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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-9-6, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS. Hints About Rowboats, Rowing ie a jolly art, and a common one, and you may pick up so many finisbing pointe front the great professional oarsmen of our day that we will talk of nothing but ice rudimenta here. You know that every stroke ought to be taken with the back firm, the knees well apart, the elbows olose to the eidee, the feet braced and the oyes sot direct• ler forward (which ie really backward) and towaTde the stern. Throw the oar far back and take care that it dies not go deep, Nothing is worse tban to see an oar dipped deep and then tossed high ; it is ungraceful, unscientific, and a waste of force, A alight but firm depression of the wrists will make shore work of this radically bad habit. If the bled,. as it outs Ito way below, makes a line almost level with the ended of the water and very close to it, and on swing. Ing through the air back to poaition makes (mother close and nearly parallel line, that, whatever its modifications or extras, is the perfeetstroke. The pull oomee in the be. ginning of a stroke, but it must not be too much of a jerk. The oar's movement through the water, whether ie be Blow or swift, should always be longer than the oar's other move- ment through the air. And in all there must be no dawdling, no hurry, no splash. The college crews row after eeveral fashions ; and the beet proof that there is an equal choice of manner is that the viotory varies with the men, and that nobody knows, any year, what circumstance') will combine to give the lucky ones their lack. Feathering, whioh is jest scraping or tickling the water with the broad underside of the oar so that the ;pray files, is a luxury in rowing not to be tried save on smooth water when nobody is in a very great rush, But in a time of big waves or wind we have to try instead a quick etrong beat, steady as a cluck's tick, and leave our elegant acetate. pliehmente behind tie. Rowing, after all, is not the whole buei• nese, Boys and girls are not gcod marines who can only row. They should know how to manage every mood of their little Draft, to launch and moor her neatly and carefully, to steer without sailors' knots on her ropes and to keep her so trim and steady that, if necessary, they may move about even in rough weather sad change seats without a qualm in the boat'; nerves or their own. Where you have a redder the steering is a pleasant end delicate piece of work, where it pays to be attentive and to kelp a strict and all the time on that wayward fin be- neath you. A lax grasp, or a too nervous one, will bring on a bad attaok of the web. hies. Fishes who have their jokes, I sup. poee, must Laugh hard at the crazy zigzag tracks some boats leave on their blue high. way, A yacht, a shell, a canoe, and Even a rowboat is so clever and beautiful a thing that it deserves that yon should devote your whole intelligence to it end love it too much to play any foolhardy tricks with it. 11 we atudy this fine oroatnre, water, it is beet to master him outright; fax he leads no nut of our own country Into a foreign place where our very sport is perilous, and where + with mortality, truce is ever made or kr) ,wit notrp y So than there is immense pride and madam tion in knowing hew to keep cool,how to meet an emergency, and how to plan at once the campaign and its tactics—what to do, and when to do it, And the most precious knock of all, the top feather in a voyager'; cap, is swimming, which should be learned before. band, by right, and which alone can send ue abroad with clean bresets. Nothing but patience and constant practice will teach the thorough handling of a boat, No amount of devotion to rowing machines in gymnasiums will do it, though they help afterwnrde. The way to learn the workiege of a rowboat is to work in a rowboat. One rood recipe is a quiet river or lake where ecu mayhave a room seat apair of asy calooks, and a fair little ondola built of whitewood or cedar and dandified with omchions, nickel and brass naile. The other is an awkward scow, at hap•bezard on the sea, en a river like the Piecatcqua at Portemoutb, full of strange, powerful eddies and currents. If you have your choice of training placce it would be excusable and sensible ahonld yon prefer the inland ronte and the civilized wherry, whereas it would certainly be silly and wrong to hunt up a danger icr the fun of wrestling with it. But, es in real life ashore, those who have had to rough ityoung, to fight single-handed against a magnificent enemy, to them arrive the skill and the glory su.h aano mollycoddle amateur, will be, nill-he can attain. Rowing ie admirable exercise, end means strength to weak arms and breadth to narrow chests, and charities to leg; and abdomena as w ell. Above everything it brings firmness of nerve. A five•mile row is literally noth- ing at all, and a twenty five -mile one a poor thing to brag of especially if brerzeand tide are favorable. But be sorupnlouo to keep it np no longer than you can do so with absolute ease. When your shoulders droop and twist with the stroke, it i; time to play passenger and to give the oars to a mate. A parting word, which aught to be the opening one of every enterprise alive, is: Don't be afraid 1 Carry thin for your water Dread—that it is a difficult thing overturn a boat, and that if you eittgnare and steady and aob with brains your boat will do 00 too and that chiefly and finally—and it was a noble sailor, Sir Humphrey Gilberb, who — said it firet" Heaven Is ao near by sea by land.' Those of na who are not hanged, according to an agreeable proverb, maybe drowned yet; but don't dare to be afraid, again, even of that 1 Which le a very grim and farfetched piece of philosophy, but quite as aeriou0 as the rest, dear oongrega• tion, wherewith to end up this happy -go. easy sermon. BRIEF DESPATCHES. Burglaries continue aimed nightly in St. Thomes. Servian papore threaten an invasion of Bulgaria by the Servians. Judge W. M. Boswell died at Coburg yesterday in his 86th year. Richard Miller, Q. C , died at St Cabha• rings yesterday, aged 72, Mr, Daniel Clark, an old and reopeoted resident of Sarnia, is dead. The City of Parte has cul'her own record to 5 days 19 hours and 18 minutes. Detroit Seamen's Union has advanced woges from $1.75 to $2 per day. A mail nag was stolen from the trnok at Brookville station and rifled of ten registered Jotters. No olue, Charles Miller was found dead on kis wife's grave, at Reed City, Mioh, He had poisoned himself in a fit of despendenoy over the loo' of his wife. The otoamehip Parthiaraaohed Vancouver yesterday,thirteen days out from Yokohama, She had a large oonaignmene of silk for New York, which will reach its destination in twenty days from Yokohama. A vialtor• at Santa Cruz tried to swim in the surf. A wave WAS carrying him out to sea whoa three gine teamed him, Ho pro. anted mob. with a silk drops, TEE BRUSSELS POST. SEPT, 6, 1889. Being a Lamb, Montana Wool•Grower : About five min• uteri atter the lamb is born he is on hie feet, The unsteady aarth under him now heaves to the tight, surges np and than down, and it whirls and it twirls with him, while it staggers and ebrugglos, and twists one lop around the other like a vine around a tree ; or else he eproadu those members all out until they look like the Iorks under a weather vane. He tumbles down for the fiftieth time, and for the fiftieth time renews the fight to aware Mae footing in the great world from whioh only he oan reach the life. giving milk. Hie mother—partioularly if it as her first—In her crazy anxiety to help knocks him down, 'tape on him, and does— without leaving out a possible exoeption— everything she should not do, while she leaves nearly everything undone that might help the little fellow to get the desired nourishment. "Oh, the poor, dear little thing ; isn't it; too bad," says the sympathetic stranger. "Tho confounded pair of idiots!" freta the impatient shepherd, who does not oare to drive them until the lamb finds milk and "gets filled up." In half an hour kis milkoan is full ;his sides bulge out with a eorfeltof the pure article warranted to stand the most rigid teat for ad. mixture of water. And as the ebepherd urg. es the old ewe toward home, the lamb goes reeling and rolling along like an old tar just abhor° from a year's voyage. About the fine error the lamb makes in life le to mistake the ehepherd or his dog for its mother, and many are the manneuvers that mune be gond through with to make the new arrival follow the right party. Hie next error is likely to be ..n attempt) to walk on air when he comae to a place where he Mould go down hill. Hie ten minutes' ex- perience in life has made him helive that all the earth is a level plain, and in broad day light he steps off the top of a hill indite eereneiy as a men etepe off the top 'landing of the stairs in total darkness when he le cer- tain that the stairs are yet twenbyfsee away. The result is a great surprise to man and lamb in each iustahce. The lamb picks himself up and continues down the hill ; he soon comes to the oon- clueion that everything is down hill in this life, and not on a dead level. Upon getting to the foot of the hill, he still tries to con. tinue downward, and as a result runs hie nose into the ground and looks snrprleed again. He now comes to a place to get up hill and goes up just ea our man etarto to go up stairs in total(darkneas when he thinks the stairs are still twenty feet away. Our lamb is now getting very suspicions. He was pushed over and growled at for fol. lowing the dog when he thought it was hie mother; the shepherd kicked and abused him for following him ; he tumbled down hill when `te saw nothing unusual in the looks of the ground and op hill again Hader aimilar circumstances. In this frame of mind he comae to a shadow cad by a neigh- boring hill. This ia the most appalling thing he has yet aeon in life. He stands in the bright sunshine, Twelve inches ahead of him all the world ib black. How shall he get over that terrible line 1 It must be worse than going down hill or np hill, or running after a dog that growls or a man that kicks. It surely hooka mnoh more frightful than any of thane things. His mother is in the shadow and coaxes him to come along, but he will nob rink it, He elands on the edge and bawls at the top of his powers. The ehepherd, with hie big foot, comes to the raceme, and our poor lamb ie lifted from sun- light to shadow on the end of a No. 9 boots. He trots along after hie mother for a few yards and meets a new difficulty. This time it is from shadow to sunlight. Ib looks tough ; the situation seems to present no end of difficulties'. He walks aoroes the line with fear and trembling, only to find it very simple and may, and concludes that thio e are not so bad as they look. He has already begun to find out that things which teem easy in life lead often to disaster, and forbid. ding things often present no real danger. At this time he is about one hour old ; for a whole hour he has been moaning hie reepira• tive, circulative and locomotive powers ae an independent being, and bas become quite a lamb. Just at that instant a carriage drives rapidly along the road. His quick eye sees it ; he tbinkeperhapo it is his mother, and that she is running from danger. He strikes out after it, It le wonderful whab an hour has done for him in the way of develop. ment; he runs faster than the shepherd, faster than hie mother, and is in imminent danger of getting undar the horns' feet or the wheels of the carriage. Ib is here that the dog Domes in play, if he understands hie business. He rune up along. side of the lamb, pushes it over with his nose, jumps upon ib and holds it down upon the ground with hie nose nail the shepherd oomee up. The shepherd takes the lamb end stands it upon its feet so that it can see its mother, who has come up to within a few feet. He holds it until it twee its mother on a move and then Iota it go. The old ewe Hoke off the face of a sadder and wiser lamb —late him have another doge of liquid nour. ishment and together they go home, There le only one thing that is five hum dred times as funny and provoking by turns es a lamb, and that is five hundred lamba together when they are about a month old. The shepherd trite down and watches the five hundred lambs all in a bunch by them. selves, playing, running end rollicking, and laughs. When he has tried and tried in vain to got the same five hundred morose a bridge or corral, he sits down again, But ho does not laugh thin time. A young lamb has no way of telling whioh ewe is its mother, and the mother only knows which lamb is her own by the scent. Hence, while very young it is a bad plan to have too many together, for the owe may bo con- fused by so many lambs, or become partially indifferent, and the lamb pariah for want of care. When a few weeks old, however, they know euoh other by the sound of the voice. In a band of 2,000 or 3,000 ewe', a ewe may call her lamb the lamb will answer from the other aide of the flock. They will go ae etraigbt to each other, right through the whole band, as they would if they were the only two animals for a mile around. A Good Name, "Is your name Goodenough 1" asked the merry writer of a man on whom he waa calling. "Ibis," answered the man, with a look of surprise. r)1 Then I have a bit of paper for you," and he handed him a plaster. "That is not my name," said the man, " But you said your name was Good- enough." "So it is' said the man, as he prepared to alone the door ; " We good enough for me." Remelted;' Leary—I s'pose Ci'li have to put some kolnd of a sign on the ahtore av poor Mike Dinnle• The poor bye has left us, ye know, Cleary—He was a mimbor of the Cian•na• Gaol, Waen'b he 7 A Jersey City policeman having offered Leary—Faith he wee, his hand to a young lady, whioh waa refused, Cioary—Thin, begotten why don't yes ho arrested her, "What is the charge 1" make the ,fon rade 4,Cloned on aoaount av asked the Sergeant at the station house, 'removal t' — [Chicago America, " Resisting an offer, sir," waa tho reply," LATEST FROM EUROPE. A Point in Mrs. Ma)briok'o Favor—Sarah Bernhardt's Awful Experienoe — Gener- al Notes. An interest ue point with reference to the Home Scoretary'a deuis]on le the fad that tho limb suggestion of the poaition he baa adopt ed came from itis, Lswre1100 Mao, who wrote to the Secretary ten days ago a letter in whioh he put briefly and explicitly the point while Mrs Maybriok had evidently adminie• tered arsenic to her husband, hie death from arsenic was far from certain. Lawrence is an old friena or too rfomo Secretary, their intimacy dating back to days when they travelled together in the cironit, Sarah Bernhardt, who has eo wonderfully imperecaated death in all its phases, has just had a painful experience of its dread reality on the occasion of the fnaoral of her husband, M. Douala. A report was spread by the Rappel to the effect that when the body was carried down to the ground floor of the house the ecffi.a was found to bo too small, and it took and hour to make it large enough. Daring the operation, said tba report), the body was placed in an armchair, and Bern- hardt Lad the courage to support the head on her shoulder, the whole time. The sight) was blood curdling, and oreatod a cad impression upon those prteent. The Lord Mayor of London has invited the American artieane now making the tower of Europe to a banquet. Captain Widmann, commander of the German East African expedition, has march• ed from Dar•es•Saloam to Bagamoyo and has repeatedly repulsed bodies of notivee whioh he met along the Kingani River. A hurricane at Buenos Ayres has sunk many lighters and ieflioted conaidorable damage upon shipping and cargoes. Owing to the high price of cotton the Lancashire mill owners are arranging to work upon balf time, and frig expected that several mills will shortly close down to. gather. A deputation of citizens of Wrexham presented an address to Queen Victoria at that place. The Queen said she rejoiced in the Improvement of trade and prosperity among the Welch, with whom she heartily sympathized, There is no change in the London dock. men's strike. Conferences between repro• eentativeo of the strikers and of the employ era have proved futile. Tbe Commercial Doak Company declined to submit the matter to arbitration. Oily clerks have been employed to unload samples of new arrivals of tea. Dock Mares have declined one per amt. A despatch from Crete, whioh has been officially confirmed, says that there bas been a eharp ekirmiah between Turks and Cretan oo insurgents at Selation. g P One of the leading banks of Tarin has been closed, and the suspension of another is feared, the Bank of Naples having refused to grant iseistance. An anarchies named Pratt; has been ar- rested at Rome in connection with the re- cent throwing of a bomb from the Chamber of Deputies into the Piazza Colonna. A Millionaire Murderer, Net long ago the columns of the San An- tonio papura contained an account of the death by his own hand of Rinke, the German glaemaker who was arrested in that city lac t year for a cold•blooded murder committed in Germany. The arrest and extradition of Rinke created a greab oeneation at the time. After he bad been eurrendered by the United States authorities to the agenbof the German Government ho was taken to New York, but on the way jumped from the train on whioh ho was travelling and attempted to drown himself in,the river. He was reamed, how- ever, and finally returned to the fatherland to be tried for hie crime. He was immured in lei] at Gaeben, in the provinoe of Fronk - fort, but succeeded in ending his own llfe•by etrengling himself with stripe tern from kb blanket, and thus cheated the hangman. The murder for which Riscke was extra- dited waa a moot horrible and revolting one, and was oommittedfor thepnrpoce ofrobbery. Hie victim waa a well-to-do miller, who lived near Riscke. The body of the miller was concealed and his money taken by Riookeand his son who participated in the crime. They fled to thin country with their ill gotten wealth, and the eon has never yet boon captured. Rlacke 'rattled in San Antonio with his young daughter, who still resides here and purines hie bnaineoe as manufaot- urer of glue, He did a,good bushier/a, and is reported to have made much money. Since kb death in his prison call in far•off Germany &peculation has been rife an to what he did with the money obtained by the murder of the miller. He is (apposed to have buried it somewhere about San An- tonio, but the eeoret of ha hiding plod, is known to none save WE non and accomplice, The amount stolen from the miller waa equal to about $15,000 in American money, and was in gold and silver. Many attempts have been made on the quiet to gain some clue to where thio vast wealth ia concealed, but eo far they have proven vain. Ib 1. generally supposed he brought the money with him to San Antonio. lb is still some. whore about here, bub the question ia, where? When the particulars of hie crime were made known after his arrest ha was repeat- edly asked to tell what he had done with the money, but to all inquiries in this direct. tion he maintained a dogged and determined silence, and, ao for at leash as he la con - corned, his motet went with him to hie grave. If his eon is apprised of the place of concealment, he dare not divulge or make use of ib, for fear of falling into the meshes of the law himself. Digging ham been done in several pianos where the money wan dip - posed to be buried, but nothing has been found, Some day the pink or shovel of the laborer will open the secret hiding blotto and bring to light thio mine of wealth. Meantime more than one party is quietly prospecting, in the hope of running 'wrens the money. Help Wanted. Miss Crimple (to Clerk of Snake Creak House)—Will you planner/end the porter to our room, Mr, Blgatnd l: Clerk—Yee, maim ; anything wrong 1 Mica Crimple—Papa just shot a moequlto, and we would like Patrick to oarry it out,— Arrested for Cause, DEATHS FROM POISONING. Some Celebrated Enallsh Cases Called up by the Maybrlclt Trial. The Judge who presided at the Maybriok trial, SIr, James Fite James Stephen of the Queen's Bench Dlviaion of the High Cour of Justice, is ono of the most diatingulehed lawyers in Englaud. Twenty yenta ago, ae a member if the Viceroy's Council in India, he began tho preparation of a Code of Criminal Procedure for that country, whioh was subsequently adopted. 'itis work gain ed him considerable distinction, whioh hoe boon inoreaced by kb other writings on legal and social topics and by hie career as a Judge in reoent years. Among his more notable works, in addi• Hon to his Indian Code of Criminal Proem dere, aro a Digest of the Criminal Lew of England, a Digeeb of the Law of Evidence, and a History of the Criminal Law of Eng. land, in three volumes, In the last•namod work, whioh is by far the best treatise ever written on the subject, Mr, Judie() Stephen devotes a good deal of sped to the oonoid• oration of oases of murder by poisoning ; and nearly one hundred pages of the third vol. ume of the history are occupied by the re. porta of four celebrated cases of thia nature. It is evident, therefore, that the Judge before whom Mre. Maybriok has j)net been convicted has long taken a armlet interest in OASES OF 1I011110100 committed by means of poison, and eo far ao famine/By with the subject goes, there was probably no other person in England eo well qualified as be to preside over such a triol, It is considered very funny when one of the characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera of " The Mikado " propoees that some- body else shell be punished by immersion in boiling oil ; but the law of England once prescribed as savage a punishment aa this for murder by poisoning. By an aob passed in the reign of Henry VIII, it was provided that poisoning should be deemed trenson, and that any person convicted of the crime should be boiled to death. This enaotmeut grew out of an 000urrenoe iu the household of the Blebop of Rochester. A porridge was in course of preparation, and a nook named Roes throve poison into the compound. Two persona who ate of it; were killed and a large number of others were nearly killed, According to Pike's " History of Crime in England," Rase was publicly boflew to death at Smithfield. Sir James Stephen nye that three or four persona in all were boiled under this law, which, however, waa re• pealed in the time of Edward I. Tbe statute he says, " is remarkable as supplying the single instance in whioh death by torture has been authorized In England as a pnniah- ment for any offehoe except treason and heresy." The drab of the poisoning cases of whioh an account is given by Mr. Justice Stephen in his history ie that of John Dsnellan, whe was tried at bhe Warwick Assizes in 1781 for the murder of his brother•in•law, Sir Them dosiue Boughton, a young man of 20, who would have come into an estate of about $10,- 000 a yesr on attaining his ma]ori6y, Mrs, Donellan wife o ho , the w f t prisoner, would in. herit the gree ter part of this fortune upon the death of Sir Theodoeiue Boughton, unmarri• ed, The deoeased had been SIIFFERIT 0 FROM A SLIOIIT AILMENT, for whioh he was in the habit of taking medi- oine, but he had been out fishing an hour or two on the afternoon of the day prodding hie death. Early the next morning he melt- ed hie mother to give him hie medicine, and she handed him a bottle from a shelf in an outer room, to which other members of the household, including the prisoner, had free acmes. He took the draught, immediately complained of nausea, suffered from con. vulaione for about ten minutes then became quieter and disposed to sleep, and died shortly afterward, lathe mother immediate- ly conjectured that she had made some mit". take In regard to the medicine, and said so to Denellin. He (ken asked for rho physic bottle and rinsed it oub with water, The theory of the promotion was that laurel water waa TRE POISON ADMINISTERED, and Lady Boughton testified that the smell of laurel water reeembled,thab of the medicine which she bad handed to her son, The medical evidence against the prisoner woe given by four phyaioiant, one of them a pro. (eater ab Oxford, and they all agreed that the death of Sir Theodolite) Boughton waa caused by poison. To contradict their evidence the priaoner called the celebrated burgeon and physiologist, John Hunter, who testified in enbatanco that the symptoms were °eneietenb with those of epilepsyor apoplexy. The charge of the Judge, Mr. Justice Buller, was extremely unfavorable to the defendant, who wee convicted almost immediately, and was subsequently hanged. Sir James Stephen says tbab the conduct of the Judge and the verdict of the jury were warmly censured at the tune, and he ex pleated a doubt whether the priaoner would have been convicted at the preaent day, because the melba' evidence was nob nearly as strong as it might have been. He aeeme inclined to think, however, that the verdict was right. The next Daae bo that of William Palmer, who was a phyiloian practising at Rugeley and who wax triad for murdering a eperting man marred John Persons Cook, with whom he was on intimate terms, and wibh whom he had been involved in money brine. actions which created a strong motive on his part for deairing the death of Cook. The poison used woe auppeaed to have been anti• many end strychnine, administered by Palmer to Cook at various times while they were in company. Tho fist 000aelon waa daring the Shrewsbury raoae at the sitting room of the Raven Hotel, whore Cook complained that memo brandy and water which he had jobb been drinking. 1102211110 RIB ERROR' DRakrorn Lr, and told another friend that be thought Palmer had dosed him. The principal medi cal gnoetion In the ease wae whether death wee poutedby etryobnine or traumatic tetanus. Lord Campbell presided at the trial, which lasted twelve days, and Sir James Stepben hhneelf won present during the greater part of the procoedinge, The trial, he says, " made an impreeaion on my mind whioh the experience of bwenbyeix aubeequenb year', daring which I have wibeeaeed, studied and taken part in many important oases, hen rather strengthened than weakened, It 00 impoasiblo to give an adequate idea of the manner in whioh it exhibited In its very bad andhighest light the good side of Englisb criminal procedure. No more horrible villie,n then Palmer over stood in a dock. Tho prejudice against him was so strong that it was considered neeee. nary to pasean act of Porliamebb to authorize his trial in Leedom" If ho bed not been oonvloted and bonged for the murder of Cook ne would have been put upon trial for the murder of his wife and brother, end it was believed at the time (1856) that he had killed many o 00 parsons y po on. Tho third ease in the oolleotion of 51rJames Stephen is that of William Dove, The flower for tho beggar to wear when We hoar of African slaves being bound in who was tried at York in 1850, before (taking alms—"anomono?' Mer0000, lo not this a tittle too luxurious. Baron Bramwell, for poisoning bin wife by ooryohnino. The Devoe had lived unhappily together, and there was proof that the prieonar had threatened to kill kis wife, and among other things, had add "he would give her a pill that would do for her." Tbo defence was Insanity, and ono of tho medical witne000a ouggoeted that the prisoner had allowed hie mind to dwell on his wife's death eo long that; at last he boom -tea victim to an uncontrollable propeuaity to kill her. Thejary FOUND 11101 001LTY, but recommended him to mercy on b he ground of his defective Intolleot, Nob• withstanding this recommendation be was executed and Mr. Justice Sbeph on thinks that an acquittal on the ground of Insanity would have been wrong. Tho last of the oases whioh we have mem binned occurred in 1850. Thomas Smeth• horse was indicted for the murder of Isabella Banker), with whom he had gone through a sham ceremony of marriage. He lived with the deceased a few menthe, when oho boon= 111 and died, and Smothhurob was arrested upon a charge of having caused her death by administering poison. It appeared that the death of Mies Brenkoa would result in giving him a cum of money equal to mayoral thou- sand dollars, bub there was no evidenoe that ho was in pressing want of money al the time, Ono of the principal pointe against him wee that he had nob allowed any one but himself and the medical attendants to ace blies Rankers during her illneee. He ad. ministered food and medicine to her, and himself acted as her physician. The experts who were called for the proeeonlion testified that :tome irritant poison had been adminie• tered with the drugs which wore prescribed, and also that the postmortem APPEARANCES OF TIM BODY indicated that death had bean oauaed by some poisonous irritant, There was eon• eiderable testimony for the defendant, however, to tho effect that the symptoms were ineoneistenb with those which would be produced by poisoning and that death must have been due simply to disease, The prisoner waa convicted and sentenced to death, bub the Home Secretary subsequently advised the Queen to grant a pardon, upon the opinion of Sir Benjamin Brodie, the distinguished physician, that although the facts wore full of suspicion againeb Smith• hard, there was no aboolute and complete evidence of his guilt. The prisoner was pardoned, but was subsequently oonviotod of bigamy and suffered a year's imprison• mane for that crime. All of these coma are interesting, especially in view of the fact that they are eo promi- nently noticed in the principal work of the distinguished Judge before whom Mr. Maybriok has josh been tried. It is sum prieing to read that Sir James Stephen was booted by the crowd as he left the court ab Liverpool at the conclusion of the May• brick trial ; for the first reports of hie charge to the jury conveyed the impreeaion that it was extremely fair, and gave the prisoner the benefit of every doubt to which she was entitled by the evidence. Does it Pay to Live? "If any man oan tell mo how it pays to live I wrnb him to step right out and do it," said tho Rev. W. T, bfeloy of the first Unite ed Presbyterian church yesterday morning. He woe diseneainw the time•bonored ques• tion "Is Life Worth Living 1" and he ono. ceeded in drawing a very gloomy piotura of the value of mankind's presenoe m this vale of tears, "The sadden!) fad in the world," said ho, "ie the foot that we live. We aro placed here without our volition. We have no choice about the feet of existence. Good and evil, light anddarkneee, happiness and min er are blended in the kaleidoeoo a of life, and the darker colors invariably over• shadow the lighter ones. And yes, their is nothing to whioh the human race clings more tenaciously than to life, And ab the same time More is nothing that is treated with so little consideration as life. Men shorten its existence by crime, dissipation, and overwork, and when the structure whioh they have thus undermined begins to totter and fall they seek to prop it up with all aorto of unmatmral devices. "'Is life worth living 1' is not a question whether we will live or not, but simply re - elves itself into the all-aboorbing query: ' Daee it pay to live 7' This question must be determined by us, The question of ex- istence has been determined for tie. " From a worldly atandpoint life ie a com- plete failure. It is a game that must be played, but in whioh we are certain to lose, What is life 7 To breathe and then stop ; to work until the heart bleeds and the eye o'er flown with tears ; to gather wealth for whom we know nob and to leave it to whom we know nob, The things whioh men esteem most are those in whioh they are most din• appointed. The gifts of God aro what make life en- joyable, and he usually givoa more than we sBk. He does not give as relief from pain, but hegivee uo strength to bear our burdens. Life ie not a perfection, but simply a pre- paration for a better state, and it is this view alone that gives value to our exist. enoe•" Got the Start of the President. An Illinois postmaster has written a funny letter to Preaident Harrison. Ho be a Democrat, and without waiting to be turn- ed out quietly sent in his resignation, expreeding the following sentiments " While the off or) has agreed with me I have in the main agreed with the office, and while I might reasonably entertain the hope of holding on for eight months longer yet, I feel ie my duty to tender you my resignation. Being a Democrat, I have preaohed that " to the victors belong the polls." I feel disposed to practice that whioh I preach. lour immediate pred000a• nor hoped to build up his party by keeping the opposition in offioo. You are probably aware, if you are at all familiar with the vocabulary, of the true and tribe saying that bis aano is now ' Dennis,' I am moved, further, to tender you my resignation, became of the anxiety of a barnyard lull of patriots to succeed me. I believe that a tariff ie a tax. They do not. Therefore, they are of your ovttn kith and kindred, and he who providoa nob for his own house, hold le words than an infidel, 1 am told that you are bnlib thee way." If anyone wonders how so witty a man hid himself away in a country poelmastership lb is anifiaienb to know that by profession, he is a newspaper editor, who took a respite from duty for four years, and now returns willingly to the teak of moulding publlo opinion. The Congo district appears to be develop. ing as a producer of tobacco. Brtinsels toba000niats nay that its leaves are remark- ably well adapted for cigars, being of ex• cedingly good flavor and very supple, The flower for people easily sold by honey- tongued oneytongued epeoulatare—waa: plant. THE NEW YORK AQDEDUOT Itis Thirty Mlles Tong end Will Cant Abend!'. $15,000.000, The now aqueduct whleh 18 to supply New York of tho future with water la a tunnel of thirty miles long, out) through oolld rook, and large enough for the possage of a brain of oars, nye the New York Mail aecd Ere. press, Ib will be completed at the and of the year, and will give New York as nota. hie a marvel of engineering skill as the Brooklyn bridge and will command with that vast etrmoturo the attention of soiontifio tourists and etudeate for many years. Ib is nob at all likely indeed, that it will bo ri- valed in magnitude during the century or the next half, Ib would eurpriee a good many people to know that ab this very moment Now York's water supply is totally inadequate. 1b ful- fills the domande of furnishing houses, hotels, and work -,hope with water, butIf a great conflagration were to suddenly visit the city, and with the wind blowing steadily in the right dlreotion, the city would be swept as olean as were Boston and Chicago. The fire oommioaioners know, and have known for some time, of the inadequacy of the water supply, and on more than one 000aaion they have found that their firemen have boon un- able to cope with the flamea and oxtinquioh them ae easily as might have been done if the 'supply of water had been greater, The new aqueduob will remedy this evil and will give to Gotham all the water that the present city needs, with sufficient force and power to extinguish any conflagration, and it will In addition to thab supply all the needs for the Doming great city, In more ways than one this new aqueduct; is a very remarkable piece of work. It is known, of course, by most people that all the water that comes into Now York le from the Croton river, but the big Croton dam, itself a marvolouo work, by no means retains all the water of thab river, To secure a fall supply a system of new dams has boon de- vised and is embraced in the now aqueduct scheme. Ono of these, Sodom dam, is intend- ed to °atoh and store the water of the eaeb branch of the Groton, holding is for use when required. The Mascot dam takes the water above the level of the Croton dam and stores it, to be fed to the lower or main reservoir as needed. That; work is now in progress. This dam involves the expenditure of a vast sum of money, Ic is estimated tbab the land it will submerge alone will cost $10,000,000. It will require a number of years to build ib, but when it is completed New Yorkers will have the satisfaction of knowing bhab it le the greatest dam in the world. The engineers who are at work upon this aqueduct aro lovel•hoaded men who will tell you, if you oak them what they are doing, that they ore simply making a tunnel 30 miles in extent, with a motional area of 155e fees. This is room enough for an ordinary Mein of cars to pass through. The aqueducn, as visitors to the city can leo from the oar window, traverses a broken country, over lofty bills, down deep valleys, then diving in broad rivers, and most of the way cat in solid rook, tho depth under the surface be. ing 150 feet. Exoopb where it is carried under water -courses it maintains aerfectl P Y regular though alightly descending grade, and will deliver its vast river of water ab the highest elevation on Manhattan hill, giving a bead for distribution which will carry 11 to the top of an eight-otory build. in he work on the aqueduct waa begun in March, 1885, and the oot"b in money has been something like $12,000,000. 1t would be well, indeed, if thiowere all the coeb,but, as in all greab engineering works, there has been a very largo sacrifice of life and limb. Nearly 100 men have paid the penalty of their lives and 150 more have been set lonely wounded. One of the moat notable pieces ofengineer- ing n ins - er Pg inwork on the t voduot is the uroeeia of the Harlem river, gThe old or present aque- duct crones on the High bridge ab an ele- vation of 120 feet above mean water. The new rqueducb, however, pastes under the bed of the river ab a depth of 225 feet, or nearly twice as far below the ,water as the present aqueduct is above it. The greab depth is much more than was originally con- templated, bub ib was toned necessary be- came of the discovery of a fissure in the rook underlying the river. This fi&Eure was found to be twelve feet in width neer the bottom of the river, bub gradually narrowed until it was lost ab the depth at whioh bhe tunnel wae finally located. It may interest our readers further to know that the tunnel ie to be lined with brick from and to and, and at the oroming of rivers ie additionally otrengbhened by iron tubing. Ib passes under rho Harlem in the form of an inverted siphon or letter V, and will, of course, bo subjected to immense strain at its lower angle, but he engineers are doubling the thiokneas of the brick lining, and by the addition of the iron gibing already spoken of hope to meet the strain and maks bhe tunnel solid and substantial. Another troublesemo feature of the sgmeduot that the engineers encountered was a body of quick- sand a little distance above the Harlem river. When etrnok 11 ran through the tunnel with pooh force and rapidity that the workmen barely escaped with their lives, ' running at their utatost speed. It filled the tunnel beck to the ahaft ani necessitated months of work to pub ib righb again. Five hundred thousand dollar was expended in seeking to overcome that troublesome en- counter before rho enginoera were finally re- lieved by the extra shaft. When the Brooklyn bridge was begun it W00 estimated thab $7,000,000 (would eom• plete the work, bub 815,000,000 was amend' expended. Haw much this new 'goaded is going to cost no one can tell. Ib seams to be good for $3,000,000 more, making the aggregate cost about $18,000,000. Big Ocean Flyers. Three ocean steamships bit Liverpool for New York at the same hanr on Tuesday— the City of New York, the City of Rome, and the Teutonic. Independent of the faob that the latter is making her first trip, a special intereab abtaohes to her as she has not only been built for the ordinary purpooea of oommecee, but is also adapted to naval uses as a °rumor. Tbe Teutonic, as well as her stator veeael the Majestic, has a length of 582 feet, making theme ships the largest afloat; and although they parry no guns, platforms aro in plane ao that; they oan be quickly transformed from peaceful traders to war -Mips. Their tonnage la 10,000 bona saoh; the material used in their °enabruobien in stool, end they are expeobed, wibh the im- provemonte in their propelling power, to develop marvellous opood,—[Philadelphia Record. One Thing in His favor, Jones (the gardener, whose eon is office boy in the pity office)—" Well, sir, I hope yon like my eon John. I hope he gives yon satisfaction." Master—" Oh, I expeob he'll gob on presently, Where's one thing in his favor; he doesn't snore ae loudly as my lamb cno."