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OLD JAY'S STORY.
Almost any evening feat summer u errant,
er walking the streets of one of the larger
towns on the Canadian Paoifio Relined, Le
Manitoba, would have noticed ee little old
elan, with a smooth, shrewd face, still
sturdy of hewn, but with a pronounced
limp, This wee old Jimmy 0—, former-
ly a Hudson Bay Company's scout.
"Old Jimmy," es every ono called him,
had served through tho Crimean War, and
then comingto Canada, had oast in hie lot
with the erliest of thpioneers, had spent
:most of his life o0 the froutier us a buffalo.
hunter and scout on the plains of the North
'West.
As may bo supposed, he had many exult.
ing adventures before the country was sot-
tled. He is never tired of relating these
exploits, and I have written one of ahem
out, thinking that it would interest a larger
oirole than he is able to reach.
The party was out after buffalo, with Old
Jimmy as a guide. They had been on the
trail nearly two weeks, and thus far had
the poorest of luok, not having{ seen eo much
as a fresh wallow.
The mule team was dragging slowly over
the sun -baked prairie, ued the driver, too
lazy to urge it to a faster gait, reclined on
his seat half asleep. Bobind Dame the bell
pony, with the group of her mates, and
straggling along in the rear were the met of
the party, all five of the men sitting their
sedates awry to rest their tired limbs.
The time wee October, the weather warm
and dry, with a soft haze clinging along the
horizon. It Was already late in the after.
moon, and as they had had ne midday stop,
men, mules and ponies were thoroughly
tired out.
At last, as they climbed the long slope
of a divide and reached the top, the brown
waters of the Qf'Appslle met their eyes.
Then all hands rook heart, the driver un
coiled his whip with a °rack, and the little
cavalcade rattled down the hill and halted
in the valley of the Qa'Appelle, on the south
hank of the river.
Here the mules were unharnessed and
turned out with the ponies to graze, and
while the driver hulls a fire and prepared
supper, the men sat around talking. Ona
or two of them were disposed to grumble at
their poor smears in finding buffaloes, but.
01d Jimmy told thorn this was nothing un-
cteual at that time of year.
" It's no use frettio', boys," said he t
"we're bound to strike 'em afore long, 1
dm expect we'd find 'em further aoutl, but
they weren't there, and so it atands to rem•
sons that they're somewheres north of us yet,
for tain't likely they've all gone south
a'ready.
"It's my opinion that the animals are
bunched somewheres atween the north and
south forks of the Qi'Appelle. The ground
is low there, and a great deal of it wet, so
that the grass is the first to get green in the
apring, and the last to die out in the fall ;
and the buffalo coming up from the drl
prairies of Dakota and thereabouts find it to
their tete, and bate to leave it. No or e
knows this better than the Indiana, and the
Qu'Appele Valley has been the hunting
-grounds of the Bleckfeet since time begone'
" Perhaps," commented one of the mea,
'" they won't be over•giad to have us shoot
ing their game. It might be serious busi
nese if:a band of 'em oame across us some
day, with our wagon full o' hides, and others
dryin' around the camp."
"There's 'enough fur us an' the Indians,
too," answered Old Jimmy. "'Taint likely
we'll meet any of 'em so far east, anyway ;
it's too near the:government barracks to suit
'em ; an' in ease we do, we kin cut an' run
fur the fort. At the same time, I Mot the
man to lead you into any rink against 'your
own judgment. It's fur you to say whether
we go on or not."
The men talked it over while they ate
supper, and later, as they lay on the turfy
grass, it was finally decided not to turn bank,
but to cross the river in the morning, and
push on into the hunting•grounde of the
Blaakfeet. With this understanding, they
rolled into their blankets, and, with the
saddles for pillows, were soon fast asleep.
Eerly next clay they were astir, and be-
fore sunrise breakfast had been eaten, the
mules harnessed and ponies saddled, all
ready for the start,
Old Jimmy took the lead, and rode along
the river until he found a place where the
bank shelved. Here they turned in, and as
the water was gaits shallow and the bot-
om hard and sandy, they had little diffF
may in crossing.
Once on the other side, they strnok west.
a little to the north of the river bottom,
where they found the grass, as Jimmy had
predicted, still quite green and tender.
About midday, when they had covered some
thirty miles, their course brought them once
more to the river, and bare they stopped,
glad of a chance to lie in the shade of the
wagon and rest.
Dinner had been eaten, and the men were
still lying in the shade, loath to rename
their saidles, when Jimmy, who had ridden
out westward, came into camp on a lope.
He drew up and swept his hand along the
northern horizon, and the men, springing to
their feet, turned their eyes in that direo
tion, A black mese, immense in the area of
ground it covered, was moving slowly down
toward the river,
"Buffaloes 1" shouted all bends,
Then they sprang to the work of saddling
ponies and filling cartridge belts, By
Jimmy', advice, they mounted and rode di.
redly away from the river to the righb of
the herd, which, he said, Was coming down
to water. Then, when the animals had
reaohed the river bank, they charged upon
them from the rear, and shot right and left.
By the time the bard was broken up and
en the run, they had killed enough to pay
the cost of the trip. The rest of the after-
noon was spent fn skinning the oaroasees,
and when night had come, the hunters lay
down, tired out, but well satisfied with the
day's work.
01d Jimmy had been quite sure they
would find the berd near by on the morrow,
but during e thnight a terrific �
storm ar
oso
the wind and rain Doming in violent gusts
from the south. The mules and ponies
were scoured, and the men stood for an hour
in the drenobing rain, watching them, to
prevent a stampede. The storm diepelled
all hope of finding any game near by nex
day.Of course," said Jimmy at breakfast
"they've been stampeded by the storm,
and ten to ono they looser stopped
running till they got olean to the north
branch o' the Qu'Appelle; but we kin fol.
low 'am up now, fur you see the 'spews'
will be full. o' water from the rain, an' we
needn't depend on the river any longer,"
So once more the cavalcade resumed its
journey, this time leaving the river behind,
and following the trail of the buffalo north.
ward. However, after they had done about
twonty miles the track suddenly turned to
the west, and it was late in the afternoon
before they again eame up with the herd,
about ten miles distant from thio river,
And now they had the hest of luck, Hides
mooumulated daily, and before a week was
out they had all they could hoof, and i
wee decided to break camp lend make fo
the nearest settlement.
The evenioe of the be day in Damp lea
conte, One of the mon had boon out amen
the steels to see that the tether pine ever
seonro for the night. He Daze in presentl
with the news that there was anotheeonm
of hunters to the wont of then; he (soul
see Lite tmalte of the crone tire,
"Smoke?" commented Old 'Emmy, "Por
naps in a prairie fire "
' No, there isn't enough of it for that
and besideo there is no light in the sky
Como out and seo•
oftY sus
elf „
The sauntered u nta
red away from the wagon to
gethor, and Jimmy looked in the direction
pointed out,
The night was very still, and away off in
the west he discerned a column of smoke
wreathing upward against the sky, shill
aglow from the sunset. Jimmy scanned it
long and earnestly, and then looked along
the horizon to either side,
Ah, I thought so 1he Bald, a moment
later, pointing out another column farther
to the north, "Those are no hunters. In•
diens, and no mistake I"
They hurried back to Damp, and told bheir
comrades of their diroovely.
"I know what ib means," said Jimmy.
"They have either seen us, or some other
ontfit, lend aro making signals fur others to
join 'elm Anyway, it won't pay un to waste
any time here, 'firing in the horses, boys,
and harness up, while I put out the fire."
In a short time all was ready for the
start, and 01d Jimmy ab once assumed oom-
mend.
" We'll strike for the river," ho said.
" and fellow it down toward the government
post. It isn't more'n forby miles east of us,
an' in case they attack afore we reach 11,
we kfu make a stand on the river bank.
That will give us plenty of water for the
animals and protootion on one side, any
way,,,
The little party travelled hastily along
until the river ons reached, and then turned
sharply to the left, and followed its course
eastward. Tito night was very quiet. The
only noises were the n uffped fall of the
horses' hoofs on the buffalo grass, and now
and then the yelping of a coyote in the dis-
tance, They pursued their way unmolest-
ed, and when the excitement had worn off a
little, the men were inolined to regard the
affair as a false alarm.
But Old Jimmy shook hie head.
" Don't begin to crow too soon," he said,
solemnly ; " time enough for that when we
get to the fort."
It was shortly after this that the neigh of
a horse naught their °ere, faint, but vary
plain. 011 ,Timmy stopped on the instant
end listened intently. Presently it came
again, nearer this time but out short as
though some ono had grasped the animal by
the nose.
Tney'reafter us1" said Jimmy, "No
use to run for it now. Unharness the mules,
'nen, au' tie 'inn, with a shore rope, to the
outer aide of the waggon, an' the ponies to
the wheels next the river -ave may have to
depend on then far a dash by and by."
t " We'll watch cur ohanee an' give the
✓ ponies a etaot down along the bault an' I'll
follow 'em up on my here's. You free in
d the dark the fudians will 1Onk we're ell
g together and put after ore read rho ponies ;
o and moaawhile you follows care ford the
y river and strike fur the fort,
The mun were delightedht with ethin auhone
a fur it offered at inset a ray of hope.
"Only,° timid Due of thorn, "Von afraid
1t'i1 be kind o' risk for you,jimmy-how
IY Y
about that?''
"Na," wee rho reply, "you needn't be
, ufoared about me, 1 kin got a good start
on the0 ones, and once the lnd'lans take to
ehpeltlnthey'll re Ol 0 1 bre sum to stampede. If
the I diava sin u onmolly
A n A9 1 Oan as
give 'sin the slip, far there mint a pony in
tee West that kin hold his own awn my
horse."
Meanwhile, the Indians made no further
detnonatratian but contented themselves
with wateleing the wagon and keeping up an
incessant smoking from their lie, as a sig-
nal, probably, for others to come up.
So the day passed, without auy event,
the men busying themselves ie preparing
for the attempt of the night.
At last, when the sun had sob, they seluot•
oil four of the ponies, and to each one tied
a bundle of Irides in ouch a manner that it
looked something like remauleaning forward
over the animal's nook. lu the dark it was
a pretty good imitation, and they had no
doubt that that pert of the auhenoe, et least,
w ould be s snares. Then Old Jimmy annuli
ed hie norso, the long wagon -whip in WO
right hand.
ft grew darker rapidly now and the In•
diens began to mount. One or two of them
were already circling near the wagon as if
to see what the men were about.
"Now, boys," said Jimmy, "you wait
till me an' the ponies gob a good start, en'
when the Indians take after us, get your
ponies into the water as quietly as you kfu,
oroea the river, an' theu run fur it."
Her a Jimmy started the ponies out on a
lope, that increased to a run before they
had gone ten yards. It was at this moment
that the Indians first discovered them and,
Betting up a wild whoop, dashed after in
hot pursuit. Old Jimmy, digging the spurs
into his horse, plied the long whip named.
fully on the ponies in front and soon had
them in a wild stampede, the Indians
whooping along in the reer.
Meanwhile, the men behind guided their
ponies into the river, crossed onobserved,
rend vamped down along the opposite
bank. From time to time they heard the
r i d whooping and yelling of the Iadieus on
the other side, and they greatly feared that
come mishap had befallen Old Jimmy.
Bat Jimmy was all right. When his
ponies slackened their speed and the Indians
began to gain on them, hs gave his horse
the rein and dashed on ahead. foie long he
heard the Indians yelling fiercely in the
rear- evidently that had come up with the
ponies and discovered the trick that had
i e,n pl eyed upon them.
But he cared little for their howling now,
lie pressed on toward the fort and reeohed
it firs; : and when the men arrived, some
hall hour later, they found Old Jimmy amok
ing his pipe and regaling the inmates with
a recital of their adventure.
This was done rapidly but none too soon,
for they could already hear the tramp of
horses' hoofs, drawing nearer every mo-
ment. Then the men posted themselves be•
hind the mules, rifles on hand.
" Now," said Jimmy. " don't shoot first
-let them begin it ; an' then wait until you
get a good sight on a man or pony before
you pull trigger."
By this time they could make out the
shadowy figures of the ponies and their
riders careering wildly over the prairie,
and as they swept by, the party was mint
ed with wild whoops and a volley of
arrows and bullets. Two, of the mules fell
at the first fire and the men hastily dropped
behind them.
" When they pass again, let them have
it," said Jimmy.
The Indians soon returned, Doming a little
closer and flrfng an before. But this time
they received a volley in return that aoatter-
ed them at once. They deployed then like
skirmishers and rode up singly, firing one at
a time, without, however, hitting anything
but the wagon and the two remaining
mules.
In fact, they were at a disadvantage.
They were on slightly rising•ground so that
their figures stood out a atnst the sky,
while the men were lower down, protected
by the bodies of the dead mules. So they
fell back shortly and the men had the sada•
faction of knowing that the attack was de•
ferred for a time.
Pretty soon a fire blazed up, some dia
tante away and entirely out of range.
"That means they are going into Damp,"
said Jimmy. " They'll wait till daylight, I
guess, to see how we're fixed. But there's
mnre'n one pair of black eyes watching its
from the grass, so look out how you move,"
They learned the truth of this very short
ly, for one of the men, grown careless, ex
posed himself for a moment, and, quick as
thought, a rifle blazed oub from tiro prairie
and a bullet crashed into the wagon behind
them,
"I told you so," was Jimny's only com-
ment ; and then the men resumed their silent
watch.
It was a weary vigil and the first rays of
dawn were a weloorr e eight. In the gray of
the morning they could see three or four flg•
urea -the night -watch of the Indians -
skulking away over the prairie. A little
later they male out a column of smoke curt
ing up from the edge of a slough,
That's their camp," said Jimmy, "and
look yonder, to the left -there are their
ponies. There mast be at least twenty or
thirty of 'em."
" If there's that many Indians," said one
of the men, " we're done for an' no mis-
take."
"But there ain't," answered Jimmy. "It's
a hunting petty an' they always take an ex•
tra mount along, same as we do. But they
ain't gob res many as they started with," he
continued fndioating with bis hand three
shadowy mounds a short distend° away.
" Those are dead ponies -we bit something,
you see,"
Ib now began to grow light rapidly. Oo-
oasionally the Indians could be seen stand.
ing on the rising ground near their Damp,
ttartog intently at the little party on the
river bank,
"I oan'b make out what they're top to,"
said Jimmy, "bort it's clear they
don't intend to move on us at once.
Two of you follows get breakfast while
he rest of us keep an eye on the
Indians, It's just poaoible they are waitin'
fur others to join them. Anyway we'll have
to get out of this to•nighb or it's likely we
won't gee out ab all,"
Later, 01d Jimmy ate his breakfast and,
lighting his pipe, eat behind tho wagon,
smoking and thinking, Then he rejoined
the men fn front.
"Well, boys," said he Ivo got a plan,
'Taint much, but it's the beat we Ido do, I 1
reckon. Darin' bhe day We'll take come
habl.dried hides an' bundle Mon together an'
tie 'em. Then, when it 0011108 on dark
providin', o' 00nrrs0, we kin keep the Indiane
off that long-wo'lI deep 'em to the ponies
10 suoh a shape as to look something like
men.
Thrifty.
The strawberry season never comes in a
certain village in the West without the citi-
zens thereof indulging in some sly jokes at
the expense of one of their townsmen, a
well•to•do but extremely penurious man,
who sometimes does things that soma veri•
table misers would scorn to do. A good
part of hie income is cleaved from the sue
easeful cultivation of an acro or more of
strawberries, and he was never known to
give a berry away, or to tette less than the
highest market price for a single box.
Although he lives in a large and handsome
house, he was never known to entertain tom•
pany, and his friends and neighbors, were,
therefore, greatly surpriaed when they one
day received re neatly printed card, saying
that arr. and Mrs. -well, say Smith, would
be at home on a certain evening from eight
until ten o'clook.
Many of the prominent residents of the
town accepted these invitations, and the
house was full.
Mr. and Mra, Snaith received their guests
in the most cordial manner, and a little be-
fore ten o'clock the diuiug•r0000 doors were
opened, and the guests invited out to par
take of strawberries and cream, the straw,
berry season having just opened.
Tia unparalleled genereeity on the part
of there host amazed hie guests, and they sat
down fueling some aompuuotious of eon.
science for the unhand (hinge they had often
said about his stinginess. Before they rose,
however, they were ready to reiterate all
they had ever said, for the attendants who
had served the berries and Dream quietly
passed around among the tables and planed
at the plate of cath guest a little check, on
which was printed :
" Twenty five Dents. Please pay at the
door."
The host himself stood at the door to take
the money, and blandly wished hie guests
good -night.
'The Story of e111nie A,anrie."
A correspondent writes :-" The famous
song that re sung by all singers of the r
sent day, I am informed, is a mystey „
to the author. I was raised on the n xt
farm to James Laurie, Annie Laurie's
father. I w's personally acquainted with
both her and her father, and also with the
author of the song. Knowing these feats,
I have been requested by my friends to give
the public the benetb of my knowledge,
which I have consented to dee Annie
Lourie wee born fn1827,and was about seven.
teen years old when the incident occurred
which gave rise to the song bearing her
name. James Laurie, Annie s ether, was
a teener, who lived and owned a very largo
farm called Thraglestown, in Dumfriesshire,
Scotland. He hired a great deal of help, and
amt. g those he employed was a man by the
name of Wallace to act as foreman, and
while in his employ Mr. Wallace fell in
love with Annie Laurie, whioh fact her
father soon learned, and forthwith dirs.
charged him, Ho wont to iris home in Max.
welton, and was taken sink bhe very night
be reached there, and the next mornumg,,
when Annie Laurie heard of it, she came to
his bedside and waited on him until he
died, and on Itis deathbed he oomposed the
song entitled "Annie Laurie."
United ICingdonl's neat Sapply
Therewas imported into the United King -
doh for the week ended June 2 the follow-
ing life animale and dead meat:
Oxen bolls, cows and oalves, 13,888
sheep and lambs, 22,380 ; swine, 843 awl„
bacon, 39,845 owt, ; beef, salted and fresh,
12,778 cwt,; hams, 16,225 cwt. ; meat, um
enumerated, malted and fresh, 395 owt. ;
meat preserved, 2,820 owt, ; mutton fresh
f8resh, 4565 wb.,60; pork, malted (not Name) and
Eternal Vigilance enables a man to parry
the same umbrella far years.
Tiltjl% PILONOGIRAlNIL
°fel lends an lest Invention 'ream 115 qwl
glory in It"oltu"l.
A London cablegram say : Colonel G. 1T,
Gouraud, writing trans Little Moods', Upper
Norm d, 8. 11., says t " At two o'olook
titin afternoon at the rebase address, 1 load
the honor to receive from Edison his first
perfoored phonograph, whioa on the author.
Iby of laionu's own sbatemeet, in lois own
homelier voi •o ootnmtmieete,l to me by the
phonograph itself, is the instrument rf
Me latest model that loses Wen seen ofteido
his laboratory or tbab hes left his lutrds, and
is consequently the first to reach thla coun-
try,
"At 2.05 o'clock, preafeely, my family
and I were uujoying at once the uu.
prooedented and astounding experience of
listoniug to Edison s own familiar and on.
mistakable tones here in l nglaucl-more
Elan 3,000 miles from the place whore he
had spoiten and exactly ton days after, the
voice haviug meanwhile voyaged across the
Atlantic 000an. His first phonogram, as
E Lison puts ib, tells me, among other things
of lubetest, that this instrnnount contains
many mndifivations of that whish was shown
at rho l.leetrival Club fn New Toric a few
weeks ago and so widely reported by the
press in several long phoaogramic oemntuni•
atione to nee, no single word of which road t,
be repeated in order to be ulearly and easily
undoretood by every person preeeut, inolud-
ing my child, seven years old. Edison soon.
tions that he will send me phouograme by
every meal leaving Now York, and requests
me to correspond exolusively througt bhe
medium of the phonograph, humorously re
marking in this connection upon the velvet). -
Mem he will himself doeive from the sub.
attention of phonograms for the style of
writing not always too legible.
" atalison has sent, for our amusement,
numerous nntaioel records of great interest
and beauty, pianoforte, cornet and other in-
struments, solos, duets, etc., many of whioh,
he Mlle me, have been frequently repeated
several hundred thews. Altogether oar ex-
periences of to -day have been so delightful
and unusual, not to say supernatural, that
it would be difficult to realize that we have
not been dreeruing, and so interesting evithel
as to make it seem our duty, as to has a
pleasure, to communicate the above to your
widely read paper, which I have frequent.
ly observed to chronicle the works of the
author of this uaparallehed tritunph of mind
over matter. An honor t0 Edison."
Cul. Gouraud adds the following post-
script, which may be interesting: "Add
that the above communication was spoken
by me into the phonograph end written
iron phonograph dictation by a member of
my family, who had, of course, no previous
experience with the instrument,"
—ares--v,o
Take Care of the Apple Trees.
The apple Drop in this part of New Eng•
band is large and smell in spots. In a ride
ef 30 or 40 miles into New 13antpebire last
tali, we found some orchards laden with a
bounteous harvest, while others were almost
without fruib. Here and there in the
pastures or by the roadside were trees load.
eel with "natural fruit, or the ground was
covered with the apples, which were allow•
ad to rot.
This is all wrong. To begin with those
trees should be grafted with good fruit.
They have oomeup by themselves, and their
vigorous bearing and thrilb, even in total
negleot, show that they have taken root in
o good location. Good fall or winter fruit
might soon be had from these trees, and at
very slight expense.
Then the dropping fruit ought to be
picked up every few days. If good for nobb•
else, it could be fed to the hogs. The ob•
ject, however, is not so much to save the
fruit, as to destroy the worms end fungi,
whiola are bred in the decaying apples.
Scattered about the country, in secluded
places, eau befoundnaayanapple tree which
always bears a large crop of worthless
apples -not oven fie to nuke poor eider.
The trees would sustain a crop of Baldwins
or russets or Hubbardebons equally well, and
the fernier or lois boys could perform the
operation of grafting. Suppose there were
danger of somebody's stealing the apples, or
that the cows or squirrels should get many
of them, the loss in comparison with the
present crop would nob be inoroased, There
would be a chance to save soma good fruit,
and there would bo an inducement to Dare
for the tree, and make io a sightly object,
instead of a blemish.
The Panama Called.
The Engineering News publishes en nett
ale on the. "Actual Status of the Panama
Canal," giving theresulbs of a recent expert
examination of the entire length of the oan-
al, and accompanied by a progress profile,
showing the amount of work done and un-
done to January 1 of the present year, both
for the sea level and look oanal,
The profile shows that the wont which is
anywhere near oomplotion is about eleven
miles of dredging on the .4 tlantic end and
aboub a mile at the Paetao encl. On the re-
mainder of the work the proportion dor a is
very small in comparison with that undone.
The estimate given in connection with
this prefile el•. s a total of 34,081,000 cubit)
meters remautug, without allowing for
•hangee of river channels, oto„ which raises
the aggregate to 51,000,000 cubic meters,
The company had admitted 32,000,000 to
40,000,000 meter's.
Ab the highest rate yet reached, of 1,000,-
000 oubto metiers per month, 11 is estimate d
that at least four years will be necessary to
finish the canal, if there is no lack of
money.
The total anoouut of dash actually expand-
ed up to the present date is $177,010,000,
represented by $351,150,000 of securities.
The amount necessary to be raised to com-
plete the oanal is estimated by the Engin-
eering News at a minimum of $230,000,0001
which would be represented by at lees,
3500,000,100 of new securities.
Spurgeon anti the Baptists.
It is nob true, as bas boon stated, that Ivlr.
Spurgeon has returned to the Baptist Union.
His brother, Mr James Spurgeon, has, but
he himself stands sternly 001 ogainet any
such idea. In hie Juno "Sword and Tro-
wel" Mr, S. says :-" I am nob careful to
criticise rho action of a body from whioh I
am now finally divided. My course has
been made clear by whab has been done. 3
WOO afraid from rho beginning that the reform
of the Baptist Union was Impetus, and
therefore I resigned, I an far more sure
of it now, and should never raider anyro-
bable oirconabanoes drown of returning,
Those who think ib right to remain in suoh
a fellowship will do se, but there are a few
others who will judge differently and will t
act upon their convlotiois, At any rate,
whether any °there do so or not, I have 1
felt the power of tho texb,,'Come out from
among therm and be ye separate,' and have Ck
quitted both union and association ono for 1
all,"
MISOIILLAENOD$ IrEktS'
A ystttn of Motu Worked out by
Farrier is to be be tried in the 6reueh,
army,
mrd VYolaelayh is presided over'emodin
to consider militm y oyoliug and pronounce
the bioy ale n utilitery inetrnnsene ef IOW
in•0nlee.
So far Presume' 's remit b for killleg the
Austrulino rubbire wi h oh' risen oholara has
failed, Tho rebblta lnruuleeed showed me
algae of disease.
Welter alter n '
Cooper, Il mmuut English
f , pt'
,g
gypsy, died recently,and hie bodywee
dwto the ohu•yterd by a faorite
mare. The mare was then secrihuud.
Paul Pechter, a sou of I?eehte', the actor,
W74e fencing with his brother-in•law, eel
the button of his antagonist's foil chanced
to bo fumed into his syn through to the
brain, killing hen.
A doctor in Algeria stood before a guillo•
tine and naught the heed of a 'sideline! ae it
fell from the axe end spoke to it. 1t to said
float movements of the eyes and mouth
showed that he was understood.
The lasb Francis rifle, as desoribod, hes a
ball so emelt that a soldier can carry 220
rounds, shoots with a new amokolesa powder,
and its bullet pier:ea a brick wall eight
inohos thick at 100 yards.
An observer on Hyde Park corner re-
ports that between 12 and 1 in the afternoon
nine -tenths of the gide that gess have their
faoos painted, their eyebrows and eyelashes
darkened, and their lips reddened.
Tyro dogs have bees decorated for bravery
and fidelity by the Sooiety for the 1 ceven-
ttou of Cruelty to Animals in Paris. Ono
saved its Mistress from a burglar, and the
other it's master's child from drowning.
Dr. Flemming, the principal veterinary
surgeon in the British army, has dfeoovered
that "roaring" oomes from an impediment
in the larynx that can bo removed by an
operation. Be has cured several horses al-
ready.
Mr. henry Villard says in the Berlin
National Zeitung that the man who planted
the proposed voyage to the south pole is
Herr Neumayor, the director of the Hant•
burg Marine Observatory, a man of science
and a praotioal seaman.
It is quite painful to see how rascals still
take advantage of the defective extradition
treaty subsisting between Britain and the
Stutes. Why should Canada shelter rogues
from the other side? Or why should Cana-
dian rascals in the shape of thieves and
beak wreakers find the States one great,
heppy hunting ground? No one can say.
it is another illustration of how foolishly
eves sensible men and great nations can
sometimes aob in the hour of jealousy and
spite.
Australasia is filling up very rapidly.
Tho latest official returns of population made
up to last year give New South Wales
1,042,919 ; Victoria 1,036,118 ; Queensland
366,9(0; South Australia 312,421; and
Western Auatralio 42,488. This gives for
the Continent 2,800,856, of these 1523,834
are males, and 1,277,152 females. Tasmania
has a population of 142,478 and New Zea-
land 603,361. Tho whole is thus 4,546,725,
as rich and prosperous a people upon the
whole as is on the face of the earth,
A SUPEISED MINER.
Art Alast"tueensntlmr,
The discovery of the foo een remains of
g I several uuuumoth'a in the mud of the Siherien
d `, marshes, a foe• years ,,go,, established the
t foot, that at one period of the earth's history
many of sheen gigantic mammals roamed on
the tentl,oau of theca northern solfhudoe.
A ruiner whiub idly be, boo probably its
not true, has eines come Prem Alaska, three
the lncliene there say that they have eon a
living animal liege n
I n o nal of tb a n u s ,Dot a
i
g $ F
Mtautimn a fart of gold hunters that,
druiug the pustooaseu, las been preepectio
in bb oso hitherto unexplored regions of Alas.
ka, report the proewtoe of another singular
animal, One of the verily writes :
"Front our Damp in the hollow on the
west side of the big peak, Wo now wont out
every day to wash the drift of bits ormolu
and brooks, for their was oortaiuly gold in
the gamete veins ; and on the morning of the
Obb of July, Parsons 'started off to examine
a run, in a ravine, about) six miles distant,
round the eoucherly spur of the mountain.
"Edo went alone, and in order to save
Smeared got on inure easily, he climbed the
shoulder of the spur for a few hundred foob,
and walked along a great bank of bard snow
that lay at the foot of a long al.iff that ex-
tended round the spur on thab side. For
Elie groat drift had ornshod down the thiok
evergreen and still lay twenty foot deep
over ib, and as it was quite hard, ono could
travel on ib much more easily than through
tho tangle of Muth below. He did nob take
a gun, for he heel his pan, shovel and piok
to carry, and we had seen no larger
gnmo.
"The big moo,rdrlft extended a mile or
more along the foot of the precipice, and
was from u hundred to three hundred feet
in width, eloping down at a coneiderable
angle into the fir mode below it, while on
the upper side, the perpendicular and often
overhanging orag roto fifty to a hundred faeb
in height. It was u rugged wall of graoitio
rooks, disolosiag nurerous huge tiasures in-
to its sombre maps.
A good deal of thought and calculation
has been expended on the question whether
it be really possible for a human adult to
maintain himself in life, health, strength
aha comfort on a York ahilling a day, and
the discussion is not yet over. Twelve and
a half, or, for the sake of evenness, say thir-
teen cents, for a day's food. Can the thing
be managed ? Those who profess to say that
they have tried are thoroughly of opinion
that it can. If so, ib iso great mercy. One
might somotimee long for a little more, but
it is encouraging to be assured that life,
health and independence, as far as food ie
concerned, can be secured for one dollar per
week, with a little over for other purposes.
The bicycle has a future, and it may be a
remarkable one unleea the milleninm comp
too soon, Lord Wolseley believes that
while military authorities aro very slow to
adopt novelties yet that the day is not far
die tent when. a cycling corps will be an in-
tegral part of every army, and a very impor•
taut one at that. For home defenoe the
General thinks that it will take the place
of cavalry and will be ab once much cheaper
and more efficient. Tbis is all very sensible
and likely to be all merle good before those
who aro young men now have many grey
hairs. Cyclers, to be sure,;woold not do well
for a cross country ride, but there would be
found some way of effectually getting ever
such difftonities.
Slavery is abolished in Brazil and now it
can be said that human bondage nowhere
legally exists on the continent. Thought
movers rapidly in these days. Th agitation
for the Brazilians abolitionism began only
in 1800. In 1871 a law was plumed giving
freedom to all who should afterwards be
born of slave mothers. Then emancipation
societies sprang up all over the Empire, In
1885, all slaves over 60 years of age were
declared free. Then camp a law giving free -
dem by classes, the owners being comport
sated, These laws would have completed em-
ancipation in 1892, but the people oould not
wait, and now the work is completed with-
out bloodshed, and with scarcely ony heart
burning,
Tho rascally omigratiou agenb in Beltran
must be worse than the mosquito, the sand
fly, the chain dropper, or Lha terror that
walkehh in darkness, Surely the creature
ought to be obliterated every time he pubs
in an appearance. How ha cheats poor
emigrants by cook and bull stories about
Canada is notorious to any one, It seems
he doers the same when he booms South
America. Some poor Scotch fisherman long-
ing to better their condition listened to the
tempter as he told of whab they would get
if they started for Buenos Ayres, They
started, the rascal, of °curse, getting his
fee for souring them, and this is how things
wont when they got to their journey's end: -
r
Arr[vin mrd rooeedhn to the agent
to
g,n g
g
p
Whom they nal been direotod, he would have
nothing to do with them, denied alI know.
ledge of the enterprise, and naked them ltcw
they exported to get fishing at Buenos Ayres,
where there was nothing but fresh water,
The fishermen realized the foot that they had
been deoeived, and even thought they could
have found a passage home in the ehip that
bore them thither. They had little or nothing
Fofb Wherewith to pay their fere, At the
waterside they found no boats and no fisher.•
mon except an old cobble and two very old
mon, who Went up the river daily andcaught
what they term a sort of sea oat. They
vied to find labouring work, and after a
time Craig got a weeks work at a sawmill,
or which he roomed a national paper dollar
value 25. 9d.) and 20 Dents -altogether, less
ban 8s. 91. British money -per day. At
eat they got a Amoco to work their pasongo
omo and arrived at the old village, sadder,
beer, and poorer men, Every man aobing
as an emigration agent without a lioene°
Mould be fined and every ono giving false,
bleeding information ought to he hanged,,
Too great refinement is fated delicacy, and
true debioay ho solid retinoment.- [Roohofow s
could, ret
Parsons Iced gone about four mike from
Damp and was well around the spur, toward
the brink of the tranevereo ravine or melon
on the other aide, when be came upon a
bloody trail that led across bio drift from
the fir wood's below to a monstrous cleft or
charge, in tate crag above the drift,
"There ware the tracks of many broad feet
on the snow, and traces of a heavy body
having been dragged along. The blood on
thesnow looked fresh, as did also the tracks,
as if made not many hours before.
"With so -no curiosity Parsons glanosi at
the o'eft in the rooks toward which the trail
had led, and then cautiously went up to it,
for a closer inspection. It was evidently a
den. He listened a moment, but could hoar
nothing, then he threw in a snowball and
after it a stone. But as soon as the stone
rattled down behind rho rocks, he hoard
a soufillog noise, followed by a sound as of
some animal sneezing I
" 'rhea appeared in the dark hole the
round head and broad, low oars of a largo,
angrylooking beast which seemed to stare
at the intruder in astonishment. Parsons
retreated a few steps, as the animal gazed at
him; but a moment later, two more animals
burst suddenly forth from behind the first,
and canoe out in plain sight at a bound.
'They were -so Parsons deolares-as
large as the largest of St. Bernard dogs,
or, indeed, as largo as bears, and blank and
white in color. Whether they had tails,
short or long, leo did not notice, but he is
ours of their round bends with broad, low
Bare,
Feeling ours from their threatening move-
ments that the animals would soon attack
him, Parsons walked backward some die.
hence, then turned and hurried away. So
long as he was in sight, the animals stood
there looking onriouely after him, and the
moment he had passed out of sight around
a projection of the orag, he began to run.
A minute later he heard, and, turning, he
saw all three of them coming after him rap•
idly. Ho redoubled his exertions and made
for the brink of the run, as fast as he could
go. Perseus is no onward, but he had no
weapons except his mining tools, and the
size and ferocious appearance of the orea•
three led him to think a hurried retreat bee
best polioy.
' The distance that he had to go to the
brink of the ravine or gorge, was twenty
or thirty rods further. He ran for dear life's
sake, but the animate rapidly gained on
him, aha by the time he reached the ' fall-
off,' were so close that in another hundred
feet, he thinks, they must have overtaken
hila,
"Tire side of the ravine at thio point is
very steep and ledgy with a little scrub
evergreen brush growing among the rooks.
Parsons Haug his tools over the brink of it,
then took a slide down over rho snow and
Me, catching at the heath to broak the force
of his fall. He gob going with danger-
ous speed, however, and went over a sheer,
perpendicular descent of twenty fent, at
least, and streak heavily among a mass of
little etones and loose stuff, whence bevelled
down into Immo brush thirty on forty feat
lower.
"Half stunned, he lay still and listened,
Ho could hear the animals moving above
him. Several tinter, earth and stones came
rattling down. Re Was sure they were
searching around for him. Bub they did
not venture over the crag down whioh he
had tumbled ; nor did he at any time hoar a
sound 01 any kind from bheir throats - which
may indicate that curiosity rather than
hostility, led the creatures to pursue him,
"Parsons lay where he fell, about an
hour, until long after ho had ceased to hear
any sounds above ; then he very quietly pot
down into the bed of the gorge, sad making
a long °hraute to the eoubhward, canoe around
hone to Damp about noon -with hie story of
a new kind of carnivorous animal.
" We loaded up our Winchesters and,
four of he, went bads with him, along the
snow bank. The bloody trail and every
thing about the olefb or den, hn the Drag, was
just as he had desoribod it to us. There
worn his o
a
wutrake too, as
he had run to
the brink of the gore beyond, and the
distance los had cleared at each jump Auto.
dantly toobffiod to the fright los was in.
There, too, wore footprints on the snow, as
large as a man's hand. We found the tools
strewn down the aide of the ravine, and
saw the place where Paroons slid down -a
dangerous plaoe, indeed I But we could dis-
cover nothing of the new carnivore,
Afterwards we wont to the ash and col-
lecting a quantiby of brush'wood, kindled a
fire in the cisib, with the expectation of
roti ting the animals out, if they had retreat.
01 thither, in fact, w0 spent four or five hours
ocarohing about the plans and reconnoitering
the vicinity. There was abundance of time
for all this before night; for the sun doesn't
satin this latitude, end at this time of year,
till 0000' ten o'clock in the evening, But we
wore tonable to got any further trace or bid•
hogs of Parson's opookled heart, Their is lit-
tle doubt, however, that he did actually fall
in with oom° rather queer animals."
The mouth is the window of the intelloob,
If so, is 'toothaoho the wiudow•pano f