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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-9-3, Page 22 A DAD RECKONING r i ' I 0131AP11ER lICVI1. For the first few moments aLterPl- cot's startling confession bad fallen like a thunderbolt among those assem- bled in the justice -room of Cummer- hors, the silence was so intense that, to use a eommon phrase, a pin might have been heard to drop. Every eye was focussed on the mountebank, who stood on the spot where he had risen, erect and very pale, his eyes glowing in their deep orbits like live coals, and pressing his soft felt het with Suddenly thereoth hands to his breast. was a slight commotion close to where the magistrates were sitting; the strained silence was broken, an.1 all eyes turned as with one accord. The lady in black, she who was said to he the wife of the accused man, bad fainted. But Margery's strong arms had caught her ere she fell. another woman in the body of the court hur- ried to her help, and between thein the unconscious young wife was carried out. "Placa that man in the dock," said the red-faced magistrate, "and allow the other prisoner to be seated." Picot stepped quietly forward of his own accord, the people near making way for him with wonderful alacrity, and planed himself on the spot the magistrate had indicated, a couple of constables stationing themselves be- llied him as he did so. Then the clerk put certain questions which to him, Picot answered without a moment's hesitation. When these came to an end the entry on the charge -sheet stood as follows: "Jules Picot. Age, forty- three, Native of 1 ranee. Profession, acrobat, No fixed place of residence. Then the magistrate, clasping the lingers of one hand in those of the oto - r, and resting them on the table in front of him, as he leaned forward a little, said: "Jules Picot, you have con- fessed openly and in public to the com- rammon of a most heinous and terrible crime. Such being the case, we have no option, but to detain you in custody while inquiries are being made as to the truth or falsehood of the extraor- diaary statement just volunteered by you. Any further statement you may choose to make, we will listen to; but at the same time we must caution you that anything you may say will be taken down and used as evidence against you. elsewhere. Is it your wish to make any further statement, or is it not?" ;'Ma fol, monsieur.' answered Picot, with a slight shrug, "that is what' am here tor—to make what you call state- ments, to tell the truth, to prove that this gentleman is innocent, and that 1, Jules Picot, and I alone, killed Otto von Rosenberg." He paused, and in the 'hush that followed the rapid scratching ot the clerk's pen as it raced over the paper was clearly audi- ble. The pencils of the two reporters who sat in a little box below the clerk moved at a more deliberate pace. One of them even found time to make a furtive sketch of Picot on a blank page of his note -book. It was so evident the prisoner bad something more to say that no one broke the silence. "Eight years ago, monsieur," he be- gan in a low, clear voice, "I, had a wife, a daughter, and a sorb, now 1 dm alone. 1 was living in Paris. No man could have been more happy than , 1 was. Stephanie, my daughter, had an engagement at the Cirque de l'lliver. She was beautiful, she was good. In an evil hour she attracted the atten- tion of the Baron von Rosenberg. He followed her everywhere; he gave mer rich presents ; he even went so far as to promise co make her his wife— scelerat that he was 1 Of all this 1 knew nothing till afterwards. une day Stephanie does not come home. 1 make inquiry for her. She has fled. Von ltosenoerg, too, has eisappeared. 'they neve Lieu together. erten that nay I never saw otephanie more.'" Again he paused, end although there was no trace of emotion in ills voice, it may be that the hiiraen depths ot his being were prceouanuedly moved, "A 111310 walla later, ma pauvre Marie died. She had been ill a long time; but what allied her was 1033 toes of Stephanie. Ali yes! Alter that, Henri and 1 set ou3, wanuermg from place to piece, not Gering amen whence we went, but always locking and eat- ing 104 Von Rosenberg, because i ;want to demand of him what has he done with my child. All at once 1 discover him. It was at the house ot this gentleman, Monsieur Brooke. Next day they tell me that he has'gone away back to his own country, and .they, know not when he will return. But I wait end wait while one week go away after another, end at length he comes back. 1' hide myself in themood, I climb Into a trick branch of a tree, end stay there hour after hour till he shall be alone. Al length I see him coming down the path that leads from the house to the chalet nearthe! wood. He whistlesas One comes, and 'ire is alone. I wait a little while, then f coarse down from the tree and walk up to the chalet. The ,'Baron is standing up1 examining a pistol—a plated with iulay of ivory and gold and with strange figures marked on it. On the table close by is a heavy riding -whip. He has not heard my footsteps. I enter, and he starts and stares. I make him a profound bow, and say: "Bonjour, Monsieur le Baron. My name is Jules d I coma to demand from you Picot, an what yob, have done with my daughter Stephanie." Ile still stares, and seems to be thinking to himself how he shall answer me. 44 last he says; "1 know nothing whatever of your daughter ; and if I did 1 should decline to tell you.' "She left Paris in your company," I reply. Possibly se," he answers with en evil sneer. "Mon. gear, I repeat that I am her father. I seek for her everywhere, but I cannot find her. You, tonsieur: if yearhoose can give me snore clue by whieb I may he able to trace 'her. Her mother Is dead, and I have no other daughter, laugh' that makes me long to spring at his throat and strangle him. 'l al- together refuse to give you any inior- mation whatever about your daugh- ter," he says, "How, monsieur, 100 refusal" I say as 1 draw a step or two sharer. lie has laid the pistol o11 the table by this time, and his fingers now shut on the handle of the riding-whIlp• '"Then you are a coward and a vl - nein," 1 continue; 'and 1 epic nu your face, as I will do again and again whenever I meat you. 1 have Lound you now, end 1 will follow yen where' you now, and I will follow you wher- ever you go." He replies only by eels' ing the whip, hissing it quickly through the air, and bringing it down with all his strength rouud my and shoulders, Strange lights dance before my eyes; there is a noise in my ears as of falling waters. The pistol is close to m9 head; 1 grasp iti 1 fire, Von Rosenberg fells without a cry or a word. I fling the pistol away and walk quietly back through the woods. As 1 reach the village, where my boy is waiting me the hanging out of its mouth. church clock strikes seven. The even- ing is that of the 28111 of June." He ceased speaking as quietly and impassively as he had began; he might have been reading something from 'a newspaper referring to someother man, so little alperent emotion did he display ; yet his hearers felt in- stinctively that he was speaking the truth, "What you have just told us," said the magistrate, "will be taken down in writing; it will afterwards be read over to you, in order that you may make any additions or corrections that you may deem necessary ; and you will than be asked to affix your name to the document. You will have no ob- jection to do so, I presume?" "To write my name on the paper, is that what monsieur means?" "That is what I mean." "Certainement, monsieur, I will write my name. Why not?" "Then for the present you are re- manded." Picot looked round with a puzzled air; but one of the constables touched him on the shoulder and whispered, "Come this way." He turned to obey, and as he passed Gerald the eyes of the two 0180* met. Gerald's hand went oat and gripped that of the mountebank, "Oh Picotl" was all his lips could utter. llbe;moun- tebank stroked the bac kof Gerald's hand caressingly for a moment while a strangely soft smile flitted across his haggard features. "Ah, monsieur, you and la belle madame will be happy again," was all he said. Next moment he had passed out of sight. Gerald was now replaced in the dock; and one o1 the magistrates, address- ing hun, said that although, on the face of it there seemed little reason to doubt the singular narrative to which they had just listened, it would have to be confirmed by ample inquiry before it could be accepted and acted upon. Meanwhile, he regretted to say Mr..Brooke would have to remain in custody. But on the morrow, or next day at the latest, both prisonerswould be transferred to King's Harold, when the amplest investigation woulddoub- the amplest investigation would doubt- less at once take place. With that the prisoner was removed. Before going back to his cell, Gerald was allowed to sea his wide for u Lew minutes. The meeting was almost a silent one, words would come after a time; just now their hearts over- flowed with a solemn thankfulness, the roots of which struok deeper than speech could fathom. As soon as Picot reached the cell allotted to him, be asked to be eup- plied with a cup of coffee, atter which he lay down on this pallet with the air of a man thoroughly wearied out, and in a few minutes was fast asleep. He slept soundly till aroused some three hours later when he was con- ducted to a room where he found one of the magistrates, the clerk, the governor o1 the jail, and two other officials. Here a paper, which had been drawn up from notes taken in the justice hoo0, was read over to him. After having caused it to be corrected in one or two minor particulars, he af- fixed his name to it; and .his signature having been duly witnessed, he was reconduoted to his cell. About eight o'clock after the gas had been lighted, he asked for pen, oar and paper, and a small table to write on. These leaving been supplied him, be sat and wrote, slowly and labori- ously for nearly a couple of hours, fi- nally putting what he had written in- side an envelope and sealing and di- recting it. Then, after having taken off his shoes and coat, he wrapped him- self in the blanket which had been sup- plied him, and lay down to sleep; The gas was lowered, and silence reigned throughout the prison. Once every hour during the night a warder Went the round of the cells and peered into each of them that was occupied through a grating in the door. All through the night Picot apparently slept au un- broken sleep. When the warder vis- ited isited him at one o'clock he found that he had turned over and was now ly- ing With his face to the wall, after which ha seamed never to have stirred between one visit and another. At seven o'clock another warder, who lead just come on duty, went into his nal to rouse him. To his dismay, he could not succeed in doing so. He turned the unconscious men over on his back and then the drawn. ghastly face told its own tale. "Ah," remarked the doctor, who was quickly on the spot, as he held up to the light atiny phial only about half the size at a man's little finger and smelt its contents, "five drops of this would kill the strongest man in three seconds." (To be continued, THE BRUSSELS POST, THE FARM. MOWING \VICEAT STUBBLES. Why should we mow the Wheat stubbleet We can keep the weeds down and give the ()lover a good chance to grow. Why let weeds rob and strangle and emother a glover crop any more thein a corn or potato ropl You can cut them off with a six-foot mower for 20 cents an acre, counting time amen and team. Is it not practical, if weeds can be kept down at that price? Weeds are rank glowers, and if they get start- ed they will. just about smother the clever out. Mali the failures, says a writer, is seeding, comes from neg- lecting the clover eftor LL is well start- ed. And the mowing of the stubble prevents the weeds from going to seed and stocking the ground for the fu- ture, Our land would grow a solid crop oe ragweed, oto„ if lett alone. Now, some years you would hardly find any ragweeds in the wheat stubble when we. mow. Ageln, weeds cannot grow with- out feeding on plant food in the soil. After your land has produeed a wheat crop, there is usually little enough left for the clover or Timothy, If the weeds get half, or more, the clover is robbed of food it needs. Will you let it be robbed when you can stop the loss for 20 cents an aero, counting your time at $3 a day? I can easily mow fifteen aures in a day. This food which the weeds eat, that the olover should have, would be worth many dollars to you ultimately. What business manage- ment not to invest 20 cents an acre to get book several dollars 1 But this is not the half of what you may gain, Some years it is 'dry atter har- vest, and gradually the clover burns out although a good stand when the wheal was cut. W rat is the matter? Wan( of water. But you let the weeds grow How much water do they use? Well, a crop that would make a ton of weed hay to the aore would take from the soil between 300 and 100 tons 01 water, This is evaporated from the leaves while they are growing. Just think, 300 thus of water, 000,000poundsper acre! D'Iight not the clover have done better if it could have had this? is it business - EjAtaY. This is a day of all sorts of advertis- ing competitions. One of the oddest is reported from Loglend by the London Telegraph. A traveling circus recently paid a visit to Cljtheroe, and es an attraction offered a prize to the man who could, as the Lancastrians term it, who th' ugliest mug." The rules laid down were that each parson should have 'three tries." Com- petitions t'an high, some of the contor- tione being horrible to behold, After all had done their best, the clown who acted ars judge, coolly confronted a man Sitting in the audience, who was noted for his ugliness and said: The's won. th' prize, ow(l mon. Mel said the astonished individual; whet ow worn't tryin' fort 1 Thoth no need to try, said the clown; three won it wi'oub. I , , like to let the weeds steal it and the clover die or suffer seriously when you could mow the stubbles for 20 cents an acre, and really for almost nothing by doling it soma wet day? Oh, don't leave them to grow and do all this mischief, and then rake them and draw them off the next spring. Those weeds drawn off ere a lose of fertility to the field. If :hewed as scan as they start well above the clover, the plant food is loft eight there, scattered on the land, and it has a double value. Every wheat stubble that you cut off, and every clipping of weed or clover that falls on the surface acts as a mulch. This helps the young clover, enriches the soil by shading it, and checks eva- poration. This vegetable matter scat- tered over the surface, all around 'be- tween the plants—this is where it will get as they push their way up through it,—will help wonderfully about carry- ing the young clover through a dry time. And all this comes in to pay that 20 cents over and over again. But I am not done yet. The clipping of top' of clover has a, tendency. to thicken it,and it prevents its sending, which injures it for next year. It increases root and top growth. And then you have clean bay the next year, There is no growth of weeds that must be raked up pad opsin the hathe h Yourntheta ielse all clbe eut an 14 the spring. The clippings decay so they will not rake up, if the mowing is done on time, while the weeds are young and tender. Now, friends, I be- lieve all this to be true in theory and from many years of practice. We began the practice because it seemed to prom- ise good results, and we have not things.been m Isptherednot stnk good rthese deato be gamed from 20 cents worth of work per acre? grow to brush until some of the sap- lings were good sized Uncle. Idor the - poet two seasons it bas been, my late summer work to out these smell trees, The trunks and larger limbs make good weed. The emailr branobesf piled and burned clean, It is -wonder- ful how quickly such laud will. come into fine clover and other aweet grasses. Whore ore few fame upon which there are not some such fields es X have been desoribing. A few weeks' work will put them into condition, to yield very good results. Some say the assessor takes no account of land grown up to unprofitable brush. On, his roil en acre is an acre, and 1: never knew the tax -gatherer to show any mercy when the time of year Domes round for collecting dues to the town, county and state. We must defend ourselves by putting to the best poo• siblc nae every foot of our land. The margin between success and failure just new is very dimly defined at beet, and we cannot afford to run any chances by poor ?ermine'. Make every sere count. WAGES IOW $15. x. DW THIS SEEMS HIG , BUT EVERY. -- THING IS VERY DEAR. I11ape3N1l' StrIrlilaild 19111[d All/1111'. Can. 1/41l'3 W031111111 the North—Precnntlons Which Those Who Would go Should Observe. Inspector Strickland, of the North- west Mounted Police, has just returned from file Yukon, Mr. Strickland knows a great deal about the country, which just now is causing each a big sensation, "1 would advise a poor man," said the inspector, " to, proceed to the Yukon by way of Dyeaend Chileoot Pass." The season is getting late, and Mr, Strickland. would not advise any ono to start now, as there would not be time to pack the amount of provisions that would he needed over the winter, The river would lie frozen up before this could be done. Last year it froze at the first of October, but it does not generally freeze until the middle of Ootoben. It is hard to get into the country., and any one who goes Chore must be prepared to go through some rough experiences. There is plenty of gold, but it is not lying, sl:mend wait- ing for anyone to pickit up. It is got only. , BY HARD WORK. HOGS IN SUMMER. The hog may be kept growing and thrifty througn August as well as May, provided the May conditions are fur- nished, and this is possible on most farms. One of the most important of these is pasture, It is possible to grow bogs successfully by soiling, says a writer in National Stockman, but it re- quires more attention and work than most farmers are willing to bestow. A grass run affords the growing pig that exercise so necessary for his proper de velopment, and the succulent grasses are rich in the muscle and bone -forming material. Grass cad clover are loos- ening to the system, aed are just suit- ed to bis wants in dry, hot weather. It matters not how well oared for in other respects, the pig will never be thrifty in summer unless he has plenty of pure fresh water. This important point is, perhaps, more often neglected than any other. Slopwill not answer the purpose of drinking water entirely, though it is, of course, epartiaL substitute. The man who has never had the job of carrying water in.a pail to a ounce of hogs has no idea of the amount they will drink on a dry, hot clay. The man who will pen up hogs, or any other animal, in a lot or field quiet destitute of shade ought to receive the attention of the humane society, Such protection from the sun as wire fence affords is hardly sufficient Shade trees here and there will do Lair- ly well, bat nothing is equal to a wood ' lot. if the ground is low and damp, and ,is covered by a dense undergrowth through.which the sun never penetrates 'so much the better, but shade of some kind bogs must have in order to thrive and grow. Some good hog growers be - 'have the( hog baths are unnecessary. Others are just as sure thee swallow of mud is better than none. 1 know from long experience that the hog will do tolerably well without any bath except rain, provided he has damp earth and dense shade, He will do still better if he ran have a bath oe clean eaten at will. But rather than allow h'enl access to a foul wallow of thick mud I would prefer that he never see water exoept to drink. In these times we must look cerefuuly to these little details if we grow hogs at a reason- able profit. ' LATE SUMMER 'WORK. The lull which comes to the farmers alter the hay and grain orops have been safely secured affords him a chance to rest up before the corn and potato harvest comes on. This is a good time for him to take the family and go away for a day or two to some quiet resort among the trees end by some stream where the boys can fish. Picnics which bring the entire neigh- borhood together, are full of value, This is a good time, also, to oall upon old friends end neighbors. We may get many new and helpful ideas in this way if we keep our eyed• open, writes 17. L. Vincent. But when our little holiday season is over, we may find the late summer a most excellent time to do some kinds of work about the farm which have been crowded aside during the busier season. For a number of years 11 have taken a few weeks just after haying and harvesting to clear up some odd pieces of land. One such piece had recently had its timber cut off when I came upon this farm which is now my home. The blackberry bush grew rank through the heaps of dead limbs and smaller branches which yet Yee mained upon the slashing. In every direction old togs, relics of by- gone days. Of course I received very little return from each pasture as this. My first work was to out the brush —no smell task X assure you; but cutting it at this season of the year scented to practically put en end to It. The next year I heti fax less work to do with the bush scythe. When the brush comes fairly dry,I set fire to the heaps. What a change a few boure made in the appearance of that loft Following this uplout the logs into convenient lengths for drawing with. the team, and skidded them tete heaps, which, too, were burned when thoroughly dry. Some stumps still remain on the piece, but most of them may be easily removed width a teem. Now that field affords an sbundande of rich pasturage. On Iny fatrm wan also a lob covering lbd,euhabeoelldato+aUp, hd had THE WONDERS OF A WATCH. Regarding misrepresentations about the country, Mr, Strickland said he had recently read an article signed Frank Moss that had beenused exten- sively inthe papers. The writer clearly showed, he said, that he was never in the country. Fon instance, he said that 2,000 people had died in the Klondike last year, while up to teat year there were not 2,000 people in the whole country. 1rloss wade the statement that the Klondike was a huge sink, surrounded by mountains 3,000 feet high. This is not correct,. as the country is just the same as any mountainous district. Another statement thee there is a colony of Bohemian convicts there is totally un- true as the country is a very law- abiding ono. No nugget of the re- puted size was found in the Klondike, and there isnosuch Pace as the one the writer of the article stated the nugget was found at. In many ways, Dir. btrickland said, the oountxy is. GROSSLY MISREPRESENTBD. The Klondike is undoubtedly the largest placer milling region in the world and et the same time the rich- est. There are a great many people now going into the country. and the claims were being taken rapidly, but there is yet illy amount of room for everybody. The claims are 500 feet long by five chains wide. There is no gold along the Klondike river it- self, the tributary streams being the ones that provide the gold for the min- ers. In summer the only method of traversing the country is on foot, and in winter dogs may Le used. Last year dogs sold at from $100 Lo $200 apiece, Mr. Strickland said that from what he had heard of the country it ryas quite feasible to build the proposed waggon road through the White Pass, Means of transportation would have to be pro- vided soon. When lie left there were twenty-five hundred people in the Klondike, and if the present rush con- tinues there will be as many thousands there shortly. All these neve to buy their own provisions, as nothing was Something About Its IleoilaniSm and 1115. Arent farts. A jeweller who has a talent for ad- vertising, as well as a genius for me- chanics, has been reminding bis pat- rons, lately, that "a watch is the smallest, most delicate machine that was ever constructed of the same num- ber o£ parts. About one hundred end seventy-five different pieces of material enter into its construction, and up- ward of twenty-four hundred separate operations are comprised: in its manu- facture. "Some of the facts connected with its performance are simply incredible, when considered in total. A blacksmith strikes several thousand blows on his anvil a day, and is right glad when Sunday comes around ; but the roller jewel of a watch makes every day, and day after day, 432,000 impacts against the fork, or 157,680,000 blows in a year without stop or rest, or 3,153,000,000 in the short space of twenty years. " These figures are beyond the grasp of our feeble intellects; but the marvel does not stop here. It has been esti- mated that the power that moves the watch is equivalent to only four times the three used In a tlea's jump, conse- quently it might be called a four flea - power. One horse -power would sue - hoe to run 270,000,000 watohes. Now the balance -wheel of a watch is moved by this four flea -power one and forty-three one -hundredths inches with each vibration three thousand five hundred and fifty-eight and three- quarters miles continuously in one year. It doesn't take a large canof oil to lubricate the machine on its thirty -five - hundred -mile run.' It requires one- tenth of a drop to oil the entire watch for a year's service. But it has great need of that one-tenth of op a dr. if you wrould preserve the time keeping qualities of your watch, you should take it to a competent watch- maker once every eighteen months," CITIES OF INDIA. India has 2,035 towns with an aggre- gate population of 27,251,176, about one tenth of the total population, Of these towns 28 have over 100,000 inhabitants, 48 more over 50,000, and 550 more over 10,000. The largest are Bombay, 821,- 704; Calcutta, 771,144; Madra9, 452,518; Hyderabad, 415,089; Luoknow, 279,028; Benares, 219,407 ; Doing, 192,579; Man- dalay, 188,815; Cawapore, 188,712' Ben - galore, 186,360: Rangoon, 188,321 ; La- hore, 170,801; Allahabad, 175,240. LIVES ON INSECTS, Their is a quaint plant which grows in pee bogs• It has large flowers, with an odd urnbrelia-like shield in the cen- ter. The leaves are generally about half full of rain water, in Willett many insects ere drowned. Sortie naturalists say tont the flower lives on the Arosen- ed inseot4. ! 1.1 i .A.l• c,usT. 27, 1'89'r• ROUND THE 6110f WORP UVHA00' 08 OOiNcI ON ON me Foust CORNERS OF THE 04013E. Otiliand•New World Eventa'otehrereat Chron. lkled' Drlotey—lnteroating' Happenings of FlteentiDate. Frogs have been raining down in thick showers' on Bizerte, in Tunis. The largest were the size oe ie men's thumb. Buttercups• were devoured recoutly by an English child with a fatal re- sult. At least the Coroner could find no other cause for death, Clara Nlovello, the wail -known Eng- lish oritorio' singer, Who in private life Is the Countess C'igliuc:ci, has ,lust entered upon' her' eightieth year. Egypt's pyramid' bu1iders were can- nibals, according to Mir. Flinders Pet- rle's assrtion, Efe has found bones, picked clean, and' separately wrapped up, in many tombs$ Sarah Siddons' patcli'boat and tooth- pick brought in $59' at a recent( ,Lon- don a'uotion sale, her silver pocket nut- meg grater, $20, and a gold locket with a look of her heir $35: produced in the country, the season being too short for garden produce or grain to thrive. Wages are now $15 a day, but the crowns going into the oouatry will probably rednee the fig - • to 510. A HLZAL%DOUS JOURNEY. Concerning the length of time re- quired to reach the councry Mr. Strick- land said that any one contemplating going from here should leave at the first of March, buy their provisions at the coact and have enough dollars left over to provide for incidental expenses along the route; freight the stuff to Dyca; peek it over, the summit and get down to the foot of the lake on the ice. Here lumber would be taken out and the boats built. By that time the ice would be out and the boats can float down the river, reach- ing the Klondike about the 20th of May, On the way down the river there aro two bad. rapids, the White Horse and Canyon which "greenhorns " should portage. Here is a sample of the gold from our country,' said the inspector as he drew a handful of nuggets from his pocket. They were certainly rich enough to start a rush to any coun- try and the Klondike craze will spread rapidly wherever Mr. Strick- land exhibits that handful of gold. The inspector will interview the authori- ties at Ottawa coneeruing the mounted police patrol in the mining region and expects to return to the Yukon at once. 1 Raiser Wilhelm is malting room rap- idly for his young mon. On June 1'I he summarily retired' fifteen Generals, which makes thirty general officers re- tired in the past three months Mr. Adaans, a Norfolk Island de- scendent of the mutineers of the pick brotlgh't in $49 at e. recent Lon- don. He has written a complete his- tory of the Pitcairn Island' commun- ity, and of the transference to Norfolk $elan L. Pope Leo's long life is truly mir- aculous if the London Daily News's ac- count of his usual dinner is, correct. His faithful valet serves him with a light vegetable soup, two friedpump- kins, a morsel of veal or fowl, and bale a glass of Bordeaux." A steel 'bridge, cantilever, 140 feet in span, to connect the Rue Stephen- son in Paris with the Rue de la Chap- elle, will be put in place over the tracks of the Nord Railroad in a single night, without using supports or inter- fering with the trains. England has sent an expedition to exptore the river Jab, the boundary between the Italian and English spheres of influence in Somaliland. It is under command of Major Mac- donald, who made the survey for the railroad from Mombasa to Lake Vic- toria. An old man, 88 years of age,stand- ing on the bridge et Strakonitz, near Pilsen, in Bohemia, saw a school boy drowning in the river Wattawa. Be jumped in, got the boy to land, but sank back 8xnausted and was being carried off by the current when an eighteen -year-old girl sweet to him and saved him. A strange coffin, said to be intend- ed for a British Admiral of the Fleet, is on exhibition at ,Liverpool. It is in the shape of a douible-ended lifeboat, seven feet long, and painted with white portholes like an old-fashioned battleship. It is fitted with, life lines, oars and a rudder, and is made sea- worthy in every respect. One shilling and four pence a bead was the allowance made by the British Treasury for the lunch of the House of Commons when the members went to see the naval review at Portsmouth on the Campania. The Cunard Com- pany refused the offer, and filled the representatives evith champagne at its own expense. Si Mohammed ben Mousse, the giant Moor, sent as the chief of the Moroccan mission to Queen Victoria's jubilee nev- er reached London, having gone mad in Paris on his way there, and then having been sent home. His madness took every queer form; he thought he wen Montjerret, the chief outrider who precedes the President of the French republic on state occasions, and in- sisted on being dressed in livery with riding breeches and high boots. King Chulalongcorn of Siam keeps his eyes open and asks more questions than ,Li Hung Chang. At Budapest he enjoyed himself as much, eating gou- lasoh, listening to Hungarian hands, attending harvest festivals, and hn- speoti.ng studs that he stayed two days beyond his scheduled time. Be expressed his opinion of newspaper men se follows: "The newspaper re- porters must have the best places and the greatest honors because they see for thousands." CLOTHING IN SUMMER. Especial care is necessary during the warm weather to thoroughly air and dry all clothing after it is worn. Unless this precaution is taken they will smell disagreeably of perspiration. Never hang a waist away without first hang- ing it inside out over the ixielt of a chair pieced near a window. This gen- erally prevents disagreeable odors Af- ter removing the shoes open them wide as possible and set them near a window to air and dry, liven it pair of gloves should be given tee seine treatment before being laid away. Thin gauze underwear is easily rinsed up in luke- warm soapy water and then in clear water. Stockings, it treated the same way, and changed daily will keep the feet much more comfortable than if this is not done. itis always best to hang one's clothes over chairs, end then they will be aired and in Mee condition to don the next meriting. t1H'R TOE OF TRU PROFESSION, Be is one of the leq,ding lawyers of the town, Geta pretty big Nee, eh? I should eay so. Why, it is almost ee elesep to Laity the grand jury as to hire him, :, 1 i..l.it. 1 1 1 1 THE FATAL DIVE. Tommy D11rne jumped to Ills Death Orem ti 100 Enol Tower as RII%I, England. Tommy Barissa the champion bridge - jumper of'Great Britain, has made the fatal "one jump too many." hie dove to his death from a tower on a pier at Bhyl a few dsiys ago, and it was one of the easiest of all the many daring dives condi jumps sae bad made—only 100 feet. Ifle inadl ottan droved into the wat- er trona a height far greater. Nobody, Burns least of all, dreamed that there was any special danger in the foot. Hundreds gathered to see him dm it, and photographers took snap sihoth at him as he darted downwarde iheadl first, through the air. 1t was a fellow -creature plunging istraigast to death, only a matter of reeconds of time between hllm and eternity. If only tlbeitfact could have been announc- edl I£ it could only have been adver- tised, that a ,marts would commit suicide by dashing himself into the water from f100 feet. w the latent a height o ROW Ia em salvage, in the etvilized human being would have thrilled( What thousands and; tens of Ih;oesands would have thronged; to see the spectacle! IBob i,13 was only the "one leap too many" wlhloh, seems inevitably to come to Ube high juerpe,r--Sam Patch, Bene Fuller, Ohlam. wad half a dozen others. Burns never cameo up alive utter he Ant, into the water. He had a greet record. Be. ,bard jumped the Tower Bridge, iml London, 200 feet; the Ohelse04 Bridge enol many 00110rs, He jumped, from, a train in motion on theElevat- ed Railway in Liverpool tote the Mers- ewe= ashore, ran and, Walked to London and then dove from, London Bridge into the Th epee --all es one feat and foie a Wager. Et had saved oven forty ileumaim, laves, and held many med. ahs from tem Royal Hulnane and other$ kindreh societies, i , , , ,