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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-10-12, Page 2orad It would be If popple would only lie ,SQ lig .GUMP R Jl. R$' AGi$ �y III M �FER ;Resent and tell the truth l I tools ep �,�� HIS �4.11."�J.,1. ��� ! b my lozenges, and further discharged my O11hraGA°um by pare hae tol� t ot tie of Eau the worst, land prepared myself to ,lane It: de COlegno, I need only add that his CTiAI'TEk? N,LI'V, One thing wan evident, that he wae fn a advise lune entirely eerreet, The Pre* Thataiterpocu Ptbelstarted far Par1a, highly excited and irritable mood, es, In dent ntolf he notal CoilegeNava Ivaelenfc mo She hide somollow or other managed to pea foot, 11i8 very First ry unrleaenn wade Mt'e. Gee. better, possibly if her Akderntan, and, to faot,1°ft hfm on col ne,"a be said, "when uupleosant th,,uuge I did not broiible mpsoil with thinking, y I aeeem ailed g y h pMy s ibla Lerma. P hie this happen. 1 atippose tno must hap. mind was absolutely anode up. lotad thebeetpia to the station, and hada her au ellen• pop sometimes, but far any own part 1 ]lob t Moiledthe atluto aaI Late, noa4oubb, harto get them. Over. I have no want to put to bogie g tiouate farewell. , any question wbichmay be painfuk to y;our, I woo, but as the proverb rung, "better 1, We shall oeou meet n8°,1°1 darling' self,;OL wtioh 1 have not a perfect right to late than never, Gather your rosea Were her loot words; "I hope to be back pot, But 1 believe you knew old Sir Henry within ten days,,, Craven, .Ela is down here, apd tae been I returned to The Uplands with a senor, saying a good deal about you. I cannot u e fora moment that id ie telling :all of opprooafan that 1 ootid neither We= downrigght lies, There moat be something for, nor yet shake off, and a sort of vague in it. He may hove hie own view of the foreboding of evil to come, I euppose, in mutter, nod he may be, or he may not be wa reality, it was the effect of Prince Want- Butrong. what1 hedo hasnot saidthink oakvsry fmuoh of WM., For an answer. kofi'e strange warning, In feet it mils 440 ananewer whiolt I can Lord Aehwell took me down toso back apd give him. 1 am very sorry dinner that evening, and m10101,10, ok For all title trouble, and I only hope to Ho von that n ou nen help mo out of le." " course he was kind and courteous, llc f�You moa " 1 said, A't1, my right Yet studiouely refrained from anything Like name is nob Gascoigne' You mean that I demonstrative attention, knowing my ob. °nee was Lady Craven. Well, You know lactate to our nameebeing coupled together me story o ive es many ther people of ib, which for the preeent, and mindful f his pro- r dD not a oppose y°u would believe for a mire to rite ea the subject. moment, or allow to effect you in anyway. I woo very glad indeed when the time You must take the tale as it has comato arrived that it was possible for me to retire, you. If you knew the whole truth of it fore, But even the 1 eltthoror hl. worn out with entreaty, whole ou truthld ewou d�uoor %texpinlu away the f thoroughly doubt, and a °orb of dread of the unseen facts. I quits know that, You know the evil with whioh I was apparently threat- facts, and you know the worst. The inter - erred. But whet I got to bed no refreshing pretation of them is another matter. I am ready to interpret them,. but cannot explain sleep, nor, indeed, sleep of any kind, came them away." to bring me relief, and I teemed about ail 1, Surely," he said, "the matter is easy night a prey to vague misgivings and un- enough. Yon were introduced to me as pleasant reflections. I lit my candle and Mrs. Gascoigne, and you cavae down here read,but T found it impossible to 08 dire. Gascoigne. It now turns out that triedtoP you are not Mrs. Gasooigneatall, but that trate my attention for two minutes you are Lady Craven. The explanation of coulee together, aoa ih that I was forced to give up that is for yourself, It is the kind of thin which 1 do not understand, and to the attempt as hopeless. I got up and which I am not aoeuetomed." paced up and dawn the room and then went "I had intended to tell you everything, to bed again, but the result was precisely biy life has had a history, and the history the same. I could not sleep, do what I ono a life cannot sentenoea always of apace, ora few }would, and I was finally' compelled toditaken of ressed time, Y did not menu to ileus accept the inevitable, and to remain awake any secret from you, and there is nothing the whole night, whatever which, at this minute, I wish to "Stop awake all night," you will be told, keep or hide from you. That is all." "why, it's the beat fun in the world. `The whole tilting," hereplled, looking at hie boots and not at 1118, , Ia very Whenever there 16 anything good to be unfortunate, and 1 must also add -very done in the morning, I always take the unsatisfactory. I cannot see any way out most particular care not to go to bed. Once of it. You admit that you are not fire. goto. bed and treat . you can never truyourself. Gascoigne. You admit that you are here, Y to say the least, under a mieuaderetaoding Yon may sleep on like the princess is the Mieunderetardings are unpleasant things. wood," The difficulty in this case ie most certainly I was in no hurry to figure early that not of my making." The difficulty need not trouble you," I morning. Being no longer a ohild or even cried. "In fact, it does not exist. I able - a girt, I knew that in the fresh light of lately decline to be considered as upon my dawn 1 dhculd appear to disadvantage. deefence.u Ybeou ud areodms sa let d witit be ooh what You "Avoid two things," Ethel used to tell aro going from this place, and so am I. Me, " sae of these is the lime -light ; never Lot ria part as if we had never met, and let let It fall upon you unawares." us take very great mare never to meet In this humor I went down to the again." grounds.I am not defending my frame of "I am Emery," be replied ; "but I am atter. There are always call it what you please. It seemed to me troubles in thie world and we have to face that I held all the cards in my own hand, them. You can never tell when your 1 urn and I was stall cot in the prime of life, but may come, and when it does come, the only only on the threshold of that delightful thing beat you yetor i an." on to do is to cake your attune period. I consequently was restless, fm• "yon may be right," I said, "and I dare patient, and in the very last temper calm' nay you are. The matter, however, is not lated to provoke or to encourage reflection. one to be argued out between us. You bed Iwandered about the grounds until the batter as aefar as the house, an,l when I am n fie shade, we can part. We shall bell in the turret of the tower to the ate,blea probably never meet again, and we ser- rang out the signal for lunoh. tainly are not likely to break our hearts for I entered the roost more or less heed. each other. The world has room in it for lesaly. It had never occurred to me who the two of us, and our'orbits in all human might be there, or who might not. I bed probability will never again cross." in my own mind reckoned up theeompany, W e walked bac k to the house and was not prepared for any addition to side by side wit hou t another it. I was consequently fairly startled, word. 1 think if he bad said it when, at the other end of the room, I saw was a fine clay or had asked me what were -entirely himself, with all his self- the chances of skating in the comingwinte, possession about him, looking almost and whether I liked skating, it would have twenty years younger than his age, hold- driven rimmed. But he did nothing of the ing forth with the loquacity of a gossip, sort. His silence was phlegmatic and and the assurance of a professor, and English. We marched along so alowly evidently considering himself the heart, and steadily that I could almost hear each centre and Mous of the entire company - no leas a person than the husband whom I bad once most solemnly vowed to ave, honor, and obey. It was a distinctly difficult position. I was looking steadily 01 Sir Henry when he looked up, and our oyes met, 1 mad him a very formal bow, but it wae with an expression in my face which intimated : 'Try your worst. You and I know perfectly well that the scabbard is thrown away. 1 do not expect quarter, and if you mean fighting, I can fight as well as yourself." Veiny %'eBB-30utl Vary 01118exarefglui, and $04104 ll'real de uta. Tide le an era of very young 0r very old hereditary rulers. About the only men of middle age who are et the head of Govern, meats ere the Presidents of republics. The postponement of the festivitieswhieb usual• y a000mpaoy the cclebrationof the Qepcn'a birthdayiallolland andwbtohwere omitted this year iuocusequeuceofthe defeat of the while you oan, Or, ae I fate, remembet• Petah troops at Lembopk recalls this feet Horace mead, "Carpe diem, qumin mini^ to mind, The (ween of Ifelfaud wan born mum orodttia posters. " on Aug1, 1880, and is therefore only 14 Trots the erq du Nord, w..e^e Ethel g• met me, bubbling over in her uauat,e Mien, years old, The hereditary monarch of Spin but ite tender-hearted, sympathetic, and is Btu younger, a boy bornon May 17,18 , true ea ever, we were driven hu , diy and therefore 8 years old. The Khedive of the line Royale. By the time we had got Egypt ie 'tat 20 and the Emperor of Cltina, OMIT Ethel knew all I could tell her, riot1i1 only with regard to what had taken pleas, wild has come prominently to natio° of late afraid it must be so. 1 see no other way inmi. yon may call it tie&ant, you may out of the m y but also to my Vane for the future. In oaneequenee cf the hostilities in Corea, "Anti you Cavo made up your mired, my dear, to do as he mike?" was born in 1871. The king of Servia was ' Yee; T have thought it over, I won'o 1S yearn of ago in August. the King of say. as the Dean would, that I luau- Portugal is 31 ; the Greed. Duke of Hesse is prayed over the matter, but I have eon- 20 ; the Prince of Bulgaria is 33 ; and the :grimed it thoroughly. In the first place. Em anon of German fa 35. I like Balanikofi : to the eeeond place, he p y ie u gentleman ; in the third place, On the other hand, Queen Victoria' was 1 mean to do so I Choose. Don't you born in May 1810, and is therefore 75 years remember my old yachting story of the of ago having been Queenfifty.seven years, the Lord tot make a remarkably long time for a modern mon- this vessel, why, by him know what for.' That's my frame of arch. The King of Denmark, Christian IX... mind, my dear. ' I'm aboard this vessel, is a year older, having been born in April bo's'un : 'lf any mon isn't happy aboard and I'm perfectly happy," 1818. The Geaud Duke of Mecklenburg. CHAPTER XIX. I remember George Sabine once telling me how' he got the beat of a very abusive Yankee harbormaster. The Yank talked with every variety of oath, anoadote, abuse, end blasphemy for about an hour. "When," said George, "he had blown his wind and stopped spouting,_I asked him whether that was all. He replied that it was. I then told him, not in these exact terms, that I was devotedly grateful to Providence." My look at Sir Henry was of much the same tenor. It meant, and it was intended to mean, ' if you have a tongue so bevel. If you talk, I oan talk." And with this expression stereotyped into my features. I iooked at him and welted for his look in return. I have always said I considered him a stupid man, but with a certain amount of pomp and management of doteil when he might be fully prepared with all the air- oumetances. And in this world, stupidity is. apt to, reek as wisdom purposely hidden under a veil of cunning and caution, Not knowing what to do, Sir Henry did noth. fag, but he also looked hopeless, helpless, and perfectly bewildered. Now a diploma- tist ought to beno -oue of these things. Luncheon over, I strolled away by my- self down to the river. It worth' be idle to pretend that I was not restlees end uneasy, As I turned a corner among the infinite windings of the shrubberies there, facie to fano with me stood Lord Ashwell "0f course you are, ate said; "and so am L Good people always are." Strelitz and the Grand Duke of Saxe -Wei - About two months after these events, I mar were born in 1S13. The Bey of Tunis received a verylong and very ollaraoteristio is still older, laving been born in 1817, bull letter from the Very Reverend the Dean this does not altogether complete the list li of Southwiek, ' He was in tate most terrible of foreign moparohe past middle age. The disoreea. Wishing to add to his stipend, King of Sweden is 65 ; the Emperor Franole 1, he had been induced to hived largely in the 'Joseph of Austria was born in August,1830, Consolidated British and Foreign General and is therefore 64. The King of Saxony Financial Advance and Disoounb Company, is 66, the Grand Duke of Baden is 68, the whioh wae to pay a minimum dividapd of Shah. of Persia is 63, and the King of Bel - fifteen per cent. The Company had buret glum is in his 60th year. up. In other worde, it was in liquidation, In past times, the tnonarehioal rulers and was likely to remain so, kW long an have been represented during their minor - there was a scrap of flesh left upon ity by regents, a fruitful cause of strife and the grizzly bones for aocounte,nts,receivers, .intrigue,wheteaselderlyrulerahaveusual- trustees, and other such unclean vultures ly fallen under the control of Prince Min- to pick at. To avoid disgre oe and exposure, inters and have had therefore only the Bern. he had been compelled to set aside twelve blanch of political power. In the present hundred a year out of his fifteen. What generation, however, the rule' of elderly he was to do ho, did not know. It was the kings and queens or the rule, by proxy, of dfvine will and he must bow . to it. At minora, has not been fruitful of any eorious the same time, I surely would not refuse difficulty or complications. out of my abundant income to aid him in One former ruler whose reign is at an end this sore trial, and to enable him to have in Liliuokalani of Hawaii who is little mom at his diapasel, not the luxuries of life, than ayear younger than Grover Cleveland, for which he had never cared, but ite stern twenty-fourth President of ,.the United and bare necessities. States. She was born in September 1838, It was very wrong of me, but I laughed and he March 1837. He wae born in over the letter, and profanely remarked New Jersey, that Ally Sleper was au it again. Then I The present Emperor of Russia was born Wrote my auswor. in 1843, King Humbert of ltaly in 1544,the Emperor of Japan in 1852, the King of "Paris, 2,0001 Bis, Champs Elysees. Greece in 1345, and the Sultan of Turkey December 28th, 18-, in 1842. The new President of Franoe is a "My Dear Father, young man. The Kingof Corea is 43. .1 am deeply moved at your sad story. It may be stated as a general thing that I owe you my life aid all the happiness claimants to European thrones live longer that my life has brought mo. I -should be than those who actually attain to kingly ;worse than inhuman If I were not inost power. Don Carlos is 46, and Prince. Vic - deeply grateful to you. for Bonaparte is 32. Pope Len XUUT., the My hankers have instructions to place a oldest lkvine sovereign is 84, and Alphonso hundred pounds at once to your credit al XIII. of Spain is, as already said S. the Old Bank. Southwick, and to make a There are no known pre,enders to Asiat- similar payment on each quarter -day. is or African throned, titles, or authority.. "At the same time, it is just as .for the very simple reason that in those well that you should know where this continents til has been for long years moo money comes from. It is a part of the winery to decapitate a pretender in testi price for which I have sold myself soul many of the better title of his 'euoceesful and body to Prince Balanikoff. It as now rival • two months since I wholly renounced the ^100 FAT TO KEEP AWAKE. allowance I had been receiving from Sir Henry Graven. "Take the money, my dear lather, and Otte Product ar the British Workhouse be careful over it, and make it go as far as That Does It Credit. It eau. A -on ohl. I dare say that your The inhabitants of Poplar, who work misfortunes hale not made yon forget your Your Daughter, taxes honestly, must be highly gratified to Minuet. learn that they have been wearing their By return of nest I received the follow• fingers to the bone to Resist William Ed- ing reply = wards, an inmate of their workhouse; to be - The Deanery, Southwick, come so fat that it takes him half an -hour December 28th, 1S-. to stoop to pick up a pin and another half OERfQW1IiSi OLP, 50 l4nt{ 1Plt°eo $11014 fe tiyar41ab1e WHI #000(4000 ,11100114 l0 4ko 0luae or lN4fe. toota '1'ltoavorsion to growing olll is a dakural one in Nome roapeota. Many fool that it 100850 a time of unhappiness and misery, Ilia this need nab npaoeearily be the ease. A writer in an oxahahgo has well malted what is the eoarab of happy aid age? Title la an important quoabion. What eonduaea to happiness at the last 15 equally good for all the period of human experience. It io sot good health, important 00 that is. There ore happy old. people wltoao doerepi' tilde metros thein the objeob of oonetaut Oath, But man who keeps through life the equable, unruilled disposition resulting from ohtriiy with hie neighbors, le by that fent preserved from muoli of the Wearing out preemie whioh abeono° of Oharity nausea and whiolt does most to i ft 'QII1&it 12, 1 NAT 1ITCLE SAN IS AT, ITEMS OF INTI REST ABOUT THE BUSY YANE1hili, aYelglaherlY Interest in 000 etetape--Alit. Cera of Moment nod Meth feathore*i Maisie 14ta feal4Y Ileeer4. Mr, JIurLno, the new minlater fr°In Ja- pan to the ;United thetas, ie a Yale gratin. ate, Mra, Robert Kinzie, with ono exeepticn 00 oldest oottlox of Chicago, died in Omaha, Mrs, John Jacob Astor to ambitious to excel in all oho undertakoe, and tailing is her craze, Gov, MOKinloy and ex,Speakor Beed have been invited to make camp speeches Texas. shorten life. Accidents and oontagiouo discaao excepted, the man whose mind is charitable in the largest sena° of that word will not only livelong, but will peep good health to the elm of life, Tide is especi- ally true as regards olearneas and vigor of thouof charity yns mainlyafleating n ora. We ere used to hcharaoter, It has its bearing quiteao important on intellectual faculties as well. Thin a1410 holds true as regarda the intelicotual fa(uitieo, We ought always to be learn- ing of others. Thin is the natural habit of mind in the young. 10 is 'larder as lien and women grow older. The grit of prejudice, hatred and the corroding affects of passion check the flow of oytnpathies, Those who have learned to grow old right - retain the childlike habit of learning something from everybody ao long ae they live. No matter how old the body may become, in spirit and heart they are aa young as ever, There comae, too, in soma old kpeople the mellowed ripeness of wfadom that makes them better compan- ions than they could have been when blessed in other days with that exuberance of spitita that belongs only to youth. STEAMSHIP RATES. A Cornmlesloner, Appointed to Tttke donee rimer onus. During the last session of Parliament the question of the high rates charged by the Canadian steamship oompanieo for the ear- riago of cattle to the old country was dis- cussed in the House, and it was openly tated that a combination exists among the steamship lines running from the St. Law ranee to maintain these heavy rates. Mr: Mulook, it will be remembered, introduced a bill to fix a maximum rate for the carriage of wattle, but it was held to be impoliti or Parliament to interfere, to this extent Sir Charles H. Tupper promised, however, that during the recess an official enquiry sliould be made into the allegations made on the floor of the House,and in conformity with that promise an order lo council has been passed appointing Mr.' W. L. Magee, Latin hard and live frugally in order to pay their. "afy Dearest Child, hour to raise himself to the perpendicular, " Firer, let me thank you with all my and after the herculean exertion he becomes so exhausted that he requires to spend the next hour in slumber to recruit his abetter ed terse. Iia tried to induce the authori- ties to accept a theory be bad worked out, which proved that the trouble of getting out of bed in the morning was so enfeebling Cita in his case it should be omitted from the day's arrangements and his food be sent up to hie bedside. When the workhouse master declined to aoknowtedge the correctness of this deduce Non, Edwards endeavored to carry hie pet idea into effect surreptitiously by crawling into a corner to enjoy a nap, Never once was the question wetted, W keca's Ed- wards 0" d -wards?" without receiving the response, not from the person immediately concerned, nod always correct,"Asleep, air." This prodigy, who pita all other fat boys in the shade, is only 20 and weighs about 21 stone, and his cheeks are so fat that he has not for years Been his nose. And yea come people say that tbepoor-law system is a failure. The other day, whonit wae rather hot, It special staff attempted to keep EEd wards awake, and failed, so the sleeper 8ra9 brought before the Thames magistrate charged with negleotiug hie work. He than admitted that he feltdroway atter trio good dinner with which the ratepayers kindly supplied bin, and if ho di3 over sleep himself a little he " axed parding." Mr. Dickinson said the youth was apperent- ly too well nourished, and sent him to jail for seven clays as a tonic for an overfed and overslept spurn, Mexico's Unlucky day. single atone n the greed °ranch under his heart far your most generous and welcome feet. Then we reached the porch and 1 aid. My days are numbered, and, in all said good-bye, and, without waiting or human probability, I shall not tax your even looking at him, hurried into thehouse. bounty long. Bat I am bapyy to know Inquiries soon satiefiell me that the i that I still retain your affection. The more the years roll by the more closely do you remind me of your sainted mother. "-fudge not, that ye be not judged. I have always seen the full force and singular beauty of that divine command, and hare humbly endeavored to mould my life in unison with it "Morganatic marriages, such as yours, are, in its wisdom recognized by the Greek have Zha with which Church, a communion wi always been in the closest sympathy,looking forward as I do with earnest faith to the ultimate reconciliation of Christendom. The more closely wefollew perti5od dogma the further we wander from the light, and the life, and truth, "I am, always, my dearest Daughter, "Your most devoted and atlectionate Father, "AUGU82Us VA\DELEUP.. I really feel that this delightful epistle 'Teske sufficiently for iteelf and ite writer, aodneeds no ormmentof my own. 0110 ESD. Lady Aletheia wae in the house end able to receive me. I found her, or rather was taken to her, in a little room which I can best desoribe as half boudoir, half writing room. In a very few minutes Lady Aletheia entered. Her bearing was not perhaps aggressive, but was nuquestionably chilly, and was evidently intended to produce a corresponding impression. toI said "Lady Aletheia v 0 •'I have 6 afore I went to bid on cod I laked b y and w g -by and to thankyan for yonrhoapitality.°' "Oh, indeed," she answered "You are going, Lady Craven? Well! People cone and people go. Perhaps it is beet that, leave-takings should be brief," I had risen when she came in, and shehad. not herself taken a seat, so that we were both standing. "It is perhaps beet they should be brief," I replied, "especially when they are final as ours is likely to ho.' "I , quite agree with you, `answered Lade Aletheia, and elle turned ori her heel, and 1 heard the rustle of her skirts as she swept along the corridor. We have, so far as I know, no exact English equivalent for shaking the dust off your feet. My fly came, my boxes were put on to it t my gratuities to the servantswere duly made; and 5 very soon found myself in the train for London, divided between a novel from the bookshelf and a view from the window. Arrived at the Langham, I telegraphed to Ethel. "I shall start for Paris by the 9.40 train tomorrow morning. Meet me, as I am tired." And this missive despatched, Iproved its sincerity by falling asleep in a chair until the chambermaid reused ane between eleven and waive o'olook, and took my final orders for early departure. All things have an end -even the journey In one reepeat, and la ono only, I had to Paris. Before starting, I went Into a the advantage of him. 1 knew the very chemist's shop and asked for a sleeping worst whioh ho could certainly know, nosh- draught, and by way of lotting tiro man ing beyond 'What he might have picked up see shot 1 knew what 1 was about, I told and added to by conjecture. I, in other him that 1 was sutl'ering from insomnia. words, have batteries in reserve; but ns Ho wae ("stout, good-natured man with an against this must be put the feat that I impenetrably stolid countenance. He was now an old stre,tegist, and that it le the asked pormisoion to feel my pulse, and old strategistowho are always beaten,forthe then inquired whether I had 8080' tasted' very pimple roonon that they follow stere- rum. 1'repiied. truthfully that I was only. °typed rules of the genie, and are dense- familiar with ib by the smell. (meetly unequal to a sudden emergency. "Then, madam," said he, "try a little The meeting wae a little awkward, Of internally, and as hot as you can take it, course there was misohiof in the air, and 5 It is a powerful ooporitio, and will send could not possibly tell what cards he might yotrto Bleep at once. And as the at °ma be holding in hie hand.. But I ;mold lingers iu the breath, yeti hod bettor let me see that 6 his manner was embarrassed put you up some musk lozenges and uneasy. Therefore 1 oonjeatured 1 burst out laughing. What an exoeile/it Making a Rough Guess. The policeman had arrested avery digni- fied Bort of man for not being able to walk. steadily along the atreee when there were no earthquatkee disturbing the earth's sur- face. Like sumo men in that oondition he retained his faculty ofapeeeh. "SR," he said pompously, "le there any- thing in my language to warrant you in ar- resting me?' `No," said the policeman briefly, "Nor in my general appoaranee :'" "No." "Wall, lir, is there anything in me as a gentleman to warrant this arrest?" "There is." "Be kind enongli to state it, rloaae,'and the gentleman braced against tho wall and etuek his sheet out like a turkey gob. bier. I should say," replied the officer rare. fully, "that it was about six or eight large drinks of liquor." Evil. Thomas Osborn and Marano Murphy gitarrled over hogs at Polkville, Icy, The men are dead. A child maned Eugene Dickson, at St, Louse, swallowed a fly on Tuesday and died therefrom, Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, died ab Los Angeles. Ile was 64 pare old. It is said that a nugget of gold worth ,$15 was picked up the other dilly in the diggings at Byron, Me, The daughter of a respectable citizen of Nebraska elopedwith a quarter -breed lid- iaa and married; him. A 'typewriting firm in New York sage that qn an average thirty plays a week aro sent to their office to be copied. Cholera Victims Cremated by In- eelsdiarieS. Sixty houses in the city of 131eseki,inthe district of Kalish, Russian Poland,. where tho cholera is making fearful ravages, were set on lire the other night' and completely destroyed: A number of the instates of. these houses, who were auiforing from the d' d wee tco weak to make coy The Knights of Pythias will erect 0monu- ment in Utica to tho memory of Justine II, Rathbone, the founder of the order. Governor-General of Cuba has been order. ed by the Spanish authorities to restore the import duties on American products, Though General Longstreet has grown somewhat feeble during the last few months he le still working hard on hie memoirs. A horse -oar in New York was held up on Thursday night by gang of roughs and some of the passengers were robbed. A horse -oar in New York was held up on Thursday night by a gang of roughs, and some of the psanengers were robbed.- A proposed scheme is now being advocat- ed on the American side to run an electric road along the bottom of Niagara gorge. Mrs. Lucy Carnegie, the sieter•io-law of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, is a skilled yaohte- woman and a member of the New York club. A jury at Oquawka, I11.,, awarded Mary A. Henderson 510,000 damages in her suit against J, Schenck for defamation of char- eater. haranter. It is asserted that all of the 81,200,004 royalty on Moody and Sankey's Gospel Hymns has been devoted to charitable purposes. chief clerk in the 'Marine Department, a commissioner to take evidence on this flub. 1ect under oath. Mr. Magee has been 25 years in the Government service and is re- garded as a very efficient officer. He has had considerable to do in conjunction with the officers of the Department of Justine in framing most of the shipping iegielation of the past low years. In reference to the forthcoming any uiry Mr. Magee will invite the authorities of the Dominion Live Stock 4000Ciatio11, the steamship owners and others interested in the cattle trade to agree on a certain day when they can attend at Ottawa to give evidence. In the event of the interested parties failing to agree on 0 day, Mr. Magee will himself seleot one. The evidence token will be submitted to Parlia- ment next session, together with a report on the subject. The Seven Wonders of Corea Corea, like the world of the ancients, has its "seven wonders." Briefly stated, they are as follows: -First, a hot mineral spring near Kin -Shantou.; the healing pro. perties of whioh are believed by the people to be miraculous. No matter what disease may aflliot the patient, a dip in the water proves efficacious. The second wonder fs two springs, situated at a considerable dist Race from each other; in fact, they have the breadth of the en. ire peninsula between t em. They have two peculiarities -when one is full the other la always empty; and, notwtstnudia g the foot that theye are connected by o subterranean passage, one is bitter and the other pure and sweet. The third wonder is a cold wave cave -0 cavern from which a wintry wind perpetually blows. The force of the wind from the cavo is meth theta strong man cannot stand before it. A forest that cannot be eradicated is the fourth wonder. No matter what injury is dote to the roots of the trees, which are large pines, they will eprontup again directly, like the phoenix from her ashes. The fifth is the most wou- derful of all,. 10 is the famous "floating stone."- It stands,' or seams to stand, in front of the palace erected in its honor. It is an irregular cube of great bulk. It appears to be resting on the ground, free from supporta on all sides; but, strange to say, two men at opposite ends of a rope may pass it underthe stone without en- countering any obstacle whatever. The sixth wonder is the "hot stone," whioh, from remote ages, has lain glowing with heat on the top of a large hill. The seventh and 'net Colman wonder is a drop of the sweat of Buddha. For thirty paces around the temple in whioh it is enshrined not a blade of grass will grow. There aro no trees or Ilowera inside the sacred square. Even the animals declino to profane a spot so holy, Harassed City Folks. Tuesday is the unlucky day in Moxioo If you were born on Tuesday never admit it. You probably have been a disaster all your life, but people will firmly. believe that you are an uuluoky dog and have the evil eye into the bargain if they find that a Tuesday was honored with your birth. S know a man who atarted on a Tuesday with money to pay off the hands in a fan. tory near the oily and went instead to Acapulco, where he took the Panama steamer. The board of direetore of the menufneturing company passed areaohatioo affirming their undying faith in: his hones. ty and ,,ttributod his error to having started for the mill on Townley. ley. United States Senator Eliggiao fn an nil• dress on Friday ao ,Lho4ilem eburg, N. Y , fair on the relations of Canada and the United Stator, said that the Canadian farmer ' is underbidding the Amerioail farmer,' the Uritieh Columbian poaobero are 5nb15110g alp the Seale, the Canadian Pacific) iskaukropting the Amorirati lines, and there in no knowing but that some fine ;Horning Canada, hacked by British bayou. (fort t alt e silent to save themselves, were burned to eta, will sorry war and dovaetation through death, the United States. A Bostonianbas electric lan,pa concealed about his windows so as to produce a Simi• lar affect to sunlight shining through the panes. A bill making 2 cents a mile the maximum rate will be urged at the coming session of the Indiana legislature by Indianapolis merchants. Editor Whitelaw Reid is still a victim of asthma and he will presently sail for Egypt in order to ovoid the rigors of an. American winter. Colonel Casey is called the corn king of Henry ,County, Kentucky, He owns 1,560 acres in corn, and has been figuring on 62,400 bushels. Rev. Benjamin Smith, who has been a member of the north Indiana Methodist confarcnee for over forty years, died at Muncie. lira Jefereon Davis lives in the north, it is said, because she. has been .literally driven from her home in Mieeisaippi by visitors and eightseere. Business men of New York City, who gmploy 20,000 boys, have determined to sive the preference to boys . who do not make cigarettes.: At Ceder Repids, Iowa, Judge Shires decided contracts, exempting railroad corporations from liability for fires, are not against public policy. Mabel H. Barrows and other educated' young women will open it "college Battle- ment" in one of the most repulsive slum sections of Boston. Professor Morris, at tbo :head of the chemical department of Cornell University, commenced work as a 'fireman on the New York Central Railroad. Mrs. Brick, a widow, has purchased a a plantation of 1,126 aures near Enfield, N C where she will cause to be opened au industrial school for negro youths. By a large majority the New York conatltutional convention atruek out the limitation of the amountt which :rev be recovered in case of death by accident. A. reward of $2,000 has been °foxed for the finding, , dead or alive, of Dr. W. A. Conklin, who is 'missing from Caseopolis, Mich. Itis believed- he was killed to pre- vent hia testimony against a fellow prac- timner, Ex -Senator Ingalls dropped this epigram in a recent Kansas apeeoht-"It would be better for the country if women entered polities, but not so good for the women." The manager of one of tho big racing memo, organized to exploit the virtues of a partioular wheel, says that it costa' about 83,000 to establish a new mile record. William and John McKinley elatnt to have boon defrauded in the forming of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, and have brought suit for 8800,000 damagos. Au old beaver trap, which, it is tamper'. ed, appos- od, was used by the Hudson Bay Company over fifty years ago, was found in the bad of the Yotlowhawtr Creek, Washington, recently, John D. Rockefeller is said to have given his daughtere to understand tbat they are not to bo great heiresses. The bulk of his property will go to a number of public in. stitutions. War between the cattle and sheep men has again broken out in Colorado. Three thousmtd sheep were driven over a oiii near Brand Juuotten and a harder Was fatally injured. At the Firemen's Convention, held on Thursday at Harrisburg, l'a,, a aeries of re,olutions were adopted denouncing the notion of the members who atruek through sympathy with the Pullman strikers. 'United States Senator Higpiao, in an ad. these on Friday at the Ogdensburg, N. Y., fair oft Do relations of Canada and the. United States, said that the Comedian farmer is underbidding the American far- mer, the British Columbian poachers are gobbling up the scale, the Canadian Pacific 10 bankrupting the Amerleen lines,and there le no knowing but that some fine morning Canada, backed by British bay- onets, will carry war and devastation trough the tJuitod States, Farmer Way book -"I'rn glad Pen not in butinose in the city. I've had 'bout twee y summer boarders thin miasom, and every one ofant had to rush bank th enextmani- ere for fear stocks would fall or eorothibg_ Not one of 'om came back, either. Geese they must be in the poor -house by this time, By the way, do you know where T kin git a man 1' Neighbor -"What amt o' work 1 Farmer WaY bath--' Lmt't' much of a job. I want.a mat to help ma.mve othe pigpen out a little, so as to mal ro room for a side porch off the parlor," In the Market. New clerk -"What shall I wrap those ohiolten wimp in . Boss -.1'xly paper, of course,"