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LATEST BY CABLE. A STUDY IN INSEOP PHRENOLOGY,
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Tho Agreement with Germany -English
Opinion-- The Sultan Afraid of his
Life,
L.,: no , June these dap of NUN
Towers, pleniographs, and Sugar made from
coal ter it bowl.% inereaeingly difficult to
41,1MSI, 110V1.40114 Willi+ gild! fairly eurprlee
the world. Tile Britieh Mon rat iter flatted.,
himself, however, (01 1111Ving really achieved
this 'foot. If anything emtbi let more as -
mending to the whole habimble globe then
the speetacle of his voluntaily giving up
territory 30111011 had been ander his raw for
three generations, one 3001:1,1 be glad to
know it.
The eussion of ifellgoland has stirred up
vast, journalietie autivity all over Europe,
&modally in London, Berlin, and Paris the
sensaion ()reeled is, of course, ridiettlously
out of proportioe to the that and video of
the little island involved. English alarm-
ists aro now eugaged du magnifying the
warlike uses to which tiormany could put
thie tiny sea dot of rock and sand, but in
truth it could be of inliniteeimal service
to that power, and to England. it has no
material 1100 whatever. •
Yet English ptiblie opinion is very pies,
ottsly affected by the news that it has been
ceded away from thu onmit 0. One of to -day's
iodignant letter writers draws a pietttre of
the Queen signing the instrument by
which she sells 2,000 re, her subjects to her.
get,11.•334ftlr°, e nocil fylinenol
of the ease i0 e,ery common one. Under-
lying it is the popular feeling that Ragland
has attaiued her unique position among the
nations of the email by resolutely taking
everything site wanted all over the globe
aud doggedly refusing ever to give enything
up. Honee this abandonment of even so
valueless and trivial 0 thing as Heligoland
wears an evil look. 11 emotes an ugly pre-
cedent, and nervims people foresee growing
out from it propositions te give Jersey to
France, Stiltraltar to Spain, Unita to Italy,
and so on all round the terrestrial sphere.
To havo such calainitios even suggested to
his rebut. scone le, the average Briton nothing
less than monstrous.
The Sultan of Turkey's extravitganee in ,
entertai»ing royal visitors and the reekless
mantier width of lato he has scattered
money and jewels among his favorites, male
told female, have at length evoked a protest
not from the wretched. officials and soldiers
whoee pay has been curtailed 00 withheld to
defray the cost, bet from the dignitaies
the Mohammedan rehmon who carnet well
be lim.ried iuto sacks and theown into the
13osphortis. The movement, fact, looked.
• HO formidable that the Sultan, instead of as.
tserting his insulted dignity caused an ex-
planation to be conveyed to the discontented
Olemas and Softae, te the effect that, al-
though he detested extravagance and hated
Christian foreioners as malt as they did,
be was compel ea te spend the money
from motives of state policy. The soft
answer did not tau away the wrath of the
Fortes ad Ulemas, who vehemently retort.
ed that it was the cursed modern policy of
conciliating fm•eigners that had caesed the
eufferings of the faithful maesee, aud bade
htir to ruin the country. Then these old-
time fanatics resorted to the modern method
of holding a meeting and passing resolutions
calling for the rmestabliahment of the ancient
regime, which 18 Turkish euplusinism for
' the assassination of the reigning Sultan.
Abdul Hamid is not yot 50 years old, and
d oesn't want to die, so he has placed triple
guards all over his palace, antlha.ainstituted
an inquiry into the supposed plot. Several
civil and military :funotioneries, who, as
likely as not, may bo perfectly innooeut,
h ate been arested, and 10111 suffer vicarious.
ly for the Memos and Softas if the latter
cannot be reached.
TRAGEDY AT ST, HELENA.
Thousands or Tons or Mirk Reis Dawn min
Jamestown's Norrew %alley.
A story collies from Jamestown, the oilly
important village ou the famous littlo island
of St. Helena, The town is built along a
ilarroW valley between two elevations that
rise several htuideed feet above the houses
ou. either side. The slope on the left of the
town ie considerably steeper than that on
the other side. One Thursday month% last
month, beforo Jamestown bad woke ton
groat mass of rock, weighing, thonsands of
tons, became detached from the upper part
of this west orleft-hand slope, toffirolleddown
the steep escarpment with feightfulimpotos.
In thopathof the veiling moss were two houses,
built just t3 little way up tho side of the
slope. They wore crushed like egg shells,
and nine persons, who wore sleeping iet diet).
beds, wave sent to death in au instant It
is not likely that one of the victims ever
realized for v- 11101110111 that anything had
happened.,
The muse of rock that overwhelmed them
was 108 foot long 25 foot high and 1 1 feet
thick en an average. It tunibled down a
stoop hill about 500feet. Most of the victiins
were so badly mangled that they were whol-
1 y ton•twognizable. Ton other persons 'wove
badly injured. They were in partially
crushed buildings at the spot where the roll-
ing monster finally stopped.
All the elan in tho town turned out with
picks and shovels, and it took them two
days, assisted as they were by the Nelms
from it British man of war, to moose, the
bodies of the killed, though the injitrecl were
rescued tho first foe hours,
Ou the top of this slope aro the buildings
of the British tary establishment. Ono
pat nine slope is eallecl Ladder Hill became
a very riekety wet of a ladder with 700 rounds
or steps mounts the hill from tho village to
the fort, It is said to be as much of a spec.
etude es any cieous acrobatic ant to see
women from the interior with heavy baskets
of vegetables balanced on their heads de.
send this laddee as Great end easily es
though they worowalking along loVol road,
At the top of this seine hill ia the road Hutt
winds around among tho mountains to the
little memeion att Longwood, fan10110 011 the
home of napoleon, and near by IS the Valley
of the Tomb where his body rested under
group of willows until it was removed to Its
present resting place under the dome of the
'twenties in Paris.
Lattgitter to Match.
ninapsey-"What called out that hoarse
hough front Blobsenty Ahould like to know?"
Popinjay -"Oh, 1 suppose it Wag a 11000.
0110611,111d that Ponsonhy was getting off le
him."
A correspondent wants to know "how
long girls should be warted" On stilts, of
eourse,
111 the few years last past the selenee of
, Ph 11414110gs. lute outdo weeded ul. el 01110e. 1 1
, has been aitplied to matrimony. iu the way of
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whY 1.1 is so holed tullti"1111,11,(1"*". Thig i4 ''
phr,,,,,,k0,. • o g' In'') "Asion. 1 'ersons I
for the ,in•nre,.,•eurts ll • it !all 1.11 0 select ,
any mated furnish no business ;
your self, for the benefit of mankind, as the i
ra3v materiel fee a doctor oe a lawyer er a .
preleher or a Preehlon 1 of the Urdu:4181st es,
It 44 11010 1111011'11 1 hat vollr bunilki am1 Y""'-' '
temperament M dieat 0 what yon ought t o eat,
drink, breathe sod wee.i.. 'rids accounts for ;
the utiprinuipled oppootion of the medical
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THE BRUSSELS POST.
was that ..att. the 11...4 eonfirmation of 111
0eieutiiie 1,,,pei 11-4:00 1 to
logy, Let it be borne 111 froin thi
011, that 1 had marked that tiy vonerattoi
1 ; iirmoess, 0 combativeness, 7 ; inhabit
I isemees,
AS 1 proaeded wit 11 the leetore tbe tram
ol hung (al peneive wing at 1114ont
• eau,: dieteme end level. He 10010,.1 home
eh:14. His tears dropped like rain 1,11 th
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pages matiuseript. In what soul
would have laid% to be Wore bilzZ of Wing,
0,0titi rat,it tewhw, trrnattiat eed
<moos of 1 finne lenne ! eweet, 111%,1.
111.1111,1
111,,111!!!IL 111110 111111 111,41 • • or ever 1 -WA
aware. -11,, dart ea' heels to i h., ehl spot 01
my tipper lip, a, point soutli•west hy metal
front ley loft nost011. Ai he renewed do
wotdc name:Of:1g he want ou 11, sing ill 1
more cheerful office, " le, place lilt(
honm .
y Jitry might love tittothol o, it. Jt was, Vi'llat Silo -alit She Dof
I
ussia Great Petroleum Town..
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1314 Una fliin,r,4 /Min inti,et•i•Cidf. by the
1, flill vadat, of the lettei fl'hat (Iodation
0) the eteddeut eiemotosed me to be
1 :alma, led it wile a ir,rron pp.
:qv judicious silen,0 kepi me ont of a
„ ntind,e0 of Thodi, of the au
. 3y:seduce, 4,1 t ;,, onormni, the torener
nie 1 1 al 01 e, Jrp,' W1114'11
15'11.:{1,11,11V11 10 10: 11141 .t:.' 111.1e:otteng
, 1,13 ! ailetem !
, 'Ho morel to 1,•• wa fr.,ie bc whole
is; this if hex, humps that
e, Abe, very 1.11 I, eLy small don't
▪ tiede,,t
Take any means tesa.ssary 1., ,1,1 ,rge the
,
untter-sized organs. nothing ill
, do get !mule one to wealth ail batter you on
, 1 he detective pine°. If it le, , one wit slob •
• "1'1'1 elwre.0 the benip will kilOW
Mai! 11. VINO !Wad was 0.0 where veneration
,hould have been. lie was a esrpenter. Me
day the boss found fault, leak tome of the
.,' work be was doing. otiveider shoWed
f his Otter laek (,1 venot•ation by swearing at
his boss and making toward him with clench •
ed lists and mayil,1,14 Sontethile, alum " pun -
011 in' of 'is '1.01, seif-.Cifettel, the boss
eaught up a elawbantiner and gave him
/ nu on the right spot. ft stunned
lie man bat it was the makino of the bump.
fa Was never knoWil, to be irreverent toward
that 1,1,3e afterwarde.
" The exaggerated humps cannot he treated
in die surgieal way. lt. would. not .1o. If
oine 441 30,(1, lielovell, Were to get the
hump iif selfesteem rodu,,,,,1 to the nor-
ms size by tunputatton, life would no
longer be worth living. greater part
, a the brain mass would be gene You evill
have to isintrol yotm trutstemorgane from
. ' e ' o.
Begin at onee and persever.c., in that way
pews, iind good fortune. operation, 1 ;
firtnimee, ti ; oenbetivenees, 7, make £1 tad,
11 1,1;1410118 combination, when any other or-
, gan ranks 00 high es 11. Let a. smgle
; timed totample suffice. 8.1.y. that ever.sizell
Aunty is benevolence. In that tsse pet
"! grotv exigent, pereisteet, belligerent. You
g! presume to lecture all mankind on the eule
I :met of the moral virtues. YOU set up as
instructor and leader of your seniors and ,
superiors. You dub yourself " Exic,rt,
, Metal Ilefornice." Vett leave tbe impros.;
; Rion on observing minds that you have a!
i patent right. on prett3, mud) all the wisdom
had g"0'.1 /11 1110 earth beneath, with i
pee-eleptions elsewhere. When other people
t differ front your pet opinions awl you don't 1
get your way, you shako your fist in their
faces. You buttoulude the same perSons
r every (lay and every othee day. l'ott bore
1 into their eensibilities as ruthlessly. as; tied
' late lamented insect bored into my nervi,.
i Beware ! A longauffering public will bear
with your teasing fer a mason, But smite 1
: !lay yoll W111 fil!11 tha public pre -occupied !
• and, maylum, impa.tient, On that day
another t • _ .
be enacted. You will be the vietim. I
Don't emmt on historic fame as a conipen-
sation for being swallowed alive. Some
of the grrunlest things out bo done only
once. Of all the tipples that ever did, and
ever will fall to the earth only 0110 can claim
the proud distinetimt of having suggested
to the beholding eye of science the existence ,
of the silent and invisible but almost mid%
potent force of attractien which hoble
gether the physical convect of the world
aud of the immerse. In like manner, but '
one of all the inseetts in the world could
beentne historie in revealing to science the
fact that the Laws of Phrenology apply all
along the line nr animated nature 1103311 to
the ephenteron fly whose natural. lifetime is
six hours.
There is nothing left for you to reveal. Yon
may exemplify the misehievons effect upon
conduct of overgrown and undergrown
bumps when they am neglected. You may
exapperate the public and perish, It yein
do it will not be as a celebeated and useful
first suldeet whose eccentricities contributed
to the discovery, of a greet truth, but as a
fool who was deaf to the voice of instrum
tion and warning.
GULLIvalt Gt.*::±in, Prof. Phrou.
who feed aud dross and so forth cd1;er the -
(1 [cede., of their own bumps.
Very recently it Mei been diseoyerod, that
tho Inette.beasta ean be Heleeted for any
special nse by Phrenology. You can yiek
out (loge that will bark in the night when
your enemy wants to sleep ; mules Mat
will book ; and horses that will either r
away, or balk, tie you may prefer. By this
beneficent seionee you can soleet eilttle that
well horn your enemy, and will break Int
his garden end convert 1110 eabbagee aud his
turnips end hie eattliflossmrs and his aspara-
gus into your milk and beef. I have a far.
illur-friond who never bays a sheep without 1
feeling its bump,. In tha •way he secures
such as will butt when they MO ran% and 1
so avoids a loss on any nude sheep that
proves a failure for mutton or wool. Ho
sells him, in that ease, among dairy pro -
duets, es a first-class butter.
l'erhaps the day will come whea I shall
not be alone in the belief that, throughout
the dateless perioffit of art illimitable past,
this venerable science of Phrenology, 101 -
honored and uns101g, has been guiiitng
mother Nature's processes of evolution ot
the selection of the fittest to survive
The latest advance and by fne the great-
est that Phrenology Ls ntade at any single
etride, is to be seen in my own astomultng
cliseovery that it applies to insects as well
as to beasm and men. Under the inicroseope
yoe eau read, front their cranial develop..
ements, the charauteristics of ffies, gnats,
bees, bigots et ()Mora.
A word of explanation on two points Mat
here. Filed: As most insects aro nearly or
quite bad -headed their humps ean be appro.
Mated. by vision alone, without the al of
the fingers. 11 is welt to know this
wh en Om subject is a hornet. ticeond
Subject to correction I think it. is *dental,:
to elassify bigots as loseets. All tite bigots
I hum' seen were inseets. Judgiag by my
own observation no sect is u'ithout them.
This ne31. branch of the seionee --a braneh
which I havo ventured to call Insect. Phren-
olegy--finds its best illustration in the dear
fannliar housefly. I select a single that
out of many written after obseevations made
11100 ugh a microscope of two hundred. diam.
eters. 'Plic extracts from the chart will be
followed by a narration of some remarkable
beihlents in the career of the ily referred to,
The whole will establish the claim of Insect
Phrenology to recognition among the noble
sisterhood of scienues.
Smite unterpriming minds will, notnetless,
wish to molly and enlarge the discovery I
have had the honor to make. For their
guidance I will say, in passing, that the
restleseness of the fly, es•litle under examin-
ation! perplexed greatly, for a time.
Imagine me just ready to estimate the re-
lative prominetiee of a $et of bombs, pmpara-
tory to entering tho reaelt on the chart, At
that moment, of all others, the fly 300041
begin to scratch Ids car or to smooth down
a wing with one of his legs or would move
to a 110W ?lace in the field of the microscope
--tied present his posterior parts to the lino
of e•ision Sometimes he would 1.13, away
and mix up with othee flies, and persist in
looking so much like them that I could not
be sure of recapturing the subject of my
unfinished study. At laste-as if by in-
spiration-Ithonght of some 00001110 loz-
enges I had. I laid One Oil the table.
In a, little time it was covered with filet), in-
tent on packing their trunks 3vith :sweetened
paralysis. I soon had all the quiet sub-
jeets 1 wanted, and was enabled to pursue
my investigations a leisure.
In quoting from the chart referred to
above I shall eentine myself to the organs
W111011 were remarkable either for Melo great
size, or because they were abnormally
small. I find that I marked that fly as
follows .--viz., veeeration, 1 ; f100111000, ;
combativeness, •, inhalkivenese, lb The
highest marking of this latter organ 011 any
former chart -whether of man, boast or
insect, was 7.
The day after wetting the chart I was
lecturing to 1113, close. Let, nut say, in ex-
planation, that eonduet sobool of
phrenology. I turn ont maty bright.young
mcn»vho devote themselves to lecturing on
the noble seienee for a silver collection at the
door, They also weite up chats of the
benum head for tim small sum of one dollar
ea011---wheu they cannot get two dollars.
It was a muggy afternoon in September,
one of 111000 heavy hot times when. all liv.
Mg things got into a state of sem ihypnotisna
As I labored on in the cliaeourse my sluggish
blood 30as quickened to a livelier pulse by
the sight, of a fly that alighbea on the manu-
script. I know bin], by his bumps, as my
subject of the clay before. That phenomen-
al organ of inhabitivonesa could not he inis-
taken. Of course T:oould not have distill-
guished hitn rem other flies by the naked
eye, I oso largo round eatoling.glass with
a handle to it. Wheal lie marched into the
field. of tbe glase I recognized him instantly.
As it many another sat case that fly was
to become the victim of the master:propen-
sities of hie rature. 1311.1 in this instance
there was compensation, He became his-
toric in 001111130111011 With 1110 di800Very and
corroboration of a great seionee,
I had reached a pert of the lecture with
which I was so familiar that I could look
away from the manuscript, The fire of
eloquence WaS kindling towards a beillient
elitenx when the fly rose from the paper and
settled on iny upper lip -at a point south-
west by south from my loft nostril. He WaS
no sooner settled. than he began to excavate
with tt view , putting up a four-storay
brown.stono residence,
His notion distuebed ine not a little. Tt
Was iMposSi1110 to brOttk tfli the leeture to
execute a. deed of the buildingdot ho had
selected. /33 a matter of feet the ground
had not yet, boon surveyed by a competent
engieeer, and it had been -for it long time
s -es settled thing with me that I would lied
allOW any irregolae squatting. For who
could tell whet litigation and endless
confusion might arise from it, OV00
thonsand years afterwards 'My dis-
satisfaction with his eonrso was further
heightened by the feet that the proms of
excavating hurt, me.
The aumnlative force of the foregoing con.
siderations moved me to, hustle tho lartuler
off, I did it hi a firm but quiet and re-
spectful manner,
Finding himself afloat ho sailed. out, on a
level with my mouth to a dietance of abord
two foot, ',tat 1:o facing nub Then it
feeliegs wer0 fonebed, It ,hdighle,
me to observe so I riumphant a eontirmatim
of Inneet Phretiolog,y. wee also (.00seien
of a thrill of sympathy with his tore 4,
home. But when the work he Was tieing
laid bare and lnourated the network of sou
sitory norves which andeelie the epidermis I
was touched. in another Way. Delight an,
sympathy weft, suddenly obscured by th
intolerable pant of violated lierVCS. 1 \ her
pint 1 lammed my tormentor 011 0.3,0111,
tale, and, it must be confessed, 1 did it in.
somewhat perotnptory roNani manner
y / Alt(
gonOonally thous and very oarefully, (tee
the whole matt -sitting hi Judgment co
e •
I have been able to auquit inyeelf of al
blame. I wile preoccupied at the 1.11110, T,
hero allowed hun to acquire a squat t righ
would have been an injustine to 111111, to toy
self, and to generations unborn. To break ot
what I was doing (11o1 ttomi. to .orroyio4
and conveyeneing was impossible, Peebles
he was torturing mu, am (mite clear that I
was jatified brushing 1110 off, foul the
it being the second time- -some degree o
v0(1011008 in the manner of doing it wee par
dutiable. I flatter myself that a iliseernin
public will take the same view of it.
This time the fly did not move away it
sorrow, but in a peseion of anger, He dar
tea out on furious wing some hve oe 0121 fee
and thon dashed ron».1 and round, and elg
zag like (hale lightning, as if possessed 11y
Moto 'aging demon.
I had often seen men awl nudes fly int,
a paseion and act in an alarming Wity,
tins was new and terrible. ality I never
again see a ilv into a passion awl lly as I
sa10 that Ily tly The terror with which be
inspired me Was hi inverse ratio to ids size.
He tovealed. more malignant wrath to Om
pennyweight than 1 could have believed pos-
aible ball I noL seen it. I was ready to faint
when the question arove, so nuturaily, lity
illind, "What if fey wife, who weighs three
11011,103,1 pounds, should 0001,. got up as much
wrath to the pennyweight as there is in that
fly, and become as much madder as elm is
heaviee?" Shade a sourates Let me be dis.
creel;
'When he had worked his excitement amen
to the speaking point he poised himself in
the air ttt about tm1 inches from my nose and
began to describe 010 in a way of his own. It
would oodiffieult to crowd moreprolunityand
yituperation into the time, and all offelleiVe•
- • 1 .
. • t.
of tire, being lighted up •frinn within by am
infernal outlive.
The brimstoneelement in hie langotege must
be suppressed in the interest of the young.
It seems necessary, howevee, in self-defence,
to give publicity to soma of the blisteriag
remarks to winch I WEIS compelled to listen.
In that hone I learned something of the
possible meaning of "rubefaciente" and
"counter -irritants." And the worst of it
eves that, just then, I did lust need a, tly-
blister. My health was good. liesides,
wife is a little uncertain and peculiar in her
tem tor -peppery, so to speak -and I never
nem anything in that line beyond. what she
supplies.
The winged fury began with a weak
attempt to revile my ancestry by calling me a
"son of a gun," coupling the remark with
some very rugged and offensive epithets.
1 cared very little for this attack. .All the
eivilized and most of tho savage world have
heard the report of the Gonne family. My
name teunne-spelled with two u's and an
it. Ho thou went on to miscall nut person,
ally --me, Professor Gulliver Gunno The
torrent of his words was so vehement and sn
wicked with uneeportableimpreeations that,
at first, I caught only such broken remarks
these -"You baldheaded old buntosieer
toothless, ten tient rot -talker hen -Mewed
old ehart-seratcher 1"
At this point my accuser became more
coherent and raged coneecutively thus
" You enormoue great coward, to drive a
poor little fly from his lunne And you -
overgrown stroog brute that you ato-more
than ten thousand times bigger than I am !
Why don't 3'ou take smut one of your size ?
Don't fool yourself, you hairless old Tyrant'
Yon think you can crush mo Don't you,
now ? But I have located my claim, and,
by the big booming bunible bee I will build
on it or bust I will, so holp me Clad -
fly I I 1" ,
With that he made his third and fatal
dash for 1101110-a pOint on aly upper lip,
southwest by south from my left nostril.
As you will readily believe my Mouth Was
quite taken away. Alas for that insect I At
the very moment when ho WaS Making his
last rush I Was repleniehing my empty
lungs. The air waS pouring into the
greedy vacuum like Niagara, and that
doomed ily-bis heart full of malice
and his tongue yob hissing with falsehoods
and profanity was caught as ill a option() and
swept out of Ins course into my opon mouth !
On and on he was hurried past lips mid teeth
and tongue said tonsils t311,1 uvula, touching
nowhere nail ho stook fast in 110 oplOot-
tis I
I ecutld have toughed him up, and woltid,
had not. toy imagination, with theist:cod and
vividness of lightning, presented some pro.
babilities of the 011,30 which decided 111Q tO
take another course. Being oomporief of
very frail textutos the would. eowat
dead 1 and so rooltiplied that hi$ own (nether
would he enable to recognize him 1 There
were other coneiderations presented -but 1
forbear.
In less than a lunulredth part of the time
it:talres to toll it 011W What 11111St be done
and did it. The alteenaive coughing
him up Was (0 0011111 him down ; and it wits
less disagrcteable to my feelings. 'My
COurage and willmosver never forsrike nut
With ono convulsive gulp I swallowed hitn
alive ad went on with toy discourse
-o I did'itt geo magistrate and
accuse myself of /mouth:Arlo. At first it
soemod that nothing else could restore resat
to my conscience. 13ut to the end of life /
shall he glad that I took time to 001101.
1101. the whole situate% When
weighed every eitmonstanco eonnected with
the tragedy 1 SOW that iestead of stolen,
ing r had prolonged the life of that fly by
swallowieg him. must hove lived from
thirty to forty 00001111S longer 1 11011 be WOUIC1
110130 done if 1 had coughed 11110 up, I bad
internal evidence of tide whieb wive melted-
ly satisfactory to me, whatever value a
The Friendship Ring.
Your Toronto maiden encounters a friend
on the street, in the stot•es, at church, in her
ionte-anj lete, es eryea here -and Mime
diately prefers a requeet for a penny.
"A penny !" you exclaim, "My dear Mist,
Dorothy, v.:11y, "veti--of coulee.. But 3v -what
ill the world do"you want of a penny ?"
Then the merry maidea laughs and ex -
1)01 wa.11114:11 HolxIctrgauutt: a•ii,.onit.1111 de at. (4.t ha »ue,131.1:„ni
them the coveted penny, she darts ieto the
nearest jeweler's and buys a friendship ring.
And what. is a friendship ring?
.1elerely a ring of line gold. xi ire with
"ft iendship knot" attachment. It sells fee
81 and everymie of them that 3'ou see 011 the
Toronto lingers represents 100 friends
who have 110011 assessea I cent, melt. It
won't do to accept 10 cents each fenin ten
friends, or '25 cents each from a quartet of
Mende. Just one pputy--Only this and
nothing more -is the indispensable "swag-
ger" essence of the fad,
Row the Bait Aot is Evaded.
13osxori., June 19,-A St, Johns, Now-
fonncilaint, speuial describes the newest ova- !
shin of the reit Act, A. Newfoundland voS.
sol procures a license to carry a cargo of
herring to Doston, Under the false pre-
tence of stress t•f ovations she calls at St. 8
Pierre. She is there attached tinder pro -
me of the French 001.1rt for an alleged debt
to a St. Piorre trader, This debt is flab
tious. Untier order of the court the cargo ,
of herring is sold in St. Pierre at public '
auction end a large price is realized. Tho
ship is released from the attachment and the
captain pockets the spoils.
mint 00 atini the leiter of a girl whoee
eentittiente, fees, expre05 those of intinj
other y,outg 1011.01.
an) 111 years of age. Ily ,leallt of
1,11.11er, mamma is left wi' 1,1..ree eltil,tion,
wheat 1 am the 4:Meet. 1 ehould 11011, to sill/ -
port tiie yot i; is a severe tred
'mt. ,o1.1 111!.111. 1W:1'10'1,111.4 ',-11;
10/,:tItliy with (dem, 1 as
' dated 1%10111 11:11/3 wa4 11'11,11 1141411
1 ? Cal! '40 all 10'1031:1 1.11411103!
nn.tit wid,14 wonb1 114, 1 he revelnie hut
not the implet,ani t1011415 remarks 01
! I la: !lid tztoss•
y ”orresoondelli iii this ,,ase Will, exeilh,
1411, I 1, her plitixtly tool frankly:
AVIett ehall ve., 41,4? Fire? of my girl
leen) 11.31 neieely but a f,,o1 or a 11141:11,
ever made uttpleteetnt remake aleett 11.1. gir
d 1 •1•• 1 1 ei,
Tillis is midway 011 the railway that cuts
. the Caneastis in its whole width, and puts
the tw,, seas in eoliiiimiliendion---the pot: of
lletonin ,01 the 1 flack Atm with that of ilot.ott
on the Caspian. WO leaVe tho capital itt
the latter t eye is at lirst ray-
isinsi and then desolated, by the ,thanging
tispeeti, of the land. The intuit follows the
Near, whieh 1.1,11e 1111 broad oleo'. of wator
..th.ronstei wild !tweets and rich,
0.01, Wont, tWo "halos of :mosey ridges
• stretei, roomy ing sight in the dintii,000-
. the LalieliSini to the left, the 111O1111t4110
Arol,moia to the right. 80Q11 We loam) the
river, wino), goes to join the Araiies toivarda:
the south tho plain gets broall,r and barer et
i cage. built of phinks perelicel on four
tree trintice rise in the midet of the rielt fields
1 like watelt.towers. The inhabitants tif the
• villages, who are ell 'litters in this region,.
take refuge at night in those aerial neStS';
! an, marshy land is so unhealthy that it is
daugerons to sleep therm In spite of
; these preatutions,. the peasants whore we
ece. are devoured by feVer ; their einaciated
visages remind us of those of the inhabitants.
of the Roman Cautpagna. After leaving
Hadji-Caboul, the etation Moorieli style
w111,re a new line branolies ofr-"the
' Teheran line," 1 min told by the en.
goteere 30100 are budding it, end who hope
to carry it into 1 110 very heart a PorSia-
we enter an African 1itedeeur, satl and
luminous. The mountain chame become
!ewer; they aro now simidy cliffs of gilded
sandstone I'estoonitot agal»st crude blue
s 3. At Over feet, t 10 desert, a sandy ex.
panstt, covered here and there with rose
cazvet of flowering tamarisks. Herds of
camels browee 011 those shrubs, under the
113 11,..lieve In°, demo who would Maud
liriti1.1%.!! you are unworthy either 01
your, or any good girl'e friendship.
' What :hall you de? (let Over the onwo•
1 manly emeardito width makes yon waut to
! hide from the world at largo the Met Oa it
is pair duty to help in the liOnsehold 1 hat
lost its protector. Tht, world has grown in
1 • • • , 1 r , 1 P ,•
speeting woman melees ner moot respeet
, ' lo Vito t
Istwer in the land - if ehe does her work well.
woman who wants to sit at home and
her work seeretly, beetles° she feels she
- t tin (a 411 re n tit of H
: they must he) im not apt to de goodwork and
.
Von may 11,••, some faticy•work that your
' friends, fer sweet eluoity's smite, will buy
for a while, but this isn't working; and if
you are youne healthy and have ability
as poi say, you don't Want to be au object
of oliarity.
Mist shall you do (lo ant into the
• • 1, y , .
%eta* elem. away the clott.13 in your brain.
1 b, whatsoever your hotel find fer you to do
svith ail your heat and MI your strength,
tts sllrely KS you and I aro living you
will stweetel.
There is alwaye in this world a place for a
o'mod worker., there is always proper pty,
ment for good work ; for peer wink,
fer sit/rause lebor, for tvork about which so
little pride is felt that anybody Wants to
hide it 100111 the publie view, there ie no.
thing but contempt.
The woman Who works need never be any-
thing but womanly, but she must be as exact
as it man, elite nand recognize the value of
punoluality, and, above all elso, if alie does
malting more than s3reep an office, aho must
conclude to sweep that Maw so well that oho
will get butter 1111,8„•,00 fOr it than any one
ovor got before, atul in this way snake her
liest stop towardsuccess.
Succees must be sought ; it aosen't tome
uninvited newadays. The leave ytal get to
work, which Elizabeth Barrett drowniug
sap; is the best you, can get, is yetirS. Har.
ing it, keep always going ahead., meth day
making your Work better and better, not
mtly because your employer has a right to
demetal it, but for your own honor s sake.
You wilt letten to like it because you do it
well, add Arhell the day comes around that
your wages are handed to you there will be
a great throb of thunkfulneee 111 your heart,
not only because you are helpieg those a
, . • •
of - l'od and feel that ”The 11,1 o
t
(our ,
worthy of his hire,"
That is what yell shotild dO. Ile honest,
be good, be courageoue, and e-ou will make
of yourself a woman in the truest rouse of
the word.
Poot-Priuts of OurLord.
In the Clitirell of Domino Quo Valls, Rome,
carefully. pretserved under a plate glass, belle
shaped theme, three and a half foot high and
four fuet M diameter auross the bottom, may
be seen the last foot-printe made by Jesus
en tide earth 1 dome mole by Him. tlie night
o appearet to eta W len t le atm 33 as
Icahn; Roma in hot haste on account of
Neas persecutions of the Christians, A.
J. C. Hare in his -Walks in Rome," says
11). 257): "The fent-print,: kept ,enshrined
m the Chureli of Domino Quo N adis are
only copies of those said to havo boon lett
110re hv our Saviour, the origiinals having ,
been 1.610,Na. is) S, Sebastian& '
St. Ambrose is the author of the etory
concerning the eirenntstauees Under which
the celebrated foot -prints were made ; a
etory quite interestiug, whether fact or tic.
tion. I quote front:Mrs. Jameeon t "After
the burning of Rome, Neoi accueed tho
thrietians havines, tired the city. This
was the origin of the lira pereetiution, in
which malty porisheilby terrible and hither-
to unheard-of deaths. The Chrietion coo-
verts besought Peter not to expose his life,
told he started to leave the city. ho
fled along the Appian Way, about two mites
from the getes, he Was met by a vision of
our Saviour traveling toward$ the city.
Steak with amazement, Peter exclaimed.:
'Lord, whither gout Thou ?' (Domino tpie
Vadis 1) to 30111011 Jesus, lottking upon him
with 0 mild sadness, replied ; go to Rome
to bo crucified a second time,' and Munetli-
ately vanished."
Peter, taking this as a sign that he was
to submit himself to all 11111111100 of suffering
foe the sake of Ids religion, retraced kis
Rope to the atty. Ire told. the story of
neeting with Jesus at the divide in the
Some of the fai hful repaired to the
spot, cut out of the damp elay the holy
fotaottutints, anti preserved them. as above
He and She,
Thortuom shone soft, the linur Wa0 late,
'When they two parted at the gate;
Alt, she was wondrous fair
!Chen up to her dainty room she went,
Her heaet o'erflowing with sentiment,
And breathed for hun mayor.
And he waked sloWiy floWil the Street,
With his lipe still warm from het! kisses
sweet,
Through the inoonligh t. soft and clear.
In his mind etill lingered hoe beautim face, i
As he gayly turned. into "Finnegan's plane," p
And battled himeelf with beer 1
1
No Flies on Her,
" Harbort," she said, with a melting ,
flamistiess M her voice that 14011/idea like the '
ripple of an orange lee as it thaws, " et
holt 1"
" What is it I" asked Herbert, And the
cold flintiness of his tones showed that he
meant every word of it.
" Would yott. love 1110 just MA Well it yOIS
knew that I anci naor-sighted 1"
" Why, why," ha stammered, " of ceurse
I would ; but are yott 1"
" Yes, t 0111 afraid. so. 31101, as 0 test.. -I
can't toad a word of that sign aertae$ the
street can you ?"
" Yes," &Lid Hartwig, rosignodly, "1 eau,
It says ice cream,' "
Barber's Poles.
Of all symbols, 110110 10 so ancient as the
umber's pole ; few have caused so 1110011
mtiquarian researoh. According to the
' Athenian Oraele," the anetent Romans
were so helmeted by the hrst barber who
came to their city that thoy erected a stela
to his memot.y. Auetently barbers meted in
a duel capacity RS hair4r0S00105 and sur -
goons. In Rome they wore wont to hang
out, at the ona of Idlinr pOlea, bailie, that
weary and Wminded travelers might observe
them at a, dIstetteo, Tho partiotolored stair
is said to bulimia that surgery was carried.
on within, the color stripe representing the
fillet elegantly entwined. round the patient's
arm while be was phlobotomisOcl,
Utuninated missal, of the Lime of ltdward
„ has a plate representing a patient, stair
hand mid arm in fillet, lutdergoing
Idebotomy,
Barbers proper, that is hairdressers and
:arbor surgeons, Were distinguished by the
olor of the bands on the poles ; the former
laving a blue and the latter rod, As far
tack as 1707, barbers and surgeons wore
<impelled by statute to display their poles,
he latter lisewise affixing a gallipot ancl
eul rag at th0 end. The fabulist Gay, in
tis fable of the " Cleat Without % Board,"
lluding to a harbor's shop, speaks of the
red rag pendent front the pole.
thc bottle, discontent seeks foe comfort
cowardice, for courage ; bash fultiese, for 00n-
fi(lonee ; sadness, for joy ; and all find ruin 1
A14'0(011% Perrino, aid to be the inventor
of 113e gelling gun, died in Cincinnati in
poor (Arc:tunas/lees on Monday,
• , • 1_1 „
toss its it 11r01010 stat 110, The tantasto
tilhonettee of those twined:3 au increased
in Igoe and changed 111 form by the effect ofs.
the lineage, telueli diephies before 01ir 03,04
in the ardent haze of the horizon, lakes and
forests. From time to time we meet a petrol-
eum train, composed of cistern trucks in the
finmt of cylinders surmounted by a funnel:
with a short, thielt neck. 'When you see them.
approaching 11,01 11 distance you might mis-
take them for a procession of mastodons,
vying in ehaplessuess with tbe trains of
monels whieh they pass, Tho sun Imrus_in
• Yondev a groan Land glisters 080,
noath its rays; it is the Cimpian. We turn.'
around a hill 1 and Indio Id I on the west-
ern shore, In this primitive landscape, which
seems like a coroorof Arabia Petram, a mon-
strous city rises, before our eyes. Is It once
more the effect of mirage, this towu of
dieladieal aspect, enveloped in a cloud. of
sleek,: traversed by running tongues of flame,
as it were Solon, fortified by the demons
, its girdle of oest-iron tawers? I can find
! but one word to depict exaetly tits first irn-
, pression tlmt it gives 1 it is a town of guso-
: metere. There are no houses -the houses
al I • • • • 's, , •
the old Persian city -nothing lint. iron
cylinders and pipes and 01111nney-s, scattered
in disorder from the hills down to the beach.
This is dotibtles0 the fearful model of what
manufacturing towns will all be 10 the twen-
tieth century. Meanwhile, for the moment,
this one ie nohow in the world ; it is Bakou
.-the "moo of Fite," as the natives oat ;
the petoeletun town, where everything is
devoted awl subordinated to the worship of
the- local god.
1 he bed of the Caspian Sea rests upon a
second subterranean sea, which smeads its
11410,10 of naptha under the whole basin. On
the eaetern shore the building of the Samar -
end Railway led to the discovery of im-
mense beds nf mineral oil. On the western
shore, from the most remote ages, the magi
used to adore the tiro springueg from the
earth at the very spot where its last wor-
shippers proarate themselves at the present
flay. Bat, after having long adored it,
impious ineu began to profit by it commer-
cially. In the thirteenth century the famous
traveller Marco Polo mentions " on the
northern side a great spriug whence flows
liquid like oil, It is no good for eating, but
it is useful for burning and for all other pur-
poses; and so the neighboring nations come
to get their provision of it, and fill many
vessels without the over -flowing spring'
appearing to be diminished in any manner."
The 10511300011001 working of these oil springs
limb 1 1 tl
sent dny It yields 2,000,000 kilogrammes of
kerosene per annum, and disputes the
markets of Buono against the products of
Kentucky and Pennsylvania, Tho yield
might he increased tenfold, for the existing
wells give on an aVerage 40,000 kilogrammes
a day, and in order -to find new ones it
suffices to lore the grotunl, so saturated is
the whole soil with petroleum. C. Marvin
Tit, Potroteton Industry ia Southern Rus-
sia) compares the Apsheron peninsula to a,
sponge plunged in mineral oU. The soil is
eontutually vontiting forth the liquid lava
that tntments its entrails, either 01 the
from of mud volcanoes or natural springs.
These SpringS overflow in streams so abund-
ant that it is hopeless to store there contents
foe want of reservoirs; often they catch fire
and burn for weeks; the air, impregnated with
naptha vabors, is then aglow all rounp
Beitou.-From "Through the Caueusus,"
.Sarittr's Nagatine for lune.
An Important Disoovery.
A young 111011 from Maine named FL B.
cox is said to have disoovered means of
ConVerting heat into electricity which will
revolutionize present methods of illumina-
tion and of producing power. A comp.any
with 01,000,000 capital has boon organised
to introduce the invention, of which an ex-
hibition is soon to be given. If the state-
ments made are not exaggerated, steam will
be costly by comparison, The assertion is
made that a gas lot elm be made to generate
enough eleetricity to run a sewing machine.
That boing the ease, an oil lamp, or at least
a small oil -furnace, ought to be sufficient to
propel a street -car. Scientists have devoted
mach study to the subject of transforming
heat into electricity, Helium is reported to
have almost despaired of ever finding a way
to accomplish the metamorphosis, But, ao-
cording to accounts front the cast, the secret
seems to lave been obtained by chance, just
as steam itself and so many other of the
most important scientific facts have been
mad?,
Destroying the Illusion.
Dr. Naelitigal, tlte celebrated African ex.
idorer, was ()nee the guest of a rich limn -
burg merchant, Tho ineroludit's son, a
young man of a somewhat sentimental tem-
perament, said, among other 'things, that
his dearest wish was to ride across the dos-
ert on the back of a camel, lIe thought
such a ritlo roust ho very poetical indeed.
"My dear young friend," replied theexplor-
00, "I ono tell you how you can get a (arid
al idea of whet riding a camel on the deserts
of Africa is like. Tniteen office -stool, screw
it up es high es possiblo, and put it 10110 lt
Waggon without any' springs 1 then seat
yourself on, tho stool, and have it driven
over rocky and 1111031011 ground during Ow
hottest weather of July or August, after
you have not hma anything to eat or drink
for twanty.four hours, and thon pm will go)
a faint idea of how delightfully pootio it is '
to ride on a, camel in the Ntilas of Afriou4st