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The Exeter Times, 1889-5-2, Page 3• FOREIGN NOTES. White hill is the lest maze. It is used upon grayishs poen Signs of effort to establish a whiskey triad have beeome manifest in the Coned king- dom. The tanning incluetry will dieappear the invention to make leather by electrio. ity proves mowed ul. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry tak o making a tour through the chief cities Germany, playing "Feud." It is probable that the trustees of the 13ritiste. iqueeuin will throw it open on Sundays duriug the carrell° year. Rubinstein will oelehrete hie Jubilee on July 23, It was in 1839 chat he roadie his first publio appearemoe et a bene fi 3 in Moe. tmer. A miniature typewriter, a "little bigger than e. Beth bur," but which can do its work, can be bought for ten :shillings and sixpence. Acsording to the "Methodist Recorder, there are 921,781 members of the ffeeleyen body in Greet MOM, the last year showing an increase of 5,000. One of the great indutti ie s of Nuremberg is making lead toy soldiers, Eight hundred work people are engaged, and they turn out ten thousend soldiers a day. A. Reseien musical prodigy makes Joseph Hoffman and Otto Hegner • mem grown up. Paul Kowalski is four yeare ef age, and ia Bald to have "masterly execution" on a piano made to fib his fingers. The Prince of Wales now practises upon the banjo or "California harp," as h is styled in his district, with great persistency, and the Ozer is hard at work upon one of the lower wind instruments. The Etffel Tower is now declared, even by those who feared that it would be unsightly, to have a " light and graceful appearance, in epite of ite gigantic size, and to be an impos- ing monument, worthy of Paris." The British naval programme for the =c- ure is coloasal. In addition to the 38 war Mips of one kind or anocher now in construc- tion 70 more are to be laid down at a cost of R22:000,000, making 501 war ships by 894. Advioes from Rio Janeiro via Plymouth say that the inhabitants are leaving the city in thousands, in consequence of the spread of yellow fever. Between three and four thousand deaths have already taken place, and they are continuing at the rate of 150 a day. The authorities are said to be utterly powerless. The United • Kingdom fisheries employ 250,000 persons. The money value of fish landed in a year is nearly eight millions ster- ling. At the annual •conference of the Na- tional Sea Fishery Protective Association of this year the statement was made that soles, turbot, plaice, and all other II d fish once .plenty in the North Sea are diminishing in numbers. The new Eerl of Carlisle, a strong tee. totaler, has closed all the public homes on his property. Hie cellar contained some of the best home -brewed ale in England, and the brew houses were famous everywhere; but they have been entirely deetroyed and the vats emptied. For over fifty years the late Lord Carlisle, who watt a clergyman, -had been in oonfinement in an insaneasylum A new sort of ram has appeared. Alt is a boat furnished in the forward part with a heavy cylinder like that of a steam engine, about 15 feet long with a piston rod 12 "inches in diameter. This piston rod, which will extend through the bow of the boat, will be the ram. It will be driven by a force of steam equal to 650 tone, suffioient to pierce the side of the heaviest ironclad with one blow. It is in fact a steam torpedo boat Aecordingto the investigations of two authorities in the Agricultural Department and the Health Offioer for Gloucestershire, the notion that skim milk is a poor :sort of food is a great mistake. For children whole milk is better'but for adult poor people it Is preferable to buy skim milk, and devote the difference between its prim and that of whole milk to other foods, either in the form of cream or butter. The actual nutri- tive value of skim milk differs very little from that of whole milk, and it sells for half the price. Ei0M.B 8QOIAri BLIPS, /mugswhich. Wight Better Have nem Loft tintsaid -Watch, Your Tongue. "I beg your pardon, !madam, bot you ' are adieg stet my, hat," exclaimed a gentleman. "Oh, pray eneuee me; [thought it was my hueband'e," wan the unenpeoted reply. In *tether instenee of oonjegal Amenities a wife did to her husband : 'I sew Mrs. Beck - Nova NOVEMENT$ OF WOMEN, Impressive News from Every tart ot tite World. The women mewspaper, writers of New York are phsnoitig to OrgiM12 a • Women's }res Adooretion, Mrs. Cody is talked of for President It is estimated that three fourths of the er this morning and Me complained that on women of leiture na New a ork and nrooklyis the ()suasion of he visit you Were BO rude to are intereeted in raitni (sere, Chrietian edema:, her that she thought she MUSt have offended or faith healing. The number of teachers in you." iietothieg of the kind," he answered. both cities is plienomenelly large, and all On the contrary, I like her very much ; heve fall clasT ses. im pupils are invariably but it was rather dark at the time, and women, while the teaohere are both men ahd when I entered the room at first I thought women. The popularity of the mind oureis It was you." enetztae to those who are outsiders and not "Poor John --he Wag a kind and forbear- acquainted with the subject. ing huaband," sobbed John's widow, on her Helen Chalmers, the amehter of the not - return from the funeral. ed Scotch divine, lives in Edinburgh, in one "Yea," mid a eympethizing neighbor, "but of the lowest sections of the city. Her home it's all for the beet. You must try to oom. consists of a few rooms in an alley. The fort yourself, my dear, with the thought drunkenness, poverty, and suffering of men Met your huebancl is at peace at last" and women distress her, bot she is constantly A gentleman had awompanied a friend with the fallen. Every night she goes out home to dinner and as they meted them. into the lanes of the oity with her lantern to selves at the table the hostess remarked; light her way before her, and she never re- f 41 teed that vou will make allowances, turns to her quarters without one or more Mr, Blenkley, My servant left me mita- girls or women she has taken from the street. pectedly and I was compelled to cook the These people love her, and she is never mo - dinner myself." lested or insulted, "Oh, cortainly, my dear madam, certain- The temperance women have a committee, ly," responded the guest with great am- the business of whioh it t'o watch opporttin- phasis; "I MU put Up with anything." hies. This committee has found one in the Another amusing slip took the form of °curling Paris Exposition and has sent $6,009 an unhappy afterdinner epeeoh. There worth of temperance literature to be exhibit. was an entertainment given by an earl ele- ed *ere' serve:11y popular, It was extremely hand. The Young Women's Christian Assooiation some, and champagne flowed freely. The of Brooklyn has come to stay, and the genet.. ably of Mr. S. B. Chitbenden has ma ee poll - evening was well advanoed, when a benig. sible for it to have a handsome building at nant old gentleman rose to propose a toast. Schermerhorn street and Third avenue in He spoke with fluency, but somehow he which to do its work. The association has sad exactly the opposite to what he meant. "I feel," said he, "that for a Fiala country been needed in the City of Churches, and squire late myself to atones this wanted women of all religious opinions are anxious to company is, indeed, to cast pearls before work with it and for it. The Moms of the moiety are now in the Johnson building, at swine." Never was so sue:useful epeech made. Ile could get no further tor many Fulton and Flatbush statues. minutes. The company applauded Mies Kate Hillard of Brooklyn has been vine- ferously and as though they would never giving two courses of essays on English poetry this season, one in New York and one in wan. "Now, Miss Brown," said an earnest Brooklyn, and large numbers of women have toner, "won't you play something for no el attended her morning lectures. Miss Hillard "No, thank you, said the lady ; s.rd m. is a niece of A.A.Low, and was for a number bber hear Mr. Jones." Earnest lietener : So of years the President of the Brooklyn We - would I, but--" Here he was stopped by men's Club. After a slay in Europe she has the expreasion on the young lady's face, and returned to New York. The Rev. Amanda Days has been appointed he looked confused for half an hour after A a delegate from the Universal Peace Union to she had indignantly turned and left him, person who was recently called into mutt the World's Peace Congress to be held in for the,purpose of proving the correctness Paris the first five days in 'rune* of a surgeon's bill, was asked whether the The Women's Christion Temperance Union is distributing throughout this country thou - doctor did not make several visits after the sands of Frances Power Cobbe's leaflets on patient was out of danger. "No," replied the subjects of anthvivissotion a ad mercy the witness, "I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued his to animals. An International Women's Suffrage Con - A physician walking with a friend, said bo visits." grew is to meet in Paris in summer, and the Manioipal Connell has voted 500 franos to. him: 'Let uu avoid that pretty little woman you see there on the left. She knows me and oasts on me looks of indignation. I at. ward the expenses. Susan Anthony and Mrs. Cady Stanton will represent the wo- tended her husband." "Aht I understand. men of the United States. You the misfortune to dispatoh him," was The Illinois Women's Press Association has waxed so strong that it is to build a the remark that slipped out. "Oa the con - house in Chicago, a feature of whiah will be trary," replied the doctor, "I saved him!" A a, guest at a country inn exclaimed "1 say, lecture room to sed 200 persons. landlord, your food is worse than it was last There are 213 clubs of women in the city year!" "Impossible, sir," was the rather am- of New Orleans alone devoted to the study biguoue reply of the landlord. "Why," sad of political economy. The women of several a counsel to a witness, "are you so very pre- Southern cities are busy studying this] Bab- oise in your statement? Are you afraid of jeoteind fitting themselves for the duties of telling an untruth?' Witness (promptly) — citizenship. In the North and Northwest "No sir." At a recent inquiry into the sanity there are over 500 large clubs of women of a young man of large property, witnesses devoted to politica economy, and New York were being called to prove that he was unfit and Brooklyn women have listened to bun - to manage hie affairs. A curious slip was dreds of lectures on the subjeot this season. made by a school -master when asked it he ' Brooklyn Ironton are wondering if an had formed any opinion as to the state of nexation of their city to New York would mind of the allegea lunatic. yes,"he affeot one village custom which still isontinu. He es in 'Vogue among many ecionomical house - replied; "I oan certify he is an idiot. was one of my favorite have met keepers, that of carpet beating in back yards. " and this man" said a lawyer with extreme sever- The "Women's Tribune" is publishing ity, "ins good many places where I would be articles on "Woman and Marriage ashamed to be seen myself," and then he urging women to investigate the laws of paused and looked with astonishment at the then- States or Territories relating to mar - smiling Courand jury. riage and divorce. The different States t, have different laws, and the majority of Here are a few other instances of soma - them are said to be harder on the weaker thing very like putting one's foot in it. The Legislature of a Western state having a bill than the stronger sex. In New York State there is one cause only for absolute divorce. under consideration for the regulation of tax The women reformers deny that this is collectors, an honorable member gob upon human or wise, and that they are seeking his feet and said: "Mr. Speaker, I go in heavy for that: bill. The tax collectors are to have the law amended so as to inolude all a set of knaves. I was one myself for ten offences nob now recognized by the courts, years." The bill passed. "How are you and.children., further to give women the right to getting on in your new place ?" asked a lady then • The women of Topeka, Kansan, stood in of a girl whom she had recommend for a eituation. Very well, thanks." ne am line for several hours evaitieg their turn to " register for the spiting elections held het glad to hear of it," said the lady. "Your employer is a nice person, and you cannot do week' It WM late in the evening before the too much for her." at don't mean to, registry clerks concluded their severe labors, ma'am," was the innocent reply. The fad that every eligible woman in the city intended to register caused the men to Hereis a naive declaration from the pros. turnout in sereater numbers than ever be. peat= of a weekly paper: "The staff, with fore. The KaUffeB officials say that there is the exception of the editor, hag beeo very n carefully selected and deserves to seoureo further doubt in their minds regarding success.' A California newspaper is said the desire of women to vote. T to have been sued for libel by a widow for he South is waking up to the needs of g the time. A woman in Arkansas has been speaking of her de:massed husband as havin "gone to a happier home." "Dear sir,» lie:eased to preach in the Methodist Church South. This is the first instance recorded, said an amateur farmer j ad from the country, and, despite the boasted liberality of the writing to the smeary of an agricultural North, there is but one licensed women sodety, "put me down on your list of cettle preacher in the M. E. Church North. This for a oaf." A certain OaraVaa orator at a is Miss E. H. Delavan, Middletown Springs, fair, after a long yarn deoriptive of what was to be seen inside, wound up by sayidg; Vermont. She has been doing acceptable "Step in my work for the past eighteen months. s word for'gentlemen, step in. Take it, yon will be highly delighted Miss Emma Cons habeen electeda mem- when you come out." ber of the London Board of Aldermen. She the well-known philanthropist, an4 her is "Allow me, madam, to congratulate you on your acquaintance with that charming election gave satisfaction to the Board, lady,' said a gallant Hungarian; she is which is composed of eighteen men and young, beautiftil and intelligent," "Oh, herself. certainly," replied the lady' "but don't A sooiety of the "King's Daughters" has you think she is e, trifle coneeitedei Why, been formed in Berlin by Dam. Mary B. madam, just put yourself in her place and, Willard, who has a family school for Ameri. say, would you not be conceited, too ?" was eau girls in the German capital. the rather startlingcomment The women of South Carolina have been This social slip is even worse. A city holding a temperance convention at Charles man complained bitterly of the conduct of ton, and have %eked the State authorities to in his son. He related at length to an old adopt scientific temperance instruction mend all the young mares escapades, "You public schools: and tee appointment of po- lice matrons in all the cities and towns of should speak to him with firnmeas and call , him to his duty," eald the friend. "But he the StateThey have decided that they pays not the least attention to what I say. will wait no longer for the Legislature to He listen» onty to the advice of f eels, j act voluntarily, and have besieged the wish you would telk to Itim."—tChamber's Governor with petitions and visits. The whipping of criminals is again pro- posed in Parliament. Fifty streams for an adult offender and twenty-five for a boy is the limit, though a sentence may provide for several whippings. The offences Inc which giown.up people may be flogged, snider the bill, include the discharge of arms, Sto, to injure or alarm the Queen; robbery, assault with intent to rob, burg- lary, &a., where the offender is armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon ; gar- rotting, do., gross oases of rape, 8tc. ; as. malting girls under the age of 13. Excuses must be rare in China. At Ka Fang Fu a private soldier was on guard over thirty boxes of bullets, which it vies the duty of a potty officer to inspect twice a day. The eoldier skilfully abstracted the bullets from the boxes, and was flnaily found out. Then the punishment began. The soldier was condemned to p enal servi- tude -for life and a flogging of a hundred blows. The petty officer, who had failed to incipeotthe boxes satisfactorily,was dismiss- ed the eervice and received eighty blows. Hie Lieutenant has been cashiered in order to be tried for connivance in the theft, and he has dicompeared. And the military authoritities in Peking are considering what punishment to inflict on the General in command. Bather Hard on Us. According to a correspondent of the Mont- real Witness the people of Britieh Columbia have little love for those of the rest of the Dominion, whom they style "Canadians." He gives the following summary of a portion of a speech recently made in the Provincial logistature by the Hon. T. B. Humphreys= member for Comex: •no" This gentleman said the Canadians were Wtell styled North American Chinamen, that they had not the intelligence nor courage of Zulu niggers that he had always noticed that it took three years for Canadian encl. grants to become sufficiently civilized to eteeociaM with Britieh Columbiana, that ib always required three years' resideece in the counery for a Canadian to be on a par with the British Columbiane 18 drees, manners, end intelligence, that while they were always boasting about their grand Province of On. tario, his own opinion and that of other British COlUttblaTIBWa8 that Ontario must be a most miter:Me, cold, barren, rugged come try, or why (load nob ite peopli3 sten there. He added thi.0 he had always heard that the people of Ontario live in equator and wretch- edness on boiled pork ' and pea -soup, and were unfit for any ether way of living, and their interference with British Coltimbia's progress should not be tolerated." If it be really Wile that Vir. Humphreys Spoke18 mash tonne of his felloW-eoloniste— ahd we are loth to hdieve it—there is ed. dently some miesionary work for the Inv dal Federationists to do hi the Pacific rows' ce. SheOlft MeMberS be Paid? SLAIN BY ELEPHANTS, In 4nglan4 a diemussioo has been in pro. Orem en at ProPfosat that members Of P.r. Seven. nen Waled by Five Animals in Me Depths or an Arrieue Forest.. lion:lent ahoieltf bo paid. 7.13e proposal le made by a workingmen's repreeentative, who takers the ground that it is of little good giving the great MR98 of the people the right to choose their representatives when the area of their ohoios is artificially limited and when it is as easy for a camel to pad threugh the CO ot a needle as it ie for a workingman to eta sr the House. The oej action to paying salaries to members of Pediment is that it would in England put the people to an Additional expense of a, million dollars a year, besides having a tendency, as one of the members of the Government mid, to cause Mat degrade tion of politics which has taken place in France end in the Called States." This) is not very Uttering to the two Republics, but 18 18 not going too far to say that there Is ground for the reflection. In the British Parliament the only members paid are some of the Irish Nationalists and a workingman's representative, and their salaries are not paid by the country but by the subsorip. tions of those whom they more especially represent. As the British Parliament site on an aggregate about nine menthe in the year it is an expensive matter to he a mem- ber of it. The result is that representation is for the moist pert confined to thee upper awe. 'rho British Parliament is &beet the only legislative body where representatives repave no pay for their services. Members of Congress in the United States are al- lowed five thousand dollars a year, and mem- bare of Parliament in Canada are allowed a thousand, in addition to whit% they receive mileage and a ttunkful of stationery. Journal. Mies Frances E. Willard has gone South, where she will attend the annual conventions of the Womenes Christian Temperance A Boy's Fingers Scattered About a Union &soldiers and visit the leading Sou tin School floom. ern cities. She will return to Chicago in John Conry, Shenandoah, Pa,, aged 12, May. was standing at the blackboard copying fig- ures from it on Ids slate at :school in that place the other day, when suddenly a loud report was heard, and four of the boy's fingers fell in different pante of the room, while fragments of his slate fide about the room, striking a number of scholars, Young Conry was thrown to the floor, and the blood spurted in streams from his shatteted hand. He was, carried home and the remainder of Me hand had to be amputated, It was a lotg time before the myeterious explosion could be explained, and then it was learned that the boy had a dualist cap, a powerful fulminate used in the mines fitted on the end of his slate While at the blackbottrd he began picking at the eirplosiee cap With his knife, with the reedit dated. Louie Kosetxtb, thie Hungarian pet:riot, now at Turin, has suffered another relapse, and his life IS despaired of. Old Probe, In Capt. Whismaphie new book deeoribing hie trip across Africa is 4 very stirring pie ture representing two elephants' chiming hunters, blade and white, through the tell grass, The only hope of the bunters is to gain the tank of a river near at hand aud strike oet Inc the other shore. The enteg sd brutes, with trunkss and tale aloft, are tear- ing through the great at the top of their speed, and they are about the uglieet OUS- tomere one could meet. The story of a very tragioad elephant hunt has just been told by Capt. Brosteland, of the French army, who ;served a while ago on the oommissioa whioh determined the boundary between French Senegambia and Portuguese New Guinea. Arriving on the banks of the Rio Grande, Capt. 13roseeland requeated the natives to take him on an elephant hunt, They prom- ised to do so as soon as elephants were reported in the neighborhood. A few days later aome natives came rushing into the village and said they had men the tracks of youag elephant, and as they saw no other tracks they thought the rest of the herd must be en the other side of the little Koliba river. Their experience told them that the young elephant would not remain long away from the reat of the herd. Coast. Brossetand hap- pened to be Agent from the village, and the hunters could net await hi return, So eight of them set out after their prey, and the fact that Broseeland Was left behind was the luckiest incident of his life. The eight: hunters had plenty of powder and ball and big English muskete which they could load to the muzzle. Through the tangle of vines and thickets they traveled until they struok the trail. Suddenly they came upon a clearing where they saw the animal, almost a baby elephant, before them. They were astonished that its com- panions had, lef.t it alone. The young brute,. scenting dearer, began to make tracks for the forest. Several shots were fired at it, and the sorely wounded animal's loud cries of distress echoedfar through the forest. The hunters started toward the elephant, keeping, however, in the edge of the tim- ber, where they would be lees exposed to an offensive sally from their victim. All of a sudden they heard oriels responding to those of the young elephant. The hunters at once comprehended that they were in danger. The other elephants were not far off, and were running in answer to the cries of their comrade. The blacks immediately abandoned their victim, which had fallen to the ground. They could hear behind them the cracking of the undergrowth as the pon- derous animals hastened to the scene. • Unfortunately for the hunters, they ran into a thioltet of thorny shrubs, through which they could not force their way. After a desperate effort to get through they were compelled, with bleeding limbs, to turn back and seek some better route. They had gone but a few steps when they saw five elephants rushing toward them. Further flight was impossible, and so with their eight guns they blazed away at the enemy, The bullets hit the mark, but an elepha,nt is hard to kM by a front shot, and the animahs with redouble - ed fury rushed upon the helpless mon. Seven of the men were lifted high in the air on the trunk e of the animals and than dashed to the ground, broken against the trees, and crushed under foot. One man made his escape and hurried back to the village, whose people were horror stricken at his recital. A strong party was sent out to the scene of the tragedy,. The seven victims were found BO terribly inntilated that their own relatives could hardly recognize them. One of the five elephants was on the ground so seriously wounded that he could not move. The young elephant, whose cries had brought the comrades that so terribly avenged it, was dying and the others had disappeared. "Old Probe" at Washington has been so often taken to task of Tate for the failure of his weather predictions that it is interesting to hear what he has to say in his defence. In a recent interview with a New York re- porter, Gen. Greely, the famous Arotio ex. plorer, and now ohief of the Uni ted States Weather Bureau, said :— "The public) expecte too muoh. Ten years ago the making of an occasional accurate weather prediction was a cause of much wonder. The public has come to wan% the prediotions very closely, and is more and more exaoting. If we should now melee a prediotion of the kind in vogue a few years ago the eublic would laugh at it. We used to offer predictions such as 'pertly cloudy to cloudy,' and similar indefinite forecasts. Now we have to come out openly and declare rain or no ran. This it is impossible to do wibh complete accuraoy. Again, we have to make our predictions for a large area, such as Eastern New York for instance, which in- cludes a. district many miles in extent. It may ram in New York and not rain in Al- lany. The areas of rain are irregularly dis- tributed, while our geographiaal limits are fixed. Why, if you should take weather reports from different points in this district at the same moment, some might report rain and oahers no rain, and it would very likely be difficult to determine, with these facts before you, whether it would be the more proper to report rain or no rain forthe entire district. So sometimes we predict rain for a certain area, when in many parts of that dis- trict it is likely to not rain." Caught by an .bngine. As a Southern railroad train was sweeping round a, curve near Chattanooga, the fireman espied an enormous bald eagle on the track. and before the bird could fly, the engine was upon him. He was struck and lif ted upon the ww-catoher, where he clutched a beam with his great claws, and held fast. Before he had time to remover from his fright and the elm* of the collision, the fireman had climbed along the footway, and attacked him. The man was determined to take him prison. er, and the eagle was equally determined not to be captured. The struggle was something unique and terrible. Tnetrain was going at the rate ot forty-five miles an hour. The tnan had to hold by one hand with all his power to one of the iron guards below the headlight to keep his footing, as the engine swayed from side to side and bounded over the inequali ties of the track, while he managed the eagle with the other hand. But his birdship was finally secured, after he had nearly tom the man's overalls to shreds with his powerful talons, which are fully four inches long. He was carried back over the footway, fighting like a demon. Once in the cab, the engineer went to the fireman's aid, and by hard work they tied "the king of the upper ether" securely, though their task was no easy One, as the eagle fought savagely with beak and claws as long as one of his captors was within reach. VI hen tied, he was spread out on the cab floor, and found to measure seven feet from tip to tip of the wings. When fully erect, he stood nearly two feet high, and was alto- gether a splendid specimen. There are some large bonnets in pletur- esgue, old-fashioned dunstable and ootthge shapes seen among the tiny toques and <n- otes of this spring. Janitor—Have you any children, sir? Mr. Kidby—Yes ; three. Janitor—I caul let you have this flat, then. Mr. Kidby—Bat my children are all married, Janitor—It doesn't make no difference. Mr. Kidby— They live out in Chicago. Janitor—Can't help it, sir ; the owner says he wane: rent to nobody who has children under no carom - stances. "Talking about boyish escapades, I have vivld recollection, says Mr. Henry La. bouohere, "of a day when, happening to have more money than whatI knew to do with, I determined to do the big tuf.' I sallied forth to the largest hotel in Eton' en. gaged a private room, and orderedthe waiter to bring me a bowl of punoh. The discreet functionary stared but brought It; it was then my turn to stare and wonder what on earth I should do with the huge bowl full of fluid, the very odour of which made me feel faint. At length my eye rested on a good old -fashionable oupleoard of antique oak, a brilliant idea struck me. I opened the door and poured the whole of An Unhappy Family. the punoh into the basement of the oupboard. Perhaps the most praiseworthy prooeed- ing in the centennial ceremony to be held at New York April 30, commemorative of the adoption of the United States eonstittition is contained in a proclamation just issued by President Harmsen. When Washington was inaugurated in New York Aprit30, 1870, eervioes veer° held in all the churohee. Harrison wishes that pions ad to be imi- tated in the oomihg celebration, and his pro- oleanation asks that "the people of the entire country repair to their respective plagee of divine worship to implore the favor of God that the blessings of liberty, proseeriby and peace may abide with us as a people, and that his had may lead ue in the paths of righteousness and good deeds." Repre- sentatives of all the creeds, Christian and Hebrew, have asked to have this observance a unanimity in national affAirs, whieh sier- manta for muck of the Union's stiength. Then, after waiting a few minutes to see whether the obnoxious liquor would make inroads upon the carpet, the pattern of which Wad that of golden crowns on a royal blue ground, I rang the bell again, and, on the waiter appearing, in still more authorit. atives tones I ordered another bowl. Never shall I forget the expression of horrified astonishment whioh came over the man's countenance, The second potation went the way of the first—that is to say into the oupbeard ; and Alexander the Great, after his victory mon Dariut, could not have felt prouder than I did when I called Inc the bill, disbursed halha-Mverign for the punch, toe Millings more for a private parlor, tipped the waiter, and swaggered lot° the street fully persuaded that the eyes of the Whet° inn Were upon nte, whioh, ia inly exultant State of mind, were tantatnotint to those Of all Europe. I never went there again." TELEGRABLii0 TICKS. Gen. Boulanger and st number of his fa- Mwere have reaohei Begleinh Richard Benner, secretory ot the Hamil- ton Board of Trade, is dead. It is rumored that a death !rota yellow, fever has occurred in Sanford, Flee Hon, Henry Starnes) has beentappointek Speaker 9f the Qaebee I.:egisletive Coneelt, The Bank of Montreal has declared is 5 per cent dividend for the hell year, hat no bonus. Five persons have been killed by an ex - ()lotion in the 13 ranoepeth colliery at Der - hem, England. The Manufacturers' Record, published. Baltim.ore, says there is a great improve- ment in trade in the Scuth. George Francis: Train says he intends toe fast 100 days in order to show that the hoe man race can live without. food. Theodore Paeplte, late city treasurer of Neenah, Wis., has gone to British Columbia. He is a defaulter to the amount of $5,000. - General Manager Rink son has ordered that all Sunday freight trains be discontinued, exisept those conveying live BbOOk or periehe able goods. James Hogan, of Chicago, aged 65, suit cided on Tuesday by climbing to the roof of, the hotel at which he was stopping and throwing himself off. - * It is officially stated that on and after May 1 all the Vanderbilt roads east) of ChL- cago will sbanion a greet portion of their Sunday, freight trains, • Sir George Stephen,. Bart., has arrived home from Great Britton. He reports bad- ness good in the Old Country, especially shipbuilding. Iti Is reported that the C. P. R. Mimi& putting on a fad train service between Toronto and Montreal. The distance) in ten be oovered in eight hours. Stalking The Emu. Mr. Powell gives an interesting account of how the natives of Australia hunt the emus of that land. The method te ingenious, but It sometimes exposes the sportsman to the risk of himself being hunted hi turn. A black, on spying emus feeding on a plain, will oover his back and head with an emu skin allowing it to hang down well on the side towards the unsuspecting birds. In his right hand he will carry, hidden by the skin, a boomerang and one or two throw- ing sticks or "waddles." Then his left arm will protrude beyond the skin straight out to the elbow, and the fore -goat will be bent up, with the right hand angles to it, thereby making a capital imitation of an emn a head and neck. New and then this hand or head will be brought to the ground as if Inc feeding; and as the blaok walks along, he imitates every motion of the bird, whilst at: the same time, by means of the big toe he drags a spear along the ground. A friend of mine was once riding across one of the vast plains in Qneeneland. As he and his companions were just rising a ridge, and as their eyes cleared the summit, they saw one of the very wild blacks of the district walking ,quietly &Meg towards a small scrub in the middle of the open; they pulled up to see what he would do; his sharp eyes, however, soon deteoted the white men, though their heads only were visible to him, and he dashed into the sorub. Almost immediately from the opposite Bide of the scrub darted out what to them appeared to be an emu, driven out by the entrain:se of the blacks, so they gave chase, but quickly discovered it to be only the black, acting emu, and never expecting that the white men would give chase to what was In those parts a very common bird. 4W • True Enough, Unnatural and illogical as it seems, quick- ness of thoughb and ignorance of grammar now and then go together. The result is often amusing and sometimes) pietureeque. Teacher—Now children, I will give you three words, boys, bees, and bears, and I want you to compose a sentence whioh will include all three words. Smell boy—I have it. Teacher—John McCarthy, you may give us your sentence. John Maliarthy—Boys bees bare whin they gees in swimmine—(Omaha Wesel& The pictures of Gen. Low 'Wallace do him injustice, He is distinguished -looking In face and figure, and especially agreeable in manner and conversation, In a resilient talk with him about "ten Hur," a' friend ex- preimed chief admiration for the passage which deecribes the approach cot Christ in all the impressiveness a its simplicity. The intense vIvidneas and cousequent excitement to the reader of the Maria rece as pictured in "Ben Hur," wae spoken of. Bat the author said the dime that moved him most in writing the "Tale of the Christ" was that which presents the hero sleeping on the steps of his ancestral home when hie mother and deter, alter their release from the clungeoe, draos near and remit/Mee him, and despite inetable longing, dare not come nearer tor fear of contaminating their beloved. It is mid WA the author's investigations intensi- fied his belief in the divinity of Obeid, and he truth of the New Teetament narrative. • "Noxious Birds," A French court recently rendered a decisioia. in which it pronounced sparrows—our cone - mon "English sparrows"—to be "noxious birds," and in this country most people are. agreed in thinking the title well-deserved. lhe sparrows are accused of driving away manysnative in:mot-destroying birds of more value than the sparrows themselves. In. Europe, however, the sparrows have long been the main relianoe of the farmers and. gardeners for the destruction of insects. Its is true that they consume great quantities of small fruits and other products, , but 18 18 fairly certain that many of these fruits mild never creme to maturity but for their help. The Germans tell an interesting, but pro- bably only an invented, story of Frederick the Great He is said to have been immod- erately bond of cherries, valuing his Wean quite as highly, by all accounts, as George Washington's father ever valued his. The king was therefore much distressed to see that the sparrows took every year a laraegettn tithe of his choicest fruit. He tried to home the trees guarded by soldiers with guns, hat the sparrows were too sly and quick for the grenadiers. What was to be done? The king resolved to make a slaughter. "One massacre more or less," he mid, "is as nothing to a. con- queror." Ile put a priee on the head oE every sparrow ; the birds were shot and trapp..... ed and poisoned by thousands. The pleat was successful, and the sparrows disappear- ed. - "Now," said the king, rubbing his bands together, "I can have my Merriee all to my- self." But there were no more cherries for himhor have. There were, indeed, more caterpillar% than anything else in Prussia in the year following the massacre. They swarmed over the royal cherry -trees, and the grena- diers were still more helpless against them than they had been against the birds. it few puny cherries wereall that were gather- ed. Next year 11 was still worse. The king: calledthis men of science and his practical men, his entomologists and his gardeners to- gether, and asked them what was to be done to get rid of the caterpillars. "Sire," they all said, "you must bring back the sparrows." It was hard for an absolute monarch, who had always had his own way, to own him.' self beaten by a lot of little birds. He waver- ed between his pride and his fondness for cherries, but the eherriee conquered. The law which pub a bounty on the sparrowee heads was repealed, and, the birds were en- couraged instead of being persecuted. And so, allowing no ill -will, the osparrowa flocked back into Prussia. There seemed to be more of them than ever, and what haven they made with the caterpillars 1 And as they feasted upon the insects, the young cherries swelled and ripened. When the fruit Was ripe, the sparrows took their share of that, too, and the king let them eat. see- ing that only by their aid did he obtain. hitt Precihti8 efrtuority. Tof King Frederick is bats another form of bhe tale which Longfellow has so beautifully told in his poem "The Birds of Killingworth." Ib is, indeed, an ancient legend, and represents the experience of all generations of farmers and gardeners., Only the farmers will tell as that there are certain kinds which take a great deal more then they earn, and among these unprofitable species most American farmers, and moat American ornibhologists as well, would in- clude the "English aparrowa." rvax/aitamoirks.c. In the City of New York there are up- wards of fifty able Methodist: preachers who are paid less than five hundred dollars per year. "How do you account for George's not coming tor the past three daysV' asked a fond mamma, who had aspirations for a millionaire son-in.law. "Oh, he isn't com- ing any more at al." "Whynmy daughter, you didn't throw suoh a &Ince overboard 2" "No, mamma, no; but George's father is bankrupt." "You are a dear, good girL" The London " Academy " hat the fallow- ing about a Canadian romance: "The Young Seigneur" is an ambitious book, for the author's aita is nothing less than "18. map out a future for the Canadian nation, whidh has hitherto been drifting without any plan." At the same time it is not a politica work—for whieli the muse of fiction be thanked. As for Mr. Wilfred Chateau-, claire) qualification for his task there can be tittle doubt. Re is obviously an ardent patriot and a ottrefal and disorinnineting ob- eisrver, His romance is, r ot less obviously's the production of a man of wide culture, reflood taste and exceptional literary facul- ty; and as 6, picture of the most vital and charade:dodo aspects of FrenoleComadiatt life it in without rival. While everyone interested in Canada should read "Tile Voang Seigneur," it deserves attention on its own merits as a romanoe. The " Aden - tie Monthly" and other journals out et Canada have also spoken highly of the book.