somewhat in the Bedouin line of fire. When she had obeyed hie mute sign he gave all his attention to tho latter geretryi They were by this time near enough to rr quire it, pounding along through the sub- terranean at the heels of the =ward rushing santon under the full impreenion, no doubt, that instead of awaiting them just outside, the fugitives were hurryieg down the Moun- tein as feet AB ever they could urge their horns, They were soon undeceived on this poirit, bewevor, for at the same inetant " crack 1 creek 1 oraok t creek 1 crack 1 crack 1" went All was as clear now as the sun at noon- day, and all that they seemingly had to do was to reicroes the desert till they track the railway at the little village of Et-Tar- raneh, where there was a station at which they would be able to take train for Alex- andria, for the train, which they could still perceive, or to be more correct, the steam from her engine, was proof that the line be- tween the capital and the great seaport had not yet been ripped up. "After all, we may be aboard a British ship before dawn, darling," said Frank Don- elly, "for I dare say they'll be running trains from Cairo as often as circumstances will allow daring the night, so cheer up," Nellie was quite willing to do so, for it's much pleasanter to encourage hope than de. epair in the heart. As for Pat, he didn't re- quire any encouragement at all. as it was not his nature to look at the dark side of anything. So they made they made their way down the steep mountain side with eerie and cir- cumspection, and directly that they had reached the desert plain steered straight scrolls it as nearly as possible in the direc- tion of Et Tarraneh. If Captain Donelly really thought that all their dangers were over he calculated sadly without his host, for at least eighteen miles of desert lay between them and the railway station, towards which they were steering, and from all directions troops, regular and irregular, were concentrating towards the capital to swell the forces of the War Min- ister. The fugitives proceeded slowly at first, for their horses wanted breathing space, but the once more fresh bracing air of the desert was not long in at all events partially restor- ing their strength and spirits when they progressed -more rapidly, and then it was that Captain Donelly very shortly discover- ed that the desert in this direction was for the once not the desert at all. For across it small bands of Bedoains seemed to be perpetually streaming, donbt- lees on their way to make up the sixty thousand irregular cavalry that Arabi Pasha had boated he could have enrolled under- neath his banner in less than a week, for well he knew that these mounted robbers would swarm like vultures to a feast, for quite as respectable as Turkish Bashi-Ba- zouks the Bedouin delights in slaughter and plunder quite as much as, according to Dr. Watts'doge delight to bark and bite, s "Oh, if the moon were not quite leo bright," thought the young officer to himself, for the grand luminary of night shed as clear and white a radiance over the sandy plain au a number of electric lights would diffuse over a boulevard or a street, and there were no shadowe to take advantage of, When Frank Donnelly had read of this desert ruse years previously he had never imtgined that tho time would come when he would be glad to avail himself of it himself, It was,quite effectual, however, for within the next hour they would certainly have been sighted and pursued had they been rash enough to have continued on their way; whilst owingto their precaution large par. ties of Bedouins passed quite near by without perceiving them, Then, at lard, the d anger of discovery seemed to grow lees and less, and their part of the desert to be getting empty again, so that they thought ot once more remounting and Continuing their journey, when, on sud- denlylooking round, Pat Monaghan beheld yet another party of Bedouins coming to- ward e them, but following a 'mum which betokened that they would past; much nearer by than any of the preeeding bodice of the [mirage horsemen had done. " Bridad, an' it's as straight ab a bode line that the varmintaro coming and if we woulcl save our lives we'd better' be up and away, yer honor." "By Jove, 1 believe you're right, Pat. Up and away be it, then " rejoined his =triter, and the next inetatre he Was undoing his horses leashings, When they had seen to their own steeds and turned to perform the :ear= office ;by &Mete to, this deft and epirlted girl tad not only released the animal and got hind on hie lege, but had Mem =mated him and was quite ready for flight. Before king, indeed, Donelly felt that they were like three poor fawntrying to moss a ohesboard, with the rival kuigats, *hops, rooks and queen all bent on reuderi mg the attempt a matter of hear hnposeibi- tity. As yet they were evidently unseen, but as he oould hardly hope that they would Pon- ciaue im for long. he was presently fain to yield to the iueviteble and adopt a ruse, Ile called a halt, told Nellie that there was nothing much to be alarmed at, bnt thatnevertheless it was better to be oautioua; and then held a brief consulation with Pat Monaghan, the result of which waa that all three diernounted, forced their hones to lie down, gagged them so that they could neither neigh nor whinny, tied their legs so that for them to rise was an equal impos- sibility, and then in the course of a very few minutes raised a elm alar barrier of sand high enough to conceal both their steeds and themselves as they orouohed down. Her prompt action !lad eaved a couple of minutes at the least, and that brief space of time might be of the utmost value under the circumstances, Frank gave her a word or two of ardent praise and flung himself into his own saddle even whilst speaking them, nor was Pat slow in imitating hie example, and just as they were perceived and the Moslem war cry of "Allaokbar 1 Allah, Allah ! hu 1" rent the air in their rear, accompanied by a great brandishing of scimitars and lances, the three fugitives were off at full speed again, Pat muttering something to the effect that "the devil might take the hindmost," yet for all that himself keeping in the ream as he considered himself in duty bouod to do, and answering the Bedouin defiance by twirling his own lance round and round above hie head as though it were a shilielah, whilst he howled out a genuine Irish hulla- baloo. "Keep your breath to cool your porridge, Pat," exclaimed his master, somewhat an- noyed. "This is no child's play, I would have you remember, so just postpone all vaporing -until we are tearing along at the tail of the iron horse instead of on the backs of our own, my good fellow." (TO BE CONTINUED.) PERE ONAL. Reuben R. Thrall of Rutland, Vt., is probably the oldest practicing lawyer in the world. He recentiy celebrated his 90th birthday, and has several cases now on the docket. When Adelaide Nellecon died she had in her posseseion a copy of every photograph of herself which had been publiehed, and the total of theso, certes, cabinets, panels, etc,, was 609. Sir Michael Hicks Beach is a very nine looking gentleman, handsome, with email featuree, black hair parted down the mid- dle, black beard and moustache, and a very pleasant Expression of face. A young -look- ing mate too, in his forties, Mr, Gladstone is, as le well known, fond of'using postal cards for his communications. Although the law is that nothing must be writteu on the address side of the oard cave the name and address, lie invariably puts either his name or hie initials there. Thus the recipient is subjected to one penny extra postage. Autograph hunters are said to deluge Mr. Harris of the Atlanta Constitution with requests for his signature. A friend of his says he always drops such letters in the waste basket, but that when he goes to din- ner the elevator boy amuses himself by fill- ing out the blank cards and placing them in the return envelopes addressed " Joel Chandler Harris, Atlanta, Ga." "Diamond Joe" Reynolds is one of the millionaire curiosities of Chicago. He in- variably weara 'a plain grey suit without an overcoat, a hat several seasons behind, pru- nella gaiters that have been out of style for years, and always has in his shirt front a first water diamond as large as a filbert and as bright as a dewdrop. He owns more grain elevators than any man in the country and ships more grain than any two men on the Chicago Board of Trade. It is pretty clear now that General Pren- dergast made no arrangement for maintain- ing order at Mandalay after the surrender off Thebaw, that a aaguinary riot occurred, that the mob had possession of the town all night, that statements to this effect were calmly disbelieved by the British command- er three miles off, and that the Times cor- respondent was sent back to Rangoon sim- ply because he had telegraphed home a de. cription of this discreditable bungling. Yet it may be taken for granted that Gen. Pren- dergast will not be repremanded, and that correspondent will be frowned upon by the whale of officialdom, both intIndia and Pall Mall George Tiptoe was a farmer in Madison county, Kentucky, about twenty years ago. He became financially involved and went to the West Indies. He secured control of a small island of the Bahama group which proved to be rich in phosphates, from which he amassed great wealth. He ruled auto- cratically, and no women or intoxicating liquors were permitted upon the island. The ruler of this Eyeless and prohibited Eden is now on a visit to hes native State' and; is eto. peotecnto take with hiereeiBlue rA widow and a full 'simply a ,Keiiitteliihmerno THE LIMEKILN CLUB. It was within thee minutes of the hour for opening the meeting when Brother Gard ner received a meeeage to the effect that his wife was in e, fit, a0 left tor home in manner neither tee dignified nor too hasty, atm the meeting wa 9 called to order by Sir Irmo Walpole, who said : While de Promi. dont hoz our sympathy in die dark hour, at a matter af (Wee, yet de bizaess of die ken - try mug' not suffer bekaso one old black wo un dun gooe an' has a fit. Lot us purceed to bizuess, an' it may be well fur me to men - than de tack dat de•puesun who puts a lio• orioe drop on de hot stove doorin' our pur, ceEdins may find hisself weary of de burdens of die cold world. CAN'T INDORSE lam. A oommunioation fronfthe Mayor of Bd. falo made inquiry if a person calling himself Prof. C. A. Johnson, philanthropist, proles- eional astronomer, lecturer, literary and ed- uoational writer, editor, publisher and phil- osopher, was a member of the Lime Kiln Club. The Professor lately delivered a lees ture in Buffalo, in which he sent forth the following utterancee : 1 am acknowledged to be tho greatest scientific man of the age. Wind is always in motion, It has a place where it Is located when it is not at work. I don't oare a snap of my finger for other scientist's opinions. I am an authority in myself. The wind lie made of a material always in existence, and not as some people think, created for the moment. There are twelve inviable suns': which have shone in great brilliancy in the past and in tan years they will shiue again. The hiding place of the wind is in the in- terior of the ocean, 300,000 teat from the surface. If you want to ask questions about it you can ; I have settled it. There is mere animal life in existence than a good many of us have been able to understand ; the " nitroggen " and " hy- droggen "gases extend higher than soientiets have had time to look into, I have found within a thimbleful of salt water more living insects than there have been human names created since the begin- ning of the world. If other men have not looked into this as I have, it's not my fault. Scientific men tell me that wind is made of atoms of air force coming in contact with currents. If ecientific inen knew half as much about wind as I do, they would not make this mietake. When I caw their confusion I came to their rescue. Wind is composed of volcanic gases and atmospheric matter located in the interior of spice which le set in moi ion by astrono- mic force caused by the rotation of the sun, which coming in contact with counter. currents puts the wind in motion in places whore it is hid, I may be a modest man and I may not, but I don't believe there is a man in the City of Buffalo that knows as much about science as I do. If there had been, this subject would have been explained long ago. Bat it has been left for me to settle forever the question where the wind comes from. The Secretary was instructed to reply to the effect that the Professor was neither a member of the club, nor clicl that body in- dorse his opinions. RETURNED A BROKEN MAN. Trustee Pullback then made a report on his trip to Washington, N. C., as a delegate from the club to attend an emancipation jubilee. He reached there all right after a journey lasting thirteen days, and was warmly w Icomed by Archie Moore and J. P. Jones, of the Committee on Arrangemente, Dating the first two hours of his stay some one Attie bin watch, and later on his satchel and pocketbook were mining. His com- plaints were treated with supreme indiffer- ence, and on the day of the jubilee he was set upon and pounded until he could hardly walk. He had his credentials all straight, and no one disputed them, but he thinks there was a conspiracy to do him up because the LimeeKiln Clnb had refused to grant a charter to the " Koon•Killini Klab" of Washington so act as a branch. Trustee reached home after enduring hardships which would have killed a United States Senator, and has been in bed nearly ever eince. HEROIC MEASURES. When his verbal report had been submit- ted there was a murmur of indignation throughout the hall, and Way -down Beboe offered the following resolution : "Resolved, Dat until de Gab'ner of North Carolina forwards us an apology in writint accompanied by a checkof at least $75 to re- compenee Brother Pullback fur his sufferins, all intercourse between die club an' de said State of North Carolina must be considered at eand," The resolution was unanimously adopted, AN IMPOSTOR, A communication from St. Louis made in- quiry if a person named Gen. Syntax Cobalt was a member of the Lime -Kiln Club. He was in jail in that city for soliciting done - does to colored orphan asylums and salting the cash down in his vest pocket. He claim- ed to be a member of the club in good stand- ing, but had nowlocumente. The Secretary was inetruoted to telegraph he St. Louis police to proceed against the man in the most vigorous manner, as he has n several occasions falsely claimed to be a member and thereby imported on the people at large. At the informal opening of Parliament when the Queen was not present in the House of Lords amongst the inenabers of the House of Commona who assembled on the floor of the throne was Sir William Harcourt, who took the liberty of resting his arm upon the railing in front of the royal seat. For this offencm—for it is an of- fence, it seems, when the throne is uncover- ed—he was promptly reproved by an offie clan who with equal promptitude was re- ported by the right hon. :gentleman to the yeoman usher, Sad to say, the ex -home secretary was ruled to have been out of or- der; for when the throne is denuded of its broWn holland covering, the Queen is sup. pored to be present in spirit, if not in per- son, and that being the case the royal rail- ings must not be leant upon—not even by suoh a descendant of royalty as Sir William Harcourt, According to the Jewish Chronicle, Baron Alphonse de Rotheohild is not the first Ho- brew:who has been admitted into the French Academy of Fine Arts, The late Achille Fould, the celebrated finance minister to Napoleon 111., won elected a free member of the Aoademy in 1854. The illustrious com- poser, Heavy, also had a neat be the body ae a titular member, The election of Baron Rothschild raises the number oftTewieh mem- bers of the Institute of France to eight, his colleagues being MM. Breal, joeeph Doren- bourg, Henri Weil, and Opport of the .A.oa-• demy of Inectiptions and 13ellee Lottres Adolph Franck whoa() election ditto bank to 1844, of the Aoademy ot Moral and Poli. goal Science*; Loewy and Maurice Levy of the Academy of Mermen, The mostfamoue section of the institute, viz., the Anademy Fraticatioe, is the only one which ham not yet given a fauteuil to a Jew. Curl Papers artd Crimping Pins. I want to add my protest against ourI pa- pers andmrimping pins. In the place where I live more than half the women and gide go about with their foreheads thus adorn- ed all the morning, and often the whole day. Besides being very uncomplimen- tary to the family, callers are liable to drop in at any time. Not long ago I made a call at 7 o'clock in the evening and found the two daughters of the family with fore- heads covered with curl -papers. I cannot see any excuse for it. But there is one thing worse. Some of my neighbora just twine up elide hair in the morning, without brushing or combing it, nor do they stop to put on a white col- lar. I don't see how such women can think much of their husbando if they are willing to sit down to breakfast looking so frowsy. By getting up a little earlier the hair can be neatly arranged and there will be time to relieve the bareness of the nook with a white collar or roffia. A woman ought to be int ae neatly dreseed for the kitchen as for the parlor, for her own family as for company. I have been dirsgneted to nee in many kitchens a brutish and oonab by the looking- glase, indicating that some Member of the family brushed their hair there, I even once saw two switches of false hair lying on the shelf. What could be worse? Bahl your hair in any other room in the house sayl, but never do it in the kitchen. What say the rest of you THE WOELD OVER. A farmer In New Hampshire ban been aned for oruelty in not providing shelter for his evade during the late cold weather, He was the richest man in the neighborhood. Nearly 80,000 acres of lands under water along the Connectiout shore have been, sold by the State to oyeter growers, and last year's taxis on this area (one.elfth' of w hich is in me) yielded $S,000, A milkman slipped and fell in New Lon. don the other day in such a way that he went bead foremost into a can from which, he gad removed the cover, and, as it was a tight fit, a tinsniith's services were required to extricate him, ' Mr. Parnell is a bachelor and lives the simplest sort of life—in lodging, as a rule, taking his dinner at a hotel, His habits aro eo quiet that he and hie siter Anna were guests at the same hotel foOeiweeks without knowing that they were*under ene roof. Few monarchs oan boast of progeny so Il- lustrious as King Christian 1X. of Denmark. Five out of his six children are married and have families. The eldest sone of each of these famillee aro the prospective monarchs of Denmark, Greece, the British empire, Ruseia, and Hanover. According to the British Medical Tour -nal the most flagrant dietetic errors on the part of poor people arise from ignoranoe of the nutritive value of foods. When they cannot buy meats, whose importance they recognize, they do not put peeper articles in the place of it. They do not correctly estimate the high value of milk and eggs • and when obliged to use a largely vegetable diet they make no distinction between =nutritious vegetables and those which, like peas and beans, are rich in nitrogen and well calcu- lated to supply the place of animal food. Nearly three years have elapsed since Genbettat: remains were consigned to the grave at Nice, but nothing has yet been done to give even a decent appearance to his last resting place. An old friend of the departed statesmen, who visited the cemetery on the anniversary of his death in order to strew flowers on his tomb, gives a melancholy =- count of the slate of neglect into which it has been allowed to fall. He says it is only a temporary scaffolding, a pyramid of wood covered with wreaths and offerings. The barrier which surrounds it is half rotten, The great tribune, apparently, is forgotten already. A member of the Geological Survey says that Salt Lake will be of great value in the near future, not only on account of the common salt it will produce, but also for the sodium sulphate it contains. The latter is separated in a flocculent precipitate by the cold weather of widwinter, andannually thrown up on the shore in enormous quail- titiem There are many other lakes in the far West whence an inexhaustible supply of commercial alkalies may be obtained at small cost,. Mono Lake, Cal., alone being cetimeted to hold over 78, , 0,000 tons of sodium carbonate. The peasant Indians of 04tral America hold some curious superstitions:, of which the following are examples : When a child is ill the mother takes a drake, singes its tail feathers, and, muttering certain words, passes it over the patient. A woman feeds a parrot with a few pieces of tortilla and gives the child the crumbs which fall from the beak, as they will make it talk 1 Colic is due to the evil eye ; in order to get rid of the disturbing influence the woman breaks f our duck's eggs into a basin, and, having mixed them with ,eue, places the whole under tho child's fiettal if the com- pound be curdled in the morning the spirit has departed. Do Animals Think ? A great dud has been written to show that animals think aad reason, just as man does, though in a lower degree. Perhaps some of our readers may notice things in animals which show that they have a great deal of intelligence, even if they do not rea- son, Mr. Paul Brocca, the French author, devoted much attention to this subject. It has been said of animals, writes Mr Brooms, that their actions are always :mechanical and without method. This may be true of do- mestic pets, who are badmenoed almost entire- ly by the human beings around them, but does not the beaver change his plans, acting now as builder, now as miner, according to circumstances? Besides this, every one knows that the bee frequently substitutes pentagonal, or five -sided, for hexagonal, or six -sided cells, and that this alteration in the work is made only when necessary. It has also been said that animals do not reason. What then is done by the foxes, whioh in Thrace, are driven on to the ice to test its strength ? These animals step carefully and lightly, with their heads inclined, and turn back suddenly, directly they discover by the sound of the ice cracking that It is not safe to proceed farther. A dog, which, in following a scent, arrives at a oroas-road is seen to stop, consider for a moment, then plunge along one of the roads, sniffling cau- tiously, turn back and try another road in the same manner'and finally dart unhesita- tingly down the third. It is evident that his logic tells him hat as his prey has not taken one of the first two roads examined, it must necessarily have taken the third road, so he dime not waste time in further investigation. That this is not mere instinct is shown by the faot that a dog sometimes makes a mistake In suoh a ease, and when the fact becomeei evident he slinks out of sight of the hunters, eking a picture of shame and humiliation. Foresight is a quality he possesssion cf vehicle no onewill deny -to ants and bees, and the former certainly have a sense of com- passion. This is displayed in the tender care bestowed on the wounded during the terrible battles fought between different tribes of ants. The suffering and helpless ones are not left to pariah, but are carried off of the battlefield by a regular "ambulance corps." No one doubts the existence of memory in animals, and as to ambition, is it necessary to recount the pitched battles which take place in bee -hives between the different candidates for royalty ?Cow can one pretend that man only has the gift of language 1 He must be blind indeed who does not see that all animals have some means of commueioation with each other. To give any ono example: there is no pos- sible doubt that ants make themeelvee un- derstood by their fellows by means of the touch of their delicate, sensitive antennae or feelers, Before a war a council is held, and tnessengere hurry ilbout. Scouts or spies are sent out, and the attack is hastened or pontponed, according to their reports. All this could not be done without a very oom- plate method of communication, for the giv- ing and receiving of ordeal, etc. Moreover, if animate had no language, how con d they toaoh their young? That they do teach them is evident from the fact of young fez% in countries where the animals are hunted, being infioitely more wary than full. grown ones hi other lands 1 How else are see to account for this than by saytug that the parent home toll the ohildrenof danger, and to avoid it? me