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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-6-13, Page 6YOTTNe FOLKS. Put to the Test, Wonhist thou go forth to bless, Re sure of thine own ground, Mx well thy maitre first, nett draw thy eiseles rounil. —(Treech, "BUTTON -BOYS IN BUB. Pre and put.les or a Pogo fa the Canadian 'Muse 4)r Commons. One, twe, three, four, five --what a lot of labie-coetel boys there are busying them. Inettn% about the Ottawa Parliament Outin- g= 1 There are a dozeu of themat least, ssitkiug like so meaty magnified 'blue -bottle dies- . Now they art *sting in and out through ems swinginggdours, note or card in hand ; view whispering to some country member tikes his stanch supporter, Mr. Haystack, bad his family ere out in the corridor wait. Sag to see him; then off to the Speaker's ••Stallery with all the Haystaeks, little and fEig, in tow, looking foe ell the world like a • iteks tug dragging along a string of lumber 'Ike next minute a little fellow is hurrying -smith a glass of •water to the desk of that sesbent debater, the Hon. Somuling• Brass, silieue lips ase even dryer than his speech, and then, with sublime importiality, he returns from another errand, bearing huge voliames of " Hansard" reports or bound taewspamers to Mr. Mnehquote, who is to (gnawer Sounding Brass presently, and so on Vssough the long hours from three o'clock the afternoon until midnight, or perhaps meek later, Yoe do not need to watch the little fel- -owe malty minutes to •find out that tho life ,aSo, page in the Canadian Parliament is not ;an easy one ; but of course he is nin always .ttetierely employed, He does have a rem tan:we-times. If you hempen to be in the ',Hesse of Commons as midnight draws mar, sett 'nay often see a row of pages sitting abound the Speaker's dais, with their weary 'Sias* pillowed on the top step, sleeping as -.may tired boys can sleep. Many a time they get so far into the lead ail' Nod that, when sharply aweitened, they sgugger off on their errand as if they were .senteshing worse than tired, rubbing tneir 'yes and wishing, no doubt, with all their hearts that they were cosily snuggled in their beds. However, if our little men in the blue fsSeekets, with the bright 81lver buttons down the Sewn, do have to Work hard, it is e spemfort to know that they are well paid for 00, and that tuore than one of them helps a assidowed mother to solve the hard problem elf pgoviding plenty of food and. fuel through the snug, cold. Cana:lien winter. La us see just what -the pages' duties are. Nine o'clock hi the morning must find them fa the Parliament Chamber, ready to attend Is the wants of the members who may be at :their desks, writing letters, reading news. payers, or possibly preparing speeches. There is not much work now, and the boys have a good deal of fan in a. quiet way, occasionally forgetting • okerseelves, and indulging in bursts of metal- , meant which bring; upon Chem the attention sof the bleck-bearded door -keeper, who soou •aulebies them into silence. THE BRUSSELS 'POST, the bill is passetl, o•f course, by a triumph- 5nt majority. 110 (me oeutsion When this nook debate WaS at it; height, the get:nine Peetuier ham gelled baclt int : the Chantber, whih \Me With a throng of al1111.e4 :Tomatoes, luitl after him intne the real leader of the op- pesition. 'The 1:oys were ist 0 still:. abashea by their psesetice, and it:slimly enioyea the fun more heartily thou ilid the two grave stssessiss ass, some Ing 00 auflaehoisly SPRING SMILES A man never realizes whet perfeet 'voltam are until he hears 1118 helit girl laugh. ing at some other fellow's jokes, No mut ter how plain-loeluoga seas water elerk may be, in warm weether his fist is always attractive to the girls. Employer- ." Well, Patrick, svhieh is the bigger fool, you or ?" Patrick —"Faith, I coulibit say, sots but Ws 1101 menilf," travestied, "What is the differenee between a m ush- Only suiall kayli can be pages, aml when a , room and mouse "Why, one =kali stlysil hoS' asyslults hid" hig I"'Y' he in"' eat.sup and the other maketh the cat's sup. give up his pisois the reeosa of the prig ggii, seeclings of that augnet beds, the Senate, may be fonnd tle following entry; No matter how generons-bearled a man "Your Commit - Ns. seememend that Wil- may be, it never seems to do him any good limn Smith, Frank Jones and Charlie Ileig to sit down and think how 01511 his next-door inson, pages employed by yoer Honorable neighbor is. House, be notified that their services will not be required at the 11(01 80881111Of Parlia- ment, on acconnt of their having outgrown their iamb ion." Since pages etomot help growing up, and thereby losing their positions, 11 1; sesame- ing to know thin they can get eAong so vell in after life as nusuy of them do. Import. ant positions on the . clerical stetof the House of Commons cmvc 11,011it ied by men who began their career as pages and the sante may be said of an offioial Mgt; ttp in the Civil Service. 11 11. be true—and is it not ?—that any bey born in the United States may justih- ably aspire to being President some day, it would seem still more reasonable, consider- ing the difference in the populations, for one of our button -boys in blue to east ambitious glences toward the Premier's shah In the Canadian House of Commons, especially as Ie enjoys such excellent opportunities for au early acquaintance with the public duties if that honorable position. —V, MACDONALD Oxt...ar tit 11)1/V, (,02nponkm, sit three o'clook in the afternoon, his hon- er the Speaker, looking very grand and 1111 - waging in his three -cornered hat and sump- snsous silk robes, enters the Chamber, pre- emied by the Sergeant -at -Arne, who seems inextily op to the weight of the huge bress eadilb° called the mace, which he bears upon kis *boulder. The members now come flocking in. Each (of them makes a polite bow to the Speaker beicke he takes Ins seat. Then prayers are. •Mide the preliminaries of the session are swore over, and the active business of the day Sbes,shis. Thenceforward until adjournment, satin& may be any time before breakfast 134eremurning, the boys in blue must be on dety. They are not all of them actually busy all "the time, but it is wonderful how much a ,Inan who has a boy at command for any see. -slim he thinks he needs to have done, can And to employ the young fellow. Many of -bete are meonsiderate and call a page to do 'eel:nothing which they might have done with- out effort. .111unui1og hither and thither on all sorts of oz sands during tho sitting of the House is, of , eintrse, the tiresome and trying part of theh -week, which, before the session is ended. bleaches all the roses out of their cheeks, arta makes them look as if nothing in the sworld would do them so much good as a troonth's holiday in the hay -fields or by the ..SeaeVie. Besides good wages, the pages reoeive no :.10010.11 amount of money in the way of "tips" .-assi presents from the members, and the sewer -present possibility of these pleasant ',Tittle events no doubt often puts fresh vigor into wearied limbs, and keeps a bright smile est the face that is tams:teat° look cross aud That, these tips sometimes reach a consid- erable figure may be judged from all incident ',which was related to me by a little friend, s.tlase in the House. Chice, long after the *mission had closed, he, to his surprise and delight, found a tett-dollar bill in the lining ef his jacket, where it had worked its way (oat 01 night and been fcrgotten- Not many limys earn so much that they would forget keying received such an important saint .Bat pages, like most other boys, no sooner get money than it burns in then pookets, and Mother Caramel, as they have nick. named the old dame who is permitted to ; keep a tempting little stall in ono corner of the big entrance hall, makes a smell fortune . (out of their reckless spendiugs. 'The pages' fun does not differ much from that of other boys, except when they hold a ,snook Parliament, which is really worth *scribing. This mock Perth:snout is an in. eident of every session, and le generally li el.d on some evening when the House has adjourned et an earlier hour than usual, No sooner have the Premier, the loader of the opposition, and their respective support. ers vacated their seats, than their pieces are usurped by these saucy youths, who pro .ceed to carry out a, programme prepare(' 1' .advance. Standing up behind a desk Una leaves little 111000 than his curly head visible ,she mimic Premier lays before the smirking 'House a bill to provide handsome pensions for the widows of deceased pages, and stip oris it with an eloquent speech., in the °livery of which the rhetorical peculiarities of the real Premier aro imitated with mirth wovoking accurac10. The inornent he sits clown, up jumps the leader of the opposition and proceeds to 'denounce the measure as extravagant, in. consistent, iniquitous, and 05 00 in the roost approved Parliamentary fashion, taking veins to ape the real leader in his tun,. Tho debate is vigorously taken up by the rankand file, and the fun waxes fast and. furious as, amid vociferous cheers, slamming of desktops, and scraping of boots on desk- bottoms,—noises 1 Whieh the children of a 1arger growth whom they are imitating are fond of indulging,—the speoch-making eon. .,lattnes until, at length, 10 vote Is taken, and. The Gold Fields Of Alaska, o.)141 in variable queutities ena tinder Meseta conditions has been found in three wangled districts of Alaska ; the Juneau, oulDouglass 'siesta aistviet, one hundred it probabl' renders the house that 11111011 old eldity miles northeast of Sitka, and bigger do not fear ; I will not raise the rent 'ordering Gasteneaux Channel, a narrow which sepesates DouglassIsland from the mildest(' ; the Sake clistriet, the quests de. posits of whieh are founa obSilver Bay, a tarrow, tortuous arm of the Pacifio, indent - mg Baranoff islets& and in the valley of the Yukon River in Western Alaska. Gold - ;caring quartz has also been found at Unga Island, one of the smaller of the Aleutian group, and some effort has been made there at development, bat more of that hereafter As concerns the Yukon Valley, ittle intention has been paid by esplovers old prospectors to discover gold -bearing paints, and the only results, so far, relate to placer mining. At the head of Lynn Canal one of the inner passages adapted to "Won't you come into my parlor ?" said the spider to the '' Yes," answered the flys, ''1,1111 don't want togo intotho dining -room, 1. The Paris gravediggers have threatened to stop work. It would not be the first time that gravediggers have left thole employers in a hole. A ymuog man who made a wager that lie could court thirty young women in one mouth Saye he is 11018 "on his last lap." He by will win a light squeeze. "Do you kuow the time, Me, Set:Alley ?" called out her mother, serenely, from the top of the Mahn about 1 bus "No, madam, I don't," said the brazen -faced Seadley; "I came to -night without my watch." Artist—"Oh, you think tho leek -ground" beastly,' do you . Perhaps the rattle are tienstly,' too, though I flatter myself—' Friendly Artist—"Oh, no, my dear fellow that's just what they aro not." Newwed—"How long does a man have to matoica before his wife agrees With him in everything 1" Oldwed (momadully)— "You'll have to ask somebody else, my boy ; I've only been married forty years." Tenant—"Landlord, our house -wall tm one side has sprung out about ten feet." Landlord—"Make youreelf easy. Although on you. Obi Married Flirt—"Oh, Miss Lillian, I'm so sorry I Over married." Miss Lillian —"So am I." Old Married Flirt (eagerly)— "Is that so, my dear—" Miss When (sox- castieally)—"Yes, I'm very sorry—for your wife." • "Shall we marry, darling, or shall we knot 1" was the short and witty Room ardent lover dispatched to the idol of his heart. But, \stem the strangeness of the matter comes in, the girl replied : "I shall not. You may do AB you please." • atts—" Did Bingley ever accomplish his lineation of getting even with the girl who beet him cool of his place by offering to steiuner navigation, about three hundred do the work at a smaller salary ?" Potts— uiles northeast of Sitka, is the mouth of the " I rather think he did. He married her Chileatl River, navigable for Cannes for a and she is supporting them both." score of miles. At the head of this emoe mvigation are three large Chileatl villages, and it is at this point, where commenues vhat is known as the Chileatl Portage, teross the range of the head waters of the Yukon River in British territory. The dis- miss f/sim the Indian villages on the Amer- ism side of the divide to the first leke, the source ef the Yukon, is about thirty miles, hut the route is one of the most difficult in he territory, yet the only practicable ono ly which to reach the Yukon Valley front he small. During the past three years, he reports that the bars of the Yukon anil ts tributariesStewart-and Pelly Rivers, 111111Forty Afil'e Creek woe rich in placer gold, have indueed several •hundred Alaskan miners to venture across the range, at the °hiked Crossing, and descend these streams. Several • parties are also known. to have perished in this perilous eeareh for the new gold fields. —Arena. "Sleeked. Out," Speaking of the Russian censorship, Mr. ;singe Keiman, in an article in the May Century, says 1"What does the Russien lovernment hope or expect to accomplish 03''blacking out' articles that ahn seemly tell the truth with regard to Russian ak airs, and by throwing intoprison every man n whose possession such oracle may be ound ? " The Russian author Prugavin, in a book hat was inadvertently sanctioned by the Ross eensor, but that WU afterward seized mil burned, asks this same question, 1)11(1 ays 'eau an idea be choked to death? Situ thought be killed, buried, or annihilat. ed.? Are not tenth, and love, and justice, old freedom immortal ? It is the most terrible of mistakes te suppose that ideas eau ever be (noshed. People have perished —10011 have died in chains and easemates, heir bodies have decayed, their graves lave been lost, and their very names have ieen forgotten ; but their ideas and aspi- ntions hoe on. Washed in the blood of suffering, such ideas and aspirations have meome the dream of every num in whose nein a thought stirs and in whose breast t heart beats. 'The press censet,, when he bunted Pro - ;exiles book, thought that he ha,l destroyed mover its 'pernicious' influence; but the ideas and aspirations' of the gifted author live on' 5 and his words, although burned by wder of Government in Ratiele, will appeal hundreds of thousands of sympathetic) marts in England and tho United Stites. , "Sometime in the feralistast future the ree Russiau patriot, no longer blinded by :he censorship of the press, will look over he pages of lus national histery that record these attempts to gag public opinion and trunk imam thought, and will wish frotn the bottom of his heart that so humiliating and shameful a record 11119110 be 'blacked " The Race of Life -- Life is a rave for preferment and place, And in the contest we ell have apart : Some find it's easy to out out the place, Others are handicapped right at the start. " Yon shoold visit theseashle, Mr, Blank," aid a gushing young 11101(1011 to EL crusty old lawyes, " and listen the mormuriog of the lolo." "I hear enough of that every (ley," grunted the lawyer. • Where at 9" queried the girl. " In the divorce court," replied the 'wretch. WONDERS 01' THE SEA. 'rim neve in the tiffir JJ g . Chow. The normal magnitude of the bore in ths Hang-ehow (1 01 lied leant little appreciated by foreigners nitill, 111 the auttunn id last yeats observinlons id its size atel lthal !IOW were taken by a surveyiug party from 11, 51. 8, Rambler, lite risko whtelt the boats tual theie metes ran while en this duty, and the nutreels which worn seem made me anxious to witnese the paesage (if this wove, travelling at the rate of twelve knots an hots, with an unbrolteu front of a feet to 1'2 feet in height and SS mile,: in \Oath. The strength of the embanittnent on the north benit of the river. esul the nianner whieh junke were bated from the thlu without being dimmed of its advautages, were additional attrac. 1.10115, On the far side—the south side—of the river were low mud banks, which did not greatly invite attention, but immediately at 1101111 WaS an embankment, which is pro. bably the best piece of engineering work in China. It is said to exten,l over thirty 1111100 01 coast, and if not everywhere on so grand a scale as Ilt Hainin,g, is at any rate, effective along the whole length, 101 ,1 breach in it would at once be known by its effect on Ole Inland fresh waters, On the water front is A 13OLID mull.. CIF sToXE, 16 feet hi, built of blocks of over a footn i depth and width, and of which the upper tier, at any rate, eve 5 feet long. The emus son gradually recede toward the top, afford- ing steps by which 11 10 easy to climb up and (lows Behind the wall is an embankment. about 80 feet to 110 feet in width, some 30 feet of which h level ground, forming tho hest road 111 China, though the lenst fre- quented, and rising gradually toward 01)1,111 at the back, on which trees ave planted. Where the inrush of the tide is likely to injure the wall large bastions have been built ottt into the rivets and in the shelters formed by these bastions the junks take refuge mail their enemy, the 1:orehas passed. The jonks are warped to stakes on the embankment, and lines of piles, the heads of which show as foot or tom above the river bed, prevent the junks from being daslted to and fro with the first swirl of the title. Dori:ifs the afternoon we had full oppor. tunity of admiring the construction of the embankment, and of noticing how formid- able the steam is to navigation, for not one junk was visible on the Ivide reach of the river exposed to caw view. IViten we came back in the evening at 101, o'clook, the water had fallen quite low, and the whole aspect of the 11000 11011 changed, having been eon. vested into a. ragiug torrent, the noise of whose waters drowned till other sottuds. 211 Ole cootie of the stream the turmoil was es- pecially striking, NOW and again it would boil Teoumseth. [Novo : I am not a lover of war, and par- ticularly of savage warfare ; but there is a mysterious something in the 111041 Toomnseth that I am impelled against my reasoning self to admire. At all events the mysterious something inspires me to sing Tecumseth's glory. If 11 11 a sin against the good taste of civilized society, if it is a misfortune that my better judgment is carried away by a, savage I am impelled to cling to the smpres- 01011111de sitvage as I see him as delineated in Hodgin's History of Canada.] Chief of the flashing eve; Noble 'red warrior brave ; Forward to dare and die; For Kingship thy life gave ; For Canada to die. The Blushing Habit. Why should the maid endowed with grace, In youthful 1>eanty'8 pride, Wheneee a. blush comes to her face Feel strangely mortified ? What's fairer than a maiden's blush, Of innocence the boon As radiant as the rosy 111)811 Upon the faoe of Juno 7 Sweet maid, be not ashamed to blush ; 'Twill all too sonn be gone Some future day you'll use a brush And pink to put it on, Rational Beings, The horses in Norway have a vet•y son. slide way of taking their food. They have a bucket of water put down beside their al- lowance of bay, It is interesting to see with whet relish they take 0 sip of the ono and a mouthful of the other alternately, sometimes 01113' moistening their mouths, just as a rational being would do while cat. ing a dinner of such dry food, A broken. winde11 horse is scarcely ever seen in Nor- way, and the question is if tho mode of feeding has not something to do with the preservation of the animal's respiratory organs. Impressive is thy face Of grandeur and greatness; It is worthy -to grace A friend of feithfulness And heroic greatness. Ow wall. There \VIM no time to be lost. One junk near the bastion, some distance below the rest, 0011011110111.113' 111 agrievous ease, and in another moment the Watel00110 teering ever the bows of the junks, rushin5 up the nun meetings whieh roofed in 110 decks, And hurling the boots en to the wall, from the wall, and against melt ether. One or two were at mum in ditlienities, One WM serried 111011S 1111111 11A M0041154 and DRIFTED 0111000 ITS ximunsoi. Fresh hawsers were get ont and carried ashore, The crowd on the bank, however, weretoo Interested in impending disasters to lend a helping hana, 111111 it seemed as Guilt the ligat would be broken up Dion wool crush m her neighbor between herself uul the wall; but the torrent had eiready huvried further up Htveurn, and by degrees things righted themselves, Pour or live of the junks had intended to he off with the first of the tide to 111)119- 4011000, but lestead of getting away they now found themselves either swam1 by fresh hawsers or entangled in therigging of some °thee craft In a 11111340101' of all- hour's time one junk got away and !mailed out under sail into the stream, where she drifted. up the river side on to the current Ile appears to be the orthodox style in these winces. Another boat tried to follow her, but some- thing Went wrong, and she pirouetted pound upon a third. By degrees, however, the fleet bound for Hang-ehow got under way sad drifted crabwise out of sight, The bore on this oueasion had been glee. ously diminished in size, owing to the two brenches having failed to join heals, and the front leave appeared to be not more than four or five feet in height, but it Wae difficult to form any judgment about this femme position on the Pagoda 1 another dis- advantage of which Wee that 01111 GRANDEV11,01, sorsto was seriously unpared at our elevation above the ground. Indeed, the impression left by the midnight clibets was far greater than that produced by the spectacle ut midday ; and it, was consoling to km»v that the tide at night was actually the largee of the two, end that our 0011000 hal DM been deeeivea by the freme-work of moonlight and strange- ness in which the first picture had been set. Unfortunately, there was no possibility of remitting longer, and we had to hurry back to Shanghai. The bore may eerie -oily be seen under more favorable circumstances than those on Whieh We had chanced, for in 4eptember, and especially with a wind Ha- ting in from the sea, the proportions of the bore would be immensely greater : but even our experience was one which cannot fail to leave a lasting impression of the exceeding grandeur of this phenomenon, a grandeur which was no doubt enhancea by the feeling that we were its 1)1)13' spectators, and that all the forces bronght iuto play were exhibit- ed for our special enterteinment. INTO 1'00:11 AND BREAKERS, as though it had already met the *outing tide ; but as time passed on the confusion of waters diminished, and by 1 1 1'. 11, the 0001of the bore coming iu from the 5013 0000 quite distinct. As the bore came nearer it was marvel- lous how the river quieted down, until at last its surface was as glass, svith only a few sipples drifting from the centre to the banks, and that so gently as not even to give the sound of water lapping on the piles. It svonld be impossible to exaggerate the impressiveness of the scene muter the exquisite moonlight, or how striking WilS the contrast between the absolute silence of everything near sod the rush of the Menet- ing mass heard in the distance, and which was eaoh moment becoming more sensible. Ose great peculiarity o4 the roar Wile that there was nothing in it to tell of its nature —no iutermitteney, no 00111111 of breaking waters, but a steady gathering of force, which held one silent in expectistion, while the change in direction and in clutreeter was sofrequent as to make time fly unnoticed. By midnight the roar had grown over. powering in its volume, but though a flash of white fonan 11000 and again disclosed the position of the bore, its body was still hid- den from sight, as the moon, which was al - Most overhead, threw little light on the river to the east. Hitherto the spend had been borne in front the soatheast alone, but now from the northeast eame a roar telling of AXOTITElt 1101)0 OF WATER on its way, and soon after it was We heard saw beyond the bastion a line of white water some four miles distsnt, advancing almost parallel with the bank. Then its left wing wheeled round and hurried. toward 08, and UntetOred the' thou wast as it came the south bore also flashed into In civilization's art, sight tearing. along in furious rivalry, and Honor thou didst hold fast thetwo, joining hands, rushed up stream 101 As a jewel neat" thy heett, With which thou didst not part. Hotter be to thy name Noble red -warrior chief, Be it written in fame, Written in boll said Tecumseth illustrious chief 1 Where is thy burial ground. By the little Thames' river? Will mystery wrap thy death round With its shroud forever By the little Thames' river? Tho' thy death 111113' remain Shrouded in mystery, Linked will it be and reign In Canada's history. , Tecumseth of history. By thy little Thames' river, Linked may his name be In Cattails ever; And dear in itts memory With auks which won't sever. If his grave can't be found 13y the little Thames' river, Risme on the battle ground A monument girded round With links which wet% sever, Write on the monument jilustrions hill bold relief, Iif letters magnificent Inscribe to their deepest dent. TECI::11SHTU ILIXSTI13008 CHIEF 1 Chief of the flashing eye Noble red-werrior bravo 1 Forward to dare and din 1 For Kingship thy life gave, For Canada to die 1 W. II, 81egVngS, A Cruel Suggestion. Miss Lastoltance (sinaeting undoe the clia. grit)of a broken engagement)—Say to your friend that I propose to koup his presents as O reinholes of his perfidy, Did he actually think I would return 0110111 7 1311'. Messenger—If e did. lint perhaps lie was influenced in his thought by an old sop ing, 'Miss Lastehanee--What saying? Mr, Messenger—Age is honorable. It frequently turns out that the queen 0 diamonds is 8 knave of hoar% one unbroken 11110 extending from bank to bank. Behind followed a mass of water in tumultuous haste, and after an interval of three and a half mmutes there 001110 11 se0000i wave lavger than the bore itself, and suc- ceeded by broken water overtopping the wave. So soon as this had passed tho roar died almost away, but the waters behind come swirling along, floated the junks in an instant, and in wild confusion hastened after the bore, The next day, as we expected the bore to be later in its arrival, we spent a little time in exploring the country before visiting the embankment ; but to oar surprise the bore was audible when we reached the river bank at 11:15 A. M., soon after which 10 011010 into sight. In order to watch it the bat- ter, we ascended to the topmost balcony of Ole Pagoda, from which them was 0 clear view. It was at once evident that an unusual phenomenon was likely to occurs From the observations -taken by Casst. Moore the meeting place of the two bores had been fouud to be generelly opposite the Page*, or nearly 80 ; but 011 this occasion the south branch WaS far in advance of its fellow, and, instead therefore of being kept to the south sido of the gulf, Was able to extend across the whole sheet of water. About A WALK TINDER THE SEA. cartons Signis to he :seen .tway Down En- der e ell n's school . Prof. Alexasuler Wiechell, in a vivid de- scription of a walk under the sea, says : We stand and gaze into the blackness and ehill which rest 05011110 118 like 1 mates imbed- ded in a wall of masonry. 1 lays maylpass, mouths and years, and not a sound comes JUNE 13, 1800, Late Cable News. Arrest of Berenteeo Russians - Using Bombs tuu Freely—A New GOMM Steallter, There has been 111 1!' ofmelities or of half pelit he, stirring on the (Seitittent during the pensieful Whitsuntide '5 (1. The arrest of seventiem young Russians in Paris, in whose moms 011 uneinufortahlo amount of isomer bombe and wildosive materials Wee seized, and Ilt,, eellVieti011 of Major Panitza fur his eonner•tion with the alleged Russo•Bulgaricut conspiracy aro the only points of interest. In the liest (saw the (auto admit of no dig. pule, awl there is 110 11011ht that lately ab Balmy 001111; of the prisoness have been test. Mg the ellietcy of their bombs by blowing up trees instead of Czars. But politieal end- osity is piqued as to whether the eves.alert :Minister of 1110 1111211110 arrefted the youth- ful culprits at the instigation of the Russian Blinister or whether it was au act of domes- tic security, coupled with a view of currying Russian favor. The French laws on the subject of the manufacture or possession of dynamite are so severe that there is no difficulty in be- lieving that the arrest was made independ- ent of political considerations. The prisons ers take e philosophic view of the situation, knowing that neither their persons nne their papers will be sorrended to the Rus- sian Government, and cougratuleto them- selves that if convicted a French prison will not be utuolt worse than the struggling ex- istence they have been living in Mont -rouge and Montparnasse, and infinitely preferable to the minee of Siberia. Panitza seems to have been justly con- demned, although he was not guilty of all the charges brought egainst him, aS tile re- commendation of tnerey by the collet would inclieste. The Vienna oorre.spondent of the Londoe ;Tiny s this morning gives a vivid description of the elTect produced by the success of the Bulgarians over the ;Serviette in the late war mud the influence it, has had in turning the heads of the older and younger officers. Nearly all the hemes of the war, Bendereff,(Ittneff, Petroff, Popoff, and others, have come to grief, and the yeunger men, like Panitza, never let discretion wait on. valor. A German steamer whieh is intended to make the rounit of the poets of the world, earrying a iloating bazaar as cargo, i1.3 11000 being loaded at Hamburg, auil the orighut tors (11 1111 idea hope that she will 0811 11010100 the end of June. 011110 1110 to be erected int the decks, anil German gueds will be 1is- ph53eil to all advsntage. There will im cutiosities and side shows, refreshment, peculiar to the 1 bastion nation, and music of the Fatherland's composers given by fault. les.s Teuton bawls, A small army of, coot - menial. travellers will invite largely- all possible customers et every port of call. mt of the solitude whieli =Flamm ; no Mere 00115 1111 Idea of having young ladies to team reminds us that nature is not deed, preside OVer ,i,one id the stalls, but it dill We stand. a century, and nothing stirs— nothing in these voiceless plaine of death, though above us sweep the still, majestic eurrents which bring trust frem the pole. This =a is the dustpf cemetries, which lass been gatheriug since the mean descended to take possession 01 110 mysterious bed, shut- ting three-fifths of the world's surface from the observation. 01 1111511. 5Iingled with the day are the relies of larger creatures which have lived iu the sea where the sunlight :sheers its populations—teeth of sharks, ear - bones of whales—not tho accumulations of yesterday or of a century. They are the relics of creatures whose race has died out —Tertiary whales, the representatives of past cycles of geologic history. Nothing changes here. Cold and daskness prevent decay. Here by the side of the wrecks of the last Winter are the herd parts of the creatures which dwelt somewhere in the ages before man. Dead ruins of extinct types, 000 80111. Now, Ile forms ore not all dead ; the realm is still inhabited. Here are crinoids—pritem solo erinoids — which have come down through all the ages of geologic history, lying here, sleeping here like inanimate trganisms through the centuries, chilled into changelessness like mammoth carcasses incased in ice, still dreaming of the middle ages of tho world. Here are grotesque ar- tioulates, pespetoeted portraits of the quaint eneestors of the lobstev and the crab— =halo fishes whole retarded development has left them egcs behind in the march of progress, Few aud widely scattered are these wanderers out of the world's antiquity mil they have not strayed to greater depths than three and one.third miles. No ray of light, We said. Bat a phospho. remota gleam breaks through the wall of night. In the distance is a fish -like form bear. ing a curious appendage, which seems to servo him as a 10000011. 10 sheds a ghastly solow into the thickness of the solitude. This ereeture, then, has use for eyes Shut out feom nature's sunlight, he is a feeble star to himself. His lantern -glow reveals the presence. of °thee grotesque forms, without starlight and without oyes. Fishes they aro, but stranger than fancy over pim toyed, One hes a 111011111 of five times the length of the body's diameter. The month of another opens to twine the length of the aninad's body, with a hag -like pouch, which would hold the entire body six times over. Another has glaring eyes like a teneattees, stridned to take in the thin phosphorescence from his neighbor's lantern. Life is 61,00 here—antique, obsolete life, which the ages have sent by a devious path astray, arm- ing at our times a million years behind its Wel TnnFIE 0a0100 .11F.L0W the Pagoda its right wing broke egtonst the sea wall, and, as the left whig was some- what in advance, a continuous charge was delivered on the wall as the weve passed up stream, the attack extending over a mile in length. The waters headed beck from the wall were, however, tinown in en uproarious see towards the centre of the stream, and thus eheelted the rear of the 0011111011 from supporting the assault, Upon this confusion the 110001 branch of the bore peered down from the rear, and, at the expense of the loss of its own evenness of line, separated the 05p00019 wattles, Meanwhile thosouth branch pressed rap. idly up etream, extending from bank to batik in a line nearly three miles wide, whieli re. monied absolutely even, the wave being im. polled so furiously forward that its mast never broke, toul its front remained a solid wall of water, which passed unchanged over all before it, On the previous night only a few of the junktnen had turned out to look after their malt, ;but now 1110.3' were hurriedly laying out froshhawsers, mitigating bamboos ready to keep theirboats front being dashed against not entirely eonottend itself 10 favor, some of the older hes* thinking the damsels might part with their own sensitive hearts as well aS With their 51)1118 015-1 quit the ship altogether. Kteh voyage is to last two years, tosl the first steppage will probably be New 't" t1. The great ship and her cargo have cost a quarter of a milliset panda Stanley ie to be married in Westminstee Abbey on July 12, and the occasion is likely to be made a great stoniety event. Appetites of the Godly. A Mond of mine who was giving a large dinner once, called on old T., this entails, to arrange the dinner and take the trouble off her hands, " Yes, ma'am," said old T. "211 look out for it ',but fug. want to, know who de company is, Is there any clergymen and them 11113 0-0010111' 1" " Certainly," said my friend ; " but why do you ask such 0question?" " 011," says old 'T,, "11 they's clergymen and that sort yo' must get more to eat and drink. Them pious folks oats tea- mondoue 1" Vastened at the End. Doctor to Gilbert (aged 4)—Put your tongne out, dear. Sick little Gilbert feebly protruded 1110 01)1 of his tongue, Doctor —No, no; put it right out. The little fellow shook hos heed weakly, and the tears gathered in los eyes. "I oan't, doctor; it's fastened on to me," PEARLS:OF TRUTH. Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think. He who is much and often flattered soo,t learns to flatter himself. Nobody should ever look anxious, except those who have no anxiety. No 111011 is Worth much who Inc not a touch of the vagabond in him. Hope says to no constantly, " Go on, go on," and leads us tints to the grave. As a general thing an individuttl who is clean in his person ts neat in his morals. Beaatty intoxicates the eye 05 501110 does the body. Both are morally fatal if indulged. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and atteuhes her curse to all inaction. Rain has the power of shedding a satis- faction over intervals of ease which I be- lieve few eajoyments exceed. There are a number of people, especially in polities, svho are like bottles 1 they have no value except that which is poured into them, If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is bettor than his neighbor? A comfortable career, of prosperity, if it does not melte people hottest, at least keeps them so. Beery grain of sand is a mystery ; so is overy daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upward and downward, and all around us, science and speoulatiou pass into mystery at last. The industrious man seeks wealth and finds it. Let toot the intelleetual man tour - mar at the ills of fortune, for he clid not seek wealth. It was not the consequence of his pursuit; bot he sought knowledge ancl found it, "Forewarned is forearmed," says the pro. verb; but few proverbS were ever so mistak. cm If anybody ever was effectually fore. warned, I wish he would publish Ms auto. biography. It might be of some use to the ingentous youth of the day. A Disgusted AgTioulttuist. A Western Amnion editor who It tried farming is disgusted. Item him : "The basest fraud. on earth is agriculture. The deadliest ignis fattitts that ever glittered to beguile and dazzle to betray is agriculture. We speak with feeling on this subjoin and we've been glittered and beguiled and daz- zled and deceived by these= orals deceiver. Sho had promised us bees and they flew away after putting a head on us 1 promised 110 00113) potatoes and the drought has withered them. She had promised no cherries '• the oirettlio hasiltung them ; they &attain living things uocornely to the eye and unsavory to the taste ; she has promised us stresvbersies and Ole young elnektins have devoured them. We Nacre in the sheep business 0,1111 11 hard Winter, 010SOCI 1101811 011 us and the lambs died_ in the shell. No wonder that Cain killed his brother. He was a tiller of the ground. The wondor is he (lid not kill Ms father and then weep becaese Ito did nob have o grandfather to kill."