The Brussels Post, 1894-6-8, Page 2TEE
THE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VIIL-002Olettlan.
The time slipped by. 1 foltral eaoh per.
Poote, he added, Were no doubt born and
not made, And what WAS true of great tieulef dee' Wearleonal, but I bed not kept
of great generals.eekoning of their number, fro that, I
Reete talented aloo, eo ler as he had studied
neither lood uor baekward,
idetory. true rked lerwar1
lornacy, 1s said with a pleasant smile, is
like the habit of stetting to the eoent of
genie in the setter. Yea cannot/ teach a
'Newfoundland, or a greyhound, or a St.
Bernard—all Inost useful and interesting
animals in their way—to set to game. The
accomplishment is not in their repertory of
undeveloped faculties.
"Lady Craven," he continued, has ue
nateral genius for diplomney, nor natural
instinct for it, and I am promise you, my
dear," he added, turning most, naturally
aed pleasantly to mo, " that I ellen never
trouble you by netting you to Wee any seri-
ous part in my labors. 1, through the per.
versify of fate, am sent to Constantinople
to listen to lien for my country's geed,
and tell, if possible, Mager lies in the same
sacred meanie. The telling of lies my dear
Miriam, has oeased to be the legitimate
busieese of a lady, ever since the original
fat of man, 11 10 unpleasant, work at the
beet, however well it may be rewarded
either in this world or in the next. And
WO had consequently better leave it eo
men, as we do the work of betcherIng,
whether on the field of battleor in the
' shambles, of servingin the po lice, o'f attempt.
Mg to discover the North Polo, where they
say that truth and honesty lie somewhere
frozen up in the middle of a colossal (00.
berg ; and of otherwise running personal
risk's, and submiting to pereenal annoy.
meets, and, in feet, sometimes insults, for
which their too frequent recompense is the
ingratitude of the country in whose cause
they, have spent the best years of their
life.'
Now this was en unusually long speech
even for Sir Henry; but I could not object
to it, as I saw distinctly it was intended to
annoy Mrs. Fortesene, and was directly
pointed to myself.
If Sir Henry chose to try the point of
his blade pleasantly and with no seriouo
intent upon the young widow, it was no af.
fair of mine. I could look 00 88 serenely as if
some young and presnmptuous Minor Canon
were twitting my father over his Greek,
and the Very Reverend the Dean were
puffing and blowing, and vainly endeavor.
ing to assert his own dignity, and to demon-
strate in his own person thee Deans, even
if they have not acquired Greek by years
of ceaseless study, none the less know is
by the light of nature.
Sir Henry had one art, at any rate. He
never ventured out of his depth, and he
never allowed you to exactly measure his
depth with your own plummet for your
own purposes, and after your own fashion.
There was, in short, more wisdom in his
reticence than in his speeeh. Were there
truth in the old joke, and had he really
been sent to lie abroad for his country's
good, lie might, perhaps, have been toler-
ably successful. Sent co tell the truth for
his country's good, he would have been a
distinct failure.
But when you came to consider him as
being sent abroad with a vague commission,
a sere of carte blanche to lie as hie fancy
might pleme him, keeping always within
the limits of safety, or to tell as much nf
the truth as he might know, or was already
known, he then became a very admirable
envoy indeed.
It had once or twice occurred to me, that
an Ambassador stands towards the nation
which employs him, iu very much the mesa
lien of a hall porter, whose duty it is to
tit in a big chair, to weer a gorgeous livery,
and to tell any falsehood which may be
put into his mouth.
And I must here except the hall porters
of club'
s for I understand that the hall
porter of a properly constituted club, such
as the Athemeam or Carlton, for insteme,
develops a power of mendacity mingled
with affability, and of official severity
couple 1 with polished courtese, which in
the diplomatic service would inevitably
make his fortune.
If the Foreign Office were wise, instead
of setting young men to work to write pre.
elle and to study antediluvian maps of Eu-
rope, it would insist that each of them
should serve a novitiate of three menthe as
porter at a club.
In that capacity they would acquire many
invaluable gifts. ln the first place, they
would gain absolute control over their
features, so that they should betray nothing.
If clouds of doubt should flit over the.m, or
smiles of aseurance light them up, the cloud
and the smile alike ahold be as much un-
der their command, as are the whirlwind
and the atorm to the rider of the one and
the controller of the ether.
Now had it not been ordained, possibly
before the very foundations of the world were
laid, that my husband was to be in the
diplomatic service, as no doubt it was also
ordained in the same divine scheme ef the
universe, that my father should ue a Dean
with gaiters and buckles, and a rosette on
the brim of his hat exactly in what anato-
mists would term the section of median
plane, I cannot help feeling certain that
my husband would have made a most ad-
mirable hall porter
Ae a diplomatist he was overweighted,
and it was to a certain extent a enmity to
send him out for younger and 515888 0(00 to
twist him around their fingers and laugh at
Providence was unkind to Sir Henry.
As towards my father, she has been reck-
lessly prodigal. In a Cathedral the proper
place for my esteemed parent would have
been that of a verger.
He would have trotted about with the
silver rod and the dove at the tip of it,
with immense dignity. He would have
carried his robes decorously. He would
have been profound over the arohoaology of
the Cathedral. And, above all, he would
have impounded silver coinage from tourists
with a %ate for antiquity, and caudid &tee for
a choir seat for the afternoon service, with
an exactitude worthy of the Fugger family
itself.
And yet my father was 0. Doan, and my
bueband 08 .arnbassacior in promise add
practical certainty. Why de wo not now
end again make a weep out of our place.
holdera and try the experiment of an
appointment or two given in honest amen].
ante with merit ?
However, there the world ie. And I
should say that any attempt to influence
the routine of the Foreign OlIIee would be
about as hopeful as a corresponding effort
to change the precession of the equinoxes.
Many wise Sayings etend upon mord
credited to wise men, Each of the seven
eager of Greece has his own. But hietery
has not left on remora the name of the
villageblackemith, who, When asked by a
Deaton, who objected to his profanity, to
fix a limit to the powers of Divine Omni.
ten e replied that, Be Would give Maine
Omnipotence Rerun for a fortnight between
the Atlantic and the Pacific, atd would lay p085100108 0888 never to give the tame reason
drinke that it couldn't melee the village twice,
clock strike leers than one. thr Henry in all probability, Would go
CHAPTER IX.
did Robinson Orusoe when he out his uoehes
in Itio,voQdon cross,
My one objoot literally WO to kill time. I
could not reed muela for I was eertain to
be interrupted, ea that my reading hours
were principally those of my morning olio-
colate, over Which I would linger as long as
I pont bly could.
Then would come, if the clay were at
all fine, the moreing drive, and e little
ehopping. I believe that many womon
take to shopping as men take to whist
08 billiarde, because it kills time aud
wet beams° they have any particular faney
for it. There would be people to luncheon,
and the inevitable afternoon tea, with Mrs.
Fortescaces exasperating caekle, and then
unless we were entertaining ourselves, I
had usually to dine ma 1 know that I
was heartily tired when the day WSS over.
Sleep fonwomen is what tobacco soma to
be for men, and I, who six months ago was
always up with the sun, or nearly so, new
began to find myself an inveterate idle.
I was rapidly, in short, learning the art of
doing nothing and thinking of nothing.
And, I am &Moat ashamed to confess, my
mind was often for long intervals as valm.
0100 85 that of a boy who sits with his ;dap-
per ou the top rail of a gate scaring away
the birds.
Sir Henry had ceased to be indifferent to
me. He woe becoming, indeed tedious
beyond words, and a 800800 110015190 irrita.
tion. His small talk seemed every day mor -
empty, and his egotism more insufferably
prolix and tormenting.
And the worst of it was that he was so
intolerably contented with himself. People
will tell you that, as a body, artista.—using
the ward in its widest sense —mmieians,
stingers, painters, and actors, are the meet
conceited class in the world, nevetr talking
except of themselves and their own perfor-
mances. They lay themselves open to the
oharge, I will admit; but a diplomatist is
of all bores and prigs that this unhappy
world produces, out and away the worst, t he
most pretentious, and mast fatiguing, and
the most self.aseerting.
The late Lord Wesebury once told a dis-
tinguished member of the Royal College of
Heralds, a Garter King -at -Arms, or 00818-
1111215 of that sore, that, "be was a silly old
man, who did not even understand his own
silly trade."
Now, diplomacy is net a silly trade, and
ought not to be so. But, to tell the plain
truth, Sir Henry certainly did not under-
stand it, and was most certainly, as 1 was
now thoroughly convinced, a very silly old
man indeed.
Hie speech, with its assumption of pro-
fundity, was bus as :minding brews or as
the tinkling cymbal. His good nature, such
as it was—and he was naturally kind and
courteous—was ruined by Itis pomposity,
A child likes a ripe peaciabut will not, have
it at, any price if an intolerable oration is to
be the penalty. And was there nob once a
refraotorynegro 10 Jamaica who interrupted
his weladeserved punishment with the ex-
postulation, "Massa preachee 11 1110000 like,
and massa flogee if massa like, but no
preachce and flagee too ?"
Wilk ea, whose ugliness, at any rate,
has never been disputed, used to say
that with twenty minutes in which to
talk away the horrible first impression
preduced by his features, he would match
himself in the salon against any man in
Europe. I sometimes used to think of this
as I heard air Henry orating in hie own pe-
culiar me.nner'and used to feel a perverae
deeire to be able ta set Wilkes and Doctor
Johnetan at him, with perhaps that model
of diplomacy, Count Anthony Hamilton, to
serve as picador.
What 1 say of diplomatists is said while
1018 thinking of our Englieh representa-
tives. Russians and Austrians, and the
representatives of the Sublime Porte are,
I at once admit, charming, clever, and im-
mensely antesMg; while tate Amerman Ana
bassaelor is always a chartered libertine 1
with all the lieense about him of a sehool locked it up in my despateh-box and did
boy home for the holidays, and an intense not trouble to reply to it. Why should I
desire to make hirmelf pleasant. Beaides, have done so ?
he is ususIly a man of real note in his owe August had commenced, and London was
country. He may be Mr. Lethrep Metely, I emptying rapidly for the moors, the Solent,
or he may be Hosea Biglow, but in any case and the Continent. As there were now
he is certain to prove the light of any so- I but two or three weeks left before Sir
ciety50 whi h be is thrown. Henry's departure, it was decided that wo
Meantime, the period of our departure should spend them at Cowes, and Mrs,
for Constantinople grew nearer, and, to Fortescue had arranged to acoompaey ue.
tell the simple truth, 1 became every day My husband had given way at last with
more and more remlutely determined not a very bad grace and had determined to go
to go. In this resolution, whieh I suppose to Consteneinople alone. It was decided
I roust somehow have rade appatent, Mr. that I could remain in St. James' Square,
Sabineconcurred and fortified me. if I pleased, or could take a furnished
I had asked him, as a great traveller, to house et the seaside or in the country,
tell me what he knew of Constantinople, I declared thee St. James' Sentare would
and he gave me a very doleful pieture. The weary Ira., and it was consequently shut
Turkish women, he said, of whom I eltonid op, For myself I selected a small house
have en eee a good deal, are far more etupid a Brighton—ac small that it would be im-
and uninteresting than the youogiadies f rem possible for the Very Reverend the Dean
a select academyin the suburbs—say Ham to quarter himself upon me. It was in the
mersmith or Brixton—which receives the Montpelier Read, and the little bow win -
daughters of commercial gentlemen upon dews had a distant view of the sea.
reciprocal terms. As I should have no cellar, and contem-
They de not even, he centimed, talk plated early dinners, and A return to the
scandal, for they know nothing of what is simplest mode of life, I looked forward to
going on. They devour sugarplums and a gutet and comfortable existence, and I
cake by the hundredweight. To ingratiate think that the modesty of my plans to a
yourself with them you must appear loaded very great extent appeased Sir Henry'e in
with lollipops. They smoke eigarettes,and, dignation and satisfied him that my °Nee -
when they clan get it, drink brandy and lions to Constantinople were sincere,
socla.mater, which their attendants smuggle Anyhow when we parted, he was mare
in under capacious robes. than usually gracious and paternal, and
Nine out of ten of them, he told me, expressed a gallent wish that I should write
could not read, so they content themselves to Mtn regularly, if not at any. great length,
with illustrated papers, especially, if with which, of course, I promised to own.
they can get them, old numbers of the PlY•
Peal Journal pour Rir, the broad " God bless you, my dear Miriam," he
coloring of which pleasee them. In said, " 1 shall use all my influence to 0(5-
8)2011 children they take no manner of in- p.edite the appointment tet the Court 01 .55.
tares; and their average intelligence and re tersburg, I really cannot blame you for
vivacity are not to be compared for a ine. eels:citing a home too small for tho velem-
ment with those ofan English maidmaell laudation iu the fitting style of your worthy
work out for her monthly Sundayfather, who, if he comes to Brighton in
"The Turks," he said with a Imeh, "be- search of rest, will find every comfort at
lieve thetewoln en have no souls. T ere have one of the hotels. I wish you could have
treated them on that assumption for cure. earne with me 1 but I suppose that I must
thrum, and from all that 1 could 0(0150 008 for the present, until the Foreign Office
She 'foul of a Turkish wonme, including her fulfils its very distinct recess
to me, ma
intelligence, was as absolutely atrophied oa quiesee iu our temporary separatien US M-
are the feet of a Chinese lady of rank, You evitable. Should you need anythiug you
will find the Harem, LadyCraven, perfectle, can telegraph to me, and 1 will at, once
intolerable ; and the woret it, that you will attend to any request you may have to pre.
probably be compelled, whether you 1110 18 fer, knowilLeg beforehand that it will be
or not, to spend several hours °lamer day reauculable'
811 it. I confess I 081 00187 for you." And with these solemnities ho took his
"1 don't think that I shell go," I re- departure in ambeseatiorial Baste, with a,
plied. separate compartment, an attache extreeted
"11 you take my advice, yon won't," said from the Foreign Offiem. and Watson and a
Sa,bine. courier in the next carriage. Ho thorough.
The more that I thought over this the ly understood the effect in this world of
mere determined 11)008810 that under no keeping up uPPearumm'
eireemetaima whatever wood 1 „„mpaey It was it relief to find rnytielf alone in my
Sir Henry on his miseion, The matter waahtble house in the Montpelier Read, and
not di Mettle, after all. I had simplygot more abeolutely my own mattress then I
to enter a direee and remitted refugee giving had ever before been in my life.
as meal reasons as possible, and taking (VO BR Mgr/NUM)
Hard time') )save forced several of the
without.me. If 80, all the better. 11 110
(Waded to el ey et home, 1 slicould elan bo
troubled with Mira 01 890800, but I hednOW
learned how to redeem thle troelfie to min.
Mum, struggle of liberty woe bound
to come sooner or aster, (((((1 31 11015111 1108'
haps as well Pew aeon eis
So, having thus marshalled my foams, I
placidly Awaited the emelt's, it: the sereue
assurenee of smart skirmishing and el Ornate
victory. When the fighting really own.
Menced, I am bound to admit that I found
it wermer them 1 had antialpated. Sir Hoary
et first was going to eenti for toy father
but I pease:el out to him that my father,
now comfortably enscomed in his deenery,
would be the last mae in the world to
embroil himself in the matter, and that, 11
any attempt were made to drag him into it,
he Nyould take to hie bed -r00111 or run away
to Switzerland, or °veil further from the
econe of (nact ; and Sir Henry, who had
pretty well ganged my father by now, saw
the force of One.
The matter fa dispute was of course the
mission to Constantinople, together with
my determination that nothing should
persuade me to take part in the journey, or
eejourn there.
"But," remonstrated Sir Henry "I (sati-
net possibly go without you. The Foreign
Secretary diet Maly understands, that we
are together, and, indeed, expecte it."
This was el mem nonsense. "The ex -
potations of the Foreign Seeretery,"
replied, "are interesting ; bat I do not
recognize them as Welding upon myeelf,and
1 am afraid that I shall have to disappoint
him."
Sir Henry began to talk voluminously,
and not very diplemaGeally. " You are
vtry unreasonable, Lady Craven," he said,
"and most ungrateful You seem utterly
to forget how muds you and your father
owe me. I have raised you from a position
of obscurity to tho very front rank of
European society. I have given you every.
thing for width a woman can wish. You
have now an opportunity which a peones
might covet, and you are rejecting it out of
mere pique, and something worse."
He had by this time fairly worked him.
self up into a passion. "For my own pert,"
he continued, 'I put my foot down. I
insist, for once in a way, upon being
obeyed, and I will be obeyed. I am speak-
ing and acting for your good, and I have to
tell you that I insist upon your accompany'
ingst°. Let us waste no more words or
time over the nitieter,"
And 1, Sir Henry, have in turn to tell
you that 1 utterly refuse to go, and that I
also refuse to discuss the matter further.
It is idle to do so."
Sir Henry turned livid with passion.
" You tell me that yea refine to go," he
said, as if doubting the evidence ohis
ears.
" Most certainly. I refuse to go. Pray
let us talk no more about the matter."
We did talk no more about the matter,
on that occasion at any rate, for Sir Henry
swung round on his heel and left the room,
slamming the door after him. So far clear.
ly the campaign had been in my favor. It
is always well to win the first pitched
battle.
The fighting had been sharp, and I re.
eruited myself with a strong cup of tea, end
then, by way of complete rest, went to bed,
and eon read inysolf to sleep over some
story or other by Gaboriam the plot of
which was toe recondite to be followed by
the limited amount of human patience
remaining to me at the time.
What Sir Henry did, or thought, or what,
he said or to whom he said it, was entirely
indifferent ta me. But I have very little
doubt that he went away to the Travellers'
Club aud ventilated in that sanctum of
diplomatists, his own wrongs and my in-
gratitude. If so, I can only hope that lie
bored his listeners and got snubbed for do-
ing se.
The next afternoon I received from him
a very long and intenaely diplomatic cern.
munication, of which I oan only say, as a
celebrated individual did once of a similar
statement of facts, that it had much in it
that was, true and much that was new, but
that, whet was true was not, new, and what
was new was most certainly net true.
It had evidentlybeen drafted, reeonsider.
ed, and eopied, but I did not not see that
it called for an answer, and I consequently
11,1012 CABLES TO Earn, TWO MORB CABLES ARS NOW BEING
LAID ACROSS TNE OCEAN.
Hew the (woes are Phindi)d on Imam]
Slap—There Wili ho Twelve Ocean
04401 00) Alt ICON MN QOM PAW
INS Its New One TAM.
Two more =him are being, laid woes
the Atlantie. There aro at present ten
oablee connecting the Old with the Now
World, but no rapirry has the cable busi-
ness grown that they are' inadequate to
Motile it all. It was on Aug, 16, 185
that the lirst message was sent under the
Atlantic, but the cable broke down twenty.
JIINE $ 1894
tue'ly reeling us the bettonl a1 not
stretching Irvin 13111 to hill, While the
Fermat)/ is laying ' the esthisit electrieleme
ou board are conseantly keeping up ertin,
muolgatien with the ellore, too as to see
that It is in good rnueing order, and
while In the middle of the .44141310 the
officiates of the fillip may leen the latest
newa. AV'nen 0, buoy is Picked IIP the
submerged end of the aabla le ow y
hauled aboard and aerefelly spliced IQ the
other aection. 11 is eettmated that tho
Faraday will lay the deemsea vection
of the cable in about tam dep.
ONTARIO MUNICIPALITIES.
Au Interesting' Report Presented to the
earelertieure at the Late SSIGitinl,
The stetistioe of Ontario inenicipalities
is the title of an interesting report present.
ted to the Legislature at the late seseion.
It has been compiled by the Bureau of
Stabilities, the industrious immesh of the
Outerio Department of Agriculture. It
must have req aired a great deal of care to
perfect such a report from the masa of
statutory returns as ordinarily made. 'Phe
first four tables are devoted Le assessment
and taxation and the figurea are complete
for all the municipalities up to 1892. A
comparative for
ASSESSED
VALDE Rear.TOTAL PER
TAXER HEAD
AND
PERSONAL.
Township:I. 9
1892. , _452,005,058
1887, , , .456, 170,163
1882. , . 914,525,930
Towns and villages.
1892,.,195,421,208
1887. ... 96,705,003
1882— 77,723,307
Citiea,
i892....247,724,201
1887. —.161,436,712
1882,., ,126,223,920
OCHAN CAE0B, SHOWING to:NTT:AL PARES
three days afterwards and minmunieation
was not rammed until July, 1880, eince
which time it lute been uninterrupted.
The original charge for a message, while
there was only me cable in existence
was $5 per word, but the laying of now
cables, with consequent competition, bas
brought the price down to 25 cents per
word, and, as a result, the business has
enormously increased. Now one of the
cable companies is adding to its equipment
by putting down two new cables, the shore
08(10 81 which are now heal laid. No cab.
les had been laid during the previous ten
years, but experiment in the meantime has
shown many improvements, and thews have
been incorporated in the new lines.
The cables have been made by Siemens
Bros. & Co, whose factory at Woolwich,
England, has been working night and day
to complete the order, so that the cable
may be laid (1811225 the early spring. Alto-
gether 2,201 nautical miles of cable have
been made, and these consumed 495 tons of
copper wire, 1415 tons of gutta percha, 575
tons of jute yarn, 3,000 tens of steel wire
and 1,075 tons of compound and tar, mak.
Ingo, totat weight of 8,490 tone. The order
for the cable was given Nov. 21 of last year
and rapid work was begun at o.ce.
The cable is largely made by machinery,
and the twisting of the wire and covering
with tar and gutta penile are done by
antoinatic apparatus. The deep-sea portion
of the cable, which is the smallest part of
it in size bat the longest in length, was
manufactured at the rate of five nautical
miles per day by one machine, and there
being ten machine's of this kind at work
there were fifty-five miles of deep-sea cable
turned out every twenty-four home. The
shore ends of the cable, however, reauired
much more time to manufacture. at is
necessary that these should be very large
and strong. As long as the cable lies along
the bed of the ocean it is out of harm's
way. No storms, however violent, can
reach it. It is net a fleeted by any change
of the tempetature, and it is too deep to be
molested by fish or any kind of marine
areItitust
reherefore only necessary in the deep-
sea portion of the cable that the little cop-
per wires in the "care," which eenvey the
message, be thoroughly insulated end kept
dry. This is accomplished by their being
covered with a coating of jute and gutta
percha, over which is a sheathing of sinall
steel -wires. Thio sheathing mammas in
strength and protective pOWST SS the
shallow water is approached, and there are
seven different 81008 in the new cab'es. The
"core" containing the copper wires along
which the meetsages are eent is carried
through all eizes unchanged. The heaviest
part of the cable is that which is near the
Temosen, OF Poe,
0.
4,509,442 4 17
4,431,720 3 89
3,735,105 3 3)
DWAIN AND TtlE STOPS.
'rue tratea 5)0005 mirromtrairon COP,
9eMpItIO1114 08 Its OD 91 Purty press.
Another matter 005 91 which differences
might have arisen between Greet Bribein
and tam United Saito has boon etnioahly
untied, Thie io the question of the
Mosquito Reservation, The native 81310( 01
that oonntry, deposed and supplauted by
Nicaraguan auehoriey, hoes been restored by
the joint aotion of these two powere. The
home rule of the Reservation, as maintained
under &Rasa proteation for more then a
century, and se emend to the Reservation
by the treaty under which it was ceded to
Niearagne, is elms restored. The emetua
ranee of the Hutted States in its restora-
tion would scarcely have been so fall and
hearty had it not been for the demand of
an inlitunitial colony of its own people in
the Reservation. These protested Vehh-
mently againet the country's autonomy
being taken away by Nicaragua, and had
welcomed British interference. British
interference was not grateful to the United
States, however and that country was
prone to uphold 1110 claims of Nioaragua to
establish whab laws it wished 18 the Reser-
vation. Bub it finally agreed to the settle-
ment that was most advantageous to its
owe subjects in the country. In this and
other foreign affairs the present Admiois-
tration in the United States has shown itself
contemptuous of that section of its own
party press which indulges on every
opportunity in so muoli offensive bluster
against everything British. That prose
has done all it can to make the settlement
of international questions between Britain
and t !team toe diffieult. Atevery stem of the
9,452,170 1,820,383 5 81 Behring Sea negotiations it en severe to
1,418,370 4 make trouble and create suspicion. When
4 47 the best of feeling and mutual confidence
exi.ted between the two countries, its
7,338 worst
3,e9 up the elements in human nature and
9
3,048,010 75malice WAS constantly buay trying to stir
" in the populaces to some manifestation of
Z174,974 8 38 dislike to Britain. It failed, however, to
create a public opinion that oommo,ndedthe
0 18 respect of the President. The Behring
5 03 , Sea question was brought to a friendly
4 52 settlement:, ao has been the Mesquite coaob
question, and the Samoan qtteetion will
probably be also disposed of without iamb
deference to the ermine of the rabble. The
encomia quarrelsome, snarling tone of the
Anglophobie press seems unable to affect
the mune of diplomacy. At all events,
111r. Bayard, the United States Ambassador
to Great Britain, is unaffected by it, The
banquet to be given next, Thursday in
London, in honor of the United States
cruiser, Chicago, is an evidence of interim -
Venal courtesy which shows thab thenews-
papers In question do not greatly influence
the relations between the two countries.
Total,
1892 „ ..1325,211,127 11,808,959
1887. —.717,311,938 9,300,113
1882.. —618,478,457 7,331,449
Thenex a two tables deal with population,
a comparative statement being given for
all municipalities for 12 years with the
Dominion census figures for 1881 and 1891
alongside
1892. 1887. 1882.
Townships 1,103,433 1,140,138 1,120,574
Towns and
Village 422,041 355,731 317,237
Cities .... 385,019 322,584 259,435
—
Total —1,010.493 1,848,4317 1,607,286
The density of population per square
mile in 1899 was 31 in townships, 1,172 in
008000 6)1(1 villages and 6,382 10 cities, The
average over the IISSO03841. area of the pro.
vino was 53.
Dominion centres arranged by mueicipali.
ties.
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shore, where the motion of the waves may
wash it te and fro among the rocks and
stonee, that would otherwise soot cm it.
Along the Banks of Newfoundland fishing
schooners anchor and occasionally pick
up the cable, and that contingency hue
to be provided for in weight and
strength.
From the time the cable ia finished until
it is paid over Gm stern el the cable -laying
steamer Faraday, 18 10 never allowed to get,
dry. teas kept in large tenke of wetter and
transferred to meth tanks aboard the Fara.
day, where ib la coiled up. The Faraday
started some three weeke ago from England
ith the shore ends, and will return for the
deep sea portion of the cable, 1,500 miles
long, about the middle of June. When the
!shore end is all paid out it will be buoyed,
and the Faraday coining back some weeks
or a month lathe, will look around for the
buoy in ordot' to plot( up the cable again.
Thus passengers across the Atlantic
this summer may see a buoy away out in
the ocean, lint mariners will be warnecl 00
Id t it alone, as it mark!' the end of one of
the seotions of the new cable, The Faraday
am lay the deep.sea portion of the cable at
the rate 01 00900 nautical miles pet' hour,
promedingunderalrnost a full head of steam,
Th .
The cable eimply paid out from the stern
like a rope. Occeemnally, hoWever, the
steamer veal stop and pay out a lot of amble
before proceeding. This is done where she
008108 to it Will or sudden fall in the bottom
of the ocean, which is not level, ES ROM
pOOpIQ imagine, 1108 1180 all the topograph•
ioal features of dry land,
The Faraday is provided With maps of
the bottom of the ocean as ttecurote ag
11 0(0(18 by submarine snrveyore, Al all
1891. 1881.
Townships 1,2133,281 1,340,023
Towne and villages, 432,912 :323,188
Cities 392,125 257,111
Total 2,114,321
1,920,929 must catry 11 1(00)5 herself.
ARIDNITO
The balance of the report is taken up 1 .1.1USSMIN
with the financial stataments, and the in.
formation is complete up to the end ot 1890.
The seeming delay in bringing the figures
"up to date" is cowing to the great difficul-
ties encountered in procuring data to make
the report accurate and i.eliahle, the mom
piler having no desire to publish the stetis-
ems until this had been aecomplished. A
uniform abstract statement is given for each
municipality for 1800, while the municipala
Gee are grouped in counties. Comparative
totals are given by counties for three years
and for the province fot five years, separate
aggregrate totals being given for township,
town, and village, city and county munici-
palities.
•
Sharp Practice,
Young Clerk—"The boss has gone crazy.
Ile is advertiaing ten -dollar lace at a cent
a yard."
Old Clerk—"That's only a drawing oar&
He won't have to sell any of it."
" Why nob ?"
"He has informed the lace clerks that
any la'dy who buys a piece of that lens
A Diver's Escape.
For several years of my life 1 was em-
ployed as a diver by a large wrecking com-
pany, and daring that period had a number
of thrilling experiences. I think the worst
position 1 ever found myself in was when I
first started in the business. I had been
instructed never to our from the bottom
until 1 heel looked up end around me, and
it was lucky for me that I heeded this advice.
One day, having finished my work on the
bottom, I was preparing to rise to the sur-
face, when an looking around I saw a huge
shovel -nosed shark watching me.
Near by was a large rook, and, hoping to
dodge the ferocious monster, I moved quick -
1 to the ether side of is. 110310110 maneu-
ver did not work; the shark watched every
movement I inade, changing his position by
a eight ineven•ent of ins powerful tail.
Suddenly I conceived the idea of blinding
the shark by stirring up the mud on the
bottom, and under cover of that I might
escape. I worked for dear life, and in
a minute or two bad the water thick
with mud. Slipping around the rock again
I rose to the surface, and had barely time
to be hauled on board the boat before the
voracious man-eeter appeared on the surface
not more than 10 feet from where I had left
the water.
famous boulevard odes in Perla to aloe% points it, is sought to have the cable ac.
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