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The Exeter Times, 1889-8-22, Page 600EA1 LABI, 0 rants lerevereve, by the cereet native tie Steamentips. In view of the ooneteteatty marooning nun. ber of greet' and fest yowls that ply between thie coptinent And Europe it twat= to tut thet ib le about time oat eorne new regale - tions were lead clowu governing their move ments. 411011 comfort hes been Imparted to the public mind by the term ocean lane when used in ceitjunotion with the transatlantic passage of certain lines of steamerer There may in the past have been semething in the practeee of the commanders to justify the eise of the term ocean lane as deeignating Reparate and exolueive highwey, wherein a vessel secured to itself an unimpeded pees. Age. Those who Are SECInainted with the facts are perfeotly well aware that the term mitten lane is empty and of no significance. Ships going e.nd coming pass each other • on either band. The ordinary incidents of the voyage across the Atlantic have long since shown the habitual traveller that MN were or ooleastort is daily growing greater, while the. premix. tions against it remain the mime, ana have not in many years been augmented. The Captains luxe to be more vigilant than ever; that is to Bey, work harder, feel their reapon- *Abilities more deeply, and experience a degree of anxiety from which formerly they were entirely free. • The transatlantic courses are now purely arbitrary. They are governed, fireb, by Me desire to make the shorteet passage ; second- ly, by apprehension of ice, and thirdly, by a deeire to avoid the regions of fog. The ocean racer which reached New York after ouch a wonderful voyage on Wednesday of last week although ehe did not beat her own record., had made a passage some fifty-eight miles shorter than she did in May, when she eclips- ed all her rivals. Every vessel whioh can approach the six.dey record is straining to do it, and to beat it; and had it not been that all the steamers have been for some Inontihs more or less crippled. in their fire rooms by unekilled firemen, June and July would have seen all reads lowered. We have no doubt that IZ TlitZ Ekes RIVALRY that has been developed, the present record will be materially altered before the first of October. We hope that when it is done it will be done safely, but in spite of all pro. positione to the contrary onthe part of those who are really responsible, there is no ques- tion of the great danger of collision wuich now preaents itself upon the average trans. atlantic passage. We think, therefore, that it is time that some agreement was reached between all the lines plying in the trans- atlantic trade whereby, according to the season, no east -bound vessel should ever pass to the north -ward of an agreed and de- termined line of passage, after the course had been laid from within a hundred miles of Sandy Hook; and that similarly all west -bound vessels should • never pass to the south of a certain boundary after they lave laid their courses from the British Isles. All steamers should cross the Atlantic with the absolute certainly of encounteriug no steamers. There is very little danger to be apprehended from the fast steamer over. taking the slow. The great thing to know, In case some reckless skipper should bid defiance to all laws of navigation ane plough along at twenty knots an hour L TERM Irma or a dense log, is that by no human pos sibility oci,n there be another steamer doing the same thing in the opposite direction. Then, so far as -steamers are concerned the danger of collision is reduced to a minimum. Ice is another thing altogether, and It must be confessed that the precautions against collision with icebergs are wholly inadequate. The rule regarding thermo- metric observation is childish. The moat careful commanders require only a half- hourly record of the tempereture. This would undoubtedly be sufficient if they could arrange that the half hours would correspond closely with the proximity of the iceberg. As ie is, the reliance to be placed upon the thermometer as at present used is slight, and commands no respect either on the ship or elsewhere. Observation has repeatedly proved that the proximity of ice may be detected by the use of the thermome- •tor. Now, there should be nothing more simple or easier of adaptation than a thermometric device which in registering the temperature of the sea should automati- cally make or break an electrioe circuit, and thereby give audible warning of any abnormal change in the sea's temperature. If ocemegoing steamere, exposed to the vagrant icebergs that drift every summer down the Arctic current, were all provided with some such device'and if in going east they all, pursued the course which would take them well out of the course of all like steamers that were coming the other way, there would be much greater safety in transatlantic travel than there is to -day. The danger was never so great as it is now. The greatly increased number of ves- sell!, the tremendous pressure under which most of them are rem these and other con- siderations indicate some of the enhanced perils of the present transatlantic passage. It is a grave public duty to mitigate these periles, fn so far as it is possible to do so by intelligent precautions and concerted action, Feminine Irony. What ca.n a helpless female do ? Rook the cradle and bake and brew; Or, if no cradle your fate afford, Rock your brother's wifen for your board. Or live in one room with an invalid cousin, Or sew shopeshirta for a dollar a dozen, Or pleage some man by looking sweet, Or please him by giving him things to oat. Or please him by asking his advice, And thinking vvhatever he does is nice; Visit the poor, under hie supervision; Doctor the siok who can't pay a physician; Save men's time by doing their praying, And other odd jobs there' i no present nay In, But if you presume to usurp employments Rseerved by them for their speoial enjoy- ments, Or if you aucceed when they knew you wouldn't, Or earn money fast when they said you couldn't, Or learn to do things they proved were above you, You'll !mut their feelings, and then they Won't love you. , —PH/Le/num:an TIMES. Geatitude "Why, Charlet', what's the matter r "Matter 1 Why, Ive jest met that young Puppy Janes that I lent that $5 to, end be • said he'd pull nay nose for me if I bothered lahre ler it again 1 What do yott think of that ?" "I think he'll have his hatids full if he does Chariot." (A"nct now there is a coolneee between theme) BUTTER FROM .PLANTS. The Cows, At Appear, Donn control the Whole llustuese. Batter is the name given, in a ohenalote saute to all oleaginous eubettincee whicob. remain solid at A tempereture of 70 to 86 degrees Vehrenheit, For popular purposes 11 18 a misnomer, eays "Chambers's Journal," as all the fatty metiers included in the term could hardly be used by modern honsewieei, even for eultuery purposes. no plants yielding the butter, Although not confined to one country, nor even to Ono natural order, are nevertheless more abundant in weft Africa and India then in other parts of the world and are mostly members of the order Sapotact ie. The Nona Parkii, a plant in• dignous to west Africa and which derives its 'pea° name from the renowned:African traveler, Mungo Perk, is particularly rich in the product and is a source of great utility and profit to the natives. The fruit itself when ripe is eaten by them,. and is said by travelers who have tutted It to be not un. pleasant. It is about the size of a large prune, rather sour, but otherwise of an ex cellent fikvor. The butter is obtained from the seethe The following is the manner in which the fruit is collected and treated: The crop commencee at the end of May and finishes daring the lase days of September. The women and oh ildren go each day into the forests, especially after storms and tome does, and fetch large baakets or calabashes to the village filled with fruit whioh the wind has brought down. They throw them hato cylindrical holes, that are found here and there in the Barabarra villages, even in the middle of the roads. While in these holes the fruits Jose their flesh, which rots off ; they are left there during several months, sometimes for the whole of the winter. The ,nnts are then placed in a kind of vertical oven ; a fire is kept under them and this causes them to lose their moisture. As moon as they are dried the shells are bioken and the white kernel is peeled and then grouni and made into a homtgeneous mass. This is then pieced in water, which is kept boiling. The fatty matter &ate to the top and the dirt goes to the bottom. The butter is then put into a jer filled with cold water and beaten clear. While in this jar it absorbs a certain amount of water and to get rid of this it is taken out and beaten again. By this primi. tive eareoeee only about 10 to 12 per cent of the butter OEM be saved. What the natives:would do without it it is hard to conceive. It practically serves them as food, medicine, and raiment (in the sense thee they oil their skins with it). They eat it in hheseene way that we doordin- are, butter, and mixed with an animal fat! ee is considered a panacea against all evils and diseases. It is also employed for lighting purposes, and the smoke vehich is produced by its combustion is said to be very effica- oiotm in the ours of snake bites. It is also largely used for soap -making ; for this latter purpose 11 has more than once been intro. duced to European mauafacturers, but up to the present has never been utilized on an extensive scale. No doubt, as the ream:tr- ees vf the country are farther developed and the intereommunication between the inland and the coast becomes more faoilitat. ed, we shall find this as well as other pro. ducts equally valuable make their way to this market The Indian representative of the family, the Bessie, Latifolia, is very abundant in all parts of India and the butter expressed from the seed is used in muele the same way by the native Indian as that of the Bessie. Parkil is by the west Africans, while the fruit in many part forms a staple article of food. Every part of the tree, in fact, is of use. The timber, being hard and strong, close and even.grained, in used for the wheels of car- riages, railway -sleepers, etc. The flowers, when dried, have eomewhat the odor and appearance of Sultana raisins. They are produced in enormous quantities in March and April, after the old leaves had fallen; and before the new leaves ha ve appeared the crop rarely fails. The fleshy flowers fall off and cover the ground beneath the trees and are gathered eagerly by the natives every morning during the flowering season. A single tree yields from 200 to 400 pounds' weight of flowers. They are very rieh in sugar and yield when fermented a large quantiy of sprite as much as sixsix- teenths gallon of proof spirit per hundred weight having been obtained from them. The spirit is mannfactured to a great extent in India and it is said then the government receives quite a large amount for duty on the spiritindistilled, The flowers have from time to time been placed pefore important distillers in Eng- land, but owing to a peculiar flexor being developed—caused, Itis thought, by the persietent stamens, which it is difficult, to remove from the flowers--ette spirit distilled has never been brought into oonsumpbion in the Brill& market. TELEGRAPHIOS BRIEFS. Oa John 1+1 alker, registrar of Middle- sex, died au Caspebiao, Quebec, yesterday from the paralytic stroke received a few days ago. Warrants have been issued ab Belleville for Thomas Diamond and Henry Canning, charged with throwing carbon.° acid over John Howe. Windsor people are almose certain that Rev. Dr. O'Connor, of Assumption College, Sendwioh, will be appointed Bishop of London. Private Hill, of the West Riding Reel'. ment at Eialifax, put the muzzle of his rifle in his month, worked the trigger with his foot and blew the top of his head off because his girl in England jilted him. Col. Walker, of London, Ont., at one time prominent in Dominion polities, who wile atruck with paralysis while fithieg at Grand river, Que., is dead. On Tuesday night Edward MoLaughJin and Robert Ferguson, river drivers iu the employ of Masers. Eddy & Co„ of Hull, while intoxitetted had a ejneerrel at Medavietaka, a smell village on the Kingston and Pembroke railway, which reaulted in Motnughlin fatal- ly shooting Ferguson la the abdomen. Something to Suit. Said the fiexen-haired maiden to the (hip per young man behind the counter "Have you any nice, eoft sought that will Snit my complexion and hair?' Clerk : "Bleached or unbleached ?" Making DID the Quarrel. ' A True Lover's Quarrel,. —Ile—Dome, now, let's kisa and make up. She—No, eir • I won't. He—Well, L'iles kiss, anyhow. (They make tire) • Friend no Unger. "Ilow's your friend Bente?" "He ion' my friend any longer." "Whyl how is that " Ete did nee a deadly injury, and I don't suppose he'll ever coneent to forgive me for lb," ' BaATE BETIY OGLE. Something „about the !Beeville or nollnse town His:eater. Every one knowe of the noble and tragie de teth of Retty Ogle, but few have watched the consistent and weleordered course of her life, Ifetty Earl was boro in the boatiful mount tain Village of Somereet, Pennsylvania, and there she grew to be a cheerful, helpful, happy, pleasantefa,oed young women. Her father w is for many yeare Recorder of the courts there. Re died a poor titan. There were few educational advantages in Somereet. and though Iletty had A S'Ireags well-balanoed mind, it had little eohool train- ing. After nor father's death she married Chariot Ogle, n conger member of the family so distinguished in Pennsylvania politics. He was one of the first to enlist as o soldier in the civil war, end was Mel in theWilderness at the beetle of Gaines Mill. Hie body was NEvDD uzcavERED. Mrs. Ogle was left with three ante ohildren to eupport, and she went to work calmly and bravely to do it. The tele raph office in gomerse was in a room a an 03c:ivied as a store, and where the rough men of the town oongregated to gotsip and quarrel; but she unerdtook to learn that businese, and she did it thoroughly, never getting a disreepeotful word from any one, the hard. est part of her task being that she left her laebies at home to take care of eaoh other as best they could. She soon became wonder. fully proficient, and was given an effiee of her own in Somerset. From that she gained the confidence of the telegraph corn petty so entirely that at the tune of her death she had oharge of three tele graph lines in Johnstoven. Her two boys grew to be fine fellowa, shaped by her strong will and good example. Her daughter was al. ways frail In health, and was only kep alive by the tender care of her mother Their home was the most perfectly ordere that cum be imagined. It Was seldom in varied by a servant, but was keptexquisite ler neat by the SKILFUL AND DEFT RANDS LEBROBr isTEE WEST INDIES, %ail to be on, the lucroaselo aOl *leo let 'lends.. There IS nob one of the West Indien .0010^ rifoluesnlcin. wIlinichsoo:Iseesiatful(eipa rottshyeraorearnbottittofewbe, And many of which are isolated, In ,others there are a sufficient number to neoeseitate the establiehment cf apeuial aeyInme. In rio oaEe, however, has the disease been treat. ed aa contagieus, and in conse.quenoe even where there are Lutetium, the zunietes have been allowed to roam about pretty muoh as they pleased. There are indicatione, how- ever, that this uondition of affair% will not be allowed to Continue Innen longer, After being for long yeare a bone 01 contention between " anthot hies," the truth has AD laet been definitely ascertained that the terrible dhows is contagious as Well as inoureble. The experience of Father Damien has demone- trated this, and before the facts of that ease, supplemented as it is by others, all the speculations of theorists go down like oar houses, A movement is already begioning to b made in the neighboring islands looking to tvardthe oentralizetion and iSoLATION OF ALL CASES d es it was Tueeday in the Cayadutta valleys e When mole is the ottee the violent ascending I , so, enuvdrariehnauttrise thithidoedhment hal ye, oy flitwf it the vapor aboVe the regions of the etraosphieeitee°,Pwrivreelr°fieuet8dhlYeainfird°v4actp°11:1oldgr 1 la instantly condensed into many tons, of e water. Could the water fall as feet as 0On- 8 elapsed it would be ooraparatively harmless, t But the continuous uprushing current's sup ' port this mass of water at the high level and , as their own vast volumes of vapor rising are I condensed they add to the water already • accumulated thousands of feet above the O ienarhtihg' hs Beni rr:f ace—mek lag, so to speak, a lake, e As the whirlwind weakens or panties from beneath This vast body of water, which ite ascending currents have generated and up. held in the upper story of the atmosphere, theeiqueous inass,Ino Ionizer supported, drops with ever-increasing gravitational force to the earth. In severe oloud-bursts the water does not fall as rain, bat in sheets and streams, sometimes unbroken for many sect ends. The oloud-burst of 1883 at Holli. dayaburg, Pa., excavated many holes in the geuund, varying from twenty five to thirty feet deep. In a similar but milder sterna which visited Boulogne last, May fissures were out in the ground eight feet deep and openings made large enough to ingulf a horse and cart. WHAT A OLOUD-BURST IS A inalie el Water Actually enspeutied int The phenomene of a oloud.burst, Which can only clout in a toruado or whirlwied, are nob generally understood, says the Neve York Herald, The whirl in which it is le not e very broad and ehallow but a tall, columnar mane of rotating air, eimilar to that in whioh the Atlantic) waterspout or the pillanlike dumb -atom of India is generened. White this traveling aerial pillar, perhaps a few hundred yards in diameter, is rapidly gyratiug the centrifugal force,, as Prof. Far. rel ha e shown, acts as a barrier to prevent the flew of external air from all sides into its intertor except at or near the bate of the pillar. There Motion with the earth retards the gyration. and &Howe the air to rueh, in below and map° upward through the flue like intertor ea powerful esoending currents. The phenomenon, however, will noir be attended by terrific+ floods unless the Mmes. phere le densely stored with water vapor of this disease. And that the movemen will rapidly mature we think there can b no doubt, for evenin the Wands that possee whams these institutions are nothing 10nurseries for the disease, since it la con tagious. tile inmates rear poultry, pigs and goats and 'cultivate provisions, al which findtheir way to the common mark eta ! And institutionor ne institutions, in all but exoeptional cases, where th patients voluntarily isolate themselves, th affected mingle freely with the people. In Nevis, for instance, the writer has seen lepers doing scullion's work for their meals, Wnile in Trinadad he has seen them served in a publio barroom! While these might: be t • exoeptional oases, they indicate the groat e laxity that has existed under she policy s based on the non•oontagion theory. In a word infirmity and leproey have been treated • on equal terms, with the result that year by year the awful disease has been slowly but steadily spreading. In the Island of Sb. Kitte, for example, while in 1878 there were 60 oases recorded, in 1888 these has increased to over 1001 The only means of dealing with the die. ease and auocessfully stamping le out, le that adopted by the Sandwich Island Gov- ernment— ubter and unoompromieing bola. tion. 01 course, sentiment is a powerful ?eater in man's relations with his kind: but this is one of those oases in which sentiment tnust be subordinate(' to an IMPERATIVE GENERAL NECESSITY. of the mietrese. Everything that came upon her table was of the daintiest, and she shared what she had with rich and. poor. Her friends always said Hetty's coffee-pot was Inexhaustible. She taughtscone of boys and girls telegratly for nothing, and helped them to find situations. At the time of her death Iwo young girls were gratui- tously sharin e her home and earning good wages in telegraph lazes from the benefit of her insinuation. They died with their benefactress. She even found time to do beautiful fanay.work with her wonderful gulch fingere. She was one of the sort of whom people say. " How does she find time to accomplish all that she does?" She was a member of the Christian Churoh. Her religion was certainly mose practical. She embodied the golden rule. She had at one time to endure a terrible surgical operation. After It was over, and she just regaining consciousness, she saw bar son to whom she taught telegraphy, stand- ing by her side. He saw her fingers move, although she could not speak, and he under- stood that she was telegraphing on the bed- spread, "It is over 1 I am safe," to a distant and anxious friend. She was entirely un- selfish during every oonsoious moment of EIER I7SUAL LIFE. While this illness was progressing, tlae tele- grapli company to whom she eves so faithful O servant sent a man, at their own exnenee, to take her place in their offices. All the mill whistles in the region vtere hushed by a poentve order from the owners while she WAS in a critical condition, and bullietne were regularly issued to the anxious town, where ahe commanded general love and res. p001. The company whioh she served had just repaired and pub in perfece order the house which she occupied, and the world never looked brighter nor fairer to Hetty Ogle, than upon the morning of the day that she geve up her life in the effort to save her fellow. creatures. Nota trace of her drowned, burned, maim- ed, scattered body has been diacovered by agonized searchers, but We, who believe in the reward of the faithful servant, are con. fident that Hetty Ogle hap heard from tbe Master, it Well done; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Conscience In Work. The g.reatesb need of the day is more con• soience m work. The habit of doing what we have to do as well, as thoroughly, and as speedily as possible, without immediate reference to he probable or possible effects • upon ourselves, is one which would of itself secure at once the beat success for ourselves and the greetest good for the community. fb would settle many vexed questions and solve many knotty problems. Instead of this, the common course is to consider closely the comparative benefit that is likely to accrue to Oslo return. There are all degrees of this calculation, from the striotly just to the grossly eelfieh. One man tries to esti- mate the true worth of his labour and performs it accordingly ; another gives a little work and secures as large return as possible; and between these there is every shade. But in all such reckonings there le one important element lefb out. No one clan count up the value of the labour which is both generous and conscientious; even its money.value can never be calculated. • The Successful Essay. • Mise Vassarbred—Oh, Emily! I under. stand that yeti took the prize offered by the "Ladies' Megazine" for the best essay writ ten by a young lady under 307 Miss Homebreci—Yee asomehow I got 11 —I don't know how. Did you compete'? Miss Vassarbred—Yes ; I sent them my graduation essay on "The 13addhistio Ex. election of Daaire," Whet did you write on? Mfg§ Homebred—it How to Keit a Patch in a Stockinet." Always Ready. Insurance agent: "But you mum; insure In one of these companies/ "Oh, leave me alone it you cam see well enough that I am going to the dogs.' "To the dogs 1 The very thing I Here is a company to insure age.ineb the bite of mad dogs.' What the Matter Was. "What's the matter, driver ?" said a pas. senger in a herdic, "why doesu't this coach go?" "'Cause you ain't pub a nickel in the glob, that's why." And all the other paesengers tittered, A Timely Question- " Will yon marry me, Bridget 1" a tvidoW- er of a year asked his amain " How many afternoone a Week out kit2 I have sorr ?" she asked in reply. Already, therefore, are the more advanced sections of the West Indian press taking up the cry for segregation. One of the lead- ing Wesel Indian papers, the Demerara "Argosy," gives the ke y note of the new departure, and attyg there is nothing "to prevent the colomes joining together to- ward the common object, end looking about for secluded and comfortable quarters for the lepers, where the unfortunate people would have a pleasant home, amid agree- able surroundings and companion for such of them as were able to work, in quantity enough to keep them from wearying.' The best place that can be iound for this purpose, answering all the requirements would be aome one of the many islets of British Virgin group. There are half a dozen available islands, aggregating nearly 100 equare miles in are.. and populated by about 6,000 —the great majority of whom, how- ever, live at t1ae principal island—Totola. It would therefore be an easy matter to re- move tho solitary fishing village from some one of the "out islands' to another, and a leper colony could be then founded on the lines of that of Molokai. • Georgia has the largest watermelon patch in the world. It is owned by a oompeny, and contains 800 aores. The company will ship about 400 oars, at a profit, le is claimed, of $150 a oar. . As proof that personal property as well as land has IN unearned increment, an in- stance is given of the shares of a London Company, the par value of which is £1e0, bab which paid a dividend last year of over Iwo thousand per oenb, and a single share of which was sold at auction the other day for £192,800 Be1 as the business of this Com pany is the supply of water to halt of Lon. don, for which purpose it has an exclusive franchise, and owns large landed eatatee, the unearned increment] shows itaself to be an unearned incremenb off lend. Ibis a monopoly value and nothing elee. According to a statement prepared by the Chicago Tribune the firsb half of the present marine season has been an unusually disas- trous one to shipping on the lakes, notwith. standing the fact that there was only one severe storm—that of May 31. The total loss was a little over $500,000, and of this a large percentage, was calmed by fog. Thirty- nine vessels in all got into trouble, and twenty.one of them, representing an ag- gregate lose of 370,000, owed their misfor- tunes to thick weather. All the storm asters occurred on Lake Huron, but Lake Superior stands first in the matter of pro- perty losses, ita record beiag $284,000. The main looms of the insurance companies, ag- gregating $244,510, were on A 1 steamers Three steamers, two barges, eix schooners, and one tug were total lose, The project to combine the railroads in one giant trust follows the proposition for a toothpick trust, and El. •skewer trust and a booteblaoking trust. We hope it will come to peel and that it will be the last straw on the people's back which will lead to some very positive regulation of this whole untruste worthy business. Sugar is stored in Now York at the rate of 15,000 barrels weekly to press the market higher. Nearly every other business is nowadays regulated on the Sante prinoiple. The probability is than if the railroads form their terrie °riot groupa and then conetittite a head oenbre and a pool that the people will look more favorably on the nationalizetion of the aeon highways. We have suffered enough from extortion in telephone and telegraphing so. commodations to prepare the way for radi- cal measures in that direction. Jepan is the favourite field of the seism°. logiet. 11 hart had more eatthqueltes, pr0. hably, than any other portion oi the earth's eurface, and much of our hnowledge of these phepemena le the fruit Of inveetigatione Made by ecientists in its chain of islands. timing the poet 1,600 years, it is said, its destructive earthquake§ have averaged ten a oentury, and many of them have muted enormous loss of life and propeity, The latest, which occurred not long ago, totally destroyed the city of Kumamoto, an bno portant inland centre, the population of whioh ib veriouely reported at from .50,0110 to 300,000, The loss of life, therefore, irtuit have been very great, but no definite Info. matfett with regerd to i11a yet to hand. Beside such a cattisbr9phe Ste this the johne- tOWn disaster sinks into ineignifieance, hut japan is toe remote to enable 00 10 appeeol. ate fully the tierfultiess of the event. Boycotting a Rabbi. The Rev. Solomon Bauer, rabbi of the First Hungarian congregation, Detroit, recently began suit for $10,000 damages against David Stern, Moritz Schwartz, L, Weber, and other members of his flock. He charges them with trespesti on hie person. Rabbi Bauer le a tall young man only 28 years old, with curly black chin whiskers do can not speak much English, but wi the aid �f an Interpreter he managed to te the story of the trouble in the synagogue. About a year ago Mr. Bauer took up the work of the congregation. At that time there were but sixty members of the flock. The rabbi, however, brought in sixty.five more, making a grand total of 125 Al his first year's term drew to a close the trustees, Stern and Schwartz, called a meeting of the 44DITOTBD BY A ,GORILLA. 11° 1441r.relli41)1114 0Alt4egtiatottilig.eo 111"k 4en:olude:peirveeerapi a:Slite6:elitielreimcga'a!,x'teetbelte:evexa rp or e. Congo,trn wbo is region. "They prefer :to tike prisoners and comparatively few of their enemies are killed outright. They aro afraid to strike for ter they will receive a more damaging • blow in return, They meke elavee of their prisoners, who have a sorry time, "Of all enemies they, dread the gorilla nem And he is ; foe th it no man dare despise. He will fight at eight, Numbers do not deter Ilion Ile is so human and so depperate in hie defence and attack that the Africans have long learned that to fight with a gorilla is to fight to the death. This dreadful animal keeps to th,3 woods, as it is necessary for him to grasp hold of the boughs', as he walks on hie hind leg& A man is therefore comparatively Ela0 If he is on'the prairie. - "There are awns extraordinary things told of the gorilba. I will relate one of thein, I had alweys heard ib said that the male gorilla would not harm a WOMali. Thill le the common belief in spine tribes. One day we came to e. village in which one hut had been built apart from the root ‘Ve inquir- ed for the reason of this, and found that it had been dedicated to a witch, This witch WAS greatly revered. The WoMan had lived the village in a house which Aced on the ed go of fond, A great tree overhung her shanty. In the village all the trees had been out down as a precaution against the gorilla, One nitrite one of these animals came outaof the forest, got up into the big tree whioh overhung the womates house, climbed down oao the roof, threw the roof offiewung down into the hut, seized the woman, climbed up through the hole in the roof up iuto the tree' and. went away into the woods °ADD:FINN THE WOMAN WITII His great abrengbh made this an sag thing for him to do. He could hold her in one arm and with his two hind legs and bis one arm, forearm make his way up and down trees or through the woods. The woe man Was gone for many days. The people saw that her house roof had been torn off. They looked carefully around the house and eaw that there were no tracks whatever. They then knew that the dread enemy had carried her off. " One day elle erne back Sh told 0 .a wonderful story. The gorilla had carried her for niiles into the woods and finally had climbed a great tree and depoaited her in his home. There he treated her very kind- ly, brought her food and drink, 'but would not permit her to leave. After watching beroarefully for many days he finally left her, probably intending to return in a ahorb time, convinced that ehe would remain The woman came down to the ground, and, th 11 titter wandering in the forest for several days, made her way back to the village. The people at first were about toniill her, but they finally concluded that the was possessed of extraordinary powers, They therefore built her a house for herself, sup- plied her with every comfort, and looked up to her as a sacred person." STATISTICS. direetors and Mr. Bauer was elected for an- other year by a small majority. Liverpool is probably the meet' densely - The contract had hardly been signedwhe a discord entered the fold in the shape of L A braham, a white-haired rabbi, 80 year old. Many of the congregation made u their minds thab they would prefer the elder preacher, and a determined effort] was mode to displace the younger one. Abraham had many trim& in the congre- gation and it is claimed that they set to work to pub up a jet, on Mr. Better. Sundry charges, vehicle the rabbi hotly declared were without foundation, were trumped up against the young man and brought to the notice of the president and trustees. A own- mittee of five was appointed to investigate, and they promptly alleged that they found them to be only too true. The motel serious of these oharges was that Rebbi Bauer had hired a tough individual, who was a hard hitter, and peed him $25 to put a head on H. Long, a worthy citizen and a member of the congregation. All this WAS developed at a speeial meeting of thetrustees Thursday night a week ago, but Mr. Heuer knew nothing about it. Friday evening he went as usual to hold service in the obuith. He nobiced the scowling glances oast at him by his enemies, He donned the sacred robes of his Offiae, and began to pray. Hahad no more than started,' however, when the oongregatioa fell on him, huetled him off the altar, pulled the robe off his person, and laying violent hands upon the baok of his neck they dragged him into the street. They then told him that if he dared to veture back they would lift him up bodily and throw him over the churchyard fence into the street. • This was discouraging and Me, Ruler ina. erihately quit. He trays they have not aid him hie last montlea salary End that hey informed him they would fix things so hat he could nob get a oell from any other huroh in town. All the synagogues have boycotted the abbi and he wants redress at the hands of he law. He will also sue for breach of con act and endeavor to °entice his salary for e coming year. This is Rabbi Batter's version of the affair nd it tallies in many respects with the other de. Service was held at the church lamb ght, where Trustee David Stern was und. He came out long enough to give populated oity in the world—lb is bond doubt the most denseleepopuleted tthe 8 United Kingdom. In the year 1887 its po- P pailation was 593,000, or 113 8 per acre: 01 tr th a si ni fo his history of the affair. "Mr. Bauer's oharaoter was offensive to the congregation," he said, "and we simply discharged him. He was notified of his die. MISSal one week ago Thursday evening, and when the seoretary sent the notifioation he also sent a check for this month's salary. But ia Vita of that Bauer oteme round Fri. day evening and bried to pray by force, We didn't want any muscular prayers„ eo we gently &misted the genleman off the plat- form and told him to go home." "The rabbi said you pulled his hair." "He ieta't a rabbi. He le only a prayer leader and we didn't pull his hair. We pay out our money for nrayers and we want good ones. His actions didn't suit us so we dis- misled him. That is all there is in the case. He has mod us for damages, but we are ready f3r him." Money For Princess Sophia, Prinoess Sophia of Prussia, who is to be married in October to the Duke of Sparta, gent £100,000 out of the private forttine of her father. the Emperor Frederick, and the Empress Frederiek has Wen her daughter a dot of £15 000. These sumo are to be in- vested in Germany and the Princewill draw the Intercom while the capital will ultimately be divided among the ehildreo ; 004 lhe die e Without; isette, 11 *Ill then be divided between, het three adore and Prime Henry of Presets, Palmate( Sophia le to re- ceive en mmuity 4,000 a year from the liolunizellern faintly futic1.—Reindon Truth. Teo bangle bracelet craze it now at its height'. while Manchester stood nazi with 87 9, then Glasgow with 858; and London veitt 56. The total anitounb of the depoeits received by the British Pose -Office Savings -Bank dur- ing lase year was £19,052,226, toed the cash paid out £15,753,743. Including the balance brought forward from 1887. The, balance due at the close of last year to ,depositors, inclusive of interest, wigs £58 556,394. The next amount lodged with the Comoussioners for the Reducbion of the National Debt up to the end ef lase year was R42,295,307. The ooneumption ot cigars in •Austria. Hungary, which in 1878 amounted to 931,. 000,000. rose, in 1887 to 1351,000,000; while the corresponding figures for cigarettes are 47,000 000 and 532 000 000. Austria-Httn- e gary boasts of the cheapest cigar in Earope. In Austria the craving for tobecoo may be indulged in it the expense of kreutzer — a little more than a farthing ; while the lowest -priced cigar in Prance and Italy costa 5 centimes, equal to about 2i krentzers. Neither cobtotemanufaetures nor `tea cul- ture existed in India, except upon the small. est scale, 30 years ,ago. ' There are. now 89 cottonottills, wibh 16,736 looms and 2,190,- • 376 spindles employing 72,000 hands; and, In tmdition, "to mention only the principal industries, the jate-faotories employ nearly halt that number. Tee progresa of tea - culture, has been exbraordinary., In 1887 there were nearly 300,000 acres of land elanted with the tea-ehrale, 300,000 persona were 'employed in the gardens, and the export of tea reached 90,000,000 lbs, If the price of ringer depended directly on the amount of bounty granted' on export, the country which gives the highest bounty would be found exporting ehe largest amount of sugar. This however is not the case. Femme spends £3i180,000 annually in bountiee on export, the 'rate' per bon on the surplus exported being no leas than £20; Germany spends only £1,000,000, the rate per ton being £1 12s. Yet Gernaany experts annually 619,000 •tone ; while France exports only 159.000 tons ; the total production ice Germany being 990,600 tons and in Fromm 555,000 tone, Belgium, produces 150 000 t )ns and exports 111,000, the rare per tun on surplus exported being £5, and the total bounty £550,000. ' • In 1887 no fewer than 53,200 five-pciend pieces and 85,293 two pound pieces were athlete ab the Brirish Mini • but in 1888 there was no'demand for these coins, and only sovereigns were made. The amount of told coine received from Australian branch, mints by the' Bank of England last year wait £3,- 535,000 in ec,vereigne. With romper:1 to the silver, fourpences of the nominal. ,valne of £570 were withdrawn during the Fear from thetome anti Colonial circulation, and/ for the first time since 1856 a. coinage ,Of four - pewee, other than Maundy ; coins'were, ex, eonted at the Mint. These to tho value of £2,000 were struck and shipped to British Guiana ab the regettee of the, government of the colony, .where they are mudh used for the payment �f task -work. 1110 noteworthy in connection with the opening up of Aidea that a bum of Z/135 in pantie was issued for shipment to the Congo on the application of A London firm. trimeciessary Exoitement„ "I'll sue you for $20,000, yen edoutulrel 1" cried old Brown. "You've drawn the "lb will oost you only to have it put bare8o:D, g, Inc °1'b0grow o excited about little thing of that kind,' returned the dentist. Perfect disinterested nese and solf-devo tion, of which man seems incapable, le eome. Mines found in woman.--Maeaulay.