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The Brussels Post, 1889-8-2, Page 3AUGUST 2, 1689, An Adventure with a Burglar Few of us have lived long in the world without numbering among our friends a man with a tale, The delight of our youth, he becomes the bore of our more rapture years. He le so proud of his one experience, thea he never loses on opportunity of inflicting lb upon every new aequolntanoe,regardless of the fad that all the other 000upents of the room have heard it all before, T am never likely po have enothor adven• tuna; an unadventurous ago and gauntry ie not favorable to extraordinary experience, and Ib would be AB unfair au in title ease ib would be unweloome, that fortune should allot to one individual the privilege of a second adventure. Porbaps when I have disburdened my mind in print, the tempta- tion to play the part of the family bore may be lessened, and so I here sob forth my story once for all. Some few years ego, when I had jueb tak• en my degree, and was deluding myself with the notion thab 1 was doing great things by a course of private reading, 1 had taken up my abode in the temple, and I am free to confess I often found its dull, A man oan nob always] be reading. You know London has its amusements, but they are expensive, eepeoially to him who is not well posted in ite wave. So it was with no little satiefao• tion that one afternoon I found on my table a telegram from an old friend which said. "Come and dine tonight and atop tomor- row. Want you particularly," 1t is some- thing to a very young man to feel he is wanted ; ib le also something to dine oom• Portably and not ab a restaurant ; it wee even more to me ab that moment to have a reeonable exonee for alosing my books end putting off reading to a more oonvenlent Beason. A very short time then passed before I found myself in the southeastern suburb, where my friend, whom I will call Mrs. Bartou, lived with her two eons and ono daughter. On arriving at the well-known house I discovered that the reason of the urgent invitation which I had received was that Mrs. Berton's two sons were to be away from home for a day or so and that she was afraid to be left fn the houve with. oub any masculine protector. For her dreams were haunted by the terror of wak- ing and finding an armed burglar in her room, and of late her usual state of appre- honelon had been increased tenfold by an unexampled aeries of successful burglaries in the immediate neighborhood of her house, As I well knew from experience gained by staying in the home for months at a time as a ohild, every precaution against burglars had been taken. Every door and every window was provided with its socket, and every night before retiring to rest a eolemn prooeeaion was made throughout the honae, and a bell was fixed in eaoh socket to warm the steepen should the dreaded thief enter. Besides this, a huge mastiff slept in the yard. Fortified by title knowledge, though I could not bub admit that burglaries both many and daring had but recently been prepetrated, I did my beet to dissipate my friend's fears, and was particularly gratified by the confidence she showed in my pres- ence, She believed in me ; I did not be. lieve in the burglar eoaro, and Bo all parties dined, and went to bed in good spirits. About 1 :30 in the morning, however, I was awakened by an agitated knocking at my bed.rnere door, and the maid's trembling vcice bade me geb up, c.0 her mietreee was quite aura that a burglar was in the house. 1 fear I only woke to anathematize all fem- inine fears, and set down the alarm to an abtaok of nightmare on the part of Mre. Bar- ton, whose dreams had taken the shape whioh might have been expected, ooneider- ing the nature of her daylight thoughts. A lady's "I'm quite sure ' ao often resolves' itself into "1 am quite euro, 1 thoughb," Still, as in duty bound, I arose, hastily pub on some garments, with an ulster to Dover defioienoleo, went into one of the eon's rooms, which contained a regular armory of weep• ane of all aorta, aeleoted a heavy Cape eon• etabulary revolver and a lighu sword and strode down•etaire to investigate. The agi- tated faces of the ladies peered oub from their bedroom doors; a hurried whisper told them to shut themselves in and keep quiet, and I descended to the Scet floor, where, notwithstanding my intimate local knowledge, I•soon euoaeeded in making a horrible noise, shaking fireb one bell and then another, and giving ample warning to any nootural vieltor that it was high time to be off, for the houeobold was astir. All seemed right there, so I descended to the basement; there, too, search as I might, I oould find nothing amiss, till a happy thought Btruok me, why wee the mastiff so quint in spite of all the noise ? I unlocked a door and looked into the yard ; there he was, fast asleep, alive evidently, for f could feel his breathing, bub a kick in the ribe failed to stir him. The only oonolusion to oome to was evidently that he had been drugged. This spurred me on to fresh inveatlgations. Even the mosb intimate acquaintance is nob perfectly at home in bho lower regions of a friend's house. I tried every door I could see, and at last found one whioh led into a little pantry map - board which had a window. The window was open, and ono pane had been carefully removed. There had been a man at work I What had become of him ? The house was one of 'the ordinary large villa type, semi-detached, with a large, long garden in the rear, the garden being on a level with the basement, one room of whioh, thab facing the garden, was handsomely fur, niehed, and went by the name of the break- fast room. Over thio breakfast room was the drawing room, with its large bow win. bow opening in to a verandah, from whioh a flight of steps descended to the garden, against the wall whioh divided our premises from those of the next neighbor's. Under Wig outside staircae° there was naturally a triangular recces whioh had been fibbed with a door, and was used as a atorehouoe for gar• den tools. I could nob find my man, and bhoughb that he had most probably gone, disturbed by the noise whioh I had made. Still I hardly liked to go to bed, the extracted window glass and the druggeddog annealing watch• fulness, so I strolled into the brenlrfeab room, opened a once whlah I knew was the home of some excellent cigars, took one, lighted it, and repaired to the garden, leav- ing my sword on the table, l:ut tatting the loaded pistol wibh me, The cigar was ,a large one, and 2 a, m• is nob the warmest hour of the nighb,albeib the month was July. But I had roeolved to stay up till that oigar wee flubbed, and finally, after paging to and fro for some time, I wept and leaned up against the door of the tool shed under the drawing -room verandah. There I remained for at leash tonminutee or aquarter of an hour and the cigar wee burning very small, when suddenly, without any warning, I was forcibly propelled forward 2 o 3 yards into the midst of the garden by a Wok from be. hind, while the pistol went off ao I oome with a oraeh on my node. My unlooked-for aseahant 'rounded past mo and over the wall Into the next garden ero 1 realized what had happened, Smarting with 'rage, and the worse Incmy fait, ushed to not muoh w y e 1, I r the wall and saw the man going over tito wall beyond. A snob from me was followed by a ory of pain and a ()rash, and I wee just iu the aob of getting ovor the obstruct- ing wall to see what mischief I had done, when the enemy returned my fire, and a bullet through the bowler het I was wear• ing testified to the aoouracy of his aim, Thoroughly infuriated by my narrow es- cape, from my peroh on the wall I fired all my remaining three ohambere at the now retreating burglar, as he topped oaolt sue. cessive garden wall. But the distance, the uncertain light and the exoitemenb eat every bulleb wide of its mark. In a general way I make ao pretentious to plunk, and, in fad, to put it mildly, prefer to keep out of harm's way, But the burglar's bullet roused every fighting instinct, and the desire to shoot overcame the fear of being shot. I im- agine this must be the case In battle; a man's thoughts as to what his feelings are likely to be in (tenger, are rarely his actual foelinge when the danger comae, The sound of my fusillade sunt up the althea all over the neighborhood, and the heads of frightened men and women in all Gonda of eooeatris costumes appeared at the win- dows while a tremendous knocking at Mre. Barton's front door announced thab Police- manX,required to know thewhy and where• fore of so muoh unseemly noise, Afew words put Policeman K. in posooeeion of the fats ; a few momenta were loeb while arrayed myself more suitably for a night trip, and I conducted the Policeman over the wall to the plane where the burgher fell. There we found nob a little blood, and then the hitherto phlegmatio and apparently in- oredulous officer quite brightened up, and turning to me said: "He's hit, sir! we'll eatch him, air.'I professed myself ready, had we easily traced the course the man and taken until the gardens ended in a crops road, where more blood marked the pave menti ; an occasional drop of blood bold us we were on the right traok for another 120 yards, at which point an enormous piece of waste vround covered with refuse heaps ran along the side of the road, and beyond thio lay the open country. The officer now sprang his rattle, and In a short time a eeoond policeman joined u0, and wibh this additional force we oommeno• ed to eearatt among the heaps, and ab last found the spot where the man had sat down and bandaged his wound, for we found soma torn and blood-stained linen, Ab this mu meld ono of the officers oried out, "That's him," as a figure crossed the sky -line at the top of the hill in front of us, Off we start- ed again, and from the top of the hill we dis- tinctly eaw him get into a field ; all three of us ran our beet, his wound and a heavy plow crippled the burglar and I was able to gain rapidly upon him, and before he succeeded in making a thiok wood for which he was aiming, I had reduced the distance between us to some 50 yards, the heavy policeman being some way behind. However, the en- emy reached his wood in safety, and we all thought ib was folly to enter it after him, as he could easily shoot n0 without being seen, or giving vs' a chance of retaliating. So we contented oureelvee with standing gaurd as beet we could all round the oopee ; but alae; he never Dame oub, and when nayight oome to our aid and we draw the copse, he no- where appeared. Thus the chase ended, and we had to re- tire diecomfiled, and I had nothing more exciting to-do than to return and give a de• ecription of our midnight visitor AP beat I could at the police station. Oftensinoe have I reflected upon the worth of police descrip- tions of similar criminal°. I know mine was all wrong. It is nob easy to make out the pointe of a man in the dark or in ean- certain nlight. And here the personal element, which must have already wearied my readers (if haply I should have any). oomeo to an end. We heard no more for some fifteen months or a year and a half, but we then read in the papers that a cartian notorious burglar had been captured, and then) that he had been condemned to suffer the lamb penalty of the law for mur- der committed in one of his noc- turnal expeditions. While the man lay under sentence of death (whether by way of reparation or from a mere whim who shall say 1) he seems to have desired, where he could do so, to restore the property he had stolen. Ab any rate, he caused to be forward- ed to Mrs. Barton's house a small ()look, Otto only thing he had taken from the breakfast room, with a nota to the following effect ; "With Mr. Peace's oomplimente to the only gentleman who ever hit him. I did you by going straight through the wood end oub the other side." I have heard since that mine was nob a solitary instance of stolen property restored by him ab the lamb. Much as we thought of his wound at that time, it turned out thab it was a mere seraboh of the arm, which am counts for the mood he was able to maintain in hie flight. Moab stories have a moral, excopb when they narrate real incidents. Mine being of the latter olds has none, unless it be in bho shape of a warning, that when it comes to shooting, two oan play at that game, Water in Organic Substances. Pew people have any idea of the extent to whioh water is a oouetituent of organic substance;. Bather more than a pound of water is exhaled daily by the breath, about a pound and three-fourths by the akin and two pounds and three•fonrths by the kidneys —making the daily emissions of wator by the body about five pound() and a half -or just under three quarte. Dr. Whitelaw tells 00 that water,forms three•fourbhs of the weight of living animals and planta, and covers about three•fourths of the earth's surface. The body of a man dried by Pro. feasor Cheesier in an oven, like a brink in a kiln, weighed after dissection onlytwelve pounde. Tho percentage of water in well known articles is eurprieing to those who have not looked into the eubjeot. The mushroom and encumber each contain 96 per Dent. of water ; fungi and the vinegar plane, 95; watermelon, 84; cabbage leavee, 92; beer, 90 ; turnips, 88 ; milk, 87, mongol wurzel, 85 ; oarrots, 83 ; blood, 70 to 83 ; apples, gooseberries and trout, nob 80 ; beef and eggs, 74; akin, 58; brandy, 66; rye breed, 94 to 49 ; wheat broad, 44 to 48 ; whisky, 47 ; cheese, 40 ; rum 30 ; kidney beans, 23 ; figs, 21 ; Date, 16 ; wheat flour, 13 to 18 ' wheat, barley and field beans, 15 ; oat meal, rye lour, barley flour, Indian corn meal and peas, 14 ; rico, 13 ; rve and coffee, 12 ; manna and linseed oaks, 10, and tea, cocaa and cane eager, each 5,—[J.i x. ahat:ge. Duty on Mining Maohinery, OTTAWA, July 80.—Taking advantage of the presence of Masers, Bowell and Tupper, a deputation from Trenton, headed by Mr. G. W, Ostrom, M. P. P., waited upon them and urged that the duties on mining maohinory nob now manufaobured in this country, end on deka, be removed, and aloe aekod for a subsidy of 56,000 per milt for the propoeod railway from Coeltill to Sud; bury, an extension of the 0, and 0. Tho deputation were 'stamina that their requ00ts would bo Laid before the Cabinet at the earifoat opportunity. THE BRUSSELS POST, atatriedgeritilleasIMPIAMISSOOMMIGAWROMMailleareatainneartellaerterialletellieleardeareetain +' HOUSEHOLD. New Curtain Materials, Suggeetlonofor buying or arranging win. dow draperies may be gathered from the following bakan from "Harper's Bazar:" For curtains, of summer houses the new reversible cretonnes are made up to hang straight from the rod, and be pushed baok to show each curtains of figured or dotted Swiee mueliu or of white Madras. The shades are ooru or sage green holland with fringe at the ends. English bowies have flowing ourtaine of Madras muslin brimmed with a gathered relllo five or six inches wide down the inner aides and arose the bottom; a similar ruffle le eat aeroes the top, and edges the band for looping oaoh curtain hack, Brussels lace is for each ourtaine and for flowing curtains of summer parlors furnish• ed in French style. Cross ebripes of riot oilers aro lilted for counbryhouse curtains, and may be had In the now mohair knife and in thinner fabrics, with enow•flake stripes of white Madras alternating with milk stripes in Roman colors. Thin India silks in solid colors, or with printed fivurea are pretty for ourtaine that are meant mere- ly to soften the light but not to abut it out. Cretonnes that aro not reversible are made up rather heavily with ellesia lining and fringed edge, and are hung on rings and rode to fall straight to the floor. Thin cottons that Imitate India silks in colors and design make pretty and inexpensive ourtaine, also the printed Madras lawns, with earn grounds strewn with large flowers of gray oolors—a semi•braneparent smooth fabric quite differ- ent from the Madras muslin. Large coin epote, yellow, blue, or red, are on white bwiee cottage draperies. The Japanese bead and rattan fringe -like portieroo are still need for country houses, Portiere are now hung inside the door between the jambs. Scrim, with Cluny or antique lane and in- sertion, is 06111 used for flowing our- taine. Egyptian laces with large mashes make pretty each ourtaine attached to the top of the sash and looped beak with ribbons. Japanese cottons in porcelain blue and white in large figures are used for ourtaine, wall - hangings, cushion covers, etc., of country honed, and are quite inexpensive. A Familial' Picture. A writer is an exchange tells of an over. burdened wife struggling with a siok head- aohe, who was urged to go and lie down. " But here le this basket of clothes." Well," said her husband, "it will be there to-mor- nw.". "But the dinner must be got" "0, we can make you a cup of tea, and we will haat on bread and milk." "Bub there le no bread," wailed the sick wife. " Then we eau make a pot of mush," said the ooneider- ate husband. Now, I cried, here is a sensible man 1 It is not always the husband's fault that the wife overworks. Sometimes it ie—often it is ; but in moat oases the wife is herself to blame. Ambitions and anxious to help, to save, and " get along," she does the wildest thing she oan possibly do—the most extra- vagant and wasteful—in wasting hereelt ; in selling her own and her ohildren's health and happiness for a few improbable pennies. She hides her weaknesses, because one does not Like to be always complaining. For often the huahand doeenot realize her condi- tion, or what a strain she is undergoing, and thug insists that what hie mother, or hers, or some other woman has done she also would do, Choice Eeoipes. CxrEnnY TURNOVERS. -000 quart flour sifted with two heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder and a pinch of salt; two heaping tablespoonfuls of lard or butter ; two ape of fresh milk ; two cupfuls of atoned cherries ; a half cupful of sugar, Rub the shortening into the flour, wet up with the milk; roll into a sheet a quarter of an inch think ; and ant into equarea about four inches across, Put two greats spoonfuls of cherries in the centro of each ; sugar them ; tura up the edges of the paste and pinch them together. Lay the joined edges downward, upon a floured baking-oan, and bake half an hour or until browned. Dot hot with Dream and augur, or sugar alone. MOUNTAIN CUSTARD.—Two quarte of milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, vanilla or other eseenee, two teaspoonfuls of liquid renneb. Pour the milk, alightly warmed, into a ghee bowl ; sweeten, flavor, and stir in the rennet. Set in a rather warm place until it is firm, like "loppered" milk or blancmange ; then put on toe. If at the end of an hour it remains liquid, pub in more rennet. Do not let it stand until the whey separates from the curd, Two hou.s in warm weather mould be enough. Eat with cream end sugar. TOMATO SAL/OB.—Poor into your num pan the juice from one am of tomatoes. Add a couple of slim of onion and after boiling a few moments remove the onion. In another basin melt one tablespoonful of butter, and when ab the bubbling point stir into ib one tonepoonful of flour, earring bill smooth, Add this to the tomato, stirring briskly. Season with pepper, salt, and a pini of ground. cloves. LADY FiNaano,—Take six ogge, aeparete them and beat the yolks with one-half pound of sugar, until they are so light no hair linos will torm on the foam. Sift in ono quarter of a pound of flour, with es muoh soda as you can lay on a throe cent plea, and twine the quantity of cream of tartar, whisk stir into site sugar and yolks as light ly but thoroughly as posniol0 in alternation wibh the whites of the eggs whioh must bo beaten perfectly stiff. Make a paper funnel of stiff brown paper and put the dough through ft) pressing ib out in stripe about a finger long and the thickness of a lead pew ail, Pub on unbubtered paper and sprinkle with granulated sugar, bake in a quiok oven and when 000i web the under side of the paper with a brush and pub the fingers to- gether bank to baok, !SWRET POTATO DULOE.—Take nix of the finest, whitest sweet potatoes, peel and slice and leave in sold water while you pre- pare a syrup by boiling one pound of out sugar and one pint of water, until it will drop heavily from the spoon. After the syrup has been cooking slowly for half an hour, put thepotatoeo on to boil in hot water, when the syrup is ready, mash the yotatoee unfit very smooth, add thesyrup a little ab a time, beating oonebanbly, allowing no lumps to form, until fa le rather thither than batter. Pub book on the stove, poo ting slowly, and stirring carefully until it ooke clear and quite thiok, add one teaspoonful of orange flower water, nook for a momont long- er. Than drop in spoonfuls on a plate that tae been duetod with sugar and duet sugar over them. In Havana they are roll. ed into olives and wrapped in tieauo paper and sold by the eonfoobionere, LATE CABLE NEWS. Turkey and the Triple Allianoe—Serviene Arming—Russia Showing her Rand— General News. The long pending negotiations between Germany and the Porta aiming at the ad - hellion of Surkoy to the triple alliance have finally resulted in an entente under which the Dreibund guarantees to maintain the ptegrity of Turkleh territory in a000rdanoe with the Treaty of Berlin, Tho quoetfon oonoerning Crote 10 reserved, Brinoe Bis• math promising to influence Greece not to interfere, provided furbher autonomy ie eon - ceded to the Cretans, Its is stipulated that Turkish troops shall ao-operate with Auetria in Servia and Bulgaria in the avant of a war with Russia, The negotiations were accelerated by the gravity of the situation in Servia, A Cabi- net council held in Vienna on Thursday de- bated whether the time had come for mili- tary intervention by Auetria. The War Minister reported the armiag of the Servian reeervee en mares and the distribution of 360,0:0 rifles and abundant munitions fur• niched by Russia and Franco, they debiting the Servian Treasury, under easy aondibion of deferred payment. RUSSIA 00AOUIN0 TILE =ERMIANS. Russian officers, he said, were engaged in inspecting fortresses, barracks and depots in Servia. The Minister advocated immediate action. Everything was ready to march two army corps into Servia. The Council deolin• ed to wait until Count Kelnoky influenced the reappearance of King Milan in Belgrade. The partisans of King Milan are eager for a civil war to crush the Russians. If It ware King Milan will invoke Austrian assistance and thus give Kalnoky ground to interfere. The Grand Duke Constantine, unole of the Czar, has 'suffered a stroke of paralysis. He has lost the power of speech. The British treope at Assouan number 1,500 mon and are considered strong enough to abtaok the dervishes. The Porte will send several battalions of troop' to the island of Crete in consequence of the threatened rising of the people there. The Italian government has withdrawn its vessels from participation in the bloakede of East African ports near Zanzibar, Butterflies made of colored, dyed, or painted feathore, largo as life, and mounted oh spiral wine aro ono at the deeoratlena of,summer hats of lace bulla, net, and crepe, OALM IN THE FACE OF DEATH. Bow trivet, the Frenchman, Escaped the Emile tine. A tradoeman of Lyons, in France, of the name of Grivet, a man of mild and simple mannerswas sentenced during the French Revolution, with a number of others, to die next morning. Those who were already in the cave pressed round the new-oomer to sympathize with and to fortify him. But Grivet had no need of ooneolation; ha was as calm AB if ha had been in his own house. "Come and sup with us," said they, "thin is the last inn in the journey of life ; to. morrow we shall arrive at oar long home." Grivet aoceptod the invitation and supped heartily. Desirous to sleep as well, he re- tired to the remotest corner of the cave, and, burying himself in hie straw, seemed not to bestow a thought on hie approaching fate. The morning arrived. The other prison era were tied together and led away with- out Grivet's preaeivbng anything or being peroeived. Fast asleep, enveloped in hie straw, he neither eaw nor wee seen. The door of the rave woe looked, and when he awoke, awhile after, ho was in the utmost astonishment to find himself in perfect soli- tude. The day passed, and no new prisoners were brought into the cave. The judges did nob sib for two days. Griveb remained all this time in hie solitude, subsiding on some scattered provisions which he found in the cave, and sleeping every night with the same tranquility as on the first. On the evening of the fourth day the turnkey brought in a new prisoner, and became as one thunderstruck on seeing a man, or, 00 almost believed, a spirit in the cave. He called bite sentinel, who instantly ap- peared. " Who are you?" Haid he to Gtiveb and how come you here?" Gtiveb an. swered thee he had been there four days. "Doubtless," he added, "when my compass ions in misfortune were led away to death I slept and heard nothing, and no one thought to awaken me. It was my misfortune, since all now would have been past, whereas I have now lived with the prospect of death always before me, but the misfortune now will undoubtedly be repared and I shall die." Grivet was summoned before the tribunal, He was interrogated anew. It was a oto. menu of lfenity with the judges, and he was set at liberty. A Great Family. Whenever there be offered in the United States a prize open to the whole country for Otto family thab has the greatest length, breadth, and thioknees, Walker county, through the Coulter boys, will be aura to bake it. OI the six boys, going up by atop; and commencing at the lowed, Jim is 6 feet 4; Mao, 6 fait 6; A i11, 6 feat 6; Tom, 6 feet 7';'Oscar, 6 feet 8; and Rlohard, 6 feet 11. Tho pparents'wore 6 feet 4 and 5 feet 9 respectively, lb is unnecessary to say bhab Oho boys in their rearing had the advantage of limestone water. Their weight rune from 200 to 262 pounds, making a total of 1,367 pounds, and an average of 228 pounds.— [Lafayette (Ga.) Messenger. Rome -Made Fire Extinguishers. The following is the solution commonly used in the haud,grenades and similar op- plionoes sold as ready mane for the extiag• uishmonb of fires : Take twenty pound() of common snit and ten pounds of sal ammoniac (muriate of ammonia, to be had at any drdggiob'a), and dissolve in seven gallena of of water. When dioolved, it can be bottled and kept In each room in the house, to be tord in an emergency. In vaso of a fire oc- curring, one or two bobbles should bo immed• lately thrown with euoh force into the burning pima ao to break them and the fire will oertainly be extinguished. The Shah's Presents, " The court functionaries ab Berlin and St. Petorsbure, have have been direfully die. appointed," says London Truths, "by the presents' which the Shah distributed on leaving those oftiee. Diamond ouuff.boxes, watahoe, ringe, and jewelled swords were confidently expooted, but, to and behold 1 the Shah contented Itimeelf wish giving away a number of photographe of himself, eue'osod in silver• gilt frames of very moder. ato value." They have a new way of planting orange trate near San Diego, Oat. They born a small holo and drop in a dynamite cartridge, the explosion of width makes a hole big n enough for the trop, and loosening the soil to a depth of several foot, enabling the tree to 'take root easier. 3 AS TOLD TO A WOMAN. BBITIS33 N;,WS. An Austrian. Diplomatist's story or the oath el the Cron J1 Prlltee Muriel pit. I Ty ndell aneepts as' =nee ,l'saseur The other evening was seated at a dinner method of I000ulatiom for hydraphobla, party beside an Austrian gentleman, un ox 1 Lincoln and Peterborough Cathedrals are diplomat and a personage of high elaading both lent now for the performan000feateries in the literary world of Germany, who has and other mesio of that oharautor. Dome to Purls to etude vedette phases of The Duke sad Dnchees cf Murlbotough aro eoieneo which have been developed at the ()()slag ovor to Anierfam at the beginning of Exhibition. Theooavereetion naturally turn- the autumn, andwill make a long tour here, ed on the toggle death of the crown Prince Lord Shrewsbury's now hansoms are to. Rudolph, and he scquainted me with the carry olactrio belle, and the old speaking. version of the affsir which is ()errant to trap in the roof will bo re leoed by a speak, Vienna, and which from the auras of infer, fn tuba. motion 900000eed by my informant, be f have Cricket 10 1 ed in Eo 1 y no doubt, the traestory, Prince Rudolph hadP !a'k ft ieh blind as lmae. been for over a year past madly in love 'The ball is wickerwork, with pieces of tin, with a young lady belonging to ane et the within, whish enublee the gingers to judge of proudosb and oldest) families in the Austrian is whereabouts. domioiono, and one of the highest rank, The Phyllis Broughton'' suit for breach of unfortunate girl, who wee one of the moat promise for 110,000 against Lord Dungan has beautiful of the ladies of her native land, tall , been Battled for 12 500, and the defender b to and queenly looking, with brilliant oyes and pay all blue pouts. a dazzling complexion, hearkened bub too Robert Louis Stevenson's mother, whowaa readily to the wooing at her future sovereign, with Isar son in the South Seas, reports him who was noted as being one of the moon fa- as it. greatly improved health and oboists starting o . another your's anise. The General eommandiog the dlstriotr which includes Portsmouth was appealed to by the Lord's Day Observance Association to stop the Sunday .playing of the military bands. He replied that nothing would ine dune him to order a band to play on Sunday, The Prince went to his parents and proposed I but as ib was olid one valuntarlly and afford, to them that they should give their consent I ed great pleasure to many people who to procuring a divorce from hie wife. But 1111 couldn't get it on week days, nothing would P B I induce him be stop it. oinabieg men is Europe. After some months her state of health revealed her scarab to hor family, Her 'sod father, a man eoaroely in. ferior in rank to the Emperor himself, went to Prince Rudolph and told him that if, in a brief given space of time, steps had not been taken to right his daughter by marriage he would seek him out and shoot him like a dog. bile the Emperor and Empress, being both fervent Oatbolios and muoh attached to their wronged daughber•io•law, positively refused to do, In this dilemma the Prince set off for hie bunting lodge, taking with him, even at this awful oriels in his fate, a remarkably lovely ballot girl from one of the Viennese theatres. Here he was sought oub by the Baroneee de Jeoeora, who, finding that the exposure of her own fault could not be long delayed, had a terrible Beene with her lover, and closed the interview by swallowing the contents of a phial of strychnine which she had brought with her for the purpose. The unfortunate Crown Prinoe, thus found out by his sine and hemmed in on all sides, shot himself twelve hours after the death of the Baroness. What must his feelings have been during these twelve hours, shut up with the corpse 1 tubes. The tightening oan never be regular. of the women who had so madly loved him He would build up tube on tabs by cold and whose fair features and exquisite form mush have been horribly disfigured by the effects of that most cruel of all poisons ? But the most tragio part of the whole tragic 'tory in, to me, the fate of the highborn girl whose lapse from virbue led to the final oat. 'strophe. She has mysterionaly disappeared. Whether she killed herself on hearing of the death of her lover, or whether she has been immured in a convent, or whether justlos has secretly been done on the guilty one by the chiefs of the haughty old family to which she belonged, is a secret that has not yob bean divulged, The time of grace which can be allowed to ;pate who are late for dinner arouses an interesting discussion. It appears' that In London some oome three quarters of an hour lata. Eoglend le undoubtedly the moeb irregular and rude on this point of punctuality. Nowhere in Europe is snob tradineae permissible. In Russia it is re- garded as correct to come a IIttle before the time set, so as to be ready on the precise. moment. Rear Admiral Scott of the British navy proclaims the "utter break down of our big; guns." The same is said of the French guns by some authorities in France. Thera,, according to one writer, all the larger grana are condemned. Bear Admiral Scott disap- proves of the principle of shrinking on holt Formats of the Entire. We do not remember the lamb date fixed by the Rev. M. Beater for the end of the world, nor the method by which he arrived at it ; but it does not matter, for the busy prophet has reoeotly revised his calculations and is now puddling In Paris a new set of forecasts of the future. He has discovered that the period bebween the years 1890 and 1901 will be that of the "great crisis," and thab the world will oome to an end on April 11th of the letter year. There will be great wars, during whioh Germany will be ovor- e .me by France, and Great Britain will lose Ireland and India, General Boulanger will be the man of destiny during the war, and he will be followed by Prince Jerome Napo. leen, the numerical values of the names of each being the mystic number 666. The first trumpet will pound between October tad and 20th, 1836, and the "ceasing down of Saban and his angels to this earth from the atmospheric heavens" will take plane about December 16th of the same year. Ho will then "rage furiously on the earth" from that date till August 1411, 15th, 1897, "when he will become incarnate in Napo- leon the antichrist," whose advent to power will have been ppreoeded by "the RefHorse of Universal War and Red Republioaniem." and will be followed by "the flight) of Christians into a Wilderness on the Wings of the GroabEagle." We hope Mr. Baxter's pampinet in whioh this is all explained, le telling well, for his ingenuity and persever- ahce certainly deserve reward. Ha owes the public some apology, however, for shift- ing hie dates so frequently, Widows and Widowers. There are over 800,000 more widows than widowers in England. In France for every 100 widowers there are 194 widows. Those facts lead the Westminster Review to treat the growing disposition of men to marry lata in life as every serious evil of modern so- ciety. Such men usually marry young- er women, who, in the natural order of thinge, may be expected to survive atom, Even where widowers enter again in matri- mony, they do not often take for wives wo- men of a corresponding or an approximately corresponding age, but young maidens, who are likely to be left widows. The greater longevity of women has even induced some philosophers to advise that, on the oontrary,the wife should be older than the husband, and there have been ease not- able marriages where that was the case. The Baroness] Burdebb•Coutts and Madame de Stool, for instance, were muoh older than the men they married. But the law of nit. ture commonly stands in opposition to euoh unions, though it cannot be denied that the woman with whom a lad first falls in love is very apt to bo muoh his senior. Ho would marry her if the would heves him for a hue. bend, bub she looks on him as a mere boy, and usually refuses to take his loveoeriouoly. The natural tendency of women to marry older men seems to lie as strong as it is for men to marry younger woman, else the amorous lads would receive en amount of encouragement whioh might put the average superiority in age on the aide of the brides. Nature therefore arranges all that in 'a way from which it cannot be diverted by any review abide. We agree, however, that it is best for the man and for the race that he should marry early if he is to marry at all. Any great disparity of ago between husband and wife is a miefortum, It its bettor for them to grow old together, so that in the usual mime of nature the man and the woman will reaoh the end without any ggreatdifferenoo in time between them. —[N, Y. Sun. A Simile, A young doctor, *felting to make a good impression upon :German farmer, mention ad the fob that he had received a double actuation, as it were. He had studied homaaopathy and was also a graduate a "re gulor" modioolsohoai. " Oh dot vas boding," Heid the farmer "I hard voile() a calf vat waked two ooWe, and he made noding but a oammon eohteor after a11,"—tAmerlcan'Medioal Journal, hydraulic pressure. "The big gun le doom- ed," says he. A 30.tanner is the maximum allowable, and the 100-tonner must go. On. the other hand, another authority gives the statistics of the bombardment of Alexandria when the inflexible fired 88 rounds from her 80 -toners, one of them firing 30 ronnda,, and they were all bound when it was over. The 'tato of the English Church is regards ed to be such by a large body of influential, members that they lately met and adopbod the following resolution : " That while grata• fully acknowledging the past efforts of exist- ing Proteatanb orgamzatione in vindicating the Reformation principles of the oatabliehed Churoh, and disclaiming all desire to inter- fere with their work, this conference is of opinion that the preeenb critical state of the Church of England demands that churchmen who desire to maintain the principles of the Reformation, the present prayer book and articles, and the mots of uniformity as stande arde of ritual and dootrine in the national; Church should further unite and organize 1 and that for this purpose a union, under the name of the Protestant Churchmen's Alli- ance, be hereby formed, with branohee in every diocese of England and Wales." Emigrants to Brazil are warned by the experiences reported of those from Great Britain. Up to now the failure of British immigration in Brazil has been appalling. Cananea had at one time 450 British cola mete, whose survivors left in dopa$ in 1878. There are now only three British, families there in the forest without any road in any direction. Aeaunguy, whioh is only sixty miles from Curitiba, the capital of Parana, has only about 100 British colonists out of nearly 1,000 who were planted there some twenty years apo, the remainder hav- ing all died, or, like those at Cananea, have ing been transported book to England and Ireland at the public. expense and in the Unmet misery and degradation, Even to- day no sorb of roads for carte has been made to Aeaunguy from anywhere, although the hardworking Centre' Immig-ation Society made a'peoial request in the name of the residue of the colonists at Assunguy as late- ly as May, 1888, Albhough Italians are supposed to withstand the climate better, there has been a perfect blight upon Italian immigrant ohildren during 188S in the prove ince of Sao Paulo. The English Balt Union, The English Sealant= fa about to deolero a dividend of fifteen per Dent, as the result of ite first six•monthe' operations. This is a pretty penny and wine= fail to aid another eoheme that has been in contemplation for some time. Thomas Ward was seat to the United Stator by this tame syndicate to value properties for the North American Salt Company. He has vielted a great many properties and made an exhaustive examinee tion of their capabilities. Ho is bank in England again by this time and his reporb will be awaited with great interest on this aide of the Atlantic. Mr, Ward declined to give the press the result of hie examination of American salt•fielde before sailing lash. weak, But it 10 understood that it is likely to be such as to result in planing in England a large proportion of the securities of the American company, eepeoially among the. shareholders of the Buglish Salt Union, Their fat home divldcnde would not mak() them averse to investing still further, espeal• ally as their agent appears to have been deeply impressed by the extant and value of the American fields au compared with English property of like aerator. Those fade show whioh way the salt breezes ere blowing just now. It is tortunate that salt is plontltul, but still ever so infiniboamal as inoreaaa in its prism aide to the burden whioh these rapacione trusts aro imposing on the people. The Shah iu London. The second visit of the Shah of Persia to England will soaroely excite the curiosity of the first, but it will be viewed with con, siderablo more of approheneion and alarm. Bed Cloud or Spotted Tail could not eon - verb a Washington hotel into a scene of more painful disorder than the Parisian monarca loft behind him in the plume whioh he in, habited. Along with those unfragrant memories of 'hie cattier visit, and bile ex. tromelq unfavourable impression ib made of Oriental civilization, aro some rominiooenoes of Oriental wisdom, euoh as' the Shah's re• fugal to witness the Darby, upon the ground that it was already known to him that ono horse ran faster than another. London, moiety, however, le about as sorely In need of amusement as any body of equal numbers in the world and quite as uneorupulous the means of supplying title need. If fhb Shah suoteods in amusing London for a weeks he will for the purposes of London, haute fulfilled his mission,—(N, b', Times.