HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-6-12, Page 3JUNE lit, 1891
TOLD BY RAILROAD MEN,
Good Steriee Finked up nt n Oonventen of
Train Omnlueturs,
JaNtene 101 I nary Ad ye o Tire of a 0', r.
"Pit:triter.'
!quite atfionishing. The worst etation for
eatching this clam of peeseugere Pineville,
olthough they aro to be found at, Barbersvi Ile
and other points. I have often soon half a
ca • load of these people min the cettn try die.
liken, and all of them drunk and nowy,
Wooten in the party? Why, yeti, and j1181
/1111 11H 1110 est, and in the end sicker and
more :lorry time any ma tluderstand me,
Wm is not the generid rule, nor is it the 011110
with anything like a large pereeetage of the
passengers, lila 411080 timonshinere do ide
nd they do drink ao the,y ride. All of them
drink—young women and old. Their. tipple
,0 the white whiskey they make themselves.
It hits 110001. been teetered, have never
tried it, but I thinIc that one drink is about
equal to four of the kind served over a city
bor. No, we don't hove much trouble with
them. We getionally manage to get them
into tho smoker, All the men are usually
armed, You will meet a man who las not e
dollar's worth of clothes on him down from
the mounteins. His hat he has worn for
perhaps a cloven yearn:, But he is sure to
have late make of revolver, the latest he
Call get. That is his pride. He does not
care about collors end vest and the mit of
hie trousers, but his gun' must be of the
latest make, and the leader of moon-
shine society is the man who has the newest
and latest improved shooting affray 011 the
train, They quarrel among themselves,
but they usually fix it up by taking another
swig. I let them alone, and they do the same
to 1110. Thefli1U11,110110011101111108 looks danger.
ous but ' trouble,' as they call murdesous
affrays"is very rare on our trains,"
!
" Five years itso,” othl r S'. Buret.
111811, lb 1'010111:10r 011 311.. 1 11110ds i'0111r111, I
" we never saw or lw 11,1 ,,f tql C11 it thing Its i
a W0111011 31.a111 11, 1.111 11111.1y, W11 11111 1110 pat '
3W0 years, the peeve:nag:, of fetivilss among !
11111111/0 has been steadily inciee.ing, and .
now we meet with mai almoet ewes' month. •
They are ent 11,1 daring as the men in jump.
ing on or off trains, 1011 WO lind them hang.
ing all over a freight ear, on the trucks, or
clinging to 3110 tritai 1.0 le by 111111(18 II nd feel
lilcu the sloth ; in fare, in a good mony
dangerous places that it male Osumi would
never think of getting in. 1 suppose this
increase ill WOM011 rn mps n our t ed to
the way they are occupying all the poniti one
formerly held by men (done, mid they don t,
propose to let even the tramp's profession
go by without entering its ranks,"
" I have been 011 the 13, and 0, in the
capacity of engineer and coud newt. tor 20
ears," se 1,1 0. 11. 13 they on Parkersburg,
V. Va, , " and as you see I have not a
scratch tn 81101V 11/1. it. Evety engineer run•
'ling on the rood ladieves more or lees in
dreams and iieenlitie eigns. 1 bad ail
engineer under t lact would never go out
when warned in dream that there WILS
danger ahead, Of the dezen or more times
that. he 8101/110,1 ar. Menu only one accident
000111.1.011, alld that was t rivial. prevailed
upon him to give up OH euperstitious
belief, and on t im third night out, efter he
bail been warned in three dreams, we met
with an awful eabact implies in which sever-
al persons (very killed and 1111011V W01111d0d.
T1111 011010er wits ion mg those ecilled, and I
have never for demi my nee will 1 until
I die pursuit. an, thus man from any
belief."
" One stormy night in October, three
years ego," said J. R. Beesting, " I was in
mortal fear thist the bridges, of withal there
aro a. good many on that branch, would be
washed 11Way liy the swoi len rivers. For.
tunittely we passed nearly 011 of them safely
but put its tee drew near the last bridge I
happened to be croesing from one car to an-
other and noticed a stitnge, weird.looking
blue light daneing up and down in front of
the train. I don't 1(11.10 tvliat possessed me
to do it, hut I rang the end bretiglit the
trtin to a stop, The engineer, brakeman
and I tben AU 003 10 diS80001. the cause uf
the light, but it had entirely clbmppeared
and not 31 see of it wee Mt Vie went
down the track as ler tie the bridge, and
found that it had been cent pletely washed
away by the stencils, which was swollen,
only a few timbers remaining to bear evi-
dence that it bridge had once slimmed the
stream. We W0r0 kept there for over two
days, until another bridge corild be built :
and although the other I -oilmen laughed at
me for it, I eerie:80y ieffletai that that
speetral blue light was phiewl by a Divine
Providence to Sat fr0111 an awful Luc."
" Bridal couplesgiveme more trouble than
spotters, di units, or the ocher Comp winch
tile general public thiok lustre a. 8. nuluel.or 0
life mist:10)1e," said E. le Suydam, now
yardmaster on tho D., 1, and W. It:thread
ot Elmira, N. " 1 have been emidector
mil I say to you, nel et: make a leittlal trip
on the eel% if you elm help it. ou cannot
concept the fact. The more yen try, the
loss you succeed. It is a laughable sight to
the a man with Ills 11011 141'01111d a girl on a
train, but they do it. A man's arm seems
to creep eatunclly 111 that direction. When
you ask for their tickets both of them 10011
at you as if you were an intruder, 'Ohm, as
a rule, they never know where their tiekets
are. He thinks she has them and she
knows that she sow hint put t'llein away,
but she can not tell lettere. When they do
find them, they usually drop them on the
floor as they Mittel them to yen. Confusion
ensue& No matter 110W often they have
tried matrimony before, they are it 'mark' as
soon as they get, on a train. I was married
before I went to railroading and I never ex.
peat to have to no through the ordeal again
but if I do, I'll *take to the woods for my
trip."
The Canadian Pocific was represented by,
among others, H. A. Washburn, one of the
youngest and most neatly attired 11 mulch.
ers" in the assemblage. He wore IL very
peculiar watch chain, made from part of the
horns of a moose, to whieh is attached this
story About two years ogo the train in
charge of Mr. Washburn piffled up near
North Bay to kill a few minutes gine
About the time the train staeted a large
Moose was discovered standing, near the
track about, 150 yards away. At the ap•
proaeh of the train the animal became from-
tio, and when the engineei blew the whistle,
instead of running away, it malle a dash for
the engine head downward. It was too
Iota then to stop the train, and the engineer
fearing. that en aocident might, happen to
the twain put on n full head of steaks The
engine struck the moose and lifted it about
thirty feet bi the nuel it dropped on the
hind platform of 1110 second coach, breaking
glass and musing quite a, commotion.
Norther the blow nor the fell killed the anis
mid, and while struggling to free itself it fell
between the ears, The horns were torn from
thesoutp, and, after the excitenten snbsided
ond the passengers weee pacified Washburn
got the borne and has theen 11010 his room.
" When I was running 0 freight train on
the ' Flypano,' seem' years ego, 'said John
Milkmen of the Ponnsylvannio 11110, " I
used to have a Food deal of trouble at a. lit.
tle station up in northeast Ohio. I always
expected to gob out: of that pine() behind
time, no emitter what tune got in there, if
struck the town (hiring the night, for it
always took the crew half an hour 01' 1110r0
to get the whole min ent of the place. The
trouble Was caused by a number of boys who
mark a peactioe of pulling as many coupling
pins as possible while the troth was stand.
ing. Of course when the engine pulled out,
only the ears which werocoupled to it would
follow. Then the engine would back up and
all the pins be pin in plaeo. \Idle the
breakmen wore doing this the ,bnye would
pull some more further ahead, and so they
kept es Starling alld backing im again some,
times for a whole hour. One eight the on.
gime', concluded to try an experiment on
the rascals. He pushed the train slowly
back a few feet, SO MS to slacken all the coup-
lings, and then crifildenly threw the Levee
Wide open, The train WaS light 0110 1111(1
leaped forward Eke a deer. Ono of the boys
had just pulled a pin and grabbed the brake
rod to jump from between U10011'0 W11011 1110
train started, Ho Was thrown nearly 100
foot, and ono leg and one arm were broken,
but it stopped pulling pins at that station,
The father of the boys had had a Maim
against, the company, which wn.s rejected,
and this was his method of getting even."
Moonshiners give us some lively times ou
our runs," Raid 33. N. Roller, et, passenger
conductor on the L. and N., whose home is
et Louisville, Ky. "I am on Whet is known
as tho Knoxville branch, from 'Louisville to
Knoxville, and L11041110104 of white whiskey
that is consumed on that run SOMetitnes
The Entraining Woman,
One needs only a :flight experience hi gen-
eral (moiety to discover that taste has sopa.
rate neeessities in different individuals, and
that beauty, wit, " style," a gift for light
conversation, depth of mind, have each their
admirers, n fact that sets the ones on the
outside of the especial circumstance to won.
dering what there mut possibly be in the
perticular W0111011 10 " draw,"
Is them a, wonion who is universally en.
trancing ? Is there one who commends wor-
ship swift end entire—a worship itnpatient
of reasoning, that submits to no authority
but duct ot might?
If there is, wo must naturally conclude
that she possesses something that appeals to
more than ono side of human nature, end
this floes not mean that she has that diplom.
(ley that in the beginniug is perhaps nothing
more then the destre to please the many, but
which often degenerates into positive insin•
eerity, but rather 01101 unconscious touch
npon hoe kind that comes from a very neces-
sity of her being,
Sorrow and jey are at the extremes of hu-
man experience, and the woman who stands
at the untie: stretching sympathetic hands
toward either conditiou must be the me who
is essentially °Maiming. Like Tennyson's
" Rare pale Margaret," she stands " between
the rainbow and the sun."
'1 1110 W01110,11 of the sweet confiding na-
ture, who is thrilled with the delights of life,
upon whom is 1100110(1 all the beauty and
grace in vague, and yob who bears about
her evidences that the storms have raged at
the very centre of her soul, and that she hos
takeu the hand of many a sulthrer, to de-
seend ill sympathy to the deepest grave of
affliction, is au enchantress. She is the one
to whom the young come with Omit. enthus•
iasms and you thful fears and hopes ; indeed,
se perennial aro the spring& of renewal
within her nature that in the passage of the
yenta time seems to have refused to make
its glen upon her, and yet the middle•aged
and the old _recognize in her a friend and
helper.
To her the knightliness of the manliest
manhood bows and ofl'ers protection. Per.
haps all men naturally are susceptible to
appeals to the strength of their arm and to
their bravery of soul, and this something in
n, woman's oyes half revealed, this touch of
sadness, feNV of the stronger sex are able to
resist.
Snell a woman is beyond the art of the
copyist. Spend their efforts as they may in
trying to reproduce the fascinating &foots,
women who envy her are never able to get
ti, true copy. Soometimes they imagine that
the secret may be found in a tone of the
voice, or,again, a glance of the eye, or in
the pose of the figure ; but •in tlle effort to
adapt these to their own personality, they
111001 failure even before the first tele' of
their experiment is made in public.
But the entrancing woman pitys. her prices
in a, sense, for her power. The rainbow that
is hung in beauty n1 the sight of the many
to delight, cheer, and inspire them, was
formed through the mist of her tears, and
when the glorious colors fede away, some
turn to behold the lonely figure that stand
tunic' the clearing mists.—Harper's Baacr.
The Wine -drinking Baby Capri.
When wandering one evening toward the
Villa di Tiberio I stumbled on a curious
scene. A. mother sot on tc wall by the road•
side with heu reant in her arms, while the
father, a strapping young farmer, poured
wine from a black bottle down the eager
throat of the baby. My remonstrances
were met by smile at my ignorance and
the assertion that theta was nothing better
them wine for it. On my return I found the
boy partaking of its naturist food as heartily
as it had d.one from tho wino bottle.
"That," I said to the mother, " is the
prop& drink for your child. Yon will lay
up misery for it if you exchange it for
wine." " Do you think so, Signor ? " she
replied, and., showing me the legs and °limits
of the fattest young rascal I ever 00.00, she
added., " Does that look like dieense Can
yon fincl in your country a baby of months
to equal him ?"
On mentioning the incident to an ohl mart
et the hotel, ha enured me that it WAS
Iqttite tha usual practiee in Capri, and 011 the
811.1110 evening ..pointing to his son, a hand-
! emu() you f
ng allow who WaS 3811010g 11
thrall 3011a, be said, " Had Mutt lad n6-0 grrt
, will° front the time he was 4 months old he
I would mit hove been here tomight, It
sovecl his life."--tiocei
THE BRUSSELS POST. 3
PICTURES ERO 141 TEtE PLATIlb.
nem " came and Travel 1 10 Texas," 1 11
the " 0 vela it nil Monthly," Ann Francis.
ho, Atortl, 1811 1.
My uppermost thought, however, wan the
inhumonences of living mil gaining riehoe
11 t 1111 1111001!OSSIlry (met to the life of :mad t
creuturee, and 1 made a( eini failure of eon.
cording this ; 1.isieture 1 to her in detail many
of the pitiful sights 1 had seen in Cull, end
elmewhere to thu north : the nanny in the
0011/11011811000 of cattle left to their own re.
sources in the +Worms of winter ; the vein
and despair in expressive eyes of tile stmt.
geeing skeletone covered only by the hide
that sank into deep hollowe between the
dry borne: and how, when these poor
cremtures were at last too week to rise after
reining from a vain search tor food, they yet
lay in 1110 0110W 011(1 atictie blasts for cleys
before death came to their relief ; 141111 110W
the newspapers of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
and Nevada discussed all this snffering
the cold arithmetical spirit of pirates count-
ing up their gains regardless of the lewbarity
and bloodshed connected therewith, and 110
sympathies manifest except for the money
loss to the ownens—editors and correspond.
tons alike pointing out that, oven if half of
all the stook shoulcl perish from hunger and
cold, with chances for less severe weather
in the following years, the enterprising men
who had put thousands upon thousands of
head out on the ranges, might double and
treble their fortunes 111 the coming decade.
•
•
thiuk the first driving from the C0110110
COUlltry, 30 otir left, woe in 1 800, when the
Patterson brothers took 3000 head of font,
year.old steers nerose the Staked Plains to
Horsehead Crossing, on the Pecos Ri ver, mid
on up that stream and into Colorado. Since
that date thousands had been hustled over
the same route, and many more sent to
market through Abilene and Schuyler, via
the Indian Territory,
We had met one immense herd, and a
more terrifying and pitiable spectacle than
that, mass of poor brutes could scarcely be
imagined. They were choking in a heavy
cloud of dust that rose to the venith, which
made their eyes look frightfully red, while
their tongues hung from their months, and
their horns clashed, and the air was filled
with their bellowing, as they were driven
on, on, on, helter•skelter, into and over each
other by the cowboys careering bock and
forth with loud shouts, at theie heels, on
the ponies that not only had twice or thrice
the distance to go, but mnst also carry the
saddle and a man with his ever.goading
spur in their tender flanks. We starved at,
the seemingly endless muss, and if ever Mrs.
13aker's face paled, it was then.
She Painted the Steps,
At 10 o'clock the other forenoon a wo-
1111111 appeared on the steps of a house on
West Tenth street with 11 paint•put in one
hand ond able -lab in the other, says al. Quad
in the New York Erni nu World. Three or
four 110W boards and. a part of a railieg had
been put in last fall without pointing. Site
had plc:Wily spoken to her husband 400
times &mut thot little job of painting, and
on 390 occosions he heel replied :
" I'm going right by a, paint.shop and
stop and send it man up."
Ou the other one oceaeion he had probably
growlecl in answer : "Hitng it I Give a fel-
low time 1 I'll bring up scene paint and run
over it myself."
Those steps wore now to be painted. You
could read that fact in tho woman's eye a,
hundred feet away. 'She paint -pot con-
tained some old white lead, which she had
soaked up with water, and the brush could
have been nsed as a, hammer had there been
any nails to drive.
The boards were damp with tho dew of
the night previous, bat this cut no fignre.
Site brought out a bottle of sewingma•
chine oil and poured it into the keg, isnd
then added a pint of kerosene from a bottle.
The mixture, as she dipped the brush into
it, seemed to be a conthination of stewed
pumpkin, crushed strawberry, mangled pie -
plant, and slaughtered huthleberry, so far
as color went, tind she flow into the house
and brought out what appeared to be a bot-
tle of eamphor.
When she had stirred this in the general
hue of the paint resembled a, brindled dog
chasing rabbit through a thielcet of elders.
With a cautious look up and down the
street the WOITIa0 began to use the bresh.
She was delighted to find that it slipped
ovor the wet boogie so easily 1 and the
aroma ef mixed camphor, kerosene, 311.011,
and sulphur did net disturb her in the least.
She Met used her right hand end then
lier left, then the brush in bailout d smooth-
ed the combination down. After every
swipe of the brush she'd look up and down,
and twice in a few minutes she dodged M to
escape pedestrians who might be critical.
There were wet spots where the paint
wou1(1 not take hold, and she was going over
these for the third or fourth time when an
Old 111811, smoking a very short clay pipe,
came along and stopped to view the job.
He looked so good-natured that she asked
for his opinion. He looked into the pot,
gave the hard brush a " tents" on the rail.
mg, and after a general survey of the
streaks, and dashes, and (lambs, he said
" Well, mum, it isn't for the liltes of a
workingman like mete criticise nu reol artist
like yon, but being as you hove [baked for an
opinion, and being os I always speak the
truth, I will make bold to say that if you had
acided more vinegar and pepper it would
have been morn to my humble taste."
" Vinegar and pepper ? How do you
mean ?" she asked.
" Why, muin, begging your pmeling agin,
it is sort 0' betwixt and between, I 10
neither what they mils a Wartistic chrome°
nor yet calibege salad, and I'm advising in
my hemble why that yen drop in a dozen
clothespins, a few herrings, a collide of old
boots, and e box of strawberries, eml pass it
oir for whet they calls tt leotehin%
ood day, mum "
Quaint Riddles.
These curious riddles, which toll have ono
answer ond aye families. to 1110 peOple of
sarioue ports of France, are quoted in the
&rue 11,s I'va(litions Populairea.
What goes from Paris to Lyons without
moving or taking a stop?
What goes to Paris without Duce pausing ?
Ian) vory long ; if .1 rose straight could
touch the thy; I had toms ond legs I etn110.
catch the thief; if I had eyes and mouth
uould tell everything,
White, vary white, it encircles the earth,
If / wore not orookod could net exist,
The queen's carpet, always spread, never
folded.
Mira looks very long in the sunshine and
has no shadow
Whitt arrives first at the market and first
roaches honio
Answer, The read.
All anti.Thiropean riot bas taken plaeo 15
Woo Hoo, China, where the natives attesik-
eel and burned the Catholic Inission and a
numberof Ifluropean dwolling.houses,
Trench. Interferones,
LONnoN, ;June 1 1,—Tho Political Snore
tory in the Fa:reign Office, Sir james Fe, gum
son, in the House of Commons said a
message had been received from the Govern
tient Newftnmil and stating that it
French officer had warned the inhabitants
neat At. Pierre Bay, Nawfoundlesul, not to
sell beat to United States fishernem snider
penalty of seizure of their nets and hoots.
This, said Ste Jamas, does not appear to be
e specific infroction of tho treaty of 1 8 1 8
With the Ufflted suttee, \Odell only scoured
to United States citizens the right to fish
certain parts of the coast, but it constith I es
interferon& with the rights of British sub •
jeats, and is an assumption of jarlsdietint
inconsistent with the sovereign right of the
British Crown. The Government has brought
tho matter to the attention of the Prenel
Government.
Old Doetor—N0, sir never had a pa
tient die on iny Muffle ; never I
Young Doctor—Rory an you manage 11?
Ohl Doetor—Whon iiml that a man is
going to die A.et him to call in another
doctor.—(141, Y, Continent,'
THE DEMON BACILLUS.
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1 France •..et inhimt from c f l'as0e, recently, al Last, Fricl:ysellililgUI:111111:1141*OP°I;itl.otboat Lady ..
, while cmeen Victoria Willi ill \Vesicle , A. Monster of the Deep Uses a 1111000M An' :
: telegram avectit071 her at (me (1/ ou stmoons Mine, Capt. Steve Castle, WIGS lying beett1411. '
1 where a balt Was name The posttnistro4s „,I ahnt um „dem „„thwo„t of th, main
' rhfusod to give it into anybody ri heads hot Faraii,,no,,, sap; the ;41111 Fritiwisco Euxtuan.
the righ 0 el reeifflen 1, and all the iniiloolitoY ,,r, Not a. :chip was in sight, and the captain.
; of tile Royal Critill 11.1‘,1 /ill 1 ill 00.1011 10 imp,,,,,,,I th"ppm.t,,,,ityt,,thift tivmhoon.
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CAPT. OASTLE'S WHALE.
l'Ith 3111erieneganbinis More Poronlila 11.
then Ali 01' einii's her roes.
t mortifyiug 10 !theme entity to reflect
that ft& 5011/0 MO 0011 311riOtt, /a the shorteet
computation, Mall 110:1 been taking all ones
of pities to protest himself iigainst Milan`
dliligOrh, ill absolute ignorance of t 11,, Mien.
lue timid in his 11111181, sap the London
Standard. Against the wild beant and the
:snake be has waged open warfai a. 110 has
covered. hitneelf with armor to pratem, him-
self from the weapone of human tom He
11110 furnished his :chips aritli lifeboats, and
has invented. the safty lamp as 11. 1/1'010031011
for those who work 111 minee.
He hat; muzzled the deg iti order to escape
the fabulously remote risk of hydrophobia,
111111 1114/1 laid (105101 strict regulatione to di.
the Aeneas of his being blown up by
explosives. He hae feneed himself in by
sanitary regulations to preserve himself
Against the evil effects of foul melte, and
has flattered himself thet by these aucl many
other precantious lie has done what he could
to insure for himself prolonged life.
And yet all this time the bacillus hes been
carrying on his work unsuspected, 'laughing
ill whatever posses as his sleeve, as he yew..
ly sweeps away his tens of millions of vie.
tims, ft has in facts been a new and ter-
rible illustration of the soying " Ont of
sight, out of mind." Front mon who slays
the whale for its oil and the elephant for its
ivory, has been slain by his invisible foe, the
bacillus ; and, like a soldier brought down by
a longraego bullet, has not even had the
satisfaction of knowing who was his siva.
The microscope had long since discovered
to him the existence of innumerable area.
tures, invisible to the naked eye ; 1 has
learned that the water he (bank teemed with
animated atoms ; that many of the reeks
were composed solely of their minute skele•
tons ; that a, layer of them reposed on the
depth of the ocean ; that countless numbers
were born with the floating dest in the air.
Some of these discoveries caused lihn won-
der and admiration, others a certain sense
of uneasiness and disgust, but when be dis-
oovered that neither he nor his oncestors
110c1 suffered any material inconvenience
from imbibing these countless hosts in their
drinks or infflding them in the atmosphere
he ceased to trouble himeelf about them, and
went his way regardless of their existence.
The case has been wholly changed by the
discovery of the bacillus, and man stands
aghast alike at the terribly destructive and
deadly notere of his foe and at his own im•
potency to guard himself against its ottacks,
His feelings resemble those of the solitary
traveler who finds thot the forest throngh
which he is passing is swarming with des-
pencte and determined enemies who are
bent upon taking his life.
It needs no great powers of prevision to
perceive that the discovery of the bacillus
must lead to au enormous revolution in our
methods of life. It is not man's nature to
submit passively to tyranny and oppression,
Red now that wo are beginning to forin
some idea of the number and doodly nature
of our foe, mankind will assuredly ember!:
upon a prolonged and desperate warircre with
him. Inventoes will, in the first place,
devote all their energies to discovering a
means of defense against his attacks.
1Ve may expect that just as ear &tweeters
elad themselves in armor to protect them.
selves against the weapons of man, so in
the future we shall wear some sort of cover-
ing composed, perhaps, of extremely thin
aid flexible glass to prevent the bacillus
miming in contact with mar skin, or we may
point ourselves on emerging front our baths
with some compound which may be
discovered to be lethal to him.
The passages to our 1011gs will doubtless
be defended by a respiratory apparatus that
will filter him out of the air as it passes ill.
While thus we endeavor in every tvay to cla
fond ourselves agninst his attacks, we shall
take the offensive against him when be
succeeds in eluding those preoantions and
effecting an entrance. Unfertunately at
present the bacillus shows himself to b
almost invulneralle, but, like Achilles, he
has a weak spot in his heel. While able, so
far as is at present known, to defy all drugs
and poisons with which it can be attacked
while titvelling in the human frame, he has
none of the hardihood of the cannibal and is
tumble to support a diet consisting of Ids
own relations. A boiled &maim of his
grandson is fatal to him. It is upon this
line that our combttt with him is likely, at
any rate for a time, to be fought out.
This discovery has thrown a lurid light
upon many ancient and eastern legends.
These lutve hitherto been entirely misunder-
stood or 1100 understood at all. 8141111.11 Waft,
WO know, to be destroyed by his children ;
and Arab stories abound with instances
where it, foretold 'to princes and rulers
that their offspring would be the 0a1180 of
their death, and the children were accord•
ingly confined in towers and prisons to pre.
vent the fulfillment of these propheoies,
Hitherto these tales have appeored mere fa.
bias, originating in human fancy ; but it eon
110W be seen that the ancients and drientals
alike had some kind of provision of the
bacillus, and that this creature was 'pre-
figured in the legends of Saturn and of the
Arabian rulers,
DEATH FOR THEFT,
thil; "03'1" innOth',1arY 00 WniV0 or'1,3 Ca111.110 fOr low lighter euntmer :mit. All
! ol England. 'Madit1110 tmly yielded to toe .,,,,,,,r,, more room the yarylimat used for
, rules and regulations in favor of 1 11" '21,00,31 !hoods were engtged on the work, and to
' pl.„,,,aug soileisasjons of time:rat Paneenby 1 boarding vessels was heaved over the side
1 It is announced in Albany that libillop of
and 4 a"'Toton" of 010 WitislI ErrbasaY• and made feet, astern by eix or eight fathoms,
painter.
' Dome 30 " "wive 11.0111 Can -11'61g", 444." Tile sea wail full of %eludes, lolling about:
, land, the honorary title of doctor of laws. on the glasmy surface, playing and blowing,
Lord Cross lute been epoken of as the
all Meter with the largest personal influence 1 and ern i LB tig LW unpleasant, oily oclor, ost
whales are tem) t to (lo when the suu le shins
The Serrelary of Chinese Legntiou to be
Reliended.
PA11.114, 111110 1 1.—Aclvices from Pekin
state that Teheng Ki Tong, who WaS noting
first secretary of the Chinese legations in
London and in this city, has been condemn.
ed to death. Teheng ki Tong, it is alleged,
took esIvantage of hie otlimals nosition to
fleece tresting people out of immense BUMS
of money. He was recoiled to China 050111g
110 010111/1 30 1.01)01.1$ of his conduct here and
was there areested and tried.
Strange IsTews About Venus. ,
signor Sell iaparelli, the hal 1011 astronomer,
who lies mule more wonderful (11800veries
emong theplanets than all the other nation.
(mere of our clay put together, has fernielled
new Burp Hee , greater than h is neon t discovery
thet aleveuey performs only one rotation in
the course of revolution around the sun.
Ito now asserts that Venus, the brightest of
all the plonets that WO 000, 1110 twin sister
of the email, withal is at ptesent glowing
with nightly increasing splendour in tho
west after sundown, also turns lint once on
its axis in the course of a revolution around
0110 8511, In other words, there is no alter
Won of day and night, on Venus, as ori
enrth, The plonet enjoys perpotnal clay on
one side of its globe idln the other elite is
plunged in 11,1 s
A terrible ao,.1,1.0,‘ ha, just occurred St
the Selomonsky Circus in Moscow. aliss
lienedy, the lion tamer, whilst going through
it performance in a cage containing lions,
tigers, a panther, and 1100,1lS, atineked
by o lion, which into her shoulder. Miss
Benctly Was only sawed from being killed by
the courageous conduet of an 0001001,1n, who
entered. the tage and struck. the lion, drag.
ging Miss Weedy out of the cage amid a
tone of great excitement,
Qn"1" Viot'''''R 011" 1%""`'('''sikid's iug, the Mr ie still, and the water smooth.
death, " Vanity Fair," however. My, 1 thie particularly big fellow of the finbaek
" This is ridiculous. The Duke of Rutland variety, commonly called California grays,
is the persono gratiesima at, (Sourt now, mid cnanifeeted notch interest and came along -
it is by the Queen's express WiN11 111a1 110 Side to investigate. The first notice of Ma
(0 constantly in waiting as Minister in At-
tendance. 11 any further proof were neres.
sary, it would lio enough to point to the
fact that the Queen has conferred on him
the Garter in preference to her grandson,
the Doke of Fife. In this natter, however,
sho lute been able to gratify the alinistry es
well as the Duke and herself,"
The Rev. al. Harvey, of St..' ohn's, N.F.,
has reeeived from the alotlill University of
Montreal, the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. Mr. Harvey well merits this clis•
Unction. As a scientific investigator lie
has been of much volue to natural 111007.
His well-known disc:every of the great devil-
fish, a giaat cephalopod, 1 875, aroueed pro-
found interest among natimalists. Professor
Verrill, who exhaustively examined it,
named the species Arehiteuthis Harveyi,
and said that it remarkably resembled the
ancient gems Tendopsis, feu foesil in the
jurassie forniations and 01 ittemporaneons
with the saurian deep•sea monsters. Mr.
Harvey's recent letters to the New York
Tribune on the great oodfisheries of New.
foundlond. and the cod aud lobster botch.
cries, as well as on the extraordinary 3101i.
Meal situation of that enfortimate island,
rheaavdeerleen of exception interest to our
Bismarck has published this card " On
my birthday I received congratulations from
Germane all over Germany and the rest of
the world. aly pleasure thereat renders it
necessary for me to give all equally worm
acknowledgments. do not wish to remain
in debt in this matter, even if thankfully
so. With greater energy than I possess I
coahl not give individual answers, and
therefore I ask all indulgence. Accept
herewith my heartiest thanks for your kind-
ness."
Among the many noble ladies of Englaucl
who have " gone into trade" may be limn-
bered Mrs. Arthur Wellesley, a grandniece
of the Iron Duke. Mrs, Wellesley and Mrs.
Hesketh ?Smith have opened a fashionable
flower shop in Grosvenor Street, London.
The bouquets that come from this establish-
ment are sold to be especially artistio.
Queen Victorim's recent visit to Grasse
proved more beneficial to ner than to the
members of her suite, many of whom were.
afflicted with colds in throat and lunge dar-
ing their entire stay. The expenses of the
Queen's onting were very large, the rent of
the Grand Hotel and grounds alone amount.
ing to 8000 per diem.
An engagement in high life just an.
notemed is that of Lady Constance Camp-
bell, youngest daughter of the duke of
Argyll, awl Charles Emmett, son of a
wealthy Laneashire cotton•spinner.
The recent death, at an advent:eel age, of
Madatne Jouvin, in Grenoble, France, recalls
the services her hesband, Xavier Jouvin,
die' to glovemaking. Ho invented the ma.
olden for cutting out leather gloves, end
iutroduced the one -seamed glove thumb.
Beginning life as a poor .glovemalter, he
died worth millions, and is honored by a
statee erected to his memory by his fellow
townsmen in gratitude for the benefits hie
inventions conferred upon Grenoble.
The Princess of Wales will be represented
among the exhibitors in Vienna this month
at the International Exhibition of Amateur
Phologrophers to be held there under the
patronage of the Arelffluthessalaria Theresa.
There will be nemerous other royal contri.
bettors to the collection, among them the
Archduchess Maria Therese, herself and the
Grand Duke Vendinand of Tuscany.
approach WWI renived front a tremendous
flock of small seehirds that skimmed along
the seance, (lying down to snatch their food.
of parasitee every Our the whale oeurne to.
the surface, All the birds flew away when
the whale sounded a eable's length from the
Lady Mine, and the crew thought he had
taken his departure. In this they were
erroneons, for in about two minutes tha
schooner set up a violent rocking, a huge
black bulk suddenly loomed up alongside,
there was a sound as of escaping steam, and
half tbe deck was wet with a, cloud. of ill -
smelling spray.
It Wati an awful big whale for a finbacks
I1 WAS longer than the Lady Nine, which
measure0 eighty-three feet,
When ho 04010 up he touched the schoon-
er but did it. very gently, not with a jar or
0 'bump, but with a slow upheaval that
sitnply shoved the vessel off sideways and
careened her over a little until her round
bottom cid off the monster's baek. The
whale appeared highly delighted, and re-
peated, the performance. For two hours he
was never 2,00 yards from the Lady Mine,
and half the time when he was above water
the crewscould have totiched him by simply
extending their hands over the side. A
dozen times he rubbed against her side,
len always with the same gentleness that
charactevisecl his first contact, and often
his Mize (in protruded tsbove the rail as Isig
as a boat sail.
He was an old bull end his back and
head wore literally covered with barnacles.
It was to rid himself of these that he rub-
bed up against the boat the crew soon
learned. Several times it looked very
scary to see the terrible bulk rising swift-
ly front the depths of the clear water, but
he was considerate enough to altvays slack-
en speed just before striking, so that the
contact amounted to no more than a gentle
push.
The crew dicl not ming the whale using
the Lady Mine for a backscratcher as long
as lie continued goocbnatured about it, but
they did protest against the odor and finolly
made an attempt to drive hint away. The
boatkeeper prodded him with a sharp -point-
ed spinnakerboom just as he rose near the
schooner's stern.
D :we Ito went like a flash and in his flurry
he breached directly across the little yawl's
painter, whioh WM hanging slack a foot or
so beneath the surface of the water. One of
his flukes caught the line and cis the several
tons of blubber and whalemeat went down
the yawl boat went too. The bow plunged.
under with a terrific dash and tile oars.and
loose bottoin.boarils of the boat flew for
yards around in all directions.
The entire boat was lost to sight for ovet
a minute, when it popped up like a, cork,
full of water, but right and tight and per-
fectly uninjured. The crew used garnished.
longuage, bailed the boat out, gathered Op
the gear thot steewed the surrounding ocean,
and hauled the resented oraftaboard.
The whale manifested no anger whatever,
but returned in a few minutes as if nothhig
had happened. He rubbed oil' it temple or
three more barnacles as gently as before,
flirted his monstrous tail contemptuously,
and took his departure,
Grant Allen, the Euglish novelist, is a
feir•haired, thinmade, intelleetual-looking
man of fotty•five or so, with light blue eyes,
and iron grey hair of a wavy texture. He
was born in Canada, but hae resided ill
England so many veers that be calls himself
an Englishman. Ire keeps n, note book, end is
quite an adept. as a shorthand writer. tVhen-
ever and. wherever an idea atlases him,he
pulls out pencil and notebook and crystal-
lizes it then and there. Very often Ile has
two or more novels or stories underway at
the same thne. When Ile tires of one he
takes up another, as the 015011 seizes him,
and seldom fails to make et success of any-
thing towards which he seriously bends his
energies.
Zoe Clayton, the W01110,11 who has become
famous by walking from San Francisco to
Now York in two hundred and thirteendays,
hasmade fourteen thousand dollars by reach-
ing the latter city ahead of time. She is
large and masculine looking, with rathe
coorse features, whieh are expressive, bow.
ever, of greatdoteemination. She is noecnn.
panted by her manager, W. J. Marshall, and
John Price, representing the parties who
wagered thotshe coal(' not perform the feat.
She alsoettreies along a Coeker spaniel,whieh
will be the first deg whoever footed it across
the mini:1mA, The next thing in &der is
for seine man to iturnortaliee himself by
(nerving the fair pedestrian, and helpiug
her to spend the money,
Canon Farrar on he Salvation Arroy.
Whether the Salvation Army will live or
not as a separate organization, it is impossi-
ble to prophesy. We may at least learn
something from its sincerities, and we may
be certain that if it has clone any harm, it
will also leave behind it a treasure of valus
able experience and a legacy of permanent
good. It has been partaker of affliction,
and has been tiled in the lire. Bet let the
powers of evil, even when they enlist on
their side " soulless clericalism," gnash
their teeth and learn their own impotence,
when they see that their very opposition is
turned Into a, source of strength to their
enemies,
The four simple prinointos of the Salva-
tion Army, as stated by its founder, are ;
(1) going to the people with the message of
salvation ; (2) attracting the people; (5)
saving the people ; and (4) emplosmg the
people, as far ' as possible, in re.
hgnius work. No objection against th
" Army" is more 0011118011 on the lips
superfine people than that which cootpleAn
f the shouting end howling and blas-
pheming and vulgoristn. Well we mus
make up 0110 minds that, the people of on
shuns will never be won by a rose -pink
roligionism, Tho children of the stree
must woeship the Father in street Eng
lish, which my sometimes be " quit
shocking" to the female mind. The ove
'toweling joy which some poor creates
shows who has been rescind from the neg
loot of the respectable, who, shrugging the
shoulders, hove left him to the tondo
mercies of the publican, is one of the etrile
tug clutraeteristios of these humble eonverts
I sometimes think of Blest Salvationiste
the worde of Robert Browning 1
Well, less is more, Taurrezia, oni luaged.
Th.re lives a ter& light of uod in them,
In their vexed, booting, stuffed and stopped
no "mina
Hearts, or NVIlaiall'Or else, than gone to 'prom)
Tide loweiulsoct forthright (wagon:yes handl)
mine.
Their wetly: drop groundward, but thenecefre
I know,
'Reach many a time heaven that's shut, 1 o
Enter and take their Weer there sure enough
rho ugh they (tome hack and canna toll th
world."
A Boy's Teriible Death.
A despatch front 'l'oronto says ;--Cluttles
Bell, ton years of age, 8011 of a bailor who
resides at '257 Niagara street, \vas terribly
mangled by a freight train in the western end
of the city on Sat ineloy, death resulting 11
a few minutes. The boy had been playing
in tlie 1!), esteem cattle market, where a loco.
motive was engaged in shinning ears. Fel
the purpose of enjoying a ride he climbed up
between two freight cots, ancl when the loco.
motive boatel up to them to moire them to
side track the shook threw the lad from
his seat on the buffers on to the roil aat two
of the wheels pitssed over 11,10, amputating
hie left erni and leg, When the trsin Was
slopped the poor littlo fellow was move(
from the freak, and the embillance and a
lector were telephoned for, brit lie died be
fore tho arrival of either. None of tho rail
way OniplOyeeS &LW dui hay got on the trail.,
all it WaS 1101 known that he whe Injure(
until ho Wes foinul lying on tho track.
I 8111 aware
Now tunny days have been idly spout,
3tow, like All arrow, the good intent
line fallen short or been turned
aside.
Affeotion of Two freneh Homes.
Translated from the Peewit,
lf,very one tit, Brussels will remember tit,
superb 'white horses whose tails swept th
ground, running by the side or each oth
in the Russian style. Whether driven o
ridden they always went together, arid We
so fond of each other that they eoula n
be seporated, oven to go to 3110 farrier.
tWenty yoarS tivish two noblhanim
had never been Doted genii obont thr
weeks ego, vviten one of them died.
As soon as hie body WU lying dead in 01
stable, his conipani011 became dejected, al
when it, was takon away, Ile refused to ea
In vain was the attempt made deeei
him by putting another [Minna at IliS Sill
thiS Watt all to 00 purpose, for ho WOO
not touch his oats, and in a week he died.