HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-9-15, Page 2MR GLADSTONE'S PERIL,
ge WAS Teampled Upon and Gore d by a
infttriatad Cow.
RE HAD A VERY N,Anow ESCAPE
A London mile gives the following par-
tculare of the accident to Mr. Gladstone
While walking ii Hawarden Park yester-
day afternoon M. Gladstone was thrown
down and trampled upon by stray cow.
Be was severely shaken up, but was not
eeriously injured. The cow was
bought by Paul Jones, one of
Mr. Gladstone's tenants, on Thursday
at the Cheater Fain She is a heavy, power"
ful animal, and previous to the fair had
Awaked no restraint. She became ugly
when tied in the barn, and between Satur-
day and yesterday broke three halters.
Yesterday noon she again broke loose, ran
through the open door and entered the
woode around Hawarden Castle, Mr.
Jones'•inen, after a short pursuit gave up
the chase, although they had been warned
that the cow was dangerous.
No notice was given the people in the i
castle that the cow was loose n the woods,
and in the afternoon Mr. Gladstone after a
drive with Mrs. Gladstone, alighted in the
park, as is his custom, to walk the rest of
the way home. Th.e carriage had hardly
disappeared when the cow cashed through
the bushes directly in front of Mr. Glad-
stone. He stood still. As soon as the cow
saw him, she charged furiously. Mr. Glad-
• atone tried to dodge behind a tree, but the
cow was upon him in a moment She
knooked hina down, trampledhim and tried
to gore him, but as her horns turn back she
was unable to pierce him with them.
Mr. Gladstone regained hes presence of
mind after the first shock and lay perfectly
•still until the cow paused for a moment,
when he slid from under her, jumped and
ran. The cow pursued him, but he managed
to keep the tree between him and her until
she wearied of the chase. She scampered off,
and Mr. Gladstone walked home. He was
nervous and somewhat bedraggled, but
otherwise apparently. unharmed. He drove
In the park toward. evening. To -day he
attended church, and but for a noticeable
paleness seemed to have recovered com-
pletely.
The news of Mr. Gladstone's encounter
had hardly got abroad when it was learned
that in the evening a guest of the castle,
while out walking, had been attacked by
the same cow, and had been seriously
injured. This morning a hunt for the cow
was organized, and she was shot dead by
Tom Bailey, a young man of local celebrity.
MICILLEL IS LONELY.
The Prince of the Flying Roll Wants to
Marry Again.
A Deereit despatch says: This morning
when Mrs. Michael K. Mills, divorced wife
•of "Prince Micshael," of Flying Roll fame,
received an invitation to attend the wedding
of Prince Michael and his spiritual affinity,
Eliza Courts, in the Jackson State Prison at
11 o'clock to -morrow morning, she nearly
swooned with astonishment and indigna-
tion. Then she hastened to lay the matter
before her legal adviser. The latter assured
her that such a marriage would be illegal.
Mrs. Mills, who obtained the divorce, can
=spy again as soon as she likes, but with
Prince Mike it is different. He cannot
marry within a certain time, even if the
Jackson authorities give their permission.
The ex-wife of the Prince will go to Ann
Arbor and take legal eteps to prevent the
Mille -Courts nuptials. A despatoh from
Jackson, Mich., states that Brother Bethel,
of the Flying Roll colony of Detroit, ap-
peared at the prison there this morning and
made a request that Prince Mike be granted
permission to marry Eliza Courts. Warden
Davis being absent he did not receive a de-
cisive answer. The request is an unpre-
cedented one, and it undoubtedly will be
refused.
ANOTHER MEW HORROR.
Terrible Loss of Life Caused by an Explo.
sion of Fire Damp.
A Brussels cable says: A terrific explosion
of fire damp took place tonlayin the Agraffe
coal mine in Hainaut. Many miners were
entombed. Rescuing parties recovered the
bodies of ten men. Thirty men are yet in
the mine. The explosion was due to the
sudden escape of gas in a gallery of that
mine 1,900 feet below the surface. Terrible
scenes were witnessed at the mouth of the
pIb after the explosion had happened, and
the grief of the bereaved women and children
who flocked to the scene on the first intima-
tion of the calamity was truly heartrending.
This makes the fourth disaster that has
taken place in the same pit since 1848, and
the total number of names on the mine's
death roll is now 500.
Nearly all the men who were at work in
the Agraffe mine at the time of the disaster
ve been accounted for. Some escaped
wthijured. Twenty-five bodies have been
reco red, and eight men alive, though very
seriouely injured, have been taken from the
mine by the .1,3souing parties.
Young Men Good Enough for the Pulpit.
Englishmen manifestly believe that age
and experience count for something in pub-
lic affairs. The majority of the members of
the new Government are well advanced in
• years. •Mr. Gladstone is 83, Mr. Mundell&
is 67, Lord Kimberly 66, the Marquis of
Ripon 65, Sir William Harcourt the same
age'Mr. Fowler 62, Lord Spencer 57 and
Sir Charles Russell 59. Even in Canada and
the United States experience counts for a
good deaf when money is at stake. It is
only when matters perMining to their souls
are at stake that people,even on this side of
the Atlantic, want a very young man. —
Canada Presbyterian.
A Novel Window Cleaner.
A new window cleaner has been suggested
as an improvement to the old-fashioned
strip of rubber, fastened on a band of wood
or metal. The great trouble experienced
with these bands seems to be the difficulty
of applying water. • The new suggestion is
to attach a rubber ball for holding water to
the handle of the window cleaner, by means
of which the windows may be vigorously
sprayed. Such an arrangement as thie
would certainly save trouble, though the
average house servant prefers a chamois to
any rubber window cleaner.
Relationship Established
Young Mr. Hilow to Mr. Soadds—Did
you know that I am to be a son of yours,
eir ?
Bead& (with a enort o diesatiefaetion)--
Ilaud hasn't accepted you, has she?
Hilow—No, ehe has promised to be a sit-
ter to me, thmigh,
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Coming ut ahead �f the other geeste—
tratinio—ls his your Umbrella? Wad-Sleigh—
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TUE lf,Ointnelleill'ENANT OF IIKELANIP,
one A,CCOlilit o /Artillleillilitelles CaPaeifY
For Malting tOt )(deal Viceroy.
A London cable says The most remark-
able thing about the appointment of Teend
Hougton to be the Lorcl-Lieutensust of Ire-
land, by Mn Gladstoma, was the moodi-
ness of the press to tell anything particu-
larly intereeting about him. 'rite daily
papers had only a few words about him,
the most retnarkeble of those being in the
Daily News, which. ventured to asaume that
with john Morley as the Leah ea:intern
Lord Houghton's position would be a some-
what ornamental one. The first portrait to
appear of him is that in the .Daily Graphic,
which places him eomevvhat indistinctly in
the background, between Morley and Earl
Spencer, The Speaker says of him: "For
some years past it has been clear to the
initiated that Lord Houghton wes destined
to take a great place in the public
life of this country, if his health
permitted. Two terrible bereavements fail-
ing in quick succession upon him—the
loss of his wife and his only son—followed
by a serious illness, drove him for a time
from social life. Ate employed his enforced
leisure in producing a volume of poem
worthy in their grace, humor and refinement
of his father's son, and showing signs of a
deeper insight into human nature than the
world credited Monokton Mines with pa-
sessing.
But he was by no means idle even in those
times in politioel life. He had represented
the Board of Trade in the House of Lords
during the 1886 administration—hie devo-
tion to Home Rule and Liberalism gener-
ally being ardent and above sumiction. In
the last Parliament he did admirable work
upon the Railway Rate Committee and
other similar bodies. In Yorkshire he is
as popular as his father was before bun,
which is saying much. Theugh he has
spoken little in Parliament, he can speak
with distinct power, and even elo-
quence. Though a poet and a man of let-
ters, inheriting all his father's love for the
best literature, he is at the mane time an
admirable man of business and cap.able of
sustained and severe work. His Interest
in politics is real, and dates from his
youth, and few men have studied more
closely that great problem of Ireland with
which he is about to deal.
In mental power he will rank with the
beat of the younger men in the House of
Commons, while in gram and manner and
bearing he is more than equal to the task
of sustaining the more courtly traditions
of the office he is about to fill. Lord
Houghton only requires to be known by
the outer publio as be is already known to
those acquainted with the inner circle of
politics and society in order to be regarded
as an ideal Lord-Lieutenant—not by any
means a lay figure, but a loyal and capable
coadjutor with Mr. Morley in a task of the
gravest responsibility and delicaoy.
Summer's Nearly Over.
When the time of the golden rod is come,
of the harvest days and the reaper's hum,
of the dragon -fly with the gauzy wings,
and the tail suggesting two-inch stings ;
when the -wind with a new impatience
blows the scattered petals of the rose;
when the robins that nested in the spring
to a summer clime are taking wing; when
a solemn hush the woodland Ells, and the
evenings taste of " ager chills"; when the
tasseled corn in the bending rows gives
"spooky" rustlings when it blows • when
the whip -poi -will brings out his flute, and
the cricket, dressed in his blackest snit,
conies out in the starlight, soft and still,
and pipes on his .piccolo, sharp and shrill;
when the katydid, in the maples hid, says
she did, and she didn't and didn't and did;
when the scolding squirrel the boys can see
taking the spoil of the chestnut tree • when
echo sweet, from the haunts of birch% per-
sistently cans your partingwords; when
the thistle down, like the spirit fair of the
summer, floats on the sunlit air; when,
against your will, your thoughts will stray
to the noisy city so far away ; when, drip-
ping down from the soaking eaves, the rain
drops fall on the drifting leaves; when
you say "The weather is growing cool,"
and the children wail "Oh, that horrid
school 1" when, whistling softly, without a
sound, the smiling landlord hangs around;
when the porter waits for a parting rush to
give you one more farewell brush; when
the waiter lingers near your chair with a
mild " Then you'll remember" air; when
the good man bends with an anxious look
to peer in the hollow pocketbook • when he
turns his pockets inside out and rubs his
chin with an air of doubt; when he stares
at the bill with a wistful eye, and draws a
cheek and a long deep sigh—on the moun-
tain high, by the blue sea's foam, are the
signs that the family's coming home. —
.Robert Burdette in the Ladies' Home Jowriial.
Now to Rub.
People who rub their arms or legs for
rheumatism should remember that the secret
of the benefit derived from massage is that
the operators always rub up, that is, in the
direction of the heart. The reason is found
In the fact that the valves of the veins and
capillaries all open toward the heart, and
by rubbing in that direction the action of
these vessels is assisted, the vessels them-
selves enlarged and circulation is more fully
promoted. Rubbing down, that is away
from the heart, does harm, for it clogs the
veine and capillaries by impeding the cir-
culation, without in the least assisting the
action of the arteries, which lie too deep
to be affected by external friction, even
if it could do them any good. —Globe -
Democrat.
what To Do With Cucumbers.
Select large cucumbers, slice them length-
wise and dip and fry like egg -plant. Then
out off one end, take out the seeds and fill
it with a dressing of bread -crumbs, anions,
etc., and a little chopped meat. Replace
the cover and bake like stuffed tenement'.
Another way is to slice, after peeling as for
the table, and put in salt water for a few
daye, then take out and drain, put a layer
in a pickle jar, sprikle with chopped onion,
mustard seeds, whole pepper come and
chopped celery leaves or celery seed; then
a few drops of celery oil, teen a layer of
cucumbers, etc., until the jar is filled,
shakinee clown each laver to :hake compact.
Fill the jars with Cold vinegar and seal
Thia makes an excellent pickle.
The Morning' Dana.
The tepid or warm morning bath is &
great improvement over the cold water
bath, but evon these are not to be com
mended. Whoever would enjey the beat
of health should take his bath two, three
or form time a week and retire to bed for a
rest, thereby allowing Nature to locate the
best equilibrium of her forces and promote
the beet ocniditions of health. But no bath
ehmild be taken while the patient is weary
from labor or excitement. Rest is then in-
dicated. The bath shoeld never be talent
on a full stoma& nor immediately before a
meal, as further power it needed for other
purposes tinder ilea eiromestances.
Todgera-oThe gossips all aay that Winkleis
Wife is malting it Warm for hiss iatety.
Tirripsone-Re Ought to have known better
than to merry a sittainer girl.,
Perhaps the Most happily named. men
inRagland la Mr. Tbankful joyo.rte Rani*
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shire crkkoten.
AMONG THE DUTCH,
A Canadian's Visit to Antwerp
and Amsterdam.
FILTH OF THE JEWISH QUARTER.
The Nobility With Their Wealth
and Jewels.
1100P BRIRTS STILL FASHION.
The following letter from Amsterdam is
written by a former pupil of Hamilton Col-
legiate Institute. it will be particularly
interesting now as showing what a chance
the cholera has to take hold and do its
work in some of the European either:
Amman -km, Aug. 21, 1892.—Little did I
think when as a youngster I used to Sing
off at school "Holland, capital Amsterdam,
on the Zuyder Zee," that Ella Gardiner
would ever see the said Amsterdam. Yet
here I ani, comfortably settled in a very
nice hotel, before an open window, looking
out on one of the many graohten or canals.
I do like the Dutch. They are BO clean
and so hind, and the mealy peculiar caps
and metal head-dresses worn by the women
and girls keep our eyes constantly on the
alert that vre may not miss any of the dis-
tinctive coatumes of the various provinces
and islands. I am becoming quite familiar
with the Vari01111 COBtlIMOS, and can tell at
once whether a woman is a North Hol-
lander, a Zealander, a South Hollander, a
Schweningener, etc., etc. But the Dutch
words beat me. I cannot bring out the
gutturals that to them seem so easy.
Between Eng;liah and German I can manage
to make out a good deal that they say, and
can pronounce the namesof their streets,
nnumums, palaces, etc., so that I can inquire
and find out my way, but their " sch's "
are too much for me. We called yesterday
at a tourist office to have our tickets
extended, and this morning before break-
fast were pleasantly surprised to find that
one of the young men from the office had
come around to tell us he would be here
at a quarter to ten with a carriage to take
us through
THE JEWLSH QVARTHRS.
The drive was moat interesting, but I
never dreamed that so many people could bo
huddled into such close quarters. The
streets were not much wider than lanes and,
as we rode along, there did not seem to be a
break anywhere 'where wecouldgetthrough.
The driver kept constantly shouting to the
people to make way, but I don't know what
we would have done if we had happened to
meet another carriage. The filth was ex-
treme, the bridges were covered with heaps
of old clothes looking as if they were
almost rotten with dirt, and every kind of
old, rusty iron bar, lock, chain, etc., was
exposed for sale along the streets. Then
heaps of old women and men had stalls of
fruit and every little way they were cook-
ing fish in oil, or potatoes or porridge and
offering the dirty mess for sale. We were
frequently greeted in Dutch with "Good
day, people won't you buy some," etc.
This lasted for street after street, for you
know there are thirty or torty thousand
Jews in Amsterdam. Haven't they retro-
graded since the days when the Mosaic Law
was given them with so many rules about
personal cleanliness? There were big Jews
and little Jews, tall Jews and short Jews,
old ones and young ones, all with the same
black eyes and the same cast of
countenance. They say Sunday morning is
the beat time to see them, for then they are
all out, and I think we can truly testify to
that It did seem refreshing to °erne back
to the open streets after an hour's drive
among the close lanes and alleys, for tbe
smell there was anything but invigorating.
I do not see t' .•
_see_
WHAT PREVENTS THEM ALL FROM MING OP
CHOLERA,
typhoid fever, or other contagious diseases.
As a class, they were not at all a happy
looking people; they all seemed sad and
wretched, but I do not wonder that
Spain, Portugal and Germany did
not want them if they lived in
such signaler in thoire countries
as we see here. They say twenty thoutand
Jews are engaged in diamond polishing in
this city. We drove next to church in the
Nieuwe Kirk but were a little late and
found a door closed to separate the late
comers from the more punctual of the 0011•
gregation. We had to stand all through
she service, although there were many
vacants seats just inside the little gate.
The preacher was very earnest, but of
comae we could not understand him. The
music was very fine indeed, and we were
told that the organ is one of the finest in
Europe. We saw the tomb of Admiral De
Ruyter in this church and a few days ago in
• Delft we saw that of VanTromp. The
sculpture about the organ and the wood
carving of the pulpit were superlatively
beautiful, but the stained glass windows,
beautiful pictures. images, eta., that we
see in the Catholic Churches were all want-
ing. Walking back to our hotel, we came
past the houses of the aristocracy of
Amsterdam along thelferrengracht. Nearly
every householder in the street is a
millionaire, many of thorn having. twenty,
thirty or forty millions of guldens and a
;rest many of theresidents there are counts,
baronets, pingfere, eto. To -morrow morn-
ing we are going down the Amstel to the
sea to see the dykes. All about Schwen-
ingezt there were inany dunes or downs, but
1 have not yet seen any dykes. The fish
women at Scheveningen interested us
greatly. Early in the morning great crowds
of them gathered on the beach to get the
shrimps, etc., !rare the fishermen. Then
they all put on their big hats over their
white caps and carried immense baskets on
their heads to the fish market at the Hague
(den Haag as they have it there.) Old
women mod &damn, all wore the same
costume there—white caps, looking like
nightcapa over tin or brass head-dresses,
little or big braes pins ornamenting
their foreheads, little shawls of varioue
colors fokled crosswise over their shoulders,
and very large hoope, with plain, full skirts
and very large aprons. The little tots
looked so fanny in these suits. This is one
side of Schwenthgen. The other presents
the view of
e, VERY FASHIONAPLE DUTCH WATERING -
PLACE.
All along the beech, is front of the larger
hotels, were wicker chairs that were just
the essence of comfort. It was very
pleasant to sit in these andwatoh the tido
corning on moving back farther and farther
an the Watt erteroOhed upon the send.
There wens many linee of stalle en the
beach, too, where milk, lemonade, beer,
cakes, and, all kinds of fancy articles were
for sale. Tho music at, the Eursaal was
very fine every afternoon and evening, and
altogathet we friend Drateh life ab the aea-
Stcle Very attractive. The Schweningen
News reported daily the arrival of German
princes, count, NAVAS, foreign ambaseedors
and other dignitaries at the Kurhaus, and
it afforded us much smut:eine:at trying to
make out who the oompants of the oar.
riages were as they peened along with most
brilliantly -dressed coachmen and footmen.
The little Queen is with her mother at one
of the country ohateaue, and so bhe palaces
at the Hague :Ind here are open for visitors.
1 remember you particularly stipulated that
you wanted no guide -book matter retailed,
so 1 refrain from all description,
ricerunns OP THE LITTLE QUEDN,
in the Frisian costume, are for Sale every-
where, and her piebure, too, is on packages
of cigars, chocolate, eto. We have spent a
good deal of ti:ne in picture galleries and
in the many beautiful parks., which
are so numerous in the Dutch oities. At
Rotterdam we were at a Kermess held iu
the streete. It is to lest two weeks and
was at its height the few days tee were
there. The booths had everything
imaginable to sell, but the Punch and Judy
and other similar showand stalls for hot
pancakes and pickles seemed the leading
features. It was a fine chance to see the
country and provincial people, for they
were out in great numbers and in their
gala attire. Two women, evidently a
mother and daughter, excited our atten-
tion very much. They wore
LOW-NEONED AND SHORT -SLEEVED DRESSES,
the same large hoops and full skirts as their
other country women, but the amount of
jewelry upon them was perfectly astound-
ing. They eaoh had seven or eight strings
of beads about their necks, fastened with
monstrous gold clasps, then the lase head-
dress and gold bands about their heads and
ornaments over their foreheads, bracelets
on their arms, etc., to •satiety. I suppose
your telegrams and foreign correspondents
have told you all about the " Landjuweel."
We were at Antwerp and saw the whole
procession. It was magnificent, but did
eseem
A STRANGE DISPLAY FOR SUNDAY.
The dresses were all very rich and pic-
turesque, in the style of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. The houses, too, n ere
gaily dressed with flags, and the streets,
particularly along the line of thoprocession,
had a most festive appearance. I believe
fourteen &mediations, literary, artistic,
political, etc., took part in the procession,
and one association spent $20,000 on dresses,
etc. It beggars all description, but 3,000
persons of both sexes, comprising many of
the ariatooracy of Antwerp, 500 horses and
41 triumphal and allegorical chariots,
figured in the line. Hundreds of thousands
had assembled to see the cortege and
the streets seemed one solid mass of people.
Bodies of mounted police headed the pro-
cession, and horses reared right in people's
faces alone procured right of way. The
chariots that I thought most beautiful
were those representing Peace, Innocence,
Art, the rise of the Italian Renaissance, etc.
The Maid of Malines and the Maid of
Antwerp figured very prominently in the
procession, and the bands of little girls and
boys singing and scattering flowers were an
additional attraction. The costumes of
the Violinerin were very beautiful. Indeed
all the members of the various societies
ware most brilliantly attired in white
satin doublet and hose, and flowing crimson
or purple, blue or green satin or plush
mantles. A great many of them'too, were
flashing with precious stones in their belts
or in the scabbards of their swords. But you
will not read all I have written and will
regret your rashly expressed wish that I
might take time to send a few lines now
and then. I see so much that is new that
it is difficult to select. I have had only
three letters since I came away and have
not seen a Canadian paper, so that I am
altogether behind the times, but I am
going to keep my courage up until I reach
Lucerne.
KILLED BY A TROLLEY CAR.
A Toronto Lady Run Down with Fatal
Results.
A • Toronto report says: A melencholy
accident ocourred at the corner of Church
and Isabella streets yesterday afternoon, by
which a lady visiting the city lost her life.
Miss Hannah Heron, of the township of
Scarboroe had come into the oity during
the morning and drove up to her aunt's
house on the corner of Isabella and Church
streets, where she took lunch, intending to
return down town early in the afternoon.
About 2.30 her cousin called to her that the
oar was coming, and she started out to
catch it. She crossed Church street diag-
onally to the southwest, in front of the
vehicle, but unhappily misjudged her dis-
tanceorthespeed of the swiftlyapproaching
car. Just as she reached the side, butbefore
she was entirely clear of the track, the car
caught her dress and she fell under the
wheels, which passed over both legs, sever-
ing them completely below the knees.
Willing hands quiokly drew her from under
the rear platform of the trailer and carried
her &tress to Mrs. Heron's house which ehe
had left but a few moments before. Dr.
Atherton was on hand instantly and did all
that medical skill could suggest, but the
poor woman never regained consciousness.
After lingering for six hours, she died at
8.30 o'clock in the evening.
One eye -witness of the accident declared
that Miss Heron was clear of the tracks and
that the trolley had passed her safely, but
just at that moment she appeared to sud-
denly collapse and fall between the trolley
and the trailer, and that it was the wheels
of the latter which passed over her limbs,
and not those of the motor car at all.
Whether her dress was caught and thus
dragged her under, he could not say.
To Keep Ice in the Sick ROOM.
When it is desirable, as in case of sick-
ness, to keep ice in a sick room, roll it in a
flannel and then in a newspaper ; tie a
cloth over a large bowl and lay the ice on
this to keep it out of the water, As you
have occasion to use it break off little pieces
by pressing with a large -headed pin against
a corner of the ice. This will obviate wade
and intim. Paper alone will preserve the
ice.
Solving a Problem.
The other day a oertain newspaper in-
quired with well -feigned innocence:
"How can five persons divide five eggi; so
that each man will receive one and still one
remain in the dish ?"
After several hundred people went nearly
distracted in the mazes of this proposition,
the journal meanly says :
" One takes the dish with the egg,"
Altaitys Provided.
Day --A man who makes two Medea of
grass grow where but one grew before is a
public: benefactor, is he not ?
Weeks—Yes, provided they do not grow
under his feet.
The latest idea in Paris is an official
inspection of all the shade trees in the city,
with the view of removing those that are
not healthy and substituting others that
att.
A process for making artificial precious
stones: out of crystalized alumina has been
discovered in Glasgow. Some, year:: ago a
Paris artificer atioaessfully produced imita-
tion rablea,
• WHEN TERROR WILL 11101Elh
A Writer Difloeturtias Of the Thine When
Death May be rat OM.
The history of man might be called the
decline and fall of error. Formerly, says
Walter Ilesant in the London Queen, we
were afraid of everything. Of the see, be-
cause we knew not what was beyond it, or
what was in ib, or what it might do. It
had been known to rise in remstless might
And to whekngreat cities, monsters hecibeen
seen in it—calamariee, kraleens, aharks and
whales; the sea was a very terrible thing.
Ti1011, there was the forest; no me could
tell what might come out of the foreet ;
wolvee were there for certain, and serpents,
and very likely human enemies wanting
to kill us. Then there were the thousand
and one diseases, every one of which
was fatal. And there was the vast unknown
world beyond—filled with enemies,
creatures like men, but speaking an un-
known tongue and breathing hatred—devils
they were, not men. When this universal
terror was still unconquered, the historian
began, and so we know what it was and
how it held the people so that they eought
by charms and magic to mope from it and
to get a little confidence. Then they
began to find out things and gradually the
terror was dispelled. They crossed the sea
and found out what was on the other
side; they penetrated the forest and killed
the wild beast ; theyilearned strange lan-
guages and traveled n strange landse; they
found out how to ward off disease. Finally
there remains of the old terror only one or
two things. Men fear, now, nothing but
what they cannot omitrol—eonae forms of
disease; earthquakes, lightning and death.
These things can be still further reduced ;
we shall overcome disease ; we than, ,per -
hap, control the lightning; we shall leeen
the cause of earthquakes; we shall put off
death.
FOR TIME MEN.
Some Don'ts Good for Every Man to
Reanember.
Don't carry your umbrella under your
arm so that the ferule will stick in the eye
of the man behind you.
Don't, if you have a red mustache, wear
a pink shirt.
Don't paok a valise -so full that it will not
close easily.
Don't roll a wet umbrella. Allow it to
dry open or loosely furled.
Don't wear a dark pair of trousers with a
light colored coat and waistcoat.
Don't wear madeup neckwear if you can
adjust the other kind neatly.
Don't roll your gloves into a ball. Re-
move them carefully, smooth them out and
put them away fiat.
Don't dress conspicuously, and above all
avoid flashy jewelry.
Don't use strong perfume.
Don't wear white satin neckties, no mat-
ter what the provocation may be.
Don't wear white lawn bows in the day-
time. They are intended for full dress
only.
There are a lot of " Don'ts," but these
will do for the present.—.New York Re-
corder. •
The Equality es-Antruals.
"'Equality of man' is now the great
world's shibboleth, the prayer of the popu-
lace by day, the dream of the democracy by
niglat,' said P. P, Corbett as he joined the
literary circle that had formed in the ro-
rotunda of the Laslede. "Here in America
Ire have come to regard it as necessary to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—
that without it we were worse off than a re-
form candidate in a Democrat:, county, as
devoid of energy as a mustard plaster on
the stomach of a wooden Indian. Equality
of man! Why nob equality of all animals'
of all vegetable life? If the ignoramus is to
be placed On the same plane with the phil-
osopher, why not bring the bunch grass and
the Norway pine to the same level,
make the dude and the dodo co-
equal with Christopher Columbus ?
The blockhead who blacks Maine's boots
or handles Harrison's horses, and who could
not tell the Constitution of the United
States from the by-laws of the Lime Kiln
Club, must be made as potent at the polls
as his patron. Perhaps he cannot toll the
time o' the day by the town clock, nor die-
thiguish between an international trade
balance and a Chinese wash bill, yet he has
dodged death for one and twenty years,
wears pants—that have been given him
perhaps—and is therefore, competent et:
speak ex cathedra on questions of national
policy, to pass upon the policy of political
parties 1 If matter inatead of mind is to
rule—or ruin—let us be consistent. If a
featherless he -biped weigh 100 pounds, give
him one vote; if he vreigh 200, give him
two; if he weigh 300, send him to
Congress—place the man with the smallest
beaver and the greatest breadth of beam in
the Presidential chair. As an intellectual
hierarchy is not to be thought of, let tug
have one of avoirdupois."—St. Louis Globe -
Democrat.
A Meal in a Lozenge.
The latest thing in the way of condensed
food is a lozenge, which ie said to be com-
posed to a large extent of caffeine, and
which is said to take the place of both food
and drink during forced marches and on
like occasions. A company of Roumanian
soldiers have recently been used to test the
properties of this invention. They marched
seventy-five miles ha twenty-seven hours and
a quarter, and at the beginning of the march
were given a lozenge every half hour.
Later in the march this time was changed
to three hours, while throughout the march
the horses were given a lozenge dissolved in
water every two hours. The men and
horses are said to have arrived at their des-
tination in so good condition that the former,
of their own tree will, went through review,
and the trial is regarded as an astonishing
SUO0e213.
Distince Covered in Dancing.
An average waltz takes one over or about
three-quarters of a mile, a square dance
makes you cover half e. mile, and a plop
equals a good mile, at a run, too, says a
writer in the Philadelphia, .Press. Count
up for yourself how muela the girl with a
i
well-filled programme traverses st an even-
ing, Twenty dances are the average, you
know, Of these, about twelve are waltzes,
There, at once, are nine miles. Three
galops, and the has done twelve miles. Five
other dances, at a half,rnile apiece, which ia
hardly a fairly big eetimate, bring her to
close upon fifteen miles, to say nothing of
the intermission stroll in the garden ancl the
trips to the dressing -room to renovate one'e
gown or complexion.
A Real onrosy Queen.
Queen Siberia., absolute ruler of 8,000
gypsies, is 28 years old, with bold and
striking mien. HOT hair is raven black,
adorned with many ornaments; her featuree
regular, eyes height, teeth as white as
now. Her country seat at Oxfordshire,
England, is as good as money oan command,
Her 8,000 subjecte eaoh pay her $7 .yearly.
Her mother, the old Qntien nritanma, died
near Newark, N, 3., about two years ago.
jack (banhfully)—If 1 asked you for a
kiaa would you be angry? Anna (naively
—Yes, if you asked me for it.
111 ILLIL � Irlirri STASIS.
It Would Cost $5,500,000,900 and Take`
As,06a,eee Ikea%
Is a recent teeter° on "Fixed Stars,'
Dr. David Gill wanted to give an illustra-
tion :of the distance to Centauri. This is-
whab he said *• "We shall suppose that
some wealthy directors, for want of outlet
for their energy and capital, construet a
railway to Centauri. We shall neglect, for
the present, the engineering difficulties—a
mere detail—and suppose the:a overoomei
and the railway open for traffic.
We shall go further' and suppose that
the directore have foundthe construction
of ouch railway to have been peculiarly
easy, and that the proprietors of interstellar,
space had not beer: 010M:it:tat in their
terms for right of way. Therefore, with a
view to encourage traffic: the directors had
made the fare exceedingly moderate, viz.,.
first class at two cense per 100 miler:.
" Desiring to take advantage of these
facilities a gentleman, by way of providing,
himself with small change for the journey,
buys up tho national debt of England and eo
few other countries, and, presenting him -
elf at the office, demands a first -elms single,
to Centauri.
For this be tenders in payment the
gulp of the national debt of England, which
just coven the oast of his ticket; but an
title time the national debt from little wars
-
had been run up front $3,500,000,000 to
$5,500,000,000. Having taken his emit it
occurred to him to ask :
" 'Ab what rate do cm travel?
" Sixty miles an hour, sir, includingi
stoppages,' is the answer.
Then when shall we rersoh Cen-
tauri?'
" ' In 48,663,000 years, sir.'"
TO TEST A WIFE'S AFFECTION,
A Frenchman Man ged sentare La a Bladder -
orrig's Blood.
Just as M. Trobert, the Commissary of
Police for the "Enfants Rouges" district
in Paris, was about to sit down to dinner
the other day he was startled by the ap-
pearance of a well-dreased man, who rushed
in and said: "My wife wants to leave
me, and I cannot bear it. My name is So.
an So, and I live in the Rue de la Franche-
Comte."
As he uttered these words, the stranger
took out a knife arid plunged it into his.
breast. Instantly the floor was covered
with blood, and he fell apparently Iifelese.
A doctor was sent for, and at the same time
-
a messenger was dispatched to the Rue de
in Franche-Comte.
The wife, hearing the fearful news,
rushed round and, throwing herself into
her husband's arms, kissed him and swore
she had no intention of leaving him.
"Very well, then," said the injured
man," we will be up and off home,"and
wiping the stains of blood from his ,othes
he got up none the worse for his adven-
ture.
The blood was some pig's blood bought
at a pork butcher's and carefully con-
cealed in the breast inside a bullock's
bladder. The husband, having had quar-
rels with his wife, had hit upon this
means of frightening her, says the Lon-
don News, and at the same time testing
her affection, and had improved upon the
example of tho Prince Regent, afterwards
George IV., at the time he was courting
Mrs. Fitzherbert,
A Woman's Influence.
A white-ribboner on the atreets of Chi-
cago heard a young man using the name a
God in most outrageous curaos. She went
to him, laid her hand kindly on his anal and
said, "My brother, 1 heard your terrible
oaths juin as I was singing to myself with:
unutterable joy.
"My God is reconciled,
His pardoning voice I hear."
" Will you not breathe out those words Un-
til through repentance and faith they be-
come true of t our own life ?" and with a
tender smile she left him. Her motherly
countenance, white hair and gentle voice
impressed him deeply. A year after she
was in one of the principal storm of the
city speaking to a elerk whom she knew,
when a young man asked the clerk who she
was and followed her, recountieg the inci-
dent we have here given and saying, as he
grasped her baud while his eyes filled with
tears, "1 went you to know that for months
past I, too, have been singing with a sin-
cere heart, My God is reconciled.' "—On
Duty.
Not Nice of Etna.
On the death of a celebrated French
journalist the following story was related of
him:
He was once very sick and the visiting
physician gave him up as lose. "1 cannot
do anything for you," he said; "you must
Another doctor was, however called in
who succeeded in curing
The first time the convaleacent took
stroll he met his filet doctor, who, greatly
surprised, said he thought; him no more,
among the living.
" Well, you see," said the patient, "when.
you left Dr. V. was called in and he suc-
ceeded in building me up again."
" Oh 1 well 1 well! Aman whom 1 thought
my friend ! Really it was not at all nice in,
him."—Exchange.
Tho ilighest Railroad.
The new mountain railway from Brienw
to the summit of the Brienzer-Rothhorn,
which is now open to tourists, ia not only
the highest in Europe, but I he highest in
the world. The SW38S Trerkehes Zeitung
gives the following table of comparative
elevation above the eon level of the princi-
pal mountain railways: Biienzer-Rothhorn,
2,252 nietrerg ; Central Pacific, 2,160;
Pilatus Railway, 2,070; Rigi Railway,
1,750 ; Monte Generose, 1,639 ; Murren
Railway, 1,611 ; Brenner Railway, 1,367 ;
Canadian Pacific,
1,312 • Arlberg, 1,310 ;
Vesuviue, 1,185; Si. 'Gotham(' Railway,
1,155 Btunig, 1,064 ; Einsiedeln, 894 ;
Jura Simplon (at Tavannes), 761. All these,
are above 2,000 feet above the aea.
The man whose gate is off the hinges can
talk by the hour explaining why tiornebedy
dm doesn't prosper.--Rones Horn.
The year of greatest growth in boys is the.
17bla ; in girls, the ]4th. While girls reach
full height ill their 15bla year they accmire •
full vvoight at the age ot 20. Boy a are ,
etrouger than girls front birth to the llth
year; thou girls become superior physically
to the 17th year; when the tablee are again
turned and remain So. Prom November to
April children grow very little and gain no
weight; from April to July they gain in
height, but nese in weight, and fear: July to
November they increaee greatly in weight, .
but not in height. —Brigie/i Medica4 lifrouthly.
A frightful disease called the black
pestilence has appeared in parts of Run
gary, A cable says the lilague is thought ,
to be akin to the mysterioue malady which
acconspattied the cholere in Persia.
The Housekeeper gives the following
hints • To take ink mit of linen, dip the
spotte'd parts immediately in pure melted
tallow, then wash out the tallow ancl them
halt will haat disappeared.
Most women who practice tight lacing cl,,
itaa a mere matter of form