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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-3-3, Page 3.ill:AlHrJI ;3, 1893 THE... BRUSSELS POST.... YOUNG of ,4 OLKS. The Prayer in the Snow. The snow fell thick, and the eerier full Met, A 11114111 from 111e trees where the winter wind !ingot, Jerk Peet whirled by, mid with ley !Mame Shook from This lucks the wintry !lest, The lire on the !welsh in the orales 1,0100 (,'1,11 toren. end >u I 1114 rl nd,'o Hkllrlled ' As the round nod round the etiiinney horned. timid the tatter, " "rig u fearful nigh lc roam "13141 the rang whirrs, null Meads will, pitying eye: t']aynen some ,hanger's lost In the :mow," 814 on) the sell' noel 101 ter go, To Iist If Lim weed haws a human wry Not fur from the door lit a 111111.04 141)1111 1111,0 bllo winter Whirl i m1L1l401il' bitterly illlyy011114 i11g, While the ley 811010 *Ituetled to find fro. " Doer Clod" lila the moon peeped out - prey cd I,1), " Mete• (lode eonlfort our darling main Wa, A 1,11 done forget our own, ow'n (111(41)1 And \talcll one grave to the snow, 11100$0 110 1" nut before the o(,11,1 ren hod .:nlrl. " Amen," I hn eellor's clog ga0e o,l,' '1'01 bark : And soon the children worn out of 1110 dark, And seen were saf0a. their hum agate, "But mamma," said hula the wise, " :long you see It wax (I°asone the Clog told rho elan o,,1 that night. (1011 hoard illy wee prayer, from Ids home in the 110111., And sen1bark, to comfort you, both of we." -[tlyrla 13. l'astl0. A BEAR STORY. Hugh Arden was 111 yea's old When ile mot with the adventure that nearly oast Liu' Lia life. Hugih trot a tall, muscular boy for his age, and 1he hest wrestler among hie school- mates His parents moved to the north woods of Ontario when Itugh was n 11)11 in knickerbockers. From the time he was old enough to carry a gun ho W00 in the wends all ihis spare time, and perhaps more than that, 0i110e his mother often chided him for leaving "eh0res" 1111,1011,4 to go after a deer or fox. However, Hugh was, generally speaking, a good bov, and aided not a little, with his Hie, In keeping the home larder 1111011. His father being a hard working man, was but little at home, as he worked at a saw -mill six miles away, going to his work on \fon• day morning and notrcturuing until Satin, day Muhl, When Hugh was 1(1, his father bought him it rifle, with which the boy was more than delighted. He promised to lie 111000 faithful Lhan ever to ropily his father for 00 tine a pre0elt, ;t was not long ere loth boy and parents had cause to 1't ;met: at the purchase. Thigh feeque.tell the woods more than ever- now, and was quite otecesofol inbt'ing- ing ,loon gave. 011 one oceasiot he had the gond fortune to shoot two her!:n 1nlcka, thus supplying the family with treat for it lune time. (hie altcrnonn 111 nt.tumu 11110 was re- turning from hunt tilting the river several j utiles from home, with his \':inchnsterflung • over his aril raeleesly. His tore wore 11 - ;;rave exprosei1n. niltce he lied met ill -lurk that day, having expended several rennets of ntlinllll'ltintl without fringing 1101111 lily game. AN 110 emerged into a litho settlement on'. the river bank he was at meted by 4L :a'nwd of people gathered in front of a4 Leese, talk- ing rapidly, and secmi,'uly deeply cx,•ited. j The lad hurried forward, anxloos to learn the meaning of the excitement. " IIy woolen folks seen a mane down in the berry 1,nahos,'' explained e, tall settler, in 0(10Wer to a question from 1! ugh. ' It was the biggest critter 1 eve' seed," e put in one of the women, "' Twas bla011 as ink, an' bigger '11 our cow. I toll yo, wasn't 010 '11 1410110sy scarf, though streaker ie fur home. I fell down twice, 4L11 emit all my berries." The women paused for want of breath, and Hugh turned to the neon, who had armed th0010el Yes, and seemed ready to 0 tart in pursuit of the boar. ' 1f you have no objections I will accen pang you," said Hugh, modestly. " It you ain't alear'11, yon can go, of coarse," said one of the settlers. Hugh laughed et the idea of fear, armed as he was with a sixteen -shooter, and at once prepared to accompany the limn in the hunt for bruin. It was only a mile to the berry patch, and the three men with 1Iugh 00011 reached it. After a short search, seeing nothing of the bear, the four came together for a short eon- anitation. After some discussion it wasde- cidecl to separate and beat up the bushes thoroughly. The berry patch was about half a anile in extent, composed of a dense mase of fallen timber, as well as a thick growth of black- berry bushes. The berry season was near - 15 over, and bruin was doubtless foraging for the last clop when seen by rho settlers' wives, Hugh found himself skirting the south side of windfall, when ho was brought to a midden standstill by a low, angry growl. At once he dropped his Winchester 10 14 level and peered sharply ahead. Only a minute Huts, when the bushes were agitat- ed and it black 000,114 01148 poked over a fat - len tree not ten yards distant, Qulokly Hugh raised his gun and fired. With a howl of pain the bear dropped from sight. The bushes wore agitated as , the brute rushed away. Hugh Watt deeply exbited now, fully believing he had wound. ed the boar. Ho felt elated at the thought that he might bo able to hill the huge alt. mal before any of the men came up, Pushing boldly forward the boy was 00011 in hot and eager pursuit. Soon Io hoard a furious howling aid thrashing in the bushes not far distant. Bruin seemed to have be. come fastened in a treetop, 11111011 to the rice light of HIugh, who believed that he could now dispatch the animal without ,danger to leinisei f, ]Eagerly the bay pressed forward and soon found himself upon tato boar, which was thrashing about mately, in a tangle of limbs and busies. • Standing within twenty feet of the brute, Hugh le'velod his rifle, Alining nt the huge shoal' ler, the boy pulled the trigger. With the 10(1 s 0(1. maneory of pain acid Hugh saw a red stain coarsing down the shaggy coot of bruin. Anothr shot will finish him, thought the boy, who trembled with excite- ment. Hugh realized that the report of his {tion would bring he, mon 10 his aide, 1111011 maria him anxious CO dispatch tho belar,b0• fore they skull arrive. Seeing the animal fall and flounder in the bashes, I'Ingh advaur011 boldly, with the Manner of his rills ('1)itod, ready to send in another sho; the moment opportunity of- fered, He was almost mien rho hear, when flee brute 1.Ottl'0(1 upright 4)11(1 confronted him, with open month and (liming eyes, It was evident that the e81(In141 010.0 severely, if not, fatally wounded, and it was foolhardy in laugh to approach 04 near the enraged brute, The lad, however, lilt 110 (oar with so many shots in his repeating '1110. ' f have you now, you old rascal 1" ex. claimed Hush, thrusting the nuzzle of his rifle allu,nt against the head of the 1:004-. Ho pulled the trigger. No report followed, and Hugh 010ggered leek 1n dismay, Ills min had never missed lire beforet• to Ile so now wan zesG elIle m• ant, Again 11e pulled, No report, Hastily minoring the cartridge, or at least sllppeming he ,lid So, 11tngh pumped in another, and again pulled the trigger. A dull 1n0ta11, click alone a>01erce, At tits moment the hear seemed to take In the 0)tua1io, mud Inured toward thigh. Ono more inetieetu01 attempt to lire 0011- %gm:0d the buy that not a cartridge 1)mal11• ell i11 the gun, In Ins excitement on eec- b11g the bear ho hryd neglected to Infill the magazine. He stood unarmed before a wounded and enraged hoar. For fulIye.n41lu111Ilimb Arden stood tree bliug and taunt with terrible fright betoro hie toue.fuoled enemy. At length he man- aged to turn and fine.. 11e staggered as leo moved, and before going ten rodshis font be0ante entangled i11 a mass of vines, and he felt himself fall lila. 11/1Lh howls that were almost human in their agony and rage, the wounded boat' rushed 111'pnrsult of his foe. Bruin was al' most id. his Iculs when Hugh fell. As lie went down into u hollow several feet in depth. Before he cold move the bear plunged headlong over a fallen tree, and crushed down upon the helpless boy. Twenty minutes later two men, armed with rifles, appeared on the 00ene, attract- ed by the shots tired by Ifugh. Tho huge form of the bear nearly covered the hollow its which If ugh lay, The animal 10410 gln(t0 still, and a, 014,13111,141ion 01towed that he was deed. "Both en' cru dead," said ono of the settlers, as 11e aided in rolling 1110 carcass 11f the bear frena 1-htgb. •' It do look like it," replied the other. The depth and smallness of the hollow, however, had saved the boy from being crushed, and in it short time lie opened his oyes, apparently none the worse for 1118 fainting, although 41t1it0 sole from numer- ous bruises. 11. w11,4 Hugh's boar, the settlers>10cla.red, and they assisted him to remove the skin, wheel dee bore in triumph Eo his hone late that night. You may bemire 11(01ay never forgot that day's adventure, which Dame So near terminating his earthly existence. liow Water Freezes. A scientific paper describes how the pro• cuss of freezing is carried on 1n Natttr\' s t,1- chnnly. By 11101100 of tee thermometers it is first a0certamed that the temperature of the water at the surface and at the bottom is respectfully d8 0 mud 43 0 . A cold wind sweeps 001)4' 4110 surface of tho water, so that the temperature is suddenly reduced to, may, 440. Ily this reduction in tem- perature ent•pe alure it contracts and becomes spcc(ri• tally heavier, sinking and displacing the 0en1perm ivoly light and harm 40,3(0r b01,10 which rises to the surface, bominee cooled below 41 o , and immediately fells, displac- fug the warmer water 0t the bottom, widen in turn rives, gels vented and falls, its place bring again supplied by lighter fuel warmer water. And 00 the coming end sinking p101 000es go on, the upper thermometer al. ways indicating the higher temperature, W11401 suddenly the 'eagle point, :ie ° , is reached, when all movement. at once ceases, The upper layer of .9044101' es still exposed to tho c00l1ng influences of the wind, and speedily falls in temperature, but still rc' tarns its place. '1'he upper thermometer Dov shew0 that the water which surrounds it 10 being rapidly minced in temperature, but the lower ore remains 4tatiolal'y nt 3110, At this temperate su water is heavier than at any other, and there, like a stone, iG t'emltina at the bottom, end as it 19 fully protected from 0utwlu•d influences by the mass of superitcunhent water, its temper. tame remains very much at talo same point. The water on top, however, having nothing to protect it, gets cooler and lighter every moment. Down the thermometer gore to 37 0 , 1,1 ° aid 32°, nod then a slight breeze ripples the surface, and the next eminent a thin shoat of ioe spreads it- self over all. t•selfove'all. Tho ice, however, is colder end lighter than t,0 water, so that it floats on the surface and acts as a blaniret, pro- tOeting the comparatively warns and heavy water below from being 000led. So that even during the severest winter only et comparatively thin superficial layer of ice is usually formed, and the greater part of the water remains uufroeett at the bottom. People To•Day in the Stone An. The weapons used by the!Fuogiaus etre the sling, the spear, and the bow end arrow. The sling consists of a circular piece of sealskin, to 91111011 are attached two 111011ge of the sane, and the missile employed is a rounded pebble. In the use of this weapon the natives have attained to a really won• derfol degree of dexterity, being able to hit an object no bigger then a lean a hoed from a distance of fully thirty yards. The spear handles are about eight feet long, and eon• silt of young sterns of the winter s•bar1 treo. They aro tipped with sharp pieces of obsidian, and aro plainly used for killing porpoises and otters, but sometimes also for >opturiug t e larger -sized fish which fro• gnent the kelp. The bow, also fashioned from the winter's bark, is about 1111'00 and a half feet long and is strung with twisted gut. The arrows axe polished, neatly feathered, and tipped with barbs of fllut or oocesiomally of variously colored glass. Tho !;lass from whiell the arrow -tips are made is supplied by bottles obtained from passing vessels, and in fa0h• ionhtg these barbs ronolleeble ingenuity Is displayed. A portion of broken bottle is laid upon a flat stone with its edge slightly projecting, Little bits of glass are careful- ly chipped oif by 111011,110 of a piece of bone until the requisite elutp0 is obtained, and the tips are then fastened to the shaft with fine lubre14 of seal gut, 111 the abs0nco of glans the natives employ, as I have said, pieces of flint or other hard stole, which they fashion generally to rho shape of a barb. In fact, thb o people, like the Andaman Islanders, are still in the Steno Ago, The weepon0 described aro employed for hunting purposes only. In warf040, reliance is placed 'open rude olubs mid o l heavy atones, which aro grasped with both Mania, From the German. Kirit Aunt—Why do you bring me this grass, Tommy 1 m 11.,--Memese I want you. 1111:et01e W by do ym1 want mo to bite It ?" 11e0a000 .1 heard pa 'say that when yet bite the grass we will got (((('40,000. ter. Tarte, the member for 1: dole(., el It LMS Seat in 1110 1)„lninion Ilott'-,, of Comluen r Tuesday. 3I.OW TO TUAT A WATCH. You want to know how to "are for it flee weed], ell' 1" X141.1 t he old watehtullter, ns ho look elf hie gt:ioaee and wiper thele with Ilia handkerchief, "Lot 1110 see your watch," rho Well handed 00er his limepieee and the old nein examined it'su'efal:y. "\Voll, me," he maid, Bosley, "bear in mind etniId mildlythat altutellhi,illi114wa , Y .ahnust un delicate n (neve of uleuhuntsm lel the human system. Am It 1a ne400ea1'y for e man wbu wishes to keep in good health 101 taste 111,0 tocols In ilia 11y, s1) it f14 neremery to feed a wateh at u,gular intervals, You NM a watoll by wiodiug it. up, Therefore, have cert min hem: for winding your watch and never deviate from 11., "le this ensu there are probably 11)11 watches, Not one of dent is running. 00 this Tacit there are eighteen mud all are going. 1 wind them the first ding in the morning, starting with the one in the lower loft hand corner. 'J.'hey got their meals regularly. ' You 0(01 regulate Tier own watch if you will only > deify its peculiarities, ;lee 11118 lino Arne? Well, if your \Val.rh is run ulna slow tern that arta with 1he blade of Sour penknife a trill, toward the letter 'lit' Jf it 18 running fast turn in the opposite 11 - root ion toward 18,' Delft move the arm more than a fraction of an inch, for if that don't suffice, you watch needs a watch. nlltkeee care. " Don't open the inner ease of your watch more than is absolutely necessary, livery time you open it, dust sweeps lel upon the Mirka, 111111 it takes very little duet to pet a watch out of nyder. In nine .1(1se0 out of ten, when a watch is brought to 1110 to lee cleaned, 1 cal tell with my glees the buss• nese the owner of tato watch follows. I ox. ambled a watch the other day and told my 0us1mn01' that he worked in wool, He a,l- ntittod the fact, 1 hall found now small particles of wool in the works of his watch.. '• Have a chamois case for your watch, 01' ehanois linin; in your eat li.p'cket. it pre'Xer0O0 the ease and keeps it I<'oot getting scratched. I have hoard mon say that 14 wateh with a chamois ease will peep 1)o bet- ter than one without 8ueh protection, but that is nonaen00, " 1f yo,t work Hoar electrical instruments or ride electrical cars, you should hare your watch demagnetized. A few years ago such an operation cost a great deal of money. Unpriuuipled jewelers would tell a customer that he order to make a thorough job of it, every piece in the watch would have to be treated independently, lb'st positively and then negatively, in order to receive a mag- netic (0' 01001110 oqailtlo'it>>n. nave known watchmakers to charge (11 for denmg110tiz• fug a watch. " The real cost is almost nothing. There is a machine for the purpose. Von place the watch on the positive side and then on the negative. There is no more work about it that there is in baking a loaf of bread ••1 have hoard 111011 nay that itwas impos- aible to take a eiek watch to a.10teeter with• wit being told that the trouble lay ina broken mainspring. But herr little ,nett who wear w'utchee know about mahl0prings1 Broken mainsprings come as a sort el epi- demic. Don't 14.ugh, Ian simply telling you it 1'awe. A year ago this spring I was (moil - oil with watches, the mainsprings et which had mapped. : peculiarity (Atha btealtieWAS that Midi of the tweuty.tivn 1)r more turns to the 0prulg wit0 severed, and that ilia breaks were in 00001ght. line from the centre to the eir4unl'o'e11U of the spring. "Eve15 vvatehdna 4'r in the town had au' experience sienna,. to m • own last Sprint,. We have often compared notes, but we have 1 been enable, to amount foe the, epidemics, 0x00(31 upon the 1lypotllcsis that auees- plerin conditions 1)'e the cause, `• \\'hat these conditions are remains to be determined. It has been asserted that 9011011 the Northern lights are the brightest mainsprings are Most apt to 00ap. You probably;remember that last February the aurora borealis was phenomenally brilliant, and 501 during the period 11n watch with a broken mainspring was brought to me. I can't account for the phenomena and I don't believe there is a watchmaker who knows more about it than I do. " Now let use add a few herds as a sort of final. The heat as well as the cheapest watch movements in the world are made in England and America. It's all well enough to talk about Swiss watches, but in point of aceuato timekeeping there O01/13r hub been matte an expensive Swiss watch that was a whit superior t0 a good English or American one. .. (Vind your watch regularly; regulate it, study its moods in both hot and oold weather, keep the inner case closed, get it do11mgnetived, and don't call the watch- maker a rohh0r when he tells you that the mainspring of y0111 watch needs renewal." GLADSTONE'S MANNER 01' LIFE, The Great Statesmen's simple anti Rego. 11ter Ilnt>1ts-Plain (reel, plenty °1 01011». 141r, Gladstone is in the best of health, sleeps remarkably well, and, so far from having shown signs of decreasing vitality through au inability to maintain an appetite for food, the right honorable gentleman enjoys his 1110,010 with the zest of a yettug num. When 110 rises he invariably takes a tepid bath, and every morning before breakfast while at 13ia'ritz bo attended church, and since 1118 101/1111 to London has frequently taken 0 little walk in the grounds of Downing street. His first meal usually consists of a harll'boilod egg, a slice of tongue, with tem aid toast, After break- fast he devotes himself to 11ia correspond- ence, and for several hours is busy with his private secretary and receiving snob politi- cal canine Its 1(14ty arrlt'e. For luncheon Mr, Ghelet00 takes 00111 moat, mill: pudding, alta ehoese. Ile drink:, a couple of glasses of light wine, end some- t1me0 finishes with n glass of port. Au 3 o't•loelt, if disengaged, he has afternoon tern. His dinners arc eels 10,1 to his butt). 13e taken soup, fish (if it is to his (envy); but tumidly dines 011' e10 dish, which he selects told does not depart front. He ie very fond of ,loo pudding and prunes and rive, and upon either of these, but more eoperially the fol•Iner, ho would, if the etiquette of the dinner.' lie permitted it, mll.100 nn en• tiro meal, He drinks claret, and to his 011o0So has a liberal glass of port wine, Hall of this iso takes with 1110 che000, and 0ip0 the remainder in cmlverset:io0 neem' dessert 'When dining out Mr.-(andstx>uc 144kee two or throe glasses of chaoipigno, oonc'ludiui, 0,0 11011111, with pert, II docs not drink coffee le:mtse 11 to Emblem 1044,143 to hie lilting, and, being astringent Itee(0 elite awake. W1111n at lliart'itz a role was (>141,1„,that MH11'. Gladstone should be loft (done et 10 n'clie It every night, 'Phil rale is likoly to be adhered to otlll, and the other seeing; while the (meet of a friend, he left at n 1101411er p0111 10 111111 900 111 1141 1111 eel 11duulee lacy. 11e. 01,1,1.11 l>4' 11,11, with very rare exempt 10110, a!1v. y. aleph. 11 ell, ;1101 fel •,,'n'• tion 0a4 111 1 110 he 11(1. 0f r<an:linlet! (g '4 ''1:11,11 noon, Tens was when he f•.l: fatigued 4'r demired to think out memo metier whi'd' 0peeielly engaged him- Bat at lila! til0 he never lay in bed but ohne, and that 1=41411,, dav0 Meter° the time fixed lerid0 d,pa'tiu0, whet> 6e wee atuu:Iced by u roll (u elm hemi, mid leyetted to ells all rule, kept his lied kW i.w4'01y•t0111. 11441110, and thus regained 1,10 usual health. Since the right. honorable gentmm , returned to Loudon le has neon '111'ly, and (e n4' vigor. Dile and hearty am , s 11 (t• 144 dX 014 d wish i 1 11 .11. )!LI Irl \1 17 1 1 I,� I 1 '0 regimen 141 1 11111 11 1 41 t ,Y, Leung glided by authority, Mut him opiate, 111 London i4 geed. On elle I l.'4'4vll,ll %It 111.1,'11/. hr W10a0keli how he slept, In which he relc"') gayly ; " Well, I leave dune my 111110 hours." I f is 'flowery in as keen 09 ever, and at talo Biarritz dinner table, as when he dime, et loom or with friend, 111 l.oli'h,n, 110 Was the I,1, of the party. 1)11 441114 1/e01LHI'111011011 41r, 'Tolleu'u:ho was element there woe 01 dismission ,belt classics, 1111,1 :sir, G14d0tuoo i blunted not Xiuglo liuee of Greek, lett, whole I 1410sag00, On tee voyage from Caaie the i Chemed was very 0lormy, end tie, Gilu1.1 teem; lay down, but did not stiffer from Ana-' olekaeoe. Tlie reprints of his Ill 110,111, and lessened vitality have nulmed the Downing 'street poet bag to he auueually heavy, and+ a great de41 1)l il1•al'nrded tow luta eons,. (meetly been expender in refuting 111080 idle hi well time., A Question of Olotbing• On the northern 0110100 of Lake Nyassa live the \1'.4koo,io, described by ,all travel- lera am one of the finest tribes of (ventral • Africa. Lieut. Nioh,taedt, a German tray- eller, rayeller, has 0.4110') attention to one remarkable result of the proximity of white toed, who I have eetabl(0hed missionary stations in that r0gfoe. The \Vokoude. have thriven by the arts of peace, and hardly any part of savage] Africa can show 00 many flourishing pee"• talons as their wenn ry. They manifest j their p110111ive simplicity in many ways, I and in none more than by their attire, 1 whish ea ^.hiefly conepielmns for its absence : for the \V,Lkrmdeatm among the 10,401, clad of African peoples. A girdle of brass or copper wire saf11000 for the men, while a very smell hit of hreidsd loather adorned with beads is full dress fur the ladies of the tribe, Until the whites came among them their titter lack of clothing suggested to this primitive people not the 0lightoot, thought of indecorum. Clothing is not an 00001(tial of comfort among them, and no sense of theme or modesty suggested its use, The \\'el:wide wore simply animals in their in- nocence and simplioity. 'alto whiten, however, have been trying t instil into their minds an idea that neve occurred to them before, t het it, is immodes to he unclothed. The well-meaning teachers hove not succeeded in converting the natives to thele ideas of arose reform, but the \\'a - Ronde have shown themselves willing to make some inlpresenn8 to the prejudices of the uewcomere. Whenever they a•11 ware that n. white man is approaching, ,ten and w0lnen alike disappear in the plan1atinno, where they pluck ,t few banana 101tves and'I stick Diem in their girdles. Having thus made their toilet they present themselves to their rieit0rs in the mint conlidenee that, arrayed in their loaves, they will not oecod the inscrutable sena° of propriety Df the missionaries, who hail prescribed cotton cloths, but had been compelled to comprom- ise; nn the foil"q11 of the 1/11.110104 plant. These nlissinnaric0 000111 entirely to over- look the f.ult that the dress 10 really noth- ing hitt n matte' of 0natonl ; that millions of people who think the uncovered faces of our women cm the street are shameful, have habits of attire thin do not accord with nue n0tiou8 of propriety ; and that instilling into the mi tide of savages ideas of indecorum when 110110 whatever hod existed, may Oot he after 4411, the hest way to improve and benefit their immortal souls. Aotivity of Three No.th Amsrioan Voloau oss' Paderual Peak, situated in the wilds o RioArribo County, New Mexico, is report- ed a.0 now in a violent state of eruption, and is belching forth sulphurous fumes and lava at intervals of about three hours, each last- ing about thirty minutes. This has beet going on since the last week in December. The entire top of the mountain, which was almost square and about a mile in extent, is stated to be blown ol1, and the lata pouring down the siuleo has already filled up the valley for a half a mile on each side. A considerable portion of a ruined city of the auuiont cliff dwellers will be covered with the shag should the eruptions continue, Paderual Peat is one of 11e most prominent landmarks of the Territory, Tho Mexicans say that it burst forth in violent 0rnption in 11320 and did not cease for timely a year afterward. It has lain dorineut until the present time. Tho rumbling noise and lurid light can be plainly heard end seen at Sierra Amarilla, so1'enty, miles distant, and tut area y of peo- ple from there are now at Ariauiu Lo vvit- uess the impressive sight. Aneltrthgnake shock felt at Orizaba, Mexico, recently, greatly frightened 1110 people living in the vicinity of the Orizaba vol0tado. The town of Orizaba lies about seventy miles by rail000th100st of Vera Cruz and about twenty• ire 0111es south of Mount Orizaba, the 110W clad peak of which is said by some to be 17,350 feet above set level, and by others to bo the highest peak in North .America. The residents of Colima, the capital of the Mexican State of that ram on the Peel lie coast, also feel a nervous 0pprellell- sion regaling the 00100110 of Colinta,whiuh, reaching a height of about 12,1411'>feet, looms skyward about thirty milers northeast of the capital. Every nil(ht a lurid light 1.110min• etas the sky above 1110 monuta111, and it 10 eared that this portends 00011mae eruption, A Museum of Newspapers. One of the meat ellriolle museum in th0 world is thea containing hundreds of their sands of neeepapcts nt A)x-la-('h,apol1 'l'11is quaint 111110031111 library wets founded some seven or eight y1ar0 apo by Oscar t'orkenhorlc, 11'hn eol14eted uewspaper0 as ester plea(110 collected 0111111ps 414` 'telegraphs, '1110 whole of ldsincome fen' something like 10 yeare 10110 distributed 0404' newspaper offices of the civilized and mleichlized world, and he received every 111>r Ing dailies pub - Belied (n 301 languages, fly the year 1885 he found himself the happy owner of 10,400 tiles. He then Ili1 on the excellent idea of (melding 0 newopeper 1>11040ni and with this object 111 vie sent it circular rotted asking the tvh01, newepnper world to assist him (11 his work. 'rho eontin0(1tel prose scented to have responded with mitlnui'(0110 and, new there is certainly no other such mode' ion of new-pam:re existing in tate whni, w Orld, ..'Lel .•.nr,mn,.. 4144.... II.'r 14I.,i.'.11y 114 Det 1 ; 0 (0 lulilrmpaly 1 et•+ r.,1 in Il in metaid to keep n diary 10 tea' 141ter1'> eat lamina g4'. ,GEA.F OF THE SUN'S StRFAOE• The insiiml11es or the Astronomers Tllry t -r>'1' telgety .911414'4'41. (fiat is the eel 11111 h4'at of the 01111'8 0(11' - face t Yarmee 1111111111tefa have Leen neele, but as they vary from one t1wu0amd and at 1,11,1 ion to 11411huue of degrees there (0 little prespolt of an immediate and relil4ble (m- �,•r• w Nt'm' Irl the opening 4111484 (, 1. ,.1 1 11! ti fltell 1 4 it as his opinon 1ha1llhe temperature coupe Ir en r r I, Ln• 0 ) 111 1111 1 u 1)t little, it any, short t 1 ill• J Y, grecs, ' e c4' de therm ewe ti ( e. to of .vntirr:4ltn.unnl t.,>lrs b I bh0ugnt it uumht be :37,14')0 degrua4, whit' Pomillet brought it down to p somewhere between 1,9411 and 1,701 degrees of the, seine ,,•aro, 41. 13eequerel, lief. Langley, ,end Sir Willson 'I'boulpeon all agree lou about :1!11(1 degrees 01 conA rade, 111141iutl their deduetion0 from caleuhuione blued ell Solarphotos Illeres. 1 I Ancor.11 i to 11 St.Chair Deville the 11 temperature el Ill, NI111'X mlil'faele do'•" reel exrunll •1,80(1 degrees, Til ie also agrees wi 1(4 experiment0 made by both Bunsen and Delray, Sir llolort Ball, the a.tr'm0,ner royal of Ireland, in his "Story of the Heavens," page, 1513, says : " lb's 01:4.11 prob. 1(415 be well within elm truth if we state the -e fective temperature of the sun 1" be about 18,0410 degroee 1''abrenho,L" That, sour of the above tee mates are placed too lugli and others too low there is little doubt, Take that of Sweehi for an fn• stance, \I' hat instrument or oystcin of reasoning wen1r1 give a'utn nu iosig11t bite what I4,tionmee degrees of heat really means? On use other thane, we love every reason to believe that 1\I, l'ouiilot placed 11011 degree of actual temperature of the polar serfave far too low. Prof. Young argues from an orietoal amt logical stand- point. IIe mays : " When (teat is concentrated by It burn- ing g1as0 the temperature at the footle can. nit rise above that of the sourer, of heat., so if w0 fro not eed111 on the loss of heat by its transmission through the glass, the tem- perature et the foouo sheul 1 be the salve as that of a point placed at Such disinnee from tho sou that the solar dile would seem just. as large as the lens itself viewed from its own teens." 11 this i0 the true explanation a py1001010r and a burning -glass hold give the son's actual surface heat. WRECK ON THE TRINAORIA. The Eleneh' trews, 1544,, 11001es-t.1e'81,004 lug Story fold by The Few snrvl vorx. A despatch fro,n Centrum states that the Anchor line steamer 'Priaoore, which was reported 00 having been lost on ('ape ViOalo, grounded at the exact slot where. the British craftier Serpent was ]eat on No- vember 10, 18110, when of 111e 2711 pereon0 on board only three were saved, The Trin- acria has crimplotely broken up. Her crew numbered iii all told. Seven were saved but nearly all of them 0110t/eimed serious in- ,jnrioe. There were a number of passengers on the steamer, mostly members of the mission of t.ibralltu' and soldiers belonging to the garrison at t'la, piece. Among the w0111011 em hoard were,--J]rs. Bell, who (vas on her way to rejoin her Imd,aud ; Miss Sevell, belonging to tine mission, who Iva, returning from a furlough; bliss Stir. ling, a noViee, and Kitty Smits, a child. All the women on boln''i were drownerl. The survivors of 110 dis- este' steno that the Trinacria struck the Hcrt»ila0 rocks at 0 o'clock \Yedoeeday morning. An enormous bole was tern in hue (lull, and she Logan to fill an,l sine. im- mellfntely. The weather was 1.X.'1 and ter - :Mc breakers swept clean over the vessel, carrying overy'thllu before them, Several of the crew were Caught 1111 by the seas and carried overboard. Shortly after the steamer et ruck her masts wont over the silo but nothing woe done, of could have been done, to clear her of the wreckago. Tho 400en survivors, seeing that there was no possible chance of the steamer being saved, jumped into the sen and were 11',00110,! ashore, 'I'hoy banded almost naked, their clothing having been torn off in the but'. felings they received while trying to excel the shore, The beach 10 strewn w'thbeaies wasled from the steamer. Largo (10000- ties of the oargoaro also coming ashore. A tremendously heavy Sema i0 still running, which renders it impassibly for smellboats to approach the place whore the Trinacria went down. Tho wreck lie on a rook only a short distance front the share. A dense fog prevailed at the time of the accident. A WONDERFOL COLLECTION OF COINS. Tho Philadelphia mint has a wondorfu collection of coins. Among other rudest, ties it includes what is believed to be the oldest piece of metal money ever made, which was minted 1'l .E2)ne, about 700 0, e. The design is in high relic', representing It tortoise crawling across the face of the eo(n. It has no darn. Dates on mins were unknown up to 400 years ago. The very early cotes baro de- signs only on one face. Of all ooills that ever existed the smallest in value was the "mite," 80011 as 1110 widow in the Bible dropped through the slot of the poor•box. The most valuable coin in the collection described is a Chinese pieooworth 1510. It is simply a rectangular olntnk of gold stamped with Chinese characters. Lumps of gold are commonly need in China tor currency of large denominations. A coin stinted in Egypt beers the head of (,neon Arsinoo, who 9400 Cleopatra's great -grout- great• great-groat-great•grand' mother. (Queerest of all the coins are those from Siem—irregular roundish lump0 of salver, from the bigness of a walnut to that of half a buckshot, Modern coins, though the mechanical proees80sfor producing them have been so greatly improved, aim far inferior artisti- cally to those of ancient. tines. In Babylon of old, which fell before coin - Mg was invented, ,old and silver worn weighed out with scales for use a0 money. Tho eorlieat forst nt 1110110y es still in use to day in Southern Asia, the islands of the P0u•lio Ocean, and pants of Africa, where eoterte shells are the favourite negati1Lble Tiley ere usually quoted at about 1(10 tor twopence. Mose of them are obtained from the Maldive and Laccadive I0b4ud0 in the Arne blah ilea. Gaotronomia Item• "Don't you have any dessert, Pat 7" "]'hat's that " Why, something to oat after thinner," I4 Vis, yis 1 I have mu supper, sea" No Bitte'neso There. "bars it not. Ihrow a shade of bitterness into your heart," she said, " t 0000 the trees all leaflooa and to hear the wind sighing forever in mournful monotony :' Hoes it not malts von feel that them is too much that is bl,'ak in the wield t" " Nn,' ho en:mimed, . "it weeny does 1>0(:'" .> "Why . ,, 4' 110,•:.1100 111; papa 14 'n tho ,::al bum:• 11004." BBIEk' AND INTEi(ESTING. ((('0114. 11111.1410 14,08 e1(1111y 11111es of tunnolle The lleeh of the oyster Pt about 00 per 0014'.. Waley, The fashion of onrving the fish bolero nu'o4a 1301st, in 13t1•1- There 0m:twenty thousand trained nurses in J'lugirtnd, (101,0111, and Seetled'L Salmon was formerly believed to promote drunitenneme, 01,1 muniteeripte and artoerOphe aro not briugmg the pewee they used 114. 'the agitation lt•g,t0t1Nt theatre hate is (spreading ; but so are the hats, nnfortauate- ly. ('et logo are now furnished with shoes Lea. 1ho purpose of protoeLing the polished floor's. Cuban barbers lather their patrons with their hands from a bowl made t e ht under the 0hin. T)e profits from the sale of the works of Charlet,1)tnkellp o1111 amounts to about eltf,• 01:14.1 0 IL 5001'. Tho coolie, fed on rico ea more active and cal endure more than the negro fed ou fat Ih•at. Statistics silow that the chances of fatal accident in railway travel is one in every ten million, The largest t,lepbnne centre in the world is that in the ex11ha1ge in Berlin, Germany. Where 7,000 wires are connected with the 10111111 office. The 110100st fad in 11nt0gr0 4)1 boobs is one of cooking rel'ipes. 1':a^11 formula written in the book has the sigutturo of the con- tributing friend under it. An inmate of an American convent has recently died, after being there 118 years, without nice going outside .the convent walls, Her recorded age wail 11S years. A swimming tank is said to be a ours for lameness in horses, In swimming the horse exercises the saute uos>le.A a4' in trot- ting, but with no injury to his feet or Iegs. S0 extensive aro the feeding grounds and so rapid the utovemente of the wild ostrich that as many am fifty or 0ixty miles are often travelled by it between daybreak and dark. Itis said that Spanish firm of publishers once pro'lneed a work in which one letter only got misplaced through aceideut, and this is believed to have been the nearest approach to perfection that has ever been attained in a hook. The salaries earned by average leading lattice nal emit lemen in American companies run from 02(1 to 41.110 a week, while the ju- vouites got from 013 to 020, which may also be taken as the salary of good comedians and 00001141 ladies. A person who has totally lost the sense of hearing in ono ear, although he may im- agine that the defect is of little consequence, cannot Innate the direction of a sound to save his life, even when the o0ntre of dis- turbance 18 quite near him. The leneest single span of wire in the world is used for a telegraph wire and is stretched over the River Kiotoali, between lleznrah and Sectauagr'uln, India. Itis over 11,011) feet long, and is stretched from the top of 0110 mountain to another. Although it may not generally be known, the bonds of northern Canada are still in- fested by 0 queer speeieO of bison kuovvo as. the " wood buffalo," He is muc[, larger them the buffalo of the plains, which for- merly abounded in such numbers. The Knlmucks of Astrakhan, a roving people numbering about 150,0011 souls, have at last been frond from serfdom. When the other hessian serfs were freed in 1801 it was considered dangerous to extend th10 privilege to these people, lest their wildness would lead to its ahem. In the British Patent Office, where of ate places in the world o110 would expect to find things ordinarily well "up to date," the eteol pen is unknown, and the antediluvian goose -quill absolute and seprenlo. Verily the ways of Government officials are not as other men's. Another use has been found for olectrici• ty. In Ceylon experiments have shown. that it is more economical to dry tea leaves by its agency than by the old method, and extensive plants have been erected for that purpose. The term " tabby oat" is derived from Ats.b, a famous street in Bagdad, inhabited by the manufacturers of siiken stuff called stile or talfoty. This stuff le w•o'en with waved markings of watered silk resembling a " tabby" cat's ctat, 111 the Roman Campagna, at the sepulchre of Metella, wife of Sella, there is an echo which repents iiv0 times, each being in a different key. I1 will also repeat a hexame- ter line, or another sentence which can be spoken 111 two and a half seconds. Tho Shah of Persia, who has ten millions sterling stored in his palace, has been bor- rowing a sum from the State to defray the 00st of his summer oll1ilhg to the distant provinces of his empire. His suite oompriaes 10,000 people, including 300 wives' Adelina Patti was the first, prime donna who demanded in Paris a nightly salary of ton thousand francs. When it was conceded to her her rivals preferred 111e same claims t so that to keep her euprenneyin the operatic market she persisently raised her prices to fifteen thousand francs, whioh sum sho re- ceived for each of the three concerts she gave in ono week at the Eden Theatre. A admired woman, named Lizzie Voang, its Georgie, U.S. A., token contracts for ex- oevatiolls, and sometimes has thirty carts employed under her direction. When not busy checking orf 10:4419 she crochets oc 00010, For six months or so every year she runs at extensive w•0odyard. She keeps two or three neon in rho forest chopping, two or 113100 more salving and splitting in the yard, 4411,1 four or live delivering and peddling the wood, She keeps from, forty to snxt.y head of hots on her farm, and has a swill route its the city which supplies then with nearly all the fond necessary, Every year Oho sells many hundr0d dollars' worth of pork. She is also an extensive chicken fernier, and drives a good trade in poultry and eggs. Protecting Fruit From Frost. A cmltivater of fruits whi010 are likely to suffer from savers frost los devised a simple way of protecting his trees. IIe places on every acre a 100 -gallon iron cask, This i0 filled with oil, which 10 condtietod by two pipes between the rows of trees. Al every 20feet aro elbows over which are flat iron sheet palls, e011tainillg oil. Thio spattOre and vaporizes 110 i 1 home, and not only makes en intensely hot ii:onw, bet ereatv0 a denso smoke winch owl, a, n slued ie. The coat of the plant is pmt: It per acre, ,rod 1110 oil 0)i011111 11,1 cost 01 el S4 an 11.1.1'0 ,11 the cold. 0,1, W11110,'. (('bre 111e1 1)1111 r• likely to be of special value in eittme orcluolds, as well as • inthe uu1(1101ion 1>011>1)01 vegotol!100 whore 1 there isdanger of frost.