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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-6-16, Page 2T H 'M`'„�r! B B U ,S S +" L S POS T. ,TUNR 16, 1809 t✓t Diamond Cut 0 Rr THE ROUT OE THE ENEMY. eneelNeentnanataneadannernageenreaareeneateneaee CHAPTER XXXIlL—continued. Geoffrey, wet to tine akin, picked himself up again, a sorry object to be- hold, but none the worse in any other way. His horse struggled to his feet With greater difficulty, and developed at the very first movement a very de- cided limp of his aft hind leg—a limp which put all idea of followingthe bounds any longer utterly out of the question. By this time, too, the last of the red coats bad vanished over the brow of the hill, and a scarcely distant sound of the fast -galloping steeds could be distinguished. Also, it was getting dark. This Geoffrey realized for the first time, and, when a day in February once be - gine to darken, it is perfectly aston- isbing how quickly it sets about it. As jheesslooked about him somewhat helplessly, it seemed to him that even the Pence he had just tackled with again and again be found himself mur- muring half aloud: "Could it have been Rose, or am I going mad in very truth, and was it all a delusion of my brain!" CHAPTER XXXI. The world—Dulcie 13u11iday's world at least --in which her friend Venetia figured conspicuously, pitied her very Mull when her sister had married and gone away. They were profuse in their invitations and their offers of companionship, it must be so dull for her they said, now that Angel had left her, as her father was away all day. And no doubt Delete did miss the sis- ter to whom she had for so many years devoted herself. Yet believing her to be married to a good man who would take care of her, she was quite happy about her. But with regard to her loneliness, she had a sauree of console - such disastrous consequences looked tion of which her friends were in feint and grey, whilst an turning ignorance• round again to survey the ploughed It was astonishing bow often in these field into which he had landed, its for- wintry days Miles Faulkner pleaded then boundaries seemed all to be en- indisposition, and left the City at an velaped in a mist of vague indistinct- early afternoon hour. Remarkable for nese, He realized, too, that the tea- a Young man of sober and abstemious tures of the country were unknown to habits, how frequently he complained him, and that he must be a good eigh- of beadaehes and pains in his chest and teen miles from home. sides, and other symptoms of a strange This discovery caused him to bestir and yet more mysterious nature. himself. Leading his tired animal "I feel awfully queer to -day," he round the field he come at last to a would announce in the morning, as he gate beyond which a narrow winding took his place opposite to Triohet at lane seemed to be the only course left the table. There was no third clerk Lim to pursue, and along this he pro- appointed yet to Geoffrey's vacant needed at a slow pace. chair. "1 think I must be going to Who does not remember such rides be ill," home through the gathering darkness, "Sc' you said on Tuesday, Miles," tired out, wet through, far from home Triohet would answer in a friendly in a strange country, urging on a manner. "When you were obliged to Iimping animal that stumbles and go away early, you know." Pecks every other yard—this is the "Yes, and I'm. afraid I shall have to darkest aspect of the noble sport. knock off after lunch again to -day. For several miles Geoffrey toiled on I've got a sort of swimming feeling all in patient resignation, ignorant as to over me, don't you know." his whereabouts, and in doubt even as "Oh, it was only in your head I re - to wbether he was advancing in the member, on Tuesday," "Yes, welt it's spread a bit since," remarked Miles, with unabashed effrontery, "You should take advice, my dear fellow. You really should see a doc- tor," recommended his fellow-olerk, with a look of profound scorn and ghr direction. It was now quite dark, and he began to look out eagerly for some hum•tn habitation, some vil- lage inn where he might perhaps get a drink for his horse, or at least some cottage where he might glean inform- ation concerning his road. But not a glummer of light, far and wide, right sympathy. or left, was to be discerned. "I have done so, Albert. But these The lane now debouched upon a doctors can't do much; they only re- m*, wild -leaking common, covered, commend what a man, who bas his as tar as he could make out, with low, work to do, can't very well manage— scrubby bushes. Here all at once be perfect rest." caught sight of a light from some "Ah 1 and short trips Into the coun- house stealing a little waw back from try, twice a week!" the road. Miles lowered his face for a minute Tc, this he made the best or nts way over his writing, then he lifted it as quickly as possible, feeling conaid- again and, with a slightly heightened erably cheered by the evidence that he color, looked his adversary full in the was once more within hail of some of eyes his fellow -creatures. When he got close up to the house, it seemed a dismal abode enough; it was not, as be bad supposed, a labor- er's cottage, but a small and most melancholy -looking villa of the stereo- typed pattern. A small front garden enclosed with- in iron railings, a door in the middle, a window on either side of it, out of one of which proceeded the light that had attracted hisn, and above these, three darkened apertures, represent- ing no doubt bed -room windows over- head. It went through his mind to wonder who on earth could have built such a house in such a lonely plate, and also how, being built, there could possibly have been found anybody willing to inhabit it. Dismounting, he fastened his animal to the railing, raised the latch of the gate and walked into the scrap of gar- den. He then noticed that the window from which the light streamed forth wee uncurtained, and it ocourred to him that, before ringing the bell, it would perhaps be a prudent thing to look into the room and to see for him- self what manner of inhabitants tbis desolate -looking house contained. He crept softly up and peeped over the 1mv laurel bushes into the room. It was small and somewhat meagrely furnisbed. A fire burnt dully in the grate, a lamp stood upon a book -case on one side of it; there were neither pictures nor china upon the walls; only a great many rows of books, not neatly arranged, but piled ii in heaps one over the other on the floor, as though waiting to be set in order. And there was a round table in the middle of the room, and across it, stretched face downwards upon her folded arms was a woman—the only oc- aupent of the room. She was dressed in the deepest mourning, black of the most sombre intensity; not a scrap of Dollar or cuff was to be seen, nor was there even a gleam of hand or neck to re- lieve the gloom, only the wealth of a amass of ruddy gold hair fallen loosely about her hidden taco and shoulders. Something in the sight of her set his heart beating oddly and painfully— something in the lines of the bowed figure, in the color of the drooping head, What was it that it recalled to him? Who was it that it reminded him of 1 Oh, if she would but move, lift up her face, raise her bead even ; had it been ever so slight a glimpse of either he would have been oertainl But she did not lift a finger, and the fallen bead and leaning form, in its long sable draperies, brought no as- surance to his mind, only a vague, dis- quieting suggestion of a mad possibil- ity. For a long time, as it seemed to him, in reality it was, perhaps, only a few minutes, he stood motionless without, watching for some change in the wo- man's attitude. But there came no change, only now and then a long quivering sob -like sigh seemed to shake her from bead to foot, like a thrill of agony through the utter still - nese of her sorrow, It was the very abandonment of woe, A grief so deep and so unspeakable that at last it came home to the mind of the watcher without, that it was almost a sacrilege to spy upon it, that it would be a cruel action to break in upon it. "God help you, poor soul," he mur- mured at last, and softly and revere eptly he crept away and went baek Mee the darlrnnss out of which be bad tonne. But long after, hours atter be had got home and been warmed, and fed, and dried by hie own fireside, that picture of that woman in her woe leapt "That's it, Triohet. You've hit it exactly. What a clever chap you are!" Albert Triohet only whistled a pop- ular air, and made no answer. But he thought the more. After lunch, when Mlles, murmur- ing a lame apology, bad taken bimself off, as he had hinted that he intended to do, Albert rose leisurely from his place, and went up and knocked at the door of Matthew Dane's private room. "Look here, Guv'nor, something must be done." Mr. Dane shuddered. "I object to that style of address, Trichet 1" he said, haughtily, looking up at his clerk, with an angry frown, "All right, guv—I mean sir—no of- fence. But Lt's just as well you should know what is going on. Faulkner sneaks away early twice a week nowa- days, on the plea of ill -health, and it's my firm belief he goes down to Hartle ford to make love to Miss Halli- day 1" Mr, Dane laughed, "What a boy you are, Albert) Why don't you go down and cut him out then 1 What is the good of telling ma this? 111 give Miles some extra work to -morrow, if you like, and you can go off and woo the lady!" "Mr. Dane, this Is no trilling, mat- ter. The girl ;s right enough—girls," with a sneer, "are sharp enough to see which side their bread is likely to be buttered, What I want you to do is to square the father. Have you not spoken to him yet 1" There was something like a threat in the young man's eye. The old man shuffled uneasily under it. You know that. I have a claim up- on you," said Trichet, in a cold, hart! voice; " and you know also that you dare not make an enemy of me, You remember about that ship load of goods from South America last spring, don't you? Do you remember how the Southern Pearl went to the bottom and all hands perished, and the cargo was lost, and every house in the City sant its condolences? 'We hadn't in- sured,' you know 1—but you and 1 know wiry that ship foundered, don't we? We lost her cargo—it was aloss, of course, but it wasn't of such value as was thought, and we ruined the South American house that was un- derbuying us—for the man whose brain was outwitting yours, slaver as you are, had taken a passage home in the Southern Pearl, and went to the bottom in her tool—and there are no tales told from the deep bed of the Southern Sea I You and 1 know all about that, don't we? And we cling together, you and 1, because of my mother, You know, and the kind friend you were to her and because—of me, Oh, no, Matthew Dane, you can't af- ford to quarrel, with me, can you?" A singular change passed over the old man's face while Trichet was speak- ing, He turned. livid—of a yellow hue like those waxen images off whose faces the colouring pigments have fad- ed; his eyes lost their keen, eagle glance; hie whole form shrunk and cowered, He woe no longer the laugh- ty autocrat, the master mind domi- neering over his puppets; be eves only guilty wretch, who shivers as his sins are brought home to him. What is It you want ?" ha said, without laokingg up, in an odd, hearse voice, whilst his hand wandered un- oartainly amongst the papers on his labia, Albert Trichet eat cross -ways open a cane chair, his arms folded across Its back, his thin resting on bis clasped flashlsig back before his eyes, and fingers, Ha Iooked al the old man do- t finntly, almost insolently. "I've got Min no coast," he said to himself ; " he knows I've tSa whip band of bim, and he is afraid of me." You �. know S• • n very well all what 1 u'nnt let's have no more fuss about it," be said with easy impudence, And then old Matthew flashed a glance up at him, and his eyes flash- ed and glowed with a sudden and In- ward flare. "It is your day now—but mine will Dome," said the old lion to himself, for •though he was in a trap be was not to be worried to death by a Wen- zel 1 he was aking amonget his fellows still, and those who defied him gen- erally had the worst of it in the long run. If Albert Triohet, insolent and se- rene, bad but divined the perfect pas- sion of hatred that blazed and burnt in the elder man's soul, as he looked at him, he would hardly have sat there as he did, comfortable and secure, with that small myuieal smile upon his mean little oountenancs, " Send for I3alllday," said Triehst, shortly, as one who gives an order to an inferior, and those three words doomed him. After that his fate was sealed. Matthew Dane arose from hisn etas ir, struckas a hand bell on his table he n passed it, unlocked a cupboard i the wall. and filling 0 wine glass from a t bottle upon the shelf drained i off at a gulp, "My daily tonic, my boy," he re- marked apologetically as he turnedhe 1h key in the cupboard door again; en h to the messenger who answered is Ask, summons, in his usual voice, " As itr, Halliday if be will kindly come and speak to me for a minute." It might, have been the veritab le Elixir of Life from the Wept it had u s- on him. Erect and calm, with his back n to the hearth and his figure draw up to its full height, he stood with all, self- possession, more than all, his habitual and awaited bis parte with Mr. Halliday arrived, He looked fes a slight surprise at Trichet. Intery vs house between the two heads of the h se pres- encenot wont to be hell in the s- ense of a clerk. 11r. Halliday's glance an said as much. Mr. Dane smiled d motioned him to a chair, d, " This interview, my dear friers is it scarcely connected with business— is of a personal and I maagree- able say no n e - able nature. Ouryoung friend here, m my dear Halliday, has asked for y t intercession with you, with regardo r. your daughte" ' My dre- peated, Mr. Halliday - peated, looking from one to the oth- er. "Our' young friend, dear Halliday, tells me he is deeply attached to s tis an Dulcie, an dbeing an honourable d adet conscientious. man, he wishes to - dress himself in the first instant o her father" Per- sonally our ef' —h your prov- ed. you ar suitable ter uc way, an Ser ur an Sim in the was ec- en- into at with There n th it death, Mr. Halliday looked troubled, ha did not like Albert Trichet. He bowed his head slightly. " I feel, of course, deeply honour- ed," he began, bestatingly, but—" "I think I ought to put Trico s case to you before you answer him—he has, of course, no means of bis own, but with a view to bis marrying y r daughter, and also because he has p ed. himself of very great value in e business, 1 am going to propose to that he shall be made our ' Manager,' and enjoy an increased salary suit e to his services; to be drawn quarter- ly; and at your death that be suc- ceeds you as partener. In this should your daughter marry him, ample provision will be made for and the business be kept amongst our- selves. This has long been my Pro- ject ;" he added, with so perfect appearance of candour and openness, that even Trichet, who glanced at suspiciously, could detect nothing his proposition but the most absolute good faith. It ivas not perhaps quite what he had wanted, but provided salary were high enough, there hardly a sufficient ground for objec- tion. I had (roped, sir," he said deferen- tially, "that should I be so fortunate as to win Miss Halliday's affections, you would have taken me at once i partnership." "The business would not stand it present. You malt be content w your high salary is manager. T5 cannot be more than three partners it. Your annual income will be quite as large, probably, as any small share you would take out: of it as a four partner—" ' And might 1 ask—•-" " Certainly. I propose to maks twelve buudred a year. At my dee it would rise to fifteen hundred. Mr. Halliday's, you would become partner, with a third share," At a Tito terms were ample, far more so than he had dared to hope, Yet Albert Trichet remained thoughtful—he ouuld see no trap or plot about it—all seem- ed fair and square, and yet why had there been so sudden a capitulation? ' He lta.s knocked under with a ven- geance i" he said to himself, Then Mr. Halliday spoke: "As my daughter will not go to any man absolutely penniless, I can sea milling to prevent the marriege with regard to means; it only remains for me to say, therefore, that should yon gain her oonsent, I will not withhold mine. At the same time, I feel bound to tell you that Duieie is not a girl won will be easily won." I Crust you will stand my friend, Mr. Hailiday?" "Certainly. But I shall never force m,Y claughler's inclinations." The interview was virtually over, and Trichet felt no more good oou)d come of prolonging, it. lie had, after all, been victorious, all along the line—he bad subdued his chief into offering his terms so advan- tageous that he did not know bow to cavil at them, and he was an accept- ed suitor to Duleia Italliday's hand, It was not in nature not to be elated at his elements, Tie Went forth from Mr. Dane's little room like one to whom life has suddenly become a haradise of golden hopes and gratified ambitions. Aflel' all," ]te said to himself, ex- uTtingIy, " the luck isn't all to be on Geoffrey Dana's side, and I']1 be even with Miles Faulkner yet -curse hire!" And all the time he never saw the one tiny flaw, the one small rift in the rogrnmme of his future 1 So moth bad been said about Mr. Halliday's death something too, about Mr, Dane's Mit never one word or one syllable about that one most improbable, and surely tamale contingency—leis own 1 The t, as a rule, is the very last thing any man ren:ompiates when he is sketching nut the details of his rise in life to oompeLance and wealth, And yet, and yet-»•w)xtlst golden dreams were yet before trim—whilst he a'ae telling himself bow much he would make out of his managership, hew he would encourage Geoffrey in :themes and idleness, so as to make himself in- disyensable in the City, how well, yet how prudently, he would live, how cleverly he remail work the lever, as as to twist hie chief about at his will and pleasixre—he would not perelmrice have Seen so confident and so exult- ant bad he followed that thief along the gas -lit streets as be walked West- wards that afternoon, and had been able to read the thoughts that en- grossed him on his homeward way:' : Put into a nutshell, they might be condensed thus: Albert Trichet thinks he has done me, As a metier of fact, he has done for himself. Ile threatens and bullies me—two thinge I have never yet stood, and don't mean to endure now, I have borne a good deal from him, because of who he is, and because, he leas been of service to me. As he says, be has done my dirty work. As a tool, he had his uses, but if be turns upon me as be did just now, he becomes intoler- able. Is it likely I am going to leave him behind oxo, to tie a thorn for ever ]n Geoffrey's path? And lie thinks lie has outwitted me—me 1 Ab, it would take a cleverer than you; the Devil himself, my friend, to do that 1" And then a scowl, dark and hideous to be- hold swept over his face; perhaps it was that Devil he had invoked, who put forth his hand and stamped it there. "I have had enough of him," he mut- tered. "Ha has erosped my path. I must get rid of him!" ('Po be Continued.) . RAILWAY RISKS IN CHINA. Lnannees es Wel! as Dangerous incident, oe file North China Line. The most amusing and painful ex- periences that attend "railroading" in China fall, not upon the promoters or the passengers, but upon the foreign employes. An engineer's life in north China, for instance, is generally an exciting one. (Besides natural and routine difficulties, he has to cope, says the London News, with mandarin intrigues, village opposition, mutinous railway coolies and turbulent sol- diery. A somewhat typical incident was that of 1890, when, during floods, ,a mob, led by soldiery out the railway embankment and destroyed seven miles of line near Tien-Tsin. The cause alleged was that the embank- ment prevented the flood water from running off—which, as there were fre- quent outlets, was utter nonsense. Previous to that attempts had been made to wreck trains, and the foreign employes were constantly threaten- ed. The life, too, of a foreign guard on d train Is not Always a happy one. Mandarins' servants without tickets frequently eche possession of first - cease carriages, and in the most com- prehensive sense make themselves at home. Perhaps, if the weather is cold, they undertake to get warm by lighting pans of charcoal. Charcoal has certain asphyxiating effects; the other passengers complain, and the servants bave to be ejected. Too moth violence might lead to a general attack on foreigners and an- other Tien-Tsin massacre, while too little would not be effective. The un- happy guard has to follow the "happy" mean between a bard push and a knockdown blow. There have been many ludicrous as welt as dangerous incidents on the North China line. When it was first opened, Chinese would come to the booking office and try to bargain for tickets, )When told the fare, they would offer ball, and gradually raise their bid, much disgustedl that they should not, in a business spirit, be met half -way. One day a country gentleman, on his first ride in a train, seeing his boost• midway between two stations door and stepped out into space. At the pace the train was going a Euro- pean would certainly have been killed, flying past, deliberately opened the but the supple Celestial, after a pro- longed period of somersaults, was seen to pink himself up, dust his clothes, and set off home across the fields— much pleased with his short out and the convenience of the fire -wheel earriege." An unfortunate railway coolie, equally ignorant of the laws of teeth - antes, did not get off so wall. Seeing two trucks coming at a snail's pace down a siding, be placed his foot onm, the rail to stop them. To his aston- ishment it was cut off, and he learn - ad, like Stevenson's cow, that momen- tuis made up of mass as well las of velocity. But in spite of everything, railways are hound to prosper in a country where travelling is otherwise so slow and so difficult. COMFORT FOR " RED HEADS," Statistics which have recently been compiled show that persons with rad hair are far lass likely to become bald than those who have hair of another color, The average number of red hairs on the human skull is 29,200. Flair of a dark ooler is generally mean fin- er than red hair, and three dark hair's cover a5 much space as a single red hair, As a rule, a dark haired person has about 150,000 hairs on the skull. Fair haired persons, on the other band, men as well as women, have from 140,- 000 to 100,000, ine strongest hairs, however, aro those of a red color, and hence tlsay endure the longest. Itmay be added that red haired persons are generally of a sympathetie and pea - stellate nature, and are as a rule far more apt to be optimtete than poet - mists. The wise man turns ftp his sleeves and goes to work while the fool sits around and waits for work to come to him. , wince, te"5, . eneeemereentennannate ' Farm, Letseintananteriene eeillente ,CA tit Ole MILK FOR Cillsl9SL MAKING. Care should begin before the milk leaves the udder by not overbearing ar exciting the cows prior to milking, writes Gea, le, Newell. Ta Insure this, a judicioue and experienced per- son should drive the anlmals into the stable and stanchion them. Parfoot quiet should reign in the stable dur- ing the milking Lour and the use of tobacco by the milkers at that Lime be absolutely px•ohiblted. A rule should obtain for regularly brushing the cows' udders previous to milking, and to never allow the fingers to be dipped in the milk pail to moisten the teats to facilitate stripping.. As soon as a milk pail is full it, should be carried from the stable, .Both night and morning's milk should be aerated, but aspaeial pains taken with the night's product, because that has to stead on the farm over night. I consider aeration the inost essential point in preserving lacteal quality and those who neglect it can never hive perfectly flavored milk. Where milk is thorouglly aerated, which at the same time cools it, there are few nights in eummer so bot as to cause it to sour or taint. Many employ the crude method of first straining the hot night's milk into the delivery can and than dipping anti stirring the fluid at intervals for an hour or two. This is slow and laborious, and in the end brings no better result than if one of the improved aerators is employed. This alu,ws the hot milk to drain from a height, in fine streams into the can, running it through twice or Lbrice if necessary. In using one et these aer- ators great care sbould be exercised that the holes are small and far apart, so that it will Lake fruit'. eiglst Lo ten minutes to drain a painful of milk in fine streams into the can. Many of the aerators now on the market are not efficient because the holes are too large and close together. For the care of the night's milk al- ways set the delivery can on cleats, permitting a circulation of air. Do not store over 100 lbs of milk in a wide can and not over 75 lbs in a narrow one. Never mix the morning's with the night's milk before delivery t the factory. nave a separate can r cans for each. Know positively ley arsenal supervision that your cans nci milk pails are thoroughly washed nd iigidly scalded every day before use. 11 you use tae or cold water to aot milk do not employ it until after he milk has been thuroughly aerated, f you do you may cause the lacteal ualily to be injured by taint, partic- larly if a can of hot milk is set in old water, which chills the edges, riving the heat toward the cantle, is escape being prevented by the lanket of cream rising on top. Un- ess you have a perfectly reliable bir- d man you should see to the care of he milk yourself. Never set the de - very cans under a roof at night bare tbs circulation of air is out off, have found that a raised platform ith open sides and roof for protection one rain is the best place for the ans of milk over night. In taking the product to the factory the morning the cans should be pro - Med from the hot sun by either Dist snaking around them or a can - as covered wagon. Remember at while ice is a great help it ed after aeration, it is not essential the preservation of milk quality for hours that ]L be used at all, It u conscientiously observe strict eanliness about milking, the scald - g of milk utensils and the cooling of milk by airing, it wilt come to the (story in first-class shape fur cheese eking. Last, but not haat, the mink n stand on the farm should nut be ar the stable or in any situation ithin the reach at objeationable ors. Locate it in an open, airy a 0 p a q u .0 d 1 e I1 w fr in to mv v th us to 1'2 0 al in e Le in ea ne w od plane. TILIl PRODUCTION OF POR11, In 1802 it WAS estimated that there were 102,172,224 hogs in the world. Of that number Canada was credited with 1,706,785, If snob methods of breeding, rearing, feeding and fattening Canadian hags can be followed as will make the bacon from them acceptable as first class to the British 0onsumers, the number can be doubled or quadrupled, witlsout much, if any, fail in the price, says Prof, Rob- ertson• A large proportion of the bogs are raised and fed in such a way that they are saleable in Oct- ober and November only, These aro the months at which hogs usu- ally will sed fox' the loweet prices. It is important that there should be a steady supply of hogs, mar- ketable at all seasons of the year, That can only be done wben farm- ers cease regarding the keening of a few swine as of nu consequence in farm management, and instead roar and fatten bogs systematical- lyy, It is not desirable that many rmers in Canada should become specialists In hog breeding ; but it is desirable that moat of them should keep more swine, and thus find a profitable market for grains, for skim -milk, butter -milk and whey, Swint, breeding is a paying investment: as an adjunct to or a branch of dairy farming. The imports of bacon, hams and lard into Groat Britain in 1890 alnountecl to 053,487,607, of which only $6,103,840 To was obtained from Canada, t'o meet the require- meats of the British markets, hogs with plenty of fleshy, not lardy, meat ale wanted. Large numbers of them should be fed, fattened and marketed rka d d using the summer moat ha, and as a rule they should be sold alive by the (airrxet' or feeder in order that they arty 1e elaaghtered at peeking houses, where the caramels oan be out and cured in the mariner 10 suit the preferences of the different nsnr- keGs. When Canadian bacon end hams become better known in Great .Britain they will be sought eller et relatively higixer prices, GRASS AROUND FRISIT TREES, Tbere is hardly any greater nuis- ance than a tough sod growing close to a fruit tree, especially un apple tress, as it makes the favor- ite harbor of mice, which are al- ways fond of sweet -apple bark, The time to kill this grass is in spring, wbile 11 is tender, and full of sap if a furrow is pluughod close to lbs tree and against it at this sea- son the grass quickly rots, and be- fore fall the whole furrow ono and should be scattered between tse rows of trees, throwing most of 0 on the dead furrow which comes in the middle between the rows where the fertility is least, QUEER THINGS ABOUT ANIMALS. It takes a snail exactly fourteen days and five hours to travel a mile. The Celifiornia woodpecker will carry eat acorn thirty miles to store it. The land crabs of Cuba run with great speed, even outstripping aborse. That, sleeping or waking, snakes never close their eyes is a curious fact. Ants have brains larger in propor- tion to too size of their bodies than any other living creature. It is estimated that there aro 01,- 050,000 horses in the world, 195,150,000 cattle, and 434,500,000 sheep, The elephant has 40,000 muscles in his tx'uak alone, while a man has only 577 in his entire body. The dragon fly can fly backward and sidelong, and can altar its course on the instant without turning. When a chameleon is blindfolded it loses all power of changing its color, and its satire body remains of a uni- form tint. There are three varieties of the dog that never bark—the Australian dog, thlieon- Egyp headedtian" dog shepherofTird ibet.dog, end the The lantern fly of Surinam, South America, hits two sets of eyes, so as to cutch the light from all directions. 11 is much morn brilliant than our fire - 11y. The oldest living creature in the world belongs to Walter Rothschild. It is a giant tortoise, weighing a lit qusarter•of160 of aeyears. too, and it has a known There are several varieties ,of fish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep-sea dwellere, and orawl about the rocks, using their tails and fins as legs. Some animals can live many years without water. A paroquet lived fifty-two years in the London Zoo without taking a drop of water. A number of reptiles live and prosper in places where there is no water. The heron seldom flaps his wings at a rate of less than 120 to 150 times a minute. This is counting only the bamboo tubes fastened to the birds' wings really make (ruin 1310 to 800 dis- tinct movements a minute. One of the longest -lived birds on reoord died recently in London. 11 was a parrot named Ducky, the pro- perty of the prince of Wales, and was a century and a quarter old. Up to 80 years of age elephants are useful members of society. In China carrier pigeons are pro- tected from birds of prey by an in- genious little epparalus consisting of bamboo tikes fastened to the birds' bodies with !bread passed beneath Cho wings. As the pigeon flies, the ac- tion of the air passing through the tubes produces a shrill, whistling sound which keeps the birds of Prue' at a distance. The antipathy of animals for core Min things is unexplainable, but the foot remaixts, for example, that rat- tlesnakes have a decided dislike for the leaves of the white ash. Experi- ments have shown that they would rather rue over live coals than touch White ash leaves. CAUSE OF SHIPWRECKS. • N1tw Steamers Wrecked on. tlta ,1i'lantle front Overhauling. A recent act of the London Board of Trade has again made it possible for careless and unheeding ship owners to expose the lives of thousands of Brie fish seamen to the fury of the ocean, The margin beyond wham shipe were prohibited to be loaded hes again been placed so low that the majority of them will go out with every thence of founclering. The law enacted mainly through the personal efforts of the famous Samuel Plimsoll, who spent a lifetime in ameliorating the condition of the Britieh sailor, directed that on the side of every British merchant ship should be painted a circle 12 tn- chee in diameter, with a bar drawn across the middle. Balow this bar, a heavy penalty was attached for loading the vessel. While his law was in notion, fewer wrecks were known than ever before. Last December the Board of Trade decided to limit tris act to vessels up to and inclusive of 330 feet in length. Since this revision, nine steamers have bean lost in the Atlan- tic alone. An aggregate of 26,760 tons, worth mora than 7'2,600,000, has 'leen lost by overloading, to say nothing 01 the Iives, The law was repealed by a coenplioation of ret. tape. SYMPTOMS els' OVER EXERTION, An eminent German physician d.e- elaros that as long as a bicyclist, after a long tour, bas a good appetite, does not feel ix desire to go to sleep at ante, and is not annoyed by heavy dreams on the night: following, he may outsider that he bee not macre too great a demand on his phyaical re. sotiraes. T � i''il RuRY LLD PRI r'1i°' 7t DOINi1S OF THE telnLl:i11 Pt.0PI E. OILPJ I•ILD I3'! MAIL, Weer., , f etc: Croats 'r.13. us f1 re in tie. tend o: the (taxa --x aieresila,t arra,, wares, The QndsurueenCastia, ilex 600 hau"emeids al• 1Vi The tuna Lord Mayor of Belfast, tre- ated, is a Garman J'ew. The Queen's favorite flowers are lilies of the valley and violets. London bakers are trying .to da away with the "bet erase bun," There 15 no batter plaea for the study of modern history than Picea, dilly and Hyde Park in the height of a Landon season, A live lizard was found comfortably, settled in a cash register which lxad been shipped from tlsa .United States, to London, General Sir Charles Nairn, late eom mender in Bomb.ty, who only recently; returned to England, died in London on the 1715 ult. Mr, Jonas'Watson, one of the leading timber importer's at Cardiff, diad sud- denly walla with the Glnmorganehire hounds near Cardiff, Tse Queen, notwithstanding Ler great ysirrs, is wall in haalt5, rarely oiling in any way, save now and then she fouls a touch of rheumatism. The death is announced of Alexander Walker, ALD„ of Newton Beath, He tuns n nstivo of Banff, and graduated wsititsyin dist187ln0,otion at Aberdeen Univers The circulating libraries have aye, tamalized the lending of books until there are tow towns and villages in the United Kingdom, which are not served by them, Mr, Justice Ramer has been elevated to the vacant Lord 2uslieeship of Ap- peal, and Mr. H. li, Cozens -Hardy, Q, L'., bas been appointed to succeed Mei Justioe Romer. Dr. Tames Smith Reid, Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caine College, has bean elected tn the newly created Chair of Ancient IIisLory at Cera - ,ridge University. The new professor; s a Boatsmen, Al Stratford -on -Avon, the poet's irthplace, is a desk said to have been sort by Shakespeare. The desk looks uthenlia. enteralions of school boys have whit - It shows marks where, led it, (lueen Victoria's children and grand- hildrea never travel a day's journey, without having among their luggage he properhabiliments for wear in Casa any member' o1 the family should to saddanly. I)r Richard Garnett, keeper of the rioted books in the British Museum. as resigned his place eller 48 years f continuous service. 11 was under is diraollon tbat tis monumental o atsloguempiled. of the museum library was Queen Victoria, possesses two of the Meat watches in the world!. Both ave silver dials and are about as arge wn as half a aroma one being a Lind man's watch and the other a re - Sister Mary Helen Ellis, one of the w survivors of the band of Roman allelic Sisters of Mercy, who, under iso Nightingale, went to attend the nglisb soldiers to tie Crimean war, ed lately at Walthamstow, England, her 82nd year. The largest city in the world is Lon - n, which has a population equalling u combined population of Paris, Ber- n, St. Petersburg and Rome. Its , 'trete, placed in a row, would reach and the world, leaving a bit over ng enough to reach from London to u .Francisco. • Tennyson, the wife of the neve corny of Soutb Australia, is an Irishman. Her name when she married o laureate's son, the Hon. Hallam( nnyson, in 1884, was Audrey, Fier- ce Boyle, of the famous fighting yle family of Cork. She is the that• of three sons, two of whom re- inhe England, Rev. William Lindsay, at one time active missionary at Sedglay, who urned last summer from New York er eight years' successful work in it oily in connection with the Oliver amoriel Chapel, Grace Churcb, end e New York prisons, has been up- nted to the pastorate of Christ arab, Peas -hill, Nottingham. By the will of the late Mi. William berte, arahiteot and surveyor, Man - step, £28,850 is left for public por- es, A sum not exceeding 44,500 is the erection of a bronze statue in nehester in memory of Mr. Glad - no, Four thousand pounds of the nx has been left for the erection of Unitarian church et Brooks Bar, nchester. ournamouth is one of the places ere the open-air treatment of eon- umption is being tried. The sans - tum is situated in that part of the tor known as the West Cliff—whore houses stand high above the Win - gardens and the business centre the town, and where the atmos - ere is never so 51111 and relaxing as the lower level, 1 b u a g c d 9 h 5 b 1' 9 fe 0 111 E di in do t5 11 str re It, S.' V WO th Te en 130 mo ma an rat aft thi M th oi Ch Ro cis pea for Ala stn an a Mat B wh s tor to the ter of p5 int A MAGNIFICI3NT TOMB. The most magnificent tomb in the worirl is the Taj Mahal, is Agra, I7.in.. doostsn, It was mooted by Shah Jee San to the memory of Ms favorite Queen. It is ootagi,nal in form, of pure While marble, inlaid with jasper, tor- nelian, turquoise, agate, amethysts and' sapphires, The work took twenty- Lwa thousand men twenty years to complete, and tlnougli there were free gifts and the labor VMS free, the cast. was 010,500,000 I am wedded to art, said Parley, Well, said Cr'iticua. gazing at Par- ley's picture, I'd get a divorce if 1• Were you, She has deserted you;