The Exeter Times, 1890-7-31, Page 3QUEENUON HEIGHT,
VIZ BATTU 0,E' 1.3th 00TOBB,W1812.
'Mt !Famous Battle Wield leesertned—se inset
IQ Use Spot—The Death. of
General Itroek,
23).- -muss retesaa, euesaneee.
The battle of Queenstou Ifei,ghts and the
name a °enema Brook are Canadian hoese.
hold words essociated with the was of 1812
which evill ever live mad be held sacred by
Canadiens to the latest genera.tion. This
battle "Was f011ght Olt tlia lath a October,
1812. The village a Queeaston is on the
bank of the Niagara river, at the foot of the
heights, about seven miles above where stood
old bort George of 1812, and is distant some
four to five miles from the Falls of Niagara.
The battle field of Lundy's Laue, fought on
the 25th a July, 1814, is close by the Falls,
bordering on the old village of Drummond-
ville.
General Brock was at Fort George that
mornine `id mouute4 his horee on the first
alarm ae.e...tde at full speel to the threatened.oint ; on his arrival he foam"the
" e
Arnerteansou the Heights, above theviliage.
Brock was killed at the very opening a the
fight, while heading a company of the 49th
to retake the battery of one RW1 en the slope
tsseDrk nig Owes or rola nutmeat. in the wrist of his sword atm, which he paid
During the nrst week of getober the ono. , no attention to,contburing to wavehis sword.
ericans were prepared to attack,—heving a 1 In the dull gray mists of that October
force four times as large as tile British, and c nlerntago half way n? the Heights could be
having provided themselves with a large seen the tall, portly form of General leaac
number of boats of every description,— i Brock, standing iu front and far iu advance
bateaux, scowst etc., not only ea Fort Nieg- I Of the Grenadiers of the 40th, a living tar -
4a but at nefialo, }nook Reek ana other .i get for the. bullets of the unerring Amerman
places above the Falls of Niagara, reaay to , die, waving his sword. and oiliug on his
transport troops ocroe.s the riveret say int men mad eneouraeine them both by. word
they chose. General Brock had his ma- , and gestur,o, to ltesteu their steps. He did
quarters at Fort George, seven miles below ;, not long stai.a1 there- The fatal. ballet sPed.
Queenston and he had to garrison a line of i!ts way:, ettiking him near the heart, eaus.
almost inetanteueous death i Colonel
outlying poste for over thirty miles up to n mg
Fort Erie opposite Buffalo. lievek'sseatter. J hteDonuell then spurred hie horse to the
ed forces, stationed above the Fall at Chirelfroat mut aesamed counnamL Everything
pewa and Fort Erie and the out -poste be `; rTw., was in disorder, The Men became
mon these tvso places, required fully 600 ', (1. minuted at the death of their Almost idol.
men to guard them, aud weakened his uutia i izeit leader. After repeated Attempts to
poilit ot defence. . rally and to keep hs force -together, MeDon.
The Americanswere aeting on the offensive nell alse was killed. The British tben gave
awl they might invade Gheeeda by way of ,:, way eild retreated to the foot of the Heights.
Butedo ot. Nacre Roe, or at the mouth of 1 cal:eying the bodies of their General and
the Niagara at FortNiagam. Brock thought McDonnell and most of their wounded with
the main attack would, be on Fore George, , theme This eloeed the morniug fight on
his headpmetem Even Ou the 0th at ', the slope of the 1-leights, leaving the Alfieri.
October, for elayebefore the battle of Orem- i' carrell* poeeession ef
stone early in the .morning, a large latcly of 'tee eests, Gres Berns:V.
marines from BMW° crossed the Naateara, ii By thls time fully 1500 of the enemy hue
and captured two armed vessels, the "tale:
donee' and "Detroit," richly laden wine ',', their way
_to
landed, mad several hundreds of them made
to the top of the Heights, inereas-
furs, eta. moored under the guns of Fort I ing.their tome there to about MO men, The
which the *merlons bed mestured ; but iu in the hoods of the enemy. but 00 oleo,
Erie- The Caledonia, Tem -lined a prize 1 arrival of Captain Peretrzy from Foet
Geot-ge, with four companies of the 4lat
sf
the afternoen of the same gay, as will be treite a-ae 1,,tirmd iu on attemPt to ret4e 1.$ Regiment, Helerett's Battery of Royal Ar.
hereafter hown, the scattered bodies othe
her. This called Druck to Fort Erie, where , tillery of two six -pounders, and a few In.
little British foree were mustered from Fort he orriyetibefore sunset that 4n).* he t hexing 443us and ie._ , . 0,
' with
beerge, Ltuppewa, and the other antlyll Mil 10 c.
Fatptie4 huneelf that this WU merely a allr^ ' the retreatios force front the Heights, held
posts and attacked the Americaos ; mu
that the ene
an
Pris
after ono volley end a bayonet charge, they e. al ll3Y weald aaat' the enemy in e
t ' lteele, anti with well.directed
tempt to ewes the river there, be 1 eturned1 r
seots ironi ifolcroft'a g,uns, placed at first
forcea neerly orto.half of them over the to headquarters at Port, George the tlet lbelowthe village and afterwards nithin the
Heights into the Niagara arid captured aver day. Tins honied, journey of lirows to walla surrounding the „Raniiiton hew.
500 prisoners on the Heights, thus avenging Foet Erie, thirty mike distant, eaused the eteaa ,, tl 1 •
a /sane:Arai, le ed i -
the I eat h of their almost releiteed commander
by A gletious victory.
Come, young Canedian reader, and let tie
go back xxi retrospect nearly fifty yeareago.
0 : ,
to a Sunday morning in the, month of June,
1815, when the writer took a seat high up
Oa the top of Queenston Heights, elose by
where Brock's monument. stands ; come and
he F..catetl with us; let as, if you will permit,
light our pipes, and enjoy our "calumet of
peace," while we take a panoramic view t)f
WI10 (141(1
Ameresen General to take advantage of his sneueett the guus of the enemy at the Lewle-
beetree, to Milne to eross the Nlagara at ' ton Igeliegs tie that from that time few hoots
f4aveneton early fift the morning of the I0111,,, attempted to erose the river. The British
but a forlorn etorin of wind mot rain Peened force amnia. and Mow Queenston 11014
over their eantP NrhIle the troop were drawn„' poeseeeion a the rode leadiug to St. Davide
up in readinees to embark, by whielt the i, anti in rear and on the left at the Heights,
ierr.teu: W. nisieenn Iva Dere ' thus keeping open their communication
Duriog the whole day mid evening of the with Chippewa, above the Falls, and also
12th, the Amerieaus mild he distluetly seen with Fort George ; the Americans holding
front the Cairatlian heights—lo,e;alion ener PF-eweion of the Heights, while hundred's
'battalion, eoueeetrethig in and around Lew. of 'Meal remained beim at thelandingonder
hilL mountainside, river, lake and the rfrir. 36t404 and on the heighte eliove, to ala RUM. ' Proleeiten of the x leer Liao ready to filo)
nieeent imeisenve spread out below ile',, her of fully 5,060 tam and it Was believed 4 tilMir War liGe14 is their emu shore -when olo
There, on the right 1)1)1)4, have the Lewis. ea the tAknadiall shoto the ethseing would bt, Peettenity otrered.
ton Heights on the Ateetiean ewe. "parated made during that night; but whetherthe hurl. ' -41,7 noon ail. C'e men that eeuld lie tiered
from the Canadian or Queenston Heights by jag Would be unde at Queenston or at Fort : iron Folt “voteses had eanemblval aroun4
than deep, narrow gore, of some feel feet,
of the channel of the lelegara river, mit out
St some far.off day lay the ifOlVe of that
mighty inns of water from the Valle of
Niagara, over whicb the whole waters of
Lake Brie Awl the other upper lakes Inul James Crooke a and Melesven a of
companies
their outlet into leata
se Onrio. Jmow of bort:etagere couldopen upon bort George I
us, at the feet ef the heights* is *110 quaint owlet the emnetime ewer the landing of an ' 1st Linco1n:1111kb. ; Willie:el Crooke:3 and
old village or town of Queenston renderedegtavhing lmrtY ftlan Pert Niagara. This ' 11(1141' eeirilanka t'r the 4th Linealuv AP
famous in Canadiatf history by \Ito battle 1 vote Brock's opinion, even after he lied .' niegarth's, Itatt'a mid Durentra einupanies
Sought be, around, and above it, as the lath mounted his horse to have Fort George for , of the Ath Lincoln ; a few of Merritt's Pro.
day of October, 1812, the beet time to reaelt Lite threatened but , vincial Dragirrins and the retunauts of the
, two eouipm les of the 40th and. the three
This mountain range orhigh table land en real lording at Queenston.
which we aro sitting is the saute range of! On this . tit tlea of Ottela I, 1812, a oareompernes of the N oro mrlitie ene evil in
heights that pauenat along around the head never to he forgotten by eilailiiialiS, long ', the morning, in all about $00 men. The
of Lake Ontario and iti rear and aboverefore maybe', the tiret of the Antericon ,, Indiana in the woods on the Heighte, on
the city of Hamilton. Between the lake boate readied the Caremlian shore. They i the left of the enemy, under John Norton
_apte n Dermie eompany, who ,I mid John Brant, matte tot alieut one Irund.
above and the feot of this range of heiglitsiwere nal l'Y e 1
Tim Canadian. reader will Kee
the finest fruits in America is grown. The Polinal several voliven into them midi fatal ',Ired, more.
1
and be prowl to know that fully one.half of efteet. The lanai ot tlwir muskets in the ;
peaches there excel those grown on the moet
layered spots in the united soave pert dark voluted out tbeir position to the gun. i the British force on Queenston Heights was
away heneetle tie, filMli IBMS diltinit, we uvri et the enemy on the Lewimou Hughes, .Catiadien militia, composea chiefly of the
haVO a Lull view of the deep, blue OntaritessvitO well), Stillt,ding hy then:Wire with light- ! bravo
ed mateneet arta wile opened. fire, cawing ' ruarruco no's Or rase= .A.No 1.-Ortu.
etretehing re,x4t 200 mike to the eastward,”
down to ichlgston; and front forty to sixty ,Deintle to WIthilIVW Ids men under shelter. I
General Sheeffe left Holcroft's battery,
miles broad m emit parts, and between oari The giumers at the one gun battery tan the
i with a etnell Wily of militia, in support, to
on ondslupe of Queeuston Heights and thoseat the
stand -point view fl1111. the lake shore,
left baud, is the rich plain of the Niagara,' one gun battery at Broommie point opeued g Lei:rill tt1.11: se-nilelanf.ve otutitenegneritloonroanmdento, fneti
fireon the Lowietort landing with the hope of T
SttldilVt With orchards, gardees and the old then ascended die heights on the left flank
hmestco. Is of the U. 1!1. Loyalists, e. urround-14,11s,abling the boat& It was a random tire,
of the enemy, iu rear of the woods held by
ea by smiling wheat ileitis and rich meadow -I oong IV" 'Ina- Theee two gnus contiu-
t ued all malting to throw elan, and shell t le 184'""" The A
1 • mericans htu1 expected
/ends, extending as far as Stoney Ceeek."
'Phis is the meet darnung VIM- smut in the threugh darkness and dietance, and if doing the Britiell °Muck wonld 10 straight up the
slop.) and prepared thernsfives Accordingly.
4,ehe'e of tbe 01 N'a,eare, District and rem, little execution created a panic in the ranks
The force trom Ohippowa, consieting of the
dered doubly interesting as einhaleieg „ of the enemy and deterred hundreds of the
mpany of the 41st regiment, under
"eirirs eye view" of the holden of them from crossine the river. . light co
Lieut. 'McIntyre, aud Hamilton's and Rowe's
ViAltrATH OP DOTII art',NITSS TliE 1111.11V1I FORCH companies of the 2nd Lincoln, with a /OW
during the war of 1812.
On fair right, hand, on the American at Oueenston, being an outpost of Fort .-olite n. tcers, formed a junction with the main
of theiagaree stands the old le/woof Lewisside `•
George, dd id not laue)
xceed "01) men, corn- ot trout Queeneton at about two o'clock
ls-
Posed of Dennis' and Cameron's companies in tne afternoon, increasing their numbers
ton, nestling beneath the shades of its own of the York militia, with the light company to about 050 men. The line of attack was
heights; then about seven miles down, on of the 29th and the Grenadiers stationed in f armed, having thought company of the 41st
the American side, stands Fort ICiagara on the village—with two other companies of and the two companies of the 49th, under
Lake Ontario, directly opposite to where the York militia some three miles distant, Captain Dennis, on the left of the line, next
Fort George sthod during the war of 1812. besides a few of the local 3111litill and the to the Indians, supported by a battalion of
The writer thus elves a "pen and ink sketeh " gunners to man the gun on the slope and militia. under Colonel Butler. The centre
of his stand -point view on thetop of Queens- the gun at Brooman's point. This was the and right were composed of the other corn -
ton Heights as it appeared to him in 1845, whole force at Queensten that morning to 'nudes of the 41et, supported by the rest of
which will serve as =index to future visitors divine the lending, while on the Amerman the militia under Colo:eel Thomas Mike.
to that far-famed spot.
Truly, this is storied ground.. On and side, right opposite, stood 4000 to 5000 men, Shvayze's two "three pounders" drawn by
prepared to tress to support their advance men with ropes preceded the advance of the
around those heights and along the whole body; but their courage fatted them 011. be- line.
river bank of the Niag.ara, from FortGeorge The actual numbers of the enemy facing
holding the warm reception their vanguard
up to the ruins of old Verb Brie, csnneeite
- ea- - --- met with, and in the afternoon of that day General Sheaffels advancing column was be -
Buffalo, a distance of over thirty miles, fully 3000 of them stood, pan ' ic-stricken on tween 900 and 1000,s -the rest of them being
every footstep recalls the bygone history of their own Lewiston Heights, as they beheld
aroundethe;hattary on the slope, while hun-
early Canadian days. Long before a British right opposite on the Queenston Heights dreds Of than remained below at the land -
drum was heard or a Union Jac.k of England the wreak and ruin of their brave compan- Mg, under CoVOr of the river bank. There -
floated in those once far western wilds, the ions of the morning who had crossed the fore the actual numbers on both sides en -
visited. the Falls, and were familiar with the
There -
daring pioneer explorers of Old France had river, now being driven over the Heights in- gaged on the heights were about equal. The
battle was opened by the light company of
to the Niagara or surrendering themselves as
banks of the Niagara. La Salle, nearly two the 4Ist on the left, by firing a single volley
prisoners of war. The Americans stood on
and a half centuries ago, had established a their own shore, not a, 111510 distant from then charging with fixed bayonets upon the
fur trfielingpost on the very spot where Fort the scene of conflict, having plenty of boats riflemen on the right of the American line,
Niagara now stands, and a few miles above to convey them across, with folded arms who gave way in great confusion, leaving
the Falls, near Navy Island, he, Le Salle, and gaping mouths,as silent spectators of the that flank exposed. General Sheaffe then
built his little schooner, the "Griffin," the defeat, capture and destruction of their gave the signal for .
rude pioneer of those magnificent floating brave vanguard. A GENERAL ADVANCE.
castles which have since that day passed Brock reached Queenston before break
over the rough waters of old Erie, whilst
hundreds of them, like of day, splashed all over with' mud from his
te the "Grillin," now hard ride, and at once rode up to the one
lie buried deep beneath its uutroddeu sands. gun battery on the slope; but shortly after
WAR WAS DECLARED reaching it a loud shout or cheer came from
by the United States against Great Britain the hillside above, followed by a volley of
e on the 1811* day of June, 1812; as all Cana, random bullets, whistling over their heads,
dians knave, orshould know. General Brock while a body ct the enemy came charging
was then in command of the British force down the heights upon the battery. Brock
in Upper Canada; General Hull was Gayer- and the gunners had to make an immediate
nor of the State of Michigan, and had his retreat, spiking their gun, but on reaching
headquarters at Detroit, from which place the lower end. of the village he found the
he issued flaming, proclamations to the light company of the 49th drawn up in line
, people of Canai
Canada to nduce them to join the awaiting orders ; then wheeling his horse
Aanerican ca; i'e or to remain neutral. in the direction of the Heights, he exclairued.
General Brbett,,decided to surprise Hull by "Follow me, my boys," and led them at a
s rapid movement westwards, and for that run to the foot of the Height, supported by
end gathered what regulars and volunteers the Grenadiers of the 49th and a company
he could, with whom he started for Detroit, of the York militia, who were detached to
and reached Malden, opposite eDetriot, on the right to attack the
the 15th of August, 1812. The next day
.., LEFT AND REAR, OF USE ENE'S:W.
General Hull surrendered Detroit and the Brock halted at the foot of the hill, behind
whole State of Michigan, evith all his arm
Y., h stone wall, feseel dismounted, saying to his
guns, stores, shipping, etc., without firing a men, "Take breath, 'boys ; you will need it
shot, as recorded in the histoty of that date. in a few moments." Shortly after,observe
Brock lost no time af ter the taking of Detroit, in —
a, that his ekirmishers on the right had
but sailed immediately for Fort Erie, with reached the left and rear of the enemy,
the prisoners, guns, stores, etc., capturedcansing' confusion intheir, ranks, around the
from the enemy. His intention was to attack better% he sprang over the stone' wall
Buffalo and Fort Niagara and to destroy all waving his sword and calling upon the
the American posts on the Niagara frontier; Grenadiers of the 49th to follow him. He
but to his disappointment and disgest, when then led the way ,up the , steep aseeet to-
m reached Fort Erie' on the 22nd of August, wards the battery. The ascent was cliffi-
1812, he found. thatan armistice had been atilt ; the late rains had caused the fallen
.oncludect the week before his arrival. The leas -os to be treacherous foot -holds ; the
merlons had taken advantage of the, arm- men slipped at nearly eveay step, some fall-
stice to concentrate large bodiee of troops, ing to the ground, ceasing the ranks to be
uns, stores, etc., at their 'various posts on much brOken se much so that Bock ex-
he5 ilis is the first time I have ever
Niagara ; so that by the middle of Sep- claimed : `T
ember they heel fully 8000 men of all arms' saw the 49t1* turn their backs." Colonel
oncentratecl between Buffalo and. Hort Ni- McDonnell then game up with two corn -
gam ; there Were. between 4000 and 5000 penies of the York militia, increasing the
en collected at Fort Niaaara and. on. the attacking party in front and on the right,
ewieton Heights, opposite Queenston, to nearly 200 men. The enemy's force was
hile over 4.00 bateaux, laden with guns and now increased around aud above the battery
ores from ' Sacket's' Harbor, hadreached to about 500 men. Brook called. ou Colonel
e mouth of the Niagara and were safelY McDonnell to push on the York volunteers.
oored .
tgeorge nets Imeertatu. Broek 142t1)e,.11 wee Queemton. t.titeral Itcpr ;•.lietite or.
of opution it would lie at Fort Geurge. rived and assumed commend. 'The force
Thor boats were all ready, some to claw there c000leted of Ifoleroft'o two gum: (six
thirty, others eighty 511011, and they canal ;I Pautideral et the RI)Yal ; SwaYie.0
as easily dealt down the elUTtllt of the river two guns, three pounders. Prormeial Add-
end land above Fort George, when the gtais lerY ; four comp:mita of the 4181. Regiment;
The gun in front of the American position
was caroled earnest without resistance, and
the whole body of the Americans was forced
-steadily back upon the river to the very
crest of the precipice in their rear. The
fight was short, rapid and decisive .1 The ad-
vance of the British line, having assumed the
form of a crescent, overlaypingthe enemy on
both their flanks, General Wadsworth and
Colonel Christie with over 500 men surren-
dered on the very verge of the cliff.
Many of the fugitives scrambled down the
sides of the Heights towards the landing,
with the hope of escaping to their own shore
but Itoleroft's battery below, in rear of the
village of Queenston, had rendered the pas-
sage of the river so dangerous that the boat-
men refused to cross. Many plunged into
the Omer and attempted. to swim across.
Half of them were drowned, while elle re-
maining secreted themselves among the rocks
and bushes along the shore. During this time
our Indians lined the cliff or perched them-
selves high up in the trees above, firing at
.the fugitives whenever opportunity offered.
, The American General, Scott, to preserve
She rest, of the command froni utter clestree-
tion, raised a white flag and surrendered his
whole force of about 300 men. Some evaded
by secreting themselves, but surreaclered
the next day—making the whole number of
prisoners over 950 officers and mon, thus
closing- a glorious victory and avenging the
death of General Brock. The American loss
in killed, wounded,, drowned and missing
hes never been correctly ascertained, owing
partly' to the immediate dispersal of a, large
portion of their militia. Some accounts give
their killed and cleOwned at one hundred
end their wounded at two hundred; others
placed the drowned alone ab one hundred and
eurtee ITUND.P.E11 KttstalD d:ND W0l7:NDED.
'Another American account stated that 1600
Americans were engaged, of whom 900 were
regulars, rind the number , of killed end
drowned were estimated at from. 150.up to
At thatonoment he • was struck by a bullet 400. Take it all in all—it was a great vie -
1 tory, the Amerieaus losing nearly one thou-
sand prisoners and from two to three hun-
dred in killed, drowned and missing. The
British loss WU small, sixteen killed and
sixty-nine wounded. The returns are miss-
ing, and this may not include the militia
axid the Indiaos. The total osualties, how-
ever, ate thought, in killed and wounded
' on the British side may be set down as
under one hundred.
Our standpoint view on Qucenston Heights
of 1845 is still there. The monumene er-
ected to the memory of Gerteral Brock by a
grateful people still stands. The waters of
the Niagara still roll silently but swiftly by
as of old. All is now quiet end peaceful
around those Heights, and the (tread conflict
of the lath of Oct:then 1812e, is almost for-
gotten by the people of Canada, except
wben aroused by the un -called for bmggado-
cio of the American press as to how they
could "gobble up Canada." Then Canadians
proudly pointto those "Queenston Heights,'
and the glorious victory won by their httle
army of 1812, and so long as breathes a pat.
riotie Canadian, or Canada remains a por-
tion of the British Empire, the Pattie of
Queenston Heights and the name of General
Bock, associated with the war o11812, will
ever be held. owed. as "Canadian household
words."
Lord Ogilvie'e Oddities.
The familiar form of Lord Ogilvie has ntt
een seen this week, says the Denver, Col,
INvheteerse, he tntek‘elgn it..teoac..qtluterirltelrsetZrag°treelt
cent visits to the city, According to report
Lord Ogilvie is spending a, brief vacation at
Las Vegas, N. Al,, to test the bendt of the
mud baths and to get ril of the debilitat-
Mg effects of the races. In speakieg of
tide remarkable character, for all who
know Lord ()gave) vill agree that he hoe
eapacitiee of a high order, a gentlemau eaid
yesterday : I We never known Ogilvie to
go to bed while paying hts periodical visite
to this city. Thirty unnutee' sleep in a ebair
each twenty-four hours is ebout all his eye -
tem Rom to require and be awakens appate
eutly as refreshed as if he had slept all /eight.
He to only twenty-eight years of age and
first dropped into ifertver about ten yore
ago on visit to the motudaine with hie
father. The elder Ogilvie took sick at the
Whelsor Hotel and died after alder Blues%
The renutine were soot to:Willie! for burial
in the old family vault. Ogilvie is re.
mookahly well read upon alt subjects,
and when at home on his ranch, near Greeley,
he smile the mainpart of his time poring
over book& i
He s pearlier, oue of hie
peculiarities beim-lids nienner of dress and
the odildooking plaid vest by which be is
reeoimind all over the West. 'That vest,'
said he to me one day. is patented, and no
other man in the world on wear a vest just
like mine. 1 have a contract, duly signed
with the firm in England manufaeturing the
inaSs.rial that it is never to be dupliceted
except at my order. Theveet is of immense
demenelone and when stretched at full
length extends nearby to the knees of the
wearer. Its only.ornament Lea huge steel
%retell chain, which ie alao made upon a
pattern peculiar to itself. Ogilvie dresses
hut Mullen WtihrS a flatiliel Shirt
with high collar, starched perfectly stiffend
fort -Meet hy a cravat of pongee
"1 have visited hint at his ranch," con.
tinned the operator, 'emit it would be diffi-
cult to imagine a, more royal weleorne then
La accorded byOgilvie to his friends. He
lives in the enjoyment of all the good thirty
that :eight be desired, nd. takes espeetel
pride in his beds of blooded horses oud cat.
tie. I won surprised at the extent of his
wardrobe. He showed me at least fifteeu
trunks full of clothing, all made by Poole,
the London tailor, aud not clue suit in the
lot has Ogilvie ever worn. I'll venture to
say that he has 150 complete fruits of elothee
on hand. Take him all in all, he is the
strangest conglomeration of oddities to be
found in the State of Colorado.
1"ttragraphio Curiosities.
In Australia they have oysters twelve
inches long.
Andrew Carnegie has made 856,000,000
in twenty-six years from his rolling mills.
In Waldeck, Germany, the municipal
authorities will not grant a drunkard a
license to marry.
Of the 10,200 steamers in the world, of
over 100 tons register 5, 914 are British
and only 425 belong to the United States.
The longest railroad bridge span in the
United. Stateis the cantilever span in the
Poughkeepsie bridge over the Hudson river,
548 feet.
The London County Council has deter-
mined to erect a model lodging -house for
working people, after the style of the
model lodging -houses in Glasgow, which
have proved profitable to the mmdeipality.
One of the greatest works of °lei' engin-
eering on this continent is the tunnel un-
der the St. Clair river at Port Huron and
connecting the United States and Canada.
Including the approaches the tunnel will be
nearly two miles long. It will when com-
pleted be a huge iron cylinder, the only one
of the kind in the countee, There is
neither brick nor stone used in its construc-
tion, but the huge iron cylinder is being in-
serted in sections.
Babies of the World.
It has been computed that between. 36,000,-
000 and 37,000,000 babies are born' in the
world each year, says the St. Louis Republic.
The rate of production is therefore about
seventy per minute, or rather more than
one for every beat of the clock. With the
one -a -minute calculation every newspaper
reader is familiar, but it is not everyone
who stops to calculate what this means when
it comes to a year's supply. It will, there-
fore, probably startle a good many peesoas
to find on the authority of a well-known
hospital writer that, could the infants of a
year be ranged in are line in cradles, the
cradles would be overflowing and at thesaane
time extend around the globe. We have
the ingenious conclusion, also,
that, suppos-
ing the little ones grew -up and the sexes be
equally divided, we Weald have an army 100
times larger than of Great Britain, and
a wife for each soldier besides. .
The same writer looks at the matter in a
still more pictureaque lighti. 4a imagines
the babies being carried pasaa`given point
in their mother's arms, one by'One, and the
procession being kept up :Oeight and day
until the last corner of the' twelfth moutli
lure passed by. A sufficiently liberal rete is
allowed, but even in going pest at the ,rate
of twenty a mioute the reviewer at his post
would only have seen the siath part of this
,infantile host after they hadbeen passing
him at the rate of 1,200 an holm dering the
'entire year 1 In other ,words, the babe that
had to be carried when the tromp began
would be able to walk when but a mere
fraction of its comrades had reached the re-
'viewer's' post, and when the year's sapply
of babies was drawing to a close there would
be a rear guard, not of infants, but of romp-
ing 6-year-olcl boys and girls; '
TELL011APHIO.
The elm tree beetle is cleat:my/mg the shade
trees in Hudson, N.Y..
Sixty raftsmen left Montreal ieceetly for
the tipper Ottawa to bring down timber.
It is reported front Washington that
Secretary Blaiue's eche= of reciprocity is
gaining favor.
The steamship Egypt, of the National
line, has been burned at sea. Her crew
were saved.
Freeman Cooper, an attorney, of Komoko,
ludo is said to bave forged 823,000 and
skipped.
Moue. Fairbanks, pork packers of Chi-
cago, intend opening extensive lard works
in Montreal.
A little girl named Barrill was horned to
death ilk Montreal while playing with
matches.
Thirty-two Arabs who arrived at Phila-
delphia on the steamer Penusylvania from
Liverpool will have to return.
The brick manufacturers an the Hudson
river have resolved to resist the attempts of
the Knights of Labor to unionize the brick
yards.
A Quebec despetch says the eteamship
Idaho is ushore on Shannon reef, Anticosti
island, in a critical position and asking as-
ietenee.
Unknown parties went to the house of a
Mexican named MUM, Is Williamson
county, Texas, and shot and killed Olikee,
his wife and their five children.
As the result of the &mall there are feees
of a water famine at Amsterdam, New York.
The water commissioners have ordered that
whittling, of Eircets and lawns he disarm.
tleued,
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De Not be Discouraged.
On e certain occasion Marie Antoinette
asked her prime minister whether or mot a
project which she contemplated could be
accomplished, and his reply was, "Maclaine,
if impossible„ it shall be done,"
Of ourea the impossible eaturot be achiev.
ed ; but " imposeibility would uot seem to
have had any piece 15 the vocabulary of
those who have attained 111e highest die-
tinetion. Experieuce is the best Of teeth -
ere," and we learn—from the experieuee of
others, if we have as yet not leerned from
our own experienee—that tireless exertieu
and steadfastness of purpose will remove
whatever alestaeles tier one's way to the
proudest eminence.
Andersen, the popular Danish anther, was
Ole BOB of a cobbler, at:41 in his earlier yeare
worked " on the bench" mast industriously,
doing his first literary work on sereps 01
paper kept beenle him, in the momerite
when he rested from his regular duties.
Asaces, who founded the Perthian em-
pire, ageinst which the mighty hosts of
Rome long eonteuded in ram, was a. ute-
<Amide of Obscure oriyin.
Belanger, the celebrated French poet,
wandered abont Paris in a state of pitiable
destitution until he oLtatned 5 situation iv
pot.boy—that ti, to carry pets of beer ha
public -houses and restaurants.
Burns was the eon of a small farmer, and
at an early age displayed an appetite for
learniuse which he had few opportunities
for gratifying, as is shown in the most bril.
limit of bis perms.
Carrera, beginning life as a drummer bay
and driver ot cattle, rose to the presidency
of the reemblie of Guatemala.
Catherine, empress of Russia, in some re-
spects one of the most remarkable women
thet over lived, was a peasant girl of Livo-
nia aud a camp grieette.
Deinostl ene, the Grecian orator and
"prince of oloquence," was the son of a,
blacksmith. Iu his first; etterept at public
speaking be displayed such a weakness of
voice, hue erfect articulation and awkward -
31083 that he withdrew from the speaker's
platform amidst the hooting and laughter
of his hearer,
Giotto, noted as a painter, sculptor, ar-
chiteet worker in mimic, and really the
founder of modern Italian art, was a shep-
herd boy whom Ciambue discovered draw-
ing sheep on the sand with a pointed stone,
with an accuracy that indicated a natural
artistic ability, and so he took him as a stu-
dent.
Handel was nearly 50 years of age when
he published the first of these musical com-
positions which have immortalized bus
new e.
Sir Isaac Newton while attending school
was considered by his teachers but little
better than an idiot; and Sheridan'the
celebrated playwriter was presented by his
mother to a tutor as a "blockhead."
The foregoing examples prove conclusive-
ly that an hunible origin, poverty, natural
defects, age or physical ailments need not
prevent the attainment of distinction, and
they should be encouraging especially to
the young.
• A Gold -Ranting Expedition.
Perhaps the largest gold -hunting expedi-
tion that ever started for a rumored El Dora-
do is that which at last reports was making
its way into one of the most savage parts of
Africa. It is the expedition of the British
South African Company, numbering over
1,000 men, ineluding hired natives, end the
latest news from the party is that on May
27they were in camel on the southern edge
of Matabeleland waiting for their Maxun
guns to overtake them before venturing
among the fierce soldiers of the Ring of
Matabeleland.
It will be interesting to hear if they had.
to use these Maxim guns. When the last de-
spatches were written, 15,000 of Ring Loben-
gula's soldiers, armed with all sorts of savage
weapons and in a greet state of excitement
over the proposedievasion of an armed party,
were within a few miles of the expedition.
The, Ring, months ago, gave the company
permission to hunt for gold in Mashonaland.
But savage promises are not always made to
be kept, and the last, letters say the Ring
has flatly refused to permit the expedition to
cross the border, on account of the excited
condition of his people..
These Matabeles are Zulus who long ago
left their country and founded. a new king-
dom. They have an army of 30,000 warriors,
who are the terror of the whole country be-
tween, the white possessions and the Zambesi.
The whites must pass throagh their coantry
to reach Mashonaland, whichis a pert of
King Lobengula's possessions. The Ring
transferred its gold -mining privileges, for
valuable considerations, to the British com-
pany. He is sotry he did it, but he will find.
before he gets through that he had better
'endiire the invasion and make all he cen
out of it for the army of which he is so
proud will prove no barrier i1. the nentes
think they see quartz worth crushing behind
it.
An English electrician lies invented a
=aerial that he calls "alterion" for the
prevention of corrosion in boilers.
Belgian magistrates who were crowded
with cases of men arrested during strikes
struck themselves for higher pay.
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