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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-2, Page 3o . . e. 4 .40•..411,,,,dgreCt....ZIN., ,,...."1.4.,:94.24.1! 04%..j2t..A.4,214.46? ra. ''''.-'iroCrY-1:440,-.0,,,00,40,".,%2P'r'•P,Aper",:w fl''',Ifir'''.00 i 1 nd War Es __ *eve i‘ A STOlaY OP SLAVERY PAY. I* _. ., By MARI! J. 110LAIES. er, . vo' f,,,-1.0,....ip,4:....r.,.."....,....0.4,14....w.,fir...004......41...,..z...4%...Q1...a......".,.ztzzat 4Kl'74Z‘'''''sco.,VVV*.s.V'les.."4seV.VVI'MPrx.OrsOV.,,sr...se,,aer'..07,7•40,-..rre..or. IX VC Mettniget in Riclunond, and 'awn, sountime Off the etrultes, bent lower laa watch for the expeeted obange, There wa$ no color in the parted Up, and about the nose there was 0. pinelled, coetracteti look, whicli Tom remem- bered to have seen in Mary's face, when by ber bedside he had sat, just as he sat by efsaatee, but where 1Vlary's hands were cold and dry 'Isaac's were envies ana warm, while the rapid pulses were aot as wiry, and irregular as hers had been. There was hope, and fall - trig on his knees, Tom Carleten asked that the life almost gone but might be restored, and promised that if it were he would not forget his leeson as he had forgotten the one learned by Mary's death -bed. He would be a better man, he slid, and God, as he sone/times does, took him at his word. Gradualla the sharp expression passed • away, the hair grew clamp with a more healthful nauisture, the pulses were slower, the breathing more regular, and when at last the heavy slumber was broken, and [sae° looked up again, Tom knew that he would live. There was a murmured prayer of thanksgiving, a renewal of his pledge, and then he bent every energy to sus- tain the life coming so slowly back. Softly the morning broke over the pri- son walls, and they who had expected to look on Isaac dead, rejoiced to hear that he was better. "It may be shall see mother yet," he whispered, faintly, when Tom told him that the dreaded weeds was past; "and it I do, I'll tell her tat your kind- ness." "Would you like very„ inuch to go home to your cnother ?" Tom asked, and with a quivering lip and chin Isaac answered: . "Yes, oh, yes, if I only could! E was willing to die, but I guess we all cling to life at the last, don't you?" Tom did not reply to this, but spoke instead of a rumor that all were soon to be discharged and sent back to Washington. "-We'll go together, User'," he said, "you and L for I shall visit Rockland first and see my sister Rose. The prospect of release was meat and drink for Isaac, who rallied so fast that when the joyful news of an ex- change did come, he was able, with Tom's help, to walk across the floor of *what had been his home so long. • Uaggard, wasted, weary, and worn were those prisoners as they filed down the stairs and out into the streets, but with each moment which brought them new-er home, their spirits ruse, and when at Last they stood again on Fed- eral soil and saw the Stars and Stripes waving in the morning breeze, long and deafening were the huzzas which rent the air as one after another gave vent to hie great joy at finding him- self free once more. Isaac, however, could neither shout, nor laugh, nor speak, and only the large eyes, brim- ming with tear, told of joy unutter- able, but when arrived at Washington, his two stalwart brothers took him in their arms, hugging and crying over him as over one -come back to them from the grave, his calmness all gave way, and laying his tired head on Eli's boom, while john" held and caressed his wasted hands, he sobbed out the happiness Coo great to be expressed in words. To him a full discharge from service was readily accorded while to Tom a furlough of several weeks was given,. and. after a few days at Wash- ington both started northward to join the friends waiting so impatiently for thair arrival. • CHAPTER XIX. The people of 11,ockland had beeome somewhat accustomed to " the "Rebel lion," as they had playfully called Jim- mie Carleton, and the latter could now go quietly through the, streets with- out • attracting attentions which at first •had been vestly disagreeable to the sensitive young tame. Gradually, as he mingled more tvith the people, theyhad learned to like hina, and were fast forgetting that he had ever joined • the ranks of the foe and struck at his mother country. With the rabble who had met him at the depot on his first arrival at. jencklanci b.e was vastly popular, for forcing down hie pride, he ha& been very oonciliatory toward them, and they still adhered to their olden promise of making him their next police justice, provided he would Consent' to run. With • him usual iinpudence, Bill Baker continued to annoy the proud, Bostonian virith his good-humored fami- liarities, some of whioh Jimmie per -- milled, while others he quietly re- pulsed, for 13i11's constant: allusions to the past were exceedingly disagreeable, and as far as possible he avoided his quotidera associate, who, without the least suspicion that his manner was disgusting in theeextreme, would hail • hint across the street, addressing him always as "Corp'ral," and if strangers were in hearing, inviting him to "call 'round and see a fella± once in ,a white for old acquaintance sake." • At the Mather mansion matters re - tautened about the same as when Jim- mie 'first came •home. Mrs. Carleton was still there, waiting for her other eon, and Rose, as usual, was ever on Ike alert, seeking ways and means by which the soldiers might be benefited, compelling Jimmie to be interested in her plats, clregging him from place to place, sending him on errands; old Once,When in a gveat hurry to get a i box n readiness for the hospitals at • Washington, (Lethally coaxieg hina into helping tie a comfortable, whieh was put up in her back parlor, and which she "roust seed immediately, for some poot foliate- was sure to eeed it." "Jinn - rate could learn to tie as well as her- • settee she • Said, when he pleaded-hia ignorance as an excuse for est -tieing his service. "She didn't know how once, but Witlow Simms and Annie had taught lier a heaft, end A.nnie would • teach him, too, All lie had to do was to ptit the big darning needle through twice, tie a weaver's knot, eut it off, and the thing Was done; besides that, • 'twee a. real pretty quilt, mule from Ahnieas calieo, dross, whieh Ic tleed te tveae last summer and loOlt 80 sweetly in. Annie was t yiug 011one side and Jimmie must tie on the other ; he need- n't be so laey, ile might to do some- thitig fot •the War,"' • fly the time n080 had reached the Met pointe in her argument, jinande had closed the hot* he Was reading, and (teetered that there might be, duties' required of Wit a great deal worse then tying a soldier's oonafert- able with A,unie to 'oversee! It was strange how muck teaohing be needed, and how often Annie was called to the rescue. The needle, would stick eo in the eotton, and he could not remem- ber just how to tie that knot. So Annie, never dreaming that he knew how to tie the knot as weLl as she, would came to his aid, her bands some- times touching his, and his black curls occasionally brushing her pale, brown braids as he bent over her to see how she did it, so as to know himself - next time! There was a world of mischief in Jimmie's saucy eyes as he demurely apologized to Mrs. Graham for the trouble .he was giving her, but Annie never once looked up, neither did the color deepen in the least upon her claeele, and when Jimmie, on purpose to draw her out, suggested that "he was more bother than help," she answered that he "had better return to his read- ing, as she could. get ou quite as well alone." • After this Jimmie thought proper to teen a little teeter, and soon out- stripped his teacher, who rewarded him with no word ofapproval save a cool "Thank you," when the comfort- able was done and taken 'from the awkward frames. And this was a fair speeimen of the nature of the inter - coarse existing between Jimmie and Annie. Secure now in the belief that she would never be recognized as the "Pequot of New London," Annie re- garded Jimmie as any ordinary strang- er, in whom she had no particular in- terest, save that which her kind heart pi onmted her to feel for all mankind. She could not dislike him, and she al- ways defended him from the aspersions of the widow, who could not quite (ma- gnet her repugnance to a Rebel, and who frequently gave vent to her ill - will toward Jimmie, whom she thought so proud. "Stuck-up critter 1" she said, "strut - tin' round as if he was good as any- body, and feelie' above his betters. Of course he felt above her, and Susan, and Annie, she knetv he did; and if she's Annie she vummed if she'd stay there, and be looked at as Jam looked ac her," Althougla making due allowance for the widow's prejudice, these remarks were not , without their effect upon Annie, who, imperceptibly to her- self: began to feel that probably Jiro.- inie did regard her pa merely a poor dependent on his sister's bounty, and see Unconsciously assumed toward him a cool reserved manner, which led hire to fancy that she entertained for him a deep-rooted prejudice on account of his past error. Twenty times a day he said to hieraself he did not care what she thought of him, and as many times a day he knew he did care much more than was at all conducive to his peace of mind. Where this caring might end he never stopped to consider. He only felt now that he respected elle Quaker - like Annie more than he ever respected a woraan before, and coveted her good opinion more earnestly than he ever remembered to have coveted anything in his life, unless, indeed, it were his freedom. ‘vhen a prisoner •in Bill Bak- er's power. . In this state of affairs it required all Rose's tact to sustain anytlaing like sociability between her brother and Annie, and the little lady was perfect- ly delighted when the joyful tidings Was received that Tom was coming home. Annie would like Tom, for ev- erybody did; besides, Tom had writ- ten as if he were a,bnost a good man himself, and Annie was sure to be pleased with that; they, al. least, would be fast friends; and secure on this point, Rose, with her usual impulsive- ne,ss, plunged into the preparations for Tom's reception. Even Annie did not think any reasonable honor too great for him particularly after fsaac wrote. from Washington to his mother, telling her of Tom's generous saerifice, and how he might have been home long before if he had. not chosen to stay and care for a poor sick boy. How the widew's heart warmed toward the Car- letons, taking the whole family into its hitherto rather limited dimensions. Even Jimmie was mit excluded, the wi- dow admitting to Mrs Baker, between whom, and herself there had been many a hob discussion, touching the so-called' Rebel, that when he laughed, he was uncommon handsome for a Secessioner" and she presumed that "at the bot- tom he was as good as they would aver- age." But if the widow were thus affected by Tom's kind act, how teach more were the mother and sister pleased to know how noble and good he was, while Annie, amid the tears else could not repress, said to Rose, "lou should be proud of such a brother! There are few like him, I am sure!" Flow Jimnaie envied Torn, as he heard, on all sides, pralees for his noble an- selfishand the, resolution to wel- come him and Isaac with military hon- ors. Once more u u his element, Bill Baker industriously •drilled his clique, who were to answer no earthly pur- pose save to swell the throng and pro- long the deafening cheers, Bill began to feel related to the Carlelotts, and regularly each day he tailed at the Mather mansion to keep Rose posted with regard to the progress of af- fair. They were to bring out the new gut, he said, tied ab it was minus a name, the villager's had toncluded to call it the " l'hornas Carleton," asking, " how he thought the 'Square would like it, aod how many times it ought to be fired. The band would serenade Teel in the evening," he said, "and we shall have bonfires kindlein the streets," talking as if instead • of be- ing merely cannon -tender, he were head manager of the whole, and that all the responsibility was resting on himself. Rose understood him per- feottY, and with the utmost .good na- ture listened to his suggestions, and Scolded ,Iimmie for calling him her Prime minister and confi(lant, • Prom the etipota ot tete Mether man- taori the Staes arid Stripes were to be Lung out, and on the morning of Tom's expected arrival, :Jimmie and Annie elinibed the winding Stairs and fits - tamed thts staff sechrely to its place, There were tears in Annie's eyes ns fke. TIVIR graceatil folds *tee% themselves iuto the breeze, for she remembered the owning of another soldier when this same banner wits wrapped aroued coffin. Acroeti the valley and beyond the confinee of the village ,she could !see where the coffin with its loved ininate was buried, and as the past (mine rushing over her, she suddenly gave way, and sittiog down beneath the flag wept bitterly, utile Sienna) with a vague idea as to what might. have canoed her tears, stood looking at her, wishing- he could comfort her. But what should he say 9 As yet they had ecarcely passed the bounds of the,,, most scrupulous politeness to each other, and foe him to attempt to com- fort her seemed preposterous, while to leave her without a word, seemea equally unkind. Perhaps it was the beautiful glossy braids of hair which brought him at last Le a decision, causing him to lay his hand invotun- tarily upon the bowed head, while Ile said: "I am sorry for you, Mrs. Graham, for I know how ranch the contrast be- tween my brother's return and that of your husband must affect you, and gladly would I spare you the pain, if I could. I am not certain but the good People of Rockland, in their in- tended kindness to Tom, are doing you an injury, and surety Lieutenant Gra- ham having been a resident of this place should receive their first thougbt: with all pertaining to him." There was no mistaking the genuine sympathy which thrilled in every tone of jimmie's voice, and • for a mo- ment Annie wept more passionately than before. It was the first time he had ever spoken to her of her husband and bis words touehed a reePonsive chord at once. " It is riot that so much," she an- swered at last. "1 am glad they are honoring your brother thus; he rich- ly deservea it for his noble adherence to his country in ber hour of peril, and for his generous • treatment of poor Isaac Simms. I would do much my- self to show him my respect; but, oh, George, George, I am so desolate with- out lentil" and covering her face with her hands Annie wept again, more piteously than before. Here was a point which Jimmie could not touch, and an awkward silence en- sued, broken at last by Annie, who, resuming her usual calm demeanor, frankly offered Jimmie her hand, say- ing: " I thank you, Mr. Carleton, for your sympathy. It has made me believe you are my friend, and as such I. would rather consider you." " Your friend/Did you ever deem me other than that S" Jimmie replied in some surprise, involuntarily- pressing the little hand which oxiey for an in- stant rested in his, and then was quietly withdrawn just as Rose from the foot of the stairs called out to know what they were doing up there so long." It was strange how differently Jim- mie felt after this incident, and how fast his apirits rose. The few words said to him by Annie up in his sister's cupola had made him very happy, for he felt that a better understanding existed between himself and Annie, that she did not so thoroughly despise him as he had at first supposed, and that the winning her respect was not a hopeless task. As early as two the crowd began to gather in the streets, and half " an hour later Rose's carriage, with Jim- mie in it, was on its way to the depot, iVIrs. Carleton did not care to go, and so Rose, too, .remained at jhome, and mounting to the cupola, watched for the first wreath of smoke which should herald the, approach of the train. "1 see it—he's corning!" she scream- ed, as a feathery mist was discernible ever the distent plains, and in a few moments -move the cars swept round the curve, while a booming gun told that Bill Baker was faithful to his duty. The.re was a swaying to and fro of the throng at Lho depot, a pushing each other aside, a thrilling of fife, a beat- ing of drums, and then a deafening shout went up as Tom Carleton and John Simms appeared upon the plat- form, cagefutty supporting the totter- ing steps of the weak, excited boy, who stood between them, At sight of Isaac, there was a momentary hush, and then with a shriek such as a tigress might give when it saw its young in danger, the Widow Simms rustled frantically forward, and catching the light foam of her child in her arms, tried. to bear him theough the crowd, but her strength was insuddicient, and she would have fallen had not Jimmie re- lieved her of her burden which he sus- tained with one hand, while the oth- er was extended to welcome the stran- ger who came near. Half btvildered, Tom looked around upon the multitude, aeking in a whis- per what it meant. He wield not think they had come to welcome hint, and when assured by Jimmie that such was the fact his lip quivered for an in- stant, and his tongue refused its of- fice, Then, in a few well-chosen words he thanked the people for the uncle-. served surprise, so far as he was him- self concerned. Isaac was more wor- thy of such welcome he said, and naore than hall of it was meant, he knew, for their townsman, who had shown himself equally brave in camp, in bat- tle, and in prison, while, had they' known that Lieutenant Simnas, too, was coming, he was sure they woutd not have thougbi of him a stranger to them all, (To be continued.) QUEER SIGNS CI DEATH. The outward signs on the heuses where some one has died in North Hol- land are original in the extreme. When the dead person was a Protestatit a long black mantle, such as the under- taker wears when he goes to the grave, is hung in the middle of the front door. In the ease of a Bonier' Catho- lic a tall black cx-osti is pieced on the dooratep. • SAMOA'S COCOANUTS, Practically the whole business of Samoa is based to -day upon the cocoa- nut, and the exports of copra, the dried meat of the cocoanut, represents nearly all the exports of the itlahd. 0001) REASON. A Friend -4f you love her, old fellow why don't you marry her Bachelor Doctor. -.Marry her Why, fittfi'S one of nay beet patients! WONDERFUL OPERATIONS or TIM •MODERN SURGEON. Bow These teals Compare With Twee Perforiteel lb the Olden rElnief4—ilaw IWO Nelson lioll'eeed. Throtielli the rignoranee or the rovemost Surgeons or England. The feats of modern surgeons are indeed truly martreloue and wonderful. There is nothing they will laot attempt to save life or render it easier to the stifferer. The defects of nature as well as the results of aecidents are set right. girl ef 8 Yeare, though of normal physique, bad no intelligence. leer parents had noticea this from her first Year and though evierything had been done for her in the way of education, she did not know the letters of the al- phabet, nor cculd she talk intelligent- ly. A surgeon, tvlio was consulted, gave as his opinion that the brain had °eased to develop, ' owing to the pre- mature coalescence of the bones of the skull. He removed several small por- tions of bone from the top, of the head and by thus relieving the pressure on the brain gave it room to expand. Within twenty-four hours of the oper- ation its effects were seen. The child cried for its parents, took notice of everything and within eight days could talk well and amuse herself in- telligently. In cases of injury to the skull, the piers of crushed -in bone ,are removed and the vacant spaces cov- ered by silver plates. The modern surgeon, indeed, can re- place any part of the human body which may be injured, and rig up an entirely new set. of limbs. A housemaid in an hotel was struck in the face by se, des- cending lift and her nose severely in- jnred. Attempts to patch up the dam- aged organ failed, and it was deter- mied to make a new nose. A black -bird was killed, and before its body was cold its breastbone was fixed to the woman's face, and what remained of the old skin was drawn over it. The strange substitute knitted itself to the face, the operation being , A COMPLETE SUCCESS. The operation of rhinoplasty is a very common one at Heidelberg, as the stu- dents there have an -Ugly habit of slashing each other's noses in their famous duels. A _lap of skin is al- most detached from the forehead and brought down over the nose which has been almost. destroyed. This skin is then stitched down on either side of the nose, and in time becomes grafted thereto. Skin grafting, indeed, is quite common in cases of severe burns. Small strips of skin are taken from the un- touched parts and out into small r- ow v- e- 'e - on as ar n- 1 - a as r, oo a pieces distributed over the raw su face. In time they take root and gr and spread, until they completely co er the place. The skin of frogs, r cently killed for the purpose, is fe quently used where bum= cuticle c not be conveniently obtained. A month or two ago a doctor w called in to attend a boy whose e had been completely bitten off by vicious horse. The surgeon determi ed to try and replace the ear, as fai ure to do so could not result in worse deformity. The missing ear w duly found and handed to the docto who was then engaged in bathing th severed. part in warm water. He ha neither instruments nor dxessing wit him, and as the half-hour's delay t obtain them would have been fatal t success, he stitched the ear in its plac again with a common needle an thread. This was -followed by antisep tic treatment, and in six weeks th ear had become reunited to the het, again and completely healed, leavin no seers., Even had this been a fail are, an aural appendage, made of waxy composition, and an exact fac simile of the other ear could hare .bee made and fixed. In some cases it ha been necessary to remove the tongue but by raising the floor of the mouth and thus in some way filling tbe plac Of the missing organ, the patient ha, been enabled to speak almost perfect ly. The fitting of glass eyes is well known, and the complete destruction of the jawbone has no terrors for the modern surgeon. . THE CRUSHED BONE is removed and a piece of silver or al- uminum, the exact shape of the lost jaw, fitted in its place. After this has become firmly fixed, teeth can be fitted to it. If a man's throat is de- fective the operation of tracheotomy— ' the insertion of a silver tube in a wind- pipe with an orifice opening to the throat—provides him wi th it new breathing apparatus. Artificiat legs and arms are now so perfect that with them a man can walk, skate and even cycle, There is a story, also, ot a man who, injuring his spine in a railway ac- cident was fitted with a steel ceeing for his backbone and so enabled to walk and ride. Peones destroyed by accidents or de- cayed by disease are replaeed by oth- ers taken from animals or amputated litnbs. A bone in a man's foot was at- tacked by canes, which gradually ate the bone away. A teeth's shank was procured, the bone cleaned, boiled in ca.rbolic acid, pounded into a powder, arid made bite a paste. The foot was opened and all the decayed parts of the bote scraped away, sinmly leav- ing a hollow Abell, This was pack- ed with the paste of the iamb's shank and the wound sato/Jed up. It speedily healed arid the free use of the foot was soot •recotterecl. rt was during the attack on Santa Cru2 in 1707 that Nelson lost his aria. Ee was shot through the right abate, and after binding it tip with a hand- kerchief, he continued to direct the fighting, When the battle was over, Nelsen was aeamtned by the surgeon, who decided amputation was rieeessery. The Sea was rough, the cockpit badly lighted, and chloroform, of course, un- known. Di tying tip the separated ar- teries the stegeon tiecidently betted up the median terve also. This "unlucky" circumstance, as Nelson called it was produetive of INTENSaa S'ETFFERING to the gallant Admiral, but tha foce- temet suageons in England could not devise any treatinent to relieve hini. To a. medere surgeon the eetirse woolll be straightforward and. simple. The wouAd would he welted and the nerve relieved from the silk ligatiire, Where nerves have' been accidentally cost dur- ing an operation • or by glasse, UMW have been suecessfully joined togeth- er 'again. ,A.n artisan, falling irait a height, severely hurt his right arm. IL was operated upon, end, though sPe„- eificallY 'successful, the arm wasten and was quite useless, preventing the man frOna following his trede. It wee Lhonglit that a nerve had been per- ered, either by the surgeon during the operation, or torn in the fall.. The Arno Wa',$ opened, and this Wan foutul, to be the cese. A rabbit was procure,d, ren- dered unconseious, and the two ociatie nerves extracted and stitched to the ende of the severed nerve in the man's arm. Within a month the man had re- covered the full use of bis arm, whiell also regained its normal size and ap- Peatauce, and he was sion able to fed - low his trade again. Even to the hea.rt itself has been ap- plied the ordinary treatment of wound, .a patient was brought to a hosPital, stabbed to the heart. The enegeon held bare the heart, and, finding the site of the wound, on the right side, calmly stitched it up. The heart beat most violently during this operation, but af- terward quieted down, and the patient recovered frorn what hes been usually regarded as A. FATAL WOUND. Though these performances sound marvelous to modern ears, the civiliz- ation of prehistoric times furniehes instanoes quite as remarkable. The op- eration of trephining—the cutting out of a piece of the skull which has been crushed in, and replacing it by a silver or gold plate—which is one of the most delicate known to modern surgery, was performed by the ancient Incas of Mexico and Peru. In the Smithsonian Institute, Boston, there are nineteen skulls of prehistoric deee which bear traces of this operation having been perfaomed on them. From one skull a piece of bone four inches long and an inch and a quarter wide had been removed and the vacant space filled by a silver plate. Sir John Lubbock also speaks of skulls of the neolithic age on which trephining has been per- formed. The principal weapons were spiked clubs and stone adzes, which would inflict wounds necessitating tre- phining. And the surgeons of the per- iod, though their instruments were of flint, and antiseptics unknown, were fully equal to the occasion. CARELESS ABOUT MONEY. cell]. Rhodes' Aieventure 011 MS VIM 10 Windsor Castle. Cecil Rhodes the South African mil- lionaire, like other great men, is care- less about money. On one occasion he received a com- mand to dine and sleep at Windsor Castle, and turned up at ,Paddington station with no money. His private seoretary bought his tic- ket for him and gave bira for pocket money a couple of sovereigns, which was all he had with him. When Rhodes reached the old castle above the Thames and began dressing to dine with Queen Victoria he laid the two sovereigns upon the table, in- tending to transfer them to the pockets cif his evening unmentionables, but forgot them when he went down. He dined, had a few words with Her Majesty, retired, smoked. and went back to his bedroom. The money was gone. The servants accustomed to generous fees taturally suppoeed that the money had been delicately left there for them, and of course Mr. Rhodes could neither explein the cir- cumstances to them nor trouble his roy- al hostess about so slight a matter. The next ,morning he was driven to the station in one of the Queen's car- riages. Luckily he had his return tic- ket, and reached London, like Dick Whittington, and many another fam- ous man, without a penny in hie pocket. Unlike Whittington, he didn't have even a cat. However, he had only to walk to his offices to find the penny that' he needed, and others to keep it company. SHELLS UNDER LONDON. interesting Tose 181) Feet. or a Deno' ar Far down beneath what is now the surface of London there once existed the bed of the ocean. Thousands of years have elapsed since the leviathans of the deep dispurted over the sites where St. Paul's and Westminster now stand but Nature has left samples of her autograph there and modern civi- lization is day by day meovering and translating them. ' A. well-known tirm of artesian well makers, who have had occasion to'bore hundreds cf feet beneath London, know that at certain stages they will al- ways encounter traces of the bed of this satnrcuittunnat oncteasteus underlies • the whole of the mighty basin on which London rests. Many shells have been discovered at a depth ot 180, feet, or a little, more than the height of the Nel- soTnhcioslubmedn'of shells is several feet in depth, and lies from 160 to 200 ft. be- neath the surface. Many of these shells are in a perfect. state of pre- servation, although many hundreds of years old. • ALL HE ttvrcg:131), Iimson—Wotrt yo' sing some- thing tor us, Miss Skylark? 'Miss Skylark, modestly—Weh, I'll try, Mr. jimson, Mr. Jiteson--Suttinly, Mies. Skylatk, suttinly—dat's Wot inettet1 SCIENTIFIC CLA.IRVOYANCY. De Gabbleton and his wife don't get on so well together, What Makes you thhat so 1 totito is paying her so much attention in public. • SPIATS HUMAN HAIR, A 1?arisian has invented a Machine by Which; among other things, he daft spilt a lumen hair lengthwise into 8Z • WHAT IS A B/LLION OueStion of Ergots* *hour Who'll IN trrettees or °sows Exist. • joty:a°°1111.1):::::11()::::841Ertahtsrool3tuwilst::4074jdth:axii:14:111:1011:1114:9.::34.":4?Ire:714:11::: •:41:1)0::Inee:t41w171t1e4s'44:111:16:' iste-eittsSat°trilbi: more than that sum; that, in short, a biltion, ia 0. millioe tines a million! • After the Fraeco-Prussian war, this correspondent contizmes, the French had to payan indemnity of twentYesix milliards' of francs, and at that time many thought. a " milliard" was equal to a billion, which it is not. A. "mil- liard" te One thoueand millions, and that is the sum in dollars which, it is believed will one day become tlie for - *Cues of Mr. Rockefeller. There is sae word. in English for a tlioueand mil- lions corresponding to the French word, milliard ;" but , it is a simple Utile fignre of 1 with nine nougbts efter it, thus: 1,000,000,000. A milliard of francs is, roughly, equi- valent to £40,000,000, forty million Pounds, and the French war indemnity of twenty -ix milliards of francs therefore came to about £1,040,000,000, one thousand and forty millionpounde, —a -very nice little sum to receive. But a billion; what is that/ A bil- lion is one thousand milliards or A. MILLION TIMES A MILLION. quite an easy thing to write, only a 1 with twelve noughts after it, thus: 1,000,000,000,000. But what intellect can grasp the meaning of those simple fig- ures unless aided by something to bring hera within reasonable comparison 9 t will be quite sufficient for Mr. Rockefeller, or for any roan. to be von a " millia,rdaire," for that sum in dollars would make him worth over two hundred and eight million pounds ster- ing. A billion dollar a at 4.80dols. to the overeign are .equivalent to the BUM 208,333,333,833; or, in writing, wo hundred and eight thousand three undred and thirty-three millions, hree hundred and thirty-three ,thou - ands, three hundred and thirty-three ounds sterling! Does the whole wealth f the world amount to as much as hat It may indeed be doubted. Let us look into the matter a little ore closely, and try to imagine what billion of dollars converted into ounds sterling mean. First of all hey would weigh oeer one million six undreti and forty thousand tons of olid gold! It would require a fleet of --28 huge ships, each having a freight apacity of 5000 tons, to convey that um of money across the Atlantic and o transport that sum to the docks -ould require 3280 trains of fifty trucks a.ch, every truck- being laden with ten ons of solid gold. Such a series of rains, allowing sixteen feet for each ruck, and two engines of twenty feet ach to draw each train, would stretch n a continuous line for nearly 522 1 a 01 a li 3 a rn la 87 so of ne th la to we ot co Col to ly ea of tis ree me wh Su d pil Te abo iles. Again, let us see what caul& be one with a billion of dollars convert - d into good British sovereigns if Id in a row each touching the other. eking the diameter of a sovereign at of an incb, our 2118,333,333,333 golden vereigns would form a narrow line gold over 2,858,741 miles long or arly twelve time from the earth to O nmon. As it would be impossible for us t y tb.em in. such a line, let us se what height they would reach i piled them one on the top of an her. No human ingenuity could ac mplish such a feat, for our golde limn would RISE INTO THE HEAVENS. a height of over 197,285 miles—near twenty-five times as high as the rtl, is thick through its equator. But we have now been talking only a billion dollars converted into led - h sovereign, not of what a billion Ily is,- Let us try and- grasp the a.ning of a billion, a little word kb rens so easily off the tongue. ppose you take a billion sheets o ally newspaper, lay them flat, and e tb.em one on top of the other is 'sheets pressed together equa ut .03 of an inch thick. Now begin IUND THE WHOLE WHAT IS WINO ON IN 0 CORNERS OF THE 'GLOBE. Ord and New World Rvents et batereet Cbto kled Brielly—lateresting Deepening. • Recent Dote. • An 'electricity supply station been established at Gibraltar. The Salvatien Army waste paier aid rag indastries of London emPieir men daily. A Lincolnshire School 40ard engage' ie horse and vehicle to carry the chil- dren to arid from school. Arthur J`... Balfour got his first Chris -- Clan name from the Duke of WeillMith ton who wait hes godfather, • The Guernsey Siete Assembly has de- nied that English as' well as French'. May be used in addreesing the Honsan Mr. jupp, an 4314 employe of the Lon- don and North-western Railway 'Com- pany, and station master at Easton terminus for teeny years is dead. There are in Englaed and Wales 1.7 Roman Catholic archbishops and biab- . ops and 2,769 priests. The number of Catholic churches and chapels is 1,509. •he total value a the fish taken off the Irish coasts during the 11. months ending with November last is returned at £300,105, compa.red. with ,S28t,775 during the corresponding period of 1897. • There was a novel accident near Uttoxeter recently. A big tree fell on the engine of:a passing train, ad tile driver was badly injured, as well as some damage being done to the locomotive. .TIte Adelaide A.dvertiser strongly ad- vocates the adoption of Mr. Henniker Heaton's Imperial penny postage scheme by A.ustralia, and urges South Australia and the other colonies to fall into line with Canada. A man of independent means was found in the room of one of the guests of the Hotel Cecil, London. He had opened some of the trunks belonging to the guest. He was arraigned 'an the Police Court and sent to prison. At , her house at Bermsdorf, near Berlin, recently, Countess Bernstorff awoke just at the moment when thieves were breaking into the house. Without losing time she seized a revolver, load- ed it, and met the men with the wea- pon raised in 'her hand. The burglars decamped. The Salvation Army Building Asso- ciation of London, which went into liquidation after suppling General Booth with many thousands of pounds for building " fortresses, citadels and barracks," has now made arrange- ments under which all the sharehold- ers will receive back the full amount to their shares, together with a small dividend. . Switzerland is the country of hotels, A.t Lausanne there is a school for training young people to be hotel - keepers and cooks. The school teaches Engli.sh, German, Italian and French in addition to accounts and politeness. The hotels in Switzerland possess 100,- o 1 000 beds, and in the season these ac- e conamodate 2,000,000 tourists. Every f year hotels creep up the sides of the - mountains higher and higher. About - 2-5,000 servants are employed, and 10,- n 000,000 francs are paid in salariee. The net profits of the hotelkeepers per season are 30,000,000 francs. to can of t floo ste sau to har nail rise ab of b ;Sri stil tim fro 13, eart the 11111 sigh end reac mil th s of y of it of t dove page utor dear m but t Ilona HARD TO DAMAGE. -- War Balloons Not Easily Brought Down. by Vire or Enemy. Many imagine' that is is easy to shoot dowu a war balloon. This is not true. A shot was fired from a Lebel rifle at a balloon at an altitude of 500 feet. It I only Penetrated the fabric below the equatas, and no appreciable result pie up the sheets as neatly as you face to face. Some few hundreds housands will bring you to the first r, of your house, but you =let go a.dily on adding thousands of thou - as -till you reach to a height equal the top of, St. Pant's. But you have dly yet begun your task! ilii on some millions and yet more lions, until far above the clouds s your pile of thio paper, forming ook thicker than any yet dreamed y the most enterprising publisher 1 ng up some more millions, and yet I more, hundreds of millions at a e if you like, and ,still you are far m having piled up your total num- ex beyond the confines of thie h'a atmosphere you have now got; blue ether is around you, and trolly e world has alrnost sunk mat •of t; and yet you. are miles from the of your task I Not lentil you have hed the enormous height of 47,01.7 es shall you have placed the billion - heel. of the newspaper on the top our stupendous pile of pages! Think 1 Nearly one fifth of the distance he moon from the earth could ,be red by a billion copies ot eight - papers. No, our statistical contrib- concludeS, our At:eerie= friend$ ly love to do things on a big scale even they ean never hope to show tis who can truly be called a "Isil- ,- • Vv'ORTHY NO'I.E. Turin held an itternational exhibi- tion last strainer whieh tvill remain noteworthy through the receipts hay. ing exetteded aa expenditures by $120,- 000. • No sooner was the result known than the Italian Government seiat in a tax NIL deirianding ID per Sent of the profits. • NEW REMEDY, • A little girl in Manchester (Iran a' pint of paraffin oil. Thfltdictor thought she would die., until'one O 'her relatives hit on a happy eXpedieh.t.. Thee slipped a yard of ,candleWieli down into the oil, lit the tipperAnd and during the evening she lightedhe room nicely arid then Went to hed„ II .r,xght, ensue& After this many shots were After a laspe of six hours the balloon and passing out near the -upper valve. fAter a lapse of six hours the balloon descended quietly to the ground, by reason of the loss of gas through the bullet holes. But it appeared. that, whatever the number of shots, the loss of gas was never sufficient to cause the balloon to fall rapidly. On onothet occasion a shrapnel shell was fixed from a seven -pounder Arm- strong gun at a balloon having an al- titude of 1,500 feet, but, this being above the limit of elevation of the gun, was impossible to bit it. In any case, had it been possible to do so, the shell would have penetrated the balloon below the equator and. passed out again so !Ow down as to eause no serious los sof gas. • Once a gore was split up to within f.ew feet of the upper valve. 41 first the balloon fell rapidly, than the wind tilled out the flapping fabric and. it sailed quietly to the earth. • ' GROWTH OF '1HE FINGER NAILS. l'he nails of two fingers never grow ' with the same degree .of rapidity. The eitil of the naiticlle' finger grows With the 'greatest rapidity, and that of the thumb the least. It has been cone - petted .that the average growth of the , iengeteliails is one thirty-second of an a- -inch per week, or a.little more than an inch , and a half per growth; however, depends, to ti great extent apon the rate of nntrition and during periods of siekness it is retard- ed Authorities differ,eeith regard' to the equality: of growth' on '•both handa, sortie holding that the nail.s of the right ;hand; grows faster than those of -the left., but others tail lieVeehre, 'feretice betWeen them. Areording, to • ,the rate a grOwth stated, Abe average tinie laken for, each finger nail to grew its full,: Icngt,b. is 'abont four and' a half inbliths, and at, this rate, a,ivolnan, of SeVenty ' 'have renewuti • her.,„ ' ,nails one hAticired and eighty4ix ,