HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-2-25, Page 6AN [eYPTIAN ROMANCE.
A Story of #ov° ankjilld Advonture, fonndod upon Startling Eeveiatilns
in the LIaroor of .Arabia Pashas
By the 4ue1 or° of "NilrAa, Tam NI}IILIST," "Tuan REll Samoa'"T us RnSSIAN SPY,"
on he entire village, but he spoke to the
eiarliog of hie beast such words of comfort
wad encoaragetnent as he could thh:k of
amooget such horrible surroundings, and
perceiving that, notwithstanding these, rho
'CMS almost sefficieutly overcome to fall
from her eeddle in sa swoon, ho urgently be-
sought her to aerie her eyrie whilet ho guid-
ed her horn
Thome words restored her, for she felt
that the safety and lives of others depended
GU her courage, so she said " No, no, I am
all right, and gazing straight ahead be-
tween her heree's pricked ease, with reins
as taut es the rigging of a ship she kept a
ae true to his course as ever much ship could
be kept.
Her face was as white as marble, but it
was equally as rigid and firm, until morquo,
bazaar, and even the beat houses of• the
straggling sheet were left behind, when she
geeped :
"Thank God thest is over. But how near
are our pureuere?'
"hie nearer than they wore before, dear,"
exclaimed Captain Douelly, cheerfully, after
he het just glanced around, "They have
unietd again and are, following ne in a oom•
pact body bn't we have only three miles
more r•nnniog to do now."
" Is tient the smote of another train ever
there beyond the palm trees, Frank ?"
"Yea, darling, and it is coming toward
St, Tarra.neh, 1 declare. It is yet many
mike a.xay on the Cairo vide, and that we
may arrive at the mention just as soon, pray
to God that we may, Nellie, dear, and that
the care may either have a goodly proportion
of armed male paseengera in teem, or that
the train may be able to steam away before
the Be,dar:las come up,"
" Amen, Frank, I will," and not another
word wee uttered between them.
On, still cel.
Their horses were almost exhausted now,
whilst the three neon) Bedouina who had
commenced. the chase, barely one score were
now in it.
But these hung perseveringly on their
track, and what if a single one of thele
horses gave in, for the rent could not aban-
don its rider, who ever ho or she might be.
eked row there came another trial. The
desert vaniehed beneath their horses hoofs,
and in its place the exhausted steeds b.ad to
reel rather than gallop over the soft brown
heavy ground, where the stubble of last
year's orops of d'hourra, melee and safre,
stuck up like so many bayonets.
By the mercy of heaven they still kept
their feet, though their starting eyeballs
ar ere all bloodshot, whilst blood also that they ming-
led with the foam Ocatt'a)'ed
showers of seeming enowflekee over their
moist, dark conte.
Now they sweep in turn through the tufts
of sugar cane, under the low epreading
brenohea of date trees, and past great tufts
of balm shrubs, whilst half a mile in their
front, gleaming like molten silver in the
moonlight, they see the Nile, rushing by
the feathery palm, and the flowering oawb
tree, and nearer to them yet stands the Tit-
tle wooden railway etation with its long ex-
tentlon platforms, both of whioh appear to
be quite empty.
But ah 1 a shrill whistle and a vast levia-
than spitting fire as he cornea racing with a
roar along the iron road. God 1 the station
le atiil more than a quarter of a mile away,
Which will arrive there .firat ?
The train slackened speed ; that is, some-
thing, for they tear along, if possible, at a
greater rate than ever eine° they can't
shake the Bedouins off or diatanoe them in
any degree materially, and may they not
be guiding -thorn on to the slaughter of all
who aro in`the train ?
Ah, down goea a herse,
It ie Nellie a.
She on her back on the ground to all ap-
pearances atnnned.
Bat in an instant Frank Donelly is also cm
the ground, lifts her on his own horse, for
her's will never gallop more, and mounting
behind her the flight is resumed. Pat re-
solved that he will escape or die with hie
master.
Has that minute's
their lives ?
The train is in the station, whilst they
are atill a couple ofhnndred yards therefrom,
and the foremost of the Bedouins about
twice as many in the rear,
Bnt whilst Frank had been lifting up Nel-
lie, his roan had been fastening a cheap,
cotton, gaudy Union Jack pocket handker-
chief that he happily had about him011 to
the head of his lance, and now he fin, dished•
it madly on high, at the same time shouting
with the full force of his lunge.
The train had begun to move on, but hap-
pily both guard and engine driver at the
same instant saw all and comprehended all.
Knowing that there were same revolver -
armed Earopeane and Americane within the
long line of oars, they ventured on their
own responsibility to atop the train.
ETC„ Et
CHAPTER XXXL
EM BLACK FLAG OP DEATH ALMOST REN
TO EARTH.
Frank Donelly spoke but the truth when
he declared that they had no child's ploy
before them, indeed, he might have ex -
premed himself stronger st4I1, but for fear
of ,%larcning hia lovely girl cozupaxton need-
lessly.
So on they sped with the fleetness of the
wind aorose the great brown waste, whilst
the Bedouin horsemen again raised their
terrible taobir of " Allah Aokbar," and
then handling their long riflea Bent e.
shower of leaden rain after the fugitivee,
whom they knew well enough to be Euro-
peans by their drams.
Bat, happily, the aim of a horseman
when in motion le seldom true, and though
the young cmoer trembled lest a chane° ball
"should strike the darling of his heart, or
lame one of their horsee, be did not suffer
the keen anxiety that he felt to show itself'
en hie oountenamce, but instead kept an
artificial anile, stereotyped thereon, and
affected to make Iight of the danger.
Fortunately, there were neither camels
nor dromedaries among'thelrpursuers, and,
fortunately, also, their horses had tone
through as much fatigue as their own, so
that the chances of the race eoemed about
equal.
But then whet if they reached the rail-
way etatien at Et Terranoh and no train
was there 1 The Enropeam officials at
auoh a piece would certaiciy not be more
than half a dozen In number et the very
molt, while theta pursuers numbered at
least three scorn, and would not ecruple
to eked their blood on the very platform or
in the ticket oEae or waiting room.
Bah, thie thought was more terrible than
all that had preceded it, because it brought
the extremes of barbarism and civilization
into each close juxte.poeltien ; but with an
effort Frank Donelly be d:Med the horrid
nightmare from his mints, for now, if ever,
aaufiicient for the hour was the evil thereof.
Ah, a lining of diver even to Mile leaden
aloud, for on the fierce desert warriors, dis-
charging a neon(' volley after them the
buliette, instead of huznmia g and buzzing
past their ears, pinged (oto the sand close
bohiad, which was a sure proof that they
were gaining ground on their pursuers, at
all events for the preeent, and even that
was something to -be thankful for.
On, on swept the mingled fight and ohese,
and to Nellie it seemed as though the ridgy
sands of the desert swept under her horse's
dull -thudding hoofs like waves of the sea,
longer, but "nate
ad a kind
She fait terror no ong ,
of daze and stupor, as though the action cf
her brain had been stilled by a narcotic.
Their pursuers had by now divided them•
selves into two bodies, each trying Its beet
to outflank and to head them, whilst at
(some little distance in their front rose a
somewhat large village, such as are often
met with in Egypt jest on the con8nee of
the deeert, a village of one storied mud
Tants, thatched with strays, with a tumble
down morose and a bazar at the only con-
spicuous bulldinos.
Snah an everyday affair was the bamlet
which they were so rapidly approaching
under the white moonlight, and which it
seemed to be the object of their pursuers
to drive them right through,
But why this attempt ? Had it any-
thing to do with the great black flag that
they now for the first time perceived, droop-
ing heavily around a staff which upreared
Itself from the onion ehepod dome of the
morgue ?
Frank Donelly understood its grim eignifi-
canoe in a ['bogie Inssant. The plague was
there, That black flag was bang out as a
warning to all people against entering the
place, and their partnere had divided in
order to drive them right through the lorg
single street whilst they tbemaelvee swept
along on either side outside the town, and
so comparatively secure from the infection,
Well they rnnet have known that to Beek
shelter or hiding there not even the bravest
would havo dared, for the Egyptian plague
of the present day is almoat identical with
that which almost deaolatod London in the
sixteenth century, and is aerially gererated
in the filth and crowding of the tens of
thousands of pilgrims who annually reoart
to the Prophets tomb at Mecca, and the
germs of whioh they carry home to their
native villages on their return.
To escape the death trap into whioh they
were being driven was beyond the range of
praotibility, for to attempt to make a de-
tour was to be overtaken and destroyed ;
and beaideo, that street lay right in their
course, pointing as it did, straight as an
arrow, toward Et Tarranoh which with its
railway etation Frank Donelly guessed to
be a little more than a league on the other
Gide.
Well, as they had no choice at it they
must go, and the Oapzain was fain to hope
that at such an hour all the horrors that it
contained would be hidden behind closed
doors and drawn shutter's, but Wives not
to be aa.
The dead wore in the streets, lying in
every conceivable attitude in seething heaps
of corruption.
The dead, too, were seated in open door-
ways, bound to the baoke of chairs, with
bowie squeezed in between their stiffened
lege, thus silently begging for offerings to
defray the expeneee of their own interments,
But they who, doubtlessjust at the out-
break of the pee'.dienoe which had claimed
them as its first victims, had planed them
there, were dead within doors, and all
probable contributors to such funeral funds
had either fled faraway or had themselves
fallen a prey to the awful epidemic, for
though, as a rule, the doors were wide
open, not a living thing was to be seen,
save here and there a jackal, that after a
single sniff at 'some festering body br other
would titter a ingubriona hoavi and trot
away with his appetite completely gene,
and it takes more than a trifle to turn a
hungry jaokal'e etomaah,
,And yet the pure fragrant deaort air,
that wept around this village of death
would prevent the contagion from being
carried farther, except by human trene-
on that is - to say, y, the winde them.
selves would not bare it an they would'
aeaur'edly have done in other oeuutrlee,
ly ba hoped and finally IE'rank Donal both p n i y bo
lived that them' own flight thertthrongli
would be far to rapid too make their conti-
guity' porilouo to othora if Providence
willed it that they /should gain the train in
safety.
He did not tell either; Mille or Pr,t the
nature of the grim visitor whfeh, through
the medium perhaps of a single returned
Pilgrim, had brought down destruction up
pitched. or rather launched the atill uncon-
scious girl into his van, (for there was re
time to lay her down tenderly,)
Then hete» awhistle' '
Donelly and I'at Monaghan "sellas! in
liar, and. dropped it with a shriek as a
Win rifle raxag oat and o ballet passed
gh hia arm at the elbow.
other iustaart, however, and Pat and
setas both had hold of him by the aol•
and lugging him auto the sir between
Frank closed and faeteuod the door
train went naffing and panting on
eido tae i:latfurm,
13sdouins were marl with. ohargrtn and
y had miesod their prey by not mora
half a minute at the mast, And the
re of tbeiK`horses seem°dto afford them
ncensiderablo satlefacticn.
h yells and howls they Coro along the
rrn, acme thrusting their long !sauces
ho wiudowe and others firing their
into the oarr4agea, but the grease
er trying their utmost with those rams
to shoot the mon on the engine,' who,
erg /squatted as much as possible bei
the stant iron work, and so effeotnat-
ated ballets of,their intended billets,
n would have thought that those
by warriors of the desert »oro devils
d of human beluga, eo truly demonic
hats inose and bhefr aotione, but that
wore rncrt�al was avidonoed by the
r in whioh come of thorn were knock•
r by the few bullata that »aro now
"gad at them from the train window,
o general disarming of Europeans at
in the morning had prevented fire -
ram beinG vary plentiful amongst the
germ, whilst C�.ptsla Donelly and Pat
ghan made the diaeovery at the rams
nt that• all their ammunition wee gond,
would have boon moat awkward
other ciroamstances,
train, however, had now taken np
ening, and wa,9 clear away, rapidly
sin„ iia speed from twelve to fifb:on,
fittaen to twenty and from twenty to
•miles an hong, and with no farther
han a alight sg1sntering of wood and a
Salo shattering; of glees bade its Be-
douinaasailants a Bnortiog, rumbling, steam•
ng, fire -spilling and all together eoorn-
od-night,
into the dim and silent might. What
age of scene 9
dasurt had bean as completely left be-
hindes the doeort warriors, and the moon
clown on the silvery »stars of the
dewing hatween verdant Banka, whore
Haat oontinuoas fringe of sycamores,
tae and tall feathery paltne nodded te-
a the rippling on mamnrfng »sora,
w and then a village of mud wails and
roofs »curd appear on the right or
oft of the line, with the dome and
rata of stn mo" qne rising from ills
e of a grove of date trees, or the tomb
me saint would flash wh"rtaly for an in -
on one side or the other and disappear.
t neither Captain Donelly nor Pat
aghan mored ought for the passing
ry, for the latter was fretting over the
h of one horse end the loss of another,
a good soldier laves hie horse as ha
. y
.
m roma while th
e oan cf&ser e
his fat , y ;,
o attentiott and auxiety was oentsrad
ellie, who assert ae though rhe never
ndod to Dome out of her swoon, and
looked daatbly gale by the light of the
smokg parafino lamp that was hung up
e car.
for the brave guard himself, Captain
oily and hia mon had aeon to hia wound
nen them had ekllfnllp got the bullet
of the arm, and thereafter bandaged up
lab in each a fashion that the effaslon
e blood wan wholly atoppad, sad the
pandered at all events bearable.
redly he cuuld stand it then eadariy
tinned him Jonoeraing the latest doing
Alexandria and at Csdro, for Captain
oily doubted not that he had bean in the
er city daring the preceding
he knew that he moat have quitted
oapitalesveral hears later than them
ea.
Yee, the train had left the termiune
giro at three in the morning, but moth
of mnah moment had occurred daring
night, ascent that more soldiers had
e tato the city, and ^order had been
awhat restored. Sarna of thane troops
been diepatohed by the war minister to
toot the Enropoau refn$eEas: the rail
station from the mob, and to gee that
rape wore not ripped up or the trains
ked in env way."
Then he added °' thea every train was
ahed by the soldiery, ere it /started, for
ung lady who had ran' away from her
ntn, rich banking people, called—well
ad forgot exactly what they ware call
bat that waaa no matter, and anyhow
meat have been a brave girl to leave her
nts at timet like thane."
As may be imagined, Frank Donelly loot
time in shifting the scene (or rather his
hien) from Cairo to Alexandria at thio
tura.
Quiet ? No I can't ray that matters are
quiet there, if It cornea to that," was
reply of the wounded guard. "Tae
rm hasn't broke yet, bat 'tis hourly ez
ad to buret, and when It does it wQl be
ething more than a passing agar!! I res
Anyhow that aeeme to be the gener-
al
inion, for all who man get away from
place are gutting away as fast as ever
oan. Bnt, Lord bless qua, there axe
shipn enough to carry them."
The trace there are not. Think you
that I ells!! bo detained there Y"
If you atioceed in getting to sea in les
a weak I shall be enrprised, Why
le crowds rushed off thio morningan the
that the earliest arrivals would bo able
plaoen aboard the P. and 0, mai
mer at Port Said, and more than nine
hs of'em had to return disappointed."
Thio was esrrowful Wawa. indeed, for np
hat moment Frank Donelly had ]caked
and to being married to Nellie with the
wn,= and their eating their breakfast do
er aboard soma vessel or other bound to
e port of Europe at the very leant if
ngland direct,
e looked Sthe disappointment he felt to
vary full, pad bin face might have
eapxeseion longer had not his lovely
gr' at Iasi nieces suddenly recovered
eases and exclaimed in va entering sae
hy, where ars we 1"
In a train my darling, ane also close to
end of our joarnoy,'thank' God !"
That indeed we are in," said the guard,
r there's Lake Marius on oar left and
Lake Abukir cn our right, and if youlook
the window straight ahead you
iia Pharwa lighthoixse and the blue sea
nd it."
Thera do qou hear all that, Nellie t
"rank eneoaragingly,
„
•Xee, doer,: and I m waiting for you to
that our troubloe and dangers are near-
ly
ver"
Assuredly, darling,a'snuxedly; as much
as the night is aver, for don't you nee
s gray dawn in the.Fant 2' The dunwill
p in a few minutes:"'
Oh what a #rt ht I shall look cin
g g . g
ugh the streetia in broad daylight with
arms baro to my ehouldere andthis
bomfoal head•dreesa on,"
auk laughed, for be know that »hon a
Th1 hI shrilly as Cap
twin
after
Bede
through
An
his m
col -
Ian
them,
as the
along
The
rage.
Tee
than
capture
i
With
platform,
rifles
numb
rifles
however,
neath
effectual-
ly the
You
` awart
furter
were t
they
manna
eft over
diacha
for th
Cairo
arms f
paseen
Mona
moms
which
under
The
the running,
Inerea,
from
twenty
-miles
t
whole
blows
falgt
Out
a chs
Tho
shone
Nilo,
an ala
ecoac`
ward
lone of time eacrifiocd
CHAPTER XXXII.
STEAM AGAINST HOnartFLESH—AI•RTAIrDBIA.
No sooner were the care again at a stand-
still than the stationmaster and the two
European porters d.aahed into them, declar-
ing that they weren't going to remain there
to be rnassaorod, for by now the fugitives
were epurring their boraee on to the plat-
fo m, and the wild Bedouins were in full
view, coming crashing through talo sugar
cane with oath and yell, a roiling of eyes, a
gnashing of teeth and a wild brandishing of
lance and rifle,
" Allah Aokbar ! Dour 1 Donr 1" they
shrieked, rather than shouted, fully believ-
ing that they were yet in time.
Brave as any of the dauntless three who
in olden times held the bridge at Rome
agafnet Lars Persona and his osuntless
beets, wins the gallant English railroad guard
or conductor, who stood alone on that empty
platform, with the door of his van open be-
hind him, and the whistle !n his baud one
blow on which would have tient hie train
Whirling along the iron rails to pertain safety
and almost as brave Sam" the grimy engine
driver, who in noel" a terrible moment did
not;urgo hie greet etearn home forward even
without orders,
But, instead of yielding to craven fear,
he just acid quietly to hia stoker, "Shovel
in more node, Bill, I think I'll have time
to light my pipe," and light hie pipe this
remarkable cool chapdid white at that
juncture the hard canted out:
juncture
anddown
W . hildron erouoh in the
oars, Men who have firearms stand to the
window and n to menden."
,a
z w ss kern if you 'tee n.
'`".Chen he ran forever t, laid hold of Nellie
Trezzer, lugged her off the saddle in front
of her lover, and whilst running with her
towards hie oar and cheating t0 Qnick 1" he
No
straw
the 1
mina
cents
of so
stent
But
Mon
scene
death
eincs
loves
svbol
intended
who
little
in th
As
Don
bots;
out
the l
of t6
pain
Di
quem
at
Don
form day,
sell
the
aely
at�C
noth-
ing
the
cum
somewhat
had
pro
way
the
wren
sear
a yo
pare ,
he h
ed,
she
pato
no
inga
juncture.
over
the
oto
pest
something
kon,
op
the
they
not
then
�� s
than ,
who
hope
to book1
sten
tent
to t
forty
da
to-
gether
som not
toE
H
the borne
the
charge
e
"Why,
the
a�
"fo
out ofwill
sees
beyond
said
�.
add
o'
ac
over
day's
u
"
tbto
my
moat
Prank
woman once hegira to think of her personal
eppearanoo she is literally free both from
nod error
pain. a terror.,
There are plenty of oloee baba in whioh
you oan shrink from public r observation
uutil you are engulphed in a private room
of it European hotel, trout whence you eau
send out and in a very short while reapply
any deficiencies of your wardrobe. Why
we are in the. heart of civilization again."
"Barbarism veneered with civilizestion,
€ sued
you mean, Frank. Oh, give mo inure er
the frailest alit in the most tempest-toenoe
sea, I have been through that this night
which all any life through will cause Kao to
shudder and turn pale whenever the word
.Egypt is mentioned in my hearing. But we
shall' be on the aea in an hour, sha11 we not
Frank? '
He was saved from uttering a soothing
falsehood by the train at this iustant rumb-
ling into the station, so he acid instead,
" ,Isere we are at last 1"
(TO Bit oor\TINUED.)
SOME USEFUL FACTS.
A cubit is two feet.
A paoe is three feet.
A fathom is six feet,
A span is 10si inches.
A palm is three inches.
A great cubit ie 13 feet.
A league is three miles.
There at e 2,750 lenguagee,
Oats, 35 pounds per bushel.
Bran, 35 pounds per hashel.
A day's journey is 33a miles.
Barley, 98 pounds per bushel
'iwo persons die every second.
Sound moves 743 miles Ter hour,
A square mile contains 640 urea.
A storm blows 36 miles por hour.
Baekwheab, 52 pounds per bushel.
Coarse Balt, 85 pounds per. bushel.
A tub of butter weighs 84 pentads,
The average human life is 31 years.
A barrel of ries weigha 600 pomade,
An acre oontalns 4,840 square yards.
A firkin of butter weighs 56 pounds,
A barrel of flour weigha 196 pounds.
A barrel of perk weigha 200 pounds.
Slow rivers flow five miles an hour.
Timothy seed, 45 pounds per bnshel.
A hurricane moves 80 miles per hour.
Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour.
A hand (horse measure) is four inches.
A rifle ball moves 1 000 miles per hour.
Electricity moves 225,000 miles per hour.
The first luoifer match was made in 1848,
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-7.
A mile is 5 280 feet, or 1,760 yarde in
length.
Cern, rye and flaxseed, 26 pounds per
bushel.
The first steamboat plied the Hudson in
1807.
A moderate wind blows seven miles per
hour.
Wheat, beans and clover seed, 60 pounds
per bushel,
The firab use of a locomotive in the Staten
was in 1829.
The first almanac wan printed by Geo.
Von Purbach in 1640.
Until 1776 cotton spinning waa perform-
ed by the hand spinning wheel.
The firet steam eagine on this continent
was brought from England in 1753.
Marshal Bazaine's Life n Madrid.
Bezaine has been living in Madrid for
many years, in comfortable circumstance's,
with the income of Mexican property Mme.
Betaine inherited from her mother, who died
a abort time ago, and she herself had some
property in Mexico. M me. Bazaine hag
stood by her husband and brought up her
children, and she at one time mixed more
with Madrid society than at present. She
was to be seen, often accompanied by Ba-
zaine himself, in balls and receptions of the
Castilian nobility, and they were both until
vary lately at the Royal Opera House in
two orchestra stalls—butaoaa, as they are
called—every four days.
Bezaine wag reeeived in Madrid secletyap
account of hie wife's connections and friends
and one of the houses where they were con-
stant visitors wan that of the last Mexican
Minieter, Gen. Corona, the very officer who
received the Emperor Maximilian's sword at
Queretaro, by the by. The presence of
Erzaine in Madrid drawing rooms led to
some fracas a few years ago with a French
Ambassador, Admiral Jaures, who made it
a point of instantly leaving any .reception
where he met the ex -Marshal, a scene of
thie sort canning much sensation one night
at a ball at Duke Fernan Nunez's. '
There is no foundation in the report that
Bazatne lives In poverty or has separated
from his wife ; but she is, on ' the contrary,
very much pitied in Madrid, became she,
for her children's sake, overlooks much of
which she has goods reasons to complain,
The Bonepartiete and the Empress Eugenie
decline to have anything to do with him.
His personal appearance has much altered,
and he is se aged, ao stout and bloated, so
neglectful of his attire and outward appear-
ance, that he is a wretched eight as he she.flea along the Recolitae promenade or a side-
walk in the Retire, and this leads many
people to fancy he is in worse circumstances
than in reality.
His last efiortaat in`elleotual work were
a book on hia Mexlaan campaign, and a lame
defence of his conduct at Metz, upon which
he worked for years. No ons would reoog-
nfze in this strange wreok the once -upon -a -
time brilliant soldier of • the aeoond empire.
The present income of Mme. Bozaine 1s es-
timated at £1,400 a year. Her eldest son
is a volunteer in a crack "Caoadere" battal-
ion in Madrid garrison, and ehe herself has
still retained much of her dashing Mexican
style and good looks. Eazalne Is now 74
years old.
1.071E101i rES.`'
It significant
isof
the loll
extentto h
w
boycotting has been oarriedin Ireland that
a midwife declined to attend the wife of a
proscd man,
Thoribeopening by Queen VIotorie of the
eleventh Parliament of her reign is a oir•
oumetanee a parallel to whioh oannot be
found sinoe the time of Henry VL
No wonder that the bailiffs lately refused
to servo 500 ejectment notices on Lord Car-
hery's estate in Cork, seeing that some 01
their brethorn have actually been made to
eat such notices., Bali fighting for the expert must be very
profitable. The chief eapada of Madrid,
Lertijo, is employed during the summer
season for $60,000; and last winter in the
provinoee he made $10,000. He killed 345
bulls without a single accident to himself.
A high mase was celebrated on Christmas
Eve hi the chapel'"zllaria, of the Bieck L'ike,"
at the foot of the Matterhorn, fnlly 8,000
feet above! the level of the sea, It is rarely
that at this aeaeon of the year even the meet
intrepid chamois hunter ventures to ascend
ao high.
An bequest on Sir Hew Pollok, Bart„ last
month brought to light that he died from
intemperance, and eines then the son of a
well-known Duke has died euddonly from
es similar cause; yet hard drinking is un-
common among the higher classes in Eng-
land.The King of Spain, for a couple of years
before bis death, is said to have kept a large
inauraros on his life of a conditional uort ;
the sumo not to be paid if the sovereign
died as king of Spain, and In any other than
a violent or accidental ways
There is no diminution in musical product
of Germany, 5,473 distinct pieces having
been published in that country last yeare
Among tho new opera composers who havo
taken high rank is Rabort Schwalm, who is
said to have oaught something of the epirit
of Wagner,
M. Gaznbetta deserved, et least, a grave.
stone; but France has not given him one,
and his resting.plaoo is in a quite shameful
stats, unwcedod, unfenced, and with tho
wooden covering rain -soaked and rooted.
Why are the Parisian politicians and pa •
triote to forgetful ?
"There is a good deal of religion in na-
ture," solemnly remarked a young Aberdeen
clergyman calling upon a lady of hie con-
gregation recently. "There it," was the
quiet reply. "We should never forget that
there is a sermon in every blade of grass."
"Quite true. We should also remember
that grass is out very short sometimes."
The Indian Medical Gazette deneriboe the
death from hydrophobia of a man who had
never been bitten by a mad dog, His attend -
leg physician stated that the man, being a
strict Brahmin, had never had anything to
do with doge, but the symptoms of hie ,dis-
ease were identical with those of r eblee. A
similar case 000nrred in Paris some weeks
ago.
Close Calculation.
If the popniatien of different places could
be estimated according tie the pounds avoir-
dupois belonging to thews,' imagine the rows
of figures to be set down against the names
of certain heralth•giving rummer resorts !
"Are you a native of thio parish!" aeked
a Scotch sheriff of a,'witness who was sum -
.
to testify in court.
"Madly, yer Honor,"was the somewhat
enigmatio reply. "
I mean, were you born in thin parish 7"
Na, yer Honor; I weans born in' this
parish, but I'm maist a native, for a' that."
" You`oame hero -when yen were a child,
I suppose yon moan?" ocntinued the sher-
iff.
"I'mlet here abeot eta year
Na,Naeir,�
noo,
"Then how do you come to ID;; y
near! a.
native of the parish?" Yai 1
aWael,ye see when I 'ram' here,
sax
year sin', I jilt weighed eight stane, en' I'm
fatly /seventeen striae noo ; nae yo dee that
ab oot nine etane o' me beluga tre thio par
Leh, an' the ithor eight e h domes D
Prue am.
lac hie,"
If
Japhet Is still lei search of his father we
saggeat that he lock in the front row of seats
at the opera bouffe.
plat patron—"Dayan know where Bor-
ba JTenkina gets.hie conversational powers t"
Second Patron—"From his wife, Y believe,"
A Little inflow* Necessary.
Oa the danger of dial lu o m after
1 sin vut
marriage, a ieye; Zt is human bo
havo an'ideawrwhiohter woaaro stilly
s gtrug
giing up to, As long eta a wife le ideal
r'he it bok vod ; when she oranbo be
ideal rhe le either simply toleratgeed or
despised. We seek to clothe everything
with'a captivating ideality. The young
girl who pea forth for a husband is ideal,
dile hides the realities of her existence
with ecrupuloue and innate oare, She
sails along in the clouds; peeps out half
revealed from the mist, rises like a nymph
mut of the sea, singe like the nightingale.
effer elf, arrays herself like the flowers,
and is ea gentle a id comforting as the
breath of spring, From this lofty pin.
eels else coquets with ell the world, whioh
moans that elle oenceals more than she
reveals. It is ti)dn half ideal, half, real
sorb of thing slut keeps the whole mac on
the tiptoe of interest atria excitement. It
is the something in art thenliso artlet is
always trying to green. TheifFwas never
a great picture that did not have about it
the shimmer and gleam of a rich ideality.
The r 3 was never a great poem that did not
burn and throb with ideality. There is an
ideal in architecture towar!e whioh every
architect struggler'. The sculptor is al-
ways trying to gat away from the cold and
lifoieea marble ru tae` contemplation of
some epl'itual intent and meaning that is
above and beyond it. Emil the gardener
strives to find a new and prettier flower,
the like of which he carriers in hie imagin-
ation, and the pureutt of whioh is one of
the onj ymenbs of life. There le an ideal.
horse, to whioh every other. horse is com-
pared ;• and the 'ideal horse is beautiful
and veluab:e in proportion to his similar-
ity to the one we can think of but never
see. Why not live in square houses of
stone, like the Egyptians did, when they
had came but a little way from caverns
Why have gables and turrets and things
that are not actually useful and needful ?
Why put up epirce on churches? Why not
ride in unpainted carriages, and why black
our shoos ? Why adorn and ornament any-
thing, if not to plow and cultivate the
neethectic sense ? The esthetic sense is the
ideal sense, and mtthetioism is ideality.
The girl with het fano and perfumes, her
sunny emiloe, her sweet sayings, her fairy
dress and her disposition to be happy and
make everybody else happy, is the mathetio,
ideal creature of the race.
The King of the Belgians has offered an
thousand frameannual prize of twenty-five
for the purpose of encouraging work(' of the
mind, open to the competition of persane in
all parts of the world, Although a compar-
atively small potentate this Belgian ling
seems to bo doing much good in the way of
advancing geographical and other science
and the arts,;,
"'The Pope ooesidere that England has not
behaved well to him in the matter of estab
Hailing diplomatic relations with the Vatican,
and this being so, does not, there is reason
to believe, now interfere with the friendly
attitude assumed by the Roman Catholic
prelate's and clergy toward the Home
Rulers—in short does not interfere at all
either one way or the other
Dr. Koch, the eminent microscopist, is
described as a medium-sized, slender man,
with an earnest, inquiring countenance and
whitening, but not white, hair, which makes
him appear older than hie age, forty-one.
He studied miaroeoopy ander Cohn, in Bres-
lau, and earned his firet professorship
through his investigations into wound infec-
tion and *lento fever.
"What is bred in the bone will come out
in the flesh," smith the Baying. After her
severe discipline for socialistic misdemeanors,
and decided retrieving of her character and
public interest, Louie° Michel has suddenly
deolared that else intends to harry back to
Raeala and make herself u misohievoue as
she can to the Government. She will pro-
bably pram the border as aeotetly as possible
It has been much noted of late years to
what a remarkable degree of prominence
members of the Jewieh race hereteforealmost
exclusively oaonpled in money getting and
music, have attained in other lines of life in
England so soon as those were opened to
them. An instance in point is afforded in the
r aw Profeaeor of Poetry at Oxford, whose
father was by birth a Hebrew, by. name
Cohen, but who changed his name to Pal-
greve.
A bee's working' tools comprise a variety
equal to that cf the average mechanic. The
feet of the common working bee exhibit the
combination of a basket, a brush and a palr
of pinchers. The brush, the hairs of whioh
are arranged in symmetrioal rows, is only
to be seen with the microscope. With this
brash of fairy delicacy the bee brushes its
velvet robe to remove the pollen dust with
which it becomes loaded while sucking up
the nectar. Another article hollowed like
a spoon receives all the gleanings the insect'
odrries to the hive.
A London oorreapondent of the San Fran-
cisco Argonaut writes that all other oorren-
pondente;who speak of the Prinoe of Wales
as "Tnm•Tnm,' or "Tum," only show their
deplorable ignorance. "Nod*, as a matter
of fact," he Saye, "the Prince is called
"Tummy"—that 11 the pet, name he goes by.
The name is not a ohance appellation, ate
plied" without either rhyme, reason, or
meaning, It is a childlsh and playful refer-
ence to his Royal Highness's stomach,
the rotundity of whioh is one of his most
striking features."
The London Lancet thinks that the ani-
moeity with whioh men of'oppoeite political
views regard °itch other is out of all propor-
tion to their individual interest is the gites-
tions on which they differ; and that there
are reasons foe thinking that "the mental
disturbance set up by pelitloal exoitement
may be a epeoified disease." "Election -fev-
er" and "polltiommania are at present ens.
rent tonus in the Englinh moaioal prose.'
Beer and brandy, in England, and whiskey
- of a good deal
in this errantry,ere the causes g
of this "election fever," though there is
much tenth in the views of the Lancet
ed and unhappy
The repress ppy are is tenfold
more danger from temptation that thee°
who feel they are'having their share of life's
good. The stream that can net flow in the.
'sunshine seelra a subterranean channel; in
like manner, w'hen cireumetanees or the in-
ooneiderate will of othere' impose
unrolent-
in restraint upon the exuberant spirit o
youth, ituaualtyfinds some hidden oat1et.
whioh can not bear' the e.!
The Hydrophobia Scare.
The fact than hydrophobia is one of the
moat terrible maladies that can afflict a
human being, has so affectedthe public
mind, that every enapping, worthless our,
be regarded ab mad, and ,every animal or
person bit by it, as likely to break out
with the dlseaee. There are earns of al-
legeddeaths by hydrophobia, which
skilled physicians regard as entirely due
to the imagination e' the patient. In
times like the prese when the public
..
mind is excited eon hydrophobia,
in
.n
�€'
,iarions cures for Chid dread disease are
ndverbised. Ao no cure of a well -marked
case of hydrophobia was ever known all
euch proposed aro utterly useless, unless
Paetenr's prevails. An animal supposed
to be mad, bites a person ; he applies the
alleged remedies, and hydrophobia does
not follow. This case Is forthwith herald-
ed as a " cure,"
THE MAD STONE,
In many communities a person or a
family is noted as . prgeiessing a " mad -
stone." If any one Le -Wm ten by a dog sup-
posed to be mad ci'r'; bye snake supposed
to be venomous, this stone le sent for. Ib
is applied by the believing to the wound,
allowed to remain there for a certain
length of time, and when the atone has
drawn out all the virus, it is placed in the
water, properly waehed and dried, care-
fully wrapped in various clothe, and is
ready for the neat case. So strongly is
the belief in the mad -stone catablia"hed,
that we have had the offer of the sale of
one that has descended in a family through
many generations. No doubt that any
porone-atone, like a bit of sandstone, if
dry, would, when planed upon a wound,
absorb blood, lymph, etc., but it cweld be
snfliriently.active to absorb the virus from
the bite of a mad dog, is utterly improba-
ble. If bitten by a dog, do not wait sever-
al days for a mad -shone, but go to the
nearest physician. Rumliecb that very
few dogs are mad, and if bitten, do not
let the imagination dwell upon the possi-
ble evil results.
Shouting Proverbs,
A °spits' game for weary brains is
Shouting Proverbs, as no effort is required
save that of the lungs. Some one le sent
from the room and some familiar proverb
is selected by those within, for example,
" Make hay while the sun shines." Be-
ginning in one corner each player Is given
a word in order—the first " make," the
second "hay, ", eta.
When the guesser is called back, he
etands in the ventre of the room and
counts three. Whereupon the company,
each shouting his own word, give the pro-
verb, and from this oontuaion of tongues
the ono in the centre most discover order,
and gnus the proverb.
Itis fmperativ that all shout at the
same moment,d �4X�r,, otherwise, single
words will soon givf clew to that which
ie eoughb.
There is a harmless little practical joke
which may be played upon some member
of the company under pretense of contin-
uing this same game of "Shouting Prov-
erbs. Instead of sending the guesser
Urfa of the room, let him remain while
acme one ostensibly selects a proverb, and
goes about the circle whispering into the
ear of each the word to be shouted. The
trick consists in telling all but one to re.
P y
main erfecti silent. This•tine exoop.
.
bion la given some word Whk1 'will sound
most ridiculous when at the count of one,
two, three, he shouts it forth in stentorian
tones, amid a general silence.
AllfgatorS Stand the Freeze.
E. W. Clark had forty-two alligators,
ranging from ono to three feet in length,
in a shallow pool back of his store. When
the cold wave came the pool froze solid
and the alligators were imbedded in the
foe for four days, Every ono who Paw
the reptiles pronounced them deader
then Hector, but when the ice thawed
they began to show eigne of life, and
yesterday all but three arawiedout as gay
as larks. The others may aoIi to life
next summer, -[Tallahassee (Fla,) Tab
'shaman.
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