HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-7-14, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST,
JULY 14, 1899
The News
riefly Told
THE WORLD'S EVENTS OF INTEREST
CHRONICLED Ili SHORT CRDMR,
Interesting Happenings el Recent Dote -The
Latest News of Our own country -Doings
lo the Mother Lend -What is thong en la
the United States -Notes prom the World
Over.
CANADA.
A Belgium company is considering
the eetablishmeut of a glass factory
at Chatham.
The C.l'.li„ will build a combined
hotel end station with offices at Win-
nipeg.
Over 100 new locomotives nrty be
shortly ordered for the Intercolinial
railroad,
B. B. Wingate has been sleeted city
engineer of Hamilton, after an excit-
ing eempalgu.
Burglaries are common in various
parts of the Province of Ontario, pre-
sumably by tramps.
At G'ancouver robbers broke into St.
lames Church and stole the com-
munion plate on Tuesday.
The Bell Organ es Piano Company,
Guelph, bavo received an order fur 800
organs from England.
The manager of the Ogilvie Mills,
,Winnipeg, predicts 40,000,000 bushels of
Wheat for Manitoba this season.
The customis returns show an in-
Dranee of nearly three and half rail
atone for the year ending June 30.
The Independent Order of the Sons
of Abraham at Montreal are taking
up subscriptions for a Dreyfus fund.
Diphtheria bas broken out in the
Boys' Home at Hamilton, and five of
the inmates are now in the City
(Rosetta'.
George M. Dalglish and David Hop-
kins of Ottawa, who left for the Yukon
last October, have not since been heard
from.
Ratepayers of Dunnville, Ont., have
voted in favour of spending ?16,000 in
a water filter and granolit hie
walks.
Dr. William M. Paton., of the Wes-
leyan Theological College, 4Iontreal,
has been appointed instructor of
Biblical literature in Yale University.
Mr. George O'Keefe, formerly mem-
ber of the Legislature for Ottawa, has
been appointed Police Magistrate of
Ottawa. in the room of Mr. Ogara,
lately dere:teed.
Ald. Nelligau, of Hamilton, says an
attempt was made to bribe him for
his vote in connection with the ep-
pointment of a city engineer. An in -
the British Government towards Catb-
oliee and referring to the eordial re-
lations existing between Great Britain
and the United Stales,
UNITED STATES.
IMrs. I". D. R. N. Southworth, the
novelist, died on Friday eight,
Santiago has had. 14 new cases of
yellow ,fever iu 'the past two
drys.
The Greek Lakes Towing Company
has been organized. at Cleveland, U.,
witch a capital stock of 35,000,000,
Mee, Ralusay, who murdered her
husband because he snored, has been
"offic'elly" declared insane at New
York.
The United States Government bal-
ance sheet shows e. deficit of nearly
388,000,000 for the year closed un June
30.
The feeling that the war in the
Philippines is a useless and most un-
promising venture is rapidly grow-
ing.
During a fight between striking
miners and ncgtoes near Carbondale,
Ill„ the uegroes burned inion City,
where the in tiers lived.
The strike 111 the Chicago stook
yards continues in several branches,
though the unskilled stockmen sue-
ceeded iu getting tbeir demands,
Louis Bush of New York is in jail
at Detroit on a charge of smuggling
from Ctmada {;:10,000 worth tat dia-
monds that. were found in his posses-
sion.
The Michigan Central freight house
at Toledo was on Monday destroyed
by fire, besides 100 loaded cars, the
total loss amounting to over 5300,-
000.
Miss Frank Floremen,of Black Iliils,
S. D., has discovered what Atlin mire
ing men believe will become the great-
est quartz mine Lu Alaska and British
Columbia,
A strike was Inaugurated at the
Homestead, Pa., steel works, on Sat-
urday, which may rival the famous
battle between capital and labor which
was fought there seven years ago.
The. New York Sun has been con-
demned to pay Wm. L. Moore 365,800
for the loes of the yacht Kanapatha
off the Cuban coast last September
j while used by the Sun as a despatch
' boat.
There is no foundation for the re -
,poet that the Transvaal has pieced an
order with an ordnance firm in the
United States for ten field batteries
of six guns each.
The pressure for soldiers for the
Philippines has reached such a point
that the American regular army will
have to be supplemented by 10,000 vol-
unteers of tbs Throe authurized by the
last Congress.
The steamer Margaret Olwili, owned
by W. P. Smith of Cleveland, went
down in the storm on Lake Erie. Nine
people were lost, including Capt, John
Brown. his wife and son andieliss Beide'
win, a passenger.
GENERAL.
An earthquake shock of some sever-
ity was felt Tuesday night at Pisa
and Florence.
At Rennes, France, it is stated that
the acquittal of Dreyfus is far from
being a certainty.
Rigo, the famous gipsy, the husband
of the Countess de Chimay, is not dead,
•
formation will be laid.
The body of Mr, Alex. Taylor of
Winnipeg was found in the Red River.'
He disappeared on Monday night, and
is supposed to have committed suicide
'owing to business troubles.
A. R. Hill, an old man, who, after
living from hand to muuth in Van-
e was kllled by a street car,
claimed to be heir to ,Lord Arm-
strong, the famous gunmaker.
The .Bast .End incline Railway and
pltout 40 acres of land adjoining it on
the mountain top at Hamilton, will
ice sold by auction on July 14 to satis-
fy erecitors who hold mortgages.
At a meeting of fruit growers from
the Stoney Creek district on Monday,;
the Government was strongly urged tot
take action without delay with a view
to the stamping out of the San Jose i
scale.
The charge of keeping a gambling
club, made against the St. Jeau Bap-
tiste Club, will likely fall through, as
all the chips and the marked cards
and other articles which were seized
have been stolen from the court house
at Montreal.
A United States syndicate, with a
capital of 310,000,000, connected with
the 350,000,000 pulp trust, bas bought
timber limits aggregating $1850,000
near Gaspe and Quebec, and will
build two mills, to cost a million each.
A considerable reduction in freight
rates from Fort William to Brandon
and Winnipeg is announced by the C.
E.R. There is a reduction of 14 cents
per 100 to Brandon and 11 1-2 cents to
Winnipeg from Fort William also a
Reduction of nearly 40 per cent. in lo-
cal freight rates from Winnipeg to lo-
cal points in the West.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Mr. Cecil Rhodes has sailed from
London for Cape Town.
Mr. Arthur Tennyson, younger bro-
ther of the poet, le dead.
The House of Lords 1llondey defeat-'
,ed the hill legalizing the efeatoin of
women as councillors and aldermen, I
Admiral Sir Wyndham Hornby, K.C.
B., retired, died suddenly on Wednes-
day afternoon while presiding at a
company meeting.
Fifteen persons are reported to have
been drowned in a boating accident,
1•t occurred at Jwllehi, Carnarvon -
shire.
Replying to a question in the House
of Commons, Tuesday, Der. Chomber-
lain said he hoped the bill providing
for the federation of the Australian
commonwealth would be introduced
next session.
The Prince of Wales on Saturday
laid the foundation stone of the new
restoffioe Savings Bank at Kensington.
It was slated that the working classes
of Great Britain have balances in
the bank amounting to £123,000,000,
General Lord Kitchener of Kha)-
toum, Governor-General of the Sea-
bee has received £1,840 from the Earl
of Minto, Governor-General of Canada,
en behalf of the Canadiens,for the en-
dowment fund of the Gordon Memor-
ial College at Khartoum.
The Londoacorrespondents of the
leading New York papers in their cable
letters on the situation in the Trans -
Vaal seem to 1101d the opinion that un-
less President Kruger makes substan-
tial conoeseions to the 111am:ters the
eventuality Of war is very probable.
Five hundred British troops, it is said,
were sent to South Africa en Satter -
day.
The Duke of r Norfolk id
I presided at a
meeting of the Catholle Union Society
of Great Britain, held Tuesday in
codon. All the Catholle nobility of
mime were present. A letter was
read from Cardinal Veughen express-
ing gletti1icatien with the attitude of
•
The Vaticany party has a majority
in the Rome municipal elections, first
time in 29 years.
Troops ars defending non-union men
in the strike at the Bochum coal
mines, Germany.
A meeting of 4,000 persons in Cape
Town has endorsed Sir Alfred Milner's
attitude towards the Transvaal.
A riot occurred on Monday at Sar-
agossa, Spain, the mob trying to burn
down the convent of the Jesuits,
The Orange Free State is trying to
eff'ct a compromise between the Brit-
ish Government and the Transvaal.
An armed mob has burned the for-
eign Customs and Consulate offices at
Meng -Tau, Province of Yang -Nan,
The Cabana are said to be clam-
oring for independence, while the bet-
ter class of Havana favor annexation,
Gen. Otto has decided to open to
trade a large number of Philippine
ports which have been closed sines the
outbreak.
Serious strike riots, resulting in the
killing of three strikers and the
wounding of many others by soldiers,
have occurred in Bochum, Germany,
Two Bavarian officers, Baron Boa,
net and Baron Gorlin, were killed on
Tuesday, while attempting to ascend
the Ackerlspitze, in the Tyrolese Alps.
There are fears that the decree of
the King of Italy, empowering the
Government to prohibit public meet-
ings, etc, may lead to a Cabinet crisis,
The Wong Tee customs house, in the
Meng Tec Province of YunNan,China,
which was in charge of Americans, is
said to have been wracked in an anti-
foreign riot,
A court at Parts has given a verdict
of 310,000 to Madame Resat against the
owners of the French steamer La
Bourgogne, sunk in collision off Noya
Scotia, for the logs of her husband,
On Monday the German delegates
at the Peace Conference declared that
Germany could not enter into any en-
gagement not to increase her naval
and military effectives.
The Italian general, Gilelta di San
Giseppe, arrested as a spy on the
French fortifications et Nice, was on
Monday convicted and sentenced to
five yearsimprisonment and a fine
of 5,000 francs,
While the committee of the Spanish
Chamber of Commerce at Madrid on
IMlonday presented to the Government
their protest against the new budget,
all the stores of the city were closed,
in sympathy with the protect.
Dreyfus arrived at Rennes on Satur-
day and was received quietly, Ills
landing at 8 uiberoa was almost un-
noticed, . Ib is reported that his suf-
ferings have aged him greatly, The,
Interview between him and his wife
within the prle0n al Rennes was very
affecting,
hemmegleian, one of the young Turks
party at The Hague, being examined
in a libel suit brought by the Ottoman
delegation, admitted having said that
the Sultan celled himself the father of
the people, but that It was as Saturnia
eating his own -Children. ire admitted
saying that the Sultan permitted the
Armenian murders, but stated that his
attacks were directed against the
Turkish Gevernbeent.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 16.
"1'be 1lebrews In the 'leery Vellum."
Dae, 3, 14.98. 00141011 Text. Dan, 3. 19.
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Verse 14. Nebuchadnezzar. I8ing of
Babylon. We ratty think of ltim as sit-
ting in royal state, surrounded by leis
courtiers and slaves, Shadraoh, Mac -
bull, and Ataeduego. Young men with
whom we became acquainted in he last
lesson under the name of Hatuuduh,
Mlishael, dull Azartah. Serve my gods.
in autiiluity secular government and
religion were not merely intertwined;
they were practically ane. And, as
we have already aeon, there was noth-
ing absurd to the cuuecience of the an-
cient world to the deification, of a king,
or in a ruyal mandate ordering pray-
er to certain gods, or forbidding such
prayer. The golden image which I have
set up. Desorihed in the preceding
verve of this chapter. Either an idol,
of a statue of the king, or, Os same
have conjectured, a statue represetu-
ing his imperiat power and suggest-
ed by his treats.
15, The sound of the cornet, flute,
harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer.
The music of the Orient is nearly all
in a minor key and " harmony " was
unknown in ancient times. Doubtless
much' that was agreeable to the Baby-
lonian ear would be rank discord to
ours. Only those familiar with orien-
tal muaio can understand the liberty
given to the various musicians, whose
tunes are often what we would cull
" variations," A11 kinds of music. An
outburst of almost every sort
of instrument, in almost every key,
with almost endless trilling. The
"cornet" and "flute" were wind In-
struments. J(he "!tarp," "suckbut,"
and "psaltery" were string tnstru-
ments. The "dulcimer" it is impos-
sible to identify. Worship. Rever-
ence by prostration. A burning fiery
£uruace. To burn criminals a!i-e was
not offensive to the moral sense of
the ancients, and all who came under
the ban of royalty were regarded as
criminals, so that this cruel sentence
would not astonish by -slanders. The
furnace was probably built of bricks,
with an opening at the top and a door
at the mouth below. The doomed nen
were thrown down upon the burning
coals from above, Who is that god
that shall deliver you out of my hands?
The confidence of the Hebrews in ,Te-
hovah was paraUeleti by the confid-
ence of every other nation in its god,
and, as we have already seen, the
"state" and the "church," if we may
use modern phrases for antique facts,
being one, wags between kings and na-
tions came to be regarded almost as
wars between gods and religions.
18. We are not careful to answer
thee in this matter. We can scarcely
sufficiently admire the answer of
these three brave young men. "Cara-
ful" has its old sense of "burden with
anxiety." To "answer," Nebuohadnez-
zee meant to make a decision on the
terms he had granted. Whether or
not they were to be thrown into a
burning fiery furnace'. did not distract
their minds.
17, It it be so. Soros authorities
would translate "Assuredly," but " If it
be se" is quite as emphatic. Our God
whom we serve is able ,to deliver us.
This answers both of Nebeehadnezzer's
questions: "Is it true that ye did not
serve my Gods?" "Yea, verily„ we
serve our God." "Who is that God who
shall deliver you out of my hands?"
"Our God; he will deliver us either
from death or in death."
1$. But if not. If in his mysterious
providence he permits his companions
to be overwhelmed in this world, Roe
it known unto thee, 0 king, Words of
defiance. We will not serve thy gods
nor worship the golden image. These
men are not serving God for reward.
Though he slay them they will still
trust in him, It has been wisely said
by a great commentator that their
deliverance from sinful compliant^.e was
as great a miracle in the kingdom of
grace as that from the furnace was in
the kingdom of nature,
19, Full of fury. This absolute mon-
arch had never before met such deter-
mined, resistance to his will, The form
or hie visage was changed. Nebuchad-
nezzar had bean singularly patient
with these young men, but now that his
patience had come to an end, his fury
shows itself in all his countenance and
gestures. Kent the furnace ono seven
times more than it was wont to be
heated, Seven is the symbol of perfee-
tinn, TLte furnace was heated as much
as it could be heated, but the. hotter
the furnace the more signal the de-
liveralnce, The king's passion defeats
its own end,
20. The most mighty men that were
in his army. The most vigorously
musoulalr members of his bodyguard.
21.i
.Clew' moat were bound in their
coats, their hoseoi, and their bats, and
their other garments. 1i'our articles
of dress are, here pointed to: 1, Flow-
ing trousers, garments something like
the Zouave trousers; 2, underclothing
or tunics, woolen shirts; 3, outer rubes;
4, other garments; shoes, turbans, gir-
dles, etc.
22. The king's commandment was
urgent. His orders were given with
violence, so that the strong men of the
bodyguard Lost their own lives in
throwing the three heroes into the
furnace, The flame of the fire stow
those men. Than; the lives of the three
Hebrews were preserved and the lives
of the soldiers were forfeited Wee full
of meaning to the by standers.
Gell down hound into the midst of
the burning fiery furnace. Before the
flame had coneurned their bands the
soldiers were killed by the heat.
24, The king was astoniod and rose
up in haste and spake. "Astonied'
is an old English word for asloislred.
The dignity of the Ming had been con-
teamed by the flash that killed his
euardsmen. His counselors, • hitt
courtiers or nobles that waited around
Itis throne, Did not we east three men
bounlO. "We" Is the plural fowl of
majesty. Nebtaebadnezzar is so astun
fished by what he sees Lhet he cttnnu
trust his own memory.
V0. 1 see four 41,11 loose, Only Three
het been east In, and they were bound.
The original of the speeuli given in
this verse is made up of abrupt ex
elumalious, Walking in the midst of
the fire. Why did they not leave it
They were simply In the haude of God.
1'iis miracle prevented the fire from
scorching theta. They whited bis time
t0 release %hem. The form of the
fourth is like the Son of God, The
aspect of the fourth resembles ea son
of the gods," ,Nebuc•haelnezzar• laud
not oar theology, lie meant a Super-
natural being, an angel,
20. Nehstehaduezzar came near, We
presume the heat to have now sub-
sided. Ye servants of the must
high God. The ('haldetins believed
in many gates who lived in families
These words of Nebuchadnezzar show
a auddea convieliou that the Iiebrew
God Jehovah, was 'supreme in heaven.
a God of guts. We have already not-
ed that among the Hebrews "..lost
High" was a title of Jehovah.
37. Princes, goveraurs, and captains,
and the king's counselors, Satraps, de-
puties, and governors, and counselors,
officiate of the empires gathered frust
all quarters. These men, who had been
brought LO the capital for the pure
pees of honoring an idolatrous image,
are soon to return to their homes to
spread •[broad the glory of the spirit-
ual God, caw these sten. Tito miracle
bad been openly performed. Upon whose
bodies the fire had no power. See lea.
43. d; Hob. 11. 43, Nor was a hair of
their head singed. See Luke 12. 7; 21.
8. Nor the smell of fire had passed
or. them. See 1 Thess. 5. 22,
28. .Nebuchadnezzar spake. How far
Nebuchadnezzar now became a wor-
shiper of Jehovah, we clarinet say, but
hie reverence is sincere. ells angel. His
messenger; referring to the form of
10'. fourth, Delivered his servants that
trusted to him. l'itio faithfulness of Je-
tt t ah to his servants is the t rail that
appeals to the heaten king, who doubt -
Lees sought to show forth the same
conduct. Changed the king's words.
Thin, is a noble trait in Nebuehnclnez-
zar's character, to thank God for mak-
;ng vain the kind's endeavor to force
Inert into obedience, Yielded their
bodies to the fire. They might not
serve by saerifiee and prayer. Nor
worship. By throwing themselves on
lbe ground.
WOMEN POISON HUSBANDS,
A Sensational 'trial Now In Progress
Ru Ilmlg,ny,
A. despatch from Vienna, says: -
There has begun before the Hungarian
Criminal Court at Temesvar a sensa-
tional trial. Fourteen women tram
Zobely are accused of poisoning their
husbands, and in some cases also their
children, with arsenic, alleged to have
been furnished by a tradesman named
Kerin. The authorities were inform-
ed by anonymous letters, and ordered
sixteen bodies to be exhumed. In
, spite of the fact that they bad been
buried for two years traces of the poi-'
San were discovered in considerable
quantities. The preliminary examin-
ation brought to light some terrible
details. A woman named Osoran en-
deavored to poison her blind child,
eight months old, but did not give it
sufficiently large doses, and as she l
suckled 0. herself it was oured and sav-
ed by the mother's milk. A woman'
nnmed Borkan poisoned her first has-'
band in order to marry her present
one, who, it is said, poisoned his first
wife in order to marry tills female.
Borkan is the only man charged. Thal
trial is expected to last ten. days.
HUMBLE MILLIONAIRE.
enamis lire ora great enstrttihnl latdl.•
1tht and Stockman.
Mr. James 'Tyson, lite AuSL,'allae
millionaire, rose from the position of
a plowman. He emulate/wed life as 0
ronwcr on 33 a week, and died wort,
$25,1100,000. All through his lire 11e re -
maimed au industrious plowman. Poor
or rich, be worked all day and every
day, he never pint on a white shire
never• wore 9119' but Liao plainest
clothes, never owned a pair of gloves,
and never ate anything but the coarse
plain food to which in his poor clays
lie hod been aaeustomed. Ha neve/
read, enjoyed no amusement, ant.
sought as little intercourse with hi.
fellow cr•eotut'es as business permitted.
11. thought little about money, did
net give any away, anti did not seal:
greatly to add to his store, and be
never married. His one ideal was to
slake water flow where no water
was, to cover arid soil with grass, anti
to fill Lite. land with good stook Hav-
ing his whole farce concentrated on
that business, be succeeded marvel-
ously, and bought, fenced, watered, and
stooked estate after estate all over
Australia, took leases of thousands of
square miles, and, when he died, was
the greatest stock owner in the world
with half a million acres in freehold
and acres in leasehold almust beyond
counting.
A HEROINE 01? FRANCE.
A few years ago our Paris corres-
pondent devoted a column to the work
and churacler• of Mme, Corage C'ahett,
describing the Jewish Refuge at Neu -
lily to which she was devoting so much
of her zeal, says the Jewish Messcu-
ger. Perhaps it was a revelation to
our readers then to learn of the serv-
ices of this Jewish sister of mercy,
whose gentle ministry has now clos-
ed at the age of 07, after 30 years of
broad and ardent philanthropy.
The fact that at her funeral in Par-
is, military honors were rendered to
her by a, picket of infantry, recalls her
heroism in the h'rauuu-German war,
Just before its outbreak, she lost both
her husband and only son. On the be-
ginning of hostilities, she weut to Metz
nursing more Llan 300 hundred wound-
ed soldiers. Continuing her work,
when that fortress fell, she settled in
Vendome, where aided, by two nurses
and seven Christian sisters of mercy,
;she received thousands of French and
German soldiers.
When the Prussians ocoupied Ven-
dome, they wished to hold the hospit-
al, and plant on it Lhe German flag,
But warned of the enemy's intentions,
Mme. Cahen, early one January morn-
ing, visited the Prussian Geuerai, who,
surrounded by his staff, was about to
seize the building, "Sir," she exclaim-
ed, " the have received your wounded
and nursed them as though they were
our own; the will continue to do so;
but we will remain in a French am-
bulance; we will not have it convert-
ed into a Gorman ambulance," "Ma-
dame," was the reply, " tee are mas-
ters." " In the town it may be; here,
no I" was the answer. " We are pro-
tected by the Red Cross and the French
flag; you have no right to touch eith-
er the one or the other." Sha con-
quered and from that day the utmost
admiration was openly evinced for her
by the Germans. When, after the sig-
nature of peace, the German medical
staff were about to quit Vendome, the
surgeon -in -chief asked leave to take a
public farewell of the Frenchwoman.
Accompanied by the military doctors
placed under his orders, he said: "Ma-
dame, we cannot leave France with-
out thanking you, not alone in the
name of the Garman nation, but in the
name of humanity. We can never for-
got that you compelled us to yield in
Ile face both of your patriotism and
of your benevolence,"
When the war was over, Mme. Ca -
hen continued her interest In soldiers,
who were too 111 to be brought back to
Prance from German fortresses. She
visited them all, wherever imprisoned,
from the banks of the Rhine to the
Polish frontier, and personally inte.r-
oeded with Bmpress Augueta for the
immediate relief of some of the pris-
oners. At the end of 1.872, after vis-
iting 08 prisons, she succeeded in hav-
ing all sent home. Sha completed her
work in Germany by arranging in al-
phabetical order a list of 50,000 names
of Frenchmen who had passed through
German hospitals, and had either left
them or been buried.
What of Esterhazy's threat of a new
St. Bartholomew for the Jews? What
of Drumont's appeals to the passions of
the mob What of the Jesuit schemes
and the military plotters against the
prisoner on Devil's Isle? The minis-
try of this Jewish sister of mercy, the
deeds of this French heroine, shall sil-
ence and shame them forever. For no
one could have loved France more de-
votedly, no one rendered more heroic)
service on its behalf,
She '.von the cross of the Legion of
.Honor from her own country, the Red
Cross of the Geneva convention from
the Empress of Germany, but she gain-
ed a higher decoration than these -the
hearts of poor ahil.dren whom she had
gathered in the Jewish Refuge at Neu -
illy, and who surrounded har hearse
at the, last.
WANDERED FOR 20 MONTHS.
n11411/sh Party erten Ottawa Turns Up
Sale at Dawson.
despatch from Ottawa says: -
Friends of lbe "Dalgleish 'early," which
left Ottawa for the Klondike in Octo-
ber, 1897, have received word announce
ing the safe arrival of the party, The
party wont out with'the North-West
Mining and Developing Company by
the Edmonton route, and the only let-
ter received since they left in 1807
arrived last July from Fort Macpher-
son. Since then the party have wan-
dered in territory previously untrod-
den but by very few white men, and
reachedDatvson City after 20 months'
wondering.
.The Hopkins party left Bdinronton
December 15th, 1897, and the Dr. Con-
olly party left on February 20th. 1898.
They sledded across from Edmonton
over the Swan mountains, a distance
of 400 miles, to the Peace river, where
they built boats, floated down through
Slave river to Great Slave lake, and
then down the Mackenzie to Macpher- l
son. They reached Dawson May 5111.
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THE TURBINE SYSTEM.
Torpedo boat Destroyer to Travel 45 911100
1111 Hour.
A despatch from London says: -Keen
interest is felt at the Admiralty in
the development of the torpedo-boat
destroyer Viper, which will be launch-
ed shortly on the Tyne, The Messrs.
Parsons aro fitting her with the tur-
bine system of engines, and they be-
lieve that they will enable her to make
45 miles an hour.
Experiments are' being made in the
direction of utilizing the turbine sys-
tem aboard ocean steamers, Experts
are of the opinion that this systemsvill
revolutionize Ocean travel, and make it
possible to cross the Atlantic in three
days.
FORTY-FOUR MEN KILLED,
Dynamite Cartridge Explodes In a Coal
Aline lixrawnllon.
A des atecJt (ram Odessa
announces
that a dynamite cartridge exploded
near there on 'Tuesday while the exca-
vation of a coni mine wits in progress,
and I.hat forty-four persons were kill-
ed, and twenty wounded.
OVER 4,00 HOMELESS.
Result of the Disastrous Fire to a JLilebeo
village.
A despatch from Sherbrooke, Que„
says :-By the fire which occurred Sat-
urday at the village of Garthby over
400 people were rendered homeless,
and many of them are destitute, the
whole of their belongings laving beau
swept away, Many took refuge in the
church, and the few houses that roe
malned opened ,their doors to the
homeless. There were many heart-
rending ecenes, and ae the sun went
downy and nig110 settled over all, amid
the piles of furniture scattered here
and there in the fields around, ferale
lies were gathered, no roof or food
Within their rencb, •
Tho total monetary loss amounts to
about 3100,000.
When the Nerve Centres Need Natritiane
A Wonderful Recovery, Illustrating t140
Quick Response of a Deleted Nerve
Systeitm to a Treatment WM 111
E,eplenisheH Exhausted
Nerve Forces.
MR. FRANK /SAUER, E;ICRLIN, Ow,
Perhaps you know him ? In Water-
loo ho is known as one of the most
papular and successful business men of
thee enterprising town. ' As ..anag-
ing executor of tbo Kuntz estate, he is
at the bead of a vast business, repre-
senting an investment of many thous-
ands of dollars, and known to many
people throughout the Province.
Solid financially, Mr. Frank Bauer
also has the good fortune of enjoying
solid good health, and if appearances
indicate anything, it is safe to predict
that there's a full half century of
notive life still ahead for him. But
it•'s only a few menthe since, while
nursed as an invalid at the Mt.
Clemens sanitary reeortr, when his
friends in Waterloo were dismayed
with a report that he was at the point
of death
"There's no telling where I would
have been had I kept on the old treat-
ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry
laugh, the other day, while reoonnting
his experiences as a very sick man,
"Mt, Clemens," he continued, "was
the last resort in my case. For
months previous I had been suffering
Indescribable tortures. I began with
a loss of appetite and sleepless nights.
Then, as the trouble kept growing, I
was getting weaker, and began losing
flesh and strength rapidly. My
stomach refused to retain food of any
kind. During all this time I wall
under medical treatment, and took
everything prescribed, but without
relief. .rust about when my condition
Sold by G.
seemed most hopeless, I heard of
wonderful cure effected in a ease
somewhat similar to mine, by the
Great South AmericanNervine Tonic,
and I finally tried that, On thefirst
day of its use I began to feel that 1$
was doing what no other medicine
bad dune. The first dose relieved the
distress completely, Before night I
actually felt hungry and ate with an
appetite such as I had not known for
months. I began to pick up in
strength with surprising rapidity,
slept well nights, and before I knew
it I was eating three square meals
regularly every day, with as mach
relish as ever, I have no hesitation
whatever in saying that the South
American Nervine Tonic cured me
when all other remedies failed. I
have recovered my old weight—over
200 ponncls—and never felt better
in my life,"
Mr. Frank Batter's experience is
that of all others wito have used the
South American Nervine Tonic. Its
instantaneous action in relieving dis-
tress and pain is due to the direct
effect of this great remedy upon the
nerve centres, whose fagged vitality
is energized instantly by the very first
dose. It is a great, a wondrous our.
for all nervous diseases, as well ss
indigestion end dyspepsia. It goes
to the real source of trouble direct,
and the sick alvrays feel its marvel-
lous sustaining and restorative power
at once, on the very first day of iU
use
A. Deadman.
THE AGE OF ANIMALS,
Domestic Animals Do Not Live as tong as
Those 111 die {villi Stnta.
The recent death of a collie belong-
ing to Lord Ogilvie at the extreme
ago of twenty-three years has set dog
fanciers discussing the ages of high-
bred dogs.
Experts agree that the life of a dog
is shortened by close breeding and
exhibition, and that we are gradually
raising dogs that will not be so long
lived as Lha saml_wilct mongrel types.
Even common house oats become en-
feebled by their life of ease and do
not live as lung on the average as
Lhasa in the wild state.
Efforts have bean made to collect
statistics on the longevity of animals,
but people are not exact enough in
remembering the dates of birth and
deaths of their household pets. Dogs
live c0 an average from ten to twelve
years, oats nine to Len, rabbits and
guinea pigs about seven years and
squirrels and bares eight years. Foxes
average from fourteen to sixteen.
.Bears and wolves rarely die before
they are tweaty, maltase shot or killed
by accident. Cattle ate usually at fif-
teen to eighteen years if allowed to
live until carried off by natural
wises. The ass dna nurse wilt aver-
age twenty-five to thirty, The camel
will drag out Carty years; Clic rhiuoo-
eras rarely lives beyond twenty-five
years. •
The longevity of Lh0 lion and ele-
phant is disputed. A lion in the Lon-
don Zoological Gardens reached the
age of seventy e few years age.
According to Aristotle, rhea= and
Caviar, the elephant may live for two
centuries. After his victory over Po-
nes, Alexander consecrated to the sun
an elephant that had fought for the
Indian monarch, and gave it the name
of Ajex; thea having attached an in-
sora tion he set it t liberty; P , r a t9', the ant -
mat was toned 860 years later; making
its age easily somewhere between
and four centuries,
Among the ,birds are apeoimene
whish oast the animals into the shade,
An eagle died at Vienna at the age al
one hundred and three years, and, Re-
cording
wcording to Buffon, the life of the aver•
age crow is one hundred and eight
years. A paroquet, brought to Flor'
once in 1683 by the Princess Provere
d'Urbin, when elle went there to es-
pouse the Grand Duke Ferdinand, was
then twenty years old and lived one
hundred years lacer. Willoughby as.
sures us that the goose lives a cen-
tury, and Buffon says that the swan
lives to considerable more than a can,
Wry.
100 BOTTLE -NOSED WHALES.
A Storm Mantis 'them on the Northers
Scottish Holts'.
A. despatch from London says:-
Inhabitants of Thurso, in the far north
of Scotland, are at present undergo-
ing a most curious, 10 unpleasant, ex-
perience. The other day, during a
strong wind, over a hundred bottle -
nosed, whales were stranded along the
sands close to the town. To remove
them, fax less bury them, was out of
the power of the inhabitants, and the
June sun, which is pouring its rays
upon the bleached bottle -noses, is
making the little town almost uniu-
habitable, Short of a convulsion of
nature to clear the shore of the whales
anti decrease the offensiveness of the
odour, Thursonians have the prospect
of being compelled to vacate their
homes for the remainder of the sum-
mer.
RAILWAY HORROR IN ENGLAND,
Excursion Teale Plunges DUO a prclgilt
lvrerk Neat' Crewe.
A despatch from, London says)--
Many persons were injured in rail-
way accident at Wineford, near Crewe,
in Cheshire, Sunday night.
A freight train an a siding overshot
the buffers and lett tits Palls. ten
other freight train collided with the
wreckage, and caused a partial fall 01.
a railway bridge.
Tilen a crowded excursion twain rate
into the others. t0pwaxd of fitfy cavi
were wrecked.
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