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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-8-22, Page 3Aca. 22, 1800, TE tutusszLs POST. ENGLAND'S NEW WAR SIIIP, HER FIRST-CLASS PROTECTED CRUISER BLENHEIM. flueeessre 1 anonetiing or no tefereoling )01119-oeminteo That aro or Paritetitar Note, apcolaisteamer left the Speaker's Stain:, iu London, for Blauksvall, for the purpom of eon veying a number of mots to svitneso the launelfing of the livst-olaso protected umber Blenheim, As the idearoev paned doAvn the river it was observed, mays a. writer in the Loailon Th/Vo, that " at 13.1114Y a waterahle establioliment Rage had 110011 belated in lumor of the event of the day, and filially, when the dockyard of the Thameo Company wan reached, the huge hull of tho new vossol, dominating the whole scene, was the °entre of interest. There was half an hour at' 1001e in Whieli to examine tko, now war ithip before the ceremony of lannelfing came, and the time was none too long, " Tho linoo of tho Blenheim wore univer- sally admired. She is 371 feet long between perpendloulars, 06 foot broad amidships, 38 Met deop, her draught of water is 25 foot 0 inches, and her displacement 0,000 tons. She is in nosily respects similar to the War- rior, the first ormor-clad seagoing vessel ever bat, which was launched from the dockyard of the same company thirty yoars ago. The Warrior had Oho same draught, WaS 3 foot longer, but 7 feet narrower and her displamment was 8,827 tons, 100(1 the designers Mahn that the extra width given to the Blenheim, although it would have been unsuitable to talc Warrior, which was built foo sailing purposes as well as for steaming, has enabled them to give liner lines to the ends of the new vessel, Expovi- once has shown such Mom to be net:binary in a vessel built for great, speech and the Blen- heim Is to be, before all things, a vessel of high speed in her character of protected and protecting cruiser. 'The tople-expansion engines of the Blen. beim, by Messrs. Humphreys, Tennant & Co., are to be 20,000 indicated horse power, as against 1, 000 indicated horse power in the case of the Warrior; hoe trial speed is to be 22 knots, as against the 14 knots of the earlier vessel, and boo average speed 18, knots in smooth water. It Mill 111110 be seen, on a comparison instituted between tho first of iron -clad seii-goiug vessels 0.1101 the 1nost powerful and the most speedy of modem oritiscro, that (helloes chosen in 1890 indicate momething approaching a rat= to those which wave selected 110 1000, tool that the chief difference betsreen the old and the new is to be found in an incinise of beam, which together with the facts that the 111111 10 light. er m 100 11010 vessel than in the old by rom- a= partly of the large use of steel i11 her composition, gives capacity for the carrying of fourfeld greater power and for an [shun dant coal supply. .Por such engines and for such coal -storing capacity there is absolute necessity in tlie case of a vessel which is in- tended to be the fastest cruiser afloat - Mr. White's design ma based upon the desire to make the new vessel super or to all rivals not only in speed and coal•covrying capacity, 11111 (1100 in horizontal ar mot' protec- tion. II once the armor, weighing 001110 01001(11 hundred and ninety tons, is principally con- centrated upon the protective clook. The hull is constructed of steel upon the usual cellular system. The hold 05000 10 sub -divid- ed minutely by water -tight bulkheads and decks. There is a cellular double bottom. The billet: protective dock, which has for those looking into the interior from above the appearance of a socmjd vessel incased in that which is visible from without, consists of a roof of curved, steel coveriug the hold Mom stens to stern, the eaves of the roof, so to speak, being 0,} feet below, while the 1.0.5 rises 1 is feet above, the water line. This sharplyosurving dook is 6 inches thick over the machinery and engines, and 3 inches thick elsewhere. The vitals of the ship -the propelling oppamtus, steering gear, magas:. me, and shell rooms -will all bo beneath its protection, The Blenheim carries no vortical side armor; indeed, the principle of vertical side armor seems to have boon discredited, since it is not to bo foumbin the majority of cruisers recently built or as yet unfinished. "A slight change in the plan for the armament of the vessel appears to have beau mode within the last week or so. In the invitation addressed by the company to their guests it WILS 8,11110 &Berthed. : Two 22 -ton and ten 641101) brooch -loading guns, sixteen 3-1)0111101e1 c.joick-firing guns, one 1 -inch and seven 0.45-mohNordenfoldt gone, and. four 1.1-ineh Whitehand torpedo tubes. In- formation woo supplied on Saturday to the effect that the heavy guns were to be 24 -ton instead of 22 -ton guns, carried on the upper clock as bow and stern chasers, with largo horizontal arcs of command ; that the 6 -inch guns would be 1-00n guns, intended ultimate- ly to be quick firers, of which the weight, with ammunition, would be equivalent to twenty 0-inah service guns of the pattern new afloat. Of these, six aro to be carred on the upper clock -two for use ahead and on the broad.side, twO for use astern ancl on the broadside, and two amidshipsi-training from sixty degrees before to sixty degrees abet t the beam. The remaining four are to be carried on the main dock, two on each broadside, in easomates composed of six.inch steel -Mood armor. It appears, further, that the Nordenfolchs are to be reduced in number by one. The Blenheim will Gm have the characteristics of the Orlando class as an offensive engine, and hor offensive powers aro completed by 10 bow strongthenod for ramming. " The Rev, J. Buokley began at 2;130 tho short service, beginning with the appropriate words.Tho.y that go doAvn to tho sea in ships,' 10111011 10 appointed to bo used when ono of her Majesty 'a 01115.0 is launched. 13y this time, in spite of the meletnent mother, which had rendered it n000ssary to erect a canopy of tarpaulin over tho spot at which the ant of christening was to take place, a large number of visitors, including represen- tatives of the Admiralty and of the 0001111- 1001110 of Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Japan and othor distinguished persone, weae pre- aont, and a large crowd of speotators, mon. boring somoshoussads, had assembled in the dockyard without The service over, Mio. Hopkins stood its reodinems to perform her office on tho platform in front of the bow, and for half an hour or more tho mond of hammers was hoard as the workmen knock. ed away the shores. At last all was in read. Moss. P8101300010, suspended by a,broad blue ribbon wasbroken 031 1110 010111, tho Oerd WaS out and released the weight, which dropped on to the dog.shoros fvoin whials thosupport. ing blocks had been romovod, and the groat vessel wan foo, For a minute sho lay mot- ionless and inert M her cradle upon blus slide but the loon stroleod at the Pah, and soon the huge moss of stool ancl iron began to movo gliding slowly olt fint, but gathering fresh moineatum every second, until at lain, loss than two minutes after the dog-shoros had boon knocked away, she Malted down the slide into the Water with an iinpotals Av111:011 strained four strong hawsers, amid a storm of elvers, Omagh Avhich matches only of Rule 130'itannio' wore andible, although the band played with all their might (111(1 111011, The 90001.0 Were entootaluod afterwiti :t Ittlieirson given by the company, and 1Or tho time being the Blenheim was bored the Albert Deck, It WU Slated 11111t0107 WoUld be ready for commission in a very short time. The Thameo Company hats two other lira - clam ;ionisers- the 110011011 mei the Theseus -in hand for the Admiralty." A GREAT EXPLOSION. Ten aoreo of Land Torii re by Nal (1 11(1 thus . Geysers spooling water, 61I111,11YVIM.1.1, 111(1., Aug. ID. --At nine o'clock the other 111000019 the farmers near Waldron, this coutny, 100111 imitated by a terrific explosion. When they reaolual the Ogden graveyard, whioll lo ou a bluff »ear the flat rook stream, they disenvereil that fully ton acres of earth was in a commotion Covens wore shooting up to a height of six and eight foot and gas Avas blazing from ten 10 11110011 feet above tho water of the goyaers. The vivov bed was tom up and the Avatav had stopped running below the geavayard. Flames are still shooting from fifty different fissures in the earth. 'the county 11811 Mt been considered in the gas belt, although looal companies had sunk shafts, The akeie- tom of the deed can be distinctly seen in the fractures of the earth, Gas !Iowa freely from the entire surface of the ten acres. Stones wore thrown two miloo; The Avisole country was shakmi and the excitement is tremendous. Training Young People, An =Mont French writer had Bahl "When you educate a boy you peoluips edecate a num ; but whou you educate a givl yea aro laying tha foundation of a family, Ho 11019111 have added, thin to this end the physical training 90110 of °quid im- portance with the mental. Li these days; the subjeut 08tho physical training of young men ia occupylog much attention and tho discussions ere broad moil full of intermit. The fault is that tho needs or both sexes in this respect aro not equally considered. .An erect figure, an organism in which the prinessos of life may go on without the ceaseleso disicord of functions 111 War With each other, 110000(00 (11 abnormal relations -in short, the added advantageo which a line physical adjustment gives 10 118 110000500r 010 as necessary Le 000 sex as tho other and for the same reasons. If physical education and consequent im. provernents aro things to be desired it is not that a millibar of individuals, as a result of this trebling, shall be able 10 110010101 certain feats of strength or agility ; but in its broad- est sense 11 10 for the improvement of the moo, and the race council; materially advance physically, intellectually or morally tudeso the two factors which cionstititto the race share equally in whatover tends to its groat. or perfection. Therefore if, inconsequence of proper physical training, men can do mom loin*, livo longer and transmit to posterity 00110.1-0 of this improved condition, winuen also should bo so trained thin they do move work, live 1011901 01(11 contribute to the high- er possibilities of the race by supplementing instead of thwarting tho poomise which has been presupposed in the higher development of men. The Corporation and the Bata It is calculated. that 8,000 rata have been killed during one week at the Birmingham Market Hall, and the slabs have bows found everywhere, under stalls, in poultry baskets, mul flower pots, and oven in the open streets. A provision merchant in Phillip street opened WS doors the other morning and foun(1 thirty -ono rats lying dead near to a butter tub, in which there WM water. The manner in Mich the animals decompose un- der the now treatment is peculiar. TM body swells first of all, and within tivo days collapses agaie and becomes perfectly flat. The rats killed a week ago would be peel:sot- ly unraeognimblo but for their heads. 'The bodies have lost shape altogether. If this method of destroying the vermin had not boon discoveted, the city Ivould have been put te considerable expense. So extensive were the 00.00900 of the rats that the Market and Fairs Committee hart decided upon M- ing:the flooring ok.all the markets and re- laying them with commit. That would have 10e10110 an outlay of many hundreds ot pounds. The corporation paid to its markof officials a. penny for every rat destroyed, and a row years ago the number annually killed reached 4,000 -representing in itself a sum of 1316. A Blaok Rain. J. Lloyd Bozword, of Worcester, England, writes to "Nature' that "duriug a rain storm on July 1st, black ram fell in a 1115 - tont lying between the parishes of Crowle and Broughton Hackett, m thio country. In road ruts, whore rain water had collected, considerable filui of black sediment remained the day oftenr the storin. The day had been remarkable for a dense canopy of shifting masses of dark colored clouds of the nimbus formatiom Groat rainstorms had been pre. valent this and adjoining counties. The temperature had been low, and the mother rather like that of -November than July. On a Business Basis, "11100.0 a brave act, young man," said the grateful father with deep feeling. At the peril of your life you rushed into the burn. ing building and saved iny daughter. How 'can 10001 repay you ?" "Would 00011510 of dollars be too much?" suggested the bravo rescuer, Row it Affected Him, A young couple on their honeymoon aro dallying languidly with the grapes at des - sort. She (archly).-" Ancl you don't 61111 10 tire- some all alone with mo ? Von are quite moo you don't want to go back to your bachelor life agoin 'O. Ho (eartiostly).-" Quite, my darling. 18o you know if you were to clic; to -night rd got married agoin to (1(00)010 morning I" A Suitable Insoription, Mildred -"Say, Boss, about that silver flagon we ware goiog to give 50 0)1 his birth- day. The jeweler milted me to -day what sentiment wo would have engraved on it. It's customary, you know. Can you think of anything suitable?" Boss (rollooting)-" How Would I timid thoo every hour' do?" Miss Do Fino-" I hopo tiro report that your (laughter and lir husband do not got along woll 009001)00 10 untrue." Mrs, Shine-" 11, irf too true, Tho trouble is that ho io jealous of 1100. Tho fool I He might know there MS 110 cause for joalonsy."- M his Do Fine (thinking of tho girl's plain - rm.'s) " Indeed ho 11119101 ; but lovo is blind, Coffee Inebriety. Dr. Moodol, of llorito, hao iatoly pub: Halted a clinleal otudy of the neurooto, his oluawvationa being 0111.10 1111011 the Avionen of the working populotion in and abolit, Erman. Do found largo Illunhors of Woinell Who 011118111nrd over 0. poilild of eoffee In a week ; and soino mon drank considerably mom beside:1 boor and Wine. The leading symptoms wore profound ileproosion ot 5P0'11a, and frequent headaches, with 111. 00111111l1,, A miming 11000 of coffee would re. c 11110 for a time, then it would return. The 101100100 900111(1 b000me weak and tromb. ling, and the hands would tremble when at rein. An inoreming avevsion to labor and any Amity work was noticeablik Tito heart's action was rapid and irregular, and pal- pitations and a heavy fooling in the prio. cordial rogion wore present. Dyspepola of an extreme nervous type was alao present. Acute rosauea 9008 0011111100 in these mules. These symptoms coustantly grow worse, and aro only relievcal by large quantitim of coffee'generally of the infusiom In 001110 cases the tincture was used. The victims antler so seriously that they &trona abandon it, for fear of death. NVIsore brandy bi taken, may temporory relief follows. The faco becomes sallow, and the Minds and feet cold 1 and an expression of ilmso1 and agony settles over the countenance, only relieved by using strong closes of coffee, In all them eases, acute inflaininatione aro likely to ap- pear any time. An injury of any part of the body is thi e starting point for nflamma- tions of an orysIpelatons character. Mel- ancholy and hysteria are 51091111 111 all cases. Coffee inebriates are more common among Um neurasthenics, and aro more mincealed because the offeets of exam:dye doses of coffee, are obaeums and largely unknown, Many (Timm Haul Melodic cases hove alt early history of excessive use of coffee, foul are always mom degenerate and difficult to treat A very Avide field for future study opens up in this direction. Filtering Platers. Boiling sterilizes svator, and within 30 minutes will have killed harmful bactovia. 1 )rugs and other agonto acting chontim ally, if tmed in amounts 90111011 are 00111111011. ly safe, do not sterilize water. The prolonged heat Avhich Avatar undeo- goes 10 the usual process of (11511111111011 destroys all germs whieh may be in the water undergoing tho process. Ordinary litters, oven if satisfactory as strainers, fail to remove all bacteria from drinking water. So far from lessening the number in the original water, the filtering substance may allow a more ropid multipli- cation than these micro-organisms would ordinarily undergo in the unfiltered Avatar on 1001111019, and tho germs of disease, even if heicl back 1..)y the filtering substance, may be harbored in ell filters. The finer the substance through whioll the water passes, and the 1010-e0 the pres- sure, the more perfect is the 001100 of the filter in holding back the bacteria, Of all substances thus far furnished for domestic filters, porous, rebakod porcelain, carefully selected, I have found to be the best. H thick and strong enough to' allow the use of 10 largo surface, and the substance remain perfect (Without flaw or break), this may yield a fair flow of olear water, free from all bacteria ; yet under our ovdinary °retort pressure of one atmosphere or less, this yield is only in rapid drops, unless tho apparatus be complex. To insuro the permanency of this action, tho filter should be occasionally sterilized throughout by steaming or by other means ; for unclev prolonged pressure, various kinds of bacteria can go through, and hi the copious organic matter collected on tho fil- ter some harmful miro.organisins cau retain a high degree of vitality for weeks longer thou I hams ever found them to live in pure water, -- A Presmiption for Lonety. One of my prescriptions for longevity may startle you somewhat. It is this ; 13o - 0001e the subject of a mortal disease. Let half a dozen doctors thump you, and knead you, and test you in every possible way, and render then verdict that you have an internal complaint ' • they don't know exact- ly what it is, but itwill certainly kill you by and by. Then bid farewell to the world and shut yourself up for an invalid. If you aro threescore years old when you begin this mode of life, you may very probably last twenty years, and them you are, --an octogenarian. In the meantime, your friends outside have boon dropping off, ono after another, nail yon find yourself almos0. alone, nursing your 11(00101 complaint as if it were your baby, hugging it and keeping alive by it, -if to exist is to live. Who has not men cases like this, -a man or 0100111011 shutting 00110018 or herself up, visited by a doctor or a succession of doctors (I remember that once, in my earlier experience, I was the twenty.sevanth physician who had boon consulted), always taint% medicine, until everybody Waa reminded of that impatient speech of a relative of one of these mvalid vampires who live on toe blood of tirod-out attendants, "I do Avish you would got well -or something I" Persons who are shut up in that way, oonfined to their chambers, sometimes to their bads, have a very small a111011111; of vital expenditure, and wear out very little of their living substance. They are like lamps with half -their Wide picked down, and will continuo to burn when other 100155 havo used up all their oil. An inane - once office might make inoney by taking no risks except on the lives of parsons suffer. ing from mortal disease. -[Atlantic. Care of the Teeth, The temporary teeth should have the best possible care. Their function is an import. ant ono ; they aro to " holcl the fort'0111 the permanent sat aro ready to come upon the Seen% and should theo give way to their sumessora with the cheerfulness of 'a dia. placed politician. It is, therefor°, a 1010- tako to suppose that on amount of their temporary choraotor their decay ia a rootter of little oonsequonee, or that they May bo extracted at any time without injury. They should bo kept in the 11058 000118410(1 posgible nail the development of the mammon abievbs their roots, and they become loosen. ed. If this loosening foils to take place, as froquontly mons, they should be drawn as soon as the crown of the permanent tooth appears through the guns, in orclor that the linter may take its proper plate in line. Two or throe times it year iii not too often to have a dentist examine the mouth of a child, till the permanent teeth hams develop- ed. The first molar of oaoh set -known m the six-year molar -may appear anywhere f fivo to mem years of ago, and this, besides being tho that of the permanent tooth, is also specially liable to decay., Vory gener- ally it is tho first tooth regutring the dein- ist's forcops, and may bo drawn before the 1 .2.yoar molar of tho same 0118 )001(00 its ap. mann 0 0, In this ease tho loser, as the eltvity will 110500118011y tilled by other tooth urban they appear, often believes that his I0010 of tooth has lama less than his neigh- Ilven porenta often confound 011000 molars with the tompioury sol, and i1(391000 them when known to be diaeaseal, oupposing they will 00011 give pleou Lo othorm. The 00005111 seL nf molara appears at obout the ago of 19, and the last cd Wisdom 001111, 11 e or siX years later. The advent of any of thetio i9 liable to be accompaniml by 1101.011000, ultimate/a, or more oeriouo monpli• (nohow 1 the 1340 (11 mot may be allbottal, or impious licrvolos trollidos may result. When those or similar complicaliOne ftris', Ion readily understood, it to well to loolt for the 011100 in the (1011(11. -[(11101 liottee- keeping, The Domentio Doctor, A little sotia water will relieve Wok I((1011 110110 caused by indigestion. Dr. Flint, ia quoted ao saying : "I have moor known a dyspoptie 10 reeover 0)9111 000 health Avho undertook to live after a strictly regulated diet, and 1 have novae known on instance of a healthy person living aecording to a strictly (1(010810 03701001 who did not become a dyspeptic." Camphor in vavimis forms is frequently recommended for cold in the head, although Gr. George Johnson and others long silica inditateil the dangero attending the 1100 of concentrated alcoholic milutiona, The fol- lowing method of application is suggested in a Swiss pharmaceutical journal, and cer- tainly hoe the tnevit of Month:11y ; A jug is half filled wall boiling water into Widelt a toaspoonful of well -powdered camphor 10 thrown, A. funnekshaped paper cap 10 then placed on the top of the jug, and a hole torn to it just fitting the nose. The camphorated steam is inhaled through the nose for ton or fifteen minutes, the initalation being repeat- ed if ruglike& every four or five hours. If the patient resolutely persists with the in- halation, in spite of its unpleasantness, it is said that three repetitions will always effect 0 cure, however 00001e the coryza may be. 111 sevem cases of 1109001 0(111 stomach trou- ble 11 11 often diffieult to find food that can be retained in Ole otonsiodi long enough to nouvish the patient, or that doeo not act as an irritant, Now, there s something called mutton custard which is both healing mut nourishing, It has been used in critical cases with the swan 9010841371119 10011110, The materials of which it ia mile are one quart of milk, two ounces of mutton suet, a stick of uhmarnon about five inches long, and ono tablespoonful of flour. The suet must be from the kidney ; sweet and free from all tough membrane. (11100(1 11 very fine and put it in Ole double boiler, with the cinnamon ancl milk, resorvieg however, a gill of the oold milk, Cook for one hour, and thou straim 180102 11 to the itouble boiler and place on tho iirc. Now mix the cold milk with the flour, and stir hap the hot mixture. Cook for an minutes. Give the patient as 11141011 of this as he will willingly take, say half t0 pint every four or live hours. Keep the patient warm and quiet. One other point in Gm care of the snit. When one is suffering from neuralgia in the head, put him in a warm bed. Make a brick very hot and cover it with several thicknesses of flannel. Fold a coarae, thick cloth and place it on the 51111190, Lay the brick on this and wet thoroughly with rinn. Rest the most painful part of the head or face on the brick and throw a blanket over tho patient, covering tho 1100010 Keep cover- ed in this way until the pain ceases. When the Malkin is removed, wipe the moisture from the head, face and neck, and then bathe in alcohol or rum, 10 5010-0(110 the taking of a cold. Another remedy is to make salt very hot by straining it over the tiro in a frying - pan ; then potty it into a bag, which should be securely tied. Have the patient lie clown and cover him well, Place the bag of hot salt on that part of the hoodoo face where the pain is located. The salt will retain the heat a long time. This method is much easier than the first, but it will not relieve oue so quickly nor so thoroughly. The Key to a Christian Life, "Something lacking "was the subject of a prominent city clergyman's discourse last Sunclay, tho text being from Mathew xix., 20 ; "What lack I Yet?" The speaker drew 011 instruotive lesson for to -day from the narrative of tho young man who, when ho asked Christ whet he yot laciltech maws told to sell his goods and give on to the poor, wont away sorrowing, The parson who asked the question of the text was a good young man, who felt that holed omitt- ed nothing required by tho law, and had al- ways lived a pure moral life. Yet there 1005 ono element in his native that WaS 1011 - developed, and Christ sought to bring it into the fulness of life, arid thus to 00015101e the num. But there was looking the con- secration and resolution to obtain tho quality, and tho young man wont away in sorrow. The speaker said he addressed his words not to the vory wicked, bot to good mon and good women, and it was fov them that he asked the question : "Whet lack 1 yet ?" There aro those 9010 boast that they pay 100 cents on tha dollar, that they care uothing for mooch, or praying or preaching, that honesty is their religion. .13110 honesty is not all that is necessary, and a man who pays what he ewes to the utmost oent may yet lack the love, the patience, the sweet- ness and hope necessary to a complete sottl. The Christian chamoticv calls for somothing more ,than morality. It is the essential foundation of rolioion, 1011(110 10 all, and on 18, should be reared the structure of rt spiritual life, To be honest is to no more than what every man shoulcl be, and is noteworthy sitnply because so many around us aro not. Benevolence is also mado to take the place of religion. A bad man dies, ono who has throughout his life, by word and ad, loci others astray, and has been wicked every way. 1 he people, and especially the minister who is 00 make the funeral address, ask if there 9000 11010111119 good about him, nothing worthy in his life? It is then discovered that he was generous to the poor, that he gave liberally to the noidy. Ho was bean. voloht, ond tho preacher extols 'this vietuo at the grave. But this does not do away with 110 1100005113' for an all-round develop - Meet. RN One VIrtne is liko a costly lamp M the inidat of a poor apartment; its light serves only to allow tho harroonens of the room. Christian love (loos not strike with ono hand and give oltus with tho other; kill a soul and then wrap a coat around a shivor. Mg body. ReaS0h la 081011 exalted to the position of religion, and people boast that they are 00- tionalistio. It 90001(11)0 wrong to depreciate the value of reason mid all dm blessings it has conferred upon mankind, for to 11 we own all ono material progvess and liberty, 10 10 the friend, not tho foe, of religion, and has clone much to liberate us from religious tyranny, but 81 10 an error to 00511080 00108011 religion by itself, The key to a good life is not in this or that viottio, but in living in harmony with God, in being good, not only in doing good. If an effort is mado to try to lind soma good 11101)9 10 dm Christian usefulness and hope will bringjoyancl peace to all, If 8401118 against you what is to bo tho final outcome ? PERSONALS. Count Leon Tolstoi, tho ituesian novellat, 80 meovering fionn what threatened to be 11 fatal attack of liver complaint. 'Mary Angola, Dlekenm, agjandlaugh ter of Charles Dielteno, halt j Ltd Writ 1C0 her first 1011 110101, her previous attempt, being 0011. Ilue'd to short storiea, Tho DM»: ref EdilibUrgh is a olever 41101 - MI and alti0 1111 enthumiaotio postageoitionp gathersus, 1131collectimi being ono Of the mint onuploto in the world. Kosouth limo in retirement at Simergio Italy, an(1 spetubi much of his Limo in writ- ing. A nlowly growing eatimet threatens to rob him of hei eyeisight. The ex -Empress Eugenio has given the ex - Empress Frederick 0901(1 medallion, bearing her coat of mins,. richly set with proolouo atotwa, and 0011taining a look of her hair, --- GladStone (dines to his old hot and his seedy olotheo with a tenacity that svould make the average vender of east -off garments despair. He 1110008 to break in a, new suit. -- Prince Huebert Biamarck cherishes care. fully the wreck of a watch which he carried during tho Fromeo-Prussion war, and which stopped is bullet that otherwise might have couted his life. Captain Kano, who successfully took the British war vessel Calliope to sea during the storm which drove several American 1,1e11.01 w,00 mottle roofs at Apia, Samoa, 11110 been mado connuander of the rit/Prii,),, ono of the moot powerful battle ships in the Eng. Usti navy, --- The original manuscript of Burna'si great battle song, "Scots who, hoe," was picked up recently for a small sum by John 0. Ken • !scaly, of New York, while lie was abroad. Ills offered it to the city of Edinburgh for the price he had paid, and it was gladly am cepted, with a vote of thanks from the ToWn Council. The sonrul of tho wedding bells in the tower of Westminster Abbey, the march played by the organ, and the hymn sung by a choir at the Stanley wedding ceremonies were all caught and recorded by phono. graphs ; and a phonograph with them records was presented to the bride by Colonel Gottmlid. -- M. Stambouloff, the Premier and practical ruler of Bulgaria, is about forty-six years old, lie is short and rather stoat, and with his round face, black inustache, and small gray eyes ainitewhat resembles the Chinese. Ho lives in a modest home, whose furnish- ings aro extremely simple, and the only ex- terior ifign of his poweo to the soldier who stands at the door of his house. ----- General (front's famous log cabin, which once amid on tho banks of the James River, but which was afterward removed to Fair- mount Park in Philadelphia for exhibition, is rapidly decaying. From this hut General Grant issued some of his moat important oar orders, and here the rebel commisaioners treated for peace. TJoder the same roof also gathered Lincoln and a. number of the great Generals hi conference. Darius L. Goff, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, who has a fancy for meolaanical cur- iosities, possesses a clock that never runs down. Through an ingeniono contrivance 81 10 kept 100011111 by the simple opening and closing, of the front door of the house. 111000010101 appliances, operated by the run- ning of the clock, raise the gas jet in the hall at dusk, and lower it at bedtime; ring an early -rising hell for the servants, a later one for the family, and, au hour later, the breakfast -boll; and when the hour is struck, musical cathedral chitnes respond in the chambers of the house. -- Sir Morell McKenzie, Queen Victoria's physician, 18 01(0 of the busiest men 01 Lon. deo, mid works on an average fourteen hours O day.. He lives in Earley Street, Cavan - dish Square, a thoroughfare given over to the medical profession, for out of one /mis- deed and fifty houses on the street, two- thirds ore occupied by doctors. He calls on his patients dining certain hours, receives colts for consultation from 10 a. in, to 2 p. ni., ond divides his time as methodically as possible. During his boyhood Sir hiorell had to 100010 115 own way, and not till he was nearly nineteen years old was he able to leave his position as a clerk to study medi- cine, After making throat diseases a speci- alty for twentpeight years, however, he stands at the head of lus profession in that line, and his efforts to aoye the life of Emper- or Frederick of Germany will not soon be forgotten. -- Lord Dunravon, known on both sides of tho Atlantic as S. sportsman and statesman, and more recently a oompetitor for honors as a yachtsman, has mingled work and pleasure more equally dining the forty-nine years of his liM than the ordinary inheritor of titles and wealth is accustomed to do. His name io Wyndham Thomas Wyndham - Quin, and ho is an Irishman. After taking his degree at Oxford he joined the Life. guards, but soon resigned his commission to go to the Abyssinian war as a newspaper man red tape and artny etiquette prohibit - Ing his prosenoo there as a soldier. In his now role he aohieved considerable distinc- tion, anti during the campaign to Magdala he °coupled the sante tent with Stanley. When ha retuned he ;myriad, ancl in 1871 ho succeeded his father in the earldom and Ole family estates. The old family mansion, Adore Manor, and its fourteen thousand acres of lend, 010 110 County Litnoriok, not far from tho town of Litnerielt ; whilo in Glamorgaushire, Wales, is Dunravon Castle, with twenty-four thousand more Dares of land, Avhich was aequired by marriage in 1820, At those two country.scats Lord Dromovon has plenty of good shooting and fishing, whieh, with his tastes for paining, rowing, and fencing, keep hini in UO0110110 health, notwithstanding the hard work he doos in the Houso of Lords while Parliament is in mission, Lord Duniaven has thvee daughters, but no am, and 1110 peerage will eventually pass to a distant cousin, Frightful Punistment, Jimmy Mika- "Wuz 37000 1100 mad when she found you wont in swimmin' Sunday ? Dia she lick yor ?" Johnny Straddles (dolofully)-"Wuss I" Jimmy -"Slott yer up in yor room, did oho? Johnity--"W usser'n that," Jimmy (puzzloc1)-"What did she do that WAS 101105 ? Jolumy-"Promiso not to toll if I show "Cron my nook l" Johnny (t(0king off his hat) -"Look at ttuot 1" Late Cable News. Lord Salisbury's Speech—The Welsh Striker --lfr,Plimeoll and the Anitnioan Oattlo Trade, Eminently mil thoroughly peons ia Lover Salisbury's summary, in his recent opeoch,, id the cimilition of the world, No contra of dioturbance, says the Foreign Minister, fa tune witive. '11101 15 ao good an anoweras need be to the suggeatimus width. the Russiau and Anglo- Satosian organs aro forever 5500001.'. ing abroad, hl. Stambuloff is not meditat- ing o, coup d'otat, nor ill Prince Ferdinand ; and Bulgaria's relations with her Turkimb. auzeraiio llitVe not for a long time been bet- ter, Lord Salisbury olid not even think it mummery to ntentiou them. 1ste omitted all. mention of Newfoundland. France main - 181115 her unfriendly attitude. She stands on the letter of the treaty. France, indeed., hos made a bargain about Zanzibar ; but in0, that aloe Lord Salisbury was silent. The agreement had not been signed when he spoke. He opeaks of Afrioa aa if he did not deeply care for hia recent miquiaitionm Africa is more interesting because Europe ino less interesting, that is all. Egypt, whieli is still in Africa, was the: 0001 o3 the moot serious part 01 1115 speech - He spoke with 1171 enthusiasm ram for hiiu. 08 018 progreso Egypt luso made under Eng- lish rule and rulershawse either officially or unofficially, either front Ole Quai cl'Orsay„ or in shriller tones from some newspaper office, is always Lamming for the Englisti evacuation of Egypt. No, says Lord Salis- bury, we 000 1100 going yet. "No considera- ti0145 Will 11141100 US to withdraw OUL hand. 0111 0111. duty is done. Other nations may retard our departure, but cannot hasten it" The strike in South IVales, which para- lyzed the whole of that country, has been organized in a Manner whic1 offers an inter- esting exionple of the present trade -union methods. There are two p.oiuts 113811e.. The dock strike at Cardiff is the Usual at- tempt to enforee the absolute supremacy of the union by prohibiting the employment of non-union men. The railway strike turns on the question 08 5003', or 1(019' pay shall be calculated. The Men want, shorter hours, indeed, but only in order that overtime pay at higher rates may begin sooner. There ought to be no great difficulty in ex - ranging the matter. The railway directors, at first refused to deal Avith the unioniat officials not connected with their road - Then they gave way and came to torms with Mr. Harford, a personage rejoicing in the title of General Secretary of the Amalga- mated Societies of Railway Servants. Their negotiations with him ended in the concestio a sion of nearly everything the men demanded - An agreement was drawn up and Mr. Har- ford reported the result to the nusu, who thereupon regniliated his agreement. The, whole matter in dispute is about ten hours' pay pee month. 13u1 if the strikers refuse to be bound by their own representatives, it is difficult 10 000 how any bargain cam be meta 'rho suspicion expressed in America that the proposed restrictions on the Atlantic cattle traffic are meant to exclude Americau cattle, seem to have little foundation. They cannot at any rate extend to Mr. Plithsoll, whose sincerity is beyond dispute. He has induced the Board of Trade to inquire into the matter, and a departmental committee began its sittings on Thumday. Mr. Plim- soll's pamphlet on the subject has been widely circulated already. He testifies to what he has seen. Making every allowance for keen sympathies there call be 110 doubt that the cattle are biarbarously treated and. suffer horribly. Great numbers are killed by slow torture. Mani statistics were given in the House of Lords by Earl Dela- warr. Full returns are to be printed in the House of Commons. and the figures are painfully eloquent. Mr. Plimsoll, always. ready for extreme measures, wishes to stop the transport of live cattle altogether. The Board of Trade thinks it has power to en- force a rule under which traffic shall OeaSee to be cruel. POINTS ABOUT PRINCE GEORG-R Popnlar at HOMO and Abrond-Inoidenta . or nin Trip on lite Baceliantr. Theyoung prince captaM of the British. warshtp Thrush now lying at Halifax, is al- most aa popular as his father, the Prince of Wales. His brother, the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, heir presumptive to that im- perial and royal crown which frOM the bleak hillside of :.4.1one has grown to overshadow so much of the civilized world never aohiev- ed the place in popular favor that is held. by Prince George. The latter has a reputa- tion for heartiness and lack of display whiclt has endeared him to Englishmen, and he is, moreover, accounted an excellent sailor, a quality that in the greatest maritime natioot of the world could not fail to bring popu- larity. His full name is George Frederick Ernest Albert and he was born at Marl- borough House in Juno, 1865. He is there- fore only twenty-five years olch but he is a, lieutenant in the navy of Great Britain. Prince Georg° has been in the ilitVy Since 1879, passing through all the various grades up to his .present mutt. In 1881 and 1882 hp, with his brother, made a trip around this world as officers of the Bacohante. Tho ports visited were principally those of ,British. colonies. At the end ot the orrine the two, young princes published a book about it. It was written partly by Prince Albert Victor, partly by Prinoo George and partly, so rumor hath it, by their tutor. Tho book bears evidelice of this composite workmanship. Prince George writes like a fun -loving young Midehipnlan and qualm 01 1115 brother as "Eddie." Prince Albert Victor write& in a less frank and jolly manner awl calls his boothel "Georgie." Tho book is peppered 11.8 18. WOM, all through with atatistioa and more or loss wise rolleotions on the state of trade in the colonies, which are taken to be the staid aucl rathev pedantic prrouluce thIetittsst°raid that while on this oPrino George onee throw himself on 0 transom in in Oho gun -room ef the %animate and said. Eddie,' get down your violin and play 'God save your grandmother,'" Wherever Prince George Avont ho was popular and WaS "115 to" all sorts of pranks commoo Young middies, N'ow that to hes reached tho mature age of twenty-five and loin com- mand of a ship, Ito foovls the weight and responsibility of his place and is as Moody as anon of tory. Among Prince Goorgcs's other titles is that of Naval .?tido to tho Queen. The man you meet going clown hill Was at one 011110 higher than you aro. There Pro 1110..0 things which ought to to . His mother had given him a 1001110.1100110 commun.,. before (lune thioga aro spolten,, hair rut. -the innuner, the time and the plus, :