HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-3-24, Page 3MAIzcII24, 1833 THE BRUSSELS POST.",
YOUNG FOMES.
I "Never shall I forget. the agony of that l FAp9,0 US SUIOIUES.
moment -standing es 1 did upon a small I -„-
, muss island scatvlely twelve feet in dime..
p �! 1 ter, with a bottomless quagmire all mond
,A FIGHT FOR LIFB. i and ran temente 1luffelo drawieg me 1•eeiaL
, leerily into the folds of rho heaving, bnhbl-
A IlUdson It1111'1033313 I"s I. armature wl
Ii nmol ties.
"It. was Who nastiest menthe I over g
into," acid Jonathan Jolnson es the to
npou which were driving suddenly Ind doe
into the magnjlieeut ravine m which 10p
stone Creek weeds its elugttish way taro
the (,)ueppello River through limner()
cranberry all amps and muskegs,
"It way the nestled. (crape I over g
into, and l'nl going to toll yon all abo
3 t."
1 settled myself comfortably in the wag(
spat rattily for a good story, for 1 knew tau
Jonathan to his young days had been an o
buffalo hunter and could tell many a goo
enee1018 if he would only allow himself t
bo drawn nut,
""Twos about fifty years ago," said h
when these promos were as wild tea enure
made them and buffalo were as thick as mica
in a barn, that I first came out hero Gotten',
Ind trap for the Hudson Bay Company, In
Ontario there were fav who could beat trio
as a hunter, but hp to that time I didn't
know notch about the Western big gonia,
\Vell,Isoon found t110 faveri to feedinggrou ud
of the buffalo, and that was rightar0uudthis
neighborhood. Meshy ahruidred hovel shot
within fire miles of this spot, bet although I
/levelled several narrow Squeaks for my life,
only once came neargettmg frightened to
death, and it happened right here.
"I hadn't exactly been hunting that day,
still I ted my rifle with ate. I mailed it
partly from habit, you see, and also for the
very beet of masons -that I didn't have
any better place to bare It. In those days
there weren't many of lis hunters had any
special hones ha the Went, and when the
weather was warm and clear we (renewaly
maria long trips, moping just where w'1)
found 0(1(aelve0 at 91(000t.
" Well, it W00 getting dusky on Um
parte:ulna evening, s0 whet, I came to lh
creels here, thinks Ito myself 1'11 stay rlgh
here ; so niter tethering the Ihnt'oe
leach:hod out on the gronud to 0nj0y m
i c
p p• After lying perhaps an hour I was mud
denly started by at peculiar ('nulbinlg n0i0
-it 0o8urle0Iilte rah nrdergrouud disturb
nmlo. I tried to think my fancy had de
0e!ved me, but it kept ;feeing lender ate
louder, so finally 1 ddterndued to go an
look around.
" I clambered 0(p that bank as fast as I
could, noticing that tis 1 nearer! the top th
rumbling sound grew more and more. dim
Una, but at range to say, I never for a 0(.o
anent (aspected the danger.
" Well, when I at length reached the
brow of the hill and looked over the sight
that mot my eyes fairly (rote the blood in
103' veins.
' A living prairie of panting, strugglin"
buffaloes, mid the whole herd under full
steam, stampeding and heeding straight for
me.
„ 1fy heart just hiirly jumped into my
mouth, for they weren't more than a quer-
tor of a mile away, but is wasn't any time
to stand thinking, so I just turned down
that 101iu8 faster that 1 could run -it
would kill a man to do it in cold blood, but
I knew I had to resell my horse or loge my
life.
' As 1 veered the horse he plunged and
tore at the rope as though ho were crazy,
and it was evident that he had scented the
danger.
I had got within twenty yards of him
when he made 'alembic plunge, snapped the
rope, amt away he went. I. turned m de -
spar Inst as the first buffaloes reached the
brow of the 11111, but 1 knew how nselees it
would be to waste ammonium((. I chink,
however, that I would have fought it out
had I not thought of the muskeg, which
commenced abort forty yards from where I
stood. I knew' that though I might get a
little way upon the quaking uta00 by being
vary careful still it wo(dd be mighty moor
footing for a stampeding herd of 1111 ala.
There wasn't a moment to lose, so 1 headed
for it as herd as I amid run, lent short as
the dietenc0 was I realized that it would be
a close race between myself and the fright-
ened brutes already surging down the steep
bluffs, beedleee of anything oecopt flight.
Ike fog mod In whioh ware either deed m'
dying r1 till hundred of the wild cane.
of I " At the moment I remembered toy hent•
ail ing knife and thnawing it from my belt drove
f.
n to
The theb1037 weehilt into la good) ((3(0 113)1 as the
; warm life blood poured front Ilia month aid'
1'41 j
nostrils, 1 1311e1Y that I was saved. A tom
ns meal later the huge, strong form sank 11to-
ot • lessly into the mire ; the lalaml righted
itself and 1 was again master o1 the sane -
Lion, ub tion,
"'!'ho rest was comparatively easy, al-
though on ono acumen) 1 had as many as a
ld dozen straggling wheals olose rotund me,
ei and all clamoring for adaittauee at the
salve time, slut the poor creatures were
too week to raise themselves; in feet, most
e of then( sunk without anteing mo much
trouble, end very soon all bonne 83)11, but
never had tho moon ahon0 down upon a mora
ghastly struggle for existence than 1lad 01'
oupied the last half hour.
After mating mound for some time for
a means of reaching the shore I finally suer
(waded in crossing upon the books of the
dead bu1oloes, but ie was ticklish work.
" Well, to cut a long story short, fur this
i8 my farm which we are coating to, I
managed to get though hides out of that
pool to make my trip a very profitable ono,
but I had to get a new horse before I could
market them, for the old one I never saw
again."
The Extinct Moo,
For ages before its ocolpation by men,
Now Zealand swarmed with great wingless
birds, whieh found hero no carnivorous
enemies, but an abundenec of vegotublo
food. The mons not only existed in vast
numbers, and for thousands of years, but
had such diversity of fora) as to embrace ate
t less than seven genera, eentainiug twenty -
11 five snecies--a remarkable fact which is to-
t narelleled it any other part of the world.
1
The eomou0lose kinds in the North Island
Y were only from two and ono -half to four
feet high. Those of the'10nth 1eland were
e mostly from four to six feet tall. while the
giant terms, reaching twelve and fifteen feet,
u' •wero always rare.
• Immense deposits of moa boles have been '
found in leealities 10 which they appear to
Li have been washed from the hills iu tertiary
times, skeletons on the surface of the,
grind, with skin and ligaments still at.
a (ached, have given the impres1on that
• these birds have been exterminated in very
recent years, but other facts point to at dif-
ferent, conclusion. ;11•adidon seems 00show
that the ((108 became extinct in the North
Island email atter the arrival of the el moos
in New Zeeland -that is, not less than 400
to .00 years ago -and 0(t tite South Island
about 1110 years later. The (rash-appoarh,g
skin and ligaments are supposed to have
Leen preserved by (uustlal faverabie con-
ditions.
" Just 0,0 I reached the edge of the mor-
ass the living wave broke upon the bottom
of the ravine, causing the quaking ground
to 1111dulat0 in long swells which very near•
ly throw me headlong into the muddy
water.
"I covered myself, however, and, mak-
ing a desperate spring, landed upon one of
those small moss islands which float here
and there upon thosnrfnes of the quagmire,
Ono more leap and I had reached my limit,
.1 could got no further, for them was not
mother island lvitlli❑ twenty feet.
"I turned and faced the snorting, foam.
flecked mass of maddened buffaloes.
" One glance allowed nee that only the
extreme left of the herd would fawn the
swamp -the great mass passing to the
westward, still I knew that I had not yet
gob oat of the serape.
" The first creature to reaoh the edge at-
tempted to hold back, but ho tried in vain,
Tho irrisistible power behind drove him
forward to his doom, and with a loud be) -
low ho sprang upon the nearest island, but
it was not built to carry him, Mune in.
stantly disappeared.
"I looked for the apob where he had
gone down, and saw to my horror alt at what
1 had crossed us safe land had now sunk
under tho combined weight of the flerd,and
that between my frail rare and the dry land
was now fully eighty feet of quagmire filled
with drowning and fighting animals, some
of which werekneo-deep, while others bare-
ly had their 110008 out of the water. The
atruggles and erica of the poor creatures
were horrible to witness, as one after an.
other they were trampled under foot and
pressed under the water by the stronger
among the herd crowding forward.
"Up to this time bub few of them had
8uocee(led in fighting their way through the
thick slime to the island upon which I load
refuge, and these 1 had been forced to shoot
for any self-protection,
"There was one, however, that timely
proved too much for me, A young and
sturdy bull after making a vigorous rush
across the betake of the others, during whioh
he slipped and half foll three or four times,
only tore0ovor himself with a snort of terror,
finally reached the end of hie living bridge,
and, gathering himself for a last effort, 161'
tamptod to spring upon my stronghold.
Fortunately for ma, the great 10liow elip-
pod, end falling abort, succeeded only in
striking the island with his massive woolly
hoed,
"Asa manor of course the shook throw
me off my foot incl when 1 had 0000ver011
myself tho bull 1104 got ono leg upon 6110
moss and had half raised himself hour the
water.
" My rifle was onpty so 1 wielded it as a
club, striking Mtn upon tho nose until his
roars oehood down the (avium ; bob for ell
my clubbing 10euld not drive him back and
in another instant he had seemed a footing
with the other log,
Remarkable Trial.
A Warsaw correspondent writes : -A
remarkable trial has jest taken place in
this city -viz., that of a young lady named
Alexandra 13loneky, who hits been eon -
damned by the City Court Justice to nine
and 0. half years' servitude in the mines,
and after the expiration of this term to
banishment for life in Siberia. The crime
of this young woman, who is only 22 yearn
of ago, is the attempted turning of the
prison in which she hod boon confined on
the charge of stealing eeveral hundred
roubles from the family in which she was
employed as governess. The young lady
was also oharged with attempting to oorrept
the children under her (•aro, On being tried
for these offences Mdlie. Bbusky, who la
an educated lady, abased the judge in
strong language. Tale outburst mutated her
to be treated with unusual severity. Brood•
ing over her sentence in her solitary cell,
the frantic young woman resolved to set fire
to the prison, and in the confusion regain
her freedom in the company of her fellow -
prisoners, This mad ettempt, which was
frustrated, was probably the direct result
of the solitary confinement to which the
prisoner had been subjected. It has ter•
chinated in a sentence almost more terrible
than death.
A 11indood's Water .Bioyolo-
Bebe .Iag,odisware Ghatak, living iu
Chetln in Alipera, known a6 the inventor of
a patent for rine mills, has, says a native
paper,lately invented on npparatusbytneane
of which anima may safely cross over thegrent
waters. It is in the shape of a bioyclo
placed over two strong ah' -tight small
horizontal buoys 0on01ru010d sidewise under-
neath the cycle. The man will tante hie
seat on the (wale even morn comfortably
than on an ordinary bicycle, and the ma-
chinery being propolled by the legs will
Dross safoly over rivers and lakes without
drenching the propeller.
The expperimeetw'as made by the inven-
tor himself, and it proved a emcees. Babu
Jagadiewara seated on his wonderful cycle
of the water, passed from Chetln through
the Tally's Nnllah ao•o0s tine great river
liooghly into the 130tnnical Gardens, end
in the same way returned home, to the
greet, joy of his friends and admirers. The
whole joerney, ineluding the return, was
0omplot0)1 within five hours. It is said that
the inventor is taking steps to increase the
speed of his watery cycle. The usual ap-
plication for patent will bo made shortly.
Boar Hunting in Brittany.
Boar hunting in Brittany is full of excit-
ing incidents, and the boars seldom die un -
avenged; for, though they are beset by
mounted hunters and peasantry on foot,
armed with guns, the life -blood of many a
hound is drawn before the savage old maker
yields up his own. 1lis eourag0 ebbs only
with bis life, 1318 dangerous powers of
offense 00as0 only with his loot gasp.
Though the grip of the bulldog, the yelp•
ing of the hounds, the din of horns, and the
cries of the boaters may foroo him from
his lair to seek refuge in flight, that with-
drawal may be set clown rather to predonce
and disgust than to fear, When at last he
ie brought to bay, with his beak against a
rook or a tree trunk, ho is ready to defy a
hose,
Met in a narrow alloy of the forest,
noitber man nor 11ore0 can withstand the
°Nei Coli° of his onset, Not unfrequently
tiro hunter who loves his hounds wi11 feel
1)11311ittle triumph oven 111 the death of
many boar8,il having begun the 80x0011 with
a large pact(, he antis it with a miserable
ronmubnt, havulg left all his best and bray
ase dogs on the field of battle.
In old times the shill, outrage, and
promptitude of the huntsmen were oxer tea
10 1110 1.111n001 10 save the clogs by seizing
thonnost favorable moment to plunge the
spear or hunting knifo into 61151)oar,At the
present day the gun is a safer instrument of
dispatch.
now Sower the Ancient/4 Shuffled off" I'blh
teleran on.
Ariotarohua starved himself to death out
of weariness of life,,
ChoLtcrlon )tilled himsell in despair at
the failure of all his pi•ojeetx,
Ilionier stilled Mined( by thrusting at
levee boles
k1) down x throat.
at.
Lucretius, the great, Latin poet, staLtmd
himself in a tit of disgust with life.
Boothe tells of n (c(o)on Jaboter,wh0n1 he
knew, who east himself headlong into a
boiling soap vat,
0000ein0 Nerve., a wealthy Roman lawyer
killed himself in disgust at the state of the
Roman Republic.
The last Duke of Bedford died a v101ene
death by hie own act. Disgust with life
was said to be the cause,
Shenton, the great War Secretary, died
by hie own hand in 18111 ; he was un.
doubtfully inseam from overwork.
0aeai00 fell by his own dagger, after the
'settle of Philippi, the same dagger, it le
Bald, with whioh he stabbed Cesar.
l''rauloin Von Laeeberg drowned herself
of vexation and fifegun at life after reading
Goethe'o "Sorrows of Werther."
Samson, the Judge of I0ree1, destroyed
himself in the temple of the 1'hilotinee try
pulling it down on himself and his enemies.
Rousseau tells of a friend who was a
were advocate of suicide, and at the age
of 00 drowned himself in the Lake of
Geneva,
Homer, it is said, hanged himself in ex-
treme old ago because, after long trial, ho
could not solve the "Flshermau'e Puzzle."
POETRY,
The Good Time Coming.
t ome hither. 1,,I and hearken
For a(Il,l lore is In tell,
01 the modern!, days at vowing.
When all shall ho bettor tlmn Well,
i lo n
And ((01)1 t',ha
l/ ho ,
1 told of aruuntry,
A Innd in rho midst of ih0 ;rho.
And folks ehnll roll n. Renaud
In the day i is
3 hu going to be.
There mora than one in a thousand
(It the days, that are yet to route
Shall Ihtvo •nm,• hope of the
seem ,ley of the,mclrnt Meno.
1'o' then, laugh not. but listen
Te 1111- stream, tole of mine,
All folk I hit are in England
Shall be better honed than swine.
'i'hen at man 'hall work and bethink him.
And rrl0ire In tho rico(), of hlv
Nor Yrs conte home in the even
i0,o rein t and weary to stand,
Mon in that time 0 (tooting
Shall work and have no fear
For tameorrlw's lark of earning
And the lunger wolf anon.
I to11you title fora wander,.
That no men then shall be glad
Of his fellow's fall and mishap
To snateh at, the week he had,
For that whirl the worker whneih
Shall then bo his indeed.
Noes/tali half be reaped for nothing
By him that sowed no seed.
0 strange. now, wonderful 1003 -lee!
Bart, for whom shall we gather the gni11
For ourselves 0 n eaeh of ottr fellows,
And no hand shall labor le vein.
Then all Mine and all Thine sit all be Ours.
And no more shall any man nrare
For riches that servo for nothing
But to fetter a friend for (eslava,
--I\Villinm .Morrie, in Arena.
d Venetian Wallflower.
Floating along a (mein) Venetian street,
Lane. of Kansas, the famous Jim 'l old, old woman, tid norm the shelf,
Senator La
] fen bow morn life's airier mare iia sweet.
Little of ttnte•bellum days, died in 1300, by And foolishly kept thinking of myself.
his Own hand, fu a fit of mental aberration While vanquished tiny its samosa banner furl
One 01 the most distinguished suicides in 0l'
1,)(1i h aerforumten hopes and fears.
the U, S. erns the Ilan. John Davis, And thought perbnps too hardly of the world.
Speaker of the (louse of Bepreseutatives For patience does not Owe)- grow with
from 1841 to 1817- 31001(3• _
Cal;llhus Luotot.ins killed himself in a pe• High nn the right there towered an old stone
(utterly painful manner by swallowing coals well
of tire and supplementing ' them with a nee tarty "'13,11 a century', di1mgarded gretio',,
pp g P• w•om well solvers lowtheir Band tinge I wi.
of retl•bo4 iron. Some rad, some yellow, and some tinge) with
Saul, the first Teing of Israel, killed him- both.
self rather than be shun by the Philistines. From ant. the ere milling -tones w it.h Rorer I
Defeated in battle and his kingluni gone,
to had nothing to live for,
Macaw, a Boman official of Cicero's time,
hanged ,himself when. iufortnod that the
groat orator intended to appear against him
in his trial for peculation.
Ajax killed himself with hie spear; Jo -
meta, Antigone, Hannon, Eurydice, :Ldipue
end many other Greek heroes and llero1nes
died by their own bends.
Heronius, the Sicilian, allowed signs of
madness and was confined by his frisuds.
Determined to thwart them, he beat his
brains out against a post,
The Philosopher Cleombrotas, after read.
ing Plato's Phaedon, killed himself in order
that he might at 0000 enjoy the sweets of
the future life en vividly described.
Whether the death of Clement C. Vallee.
digham was a suicide or an accident
has never been satisfactorily determined,
though the evidence seems to indicate self-
destruction.
Abimelech, !while storming the town
of Thebez, was wounded in the heart
by a stone thro » by a woman, and made
his armor bearer kill hien lest it should bo
said a woman slew him.
'; (tel, a 101110110 French cook, ran hutted!
Brough with a sword because the fish for a
State dinner came too late to be used, and
he eohld not strand the disgrace of serving
11 '1)111)01' without fish.
Petr0nius Arbiter, the poet and man of
pleasure in Nero's court, having fallen into
disgrace, wont home, wrote a satirical poem
describing Nero's debaucheries, and then
opened his veins.
Like hisgreatguest,Haunibel, l'.fibhridates
killed himself by poison to avoid falling into
the hands of the Romans. He preferred
death to appearance in the triumphal pro.
cession of at Roman Generel,
The philosopher, Damocles, throw him -
eel/ into a chaldron of boiling oil and mis.
(trebly perished. His fate was not known
until the oil was poured out and his bones,
boiled clean, were found.
Portia, the dattgher of Cato, attempted
to kill herself by drinking boiling water,
but, unable to swallow it, she hastily cram•
mod handfuls of glowing coals into her
throat, and died in greet agony,
Entp0dool00, tho philosopher,threw him-
self into the crater of Vesuvius. He has
had a nlo1101'(l imitator, an Engl ishmnn, who
killed (himself by jumping headlong into the
orater of an iron humane.
Terence, the ].woman dramatist, lost his
hmanusorfpts; a collection of 1013 plays he
ted tronolated from the Greek for use on
he Roman stage, Ile was unable to ordure
he loss and drowned himself.
Tho greet Zeno lifers a quiet and happy
life until the ago of 98, when one day he
accidentally stumbled end broke his thumb.
He interpreted the aceid0nt as a summons
from the earth, and so henged himself.
The Roman Emperor Otho killed himself
after a reign 01 ninety-five days. A popular
revolution had overthrown hue power, ho
wa0 aware that from kis successor he had
nothing to expect, end so preferred death.
Cato was the typical Roman Beioide. Ho
killed himself with a dagger on the ap'
peoaoh of Ctosaf's forces to Utica, knowing
that the cause of liberty was lost and being
unwilling to survive the downfall of his
country.
The poems of Labienns were ordered by
imperial edict to be bernod al ateohnt of
the blasphemy they wore alleged to oontain,
The order was married out, and, in despair,
Labienus burned himself to death in his own
house,
Hogesippos, the philosopher, discoursed
so eloquently on the p0a00 of death es mon' Differently Oircumstanood•
pared with the worry of life that many of A clergyman, going the rounds of his
his auditors killed themselves, and, to stay country perish in tho 0ontll of lroland, met
the epidemic, Ptolemy ordered him to teacl1 a farmer, who though residing in a neigh.
no more in public, belaying parish, was a regular attend(ne at
Ahlthophol, the Hebrew statesman, join. hie cherub,
eel in the rebellion of Absolom against Said Pat, "Af yo pinze ylr reverence
David, but when his atiVieo 110 to the con• would ye mind praying for a woo crap
duo( of the war was rejected Ned he saw eeetin next Sunday, I eat t got anything to
the cause was lost he went home, foretold grow with thebato n' the weather,
the failure of the rebellion and hanged Limvin
• "Sorry to hear that aL,'' said lite dl•
self, e, "but you sho11Lc�askI your own par•
bon, 310(0 me,"
"Oct 8111170," was the reply, " that's just
ft; what's the good in axis him to pray for
rain wits then Botta o' hay a slandin' on his
lawn, "He'd never do it."
array ori
,11111,1'. window eunkl Tor roll rim -remand t
And o'er the sill smile,! V). Venetian maid,
And leaned her pensive head upon her hand
Iter softly lustrous hair as Clark ns night,
1 -tor features lighted hyo thought Nil smile,
She turned her splendid eyes to lett and right,
And hummed an old Venetian air the
0.1,1(13. -
1 -ler 1 11118o1 ,'heck' and reel lipslust metre
Lit by the low• son's slowly dying flame,
She sat 80 still sho reenu 11 n work of ort,
Willi old grey atone and wallflowers for a
frame,
She s,low enc, and she seemed to know my
ower'
Of grief and loneliness and selfish woe,
Ana with a sudden impulse plucked a flower
And tossed it to me 0(8 I passed below.
The breeze Ind died away. The blossom drop.
pod,
Fluttered, and wavered; it was falling wide:
A tiny oephyr caught It up, them slopped,
And brought the Rower directly to nmysid0.
Ifeebly waved my poor old wrinkled band;
Not• pretty features lighted up o.3. I his :
She said some words 1 could not understand.
And laughed, and throw 010down a)it110Was,
rind then somehow this dark world grew more
bright ;
And 3 could see with dim eyes strangely
cio(
How griam ofd Time can smile In swiftest Right,
And sombre Fate forget (.o be severe.
T love to think that you remember, too,
Sweet girl so far o1Yay acrossth a sea,
And while I wave this grateful hand to you,
Perhap.l you throw another kiss tome.
-(Robert Bel -orb' Hale.
To Ham Who Waits.
" To him who waits-" the wisp old saying
runs ;
Crooning it o'er tvhilo winged snow -shafts
dart
A thwart rho gloomy light of shrouded suns,
With what a thrill it vivifies my heart !
Clear as n zither laughs the brook sot free ;.
Soft as a lu to 1 hoar the robin sing ;
Upon my oar bursts all the melody
That leaps from out the the lyric lips of Spring.
-10110100 Se0)1ard.
Where Are The Spriaga of Long Amo 1
Como near, 0 sun -0 south wind, blow.
And bo the (Vhiter's captives frond ;
Where are the 010110gs of long ago/
Drive tinder ground rho ]ingerhng snow,
And up the greensward legions lend,
Come near, 0 01111-0 south wind, Won, I
Aro those the skins we used to know
Thelbndding woad, the trash -blown mend 1
Como near, 0 sun -0 south wind, blow! _
The breathing furrow will we sow,
And patient Wai t the patient seed
Come near, 0 sun -0 sou11l
eolith wind,ow I
The grain of vanished years wilt grow
Alt not rho vanished roars indeed!
Where are the Sprhngo of long ago 1
With soddon leafage, lying low,
They for remembrance faint! plead!
Como near, 0 sun -0 south wind, blow 1
Where aro the Springs of long ago 1
-1Bd1111 M, Thomn.s,
Tho Patient Seasons.
How patiently the seasons bldo their time!
No murmur from the boil that months ago
Was ready, whore the earth inclined, to blow
Tho birds aro happy in their ohoson clime.
No doubt there aro commuoiogs 'Hoath rho
Snow
And some l,rightcyes that never close in sleep,
And soma sharp ears that llaton well and keep
Sweet hope alive in little Malta below.
'(hen lot the Whiter wear itself awns,,
13orno thither on rho breast of freighted rills;
A dream of Spring has touched the constant
hills,
And ]Wade the valleys patient of delay.
-(Mar y A. Mason,
Oondensed English,
"Stamps, please," curtly said the yoang
lady.
"With or without?" queried the facetious
drug clerk.
" With or with0utl Without what.?" was
rho indigno$it inquiry.
" Whiskers, ma'am. Ono'cantors 1,00 no
whiskers on Columbus. The two•ocnl•ms
ave.,
Exolosivo of worships, 081 vessels with a
total teenage of 1,100,050 tone, .were 1001
year 10,0/101104 in the United kingdom.
The autpnt foll shore el that in 1801 by
abort 21,000 tons.
In the industry of cigar making girls
"Lot us annex," i8 tho latest way of pro• engaged at piece work earthen' Iiia t o 1 a
posing. week anon.
ELEOTR1OAL SNAKE -
I'm I
NAKE.
'fall Nlory About 11 Fiery 0081903er to
IM30•4'0 a Trait or Ire.
A despatch from Delphi, incl., says 1 -
Mark IA estoa, a farmer being near 111,,
entail town of Alexander, southeast of titin
,•sty, relates a (nasi wonderful phenomenon
which avemid
ILL 1114 place,
whieb is now
being visited 1,y 1100dn''lo 0f people; en Mott
3.0 900 for themselves the evidences of whit
Mr. Weston hahold,
He say(; ".lust after dark night before
last 1 had o,snsion w go mut to the barn to
look atter the horses. A public highway
pusses within 200 yards of ley house, and
the barn 01 11)3113. 0.110,11 twenty rods from
the house due south and somewhat neer the
road. 1 started from the house in the dint!.
1010 of the barn and had gone perhaps Int
the distan00 when I noticed *something
playing along the ground that looked like a
tremendous tiery snake,
"The objcet crossed my path, and as it
did so I felt the aft grow mush onldor, and
a eecei ar, meaning sound arose, like the
sfgIm ng of the [1(011 through the trees, only
11 was loud enough to drown a mai* voice
when he would stout Then 3 felt tone•
thing come, over one like electricity, and I
became motionless, as though I had grown
fast to the ground.
"I was terribly soured, but I never lost
the use of Ivy hands or legs through fear,
though there wee enme3.hing peoulnr in the
air that simply paralyzed me. (Vhoe the
thing had got perhaps 10 feet from use going
west it turned and name back, and as it did
so the moaning sound 0hahged to a shrill
whistle, something lik0 a locomotive would
make, and when it got just In front of me
it tool( a COnr0e directly away from me olid
toward the barn.
" It traveled very rapidly and looker1(Ike
a large, ragged streak of lire, perhaps 30
feet lung and 10 inches in diameter'. Tho
thing lunched the burn and in almost an in-
stant ran directly up in front of the building
and onto the roof. 1 expected every nu»nent
to see the barn burst into Mantes, hut, it (lid
not, 'The great dory :malts ran with great
rapidity all over the building, in almost
every direction, up and 3,001,, crosSWISe and
every way. 1 suppose, a thousand times. It
titan 0,1300 to the (coact of the bn!lrliug road
elevated itself owl it stood straight on its
tail fully 710 feet in the air.
"1 was perfectly coliseums all the flan',
but try as I would 1 1,011d not move from
the spot, After the thing hail remained fn
an Upright position for, I pt•osnme, t )r00 0
four minutes. there was a 0nddeu 00)1100013
like the )t0oborge of 0 cannon, and rhe
thing digappearod entirely. With the dis-
appearance of the strange phenomenon I
left a shook like the first ono I had telt,and
at the sante time I gained control of my
limbs. 1 hastened to the tonne, told my
wife what I had see(,111,) she thought I was
crazy, but upon my jn0)sting she consented
to accompany me to i(vestiget0 3.hu mat-
ter.
' You Dan imagine our surprise upon
reaching the barn to and it covered with a
remarkable network resembling large ropes
of ice. They appeared to pass around the
building in exactly the way the fiery mon-
ster had passed, 1t was not fee, however,
but seemed to be more 01 a crystal, for it
would not melt even when e hold wa flame'
to it and when struck with a hatchet it
simply gave le dull -like sound and did not
break.
" Upon entering the burn we were amaz.
ed, as two good horses stood in their stalls
immovable. They were alive, hot neither
could move a muscle. They seemed to be
paralyzed and stood there more like statues
than anything else. Thoy were warm and
breathed all right, but aside from this you
could not tell they were alive, 1 applied
the whip and they never diuehed. 9 dog
that sleeps in the barn was dead rind op -
peered completely petrified. He was lying
on the ground with his head ole 1118 pan%
just like he was sleeping. When I left
home this afternoon everything (vas just as
1 hove described le to you."
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3
ATE FOREIGN NEWS.
.
at Cardinal Vau3�han, the Arch111ahnp of
Westminster, keeps Ljmself in good h si.
mai condition byltaku,g u3. tive•mile�wallt
Dry ,fay.
It is stated that Mr. l:Jadstnne has inti-
mated definitely
a i
11N 1 C I'.'
i lit Il IU .t
11 I > appoint
a
r.
( Pu0'. Laureulc in sncrrasiom to Lord 'fenny.
son. The dnfieulty in making the selection
tae,• however, nut yet been overcunl0,
King Chestnut and queen Louise of Den.
mark have ahnotifieed their intention of
s [101011031 a eogrlo of weeks in London with
the Prince and 1'llmoess of Wales after
Plaster,
St. Valentine's day has almost gone out of
fahi00 in England. It used to be that
1 many thousands of valentines passe)]
tinolgh the mails that day, but thio year
the number was very mall.
FROM DOWN SOUTH.
The Rebellions 1 1 MO Gren,le Ile Sol and
➢n ll0ndurae.-Loss or .8 Ilritls,a vessel,
A Buenos Ayres, despetoh says. -The
British bark Alice 3I. (Craig has been wreck.
ed at Rosario. The Alice M. Craig founder.
ed in the gale which suddenly came up and
Capt. Ross, his wife and eight of the crew
were drowned,
A New York, telegram says t -The Her-
ald's Valparaiso correspondent cables 1-
Therehas been received here a rumor that
Santa Anna, in the state of Ilio Grande do
Sol, which had been besieged by the rebels,
had fallen and that the leader 01 the govern-
ment troops, lien. Isadore Fernandez, had
committed Suicide. Precious to the receipt
of the moor The Herald's co•respoulent
in Montevideo tolepraphed that (3en Tava-
rez with $,0011 well -armed troops, was on.
carped three leagues from Santa Anna.
He was then planning to give battle to the
government troops commanded by Gen.
Isadore Fernando?, On the result of this
battle will depend the fate of the revoln•
Lion. ]foreign residents in the state of Rio
Grande do Sul have been attacked by ad-
herents of both aides.
Nova has been received at Panama front
Honduras confirming the report of a butte
near Teguicigalpa. Further noble indicates
that now everything favors the govern-
ment's cause. Ex -President Leiva is in no
danger, a0 he remains neutral.
A0 insurrection is reported in the Gal•
lapagoo islands. The residents have !tilled
the local Ecuadorean governor and wounded
many of the police,
Facts in Few Words,
Tennyson used a rhyming dictionary.
Irorty thousand tons of coal are burned
daily in London.
There ore snpposod to be 430,000(,000
Christians in the -world,
Two ladies of the Rothschild family own
pearls worth 41,000,000.
The theatres in Melbourne are almost all
equipped with billiard rooms.
Sir Walter Raleigh had a court shit of
armor of solid gold inlaid with jeweli,
A bird in the London Zoo, a sheldroho
committed suicide recently on account of
the death of it0 mate,
In Sweden and Norway itis a crime to
snake any profit on the sale of liquor ; it
must bo tiispoosod at cost prico,
In hot climates Roma& soldiers worn
sandals ; in oold regions they were provided
with excellent leather shoes.
An average of three British esanl0u lose
their lives every day by drowning, and 300
British steamers and sailing vessels aro lost
at cot yoarly,
Many of tho peasantry of the British Isle
affil plant the house leek, "Jupiter's Beard,"
on their house roofs as a preventive against
thunder, lightning and evil spirits.
The earliest Antcrioan theatres were
bniltab Annapolis and Now York, 1753;
Albany, 1768, and Baltimore, 1773,
Another exploring expedition into the
interior of the Australian continent 10 000;1
to be equipped by 41r Thomas 101der, and
to alert under the leadership of Mr. David
ndsay.
Flying foxes are tlistroeoing the agri•
culturi0ts in some parts of Australia, and a
local paperAtays that at the present rate
of increase it is greatly feared the,' will
soon become as great a menace as the rab-
bit pest. A camp of the foxes about four
miles front Brine, New South Wales, con-
tains fully 100,000 of the pests. "and when
dieturbed they rise like a cloud obscuring
tiro 0un."
Thirteen torpedo-boat destroyers are to
be added to the British navy, to be 180 fee
long, abot0340 tons displacement, and
3,400 horse power, Their armament will
consist of 0110 l'S•llounder end three (3•
pounder quick -tiring guns, and live 10.111011
torpedoes for use 111 a bow tubo, and awn
revolving tubes amidships.
Lt
Mr. Crawford f'larho, one of the deputy
oor0ners for Shrewsbury, was crossing
strewn) Rills, twelve utiles from Shrews-
bury, when he found the body of a man
decently dressed lying on the margin of a
small stream in ?ash Valley, and with every
appearance o1 1111'ine Loom there nearly a
week. No person is (nissie3 toroth, and it
fe supposed deceased w'a0 it visitor who got
lost among the hills, and died from tx-
povure.
-Whilst witnessing a teethe/1 match at
Llanfairfechan last Saturday afternoon,
between the local 01111, and a Bangor )cam,
a youth named Parry, son of It private
velem master, who was subject to Sts, fell
face (towvnw 'mishit() a shallow pool of Watt
at one end of the field, and suffocated be-
fore the o0101) 0nt.° was ((0(10ed and evils -
(moo obtained. He was 11 years of age.
Tile game Wats immediately stopped and the
body carried to the village.
The largest turret ship in the world, the
Hood of the British nary, slucce08(011y pass-
ed the official trial of her machinery two
woeks ago. She has a displacement of 14,-
]0(0 tons, ()d under forced draught she
made tn average speed of seventeen knots.
The trihtls et her (17 -ton turret guts were
exeeet1Mgiy satisfactory. The total cost of
the Hood when fully equipped W111 amount
to nearly 1.5133,000. She is a sister ship to
the 1103111 Sovereign, except that her guns
are Mounted in turrets instead of 0arbettee.
A case of horrible cruelty has come to
light in Bolton through the arrest of a col-
lier belonging to Wigan, on the charge of
roasting his child. It is stated that the
man hold the child to the fire, and after.
wards pricked the blisters with a needle.
The child is in a dangerous condition. The
(ether is being proseente l by the Sooiety
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
A sensation was caused at Gurney's
Bank, Norwich, on Saturday by a man
named William Wright, farmer, Norfolk,
cutting his throat with a clasp knife, while
his nephew, who accompanied him, was
counting slips in a banking transaction.
Wright died about two hours afterwards at
the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, to which
place he had been conveyed. The affair
took place during the busiest hoe's at the
bank, about forty or fifty customers being
present at tihe One. Family bereevemente
are and to account for the mental aberration
of the deceased.
While ,Toseph Forster, a colored man,
was performing in a don of lions in a men-
agerie in the liarket PJa00, South Shields,
on Friday night, one of the animals, whtolt
had recently been captured, suddenly
Sprang upon and seized him by the leg.
By means of hot bars of iron and re-
volvers and other instruments the attend-
ants auoceeded in boating the animal off,
amid a scene of much confusion and alarm.
The injured man was promptly conveyed to
a doctor's and attended to. The same lion
recently attacked a man at Sunderland.
A new wire gnick•firing e•inch gun has
just been adopted for the British navel ser.
vivo. It hes suceessfhllly passed exhaustive;
trials. It is a long gun of about 40 calibres,
and weighs seven tons. It carries an elon-
gated shot of a hundred pounds a niatanc0
of 7,000 yards, and will strike 0u enemy'(
ship or fortidoation four miles distant, It
is so rapid in ire action that ere,' with cor-
dite, ata long range, it has three or four
shots in the air at the came time. Eaoh woo,
pan contains several miles of wire, it having
been found that a gun made up of this wire is
stronger than when manufactured of homo-
geneous Imetal. Wire is also found to stand
the first shock of the elastic force of oordito
or gunpowder better than iron or steel,
while the long born enables the whole of
tho charge to be oonaumed.
On Wodnosday Walter Neilson, of Whal-
ley Range, Blackburn, was found by his
assistant in a book room of his shop lying
dead across the hearth with a terrible
wound extending front the front to the book
of the head. Shortly before he had sent
the assistant on an errand, and on his re-
turn the assistant (mind the door locked.
After a short walk he tried the door again,
and it was then open. The mysterious oir-
ountstance is that no weapon has been found
on the premises, Nothing had been die•
imbed, and Neilsol's watch and money
wore intact. Neilson was a single man of
good character, who lived with his widowed
mother,
The general spread of the English languog-
over the world has been resisted most stub
borniyon British sail at home. Twoweeko
ago the Logislativo Assembly of Jersey re -
;looted, by a vote of 27 to 6, a bill to permit
the nse of IBnglish in the assembly, at the
o'Lion of a member, This action of coerce
a+ -firms the principle that 7(013011 is the offi.
tial language, Pile country perisheo are
resolutely opposed to the introduction of
lungfish, although it has made great progress
in the towns of late years and it is said
many of the Deputies are now unable to ex.
prose themselves correctly in French. Mr.
Gladstone's Government has been asked by
several Welsh mombora of Parliltmonb, at
the instance of a large body of Walsh/nen,
to matte the teaching of Welsh in the publie
schools of Wades obligatory, It hasalways
beau taught in the Nonconformist Sunday
sehoole. The number of the Irish people
who do not sneak English at all is still eon.
Womble, and in Soothed itis not small,