HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-8-16, Page 3AUGUST 70, 1889,
THE BRUSSELS POST,
LATEST FROM EUROPE. A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY,
The Naval Display m ];':)nor of Emperor
William — Boulanger'% Rebuff— The
Nile Victory.
Every one la looking with hie own oyes or
through those of the newspaper mon ab the
proud little German Emperor and the tre-
meudouo naval display that Queen Victoria
hen ordered out for him, Five miles of
ironclade three doep le a eight to inspire
respect, eopeoially when flanked by nests
of torpedo boats, gun•boeto, and eo on.
England Io feeling very fine ovor thio, and
we aro reminded that this island can taokle
and destroy any oountry, which is perhaps
true it is almost impossible to believe,
looking at the tremendous naval display,
that boaides these ship' England has Boat -
towed over the world a fleet bigger than that
of any other country, bub it is true.
The severe rebuff whioh Boulanger has juab
received in the French local elootiono sae
sobered that brave General considerably.
His recent manifesto in whioh bo attributes
his dieaoter to treachery and potty ambition
brie more of wounded pride in it than good
judgment. When a man to whipped ib due
not interest the public to have him explain
why. Ib is quite possible, however, thab in
the more important eleotioon in September
the General may have another flush of luck,
and enthusiastic individuals who a few days
ago thought that Boulanger mush carry
overytbino are just as oiLly now in proclaim
ivg hie funeral. He ie not a•ouffiofently able
adventurer to arrive, but be has good wire
pullers and will find diseatiefied Frenchmen
to howl and vote, for him until some other
man in a cooked hat or higt, boots cornea a-
long to fascinate the French and out him
out. They moat have eomo one to shout for.
Gen. Grenfell engaged the Soudaneee near
Toeki on Saturday and completely routed
them. Wad el-Jumi, the Soudaneee loader,
was killed. The Arab lone wee 1,500 killed
and wounded. The Egyptian loss was
alight,
Besides Wad.el•Jumi, the slain on the
Arab aide include twelve emirs and nearly
all the fighting men. Fifty standards were
captured by the Egyptians.
Gen. Grenfell marched out of Toeki at 5
o'olo ok in the morning with a e trong reconnoi-
tring force of cavalry and camele and ad-
vanced close to the Arab camp. Milking, a
feint of retreatiog, he dre,v the whole of
Vi ad•el•Jurol'o force to a point within four
miles of Toeki.
Here the Egyptian infantry were hold in
readiaeoo for an abtaok, end a geueral action
WAS at once begun. The Soudaneee made a
gallant defence, but were driven from hill to
hill. Tho Egyptian cavalry made a maces.
Bion of effective charges, in whioh Wad•el.
Jami and the emirs were killed.
After seven hours of hard fighting the
dorvlehee were completely routed. Gunboats
are fallowing the scattered remnants of the
Arab force along the river.
.1111.
Haymaking in Finland.
A curious way of maklog hay is very gen.
erally adopted by the Fins. Poor MG who
own no meadows have long been accustomed
to cat what grass they can find In the forest
glades and other waste lands. Owing to the
leek of roads and farmsteads the hay was
stuffed among the branches of neighbouring
trees to await' the winter frosts and snow,
when it could easily be carried off by sledges.
After a wet Beason some farmers noticed that
this was actually batter in quality than that
whioh they themselves had made from much
better grass, The wild crop, so to call it,
had dried much better in the tree branches
exposed to a free circulation of air than bhe
rich herbage which had lain long on she
'sodden ground. Hence it 000urred to them
to make temporary trees upon whioh their
own Drops might be dried.
Thin experimenb wee attended by such
Burmese that the plan baa been widely im
Hated, and bide fair entirely to supplant the
old-fashioned methods. After the mowing
is done a number ca poled about ten feet in
length, and provided with long transverse
page, are set up at intervals, and the grass
is loosely heaped upon them. The result is
said to be excellent. Even in web weather
only a email portion forming the outside of
the pile is discolored, while the Inner pen
tion, exposed to the air beneath and pro.
tooted from the rain above, are dried in per-
fect condition. Mowing can bo carried an
in spite of wind and rain, and when once the
grass le placed upon the drying poles it may
be left without fear of serious damage until
the weather 'Menges.
Cliff -Dwellers in Mexico.
It seems there are still oliff and cavo
dwellers on earth. Lieutenant Sehwatka,
whose travels range from the perpetual ice
of upper Greenland to the eemi.tropical
regions of Mexico, has found a people hith•
eras unknown. In the Mexican State of
Chihuahua, the southeast neighbor of Texas,
this Auotro.American explorer has just
come upon a community of 'several thousands
of the cave and cliff dwollore, a nun -worship-
ing people, who had been supposed to be
extinct a long time ago. Their former
dwellings in Now Mexico and Arizona have
exoited 'some interest ; now we hear of oho
people themselves. They are described as
a very dark•oolored race and very timid—
aa, from the roaming bandit of Apaches, the
orueleat of all the Indiana, they well might
be—and on the approach of Sohwatka's men
those genuine aborigines bed to the per-
pendieblar cliffs, up whioh they , went, to
their high caves, on long, notohed poets.
They teem to be a harmless rape, armed only
with theprimitive buw and arrow and a
atone hatchet. That they should have ea.
caped so long the prying observation of tray-
clear
rayelerr may be duo to the fact that the greater
part of the State of Chihuahua (Chea aw•wa)
is a high and dry barren region—a lofty,
arid tableland, whioh gets little rain, and is
eoughb by few or no travelers. Ito western
part is very mountainous, the Sierra Madre
ranger of the Mexican Cordilleras running
through it ; and it to doubtless in the faoee
of thee' inaoceseibie cliffs that the homes
of these cave-dwollere are found. When
they roach their caves they pull their pri-
mitive ladders up after them.
The Bhah'% Early Hardship%.
The Shah wan held in great detestation by
his father, who wan anxious that the bound
eon should eomo to the throne. Nasr•od•
Doan was, however, et fourteen made Gov-
ernor of Azorbeidjn, that north western
province whore capital is Tabriz, But
fortune, doer not eoem to have smiled on him,
even in that poeition Thera his father'e
ill -will followed him, and many a time,
beoauso hit salary wan nob nut regularly,
the young Prince and hie mother were
deprived of even the neoeomarien of life.
Once, after waiting impatiently for the
wherewithal to keep the pot boiling, a tax
aollootor tent What purposed to be the
rovonues of a certain district. who), con'
Biked, however, only in kind, and one tot—
e ,number of fine ruga—had to be sold at
great loss to an American dealer to furnish
next day'% dinner,"
A Com hiding which lend the Victim to
6nleldc.
Tho remelt° of John J. Corneiliaon from
the county jail of Mount Sterling, iiy, last
week recalls the atm), of ono of the moat
toughing and dramnbic tragedies that over
occurred In Kentucky. It le the story of u
good mane eoro temptation and fall, and it
gives n glimpse of a civilization unique and
terrible, a oivilization whioh toeohea the two
extremes and produce the hero and the run
flan.
Five years ago Richard Reid was uni-
versally regarded as one of the foremost mon
In Kentucky, He had been elected to a
number of political cMoos, and bad achieved
the orowning ambition of hie life, a seat on
the bench of the Superior Court of the State.
He bad raloed himself up by hie own efforts,
as he began life aa a friendless lad. Almost
any cfftoe in the State wee at hie die -
peed, for he wart nob only popular with all
olaeoes, bub he woo respected as well. A
more charming oharaoter than Jadge lteid's
cannot well be imagined. All that the wife
of Lol. Hutchinson plotured that gentle
Puritan who has Dome down to us the moat
delightful individuality of his century, could
have been truly written of Richard Reid.
He woo handsome, aourtooue, reflood, He
was a true Christian, and yet never by look
or word forced his religion upon any man.
A teacher of hie village Suadaysohoolln
Mount Sterling, a devoub member of his
ohuroh, ho could yet keep a orowd of the
roughest mountaineers roaring at hie quiet
jokes ; and every child in the little town
know the good Judge for his friend. His
polititieal opponents had given up trying to
beat a mad who could win the admiring love
of the beet people of the bluegrass and the
fiercest mountaineers in blood-drenohed
Rowan and Breathitt counties,
There was one man in Mount Sterling who
hated the good Juago with the venomous
hatred of a jealous and revengeful nature;
a burly, enllen, coarse fellow, with the frame
of a Herculean and the head and face of a
bull dog ; the kind of a mau to stamp on the
face of a fallen enemy and glory in his bre.
tality. That roan was John J. Corneiliaon,
He waited patiently for the proper time to
ebrike down his enemy and at last it came,
A deoieioa was rendered by the Superior
Court in a case in which Corneiliaon was
involved, and in the deoieion Cornollioon'e
character was severely criticised, Thin dads.
ion Corneiliaon, for hie own purpose, attri-
buted to Judge Reid, although, as it after-
wards appeared, it wee written by another
Judge. Corneiliaon determined upon a re.
venge more terrible in that community than
burning at the stake, a revenge compared
with which death would have been a mercy,
The cowhide in Kentuoky is the emblem of
slavery. Na free man oan 'suffer the de-
gradations of a cowhiding any mora than he
can allow his forehead to be branded, If ho
should by any miofortuno have such an indig-
nity put up on him there is one recourse, and
only one; he must kill the man who did it,
No one knew ell thio better than Corneiliaon,
and with an ingenuity of cruelty almoeb
devilish ho determined to avail himaelt of
tie knowledge of this and alto of his know-
ledge of the oharaoter of the Judge. He
knew that to Raid's intensely roligiouo
nature the killing of a fellowman was too
revolting to be throaght of for a moment.
He knew that the Judge was nob phy-
oioally his equal, and he knew that ho ne for
went armed, in foot. it was Judge Reid's
boast that he never carried a deadly weapon
in hie life.
And so when Corneiliaon one brilliant
Spring morning walked into the little back
office where the gentle Judge eat reading hie
favorite Horaoe, and closed bhe door behind
him, he knew as thoroughly am a man ever
knows anything that he would meet with
little opposition in hie terrible task. With
his usual courtesy Judge Reid arose from his
ohalr and kindly Invited Oorneilison to be
seated. For a moment the bully regarded
him in ailonoe, perhaps even hie brutal heart
failed him, and it was nob till Judge Reid
had asked him the second time that he answer-
ed hoarsely. "I've come to have it out
with you." In a moment he struck bhe
Judge in the face, a cowardly, brutal blow;
a blow that no other man in if entuoky could
have struck, and as hie victim reeled and
staggered in a dazed, helpleee way he drew
from under his coat a heavy cowhide and
laid on the gruel lash again and again—a
shower of blows, each one of which he knew
would burn into the very soul of the defame.
bees man like red-hot irons. Judge held
fell on the ground inoenaible and Corneill-
eon, with the cowhide in hie band, walked.
down the main ntreet of Mount Sterling and
boastfully told the horror-stricken people
what he had done,
The oowhiding was the first act of a trag-
edy The whole State was aronded, The
indignation was intense and universal, and
at no plane wen ib so strong as among Judge
Reid's own people. Everywhere it was felt
that there was no alternative left the Judge ;
there wad only one thing for him to do. Ha
must kill Corneiliaon.
Then began a mental otruggle as terrible
as anything that the imagination of novelists
has ever portrayed. No one who has not
lived in that oommunity can realize the
awful force of the publio opinion to which
Judge Reid was subjected. Everybody he
saw advited him to slay his aeeeilant ; the
men he met on the streets, the men who
thronged hie office, the members of his
church, hie legal friend's and hie boyhood
companions,
The writer of this caw him the day after
the o0oarrenee, and his office was filled with
political allies, brawny mountaineers with
their trousers tucked into their boots, who
came down to hells and advlee bhe "jeige,"
It WAS a pitiable eight. The unooubb, though
kindly, attempts of these loyal mountain
men, any one of whom would have laid down
hie life for the mon they all adored ; the
fierce wrath of more than one true friend
who oouid with difficulty bo restrained from
avenging the wrong then and there with his
own hands ; and in the midst of them the
etrleken man with bowed head ani white
face likening with all bit old-time courtesy
to advice which he could not take. He had
aged years during the night of mental agony
whioh bad followed the dreadful degradation
of the morning; all the light bad left hie
eyes and when he talked it wee like one
epeaking from the grave,
"I cannot, I cannot," he dried, shaking
hie head, when a close friend told him for
the hundredth time to kill his enemy. He
hardly slept or ate for a week, and then he
Old his friends from all parte of the State
to come and Mateo to hie story and judge
him by the facte, They gathered in the old
court -hoose one pleasant day in the early
Spring to hear what he had to say, A
strange crowd it was --farmers from all the
adjoining counties, many of them riding a
hundred miiee, were thore; big boned mon
from the bluegrass and wiry, dinowy mem-
adman From the vary spot where he
made hie first law epeeeh when a emoobh•
faood stripling yore before, the Judge told
hie neighbors and friends all the shameful
story of the cowardly attack. HO told them
of his reli sous convictions ; of the im osei.
f ,
g
tinily of hie revenging himself upon his
enemy;; of the pationb meekness of the
Saviour under a burden Infinitely greater,
of the awfulness of blood g rlltlneso, for-
bidden alike by the lower of God and of man.
It woo a greabBpoo0h, and, ooneldering
the audienoe and the ourroundingo, an ma
traordinary speech. When he (iolehed the
ruebling of the brandied of treed about the
old court-houeo could be hoard, so alone was
the orowd and big Mare wore running
down more than ono bronzed face. Suds
an oration had never before been delivered
by any publio men in Kentuoky, and ib pro•
snood a profound effoot all over the State.
Tho people thought than this would pub
an end to it all and thab Judge Reid would
go to hie oourb with the reepeob of every one
for hie superb moral courage. They did not
know the man, and they did not know the
community. Almost ab onao Judge Reid
began to feel that he waa losing hie friends.
Mon purled him with averted faces; the old
warmth with whioh young and old hod
greeted him was gone ; lifetime Mende
treated him coldly, Ho learned the bitter
lemon that no man can fly in the face of
deep-rooted public sentiment. Night and
day he brooded over the assault; ho would
talk of nothing else, think of nothing aloe.
Rio wife, a beautiful and accomplished
woman, a member of one of the proudest
famlliee in the South, did all that a devotee,
and perfect lova could 'suggest to divert hie
mind, but in vain.
One morning Judge Reid, after a oleepleeo
night, walked down to hie office, looked the
door, pub a pistol to his head and Bent a
bullet through hie brain. He wan dead
when they found him. The miserable
wretch who bad blasted his life was arrested
and given the extrema limit for aoeault, three
years in jail, an unheard-of sentence op to
that time. Re tried a aoore of times to re•
verse the sentence and exhausted every
technical point to e0anre his freedom, Once
a foolish county justice turned him loose on
a writ of habeas oorpue, but a roar of in-
dignation arose all over the State, whioh
sent him back to hie Dell, '
Mre. Reid hon written a beautiful book, a
life of her dead husband, which will repay
perusal, as it tells better than any brief
newspaper account possibly could the story
of ono of the purest, kiodlleet, noblest men
that over lived in Kentucky—gentle, chival-
rous Richard Reid,—[N. Y. World.
THE NEW CANADIAN CABLE.
Proposed Direct Conunnlcatlon Between
the Ile mint( or Deland.
a\ir. Dobeli, the projector of the now
Canadian cable, of whioh lb is prepared to
give Canada s direot cable between,the straits
of Belle-Iele,and,Irelond, has returned from
England, where he hoe been endeavoring to
float the project. The British Government
had some time ago expressed a willingneee
to armlet the new company, in order to secure
dirket oommgnioation with Canada, bub the
Anglo-American Company, having recently
spliced their cable on the Newfoundland
banks and run a branch cable to Halifax
the objeob for which ib was proposed to
aeeisb the new company was attained, and
as a 0oneequence this aesirtence has been
withdrawn. Mr. Dobell returns to Canada
with $350,000 stook 'subscribed by private
subscription, whioh will almost immediately
be increased to 5500,000. The total oosb of
the new cable is estimated at 51,700,000,
end Mr. Dobell is now asking the Dominion
Government to guarantee the oompany'e
bonds to the extenb of another 5500,000,
which will enable him to return to England
and easily raise tho balance of 5700,000
stook required to complete the new line,
The Dominion Government are favorable to
the new direct line, and there le little doubt
bhab the guarantee asked for will be given,
In addition to this the Dominion Govern•
ment have expressed themoelveo as willing
to allow the new company to connect with
their land lines, whioh will soon be complet
ed to the Straits of Belie Isle,
The projeotord aro naturally disappointed
et not receiving a subsidy from the British
Government, but the adaletance asked of the
Dominion Government will enable them to
carry the project to a ouoeeseful loan.
Why He Romanis a Bachelor.
A well-known citizen of Lincoln, who, al•
though approaching the ears and yellow leaf,
le a bachelor, and who promisesto remain
in the same predioameht,nptil his poor, lisp•
ing, stammering tongue in• silent in the
grave, gave a brief explanation of his 'tell
baoy to a small but eolect audience the other
evening. "I have always had the meet in.
tense admiration for women," be Laid ; " an
admiration that age could not wither nor
'custom stale, and that is why I am going it
alone. d nm afraid that if I were to marry
I would follow the track trodden by so
many admirers of women and eventually be
known as a household tyrant, and perhaps
wore°. As it is I have the most infinite
contempt tor a man who doge not love and
oherieh his wife until the cows some home,
bub if I were to lead a blushing bride to the
altar how do I know that I wouldn't be
cued for divorce in a year or two for cruelty;
and neglect ? Human nature is weaker
than water, and no man knows himself, I
have seen bridegrooms manifoating an affec-
tion for their young wivee that was simply
eeraphio, and a few months later I have aeon
the wives splitting wood in the back yard
while the husbands oat on the porch playing
high five with the neighbors. My abhor-
renoe for those husbands woo beyond expraa•
Bion, and I would nob be hated by others eo
intensely for a ducal coronet, So rather
than trust myeelf cm a star husband I will
continue to admire women at a distance, and,
make preparations for a rather lonely
oareer in the sunset of life. Better to bo
somewhat blue yourself now and then than
to make the life of another a long 'stretch of
misery." There are some strange philoso-
phers in the world.
What She Liked,
"What do you like beet 1" said Mr. Dilly
Dent to his girl, as they stood together at
the soda counter. " Oh, I like ginger ale 1"
aha anowerod; " and champagne, Any thing
that—that—that " - She didn't finleb, but
bbe blushed; and Diffy popped that night,
—[Puok,
She Couldn't Do It,
"I am sorry to give you pain, Mr. Cergu•
eon," obs said to the kneeling youth, 'but
your eoore is a goose egg thle time. Not
much, Mine K.ajonea," he replied haughtily,
as he rose up and took his hat ; "you can't
prevent me from scoring a home run."
AI PER so grisa,
Dints for Catching the Iridescent'Louave
et the Waters.
Without the marry aunfleh all angling or
any general angling water would be Moo rm.
plate, The mullet' le the Welt dog of the
troupe, bh clown of the ptn teatime, alwaye
In the road, alwaye being etumblod over,
yet always good-humored and invariably
promotive of a smile, whether that be at
hie ability or at his impudence. An arrant
thief, a light weight bully, a profooelonal
pfekpookot, on over hungry gamin of the
watera is ho, slwsyo ready to ebrlke at a
big bass fly, to follow and nibble at a troll-
ing
rolling frog's hind lege, or to assail a gaudy
epoonhook es large as himself. He le alwaye
being caught, and sent up for a life sea -
fence, yet somehow, when you go flatting
the next time, there he ie again, fairly
itohiag for another theft of the provender
you have arranged for more important
personages. He is a constant reminder of
a question which has troubled more than
one angler—Why is it that the little fishes
aro always eating, and yet never get so
large as the great fellows that only ones In
a while, in a lordly sorb of way, oondescead
to look at tho angler's lure 1 To judge
from his actions the sunfish must eat enough
in the attune of a year to sustain the frame
ot the mightiest muakallongo, yet he b'en't
got much to show for ib all ab the end of
the year. He rarely grows so heavy as a
pound.
A O1IQVITOOS FIN WEARER.
The brilliant uniform of this gypsy soldier,
this gaudy zonate of the watera, is familiar
over the greater part of the Continent, what
ever be the name by whioh he is known.
Brook or river, pond or lake, reedy bayou or
babbling, tree.olad stream, it matters little
to him, and he is there, brighter in the
bright watera, darker in the dull, bigger in
the big waters, hungry in them all. He is
a common angling acquaintanoe,bub no one
who ever know him and his appebite could
ever accuse him of avarielons or sordid mo.
tivee. He doesn't eat for the same reasons
that prompt the greedy pickerel, for fear
that something will get away from him,
but just because he can't help it. He bites
for the fun of the thing.
There are nob very many ways in whioh one
ONO not catch the sunfish, and any one would
know that advice thereon would superflu•
our; but the grave -minded and earnest angler
who holds no real bustler of a fish 00 beneath
his notice will carefully consider bhe posed.
bilitfee of the sunfish and methodically set
about turning the latter to advantage, In
such plans the old rale of light taokle, of
course, comae in. No one but a brute would
deliberately set out to catch sunfish on pike
tackle, although he might inadvertently
capture one at an moment while properly
fishing for the larger fish. The eun6ah is eo
small that a fnll•grown man is far stronger
than he. If there is to be any fairness at
all, or any equalization of the chances, the
taokle must be as fine as oan be proonred,
One, naturally, will take his lightest trout
rod, his most delicate line and leader,and the
smallest hooka of his portfolio in angling for
this little fish; even then, the chances will be
all with the angler, for the tough lips of the
sunfish aro as unyielding as they are eager,
and it is very rarely that a suofieh once
hooked ever gate away, Tho taokle can not
be too light, but it need nob be in the least
expensive, if it so happens that one boa not
just the thing in stook already. A 75s rod,
52 reel, a 300 line, 10o worth of hooks and
a pocketful of worms will equip one magna•
ticently for this humbleaortof oport,althongh
it is, by all means, advisable that the angler
avail himself of the added dignity whioh
invoke any oporb when the very beat
appliances are used,
SUNFISH IoAIT
The sunfieb will bite readily at any small
white bait, such as piece of minnow or
frog, a motion of fish gullet, or a portion of
the intestines of a fowl. It dotes on angle-
worm, ie not averse to a small and Olean
grub worrne, and will loae its heart to a
grasshopper every time—sometimes a cricket
or a small brig of almost any kind will
tempt it, or a piece of a crawfish or heigre-
mite. It rises readily to the artificial fly,
and can be killed in any quantities on a small
and free running spoon. It will strike at
almost any moving objeot—eometimee under
eiroumebanoes whioh are fairly ludioroue in
tbeir absurdity. It ie much more apt to
follow; and take a moving baib than one
whioh is left stationary, its curiosity seem•
ing fairly to make away with all its prud.
encs. If the bait is stopped in its motion,
often then theaunfiah writ stop too, and
stand motionless, with solemn visage and
protruding eyes, looking eteadfaobly at the
object in quesblon, and never offering bo
move as long as angler and bait remain
motionleee, At the leak motion of the
latter it is very apt to dart upon 11.
In common with many of its family, the
eunfish for a time kande guard over the
neat outdoing Ito youthful progeny, and
on such oeoasians will at once attack fiercely
any fish or any object whioh approaches it.
You bray titan see it seize a bit of floating
wend or a'esick whioh cornea by in the
streem,and notice blidb it Carries it away
olear of the nest, returning at once to stand
guard again. ' Tha gamin levee his ohidren ;
indeed, there fa not iu the whole fish family
ea strong a manifestation of the parental
affeetfon 00 that ohbwn by the sunfish.;
There la tnuoh more.'intelligence among
fishes than moob people think. One species
of eunfieh actually builds a house for
its little onee, throwing up a very large
and pronounced mound or flattened cone In
the water, Over this it swims back and
forth, fairly bristling with importance and
pugnacity, At suoir a time 1t la the eaeieat
thing to catch the ianfiah, for it will run
at any bait, but he muat be a degraded man
indeed who would kill even a annfish under
'such circumstance's.
A DINT TO vie ANGLER,
In clear running etreonsA you will often
sae the sunfish fleshing aorosa the shallows
and riffiee, a (lab as bright and brlllianb in
colouring as any but the trout, and peones•
ing an iridescent splendor in the aunlighb
weigh no trout oan approach. The smaller
fish play on the Bandy reaches ; you will
Mite the Largest ones in under the bank
where the water eddies around, deep and
dark. Ueuilly if bho sunfish intoude to
biro, it will novo with a rush, strike
savagely, and play vary strongly for a fish
of ite size, It has really vary game qua!,
itiee, 00 that the angler who starts la at
catching ib is very apt to keep on, some.
times killing more than ho really should.
I moo knew two anglers to take 350 sunflah
along the Ninneoeoh River, in Kaneda, in
ono day, their airing being so long they
could not lift it eboar of the ground when
doubled ovor a pole. Vila be simply butoh-
cry, the more eopeolally as n great many
,
Mates a% Hygiene. people do not like to be at the trouble of
y preparing e0 small et fish for the table
An eminent English surg0on ear) that and eo allow took of the Well to go to Waste.
a Glee on the lips ought to be felt for ab It should he the use of the genuine
loaat twenty minutes afterward, and that I and noble•miuded angler not no muolt to
kioein produced o eeneatitn which the eye. capture a largo numbor o fish RS to
g to t mato," to a mall mm�berof bho largo() and a joke but no bather to originate ono." So
tem requires to keep ib In a healthy at take a g joke, q
a'I3t0oe his old heart 1 There to A man that flnoBt spoatmons, returning Inc another time � it so0m° thin In Australia tido imagine that
thoroughly underetende a good thing, 1 the immetuto onee. Let them live out their It requires Maine to originate jokes.
)ivea, and sea all that the round of life
has #or x heft to sena Theyora enh151ed National and. Individual Wealth.
that, We,Ali men, civilizeanrotate in A vehement dieonsaton has been aroused
only in a modified form the
iorots and by Mr, Thomas G. Shearman a recent speeds
In Portland, Oregon, in which he (Motored
praotloes of aavagary, should be quick, to
dee thio ; and eines we are strong,
should be merolful. She bravest are the
tenderest in any line of l;fo.
About the boot form of sport at the don.
fish is leund In fishing with the fly around
the edge of some quiet pond, At this time
of the your there is apt to be a heavy bank
of moss and other vegetation, In little 0000
"pockets" among this moss, or more often
yet jut ab bbe outer edge and fading the
open water, the eunfloh lie in imbecile, wait-
ing for the dropping In of 0om05hlny whioh
may be construed as an invitation to dine.
Sometimes in the heated portion of the day
they will nob bite so freely, although Pr le
a future of this flah to take the fly much
mora readily in the middle of the day than
moat flebee. If the eunflah is simply idly
curious aboub the quaihbineects Me tinker
trails ander bin nose, he will approach the
hook slowly and apparently enuif at it, or
scull olowiy op, end on, and stare the
angler in the fade, in whioh case the latter
will be forced to laugh in spite of himself,
so comical is the appearanoe of the slim oval
which faces him, with protruding eyes, a
snob nose and fins whioh euggeab the abbre-
viated wings of a rather rragular.looking
°hetnb. As the fisher looks on, quaking
with laughter at this am tieing apparition
of the water, to ! ib slowly fades from eight,
sinking by imperceptible degrees into the
deepening hues of the Water, as the fishy
cherub sculls back by month wriggles of his
bail,
Foreign Crops.
According to recent offiolal advioeo the
condition of the Indian wheat orop is nob
nearly 00 bad as has been reported. A
general bulletin sent out by the Revenue and
Agricultural Department states that in same
provinces excellent harvests are expected,
while in others the crop will bo nob more
than one. half or two-thirds of the average,
"Oa the whole," we are told by an English
commercial journal, " the report is more
favourable than earlier estimates led ua to
expect, as ib indicates a fair harvest for over
sixteen oat of twenty-six million acres, and
something like two.thirde of an average on
the rest, au for as reports are available.' In
Australia, however, the drouth baa so re•
ducted the orop that there will nob be more
than enough for home consumption. In New
South Wales, for instance, the yield is only
500,000 bushels, an against nearly 5,000,000
last year. The harvest 05 1887.8 was the
largest on record, amounting to about 47-
500,000 bushels; this year le nob over 28••
000,000.
Under a Pile of Brinks.
TORONTO Aug. 8. —An elderly man named
Wm White, of 59 Sullivan street, who wan
engaged in carpenter work on the Rose
avenue aohool, suffered severe injuries from
falling brinks ahorbly after commencing work
yesterday. The pile of bricks that were
being drawn up on the pulley fell on hie
head and shoulders, inflicting a nasty scalp
wound and bruising other parte of hie body,
He wan conveyed to hie home in the ambul-
ance,
Blow Progress of the Game.
A young man well known in society
eirclos, who has a billiard -room in hie home,
was one evening teaching a young lady, in
whom he was somewhat interested, to play.
Thesmalt boy of the family went up to view
the game, but was evidenbly nob greatly
pleaded with its progress end soon Dame
down. Some one of the family asked him
how the trema wan going on, and he said:
"The game is not going on ot all. Unole
--le not playing at all; he ie jnet standing
there holding Miert—'s hand, That is
all he's doing, and I don't think there's any
fun in that sort of a game."
The World's Rainfall,
An average of five feeb of water ie esti•
mated to fall annually over the whole earth,
aud,cosuming that oondenration take place
at an average heigh of 3 000 feet, scientists
conclude that the force of evaporation to
supply such rainfall must equal the lilting o;
322,000,000 pounds of water 3,000 feet in
every minute, or about three hundred billion
horse power oonobantly exerted. Of this
prodigious amount of energy thus created a
very small proportion ie transferred to the
water that rune bank through rivers to the
sea, and a still'smaller fraction is utilized by
man; bhe romainder is dissipated in space.—
[N. Y. Sun.
Attracting Attention.
"I want to attract attention to my new
grocery store. What method would you
advise me to employ ?" " Pub up a placard
bearing this inscription: ' Positively fresh!
Egg's laid while you wait !
No man is a hero;to his valet," though he
may aeon such to the nurse who bakes Cara
of the twine.
A French judge of Limoges has decided
that a miabreas has the right to administer
corporal punishment to hor apprentices,
An English syndicate has purchased five
of the six breweries in Paterson, N. J., for
$2,280,000, the ownera to retain one-third
interest,
The Dolnra wood deooration in the latest
method of boantifying dwelling's. It le a
mechanical process for ornamenting wood
In a manner resembling sometimes hand.
carting, and eometimea inlaying or other
kinds of art hand -work. The pastern is
light, against a background that may be
graduated from the palest to the deepest
shade of hrown, For door panellingo, cell -
Inge, oabinets, eta, the Datum decoration is
ooneidared decidedly effective.
Eight hundred Hungarians made a pil-
grimage to Turin to do homage to Kossuth,
on July 7. They had a grand banquet at
whioh Kossuth, now aged 87, made a speech
an hour and a quartet long, marked with
tho same groat rhetorical powers that dia.
tinguielrerl him of old. He atilt mourns the
dual Governmenb of the Austrian empire
and the yule of the Hapobnrge, and daolared
that he could not return bo hie native coun-
try eo long as it formed part of the Govern-
ment of Anatole. Ho le writing his mem-
oirs though he is 00 apt to drop into roverion
on past timed that the work gotta on very
!lowly.
Flowers of epoeoh bloom as brightly in
the Australian fancy as when they spring
fresh from the baundleso imagination of the
Woes. One Parliamentary orator, referring
to another, said the "hon. member for Pits.
roy, with hie oevernou0 mouth, could laugh
louder bean the rest of the Aedenbly. Shat
oavornous mouth ot his was the only tkintt
the hon, member had to conned him with
other people. lie had a mouth to Iangh at
that 100,000 persoae are poesesaed of int
omen whioh enable them to trove about three..
Mile of all the wealth that la annually say.
ed In this oountry, and that, animal our
method of taxation le ohanged, within thirty
or flfty yoke thia 100,000 will own three-
fifthe of all the property in the Nation. The
New York "Tribune" angrily denounces
Mr. Shearman, and attempts to show that
more than one-half of our annual increase in
wealth is divided among four million farm
ownera. In this attempt the "Tribune'
manifests more daring than wisdom. Mr.
Shearman is not a labor agitator, except sr
far as foots agitate. Hie rhetoric in Porta
land was the rhetoric of understatement.
Had he sold that 100 000 meu own today
more than all the rest of the Nation, he
would not have been wide of the truth,
What the " Tribune" says aboub the
great number of property ownera in Amari-
oa is true but rneaoingf ase, Mr. Andrew
Carnegie once stated that there were more
aharehold•re than workmen in the Penn-
oylvanla Railroad system. This may also
be time, but it, too, ie meaninglese, In
England and Wales there aro more land•
ownera rt an farm laborers— the ormer nam.
bering 07'2,010, the later but 810,000. Bub
would Mr. Carnegie or the " Tribune " on
that account dealer° it absurd to nay that
one per cent. of the famlliee in England
owned three.flfthe of all bhe land ? Thia is
the logio offbheir poeition, Yet the foot is
that practioelly three fifths of it is owned
by 4.217 peraooe. The income tax returns
show that In England 57,000 persons, re-
presenting leas than one per cent. of the
amilloe, own fully three-fifths of the whole
wealth. Although our statistical bureau
have generally avoided the investiga-
tion of the diatributlon of wealth, yet
there are fake enoagh to [how how
nearly we have approaohed the con-
dition of things in England, at the
thought of whioh the " Tribune " shudders.
In the cities and towns of Michigan, Accord-
ing to the oeoond annual Labor Report. 1,-
200 of the inhabitants own 61 per cent• of ail
the real estate, this fa where property in
remarkably well dietrlbuted. In New York
City the bulk of the real estate is owned by
10,000 persons. In 1880 official otatistice
were published as to the distribution of
ownership in United States bonds. It was
found that, although there were 71,000 pri-
vate holders, ever 60 per cont. was held by
2,300. These holders of bonds are the same
men that have the Large holdings of real es-
tate,
In the city of Columbus, Ohio, It bas been
estimated that one hundred and fifty men
own more property than all the remaining.
A beaker of Omaha, Nebraska, recently ex-
pressed the opinion that more than half the
wealth of that city woe held by one hundred
men, In Cleveland, Ohlo, according to a
dispatch to the New York "San" Mat
week, there are sixty-three millionaires
(names all given), whose aggregate wealth
approachea 1300,000,000. This gum divided
among the people of Cleveland would moan
57,000 per family. The estimate is prob-
ably exaggerated, but the likelihood re-
mains that theca sixty-three men ore worth
es mach as the remaining forty thousand in
the city. In selecting one hundred thou-
sand families who would own more than all
the remaining eleven million in the nation,
Mr. Shearman might bake twenty thousand
instead of ten from New York, and five
hundred instead of one hundred from snob
cities as Columbus, Omaha, and Cleveland.
The ownership of farm lands is, as the
"Tribune " claims, well distributed ; but lb
muat be borne in mind that the publio in-
debtedness of the oountry and its railroad
securities (whioh are held almost exclusively
in oitieo) are worth more than all the land
which is actually owned by the ferment.
The estate of Mr. William H. Vanderbilt
alone was worth more than the 165,000
farms in the three State[ of South Carolina.
Florida, and Louisiana. As regards the
concentration of wealth, the United States
cannot boast much over England. Since
1860 its wealth has increased from fifteen to
fifty billions. Daring the next thirty years
ib will probably increase from fifty to one
hundred billions. Whether the next fifty
shall go to increase the power and luxury
of those already riot, or to increase the com-
fort and independence and culture and man-
hood of the mass of our citizens, is the go-
liticai question of our times.
France Past and Present.
The bitterest enemies of Napoleon III.—
the Rochefort°, the Hugos, the Gambottao,
eto„ warned the French people over and
over again of the robtenneoe and venality of
hie government rested on 00 very frail props
art the year 1870 demonstrated that it did I'
It is past 17 years since the chronic
Bonapartist self -ambition has drained Franc&
sinews, and the Republic still lives, In
calamity, and under the humiliation of
defeat, the French spirit has grown chasten-
ed and wonderfully wirier, and what hot-
headedneas mads an impooeibility in the 18th
oentury the cooler judgment of the 19th
century has made a glorious reality.
What He Would Bay.
Of all places, they had gone to Sicily for
the honeymoon, and were promenading in
the aubnrbs of Catania. Presently the bride•
wife said
a (Think, Albert, if the brigands should
comp now and take me from you?"
"impossible, my dear."
"But suppose now they did come and
carry me away, what would you say?"
"1 should nay," replied the husband,
"that the brigands were new to their Mai -
nese, That's all."
Making the Best of it,
Such a pity it isn't a girl 1" said the elder-
ly and rloh maiden aunt as she looked re.
gretfully at the infant. "I have no name-
sake in your family, you know." Aunt
Minerva," exalaimod the poor relation eager.
ly, will
masculine na
rminatioand call
me with
ahim IS
nervous."
The skeletons of five prehistoric mound
builder° have been found in Iowa. This
proves that the prehistoric medical etudent
had very little room in his bank bffioe.
Among the latest projeote of blahs enter-
priding ase is a railway bhrough the Holy
Land. The undertaking oonvoye with it the
idea of deemration, and bide fair to deprive.
Palestine of ab least one of ile romantic fee.-
tura—difficult travelling through a oountry
that is aborootivo only for the sacred associ-
ations attaching to it. When the °meduotor
shouts "all aboard for Jericho or Jeruea-
tom " the traveller will reflect upon the
paeeonger rates, and determine from thorn,
whether or not he has fallen among thievosl,
There oan be little doubt, however, that the
appiication of eoienoa to the Holy Land will
popularize the dsairo to net ib, The Dealer
thepilgrnnoge to the ally of David the more
1 numerous the pilgrim Will bo,
