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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-05-26, Page 3E�l1S, 1 miles a dal sugar mak- rkish relieve)) bark serve as give ":00,000 ho have diff • es ever built rs ago, being will be gladte ned through on of all who :eJ stamps. of London is three largest it together, famous when try, and sone en as trophies coins of Cuba oles serve to y, as they de tie there. e successfully ade from old e industry is } eason of the d. s m -cars, omni• . ablic aocem- part of the nd the suburb 11fi1 their duc- e better satin - a crematory he Friedridt- •- s of the poor = cts of anatom- and hospitals e bodies from umber about is recorded by uthern India rimitive non - in wedding a al, or even to on being that . w an actual union of, thie !land already ently, but not judice of the strong against s sternly de - should never f Queensland, allest human early sixteen. 8 inches, and t of the 'mid - y and accom- ges fluently, nd high,light- Domingo and employed for tined in lan- e country at wellings. 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On Onto- roniinent Was - ;ave birth to a :ordinary pro- wlds ; length, head, In in - 20i inches. s of the time as the largest sre exeeptione. its. y, what is the den i" x thu hens.' re- Two -Rowed Barley -in Ca Lada. Prof. Saunders, of the Dominion Experi- mental Farm, has prepared his report on the subject of two=rowed barley. He says: In the anneal report of the experimental farms for 1890 reference is made to the im- portation from England by the Government of a large lot of one of the best varieties of two -rowed barley for seed, which was sold to farmers at less than the cost of importa- tion, in order to thoroughly test the value of this grain in all parts of the Dominion. It is there stated that a shipment of 50 quarters, 400 English bushels, of the bar- ley grown from that seed, weighing about 52 lbs. per bushel, had been forwarded to London, England to be malted and brewed by one of the leading brewers there. This barley consisted of five or six lots, grown in different parts,.of Ontario. It was all for- warded to Ottawa, where the barley was thoroughly cleaned and mixed under my supervision, and the small kernels and as much as possible of the broken grain remov- ed by passing it through a sizer or boby machine, so that the sample was fairly uni- form in character. The following report was received in Oc- tober last by the High Commissioner of Canada, through Mr. A. F. Dale. It con- tains the result of the brewing of this bar- ley at Bishops Stortford, England, and the process conducted at the brewery of Mr. J. Flinn, report is signed by Mr. Arthur U Stopes, of Colchester :— "In compliance with your request I have pleasure in stating to you my opinion of the sample of malt sent me on the 23rd May last, which I understand was made exclu- sively from Canadian barley sent you by the Dominion Government. "From careful examination of this malt, and from information furnished me by brewers well acquainted with the use of Canadian malt in the Dominion, and also from suggestions made by the well-known brewery expert, Mr. Frank Faulkner, I felt justified in using this malt exclusively with- out any mixture of other malts. I. there- fore proved its brewing qualities entirely upon its own merits, and to test it as severe; ly as possible, I brewed a pale ale from it, although I fear the colour is a little higher than I generally get from malt made from English or European barleys. "The brewing worked easily, and I liked the handling of the goods in tun and the way they spent, indicating from the initial stages the quality of the malt. Each suc- cessive stage followed in proper sequence in exceedingly good form ; the fermentation was practically perfect, and the condition of the beer at racking was exceedingly good. The final attenuation also was just as I wished, and as a consequence I think the brewing operations were those well adapt- ed to the malt, and it must have been of good quality to have given such satisfactory results at every stage. " The stability I have proved to be ex- ceedingly good, indicating soundness of ma- terial. " The extract was equivalent to 87 lbs. per quarter ; and coupling all the preceding facts with the judgment I formed of the malt, irrespective of its use, I assay its value 35s to 36s per quarter. I may say that had I wished to obtain a greater ex- tract, so as to attain the maximum amount possible, I could readily have increased it, but I deemed it under the circumstances preferable to secure quality rather than puantity. " The beer after racking has remained en tirely satisfactory, and the very numerous people who have tasted it have been almost without exception of opinion that it is ex- ceedingly good. - " Should you wish to have fuller and more complete notes of a more technical class, either as to the nature of the water employ- ed in the brewing, and of the malt itself, I shall be happy to place them at your dis- posal. I assume the above report is suffi- cient for your present purposes, and I have much pleasurein testifying as a practical brewer to the value that good malt of this class would prove to the brewers who under- stood its use. " October, 1891." This report is highly satisfactory, and shows that good two rowed barley, such as will meet the approval of the English brew- er, can be grown in Canada, and many samples, much better in quality and heavier than this shipment referred to, have been received of late at the Experimental farm fromfarmers in Ontario, the growth of 1891. Favourable reports as to the yield of the barley have been received from every hand,,and it is the general opinion that the crop of the two -rowed has averaged much better than the six -rowed. Many reports of yields of 40 to 50 bushels per acre have been received from different points in On- tario, although some of the samples sent in have been light in weight and winch discol- oured, The buyers in the barley districts in Ontario paid up to the close of naviga- tion from 8 to 12 cents more per bushel Tor the two -rowed than was offered for the six- rowe3 ; but in many instances no care seems to have been taken to grade the purchases, but light and heavy, bright anddiscoloured lots, were all mixed together, making a 'ery uneven sample. Much broken grain van also found in some lots. The returns received for some of the shipments are said to have been very unsatisfactory, having resulted in loss to the shippers. This dis- appointment, however, is clearly traceable to want of care in threshing, cleaning, and grading the grain. The fault lies partly with the farmer who must exercise more care in handling this crop if it is to bring hue its full value. In a letter written by a practical Canadian maltater who recently visited England in connection with the bar- ley business of his firm, he says, when re- ferring to the disappointing sales :—" Ship- pers have not kept faith with the brokers or purchasers as to quality, the bulkwas not equal to the sample. Again, " All brew- ers who saw the Government farm samples at the brewers' exhibition were charmed with them, and millionscould have been sold, but the general crop did not equal the samples. I may say that unless the Cana- dian barley can be threshed so as to avoid the large proportion of half and broken grains, which cause excessive moulds on the floors, the trade won't materialize. All English malsters agree on this point." This gentleman. speaks quite hopefully of the-Caaaadian six -rowed barley for the Eng- lish market,and says it is beginning to find favour with several maltsters who have tried h. - - Other Canadian dealers speak more hope- fully of the two -rowed barley trade. One says : " The two -rowed barley we have handled this season, grown from English seed, has given us the best of satisfaction,. and I believe that all that has gone for- ward to the Old Country would have done likewise bad it not been badly mixed." Another buyer who visited England in . connection with his barley business writes: "In November sales were made in Great Britain • by sample to arrive of both two - rowed and six -'owed. The former was recele4 With much .favour by maltsters 0 the latter did not attract. much. attention, I am not, however, surprised that the de- mand for export has fallen off, for many sales were filled with shipments quite infer- ior to the sample ; the result was disappoint- ment and resentment on the part of the receiyers." He says, further : "It is a mis- take to suppose that the English maltster does not require colour ; he does, and the bright sample will in every case take the market there, as in the United. States. I desire to impress strongly on farmers the necessity of growing from pure seed, and in harvesting and threshing to carefully avoid mixing. I found a very kindly feeling ex- pressed towards Canada, and a marked de- sire to trade with her. I am convinced that if we can grow as good parley as we have done this year, and if it is kept pure, we will work into a good trade with the English maltsters." Enough has, I think, been said to show that if the Canadian farmer will exercise the requisite care in the cultivation of this grain, also in threshing and cleaning it for the market, avoiding all mixing ; and if the shipper will see that the bulk of the grain he sends is equal to the samples forwarded,' there seems no reason to doubt :.hat a satis- factory trade in twe-rowed barley can be established. The maltster in Great Britain is willing to pay a good price for a first-class article. Potato Trenches. Quite a revolution was effected by the sys- tem of growing potatoes by the trench meth- od says the Philadelphia Record, for when experiments showed that a grower weld produce over 128 bushels of potatoes on one- eighth of an acre, or at the rate of more than 1,000 bushels bn an acre, as was done by Mr. A. Rose, of Pen Yan, N. Y., the new system at once attracted attention, for Mr. Rose also secured over 5 500 bushels of pota- toes on a fall measured acre of ground. Itis not yet %needed that the trench system is superior to the usual plot culture, but as the potato season is nearly here it is not out of place to state what the trench system is, in order that those who so pre- fer may make experiments in that direc- tion, the coming season, on a plot or two. The land is plowed a foot deep and opened eight inches. The seed is then planted and the trenches left open, the dirt being filled in as the plant grows, the clairn being made that, by thus gradually filling in as growth is made, the potatoes produce more tubers, as well as larger size and better quality, on account of having more room and a better soil ; and when the trench is filled to the top the rows are level, and the usual level cultivation is given, though some prefer to hill up the rows, believing that, by so doing, more moisture is retained in the soil. The usual mode of growing potatoes is to plant the seed from four to six inches deep ; but, as the trench system calls for nine inches of depth and of the width of a heavy plow fur- row to as much as three feet, if preferred, tuber -bearing stems issue from different planes, making several tiers of tubers, fair- ly separated from each other, instead of be- ing crowded. The use of choice varieties, and the cut- ting of the seed judiciously, is well under- stood by all potato growers, and as the - trench system is very simple, there is but little to learn other than the fact of enor- mous yields, but in order to secure the large crops the ground is liberally supplied with a fertilizer composed of about six per cent. ammonia, twelve per cent. phosphoric acid, and eight per cent. potash. As much as eight hundred and eighty pounds offertiliz- ers per acre have been used, which was sown in the bottom of the trenches and well in- corporated with the soil, the seed pieces be- ing placed ou this one foot apart in the trenches. Hornless Cattle. - - In the removal of horns as of many other undesirable things prevention is better than cure. Whether dehorning is injurious or not it must be painful aid a shock to the animal, and the operation in its preparation and execution is one of no little trouble. Wold it not be better to breed the horns off? A bull of the Red Polled English breed crossed upon any of the horned breeds is so prepotent that the horns disappear with the first cross almost invariably and the Devon red color appears. These cattle have been bred in Norfolk and Suffolk. counties England for over 100 years. The first authentic importation was by G. F. Taber of Pawling, N. Y., in the fall of 1873, and now they are distributed in most all the states of the Union. They are very numerous and deservedly popular in the Western States and on the great ranches. All of the beneficial results of no horns usually noticed beside many others apply to this breed. They are hardy and excellent both for the dairy and for beef, and it is safe to say are the best all round cattle known. They are peculiarly suited to the climate, pasturage and needs of the New England states, and yet from the last herd book there appears to be- but three - proprietors of very small herds in all of that section. -[G. K. Taber, - in Our Grange - llonres. - Been the Cow Content. B. M. T. writes from Vermont : " I find in my own experience that there is a close connection between the cow's nerves and udder. So that the question is not merely a sentimental affair related to kindness and - sympathy, but it pertains to the pocket book. I have been surprised, since owning a Babcock milk tester, to see the tangible proof of this fact. The slightest disturb- ance of .the cow's equanimity has its effect on the milk pail. A blow from a careless man, the chasing of dogs, an uncomfortable storm or any disturbing influence means a loss. The more comfortable, serene, con- tented and quiet the cow is the better will she pay. Some•have found that the Bab- cock tester will show a decrease in quality from no more of a cause than an unfamiliar milker, even though he be kind and gentle. Selfishness as well as kindly motives de- mands the most scrupulous kindliness and gentle care of the milch cow. The blow, the harsh word, the neglect in feeding have their influence in preventing the farm from giving a due measure.to pro- fit. So true is this that the increased quiet- ness of the cow at night is considered the reason why morning's milk is -often richer than night's milk." Nothing to Crow About. 4NAVA4Dl ILTTARY aboard the " Bu1 Ruffian" at Bermuda Admiral Watson had made Himself extreme - General Lord Roberts, Great Britain's ly popular. He - had got about him .a staff Greatest Soldier. as jolly as himself, and the jollity of the officers seemed to have communicated itself to the men, so that in the whole squadron and in the forts and in the hotels and cot-. Cages, where the guests- from all the eoun- tries in the world were enjoying Bermuda's wonderful climate, Admiral Watson and his officers and his crew were regarded as the jolliest, most agreeable people on the face of the sea. As for the admiral himself, with his hoarse voice and his 64 years, that seemed to have been all summers, he was, in the language of the women, " the dearest man in the world." So when the news that old Sir Provo R allis was dead and that Admiral Watson and the Bellerophon az d its jolly crew would have to leave was spread abroad in the har- bor and on land there was lamentation everywhere, and when the Jay came for the Bellerophon to take her departure there w gi e r t preparations to give Admiral Watson a rousing farewell. The yards and rigging of all the eighteen vessels weremanned until they seemed to he made of human beings, shoulder to shoul- der and one above another. The officers were on deck in full uniform, and over at the fortifications the soldiers were on parade. As the Bellerophon weiehed anchor and set out on her Iong voyage the war vessels be- gan to salute and the big guns of the fortifi- cations sounded melancholy and echoing expressions of esteem and regret. The Bellerophon was finally in the midst of the seventeen vessels she had consorted with so long, and was never to see again. All the sailors in her rigging, at a given signal, cheered as one man, and the sound floated out over the 'water. Then, at the rising of the flag, the thousands of sailors in the rigging of the seventeen vessels answer- ed this cheer as though the thousand throats were one. Handkerchiefs, caps, hands were waved, and from the shore came the flutter- ing of smaller handkerchiefs and smaller hands and gay sunshe.des. - And the officers used the handkerchiefs - in quite another way as they saw the " old man " on the deck of his old flagship, turning away his head and shutting his eyes from "the d ---d eazzle " of the sun for a moment. The Bellerophon was soon out at -sea, -and then a graceful outline against the horizon, and then a speck, and then only known by the cloud of smoke which was soon dissi- pated. As may be imagined, nobody was particu- larly glad to see tho new admiral, who, of course, could not take the place left so ter- ribly vacant. lie was to come in the Blake, a battle ship, the largest and newest and swiftest and finest in the whole navy. One day they saw a cloud of smoke on the hori- zon, and then, with strong glasses, they made out a low-lying, long, mastless, un- gainly looking craft, much like a shaven and shorn bulldog. There was nothing graceful abort this new flagship, nothing of the easy, jolly way the Bellerophon sat in the water. The Blake was built for business, and very ugly business at that, and as it came nearer they saw through the holes in the sides long, vicious -looking guns, quite_ different from those of the old Bellerophon. Of course the new admiral must be re- ceived with all formality. So the guns were got ready on the seventeen vessels in the harbor and the soldiers lined up on .the fortifications: Presently the big guns on the great masonry were booming away, a Iittle -gloomily, a little crossly, and not at all jollity, while the smaller guns on the warships were cracking also. As the Bake came up a big collar of smoke rolled away from her side, and then a long, bright flash, keener than the bright sunlight flash- ing on the waves, and then those on sea and shore heard the roar of the gun—sour, hoarse, ugly, a growl of surly warning, as it seemed, that the days of a jolly admiral and a jolly crew on a jolly flagship were over. The bulldog had drawn back bis lip and had shown his teeth. The elevation to the peerage of His Excel- lency, General Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Bart. G. C. B., V. C. which was announced as one of the "New Year -honors," and has just now been completed by the introduc- tion of the new peer, has been delayed for many years through the influence of General Discount . Wolseley, who has long been notoriously jealous of his junior.. General Roberts is by a year an older man than his rival, Lord Wolseley. He was born in Waterford, Ireland, Sept. 30, 1832, the second son of SirAbraham Roberts, a general officer of distinction. His elder brother is a major general on .the retired - list. Frederick Sleigh Roberts was educated at Eaton and at Sandhurst, and he departed from the latter place to become a lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery in 1851. In ls5S, during the mutiny, he won the Victoria Cross for valor by recapturing from several sepoys a British flag, and he. distinguished himself on several occasions during those dark days. In 1860 he was promoted cap- tain, and in 1863 got an Indian medal for bravery in some of the numerous skiriziishes with the hill men. In 1863 he went as As- sistant Quartermaster General with General Napier to Abyssinia ; Napier returned with a peerage, and Roberts increased his collec- tion of medals. In 1872 ne obtained a C. B. for bravery in the Looshai campaign in India. He was promoted Major and Colonel soon afterward, and in 1878 - was Quarter- master General, with the rank of Major General, on the staff of the Commander-in- chief in India. - In that year the Afghan war broke out, and soon thereafter General Roberts was created K. C. B., a promotion conferring knighthood. He went to the front during that war, and led the force which recaptur- ed Cabul after the murder of -Sir Louis Cavagnari, the British resident in that city, Sept. 3, 187,9. He defeated the Afghans on Oct." 6, and entered the city on the 12th of that month. He was made Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire for,tbis ser- vice, and was placed in command of the city then, holding it for upward of a year. In July, 1880, Ayoob Khan, pretender to the Afghan throne, defeated a British army under General -Burrows, and&drove the sur- vivors into Candahar, whirl% place he pro- ceeded leisurely..to invest. Roberts gathered about 10,000 men and departed from Cabal early in August, leaving Cabal to be occu- pied by Abdurrahman Khan, whom the British supported. For three weeks nothing was heard of him, and it was thought that he had been' cut off as so many other British soldiers had been by the Afghans. But on Sept. 1 Roberts appeared, suddenly in front, of Candahar, to Ayoob's great surprise. On Sept. 3 he attacked Ayoob Khan, and de- feated him completely, cagituring thirty-two guns and relieving General Burrows in his distressed condition. That march to Can- dahar has made Roberts famous ; to it he owes in a large measure his peerage, and from it one of his peerage titles is derived. The march, though les :important, is a parallel to Sherman's and like that owed its success to the skill of the comm oder. A soldier in General Roberts' flying force givesra brief account of the march and the battle in a letter dated Sept. 6, 1880 : " We left Cabul on Aug. 9 between 10,- 000 and 11,000 strong, picking up the gar- rison of Shirpore, which was in rather an isolated position, eighty-five miles from Candahar and 300 from Cabul ; all the troops in it were 165 infantry, two guns, and one Belooche regiment did whom they could not depend, as they kept deserting in ones and twos every day. We entered Cabul on Aug. •31, and were re- ceived with cheers from the fort; all the troops came out to receive us and they gave us a bit of breakfast. Half of my brigade was sent with two guns to try and turn on the water, which he (Ayoob) had cut off. When they saw us hard at work they kept up a brisk fire, but without doing any dam- age. They kept up firing all night, and at daybreak next morning opened the ball by firing into the first brigade camp. About 7 a. m. a small party, of which I was one, was sent to occupy a hill in front of the enemy's right, and for two hours we were HEBREW, ISRAELITE, dEW- A Rabbi's Explanation or the M the Three Words. Meant It isnotanunfrequent occurrencet asked which of the three appellations to our people, Hebrew, Israelite, or the more correct or acceptable. I h doubt that one or other among you had similar questions to answer, nor you experience some difficulty in ah your reply. In books, periodicals daily papers, in public meetings and conversations, these words are used indiscriminately or with an apparent as to whether or not one or the other be preferable, or perhaps objectionable order to form a correct opinion it wou pear necessary to have some knowled the etymology, origin, and former usua terms. - Hebrew in our sacred tongue called " -is derived from "aver," "to c come over." It was first applied b ancient inhabitants of Palestine to -family of our ancestor, Abraham, migrating from Mesopotamia to Pale had to cross or pass over the river E rates. It was the name by which the were known to foreigners in ancient Thus Joseph is spoken of by the Egypt and introduced himself to them a " Ibri " or " Hebrew." Miriam Pharaoh's daughter whether she shoul and call a " Hebrew " woman. Moses sp to Pharaoh of the "God of the Hebre and the Prophet Jonah tells the - hea mariners, -"I am a Hebrew 1 " The second term, " Israel," " Israel is to be traced to the story Jacob wrestling with a myster being at "Peniel,'' when he was t "Thy name shall be called no Jacob, but Israel,'' that is, " striving God, victorious in God," or, as Gesen translates, "soldier (or champion) of G Thus the term Israel or Israelite po to the mission of the children of aur ra to wrestle with or battle against any fo hostile to their sacred trust, at the sa time forshadowiug their final triumph victory. The name " Israel" became national - name of the twelve tri collectively. Later, after the division of kingdom under Jeroboam, the name appl only to the ten seceding tribes forming northern kingdom, known as the Kingd of Israel, in contradistinction to the sou ern kingdom, consisting chiefly ofthetri of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. After destruction of the ten -tribe kingdom find the old name Israel again used designate the people of the Kingdom Judah, and the name `Israel," collectiv and "Israelite,' individually, has to t day remained in common usage. The third appellation, "Jehudi," "Jew," originates in the name given Jacob's wife, Leah, to her fourth s "Judah," or "Jehudab," meaning pia or thanks to God. For at his birth t mother exclaimed, "This time I will gi thanks unto the Lord 1" The name w worthily borne by the noble and sturdy s of Jacob, whose record throughout is wit out stain or blemish. The tribe of Jude. named after him, was the most numerou enterprising, and valiant among all tribes of Israel. During the march throu the desert J udah's place was in the van the host. The traditional standard of t tribe was a lion's whelp, with the word "Arise, 0 Lord, and let thine enemies scattered." Later the name "Jehudi," "Jew," was applied to a member of t kingdom of Judah (after the separation the kingdom of Israel), even to those not the tribe of Judah ; proof of which we fin in the fact that in the book of Esther Mo decai, though the tribe of Benjamin, is cal ed "Ish Jehudi." a "Jehudi" or "Jew. After the return from the Babylonian cap tivity all the members of the new Stat were called Jebudim, Jews or Judeans, th name being extended to the remnant of th people scattered throughout the nations. So much as to the etymology and hrstori The Queen's gorse^a, cal significance of the names " Hebrew, *In the horse world of London, the highest "Israelite," and "Jew." From it it appear circle the most exclusive set, so to speak, is that among the three the first, Hebrew, that housed at Buckingham Palace. To the most ancient and remote. And as i manyloyal the ancientdaysby it the Jew was distinguish Y subjectsQueen's horses are ed from foreigners, so to -day it would ap as much an object of interest as the regalia; pear that in order io point out anythin exposed to as nice a shelling as any one and as cards of admission are freely grant- ourselves rant- distinctively Jewish the word Hebrew i could wish for, but without any damage to ed by the Master of the Horse, the Royal more properly applied. Thus we speak o ourselves; the Afghans did not understand Mews are probably best-known stables a Hebrew language, Hebrew literature, the boring of the fuses they took from our within the bills of mortality. There are in Hebrew melodies, &c. Otherwise the ap- people. them about a hundred horses in all—State pellationsbrew Israelite and Jew, or lsraelitish "About 9 Roberts made his appearance horses, harness horses, coach and light rid- and Jewish, are more frequently employed and found us in battle order, the first bri. ing horses, and what not. Stables there as more expressive and characteristic in gade on t right, the second on the left, are in London of more aggressive architec• their meaning and important in history. and ours in the rear to form the support. 'tura! features, and some in which there is a - 0f the two the former is a name of honor - After a short half an hour we got the order far greater show of the very latest improve able distinction, referring to the divine call - to advance, and marched straight to the inerts ; but there are none more well-to-do ing of Israet, the spiritual combat of truth hill ; and such a sight as I saw 1 hope never looking, none in which the occupants seem against falsehood, of ritual co inat darkness, to see again—dead Afghans lying about in more at home. Comfort and order are every- . in which our people were enlisted as a all directions, burning, their clothing set on where apparent ; the grooming is, of course, nation, in which they were still engaged fire by some Goorkhas or Sikhs. The Gen-- perfection ;.awl there does not even appear when, with the fall of Jerusalem and the eral passed uaat this time and sang -out to to be a straw out of place in the litter. The destruction of the temple, they ceased to be our Brigadier (McGregor), ' I shall be in Queen has,however,long given up riding,and a nation, and which will not terminate un camp by 1 ;' and he was there by 12:30. - the only saddle horses in the stable are those til, in the fulness of time, God's light and Our fellows were grumbling at the way we used by the suite. -Raikes relates in his truth will finally triumph. were kept in -the background ; but I be journal that a few days after her accession lievethe General said that as our brigade she sent for Lord Albemarle, then Master had very hard work for the last six months of the Horse, and said to him " My Lord, in and around Ghazin, and that we had to you will immediately provide for me six fight eight or nine hours the night before, chargers to review my troops!" It is prob- he would place us in reserve, and I think able that the order was not fully executed, the major part of us were not sorry. The but, if it were, matters are managed very number of guns taken up to the present differently now. The Queen has herfavorites, time is 31, the number of killed and wound- and in matters of horseflesh is content to ed 276, my regiment only two wounded. leave well alone as long as possible. If a What the enemy's loss is I do not know. pair fetches her Majesty from Paddington, but it must be severe." it is always the same pair; if she drives in Roberts was created G. C. B. and a baronet, the Park with four horses, it is always the for this feat, and was appointed to the com- sameteam; so that practically out "of the mand of the army in Madras. On ?{eb. 28, hundred horses the Queer, uses; but six. The 1881, he was sent to South Africa to push the horses ridden by the equerries and out - campaign there to an end after the death of riders are also kept at their special work as General Colley. Peace was made before hof long as they are found fit, and. the visitor reached his post, so be returned to Madras. going the round of the stables after an in - There he remained until 1885, when he was terval of years will find Blackman, and appointed Commander -in chief in India, the Cossack, and Phalanx, acid Buckthorn, and highest independent command in the British Sewell, and their companions still flourish - service, responsible practically only to Par- ing, and seeming more conscious than ever liament. In 1886 he completed the conquest of the distinguished success with which they of Burmah, for which the Earl of Dufferin, do their duty in the royal equipage of every Viceroy of India, was made- a marquis. day life. Robert's great hold on the army lies in ' his care for his men. He is a strict disciplin- Shorthorns And Ayrshire3• arian, and knows when to spare neither man nor beast ; yet he always works hard- There is a world of suggestiveness to.the er than any of his men, and in the march friend of the Ayrshire and Shorthorn cow to Candahar shared the soldier's food, and in the last report of the Massachusetts frequently spent twenty hours at a stretch agricultural college. - The milk of several in the saddle. To him more than to any one cows of different breeds was analyzed and elseis due the. improvements in the condi- and the results are published in the report. tion of the enlisted man in -the- -British The Holstein milk was lowest m fats and Little Aithur was visiting his grand- service. also in other solids and the milk was con - mother, who owned a large rooster that was A Popular Admiral, siderably below standard. The Jersey milk possessed of fighting qualities. Arthur Last winter, as was dulychronicled in was highest m fats but next to the lowest in as other solids." The. Ayrshire milk was next went out to fee the chickens, when the the dispatches -at that time, Sir Provo W. to the highest in solids other than fat and. rooster flew at him, peeking him severely. Parry Wallis, admiral of the British fleet, next to the lowest in fat, presenting the Arthur beat him off as well as he could died at theage of 100 years. This caused a best ratio between the component parts for and finally got away and -rani to the house. good many, changes among the admirals, food purposes and"still averaging 13.27 of Some time later he was playing on the among others the recall of - Vice -Admiral total solids. The Shorthorns made a good porch, when all at once the rooster flew upon Sir George Willes Watson from -the Ber- showing in this respect but not quite equal an adjoining fence and crowed lustily. muds station, where he had been for the to the Ayrshires. The ratio of fats to other Aartbn hooked up and exclaimed: past six years. "You lie, you lie; you didn't lick me 1 1 B The flagship of the fleet at Bermuda was solids in the Ayrshire milk was 1- to 2j1, funned 1" � pin Shorthorns 1 to 2jti. the. Bellerophon, an old style, graceful ves- - -- =- rel that had seen service in the Crimea, and You must grow in the Iove of God by is known throughout the world as the means of the root rather than the branches. "Bally -Ruffian." In his six years' sojourn or hatlam given Jew; be ave no have that aping , and private either doubt would . In Id ap- ge of age of Ibri" rose," y the the who, 'tine, uph- Jews days. lens, s an asks d go oaks ws" 9 then its," of ious old : more with dus od." ints ce— rces me and the bes, the ied the- om th- bes the we to of ely his or, by on, ise he ve as on h - h, the gh of lie s: be or he of of d r- I- e e e ,f s n g s f a--�, .: -_ METEORIC HEAT An Aid in )!laking Up for the Sin's rj ary Expenditure - ' I pointed out that when a shooing star dashes into our atmosphere, its oe ie.se tended with an evolution of light and heli = - owing to its friction through the air. We " were thus able to account for the enormous quantity of heat, or what was equivalenttie _ heat, that existed in virtue of the rapid Moe- tion o tion of these little bodies - Of course, we see these meteors only at the supreme moment of their dissolution when they dash into our atmosphere, It is, however, impossible to doubt that there must be uncounted shoals of meteors that never collide with our earth. It must necessarily happen that Many of the other great globes in our system must, like our globe, absorb multitudes of meteors thatthey chance to encounter in their roam- ings. The number of meteors that will be gathered by a globe will be doubtiessgreat- er the larger and more massive be the globe, - and this for a double reason. In the first place, the dimensions of the net that the globe extends to entrap the meteors will, of course, increase with its size, but, in addition, the more vehement will be its attraction and the greater will be the number of the meteors that are drawn into its extensive atmosphere. Of course this reasoning will apply in a special degree to the sun. We shall prob. ably be correct in the assertion that for every meteor that descends upon this earth about 1,000,000 meteors will descend upon the sun. As these objects plough their way through the sun's atmosphere, light and heat will be, of course, evolved. It has been conjectured that the friction of the meteors that are incessantly rushing into the sun may produce light and heat in sufficient quantities to aid in the mainten- ance of the sun's ordinary expenditure. It has even been supposed that the quan- tity of energy thus generated may supply all that is wanted to explain the extraordin- ary circumstance that from age to age no visible decline has taken place in the intern sity of the solar radiation. Here again is a -question that we - must - submit to calculation. V6 a have first to de- termine the heat that could be generated by a body of, let us say, a pound in weight falling into the sun after being attracted thither from an indefinitely great distance. The result is not a little startling; it shows us that such a body, in the course of its friction through the sun's atmosphere, might generate as much heat as could be produced by the combustion of many times now its weight of coal consumed under the moat favorable conditions. Now Animals Bear Pain. One of the pathetic things connected with this kaleidoscopic nonsense people call life is the manner in which the animal king- dom endures suffering. Take horses, for in. stance, in battle, and, after the first shock of a wound, they make no sound. They bear the pain with a mute, wondering en- durance, and if at night you hear a wild groan from the battlefield, it comes from their loneliness, their loss of that human companionship which seems absolutely in- dispensable to the comfort of domesticated animals. The dog will carry a broken leg for days wistfully but uncomplainingly. The cat, stricken with club or stone or caught in some trap from which it gnaws its way to freedom, crawls to some secret place and bears in silence pain which we could not endure. Sheep and other cattle meet the thrust of the butcher's knife without a sound, and even common poultry endure intense agony without complaint. The dove, shot unto death, flies to some far-off bough, and as it dies the silence is unbroken save by the patter on the leaves of its own life blood. The wounded deer speeds to some thick brake. and in pitiful submission waits for death. The eagle, struck in midair, fights to the last against the fatal summons. There is no moan or sound of pain, and the defiant look never fades from its eyes until the lids close over them, never to uncover again. Here is an example of this splendid ens durance right before us, which proud man in vain tries to emulate. A mule haltered to a post awaiting treatment, one of las hind feet a suppurating sore, the frog fes- tering and running out. Its whole body droops and its eyes are strained and agon- izing. The veterinary surgeon standing by says that the lightest touch of that foot to the ground causes the most intense pain, and yet there is no sound, nothing but that patient endurance that astonishes and ap- pals. Bank -notes in Austria-Hungary are print- ed one side in German ,and the other in Magyar for the benefit of the Hungarians. -.�.� ,..<. � �.:,��•-�,�.:tet And with the name " Israelite" that of " Jew" the children of our race will ever proudly bear and cherish. They trace ita origin ,to the noble ancestor, and brave and distinguished tribe, whose name was per- petuated in the kingdom of Judah, loyal and true to its ancestral faith and tradi- tions. And when the autonomy of Israel as a nation was destroyed its fragments—though scattered broadcast over the earth—were still closely united by the strange spell of that ancient name JehudiorJew, by which, individually, we were and still are wont to call each other, and by which we are chief- ly recognized by the world. .- Esek's Baby. Esek wuz a n'athiest— Least Le useter say so, euz Somehow he could never see What the plan o'nater wuz. Useter say he'd prayed an' prayed ; Things went crosswise jest the same! ever hed no sorter show, NThet's before the baby came. - Useter say aour heaven's here, Lands o' love, I d hope it ain't! Also thet aour helI's on airth— 'Twuz enough ter try a saint. But ther'S nu thin' wuz too good For thet baby, an' 1 faound. - Jest by accident, ez 'twere, Esek sorter shiftin' raound. Made a diffunce, don't ye see? Sorter needed God ter pray to. S'pose ther's hell! Thet ain't no place Fer a babe ter go away to ! Got so thet we useter find him Tellin' baby Bible stories, Lookin' sort o' guilty though; Said he spoke in allegories. By an' by, when she got big, He jined the church fer an example Got ter be a pilfer, too; Useter kote him fer a sample! Sorter habit, I p'sume, But he sorter grew ter Iove it. Call him athiest naow? Wal, sir: Guess you'd hev ter fight ter prove it! The temple of Hom-mon=ji, at Inkegami, begun in 1282 and finished in 1308, in one of the most famous religions structures in Japan. A Philosopher Puzzled. The proprietor of a tan -yard in Ontarie determined to build a sort of stand or shop for the purpose of vending his leather, buy- ing cow hides, and the like. Having completed his building he began to consider what sort of a sign it would be best to put up for the purpose of attract- ing attention to his new establishment. After occupying some time in thinking on thesubject a happyideastruck him. He bor- ed an auger hole through the door -post and stuck a calf's tail into it, with the busby end flaunting out. Some time after he noticed a grave -look- ing personage standing near the door with his spectacles gazing intently on the sign. Andthere he continued to stand gazmgand gazing, until the curiosity of the tanner was greatly excited in turn. He stepped out and addressed the individual. " Good -morning," said he. " Morning," said the other, without mov- ing his eye from the sign. "Do you want to buy leather?" said the store keeper. .. No." " Do you wish to sell hides ?" " No." - " Are you a farmer ?" "No." - " Are you a merchant ?" 66 No." " Are you a lawyer ?" " No." a "Are you a doctor?" "No." " What are you, then ?" " I'm a philosopher. I've been standing ere for an hour trying to see I could as- ertain how that calf got throug4'that auger ole." h c b An Opal Worth a Million Dollars. The most famous opal of history was that hich was worn in a ring by Nonius, the oman Senator, in the days of the Trium- virate. In size it was scarcely larger than he average hazelnut, yet its beauty was uch as to render it the marvel of its time. he " money. -changers" and goldsmiths of me set its value down at $1,000,000. arc Antony made overtures for its pur- ase, intending, it is believed, to present to Cleopatra. Upon the death of Nonius story Imes all trace of its there Nein no cord of its transfer from WO to ant r4em: - r of his family. w R a T Ro M eh it hi re be •