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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-03-17, Page 3diat Tar ho er, a train ot i seconds, can ;hat if running at :he full hraking and the rails m iiio-n, this train stop in 900 feet; ,600 feet ; ten awl, finally' 500 feet. These editet, thatemeder s the trek must *on for at least train reaming at e meet estimate conditions, such eather, and un- onal eqnation of e considered in soh seeond. ask that the en. .g three-searten It - • 7 iing for the pas. ;ter are manifest; rciad trains, but ning as frequent. 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The e results of orth-western gion of lofty . ngthe most ir tied lin - composed of with a sickly cheeks. No; hearty and pictures of 'tat; They arm's, plump wear long eddish-gold- complexion. a beauty of rhaps, fre- e psycholo- rcely find a tal reveries. • e.nt of eitterior, so ingly fresh ell, is fond y to swim - has not the Grace and tween high a poor, gild, (with wader the , the same attraett ve d sister.— cal Quota- icOa quota- ently uses dolence of t =deign - t unto the gthis 1, new lie- n express- o corrupt oney is the of Peter Of 'that prate to "Charity very'come peiwith ed by Job, familiarly eth away a_cheerful MODthan erpon his Vie wind a popular 11 it not in • a caution pt. Other - tale, "In it. am. 52., theer14 zpd. , •4ft It Hon. latwart_Gtadstette. , 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 •