The Exeter Times, 1887-11-17, Page 3,
BILA,V4 014TA1TO GIALS- J Ediaelfe LateatVanden,
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In convereetion Edison recently Said e—
lbow they Walt a lissd ilbst OA Mc Freatier «1 have eetseo ev the peoeogreph, end,
and Recital° hvealine- aftee'tightemonths of ettsedy vserk have
A gentleman who had juat returued from a made it a e‘ominerciel invention. My phone
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land inanecting toer in the Nerthweet, in liraPh I. exPeet to ae° in every huaiseaa of'
epettbing of his e)fperienee a few eveninge hee, The fit* five huedred will, ,1, hope, be
FA,. related a titoy, which will be giVen here rea'dY. f°r djetrih4tien about the end of
in hes own words.,s, , ,- , . , Januery. Their opereakut ie ehnplicity it.
said, he; " We --there was a party of four self, and cannot fail.The merehatit or clerk
.--had reached.the limit of the etage line at Who withee te wad a letter has only to set
a little frontier town maned &dims Bow, the machine in Motion, and to talk in his
but our destinatioe was the valley f
natural voice and at the usual rate of speed
othe,
MiddleLoubleiver, a hundred and'fifty miles into the receiver. When be has finished,
further ineo the unsettled prairie, where the the sheet) or 'phonogram,' as I call it' iS
enlyehing te attract the eye from the monoread' for putting, into 'a little box made on
ton
yl of the engeeee eueoeseion of hills and purpose for the mails. We are making the
velleYe was an oceesionel flock of prairie eneets in three sizes—one for letters of frees
ehickens or a deer, which, started from his $00 te 1.009 words, anether eize for 2,000,
couch in the grass, after a moment of wild, word°, another ai4e for 4,000 words. I ex -
curiosity, woeld bound gracefully away ever peot that an arrangement may be made with
he omit of the eeeeeet rising wound. The the post office authorities enabling the
day we left Broltele Bow, after eeeeral lieu= Phenelgrain hexee to be sent at the same
otravel, we naesed a ueat white school. rate aS a letter- •
f
house, where seine half dozen sturdy child- "The receiver of e phonogram will put it
into his apparatus, and the message will be
ren ere gazieg out of the open door unre-
of mu con -meat arid conjecture in that
more clearle, more distinetly,
buiC it' or a Tassing vehicle Was a Subject, givSn out
than the beet telephone message ever sent.
tee, Steam
verse Pettlement, and could not go unheod. The tones of voice in the two
graphs which I have finished are so peffelst-
ed.' Behind the children, and iicarcely less
interested, than they, stood their teacher, a 1Y aendered that one can distinSni4"6""1#1
blooming; healthy -looking girl of about 22 twenty different persons, each one of wheal
Years, I judged, and there was something in has said a few word. One tremendous ad -
her easy manner and.refined face that was in vantage is that the letter may be repeated a
etriking contrast to the rude surroundings thousand dines if necessary. The phone -
t
and unbroken Prairie. The presence of the gram does not wear out by use. Yloreover,
pupils could be accounted for by recalling it mai be filed away for a' hundred years
two or three sod huts within a ew miles, and be ready the instant it is needed. If a
but we couldn't be satisfied with consigning man dictates his will to the phonograph,
this fair girl to su•th au origin, there will be no disputiag the authentic:4
"At last we Appealed to our driver, who of the document With these who hetew the
bad not heeded our conversation, for some tones of his voice in life. The cost of mak-
the phonogram will be scarcely more
eolotion to the mystery, thinking thee, as a ing
resident of Broken Bow, he might be ace than the cost of ordinary letter paper. The
seuainted with the circumstances, and
machine will read out the letter or meeeage
we
were not mistaken. at the same speed with which it was -dim
t tea^
roR,}„,,qpig
The ielend of Grand Madan is the home
ot out and -dried , roontly that would be
M
hard to eteh, Gram lanera put e np en-
nually nieee than p million boxes of eineked
herring, and controls the market. '
At lealalthane near Bakus Ensaia, a new
petroleum spring, se hich ,toee 150 yards,
tiewed the country, iMpregne.ting every-
thing. Nobody venturer, to light a fire, for
feer the town will go efilike firework%
At Mesterton, Englaad, a ferret entered
the bed in which a four months' child was
018epillg, Wheu &wavered the infant had
one eye torn out end the flesh of its face lac-
erated in a dreadful manner. It died in a
+Mort time.
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A visitor at the ,ihinherat 'Wo'rkeleops in
Afghaniatan saw a curious picot) of architec-
ture there—a ghastly , triumphal arch 'Made
by the ertisana of the place from the heads
of 200' prieonere taken in the rebellion.
W hile riding through the bazaar. he came
acroole.
ssthe head of Tairnur Shah mounted On
ap
The, carriage wbich was made by the
United, States Governmerit ermeeially for
the use of Lafayette durioe his visit to this
country in 1821 is owned in C_adcage. It is
a quaint old ark, hung on big springs and
wide serape, and inept his lofty seat the old
Frenchman used to ' descend to the ground
by ,stepe with many folding%
An evening netvepamer iet an Enelieh
Own, determined to heat its rivals on the re-
vert of the great foot rade between Ilutehine
and Gent, had its account written up before-
hand and put in type, with blanks left ,for
theshame of the winner and other essential —oestsies.,
details
race there was a great riot on the grounds, Pepe Leo's Income.
rto be filled, in later. Iostead of the
i but the Pf4Per got the ne*a to° late!, and . A foreign diplomatist accreditted to Rome
I owe Ant With its report of the race,' blanks gives the following account of the Pope's
and all. " revenue and of the way in which it is spent.
"It was learned from him that several
In some arts of Germany and Austria It is derived from three sources. The in -
your, ago two plucky girls came to the 'Bow' " I have experimented with a devices for 'natural pumice stone hes been superseded terest of an enormous sum left by Pio Non°
as Broken Bow is usually called, which was enabling printers to set type directly from by an artificial stone, to which a suitable to the Pontificial Treasury and invested in
at that time composed of but two or three the dictation of the phonograph, and think shape can be given and different degrees of the English public funds. This interest
houses, and was the extreme limit of habi- that it will work to a charm. It is so ar- fineness of gram obtained, which allows the amounte to about 3,000,000 lire or about
tation. They °eine from Ontario, but with ranged that the printer by touching a lever atone to be used in all the industries where £125,000. Leo XIII, is a great epeculator,
undaunted resolution they expended their [with hie foot allows five or ten words of the natural pumice store' was formerly employ- and subscribes to the Italian loans in order
smell supply of cash in exploring the wild- :phonogram to be sounded. If he is not satie- ed, The inerediepts are white sand, feld- to sell when the value rises and invest the
' th fied with the first hearing, he can make it spar and fire clay, mixed in suitable:proper- profits in the English consolidated fund.
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tions to obtain th.e desired' composition, and. The proceeds of Peter's Pence. This branch
and the liquid become impregnated ,with
magheaie aod what not. hioet Freneh bot-
tle% he gays, are well worth good wine%
During exeminatiou at Edinburgh Uni.
vereity, Scotland, the students, owing to
the eeereity of cloak reoms, in their excite
meat fling their hats, or used to, anywhere,
and often on the mcamieer's desk. The ex.
°manor finally .aid that if be found lenother
het on he, desk he would rip it up. The
next day while the exa,miuor wes absent
teme.orarily an uuclergreduete took the eX-
aminer's hat and placed it on the desks he
examiner on reentering the ball saw the
hat, and a gleem of truemph shot over his
face. "Gentlemen," he Sala, "1 told.yon.
what would happen if this oecurred again."
Then he deliberately cut to piecee the hat,
amid the .prolonged Applause of the stud-
ents. '
Every mother's son and daughter is en-
gaged in making some part of a fiddle in
elarkneukuchen, Ringenthal, Saxony, Ro-
hebach, Bentsen, and Geaelitz, Germany.
Altogether there are aboet 13,000 people
there who make violins. A good instru-
ment consists of eixty-two pieces. The old-
er men unake the 'Sager board from ebony,
and the string holder or the ecretee. A
strong men with steedy. hands en& clear
eyee puts the different pieces to together,
whtl is the more difficult task. The little
boys leek after thellue pot, while the wo-
man folks de the polishing, The polishing
takes a good deal of time some of the violins
being twenty and thirty times gone over.
Every family has its own way of poliehing.
thee has only a citron). color, another deep
wine color, while another has nothing but
orange,
)31'eaa ,Wator4
080* 4. eketik,
"Miter/' the little fellow said,
" floes give rile 4 deny to buy Sonae bread."
1 turaed to look at the ragge, d form, , •
/hat in the 1111108k of U1615101085 btorm,
einehedanslanagentlanct old ;with care,
acrente, „piOadlr/gs ;SRA atandillg 41ere.
Ivies A Rtne !Mir Mt' twelve yeare eid
Ileteaveedsin allactifgealtatitteeseAci,
Els eyes were recl—W weeping, t fear—
And adown his eheek there rolled a tear
E'en then.
His anisery„etruok dumb ;
'Twits a street in a crowded city sluni,
Where an trend of duty led my, 1 eet
That day through the etorm and blinding sleet.
" Poor little fellow 1" at last I raid,
" Hare you nolather?" •
No he's dead
The power eame,.. " YOWY8 a mother. then ?"
e'vekt, pie," imealid, with a sob, " she's been
Sick For pi year; and the doctor said •
She'd never again get up from bed."
x• You are hungry, too? basked hi pain
I looked it ate peor, wan !ace agate.
• Hungry," he said,with a hitter groan'
That would fleelt to pity a heart of stone ;
" i'm starved pve all are starying,", he geld,
"We haven't had a drust of bread—',
KO, nor Mother, uor babricate-,
Since yesterday morning.
I did not wait
To ask him more, "Come, coine," I cried,
",You shell not hunger," andat my side, •
Ills pour little patteribe tooteteps ten
On my ear with a el -serene cannot tell ;
But his eyes beamed bright when he eaw me stop
Before the door of a baket's shop, ,
And we entered
"Now eat away, my boy,
As much as you like," r said. With joy, •
And a tfORC pepreselen et childish grade.
Ile rooked up into my friendly face
And sobbed as•he etrove to hide a tear :
"Oli, If mother andbaby Rate were here 1"
"But. eat," said ; never mind them, now.
A, itioughtlul look stele ()verb's brow,
And lo I from his facs the Joy had fled. • v.
" IVIat 1 While their starvirte at-home 1" he said:
" Oh, no, eir 1 I'm hungry, indeed, 'tis true.
But I Cannot eat till they've bad some too "
The tears came rushing—I can't tell why—
To my eves as he spoke these words. Said I :
"God bless you 1 yen brave little Man,
Bare, carry hone all the bread you can."
Then I loaded him down with loaves until
Ile could carry no more. I paid the hill;
And before he could quite understand
Just what'l was doing, Inte his band
I Blipped a bright new dollar ; then said,
"Good bye and away on my journey sped.
'Twas four years ago. But one day last May,
114 I weridered by chance through East Broadway
A cheery voice accosted me. Lot
homestead papers and erecting a sod hut. repeat the same words over and over again 'Twee the self -same lad ot years ago.
Then they began housekeeping, and the lie I until he has them in type. For busy men the paste Li pourea into plaster moulds, be- of the revenue has suffered greatly in recent Though larger grown—and his looks, in truth,
gors of the ion/ bitter winter came on. How who dictate a great deal for t/ae press, I a.m inttinalty placed in firseclatr receptades and yeare, but, nevertheless, the average Bespoke a sober, industrious youth.
they ea. I sure that tho phonograph will be a necessity bit ed in ovens. , amounts to about 2,000,000 lire, or about ..1/;,,ter n,,ehaes roiud
they etruggle and the privations Thew two sums, which represent The kind eh"oIwneYise.rh fenrif
_alt we met,
dured will never be known, and thrbugh all 'after a very little experience, I
A bachelor in Frankfort, Germany, ad- 83,°00,
" For musicians the phonograph is going yektised for " Z208,000 per annum, constitute the ordinary I work at a trade, and, mother.,is well,
those brave girls kept a cheerful hopefulnew a helpmate of aseeeable ex- so is baby Rate ; and I want to tell
to do wonders, owing to the extreme oheaptele= d a d • ' income of I is Holiness. Itisd
istri lilted by
an goo e ueation : moaey a second- .. You this—that we owe it.all to you.
that was positively heroic.
The fellowing summer a few other settlers nese with which I can duplicate phonograms ary consideration." fie received 3,643 , e am et ain among Twas you, don t lush, sir—t a e pe 118 rong
ventured to take claims in the region, and, and the delicacy with which the apparatus offers: .0f these 2,137 came from Germany siding in Rome—about £1,050 per annum In our darkest hour; and we always say
with true Canadian instinct, .their firat care gives out all musical sounds. In the early and 237 from Polska*. There were 1,84 for each Cardinal among the prelates of our leek has been better since that day
nun..
When 313,ou seunt Inc home with bread to feed
after buildiag shelter for their Wallies was phonograph of ten years ago,. which was a
. , veho said nothing abeut their fortune, and the Papal Court, the secretaries, the ta g ones ta their hem, of need.'
titer oreoticar of a tiny schoolhouse, with sod very imported and crude affair compared to 1,816 gave their , wealth at varioue figares dos, the guards of the Pontiff's body, etc.
walls four feet thick. 'The natural drift of tha,t of to -day, ib was always noticed that
cireinnstances led to one of the pioneer musical sounds came out peculiarly well. from $250ho $50,000. Photographs accom- The extraordinary part of the Papal revenue
girls being chosen as the first teacher, and The machine would whistle or sing far better panied 3,112 of the effete, and it cost the is derived from the receipts of tlee Apoetolie
advertiser nearly $250 for return postage on Chancery. The items include the sums ee-
thus their almost exhausted purse was reple- than it would talk. This peculiarity of the them. He picked out a poor B.anoverian caved for title of nobility, Papal decore,-
nished. By means of hard labor they had, phonograph remains. I have taken down maiden and married her., tions, benedictions in the articles of death,
during thia first summer, ralseclenough food the music of an orchestra, and the result is , ' privileges of the 'altar, private chapels, dim
stuffs to last, with close etonomy, until the marvelous. 1 The atmosphere is getting more and more pensations, ecclesiastical titles, and many
followingspring, and then with the money
"Each imitrument can be perfectly distin. ' electric in France, and no one can well a ay , cher things. The department yields about
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earned in teaching, a small team of broinshos visited, the strings are perfectly distinct, whataday may bring forth, Thereactionaries 2,0'00,000 lire, or 2104,000 per annum.
ho • 1' t tire 11 s the wind Metro- are jubilent over the squabbles among the Inc whcle annual income of Leo XIII,
ed, and prosperity began to seem a thing ef ments and the wood are perfectly heard, Republicans and hope that the people will therefore reaches the enormous a
, um of public houses in. the United Kingdom, and
the near future and to no longer be a crea,- and even in the notes of a violin the, over- soon become so tired as to seek rest under a abbot £300,000. some of these, perhaps many .of them, are
tion ot,tettr brave hopes. Years hurried on, tones are distinct to a delicate ear. It is master. It seems as if the French can never
going to work wonders for the benefit of get accustomed to liberty conditioned by or- kept "120 hours per week in the fcetid air,"
and thelettie schciolhouse of sod gave place while mil girls, by Act of Parliament, are
musto lovers, A piece for any instrument der. They orscillateleetween anarchy and des
to a more imposing structure of wood. only allowed to work fifteaseven hours per
"The farm began to have a value, and an for the piano, or for an orchestra., or an Potism. And yet there seems no reason why week. In Victoria, the Temperance reform -
occasional speculater would survey the 320 act, or the whole of an opera, musical in. this should be the case. Even yet the Re- bury a poor Arab woe traveling through ere refuse to allow barmaids to be employed,
broad acres, for each girl took a claims and struments and voices, can be given out by public . 0 echance an i is o e
has tho bestcl 't ' t b A,byesirua, and findinghimself very week e,nd but our Parliament at home seemeunable to
propose to pay a sum fot it that would make the phonograph with a beauty of tone and a hoped will continue to have. weary from fatigue, he stopped near a grove. devote attention to suck practical matters as
a. the eyes of the owners sparkle, but all ins , distinctness past belief, and the duplicating The Rev. H. E. Foss of Bath, Me., who ,,,
Theo beingsin want of fuel th cook his rice
he cut down a tree covered with dead
' the health and morals of the people. Pro -
'a ducements were in vain, and this summer apparatus for phonograms is so cheap an is on a preaching crusade against tobacco, bably the House of Lord would forbid. such
when we passed the schoolhouse and heard affair that the price of music for the phono- has collected some interesting statistics. He berries. The meal being cooked and eaten, legislation even if her Majesty's faithful
the history of the courageous girls from the graph will be scarcely worth considering. says that in I3ath alone $100,000 is spent the traveler discovered that the half -burned Commons cared to take the matter up. In
lips of the prosaic guide that farm would As the phonogram will be practically in- each year for tobacco; that of 71 boys in one berries were very fragrant. lie collected a our judgment there is no speedier way of
destructible by ordinary use, such music number of these, and on crushing them eet,e.ng
have sold for enough cal to have taken the grammar Whool 40 had used toba-eo ; that . ha , morally, a young girl than to put
sisters back to East Ontario and have bought can be played over and over again." in a entailer school 15 of the 33 boys were with a stone he found their aroma increased her into a public -house, or behind a bar.
them bes' ee4a neat little home among their te t
While nde in at this
English Barmaids.
The Irish Temperance League Journal
says:
,. The question raised by the Rev. Charles
Garrett, about the employment of girls in
public houses, is well worthy of the atten-
tion of philanthropists and legislators. He
and some farming implements were porches -says there are 200,000 girls employed. in
13:1B0,
LOVE. SOROS IN APOIIANISTAR.
though whether theY az.° P3(111aillte<1 wi
1.40Y0 songs are plentiful with the Afgharere
love is rather doubtful. Woman with the
Afghani, is a purchasable conlmodity. $na
is not Weeed acid wen with her own cement,
she is bought from her fether. The average
price of a young and good-looking girl ra
frona about 300 to 500 rapeette To refer=
svheetelicilete fa P'dne s Airgai)t ae t aur tW144atennia$tatil
Ahmed, the great Wallah leader, the .prO.--
phet, leader and kieg of the Yusafaat ,eseh.
gi hi ts4npo8'wt:ri eidto e a4:°4014tthelinelabrzelgteo e464fleee
his life and died an outlaw. Teere is tice
eong in the world so sad and dismsl tame
whieh is sung to the bride by her triendue
They come to congratulate—no, to toneolo
her, like Jephalut s daughter; they eo to,
her, "sitting in. a cereer, and sung:
"You remain sitting in the corner and cry ter an
what eau WO do for you'?
Y°71Ifather
o ybacethatrecewtehdotle Afghan k" n w iea--
ouey. All crimes are said to have tholes
cense in one of the three aes—aar 'hamin ore
zon--money, earth or women. 'The third',
ceaiues..ei: feet, the moat frequent of the three.'
The Disoovery of Coffee.
Toward the middle of the fifteenth cen-
Lace Gowns.
A Sensible woman, writing in an Engliela
magazine, has this to say of lace dreseeta
"The fancy for black lace dresses still con-
tinues, and they are certainly the most use- ,
ful gowns that can be purchased, as they arm
be worn at all sermons of tbe year on occa-
sions ; and in the warm weather they are
seen everywhere, out of door*, and bas
Underskirts for the black lace draperies clan
be made of any -pretty color, as well eat
black and white, but this must be done in
moderation, as one of the uglieri dresses X
have seen was a poor black lace over an ugly
red, or rather scarlet. To make a lace dress -
pretty it must be nicely made, and the colter
delicate in hue, Some young ladiee have ea
bodice trimmed with lace, the bodice being
made of *silk of the color of the silk under -
!skirt. When this is the CaSe a panel of the
silk ought to be shown, and ribbons ec, mattal
must be worn a bunch flovring from one
side being the 'favorite style. Full bedlam
and belts are much liked for young girl's lsa.
these lace gowns."
Arnong the things at which Mr. Edison similarly depraved ; that among 230 other
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is hard at work, taking them up in turns, grammar school boys were 119 who thad he accidentally let fall the substance in a
are the cotton picker, the heat generator learned th thew or smoke or both; and that can which contained a small supply of
of electricity, and a new device for pro- in one primary clans of twenty-four, eight I water. Lo, what a miracle! The almost
polling street care by electricity. little fellows, juat out of dresses, were as un- . putrid liquid was Instantly purified. He
like little Robert Reed. as possible, and used ' brought it.to his lips; it was agreeable,
the filthy weed.
Seeph4 up Appearances. The Queen's jubilee ware recently eelebrat-
When will people be persueded to be ad in Denby Dale England, by the baking 1 A ab gathered as meg of the berries as he
rdin their d d eating 0 an immense ie the tradition ' r h
• , Id carry, and havm arrived at Arden
Her senstomers are mostly of the sort that
&Whom h' rids. can only corrupt her, and if there be any
"But a have no inclination to returntruth in the ancient maxim about evil corn -
to East Ontario exept for an occasional visit, munications corrupting good manners, she
and propose to broaden their posseseions un -is indeed in an evil case. This is another
tilwealth brings them comfort and leisure, argument agabast the eaistence of the public -
and the country round about them is filled house. Employments that can only tend
with an intelligent and industrions popu- to the demoralization of all who are in them
lotion. ought to be swept away.
There is not very. much of the "pretty
,
Table Etiquette in Zanzibar.
A contributor to the Overland Monthly
gives the following surprising and amusing
account of the table manners of the natives
of Zanzibar;
Five or six of them seat themselves
around a large bowl of rice, surmounted by
a skinny fowl, all being curried. Two sieze
the wings with their fingers, and two the
legs, and simultaneously tearing these off,
leaving the carcase to the fifth, afterward
ta,king out the ries) by handfuls and dexter-
ously conveying it to the mouth with a
peculiar jerk.
One mark of hosp.itality shown to guests
when at table, consists in the chief's rolling
some rice into ahball in the palm of his
hand and aiming it at the guest's widely
distended jaws.
On ane occoesion this piece of civility wae
shown to myself, but not being an adept in
the art of swallowing doe bells when so pro-
jected, the effect was anything but what my
kind entertainer antioipated, for, indepen-
dent of being nearly choked, the grains were
scattered, or rather sputtered, over the table
in a manner that elicited roars of laughter
even from the very grave Arabs. This, of
course, was the last experiinent of the kind
tried upon me.
An Afiican Prince Visits Italy.
Some excitement has been created at
Naples by the arrival by the Str. Gottardo
of Aff Wark, nephew of the Negns of Scioa.
He is under the guardianship of the Com-
rnandante di Simone, and is going to Rome,
where he will study art.
The Prince, as he is called, has brought
Joh presents for the King and Queen of
Tfaty, for the Geographical Society of Rome?
forithe Prehistoric 111114mm-in and for the
'Minister of Agrieulture and Commerce, all
enclosed in seventy-eight large packages.
Whey consist of shields lances, teeth of
eleph elite worked, skins of end leopards,
cups of the horn of the hippopotamus dec-
orated with gold and silver, and other pre-
cious objects. Ile has brought, also, as
presents to the King three Arabian horses.
Aff Weak is 20 years of age. He speaks
only a few words of Italian, and but for the
expressiveness of his features would be
unintel legible. In Rome he will be the
guest of Courtt Antotielli, and probably will
be a 'armful instrument hereafter in estab-
lishing close relations between Italy and
Menelek, the Negus of More. That little
province to the sOuth ot Abyssinia may be a
thorn in the aide of the latter.
The latet wrinklee for luncheonNov,
bek is to terve the soup in cur inetead of
vlittes, snd the china, storm are selling two
berated eups "or thei purpeatS.
In chemistry the beet way to separate two
bodies is to introdece a third. The =me
holds true in other departMerita. To in-
crease the distance between a pair of lovere
all that's required is to let little Willie walk
1, Into the back parlor with a candle in his
.
" band,
and in a few moments after the traveler had
so far recovered his strength and energy as
to be able to resume his journey. The lucky
natural, to live acco g to r means an an , cou y, g ,
cease to struggle to keep up appearances? al way in which Denby Etat helebrates. The ; in Arabia, he informed,the Mufti of his die -
If they would only do this 'and live simple, pie was eight feet diameter a td two feet , weary. ,, The Worthy divine was an inveter-
modest,.inexpensive lives the halfof alllife's deep. It contained 896 pounds of flour, I ate opiunesmoker, who had been suffering
troubles would at once disappear. Here is 1,850 pounds of beef, 180 of mutton, 160 of ; for years from the influence of the poisonous
how such a struggle as thousands are trying veal, 18e of lamb, 250 of pork, 120 of lard, t drug. He eried an infusion of the, berries,
to maietain ended lately. .A. coal merchant 50 of butter, 32 couples of rabbits, three , arid was so delighted with the recovery of
in Hull, England, who had got into trouble hare% 42 fowls, 40 pigeons, 12 grouse, 21 his own vigor that in gratitude to the tree
:from trifling with other people's money, as 'ducks, 4 plovers, 1 turkey, a geese, and 100 he oaaled it cabnah, which in Arabic means
the +shortest and moat expeditious- way of small hires, together with 560 pounds of " force." And this is the way coffee was
getting out of his troubles celnmitted suicide, potatoese AO pounds of beef suet and 40 discovered.
I 4 ,
, like a poor selfish coward as he was. The , pounds of drippings.
I body was found in the river, mid the follow- i
this I shall be no more. I have struggled ' lieries in Dunham county, England, beca.,use
the roprietore had recovered nominal
Eighteen hundred men struck in the col -
drinkers in this capital as an appetizer be-
, Absinthe is haed by nearly all moderate
Absinthe and Its Victims,
ing letter to his wife told the whole story t— 1
1 "Dear Sarah,—By the time you receive
against fate, and hoped against hope, but it be -
damages in an action against several men
fore dinner, and its opaline tmt in the
who had quit work without notice on ac -
is too moch for me. I hoped to get on until f , in tumblers set before Boulevardiers at the
, . count of ;some dispute in one o the m es.
some c e boys were earning "abeinehe hoar "is pleasant to look upon;
keep 'you in comfort. 1 have tried to keep
The men would not pay, and six of them
but its immoderate use is productive of un -
you aud the family, but, alas I at other peo- sent to jail in default. The strikers
, wreefrueses:i told evil, as the chronicles of the hospitals
ple's expense. I should like to have given to go back until their comrades were
can voneh for, and its • slaves are becorning
realeased. One-night some stranger went
all a farewell kiss, but dare not trust my- more nutnerons every day, particularly
self. Oh! for the days when we lived and to the jail and paid the fines of the men
among the poorer classes, who fly to it be -
hot e et free The men held a'
were a 011C 8
paid our way 1 Would that we could go w.
theinTryingto keepu appear- I meeting next day an eci. e to go oac o
d d 'I'd d '
. )1 t cause it is cheap and soon intoxicates. A
man, town n the n g our too o the
k iei hb h d f
ance, arid too proud to appear poor, has , work. ' miltary school as Pere Frederic, who was
been my ruin. I hope that .amonge atm I
t Mr. Spurgeon has withdrawn from the once an operatic " primotenore "of repute
numerous friends some one will come for- Baptist Union, and by so doing he publicly in the proginces, has just died from the
proclaims that in his estimation all those effects of the noxious decoction, thus adding
ward and give a helping hand to the girls;
but I am afraid my conduct will be a +blot who remain in that Union and continue to one victim more to the long list of persons
on yon. I c oh pe Charley will pull u and be In sytnpathy with the course rb is menu- ca ed ?macre a q n .
11 b d' b i the Frederic destroyed
act as a son. I freely forgive him his con- ing are guilty of disloyalty to Jesus Christ. his larynx by his taco rite drinle, but he
duct to me.— From your broken-hearted Managed to eke Gut &miserable existence by
, They are h ', • t' with those , e says, assoces. nog wi ose
husband, Robert." i who call the fall of man a fable, and the singing in third-class , cafes concerts, He
"Trying to keep up eppearanoes and too Holy Spirit a delnsion and a lie. Is he to was engaged letely in one of these places,
proud to appear poor," but not prowl enough be alone in this withdrawal? And what do but the proprietor of the establishment be -
to keep from stealing or from hying at the Beptists of Canada think on the sub -
other people's expense 1 There is the whole ject ? Are 'Ley with Mr. Spurgeon or
atoms not only of this poor waif, but of efolest heel ? Ono or other they most be,
came benkrupt and paid off his tenor with a
"bottle, of absinthe." The broken-down
shiger who had no money" for food, went
tens of thousands Whether it were chiefly Mr. Spurgeon is too prominent a mail and home to his gatret and pouted the contents
.
his own blame, or, as it often is, the blame too representative a Baptist to have his of hia. quart bottle down his throat. In the
of his wife or, mere' likely still, of both, course of action quietly itniorect morning hewas "as dead as a door naiLe—
there was the end—a wretched rife , and a Paris Despatch, to London Daily Telegraph.
dishonoured grave. A marble ta,b1ctrecently found in an mica.
•
ent sepulchre on the Via Portuensie Rome,
is apparently a work of the first cent'ury. It
represent a naked youth) with long, dis-
hevelled hair, defending himself against two
woman, one facing him and the other at-
tacking Min from behimd, The women
brandish thyrsae resembling lances in one
hen& and a serpent winds itself around the
other arm of each, and they seein as if
about to fling them at the faoe of the yotith.
Archeologists , are puzzled to know what it
is ell about, but guess it represents the fate
of Penthetts, who evae torn in pieces by
Monads on Moutit Cithwron for haviem re-
Doee marriage change a man ?" asks the veiled the Beechie znystenee.
Of No Uze to Him. °
Customer (getting pleasitred)—How much
are these troueers going to cost me?
Tailor—Twenty-two dollars, sir. How
many pockets do you want in them
Customer—None. I won't need any
pockets after I've paid for the trousers
The buyer of a large Chicinne,ti tobacco
house, who is paid $10,0110 a year to know
good tobacco when he sees it, neither
smokes nor chews.
Sem Fra,ncisco Cheonicio, certaiely takes ete p p h h mi t a ei
e go , a relic e s,is eoever-
frem hirn all the change he's got. ed theanotthe wine merchants buttheforeign
To make children Immo pretty teeth, a mattifactured bottIee are dishonest, When
French authority say ii tOgill with the second soda, atid potash formed the basis of bottle
dentition to press bitek with the finger every glees, wines improved by keeping, bvt now
h e tendon° to the ease ie adulterated, and the best of
morning the teet w av y
press forward, and to pill' ferWarcl those
which turn backward, As a wash, boil in a
tumblerful of water a pinch of quassia
wood with a pinch of pulverized cacao. It
sttengthens the gint and whitent the teeth.
Wash the mouth aft& each meal with
lukewarm boiled watet.
Wilms are liable to be spited. He advisee
lovers of good whet who do their own bob -
thing to pay high prices for their bottles,
as materials that are largely ferruginous, c.
I conetaritly onsployed in the matiufaeture
1 (Of glass for bottles, and upon these constitu-
ents the weds in the wine act powerfully,
0ourt Discord.
There is a modern Order,
To which many folks belong;
Its members cermet harmonise,
For there's always Something wrong.
'Tie the Order of Disputers,
Like the Poresters of old,
Tis called the Court of Discord,
For reasons manifold..
Its mcnifeere once were friendly,
. But they dould not long agree,
They thought there,was too much coldneee
For a'friend's Society.
One evening the Chief Rawer,
(That is the biggest 1064
Thought that he'd been treated coldly,
And so' the quarrel began,
And then the other °Hiders
Ail had to have their say;
So the Order of Disputers,
Rages homy to this day.
,
Hotel mai:lager (to leader of summer bead)
--" Do you call this a bend of pieletel
miens ?" Bandirmeter —`',Ach 1 Dot toe se,
I picked "em, myaellf." Hotel manager—
" W,e11, there yon picked there befoee they
were ripd."
barmaid ' business in Canada, and there
ought to be none. It is an employment in
which no women should ever be engaged.
Fish and. Fishing.
In four days over 3,000,000 menhaden
were caught at Somers Point, N. J.
Red drum fish weighing sixty pounds
apiece are being caught from the iron pier
at Cape May. Six were caught in a few
hours one day recently.
A tired New Jersey fisherman laid his
pole with line and baited hook on the 1 ank
while he took a dose. Upon waking he
found a young robin had taken the bait and
been killed by the hook.
A large sahnon in attempting to climb the
cataract falls at Biddeford, killed himself.
H. M. Kelly of Saco witnessed the accident,
and captured the fish. It weighed sixteen
pounds.
A. man fishingoh the Kinchefoone Creek
got a bite and saw his mirk go down like a
shot. He began pulling in, but had to
cell for help, and landed a turtle weighing
200 pounds.
While Maunce Bergeron was fishing for
shrimp at Bruly Landing, La., a large
alligator made en effort to throw him into
the water with nis tail, but the blow miss-
ed the merk.The boy ran. The monster
caught him, however, by the leg and tore
his trousers off, but without inflicting any
serious wound.
FEMALE EDITORS.
Mrs. Colby, of Nebraska, publisher, an&
edits the Woman's Tribune.
Minerva Caroline Smith of the Boston Arg-
vertiser, is a plucky western girl.
Olive Logan 'never attempts to conceal her
enthusiasm for newspaper work.
Katherine Conway, of Boston, is assistaaat
on the Pilot.
Miss Mary D. Fell is the literaryrewieWe.r.
of the New Orleans Timee-Democrat.
Miss Lilian. Whiting is the literary editor
of the Boston Traveller.
Alice Stone Blackwell, .of the Woman'a
journal, is young and talented.
Miss Grace Soper, is a °lever eclitoriea
writer on the Boston Journal.
Mrs. Sara A. Underwood, who is axe
eminent writer, is associated with her brie -
band in the editorship of the Open Court.
Miser Estelle M. Hatch, of the Boston
Globe, was a reporter for that paper for a
year before she was taken into the editorial
rooms.
Among the Boston journalists are Mrs..
Sallie Joy White, A. M. B. Ellis, and Miss
Josephine Jenkins of the Herald; Miss
Grace Soper, of the ,Tournal ; Miss Minerva
Carolina Smith, of the Advertiser; Mrs,:
Washburn, of the Globe ; Miss Twomblye.
a keen art critic and able correspondent.
Miss Mary L. Booth, the editor of Harp.
er's Bazar, keeps daily office hours from 9
until 4, and for nineteen years—has not
token more than two weeks' vacation at e.
tinie until her European outing this &tinnier.
Mrs. Louisa Knapp receives $5,000 a year
for editing the Philadelphia. Home YournaL
Her business office is at her home in Cams
den, N. J., and is full of pictures and
flowers. She has telephone connections
with the Philadelphia establishment anti
directs the smallest details of the work.
Peculiar Accidents.
During a tornado at-Servia, Ind., a flying
shutter struck John Sims on the head. „Al-
though all of his faculties; are unirneaired,
he has lost power of speech .
The five-year-old son of L. M. Hall ak
Covington, Tenn., was playing around to
cotton press when a negro dumped in a.
quantity of cotton and pressed him to.
death in the centre of a bale, uot knowing.
he was there.
A kitten jumped from the arms of Leroy
Brown of Homer, N. Y., and darted across.
the track just as an express train was paws
ing. • He started in pursuit, was struolt by
the locomotive, and his neck broken.
While reading, J. F. Ceasenora of Phila-
delphia heard a sharp click, a.nd instantly
something entered his right eye. An ex-
amination revealed a small scale of glue
that had burst from his eyeglasses. With
a rubber tube he washed out the sliver ot
glass without injury.
Flirt ing.
Perhaps we are not a great :authority
on flirting any way. So far, however, it
may be a very harmless amusement and
therefore there may be nothing wrong in
telling .how the exercise is managed with
glovers m France. It is thus that Gil Bias,
a French paper, tells the story and puts in.
nocents up to a wrinkle or two. A young
lady, it seems, seas "Yes " by dropping her
right glove hit° her left hand ; "No "by
rolling the two gloves together. She con.
veys the invitation "Follow me into the
garden" by the pantomime of brushing all
imaginary speck of dust off her left arm
with one or both gloves. The mameuvre of
drawing one hand over them ar, if to smooth
tho leather meene "1 love you still the
seine." Should she desire to know if her
feelings are reciprocated she will partially
motive the left glove. "Be 'circeinspect '
is expressed by turning the ends of the
glove Of either hand delieetely round the
fingers. Lastly, if the lady has anything to
complain of in her lover's conduct she ex-
presses her dissatisfaction by pla,cieg her
gloves in the form of a cross on the table or
on her lap. This signal the ,Ol Bias eon.
3eettiree to be of English origin—a sort of
relme action on our " rasa1' USIA edjective.
Iy. 11 all this will in any way help Ofiteaeo
girle in their love paesttges they are heahtily
welcome to it,
The New 'Theology.
"1 am sure you will like the church,"
said the elder, showing the new reinieter
around; "'you will be the first mart to
preach in it. These are the church parlors',
far our social gatherings; aren't they hand.
some ? They cost a heap of money, but 18.
is worth while to do things well. We haver
pufin a little stage, you see, for reeitatioas
end littleconcerts and such things. Here
is the kitchen, large, well equipped, as
splendid thing when we give big suppers,
we often do. This large room adjoining is
to be the Sabbath. sehool room, but we
haven't got it seated yet, arid there is no or-
gan, either. We hope to have a Sabbath -
school organized Some thne thia winter."
" And Where do you have preaching ,"
asked the parson.
" 0, well," replied the elder. "we have
no place for preachieg yet, and I don't sup-
pose you'll have much of that to do bdore
next Spring. The upstairs isn't fiuished,
and I don't know when it will be. It's tei -
ribly hard Work raising money now. Te
was all we could do to fiuieh the hitehott.
Mununios beatett up into e powder ea&
mixed with a little oil made for the a,etiste
in Egypt richer tones of hrown then anss
other substance. Modern perfume= nee's,
to prepare the perfumes and &pie= found le.
side of mummies ie 8uch a way ete to Make
ladies "dote on it." Paper manufactures:a
hove used the weappings of munindea tO
melee coarse paper, anti the cloth and riVes
have been used as clothing,