HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-1-10, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST.
EOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
,SWEETNESS IN WOMEN,
"Selene," in the Baltimore "American,"
writing of the attraotiveneae of women, oom-
Pares them to flowers, Those that have
beauty mud mind, well cultivated, aro like
the flowers with beauty and itearenea—they
are never wading sources of delight, O:here.
axe fair bo look upon, but a close Inspeobion
disoovere a thorn, The third kind are like
the homely wall 5 1wor, ue1lher handsome
nor graceful, bad oo full of eweethese tat to
be near then: la joy inexpreutiblo. So many
girls, who aro brought] up with the know.
ledge that they ere gifted with forms aid
hoes of unusual loveliness, depend too
much upon those advantages for their ata
ossa in life. They never realize the necessity
of applying themselves bo the acquisition of
knowledge; they grow to womanhood with
meagre education, no a000mpllahments and
a much exaggerated opinion of their oharma.
The result lathat they enjoy only for a brief
time the prestige for whioh they aro So
ambitious.
Same of the pleihoa women I ever knew
were tho greateet 1avoritee. Their- pregame
in a room was the signal for good-humored
enjoyment. Time never flagged when they
were of the peaty. Toe lack of mere fade!
symmetry WAS forgotten when under the
epell of their genial infiaenoe, It it nob no.
venal to see a handsome men wedded to a
homely woman. We have all heard, and,
perhaps, made the remark, "Why, what die
Snob a good looking man over see in that
woman to love 1' We are thinking of only
the outside appearance, when, in troth, the
ehaeaoter of ouch a woman may bo ao lonely
and attractive to those who know her tb st
none would have ber different if they could,
It le a great pity when a girl allows herself
to grow discontented and unhappy about het
lecke. When this le the ease it Is time for
her to heed the fairy's warning and shun the
mirror by thinking lees of appearances and
more o.: other things.
11HE MANAGEMENT OF PETrtOiEDM LATlra.
In view of the numerous fatal and other
aooidents caused by petroleum lamps, the
following suggestions as to the oonetruotion
and management of such lamps have been
made by Sir Fredertok Abel and Mr. Boyer -
ton Redwood, chemist of the Petroleum As-
eociation, after tavestigeting the manses of
lamp accidents:
1, Tbat portion of the wiok whioh is in
the oil reservoir ehoald be enclosed in a tube
of thin sheet metal, open ab the bottom, or
In a cylinder of Sae wire game, enoh as is
need in miners safety lamps (2e meshes to
an inch).
f. The oil reservoir should be of metal
rather than of china or glass.
S.• The oil reservoir should have no fend•
ing-plaoe nor opening other than the opening
into whioh the upper part of the lamp is
screwed.
4. Every lamp ehoald have a proper ex•
tirgaishing apparatne.
5 Every lamp shculd have a broad and
heavy base.
6. Wioke should be eat and nos tightly
plaited.
7. Wicks should be dried at the fire be
lore being put Into lamps.
8. Wicks should be only just long enough
to reach the bottom of tho oil reearvotr,
9. Wicks ehould be so wide that they.
quite fill the wiok holder withoub having to
be eque, zed Into ib.
10. Wioko thoald be soaked with oil be-
fore be{nglib,
11. The rrservo{r should be quite filled
with oil every time before uaiog the lamp.
12 The lamp should be kepb thoroughly
clean, and oil should be carefully wiped off,
-ad wick and dirt removed bs
and all ante,. .._ ... . .. .
fore lighting,
14 Syhea tie lamp is lib the wick ehettu
be at firth turned down and then slowly
ea acct.
14. Lampe whioh have no cx'hagriahing'
apparatus should be pub ooh As follows:
The wick ehoald be turned down until them]
is only a small, flickering time, and a sharp
puff of breath Should be rent soros the top
of the chimney, but nob down it.
15, Oars or bottles need for oil should be
free from water sod dirt, and should bo
kept thoroughly closed.
ROSE THORNE'S ONE POEM.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, the author of
"(urfew Must Not Ring Tonight," is naw
living in the South for the benefit of her
husband's health, but, as her own health
suffers there, they think of making Southern
California their future home Sloe to now a'
woman of 39, and she wrote the well known
vanes when abe was under 17. Alt she got
for them was a letter of thanks from the
editor of the Detroit newspaper to whom she
sent the linea. She is a native of Indiana
and passed her childhood In great poverty,
She says:—"01 all dull, prosaic lives mine
-was the dullest and most prosaic," Wbon
she wrote "Curfew" the had no ednoation
and no knowledge of books, though she after.
wards applied herself to them, and became
a eohool teacher. Bab even during hor early
married life it watt more Important to her
reputation emote her 'tteighbothe that oho
should "keep houao" in sppraved faah.on
than that ebe should write woll, and she re-
marks . Until the year 1850I was laundry.
maid, cook, noamgbrees, and aurae for my
children. This experlenoe reoalts the story
of Mrs. George Ripley, to whom enepended
Harvard andante used to go to bo coached,
Some ono is said to have once foundher
listening abthe sametime to one boy who
was reciting Greek and another who was
demonstrating proposition in anal tics
a g a P to p y,
while she shelled pens and rooked the baby 0
cradle with her foots
A CHRISTMAS PARTY,
"We are to bave a big family party at
our house Christmas Day. W tab shall I do
With all the children and mammas after
dinner 1 There will be a grandmamma and
two grandpa,, 'six mammas and papas with
fifteen children of all ages, two babies—of
coarse they will nob oome to the table or
need to he amused -five oosaine and two
unmarried aunts. Now, how in the world
am I to Amnee them all? I can get along
all right ab dinner, bob eve are to have en
old•taehloned dunner at 1.30, and the guests
Will stay and have a good vislt afterward."
Tho apoaker, a young married woman
who had lately mood into a pretty, new
house, WAS bo do the Christmas hospitality
for the first btme, and It looked like a 001te-
what formidable undertaking, as lb certainly
was for a young housekeeper.
"What oan I do that will AMMO the
grandpas as well ao the little 'osteine and
keep the latter from breaking up my probity
brick•a•brae and sorptohing my new furul-
titre/ livery ane says 'play games'; but I
done) know any real Ohristmas games, do
you?"
After a little thought among a oounoil of
friends, the game of "Sante Claus" WAS
proposed, whioh isgamewhat like the mon
of "donkey." A large Salta 'Clave is out'
out of paper; the head, arms, lege, hando
and Poet 000 dlamomborod, a polos elven to
each member of the family; the hoadleas,
armless and legleta body le fastened against
the wall or a meet ;then cob pereen, grand•
pas,cn turn blit papas,
f lded and allowed to With
their edema where he or aha thinks ib should
go, This, of mimeo, makes a great deal el
ten, for when Santa Claus is pieced together
a leg is where an arm should be and aha eye
Is on the end of hie boob and the other per-
haps on the top of blo heed, Piizle can be
given in the gamo and forfeits paid.
TERMS 1'70T IN TILE D1oy'IONARY,
Some of tate phrases need in droremaking
are perfect Greek to the unknowing,so I add
a short list of the words end theirmoauings.
An apron es any sort of a draped skirt front
a tablier ie a fiat undraped eklrt trout; afull
back mate a tbraight bash to the skirt
gathered in two or more reeve ab the top ; e
panel is a ebraighb piece for the front or sides,
get in between a trimming of some kind to
ocovey the idea of an inlay; aSpanieh-fiounce
is one reaching from the knees down, and
gathered to form an erect ) ufile. Katie plant
ars very narrow ride ploate, end accordion
pleats are still narrower end preened in shape
by machinery ; kilt pleats are those turned
ono way, and box pleats have a fold to the
right tide and one to the, left; dcuble and
triple box pleats have two or three folds- on
either side ; a "kilt" means a skirt entirely
of kilt ploate, A "drop" rkirb is one of the
dram material made up independcub of the
lining and then hung or dropped over it from
the same bolt. .a border ea any trimming
put on the edge or just above ib, Armnre
silk hats a bile's eye or diaper weave; faille
Francaise has A nib card ; moire has water
waves over iia seance ; trtootrine 10 some-
times celled armure surab from Its lines of
bird's eye weaving; aurah has almost invis-
ible cords and to very sof b,—lDrosmber
Ladies' Home Journal.
An Improbable Story.
"A Rupubtio Ahead,'' "That seems the
near prospect for the Kingdom of Great
Britain," •' When Parllamenb mantras into
the Regent Sb. Evil, the Throne will totter."
Such are the startling beadlineo of an ex
oeediogly sereational letter in the New
York "World" by its London correspondent.
The letter, which is very lengthy, deals
with the notorious "West End Scandals,'
whioh are exciting the minds of the Eeglieb
people ao greatly ab present. It gine te
deeariptlon of the personal appearance, social
seethe, domestic relations, habits, cfewiel
position and fortunes of some of the most
prominentpartfes connected with the scan.
dale, It prefeeses that the correspondent
is fn poesesaion cf certain impartanb feats
relating to the oondnob of the anbhoritiee
when fireb they were made aware of the
existence of the disreputable house on
Regent So. These tanto are not oompli-
menhary to the (Maws of the law who are
represented as delaying action, and in other
ways helping the chief criminals to avoid
arrest, Ib asserts thub, owing to the con-
nection thab erten army and royalty have
with the soendala, there is a very wide .spread
feeling of revulaiou ageinab the Foment
order of things, and thee a republic le freely
talked of. I; says :—"No ono not actually
In the BoItish Kingdom just now ono
appreciate the enormous present and
probable polttioal effect of tho develop
menta to 'the Weeb End mandate,' as thea
are called. 10 fe the almost nnteereal ex
pret'sion thab they may, and probebisq will,
result in upsetting nog only royalty in the
Kingdom, but the rule of the privileged
Moss ae well—in other words, that they
will end in bringing about, and that speedily,
a republio upon the mina of the prose, ,••
monarchy and Houn of Leeau. Tho foot
thee Ptillee esiberb Victor, eldest son of the
Ninth of Wales, and, therefore heir to the
tsritlell throne, is connected with these seta,•
dais either personally or oriminally, as is
freely charged, or, 0e re cffieiaily admitted,
e;• the commotion with them of his intimate
fretode of course makes their politloal deem{
the moat momentetlr, Teu the or'ii"ton01
remetinally ovaea t"uctt3hbful man in the
Kingdom that, when the scandals are fully
inquired into by Parliament and all the
frightful details become publlo property,
either Prince Albert Viotor will be deprived
of the ,accession—a proceeding almost im
possible to conjecture—or that Queen Vic
coria will be tf Bully declared the last
monarch of Groat Britian—that a republic
will immediately autocue upon her death."
Hera to news for Canadians, certainly.
It is not likely however, than our Imagina.
tive correspondent will auocoed in persuade
ing her Majesty's anbjeate on this aide the
wuter that the threatened danger to very
near, or that such on event is among the
{mmeliato probabilities. Thsro are several
things whioh render lb extremely doubtful,
First, it is unreasonebio to ouppoae thee the
innocent should easier for the guilty
Though rumor lac contacted many names of
those belonging to the aristocracy, only one
royal parson is bhuo far known to have been
involved,.and.he in nob a decidedly criminal
manner. Then the English nation is too
conservative to be moved to suet extreme
measures in at hour. Their prosperity has
boon eo great, and their blcsaingc go numer•
ono under the pro0eet oonotitution that they
will'heoltate long before moving for any
Menge. .Besides, the proposed ogre would
no; onto at all; bat would only make
mabtere worse, This is nob a oaeo for the
trainer of national oonstieueloos bue for the
preachers of . righteoneno a ,and ptitity,
Whet they Wean in England; antics ,eotally
in the " Weab End," to nob a. ohnnge: of
political hood but, a- change of moral
affection and of heart—aob a naw Order
of things withoub, but a . moral. rono,
Mien and purgation within: Therefore,
believing that the leaders of; the English
people are suffiolently clear-headed to .see
that, after they had 'oleansed their notional:
hoists of royalty, they would still be u.ider
the neoeseity of purging away the moral
impurities, whioh by the po€Itical pr000en
had remained untouched ; and" believing
that they have a odaolenbly keen sense of,
jdatioe And fair play nob to punish ,the
innooenb beoaune of the eine of theguilty.;
and furthermore, believing that the English.
manal leveler the present form of, govern-
ment—a love that has been deepening . and
etrengtheuing for centurion—is not to be
destroyed by the eoandaloua eonduob of a
few more oibizons oven though exalted,
and near the throne, we Oanadiant
must have stronger aesuran0e, of the re•
volubtonery pnrpose,of our fathers than thab
afforded by the correspondent of the taw
York "World," whose imagination, lb 10
feared, has become unduly developed, and
Whom preferences have led him to misinter-
pret the signs of the fumes, and 16 exagger-
ate the indignant expressions of there old.
dens who aro grieved for their oeunbr 'p fair
fame. "England hawgone republic"IS an
ann0unaomeab, which ur crrespondent,
however much he might desire, €b not likely
ever to hoar.
Mammo (at the doll ooenborj—"Now,
Finale doer, hero le a very largo aseortmonb
to goleob from. What kind of a dolly would
you like to crave l' Pilossio--"Twins, mono -
100, ifyoa ploese,"
JAN, 10, 1890,
.. vlasttsurtvlrtawl
AN AMMAN POTENTATE.
0uee Deposed but Kew Agalri on Ore
Throne,
The youthful King of Uganda who fifteen
months ago wan deposed front the throne
again ab the heed of affairs in his famous
country on the shores of Viotoria Nyarze.
The olraumatauoes that have brought about
tho restoration al Mwanga are likely to
make that evenb a turning point in the
affairs of Central Africa. In a moth anex-
pootod manner an opportunity has arisen to
re-eetabl!eh Otuoaaian irfiaeacos upon ablirm
basis in the great lake region which, with
the fall of Emin, seemed to be wholly abut•
doned onoo more to barberfam and the reeve
dealer.
Mwanga for many months had lived upon
the bounty of the Chrfotian mi0gionarios on
the tcu%kern shores of Victoria Nyerza, He
had Men dependent upon the charity cf the
teachers whim he had eo ehamstully misused
many of whose oonverts he bad
EVENED AT THE STARE,
Eh has now regained his kingdom wi.h the
aid of the native CbtietIans of Uganda, who
fomented a revolt against Arab domination
end King Materna, the brother of Mwanga,
who was placed on the throne by the Arabs.
The new revolution has been a bloody one
for Kelems and his Arab allist have fought
hard ; but Mwanga, backed by the anti.
.grab party in Uganda, and powerfully aid-
ed by the rams and ammnuitioneupplied by
the white trader Stokoo, has won the day ;
and while his army wee on an island within
eight of hie old capital pad ready for the
final attaok, he wrote bo the Protectant and
Roman Catholic miesloneriee Ah the south
cod of the lake, saying he would soon bo
Ring again and begging them to return to
Uganda and resume their work
"You will be ab liberty to do whatever
you like," he wrote to Mr. Maokay in June
lest. "Do not imagine that Mwanga will
become bad again. If you find me bad then
you may drive me from the bhrono; but I
0000 given up my former ways and I only
wish cow to fellow your advioft." Three
missionaries were preparing In July to
rattan to Uganda, A brief deapatoh from
Zanzibar now announces the final triumph
of Mwanga,
This is the present situation. The lying
Arab traders, who at bottom are reeponaible
for the metier of Hannington ['and all the
reverses of the whites, are now cutouts
themselves, and the missionaries are return-
ing bo Uganda. The pleb record of Mwanga
AFFORDS NO GUARANTEE
of hie future faithfulness, bub eelf•interesb
le likely to bind him to bho whites, for thin
eventful year has shown him that the Arab]
sought and achieved his downfall, while
the whites were his friends in adverefby,
and their aid and chat cf their native con
verbs were potent factors i,a restoring him to
the throne.
Meanwhile the Brltith East African Com-
pany are taking steps to stare their railroad
from Mombasa toward Victoria Nyoozc,
They have already extended their influence
far inlan3. Stanley says the railroad meet
be built. "I only with now to fellow your
advice,' writes Mwanga and Mackay. ''0ar
advice to Mwanga," writes Mackay, "wet
that * " * hie tomb poliey would bo to
come to some agreement with the Britieb
Bob African Company, which would pro•
table, be able to old him." There is no
doubt thee Uganda fe the floel this oom
paay have before them, and they have every
;;,aeon to redouble their efforts to reach
1t %Ali flet be passing strange if, after all,
fair U;ande proves to be the centre from
whioh the reqs of nlwil'z Mon Shall be the'
abroad over Central Africa, the vantage
ground from whioh Emin's provinoe will
tomo day be reclaimed, and a perpetual
memo to the despot of Khartoum until
Mabdism is overthrown and the Nile is
again opened to the world.
The Greet Perth Eridf,ae.
It has boon described too often, and the'.
literature of the mthjeot, what with napalm
adders and papers in the proceedings of
scientific societies, not only. English, bat for
sign, has already grown bo alarming dime.
alone. Beeidee, when Mr. Baker himself has
g100n mere than one account of the wonder.
fat otruoture whioh his engineering.genlus
planned, and his petionee, aided by. the
mechanical genius of Mr. Areol, hes now all
but exeonted, 11 is ea well for outsiders to
leave him to ',peak. Lett mo here merely jot
down one or two personal impressions. For
one thing I must confess to feeling that a
close view of the bridge le aomewhab die.
appointing. Its vaotoses is so complete and
symmetrical throughout that one bails be
Mem it. Even the Deveatation, as ebe lies
moored obese to the Inobgarvie pier, 000008
ly helps to furnish an adequate measuring
daft The great shill theme dwarfed to 'e
ooakboab and leavea the bridge no larger
than before.
The best idea of the size of'the .otruotura
is obtained from a oenstderabte distant,
Seen from the trace at ib glideo down the
elcpoo of the Pentlanpo into Prinoee;Stroot.
Station, or from near' Ratho' on 'bbe' Edin
burgh and Glasgow line, or, again, from the
deck of the ferry eteamOr ee'she .:Grasset the
Horth beewebh Granton Mod Surnbigland,
the greet steel bowers appear to eon. aloft,
tar ab6v6Lk ,tope :of"the nob apconeldot,'
able Mlle t y whioh they are eattounded,
Ool once d{d theorem of the bald as
y go a.
wbo1a-tbore is no gelation that the 'Size
pf the individual tu0mberoto envie enough;
—impretie itself forcibly' on my eye.
Comigg dont of bho-Qeeenaferry
,Station, ation,
the holo length of the aanro is full. in'
vis nom anion and myself stopped
w. My p y Koppp d
end questioned why no one was visible.
and what was the reason .thab work bad
been suspended. As we gob nearer we
found that everything WAS in full 'eyeing,
workmen were clustered thick as Mee all
gong the extremities of the cantilevers, bub
blow Mee were so smell that they had been
invisible, When breina come to pane over
the bridge they : will afford a oonvenient
moans of comparative moasuromenb Moan.
while there. is nothing mono instructive than
a study of a lerge•elend model whioh hag
been emoted in the penmen Shop in the
Queensferry Yard.. The girders that carry
the rails are there seen to bear about the
game rotation to the cantilevers whioh carry
the weight of the denture thud that a
Straw bears bo a stoat walking Mich,
lf&urtay'e Magazine,
On nitEN SAUTE Ann Ovoren8.-- Singe,
draw and cot up the ohiokone es for stewing.
Dust each piece with salt and pepper and
then roll in flout. Ideve reedy a sauto pan
containing four or five tablespoonfuls of hot
herd; pub the ohlokens lu and fry until' a
light' brown, Dleh the ohieken, flout the
Witten the pan, and into fhb: same pan
throw three Seton oysters thee have been
drained free ftoin liquor, add two On000l of
butter, fait, and pepper and a gill of Oak
oreem, bring to a boiling pelat, pour over
the clrfoken and terve with equator of fried
bread atound the dlolt
GENERAL NEWS,
(Jonsbantinople bee a real German turn -
mamba whioh oolebratod loth month its
ewentleth birthday,
.A proposal le powerfully anpported before
the laitish Pose Otfioe for clumping the
place for embarking and heeding the
American maths or pasaoegors from Quante
town to Holyhead.
Baron Hammen. In hie oevantieth year,
is to write hie memoirs. He was ono of the
moth autism members of Napoleon I10,
surroundinge, and his revelOtiOne should be
peculiarly tutoro01nm
The two principal prizes In tandeeepes
given to the Royal Academy otudente have
been taken by women, and a third ferrate
student carried off a pr'03 of :650 for a dem.
retitle design in water dolor. Who work of
the male students was still very good.
Thera ere three Roman Oatholfo and
eight Protestant missions In the Coupe
tertlbory. They support Owenby•olgbb ova.
tions and ninotyfive missionaries, The Pro•
teeteub mistime are supported by Amorl-
oaae, English, and Swedes,
Daring the recent floods in Japan 2,419
persons were killed and 155 were wounded :.
90,0_0 were deprived of the necessaries of
life; 50,00D houses were swops away or
rendered uninhabitable ; 150,100 aores of
agricultural lend with their crepe were laid
waste ; 6 000 bridges were carried away,
and hundreds of wilco of roads were des.
troyod,
The continued trials of the British torpedo
boats of the Rattlesnake cleat point to failure
—too mush power for the hulls to stand
They ere of 752 tone displaoemenb, and their
engines aro ountrsoted to indicate 4,600 hoes
power. The last to be tested, the Seagull,
nearlyjehoak herself to piecoa with A develop.
meat o! 3,133 horse power, sud had to be
sent to the dook for repairs.
The question whether the friends of a man
with an unfaithful wife should give him a
hint of hot conduct or loam:hint in ignorance
bats ab length become the subjeob of legal
consideration. The precedent established
inosines againab any revelations to the has.
band. Some ;yearn ago ea, do Verneuil, a
watohmaker, wan informed by a couple
nomad D:emeron thab his wife was "carrying
on" with a member of the "Cirque d' River,"
named Brelle, The Damorons further told
him that Madame Verneuil would meet
Brous that night at tho Wren door and they
urged him to go and see for himself, and in-
tlamed him with wine and also provided him
with a dagger. Whenheaotuaity saw Brelle
with his wife he rushed upon them and kill
ad the lover with a stab in the breach, and
seriously wounded his wife. , The Braila
family aced Verneuil and the latter was con.
demnod to pay 3 000 franoe. Then the Brellee
carried the war into the Dameron camp and
the case be jusb been Bottled, The latter
are sentetosd bo pay 1,000 francs to the
family of "their victim," It was ruled that
the faob of revealing to a hatband the rale
ooaduot of bis wife did not in itself render
the informer reepenaiblo for what might o0
our subsequently, but that if efforts were
nada to excite the injured man bo revenge,
end if assistance were given him into the
bargain, that wee a d Betroth matter. If,
therefore, the disagreeable revelation in sim-
ply eonfiaod bo a friendly warning the in-
former will nob be regarded as responsible
for the result; if, however, any remarks
oaloulatod tolead to a breach of the peace
ere ridded, he math Abide else Qemsequenacs,
The Earth Getting Larger.
The American Geoiogiab says : "The
earth, traveling in Ito orbit abound the cue
and onward with the entire solar system
around' some uukhnwn and ogle greater
oentre of abbraobion, le oonaoaubiy traverstog
new regions of spans, whioh ib depletes of
mttteerke deep r:p ,.ineo0oribe8, thus steed( y
ao matter how slowly—lnereallibg in
diameter Now leb tine growth continue till
the earth has jusb twice the ainractive power
whioh it now poseasaeo ; we would then have.
Mies the number of metooribse and double
the quantity of duet manually upon it then
now. Fortunately for oar heads the earth
has not es yob very formidable dimensions,
huh we may look upon it as An established
hob that it oonstantly gains in weight, and
that in proportion to such gain Ito abbraobive
power steadily iucreacos. The attractive.
force of the eon is eo enormous that a
perpetual hail of meteorites and %torrent of
club particles must rush upon it from all
directions, andsomeof the forename] cheer.
vers are now of opinion that there falling
bodies are the cause. of the can's heat: In
the light of this theory our earth is a young
and growing, nob an old and dying planet, a
planeb with a future,: whioh ought to be'
cheerful news•to,allof us, although we shall
nob live to reap the benefit of €b ; and the.
sun, far from being' on eta lase legs as an
opting luminary,; is steadily gaining in
heab and rlighbing capacity, . •
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Canadian. Military League.
The Canadian `llfilitary League' ie the,
'name of baceof the moat recent of en' tile, rapidly
awellinglisb of o'organizatione and aggo-
ofationa. Ib ioprosided osier;'by? {eu6,•1701,
the Rion, J.. DI. Glbson,.11atnilbou, who has
aasootated,with him es 1th. aid,2advies
eresidohts,Lleu0 -datonelAndereon, Ottawa
and, Major Deletnere, Toronto. The exmou"
hive iii oomposed of military tepreseneatlyot
from all ,the provitiool of the'D'aminien. A
Mauler lotber bat been addressed to We com-
manding 'otlicer 'of molt ban:ellen, betbleg
forbb the object of the League .aud,givinghano
ih cbiedit one and by1d s T
n l ne�of i
ori s W.•
gbleob as' stated be'be 'rto enonursge.rifle
praotioe, and'to enooitrage the dld'ehote to
teach the young, and aloe to make 16 an ob••
jeob bo attend precbioo." Ib was pgrobd that
the beet method -4 ethotaPliehine this objeob
lett: have a settee of nix or tiOvet nsabthee
whioh will take 'place during the early
months of the season, 00 as hot to interfere
with the fall metates : Ib .bag been found
that withoub the stimulation of pr)zee to
oompeto for, the '.ordinary pracbioo le too
monotonous bo hold` the interest of the, aver
age rifleman. The officers of the League
nay that "as every other pastime is Weil
boomed, why nob rifle shooting, whioh .is
reeky the most soisnbU bo." The first bul-
imia) meeting of tho executive, which will be
Held at Ottawa, is for the 5th of Febru-
ary next, when the oonditions of the Assooi•
ation, which aro merely tentative, will pee
under review. Long life and ane0ese to the
Canadian Military League will be the with
of all who have any sympathy with outdoor
sports. May it abound and realise the axe
peobatlone end wishes of its moth sanguine
promoters..
Reading Him Ofi.
"Poo, Mies Jenkenelr," Sold Gus Softly.
"Pyo herd a groat many disappoinbmaabe,"
"Indeed," raid Oho young lady, " they do
not gent to stave materially affected you,"
"No; I realizs the force of the proverb,
'man propo:we; you 'know.
"Yee and woman very frequonily rojoobe
him,"*IMerobaa6 Traveler,
'Otto New Year's Baby,
' Pba',t welcome, little bonnie bird,
taut,houldn't ha' emus Just alter the' did;
Thugs aro bad."—Oau Mown BALLAD.
Hoot 1 ye little rascal 1 ye come it on me
s way,
Orowdithio' yereolf mongol' uo, this blusborin'
wiotor's day,
Rnowia' that wo already have three of ye
an' seven,
An' try in' to melteyouraelf out a New Tear's
present o' Heaven ?
Ton cf ye have we now, sir, for tide world
to abnee ;
An' Bobble be have no waittooah, an' Nellie
she have no shoes,
And Sammie he have no ahlrb, sir, (I tell Ib
to hie thane),
An' the one thnb was juts) befor ye we claw
had time to name 1
Aa' ell o' the banks be emaabin', an' on us
poor folk fall ;
Ao' boas he whittles the wages when work's
to be bad ab all ;
An' Tom he have oat hie foot off, At' lieu in
a eyeful plight,
An' all of us wonders at mornin' as what we
shall eat at night.
Au' bat for your father and Sandy alluding
aomewhab bo do,
Au' bub for the prosthetic] woman, who often
holpe us through,
An' but for your poor dear mother a-doin'
twice her part,
Yo'd a seen us all in Heaven afore ye wee
ready to stare 1
An' now yo have oome, ye raooal 1 so healthy
an fat an' sound,
A-woighia 1'll wager a dollar, the full of a
dozen pounds
With your mother's eyes a•flasbing ; yor
father's flash and bnild,
An' a good big mouth au' a stomach alt ready
to bo filled I
No, no I don'b cry, my baby I hush up, n,y
pretty one 1
Den'b get my chaff in yer eye boy—I only
was jute) in fun.
Ye'il like ne when ye know us, though ware
curets folks ;
Bab we don t gget much victual, an' half our
is jokes 1
Why, boy, did you take me in earnest?
some, sib upon my knee;
I'll tell ye a seers&, youngster—I'll name ye
after me.
Yo shall have all your brothers an' sisters
with ye to play,
An' ye shall leave yer carriage, and ride out
every day 1
Why, boy, do you think yell suffer? I'm
getting a trifle old,
Bab it'll be many years yet before I toes my
hold ;
An' if I should fell oh the road, boy, still
them's yer brothers there,
An' nob a rogue of 'cm over would see ye
harmed o hair 1
Say 1 when ye oomo from Heaven, my little
name-aalte dear,
Did ye me,'nongah the little there, a face
like this ono here?
That wan yer little eioner—she died a year
ago,
An' all of ns cried like babies when they laid
her under the snow 1
Hang it 1 if all the rich men I over see or
knew
came here with all their traps, boy, and
offered 'em for you,
)',1 show 'em to the door, sir, to quick they'u
think it odd,
Bafogiftrd I'fd rom yti God to 11100 my New Year',
9901
Crowded Streets.
Some statistics recently pablished by the
arty of Berlin show that London abreetsor,
on die whole th". most orowued of any oboe
,n Europe, In 1578 it was aaoarbained the
43,014 people passed every 16 hone alone
the Leipz'ger Stream is Berlin, and in 1883
56,000 people crossed the Jannowing Bridge
every 15 hours. The most crowded bridge
in Berlin is the Oramie, over whioh 80,000
people pass every 18 home. In 1884, 68,-
743 passed along the Mentz Stream every
16 hours, and 41,506 along the Gebrandton
8temsee. In Loadou it b esbtmatsd 110,-
625 pedestriauo peso over London Bridge
daily; over Biaokfriare, 79,108; Wets.
minister, 44,460; Waborloo, 31,815, TM
moat arowdod thoroughfare in Europe is the
Path Neuf, Parse.
• A Child's Sympathy
Not many days ago a gentleman bad,
taken affeotiouabe leave of his wife and
daughter, for a three months' trip abroad,
The, child, a lovely little girl of two and a
half yoare, stood by a oharr with ber thumb
in her mouth—a favorite pastime, and to
her, a pan0oea'for -all her ohildish'ills. She
watched her mother fora few momenta, caw
the tears fillitg- the lovely • eyes and drop
ping one by one from her oheeke, then
weab to het -side; and. with •w'oemforting.
tone, looking pibyinply•np `into' her face,
aid,; Mamma, ouch--'oo-•fuml'-
Th" e PitrisStr96ta;
Paris keep, her streets ,clean by.nob per.
matingthem toe gab dirt An slo
, . g.. ., Y• American
unsnepioronsly tore a f ebter.ip.bwo and drop.
ped the pima ,in,the :gubtor recently, jest Mt
behad doubtlessdone: a;bundl'ed times at
home. A moment later a poliooman invited
him to retrace hiesteps and, gather up the
fragments of. waste .,paper on.bbe penalty of,
being arrested. The American was a tensible
man, And instead of protesting thee; America
wee the only free countryon earth, he then
and there learned a v 1
d a u Ile lemon, and s b-
a leen n .
Sequently expressed hie admirebionof a 0ite.
whioh, Mewed ouch roped for ttself.
A Rennin the West.
,loin the greet army of homeseokers ' and
secure 480 aortia of government land in :tie
Devils Lake, Turtle Mountain or gouge
River -distrusts of Dakota. For furthef in.
folmation, maps, rates, ase„ apply td F. I.
Whitney, G. P• ez T. A., St. Pant, Minn."
The Russian government hog lamed a
decree imposing additional limitations upon
traffic on the German frontier, making the
regulations governing oommeree almoobpro.
hibibive. A genorel outcry has been raised
egait et the new order on both sides of the
border lino, bub it le unlikely tbab the pre.
toot will compel e modifioation of the edict.
The way notable men in the Mother Land
take journeys to the varlous portion, el bho
Empire, ,operated by mount end stream and
sea ed they may be, is a sign of the times,
Sir Edwin Arnold, wbo wag in Canada not
long ago, and formed a favorable opinion 62
Toronto during his tour, has, disco leaving
the Dominion, been taking in Japan and is
About to go 10 China and the seate of
Btlbiah infloonoo there, inoluding Hoeg
Kong end the prinoipai treaty porn,. From
there he will go to India, returning to nig.
land next tiring, The advantage of being
a Briton is thee the further you travel
round the world the greater reasons you
meet with for boiog proud of the inflaonee
and resources of the Empire,
AS TOE UiCE ,IT,
Roarer And Dearer,
rer and dearer are the blessed dead
Than we are wont to think,
to ollh Carmelite and tears we bow the
heed
Beside that solemn brink,
Toll me, thou child of grief—enact thou not
See
Witt: clearer oyes than then ?
Tell me if love—thy love—oan ever bo
A thing of earth ogein 1
Ob, oyes that God hath oleansed with snored,
tears I
Oh, hearto by sorrow tuned 1
YOU see and lova as nearly all those yoare
While ye with flesh oemmuned,
And are they not, then, nearer whom Ivo see
With oyes no longer blind ?
And to nob love the sweeter, if It bo
Of au immortal kind?
Oh, comforting, swwetthought—that, though,
we stand
On death divided ebonite
Love still can stretch bo us it0 angel hand,
And lay its heart on ours,
— 1 Youth's Companion,
Professor Elieha Gray remarks thab stew
otrioal 0018000 has made a greater advao to
in the last twenty years than In all the 600'
historic yoare prcoeding, More is discover-
ed in one day now then in 1,000 years of
the middle ages,
The desbraotloa of gamo in Europe goes
on a paoo, The Das de Chatreo, Priuoe
Leopold of Bavaria, the Pr€ooeea Poilip and
Augustus of Sex! Coburg.Kohary, Lord de
Grey and Cnant timely' have killed in Boh-
emia during the haat month l4,356 parbridges,
6,818 hares, 4 473 pheasants, 31 roebucks.
and 800 head of mieasllenooue game,
flub Tell Ib Softly,—Within twelve
menthe dogs have been the o9use of deaths to
fifteen different persons in Chicago and the
destruction cf f27,000 worth of property.
fn no ease was the vales of the dog over bwo
dollars. Tho dog has come to stay, however,
and this item is aob puhllshod to make his
isle at all unpleasant.— [Detroit Free Press.
A farmer read in au agrioeltarel journal t
—" A aide window in a Stable make]: a
horse's eyes week on thab side ; a window
in Ironb Mute hie eyeeby the glare ; a win-
dow behind makes him: golnt eyed ; a win-
dow on a diagonal line makes] hint shy when
be travel!, and a stable withoub windows
oaken him blind." The farmer has written•
to the editor of the agricultural paper, cok-
ing what effect a window without a stable•
would have on hie horse's eyes,
--Mr. Labouohere, who spent several
years at Constantinople fn his younger days
re Mamba of the Briobnh Embassy there, as-
serts that the preeenb Sultan io the son of a
Kurd slave who was employed [a the harem
of his reputed lather, He Odds that ib is
helloed at Stamboul thab hie real father
wee an Armenian coachmen attached to the
Court. This rumen, is to a metals: extone
corroborated ?'v the distinctly Armenian
features of 1. ,'namander of the Faithful,
end also by ...,,nal peculiar traits of hie
thtraotor.
Tao following remedy was diaoovored iu
Germany and is seld to be the beat known :—
At the firth indication of diphtheria in the
throat of a child make the room cloth ; then
take a tin oup and poen into it a quantity ori
tar end tupentine, equal parte, Then hold
the cup over the fico eo ea to fill the room
With fumes, The little patient, on lnhahng
;he fumes will cough up and and spill out all
she •membranous;matter, and the diphtheria
gill pass off, The fumes of the tar sad
arpentine loosen the matter in the thrnabt
and thus affording the relief chat has b, 513dt
:he skill of physicians,
a„
1
A Flee Bridge.
Though nob so remarkable a feab a i'
sogiueering :kill as the 'Viotoria rail-
way tubular bridge ab Marinette the new
Canada Ablaublc bridge a0ross the 85, L' ew- " C
-onoo, whioh was formally tested and
opened on New Year's day, is nob the Iamb L
among the great brad en of the world. One
informed thus desorlbes it : "The bridge
to an iron and stool superstruotere built on
solid masonry. The distance from shore to
shore is over a milo and throe -quarters, but
there are intervening islonds which relieve
the bridging considerably, and over w tioh
aha trestlework and filling of 'earth mnsb
make the road bed. The islands are Girona
island, 905 feet wide,and Round island, 1220
feet wide, Seventeen :pans are necessary
to oemplebo the aoaneotion—me of 139 feet,
two or 175 feet enoh, ten of 217 feet each,
and tour of 223 feet cash, The erring bridge
over the north channel covers 355 feet in all.
The maximum depth of water In whioh the
plore stand in 28 feet, and the minimum
depth is 24 feet; . The piers are 46t'by 10
fent ab the base, and 24 feet by' 8 feet at•the
top. In nearly every me they are built
into the solid' rook botto'n." , The advant'
tagee,bo ebippete and the'oominunity genera
ally from thin now medium of ovebooming
the natural obstruction to land traffic caused
by the mighty' Sb, Lawronoe,will"lie'yeti,
great, Fer years the Viotoria,bridge has...
been found inack pate to bho requiramentn "
of theoonntry.y 'nokeenl woe, this felt thab
a` few winters ago s totitporary, track' WAS
laid over'the the miming the river 'a atom
distance east of the pity. The oxpp arimenb;
does nob appoar to have been a'ptging ono,
ae'ib has nob ranee been repeated. 9:11' the'
damn, ib shows how nautili an additional
medium of eroding the river was needed.
The new b idgetherefore
m
oesareal'want.
And es odd another to ."
rhoman 6l+
e
denoet of our.'growing prosperity and 'in:'
dressing 6rade.
Mr. Gladsbone returned home toHanna-
en deer hie four days' campaign in , Mao.
cheater in undiminished health and atrengtin
He escaped 0060 a' cold. On Monday he
rode in a bitter east wind through the streets
of Manohoeber bareheaded, Asa rale the
Grand 01d Men taken cold easily, but he
here lie never ',afford through going without
s headgear, and Bale hs warthog to Inver-
ielrly discarding his het when working cub
of doers. Ab Mawarden hs expressed him -
eel! ao delighted with the unanimity and
enbhuelaem of the Llberel'delegates ab Men.
dumber. Re declared ib a sure augury of
viobory.
At the Paris Exposition there wee a large
buildibg, with epooious talons, galleries and
;atom tee, bnllb entirely of wood in undress5
ed logs and Woks repredentin every kindof tree or shrub growing in Femme Si- au of
her colonies, There woncre shown alto spool -
mane of the loaf, flower, teed or nub of each
tree, and of the parasites, inseetn and borate.
that infer, he the grata 00 fibre of the wood,
the tools beet adapted for worhiog It, the
'telucbs of the f::bre, guolt an paper, vegeta
able silk,linsn, and warmth froth the gapse
gums and rebind, and oxamplee of the soil in
whioh the tree grows bash. 'Variond other
information was pointed upon tags. Thor
oxhiblb was oxaaodingly beautiful, interestl•
ing and useful,