HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-23, Page 6A BRITIBli HEM
Sir —Few mem roams in recent years have
aiitale'ened more rieeelaue interest throughout
the oivil'e ad world than the uncertainty Ese
to the fete of rhe seven hundred and twen-
ty odd human beingwho were on board the
*tower Deurnark wian she became disabled
da mid -ocean early tut Month; aud, full of
noble deeda as are the annals of British
eeamenship, few of them are more worthy of
aommemoration than the Wien 01 the kind
hearted captain and grew of idee steamer
Missouri, to whose skill and bravery these
hundreds of men, and women, and children
owe their lives.
eleving been in 'Philadelphia when. the
Missouri arrived, and witneesing the wiehusi
asm whib preyeiled thee, I have been eorne•
what surprised to see so little notice tsiken
of the °mare ice by the Canadian press.
Though not an eye witness, f kuow that
thousands of people lined the dooks and
wharves to age the steamer arrive.; and as
the noble ship approached the pier, ker decks
crowded with the resoued gemengers of the
Dannaark, the loud and prolonged cheers, the
sonorous sounds from cores o ethane
whistles, and the waving of handkerchief
and hats, produced a scene of j you exolte
anent seldom (quailed.
Henours a all descripttene were poured
upon brave Captain Hamilton ittarrell, who
is described as a tall, broad -shouldered, rosy.
faced Englishman about 29 years of age, and
who bore his honours with a simple, unas-
eumirg modesty whioh enhances if poesible
the merit of his disints rested actions. Over.
•whelmed with congratulationshe exclaimed,
"I do not know why I have been thus
treated. I have merely done my duty: I
only did what any other Ettgliehman would
lave done."
.April 5th, 1 20 p.m.. lat. 46, 10 N., long,
8,36 W., observed Demsh steamer Dan-
mark flying distress signals,
bore down to
him and found he had broken his tail. end
shaft and wished to be towed to port ; and
that he had 665 passengers on board from
-Copenhagen. At 3.20 pm,, although. blow-
ing hard from WS.W., got a tow rope on
board and proceeded ahead slow to turn her
head to rea;4 30 p.m., half speed ; towed her
all night heading the N.W., in direction of
Sb, jolan'e, Newfoundland—. .carried away
our wire bridle and bent windlass end and
started forward Pitts.
"April 6th, 5,30 pan,, seeing foe towind-
ward and every appearance of bad weather,
deoidedto go to St. latched's, Az were Hoist-
-ad. eignals to that climb, to which Danmark
agreed. At 7 20 they boisted up Leaking
considerably, three feel: water in after hold.'
I asked him what they wished me to do?
and they replied, Keep on towing.' At
'0 20 a.m. they hoisted Must abandon ship,
will send a boat.' I out the tow rope and
backed down, When the chief cffieer came
onboard and said it was impossible to keep
water out, and the weather being finer they
• had decided to abendon her if I would take
-them. I assented and lowered my lifeboat,
and with their boat the work of transport
keg commenced, women and children first,
uen afterwards and the mew, but I would
take no baggage; the heavy swell making
the work of great diffieulty, but by 4.30 p.m,
the last boat had come, and the weather
coming on thick and bacliwehad to hurry up
and leave her, so the captain came too. We
had on board 665 passengers and 69 crew,
making 735 peop:e and not a single accident."
Some further details state that as they
had only three days' food, they decided to
go to St. MioheeIng 750 mites distant They
-need sails and awnings and everything they
could 'to molre the poor people comfortable.
As it was beginning to blow hard' they de-
cided. in the crowded state of the ship,' to
ihrow some of the cargo overboard. Fine
weather from Sunday, 7th, till they landed.
"(Signed) II. Iiirraterm, Master.
Taos. F. Games, Mate."
In the above few simple statements taken
tom the official log of the Missouri is con
-
-Mined a narrative that will be treasured by
posterity. It is the record of the actions of
a hero and his crew „r it records the rescue
of over seven hundred lives from a watery
grave by means of good. judgment, prompt
action, and a noble sense of duty towards
ream
At a barqueb given on the 23rd April in
celebration of St, George's day, ab which
Captain Merrell was an nonoured guest', he
was most enchusiastically received, the
whole resemble, jumping to their feet and
cheering vociferously. The following poem
was recited by its author, Mr. Henry H.
Hay, of Girard College
'" Nothing unusual," Murrell said,
For a modest man is he;
4 We found the Danmarkbroken down,
Tossed in the trough of the sea.
She couldn't float, so we took her folk,
Woman and children, and orew;
There isn't a skipper," stout Murrell said,
4° Who wouldn't have done it, too."
'" Something heroic," the women said,
Snatched from the shattered wreak,
'Tenderly raised from the tossing boats
To the gallant Missouri's deck.
41 Something heroic," thundered two
73'
FOREIGN ITOTE$',
Forme thinks that it has a new drametie
author, Jules Letrnaitre, the author of "Re -
vette," recently prodaced at the Odeon,
A ton of rope made from the hair of
devout mown of :betel has been used in
building a 0,000,000 temple to Buddha at
Kioto.
The Freutth atmy is m king trial of a
email electric) lamp whioh is to be employ.
ed in searehing the field of battle for the
wounded.
Some of the Feria boulevardlers are
wearing Eiffel tower weistooats, covered
with filures of the great tower a couple
of inohes high.
Brussels has distinguished herself by a
bonnet show. The drat prize was given to
a "fiat, oyster shell sort of contrivance,
decorated with raaperries,"
The Frenoh " National Lon= Against
Atheient" propeller, to meet a statue to Chao.
mail, the oeneenerian chemist, to record. the
fact that he remeinecl "a believer" through.
out his life.
Ten and three-qaarters miles is the range
that the Prima have obtained for the
forty-three ton gun, thirty.five feet long,
with an 800 weight projectile mud 425
pounds of powder.
The greatest snuff -taking country in the
world is Franoe though it shows a decline
in the habit. in 1869 the consumption was
13,000,000 pounds, or seven ounces per head,
NOw it is five ounces.
The street oar drivers who have been on
strike in Vienna, and who have finally suc-
cumbed, average about sixty cents in wages
for a day beginning at 7 in the morning aud
ending at midnight or I A, M.
On the 9 di of Jane the statue of Giordano
Brano, in the Compo dei Fiori, will be in-
augurated. All railroads travelling to
Herne have been inked to offer special facil-
ities, aude is the importance of the event.
An association of "endormeurs " has been
unearthed in Belgium, whose occupation is to
engage a single railway traveller in conversa-
tion, offer him a cigar prepared with ohloro-
form, which puts him to sleep, and rob
The newest feature of personal adornment
is made up of hairs froni the tail of the Afri-
can elephant, made into watch guards and
bracelets, The elephant; is now becoming so
scarce that his relics are said to be very
fashionable.
LO.T IN Tag onAcomfm
owing, Experience or a couple eirAnterican
tt has.
The fright of a New York girl in the
Catacombs of Pole is Chao described int a
private letter from an American tourist in
Faris, says The New York Sun :—All Am-
ericana go through the Cetaeloilthe, and the
other morning when I jumped out of my
Macre in the queer little whitewashed in
olosure at the head of the steps, 1 saw a
typical matinee assonb`age, waiting to be
shown the bones of I cannot say how many
million French eople. We bought candle
of the old W0111011 WhQ hawked them about
the yard, and then et ertecl down in single
file through the iron door leading into a wen,
like the doer of a tomb. The Stahl:We
WAS a viral one, and I grew tired after the
that few rnonaents of counting the step I,
The air grew perceptibly colder as we de-
scended, and peculiarly uncanny and fright-
ful. It seemed like going down into the
sea. The moisture dripped into my face
from the oeiling after a time. I presume
we walked in a line for fully two miles
through tortuous passages, warmly wide
enough to pen a person in, with piles of
bones reaching above our bestirs and crowned
with grinning skulls. The ground and the
ceilings were of the consistency of damp
chalk. My feet grew wet as I walked, and
the moist air was painful to my lunge. A
bell was tolling moat dismally somewhere in
the dreadful place. A group of French
etudents up ahead of me were singing a
ribald song. The candles in front and be
hind me cask wet, slivery gleams of light
over the skeletons. I regretted ooming
into the dreadful place. I had 'heard of
people getting lost in the oatioombs. I
oould imagine nothing so ghastly in life,
And it is gospel truth that tor nearly a
minute I and a well-known society girl of
New York, she a stranger to me, thought
ourselves lost. We reached a dark cell
from which ran four or five different paths.
We happened to be ab the end of the line,
The rest vanished somewhere, we could not
say where. Which road to take we
did not know. She stood with her
back against one wall holding her candle
high above her head and staring wildly at
me. I have no doubt I was in as great an
attitude of fear as she. I shall never forget
the looks of that girl or the sound of her
soream as she understood her situation. I
ran to her, grasped her by the arm and
shouted. And then one of the guides of the
line came out of the roads into the cell where
we were. We both clutched him nervously
by the hands. The girl was crying hysteric-
ally and I was laughing the someway. The
guide ran ahead and we followed,soon catch-
ing up with the rest of the people. When
we arrived a, half hour later up into the clear,
safe world I thanked my stars that I was out
of that tomb. The society girl frotn New
York threw a rose to me as she jumped into
a landau with her family. Otherwise I
should have hated that journey through the
catacombs of Paris."
The Turkish Government is building a
special palace for Emperor William when
he visits Constantinople in the fall. There
are already dozens of palaces standing vac
ant and the treasury has long been erapty
but that does not matter in Turkey.
Young French priests will before long be
liable to military service in France if the
new military bill goes through, as it is
thought it will. It is alleged that thou-
sands of young men enter the eeminswiee
every yeer in order to avoid the army.
A grand washerwomen's competition has
been held at Bonveret, on the shores of
Lake Geneva, between French and Swiss
lannoresses. Two of the champion washer-
women of Paris appeated th represent their
country, and one, Mlle. fefevre, aged 19,
won the first prize A banquet wound up a
day such as the lake had never witnessed.
worlds—
Manly, heroic, and true;
'True red as the dyes of Britennieht flag
Is the Wood of the captain and crew.
e silent, ye ecoffers, who said that proud
flag
Is only an emblem of trade.
here is a captain who sacrificed bales
To shelter man, WOMan, and maid.
he stars of Columbia, the cross of Sb.
George'
This day in bis honour are swayed;
bile Eogiand's red ensign commandeth
the sea,
May Mardis be found 'neoth its shade.
ay mercy be ever the star of the sea,
May triumphs of pity ne'er cease ;
scribe on the ensign, " The Swiftest in
war,
he foremost in mercy and peace."
n reolying to the eulogies pronounced
n him, the captain in the course of his
ar -a said
Sailors are nob acoustomed to speech-
ing, but I desire to expressi to you my
b heartfelt thanks for the courtesies
ch I have received at your hands. I do
know why all this should be. It is true
ship was sinking, and we had to jettison
cargo in order to take the pessengers on,
any other E eglish sea captain would
done the same. My cfficere and orew
nerving ef equal praise. The credit
e probably most of all to the maritime
1 which trans its men to properly per -
their duty."
honour to Oriptein Hamilton Murrell
is gallant orew. Such an occurrence,
he anisummate seamanship dieplayed
that terrific storm in the harbour of
by bhe captain and crew of H. M. S.
pe, are evidence thab the spirit which
ted British milers in bygone days still
is ready to triatifest Rolf whenever
oasion calls for it.
Yours, eto
3. Bonen= 1Viesort.
nto, May, 1889,
habit of taking (Abet lama to be ex.
prevalent in thetuseth of Ireland.
141ISOBTIA1EOUS,
The fine old oak which vvas blown down
the other day la f rout of the White HOLM
Was planted by Martha Washington.
The wrap in highest favor is the •one
thet partakes of both the ji011013 and cape,
a tight fitting bodice, wit aout eleeves, over
which a loose cape reaches to the waist.
In vita of all the adverse criticism, the
imperial government has carted its naval
defence bill and an attempt will be made
et n cut of 21 00,001 to retain for Great
Britain the proud title of Mistress; of the
&M. It's to be hoped, however, that the
deing wili not be overdom and monster
ships built that will hardly float in ordinary
weather and iu a gale are likely to settle,
Wove Him to Drink—Polioeman (to Mr.
Jenkins, who is fumbling vsith his night key
et a house on Western avenue) —You don't
live there any longer, Mr Jenkins. Mr.
Jenkins (suddenly sobering up) --What's that
you
South th YAlifelfltwhaanvel niroetabet;
did, didn't they? * * * I told Maria
when she was jawing about taking down the
stove thather frightful teinper would drive
me to drinking.
Gen. Greely, iellief of the Weather Boman
at Washington, announces that his staff will
attempt during the coming simmer to ex-
tend the range of weather predictions by
making forecasts thirty.six or forty-eight
hours ahead. The opinion of the press of
tte United States appears to be, however,
that "Old Probs" had better confine his
endeavours. Very many failures have been
made during the pest year, and much dis-
oath:fruition has been expreeeed with regard
to the work of the bureau.
The memory of Lord Beaconsfield is pre.
served in England with remarkable fidelity.
The depth and :sincerity of the national Who
tion for the dead statesman was seen recent-
ly on the anniversary of his death. From
the Sovereign down to the masses the day
was remembered by many millions. The
wreath sent by the Q leen to Lord 33eaoons•
field's grave at Hughenden was inscribed
" A mark of affeotionate remembrance from
Victoria, R. I.," and the admirers .,of the
Earl wore primroses, the flower that has
become the badge of the great political
league maintained by the Coneervatives. In
London and all the principal provinoial
towns the event, was armilarly recognized.
Saa serpente have been _justly censured
because, after displaying themselves in all
the parapheinelio of flaming eyes, npreared
crests and unreasonably long tails, they
have basely sneaked away, leaving the
sobriety of the honegt observer at the
mercy of unfeeling jests. A land snake,
however, cannot play thews tricks. One
appeared recently on the Island of Trinidad
and devoured horses, pigs, cows and chil-
dren, until the inhabitants arose, tracked
the monster to a cave and slew him with
three volleys from rifles. Hie body was
forty-seven feet long, and its greatest
diameter was two and a half feet. If it had
been seen at sea it would have been attri-
buted to Trinidad rum.
A Bordeaux correspondent, defending
French claret, says that it is quite true that
"large quantities of scecalled wine are year-
ly manufactured in France from dried our -
rants; but it cannot be too widely known
that none of this decidedly inferior article
ever reaches the foreign market, being con.
mimed solely by the French lower cle.sses on
account of its cheapness." .
It will interest musicians to hear that per-
haps the first violinist in the world, J oachim.
oould be thus criticised with Justice. Oa
the occasion nf his jubilee in London the
"World said "One of the roost remark
able incidents of the last evening was the
phenomenal purity of Joaohim's intonation.
It is not always so, but on that evening his
intonation was wonderful."
THE BUTTON' BATED MS LIFE.
ife carries a Renege Out ot tibay rrison
and Roney ensue in Response.
Von Moltke's objection to intrnsting
private soldiers with a rifia whith can be
fired too easily appears jastified since two
German regiments have held a sham fight
with an imaginary enemy consisting of
wooden palisades. The command was three
times given to "fire at will," and 220,000
rounds were fired. About nine -tenths of
the bullets went clean over the palisades.
The military custom of saluting by bring
ing the hand into a horizontal position over
the eyebrows, is thna accounted for: It is
supposed to date back to the tournaments
of the middle ages, when, after the Qtmen
of _Beauty was enthroned, the knights who
were to take part in the sports of the day
marched p 1st the dais on which she sat, and
as they passed shielded their eyes fromothe
rays of her beauty.
The theory is now offered'that Gen. Boul-
anger was tricked out of France by the
acute Ministry which desired to keep him
away in order to stop the excitement pro-
duced by his presence. The Minister of
tho Interior, M. Constans, sent for one of
the high police damn and commanded him
to have eix determined fellows, who would
be intimidated by nothing, ready to arrest
Gen. Boulanger without ;legal authority.
The police officer endeavored to get the
order modified, but without avaD, and
thereupon, as it was hoped he would, went
and told the General, who fled.
Whilethe rain was falling in torrents
yesterday morning a number of gentlemen
were comfortably seated in a hotel of this
city &Mussing different eubj sets, when the
oonversatioa drifted to mementos and relics.
Several little keepsakes had been exhibited
and commented upon when George Clutch
of Columbus, Incl., drew from his pooket a
braes button, which, upon impaction, proved
to be from the coat of a federal soldier.
"The little curiosity has a history," said
Mr. Clutch. " It is cherished by the per-
son who formerly wore it, as it probably
saved his life."
On being pressed to relate the story re-
garding it, he said: "Daring the latter part
of the war my brother-in-law, T. F. Gallag-
her. who now resides in Ohio, had the mis-
fortune to be captured by the confederates,
and was confined in Libby prison. After he
had been there some time he began to feel
the need of money, which would enhance his
prospect of getting to the union lines should
he manage in some way to make his escape.
The fact becoming known to him that a
surgeon of his regiment, who was also a
prisoner, was about to be exchanged, he cut
oil this button from his COLO, and separating
the two parts of it, made s. receptacle inside
by taking out the paper.fitling. He then
wrote the following. nous." (At dile juncture
Mr. Clutch by a gunk movement separated
the two parts of the buttonand a =tall pie=
of paper, yellow with age, wadded -up, fell
upon the floor.
If we are not, exchauged by Deo. 1,
send me 30 in greenbaeks, -put in a phial,
canned up in a can of preserves or. black-
berries. Send it in a box of previsions.
T. F. GALLAGHER,"
Bummer.
BY anomie MACE.
Risk% to view, Summer appeore,
Her toyona lay enchants our ears,
Each blade of grass, earth ll -blown
ft) were
Proolaims her beauty end her power;
No longer buds alone we ees,
Instead., we view the full blown tree.
Nature, apparently at rest,
In Stamina% glowing tints is dressed.
In vain we seek the :sheltered bowers,
No buds are there, all blooming flowers.
The eun'e warm, penetrating ray
Has warmed them'kindly, day by day.
And on thisi bright, cffaigent morn,
Of Spring's green garb, we find them
shorn ;
They trembling stead in modaet guise,
Ashamed to meet (Mance wanderer's
eyes.
What acme resemblance thus, they bear
To modest youth, without a care,
Who lave aside his aluldieh play,
And henceforth traverse man's hard way.
The glowing, brilliant, summer sun
Proclaims his manhood new begun,
The teeming earth, and bright blue
skies
Proolehn drat joy before him lieu.
The eathering Borne.
The are gathering homeward from every
land,
One by one ;
As their weary feet towth the shining strand,
One by one,
Their browa are inclosed in a golden crown,
Their travel -stained garments are all laid
down,
And clothed in white raiment they rest on
the mead
Where the Lamb loveth his chosen to lead,
One by one.
Before they rest they pass through the strife
.1iITI15 a NEWS.
There were 10,986 pictures aubmittod for
tlais year's exhibition, at the London •Atm-
derny.
uAc
r ohoape ye aof b yJ John heE ltixout st bea ol ofhasthej Ba beenbis h
has
h riaw13. eoemnal :4, il 1 nY. ocitee(Autdi lltehda tt Lld YSd
to be mIenm:
her of the County Couttoil.
A number of reindeer have been imported
from Norway and turned on a forest in the
north ot Scotland in the hope that they may
be"ineaaco
li ;tit ° 9de
Alreadyed of diplomacy end in-
trigue is said to be on foot in order to get
the peat of Poet Liureate when Tennyson
dies. nihEsrTithaeslY
leleapaeroplis si2aLohYde4.
onr' hang raised
$4,500 with which to pay the filet cost
and maintain for a year an ambulancetsyetem
odelled after that of New York,
Lady R indolph Churchill is about to
make her debet in literature, it la said, with
an artiele in Longumea's New Revhto on her
experiences in R assian eoeieV ••
The Baffelo "Express pleads for the
honest use of cobton.seed oil, the ohief ob.
j action to the article being that ib is made to
ni isquerade Es olive oil or lard, The Mitine
sand and herring, which are sold as sardines,
are packed in it, as are also- very many of
the Earopeen sardines. The supply of olive
oil is much too small for the purpose. Much
of the so.calied lard of commerce is also
either pure cotton -seed oil or a mixture of
it with real lard, and it is said to be difficult
to detect the difference between the spurious
and the genuine artiola Cheraiate have
pronounced a wholeaome article of fetid
'
and the "Express" contends, therefore that
there is nothing to lose and much to be
gained. by the honest sale of it under its own
name.
A little over a week ago thousands of ex
cited human beings were engaged in a mad
race into Oklahoma ; to day they are scramb-
ling as eagerly to get out of the territory.
The promised land has proved to be for the
moat part a veritable -desert. A newepaper
correspondent says of it :—"Never was a
country so absurdly over praised. The por-
tion of the Indian territory opened up corn
prises the very worst land in it—land which
even the Indians would not live on in any
number." Ib seems strange that this was
not discovered before. The explanation,
probably is that every would-be settler who
was told the truth about the territory sus-
pected his informant of lying for the pur-
pose of lessening the competition for home-
steads.
Still the sources of disease multiply. Cows
communicate tuberculosis and. typooid fever;
cats carry diphtheria and scarlet fever from
house to house ; dogs, birds and other ani-
mals bring contagion; milk and oysters de
velop tyrotoxioon ; our eatables and drink.
e.bles generally are sources of alarming dia.
eases, and people are almost becoming afraid
of oetmeal. The egg, the wholesome, nutri
tious egg, is now attacked, and may soon be
classified with railk as a deleterious food. A
leading United States journal refers to the
egg as "an ut questionable souroe of disease,"
and makes discomforting :suggestions
&bout the egga of fowl affected with anthrax
(fowl cholera) causing severe diarrt re). when
eaten, or resulting in diseased chickens
when hatched. Modern investigation seems
to be making living a deadly occupation,
and eating a thing to be dreaded.
The returns for accidents on the railwaysi
of the United Kingdom during the year
1888 are interesting. Eleven paseengere
were killed and 594 injured, as against 25
passengers killed and 538 injured in 1887.
There were 96 injariea from other muses
than those due to millstone and mechanical
defects. Of eervants of the compenies there
were 389 deaths and 2,100 injuries. FA ty-
three persons perished at grade crossings.
The total is nearly 1,000 killed and 9,000
injured in connection one way or ahother
With the railway system. There were 35
collieions between passenger trains and 54
between passenger and freight trains.
There were 288 failures of axles, the great
er part belorging to engines. In 1872 the
reilway deaths were ono in 18,000.000 pas
eengere carried. It is now one in 70,000,-
000.
The misaive is well prederved, and when
placed back in its hiding -place fitted as
nicely as 11 113 had been moulded there.
''After fasteninp the button together se-
curely again," continued Mr. -Clutch, "it
was made to take the place ot another on the
uniform of the surgeon, *ho delivered it to
Mrs. Gallagher in due time. It could not
have escaped the scrutiny of the dam had
ib been carried out of the prison in any other
manner, as they searched the exchange
prisoners, including the surgeon, minutely.
Gallagher did not have much hopes that his
scheme would summed, even should his wife
receive the note, bub in a shorter time than
he expected a box was delivered at the
Prison for liitn, and after it had passed a
rigid examination was handed to him. When
opened it was found to contain several cans
of preserved fruit, all of whioh had been
opened by thei Inspecting effieer. In one of
the ems, the cdtitents of ' 'which had been
cooked until it was nearly black, was found
a libtle bottle in whioh was the coveted $30.
Soon after receivingthe money Gollagher
made his escape, being one of the planners
of the great tunnel delivery. With the aid
of the $30 he reached the Federal lines and
WAS allowed to return home. Without the
aid of the money he claims that it would
have been impossible for him to have sub.
sited in the country he was in and he
would have died of starvation."
While Mr, Clutch was visiting -Gallagher
a shoat time ago he was given the letter and
button to keep as a memento, .—[From the
Lonieville Coati er. Journal.
One by one
Through the waters of dee& they enter life
One by Ona.
To some are the iloods of the river still,
As they ford on their way to the heavenly
hill;
To others the waives run fiercely wild,
Yet they reach the home of the =defiled
One by one.
An Oculist's Advice.
Keep a shade on your lamp �r gas burn.
er.
Never read or sew direotly in front of a
light, window or door.
It is best to let the light fell from above,
obloquely over the left ehoulcier.
Never sleep So thab on firat wakening the
eyes shall open on the light a window.
Never begin to read, write or sew for
noverel minutes after coming from darknese
to light.
Do not use the eyesight by light so
scant that it req.:lira an efforb to disarbre
butte whether twilight, moonlight or on
°lady dare
Finally, the moment you are inetinotively
prompted to rub your eyes, Mita moment
stop tiding therm
We tob shall come to the river side
One by one.
We are nearer its waters each eventide,
One by one.
We oan hear the noise and dash of the
stream
Now and again through our life'a deep
dream.
Sometitnes the floods all the banks ovinflow
Sometimes in ripples and small waves go
One by one.
Jesus I Redeemer! we look to Thee,
One by one,
We Mb up our voices tremblingly,
One by one.
The waves of the river are dark and cold,
We know nob the space where our feet may
bold;
Thou who didst pass through in deep mid-
night,
Strengthen ua—send us the staff and the
The disappearance of the English whisker
In favor of the moustache leada to the query
whether the English cheek la not too red
and fat bo balsam -tided to go clean shaven.
A novelty for personal adornment is the
gemmed hairband, an arrangement of fine
netting to match the hair, with little jewels
fastened thickly in it so that the hair seems
to be sown with jewels. ,
The newest thing In London household
economy is a female butler—a maiden dress-
ed in a livery of blue, green, old, or soar -
let, as taste may prefer. The Effect alleged
is "more quiet and equal style."
Information. For Emigrants,
For the benefit of such of our readers as
may contemplategoing to Oklahoma, we have
with much care and eirournspection prepar.
oa a list of those 'agricultural implements
whieh the exigehoiets of soillimate, and
society there suggest as moat to be desired.
Tho list is as follows:— -
Money enough to take you there.
One pistol.
Some whiskey.
Another pistol.
Some more Whiskey.
A long box.
Money enough to bring you baok in the
boa,--EWiethington POSt.
One by one.
Plant Thou thy feet beside us ; we tread
One by one,
Oa Thee let as lean eaoh drooping head,
One by one ;
Let but Thy- strong arm around as be
twined,
We shall oast all our fears and cares to the
wind. •
Saviour !Redeemer 1 with Thee full in view,
gtadsomely, shall we pass through
One by one.
A whil ago the British Government asked
all of ite colonies if they would give their en
couragement and cooperation to a scheme of
Satte directed and assisted emigration from
the British Islands. Mach to the Ent p ims of
the Colonial Secretary, only two colonies:,
Natal and West Australia, would listen to
the achetne at all. Some or the ooloeies are
doing all they, can to attract a fine oleo of
immigration, 1311b in new countries where
pluolt and perseverance are essentiel! to am
cess, ne'endo.wells who have to be helped
away from home are just the sort of people
who are wanted. The foot is that most of
the regions bite whith Eerope has been pour-
ing her overfiove f or years are becoming a
little more particular about the newcomers,
and there are already indications of a time
when Europe will be asked to keep her sons
St home unities she etin send out pretty
°holm iipectinene. The probability that
Europe's present dumping grounds Inc siur.
plus population will before long be reduced
in twee probatly Explains in pars her reoent
frantic scramble Inc new colonial posses.
dons.
Imitating Mary.
Young Mamma . " Children, why are you
nodding And emilling at all the policemen
we pass ?"---Ceildreh (who are in the habit
of taking their morning walke with the
nursetnaid) : " Oh, becauee Mazy alivan
does, mamma.''
T he Man for the Soh.
Van Deub: "I understand thet old Mrs,
Mushroom wahts her portrit painted the
worst way." Van Dirks,: "WarliS it the wore t
way, does she ?" Van Daub: "So she says."
Doke: "Then yodre just the' artiat
for the job."—Amerthan.
A Banc of Sprine.
God's Love has broken winter's chain,
The E irth ie Paradise again,
A smile of sun, a kiss of showers:
After this waiting what relief
To scent the spring; the robin thief
Chirps champion on the holly bough.
• Let's sing 1 the winter's over now,
And lovers lead beloved ones home.
• Tho snowdrop's come
Have you forgotten? Love, last year
The springtime smiled without a tear 1
That night when we went out and kissed
The roses folded op in mist 1
That day you pulled the branches down.
`And made for me a leafy &own!
To you, street heart, when sun had set ,
I gave cloaed daisies Moment 1
'Tis spring again Ilve's hour has name.
The snowdrop's done
The startling announimment is oorriplac-r
ently made by one of the chief metropolitan
dallies that "competeot judges all agree that
the London fashionbear Away the palm
this spring from rhea° of Paris."
Tat) Landon Workingmen's lord's Day
Resb Association have sent an urgent letter
to the County Council against the opening
of museums and other amusements , by
whioh 150,000 men would be forged to work
seven days in the week.
In discussing the relations of England's,
power to the world at lerge, Sir George
Baden Powell recently remarked in public
that "at least 80 per cent of the coaling
stations of the worldoould be in her hands,
and, that secured, the enemy would be pow.
erless."
The greatest of the new English ironolads,
the Nile, had to be taken oat of dry dock
because of her structural inability to support
her armor. The Nile rates as of 12,000 bons,
and the weight of her protecting armor, ex -
acuity° of gla,oia plates and steel decks, is
4,2OT3hetofanes.
te
st locomotive employed in carry.
ing the Scotch mail, where the highest ra
of speed in Eogland is attained, has three -
cylinders, a new departure in locomotive
building, and a seven.feet driving wheel. e
It has been made specially for hign epeed
with heavy trains.
The Joneses are at the head of the English
okrgy list with 450 representatives, while
the Sinktis follow with 318, After them
come the Williamses with 295 and the
Evanees with 164. The Smiths make such an
unexpected allowing because of there being
almosb none in Wales.
Hereafter the boats to be carried by Ate
lantio steamers instead of being made of
wood, will be made of steel, in one piece.
Wooden boats rob and are easily crushed.
The new beats will be built by machinery es -
Rectally taade for rolling them out in all
sizes in a single plate.
Of the £20,000,000, of personal property
'left by wills in the first quarter of 18S9 in
Great Britsiin the portion left to charity was
but £368 805. The three largest estatesiwere
Mr. Ryland', Manchester manufacturer and
werehousernen, £2,574 922; Sir William
Peathe's, Glasgow shipbuilder, :61,069,669,
and Mr. W. J. Cookson's, chemical manu-
facturer, £585,000.
Tne number of queer and foreign names in
the list of the English navy is accounted for
by the custom in old times of, converting
every captured vessel to the service of the
captor with the old name retained. As the
original vessel wore out, the one that was
built; to replaoe ib received the same name,
so that all such names commemorate some
victory won in former times.
Berry, the English hangman, is not an
appointed officer, and consequently dose not
feel himself under any. offioial ,resteaint re-
garding his corsdnot. He hangs by the
piece, all over the oontnry, wherever he is
called. He makes himself so prominent at
levees and snicking concerts the day ti before
and after xeserions that it has become a
matter of public toandal, and a motion has
been made in the House of Commons that
She hangmen shall be placed under the OM-
trol of the Home Offioe, and !subjected to
such restrictions as may be considered de.
cent.
Te Farrier'a Company, in order to pro-
mote progress in their aril, have arranged
with the Royal Agricultural SooietY to hold
a horseshoe:mg competition at the forthcom-
ing show at Whacker. The works of old
writers on the subject of horseshoeing afford
interesting study. Xenophen . never men-
tions horseehoes. He recommended only a
stone flooring in the deletes to harden the
hoofe, as did also Virgil. Perhaps the first
mention of an iron horseahoe occurs in ma-
nn:Alen wibh Chiidtith who lived A. D. 481,
and from a drawing of that shoe it is appar-
ent that it did not differ materially from the
shoe of the present day. In the middle of
the last century Li. Fosse, farrier to the
King ot France, advocated a half-moon shoe,
or tip, in order to bring the frog on the
ground, ri theory which has its advocates to.
(ley.
Have you not felt. Ennyet ? You will,
That wild reaction,and the thrill
Of nature's resurrection day,
That aomes as prelude to our Paley I
The May we've sworn to love, whose birth
Sands oarols round the weary earth.
I have forgiven all ; oen you,
Who sent me winter thyme and rue.
Forget Leven birthday ? Spring is home.
The snowdrop's come!
Let's turn the year's sad leaf; forget
Its tear -stained pages, Margaret.
The checkered chronicle of time
That died in sorrow, born in rhyme,
Love% epitaph 'twits I alone
Carved on a monument of stone •
" Look round Eternity means ove,
There's no decay 1 In °eves above
The swallows 'gather, winging home,
The snowdrop's come 1"
—CLEMENT SCOTT.
In Place of the Gallows.
New York has bought its electrical appar.
atus for executions at Aubarn Clinton, and
Sing Sing. The dynamos produce' the "Al-
ternating current which kills at 140 volts.
In addition to a Westinghouse dyriamo each
prison will re mire an • eocoiter,' to be used
es an auxiliary to the dynamo; a strong
oaken chair, in which the convict hi to sit
and be killed ; an electrical cap and electrioal
shoes. The electrical cap is made of metal
oovered with sponge, whioh is saturated with
salt water before being put on to tho con
viot's head. When 113 ±8 on it is called an
" electrode," and the other " electrode," -to
be put on the convict's feet, is a heavy pair
of tightly laoed slices with .6ponge inside.
A wire, after the " electroded " conviot hat
been :strapped in the ealrea chair, 18 eon.
neeted with the shoes and cap the warden
of the prison closes the "circuit "for fifteen
seconds, and all is over with the convict.
--EEL
Lured From Rome.
TORONTO, May 21.—Some Nine in Feb.
ruory lost a young girl named Jeusile Man
rang rat away 1 corn het home it Ttenton,
and it was thought she came to this city.
Detectives wete nit to work on the ease, and
aseertaitied that she had been lured from
home by a Man named Caininings, a baker
by trade. Cumthings was trapped by the
detectiveand oonfeesed he the girl's where-
abouts, She was found in a. halide on Ontario
etreet, and agreed to go home with her
mother.
Mostof thenew green shades combine taste-
fully svith whitee iseige, or doragtey cloth.
A reed.green Chuddah gown has both sides
of the skirt in green silk chain, on which are
wide bands of wide silk gimp, while on the
fronte are fiat sash ends of the Chuddainfin-
billed with white silk fringe, wieh a rich
gimp heading to matoh. The high Empire
waist has a girdle, shoulder ornainents, and
collar of the galloon.
In a paper in the current number of the
"North American Review" on the zuloject of
the annexation of Mexioo by the United
States, M Romero, the Mexican Minister at
Washington, says incidentally that if the
United States intended to pursue ah annexa-
tion policy it would be only natural that it
should begin with Canada, whose people be-
long to the same race, speak the same
langtrage, have the RAMO origin, profees the
BOAnereligion, and are practically one people,
divided only by an imapinary line. "And
yet," M. Homers) proceeds, "there is no
party here, to my knowledge, favouring the
annexation of Canada by force or ponquest,
and some of the most prominent men of the
country have expreseed their opposition to
such a measure, even if asked voluntarily by
the Canadians. Olio of the strongest reasons
advanced aping: such union ie that about
oncofourth of the Canadians aro of Preneh '
origin, end therefote diffioult of assitnila-
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