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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-8-31, Page 22 los tBirssuosrtotretro rerfr e.onness steot6.'rrexuawee Yellen YG uveal asosa`iPms tl;ierr'entuvrot! YOUNCI. FOLKS. SOILE OP MY POOR FOOTBD I'RIENDS. nY is. Beete Nearly all ahildroa are fond of pets, and nothing seems better :suited for that than the dog. He, more than any other animal, is man a friend and companion, and a truer friend one need never with for, Neither pov- erty nor Richness will drive him away, nor in many oases will even ill uaage. Bub as this paper is merely intended as a little chat with our young readers. I shall not enter into any lengthy descrip- tion of the dog's habits, or diepoaition, but merely tell some etrietly true anecdotes of some of the fourfootod friends of my own youthful days. One of my earliest favorites was a lovely Mack and whits spaniel, with those deep brown affectionate eyes which are only to be kennd in doge. Row well I remember his first appearance 7anong us, a little roly.poly dog baby, to be ears, our vary own, to be hugged and kiss. Oa, and patted, and played with, How he neer survived it all teems to me now a mystery, but he did, and liked it too, for baby, who did her beat to tear him limb from limb, or knead him like dough, was hie special favorite, and eo soon as he was able he would jump on to her bed and nestle down olose to bet whenever she would be asleep ; and, little wee doggie as he was, would growl if any one 08.1130 near her, whom he did not recognize. Time went on, and our little puppy grew up into full doghood, and I am sorry to say had many faults. I think we children were very much to blame for that, for whenever he got into trouble some one or other al• ways came to the theme, and Sam never "got his deserts." One great fault was his strong love of destruction, chiefly of flowers and bonnets, neither of which was rale unless quite out of his reach. I shall never forget 0110 day, hearing him whine so mournfully, that 1 hastened to where he was, half afraid he was in pain—but no, Master Sum was only making frantic efforts to reach the ohar. woman's bonnet, which was fortunately hanging on a peg beyond his reach. Many a one had he destroyed before, and we could not make him understand that it was wrong. I think the fault wee our own, for when wo first had him we used to tie an old bonnet or hood on him and play visiting. He was a sad thief too, and at lenghh had to be banished. A good home was found for him with a farmer, and Sam became a respectable dog, because there was nothing left Iyiae about for him to steal. CIILOE. Chloe, or Clo, was our next : she was a perfect little beauty— blackened-tan—and. so good that no amount of petting could spoil her. She was a very intelligent animal and obedient in all but one thing—sleep out of the nursery she would not—there was no use trying, but once let her in, and she be- came a brave little watch -dog. No stranger would dare venture in there unless aecom. panied by some member of thefamily. One strange habit was to watch for eggs, and so soon as one was laid, carry it in his mouth to wherever my mother might be, when she would lay it at her feet, and frisk around to sow hie joy. We dearly loved to see thin and encouraged it, till we found that Clo began to be very impatient with the hens, even driving them off the nests, in the hope of obtaining eggs. 1 need hardly say that her almost comical look of disappoint. meat writhe best part of the fun to us young eters. One old hen paid no attention to her, and whenever duty called her to the nest, Clo was very excited. She would watch her most intently, making every now and then frantic little dashes, and giving that peculiar wow• wow,—at the same time wiggling all over,— that dogs do when pleasurably exalted. This would go on till Biddy had "fulfilled her mission," and then began the real fun. Clo would bark joycualy and make for the nest —Biddy rune up her feathers, cookie indig• mangy and make vicious little dabs at her, Then Clo would lie down pretending to be fast asleep, but all the time with one eye open, and so soon as Biddy would turn her book, a swift little movement would bring Clo nearer the nest, till after two or three of these movements the egg would be secured, and run off with; generally followed by the seemingly irate Biddy. Sweets of all kinds were her delight, and she always came in for her share, poking her black shiny nose into the very pockets of those who were in the habit of carrying these delicacies. Poor Clo ; she was run over one day and killed—and many and bitter were the tears shed for her. CUTE. Cute was a grand old dog, known to every schoolboy, yet owned by none, and having as many names ae days in the week. Schools and sohool children were bis special delight, and it was nothing unusual to see Cute waiting first at one and then another seltool moor, till hia friends would be released, Bar. lop was a dear little terrier, the perteet, =teat, funniest little morsel that ever ran about on four legs. Left motherless at the age of two weeks, it was a case of drown, or bring up by hand, and we were allowed to try the latter, and succeeded. He was a very great trouble at first, but we loved every Bair of hie ugly little blank ocat, and did not mind having to get up in the night to warm milk over the lamp, so as to stop his hungry orfee, But as time went on, he slept through the night without having "refreshments," began to toddle about in an uncertain Bort of way, took to tearing up every thing he could lay hold of, and in foot behave pretty muoh as other puppies have done. That he was ugly even we bad to see, but no matter, he was "a dog," and that was quite enough for our oanine loving family, but arena to say, after a while the ugly black coat began to turn to a ail• very grey, the great blundering head stopped growing and allowed the wee body to fill out, and take up its proper share of apace. The floppy ogre took to standing up, and donned a lovely tasseled fringe that waved and floated in the summer breeze, and, in thorn, our " ugly duckling" became generally admired, Re bad many funny little ways. He would know the click of the little box and run down even from the top story to bring up the letters or papers, melting a separate journey for each article, He would van with joyous barks and queer oontortions of body to weloome each returning member of the family!, preceding them up the satire and stopping every now and then to wave one little paw, whioh he did most gracefully. Plop dearly loved bioouite, and would bog very prettily for thein, pattering round in 10 peoulrat way that he ,only did then, and if you pretended to mionnderatand him, tailing hold of your drew and drawing you towards the place where they wore kept, He would thow unmistakohty whether he were hungry or thirsty. If the former, he would jump on your knee and gnaw at your hand ae though it were e, bone, yet never hurting you ; if thirsty, he would liok your hated and nigh most dolefully, Dear little Fop 1 his winsome ways are over long ago, and he roots beneath the apple tree In our old bomeetead.gerden. I could tell you many more stories of household path, and if permitted will often do so, for I still remember the pleasure a Gree story gave me in any young days, and I would like, if possible, to give an equal s - joyment to the young people who may be readers of Tarren, Insect Torments of &moil, Ineeote in all countries often possess an extensive power of annoyance greatly in oontrest with their• diminutive size. They appear to combine the maximum of effect with the minimum of effort In a very soden. tifio fashion. Brazil is epeoielly favored with parasite torments ; and even if those who are to the manor born become case- hardened, the traveller from elimea where inseet•life is less offensive in its attacks, can never be wholly reconciled to his lot. Even the most generous of Christians har- bours a revenge" epirit against hie blood. thirsty but minute assailants, which are at mama puny and powerful. Take the bush-tiok, for example. 01 this diminutive monster there are three species, of which bhelargeotis about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. We are told that this ineect was known to the anoienta ; but it is very unlikely that they enjoyed its acquaintance. There are three varieties : Ixodes ricinua, Ixodes plumbeus, and Ixodes reticulatua, The Latin name was derived from its enppoe. ed resemblance to the ripe bean of the Palma Christi. The Brazilian name is can. rap oto; and when examined under a mag. nilying-glass, it is then to be furnished with a weapon of offence in the form of a trident of teeth, which are serrated inwards. It has also three pair of logs, and each leg is provided with strong hooked claws. Ener. MOUS quantities of the eggs are laid upon the ground • and the young ones ae they oreep out climb up the planta and oath at any passing animal which brushes poet, and fatten on it. When Mr. H. W. Bates was in the highlands of Brazil, he had to devote an hour at the end of his daily rambles to picking off the aarrapatoe that clung to him by their 1noiaive fangs. The infliobion is so dreadful, that horses and cattle some. times die from the exhaustion caused by the bites of these creatures, which settle in ewarmB. The traveller soon has the appearance of a person suffering from ehinglee. Sometimes the attacks bring on ricfnfan fever, just as in Russia, people may suffer from pulicioue fever, Tee rainy season kilts many of the earrapatos, and they also fall a prey to the birds; and the ciriema, in partioular, is never shot by the natives, because they know the value of its eervi°ee in thinning the ranks of the multitudinous bloodsucking Ixodaes. Another insect torment of Brazil is the Jigger, or Pulex irritres, Pulex subintrans, Pulex minim us Puler penetrans. These in• rereating creatures make their home chiefly in the human foot, and hence are known to the Brazilians as bichoe dope (foot -beasts), Mr 111. C. Dent had five of these unwelcome guests from January to June, and they took up their abode in the following localities : the first on the right big toe, second on the right heel, third on the left heel, and two under the sole of the left foot. He had to cit them out. Still worse are the verne, whioh attack indifferently °attle and human beings. With animate, they appear to raise a large hard lump, so thab they probably reside in the skin after the fashion of the ox -warble in this country, Sir Richard Burton Bays that stories are ourrent of negroee losing their lives from the berno. The grub is deposited in the nose and other parts of the body, and if squeezed to death, instead of extracted, it testers, and produces serious oonsequenoes. Children of three months old may suffer from a vieitation of the barna. Some of the natives, in the case of adults, apply a burning stick to the wound, in or- der to destroy the worm. Mr Dent's dog was Dna masa of sores from the berms and biehos do pe, and it was pitiable to nee him, when running about, turn round almost every minute and, with a pitiful whine, bite hie wounds until they were raw. Such are BOMB of the pleaeures of the insect world of Brazil. Usefni Beoipes. QUEENS CAKE.—Cream a cup of butter with two and a half cups of sugar ; add five beaten eggs ; one cup of milk, and three audit cups of flour through which have been sifted two teaspoonfuls of cream-of-turtar ; lastly a light teaspoonful of soda. JELLY ROLL—Beat four eggs, add half a cup of anger and three-fourths of a cup of flour. Bake fn a large pan about 10 or 15 minuted, having the pan lined with buttered paper. Spread with jelly and roll lightly, covering with cloth afterwards until cold, Brim's CARE.—Cream together half a cup of butter with one and a half oup of sugar ; add half a oup of milk ; three beaten eggs, and two cups of flower edited with a teaspoonful of Bream-of•tartar. A light half spoonful of soda dissolved in a very little hot water. A very inappropriate name for so plain u cake. GINGER SNAPS.—One oup of sugar, 0110 and a half cup of molasses, one cup of but- ter or half butter and half lard, half a oup of cold water, a teaspoonful of ginger and two small teaspoonfuls of soda diseoived in boil. ing water. Flour enough to roll out. If the little ones are home from school they will not keep more than 24 hours in an un - looked box. OUSTARo SOUFFLE.—Beat together two scant tablespoonfuls of butter and two of flour; add one oup of boiling milk, and 000k eight minutes; stir in the yelks of four eggs well beaten and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and set away to cool; add the whites of the eggs to bbe mixture when cold, and bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven, Serve at Duce with sauce, Sone &came Cext.—Beat four eggs add one and a half cup of sugar, beat until light' add hell a cup of milk in whioh has been dissolved a very avant teaepoonful of soda, and stir In one and a half oup of flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of oroam•of-tar. tar ; add a very little salt, and two table. spoonfuls of molted butter. A cheap and very good cake. •� He--" Isn't 1VIrs, Ma dopp's black hair pretty 1" She—" I don't think it half as pretty as her light brown." Inquieitive Party—" Whose funeral is Otis P" Irish Undertakek•-••" Min, son," Al a recent ball at the houae of Mrs. Mul- holland, in London, the mantlepieces were oovered with banks'of rare orchids, pyramids of flowers wero planed in every available aorn00 and baskets of flowers were hung from the mailings, while the staircase was a trellis work of Ilowere. Tk E BIVUSSELS P -' S'T. AUG, 24, 1888, ptvallora{Y-07tlnoeeekivort'"?WI:tl?r17 .0[taattrle)t ` 'D;muruuoiht4'md:iwou''�ur'° !a". IYQCYF.'961''n4!Mto THE NEWSPAPERS OF ASIA, ° roola leo,m in !i' wisdom, 0hief 8ti0e office) 11 80 Tinto tion 10tbooo loeta0 for this, d odon type 10 used, PASSING NOTES, Not All or Them as gree and teetcrerisins and manifold virtues" of the realo°nt pasha 1 The officials andgentryand wealthy met, A number of dead Chinaman Were shipped as T0000 win tti'e Aoeuetomod til. Not that 13alili Rifaat 1 aaha, the Vali of chants usually subaoribe by the month, pay. back 00 0 ,nton tea other day from move.. the district and founder of the newspaper, tug about 51.50 a mouth to have the paper l,.lob, body was placed in a till box, on 845 manlike aTEVENs' ie 0.Ca�On ofed auirtu b thhe e Prevaricator arfcatoreillaekle delivered lo eo them mooaiioa cru r tle no asbod of the wbieir was inscribed an appropriate epitaph. The liberty of the press in thie oountry rpleola ea y VarlOUe arta of the oft p p Ono of theca notion road as fellows: Tho and Eu land, and the vacuo of thin freedom p y, just es you 000 blasted kenos of Liug Chun. 9fay they rest g The more feet of foundunz a Oowapapor thein etuek on ehuttere and telegraph poles hr poem, They aro the bones of an honest) in the devoloptnent of ob'3lizitfon and good speaks volumes for a Turkish official in in Uhlnatown, New Yorlr, man. He washed shirts and washed them government, io no doubt fully understood Aida Miocr, To found it woo one thing,, The Pekin " Gazette" ie undoubtedly the, well, and was Mao a good ironer. Rio re - and lappreeiated dt o tl a the rtea dller who der of ifrpn however, awl to get the people to enbeoribe i oldest newspaper in the world. 10 is, how- intelligences, ow. wird is aura, Collect oath, ttl:l 00," personal observutiou in the East, hes had for it and read it 108 another. The people lever, like all other Chinese papers, merely Atli -nth Do Bpriot—'! Von say you aro p of the Sivas vita) et had no objection to an official hulietiu, and not a gatherer and opportunity and 08000iom t0 draw ecmpu•i- their progressive paella 'printing a paper, purveyor of general intelligence, Copies of you erto Mmea i=ntllo i Frii, but would Bon between bhe two sxtrentee of liberty and but, sum they could neither eat it nor it an sent out to every large pity in the you dare to be married on Ptritdco P hi y, restriction, its praetioa1 appifoatlof appeals, ,,.ear it, they declined to buy it. Now and empire. In each 0ity some libofutteur ow"ue tTttebington 1i h t I uexb rriduy Y Why, perhaps, with greater 10r, 0. then 808410 old Turk, proud of hie ability to the privilege of copying and eelliug an add, , !lair Al vaso you aro BO sudden and so un - In every Oriental oountry where native rend, would carry a seaond•hand copy home tion of the " Gazette" when the imperial conventional. You quite misuud!erataad rulers hold the reins of Government what with him, regardless of its age, and read it courier arrives with it from Pekin, me. I procest—I d'idn t INapuee-- = `That's newspapers there are exist literally from aloud to the aan01nb18d villagers ; but the The pros has made great progress of late .all rig[ib, Alfonee, yon didn't propose ae one dcayto thub be,TheSultan of Turkey, the he villagers' ambition for Wows aid not sear to years in Japan. Nowapapare aro aubjavt to they dear,yit do, hall but Ibelike Friday t thee`! neo p the height of becoming subscribers. Under press censorship, but enjoy about the same Shah of Persia, the Czar of Runk van these oonditiou the Prevaricator naturally degree of freedom ae the papers do he Ger. ewoo0e, enuff out a oowepaper almost as easily na languiehed. Finally, however, He'll' Rifaat many or Austria. No adverse oritioiana of snuffing a venule. A newspaper ie favored Peelle deterinined that the paper should the Mikado, or members of the royal family and encouraged 0 it oonfiues [feel! chiefly euae0ed, hit upon a happy expedient to is tolerated, and they have to be very mom- e, to fulsome flattery of the sovereign, the boost ite oiraulation up to a paying flgure. fel of their political utterances, or suspension Government and its methods; it is tolerated Ho issued an order that every person in and perhaps a flee become their portion by if it lets politica alone end serves up nothing Government employ should oubsoribe for way of discipline. The Japanese reporters bub news ;but 0 it ventures 0) honestly a oertua number of copiat, few or many, are not quite (o uhiquitous as those of To. oritioise the powers that bo, woe betide it. a000rding to their rank and pay, Thus, a meth but they display ooneiderable entor- Conetantinople boasts several daily papere mulozim of zaptiehe, with a ealaryof athe e- prise nevertheless. A equed of reporters printed in different languagea. They are and piastres a year would be expected to from the " Nishi Nicht' Shimbun" and other comparatively small sheath of four pages, take a dozen copies, while the Cadi of Sivas, Tokio dailiee were sent down/by rail to containing about as much matter as the drawing ten times ae much pay, would bake Yokohama, seventeen miles, to interview Weekly Ooon Creek Bugle, Arkaneaw, U. S. several dozene. To prevent any of them me when 1 finished my ride around the A. Of the foreign papers, I am best ao- falling into arreara, the Pasha stopped the world at that port. quainted with the Levant Herald and East amount of their subsoriptiont out of the ern Express. It is printed in English o0 salaries, one aide and French on the other. Another Nor was this all the enterprising Pasha paper is the Tarik, printed in Turkish, did for the Prevaricator. The merchants of The Tarik is the official organ of the Govern- the city reoeived a broad hint about the wont and does most of the Government advantages of advertisiog their wares in it. printing. Owing to these latter trifling Left to their own discretion, none of the edraumetances, the Tarik da, of course, the Sivas merchants would have advertised, doughty champion of the Turkish aide o' because neither their fathers nor their any diplomatio ineleethat breake loose in the grandfathers had ever advertised : but when East. Besides this the Tarik basks in the the Pasha hinted, that, of course, Wae a very eunehine of the Sultan's personal regard; different thing. And so, thanks to the therefore Its editorial eye is largely employ- unique methods of Halill Rifaat Pasha, the ed in watching to see that nothing which Sivas Prevaricator sheds the light of its could possibly be objectionable to its great prevarications among the people of the patron creepe into its pages. Anything vilavet: and through its pages dirootly and about whioh there exlsts indirectly, the praises of the Pasha are con - THE SLIGHTEST nonET steady dinned into their ears, I have seen ie'either cast into the waste basket or sub. the entire population of a village assembled mitred to the press$ceneoq Whose duty is to lietoning to an old greybeard drawl out bhe run through it with his blue pencil. When Prevaricator's puffs of the Pasha and the the Latter hawk•eyed gentleman gets through Sultan. with it the blue penoilinge generally cover In Persia are two or three native papers, every point worth printing, leaving for the much on s par with the Sivas Prevaricator, typo a few empty phraeee. and re Teheran is a little circular -like paper But with all this watchfulness even the palled the Teheran G' zetta,printedinlfrenah, Tarik sometimes makes mistakes. There is which is the diplomatic language of the a good deal of "friendly rivalry " between oountry. The Gazette comes out once a the various sheets in the gathering of court month, and is, no doubt, items, and in the eagerness to keep abreast A PAYING CONCERN of a rival 10 is nob alwaya possible to avoid in a small way. It is a private enterprise, errors. When I am in Constantinople both devoted chiefly to singing the praises of the the Levant Herald and its "bitter rival," Shah, for whioh the King of Hinge now and the Tarik, had shut up shop for thirty days then bestows upon its owner a present. by order of the press censor for acme indica Some of the merchants dealing in European oreet paragraph which both had printed. goods take space in it, however, and as many The editor of the Herald, an enterprising Persian officials speak and read French, eon of Erin, used to stand loafing around the for a sheet of its dimensions and calibre it hotel with hie hands in his pockets, like a probably has a very fair circulation. looked -out mechanic. He balked of his The ubiquitous newspaper has even found " thirty -day suspension ' muoh ae a typo its way of late into the wilds of Afghanistan. might talk who was undergoing the punish- The present enlightened but determined gent of a lay-off by way of managerial dia. Ameer, Abdur Rahman Khan, founded a cipline. newspaper at Cabal a few menthe ago. The ' A thirty -day suspension is nothing," he Afghan paper, however, has been founded said blithely. ' Every editor in the East on Chinese lines rather than on those of the accepts suapensiona as a matter of course. Wee.. It cenobite of a bulletin of events Wnen the holiday is for ten days we try to pasted now and then on the gates of the feel thankful that it isn't for thirty ; when city. Here the people gather around and it's for thirty, we are expected to understand read, or listen openmouthed while Dome one that the Sultan ie exercising great clemency capable of diciphering it reads aloud. In and forbearance In nob making it sixty. The this way the Afghans keep informed as to only point that 1 objected to,' said the edi• the wisdom, beneficence and paternal char- ter, 1118 Irish blood surging up above his aoter of Abdur Rahman, and if there is a collar at reminiscence, " was this : My rebellion going on anywhere, they see by the paper and the Tarik bad brought out the bulletin that the Ameer'a troopers are riding same item, word for word, as near as Turkish rough -shod over the tents of the rebels. The MI be word for word with a decent lan- bulletin, however, is not permitted to record gunge ; in foot, the Tarik item was simply a anything in the way of a defeat, or anything clipping from my paper of the day before, about oppressive taxation and kindred tap - as most of its stuff is. 'Well, be jabere, the ice. censor ewooped down on the Herald and It is about a bop, skip and jump, en to shut ne up, and, of course, I naturally sup• speak, from Cabal :nbo India, where the posed the Tarik had gob the dose elan. The people under British rule have come to be next morning, however, the Tarik was on great patrons of the newspaper. Every deck, and its leading editorial was this : city of any size in British India has its native ' Hie Imperial Majesty the Sultan has deem newspaper, daily or weekly, as the vase may ed it expedient to discipline be. The press is as free in India ae it is OUR UNFORTUNATE CONTEMPORARY, anywhere in the world, and the native aditora sometimes treat their English rulers to very the Levant Herald, again, for its misdeeds, unpleasant criticisms. Disaffected natives The suspension is for thirty days from are much given to rushing to the vernacular date, at the end of whioh time, it is pre- prose to air their grievances. The editorial sumed, bis most gracione Majeete will per• utterances often display a want of logia mit hie royal mark of displeasure to be singularly Oriental, and read like the pro - removed, so that the Herald may have duutione of little children. another opportunity to amend 1te ways. The I remember, when riding through India, Tarik hopes that when our erring °oatem• a prominent native paper had created a mild porary starts up anew, it will bear in mind sensation by printing a violent denounce - how much 18 is indebted to our liberal- ment of the "Bribish raj," winding up with minded and enlightened sovereign, bhe Sul. the assertion that they (the Indians) would tan, and govern its utteranoee according. be better off in the hands of the Russians, lye " Why deeen'b the Government make the By this time the editor of the Herald was native papers draw the line at auoh treason - red -faced with wrath, and had taken his able rot P' I asked of an old Anglo-Indian hando out of hie pockets and stuck hie officer. thumbs into the ar n holes of his veal. "1 " Oh, blase your hearb 1" he said !! bhe tent in a petition to the Sultan," he said, Government wouldn't muzzle the native "pointing out the unjust discrimination. press under any consideration. Why 7 Be. The Sultan at once ordered the Tarik to be cause we find a free preen the best kind of a suspended for the same leugbh of time as safeby valve, through which any'disaffeotion the Herald, Bub now came a fair sample among the natives escapes without doing any of Oriental justice. The Sultan ordered his harm. Suoh a native press as India now treasurer to pay the Tarik, twine as much has would have saved us money daily for the thirty days as its earn. ALL roxe noxnoxo ings would have been had it been run. Wing." " But don't theee euspensioes hurt the circulation of a paper 7" I asked. " Well, yea, to some extent," said the editor, ' where there are rival papaya in the same lnuguoge, other things being equal., the one that gets along with the fewest suepenoione naturally gains on the other." With all these arbitrary restriobions, how. ever, the Coosbaatinople papers are liberal and 1ree•epoken, compared with the average newopaper in /autism. In these censor. ridden sheets no liberal sentiment is per- mitted to find expression, no adverse oriti- oism of the Government, Every oopy of even the already blue•penoilled Constanti- nople papers is searched through before it is permitted to enter Russia. have in my possession now copies of bhe Levant Herald that have passed through the Rnssfan Boat Office. About every fifth or sixth paragraph is painted over with indelible, gummy ink, so that it Cannot be read. All foreign pa- pers are examined at the frontier Peat Offices and subjected to thin treatment. ]every objectionable item ie obliterated, and the papers are wrapped up again and sent on to their destination. At the present time no oopy of the Century enters Russia until Mr. Kennan'e Siberian articles are torn oub. Au exception, in all cases, is made In favor of papers sent to the legations in St. Petersburg: After Mae leaves Constantinople and stripes up into Auiatio Turkey newspapers are althost unknown. I found A LITTLE ONVIIOR8E PAPER in exiotenae, however, at Sivas, an ancient seat of learning 1100 milds east of the Bore porus. I forget he name, but far oonveni• en00 flake we will oall it the Sivas Prcvari•. edfor, I'hie would be a vary appropriate and expense of the mutiny. Had there been a native press for the people to run to with their grievanoee, they would have been known, and the disaster averted," "But how illogical ilia editor is," said 1, referring to the writer mentioned. above, " Why, the first not of the Russians, were they to got control of India, would be to smother him and his power to rail against the Government." The officer laughed. "Yoe," said he, "we all know that ; bub, yon must roman - biz, these people, editors, or what not, are simply grown children. This editor ie a man euflioiently educated to run a paper, but the idea of the Russians choking off the vernacular piens never occurred to him, bless your heart, any more than it would to a child." India is well supplie*withEnglish papers. good plan to throw two inches of earth over The "Times" of India, "Allahabad Pion' bhe whole ant hill. 1 do nob guess this well ver," and the " Civil and Military Gazette; " clean out ants ; I know it. There aro many aro flrsb•olaee dailies, that get the cream of things that will drive ante from their nests the world's Wows by Idlegragh daily from but thisto bpreveurn ntive cleans thain near em outit a ew for dood London. They aro a0 full of rivalry o and p g enterprise as the home papers. The "Civil and all. It also makes your neighbor's ants and Military Gazetto came 0820 with a hate you 0o that they will not set foot on Map of my route in Afghanistan, and all your ground. particu1are of my journey, arrest, &c., the clay after my arrival in Lahore, with a ( Getting into his Good Grapes, promptness and effiolency that would have ,! „ done credit to a metropolitan daily here. Von are very late tonight, George, said China le quite a newspaper oountry in it, the 7dear reproachfully. father new dogmot me own peouliar way, Contrary to what 300 aro your sometimes led to believe, daily newspapers at the gate, and I've been trying to make are published in every large Chinese city. friends with him, Attached to the yamun d each large nits la �--. n rewepapor office Which The Growth of London, When the population of England in 1801 was 9,000,000 that of London was 958,863. The capital and the kingdom have grown faster; Bo that while England (including London) mounted from nearly 9,0(0 000 in 1801 to nearly 20,000,000 fn 1881 London grew from 958,863 to 3,816,483 in 1881. London more than quadrupled its people, while England (including London) did not quite triple it ; England (excluding London) advanced in a still smaller proportion ; and it will be Bean that England,excluding all its big towns, exhibits a still feebler ad. vane. But note this point about London, its limits increase. If we had a aeriee of maps shaded so as to show the population we should see the blank central spot of Lon. don getting bigger and bigger—the wen which Cobbett detested and denounced growing more and more portentous in size—but though the blank spot grew big. ger, yet its centro grew lighter and lighter and by the ventre is not men[ that strictly limited area oalled the city, but something more like what London was when the century began, Take in fact the area occupied by the mass of those 958,863 who oonatituted the population of London in 1801, and fewer persona will be found living uponit while around it lies a widening ring, growing blacker as the centre whitens, While, however, London has grown so enormously in population and in so great a proportion compared with the rest of the kingdom, its rate of inorease bas not been at all commensurate with that of many pro. vinoial towns, nor has it been equil to that of the towns of England as awhole. Speak• ing of these towns ae the whole, it seems a fair estimate to say that of the 9,000,000 living in England and Wales in 1801 3,000, 000 lived in towns. This erre, if at all in making the town population too targe a proportion of the whole. Of the 26,000,000 of 1881 nearly 15,500,000 Lived in towns ; or if we follow the Register -General in ranking as towns' men all who live in urbansanitary districts. more than 17,500,000 were townsmen. The inhabitants of towns have increased at leash fivefold ; the inhabitants of the country at the most by 75 per cont. The town population was one•third of the whole ; the Register General's oaloul• &tion wahld make it two-thirds. Diverging for a moment from the proper order of inquiry, it may be remarked that this phenomenon of the relative increase of the town popelabion is not confined to England. It may not have reached the same pro- portion of the whole in any other oountry, but it boa grown at an even greater rate elsewhere. Two examples may suffice. In Norway the town population wait 9 per cone, 1111801 ; this had grown to 18,1 per cent. in 1875, and it is now 22 per cont. In the United States the proportion was only 3.9 per cent. of the whole in 1800 ; it was 22.5 per cent. in 1581. Objectionable Immigration, This objectionable immigration is immi- gration of a people so alien to us that they marmot become Americanized, either in the first or in the second generation, and that threaten to remain hero, so long as they re main at all, as foreign colonists. Such is the emigration from Italy, from Russia, from Poland, from Bohemia, and from Hungary. Immigrants from some of these nationalities are found convenient and avail- able, on demount of their cheapness, due to a low standard of living, by capitalists in Pennsylvania and olaewhere who are aotivo• ly engaged in the good work of proteoting American labour against the pauper labour of Europe. But that consideration will not be treated by any sensible and petriotio MDR as oonolusive. We want no immigrants of whom there is not reason to expeob that they will become good oitfzene as well as cheap and useful meohinee, We cannot afford to debauch our citizenship for the purpose of supplying with cheap labour the very interests that demand special legisla• five favour and protsotinn because their labour is dear.—New York Times. Ants, For years my garden was the stamping ground of an enormous army of black ants, and though fought them in alisorte of ways I could not get rid of them till I tried naps. tha. I made in each ant hill a half dozen holes with an iron bar, pushed a few pieces of straw or hay to the bottom, poured in the holes and oh the ground about them two quarto of naphtha and set it on fire, When the fire begins to die down it is a Dr. Leiser ptopounds the idea that;oeg• I asstrEs a DAILY SWEET alokaoss can be regulated by a system of of official news. In some eltfee the papers breathing, One mutat tit still and breathe anusoript sheets, copied and dupplioat- regularly and freely a000rding to a fixed clerks : in ethers, where the eironla• schedule. The largest grape crop ever known in CaI- ifornia is now maturing, and it includes al- mootery known variety and quality of the fruit, This orop doubles every eoven yearn in California,:and there is a profit to the growers of one cent a pound. This abundant product with the bountiful array of other fruits raised in Cali[ornia,Imakesthat State the garden of the oountry, if nob of the world, And the probabilities aro that; just as Canada exports furs to England and im• ports them back amain, so will California in the near future be shipping grapes to the wine•making oountry of Europe and trance formed into wine importing them back again, although California herself ie able even now to turn out some very satisfactory manufactures of the juice of the grape, The exhaustive researohee of Poinciana, an elaborate ao000nt of which was lately pub- lished In the Revue d' Hygiene, of Amcor - dam, go to show that of all tinned Mode fish le most likely to contain microbes in- jurious to animal life. Poinoare finds that by injecting the liquid of all sorts of preser• yea under the skins of rabbits, guinea -pigs, tate, and doge, there is a muoh higher,pro- portion of death from fish injections than from any other. He has found, also—what seems paradoxical—that animal preserves of any kind beoome leso dangerous the long• or they are exposed to the air ; whereas vegetablepreservee become richer in microbes by exposure, and may be always eaten with impunity if eaten straightway when the tin is opened. For years past the French Government hao had a standing offer of 300,000 francs to any- body who should devise a practical means of destroying the insect peat that fa ruining the vineyards in the wine•produoing provnnoea • of France. The fortunate inventor has not yet disclosed himself, although there are many devices that afford a partial remedy. The farmers of tide continent could afford to pay a muoh larger reward to any person who should provide a means of exterminating the potato bug. Thio voracious creature yields up its life when successfully dosed with Pa- via green ; but while this method of poisoning is e0aier and swifter than killing by single combat, it may be kept up year after year without final victory. The potato bugs in many parte of North America are about as thick this year as in any previous year. It would probably be easier 00 pay off the na- tional debt than to got rid of this insect en- emy before he lives out his allotted time in the order of nature. We have been ex seting it all along, and now it has come at last. We allude to the unfavorable news from the peach region whioh was contained in Saturday's papers. It alwaya comes to hand about this time. Sooner or later—generally sooner—these melonoboly reports are sent out to vex the soul of the peach•lovsr. Usually it is the frost, or the ourenlio, or some variety of blight or bane, but this time the peaches are said to be ripening prematurely, " and some growers say that their orchards aro being attacked by the yellows." This is truly sad, and the harrowing amounts will be apt to give peach•buyera in the:North, if not the "yellows," at any rate the blues. Experience, however, has taught us not to be overmuch downcast at the unfavorable reports from the peach reeiou, It generally happens, that in spite of auoh gloomy prog- nostication, the peaoh market is pretty well supplied, and that the peaches themselves are of average good quality. 'When we are asked whether Christianity has done anything for the world, and Whether we are growing cotter or worse, there are a great many facts an both sides of the argument which need to be taken into consideration. But at least we may af- firm that in rasped to our general principles of legislation and in the matter here oonsid- ored of our dealing with the criminal classes, a more Inman and a more Christian spirit has begun to penetrate our modes of thought and action, And this, too, as we have pointed out, in a wiser spirit. The old, in• human, savage way of looking upon an of- fender—often even an offender against a most unrighteous law—as a being who had no riglas, who might not only be deprived indefinitely of his liberty, but might be brutally treated, tortured and killed—this spirit has almost passed away ; and the epirit of Him who giveth liberty to the captives has Dome in rte place. To every association and to every effort originated for the purpose of promoting this spirit, we cannot bub wish God speed, France would seem just now to present a good many of the oouditiono favourable to the successful operations of a dictator, if one with ambitions enough, and talent and etr'ength euffioi°nt for the emergency, would present himself. Matters are certainly in a bad way. There is a lack of stability about the foundations of government that augurs bub poorly for the future. There ap- pears to be no man in publie life who enjoys the thorough confidence of his countrymen. The dead rot of personal am- bition would seem to be dragging all things to its own low level, Every man to playing for hie own hand, and when this io done by men of only second or third rate calibre at beet it is not hard to see how seriously the beat interests of the oountry must suffer, The attitude of the nations was recently described by ono of the Parisian politicians, as one of apathetio oxpeotanoy, They are on the look out for something or other, what, they do not know, nor do they great• ly care. There have been so many changes of late that they will be surprised at nothing. As far as they personally are ooncerned it la Walley faire. They van neither help nor hinder. Boulanger's day would seem to be over. He is nob the etyle of man that France needs to liberate her from her present dila- fealties, He lo tea beau ntilitaire of some eon. (Adorable power, but as Franmo'a great man he would hardly'! fill the bill." ---••�a4! �rs7r. per.. Some one has asked " Where do flies go in Winter 7" We don't know, but wo with they would go there in the summer. The " telephone disease" hos boon dia. covered by Professor Wilboretadb, of Berlin, The nee of the Instrument produces disorder in the vibratory °hambera of the oar, genera- ly the left oar.