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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-1-20, Page 7flnuary 20, '1.1'0;3 111CK11;L 11011 A11IB1011,11 ELATES, THE CANADIAN SOURCE OP SUPPLY FOE, TIIR AMERICAN NAVY. Trod01'7'itta ate belled ll.el states 110,8 Awaken- er) 10410 Expert, fe Metre an lrtvcal l• ga t)on. A oorreepondent writing from Sudbury to the Now Y ork Tri&ene says : -'Phi+ is the place whore the United States Navy De- portntOn t obtains Its nlolcol lar t110 men Mae - lure of nickel•steel ermer•plates. The town is n o (ly a aloaring in the wood0, hub it Mande of the Canadian Pacific main line, is the junction from which a branch runs to the Sault canneethie with the Minneapolis and Duluth linos, and is the centre of the richest Mu ing district in Cauarla. Copper was discovered hero daring the construction of the Canadian Pacitio, A number of Cleveland and Akron capitalists became iuloreet0d, and on molding samples of the ore for analysis to the Orlorll Corn - pally, of New York, it was found that nickel existed hi large quantities. This "trot " Was confirmed by the analysis of the Vivian Refining Works, et Swansea, in Wales, and before long Secretary Tracy and Commodore Voleer was put in p ,o.tcesil n of specimens of nickel steel, Up to this TOM W'ORLD'S SPP19.V. of nickel, used principally in making nickel silver spoons, forks, coins and plrttod ware, had come from the Lanenster Gap ut00, in Pennsylvania, and from the mines in the French penal colony of Now Caledonia. The New -Caledonia niekpl is found 111 hods of aerpent00, lilt the veins are shallow, awl in miner's parlance: not persistent. 'Lim oro is miood by prim 1i. lye methods, 0onviet fah. or being employed as well its native and Chinesn labor, and carried massy mitre to the blast furnaces, which are fed with Austral- ian cube and anal. Tho coee of trensper• t0tion alone is a heavy item amt the fuel 10 clear. "The object in smelting the oro is to produce a malts. Nickel matte bears (ho sumo relation to refined nickel that pig•iron Metre to refined iron and steel. In 188e the average price of nickel in the United States. was about Pi a pound 1 The American pre. dilation was ender 000,00)) pounds, The price in England was somewhat less, the English supply miming from New Caledonia, the 'n(ne,0 of which were opened in 1070. The development of the Sudbury deposits has reduced the price 00 cents, land when appliances for treating the matte have been. established on a large scale, refined nickel can probably be bought for 2.1 Monts 1'e less. Specimens of wrought and forged nickel wore exhibited by 111r. Wharton at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1870. The metal was discovered in 1751, but had seldom bean seen in its pure etat0 1111111 non Wind - ton took hold of it, The ase of nickel as an alloy of steel gave it groat economic im- portance, The compelled is tougher and much more ductile and elastic than steel it- self, and does not rust under water. Eng- lish metallurgists employed (tin the manu- facture of gun barrels. The experiments with armor plates instituted in 1110 St.tes soon attracted attention in England. In a memorandum prepared by Lord George Hamilton for the guidance of Parliament in voting the appropriations for the Navy it Wall stated that the armor plates of nickel. steel " combined resistance to perforation with freedom from serious cracking," and that extensive orders had been given for nickel armor as the secondary defence of new battleships. Lord George added that, while nicltel•ateel was at•r011100 TO ORDINARY STEEL when used in thicknesses of three or four inches, " the experiments with greater thicknesses do not at present place it in so good a relative position"; but itis understood that his successor has found a 10 1. -2 -inch plate, superior to a 10 -inch plate of o•din• cry armor steel. Admiralty agents have re- cently visited Sudbury to consult with the Vivien people, who have a mine and smelt- ing works. The McKinley tariff admits nickel oro and matte free, repealing the old duty of L5 cents per pound. Nearly the whole prod• met of the Sudbury mines has thus far gone to the United States for armor plate purposes. Seven mines have been opened and others worked to a limited extent. Niokel-bearing ore has also been found near Ottawa. The experts say that the supply in the Sudbury country is practically inex- haustible ; they speak of six or seven hun- dred million tons being in sight, and pro - diet that in a few years 20,00(1 tons of nickel will be produced annually. Muth depends on the Dominion (government. The ore is both roasted and smelted, In buildings a roasting heap n layer of fine ore is placed on a bed of clay and gravel, and covered with eighteen inches of dry pine. Another layer of ore i8 put on, and then more pine. There are openings for draughts at the sides and ends, and sticks set upright throughout the heap servo as flues. Each heap is knptburningfor a month. somebimes for two, those oontaininp the largest pro- portion of sulphur and Iron regmirmg the longest and fiercest combustion, The for. news are of Lhe Herrosholf patent, They are made of rolled steel, with a water space of two inches between the outer and inner plates, and cast-iron bottom protected by fire-briok. They aro elliptical in form, with n diameeer ranging from three foot or so to six feet and a half, and are nine fent in height to the charging door. A square opening on one side is fitted with fire•olay t0 a norrospanding opening in the furnace, through which the molten mass flows into a water -jacketed settling pob that rests on wheels. A charge consists of 2,000 pounds of ore and coke -eight parts of ore to ono of coke, The matte bubbles out, causing a dories of sharp reports, and is cooled in the pots, and shipped to refining works. From five to eight tons of ore go to the making of e, ton of matte. The matte oottains from 10 to 20 per cent. of nickel, the other Dom• ponents being copper, iron, sulphur, cobalt and slag. Experiments aro being made with now furnaces in the Hope of increasing the richness of the matte, so as to save ex- pense in transportation, 0711 001TI0AOT between the United States Goverment and the Carnegie and Bethlehem works, whore The artnor.platos are mode, calls for 3 1.2 per cent, of nieltel in the steel. Thus an ingot of sixty tons of niokol'sbeol, ruliioient to make two plates of the regulation size, contains about two tone of nickel. The plates aro forged. under steam hammers, bent to shape with hydrettlio presses, and out with saws and planes to tit the flare designed for them on the warship. There aro no refining works in Canada, in all likelihood Cleveland will bo the seat of the industry. Tho 'nether will bo mend by rail to Lake Huron, which is not, very for away, and shipped on vessels to Cleveland. All the untallo)1 mineral lands in Ghia re. Bion belong to the Crown, and the Crown 1ne10na the Governmottt of Oho Prov'inoo of Onterie. Until lately the land, (»chid' in) everything on the snrfa00 and OVbry thing below, was sold ottt•and•out at $2 per sere, without any «0nd1tiene ns to working being imposed eu the purehasar, this led to 1(1)1 whelusa'e grabbing of land by einem- Intone In 18111 an act pined attaching working eonclil.(nus to alt conveyanCen from Lith 11'OWII from that darn and emoting ra royalty of 8 per omit on nirknl, The royalty dues not take effect until seven yea'o after the 100110 of the patent. Lemma can be had ata low figure, and 0good deal of land is being taken no by lease. Proepeteors have found gold, sliver nod platinum, but elekel and coppo' aro and will continue to be the older 00110000 of mineral waaide The ever• age assay value of the ore ie about 3 per wont of nickel, but a certain amount is lost In 8molt11lg. Labor is cheap and there 18 an abunda•nue of water and of wood for roasting. Connellsvitlo enko ie used in the furnaces, 1L la limn [ht in by the Canadian Paui00 and the cost is -heavy. There is no coal hi any part of Ontario. iheniekel Ore-•nickel'fel'Ona pyrrhntlta is the t001,ulcal name -is found m the midst of rocks of di Ire runt ohaments belanging to dif'oronbhorieens, but jjroelsLono seems to be the parent rock, The n(okel 0feck in seventy miles from southwest t0 northeast by fifty from eontheass to northwest. All through, nickel and copper are mixed to• gothor, end it is supposed that the deposits are actual in point of depth to rho horizontal extension. But this (a only gnees•work. There appears to be no ee0enn why nickel - steel ehould not be used in the making of 0anuon, e111ai1 arms, cutlery, boilers and other articles inwhielstrnngth,lr.alleabillty, capacity to take a polish and freedom from meting are valuable properties. For the present, However, armor plates occupy the of the tea ship Onward. That craft ole0,r• Held. ed from Shanghai in. 1080 with a cargo of FINE SCENERY AND BAD COLOR. telt, She bada L•rew of eighteen men and five prteetingeds, and the Captain's wife was. A 110e:duce of the Glaciers a1 G:rindctwitiai with. hit"' 8110 wan almost down to the is". - mac lien Gnalde 000.11n eines. and of Formosa when elle was dtsmasted', inn squall, A few hours later she was at Beane( 1 hill of all sorts of devices for packed by two C0100081unks. The ship had endangering and undermining the health of a dozen muskets, and there were throe travellers. Tho hug buildiega, ohurchos, rifles muting the passenger's. They n110de a, palaces, 1411d the like where the huge ouolns- toed fight my it, But were outnumbered oro keeps the temperature of the air at the five to one. They made a fo(r surrender sante cool level all the year round have M Ile. before the pirates got aboard, and up to 0ds(01'1088a tl d0eAh wibout n1in600. Far that time had lust four men killed and travellers coming into them from the heat of three wounded. On taking 'Amnion the the summer cloy without do not think that: plratPM killed every man as feat as they got this agreeable coolness messes a *Riddell and to thein. Tho captain's wife had been se• unhealthful ream:Mon of the temperature of wretod below. While the fellows were the body until a chill or a su0110101on of ovehauling the ship, and le ire they had snerzce tells them that the mischief 11 done, discovered the woman, an American man• But there is one place which is responsible of -war appeared and drove them oft for more eickues1 than any score of barge The Eng'ish Government not only de. buil liege. The glaciers at Orindelwlahl,1'a- handed a (urge sem as indemnity, but gave peoially the largo upper glacier, is this thin- 1110 Chinon Government duo notice; that if gerladen spot. Nearly every one who goes it did not slake a 0ig0rnn0 attempt to pen• to Switzerland, and that meals nearly every 0th the pirates an Iinglish war vassal would one who travels in Europe,oes to see the lege, a cruise ant. blow every suspicious glaciers at Grnudelwald, although fete, in- craft out of water. There could ho no 1 WENT To 1'10)118 deed, do not regret having gone, because the dodging this. Tho Government hadn't just before the smoke fairly blow away, leaving and dangers are but slightly re- the sort of craft needed nor the men to roan paid by the rather disappointing scenic etfecls, And nearly all who go carry away with them a cold which may pass away, and again, may make then linger in ted at Inter• Laken to curse the day they ventured to Gri n rlel weld. 'l'I,e glacier is tan hum's walk or horse. nick ride up a steep and winding mountain road, narrowly shut in because of the en- croaching mountain farms nal either side. agreed to pay all expenses for a 8111 months If you have goue horseback they set you oruiso of eight men and give the agents of down at a mountain inn with a little pnvil- tho bark $10 per head extra for every pirate ion overlooking the valley 01 the glacier, killed or captured. if a junk was seep or with its vistas of perfect Swiss soonery. brought in, she was to be paid for at se Then one goes through a gate and walks touch per ton, and a Chinese otliciel was down a winding road, arched with trees, placed on board to repre0ene the Govern- erosses a stony valley, through the midst of men t. which rnehes a clear, pure, lee cold stream, The Queen had dropped down to Ince 11.00)1 Irom Oho baso of rte glacier, which Choc, when five of us, all sailors from the the summer sun is melting. 1'ho gl74aer 10 Hattie (\lilward, deserted ship to go on her. before you, shilling the air witch was of We signed at 1:30,1 month, and were to hart summer heat a few yards away. extra for all captures. It was a crew made You must have walked down to it, be- up of English, French, Germans, Ameri. cauee there is no other way, and you are cans, Spanish, Italians, and Lamers. About therefore heated. Yon stand near the gllwi- Liirty of or and instantly you are cool. Perhaps you go into the ice cavern, for the wonderful THE MEN WERE DESERTERS olio's of the hewn i00 are tempting. Ice from then-of•war. We rat into the mouth wider is dripping upon you and your feet of Chang -Te river for a couple of weeks' aro soon soaked from the wet boards under- practice with the guns and to get things heath. You go out and start away, and ship-shape with the crew and then started before yon have again reached the little out on a cruise. cote near the inn you find that you have On the east side of the great Island of the worst cold you ever had in your life. If Formosa are 11011 a 111000 smaller islands. you are oversttsoeptible, you will have chills On one of these a pirate named Wang -Hoa and fever. had his headgnnrters. He had sax junks llut it is not necessary to go down to the and about 800 men. Had Wang -Hoa been glacier. Ton any clave heartier these perils. aeon by any circus agent or dime museum So you decide to view it from afar. You manager previous to turning pirate he would sit in the little pavilion with the superb probably have been placed on exhibition and panoramabefore, above, and beneath you, lived outhls clays on the fat of the land end with the long, striated back of the serpent• $50 per week. 'Fre was a veritable gia»t, like glacier and the street guohing from its standing 81)0110 seven feet high and weigh - icy jaws as the central point of your land- ing 300 pounds. Ho had been a pirate for scope. You order something to eat nod a Ove or six. years when tlleQ000n started out bottle of wino, and life seems to be an ax- ou her avulse. Piracy had become so legiOi- traordioarilygood thing. For all around mete a business with him that he sailed into you is summer, hot, intense, hlx0ria01, Ole port of Foe -0110o regnla'ly e'Ory throe while abnvo you and down in the valley months and paid over to the authorities a them is winter, eternal winter of snow and " whack" of lin plunder. b/verybo(W knew ice. But ns you sit enjoying, ravelling es on, why he was there, but he w8a lever molest. blissfully onaonsoious of danger. You be- el. On one occasion he went aboard of a tea girt to feel an icy chill, gentle and plenaing ship, looked her all over, and then said to lit first, bob gradually inereasinqq until yon the Captain through an interpreter : look about for furs, and thou take to flight " You have a fine craft here, but when I with a bad cold, pushing sorfineeward with- capture her only the cargo will be of any in you as a memento of the glaciera. Off use to me. 1 ahmll take that out and sink thea huge river of ice blows a wind that is your ship 1" always wintry, that is felt in its full lilted. Our instructions from the Government) city a mile away through the heat of the wore very broad and liberal. Any Chinese hottest summer day. You may escape the craft winch did not " hands up " at cone• wiles of the score of curio venders urging mand tuns to be considered a pirate and you to take away it carving 0r something of treated accordingly. It was desired to that kind a8 a memento of Grindolwald's capture as many pirate0alive es possible, so glaciers. But the thermos are that you will as to produce a proper moral elfeab when not escape that unpleasant or perhaps dap- they were beheaded before a crowd on land; gerous little memento in rho shape of a cold but we were not to go to any uuueo0801ury which the glacier will force upon you. trouble about it, 11 ang•Hoa's funks seldom - ^ cruised farther south than Cape Cambodia, Death of a Distingruehed Cavalry Officer• or farther north than the Steads of Corea, The loath has been reported of Major and we knew pretty well whore to look for p 1 them. Of course the news had gone abroad Conceal 0. Vanbrugh Jenkins, who joined of our flaring out, and there was no doubt the lion tee Light Cavalry a 1.8$0 at the age that friends had carried the pirate full par. of nnteeu, W'hilo still a 1oroneb, he toot- Uoolars. Therefore, on reaching the north part rt in rho Afghan war of 1842 under Gan- coast of Formosa, we ran into a bay and oral Pollock, being at the forcing of the (hanged the 00100 of the paint mit the bark, Khyber Pass, the relief of a reoccupation and in replaced her new sails with old, and made all the fighting up t0 the moccuparge of such other changes as to completely 0is- Cabal, and including two rnGalry charge (n guise her. Hero also a false stem of free the'Pezeen Valley, the war in the Gwalior oo belted on, and rhe Queen was prepared Campaign of 184$•4, and was present at toWstall right into roti over any junk in the battle of 1vIeharajo ora in the Sutloj an •TIoa'e fleet. Can n owa 1s$ ai f 1846, including Alil, and in g On leaving the bay we cruised to the the i nulanb War of 1$4$•0, taking garb in north almost to the coast. of Japan, and it Ole 1800(0 of Ohillian, W0,l111I1, and 000je)0t. truettpouoarreturnandaborttwentymiles Becoming iien0ouant•colon0l in 1.802, ho had to 1,110 oesb of the "eland of Salbolt throe we command of the "%eget European Cavalry, full in with a couple of junks whiob were transformed into the 111111 hussars, rotirmg set down as from the regiment 111 1877, whet) Ile was granted the rank of major general. General 0080/0001(0 CnARAOTERS. Jenkins, who was in receipt of a reward for They were coming up front the eouth,and distinguished service, died last Saturday at 011' first reeve was to mance things nlotb Cruekton Hall Salop, at 011w ago of seventy' look as if we wore amorolan0man,aud short handed at that, lvlost of the met were sent She Was Used to It below, the steering was purposely wild, and "So," snarled the father, "yeti hove ask- as the junks drew near enough to Mateo us ed my daughter to merry you, and having nut it was evident they meant to attack, gained her consent, you come to me for plait fay us,Oued rOur coarse other to uslo`slo in t nod elite? That's 011'10 the dimensions of wn 11, " responded the yq0u11g man, bravely. between them, each being within rifle. " Do you know, sir, that I have n0 money 81100. and can give hot nothing?" The young mel The follows lad detarm)nod not to give patted the old ono 00 the book encouraging- es the slighteseabove Pet opetted011 the Tha4'8 all right, a1d follow," be sail, wort- at once with their brass five-pumnders noisier hove I, ao the entege will not prove a 00rieu0 shook usher. What do you atty.? To it to go ?" .I6 went TEM BRUSSELS POT. "7 H'UNPIIIG 0HINBBB PIRATES, Our guns were loa1'o,l will Hnli,l 0001, loin warmly tired n enupl0 rrf brnarlsidnu. Neither junk was over lintel shot Ru1'ay, oumwg up The O'lile or O10 Giant 11'5 n(.11na runt Ms to 1117 110 7)1,0ard, and the I ails neatly Lara Mal Men, them to pieces. in four (ninnies front rho A great deal has been axil and written ,1i1Alarg0 bosh wore out of sight under about the pirates of Maley and Borneo, but 11'r°te1', an"1 th"ro most baro hear fifty mon forilnwarightoold•binnded!l1011(1 13)0011' (1(1'ingmho%011thewreckage. Welower- n±Ha pilaw laid over everything ave' in the ed lova hen1.8 to pick them up, Int only got business. The I'Iuht08 0(80(1 'spare life, 1hu'ly, The others deliberately drowned the Chinamen itiways made u clown 1110118clv08 rather' than be teemed and Lure. imam. 1 meads in the past tense, bora ee 1'd av00 011 0110 ex001310no Chinesn waters are cleat' of Rea rovers, From amen of those brought aboard it was though it carts lose than ten years ago that learned that 1110 junks were commanded by twentyeiglt of them were beheaded in Tali -Yon and 1'uug•C1lwol, two Captains suce00eion one Fine morning at the execution under \Vang•Hoa's orders. Hach 0r0W num- grounds in Hong -Kong, Up to the year 1807 bored oixtytive men and so the (lorernment piracy was looked nj)on tainted n0 o regular official hoard ureditod the bat k with $1,110 bushing 0100g the China Qwest and up and for pirates killed end raptured, and with down its prrnepal rivers, Nike the brigands per tot for the 0100880 sent to the bottom of Sicily, they "stood in" with the author!• of the sea, None of the pren:era would at ties and were protected instead of bning tlrst give any info'metion about the rest of hunted down, As in Reseda, so it is in the fleet or in regard to Wang•Hoa's hiding China -11 thing ran be done withou bbrib- plow, butthe Oovermnentalined knew how ing officials, and if the brine is largo enough to deal with then. Ho selected his victim anything can be accamplishad, and administered the baslinedo until the When complaints were made to t1,n (111• fellow was willing to tell all he knew. Two naso Government by English or French other junks were then cruising, he said, to 0Onanle they wore referred baric to the Gov the smith of Tsee-14071 Island, about 300 unmet of reviews, and by them to the au- miles to the southwest of our positnr:, and thoritics at different porta. That ended it. the 0007810101 two of the fleet had gone Even if urdorecl to seed out. expeditions south la the inlf of Tuuq lin. We laid our aga1ust the pirates the rovers would be first 0000110 to overhaul the lust two, and on the notified, 00 that ue harm ever name to them, fourth day after Dar fight we sighted them, Every nation filed its protest over and over Hlelp :lever came at a more eilytieal Rlo- twain, but. the English were the tdrst to act. nn'nt, A SOOt0h brig yelled the Ahoyne, What precipitated the oriels was conning down through the Strni10 of Cone, 'ru 1. sa.01)010 had met disaster and been forced to the oast among the Lno-Olioo lslanda, Th': junks bad discovered her and were overlmnliug her after la chase lasting ten home when u'O sighted the three craft at once. We were heading to tho west and they were homing. down from 111e north. We were 81•(11 in dis- guise, and the pirate, must have yelled for joy when they sighted us. Instead of one prize they would take teen. One of the ,junks hulled off the track of the other veesol and bore down upon n0, and the were called to quarters to give her a fitting recite). (ion, The brig or300ed our bows about a mile away and showed us a signal of 3010008, We were b.lxhanliug 000 reds :demi as if half seared to death, and the 8001011man neat have groaned in dwspnir as we paid no attention to his flag. The ;hank which came clown upon ns was aline with mel, and they began yelling while yet a, mile away. She had no ansp(o• ion of us until almost withiu rifle range. Then she suddenly sheered ofd', and the bark gave chase. In fifteen minutes we had hot on our starboard side, right under that wl•olo broariside of gine, and rho Order was given to fire. The junk (t, and so it made a singular bargain. There was lying in the port of Hoei-Ngan, in the Yellow See, an English bark named the Queen. Her charter to the Chinese Govern- ment as a survey boat had just expired. She was a fast, stanch craft, and oho was re - chartered to go on a hunt for pirates. She was fitted for five runs on a side and a Long Toni on a swivel, and the Government forty or fifty men struggling (n the water. They did not represent over half the crew. The Government olflaitl credited us with a fell ltoodrod, and he was not fat: out of the lvay. The other junk was within a cable's length of the brig and preparing to sheer alongside and board when our broadside betrayed the trap. She hauled her hind and stood away to the hest, but we were after her at once. The pirates floating among the wrenkage were left to take care of them- selves, and in forty minutes Long Tom be• gen to pay his compliments to the fugitive craft. After she had been hit twice she hauled down her flag in token of surrender, but the Government official would not have it that way. He ordered the bark to run alongs'de and give her a broadside, saying that he did not leant to bother with any more live pirates. The junk had come up unto the wind to wait for us. She must have also had a full hundred men aboard, and a more villainous lot of fellows were never gathered together. Nearly all were stripped to the Waist, and they hero fighting among themselves as Ave swept down upon them. Our broadside grins were ready, and we even not over 200 fee+ away when she get the fire, Before we bad touched a brace to Dome about the junk was out of sight and half au acre of surface covered with her wreekage. Some of us felt conooienee stricken until the boats were lowered to pick up the elan floating abort. Every one who was armed made a fight for it, and such a, were not deliberate. ly drowned themselves. We got about twenty aboard, end every one had to bo tied hand and foot aid closely guarded. The two junks belonged to Weng•IIoa's fleet right enough, and from ons of the sur- vivors it 5111.8 lesrned that the old boss pirate would probably have RETURNED TO IIIS LAIR by the time we got there. We remained by the brig twenty-four hours to finish her re. pairs, and thou sailed south in her company. \Ve 110w 11101V ox00tly where to find Wang - Hon, and on the morning of the fifth day aftertho fight we ran into a het- on the west side of an island in the 1'"0mora group called Ko -Ban, The island Was about two miles long by ono mile wide, and the bay almost split ib in half. The junks hail come in the day before, and besides being loaded down with plunder had brought in a small trading brig owned by an Englishman in the Philippine Islands, Every one of her crew of six mon had been killed. We had a lair wind into the bey, and the pirates al first supposed we had come in to refit. They were making all preparations to attack us when the bark came to anchor, got a spring oft her cable, and without any waste of tuns opened fire on the junks, sampans, rata, and storehouses. Tho fellows mese be oreditecl with having made a good light. They had several six ,11,11 nine•pound places of artillery, besides their gingals and muskets, and we had four 11100 hilted and seven wounded in the first half hour. There were about 250 of them, and after we had driven them to the Dover of the demo woods we landed a party and set fire to their storehouses. While we wore thus engaged the big gnu aboard wes throwing hob shot into the woods on both sides of rho bay, and before noon the whole island was ablaze. Every Ohng woe dry, and the oonflagre• Mon raged for three clays before it burned out. A few of the pirates no doubt escaped to the other islands, though lv0 picked up about a dozen floating of rate, but we got a telly for 250 captured and (tilled. The dead body of Wang•Hoa was found on the hulks, and his head was cut off end sent to Poking. Wo carried sixtyfivo prisoners into Foo-Ohoo, We got, into port on a Tues- day morning, and on Fritloyafternoon every man of 1110111 was beheaded, I don't know what sort of 0trial they had, but 110110 of the was called as witness. The doelnration of the Government, clHsiols was probably eon - allotted all that was necessary, That was the beginning of the e111. While piney is praotiood in Chinese waters even to this day, it is no longer a busineee or profession, and all attacks ere confined to trading joules of their own nationality. He Oeuld Then. "Do y011 think you oar, support me George?" she asked, at hour aftor he had and gingals and sheeted to us to haul down proposed. our Rag, They were 0108iug in when our "Yes, if you'll get on the other knee,' he Brew jumped to quarters and opened fire. said. WANDERERS OF THE SBA. A Pleating Wend tlr sty0te'y and n ell lin. 4011'4110 Inert.. The prose 01 +train has done moult to rob the ocean of ate 01',115000, but there still re- mains a little to delight the lover of sea tales anld lnyenel'1.', fit (hied ,lull times of peeceful enmmerce, when ships are not eotiten1 with 111811it1)3 from Onntil,elt to continent at railroad speed, but even turtle the tamely sea to R10011111h by the ignoble polrulg of oil from rubber bags hung at their bows, 1t 0 like hearing en echo from the gohlon days of Captain lvlarryat's heroes to 4e told that in the Atlantic Wolin, almost in the steamer track, there his Lee) for some Menthe a floating inland, with tree branches wed great reeds, thirty feet above the surface of the sea, That nt really exists, or at least olid exist till Sep. I0, the day on which it was last slighted, there can be no doubt, for four eteomshipe btee reported it, and the hope - tersely matter of feet United States IIydro- graphe Office has made a report of it, and traced the wandering 1010101 of the pilot chart for November. With their ua0a1 out- line solemnity the hydrographere have man- aged to prawn the story in the dryest way 31050lbie. 1's them the ocean is only agreat blank elude on the mop, neatly covered with carefully measured squares end figures, Tt10. 11001.1(1(011' ,'OILY of tine drifting Island 10 told by thein in one sentence tilled with latitudes and 10ngi• mien. They don't concent themselves with speculations as to where it tame from or by what ebene0 it started on its etramg0 voy- age, nyage, The captains of the steamships which passed it also gave but meagre 111.0rriptions of it, but when their reports were all put tog ether a fait' idea of the island 1 uuid Le getnere,h It was far out at sea `.011011 it way seen 101' the first time. '1 he naptnin of the Britian steatneh(p blue .1erO,.i sighted it o1 .iuly 3s in latitude 00:12 and longi. Ludo Gd 00, about 70111niles east of 110111,1x. It covered half tan acre, and seemed to be tidal wooded, with reeds extendieg thirty feet above the sea level, 10 was visible for distauee of seven miles, Iasi looked so I much like solid land that it deecie "1 the 10okolt at tdrst, Not long afterward, of Angnst 8, the steamship 00tintln•O passed it in letitlule 30:20 and longitude 05, a few miles south of where it 4(00 first seen. The eapta(u of this ship got it better view of it, and toned that it was covered with a dense th1010t of reeds, most of which were thirty feet high. On August 26 the steamship Ronan Prince, a ship, by the way, which is making a record for sighting wrecks and unusual things at sea, sighted the island in latitude 4L:40 and longitude 57:30, almost 1,000 miles northeast of Nov York, The last ship to sight the Avenge waif was the steamslup Ebro, which paned the ielan d in latitude 45:20 and longitude 41:30, about 1,000 miles northeast of New York, heading for the steamers' track. Plotting on the map the course taken by the floating island, it is found that since July 28, when it wras first observed, it has drifted east-northeast about 1,100 miles. This was an average of about 008 mile an hour, and it may yet drift to European shores, if it can withstand the buffeting of the sea. Where it canto from, by what odd fortune it was torn from 'Laplace to start on its wonderful journey, no owe knows, and probably no one ever will. There is another bit of romance in the shape of a masterless bark. a\'itih all sails set, but without a soul to man her or hold. her helm, the Capella, a Norwegian bark and:DON1oo to 1(1DOCRAJ•, has been cruising the was alone for a month, like a lost soul. With the wind for her captain and the seas ell her own, with never a port to nuke, she has roved idly about, doubling on ani crossing her tracks, as aim- lessly as a seabird. But with all her idle ticking to and fro, site has never gone far from one place. She has haunted thestoam- ers' track. Mau standing night watch on ocean steamships racing over the curling seas have seen her suddenly appear from the gloom, like a great phantom, with her sails bellying before the wind. In the daytime she has been sighted forging slowly 00, now headed this way, now that, as the shifting winds blow her. So she has wanderedsince she was abandoned on October 22. Her crew was taken off by the steatnship Blake - moor, and it was reported then that she was loft in a sinking condition. The Blake. moor left her lurching as if she would go tlolvu any minute, in latitude 52 and longi. tulle 31. That was about 2,300miles north- east of Halifax, duo east of the northern extremity of Nowfoandland, and about seventy miles north of the steamer track. But she did not founder. On October 30 site was sighted by the steamship Charle- mont, with furo lower topsail and main top. galiont sail set. She 1008 then in latitude 50:35 and longitude 31:58, seventy utiles dis- tant from where she head been abandoned. She was directly in the steamer's track. She was again sighted on November what the steamship Lhuulatf City passed iter, The deserted ship was in latitude 51 and longitude 28, 150 miles northeast of Ole place where the Charlet-tient sighted her. She 1(000 north of the steamer track thou. Her rudder was gone, bub her sails were set and drawing, and site was on the starboard track, heading again for the main steamer tack. Seven days after she had been pass- ed by the LlandafF City she was passed by the City of Berlin. She had sailed almost clue east and was in latitude 01 and longi. buds 24,240 miles from the position where she had been last sighted. The sto..mahip Catalonia passed her on November 13, in latitude 50:00 north and longitude 21:30 west, 180 miles further east, and again in the stammer track. This danger to navigation is being looked out for by every ship which plies that part of the sea. Sho was apparently in fair condition whenever she was sighted and may sail the oaean for a long time before oho sinks or is broken op by the tenses. Perhaps some shift of the wind blowing steadily for many days will drive her in some unfrequented part of the ocean where she may drift, 0lonely ghost of a ship, for many years, She may disoover the dream- ed of open sea around the pole, or, going south, sail among islands of spine and ever- lasting summer, peacefully and dreamily, mita other generations cone upon her, a olio of a forgotten past. He Wished lie Could, Principal Smith is ono of the wieest and kindest of toaaohors, but :now and then his watchfulness makes him over-800pncdons. In the 'geography class the other day his nye fell upon a bay who seemed to be eating something. "Jacl: Willianw,"said the motor, "take the& piece of candy out of your month at once." To his astonishnlolnt a giggle went round the room, as the next instant poor Jack answered ; " 1 can't, sir ; its a gent -boil. Ono value of cold 80orogo is in keeping potatoes for seed front sprouting. lion when planted they sprout at once, and the sprouts ere much more vigorous, USING OIL TO STILL THE SEAS. tutus of 1'4ms/de Make Hope rix t Aunty 1o1se to l+tarrn, When theIlov'a ti,eh,111 n he:rett Montreal' worked her clew way into her the other o• ' O'117onl iweadi0bet, lie•nt10r8 morning, , n 1 haviu g Leen ripped from herr 01111811: a howl- (ng gale, her skipper reputed that she wait '.. only saved from bnmg 8lvausped by the use of ell poured through the forward cl,,e0te. after they had p1 avi eiely 1,001, 0111111 lvieh (10110111 ark that the nil eoull triekhe slowly, en the 0011. Thr oute1 Wass deseribud as something wonderful, in which particular the report tallies 11(0111l 131000 colleOted by thr liydrographir ()Mee sink•, last August. Big steamships hale b, gee lo Ilse oil us a 1(1000er of tmeree now, bu t l here are still some old "shollhae:ro " W110 Pearn the notion and believe more in hauling and belaying. They wouldn't use oil sur more than (3ulliver's old captain an the Adventurer, whose method was weird, " First he tools in (110 spritsail, and stood by to hard the 100001)1 ; but lilak., ing foal weather, lie handed 1 he in Wen. TI10 ship lay breed olf, so he thought it better 0pounieg before 11,0 sea thein trying or hull- ing. ile reefed the ('',000,1 and set him, and hauled o0' the Pore. Loci. The helm was herd a -weather. lie 1,•4,/;yell the fore down - haul." And then be i,:u;i0,i 1. 1 upon the l:n,y,.rd of the whip -'tali ' 'l in=I;r' 1 thematic at, the leltn. But 01101 was 1'.,033 ago and rho poor eepte1100 nhe u.ai:e re11,13111 history now, hardly get s deem to reef even the ,'vein siren or inlay eewsepipe. And when the st00108 do haw i v generally go below and seek :lie 1•d,ef th',t Lege of oil hong over the 1 -ass )11.1,1. Tim list of big "ieaicsh(p`7 which have used oil with st1lre<^ i•, 0011iu_ longer with Over uiro,Oi. In thaw ''11 ,�1 one ship, the Rod Star 1:loat11".11ip .' a,r,Il8nd, it helped the .•rens to rc ue t(:, men on the 0(1111(1) l,.rk Oa -:::r 11. Caelitin :rickets, of the Noo•dland reported , '( eel e1•Yli, Iutitinfo 47:1(1 north, lon3Audr .111:1'1 west. After midnight, rescued C.'1' a'n'1'+n+nu)us0eu and crew of the Nnrwegi:'.n rook Kong Oscar Il. The nee wee high end Lrrak(n; at the time, and while lowering the boat and tit1111(3 the sllipwreekwcd Brew ale ard NIe Waal oilfronr both s1d10 of the ship with much recces.' The lirltislt al eae($I ip Nessn"u e, Captain. Jepson, ran intra 0cceese10n 01 h,avy gales. "The ship ran before t.lie ee,o," was report- ed, "using nil from the tnrwerd pipes and from mors. projecting ten feet ever the rail, at the fore rigging, in this way the nil bags totve: 1n see vn,ter and spread the o(1 bet- ter then when elos0 aiwlgeidr. On October toreonon, With melnitalnons seam fellow- ing in our wake, all nil hag 5.100 towed over the taflrail and proved a great seems, as for two hours previously nearly every sea had broken on hoard oft. The good result watt (011110111ate : we shipped no more water died ug the gale. At first ire used fish oil, then a mixture of fish and culzo oils, the " latter being mucl, the more e0'eotive." When the British, steamship Francisca ran into heavy gales en November 3, in midooesn, and was hove to for four hours in the trough of the sea, Captain Jenkins ordera•i oakum stalled into the pies of the forward and m(1101(131 closets and hulled theta with oil. He reported t hat it had ra marvel- lous effect on the sea. Along the ship's side, for a good long range to windrvard, the sea became smooth, the big waves seeming ter melt to nothing, and not a drop of water name aboard after that. The steamship \Verloondauy of theNether- lauda•American Line, on October 10 used oil for sixteen hours with good success. She had been shipping largo quantities of water until an oil bag wras 111111p over the weather side, when no more waves cameaboa•d. The \Yaesland an October 25 had the seine es- - perien00. Other ships which repotted emelt success in the use of oil recently were the steamships Teutonic, Virginia, Britieh Em- pire, Prodano, Thuringia, Ohio, Plessey, ' Lord O'Neill, British Bing and the sailing ships Wilhelmne, Lord Canning, Rebecca. M. Walls and H. J. Libby, TOu WITTY. A Grover who ;.est try rtullndinee. It is not profitable for a merchant to bo. too witty ; at any rate, he should not try to be witty on every occasion. Not long ago,, in a country town where there are two groceries in the same street, a very green- • tow -headed, timiel.loOki)g young country. man came into one of thein one afternoon, at One when half a dozen villagers were grouped around the store. The storekeeper was waiting upon 00111e Ono, and paid no at- tention to the new comer, Presently the timid youn0 man !mid, in a` faltering, half -frightened voice : "Do -yon -keep --sweet p'10000 ?" " No," said the storekeeper; " we don't.. keep 'em. We sell 'eta jest as fast as we can 1" Then be winked at the company around the stave, who snickered appreciatively, The green young man said, "011 ! and went up to the stove and spread oat the palms of his hands. The storekeeper went on wait. (ng out his other customer, and nsod np... about fifteen minutes In doing so. Then he stepped toward the green young. man,wio was still warning his hands at the stove, and said, brusquely 1 "Did you say you wanted to buy some street potatoes? The young man turned slowly about and answered, I -didn't -say -I wanted -to' boy -none 1 I jest -net-ye-if ye kept' 'em." He then warmed his halide a few Inmates longer. Then ha walked slowly cut of the store, remarking as he went : T-goose-I'll-q1'-ldaown the street an' -buy-mo-some-sweetp'tetters 1" The laugh around the stove was not ab the expense of the greenhorn this time. Another Irish Victory. Over the door of a eereain Denntry public- house is pninted the picture of two asses, under which ie inscribed : "When shell we throe sleet again?" Pat, who was just returning from work, scythe over shoulder, happened to notice the picture, end gazed intently at it for some time. ThelendlOrd, seeing him from the window above, put his load out and asked what wail the matter. "Faith, ata Oi say (see) it now," Pat elo. claimed, "I say it. I wondered where the third ass had got to 1" His`Pinal Encl. He had worried through the cholera,. the mashie end 11101111110110, And had attempted milord's -been saved by stomach -pumps t Alta then to cap the climax, he wed A w0mtn Vain, Who 80110 11111 out to match:same sills- lino 0180 never soon again. 4. A tree in Africa resembling the Hnglislt oak, furnishes oxcollent butter that will, Imp the year round.