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SI3, EDWIN Amman.
Mr. Gladstone:4as eighter-threemettirs old
on the 29th of December last. One ought
almost rather to say, in the phrase of Dr.
Oliver Holmes, "eighty-three years young,"
for he has just repaired blithely and in good
health and spirits to the Biscay ceast, where
he has pa,ased the winter amid natural,
charms -dear to his Won' and in a climate very
superior tothat of London and HaWarden,
although not always ideal. Biarritz can in
truth be cold enough in the winter, and is a
very capricious, though divinely beautiful,
shore; so that I wish the "Grand Old
• Man ". could bave gone on to Egypt, where
at Cleristrates- time in Cairo and higher up
the river the weather is absolutely perfect,
and one may sit out at nights safely under
the moonlit palms. • But the hankie of the
Nileat this moment present a spectacle
pmlitically ansatislactory to the illustrioue
traveller, who wants us to give up ptotect-
iiag.Egypt, although it was he who ordered
the bombardment of Alexandria and thereby
comnaenced the existing British occupation
the land. Ia this River, however, I shall
-endeavor to avoidas Inueli as 'possible the
--dangeroasmegioo of polities.
It is of the singular and striking person.'
dity of Mr. Gladstone and of his wonderful
7haracteristics, as they havepresented them-
ielvesito my notice and study, that 1 wish
,exeltisively and very respectfully to sneak.
On such ground every opponent of the right
honorable gentleman may be, and I think
ought to be, for many good and sufficient
reasons, his admirer and his eulogist.
On the male and female side equally it is
Scotland that boasts the gift of this eminent
statesman to his country's history. It was
a Clydesdale family that bied him, a linebt
lairds bolding large estates in the sixteenth
century. From these sprang some prosper-
ous malsters, father and son, who settled at
Lanark, and had among their descendants
corn merchants that migrated to Leith, one
of whoire John, became wealthy and im-
rtant and married a Robertson, of
• gwall, in Orkney, which lady is proudly
traced it our peerage books to Bruce e of
Bannockburn, so that Scotland owns, as
say, both channels of Mr. Gladstone's
blood. John Gladstone was a great friend
of the famous George Canning, whom
Mr. Gladstone must often have seen at
his father's table. In fact, it was there
and under Canning's immediate influence
- that he iiiiibibed those early toryiprinci-
ples—oever really rooted out from his na-
ture—which made him at the beginning of
his career the glory and the hope of the
church and Conservative party. At Eton
he got his Greek and Latin and got them so
thoroughly, with the help of three studious
•years following at Oxford, that when I have
once or twice dared secretly to test him in
- capping Greek and Roman hexameters from
the Iliad and Odyssey or Virgil," have been
perfectly abashed and astonished at the
superior range and grasp of his scholastic
memory. At the university he took a high
degree and ofttimes flashed the sword of his
maiden eloquence in the Tinian Debating so-
ciety. Thence also he derived and deepened
those high church principles that have al-
ways draped themselves like an intellectual
alb and chasuble over the shifting garments
of his later opinions. Indeed, his mind took
so strongly a bent ecclesiastically that he
had seriously designed himself at one time
for the church and would probably have be-
come archbishop of Canterbury, if Canning
had not put him into the pocket borough of
Newark.
Nothing can furnish a stronger contrast
with the later career of this renowned liber-
al leader than his opening parliamentaty
years. He showed himself a tory of the
tories. Macaulay, reviewing his pamphlet
-ondtChurch and State," had marked him at
that early date as the rising hope of the
"True Blue " party, and his maiden speech
in the house of commons was actually deny.
ered against the proposed immediate eman-
cipation of the slaves and in strong insist-
ence upon compensation to the slave holders
of the West Indies. All this, though stiange
now to recall, was netural enough, seeing he
was the son of a father who owned slaves
and sugar estates in Demerara,. and it goes
far to account for the unfortunate attuude
which he assumed when your terrible and
costly war broke out between the north and
south.
I can tell a curious little story about that
from my personal experience and shall not
hesitate to tell it, becanse it greatly re-
doands to Mr. Gladstone's moral if not poli-
tical credit and may hereafter help to ex-
plain his actien in one of the undoubted
errors of his career. During those first dark
days of your sublime conflict to sustain the
nni ea Mr. Gladstone went to Newcastle
and delivered a memorable speeela. in which
he declared that' Jefferson Davisi-.had
,
made a nation and a navy. I, who wee in
my humble way an earnest northerner,
wrote to him, pointing out reasons convinc-
ing me that this was a great error of pro-
phecy; as well as of policy, and asking the
illustrious orator not to cast the serious
weight of his eloquence and chart cter into
the scale against the north. With the
greatest condescension he at once invited
me, then but a novice in political affairs, to
• come and see him and talk it all out. I went,
S Candying a totreideble, ,handle .of papers,
andifor the firsttime in.my life enjoyed the,
rare delight of conversing teteia-tete with
• that fascinatingstatesman, whorreI then and
always have found just as genial in antagon-
ism aein agreement. He permitted me to
attempt, at least, to overwhelm him with
arguments tending to prove that the
north Would never allow the mouth of • the
Mississippi to be cut off from its fountains;
that the south did not understand the re-
sources or resolves of its powerful opponent,
and that the conffiet could only end in the
chastisement of the rebellious said the eman-
cipation of the slave. I wonder still, as I
look back so far, at the patience with which
he listened to me, but in the end he sprang
up from his chair and exclaimed: "I am half
•to till,* you aria mightnandethata
ave to retract and, pethape, lirratift
endeeply t� regret those weir& which I
. Poltis the day -before yesterday, but, to tell
: dthedentheal have such a constitutional...here
ror4figarethitt when I-findeny Ovrit ettientry'
or any other countries which interest mein -
volved in one, the instinct of my mind, I am
afraid, is rather to find the nearest way out
of it than the best."
That avowal, the more refleeted
npon, will be seen, to east more- and more
light upon many a previous antl subsesoend
passage of Mr. Gladstone's political career:
In point of fact the British martial Spirit
mingles very little with his businesslike
blood and he has hardly ever been able se
..men.ehle al to comprehend that imperial feeling
2 rewhichifilleatheidireast of Chatham, cirDeft
of,Pailiaeritond rd was so swing alien-
timent at last, eyed "A the colder-temperae
ment of Lord Beaconsfieid.
Mn --Gladstone said to me once, when I -
was disc -miming perhaps a little toil enthusi-
iideritti our 0- -71.4011- empire: ,."1.
like todnerimi you sneak. about India. You to di Mhso daitdrMintititifitintlipeeferthistionglatats1Tow_Avv•OITINGS10LAIL °LIKES.
idditddidtts—dah'iree-'
talk of thedlethinneWite1de Were eu Odal- of them being SITI; 'Tod:Gladstone, his „
e Among the exiles in Siberia are forty-five
isque whom.' ir-ohdAngleslitifiatis'heep Presently the Grand Old Man and the' . _
know, is one of his greatest attractionmi
gilded lattices apdwillinotiallote the outer eite
as e glance at if you
behind nephew, handsome yoimedellomd, late 0-;
the CordetreitunGuards, aged about thirty- oltihlin'tdl.Thlt*ttledsiy
At dinner, eighty years of -Caimpositorsivehe were sent there for work -
can help _ seven, uninarried end witlattl5i099_ a year. conielmad handatogetherhiatifithearaw-
wortketraA470iy:wattg *tow; and i; London pays it•si gee companies annually
ing room. Mrs. Gladstone tune to the piano
ing on Nihilist work -
world to get soiinaeli
Perhapeecintething'of thie has been due
As far as remember, Mr. -Gladstone's " Grand :Old Man' -oinee ittook thei
, as yon Will eaellehelleve the
wan derings abroad never extended much floor,' and truly, no one would have wished
to the -4-# that he so little.
beyond Italy and the Ionian islands, which or ventured to deprive him of it.
latter, by the way, he was the official " Yesterday (Sunday) he head both les -
agent in cutting adrift from "itnglish pro- sons. in church at -morning Service, Mid -gave
tection. beauty of voice and delivery which well ex -
them forth with a force, intensity and
plains the auxiety of clergymen that he
should read in their churetes,_ since, they
say, it is more telling than any sermon. Toi
day he goes to Althorp to stay with, Lord
Spencer and proceeds on Wecineeday to
identmore for two nights. Next Week he
journeys to Biarritz, and after a month or
so perhaps to the Riviera, hut I hearOf a
change of plans, and it may be Biarritz
only, after all."
When you grasp Mr. Gladstone's right
hand, always stretched out with unaffect-
ed warmth of greeting, you perceive in the
contact that he has lost a forefinger. The
fact is that when a youth shooting with his
uncle he blew it away from the muzzle of -the
old fashioned gun of that period, which was
dangerous, indeed, for an incautious sports-
man. If a spark or -particle of burning
wadding happened to be left in the breech
of the ancient muzzle loader it was always
possible that the:powder charge when pour-
ed in would explode, and you would then be
in leek if it did not communicate flame to the
powder flash. Young Mr. Gladstone show-
ed on ttat occasion the fortitude . and pa-
tience winch are part of his fine character,
but the accident exemplihes a certain inher-
ent awkwardness in hi eature. • Strong as
a lion, as his exploits in viotedMalt siiffiefehtt
ly prove, he has never heenparticulari yagile
or quick in body, any More than he is. witty
in mind. Perhaps -the one etch idefectin this
complex and opulent nature is hisilack of
humor. I never heard, nor did anybody
else with whom,I amacquainted, a bon mot
er brilliant repartee failing from those won-
derful lips, and this is attributed, possibly,
to his Scotele extructioia and to the tremend-
ous perenial earnestness of his 'Character.
He seems to have no time, or else no capa-
city to see the ridiculous side of things,
which, however, is a rather serious deficien-
cy, because just as the liveliest laughter lives
next to the most tender tears, so a perception
of the absurd aspect ef human doings closely
belongs to a sagacious comprehension of and
safe management of them. It vas in this
point that Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone
stood at opposite poles of human feeling
"All the world's a stage and all the men
and women merely players." Such was
Lord Beacousfield's pretty constant be-
lief and platform of conduct, while Mr.
Gladstone, his illustrious opponent, was
always so terribly in earnest that the
whole country felt the sting of the epi-
gram, when Disraeli Once compared the
right honorable gentlemen's ministry, after
his tridmplis were over, to "a range of ex-
tinct volcanoes:" Quod vult, velde ,vult.
Whet he desires he desires imperatively,
solemnly, blindly; and no quality has im•
pressed modern public opinion so much as
this resistless, devouring ardor of the Grand
Old Man. It is a force, indeed which often
sweeps away opposition from its path.
As waves beneath
A vessel under sail, so men obeyed
And fell below his stein.
Especially did he thrill the whole country
when in his speech upon the reform bill he
spoke of the unenfranchised residuum as
"our flesh and blood," and no words can
describe the force and majesty of the finish
of that speech, when in view or a present
defeat, but of a future assured victory, he
exclaimed in tones more like those of a He-
brew prophet than an English statesman,
d The silent forces of the time are on our
side," as, indeed, they proved to be.
If intellectually the lack of the sense of
humor has marred the otherwise varied
and magnificent completeness of Mr. Glad -
stone's character, what has at once en-
hanced and detracted from his fame and
historical record as 9, statesman has been
hia supreme skill and irresistible instihets
as a parliamentary manager. He cannot
help playing the game with the resources and
devices of an accomplished strategical hand.
The tirst necessity of 'political triumph is
naturally a majority, and all the qualities of
Mr. Gladstone's temperament Mous, in
spite of his conscientiousness and high in-
spiration, upon the necessary efforts ta create
and preserve that. It was such an impulse
that led him at Greenwich, some twenty
years ago, wildly to promise the abolition of
the income tax. And I hope to be forgiven
if 1 state the belief that it was this which
first half -consciously led him to take up the
Irish question, since without the sixty or
seventy ,votes controlled by Mr. Parnell a
majority seemed then impossible. I am not
eying here that Mr. Gladstone acted then
or ever acted againsthis principlesrbut that
he has the facility, coalmen to all- rich and,
-complex natures, Of easily persuading
that What be desiresis on all ground
desirable, and the speed and sweep Of his
• eagle -winged .spirit is such in all affairs of
state that he very rapidly primes the turning
place where it is possible to change the direc-
tion of his flight.
As little do I wish to indicate that in
lacking the faculty of humor he is with-
out what is akin to it, gayety and bright-
ness of soul. The contrary is distinctly
the case. Nobody can appear more lively
in and genial conversation and more delight-
ful in the relations of life. His smile is like
summer's sunshine, his interest in the most
unimportant and external Matters lively
and immediate, and his home, I know, one
of the happiest and brightest in the world.
Listen to yet one more extract from the
letter cf my friend. Dating from Hewer -
den he writes: "_I left, the castle on Mon-
day. Old and familiar friend as I am with
all the Gladstonee, it is impossible to tell
you in words what that. marvellous and ut-
terly unparalleled human phenomenon now
appears in the splendid serenity and bright-
ness of his life's evening, One little inci-
dent -I did not mention in my last shall be
cited. Mr. Gladstone's second daughter,
Mary Drew; - who must be nearly or quite
forty years eld, _ had her first living baby
about twenty 'months ago. If come like
the child of a miracle unexpectedly; for
her.first little:tine was tiorn dead and nearly
entailed -the death of her me -them so that
nothing seemed less probable than that she
shoidd ever give birth to another child. You
Will readily imagine, therefore, what the
advent of such a baby meant in such an af-
fectionate household.: e -
The little girl is a chartered libertine, the
undisputed chatelaine, in fact, of Hawarden
castle. She can justtoddle about from room
toroom, and she brings a ray of sunlightwith
berWherever sheens. I never saw aptettier
sight than when She just now ran through
the open .:door, -which -divides: thetilrawhig
room from the Grand Old Matdetiehietaarye
and, 'pulling at the lapels of his dressing
gown, drew him imperiously, away from
.Hoiniar �r the Bine Booksatiii :Whatever was
engaging him. The firet intimationr we
IfeWeindtheneatirciinitedvae tepee' of laugh-
ter -on Mr. Glade:ten-We part at the, Obvious
necessity of capitulating to that daring in.
vasion, as musical and hearty as dyer came
Personally Lam hoand to confess that by
reason of this lack Of instinctive "symprithy
for the empire wilt& he has twice ruled and
for theritaliceutWfons of :its greatness; as
well as because of his habit Of ceasing to
consider when he is once convinced, Mr.
Gladstone has always seemed to me, from
beginning to end of his grand record, the
most dangerous as well. as the meat dazzling
minister of State England has eyer produced.
I say this with deep reluctance and only
because L have alwaysfelt that qualities so
• high, so noble and so con -minding ae his,
joined with stieh irresistible persuasiveness,
such lofty motives, -Mich all conquering
energy, tend of themselves, splendidly but
perilously, to render the man a practical
dictator of his countrymen, despite all con-
stitutional checks and safeguards As they
say in Mt. -Gla.cistonehtiown cotuity, "He
can tidk a hen off her ne." He is tO kind-
ly, so high minded, so gentle and so obvious-
ly and impenetrably self -convinced, so
gentle and so reasonable in his convic-
tions, if you will only yield to them:
so .enorminisly informed, so vast :Mins ex-
periences; so svailt- and sure in hih logical
methods all united with such strong bedefs,
such burning humanised, such bleatieleasper-
sonal life, that people unconsciously submit
their intellects to him as to a political pope.
Thousands and thousands of persons hardly
ask what a measure is after they know Mr.
,Gledstone is or was, its author. They vote
feri" the Grand Oldtifainisrarid, in their Own
-phrase; " goit blind. "...Let those, therefore,
be in some degree excused who, fully realiz-
ing the noblenessof this illustrious leader
and his superiority to themselves in all
points, have opposed him and more than
once toiled him when he himself, "intoxi-
cated with the exuberance of his own ver-
bosity," has appeared to allow himself to be
earned away towardiiinperial loss and dis-
integration on the *Ad current of his own
popularity.
But what a man! Listening to him many
a night ha the house of commons or in crowd-
ed and enthusiasticpublic meeting, the imme-
diate effect of his ardent and sonorous elo-
-quence hes alwayebeen the same for me, and I
doubt not for others, whether I was so happy
as to agree or so unhappy as to disagree with
the course he was taking. The rich Lan-
castrian burr in his voice; the silver haffets.
carelessly tossed back front that broad be-
nignant, thought • furrowed brow; the
searching light of his glance; the play of
his mobile mouth; the lightninglike swift-
ness and lucidity in the turns of his mind
and the tremendous vitality of mind, heart
and body, finding frequent vent in the blow
of the clenched hand and passionate gesture,
all these and other traits stamped him for
what he is—the foremost of our parliamen-
tary orators. Somet:mes his burning
rhetoric would be indeed emphasized by
bodily motions, so vehement that I remem-
ber Mr. Disraeli humorously and success-
fully beginning an otherwise hopeless reply
by telling the speaker and the house of com-
mons that " he was glad so substantial an
article of furniture as the table of the house
had stood between him and the right hon-
orable gentleman during thefiery peroration
to which they had just listened with ming-
led -admiration and terror."
In all the relations of domestic and so-
cial life Mr. Gladstone is simply delight-
ful, faultless, removed into serene and
sweet regions beyond any eulogy of mine.
I have just received in this city of Omaha
a letter from an oldfriend and colleague, re-
lated bytnarria,ge to Mr. Gladstone, who
has been staying at Hawarden castle just be-
fore the grand old man set forth for Biaritz.
He tells me that except for a slight dullness
of hearing and some little fatigue of the eye-
sight, which obliges the avoidance of too
much study, his illustrious host was as well
as ever. His daughter, Mrs. Drew, and his
son Herbert shield him as far as they can
from the daily avalanche,of five or six score
of letters and packages which are showered
down upon his breakfast table. Sir Andrew
Clark, his doctor, has no anxieties at pres-
ent about his health, provided he does not
catch one of those sudden chest chills which
are so perilous to advanced age. My friend
dwells with praise and pleasure upon the
moderation of his contemporaries r nd the
justice and generosity of his estimate of pub-
lic men from Castereagh and Canning down
to Mr: Balfour and Lord Rosebery.
• The letter goeson gdinmediately upon my
arrival at 4 p. m. last Friday, liwae taken
into his room.- He proPosedia walk and out
we went,- eramhling for an hour throtglt
pleasure grounds and the castle park, the
latter one of the most beautiful that I ever
saw, very accidenM, verdant banks, valleys,
and small lakes, fern clads dells, noble trees,
as to which, of Course, heis an expert, and
thickets swarming with game surrounding
us on all sides. His flood of talk (and ho one
talks like him) never ceased to run on or to
charm and it is certainly an unique experi-
ence to converse with a man who holds
seventy years, as it were, in the chambers
of his memory and,peeins to have forgotton
e
• After this my friend's letter goes on to
say t "I will briefly sleeted Ms day on
Saturday'for your • Amusement. At '8 a. m.
I came down: and breakfested. with him,
White he drank a cafe tatir and Ate a small
biscuit. At 8e10 a. n•e we set off to walk
the sresult of
fa
to the :church, a stiff i trem-quarters a
mile, up ai hill, slippery f
of a sharp, night's frost. The ehurch was
very cold, the early congregation not more
than eight or ten people, including Me.
Gladstone and myself. Service concluded
he took me into a corrugated iron building,
which has cost £1,000 and is meant for a
village library to hold 40,000 volumes.
standsclose to the church, on the crown of
It
the hillorinalanenheametifeth-yiewi over
mdillek,
,
the valltriotthe Deerdiathtti- udanetene hopes
that Soule useful inst1tUtiIiW111 eventually
• w outtef it. • Already he 'hest deposited
18,00 or.1000 volumes -there every one of
whith.he.Priokeilinp at the castle with his
own hand and
evethefwhichshelves.
pleiiiion
has himself plat inac
We afterward returned to the latet
breakfast, at which, as far as appetite
goes, the id- Grand Old Man ' was
in -tremendmis foree.The papers on the
table were the Daily News, Standard,
Manchester Guardian and Pall Mali. The
last two are all that he read, the first per.
functorily, the second thoroughly. Aimee
10 a. m. it began to rain itt torrents, a big
wind got.un and. it grew very cold, but none
"--W6 1C-s4ow11 arinotheemi* Gledstpne and
Altos.dMrs Ore* set off to open seine
re-
geomegasitebe-nsedby the employes
creation"
and also AO:
of the -Sunlight Soap company,
make a short political speech after twelve
or fourteen miles run by train. • In flee
hours the party came -backend we at down,
II •
•
Si3C0iia thedtWo a -anther -it are 'dancing to Z4,400,000 for it comme •
men his produce . only £3,100, !10, thus giving the
which costs to
:gethemitheeitrandOld Man pattieg
pirouettes a lot of funny, old fashioned little monopolies a clear profit of £1,300,000.
-steps, ;learned -of our great .grandmothers ":eheen. elaet fertnight of December,
seventy-five years ago, which it was inn 100 years ago, that Robert Barns 'quitted
possible to view without delight and ap- the farm of Ellisland, broken in fortune,
plause, although so much pathos minglett and traik up his residence in Dumfries, where
with comedy in the touching scene." the remainder of his life was spent.
But 404 as theeemielities of MritGlacle
stone are, grand as his -opportunities have When the late Mr. Spurgeon eves at Men -
tone he • always, if well enough, took his
been, and splendid—with all its mistakes
Meals at the table d' hote, which he quite en -
and perversities—his recordehe has had one
supreme advantage which heaven,- bestows livened by his conversation.
• only Ori the Mose fortunate and deserving. An Italian publisher got the opinions of
He has had a noble and faithful wife, the 100 writers and schola sT as to who are the
fest friend, the faithful protectress, the best authors. The replies placed Darwin
sure support of her illustrious husband's at the head of foreign writers, Shakespeare
years of toil and glory. Anybody looking emit, with Schiller, Goethe and Humboldt
even now on the comely face of " Katty," following. -
as she is alWats called' at Hawarden by all :
An Englisitladv who died not ione since
except the young folks, would know that
she had been a 'nose beautiful woman; and
is said to have left money to pay for sprinkl-
.
mg Tower11 London, daily with ashes
when she and her 'niter were married ea
the same day at Hawarden to Mr. Gladstone andgeve f,
I ' itigate its slippery
and Lord Lideleton respectively, never pro- condition or e benefit of horses heavily
"tIr to
bably had two such handsome young brides loaded.
been seen in the length and breadth of the The telephone is making the ladies of
principality. The occasion was celebrated Honolulu stouter. , They used to do them
among other ways by the publication of own shopping, marketing, Sze, Now they
a volume of Greek and Latin translations send their orders by telephone, and the lack
dedicated In duplices Nuptias, " to the of exercise has caused au accumulation of
two -fold nuptials," and while that book 1 flesh. ,
shows the versatility of Mr. Gladstone s Lepers in India were treated with shock -
learning in his equally skillful command ing inhumanity before Christianity entered
of Italian and Latin poetry, it stamps Lord that country. Many of them were buried
Lyttleton as the very best weitenia Dreek duet. rhe English rulers have put a stop
_verse that we have ever possessed outside to this custom, and for fourteen year there
professional scholars. Mr. Gladsteee's titled has been a special Christian mission to the
brother-in-law died, unhappily, by his own 135,000 lepers in India.
act in a frenzy of delirium produced by
fever, but the light of an unbroken felicity Formerly the City of London ended at
has always fallen as it well deserved to fall, Ludgares, and what is now Fleet -street was
'upon the wedded life of - William Ewart "the liberty or freedom thereof." The di -
Gladstone and Catharine Glynne. Her sol- vision from Westminster was by posts and
icitude for the noble life, with whose solace rade a chain and Temple Ban This Bar
and felicity she has been charged, is upon gave plane to a house of dinner, which re -
all occasions touching, but occasionally be- mained until after the Great Fire.
,
comes sorely tried by the irrepressible ener- Among the institutions of Fleet street,
gies of her illustrious lord. Dining recently London, has now to be added a "Ladies'
in the company of the distinguished vein
C
Mrs. Gladstone said to me; "i oommissionlub," which was formally inaugurated re-
eently by an "At Home." It is iutended for
you, Sir Edwin, to -night to keep my bus- the use of women who follow the profession
band from talking to the opposite side of of .
iourna h Ism, whose numbers may now be
the table. He has a great slur ch to make reckoned by hundreds. The name under
soon and his voice is a little hoarse with a - I •
which t us to be known is the "Writer's
conversation." . .11giage him as Club."
The lobster dreads thunder and when the
hardly departing cold.
as much as you possibly' can n whispered
Never did a faithful person more earncst- peals are very loud numbers of them drop
ly devote himself to a -duty than I to that. their claws and swim away for deeper water.
I cheerfully allowed my turtle soup to grow Any great fright may also induce them to
cold and took little or no notice of a deli- drop their claws. But new claws begin at
cions mayonnaise while I humbly sought to once to grow, and in a short time ere as
lead the thoughts and talk of Mr. Gladstone large as the old ones, and covered with hard
into paths which I imagined' would be most shells. The lobster often drops its shell,
alluring. In the Moment of apparent suc- when it hides until the new shell is hard
cess somebody dropped on the other side of enough to protect it.
the table the remark that the Phenicians
were a Semite people. The webs I had Goswellmoad, Clerkenwell, has the rept-
woven round my eminentprisoner werebrok-
en like spider threads. He flew with quick
intellectual swoopat the theorise for he
seems to hold a view that the Phenicians
were of another stock, and I could do was
to turn to Mrs. Gladstone and penitently
beat my breast, while she smiled a gentle
forgiveness and Mr. Gladstone, as is his
splendid custom, prenait la parole and kept
it, to the delight and profit of the whole
table.
Kra GLadstentabesaid to be hardly infer- -
ior to her energy and industry.
She has always been Interested in chtienlable
and &wolf work and in polities, **defiles at
the Beane finaillaintained close Watcho
her householdiaffairs and lifirT040dd—
dine met:1m
The Czar'sstaff this year consists ofsixty-
three AdjittantiGenerals, the oklest of whom
belongedotothe staff of Nicholas I; fourteen
Major -Generali, and fifty-six Fluegel-Adju-
mats, not including the officers of the vari-
ous companies of the body guard.
It was an odd coincidence that Cardinals
Manning andSimeoni were elevatedito their
highest rank in the Church the same day and
died on the same day. What is more, the
last official letter penned by the . English
cardinal was by chalice addressed to his
Vatican confrere, thelate urefeetof the pro-
paganda.
The Queen of England is said to have the
largest collection extant of photographs Of
notabilities of her time, from the portraits
of •kings, queens, emperors, and empresses
downwards. They date from the beginning
of daguerreotypes down to the present per-
fect photographs.
The Seven Wonder of Corea.
C,orea, like the world of the ancients has
its "seven wonders," Briefly stated they
are as follows: First, a hot mineral spring
near Kin Shantao, the healing properties of
which are believed by the people to be mira-
culous. No matter what disease may afflict
the patient, a dip in the water proves effica-
cious. The second wonder is two springs,
situated at a considerable distance from
each other; in fact they have the breadth
of the entire peninsula between them. They
have •two peculiarities: when one is full
the other is alway empty, and, notwith-
standing the obvious fact that they are con-
nected by a subterranean passage, one is
bitter and the other pure aud sweet.
The third wonder is a cold wave cave—a
•cavern from which a wintry Wind perpma-
ally- blows. The force of the wind from
the cave is such that a strong man cannot
stand before it. A forest that cannot be
eradicated is the fourth wonder. No mat-
ter what injury is done to the roots of the
trees, which are large pines, they will sprout
up again direct13 , like the phcenix from her
ashes. The fifth is the most wonderful of
all. It is the famous "floating stone." It
stands, or seems to stand, in front of the
palace erected in its honor. It is an irre-
gular cube of great bulk. • It appears to be
resting on the ground, free from supports
on all sides nbut strange to say; two _men
at opposite ends of et:tope:may peseit under
the stone._ without encountering any obsta-
cle whatever. The sixth wonder is the
hot stone," ivIdich from remote ages has
been glowing with heat on the top of a high
hill. The seventh and last Coreen wonder
is a drop of the sweat of Buddha. Foi
thirty paces around the temple in which it
enshrined not a blale of grass will grow.
There are no trees or flowers inside the
sacred square. Even the animals decline to
profane a spot so holy.
Capt. George Callagtan, an Englishman,
who died a few days ago in Valencia, at the
age of 100 years, was at onetime a guard of
Napoleon Bonaparte on the island of St.
Helena. Callagen entered the English navy
n 1811. In 1819 he was sent to St. Helena
to watch over the great emperor. Callaghan
loved to relate his reminiscences of Napo-
leon, and always said that the fallen ruler
hada great liking for him.
President and Madame Carnot set aside
$6000 at Christmas -time to be divided
among three hundred newly made widows.
Madame Carrot's offerings consisted—Of
bundles of clothes, carefully selected with
a view to the requirements of the families
for whom they were intended; and to avoid
loss of time, and also to guard against
musing the curiosity of the neighbors, the
parcels were sent by express.
The pioneer gold miner of Areetratia,
Edward 11. Hargreaves, has died at Sydney
at the age of 75. He reached Australia from
England in 1832, and went afterwards to
California. When digging there he was
struck with the similarity of the country to
this district in New South Wales, and he
returned and found gold and began the
Bathurst diggings. He received a reward.
of $50,000 from the Government of New
South Wales, and in 1877 a pension of $1,-
250 and $11,500 from the Government of
Victoria.
Mr. Samuel Butler is lecturing in Eng-
land on the question, "Was Homer a Wo-
man !" He believes the Iliad was written
by a man, but he regards the Odyssey as
the product of a woman. The reasons he al-
leees for his belief are not camplimentary
to the fair sex. He says the poems show in-
credible ignorance ef the detail of common
every -day matters. The author evidently
knew nothing about ships, and displayed
norance in other ways. He ventures to
tation of being the worst th
London for travelling. In some parts ofthe say that if the Odyssey were to appear
oroughfare in
anonymously for the first time now there is
road the stones at the sides ef the tram lines I not a critic who would not say it was the
have sunk several inches, thereby causingI, product of a wompn•
vehicles to skid to such an alarming extent 1
Cardinal Manning was a tall, gam, t man
that it is a wonder they are not overthrned.
I with a vigorous frame and a large head that
A number of persons who used to rideto I
wore the impress of old Roman th ineess,
the City now walk, on account of the risk and he looked like the picture of a reat
involved. ,
churchman of old. He was a teemener,
unlike many of his predecessors, and ate
only enoueh to keep body and mind in a
The King of Siam has recently prescribed
a rigorous test for those of his subjects who
claim to be endowed with the mantle of pro- healthy condition. There was absolutely
phecy. An enactment has now been made no ostentation about him. When he was
providing that no prophet shall be entitled made a Cardinal an influential member of
to ublic confidence unless he has the gift of his flock said to him: "1 would like teaser
your Eminence riding in something better
than that shabby old brougham." _
replied the prelate, with a twinkle inhis
eye, " When Cardinals went about in fine
AnInteresting &ilia. •
A most interesting relic which British
Columbia proposes to send to the world's
fair, is the wreck of the old _Hudson Bay
Company's steamboat Beaver, which was
the first steamboat to stir the waters of the
Pacific of the North American eoast. The
wreck of -the' lleeirer lies, With its nose on
the.shoreanditesestera iti about twelve feet
of water, at the entrance to Vancouver har-
bor, where it was run aground and abandon-
ed in 1833. The engines and boilers are
intact, the mainmast and smokestak are
standing, and enough of the wheelhouse
and deck cabin remain to show what the
vessel was. ' „The wreck can be raised easily
and transported. rItisproposed to exhibit
it alongside themodels of the latest Avian -
t c greyhounds, such as the Majestic and
the City of Paris.
Blaine unharmed in the midst of a sea -coal
fire for the space of at least half an hour.
Sir John Everett Millais, the great paint-
er, is never so happy as when skeching fronature in Scotland. Seated beside some carriages they generally went to the devil.
tm
wimpling burn, with an old pipe in his
Animal Suffering,
mouth, he will work all day without troub-
ling about food. He long ago learned the "Not a kennel in all the centuries, net a.
art of painting in the ram. An artist, who bird's nest, not a worn-out horse on tow
painted with him for two seasons, says that path, not a herd freezing in the poorly built
they sat in their wet clothes, drenched by cow pen, not a freight car in summer time
the thick Scotch mist, day after day, whol- bringing the beeves to market without
ly engrossed in reproducing the greens and water through a thoumnd miles of agony,
browns of mosses, and the greys and reds of I not a surgeon's room witnessing the strug-
trees. I gles of a fox, or rabbit, or pigeon, or dog in
It is said that the old black overcoat of the horrors of vivisection but has an inter -
the German army will shortly be abolished. est in the fact that Christ was born iu a
Experiments have been made with various stable surrounded by brutes. He rement
regiments during the last twelve months bers that night, and the prayer he heard in
with overcoats of various shades of grey their pitiful moan He will answer in the
which have led to the concltrsion that light punishment of those who maltreat the
grey is the colour least distinguishable at a dumb brutes. • They surely have as much
distance, and therefore best adapted for right in this world as we have. In the first
weer in view of the use of smokeless chapter of Genesis you may see that they
powder. I were placed on the earth before man was,
The rate of travel of thunderstorms has the fish and fowl created the filth day and
been studied by Herr Schronrock from the the quadrupeds the morning of the sixth
record of 197 such storms in Russia in 1888. day, and man not until the afternoon ot
The velocity is found to have varied from 13 that day. The whale, the eagle, the lion
tc 50- miles an beer, With :e. mee,—n of 28.6 . and all the lesser creatures of thei: kind
ciiiles an hour in the hotteasonnd inereamadvere predecessors of the human family.
a
ing to 32 miles an houninthe cold season. I They have the world by right of possession.
*
It was least in the early morning, increasing " What an army of defence all
to a. maximum between 9 and 10 p. m. The over the land are the faithful watch dogs?
Aud who can tell what the world owes to
The Costliest Sealskin, Known.
The Duchess Oft Portland" has long been
celebrated, for the beauty of her sealskin
cloak, which costdabout 5000 guineas, but
this has now beenthrowncompletely into
the shade by, the magnificent cloak which is
worn by Lady Alington. It is a gift from
her newly made husband, and from the
point of view of expense alone, completely
eiteutppitietlfiet gairlMainit Wbidlr has hitherto
been thei fentinhie eyes, for
the Sable trimininifidene catititidituch as the
cloak of the Duchess. The whole value
of the cloak is upward of 11,000 guineas.
- The ethics- of forgery are hard to recon-
cile. When a man forges a hand it is a
crime, but when he forges ahead it is a
credit.
storms travelled most quickly from south-
west, west, and north-west.
the horse, and camel, and ox for transpor-
tation ? And robin and lark have by the
South African mines weigh between a half ard and forest, more than paid for the few
cantatas with which they have filled orch-
The bulk of the diamonds found in the
and three carat. A two-earat stone of grains they have picked up for their susten-
good colour would cost from £10 to £12. In ance. When you abuse any creature of God
cutting it would lose about 60 per cent., ' you strike its Greater, and you insult the
and the cost of manipulation ranges from ' Christ who, though He might have been
7s. 6d. to 30s. per carat according to size, welcomed into life by princes, aud taken his
the smaller being the more costly. What first infantile slumber amid Tyrian plush
with loss in weight, cost of manipulation, and canopied couches, and rippling waters
and profits which it paeses, the final price from royal aqueducts dripping into basins
to the public is considerable. All qualities of ivory and pearl, chose to be born on the
and sizes are found at the Cape. Some of level with a cow's horn'or a Gainers hoof,
the finest are equal to the brilliants of India or a dog's nostril, that he might be the elle
-
and Brazil. - • %dation of animal suffering as well os -the re -
Mr. Brander Matthews, in a :recent num- deemer of men."—[Rev. T. De Witt Tal-
ber of The Cosmopolitan, alludes in glowing mage, D. D.
terms to the new illustrated edition of Ben-
Hur as one of the most sumptuous works
lately issued from the press, and calls atten-
tion to the curious face that Senator Conk -
ling, as well as General Garfield, found
great satisfaction in Lew Wallace's master -
Piece. Mr. Conkling's favorite reading was
Shakespeare; Guide gave him great plea-
sure, and he was especially delighted with
Beu-Hur. Everybody knows, by -the -way,
that the new edition of this world -famed
work is named for General Garfield, a fac-
simile of whose complimentary letter to the
author is given in the book.
The horse of Osman Pasha, who was cap-
tured in the battle of Plevna, died recently
in the stables of the Officers' School of St.
Petersburg. An agent of a wealthy Yankee
immediately appeared before the superin-
tendent of the school and offered 2,000 rubles
for the carcass. His object was to stuff out
the hide and put it on exhibition in one of
the great Yankee shows. The superintend-
ent politely declined the offer, but trie agent
thought that the price he had offered was
not high enough, a,nd he traded for tho relic
with persietereeAt last the superintend-
ent was compelled to turn him out in a rude
manner, because the Yankeeeagent could
not ot would not understand the high -mind- I do not want the dear girl te injure haw*
1
ed teasons of the official who refused to sel carrying it areund tits etomis to fend mem
the carcass of the horse." what it cost."
That Postal Tube.
The proposed plan for a postal tithe be-
tween France and England is to suspend
two tubes, each about three feet in diame-
ter, by means of steel cables thrown across
the channel, 120 feet above the level of the
water. These cables are to be fixed ro, pil-
lars whose foundations will be the riecky
bottom of the channel, each pillar 800yards
from his fellow. If the plan as proposed is
consummated, miniature trains, each carry-
ing 500 pounds of mail matter Will run
through the tubes.
Twenty English and American women are
studying at the University in Leip,sic.
The Diamond cutting business is Mainly
concentrated in Andsterdam and Antwerp,
but diamond mounting is very largely done
in London, which is the centre of the dia.
mond trade both in the rough arid the finish-
ed brillia.nts.
A Thoughtful Friend—Mother: "'That is:
a beautiful piece of Moine you haveselected
for Miss Bangup's wedding present; but
why do you leave on the pricerhark ?"
Dau liter • " The bronze is very heavy and
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