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The Brussels Post, 1898-1-28, Page 3JAN, 28, 1a98, THE BRUSSELS POST. NCJN� 1 E WHOLE WORLD. WHAT is OOiNO ON IN THE POUR CORNERS OP THE GLOBE. Old and Near World Events of Interest Chron- icled arcelly—lnteresting Hammetuge of Recent shote. A twelve -year-old child named Spill - berg has been burned to death in Fry- Ingpan alley, London, Mill( is dearer than whiskey in Rho - lease, wring to the rinderpest. The price is now $8,76 a quart, An opideonio of measles is spreading over England„ the disease growing more malignant as it spreads, A twenty-one pound baby, lately born to a farmer's wife at La Helpe, near Brusseln, bottle the Belgian record for weight. The Earl of Devon, at 80 years of ago still preaches and attends to all his duties as prebendary canon of Ex- eter Cathedral. Rome's catacomb of St. Cal.ixtus is now lighted by electricity, and the sys- tem will soon be extended to all the eatacambs, Father Kavanagh, who was parish priest of Knock when the miraculous cures made that village famous eight years ago, has just died at the age{ of 84 ,years. France's Treasury Department bene- fited gran.tly by the Charity Bazaar dis- aster, es the deities paid on the inher- itances it roused amounted to 0,300,000 francs. Sir Arthur Sullivan bas promised to write n. secular cantata for the Leeds musical festival next October. Rho subject he bas selected is said to bo "Tee Vicar of Wakefield." All sword bayonets of the British troops in Ireland are being sharpened as fast as possible by order of ,the War Department. Slush an order is said to be unprecedented. Londoners are upset by the transfer Of the stamp and telegraph offices of the General Post Office at St. Martin's Le Grand;, used for twenty-five years past, to a new building across the street. A British Admiral has come to grief on horseback, Admiral Sir E. R. Fre- mantle, who is In command at Devon- port, while riding recently was severe- ly wounded in the leg by being run in- to by n passing carriage. Women in b'ranem brave just secured n slight addition to their legal rights. They may hen."eforih be valid witnesses to reeistretion of births, marriages and deeth s and to the signatures in legal cl oeuments. Aristui:Tats a le lantern would be no m,saningless cry Lf a. revolution were to break nut in Paris, as the city still keeps up 200 oil lamps, suspended by ropes to gallows -like posts, such as were featea convenient in 1793. A 'European has been sentenced at Bulawayo to six years' imprisonment; with hard labor for defrauding the na- eves of their cattle. He pretended to be a. Government inspector, and seized the cattle for suppnsed.violaticns of law. Two glasses of a temperance drink served to a London doctor by a teetotal family contained so much alcohol that the doctor wlus unable to walk straight' 'tames the room. Hsi is now lecturing against ginger ale and root beer as in- toxicants. • Calot. James Brown, commander of Lim windward lately presented to Lieut. Peary by Mr. Harmsworth, has spent thirty-nine years and made thir- ty voyages in Arctic waters. His fath- er and grandfather were engaged in Acetic work before him. • Human, heads formed a collection re- c.ently sold at public auction in Lon- don: There were twelve of them, from Ecuador, New Guinea, New Zealand, awl other places. A "tattooed Maori head, with a curious smell" brought seventeen guineas. Major -Gee. Bengough of the British army, who died recently, became fam- ous in India for a divisional order com- manding the meditate' staff to pare the corns and cut that:oanafle of the men, In order to improve the marching ef- ficiency of the cliviion, Southampton; ie now ready for at- tack by seri, the five gunboats that carry the defense boom having been placed in their stations. The booms consists of a network of were ltrrwror's running from ship to ship and con- nected with heavy balks of spiked tim- ber encl. to submarine mines, Twenty bleyolists having been killed during the past year on a bridge at a. sharp turn at the bottom of a hill on the road between Meal:one and Nice, a. netting has been put up at the clan -I maroons point by the Touring Club of r'rawe to catch reckless coasters who, use hurled over the parapet. English wrecker's, who were trying to save the, cargo of the steamer Arlen, whioir went ashore on the Island, of Socotra least Jura, after boring driven off forcibly by the natives, discovered that the Sacotrnms' right to wreckage; caret upon their coasts had been reoog- nizecl by Great Britain tb treaty. ,v Prussia's paternal Government has ordered two private schools Ma little town near Potsdam 1,0 be (dosed because they interfere wl..11 as rival establish-' me.ak. One may be kept, open for a year longer provided the proprietor en- gages to take in rrnly twenty pupils and to teeth theca no foreign languages. A gr'aa.b Improvement has been made Lu Parisian duels. The seconds in en affair of hones' between a dramatic author and one of hie rarities macho a nilstake in the place of mooting, there- by senriinit their principals to opposite ends of Paris, Titis made a subse- quent meeting et Close quarters tin- eerie/eery, Graasd, 'opera, in Paris, .according to official accounts, has been given tat an expenditure over receipts of 4,600,000 Cranes lei five years, an average loss that is, of $180,000 a, year, The sols- venMton Of 880,000 francs uyeac reduces the annual clefs it. to $ 20,000, but there is a ferldsea wear (lotion; t . t of 80000 an the opera conwrho Stealing telephone service La a new form of misdemeanor In Imndou, class rut by the Croydon Police Magistrate as petty larceny, and puniahmd by him with a fine of five shillings. An da - wheels young man had made a talee kep admitting him to the public: tole - Phones of the National Company, welch be used without paying. Princess Thyra, of Cumberland, sis- ter of the Princess of Wales and the Empress Dowager of Rnse a, wise bas Neel recently in a private asylum, bus so far recovered her mind and health, owing to the improvement of her eld- est son's condition, that she will be present when her daughter comes out at the Austrian court in January. It took seventy shots at olose range including a number from ibe 0.2 -inch calibre gun, before the British cruiser Edgar could sink a derelict tack stea- mer in the Rad Sea, Naval men aro trying to figure out how many shots would have been needed if the Edgar had been dealing with a hostile crui- ser of he'r own class. .France's Chamber of Deputies is ex- it/miming seriously a curious project for diminishing child murder by making the punishment fit the mime. M. Lau - tiers proposes that mothers convicted of infanticide shall be sentenced to transportation, and compelled to tear one, two or three children, according to the degree of the crime. Dum-dam bullets work both ways on the Indian frontiers, as the Afridi tribesmen are blunting the bullet tips too. The two Opera of the Gordon' Highlanders wbo distinguished them- selves at DargaL, lost, one his leg, the other his foot, owing to tha terrible splintering of the bond, caused by the "modified" Lee-Metford missl'es. Cricket has not abolished the color line in South Africa. Though the blacks play the game well they cannot play in teams with white men, and when the All England eleven goes to Cape Town on its return from Aus- tralia, Prince RanjiLsinji who not be allowed to play. The objection to half breeds is even stronger than that against the pure blacks. .Another British institution the do- mestic servant's right to a fortnight's notice of dismissal, has been over- thrown by a h'gher law than that of the Queen's Bench, wh'ch rendered the decision, The Judges in giving their opinion, stated that being in doubt as to the existence of the custom they had taken the opinion of 'their domes- tic advisers" on the point. A Missal, a Boole of Hours, and a Psalter, which had been in the possess- ion of Viscount ArbuLhnot''s faanilyfor 400 years, were recently sold at auc- tion in London for $10000. Tia Missal Ls the only oars extant. according to the Scottish use, The manuseriii'ts were written and decorated by els vi:aam for Sir Robert Arbuthnot be- tween 1482 and 1401. While e. circus was parading on Tot- tenham road in the outskirts of Lon- don a baker gave one of the elephants a couple of loaves of stale bread, A few nights after the elephant broke from lets fastenings in the town whore the circus then was, got away from its keepers and made its way back to the baker's shop, where it broke in the plate glass windows and ata tip the bread exposed for sale. It then allowed itself to be led quietly back to its stable. BRITISH WIFE BEATERS. The roufa:maent Is Absurdly inadequate for Tids Cowardly Crime, !A man in London may, it soems, knock down hie mother for the trifling sum of two dollars and a half. A mo- ther -lin -law, however, .may not be in- terfered with so cbeaply, for a eau who was ill-advised enough to try it was fined five dollars. The average Dost for cbastening an unruly sister- in-law seems to be about tires dollars. But a man's own wife may be taught to behave more to the liking of her lord a.nd master for the modest sum of one dollar and a quarter, and 1P, "without intent to hurt" a poker or stove lid may he thrown at her for seveenty-five cents. But according to the law, a man must be careful how he treats another man's wife to do violence to whom costs a little more, For instance, a man who had the temerity to strike anoth= ei''s spouse was fined almost 04, where- as he could have given ]cis own wife the same handling for one-third the amount. Ho must bavo been reckless on that day. A prisoner became very angry in court when ho was asked to pay 48. for showing hie wife how to retake a fire by boating her over the head. with a poker. U3a thought the price too high, end told the ltla•gistrate it was exorlr- eta nL. On the other hand nothing voted, be knore economical than the enjoyments of s, certain individual who knocked bis vv down with a piece of- wood five tines for 52, an average of only forty cantle ,font each knock clown. Immed- iately following tbis is air account all a man thrusting his wife in the firs three flames for the same amount. At this rate he does not seem to have (got- ten full value for his money. ishan there conies a long string of other of- fedlrea. Fiore are some of them:— For throwing fire irons at eche hoed of his wife. . , .50 Fm' beatintg his wife on the hexad with a mom of wood two, months after marriage) . . 01.26 For beating his wife several times kicking her repeetetlly, tearing her hair out, trying to strangle Icer tinct knocking her down , 1,60 Iron, throwing his wife lu the fire and, badly burning her . , 1.60 For teyinlg to out hiewife's throat, ,blacking her eye, striking her in the breast, throwing a cup of hot tea, in her tape, after havingr box- ed her ears . , 6.00 leer blacking botb his wife's eyes and cutting her head open with anaxe . . . . 10.00 For thorotsglily thrashing hie Wife so that she lay in a disabled eon- di•tien for weelcs, , 16.00 Therese are only te few�spacian.en items taken at random (role the statistics, In a Royal Harem Shall I ever forget the appearance of the Sultana when she entered, fol- lowed by a crowd of ladies in the moot beautiful and costly garments I But for same time these latter were unobserv- ed, my whole attention was divided between the marvelous creature that headed the p'roeesslon, and the 'most agonizing inclination to laugh—an In- clination which almost overpowered me; f felt I must laugh or die; indeed, after a time so intense was the strain that I began to feat a sort of faint- ness creep aver me, and that, happily, enabled me to get ova. It, says Miss Hamilton, court physician et Cahul, Afghanistan, in describing her pres- entation to the Sultana, How shall I describe her 4 She is rather under middle height and dis- tinctly embonpoint; but her dress, her whole get-up, was what was so won- derful. She had evidently been so de- sirous of making, upon the first Eng- lishwoman she had ever seen, an im- pression of gorgeous magnificence, that she had. far exceeded the limit, after which ornaments cease to adorn, and had made) a ludicrous spectacle of her- self. Instead of wearing the usual Cabuli dress, she hticl on what she was pleased to style a Russian gown, they use the word "gown" in Cabal, but I could never find out liow it was or- iginally introduced, It was a long time before I could make out why Russian taste hied been so libeled, but I after- wards discovered that these so-called Russian gowns were made to imitate the crinoline perioral, and heed been cop- ied from old pictures brought- from Russia seventeen years ago, when the Ameer returned from Ids long exile, The dress the Sultana. wore on this great occasion was of royal blue gros- grain silk, the full trouser of the same material reaching to the ankle, where it was bordered with'. a fringe of flat diamonds, mounted In gold, which fell over a pair of rather high -heeled, mauve velvet, elastic -side boots with patent -leather toe -raps. But the fuln- niest part is yet to come. Over these very full trousers she wore an enor- mously fall skirt extending to the calf; this garment I afterwards bad an op- portunity of examining. It was cut just like the cover of an umbrella, and was over 12 yards round the bottom; but, to add even to this great width, it was bordered with three rows of thickly -plaited silk. Over this course a second skirt, equally full but about 8 inches shorter, edged in the same way; but as though elite were not enough ,to make it stick out from the waist like an old-fashioned ballet girl's at- tire, the whole thing was lined with stiff net. Wide es the door was, she filled the whole ee enure as she came through, and resembled nothing in heaven or on earth but a huge walk- ing balloon. To relieve all this violent blue, she wore on her shoulders a sheeny white silk shawl; but even this shawl, which as usually worn gives so much softness to the) face, was rather stiff and unmanageable and seemed to add to the width; moreov.:r, it• could not be thrown over the head in the or- dinary way, for the Sultana hal. on her state headdress, a stiff velvet -cep atsout 4 inches high, et thebackand rising to a leak in the front, and cov- ered all over over with every imagin- able precious shone, under the sun, Rubies, emeralds, diamonds, sapphires, topazes, both pink and yellow, and I know not all what. There seemed to be but little design, the great object having evidently been to pile on as many as possible. From the tip of the peak three long marabout feathers de- scended to the nape of the neck, These she afterwards explained were in imi- tation of Queen Victoria's caps, cop- ied from photographs, of course, and which she naturally supposed were the correct thing for a Queen to wear. It took me a little time before I could un- derstand how the Queen's widow earn should have been mistaken for mara- bout feathers, but when the picture was produced I died see some remote re- semblance, between the soft white tarlatan retie and their would-be rep- resentaLtves in feathers. Of course I rose and bowed es the Sullen entered Lite rooms, but when she reached the cantor she stool still, and, to my intense surprise, said in perfect]y intelligible English, " Wel- come ; sit down ;" she had keened about six words for the occasion, 11 was soon apparent upon this oc- casion, however, that the Sultana not only meront to be very gracious, but that she wee 50; and when she had seated herself on the velvet chair, with her ladies round her on the cushions on (bit floor, she. had the portion of the room where we were sitting cur- tainedoff awl sent for Mir 1lunslti, as' I found 0 ought to style the chief sec- retary, to translate for us. During the interval, seated opposite) deo her rhos 1 was, I had ample time Lo examine her fare and ornaamente, She WAS so got up thee she looked as if her fare had been Aspinwall enameled and as she 'had a heavy layol' of some cosmetie oisctiring her really fine eye- brows, I fancied she could have no na- tural ones, and put, her down as the very ugliest. woman I ever met in my Iife—a, nightmare 1 Iter ornaments were both many ancd great, awl must have weighed something, Close round her nook were four rows of gigantic) pearls, the largest in the center being about the size of a cooking cherry. Below this was a. rtecklare of flat emeralds, some of which must have measured ful- ly three-quarters of en inch by half an inch, and front the links between these there hung huge pearl -shaped em- a1'ales. The necklace was so )orig as t:o reeeli to the waist, round which a waistband of broach gold braid was feslencd by a heavy diamond buciclo; on either side of the bodice was a watch poekot, the one oontdlnintg her w;atalt, the) other alnost concealed by an enormous brooch of monads, which secured the other en c f e r ass s the massive gold watnli chain set with vary Eine Fier/lose rubles. To add to eel this, oho wore white sills gloves, over whiNn site wore more rings than I could count., some of thein very fine diamonds. There wits, how- ever, nothing artistic or elegant, in any single ornament, though doubtiese the value of the wlrole set out must have been egtormaus on account of the size of the stones and pearls. When Mir Munshi carne In, brought by Sirdar, she naked ate, wreaking in Persian, which he translated, how I was, bidding me wiecolne, and express- ing the hope that I should be happy In Cabal, and enjoy the favor of the Ameer. She then introduced me to the other ladies present, many of them slave wives of the Ameer, of whom several wore handsome, sweet -looking women, and I could not help thinking how infinitely mare elegant they were in their plain Cabal drosses of velvet, brocade or silk, thein was the Sultana in her war paint; not that a Cahuli's dress is ever really elegant, or rather, I should say, our Western ideas world have to be educated up to them before we could think them elegant. They aro essentially adapted for sitting on the floor, and look all right then, but a short tunic, reaching sometimes but little below the knee, ran surely never be elegant for a short stout woman, and most: Afghan women are Roth short and stout. ?.BOUT ANDREE Some Theories ns to 1150 Probable Este of the Explorer. Weeks have lengthened into months since Andrea disappeared, and months are growing toward the Half-year mark, and still no news of him comes from the vast unknown. In such case the old rule, no news is good news, scarcely can apply. The contrary is true. Ab- sence et news is ominous, and every day that passes without some tidings narrows the margin of reasonable bops. It is too soon yet to give him lup as lost. But it is certain tbat he has not fared as well as be expeoted to, and the chances are that ha has fallen at least into serious distress. So much even: his most optimistic Irionds con- cede, while those who always reckoned his venture foolhardy consider their worst forebodings fully verified. These are the data on whieb all reek adage of hope or fear are to be made: Andrre and his two companions eat sail in their balloon from Dane's Island on July 11—five montes ago—bound for the Pole and across it to the other side of the Arctic baein. The balloon con- tained 4800 cubic metres of gas, and was made of three -tali silk and gutta- percha, with netting of Italian hemp. It had a wicker, canvas -covered car, 6 feet in diameter and 41-2 feet deep. The equipment inoluded a cookstove, provisioans for four months and plenty of water in aluminum cans, a sledge, boat big enough to carry eleven men and plenty of ARMS AND AMMUNITION. The start was .uadle under favorable conditions, straight toward the Pole. At the initial rate of progress the Pole should have been reached in a couple of days at most. The balloon, barring acoidenis, was able to keep afloat for at least two weeks. The weather for some days after the start was favorable to the prosecution of the enterprise. Thus far the facts, All else is specu- lation, excepting that the balloon can surely not now be afloat. and that the voyagers, if they still survive, must have exhausted the store of provisions with, which they started, unless they have found moans of replenishing their tardier. The latter is probable. We know from Nansen's experience that mems with arms and ammunition can get food is even the remotest North. The serious problem is, in what circum- stances did they part company with the balloon? If by any masuup it collapsed or exploded in mid-air, and precipitat- ed them suddenly from a great height upon either ice or open sea, their tate is not doubtful, 00, on the contrary, the balloon gradually failed, and they took their departure from it deliber- ately and with ample preparation, all may yet be well with them. Where they are, supposing this favorable the- ory to be correct, is, of oourse, A MYSTERY, Any point on all the vast circumference of the Polar basin is possible, If they were landed on the Siberian coast or the North American coast, or the up- per part of Greenland, it would take months for them to work their way down to eivtlizatiun. If, as some sus- pece from observation of the meteor- ological conditions prevailing since their start, they were carried back to Franz Josef .Land, they would probab- ly build a came and remain there for the winter, Them is no occasion to wonder that nothing has been seen of the forty car- rier pigeons and dozens of cork buoys which Andrea took with him'as means of communicating with the world lee hadleft behind him. The experiments of the Prince of Monaco have shown how slowly soma ocean currents carry waifs, and indicate that it may be months yet before any of these drift into region -4 where they aro likely to be seen. As for the pigeons, there is lit- tle rensve to ssappose that they could t survive for even a hundred miles of 0 flight in that inclmmeut climate, not to tuention the many hundreds they t would have to traverse to reach adv- v Mewl regions. There is little use in seeding out search expeditions, ex- e cope:Lag to Spitzbergon, Franz Josef P Land and one or trvo other such pointe, The general sweep of the erotic basin is far too vast for any scrutiny of it to lee made. For the rose, there is only b hope, N.EV]aR TAICEN OPE. 'YOUNG FOLKS: TUJ NINE A NEW LEAF."Now what is that noises' said the glad New }'ear, "Now what le that singular sound I heart As if all the paper iu ail the world Were rattled and shalcen and twisted and twirled'?""Ob. that," said the jolly old Earth, els the noise Of all nay children, both girls and boys, A -turning over their' leaves so new, And all to do honor, New Year, to you." A WL'IOOI'INO-COUGH PARTY. What a funny party, I hear you sayl And who ever thought of having such a thine This is how it came about. Lydia had the whooping -cough so of course she bad to stay home from kindergarten, and as every child who goes to kindergarten knows, this is hardly to be borne. But when in ad dil:ion to staying away from school, yon can't even play with the little girl on the next block, nor go near any baby for fear of giving "It" to her, why then it is too much.. So you can imagine how pleased Lydia was when elle heard that Ilse and Corinne and Kathryn had whoop- ing -cough too. Not that she was glad that they had whooping -cough, which, as you know, is not a comfortable thing to have, but if they had to have it, she was glad they alt .bad it at the same time, be- cause born was some one to play with. So the lady who lived near Lydia invited all the four children to tea, and this is how they rime to have a whooping -cough party. Lydia, who only lived up -stairs in the sono house, carte first, sir she was there to receive the other three, and as see bad never seer. them Letore, nor they her, there was great oxelte- ment. h'iret, the three little girlshed to take off their brown hats and coats and their white) leggings and gloves, and all the warns wraps they had on to keep from catching cold., and all Unit time Lydia never said a word. But when they went into the par- lor, I assure you they all chattered away like magpies, and I never saw four little girls get on so well They played all sorts of games; blind man's bull) and oats -peas -beans and tag; and then they picked up potatoes in a spoon, and if you think this is an easy thing to do, just you try it, that's all with large potatoes, and a smolt spoon, on a slippery wooden floor. At last they were asked to v -alk out to tea and there was the table all beautifully set, just as ii it were for grown-up people, with pretty silver and china and pink candle -shades, and cakes aou and cholato and milk and brown bread. The little girls all made a fine tea, and no one sat at that table but just their four selves, and the grown peo- ple just stood up and wanted upon them. ,After tea they wont back to the par- lor, al tor, and the three little girls ells hail Leen in Germany, began to recite some pretty little verses about the stork and about a little pony and a fox. When lo and behold! Lydia had never been in Germany, but she understood German and she even had a German book with some of these very verses in it, so she not only understood what the little girls recited, but she could say sumo of the verses herself. And then the very ih.ng happened that Lydia had thought of; they all began to cough at ousel Nothing fun- nier was ever heard than these four, Little girls. three in white dressesend the fourth in green plaid trimmed with red, all doubled over and red in the face with coughing, It was so funny that they could not help laugh- ing themselves, and of course that made them'cough more, till they were quite helpless. .However, the', was all over at last, and then they bad a Little more play before the carriage came, and then the three little girls who were the visitors bade good-bye to the ono little girl who lived up -stairs, and they parted in the best of good temper, and much pleased with each other. And if they had not all had the whooping -cough et the eumo time this very funny party could never havo taken place. --- A TILLUE STORY. Some years ago a little Welsh boy, stole out of the poor -house of his na- tive village and ran across the coun- try Ho was a pauper, that is, he was fed, clothed, and educated. by the dis- trict, the people being taxed to pay for it tall. There is no disgrace in honest pov- erty, but in that country to be brought up in a poor -house is almost as lead as tieing reared In a jail, The boy was ambitious, he hada soul above his surroundings. He wanted to Ise something more than a farm hand, working like a slave for twenty-five cents a week and his board, and yet that was his destiny unless he ranaway, He slept under a hertge, and the next morning salved some weed in pay- ment.for his breakfast.Day after day be slid the seem kind of thing, earning each meal. Ity the per- formance of some work, leach day he got farther away from he hated poor -house, and nearer the oast, al Al lest he reached a seaport. an tied to got a positiun, on board a asset, sidling, Ise caroti not where, But he was so thin, and pale, and leek - d ao delicate), that no; ono would cue boy him, Then he risked ell. Ile crawled aboard a freight steamer bound for ow Onleens, hid himself in a coal unk and for three days laid there early dead with starvation, sea sick- ness and dust, He was discoverers and dragged on deck, el. whipping with a rope end and hard work for the remainder of the passage, were Itis pr(nish- monts. When the ship reached New Or- leans ho feared ho might/ be sent' to prison, so Inc sought safety in flight, Iter weeks he pioked up et prccarL- oune living, and ntlast had enough mon- ey to enable hint to buy a shopblack's truths. Sunset Simms, drowsily—Dey say the Prince oi' Wales never wears a suit of clothes more than once. Weary Willie—Well, neater de wo— eniy Its a longer once. RRA$ LOTS OP HOMO, Did you say her father bad lots o¢ Tee, he owns and operates two or three big stoat' (inertias. Thirty years later, a great crowd assembled to welcome a man to England, a man who had become the friend of kings, a man every- one believed worthy of the highest hon- er. A prince was the first to shake Inim by the hand and hid trim wel- come. This mace had discovered and explor- ed lands where white mon had not trod before. Ile had added to a World's know - lodge and had achieved the greatest renown. The queen invited him td dins with her, dignitaries of the church sounded his praises, and ladies of high degree sought his company. Success followed success, and he be- came the husband of a beautiful lady, rich, honored and respected. He entered Parliament and was lis- tened to by the greatest statesmen of the great empire of Greah Britain. And this man, with honors heaped upon him, was the same) who in his boyhood's days had been the poor- house pauper, the stowaway, the shoe- black of New Orleans, and now the honored friend of kings and Princes. He had discarded his own name, dad taken that of the bonefaetor whose shoes lie blacked in New Or- leans, and who had taken a fanny to the lad. His nave, as it appears on the page of history, will immortalize tbat bene- factor, for Henry M, Stanton the ex- plorer, owes everything to him. His strangely eventful life proves that nothing is impossible to those wbo are ready to seize on oppor- tunities, and dare to ascend, no mat- ter what obstacles may bol on tate hill of life. RIDING OVER A COBRA. An incident or Bicycle /tiding In 104ln, Bicycling in southern India is at- tended by peculiar dangers. A wheel - man„ whose way led him across the An- nannally Hills, was spinning along when suddenly be saw, lying directly in front of him, a large cobra. The lively en- counter is thus described by the cyclist in the Madras Mail: t It was imlxsssible to avoid the loath- sanle reptile by swerving to either side; the slope was too steep, and I was go - tag too fast. I back-pecialleci with my whole weight, and put on the brake with all the force that my right hand could exert; but the momentum was too great, and the bicycle went on ov- er the snake, which rasa with a hiss to meet me and extended its hood. Quick as lightning it struck at the front wheel, and as itotruck 1 instinct- ively lifted both hands from the handle -bar, the thought flashing through my mind that shoes and hose gave my feet and legs a cbance, but that my hands were naked. The instant any hand was off the brake. the bicycle shot forward, for in my fright I had forgotten to continue to back-pedal. With unutterable ler- ror I saw that the swum was half - through the front wheel, and that the wheel was drawieg it through the fork with a horrid "swish," Thews there was a thud as the head of the snake was drawn through the fork, and a second later a flap of the tail end of the snake as it was drawn through and hit the road on the right. The one idea that pressed me was to accelerate this process. How the bicy- cle did fly down that hill. The trees by the roadside passed me like a ribbon. The level grouud at the foot of the slope I sped across et Mein alSpeed, and 1 rushed up the opposite slope as long as I had any breath left in me. Then I ventured to get off. The snake's head was gone as far as the spectacles On the hood, pounded into a jelly by the bard road; on the right side of the wheel the snake tapered off into a few fleshless vertebrae, Two herdboys in the fields came to see what had happened, and with sticks helped me to remove the carcass from my wheel. I think there can be no- thing more frightful than to have a cobra in the front whorl of one's bicv- ole, while one is pedalling for dear life, A STORY ABOUT NELSON, How 0993 (lr.'eer in Lire \9ns v'er'y Nca19. changed. A pretty little romaare gives Nel- son's memory a sentimental interest in Canada. During his eervioe at Que- bec, in 1782, ween he was but twenty - tour years of age, he became Infatuate ed with a, beautiful Canadian girt, Mary Simpson, daughter of a great Canadian merchant of the period. Al the time ad Nelsunr's visit she was but stxloar years oil, marvellously beau- tiful anti witty. On October 14, ilea Lord, Nelson's ship, the Albemarle, was nearly to sail, and he hart as very sad nein tender parting wins Mary eine.- b01,11, and. went down the 5t., Lawrenw, to 1108 rd. the amira-of-war, 1'he ue.1 meronts• arrived, and the Albemarle 4 not heave s n dhor, and Captain tatin Nelson was seen cooling Ist,ok to Que roc in a beat. A friend of Neloc n's, n cairn prominent in Quele+' at. the time. espied him, enol asked him what had happen- ed. Nelson is quoted as having said, find it a Iniodut ely impossible. t„ leave this place) without na.;in wasting upon bar whore seelely his su rnus'h added to its charms, and laying iuyee.lf and my fortune et her feet." Nel- son's friend protested against. such a rash ayes, and told him that, "situated as you. aro at present, your Meter ruin will inevitably follow: "'Then let it. follow," replied Nelson earnestly, "for I nee resolved to do it." .But. despite Isis intentions, the monger will of his friend prevailed, and he was fairly carried back Lo his ship, and kneed to leave behind the girl be loved; find it was many years before he gave up the ver i hem of pa res erg her, fir Nelson never returned to Canada, and Mary SLmp- eon died in spsnsterhood. A TIP volt t I97{.PLOR:CE. , S Just let it be given out that there's gold at the North role and it will he di eeeermtl tettiek. WELL, WELL, WHAT li EXT ? BUTTER MAY NOW BE MADE DIRECT FROM VEGETABLES. .91r, pay, or seminars Sean Preens/ err '1'Ul'nitt5 Gress trete pest Daley neater without• the Intermediation of thio 1'e) w. Butler without the all of a cow 15 what Willard G. Day, an Inventor, DO Baltimore. Md., promisees. Think ell i1, yo gentle Jerseys and sleek, web fed Aldernnys,l Ine it not time for the entire herd to enter a protest against this intrusion, upon your anelenit rights? Electricity is the, chief agent Mie, Day proposes to employ in the produrr- tion of butter directly from the vege- tables which fermi the food of cattle whose milk is used in the churn. Mr, Day discovered first that tho pe- culiar oharaotorislio traits of different) verestdce of butter, cheese, etc., were owing to two general causes. One was the kind of food on which the cow way fed; the other was the kind of microbe nourished at end by the roots of the plant which furnished the food to the co'w. Armed with thee' two secrets, Mr, Day beetle bus work, which consisted In extracting and than assembling artif - eiaily the same products which are itsuaIly brought, about by nature. He succeeded in producing from the vegetaible kingdom oils which differ very slightly from those of the animal kingdvm. Having gone this far, the next step was to e.harrge the vegetable all by giving it the same chemical con, stitution as that possessed by the ani- mal article desired—in other words, to ' make thio animal butter oil cut of grass, corn and similar vegetable substances, ELECTRICITY COMES INTO PLA:'. The secret in this part of the pro- cess Mr. Day found to consist in thug foot that animal and vegetable curbs, hydrates strongly resemble each others The ditferenee which are found in oils are nearly all owing to the nitrogens due sheaths in white the globules of all are contained. Thus to this sheath is due the tallowy smell of tallow, the muttoar smell of mutton, as well as all the rank odors of many vegetable oils, When oils are extracted by heat, or the meclsanical violence of pressure, the deleterouus nitrogenous charac- teristics of the globule sheaths are im- parted to the oil globules tlremsei>es, and no are can separate them after- ward. Here comes in the great die- covery in the use of the electric light. Mr. Day found that when these ells and fats were subjes'ted to the radi- ant energy of powerful electric light the nitrogenous &hemline were shrivell- ed and their contents put in te condi- tion to be milked out or extracted by a gentle pressure, without being con- taminutad by the characteristics of the animal or plant itself. DESTROYS MICROBES. Another effect was disc produced. Whatever mi,:rube oras associated with any particular oil or fat, woe killed by the acetate power of the light, thus leaving the article free from any of its native mi.'robes and ready to be used as a cultured medium for any desired microbe. • Among the microbes destroyed by the light axe those which anise putrefac- tion and damy, and so the al -times act- ed on by the light are readily preser, ad as long as they are protected from now ' inn'asiwts of nature's lapels of destroy- ers. As a result, ,the various kinds of butter, cheese, etc., made under the Day processes show ,most remarkable keeping powers, far surpassing those produced by the old fashioned methods. For the same reason, the new articles aro not of 'ted. by any diseases, such as tuberculosis and typhoid, fewer, which may be carried and transmitted in the milk of cow', as well as by con- • tarain:ati>n from barnyard associations. The Day process does not end with the treatment of fats and gibs, hut is applled. to all the flesh of animals, as w ell as cf fis-h, &rets:, oysters, fruits and vegetables. Mr. Day found that the appluati:sr of the radiant energy from the electric light produced peculiar and WONDEi'LFtr7, EFFECTS out all these. substances. L'resh ,meat was made rigid and hard as wuuii. It anuli then be ground or pulverizer. in Lo powder, an,d this, when put into water., wouhi swell un rind when conked would have bit subsea nee and Ilse good qualities of On'snh meal.. The electric insri,n,g pr+aess reduced four pounds of meat tour': found, to this condition it could be rrasnnperted any were and wouhl keep in any clininte. Then by adding the rcqui ite amr+uut of water ihav IIruche wail;! Inc ready to be cooked and served up, teas furnishing an ideal wet, ns to wln(rh ",limstlun waits on appeilite, and health on leille" 51'. flay t ,<ted the merits of his l.s'ocess in many ways. l0.' feend that treats could le rut'c•l in, lone, ernnsal1 peeve; in fn,'l, thatb, m u;t.nble ox - Dustin!, to the elerbrie light bodies of any elan ns ht first eleinewied from all mit, roues duel. Then preserved inde- finitely. No matter what the germ might. 1*, three inventor found. that powerful light was fatal to it. He experimented with the entire rnnge'of germ" supplied. by Inctpit{ dein. ne of the Johns Rea king hospital, and. killed theta ell. Extending the range of his prvress,. Mr. shay 1'outalthat fruits and veggie tables could either be preserved very; nearly in their natural enndithex and size, or they could be nude dry and hard. as wand, reduced int sive and; weight, than ground to powder and af- terward restored again to a food by supplying moisture. HER MIIT110D. fiUntsle 13 ab- toe, my wife illus b'lltni. ed iu tyin' n. string to her finger to renumber things. .Uncle) 13111—She. bas one on her fin.. get' most of the time, I notice. 'Crude Bob --'See, 'cousin' when she has sommtbin' verygerttkler to rornomb. er. Then she Leaves tel: the, string, du' when Ui'ain't there she remembers