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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-29, Page 7YOUNG FOLKS. 0 4pVBNTURS IN CENTRAL ALTA, BY DAYIn KER, There are many doserte be Tartary, but none more grim and dreary than the groat waste of "Kara Koum (Black $dud}, whioh stretohes acmes the whole northwest of Central Asia. Day after day you go wearily on over the endless level, with your head oohing and your eklu dry and feverish, seeing nothing but the brining sky above and the burning Baud below, whore the only thing to show that you have not wandered from the right traok is a stray mound of earth here and there, out of which peer the whitened bonen of hernia and oamele, and sometimes even of men, who have died here before you. But if you do happen to meet a man, you must be on your guard, for in these wild regions the ld joke about "patching a Tar tar" of comes true in grim earnest. b llet•headed •fA0 s u Aat d When one ' holo . _ fellows comes trotting up to you on his wiry little horde, looking gunning at you from under the high nap of blaok sheep -skin that is slouched over hie small, narrow, rat like eyes, you had better keep your hand on your revolver and your eye upon him until he has answered your challenge of, " Amann teat 2" (is it peace?) with, ;' lath' Allah, amaun uat (please -God it is peace). Why this pleaeant piece should be oalled " Bleak Sand it ie hard to say, for both it and its two great brothers, the " Ak Koum" (White Sand), to the east, and the •• Kiel Koum" (Red Sand), to the south, are all of one oolor, and! that Dolor a pale yellow. But it eau look " blank" enough sometimes in another way, as I know to my,00st, In the driest and loneliest part of it, .net ad the water is beginning to run low in your akin bag, you oome upon a deep, winding furrow in the parched earth, whioh was a rushing river ages ago, and you think of the cool, clear water that the thirsty sande have drunk up, until you yourself grow thiretler and more dismal than ever. We were just midway .across the desert, and the red sun was deicing over the great waste of liteloee sand, when there eadoenly arose between to and it what seemed at firat eight like a aloud of withered leaves. But a emend glance showed it to be a host of wide -winged living thinge, moving swift and unswerving, in ranked order, like an army arrayed for bstttle, But for their amazing numbers one might have taken them for an ordinary flight of grasshoppers; but I had seen euoh a eight too often not to reoognize the destroying march of the locust. Onward they went to lay waste the rloh lands of the south, their vast shadow dark• ening half the sky, and the whir of their countless winge sounding amid the ghostly silence like the biasing and grinding of some mighty engine. Although thousands passed every moment, it was fully fifteen minutes before the last of the hoot had gone by. Then my Tartar servant pointed his brown, bony hand after the shadowy masa, and said, solemnly, " Master we shall have a storm." " Why don think so Y' asked I, some- what Burp , o , f r the sky was clear and olondlese at ever, "The tomtits havegone by in theirarmies, even such as those that the Prophet Mousse Ben Amrahm" (Moses the son of .Amram) "brought up against Egypt; and where they oorae, the blast of the desert is never far be- hind. Destruction alwaya follows the de- stroyer." Tile terrible emphaeie of the man's tone and manner showed tbat he was thoroughly In earnest ; and if he spoke truly, the thought of encountering a desert whirlwind in this perilous epee, where there was enough loose sand to bna whole army, was anything but pleaeaBut what could we do? To go bank was dangerous ae to go forward, and to standstill was worse than either ; so on we went, Two hours passed, however, without any sign of danger, and I was just beginning to hope that the Tartar might have been mis- taken after all, when the camels, whioh were harnessed three abreast to my light oovered wagon, suddenly stopped short, and began to annff the air uneasily. I saw a look of anxiety aloud the Tartar's stern face, instantly reflecting upon that of our Kirghiz driver, whose eharp whiteteetb, hooked nose, and groat blank hollow eyes looked quite unearthly in the fitful moon- light. The camels snuffed again, more quickly and restleeely than before, and then crouch• ed dawn side by side, with their long necks laid flat on the ground. "Tebbad !" (sand -storm) ehonted the Kirghiz, throwing himself down behind them, and mnffiing hie head in his sheepskin cloak. The words were hardly apoken, when a gray dimness rushed down suddenly over the whole sky, and my Tartar aid I had barely time to fling ourselves down into bottom of the wagon, when there came a rush and a roar, and all around was one whirl of flying toed and charging storm, whioh, ohsely as our shawls were palled over our faces, seemed to de afen, blind, and strangle ue all in one moment. It seemed many hours to ne (though in reality it was lees than one) while we lay there, half stifled, but not daring to put forth our heads, listening to the howl of the Mona and the sharp "pirr, pirr" of the whirling sand againet the eidee of our reek- ing wagon. But at last the hideous uproar died away, and we ventured to peep forth, A strange dight awaited ue. Far as the eye could reach, the moth sand was bil• lowed like the waves of a stormy sea. Our wagon looked as If steeped in lime, and the lower hal of it was bidden altogether. Of the ea nothing could be aeon but their humps ;' nd as the Kirghiz started up, throwing off 'a whirlwind of dust en every side, he seemed to have risen bodily through he earth. We ourselves had fared little better, In spite of all my wrappings, my akin was as gritty as a matoh•box from head to foot, and the'Tartar'e sallow visage looked like a half -washed potato. The warm genial air had suddenly become chilly as a gr ave, for the Siberian hurricane had brought with it oold memories of frozen seas, and leagues of onowy• moorland, and half • seen icebergs • drifting wearily through the polar night ; and the pale grayish -yellow sand of the Kara Koum, whioh by its very nature oan- not absorb heat, is ono of the coldest sur- faces in the world. Hew we escaped being buried wive out right I was at first quite at a loss to ima gine, butthetexplani1tion was simple enough Most fortunately for oureelvee, we bad hat ed on the brow of a' ridge where the sand lay thin and light, and where the swoop et the wind was too furlong to let the drifts gather thiokly round us. Had we met the sterni hi the hollowe below, wo should ail have been dead men, and I still count that night's work one of the narrowest of me many temper/ from death," At the breaking up of inter nature stems to be pensive; ,plvefl the babbling brooks are thewed•full; AEU AND MUD. Mre. Lsn gtry bee introduoed, a new dodge le the oommemoratiou'of a fiftieth perform - atm by distributing her photograph. A farmer of Scotia, Nab , found particles of gold from the size of a pin hoed to a pea seventy feet below the outlaw) while digging a well, Wolves ataaoked and tread Edward Burk within two miles of Manetique, Mich. They watched him for hours, sad then gave bine a change to escape, Mr, A. Cutter of Leuieville, Ky,, holds the championship of pulling the body up by the Utile finger of one baud. He did it six times in suooesefon 10 1878, A boy living within eight of Plymouth Rook weighed 307 pounds (at last animate), though be is only 14 years old. He has growu at the rate of fifty pounds a year of late. Mies Geneva Armstrong. one of the teachers of mush in Elmira College, has ir- vented and patenteda device for reeding and watering cattle while they are journeying in cattle Darn, recent careful calculation shows that England owna nearly three times as large an extent of ooloniee es all the reat of Eu- rope together. Her colonies are eighty-five times as big ae the mother country. A good housewife in Ridgeway, Minh., says that for a family of six she has in the last year baked 4 905, cookies, 592 pies, 263. cakes, 917 doughnuts, 698 loaves of bread, not counting johnny Oakes, shortcakes, pan- cakes, and puddings. George Scoville of Hornelleville, went to Condor recently, and had with him several giant powder cartridgee, which he took pleasure in exploding. The last one that he set off blew him into ao many pieces that some of them were never found. Wendell Philips was waiting onoe for the train at Eraez Junction, Vt., where pas- sengers at timee have to exercise great pati- ence. He saw a graveyard not far from the depot very fall of graves, and inquired the reason. AGreen Mountaineer oe,miy inform- ed him that it was used to bury passengers in who died while waiting for the train. Charlie Day of Cambridge, was invited to call at the residence of the aunt of Nellie Lovejoy, a seventeen -year-old school girl, to whom he had been attentive. He called, the door was locked beland him, and Nellie's • friends and a clergyman had no difficulty in peranading him that he ought to marry Nellie. He did, and at once disappeared, and his bride has not seen him since. Since Eastern parka and zoological gar- dens are aiding prairie doge to their collec- tions of animals, an ingenious Kansan has invented a trap for catohing them alive. A barrel without head or bottem is plaoed over the hole, and half filled with fine rand. The dog easily digs his way to the surface, but once there, can neither dig down through the sifting sand nor climb the sides of the barrel. A labor-saving Yankee of Chapinville, Conn., has rigged a crank attaohment to a wheel of hia wagon connecting it with a ohurn that he planes in the wagon ; and when the Dream is all ready he dumps it into the churn, hitches up his horse and taken a ride, returning home in due time with a nioe mess of butter that has indeed "dome" very easily. Pocket Gold Rutin?. Who pootrendlunter ie . comparatively now- comer in the California country, and only made hitt appearanoe daring the last yoar end e half. He, too, le a preepeotor, but he de spleen quartz. He prospects for gold only, and does net desire to find a little of it in huge maeaes of flinty rook, 33e expecte to nig a hole in the earth the Mize of te barrel and take therefrom a fortune in the pure %Mole. Hie hopes are neither groundiese aor without preoedent, A number of pookate. and seam deposits have been found, some oonteiaing a few ounces and others thea- s.;nds of dollars. I was shown a holo a yard square front width $2,700 was recently taken. The deposit was found within afoot of the anima on a hillside, These pocket depos- its are found in various formations, and "Boienti6o fellows" don't summed well in locating them, either. They ore usually found in decomposed quartz in clay seame. and sometimes in wash gravel. The mode of prospecting for poakete ie aimple, but it, too, requires hard work and faith, The pocket hunter selects a section where exten- sive placer -mining has been done and where the yield was rich. He conjeotureathat the gold oame from somewhere, and he follows the gulches up stream se far se they have been worked, and there takes pane of dirt from the surface and hillsides. If he obtains " color," or spook of gold, from the sure fade it is a fine prospeot, and he follows the trace carefully, taking the next panful of dirt to be washed Prem higher ground, and so on until the prospect fails ; then he digs for the deposit. Ocoaeionally it is there. Indications are often found where weeks of planning fail to locate from whence they have been waehod or thro . n ; and again, pookete are found by mere accident that have thrown no trace to the outface. A good prospeot may be obtained from every spot on a hill -side, and yet nothing be found beneath the surface, A pocket hunter will carry and wash dirt for Jaye without obtaining a oolor. When he obtains a speck of gold, however, and if it is the rough, unwashed pocket metal, his chance le fair of finding a deposit—perhaps a fortune. The winter season is the most favorable for prospecting in this manner, as every gulch then contains euffiofeat water for panning, while during the summer the prospector mast either follow water -courses or carry dirt long dietanoes to springs or etreams, and there pan it. There are those who frequently find p meets, and, even though the deposits are large, they find them often enough to prosper moderately well in the uncertain occupation, and ap pear cheerful, oanfident and alwaya poe- sessed of a little money, I am inclined to think, however, that, considering the num- ber engaged, the fortunate ones are few, and for the amount of labor performed I am forced to believe that both prospectors and pocket -hunters are scantily paid. A cattle dealer in Pomerania was trying to teach a oalf to drink by letting it suck his fingers. In the operation the calf sucked off a ring from the hand of the dealer, who didn't then notice the loan. He sold the animal, and a week after read in the Butch- ers' Gazette that in the stomach of a calf alaughtered in Berlin his ring, minutely des- cribed, bad been found. John Borrell was driving near the rail- road track in North Reading, when his hound, that had been fallowing him, ran on the track just in time to be struck by a fast locomotive and hurled fifteen feet in the air. John thought there wasn't enough left of the dog to mourn over and drove on. Looking back after a while, he saw the hound trotting behind the wagon, little the worse for his interview with the cow- catcher. The small waiting room at Prof. Pas- teur's laboratory in the Rue d Ulm presents a curious apeotaole during the hours of in- oculation. There are present Parlelane, Provincials, Ruselans, Austrians, Beeman - lens, Italians, and Spaniards. Some are elegantly dressed, others are in rags. In several cases the patients have brought their own doctors with them. The variety of languages spoken make the little room a veritable Babel. The meanest man in-Rondont is known as " The Sponge." He never buys a news- paper or advertises in one, but he knows the value of advertiaing, for he said to a reporter the other day : " if you .want an item you might say that — —, the enter- prising dealer, ham gone to the city on a visit to friends, but will combine busineee with pleasure by bringing back a spring stook of desirable goods," At a dinner in Rondont the other day there was a German, just arrived, who had not seen paper money. A gentleman op- posite took a $50 bill from his pocket and endeavored to hand it to the Getman, but dropped it into a dish of soup. He took it out as quickly as possible, and was waving it to and fro to dry it, when a big dog in the room snapped it ont of hie fingers and bolted it down with apparent relish. John Blair, who murdered his wife and family in Kansas, and war lynched for it, was the son of the Rev. W. Downey Blair of Smyrna, Ky. On Sunday, while he was preaohleg, a bey walked into the ohurob and handed him a letter. Mr, Blair stop ped, broke the seal, read a few worde, and then, with a groan, threw up his hands and fell to the floor. The letter had brought him the news of his eon's crime and death. The Medical Times says that a good way to remove irritating particles from the eye is to take a horse hair and double it, leaving a loop, If the objeot oan be seen, lay the loop over it, close the eye, and the mote will come out as the hair is withdrawn, If the irritating object cannot be seen, raise the lid of the eye as high as possible and place the loop as far as yon oan, close the eye and roll the ball around a f ow times, draw out the hair, and the oubstance which canned the pain will be sure to come with it, Hoopor gives tho following version of facts connected with the photographing of some of the Burmese prisoners juat before execution: "The camera was pieced in pm sition before the prisoners were placed against the wall, The men were blindfold- ed at the time, and knew nothing of the fact that the camera was there. The words of command were in no who timed to snit the exposure of the plate, whiohwaa Inger taneoud. The words of command, 'Ready 1 Present 1 Fire 1' were given by the officer in command of the firing party preelaely in accordance with the regn atione for volley firing, and no delay of any kind took place between the words ' Present 1' and' Fire V To previeuit attempt bad ever been made to Motive the'piotnre of an execution," Iron Ccean Steamers. The first iron vessel was launched in 1817, and is still in exlatence. But not till 1832 did the work seriously begin. At that time the Lloyda began to build small iron steamers for short voyages. A certain amount of pre- judice had to be overcome, for there were many doubts as to its strength and;bnoyaney. But it made its way, and the firat successful iron steamer made a Transatlantic voyage in 1843, the Great Britain, launched by the Great Western Company. In those days the Great Britain was rated as an unusually large sized;ship. It was a ship of 3,000 tone burden, and was an iron eorew steamer com- bining the new methede of propulsion and construction. The voyage was suocessful, and the ship is still in existence' and, till within a few years at least, ran to Austra- lia. Her success led to imitations in the Engliah marine, and in 1850 the Inman line was established between Liverpool and New York of iron eorew steamers. It had no profitable mail contract, and was purely a commercial undertaking, but under skilful management has been very successful In the United Statee iron shipbuilding has never taken root the way it has in England. Americans began early to build small iron steamers, and do now, but only for coasting linea. They only use iron in oases where they are entirely out off from competition, or where they are driven to it, as it is im- possible to use wood for much of the coast- ing service. How It Grows}. " Oh, Fanny, you'd never believe it 1" " Yes I would, and I'm dying to hear." " You kn Melly Bilflggin ! I heard from Celia Rouget that she was engaged." " Is that all? I thought you were go - Ing to tell me that she had eloped." "Well, dear, you can make it an elope. went when von tell the story." An Exp, rt. Mrs. Fizzletop overheard her son Johnny swear like a trooper. " Why, Johnny," she exclaimed, " who taught you to swear that way ?" " Taught me to awear," exclaimed Johnny, " why it's me who teaches the other boys," The tramp, like the mariner, is often looking for ahospitable cove ....The prieon- er who breaks out is usually a rash fellow. �PEINQ MMES. A long " felt "wants 4newhat. 4 current item—Jelly.. Always what it is oraokod up to be—lee. Why do glrle wear beetles 2—Beoanee lt'e well, Moe thing in hose—a young lady's feet. No one oan resist a woman's tees;-•-anny. A. deed of trust—lending a man a dollar.. Not always eatiefled—Fir et mortgages. Fine weather ie never admired until it h mitt. It's a poor man who can't have a few en- emiee. A knight of in -duet -try --The carpet - beater, A fare exchange—Giving cash for oar' tickets. An insolent tailor should know how to out a lawsuit, Historians will measure Parnell'e mown by hie Homo rule "Lend me your ears," as the farmer said to the corn -stalk. A policeman, like a man climbing a lad- der, goes the rounds. The nick of time --the piece broken out of the ancient °rookery. The dude, judging from his conversation, holds everything In " ah." A mnd road in the winter is a haul -y ter- ror to the teamatere, A quack—Dr Jones—according to the eatimate ot Dr Brown—and reciprocally. Life and death follow each other as sun- shine follows summer showers. A murderer is like a shepherd's crook, He is sure to turn up in the end. Remorse green and despair yellow are very much worn In law suits. The pen la not only mightier than the sword, but it can give the boycott points. The barber Is the greatest of modern trav- elers. He roams oontlnually from poll to poll. Tennyson paraphrased to suit Miss An • demon : Faultlessly faulty, nicely irregular, splendidly dull. If a fellow steals a kiss from his girl, would it be jest the right thing to call him a male robber! The miser le :universally detested, but almost everybody envfea him one of hie characteristics—hie wealth. Anxious Reader—No. You are mistaken, Burne did not write a poem called the "Boy- cotters' Boycotters' Saturday Night, Is it fair to suppose that when Paul found the thorn in his side he bad been leaning up against a barbed wire fence? "Did you hear the lecture last night?" asked Williams of his neighbor Beasley. " No," replied Beasley, " my wife wasn't at home." " Few sons take after their fathers," re- marks •an exchange. True, but a great many fathers take after their sons. If any skeptic should feel a doubt as to Solomon's reputed wisdom, let them re- member the number of women he lived with, That foot ought to settle it. Boggs—I see that blind people are echo cared now by means of raised letters. Fogg —That's nothing. Why bank cashiers are often educated by means of raised checks. 'What is 1 Mia. So many persons d1eParafrom what ie called a paralytic stroke, or apoplexy almost inter, ',movably, that not a ifttte !ear has been Wakened, and much inquiry re made for an explanation of the causes of what appears so be a moat deadly disease, Using the language of an intelligent observer we shall endeavor to give some points that are of prantieai value, A carpenter or other meohauio, whose business requlree him to wield a hammer, finds some morning that he is unable to raise his hammer arm, or perhaps while at work the man suddenly feels his arm be - acme numb and weak; it falls to hie side, and he is no longer able to work, The phy sician to whom the man applies says ft is "a braohiai monoplegia from =sole tire," wbioh means simply that the man has over• wrought hie hammer arm and it needs reef. Po these cases the very appropriate name ot " artisans' palsy" is given. Again, a poor - blooded, nervously oenetruoted person, mot vt often a woman, meets with a great shock or has to endure an unusual mental or phyaioal effort, and perhaps without warning loses the use of some part of the body, often of the vocal apparatus, and le unaLle to speak above a whisper. The dootor calla it "hys- terical parol,, aft," or " hysterical aphonia," loss of voice. Now just how this comes about, we fancy it ;would puzzle the moat learned specialist to say. Concerning this eonditfon, however, ae well as the one be- fore mentioned, this much Is known, viz., that by appropriate treatment they recover, which is very I,00d evidence that no part of the nervous apparatne is broken. The faith °urea reported from time to time are probably, for the moat part, oases of this kind, 4—.111114ee►— It eometimea happens that an intoxicated person will fall asleep with the head reet ing upon the arm or with the arm hanging over a chair back. When he wakes the arm Is numb and is paralyzed—another case of " brachial monoplegia. Pressure upon the trunks of the nervus which supply the dieabled member has of fected those nerves so that they are unable to perform their usual duty. The nerves which go out from the brain spinal cord to the extremities are quite oomparable to the wires which ars stretched from piece to place for electric oommnnicatione, and prea- eureinpon the one section of those nerves produces results very like those which fol• low an interference with the electric wire. The ease juat given illustrates very well a large number of cases of palsy from pressure, from pressure upon the brain or spinal oord, or the nerves whioh have their exit therefrom, will produce a palsy whom. extent will depend upon the extent of the pressure, end whose duration will depend upon the chances for removing pressure. Pressure upon the nerves which supply one aide of the face produces a very oharaoteriatlo paralysis, and one that oanees very many laughable mistakes on the part of tyros and non-professional people by their attempt to detect the affected aide. Pressure upon the brain or spinal cord may be due to the presence of tumors, to frac- tures of the skull, or to the upper bones of which the backbone is formed, and to blood °iota within the skull or spinal canal. Pa- tients who recover frpm diphtheria, scarlet fever, and some other acute sickness, are frequently paralyzed in some part. Them eases generally recover by proper treatment, and it is quite probable that many oases would recover spontaneously if lethione, People who work in lead are liable to r. peculiar form of paralysis, whioh ie fust seen, ae a rule, in the muscles of the fore- arm, on amount of whioh the patient Is un- able to extend the hand upon the arm. At times the whole musonlar system is involv- ed, Change of occupation and the use of remedies whioh will assist the elimination of the mineral from the system la the proper oouree for anoh patients. Analogous farms of paralysis are caused by arsenic and quick- silver, probably by their action upon the nerve structure of the spinal cord. Woo. rano the Indian arrow pawn, will also pro- duce paralysis if introduced into the sys- tem in sufficient quantities; The paralyz- ing effect of large donee of alcohol are well known, Certain conditions of the circulatory ap- paratus predispose to extensive and often incurable paralysis. Here it is that moat oases of apoplexy occur. The arteries are elastic tubes. By age, hal d work, Dare and the prolonged use ot alcoholic drinks, these tubes lose their elasticity and become brit- tle, By acme event which excites the flow of an unusual quantity of blood to the brain one of these now inelastic tubes le broken, the poured -oat blood settles in the ventricles and there form olota whose presence muses speedy paralysis. Ow.ng to ,:main systematic conditions fibrin, a substance normally suspended in the blood, sometimes lodges upon the flood- gates or valves of the heart. Presently a part of this matter is dislodged and washed away into the blood ; perchance it reaches an artery in the brain which will not per- mit it to pans. Then we have an " embol- ism" whioh oats off the blood supply from a part of the brain, one of the immdiate aymp- tons of which is palsy of the part of the body which reoeivea its nerve supply from that portion of the brain. These paralyses are woolly extensive, and are not readily distinguishable from those just mentioned. Finally, change in the structure of the brain or spinal cord produce paralysis, more or lean localized varying in extent with the extent of nerve atrnctnre involved. Such paralysis are especially obstinate in those of advanced years, and usually produce dis- ability in the legs. The study of this subject has led to the determination of certain brain centres as poseseeing special muscular control, so that many kinds of paralysis can be traced to demean or loss of function in definite parts of the encephalon. Went Down With the Ship. Capt. Tedd, of the British steamship " Sarah Ann," whioh sailed from Baltimore In February, and reached Galway, Ireland, in the latter part of March, reports that crossing the ocean, and while in lat. 28 0 north and lon. 65 a' 30', he fell in with a lot of wreckage, and Cspt Todd warmed the horizon with his glase and two or three miles to the south he sighted a brigantine tossed about by the monntanous seas. The national colors of France and a flag of die• tress were flying from her masthead. Cap- tain Todd steamed to the westward of the distressed vessel and attempted to restate the aailore, but a small boat would not live in euoh a sea. By sprinkling oil on the sea he was enabled to secure comparatively smooth water, and a life boat from the steamship rescued four of the sailors. The captain, the mate and the cabin boy of the ship were deaf to the entreaties to abandon her, and they bade a last farewell to their comrades as they sailed away. As soon as they saw the rescued sailors were safe on board the steamship, they hauled down the signals of distress, went below, and an hour later the vessel sank with all on board. Her name was the "Dix Freree," and she waobonnd from Martinique, France, to Bos- ton. Mass. Yon hardly ever hear a woman express- ing her idea of distance by Baying that a thing is " within a stone's throw." The phrase is too indefinite and oirouitoua-like for aeeuraay. He.—" I ithink they both made a very good match." She.—"How can younay so ? Why, she's brimstone personified, and he's a perfect stick 1" He.—" Brimstone and a perfect Mick—precisely the emendate to a good match." Teasing Bud : Ole 1 do YOU LIINE Mir hRIEND, IliCs INGENUE? I am lib' GIA D DON'T YOU MltINN TIiAT sflN IS VERY e0710)2C it fon ? Amiable Gentlenian (not to be outdone i7t polyglot admiration) Yee AND Tti011, TOO, TrrEne 10 SOl<IE'P1ttN0 e0 very passes Armee IIER 1 Wonders after a time whether distinrjtiee wan not the word which he meant to use. PERSONAL. Mr. J+ H, Parnell, brother of the Irielr leader, baa lately planted 500 sores more in eaohes on bis. Georgia farm, makingto to- ta1 of I. 300 acres in that f rust. �v The Dean pf Winaheeter is about to xe- atore the marble•vovered sarcophagus of WheT ism Rofee, to its anolent plane before the high altar f n the Cathedral. wtl;..a' Mr. A, Carica, a wholesale merchant of Montreal, has paused the arrest of ten young men for forgery in issuing bogus notes of invitation to a' party at his house.,: ;y Mr. Albert Molliagd, a well-known French journalist and composer, ie soon to become the husband. of Madame Judie, It is gen- eraily known that Madame Judie 10 a widow, :Jr: p,. i ,.. ',.„g,a..71 M. DeLease) s declares confidently that tho Panama Canal will be completed within the next three yearn, Fede perfume ehare hia. confidenoe, although hie words have tho weight of authority. At a garden party width is to he given at Dublin in May by the Earl and the Countess of Aberdeen the ladies invited will appear in maids' fanny drawee, and the gentlemen to Irish tweed suits, Mrs. Garfield has offered her Cleveland bailee for rent, and will hereafter live at Mentor, the former Garfield homestead, where some $40,000 has been expended in beautifying the house and grounds. The death le recorded of Captain James Maurine Shipton, Et, N., who served under Neleon, Damian, Cornwallis, Napier and Sydney Smith, He received the medal for the taking of Fort Trinite at Martinique. Mrs, Potter Palmer Is noted as carry- ing upon her parse i more wealth in the shape of jewels than any other lady in Ohhago. See wears a collar of diamonds, besides aigrette for the hair, superb rose- shaped diamond solitaires. Mrs. Paul True, aged 95, of Pittsfield, N. FI., very foolishly omitted the whooping cough from the list of her infantile ail- ments and is now down with that disease, but exp eta soon to be about her work again. This is e. petty tough story, bat it's true. Stepniak lives in the northwest part of Landon, not in a luxurious mansion like that of the socialist, Fiyndman, but in a small and severely plain hoose, sparely fur- Mahed, He is a heavily built man of hand- some face and polished manners, and, al- ways dressee in simple black, There will be an important sale of pie - tures at London in June and July. These pictures, numbering more than four hundred most of them fine examples, are now in the collection of the Dake of Marlborough. realer" Is particularly conspicuous In this collection, Perhaps no Bingle canvas in it has greater valve than Carlo Delci's "Mater Dolorosa." It turns oat that Mr. Edgar Fawcett is the author of the anonymous story publish- ed in Philadelphia some time ago under the title of "The Bantling Ball." The pub- lishers offered a prize of $1,000 to anybody guessing the author. So many people sus- pected Fawcett, owing to the turgid style, that the purse has been divided up and the gneesers will only realize 12a cents. apiece. Belva Leakwood, of oouree, has taken a hand in the low -neck discussion, and Beeks to create additional bustle by adding the trained skirt to the tabooed articles. She has written a letter to Miss Cleveland, in which she declares that " while the trained skirt is untidy, extravagant and in crowd- ed assemblies positively vulgar, it ie also undoubtedly in Its origin a badge of servil- ity," With Sir Henry Taylor, who died in Eng- land March 23, In his eighty-seventh year, a living epitome of the nineteenth century has passed away. He had seen the reigns of the Third and Fourth Georges and Wil- liam 1V., as well as the whole of Victoria's ; also the rise and fall of the first Napoleon, hie Bourbon ,assessors, and the Third Em- pire; Scott, Byron, and Shelley, Lamb, Coleridge, and the Lake Poeta, together with Dickens and Thackeray, Irving and Prescott, were of hie era; he was a well - grown lad at the time of our almost forgotten war of 1812, and had witnessed a complete reconstruction of the political map of Eu- rope. Almost every visitor in Paris who has ridden out toward the Bois has seen the old man In the little carriage drawn by sheep. pottering along in the avenue do Bois de Boulouge. These sheep are two fine fat South Downs, but the occupant is a cripple named Dr. De Reroy. Ho has been by tune a soldier, a traveller, a politician, a journal- ist and a man of letters. A nephew of the Abbe Iammenale, he was fora while private secretary of Lamartine, also an intimate friend of the Marquis of Hartford, at whose plaoe in the Bole ue frequently met Prince Napoleon. During the war he volunteered to parry important despatches out of Paris for the government of the Defense Nationale, He started alone in a balloon, which was caught in a hurricane, carried Into Switzer- land, and game down in the midst of the Mer de Glace glacier, where his legs were so frost bitten that they had to be amputated. Besides his legs, he lost hie fortune by the war, Married Life. I think it is as much the husband's duty to make home what it ought to be as the wife's. Are not their shoulders as broad as oars? We all have our duty to perform. I think sometimes if husbands thought more about making their homes happy, in- stead of the wives having it all to do, some would be different from what they are now. Woman's work sometimes is the same week in and week out; then is it to be wondered at that she does not alwaya have a emlle on her face, when she stays at home month after month ? Why doe0n't her husband say, I must go up town, Aad it will do you good to get out ; we will all go and take a sleigh ride ? I imagine ho says to himself it will take fifteen or twenty minutes to get the horse and wagon readyt and it is so much tremble to take nay wife and children, they are need to staying at home, and We not necessary for them to go, I'll go afoot, A.n Irish dynamiter' was captured recent- ly at Bologna with a large quantity of ex- p loefves. The authorities evidently did not 'Velvet will be largely used for trimming g drtse oa. i as Dotson , 1 d silk as well want to eon the slags Bologna up. wool air, -- w-esw.�---- Dangers in Africa. "The moat dangerous savage foes we have to fear," says Mr. Stanley, "are the crocodile, hippopotamus and the buffalo. We lust five men during my last visit to the Congo from these animals ; three were kill- ed by cremation', one by a hippopotamus and one by a buffalo. There are a large number of hippopntcmi along the Congo and its tributaries, and thousands upon theueanda of or000dilee. The latter are by far the most insidious foes we have, be- cause they are so silent and eo swift. Yon see a man bathing in the river," said Mr. Stanley, with one of hia vivid graphic touohea ; " he is standing near the shore laughing at you, perhaps, laughing in the keen enjoyment of his bath ; suddenly he falls over and you see him no more. A crocodile has approached unseen, has struck him a blow with its tail that knooke him over, and he is Instantly seized' end oartiod off. Or, it may be tt at the man is swim- ming ; he is totally unoonseious of danger ; there 10 nothing in sight, nothing to stir a tremor of apprehension ; but there, in deep water, under the shadow of that rook, or hidden beneath the shelter of the trees yon- der, is a huge crocodile ; it has spotted the swimmer, and ie watching the opportunity ; the swimmer approaches ; he le within striking distance ; stealthily, silently, un- perceived, the creature makes for its prey; the man known nothing till he is seized by the leg and dragged under, and he knows no more 1 A bubble or two indicates the place where he has gone down, and that le all."