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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-10-28, Page 7They all Rave none Away, nr U.S. *gum There,was Kit, as fair a lassie Awever you did see, A merry, ivhrsome minden With a heart as pure and free From guile as Summer flowers On a rosy Summer day.-- She's left us iu our sorrow Arid she's gone away to stay, There was Janrmle, noble hero, A,lad—our heart's delight Ile marched away in uniform To enter in the fight We watch the rising, sunbeam And the cJosin • of the da3y, But no more we'll see our Jeuinriel ;i For he's gone away to stay. There was -Ned, our boyish darling, Our roguish little elf, lie always thought of others But never of himself, The sea it took our laddie And buried hint away. We never more will see him, For he's gone away to stay. And so we're sitting lonely, My poor old wife and 1; We're building phanton, fancies Froui„,rhadows passing by, We're waiting, only waiting The dawning of the day When we The lovedshall m one again keep 4r away. WANTED' T O BWL' 11 R. The:kindest, sweetest, most unselfish, and most truly ,religious woman'I ever met, once confessed to ine that she was the reverse of everything I thought her; for a't,'that very moment she wanted to swear. If a white rose could have found 'speech and: communicated its desire to commit rnur- der, it 'could hardly ,have been mere start- ling, and yet I was not as much surprised as le others might have been, having seen, and fe heard a great many: pisouliar things connect. c ed with the inception and progress of ner- w vons diseases. " I only tell you this," the poor little wo- man added with a painful. • flush, because i every friend and acquaintance I have con- ti gently overrate me. I want some one to to 'know me as I am, and I am a very wicked n woman." 1131 "Yon haven't come to be outwardly pro- Iv fans yet, I suppose ?" I inquired in a tone in of facetiousness that evidently wounded her th sensitive spirit, for she said quickly : fe " Oh, please don't make light of it. It is desperate business with me, I assure you." I " I have no intention of making light of I it," I replied. "On the contrary, l consider' it a very serious matter, and if you go on as you are going now, you will not only want to an swear, but you will swear." W "If I go on as I am, going now ?" my friend ve repeated, a look of wonderment on her sweet ga face, " I don't know what you mean ; but I W am sure of this, that if I ever, give. utterance gl to the awful things that come into my 'head, a I shall not be in possession of my senses:" r, • "'Te. clothe those thoughts,•' with,' weeds wh would prove you insane. If that is the case, sat what kind of a Mental condition can' yon be u; in to think such thoughts ?" wh " That I can think such dreadful things I proves that there is a moral screw loose, it talk seen to ," waas the reply, made with the say manner of one who had evidently thought -se the subject out to her satisfaction,: , Ye The condition of this woman was so an- her alagous to that of another friend which had wli come immediately under my observation, ' S that I thought best to tell . her the story. the This friend had been a model house -keep- hus er for twenty years. No better wife, a res more conaoientous mother, could have been not found in the whole; Province. She was hus neatness and thrift personified. Her house, pia large, roomy and comfortable was presided A over exclusively by herself. She had done the all the coking for her family, attended to lice thenri f dozen cows, made the butter, the and was •d all the dishes, and it was on oft this latter rock that her domestic craft was the. dashed and almost wrecked. There came had to this woman at last a time when she was not compelled to force herself to the perform- fins ance of these various duties Then she his scourged herself and called it laziness anp untr went on. After a while she was attacked by S a low fever which.: the country doctor did not of understand, and out of which she wrestled was long before she was really able to situp. tau: Her husband was amply able to pay for coni of s petent domestic assistance, but as she had al- 'mit wayschosen ose r to do everythingherself, it never we s entered his head to propose it, and this, be- we came a deep rooted grievance. • She could mod not overcome the abnormal sensitiveness ed' a which was the direct result of long ;yearsof Over -work and suffering, and so a coldness I sprang up between husband and wife, which on her part developed into positive hatred. On the subject of washing dishes this woman E became a confirnmedmonamaninc. She could than drag herself about and make the bed, and " with cook the dinner ; but,the dishes drove her that Sulk,: and One day her. husband ran to' a neighbor of Lo with the astonishing news that 'she had at conn last, gone stark, staring road.. The lady of th followed him home and found this A once model house -keeper standing umn by the kitchen sink, laughing hysteri- clear dally, and surrounded by mashed, crockery mere of every description. As they entered, a noun sugar -bowl went slam-bang against the cup- class board door, followed by a couple of hand- in s some goblets, evidently the last of a new all ty dozen. ' • a loo "There," she said. to: her husband, "'now, will g go and buy some new dishes, and then hire lying somebody to wash 'em. As long as.I live I He will never wash another one." fill sit Now, horrible 'as this scene certainly was, of pe and suggestive of straight -jackets' and pad- range led rooms, the fact really was after all that coffee this patient had at last attained to sanity. India This statement should, have been made years I --,_ " If I were to talk a week, I could never make you understand how I loath thought of it." "You are one of the chief =nag the orphan asylum. fair, Do you f thusiastic about that job?" " Oh, you are almost cruel," my panion responded with a quiver of her five lip. " What if I were to tell you C ,rate the sight and sound of that asylum, and, that sometimes I feel would hardly care what became of t pilaus if I were not obligl:fl to see again •?" a' And you are. perfectly yetp cct y aware such a condition is in total oppositi your real, true nature ?" PP Oh, I hope it is." " How about your own children ?" "Their innocent fun drives me distr and I am only happy when they are or out of the house.. This has nothing with my health. I eat and sleep' f In fact, the only place where I" am comfortable is in the bed ' with' my locked. I never pass the bed, or a or lounge that I do not want to. throw elf down and close my eyes. To have one rap at my door after I have gr little quiet puts such thoughts and 1; into my head that then I am afraid alone: • I tell yon it is a question of and not of health. It is total depravity. These symptoms are all danger signals. Months and months ago this woman :went to the end of her tether.:All that has been done since has been accomplished by the cruel use of irritated and exhausted nerves. She has now only half a hand, so to speak, on the helm. Her will is no longer strong enough tweliminate her thoughts,' and every they under the present regime will find her ss pial !less able to put a curb"upon the elings and passions which she so depre- ates. . More than one good woman has anted toSwear, and concealed the fact for ears, but ultimately used every bad word he ever thought of within the walls of a s antic asylum. It was possible for this pa- ent to have the best medical advice and low it. She needed neither a confessor or a minister, but a wise' physician, a coin ete change, and rest for body and soul. hen will women, intelligent and sensible all other matters, come to understand e difference between illness and laziness, ver exhaustion and moral depravity ? Why She Refused. e the YOUNG N FOLKS. ere of ,� TALK ABOII`P $RII}(3rrES eel en , corn- as RoSSITER JOUNSO1, sensi- When was the first bridgeconstructed ? thatco st eted . ° , and what was it made of ? 1ain not able to iphan answer tile first question •e 'x as if Ivery definitely', but he or- think I know what the first bridge was th0m made of. It was not of wood, nor of stone, nor of brick, nor of iron nor of rope. It was made entirely of ie. ke e that keys. Y m n ys—.live moti- on 0 y s. A troop of these animals; in a South American forest came one day to a stream which was too wide for them to leap across. 1 They climbed a high tree, where the first acted monkey selected a suitable branch, wound asleep his long, powerful tail about it, and let him - to e,P self hang headlong downward. The second monkey running own the bodyof the first, ally, wound his tail about its nook ad, shoulders, truly and let himself hang headlong own o ° A b g dl ward. A. roc00r third and a fourth added themselves in suc-. my cession, and others after them, till the chain some reached the ground. Then the lowest mon- own a key, by striking his hands on., the earth, set word's the living pendulum in motion, and increased be this motion by. striking again at each ascil- morals lotion, till it swung so far across the stream that he was able to seize a branch of a t on the other side. The line of monk now constituted: a bridge,. by which the mainder of the troop quickly passed o Then the monkey which (not :who as people. write it) had been the first volunt in this engineer corps,unwoun his from the branch and leo. What had fore been the topof the f3 pendulum w the it oas h Bottom ; swung aeross'the stream, dissolved into its original elements, and whole troop went chattering on their This took place before the appearanc. man on the earth, and the long-tailed m keys have been building such bridges e ince. Between that primitive bridge of monk and the last and greatest of all bridges ndertaken—the suspension bridge East River conneetang New York a Brooklyn -there is apparently a wide crepancy ; yet the two are constructed he same principal. The first bridge recorded in history built over the Euphrates at Babylon, the reign of: Queen Nitocris. The course the river was turned, and its bed lay dr till the foundations were built. The ar were of immense hewn stones, clamped gether with iron, and the.whole bridge w roofed over. ' It was thirty feet wide, . a ver six hundred feet long. No iemnant this great bridge has been discovered iodern times. By a bridge of boats nearly a mile l erxes crossed the Hellespont near Aby, with his immense army, on his expediti groat Greece. A century ,and a half la 334 B. C.), Alexander crossed in the oppos irection, at nearly the same point, and the same means, to invade Asia. Bri,1 eys ver. The `Shortening Days, tine The amateur astronomer will find a source ser of unfailing interest in observing the ap- tail parent movements of the sun. During be- October the days continue to lessen rapidlyo ba1'ely escaped. This took place about fifty years ago, In 1757 a wonderful wooden bridge was built over the. Rhine at Sohaffausen, by a Swiss carpenter named, Grubonlnann. It had two arches, one span being one hundred and ninety-three feet, and the other one hundred and seventy-two feet. Where they met their ends rested on a stone i This 4 pier, Zhis bridge did not possess the advautrr c of the one at Portage, described g , above ; and when some of the bottom timbers rotted, o ted, it was necessary to lift the whole structure with iaok-ser'ews, before new ones could be Put jn. The bridge wade burned bythe French ar gay, in 1711f1. n .Cuero are manyfine wooden brid sea {, in the UnitedStates, but none perhaps which are so famous or so curious as to claim par- tienlar description here. One of the finest. is the railway bridge over Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace, It is. three thou. sand two hundred and seventy-one feet long, and has twelve spans. Tho longest bridge in the world is near Eszek in Hungary. t crosses the River Drave and the gmarshes that lie on each side of it, a few miles from its mouth in the Danube. It is of wood, with, stone piers, snd was built in 1566, to be used by the Turkish armies entering Hungary. There is nothing remarkabl bo ; pt ita length, eight mil tree about r except (TO BE CONTINUED.) now and the way. e of on - ver On the let the sun rose at 5:41 a. m• and set at 5:26 p. m., making the length of the day', 11 'hours 45 minutes. On the 31st the sun rises at 6:17 a. m. and sets at 4:38 p. m., making the length of the day 10 hours 31 minutes. The amount of the day's decrease in October is therefore 1 hour 24 minutes Thus on the last day of the month the days eys, are nearly an, hour and a half shorter than. ever they were at its commencement. It is not mel' strange that the remark is often males nd " How short the days are. !" The sun's lis- position in the heavens .gives another indi on cation of the season's, advance. Observers will readily note that the sunrise and sunset was points seem to move rapidly southward. On in the lst the sun's declination was 3° 21' south; of on the 31st is is 14° 16' south. The sun. y, therefore advances 10° 55' on his southern e hes course durin - the month Th f th to- ' sun moves to the south the shorter is the You say you went to the party last night, • d you saw Mrs. Smith, an olcl friend, hom you had not seen' since you and your o ter were at school together. You had a, ry pleasant talk<until supper, when you ve her your arm and took her to supper, hen some one came along with a few'x asses of wine on a .waiter, and offered her glass, you saw her shudder as she said, a No !" and you wonder why Mrs. Smith, gainst didn't used to be so particular about d ch things, not only refused, but shuddered en she said;; No !" You cannot tell o Y• can tell why. You went on with your o and a little flirtation did you? I won't you didn't. She was very gay, and she fr -see very glad tofbrget.herself, did she? s ry well, I am very glad that you, gave b that hour of the evening. I cavi tell yo ere she went after the`'party was over. f he went home—the latest person from 1 party. She was glad it was late, for her th a• nd had not come home. She sat and d for an hour," and her husband : did th come, she wrote for an hour and her ei band did not come. She sat at the no for an hour and he did not come. t length, between three and four o'elo.k re was a noise at the door, and two po- }� men held him min their arms.She knew S ce well by this time. It happens so en that she knows every policemen' on br beat. They bade her good night. She locked her child's room, that he might or abuse him. She took the abuse as he Ba g himself on the bed. She dragged off a neck -cloth and coat, and she sat, there pi 1 he should fall into a stupid sleep. w he is the woman who refused the glass so ins :with a shudder. You thought s1 gay and bright. I know her story e I am her minister. They have 4e sort of keletcn in the closet, which we are per- fn ted to see and you are not. And, when a, ee that skeleton, do you wonder that et• sometimes sayprettyysharp things about In eratedrinkin and the temptations offer- Ga t parties ?—Rev. E. E. Hak.l� •e tar er tine as circuit he makes in the heavens and the less nd is his meridian altitude. The days will de - of crease, the sunrise and sunset points move in south, and the sun will each day be lower in the heavens until the Winter solstice, lo when the sun reaches his extreme southern dos, - declination and turns his face slowly north - on ward. Those who watch closely the move - ter menta of the great luminary, so complex in ite ' appearance, so simple in reality, willmoreby fully comprehend his sovereign sway over b cin- borrowed light, yield unswervingly to his f boats, called pontoon bridges, are in c on use for movements of armies. A r f boats is anchored in the stream, place t regular distances apart and stretchi. om bank to bank. ,The prows all point tream. Beams are laid across from boat oat, and on these beans a flooring is laid Besides those used by armies, there are fe permanent bridges. of boats. The m co ebrated now in existence is that acs e Rhine at Cologne. There was once a floating bridge acs e River Seine, at Rouen, which was, abo ght hundred feet long, and was pa with stones, like a street. It was moor with immense chains, and rose and fell wi e tide. But it cost a great deal of mon keep it in repair, and some time in the 1 entu it was abandoned. The eatest and most famous of all floati idges was that built by the Roman Empe Caligula, in A. D. 39. An immense nu er of boats were anchored in the bays ice and Puteoli, in two lines, in the forst crescent, over three miles long, a flooring anks was laid upon them, and fresh wat as conveyed to them by pipes from the shor hen all was ready, the Emperor, acco be- prat ode his sole court and a throng of spec procession from one en thebridge to the other.. He was clothe costly robes adorned with gold and pearls d wore Alexander's breastplate and a civi own. At evening the whole bridge was: il minatecl with torches and lanterns, th ligula boasted that he had turned the nigh to day, as well as the sea into land." Th 'whole court sleptthatnight in the houses ;the bride. Next day there was a,,,r,tl,a ges the rotherhood of planets, who shine in his aw all-powerful influence, and reflect every pul- d cation of his huge mass. ng. t The Flying Dutchman. It is a fact not generally known that the a Flying Dutchman was a real ship and its cap - oat tali a real character. In the early seven- " teenth century, when competition between I the Dutch and English for Last Indian trade n ran �hiigah,o a shknuwningbetweenRotterdam Java, as the Flying Dutch- !, man Its captain and owner was one Ber- ed nard Fokke, whose name deserves to be ex - yburned as that of the first man who used iron in:the construction of a ship. Sheets of weeks board, and Brother Sam Jones, the ast !ship, were visible in: many parts of Fokke's barber, has refused to • shave him until we ship, and - the populace, ;knowing well, that. hear from you. He claims that the mill" ng iron naturally sinks, grew suspicious when will blow lime out'n of a whitewasher's this one, instead of siking, surpassed all . eyes, and all seed cleaned, from a mustard m-' others in swiftness. upto a large sued 'tater. As of g you have It seemed "uncanny," as the Scotch say. 1 been sitting under the dripping of lectures of Wiseacres of the wharf shook their heads as on cyclones and, other wind currents, we ez the big taciturn captain passed to his ship desire your advice before purchasing. We e. which se defied the laws of specific gravity. number sixty-three members, and all be- e" With what dark power of the ale or the long to the Baptist Church except fifty - TEE LIMJ-KEN GLJB, " Heah am a petishun to de sex' Legisla- chur', signed by twenty-eight cull'd men -of Battle Creek," said Brother Gardner, as silence fell upon .Paradise Hall, '' 1t at a petishun prayin' dat body to rtestore capital punishment. I hope dat ebery member of dis clubsignatur' r will add his sLt,natur to it. ' If lar am one fi�ngg, mole Tian anodes wanted iu de Stait of Michigan to -day it am a hangman who, upderstancis his bizuess. De: want of sich a man, together with juries who won't permit dein' sympathies to run away wid deir cornrnan sense, am bein' felt to -day in almost ebery county in de Staff. Db num- ber of cold-blooded murders an' attempts at murder foot up a total to surprise you. We stand among de foremost in de record,• ' b .au it am evident to all observers dat nuffrr am am held' mo' cheaply in Michigan dan 'hu. man life. We hey sent men to prison fur life fur murder, but dey am libin' on in hopes of a new trial an' a verdict in deir favor. "Let de petishun be signed an' returned. If it doan' do any good dis club will sten' ready to fine itself to a vigilance commit- tee. It sally logit make so much differ- ence whether a murderer am hung by de Sheriff or a blacksmith. De,main pint, ar. ter your am sartin of his guilt, am to hey hini well hug by de neck. We will now take upde miscellaneous'bizness an' seek k to cl'ar off de Secretary's desk." G1VEADAif IS THREATENED, Giveadam Jones notified, the meeting that he was in receipt of the following let -i ter, dated at Halifax and written in blood - red ink : It has been decreed, by virtue of the Grand Council, that you shall meet your doom by the hands of our Worthy Grand Assassin. So by faith shall it come to pass as we say it. R. G. & S. We are desirous that you should have time to give thoughts to your soul's best wishes. The Grand Deliverer of Orders shall in course notify you of the date fixed for your journey to the mysterious destina- tion of your kind. You will therefore pre- pare for the promised future. G. The Grand Scriptorial 'Deliver will do duty to your soul's wishes. By order, LAZZIE, R. W. G. Fiend Lodge 444. The letter reached his cabin during his temporary absence, and his wife opened and read it. When he came home he found her unconscious, and for three days her life was despaired of. He had been greatly worried himself, sometimes being inclined to flee to the West. "Brudder Jones, you stay right heah,'• replied the President. "In de fust place, we can't spar' you, an' jn de next place, if you am assassinated you shall hev a funeral to be proud of. It may be dat you amu marked as a victim, but I wouldn't worry over it. Jist put a pa'r o' brass knuckles in your pocket an' keep your eyes peeled o' nights, de assassin who tackles you will think a brick house has hit him on de neck." DON'T TRUST HIM. The Secretary annouced the following : SISSONVILLE, KANAWHA Co., W. VA. Brother Gardner. DEAR Sul—At a meeting of " Whitewash Club" No 7201 I was directed to inquire of your Recommendation Committee whether or no they had given Brother Col. Andy Ray a certificate of moral reputation. He is canvassing our community with a wind- mill. Already he owes Brother Jenks two to wave was he in league? When from one of nine: It's time to suspect something when its vo a d s 1. stition. It was whispered that, in trying to P. HENRY FLOYD, See'y. round the Cape of Good Hope,the iron- " on The h Secretarywas instructed stint - boated to re nd ship I 1 e storms, till at last repeatedly Captainl cren back by that the club had no knowledge of any such t cried, I will man as Col. Andy Ray, nor did it desire to round that cape. if it takes me till Judgment , , ;� L„_ _�. _ grin_., _ Cosmopolitan :England, ngland owns more ocean-going tonna all the rest of the world, and her tra foreign lands is more extensive than of any other country. Her merchants' WO her ships are in all ports. The traders nu :scion seem to have the'most intimate the ections with merchants in every quarter "ad e globe. glance at the general advertising col- any s of the London Times will give one a idea of the ramifieations of her coin- ed e. Here ane will see in a single page an- 1 com dements of the sailings of ships of every,cou and bound about everywhere, and offer - of merchandise in any quantity and of 185' pea, and the products of all lands. But avaa k at a few of the special advertisements ive one a clearer idea of England's out- i' ts business connections. re among the wants are calls for men to fo nations ui all latitudes, and also notices rsons in need of places whose aelttresses atPrnit from the pole to the equator. the "for' sale” columns are offerings of eetlie plantations in Ceylon, sugar estates in , and Cuba, chateaus in France and, Cllr t , ranches and mines in the UnitedStaates, be i sal halls and deer forests in Scotiand, win ines in Russia and indigo fields in the over ast. t below an advertisement in this Lon- (eigt aper of situations wanted of London iron en and coachmen I find this notice brid WIRED IMMEDIATELY -A FIRST class exis tad groom, to take, charge of the Stables of a frog chief in Bengal. Good character indispens has Must be a good horseman and tinders nd woo es the Flying Dutchman never re-' a d th manweighing 187 pounds lays down his utile ese suspicions organized into the whitewash brush and goes into the wind seed f loin which grew the well-known super- business. e e ay . Then a voice of thunder echoed down !procession, in which Caligula rode in s triumphal chariot, followed by a train o tother chariots. The insane emperor the und up the festivities by ordering a larg mber of the spectators to be thrown int Vooden bridges are of course not so dor e as those of stone or iron, and are genes less important. Julius Ciesar built a ous one across the Rhine when he invad ne of the mOst famous idges oui ntry was that across the gorge of Gen. e River at Portage, N. Y., erected in he world, and to build it required all the liable timber that grew on the two hun- and fiveacres of heavily timbered land. length was eight hundred feet, its height ve the water two hundred and thirty- . feet. It was a vast network of square ms crossed in X shape and was so con- cted that any one beam, when it be- e unsound, could be taken out and an - r inserted in its place. A few men were t busy all the tinio replacing unsound n to rot sooner or later. This bridge ch carried a branch of the Erie Railway the gulf, was destroyed by fire on May ity-six days) a train passed over the new bridge erected in its place. This new ge is one of the most airy structures in tence, It is almost entirely of wrought , and weighs eight hundred tons. It the same height and length that the den bridge had, and stands partly on same piers. ur or five Iniles from its mouth in Lake trio, the Genesee passes through another 0, two hundaed feet deep, with nearly endieular rocky walls. Several at- i ts have been made to bridge it at this t, but all have failed. One of the first gle Gothie arch of timber -wood spanning lithe chasm, It was a pretty piece of tecture to look at, but it lacked the veiy merit in all architecture—etrength to stutain itS own weight. The enormous mass of timber began to press in the sides of the arch and throw up the top of it where the timber was comparatively light. When this became apparent, the builders drew great rocks upon the hridge, and placed them over, the point of the arch, to prevent it from Wild forded up. tut it was all in vain, The bridge had been warranted for a year ; and when it had stood just one year and one day, the arch filially gave way, and the whole thing rushed down to rum. A gentlemen who was driving across it when it began to fall, whipped up bis horse and he passed as an individual the club would e THE SEA SERPENT IN 180;:, HE HAP. GONE Ur NIAGARA FALLS AND GOT INTO LAKE ONTARIO. From the Catskill , SePe w, 1805, MARVELLOUS. Extract of a letter from a young gentleman residing ,sear the Black Ricer, in lhe,S'tcete of New York, to 'his correspondent in Charleston, dated Watertown, lune 80, "Four men of respeetability who belong . this place were returning frown Kingston last week in a boat across Lake' Ontario, when about half way home espied a distant object lying off', in the lake which they sup- posed to be a boat with the bottom up. They immediatelysteered toward it, with a design to make aprize of her,when,with the swiftness of aarrow, it arted w rcl ,r darted 0 a them, and they discovered it to be a mon- ster in the form of a snake. They were dreadfullySi ' frightened, and pulled with all their might for the shore which they soon gained, it, being at -no great distance. The monster CLOSELY PURSUED THEA, till gaining shoal water, it played backward and forward before them two hours. This afforded, them leisure time to recover from their surprise, to approach and survey it. It contracted itself into it spiral form, which they judged to be nearly eighteen feet in diameter. Frons the centre of• the curl the head projected across the folds lying even with the surface of the water, and apparent- ly its circumference almost as large, as a hogshead, the eye nearly the bigness of a pint basin, the mouth frightfully large, and. aspect terrible. The length, as it appeared above the water, they judged to be 1:50 feet, The body appeared to be about the size of a barrel. After playingaround, s , a stated above, he steereiscourse for a vessel which had left Kingston'at the same time with themselves bound for Niagara, and was out of eight in a moment. " I understand that the Indians had fre- quently seen the same. He once attempted to pick A MAN OUT OF A SCHOONEE, 4 who saved himself by jumping into the cabin. A number of boats have been lost in the lake, which many have conjectured were destroyed by this monster. It is sup - poised to be of the same kind with that which infested the seas of Norway, as it is not difficult for it when young to come up the. river St. Lawrence." However incredible the above aceetmnt' may appear, the frighted imaginatioats. of: these spectators have not represented this.. monster of a serpent to be of:such air enor-- mout size as the sea snake which was shot.. at by the master of a ship in the Norwegian seas in 1756. The length of that, it will be recollected, was more than a hundred yards. The boat and ship masters in those seas seem to dread being overset by this sea monster, and ou that account, provide then selves with quantities of castor, as they are, known to have a remarkable aversion, to. the drug. It is probable that many 'ek,o; cross the Ontario would be happy to obtain a substilece equally efficacious for security, The Earth a Bubble. Among the many theories propounded to account for the Charleston '°earthquakes not the least plausible is that'which attributes them to the escape of the vast volumes of petroleum and natural gas. When it is con- sidered that the pressure of the escaping gas is so great that it has never yet been accu- rately measured, it will be readily seen how the withdrawal of its support from the in- terior might give rise to a sufficient e est alis la - ce mentof t P the crust of the earth along the line of geological weakness to produce all the dis- astrous results which have been recounted. Gauges connected with sone of the wells show a pressure of 500 hundred pounds to the square inch, and this is believed to be far below the normal pressure in the vast caverns where it was stored before a myriad of openins permitted its escape to the outer world. The volume which .has thus, been liberated is simply incalculable, and, it is hardly possible that such stupendous causes should not produce equally stupendous re- sults. As well expect balloon.' to retain ' ai Zi nits rotundity when a rent in its skin allows the gas to escape. The plausibility of this theory is further sustained by the reports of serious changes 'n the flow of gas at various points. if the rust of the earth is supported to any great stent by its fluid awl gaseous contents, and °nks or is disrupted, by the Withdrawal of heir support at one point,"Such a disturb - nee mi int be naturally expected to check or modify the flow at other points by open- ing avenues into new cavities and.recesses. It is by no means improbable that we will hear of both gas and oil wells diversely af- fected as a result of the recent seismic phe- nomena. Bacon has told us that "the world's a bubble" ; and the titan who called ,rim The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind, speaks of the Ruler of the Universe as watch- ing, with equal eye— Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst and now a world. It is by no means reassuring to remember that the poetic prescience is something akin to inspiration. prig Dutclunan was believed to be doomed t not go out of its nay to whack him, but in e a to try and round the cape till 1'1 case he claimed membership, or pretended i J gment that his mill was indorsed by the club, his t Day. 01100 sorro.ws and tribulations would begin at a The thanks of the club are also due to hair brush said to be 4,509years old. A NEW POEM. The receipt of the following touching poem was announced, and Waydown Bebee was authorized to set the same to music : HI DAR ! CHIPMONK. BY SALAMANDER SMIFFIN. A rabbit come 'long an' he say to him, "I see you is sittite clar all day, Why for de debil you up dar stay ? Chipmonk de an oration in praise of his work, anc e A Few of Josh Billings' Epigrams. ° , I had rather undertake to be two good ; doves than one decent serpent. I To learn your offsprings to steal, make - them beg hard for all yon give them. Piety is like beans ; it seems to do best on - poor soil. I A broken reputation is like a broken vase; inay be mended, but always shows where , the crack was. I If you can't trust a man for the full amount, let him skip ; this trying to get an average on honesty has' always been a failure. I There is no treachery in silence ; silence is a hard argument to beat. , Don't mistake habits for character • the men of the most character have the fewest i The man who is thoroughly polite is two , thirds a Christian, anyhow. , Flattery is like cologne water—to be smelt of, not swallowed. I have noticed that the man who is always before. It could then have been. done in a calind.rqpirit, and with much lesS expense. barun NettrAlt happened; that the neighbor imn..,„m who had- been summoned to Ulla crook. Lar:, -P ery raid was a woman of intelligence Jas, end , experience, and through her b..iau, don p ence • the snfferer Was taken froth her f°;),"? home and placed under the care lyni0a 4 physician who Was competent te deal with lIZE every form of nervous misery. With rest and judicious treatment; she entirely re,! able. coVered. For the first two Weeks she was veterin sure that §he conld never. see a dish without Kria7/ a desire to smash it. At the end of a month A -- 84. cpuld net understand how she could ever beim been .'gnilty of such conduct; Then :"g came a period of remorse for 'her treatment a'"`" ef her husband; andother symptoms 11101. acter, tion. It took six months to pad these bare Pe* and, irritated nerves, and six more to attain r:Pwidl to the phyaicalestrength whieh would make ":" it safe for her to atteMpt the care_ of her e, en"'h mink shriplified housekeeping. But sire re, ala,,s terned to her home a. wiser NV0111411, and has a„..)uu471, And You:think iny.state as 'dangerous as °A.'er'g ing with great interest to the story.. Frilly," I answered. Step what?" the fal ". Ydn have iirV'itations out for a Monet they a party next Week. Does the anticipation' of they'a it give yen pleasnre or the reverse ?" !eXercis is from far Bengal : The word " dyspepsia" is said never to have been heard. the (gallstone- family, and for three reasons First, the members of mly are taught how to cat ; secondly, • taught what to eat and thircily, to taught to take planty of ontdoor I telling what he will do when he gets there, never gets there. When a man bas a great deal to say he can say it in a few words. Man 240,000 Years Old. If the claims of old descent were a justi- fiable source of pride the human race would feel elated this morning on being assured by the wise men of the British Association that authentic proofs have been discovered in some Welsh caves that men, sufficiently developed from the ape to manufacture flint implements, existed on this planet 240,000 years ago. To us it is a melancholy relict - tion that we should have taken 80 protligiOu8 a time to attain so small a result. Even when the duration of the race is limited to the 6,000 years of history, the outcome can hardly be conlidered as satisfactory, and there is something profoundly depressing in the sudden addition of a seises of ancestors who spent 234,000 yehrs in Marking time, indeed, but in making no other mask in the world, The Rev, Dr. Lorimer, the well-known Baptist, eleq,,yman, tells WS story en self : " When in London, a few tveelts ago, I visited a market, and asked the taine of a peculiarly ugly fish that lay ott the eounter, We call theln Baptists,' replied the dealer. Beeause,' he answered, 'they go to the bad so soon after they come out of the water ' " " Oh ! dem hiclery nuts, d4 roa so sweet, AO' I slain' up here dem for tO eat. Samuel Shin was: then fined. $450 for breaking two lamp-chinmeys with his- elbow while throwing, paper wad at Elder Toots and the meeting' adjourned. An Avaricious King. Gait:0mnd tells that an Englishman, Sir James Nursey, was walking recently in the Park of La Oranja, near Madrid, when he sat down on a bench to rest. Preaently handsomely attired nurse, carrying art in- fant came and seated herself near him. The child at once fixed its eye§ on the bright silver knob of the stick the Englishman was carrying, and stretched mit its arms for it. The stranger abandoned the coveted object to the child to play with, but When a quarter of an hour later lie wished to resume his walk the infant reftised to give up the stick, and screamed with rage when the nurse at- tempted to take it from him. The gentle- man was obliged to leave without his cane, but gave his card to the nurse, to return it. In the evening a domestic from the Court brought the stick back to Sir James Nursey, with a letter from Queen Maria Christina, thanking him for the pleasure he had caused her ton. Sir James had made the acquaint- ance of the future King of Stahl. Mr, Potter Palmer said recently to a friend : " I liked Mr. Vanderbilt because he was generous to himself. Most rich mon are stingy to themselves." Minnie Palmer, having completed her tour of Ireland, has sailed for Australia for a nine - months' engagement. Mark Twain's Prediction. Mark Twain makes the following direful prediction :—" As a result of the most care - fill observation of the aspect of the fixed stars during the past two months, as affect- ed by the remarkable changes now going on in the great nebular in (+ Cassiopeia I am able to state with absolute certainty tliat by far the meat awful disaster that has ever be- fallen the globe since its c eation will occur on the 3rcl of October at 9:42 in the evening. The agent will be a ineteorie stone—a me- teoric world, indeed, since its mass will be one-eighth as great as that of our own hemi- sphere. It will first come in sight about half way between the constellation of the Great Bear and the north star, and will make the circle of the southern skies, ancl then sweep northwarti with inuneasurable rapidity, turning the night of this whole continent into a red glare of the most blind- ing intensity. As it approaches Canada, it will make a majestic downward swoop in the direction of Ottawa, affording a epee- taele resembling a million inverted rainbows woven together, and will take the prophet Wiggins right in the seat of his inspiration and lift him straight up into the back yard of the planet Mars, and leave him perina- pended on." nently there in an inconceivably mashed and unplensaitt conditiOn, This can be de. ReekleSs Children. The Peterby family is quite numerous. A few day -s ago Judge Peterby, in order to prepare the minds of the children for a coming eventf said : If yon are good children, bring you home a nice Iittle baby." bring home that baby anyhow, even if we are as as we can loe."