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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-2, Page 6EATER FLO WEBS.- aud sereue," oho thought, " after such un. friendly oenduen I Wender she don't wince Every one who hag vhited that reline pelf -melting and exhorting ue to bring our preaohing against New etneene, while Doctor It was Eester mornieg best o the altar as a teal:lino:tiering. Southena elity at the end of Lent must hive declare he seems to be preaohivg at her and tI been etruck by the aflitunwe of floral deeor. etions which mak es libe Roman Catholic and Wm doesn't: etnan to know it, If I were pisoopal Mune:heti temp* of bloom and of fragrance ; but on thie epecial 'Eni entitle the pretty little aurae on R —Street our - panted all the °there in ite decorations. The archea of roma and =ilex, with their fewoona of Spanish moon were more grace. ful, the christenine font was it bank of fra- grant white flowers, and the mottews were more artistic and orignal than is urnally the eaae. Evidently the work had been done with loving mere and bv deft hogers. It won the evening before Easter, and two girls had remained behind the others to give the finishing touches to some of the wreathe and festoons. "De you know Gram Nugent wouldn't give us one of her h ' ewers " Mar- garet Ring said to her friend, Adele Foster. "She's got lots of them, you know, and her lilies this year are the moat beautiful I've ever seen. All she said when I asked her was, I have other uses for my hewers.' " "What a mean thing 1" echoed Adele. "What better use could we have fot flowers than thie ? ' with a weep of the arin toward the rose arches. "I'm positively ashamed of Grace, and we've been so fond of her, too, and thought her so generous! What does she mean by other wies for her floweret" "1 haven't the least idea; but I do know there can't be a better use for flowers than to bring them here. Everybody admires them more in a char& than anywhere else, and we ought to do everything to make our church attraotive. I oan'b imagine any duty greater than that, partiouLerly at Easter." "Yes," said Adele, thoughtfully, "but do you know I'm puzzled at this strange, un- generous turn Grace has taken. She never seemed selflth before with anything she had, and she would neither aesist us this year in decorating, nor give us a single flower." "She probably has a streak of selfishness we knew nothing tabour. You see, she thinks the vrorla and all of her flowers, and it shows itself when she's asked for them. But I de- clare if she hint coming in the gate 1 After treating us so, too 1 I'm going to show her what I think of her." Grace Nugent walked slowly up the cen- tre aisle looking admiringly from aide to side. A sweet-faced girl she was, and with a thoughtful gravity in her fine gray eyes which made her appear much older than her eighteen years. "How beautiful you have made the church !" she said, with a pleased smile. "Yes, we've worked hard enough at it," Margaret anewered, coldly. 'The font would have been prettier, though, for sheaf or two ef white lilies," she added, rneaningly, "but those who would have giv- en them to no had none in bloom." "Well, I don't know that anything could improve it." Grace spoke quietly, appar- ently unconscious of the hidden meaning of of her comparion's remark. "lb is so pretty and graceful that nothing could add to ita beauty, I think." "You think so, do you ?" with euppressed indignation. "Well, now do you know we were under the impression you didn't ap- prove of ohuroh decorations., "I didn't approve ?" Grace sepeated, with astonishment. "Why, what has given you that; idea ? I could not assist you to -day be- cause I had other work on h-nd, but I think flower decorations in church a beautiful custom. Do you know, I can fancy each flower un there repeating with their tragrant breath, "Hail, Prince of Peace 1" "Very imaginative!" aneered Margaret. "We are only workers. We get the flowers, and we arrange them, but we leave others, who, like the lilies, 'toil not, to hear the voices." Grace colored, and looked up at the sar- castic speaker. "1 suppose you mean that, as I refused you the fltwers, I have no right to comment on your work," see said gravely. "s told you, I happen to need mine for another purpose. Quite as weird a one as yours, I think." "Ob, of mune you bave a right to do as you choose with your own!" Margaret cried, teethe "But as for having a better use for your flowers than to bring them here on Easter, that's impossible. You're trying to excuse your own aelfishnees, you know you are! I didn't: think it of you, Grace 1" and tears of anger stood in her eyes. Women Physieians- " Well, don't judge me yet, Margaret," Grace said quietly. "Perhaps you may agree with me before many days. Good. by 1' Agree with her never 1" Margaret ex- claimed impetuously to Adele, as Grace rased out of the church. "Perhaps we are too lawny," Adele said, quietly. "You know, Margaret, you are too impulsive to be just, and I really believe Grace has some good reason for refusing her flowers." In the largest ward of the chfidren's de - pertinent in the 0--- Hospital, the ward of incurables, that Easter morning brought with it something marvellous to the patient little sufferers lying on their clean white cote. A large pyraraid of flowers rose in the centre of the long room. At the foot of each cot was a suitable motto of leaves and flowers auepended from the ceiling. By each pillow was laid a bonqueb ot roses, lilies, violets, filling the air with delioious perfume. "Oh, ibis heaven r said one thin, wan little creature in the last stage of consump- tion, raising the flowers in her wasted hands, and pressing them to her blue lips. "Oh, 'dye seen them often before," said her neighbor, a OW with spinal complaint, "We twee to live in tbe country, and we had a garden with a great rose -bush in it,, red roses that smelt SG nioe, and my ma used to let me pull them. I could run aboub then as well ae anybody. It makes me feel good to see the roses again. Somebody must care for as to take trouble and send them here." And the gtrl amiled, the first smile any one in the hospital had seen on thab pain -drawn facie. "Yes," said one of the good slitters who stopped to listen. "It was a good lady who thought of you. She said : See, here are some deaf children who ate not able to see the flowers blooming in the gardens, nor even go to church said see the !Iowan there. I will bring them some, and then they will remember what a great dey Butter is to them and to all the world, and they will try to be patient." The Ilene consumptive clasped her flowers in her hot hands arid said : "I would like to gee the good flower lady. I want to thank her." "You will see her. She promised to come to day." The servitor at Chttroh wete arateually improseive that baster morning. I cannot gay, though, that Margaret King heard one word a them, so engroesed Was she in evatole- ing the effecb of the decoration' en every one who entered the church, and in recalling the compliments that she+ as chief Worketi had teready tmeived on her encome. Her anger aphid her friend burned hotly every tine he eyefell on Gramht ealin absorbed, fade. a I don't gee hove she can sib there on quiet be the Irhh Cotuts Will be canoelled. in her plaoe I :Mould feel like hiding my fe.ee." "Coma with me, Margeree," said the soft voice of Grano, es the people were leaving the church. "I have an appointment and I wish you would go with tne. ' Margaret's heat impulse was to refixes, but curioaity, And some constraining hifilleuee in Gravies voice and look, ailenced the worda on her lips. "We are plug to the U--- Hospital," said Gram, as they took their seats in the street -car. "Po the Hospital 1 What on earth takes you there to -day le "You will me when you gee there," Grace answered, smiling. 1' The children are just longing for you, Miss Nugent," said one of the nurses who met them at the door. "They're more roused up than I've eeen them for many a day. We've given them the fruit and oa e you sent, but I think the fin were please them best. They've been chatting and laughing over them, and it Ludt often you hear a laugh in this ward." "0 Grace, I understand now 1" whispered Margaret, as her eyea fell on the stately white lilies which orowned the pyramid, and whith seemed to nod a weloome to them as they entered. "Can you ever forgive me ?" " Hush!" said Graoe. "What is there to forgive? I had my own idea to carry out, and you heti yours,—both good in thew way." "Here is the young lady you call the flower lady," said the nurse, smiling. "She has come to see how you like her fruit and and hewers." "Thank you ma'am," cried eager voices frorn every oot. "Thank you a million times, ma'am," re• peened the little consumptive, near whose cot Grace had paused. "Oh, the flowers are so beautiful and so sweet, and I've been so busy looking at them I've almost forgot. ten to eoughe "Bow did you come to think about us ?" said her hollow- eyed neighbor. "It seemed when we oame here, everybody forgot us but the doctors and the nurses. It's their business to tend to us, I suppose, but they're good, too." Iler poor eyes filled with tears. seems as if nobody gave a thought to us outside," she continued. 'Seems as though my dead moeller has been by rue ever since these posies came. She told me %seen she was dying that she was going to at great garden where the flowers never faded and I was to come them too. I can't get it out cf nay head that mother sent me there, red roses to 'mind me of her lase words. But thane a silly notion I reckon, isn't it ? ' with a pathetic look of it quiry in her sad eyes. • "No, no," Grace answered, "I inn sure the flowers bring you a message from your mother and from the beautiful garden she told you of." "The sisters said you would tell us an Eaater story," the little consumptive inter- rupted. She told them the sweet old Easter tale forever new to yearaing hearts. The tale of love and self sacrifice, of agony patiently borne, that life might triumph over death. They listened breathlessly. Some of the children had heard the tale before. To othere it was new, line to all the Rowels had spoken, and told (Alone and care he one hu- man heart at least outside the hospital. They could trust their Father with the rest. "Canyou ever forgive nie ?" Margaret said again, in a broken voice, as they left the hospital. "1 censured you, I abused you, and. how much nobler was your work than mine!" "Oh no," answered Grace. "Ib was the work that came to my hand, as yours did to yours. Simply a division of labor. I had thought: so much of these little sufferers and their starved liven that it seemed to me to bring an hour's joy to them would only be another way of laying my &were' on His altar." That was the beginning of the Flower Mission in New Orleana. M. B. WILLIAnts. The Philadelphia "Record" says:—Fe. male physicians are becoming a wonderfully numerous class. It is eatimated that they number nearly 3,000 in the United Staten or about 1 to every 33 doctors of the other sex. There are in Philadelphia nearly 100 women pbysiohns, of which 61 are allopaths and 18 homeopaths, with about a dozen or more specialists. About one-quarber of these are married, several of them to physi. ohne, with whom they have become co- workers. Some of them have princely in- comes. Few women adopt a physician's career with the idea of gain primarily, yet their feea are by no means inconaiderable. Many of them become self.supporting as soon as they quit college walls, and the number of those who are not earning their own bread and butter at the end of their escond post -graduation year are very small. There are several women doctors in Boston, and several more io, New York, the yearly income of each of whom averages from $20,- 000 to $25,000. The 'Aghast figure reached in this city is something lees than $15,000; bub many other women earn handsome re- muneration. Their fees per visit are usu- ally below them of their brethren—"wo- men are not so grasping as the men" as one female practitioner phrased it—yeb they are not ineignitcant. Certain leading women practitioners often charge $10 or even $15 per visit. An aver, age of the annual income from hem of graven - by -six graduates of the Pennsylvania Wo- men's Medical College, taken eight years ago, was $2,907.30. As women's practice i has largely ncreased since that time the average now would be considerably higher. Fifty-four reported their annual receipte to be between $1.000 and $4,000, and seven received over p,000, lour of thetn reaching a figure above $15,000. Only tea of the seventynix admitted that their earnings fell short of $1,000, -- Another Great Railway Year. Aocordbag to statements and figures ere. :tented by the "Pathway Age" thie promises to be a rentetkable year for the extension of railroadit ha the United Staten It says that 666 new litnie with a contemplated mileage of 53.436 miles have been projected during the flab three menthe of the year. 01 these 14,818 miles ere under construction or con- tract, and 9,617 more have been surveyed. The entire mileage /Injected ie nearly equal to one-third of the entire system of the country now ia operation, and the "Railway Age" says "the prospeot le that the roads projected and hi various stap,ea of develop, went during 1889 will exoeed in aggregate mileage our entire present Oompleted eye. tem,"—tN. Y. Thane Mt, Parnellet libel snit agehist The Titinee STRAWBERRIES. Hy w, ileitis Penton, 11. A., Professor of Natural Otstory and ideoloaei Mining had strawbenies planted among eottie of our grape vines for three years, until the vines became thoroughly este,bliala- ed, 1 have thought it expedient to give our experience in the form of e, leulletine whioh inay be of service to those who read it. Few berries are moze lascious than the strawberry, and few plants can be more successfully cultivated, and yet how many farm homes there are in whioh this fruit is seldom eaten, It is hoped the time is not far distant when the fruit and vegetable garden will form, an important feature in the vicinity of the farm house, and that on the farmer's table will he seen the fruits of eaoh summer month, when etre wherries, raspberries, eto., will be found at home and not require to be sought after in distant "berry poodles." A libble taste and comperatively little time and care will supply these attractive treats to thous who desire them. CONDITIONS S0RR0UNDING TEE PLANTS. London : Lethrde north 43 380,height above sea level 1,100 feet, above Like On bario 858 feet. Exposure: Southwest. Soil : Clayloam, Meteorological : Mem annual tempera. ture, 42,2 ° , 1880 1836; mean summer tem. perature 57.1 ° , winter, 27.3 0 ; highest temperature (1881) 930; lowed (1884)- 35 0. average number of days rain fell per year, 72; rainfall, including snow, 24.7 inches; prevailing winds, southweest43 per cent., north-vrest 31 per oent. mewnowenno. The plants are placed in rowa three feet apart, and the plants one foot apart in the row. Arranged in this way the cultivation can be largdy done with the horae-hoe. They were allowed to occupy the ground him as "the man who walks fast." He even for three yearn when they were removed to another place. The ground was well mannr- tired his guides out. He is an excellent ed before planting, and another application made the second year In winter they were protected by mattering some peanbraw over thFenlir'st year—The runners were kept well back so as to get strong single plants. Second year—The same course was follow- ed as far as possible. Third year—The planes were allowed to grow freely and the runners untouched. Thorough cultivation and keeping the ground free from weeds were obaerved. LORD LONSDAES OOHING HOKE. He ts sew to have Wade Oae ot the Most BO. markabte JAli111071/2 on Record. Lord Lonsdale is on his way honie from his two years' travels in the Antic regions of North Atnerica. According to a letter jam received in Bethlehem, Pa,, from Mis- sionary Wolf, in Alaska, Lord Toned:de has made one of the IllOSt remarkable Arebio journeys on record. Generaphers will feel like waiting for turther particulars beigre giving full credence to the report: that Lonstbile, in his journey north, reached Banks Lend, one of the large islands in late =le 750 north, which was made known to ns during the Franklin search expedition, and nob far from which MoClureet ships were fast in the ice for nearly three years, uutil the orew was rescued by Belcher. It will, indeed, be recognized as a very remark- able feet if Loneriale, with his smell sledge party, has been able to cross on the ioe to Banks Land, one of the most/ desolate parts of the Arctic regions. The last news we heard of him oanie from Hudson By agent named Cathie, who said Lonadale spoke confidently of being able in hie simple mode of travelling to reach the North role if his attendenta would stick- to him. He said at lean he would plane further than any white man had ever gone there, lonsdale went north in the interest of the Soottieh Naturalist Soolety of E lin- burgh to obtain specimens of birch and ani- mals, He also studied the habits and cus- toms of the Indians' and Genie said he had learned portiona oftheir language. Lord Lensdale teed Carnie he would probably re. turn via the Yukon eounery through Alaska. He was travelling with Eskimo guides and one personal attendant. His English ser- vant had lef b three weeks before, and he was pushing north ward as rapidly as poi. ble. He walked all day and displayed such remarkable endurance that: the natives re- garded him as a prodigy and referred to VARIETIES, MIAMI'S Albany, 10 rows ; Crescent Seed- ling, 20 rows; Early Canada, 4 rows; Ar- nold 8 Pride, 1 row; Captain Jack, 10 rows; Alpha, 2 rows; Nicauor. 2 rows; Meggie's, 2 rows; Cumberland Triumph, 4 rows; Monarch ofetheiWeist, 4 rowe, RESULTS. Wilson's Albany has done excellently end may be ranked first. It yields well and is a very imitable variety tor shipping. Crescent Seedling ripened sooner than Wham, and has been quite productive, but there is a tendency among these berries to be imperfect, owing to incomplete fertilization of the flowers, but this is overcome by hav- ing a variety rich in pollen planted near, or among the rows. We overcame the difficul- ty by planting the Wilson side by side. Crescent Seedling baosus to bear more pis- tillate flowers than staminate. The foliage of the Crescent, being somewhat sparse, does not assist in keeping the berry so clean as the variables that grow more leaves. Early Canada ripens soon, but is liable to be caught by freer, and on the whole has done poorly with us. Arnold's Pride is a clean, good-sized nice berry, hut has not been very prolific. Monarch of the West proved to be a large berry, but only gave a fair yield. Captain Jack was somewhat late, but very prolific and a good berry. Alpha has been a slim bearer, but it has a delightful flavor. Nioanor gave only a fair crop and ordi- nary berry. Maggie's was rather small in berry and as comparatively poor a bearer. Clumberland 'Triumph is a large and irreg. nlarly shaped Perry, with only a fair yield. It is a variety more for the amateur than one desiring to raise berries for market. .CoNCLuSIONS, 1. Strawberries will do well in a locality such as ours'if the soil is rich, friable and well drained. 2. Ground for strawberries should have a good supply of plant food, be family worked and should certainly be web drained, kept Wean of weeds and well cultivated. 3. We are inclined to favor growing in rows where large quantities are to be grown, and to renew the Elaine every two years. 4. In well drained, sheltered and good soil, planting oat in September is advisable, so rie to enable the plant to get thoroughly established. A fair crop next mason may be expected; bub if such conditions are absent, then plant & :spring and only &medium crop may be locked for. 5. Strawberries may be grown in almost any climate if care be taken. Where the climate is severe protect the planta by scat- tering over them pea -straw or some other lighb covering. Avoid heavy substances such es manure; some place boughs with good remits. The following is a list whioh embraces varieties that are likely to succeed well :— Wilson, Crescent Seeding, Daniel Boone, Mancheater, Sharpless' Alpha, Prince of 33erries, Bidwell andJewell. Crescent Seedling and Manchester, being poor in pol- len require null as Wilson among them, Sarplees is large, delieloue, but :somewhat late. Bidwell is a good family berry, sweeter and longer than the popular varieties, Wil son and Crescent. A TRIP IN ARCTIC WATESE. An Expiortng Pariy Ropes to gall Along the Northern %oast ef mitt Continent. The Everette exploring party has left Winnipeg for the Antic °vole. There aro five men in the party, which is hea,ded by A. W. Everest, the wealthy proprietor of large stook farm. They go from Winnipeg to Calgary, therm morose the country to Edmonton, and they will deacend the Mack- enzio River until the Arovio Ocean is reaele- ed, and at the mouth of the river they in - teed to build a vessel with which they will try to rowed Point Barrow, a feet that has been pub rarely performed. They hope to return through Behrieg Strait and min and ginning Aleeka, reach Victoria itt about a year's time. They heve deposited $10,000 with Mee Haagen Bay Company and the con -matter is plaoing all its retiourcee at their diimmal. They are also taking an elaborate stock of wares to barter with the natives. They fear they will meet with hoetile Eskimo:1 in the neighborhood of Point Barrow, and are making provioion for pliwating theta by thee° meatus, shot, and had alteady collected' many specimens in natural history. He wore an Eskimo suit of Inc. . As Lonsdale predicted, he has returned to civilizetton through Aleeika, whioh, he says, involved an overland journey of 4,000 miles from Banks Land to the sea at Motel Bay. His journey from Banks Land, the missionary writes, was attended With great dangers. The snow was drifted in .some places so badly that the sleds wereof no use, and the party had to take to snow- shoes. On Deo. 1 the thermometer regis- tered 105 0 below zero. Food was mares' hare and reindeer being the, only game available and very hard to find. Lord Lonedale estimates that he trevelled by dog sled and on foot 10,000 miles from Winnipeg. He left Bristol 13xy on Jen. 14, and with his dog train started across the peninsula to Katmai on the north Pacific:, thence going to Kadiak Island, whence he intended to take a vessel for San Francisco, To all who are familiar with the stupen- dous efforts to explore the northern shores of this oontinent and the archipelago north of ib, whioh engaged a score of explorers for half a century, the report that Lord,Lons- dale has made so remarkable a journey over Muth of the same ground will excite a feel- ing akin to incredulity until the 'fade are fully substantiated; and not the lease re- markable pare of the journey Lithe trip through Alaska over consffierable ground that has not before been visited. A later amount, purporting to come from a half-breed, says that Lonsdale did net go north of the Porcupine River, some dis- tance south of the Arctic: Ocean. A New Ocean Greyhound. Although the new ocean greyhound, the City of Paris, did not break the record on her first trip across the Atlantic, her owners are confident that she will do so before the season is over, by which time her machinery will have settled down to its work, so to speak. In that caee the trip will be made by her in six days, the present record, made by the Etruria., being six days one hour and fifty-five minutes. Rival compile:dee will then, it is safe to assume, set about building vessels designed to lower the time still fur- ther, and the, question .arises: When will the limit of speed be reached? This does not altogether depend upon the abilities of the builders of ateamshipe, for hi is quite possible that with unlimited expenditure much greater speed might even yet be at- tained. But the additional coat incurred itt securing even a slighe Moreno in speed is so great that the companiea. minuet mu& longer continue competition in this direction. It Is said that the City of Paris cost about 52,- 500,000, and it is not at all unlikely that ithe cost of a vessel vdeich could beat her time by a knot an hour would be from 5200,000 to $300,000 more. The companies, there- fore, will probably soon be forced by finan- cial considerations to cease the struggle for supremacy in the matter of speed, so long at least as the presene conditions of marine architecture continue. The City of Paris is not intended wholly for the poi& work of carrying passengers to and from Europe. In these days of vain naval fleets and great armies every avail- able ship and man are counted on in time of wer, and to render them more efficienb both ship and 1119,11 aro prepared in peace for the duty they will likely be called upon to per- form in time of war. The British Govern- ment to atrengthen her naval forces, he subeidized nearly all of the great ocean eteainers flying her flag, and has further- more nob only prepared them for receiving batteries in war time to turn them into cruisers, but has housed their guns, so that but a few hours' work at the docks would be a:imagery to get all the ordnance on board. When it was contemplated to build the City of Paris the British Government at once of- fered to isubsidize her, taking a guarantee that in thne of war she should be turned over to the , Adrairality, the Government paying .eo much per day for her. Lender these Oonditions the big Inman steamer was built so that she could be uied as a cruiser. To the lay eye it might be hard to detect the presence of the strengthening bands and frames that constitute her battery ap- plianoes, but they are there, and then to support good heevy Arnistronge whenever the Blithe Government has need for the veseel. Tbe battery for the City of Paris will oottaist of 12 breech -loading Armotronge and rapid fire endinele rifles, These guns will be mounted, four on each broadside, tivo at the how, and two at the Warm Tees Damon the Caw of Paris,under the cone mene of Batik navel officirs, many of them her preeont oommand, and under her own engineers, will be prepared to Scour the seas for the commerce of Greet Britain's enemy. Should she meet a powerful armed hostile vessel her saiety will depend in her speed, but should her engines break down it is doubtful if that scant mil tiptoed aloft would do her much good.—/V. Pewee. An electric fire engine is a new invention, It can be Started AD full epeed, is much lighter then the etetain fire engine, and peteleeees Veriouti Other adtrantages. , A LI PT:JE OF EVERYTHING, The 109 ton gun Is not regarded with great Meer. The' Majority of Ines ,for new ironchtes are between sixty' and invests? 13°nsO Nt a snow plow has been used on tele Maine Central the past winter—a thing time probably never occurred a winter before in the Watery of the road. A burglar, wrested in Boston, had on his breast an Indict ink picture of a gravestone, on which was marked: " In memory of ray hither and mother." The 'fees for ascending the Eiffel tower are five franca to the top, three frames to the second platform and two frame to the first. The three platforms will hold 10,000 peo- ple. Despite.the talk about Smith hieing KWh& uommon name, thorn ef Green, White, Brown and Denis beet 1810 the United States by 15 per cent. Even "John" is not as common as Oneethireleth ot the whole population of Iceland emigrated last year, moved, it is said, by the unpopularity of the Danish Governmentand the blandishments ofCiitiadi- an emigration agents. Out in a becikwooda town in Indiana lest week the Sheriff left the court room for din- ner, forgetting,all about his ptisoner, who afterward leisurely walked off and hes not since been captured. In a case at law in Illinois the other day it was shown that a WOMS,11 whipped her boy so that he was in bed tor three weeks, because he could not commit fifty Bible ver- ses to memory in one -week. A Well known English actress le angry because a manufacturer of false teeth has placarded his town With pictures represent. Ing her "before and alter" taking a see of his famous teeth. The Wbefore " portrait is the one which makes her angry. A discussion at to the height of trees in the forests of Victoria has elicited from Baron von Mueller, the government botan- ist, the statentent that he saw one of the height of 525 feet. The late chief i spec= of forests measured one fallen and found that it: was 485 feet long. An old saddle which had been kicking around in a Nashville harness shop for several years was ripped uithe other day and found to contain $1,800 in confederate money. If the owner of the shop could only bave found the prize in March, 1865, he could have bought a breakfast and three Wigan. Henry M, Stanley, before starting on his present journey to Africa, plaeed all of his literary effects ill the hands of Mrs. French Sheldon, of New York, who has long beau one of his best 1 riends. The last letter which was received from him in this country WAS addressed to her, and contained some final inset -melons concerning his correspend- eneeewhich were written with the idea that he might never return. The alarming theory is broached by The Popular Science Monthly that a man may get drunk by contagion. Several inabances are given of persons who, drinking no in- toxicating liquors became intoxiated at convivial gatherings. The old-fashioned warnings against bad company appear to derive new force from this adored -- fie discovery. Oa the other hand, the topers will have a new excuse to plead be fore Polioe Courts, wives and other consti- tuted authorities. Advices from Vienna state that the Ein. press of Austria has been attacked with the family malady—insanity. She suffers from long spells of mei:int:holy, and entertains de Melons, accusing herself of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf. She is posseesed with the idea of suicide, thinking to leave the Emperor free to re marry. Sometinne she dandles a cushion or a pillow, thinking it a new-born heir to the throne. The Emperor is greatly affected. He suffers from in. :mania, and has no zaat for work, taking only a languid intend in the State affairs, It is reported that be has consulted with Count Kelnoky and Count von Taste upon the advisability of abdicating in favor of his nephew, Franz. It is aho said he wrote to the Pope declaring that he longed for resb and wished to retire, and thee the Pope's reopens° urging upon hirn the necesaity of submitting to the decreea of God, conebtned with the protest of the Minis- ters, induced him in the meantime to re- main upon the throne. Getting Rich by Small inventions. . The New jersey mean who hit upon the idea of attaching a rubber erasing tip to the end of lead pencils is worth $200,000. The miner who invented a metal rivet or eyelet at molt end of the mouth of coat and trousers pockets, to remise the strain by the carriage of pieces of. ore and heavy tools hes made more money from his letters patent than he would have made had he atruck a good vein of gold -bearing quartz. Every one bag seen the metal plates that are used to protect the heels and soles of rough -shoes but every one dentine: know thee within "ten years the men who hit upon the idea has ntade $250,000. As line a sum as- was ever obbained for any invention was enjoyed by the Yankee who invented the inverted glass bell to hang over gas jets to protect ceilings from being blaekened by smoke. The inventor of the roller &ate has made $1,000,000, notwithstanding the fact that his Went hed,neerly expired before the value of it was ascertainedin the craze for roller aleatintathab spread over the country a few years ago, The gimlet pointed ecrew has produced more wealth than most silver mines, and the Connecticut man who fine thought of putting copper iips on the toes of ohileren's shoes is as well off as if he had inherited $i,000,C00, for that's the amount his idea has realized for him in cold, clammy coin. The common needle threader, which every one has peen for sale, and which every woman owns, was a boon to needle users, The man who invented it has an income of $10,000 a year from his invention. A minister in England made $50,000 by inyenting an odd toy that deemed by wind— ing it with a string. The man who invented the return bell, an ordinary wooden 'ball, with a rubber string attached to pull it beak made $1,000,- 000 from ite The person who invented the moat retiont popular toy, "Pigs in clovere'veill be rich betore the leaves turn Wale autumn. lie was poor het November, A New Orleans minister BOIS 18 iSa fact that most gentions are dry and sleepy, but the juicy once are etwows SO sharpie* ctitialeed thee the clergy avoid thin. 'A good entry is told Of Miss Mary Both, lato of "Rerpetti Baer." She wile bother. ed tweietantly by etnener playwrights, who deeired her to toad and pates iudgmett upon their intinuecripte. One of then mice riaid to her "Mise Both, don't you think theis is tame Way by Which My play woe be put opon the ategri ?" "Oh, yea" she replied, "Do ten me,"' Med the seppliate "Why, have ingeound tip and teed for snow etorms," was the emitting reply. IN. THE 'CANADIAN 'BOOKIES. Th lip evs' 08'Otton; we:7 he epaitoar:phyoo iin: The New 'York " Sun" of ev recent date had the follawing arteole deioniptive of the work of surveying the lily Mountains :— "No male looker ie yet e to delineate the Rooky Mountains north Of our border with ant degree of ecouraoy. We are familiar with the general trend of the names with some of the larger lakeis which n'esblein the valleys, and have bac:emplace knowledge of the rivers whose glad:meted brooks roar down the mountain sides; but it will be long before this enormous tangle of ranges, spurs, and peake ie aomaretely laid down on the maps. There eau he no greater pleasure to the lover of maps than to study carefully surveyed mountain regions on the beautiful (Marta now accessible to all, with every ma- terial feature clearly shown, giving vivid panoramas of the topography. Some day we shell have 8110i1 maps of the Reeky Moun- tains. The work is in progress, and for two goitre past Canada has been pushing the topographical survey of her Cordilleras. "Here and there among these 'mountains, not far from the Canadian Pacific, are par- ties of two or three surveyors senteceatano tir rets mointereitt sides. It is hard work toiling over the Beaty elopes below and the snow above, and eaoh summit overcome mean e innestant la- bor for twelve to eighteen hems, heavy lad- en as the observera are with their instru- ments. When the top is gained, they must determine their altitude and .position, take the bearings to the neighbonng peaks and ranges, and with the °enure photograph thew nuroundinge, They are then ready to descend mid, plot upon elehiremtps the de. tails they teine thtta gained from lofty points o observaidoe. 'Then they gather fresh ma- berial'from SAM other vantage ground 9,000 to 11,000 feet in the air- By such laborious procaine are the intricate features of these mountain regions acmurately grasped and clearly reproduced. The work is not without its dangers. Sev- eral of these aummits have been gained oaly BE CIITTINGl STEPS in the almost precipitous ice mass that crowns them. Two yeare ago Mount Steph- en, whose top was thotteha to be inaccess- ible, was soiled by two Canadian surveyors who crawled along ledges on the face of per. pendionlar walls, and for a long distance had to cut holes for their toes and fingers. "Horses are sometirees used to carry the instruments on the lower slopes. Mr. Mc - Arthur's equine assistant slipped from the pith one day and rolled down the canon, disappearing over a short precipice. He WAS found three hundred feet' below, stink fast, head downward between two trees, and with the exoeption of a few bruises he was not hurt. It is impossible on these arduous climbs to °any blankets and provisions for a night cennp, and every ascent thus Inc hen been made in a day, often involving from fifteen to eighteen hours' work. The service is healthful, but it lacks many elements of comfort, and the picture one Canadian sut- veyor draws of himself, SEATED ON A SNOWBANIE in midsummer, regaling his inner man with a ham sandwich and a snowball, is the most cheerfalfeature of his narrative.t "Bub many e, tourist would travel thou- sands of miles to see the glorious vistas un- folded from these mountain tops; and not the least among the ouriosities ot this ele- vated region are the Woman lakes blocking up ice gorges through whioh glacial rivers once emerged. Here are waterfalls in abun- dance. One little stream, in a distance of 1,700 feet, pasees over a succession of falls ranging from 75 to 300 feet; and on Lookout Mountain may be traced for nearly 3,000 feet the white streak of a foaming meads as it dashes straight down the slope." An Audubon of the Future. It is universally admitted that the small boy who hes a penchant for bugs and insects and reptiles is the worst variety of boy. There is one of Weer sore in Atlanta who is an ornament to this peculiar order of small boy. He spends his afternoons and all of his spare time, of which he menu to have a good supply, in foraging in the country for bugs and lizards. Every morning he takes in his pockets to school the result ef his last raid. blonde), the specimens of insectivor- ous and reptilian life that he cars fish up from the depths are many and varied, and awful to touch and look at. Last week the teacher took an inventory of the bugs and beasts found in his pockets, or that escaped therefrom, and terrified the'other children— and the teacher. There were several varieties of bootless pigeons with broken wings, Eaglieh spar- rows, butterflies, clevilhorsesi slugs, swills, earthworms, Heads, a snake or two and an occasional frog, damp ani 'cold. One day he slyly opened -the flap of his pocket, and then went on in his harderesolute effort to make Hs teacher think he Was studying. After awhile the teaohew noticed a grass- hopper hopping agilelyfrom desk to desk amid the titter and a tee- hee of the scholars. A chase was begun, when another grasshopper was seen, then another; and they were everywhere hopping all over the room, and sticking their sharp feet in the little girls' hair, frightening them hill to death. ''Come here 1" shouted the teacher to the tender lover of inmate, as she reached tor a ferule. "Give inc your hand, sir," The naturalise held out his hand as if he wore a martyr to science. The teacher was about to seize it When she caught eight of two green eyee that flashed at her from the boy's hand and a sharp -forked tongue that owned to dare into her face. The boy had a snake coiled around his arm, He wag not fouled 'and the teacher has not felt well trtilsparie gowns for evening wear are with Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster has acoepted the position et editor of Harpers Bazar, made vacant by the death of Mint Mary L. Booth. litre. Sauget:sr has been tee writer Lor Harpers and other publications' 'for gen- eral yearn and has won a gratifying repute. tion by her graceful prose and verse. Since the death 'of John Bright the story told by the late artists Frank Hell Is revived: When Mr. Holl was taking the portrait of Bright, the latter Said, in speaking of Glad- stone: "To think that after we have trod- den the sable path together, shoulder to ehoulder and fiend in hand, we should be famed apart in the evening of our liven Do you know, Mr, 'Boll, X goriously fear that my dear old friend's mind has really become radically undermined.' When Holt wee painting Gladstone at Hawarden, reference vim made, to Mr. Bright. "Ah!" said Mr. Giladetone, "and how did you find him?' "Fatly well, amt epolte very affectionately of you, Mr. Glacletone," "Did he indeed? It was a cruel blow to be divided on ao clear a mention after a lifetime of mutual esteem, Tell MO, Mr. Hole diri you observe anything in the zoatiner of my old friend which would lead you to believe that his reason WAS be. coining in any Way unhinged?'