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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-2-23, Page 6a Did n't Know 't was Loaded' lits,y do fora stupid boy's excuse ; but "orbit can be said or the parent who OW his child languishing daily and Mile etti recognize the want of re tante awl Mood -purifier? Formerly, a course of iltiStere, or sulphur and molasses, was the rlaa in well -regulated families ; but 110W *al intelligent housebolds keep Ayee's Sarsaparilla, whittle ie at ouce pleasant lo the taste, and the most searebing end eileetive blood medicine ever discovered,. Nathan S. Cleveland, 27 E. Canton at,, Boston, writee : "M' daughter, now 21 years old, was in perfect health until a 'year ago'when she began to, complain of Utigue, headathe, debility, dizziness, indigestion, and loss a appetite, I con - eluded, that all her cOmplainta originated en impure blood, and induced her to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. This medicine soon restored her blood -making organs to healthy action, and in due time reestab- lished her former health. I find Ayer's rsaparilla a most valuable remedy for Vie lassitude and debility incident to spring time." J. Castright, Brooklyn Power Co„ Brooktyn, Y,, says: "As a Spring Medicine, I find a splendid substitute Jos the old-time compounds in Ayer's Sarsaparilla, with a few doses of Ayer's Pills. After their use, I feel fresher and stronger to go through the summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer at Co., Lowell, Mass. Vries 31; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. TUE EXETER TIME.S. pubies.aed every Thursday to otning,a t the ;CMS STEAM PRINTINO NOUSE Main-street,nearly posits Fitton's jewelery Store,Exeter,Ont.,h) John White & Bon. Pro- uristors, RATES Or sovitn.r:snrn : eirst insertiou, per tine ,...... .... . oeuts, Ea ele sub seguee t tusertion ,per line 3 oents To insure iusertion, advertisements should be sent la not later than Wedueeday morning ESUNDERSTOOR TIICaleS P. MORGAN. Whatti that ,yee.readire, Paid ?" " Longfellow.' " Whine feller ?" " Letegfello Hiawatha,' " "Wal, who was Longfellow and what vvas his Hia—what yer call hit ?" " He was a poet, and • Hiawatha' was his greatest poem, Listen to thin ; Of the beast he learned tbe language. Learned their names and all their seerety, How the heavers build their lodges, Where the squtrrels hid their acores, How ths reindeer ran so swiftly, Why the rabbit was so tintid, Tabled with theta wbe0etr he met them, Called theta Illawatha's brothers.' " Aiu't that kinder beautiful ?" " Beautiful 1 Huh anorted the other. "Why, the blame thing don't even rhyme I" Then he added ; Wal, you jest let Long- fellow rest and hustle out to the mod corn. The ohinohbeige ha a eat hit till hit's worth- less 'cept fer fodder. Come, stir yer stumps," he commanded as the boy hesitat- ed. " Stir them triflin' stumps an git anionget the corn. Let Longfoller rest, I tell ye, an' come c n Thus admonished, Paul laid on the clock shelf the worn and faded copy of Longfele low's poems that the doctor had loaned him, and with a sigh followed his father. joe Mauler tramped fieldward, and Pant followed him out past the scrubby peach trees and the lone persimmon bush to the field of sod corn. Just now it looked dis- tressingly yellow and discouraged, although it was the time of the year thet it ought to have been climbing skyward with amazing rapidity had the season been propitious. As ie was, the drouth had been prolonged till it seemed as if the steely blue sky would never again yield the welcome rain. Thiti had given the chinchbugs opportunity to sap the Ide from the corn, undisturbed by rain which would have sent the stalks toward maturity and toughened them so that the little insects could not injure them, Joe . handed the heavy corn -knife to Paul when I they reached the sod. "Now," said he, "wade in. Git ten • rows cut an' ehockeri by night or I'll tan ye when 1 git back. Understand ?" " Yes, sir," Paul answered, with a little gulp in his throat. "Beateuist boy I ever seed or heerd tell uv," muttered Joe as he strode toward the house."Hit's next to plumb impossible to git work onto him. Dan't deem 'zactly lezy, but he'd ruther moon over a book or a stone . or a flower than to work at hones' labor an' see the hawse an' cattle an' corn a -growing into money. Look at him, will ye ?"he went on with tieing wrath, addressing an imaginary hearer. "Look at bim ! Moon - in' away his time overgonigfeller's what-yer- call-hit ? Wye first thing I know he'll moon hisself plumb into the crazy asylum. Wel, I've steed hit jest as long as I'm s- piel' to. He's got to hustle jest as well as the rest net us, an' if thab ther corn hain't did when I git back I'll tan him right smart. That's all 1" Joe strode on in a very argry frame of mind. The almost total failure of the crops, awing to the drouth and chumhbues, had not tended to improve his none too even temper. Hitching up old "Dol" and Tyler," the gaunt horses, he started to- ward town. Left alone Pant' toiled slowly ;down the field, cutting and shocking the stunted and prematurely seared sod corn. It wai, heavy task that his father had set for the slight lad to execute. Ten rows would not were much, but they stretched away in "wobbly" lines clear across the "eighty" and reprosented•several miles of rows. GurS013 PRINTING DEP ARTMliNT is one f the largest and best equipped in the County fRuron, All work entrusted to us will receiv ur prom:vet attention. 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Furniture 114 anufaourers —A FULL STOCK OF— urniture, Coffins, Caskets, Atsd everything in the above line, to inset irotnediate wants. We have one of the very beat Hearses in the County, And Funerals furnished and cotiductei ettremely lovr prices. ArkfollAIN OF Lu, s,sin DILVE1111)tt SOO Ait* OE across the "eighty," just where the upland fell off two hundred feet down the rough face of Hicks' Bluff, stood a distorted blackberry tree. Somewhere in its mis- shapen top was a dolorous rain -crow. Just now his harsh, grating cry floated to Pant, toiling on in the hot cornfield. I "The rain crow says it'll rain 'fore morn- ing," he mused wearily, People had often wondered by what rats. ehance in the distribution of children the geetle, dreaming, nature -loving lad had fallen to the lot of rough, surlyijoe They often speculeted as to why it was that Paul, instead of delighting in toil that made the crops and live stock grow into dollars about him, loved to sit for hours dreaming and romancing over a book they did not un- dertand. It was more than they could see what pleasure he got from hunting beautiful plant growths or quaint petrification or gaz- ing in dreamy enjoyment at the evening star. To them therewas no pleasure in lis- tening to the weird, booming cry of a night- hawk, falling alnaost from the dancing star to utter his cry as he whirled to begin new his &merit. 1 They could accbunt for it in but one way. He was lazy, they decided, and all these were but subterfuges used in evaiing hon- est work. Misunderstood 1 Is there a sadder word in the English language? I question the existence of its Mill Only brusque, kindly Dr. Griggs, with his quaint Hossier dialect and keen insight into human nature, understood and justly estim- ated the lad and his capabilities. He listen- ed to Paul's little fanciful theories, lent hien an ocoasional took and smoothed as much as possible his rough pathway,. The growing sun eeemed to stand stock still and concentrate all the power of its rays upon Paulei head. The song of °the mocking bird ceased, and with many quaint flirts of hia long, slender tail, the songster, glad to escape the heat, flew away to the cool Meade of the bushes that bent over the half dry water -hole in the bend of the creek. The sun was just dropping from sight be- hind the distant mound when Joe Monter, tired, angry and unreasonable, returned, an with a final popof the b:acksnake whip upon Dol " and" Tyler's lean sides, drove in- to the stable yard. Everything seemed to have conspired against the evenness of Joe's temper, and he was almost ready to explode with wrath. Ever since the drouth began he had been on • the lookout for a bnyer for his place, which he intended to dispose of, and with the money thus abtained return to " Inj fanny." Then after Joe was sure he had the buyer securely "hooked" the latter backed out end left Joe with the farm still on his kande. "Wal, hit 'pears that yer gittiee" lazier every, day," lie said to Paul as he joined the lo.d ne •the oornfield. "'Member what I said w'en I left? Wal, I meant it. I'll learn But it is useless to chronicle the rest of the tirade of abuse he bestowed Upon the Weary boy. He grasped the lad by the col- lar and preeseecled to get even With the die - appointing buyer by cruelly whipping Paul, After the first few outs of the ltheikshalte , whip the lad ceased to cry aloud; but Joe, ID his unreasoning anger, ma tiot notice thin; or, if he did, attribtited it to stubborn. nese, pawl continued the punishment till tired% "Thar," he eatdo "1 lew seine uv the A RUSSIAN ADVENTURE. laziness is thrashed out o' ye bo Wen h e released We h Id on Pani's col. lar the lad fell to the ground without a mend. " Stubborn 1 hitrornio 1" muttered Joe. "Wal, he oo,u"t conao no poesum over me," and he diode toward the house. The SUM eat' and the cool prairie breeze blew softly through the prone boy's hair. Presently Paul awoke to the pain of the stripes and wales of his dewier body. lie rose weakly to hie feet ad steggered wear- ily away from the direction of the bourse. He came to the pleeceL where the land fell off two hundred feet down Ricks' Bluff to the aluggish creek below. Ohne to the foot of a tall eettpnwood ho souk down, weak •with pain and siok at heart, Re lay for awhile looking up at the stars that were fast peeping into sight, and then came to him a longing to be up among those bright worlds and at rest. Oben his thoughts turned toward hie father. Ile shrank from the idea of meeting him again, and, full of the thought that Joe would come preeentey searchiug for him, he climbed down the elenoat perpendioular face of the bluff to a little, cove -like indentation some ten feet below. Teere he reclined under the overhanging bank with naught but the pain of his etripes to dieturb him, Soon it was so clark that the trees along the creek below were but indistinct manes f blackness. A star, brighter than its follows, hidden from his sight by the pro- jecting roof above hira, gleamed in the teuggish creek below like the light of som: ' wi 1 -o -the wisp. Then, as he looked at the roof above him from whish a great flake of small stones and earth had dropped a few days before, it seemed as if a suer was shining' through the dirt. As he moved slightly it Was shut oub from him, only to reappear when he resum- ed his former position. Look as he might, from only one place could he see it. " Whatedo you reckon that is?" he asked of an imaginary auditor. Peinfully hfting stone after stone, he heaped them up direct- ly beneath the spot where the star -like point of light gleamed. Finally, when the pyramid had reached the proper height, he mounted it and bal- anced himself unsteadily on top. Slowly he raised himself erect. His extended hand above his head fell but a fraction of an inch short. He stretched himself upon tiptoe and could just touch it. He olutched around the shining .pot and dug his fingers into the earth. The gem gleamed through his fingers like a fragmenr of living tire. As he strove to detach the lurairous spot, the stone ou the apex of the heap began to sway beneath his unsteady feet. Then, as he made one holt effort Paul and the swaying stone toppled oven With the gleaming gem clutched fast in his hand he tell from the stone heap and over the edge of the cave floor. Wi•ha wild ory he went headlong down the face of the bluff, and, rolling, tumbling, falling, went over the precipice, to lie a senseless heap at the foot of a tall tree by the dark, sluggish creek. Por hours he lay there bereft of sense and quences. But the countenance of the almost of life. A swift Kansas thunderstorm fourth, who sat faoing me as I etood, was came up and poured down its flood of water even more appalling in its own peculiar way. upon the white upturned face of the lad. The features themselves were mild and al - The thunder pealed in one almost continuous most handsome, but there was a dreadful roar and the lightning was like one bright blankness about thern—an absolute want of lasting sheet, but Paul's wandering senses any expression whatever—which was unut- did not heed them. A great limb, torn terably ghastly. It was the face not of an from the parent stem by a thunderbolb, fell Afloat 'with a Gang el Murderers en the Caspian Waters. • BY Potreo icon. Costerexemeorrot, Joie, 1888.—There are few more dismal places on the whele West ern shore of the Caspian Sea than the little Russian port a Petrovek, where—after Bourning night and day across, the whole breadth of the Caucasus to catoh the one weekly steamer for Astrakhan -1 found on arrival that there was no steamer to oetok, for it had not come in yet. This was owing to the facie that his majesty, the Shah Of Persia (there on a visit to the gear) had been graciously pleased to go Northward in four or five steamers at oncet completely deranging all looal communications tor the time being. For four mortal dap did 1 "kick my heela" in this delightful place, sleeping at night on a bench in the dirty little log cabin that served ae a posting house (which was haunted by countless "indigenous crespews" not classified by botaniste), while durteg the whole day I had nothing to do but to swim, to eat black bread and goat's milk choose and to pace restlessly up and down the stone breakwater of the little •harbor, watching in vain through my glass for any sign of the delayed boat. However, the long -expected steamer came at last, and away we went norm the Northwestern corner of the great land -looked see, toward the mouth of the Volga and Astrakhan. NOT MATES THAT CLINKED. caught sight of a group of about a dozen men on the main deck, just beyond the line which marked off the firstiolass from the second-class passengers. Six of them die. played the olive green jacket and gray frieze overcoat of a Russian Grenadier of the line, while the rest wore the high sheepskin cap, white tunic embroidered across the breast, and mart velvet trousers, of Georgian or Circassian mountaineers. Two of the latter were lying asleep on the deck, while the other four were playing cards with four of the soldiers. As they moved their feet the ominous clinking sound, was heard again ouder than before; and 1 now perceived that it proceeded from the chants with which their limbs were linked together at the ankles, Then I saw it all. I was in company with a batch of desperate criminals, on their way muter escort to join one of the chain -gangs which are sent every year to Siberia. They must be murderers, too, for no other malefactors would be so heavily ironed, unless indeed, they were political offenders ; and they, as I know, are hardly ever dispatched to Siberia by that particular route. Of the four whom I was able to observe— for the two sleepers had their faces hidden —three were formidablalooking fellows, whose fierce'brigaud like visage bore am- ple traces in their ecowling brows and fiery eye) of that savage, unreasoning fury which defies all restraints and ignores all cense- near him, but Paul stirred not. Then the storm grew leas in power and presently passed away altogether, and the only sounds to be heard were the distant thunder and the soft tinkle of the drops falling all about him At last the lad open- ed his eyes. His whole body felt broken and torn and he wondered vaguely if every bone in his anatomy was shattered. He raised his hand slowly, weakly. In it gleamed the stone like a spark of living fl' -e. He strove to raise himself on the elbow of his other arm, and, with a scream of pain, sank back. The bone was broken. When next he opened his eyes the morning was growing red and golden with the first rays of the setting sun. Far off to the north- east the storm cloud, now looking small and impotent, could be seen. Presently the light, shining on the distant ram drops, threw a faint rainbow upon the sky. • The poem "Hiawatha" came to the boy's thoughts, and, mechanically, he repeated the words: Saw the rainbow in the heavens, In the eastern sky the rainbow, Whispered "What is that, Nokomis T' And the good liokomis answered 'Tis the heaven of flowers you see there: All the lino of the prairie, When on earth they fade and perish, Blossom in that heaven above us." VI hen the searching party found him he was unconscious again. Dr. Griggs raised him M his strong anew. " Jeat like the boy," Joe muttered. "He hain't wuth his salt. Now yere's the doc- tor's bill to pay." Dr. Griggs withdrew the gleaming stone probably taken more than One life with his own hand. 13efore the Russian could answer, one of the two sleeping prisoners suddenly awoke, and raised himself slowly from the deck, showing me as he did so the handsomest face that I had ever seen in my life. Idiot but of an animal—not of a being in whom reason and conscience had become ex- tinct, but of one in whom they had never existed. ITE FRIGHTENED THE VETERAN. Just then up came one of the two unoc- cue ied soldiers, a sturdy veteran of tbe Bo- hemian war, whose strong, upright figure and bold sunburned face fAmost contradicted the evidence of his grizzled hair. " Are you looking at our birds, father? You needn't be afraid of them ; they're quiet enough in their cage, as you see." "Pm not afraid, brother," answered I; " I've seen plenty of such fellows in my • time, and there's no fear of their breaking loose with a good soldier like you to look after them." "Well, father," said the old moustache,' evidently pleased with the compliment, "I dare say I can take charge of them as well as anybody else. But for all that, he add- ed, lowering his voice mysteriously. "I shall be very glad to get rid of them." "Why so 7" said I, startled by the man's voice and manner more than by his words. "You must surely be well used to mounting guard over murderers by this time. "Aye, ordinary murderers; but there's one man here who's enough to sink the ship all by himself. If we get safe to land with him on board, it'll be by the mercy of God" (here he crossed himseli devotedly). . "Which is he?" I inquired, awed in spite of myself by the undisguised terror of this iron teen, whose scarred faced showed ID had seen many a battle -field, and that the hand of the unconscious lad still clutched. "This will more than pay the bills uv forty doctors plumb from now till next o ground hog day,'" he said. "15 is it fire . Joe was the picture of elation all the way to the house. A man met them at the gate. ' Mr. Mauler," he said, "I have changed my mind and will take the farm at the fig- ure you named." "Take nuthin' 1" uttered Joe scornfully. "Thiel yer place hain't far sale fer no mon- ey. The faintly breathing boy was laid on the bed. "Why don't he come to, doo ?tam) oeked fretfully. "He is badly injured; internally, I'm afeared," Dr. Griggs answered, his usually jolly face grave and anxious. "Oh, I reckon not," answered Joe care lady. He allers took things too easy to be hurt nineh." Suddenly Paul opened his eyes. He spoke feebly: " When on earth they fade an' perisla.,' "LongfellowI reckon," muttered he. i Blossom n that heaven above us." • Then the faiut voice stopped and the flut- tering breathing ceased. "Ra is dead," Dr. Griggs said aolemnly. When again they thought of the fire opal it could not be fotiud. Probably it had been lost on the way. No trace of it was ever found. Search though he did in the little shallow cave Joe Mauler totild never discover another opal. Often in the cool of the even, a mocking bird sings in a tree that ahades a small grave. On the little white stone that Dr. Griggs erected is the one word— PAUL. He Couldn't Sleep for the Neise. " Goodimornin' to yee, Minus Brennan." " Goodimornin', lidissus Wroiley." " An' how' did Tonnny rest last 'might?" " Oh, de dear that was datdisturbed witi de noise av eryin' he didn't shlape awink. AN ANGLE FACED Aft/RDERER. Beautiful as an Ap Olo, slim and graceful as a deer hound, with a bright boyish look on his fresh young face that would have won any heart at the first glaneO, he looked so utterly out of place amid this ramble of cutthroats that I could hardly have been more startled if I had seen one of Raphael's cherubiens picking a pocket. But I was doubly SO when my grenadier pointed to him and aaid, with a look and tone that I shall never forget: "That's the man!" "He I" oried I in amazement ; "Why, ho has the face of an angel I" "So everyone says, and I can believe now what Father Gregory used to tell me, that the devil himseff was an angel once. This fellow may have been an angel when he was born, but now—ugh 1 I never go near hien without feeling as if I were in the presence of Satan boneelf. "What has he done, then?" asked I more disturbed than 1 should have oared to own. Come thie way and I'll tell you." an- swered the Russian, glancing nervonely over his shoulder as he drew me ttway. The demon with the face of an angel heel followed the Russian army's marches like a vampire, his trade beino to murder and rob the aged and infirm who were left without protectors he the unprotected villages, which the army invaded: He had been knoven to hill gray.haireci men who were on the death. bed and to slay thildren and violate defense- less maidens was hie petiole. The account of his crimes—well in spite of my long resi- dence in lands where the coolness with which Men filled blool like water hag be. come a. proverb it made me feel absolutely ;tick with horror. All through the night that beautiful, terrible face, distorted into a thousand wild and gliatitly changed, haunt- ed my troubled dreanui, and when a hoarse call roused us before doybreak the net Morning to go on board of the tender which e had been sent to carry the &steams penmen. gore up th Asitralthan, my first feeling was ono of int,ense relief At halting at lung* es- caped. from enforced companionsnip of that inearnate demon from Whom even the boldeet of his fellowinen shrank away. Mrs. Illegoogln Disoovers that Tommy i Drinking Champagne. "D9 ye know fwhat, Toozy 7" the widow Ma agogin been. " Whitt, oummaw t" inquired Arethusa languidly. , " RP ye huow that b'y. Tommy'a takin' tdbeinID o shampagny wow, an' taelet noigh ID kern home either wan o'clock in th mornin' wid his morecley cane shtiokin' up vut av his pants pceetite, an' the tails av in coat undher hie axstiters, an' his hat an the back av his head, an' lee hollerin' "Ito gibe mini ate toed as hie loonga id let hira do id. the matther wid ye, Tammy, agrah ?' sez 01, roisin' up out av me bed an' goin' up to the dure av his room, fwhere he was carryin' loike a man thryen' to kill a wagon loo.et av woild rats. Fwhat's the matther Tommy, llgrah sez 01. Fwhere dm 011' sez he, hardly able to shpake au' not able to ehtand an his feet at all. Fvehere am 01?' eez he. In your own mother's house, Tammy, me darlint,' sez Oi. Fwhitt. makes ib iwhurril 'round ?' eez he. 'An' sure an' id's not fwhurrilin', Tammy,' sez 01. Ye're a mud-aitin' War, it is,' sex he. Oh, 01 am am 01?' sez 01, an' wid that 01 med a lep at him an' his One a clout undher the lug that sint him shpin- /lin' an his head into the majolicky throuby- door an' the h'arth— ' "Oh, mimmaw," said the daughter; "how often have I oorreoted you on that word—cuspidor°, miminawl not troubadour —a troubadour is a player in an orchestra." " Cuahpidoor 1 Fwhy 01 thowt that was it shboyle av outtin' th' hair. Didn't 01 earth hear ye say Tammy had his head out a la cushpidoor. Well nuver moind, annyhow, 01 hit him a blyow that all a mosht linockt him into the middle a,v nuxt week, an' f whin 01 piekt him up he began blubberin' an' sed he'd bin net drinkin' shampagny wather wid the b'ys. Oi ahuppose he have a head an him this rottwrein't an' bad use to him he ought to. Begorry but Oi'm afeert av that b'y, aver since he quit bein' toof an' begon to be a jood. Oi nuver knows twhat divihnent he's up to, an' znebbe wan av these foine days he'll be either marryin' a acthress an' dhraggin' the fam'ly down in the sewer an' diegracin' ny'ry mother's son av iz. But mark roy wurrids, Toozy, aff Taramy uver gets inunkeyin' around wid thim aothresses that wears no clothes thin God help him, that's all Oi've got to any to him. Cham- pagny ',rather foor dollars a bottle is bard enoof, but thim heifers wid powdher an' paint on their faces that alikips the tra-la- leo loo in the comoical operies—they're enoof ID give a daiycint women loike meself the horrors, an' OPII brain the fusht wan av thim that dar's to make a shmash an my Tammy. Go up, l'oozy, an' tell the poor by th com.e down to his brackish, eta' suid Periklays ever to the grocery fur a few bot- tles av sody wather to take the drouth out av him, fur Oi know he'll be awful dhry lis the mouth fwhin he wakes up." Curious Fires. The orgin of fires is very oftenmysterious, and not infrequently incencliaresm is suspect- ed, or even taken for granted, simply be- cause no other explanation seems easy; but once in a while the truth conaes out in such a me, and the fire is proved to have been occasioned by some accident so peculiar in its nature that no ordinary measure of care- fulness could have guarded against it. Not long ago, for instance, a lot of Sea Island etetton la bales was discovered to be on fire in it New Jervis, warehouse, and when the flames were eXtinguished in one spot, they would immediately break out in another. An examination showed that it was roller - gin cotton; that is, cotton of which the lint is drawn away from the seeds by a pair of rollers, set such a distance apart as to keep theseeis from entering between them, while the fibre passes on and goes into a bag. In the present case, more or less of the seeds bad somehow got between the rolleis and been crushed, and hive thus sattuated the cotton with oil, which, in due time, had caused spontaneous combustion. A still more curious case occured in a Massachusetts factory. In the middle of the room a milling -machine was turning knife -handles the dust being blown up through a metal tube into the room above, and thence forced out of doors through e. wooden. pipe. A spark from an emery wheel, fifteen feet from the milling -machine, struck a window, and rebounding, entered the mouth of the metal tube, set the wood dust on fire so that the flames poured out of the wooden pipe in a stream twenty feet long. An engineer, cleaning up a mill, put some cotton waste in front of the boiler, where it would be handy for the fireman in'the morn- ing. During the night this took fire spontan- eously; the flames spree to the kindlings under the boiler; and s . on raised steam enough to cause the boiler to blow off, bad- ly scaring the watchman, who knew or itthnoduegrhitt. he knew, that there was no fire In another instance, a man droye a nail into the ceiling of a jute -mill. The nail °lanced off, was struck by the rapidly mov- ing beaters, and oaused a serious conflagra- tioInn short, hard as it is sontetinses to kin- dle a fire when one is obliged to do so, it needs nothing but the smallest spark, at just the right moment, to start a blaze vrhere it is least expected. Sensible Englishwemem Engliah ladies are adopting the thrifty plan, of learning a dress making system in order to know how to out dresses for them. selves or for the poor in their list. The two eldest daughters of the Prbace and Princess of Wales have learned a etyrithm besides many numbers of titled ladies and the great army of women to whom dress - me king is no amateur work, but with whom it is either is great and important saving of household rnoney, or who are enabled by it to earn their own living. There is is dress. making soliool in London called the scientific dress -cutting cosociation. The course con- sists of three Weeks for a r upn, nye weeks for it dressmaker, nix weeke for a teacher, three months for first class, and six months for a diploma. Millinery is also taught'. One fourth of the pupils are ladies maids, one-fourth private ladies and the reed dressmakers. The wives of professional mon take the aystern. In this oountry an excellent system may be learned, but fash- ion has hot yet induced "private ladies" to learn dressmaking to any extent. 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According to statistics gie hared by the Railroad Gormtte, there were iu December last ninety.two railroad collisions, eighty- three derailments and seven other accidents, me kir% 182 in all; in which seventy-one persons were killed and twenty-one injured. The Union Pooffic railroad bridge across the Missouri, between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, was opened recently. The bridge cost 44,000,000. The wagon tracks are on each side of the double track. Tolls will be charged for teams and passengers. Examinations for color blindness and other defects of vision have been resumed on the Reading. Four per cent. of f3eventy.five en- . geneers, firemen and conductors have been hived perfectly color-blind, and ten per cent. additionally deficient in one ot more of the teat% The trunk lines have allowed the Ontario and Western the following differentials on the six classes of freight ont of New Yorke 8, 6, 4, 3, 2i and 2 cents. The 13, and 0. is allowed a differential of 10 (lento on first- class and tams in proportion. It will be remembered that the West Shore Erie and D., L. and W. differentials and e, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 1 cent. One of the most curious features of the blizated is an official complaint to the Chi- cago & North-vveritern from the Iowa Board of Railway Commissioners because the com- pany has not furnished cirri enough along the line to move the corm which the ferment wish to reel. Everyavailable storage place i has been filled, and n sonie places farmer* have been obliged to haul their corn back home. The directors of the Detroit and Se Clair railroad have appointed a committee to see President Ledyard, of the Michigan Cen- keel ; allies to rice Dr. Potter, of the Flint and Pere Marquette, and also to see some- body who cats speak for the Grand Trunk— probably aortic oho at Montreal. • The com- mittee ie to ascertain what assistance, if any, either one or the other of these roadie will afford toward bteilding the proposed road between Port Ihron and Detroit.