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The Brussels Post, 1892-10-28, Page 7OCT, 28, 7.892 THE BRUSSELS POST. LATE LRzTISTINEWS, moan nc a lltttttitifirinnale e farm, which I brown n now light ci the natural h!slnry of the hedgehog 1titherto it has boon sup- posed that hedgehogs fad epee rents and ineoute,bnt on several nights lately rhieltene At Pilltown, South Kilkenny, on Ms uday, a Wenner maned Than \l Uarth was re. turned for trial on a °hut•ge of waylaying on 0 lonely toad and attempting to murder John Rondo, Fire broke out in the shipbuilding works of Messrs. Workman, Clark & 0o., en Sun• day evening, at lehfaot. Great desi ruction of the property and ensponelon of the works is the result, A mon who hirer Ihimeelf at Redhill on Monday has been identified as Mr. Freder- ick G. Wheeler, soliuito', practicing at Wandsworth. The (Icor/mad, who lied been missing from his home for several weeks, was sixty years of ago. Mr. C. E. Cooke, of Lituharn, Norfolk, has sold his celebrated hackney stallion, Cadet, for 13,000 to Mr, 00ssatt, president of the Amerman Hackney Horse Society, ' 1 . The animal, which is eight yoga old, is to bo despatched to the United States. During the past wook there have boon ex- traordinary flights of wild geese across Hnutingdonshiro, On ono day the flights continued almost without interruption for four hours. Tho circumstance is atogether remarkable, and is believed to portend ap- proaching severe or stormweather. The Bristol Town Council on Tuesday adopted by forty votes to eight a repot of the Docks Committee to construct now docks at Avonmouth at a cost of over ono million sterling. A bill is to be promoted in the next session for that purpose. Professor Baldwin, the parachutist, met with aserious aooidoht on Monday after- noon when descending with his parachute from a balloon ab Stookport. He alighted against the buildings in a populous part et the town and severely injured his artn and other parts 1f his body. He had to bo con- veyed to the infirmary in a nab. The Essex coroner held an inquest at Dunmow ou Monday respecting the death of Charles Burls, aged 28, a stockman, who, with a number of labourers, was returning home from Dunmow on was night after a harvest jollification, when he fell out of tho waggon and broke his neck. The jury found that death was accidental, 'An inquiry was hold at Listowel, on Wed- nesday, touching the murder of Michael Dillons, who had boon boycotted, and was killed at Bullybunion on Aagusb 15. A brother of the deceased, it appeared, had taken the farm of an evicted tenant. Eight prisoners appeared in the ease, four of whom were now discharged and four remanded. Sister Maxima, lvhho took the veil three years ago, was found dead on Saturday at the font of asacred imago in the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy at Agram, Croatia. The eircu mstauces pone b to suicide by poison. Sister Maxima had evidently been suffering from religious mania, and was continually declaring herself to be a great sinner and unworthy to live. Mr. John Dillon, M. P., met with a seri- one occident in Dublin on Sunday. IIe was driving home from Westland Row Station ou a oar when the horse fell and the hon. member was pitched off. He eustnined a severe cut on the face, broke one of the bones of his left forearm, and was generally shaken. He was progressing favourably ou Ssnday flight. On Friday week a man named George Sutton, 31 years ot ago, employed as a press worker at Birmingham steel works, am. milted suicide by planing his head ender a shall steam hammer weighing about four hundredweight. His head was crashed to a pulp and the brain bespattered the floor. It is supposed that Sutton lingered behind, and committed the act after 1115 fellow - workmen had left. On the arrival of the 10.27 p.m. train from Enfield Town, at the Rectory Road Station of the Greet Eastern Railway, on Monday night, the guard's attention was called to a passenger lying on the floor of a first-class carriage. On examination the man was found to have a bullet wound in the lead. He was alive, but uncohsei005, and held a revolver in his hand, Ho was taken charge of by the polios, but was not iden trifled. A serious figght took place on Sunday at Scholey Hill, \fethley, between Rothwell and Castletord nen- They are said to have been about a dozen mon on each side, and a Rothwell man is stated to have been badly injured. In addition to the injuries rose - ting from the fight, it is alleged that he was worried by a bulldog, and had to be taken home in a cart. He is under the care of a medical man. Much oaoitement has been caused at Dow - labs by the arresb by the pollee der. sloping couple from Herefordshire. The lady, who is of prepossessing appearance, is the wife of a gardener at agentlenan's seat; near Here- ford, and the young man hails from Merthyr• Tydvil. The lady had brought with ear sums of money ancl several articles from her home, and the police arrested the errant pair on a charge of theft. On Monday at St. Helen's Police Court Patrick Curley, of Liverpool street, was charged with wounding Thomas McKay. The 'nen were drinking together in the Queen's Vaults, Bridge street, on Saturday night, when they quarrelled and fought. While they wifere wrestling under a table, Curley bit off the ear of McKay. Curley was sent to jail for 28 days without the option of a fine. At the annual Poor•Law Conference for Lancashire and Cheshire, Mr. J. P. Hibbert, M. P., referred to the increase of insanity. In 1868 rho number of lunatics was 20,000 ; in 1888 they had risen to 42,000 ; in 1888 to 71,000 ; and in 1892, the last return, to 76,700. Whether this increase of insanity wee due to the rapid life that everybody lived, he was not able to say ; but there was one great predisposing oause, and that was the drunkenhabits ofa largepartof the pop- ulation. A young man named Herbert Best has been admitted to the Sheffield Infirmary 'Mitering Iron a severe injury to the leg. Best was passing a piece of wasto land on 'which some boys were amusing themselves with a toy cannon, when he felt a sharp pain in the thigh. He fell clown, and on some passers-by rushing to his assistance, it was found that he had boon shot in the leg which was bleeding profusely. Best was medical. ly attended, and with difficulty the bullet, which was of large size, weighing throe - ()tatters of an ounce was extracted. Tho jewels worn by Mrs. Langtry in the differentaots of the "Quoon of Motion," are altogether worth between 100,000 and 470. 000 (Woman eve), The diemond and ruby necklaeti worn in tine tihi1d set actually cost £9,00n, Behind the Scenes may bo seen a mysterious individual—neither stage ear- potttor, dresser,nor aoboe—wandering about wttho,t any 0pparent business. Hole a de - specially selected et ailment of hie aequeintaeo with the waysandhome of ex- port jewellery thieves, A remarkable discovery has jtteb been had been minaret front a hen most em the hunt of :\1r. lfpnhnrah, Yuddlek Drove, and a (10teh being kept, a hedgehog was dls- euver0d in the act of unmaking and devour. ing a nhiulten. As it is le mimeo practice to keep these creatures ht gardens and bots houses, for the puepnse of destroying 1,ce- tlee, worms, Po., it is a'natter ei culgdete nide Internet if it should 110 found that they do not confute their attentions to this ulnae of faro. At St, Helens, the other day, four collier wefo charged with oruolly illtroatiug pigeons, ,Sergeant Smith said that ono Phan:day afternoon he saw the defendants with a number of pigeons, Boffinthrow- mg the pigeons nto the air they tied wreakers to their tails ltd lighted them, with the result that the oraukors exploded three or four times when the birds were up, Each explosion jerked the bird a yard or two higher in the air, After e1101h ex• plosion a number of feathers fell. Colonel \W, W. Pilkington, chairman, said it was a very barbaroue and cruel amusement. Tho best possible thing to be done would be to ram their pockets fall of powder and light it, and see how they would liko it. The two older defendants wore fined 10s. and costa ; the others being only boys were discharged with a caution.. DISASTROUS COLLISION. Two Steamers Come Together Ina Fee Deny Lives Lost, AScattle, Wash., despatch says :—The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Premier was etruok by the steam collier \Williamette in a dense fog off Whidby island, about 10 miles south of Port Townsend, yesterday after. noon. Five were killed and drowned and 17 badly wounded. The steam tug Colfah arrived this morning with three of the dead, and all of the wounded and other passengers, after having spent several hours in an attempt to save from the wreak the body of an unknown passenger wedged in there. now IT OCCURRED. The Prenior lett Port Townsend about half -past one yesterday for Seattle in a heavy fog, blowing her whistle continually. When off Point -No -Point, another whistle sounded Diose by, and almost immediately afterwards a terrific crash was heard. The fore -cabin of the Premier was gnashed to splinters and the prow of the Willlamelts was found jammed in the bow of the Premier. The Williamette was laden with coal, and was on her way from Seattle to San Fran- cisco. • Two persons in the Premier's cabin were killed. A steward, who was in the saloon eating his dinner was instantly kill- od, Several other passengers were jammed in tine debris, some of them seriously wound- ed, and all more or lose bruised. The stem of the \Villiamsttc was so deeply embedded in the Premier that the passengers scrambl- ed over broken woodwork to the collier. The ladies were handed up first, followed by the woundedas fest as they could be moved. lien with broken limbs, and both mon and women with bleeding faces and bodies, were helped up. It was found to be impossible to draw off the \Villiamotte without sicking the Premier, so Capt. Anderson 1ETEm\mI:cep 00 HORDE 0I0E011, dividing before him tho steamer spiked on Ms bow. He forced her back on the beach, and was so tightly wedged that he could not back off without dragging the Premier with him. The tag Goliath was hailed and took off the passengers, bearing them to Seattle, whore they arrived about midnight. 'Ile recoding tido left both steamers stranded and still interlocked. Although the affair was over in a few moments and the passon. gors quickly recovered from their moment. cry shock and fright there were some piti- able scenes. One woman, whose name is unknown, was crazed with fear and inn/ mediately sprang overboard. How Many Separate Parts Does a Watoh Comprise 7 It has sometimes been remarked that an average watch consists of 175 different parts, but Mr. Dont, the well-known timepiece manufacturer, has stated that every watch consists of at least 202 pieces, employing 215 persons distributed amongst forty trades, to say nothing of the tool makers for all of them. It was further stated that if any material alteration were made in the construction of the watch all the trades would have to bo roloarnt, new tools and wheel cutting engines devised, and tho majority of the workmen begin life again. The balance of a watch gives 18,000 beats or vibrations in an hour, or 157,680,000 in a year. Ina bar horizontal watch there aro aboub 164 separate pieces without the 0050, and 170 including the ease. There are the bottom plate, the pottance, the endetone, and endstohosorewpieee, five holes in w'hioln the pivots work in the bottom plate, twen- ty-five holes in which screws and the study pin fit in, the cylinder cook and the 000010, in which thorn is a jewel hole ; the index endstone, endetone piece, and 031(15tone aerates; the cylinder, the balance, the hair- spring pin, collet, and stud ; the 'soape wheel with its pinion and nook, in which there is a jewel hole ; the fourth wheel with its pinion and cook, 111 which there is a hole for the fourth pivot; the third wheel with its pinion, and the aselt in which there is a hole for rho third pivot' the centre wheel ba', in which there is a hole for the pivot of the oentre wheel itself ; the barrel with its cover and arbor, the mainspring, the star wheel and stop finger, the side click and screw, the ratchet wheel with oover, and four cover somes, the cannon, the centro square and cup, the Hour and minute wheels, the dial, two screws, the hour and minute hands, the seconds band, eight bare sorewe, the ease with screw for fastenie the movement, the fly spring, the look spring, the dome, the glass, the bow, the bow screw, and the push pin, A keyless watch has rather more pieces. ODD AND ENDS. Pittsburg ]roe a $35,000 saw. Don'tbe afraid to speak well of yourself ; there are plenty only too anxious to speak ill of you. There may be nothing witty in the wag of a dog's tai), yob it is the animal's way of ex• pressing a smile. arrested Who n a mat o is for drunlcomesa in Alpena, IVlioli., 1io is sentenced for sixty days to a gold•oure e5tablislnnenb. A law passed in England in 1750 declared that et parties "ladies must not got tlrtinit under any pretext whatovsr, and gentlemen nob before 9 o'elook." Tho famous Treadwell mine in Meeker Which has yielded more than $3,000,000 in gold bullion, was purelaeed by rho man of whore it was namod for $300, YOUNG POLK& i Now lot us look at anotheraetcal Mai" The New Baby. out. n the tlnor,sto the windiest morning. Bright hair for the little head's only itch/rang. Ills eras aldose with nxt'ittnent and Joy. - The wen little will-W.41in wisp ot n hoe 1 1 was guing by as str,dOht no y011 none=a, \yhon lin hailed 111(1 with this astonishing ntlsve' "0 ole, die( yon hoar 'bout our baby ea./entre A-1 (mut any tactics nnctjtst two or frne hairs 1 I for ayes tiro shuts' n x° you can't look Peon, But 1 opened ono, turd that ono was b!nn, 810's Daly.lust Ike, 1111 wn mums her a name, 'Uses,,, don't you sun, 00n00, eho'e only Just. 0(0018 1 She's most ton lvents, to tickle and touch lint l appreelwala her m vary nob, iter nos fs 11ug but it miigh'be pngger, if yob it ecus 11/0 110W, 11 go In -and hug -.1Annio IInn111ton tonnoll. Aunt Nan's Soars. "Gamma, 0 gamma, can t I go up in the akklt to play? Can't I please, 5anrtla?" and the sweet little face looted up into grandma's, fairly quivering with pager. nese. 0000d3na bent down, and taking the soft, rosy chocks between her two hands, pressed a lovhn; kiss on the little mouth. "tan% , ' m a "the pleading voice tat n t I gat ;,a t o P p 6 repeated ; but grandma hesitated. "Why are you so afmid to have her play in the attic, mother?" said Auntie Nan, "She is a careful little girl, and the enjoys it so mnoh. Do let her go 1" "Well, darling," said grandma, slowly, "You may ; but wait n moment," as Mid- get started to fly off. "You won't play at the head of the stairs?" "No, gamine." "Nor lean out the window?" The yellow curls shook vigorously. "Nor get into any of the trunks?" "No, no, gamins 1" and the curls shook harder than ever, "I'll 'member it all— every single bit. Cone on, dolly ; gamma Pays we can go up to the akkit," and seiz- ing her favorite Betsey, Midget rushed away. "She thinks more of that old doll than any of the rest," laughed Aunt Nan, look. ing at the row of handsome, finely dressed dollies seated primly on the sofa. It used to he my favorite, too; but I didn't have such as these to compare it with." "It would have made no difference if you had," said grandma. "Children can take more solid comfort with an ever -day sort of a doll like that than with any of the lino ones." "What a comfort Midget is 1" said auntie, lovingly. "I wish Sarah would lot us have her all the time, though I don't see how she can spare her an holo•." "She is staying up there a long time," said grandma, after awhile. 1 believe I'll just go up and aeo what she is about." "Now, mother," Aunt Nan replied, "what is the nee of your tiring yourself in that way? Midget is old right , she always does as she promises. "I'in going to get supper now ; then I'll nal) her," and the brisk young auntie bust- led out Into the kitchen, and soon 1005 '(1 Ileo foot of the attic stairs calling merrily, "Anybody up there that wants raspberry shortcake for supper?" There was no response, so saying, "She must be asleep," auntie ran. Lightly up -Moira and looked all around. No Midget was to be seen, so she began calling, but suddenly stopped and sank to the floor with both holds over her face. There in a corner, she suddenly saw peep. ing from beneath the lid of an old trunk, was a bit of Midget's little pink dress. Only a moment Auut Nan sat thus, thea nerving herself, she quickly rose and grasp- ed the lid, faint and sink, but thinking, " 11 Islay not have been very long." The trunk opened, and then she sank on the Jloor again, laughing and drying to- Bgether, for there on a pile of blankets lay etsy, robed in her mistress's pink dress, and gazing sweetly up into Ault Nan's bee. Aunt Nan soon got up again, and grab- bing the doll, gave it a shako, saying, "I could almost shake Midget herself for giv- ing me such a fright." Jest as she was beginning to hunt for her small niece again, she lhotord grandma call- ing at the foot of the stairs, Are you up there looking for Midget? You may as well stop. See hero." So with Betsey still in her arms, Aunt Nan ran clown and followed grandma to her own room. There in the middle of rho bed leas Midget, fast asleep, Her rosy little face was half•hldden in tho depths of an old frilled muslin cap, not so very unlike her own dainty bonnet. A white crape shawl was wrapped around her, tend a black silk skirt completed her costume. " To think," exclaimed grandma, "of her coming down stairs in that dress 1 What if she bad tripped on it 1 That was something I didn't thin]( of." Aunt Nan vas laughing at the funny lit- tle figure ; and soon Midget's eyes began to open, falling first of all on the doll which 0unbio was holding absentmindedly under her arm, head downward. " 0 Auntie Nan," Midget cried, in tones of distrese ; " you're holding Betsey so the blood'll all run into her heed. Don't, don't! Give her to ane." Aunt Nall hastily restored the doll to a proper position, then laid herin the little mothers arms, where she was hugged ten- derly, "Didn't her have a doe bed, Auntie Nan?" said Midget. "Wlhat made you wake her up for 1" Then Aunt Nan told her story. Grandma was shocked and felt very sorry for her, but Midget said, a little severely, "I tolled gamma I wouldn't get in the trunk, didn't I? So course it wasn't me. You'd -otight to have b'lieved mo, and then you wouldn't have mart youeelf so. Is sup- per most ready? Betsey and I'se so hun. gry," Learning a Businese- A gentleman who had induced a large pnbliah'ng Luise to tante his sot, as boy, into ,(s employ ata moderate rate of pay, noticing since, was ospocially anxious in hie request that the young man should be made to work and learn the business. This instruction was needless, as although modern fashion had done away with much of the jaliter and porterage work of old times, yob the ,young mat found the sole°• non of stook for ord. rs, packing the same, entering, charging (1 to, and oocasioal errands, kept 111111 actively employed for about Len hours 0 day, with an hour out for dinner. At the end of three weeks' timo he failed to put in 1811 appearance, but rho father i morning with the information walked m one motel that John would notrebnru to rho position, II Why not?" asked the publisher, 151 Well, John has to have his breakfast at 7:30every morning to get hero, and then be is not used to carry bundles, and some- times ilo'e been sent with books right up to the houses of people we know socially. My son hasn't boon brought up that way, and I guess I won't havehfnloarn this business." He did not; and what's more, he neve learned any other business, that of the eon of a wealthy ntill.owner de. sirhltr to become a manager of the mills, " But this 10 imposeiblo," said the father, "uuleee your preen:taliy learn the 1u1d• neon" " Phar is what 1 would like to do," said the son, "Betio beeone a ruperbhtereloltor mag• aj,'ror, 8110 prefer to man who has risen from the ranks mei ttuflerstamds the, merhtullcrll department and the ways of employees. Let 010 begin in the rant(.., then, replied tate young roan. Not only was tins done, but the young tette went and boarded 10 the mendacities, ing town at a workman's boarding-house, and went in and out of the factory at bell call. In three years he was format In one of the departments, and a former classmate and woll.known enoloty man calling there upon hits, was surprised at meeting a stair overt fellow in blue overalls, with hands so soiled with machinery oil as to prevent the conventional hand -shake, But this young elan persevered, made and paid his own way himself, and his father concluded it would not injure his future prospeute. Judging from the fact that lie is now manager of mills (not his father's), at a salary ot 810,000 a year, and with ability to connnand even a better oompen• cation and partnership, is evidence that " learning a business," even by a roan with a good education and a rich father, pays a good return, both in money and manly in- dopendeace. POISON ONLY TO THE BLOOD. interesting Facts )regarding the Deadly venom or ltcnulce. Nature seems to have provided that no poison which O'1.s externally shall have any effect internally, and vice versa. Thus the meet deadly snake venom can be swallowed with impunity, tido juices of the stomach presumably decomposing and rendering it harmless. Many experiments have been made to prove this. On one occasion re- corded by Humboldt, one person swallowed the whole of the poison that could be ob. tained from four Italian vipers without suffering any bad consequences. In the same way the envenomed arrows of the South Americans can be swallowed with safety, provided only that there is no wound on the lips or inside the mouth. Fontana, who in 1837 published a book on poisons, renarks: " Being reduced by contradictory evi- dence to the necessity of testing the venom myself. I did so, b111 net without repug- nance, and I shall advise no one to try It 10 gayety of heat boob he should happen to have some excoriation on the tongue—a nit•• oumstconce not always easy to determine. I could find no taste in it except a very insipid liquor. Among all the people the sucking of the wound las ever been considered the most effective remedy of immediate application for snake bites,- In Africa a cupping in strnntent is employed in emergencies of the kind to draw oat the poisoned blood. The ancients followed the some method, and when Cato made his famous expedition through theserpent•infeeted African deserts he employed savage snake charmers, called Psylli, to follow the army. Tney performed many mysterious rites over men who were bitten, but the efficacy of their treatment appears to have consisted in sucking the'I wounds. A vivid notion of the iutensiby of a cobra's venom is given by the exporienee of Dr. Francis T. Buckland. He put a rat into a cage with a smoke of that species, and it was killed after a plucky fight. Upon examin- ing the skin of the dead rat immediately afterward the found two very minute puma - tures like small needle holes where the fangs of the aobra h d entered. The flesh seemed already to have actually mortified in the neighborhood of the wound. Anxious to find out if to skin was affected. Dr. P,uekland scraped away the hair from it with his finger nail. Then he threw the rob away and started homeward. He hod not walked a hundred yards before all of a sudden he felt as it somebody had come be- hind him and struck him a severe blow on the head and neck. At the same time lie experienced a. most scute pain and sense of oppression about the chest. He know in- stantly that he was poisoned, and so lost no time in seeking en apothecary shop, where Ile was dosed with brandy and ammonia. He came very near dying. Undoubtedly a small quantity of venom had made its way into his system through a little out beneath his nail, where it bad been separated slightly from the flesh in the process of cleaning the nail with a penknife a lino time before, The Sootohman's Prayer. " G'raolous Providence 1 Bless toll ta Mao• and to Maadonald's children for donalda, , sons' sons, and ter daughters' daughters, for a thoosand years 10115 sync. Be gracious to send us mountains of snuff and tobacco, and send ns rivers of whisky—ta very finest whisky 1 Oh, yes 1 And send us hills of potatoes, and bread and cheeses as big as all to Howe of Strathmore. And, moreover, likewise, send us floods of water, tat tore may pe grass for plenty for man and boast, and some to spare for to parish. Send us guns and pistols as more as to sea 011 to sand shore ; and swords, too, likewise to hill all M to Grants and ba aephersonefor evermore. Bless ta woo stirk, and mak' Mtn a big coo before Martinue. Bless to wee son, too, and mak' him a big boar likewise. Ob, yes 1 Put to strength of Samson iuto Donald's arms, and send us parley, kale and Dorn prodigious. Bless all to bairns—Dnnoan and Rory and Flora, and you Donald and and you Louohie, and you Peter. 0 Lord, if yon lee ouything to ge, dinna gie it to a Irish, bub gie it to thine tune chosen people, the Sootch ; and glorious yours for ever- more." Chemicals in Man's Make np. De. La caster, the eminent London epe- oialiet, 80)10 1e said to have wholly discarded the title" physician and surgeon," because he ions Kot consider one luau inn thousand worthy of the title, rooently analyzed the body of mon and gave the results of the in. Wresting oxpeh•inent to Isis class in chemis- try. Tho body operated on weighed 134.4 pounds, being about what is (11own as the "average -sized man." During his lecture the doctor exhibited to his class 23.1 pounds of carbon, 2,0pounds of lisle, 22.3 ounces of phosphorus, 0ncl about ono (1) ounce each of sodium (salt) 51'011, potassium, magnesium, and silicon. All of these different minerals he had extracted from the body of that ono mag 1 But that was not all. Besides the above " eolid residue," Professor Lancaster estimated that thee 1001305505 cubic foot of 2 of nd103,000 oxygen, weighing 121 p t s a 00bi0 fent of hydrogo),-woightug 15.4 pounds, be- sides 62 cubic feet of uitrogeu in that man's body 1 All those elements warn combined in the following : One hundred and twenty- one pounds of water, 10.6 pounds of gobs tine,1.32 pounds of fat, 8.8 pounds of fibrin and albumen, and 7.7 pounds of phoshato of lime and other minerals 1 CRIME UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. The A11%01011110 Burglar Dees 5111 lYe1'It' Down olid Torr( Until surrcl.. The Australasian gi000 the following A New York deep' :+a :- Ito•'. count of a et'llsationel safe robbery at Mel 1 y 1 thine homer 1 Suortly before daybreak on Sou flay the city i1 011000 of Messrs, Maple Nick less, et Co., t.'rri,rs, Collins St, Wad were entered by UO, u burglars, who aur prised the watollmtul aalrIlIt, fuel ltavilt;, securely gagged and lotted hint, forced their way into the office, ehattefed a heavy safe by an explosion of gunpowder, cull gut clear away with a booty of between 1,1.:0 tun 0130• When the eb.rlce won,. away on Sat erday a sum of bntwecu SI 10 and :0110 wee left in the office safe. Ot this amount be tweet' 1;120 autl 0130 was in cash, 5107 rep. resentieg fees paid by the carters, and the lsdauco money collected on account of consignors. By 7 o'clock in the evening the premien; were looped up for the night, and not long afterwards, having sat billed himself that everything was secure, Gunning, m employe who sleeps on the premises, lay down to sleep on an improvised bed of sacks at the angle of the platio(t—a position speoially chosen in oder that, lyitm as was lus wont on his right side, he would prac- ideally keep the whole of the enclosure in view" Some hours later he was awakened from a sound sleep by feeling aomothing passing lightly over his face, and a voice said in a hoarse whisper—" and is the ----." Still half asleep he was 5010ED E0 011(0111, 11100, and something aold was pressed against his forehead, while the man who held it called out sternly—" Keep quiet, and you are all right. " It was pitch Clark, except for the few rays of moonlight winch oropt through the chinks, and in the momentary struggle which followed Gunning had no opportunity of seeing his assailants' faces. Before he well realized what was happening, a gag was thrust brutally into hie mouth, he we thrown face downwards, his hands tied be- hind his back, and his feet strapped to a heavy box. As an additional security the pillow was thrown over his head, and thus blinded, dumb, and helpless, he was left under the guard of one of the gang to judge by hearing alone of the events which fol- lowed, Onnnings keys had been taken from his trousers' pockets, and presently he heard the office door tried. Apparently the lookwas stiff, for after one or two attempts it w05 burst bodily in. Meautinte, the In,,, who was guarding him kept canitlnl:Idly examining his fastenings, and passing his hand over the gag to see that it was seour0 Gunning enticed that it was an unusually' mainland, and fairly smooth, and tale, beyond the fact that the men were appar- ently of love stature, and that one of them wore a brown boxer hat, was the only information on the subject of the thieves which he was able to give. After the first assault no one spoke, but from the office came the clinking of a chisel, and Men, after a long pause .i 'rltL:MUSDSL' (313(0101 COLUMBUS CELEBRATION, Procession 11f 1;rlhen160151' Tablets trig 0 Seebeolglrle-=1'Im' ISI.111a11 ('Ing Deeided and a heavy crash. When this explosion happened the fan by Gunning's aide went away for a moment, and this was the only i occasion of witioh he was left unguarded. A quarter of an hour or so later, as well as lie could judge, his fastenings were once more oarefully examined, and then he was left alone. The gag had been so rudely ap- plied as to force one of Gunning's teeth out by the roots, and this gave it a little play, without which he would scarcely have been able to breathe. When the burglars hod gone Gunning was a'io, by pressing it ag0mst rho edge of 1115 pillow, to loosen the gag still further, and after twenty minutes' hard work he managed to free his month. Still he was too securely tied to move, and he could only cry faintly for Help, with lit- tle hope that his voice could reach so far as tho deserted streets. But for one nob of carelessness on the part of the thieves the unfortunate vanman might have remained on his bed until Monday morning. As it happened, on leaving by the Francis Street entrance they were in too great a hurry to quite close the gate, std not long afterwards Constable O'Malley, passing down Francis Street on his beat, noticed ono of the leaves about 9:110 open,and discovered that the pad - look had been wrenched bodily off from the inside, and that the galvanised iron on the bottom of the gate had been out and bent book to alloyed someone's entrance. As soon as he entered the store he heard Gunning's CRIES iron HELP, and the watchman was promptly released from his bonds. It was found then that the thieves had accomplished their work with the greatest completeness. The heavy safe, one of Skidmore's manufacture, and weighing at least 3 own, had been torn from its plaeo by an explosion of such force that the outer plate of the door had been strip. ped off like a sheet of notepaper, and the solid hinges snapped to pieces. A few panes of glass in the skylight had been shattered, and 5 este shelves loosened from the wall, but otherwise the whole force of the oharge seemed to have spent itself within the safe. Apparently a hole had been drilled through the door, and a couple of pounds or so of gunpowder poured in and ignited from a safe distance by a fuse. A half -burned piece of twisted tape, well soaked with tar, was picked up on the floor, and gave another proof of the care with which the burglary had boon planned. The thieves had thought out every detail, and had brought with them even the rope lashings and the straps for Gunning's hands and feet, and the gag —a formidable lump of pressed paper about the size and shape of an egg. After opening the oash box they had carefully 80100110 OUT ITS CONTENTS, taking only coin and bank notes, and leav- ing all the cheques, even those payable to bearer, behind them, Apparently tho rob- bery was committed by two men and a boy, because tho cut in the galvanisod-hron door, through which an entrance was effected to get at the padlock, is too small to allow the passage of a full-grown man. Tho boy was probably left to guard Gunning, and this would account for the peculiarity to which the watohman had alluded -the smallness of the hand wbiah he fret passing over his face, The resort to gunpowder, too, shows that the robbers had carefully studied the position of tho grontd, slitoo the internal arrangements of the store rendered it tin - possible to remove the safe bodily. Thorn was little clangor of the noise of the explo- sion being heard, as none of the adjoining shops aro oconppiod at night. The nearest inhabited buildingis Fiala 's Hotel, at rho Francis nd Spencer Streets and corner of F p , here no oto was disturbed. When the Grand Duke Paul of Russia travels Ito carries his bed with him. He is so tall that no ordinary bed will onable hint to stretch hdslogs. A000rdiug to the new British postal regll• lotions a foreign letter may be of any weight, but must tot ox000d two foot in length or one foot in breadth or depth. Editor --There aro nob enough feet in this line, sir, Poet—root, sir! feat 1 I don't eon it by the foot, It's &poem—nob A cord of wood, it is probable (•here. wen: 131,000 scholars clad 101131011th in Iht' p1r:' 5'i„n this morn. Ma, 1.'apps i Plug Seem; h I ng'u:ant band'' led, with 50 Ocoee, In t he ibulfun0f American Ilt,us to the u„hyra uur0 was 1alee11 that 11000 0b1/1/1/1 to yivee 01 boys tender 10yeure of tate, but le et any of the weaker 01100 should tall by the wayside in the long line of march nalk,•1 out, surs goons nod ambulances w0ro 111 ,11teudanco at convenient lecalious. Artie'-iaally grouped on a stand in the fuser l.il' square, ut 1.1,' pueolfon of Fitt 11 avenue and Forty- saao,,I 0treet, wore nearly 1,700 pretty faced eehool girls, each wearing a liberty cup tool costumed in red, white, and bine. Ott the approach of the proueselnu the ohih dren so disposed bhemeolvee and their nos./ tutees es to proem( the effect of the Maori - Den shield with three American flags eidetically bunched on each side of it, The flattering, quivering motiou of the admir- ably arranged bends of colours .,,s 1,700 sheet girl -voices snug "'I be Sttr.Spangled. Painter" and other patriotic songs, while their grtllatlt boy fei"ow nclents tramped past with quirkettel et,ps and ringing cheer., mast have left a 1:,> ting impression of the Columbian school day celebration on t , he minds of thousands of the rising gener- ation On the east side of Union square a light effective tableau was presented by 1,000 seho.,l girls of the Catholic Parochial schools and on a neighbouring stand 300 tinny little waifs ielumging to the Childre,t s Aid Soeioty waved their miniature American flags as the procession passed by • but the feature of the parade, which, perhaps, at- tracted more attention than any other along the line, was the, march of 300 Indian boys from the Carlisle, Pa., Indian Industrial school, accompanied by their own band of music, and partly dressed in Iullian costume and partly In the uniform of their school. These sturdy young warriors of different tribes had been drilled and trained for ex' hibition in Chicago in the Colnnbian open- ing c¢remOntes there. A score of school boys gave evidecoe thin morning of their p011101la1n in a rather 10monstrntive way by taming down a British flag and trampling it under foot. It was displayed with no other flag before a cigar state in Harlem by an onthusiastio ibnglishmau. Tho hops demanded that he either raise tho American flag or take down the British colours, This he ref aced to do. Tho boys charged upon the flag and down it 11010, and in a few minutes it Ryas torn in- to a hundred bits. AN EXCITING- TIME Mach the Itri01st, schooner neybelle !!lad 11111, n Rassllul Cruiser. A Victoria dispatch says:—The schooner May belle, just arrived from Copper island, reports an exciting adventure on August 00. Tire schooner was anchored 70 miles north ot Behring island in a dense fog, which lifted suddenly, revealing a Rursian crueler a short distance away. The; latter made no signals, lowered no boat, simply sent a shot acruss the schooner's bows, which missed the rigging only by a few feet. The Indian crew in terror hoisted all sail, the captain's order bring unheard or unheeded in the excitement, 'Then came a second shot, butter aimed, from the Rue-. ' elan, which pierced the schooner above the water line, going completely through the forecastle, owing to the short, range at which it was directed. Still no boats left the cruiser, her commander apparentlyy, being satisfied with bombarding the help- less sealer. Luckily for the latter, the fogs thiokened, and in it she escaped, The damagos over° patched up at the nearest, beach and the schooner cane hcme, He Wanted His Revenge. Micky Cavan, who has just arrived in• London, was suffering from the toothache, so he rushed into a dentist and said : "Plaes, sorr, it's murthered 01 am wid' the toothache? Will ye kindly take the blayguard av a tooth cut av my pens- mouth ?" "How long have you had it?" inquired' the dentist. "About twenty years, sorr." Twenty years 1 You mig:nderatood UM I mean the toothache, not the tooth." "011, hot -lade 1 Oive hod it for a wake, more or less ; but, ginirally spakiu', more, sir," said Micky, ruefully " And which tooth is it that troubles you, my man ?" the dentist asked. " The wan ferniest the lash( on the top back row av the roight side, sorr." The puzzled dentist requested Micky to pleoe 111s finger on the afflicted tooth, which he did. The dentist, after examin- ing, said : This will be a very tough job, my man, and 1 strongly advise you to take gas." " Take gas?" exclaimed 'shaky, whose thoughts immediately reverted to street lamps. "Shure, yo are joking wid me, sora How could Oi take as ?" "Inhale, inhale,' said the dentist im- patiently, "In ole?" roared the horrified Irishman. "Nicer I Nor in gin, whisky, or any- thing else I Let me go ye haythen 1 It's afther murtherin' me ye would be 1" However, after a greet deal of bother the dentist succeeded in making matters a little clear to the bewildered Micky, who then naked : " Will it hurrat the tooth, eon,?" " Oh, no, there won't be any pain at all." " Oi'm sorry for that," said Micky, look. ing inexpressibly disappointed, "Sorry ?" ejaculated the dentist, with great surprise. " Xis, sorr. Xe see sorr, it's this way. This blayguard av a tooth has bin driven' me mad wid pain fur a whole wake ; so Oi thud loike ye bo hurl it a bit whin ye pull it out, eery, jiob by way of revingo 1' Lord Tennyson's habit of continually re tonohing his poems, and often suppressing the entirely, should snake his first editions epoaially valuable to the student. " The Princess," as 800 know it, ism very different` thing to " The Pt'incoss" of 1S47. The Lovoc s Tale," republished fu 1870, after beteg iguorod for nearly half a century, bears scarcely any likeness to the exoes5ively rare ce Lover's Tale " of 1833, which was prasbi. sally suppressed before publication. One of the latest methods of loosening the earth to a depth of two or three feet, and allowing the absorption of considerable =Mitre tum ra periods of drought, Is bythe use : . e s of el nmite electrically fired, The inventor of this ingenious tiling of the soil drills hales two or three foot deop and five foot apart, making. sixteen hundred to the aore, In eaall hole is placed a sufficient quantity of the explosive, connected with a wiro leading to the batter , rand after the q earth is tramped down tine.,wholo hi dig.,t charged by 1 spark.