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DANIUBS OF BALLOONING.
'Many Abe Ord Frejeote that had Fatal Be-
eline,
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.The Fooling of Aeronauts at Silesty menthes
-gem Would Het Stelae a ringer (0 1'00,
mint Death -A Remarhanie Escane
Sadler, a celebrated English aeronaut,
who had made a great many voyages, and
4)11 one of his expeditioes crossed the Irish
Channel, between Holyhead and Dublin, e.
distantie of thirty-one miles, perished in a
very sad manner near Bolton, England, the
29th of September, 1824. Deprived of
ballast, in oonsequence of having remained
too long in the air, and forced to descend
over high buildings very late at night, he
was driven against a chimney by a violent
wind, and hurled front the car to the earth.
Sadler's prudence and knowledge cannot
be questionedashe hail made nearly sixty
ascensions. Unfortunate circumstances,
• difficult to foresee, were the came of his
death. It was a veriteble aerial shipwreck,
Cooking had made two ascensions in
Green's balloon as an nineteen He desired
to try aoinething new, and especially a de.
aceut inSa, parachute of his own invention,
for tvhioh he claimed many improvements,
His projeet was more than absurd. Instead
of using a parachute with a concave surface
resting upon a column of air and driving it
back, he suspended himself from au invert.•
edeone, a sort of aerial screw or auger, which,
in place of retarding the descent of a heavy
body, must hits tenats fall, and thatisprecisely
what happened, and unfortunately Green
participated in the experiment. A ta pub-
lic ascension made at London Sep. 27,1830,
he suspended below his car the apparatus
to winch Cooking hung by a wire ; then,
at a height of more than 4,000 feet, the
aeronaut separated himself from his com-
panion. In less than a minute the unfor-
tunate ream fell to the earth and was dash-
ed to pieces.
Tbe register of death from ballooning tells
of the aeronaut Comaschi, who, in 1845, as-
cended from Constantinople before the gaze
of a cheering crowd and disappeared for.
ever. In the same way Ledet left St.
Peteraburg in a balloon in 1847 and was
-timer seen again. On the Sth of September,
1850, Gale rose trona Bordeaux with a horse
for ballast mid descended at Costes at 7
o'clocic in the evening. The horse was re-
moved by peasants and the balloon rose
with incredible rapidity. The aeronaut
was, found in Gascony the next morning
suffooated by hydrogen gas. The same year
Arbon made his last ascension in Spain. He
WEIS carried away by a severe wind and fell
among the MOWS of the Pyrenees or into the
sea and was never seen again.
On Sept. 15, 1858, Tardini left Copen-
hagen, accompanied by his wife and son.
He descended on the Wand of Seeland, and, the lower one hall neasounding force and the
starting again alone, was never heard from. aeronaut, after throwing out all his ballast
o Sept. 24, Merle made an ascension at
Chalons-sur•Marne'and died aaphyxiated hy
gas. His assistant, a hauchbeck, received
no injury,
A singular accident occurred at Buenos
Ayres May 24, 1860. The aeronaut, Bar -
stile, rose from the centre of the city,
hovered over it, and descended M a road-
stead, A number of boats and at small
On April 15, 1s76, thiotie•Spiuelli and
Sive] were killed is the catastrephe of the
/smith, AL 11:30 in the morning the acro -
net rem majestleally ham the gas Mowry
of la a'ilette, carrying with it the three
aeronauts, CroteoSpinelli, Sevil, and LiaSL01)
Tissandier. At I:30 the balloon lied reach.
ad a Wight of 8,00010,15, but its pessengere
had fainted in the oar. At a height of 7,000
yards they were overcome by a feeling of
torpor, previottely felt et a much greater
height by M. Clamber in his ascension
They hail not dreaded the experience, bole
coevinced that the inhalation of oxygie
would be sufficient to 'invent the unpleaean
feelings observed in former ascensions
But nt such great altitudes the p103 ver
soon quickens, and gradually and Menial
body anti niind grow weak. Ono become
absolutely indifferent, and before losin
consciousness would not raise a finger t
prevent death. " One does not suffer a
Ala" wrote the survivor of the eatastrophe
" on the contrary, it seem as though th
surrounding tays of light fill you with joy
You rise and are glad to rise." Dizz
heights is not en unmeaning expression
After being in a swoon for half an hour al
Tissandier awoke and saw his friends in
faint on the flow, of the car. The hallo
Wile descending rapidly and the wind wa
strong. He had not strength to throw on
ballast and dropped asleep again. a, few
minutes he felt some one shake his arm, an
recognieed Croce•Spinelli, who had some t
life and WAS telling him to throw out hal
last as they were falling. But he coult
scarcely open his eyes, and all he could re
member afterward was that he saw his corn
panion throw out the instruments, and
everything he could find.
It is probable that the balloon mounted
again, tor three-quarters of an hour late
M. Tissandier woke again and felt the bal
loon failing with frightful speed. The ea
VMS swinging to and fro, describing loug
oscillations ; his companions were crouched
ab the bottom of the ear. Sivel's face we
black, his oyes glassy, his mouth open and
full of blood Crooe's eyes were half olosed
and his mouth teas bloody. Both men were
dead. When they reached the ground the
shock was violent and the balloon seemed
to flatten. The wind was rapid and the ear
was dragged over the fields, while the bodies
of the MO unfortunate men were tossed
about and every moment were on the poin
of being thrown from the co-. Finally the
aeronaut was able to seize the cord that
opens the valve. The balloon struck against
O tree and stopped near the Commune of
Ciron in the department of Indre.
At Maus on July 4, 1880, the aeronaut
Petit trusted himself, in company with his
wife to the uncertainty ol an old, torn bal-
loon. To this imprudence he added that of
Plaeing his young son in a small balloon
above his owe, holding it captive by to cord.
The two balloons rose at the same time, but
TR.BRUSSELS POST. julx 20, 1892,
HOUSEHOLD.
A Simple Fret/antis/1h
"Just look lit that child," said oue lady
to ituother, as they stood hy a window,
watching n. group of children et play on the
street. 'Her ears sGick out from the sides
of her head like the sails of a ship, Saab
an affliction as thet is really dreadful.
Itvery little while one sees oraldren-gro;vn
up temple, too, tor the matter of that -with
O wide, projecting ears. It's a pity, too, when
1 such a thing is so easily prevented,
O "Children should be very carefully watch.
• ed, and should never be allowed to sleep
y without having the oars pressed clam to the
y head. Some children ere restless, and
9 squinn about until the ears are turned over
O toward the Mee. As e matter of course,
i this forms a habit, and the first thing any
O i one knows the beauty of the child is spoil-
ed, It only takes a little care and oaten.
e tion to remedy all of this, either in the ease
. of children or grown persons. The worst
y deformity of this sort may be remedied in
. a few months by the persistent effort to
. keep the ears pressed close to the head
a even at night. "Before retiriug, rub the
ti back of the oars thoronghly with soma
s soft, penetrating oil or glycerine; then
O tie a bit of lace or thin mnslin around the
head, to keep the ears close. During
d the day a similar bandage might be
o worn, if It is not necessary to go out or to
- receive callers. Babies should always wear
I caps, even though they nay be of the shoe
. est mull or lace. This will entirely prevet
• the ears assuming such unbecoming shap
as we frequently see. Of course, it is ofte
more difficult to remedy an evil than prevet
it, enal judicious mothers and nurses w
✓ never allow such accidents to occur. Whe
- the cartilage of the ear seems to hetet; bee
✓ pressed out of shape, it may often be desi
able to rub some oil or cream on the outsid
but if the cap is worn eta bandage is pt
s around the head at night, this will never b
necessary. In extremely bad cases, who
the cartilage has grown too much out
shape,the services of at surgeon may be foun
necessary. Such prentutions should nev
be negleeted as will save the child fret
embarrassment and discomfort later in lif
Moro than one child has been made unhapp
by the ridicule of its companions on account
t of some personal deformity which a judicious
mother or nurse might have avoided,"
aa'al'aeseeeeeaseseeesssasearasseesaal.
cool pout' it gear the cakes in the ;lista, an
decoreto the top with bright jelly a
cherries.
COW WATER STARilt, -Three tableepoon
fails of Colowian'a Starch, one tenoup 01
water, one largo teaspoen of white soft;
melted, one small teaspoon borax, half tea.
imp boiling water,-atix the starch 1111d
saia mama in a basin till smooth, then in
ithother (lief& stir tho soap, bomx, and both
ing water togethee till melted, pour this
now into the littera with the starch, and mix
well together till %nice froth gathers on the
top. Wash your linen in this end wring it
out. Then take and rub it all over with
your hands dry, as if you were wash-
ing its Then put it in the folds of a clean
towel, and wring it us hard as possible.
Fold and Map and pt./pare to iron it. Iron
firat on the wrong side, then on the right,
and torn it wend times, After yon have
ironed all your collars, cuffs, and shirte you
should go over them again with a hot iron
to finish them, as COhi wetter starch always
gathers clamp. Wrinkles come from bad
ironing, and no written instructions can
make a person Imedle an iron. There must
be no wrinkles; the iron must be leid on
0000 to have none. The reolpe if carefully
followed makes a been tiful gloss. The com-
mon flat iron is best, and considerable pow•
er should be used in giving the last polish-
ing finish.
PRESERVED RITUBARE.-Ciet a good quail.
tity of rhubarb, firm nil red in colon Wash
emelt stick clean, dry it thoroughly with a
r• cloth, out it up in inch lengths, and pread
it '1000000 a tray to dry for .0 least two days.
es Take, say,. four pounds of rhubarb, and
n prepare it in this way. Put into a jellypan
tt tour pounds of segue, one large teaspoon -
ill ful of ground ginger, one teacup of water,
re mid stir it over the fire till it boils for at
n leastfive minutes, then put in all the dry
r- rhubarb and let it boil np, stirring aa little
a, as possible. Allow it to boil gently for half
It an hour at least, then dish it in pots.
re
of Underground Railroads.
Tho London Spectator says:- There 10 00
et proepeot of adequate relief from steam. The
feehug of the people is wholly against ele-
vated railways; railways on the flat only in-
isteamboat hastened to SeVe bisto from drOWD.
ing. The steemboat's smokestack set fire to
the gas, and an explosion destroyed the
balloon and the steamboat The crew and
oarsmen were thrown into the air; eight
were killed and twenty-five wounded.
At the time of the memorable siege of
Paris, hem September, 1370, to February,
1871, the organizers of the aerial post me -
neared the unfortunate plan of having the
balloons start at 11 o'clock in the evening
to avoid the enemies' observation. The same
end would have been obtained by starting
at 4 o'clock in the morning, while by start-
ing in the middle of the night there was
great risk of reaching the sea before day.
light. The unwise plan cost the lives of two
aeronauts, and might easily have caused the
loss of many more. On the 3e of November,
a sailor named Prince started from the Or-
leans railway station, which had become
an &oriel station 1 There was no moon and
the wind blew violently. The aerostat was
driven westward rapidly, and at dawn fish.
srmeo saw it disappear, swallowed by the
warm Prince must have been drowned.
The same night, half an hour later,a
second balloon waa sent up front the Station
du Nord, and it also reached the ooean itt
sunrise. It seems that the Commiasion,
after determining thereat of theland breeze,
pre the sailor striot orders to remain in
the air eight hours. But the balloon carried
a second passenger. When they had reached
the ocean and the balloon was paseing over
.Belle Isle, the passenger, disregarding the
command, opened the valve. 1.0 another
moment had elapsed, the second balloon
would have shared the fate of the first.
On Jan, 27, 1871, at the time of the arm-
istice. the last but ono of the balloons
used during the siege left the Station du
Nord commanded by a sailor, Lacaze, and
evas 1000 10 the sea off La Rochelle,
It menu; miraoulous that the balloon
which left the Orleans Station on Nov. 21
was not lost in. the sea. It atarted at 11
o'clock in the evening and in fifteen hours
was driven by a tempest across the North
Sea and beyond Christiania in Notway.
The aeronaut Roller, and his companion
believed themselves absolutely lost during
long hours of agony, and owed their deliver-
ance only to their courageous perseverance
and to the geographical contour of the Nor-
wegian coast, As they passed over a moun-
tain of Sr trees the 13410hOr WU cast front
the MY and they were saved. Of the ditty -
four poet ballooni; sent out during tbe aiege,
two were lost at sea and four °there barely
escaped a similar fate
On July 4, 1873, another aerial ehipwreek
ocourted at Ionia, MIMI, The aeronaut,
La ivIontain, who the year before had very
nearly been drowned in Lake Edo, conceived
the fatal idea of suspending his car, not to
O net enveloping the aerial globe but to a
mini of independent tepee featened to a
circle of wood plotted above a Montgolfier,
The ascent was very repid. It was notioed
that the oar did not remain in a vertioal
poisition ; the aordsslippod, little by little,
and uniting on one side set the balloon free,
Them tall like at stone, while the tinter-
tunate man, clinging convulsively to it, re-
, tainted sufficient presence of mind to attempt
I, tO teen himself head downward end make
the ear serve as a parachute. When thirty
yards from the earth he loet his hold, and
his body wail driven six noshes into the
I ground.
On July 0,1784, et Cremona Gardens,
England, the place where Lauer had met
4: his death, De Groot, ill order to try the
t Wings he ima invented, dropped from a
; ballocnieral Wao killed as Matra.* the pave.
meat. Some time before that 0 had met
I Ithit at Bruseole and had assured him that
t 'Wings 'were undoubtedly lesti reliable than
a large umbrella He replied that he tvonld
I• Certainly tomcod, despite the beat suientsfi
'5 !000eOhing.
could not mount rapidly, At this crisis
Polgt let go the cord, caning to his son.
"Go alone now!" Some seconds afterward
the large balloon split from top to bottom
and the aeronaut was precipitated upon a
garden wall and mortally rounded, his wife
escaping with a few bruises. Probably tbe
card which restrained the upper balloon
tore the old one and caused its rapid fall.
After a few moments the small balloon
alighted on the prairie like a butterfly. On
Aran 8, the same year,
Charles Brest left
hatraelllee during a violent northwest wind
and was carried out over the ;Mediter-
ranean. Two hours later, as night was com-
ing on, sailing along elmost on a level with
the water anti fallowing the undulations of
the waves, he passed a ship so quickly that
he aud the crew were tumble to exchange a
word. The next morning the balloon was
found with ite oar empty on the shores of
Corsica, near Ajeccio.
CAMILLE FLAMM:ANION,
Home Life on a Rented Farm,
To be " only a renter" is the condition
of a majority of people in the larger tetras
and cities and on many of our farms, Much
of the tendency to wildness among people
arises 1 rout a lack of ettrective homes ; and
this is too often the cause of trouble be-
tween older members of the family. Toiling
all day amid dreary surroundings, week
after week, is not likely to male sweeter
or more cheerful the temper of the wife. If,
on the other hand, the husband oomes home
after to hard day's work, forces his way
through a gate 5.ff the hinges, across a
dreary, flowerless yard and up rickety stops,
stubbing his toes against stray bricks, lie
isn't an angel by the time he gots into the
house, But if you ask him why he doesn't
put a, couple of screws in that gate hinge,
get up a bit earlier to -morrow and SOW
some grttes seed about the yard, and spade
up some flower beds after tea, his reply is
sure to be "Olt 10.50 only a renter, and
you don't catch me fixing up for some one
else."
Such a man may remain in the same place
flee or six years, but will be "only .1 rent -
sr" etill. All improvements that he can't
aoax or browbeat the landlord into making
aro unmede and so he and his family drag
Out lives OA seem merely mechanical. If he
only knew it thie man is not capable of
nearly so much good work as if he were
blessed with restful, oheery, homesurroural.
ings,
.My experience has ehown that the land.
lord who finds you inclined to improve his
place and keep it attractive will -be much
more willing to furniah you with paint, pa.
per, repairs, eta., even though he be a skin-
flint with every one else. Try this plan for
O time and see how it works. Don't expect
results the first week, but wait three or four
months and then see if he heti not softened
O
bit.
ntyour morbid fear of benefiting some
one elso you are only cheating yourself.
The greatest outlay naceesitry to make your
rented place a real home in all but perreat.
ent possession is in muscle, The work oan
easily be done by your own hands, and if
you don't know how to do it it le high timo
youlearned.
An outlay of 26 cants will buy a rake with
which you can level your yard, and a dime
will purthase grilse weed. But don't stop
here ; have at least ono flower bed, plant
two or throe good outdoor roses and some
lilacs, Grape vines will not be out of place,
and smell fruits, like ourrant% and raspbor.
ries, will save you money for your table in
two or throe years. All time plants are
cheap and easily cared for, will make the
home attractive to yourself and family, and
(a great point to be pined) you tvill kern
to like the place.
Moving le very expensive bueinese, When
Foos oome to look at it carefully, and a
working man can oaeily keep himeelf poor
by moving every spring and fall, as so many
de. Money end .property..eanuot be onount-
ulated by a married man in rending about
the country or moving MOM place to plasm
every few months, If you are foroed by OJAI.
ourostaneez tO rent Matted of own the place
Where you live, try to 0001040 40 home of it end
yet 180i there Were fettle at Bang.kelc bus tea/ there, --(1).14. lett immoral.
celebrittion of the Majority of the King of
Shia, gild a Dare Wall Sant 111) in to balloon. Anti he sold: "Lot there be elite," and
No news Wail oven received frOM WWI tho "Meat fatally" ',Minded inte the World,
The Secret of Youth.
Ws sad to see how many elderly and
middle aged women take it for granted that
life holds nothing for them bot the role of
grandmother, Many a woman has but lit.
ole time for study while rearing a family;
but when the children are married anc,1;
gone to homes of their OW11, then comes th
time when she needs some outside interest.
If she Ime not something to t the her out of
herself sbe will turn to gossip and fancy
work to keep her busy.
This is just the time for her to desalt°
herself to some study Let her take up the
one that 000 a favorite in her sahool•days,
whether it be one of the sciences, painting
or music. If she has to predilection for
anything, let het' try several things until
she knows what she likes best.
10 ole liever does anything worth show-
ing, the time will not be lost, for the hap.
plum found in those hours of absorption hi
a chosen pursuit cannot be easily estunated"
But the midalle.aged woinan may surprise
herself by making a great success of her on-
dertaking. The titne would fail me to tell
of the distinction that has been won in dif•
ferent fields by people far from young.
Schliemann was thirty-four years of age
before he knew it word of Greek. George
Elliott was thirty.five when she put
her hand to the first of her great novels.
Prescott published the first of his almost
perfect histories at the ago of thirty.five.
Ogilvie, who »lade an excellent translation
of Homer, began to study Greek at fifty.
The first of the Waverly novels appeared
when the author was forty-one, and Cowper
was nearly fifty before he did his best work.
When we think of Mary Somerville at sixty,
writing upon the physical science, of Glad.
stone at eighty, hewing his oaks and study.
ing Homer, and of Tennyson, also an octo-
genarian, writing "Across the bar," no one
oan hold his hands and say u "2 am too
old to do anything of any moment."
"A man is only as old as he feels," says
Oliver Wendell Helmet, who certainly
°series a young heart, if kis head is gray.
Numberless cases that aro not so marked
might be ailed. A woman whose stories
have done an incalculable amount of good
did not 'dream that she could u rite until
her children had gone to homes of their own,
and she began to write to beguile her loneli-
ness. Another woman, when songs are
household favorites, did not know any.
thing of the theory of musio til/ she wee fifty,
when she began to study harmony, To day
she is well known as a composer, and ler
mueic supports her meet ootnfortably.
A grand•mother umed to dabble in her
grand -daughter's paints, and became so
altercated that she studied under a good
teacher. To -clay her pictures have an hon.
°red place in the water -color exhibitions,
Every woman cannot be ass artist, author
or musician, but every one of us can have
ome wide outside interest. We can tshe
1cip a course of reading that will sensibly
roaden our horizon ; if we curia travel,
we can go around the world in hooka, and
thus glean no small benefit without the toil
of treat)].
Lasted Reeeipte,
Humana JELtY. -The rhubarb for this
jelly should be a fine quality, and very freah
and in good season. Wash and cut the
rhubarb up in half-inch pieces. Wash
again, and put into the preserving pan with
ono breakfast cupful of water, Put it over
a slow fire, and Let it remain till ib is quite
roked and the juice extracted, Pour it all
nto a jelly bag, and let it drip all eight ;
then measere the juke, and to each lerge
breakfaat cupful add 1 lb of sugar, and to
the whole qnanblby add 2 tssspoonefuubn of
Ecovciered tinin ; War till ft boils, and let it
oil for ten mintilee ; put in pots for use ;
thie jelly is delicious, and always turtle ont
well. If the rhubarb ie very young, and
rnsegicontly very watery, let the juice run
ut with little or no water added, A good
plan is to put 50005 10 0, jar in Gloom, and
when the juice mins out of that um it
stead of water to boil the rerneieder. The
jolly always does well, but when soft use
lese 'water oe none.
hamatisn ChLEAM,-Plit Otte pint of hot
water on half an aline° of isinglass, Whim
Ib is quite diesolved tadol one tea cup of °remit
d one glass of brandy ; whialt till it ie e
froth ; color either with red current jolly or
a little adoring, and put into a slume.
When firm tern out
SWISS CNEAM.-CruMble doWn sponge
oaks and maoaroone into the bottom of e
glatla dish ; spread over thorn a little jam
ana ;soak with lemon syrup or 'sherry s take
two and to half breekfast mime main or part.
ly crown and partly good milk, flavour it
with lemon and ono dessert spoonful of corn
San', stir over the dre till it belle a few
minutes, than ;Air off the fire a IOW Inlinitils
1010040 0.10 add tho jauaic of half at lenien 1 when
crease the congestion, and practioally in the
congested districts could neither be con-
structed nor used ; and underground rail.
ways drawn by steam carriages are far too
costly to construct, besides involving far
too much vibration tor the Way of the
houses above, and too little air for the safety
of the travellers below. An inner and outer
circle of such raihv vs has been construct-
ed ; but though they carry multitudes, they
hardly seem to relieve the demand, they
cannot be made cheap, owing to the coral!.
tions of construction, and it has been found
practically impossible to push them across
the centres of traffic where they are most
required. What; is needed is either some
means of motion theough the air, which re-
motes to be discovered, or motion through
the earth at each a depth that buildings on
its surfnce are not interfered with, that the
streets are unconscious of the new subwitys,
and that the rights of property can hardly
be said to impede their construction. This
motion can be secured. Carriages filled with
human beings can be driven tin ough iron
pipes, 11 feet in diameter, placed tifty or
more fest below tho soil, at great yelooity,
yet without danger either of amident or of
asphyxiation.
The electric motors emit neither smoke
nor steam ; they can be made to ventilate ;
the pipes so that breathing is as easy as
above gronncl, and they supply daylight oe
its Nolen -lent, for themselves. The menet. I
ple of their structure is perfect ; but their I
use has been checked by avenue) impression
that pipes so laid and need at such a depth
would prodece unforeseen evils, and possi-
bly injure property very seriously. This
impression winnow be dispelled. The joint
committee, after hearing quantities of evi-
dence from experts, has reported that the
evidence is "conclusive in favor of the suffi-
reney and spimial adaptability of electric.
ty as a motive power for niiderground
tubular railways ;" that " way -leaves "
should be granted them to pass under any
rblie streets, on condition of their running
sufficient number of cheap trains.
"A special cablegram to %New York paper
says i -English rowers are just now very
much humbled, and are looking around tor
revenge. The cause of this is their defeat
in the diamond senile at Henley, when J. P.
Ooms, of Amsterdam, Holland, beat all the
crack English amateur millers. The
Dutchmen's victory was so decisive as Ste
leave no chance fo: the belief that it was a
fluke. He beat all his adversaries by near-
ly a quarter of a mile, rowing through
rough and smooth water with ease. The
next best man in this race was a French-
man named G MacIleury, who also dis-
tanced all his rivals aud an Irish doctor
named 8. M. Boyd: fairly distanced the
pick of England's amateur rowers."
Dr. Edward Lyttleton, headmaster of
Harleybury school, in a paper in The Edu-
cational ROVIOW, claims that cricket is not
only edecation, but education of the highest
type. The man who can wall; away from
the wicket having been badly run out by
his partner, after getting 20 runs without a
mistake ; or who can be wtongly given out
by an umpire in the morning of one day'e
match ; or who can see his slows coarsely
hit about by gome brawny child of eature
and again and again missed by a painstak-
ing but elderly set of fieldsmen, and under
oircumetances like these can retain cheer-
fulness and zest in the game, has learned
Mr. Lyttleton oonsidere) an amount of self.
discipline which no other frequent experi-
ence during his youth can possibly give
him.
Major Ailed, who is himself a practical
pigeon flyer, states that the Italians employ
pigeons very considerably in the Mediter,
ranean in connection with their ships of
war, The Breech also use them regularly
and systematically in the Mediterranean
during their naval maneuvers. This
Ober, however, is of the opinion that if ,
we are going to use birds to fly over water i
for naval purposes ducks would be better
than pigeons, because, when a dock gets '
tired, Ito drops and site on the water eutil
he be rested, multhen goes on apin. Dueks,
moreover, can bly by hight, while pigeons
=not. Mej. Allott thinks that sea pile
might, be trained &leo for messs,ge.beering 1
purposes. _Maj. Allent warns us againot
esmeetorbsn o'egnruling long flights bytiained
pigeons which hey° beesa pet forth on high
authority, It was at his euggestion thee
alt apootyphal tale of pigeons' gent out to
and returning frorti the arotio tegions,
which hes even Unposed upon Yarrel, was
expangod from the last edition of that
writer's' Beitish Birds." An equally
felee amount ef 0 pigeon flying 1,500 miloe
America is also extant. Maj. Allatt be. ,
lievee the greatest distanee pigeons have '
flown,of whloh we halm any emirate record, 1
in the moos which have taken place two
or three tames frall 'ROM LO Belgium, a
diatanee of betivaen SOO and 000 miles, But
n every one of those oases a very large pro.
portion of birds have been lost,
PERSONAL.
The lete Ditvid Latvia of a clothing fieie in
Liverpool alld alanoliester bequeathed all
his fortune, emept an annuity for his wife
itiol a few small legacies, for the benetlt of
the WOlithig OiltS908 of Liverpool and Man -
cheater. The fund is about to million of
dollars, and may amount to a million and
three•quitriees, He direeted his resithiery
legatees to use the moeey for the be»efit of
the poor of Liverpool and Meeoliester, lofty.
ing it to them personally, in order to
arttisfy the law, and trusting in their ohed•
lence to his instructions. Five or six
gentlemen from tho two cities have been
asked to ao-operate with tile holders of the
fortune M carrying out the testator's wishes.
dir. Lewis was known to have it fevorable
opinion of the Peabody system of dwellings,
but aome other plan may be adopted.
Ravnehol mane a long speech at hie triad
at Stontbrison justifying anarchy and his
own deeds by various arguments, this being
one : "Does not an etnployer, for instance,
desire to see the (Reappearance of a rival,
and do uot tradesmen in genetal wish alone
to enjoy the advantages which this kind of
occupation eau bring ? Does not the un-
employed workmen wish, in order that he
may obtain work, that for some reason the
man employed may be turned out of the
workshop 0Now, in it society where such
things happen there bus reason for surprise
at the nets leid to my charge, which are only
the logioel consequence of the struggle for
existence which forces mon in order to live
to employ all sorts of itteane,"
While the Republican Convention was in
session at; Mineepolis General Lew. Wallace
was at times t he venue uf a throng of fem-
inine admirers, who took every possible oc•
casion to testify to their int:er es ho
t 10hieforme n-
ous book J3en Nur. A pen staide
oral, drawu by a correspondent on the spot,
represents him 00 01000 of about sixtyyears,
witha fine large head and a brown Mee, the
mostnoticable feature of which is:the eleagy
gray eyebrows overhanging a pair of pleasant
dark eyes: He wears a light slouch -hat
pulled far down over his forhead, and con-
cealing the gray that has begun to ;how in
streaks in his dark hair. Hie voice 15 musi•
eel. Every woman, it is said, who met Gen-
eral NI ellace at Minneapolis asked some
question about the episode of the cheriot
race in Bca liar, or in someway made men-
tion of it.
Ex -King Milian lives in some style in a
fine house on the fashionable Avenue du
Bois de Boulogne, in Paris. He is known in
Itis exile ae the Count de Takova, and
though there is not much left of the glitter
of royalty about Mtn, he still has around
him a circle of friends who show nu sign of
dropping away while the fallen monarch's
money lasts. Milian gives most of his time
to the gaming -table, and partioularly to
baccarat, He is a reckless player, and his
losses here made disagreeable inroads in the
fortune which the Servian government gave
him in mitten for a quitclaim deed, so to
speak, of hie kingly privileges anal rights.
Two interesting reminiscences of Words-
worth have been furnished lately by air.
Gladstone and by the venerable British
Chartist Thomas Cooper. Mr. Gladstone
says that the poet dined with him as a
bachelor sixty years ago, and impressed
him as a man of noble appearance and beau-
tiful and simple manner, Mr. Cooper had
an interview with IVordsworth 00 Eyelet
Monnt, the poet's home, anti discovered
that be was somewhat jealous of Byron, of
whom he said, " If there were time I could
ahow you how Lord Byron is not so great a
1000 00 you think him to be, hut never mind
thatnow." Of the budding laureate, Words-
worth said to Mr. Cooper : " Tonnyscn
affords the richest promise. He will yet do
great things, and ought to have done greater
things by this time."
Nellie and Paul.
The bright sun gleams like burnished gold,
And little Paul 0 heart scarce can bold,
it's wealth of happiness, for he
Is ready:with his sister wee.
To trip atria the warm sunshine
And scio the soldiers totm in line.
Each little heart with joy expands
As close they clasp each other's hands,
And trot along the quaint old street
'MO little tired, dainty feet.
"Hark! there's the music," Nellie cries.
And oh, such joy fills Paul's dark eyes:
In martial file, "with fife and drums,
And gleaming bayonets it comes.
No prince, Pau thought could be more Rne,
Than these bravefellows formed in /the,
And when the drum beat rat, tat, too,
Paul craved a uniform of blue,
105 seemed no longer now a boy,
Fired with a true and partriet joy.
Then down his cheek a tear drop crept,
And little Nell thought brother wep,p,
" Me kiss you Paul, me wart to go.
But oh, the in Mile (Manned lilm so,
The march, and counter -march and ail,
Hisd magnet izod dear little Paul,
And yet it teas th e graceful thing
To break the spoil and homeward bring,
The sleepy child, at last he bore
His burden to the cottage door.
"44 I Nellie if lolled a tear,
'Twee not because 10010 after,
No, on the battlefield some day,
I'll prove the truth of whet I say."
A soldier wounded on t ho plain,
Xs borneunto his home
When Nellie nursed him with fond oar°
Aud saved ram by a sister's prayer,
"Paullived to see this glOriellS day,
Dawn fifty trawl and steal away ;
But neverfolb a my like that,
When the old drum went rat, tat, tat,
---
Shared.
X said it in the meadowpath,
I say it on the mountain stairs -
The best thing any mortal bath,
Aro those which every mortal shares.
The air we breathe, the sky, the breeze,
The light without tie and within -
/AM, with its unlocked treasures,
God'srlohes-are tot tie to win.
Tho grass le 901tee LO ley tread,
For reit it yields unnumbered feet ;
Sweeter to me the wild rose red,
Becauseshemakea the whole worldsweett
Into rout heavenly loneliness
Ye welcome me, °solemn peeks,
And me in every gent you bless
Who rovoraeleyyour mystery seeks,
And up the radiant peopled way
That opens into worlds enknown,
It will beliteat delight to aity,
"Heaven le not heaven tor me alone."
Ifich through my brethren's peverty -
Such wealth wove hideous II nimblest
Only in whet they them with
In what le hare with all the rest
-Irmo' Lateran,
The Holiest Better. I
• Dealer -If you vent to shine in imoicity,
you buy die suits 2 sell him for ten toiler,
Cestomer-All right, I'll take 'em,
Dealer's Little Boy (tome moments after)
you soil dot seit so oheap?
iDnee.ler -In von wook dot mit vill be 011
y
" Waiter, 2 wish you'd Ietoll Inc some
buckwheat °altos," "All right, sin" "Will
they be loug ?" "No, air; round."
Whila there 0. 00 initch within us to make
Wer upon, Itis gretnitoue to make war on
(MOW anemias.
A HH8T STORM AT SEA.
singular ExperfenTeror n Vessel! or out
team Or
A few daye ego, while returning to Tokio
from the southeto peel. of Japan, I joined,
says Ptolemy John Milne, writing to
Nature from Tokio, on April 23, the aunt-
ehip Yokohama lalaruawhioli while crone
Ing train Shaughal to Nagassid, had passed
through it curious dust storm. Small
emantities of tho that were yet to be seen
In sheltered corners of the vessel. The ecnn•
mender, Captain R. Swain, who gave me a
epeeimen of the materiel, told me that an
April 2, when about 05 miles west by south
of Nagasaki (long, 128deg E, lat. 32de‘g
20min lc), at about 0 p.m. the sun appeared
quite yellow. The etmosphere was moist,
and rendered everything npon the deck ot
the ship quite dump, The preeipitated
moieture was yellowish, and as it dried it
loft an extremely fine powder. For
two days previoesly the wind hed been
blowing weatasoutlawest, or from China.
Nothing was loft in the oyee, and if the
shiphad not been covered with yellowpowcler
the plieeomenon would have been regarded
as an ordinary but peculiarly coloured
fog.. The yellow atmosphere was noticed
during the afternoon of the 21, At mid.
night the wind °lunged to note lawest-that
is, from Corea. The probability, however,
is that the material came from the Loess
plains of China. In Nagasaki, which is 390
miles from the mast of Ohina, a yellow aun
was noticed on the morning of the 20, and
during the day, whilst duet was being pre-
cipitated, the appearance of the atmosphere
was compared to that of a London fog. On
April 1 there was a fall of dust in the
neighborhood of News, in Okinawa -ken, and
on the ffil dant fell in Gifu -the district
where the roma great earthquake took
place, The P. and 0. steamship Verona,
which left Hong Kong on April 1, experi•
oncel the same phenomenon as the Yoko-
hama Marta the vessel being (levered with
a fine dust, whieli, when suspended in the
;atmosphere, ge.ye rise to so much haze that
land was not seen until reaching Nagasaki.
0,n April 3 a yellow sun wits seen in Yoko-
hama, but 0 am not aware that any dust was.
observed. Roughly speaking, it therefore
Booms that on April 2, at a distance of from
200 to 400 miler; from the coast of China,
there was a cloud of duet which may }moo
been over 1000 milee andpossibly 2000 miles
in length. Dr. B. Koto, who examined a
specimen, tells me that the particles are
chiefly felspar, but there is a little quartz
and shreds of plahts.
Brutal Murder in Vienna.
Vienna. WM startled on Wednesday by
the news of another savage murder, in which
a woman was eosin the victim. The °rime
was committed at eight o'clock last nighe
in the populous Leopoldstadt quarter of
Vienna. A woman named Victoria Dees,
who keeps a small inilkshop in the Circus
Gesso, was seen by passers-by to rush from
her house into the street, shrieking piteous- .
ly, and to their horror, after going a few
steps, she fell dead on the pavement. A
crowa quickly collected, and it was found
that streams of blood were issuing from
terrible wounds in tha woman's breast.
These had been inflicted by a long thin
knife, which was buried to the hilt in the
body, only the handle protruding from the
back of the murdered woman. Beyond this
there was no clue wbatever as to the pee.
petrators of the murder. Herr Stejskal,
the newly -appointed chief of police, was at
once summoned to the scene, and he sent
out a f n11 force of detectives to search the
various inns and the haunts of auspicious
characters in tho city. Suspicion fell upon
a man named Potiowski, NV110 hi a stoker on
one of the Danube steamers, and who was
at one time employed by the morderecl wom-
an, but was discharged a year ago, when
he was known to have uttered certain
threats against his mistress. Early this
morning the police promeded to a house in
the Fuenthaus district and arrested the sus -
putted mom who was staying in his sister's
house. Ponowska on hearmg the police
entering the house, took up a revolver and
shot himself in the head. Although he did
not succeed in his attempt at suicide he in-
flicted serious injuries upon himself, and is
now lying in the police hospital, whither he
vas at once conveyed in a precarious condi-
tion.
Severe Thunderstorm in England.
Ou Tuesday night a thunderstorm of
great severity broke over England, In
several places much damage has been done.
In Essex groat damage was done by the
storm to the fruit, and tho crops suffered
eoneiderably. In the Luton district of Bed-
fordshire the rain flooded &number of dwell-
ingthouses. All lowlying land in the
vicinity of Liverpool was flooded, and at
Stanley Station on the North•Western local
line to Bootle, the water'rose to a depth of
ten feet owing to the bursting of a sewer,
and the traillo Wae entirely stopped. The
tunnel under Lord Tiohfield's estate on the
London and 8outh.Western Line, south of
Stafford, wee also flooded, and the down ex-
press was stopped, Great damage was
done to the orops in Kent, and at Canter-
bury the lower portions of many houses
were filled with water. During tho night
the heavy rain loosened a large moats of
earth on the railway cutting near Shugbro'
Tunnel, Stafford, and early yesterday morn -
lig it slipped on to the line. The ram also
wathed away a considerable length of the
rails. Before the damage was die:moored a.
mail train from London ran inM the fallen
earth, and was brought to a standstill.
The paasengers were badly shaken, but,a0.
far as is known, nobody wee seriously injur-
ed. They wore conveyed to Stafford by
another route. A. windmill and a steam.
mill at Ohathein were fired by lightning
and destroyed, the damage being estimated
at ROVOI141 thousand pounds, Many streets
and houses were flooded.
Burned to Heath.
A Brantford, despatch says i -A sad
death by burning took plane in the oity
yesterday morning. Miss Mary McMullen,
of St. Georgia woe staying with her sister,
Mrs, Quinlan, in order to nurse her, and all
5 o'olook in the morning she got up at the
request of the inother, to get a little ehild
in the room a drink of water, She eithee
fell with tho lamp or ohm it exploded. Hoe
nightdrese was set on fire &lid she rushed
cmt into the etreet A neighbor finally
throws blanket around her. She had, how.
over, auatained such severe injuries that
she died in two or Mune hours, The hotted
malght fire but the flames were subdued.
Deceased WM 00 yearti of age.
joe Darby, phenomenal English jumper,
broke the Jumping named at Church, Eng,
land, reeently, 00 eix baok jumps ho cleat.
ed 08 foot, bratitig the asseirldae Nord by
three fools With aultlee tied he jumped
Six feet lugh, o his own record by two
Moho. De also liotb the r000rd for five
hops and to jump,