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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-9-5, Page 3MR, AND MRS. BOWSER, BY MRS. BOWER. "1 thiek we'll go up to tee park toonor row," eaid Mr. Bowser the other Saturda evening IES he finiehed his cigar. " Bub won't it be dreadful crowded?" queried. " Theremou go 1 Von aye always ready to oppoae anytin De 1 tegimer." " am not oppositie you, only yiau know that the bons aro al ways orowded on Sunday, and that one io pt to meet with many law. leeonaractere I have humid you say that the place was in possession of a mob ail day Sunday." "Never! On the contrary I have always boasted of how orderly it W5S. I guarantee that, you on go up there alone and stay all d* and you will he treateit like a queen." fe Well, if yen think we td bin go, why wew 4' Of ()puree 1 do. I think a little trip on the water will do us all g,,od, and at the island we will seek stone sy Ivan retreat and enjoy the beauties of thE.E1.11 roundings." "And you—you woo'. ge t mad ?'' "Mrs, Bowser, what do you mean ?" "If things do not go righ r, you won't F cold and blame everything to no ?" "Have you gone ma e When did I ever blame? It you suspect than you are getting softening of the brain let me kuow and I'll have a medical examinatio.." After dinner nexo day we made a start. I think Mr. Bowen titareed with the firm determination to keep his good nature at every hazard, but something occurred almost immediately to upset him. The street oar was j emb-full and running over, but it stopped and we wedged our way in. In the squeeze some one stepped on Mr. Bowser's corn, some one else knocked his plug hat off, and a third pereon was heard to remark that if he weighed a ton he would charter a special car when he wanted to ride. This pub Mr. Bowser in trim to Eay to the con- ductor: "Does themanager of this line think we are a lob of hogs that we can be packed in an old car this way 1" "Don't know, sir." " Then you'd Wetter find out 1 hie an insult on decent people, and I for one don't propoee to submit to it 1" " Thaz rise, ole felir i" shouted a half - drunken man from the front of the oar. "Go in, old bay window 1" added a second. " Ten to one on old Bowser," yelled a m from the rear platform. We finally gob down to the boat. Ib w black with humanity and I didn't want to g but Mr. Bola ser elbowed people right and le and I followed. After being crowded, pus ed, jammed, squeezed and knocked aboub f ten minutes I gob a chair which a drunk II man had jot fallen off and Mr. Bows fowled standing room beside me. q1 told you I thought the boats would crowded," I remarked as soon aa I could g mybreath. "Well, that shows all youiknow about i There's no crowd on this boat. She mil carry as many again." 'Butwhat a rough set of people!" "No rougher than we are. You simpl want to find faulb and make me uncornfort able." 11141!0Juet at that moment a tough came up o ked Mr. Bowser over from crown to hee and then said: "You look like the bloke who threw mu at my little eister last May." "Sir! You are mistakenl" replied Mr Bowser. "What er you dein' wid all that stoil on ?" demanded the toughies he brought hi arm around and gave Mr. Bowser's hat "swab" welch sent it flying to the deck. Mr. Bowser grabbed him end there woul have been a fight had not a number of me interfered. When the hat was recover ed i had a shoulderblade and three ribs broken and in the brief clinch the tough had torn away 'Mr. Bowser's necktie. so sorry we came," I said as I got chance to speak to him. "You know I told you I thought it would be very unpleasant,' "Yee, of oourse you are sorry! Yon can' bear to see me enjoying me eelf! I wean' aware that anything unpleasant had oc ourred." In getting off the boat at the island some one stepped on my dress -skirt and nearly tore t off, while Mr. Bowseida hat was crushed down over his eyes and some one picked his cigar -case out of his coat-tail pocket. We finally get out of the crowd and wandered away until we reached a shady apot, and then it did seem as if we might take some comfort. I began to express my sympathy for Mr. Bowser, when he turned on me with: "When I want to be condoled with I'll let you know, Thus far we have had a real good time, and I dont want to hear any more kicking about it." "This is the sylvan retreab you spoke of, I suppose ?" I remarked as I looked around and saw cigar stubs, playing cards, pretzels, beer bottle corks and a rusty old cork crew lying on the gress. He didn't say. He was going to, when a couple of young men came that way and stopped and asked Mr. Bowser for a match to light their clay -pipe. He didn'o have any, and one of them said: " Well, yer needn't be so crusty about ib. We are just as good as you are." "And a blamed sight better, Jim !",add ed the the other. "I've seen this old bungee up here every Sunday this summer, and he's always had a different woman with him 1 He's up to snuff and don't forgeb it." Mr. Bowser jumped up,rbut both of them piled on to him and I screamed and brought assistance. They split his coat up the back, tore hie collar off and tore three buttons off his veee and at they went sway they threat- ened to come back and finiah him off. "Mc. Bowen," I said after the crowd hadi started, " hadn't we better go home ?" "No, ma'am, we hadn't 1 I came up here to erjoy myeelf and I'm bound to do so." I coaxed and argued, but he was obatinatet and pretty soon something else happened. ' A gang of five or six men came along, ripe fog -mischief, and one of them halted before MrnBowser and inquired : "Shay, ole fel, I loot a dollar hero about an hour ago, and you picked it up." "You o.re mistaken, sir." "Course he did pat in a second tough, and he's got to give it up." "1 haven't aeon anything of your'. dollar!" hotly replied Mr. Bowser, and the gang was making, throats when I ran for help,. f Beforergot back theyihad rolled Mr. Bowser on the grass, taken all his change away, and miffed him aboub until he presented a sad sight. Then the policeman who had come too late advised him : "Say, old man, you'd better go home, i You've had five or siit rows within an hour. and I shall have to run you in if you don't leave, You are evidently a desperate char. t rioter." Mr. Bowser Wakened to me arid led the way to the boat. On the way down he was pointed out as Sullivan and. Mihail, and h everybody had a gibe at him. .At the wharf b he hired a hack to take US home, and not o one word would he speak to me all the way np, When we finally got into the home)he t looked the door of this eittingiroom and eat e down in front of me and said t an as o, ft or en en er be et t. 1, a d a "Mre. Bowor, looked at mei" "Yea, ibis awful 1 ,I was afraid it would turn out this way." "And yet nothing evonld do but you must go!" "Why, I didn't want to go one step!" Take care 1 You are to blame for this whole business 1 I have borne and borne, but the worm has finally turned at last. Make out a list of what 'furniture you want to keep and let ua eettle on the amount of bile alimony." We didn't settle, however. He felt better next day and I don't think he will refer to the matter again unless I bring it up, THE OANADIAN NORTHWEST. Pend for Nothinan g d a Great Climate Thrown In. A oorrespendent of the Detroit "Free Presa " sends bo that paper an interesting aa coma of his particular region in that country, which is popularly supposed to be a wilder - nose Those who wish to lengthen their days ought to go out to Cerlyie, for not only is the country the inoet healthy in the world, but the days are exceedingly long there. In summer the longest day is Button hours and thirty minutes between sunrise and sunset, and the twilight is so long that there is only left in the twenty four hours home three or four hours of darkness. The winters are oold, but they are so dry that the cold is not Nit, and during the last winter there were only two days, February 21 and 22, when the temperature remained below zero for more than twenty-four hours at a time, while contrary to the usual notion the temperature is often above freezing point during the winter. There is game of all kinds ther e except the buffalo, whioh is now practically extinct. The northwest seems to be a para- dise for sportsmeia. Every lake or creek is covered with wild geese and wild ducks. Turkey and prairie chicken are abundant and the elk and deer and other large game, are to be found in different parts of the country. Of the methods of taking up land in that diabrict, the correspondent gives the follow. ing acoounb : .Any man over 18 years of age can secure a homestead of 160 acres, entry for the same being trade at the land office of the district in which the homestead is situated. A fee of $10 is charged an the time of making entry, The settlement duties are these : He must live on his homestead eix months in the year for three years, cultivate fifteen acres of land, and build a stable and habitable house. Or, as an alternative measure, he may live any- where within two miles of his homestead ix months in the year for three years (hay - ng to reside on it only the last three rnonthe), cultivate forty aores of land and uild a habitable house. The latter measure re for the benefib of farmers' sons who are in o hurry to leave the parental roof. By ither method, however, a man can secure he patent for his homestead. At the end of three years he sends in notice o the Dominion Land Commissioner, Winni cg, that he intends makine applioation for is homestead patent. Some time duringthe ext six months an inspector will be sent to xamine his homestead, and if he (the inspeot- r, finds bleat the settlementiduties have been erformed according to the law, he sends in report to the commissioner to that effect. he settler will then be notified that his ace has passed inspection, and upon his pplying for the patent the commissioner will commend the.government to issue it, and e will get ib without any further trouble. A Boston Heroina. There is an old lady living on Columbus avenue, writes the Boston correepondent of the Chicago Trabune, whose pertionlar weak. nese has always been a dread that she would be robbed of her silver. She has a great quanty of valuable old family plate, some of is dating back to revolutionary times when much treaeure was not &o very plentiful among the early colonists. For fear of burglars she always keeps it in her bedroom at night, a maid servant assisting her each evening to lug it up in big beeket to the third storey front. One night last week the robbers so long expected came. Tho old lady, ever on the alert for such an event, heard them below. She sva.o frightened for her own safety, nobody else being in the house at the time but the maidwervant aforesaid, and her chief anxiety was for the silver. No pistol or other weapon was at hand, as she was afraid of firearms. She might howl from the window for a police- man ; but suppose none would be within hearing. The predatory ruffians mighb come up and take the plunder before help would come. The case was desperate and called for corresponding action, no sooner thought of than performed. She seized the big baeket by the handle at one end, and having opened the door sofbly, dragged the wicker receptacle with its precious contents as noieelessly as possible along the entry to the stair wall. She looked down and diatinotly saw' by a ray of moon- lighb that came throughan entry window, two men who presently disappeared, presumelefy into the dining -room. Without losing a moment she strove to get the basket on the top of a trunk which stood against the rail at the landing. By a great effort she succeeded, and another hoist balanced it fairly on top of the rail. A turn of the hand, and the entire mass of knives and spoons, teaurns, napkin rings mugs, etc. was dumped out and precipitated two stories' distance to the hardwood floor of the hall below. The crash was something appalling. The robbers must have supposed that hades bad broken loose. They were so frightened that they jumped through a glass window from the dining -room to the garden, and ran into the arms of a policeman on the next corner. And the old ladies' friends say she ought to be embalmed in history as a heroine, together with Moll Pitcher, and other locally celebratect females of dauntlese courage, Three generations of one family are now serving in the Royal Engineers. They are Gen, Sir Alexander Cunningham, Col. Cun- ningham, and Second Lieutenant Cunning. ham. Gen Cunningham was gazetted in 1831. The "nickel-in.themlot" idea has been ap- plied in &viand to elootrio lamps intended or use in onanibuties, street oars and railway cars. You put a penny in the slob of such a amp, press a knob and out Oreame the light. By olook-work maehinery at the end of half an hour the light is,extinguished and can be gnited again only with a penhy taper. President Harrison has just made an ap. p Ointment) which the Democrats freely admit o be one of his very been Ile has given the ffice of receiver of public money at Little Rock, Ark., to one Americus M. Neely, of tweet City, in the same Slate. It seems, miniver, that Mr. Neely is dead, having eon perforated With a bullet in the ono° a misunderstanding with a neighbour a ew menthe ago. The Democrats eonelder he appointment a good one—for a Republi. an President—because the appointee cannot ossibly de any danlage in office. IA Goodaloroe. It le curious to note how people'ideas differ in regard to what conetitutes a good horse. There is a Mao of men who do not care to look at anything in the line of hersofleeh unless it can be made to travel in the twen. Nem and haa a reoord, and 'a pedigree, axid coati a small fortune, And the man who owns a hone of that disoription is alwae a investing in new kinds of liniment, and he perpetually. smells of arnica and alcohol, and he is more Interested in a new style of horse. boob than he is in the sugar trust : and he reads the sporting records in the papers in preference to his Bible; and he talks horamien every occasion i and by the time he has owned that trotter 'ten yeare, he Is a ondidate for the alms.houee, and most of his family are in the lunatic asylum, unleo they were reraarkalaly stronginindeci at the ouiaet. The scald, sober -going citizen wants a lino thab has bottom to him—one that on pull a carryall with four in it, fifty miles a day, and not suffer. The grocer wants an animal that will:stand while he is delivering packages of tea mid coffee, and jugs of naolasseti, and bags of white beans—stand without hitching, and be philosophic enough not to nibble off the rc stabuidies and petunias in the flower -bed before the doors of his natrons. The woman who drives wants a horse that is gentle and impervious to the terror which strikes to the equine heart from the speotaole of baby ea rriager, rail.oaro, Hoy o'e g, j kites, wheelbarrows and dogs. She wants a pretty horse—one that likes to be patted, and is safe going down hill, and will etand tied for half a day while she hunts for golden rod and oatetail flags, and omeye daisies; and she wants a horse that has some style, and enough speed to enable her to drive past her next-door neighbor, whom she detests. A good horse must be sound. He must have no corns, no interfering propensities, no sprung kneeseno swans, no ringbones, no splints, no windgalls, no heaves, no roar- ing, no curbs, no string halt—in short, a good horse must have no defeot at all, and he must be handsome, and hie price must be reasonable. And the average man will buy him, and overload him, and overfeed and over- drive him, and whip him because he does not know what the man wants him to do; and when worn out in the service, his noble heart broken, and his ambi- tionigone, he will trade him off to somelow cur for a few dollars, and his new owner will occupy himself for a year or two in whip. ping him, and sneering at him, and then some happy day the once good horse will fall dcwn in the harmer', and a minim) crowd will gather around to see him die. What has life profited to that poor beast? Where, in the great scheme of creation, does his recompense come in? What is his reward? Has he found it in the thought of sweet green pastures where hie colthood was pass- ed, galloping beside the loving mother who watched his every footstep with tender solicitude? Has he found it in the conscious- ness of duty done, and of a life lived for the good of other? Or is it coming in some new life, wheie checkwi eins and profane drivers, and mildewed oats, anddeethdlealing loads, and the thousand other evils which torment good horses all the way through an never come? Heaven grant it! Fashion Notes, Straight skirts, gathered or plaited waists and full sleeves, increase daily in still greater favor. A tea gown of pale coral silk veiled with black lace is one of the sweeteat creations of the summer. Paris fashions indieate that skirts are to shrink in length and to show the boots to the ankle as the wearer movee. Turpentine is a good preventive against moths. The unpleasant odor evaporates as soon as garments are exposect to the air. Batiste, percales and linen lawns, with floe stripes, dots or sprigs, are made with dainty dressinmjeckets which are pretty enough to be worn at the breakfast table at home, with skirts of plain white linen lawn. The sheer lawns and batisteare made with fitted backs and loose fronts, a finely plaited vest being added to some, or three deep tucks separated by rowa of ladder -stitching in color. The popularity of sailor hats is still so great that milliners are using these simple flat-orovvned, straight -brimmed shapes for airy models in net and tulle, Thua black tulle is shirred on wires in sailor shape and trimmed wibh loops of the tulle a.nd white or tinted roses. White point d'esprit dotted with bleck is made up in like manner. White felt sailor hats are wholly veiled with silk dot a,nd trimmed with scarfs of the same at the back. The riohest woman in America is a real. dent of South America, She is not only the richest woman in the Americas, bub she is the richest woman in the world. She has one of the largest fortunes held by either sex. This woman is Dona Isadore Consino, of Chili. She is the biggest real estate owner in Santiago and Valparaiso. South Ameri- can fortunes are hard to estimate, but many people have put hers above $200,000,000. Money multiplies fast in her hand, for her eye is everywhere. A Travelling Philanthropist. There were eight of us who got off the train at the junction, to wait two hours for the train on the other road. It waa a small building in the country, without a houee in sight, and no platform to walk on. The single railroad official watt asleep on some bags of wool in the freight shed, and the clock in the waiting room had stopped dead OHL As we sat down on the hard benefice in the waiting room one of the men opened his grip and took out an eight; page news- paper. Not one of tho rest: of ue hada thing to reed. Noticing bhis, he carefully cub the pages apart), then cut each page in half, and, lassoing around, he said: "Gentleman, I never did like a hog. Etkoh of us will take an eighth, and as fasb as read we will ex- ohange with each other." Emil one took his part and made it his business to read it, and the last man had juab got down to a mortgage sale and the deabh notice of a pair of twins when the two hours expired um the train drew im. Not Too Sudden. Pond lover (after a loneecielt yed propoeal) —" Perhaps I have been too audden, dar- ling." Darling girl (regaining her composure wibh a mighty effort) —" Yes, George it is very, very eulden, but "—and here die be. came faint again -w" ib fri not too sudden," Meta N. Peck—I ran aorost. ono of your old lebters to day, Nathan, where you maid that you would roan be in mikes torment with me than be in bliss by yourself. Mr, N Peok—Well, I guess I got my wish. The Love of God. There% a wideness in Gaul's mercy, Like the wideness of the sea ; Therela kindnese in his justice Which ie more than liberty. There ia weloemo Or the sinner, And more graces for the good ; There is mercy with die Saviour ; There is healing in his blood. There is no place Where eartifs sorrow Are more felt than up in Heaven ; There is no place where earth's failings Hare such kindly judgment giVen. There Is plentiful redemption. In the blood that has been abed; There is joy for all the members In the sorrows of the Head. For the love of God is broader Than the measure of man's mind ; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. If our love were but more simple, We should take him at his word ; And our lives would be all sunehine In the sweetness 01 our Lord. F. W. Femme, Evening. Afar, the purple hills, clear cut Against a golden aky, 'A mass of downy, fleecy clouds Float slowly, aoftly by. The sunlight fleehes with a glow; The clouds flesh into pink; And down behind tee western hills The aun bogies to siuk. The tree tops stir with every breeze; The brook sings clear and low; The drowsy bees, in velvet beds, Amwinging gently go. The wind sighs softly o'er the plain ; The flowerets nod and away; The little birds lift up their heads And sing a vesper lay.. An odorous broth steals through the air Of roses freshly kissed By glittering dewdropmishining clear, From out a crystal mita. The world is hushed, and one by one The stars steal into place, While aof Illy gliding through the dusk, Night shows her shadowy face. A tiny link between two worls, The creaent moon hangs low; Then, slipping o'er the earth's dark edge, She hides her silver bow. A Tremendous Snake. Theodore Pantall, owner of the Hotel Pan - tall and one of the big stockholders in the Mahoning Bank at Panxeutawney, lives on a farm in Jefferson county, Pa. and his farm- er is Peter Dlltz, a man of good reputation. Last week Mr. Diltz was making hay in a field adjoining a dense wood. The length of one long oourse had been reached,' which brought the horses close to the edge of the woods. In turning they were tramping through a large brush pile, when suddenly they stopped. and began rearing their heads and snuffing the air. The driver pulled them further around, and a few more stops brought them close to something in that brush pile, which, from their evidence of fear, was of more than common eienificance. Mr. Diltz turned his horses around -the other way and went to the spot to make an in- vestigation. He mien a long stick with which tb probe the brush pile, eind suddenly he was jabbing into a yellow snake not less than isixteen feet long a.nd as thick around the body as a man'a waist. He did not re- main long in doubt whether the , monster was alive or not. Instantly the brush mile rose aa though a cyclone had struck it, aded Mae sneke ran from under. It had a full grown rabbit aboub half way in its mouth, but after running Asset two or three times the length of itself the snake threw the rab- bit out. The snake ran with its head ole vated about two feet from the ground and escaped to a ravine in an opposite field. The ravine is filled with logs, rooks, and brush. Mr. Diltz was afraid that the reptile would return for the rabbit, and am his horses were near by he retraced his atepsi The rabbit was picked up and looked like a drowned cat, It was coated with a slimy subatanco and appeared very limp, but its heart; wa,s still beating and its limbs moved convuleively. Mr. Diliz has warned the neighborhood not to go near that ravine uniese they are prepared to fight to death the largest snake ever nen in that part of the counbre. Mr. Diliz himseif will not go into his field again until the moneter has been killed. The matter has caused much excite ment in that neighborhood, and parties of men are scouring the ravine and woods to kid it. Mr. Diliz has the reputation of being O truthful man, and Mr. Fantail afterward SW the rabbit and the place where the monster lay. It is believed Nita it escaped from a. circus, as front its enormous size it evidently belongs to the constrictor family. itidin4 an Elephant. At a word from hN "mahout "—a wild looking creature who sits between the ele. phant's ears and pricks him with an iron staff—he goes down on his knees, and one climbs on to his back as best one can, hold- ing on by his tail with both hands and try- ing to get a footing on his slippery quarters. At last one manages to scramble up, and finds one's self on a square cushion, ialmosb as slippery as the elephant's back. The first time, when the great beast rises on his fore legs, then on his hind ones, ib is all cne can do to hold on by the ropes which oae fastened to the sides of the pad ; but praa tic e makes perfect, and in a short] time one lorin to adapt one's self to the curious motion. A good small elephant will shieffie along easily at the rate of five miles an hour, climbing steep ravines and other obstruo- tiona, so that the rider often finds himself hanging on in an almost perpendicular position. No animal is so sure-footed as an elephant. He will climb steep banks and slide down into river beds with aa much ease as an Irbil potty, but he particularly objects to a bog, and let no one attempt to rido him ovee one, for if he finds himself sinking in, his first) impulse is to drag the rider off and pub him under his feet, by way of having something to stand on—e proceeding one would hardly approve of.— [Nineteenth Century. A Man of Experience. Hired Oirl—"Two gentlemen at the door, sir, want to see you, They didn't come 'together, but happened along at the same time." Oitizen--"How do they ad ?" fl 0,—"One of them is very polite and begs the honor of a few minutes' converse - Hon." C•—"I don't want to see Mtn; he is a book agent " IL G.—"The other isn't polite ab all, He says I want to dea him,' InAthehusroruk'top ahne,.didmina.greall d."1, dathag° 0.—"That'on dun. Tell rem both that i'n3 r on baturany., nob at laonie," ENKNEEr$ $TOAZ Which Caused Justice to eirs bone to the Bitrusg — demon °the:toe:luta: jrwNel,s4albeel°6111iaart:e: who 'wee ie 1;1130:eu:oegremmeraeytjlteieuermPeee°1•10cede,140eArneeb::: In the elMeking oar, along with hell is ae mem as Parliment edjourne. - In the Nat Ctn. years: the Delo a Port,., JR°2011gged:taviratetdgtoPd"rraiwathInndouatffibeyr asatlyiminegtih° $31,301;e0r000,1:1:, trile;r:rrir; E ti 00424 that ur,i, "I presume you have had your iihare of clotie shaves, along with other engineere ?" liu'frothlin'eghteha4o, etibfelkoaerInvpitlailxvieoatel.is the remit "I have, sir," was the reply. "Been in rnany smash ups ?" Sit' (Merles Itaeeelre fees in the Mavbrick "A full dozen, 1 gum." e 164 remounted bo 1 100 guiue9o. de hul Any particular adventure that might be 050f 010e0sigeveitioaa85 aa rdes!ya.wer, and a "refrebher " called wonderful ? ' I did have one, replied the A tookity has been started in Loudon tio e x ,tircLaVV;ithi Yu's yes, man, after relighting his old cigar stumP. promote the development of the ecience of 4'1 didn't' think it any great shave mYsolfi mesmerism aad 9f the application of hYprio- but bhe boys cracked it up as something tism to miectecel medicine, hear about itn" said the 50 Au EllAgulLitrli:1017 WishOe.2114gdrionvg,t thalainlialearrellptgOater. as be passed him a Havana. Mise Myria Kenable iii the young woman's "Well, one day aboub th're° Yea" ago 1 name, anti she essays the higher walks of the, was corning West wibh the lightning express gigolo. aDiloawnwhaeereraubnonuitngtvvttnlyakmeileuel) twill gilled% pritoZ w°11aeijoepAadred"198i.4 MewasIn the81r oroas, as you will see and there are a lot of switches an.d side tracks, I had just whietied fight in 1812 between the Shennon and the Chesapeake, bet he never commanded a for the crossing and put on the brake when sMatn venal. the coupling between the tender and the Senn' idea of the Shah's travelling ex. baggage oar broke." pelmets may be formed from the statement "I see, I see," murmured the judge. that Cook'e charge for what railroad and "At: the aante moment something went hotel expenses he had disbursed on the wrong with old No. 40, and I oould nob shut Shah's account WAS £25,000. off steam. She sprang away like a Doh, and as she struok the crossing she left the traok Ta311 gowus are reported to be emerging and entered a meadow filled with stumps." from the domaiu of silk, and to be made of "Good heavens !" woolen goods striped or otherwise. The "She kept straight course for aboub forty fronts are still of flee geode, but the only rods, smeshing bhe stumps, every second, and garment) that retains the old quality le the then leaped a ditch, atruck the rails of the tea jecket. D. and R. road, and after a wobble or two settled down and ran for two miles." Robert Buchanan has begun a mit for $2,000 dainages against Mrs. Langtry fox "Amazing! Amczing i" non-procluction of a play written for her by "Then at a °robin, she left the metals, him. The queation will probably turn upon enterd a cornfield, and, bearing to the right, the point whether the parts in the play ploughed her way aoross the country until were written as stipulated. she °erne to our own road again. She had a long jutnp to naake over a marsh, but she made it, struck the rails, and away she went, " You—don't—say—so i" "1 was now behind my train, and, after a run of two miles, I got control of the engine ran up and coupled to the palace car, and went into Ashton pushing the train ahead of me 1" " Great Scott 1 And Was no one hurt? "Nob a soul, and not a. thing broken. The superintendent played a mean trick on me,"Howthou though." ,h, . " "Why, the farmerwho owned the meadow paid the company $18 for the stumps I had knocked out for him, while the cornfield man charged $9 for damages. The super. intendant pocketed the balance of the money." en "The scoundrel! Aad tho w much are you paid a month ?" "Ninety dollars." " Thet's for running on the rod If yes4,, "Ansi nothing for lying ?" " Not a red. " That's an outrage. Thesuperintendent ie an old friend of mine, and I'll see that you get the $9 on the stumpage and a salary of $200 a month as long as you live. It is Quit men as you who make a line popular." —(Ni Y. Sun. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. One Mart in Western Australia, owns and controls nearly 4,000,000 acres of land. A pious old lady of Toronto devotes the profits accruing Nom the sale of all the eggs laid by her has on Sunday to the missionary cause. Tennyson's Epithaletnium on the Duke and Duchess of Fife seems to have been written after all. £200 home been offered for its first publication. The people of thmUnited States use am ninny about seven postal car& for every man, women and child; that is to say, their totel coesumption for a year reaches 400, 000,000. There has lately been such a glut of her- rings that the Scotch fishing smacko are leaving Ardglass for home, herring being so oheap and plentiful thab hi does not pay to catch them. Three months ago the postmaster of Chi- co, Cal., gave a pet dog to a friend who was leaving for Oregon to nettle. Two weeks ago the dog reappeared at she house of his old master, nearly starved, but de- ligiated to see him. The weight of the great smoke.cloud daily hanging over the City of London has been computed by Prof. Roberts at fifty tons of solid carbon and 250 tons of hydro- carbon and cerbonic oxide gases for each day of the year, and its value at £2,000,- 000 per annum. Pert/ape the neatest single industry of any city in the world is the carpet manufac- ture carried on in Phi1ade1phia. The es. be.blishinents engaged in this industry em- ploy 7,350 looms and 17,800 workmen. Last year they manufactured 71,500,000 yards of carpet, the value of which was $50,- 000,000. When Mrs. Anna C. Parks, one of the in. spectresses at the New York Customs House, caused the arreest of an Italian woman' in whose bustle was found a pock of dutiable jewels, was asked why she sweated the oulprinshe answered that she marked her out for search because she knew that Italian wo- men don't wear bustles. JEWELS OF THOUGHT. Spare the person, but lash the vice.— [Martial. He lives who dies to win a lasting name. --(Drummond. Providence Is a greater mysterythan reve. laden.— [Cecil. Things always seem fairer when we look back at them.—fLowell. We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.--iGeorge Eliot. No mariner has ever yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the oonjugal sea. [Balza°. There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a blographem—the life of a man.— [Carlyle. Necessity is cruel, bub it is the only test of inward strength. Every feol may live ac- cording to his own liking.-- [Goethe. If the wicked flourielt and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for de. atruotion ; thou art dieted for health.— (Themes Fuller. As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind semi far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement,— [George Macdonald. There are two things which will make us happy in this world, if we attend to them. The first, is, never to vex ourselves about what we eannot help, and the second never to vex oarselves about what we can help.— [Chatfield. *“..-........****0•444111044+11111 British soldiers not in pobsession of swim. ming cortifioates aro forbidden to enter Wats for the purpose of relocation. A statement that the order of Foresters was the weelbhiest frie adly society in the world, possessing a capital of £3,821,163, is contradicted by another that the Manche -- ter Unity of Odd Fellows has a capital of £6,806,736. The American whitefieh promises to be firmly eateblished in English waters. The United Site Fish Commissioaxei a sent some ova Mat year to the fieh hatching establish- ment of Malvern Walla, and the young fish are doing splendidly. At the London cattle market in Deptford, 10,511,000 cattle have been slaughtered since it was opened in 1872. The market covers thirty acres of ground, on which there are sixtmsix slaughter houses. The stalls aceommerlate 20,000 sheep and 5,000 beeves. The fleet cut of the market] was about $i,300.000. Within the last 'few weeks more than 50.000 acres have been bought in the Bahamas by British and American capitalists, to be devoted to raising sisal hemp. The Bahamas had for some time lost, all their commercial life, but the discovery that hemp would flourish their has wholly changed their pros- pects. THE SHAH OF PERSIA. lotus Interview he Gives lEils Views of Great Britain and France! The Pixie correspondent of the London "Times" has had an interview with the Shah. The interview took place at M. Tirard's residence in the Rue Copernio. After wait- ing a short thee (says the correspondent) I was taken into a large greenhouee, where._ the Shah was. Prince Malcom Khan con- ducted me to the Shah, and remained dur- ing the whole of the conversetion that I had with his Majority, from time to time acting as interpreter when complex questions were referred to. "I know," old the Shah, "tint you have seen a great many sover- eigns, but it is not from mere imitation that I want to see you. No! When you were presented to inc some days ago I formed the resointion of seeing you again. I want to know your impression of the events that are taking place in Europe, as it is your nais. eion to observe them." Imrnedietely after- wards the Shah asked me if I thought the acts of politeness exchanged between the German Emperor and Queen Victoria were onaidered on the continent as simple per- sonal demonstrations, or as indicating the opinions of the two nations. Nan -ex. -Din seemed very desirous of forming an idea on this point, and he showed that he had fol - owed all the details of the reception of the Emperor with very special interest, He said : "The English nation, with its great in- dustrial cities, with its serious and laborious population, with its political demonstrations and its high respect for all that is law, ap- pears to me to be one of the most powerful agglomerations of men I have ever seen. What most struck me in the English crowds was the appearance of power whieh noised to animate them. They looked you in the face with curiosity, but with e look of en- ergy. Everyone eminted to ask, Why has this man come bore; and why do they give him this reception I' I have never seen a people in which every individeal aeems so much one of the mestere of the country ; and what specially struck me was, that along with this sentiment, there is so much respect for the law. I emir the crowds obeying the gestures of the police with a readiness which prod iced a deep impression en me. "1 have brought with me a feeling of strong attachment to the Prince of Whiles and all his family, and also a feeling of great admiration for the Queen. The Prince and his family were not only kind to me, but what is not so common, they were al- ways equally agreeable, which gave me the impression that it was a pleasure to them to act in this way towards me. I ehould have liked to be present at the marriage of the Princess Louise, but I had already left Lon- don and I should have had to return for a day to BuckinghamiPalace. Thatiwould have been very inconvenient for me and for every- body. "When I consider why England is so strong, and should be so strong, I think that the reason is she has no neighbor. When there is no need for an eye, at the Lack of the head it it possible to advance without fent and England hi mistress at home. Wha, has especially struck nit is the complete dif- ference between the French and the 'English nations, and between France and England, near se they are to eaoh other. In no res, peot are they alike, The French and the Englieh look at you in different ways. A Frenehman looks at you gaily, without ooh- ing you why you have come. It gives them much ennuiernent bo see men :not dressed like themselves-, and with physiognomiea different from their own. You can aee they are a nation always in molion. I have seen nowhere so imany people looking at me. Wherever I went, from morning till night, It was the same. This giviss the impression that there is great presperltylin the country. In England peopres say, "Time is :money ;" In France theyshould say, "Time is plea- sure." I enquired how 11 was that all these worthy people who looked at me and saint. ed me graciously were.able to spare so much time. The only reply news that they would tnakettp for 11 by working more gniokly.