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The Brussels Post, 1890-5-30, Page 66 THE BRUSSELS POST. MAY a0, 1800. YOUNG FOLKS. lDorothy learned that May ton, was an only child. Her father was not living, tied her AMIE BL BI, mother was /tiniest ahvaye sick, iuid always OSSOMS, I verpoor, '''NA bel winter smile, it wee too cold 'cOb, emit axtonlAda • i" cried out Grace Alan- to talk long, end just before theeheste 1 J i s uiigb eanie on Dorothy y was taken t u alnneut as ale opened the 'door of her su u' lilt. She took it violent cold, and t 01owtt, "where dol you bot those apple bloesoine ? It. ie only the first''Ihi not seem to gain strength as it left week of April !" "They bloesonled right; her. Little May clime every day to the her in my room, Grace,' said aunt May, 'Immo and welted until she was chilled a sweet, happyfaced woman who sat in a, through, .As she lingered, she watched the %bale by the table with ttbook in her hand, ; oil all le -trees and saw the Mule had grown 4' aunt a bit lar ger. " When the blossoms coon.:, Ittght beta .what do you menu, as 1 i larger. Mayt Are they was? No, they are real Dorothy will be well," scald she to herself, apple blossoms 1 Goodness ! don't I wish 1 " One day, as May steed watching the 31ad some ! Wouldn't the girls be just wild , bees, site suddenly sett eel, iced then she tel 500 me withbunch of►a 11 lithesome ! turned and ran for home as feet es she 'Eay, it d C r apple •; could, All breathless, she entered the likes= n here,w really hat dorm mean 1 Did they 1 term, where a delicate.looking woman sat "Beall • Grace dear the • did ; erer • :at the sunny window. r they ' J ' o • e " Manana, immune C exelaflned She yea he blossom just thus tont for roe, I on nevery t o • cit houseto come'excitedly, ' would the tip ,le -trees bloom like have lefty your city t here at this season before, or you would !the pussy willows in the amuse?' have seen them," " 1 really dolt know,' said Mrs. Sher. "Yes Gram, von would," staid Mrs, man thoughtfully. ' Perhaps they would. Manchester, nvholand entered while her ads- 11'e might try. But what is the matter, ter was speaking. She was tall andslender, little daughter ? with no lok likaunt May except the quiet, "' 01, mamma 1' cried May. 'will you I ..cheerful expression. 'rally try stile? I arae get some branches, "Ithinkformorethantwenty-five years," You know that little girl that lives in I she went on, "your auntie Iran made the the Mg house. She's Neely, She don't j, apple buds to blossom in April. Aunt \Iay, ever have nnyl.,ody bet me told the I. and I love apple blossoms even better than apple blossoms to piny with. She you do." says the apple blossoms are angels with pink "I don't believe you can like then an • 'and white wings, and she is very happy better," replied Grace, laughing. ' 1just „ - when they conte, \hgle she'd get well, if adore them. They are the loveliest things she had the apple blossoms now. \Vill you I ever made—and just now, too, when nobody try, mether'e i expects them, they are too lovely for any ' , Yes. I will try. Yon may bring me iIiino ", the branches. Be careful to pick out the "Pin afraid, Grace, you do not look at the roundest buds, for the long ones are the Rowers from true love for then," said her leaf•bude, mother gravely, "What you say sounds ns' " May ran with a happy heart, and soot, if their beauty were enhanced, by the fact returned with her hands full of apple. that none of the girls have them.' branches. Mrs. Sherman put them in jars "They are beautiful to your mother and of lukewarm water and stood thein in u me, Grace, because we have old associations sunny place. It was May's duty to change With them,"rejoined aunt May. "N o, derv, the water and see that the jars did not get S i 's roam was \ , bu•uru l room ; chilled at night. Min. t s. I can't give them to yon, for these especial i b Bowers, every year, go as little missionaries warm and sunny and May soon saw the to,gladden sad hearts and give fresh coinage buds _growing larger and larger." ' to those who are cast down."•' Now this gets to be real interesting," "But I am dreadfully cast down," said said Grace, "for now I know how 'tis done, Grace in a doleful tone of voice and with at l and I con'go and do likewise.' But do go effort to look melancholy i "Dont you think. o11, furl don't know how you are mamma's eeme ander that head? sister yet, and I always supposed you were Aunt May smiled in spite of herself, real sisters," looking at her mother reproach. though she shook her head. "Yon cannot fully. have the flowers, Grace, bolt if your mother) c At last one morning a trite apple Mos- ; ie los-;ie willing, yon shall have the story of the, sem was there. May could not wait for apple blossoms and of my April pledge." another. She became boll in her certainty Aire, Manchester nodded, and Grace threw; that now Dorothy would get well. Wrap - 'herself into a Lounging chair and turned ping it verefelly in 0 bit of papier, ale wonderingly towards aunt May, mounted the biotin steps of the Mg house "A great many years ago, said amt May, 1 anal rang the j ell, 1 looked "before iv yon were born, -Grace, w little a loving l i rather surprised. But trvant opened hate oor did did not diseon-1 lived m this same great house, with a to h tine May.'Will youplease give this to Jabber one ttcoulcl kW cl furlBt3ds, and m very I Dorothyandtell he I'll oon bring her some montl could. �1uy, but she \vas a yang, more angels 2' said Mae, in her quiet away. lonely little girl. She was tired of playing:mere Moue, tired of studying alone and reciting t "The girl took ihellttle peter, gate a stare to the verness who came every day, tired !at May and shut the door, 'I never asked of taken her little sled in winter and; how she was,' thought May, 'but I will when coasting dawn the hill by herself, tired of the next one comes out, and she'll be better playing croquet mid all the othergames little then, The angels will make 1 er well, I ,girlsli)te so match to play togetheriand which : know ;' she and Dorothy had called them ole 'no fund alone, ;'angels' so often that the name carne to her "The orchard stretched away behind the! naturally. house as it does now,and when s ria camel In two or three clays May had another p branch, larger and fuller than the first. She and we tl paintedappllos were covered watt; wrapped a paper around it and took it as be• the sweet blossoms, her delight knew fore. This tinge she remembered to ask after no "TheyboundsDorothy,and the servant said she seemed to 'They almost o daysk me, mamma,' she00' brighter. 'Of course she'd seem brighter,' bright and happy with the lovely apple tilos- said May, 'the angels have come so early 1' .soma in the old orchard that her father and "The next time May went the girl asked metier could but note the change and speak her eri see the hall, for Dorothy's mother wish - of it." ed "Was that you, mamma?" said Grace. "Ah ! now her courage failed her. Even "Of course it wasn't, though, for you weren't the thought of the angels, aid how Dorothy all alone. There was aunt May.\ loved them did not help her. She wondered 4lrs. Manchester tied her sister exchan if Dorothy's mother knew how they talked i f3• through the fence—and what if Dorothy's ed amuse glances and aunt May went on : mother should tell her not to do it again 1 "One day, one autumn, a poorly -dressed o But no! A tall, graeefttllady came swift. little girl looked in through the slate of the sly across the hall and taking her in both fence, with a wistful expression an her face, k - Little Dorothy was feeling very lonely ,that deye "Oh, it was mamma, then !" exclaimed Grace; "but where were you, aunt \Iay? Had you been sent away to school?" "Wait, Grace," said Mrs. Manchester, v" 1 May11 h areas noseu iter. " 'My dear little girl,' she exclaimed, 'you have saved the life of your darling Dor- othy!' 1 knew the angels would do it, ma'am, said May gravely. ‘"and let to on the story." "'The angels 1' you dearchthl o' d fell, as I ws saying, Dorothy teas ' ' Dorothy always said the apple blest - feeling some were angels,lexplainedMayshyly,cl.raw- feelingg very lonely. She had piled the leaves in back, up and jumped on them, and buried herself g' ' Well, angels or apple blossoms,' said inthem, andthen raked them up again. 1lra. Thornton, 'Dorothy heti no interest in wasn't touch fen in that. She had chased a anything until the flowers deme. Then she villa rabbit with no success, and now shenoticed them ; and when you brought her was sitting down on her heap of leaves, next, she was awaiting them and now she "' Oh, clear 1 I wish I had somebody to is stronger and if your mamma will let you, play with,' thought she ; and just at this yon shacondo in and see her to•merrrtt', 'moment she looked up and saw that little Good -by, little girl, until to.morrov."' ;wan face peeping between the slats of the „ And did she take nyou away from your fence. mother•and adopt you ?' cried Grace. "And ' " Dorothy wasn't afraid, She wee never what beeline of your mother ?" afraid of anything. She rose from her bed of "Oh, no! nothing of the kind then. Mrs, leaves and walking slowly over to the fence, Thornton made my mother's life happy while Ansaid, ' Are you lonely, too, little girl ?' she lived, She had me come to the house "The little girl—we will pall her Madge to learn with Dorothy's governess and to nodded. It was a grave, quiet nod. Poor playwith her lonelyy little til hi the or - child 1 she had never had much to make her hrd, g life bright, and smiles did not come easily, 'Tie next year my mother died and then 'Im lonely, tool said little Dorothy. I came here to live. But before she grew so ' Butmy mamma dont like me to play with 111, sloe said to The one day: 'ilia , there is ether little girls, Will your mother let you a good deal that can be done to cheer lonely Play with other Palo girl lives without riches. You will like to do ' biadge nodded again, but Dorothy did, something when Iam one in memory of me, not say anything more. They both stood and looked at each other. 'It's your turn to speak now,' said Dorothy gravely.' "How well you remember that," said Silts. Manchester, laughing. " It must have been a funny sight," twfge from the odd orchard and brought the "Why l was Madge you1" aria"' buds to bloom, and with the thoughts of Grace. Was that you, aunt bray? Bot'hee and the memory of the good the 'angels' you are mamma's sister—why don't you ex- once did, I aced them out o1 errands of love to those who need them," "01, Anntie 1" said Grace, with tears in her eyes, 'I didn't know all this before. They are angels,' aren't they? Ministering spirits I Without them just then my dear mamma might have died, and you .night have been left with no one to care for you 1" and the b right young girl looked very thoughtful as she rested her heal on the arm of the their, "I think I shall start an apple -blossom mission, too " she added.—G\Vide Awake, Why not each year E;loom out the apple blossoms and give them where they will be messengers of hope, "And so, Grace, every year since my good mother died, I have out the choicest plan it ? I don't like mysteries." ".,Yes, dear, it was 1," said aunt May. "We won't need to call the little girl Madge any more. But you'll spoil my story 0 you are impatient. May looked at Dorothy equally gravely, and then obeyed. She said, I think I should like yen, Yon don't look cross like Jim and Kate Sawyer. They're always fighting.' I dont know thea,' aneweredDorothy in that grave, stately little manner which has never left her, "I don't know any- body. I wish I did. I wish my mamma would let you come in here and play with mo. I think I will go in and ask her. Wait here," Needed No Reminder, "Dorothy went slowly bank to the house The lightning calculator looked oat over Where she found her mother just putting on the crowd, her bonnet to go out, ' Let a litho girl in here 1' exclaimed she when Dorothy had Made known her request. 'Most certainly not 1 Why, Dorothy, I trust you don't wish to play with every little girl you meet, do you? ".Although Dorothy did not say, she car. fainly diel with to. She wended her Way hack to the orchard fence. ' What did she say 1' asked the little girl. <Dorothy shook her head. <t 4 Maybe ole will some ley,' said the hill, ' and I'll come and look at you every yy 5 It s better than seeing Jim and Kate eght. And she went sorrowfully away. "She at 00110 again, and every pleasant ay, Utile Dorothy looked for her, and any a ltsB.hour they spent talking through he fence. May learned all about Dorothy's enclinesli ti4 her lave t5r apple bjOeaotee,, "Te there any other gentleman present," he saki, "who would like to know the clay of the week on which any event took place 1 My friend, he continued, addressing a mid- dlo•aged man in front of him, "if you will give the the day of the month and year when you were married I can tell you instantly what clay of the week it ware" "I don't need to learn," replied the mid. dle-aged man whose name was Enpeck, "I was married Wednesday, but"—and Retook off his hat and wiped his hall head slowly and thoughtfully—"1 was born Friday." The Due d'Orleans passes away the fade um of his prison life by making wicker chairs. Pleasure and revenge have pars as deaf as tuldeSse ;to the voice 01 any true decisienl ROMANCES OF OLD 00EAN, Two Strange .adventures at sea. The ancients knew so little of ndd•ocentt that they throated the melt improbable stories concerning the Nig waters, Novelists have already drawn the long Lent/ in writing of the sea, and the sailor lots told such sur- prisieg yarns when in the [lewd that tun'• thing out of the ttsnal must non' be sworn to o1' included in a Government report to hind believers, I know plenty of seafaring Den who could relate wonderful adventures and net dept t from the strict letter of 111111, but they realize that lan:bonen would set them down as liars or ridicule their state• mamas, and it is therefor impossible to drew these out. Nothing is ton wonderful to hap• pen mated, but a singular oceitrenee at sett, no .natter if sworn to by m whole, ship's cone pally, is regarded us suspicious, I amt, how- ever, going to describe some strange, - queer sights I have seen with my OWI1 eyes on the vasty deep. and if the reader mint accept them be still has no right to chut'ge me with exaggeration. In the month of June, 1359, I was second tante of the ship William True, on a voyage from Liverpool to the ('ape of Good ifope. We were within 400 utiles of the Cape and at least 300 miles off shore, when, just as the men were et breakfast on 0 bright crud pleaeeatt morning, with the ship going at the rate of four knots tut hour, A mese ('OLPMN OF WATTtn suddenly rose high in air right dead ahead of us and nut over a quarter of a mile away. This column reached to a height of fifty feet, and the base seemed to take in an area of half an acre. It rose with a loud "s -s -swish I" which could have been heard two or three mile0, and fifteen men sats what I am describing. The column (told itself upright for a long miuule, and then fell fiat, and yon can bulge of the commotion when I tell you that we were boarded by n sea so heavy that it was like to carry ns to the bottom by its dead weight, and that eve were three hours in pumping the last of it out of her. The water for five miles around turned a brick color, and hundreds of fish: Honied belly up around ns. Among them were dolphins and sharks, and we saw 11 whale about forty feet long with its head a a.l toast a We ran eight ever the partly l were tie badly, ahakon up by the great 0eias as if we had been lying -to in t: hurricane. \Ve knew what had happened. Then. had been an explosion et the bottom of the eve—jag such an occurrence as created half the islands in the Pacific, We laid the ship to and put out a boat and made somnclings. Just where the column had formed we found bottom at eight fathoms. This depth cottoned for a circular distance of 100 feet, Gime outside of it we corm) 111'5 50 n01`ro,1t with 400 feet of line. There had been a heave -up, but not high enough to cresta an island or an obstruction to navigation. The circumstance, together with a chart and our soundings, was reported to the port officers at Cape Town, and later on to the proper Board at home, and while these officials gave no fall credit for our work and ordered aman-of-warto verify our sound - logs three of our English papers, which got hold of the fragments of the story, rids• ruled our sworn etatetnents, and intimated that we were all drunk of that occasion, A year later, not having returned to Fing- land with the ship, but having shipped on a Government brig making a survey of the months of the Niger, which, you know, fall into the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of Africa, a curious adventure befell us. We had been in and out of the southerly mouth, and were standing off shore to avoid a shoal and fetch the next one, when, ten miles ofi the land, with the tide running out, the wind died away and we came to anchor on good holding ground sixty feet below, Thit was shortly after noon, and the anchor was hardly down before a sailor who had been Bent aloft with a glass to look out for native craft reported one in sight death to the east and only two or three miles away. At that data the natives along the Guinea coast, and especially aboutthemouthsofthe Niger, were exceedingly hostile toward all white men, and our brig was well manned and armed on that account. We had on two or three occasions been obliged to fire into native boats to keep them off. After a bit we could all make out the craft which was slowly approaching, butnontan, even with the best glass aboard, could satisfy himself that he had over before seen one hke it. It came within a mile pf us and then stopped, and after a long look through the glass the Gap taiu decided that it was no craft at all, but a great log or raft which had been brought off with the tide. This matter having boon settled, and the thing conning no nearer, we gave it no further attention, The calm continued during the afternoon and evening, and as the weather was oppres. sively hot, everybody was idle. When night cane the brig was left in charge of an ofheer and the anchor watch, and nothing occurred to alat'in ns until about en hour before daylight. Then A VOIOE 0001111 AY 011111D out in alarm, and this was followed by snarls and growls and hurried footsteps. The cabin doors and skylight wore open to admit the air, as was also the slide to the fo'castle entrance. Some one rushed down the companion way and ehut andbolted the doors, and a minute later, as we turned out of our berths, we learned what was going on, The officer of the watch said we were boarded by two lions, who had thrifted down upon our bows on what he believed by the smell to be a dead whale. The two sailors had made for the fdcastle and drawn the slide, while he had trade for the cabin to close the doors, The thing seemed so improbable that we were ready to jeer him, even though some of 110 had honed growls, but before any could doubt that the officer was telling the sober truths, we hated the beasts raving along the dock and stopping to raise a great row at the water cask. A heavy sea could not have torn it from its fastenings, but the lions accomplished trot feat it short order. The gentle heave of the brig on the quint sea then rolled the barrel about, and as the water rat into the scuppers TDE num% LAPPED 1T PP with low growls al satisfaction, We saw nothing, but our owe told us all this. Onu noses were soon called into use to give ate further information. A disgusting ode floated down through the skylight, and after a few sniffs the Captain said t "If that isn't a dead whale alongside then I am mistaken in the smell, I never heard that liens cared for whale flesh, but the fel• lows on deck must have fleeted off aho•o on this oarcass, and their long exposer to tit blazing sun lies male them terribly savage." We felt that we mould do nothing until daylight cane. We lighted the cabin lamps, so•that the lions might not leap down tlrongh the skylight, which we weld not close from Within, and then waited. Tltey managed to lap water enough to slake their thirst, and then they went roaming up and down, in search of food. They weld find nothing, tend tie daylight appeared their i11 humor in. creased, They trotted up and down, growl• Mg in tt 5'ay 10 1,11x. 1'.I: Til l ell ttl:l:ti MO it wale 1110ky that all of us were mulct' shelter, 1Vhun day bed fairly comm we stood under the skylight with our guns, toad pre- sently one of the 1111110 mune trotting aft and shuwrd his head over the frame, Three of ns fired at ow same instant, and with stub c1feet that he fell leek dead, The death of one took the courage out of the other, and he ran away to the port how and leaped lip - on the carcass of the whale which still held to tut We heated him run along the (leeks, and for that matter his treed was heavier than that of ally man's, and after a lbit the Captain stole up the coupaniotrw ey and dis- covered and reported 010 ague state of cd airs. Then three 1,f us made shift to get into the Anomie of the nmiemast, and from our safe iimrohnse lie also made an end of the seemed least, wheel was the female lion, and some- what smaller than the other. Although the two pelts were sent to England, and the manner in which they heti come into our p00sessfun was vouched for by Government oflicere of the civil brush, the Liverpool Jlreeney was pleased to come out with the statement that Gulliver was a truthfu1 eau ill k'oloperiSoll with any man aboard a brig. —,.,., •— Great Britain's Fisheries, A correspnudent se11(15 us the following : — '1'he coasts of (Neat Britain, including the adjacent islands and North Sea, have. Inc eelturies furnished vast supplies of ifno food 11s11. What the conditions would have been to -day Mid the sane policy been pursued that obtains ill this Cometh' --the wholesale slaughter of food fish and other game ion sea- son find eat of sensor—it would not be Mi- cah to conjecture, I will now quote from reliable statistics as to the quantity of fisih brought 111 to some of the Eugl sh markets ; time and space would not permit of my go• leg over the ground fully, We will take Billingsgate fish market in the city of London, which has been devoted to the sale of fish aloe for 200 years. The daily average is from 400 to 300 tons, from the 1011113' salmon down to the sprat. The bulk of these fish comes from the east coast and North Sea, During the herring Benson the daily average supply in the above market is 500 tons, In the season. of 1838 from 5011 to 700 tons of herring per day wore shipped to the Billingsgate market alone. More than a quarter million tons of this 00 are landed on the coasts cif (treat Britain, representing a money value of 50,000,000, The Scotch fisheries are said to be the great- est in the world, employing 10,000 boats and 100,000 people. The chief kinds of fist are sebum, haddock, herring and ling. The quantity of haddock shipped to Billingsgate for curing is so large that the authorities have constructed it separate market far the handling of the same, I have not mentioned the Irish fisheries which are very extensive and only need capital to further develop them, 1 nietetiened Billingsgate as Whig the eldest and leading market in this particular 11110 ; but, as many of your rtasel'a will know, it :lues not represeut the entire country. Fis'ey large town possesses a fish market, 'and man' of them two or more, where the fish are disposed of to the fishmongers, who supply the public. The city of Liverpool hats built a second market to meet the increased demands of the trade ; her supplies are drawn from Scotland and Ireland chiefly, livery variety of fish in season ran be purchased in all these markets at very moderate prices. Shellfish I have not mentioned. I do not wish to trespass farther on your valuable space. I have endeavored to prove that the fisheries of Great Britain are not quite ex- hausted, Popping the Qeeetion, "Every girl makes op her mind at some time in ler life that she will never accept any man who does not propose gt'ttcefully," said a man who was sipping claret with severed others the other thty, in the presence of a reporter. "Flo has got to bo fully togged out in a dress suit, and has got to kneel according to the Delsarte custom. That ie the idea at first, but I'll bet there isn't one girl in a hundred who ever gets het' proposal '111 that way—at leant from the one she accepts—and I'll leave it to the present company to decide, if each one will give the circumstance of his proposal." "We're in," said a gray-haired Benedict. Begin with your own." "All right. I took my wife that was to be, and is now, sleigh riding. We were talking about sentimental things and neg- lected to notice that we mu on to a stretch of road which the wind had cleared of snow. We never noticed it until the horse stopped utterly exhausted, There was nothing to do but to get out and lead the horse beck, because he couldn't drag tis. I proposed on the way back, while I was trudging along a country road, with my left hand on Who horse's bridle and theother—well, never mind that. She accepted me, but she al- ways said it was a mistake. I refused to let her off, though, or to propose again in a dress slut,' "My proposal," said the gray-haired old man, "was made also during a sleigh ride, ily wife and myself were in the back seat in a four -seat sleigh, and, in going over a bump of some kind, the seat, with us on it, was thrown off. We landed in a nice com- fortable snow drift, land the sleigh went on for a mile before we were missed. When it came back for us, however, we were en - abaged. We weren't in a dignified position, ut ave were fairly comfortable and we had the seat still with us. Since then my wife Hae frequently stated that she had intended never to accept a man unless he proposed in true novel form, but she dict" "I'll give you a summer story," said a young man but recently married, '1 I did my eonrting in apiece full of romance, but the proposal never came ata romantic tone ; in fact, I don't think a man is responsible for Ole time he proposes. It just cones and that is all there is about it. I had had Ole most favorable occasions in romantic nooks, Finally, I hal a two•ntilo row 111 elle hot sllh. 1 apologized and took off any coat ; then I apologised again and took off my vest. It wasn't ronantic, but it caro o1 me and I said it. The boat drifted half a mile and I wouldn't have cared if it had drifted tel miles. We were engaged. And I looked like a tratnp at 111e ohne," "And 1'11 tell you that sentimentality doesn't go," said a lawyer. "I know, be- cause I've tried it I proposed to my wife first at a summer resort, when the moon was full and I was sober. There was everything to inspire sentiment. Bet she refused me. I let it go, A little later I met her again in the parlor of the hotel and suggested marrnag° again. She e0o9tcd The then, There was nothing to inspire sentiment in the laet meeting, and, 'therefore, I say sentiment doesn't go." It was the sentiment of the meeting that no girl is proposed to in the way she ex. peots. When one looks on the thousand anal 0110 poor, foolish, ignoble faces of this world, and listens to the chatter az poor and foolish es the faces, one, in order to Have any proper respect Inc them, is forced to remember that "^4mmity of death, which is silently smite Mg, VIOTIM OFA RABID DOG. .See, teemed CDni(ns eitinxt'irlI,tllit and foot Before tieing mad, ,Intoes Berard, of S1llitidi:4cl, 111,, wee hit• ten awe yenta ago by 0 rabid dog, A mndetone WW1 tip tided, and he was pronounced oared. Some dart ago a hound wont mud near Cuba, and ran tennek through the country, biting stook and other animals, Before its journey was ended it had Ninon 41 WOOS 1110ttrd anti two other persons, The dog passed 1111 141111 lylpearo i at 13ushtlell, in \1e Dough vomit ry, where it roused much ter- ror, liecard and the other two victims went immediately to Denner and applied the mad. steno, 1t adhered tenaciously in emelt ease, especially that of Beetled, to whom 0overll tip• phcatlone were made, The num returned home satisfied that titedanger was mimed. lleotn'd, huw'over, decided to protect his fondly 0!l,,ttfnst any pOOeible evil results and chained IOutsell hand and foot, so that if he went mad le could injure no 0110, Fiirt friends wore unlined to riclicule his precautions, but he remained than, Two days ago Beetled be. gen to slum evidence of hydrophobia. It is friencls and 1,5111ly becalm :deemed, std in his last sae 1110111011 111 Sward bogged that le might be more securely gl trdell, 00 that no )farm aright conte to his Loved Mee, The haul's sufferings becan10 terrible. lie Laved constantly lf them 9 11(11 of dogs that were jumping at hint. The sight of water threw the soflerer ince spumes, Then earths intervals of harking std yelping and snap" ping tat aoythig fn sight, Death relieved bene and the other evening. The other two 1000 are in an agony of fear, The authorities have issued mi order that all dogs in the township must be killed, WIRELETS. Abort 10.1,000 salmon fi'y were placed 11 Lake Ontario, near Kingston, on Monday. The crews of the French tsar ships off the const of Dahomey are sufi'ering severely trent fever. Mr. Moylan, Inspector of Prisons, evho has been very ill at the Kingston Peniten- tiary, is slowly recovering. The Winnipeg civic estimates Dhow that 5389,01)1) nest be raised, and the rate of tax. atinn will probably be two cents nu the dollar. Mr. Stinson W. Wilson, organist of St, Andrew's church, London, Ont., formerly of Toronto, diel suddenly ht London yesterday morning. The lioulangists have decided to reorgan- ire the party, chicly with the view ofkeep- ing intact their gr•tip in the Chamber of t)Spstiee, A novel appearing in a Belgrade new•s- paper, in which a ruthless attack is made upon ex -King Milan, is attributed to ex. (sheen Natalie, Patrick Hynes, of Greenport, N. Y., trea- surer of the Ancient Order of Hi1ernians, has disappeared, after confessing to the em- bezzlement of 52,800. Do Heads Grow With Age? Some amusing letters have appeared in a daily contemporary in regard to an alleged steady increase in the size of Mr. Gladstone's head, which, it is said, is rendered manifest by a progressive enlargement in the else of the hat required to cover it. The corres- poulence exhibits an extraoi Binary igne• ranee of well-aseettoined facts ; for, if there is one thing which would be acknowledged by all anatomists and physiologists, it is that the nervous system, like other parts of the body, undergoes slrophy with advanc- ing age—an atrophy that pervades every tissue, and is as apparent in the thinning of the vocal chords that alters the voice to " childish treble," as in the shrunk shanks for which the "youthful hose, well saved, are a world too wide." No reason can he assigned why the brain should escape the general change that affects the digestive and the circulatory systems alike. Its attributes and faculties attain their highest excellence at or before mid -age, and from that time forth exhibit only a steady decline. To compare Mr. Gladstone with Napoleon, respecting whom a similar story is related, is absurd. The head of Napoleon may have grown between twenty ani. forty-five, be- cause his brain was greatly exercised during the last ten years of the past century and the first ten of the present; but no calls have been made on Mr. Gladstone of late years at all comparable to the strain on the mental and bodily powers of the French Emperor during that eventful period. The ossification of the sutures of the minden' practically prevents increase of the volume of the brain h1 advanced life ; and even granting some slight increase, such increase would be compensated for by the attenete tion of the cramalhees which le Well known to occur in old cage. A change in farm there may be, but none in size. —The Lancet. Fireproof Wood. The recent discovery by a New England chemist of a cheap method of dissolving zinc by combining it with hydrogen is regarded as a most valuable one. The product is a solution called zinc water, and hats the property of making wood to which it has been applied absolutely fireproof, and at a very low cost. This discovery ie likely to revolutionize ere insurance, as well as to int mensely decrease the lore by fire. Types Versus Poetry. ' ...Managing Editor—What was it that young fellow wanted? Office Boy—He saws that he wrote a son- net entitled "Dolly a Dimples," and it got into the paper headed "Dolly's Pimples," and that he wants it explained, as it got him into trouble with something he calledijhis feeausay, The Hintloo barbers of Bombay macre at extraordinary demonstration in the last weep of April. A monster meeting was held for the purpose of considering the gnostiou of shaving the heads of Hindoo widows, at old onstom. About 400 barbers having assembled, one of then, Babajee More, elated that the barbers of oltl were happy and contented, bet latterly lad been weighted with a curse. 'Trade had fallen off and they had become poor. The curse could only be accounted for by the fent that shaving the )leads of poor, innocent widows was a sin, It ware against the Hindoo Soriptures to deprive a widow of her hair. The erecting 'thereupon resolved that no barber should shave a widow's head, and that if he dill he should bo excommunicated. very far from Malpas, and for nearly an hour this lad kept the field, taking whatever carne fn his way, lliabull, known as Billy, is amid c have hard. neither bridle nor saddle upon him, yet the rider controlled 13i11y to 0ueh an extent that, whilst getting iia own full share of the sport, Inc tncommpded tib elle, A ROUGH EXPERIENOE, The Steamship Frenlentt in It :\esl. of DSC. l,0,'as It tering a Veg. MO ceeteM., May 20, -;'Phe Thomson line SS, Premium which has arrived in port fro01 Neweastle had a very startling r:x1perienec with the ice ,Lent 1001 riles the ether side of Cape Bay, The ship ins elevating l! ((iy through 0 dense fog last \Vednesdny when elto got right in the midst of a pack of ice Milting southward with the Al t10 current. After pounding about in the ice for same hours the fog lifted and showed the vessel to be in a clangorous position. All around her were heavy hmnnoeks of ice ten feet deep in the water laid showing about a foot throve the surfnee, Gradually nearing the steamer and crushing in the smaller pieces of fee in their way were a number of huge icebergs. The captain tied chief officer climbed to the emethea(1 a1111 f(tUllil thee the ice extended es far ns the eye coatd reach un all sides. There were 1)) l lrods 0 seals nn the ire, some of thane being close to the ship. Aftrr taking two hours to tarn the ship she was headed southward and worked her way out of the ism, (hying to the movement of such a large inns of ice southward it is feaee tint 113%110110n will he seriously in- terfered with, Strange Incident on an English Railway. The London and North-Weotern Company's clothed yes have been i nvestigastittgan extraor- enemy affair which took phaco oitherailw•ay between ('revue and Nantwich. On 11e Liv- erpool and Shrewsbury mail pissing the sig- nahnno's box, two Utiles south of Crewe, just after midnight, the pointenran saw one of the doors of the carriage open, and a men ',ling• iog to the side of the train. He turned the Me - twice signal against the train, but the engine was travelling et good speed, and the driver had ah'ealy passed beyond the sigma, He then telegraphed to Willaston, and the ex- press was stepped, There o10 of the carriage doors was found open. Search was made along the line, std a teal's hat was found. It appears a Nantwich tradesman afterwards turned tip at Crewe with bus head badly ant, awl engaged a cab to take hien hone. From his statement he appears to have left Crewe with the train, and lumped out or fell out. Sugl,g gestisms were first made that an outrage had boon committed, and he hail been robbed a1111 thrown out. The authorities, however, declined to credit such a story, and 011 the malt being waited en on Tuesday he said he did not remember getting out of the train, but found himself during the night .walking along the railway towards Crewe, He says he had gone into the wrong train, and lead been taken round by Stafford. The aHhir has caused considerable continent fn the neighbntrhood, The man had a most mira- culous escape from being cut to pieces, Infant Feeding, A physician of a New York dispensary has recently made tt careful study cif the val- ue of different foods customarily given to infants deprived of nursing mother, with the following conclusions (1)Iiifants deprived of human breast milk should be fed, first of all, with cow's ntilk, diluted. (l) Infants artilicially fed should not be fed every two hours, for the reason that inoro than that time, as a rule, s nes- meaty to digest the food given. Herein is furnished the Leet of evidence that infants, even in the earliest days of life, ought not to be fedoftencr than once in three lours. A Liberal Corporation. Grateful Citizen—"I wee delighted to read in the papers that you had refused to raise the price of ice." President Ice Colnpany—"That is true 1\'e shall make no change in the price, The only change will be in the lumps.' Life in Toronto,. Air. Nubbins—"Well, may clear, did yon succeed in matching that ribbon ?" Mrs. Nubbins (tired to death and maul as a hornet) --"The next time I start out shop ping with an empty pocket -book you'll know it," Mr, N.—"But, my dear, you said you wanted only a little change to get some rib- bon, a mere thread to piece out with, and you asked for ten cents. I handed you a dollar." Mrs. N.—"Well, and I had to go fifteen or tweuty places before I could get what I wanted, and when I finally found the rib- bon I couldn't buy it, because the miserable little dollar had all been used up in car fere," Don't Nag. Whatever else yon do, young wife, don't "nag" the man you have married. Burn his bread, give hint pies and cake thatyou learn- ed to make at the cooking school, allow 111 ]reels and toes the inestimable privilege of free ventilation, spend his money, if you can get it to spend ; but, for sweet charity's sake, don't "nag" hint, says Parlor and Kitchen, A husband is a fellow•ereatu'e. He has rights which ought to be respected ; and a fault-findin(lwoman ie worse than a smoking chimney in a perpetual nortltea0t rain storm, She Reminded Him of the Sea, Mr, Gay Lant—"You are fond of the sea, I presume, Miss little" Mies Butie—"Indood I am not, I was once sea -sink." Mr; G. L.—"I should have thongllt you were fond of the see; you remind me of tt." Mies I3.—"I remind you of it. How ?" Mr, G. L,—"Why your teeth are like paella, your lips like coral, your ears like pink tinted 'hello and your eyes like the deep, unfathomable ocean,' Miss B.—"You flatterer." Then something followed which was not entirely without maritime associations. It• was a little smack, Not His Fault. Indignant Drnamncr--I told you five or six tunes to wake one tip this morning at seven. Here it is ten o'clock. Why didn't you wake me up sooner? Hotel porter—I did woke you up sooner, boss, only you didn't hear me. How Shall we be Exomted? Brown—Do you believe in hanging as a, punishment for crime? Robinson—Yes, I think it has a positive influence in the suppression of crime. Brown—Humph i 11 metes to me that it liar more of a neck•ative MI111611oe, Special festivities are under consideration for the welcoming of the Deka and Duchess of Connaught at Windsor Castle, hire, Youhgwife»—"Did you ever try any ofnybisouits,vind ePower7",ludgePowe'... 'No, I never slid; but 1 claim •ooi they deserve it,"