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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-5-6, Page 6.... , . .ani}aiaau!1 ns��xr.ysei,�twr„>u;,,. � +tfi�rukliNn+ct,►in?u'>t I N EGYPTIANROMANCE. 4 Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded, upon Startling Bevelar tions In the Career of Arabi Paella, �y the Atiti4or of " NINJ1, THE NAuLisr," THE REP ternitni" " TUX SiRn8dN Srlr, Exp. E'D0. At thie point the Valide Khanoum glare- ed up off the letter at her auditor, to note what effept it had made upon bet and she uttered a little cry of mingled pity and con. sternation upon perceiving that her " little deter," as she delighted to call her,,, bad week down upon e. softly pillowed divan in a dead swoon. CHAPTER LVLT. BEHIND THE CONTAIN IN TILE HAREM OF THE WAR MINISTER. Whilst the Unit victor uponI g tian soil g by has thus been gainedY 3yP her hua%and, 1lailie Is half guest and half captive within the pink walls of Arabi Pasha's palaces at Cairo,. The vvar mfnieter had kept his word by dispatching her and her parents thither, ex• aptly art he had pronieed he would do, and here ahe has been during the whole of the .five intervening weeks, leading a dull and %sadly monotorioua life behind the harem ourtain, sexing her n'othtr daily, bat her lather never once, for he might not enter into that auppozed semotunry of female love - lineae though it ottimea ecreene female hide eAenaa9 asel w 1, So Mr Trezarr ie the guest of the war e'niniater's only son, a pleasant gentlemanly youth, who does his best to make the bank- er's enforced Imprisonment bearable to him, and never loot an opportunity of informing him that if he ware to venture forth into the street he would assuredly be killed, and who has always some wondrous tale to tell orf the sint-ing of .British ironolads, or the annilhilation of Britian armies, or that the Sultan was on his way to help them, for the Egyptafnleaders were quite clever at the spreading of false reporta as were the Rue. mane. Very similar tales were told to Nellie by Arabi Pasha's wife, only to her account 'wan alwaye added something of the miracu- '1ens, as was to be expected from a lady who 'believed in sorcery and always kept a dream 'anterpeter in her employ in whose predic- tions she placed the moat implioit confi- dence. Nellie felt veru uncomfortable in this lady's presence at first, lest she might know *err guess the future that was intended to be in stormier her and feel angry or hurt there- by. But she before long broached the sub- ject of her own accord, and it did not ap- pear to be at all a sore one. " When you are my eider we shall love each other very moth," she murmured gently. " When I am your sister ? I don't exactly understand ?' answered NeIiie ; nor did she, " Why, when you are Ahmed's wife we obeli. be sister, ehall we riot? That is what all wives of one man call each other in this country, and they generally love each other like real sietere art well. That is to day, when they have so good and kind a husband as Ahmed, you know." " Then I must be your sister already, for the pasha believes that he hue married me." " Believes, little one ? If be has done so he must know for certain, I should say." ""Well, he thinks so then," rejoined Nei- n°' petulantly, " but I am quite sure that he has not, first, because I was no consent- ing party, and eeoondly, because I was an- other man's wife at the time." " Ah, but, little sister, , if any one has made a mistake in the matter it mast be yourself, for you are young and donbtleia foolish, whilst Ahmed Arabi has the wisdom 0f mere than double your years, and beside, he would not de wrong to the meanest thing that breathes. :1 good and blessed tbiag it is to be the wife of such a man, for she never hears an angry word drop from hie lips, He Is realty ono in a thousand, and now that he has sank all the English abips and taken the English King prisoner he will doubtless be made the sovereign of all Egypt and will be almost as great as the Sultan himeelf." His taking of the English King prisoner amused Nellie, despite the sorrows of her heart, After that aha saw It would be a vain and foolish thing to pump the Valide Shane= as to how the war was going on, since her replies would be very antitrust - worthy indeed. From that date Nellie felt that she should know no rent until she was possessed of better information concerning affairs of mo- ment outside her gilded prison. Mrs. Trezarr accommodated herself to her changed position wonderfully well. She felt a keen interest -in the moat trivial themes of harem gossip, and would roll her eyes and clap her hands at any marvelous narration as though to the manner bern, As to Mr. Trezrrr, she seldom even itquired after him, such conduot marking the dif. ference between living with a husband twen- ty years and two hours. One day the Valide Khanoum came into Nellie's little room with an open letter in her hand and a face that was very cheerful and bright, and addressing the fair girl by leer natal affectionate epithet of "Little Sla- ter," said to her in excited tones : "I am the bearer of good new. I have received a letter from our lord and hus- " And what news does his letter contain and how is he ?" said Nellie, desirous as much for information on several points as she was anxious to put a stop to this Male - criminate praise of one whom she was firm- ly resolved should never be any more to her than he was at the present moment. The Valide Khartum quickly made an - ewer : "Praise be to Allah and his only prophet, he coald not be better and he writes in the highest spirits. Hear what ho writes, little sister, for though he writes in Arabic, as a true believer ever should. I will do my beat to turn it into, I hope, understandable French," Nellie nodded her head, for she was too agitated to epeak, save when of necessity. "Our lord and bueband is a great man, but I need not trouble you with the commence wentof his letter, 6Y since : it meetly e of compliments addressed to myself, n Iatwill dip into the middle of it at once, where he declares that he has at last got the Feringhee invaders in the hollow of his hand and has bad to clove it in order to utterly crush them. He next pays many compliments to their courage and the generalchip of their chiefs, but says that their graves, neverthe• less, await then at Tel -el• Kebir and that In another sun and moon, by which he moans a day and night, they wits have 00. copied them and Egypt be free, And now comes the all important peat of our lord's letter, little sister. He goes on to nay that the very hour in which he 19 crowned with victory he shall hurry hither and change from conqueror to slave in your preaonoe, but he hopmy kind heart, quick sm' es Watley and good counsel (what sugar plume of speech fur the both of to 1) have ere now taught ue to yield freely and without re, gret to the inevitable (there you see, little sister, he says the inevitable and ao there it no getting ottt of It,) though, if not, it will .not much matter, he adds for it will' only leave him the task he' had intended for m that of teaching you himself to bless the in. svilable and to thank Allah that he had nor, ,given you to a Ghieur," CHAPTER. LVIII. FRANK DONELLX AT LASt CROSSES SwORDS wiTH ARABI. When C;iptain Donelly fell bath with bis little force on the main body of his regiment, carrying his wounded and the captured Egyptian battery, he received some praise from the colonel for the succors which had upon his reconnaieance, and his representations and at hie request Pat Mon. aghan was given a oorporal'e chevrons on the spot, It was not the time to rest on a mere handful of •laurels, however, for the war upon which they had entered was to be one of the sabre and the spur far more than of the cannon and the rifle, Within twelve hours of this brush at El- Magfar Sir Garnet Wolseley felt strong enough to press on towards Cairo, for he knew that against an Oriental foe dash and daring were everything, With General Drury Lowe's splendid'cavalry brigade, Gra- ham's fire-eating Irish and Soottieh Infantry and the stolid English guards, under the Queen's third son, the Duke of Connaught, who. if not very quick in the advance, would at all events, be a deuced deal elower In run- ning away, he prepared to carry a strong position at EI-Mahula, ten miles nearer to the capital Bat the Egyptians found out that they only doubled in number the British and eo retreated precipitately directly they name in view. Thereupon, Drury Lowe's cavalry, com- prising the Irish dragoons, the Life Guards and an Indian lance regiment, made a sweep- ing -flank movement on Mahsameh station and the railway, hoping to get in their rear and cutf them off to a man, but the Egyptians were so swift footed and the ground so bad for cavalry that he failed in this. By midnight the British vanguard, con- sisting of General Graham's brigade of 1,500 bayonets, a Bengal lance regiment and our friends, the Irish dragoons, were at Khasaas- sin, with their nearest supports half a dozen miles in their rear and the slow moving guards just as far to the rear of them again. The British van had thus accomplished a quarter of the dietanoe to Cairo with no lose at all to speak of, but now intelligence was gathered that at Tel-el-Kebir, some dozen miles in advance of them, Arabi Pasha had formed a perfect desert Gibraltar, with three lines of defenses, all defended by heavy bat- teries ef Krupp guns, and that there he had displayed the green standard of the prophet and had called together the nlemaa to bless his cannon and his cause, all this that hie soldiery might be brought to consider defeat impossible. Such a formidable position, defended by so many heavy Dannon and manned by five times as many soldiers us the British could bring up against him, formed ample grounds to authorize such hopes and fill him with each convictions. But at the last moment he had not suf- ficient patience to wait for the hated foe to immolate themselves in front of the grinning muzzles of his cannon, but on learning how far the British vanguard had pushed ahead of its supporta, and its paucity of numbers as well, he resolved to attack it at once with overwhelming odds, roll it up'and have done with it. So he quitted hie trenches and advan,led on Khaasassin in force during the night, hoping to patch General Graham napping, but that gallant commander slept with one eye open, weasel fashion, and his out piokete were too tried soldiers to sleep at all, so the sea -like murmur of the advancing Egyptians was challenged in three different plane at once by the waap-like " ping -ping -ping " of British rifles, and the out sentries retiring on the pickets the alarm spread like, light- ning, and within five minutes the infantry brigades were falling in at the double and the cavalry trumpets were sounding " boots and saddles." By this time the Egyptaine' shells were whistling into the British oamp,,fired point blank like cannon balls, and knocking ever the red -coated infantry like ninepins. But before they bad done much damage a battery of horse artillery ran their guns up to the top of a sand hill and began to give them cold iron In turn, so that for a little while it was " bowl devil, bowl baker," and when the British infantry deployed as steady as en parade and peppered the dusky foe with their H•enri.Martinie, the seasoning was ao hot that it eeemod to turn their stomachs for fighting. But hark to the screeching of the railway engines art they bring up long lines of open cars, all crowded with soldiery, to the sup- portof their comrades, and behold away to the left the dark clouds of Egyptian cavalry sweeping across the plain with the evident resolve of outflanking the small British force, even if their further aim is not to drive every mother's son of them into the narrow Fresh Water Canal. An aide-de-camp at this juncture galloped up to the First Dragoons and saluting" the colonel, says tersely, as he pointe his drawn sword towards the advancing horse : "The general looks to you to account for those fellows, I am sure Kneed say no more." " Nota word, sir to either me , , or m men," was the proud retort as the veteran drew his sword. Its brandish in the air was seffieient sig- nal for every trumpet to blow out, for every knee to grip the pigskin, for every foot to turn in and every heel to drop. Obedient to each brazen sound the regi- ment formed by the troops, changed into ser- ried squadrons and then 'advanced out into the plain at a rapid trot hi a glittering col- umn of egaadrone at wheeling dietanoe. It wait a grand sight to see a body of men zo cooly advancing to engage a force that outnumbered them by at least five 'tb one, and who were evidently the elite of the enemy's cavalry, Then, suddenly, a fearful shell fire was opened upon them from a battery on the railway hank, and many a man and horse WAS rolled over, But not the slightest apparent confusion in their ranks was occasioned therebyand Pat Monaghan presumed on their longclose intercourse to observea to Captain :Donelly, whose horse's tail twitched the newly -made corporal% oharger'e'nose, y " Boded, an' this is a hardeundin yer honor ; but the laugh will bo to themg'who pound the longest." "Right , m y brave fellow, and my heart pomade against my vibe more oyeaely than it hart done for weeks, for he who has stolon my young wife leads that cavalry in pereou, and I will edit discover whether either hie a'word or hie vaunted tatisnieu tan guard his life," responded Frank, as he looked back at Pat with flashing eyes and grinning teeth, At this moment. the gray.haired colonel shouted In c1erlou.like tones ; '" Close up 1 Close up 1 At them ')ike an iron wedge, my lads? Gallop 1 0 li'arge 1" A jeyoue ringing ohout, a momentary flesh of sword blades in the air, the neigh Ing of the war horses rushing to the battle, the blare of trump, the clattering of empty sword scabbards and the jingling of chain bridals was succeeded the next instant by the aheok of the charge (for, inspirited by their great leader's presence among thein, the Moslem cavalry came to the scratch for once), and then steel rang on steeland horse bit at horse, and there was the horrid noise of cloven skulle and the thud of falling meet, all intermingled with shrill British cheers, the thrum -like Arab teobir or battle cry, curses, shrieks and groane, and now And then a pistol abot, but, strange to say, this latter few and far between. Amidst the tumultuous sea of awaying human forms and tossing ai g borne s heads it was come little while before Frank Donelly could discover him whom ho espeolally sought, but suddenly in the very thlckeat of the strife, he found himne f face to face with him. The recognition was mutual, and the next instant their blade3 were crossed. Both had been previously whetted, and both Briton and Egyptian was full of the blood lust that is over born of anch deadly strife. This, added to the private animosity that eaoh bore unto the other, made then fierce indeed, and they attacked each other se furi- ously that sparks of fire flew from the tem- pered steel, and almost immediately they were engaged to the very hilt. Both were superp swordsmen and each horse knew how to aid its rider by rear, demi-volt and curvet, but the Demasonseteel had for once to succumb to the well forged Sheffield blade—for Damascus forging Is not what it once was—and Arabi Pasha found himself all in a moment grasping little on re than the hilt of his weapon, for nine-tenthe of the blade had been whirled into the air. There was no time to draw a pistol from hie holster, for his rival's sword was at his throat, and there was death in that rival's epee, if it was expressed by human orbs, "Strike," gasped Arabi in French, "strike, Do I look as though I was afraid to die 1' For a moment longer Frank DanelIy striking aspect of one who could not help hetbero, bat then he suddenly lowered his sword point, at the same instant hisaing be- tween his teeth : "Shall a Chrietian be outdone in gener- osity by a Moslem ? Never. Retain your IIfe, at whatever coat to me rand mine. I cannot take it," and as though fearful that he might stili be tempted to do otherwise, he wheeled bis oharger sharp round and galloped away. But by this time the battle was nearly ever. The Egyptian infantry were in full retreat and a second or two later the Egyp- tian cavalry also broke and fled, whilst the Irish drageone, now reinforced by the swarthy Bombay cavalry, pursued them moron the desert piain to almost under the guns of the Tel-el-Kebir batteries. (CONCLunED NEXT wEER. ) ""Phil„ There were a bent and trembling old man —a white-haired and broken old woman, and as they sat beside the coffin the old man said : "He was about ten years old. We found him in a basket on our door -step one night in the long ago. We were old people then, but wife the begged that we should take.the little atranger in and care for him." "Because my own children were sleeping under the sod," she explained as she wiped the tears away. "So we made him our child," resumed the old man, "and in a little time we came to love him as if he had been born to us. He was a strange boy—quiet, gentle, thought- ful, sorrowful. There seemed to be a burden of grief weighing him down. He came to know in time—not from ns, but from others —that he was no kin to us, and it troubled him much. Not that he did not love as but that we were old and poor, and he felt him- self a burden upon us. Lust night a creditor came and abused AS because n e could not pay a debt, Little Pell had crept cif to bed, but he must have been awake yet and heard every word. The man was argry became we c uld not pay, and he said something about our picking up paupers to feed and clothe. If it was his case, he said. he'd ship the boy off to the County House.•' "I went in to say good -night to him," whispered the woman, "but he had his face to the wail and seemed to bo asleep. We hoped be had not heard the harsh words, tor we knew how they would wound him. Why, air, if worst comms to worst, I'd have gone hungry to give that boy food. He was the bit of aunshiee in our livea," "In the morning when I got up," said the father, " I palled to Phil, but he did not an- swer. I entered the room to find that he had put a rope over one of the clothes -hooks and strangled himself—committed suicide. He must have got up soon after we went to bed, for his body was cold and stiff." " And—and he left this on the stand," sobbed the woman art she held out a note. It was written on the leaf of as old mem- orandum book, and the writing was in pen- cil, It read : "I no you wouldn't send me to the county house, but you are poore and in det. I'd go away if I could, but I dean't no where to go. Doan't feel bad. If God lets ins into Heven I'll see you up there,—PHIL." Disraeli's Asi;urance, A little volume has recently been publish. ed made upof the correspondence on r deuce of Lord I? Beaconsfield with his sister in the years 1832-1842. This man's career was indeed wonderful, and it iantereating to observe the young Hebrew novelist, Benjaman Die. raeli, foretelling his subsequent career. Hie firm belief in his talents is thus expressed in a letter written to his sister in 1833 ; Went to the House of Commons to hoar Bniwer adjourn the House; was there yes- torday afternoon during the whole debate— one of the finest we have had for years, Bulwor epoke, but he is phyaicially dis- qualified for an orator, and, in spite of all his exertions, can never snceeod. He was heard with great attention, and in evidently banked by a party. Heard Macaulay's best speech, Shiel, and Charles Grant. Maoau- lay admirable; but between ourselves.I could floor them all, This entre nous; Iwas never more confident of anything than that I could parry everything before me in that House. The time will come 1 His brother Ralph, who edits the colleo- tlon, adds with evident pride hi " Thirty-five la thin foot -note: Mita - later." y years after he was rimoe Df in Fond parents should not forget that a child can shoot a pistol as hard as any. body—especially a pistol that is unloaded, ITEALT$.' Cautious for the .A c,od, Age works great physical ohaages, many of which are generally reoognlzed. Same of them involve dangerous liabilities, and Impose the need of constant oaetion. Oaeis to guard against undue exertion, The tougb, clastic coat of the arteries is apt to become, on the ono hand, ohalklike and brittle, or, on the other hand, fatty and weak, Nature eeeke to guard againat the oenaequent dargor by rendering older per. sons loss inclined to effort, But a little ex- tra exertion put forth suddenly, may oauee the weakened voaeels to give way, frost the increased foroe with which the heart thrown the blood into them. Hance may result ap- oplexy or fetal anc uriem—the latter bait g a sudden bulging sub of arteries,. So, too, the 1ieert ',Moll (or its aorta—the great curved trunk which first reoeivee the blood from the heart) may be In a similar condition, and maidenly fall betauee of un- due exertion, when it might have been equal to the ordinary work of years. Saab no doubt wen the last ease, when an elderly gentleman hurried to reach a railroad train, and fell dead on entering he. The aged should firmly rafuee to hurry. A like caution applies to whatever quick• enc the action of the heart, Every one knows the newer of violent emotions in this respect, Noone wishes 10 fail dead in fit of anger. Undue eating, especially of stim- ulating food, is almost as dac•geroas. All the appetites need to be kept under mai- tre', A special oration is needed in desponding the stairs, In our normal voluntary move- ments there aro certain nice adjustments af- fected by unconscious mental acts. But ago effects such a change in the brain sub- stance that mental activity is lessened. An old man can no more think as quickly as a young than he can run as fast, or jump as high, Hence the missteps of the aged in des- cending stairs. Aged persona, therefore, should form the habit of taking their bearing, so tospeak, at the top of the emirs, and keep their mind on eaeh step down by a conscious voluntary effort, a; i The aged should alab'most carefully guard against a chill. It is more dangerous for an old man to catch cold than for a young man to catch a fever. Pack the Lungs with Air. Deep breathing and holding of the breath is an item of importance. Persons of weak vitality find an uninterrupted succession of deep and rapid aspiration so distressing that they are dieoonraged from peraerving in the exercise. Let such persons take into the lunge as mnoh air as they can at a breath and hold it as long as they can, and they will find a grateful sense of relief in the whole e,bdomnial region. Practice will in- crease ability to hold the breath and the capaoity of the lunge. After a time the art may be learned of packing the lunge. This is done by taking and holding the long breath and then forcing more air down the tread re by swallows of air, The operation may be described by that of a fiche's mouth in water. To those who have never learned it will be surprising to what extent the lungs may be packed. Caution at first is needful but after practice will warrant large use of the treatment. The whole thoracic and abdominal cavities will receive imme- diate benefit and continuance and temper- ance in eating, good air and right exercise, will bring welcome improvement, Palatable and Pare. Distilled water is not essential to good health. It is " flat, stale and unprofitable." Unless well erated it is unpalatable. The process of distilling separates the mineral matter, but not the volatile substance. The eon pounds of nitrogen and sulphur may re- appear in the distilled water, and the pe - culler odor so repulsive to delicate tastes. If clean soil -water cannot be obtained, make a large, deep and clean cistern, and keep it clean. Take a sound oak or ash barrel, put a false bottom (pertorated) 3 inches from the bottom of the barrel ; place three inohea of ch as washed gravel on the top of the per- forated bottom ; on thin twelve inches of granulated charcoal, made from hard maple; on this 4 inches of clean washed sand, and then place a perforated false top over the sand, so that nater poured into the barrel will not dlaturb the filtering materials be- neath. Insert a wooden faucet in the side of the barrel, close to the bottom, and you will have a filter which will make good rainwa- ter filtered through it as clean and palatable as can be desired. Eating Lemons. A good deal bas been said through the papers about the healthfulness of lemons. The latest advice la how to use them ao that they will do the most good, as follows: Most people know the benefit of lemonade before breakfast, but few know that it la more - than doubled by taking another at night also. The way to get the bettor of the bilious system without the blue pill or quinine is to take the juice of one, two, or three lemons, as appetite craves, in as much ice -water as makes it pleasant to drink with- out sugar, before going to bed, In the morning, on rising, at least a half-hour be- fore breakfast, take the juice of one lemon in.a goblet of water. This will clear the system of humor and bile with eflioienoy, without the weakening effects of calomel or congress water. People should not irritate the stomach by eating Lemons clear. Bad Effect of Pickles. The influence of acid in retarding or ar- resting sallvary digestion is further cf im- portance in the dietectic use ofpiokles, vin• egar, salads and acid fruits. In the oast of vinegar it was found that one part in 5000 sensibly retarded this process, a pro- portion of one in 1,000 rendered very slow, and one in 500 arrested it completely; so that when acid salads are taken together with bread the effect of the aoid is to pre. vent any ealivary digeatien of the bread, a matter of little moment to a person with a vigorous digestion, but to a feeble dyspeptic ene of acme importance. There is a very widespread belief that drinking vinegar is an efficacious moans of avoiding getting fat, and this popular belief would appear from these experimental observations to be well founded. If the vinegar bo taken at the same time as farinaceous food it will greatly interfere with i1ts digestion and asaimtlation, The Wreck of the "Algoma," The C. P. R, authorities mean to raise part of the cargo and, the onglaee of the wrecked eteamor "Algoma," The cargo ,embraces a voluble consignment of steel raffle. Drivers have visited the wreck and declare that there will be no difficulty in raising the most valuable part of the freight. The company have called for tendons from the leading. •wrecking ' companies of the United States: There 'are plenty of bandits ih Peruet and they are giving as muoh trouble art the braes; bandits: in tide country" PEQPLE. ' Mark Twain 10 talked of for Mayor el Hartford. Henry Ward 13eeoher le out West on his " last" lecturing tour, The belle of Batu, M, T., WOW'S a shoe fourteen inches long and hue boon tendered the captaincy of a base ball nine, Dr, Burney Yeo, of 'London, reporte the ourioue observation that there ere persona who usually drink tea without injury, but in whom, when fu a depreaoed mental condi• tion, h occasions indigestion and palpita• tion ei the heart. Baron Tennyson has been in great distress over the sickness of hie second eon iiouel who contracted the Indian fever during hie recent visit to Earl Dofferici, but at latest a000unte the young man wee in a fair way to recovery. It is admitted that the reooptiens offered by Saoretary and Mrs, Whitney ali Waehiog ton have been the most interesting gather Inge of the season there, although Miss. Cleveland's luncheons lave had the strik- ing merit of originality, Guar Wfll deo mother, r, particularly art f ularl p y bright woman who writes stories and poems, and from wbom Oscar derives his little lit- erary ability, has completed the complies• tion of what is considered an important col- lection of Idale legends. Phydiologlats who hold that the rage is deteriorating should remember that Mho Kitty Austin walked the other day from Claritaburg, Md,, to Rockville, fourteen miles, and expressed herself as being lively as a cricket, Miss Kitty wae 83 last birth- day, • Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chicago, has one of the largest and moat valuable collections of autographs in this country. Mr. Gunther ie a baker, but he prides himself particular- ly on his rolls of original manuscripts, which include Payne's manuscript of "Home, Sweet Hone," and many other unique specimens. Hereafter women deaconesses of the Church of Eagiand are to be specially con- secrated to the work by the laying on of hands by the Biehop. This is according to the recommendation of the Dean of Cheater, who, in a report trom a committee appointed to investigate the question, con idera their work of peculiar value. Lampasas Jake, the cowboy revivalist, who is doing successful work in New Mexi- co, wain it is said, never in ohuroh in his life. He is described as a tall, loose-jointed fellow, with a full beard oovering sunken cheeks, a big mouth, a high forehead, and a voice that might be heard a mile if the wind was right. Frank R. Stockton inside that the strange characters In hie stories are drawn from real life, and that the odd Pomona in his " Rudder Grange" was actually a young servant girl in his family, while hie latest, " Mrs, Null," was a Virginia termagant, whose husband killed himself rather than live with her. The Grand Duke of Saxe -Weimar has In- trusted several of the most distinguished grammarians and philologiate of Jena, Wei- mar and Eisenach with the work of correct- ing the German vocabulary, studying the neceeeity of introducing into the language foreign words and deciding whether nth wordsehonld be Germanized. Queen Victoria has decided to visit Liver- pool some time during May in connection with the International Exhibition to be opened in that pity. Her Majesty's last visit to Liverpool took place October 9, 1851, when she was aocompanied by the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Prinoeeses Alice and Helena. . The Prince of Wales is said to be troubled with chronic dyspepsia. Too much high liv- ing will bring a prince art well as a plebeian to grief. The stomach of royalty differs in no way from the stomach of every day life. As the Prince sets the fashion in England, dyspepsia shoaid be very popular there just now. In faot,no real "swell" can afford to be without it. Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi told the Nine- teenth Century Club that woman has become " discursive and superficial" in her habits of mind, because ahe has always three things to think of, the pot on the fire, the baby and the expected husband coming home in a stew. Whereupon ene of the fashionable ladies, of whom the audience, was chiefly composed, whispered to her neighbor: " Neither the pot, the baby nor the husband ever trouble me. Do they you ?" The number of suicides at Monaco appear to be increasing at an alarming rate. One of the noblest families of. Austria has been thrown into mourning by the death of a son at Monte Carlo, who, after losing over $20,. 000 at the'gaming table, blew his brains oat in the doorway of Monsieur Blanc's estab- lishment on the 20th February last. Ma announced on good authority that the Ital- ian Consul of Monaco has just been arrested at Rome for falsifying, and in some cases totally suppressing, the reports of the deaths by suicide at Monte Carlo of Italian subjects. The Deadly Knife in Sicily. A horrible deed of blood committed near Girgenti gives an ililiBbristion 01 the use of the knife in the Island of Sicily. Two butchers, father and son, of the name of In delicate, who kept a shop in that town, not long since took two brothers, named Alfonso and Giovanni Csnnetonis into partnership. Before long the Cannetonia began to trade in lambs' carcasses separately on their own ac- count, and disagreements arose, which ulti- mit ely led to a collision betweenBeldaaeare Indelicate and Alfonso Cannetoni, They drew their butoher'a knives from their belle on each other. Alfonso aimed a well -direct- ed blow at Baldassare, He parried it with his left arm, which was cut to the bone, and at the same instant drove his knife into the heart of Alfonto, who foll dead en tho spot, At that moment a young son of Al- fonso, aged 19, came up with a bludgeon to his father's aesistanoo, Baldassare struck him to the ground, and then cut his throat across, " as he would have slaughtered a sheep." : Mad with rage, Baldassare then rushed into the shop, and taking Giovann the brother of Alfonso, by surprise, killed him with a slash across the abdomen. Turn- ing then to leave the shop, he inflicted a serious wound on a parson just entering. Ali this occurred within the space of four minutes, the result of the collision being three persons killed and two wounded, What with strikes and 'defaulting bank- ers and treasurers the lump in this coun- try's throah never gets a chance to Subside. The codfish continues to grow indefinitely, without regard to age, so long as; it has a plentiful eupply of food. The oldest' codfish aro the largest, and they sometime grow to bo ao long its a man is high. r They, swim about near the bottom of the neat not often ascending to the surface, fending on all sorts of animal life, eaoh all crabs, shell fish and other small fish, but hot on vegetable, VICTORIA CITY,. What an Fngllahrnau, Ones ent British Vule Tumbia'a Capital. An Engliahman: thus writes of Victoria, B C, ;— The climate of Viotorla appears to me all that could he deeired. Thoroughly temperate and healthful; winter short and pleasant, with a very acuity snowfall trim- mers such as we in England and Ireland re- member with regret, or hear our elders tell of many years ago. The only complaint I heard was concerning a cool breeze gi owe every evening with greater which opining over the Olympian sno regularity, Washington territory. p It aoted range in constitution like a moat invi, ted on my bath, The country round Vic aria l cold feria Is lovely. Tho roada aro hanged with thiokete of wild roses, and here and there wild atrawberriee carpe; the ground Gorse and brown (both from the old country) in immense buehea. The rondo remind one of the lanes is Kent, but nowhere in Kent is ouch luxuriance of vegetation •, such wealth of green and light and shadow, A land of extreme beauty; a very paradise of scenery, with the great snowy background of the Oly pian range. Compared with Victoria -tido • delle of the Pacific—'Tunbridge Wells le ' worn• out ce az m on s and Brighten r htcn an .; �` a with all their wealth, are far outshone by the natural charms of the Canadian Paoifo. A most lovely neighb ncood Bat, oh I these Vletoriane want to makeup their destiny; to learn to spend as well as make money; to drain, and clean, and wa. ter, and Liget, and do the very little nature has not done for them. Day by day the dusty streets are swept by the breeze to the infinite discomfiture of the dweller and visitor. Night by night the noxieue gaasea of their primitive roadside gutters are digin. footed by the coo ,draft from the mountains. Were it otherwise they wouldeoon learn their penny wisdom was pound foolishness, and even as it is, typhoid is tco common, A Sleeping Car Incident, In a sleeping oar, just at the time when the seats were being turned into beds, I happened to be lazily eyeing a bridal couple on their honeymoon tour. How did I know ? Because for an hour her head had been lay- ing on his shoulder. Might they not have been married several yearn ? No ; her man- ner did not have the confident, proprietary air of an aounatomed wife. Then why was I sure that they were not an enamoured pair, enjoined by wedlock ? Bscanee the girl was neither ashamed or defiant, No- body ever makes a mistake in pioking out honeymoon teuriste. Therefore, the negro porter of the oar astounded me when he said to the young husband :—" Wouldn't yo' alatah, rah, like to have her berth let down ?" She lifted her head from the mar- tial shoulder, smiled sweetly, and murmur. ed, " Yea," " This is my wife, you rascal," said the man, but with what seemed to me singular amiability ; " you needn't make up the up- per berth in this section. The lower one will be enough." " Beg pardon, ash. Yee, rah ; " and the porter went at the job with the kind of vim and alacrity never seen in a darkey who fe- n't sure of a special fee: The incident puzzled me, and I sought an early opportunity to get the` porter's expla- nation, e ""It's die way, boss," heeH Id, " de brides don't like to be spotted. 'Course dey Is eb- ery time, bat dey flatter demelevea dat dey can't be told from odder ladies, 'Sperlence teaches me dat dey is tickled mightily ef yon mistaken dere husbands fo' bruddere, I does it ebery time now, an' hits 'em fo' a dollah shnah." The secret was plain once It was out. The gentle'bride is delighted to think that her bridal fondness looks like sisterly affection and fan;iliarity, The Cruelties of' eathenism. On his way to the centre of Africa, Mr, F. S. Arnot wrote from Bike art follows to Mr. Sanders at Bailundn, concerning "a Biba' barbarity" : "A few days ago I no- ticed a little boy, about eight years of age, who belongs to Ruakit's town close by, go- ing about with both his hands in a sad meas. The left ene was completely distorted and three of the fingers jointed together in_one red, sore mane, the palm bulging forward. the i arm above the wrist was skinned and also the right hand. I found that Vele youngster had been out visiting at the king's town or somewhere near there. The boy in playing about had stolen some beans belong- ing to a daughter of Jamba Yamina, the king, they call her Naroma Cunengile, who, to punish the child for stealing her beans, put his hands into a pet of boiling water. I have seen something of that work before, and from the state cf the child's hand's she must have kept the left hand. at least, for a few seconds in the water. The poor little tallow, smart and good -locking, is injured for life, and this creature in woman's shape has not been called in question for her cruel- ty. If you are passing here at any time, you could see the child; the boiled hand bag. gars description," To this Mr. Sanders adds "People talk of the innocence of the hea- then, but they only needtoIive in a heathen land to learn that " the dark places of the earth are full of the inhabitants of cruelty.' What do yon think of a man taking his hands full of dried grass, setting it on fire and then applying it -to the naked shoulders and breast of his wife, simply because his beans were not cooked quite as soon as he thought they ought to be ? This has hap. pened here in Chilumi, (L? . The Good Die Young. The right kind of afelIow is modest and mellow and generous and brave and benign; Hie nature's apparent and clear and transpar- ent like yours, gentle reader, and mine, He has no verbosity, no3y: ue tortuosity, and tie rover is boastfuloud He is gentle and quiet ain in his d' et never ate m adi sofaad ng w d He's, grand and majestic, yet meek and domes- tic, and spends his spare evenings at home; He's a tireless searcher for all kinds of virtue like the author'and proprietor of this pome ; He don't play the fiddle, part his hair in the middle, nor dress like an Anglican dude. When he goes to a party with Mtigs or McUax- ty he never is noisy and rude; He lives in frugality and sweet conjugality, and wants pie but two antes a day; He never eats onions nor treads on. your bun• ions nor growls when you get in hie way; He's wise and he's witty; ppe severing and grit ty, and has a mai niticont head; He's ail light andsweetness, he's thorougho pletenees, he's perfection in pmt short–but he's sena t ,o... More than four thousand devices for coupling have been patented, and yet thou- sands of bachelors and maidens go .it alone in this country. A. young married lady who moved into t e country from a pity home boneidored keep. ing hens a pleasant and profitable duty. she became more absorbed in the pursuit As enthusiasm inorea. ed, and +" hen9 "neat her made a favorite sabjeot of her thoughts and conver- sation. During one of hor animated descrip- tions ofanooees, a (friend isquired : ""Are he re- plied in a our hensgdeligoodhted ens ?ttone, 0,they,ih ""avon't laid a bad egg yet,'