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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-7-13, Page 2TEE. � � y g -1 r broad sftouldara.. ilia faaWOI' ware by pp DEAN f i N Q 0 IMI I jl-- meaue pleasant. They were, markedly THE ls:alutuk, Ho lied i Y ) r FFF F , kkkrrr CHAPTER XVI, into, And then the doomed ship will Us a few seconds eabtlo down head flrelewhile the `9tm4days Ptee d .t t h aY e Mimi a oauao of h ot misf o r Guna fe r more d ahgera e coplof "oleo when the wort ua\Ys ewebbat any ioobeFg,williaataweY,ci ol'wg round alioatwiGlt the coelia currents qn her journey of de:Artletion, At the end, of September, weshub up our little home at Lydell and cameihp to Lon.. don. We had °eased to talk any Iomgor of Geerga Sabine or of the yacht. All that I oould now dowas to treasure hie memory is that of the best end tate dearest friend had ever hod. Writing now, wbeu years hove passed and the bitterneee of the grief hes died away, I oan say honestly that he was the capable of I ever ent ato tenese, knew, ornand oanable blo of -fear, g entirely unselfish. For such men these aro not the times. I cannotceuolude the story of this por- tion of my life without some mention of a letter which I received from. my father. kammeuoingwiththe remark thee it wee for a Higher Power than that of man to search the human heart, and that nothing was more preenmptuous in es than to pees judgment on our reliow•sinners, seeing that we were ell equal before the searching eye of Omnipotence, he went on to tree° the fingerofProvidence,ashe wee pleased to call it, in the foot that the "partner in my guilt" had passed before the last terrible Tribunal, still leaving me time to evince my repentance by appropriate contrition. His own health, he went on to say, was rapidly failing, anelhis duties were onerous; but he trusted Pane the thattheDiviue blessing had prospered his labors. If it would give me any comfort so see kiln he would hurry down et once;but he certainly, after what had passed at aur last interview, would not do so uninvited. It was sharper than a eerpont's tooth to have a thankless child ; but his own eon. science was clear and void ofoffence,andhe supposed that in that fact, and in that alone, he must seek for his nonsolation. The epistle, " ad partes infidelium,"oou- eluded with some appropriate general re- flections, not fnreettino a complaint that the present were revolutionary time:: in which Church and State alike were threat. ened, and that the Clerk to the Chapter found it impossible to collect the Cathedral rents or to pay the small stipends with anything like the punctuality that oould be desired. My first impulse was to tsar this precious document up, My second was to keep it as a aurioeity, so that I know, writing now, that I am not doing it au injustice. We had barely occupied our old quarters in Sackville Street five or six weeks whoa business of her own called Ethel Fortescue to Paris. Her tenant had gone out, and she had determined to go book, and either find an - ether or else herself permanently take ap her abode as heretofore in her own little fiat. And it was arranged that if she decided on the latter course I should go over and join her for a time before making any final arrangements on my own part. So matters rested for a week or two. tome that I had ever yet received in my life. It came In this fashion. We did not get our London papers linttl the following morning, so that their news was always a day old, knowing Mrs. Forbeeooe'e love of now of any orb or kind, it was arranged between its that ehe shoeld have the paper scab. If it contained anything to interest me ehe would tell me so, e»d:I hardly ever looked at it except by her suggestion. When she and I had finished, we sent the paper up to an old dame in the village,from whom it passed through many bends. Lydall boasts no reading -room, and a nowepoper there is a thing as precious as a )tome letter at the foot of the Himalayas. One day I missed the poser, and nom• plained that I had not seen it; but the complaint was passing one, and only re valved a passing answer. Nor did I trouble myself about the matter. And yet strangely enough, I felt all that day a various and almost oppressive pre- sentiment of evil. I could not formulate this uneaei00es in any way. I knew of nothing and expected nothing likely to give mesorrcw or even trouble ;and yet the air seemed' heavy as if with coming thunder. It is the fashion to coli this kind of weird emotion, nervousness, which is to adopt the latest device of modern quackery, and to imagine that you have explained a thing, because you have given it a new and some- what barbarous name. My nervousness, or whatever it might be refueed to,be shaken off, and I resolved to try the effect of a stroll to the Cove. As I neared the beach I passed an old woman, an out -door pensioner of mine in a small way, and stopped to •inquire about her rheumatism, Oh, it was bad, it was dreadfully bad. Could I send her a little more flannel? She didn't Grant any more brandy ; she had plenty left. But a little more flannel would be most grateful. If I had an old blanket now. She did not want to have a blanket from me, but I could give her hall glib, and she could make a belt for herself and a couple of pinovers for her chest Ipromised the blanket at once, and told her to call for it that evening ; but the old dame broke out afresh. "What a dreadful thing I 011 dear 1 oh dear ! Such a fine gentleman, and such a fine veeeel. There hadn't been such a vessel in the Cove for years. No, not since the great lord oome there." I started, and caught at my heart, Then I fancy my'whole manner must have chang- ed, for the ancient dame began to mumble out a long story fn the manner of a child in disgrace, and afraid of a beating. "It was the vessel that had come into the Cove," she told me, " the beautiful steamship, with the captain and all the crew, and the gentleman with the great big hoe v were, a low, narrow forehead, thick lima A nose not so tn'Qh shapolnos les fiat—as if same eouiptor lied first modeled in the (flay, and (Ilion crushed it in diegnet—ltoavy eYebreWs, and llbblo, Pioraiug, a1mond•ehaped eyes. ( coNriNUnn l BICYCLE RIDERS MAY CHOQSE To llsnok T1wlr'Meks or 81t Sin stvolght- A tlrund llfofel I'e In Road wheelie. A iniddlo-aged gentleman sat watching a string of expert bioyeliabe shoot past et top spend, The forms of the Mere ' were bent away forward on their whoele, their lioade were lowered, and they exerted alitheir leg power lemming their steel steeds. The elderly gentleman turned to a oom pinion, who is Also in middle life, "I never could rifle in that style," he amid.' "T should think they would build machines that a rider could sit up straight on and take things leisurely. everybody doesn't want to shoot ahead at that breekueek pace." CHAPTER XVII. The week or two passed without any- thing definite occurring, and consequently I, as they say in the City, wooed up ay. rangomente in Sackville Street, and started Co join Ethel in Paris. Her fiat was a charming little entresol in the Rue Royale, and I now began to under- stand how delightful life in Paris eau be if you can only take things light-heartedly. Our enjoyments were simple and ionoeent enough ; but to me they seemed endless and infinite. We used to explore the quaint dog, as big as a calf. She been seen and suburbs. We penetrated the vistas of the signalled off the Lizard, hut nothing had upper Seine 1Ve thoroughly enjoyed our- selves. Let me explain to any young gentleman about town—a Guardsman, ora clerk at the Foreign Office, or a fashionable curate with an eye to a bishopric—what I mean. He will tell you that he has lived in Lon- don for nix or seven yeare, and knows it thoroughly. Does he? Put him a few of the following questions: Has be ever been to Rosherville in the season of roses, or to the huge lake of Hendon in the season of frost and bearing ice? Re may perhaps own to the " Spaniards,' but has he ever dined at "Jack Straw's Castle ?" He will talk about Windsor Forest, but of Epping he is entirely ignorant. lie has dined at Greenwich, but Purfleet one of the most charming places in all the Home Counties, is a terra incognita to him. Why need I pile up a list of names, euali as Edmonton, and Ware, and the Rye House? London lies in the ventre of the moat lovely scenery in England, and yet Londoners are profoundly ignorant of the fact. been heard of her since,andnow everybody said she must have gone down. They said coat the Coastguard station. Her caske had been picked up, and her hen -coops ; and, worst of all, her longboat had been found upside down. "She must have been run into by some other vessel, or else she must have rum into - - an old wreck drifting about keel up like old wrecks do. It was vary sad; bat we were all in the hands of the Lord." How I managed to shake off the old dame, and how I got home, I cannot recol- lect. When I first became conscious of what was about me, it seemed as if I were in Sackville Street again, for I was lying in bed, and Ethel Fortescue was by me. This time, however, her manner was changed. At Sackville Street she made light of everything. Now she was tender and affectionate, but evidently viewed matters gravely. What little comfort she could give me was not much, end yet I clutched at it "The man, darling Miriam, has a charm- . ed life; and a charmed life is as certain a thing as the Evil Eye. Look at what he has done already. Look at what we know of him, not what he has told us—for he never talks about himself—but what we have heard. He has faced death over end over again, and has laughed at it. Mark my words, we shall see him yet." I tried to be comforted, but I am afraid the effort wee only too transparent. It certainly was not successful, " We will have down the Shipping Ga- zette. I will write to London for it at once. Lloyd's agents telegraph every piece of intelligence from all over the world. Mean- time, we must be brave. That is the first duty of a sailor's wife, and we must look forward to the future and not book to the past." Beyond this comfort she had none to give me, and day after day went by. The Shipping Gazette came, but I could not understand it, nor do r believe that Ethel did. It simply bewildered ue. So we waited on, vainly endeavoring to hope. August passed, and September and October, but all without news. Thei, we both of us said nothing, for we knew the worst, 11 the Evangeline had not gone down, she must have reached some port from which I should at once have had a , telegram. If she had gone down, and any of her arsw or of those on board her had been rescued by a passing vessel, or had taken to the boats and been picked up, the news would have been received at Lloyd's long before this. Every oceangoing vessel, so I found out, signals every other as she passes. Some- times, if not thimble against time, they will even lie to for a quarter of an hour and oxohange lettere and newspapers, Vessels, so 1 began to learn, are liable to suddenly founder in mid -ocean without time for the orew even to clamber into the boats, and these ohauoes are especially serious in the ease of steam vessels. The boiler may burst and two minutes after- wards not a ripple on the ocean will tell bhe story., Or floating derelict, keel uppermost, as The middle-aged speaker expressed a view of bioyale riding Held by many who are unfamiliar with the exercise and the oonettuetion of the machiuee. All first-alass bioycles are builtnowadays so that they can be readily altered from the low -handled "racer" to a high handle, easy going "roadster," upon whish the rider sits upright. Tho transformation is effected by au adjustable handle bar that can be raised or lowered at will. "The machine for the rider who wishes to ride leisurely and with oomfort," said an expert, " should have a turned -up handle and a seat set upon springs. 11 the wheel has the turned down handle, the bar would have to be raised to high in order to enable the rider to sit upright that the handles "One green field, air," said Johnson to Boswell, "is to a man of intelligence exact- ly like any other green field, sir. I and you do not want to look at green fields, sir ; let us take a walk down Fleet Street," Your modern Parisian is as ignorant and as prejudiced as Johnson himself, His state of mind fa very much that of the old navigator, who regarded the land as aplace where you cashed your advance notes,drew your pay, and went ashore for a spree, and where potatoes were grown, and salt pork and beef reared for the benefit of seafaring men. More oosmoppolitan in our tastes, Mee. Fortescue and 1, having our time at our own command, found Paris delightful. We ransacked it, explored it, made our way into the outlying country, and every day discovered something fresh—something of which when we got back to the Rue Roy- ale we invariably found that the recognized guidebooks and authorities had nothing to tell us. In fact, Ethel proposed one even- ing that we should /write a book between us to be celled "Undisoovered Paris," dedi- cate it "Aux Parisieus," and,as the Ameri- cans say, " realize on ite sale. And thus our days *lipped away delight. fully. It wag ono perpetual holiday with alwaye a something new. Chance at Last brought a relief to this happy, dreamy monotony. We had been to some steeplechases at Auteuil, and there Ethel met an old friend of here. Somehow or other all her friends were invariably old friends. He wag a Russian—a certain Prince Bolan ilcefi—to whom it had for some reason or other suggested by the Imperial Cham- aetlerie that a little travel would do his health all the good in the world. Let me describe him under the mixed impede 10 whioh ho presented himself to mo. In the first place, as to my own judgment, With regard to some particulars of which 1 cannot possibly be migaken. The Prince wag anywhere between thirty- five and fortyfive years of a o. •He was the old dame had suggested, maybe crushed immensely tall and immensely big, with The' Ring iS Dying. Foef, etand bank, the lItng le dying., Give Min whet little air remains ; Serest thou not haw hie pulse is eying? lloal''st thou not how he grasps aiid strains Po e no other stertorous broe th xadl how he Mors i yes, Elie dea th t. Blow 110 the iire-.his feet are cold; Ay, tomot�h a Xing, he minuet buy One briofeeimoment wihail his gold; Itis bons hoe memo, mho ho must ilia i' Withered and wrinlcledand015an g e,5, The Icing farce out on thy vonnn ie way, Li lib the to1iora; he's a1»rosb gone ; 001x', thou fool, 'Ns past the hour To cower and olio m, and flatter and resew - The thing lying thorn ie shorn of power ; Minoeforth the lips or the Xing aro dumb ; Bring up thy ghostly viaticum. Absolve his soul ;need. enough, God wet Mumble and a riolcle auk do thy shriving; Yoetblot,nsthiitks; dere and there shall bo let a ITldeouslyfeul, defense thy striving ; Nor purifed quilts nor pillows: of lace. Gan relieve tho guilt in the grim old' Mee.. Solt I stand baok—Itis lire last; 000 henoe, thy priestly omit er01t le o'er • For him the pomp or the world is utast 'Ilio Xing that eves, is the Mugge more; Lot the bells be rung,let the mass bo said, And tho Ifing'slhel'know -that the KGing 18 dead. would interfere seriously with the batauc- ing and steering of the machine, It would make it wobble. "The nearer the handles are to the framework of the machine the easier itis for tho rider to keep his balance and. steer. The lowering of the handles to this positron increases the ability of the rider to speed the machine, because when he bends over bo gete a better hold ou the pedals and is able to exert more power in forcing the wheels ahead. Aud when his body is thrown forward, with the head down, there is less resistance to the wind. "Elderly or leisurely riders would find the upright position more to their comfort and liking, and that is why all good wheels am made so that either position oan be taken. As I said before, it is a mere matter of raising or lowering the adjustable handle bar. "Speeders all prefer the bar with the turned -down handles, and those who do not care for speeding select the turned -up handle bar. That is all the difference there is to the two styles of riding." The a000mpaoying pictures illustrate both positions. TWIN BABES KILLED. RlutOvor by a Train. while Flaying en the Track. A Mtlleville, N. J., despatch says :—At the south -bound Cape May mail train on the West Jersey Railroad wasdrawingnear to South Vineland Station, a hamlet about four miles from here, Monday afternoon, Engineer Hand saw two objeots which looked to him like paper on the track. Presently he saw a human head fly up. He immediately reversed the engine and appli- ed the breaks. When the train was brought to a atop he found out that two children had been run over and killed They were twine,a boy and a girl 21 months old, the children of Merles T. Buck, a well-to-do farmer living close by the rail- road. The children had wandered away from home, and were playing in the middle of the track when run over. The girl was instantly killed, her head, arms, and feet being severed from the body. The boy after being thrown many feet into the air, died in his mother's arms. The parentsbe- dame frantic with grief on learning of the it misfortune, and could be with diffioulty restrained from putting an end to their lives. The speed of the train ab the time of the accident wan about forty miles per hour, No Exemptions There. Max Lebandy, the French millionaire whceo bills have won slim much notoriety in Paris, finds that hie small stature and palpitations of the heart will not save him from having to serve three years in the army. The recruitingoouuoil,before whioh ,f Little Dirty-Faee." We have a little maid at Roma. She says " my name 10 Dw00e"— To M pa"anLittled ma Dirsheety-tbeaco."ttor known. You scrub and dress that child at tan— White muelin,.trimined with .baso— Zn fifteen mi',utee often less, She's "Little Dirty -fats," But smiles oft break that crust of dirt, And sahibs the dimples chase, And tender eyes light up with love That little dirty moo. "Ifs naught butsuperflolai dirt Which scrubbing will 010901 So ma and pa vete rather proud Of Little Dirty -face. On tob's small phis tho trouble 1s To find a kissing place, But stay- -I see a rose -bud mouth On Little Ditty -face. They oome and give that sweet "bear Thou little toddling Greco- Thv soul's as pure as angels' robes, iihy Little Dirty -face. Not Quite Consistent. When tb o rain's a tumblin' down, Ain't no sunshine anywhere, Wet as thunder in the town, Sky looks gloomy over there. In tho etroets you nearly drown, You're jos' lonely all the time; When the rain's tumblin down,, Don't you wish. the sun 'ud shine? Whou the RIM is warm an' bright, An' it's hos as it kin be; Not a shady spot in sight, Au' you're wisbin' longingly, For the breezes fresh an light, Jes' to cool your heated brain • When the sun le warm me bright, Don't you kinder long for rain ) Love's Arithmetic. " My child hath left me," said the one. The other wailed: " Tve lost my son." " Not so." Love's wise accountant cried : Your riches have been multiplied. " For thou another son has gained— -..ti And thou ono &teats ee more obtained. "Love malcoth one of twain, 'tis true, But payeth back with four for two 1" TERRISLX EXPERIENCES AT^SL"A0 lot of l4aogeremi spot nl bi bo-.TWelve Bilge lllgpunea Hied of Yellow Fiume in, a Few Day$. The 5, S. Boston Olty, jeee arrived At Hull from Rosario, has peseod tl}roagli a terrible exP sl 0noe. Iie n r kat ata given by Me. Clarke, the thief oilieer, it appeared blab the Bodeen City left Cardiff on the 270 ;April last year, bound for Buono Ayres, She method her deetenatisu in May, and traded between Bue,los Ayres and rib) Janeiro lip to the middle of Sepeember.. The iueurreettiioufn,the Argentine Republic broke out, end 460 was devafned two and a half months 00 mount of that oubbreak, She was anchored in a dangerous port at Ria; in feet, ehe was right in the firing; of the shote between the contending parties. Embankmonto had been thrown up by the soldiers, bet et night bimoinsnrgentMunch, es would, under the oover of darkness, make for the shore to carry out surprise attacks; and when any effort at copulae was curried out the shots would fly in all di notions, and at ono time the Bremen City was in great danger, her' funnel behig WPM= '1110'110 13ULLI0T8, and the cattlefittings otherwise injured. Fortunately none of the crew were disabled though the then captain had a narrow escape, one shot going through the cabin ports and crushing into e. bookcase in the cabin, pertly demolishing it. After two and a half months' delay the discharging of the vessel was completed, and on the 31 et December shelofefor Buenos Ayres. Worse troubles were in store, and after being two days out one of the firemen was seized with diarrhoea, dying two days afterwards. Ou arrival ab •Buenos Ayres the vessel was, placed in quarantine. After tying there three days a seaman was seized with email. pox, and was removed to the hoepitai, where the poor fellow died. Having load- ed, the ship left again for Rio. After being there 14 days, and the loading nearly completed, the captain was stricken down with yellow fever. His removal to the hospital became imperative, and he died there. Captain Hodgson was only 25 years of age, and belonged to West Hartlepool. The next day the chief officer, Mr. Clarke, was seized with the dreadful disease, and also removed to the hospital, but after 15 days' illness he recovered, Two days after wards the thief engineer was taken, but he also recovered• Three seamen and one fire- man were also oonvsyod to the hospital within the course of the next twenty-four hours, and all tho poor fellows An Unreliable Day. It would be impossible to put the sass against long terms of imprisonment more clearly than it was put by Mr. Justice Day at Ipswich (Eng.) Assizes last week. Ad- dressing a group of three prisoners," his Lordship said :—"I have an opinion, upon whioh I should like to act more freely than I am able to dc, that long detention in prison is in itselfa mischievous thing for a mum, and particularly for young men' It is not desirable that young, healthy, and active men as you aro should be sent to long terms of imprisonment—losing your man- hood in prison, your habits of self-reliance in prison, provided for in prison, taken Dare of in prison— but that you should be turned out ea quickly as possible to earn your own livelihoods by your own exertions. It is better for your minds and for your bodies, and more likely to make you useful mem. bees of society." But we must confess that these most excellent remarks rather lose their point when, at the very same sitting, the same judge went on to pass such sent- ences as the following :—A domestic ser- vant, aged 18, whose mistress gave her a good oharaoter, ten months, hard labor for stealing 51.88, her fireb offeece. A school• mistress, aged 33, eighteen months for steeling 52.50. No previous convictions were proved against her. Seven, six, and five months for three youths of 17 for eteaL- ing a piece of bacon. Twelve months for a shoemaker for ,obtaining 51.50 and some food and drink by false pretences. No pre- vious conviction, but the prisoner had been for twelve months in a Luxatio asylum. Evidently Mr. Justice Day thinks precept a good deal better than radio, he went, doaided that ho was fit for a light cavalry regiment, and might usefully serve as en eelt.ireur or a military cyclist. He thought he had smoked hhr,eelf into heart. disease, Naturally, with a fortune of 25,. 000,000 francs to spend, he is disappointed at having to serve as a lanoer, whioh involves cleaning a horse and other stable duties. As ib le useless to kick against the iaevitable,ho intends to give nue fete spathe quo at the Maisons lafitte before going to be dratted into a regiment. Francois Carnot, the youngest eon of the President, will have to break off his studies at the Central Engineering School to serve as a private soldier. Remarkable Operation. A remarkable surgical operation was per- formed last week et the Lancaster, Eng., County Lunatic Asylum upon William Fitz. pabrielc, one of the inmates. This man, some time ago, took to swallowing things, and on Monday morning he ate 192 flooring nails, which naturally upset his digestion. An operation was decided upon without the remotest chance of saving the man's life. During the operation, whioh lasted two hours, the surgeon took from hie stomach the 192 nails aforesaid, varying from l3 Go inches in length, a half of a screw, a piece of wire, two buttons, and a mass of matted hair. The nails alone weighed nearly two pounds. Fitzpatrick is expeoted to die, • The Bicycle Ere. T'ather (a few years henna)—" Why de you tape your binyols when you are go - Ing such a short distance? Why don't you walk ?" Daughter (modestly)—" Walk? Mercy, no 1 I don't want to be as conspicuous. A Modern Idyl. Ethel—Oh, Tom what a pity it is you are not richt They nay that some of those millionaires don't dare to leave the house for days eta time, boosuee they receive threatening lettere saying that something dreadful will happen to them if they don't pay the writer sums of money. Tom )3ardup—Poo11 1 Why, '3 get plenty of just such lettere. British and Foreign. The wages of female servants in Prussia ramp from 814,28 to 875,40 per per ; of males, $23.50 to 8901.20, The 4u00/1 had signed a royal warrant which ant1,orizee the Nene of modals for I i 'ti the lora A e0 Y Qta } t long and 4r. t0i't4n4 r farces in the colonies, The medals will be homed folder regulations which will shortly lam published. iss Lord Randolph Chureliitl hoe ongagod a . peerage for New York or board the White Star line steo.mor Tenbonio on hot' negb trip from Liverpool for New York, He will visit Chicago, and will Bail fro;n Voln. cower for Jape ». Dr, Von kilarcom, one of the most dim tinguiehod phyeioiano in Berlin, expressos the opinion after careful investigation that coffee long boiled produces More indiges- tion than any other' substance taken into the human stomach, end that a simple in - The strike of the Sooboh goat miners began Tuesday morning, 00,000 men oeasingwork. Many steel works in Scotland have olosed owing to the searoiby of coal due to the strike of the letzten, and others will shut down on Thursday. Thousands ofsteel workers are in enforced idleness. Arrangements have been nearly concluded; to provide the necessary capital to finish the Chigneoto chip railway eonneobing the Bay of Fundy with the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Tile promoters of the onberpriee are San- guine that the railway will soon be in op- eration, and will shortly submit a proposal in regard to it to the Dominion Govern- ment. The authorities of the War Office and Admiralty deny any knowledge of the re. gently reported purchase in Chicago by those departinente of army forage and other supplies. This denial ia.inanswer to en offer on the part of Canadian merohants to furnish all such supplies needed, the offer having been accompanied by en iissertlon that supplies were being purchased in Chicago for the British. army nd navy. IDCOb-AID0D 00 THE ATTACK. The day following the death -roll was in- creased, one seaman and three fireman being stricken, and only one recovered. The third engineer, cook,and second officer also died the day after, and out of 17 taken to the hospital only four or five recovered. Twelve Englishmen in all died in the course of a few days, and the outlook for those who wore spared wee almost too ter - ruble to contemplate. The Boston City was lying for six days to gee if the chief engineer and chief officer recovered. el fresh commander was taken on board,hut he likewise had the fever, and recovered. Theahip was left without any crew, and it was a very difficult task to replace them. This was overcome, and the ship received orders for Hull a few weeks ago. Out of the ,;row which leftCardiff fourteen menthe ago, only five have returned to England -- namely, the chief officer, three engineers, and one seaman. THE CANNON BURST And Air. Josenh Austett's dead was Ai. most Severed From Lifs Rod3'. A Formosa, Ont., despatch says :—Pre pnrations on a large scale had been made here to celebrate Dominion Day. An old Garman custom of firing off a cannon on state or church holidays stilt prevails hare, and accordingly the day was ushered in with the usual welcome. About 6,30 in the morning Mr. Joseph Anetett, in com- pany with soma other villagers, proceeded to charge the cannon. On a000unt of the ramrod being light it is supposed the charge was not folly down in the barrel of the cannon and an explosion resulted. A piece of the cannon, weighing about 25 pounds, struck bur. Anetett on the jaw, almost severing the head from the body and causing instant death. Demeaned was 48 years of age, and was one of the most pro- mineut and respeoted men in the country. He leaves a wife and family. Some 14 or 15 years ago, when the late liiehop Crimson paid a diocesan visit to this parish a similar accident occurred, but fortunately not re- sulting fatally, although three men were crippled for life. The Queen's Memory. Here are a couple of stories told of the wonderful power of memory enjoyed by her Majesty. Conversation at the dinner table at Windsor recently turned on Rome and the Pope. The Queen somewhat surprised Game present by saying that she had seen his Holiness, adding—"He was presented to me many years ago, when CardinalPeaai by Cardinal Howard ; then we did not know he was at all likely to be Pope—in. deed, Cardinal Howard seemed to bave much the better thence. But I remember the occasion quite well ; it must be nearly thirty years ago." In Florence one day the Queen perceived a man attempting to photograph her in her carriage. Sha cal- led the attention of one of her attendants to him, and said -"I should like to speak to that man ; he was mentioned to one by Lord Palmerston when I wanted some photographs oopied by a permaneub process and he did them for Inc but I th0ngllt he was dead long ago." The man being pre- sented to her Maleety, said he had boon out in Australia for five and twenty years, and was indeed the person to whom she had referred. The thinnest iron sheet in the world has lately been rolled in Swansea in Wales. It is twenty-five centimetres long and four- teen wide. Its thickness is exactly .0052 millimetre. One may get an idea of this "bhickoess" by comparing it to that of silk paper, which is ordinarily .02 milli- metre thick. Some iron manufacturers have advertised that they make visiting cards of thin iron plates. Krupp has menu - textured such of the thlnnees of .04 milli- metre. The longest steal chip is 791-2 metres long and was turned in Now York. Some months ago. a Dublin inventor olaimed for a preparation of his that it would preserve eggs in perpetual freshness. To thoroughly teat the efficacy of the in. vention, whioh, if successful, would revo- lutionizs the egg market, an experiment was carried out at the Freeman offices. A sample of odgs immersed in the patent .solution, whioh is a thin greyish paste of the consistency of honey, have remained undisturbed there for a period of four months, and when opened the other night in the presence of exports wore found to be all perfectly fresh. The financial success of the groat Man- chester ship canal, about whioh there has been much doubt, appears to be assured. A report from Manchester states that the revenues trom tolls and dues for the five months ended May let last were 533,701, which more than covered all expenses con- nected with the traffic, including wages, salaries, and stores, rates, and a full propor- tion of office expenses, Mainteuanoo was not included, and, until the work is com- plete, all outlay on works will b0 charged against capital. The traffic in the time covered was merle up of 211,915 toes in ships, 63,785 in barges and 323,056 pas- sengers. Au amusing story is told of the late Pro- fessor Henry Morley. Some years ago when the "slumming" boom was occupying general attention he wee accosted one day by a peculiarly emaciated and ragged in- dividual, who solicited aid in moving terms. Professor Morley, who was neverproof against such 'petitions, responded with a solver coin. "Thank you, Professor Morley: I'm much obliged," said the man. "You know me, eh ?" "Yes, I attended your lectures at Xing's College in 1860." "Dear dear, I am sorry to see you in this state. "Not at all, my deer Professor. I am doing some articles for my paper, and the, editor insists on my making my researohes in oharaoter. Will you dine with me to- night?" and he handed a card bearing a well-known name. In a photograph collector's album there art the pictures of 100 oriminais who were tried and convicted last year. A good pro- portion of them are men of fine appearance with honest looking faces and a pleasant expression. The owner of the album often shows these pictures to his acquaintances, without telling who the men are ; and he says that, of all the people who have seen them, not one has yet guessed that they are convicted criminals, or that they do not rank among the most respectable citizens. "What a remarkably handsome and good lot of friends you must have." said a clergyman after looking over the' album, all the pictures in whioh have been chosen for the purpose which they subserve. Two of the photographs represent man killers now in prison. Died in Terrible Agony. A Buffalo, N. Y.,desppatah says:—Mrs. Fred Dorest, 40 years old, of 791 Exchange street, died in terrible agony at the Accident hospital .Friday morning as the result of a wilful attempt upon her life by taking tat poieoo. The clause of her suicide woo disappointment at not being able to bring about a marriage between her daugh. tot Aline and a beardor named Wolfe. An Elmira lady, to earn money for church purposes, agreed to shave her hug - band ton times for one dollar. Now she line the money, and her husband has an inartistically gashed fade. The Viotorialily, of Guiana, hasa ciroula loaf from six to twelve feet in diameter. Itis turned up at the edge like a tray, an d can support, aceording to its size, from ono hundred to three hundred pounds. [hat Fired Feehan g .Che marked beuelit W1uc8 people overcome ev That Tired Feeling derive f •010 h'ood's Sat semen 'o eenolusiveil Droves .lrat tide- mete. dile "makes the weak strong, J.13,IJmorton, a wall blown merchant • of Auburn, Maine, Says: 'About five years ago I begat to suffer with Very severe pain in pay Stmmnah,grad• wally growing worse. I murton.. took, Rood's Sarsaps, rills, being cowlneed thaw i was troubled with Dyspepsia compli- cated, with Liver and Kidney troubles. I bnprovedatouee and am certainlyvorymuell better and feel more like working. Hoff s Sarsaparilla always gives me relief and groat oomfort IR is a 4616d -send to any one suffering as I did," lsir. J. 13. H 000'6 P1 LLe aura habitual Genetipation by rostartnv nor+."rattle aetlonof the "0montery 80018 j