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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-5-28, Page 7GRIOULTIMAL. The Itrestety of Growth. o hose tree seen Anything grow? It be thee one who could keep, vigil leng °ugh might do so, for last night when I ken into this flower -pot there was nailing ere int earth, and to -night there is a nder stem or blade of something half 41X ch. long. There utast have been a moment hen the geeen point protruded through the il, or perhaps it was a white point, and it ould have been eery possible for me to ve remaiued in A position to watch it eadily for 21 hours, People have done Ingo requiring more patience than that, ut though I have been near this ilower-pot oat of the nine, I only know that one unset went down upon the mould, the next pen a green thing growiog. Shortie I thelt see 4 thinker stalk, a wearier Made, If no accident happens, "here will be Vent a some sort before me 'et a few weeke. But, though Ivow to watch I Phial nor. nett, grow. I shell say at in - 'Orals, "Now it has grown I " but never ow when it took Oafs new start or unfold - d thee new leaf, at what instant the bud PPeered or et what moment it opened. as anyone actualle, seers a rosebud. open'," re is Po recent Mat I know of any such ac. The ileetien 00 ia requiwit is evident. eVQ even *mere in every /nage, and room ie brief. We almost foamy we seen it performed, each one a DS; but, think, I know I never have—bave e'en? I believe that no mortal ever watelsed A shrocen take Its shape. The thing is ually done in darknos and secrecy - yet, 111.a lantern, it would be possible ie eee el t eould be seen. elaul yet I are sure that we Omuta try the experiment, All that mild happen would he that we thoule be ware At row moment that a mushroom lean pronted up—no more. As to the large planta—the shrubs the es, the vines—botauists can tell you how very stage of growth is arrived at; but TM ne ever saw nature at work. At whet hour does the baby begin to grow. ie mother who beide it ve her arms for ohs is telly roescitma that it has changed. he wrinkles %smiththe red tom to pink it white, its eyes beeame intelligent, its trl lip, it' lips grow plump, IN uose egnirea a elespe. With her arms about it, ier eyes upon it, she would ay every half ' ear : "Why, oleo:men, the behy looks exactly ire it slid when I Innis to put it to alee " s But in eight weeke therent a bindles little Feature in a, cradle; that could uot be reeme- . teed as the hour -old ceile—prouomicel a ery fine boy by the num; and the doetor. Mit t * unascustrencel eyes, hideous enough . y.o be horrifying. ' That fele leen-, too, how &snit cheep to ' She lora, to the strong men! The baby never . euows himself. , T. a' ine st, everyone it has occurred to 1,4 Sine 4141444%4 to a realiesingemise that be is grown Alp—without tiering the slightest ilea how it has bapperied.--eNew York nedgere MM.* Wash For Trees. An Ontario corteepondent of the Maine tfarmer writes as follows s Take lime, slake, and prepere az for onlin- e wittemea,s14 in an old barrel or box, eigliat 4 timesto inake a, bucket two -Garda eeII—proper -consistency for the ordinary lesvhitewash. Now add one pint of gas ter, fele, treat of wbale oil soap, diesolved in hot or one pint of oration soft sear, or epee pound of potash, or one pint of strong Aye from wood ashes, or box of concentrated ;lye* then atm tit, - or lone enough to make e. else becketful of wish of proper consistency e to be Appliee N ith a brush. If the trees had the 'earth banked up around them, take the earth away from around the (coller, anti apply the wash to the body of iebe trees from the limbs to the ground or elo tit es the roots; Its advantages are: It wi I destroy the bark louse, or all scale in- t. 'se :te ; will give the trees 4 bright, clean, nhe ?thy appearance. Thie wash will drive ion; all borers that are in the trees, and the int Kli will not deposit eggs on or about the 'trees the same season the wash is applied. iAlt who grow apples, peaches, dwarf pears, or quinces should not fail to use this wash ; 'don't fail to use because not patented and "Iced et a high price. I have known cases (where peaeh trees became healthy and vig- aorous with one application cf this wash. (Again mice and rabbits will not girdle trees )where this wash is reed. Apply in May for nborers and general benefit to trees, rad the tjete autism as a preventive against mice (and rabbits. Gas tar when applied pure awn!. kill trees. • I? L. A. centenarian Snake. 1) f Early inJanuaryofthepresentyear ;tweeds - (man, engaged in chopping seam of the mon- ter oaks in the northern part of the great 0131ack Forest," Germany, and who had } . built, a fire against a large dead oak prepara- tory to partaking of his middaymeal, was jsurptised to see a sorpent of gigantic pro- laportioni .crawl from the log as soon as the rottenweed had got well warmed through. The day was bitter cold, and the snake only made a few yards over the frozen ground when his convolutions became smaller and smaller, and he finally ceased to wriggle, ane quietly coiled up near a large pile of S brush. The startly Gernian chopper, who had been more surprised than scared, waited until the creature had become thoroughly be- numbed with the cold, and then approached and dispatched him with an axe. Measure- ments showed the slimy creature to be twen- , ty-sevea feet six inches in length, and nearly fifteetainchee through the becly in the mid cue. • Just back of the immense head, which was °levexi inchr'inleugth and almost as broad, a little gold" ng had been put through the • skin. it se s in the form of two rings rather than one, being shapednob unlike the figure 8. One part of the ring was through the skin, while the other was through a hole in a - small copper coin bearing date of 1712. Ono side of the coin was perfectly smooth, with the exception of these letters and fig- ures, which had evidently been cut on it e with a pocket-knife, the workmanship being • verytiough, "totes-Zrutzer, B. ei. 0., 1781." Some of the older inhabitants of the "-Black Forest" ,temember heakhig their ' parents tell of " Krutzet, the serpent charmers" and they all unite in declaring s that this gigantic serpent was forntekly the .property of the old "charmer," ,.aricl. that it was at leest 115 ycereold when killed by the woodchopper on that cold January clay of leen \ noeGeleten OF tiElaaltlitanlia. aleltItias Greet Work pone After, he, Mel Jeeethed mit Age of ce, Moltke did not quite root% the years of Wrangel, who died, in 1877 at the age of over 93, nor did he quite equal Rrilperor William 1., who tanked buttloeteen days of completing his ninety-fitst year. Two .Years age •the $t. .Tonneo Gazetee, noting thee "the majority of Prussian field. 'mambas have beeeoldineu," found plenty et examples , also of Aged English seidiers of celebrity, eeeet earl pest, Meludieg Sir •Patriels . pees, who at that th4e was Shee,t 85. years Old, with geventy yeses*. service ; 'Lord Napier, thou *ia Wellingtee, who died, at 83„: after sixty -Ave yeere of service; - Lord Gough, who need to 00, with sew:ay-Ave yore of service ; Sir John Bergoyste* who .enUrect the a.rroy et 16 e,H4 TeaChed the age of 80. Of the French veterans it cited. MeMah.oe, At that time 81 . yeere old; Canielaert, at that time 80 ; Soult, who died . at 82, After .sixty-six yore of service; Grouelly, who died at 81,, and so on. To • these examples; nay be milted that of the lorigest-lived of our more distinguislied re- voltitimaery eoldiere, Stark, who died at tee age of nearly 94. Admiral. Wallin of the British uevy e.elehreted recently his . hundredth birthday. But of colarse the interest en tide point ju . 1101tke'e caner is, that the .great work of his life wa.s done etter he had reached the ago of 06; And, lucked, 'until 00 be was lade known outeele of Prits,sta. the ett• prerne riellieveraents were effeeted at the age of 70 mut 71; hut no one ever questions ed that be was in his full vigor 43 strate. gist at 80, or that Germany's chief reliance woule have been ou biros for pinning and direeting her oarnpaigns, up to a very env., :care ago. Indeed he pee evidelice of `e nbiht.y until Ids resignation of hifi office' of chief of the general 8$4,11f !TX Augest, 18s9. t4) do itsroutine work, in supervision and eritteism, NYith hie wanted vigor and prec' sloe. .Died as He Lived. Questeree" Co your friend Lambly is - dead, eh Jester—" trc is, raid he died as he lived, too." Quester---" How is that? Jester---" Why, all through hie life he had a constitutienal eversion to exerting hhasell iri any wasreed he atried out this idee to the end', frir his friends tell me he • ilea withor t a StrUggle." WOKEN imxtsirs SHELRWRNE, ONTARIO. The mammoth, and *ha Slastodon—Doseritglosk ot Local SIteelMena, is. Behold, 1 now behemoth. the (mastodon), which I made with thee; he eateth grass like an ox, * 18. Ills bones are as strong. atoms et brass : his bones (bean) are like bars of iron. Ife 14 the ehlet of the ways (lord of the highways) ot Gee; he that made /aim can make, his sword to approach unto him. en. Surely the inOuntains bring him ferth food. Where all the bea-ts of the field play, 21. Bo gotta uuder the shady treee, m the covert of the reed and fens. 22. 'atm Slikuly trete% cover him with their shedovr ; the willows of the brook compass hiM about. 23. Behold, he drinketh up a revere and hasteth not; he trusteth he can draw up Jordan (through his trunk) into hie mouth. 21. If taketh it with his eyes; his nose (trunk) plereeih through snares. Such, in a description to be found in chap. XL, of the book of Job, which may be rea- sonablv taken a a graphie account et mr, nOW Ula Mother "alannettl," "4 YOli Sea how tt. iao my deer," he eaiti, tehitig her suit band, which hall ewer done very herd work, and pettily; it reeestiringly, "Fin paor—ouly athOUrailli A year, dear -- and we eitell have to strengle to get along at tirst—'" " I oLAIII. Elba that M the least," she interriptel. wanly, =bin" tier cheek eoft- le, assaaest his hand. 44atalatIteilatieed, grarionely having an lowed her interruption, "we :exalt have to cone down to siteet economy. But if you can only manage as my mother does we ball putt Group " "Ansi how doea your mother menage, clear?" elm asked emiling—but not very bappity—at the notion of the mother in-law cropping out already. "1 node. know," replied the loverentliants ly ; " but elle always manages to have everything neat and elnerful, and come - thing delirium to eat—and, she does it all herself, you know! So that we always gee atm% beautifully, and make both ends meet, end tether and I still have plenty of spend- ing money. "Yoe see settee A woman is always hiring her Jewelry work done, and bets =ebbing and stove-Illacking clone, and all thee sort of thing—Why it, just, walksinto a, man's income,and-takes hie breath away." The young amine* looked for a moment ae if her breath was also inclined for a vaca- tion ; but alio wisely concealed her dismay, and, being one of the stout-hearted of the earth, she determined to leap a, few things of John's mother, and so N. eh t to ber for a Ion visit the next nap Upon the ter. zuluationef this visit one fine morning John reeetemd, to his blank amazement, a little package oontaining his engagement ring, accompanied by the following letter: " I have learned how your mother man- ages," and I 4111 going to explain it to you, since you have confessed you didn't know. I find that she is a wife, n !nether, a housekeeper, a business manager, a hired girl, a laundress, a seamstress, a mender and pateher, a dairy maid, a cook, a nurse, a • kitehen gardener, and. a general slave for the family of five. She works from five in the morning until ten at night; and I almost wept when I kissed her hand, it was so hard and wrinkled, and corded and uukissed. When I sew her polishing the stoves, carry- ing big buckets of water and great armfuls of wood, often splitting the latter. I asked her why, John didn't do such things for her. 'John!'she repeated, 'John: —and she sat down with & perfectly dazed look, as if I had asked why the anatels didn't come down and scrub for her. 1 Why—John. '—she said, in a trembling, bewildered way -1 he works in the office from nine until four o'clock, you know, and when becomes home he is very tired, or else—or else --he goes down tONIM:' Now, I have become strongly imbued with the conviction that I do not care to be so good a 'manager' as your mother. If the wife must do all sorts of drudgery so must the husband. If she must cook, he must carry the wood; if she must scrub, he must carry the water ; if she must make butter, he must also milk the cows. Ion have allowed yonr mother to do every thing, and all that you have to say of her is that she is an excellent manager.' I do not care or such a reputation, unless my husband earned the name also; and, judging from your lack of consideration for your mother, I MU qufte mire you are not the man I thought you were, nor one whom I should care to marry. As the son is the husbaud is, is a sae and happy rule to follow!' So the letter closed, and John pondered, and he is pondering yet. Once no often. A recent German paper tells the story of an elderly man who had for a wife one of those trying persons who, according to their own ideas, are always in the right, and who make it a point of conscience to prove every one else in the wrong. The poor man was never allowed to Make any statement without baying it instantly disputed by his accurate but Irritating spouse. She had acquired such a habit of correcting and contradicting him, that, ac- cording to the story, she one day made a mistake which gave her suffering husband a chance to laugh at her. " Do you remember, my dear," he said in retrospective mood, " theletter-case em- broidered with pearl beads that you made for me with your own hands, when we be- came engaged? It was worn Out years ago, but I can still see it very plainly. On one side there was embroidered a beautiful butterfly, and--" "The butterfly was on the other side!" interupted his wife, in her most decided And she always complained that Mr. Underfeld "was fond of telling stories without any point," whenever he referred tmthis conversation afterward. No Charge for Rent. " See here, waiter, it's an hour since I ordered my lunch and it hasn't corns yet. I can't afford to sit here all clay." Waiter—" That's all right, sir. We never charges no rent for our tables, sir." Lena. with .bone, flesh, and shaggy hair complete Is is Said, that Fferee of the tloh was gute4 by the mers who deg it out of the ice. • The natives, from sepesetitioas feels Mg, refused to pert with it Meta beers, wolven ansi foxes tote it to pieces, .teed. tileA .A(19.41h; WAS permitted; to sere the wreck ansi eouvey it to St. Petersburg, where itt the Imperial museum the monster skeleton tette stow be seen, ea it was set up iu junta positioate that of one of threlergest 'sped: - tomes of modem elven% 'le ceder that by contrast lee gigentle dimensions Might be fully realized by the beholden 'Existing elepheete hew short scanty heir over tbeie rough stole The menmene bad longbrown hair, sometimee ten inches in length, with tenger Week bristles intermingling„ and a shaggy MAW. The exietbag seeciee are con- tuod'ot the trepies ; but the Indian elephant ItirAt• TAND.WATT OF 211U.1.1t0OF...Nt; the characteristio of Lite eleplient, or per. haps even of the mastodon, 'both wonderful and feareeine beetete to those who beheld them for the first time. Whett the writer peel hia visit to the eleave village lie truly did not find that many of the villagers of this day keep mammoths or mastodons in their backyards or peci- darks, but he awe aileoled the opportunity of impeding one of the MO% complete seta of banes belonging to an extinct monarch of the foreata of hysgone years that have ever been uuvarthed in it good state of procrea- tion. In fact, it may be said to ho particu- tarty coniplote, as scarce nuything is want- ing to melte up a ported skeleton of the deceimed monster. These interesting re. mains, which are the property of Mr. John sornetenee Urea, in mammy with nunikeye, neer the snows of the Himalaya, Mountains. Themenunoth, on the other hand, tenanted the temperate aud northern perm of both tts remains having been foiled in the British been France, Ctntral and Northern Europe, Siberia, Aleske, and differset punt of America so far south as the county of Kent in this Province of ettnatle, as Well 49 in the State of Oregon. In size, generel form, and principal ostem logical charecteristies, the mastodon resew. bled the elephants of our day. It is by the teeth alone that tho two groups are distill- gnished by naturalists. :Clio range of the genus in time was from the middle of the Miocene period. to the end. of the Pliocenein the Old World, when they became extinct; THE MASTODON' Jelly, may shortly be on exhibition in On- i tam, and therefore an extended description will not be deemed inopportura. TMs, however, is not the first specimen of one of , the largest of the extinct Aninuile that has come into that gentleman's possession, for less than two years ago he securena remark- ably good skeleton of a mammoth from a farm in the township of Amaranth, quite close to Shelburne. Mostof our readers are tolerably familiar with the appearance of this variety, owing to the representations thereof having been so frequeu tlypublished in the advertisements of Messrs. Thos. Thompson & Son, the enterprising dry goods firm of Toronto, who have adoetea itt as a trade mark. This particular specimen was disposed of by Mr. Jelly, for a large sum of money to, 'Messrs. Horton and Har- rison, of Owen Sound, Ont. THE MAMMOTH is a name commonly given to one of the numerous extinct forms of the elephant species, technically known 8,s Proboscideans. The geographical range of this animal was very extensive. There is scarce a county in England in which its remains have not been found. In point of time thee mammoth be - ones exclusively to the post -Tertiary or Pleistoscene epoch of geologists, and it was undoubtedly contemporaneous with man in France, and probably elsewhere. There is evidence to show that it existed in Britain before, during, and after the glacial period. Remains of the mammoth (Elephae prime - genius) were frequently found during the last century in various parts of Siberia, and about the close of the century one was dis- eovered frozen in the estuary of the river but in America several species, especially the best kuown, owing to the abundance of its reinains, survivecl quite to a late Pleisto. one period. The habitat of the mastodon was very extensive, even being supposed to have reached to Australia, where no lenge late mammal bas ever been proved to exist, The number of the varieties of the masto donhas been variously put down at from 4 to 30, these differences being based upon some slight modificatious of the teeth. The whole of the teeth of this monster, owned, by Mr. Jelly, eight in number, four in the upper jaw oma four in the lower, have been found complete, with this exception that the great conical tuberosities orrounded processes have beea worn off. They are composed of den- tine and enamel, ansi the lower parts are as fresh looking as those of any livnig They are eight inches long, and rather more than three inches and a half broad. The structure of the teeth indicates that they have served admirably fer the grinding and mastication of tough, hard vegetable sub- stances. The bones are of a brownish color like those of a recent human skeleton. A broken piece pf one of the tusks measures about nine feet eight inches. In its complete state lb must have been from twelve to four- teen feet long. It is slightly curved, and its circumference at the thickest part is 24 inches. It is partly by the tusks, as well as by the teeth, which have enough mammala- tions on the surface like those of living ele- phants, that the mastodon is distinguished Some mastodons have been found with four tusks, two projecting upwards and two downwards, but the lower tusks never reach- ed any greatlength and were generally shed early in life, those of the female especially so. This one was evidently possessed of only two. These are some of the bone measure- ments: Hind leg, from the thigh to the knee joint, 47 =has; circuinference, 35 inches; two fore leg bones—the humerus— from the shoulder blade to the knee joint, 3 feet 4 inches in length and 3 feet four inches in circumference. The atlas joint upon which the head is set has a breadth of 18 inches. The shoulder blade meas- ures 3 feet 2 inches by two feet 1 inch in the widest part. The- long- est rib—and nearly all the ribs have been found—is 51 inches long, and has a ;fin cumferenee of 10 inches. The lower jaw, the inferior maxilliary bone, which is in a splendid state of preservation, measures 6 seesee THE BONES OP A MASTODON GIGANTEHS. feet rotted, from the one condyle process to the- other. and the width of the jaw is 22e Mehes„ One of the nasal hones, which is tolerably well preserved, is, 2 feet 1 inch loog, %ad the olefeetory channel is 11 evesches by 3. The *Me of tkie Vertebra aerike the hoofs of a draught horse, and the elem. nel of the spinal column would. forte 4 bed for a three-inch water pipe. The lengthof the aubeal gauged by the, meaeureenents of the berms already foiled, mad allowing for those that have not yet been discovered, is from the point of the nostril to the root of the tail about 22 feet. This is greater than than that of the celebrated motodon agart- ton discovered near Kewberele, New yerk, in the summer of 1845, and theilerten as it whale is larger And more complete than any that has been found in Kentucky, Ohio, Mineoure California or Oregon, where the remains have been in greatest abundance. What led to the extinetioe of the mastodon is one of the unsolved problems of nature. It could hardly' here been the climate, for Milted through climatic charigee greater than any that now exiat, and all that ou be said with truth is that it succumbed to some imperceptible hostile influence which first made it rare and then finally exterrni- oated. it. The maetodon And the elephant hews been known to live through two elwebs of the world's history before the mammoth with hie hefty, sbeggy coat Warne their contemporary. An American acieetiat, Mr. 11. Macau, anther of a Mamie of the Antiquity of Man, save M a work relating to the mastodon, that 4' It lived for 'untold ago, eed it has berme extinct. In Burope ceased to exiet twig before the bietericel period—probably aou,000 or 450,000 years. In America it ;survived until a, comparative. ly remit period." Ilow tee elephant tribes fauna their way to the American continent not quite certain. They possiely einigreted front Mime or Ada to North Almelo, and thence to South Amerio. The ineetodone began somewhat earlier, and prebably remained longer in the new world than the elephauts, baying per- haps fOUTtfl a refuge in inershy regents after the elephants had been exterminated from the tweets by big caruivora. Theedveut et tigers awl ot man, the most predacious of animels, and the deforest ing of many regime, alone, with alterations of climate, doubtless contributed to mitre their exterinivation. Even the African elepliaute ere now extinct In the southern coloeice of that continent, aud the Asiatic species is proteetea only for the purpose of being enslaved by dominent man; but the pereint of ivory in the one country and the advent of steam machinery in the other promises /soon to terminate thew existence, until, like the bison of the great plains of I`Torth Amerio, they will /Alertly live but in the memory of the "oldest in. lielntant." The slow Hierene cf the rue, the ereallnese of their families, and their coil- spienems bull; all combine to eneuro their annihilation. They were at ono tune the lords of the herbweed continuous, and even dominant over both worlds, Now they have only a few our etvora in the battle of life, and these are driven to inac- cessible lurking places by that more domi- nant primate who exterunnates every beast widen he does not deign to enslave. The Immo which aro now to be seen at Sheltie= were dug out of a farm belonging to Mr. Jan Reyeraft, in the south-easterly part of Lot 8, Con. 6 of the Township of Orford in the county of Kent, a loolity near the village of Highgate and rather over forty miles west of St. Thomas on the Michigan Central Railway. When Mr. Jelly had them on exhibition last year he was offered $5,000 cash for teem by an Arnerioan showman, but could mot part with them without breaking certain engagements rilready made. It is possible they may be shown at the Industrial Exhibition met fall. Natural Fighters. "It may be worth while, now that there is so much talk about Russia's preparations for war," saisi the army officer, to recall the fact that Russians are natural fighters. Doyen recall the war stories svhichappearecl whileago in one of ounnagazines ? Here the discipline of the czar's army and thekve for fightingwereshowninmost convincing ways. In the paper on the Russian army the story was retold of an order given to Russian regi- ments to take some hills then in possession of the enemy. The regiments started with a rush, and thrice the order for retreat was given. But by some misunderstanding one regiment failed to receive the orders. When it was learnedtbat this regiment was missing the weole Russian army received orders to advance and to take the heights. When the sun rose the next morning it was dis- covered that the ono missing regiment had taken the heights, licked its own army on the one side and the enemy on the other. That's the Russian idea of fighting." " This same war article," the speaker added, "bus of another night attack. The enemy fell upon the czar's ttoops when they were making a forced march at night. They were in confusion, but they stood still and allowed themselves to be shot down nntil they could form. And how do you suppose this was clone? The first man of.the first ompany fired and the company formed, each man finding his position by the flash of the preceding man's rifle. The first, company once Milne, the second formed in the same way, and so the whole army by the flash of gunpowder in the blackness of night found its position. When daylight came the whole army was seen to be stretch- ed across the plain in a line as true as if drawn with a rule. The Russian is a natur- al soldier, and the discipline which he under- goes makes him a superb fighter."—{New York Tribune. Canadian Railways. The report of the Minister of Railways and Canals shows that the Dumber ef rail- ways, including the Government roads, in actual operation was 50. The, number of miles of railway completed, irrespective of sidings, was -13,325, of which 12,539 were laid with steel rails. There were 12,628 miles of railway iu actual operation. The paid up capital amounted to 1760,576,446. The gross earnings of all these railways amounted to $42,149,615, una their work- ing expenses to $31,038,045, leaving the amount of net earnings $11,111,570. 'They carried 12,151,051 passengers and 17,928,- 626 tons of freight. The total number of miles run by trains was 38,819,380. Dar- ing the year ending Juue, 1890, the Do- minion Government paid out $1,678,195 in earned subsidies to railways, arid in the six months betweeu that date and the 31st of December last, $683,089 more. The total payments since 1883 amount to 88,424,076, notincluding the°. P. Ie. subsidies, nor the subsidy to the Canada Central, nor the subsidy to the Quebec Government for the line from Ottawa to Quebec. It is a fact that within a year a lady fo fashion has engaged as a maid a prepos- sessing young woman of excellent education and enviable acquirements whose grand- father employed her grandfather as his valet. The lady of fashion does not know this, but her maid does. --allow Orleans Picayune, LATEST FROM EUROPE. Abatement ot the Influenta—geeting of the Coaxal African Mission—no Ger- man Fmperon The deetetre seein to be agreed that the virulence of the influenza, epidemic is abat- ing, anal that it will have disappeared by the end of the month. The menoendernent would be more eonsolatory were it not ae. ereopenied by the expression of opinion that the disease is likely to become a regular spring vtor to this country. The Prime of Wales, by the way, lute not been offer- ing from iutluenze, as was popularly sup posed, but from varicose veins int the legs. The mutual meeting of the Ceetral African Mission wee held here yesterday, an,d proved, more interoting then there was reason to ex. pout. The printed report distributee in the audiencedenounced the Sultan of Zanzi- bar'., anti -slavery edict promulgated last August as a gigantio imposture. The feete etify the strength of this laueuage, but the funey foetus) of yesterdayn gathering wa,s that among the greatpeople on the plat. form 15714 COL Sir ChAtieS EVAU SMithl HOW British Minister to Morocco, but formerly British, Consul-Geeeral at Zanzibar' and the real author of the mucleabused edict. Pee- sumably he had, pot am the report, and when the paragraph denouraing his pet measure was read, his face wee A, moat tuteresting study. Ile drove neer fully to he calm, however, until hie Guru came to epeele and then he eases1 bis teenage to tho great discomfort of the goad Bishop/4 tOissitnAries, and ladies present. /Le suggested that missionaries would do well to keep within tbeir legitimate bowie and to steer clear of those delimit() questions weigh very often led to political complications, and deelared tittle the refers encee in the report to the auteslavery ediet were "eroesly unfair." Fortunetely for peace and zood will, 4 disereteu was caused by A stalwart twenty.yeer-old Central Afri- can, graudeon of Kimarri, the 15ghtiel.n of Untha, recently baptized as Peter „Linden Ile told the story of Ids conversiort with some eloqueuce and emelt goateed:dime and. brought the meeting te a frame of mind in which they could conecientiously sing the Doxology. The report of this missionary soelety de- anee3 the Portuguese as "poseessed of that martuess which precedes destruction, and acting on the principle of making things as unpleasant for everyone all rounn as they eau. The description, although savoring of uncharitableness' seems to be Justified by the • facte na relatedat numerous missionary meetings held in London this month. A feeling akin to dismay hes therefore been aroused, by tee announcement that the newly signed convention, has Itanded over to Portu- gal, quite unneccesarily, 50,000 additional square mikes of promising roiseionary terri- tory north of the River Zambesi, while further concussions will, it is belies -ed, seriously hamper and perhaps entirely block communications 'between Various portant missionary centres. The German press is discussing a pam- phlet, supposed to have been *mired by l'rince Besmarek, Assailing the Emperor s tendencies toward absolutism. The papers -argue that tee Ministers alone ought to be responsible and that the 'sovereign ought specially aavoid rhetorical declarations, as In the proportion -Mathis fallibility becomes obvious will respect for him suffer. A chapter on "The Kaiser His Own:Minister') blames Chancellor von Caprivi for not using his influence to prevent the Emperor's in- judicious public) utterances, compares Ger- many to a rudderless ships and accuses the Emperor of consulting private advisers bo - hind tee back of his Ministers. It urges the latter to res;gn rather than to carry out measures opposed to their convictions. The wide and free discussion, of the pamphlet marks the rapid progress of constitutional- ism. The Illimafle society. According to the last report of the Amer icon Humane Association there are 250 societies in the United States and Canada. Statistics of the work done by 50 of these show that 18,393 complaints of cruelty to children were made, 4,303 prosecutions in- stituted, and 4,117 convictions obtained ; whiie eelief was given to 20,250 children. There were also 19,139 complaints of cruelty to animals, 1,291 prosecutions, and 1,189 convictions; and 38,542 animals were re- lieved. If the 200 societies that failed to report did needy as well as these, the sum of the pain ana misery of helpless crea- tures iu this pert of the world bas been very greatly diminished, and the assoeiation is to be congratulated. On the cover of the re- port is the picture of a horse, with this bit of history :—" Nine years ago this horse was valued at over $200, and °because he ran • away, the owner; for revenge, shut him up in his barn and has never permitted him to leave his stall. Strangers were excluded from entering the barn.. Mr. D. G. White- head, agent of the Milwaukee Humane So- ciety, faired this once beautiful sorrel horse, with fine bony head, large hazel eyes, and* intelligence like a man, 'covered. with bed- sores, reduced to nothing but skin and bohea, and the hoofs grown loftg and rocket -shaped. When the animal WAS untied for the -first time in nine years he hobbled out into the ,sunshine to nibble the green grass, and showed his gratitude by a low whinny. The owner of this, cruelly treateii animal was only iihed $25 and costs." • - Last of the Herein& The announcement of the death of the last of the Borgias might be thought matter of historical interest, if the person last bear- ing that ill-ornened name had been other than whet he was. Even as it is, one finds it deserving of more than a passing mention. The line began with a Pope, and at the end of four hundred years ends el a street beggar in a small German town, near Salsburg, his wife a washerwoman, and both in the last stageSsof destitution, There is no bluel: er name on all the list of bad men int the ix pal chair than that of Rodrigo Boreal., who m 1492 became. Pope Alexander VI. Amcng detestable characters in history, there are few with so little to relieve the clerk record as that of bis natural son, Caner Borgia, a man guilty of almost every kind of base and cruel deed in the calendar of crime. The family name which has so long- been in history the synonym of basenesssand cruelty now clisappea,rs from the roll °Hiving human- Viseries qf 'Wealth. Mr. Pinclipenny—aa I worked. and slaved many a -rag yeas: Ter in money, anly to find •at bait that wealth d oes net bring hapent',aes." Mr Slimpurse-- Doesia- it? ' Mr, Pieclipenna--" No 1 can.'1; speea dollar without putting money aeto some one else's poeaet.