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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-2-14, Page 3se ]•'Eli 7, 1890 TEE OANAI)IAN NATIONAL PARK. The Cauudlan National Park la to the papular !Mud limited to Banff and its region, though it really ince:doe a groab plateuu in OM Rocky Mountains. 10 has been mailed the'norb Mau Wad opt on ear bb. Luanne, SwitZarla"d, to nob nnoom,nonly spoken of ate the crown of weenie beau y, and the 000- eervativo Amore/au may well ampere the glealor•pointed peaks and emerald !alma and rtvero 01 Bend with those of Lucerne, and itgn'ro which hos the greater claim to beauty as a whole, Wo have seen both, and to our mind Banff le the more grand and wouderful, but Lecorne the mare pootio and beaubifttl. The magnificent extent of the Rocky Moaubeino and their great variety and end - leas reseut000 of atupondouo scenery, make Exemanated seem small to comparison. Tho great glacier of the Rookies, near the Cana- dian National Perk, oovere about thirty eight square miles, and is said to contain more bulk of ice than all the glaciers of Se/Veniaud. But for spectacular effaob and thrilling ep'.oudore it does make the impre- elms of Mont Bien°, as it ie soon from the veiny of Ohamonni. The purple curtuine of the sky of Italy hangover Switzerland, and every valley is Mounted by legend and song. The wane of awe in Italian Swietterland is 000bhed and softened; a spirit of beauty baunte every- thin. verythi°g. Thera are the emit mope of bho great organ of nature In the air. Bat not so in the Rookloa. Tho peaks rise a mile abeve you In the thin uir, rugged and bare, and blszo in the pale blue sky with ghostly and aitvor fires. The rivers rent over tremendous Drage; they leap and plunge and thunder. Stop and limen ; you may hear the moan - teen torrent everywhere, and neo its foam amid bhe giant fine in every circle of the eye There is no fairyland hero, it is the abode of of giants. The eagle wheels and someone here, and the fierce bear shakos hie head over the shadowy oennone, bot here flit no airy Doug birds, and sport no nimble food of the chamois or fawn. here the soul grows groat, and the 000001ehme stragglens for truth, end to crush under the strong feet of resole. tion all anw..rthy decireo. The Rockies are, indeed, grander than Switzerland, and even more ihtpiring to a pure and lofty faith, but the mellow tone, the melodious oompletenese of the Alpe is not in them ; they are like the law without the covenant of grace Banff, so named from the county town of Banffshire, Scotland, ie the mountain town of this wonderland of the giants. It is situated on the Greab Divide or the summit of the Rookies, a mile above the sea level, and ie walled with peaks gleaming with giaciero, a mile or more high. Ito location wee de•ornducd by Ito wonderful hob springs, and the great extend of bhe plateau, which is toenby-five wilco loug. The Bow River runs through ib, gteoier- fed, clear end green, and here is le vire Head Lame of glacier water, pure and clear, with al dark a legend as Mound Pilatus at Lucerne. There are Rigle, or observation peak0, everywhere, and on every hand the outlook is gigantic and awful. The wonder epob of the region Is on the side of Sulphur Mountain with its naves and springs. These springs aro likely to be one day as famona an Baden-Baden. They are regarded as very effioacieus in scrofula, rheumatic troubles and Bright's disease, (the waters aro taken warm, a tumblerful ab a time, often two glasses an tam morning, and are heed for bathing daily. People coma here on crutches, and amble away leaving their crutches on the trees The great hotel is kept open as a sanitarium throughout the year. Toe place is undoubtedly destined to become one of the moat famous and faehiot- able reeortu in the world. But the young reader will be more interested In the curious fn Mures of Banff, than in these descriptive ontlioeo. They are nob wanting, Cutioauy is 108100erl everywhere, from the hour that the tourist entero the pap, as the pillars that open the long mase to the railway are called, until the Scottish name is shouted by the conductor. 113 own cariosity egan to be annulated at Calgary, the town of the ranohea and Indian reeorvationa, jueb at the entrance of the gleamine empire of the peaks. Tho train stopped amid the gay uniformo of the mounted pollee, and a pietureeque gathering of ochre•painted Indiana. Everthing was new and strange. Aa I stepped from the train, In ian women gathered around me, in beads and blanketo, with horns to soil. en\ the shadow of the station abood an Indian with a sad face silent and stolid. "Thad ie Deerfoob," maid a paeeeuger agent to me, "the once Eamon Indian runner, He used to outrun all the Indiana of the mountain's and plains. He became so fan ou0 as a messenger that be was induced to become a champion in foot races. "At lash a great contesb of spend wao- arranged for him and a white runner. ib was the cause of much axaitement, betting and gambling, so much so that some white npeoulatoro formed a plan to cripple Deem foot by a trick as cruel at' it was Dunning. '•The Indian boy wan to run 1n light moccasins, and his opponent In leather ohne. Tinge men mingled the light earth of the race-conrso with planes of glees, so that the broken glass would oub the mom casined Indiao'e feed. The poor Indian came out of the contest defeated and bleed. log, and injured for life. lila heart was as wounded as his body ; he came to hate the white people, and never was his old self again. He booame a ariminal, and fled at one time from the Mounted Polido into the States, bub returned again. Thio is the story ao it le commonly told, and whion I think is subobanbially true." Pad mettle on terraces, over plateaus in view of mountains crowned with pearl, through the gap in bhe cool air of Wind Mountains, up to Canmoro, four thousand three hundred and fifty feet high, zigzagged the train. We wore among the uplifts of the D;vonlan and Carboniferous agate Hills stood oo it were on edge. Then on to Banff amid black walls of scarred rook, and green formats foaming with oaeoades, and overlooking peaks of Bathed mist and•enow. Wo wore soon at BaialFatabion, under the mention peak of the Cascade Mountain, ten thousand fend high, and eastward rose MountIngliemaldie, and near the Vermillion Lakes. We took supper, ran up to the wonderful hot maritime and were than told that we mud vislt the cove. "It le the most ourime place that you ever taw," said bho proprietor of one of the hotels, ' An old preepeotor boo told me the story of its discoveryy. Ido not know how true it may be, .Ho eaid that ammo minora were travelling in these parte, when they saw a man rine oub of bite ground, go up into the air, and walk off ail natural as lite. "They thought that the lath day had memo, Then they went to the plane, and ineteed of en open grave they found a nave, and a pine trod led down to ib through a holo in the ground. Men matte to sea the Won- 404; on•dot; another pine tree watt let down into the nose, auk gloats 12i ,Rend nailed aliitOaP the two. What did they find thorn ? You must go and see." The apocryphal story was ab lettab inter. eating. The 0808 may havo been (Uncovered in scute such way, and a wandering miner night have often amen an Tedium's form rite ing out of bhe earth by the old pine tree, which was onus the natural ladder clown into the cavern. Thu cavo in now entered through a house built like a Swiss chalet, It omelets of a glittering uhambor lighted by lamp, and s groat pool of green sulphur water, clear ao glue, much like the Ponce de Leon or Wau kulla Spring in Florida. The emerald peal is lighted from an opening in the earth above. A rope is obrotohed anon it, and people aro allowed to bathe in in Tho dome of the nave gleams like a shadowy throne room. The pool la only four or five feed deep, and bubbles are constantly walling up through it like Jeannine of gems. The Bow River, atter ha long otrugglee through the Mille, pretonte a soman of placid beauty ab Banff. 18 rune bhrough fields of red cotton, or wild cotton, a kind of crimson phlox, It ie fed from the onow lands in the thy, and levities the artist and the pont. An evening row on the Bow, through the Canadian National Park, i0 an event to be remembered for a lifetime. The mountains Mango with every turn of the bowlike river, There is strength, majesty and glory every- where ; the peaks rise straight to the sky, the glaciers fill with crimson end gold light like orowne. Toe river is deep and olear, now violet like Leko Lucerne, now a sem green, now a shadowy emerald oolor. It hero and there proeonte a curve ou the swift still tide like a broken mirror. The boat glides on over the deeps like a thing of air. Mountains coma and go like an army of giants in glittering armor. Cate mules bhunder,and yet bho air ie oppressively still. If there be clouds in tho sky, they change into chariots of copper and gold. The gray wing of the solitary eagle is seen ; here and there the dark form of a solitary Indian appears. The car whistle blows. Ib la echoed by an hundred walla. The grandeur becomes terrific and even forooioue. The bead grown weary, and the wanderer has a sense of hie own Insignificance, and probably seeks hie bed ab lash to pray for a life of quietude and simple faith in Gad, - [Eke .- kiah Bubterworth. "Look Out for Pickpockets." " Pickpoeketa," said Inspector Knox, "are of all ages. I've arrested during my bwentythree years of serviette on polio, cffiaor in uahform and oltizone] dress 3.000 parsons, and at least 1,000 were pickpockets The oldes'• pickpocket I know ie an Erwin:e • man named R chard Busby, who is now serving a sentence of ee.veh years in th. State prison at Charlestown. He in 70 years c1d, I arrested him about a year ago, and when I saw him pink pockets on Wash fngton streeb, As bhab time I thought 1 wee his ghost, as I had understood that ha was dead. Pickpockets never wear glossae, and seldom work in the stroeb during cold weather, for the oold rumba their fingers.' Inepeotor Knox gave this catalogue o "don'ts" fon the benefit of shoppers :- D1n't carry a pocketbook in your hand. Dano carry a pocketbook in a loos pocket which hangs away from the person. Den' blay your handbag containing your pockebbook on the counter Mile store wbilc you walk across the store to examine geode, Don't wear a watch in an outside pocket. Don't wear chatelaine watchea. Don't judge strangers ay their diens. Don's stand long in the same epob in a crowd. Don't go into a crowd with your outer coat unbuttoned. Don't carry valuables in your octet CORD. Doe's make a display of your jewellery. Dant oarry money in the pocket on the right-hand ole of your treaters ; pink pockets expoob to find money there D,ro'o forgot that you are josh as likely as anybody elee to be a victim of pickpockets -[Boston Trausoripb. t THE BRUSSELS POST. MOA.61t,N EAST.8101 MAGIC. I THRILLING RESOUE AT SBA. TIM WonderJL1 Tricks 01'bteb Are Perform. ed by lth"!Ol era Melanie The lout Immo of the J ntthal of the Are thropelogiwl Stotnty of 13,mbuy °onsetso a 8001000 piper by e1 r. R tatoek on twenty of Oho branches of 1 omenu magic, all of which aro in vogue at the present time, rhe fleet of theca le the " Aroma of lettere end of names, " by which letters laud figure's aro aontbleed mato mugle mourn, inoantetion,, a em. These derive their power iron; the " arbitrary 000 of them made by the spirits goverhi003 the nature! world, in such a way that the ninety niuo beautiful names of God, and other divine weirdo, formed of lettere conteining the Aroma, which pass into ma - tonal subetat ono, intercede." The magleian, of course. la the solo interprobrr of the uses and oignifloauoea of the combinations, AI- 0ltemy mimeo next, and la followed by me trolouy„tho moat popular of all the Eastern 000nib minces, It to praolieed on all one - thin, to dfocover thefts, to foretell the result of it joarnoy, the fu urn cf an infant, &o. Another popular practice ie soothsaying from the soared hooka by opening one at random and placing the finger on a line. This is almost the only ono of the antennae which poste nothing and which every ono "an prao Ise. The eeleotion of days he a eubordlnabo branch of aetriIsom, and is employed to as- certain what days are lanky or unlucky for the commencement of certain enterprfoes, the wearing of new clothes, and the like. Divination and the interpretation of dreams are common everywhere. Summoning and aotjugating demons is the most feed ul of the magical Menne, There are two kinds -one dangerous, and embracing uulawful magic, the other roligioue, and connoting mainly in coe fitting dement' In flame, so that they are compelled to obey the commando of the magioten. Geomancy is praotieed Ly means of dots made with a pencil and ar- ranged in complicated oombinabions so that they answer questions. The an of invisibility appears to be only known by name to Mr. Rehataek, for he does nob describe it. Jofr 10 a sateen which is known only to ono family ; it la defined a0 e• the general aeieooe coaoe:ming the Tables of the E'cruel Decree and of Predestination,” and enables adep a to know all that bas hop pentad, is hxppeuing or will happen in the most remota future. Palmistry, phyiauterles, physiognomies and prayers explain them. Alves ; pbadtasms la the name given to the orb of produeieg images in the air by inoanta• tions, aided usually by drugs and fumiga• time • while predicting from the poet is em ercieod by otudyiog the occult analogies be. menu the peat and future, Sorcery is the term applied to all tho phenomena prodnaod by magicians, and popularly attributed to supernatural powers. It to divided into law- ful or divine and satanic or black magio, the latter owing ire power to evil opirite. The teat of the magical sciences is soothsaying 'ram trembling, by which the future ie known from the inveluotary movements of the body, a particular star controlling each particular part of the human frame. Ml's. Mavoogin Expresses Eereelf Conoera ing Chiaato and the World's Pair, "War ye uvor in Sheoaggy, Mte. McGlag- gerty 1" "'No, nuver, Mrs. Magoogin." "Thin take my wurrud fur id an' never go to Sheooggy, Mrs McGlaggerty." "Fur fwhy, Mre. Mapoogin 2" "Fur uv'a•y 1 why, Mrs. McGlaggerty," said the widow."/Me the place !where Arnioa 6,urieheo au' fwhere the Ditch have their Indica an' uv'rybhin', That's fwltere Johnnie Moebb milked bio spleens au' wa000 the red Hag, an' that's fwhere they kill pure Doothor Cronin, the Lord have mercy upon lea sow 1 I Fwhat wud the D:teh Amick iste that wants to blow nv'rybody up an' to have all tho beer in the wurruld for them sere to dhrirk. me the Flanneygaile that kilt Cronin, an' a whole peruil av hoighway rabbets intoirely, Oi think Shecaggy is tin ur thnrteen toimes worse our Shtaten 01E - Ian' twbin Boffalo Bill an' his wohdInjuoa at' over there. Th' gall av tkint, toxin' fur the Wurruld'g Fair agin Noo Yarriok. Ot'd bhink they'd be ashamed me thinners, Mrs. MaGtaggerty, but there's no shame fn thin, Fwhy, woman aloive, they think they've a bebthen roight to th' Fair than we have, an' nobody has ao mooch might to id a0 iz Sure, an' waon'o id Noo Yarrick that °bride, pibher Colontbue dl000vered ; Sheoaggy waon'o au th' fen av th' mirth ab th' Mime. An' fwhat have they got to lab payple see fwhin they bring thin there P Nawbbin 1 As my Tammy orz, they're like bh' man that fell oub av th' balloon -they're nob in id at all, ab all. Bub oh, my, the cheek av thiml They thinks the sun roioee an' seta in She- caggy. 01 have a mein oub there an th' polale° foorco an' ho wroitoo fo that 'whin a parson deice an' goes to heavfn bh' fuehb ablation this snide av th' goolden glees that 0h1 thraln slater ab 10 Sheoaggy, 01' slat, him wurrud thee 01 thaws id was th' other place an' nob Melvin *et he mainb. Da ye know, Mrs. MaGlaggerty, that Ot'd lotke to bay Shooaggy at what id's rattly worbh an' sell id ub fwhat id thinks ib'e worth. Be- gorry, Oeel be rfohot than Jay Goold, so Ci wad, Mrs. MoGiaggerby I'' -i N. Y. Mer- cury. Two Good Storiee of the Bar, Judge. -It would be more respectful to Ude court, air, if you would keep your bands out of your pockets. Why do you do so, sur 2 Defendant. -Just for the novelty of tho thing, your Honor. Judge. --Novelty 1 What d'ye mean? Daffondent.-Farb ie, your Honor, nay attorney has had lilt halide in thorn go loog, am tickled to death to get a chance at them tny001!. Every ones in a while db to stated that the swallowtail ooat hes had its day, but the eoclety man and the waiter dote'{' Mao* SINIA,ptth(i .ngjlltil, Terrible Experboi,ceo of toe Crew of the Ship Sbukeoperc. Eighteen grateful aullormoo, whose Amori- oan-built craft probably hoe been dashed to pieces within 80D ranee of the Irielt mast, arrived in New Yolk the other day on the steamship Stag, To the courage of Capt. lMunro of the Stag end his plucky British taro the shipwrecked man owo their proem. vation, They belonged to the ehlp Shakes. porn, built iu Maeaachneebta In 1$55, and sold nob long ago to L F. Kelkman of Bremen. The Shukeeporo, heavily laden with snail, cement, and ghoul left Hamburg on Oob, 24 for New York, bho made a brave but lu• off etoal effort to reach the Atlantic through Oho 11ratieh Channel. Tho head gales were too couch for her, and este nailed through the North SOA around Eughoul. She had a fi rue fight with wind and sea from the out- set, and it took her fifty-two days to got 700 miles from the Iride cunt, She began leaking badly on Dao. 10. A hurricane from the northwest otruck her on Dao. 15 Before dawn on the morning of the next day she was boarded by a tremendous sea, whioh rolled over her bows, method oft' the main and m'zsen meats oloee to the deck, and broke the forernasb off half way up. The epllntorod masts and spare were swept as- tern by succeeding neap. Portions of bhe wreokago from aloft fell on bho men on deck, who wore fast about to clew up the three lower topsails, the only canvas that could bo used with safety, and disabled them. First Mato Witte wee knocked down and had bis book hurt and his right arm bre ken. Capt, Oarl Muller wan oleo hurt. The wreckage that weab by Oho board got en- tangled with the rudder and the ship became unmanageable. The men worked all night at the pumps, encouraged by their young Captain, who remained on deck until noon the next day. $e bhen wend to his room to sloop. Five home later the steward called the skipper, and got no response. He entered the room and found his commander lying on the floor dead. His body was weighted and thrown int the sea the next m•rnfag, Moto Witte assumed command of the wreck. The weary sailors euconmbed one after another while working at the pumps, When they had nearly given up hope they sighted, on the morning of Deo. 18, the steamship Nestorian, from Glasgow to Pella. delphia. They huddled together on deok with life jsokete on, and made Mentio elguala for help. The Nestorian signalled that oke would steed by the wreak all nighb and dry to get off the men in the morning if bhe hurricane let up. From dusk t0 dawn rackets were sent up at intervals from the dismantled chip. When daylight oame, the !nekton eailormeo were dismayed to find bhab the steamship had disappeared. Their hearth were set nutter ing with hope again by the vteion of bhe Sin to eastward. 'racy sent up reckon and Cepte Munroe signalled that he would stand by the wreck. A thick snow squall, which began ab daylighb, hid the two ohipe from eaoh other until eight O'oloeck. Second Otnoer Noell of the Stag and four men lowered the quarter boat ab the risk of their lives and rowed to within fifty feet of the wreck, the deck of which was now within six feet of the sea and constantly awash. Oil wee suooeoafully used from the steamship and lifeboat to break the force of the waves. A sailor on the wrack oast a line to bhe men in the lifeboat, previously having fastened one end to the wrack. Abouh half of the eighteen men got from the hulk to the life• boat along tibia line. The hands of the others were so sore that they could not hold on to the line, so they exam to the boat and were pulled aboard half dead from the exertion and exposure. Second Officer Noell and his brave quartet woo tired out after the second trip to the wreck, and the other two trips were made by a fresh Drew under First Officer Hansen. ©n the Stag steamed westward one of her r f&;are noticed that one of the crew of the Beekeepers had been forgotten, It was the dead Ceptalo'slittic poodle dog, Nellie. She looked wistfully at the steamship for a little while, howled mournfully, and leaped Into Otte mea, Captain Muller leaves awidow in Bremen. He had not been married a year, Tho Beekeeper° was recently repaired at a oosb of 86 000. She was 'valued ab $20,000, and her cargo, whioh was insured for $28.000, WAS worth about $30,0'0 She measured 1,183 tons, and was 183 feet long, 38 feet beam, and 24 feet dee'l. Do not be Afraid to Aak. Many a young Christian -even if no longer actually young in years -needs spirituel ad• vice occasionally, and is reluctant to ask for la, says the ' Congregationolint." The minister is friendly, and undoubtedly would be glad to give the cleafred aid, bub he is believed to bo mush engrossed with his spiritual duties, or in meeting the pressing wants cf others. The older Church members are also very kind and =dial. But soma of them are coneti•uted no differently by nature, or aro situated in life ao differently, that they hardly clan be expected to enter into the case nnderetaodingly ; and the others are aa busy as the p0eter, and are supposed to be in the habit of referring everybody to him for eaoh suggestions at' are wanted in this Daae. So the inexper- ienced bub auxion Christian hesitates, delays, and finally goes without the help he meads; and either he gets into trouble which he might have been shown how to avoid, or else he escapes It by hie man endeavors, but it the coed of very wearying and man0oese- ary anxiety and labor. If you are in his case, do not be afraid to ask for the help which you desire. _ Do not delay, but apply Tor it ab once, Either the pastor or acme other Christian friend, whom you know to possess good masa and experience, will give ib to you gladly. Tae interview Hill be orjoyable and it will be worth more than yen expect of it. The help that you etpeeially tee 1 will bo given you, if possible, •and also relations of a more or lase coofiden- ,ial character and thoroughly dedchtful and metal nature a ill be established between you and the friend whom you amoaot. A mutual interosb in eaoh other's religious history and welfare will be oroated, which will continue and will be full of blessing. Large Barometers. The mercury barometer, with a tube about three feed long, was devised by Torricelli about 1643. In Pascal's experimonte direotly afterward, various liquids were tried in tubes of different longbhe and aims, the chief of these barometero being mounted at Rouen in 1046„ and having a tube 46 feet long filled with a mixture of water and wine. Nobwlohotanding their delicacy, few of bhoee°large inabrumen'a have been made on account of the dile sully of oonstruoOion. Among the more important .are bhe water barometer of the London Royal Society, mounted by Prof. Daniell in 1830 ; the glycerine barometer ab Kew observatory, mounted in 1870 ; and the glycerine baro. meter cf Mr. Zephar Mille, mounted In his house in New York in 1886. A barometer just placed in St. James' Tower, Paris, has a tubo 4133 feed long and g inch In diameter, and is Titled with wader covered with a layer of oil to provenb evaporation. St. Peters. Bever. A beggar named Pietro Marceline wh for thirty years tae been a familiar figure in Sb. Patera ab Roma, has just died suddenly from apoplexy a0 he was leaving the Basilica. He wan the only mendicant who was permitted to follow his ogling within the church itself, Pine IX, having granted him that privilege. Lao XIII, con. firmed it later, and also, like his prodecea. nor, granted an audience to the beggar, who was lame and tRlicted, When Mar. oolbel was received by Plus IX he complain- ed of the cold he felb within the church. Whereupon the Pope bestowed upon him an old warm dreeoing•gown of hie own. This garment, however, the beggar worn only on greet 000aniono and the more tolemn feotivibico of the church, He had been re• peetedly offered large earns for It by foreign. ora, but always rofucod to part with it. It it Bald that Plus IX, when he wend to St. Peter's was always highly amused to see the beggar sitting there, majoatloally wrapped in his old drawing -gown, The garment will, presumably, doeoeud as an heirloom to klaroolint a children, with the 0nug little fortune of $10,000 which he had pooemnlatod daring thirty ysare of logging, HIPNOTISM IN CRIME. Expertinents 01,at Show Dreadful Possibili- ties forWrona••BOcre, Science not only accounts fora great deal, but has a great deal to a000unb for. The other day M. Cheroot publioly hypnotised a gen- darme, end then told him to aesaesirate.80 Gravy, whom he would fiad in the corner of a garden. The poor constable went out and otabbad a tree with a paper knife, and came back trembling and oonfesoed the murder. Such feats have been done in Leeds as well as in Pieria, and we know what le the power of the magnetiser. It has hitherto been one of the fairy bales of eoleoa°, bub now it ie said to have added a new and berrlble ohapter to the records of crime. Ono waits for proof, but accusation is definite enough. One malefactor, o French libertine, actu- ally in bhe hands of the police, ft' said to have eeleated his einem, choosing those of au emotional temperament, and then to have magnetised them and ordered them to cern mib suiolde. Ono poor girl did so. Law and science are , qually interested in the result of an inveatigabioa which, lb ie said, will vary shortly be held. If the net are proved the poreion will arieo whether the offence act- ually amonnte to what the law recosniz e as murder. If nob, we certainly ought to have a new law, and we shall probably have a now word. "To suicide a person" seams a oontradletion in terms He Pound Rio Ideal. "Mien Smithereon," Interrogated a young man, "do you Ding ' Marguerite ?' " 41 Nn,' "Did you ever attempt' The Heart Bowed Down with Grief and Care 2'" "Nevar." "Da you play the Boulanger March?' •' "I never tried it," "Did you over paint any puffy faced boyo with wings for ears P' " No." "Did you over work worsted ' Homo, Sweet Home,' mottoes with purple vines climbing up A pea-green aobtago 1" "I never did." "Mies SmbOboroon 1" " Well 1" "Would you objeot to linking your ilio wlbh mune'- Ohrlobinn-ab-Work. " Where do you suppose the Sultan gots all the ladies for his harems ' Dabe°. Maybe ho pettonieos the Merchant ob east t" WHAT SHALL WE WEAR BTY'.E9 THAT ARE APPROVED IN THE WORLD OF FASHION. the Season's Aute and Donets -Low Crowne stud Curiously Twisted and In- dentcd Brims 1n Favor- Ostrich Feathers and 1Vluse Are Popular Trim* wings. No great change fs noticeable in the shapes of hats this winter, except that all are lower than last season. Whore a bigh eteeet Is de- sired, o-aired, it is gained principally through the ar- rangement of the trimming, low crowns be- ing the rule. Hats include a great variety of shape -shovel brims, Mercury caps, capotes and toques of many kinds. 810. 1 -car NADTY BAT. The wide brimmed, fancy straws of sum- mer havo been exchanged for the wide felts, the brims of which are, it possible, even more Curiously twisted and indented than those of the summer Beason. One style of trimming, lately effected, is to cover the low felt crowns with countless loops and ands of ribbon, leases ing the brim quite baro. It in y bo added that some late English models show a ten- dency to higher crowns and piled up trim- ming. In tho newest English walking bats the brim tarns up at the back as well as at the sides. Our first cut represents a stylish English hat, the "Nadjy." It is in smoke -colored velvet, edged with silver tinsel and °ranment- ed with bows and ostrich tips, In trimmings, ostrich feathers are very popular, while birds and wings are also used. A favorite trimming is the accordion plaited bow, which furnishes pretty and expressive garniture. The Marie Stuart bonnet is numbered among fashionable shapes in bonnets becom- ing to old and young. For elderly ladies it may be filled in with lace to make a soft, be- coming front and fitted with lace ties. Fig. 2 illustrates a jaunty Marie Stuart for young women. It is in black velvet, with strings of sra, 2.-A MAIMS STUAn noframr. fancy moire ribbon, and ostrich feathers curled over the crown. WOMEN WHO FENCE. Well *Mown Indies Who Are Expert Wlth The F.11Ie. Fencing is the fad of the young women this winter, writes a New York corres- pondence in the New York Sun. The Fenc- ing club gives up two mornings in the week to their classes -there are classes in the Ladies' Athletic club -and all the fencing masters have private classes of from three to twenty women. Louis Senna is the greatest Menem in tide country, perhaps, nud has a female fencer as his assistant. When Mrs. Langtry found herself being driven from the stage by increasing avoirdupois she went to Sena° and begged him to rescue her. He put a foil in her hand, took off 20 pounds of Mor fiesh, and made her one of the best fe- male fencers that ever held a sword. She Inas a magnificent physique, muscles sound and strong, firm flesh and considerable agil- ity; and she learned to handle steel like a master. A large photograph of her fn fonofng dross hangs over the man- tiepiece. It consists of a pair of trousers gathered to the knees, so full that that they sena all the modest purposes of a skirt; a heavy jersey, such as the fishermen of her native island wear, and which she herself first introduced to the fashionable world. It goes over the head and has no opening. A long pair of ribbed stockings and low fencing shoes complete the dress. She stands in the first position, her foil en garde, and with her mask lying beside her, Mrs. Potter fenced with Sena°, and her picture is horn, too; but Mrs. Potter wore Turkish trousers and a skirt that merely escaped tho ankles and was slit up the side. She was not plump enough to sho* her limbs to the knee. She is too languid in temperament to make a good fence, but worked hard at it and improved her health. John Drew of Daly's oompanyis ono of the best amateur masters of the sword in America, and is Seine's favorite pupil. He is quick ase flesh, light, agile and keen of eye. Several times last winter he took part in amateur fencing bouts in which prizes were offered, and always came off winner, Rachel Sbermao, the general pretty, red-haired daughter, is abeautiful fencer, andhas a figure as fine as a thoroughbred horse, For two years she was a martyr to sciatica, and her physician recommended fencing es a care. It was agony at drat, but she persisted um til she became a brilliant awordewoman and Diatheses* was gone, PARING NOTES. The immortally of the British Empire le inoroasingly evident 00ert' year the figures are added up. In bhie year of grana there are over 300,000,000 outjocts of the Qae011 In possession of 8,000,000 rgaaro solea of territory. ()amounting upon those improv. 0100 facto the Liverpool Merohry mums: "Daring a porlod of &bean yours the grout revenue -apart from Great Britain and Ire. land -rose to £124 000,000, or la other words nearly doubled Itself. The French Panama scheme nom to be taking aeilghbly more hopeful appearance". it certainly would be a mabter of regret thee the work already done, and which has mina prodigious amount of money and many 110000 should be wholly thrown away. A canal, perhaps two canals, to the Paaifio must come sooner or later, bub if the Nicaragua solemn ehonld be fairly launched the other may waft tndefinitoly for realization. In many re- apooto-ohortheso of route and accessibility and freedom from politioal interferences-tho Panama route be rather the better of the two Ib is said that 400,000 people had the he- lium za in Berlin oub of a toted population of 1,5500,000, Who number of deaths from the dtsoaee was about 650. This le serious enough, but an epidemic whioh kills bub one person in 615 of those abtraoked la not alarming. Of those who died ibis probable thab the msjorlty found it fatal through: undue expoeuro while suffering from the complaint, or premature exposure when con- valescing. La grippe be said to leave the tie peseagoe for some time peculiarly ens- eeptiblo to the cold, and In this lies bhe danger wbloh prudent people will seek to avoid. The records of Joliet penitentiary lambda small ground for hope that the murderers of Dr. Cronin will serve out their oentenced there. Of twenty mindere sentences far life prior to Dsoomber 1, 1874, fonrtoon were pardoned after serving an average term of five ysare and eight months, five died, and one was sent to the insane asylum. All prisoners to date sentenced to life imprison- ment for other mimes than murder, with the exception of four, were released by death. oommubation, pardon or otherwise. The. lifo convicts now confined there number only forty-nine oub of a total of 138 committed. einem 1908. This le nob a hopeful record. The aennal returns of the British army abow a total regular force during 1:':9 of 210,000 decors and men. The cavalry of all kinds are now reckoned ab 19;000, bho artillery at 35,300, the engineers at 7,000, the foot guards and infanbry at 139,500, the army service crops at 3,400, the mediaed staff crops at 2.4000,1000 ordnance store Grope at 750, the new Drops of armorern at 300, the crops of ordnaooe artificers at 70, and the remainder, to 611 up the 210,000, are. made up of the West India Regiment, the 1lalteee Artillery and other colonial Drops. Of the whole force nearly 108,000 are quar- tered in the British Isles. General Roberta has under him in India about 72,000 men. supplemented of °aurae by the splendidly trained native Creeps, the exact number of which is not given In the preheat retrain. Thera are 28,000 in the Irish garrison, principally in the Dublin district, and 4,01S fa Moiler d. The Interstate Commerce Comniseion estimates that daring the year ended June 30, 1889, no lees than 5.693 persona were (tilled on railroads in boo Malted States, and 27,89S injured in railroad accidents. Theme animates are based on statistics contained in the returns sent in to the Commisoion by the companies, and they will surprise even those who have some idea of the annual len of life and limb. This loss may seem small when contrasted with the total number of railroad employee in the country, and of passengers carried by the roads, bat there he reason to believe that ib would be much smaller were the numerouo safety appliances which have been invented in general nee. The year 1890 brings around the date for bho performance of the minion play at Ober- ammergau, the quiet village in Upper Bavaria, where once in ten years is to to seen one of the quaintest survivals of a past. age when religiouo menet' were enacted on the stage. The passion play at Oberammergau illustrates the chief month in the life of the Saviour, and is undertaken with religious iatenOion and from no wish to be irreverent or profane. Preparations are now being made for the event, which is the great feature in the life of the place, and which lee a source of some gain to the inhabitanba, for over ainco 1850, when a German eater firth brought the performance into general notice, thousands of visitors have flocked there at the time of the celebration from all parte of Europa and America, In 1880 the direst receipts from the play amounted to $50,000, while in other ways the people profited by the presence of curious outsiders. The Dominion teavornment proposes tee add to its experirnontal farm scheme a dairying department. This department would appear to be necessary if the under- taking ie to become complete in its relations to the agricultural community. It is under - teed that Prof. Robertoon, of the Guelphs Agricultural College, hos been Baked; to take charge of the new branch, and that this gentleman h0a r coeptad the proposition. Mr. Robertson is°an undoubted expert, and man be relied ubon to produce, with blur means planed at hie disposal, the beat results. Thera are now four exporimentel farms, ono In the Maritime Provence, one at Ottawa for Ontario and Quebec, one in Manitoba, and one in the Territorieo. It is presumed that Prat. Robertson will exer- oiee supervision over the dairying operations ab eaoh establishment. Though we de not offioiently prevent Oho creation of the larger and more injurious monopolise, we are careful to deprive the farmer of the privilege and proflb of parttcl- gating in a corner. According to the municipal law, oonnoile may prohibit the grime of fore -stalling and regrating. King- ton hes taken advantage of thio anbhorftyr and has planed on bho city statute book a„ by.law declaring that farmere atoll non sell to gr0mra or hnokotere before ten o'clock in the morning. The purpose of bho requirement i0 to give the general public) a chance to buy at the market and to provenh. the retailer from combining with Oho producer to raise primes. The farmer* oomplain that the hoar before which they cannot sell to the retailer le so late as to materially irjuro them. Ib should not be later than nine. But irreepe0bivo of this the principle is there; cornering under municipal law 10 wrong. ••^m -.nee. -tom ---- A few. tile effort -to start a hat store with, an inalgnifioanb stook. Ponsonby -I understand bhab Digby's Wife ie deaf and dumb. Snaggs-Thad go ; I wonder it she obverses with her fingers Ponsonby-Gueoe so. Digby is about the baidest man I over saw. The quootion of Freooh rights in New, fonndland came up in the Chambered Depu- ties ab Paris on Monday and led ins quite a breczV dieonesion. The government said that Fronoh rights were ooptirmH ed by uf[ land, Authoritative. Mies Prim -"bits. De Fashion, I want to sok you a question. Some authorities say oboee0 should to oaten with a fork, and some say with the fingers, the mama as broad, Now wbtah is right 2' Mrs, De Fashion -Both aro righa, any dear. Now threes should bo handled with aha fork, bob gory old thane should bo taken in the fingers. It might wriggle off the k•i oroamo of "wedbe" ie a favorite to. e'o Asn g 11 •bra dWish'for With bead o w ,