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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-8-25, Page 6DE COI3AIN HEARD FROM.. Disgraced by a Charge of Gross Indecency in London, 'Vet Saviors. Souls In New Vorle—Ennelled Front raelatiment—Ilees rases Exhorter Refuses to Face MS ACCUSeTS, But Dodo Ms Guilt. A New Yerk despatch says: Edward Samuel Wesley De Colrain, exmashier in the office of the Belfast Town Council and exemerriber of Parliament for one of the divisions of Belfast, is in this city, a fugitive from justice for a crime of the infamous Cleveland street character. Cobain first pushed himeelf into notice by his apparent religious fervor and his ability as a street preacher, and this ability and apparent fervor has enabled him to gain admission into religious civoles here. Through the Rev. Alexander McLean, of 335 East 17th street he has been introduoed to numbers of good people of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for some months he has prayed and preached at prayer meet- ings without his identity with the disgraced. M. P. being discovered. On Monday night he preached in a tent at Third avenue and 58th street, Brooklyn. Through the Orange Society De Cobain succeeded in getting into Belfast local poli- tics. Then he took to street preaching, and for years he preached every Sunday morning from the steps of the Belfast Cus- tom House. He gained the confidence of those in power and was given a place in the Town Council office. Later he was appointed cashier. Then he began to ride the high horse and there was no more important man about the Town Hall, now the City Hall, than Edward Samuel Wes- ley De Cobain. He loved to have his list of names in full applied to him on all occasions. Cobain accumlated money and gradually became so pompous that there were ructions in the Town Hall. One Sam Black, the Town Clerk, would not tolerate De Co- bain's uppishness, and the hall became too small for both. Sam Black triumphed and De Cobain found himself on the sidewalk SO far as local official life was concerned. But he had his revenge on his opponents. He still kept on with his prayer meetings on the Custom House steps, and aroused the Orange workmen in their lodges, and when, under a new franchise, Belfast be- came entitled to four representatives in Parliament, he was sent as a member, where he immediately became a laughing stock. He was despised by the Conserva- tives, to which party he belonged, and he spent as little time as possible in the House of Commons. After the riots in 1886 he appeared, a self -invited witness, before the Royal Commission. He denounced the con- stabulary for their conduct during the riots and proceeded to own the court until brought peremptorily to a halt by Judge Day, who ordered him out of the box. On his denunciation of the police he now seeks to base a conspiracy against him. The revolting charges now hanging over him were brought against him in 1891. From his friends in the Tory party he learned what was about to happen, with thd result that when the warrants for his arrest were issued he was beyond their reach. Although he had fled, he still re- fused to resign his seat in Parliament, and he also declined to come within reach of British law and face his accusers. The House of Commons early this year expelled him from membership. At that time he was in France, but since then until now nothing was heard from him. De Cobain still proclaims his innocence, declares that the whole thing is a polies conspiracy, and says that he is preparing papers to bring about a re -opening of his cam. The only way in which he can re -open it is by surrendering himself to the British authorities. The British Consul said yesterday that he did not believe that De Cobain's offence was specifically mentioned among the crimes for which offenders may be extra- dited. The Rev. Dr. McLean does not know where De Cobain lives. He could not be- lieve De Cobain guilty of the crimes laid to his charge. Neither could Mrs. John Smith of 49 West 47th street, to whose fam- ily he was introduced by the Rev. Dr. McLean. Dr. McLean thought yesterday that De Cobain was attending a camp meet - mg at Sing Sing. THIS WEEK'S METEORS. Luminous Visitors That Will Call on Fs from the Depths Space. Look aloft and you will see admirable sights these nights. Mars is in view all night. Then there are the planets Saturn and Jupiter and the first magnitude stars Arcturus Vega, Spica, Antares, Altair and, late in the night, Fomalhaut and Capella. In addition there are the regular August meteors. On the nights of the 9th, 10th, Ilth and 12th of August, and on those of the llth, 12th, 13th and 14th of November, more meteors may be seen than at any other time of the year. Meteors, explains a St. Louis Globe. Democrat writer, are supposed to be the remains of comets. At any rate, a regular stream of these minute bodies is, in every case where found, strung out in or very close to the orbit of a known comet. The August meteors' path coincides with that of the second comet of 1862. These meteors are found all along the trail of this comet, and form a regular continuous stream around the sun. This stream is elliptical, like the orbit of the comet, and the sun is in one focus of the orbit. The orbit of the earth intersects that of the meteors about the point which the earth reaches every year around Aug. 9th. As the earth dashes along its course it plunges into this meteor stream of that date. Locating, It. Mother—Your finger may hurt, dear ; but it isn't injured enough to put a rag on it. Harold—Well, put a rag on it, anyhow, so 1 will know which finger hurts. Lime Molly's Sarcasm. Dear Father—We are all and happy. The baby has grown ever so much, and has a great deal more sense than he used to have. Hoping the same of you I remain your daughter, Molly. It is said that in China the wife is very iseldom mentioned by her husband, but when he does mention her it is always M Orme roundabout way. He has some name that he calls her in his flowery language, that takes the place of the word "wife," One man calls his wife "my hand the clothes" ; another "my dull companion"; another "my thorn in the ribs"; nother describes tier as "the mean one of the inner rooms.' Where are fourteen hundred million dollen in gold in circulation throughout the world, and good authority aeserts that one million dollars of that is lost annually by wear. • Customer—I wish to buy a pet dog, can you give me a pointer ? Dealet—No, I'm out of pointers, but I've got most any other kind. The only safe craft in which to take a nervous woman out rowing is a canal boat, She oaa Wand up in that and yell without tipping it over. SLAVE TRADERS FIGHT. An Aral) Insurrection Which Threateno $erious Consequences, THEY ATTACK A FORT, A Brussels cable says : Despatches from Zanzibar bring news of a thrilling diame- ter. The Arab insurrection under Ron- malisa has spread from Tanganyika to Stan- ley Falls and what was merely a local demonstrAiou has developed into a general uprising of the Arabs of Central Afaicia against white domination. The Araba kiave grown desperate, owing to the evident de- termination of the whites to suppress the slave trade, by which the Aralss have ac- cumulated their wealth and eatablielted their power. They were greatly encouraged by the disaster to the British under Capt. Maguire last December, when Capt. Maguire and two other Englishmen lost their lives in a conflict with elave traders, and the Arabs were still more strength- ened in their hostile attitude by the snore recent successful attack on Fort Johnston. Full particulars show that an atts.elt on the fort Ives made by the natives under Arab leaders, and a seven -pounder gun was captured. It appears that Fort Johnston is very small, and is incon- veniently crowded. The garrison had been lulled into a false sense of security. Two of the white men, with sense of the sikhs and a seven -pounder gun, wore encaraped just outside the fort, when they were surprised during the night by a body of natives, who wounded the Europeans and succeeded in capturing the gun. Makanjila, Kasembe and other Arab chiefs, incensed by the stoppaue of their remunerative traffic in slaves, entered into communication with other .Arabs'telling them of their success against the British, and urging them to join in a general move- ment to drive the whites from Central Africa. From the advices received at Zanzibar it is feared that Raschid, the nephew and successor of Tippoo Tib at Stanley Falls, has joined in the insurrection movement and declared his hostility to the whites, with whom he has pretended to be on terms of friendship. It is also understood that Raschid has unfurled the standard of rebellion, and called upon his followers and other chiefs, both native ard Arab, to join against the white men and assist in re- storing Arab supremacy. A conflict has taken place, and it is known for a certainty that three whites and probably many more were killed, and that the Arabs under Rase chid are now in full control of the Congo at Stanley Falls. The followers of Raschid are armed for the most part with improved European rifles, and Rashid has for some time past been a large purchaser of ammu- nition, his eagerness in this respect haven ,mma Shrivel), you can tell him that you will aroused some suspiciois among the selutem give proof positive to him that William Harper, medical student of St. Thomas' Hospital, and What has become of the European real- son of Dr. Harpqr, of Bear street,. Barnstaple, dent who represents the authority of the ppisoniedonten:ygaosi with trryIruirns%rpvriocmesded. Congo Free State at Stanley Falls is not In° will give you proof when he comes to ourterms. known, but it is feared he has perished. I will write you again in a few days.—Yours The greatest anxiety is felt for the expedi- faithfully, W. D. MURRAY. tion underCapt. Jacques and Capt. These letters, the witness said, were all Jonbert which were sent out to suppress written at the same time. She wrote them at Berkhampetead. Neill was then staying at her mother's house there. He dictated what she was to write, but gave no THE LONDON POISONER, llama flabbatini and Lou Harvey Tell Interesting Stories, Tmow AWAY THE CAPSULES. The New York Son's special London cable says; Thomas Neill, alias Thomas Neill Creme, was brought up again to -day on the charge of having murdered Matilda Clover by Istawohnine poisoning. Miss Laura Sab- batini, a yeung woman showily dressed in black, with a pink hat, testified that she re- sided in Chapel street, Berkhampstead. In November, last year, she was in London and Neill was introduced to her as " Dr. Thomas Neill Cream." He said he was a doctor in America, but was doing nothing in this country. He saw her frequently after the introduction and shortly afterward proposed tmerriage to her, and she accepted him. The letter produced was the one in which he made his proposal. He went to America on January 6th, of this year, and said he was going to see about his father's estate. Before he went, on January 5th, he made a will in the witness' favor, in which he described himself "Dr. Neil Cream." The witness understood that he had left her all his property. The docu- anent produced was witnessed by her sister. When he went away he gave her his ad- dress, "Dr. Cream, care of Daniel Cream, quebec, Canada." He said he would be staying at Blanchard's Hotel while he was away. Neill came back at the beginning of April and she saw him immediately upon his return. He asked her to write several letters, the first of which was produced, and read as follows : LONDON, May 2, 1892. Coroner Wyatt, St. ThomasHospital, London: DEAR you please give the enclosed letter to the foreman ot the coroner's jury at the inquest on Alice Marsh and Emma Shri- ven, and oblige, yours respectfully, WILLIAM HENRY MURRAY. Mr. Gill then read the following letter, which the witness said was the first one she wrote to the foreman of the coroner's jury in the case of Alice Marsh and Emma Slarivell : DEAR SIR,—I beg to inform you that one of the operators has positive proof that Wiliam Harper, medical student at Si. Thomas' Hos- pital, son of Dr. Harper, Barnstaple, is respon- sible for the death of Alice Marsh. and Emma Shrivell, he having poisoned these girls with strychnine. This letter you can have on paying my bill for services to Judge Clark, 20 Cock- spur street. Charing Cross, to whom I will give proof on paying my bill. Yours respectively, W. 11. MURRAY. The third letter was dated London, May 4th. It was addressed to "George Clarke, Esq., Detective," and was as follows: DEAR SIR,—If Mr. Wyatt, coroner. calls on on in regard to the murder of AliceMarsh and the slave traders. It is said that the insur- gent Arabs have sworn to exterminate both of these expeditions as a lesson to the whites not to interfere with the traffic. It is known that at latest account a large 4I Louise Harris," said Mr. Gill, calling force of Arabs had gone in search of Jon- , the next witness, and there came from bert. 1 the back of the court a girl of 25, with The news from the seat of the insurrec- a gypsy.browned skin and a profusion of tion is of the most meagre kind, but it is dark hair smoothly gathered up under a hat sufficient to cause the gravest anxiety to be trimmed with scarlet flowers. She was felt for the anti -slavery expedition men- dressed in heavy finery, with a rough, blue tioned, and also for the Catholic and Pro- coat, trimmed with beaver. Louise Harris testant missions at Tanganyika", and the was none other than the Imo Harvey, who, Hodister commercial expedition to the Neill is said to have himself believed, had Lomami River, as well as for the Becurity been poisoned. She told an interest - of a number of Free State officials on the ring etory, illustrating how Neill upper Congo. Many Europeans at Zanzi- might have poisoned the other girls. bar are inclined to charge the Portuguese She said that in October last she with having stimulated the Arab rising, and was living at Townsend road, St. supplied arms and ammunition to the Arabs John's Wood, with a young man named in order to drive other European nations Charles Harvey. She was known by his Out of Central Africa. name as Imo Harvey. At the Alhambra one The Arabs in Zanzibar do not conceal night she was spoken to by a man. That their satisfaction with the news, as there is num she now recognized as the prisoner. deep irritation there on aecount of inter- That night she passed with him at the ference with the slave trade, whichinterfer- Paris Hotel in Berwick street. He told her ence has greatly injured business both at that he was a doctor at St. Thomas' Zanzibar and Pemba. The clove trade is in Hospital, that he had recently come from a most depressed condition, owing to the America and he asked her to go back with lack of slave labor, and many of the planters him to America. see nothing but ruin confronting them. In, s. In the morning before he left you,"said this condition of affairs the uprising of the Mr. Gill, "did he say anything about some slave trading Arabs has the earnest spots on your forehead?" sympathy of the slave -owning Arabs, and it 1 " Yes ; and he said I wanted some mech. is believed that the insurrection has ' eine. He made an appointment to see me ramifications extending. from Zanzibar to Angola, A Boy's Essay on Cats. Cats have four legs and nine lives. Why they are five legs short I do not kno at this time. I guess I cast find out tho when I die. I thinks cats wood be a gould deel funnyer if they had nine legs and five lives, don't you? Cats have tales whitch they rap round. theme feat when they set down se as to hold them together. I kno a bob-taled cat is ashamed to set down in public a tall. I guess it is afrade its feet will skatter. There are Tom cats and Puss cat, whitch the Tom cat is more massive and him a more sounding voise, in the midnight darkly when all elts is still. Cats cry like babies sometime, but you can loot give them parrygorick to muiet there nervus sistems like you cart babies. We have a baby at one house that I guess has drinked about four quarts of parrygorick and every nite it cries Oust the saim for more. I gess that baby rouet have the parrygorick habbit. Young eats are very frisky and they will play all day because they don't have no sleool to go to. I gess I would like to be a young eat till I was growed up to be a man. ate eat milk and mice regular and the canary for deenra Cats are very clean animals, but 1 never thought it was very clean to spit on theme hands and wash their faces in the manner in which they do. I gess 1 have wrote all I know about cats. P. S.—Cats has lectrisity in their ba,clui and they can blo up their tales as big as a fli brush when they are frosints,—Detroit Free Press. Girls in Business.. Tne Newark Advertiser it curious to know why girls, who spend their time sigh- ing for a career, do not learn their father's business. A man died in ilia city a few years ago, it declares, leaving a reanufrictear- ing business that paid $6,000 a year, bat not one of his large family of daughters was able to conduct it, and therefore it passed to strangers, while the family went into comparative poverty. When a real eatate man died in Jersey City not long agr), Nip daughter announced her sntentien of carry- ing on the business ; she had assisted her invalid father in his office and had -become so familiar with the businesstliat else is new conducting it successfully. Mamma—Why Leib, Maud, that in yotar letters to Miss Tattler you write only on one tido of the paper ? 3Matid—I thought that was always the rule when a letter was for publication. A tight fit—the delirium tremens. The hay fever crop is monidly ripening. en the embankment, near Charing Cross station at 7.30 o'clock the same evening." "Did he say anything about medicine ?" " He said he would bring me some. He gave me £3 before he left. "Did you see Charles Harvey that day, the man you were living with ?" "Yes, sir, and I told him what I have told you now. When he spoke of giving me medicine he frightened me and I asked Harvey to go with me to the embankment that night. He went with me'but I left him and met Neill. He said he had brought my pills and he had got them made up in the Westminster Bridge road. 1 asked him whether I should take the pills then or later with wine, and he said not until I had the wine. We went to a public house, the Northumberland, and I saw Harvey watch- ing us. A worna,n came in with some roses and I said I would like some. Neill said : "Certainly, you shall have your wish," and he bought some and gave them to me. He then walked back with me toward the em- bankment ; said he could not go to the music hall that night, as he had to be at St. Thomas' Hospital at 9 o'clock, and he would be kept there until 10.30. He would meet me outside the Oxford at 11, he said, and would take me to the same hotel as we went to the night before." " On the embankment did he give you some figs ?" "Yes, in a bag, and said I was to eat them when I had taken the pills. He gave me then two long pills, and said: *Don't bite them ; swallow them as they are.'" " Were you afraid to take them ?" asked Mr. Gill. "Yea," she explained, "1 threw them away." It was in the lonely, half-darlmess of the embankment that this scene took place. The man gave her the two "long pills" in her right hand. As she took them she put her hand behind her and passed them into her left. Then she put her right hand into her mouth and pretended to •swallow them, while she threw the capsules away with her left hand. He, it seems, was anxious to be quite certain that she had swallowed the capsules, for he made her show her hands. She showed him her right hand as she brought it safely away from her mouth, and then, when she had dropped the things, she showed him her empty left. Something had put it into the girl's head to be afraid of those two long pine. Loo Harveyidentified the long pills which she received as being similar to the capsules found in Neill's possession when he mit arrested. The man, she added, went away when he thought she had swallowed the desM The prisoner was again rex:handed. ASTRONOMICAL POINTERS. Prof. Young's Lucid View of the Xagni- tude of the Bun, OPP...*•••••••• The Inclined Axes el the Flanets—Terrille Speed of Stars—The Curbing of a aTota- Me Racer—Planets' Defiance of AM the Rules of Eugine.Driving—Tast Distance Between the Sun and the NeareSt Star— Interesting Scientific Notes. A SCIENTIFIC, VIEW ON THD SUN. The sun is 1,260,000 times larger than the earth, though it is not a large star, com- pared with others, for Sirius is equal in bulk to 5,000 of our suns. The solar system travels at the rate of 154,185,000 miles the year around the Pleiades. The sun's aver- age distance from the earth is 91,430,000 miles; the rotation on its axis occupies about 25,38 dap. Most persons are now aware that this great globe is not a solid body like our earth. It is a groat chemical laboratory, generating and sending forth that light, and heat, and chemical force, on which all life, animal and vegetable, depends. Thus, under the analyzing scrutiny of modern science it is found to be neither solid nor fluid, but a vast globe of glowing gas, 865,- 000 miles in diameter. The sizes of which scientists speak are in each instance capable of actual measurement by the refined in- struments that are now constructed. Now this statement as to the size of the sun - 865,000 miles across—produces but a very indefinite impression on the mind. Prof. Young, an eminent astronomer, presents it olearly in something like the following : In order that the sun's diameter may be more easily realized, imagine the sun to be a hollow sphere, and the earth to be placed in the centre. This would reduce the dis- tance to about 432,000 miles. The interior of this shell would of course appear like a sky to the inhabitant of the earth. It should next be remembered that the moon is revolving round the earth at a distance of 240,000 miles. It will appear, then, that there is room not only for the moon'a orbit within the hollow sun but also for another moon 190,000 miles beyond her ! What a ponderous globs of glowing gas! Not much wonder, when its vertical rays shine on the earth in summer—for the sun is more re- mote from the earth in summer than in winter, when it shines on the earth more obliquely—that it causes the inhabitants of Canada to swelter in 90' and more. THE CAUSE OF THE SEASONS. The season are due to the fact that the earth, on her path around the sun, turns on an inclined axis. If her axis were upright there would be no seasons. On the other hand, if its inclination were greater than it is, there would be a more violent and ex- treme difference than now exists between summer and winter. It is found that the axis of Venus is much more inclined than that of the earth, consequently, the seasonal extremes must be very great. Such extremes of heat that must exist when the sun shines on her dense atmosphere, and such an intense cold as must prevail on those parts that are hidden from the sun, can scarcely be imagined. These and other considsra- tions which have been amply weighed by the most recent astronomers have led to the conclusion that at present no reasonable ground exists for the supposition that Venus Is an inhabited globe. STELLAR MOVEMENTS. The first step towards the unravelment of the tangled web of stellar movements was taken when Sir John Herschel established the reality, and indicated the direction of the sun's journey through space. The sun and his retinue of planets are advancing to- wards a point, situated in the constellation of Hercules, with such velocity that in one year a distance of 154 millions of miles is traversed, the rate being about four miles per second. But this speed is small when compared with that of a number of stars now under constant spectroscopic observa- tion for motion in the line of sight. These speeds are found to be varying, either to or from our system'from two to seventy miles per second ! But the motion of stars across the line of sight is also being determined. A star, numbered 1,830 in Groombridge's catalogue is found to be rushing through space at the terrific rate of 200 miles per second A DISTINGUISHED RACER. It was during the time when Sir Isaac Newton was brooding over his grand theory of universal gravitation, and embodying the same in his immortal "Principia," that the great comet of 1680 made its appearance. Here was an opportunity, for testing New- ton's theory by one of the most extreme cases that could possibly occur. The com- paratively steady and uniform motions of the planetary bodies were with little difficulty brought within the control of this wondrous law, which Newton had pro- claimed to be universal. But here was a stranger, dashing in upon us, from a region outside the supposed limits of our system, scorning to travel by any known pathway, cutting across all orthodox and establishd orbits, rushing like some wildphantom that had broken loose out of the abyss of space close up to our central sun, steering short round in a sharp and violent curve, with a speed of one million two hundred thousand miles an hour at the turning point, and then going off, not recklessly at a tangent, cm if uncontrolled by law, but in a path exactly similar to that of its arrival, show- ing for the first time to the watchful astronomer, who had now found a key to the hitherto sealed -up mystery, that even this lightning -winged traveller was being guided and curbed by a definite check- rein never before suspected. This was an illustration of the universal application of Newton's theory. THE OBLONG PATH 01' THE PLANETS. It is interesting to know that the ellipse is the figure which the earth and all the other bodies which revolve around the sun are over compelled to follow. The engine driver of a railway train always has to slacken speed when he is going round a sharp curve. If he did not do so his train would be very likely to run off the line. The engine -driver is well aware that the conditions of pace are dependent on the curvature of his line. The planet finds that it, too, must pay attention to the curves ; but the extraordinary point is that the planet sometimes acts exactly in the opposite way to the engine -driver. The planet puts on its highest pace at one of the most critical curves in the whole journey. There are two specially sharp curves in the planet's path. These aro the two extremities of the ellipee which it follows. The cautious engine -driver would creep around these With equal care, and no doubt the planet gots slowlyenough about that end of the i ellipse which s farthest from the tun. There its pace is slower than anywhere else ; but from that moment onwards the planet steadily applies itself to getting up more and more speed. As it traverses the comparatively straight portion of the celes- tial road the pate is ever aocelerating until the sharp curve near the sun ii being ap, preached ; then the velocity gets more and more alarming, until at last, in atter de- fiance of all rules of engine•driving, the planet rushes round one of the worst parts of the orbit at the highest pea:able speed, "PHE ABYSSES BETWEEN THE STARS There is probably no fact in astronomy more puzzling to the ordinary mind than the vast distances which exist between our sun and the nearest star, and between ono star and its neighbor. To express these dis- tances in miles is utterly futile, as no mind can grasp the long line of numbers whioh such a method involves. A new unit of distance has consequently boon adopted -- that of speed measured by time, Now the swiftest melesureable speed is that at which light travels -185,000 miles a second. This would amount to about six billions of miles a year. • The light journey of one year, therefore, is the measure to be adopted. Applying this measure to the nearestfixed star —Centauri—it will take four years and four months to span the abyss which separates us from this sun. And yet Centauri is some ten billions of miles nearer to as than any other member of the sidereal system ! Is there any physical necessity for these vast abysses of untenanted space? Yes. Every star is a great magnet, attracting and being attracted by its nearest neighbor. If our man can hold in check his farthest planet, Neptune, as it spins around its orbit, at a distance of 2,800 millions of miles, how great would be the mutual attraction of our sun and another sun of equal size, at even that distance ! Here, then, is a partial explanation of the necessity for such vast star separations. But why do they not rush towards each other under the potent influence of such attractions, even though such immense distances intervene? Be- cause of the centrifugal forces which carry them along at the rate at Which they are now travelling. NOTES. Sodium is a yellowish -white metallic sub- stance, soft like wax and lighter than water. When ignited it produces a yellow- ish light. It is a metal so soft that you cut it with a knife'and so light that it will float on water, while it tactually takes fire the moment it isnlropped on water. Common salt is sodium united with a poisonous gas, a few respirations of which would be fatal. But this metal and this noxious gas, when united, become the salt so requisite in the preparation of food. Light travels 185,000 miles per second. Taking this as a gauge, the time required for the iourney or light from the nearest of the stars to the earth is over three years. SHOOTING STARS AND METEORS. If you November stars would see,: From 12th to lith watching be; In August, too, stars shine through heaven, On nights between 9 and 11. Pierce a pin-hole in a card, and through it you can look at the sun without incon- venience. Explorers have never been able, so far, to get within less than 400 miles of the North Pole; The whole course and tendency of nature, so far as science now makes out, points backward to a beginning and forward to an end: The present order of things seems to be bounded, both in the past and in the future, by terminal catastrophes, which are veiled in clouds as yet impenetrable.— Prof. Young. The solar planetary system has a radius of 3,000 millions of miles. The nearest " fixed " star is 7,000 times farther away than Neptune, wbich is 2,800 millions of miles from the sun. The diameter of Nep- tune is 36,000 miles, and it takes about 165 of our years to perform one revolution around the sun. Sir John Herschel, after he had studied the heavens from both hemispheres, and penetrated star -depths before unfathomed, said : " We find that the last and greatest discoveries only land us on the confines of a wider and more wonderfully diversified view of the universe, and have now, as we always shall have, to acknowledge ourselves baffled and bowed down bythe infinitewhich surrounds us on- every side." The sunumer Girl crop. Visitors to the Thousand Islands always note the fact that a large majority of the guests at the hotels seem to be young women. A writer in the Syracuse Standard discourses as follows on this subject : "Girls predominate at the Thousand Islands, and this fact is very striking to every tourist who sails from Clayton to Alexandria Bay. This is especially so at Thousand Island Park, for at that delight- ful resort last night there were more than a thousand persons in the vicinity of the dock, and hardly one hundred men could be found in the crowd. They were not all summer girls, however, for the true summer girl never goes out in a skiff and does the rowing herself. If she cannot get a summer young man to go and propel the boat she does not go at all. There are some young ladies at the park who seem to take delight in boat- ing and sailing, and one Syracuse young lady handles a sailing skiff with all the ability of an old salt.'" Actresses' Marriages. Many actresses, says a society paragraph- ist, have of late years married into aris- tocratic families. Miss Dolly Tester, who sang in the chorus, married the Marquis of Ailesbury '• Lord Euston allied himself to Miss Kate Cooke ; Miss Nellie Learner mar- ried the Hon. Hubert Dunscombe ; French lady, well known on the London stage, Mrss C. Dubois, married the Hon. Wynd- ham Stanhope ; and Mies Lillie Ernest be- came the Lady Mansel. It seems only yesterday since Miss Belle Bilton's name was regularly in the music -hall bills ; she is now, of course, Countess Clancarty. Boston Brown Bread. Sift together one and one-half cups of rye ,xneal (not flour) and one and one-half cups of Indian meal. Mix with the sifted meal one small cup of molasses, a teaspoonful of salt and an even teaspoonful of saleratus. Stir with hot water into a smooth batter. Pour it into a buttered tin boiler, cover tightly and steam three hours in an iron kettle. Be sure the water is boiling in the kettle before the tin boiler is set into it. When done, uncover the boiler and set it in the oven fifteeu minutes. Long•Tougued Brother Bob. "How does your father seem to regard my coming here ?" anximisly asked Adol- phus of little Bobby while Miss Maud was upstairs getting ready to present herself. He don't care nothin' about it," replied Bobby, carelessly. "So he has no objection, eh ? But what did he say my little man ?" "He said if Maud had a mind to make a fool of herself, why let her." A Far Sighted Employer, Office Boy—Can you let me off this after- noon My grandmother is dead. Ifecid of Firm—Not very well ; but you can run out two or three times and look at the score. — Puck. The average residue of ashes left after the cremation of the human body amounts to only 8 oz. A inan down in Georgia has built a num ber of houses which are occupied by widows ree of rent. Ethel Norton, an Englieh worn:1m has bought from Rudyard Kiiling the right to sing his poems as ballads in Lond n MBA° halls. THE BASRA'S How the Governor or Mee Ate Humble Fier Fed Him by the British Minister. A correspondent furnishee an account of' the humiliation of the Governor of Fez wile is charged with stirring up the city against the Minister. No one more enjoyed the humiliation of their 'Basile in the garden of the British Mission on July 6th than did the inhabitants of Fez, who throned the court -yard in great numbers to eee the avaracioua and rapacious Governor humia bated. The Basile appeared about 7 in the morning, as a suppliant on foot ancl unat, tended by any of his usual suite. He sat down in the garden of the 1Vlisson on the ground under a pomegranate tree for three hours in the broiling sun and awaited the Minister's pleasure. One by one the elavem brought up from his palace mules laden with the heavy bags of silver pardon money, to be distributed to the poor of Fez, as Sir, Charles ordered, to the poor whom Bushtaa had so often robbed and outraged during. his years of office. As each bag of his ill- gotten gains was thrown out and rang on the beautiful tiled flooring of the courtyard,1 the Basha heaved a heavy sigh. At 10" o'clock in the morning Sir Charles came out on the terrace and motioned to the Bashre that he might approach. This he did, and as he approach e ci the Minister he endeavored to shake him by the hand. Sir Charles in- dignantly waved him back and then read him a lecture such as it has never been my pleasure heretofore to hear, even in our good old Anglo-Saxon tongue. As misdeed after misdeed was dragged out from the capacious closets of the British Minister's memory, the Basha's form drooped and bent forward until, at the conclusion of the lecture he sank forward to the ground. His Point of View. Women havdthe reputation of never doing things by halves. If any man has an idea they do, let him join one of the fair sex on a shopping tour and his mind will be at rest forever on the subject. The woman on shopping bent dons her street apparel immediately after her break- fast, "50 as to avoid the rush," and salliee forth. She generally wants some trifling thing which might be bought at some of the smaller shops uptown. But no, she prefers to go downtown for her goods. She reeks not how het and crowded the " L " cars are, for ,the joys of shopping are ahead of her. She has no list of what she needs—or, rather, what she wants—for, mark you, there is a vast difference between her wants and needs. It is a popular belief that man born of woman is of few days awl full of—muscle, but for unlimited muscle and unbridled energy your shopping woman is vastly any man's superior. The man who attends the fair shopper generally does so in a half apologetic man. nen probably for fear some woman may think he is shopping on his own account. Arrived at their destination, hie energetic companion rushes madly ahead, now pans- ing to look at some filmy handkerchiefs—. "were 39, now 19 "—then rattling over a bushel of scissors piled on a counter, while he—superior being—stalks slowly behind, scarcely noting anything. The shopper finally fetches up at some farmway counter, and as the clerk steps up to attend the man companion seats himself on one of those abominable perforated stools common to shops frequented by women. "Thanks, no," he answers the inquiring clerk, and his significant glance at his shop- ping friend satisfies that individual. He's not shopping. But meanwhile the woman is. She shops all around that stool for three- quarters of an hour, ancl the man gets tired and swings on his perch. Occasionally there is a smile on the woman's face BB she glances at her waiting escort. He smiles back in it• sickly way. Now she finishes and starts away, andjoy springs up in the waiting man's heart—ad a swear -word in his mouth, for one of . the brass tacks in the stool on which he sat has - snagged his coat tail. He is mad, but the dear little woman. is so happy with her bargains that he - mutters only under his breath and is glad to be once more out in the fresh .air and, sunlight. The amount of the woman's purchases is - twenty -four cents, ancl the time consumed over two hours, but that is the way women. shop. Perhaps it is becanse they do not " carry' the purse " and like to prolong the joy of spending money—like a child with a few. sweets. • 12 7::.1C23 Nevertheless, they never do it by halveun —N. Y. 1?ecorder. The Fashionable Ball. A late caprice of society is to open the fashionable ball with a minuet, danced by a,. party of ladies and gentlemen clad in fancy, costumes of Louis XV. period. The toileta • of the ladies ate picturesque in the extreme. Pale blue skirts are edged with a garland of roses, and quaint, old-time tacques with full pink sleeves are worn. The polished floors resound with the fascinating click of high -heeled, blue kid slippers, and pointed i fans of flowers are great helps to the fair coquettes. Jewels sparkle in powdered locks, and wee black crescents of court , plaster call attention to a bewitching dim- ple, full, red lips, or a pair of bright eye& . The gentlemen wear white satin embroid— ered waistcoats, and carry a rapier and three -cornered hat. This dancing the: minuet in costume is an exceedingly pretty fancy, and is enjoyed alike by the partici., pants and the onlookers. liousccieaning Uses up a man. The man of the house took to the sofa in the sitting -room with a newspaper directly' after brekfctst, while his wife went on with the housecleaning. She carried past him, in turn, seven chairs, three tables, a desk, four footstools, all of the pictures, a piano -stool, a bookcase and, the rest of the furniture. Then she lugged in a pair of steps and a big pail of water and began to clean. "Maria, do you want my assistance ?" he asked, rising and folding his newspaper. " Not just yet, dear, said Maria. "Well, then, I think I'll leave you," said, he, and he started for the office. On the way down he told three men thal. if there was anything that wore him to the skin and bone it was that confounded. housecleaning. Said he : "We are in the, midst of it now, arid I tell you I'M about used up." Ethel—I am almost sure that the market, reporter boards here. Helen—Why do you, think so? Ethel—Why, the very brat. thing in the report is " butter growing stronger." Count Caprivi tips the melee at two hun- dred and sixteen pounds, so that he is about as heavy as was Prince Bismarck after taking the Schweninger cure. The physi- csd resemblance between the two men is remarkable. The Archbishop of Canterbury imian thusiastie horeeback rider. He takes dila exercise to Offset a tendency to corpulency, and wears his ecclesiastical attire when so engaged.