HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-6-13, Page 2IIEVEN DAY'd IN A BLIENXNEVSALP
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Cute noliertsonee Story et Me Sailing
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, • S,3410 antes with Ohs Cargo on Wire
Cant. Thomas Robertson of the steamer
nawkhuret, in a letter to the ownere of the
hreesel, gives the story of one of the most re
maekahle exhileitions of pluck, brevarY, and
nue Seamanship. on, reocri. Tile feet of sail -
jug seven days, a dietance of 2,300 nailea, on
a burning venial, -Reel deelining to stop at
,pointawheie facilities-1'er putti g ut the fire
, a °
without endangerine the cargo and ehip, was
'regarded by the Emperor of Brazil es so
noteworthy an adievement as to warrant
hie conferrieg 'mon the master a medal of
the first clan. The Ilawkhuret is a 13 itish
eteamand. belongs to the packet line rum
ning between Autwerp, London. and Br zl.
Pape, Rebeettion at One time , woe. master of
the horde Auttorquill of Nicarangra and the
,stearaer Etstovv of London. In pis letter"
.apt. Robertson mys : . . ,
"The Howkhurst mailed from London on
Ilerch 16, bound for Rio Janeiro with a gen,Aye,
•eral eargo. On Maroh.23 wetwere in latitude
11 0 .nortle longitude 27 0 west 500 Miles
, , . - ,
math ef the Island of St. Vincent, when, at
3 A. M., dense filmes of smoke were oinierv•
ed. coming out of the ventilators in Nth, 2
hold. We at once blooked the ventilators
made holes in the decks, pouring steam is,
fronothe thainbeilere, And water, too, .The
fire seemed to have a great hold on the cargo
in the lower hold, and it Could not , be put.
out. During the next four .days . tae decks
were red hot. I may mention that there
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was•a between•deok of iron above the fire,
and., above this iron deck was stored 700 bar
rels . of oil, tow, tallow, and other inflator
enable materiels.
d' I thought at the beginning of thia mei
dent that I would put back to, Sr. Vincenb.
but oa further consideration I did not reckon
tit prudent, as the wind was strong ahead,
besides, if I had b k th
. gone 8.0 • ere were no
appliances for . putting out fires on the
island. I therefore steamed on to Rio,
liming Pernambuco, where they would not
have entertained a burning ship conaing inof
the harbor. My only resource had I gone
to St. Vincent, Pernambuco, or Bahia
would have been to fill the hold with water,
and to do this I would have to ground theapoplexy."
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ship, which might have caueed a total loss.yon.
!Three days after the fire commeaacel the
starboard bunkers caught fire. This aroee
from the great heat of the decks and
hull of the ship. We put them: out
in twenty 1 our hours. The 1 °Rowing
day our. port bunker took fire but we could,
not extinguish them, and they burned for
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seven days. Oa our arriving at R'o the
authorities sent us their fire brigade free ofyou
charge. This brigade is as good as any in
the.world. After two days' work they sub
dned. the fire. The distance we sailed while
on fire was 2,300 miles, and it took seven
days tnmake the dietance."
In recognition of the good seamanship, and
'bravery of Capt. Robertson, the groperor of
Brazil,..Dom Pedro II., wrote the Captain a
personal letter, and gave him a medal of the
first class,. which was presented to the Cap
tain by Forrerrie. Vienne, Home Minister of
the °TaPfr6• .
It does not pay to be too modest in thie
world. The individual who underrates his
own capabilities mekes quite as eerious a
mistake Ila he, Who unduly vaante himeelf.
the rialifsx "Herald" draws attention to•
that city's merits se an ocean port: "Heti-
fax will compere very favorably with Neve
York as a port of entry for fast Atlantic
steamers. New York hathor has more ice
than Halifax harbor • and if het Sandatde
experience is to be taken as the criterion,
we have less fog on this coast. On that day
the French steamer Le Normandie ran down
the pilot boat Charlotte Webb, and two
pilots lost their lives. The Ward line
steamer" City of Atlanta ran donn the
mnixonna.,...13s.,..:,.....1,--,...,.. ...,,,......g- Lier el 40
through to the foremast. The SS. Camel
ran into the SS. Guyandotte, seriously
damaging both vessels. A number of steam
ers were lbag delayed' by the fog. This does
not speak well for foggy New York." Oar
ocean ports, like St. John; Halifax, etc ,
ail) perfectly justified in keeping their ad.
vantages betore the public. One New York
paper not long ago founded an elaborate
article on Canada's absolute dependence
npon United States ports in winter, having
none of her own. Where ignorance is blies
A WiliDCAT8 AW•EUL LEA -r.
WIT Affp lirlspo.m.
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' - Little boy-"Matnatet are .yete really
lag to MarrY an ,Itelunt ,00llut t
widow -"Yea, nty pet" Little bey
fightAldly)-.11011• then roan hnve the
• • , ... e .
key to play with, can't I?"
Hicks, (to Briggs., who has had a elated
thrget praetio.e) -Did you hit the hull
old tem P' Brig8a-No; it wage, cow,
lievet Atasny rate it cost me $100 to
-
up with the fellow who owned the critter
nereg000ee_eyou seem to be fairly
tutted with that • ekeleton in the
What inakell yea look at it se intently?
0,1006unit:10_0, nothiegn,r woe wooering
i fit was one of your patients. -Troy
,
Lawyer-" My °modelle° troub, led
last nigho about that fee. I
Jones yesterday." Friend (astehish.
Yourconeoienee V! . LAW er-" Cetteinlv.
.
r meta afraid that I had been entitled)
-
self." , ' .
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"I don't say marriage isa. failure,"
Adauk c'and'KUY' as he sat dawn an a
outside the Garden of Eden and looked
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h h Id
grtly, at the fruit on t e ot er a e
Wall, "hat if I. had remained single.
wouldn't have happened." ,
Hyperbole. ,Lecturer (speaking
great fire. of London) -"It is not too
to say, gentlemen, that when the 11(413'
timt ateful event hmenie knoten, the:
north and south, leaped from their sockets,
. et • ' n
and stare aghast at the Equator !
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A Love of justiee,-“Where did you
th tA • ?" "2/1 th - it
a oak, Annie • 0 engahe ,
"She's always a -giving' you noire'n she
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me• 'Never mind, Harty ; sh_e's going
tone ar , p ea ors on. to.night, put t d - 1 st ' ua to night
ask her to let you heve the biggest."
. Little girl (who is travelling with
mother on the . sleeping oar) -" 1 guess
won't have to say my prayera to-nighte
mamma." Mother -"Certainly ; why
- so ' •
Flossie . Little girl --"Why in all
nein, mamma, God eouldn't hear a
Hortense--" I broke the engagement
Charlie as soon as I hettra he bad a stroke
• Miss Snyder-" Don't youthink
• - ••
were ernel to, thus add to his suffering
by hurting his feelings ? Hortense-"
' te • -
how mu d I hurt Ma -feelings when the
was paralyzed ?" , . .
Bobby" Oh, mamma, you know the
•
nickels you gave me when started
town -one for the, poor .,blind boy
corner and one to buy a bell With.
lost one of them." Mamma--"Whichone
lose?" Bobby-" Oh, the blind
nickel of course," .
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A Silly .Qaestion.-Deughter-"Memme,
r. mong ox as me isan
M S, 'b hoffered h* heart'
an . Mamma -"Do o you eve im,
h d " M " "D 1 h'
Deughter-"Oh, yes, mamma, very
He is worth. a milTion." Mamma
course you -do, deer. How silly of
ask such a question."
, , ,
Jones -"There are only two periods
-h • tl ' t
man's life when • e is grea y in ores
hie personal appearance." Smith-"
- " J
d° theY h°12177 It" a t
when he watches t e oar coming on
upper lip, and the other is at forty, when
hes the hair oomin out on the
W.(4te ' g
his head,",
Sister Theysay--" I grievously regret
•„
are to leave our !Orwell, dear pastor.
tor Peaceful -"You should , not orieve
0
doubt the Lord willeend you -ea better
vend to fill my place." Sister T. -"I
no such ho e Of the last thirteen
P • . ,
we have had every one has been worse
the other,
-A succrseful struggle.--''Ohailey
rrAtt, tato atetawoust-thalate"1-Lit?'
Miter* Kete the next morning. "Yes,"
Lil, sleepily; "we were trying the
clover .puzzle till nearly eleven o'clock."
did pou get the pdga in the pen,
eHaanilton
k d Kate eagerly. "No, we din's;
I got my Kate,
in this solitaire diamond
ring." e _
"Did I ever say all that ?". he asked
epondently as, the replaced the phonograph
On the corner 'of the mantel pieoe
... e
aid. "Ana on can. grind it .out •
h y h 7"
machine w enever you 0 0°8e •
t • 1 " "And father• 1
am tayour. la a lawyer
ciyes.11 «tnanei
,, when can I place
ring on your finger and call you
le t"
wi •
Not That Kind -Little Samuel
Snoodle, may 1 have some preserves?
Snoodles (regarding with intereat the
fellow) -Why, certainly Samuel. But
made you think vve had any? Little
seproduced
Oh, I've often beard pa and ma speaking
about your family jars. .And when
Samuel and hie pa and ma reached the
domicile there was a family jar,
.
was not not preserved either.
e
Omaha man -You naughty, boy,
_,
k bettori k
don'b you now than o as
how much money they have? I hope you
exeunt the child, hdr. Nioefellow.
.
Mr. Nicefellow-Of course, of course.
little fellow didn't know what he was
about.
Little Dick -Yes I did too. Sia
a '
the wished she knew, and I wanted
her..
, Government Cleric to friend -"I'm
1 bole.I' ( )
frightful went to see two
yesterday and got a medical certificate
each. One was a certificiate of health
life insurance company, and the other
certificate of illness to send to the thief
Motion for a week's leave of absence,"
MY. P.
Friend --"Well, • I've done that
What's the matter 9" G C. -
• n Matter?
Greet Scott. I . .
mixed the certifieates
mailing them. The insurance company
certificate of ill -health and the chief
my cart,
my certificate of good health."
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go,
FrettY
1de,
mon.
at
e e
I leY '
e•
fix' it
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fem.
°candle
Peti-
prem.,
me a
charged
ed) --
to MY.
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said
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lag in"
tains
o t
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this
of the
much
Of
Poles ,
get
to me e
.
does
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to.
and 111
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not;
this
word I
with
of
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Why,
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man
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two
down
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at the
Well, I
did
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eat.
much,
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me to
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an a
t cl. '
e When
en
his
on h
e
top of
you
Pas-
No
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see-
h
have
pastors •
than
.
stayed.
"
u.210A
said
pig3 in
Lil ?"
but
de.
"You
of that
"Car.
9"
th e
•Exhibition.
my
-ege
-Mr.
Mr.
little
what
Samuel
little
pater.
and it
Dick,
I
peep a
will
The
talkin g
said
to tell
in a
doctors
from
for .regular
was a
with
myself.
in
has
has
dm
Mr
inoir
.
Prince
so 'that
prin.
which
to
fire one
as the
a blank
out the
the
nature,
fled in
that
of
the
hotel. -
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floor,
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build.
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on Me,
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ITALIANS IN AVISNTINA.
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'A dvereitga
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AT).* 21, WILiiINOir. k ,
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"Mane. Abould•eter teere' fall,..diewne 't t
And VeloYeahenid the heart einklOW ?
And Why ourtnotitage WI , e; .
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, te li, .e.,.4da,:d1•Yer.e.itY's chill Winds' big*?
Emir:rot thielitead,, mg' brother, "
Though e ander's venceneaa dart,
Hurl'd by an n"nesin hand
Find lodgment in thy heart.
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Aocl though they strew they pathway
, .
With thorns, t at wound thy tied teat;
Press bravely on thy journey,
• And dare thy fon to meet.
Why should we grieve and mourn
when ,oid friends pawl us by ?
With cold averted face, •
And we heave the weary sigh.
'
Still move on, though dying,
Fight thou sternly fear, the goal;
Heed net thy vile traducers
13 firm and 'f 11
9 rm an rave o SOU
. . a
still inovensteadily on,
Thodigh all the world forsake ;
Though you eink beneath Your load,
And. the heart at haatalreuld break !
Heed net the stenv glances '
, Nor cold sarcastic tone •
P ess on through toem and darkness
rThongh you 'aintadnaduonwitarh(ethille alone'l
S,till 'fight on, There are inountaifis still to abide ;
And height; you may Math; m' brother,
That in grandeur ere sublimeY1
. .
But should yOrefall by the Wayside
And never re.ach the goat- '
'Tie brave to 'dies 'mid the struggle,
DisplaYing a hero's soul!
And as you're nearing the sunset,
Proud peace may come at last;
NV hen the skies are aflame with.giory,
you ma-
y rest from the weary past,
—
'
Dinna Be Sae Sweet!
lf ye wadna hae me reelin'
Dun the village street,
Drunk wi' love, pray has some foolin'-
Dinna be sae sweet 1
If ye vradna hae me linger,
Fon-like, at your feet,
Worshippin' your little finger,
.
, Dinna be sae sweet 1
If ye wa,dna hae '
Round the mercy seat;
et ye wadna has a lover,
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Dinna be sae sweet!
If ve ivadria haunt my fancy,
. . ,
be sae neat-
Dinna be youreel, my Nancy,
,
Dinna be sae sweet 1
-GENERAL Iiii'ITI3,
Was to Beath, hat 'through, I1Q Aren't of
it • ' • • • ' '
. the Ardmore Aitilitve '
opve men it 4i ted in the papers that a
no e' - ' • -- ei-
twentywzea ' " cataawan,°' can "al' a leaP' I
five tented said a, hunter . recently,
and
na 4 would like to Mention What i earn "it'
wildcat do once: I ty. tee trout fishing on one
0 tneuPPer tratoutertee of ,the Ideeverkill,
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and had. clambered down bete a deeli ravolilo
.
to get it a tempting pool at the foot et1 a fall,
where Twat! eare tray mete would be reward-
ed by the killing ot (tome big treat. I Wali
t ietaken aa to that I had landed four
a° r ra - • - • • • . •• .
trouv, the entalice,t, one eighteen inches long,
a_nd eatelowf the ravine n to, , were rest pthe po_o_erpendieulad Both ter wens _skims
of
"er,
rook. probably 25 feat high.. The Buren*
k o osite
of the welt on the aide of the cree pp
to me eleped beck gradually from. ite edgelittle
for several feet to a heavy g . pine.
growth of
"As. I Was . taitting et the .bottorn, of the
retitle I happened to gland(' Up to the top of
the reeks OPposite, me, And stew a -hen
pheasant aecorimaanteilby hennedely-batehed
brood mar Oat of .tir•PiaeS'iia- i4brate1.1 and
along,the 8oping o' ca space
peck ler way p g .p • I
hunting feed for her yeung, which blustered
closely abcinteh,er. ,The pliement teethe very
oleseato the edge of the , preeipiee, and it
seemed to me that she was plaoing her brood
Won when she turn-
ip.. a: moat ditingeroue Poe- t. 7- ,
ed as if ,to walk back with theinto the pines.
Tkoe, hietant she tattled moteething like a
d flitted cross. the to of the ravine,
°"a- evf - a P , .
el half a emend later I saw 812 enotmous
milideat dinging' to the edge Of the opposite
"- - - - • - - - . le e
wall by his.tore feet, holding , the p a e
- e' 8 llt
between his janee, The. wildcat nor', gglednever
'--
for a moment ,to drag htmself Irene the edge
the te of
of the abyss to a Sure footing on . et -
as in vain and he"
the rooks, but his effort w, . , _ . . 3 . , ..
came crashing down the fade of. the pregt.
pica. still holding the Wahine. pheasant ,m
his j iiVS. He fell with a splash in the water,
and lay motionless at the edge of the pool.
" I supposed that the animal, had been
from the bushes on
watching the pheasant f .
top of the rooks Oppotaite where the bird had
h her brood and at his o oresaid."
appeared with , ., ,. t ,Pp .
tunity had leaped across to seize her, but
had misjudged the dietance and fallen short,
with the result so fatal te him, .
"The whirl of the water brought .the
ild d •short t• to th side
wh cat around in h time e
I s standui e.nd as I was bending
ere wa .
cel m la• g' I a - 'vet)
°Wa to la.- lee him Saw' - man - z a
ling down the rooks. The man
gam scram . .
d I ' h learned
soon reached my side an t en-
h h had ho th ' ldd ii .th i 1
tat es t ewi a as , ell ina'
was flying across the chasm upon has prey.
,, e , • p
oure enough, just at the base o the anima s
was the ho a ma e y e re 3 a ,
brain1 d b th 'II b II
The hunter had been following the wildcatDiana
,_ • d had 1 - k f li•
for some time anlost track o inn
but ' the edge of the ravine in
game neer.
.11
time to see him make leis leap and fo ow
t. . - h h,had
him wtth a bullet. It was that w to
stopped the animal short in the tremendous
I 't had ca'culated oo or it would have
cleared.ealhe pa with a'f t d doubtless
.
with' t 8-Tehee wIae Y and
in, realit
wi eteie.e wildcat, w h y
AIMOSO in hie death throes when , e struck
he nh twhich hclungto 'with the
easan , .e . I_
ts -wanted
utch of death, and still held in his mouth
Witi d aoed hi t f th ter We
- en Wee *laisee- width 2 °be7:7'a• on
measured z wlhad t ol ?chasmeathaor
which the wildcatmade or' d leap.
The measurement was forty-three feet."
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0 -ver a *Wien Have Settled ,There in 'Hair-
tenthree. woe, •
. , . . et ,.
, pilling the WA thirtY•three' 5',. iirki 'abolit
4500 000 inunigranto have aeechede the,
Aegegeleepeeeiews. eeye tissue:1:c; ai 011,0a -1,14y:
e ... „ . il , • •t • .ffi...,
ra`°r •
eet down 88 tItatalinan6513;25Tpheer fiTures., nowever,
d° no imfheientlY indicate. their real propene.,
derance. In the first plebe a fourth of the
. , . . , ,
total immigratte are not claibified except is
• • . . .
entering the state by way a Montevideo,
where, it in very mamma for traneehipmente
of Paseengeth trent Europe to take place.
Probably if the .Montevideo returns were
e pereen tinge of Italians would
work outanaleeed.thtoilet less then 75 per cent of the
whole., But there ie another. and still
more Importhat fact to be borne in
mind. ' The, Italians_ in South. America' in.
cream with retterkable rapidity, the. mar-
°
'lag" made between them and th native
proving peoollarly fruitful -a oithuinstanee
not obeetwed in suth a bigh degree among
• . • , . . .
the other immigrants. In 1885 the .Italian
chamber of conotherce Of Buenos Ayres oal .
onleted, that the inaliebttaante 'of Italian' birth
and parentage then residing in the republic
numbered over 1,000,000, while' at the pro
Mut moment it is eatimated that persons in
whom Ithlien blood. or Italietarace influence
predominate(' constitute more than .healf the
exlethag population, note lichened th be
over 3,500,d00. under such oirournetithaes
can it be doubted that in .a very few yeara
the Italionizetion of the volley of the Plate
will be oomPlete ? The only foob. that tells
against such a supposition is the nevely-aclop
. . . d- • • • ,.
ted iminigretion policy of the Aegentine gov-
ernment, which .has lately.• inetrueted ite
agents in Europe to do all m their power to
attract immigration from among the northern
rams. The danger Of heing swamped by the
most vigeroos of the ,Lstin. peoplee is folly
realized at .Baenos. Ayres,. and considerable
numbers of Belgians, Hollandern, 'Werth Ger
mane, and .Sweeds have Already been ettraot.
ed by almostfree paeseges and generousgrants
land. We denbt, however, the continued
filleeess of such a policy. ,Emigratianflews
with difficulty in new ohannele., -
There ill il reason fOr ell thirge, and th
email boy always wants to know it,
New 'York has nineteen monument funi
under way, but it emote probable that the
will not be out of the Way for otome yeers 1
.. . , e , .
The man who thinks the world is gr0Will
better never beard the obeervatioos of tm
teamsters rim. eagle into collision ins orowi
ed thoroughfare.
,A, youag woman oreeted a sensation -a
BridgePoat, COM,' laati week by enterin
the smoking oar of e train and deliberate]
,
entailing a peokage of, oigarettes.
Amnon (tstonishing storY Pontos from Cal
hernia telling hew Claes Spreckels has bee
paying taxes,. owing te.defective' .roape,_ 0
hundreds of acres that he does not MD. Tie
le probably the firetome of thekind on reeler(
.
VVm. Et Gladstone considers the Prince e
Wain a shrewd, clever man, who keel
himself, well Interbred regarding the topic
of the day. He seldom opens a book, In
gleans a good deal from conversation. Mi
Gladetone thinks the Prince a Bootless as
public man.
It was the wish of the elder Mrs. Bisho
that her son the mind-reader should I
buried by the Matuanie fraternity, in whic
he held a high poploion. He was a menthe
of the Grand Lodge of Saotlencl, Lodge c
Edinburgh, Mary Chapel eaid a member c
a Royal Arch chapter. Mrs.' Biehop ser
. • ..
a request to the New York Masonic Temp]
cffieials that they take charge, ef the funert
of her son, but was battened .that as he ha
affiliated with any *teethe' body c
thie side of the A.tlantic the. ,Order he]
could not take oharge of the funeral.
Sir Moral Mackerzie is lik.o Bineno
ghost, he will not down. It was th
universal opinion thet his pamphlet rept]
ing to the German dootors was unprofessiot
al, unworthy and a naisteke. But Sir More
is not yet satiefied. He wants more note
iety and eeemingly more money, for, so fa
all his moves have been remarkably profi
able. He has now instituted snits for lib(
against the London "Times". and "S
James' Gazette" for . statements made at
the two' journal° reflecting on his oond
while in attendance on the illustri
patient. Surely it is about tithe to alio,
"Unser Fritz" to rest in peace iet, his thrall
and to, put a step to these ghoulish attempt
to make oapitel out of his sufferings an
premature death.
• ' ,
The report that the British Governance
intends sending a war ship to Behring sea t
protect British sealers has rouged the Unite
States to action. A Washington despath
to the New York "Herald" states that a
a conference of Treasury and Navy Depart
ment efficials on Tuesday it was decided t
hasten the oemmissioning of the Iroqueit
•
which is now at Mare island, Californir
The crew will he taken from among 01
recently returned, survivors of the diseste
at Apia, and the commander reports the
the ship will be ready for Ma within a weel
It is to be hoped thet these preparation
will lead to some definite undentandin
,
between the tvvo cOuntries with regar,
to Behring Bea fisheries, since Canadian
'
are the chief losers by the present state c
affairs*
AL d
on oncorrespondentreferstothe spree.
Home Rale ideas its I cl• d 'f 11 h
. . . Indi, an a a
says be true, the next trouble in
„ England'
Asiatic enapire will sink into insignifioano
the mutinyf 18-7 H
o a , . e states that th
held Bombe
congress. , at y in 1885 by SUr
erten et the movemen
P t numbered 'only 71
delegates, but that the one. held at Allahs
bail last year had 1500 delegates. It ha
been apparent for 'a long la th i d
g time at an indi
pendent spirit was growing in India, bia
nothing had previously been heard as rebe:
lions in spirit as these words uttered at th
congress of 1888 by one young agt .e. "t t oi
" The English ceme into our country as per
diets; they ,continued in ites robbers ; an
they will soon be kicked out as lunatics.
The agitation began among the high cast
young Hindoos of Celcutta who b'
, com .L1.1
with the cultur f
e otheir own land the sciet
tific and literary•knowledge that makes u
,
European ,education. It is impossible t
obtain a modern European education with
learning to thin k; and for a native c
India to exercise this privilege is early t
become an opponent of British rule in hi
country. For, whatever the English ma
have done for their Asiatic possessions, th
pres ent form of government is not oafish
tor -
y as a finality; and the raore Eaglan
does for the, Hindoos the more she unfit
them to be. governed by a Viceroy withot
a Parliament-. At present Hindoo an
Moslem cliscontenb is a little theater : but
when it ehall have permeated the majorit
of 250,000,000 souls, and unified India
populations to a degree not known before
that sentiment will nob be easily reckone
with. Anything like political accord le
t ween the Hincloos and the followers c
Islam to be dreaded
-
Patents on Little Things: .
The rubber tip at the end of lead pencils
. . an ng an . A large
Id d $100 000 ' E ' 1 il
nee yie e
fortune , , ' -
d la i r'
has men reaped . y a m ne who in
a
etre • eyelet ab each end .of
vented a metal riv r .
the mouth Of chat or trousers 'pookete to resist
the strain. caused by. the carriage of ore or
heavy tools. In a recent legal action it teen-
spired in evidence. that the inventor of the
metal plates used to protect eoles and heels
from weal', sold upiverd of 12,000,000 platea
in 1879, and in1887 the number reached 143,
900,000, producing idealized profitsof $1,250, -
000 . , .
As large a sum as was ever obtained for
• .
any invention was enjoyed , by the; inventor
of the inverted glass bell to hang, over gas
to,protect ceilings from being bleckeoed, and
a scarcely less lucrative patent was that for
simply putting emery powder on cloth.
, , • - .
Frequently. dine and r'circumetances are
before an invention is appreciated
. . • ., • '
but it will be Seen that patience is well re
warded, for the inventor of the roller skate
made over $1,000,000, notwithstanding the
fact that his patent . had nearly expired
• •
before its value,, was aecerfeined. The
,
gimlet -pointed screw. has produced more
wealth than most . silver mines, and the
American who first thought of putting cop-
, - • = • •
per tips to children a shoes is as well off es
if his father had left hiin $2,000.000. in
United Sbates bonds. ..
. 0 ' ear 'as made b
Upward of $10,0 0 . a. y w y
the inventor. of the common needle threader.
To the foregoing might be 'added thousands
' 'Ili nt useful articles from which
of- tee ng b , .
handsome ineomes are derived, or for vvhich
large sums have been paid. • •
Few inventions pay better, than popular
patented toys. A clergyman realized $2,
000 a week by the invention Of . a strange
little plaything to•be seen for along- time.
in every toy shop window, and even th the
streets of Landon. • -
That favorite American toy, the return
ball -a wooden biall with an elastic attech.
ed -yielded thepatentee an inciome equal to
$50,000 a year; and, an inooine of no less
than $75,000 per annum to the inventor of
the "dancing Jim Crow."
The invention of Pharoah's serpents, a
toy much in vogue some yeara ago, was the
. .
outcome of some chemical experiments and
,
brought the inventor more than $50,000.
Th' f th Pttl oden fi u a
° sale ° ° - e w° g r e
"John Gilpin," was inere'dibly large. for
many years, and . a very ingenious toy,
known as the wheel of life, is said to have
tap Ward of $500,000 profits to its
inventor. .0ne of the moat aoccessful of
modern teem has been the the chameleon to I',
the sale of which has been enormous. The'
field of inoentio y ,
• n is not onl vast and varied
but it is open to • everybody, without respect
or favor of any kind to sex or age, station
efle ma be the key
meant'. The merest t . Y y
to a fortune if it be an article that the pub -
ho actually wants in great numbers.
—nssoeemesseseopent--
WIRELETS,
. „ . 7----
Lieuv. Oswald, of the Winnipeg Infantry
&hoed, while out witlr the bounds, broke
his collar bone. , , . •
C. 1'. R lands in Southern Manitoba are
now held at from $7 to $10 per acre owing to,
. • ;
the projected Souris. branches. •
The fishi ' h ' Vir h" h
ng so oonerMattie • ins ip as
een re e _ ,
h • 1 ased'on a bond of 83,000.
Reports from Winnipeg state.. that the
crops in. the .Northwest are in capital condi-
.
Th . littl damageI) frost.of
ton. • ,ete was ,. e y -
A num of h ppi g disasters are repor -•
bar s i ' 12 ' t
the Gulf o - es,
ed from f St. Lawrence, owing
the late gale. . •
Hon. John Hamilton Gray, Justice of the
Supreme of British 'Columbia is deed age
. ,
75. . . ,
. The lightheuse keeper at Point Peter re-
. ..
ports seeing the crew of the Beattie in the
.yawl frying to meacala shore on ',the fatal
'
morning' ; the beat capzied and the unfortun-
&tea were driven down the lake and. lost.
A local letter delivery has been started in
in opposition to the Government
. ,
. . . , . -
_The Ca,nadian Pootfic Beltway . Company
are not yet ready to select their Mode ent-
side the railway belt.
.
Hamilton and Wentworth peoplenelebrat-
ed appropriately the anniversary of ' the
'battle of Stoney Creek.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Q men Marguerite, of Italy, is a skilful '
viotoncello player. -
e .. e tower is. in ee nis e .
I h builth t t• i
swal ow as her nee on its tip op.
A new style of sword just introduced into
the Garman arm for the use te' cffirers in
Y - ' '
etraight.
Ph'"-'--"' ''...c "o"'0,1"-".."'“" in-NOw
S. mbh Wales,11r. Sydney Bardekin, began
th pavenbrokimg. It is worth several nail.
•
lions of pounds."And
nt avorgne.n e razz a recent yEke
Cou S ' d B tl had
his famous collection of old gold and. silver
plate Melted into'bullion by the burning of
..I. wrecked railroad train. " -
, .
at is rumored .
-d that the Paris Prefect of
Ptdice, acting from laudable motivea of
morality, is about to issue a ukase againat
t le employment o h . ,out
' f women as watreeses in
bare, cafes, and brasseries miring the
The freedom of the City of Efamburg has
been conferred upon .Johnannas Brahma, the
composer. The honor is an UnBUIll one, only
three men.besides the musician having had
the distinction in the course of a century.
Two of these are Bismarck and Moltke.
k is entirel rebuild -
The Empreea Frederic y
i the home on her 'recently purchased es
-ag . - - • -
bate at Kronbur . in the Tannins • which is
ihi adriveog'd ' •
t nf Homburg, an e new wing
vnal
is to be fitted up for the exclusive use of
Qaeen Victoria, who has promised, all being
well, to pay her daughter an annual visit.
It is claimed that the recently completedor
San Diego flame is the meet stupendous ever
constructed in the world, being only ,a little
short of thirty-six miles long. An idea of
the gigantic character of the work may be
obtained from the fact that the amount of
lumber consumed was more than pine
millions of feet, or, allowing the very con-
sidertable yield of 1,000 feet to each tree, not
less than 9,000 trees were required. In
the course of the flume there are some 315
trestles, the longeat of them being 1,700
feet in length, eighty five feet high, and
containing one.quarter of a million feet of
lumber, Another trestle is of the aame
height, and 1,200 feet long, the main timbers
used in both ot them being ten by ten and
eight by eight, being put together on t e
h
ground and raised to their position by horse
Power. Wile number of tunnels Ill the
course of the flume is eight, the longest of
which is 2,100 feet, the tunnels being in size
six by six feet, with cbovexothaped roofing;
each mile of the flame required an average of
one-fourth of a million feet of lumber for its
construction and the redwood used entirely
in the box istwoinches in thickness throu gh
out.
.
Influenoe of Superior Minds.
No person of auperior mind can live In
any situation without exerting a ,strong in ,
flaence. .Obscurity cannot/ride, nor poverty
divest ib of its power. Ecidowed with a
great sonlo-th.e most glorious possession of
humanity -one has .a. treasure that wealth
cannot equal, and a power that station caa
„ea „mmang, . _ '
. Whoee ie themoverning ,mind in that ob-
more heighberhood? ' Who in the retirement
of home instils high and noble purposes, that
afterward result in a useful and honored
life ? Whose counsel is most eagerly sought
•
in perplexity ? Who is welcomed to the
lecture -recta to interest and entertain us?
Whose writings are most valued and longest
preserved ? VVhom do we select to guide
the affairs of Ste.te, make our laws and hold
the scales of equity ? Wire speak width:neat
tffeet to a nation's ear in behalf of a nation's
rights? Are they not those to whom Ged
has given great and glowing minds, that are
here always preeminent? .
,
• Yes -the power ofa strong intellect is
mightier than that ot kings. Wealth and
station unconeciously yield obedience to it,
All instinctively honor ib, and are influenced
by it •
Always and everywhere, whether it is used
pa rue to or per-
in a Christian and t • t•spirit,which
verted to selfish and iniquitous purposes, it
moulds, guides, and governs with irresistible
afoot. ..
All other earthly powers combined can-
,
not withstand its influence. It is, eta it watt
designed to be, the.rolMg power; and when
It shall be wholly enlisted in the service of
God and humanity -its only proper sphere
-what peace happiness and prosperity will
. 4 .. ..
be enjoyed.- gransertpte
The Mahdi's Threat
The Khalifa, Abdullah, who has just
threatened Qaeen Victoria arid the Khedive
with his dire .rengeance if they eo not be.
come believers:in the Mahdi, shows a weak-
nese very 'common among savages or half.
civilized potentates. If they happen to loom
up above Other objects within their vieion
they are apt to regard themselves as the
biggest things on earth.
Two or three tribes on the Xingu River,
South America, entertained the idea
until recently that they were the only
people in the world, and thab tee earth
was, in fact, only large enough for their
accommodation. Of course, such a very
circumscribed view of things terreetrial is apt
to give the untutored savage exaggerated no.
tions of his own importance.
When a missionary with more zeal than
tact told the great King of Matabeleland, in
the presence of his people, that God wes
greater than he, his indignant Majesty roar.
ed at the top of his voice "Yon lie!" and his
faithful subjects' echoed the retort so long
and . loudly that the religous - exercises
stopped. The idea that the great King could
occupy a second place in any relation was
not to be tolerated. , ,
King Theodore of Abyssinia, with one use.
less cannon and a horde ,of wild mountain-
eerie armed chiefly with lances, imagined he
had nothing to fear from a British army.
When his summer, King John sent a pro
posed of marriage to Quen Vietorie. he had
no doubt that he had given her Britannic
Majesty at opportunity to make a highly
desirable and brilliant alliance. •
Nothing that the king Mtesa of Uganda
ihadever heard of foreign nations could dim-
Irish his faith in his own superiority. He
eften:asked his white guesta if they ever saw
so fine an army as his, and he also proposed
an alliance with the royal family of England,
by aaking one of hia visitors to send to him
as a Wife One of the daughters of the Qaeen.
•
The Millions in :Aflame Mud.
John 0. Klein, who gained some reputittio
as, a Samoan correspondent, was recontl
commissioned by the New York "World" t
proceed to the Isthums.of ePaname and ix
. .
vestigate in a geneeal way themircumetanct
attending the constraction ,of the cone!, an
the results whioh have been obtained. At
cording to his report there is a deplorabl
condition of affairs existing in the teatime
as the result of, the collapse of the gigant
euterprise, and from Aspintettil to Penam
there is a general 'appearance of desolatio
tell f it If thf d •
a or se e story o epressic
and financial disaster which hove followe
from the cessation of the work on the cane
au investigationof the management of th
nterprise reveal!' o conelition of knaver
that hat) not been earpmeed since the famot
South Sea bubble, when, 200 years am
George Law, the Scotch/nen, swindled tt
people of France out ,of about $200,000,00
through homing scrip for v,vortlikas Mimi
sippi swamp land in exchange for gold.- I'S
Paul Globe.
NEW BRUNSWICK NEWS.
. '
.
---- The First Train sver the short Line-Citv
Elections -Increase in Exports.
ST. JOHic, N. B., June 6. -Twelve or fif.
teen hundred people were at the St. John
station to witness the arrival of the ,firat
. C.P.R. train hem Montreal by ihe
•
Siaort Line. The ran from Montreal was
d innineteen hours some dela havin
ma e g
__ci
occurred at MA am. o w to
' Th train,Y. h• ii
d tat '1 ki th ft on b
arrive a two o c 03 11 e a ern o y
-
the Short Line, corresponds to that which
arrives the following. forenoon by the In.
tercoloniel, promo ers, being spared the
.
f 1 h gd hall d All the
Journey o ang tana ay.
St. John dailyhad t ti
papersrepreien a yes
on the train, and the press of the city treat
the opening of the line as one of the most
• tent events in the history of the pro.
'raper
vince
* "
The exports of St. John for May are
valued at $574,000, against $348,000 the
same month last year. There is elm a slight
• i • • t
increase n impor s.
B 'Id' V' edin ly brisk
ui mg opera ions are exoe g .
Haytian Naval Discipline.
As an example of the lack of discipline
board the vessels cf the Haytian navy,
Plumer relates the following amusing
dent :-The Dessalinee had jeet returned
from a cruise and anchored at Port an
close to the shore, She was moored
her forward gun pointed straight at the
. ,
eipal hotel cf the place, in front of
mealy ,guests were lounging. According
custom, the inanof•war prepared to
gun to announce hor anchoring, and
big ton -inch gun was loaded' with
cartridge, the gunnere simply palled
temple]) and blazed :Way. In an indent
air wee filled with missiles of some
and the guests in front of the hotel
terror. It VMS Afterwards discovered
one Of the cooks had' stored a basket
knives, forks, spoons, and tin•pote into
feltn, end them had bombarded the
(N. Y. Herald.
--experiments
BIOthand (alarinedl-Emil t' ere'
- . . Y' ti/e '
to be a smote coming up through the
ee ete, the te . .
Tella.alltt "1" i oy on the fiat
g ,•
Something's are i, ,n her part of the
'in 1 Quick I (Nei& 1
' fL
vet ' 'Id hd t lal 0 I'll
A ,I ta (co mr, 0 A 9 yr) en ythe,
itintheworld Vire'velived three
u. ° .. , ,.. .. ',i, . , µ
va. this- nate and one has never- mike
Lady
o y , (mimeo
L d n
Thamea, at
wily. It is
in Which she
are quite twice
are very beautifully
Flormace Dr
iently afford,
friends to help
side the stables
marble tablet',
the white one
subrieribed are
one appear those
stabsatibe.
doge', and is
with het doge
OU one of the
Mg a -very little
Dixie's Odd House-
D• ' ' littl h b
ixie a e mum, tr.. the
Windsor, is described as a omit
very small ; in fact the stables
keeps a number of little ponies
as largo ae the house and
built. They cost'Lady
ie mors than ehe co1 d moven.
ao ahe gent round to ask her
her to meet the expense, In.
have just been placed two
one black ancl one white. On
the namea of the friends who
engraved, while on the black
of the friend° who did not
Lady Florence keeps about fifty
always either walking about
-
or galloping along the roade
little ponies. She affects be,
weight, , ,
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„ .., , ..., ,,, , , ,
-Military' Bates on rrnssian .maiiroaae•
In Prussia the state railroads make speoiai
concessiona in favor of Poor Persons in ill
health. On receipt of proper oredentiels
such persons are conveyed to hospitals, baths,
and other sanitariums in third -elan carriages
at the "military" rate of 1,5 pfennig per
kilometer (about six tenths of 1 cent per
mile), The same privilege ie extended to
scrofulous children of the lower classes and
their attendants. Thee harnates• of asylums
for the blind, deaf and dumb, and orphan!)
with their attendants are carried at the
same rate on vacation trips to the hethees of
relatives. One attendant is allowed to each
unfortunath and the reduction in fare Is
given to the attendants when they go
for their charges or return home after key-
1 12
Ing them at the asyltun. Poor chi dre who
±
ate agent to the. country in summer by some.
. .
ties or munimpalitin are also convoyed tet
the military rate. Furtheranoth ell (Antos
of benevolent moieties and institutions,
Whether, seatetian ot mailer, whoa travelling
in the interest of tharitya are allowed the
lase of iteconclelass carriages at third•olass
retest., . .
The Study of Lane:nage&
.... .
oi t atin in the 'June "Forum" the re
,,, a -ml g , -
1 i ortanoe in the education of a
":". -raP
Englishomeaking man of ,the ancient an
the modern language, Prof, John Stoat
Blackie says : - "While Latin and daree
.
will never cease to hold. their place in th
front rank of educational agents it is a
tsnaohronism of the grossest kind to insist ii
a prolonged atudy Of then two dead languin
es as the neonsary bailie for the general ou
tare of a well.eduaated gentleman in th
latter end of this nineteenth ventary ; ,th
more he, that eXperieume hat tougitt the
nineteen outeof tweots, young Men Who Iltri
been driven through this routine of the dea
, .. . . , ,
anguag , , . , .
' es at school in after -life make no us
of them and the fruit] whith their Waste
, ,
olanical training has to show are in the ir
verse ratio of the labour spent upon it."
- ., .
Why the Sky is Blne. .
Prof. Hartley, of London, has heentrying
,
to find out why the sky is blue. Ws experi•
ments show that the color arises from the
action of ozone Open the rays of light. The
result' of his examination of monitsd air go
to prove that it is impossible for rays of
light to pass through Ii0 little) au five miles
of air without the rays being coloredh
aoy.
blue by the ozone commonly, present, and
it that the blue of object' viewed on a clear
dem at greater distance up to thiety five' to
fif ay mileri must be alinost entirely the blue.
nen of ozone in the air," In his laboratory
y
he observed that the quantity
of ozone glaring a full sky blue In a 'WO
only tato feob in length iS '2,500,000 milli.
• • • • .
grammes in each equare centimeter of see.
Honed area in the tube.
Safer Than Eatinr. :
In 1882 the chairmen of the London and
North-Western stated that them had not
been a single passenger killed on their line
within the previous three years, Sir John
Hawkeitaw, speaking of safety on railways
generally, said "theta only one patasenger was
injured for every 4,000,000 of Miles travel-
ed . and on an aVeraga a person may travel
106,000 rages eseila year for forty years and
the ohanoee are in favour of not receiving
the slightest injiiry." Again, Sir E. Watkin
,
'maintained that railigay travelling was
safer than eating', became it is +a foot that
• .
More people cheke thenmelvas in England
them are 'killed On all the rafiWays of the
United Kingclormoe[Clhanabore' journal,
U
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i•
When a Ftenehman entete a shop in Par sa
If it he of modeat peoportions and he can
gee the thopkeepor or hils wife, he deffe hid
hat and moan as polite a bow ela if he had
ontored the presence of the President of
0 re
th Republic. '
e
.
Cashier George hemp, of the Statham
Pa.' City Bank, Was placed under arreat i
theibank ini Sattarday,"thatged with Grebe
zling $185,000, ''
—n---ae----e-e
Paesione are perhaps the allege tithed
which, it is aaid, no honey is reedit -4W. E,
Lacey,
President Cot* says Parr y Behrendt , a
one ot t 0 eav men n e world av
- h f ' I th: lawho la" .6
re tlee eon o e co,
f' d the.0 .1 th . Legion. 1 Honor''