HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-6-13, Page 3,T[rmi 13, 1800,
LATE FOREIGN NEWS,
The Next Goi.:;:n Mano3uvres,
A HORNED MAN DISCOVERED,
The New Itapld riring Gun.
A HUSBAND SBLLS HIS WIFE,
Bold Operations by Brigands,
The ettbseriptione lot Berlin and Hamburg
for a nationalmenument to Bleinarelt amount
to 1 50,000 marks.
Dr. Chambeland, Pastear's chief asaist.
ant, has dinoveved that dilemma its fatal to
the typhoid microbe.
The pope luts proteetea against the placing
do tahlet to the nunnery of Garibaldi in the
Church of Santa Maria Novella at Floe.
once,
The businese of the Transeaaplan Railway
melted a value of 120,000 ruhlea (about
$0,3,000) per week, chiefly front cotton, which
is now largely eultivated in Central Asitt
The Parie Tribunal, ia the comae of a
gambling muit, announced the doctrine that
the law grants no action for the payment
of a bet when it is not made on a game in
which eitill is required."
At the next German manteuvres there
will be an extremely interesting event, in to
battle between one corps aimed with the
new ritle and ammunition and another corps
with the old equipment.
A real horned man luta been diseovered by
Capt. Albornog on the Grau Chaco in the
.A.rgentine Republic. He is tall, with a tall
beard, and two any pmfeet horns like those
of a Meg on his forehead.
A Rllasiall ukase has just been Issued per.
vatting the employ/net of women On rad.
TOIDIS. On the -Tone -Caspian line there are
female station intiatet,s, traffic timeagers,
sigma women, and point women.
The latest researchea show that in Romo's
most fit:wishing period the city had 1,300,
000 in habitante ; 325 A. D, it had 300,-
000 • 01 1377 only 17,000 undue Leo X.
40,060 ; in 1 537 about 03.000 ; 187 1 it
rose. to 244,000, in 1 881 to 300,000, and in
1.8a9 to more than 41 0,000.
Au Italian Senator has written a pamph.
let to prove that Emperor William's sudden
amigo from militeimen 1,0 constitutional
liberalism, is a marked case of ataviam,
direot reversion from his lit:Mien admire,
lion of his grandfather to tht: natural de.
ments inherited from his mild &thee and
mother,
A new constitution will go lido effect
threughout the empire of Japen on July 1,
1 8041 A peel ia, mut consistino of two
:bodies will be established. govern-
ment will be medulled on that of the V. S.
A special agent from, Japan ia now Wash-
ington studying the legislative end judicial
inethode of the government.
The landoteners of the Crimea, unwilling to
pay Russian farm hands the wages they aek
for their work, have started a movement to
import laborers from Persia, They nut an
agent, a certain Ter-Akopolf, to the R,tutesian
provittees ort the Joatitates telir•Doxia) to on.
gage stall laborers. The prineipal mover of
the scheme is yew:Ovate-1 ein, the wealthiest
sheephreeder of southern Ruasits
Visitors to Ifeidelburg will hereafter be
relieved of the neceseity of climbing up the
long, winding road leading to the celebrated
old castle end other points of Interest in the
neighbol•hood, An incline ralboad lots been
built, from the Kornmarkt the Genteel
part of the town to the matte and the Mel-
kenkur, the famous mountain restaurant.
At Torrolagorda, Cadiz, a Maxim auto.
mad° rapid -firing gun weighing about 300
pounds, threw projectiles weighing some-
thing over one pound at 100 rated fifty shots
ill ten seconds. In a high wind it put forty.
seven shots out of fifty In a target GOO metres
distaut. Afterward it fired fifty explosive
shelle in ten wends at 2,000 metres range,
and a dozen shots pierced the target.
The Waterloo ballroom, where onee there
was a, sound of revelry by. night, and all
went 100009 as a marriage bell just before
Napoleon's overthrow, is for safe. It is the
upper story of a now desertedbrowery in the
Rue de la Illanchisserie, Brussels. lb is
1-ery laege room with rough beams support-
ed by a, row of six woodett pillars in the con.
tre, and tho upset price 10 192,000 fumes.
The Vienna Refelts•Oorresponclenz announ-
ces that the Pope recently addeessed dr.
elder to about a, hundred Bishops in differ.
ant countries asking whether, iu their opin.
ion, the proolamation of the dogma of the
temnoral power of the Holy, See would be
opportune., Sixty-eix Bishops are said to
have declared hi favor of the dogma, while
all the Italian 13ishops exposed themselves
as opposedto it. The jesuiteare it favor of
proclaiming the dogma without delay:
Bavaria has more associations or " vomits"
in proportion to its population than any
ether land in the world. la Furth, with its
35,500 inhabitants, there are 315 Reseda -
tions, that is, one for every 11 2 persoes. Er-
langen has one to every, 130; Nurnberg, one
to every 150; Landahut and Bayreuth, one
to every 170; Regensburg, one to every 200;
Munich, Augsburg, and Wursburg, one to
every 250, In Berlin„ on the other hand,
the proportson is wily one to eyery GOO.
In upper Heicluk, Sileata, workman
sold Ins wife for a tertn of two years to it
friena for 0, mark. The wife lived with her
new partner in harmony, 'When One day the
lawful. husband, thinking be had sold her
too cheap, called uPon the man and demniided
a further stun of lb intu'its. Ho said that she
'11841 a sot of beautiful tooth, whith he had
forgotten, and he wanted 15 marks entre,
The bu,yer refused, aid the husband went to
Iftw. The judge said that es he had made
contraot for a mark he was not entitled to
any further sum.
The cultivation of cotton in the Asiabie
provinees of Russia has been rapidly &nation'
ing for the last four years. Merchant:a and
menufaethrers hogintoapprociatothe import.
anco of this industry, earl invest large stuns
in the purchase of Arnerittan seed, which
they dietribute atIong planters in the poo.
vine° of Sir.Daria and adjoining Ruston
territory, They 0.1S0 advance money to
planters on the expecteet crop. The papora
imanintously eneourage this entorpriso,which
they say will in, time 1100001e au object of
national importance,
Some Russian explorers°, while ago tonna
in an isolated corner of theTion•Shan Moun-
tains of coated Asia et solitary Gortnan, who
had otacte himself qffite comfortable in a
house of unbelted bricks, and WaS devoting
his timo to collectitg Mewls and, birds for
the Berlin Museum, Ova hundrocl mama -
Bets aro said to be entistied around in the
remote places of the worla studying phases
of natUro with svhich we aro least aegnanttecl,
and getheritg speohnene for mamma of not,
nralhistary and privet to:collection, It is not a
very remunerative bushing, butit le a °harm -
big lifefor those who love it and perhaps
mere money get tore aril rarely so happy US
Olefin ontlnenstie edit:Mora when, 11050 and
aunt, they dimovee eomething newe
The Munittipal Cott:tell of alt, Peternburg
reeeived on May 1 the relemts of the eity
hompitabt and the detrital:1e eeeletien connect.
erl with them. :Vann thee reporta it ap•
peen; that of 01111 eight, hospiteht of the eity,
only one, the Olinkliovskaya, has a eueiety
with a (wild of 1:14,000 rubles ; two have
no midi moulutlea at all ; the eentainieg
line societies whose capital, rangi ag epee
43,000 to 0,000 rubles, In Inadequate te
feature any beneficial rentals. The 11111110He
of S/Iell Hoitietiee in to afford aesietathee
patiente until they can go to
work, The 01 unielpal Cotnicil has sent t•ir•
enters to all real testate ON0110.1.0 of the eity,
erghtg them to 1,000010 members ef the hos-
plot societies,
An inland eteaniship courpony of (Mena
has laid down regulations by which Mute -
tendons nobles fied thetneelves at a great
disadvantage. The company eta:taffies its
paseengerts not neording to the fare they
pay,:but aueording to;thet r rasped, i Ve StettOlIS
m society, Common °hiatus are not ailowed
to take pa.ssage in a cabin, while noblee can.
not take passage in the steerage. The fare
ft•om Odessa Vladivostok costs 500 roubles
in the cabin and only 120 roubles in the steer-
age. The wealthiest commoner cannot have
the cemforts of a cabin passenger, nor can
the poorest noble got elleap transportation in
the steerage, But while the former 01111
reach his destination If Ito waives the ad.
vantages of a cabin paseengee, the latter is
decidedly unable to move if ho eanuot raise
the 500 roubles.
A strange occurrence took place recent-
ly in Moscow, A peasant, Ivan Pendia by
name, met tWO W01310n the Khitroy mar-
ket who carded a pitchey of kense.—The
day was very warm, The women offered
Pradin a drink, which he itecepted grate-
fully. Bat no sooner had he tasted of the
moue beverage, the favorite drink of Ruseian
peasants, than he experienced a strong head.
aeho and nausea, By a etrong (Alert be
fnund a policeman, whom he informed that
he was siek, and begged to take 0001 to the
hospital. Arrived there, he kn'aS foltild to
be poisoned with phosphorus, Tho W0111011
in the mean titne were lost in the crowd.
As Prudin wee almost last:ranger in Moscow,
and as no attempt at robbeoy was made in
connection with his poisoning, the police
are at a loss to con leeture the motive of the
deetl. At the hospital Antidotes were ad-
ministered itt time to save the man's life;
but, he is unable to tell who the two women
were that poisoned him, or even to describe
their appearance, The pitcher, with the
rest of the poieoued hews in it, was found
on the sidewalk,
The greatest operation by briganda lately
11°,8 been achieved by a l7onouinese band near
Haiphong, Two Fren011 gentlemen, AI.
Roque end M. Costa, had been captured by
a chief Lun-Ky and wore permitted to choose
between having their heads cut off ;ma pay:-
ing a sum as ransom. The French Prem.
(lent a,t Doug-trien, at tile entreaty of the
prisoners, advanced to the brigands' strong-
hold with an escort or marines oarrying the
ransom. When they had reached the camp
Lroi-Ky regeired the President to come up
to the fort with only priest, who aeted as
intez'proter, and men sufficient to carry the
ransom. That was in five cheats, and con.
aisted 01 '110,000 in money, 100 pieces of
silk and twelve watches. The brigands at
first' objected to the quality of the silk, hut,
on being assured that it wa-s the best which
(meld be peoeured in Halphoeg at 80011 short
notiee, allowed it to pass. -The captives
were then released mid the brigands retired,
latu-Ky is described as being.. only 90 IOW'
of age, and to have behaved with great nisei -
mice to the arench President. IC /tie tho
ransom was being examtned the Peesttlent
was :tureen:tiled by 1400110400 brigands, kneel-
ing, Ivith their rifles ready to fire at the Mast
An Automaic Portrait Machine,
The latestdevelopment of the penny auto-
matic delivery box is a =thine for taking
portraits, which willshortly be competing in
railway stations and other publio -places
with the sweetmeat and eigavette boxes.
A private 01010.1 of this ingenious piece of
mechanism was given yesterday at the
works of Messrs, Salter & Co., spring balance
manufacturers, West Bromwich, and was
attended bye, large number of scientifie ex-
perts. The machine is in the form of a large
square box, mounted on hollow pedeatd.
011 the front centre is a smalllens,suemount-
ed by a, nArroe, a slot for pence is 01 the top
left.hand corner, while a mailer slot for
halfpetee, in the opposite corner, is for the
supply of brass folding frames for the mount-
ing of the photographs. The person to he
photographed takes his Maori in front of
the lens, with his back to a post or rail
fixed at a distant:0 of three feet from the
maehine, and adjusts himself so that his
fall face shell be reflected it the mirror.
With his loft 110401 he then puts a penny in
the slot, and remain motionless for five
seeonds, when the sound of a, bell announces
that the impeeesion 10 complete. In forty
seconds more the finished photograph, On a
metal plate, drops through the delivery
hole on to a small shelf, and the proems is
complete. An extra, halfpenny lain procure
a suitable !mune, but this luxury is optionaA,
9111e impressions resemble those of the olteap
glass positive photogettpits, only that tin.
plate's subatiteted for glass, The mooluntism
Is at present a seeret, but, the principle ap.
pears to be that of a rotary them, which
carries the plate through a wanes of ohm-nice:I
baths till the impeession is devdoped and
fixed. There were a few hitebes yesterday,
whieli were accounted for by the improvised
eharader of the arrmaigements. but the
resulta appeaced to give satisfaction to the
groat majority of the persona who tested
the poweesof the mach010. It is understood
that a company veil( be formed to work the
invention,
feminine Cleverness,
What is really a clever woman ?
A 'deem woman is one who looketh well
aftee the ways of her own hoaschold.
A clever Weltleal is one who undertakes
nothing that sho does not underatalid.
A. °lever woman is one who is mistress of
tact, and knows 1.10W to make tho sooial
wheels rnn smoothly,
A dem woman is one who makes the
other woman think herself the cleverest.
A clever woman is oto who acts like hot
water on tee, ; sho bringa the sweetness and
stoength out of everybody dee:
A clever woman is 0110 W110 ttlWaya makett
the best of any situation.
A. clever W0111611 iS 0110 whose i
never unpleasantly felt by the 0 o st of th
wet (
.A. elever woman is one who acknowletlges
hoe neighlaa's right to live, who doesn't be.
Hove that she alone is the motive power of the
world,
A clever woman is ono who is at ease in
any place and among any people.
A clever 'woman is the woman, my friend
that you and I should. Want for a guldo
ounsollor and friend,
TZEE .BRUSSEL$ POST.
LAUGHLETS.
The stablest weak of Loupe or pen are
then mid words ; "Say, heti me ten,
A paper advertime a rattle for a 00 IV. It
W111 IW 111111C .01111,10.
Ladies attend baseball games in large
numbers. They are 011 the lOoltellt for a
good old .1,,
ihet never call mu Birdie' any
More." 1.the ....Still 1 thitik yeti are as 11111011
of a jay as ever."
1' There is very little poetry in a W
fife, 1 eth teli you," litit law.
yers are dway0 writing vereue."
" Jamea, I am eleaning house, tie let e
geed fellow and beat 110 earDot 11011/11."
.1 No, I 1111110 I'll 8111100 it title year." •
11,1110--" lea the little things that tell 111
this life." Alhe -11 Well, yoti'd think 441, if
you leui tom small brothert0 as I have."
A mother may have taper fingers, but her
little boy, wheu eorrected, does tot vonsiel.
et' holt halal the lighter on that aucouut
Bilious —" I sleep in feathers, but I be-
lieve its unhealthy." 'Pliant —1' What's
that I Look et the Spying chieken ; see how
tough he fe."
If the suggestion doesn't come too late in
the season, why not make an effort to 00a-
struet the epring chicken so as to eecure
more chicken and less opting,
"Why, George," she exclahnerl, tromu•
lonely, as she felt his arm steal about her
Blender wale, "what am you doing?" 'Try -
big to operate a belt lino, dear,"
MeCermielt—"I went two poached eggs
on toast." Waiter --"Yes, sir," "And he
aure and have them freall laid." "Yes, air ;
I'll have them laid on the toast, air."
Popinjay—"They say that Ales. Bigeby
makes thinge hot for her husband." Dump-
sey(who has breakfasted with /31gsby)—
"That certainly doesn't apply te his coffee."
Maeriago in moderation is a geed thing,
but too much of it—well, too much of it ls
certainly apt to make a 1111111 sneaking, mis.
anthropue vound-shouldered and often bald,
His visage ia cerulean -hued.
Because at home so much he's harried
Short-sighted man, he wasn't shrewal,
That Is to may until he married.
"My income is small," said a rather dil-
atory lover, "and pethaps it le cruel of me
to take yeu /vett your father's roof." "But
I don't live On the roof," Wee the prompt
response,
I suppose you met the sould lions while
in London ?" He —"Can't my that 1 did,
but I met one in Africa once. And he
wanted to invite me inside as soon as he
sale me."
She ---"There's that Englishman tanning ;
he seems upeet ohout semothing." He(from
the rone11)—"Very likely; I jnst told him a
funny story and said I would e01110 again
toonorrow to hear hint laugh over it,"
Fashion's Paradox.
I know not why, by folly whirled.
You :should be prone nue charms. to bare ;
The richer yam grow iu this world,
The less you seem to have to wear.
De Smith—"Is Ponsonby a bigamist ?"
Travis—"A. bigamist ! I guess not
What made you think in ?" De Smith—
"Oh, 1 don't know. I thought I heard his
wife telling. somebody that Dr. Switellem's
Wreed Tomo had made another woman of
her."
Sho--"Ain 1 the firse woman you. 01.00
loved. ?" Ile—"I think you are the first I
ever truly loved. I have beea mtracted
more or less by other women, but ia each
instatoe, before I fell in love with you,
there could be found some rational excuse
for it "
Miss Cladder—"Oh, dear, I do hate
Spring 1 It's snch hard work for me to
select becoming gowes and bonnets. I do so
envy leIrs. Mayfair." :Mrs. Chatter—" Why,
my love ?" Miss fladder—"Beeause she
has such lock that scarcely three months
pass that she does not lose a relative."
SAVED PROM THE ROBBERS.
A. Contractor's Forgetfulness Pewees or
Great Value to Mtn.
Some years ago a prominent railroad huild-
er Of WarSaW, Poland, experienced one of
the most remarkable "narrow escapes" on.
record. He WAS employing several thousand
laborers along the line of a, railway then
untler construction, and as there were few
banks in the proviuoial towns of Poland in
those days, Ile was compelled, to carry svith
hint large sums of money from headquarters
on his regular trips, to pay off his hands.
He usually draw the amouet he netted from
the Bank of Poland on the clay before his
departure, keeping, the mouey over night in
tau own safe, which he considered a perfect-
ly aecare depository for these funds, as the
art of saftneraeking was to/ yet very exten-
sively known at that time.
. One at ternoon, as heaves engaged in count-
ig and arranging' the nieney ho had just
drawn from the bank, some ote called him
into the outer office on some urgent busineas.
Ma—threw newspaper on the bank notes
which he had spread Celt 011 1110 Safe and
stepped out, expecting to be back directly.
On his return few Minutes later ho very
carefully looked his safe and went home.
Whon he entered. hie office about 0 o' clock
the next morning to get the money from the
safe he was terror-stricken on finding that
the We had been broken open and its
valuable contents tvere missing, Doteetives
Nter0 Called At once, but when they arrived
and started to make a careful survey of the
promises, they found all the money lying in-
tact 011 the safe, still covered with the news.
paper which the contender had threwu over
it the day before! He had forgotten to put
the money into the safe before lockitg the
latter, and the bueglaes uner thought of
looking anywhere else for valuables, but took
tho few hutdred wattles they. foutd in the
safe and departed. His forgetfulness saved
the contractor about 80,000 roubles,
The Ximber Myste17.
IfomratM.,, June 7. --Judge Degas, the
Police Magistrate, has received instillations
front the Attorney -General to commence an
itvestigation into the lchnber mystery.
Detentes Grose, of theScoretSer vice Agee ey,
has received instructions to do the detective
work. He has forwarded -a report to the
Dominion Government in whieh he expresses
the belief that Itimber mot 1110(10,th through
foul play. .
Brief Collect for the Day,
Lord of the Sabbath 1 Lord of all the days
of time Lora of eternity. Wo lift our
voices in prayer and prone to Thee, Fill
our 11111010 with thoughts of Thee our hearts
with love of Theo so may this lie indeed. a
Sabbath of rest and peace awl joy. A fore-
taste of that Sabbath that shall be rich in
°enclose songs and loudest halleinjelts.
,
There no many Widen% who've founa
Their first experiment aunt,
So married a mond husband
To revenge themseIve8 on the first
4 • ',^
Pam Telegraph Operating -neva Wert or
Emmett Tr) egraphera A Novel pr000st.
tion to net taid or Ow Insect re,t A
Wider snhere for the Phonograph.
The tptesthei "What is good Mot!eu?"
whieh 1,1,4 lately been no frequently pro.
,ounded, .wowered pert. "Nloree "
eaya, "is the teem applied to he quality;
01 the uork done by an operator in tinits-
milting a toe ,tuo, UTITy oper-
Ater 01.11.1H '‘ice se,' either good, b.el, or
indilret 01,t. When . let dots, tlashee, awl
.11,111e5 11•4•14 in the Morse alphabet are of
91.09"1' size, perfeetly diseernible, anti
vastly read v. e say an operator sends good
1141erse.' If the message is reeeivid on a
sounder, the ear is depen&ri (nem te judge
the quality of the 'Morsc,qatt if the message
re,H.i01.11 the hoe. of 14 tieker the quality
may be el:served. by the nppeatunce of the
prin 01 slip, "
An enalynie of the phenomenal work done
by Pollock, tho winner of the recently fast
000(0119 telegraph tournament, Shone that
the 270 WordH tranainitted in five minuttia
call for 1 ,223 letters and eleven punctuat lone,
or Bay 1,234 letters in all, To make these
letters 2,834 impulses into doh mond, and
as each impulse mile for a down and up
motion of the key, tho hand and fingers vf
the operator had to nuke nearly nineteen
more:mute per seeond for 300 conseentive
seconds, P. B. Delany, a telegrapher of
world-wide reputation, commentiug 011
this tournament, says "1110 my' mind the
great speed and general excellence of the
work at the young 1(0311011 WW1 the moist
remarkable feature of the contest. IL WM 0.
revelation to one who has not been very
dome to the sounder for some •Intrs. I
considered 32 or 33 words per minute the
wi toting speed in their class, but how the
glory of old times faded when 40 and a
fraetion were poltaal out with ease and
grace without uhlying lt 1101.1110t String 1
1.111110 the quality of- the young wenten'e
work averaged higher than t hat of the men, In
the mere matter of speed, the W0111011'S Neork
averaged 303 words per minute, against, the
oi the men.
There is great dissatisfaction among the
entployues in the telegraph sort -leo in Eng-
land, and this dimontent, hos culminated 111
the formation of a Postal l'elegraph Clerk's
Aasociation. The chief grievances complain-
ed of arc insufficiency of pay, overwork, and
stagnation of promotion. Anothergrievance
is the deduotion of pay (luting mei:teas,
which eartoiely netts menowhat hard when
the unhealthy uonditions under whiell melt
of the telegraph work of Eagland done is
taken into cousideration. As an 1.11Si:shoe of
the vast amount of -trade that has to be dealt
with, it may be noted. that on the night that
Mr, Ohulstone introduced his Home Rule
Bill no fewer then a million and a half worda
were flashed Atm the Centeal Telegraph
Office in LontIon. Owing to the leek of
eneouragement, so dissatisfied are many
telegraph operators with their present posh
don and future prospeots that of late large
numbers have left the service and alma out,
to the colunies,
A method of bleaching by 01w:tricky ha8
been introduced into Russia, where chloride
of magneaitun, which has hitherto been
laegely need in the industry, ie rare atna ex.
pensive. The apparatus requiree little care
et' atteution, the operator having merely tn
empty awl refill, from time to time, the tank
containing the salt solation in width. the
electrolytic apparatus is pland.
Two of the principal objections which have
been urged against, the phonograph and other
talking instruments with which tho public
have become tolerably familiar, aro the me-
tallic quality of the voice reproduced, and
the necessity of using hearing tubes arising
from the peer '110111Me of the reproduction.
Bettini claims that in his mime -gra.
phophone those difficulties have 1101.? boon
overcome by the employment of Revere' in-
dependent diaphragms untead of the one
diaphragm of the usual instrument. It is
said that the reproauotion of the human
voice is singularly clear and free front ally
harshness or metallic sound. By the use of
a nommetallic trumpet the tones aro still
further softened. /11 reproducing music the
tones of different pitch nem out with singu-
lar distinctness and, what is a crucial test,
the timbre of 'the voice is admirably pre-
served. The characteristics of the record
arc relative loudness and absolute dietinet-
nese. Even a whimper is whispered back feom
the diaphragm very clearly.
Not, long ago. a philanthropic naturalist
proposed the establishment of a dragon fly
where the insect could be propagated for the
purpose of eating up the mosquitoes. The
dragon fly theory, however, linnet justified
the sangume hopes with which it was put
forward, and a oorreepondent comes to the
front with another preposition. "It seems
to me," he saYs,"that the best way to rid
cities of mist -palm is to use tne electric
light." He states that when the aro lamps
were first introduced in New Orleans the in-
sect population of the neighboring swamps
flocked to the city. The region beyond the
radiue of the lampe was clear of the nom
Wend tormentore, while the sidewalks and
made twouud light wore strewn every
ntortting tvith dead and dying. Ile propos-
es to reverse this (me -ration told, by hanging
enormous clueters of eleetrio lights beyand
the outskirts of the oily, lure thereto the
whole of the neighboring inseet population.
To the ingenuity of this gentleman is ft1-
lied a commendable, if somewhat san.
gedne, commercial instinct, for he adds ;
"Arrangements might be made for collect.
ing these after they had committed suicide,
as thoy all do, by flying at thu lamps, and
it is -probable that they could be sold as
fertilizers for a sum largo eimegli to pay the
eon of maintaining the lights,"
The pleasing novellas boon ammunced that
not only is the nso of the cloctrie station in-
dicator rapidly spectating, but is likely to
ecnne into general adoption over the railway
lines of this country before long. The be.
toted ana weary eannumter ean now rouse
111018011 from his extent -tame nap on tho home,
ward journey, and,:by a glenee upward,
dispel all feats of having paned his Motion,
and the traveller on an unfamiliar lino 00,11
possess his soul in patience in the bliseful
consciousness that the vocal distortioewhich
tho railway ctonduotoe seems to regard as ha
rightful prerogative has lest its terrors.
The mechanism of the mm1111110 is aottiated
by the touching of a Milton. Tito indicat-
ors in all the ears flisplay the tante of the
next station, and a bell, ringing while the
elmege in station mato itt taking place, calls
the attenthm of every passenger to the ex-
act location of the train.
In some tests to ascertain the degree to
which ah• is vitiated by different Mum nts,
which have been published, the vevy im-
patient eattilmy advantages possessed by
the electric light; aro etrikingly exhibited,
Taking the four illtintinants, tenuntrat gas,
paroiline, tallow cattalo, and iticancleseent
electric light, the relative heat produced
WAS 978.6, 361.0, 805.4, and 1 3.11. The pro-
portion ef air comma was 1 7.25,34,03,
60 00, and none, the quantity vitiated being
gas 318,25, pamiline 184,05, tallow candle
033,03, and offictrio light none.
" Tho Cheapest Light" has been announe
fel by the Natimed Aeldenly of 8-108,00 an
the etithjeel of a pil),,r 10 IA read before it.
The purveyors of gas and deetrie light Were
ilistallaylltlell with appreheneion RH 10 what
this new ri veil inight t hat was going to ant
the gonnel from under their feet. Theses,
petine, however, was shorilived, for the pro-
fessor's paper, hat was expected revolu•
tirade° the emnotercial status of the illumin-
ant of the fat lire, was a, clissertatiou the
light of the tir,ily Vit114'04 tluenigh a epee.
;emit:opt%
The register has 110W betel
rediteed to praHl 1,.41 Tlik 1.11-
111011t frir registering the ittunLer ef 1 iektee
Hold in the 1011thal me. Imola. It eteetets of
olue dials, On eight 01111111 dials r.tre 'Menai
the natnen of the horses in (1111 17411, 111111 OE!
number of tickets sobl on, any partiettlar
horse by any number of tieket sellers, mei
these separate Hems are all recorded on a
huge central dial. Ily means of this deviee
tieket Heller in the grand mend elm 00111-
111.1111hAtte any trate:maim' to the dials in the
betting booth at any mornent.
In the face of the improvements whiell
have been recettly 1narle 111 the phonograph
a 'Wider sphere than ever has been proplue
shill for that instruinent in the near future.
An electriettl seer euggesto that instead of
using annunciators, tite time may tame when
by peening a button the number of A 100111
in a hotel can be *idled out distinctly as
well as the Wank of a guest. Au electric
door opener may.011 SO arranged 11H to wet.
come the inennung friend with a pleattant
greeting, while the same phonograph could
be trusted to discharge upon the itinerant
book agent or the too precipiton tailor a
flow of language suited to the occasion. On
the onteance of tt tramp the push button
could lot loone the dog and urge him to the
attack. le offices a similar device would be
of snprome value --merely a. muchnietti
bouncer to operate juet ten tweeted:, after
the phonoginpli heel informed the pestilent
int ruder that it was time to go,
Storage batteries aro conang into vogue
for 1100 eonjunction with ineandement
lighting plants. Several central statiena,
after te•0 years' e0/301`100e0 Of the combine -
Hon, speak of it in tweet of unqualified
praise, An expert says " I have learned
Lo look upon the storage battery es an able
lieutenant to the imandeseent dynamo, and
to put in a, good word for it wherever I oo,
I find that although good many people 'do
not (Are to introduce the storage eyeteni all
at once they quickly tato the advantage of
having 'the current on tap at hours anti
yot only mil their steam plant, in the even-
ing. The use of secondary batteries for light-
ing mumosee may eveuttally develop at an
extent Wt1 liar0 1101,11 110 elnleeptiOn
Australian Cannibals.
upon the whole, life among the northern
Aunt ralians could hardly be desirable on any
terms, and on their own it seems tot neap -
table. Their religion is a fear, their axis.
tune a, series of escapes from starvation and
homicide, their morality a mere tribal obli-
gation to the most elementary fealties, their
polity an ultimation of the p that
might makets right within 11 o tribe as Well
aft without; 8, despotism of the strung bawl
tempered. by cunning. In the (society of these
children of nature certain persons Allied in
devil -devil, as they call the invocation of
supreme (101(11)11, and certain ohl ladies am
eomplished in catering to their simple ap-
petite for human flesh are the ruling 1111111011-
l'hey are all cannibals, as opportunity of.
fere ; and in default of enentiem to eat they
will sometimes eat their friends ; they will
oven eat their children, thongh this is ex.
ceptional. Otherwise, they live mostly upon
poisonous roots, which have to be carefully
prepared ; upon worms and grubs ; upon
snakes and lisards, and upon such birds and
beasts as they eau kill, though they are not
90011 hunters and are poorly weoponed for
the chase. They go naked, and almost house -
loss ,• a shelter of boughs is their conception
of a house,
After four years among them and the be-
stowal of inestimable benefits in tobacco, Mr
Lumholte could not flatter himself that lie
had ever succeeded. in appealing to any
sentiment but fear in them ; they did uot
kill him because they imagined him an adopt
*11 devilelovil and beoause they were afraid
of the Baby of the Gun, as they called his re-
-elver ; but they would not have eaten him,
because they had found that, upon the whole,
white men did not, agree with them. In
spite of their fears they had accesses of
treachery in which they longed so much to
kill him that it was never safe to lath= get
behind him ; and. apparently to kindness
could win them to nfieution. On such condi-
tions life began to be foe him at momenta the
poor possession that it seemed to them, and.
ho experienced deep despontleuey, mixed
with indifference, from which he had to pull
hhnsolf together with a n effort of the will
at last, in order to escape from the psychical
miasm, of their most miserable existence.
They were children, malted children., with
to lovable traits that he could discover, and
cruel and filthy In their ignorance.
I spite of their abonnuable customs and
their squalid conditions, the life of the open
air and of tho woods and hills is so wholesome
that fine physical types aro not rare, and in
this feet there might be some hope for the
ram if it met the least justice in meant with
tho whites. 13ut on tho frontiere, says ,Mr.
Umbel -be, " savage discovered by the
white men rims the risk of being shot.
Poison svas laid in the wayof the blacks once
whetawasin Queeneland. • • • A. squat-
ter • • • shot ali the men on his rim be-
cause they were cattle killers, the women
because they gave birth to cattle killers, and
the children because they would in time he -
come cattle killers."—Horpor'sMagazinc,
.......—*Nithes144{•••••••01•Nor
Another Escaped Lunatic.
OTTAWA, ,I11110 0,—Annther mantel luna-
tic from the Longue Pointe asylum Neal ar-
rested by Constable McLellan the other day.
II0 WAS lying on the platform and seemed.
to ha done up, and it was difficult to Mance
him to speak. Ho gave Ms name as Lopine,
and appeared to 110 about 45 years of age,
He mumbled that he had walked from
tHoutreal. The uefortunate man has hem
around Hall for the past couple of diva and
was in a pitiable Mato. Wilfred Corboille,
lunatic, who had escaped from the Longtte
Pointe Aaylum during the fire aml who was
arrested and placed in the Coldiestor tail by
Constable :Montgomery, taken tefore
the judge and ordered to Montreal the next,
day by a speoial constable,
Wanted Reducer.
A new megaphouo has been placed on
the marled in England, by which the human
voices ean be so magnified that it may be
heard at tt, dial:alma of several milee. On Its
appearance a poor henpeeked Englishman
wrote to tho papers and said that if the
clot:tridents had on hand or in view all inatru.
mem that would so diminish the human voice
that 11, eouldidt be hoard at all, 110 WOE *W111.
Mg to pay a good dual of money for it.
IN THE DEPTHS.
The ltItterors or the enrea, the Everitsmis4
itaueett, Through an Arelleltll Ported,
Thu following is all extract front the spee4
nf 11. NI. Stanley at the reeeption tendered
by the Emin relief committee in Londou,
giving an neemmt of his terrible journey
through the Mart of a tt•opieal forest;
" _Day after day, week after week, front
inwn of morning 0, Iliter eve, with a noon
ill 1 erval of rest, we tire 11(901 on unrustingly.
ep by etep we gain our miles, and pen.
trate deeper and deeper 01110 that strange
conservittory of nature, the inner womb of a.
1 rue 1 rorioal fOrest 1110 $111•1711 vapors rise
from it as from a great fermenting vat, un-
til 10 ,14•112,13 11.11. the h xhalations in a few days
that telly the fleeting boll eat lot in the sun-
light on that iliepertiolla and endless foliage
als,t our )(man. After a mouthas unbroken
march we halt for rem, and for the first time
attempt to question nativism who have hith-
erto artfully eluded on efforts to gain
intelligenee. ask them if they knoW Of
any grans land lyiug east, north, or south of
their district, and they reply in the negative
in a manner that 000010 to imply that we
must be strange creatures to suppoae that it
would be pomade for any world to exin
save this illimitable foreat Takinge
gram blade from the river bank—for only a
few straggling blades erm be found—we hold
it up to viess'. 11 What, no lield—un limited
stretch of land with something like this
growiug?" " No," they reply, thaking their
heath, companionately pitying our absurd
question. " All like tins," and they wave
their hantle sweepingly to illustrate that all
the world Wee alike nothi»g buttrees, trees
and trees 1" GreaCtreen rating as high as
arrows shot toward the sky, unitiog their
0r0W118, interlaeing their blanches, profetivg
and orowded one against the other until
Itl:aittellOirt.011111beall1 Iler billtft of light may pene-
"1,70 sooner are these words beard ity our
men than their imagination:, conceive the
forest under the most oppressive and forbid-
ding aspeet. Hitherto it had been a tract,
°liana of nneertain extent, growing trees,
which a few weelem march would enable us
to pieree theetnat, 11(000 plealeult veriatiOn
in the experiences of an African journey --
maker ; but a mouth had already- elapsed,
and they now heard with their 0Wri ears
that the forest was without end. The little
religion they knew was nothing more than
legendary lore, and in their memories there
dimly floated. a etory of a land that grew
darker and darker as you traveled towards
the end of the world, and chew nearer to
the place where a ereat serpent lay supine
and eolled around'the whoie earth. Ah,
then, the andente mud Illtee referred to this,
where the light is se ghastly,
WHERE THE WOoDS ARE ENDLESS,
and are so still and snlemn and grey, to this
oppressive loneliness, amid so much life,
whieh in so chilling to the poor, distressed
heart And the horror grows darker with
their fancies, the cold of early morning, the
comfortless gray of the dawn, the dead
white mist,. the over -dripping tears of the
dew, deluging raffia, the appalling thunder -
bursts and the rolling echoee, and the won-
derful play of the dazzling lightning, And
when the night C011101.1 With lt$ palpa-
ble darkness, and they lie cuddled in their
little damp huts, and they hear the tempeet
overhead, the howling of the wild winds,
the grinding and groaning of storm.tossed
tree., the dread somids of falling giants, and.
the shock of the trembling earth, which
sends their hearts with fitful leaps to their
throats, and a roaring and a rushing as of a
mad, overwhelming sea—oh 1 then the
horror is inteneilied,
It may be that the next morning, whets
they hear lite shrill sounds of the 'whistle
and. the officers' V0i004 ring out in the dawn,.
and the blare of the trumpet is heard, and
there is stir and tumult of preparation, and.
action, that the morbid thoughts of the
night and memories of terrible dreams wilt
be effaced for a time ; but when the march
has begun once again, and the files are slow-
ly movIng through the woods, they renew
their ntorbid brooding! and ask themselves,
'How long is thia to IAA ? Is the joy of life
to end thus? Most we jog on day after day
in this cheerless gloom and this joyless dusk-
iness, until we stagger and tall, and rot
among the toads ?' Then they disappear in-
to the woods by twos and threes and sixes,
and after the caravan had pa,ssecl return by
the trail, 001110 to reach Yambuya and upset
the young officers by their tales of woe and
1991r, 00111.0 to fall sobbing under a spear -
thrust, some to wander and stray iu the
(lark mazes of the wooda hopelessly lost, and.
num to be earved for the cannibal feast.
And those who remain, compelled to it by
fears of greater dangers, mechanically, march
on, a prey to dread and weakness, the
scratch of a thorn, the puncture of a point-
ed. cane, the bite of an ant, or the sting of a
wasp, The sznalleat thing servos to start art
ulcer, which preseutly becomes virulett awl
eats its way' to the bone, and the men dies.
These Berea rage like an epidemic, and
donee are sufferers. Then the recklessness
with which the men eat up their stores oE
provisions 1 What might have lasted ten
days is eaten up in two or three, and they
starve the rest of the time, for the spacea
between the henna plantations may he only
a day's mareh, but they may be twenty days.
But it requires a calamity to teach blacks aa
wenn whites how to live.
Trephining for Insanity.
Brain surgery has taken a wonderful
stride, even in the last five years, and the
operation of trephining 10 Mir often per,
formed and in quite a. variety of diseases.
0110 of its latest applications was in a case
of general paralysis, which, when it starts,
as a rule, goes on. as relentleesly as fate.
Tho patient WA a 111411 in whom the disease
had made considerable pogrom, and death,
seemed not far away. He was trephined,
mul an opening made in his skull ono end.
one.11011 itches long by three-quarters of an
inch wide. This 10118 made with a view of
relieving the tension due to the pressure of
fluid Foment in the brain ; also to arrost the
irritative changes going on. The Man ven
insane 'before the operation, but his mind
cleared up after it, and at Int reports was
doing well, Not impossibly the time is
conung when certain forms of inanity
be numbered among the surgical diseases.
.A.n ExtraOrdinary Operation,
Wo aro constantly hearing of extraordin.
ary surgieal operations, but the most aston-
ishing that has been performed, says a Parts
correspondent, is that of dvraimage, or the
removal of fat from the body. Dootors
Marx ana Damara have Oatrield 0110 the oper.
Mien upon a literary mat, 11. Ilirognalle.
They raised the akin and cutaway four end
quartor pounds of theadipose The
patient was under chloroform while thus be-
ing pared away; The skin was then stiched
tip. More than a week luta passed since the
operation, and XI, T-liroguelle now fools quite
well, and is overjoyed at the improvement
in his figure. Ite says ho only sneered from.
headache, the oftbot of the chloroform Yt
is arranged that ho 18 t0 M11101130 fltrther
parings or degraissages in Mho parts of the
body,