Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-8-8, Page 2, venee- r 1 rAxou$ a',INi.Btoa. hudlmen eo long 8eparete4 from the one ile ble posseestme. In an Intexesting article ou. the romance agauge Stories of Their 'loss and Idymerlous of literery discovery o writer he en Engliah Item very. periodical nanme o number of notable book S.00le a the moat OlgiOSS IOSSAS And tecoee reeeveriee in anetent thnes, Among these is Tionier's " Ocl,yssey," 3u9 lines of which emes of whtoh we have sun record are re. toted in regerd to far000s jewels. Ainong were fonna gaaaPed ha tile. hands of e mum, the tile De stuy dimmed iney be meg, niy et Monialoht ; one of Cleere% moat la- tioned ee poeseeeing a particularly alugular eteresting trentneer erbi°11 wee found amid a history. The first known owner of this gem "ear.' of refuses near Wen, bY a Bishop of Lodi, early in he fifteenth century, and the wee Charles the 13o14, Duke of liurgondy, well-known Inettence of the recovery of the who is said to heve worn le in Ma helmeb. original maouseript of' Magna, °herb% front It was lost in the bottle in which ita ovener the hearts a a tailor who was cutting it up for petterns. An Equally singular recovery was that of a metal portion of what was Hip. posea to be oue of the loot books of Liver, '.Vhe tutor of a French nobleman, in the fif- teeath century, was piayiug tennis, wheu he chanced to native that his racquet bet was mo of parobanent covered with writing. Ao he was a good scholar lee ouoceeded in ae ciphering in and found that it was a piece ol historical Latiu prom, he very much the style of Liv. He instantly hurried to the was killed, but Was picked up by a Swim eoldier, who sold it to a priest for a florin. The print, ignorant as the soldier of ito rare venter, imagined that he had made a good bargain when be sold it to the Sing of Portugal for a florin ancl a holt. The proOt of the King, however, was somewhat larger than that of the unworldly priest, for he received nonlees than 100,000 crowns for ib from the wealthy Herley de Saucy, in whose family it remained for eeveral genera- raequet maker, but in vain. The man °meld beg to pawn it in order to lend Henri III. only tali. him that he had fatten in with a mime of parchment, and that it had long since been used up in the making of racquet bate. LITERARY TREASUDE novE. More fortaunate than the tutor was a eohol. arnamed Mum, who chattoed ens After- noon to enter a bookbinder's shop in Parte. Notioing that the man was about to out up a mass of manuscript, he begged leave to ex. amine it. To his surprise he found that he had hit upon the works of Agobard, a learn- ed prelate of the ninth century. Seeing its value, Memo purchased the maueoript, and thus preserved a volume which oontained many valuable details of those early demo Belli more remerkable was the disoovez7 of Martin Luther's "Table Teak." In the year 1626 a German gentleman maned Cas - banes Von Sparr was engaged in building a new house. In the course of their axe:wa- gons the workmen came upon a a:nail square package wrapped in strong linen cloth, which had been carefully plastered all over with beeswax. On opening and examining the parcel a voiume was diecovered. This volume was Luther's work, the only copy in existence. It had evidently been buried by Von Sparr's grandfather to escape the pen. An interesting anecdote is related in the alty.of an edict issued by Rudolph IL, at the instigation of Pope Gregory XIII., mak. Ing it death for any one to possess the work. The loss of thisBook would have been a great misfortune, for without it we never should have understood the character of Me iamb reformer --never have known what he was when surrounded by his family and hie friends. tions. Finally one of hte dea::andante, wish - some money, sent it to a jew broker by the hand of a servent in whom be had the utmost confidence. The servant never returned, and the broker declared that the man had never made his appearance with the diamond. In sipite of this assertion the confidence of De Saucy in the nonesty of his old servant was unshaken. This confidence, as it afterwards appeared, was not misplaced, for after a time the body of a murdered man was diecovered near the city wells in a deep clitott, which Was recognized as that of the miming servant. An attempt at robbery had evidently been made, and. the faithful fellow had remained true to his master's interest to his laSt1 mom - onto ; for on the surgeon's examining the body the diamond was found in his otomacb, he having swallowed it as the only means left to him of outwitting his assailants, This diamond remained in the possession of the fatally for several more generations, but was al: last sold to James III. of England, who presented it to Louie XIV. It remained among the crown jewels of France for some time, but was finally puede:teed by the Russi- an banker, Demidorff. TEE Koroneroon Madan. Ttie Sunset Lend, Row still it waa emat them derk, old teem:, That dropped fir needles on oue wido. etretehea tent 1 Vfleatto long, dim, ghoulleh ahadovve curled and bene About our door, atArred e4oh 874104 known brother CaPt. A decrobeen, gives the breeze, e follovEing desorletion of the merriage perenes- when, night ewe oe ogg tlie brote d niee of the Bliqulte Indiane of Britieh Con ne unebta. An. Indian who entende to.merry calls open, his intended wife's parents and erre:ages with them how ratioli he is to pay for permission, to marry the girl, Among people of high deseent this le done by mein eengers, sometirnee es many aa twenty being sent to call on the girl's father. They are 'rent by the raan's parento before the youpg map ie a age. In meaty best:woes both man and girl are not more than 8 or A years old. The messengera go in their boats to the girl's homier,and oerry on heir negotiations with, one going ashore, where the relatives of the girl are stetudiug. The mew:angers of the young man's parents praise his excellence and noble descent:; the great exploits of hie father, .gremdfather, and anon:bore ; their wars, motorise, and hunting expeditions; their liberality at festivals, &a Then the gialti relatives praise the girl and her anoem tore, and thus: the negotiationa are carried on. Plually, a nuniber of blankets are thrown ashore by the !nes:tenors, and the girl's relatives protest and meantain that the 7a -a -t • 'Tr • zTRE 33114111A ILIREIAGE KNOT., The Strange Courtship anal Hewer weddings 01 a Northern Trine. Air, Ph. Jacobsen, in a letter to his well - seas 1 'ale, auueet okiee with plumy foresee blent, And soft reflections in the green earth lent; The drowsy droning of belated bees, The long, soft luthing of the flowing tide, The plinking of a brook againee a :tone— Made untie sweet aa silver belle, Beside Our tette, in poole, with mellow monotone, Murmured,. the frogs. So, deep and vast and wide, Came on the night --and we were all alone Like stars wlthin some blaok-rimuted wave, your eyea , Sent trembling glanceo deep into my ow; Your hammock faintly swung; one moon - beetle shone Upon your milk -white breast. How milt OMB flies, In such an hour, beneath these mellow skies! I trembled nearer, and my arms were thrown About' our throbbing throat. Alone— life of Lord John Lawrence, in regard to that moat famous diamond, the Kola-i-noor. When the precious gem was committed to the care of Lord Lawrence, he stuffed it Into his waiatcoat pocket and went on with busitteas. Didner time arriving, he changed his clothes, and threw him waistcoat aside. Six weeks later a message came that the Queen desired the diceriond to be sent home at once. The matter had entirely The Congo's Populatlon, escaped the memory of the absent-roinded In a recent address before the Royal Lord and he at first avowed that he had Geographical Society of London, Mr. Wen. ner made a very surprising statement. He said that in a market plane at the conflaence of the Lomami with the Congo he had on two occasions "seen the biggest crowd of people it has ever been my lob to oome across." An open space larger than Trafal- gar equate was crowded with natives, while forwarded it long before. When. the facts came back to him he eves badly frightened, but allowed no misgivings to appear, and took the first opportunity to slip away to his private room. Once bhere, with his heart in his mouth he sent for his native servant and said to hum: "Have you got la smell box which was in my waistooatpooket steno the shore were moored many tam - some time ago'!" "Yee, &lib," the man drede of canoes. These natives had flocked replied. "I found it and put it in one of from far and near to trade at one of the your boxes." "Bring it here," said the great markets of the country. Upon this the old servant went to a Mr Stanley in his last book estimated broken-down tin box and produced the the population of the Congo basin at little one from it. "Open it," said Lord Lawrence, "and see whet is inside." He watched the man anxionely as fold after fold of cloth. was taken off, and great was his relief when the brilliant gem appeared. The eervant was perfectly unconscious of the im- mense treasure he had had in his keeping. 43,000,000. This estimate was thought to be exceasive, and there is still no doubt that it is too large; but every new discovery justifies the belief that the total population Is enormous. And in all directions where explorers have pusited away from the main river striking through the country or "There is nothing here, Sahib," he said, travelling on the tributaries, they have Foundations. "but a bib of glass." Thue, tbrough the found the villages more numerous and the I hardly think the robin knows, indifference of a native servant, what might population denser than along the Congo When building in the budding wood, have been a serious loss was turned into a iteelf, except in one or two districts like How many years those trees have etood, happy recovery. Bengal% wiaere about 12bre. ,000 natives live oo, the mweie o„ewe. A MSG -Vann THIEL along thirty miles of the Congo banks. n number is not sufficient to pay for the per - We two, in gladdest, passlonate surprise, a one-- To feel each heart against the other beat, And know that we were young, and life Was sweet 1 Saoh awaiting pulse into its comrade curled; We loved—we loved—forgetting all the world I Unworthy, I bent o'er your haramook-bed, And both our oouls in one long kiso wen, grown up the young man has to serve a year wed. to his father in-law. He must fell trees, Fair was your face as apple blossoms, snow, fema water, fish and hum for the latter. Cleft as the scarlet of your sweet lips thread, Daring this time he is called kes, which Within yr cheek oe rising flush of red means eapse"one who woos." After a year ha your n perbren the coming of love's warmer glow ; ld the marriage is celebrated. At this d. low, time great festiveas are celebrated. Seven A bunch of crimson poppies tremble st or eight. men perform a dance. Thee, wear Half -awed, againyour breast ; your dark arowned bead dancing aprons and leggingo, trimmed with Was sweet with odorous flowers. 0 puffinbeaks, hoofs of deer, copper plates querad, love.led, - en* and 'bellm s. If the grooshould be a wealthy nian I let the hours slip by—.[ loved you so-- amttealb t oppts pPlaretereonteedtohi8 uchasarewifuemsedanis Dear Itheeserwts 1 loved you se—enti yet WO presents to a bride, these are carried by the thy pure lifts were wedded into mine. dancer. The eingingbnaster, who beats the While Tlu drum, starts a song in whtch. the dancers his hour to be our ast. Solemnly yo Soft, trembling arms about my throat did join, The song used at the nuerriage festive al is Bung Munition, while in all other danoes twine, each daucer has his own tune and song. , And kissed me sweet farewell. dwell 0, 'eve to The firee dancer wears a ring made of cedar of hell. bark. Hie hair is strewn with eagle down, That hour with thee has brought foretaste which flies about when he moves, and forms a cloud around his head. The groom The Peget Sound still sparkles in thew....,, presente the first dancer, with a piece of Blown sails drib) by the shores whereon 1 which he throws down in front of each holm; stand, of the village, crying " Holp 1" in order to And gleaming sea gulls cleave the bright drive away evil spirits. These pieces of waves' crest, calk* which he throws down in front of the But enapty are my arm% and wed my breast! houses have a lucky meaning, and at the Thy own wild popplee bloom beneath ray mime time exPaeas the idea that the groom, hand, when he comes to be a wealthy man, will Onoe I bound them into a girdleband not forget the inhabitants of any bouse when To grace thy slender waist --In fierce unrest giving a festival. The dancers swing their I crush them now beneath my heel. Flo bodies and arms, stamp their feet and show treee • the copper plates to the lookermon. Drop needles all day long about:my feet, Then the bride s father brings a great num. The tide flows in with dreamy, rhythmic bar of blankets, generally double the number of those he had received from the groom, and minion to :emery the girl. In order to o ta n their consent new blankets are thrown cohere one by one, the messenger:I continually maintaining Mao the price paid la boe great. Generally from twenty to fifty blankets, each of the value of about 50 mote, are paid. After this the boy and. the girl are con- sidered engaged, When they come to be BRITISH Acoording to the Perelan quatom, the Shah bas bie mutton killea inlets own polace. He wanted to do this while keying in Rucking. hem Palace, but the Queen would not permit it, though leog negoviatione were earried on to dream her permieziene Ithe end et wee mottled that the royal hateharing ahold be Perfermed oe Prince MeloolneKbanar house in Holland Park. A Baptist chords at Wolverhampton- in order to provide amusement and recreation for the perish, has buile Willard and smoke - ing room back of its °Impel, and a bar for the sale of nomentoxicloants, everything to to be under that control of the government of the ohurele The " littlish Weekly" says that it would be a csiamity if this course were generally odopteci. A new work on beer shows that there were 26 breweries in the atty. of London ana 011bUrtIS in 1585, one-half of which were owned by foreigners. The total quantity brewed then was 650,000 barrels. In1887 29,- 000,000 barrels of ale alone ware brevred, Baas & Co. began in 1717 ; bull the oldest important brewery was that of Truman, Hanbury&Buxton, whioh began in 1669, Oaressang with her bine arms sunset land; calico, which the latter Mara to *oat eat Pink-hearte,d Ethelle, unsought, lie on the gives them to his daughter. The bride or- ders a few blankets to be spread before the groom. She sits down, and hepato hie hand upon her head. Then the groom is given for each of the parts of his body one or more blankets. Finally he is given anew blanket to each dancer and to the drummer and the villagers are invited to a great feast. At this time groom and bride eat for bhe drab time together. beach, An empty hammock swings within my reach— But yon and 1-0, God 1—are far apart 1 He holds thy kisses, but—I hold thy heart. ELLA 111(3=1mm. Every new map of the Congo basin adds -0 villages by the hundred to those already I don't belie -ea the bee oan tell Among merlons recoveries are many10 y stances which are of interest on account of discovered. Very recently, for Metal:me, only What culture suits the honeyed flower, John Chambern and John Chesser, two rthe odd circumstance:1 rather than of the a dozen or ao of native settlements 'were AOr to what salthough he burrows in the reeidentie of Ed. Hyato, who lives vrith lt it owes itamower, - te ' Kansas Ciby crooks, atbempeed to burglarize o. money value of the articles lost and found. known along the plateau south of the Congo ' its e . A few years sr a parcel of manuscript of in the cataract reglon. But in the year and Wao says the -panted butterfly only his wife on a term ten miles When Lord Beatimasfield succeeded in making Victoria limprems, a pledge was given that the imperial title ohonld never be obtruded into British affairs. It should be reserved for busineos cooneobed with India. Tlae Quart haa broken this pledge frequent. ly of late upon private documents, bat this year, for the first time, her message to the Lords was signed " Victoria, R L" Her measage M the House of Conunons, though, was piped only "Victoria, R." As yet nothing more has come of the performance than a little discussion. An illaseration of how unprofitable high prioes: for racing can be is furnished by some investments of the Dr:mimes of Montrose. Whistle Jaerket, for whom she gave 3 600 euineas as a yearling, hes won for fur 4205, entrances aleregarded. She gave 4,109 guineas for the yearling Devil to Pay, 2,050 guineas for his dam, 2,000 guineas for his sister, and 5,000 guineas for Janette, and all that has come back to her in consequence was 4200 which a colt from Devil to Pey'a dam once walked over for, Mre. Cunninghame Graham, presumably an authority, gave a lecture on "The Ideal of Socialism' ab the Bloomsbury Socialise Club. Snoh well-known, disciples as Mrs Ashton Dilke Mrs. Eleanor Marx Aveling, and Stepnialewere present. Mrs. Graham advised the strengthening of the agitation tor ahortening the hours of labor, as that would bring the millionaire to bankruptcy and rain, and from that would come the re- generation of society. The Soolallet triumph would annihilate the poorhouse, the prison, the gallows, evening part -lee; afternoon teas, and polities. On the nd of June, Saturday and Sunday, the firet annual tournament of the Hague Lawn Tennis Club was played before e brilliant gathering. The first prize for ladiesand gentiminen's doubles was presented by the English Minister. The play was decidedly above the average, some of the oats being versa oloaely contested, Both first and second pirzes were secured by pairs Qom- pereecl of an English gentleman playing with a Dutch lady. Mr. Rumbold, attached to tbe English Legation, and Mlle. de Weertz, won the limn The second was won by the second secretary to the English Legation and the Countess Theodora de Limmbnrg Sdrum, who played with the greatest ener- gy and pluck through -out the matches. It was a great event in tlae annals of ' Dutch aristocracy. BBL]) al' AN INVISIBLE GRASP, noly It reeis to Take a Shock from a 1254, Horsepower Dynamo. Apropos of the debate an electricity as apo plied Ire ostadtal pieoleheneat, DanielJ. Mc- Fall furnishes the following deledis of his sometime: frora shook on. the Satre, Tunnel level of the Chollar incline "1 was in the employ of the California Electric: Light and Motor Company as dyn. emo runner in the dynamo chamber on the 1,630 level of the °holler Mine, wlaere the auxiliary power for operating the Nevada mill by the electric transmiesion of power is abutted. In the dynamo chamber are a number of email ince:Ida:scent lights, some of which have long-wire attaohmente so they can be carried to any part aif the room for A the oonveniencer of the workmen, These il lighM are atraehed to a 125 horse -power 1 t‘n dynamo Ilsod for tranemitting tbe p wer to the milt. One of thooe lights WAS te porari. ly bung over a dynamo Mat was be g re- paired. The light not being close enough I reached up my right hand and grasped the wire, for the purpose of pulling in the sleek. At SOISIS previous time this wirehad been wound around a nail which had broken the insulation and len a eoart of the wire bare. 1, not being aware of this, unfortunately grabbed the wire at thie pl hoe. My right. ' foot boot was A litble damp, and. in turning the toe imppened to touch a piece of iron running to the ground. Immediately r was attack, my right hand grasping the light veire and the toe of my right.foot boot touelltag the iron leading to the ground, 1 grounded ' me (mooted me with the ground), and in consequence the =Hetet in the electric: wires, or at least; a good portion of ib, passed through my body. Electricity will always run to the ground firat if it gets the oppore tunity, :to when I made the connection the current panted through me to the ground. "It is very hard to define my feeling. First, 1 reoeived a most peculiar sensation that shook my body and completely para. lyzed Me, And yet at the stone time I was fully conscious. 1 tried to let go my hold of bite wire,but of course found that impassible, for the harder the shook tlaa more contratteg the museles become, and consequently the firmer the wire is held. I tried to shout for aid, and, although a fellow workman was but five or, min feet distant hem me, with his faere turned in my direction, I could not emit a sound nor make the least movement to attract his attention. It seemed as if I was being irresistibly drawn up, with a hori. Me feeling of being consumed by the electric: - fluid. 1 fully, realized my position and be. lieved that my time had come. While re- oeiving the shook my eyesight was good un- til I became onerous:liens. Of course I WAS unable to let go mt, hold of the wire or move my foot from the iron that grounded me until ,I became unconsoious. Then the weight of my body loosened my hold on, the wire and I tell to the ground. I lay like dead, my heart puleations entirely, ceased, and also the circulation. Two feillorework- men aaw me drop. They carried me to the fresh air, stretched me on the damp ground, applied ice water dorenewe tome, and worked my arms to promote circulation and artificial respiration. After the lapse of twenty min- utes, when I was about to be given up tor dead, signs of life returned. At firat I was dazed, could not'und'erstand what lead hap. pened ; in a f ew minutes, though,I remember- ed everything diatinotly, and, got up; fleeting " very weak, particularly in the stomuch. After a few days, however, the weakness from tb.e shook wore away, and I regained my usual health. There was no actual pain' 4 during the ehook, bus where thewire touched my hand it burned to the bone, and the ends of the three amaller toes were burned to the bone also. "I havesinoe fixed the time I sustained the shook at eix seconds. The dynamo to which e the wire was attached generated a direct ee current of 2,500 volts and thirepeight ame pores. DESPERATE WORK WITH A BURG- LAR. NM, Hyatt Does Good Service in Having. Her Husband capture Him. e Poole's great 'Index to Periodicals," con- 0, half that engineers have given to survey. taining the material for about twenty pogo, ing for the proposed railroad they have found • was stolen from the express on its way to settlements all over the plateau. The net- ' the printers. The state of mind of the edi- row region about 26G miles long, which has -. tors eau well be imagined, for these twenty been a blank in the atle,see, they have dotted -epagas represented the three years' labour of eribh 163 villages. Many of these places are some fifty - co-operators, and could not be very smolt, but some of them eontain hun- replaced without going through from begin- dreds of people, and they are evenly spread ring to end, over 4000 volumes! The indexes over the entire plateau, showing quite a of aome periodic:de might, as far as they dense population in a. region that was tboughb were oonoernea, furnish an imperfect sub- to be sparsely peopled. tante but while the editors were consider. copt. Van Gale touted on the Mobangi The length of summer a solstice knowa, northeast of Olathe, Ken, It was Or from what pole the north wind blows about 10 o'clook, and Hyatt and his wife When dancing on the breeze t Not I. bad retired, when Chambers, who had got into the kitchen, burst open the bedroom And yet, beneath all cone:nous. life, Aron The noise awakenened Hyatt, who How firm the laws of nature stand ; 'grabbed a revolver from beneath hie pit - With what a poise they move; how ilow and shot three times at the burglar, grand :when the latter grappled with him, and a Their sway, e,nd with what secrets rife 1 life and death struggle ensued for the weak on. The burglar, who was a powerful man, And so,. and see it seems to me grabbed the revolver before Hyat could fire The little knowledge we balm fleinedt any more but the, latter held on to it also, River, the great nortb.ern tributary of the By what has pleased and what has pante& Mrs. Hyatt assisted her husband, and broke ing how they could beat make use of them, Congo, a large region wnieh he says is the Unequal to our teelre mud be. the burglar's hold twice; bub he realized the raanusoripb was found under a street counter, where it had been thrown by the most densely popnleted pert of Africa he Oh, wiser is the little child•, that it was a life or death struggle, and he disappointed thief, and a vexatious delay in bac Been. This is a surprising statement, fought like a tiger and knocked the woman Who hears hie father's mural: or may, the publication of a moat invaluable work considering his familiarity with Bangala and down twice. Was fortunately prevented. And has no thought but to obey, In the mean tone y g i t - the got nto he yard Than he, by subtleties beguiled," ' Ba Yarzi, on Me Congo, where many miles near TIMMS, ot river front is thickly populated, with hard- where the struggle was continued. Neither lost and ly a gap between the villages. Van Grele Afloat on shoreless seas of doubt, of the men could get control of the weapon Many itsteames of letters oddly found might be sited. In 1833 a letter found on the Mobangt and the three In myetio beingswamped and lost, long enough to shoot his adversary. The which contained money was received at the ' tributaries which he ascended for Lahore Vainly by passion torn and boat, robber had both arms around Hyatt at this Post Office in New 'York, addressed to distances, 105 native settlement, some of Striving to find his Maker out 1 time, but that latter pinioned his adversarea them containing thoasands of people. On arms oo tightly that he could not shoot. Fin - Shall throbbing nature rest; secure Semen' G. Starr, No, 205 Pearl street. It the Ngiri tributary, he says that " for e ally, realizing that he could not use the wea. 1 1 lb ithfh n al her a yr n o a ange, was given with others to a carrier, but Mr. enney---- unties yillage succeeds to vin pon, he pulled ont the cylinder pin just as Starr reported soon after that the letter had one Attd man alone, unfethered, range Mrs, Hyatt struck him on the head with a lege in an uninterrupted chain." In o'''' Thwarted and stung ne blessina sure ? not been delivered. An investigation was district, not the most denselypeopled that he o' o club, and he fell over exhausted as if dead. made, but without any, satisfactory result. Hyatt imnaerliately grabbed the revolver found on the Mebane% he says he saw about What nerves the atm? 'Tie trust alone ; The next year, however, during the season SOO canoes cutting °their way through the Vie trust alone that deers the eve; from the robber's hands, but found ib useless of house oleanum, the mystery was solved. The oil oloth in the hallway of No. 205 water eyery morning carrying the women to Sure, then, that if we live or die. in the darkness. The (Maple Men ran halt a their day'swork in the fields. Many of the Lam, vast power, protects its own. mile to a neighbor% house, who returned and Pearl street was taken up, and on the floor, investigated. close to the front door, was found the letter vIlleehgeesfthilate Mlocrn'gWe,elfienna on the Swikur121 as""BS. D. H. R. GOODALE. were 'ler y large, one The burglar was unmet:minus, and upon which had been so long missing. The place "" of them containing, he eatimated 4,000, ---- examination it was found that all three of lued been dosed, when visited by the carrier, Pysisiteo people, while among the densely populated Hyatt's shete had taken effect, one in the and thrusting bhe letter under the door, . plains further south Wisentannfound settle- Againet the dusky background, pale and arm, one in the hip, and one in the stomach, be had pushed it beneabh the floor covering. extents in which he believed at loot 20,000 fair, the lase one being pronounced fatal by the A package was recovered from the Dead Lebter Office some years ago which had been natives live. She stands, and in her heavy -lidded eyes physician. These illustrations have been taken at A lurking sadness like a shadow lies; Ate the cause of considerable uneasiness. This .....A...... 4,b the testimony of a few among Above, the golden tendrils of her hair— he Fishenes. letter contained $70,000 in drafts, and vim mailed from New Orleats to New York City. many explorers, simply to glow thab while some regions he the emngo basin have been Fit halo for the maiden.face beneath ; The fishery question to olyino itself this year. Many of the fiehermen, both Can - Thence it was senb to England, but wag almost depopulated by slave stealers, and And from the opened oaakeh in her hand, adieu, and American, have toiled day in and returned, and finally it turned up in the other extensive districts are very sparsely For winch she sought the dark, Pintenten day out and have caught nothing in the Dead Letter Office, where it was opened and inhabited, there Is no doubt, that the great land, shape of macikeral ; ao that there lo nothing returned to the sender. Much inquiry had valley of the Congo teems with millions of The mist, sleep -laden, floats, an airy Wreath. to quarrel about, There can be no doubt been made for the mtesing package, and sum humanat the oontintious assaults upon the Ash in pleins otteng enough to make several post beings. There is no way of arriving th office effiebde anxious were directed agamat at a satisfactory approximaticto of the pop- Sometimes I think About thab picture omen cod out of cecoog aro having their uletion laub from twenty to twente•five clings effect, They ate making the instokerel fide. - -• A magic spell, a subtle witchery, erg. lest and kaa valuable, and the leboure of Thanbreezelike, ewayet the folds of Irap- the flehermen less and less proAtable, The erY Franco -Newfoundland bait diffionIty isalso Ana clniver° in strange light° upon her coming -to an end. The Newfoundlander:: wings, will tot aell the Prenola fishertnen beat, It steals bete the elentha a nielefe much to the chagrin of the people of Se. Whom lovelineee her lashes: half eclipse; Pierre and Miquelon. This year old Prance It Wavero in a smile aorosti her lipe, has sent out fleets to the fishing grounds. Altbough her eyes are fall of vague regret The fishermen bring no batt, but they sink barikets to Which perriveinkles attach theme Ah, well 1 The world le wide and years are selves, 110.111113g the winkles in they de. long ; prive them of their shell:: and Meath there Perhaps some bime we may di:a:over vehy to the hooka They allure the codfish The billows murmur—roses bloom and readily, and produce so gooa a °atoll that die, veSsels which were formerly out for week:: Or how out sweetest poen: wave their song, can return hoMe loadOci in et many dove. We may learn what the spell is In a smile tet Bub this:Mew scheme is as severe a blow at e fishermen of gb, Pierre as at those of That brightens earth as when -Spring xen ioun diah d _ acmes again, May Ieatn why Pilyche With% to Strange- ly When Petoonget olevatore having electric. mo., Her eyes are dark with sorrow all the tera.are Much in rare fa Degiend, the Benk whil of Angland Wig the last to utilize their L'amm PauSTOT I'llAn Olno eleetrio plant fair :Rich re purpoila ' The Discovery of Oxygen. "Fixed air" and "combustible air" had 'been speculated upon, and "the air that is left after combustion" had attracted atten- tion. But the phenornena of this kind, in- consistent as they were with the ' phlogistio :theory, had not been sufficient to overthrow et. The firsb germ of Lavoisier's theory on these nutters was enabodied in a sealed paokeb wbiale he deposited with the Aoa- denagin 1770. Recognizing' that the cal - :linen= of metals could run take place with- out the access of air, and that the freer the amens the raore rapid the calcination, he "began to suspect," BA he expreases himself, that some elastic fluid contained in the air WAS susceptible, under many circumstances, of fixing itself and combining with metals, and that to the addition of that substance were due calcination and the increase in weight of metals oonverted into coaxes. From that thought came, after much groping with erroneous conolusione, the idea that air is a compound containing a vital part and another part, aled that it is the vital part that is absorbed. The behavior of °buccal when burning in oxygen pointed to the nature of that substance and to the true theory of combustion. This new vital sub- stance, which, uniting with metals, formed waxes, and with other substances generated acids, he called oxygen or Me acid -producer; the air that was left after combustion was azote, or 'Helen. The inflemmable air vehteli combining with oxygen, was found to form water, was called hydrogen.--EPopular Science Monthly. them. It wen °nee hinted to the sender that -lie might have miedireeted the eavelope, but TIT:" belle"d to be a nwciell'te Embi. he was poeibiere of having been accurate on this point. When It came beak from its long journey, however, it was found behave been addressed to " New 'York, England." riatlaVERING LOW BOOXS, Perheps the mesh ouriotor and valuable re. covery of a book long sought for, in recent years, occurred to Mr. Grenville, whose mu. nificent bequest of his extraordinary library to the British Muse= will perhaps be re- membered, Among the choieese books in hie libary Mr. Grenville possessed OBS V01. Horses Killed by Bees. At Patriot, oeverel mil ee oonth of Coheir:bre: two horses belonging to Stephett LUODA of that plebes were tied together and left graz. ing in the yard, when they were attacked by bees. In their emit:at/ors to escape the animals knocked over several of the beehives, and they were ire:tautly covered with angry inseots. Before they could be rid of them they were hoth fatally stung. One of the horses lived but one hour, ant the other ume of an exmerinigly rare edition of the about five hours. Bible, called the Nazarine Bible," Which was printed as vellum, and magnificently boon& Le was exeeedingly mildews to cle- "What is the :raying about the leopard ?" tain a eopy ef the missing VOILUI10 of the eat, asked the yeneug Sabbethmehool teaeliet. but Was tamble to find IMO for inaY years. But the correct/ anewer from the good little Vinnily, by a. Avatar edneidetin he heel the boy was: :reviled by the bad boy, who dom. Unexpected good fortune to get, not only mooted thus: "Ial like to know why it SATift a dopy a the hook, hut the Indentical cihmcgo itt epota r /tr doesiat stay in one volume, as shown by the binding, whaoh place all the time." TO OUEE THE TASTE roit LIQUOR. The Cause et the Thirst—A. Simple Remedy Suggested. A correspondent of the New York San, in answer to the question, "Can any one give me a cure for drunkenness ?" says : "Indulgence in spirits after a while -- which is longer or shorter according to the constitution of the person--producree irrita- tion, infientmation and fever of the stomach, hence the craving for drink; and the greater the fever the greater the craving. As aphits act also on the nervous system and the brain, the nervous system becomes impaired and the brain weakened. Who men deny that a person ailing in these several ways is labor- ing Under a serious disease ? Be has then no will power to exercise, because the seat of the will is in the nervous centres' and when these are impaired or destroyedso is also the will power. Here ig the ours: Let the perron have wibhia his reaala a small via/ of the best kind of tincture of Peruvian bark, and when the craving for liquor comes on him let him take a teaspoonful of the lino. tura every two hours. In a few days the taste for liquor is clef:Doyle% and destroyed whileindutping itt it, for tincture of Peruvian bark is sprits into which has been drawn all the eubstance of Peruvian bark. Ib is to be found in every drug store, but lb ahould bo of the very boa " Peruvian bark le a tonic, It is alga the best, if not the only, cure known for fever. It is from Peruvian bark that quinine is ex- tracted, and, moreover, ib is an inperiodio. It is by theee three agencies Mat it deatroyo the cravings for liquor. Any one wishing to be oared of that ailment can be in the way I have denribed, but there are few drunk- ards indeed who wish to be oared." A Martyr to Ris Comrade. A Fortunate Precaution, In the terrible explosion at Unsworbh Col- liery in 1885 forty lives were lost. Atnong the explorers who went down the mine to rescue the sufferer:: was 0. S. Lindsay, who was accompanied by two obher brave fellow:4 Donnelly and Slee. As they were lowered into the mine they met the choke -damp, which speedily prostrated them. Lindsay attempted to drag out with him his two comrades. He was fully 600 yards from the shaft, and after an effort, which proved too much for him, he ivaa compelled to give up and sank in an exhausted atate. To add to the horror of hie position, in his fall his lamp fell ander him and the light was ex- tinguished. Pulling himself together he tried to make for the bottom of the shaft, but he lest his way af tor making three efforte and then haa to retrace his journey. During all thie time, however, Lindsay had retained half a. dozen natio in hie mouth which e, friend advioed him to suck. The result' of thie woo that the carbonic acid of which the after -damp is compoeed, was coming in cent/het with oxide of iron, oar- bonate of iron, which is at insoluble ootn. Pound, was formed, and thus though eX- pomed bo the cholteedamp as moots at hie oompartione, thie solentifie knowledge mater- ially aided him to hold up longer then they had done. Still crawling on he met a band of explorero and tvao thus mooed. This is told as one of Dee moat aplenclid ante of hero- itort tint has ever been known in the annals of toiniag disaeters. An invention be been made which prom - ins to revolutionise oompletely the industry oi chine. decoration. By a prodes0 dhlooV- Erred by Mt. S. E. Benuettd it is pooalble to obtain in a fa* minutes the saine Ortistie eta:tote evietole oose the hand -painter on china clays of laher. Landscapes, groupa of figures, and portraits are preluded by this mestee 00 VaSeti, platen, and phonic:: In their netural oolote, even to the meet delioeteefficidee. ' In Belgium, some little time ago, a day laborer lost his own life that he might save that of e, companion. After the struotttre of e a new ohureh was nearly, or quite complet- ed, all that remained to be done was the placing of a weatherovane upon the topmost point of the spire. To accomplish this there was no other Way than for one man to inottot bhe higheat seaffolding that dould be put up, then for another to etemel upon hicteluateciers. As the two :nen made their waynutiouso ly up this ladder to the scaffolding \the first one stooped SO that the other, who WAS bear- ing lila pot of molten lead and the Weather- vane, could place his feet upon his shoulders Then he raised himself to his full height that the laborer might reach his work. Thini he Stood never atitring s mueole, all the work was oempleted, eta the laborer descending the ledder was slowly followed by tile other amid the shouts- and cheere of the vaSii mult- itude Who had waited in sods stiepettse, but their joy Wail wort turned into monrning, tot o'er hero, or the one that &abaci at support, had no sooner reached the grourui than he dropped dead. Ilastening to him hie ehould- ere, arras and eheet were fourld to be binned tee a orhip, doused from, the drippings of the beiliog lead from above him. He had sub. witted to the torture'never Moving, not even tittering a moat:, for he kttew tint the slighted reuree would 'preeipitate hitt follow laborer to the ground, tend from thee lm move height he would be daelied to pieede. tfo preferred to beer that theme ag.ony altaM and die rather them deetroy the life of his friend. ,