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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-8-22, Page 2eileeetesessassieseurs Publishedby THE BRUSSELS PO8T: gement with the publishers fiem advaneee sheens. o Chatetars's Teurarth CHAPTER L "Sunny April of the poet's fancy bad faded into May, and at length had ems - embed to the warmth of early summer, Though the meson had been a late one, %hedges and sloping woodlands glowed with A tinnier mares' of pear -blossom and pink Slushed apple -bloom. The fortune e " ten thousand," dragged captive behind the zilded chariot of Fashion, turned their fame fried the freshborn beauty, now at its best and brightest, to slave and toil, to triumph and be triumphed oven; for the first Draw - in -room wee "ancient history, and the Snare in the Park were fragrant with pink lowers. Town was very full—that is to say Ole lour millions and odd thousands of suf- teriuz, struggling humanity were augmented by the Inman' of fellow -creatures who as- ige to leed the world and make the most of ]ile. The Aeademy had opened its door for nearly a sneuth, and the dilettanti, inspired by the eritios, had stamped with the hall- marks,of success the masterpieces of Orchard- -mm.04d Solomon had dwelt upon the vivid alessioality of Alma Tademe, and listened en leng,Md eepture on opera -nights to Patti and Mara Rime. Almady those who began to feel the lielat and clamour of "the sweet 43h.ady side of Pull Mall" sighedin secret fur ' PM' e,1 1. . ess Of 00041 Ae4 land were count- talt ,. -••••aiii4f1)0 . .* WillsekiPt,ereeseealleaesv,een. Osni 'semi.y lapel osua . , ' -'.-e- fiteittleglo fie PP P.SSe Pi uvoa kf4i, t'sq It is a fine te... " Where do you live ?" asked the fortunate one abruptly. " Mitre Court, Marchaut Street, over Westminster Bridge. It's true what I'm tell& you. Anal if you Nutt/ apere a Anil - in" -- The questioner took five ehillinge from his pocket and laid them 011 his open pelm, As be replied, he eyed his moaner Isrotherin misfortune with a shady glue's, in which sterneess was not ialtogether innocent of humour. "I have seen you before," be observed, "and SO, if I am not mistaken, have the police. You can have the eve shillings, and welcome, which just leaves me this one sovereign. 1 ato ttll the more sorry for you because I have the honor of residing in that desirable locality myeelf." So saying, and dropping the emus one by one into Use mendicant's outstretched hand and altogether ignoriug his fervid thanks, John Winchester'to give the wanderer hie proper amine, walked on, every trace oi cynicism passed from his face, leaving it, soft and him:Isom°, His head was draw useproud- ly, for he was back with the peat again, and but for his sorry Ire, might have passed Lor one to the nuanner born. thadually the streets Mayne ehabbier and more soualid as he walked along ; the fine shims gave place to small retailers' places of business ; even thc :types of humanity began to change. 11 ,esstei)nister Bridge with its lung lane of 'aye ?see passed, till at length the pedee Fortunatus s favourites, to sa. „ s asispeise-d ,t1,9Fn one pi the dark unwhole- pinions, aud to soar whither one lists's...,ne'r ?ORO of the main read,a in a position to tranaport the glorious fresh- son.. s -ass gewejsjpg, believe, theei n - nets of the counts into the stifled atmos- street with le —Lew 4 reputut len by piles° of towns, owe the mere( streets, habitants of which sass aspired mm -blinds of fancy hues and artistic arrange- na 'MUDS to be envied by those ent repelled the ardent heat, filtered the to be regarded as observers of the law. adversity, which niakes us acquainted with strange bedfellows, had injured the once fastithone Winchester to a company at once contemptible and uncongenial. He pursued his svay qinekly along till at length he tamed into one of the darkest houses, and walking cautiously tap the rickety uneven stairs, entered a room at the top of the house, h room devoted to both living reel sleeping purposes, and illuminated by solitary oillamp. Lying on a bed was a man half asleep, who, as Winchester entered, looked round with sleepy eyes ; fine gray eyes they might have hem, but for their red bus and blood- shot tinge, which spoke only too plainly of a life of laxity and dissipation, In ap- pearance be was little more than a Youth, a handsome youth but for the fretful expres. sion of features, and the extreme weakness of the mouth, not wholly disguised by a, fair giot though silken draperies of pink and mauve on to pyramids and banks of fragrant TIOWCTS, gardenias and orchids, and the ..deep -blue violets, fresh and dewy from the -balnifItivierit itself. A. glorious day had been succeeded by a perfect night. Gradually the light deepen- ed till the golden outlines of the mansions in Arlington Street gave promise of the coming 'moon, rising gradually, a glowing saffron oreseent, into the bluevault overhead. Front every house there seemed to float the sound of revelry; a constant line of carriages 51- tered down the street; and many outcasts, drifting Heaven alone knows where, ctsught a passing glimpee of fairyland behind the ferns and gleaming statuary, behind doors flung, with mocking hospitality, open. There was one loiterer there who took slight heed of those things. His shabby raiment might at one time have been well made, but now it was no longer presentable znonstache. in such an aristocratic quarter; his boots, " What a time you have been l" he cried trodden down at heel, a scant protection petulently, " I ahnost go mad lying here against the fiery pavement. The face was contemplating these barewalls and listening that of a man who had seen better days, a to those swanning children. The mystery young face, not more than thirty at the to me is where they all come from." outside, a handseme countenance withal; • Winchester glanced roundthe empty room but saddened by care and thought, and the all the more naked and ghastly by reason of hard lines of cultivated cynicism. peculiar certain faint attempts to adorn its native to the individual who is out of suits with hideousness, andsmiled ineontempthoue self - fortune, For a moment Inc stool idly pity. The plaeter was peelingfrom the walls, watching an open door, before which stood hidclen here anal there by unframed -eater- , a neatly -appointed brougham ; and within colours, grim in contrast ; ss-hilo in one cols -s„,..seshe 'brilliantly -lighted vestibule, half bit! norm eaSdbatl lpeb st 111), 011 Whillt a hall gassy and half inn the glom a MR graceful finishechiltillire bad been carelessly thrust. --egnre loitered, a haughty -looking Woman, Through -the open windows a faiut fetid air r Mal a black lace mantilla twisted round her percolattd from the court below iu unwhole. uplifted head. It WAS a striking picture—' some currents, ringing with the screams of the dainty aristocrat within, the neglected children, OT the sound of minted curses in a -wanderer without; he half shrinking in the deeper key. shadows,she clear cut as cameo against the "'Tie sweet to known there is an eye will blazing light, a background of fiosvers and 1 mark our coming, and grow brighter wheu feraas to sheen off her regal bemutywe come. Poverty oath for companionship, my dear Chris. Why nothavecome mit with As she swept down the steps at length me and seen the great world enjoying itself ? owards the carriage, somethuag bright Rud lining fell from her throat, and lay gleam - ng on the marble tiles at her feet Appar- ently the loss was unnoticed, for the brom glum door was closed behind her before the stranger stepped forward roul raised the trinket from its perilous position. "I think you have dropped this," he said quietly, with a tone and ease of manner in startling contrast to his appearance. "May I be allowed to restore it to you ?" The haughty beauty, disturbed in some pleasant reverie, looked up almost withont ;catching the meaning of the words. She saw nothing more than a herable individual of.a class as distinct from her own as the poles are apart, who, perhaps, in the hope of a small resvard, had hastened to restore the lost property to its rightful owner. "Oh, thank you," she replied, half turn - login his direetion, at the same time taking the brooch and placing a piece of money in the stranger's hand. " I should have been greatly distressed to have lost, this." "The miniature most be valuable," re- turned the stranger, mechanically regarding the coin in his hand. "But you will par. don me in calling attention to another me- take.—You have given me a sovereign." "Yon scarcely deem it encanth," said the girl, with a half -smile, as the strange anomaly of her position flashed across her mind. "If"— "On the contrary, madam, I am mare than rewarded," as she once more opened the little -ivory purse, Again the palpable absurdity of her sitea- --don struck the listener. That she was speaking to sa man of education there was no longer reason to doubt. And yet the fact of his accepting the sovereign against the feat of his being what his language implied. "Yon surely are a man of education, are you not ?" she °eked. "Really, I can hardly tell you," he answered with some confusion, Then suds denly pudding himself together he said : "But I am presuming. It is so long since a Indy spoke to nte, that for a moment 1 have forgotten that 1 am—what I am." He had lost himself for n snoment, think- ing himself back in the world again, till his eyes fell upon the silver harness glittering in the moonlight, and the marble etatuery gleaming in the vestibule behind. Batt the listener drew herself up none the higher, raid regarded him svith a look of interests in her dark dreamy oyes. -"I do not think so," she seed ; "and 1-1 cam sorry for you if you need my pity. If I can do anything"— Boma suddet thought seemed to strike /ler, for she turned half away, twit ashamed of her intereet in the stre,nger, and motioned the 'servant to elm the carriage door behind hen The loiterer watched the breughem till it mingled with the stream of vehicles, ava then with a sigh, turned away, "4 ate," exclaimed the medicant eagerly " the,twas very nigh being mine." The eViner of the coin turned ebruptly to the speaker, He beheld a short powerful. looking individual dressed in rough 'cloth garments his elosely-croppen bullet.shaped head adorned by a greasy Inc cap, shiny from long wear mid expoatire to all kinds of wes.th- " It might have been mine," 1m continu- ed ; only you were too quick for me. With a sick wife and three children atarvin' at, home, it's hard," refused, till he held that hill oV0T my head and frightened me, It iebed Olefins's, very bad ; for, (Bap* it hew be will, it is with- ing bet lan•glary. They want me to help them they say I eau if 1 will. And amiss" "AM so it lets eome to that at last. You know something of the phases of Course. Where is the lame thee propose to honoue with a visit 1" "eumewhere in the West End—Arlington Street, 1 fancy ; anyway, it is some great house, the reeidence of a well-kowe110005. Wiegiate did pot stay whose, but the isember is 280 or 281." Winchester's face WAS very grave DOW, and almost solenin in Rein tens i ty. A den glimmer- ing of the vileness of the plot, began to pee- measte his melerstanding, That Wingate, the befoissiseetioned scoundrel, knew full well slim the heiress WAS, he saw 110 reeson "Clarke said he with quiet earnestness, "rn tuover and hal me in the face ;" which the unhappy youth did with a strange feel- ing of coining "I told you 11,. ' ots loitering in the streets towighl. ,s me of the streets I hen - posted to elsee 0,15 Arlington Street—by chance, ase ,0010 people would say. By tee same chance, as 1 si as waiting there, a beau- tiful girl cisme down the steps to her broughain, arrayed for some gaiety or an- other, In so doleg she dropped a valuable ornament, and passed into it r carriage without noticieg ber loss, I tenet' to restore it to her; 'ay bark 'v. 1' the light, so she could not recogs ise 1110. But I did recognise her, She save isle tee sovereign lying there, and what was better, eles gILVO me her sweet womanly sympathy. It was not out of any idle eurioffity that I made a bete of the einnber of tee housie,—I hope you are listening to inc Chris "Yes, dear old fellow, I ain listeriffig," "It was 281, mil she was the heirese Wingate mentioned, on think the coin- cidence ends hero, but not quite. I said tha1 1 recognised hell1 elet, Ilill. elle weld Cap yeu gdes's tiehtS it %Vita; not rectiZuWorn• Ashtoti taelalltled "Not—not r ere?" brokenly—my sister V' " It was Vera, deluged, Mire beautiful, but the sane Vera—Now, eahlibt you see the whole fiendishness ot Wingate s plot? Cannot you see that if anything is diSCOVOT- 04, be will got off got free, when you are implieatecl ? My boy, I am going to Inlay 14 bold stroke for your freedom. i run going to break the vow I made tire years met, in the hope that good. may eome of its 'Treat Wingate for the present as if you are still Itis tool, and trust ine, for beyond the dark- ness I sea light at lest" (To nb CONTINrUP.). I have beets up west doing Pint at tlie gates of Paradise." "How mu, I venture out ?" exclaimed the younger man with irritation. "How eau a man show himself in such miserable rags as these? 1t isn't every one who is blessed with your cosmopolitan instincts.—Butenough of this frivolity. The first great question is, have von had any luck? lThe second, and of no less importitnce, how much?" "In plain English, have 1 any money :— Winchester drew the precioes coin from his pocket and flung it playfully across to his companiou. His eyes glittered, his face flushed till it grew almost handsome again • then he turned to the speaker with a lool'c nearly approachinggratitude, orasnear that emotion asi, weak selfish nature can ap- proach. Winchester laughed, not altogether pleasantly, as he noticecl Ashton's rapidly. changing expression of feature, "Pon my word, Jack, you are a wonder- ful fellow ; and what I should do without you I dare not contemplate. Have you found any deserving picture•dealer who had sufficient discrimination to"— The Bulbul. Throeghout India people will snake pets of any animals whieh can be induced to contribute to their amusement. We noticed in Delhi that the average small boy, as well as children of a, larger growth, exhibited a particular fondness for a certain little bird of ashen plumage and black crest, This was the famous bulbul of which Hafiz Inc so much to say, and some Western poets also who have sentimentalized about the Vale of Cashmere without ever having seen it. He is usually tetherea hy a string ettached to his leg, and sits upon his °Weer s finger or hops about on Ms arm ; something, tee; he adorns a tall perch in front of the doorway. A lady at the hotel remaked that "it was touching to see how fond these poor people were of their little birds," The Mystery was soon solvedletzaurnleg, from a drive one afternoon we passeh the colossal gate- way of the great mosque and saw that the broad and teetering flight of stops before the principal entrance was covered with scattered groups of people, all intent upon some occupation of absortiag inl erest, So vast and imposing was the areeiteet rid bads - ground that the crowd of little figures suggested 0110 ot Martin's wash•d pictures of the Judgment Day. Some great i•eligious ceremony was evidently golug se. So we got out, deeply impressed, to ubtaie 11. nearer view, when, behold, in the centre of each little group was a pair of these birds in mortal combat, and they fought, as pluckily as the bravest of genie fowl, and breathless was the interest shown by every spectator, whether street urchin or shawled and turbaned merchant. "Picture -dealer I" Wineheeter echoed acornfully. "Mark you, neve been doing what I never did before—somethieg, I trust, I shall never be called to do again. I told you I had been up west, and so I have, hanging about the great houses in expecta- tion of pinking upp. stray shilling ; I, John Winchester, Artist and Gentleman. And yet, some.way, I don't feel that I have quite forfeited my claim to the title." "You are a good fellow, Jack, the ban friend I ever had," said Ohrie Ashton after a long eloquent pause. "I should have starved, 1 should have found a shelter in jail, or a grave in the river long Ago, had it not been for you. And If it had, not been for me, :yon would be a useful member of society still, And yet, I do not think I alts naturally bad ; there must be some taint in my blood, I fancy, What a fool I have loess, and how happy I was till )met Wingate. Winchester laughed, joylessly, bitterly, as he listened. He, a sowal outcaat, beyond the pale of civilization almost; she, with beauty and fortune, end if rumor spoke cor reotly, with the strawberry ,leaves at her feet, if she only coxed to raise them to lun brows, A sweet vision of 0.1011' pleading face, lighted by a pair of dark brown eyes, look- ing trustingly into his own, rose up with faint comfort out of the deati mist of five years mgo, "Some day I Emmy you will cone togeth- er again, you end she, Jack, when 1 am no longer a burden to you. If I could rid myself of my Frankenstein, my old man of the sea, I would have one more try. But I cermet; my nerve is gone, and I am, after all, it ,poor pitiful coward. --1 must telIyou, I must: Wingate has boon here again," There 18 something very terrible in the spectacle of a strong man crushed by the weight of an overwhelming despair, Win- chester evened over ana laid. -his hand in all kindnese on his friend's shoulder, though hie face was black and stern, For a mom. telt it seemed that he would give way to the passion horning in every vein; but by great effort he controlled himself. "And what is the latest piece of scound- reborn, may / aelt Ashton's face *as still turned away from the speaker. Bis reply came painfully, as if the words coat him an affert. "At first I ELEUTRICAL Ili'. Sbelford Bidwell, in npeaking at OW Royal Society's eeovertheitme in London last week, exhibited All 01I1/011111011‘ which May possibly explein 1 be intense darkness, often accompanied by A lurid yellow glow, duriug thunderetorms, After showing on a screen the shadow 01 15 email stela's) jet, which was of a Iloutral gray tint, and of feeble intem eity, he electrified the et, and the shadow became dense and of a peculiar orange browa hue, At the same meeting sonle remarkable werk was dime with the type printing tele- graph. Cennections were made all over Jeurope, and among the persons commun. cated with by the President in the course et the evening were Profs. Helmholtz and Dubois-Reymund in Berlin, Prof. Maseart in Paris, and Prof, Canizaro in Rome. --- The latest reports coneernieg the huge Ferranti station at Deptford:, England, of whose disastroes failure sueh dismal fure- bodinge have been made from time to time, are distinctly encouraging. Current is now being actually transmuted at a preemie a between 5,000 end 0,000 volts over a tem- porary cable, and the new type of lerraeti cables are most highly spoken of. Mr. Fer- ranti deserves the success with which his in- genuity and pluck them likely to be re- warded. The many accidents which have been caused by the ignition of the alcoholic vapors discharged during the operation of varnish- ing the ulterior of beer casks, which wise front the exposure of the illuminantrermired, can now be prevented. The 001 miry lanterns ssed are being replaced by the electrie light, bithodoseent light of small candle power is surrounded by to drong iron frame ich ',MVOs the lamp without obstruedwhng the tight. The frame of the lamp le provided With a book, by which it may be hung in the bah of the workman or suspended from the wood of Um cask. The lamp is very haody, and as MT/x[10d with cerrent) from a giorage battery which will operate for twenty hours without boieg I -teenaged. From time th time new developments are made in the problemof seeing by eleatrieity, Not long ego Edison was reported to have said that he bad under considered= ti plan by which this could he effected, and now another method hate licen proposed. This method is based upon the property peenliar to selenium of changing its electrical resis- tance with the intensity of light. The selenium oells are arranged in squares, each of which is connected with an electro -mag- net in the receiver. The latter is composed of a Milne ennetructed ef thin stripe of eteel, to email of whieh sweated of the electromag- nets are attached. When a strongly illmn- inated body is placed in front of the trans- mitter the electrical resistance of the various cells varies according to the intensity of the light, The various currents thus affect the electromagnets itt different degrees, and the strips of steel are bent irregularly, turn- ing the mirror into a series of slightly wrap - ed surfaces which will throw an menage on the screen. It is quite possible that this idea may be worked out practically, It has been suggested that in defensive Warfare a telescope of indefinite length woulct be of the utmost value, as with:buried wires anal concealed visors is General meld apprise himself of the movements of his adversary with certainty wad ease, It has never hitherto been found possible to make a drilling machine which would drill square,. hexagonal, oblong, and octa- gonal holes m mental, but such a tool has hens devised and its appearance before the ptiblic is promised at, no distant date. "The plaintiff says," recited the Judge, "that you often deserted her; that you sub- jected her to shameful treatment; that even you often struck her brutally. You cell yourself .a man and strike a W0111011 of twenty-five." The wife who is in the court mem, weeping, with her face in her hands, raises it suddenly at this end exclaims : "I beg your pardon, Judge ; csnly twenty- four years." The heroine of the haus- just now in Berlin is a German girl, Vranken Sohanna Mises- trick. Fraulem Maestrick was born near Berlin, but went with her parents as a child to Portugal. Whan she was 17 an impres- sario, struck with her size and beauty, offer- ed to train her as a female bull -fighter. She hes not yet appeared in an erena, battiest week she came out in a trial fight at Oporto. A hnge arawc1 collected to see the unusual sight. The young lady quickly laid two hullo in the sand, ancl rode off followed by a sand of music amicl thunders of applause. Crowds of people acllected before the win- dows of the hotel at which- the "Tome" was staying, and far into the night she was obliged:to appear on the balcony ni response to their calls for her, A queer anr suggestive find is reported to have been made m the sleepy old :Storm - aim town of Salem, N. 0. Beieg surround- ed by enterprisiog neighbors, who are alive to the advantages of electrio lights and electric railways, Salem determinee to be abreast of the times. Not many days ago O workman was fitting electric light wires in the attic or one of the old buildings of Use town, when he mune upon a queint group uf souvenirs, which showed the different stages ofsillemination which had successively come within the experience of the household, There was first a set of old-fashioned. tin candle moulds; then an oil lamp of an- tique pattern, and, lastly, a email notion of O gas pipe, which he there and then sup- planted by the wile through which the elec- tric current was soon to pass. ' Baohelor's CompenSation. Topley—" What a pleasure to hear a baby cry- 1" Hayelitt — " Why, I should like to 'how ?" Topley—" Because it reminds you of what you have escaped." A Loving Woman's Reasons, "1 love you web, ray eweetheart, shy ; Pm tree." The maiden blushing answered, "1 Love yoo." " Why do you love me, my adored ?"--- A pause. And then she answered with a word : " Because." (1. 22, 1 S9 O. Household Medioine. Heartburn may he relieved almost, leste1 ly "If hall a tectepcsalful of tableetah lo ed il awineglass avoid water and then drank When the eyes are tired and week, if they ere bathed in 'slightly mune water, they will 50011 130'.10n0 nootient, Alwaya weal, a baby's mosith and gums every morning with water in which yen have put a pineh of lsorax. It keeps the mouth fresh and sweet and prevents llcaI ezemnfor- table cutllietitccl, a sore mouth, with whiell 00 many poor beide', are troubled when their 'meths) are not kept, perfectly ala. Chstmee made In a paste with glycerine LWO 1/1411.8, water 0110 part, IS recommendoh ai a face lotion to be applied at night, witd it muslin or thin silk mask worn over, Do not light A sick room at; night, by means of it jet of gas or a Iterwsene lamp burning low ; nothing impoverishes the air sooner. Use sperm candles or topers which burn sperm oil. Milk is a good solvent, of quinine, and will disguise its bitter taste, Five grains may be dissolved in two or three cameos of milk. The neutral sailphate of quinine ie soluble in water, and Is preferred by many physioims. Glycerine is ale° need as a solvent—ono drachm to a twain of quinine —and may then be administered in a wine- glasses' of milk. If the feet are tired and painful after long standing great relief can ho had by bathieg them in salt water. A heedful of Balt to a gallon of water le the right proportion. Have the water as het as can be comfort- ably borne. Immerse the feet sand throw water over the legs as far as the knees with the hands. When the water becomes too Cool ilb briskly with a flesh towel. This method, if used nigni and Morning, will clue neuralgia of the feet, Dr. lltunilloed, lic writing about the tisa of ice water in the Armee Anteriran, EeVicio, declares that " there is death in the pot." He believes that looter below a temperature of fifty degrees should never be used for drinking purpogeg, anal the TOAS0110 given for such moderation aro good and sufficient. The liking for ice water, he Waists, is by no means a natural taste. Children who are not accustomed to its use Sod 11 ,101 only unpleasant, but actually painfel. Babies shudder when it is first pet into their moathe, and a North American Indian will twist about for some minutea after drinking tumblerful, apparently, affected by it as an unpalatable and undesirable den. Still, as 15 L110 ease in the formation of other limed- oioue habits, persistency brings about a cruse- ing which demands satisfaction. When the body is greatly over-beated, a draught of ice water inlay cause sudden death by its effects win the solar plexue, and, through that, ost the heart. The solar plexus is a very important part of the nervous ays- tem, and is situated immediately behind the stomach. A severe blow inflicted upon the body just over this spot may cause al- most instant death, and the ituldeu ohmic caused by a deluge of lee water has exactly the effeet of a blow, though it does not always prove fetal. Many persons, after a draught of ice water, feel fauns and Leconte pale, without in the least realizing that Use local temperature has been suddenly mime ad, the action of the hcart weakened, and hi consequenee, a diminished amount of blood sent to the lungs and brain. Besides bringing about neurialges affections, cold drinks are very injurious to the teeth, crack- ing the enamel and thus incvetwilig thole lira. WIRT to clecey. The sense of taste is also impaired by thinking large quantities of tee water with the food, digestion is hindered, and dyspepsia results, together with other more serious forms of internal malady. One of the editors of a leading journal was recently talking ithout the growth of electrical industries in this country, and ex- pressedsome surprise that an impression should have gained ground tint this growth was not founded upon a solid basis. "It is a great mistake," said thi s °di tor, "to i magine that there is anything unstable even ie the enormously rapid growth of the number of companies end incveased capitalization"; thee ere going into °leaders' ventures. Of course there &TO 130100 abortive experiments and worthless patents, and it may be that there are some wild cat oceneanies organized ; but if my one wishes to know whether the electricans of the countay are making money or not I should like him to sit in my office for a day and look over with me the 50 or 100 reports that come in. He will find essiong these one or twofitilures, two or three licialial- ations, but the remaining reports will every ono of them deal with increase of plant, ex- tenders of field, or doubling of dividends, So far as ray aclviees go—and they come from impartial correspondents in almost every State in the Union—I clo not believe that moro than one conuern out of every fif ty is to- day disappointed in the results of its invest- ments." -- A decided Advance in military telegraphy has been made by the invention of the Jerritt inilitasy field sounder, This appar- atus consists of a small instrannent so areaeg- ed as to be capable of being used as a trans- mitter and receiver. The sounder aan be employed both for sending and receiviug messages. The ordinary • apparatus for transmitting telegraph werk is thus dis- pensed with, the current being put on end off by means of a small swilesh fixed to the base of the instrument. A telephonic ar- rangement ean be adjeeted for reeeiving purposes if necessary. The whole can be carried by tho operator in a compact and handy knapsaelc. It is expected that the apparatus will be usef el not only for military put•poses, but to working pastier' during the erection of telegraph lines for communicat- ing messages to the nearest transmitting station. Funerale are Expeneive. Family doctor—"I should no long& eon (nal the truthfrom you, sir. You have only a few days to live." Mr.Levelhead (weak- ly)—"Then, (looter, I wish. you would buy me a ticket to Europe and have me placed on board a Meaner." "Bet you email not live to reach Euro; e." "1 do not wish to, want to 1)6 buried tsea, Flo that my family will be saveci theruinotts expense of 0 fluter. al and have something loft to live on," An Insane Woman Takes Carbolic Aoid. Moe:meats Aug. 19.—Coroner Jones held an investigation to -day into a very sad ease, A couple of weeks ago a married. woman osamed Campbell, 34 years old, residing at Howiek, itt Obatentiguay county, was ad- mitted into the new Protestant Hospital for the Insane in this eity. She occupied one of the roams on the second floor in the part set apart for female pay patients, and a couple of doors from hers was the room of Miss Dance, the nurse, who had charge of the department. Amongst the contents of the latter's room was a -bottle partially filled with embolic acid, which she had used for disinfecting purposes. Yestevday morning the nurse left her room to get some clean towels, and was not absent more than two or three minutes, but unfortunately she :forgot to look her door. When she retuyned she found Mrs. Campbell lying on the floor, moaning and partially Inman - &nous. De. Burgess, the medical superin- tendent, was immediately called upstairs, and thinking the woman was in a fit, him- ried to his office to proeure some mediaine, when Miss Dance came rushimg after bine rand beeathiessly told him she had found out the real cause of the woman's illness. She had noticed that the bottle of add was missing from the place where she had put it, and cannel it aimed empty. A hurried ex, =Motion of the patient's 'meth and throat showed that she had swallowed the poison, and though everything was done to save and revive her, elm died in about, twenty min- utes, Judging from the quantity of carbolic acid that was in the bottle when last used, and the little that remained, she could not have taken more than two tablespoonfuls, which would constitute about alt onnee of the deadly stuff. Dr. Burgess and all then immediately connected with the hospital feel the unfortunete ocourrenee very deeply, SOMO sugar works in Havana have resent ly availed themeelveis of eloatrical amnion, - tions in the Inanufacture of zinger, The juice of the atom is poured into the middle compartment of a series of troughs, which ere divided into three by two porous parti tions, The outside compartment contains water, in which aro placed blocks of carbon connected to the negative pole of the dyna- mo. The position pole of the machine IN connected with carbon plates in the middle compartment. The sew Nees are purifier from the sails they eontaie which are taken sip by the water. The addition of tho our rent oszoiste the osmotic transfer aorose the porous partitione, This method effecte marvellous saving 115 time, and 10 said to produce superior sugar, BIB LAST SHOT, elleekbiele Necklet' fiend' 111111e Plaring Pool. Tonomai, Aug. 111. -A game of pool that WM played the other slay in the Benedict billiard hall, tat the alt sf Yonge and Shiner etreete, lied a sadly seneational ending. J e$50 Banbury, a bricklayer, who resisted at 15-1 Spadine avenue, dropped dead limn heed disease while engaged in 'slaying a game with a companion. The deceased Ana ti friend entered the hall AbOUL IL quarter past eleven' end they haa been pliseing pool abouthalf an hour when their amusement was brouglst to such a tragic' and unexpected cloaca Dr, Atlanta, 450 Yonge Arcot, sons im- mediately summoned, but life was extinct when he arrived, and he was at once able to state heart dioeisse as L110 MUSS of death. The police were sent for eye the bil- liard hell temporarily closed, but Coroner Powell, who WAS et oece notified, decided itfter 0 brief investigation that an inquest was uncalled for. Hanbury's body was taken charge of during the afternoon by friends, who live at 82 Sussex avenue. His mother and a men ber of relatives reside near Owen Sound, The deceased had beau a resi- dent of this city for several years, and at various times has vented British Celunahie. lie returned froni his last trip west about the middle of June last. Heart disease lead been ti chronic ailment with hisn for years, and Imbed been under treatment with Ur. Ferguson, of College street, for a couple of months past. Hanbury generally seemed io be in good finencisal cirenmatimees, and on his person were found four Bank of Montreal, bills for 5110 each, besides two notes for stuns ef e20 and 523 respectively. A Man Who Did Not Interfere with Othd People's Bnsiness, For cool self-possession or a remarimble display of indifference in trying and exciting times the descendant of Ilam when Ise Wants, to bo is hard to discount. This fact seas for- cibly illustrated in an incident connected with the recent trial of the chambers case at Ironton, One of the principle witnesses of the defence was Frank Jenkins, a negro and eye -witness of the Sragedy. Frank was white- washing a uhicken coop only a few feet away when the shooting occurred, On the direct examination he told his story in e, plain, straightforward way and his evidence was very material. The cross examination pro- pounded the usual questions and made a strenuous effort to tangle the witness in giv- ing his testimouy. Concerning the facts im- mediately preceding and at the time of the shooting, a question swell(' be asked Frank, to svilich Ise would give a prompt reply, and then the attorney would ask : "What did you do then'," just went cm whitewashing the chick - hen the defendant appeared with the gun and it seemed its if S01110 one WAS going to be hurt, what clicl you do then?" 'I kept on whitewashing the chicken coop. It was none of my business, end when I came in fl-oni Woodward Clounty, Ken - tacky, 1 long ago learned not to interfere with two white gentlemen engaged in settlitig a question of honor. I turned up ono end of the coop and kept right, on with my whitewashing.' "When the ellot was fired what did you, do?" "Rapt right on whitogrethieg." the":11).)obtlyyp do anything when they removed "Yes; kept right on whitewashing." The Judge smiled, the spectators tittered the svhole court eppreciated this wonderful display of disposition to attend strictly to one's own affairs. How to Run %Coal Stove A oottl stove should never be fillet up with coal higher than the firstbrick, alitile IONVOT is bettor. Never put wood on top of coal if you wish a good, clean fire. Wood ashes rattlingdown through the hard coal fire aro i not an mprovement. No dead ashes or clinkers should be allowed on the grate or under it either. An ash -pit under the boil- er, if ,allowed to fill with ashes, will reflect so much heat against the grate that it will soon wear ant and fall to pieces. The same will take place in the hot stove as well as in the steam boiler. If the objeut to run a fire is to burn out as muds coal as possible then fill it full, es -en so that the covers will not go clown. This arraegement will burn the greatest possible quantity of coal in the least apoimb of time ; to obtain directly opposite fresults, keep a cleats fire in the hre-box about two-thirds full of coal.—[Northwest- ern letechania. Churches Made Dens of Thieves. Agents of the suppressed ancl illegal PLIAS- IY111111101 must be hard pressed by the police in their usual haunts, for it 'snow found that they ere actually using the churches as pieces in which to carry on their illicit betting traffic, 1 t has been noticed dut•ing the last weak that between 11 and 1 o'clock in the morning several of these sacred edifices in arid around the Faubourg Montwartre— especially Notre Dame as Lorette—IIM been frequented by groups of men whose acquaintance with the internal economy of a piece of worship seemed to be meagre, and their interest in the relics and images of L111.0 saints even less. They selected the dark corners of the building and stuck to the position they first took np. Some of them liad little volumes in their hands, but no Prayer Books, for every now and again their owners, after whispered consultations with individuals in the throng, produced pencils and made entrieein them. After the results of the day'8 racking became known 1/10 Same groups reassembled in the same places, when more whispered conthltittions took place, end sometimes inormy passed from one to andther, The regularity of the attendance of thew gentlemen aroused the atteetion of the vergers, who, finding that their ehurolme were used for betting and wore in danger of earning the anathema passed epee mother place of worship, of beeoming "dens of thieves," informed the authorities of what was going on. Shonld the betting men eon. timid to shine the "opon.ohureli" eyetem mti this way we shall probably soon hear of pollee raids upon these %toed retreats. The Guileless Victim, "Fork over your money," said the footpad sternly. The belated pedestrian reluctantly corn. plied. "Here is all Ilutve," he maid, handing over O twenty -dollar bill, "and I am a 'seethed miles from home; don't know a soul in this city end haven't hacl my supper yet. It you hove a spark of humanity " ha implored tt emblingly, "give me rs donna to get home on." The footpad tossed him a coin and vanish- ed up the dark alley. The next clay he dieeovered that his inno- cent vietim irons TJpthecreek ltd got a dollar in good money out of him in exchange for a counterfeit twenty -dollar bill. Fond of ?lotion, Bagley—" That was a pretty strong stoTy Johnson told you yesterday about Evans. ' Btailoy—" but I never believe John- son's stories, althougla wouldn't have him know it," Bagley—" But how can you stand it to have a men lie to you 80 50 Bailey—" Well, you know I was always, and of strong fiction," A Woman's Reason. .1 love you well, iny sweetheart shy I'm true, The maiden blushing anewered, I Love you. Why do you love me, my adored t A pantie. And then she anewered with 0 word': "Because." A. man known no L110 Bird of Death in the - Vienna Generel Hospital has met with his - fate in the dischane of his gruesome hos- pital duties. His 55500 1000 Alois Pekes. A. Vienna, orrespondent says lie was ti man, of Herculean build, and for 45 years hecl carriedall the corpses to and from tho. mortuary chamber, Hence the weired name the hospital jesters gave' him, He died a. few clays alo of blood poisoning caused by handling the body of n, patient who hach died of an infeetious disease, He had sold hie skeleton to NU itinerant museum many years ago and spent the money in drink, and his remains have been handed over to, the purchaser.