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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1901-9-5, Page 2.70 • • N." 0.0 4:6 4:14 4::*•:11 11:• 6:4 4:4 4 4::• •:• 1:4 49 4•0:4 •:•0:*•:••:44.0:0•:••1••:•+1:41:1•:, •:• •:0 4:;• •.• • .1) The Untimely ' End ot Ooseph Dens, ••• ?.• WEALTH. t. ••• •:• tt• }:1•:••:• •;• •:• •:••:• •:• •:• 0:4 • • 4. 4.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING Portuguese about that time. They're OlIAPTERS.—Securities vanish 11.13111111ot in a very large way of business. the strong-4room of Candelent, ItenelY- you ienow " mid Waldo, bonkers. Mrlooske of -llow shall I flied out ? Can you. ScotImal Yard is called in to save ilea, me jar, /emoting 2 1 denat the mystery. There are two keys want to go to there yet. It might to the strong-room—one held by Mr• show my oand,e Waldo, partner, the °thee by elr. "TB send a confoleutial clerk Surtees eider co.shier. 'hhis latter• - round. if you lace ; they're under has two children, Bob arid Jose- phine. He reproaches Bob, who is an extravagant subaltern with as- pirations to the hand of Helena Waldo, for haviug colloquial his sis- ter's dowry to pay his gambling debts. Surtees is suspected of the theft. Leask° questions Meggitt, the aesietent-eashier. CHAPTER VL—Continued. 1:4 •:* "Yes, we can force you to speak. Mr. Maegitt. You wish to stand well uttli your employers. You come taken a practical shape with every given any sheeMI cause for annoy" - next in the aaok after Mr. Sur- ehance of becoming an fissured suc- anCe very „lately ?" ./0 4.....t.c.tt h whital teats loy tog eeof - " sa. The girls were all fond act/ can't say --at least, not for hit. atthe. at weuht ht so Iowa,. to ing ; they were promised the assist- ,certain ; but 1 fazie.y, from my ',aloud' on a man whom I should_ net' ("f the :"'"--/les* 11`11?' ':: 'rlsr"""' "I''."4.4 " C . - ;:. " . " I" I .1'''. . * ' Ir hi L 1'; 11 11 4 $ bee" probubly sueceed." a..a.,,,. --- — a' aWeet as ever on 'Telma Waldo was More severe with Bob, that lie liad hr aathier a you "You'll oevatoareallY. excellent for an amateur ; to pay a large sum for hies aot, ear Itichard Daunt had conseuted to on ago." Peat -4e' rraw. you myouray take oath of that." said the 4leteetive, PlaY' nut to u"ge ehtra' as -glle "That 'would account for the hthought, but because pretty Jose- change in Mr. Surtees, no doubt. with great decision. :It's far =oo plane Surteee wits included in the He is probably afraid that lie Italy liltely that the firm will think you're have sagain." a pal of Surteesa and. in the swim. caste' to do the ettle ;You must Make up Your luind iit They had been arrauged, these "That is wily I want you to speria to Bob, Sir Riehard," said J ose- once whether yeu'll etieh to St:flees theatricals. long before Bat Faelies or to the bio.k. Look sharp about visit to be Albeay, and Sir Meta Phlue. "ITe is so easily led." it, for I've no time to lose." ard was already very ilitimate with "Or misled." Itio-he took out his wittch esteu- the Surtees when he letardof the "Just so : and I should be deeply tatieusey. secret charge :Against the cashier. grateful to you if you would help to "I'll give you five miuutes : riot a. He went to Clwiswick oearly every lead Idol 111 the right. road." second more- So now You know." daY of the week for the rehearsals, "My dear Miss Surtess." said Sir -you're a bard man a. cried efts, width took place generally at the Richard. with great emphasis, °you gitt, with a half-groiin : "and Rookery, laew, end after them be may trust me to do all that lies in you've got tl:e whip -howl of me. often aeeinuPanied JotePhine and her , InY Power* Indea,d- ,you inaVa e°,nnt The feot ibrother s, I overeeerd a, few words broer bow. ea . Ile was often plsed 'Wri ant me now aa fuwaYs- eeatoing that eessed between the partners to stay mai dine, an invitation he will give me greater pleasure than thet day you came to the beak. It gladly accepted—at first because lie. to he Of service to you. I Can was about zionee =losing Portu_ really toted the society of these plea- ', sure you I want to be your friend. ueee bonds." sata, unalleetod people. and aim be-, More." he went on. with a deeper g and you rememberea what 'cause be could not resist the potent meaning in lzis voice : "I only wish Mr. Surttts had asked you ?—put srett taut Joeephine was casting I might claim to be much more. twi ond mu tegetlier and—" ever him. Latterly he had an addi- Will you not give me the right to "ia ecieely.” tional reaeon for !Tending all, the,IllelP you—to sbare Your troubles 2." "le there saallieg more ?a' time he could at, Chiswick. Ile bad' ,Iosephine's reply was inaudible. -Nothieg much. although in your thus an 0TPortunitY of observing but her heightened colour, and the ihtadh, gih. hehhke, it hohh wail to h Mr. Surteee. mid could follow up the ' silence which done over her for the• great dad more." • mental inquiry erbether the eesader rest of the voyage home. aatished With that he event was an innocent or guilty man ' Sir Bidwell.) that he had not spoken into bis lied - Teem, wilucked a smell iron safe, a ;reg. 1 rav Tli travelled generally by water, in vain. , .. down the river, Meanwhile in the boat ahead the from. which lie extraeted several "r"ng 'elsurelY Bob in the bows. Daunt pulling following aouversation had been in ecrepc of white paper. stiohe, mu Josephine at the co m. progress: "There ; will thoee be of may use Sometimes. however. two parties "What's the matter. Bob ?" Eel - to you ?" were formed, and they went up- ena. cried gaily, as she had taken her laalie took the bits, turned them stream for a spell insteacl of down. , seat at the stern ; "you ecem very tote oue by one, and then paged On these occasions they left the dull." then together on -the table. After a Bob shook his heed. as if op - lime and patient ex:Animh ation he Pa.. -oar at 14.'ew' ""Sir Richard' taking a. pair of sculla rowed Jose- pressed with unnumbered woes. obeerved, quietly— "It's the liontroct for tlwe sole of lame alone, whilst Bob Surtees in "I've something on my mind, obligations to us, and if they know or reendaer anything they'll cer- tainly tell. _However, we shall see— come bad: in holf an hour for the answer from Goldbeater Alley. Everything depends upon what Ilia - gins and Stunmer say." cnArrErt vu, The Weldos were very keen, this season. about giving an amateur theatrical performance. And the idea once started hied promptly her, aud speaking with great Kira- estness, "Bob is the dearest,. kind- st, sweetest old fellew in the world; but he has his faults." "Like all of us." "One terrible fault io, particular— he is horribly extrovagant. Not wile fully wasteful, you understand ; but he has no idea, I think, of the value of money. It positively runs -away from him ; and now. yon know, he is in an eopensive regimentit is here close by at Aldershot, and he can't help coming to team." "I -understand," said Sir Richard., who was resting on Ids oars, as he Pointed over his shoulder with his thumb to the other boat: Joseabine nodded. "Exactly. He and Helene, 'Waldo are devoted to each other, not that I think anything, eau come of it. Lut ail this running about, you know, bas led poor Bob io spend a great. deal luore money than be ought. end I know it vexee niy father." "But bow long has this been go- ing on ?" 'For the last two or three yeare at least." "Well, but that would not explain this most recent inereas.e of depres- sion which you say you have notieed in your father. Is it possible, do you think. that your brother bas thastoltra bonds. Ifoxv did you come by it, ?" "By the merest .thance. I Will tell you. A elay or two after the row at the bank I went into the cashier's another boat ,eseorted Helena. Waldo. something awful, he said gloom-. That sportive young lady enjoyed nothing better thou to eteol out of . "Don't look like that, Bob ; you the house after the rehearsal, and frighten me." cried tbe gay madcap, follow the Surtees party down to across whose bright betterfly-like ex- box—you 'mow, the glazed comport- • ileriver-side. istence no shadow had fallen as yet. I merit in the corner neareet the par- No More delightful tete-a-tetes "Well, don't tell me., that's all. t a loer—to speak to Mr. Surtees. He, cat. well be imagined. It was in one will keep for nother time." was stooping over hie desk, readieg of these delightful expeditions. "It won't keep. Helena. It must something. I saw at once tit my which encourage the interchange .of come out now. I fancy you care for ,/ entrance hail put him out. Ile seem- colifidences, that Sir Richard began inc. Helena ed agitated—upset. As 1 stow there 110 question Josephine about Mr. I "Fancy ? Oh, Bob 1" about to speak he took off tbe deek Surtees. Ire had adroitly utilized "You wouldn't if you knew me ;IS the piece of paper at which he, had an opportunity which she hod given, X arateif you know what a worthless, lunprincipled, beggarly brute am. 'Luca looking, tual tore it up before eet am -eery unhappy at times But you shall know now, this very .eyes." "'Without remark ?" About my father," she had said ; instant, and when you've haled. all, "I do not think he is well." if you only tell ine, 111 tio a weight to .any heels and throw )4Y:self into "Why do you say that ?" asked Sir Richard. , the water, here on this very spot. "He seems to be _out of spitits Then there'll be an end of that con - and depressed, quite unlike him- self." "Have you noticed this yery long 9" "Quite. For the moment he was too confused. as I thought. to speak. I went on with my business without pretending to notice anything wrong and then I turned to go. At that moment Mr. 'Waldo whistled for the cashier through the tube. We left the glass box together, but I—" "Returned to it. I see. Simple- minded young man ! ,Anything ;more ?" "No ; that is all, upon my word." "Not much. perhaps. after said the detective, thoughtfully. -"Still, it will heel), perhabs. ' As he walked home be pondered over the strange facts elicited from the unwilling cashier. Could he identify these brokers ? fie looked in at Scotland Yard and consulted it London Directory. "Higgins and Stomper, Goldbeater Alley." There they were, sure enough ; those were the people who had sold the Portu- guese bonds. He went straight into the city, first thing on Monday morning, and called upon a friendly stockbroker, a member of the eminent firm of Linaning and Cornecup, for wbich he had once done some very delicate work. "You're an early bird," airily re- marked Mr. Limming, to whom we have already been introduced. "Well, what brings you here ? I hope Ian. not your worm." "No, sir, but you can help me to Idea, I think. Do you know any thing of Higgins and Stomper 2" eGoldbeater Alley ? Yes, to be sure, what have they done ?" 'They've been dealing in stolen bonds.' "'What stock 7" • "Portuguese." "Not Waldos ? Yes, Is that so ? Well, I am.surprised 1" "They were stolen by the cashier of the bank." "Old Surtees 1 That highly re- spectable man Come, reek°, that's going a little too far." "Stolen," said leaske, emphati- cally "and sold by him to Higgins end Stumper. I've got the contract in my pocket," - -Y tlIne-Very bonds ? Are the xrumbees entered on the contract ? very seldom "Well"—raske was looking at his shoestrong, and seemed a. little dis- c,oncertecl—"no ; the numbers are not given but I'm morally certain they're the smile bonds. All 1 want • is legal proof." "How will you Manage that ?" "By tracing the bonds sold." "That won't be so easy. Higgins and St -envoy may have kept the • numbers ; and, agaln, they may not. •The only chance fOr yoll'is ' that they did ao other transaction ix folding her hands solemnly be,ore temptible eur, Robert Surtees." *Tut, Bob, you'd be drowned !" "Drowned 1 It's too good for me. I deserve to be hanged." "Five or six weeks or more." "Why, what have you been do - This period coincided pretty close- ing 2" Helena asked, half tearful, ly with the date given oy Faske of doubting whether she should cry or, the discovery of the robbery. It be cross. "Ole, Bob, X do believ6 was terribly significant." h you've been ffirtingo-making love 'to "Has he generally enjoyed good some one else." "It's worse than that," said Bob, health ?" went on Sir Ricbard. "The very best till latterly. I shaldng his head sadly. "Far can't make it out ; he must hove worse. something on his mind." "Bob 1 Impossible." "Doesn't he take you into his con- "I have been. stealing." . Helena in her surprise, gave a &lance 9" and Sir Richard, as he said this, felt that a raan could have genuine shriek of aismay. no happier lot than to share his in- "No, no ; not what you think," most thoughts with such a sweet hastily interposed Bob Surtees, woman as this. rm not a common thief, rk burglar, "There is nothing probably to tell it low pickpocket. I'm far worse. me," she replied. I'm a mean spirited beast, that takes and spends and wastes money "But have you any suspicion of which does not belong to him." anything wrong? Has nothing hap- "Isn't that what they call, you polled to vex or disturb him; has know f P he any particular worries in business "I mean which belongs peoperly to or about his private affairs upon his some one else." mind 2" Sir Richard looked keenly "i cant say I see much difference. at the beautiful face before him, and I'm not very wise, perhaps," went saw that a faint flush suffused it as a _ , on Helena. he spoke these words. 'Pardon no, "Of course, I got this money from. he hastened to say, ',I have no right my father. .He gave it to me, you I know, to put suck questions. No . right but that of it friend who takes kn, ,?..L'c; did he ?—serel-- y he didn't. a. deep interest in anything that Was it his ? I Mean, had he any gives you consiera." more right than you to ---well, to Josephine 'was silent for it time, take it ?" • and sat watching her hand as she "It was his own, of emir-sea;rnv listlessly let ' it hang over the -side father is as honestas the da.Y. 13 t and drag through the flowing cur- it Might to have been kept,for My rent. sister. ' And now I have laa.d .1t--• "Sir Richard,'! she said, looking spent it—swallowed it all up.''l ' up, "you like Bob, don't you ?" Then with bittee selaregroach "Immensely 1" replied Daunt. young Robert Surtees made fell con - What was the -meaning of this Slid- iession. He tem ale ghteof his den question ? • Did -it imply that the choice everything—his wild/career Of brother was connected with Mr. extravagance, the trouble and Surtees' trouble ? noyance he had caused his father, "And he likes you ?" went on the misery he Inight bring on • his Josephine. , sister. -``I think so, yes ; indeed I hope is"t • able ,Bob But don't be ei i i 2 , a _ so.'';. ' ah -t *-- '--- --- east cloven,," -said 'light-hearted itel- I/Of course he does, !" Said aa-o- phine, emphatically. ''He thinks Elia,' 7-7we have plenty of money ; there is no one like you, .Sir Moll- you tell all this to Papa, he'll soon arcl—I have heard him say s,a) more make it all "right.". . But .it is to be feared Bob S1.11' than onceI do wish yea would . use. your influence with him," tees did not find as much consola- tion in this liberal promise. "My influence 1 Surely-, Miss Sur- (To Be Continued). tees, you over-estimate my power." , --I-- • ,"No, no, indeed, Sir Richard ; I am quite certain that he twoola at_ UNIVERSITY 11T0MEN. tend to anything you said—would Among the 2,754 students who ..listen. quietly to your advice. I do matriculated at thrasEclinburgal Uni- wish you would give him a little." verity last year there were 252 "With all rny heart. But on what women, 21,5 of whom were enrolled subject ?" ' • , . al in the Fao•alty of Aets, three, . in "Sir '• Richard,!' • sai.d, Josephf 'le, sorence, thieteen in medicine, and, j..\'vernty-one in music„ •, THE NEWEST. R9Y4L ronTgArrs. The Eing and Queen, with Princess Victoria and the Huta of Coroweit's childree, OUR DAIL3a FOOD. OE EBRAT.ED PENS. Matey 01 Them IICave Beea Used Said to Hove Deteeieratea in the -air .Signing Impoetara Papers, Lost Few 'Years, 'The pen :With which ITer .Majesty Tbere can be no doubt Allot denlog the Queen appended her sig - a. steady degradation, and this c.?..ti-•• sent te the AUStraliall cOnnislenWeal Cle Past. (lees -dot (AA has undergone nature, eignianng the Royal es - not be without a demoralizing, influ- sent to the Austrolina Common- ence upon the Imivan race, says the wealth Bill. was Presented to her bY LoAdoe. Lancet. It will be noticed the Han. E. Barton. 011(1 of the Feta that her far the lasloritY 01 04505 of eral delegates. together with the ink- tomperiug with food relate to the stand and the tebla upon which saa signed. The pen was one of the old- fashioued quills. and will be Landeo fence is that modern conditioas of ,A4ranpr4eQcullOusgell•leelli:04to"fl.hleoiAeongp4liielahlel life make substitution a necessity. anent of Australian Federation. It is difficult to eee the logic of such The ex -Empress Miami() hes in her defence—at lenst, he a ralluher ofg possessi)n the famous pen with istances. 'width the important Treaty of Paris It is orged, for ingtanee. that jam! was eigized by all the parties thereto. ov marmalade cannot be made witlea autiousta enough, .eiteh of tue four - out the addition of glucose which iI.0C3 Plenipotentiaries was eager to prevents the income front await -ilia- .ittati the hen with which he waned, irig. Now long before &muse was a but at. the urgent request. of the Um- househola word aims and mainialade press they all signed with the sone were made --and very gout! they Were, pen, and agreed that she should re - too. ,consisting entirely of ugar and teen it as it souvenir of the historic fruit. In the same way We are told! occosion. This. too. was Mtn that beer intuit be brewed from sugar but it, wee drawu fromthe wing of it and at brewing exclusively froM golden eagle, and -was riebla mount- , that Melt presents untold difficulties. ed with gold runt diamonds. It is Again, golden syrup.. which used for" always Used- by the ex -Empress When Merly to be the refined syrup of mo- lasses, corehste largely now of (zeta tand. size writes about lier deceinad bus- licllOI sugar, which is titufhtle"a' Lord Bangor is the peesent owner more marheta.ble product. but it is of the pen with which the Treaty of not the Fan" thing as Cane 8ngal.% Vienna was signed. It is now used Yet, °gni"' 'we are t°1(1 13.1" the for the purpose of eIgning the reps - public demand a perfectly white loaf 1 tea when any enurriege takes Place toltabtrele taadelliinileerYtiilliatsh 11101 dit.teettY4' gr tile) th ofsasie3!IsislYlo‘ n 71;1- le Lpoeilld ."Ulliectutigu ot flour widdh is an inferior thing to the now, we suppose, extinct etoneania led flour. Instances of this sort could be multiplied. We could wish that all those lova- Scots the pen sae used on that oaaa i"g house welt"' niuke 11P thew sion was appropriated by a high- miuds seriously to return to the ex- placed official. It reinaiued in the cellent custom of preparing many articles of food for themselves at `possession of his descemlants for it biota Who does not admit the oar= of HOME-MADE BREAD, substitution of a. cheaper article ra- ther than to the addition of an in- jurious substance. The common de - through an ancestor, who was secre- tory to Lord Castlereogh. lateen Queen Elizabeth signed the eleatlawarrant or Mary Queen of long time, but was finally sold for A CONSIDERABLE SUM. Down to the end Of his life the late Earl of Beaconsfield wrote with it or home-made jam, and simply be- quill pen; and the last he used be- cause they aro known to be made fore he died was disposed of for the from an honest formulae evbich has sent of twenty guineas. stood the test of time and from good j Tee quill the Popo 'uses at present materials which yield it palatable has been his daily companion for product? Even in the country good more than forty years, and is care - old -fashioned wheaten bread, with fully preeerved in an ivory case. that fascinating brown color of rich H. R. II. the Prince of Wales has it wheaten flour, containing the entire _collection of pens used by ftonous nutritious portions of the berry andlwriters. Amongst theni are one of possessing that delightful wheaten •Tennyson's and one of Browning:to flavor, now seldom, if ever, char- Swinburne's and Hardy's, as well as acteristie of bread, is difficult to ob-jfifty or sixty others. 'The collection tain. The bakers' loaf is, as it rule, !also includes it quaint inkstand a tasteless, insipid article which re-- which formerly belonged to the late quires it cOnsiderable appetite before Robert Louis Stevenson. the ideo of eating it can be enter, The pens used by Charles Dickens alined. No wonder that the taste have always been in great demand. for bread is steadily diminishing, :A gold one which he had used for and undoubtedly less bread is tone ,niany years realized £40. sumed than used to be the caee. As! .A. number of pens used by Thomas is well known, bread contains almost !Carlyle in Writing various works are every 'element of food necessary for still preserved with, other treasures existence, but we sbguld be sorry for ;at his house in Chelsea. the pergIM who tried io subsist en-; The Right Iron. Sir Charles Iffike tirely upon the modern uninteresting is said to have in his possession. the loaf made from blanched roller mill pen with which Lady Morgan wrote flour. her fainous novel, "O'Donnell." He It has recently been stated that the 'prizes it -very highly, and would degradation of the teeth so notice- 'Ocarcely part with it for a thousand able among us now is due to roller times its weight in gold. niilling having largely supplanted A pen which belonged to Charles stone milling,. 'l.12e should not be Sur- Lamb was once sold to an apprecia.- Prised• The degradation of food is tive American for ten guineas. a very serious matter and is bound At the prison, of St: Paul, at to lead sooner or later to tne degra- Lyons, there is a somewhat grue- dation of the eater. No movement some collection of pens. When it could confer greater blessiiig 171)011 condemned prisoner is handed over to the people than that whichahned itt the executioner to be guillotined that bringing about a return to the older official has to sign a formal receipt and more rationalmethods of pre- for the doomed man. For this pme- paringtfood. Let us see more of the pose a fresh pen is used at every ex - home -made article than we now see; editionand great care is taken that let us .return to more palatable food the ink is allowed to dry upon it. In and to food that will do more good this strange fashion a considerasble .than tha'inachinesmade. stuffs and the number of pens have been. accuinalat- endless- series of. substitutes. In all ed, v1iich possesses crate a iasetha_. the Schools throughout the land 'We tion for the morbid minded. would have the children taught the advantages of home-made food, and how that bread, fruit, jam or even beer and cider cat: be inade at home; tt wduld encourage a spirit of,indus- try, it would give us palatable and noarishing. artiCICS 1;0' eat or drink, i and Mm Might eave a very wholesome bygone ages. Its known as the crested hoatzin, and, the adult bird, effect Upon those who vein deliber- is about as big hs peacock, The .ately, to at termate food as mech poseible' or who pay no regard to Itt YOUng . when 'hatched, have' naturally endowed palatability. our legs, the front Pair being reptil- ian in character and have strong claws; as they grow older these claws fall off, the legs become fattened, WHERE THREE' COUNTRIES feathers. grow oo them and they do - A BIRD WITII FOUR FEET. This little crecitare, still to be found in South America, is a relic of 801IE FEATS' OF IIIIKORY THE X.ARVELLOUS MEMORIES OF G-REAT NEN. Lord Macaulay Was Richly En- dowed—Theedore Hook's Feats of Meraexy. It is to be feared. that there is Inlieb, that is mythical and more thot is exaggeratiell in inana ot the cone - moldy accepted records of feats of memory; but it is not neeessary to go outside the limits of the world's greatest mai to find evidences of feats of memory that are sulk/1010Y Astozasbing. Perhaps no Englishman has ever been Inore generously endowed with the gift of inentory than Lord Ma - coulee% with whom it is scarcely an exaggeration, to say that to read a book once was to remember it to the end of his life. Even as a child of seven he bad mastered the world's history front the Creation so effectu- ally that he was able to write froni memory a "Cornreadhun of Univer- sal Tlistory." In an incredibly short time he bad at his fingers" ends" the language, literature, and history of Greece. Rome, France, Italy, Spain, Holland end Germany; ancl could quote pages from any given author of ;my of then Countries. and he could reel off witli equal etwee a Prologize of Plata us or a scene from Shakespeare; one of Vicero's °retains or a tragedy of Racine. It requirecb scarcely an effort to il- lustrate his own writioge with "im- ages Ond eliniles from poets of every age and every Beal= shrewd thrusts front satirists, wise saws from sages, pleasantries from humorists; cherac- ters from plays and novels, from Plautus to Wolter Scott, and figures from history. ancient, and modern. :mem' end secular." Niebuhr, the great historian of An- cient Rome, bud a. nienicey whicli bat been aptly described as "prodigious" for he practically never forgot any- thing IIE HAD ONCE SEEN. alkeeT. are the nearest approach to a rep - Doubtless the most imisoie spot in tile that Can be found among bh•ds, Europe is the little village Of Alton- and they can climb and dive and ho -g, where on its border threa'cottra swirn with great tries Meet. It: is ruled byno mon- arch,. has no .soldiers, 'no :police,-. and no taxes. Its inhabitants speak it I hear, Mr. Jones, that your hus- curioas jargon , of Fraicei ancl Clore 01811 COMbined, and spend their days , band hhs two revolvers and a Win- iii-.,caltivating the !and er working • che.ster r!ef.c fee any innalaie ail() in the v'iluable e'fl-imine Mit( 'of they eafl flnehe ,but 'they 'ca. Me which the village ,boasts • the other higla, h esebie them. • . . velop into wiogs. These nestlings When. in 1791,1. he returned to Den - rig and was appointed ;Immix' in the Eeet India Departinent of the Board of Trade he gave a reznarlaible proof of hie powers of memory. One of the =omit books had in Rime etreuge way dieapoeured. and the department 'ems in a, state of 01 the fellers colt from to wind- coeeternation. 'Tepidly. the took; ward. 'Dead but X Wan n'n." heal come under Niebuhrts cave and he wits able from memory to rept' duce every flow in the Misaing a eounts, a feat which borders on the miravuloue. In the !Jetta of this performance, Timodore Hook's feats or memory appear quite common-pleee. Ma if we had been eenturies ;may trw though Theodore cut it very Undistin- the ship. guished figure at Harrow and Ox- ford it was from elleer indolence and not from any iucapacity fer leurn- ing; for bis memory was so netcinisla lug that by merely glencing through a page of the leak' greannar or Xenophon be could repeet ally worci. with perfect accuracy. Later in WO A story of a sea tragedy comes he astonished bis It wilds by nig half a column of "lames' advezo repent"' from the South Poeific. The wrecke. age of the missing ship lameheste tisements after one reading, while ala was recently found on a small desew ter a single walk through a mile of island of the aiarehan hroup wit 1 London streets he could give in or- indications that the, cuptatatet der the name of every taloa:snout on 1 wife and children arid crew, he STRVG-G-I.E FOR LIFE. Brave Deed of Lord Wallia-M 'itt Lennox. In 1818 Lord Williain. Pitt Lomax Sailed for Canada in the frigate Iphigenia. Just before eight o'clock one evening, leader afresbenioa breeze, there came the cry 'Wan Overboard 1" "Clear away the cut- ter !" cried Lieut -- Tic then threw over a We -buoy, ordered tee - first lieutenant to take care or tho ship, and in another instant went over abaself after the orowniug ? man. The frigate was gang rapidly and , the wind was high. In r.1, few io- ments the beads of the straggling men UW0 out of sight. The cutter dropped astern, shipped a sea, and disappeared in the dorkness. For not ooly was the night colaing on, but a. dismal cloud, whieli bad been all day approaching, obscured whot twilight, was left, The glass was ond it was evident from all signs that a, dirty night was emaiiiig ten Tho two men itati not appeared. Every man ozi board was strain'e his gaze to windwer(1. ,An h passed, an hour that seeme4 like en age, when suddenly there came a voice from under the lee, "'Stand fast ! lieave us a rope !” There was the cutter with the helfairowned, sailor, the lieutenant, the crew, life -buoy and all. alley were soon on deck, and there the lieuterimit told his story. "The ewe broke over us, and do what we would. we Couldn't reach the lifeelmoy. alnico° was too mucli disabled to swim, for he haa steel his head ie faIlthg; and besiaen thot, the ship hail gone clear over him. He Never attempted to touch me, and wheel, be got too weak oven to atruggle. be blessed inc and eital, 'Try to save yourself.' 4 -I let him go, struch out for the buoy, readied it, and with the other hand grasped for Slime° ; for now he was literally sinking. "I only caught bis Weir, and pusimd the buoy against bit breast. lbe clutched it, and with my belp gotbit 1%eadtihegi4ort?"l- ing. straetreYCsfVe boat, but I could not see it. Sud- denly there was the sound of tiara in row-loas. I cried out with all my zulght. * 'Mere, sir, where ?' 1 beard ore mereed Lerma I got out the wont 'leeward.' " 'Where, sit', where ?' came the voico. " "Leeward. !" I roared. 'They backed down on us. and we were dragged in. It seemed a Captain, llis Family and Cre Probably Die of Thirst. the route, landed on the island and then (Inc of the most wonderful of all.. doperted ia two bents, as there w 1.0 *Aragriabe0111. 0, Florenthie num of warred three months ug', and as no theutie feats of memory is credited no water on the island. This o letters, who was librorian to tbe trace has been found of them it I Grand Doke of Toi.3e1114Y. It is said leered that they perished of Wait that Magliallaahi eat" instantly 'Vert before they were able to reach the ify any quotation from ano book in hambited islands of the Mershal the library, selecting the right book group. and page without a rimenent'S heeita- tion. A native schooner found the wrath ago on Bihar Island, no of th On one ocerteion ono sa his friends most northerly of the Marsha group. Between four and live hm then cases of kerosene were scattere about 'with spars and yards. In th scrub was found the body of Swede or Norwegian, who had beer dead only forty-eight hours. Ifi certificate showed that he was set and °Memo' This certificate was sen to thooGerman agent at Juliet, le toehas alba yet _reported the man mine. Near by were the miu-ks of II keels of two boats that had -be hauled ,up on the beach aud th :launched again. ha the staid wei footprints .of a woman and littl children. A manlier of native bird were found with the bodies punctu ed and the flesh uneaten, showin that -the castaways had sucked t blood to relieve their thirst. ,The had also partly eaten some turtle The missing ship Mancheste Capt. F. Clemens, left New. Yor one year ago loaded with keroeen for Yokohama. After that she we never seen, and Lloyds posted he as missing last May, after 90 pe cent. re -insurance had been paid. A shc went by the Cape of Hood Hop the Marshall group would net be out of her course. In the ouinion South Sea. navigators who sa t wreckage at Biker, the ship p struck on the island at sank before the captain could g out any water; lost the manuscript of a book he WaS about toe publish, and was in terrible distress at thus losing the FRUITS OF YEARS_OF WORK. Hapr•ily for him he had shown his MS. to linglialeald, whom 'memory et it, was so remarkable that he was able -to reproduce every word of it for his ustenished and delighted friend. It has often been asserted that Jrig- eph Justus S'caliger, perhaps the greatest scholar of modern. tellies, committed , the whole of Wane, to memory 10 twerityame days. The truth appears to be that ate read Homer through within this thne—a very different feat from remembering all he had read. Perhaps no one ever' knew Homer more intimately than Mr. Gladstone, whose memory was as vast as his in- tellect; and it "has been said that if every copy of the "Iliad" had been destroyed he could have produced ev- ery line of it from memory. The memory of Thomas Fuller, the famous divine ahd historian, has pas- sed into o proverb, 0.nd many re- markable stories are told of it. On several occasions. -after listening to it sermon, he repeted every word of it; he Could repeat several prIges of a dictionary, after glancing through them; and on one occasion, after walking from St. Paul's to Temple Bar, he was able to repeat every sign on both sides, beginning alter- nately at e.ach end of the journey. ,Lord RandolPh Churchill's memory Was so remarkable that, after, road - ing through a lengthy Bitie-bOok,he could repeat the substance et it.from, beginning to -end, including the,: Mast intricate statistics; and trie late Wil- liam Morris, the poet; could give the context elinopt any HIM in any of Dickens's novels, THE SUN SHRINKING DAILY. Sir Robert Ball, lecturing at, the Royal Institution, declared that the sun is getting smaller every day. It is 9 i»chessmeller eoechey than it was yesterday, and the contraction is continually going 'on. There is no reason, however, for alarm, al- though the sun twenty years hence will have shrinak a mile. At the be- ginning of this century the sun Was miles"bigger aad at'the beginning of the Christian Era. 100 miles bigger thanit is to,day. The diareeter of the' sun is S60,000 Miles, and 4e,- 000 yeaes hence . the san will have lost. t-4,000 miles .33q1; it will look exacilly:the same 40;000 yeaie heoce as it ddeelto-day. •:1 NOr.PICIT.ID SOME CHANGES. The old gentleman 'had returned the home of his boyhood for -1.• first time'in tcii years. or more, a as on the last occasion; he li written '"ancl wife" after his na on the . hotel register. Of coui the keeper of. the .hotel was glad see hire, and grasped him warmly' the hand. Ain't grown a day older t when you was here last, he inNquoirnly. ?igsain id the 'old gentlean• Not a day, returned the tav keeper, emphatically. Your seems to have changed more'n Yes? ('s ILIOroeh,kslyaetsistli;nnlee7ttwbaaiyis slNivehedzioeys;,:, Indeed ? Yes. She ain't noar so fleshy §lie was, accordia, to my reco tion. Seems like she's taller, aal'her,, heit,larlitnzt_took sanetm aaftlYe she's nots• )111 ; the 'e wii knA:wid, put ., in tile ohl geet