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The Exeter Times, 1887-8-4, Page 2' • ' . ,,, • , , , , • , , • , •I • ' ; . , , . • , x4 -73e, xr.ox?,341.x). 'vrxigX ,OlIdangti 4X.---001rOtasaroe, Turning into Holborn, he ran on lffindlyi ineerer fledging another figure follewing In alga egoesespe, It was gettanglate now, and ets he herried into the Strad, St Clement's Panes struck midnight, Through the omwd there blindly, on to the weter-eide, the eisakY Ogure close behind never off his trosok; on to theFenbanisment, and towarde Waterlog faeidge. Then he stopped for out brief ineineut to regain his spent breeth And think. The following footsteps halted too; and t hen Sorne instinet teld. him he was followed. 'Periling round apart, full under the lamp - 1 .lit, he encountered Paulo Salvarini, deter- tation in his face, murder in hie eyes. au n. agony of sudden fear, Le Gautier ran '40 Aen the steps on to the Temple Pier, duling there olose by the ruching water. a ,sscond later, with a eiutOh like iron, Sal- v,,„„riai was upon hire "Ab 1" he hissed, as they struggled to and W.Ir, • • youthoughtto escapeme, you murderer or .,nocent women, the slayer of my wife I w I have you. Back you go into the riv- a? r, ith a knife in your black heart 1" '4‘ite doomed man never answered; breath 'N, . , too precious for that. And so they Ist,"aggled for a minute on the slimy pier, Sei/ varini's grip never relaxing, till, sudden- ly reaching down, he drew a knife. One dazzling flash, a muttered scream, and Le Gautier's lifeblood gushed out. Footsteps came down the stairs, e shrill shout from a 4tvoinen's voice. Salvarini started. In one , moment, Le Gautier had him in a dying nlasp, and with a dull splash they fell over tRackwards into the rushingflood. Down, down, they went, the tenacious grip never selaxing, the water singing and hissing in their ears, filling their throats as they sack - ad at down, turning them dizzy, till they sfibated'down the stream—dead 1 Some boatmen out late, attracted by the '-eream, rowed, to the spot; and far down *below Blackfriars, they picked up the dead if, odies, both lockhd together in the last clasp sdeath. They itowed back to the pier, . d carried the two corpses to a place for the night, never lu\ecling the woman who 'Was following them. i Next morning theo-i saw a strange sight. Lying across the muedered man, her head eipon his breast, a woman rested. They lit red her ; but sho wau quite dead and. cold, --a, prone upon her few now, wiping out all wade of care and suffe'ring—a smile of hap- pineaa and deep contegit. Valerie had crept aloe , unnoticed to her husband's side, and 1 a broken heari. l?".• a few days people wondered and tatoliated over the , strange tragedy, and a.be , it was forgottim. A new singer, a ina•-- i poisoning case, something turned up tnd distracted the frivolous public mind from the "mysterious occurrence," to use the jargon of the press. Maxwell lost no time in getting to Gros- venor Square the following morning, where is greeting may be better imagined than described. He told Enid the whole story of his mission, omitting nothing that he thought might be of interest to her; and in his turn heard the story of Le Gautier's IperBdy, and the narrow escape both had had *ram his schemes. "1 do not propose to stay any ilonger in London," Sir Geoffery said. "After what we have all gone through, a little rest and quietness is absolutely necessary.—Enid, would you care to go down to Haversham ?" "Indeed, I should. Let us go at once. I am absolutely pining for a little fresh air again. The place must be looking lovely 'MOW." "All right, my dear," the baronet replied gaily; sooth to say, not sorry to get back toe a part of the world where Sir Geoffrey aaarteris was smile one. "Then we will go to -morrow, and Max- well shall join us." "Bat Isodore? I have not seen her yet." "Oh, she can come down there some time, directly we are settled." Later on in the same day, Maxwell heard the strange tale of Le Gautier's death. He alia not tell the news to Enid then, prefer- aing to wait till a time whenher nerves were more steady, and she had recovered from the hock of the pastfew days. So they went down eto Haversham, and for three happy months remained there, "the world forgetting, by the world forget ;" and at the end of that time, when the first warm flush of autumn touched the sloping woods, there was a quiet wedding at the little church under the iffill Gradually as time passed on, Sir Geoffrey recovered his usual flow of spirits, and was -never known to have another " manifesta- tion." He burned all his books touching -on the supernatural, and gradually came to -view his conduct in a humorous light. In -the course of time, he settled down as a model country gentleman, learned on the subject of short -horns and topdressing, and displaying a rooted aversion to spiritualism. it is whispered in the household—only it must not be mentioried—that he is getting Istout, a state of things which, all things ‘considered, is not to be regarded with in- eiredulity. Nearly two years later, end sitting about the lawn before the gland old house were all our friends—Salvaaani, mournful as usual, little altered since we saw him last; Max- -well, jolly and hearty, looking with an air • of ill -disguised pride at Enid, who was sit- Cmg in a basket -hair, with a little wisp of `humanity in her arms, a new Personage—to cum the royal phrase—bub by no means an -unimportant one. Luerece was there, happy and gay; and Isodore, glorioes Isodore, un- utterably lovely as she walked to and fro, 'followed by Salvariniai dog -like eyes. The baronet made tip the party, and alas 1 truth oriust out, looking—but we will be charitable •and say portly. "How long are you going to stay with us, Isadore ?" Enid asked. She would always be Isodore to them. " Really, I cannot say, Enid. How long will you have me ?" a As long as you like to stay," Maxwell • pat in heartily. -1" By the way, I suppose I ,ant still a member of the League?" "Nog not now. Conditionally upon your promising tever to reveal what you have seen and heard, you are free ; Sir Geoffrey likewiee.—Luigi here has resigued his mem. ,bership," -"1 am so gla,(11" Enid cried. "1 inust tome and kiss you,--Vred, come ancl held • baby for a moment." 'No,indeed"—with affeeted horror. "1 should drop him down, and. break him, or ,earry him upside down, or some awful tragedy." " You are not fit to be the fat' -et of a beateift.1 boy; and everybody says he is the 'very insage of you," "1• Wfie considered a good-looking nem • ,, ..1tun mea • . , ee essiee, satevell with retigisation, gem Matter, But if that small animel there is a I hit like mos rutty 1— They all Washed OAthi, being lights hearted end in the mood to laugh ere thin, Presently, they divided into little groupie leodore and 4igi togethor. Ail lier cad eelfpossessson was one now ; she looked a Very 'woman., as she stood there nervoesly pluelting the leavefroni the rose in her hand, "Ieodare—Geuevieve"-- At this word she trembled, knowing namely sylaist, "Yes'Lugi," 'Five years ago, Iiitood by your side in the hour of your trouble, and you old some Words to ine. Do you remember what they were ?" "Yes, Luigi." The words came like a fluttering sigh. "I claim that promise now, We are both free, heaven be praised 1 free as air, and no ties to hired us. Came?" He held out his Arms, and she Game shyly, shrink- ingly, towards them, "If you want me," she said. With one bound he was by her side, and drew her head down upon his breast. "And you are happy now, Genevieve?" "Yes, I am happy. How can 1 be other- wise, with a good man'a honest love ?— Carlo, my brother, would. you could see me now 1" It is what he always wished—Let us g6 and tell this others." So, taking her simply by the hand, they wandered out front the deepness of the wood, side by side, front darkness and despair, from the years of treachery and deceit, out into the light of a world filled with bright sunshine and peaceful, everlasting love. [Tan Exn.1 The Hygiene of Bathing. In a short article published not very long ago in the Westera Rural a writer recites the practical use of bathing, and does it in the emphatic language of the experienced physician, who knows from observation the effect ot water in promoting health. A few changes adapts it to these columns: .Among all the appliances for health and comfort to mankind, we may safely say there is nothing so well-known, so useful and so comforting, and yet so carelessly performed or thoughtlessly neglected, as bathing. The skin of the human body, from head to foot, is a net -work of pores. One can not put a finger on a single place without covering several little openings, which ought always to be kept clear of obstructions. As evidence of the truth of this statement we need only to call to mind the great drops of sweat so often seen gathering on one's face and other parts of the body in warm weather—espe- cially during the time of severe exertion. These pores lead into miuute tubes or chan- nels, that meander through the skin. The dust which comes in contact with animals covered with hair is mostly kept out and the perspiration is conducted away from the pores of the skin by those hairs; hence, bathing is not so esseatial with them as with mankind, whose bodies are practically denuded of such protection. The glutinous mass of perspiratiou dust and filth, which in time gathers on the surface of the unwash- ed or uncleansed body, covers and clogs the pores, and often poisons the system. Fre- quent ablutions and an occasional immersion in water are thus desirable and often indis- pensable to health and comfort; consequent- ly, every family should have a convenient bath of some kind, not only for general neatness of person, but as a means of pre- serving health, and in many cases employed under the advice of a good physician. In the long catalogue of diseases to which flesh is heir, scarcely one can be named in the treatmeut of which a bath is useless. To those blessed with good health, a bath, as a common-sense appliance, gives thrift and growth to healthy functions, a brightness and. delightful serenity, a clearness of mind and bouyancy of spirit. It is certainly a blessing to both mind and body. For the mental worker, it is a nerve tonic. A thor- ough application of water of proper temper- ature will calm and give strength and tone to the system. The indoor laborer, who gots but a scanty supply of fresh air, needs a bath to obtain the skin invigorating elements of the open air. The outdoor laborer—especially the farmer —who works with heroic energy all day long, unavoidably gathers on the entire surface of his body a complete prison -wall of dust and viscid perspiration; and when his day's work is done he needs then, more than any other thing, not only a wash, but it good bath to fit him for home society, his clean bed ancl refreshing sleep. Every one needs a bath at times, and every human habitation should contain something for a complete immersion in water, and, since convenient and efficient portable baths at comparatively low figures are now exten- sively advertised for sale, there is little excuse for most people to be without this priceless benefit. Canning and Evaporating Fruit. The business of canning and evaporating fruits and vegetables has been steadily grow- ing for many years past, until it has now assumed immense proportions, If the work is done properly, which is not always the case, the fruits and vegetables will retain their fully developed richness to an extent that early grown fruits and vegetables do not equal, and for this reason the evapor- ated fruit is often used after the early grown fruit is placed on market. This is a very good plan to follow, and is not only eheaper, but is also more healthy for the consumer. Consumers in general are using canned and evaporated goods more and more each year, and as a natural consequence the eva- porating factories are having quite a boom. The canning process is easily done at home by the farmer's wife, and all who are conveniently situated ehould by all means put up enough fruit to supply their own family abundantly during the winter. Good sauce is quite a luxury, and is also quite health -giving in its effect on the human sys- tem, and oftentimes wards off disease by aiding in digestion, and in this way is not only valuable for what nourishment it con- tains in itself, but also acts as an appetizer, and by ite steady use the other food is bet. ter atsimilated. It is much better for the farmer to put up what canned fruit he needs, and he will then know just what he has got, aua feel better in using it than when he ha e to buy it from the faotory. Of course the farmer should not expect to Compete with the foe, tories, and try to market his carined goods, 'unless ie is done on a very extensive scale, but it is only a sire* matter to put up what is needed of the different fruit e and veget- ables tor fanny corieumption. And when this is dote, the farmer Will have the ad- vattage of selecting the fruit when it is in ite best condition for cartnieg, Which is not always the ease with ac ry godL , esi es Wei When theY are Kit et Wine the beet in4tieti ANA eeleeted alieoltstro elelienee 90404, VOIWYee are deiiirable o heve esi a ghee 0' itna it le beet to tix. itp certale tune t—ef thia variety of esasee, but the ainiiileipreeeeeef oalleingj nd eheatte'ri ; And the fruit Pan the be uSed little. Sit thue as ie desired for table use. , Aker° ehoePlo Supply of dried fenP Wee lai'eperen ior Winter use, es it Ss yery easy' to accoinplish and quite deeireble to have, as a ehancte, later us the seaecia, Brepereted fruit ie, however, far euperior to dried fruit, aed eheuld not he clessept with it :say meems. The process by which it . . o tamed is altogether different, and like most other articice of selierior value %squat-, ity, it requires more trouble ad expeinie to secure it. During the first process of evaporatiou intense heat is used, which will effeet the outer surface of the fruit only, and will forin an impenetrable coating, thns retainiug the perfect flavor and other desirable qual- ities of the fruit. There are a great many different patterns and styles of evaporators that do good work, but the prieeieal trouble is that they are quite expeusive, and can only be used to Feat where the business is done on a large soale, and as yet they are not cheap enough for family use. Nesrly all kinds of fruit, and many vege- tables, can be evaporated to good advan- tage, and the field el operation is consider- ably more extensive than that compassed by the drying method. All the evaporation prooess does is to draw out the stitplue moisture, and when the fruit is used onthe table, this moisture can be easily resto*d, and thus the consumer has a welcome sub- stitute for the genuine articule whey it eau • not be obtained, and it often is very hard to tell the difference between them. ZUG'S GREAT CALAMITY. Streets and Houses sink nut or sight Under the Invading Lake, The disaster at Zug recalls in many respects the phenomena of South American earth- quakes. For several days crevices had been observed in a new gutsy at Zug which cost $40,000. At 2/a o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the lake in front of the stone work began to bubble. The quay then cracked, and eighty feet of it fell into the lake. A dozen persons who rushed from an adjoining cafe were precipitated into the water and drowned. After a short interval another slip dragged several houses into the water. The litndang stage followed, and a steamer which had just arrived was hurled a hundred yards for- ward. At four o'clock two boats which were going to the rescue were engulfed, Aly one boatman rising again to the surface. At the same moment a boatman's hut in which were three children fell into the water. Furniture and cattle were now hurriedly re- moved from the threatening quarter. At 7 o'clock the land slips began again, and sev- eral carts which were removing property sank into the lake. Fifteen houses and ten huts disappeared within a few minutes, in- cluding the Hotel Zurich, the roof of which is still visible above the surface. A cafe, in which were ten customers, was next engulfed, and 150 metres of a neigh- boring street then slowly vanished, the peo- ple jumping from the windows of the houses to escape being drowned. A party of offi- cers returning from Lucerne assisted the fire brigade in rescuing the imperilled per- sons, but, the danger increasing, troops were summoned from Bear. The thirdlamd slip occured at 11 P. M., carrying five houses into the lake and damaging many oth4a. The municipal treasure was removed from the Town Hall to the Post Office. Seventy persons are missing and 600 are homeless. The damage is estimated at $250,000. Peo- ple are pouring into Zug from all points to view the scene. PREHISTORIC MAN. collection Mustrating His Progression DOWa to the Dawn of Historic time. A valuable collection, numbering more than 10,000 objects, illustrating the habits and accomplishments of prehistoric man in western Europe, has been opened to public exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. These were gathered during a five years' residence abroad by Mr. Thomas Wilson, ex -United States Consul at Nice, and his wife,. They have been so arranged as to illnstrate the gradual progression of tne race from the beginning of the palaodhic epoch of archwology (the quarternary of geology) down to and through the bronze age to its merging with the iron, just pre- ceding the dawn of prehistoric tine Te series begins with the chipped stone elements of the creatures who, during per- haps sixty or seventy centuries, roamed over all that portion of the continent ehen above water and not covered with ice. The mew bones of these people lack the fixtures, so to speak, to which in modem humanity the tongue muscles are attached; and this leads to the presumption that they did not possess the power of speech. However that may be, the shape of their skulls indicates that they could have had. nothing of interest or im- portance to say. The dawn of the glacial periocb drove them to the caves where during a residence of some centuries, they invented clothes. This is proved by the existence in great numbers of stone scrapers used in preparing the hides of their quadrupedal contemporaries, From chipped stone they have advanced to ground or polished stone and thence to implements of bone. Now came the dawn of art, and their finest bone implements were engraved with pictures of the horse, reindeer, and bear. The collections of pottery and bronze of a much later period are ourious and extensive. Of bronze there are barbed fish hooks, ex- actly like those of to -day; long phis with globular heads as large as walnuts, the counterparts of the implements used by modern ladies to keep the hat in place; and finally, there are safety pins, used by Etrus can maidens long before the advent of Rom- ulus and Remus, which contain in the germ every principle of that most useful article known to the modern nursery, An. Expert in Character. "Excuse me, sir," he said, "but you are something of a reading man are you not ?" "Oh, yes, sir, I often read half the night through,' I thought so. I am seldom mistaken itt judging ohmmeter. You have a passion for literature, 1 /emporia ?" "Not exactly. I'm a proof reader." linat She Married For. Second husband, to wife Are yeti as . fond of tne as you Were of yotir first husbana, dear '?" Wife "Yes, indeed; and, if you were to die, ../ohn, 1 would be just as fond of my third. I'm not a Woman to marry ROUSE11014]) s ' ' ; Aalxe QiU Ow l'oEt4., T, euuneffu.,4, •alxty.teur ounces of bread that ni to Bay a four Omni loaf, in thts city ebste eleven cents end the prioe in any village or town, anywhere la America will not vary much from this. This is at the rate of 2 Gents per pound. The best flour is smiling now from $3.75 to $4 per barrel of 200 pounds, say 2 centa a pound. To find how much, of each loaf was vseeer, the writer took four loaves, made by four differeut bakers, and ortimbing and drying, each sample weighed. before and after as follows :— Fresh Weighed After Drying. No, 1 65i ozs 45t ozs, " 2. — .....65i " 4411 " cc 3, ,oeg cc " 4 64t " 44a " •Starriq 4'ux,y‘ • ITAAO NtiN TO =TA, Jur mom are bettor off lo these tillaea Total 261ozs 180ozs, The weight evaporated will thus be seen to be eighty-one ounces, 20 ouncea and a frac- tion, or about 30 per cent. of water. Now there is no fraud about this. Neither is Shore any fra,uti in using, as bakers nearly always do, aboat four ounces of potatoes to each loaf. Potatoes are among the best of foods but not worth 24 cents a pound, the price paid tor bread, as before stated. The object of this article is to make it perfectly plain to each bread -user that the material of a loaf of bread they pay eleven cents for, in reality only costs about five cents, and that a family, say of five per- sons using oue loaf per day are paying a snug sum during the year which they might and should save. In the four loaves as a teat we have roughly :— Flour 164 oz. (10i1bs.) worth 20i cents Potatoes17 " 44 Water.. - 80 " • cc ff Material for four loaves costing 21i " If a house -wife is willing to pay one hun- dred per cent. or just double as much for bread as the material costs it is her Own and. her husband's affair, but let her remember that for every loaf per day for the year it it costa her $20. The majority of families in this city take two to three loaves a day, so it becomes $40 to $60 a year which they pay the baker for his services. If it be worth while to study economy at all these figures are worth considering. They mean the clothing of a child or a man much better than can now be afforded by many a household. They may mean living within the income, of quite a number, and are therefore to all such vital. To those who urge the extra expense of fuel we would say :—Do not fall into the error of baking every day and serving hot biscuits and buns, but so far as bread is con- cerned do your baking once a week—say on washing day, when it can be done at trifling i additional cost. Bread can be kept for a I week easily, as thousands know, and the older or staler home -baked bread is the more healthful, digestible and nutritious it becomes. This article is not intended as a plea, for baking powders, but to encourage economy in each and every family, rich or poor, and to perpetuate the good old cus- tom of every mother making the bread her children eat. Cooking Recipes. CALF'S BRA.INS FRIED.—Take the brains and beat up with an egg, salt and pepper; fry in hot lard. PUDDING SAITCE.—Beat together four tea- spoonfuls of sugar and two ounces of butter; stir in a teacup of boiling water; flavor to taste. GREEN SPONGE Cake.—Two teacups of sugar, one of cream, two of flour, four eggs, one teaspoonful of baking powder and tea- spoonful extract of lemon; bake quickly. SNOW CAKE.—One cup of white sugar half cup of butter, one and a half of flour, al bak- ing powder, whites of four eggs; flavor with lmo ent of sweet milk, teaspoonfel of BEEF TRIPE.—Clean th i tripe carefully and soak in salt water, changing several times, cut in slices; boil perfectly done; dip in butter; fry a light brown; season wit't salt and pepper. FIG CA&E.—Three pints of flour, one cup butter, ate of sweet milk, two and one-half cups sugar, whites of sixteen eggs, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, one and (Inc- hon pounds figs flavored and cut in strips. WHITE FRUIT CAKE.—One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, one pound of butter, (me pound blanched almonds, three ounces citron, one grated cocoanut, whites of six- teen eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, flavor to taste. To DRESS CIIGUMBERS,—Gather, or buy from market early, peel and put on ice un- til dinner; then slice as thin as possible and put with sliced onions in a dish.o Salt and pepper freely, pour a cup of virlegar over them, and lay ice on the top. BAKED LEG Or MUTTON.—Take a leg of mutton weighing six or eight pounds, cut down the under side and remove the bone; fill it with a dressing made of four ounces of suet, two eggs, two ounces chotped ham, six of stale bread, one onion, a little thyme, sweet marjoram, parsley, nutmeg, salt and pepper • sew up lay in a pan and put in a hot oven, baste with butter, cook three hours. ROAST BEM—Remove the bone from the thin part of the roast, lay in a piece of suet Shat does not project beyond the width of the roast, then fold it eroded against the thick of the meat. Skewer it with larding• pins fasten on the side, take some thin slices of bacon, lay in a, dripping pan that is not too large and place in a hot oven. Fifteen minutes to the pound it the usual time re. quired for roasting, Salt whet half done and baste frequently. Miriced onion, thyme and parsley may be added to the gravy, Envie CAKE, --right cups of flour, six cups sugar, three cups buttery two cups milk (clabber prefetred), twelve eggs, four teaepooliftds cream of tartar, two teaspoon- fuls soda, two pounds seeded raisins, two o curtants, half pound thinly gieed eitron, flour the raisins to prevent thern trans set- tling, Flavor with cloves, allapiee, chum, mom ginger and innee to suit the taste; bake four hours, Mix sugar and lautter and beat it to light dream, then add milk and yolks of eggs, then the spices, and lastly the whites and fruits. , theeb the good old dive wiam1t,virak 'the law te endecolOr tq starve thOra late*verdiet It is bad enough noW to hOOPet teeleaSa of at eliPeiLapneterni °W41,70,01,131410:1144fillar9YelitllitelAta into thebargain, the:early art, ef the reign Of 'Teary vk't lIora f ii4Pa tried an aittion When on ei.r4: 01 which the jury were looked up, but before giving their verdict had oaten and drank, which they all oonfessed. This being report-, ed to the Judge be fined thorn each heavily and took their verdiet, In Tillery Term, Sixth Henry VIlI,, the easeca me up before the full Court of Queen's Bench on a joint motion to set aside ou the ground. of infor- ilialit of trial, the jury having ea,ten when they should have fasted, and next remit the fines under the pe miler circumstances of j the ease. The er.y averred thet they had made up their minis in the case before they ate, and had returned into Court with, a verdict, but,finding the:Lord Chief -Justice had "run out to see a fray," and. not kno wing when he might com.e back, they had refresh- ment. The court oonfirmed both the verclicit and the fines. In " Dyer' e Reports a case is eported of a jury who retired to consider their verdict, and when they earns back the bailiff informed the Judge that some of them (which he could not despose) had been feeding -while looked up. Both bailiff and jury were sworn, and the pockets of the latter were examined, when it appear- ed that they all had about them "pippins," of which "some of them confessed they had eaten, and the others said they had. not." All were severely reprimanded, and those who hacl eaten were fined 12s. each, and thoze who had not were fined 6s. each, 'for that they had them in their pockets." Wheat and the World, Could imperial Route have only erown sufficient wheat in Italy to have fed her legious, Dieser would still be master of three- fourths of the earth. Rome thought more in her latter days of grapes and oysters, and mullets, that change color as they die, and singing and flute playing, and cynic verse of Horace, anything rather than corn. Rome is no more, and the lords of the world are they who have mastership of wheat. We have the mastership at this hour by dint of our gold and our 100 -ton guns, but they are telling our farmers to oast aside their corn and to grow tobacco and fruit and anything else that can be thought of in preference. The gold is slipping away. These seeks in the market, open to all to thrust their hands in, are not sacks of corn but of golden sovereigns, half sovereigns, new George and the dragon, old George and the dragon, Sydney Mint sovereigns, napoleons, half napoleons, Belgian gold, German gold, Ital- ian gold, gold scraped and scratched and gathered together like old rags from door to door. Sacks full of gold, verily I may say that all the gold poured out from the Aus- tralian fields, every pennyweight of it, hundreds of tons, all shipped over the sea to India, Australia, South Africa, Egypt, and, above all, America, to buy wheat. It was said that Pompey and his sons covered the great earth with their bones, for each one died in a different quarter of the world. but now he would want two more sons for Australia and America, the two new quar- ters which are now at work plowing, sowing, reaping, without a month's intermission, growing corn for us. When you buy a bag of flour at the baker's you pay fivepence over the counter into somebody else's till. Consider now thebroad ocean as the counter, and yourself to represent thirty-fivemillions of English people buying sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen millionoquarters of wheat from She nations opposite, and paying for it ship. loads of gold. Power by Electricity. The transmission of power by electricity opens up a field of vast possibilities. Ac- cording th a recent writer: "Tho time will come when every waterfall, every mill stream, and every rivulet even can be utiliz- ed as a motive force in cities, towns and villages. The steam engine will become as antiquated as the old-fashioned oil -lamp is now. Since electricity has been proven cap- lable of being used as a motive power at all, ilac grand desideratum has been to discover some means of generating it at a less cost Shan has been possible heretofore, and the result is that the aquatic force which has been of but very little use to man heretofore • is to be made his most valuable servant. The question. of cheapening the electric , light, which has hung like a cloud over its i future in the capitalist's mind and has I dimmed even its brilliant rays, is thereby i solved, for if the force can be had for the - more taking from every running channel of water in the land, why, then the main cost is at once sveept away. When, further, this force is carried, witb the assistance of a simple wire, to any point where It is Ineeded, industrial revolution will have been accomplished, the consequence of which it is , difficult to measure in its entirety. The itides being likewise added to this available force, there is more than eneugh for all the , present and possible future demands of the ' world. As Prof. Thomson, the English scientist, said recently, a tenth part of the tidal energy in the comparatively insignifi- cant valley of the Severn would be alone sufficient to light every city in Great Bri- tain, while another tenth would turn every loom, spindle and anxle. The clay may not be so far off when the streets of New York are lighted by the Falb+ of Niagara, and its multitude ot presses and machines of all sorts turned. by the same agency." -.01104111.-S Why Call it a Street Railway? The longest street railway in the world will be that which is to run between a num- ber of towns near Buenos Ayres. It will also be exceptional in that sleeping cars will be run on it for the convenience of through passengers. The sleeping cars and all the other equipments of the line are be- ing supplied by a Philadelphia firm. These sleeping cars are furnished with four berths each, which are made to roll up when not in use. The cars are furnished with lava- tories, water coolers linen presses and other conveniences, and are furnished throughout with mahogany. The other rolling stock comprises four double -decked open cars, twenty platform care, twenty gondola cars, six efrigereaor cars, four poultry cars furn'shed with coops, eight oattle ears, two dery ck-cars for lifting heavy material, and 200 box cars, A True Fish Story. Fish stories are now in order This is one given ite a feet and is alleged to ba new. It the first, it should be framed :—A Muskoka camper alleges that he set out a night.line baited with a rninhow, This Was swallowed by a shiner, which was takeh in latter by a perch Which at a subsequent 'stage was captured by a black bass. A maskalunge 'woke up before the eamper and swallowed the combhiatioa, and the whole outfit was hauled ashore in time /or breakfast. Mus- koka is a wonderful country, ;hell: )11:114444tan'41iyhefil'41e0:.oNlikuk; ewAmgraeTtead:47i0 cause of anxiety taide friendS, but Ant :Or She veason Shot he ie an ordinary dealer hi stooke aod a,Boalporp etraddlee, kik; name io O. K. Bastian, pad he. is interesting be - pause he ie likely to falldead at auyinonient. kle lies died, three tiniee an ,far, and he deeen't look as thongh he lied yet awe the best in that direotiou, Ile is hilly is of his pleasaut little peculiarity, and. s unable to explain:it to anybedy. The first time he diedwas when he was 30 years old, and that was about 16 Years ago, 1e was living in Norwich,iConn. Be had suffered with chronic! ndigestion, aud was weak and feeble. Ono evening he was out walking after an unusually hearty supper, consisting of a cracker Bala a cup of tea, when he sud- denly fell on the sidewalk. The people who 041110 to his atsistanee found him to all Appearances dead. The doctors declared that he had died of heart disease, and pre. paratione for the funeral were begun the next day. His friends came and looked a his corpse and remarked what a sad eas it was, and the local papers published full obituaries. On the second night he Astonish- ed the watchers by aStting up in his coffin and asking for a drink. When ha save hew close he had come to a premature burial he came near dying in earnest. He lived on regulerly enough for four years after that. He was down in New Mexico looking after a mine in the summer of 1875, and it was then that he uext suspended animation. The New Mexicans never had an idea that he was alive, and as the weather is very warn] there he would infallibly have beim buried if he hadn't been somewhat expeditious about coming to life. Nobody knew him down there, and he was laid out in an undertaker's shop in Saute Fe that served as a morgue. When he came to and wanted to know what he was doing there, he scared the undertaker's assistant into fits. His next exploit occurred in Phila- delphia one hot day two years ago last summer. He was supposed to have been sunstruck. He carries in his pockesa now a carefully written n at= containing his address and requesting that he be taken there in ease of aceident. All his relatives and friends have been notified not to let him be buried withouthaving a good chance to come to life again if he can. But with all his precautions, he is haunted by a foreboding that somebody will bury him alive yet. The doctors don't know exactly what is the matter with him, but he has made arrangements with one of them to find out, if possible, when he really does die. Did Not Rob Hun, The romance of highway robbery is per- haps the most signal triumph of the novel- ists. There is nothing romantic about it, outside the pages of the dime novel. But • there are aome true stories of success in over- coming the rascals who live by plunder that have in them the dash of true romance. What could be better than the following? Lord N—was at one time travelling through a portion of England infested by highwaymen. He deemed it better tootriset his money and valuables during this parnf his journey with his servant Thomas, a faithful Scotchman, than to take them with him in his carriage: and his confidence was well placed, as the sequel will show. Thomas was on horseback, several miles in the rear of his master's carriage, with his saddle -bags well laden with gold. As he was cantering along through a stretch of wood he was suddenly accosted by a robber who, pistolin hand, commanded him to hand over his gold or take the con- quences. Thomas stopped his horse and said, "Dino shoot, mae mon, The gold is yours...,I dinna claim it ony ways, for it's my mEztler's, Ye can take it. I'll not hinder ye. It's in my saddle -bags." With true Scottish calmnees he sat quiet while the robber dismounted and removed the saddle -bags of gold. "1 dinna ken what ru tell my mas- ter," Thomas said gravely; and then, as if a bright thought had come to him, he add- ed, "Would ye mind putting a ball through my coat to show my lord? 'Twould look as if 1 didna yield too lightly." The highwayman laughed good-humored- ly, and declared himself ready to comply with this reasonable request. So Thomas, with evident simplicity took off one sleeve and held it up for the robber to fire at, which he did, completely off his guard by the other's apparent innocence. But the instant he had fired, Thomas's de- meanor changed. In the twinkling of an eye, now that his assailant was for the mo- ment disarmed, Thomas had his own pistol pointed at the astonished highwayman, who had little expected this turn of affairs. "Now, mac mon," said Thomas, with a different ring in his voice, "put the goold back whence ye tuk it." The discomfited highwayman, seeing cer- taim death in the resolute eye gleaming out at him from beneath the bushy shock of red hair, hastily complied, and then would have edged away. " Dinna ye try to escape me, mon," cried She now excited Thomas, "or 'twill be the waur for ye. Walk ye there 'before my horse an' we'll continue our journey." The brave Scotchnuin took his prisoner to the next town and delivered him over to the proper authorities. — The Red Headed Girl and White Horse Theory, First man—" What nonsense 1 The pa- pers have revamped that old superstition about the redheaded girl and the white horse," d Man—" That old belief is true as , preaching; never knew it to fail; when you see a red-headed girl you will find a whitof horse somewhere near." "Oh, get out. Suppose there should be ' a little town with a red-headed girl and no white horse at all, then what ?" "Something like that happened once. I lived in the town and had the only white horse there was, and on a bet I tried to kill the old superstition by selling my horse to a stranger front Wayback and buying a black one. Wellg the day he took off the white horse the girl was taken sick and did not appear on the streets until the day When She stranger cerise back with a fine black horse, for which 1 had to pay a mighty big price." "But if there was no white horse in, town you won the bet ?" "N&, sir; the fellow had hardly got away before the recl•headed girl walked out. A heavy shower. OEUTEO up, washed all the • eoloring off the minim', and there was my Mame um white horse," A Potshots never takes a dose of physic until he has previously obtaineda favourable answer from heaven in the shape of an oMen. Should. he have the potion at his lips, if he happens to sneeze it is enough; the physic is thrown to the dogs, and another practi. doter is ealled in.