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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-16, Page 2W 1,11B - Discreditable Ueellt$ at the Centenida DAIL It wait during the lad our hours that the meat intereeting, if acoe the molt creditable t 'hires of the great Centenuiel ball were dis planed. Somme were enaoted that have oo eared ea Metropoliten °dere geese belle be fore, but whioh were hardly to be looked fo at this, a great national ff dr, managed by a oommiteee of eminent reepeotability, and littended only by people vvlso had furnished proper credentials As to c` exacter and s'iand Ing in order to secure tickets. The trouble begar just attex the opening quadrille has been deemed, about 11. 15 o clock, when the doom of the great annex used as a supper room, were thrown open The dancing floor wort so densely packed that any attempt at terpsichorean enjoy ment was out of question. The supper room afforded a means of n lief, and, before th doors had been open five minutes, the grea annex etructure we.a literally packed with men and women, all struggliag, not to secure prompt service, but to aerve themsetves The arrangements of the supper room made this "help yourself" rule necessary. All a round the ream ran a narrow table, burden ed with rich \donde, and some of the fines ohempagnes in the ineaket. Behind thi table stood waiters, who, had there been hundreds ef hungry and thirsty pi ople in stead of theme nes, might have succeeded in filling the plates mid gleams in a decorous and conventiohal manner. As it was how- ever, this was impossible, nor did the crowd seem to mind it. A pile of plated would'be plaoed on the table. As many hande, be. longing to the nearest bystanders, would quickly take poeeeseion of them. When a cover NM removed the contents of the dish were immedietely appropriated by those who could reach it first. Corks were pulled and the champagne bottles were taken fi om the table, not to fill a glass, but to be car• ried away to some less crowded spot. This condition of affeirs was not con- ducive to good order, and the greater the number of people who succeeded in mum ing a portion of the good things from the table THE WGRS1. AFEATRS BECAME. It was bad when several thousand people surged through the doors in search of sup- per and wine; it was worse when the thou- sands began to crowd around the tebles, each man trying to get ahead of the others In reaching a place where he could enter the game of grab. Bat the worst did not come until the majority had succeeded in captum rg food and wine. A crowded room is bad enough, but here was a crowded room in which men and women not only had to hold their own in the pushing and jostling throng, but had to hold, or try to hold, a plate of food and a bottle of wine. The result was, in many cotes, ignominious failure. Plates and bottles by the score were knocked frcm the hands of those who had Bemired them, the contents spoiling the clothing of those around, and littering the floor until it became as slippery and mushy as a Broadway pavement after a February thaw. Not all the champagne went to emote in this way. Such a condition of affairs natur ally would have been dishearteeitig, but the rising spirits of the crowd, as evieenced ly an incessant babble of voices end much loud laughter, showed that a great deal of wine was geing to its orainary destinen tion, and that the drinkers were bacon ing less concerned as to their eurronadings. Tuis was the condition of the supper room when the Presidential party entered aud s a at its 'private table. It was on an elevat- ed platform, and so the distMguished gues-s had a perfect view of the scramble going on all about them. With what favor they viewed the scene can only be coejectured, but the President and his party remeine d but a few minutes in the nipper room. Probably not one-half iof the pimple at the ball entered the supper room. Tnose who captured it at first held it to the. last. Those who came later to get a little refrehment were satisfied to look in and turn away. Of those who occupied the beixes the same was true. When the Peesidential party left fur the supper room many of the box -holders follow ed the example, but, not being provided with a private table, fenoed cff nom do crowd, such tis the P.esidential party had, they looked, in, tarried aeguy, SURPRISED ND DISGUSTED. i tor Steers, who had oharge' elf the police, had to order the supper room oleathel, Thia 1 order came shortly after 1 o'clock, Stvy., , vesent Fiali, Chairman of the Eatertairtment Committee and, the ouly member then prei i I sent, woe leaniem "Wearily ?" againet a pillar . , when the erder was given and eighed ,vith relief. Ward McAllister, by the way, never . ) loses his head QP ailQWS W 0 O bOSIY 00 over e ) Nme by the rich furnishings of a feaet ; , that's the difference between some person* , in this world, It took nearly half on, hour , to carry out the order. Argument; and . perituatiion amounted to naught,. so oluba i were cinema and tha crowd de, wal Ladaivatn out. When empty, the supper room looked SB if a cyolosee had wept through it. Al the ettble 'decorations had been . nuennte W TIE on TOo PnaS, . , broken glass was ;item= every ivhere and 1 the floor was littered with fragments. e Driven out of the supper room, the high t merrymakers Nattered to ell parts of the I house. The result ot this waa that every- body else left. Given everything to them - 1 .1 selves, the celebrants soon turned the whole honse into a most undesirable sort of place. atone had succeeded in concealing , I aud bringing away from the supper room a t 1 bottle or two oE wine. These invited their e i friends into the empty him:is, and before . !long an order had to be iisued for clearing and locking the boxes. Some people went to eleep on the staircases, The majority went upon the Naming ;surface and there for two hours ran, jumped, hopped and reeled through the dances. They were as repeolous there as in the supper room. Beautiful potted plents, used in decorating the Psesidential and lower tier boxes, were torn down and carried off, and such fiegs ail were within reach became the wine of those who °pied them first. At 4 o'clock everybody not in "the fun" was glad to hear the order given to clear the house. This brought the closing and perhaps the most unpleasant were of the night. There a as but one coat room, and five or six hundred men tried to get to it at once. ID took twenty-five or thirty police- men to keep anything like order. In the erush few hats were saved uncrushed, over- coats were torn and umbrellas were broken. To cap the trouble, one of the checking attendants had secured a bottle of wine and beooine intoxicated. As a result he gave the wrone clothing on the checks, and, as many of the recipients were in as bad a state as bimeelf, the mistakes went by unnoticed. Consequently, in the final rush mime the confueton of clamorcua claimants for not -to. biefound belongings. Those who attended the Centennial ball and left before midnight, saw a magnificent festival. Those, outside of the supper -room merrymakers, who wayed until the end, must have had their pleasant recollection of the opening destroyed by disgust at what followed. and, in most cases, et once urdered their car- riages. After midnight every box was empty. The migration to the supper room had !eft the floor clear for dancing, and from shortie' Destine 12 uutii 1 o'clock the waltz ino went merrily on. Hundreds of those who had gone to the supper room and be- come disgusted wity the surrounaings there returned to the ball room flaw and joined in the dancing. Those, who were on tbe floor at this hour of the Centennial ball should be truly thankful. It was the one bright spot between midnight arm 4 a. m. The dances were well erranged, the dancers were graceful and everything was above criticism. At one o'clock, however, CMG an order that reiulted in driving away a great many people. It was not the order which was in fault, but the result of its execution. All this time the scene in the supper room had continued. Disgusted people, who thought matters were going too far, had been leav- ing, and the crowed was thinned down to aboub one thousand men and women. A number were intoxicated; most of the rest were sufficiently exhilarated to make the surroundings congenial to them. Some of the more imnrudent consumers of champagne had be -come ugly, and there were several outbreaks as the result, Two or three in - instances witnessed by a repor ter illustra- tes the whole. SPECIMEN MOMENTS, One man, of fine appearance in spite of the maudlin condition he was in, picked tip a great salver loaded with salad, and lifting it above hia head, went reeling through the room. He had not gode far before he stumbled agebast a young woman and liter- ally threw the oily salad all over her neck and arms and over an exquisite piek silk and lilac gown. A young man picked up a bobtre of chain. pipe and broke off the neck across the hare shoulder of his female companion. Fortunately she was not cut by the brekea glue, but she was drenched with the wine. A man fell nit the sloppy fleor and itij tired his leg so as to neeeaeitate the summoning of an ambulanee. Several inmaimptu &tic encounters were only stopped by police in- terference. Otookery and &Beware were smaehed with reokleas indifference. The scene in the ballroom was not edify., ing as the hours went on, Women were dancing there, and were even seated in some of the boxea, who were evidently, to say the leatet, affected by their vieits to the supper room, and one rather pretty girl excited detriment by her obvious lack of steadiness, while her escort was the alibied of reineider- able indignation as he etrolled zeroth the floor at the coniattelori el a dance With lib arta Still around be Waist. Things were getting tio bad that knsped. A Horse's (Ammon Sense. Chicago Daily News: A story of a horse's sagacity comes from Vemderbury county. A day or two ago a horse was standing tied to a fence in the yards of the Sunnyside Coal Company, in that county. A drunken man was staggering around that neighborhood, and in a moment of frenzy took out his pocket knife, and seeing no one around on whom to vent his spleen'he walked up to the horse and deliberately plunged die blade into the dumb brute's neck. The gash was a long one and quite severe, and the blood flawed down the wound profusely. The horse in its etruggles broke the hitching rein and ran out of the lot. It kept up its speed down the road until it came to a drug store on Fulton street owned by Jankine & Kyle. The animal stalked into the stere deliberat e ly and went as far back as the presceiation =se, when it set up a moat pitiful neighing. the clerk was alarmed, but spoke gently to the animal, and taking a sponge bathed the ugly wound in cold water, much to the re. lief of the brute. The proprietor, Mr. Kyle then sewed up bile wound and tied a band around the animal's neck. The horse was then led back to the mines, seemingly happy and contented. Mr. Kyle is positive in the assertion that this is the neatest case of brute sagacity on record. Seizinw an Opportnnity. Many laughable things have happened in Sunday schools, but few superintendents or teachers can ever have been taken more completely aback than was Bishop Cheney on one occasion. He was to superintend his own school, and as he entered the church he met a little group of street gamine,—rag- ged, dirty aud unattractive. I stopped to speak with them pleasantly, and told them that I would put them in classes after I was through with the opening exercises. At this one of them thrust his hand deep into his trousers pocket, and pull. ed out an old rusty jack-knife. "Mr. Cheney, I wish you would keep that until after the Sunday school ie over.' Why he wanted me to keep ib I did not know then. I do not know now : but I took it, put ix without thought iuco my pocket, took my plane upon the platform, struck the bell that milled the school to or- der, and was about to give out the opening hymn, when my attention vvas divereed by the patter of little feet coming up the broad aisle. It is a long church, and a little girlves coming from the extreme opeoaite end. She came slowly, but with an expression in her face that showed she had a most important menage to communicate, and so all exercisea were susp anded. E very eye was upon her and upon me aa she :limbed up the chancel stepe. With a face and voice expreesive of inteesezt eager nese, she said to me: "Say, Mr. Cheney, Johnnie wants hia knife. He has got a chance to trade." The March of Civilization. When the "personally conducted" toinis agent reads of the lively doings ea the Congo the idea must flash upon his active raid th t this great river is nearly ripe for hie enter - Irises. All the money needed b build the 1Jortgo railroad has been offered, and the road is certain to be built. A big hotel Will start for the Congo in sections orizett Friday. 18 is made largely of galvanlead Iron, ie 140 by 160 feet, dad 40 feet high. When it leaves Ahtwerp it will be all ready to put up, and it is to adorn Boma, the capital of the new State. A eompany has bean fotmed to beta)), lish general etores at the (thief iitations along the tiver, where not only natives, but white met oleo, may supply their needa. There le a good prospect that by using the railroad end the Lomond whe or, whoee great import, tame tie a highway het only been discovered this year, it Will be possible in the tient' figure to reach the very heart of the oontinent in about a fortnight. " All aboard for Lake Tanganyika 1" may be the theeeful anhounee. ment that many a tourisb Will heat by -and bye. : The total. prodadthen eteel.raiis Iti thia colintay last, . yerie watt 1,206,184 tont and tiae largetit, pre 'deletion: of any one Mill was keit of . the Nertli ()Waage Bolling Mill, W111011 turned Mit 161,645 tante B4STBRIC 4VrOM4ABSING it9TBS.' A riaaaOnt Advantageerie a Yield ter SettienienG To THE EDIro—Eastern 3 A„ Fermin.' Defeneive Astociation ha 4iAlgoma is in a tbeen termed in Illinoie to fight the bindere Heretofore the talk mati • The story of the lunatic in Amnia who e waa desirovia of 000kine his doctor reminds P pb exts otfe lougmr 0.1iivehr , veto ar:ialrir °dodo ietnilan 10' 1. 0AI; tyWgill an val401:, tb;e:eamtlide se ttoe 1 o,setteurtr?b,gli LI:4415i; pt :ell yi I byeThri athe e g:ettnii.itboritiusfitWioant‘FlidireivoolthjeavWer arat erbetiti eaoithei: Tags ro in.vite7si ty41: t etro, gbeeg sae: ptptiti cau emote largely and to Memberof the atscadation and all siniilar inarket le Csissga has made "dar a "cell' associations througholit the United S*0 at darymonsideration, Yet Algoma could aup- ly eedar. blonk Ire Toronto wording a Prise aa near 0088 pessibie- to the original apeo sationga The settler isi-sst Ait,longslathi 3inafter matoathriadh rilSonPto,steirli. half farmer, half lumberman. His oropSin Ives summer and his logs in winter 0ocupwall his ents hays Pained beyond the grave. Recent - time and have supplied hinnwith a bountiful ly he buffered from an filmes vehioh at his living. Now that large operators have age—di I 87—inspi8ed some alarm but at appeared, this Arita of effaire is ended, and lart adoiecrarntsahrteiowipaatinties:ecoverinaMunTgahreir4enehras. the eettler has to face thinfact that he has te u nee his lawn volutionary movement in the parson f The traveller obsereing Lake Huron's Bishop Ronay, who rose later in life to be rooky shore e wonders where the settler finds tutor to the royal family and their untrue - lands, but the oontentioia of the Algoman tor in Hungarian hist ery. that if a line were drawn thrbugh the heart Some clever individual proposes that the of Ontario the best part of the Province Chineale problem ehould be solved by turn - would be found north of the line, and not rug the tide of emigration from China to. south, is more than half true. The Island wards Afrioa, and colonizing the Dark of Manitoulin has been roughly deseribed as Continent with Celestials. Taere are just orie-third rock, one-third water and onathird two d ffieulties in the way ot this ache me, good land. The North Shore is much broken, { but they are big °nee. In the first plaoe but the valleys traversed by the Blind, Span , John Chinaman would almost certainly re. ish, Mississauga and Thessalon Rivers sup- 1, fuse to take up his abode among the Hutton. ply as poct arable land as is to be found in tots and other natives of Africa, and, in the Oxford ()aunty. Exzellent land is also to; second place, Umslopogaas and his brothers be found at Geulois Bay, Nine fifty feminism, would probably have as strong an aversion I mating there this year. At Bruce Mines, to the Heathen Chinese as Bill Nye's there are some 20,C00 acres of • countrymen heve. VALUABLE LAND., The fortress of Kalat i -Nadir in Khor- Before Confederation thew lands were assail, which Persia has ceded to Russia, is sold to the three ()elver semPan lea renowned throughout the whole of Central working here. Two of those hai' a Asia. It is a great natural stronghold, miles no oorporate existence now, and there in extent, defended by steep rooks, through is a section eight milelong by six miles which there are only two entrances, and is wide, belonging to nobody, but it is pos. etee to be, even in ita natural state, inn sibly the hese clay loam in Ontario, ,The pregnable. It could be made an arsenal and Bruce Copper Company own a very valu- a city, by which Russia could dominate over able plot, which they are offering for six the whole e Central Asia. Thia fortress, dealers per acre, all cleared land, free from the transter of which has caused no little stumps, said publie astention only requires comment, is of much greater importance to be drawn to this favored section to make than Pendjoh, over which Russia and Eog. land almost came to blows in 1885. . We have telked ao inueh about our fish- eries in this country that we have come to think that in this industry Canada is easily reversed the order of nature. They sold arab. But the British Board of Trade Rettirns show that while the flaheries of the and opened a large section, fringing the Brittah Islands are e ort a six and a half shore with settlemente, separating she whites, i while the Jeauits, who madethe Indians million pounds, those of Canada are worth , their peculiar charge, were allowed to pick out the fertile spots, and cluste.r the Indians upon them. Justice, of course, should be it the home of a hardy population. Algoma would have been all right, only the Gov- ernment of old Comada never touched any- thing here without ruining it. Originally belouging to tho Indian Department, they under four millions. France comes next, with three and a half millions, and Norway and Hellen& have less than a million done to the aborigines, but the Indian here each. British consumers pay to fishmongers every year about eleven million pounds has ceased to mat. There is scarcely al a. pure Indian in Algoma, and many who live 1 starling' By the way, how is it thGreat cn the reserves and draw public money are 'Britain never has any fishery disputes with Frame? pure white. Better land does not lie out of doors than the Indian reserves au Manila. waning, West Bay. and Garden River. Dia estrous results have followed the segregation ef the Indians. Not more than three per cant of their land is tilled. They have not improved under Governnaent tutelage, and the Indian Act should be made oueretive instead of permissible. Boarding schools are maintained by the Episcopal and Catholic Caurches, but Church work hos but MEAGRE RESULTS. The white population here had its begin. Mug in that excellent clam of Old Country settiere attracted here by Confederation. They brought to their homes a refinement and intelligence which acted as a means to leaven the whole tone of society in the dis- trict. Our settlers are a hard working, suc- cessful, intelligent and moral class, and the standard of comfort is higher here than in sone of therichest ccunties of Ontario. The Lucid Government, has done well by the people, justice in this sparely.settled dis- trict is well administered, an excellent sys• tem of colonisation roads has been inaugur. eted and maintained, and if certain changes were made in the school law Algoma could not complain of her local member. But the school law of Ontario is not euiteible for this section. The schools are open when they should be closed and closed when they should be opened. They are cloaeci ten days at Christmas, when all could attend. They are open in March, when heavy snow prevents any child going. They ohne July lst, when the weather is cool hese and when seeding is nicely finished. They open in August, when the weather is broiling, hay is being gather- ed, and berries being picked. And so the children lose the best period of the school year. Toe fixing of the holidays by the local trustees is an absolute necessity for Algoma. Another trouble with Algoma is, settlers will do any thing but farm. Millions of acres have been burnt over by miners, and he is a poor man indeed who does not own a mine and have A BOX FULL OF SPECIMENS, Yet, if mining has done nothing it has proved the truth of Professor Selwyn's contention, that the rock of the Lauren- approaching diplomatic rehearsal. The than range is simply the ovei flow, that Commiasioner is on excellent terms wish the Chancellor, hut is never anything but an outspoken and determined aaglishmen in matters of international controversy. This will be welcome news to the United States, whose people never could understand why Lerd Saukville aegnieeced .submissively itt the German demands at the Washington Con. terrace. England in reality has larger in- terests at etake in Samoa then either Ger. many or the United States. The islands lie directly within the sphere of Australian activity Returning as he doea from an unknown land L erd Lenedale has us MI completely at his mercy. He can tell the most marvel- lous tales, and the confiding public will have to swallow them. Oa the Hay river he claims to have seen a waterfall that knocks Niagara Falle into a cocked hat, to speak figaratively, for ib is 200 feet high and a mile and a. half wide ! These improve. ments on Niagara are turning up at inter - vols. The lest one was away up north of the Quebec district. lb has never obtruded itselt upon the tourist imagination to any great extent, pad the Hay river boner ze will likely meet the same fate. Sir Julian Pauncefote, when interviewed by some New York reporters, declined to say anything about the fisheries of annexa. tion, but boldly declared himself as in favor of American mixed drinks and marriages between Americana and Britons. These bonds of union are not insignificant. Chain. berlain and Churchill have American wives, and even Martin Chuzzlewit was charmed with the sherry cobbler. The manner in which a man meets the, qu.stions of a skil- ful newspaper correspendent is not a bad test of his talents for dipiomacy, anl Sir Julian seems to possese the invaluable art of being freak without saying anything. As indicated by the crop reports from various parte of the province, the prospects, as far as they can be pronounced upon at this early period of tbe season, are very good. Spring is fully two weeks in advance of former years, and ,the ,farniers took ad- vantage of the dry weather after the dis- appearance of winter to do their seeding. Fall wheat, while not zown so extensively in some localities as usual, promiaes to be a good crop, and meadow lands, after the recent warm mine, are in a splendid con- dition and will afford much required fodder for cattle at an early day. Farmers are generally satisfied with the outlook. The appointment of Sir Edvvarti Melee as chief British Commissioner at the Sainoen Conference is regarded in London as an in- dication that L wd Salisbury will no longer play second fiddle to Prince Bismarck in the mines are wedge-shaped, wide at the top, going down to a point, and that the very richest claims are simply pockets. In several practical addresses given by him last summer he urued people to leave mining and to attend to agriculture, for in that would be their reward, And that re- ward will be ample, for sweeter grass never grew to nourith cattle upon, clearer water never fiewed, a more arable clay loam is not to be feline, and the crepe of roots, oats and Name grains generally are well up to the standard. A greae wheat country it never can. be, bus everythiog else can be raised, while the local lumbermen will not only supply a lacrative meriree but will faruish =dui work in winter for the idle farmers to add to his gabs, might draw your attention to the km menie carob of fieh at Club island, on tho Nuth of the Manitoulin and off Cockburn Island, but every atreera and almosb all pert( of the lake zupply fish, and add ma. thrielly to TOO Many Lawyers. The " Albany Lave 'Journal" candidly ad. mita Wept there are too many lawyers in the United S:ates Congress, a.nd expresses the belief that if the number were reduced by onwhalf "public business would be much more promptly dezpatchecl, and debates would be much len personal, tedious, and useless." It scouts the idea that every lawyer who goes to Congress for a term or tivo it, Or becomes, a statesmem. "He has owe weer/rex OP one sorneari, not," it says, " breadth or forecast or eon - dour enough. He is too technical and con- tents with the advantage of the moment. He knowit his political tenure is brief, so he epouts a low epeeches (ot doesn't spout them), prints them in the Record' (so dis• prised that the hearer would nob recognize them), sends thein home to his constituents, and imagines himself a statesman." Our oontemporary think e it absurd, moreover, that meet of the Cabinet; abet% should be filled by lawyers,' since they are•nototiously poor MOH of business. Inebriate:1h cia it le a legal journal that expresaes these views they are entitled to more than ordinary respects, andto wine extent at least they ate applicable to Canada, ----aseasawerowareawse What appears to be an alm'ab perfect pendeltim in reepect to simplicity is in operation at the Univertaity of Glasgow, According to thia plan a email rihotiof about L16 of an inch in diameter is ellOpended by a single silic fibre (half a c0000n fibre). two fecib long 181 a glatie tube el three foUrthe ineli internal diameter, exhausting the latter to aboUt btiii•thilth of is VaillkOlth 0i metiphere. ,Starting With a Vibrational, range Of 'ortinfourth inch ten each side ofitln, middle portion, the vibrations don be built SOUnted alien a lapse of as inany as iburthen hentrai feet not recilited eitaivehere. ; My Intention in welting this letter, however, la to draw public attention to the immense resources of" Northern (tribal°, and to ask the reetlews close to Nine here and examine for tlaerinelvcet betaie they go further and faro worse. Government laud at a nominal price is abundant, cleared. len& are cheap, low freight and patieenger rates are given for the advantage of the eettler, and the ad- vantages of achoole, eiturch and thriving vitlagee are open to the immigrant. ' This letter would nob be complete without drawing attention to the flourishitag villages and towns of Eaatern Algoma. Manitowan. ing, afire By, Little Current and Thessalon are as thriving villages as are in Ontario. Satilt Ste. Marie has at many advantages all a city, and, while the present boom cannot be Maintainedwill alwity8 be a proaperetas place. So you will see that in the gehem ation that has paned since Algoma was first opened our people have nob been idle) that the resources of the country have been Well developed, that Up till now our advantages hut been overthadowed, by our lase/tease lumber intereete, but that apart from luta. ber, we offer advantages which will shortly inake Algoma the lame of a happy and prosperods people, and all We Want rieev is for the people to Ooine and odthipy the land, AtelOtla me of an iitxperience Which hanelened a few weeks bati!t to 4MP AnierleaSi friende Of my a,a Writer in the London "Ji heath," Li the Ritiedan athennt the patient coda Plainird of thewpoverty el the soup, and, peranaded the doctor to oorne don With him to the kitchen and inspect the large Pauldron In which it was made. As he lifted the licl, the man whispered ;—"Do you knewndootor, you are so nice and fat You would make good strong broth ?" Nothing but the dootor's presentee of mind saved him. He agreed with the excellence of the idea, but suggested his clothes would spoil the !devour, and was allowed to retire to take them off. The friends of whom I speak were three sisters travelling to utney. At Waterloo they got into an ex- Frees train. As it left the atation a man jumped in, who eleickly informed theist that he had lost his htie, and hat as he believed it was in that carriage he must throw them out SD as to have a good look, The girls, with great presence of mind, suggested that the more tietwohere the more chalice of 811006811, and altholigh the car- riage door was several times flung open in preparation, by one ruse or another the madman was kept pacified until the train arrived at Putney ; but they say it was the most iimaav,ais cinart d'heure" they ever experienced. A Devil Fish Takes a Testa. ti) The Fort Myers, Fit., "Press" seys:—A few days ago, at the end of Naples wharf a 40 foot pile of about one foot diameter was loosely tied with one hundred feet of cable. The hands suddenly noticed the oable run. Ling from the coil, and before anyone could secure it both pile and cable were moving rapidly to sea. A devil fish had got tangled ia the cable. Beata were at once secured and started in pursuit, and after a two-mile race they captured the line and log, the monster having become loosened, which fact Accounts for them being able to overtake it. When we consider that -this spesies of ray attains a vveight of bhree thousand to five thousand pounds, and strength to correspond, this is not astonishing. Some months ago the pas- sengers of the steamer Fearless harpooned one of these fish near San Carlos bay, and after towing the steamer for some time. the ergine being revenged and pulling against him, they wore compelled to cut the line to prevent being carried on to Sanibel bar. Ito ata e A Danger to Democracy. In theMay number of the" Forum'' Mons. Emile de Liveleve contributes an able arti- cle on the "Perils.of Democracy." It is conoluded as followa :—" The danger threat. ening modern democracy is in the contrast between the equality of rights proclaimed and the irequaiity infant existing. Ancient democracies perished in the struggle between the rich and poor. Ix is, therefore, impera- tive that this conflict should not recommence If you give the right of suffrage to all, let all have a chance of becoming owners of pro- perty. Modern democracies will not perish in civil wars, like those of Greece, if they manage to realize the ideal revealed by Christ, true Christian brotherhood. .But 11 the antagonism between capitalists and lab, ourers oontinues and beocmes !decreer, It is much to be dreaded that, in Europe at least. democracy will end in Cresarism. Nations, tired of endless and issueless struggles, would sacrifice their liberty and seek rest under the shelter of despotism. This is the danger which is already threateningFrance." Monkey Discipline, Few nersons ever have a chance to watch the actions of monkeys in a wild state'and tame ones mimic the life going on aboutthem to such a degree that we can never feel sure their actions are not a re fi :ction' of our own. Mr. Gordon writes of them in India. They are really very like htunan beings. I was one day watching an old female who had a young one by her side to whom she was giving small bits of bread which she ha.d evidently just received from my cook• room, and with which she WAS regaling her- self at the same time. Occasionally the little monkey would endeavor to snatch a bib of the bread before the mother was ready to give it to him, when she would administer correction in the shape of a geatle box on the ear. She was in the act of doing thia when one of my servants happened to come out. At once her demeanor charged. She snatched the little one to her bosom with every ap- pearaace of maternal solicitude, and did not put him down again until the man had re. treated. An Imprudent Prime, An interesting "foreign note" in the New York "San' records that the famous Kohinoor is demanded of the Queen by Dhuleep Sing, the Indian prince once held as a hostage in England and lately escaped to itis letter to her Majesty is as follows:—"It will be useless for me to dc -mend the restoration of my kingdom, swindled from me by your Christion govern. men; but which I hope shortly by the aid of Providence, to retake from my robbers. But my diamond, the Kohinoor, I uuder- stand, is entirley at your diem oaal. Therefore, believing your Malesty to be 'the most religious lady' that your subjects pray for every Sunday, I do not hesitate to ask that this gem be restored so me, or else that a fair prince be paid for it to mo out of your privy purse.PI Going over Niagara. The telegraph brings the report that a MaD is getting a barrel ready in which he is going over Niagara Falls. It is somewhat early for the trip, but it is understood that he expects a rush later in the aeason, and wants to go when he can do it in comfort, We suppose nothing con be znore disagree- able than to go over Niagara Fails when they are crowded, and have the barrels of total strangers bumping againsb your own. No person who lovers to travel quietly and unostentatinusly will em over Niagata du- ng the basy season. —Y. Y. Pribune. A Coinoidenoe. While the Queen Regent of Spill was entertaining Queen Victoria at San Sebes:, thin, by an odd coincidence the Duchess of laladrid was extending a similar coerterly to Prineeas Louie of Bavaria at Viareggio. The Duchene is wife of Don Carloa, and, in Legiti- mist oyest rightful Queen of Spain, and the Prinewas is a direct descendant oi Charles I., and wciuld probably be Queen oi England to- day were it not for the Act of Settlement.— EN. Y. Tribune. A large Roman vatholic cathedral was puhliely dedioated at Hong Kong on Deo. 7, le holds 4,000 people and °riots $120,000. The etief ie Made Of cleat iron from GlorigoW, The Nein building is of blue trick, relieved 1?y, tbnAg bilbttesiecia of red lltinit and cerztent. 'ThVee Meeiinge in Edinbiir,gli recently protested agalheb conferring the freedom the city upon Mr, Parnell. QENBRAL ' eel a national soolety fein that w mutnal prothetion, State. oetton inanUtOotlirellihaVe establialis aaevesteci Clonneotieut loe men deolare that only half the average crop hs been h The onoe fighting Modoo Indians have be, come industriotia farmere ha the pasb twelve years and half of them We professed Chris. thinity. . • ' Six hundred and fortVwline converts were recently received inth membership of a colored church in Baltimore, the Cententia etThile°dCigizbarE' Pofi8cluasii;iti has issued an edict forbidding membere of hie family to corn traot morganatic marriages. Hereafter they must take their matrimony straight. Edmund Yates observes a revival of, coaching In England, There are this year ten (leeches running out of London,ewhich ie more than twice the number of ' a few seasons ago, It is estimated that 66 per cent. of the anthracite coal is wasted before ib gets to market. Fifty-five per cent has to be left in the mines for pillars, and 11 per tient. is lost after it gets above ground. In the Supreme Court of Canada the Chief Justice is 75, Mr. 'Justice Gwynne is 75 years, Mr. Jeatioe Strong is 63, Mr. juabice Patterson i8 66, Mr, JUSItle0 Four- nier is 64, Mr. Juatiee Techereau is 52. Oae volume of liquid benzine will render 16 000 volumes of air laminable and 5,000 volumes of air highly explosive, but nothing but contact with !lime or white-hot body will touch off the most explosive mixture of petroleum vapor and air. New Hampshire farming property is nob very valuable nowadays. A farm of 50 acres in Springfield, with a decent house raid barn in goon repair, with meadow land that outs enomeh hay for two cows *and a horse, and with a good wood lot, was hotely sold for $250. A pontoon bridge for ordinary traffic has been laid across the Missouri River at Ne- braska City. Itiis 1,074 feet long, 24; feet wide, and consists of floorings laid on anchored boats. The scheme was declared to be impracticable on account of the swift- ness of the current and the amount of drift- wood, kith is found that the drif tweed peens under dhe boats without injuring them. The bridge is built V-shaped at the channel, and a drew allows shipping to pass through. , BRIEF BUT INTERESTING. An English firm has just brought out a new sensitive flame burner, which can be extin- guished entirely by a loud noise. Joeeph Sutherland, who was a powder. monkey on board the vessel which first brought to England bhe news of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar, has just attained his 100th year at Milton, Sittingbounak Eng- land. He has good health and has all his faculties intact. The making of leaden soldiers is an indus- try centred in Nuremburg and empleying e.bohb eight hutelred people A lone war brought out the toy ab the beginning of the eighteenth century, and artists were em- ployed to make the lead soldiers faithful representations of regiments and countries. And the industry prospers moat in tiete of war. , M. lingerer believes that flowers and the perfumes dinned from them have a salutary influence with° constitution. He says that residence in a perfumed atmosphere forms a protection from pulmonary affections and arrests the development of phthisis. He adds that in the town of La Grasse, where the making of Perfumes is largely marled on, phthisis iarate, thanks to the odorous vap- ors exhaled from the dietilleries. A new system of etectric alarms has been fitted up in the British Museum. Palls are so arranged throughout the building that upon any alarm of danger by fire or dyne - miters, &t . being given, not only are the police and firemen informed of the situation from which the alarm is given, but by an automatic rehly an alarm is also given at all the entrances and in the principal librarian's house, eo that precautions could be at once taken by the police to prevent the esuane of any suspicious vieitors. An electric "lead," or shallow -water in- dicator, has been devised by two Mexicans. It is a strong cylindrical vessel, weighed so as to remain upright in the water while hanging freely on theline from the ship. In its centre is a glass or vulcanite tube half. full of mercury, the ends being closed by metallic plates connected to wires which are in the circuit of a battery and bell. When the indicator touches ,the ground it begins to drag, and being thus tilted on its side the mercury completes the circuit and the bell on dealt or in the captain's cabin instantly rings. Not a Bad Idea. An American girl may aspire tri bP Queen of Gri. t Britain and Ireland. Sir Edward Sullivan, who is a very serious Toi y of the old Protectionist school, says so, and nu Is not to be confounded with Sir Arthur Suilivan, of musical fame. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is 25, and the Qaren his grandmother, desires to see him married and settled ; but there seems to be no eligible Protestant bride for him on the continent, and those unreasonable Radicals in Parliament will be certain to make them- selves disagreeable when the question of settlements is raised. So the suggestion is offered in good faith by Sir Edward Sullivan that he shall marry an American and there- by promote Sal era of good fellowship be. tween the two great branches of the English. speaking race. It cannot be soar] that we have any great confidence in Sir Edward's belief that the relationships between England rind the United States will be premanently improved by such a union, but we do think the Royal family not of only Eng- land, but of every other country in Eurc pe, would be improved by the infusion of a limas plebeian blood; let it come from evOat nource it may as long as it wae honesn robust and pure. A Tirretil Indeed, Edwin (lately married, to hie Angelina) ; "My darling, dei you see that young man sitting by himeelf with a very, dejected rips pearance ?"a -Angelina : "Yell ; he doer& leek nielanoholY. r should think he wasih dettline, or that he had borne great sorrow " ; "You aro quite right, my love. About twebee months ago that rook fellotvfell oven head and ears in love with a very pretty girl."—"A. "Ansi she, oared. for Redmond else How awfully sad ! Or perhaps she died? W'hioli was it, love ?"—E. : "Neithn eri my own, They were married abont six Menthe ago."—A. "Edwin 1 You are a wretch 1" The Cair is suffering froth% extreihe nor- VOHS excitement, being lei constant dread at attempts upon his life, ": t'