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CHATTER OF 1IOYMTiS
Tho British Court in Sackcloth for
Ernest of Gotha.
'MISS 1VIAUDIE'S TORPID LIVER.
'Wales Doing Ylonaburg—King Christian of
Denmark Mistaken for a Thief—A,
Ruler at the Telephone—Edinburgh's
New Duchy—His Wile Means to ]Boss
the Show..
OURT mourning for
Duke Ernest of Co-
burg has put a damp
blanket over any
emusemeaat throb might
have been got out of
Queen Victoria's
.utumual visit to her
'Highland home. For
ie next four w.et-s at
est nothing meet be
ur+tenenceal in the
as ay of frivolity, oven
to the extent of a
smile, and mates and gentlemen of the
court are compelled to wander around like
perturbed splrita bearing a heavy burden of
sorrow for a man they never saw, and for
whom none of them care a job abonb. C hle
tribulation in all the more disappointing as
the "gathering of the ohne" wss to
have been an extra epocial lunation
this year. As a mild antidote
to the prevalent atmosphere of sackcloth,
aches and ooncentrated sorrow, Queen
Victoria, has invited the Grand Duke of
$ease and Princess Alix Victoria to spend
a month at Balmoral. The Princess Alix
is just 21 year old, and is quite Eaglieh,
coosldering that her mother, the Princess
Aline, died when she was only 6 yoare old ;
but then she has had an English governess
constantly with her. The Qneeu is very
fond of Primmer] Alix and would like her to
wed au English prince ; but she is net
rich enough for a Teck or a Christian, and
they all being poor Her Majesty would not
consent to a match with any of them.
Prince Alfred of Edinburgh would be a
good match for Princess Alix. She is
certainly a couple of years older than her
Donate, but ouch a alight discrepancy of
age is a mere detail when important family
considerations are at stake. Whether the
youth will fall in with his grandmother's
views or not remains to he [leen.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WALES GIRLS.
Of the three daughters of the Prince of
Wales, by far the cleverest and the oo.e pore
ceased of the largest amount of savoir faire
in Princess Victoria (new five and -twenty),
who has long been her mother's right hand,
and who:carries on half her correspondence,
and supplies, by the quickest and shrewdest
tact, her mother's want of hearing. She is
hearty, jolly, merry and full of aplomb, and
there is no doubt if she and her younger
sister were suddenly thrown on their own
reeouroes the. two would soon make
their way in the world, the elder leading.
The Duchess of Fife, on the con-
trary, is of a sentimental and dreamy
character, and more fond of novel read-
ing than of the praotioal work ef house-
keeping. All three of the Wales girlaaro
very like the type of the Royal House of
Guelph, especially their eyes and foreheads,
and the two youngest are very stmilar in
oheracter and disposition also. The Duchess
ii Flfe cares nothing ler display and state,
and would be quite content to be free from
the ebiquette of a Court: •
-a4IAIIDIal OWNS A TORPID LIVER.
The health of Princees Maud is so deli-
cate as to cense the greateab anxiety to her
.parents, for she is suhj ice to fits of melan-
'•cholie, which sometimes last for a whole
week ab a time, and during which nothing
man cheer or soo eh her but music and that of
isreligious character, although she le
not at other times of a parbicalerly pione
tarn of mind. This melancholia arises from
no moral, but from a purely phyeioal cause
—that io,bepatbo oolic—bhau which, accord-
ing to the medical men, there exists no more
painful malady, the agony during the Criss
being moab excruciating and intense. Both
before and after these attacks the patient
is very apt to suffer from extreme melan-
cholia and nervous prostration and this is
exactly the case with Maud, who goes to
Vichy end drinks of the topid and sulphury
waters of the Grande •Gall with consider-
able benefit to her health. Ib is a moat
rare and uefdamiate thing that so yoang a
person should suffer from her liver ab all,
but equally, of course, Princes° Maud has
ail that money and affecbion can do to bring
her surcease from her,sufferinge.
ALBERIT EDWARD DOING HOMBURG.
Wales is enjoying himself ab Homburg;
or, at Least, ho had a gay time of ib until
the death of hie uncle necessitated a certain
idisoretion in festive deluge. The Prince
beat the record at early' riairg, and wax to
'be seen taking -his early walks abroad before
even the Duke of 'Cambridge put in an ap-
esearance. He wears a grey rammer suit
.and straw hat with a hand in the Guards'
celore, and a pretby bine Skye terrier ia in-
variably aeon et his heels. The dog is Heade
a vast deal of by ladies whe aspire to His
Royal Highness' friendship ; bub, discerning
beast, ho reaarvoe the wag of his tail for
those whets his master prefers, and never
faith to greet such with canine affability.
There is a special Bohemian glace set
'apart for His Royal Highness' use at the
Elizebobhan Brunnon, which is =semen -
lonely handed to him on a silver salver ;
iotherwise Walea epende his days jolt like
the root of the "smart patients." He goose
to Fredon°borg at the end of his care to
take a few day& hand in the family gather-
ing, in fact arrives just ab the fag end of the
'function, whioh, of all his demotic duties,
is the one he most cordially detests.
THE, DANISH ROYAL, HOMESTEAD.
The citable eel •Fredeneberg fe a ewe -
storied edifice, not unlike a barracks, with
its plain whitewashed walls. It le. our -
mounted with to dome, and four turrets,
built above the hall in which was signed in
1720 a treaty of peace. between Danmark
and Sweden,. Ib is from,bhis event that the
chateau takes its name. Tie entrance hall
is eighty feet in height and ia /surrounded
by a steno and merelo gallery. There are
in all twenty reception roome. Fredennborg,
except for a short interval, has always been
the =miner residence of the Danish Royal
Family. Its great charm is its gardens,
woods and beech, and linden avenues that
radiate from the palace to the lake, In the
,garden ere numerous statues by Wiedewelt,
the predecessor of ifihorwaldeen. The
chateau is situated about twenty miles
north of themapltal.
OLD KING CHRISTIAN TAKEN FOR A SWINDLIIR.
When abroad King Christian is very fond
of walking about looking in rotors windowu
and making purchases en bourgeois without
any attendant, and when reconbiy pawing
through Hapsburg on his way home from
England, this habit cost him an unpleasant
quarts d helare. Entering ono of the feels -
hatable jewelery /stores on the Juogfernatfog,
H. M. made eome,purohaaea, and, remark -
log that he bad no (money with him (a com-
mon habit of royalty ib seems), told the.
storekeeper that he was the King of Den-
mark, and that if he pent the articles to hie
hotel they would be paid for. But this,
far from satisfying oho jeweller. made tint
extremely suspicious, and, telling H. M.
that " that wouldn't do," added signifi-
orsntly that several of his fellow tradesmen
had been taken in in that manner recently
and that bho police were looking for the
/windier and that It would be better if an
assistant was sent to the hotel to enquire
whilst H. M. waited. Taut highly amused,
King Chriatien suggested to telephone to
the hotel. This was done, and the store-
keeper's oonsternetiou was great when pre-
eenbly an aide-de-camp came Joshing up in
a carriage and pair bo " release " the King
of Denmark.
EDINBURGH AND RIS NEW DUCHY.
Ib has oome so a surprise to the Bribtah
nation that the Duke of Edinburgh decided
to ascend the Sexe.Coburglan throne him-
self, as the idea prevailed that he would
cling to his position as a British Prince and
turn over the German busineas to his son.
Hie cenaorb plefere being a sovereign's wife
instead of a sovereign's mother, as her rank
by birth certainly qualifies her to be leading
lady somewhere, ioatead of seeing ether
Princesses of much lower origin constantly
Ied before her. It romaine now to be seen
whether "the Edinburgha" will go over to
Germany, root and branch, bag and parcel,
bidding a definite good-bye to that England
'which they have lived in so little; or
whether they will still retain a foothold In
the Royalty -filled land for the sake of draw-
ing their full allowance, as befnre, from the
British exchequer. ,
WANTS TO DISCOVER WHAT IT WORTH'
Edinburgh is not by any means a creature
of impulse. He le not one of the simpletons
who rush in any more than he is one of the
angels fearing to tread. He is very deliber-
ate and wants very carefully te weigh and
meaeare and value a thing before he dis-
poses of it. How much Saxe -Coburg and
Gotha may be worth, Albert cannot exactly
know until he beoomee fairly in pommel=
of the Duchy, and to dispose of anything of
which be does nob know the valve, even to
his own son, to whom he is dovobedly at-
tached, is not in Royal Alfred's nature.
He simply is not hullo that way.
THE DUCHESS MEANS TO STAY.
There can be but little doubt that the
Duke of Edinburgh -Saxe -Coburg and Go-
tha, as ho now is, will eventually leave
Rhelnhardsbrunn to his sun, and return to
Clarence House, and it is also possible bhab
his Duchess will remain with her bey in his
duchy and help him to reign, for, like a real
Romanoff, the desire to govern is rampant
in the heart of Marie Alexandrova. One
thing la very certain, and that is, that
Dake Ernest was a very rich man and one
who was very lucky in the iaveabmeut of
his money, some of it being sunk in house
property in Paris, so that the Delo of Ed-
inburgh, who is always complaining about
his poverty, will now probably have some
more pookeb money bo rosin his taw.
A PRACTICAL JOKER.
Dow Carrick Doubled on and Mystified
Dr. lSionsey.
Aotors have always been great practical
jasters. Garrick used to be fend of mysti-
fying his friends. One evening, when he
expected Dr. Moneoy to call on him, he
asked the servant to conduct the doctor
into hia bedroom. Garrick was announced
for " King Lear " that night, bub the
doctor found him stretched on the bed, with
his nighb-oap on. He was really drreseed,
bub the quilt covered him ' completely.
Monsey explored surprise, as it was time
for the actor to be at the theatre to dress
for his part. Garrick. in whining, languid
tones, told him he won too sick to
play himself, hub that there was an actor
named Marr so like him in faoe and figure.
and so bxoellent a mimic, that he would
irepose upon the audience. As Roan as the
doctor had left the room Garrick jumped
nut of bed and has:,ened to the theatre.
Monsey attended the performance. Hewes
bewildered, sometimes doubting and some -
timer] only wondering at the exbreordinary
resemblance between Garrick and Marr.
At the end of the play he hurried back to
Garriok'a house to discover whether or net
a brick had been played upon him. But
Garrick had been too quick for him, and
was found by Moasey in the same apparent
condition of illness. •
A Prize Jewel.
The above is the very appropriate name
noticed on a new Range exhibited at the
Toronto Industrial by Means. Barrow,
Stewart & Milne, founders, of Hamilton.
Ib has the 'ergot oven ever seen in a four -
hole range, and is larger than any, except
three of the eix-holo ranges shown in the
Exhibition. After careful examination
there was only one verdict, wbioh was that
thle " Jewel " Stove wets, without doubt,
" a Jewel." There is not a firm in the
Dominion whose geode haves more enviable
reputation. They also make 'the finest
line of large wood cook stoves
in Canada. It is called the
" Grand Jewel." The even of this stove
is made of steal so it cannot crack and allow
dust to fall down on bread, roaats, etc.,
while cooking. This firm now have one of
the largest establishments in Canada, palled
the "Jewel" Foundry, Hamilton. They
also make one of the most economical and
mob durable furnaces in the Dominion
called "Superior" and "Alaska Jewel."
They also make a great base barrier, the
"Imperial Jewel," and a full line of
" Jewel " wood cook stoves, " Jewel "
rangers, and the celebrated " Little Gland "
double heater wood stove. Every dealer in
first•olaea stoves should have the " Jewel
lino of abovea." Ask for is " Jewel."
An Arab's Revenge.
Tho following account of an Araab'a revenge
comes from Tunis : Ahmed-bon-Bclkaasen
satisfied himself of the faithlessness of his
wife Aloha, and in a ferry scoured lain rival
and bode Aloha to help him, Sloe obeyed
and her lover was bound to a tree. The
busbaud ter' the unhappy men that tie last
hour had come, drew his knife anti killed
him Then turning bo hia trembling wife he
said, " Your burn next." Aloha bogged for
mercy. Ahmed-bon•Bellsasaon wan inexora-
ble. He tied her to the tree and with the
same weapon killed her also. The murderer
was apprehended and has made is full con•
foaelon. He maintains that what he did
was merely natural and retributive juobice.
Why sniffer with baobhauhe when Gib/Sena
Toobheohe Gum ;vill afford inritant relief
Tho crawfish le nob very goad bo eat, hub
will deed) a pinch.
A man named Tones, who was supposed
to have been murdered near Napanee, has
jusit been heard from in Oregon, where he
is in good health. Hie wife thought 'him
d and married again.
" What is it that makes you love mo 1"
oho asked. "Oh 1 thouoands of little
tillage," he replied, as he thought of the
gleaming pilo of money etre was reputed to bo
worth.
A SISTERHOOD OF SORROW,
A P ivate Convent Which the Roman
Catholics Will Suppress.
WOMEN SLEEP IN COFFINS,
Dr. Jacques' Rigorous Rule—Chains,
Shackles and the ]Lash—Perpetual
Silence SaVo For One Hour Daily—Skulls
as Ornaments.
One of the most mysterious and peouliar
inebtbuhtons that oould exist in a modern
age, says the New York Herald, has job
been unearthed in the heart of the city of
Monbreal, in the midst of French Cabello
and French Catholielem. Women immured
In a private dwelling, =lied a convent,
their lives devoted bo torture slid eelf-
saorifice, cut off from the world, sleoping in
oefffus, shackling thomsolvel in chains, a
email contmuni'y entirely cub off from
human ties, such is the private convent of
Dr. Jacques.
The latter is a French physician. at one
time baying a good practice in Montreal,
but years ago he became effliobed with what
cannot be called otherwise than a religions
mania. Alvaaye of a philanthropic turn of
mind, Dr. Jacques has becemetneane on one
point, that is, es found a religious institu-
tion where women tired of the world could
expiate their sins and find heaven in
SCOURGINGS AND PENALTIES.
The private convent founded in Montreal
by Dr. Jacques has naw come under the
examination of the Raman Catholic authori-
ties, and both Cardinal 'Taechereau and
Archbishop Faber, at the head of the
diocese of 141ontreal, have decided to sup-
press the convent, whioh is situated in
Amherst street.
Dr. Jacques for years past has labored
under the illusion that a mysterious voice
counselled him to starb a religious institn-
bion. At first he did not dare to ask the
permisalon of the authorities of the Catholic
Church, who laughed ab hie plane and pro-
nounced them impracticable. Dr. Jacques
travelled through the greater part of
Enrepe, all the time watching for ideas that
would favor his scheme here.
He returned to Mentreal in 1886, when
the great smallpox epidemic was raging in
Montreal andthe people were dying by
thousands. He went heart and soul into
the work of saving the people, and, it le
said, attended himself fifteen hundred oases
free of charge.
Among the families Dr. Jacques met was
OUR named Aubin, from St. Jerome, who
had Dome te Montreal with letters of recom-
mendation to Dr. Jacques. They all took
the disease, and the six girls in the family
made a vow bhab if their lives were spared
they would turn nuns. This was an oppor-
i.nnity for which the doctor had long been
looking, and he immediately founded his
convent. Thin was some eight years ago,
and since that time the entire family have
been inmates of this peculiar institution.
RIGOROUS DUTIES.
The sisterhood le composed of the six
Aubin girls, and their father and mother
set an caretakers and drudges for all kinds
of work, white Dr. Jacques poses as the
spiritual head of the institution. The
eldest ef the three sisters is the Mother
Sap'nior, and is 30 years old. All wear, in
the name of religion, a red habit, with a
white veil.
Perpetual silence is enjoined, except dur-
ing one hour of the day. The nuns arise
at 4 o'clock in the morning and retire at 6
p. en. At helf•past 4 in the morning they
pray for an hour before the croeo, and at
half -p set 5 they attend in procession the St.
James' Catholic Church, in the immediate
ne'ghberhoed, to recite the urinal prayers
and attend the usual devotions, returning
an hour afterward. Daring the entire day
they pray and sing hymns, even while
attending to the necessary housekeeping
duties, which are few in number and as
temple as possiblo. The food is of the
plainest possible deecriptlen, and the table
utensils aro of wood.
In the eeeond very of bho convent, which
ie a very mcdaat building, are the kitchen,
the dining room and the " Hall of Exert
oleos," which fe decorated with flowers,
quotations from the Scriptures, crosses,
hely pictures and all the accessories ef a
private chapel. At one side stands a
wooden column four feet high, decorated
with
CHAINS, SCOURGES, A CROWN 05' THORNS
and ether instruments of discipline. The
Holy Writ lies open on a decorated stand,
and a lamp is kept burning day and night
in imitation of the Chapel of Notre Dame
de Lourdes.
Oa holy days and feaot days,, when, ac-
cording to their ideas, the Lord has more
reason to be offended at the behavior of
man than usual, the greatest self -sacrifices
and d'sotplino is indulged in, and one of the
Siebere is chained for a whole day and night
to the pillar, faatened by the neck, the
hands and the feet, while she wears the
crown of thorns on her head. The Sisters
take tarns in this dieeipline.
Twiob or thrice each week they aoenrge
themselves with a whip, (tempered of five
lashes, with little nails at the end, in
memory of the five wounds of our Lord on
the creea, and they are compelled to ad•
minister to themselves thirty-three lashes
in honor of the thirbythreo years whioh our
Lord passed on earth.
• Tho dormitory is immediately tinder the
roof and is divided into small cells. This is
probably the most horrible portion of the
house. In each cell ,
THERE IS AN EMPTY •COFFIN,
which serves as a bed for bho Slater, and the
only covering consists of a mortuary cloth.
A little bench, with a pitcher and wash-
basin, go to make up the rest of the furni-
ture, in addition to another small bench,
which serves as a chair.
Exoept.in cases of illness each eno of these
girls, the youngest ao well as the oldest,
sloops on the bare wood without support
for her head. When they are serionsly ill
their coverlet is pnt between them and the
hard wood. Ab the end of the passage
which divides the cello in a largo oil for
penitent girls—women of the world who
wiah to pees a few days in retreat and to
expiate sine committed. Ono of its orna-,
month is a skull, and while there the peni-
tents aro compelled to wear hairolobh next
to their oldie eo me to continually remind
them of their shortcomings.
The cell of 1)r, Jaoctueo, the aplribual head
and foundor of the institution, reesmbloo
that of the others, but contaiuo, besides, a
little pillow stuffed with grants =Hooted by
hire at Notre Demo de Lourclrs, in Franco,
unci ornamented on top with a picture of the
holy face painted by a Carmelite nun ab that
place. The pillow Is supposed to have been
blessed by Pape Leo XIII. The institution
is supposed to contain several relics of won-
derful pourer, the principal ono of these
being a medallion of the holy face imported
from the Convent of the Precious Blood ab
St. Hyacinthe. The picture eb different
times is
SUPPOSED TO SWEAT ELOOD.,
Besldea the apartments already mentioned
babaflding contains a courtyard meat fa n
tastioally built. The rear wail Is arranged
like the etde of a rook, and contains a niche
in whioh the statue of the Madonna is
visible. Each evening a concealed lamp
placed on the bop of the nfohe throws a pale
glamor over the face of the atstue. A little
further en is a grotto, the interior of which
has been made into a little chapel, contain-
ing the statue of Sb. Jean Baptiste.
Mebane representing the "Way of the
Cross" are Wooed on the walls ab Intervale,
and each afternoon the air elebore, with
heavy chains ab their wrists, go the rounds
praying at each /batters and proetrabing
themselves for several minutes before the
last of the pictures.
In the course of a statement made by Dr.
Jacques he said : "There is not the slight-
est doubt that the religious authorities of
the Cabholio Church have sanabtoned the
institution for a long time past. It is a fact
that Monsignor the Archbishop of Montreal
has never officially given me authority bo
continue the institution, bat he has never
refund it, and I feel perfectly elate in my
mind on that point."
The latest developments, however, seem
to show that it is the intention of the Cath-
olic authorities to break up foreverthis
peculiar iaebibutioa. Dr. Jacques shill con-
tinues the practice of medicine, and as a
physician to very popular among the poor of
hie district, but even the French Catholic
papers are of the opinion that his private
convent should be done away with.
RUNNING TO MOUTH.
"linoxoni n" )Cas something to gay
About Roods of Oratory.
Men of silence are not nsoesearlly men of
sense. The only reason why some men
mem wine is became they are elleab. If
they spoke ooaastenally people would see
that they are not any wiser than their
neighbors. The philonophor Billings made
a good proverb when he said, " There is no
eubsbitute for wisdom, hub silence acmes
nearer ib than anything else." Sir John
Macdonald was credited with eayiog thatno
politician could be half as honest as one of
trio colleagnea looked. No man can be half
as wise as acme silent men look. They have
little of the genuine article of wisdom, bub
they have a great stock of the substitute,
and litany unthinking people take the substi-
tute for the genuine article.
Maiming that there in altogether too
much speaking of the poor kind in this
country, the old question comes up, "What
are you going to doabout it?" Thatgaestion,
like many another, is much more easily
asked than answered. Self-government in
Church and State makes discussion neces-
sary, and every man who takes part in a
discussion necessarily speaks more or lees.
Stop dismission and you step self-govern-
ment. • You stop the whole judicial machin-
ery of the country, for judges and lawyers
canoob try cases in, silence. You also atop
the Church Court/ and the Parliaments, and
the Municipal Councils, and the School
Boards, and every kind of meeting in which
men discuss and deliberate.
There is one delightfully simple way by
whioh most of the speech -making in this
country can be stopped in an hour. Let
some one man take the reins of government
in his hands and do everything according to
hie own sweet will. Let him declare war,
make laws, execute them, levy taxes, and
lash the oltizeue if they do nob pay them,
as to done in Resole. If half a dozen citi-
zens were tied lip to a trieugle and flogged
became they were behind with their taxes,
they would probably smart so that they
would want to hold a public meeting to
expreso their pent-up feelings. Every man
that expressos hie feelings would of course
make a speech, se yen see the epeeeh-mak,-
iog will come in no matter what you do.
There is a short and easy way of putting
an end to the ferenelc oratory in the coun-
try. Let some eae man cobble all disputes
without hearing argument or evidence, let
him sand nnybody to prison that he pleases,
without trial, and hang any of his neign-
hos qutebty if he bhinke they should be re-
moved in that way. That style of adminia-
tering justice would dry up the eloquence of
the courts, bat ib might prove inconvenient
to well-meaning citizens. Tho system was
tried many years ago in several countries
and it did not work well for the general
public. Britons abolished the eystsm and
established trial by jury in the plane.
After a long and bitter fight, bho right
of being defended by counsel was secured
for unfortunate fellows on tried for their
lives. At this time of day it seems rather
hard to go bask to the old system and hang
a citizen without hearing what oat/ be said
in his defence. The people are scarcely
prepared for that reform, even if soma of
them do think that speech -making is a
trifle overdone.
There is a delightfully simple way of
putting an end to speech -making in the
Presbyterian Church. Just abolish asaem
blies, synods, preebyteriss, sseatons, dea-
cone' courts, mauagore' meetings, congre-
gational meetings, and meetings of every
obher kind that give one man power to
govern the whole concern. A mannan easily
ho found who would take the job. Let
him say how much tnouey mutat bo paid ;
let him say who are bo be admitted to the
Church, and who are to be (secluded ; lot
him order the people to do anything he
thinks proper, without giving any reason,
and punish them if they de not obey lain
orders. Nothing in this world efmpier
thou to govern this Church without
any speeohen at all, if the people
are ready for that kind of government,
Give one man all the power, put a pad.
leek en the mouths of all the other men and
on the mouths of the women, too, and the
thing is done. Delightfully simple if the
people are ready for the reform.
The feet is, popular government En Ohareh
or State neco aarfly teavelves a vast amount
of epoch-making. The gaanbiby necessary
in these two departments cannot be very
much lessened, but the quality may be
.greatly improved. Outside of the Chnroh
and the State, there is a large amount that
ought to bo shut off. This branch of the
subject will stand some diseneeton.—
' Knoxonian " in Canada Presbyterian.
Roney Parties.
A honey party is an entertainment which
a country girl man give for bile pleasure of
her city gumbo. A clever girl who originated
the idea had boxes fitted along the whole
length of the dining room window ei/Ir,
which showed the bees at work sabering their
honey. In the centro of the table was a
block of turf with wbiteolover bl0000ms and
bees of black tissue paper hovering above
bloom. Comb honey and crackers, cooklou,
wafors, battier /sakes and ebrainod honey
made up bhe bill of faro for the young
vents.
A Suggestion.
Junior Partner—Well, I think (puff) I'll
go out in the trade and poo if Iaan get a few
orders (puff, puff).
Senior Perbner-That's right. Don't fail
to take along sono of these cigars you Rooke
and offer them around.
junior Partner—What for ?
Senior Partner—So the buyers will die
before they have time to cancel the orders.
Hnndrede of people can talk for one who
eau think, but thousands carr think for one
who can goo, --Ruskin.
CURRENT s11r101.11?11111(.Ni3.
Some 4tuaiat Relief* Among New Forest
People lire, EEmsiiendp
Hares' brains are supposed shill to be a
useful dente for children that have coma
into the world before their time. Children
ailttoted with fits are abiil paused through
eleven openings in ash trees. A certain
Ziehen again is used fa a lotion for abrength-
ening weak eyes ; whilst the fab of the
hedgehog ie need to Iubrioete Miff joints.
Bread baked on (hood friday, the forest
folks believe, will keep good for seven
years, and it will alga cure certain sem-
plaints. The seventh son of e. /seventh son
is /supposed to be endowed with wonderful
gifts in performing cures.. TIste last idea
fs not peculiar to the New Foresters ; in
the midland counties ib has e. stronghold on
the country folke. About the stoppage of
blood flowing, from wonnde of rup-
tured blood-viceaels eepecielly, there
are memo very pectdtar beliefs
in same parts, one being that the
shoot can only be transmitted by a man to
a woman, and again by a woman to a man.
There is an amusing proverb in use here
about upsterto : " A deg fa made fat in
two meals." A curious idea k prevalent in
the forest about the deretb'ri-head moth ;
they believe firmly that tills lneeot was never
aeon until after the execution of Charles the
First. There is scarcely a village or hamlet
in the Now Forest bat has fen ptxey field or
mead, or its piaey'e ewe. 77hab mischiev-
ous spirit, whioh is known insider the name
of " Laurence," still °Weds s possession of
those whorn " the Bode wieh to ruin."
" Lanreooe has got on him,' they say of ono
who is hay. A trickey fairy, the forest
folk believe to this day, tempbo their rough
native ponies to stray. Also, they
soy that he lives ba boge, into
which he entices the unwary. " Colt
pixies" such as he aro termed ; only the
first-born may consider themselves to be
free from hie spell. The caterpillar is
known, as is the dawn of the first transla-
tion of the Bible into English, as the
" palmerworm," A wood/ander talks of
feeling bearlike when he is hungry, using
a corruption of the word " learners," old
English for emptiness, which reminds one
of the German " leer." But ens might fill
pages with examples showing how much
Nature, in " humane " as well ae in wild
life, has been allowed to remain as she was
so many genera tione ago. Tbere is a potent
charm aboat this old-world state of things
which seizes on ons, aad seems for a time
to fill ono who enters the forsab pre-
cincts with a sense of reat that is eoobh-
i"g to both heart and brain.—Gcrnleill
Magazine
AitTIFLCiLS STONE'.
As New Media it WEIL Not Crack or
Fracture.
By a new process artificial stone is now
maaafacbured free, it leclaimed, fram the
usual /lability to crack or fracture. The
process is described by the " Architectural
and Building Monthly "'sea simple—that
allioic acid, after being ground to powder,
fa cleansed from all impncitien by ordinary
means, and 5 to 10 per cent. of it mixed up
in warm river or rata water, which is either
applied te slacked or well -burnt lime, or Is
coded to hydraulic time; the resulting
product from thio proceea, which In silicate
of lime, is mixed with nand and small
portions of fluorspar. '.phis mixture
may be cast into melds, so as
to give various oltapes, as desired,
and on being removed tits castings are
allowed to dry for;from 12 to 114 hours, after
which time they will be es dry as atmoe-
pherie afr ; they are then brought into a
steam boiler and steam hie we itbrough so as
to drive out all air, after which the boiler
le hermotleally closed: up Sud steam let in
under a premiere of tan aabanoapheres. In
this high pressure abeam bath the atones
remain from 4B to 7dohoure, afterward being
submitted to a bath ef beilitrg and =berated
chloride of celatcan daring six to twelve
hours, Mao under a premiere of about tan
atmoapheree in the mane boiler, and the
cendeated waber may he treed for the bath.
Theee stemee are allowed to dry in the open
air, sr, when desired ba dry quickly, steam
may bo circulated inside of the boiler afber
the chloride of ealotum has been with-
drawn and before the donee aro taken out.
serrmgriing whit she es:n;gnat;e.
" I wonder what- bassos of my pen-
knife ?" odd bite new teacher in the Kin-
dergarten. " I am sure I left 11 on my
desk,"
" Reddy AluIligrn swiped it, mum," re-
plied little Donnls Qalnn.
"Swiped it !" asked the teacher, with a
surprised 1nliecflonla her voice.
" Yee`m. I need hien"
" Bab what do you moan lay awiped it?"
" Swiped it !" repeated Dennis, it now
being hie turn to Ise snrpriaed.
" Yes. What Is ewipeaf ft
" W`y, ensiled
" Steeled it ? What tux earth do you
mean 1'
" Wlxy, he prigged ft, nr¢mJ
" More iocemprahonedble than ever.
Swiped, mailed, prigged h What on earth
do you meas '.•
'. Why, he yanked it, yea know," ex-
claimed Dossni&, amazed. at his toaoher's
failure to nndoratand conetnon language.
" Put it ia his pocket, yaw know."
" Oh l" erclatmed the teacher, with a
great sigh of relief, as she went after Reddy
Mnlllgan.—Harper's Bazar.
A 3Otrror reaa' iseagaae.
As a protest against the negleob, even
obloquy, cant upon thorn by society, the
laree also of the .reantnaniby known ao
"Minor Poets" have (the Daily Telegraph
says) determined to foam themselves into a
"brotherhood" for purposed of defence and
probac lsn. Undor sante of the ancient
Gavoramente of Greece nntuor poets were
expelled from the ceautry as crimiaalo, or,
if they persisted in their evil ways, were
pub to death. Modern society refrains from
such cruel troabaoent; ib only starves them.
The new brotherhood mopes to bring about
even a better appreciation el minor poets,
and to secure for theist rs statue in the com-
munity.
Safe end ilrtsafei ltinknbor.
Rubber articles colored on the surface
only are unsafe.
Rabbet' articles that bus b to water and are
elastic and soft are harrrifiat.
Black rabbet doll's Ghat are colored
throughout the marts, the material of
whicheinks in water, coaled:a lead, and are
dangerottlz
Red and brownranbber containing anti -
month sulphide, and when colored through.
ant the masa, are net deutgerous, as the
antimony doss not dissolve in the saliva or
fu milli.—h2'edical, New.
Waisted m Tickets
Mrs. Benbhere---W'elb, any dear, marriage
ab the beet la but is lottery.
Mies ?Zcllowleaf (eagerly) --You don't
happen to kaaw whomna tickets can be
bought, do you 1
When the dlir Maw Thersty
It le oeloulated that mea bright oummor
day there are raised into the air by evapora-
tion from bho eunfaaoe of the ,Meditorranoan
5,280,000 bona of aster,
LAUGEi1 AND LEARN.
iligbllaud Mary.
To banks and braes, and streams nroain I
The castle of Montgomery
Green be your woods arid fair 99nr fio pr81Di..
'Your waters never drum ie t
There summer first unfolds hen robes,
And there they longest tarry,
For there 1 took the last farmed
Of my sweet Highland Mary.
How sweetly bloomed the gay green kirks
How rich the hawthorn's blossom,
As underneath their fragrant shade
1 clasp'd her to my bosom 1
The golden hours on angel wing6
/flow o'er me and my dearie,
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
W' mony a vow and lock'd embrace
Our parting was fu' tender,
And pledging aft to meet again,
We tore ourselves asunder.
But oh 1 fell death's untimely frost
That nipt my flower sae early,
Now green's the sod and could s the clay
That wrapsmy Highland Mary.
0 pale, pale now those rosy lips,
I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ;
And olosed for aye the sparklingglancs
That dwelt on me sae kindly!
And mouldering now in silent dust
Tho heart that lova me dearly,
Bub still within my bosom's core
Shall live my Highland Mary.
Bums
Rendered anbo Cesar—Greece.
A tramp abroad is worth two ab the baolr
door.
Every woman is a law unto her—hus-
band.
The slot-maohine is a regular catch -penny
affair.
The wages of sin is frequently a per cent.
of the profits.
Deg Stars—The bloodhounds in an Uncle
Tom's Cabin company.
Every man has his prion; but few of them.
have it In their wallets.
Imitation is a flattery that woman deosn'b
relish in matters of dress.
Children seem to think that half a Ioaf of
oaks is better than no bread.
Luxury has been defined as something,.
that someone else always poetesses.
Hitch your wagon to a star if you will,
but look to the strength of the harness.
Adam was the forerunner of his race;,
and, as too many runners do, he threw it.
It is pretty hard for Dyspepsia and Chris-
tianity to travel hand-in-hand through Afe.
The President's message, it is said, will
deal wholly with finance. This is a ease
where money talks.
The journal of the vegetarians in Berlin,
deolareo that none of its devotees have been
affected by cholera.
The Siamese in saluting kiss each other's
noses, and then, sniffing, remark : " Very
fragrant, very fragrant!'
A hero is a man who slake er lone his
life to rectify some horrible mistake of the
fools who applauded him.
There 18 always room at the top. The
bottom also has not been backward in fur-
nishing accommodations.
As bay is bo be listed an the New York
Shook Exchange, it will not now be oeneid-
ered is want of enterprise to go to grass.
"Yes," said a Washington girl, demurely,
" I know that Jack likes me very much."`
" How?" " The way he forgets hie um-
brella when he calls."
A Great Bend (Kan.) church, having got
tired of its minister, requested him to
leave, and passed touching resolutions ef
regret at his departure.
Governor Waite, of Colorado, is being
cordially invited by the Chicago newspapers
to visit the stookyards, whore he can wade,
in blsed up to his whiskers.
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these
three ; but the greatest of these is love ;
for love is the seraph, and faith and hope.
aro but the wings by which it flies.—Henry
Ward Beecher.
Tho steamship Spree is on her way to
New York with more than 54,000,000 in
gold aboard. Paradoxical as it may sound,
when obis geld gets here on the Spree
money won't be quite so tight.
Mother—For mercy's sake, child, what
do you expect to do in the world ? You
can't cook nor sew nor teach school, and
you are net an heiress ; what can you do
i)anghber—Well, mother, I can get married,
can't I 1
" Mabel, I am sorry to see you treat
young Mr. Spudd so scornfully. What
objectionable features do you find abonb
him?" " All his features are objeotion-
able, mamma, and he can't raise a beard to
hide them."
The Kongo is the most wonderful water-
way in the world. It is 25 mi/ss across in
parts, so that vessels may pass one an-
other and yet be out of sight. Ib has twice
the extent of the navigable watero of the
Miuslssippi and its tributaries, and three
times their population.
Briggs—What a pity it is ' bloats women
won't) have any sense. My wife waits up
for me till I gat home, if It isn't tall day-
light. Braggs—You are in luck, I think.
Inline always gets a good nap, and then.
when I want to go to sleep she insists on
talking for three or four hours.
In Georgia .the negroea out -marry the
whites, some of them marrying two er
throe times a year. A negro will quit his
wife in Atlanta and go up to Marietta and
get another one and call for his license and
get married and stiok until she quits him
or he gate tired of her, and then he skips
over to Ram() or somewhere and tries it
again. " Are you living together as man
and wife 1" said Judge Brown, in a repent
case. " Oh, yes, Judge ; in course we Is.
After ebo left mo, she came hank and'poll-
gized ; and what else could I do, Judge,
but forgive her 1"
Constable and the Archbishop.
Thomas Constable, the famous Scottish
publisher, was an old schoolfellow and
intimate friend of Dr. Archibald Campbell
Tait, Bishop of London. Having occasion:
to write to Hie Grace not long after hits
promotion to the Archbiehoprto of Canter-
bury, he bad some hesitation as to whether
he would be justified in adopting hie noun
familiar mode of address, "My dear Arohy."
He happily eolvcd the difficulty, however,
by the aubobitution of " My dear Archy-
Bishop."
Too Much Toil.
First tramp—If I bad my way I'd have
365 national holidays in the year.
Sebond tramp—You world, eh? And
then there would be one working day every
four years. Oh, you are e nice oiio, yeti
are; You would make a galley etave of the
poor laboring man, wouldn't yeu?
Dill's Picnic.
"What's Bill Jones Makin' so much (ulnae
thampiu' that ono trunk around for?" asked.
one railway employee of another.
"S-S-Sh 1 Don't bother film. He's en
joyin' himself. That's bho first Brunie
marked 'glass' that has comp his way in et
month."
Happy lira they that hear their deerae-
tlonn,,» sd can pat them to mending: ..
Skakeapearr.