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The Exeter Times, 1887-9-8, Page 6LOVE'S• TRIUMP lournel from his pocket and handed, it te Boehm thet he on remember his Mother, iii friend. Gannon laid down the ehell.jacket he was weeding, end took the paper with. some eltow of interest he Author of " KM % ItLeeeen'e FALSNIXOOD," " IlEATMQH'S Apturriox," Von " Where did you get it Croft ?" he asked 'Love ea KINDRUD ? " "A COLDZif ORRAM," &P turning over the pages, CHAP`.PER V. --,-(C.lanwunn. ) "You may pity me now," he told her, torgetting to speak sternly or ecornfully, and letting her eee how every word 840 had spoken had cut him to the heart everything I held dear, everything I trea- sured, everything that I hoped to make my life happy and bleased through, is gone from me forever." He paused a monteut to con- quer 4 choking sensation in his throat, then went ori--" Hyacinth, do you rfsmember that I am your huebaucl—that it was with tne you knelt at the eltar and vowed your- tielf mine before Ifeeven ?" He moved a stetignearer to her, and held out hie hand ia a last appeal ; and as he did so she raised her haggard face from her arms and looked at him with hatred and loathing. stamped on every feature, lie drove Meek horror-stricken. "Good heavens," he burst out, "what are we to do all our lives?" She had meant to lead him to this ques. them With this one object in view she had given the agony. and fury within her a free rein; with burntng impatience she bad waited for it through all her convulsive sob- bing. Now she answered eagerly, instant- ly. "I will tell you what we can do !" she cried passionately. We can both 8,ot as if our marriage had never been. No one knows of it but Bob—no one will Wilk of searching the books in the church for proof of it. Let it be forgotten, Oh, it is such an easy way! We shall both be rich, happy, content; let it be forgotten for ever and ever, Glynn !"—and she clasped her hands together and bent entreatingly to- wards him. For a moment he looked at her, aluaost stunned. by the audacity of her proposal, and than he oried out— a " It is impossible— utterly impossible! Do not delude yourself with such an idea. You are mine—we cannot part—and—aud" —dropping his voice to a whisper—" I do not despair—not quite—yet !" h' Oh., yes, I know that—I know that!" she answered bitterly, ignoring or not hear- ing his last twords. "1 ant yours as much as is a bird you have locked in a cage is yours. Yes, the la,w gives me to you as it gives the shrinking maiden from Circassia to .some wealthy Turk; and" — standing erect before him, with burning eyes and sneering lips — "you eau take me and keep ine, until the face that charms you now is worn and wrinkled, until you loathe what you love now, until you understand and feel what I feelnow 1"—and she bowed her head again upon the top of the wall and hid her face. There was silence then—a silence thatato the girl's fierce rebellious spirit seemed to last for hours. She had made her proposal with all the despair, vehemence, and agony that had lain pent up within her since she had know what her marriage had done for her; and now she could only wait exhausted, hoping and yethopeless, for his answer. The night was falling ; the sun had dine,- -peared some time ; a cool gray light tram - bled about the little red church. In the lane, under the hanging lilacs and laburn- ums, it was quite dark; therefore these two —husband and wife—could scarcely see each other's face as they kept this dreary silence. At last Hyacinth spoke—she could not bear the torture of waiting any longer. " Well," she asked slowly and faintly, "have you decided ' He lost all hope then; her cold self-con- trolled voice was more panful to his ear§ than the passionate utterances of a few me - meats before, and he answered her in low ' broken tones— "Hyacinth, if I could do anything to annul this marriage, believe me I would; in any case I will relieve you of my hated presence until you yourself call me back." • " Setiment, sentiment, sentiment !" she exclaimed, raising her bowed head and stamping her foot upon the ground. "What do I care whether you go or stay? It is of our uncle's will, and of this marriage that bars us from all benefit under it, that I am talking, Glynn."—moving a step nearer to him. " Will yoa do as I wish—let this marriage be forgotten, and each of us take our portion of the old man's wealth ?" "But it cannot be forgotten—we must remember it and take it into account all our lives," he said. " understand you, she answered coldly. "You can live just as it pleases you; but I shall live in purity and honour until the end —you know that I shall." He did know it. That cold haughty girl would never walk through life with the faintest shadow on her name. He put that coneideration away at once. "But there is something else 1'. he ex- claimed. "We are married, whether the fact be made public or kept secret. We cannot take the money—it would be fraud." Fraud ? How ? e I don't understand I" she cried, beginning to sob and tremble a,gain. "Are we not the people set down in the will; and, if we act as if this wretch- ed marriage had never taken place, whom are we defrauding? Some charities, I sup. pose?" 'No—the Crown, I believe; but, all the same I will not be guilty of obtaining money by false pretences—for that's what i+Iwould "Then let me!" she cried, clasping her hands together, and bending as if she would have fallen upon her knees before him, 08 indeed she had some thoueht of doing, for she felt that this was the .crisii of her life, and that a word, an action too much or little, Would make or mar her chances for ever. et Oh, have pity on me, and stand aside ! Do not interfere; 1 have no such seri les " But how can I?" he asked. "If you teke your portion and I hand over V en- choyle and. Shamgannon to the Crown law- yers—as I shall do—there will be suspicion, ingeiry, detection, and—" In a tempest of weeping that was half acting, half natural, she buried her head in her hands again upon the wall. "Slie uttered it. "1 see a way—the one ad only way—out of this horrible dilemma, ; it is o hard and bitter way, but it will both set you free and enrieh you. That is all you want . "Yes—oh, yes 1" she breathed rather then whiepered, her fece etill hidden, but no longer moving to and fro. She was listening. I shall die I No, not as you suppose" —for she had uttered a sharp cry ; I have no right to destroy the life in this body and even for you 1 will not entlimit a erhUe ; but in everything else I shall be as one dead. Name, fortune, leirth, the hopes and ant, Wiens of Any life, front this moment' re, nounce, that you—who have lied to and deceived me—may have your desire. And X do this—I hardly know why; 1 suppose because in spite of all, I love you, end I would, by making this stierifice, win front you a feeling that is not hatred." " Oh, if gratitude is of any good," she murmured vaguely, "1 shall be grateful all my life ! But how are you going to carry out this plan ?" for she could hardly Qom- prehend whet he meant, except Una he was goingeto set her free. "1 am going back to Liverpool now— this moment ; from there I shall go on to London by the first train that will the me. In that city there are a couple of regiments under orders for Egypt; I shall be as much lost be one of them as if I were to draw a razor aoross my throat. That is my plan— that is what I intend to do, Hyacinth." " As a common, soldier ?" she faltered, with a rush of strange sensations —not triumph that she had won this victory, or pity for him, but something such as she had never felt before, which be- wildered and frightened her, and made her long to bring this interview to a close lest -- "Yes," he said, it is a manly and an honest calling, the only one I am fit for, and it °MA the beet hiding -place in all the world; I shall beoome one of her Majesty's troopers 1" "You are in earnest? You will do this for me ?" she asked faintly. "Yes,Hyacinth, lam iu earnest --I will do this for you." There was silence then for a few moments. She heard him move in the darkness, and looked towards hint, expecting him to say good-bye, half thinking he would clasp her in his arms, press her cold lips with hot and passionate kisses, and so depart. But he did not; he vealked away a pace, stopped, and she thought his head was bowed upon his chest. As she tried. to peer through the gloom, she heard him sob. The low deep sound—the one inarticulate expression of his suffering heart—seemed for an instant to pierce her armour of selfishness and touch her. She felt a sudden loathing of her greed and ambition; her brain whirled; she took a step towards him, and then resolutely stood still, covering her face with her hands, trembling because of some vague indefinable danger watch. in the last minute had confronted her. "Good-bye !" he said—and his voice sounded faint and unearthly through the darkness. "Good-bye, Hyacinth! May Heaven forgive you and bless you, as I do! Perhaps this is not your fault so much as the fault of your birthand education; there may be excuses for you that I shall bring to my mind and think over later on. Be happy inthe life that you have chosen, that you have sac- rificed a true and honourable life to gain; and this much I ask—remember that you owe it to me." He came a little nearer, and she thought— "Now he will take me in his arms and kiss me with kisses that I shall remember all my life." But he did not; he passed behind her with an unfaltering step, not touching even her dress or the long loose tresses of her hair. She heard his steady footfall ring on the sun-dried path and echo in the darkness and silence about her, and she listened eagerly until she gradually lost the sound. Then she raised her head and gazed about her; and the still hot June night seemed to speak to her and ask her whether she was happy now that she had won the victory she had so striven for, now that she was rich and free. "Go—oh, go 1" she sobbed. " Leave me —let me stay here in the dark and pray—if I can—for I am a wicked girl! I feel. like O murderess I should rejoice to see you fall down dead at my feet—I would kill you this morneut if I were able 1 Go --oh go away that I may ask Heaven to forgive me 1"—and she toesed her head and her long loose hair backwards and forwards and from Mete to side. Ile watched the writhing moaning figure with the desolation and agony in his broken heart of which her grief was only a mockery and after a very feW minutes he decided what course to take, end spoke with scarcely so much effort as it coat him to answer her when she rat laid bare her mind and heart nefore him. "Hyacinth," he said slowly and sternly, as if he were weighing every word before CHAPTER VL Five years had passed since Glynn Ne- ville,renouncing mune and fortune had gone away to bury his individuality in the Army, to hide his broken lite and his broken heart under the gay jacket of a com- mon trooper, for the sake of Hyacinth Vem &Moyle. The troops were being withdrawn from tbe aoudan, and the great transport, the Asia—ponderous and ugly—steamed slowly up the Mersey one August morning, the sun beating on. her white decks and glinting from her brasswork in a way that made the soldiers on board—clad in ragged clothes, and with haggard, sunburnt faces—mutter to one another that it was notaxmch better than Alexandria, after all. A little apart front the rest, and under the shadow of the bulwarks, lay two young troopers, who were as bronzed as sun-driecl, as patched and shabby as any of the others, and yet. in some mysterious way, they were different from and superior to the group of card.playing, smokiug men only a few feet away from them. They were both occupied —one with needle and thread and an old jacket,. and the other with a piece of chamois -leather and some britsswork belong- ing to his horse's head -gear. No oaths, no coarse jests fell from their lips • no sla.n mingled with the few words that they spoke to each other, although they were nothing more than common troopers. The taller and darker of them stopped now and then itt his sewing to touch with his finger the red scar which disfigured one side of his face from his temple to his chin, and which had narrowly escaped his eye, as if it hurt him. "That was very near the brain, Gannon; I wonder how you got off so well," said the younger and 4airer tna6n, noting his friend's almost unconscious action.. "Does it peln Gannon. Let it drop," The dark trooper laid down the jacket whieh he had now finished patching, put his needle and. threads away in a little mete loomed back on the hot deek, and said— "I am thinking of Ganada ; for I shal "Oh, it came down from that couceited have a small pension. I realized my bit o Honourable Captain Haughton to hie man, property and invested it in railways. It ha and so to me I" greWn a little since—not meat ; but I be Gannon did not continue the eonversatiou; lieve, if I took it out now, I should be he was busily reading some " Society Goa worth some five thousand pounds." sip." Presently he looked up and Bald-- "You will never touch Verschoyle ot "Garret, do you think I should be recce Shamgannon ? The rents are accumulating geized, in spite of age, dress, sunburn, and there year After year --my father manages this disfigurement" --touching his cheek— it for the crown," "by any oefe who knew inc long ago?" "No, never." " What --still harping oe the uncle! Do There was a long pause ; the conversation you know, dear boy, that I am privately of seemed to have come to 4 deadlock. opinion that you committed a murder five Garret Croft began to picture to himself years ago in the kingdom of Ireland ?". his return home, and even to think of him- " Could I not say the same of you Gar. self eki a hero in his way. He was proud of ret Croft ?"—and the blacklaired trooper his five years' volentery bondage, of Ms smiled, having been through two campaigns, of have " Ole? I joiaed bemuse I always had a ing chosen this hard and rough life when he hankering after the life, and—and because might have been dawdlin about his father's I stumbled across you while learning the grounds,. boating on the ore, or "mullein" goose-step at Aldershot! It was half whinn himself in London; he was proud of havino half friendship on my part. My fether— proved gut he could quit himself like a poor old man --always knew where I was, man in steite of beat mid thirst, toil, sick - and I'm going back to him now; but you ness, and the rush and excitement of battle; are not going to your home—this is the and, thinking thus, he began to beat the business of life with you." deck with his heels and to whistle " The "No," said Gannon absently, again intent, Green Shores of Erin," while flee tender • e • on his paper, "1 am not going back; a and plaintive words ran in his mind. Sud - lifer, as you say." dealy Gannon touched him warningly, The other made an impatient movement', sprang to his feet, and stood at attention. seemed about to ask a question, hesitated, Croft instantly did the same. then shook his head and kept silence. He Captain the Honoureble Cyril Haughton —tall, slim, sunbernt, his originally fair complexion almost of the colour of mahog- any, and every liae of hie clear -out aristoc- ratic features bearing the marks of long - continued and systematic dissipation—was coming slowly towards them, a deep sense of injury expressed in every movement of his long, well set-up, narrow frame because he was among thoee who had to accoinpany the troops up the Mersey instead of going ashore at Plymouth with the more fortun. ' ate of his fellow -officers. He stopped opposite to the two troopers, and, taking a cigarette from his lips, looked languidly at both of them. 1 8 or and suicide lo as yet a mystery, From . interviews with a number of the physiciaas who had examined Dr. McDonnell's wound, and from statements elicited from reembere • of the family, it seemed improbable that he could have shot himself, and the case seem- ed to be one of murder. The result of sum gical consultation, was decisive, that the only means of saving McDonnell's life was by an inunediate, bold, end delicate operation, no less than an invasion of the brain itself in a search for the deattiedealing bullet. Opera- tions of this kind are rem The work is thus described : Dr. McDonnell was placed under the influenee of ether by one of the house surgeons, and then brolight into the operating room of ward 0, the emergency ward. Here the scalp was slaved and disiud feeted around the wound for a distance of a hand's breadth; then the ghattly powder - burnt bullet wound behind the left ear was irrigated with a bi-chloride solution, while the surgeon, D. Steele, selected for the per- formance of this delicate and critical piece of sergery, proceeded with razor -like knife to make a cut three inches long behind the ear, directly over the wound, down to the bone. Then, with a curious chisel -like scoop, he pealed away the flesh and muscles from the skull, leaving the lame bare and white, with an ugly, ragged wound in its centre, through which the bullet had. passed into tho Out of this hole brain substance was con- stantly oozing. Next the bleecling vessels were caught with constricting tweezers mid tied with, catgut; then fifteen or twenty broken, shattered pieces of skull were care. fully picked out of the brein, and the sur- geon carefully explored the wounded brain for the bullet, whiele was soon found and located two inches under the brain itself, in a direction dovvnward. and forward from the point of entrance. Dr. Steele carried a pair of forceps along a guide to a ballet and as he abstracted it and held it up to his confreres said: "Here is the bullet, and probably we have saved this man's life; at least we have given him the one chance to recover by undertaking this operaeion." A rubber drainage tube was then inserted, the wound carefully washed out, and packed with iodoform gauze, and layer after layer of medicated cheese cloth, and all over a starch bs.ndage, when he was removed to bed from the operating room and a huge ice bag placed around his head to combat inflammation. The operation was certainty a brilliant suc- cess, and bids fair to save his life and prevent another murder being added to the long list of the year. The wife of Dr. McDonnell, who was also removed to thelhospital, has almost recover- ed from the slight scalp wound from which she suffered, and is under treatment for in- ternal troubles, from which she has suffered for some time. BRAIN SITRGERY. FOREIGN NEWS, Remarkable Operation in a liosPyall. Dr. McDonnell and his wife were found a few days ago in, their room in e Chicago ho- tel in as unconscides conditioe, both havieg been shot, whieh was the would-be murder - had been this man's commie:non and friend since they were little children, and for the la,st five years they had fought, toiled, and endured together; more than, once he had saved his friend's life at deadly peril to his own, That very rent whielathe trooper had been so deftly stitching had been caused by the thrust of a lance thet his hand hal turned aside. The young man had, to use his own words, "stuck to Glynn" ever since he had recognised him among other re- cruits at Aldershot, where he happened to be staying with some friends, and, half from weariness of the monotony of his father's quaint old house by the Nore and a craving for excitement and itelventure, and "Ha—you are Gannon, I think ?" he from pure affeotiou for Glynn Neville, had murmured to the dark trooper. enlisted in tee same regiment with the heir Gannon saluted. "You—you're a handy fellow, Gannon, of Versehoyle and Shaugaunon. He tt.ought that this sterling and tried friendship en- aren't you? Know all about horses, and— titled him to Glynn's confidence now that and how to brush clothes—are good - this phase of their lives was almost levet • humoured—won't quarrel with Jim—eh?" but he saw by the face so attentively bent! cortinued the officer, jerking out the words over Vanity Fair that he was not to have . between whiffs from a cigarette. it. He paused for a few minutes, and then Garret ventured to turn his eyes towards said— , his friend, having some idea of what Cap- " What will you do when we're dim tain Haughton meant, and being curious to charged, Gannon? I shall go back to see how Glynn would receive Ms speech; Versehoyle Holse and show myself in the but, to his surprise, Gannon's bromn scarrecl flesh to my relatives. I wish I could have face expressed only bewilderment. Then a brought home something—the cross you sudden resolve seemed to seize him, and he said— have won, or a step; but—" '‘Yes, sir ; I shall be quite able to look after everything under Jim. I shall have my discharge in a few days; and "—after a short pause—"1 am very much obliged to you, sir, for—for thinking of me." "Ah," replied the Captian, tu, ning his eyes from a steamer full ef excursionists going down- the Mersey, "as to that, you see, I am taking you because I've noticed that you seem to know something about horses, don't make a beast of yourself with liquor, or anything of that sort, and are good-tempered and dot what Jim tells you, and so on. That's why I had to turn off the last fellow ; he couldn't stand Jim, and of course I couldn't do without Jim." It struck him here that the trooper he " Well, troopers we left, and troopers we was not speaking to was taking an unwar- return," said Garret Croft. "But to come rentable interest in the conversation, and, back:to my subject. What are you going with a slight motion of his head and in the to do? I don't want to lose sight of you; tone of voice in which he would have ed- it would be rather rough on a fellow after dressed a troublesome dog, he said— all we have gone through together !"—and t " Er—you go away !" he began vigorously to rub a small brass I Althou:h he had bad five years' experi- chain. I ence of the impassable gulf that lay between "Do you remember what is said about officers andinen in the Army, the young David and Saul's sou in the Old Testament, Irish gentleman flushed as he walked a few Garret ?" replied the dark trooper, leaning paces away. his elbow onhis knee and looking reflective- " Well—er—you go to Jim ; he'll tell ly at his companion. "1 think it might be you what to do, and—and so on 1"—and the said with equal justice of you 8,nd me. It Honorable Cyril turned. on his heel and is something about their friendship passing went back slowly to his easy -chair under the love of women." Ithe awning; while the man whom he had "Yes, it's—rather romantic to say in just hired to be a sort of servant to his ser - these days, of course, but it's true for all vent stood where hehad left him, as motion - that." Garret stopped, controlled himself, ess as if turned to stone. and. held out nis hand. "We must not lose "Well, asked Garret, joining his friend sight of each other—promise me Glynn." lapin "what are iyou going to do now, you His companion's bronzed cheeks flushed, man of mystery ?' as he heard the old almost -forgotten name. "1 ant going"—looking at him quietly and "I promise," he said; and the two young soberly—a' to Haughton Abbey, in Cheshire, men clasped hands. as Captain Haughton's man, or rather his "Well, then, that being so"—with an air of man's man—the quarrelsome Jim is to be my mock relief—"may I say for the third time master." What are you going to do, now that ' charge ?" "As soon as you have got your dis- soldiering is over for you?" "Go to Canada, I suppose, the great " As soon as I have got my discharge." land of refuge for all the scamps, sinners, 1 "Good heavens, Gannon. would. not Am- end hopeless failures of the Old 'World," re- erica be better than that ?" plied Gannon a little bitterly; and then, ' "1 dare say. I dare say any place on after a pause he continued reflectively, earth would be better to me than Haughton 'There must be some good—some grit and Abbey, and yet I am going there." manliness—in scamps and sinners, after all, • " And with such a master ! Vicious, in- eeing what a splendid nation they have solent, ill-tempered—we all know what made." Haughton is. And ten iniuutes back you "Oh, they are not all scoundrels I But were talking of Canada 1" you are like a woman—you will run away "Ten minutes back I was not tempted, I from the subject." Garret;" and he moved away a little and i"I hope I am not like a woman. Doesn't looked over the vessel's side, as if he wished 1 some one in Shakespeare remark that, if he to be alone, 1knewwhich was the woman's part in him I.Gafret went back to his whistling and he'd cut it out? Well, I feel the same." ,P°:..8"Ing. "Yes, I know what your sentiments are Miss Versehoyle s going to Houghton," bout girls; and yet for the last ten minutes he thought; "and Miss Verschoyle's at the about have been pouring over the descriptions root of all his mysterious conduct for the 37 f of I" or last five years, or I'm an Arab ! I should like to get an invitation to the Abbey. f their gowns at some garden -party Gannon laughed, and threw Own the wonder if it coulcl be managed ?"—and the young trooper laughed. (To nn oorrrsunto.) "Oh," interrupted the other, with a faint weary laugh, and an expression on his face at once piteous and contemptuous, as if the hopes he derided had once lived in his own heart, "11 we had been characters in a novel we should have won our commissione by this time, and have come Nome, the heroes of the day, to cover our enemies with con- fusion, and reward the unshaken constancy of our lady-loves'l Bah, Garret, what folly —what unmanly folly !" His deep voice faltered, and he stopped abruptly, betiding again over the paragraphs in Vanity Fair, not so much to read them as to search—at, least so it appeared—for some particular piece of information in them. • paper. "I saw Captain Haughton's name in it," , he answered ' and Miss Verseboyle's." i "Ah, let me see id The very mention of He Agreed With Her. her in a paragraph gives me the text for a The 'Irish mystery, sam I about Heughton?" day -dream 1 The 'Irish heiress' indeed! e — And what probably figure in the next District Court h OldhColonel Bloke and Mrs. Bloke, who d 1 f f t , '11 list of divorce cases. It came about by the glance towards the quarter-deck, where a "Yes, Lemuel Bloke, you are a hog—a "-Pa 1" said Gaan°n) 'with a eignificant following convereation : , group of officers were lounging en easy- regular brute, not fit for decent people to chairs, rugs, and mishions beneath an awn- live with. You couldn't get any other wo• , ing. man in the world to live with you but me." I Garret Croft took the paper, and began "Well, if I am what you say, my dear, ' to read, in a carefully -subdued voice— ' and I dare say you are right, I quite agree "'We understand that the Earl of Red- with you. I don't think I .- could either," shire is bringing quite a large house -part together at Houghton Abbey this year, to point, V After a moments' reflection she Saw the ive a hearty welcome to his second son on aa 1 18 return from the Sonden. Among those At a prayer meeting not long since iii nvited, the Irish beauties and heiresses Dorking, a worthy layman, speakingof some ill doubtless prove a great attraction." eminent missionary, said that " he wag "I wonder why ' heiresses' V' said Croft a poor boy, taken out of the streets and put bsently. "1 think the elder has all, has into a Sabbath school by a lady—his father he not? Perhaps she has made over sorne being ,a, drunkard and his mother a widow!", 1 youngerr." I Capt. Thompson, of the British steamer "No, Garret, that she has not. Ilya- Maley Hassan, has a remarkably sagacious bath Verschoyle vvottld see her mother—not retriever dog. The steamer was passing o mention her younger and fairer sister— through the Straits of Gibraltar, when the egging in the streets before she would do a dog showed signs of restlessness, and finally Mug like that. What give up gold for love jumped overboerd, A boat was lowered and r duty? Why, how littie you know about the dog was discovered holding the collar of he dear, helpless, innocent little creatures, the coat of a drowning man, who was lying fter all! You hove much to Thorn," across two oars o The man was afterward "Well, we shall never agree on that sub. discovered to be the only survivor of a Span- eet ; an& even if you are right, there are ish revenue felacca which had been tenet otne things a man woula rather not learn, four hours previously. The Total Eclipse of the Sun. A total eclipse of the sun occurred on the 19th of August. The moon passed between the earth and the sun, under conditions that for a few minutes hid the bright orb from the view of those who were on the right portion of the globe to behold the mag. nitieent spectacle. The conditions were that the centre of the moon emend over the centre of the sun, and the moon's apparent diameter exceeded that of the sea. 13)th. of these conditions were united on the day of the eclipse. The moon passed directly between the earth and the sun. The moon was at her nearest point to the earth, and consequently leer apparent size was greater, and the sun was nearly at his most distant point from the earth, awl consequently his apparent size was less than usual, so that he was completely hidden by the moon. Our satellite casts a shadow la the form of a oone, with the point extending to the earth. When she is nearest, the sheclow reaches the earth, but is comparatively very narrow, being so near the sharp point. It is seldom much more than a hundred miles wide. The shadow is called the liue or belt of totality and all observers within this belt beheld a total eclipse of the sun. It was a glorious spectacle. As the last ray of sunlight vanished, the globe of the moon, black as night, seemed to hang in the heavens surrounded by a crown of silvery light, with rose colored flames starting in all directions from the lunar disc. The eclipse was invisible in the United States and Canada. The inhabitants of a portion of the Eastern heimisphere were more fortunate. The path of totality coni menced in Germany, extended through the rest of Europe, and the whole of Asia, cross Japan, and ended ba the Pacific Ocean. Astronomers stationed on this belt did not fad to improve the opportunity to seek for a solution of the momentous problems that can be studied only through the few precious moments of a total eclipse. The most favorable stations were thoee at some distance east from the commencement of the line of totality, for the farther east the observer the later the eclipse occurr- ed. Tue sun rose in the middle of the total eclipse at Nordhausen in Saxony. In Irkutsk, Siberia, the eclipse occurred at noon- day, and at sunset it reached its limit in the Pacific Ocean. The duration of totality was from two minutes fifteen seconds to three miutes fifty seconds. 0 " This Year's Hot Weather Nowhere, Said Col, Phil Hoyne yesterday: "The hottest day in the history of Chicago, was July 4, 1837. At noon that day the theta , mometer registered 123 0 in the shade. ' The lake stewed and steamed like a tea- kettle, and fieh fleeted ashore already boiled ; and with cream gravy on them." " Jane 28, 1842, was the hotteet day I , ever knew of," said Long John Went- , worth. "1 was living on -a farm then—the ; Cooly farm, near where Rinsley's restaurant 'stands new. It was so hot that we had to hang. the thermometer in the well and keep ' fanning it to keep it from bursting." On August '6, 1846," said Amos Lucker, "we caught a blazer. Along about sunset I went out to the barn to see how the stock was getting along. We had twelve fine hogs just ready for the market. Well, when / got to the barnyard all I could find of them hogs was twelve buckets of leaf lard," The hottest day I ever knew of was July 15, 1853," said Jonathan Youeg Seam - mon, "1 remember the exact date, be, cause on the morning of titat day our hens all laid hard-boiled eags." Russia's Wealth of horses is enr.rmous far surpassing what the rest of Europe united can muster. It is said to amount tO 10,50,- 000, Austria possesses but 1,460,000, Hun. pry 2,870,000, and Germany 3,250,000. This expiable how the Russian cavalry re- giments can be mounted on animals of a uniform color, you still ?" "Just a little when I stoop. There are h some men who won't get killed, do what i you will," replied the dark timoper a little tv bitterly. "Perhaps Forttme thought she had done a enough when she laid open your face for you. "And, worse than all, I am sent home to be discharged, as unfit for active Service. 10 And get your iron eross from her Ma- t "jesty, Gannon. Ah, I wish I could say the b 194Me t " Will she give them herself? Have we 0: to go to Lorielon ? r thought Chester was t our Vace." a " lit you'll see all 'aboout it here—Van- ivy^ Pao., you know !"—and the younger j trooper took a well -thumbed copy Of that i Tstenr Liu j:2ee0,0oof0V1:ll ales stakes for 1880 wi am 1 Thlomul.la,alpreset a new steamboat between Dover and Oelais, hm as ade the trip under an Mr. Gladstone has agreed to drive the tfihreetDp4.eof a Cheshire line's bridge across The digging for the foundations of the new s b Re :na 1 begun.a 4 l iGtholic cathedral at Peking h The Tailors' G aild of Madrid has made a Iveih•eKingy elaborate is ilein;faoli:id.rnoforthe King of Spain. The Satan has been boycotted by the ladies of hie harem 9n account of his forbid- dingiu hsgs ttheintilin, to in the large mte arble ba is Sarah Bernhardt hates the British Sunday so, that although playing in Louden, he went to Paris on Bentley morning in time for a drive in the Bois and a dinner,a restaurant, She was back in London in .ti fae for Monday night's play. An immense drainage work undertaken by the Russian Orovernment contemplates the recovering of the vast region known as the rnek marshes, in the southwest of Russia, near the borders Gallicia, end which hitherto has prevented communication, not only between the Russian districts on either side, but also between Russia, and Austro-Gernattny. Up to the present time about 4,000,000 agree have been reclaimed by means of the construction of several thousand miles of ditehes and canals. The Crown Prince of Germany, while present at the Spiehead naval review on board the Qaeen's yacht, met the ex.Etn. press Eugenie, who, as the guest of the Queen, was also admiring the magnificent spectacle from that vessel. The last prev- ious ooeiimon on which the Crown Prince had met Eugenie, then Empress of France, was at the festivities which took place On 4 the opening of the Suez Canal in November, 1800—an interval of eighteen years crowd- ed full of events for both the Empress and the Prince. The interestirm statement is ma,do in the last municipal reporte of the corporation of Chelsea, near London, that, contrary to what has generally been assumed in the relations of occupation and health, the sew- ermen of that place show marvellous health and vitality, notwithstanding they spend seven hours daily in the sewers, often in cramped up positions, dealing with offen- sive and dangerous matter. One of the sewer men, who is now pensioned off, is eighty-six years old, and was a sewerman for more than twenty-eight years; another, who is yet at work, is twenty-four, and has followed this occupation more than thirty years. Ruesian archatologists, who are under the patronage of the Czar, are working throughout the empire or 'wherever the im- perial armies open up new fields. They have done much during the past decade to illuminate dark blanks in Byzantine and earlier records. One of the most interesting of theirdiscoveries just comes to me through O private letter. At Tashkend hve be n %l recently found extensive Greek r 'us, chiefly terra cotta vases, silver gilt nit- ments, and small statuettes, all purely Hellenic, and obviously bespeaking a com- mon domestic use. This discovery shows that the frontiers of the Greek Kingdom in Bactria must have extended many hundred miles further no-ileast than has been sup- posed. Probably it is the beginning of a tseerreiesst.of developments giving to Central Asia an entirely novel arehreological in- -911-0ENDO.1 STATISTICS. The present population of Upper and Lower Burmali is about 8,000,000—a more nothing considering both the area and the immense natural resources of the country. In Lower Burmah less than one4enbh of the land is under cultivation, and in Upper Burmah the proportion is smaller still. From a statement recently made in the Legislative Council of New South Wales, it appears that between the middle of 1883 and. the end of 1886 a sum amounting to nearly £400,000 was paid for the extermina- tion of rabbits, and many claims are still unadjusted. lit that time about 8,000,000 head of the destructive rodents were killed, and countless swarms perisbed from poison and other causes, of which no record exists. Nevertheless the area of, infested country is still increasing, and the advisability of further restrictive legislation is admitted. There aae 197 botanical gardens in the entire vvcrld, 3,ud they are thus distributed —France and her colonies 25; England and Ireland, 12 ; the English Colonies, 27; Germany, 34; Italy, 23 ; Russia and Siberia 2 / ; Austria, and Hungary, 13; Scandinavia, 7; Belgium, and Holland and colonies, Spain and colonies, and the United States, 2 each ; Brazil, Chili, Ecuador, Egypt, Greece, Guatemala, Japan, Peru and Ser- val., 1 each. Tbe lint may be completed by mentioning the gardens of Geneva. ard Lou- vain, and a few that have recently been or- ganized in British India. At least half of the gardeno mentioned above are kept up by the government; 18 per cent, by universi- ties, Sometimes at conjunction with the gen- eral or city government, 11 per cent, by cities alone, and 5 per cent. by private do- nations. Ancestral Worship in China. Ancestral worship is the only religion of China. So entirely does it take precedence of everything that the most important officers of State are obliged to retire from public life for a period of many months if one of their parents should die Even d' ' 1 detisione are controlled by this strange faith When a man is found geilty of a crime worthy of severe punishment, the magistrate, before he passes sentence, inquires whether the parents of the culprit are still living, or how long it is since they died—whether he has any brothers, and, if so, whether he is an elder or a younger son. If eitherparent has died recently, or if the culprit is an elder or a younger son, his sentence will be much lighter than it would otherwise be, as no magistratewoulcl willingly incur the respons- ibility of subjecting a man to such imprison- ment as would compel him to neglect these sacted duties, This danger would naturally be mach greater if sentence of death had to be 'passed., and the judge would probably make large offerings and apologies to the soul of the exeouted eniminoL tee Convinced That he Was a Nobleman. She -"What do you think of Signor Handorgani ?" 110—" I am convinced he is a genuine ttaliari tObleman." am glad you think he is no imposter. Bet, what gives you Stich confidence ?" "When he was Deiced to play last night he felt all around the plant) for the crank." .1