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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-10-18, Page 2t STORIES OF ADVENTURI The French rench dialer Iller in theta dayss ll a d wth aor A t;bigbhet xene d r ou n du M*Welled a l M ilat eile c re ' 1 seen too mach fobeever takenurle peek. Jhau same shriekfrombule, life eye)) sh d hardlyrotted upon mybMuud ga te ' wep n, aadth emen out waving oto hsntIa r B urp Pnd the sinister face Iodide before hands.. Ab., haw rna (tead. taunt oda ould g • at the sight of th m, Aith nd ye I he had teen how the matter lay. f'Saered name of a dog 1" he growled. and out flashed hie great sabre. Olieniieb' sprang forward ab him with tie knife, and then, thinking better of it, be darted book and stabbed frantically at my heart, For ray own part, I had hurled myself off the hod on the aide opposite to him, and the blade grazed my aide before ripping its way 6 through blanket and sheet. An instant later I heard the thud of a heavy fall, and then almost simultaneopsly a mood object struck the fiaor—something lighter but herder, width rolled under tate bed. I will not horrify you with details, my friends. Suffice it that Papilette was one of the strongest ewordsneenin the regiment, mod net advance an iaah to meet them, se that all the eagerness might seem to be upon their aide, I allowed my trampeter, how- ever, to wave a handkerchief in reply, upon Width the three envoy° Dame running to. wards lie. The IKlarehal, still pinioned,and with the rope round hie nook, eat tie horde with a half smile, us one who is alightly bored and yob strives out of courtesy not to allow it. 11 I were in such a situation I could not wish to carry myself better, and surely I can say no more than that. They were a singular trio, theee ambos, aadore, The one Wee a Portuguese oaaadore in hie dark uniform, the eeoond a French claimer in the lightest green, and the third a big English artilleryman in blue and gold, They saluted, all three,and the Frenahmandid the talking.' "We have thirtyseven English dragoone in our hands," said he. "We give you our that his sabre was heavy and sharp. It meet solemn oath that they shall all hang. left a red blotch upon my wrists and my 1 from the Abbey wall within five minutes of ub the thou a whioh bound t the death of our Marshal:" ankles, as it o g "Thirty-seven . I cried, You have one. When I had thrown off my gag, the first use whioh I made of my lips was to kiss the sergeant's sacred 'cheeks. The next woe to ask him if all was well with the command. 'Yes, they had had no alarms, Oudin bad just relieved him, and he had come to report. Bad he Been the Abbot? No, he had eeen nothing of him. Then we must form a cordon and prevent his escape. Ives hurrying out to give the orders,when I heard a Blow and measured step enter the door below, and name creaking up the stairs. Papilette understood it ail in an instant. "You are not to kill him," I whispered, and thrust him into the shadow an one side of the door ; I crouched on the. other, Up he came, up and up, and every footfall seemed to be upon my heart. The brown skirt of hie gown was not over the thres- hold before we were both on him, like two wolves on a bunk. Down we crashed, the three of ue, he fighting like a tiger, and with such amazing strength that he might have broken away from .the two of us. Thrice he got to his feet and thrice we had him over again, until Papilette mode him feel there was a point to his sabre. He had sense enough then to know that the game was np, and to lie still while I lashed him with the very cords whioh had been round any own limbo. "There has been a fresh deal, my fine fellow," said I, "and you will find that 1 have roma of the trumps in my hand this time," "Luck always comes to the aid of a fool," he answered. " Perhaps it is as well, otherwise the world would fall too coin. pletely into the power of the astute. So, you have killed Choler, I see. He was an insubordinate dog, and always emelt abom- inably of garlic. Might l trouble you to lay me upon the bed The (leer of these Portuguese taboos ie hardly a fitting couch for anyone who has prejudices in favour of cleanliness.' I could not but admire the coolness of the man, and the way in whioh be preserv- ed the same insolent air of condescension in spite of this Budden turning of the table. I dispatched Papilette to summon a guard, whilst I stood over our prisoner with my drawn sword, never taking my eyes off him for an instant, for I must confess that. I had conceived a great respect for hie audacity and resource. "I trust," said he, " that your men will treat me in a becoming manner." " You will get your deserts—yon may depend upon that." I ask nothing more. You may not be aware of my exalted birth, but 1 am Bo placed that I cannot name my father with- out treaeofi, nor my mother without a scan. dal. I cannot claim Royal honoure,but these things are eo much more graceful when they are conceded without a claim, The thongs are cutting my akin. Might I beg you to loosen them ?' "You do not give me credit for much intelligence," I remarked, repeating hie own words. "-Touche," he oried, like a pinked fenc- er. "But here come your men, so it matters little whether you loosen them or nob." I ordered the gown to be stripped from him and placed him under a strong guard. Then, as morning was already breaking, I iiad to consider what my next step was to be. The poor Bart,and his Englishmen had fallen victims to the deep scheme which might, had we adopted all the crafty suggestions of our adviser, have ended in the capture of the whole instead of the half of our force. I must extricate them if it were still possible. Then there was the old lady, the Countess of La Ronda, to be thought of. As to the Abbey, since its garrison was on the alert it was hopeless to think of capturing that. All turned now upon the value whioh they planed upon their leader. The game depended upon my playing that one pard. I will tell you how boldly and how skilfully I played it. It was hardly light before my bugler blew the assembly, and out we trotted on to the plain. My prisoner was placed on horseback in the very centre of the troops. , It chanced that there was a large tree just. out of mueket-shot from the main gate of the Abbey, and under this we halted. Fiad they opened the great doors in order to attack ue,'I should have charged home upon them ; but, as 1 had expected, they stood upon the defensive, lining the long wall and pouring down a torrent of hoot- inge and taunts and derisive laughter upon as. A few fired their musket, but finding that we were out of reach they soon ceased to waste their powder. It was the strang- est eight to see that mixture of uniforms, French, English, and Portugueee,cavalry, infantry and artillery, all wagging their beads and shaking their fists at u9, My word, their hubbub soon died away when we opened our ranks, and showed whom we bad got in midst of ut 1 There Woe silence fora few seconds, and then =oh a howl of rage and grief 1 1 could see some of them dancing like madmen upon, the wall. He must have been a singular person, this prisoner of ours, to have gained the affection of such a gang. I had brought a repo from the inn, and we slung it over the lowerbough of . the tree. "You willp ermit me, monbfeur,to undo year collar," said Papilette, with mock po"toneoo, hands are perfectly steam° If your p Y , anawerocl our prisoner, and Set the whole half -squadron laughing. Theta waennother yell from the Wall, followed by a profound hush aa the noose' fifty.one." • "Fourteen were out down before they oould be secured." "And the officer?" "He would not surrender hie sword save with his life. It was not our fault. We would have saved him if we could." Alas for my poor Bart. 1 I had met him but twieeand yet he was a man very much after my heart. I have always had a regard for the English for the Bake of that one friend. A braver man and a worse swords- man I have never met. 1 did not, ae you may think, take these rascals! word for anything. Paplletto was dispatched with one of them, and returned to ray that it was too true. 1 had now to think ofthe living. "You will release the thirty.sevon dre. goons if I free your leader ?" "We will give you ten of them." "Up with him !" I oried. "Twenty," shouted the ahaaaeur, "No more words," acid I. "Pull on the rope 1" "All of them," cried the envoy, ae the cord tightened round the Marshal's neck. "With horses and arms ?" They could see that I was not a man to jest with. "All complete," said the chaeseur, sulk- ily. ulk- il "And the Cheaters of La Ronda ae well?" said I. But here I met with firmer opposition. No threats of mine could induce them to give up the Countess. We tightened the cord. We moved the horse. We did all but leave the Marshal aurpended. If once I broke his neck the dragoons were dead men. It was as precious to me as to them. "Allow me to remark,"said the Marshal, blandly, "that you are exposing me to a risk of a guinea.. Do you not think, since there is a difference of opinion upon this point, that it would be an excellent idea to consult the lady herself ? We would neither of ue, I am sure, wish to override her own inotinattone." Nothing oould be moresatisfaatory. You on imagine bow quickly I grasped at so simple a solution. In ten minutes she was before ue, a.most stately dame, with her grey curls peeping out from under her mantilla, Her face was as yellow as though itrefleoted the countless doubloons of her treasury. "This gentleman," said the Marshal, "is exceedingly anxious to oonvey yon to a place where you will never see us, more. It is for you to decide whether you would wish to go with him, or whether you pre- fer to remain with me." She was at his horse's eidean an instant, "My own Alexia," she oried "nothing can ever part us." He looked at me with a ;sneer upon bis handsome face. "By the way, you made a email slip of the tongue, my dear Colonel," paid he. "Except by courtesy,no suoh person exists as the Dowager Countess of La Ronda. The lady whom I nave the honour to present to you is my very dear wife, Mrs. Alexia Morgan—or shall I say Madame la Mare - thole Milleflenre?" It was at this moment thatI came to the conclusion that'I was dealing with the cleverest, and also the moat uneorupuloue, man whom I had ever met. As I looked upon this unfortunate old woman my soul woe filled with wonder and disgust. As for her, her eyes were raised to his face with such a look as a young recruit might give to the Emperor. "So be it," said I, at last; "give me the dragoons and let me go." They were brought out with their horses and weapons, and the rope was taken from the Marshal's neck. "Good-bye, my dear Colonel," said he. "I am afraid that you will haverather a lame account to give of your tuioeion, when you find your way back to Maseena,though, from all I hear, he will probably be too buoy to think of you. I am' free to confess that you have extricated yourself from your difficulties with greater ability than I. bad given you credit for. I presume that there is nothing -which ,I can do for you before you go ?" "There is one thing." "And that is i" "To give fittinburial' to this young officer and hie' men." "I pledge my word, to it." "And there is ono other." "Name ib," "To give me flue minutes in the open with a sword in your bend a horoe between your legs." "Tut,tut !" said he. "I should either. have to out short your promising career,, or else to bid adieu to my own bonny bride. Ibis unreasonable to ask such a request of a man in the fad 'joyo of matrimony." I gathered my horsementogether and wheeled them into column. "Au revoir," I oried, shaking my sword at hien. , "The next time you may not escape so easily." "An revoir,"he answered. "When you are weary of the Emperor, you will always find a oommiesion waiting for you in the service of the Marshal Millefleure." TEE FORGOTTEN FORTUNES ief11UOr♦s Loa Itaoslood for he aoere Bari H I* Minna, To say that there must be et least $2,. 250,000 lying in I,00don banks whioh has 1 been forged= Or is.Owaibing claims from reletivos, fig pe exaggeration at all. If an inveetigetion oould;be mmde, it would most likely he found that Ode unolaluied sum was Poem 86,000,000 than $`i,500,000, A curious ogee was that of a wealthy merchant in Leadenhall street, whose for., getfulnces was a byword, Ten years ago he platted 8850,000 in hie back to bis private n000nnt, and immediately forgot all about it; having neglected to fill up the counter - foil fo his deposit book. A few months ago, whilo,tearing up some old papers, he tame &arose n penOiiled note bearing the words, " Bank, 550,000," and b date he was unable to decipher. He made enquiries into the matter, and found he was wealthi, er than he thought by 550,000 with inter. eat. How he overlooked the amount it ie difficult to ray. He ie still noted for the haphazard way in whioh he keeps hie private amounts, The ofd lady who forgot the oxlotenee of a legacy of 51,000 a year from her master was another instance of careleasneea. Here the old lady, a onetime housekeeper,could hardly read or write. When she received a letter from her late master's eolioitore to the effect that the legacy would be paid quarterly on application at a oity bauk,the luoky woman for a fortnight was none the wirer. Tan nth:WANT L00Ii of the seal oa the envelope, and the fine note paper, caused her to make enquiries, and a friendly neighbour,after much effort, spelt through the letter. The old lady,who was in poor oiroumetances,0ould not believe the good news, and so, without going to the bank, she decided that the letter was a hoax, son—a, ecldier-returned from India. One Five years parsed away, when her only day he accidentally came aoroee the letter, read it, and asked his mother the 'partite. tears. But her mind was a complete blank on the subjeot. However, the eon madeeoquiries, and the result was that his mother and lie found 55,000 awaiting them at the bank and the promise of 51,000 a year during the forgetful old lady's lite time. Oid mieere, who have amassed small for. tunes, have more than once destroyed their bank books and all evidence showing at they were possessed of money, and ithat n this way well-known obenefited the extent $40,000. None of tothe relatives of the old man knew of his for. tune, and soh things are never the concern of the bank. The money was kept in the depositor's name five years, when it passed into the bank's own account. No doubt, if a claimant came forward,the bank would give up the money,but they wouldprobablX fiercely fight the oaee if the evidence on the other side showed any weak loop holes. At present there is money in'differen banks in London whioh never will U claimed, for naturally,a bank ie not inulin ed to go to great trouble in finding rightfu owners if they fail to come forward o their own accord. PERSONAL POINTERS. Tti The Farm Dairy. 4 low years' oxperienoe in dairying ae a farm epeoialty bee coeVinoed inc that few 1 souraea-of Menne from the farm' yield au geziorous roterns for the investment and labor es the well•managed farm dairy, I am aware that a majority will disagree With me. Very Tony farmers aaeerb that keeping owe more than to eepply the family Heade, does not pay. I attribute this oouvictionlargely to the uneertain, slip shod manner in whioh the dairy le oon doted. Those who keep but four or five cows generally make the product up at home, and sell the . eurplue at the village stores. Those who• keep more than that number generally sell the cream to a neighboring creamery. In the first Male the farmer seldom knows evhat the surplus is. The latter receiving monthly payments knows something more on that point, but generally wiBbeo he did not, The returne hi either ease are notgenerally satisfactory. But dairying for profit requires knowledge of the Unsmese, facilities and oonditione for conducting it, and care is its manage. Tont—the simple conditions of emcees in any bueinese. The first and moot important faotor is the profit.producing herd. lhie secured, success fa easy ; without it, success ie im- poseible. It 10 a fact that many cows do TINU (TO nu 00NNn.) tents of Interest About Some of the Great Folks of the World. not, and cannot be made to pay for their keeping. Outside of localities where dairy= ing 10 extensively engaged in, very few farmers have given attention' in breeding to produce the dairy strain, and compara- tively few have adopted dairy breeds, The ideal cow with many of our best farmersie a large, well -formed One, disposed to take on flesh and looks eleek,that will raise a calf and give a good flow of milk—the "general purpose" cow. Perhaps for general purposes =oh a cow is the proper thing, bub for profit in the dairy herd she is generally a failure. Wherever dairying is followed as a specialty the general purpose cow is discarded, and the dairy breeds, in whioh the profit oow is the rule and not the exception, are adopted. Shorthorns are left for breeders of steers on the plains, and Holsteins to supply pity milk wagons and condensing factories. For the dairy, the greeteseproduction of butter fat at the least cost of food is the test qual. ity required in the oow. A herd of native cows is oarefully selected by this teat and frequently make a profitable dairy, but the result is more likely to turn out eatisfaotory if Jerseys or Guernseys are made the base of the dairy herd. The number of gowe that may be profit- ably kept on an eighty -acre farm, for in- stance, depends upon tae -extent to whioh one wishes to make the dairy business a specialty. The number was only limited to m cow to the sore where the business was crowded, but I would not deem it advisable for a beginner to start in with more than fifteen or twenty cows. This number will warrant a person in the neo. ceeeary expenditure of means in preparing stables and dairy and necessary appliances for butter making. A silo is regarded by many as one of the first neoeseitiee, and 1 have no doubt that the alio fa an economic method of prepo ring food, although I have had no experience with one. I pat a power and feed cutter' on my barn floor, and a feed mill in en adjoining building and fed' all food dry. The daily rations consisted of fine.ont stalks for bulk food, and a mixture of ground food, oorn and oats, with bran end oil meal. The result was very eatisfaotory. Pure water slight. ly warmed in winter was always on tap and regarded as a atria necessity. With the number of cows mentioned, a separator may be profitably employed and reduce the labor of the caro of the milk to a mini. mum.. '' A warm, clean, well.ventilated stable, and a commodious hoe house, a; cool, airy milk -churning room, with plenty of cold, pure water, are indispensable to the making of !fret -class butter. The care of the cows and the making and marketing of the butter are matters about which the beginner may get valuable points from a good dairy paper, but the aid of an, experienced dairyman is neoeatery to start themn,oresuocessfully. Twentyeoweshould not consume the surplus of aneightaore farm by any means, but with a good herd and the dairy properly managed, they will bring a revenue in milk products, calve°, and their contribution to the pork and poultry account of from $1200 to 51,500 a year. Such reoults are 'inviting; but the beet way` to their attainment appear to many as barred by ineurmounbbale ob- stacles. The expense an starting and lack of knowledge of the business are the greatest. These maybe largely overoome by beginning on a small dale. A herd of five, or rix good Jersey cows, bred with Dare and dieoretion, will bring you a good herd of cows by the time you have got the necessary experience and conveniences for managing them euccetefully. My earliest ebipmente of butter did nob exceed 100 pounds' a' month, so that while I was oatohing on to the way of making butter that would bring best creamery prices and how to sell it to the beet advantage, I was not risking a margin on large quanti. ties. The old theory that fat hale' will !tad lay well Will hardly held good, Stint them not in a suitable varioty,avoiding too Much porn. There are a eoere of things whioh enter into the eaeret of procuring proklt,and it will be your fault, mod not that of the Imo, if proper tediumare not forthcoming, Alafowl whlo i will' uzen e w }e Afteon N x Werth lit a season ie egneldered �� Well worth keeping, Although a Pekin dunk Will do this, moat farmers fprget that nigh a thing as a dunk oxide, They rear a great many young in a season, and there mature in eleven weeks, sure to market at a good price, A record addedmatoh was played at Thornton Heath, Eng., on August 20. One of the contending elevens was com- posed of a certain Mr. Bacon,and his ton tone. The old reotory at Grasmere, in which Wordsworth lived from 1811 to 1813 while, engaged on "The Exouraion," has been torn down. It was built in 1687. The Duke of Sutherland has added to his love for yaohting a taste. for engine. driving. He is actually having.a private train built for himself. He ie an expert engineer, and delights 111 locomotives. On the first trip of the new train the young Duchess is to be permitted to drive the engine. Admiral Count Louis Haydn, who is now 96, is the only person.livmg possessing the portraits, set in diamonds, of the three Russian Em$erore, Nioholae f., Alexander IL, and Alexander III., which are granted to high Russian offioiale on the occasion of the Czar's coronation. He. hopes by living until' next April to add to them that of a fourth Czar, Nioholae II. Henry Howe, a member' of Sir Henry Irving's company, is the oldeetactor in dies world., He is eighty.four years of age, and has been an actor since he abandoned his creed as a Quaker, fifty -rix years ago. He played at the Haymarket, London, for over forty years Queen Victoria asked for his autograph in 1892. He ie in fine health and ie very' young in spirit. Be has played with Irving for thirteen years, A singular case ie reported from Durham! England. A woman named Elizabeth Bal. pleaded guilty =the charge of manslaught• er, she having killed one of her daughters She was in the kitchen of her house with her two daughters, and told one of them to do something. The girl made an impertin- ent reply, and the mother in a rage threw a poker at her. ,The girl dodged, and it etruck her sister, with fatal results. The woman's lawyer pleaded for her discharge on the ground that the killing was sooid- ental, and that his client had not intended to hurt the dead girl. She was disoharg. Of Many Parts. MoSwilligen-Mr. Manchester is a man of parte. Squildig—Indeed ? MoSwilligen—Ves. He hae 8 cork leg, alsectoeth,an artificial eye and a wig. The Y. M. 0. A. of Cambridge, Masa,, raised 630,000 for the erection of a new building ab a banquet one evening last Week, Grass and Grain for Hops.' The hog should find a place 10 the eoonomioal re negomeet .of every farm ; given an opportolty he will, turn to good account many things that would otherwise go to waste. The nails and slop 00.n ueually be fed to the growing pig to better advan- age than to almost any other claw of stook, But to maintain good health and thrift he should not have all of the neglects heaped upon him because he ie a hog. Ho needs good treatment to snake the most of him, and the more fully this is given the better. It ie rather poor management that concludes that a hog can thrive upon almost any kind of feed, provided he has aeuffioient amount of it. Good wholesome, nutritious food 10 as essential to good growth and thrift with hogs as with any other class of stock. Of the seven to nine months needed to grow a hog for market, five,at least, can be spent to good, advantage in the pasture fields. While, perhaps, a better grain in proportion to the amount of food sufficient can be received by feeding in a closed pen, the additional risk of disease will,in nearly all oaten, overbalance this. The upper. tunity of exercise, the securing of better air, and of a variety of food, all tend to promote thrift, and these are of sufficient importance to overbalance the small amount of gain received by keeping closelyoonfin• ed. And in many oases it is of no dis- advantage to keep hoge in a pasture unci ready for market, rather than to confine. The meat will be of a better quality with a fairer proportion of fat and lean than when confined, and eopeoially when oorn the principal dependenoe for feeding. If Napoleon Had Won Waterloo. It la extremely unlikely that a victory by Napoleon ab Waterloo would bave long delayed hie downfall. The four great Powers, England, Prussia, Rueeia and Auotria, besides the four smaller stats who had joined in the poem of Paris, had pledged themeelvoe to use their utmost diode against the French. They agreed to raise a million of eoldiero, and England promised to maintain them. While Eng. land and Prussia were operating against Napoleon in Belgium, the Russians and Austriane were advancing from the east. Defeat would not have meant ruin against such commanders as Wellington and Blu. oher. They would almoot certainly have kept Napoleon busy until the masses of Austrians and Malone bad oome up, and ch the Frenwould have been overwhelmed by numbers Meanwhile England ' would have transmitted teinforcemonte, and the fine troops with whioh Wellington had conquered in the Peninsula would have been sent for from Amorioa. It must also beremembeeed that France had boon so exhausted by war that it would have boon impooeible for Napoleon to raise great armies, us lie had done in previous emu - poles, Above all, the great Frenchman now found himeeif confronted for the firot pivotal by a notal ae able as Himself. , ITEMS QV INTEREST ABOUT TIM ow YANKEE. Mel hbsrlAworm' Ill use -.I►eintte—MNr tern o1efowe and Mlfr{If aathor6A boll ma Dally Amon, An newspaper called the Empty Bottle ban now been founded in Houston, Texas, The Texas Live Steak Journal thinha the6 8 Oro 1,600,000 fewer cattle in that state than there ware nb this time two yoarO age Wm, Froderioke, a desperado, who oho and killed Cashier Horrio, of the San Fcmnoieco Savings Union Bauk, was hsoged there Friday. The bill prohibiting adulterations iu butter and thecae has been signed by the Governor of Mieoouri, and is therefore a law of that State, The late John Thome!' Talbot, an old and wealthy citizen of Cleveland, was the. owner of a pooled knife which Gen. Wadi. ington gave his father. There are two email Jewish agricultural. colonies in California, the first in Orange., Vale, opposite Folsom, and the other in. Porteroyille near Fresno, • A eohoolmarni in Maoillion, 0., who has been teaching the rising generation ever since the year 1845, was eeuently given as pension of $350 per year. Miss Coleman, of Mason, 0,, protests, against the published report that she made a sensation by wearing red bloomers in ohuroh. They were blue. C. B. Bradfeed a banker of Augusta„ Win., bas oonbraoted blood poisoning from the habit of wetting his fingers on 11ie, bene unt bbills, li sw o g P The doors of thiee Californankia 'penitentiary have olooed upon D_eaaon Oldham, the - prominent and pious Baptist whc held up. a stage and robbed a passenger of 51,000. 1 The Rev. Dr. John Hally, pastor of the Fifth avenue Presbyterian ,church, has. been bequeathed an annuity of $3,000 by the late Mrs. John H. Ford, of New York. A snake fourteen feet long has, according to report, been .stealing ducks, eggs,. ehiokene, pea000ke, and other delicacies fronaa farm at Cold Springs Harbour, L. L Edible snails to the amount of 230,000 The earliest military head covering is pounds are annually shipped to the United believed to have been a rawhide cap, next .litotes from France. At the plaoe of ex - a cap of iron. portetion they are worth about $4.5Q a About 10,000 Americans are now in thousand.: Europe clamoring for accommodatione,who ' The late G. H, P. Burnham,. the Boston cannot get passage. bookseller, who conducted his bueinese for ' uth For swearing in members in the house of ohuroheare nlefa early $400,000 the basement of the to varOld ious commons the revised version of the Bible ce..mo ' l is used for prooeatente,' the Douai version It fs estimated that/ the New York city for Cathalica and a Dopy in Hebrew for elections this year will coat 6450,000. Jews. There are 1,380 electoral districts in the It is a significant Yorkfad the testimony oit and the service of 11,040 oihoers will hospitals in New add their testimony be re aired. as to the benefit of Sunday °losing. Sunday, , q instead of being the busiest day,is now the Mre. Henry. Moore, of Akron, 0., 36 quietest.' years old, has just given birth to her rix - Should a great misfortune overtmke a teenth child in 18 years. They were all Maori, ouch ae the death of his favorite single births, and fourteen of the children ohild,hie relative° are allowed to dipoeeeos are living and healthy. him of all his goods, and if needs be of the It ie odd that in the past ten years the very roof whioh shelters him. He must pay city of Nashville lost 510,000,000 in various for the honor conferred on him by being boomeohemesandwildepeoulationventures, specially looked down upon by the gods. and of this vast 80111 no ten per oent. was Jeweharpe are made ohiefly in B0000rio, spent at home. the seat of the industry since the sixteenth J. Pierpont Morgan, the chief of the century. A good woikman can make seven syndicate whioh supplied the United States dozen in a day, and, simple as the little with gold in exchange for bonds, began life instruments are, no lees than 20 tools are as a. clerk with the New York banking firm employed in their manufacture, including of Duncan, Sherman Sr Co. anvil, hammer, tongs, and so on. There The new fish hatchery, built on one of are, moreover, 24 distinct opermtione. the islands in the Sault rapids, in Michigan. Cyrus Teed, the Chicago man who will be the finest in the world when mon- teaches that the world le fiat, proposes to plated. It will have a opacity of 45,000, - build a new pity, where hie ideas shall 000 whitefish and 5,000,000 trout. prevail, in Louisiana, and oall it New Mira Ella Ewing, of Price, Mo,, ie said to Jerusalem. The streets are to be 400 feet be eight feet and two Mabee in height and wide and the city is to be built in tiers, one weighs 290 pounds. Sha Laker up the above the other,one for pedeetriane,one for collection every Sunday in one of the bioyolea one for horses and wagons and churches of Price, and attracts more one for railroads. attention than the minister. The beggars of Paris are up to business. Ex -Mayor O'Brien, of Boston, who died • For instance, theyhave regular Oireo. the other day was the only citizen of for - of Benefactors"—in two editions—a small ez Farm poultry. For a ready cash bueinese you cannot discount the oow and the hen. One variety of fowls le not sufficient for the farm, and do your beet to keep that breed pure. In any event, when a first class cockerel can be bought for 53 or lees it is an easy mat ter to grade up the poultry. It is a question whether more poultry and eggs are not raised shout our cities and villages than upon the farms. The farmer • SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. '. one at three and a large one for six ign birth who ever occupied the highest. municipal office in the gift of Boston eitf. francs.' These give the namee of persona zeas. With two axneptiona beheld the office known to be benevolent, oleo their religion longer tt I any other Meyer since the . and political faith ; also the hour at which ineoe oration of the of they may be found at home, &o. The p t9 "religious racket" is very remunerative it , A San Francieoo'photographer claims to aeons. An at (May lately have completed a device by whioh every An old ragpioker odnfeeaed' that last winter' her ohild was railroad ticket may be made to boar the baptized ` twelve times in Protestant photograph_ of the original purchaser, as a churches and ten' times in Catholic ones ; preventive of scalping. The whole pr000ea each time the mother received one franc of taking the picture, developing the and a new dress. When epidemics are negative, and printing the portrait on a raging the beggar asks for contributions on portion of the ticket can be done, he says; the plea that his or her offspring is down while the purchaser is paying for hiaticket, with diphtheria, croup, do., and, many ori 0110 minute at the longest, people quickly respond in order to get rid JehnC. Hancock, of Hancock,'lad,,who of what they believe to be a dangerous has only his left arm to shoot with, the pereon. right having been lost in a carriage aoei- ' dent, has killed thio oeaecn with his shot. RESTRICTION ON TOBACCO. Fun 209 squirrels, 125 rabbits, 217 port- __ ridges, 62 phaseouts, 28 wild turkeys and In Some German Towns the Weed to Pro 35 woodcock. Of wild duoke he hoe shot. Wilted on the Streets. 23. mallards and 7 redheads. The consumption of toba000 of all kind John Fiske, thewho read eohin while yyolar and historian inafores and n France, according to recently compiled 'Greek before the had left off ket in nickerbockers okerbookera tontines, is nearly 125,000,000 pounds per has aninfantilt rival in Richmond Benn,of year. An analysis of the figures shows Wichita, Kane., who is not yet five years that the people of Northern France use old. Richard reads elementary French nearly four times as muoh per capita as and Latin with erre, and has a familiarity those in the southern provinoea. Almost with mathematics that would do credit to. every other country of Europe, however, 0 boy of 14. °sesames more smoking tobacco in propor. A queer trade is followed by half a dozen tion to its population titan does France. sidewalk merchants outside the Philadel This is eopeoially the case with Germany. phia House of Correction. Every .person In many small German towno smoking in 'discharged from the institution receiver on the !treats ie forbidden. Lose than fifty leaving a new pair of shoes. ;Traders Ile in years ago if a, man ventured on the streets wait for the discharged prisoners and oder of Berlin with a cigar in his. mouth he them a pair of old and oomfortable shoes would be liable to arrest. The lame pro- and twenty-five or fiftyoents for their new vision existed until 1848 in Vienna, though pair, In a great majority of 00000 the the law was not observed by the populace, trade is made. The House of Correction The town of Broeok, in Holland, whioh is shoes aro well made and strong, and the/ traders get a good, price for them hem workingmen., said to be the cleanest city In the world, hag one fiook upon his large farm, while has long forbidden the people within its the village lots hold a, hundred. Some walls to smoke after ounoet fin the eatreete breads are gusted to the one and some to anter° with a' covered pilo, in n order that the other condition. Some are not satisfied the Mindere may not be blown about." Smoking with an uncovered pipe in Gorman nor greatly productive in confinement. or Austrian foreete'lo an odenoe that is Farm chickens whioh have the run of the rigorouety punished, and as a result of this fields are the healthiest and the most prore•' eouelationforest fire° 0r0 race in ththemntrio0. fitable bombs°they get such a variety of feed and iossete. A Seene In Church. One reasonwhy a hen which steals Away from her next mlways hatcher out well is A church in Lodi, New Jersey, was that she is not too fat, and because every recently painted and varnished, and by egg has the some vitality, When eggs are Sunday the Beate were, to all appearanoee, Selected and put under a hen they era us. perfectly dry, But when the congregation uaily of all sorts, and Vary Somewhat in had been seated a short time the warmth vitality. 1 from their bodies softened the varnish. Prepare good, clean noeta fnproper places Then each member realized what it was to for your hone, and you will not be troubled stick closer than a brother.' The harm by the hens dealing away to ley; let thein done to the oaring Sunday'go-to•meeting be low and bo.ona level, In their roosting outfits WOO OshOlderablb, and the oongrega. coop let 100 oubie'feet spate to ten hens, tion are trying to see whero the fanny part letting everything tend tc their health and of the whole affair, whioh outsiders appear oomfort. 0 t toappreclate, acme° The street oars of Sacramento City in California are now run by electricity gen- erated by the falls of the American river at Folsom, 24 miles away, The river has been dammed, creating a reservoir three miles long, with a flow of 85,000 pubic feet mminute. After turning the turbine wheels ab the darn the water is not allowed to esoape further nerviest, bub is used for irrigation. Sacramento City expect° soon to be warmed and lighted by the river. Great pots of molten metal go daily skimming along the Erie Railroad from the Cleveland Rolling Mills Oornpany'a central blast furnace to the Newburg mills ae sedately an if this traffio was of long stand- ing, says a Cleveland letter, The plan is a perfect success, It takes just 15 minutes for the metal after it is poured into the big ladle care to resell the mixer in the mills, some five miles away. About 600 tons of the hot metal are tkuo carried every day ever Nolo long railroad Couto,'