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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-6-28, Page 7t3LiiNE 28, 18O ,1-••. B U SS 1•M NQT149 AND COMM P1NTS, The preepeot of a repnblie in the Inland Of Formoea is neither probable nor practical ble, That /eland will in due muse oome ender the dominion of the Emperer of .Japan, arid, thrown open to the world, Will at a no distant future become one of the meet populeus ae well ee one of the wealthieet islands in the world. Ite ollmate ie eemi•trophieal and Ste eon le ao fertile that it bac been Balled the granary of China. Few names have been eo happily be- stowed on any lend. as that given to this island by the early Speuieh and Porta, gueee navigators, kr it is majestic in its beauty, It ie 237 miles in length, with an average breadth of 70 miles. The eastern part of the island,is abrupt and mountain, ors, covered with forests ot camphor trees and on the west this splendid range of heights sinks into a rich plain, well watered and marvelously fertile, which the Chinese colonists have made into a garden. The whole island is rich in resources, and, besides camphor, produces goal, eulphur, petroleum, iron, gold and silver, but eel. phur and camphor are the chief natural productions. The soil yields great harveete of rice and wheat, sugar and tobacco, while the tea is superior to that of Japan. Indeed, Formosa has been to China what Cuba has been to Spain,one of the imme• diate jewels in its Drown. Naturally, however, it belongs to Japan, being the last and most sotitherly of that bulwark of islands : that stretches along the Asiatic eoastef which the Japanese group ie the must extensive. It protects Janan'a right flank, and under the dominion of that pro. greseive empire will attain a degree of prosperity at which the world will wonder. Formosa has always possessed a peouliarly romantic interest for English•epeaking people since the famous imposture of George Pealmanazor, at the beginning of the last century. That remarkable person, then a youth of 19, arrived in London in 1704, alleging that he wan a native of the Island of Formosa, a cannibal converted to Christianity, and he gave a hietory of him people self, of the island and otP Ple there that was se weird and as wild as any ro- mance that was ever conceived by the imagination of mac. The bishop of London believed hie tale, took him under bis pro- tection nt him to Oxor d. Be wrote t a book descriptive of the island and the customs of the people, whioh it is needless to say, had no foundation other than what he could glean` from books or could imagine, but it made a fascinating story and was for a time widely believed. Even after exposure many people still had faith in him. Helived in London for more thanhalf a (century .afterwards and so conducted himself as to win the respect and friendship of a wide circle of friends, among them Dr. Johnson, He was a Frenchman by birth and had never seen Formosa, nor indeed been out of France. This le but a memory connected witht his island of beauty, soon to be known by all the world, and which will afford an actual field of adventure and achievement at strange, and marvelous as that which Psatmanazer dreamed. AN ODD. FOSTER FATHER. Kansan City Spaniel Adonis a Brood or Motherless Chicks. "Bob" Brea in a very ormfortable way out in Kansas City. He is a water epanio and one of the fattest doge in town—and he is not euph a heavy eater. He is simply sogood natured that he gets faton nothing but a good ooneoienoe and an even temper, At"Bob's"home are many ohicltene,and they all look np to "Bob" as their foster father. A queer friend for a chicken is a big,lat water apanieLbut the chickens don't caro what or who he is, he is just "Bob" to them. There is a brood of motherless chicks who are seldom away from him if they can help it. When he lies down they climb upon ' Y•. LYv2�, 'D a OLD "nen" e'en HIS :.0101111009. ' his bank, whioh is eo broad ae to resemble the big, fiat pad on the bank of a circus horse. They crawl upon his bead and peck at hie earn. He does not shake them ole, and they hang on tight when he walks slowly around the yard in his lazy way. When he lies down they nestle in near hie pawl, and he will remain motionless there for a half hour at a time. The motheriese brood are getting to he big fellows now,but they have not deserted him, although a brood of younger thickens have come up to climb his back and peek at hie tongue and the end of his nose. It Is astonishing to see the care and gentleneed of the old fellow when the chickens are near him. Mr. Gladetonereceivedan ovation an his visit to Hamburg, Ho was feted and ban., quoted by the. Senate and merchants of the City, TEE NEWS IN A NUMMI THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL QM THE WORLD, Interreltngetenoa About Our Own Country, (treat Britain, Cite United States and All Parte Or the Chiba, Condensed and Assorted bur EASY Mending. CANADA. Treasurer Steele of Wentworth, heti been asked to reeigo. The Montreal Street Railway earned nearly 84,000 on Sunday. The proposed grant to Lady Thompson has been voted by Parliameut, Belleville 'merchants have granted a Friday half.holiday to their employees. Mr, W. E. Parker's jewellery store in Hamilton wee robbed of $400 worth of geode, The.Windeor salmon canneryen the Sheens River, Brltieh Columbia, Was burned. Hay is scarce in Toronto, and timothy sold on Saturday at $16, an advance for the week of $4 to $6. The steamers Edna Brydges and Algoma oollided near Rat Portage. The Algoma was badly damaged. Seventy horses and eattle were killed near Qu'Appelle by a 48.hours' visitation of peouliar grey dies. Two members of the Lediee' Orange Ben. evolent Association were fined $20 each at Hamilton for violating the insurance sat. Mr. Craig, the horticulturist at the Ex. perimental farm, thinka that Canadian tomatoes could be placed with profit on the London market. The Mackenzie tower on Parliament 13111 was struck by lightning and several of the Public Works employees received severe shocks. The Montreal Street Railway Co. will run a night eervioe of refrigerator oars between the cattle markete, the abattoirs and the meat markets. Ile. Hiram Walker, the big distiller, who is 78 years old, has retired from the business, which wi11 henceforth be man. aged by his three eons. The crew of the American tug Warren and glows were fined $50 eaoh for dumping garbage in the Niagara River. The Ottawa authorities have Imposed' a fine of $4,500 on the vessels. Pricee of hardware in Canada are gen- erally advancing, Wire nails, horse nails, and shot have advanced, and prices of oiledor annealed wire and iron e have been withdrawn. About sixty of the asphalt pavement employee in Hamilton, Ont., struck for higher wages on Friday. They are making 81.50 a day at present, and they ask for twenty ave cents a day more. The Champlain monument coat 40,00 0 It will be erected on a Bite granted by bhe Government of Quebec in Quebec City. Lieutenant -Governor Chapleau is a sub- scriber to the amount of $2,000. The Dominion Department of the Interi. or has been advised of the arrival of nine familieeof German immigrantein Winnipeg, numbering thirty-four souls, and bringing with them about twenty thousand dollars. The British exports to Canada increased four per cent. in .May, and decreased seven per cent. for the five months. The imports into Great Britain from Canada inoreased seven and eight per eeue. in the mine periods. Co-operative dairying is making great progress in Prince Edward Island. When the Cornwall factory opened on June 15, 1893, leas than 700 pounds of milk were delivered, but on June 3, 1895,the delivery was 9,327 pounds. A mulatto named William Sones, of St, Catharines, was picked up on the bank of the Niagara River, having apparently fallen over the precipice probably the day before he was found. He was delirious and badly injured. Thomas Gray and his wife Bessie Gray were arrested late on Friday night on a farm in Marion county, Florida, charged with the murder of David Soollie, of, Otunebee, near Peterborough, on February 22nd, 1894. The arrest was made on u despatch sent by the Attorney -General's department. Edward Farr, who is charged with at- tempting to burn his wife and children in Winnipeg on the night of April' Lath lad, and who escapedfrom gaol on April 15th, has been arrested in Vancouver, and will betaken to Winnipeg. He was en route to the Sandwich Ielende when he was captured. Solomon Perrigo,whose stories about the abduction of his stepdaughter caused a sensation in Woodetock, Ont., a short time ago,' was tried on Thursday on a charge of indecent aesault, preferred by her. He was found guilty, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, and to receive thirty-five laches. In the Dominion House of Commons Mr. Ouimet stated that there were three state funerals given to Canadians. Sir George E. Cartier's coat ten thousand dollars. Sir John iN acdonald's coat six thousand dollars, and it was expected that the 0X50080 10 connection with Sir John Thompaon's funeral would not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, GREAT BRITAIN. Mar Lodge, the Highland residence of the Duke of Fife, was burned, e The Countess of Essex, nee Adele Grant, of New York, has given birth to a daughter, Lady Wilde is seed to be dying of a broken heart, and her friends in London predict she will never see her son again. The paesengere of the little British vessel Why Not,wi.trh was on fire aid abandoned at Boa by her orew, have arriv ed in Jersey Lord Roaebery hue announced his desire to resign the Premiership, and added that the day was net Inc remote when he would do so. Two unknown teen succeeded on Monday in mutilating a portrait cf Mr. Gladstone on exhibition' in London, and escaping without arrest. A telephouelino from London to Edin- burgh, Glasgow, Dublin, and. Belfast was opened last week with muck ceremony. Postmaster -General Morley spoke the first Menage over the new line. Prince Edward of Pork has made his Bret public appearance in London. Hawes driven through St. James' park in an open' cerriage, propped ep by his deo .name, and was cheered as ha went by. The rumor has been revived that the Duke and Duelled; of York will be 'the guests of Mme. Adelina Patti at Cralg-y• Noe early this summer and it fe stated that preparations are al\'eady being made for the royal visit, It ie learned in London on the be stem,• thority that no tuooenoor hat been appoint. ed to Major-General Herbert as eommender Of the Canadian militia force. It le expect, old that he will retain the position et boast until the expiry of hie term in November Host, Sir Edward Grey, in the Imperial Renee of (lommone said that the Government had been fully poseesged of the views of the Comedian tfoverninent with regard to the Behring Sea, and in the bill before the Bonne the Imperfel Gavernment had tried to meet these views in eubstenoe, The result of the polling fast Thursday for it member of Parliament to represent Inverness-shire in succession to Dr. Donald MacGregor, Liberal,was the election of Mr, Baillie of Douohfour, the llnloniet can- didate, This is,a gain of a seat to bhe Opposition in the Reuse of G'ommons. UNITED STATES, In the colored 13aptiet'ohuroh at Double Springs, Ala., on Sunday, while the Rev. Greenleaf Lee, a young man, was preaching on the torments of hell, he suddenly fell dead, The Chief of Polios of Albany on Friday Inorein , for the Bret time enforced the law forbidding the flying of the flags of foreign aations on any State or municipal building. Returns show that 1,S23 railway em. ployees were killed in the United States during the last year, and 23,422 were injured, as compared with 2,727 killed and 31,729 injured in 1893.' Henry Ledtke, a farm hand employed in Hyannis, Maes., in a fit of jealousy shot dead Lizzie Coleman, fourteen years of age to whom he had been paying atten. tfous, and then committed suicide. Singe Senator Stanford's death not one dollar has oome from his estate to the ani. versity he founded. To keep it running. Mre. Stanford has given on an average of 31,000 a day, half her private means. A letter has been received in Boston from a reliable American citizen residing in Turkey, giving in detail some of the horrid cruelties inflicted by Kurds and Turkish officials on the unfortunate Armen• ians in prison. Henry Langley's harness shop, a four- story building, in Fall River, Mass., in whioh there were above forty employee, mostly women, was wrecked ou Friday by elm explosion of the boiler in the cellar. Four persons were killed and two fatally injured. There was a sharp break in the Chicago wheat markets on Saturday, when the prise of July option dropped from 77 1.2 to 74 3-4, and closed near the bottom. The decline was on contihued liquidation, weakcabes land largerP chi menta from Argentina. Capt, Dunn and nine men of the Govern- ment steamer Petrel on Friday captured the tug H. J. Warren and two mnd snows, the property of the Buffalo Dredging Com. pany from Buffalo, dumping dredgings tn. Camadias waters 1nthe Niagara river in to front of Fortcaptain Erie: The to and four men of the tug were arreetad, and were locked up in Fort Erie. GENERAL Russia is massing troope on her Armenian frontier. King ,Alphonso of Spain and his sister have the measles. The commercial treaty between Russia and, Japan has been signed. Thunderstorms and lightning continue in different parrs of Austria and Hungary with fatal effects. The Car has conferred the Grand Collar of the Order of St. Andrew upon President Faure of France. In the Town of Mereny, Hungary, three hundred honed were burned and several persons were killed. One hundred and twelve pereoue lost their lives in the floods in the Wurtemberg die riot of Germany. Tile statue of Martin Luther, whioh has been a long time in course of conatruotion, was unveiled in. Berlin. The Italien Government will arm its native allies in Erythrea fa expectation that a war with Abyssinia is inevitable. The sweeping reductions merle in salaries is Newfoundland in the new budget have caused the resignation of several officials. The New South Wales Assembly has passed the Customs bill whish abolishes the duties imposed in 1891, and virtually establishes free trade. It is reported that the blackflage aro threatening to cause serious trouble in the Island of Eeriness, and that the foreigners are in a critical position. It is reported in Constantinople that Said Pasha will appoint a commission, including Armenians, to formulate a scheme of reform of the Turkish administration, An explosion of firedamp occurred in a mining pit near•Antonlenhutte, Prussian Silesia, while five hundred men were at work in the mine. Only 40 were rescue d The Spanish War Office announces that the reinforcement ot ten battalions of infantry and other troops intended for the None of Cuba will leave Spain next Monday. It is reported that H, el. S. Mohawk was fired on by a Spanish veseel near the coast of Cuba, The Mohawk followed the Spaniard into port, where a full apology ,was tendered. The Parisians are so vaatly pleased with Paul Dubois' equestrian statue of Joan of Aro that they have started to take np a subscription with which to purchase the artist a memorial ae a testimony of their admiration. The bark Carrie E. Long was struek by lightning off' the Bahamas. The vessel was loaded with petroleum and other in. flammable material, and buret into flames. The drew had a terrible experience in the ehark•infested waters. A special deepatoh from Shanghai says that a remnant of the famous black flags is entrenched atChung-Wa,island of Formosa, and are expected to make a determined eland against the Japanese, who are taking possession of the island. The royal assent has been given to the ;till adopted by the Spanish Senate au. tnorizing the Government to raise, in case of heed, a loan of six hundred mfllioa pesetas, about one hundred and twenty million dollar's, on account of Cuba. The Autorite, of Paris, in demanding the publication of the text of the treaty between France and Ruseio,seye the French' Government dose not dare re publish it beoauso its first clause. binds France to accept the European situation, meanie aequiesoonoe in the lose of.Allied and Lorraine, The Director of Oedema tenorte that during the first five months of the present year French imports decreased two llu. dred and forty million francs as compared with the oorroeponding period of the vioas year, while on the .other hand esparto inereeeed one hnndrod iniWon franc during the same period, Greet regret le felt in Rome et the death of a (+canal;—Baron Heffner —who has dome mere foe the airy in recent yearn than Orient . any native. Ho was formerly Prnasiaa Gemini in Parte, end a grand seigneur in the true Donee of the worde. Re presented the square in Piazze Cairoli to the city, and gave moob of hie wealth to beautify Rome. RESERVE F0RCE OF BRITAIN. The Vast Pecuniary Resources or the Em vireo. fate Were Driven 1,110 War For the information of eranky .tail- twisters it may be useful to ahow oome of the reoouroea of that Empire open which the nun never seta, Unreflecting people are apt to forget that Great Entitle, with less' Shan one-half its present population, and With India then a drag—and not ae now a reeerve-overcame Napoleon, then in his ride of place. He disposed of, and still• uliy administered, the resources of France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and part of Germany; but ou the English aide, although there was bull -dog tenacity, gov ernmental and administrative skill . were lacking, The childish and mischievous conduct of the State of Nicaragua in outraging British subjects, and refusing reparation until forcibly compelled to do so, has given an opportunity for the minority of tail - twisting crania acrosrthe line— who are the laughing -stock of sensible;Amerioans— to make a public exhibition of themeeves. The New York Nation, their leading literary -political journal, ridicules such men. It justly observes that " nations do not arbitrate insults." Common sense teaches that if A strikes and robs B that is no fit aubjeot for arbitration, but one to be decided by superior force, namely, THE ARM OF JUSTICE. The Nation sarcastically observes that the disouesione upon the aetatr in and out of Congress "have been worthy of the lunatic asylum." In a reedit issge attention was drawn to the fact that, including British India—but excluding all the colonies—England wields the resources of 259,000,000 of subjects, or fifteen times as many as when' she faced Napoleon. Her position therefore be vastly stronger, both actually and relatively, to what it was in the early part of the cen- tury. The London Economist has roc tar nd y Y to le'knownfact ahow• drawn attention slut ing the vast pecuniary resources at the am. mediate command of Great Britain if she was driven into war. Nowadays ware are swift in their course, and therefore- those' nations that have large means, immediate. uta a Th haver adv a 1 available, a eat a YB B• Economist explains what will be a surprise h a practical the England has t o almost all that d reserve of £200,000,000 immediately avail- able, which, owing to the enormoue utiliz- able warlike resources of India, and to her vast mercantile marine, would suffice to equip and place 400,000 men in the field in any part of the world, THIS PECUNIARY RESOURCE arises thus: There a fixed sum of £25,• 000,000 anually allotted in the budget topay the interest of the national debt, and also to reduce the amount The interest is lees than 4,19,000,0,00, so that every year there remains a balance of over 46,000,000 sterling towards diminishing the debt. During the last two years it has been re- duced -by 412,718,000, which is at the rote of £6,359,000 per annum. The economist oxplaine that of a great war loan was fleece - eery the latter sum would pay the interest spun a loan of £200,000,000 Without %the slightest increase of taxation. This would enable the Empire to promptly exert its full strength. - The circulation of auch a vast sum would make hundreds of thous- ands busy; and thus, by preventing discon- tent, would indirectly add to the national effeetiveoese. So Inc as can be seen there is now no fear of a great war, but the more the vast respurcee of Grew; Britain are realized the greater is the se,;urtty for con- tinued peace. What ad ditinnally increases its likelihood is the fact tees the Liberal leader and Foreign Secretary are both masculine -minded statesmen. Patriotic men of all parties felt it as a relief when Lord leosebery became Foreign Minister. Mr. Gladstone 'e retirement has increased the likelihood of permanent peace, • Taek Pullers. One of the simplest and best of tack pullers is made of an old file three-quarters of an inch wide, the end slightly flattened, and turned np, and a V-ahaped opening made in it as shown herewith. Where the tanks are driven down firmly the plan in b ie beet, as then a hammer can be used •o drive the claws under the head of the tack. For common use the one provided with a handle as in a will prove very convenient and easier on the hands, the long leverage allowing shingle nails to be readily loosened.' Italians Fight With Knives. A despatch from Hoaooye Falls, N. F., s There was n stabbing affray on Thursday ab a chanty ocaupiocl by about forty Italian labourers, in whioh one man was fatally wounded and nnothet badly ant, Tu a brothers, Dontoni Floc and Sell Elm, had an old grudge ageinet Pentons Iacono and Barrono Studien. The Flor brothers were using a stove whioh the other two claimed as theirs, and in the quarrel over the matter all the men drew knifes and began slashing cue another, Income was stabbed three times i 0nee in the head, nein in the chest near the right lung, and again in the abdomen. He will probably die. Bruanon was also cut about the head and on the hands. Neither of elle Flar brothers wag badly injured. 411 tho parties have been arrested, and are held to await tike result of Iaoorno's wouuds. Ile Indulged. Mre, Ilrown—liave you a n ind alga husband 1 Mre. Green—Oh, yes, indeed—ho cones PCs` home intoxicated nearly every night, THE EAR CANAL, No $pedal oerentontes et the opening,. boearleWWu er the Work•-Dinreuglone of the UanuJ, A deepatoh item Sault Ste, Marie, says --It wee expected that a large delegation of Mis,iaters e.pd members of Parliament would be here on Thursday to join in vele. breting the opening of the new Canadian canal, but as members on both aides of the House were oppooed to breaking 14 an the time of Parliament whin so many were anxieue to get home,the idea: was abandon. ed,and the proceedings were merely informa al in oharaeter. The oontrects for the canal and looks wale let in November, 1888, and those for the entraooe works in January, 1880. Water was first admitted to the looks September 26,1894, The total length of the canal across St. Mary's Island is 4,000 feet, or from eaatern to weetere extremities of the piers about 0,000 feet, With the approaches, the' total dietaneo le about three and a half miles, The look ohainbor be 900 feet long, 60 feet wide, with depth, of water sufficient to pass vessels of twenty feet draught, et the lowest recorded stage of water below the lock. The look fills in nine minutes, and can be emptied in seven and a half minutes, The canal proper has a surface width et low water level of 159 feet and a bottom width of 145 feet, At e. point about 1,$00 feet above the lock it fa crossed by a awing -bridge, over whioh the railway systema of Canada and the United St ates find accommodation, The works, altogether, coat about $4,000,OpO. An Excusable Tip. Bilking—Seems to me the custom of tip• ping ie spreading everywhere. 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