The East Huron Gazette, 1892-06-09, Page 7T RET.
e mutest E 'edition
or the Lames.
Seventeenth Bengal
old reached Shanghai
eyed from Cashmere
Chinese 1+ ovince of
thou a rallel by
ter part of the jour-
evation of 15,000 feet
sea, and for a fort -
„000 feet above the
ich consisted of Capt.
nd nine East Indians,
the journey, eight
passed in the elevated
isited by Europeans.
as traversed by the
by Prince Henri of
valot, but no prev-
e same opportunities
etrated so far among
are exceeded in ele-
irs, so aptly called
from the northwest
April, 1891. They
h horses and luggage.
course straight across
ina near Tu-chien-tu,
mity of the province
nths were consumed
h was made in the
ps and considerable
se on the high pla-
e the sea level over
r fire months. Much
s experienced at the
Id the guards placed
he frontier of Thibet,
far to the north and
d table lands. For
travelled over these
only traces of any
ere an occasional pile
like an equilateral
the camping ground
The only vegetation
r. There was noth-
except the dung of
ins were alive with
horses, antelope,
d the leaders of the
The cold told severe -
and the horses, the
ty of the latter.
se great plains they
from a party of no -
to put them out of
ws were not strong
ek, but they hinted
by, so Capt. Bower
igi.t and soon put a
n himself and the
of Shassa they were
y of Thibetans, who
y had some in ten tion
ary of the great
d that they had no
ked to be allowed
were kept waiting
o the capital, eight
rn, and seemed the
is companion have
cimens of butterflies
the elevated plains,
animal Iife. When
edition is written it
e world's knowledge'
t.
ese rebel
ghai describes the
chiefs of the recent
he man was brought
nd after being ex -
by the Viceroy,
ecuted by the "slow
g to death (literally,
and pieces). The
a wooden cross, and
ed to cut slices from
ginning with the
utting off pieces of
legs, but carefully
of this punishment
ondemned to bribe
the victim a fatal
e in the- proceed -
at the rebel had no
that vicinity, and,
er was carefully
, who saw to it that
y, even if he was
sure went slowly on
until the wretched
t hideous spectacle,
eater part of the
alive.
charge ordered the
the criminal's head.
y conscious, for he
nt his head to re-
ughout the whole
ttered a groan or an
gli his compressed
not without effort
pparant stolidity.
ere present at the
the most cruel
ever witnessed.
ut Colors.
ercules Tyrius was
the sea shore, when
-, a species of shell -
master, the latter
s were tinged with
er Tyrian purple
or was used in the
nobles, and the ex-
urple" meant that
birth. It is strange
ite color of royalty
riosity or hunger of
.y the favorite color
Iters was blue, and
ay became the Whig
on of 1688. Green
Roman Catholics,
the orange of the
ate of the north of
elude all the primary
ite, which are used
:s. The Cardinals
we adopted scarlet
gas originally red.
cupation and rank
ade known by the
which they wore.
mong us for mourn -
;r white, the Turks
iopia brown is the
bas originally the
3uropean countries,
cepted now. Dif-
sntly been adopted
the colors of vari-
ated in their flags,
white and blue " of
O3SEHOLD.
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Drasses.
Sisters : 1 have been benefitted so much
by 3 our helpful talks, I think it is about
time fa- me to contribute my mite. I will
tell yon how I renovated an old dress. It
was made with a plain barque and trimmed
skirt, and after I had worn it for over a year
ss oue of my best dresses, it began to look
faded and show signs of wear. So Iripped
it apart and brushed it well, and turned it
wrong side out and made a skirt, plain in
front and the sides, and full back drapery.
The dress was green, and I added a black
V-shaped front, black collar and cuffs.
Then I had a dress which diad service' for
a term of school, and I thought it was sure-
ly ready for the rag -bag. But I procured a
package or two of dark brown dye, and
after ripping and washing it dyed it a dark
brown. Of course I could not use the black
trimming, so I got one and a half yards of
small striped goods, brown and gold stripe.
I put a strip several inches wide around the
skirt to make it lorg enough, as it has
shrunk in dyeing. The upper part of the
sleeves was of the stripped, as was the waist
front from the under -arm seam to within
about two inches of the middle of the front,
and extending from the belt to just above
the darts. The rest of the front was filled
in with pleats of the plain brown. After
adding a collar and belt of the striped ma-
terial, I had a dress which would do service
for another terra of school, and that, with
little trouble and expense.
I think there is no excuse for girls going
shabbily dressed, when with the assistance
of fashion plates, dye, and a little patience
and ingenuity, an old, faded dress can be
transformed into one which resembles and
does nearly as much service as a new one.
A dressmaker will cut a pattern which will
exactly fit you, for a small -amount. Every
girl should learn enough about dressmaking
to make her own clothes, at least the com-
mon everyday dresses. Then she can have
as mach more to spend for the naaeterial as it
costs to get them made, Old 1,tnings cn be
used, if washed and starched very -stiff and
carefully pressed. It -ds best to.face it np,.
on the wrong side for a few inches with
ducking or crinoline, so that the skirt will
hang smooth and straight. It is best-to.use
new waist lining. The waist will set better
than if old is used.
Girls, remember that a cheap dress neat-
ly and prettily made is prettier than expen-
sive material all botched up ; although good
material will pay best in the end, as it can
be made over several times.—[Nona H. in
the Housekeeper.
The Fashions,
The firs: summer weather calls attention
to the many graceful designs in outing
gowns now shown in the shops. The blaz-
er snit of jacket, shirt waist and straight
skirt promises to he more popular than ever
for the coming season. There are many
materials, from plain storm tweed to figured
white duck and serviceable cheviot. In
general utility this suit has never been ex-
celled. The new blazer jackets are decided-
ly different from those of Iast season and
upon the cut and chic of the
jacket the entire style of the suit
depends. The newest blazers for young
ladies are made with short fronts like an
Eton jacket and elongated postilions at the
back. Still another style consists of the
belted blouse, adapted to the blazer effect
by open fronts which disclose the shirt waist
beneath. A more popular style than either
has the jacket belted neatly at the back
and flowirit loosely in front. These jackets
are finished with simple rolling collars with-
out a notch.
While plain bine remains a fashionable
material for outing use, there are tweeds
introduced in a variety of colors, including
brown, white, bright red and black. There
are also soft cloths of pure indigo blue color
and twilled weave which are used by ladies
who object to the harsh texture of an Eng -
serge.
The new duck suitings promise to be es-
pecially popular for outings, as they may be
as easily laundried as an old-fashioned ging-
ham gown and can thus renew their fresh-
ness repeatedly. They are made with a
simple bell skirt united to a belt which is
pointed at the top and straight on the lower
side and is worn over the shirt waist of linen
batiste. A jacket of linen duck with flow-
ing fronts and belted or fitted back completes
the suit. This suit of jacket and skirt;
without the batiste waist, costs $15 in the
shops. The batiste waist costs $3 more.
These suits are especially pretty in white
batiste, sprigged with the tiniest figures in
black or color, or striped with fine hair line
stripes. They are worn with batiste linen
waists in red, navy blue and other shades,
seeded with fine white dots. Plain white
batiste waists are worn with snits of plain
white duck. For general wear with serge
and worsted outing dresses, a shirt waist of
changeable silk, either plain surah or surah-
seeded with white dots, is chosen. The
white and the colored silks, striped with
hair lints in flower colors, are also chosen
for shirt waists.
For misses and older schools girls, the
suspender suit made with a pointed bodice
and bell skirt, and worn • with a full
gnipure of bright colored silk is preferred
for serviceable wear. These suits are
generally made of bine serge. The bell
skirt is finished with a plain hem and only
the bias seam at the back. Itis fitted
around the flips at the belt with from five
to seven little gores, one directly in front
and two or three, as the case may be, on
either side. This suit costs in the shops,
without the silk guimpe, about $12. The
guimpe costs from $4 to $5 more. There
are a few•suits in the shops for tall grow-
ing girls, made with a Russian blouse
reaching about midway down the skirt.
The blazer suit, which is displayed for
girls from ten to sixteen, is quite similar to
the one worn by grown women,- but the
skirt is simply finished with a narrow roll,
where the belt should be, and this finish is
completely concealed beneath the • blouse
waist of white lawn which hangs over it.
The blouse fs made in sailor fat hion with a.
deep square collar at the back edged with
embroidery, and a box -pleat is the centre
of the front trimmed - on both sides with-
embroidery.
ithembroidery. A natty little jacket with
high sleeves, smartly omitted to the figure,
and $owing in front, monepletes the suit
when an extra -wrap is required.
Children's cambric dresses _are made in
simple styles which may be easily laundried.
A little more embroidery is used than last
season. 'Very frequently a full ruffle of the
dress material, about four inches deep fin-
ishes the neck of blouse dresses. Black vel-
vetsashes of ribbon about two inches wide
are used on small children's dresses, and
they often begin on the shoulder, go down
to the waist line, where they eross directly
in front and pass around to the back where
they are tied in a bow with ends. A pale.
blue and white ea nbne or rose and white
striped is very pretty finished in this way.
Chalks in rich colors, sprged witiillawers,
are still very popular foraiterrroon:sew and
for
any occasion when it- .more'-nlgliarate
dress•igre iredforaoiaiiI 'fphe aremsit e
Witte s onianx' one rdt i
each, full yoke waists, with tucked yokes of
the dress material and full English sleeves
falling low from the shoulder. _ f fat girdle,
of the dress material, pointed at the front
and simply crossed at the back, conceals the
line where skirt joins the waist.
The new parasols for serviceable use in
the street and for travelling are gay little
affairs of changeable silk, mounted on the
lightest frames and either unlined or lined
under the ribs. The handles are of natural
wood. A silver 'handle is no longer consid-
ered good form as it has been vulgarized by
cheap immitation. A very pretty and use-
ful parasol may be purchased as low as $2.
For promenade and carriage use and for
watering placesthereare many parasols of
soft white chiffon, puffed on the frames and
lined under the ribs with white silk so as to
give them substance enough to besunshades.
These are trimmed with whitelaces or with
ruffles of chiffon, and mounted. on sticks of
natural wood. There are also parasols of
black chiffon. Some of the prettiest of these
parasols in white or black are spangled.
TWO WARS ON FRANCE'S HANDS.
eantory and Behanzin are Giving Her a
Handful of African Trouble.
The French have two little wars on their
hands in West Africa. We have heard re-
cently of the purpose of the King of Dahomey
to force the French again into hostili-
ties. The French have accepted the chal-
lenge, but it is not likely that we shall hear
of hard fighting for some time yet, as this
is the rainy season along that coast and the
time is not auspicious for military move-
ments. A month or two from now we may
hear of some very lively doings in Dahomey
and King Behanzin is likely to learn a les-
son he will never forget.
The other war is now going on further
northwest. The French are making a great
effort to dispose finally of the Sultan Sam-
ory, their enemy in the upper Niger region.
Samar/ has been fighting the French a good
deal of the -time since 1882.: A `few weeks
ago The Sun reported that the French had
driven him from his capital, Bissaiidagu,
and they thought then that Samory eves
nearing the end of his rope. But he does
not relinquish the game so easily, and the
French career of success has not been un-
broken.
Since he lost his capital Samory has been
in the hill country south of his former strong-
hold. The French sent a force after him
to insure his defeat, bathe has lately scored
at least one little victory over hie pursuers,
and he too few French prisoners. It is
hoped that he has not such faith in his ulti-
mate success as will lead him to treat his
prisoners with the terrible cruelty to which
he is said often to have subjected other pris-
oners of war. Gen. Faidherbe, who fought
Samory for years in the western Soudan,
describes him as a monster of cruelty. Faid-
herbe says he owed the rapidity of his con-
quests to the terror produced by his prac-
ticed6f burning his prisoners of war by the
hundred in fiery trenches filled with blazing
wood and oil. We have not had Samory's
side of this story.
One reason why he is now able to offe
formidable resistance to the French is be-
cause he has quite a quantity of repeating
rifles in his array. The French say he has
2,000 repeating rifles, an they blame the
English for permitting him to purchase
these improved weapons through agents in
British territory on the coast.
It is probable that the French will not
put an end to their troubles with Samory
until they succeed in killing him. Nearly
all the troope Senegal can muster are needed
in the war with this prophet of the western
Soudan, and so France is likely to have
her hands very full when King 1 ehanzin of
Dahomey assumes the offensive, as he is cer-
tain to do as soon as the weather permits.
In the end, however, it is quite certain
that Samory will be defeated and his coun-
try turned into a French protectorate.
SIB EUAN SMITH'S MISSION.
On His Way to see morocco's Sultan, and
the French don't Like it.
Sir Euan Smith, the British Minister to
Morocco, has started from Tangier on his
mission to the Sultan at Fez. A large num-
ber of officials and natives turned out to bid
him farewell as he left Tangier, but all the
members of the French Legation were con-
spicuous by their absence. The purpose
of Sir Euan Smith's visit to the capital has
not been definitely announced, except that
the Minister has said that the mission is un-
dertaken in the cause of British interests,
that Great Britain has no intention of ac-
quiring an acre of Muley Hassan's territory,
and that the only desire of England is that
the Sultan should govern his people more
justly and permit the country to be develop-
ed to its full extent.
The fact that some foreign legations, in
one way or another,_ manifested their dis-
approval of Sir Euan Smith's mission is an•
other illustration of the jealously with
which the representatives in Morocco of
the European powers regard each other's
actions. They are always eager to declare
their anxiety to preserve the independence
of Muley Hassan, but if one of them under-
takes a diplomatic mission to Fez or Mara-
kesh, men-of-war are likely to steam into
the harbour of Tangier to be ready for any
emergency. The result is that when one power
gains the ear of the Sultan the other powers
see to it that some obstacle is thrown in the
way of any action his Highness .may be in-
clined to take, aril as the easy-going poten- a
tate is only too glad of an excuse to keep a
clear.of the infidel, the result is that his
mines are at this moment unopened, his t
country is without roads, and Tangier is s
badly supplied with water.
A while ago the Sultan engaged an Eng- :e
lish officer to drill his troops. Thereupon
the French Government insisted upon a c
useless, but very expensive, . military coin -
mission, composed of French officers, being
attached to the Sultan's army. Then the
Spaniards and Italians came in with more
officials to burden the Moorish Treasury, c
and it is expected that before long Germany c,
will demand that her representatives shall S
also be attached to the Sultan's military.
service. All these officials are really en= o
cumbrances, and their occupation is to act
the. part of spies on each other's actions ;
and the world looks :on at the:interesting r
spectacle of everybody playing dog in tlie 0
manger. s
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Neer York, Paris, and Berlin all togeth-
er have not so large an area as London.
Wax came into use for candles in the
twelfth century, and wax candles were es-
teemed a luxury in 1300, being but little
used. y.
During the present year manof the pa-
triotic women of Poland wear mourning
to commemorate the centenary of the loss
of Poland's independence as a nation.
ENGLAND'S PREMIER.
1n Interestin» Commentaryon his•lieceni
IIistr Speedy. .x
EY GEORGE W. SMALLEY.
Lord Salisbury's Ulster speech may
measured by the violence with which he
attacked, and not by that only. The Glad
stonian orators . and organs are .becomin
daily more extreme in their language on th
whole Irish question. Let us take. He
bert Gladstone as a specimen. Herbert i
important because he is the son of his lath
er; possibly also'iecause he sits for a divi
ion of so great a town as Leeds, and mus
be supposed to represent in some degree th
opinions of his constituents. He is, how
ever, listened to and read chiefly because h
is supposed` to reflect in some degree hi
father's sentiments. He is thirty -sigh
years of age ; young, amiable, intelligent
a steam engine from which the builde
omitted the balance -wheel. He spoke a
Hackney on Monday. He described Lor
Salisbury's speech as one of wanton folly
" If Ulster should rebel, we," father and I
"shall be prepared to take the usual course
That is ambiguous. Does he mean the Ma
juba Hill course, the Khartoum course
He sneers at Ulster as a minority an
asks " Why not make friends wit
the larger crowd ?" A cynical phrase t
come from juvenile lips. "There are 3,
000,000 Nationalists, only a million anti
half anti -Nationalists." Why consider
mere million and a half, or why not, rotor
Salisbury's phrase, sell them into slavery
If you think this rather random talk wha
do you say to the following? " The coup
try mus ,ee. If they decide agains
Horne Rule, I as a humble member of th
Liberal party shall say I have done what
can to promote the cause of Home Rule fo
Ireland ; I have failed and the constitutiona
argument Dias failed ; Ireland is throw.
back upon •_ itself, and we must. tell en
friends that Ireland mu�¢t rely on her own
resources, whatever,they maybe, in orde
to wring Home 'Rule"' out of , England
"Herown resources,whatevertheymay be;'
sdyneems amitto° . 'd
mean 11 _war;_ -or .perehance
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Another reply to Lerd Salisbury . comes
from Sir Vernon Harcourt, in whom mature
age has not blunted -a taste for political
indiscretions: There is, says Sir William,
one single watchword in Lord Salisbury's
speech --"Let Ulster rebel." If you avoid
quotations, it is easy to make your oppon-
ent, say what you wish he had said. We
all know how Sir William Harcourt lays on
the colors. He paints a future of misery
for Ireland, of disgrace for England. He
describes the speech as an appeal to relig-
ious bigotry. It is the language and policy
" which have made British rule naturally
odious and justly offensive to the great
majority of the Irish people." The Prime
Minister is " an artist in sedition" ; the
ladies of the Primrose League are no better
than the harlots who, one hundred years
ago, stormed Versailles, . or they w:ro " in
our own time watered the Tuileries with
petroleum." He describes the ascendency
which Protestant Ulster has won by intel-
ligence, energy, thrift, high principle, as
the "tyrannical domination of a bigoted
and insolent majority, which has been the
main cause of all the evils of Ireland." It
is odd to hear that Ulster is a majority, but
that was a slip due to excitement. The
whole of his speech is a reply, not to the
speech Lord Salisbury delivered, but to Sir
William Harcour•t'stravesty_of that speech.
It is one way of answering an adversary t3
put words into his mouth, or to construct
an adversary MI' the purpose of being bowl-
ed over.
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Lard Rosebery's reply to Lord Salisbury
attracts perhaps more attention than Sir
William Harcourt's for various reasons.
Sir William Harcourt is a probable leader
of the Gladstcnian party in the House of
Commons ; Lord Rosebery is likely enough
to lead the party some day, not in the
House of Commons, since the House of
Lords may not be abolished just yet, but in
the country. Sir William Harcourt's con-
victions are not supposed to be very stable.
Lord Rosebery is thought to be nearer the
throne—I mean the party throne—and to
reflect more accurately than the Squire of
Malwood the mood of his revered leader.
He has mixed up socialism and Lord Salis-
bury in the most approved style of the most
adroit ot the darlings of democracy. He
has no censure for Socialism and nothing
but censure for Lord Salisbury, He de-
clares he cannot find wards with which to
stigmatize the Prime Minister's Ulster
speech. This is too modest. He does find
many. There has been in Lord Rose aery's
lifetime—he is forty-five years of age--" no
darker and no more sinister contribution to
the history of Ireland than this speech of
Lord Salisbury's." He strains his memory to
find in the history of the last two centuries
any speech of any Prime Minister compar-
able to it in danger, in recklessness, and
cannot. It is the language of despair ; it is
a dark and desperate appeal : it is the toc-
sin, or he means it to.be, which calls the
Nation to civil war. You see how much in-
justice Lord Rosebery did to his own vocab-
ulary when he said he could find uo words ;
he found all these and more. He found, in-
deed, too many. He accuses Lord Salisbury
of " trying to stir up old race hatreds, and
of " calling upon the men of Ulster to
spread the flames of civil war rather than
allow any act of Home Rule to be tried."
It would be cruel to ask Lord Rosebery to
cite the passage on which he relies in sup-
port of that charge. Let us take it rather
s his appreciation of the whole speech ; as
n account of the impression left on his own
mind. Even sc criticism based on apprecia-
ions and impress'one and not on facts may
eem rash. Prophecy also is rash, and it is
urely rash to say that" the Irish question,
xcept in details, is as much settled as
Magna Charta." The illustration is not a
heering one. Magna Charta itself had to
be ratified, and ratified many times by
many successive Kings.
All this, which in quieter times might
pass for the language of irritation and ex -
dement, is as nothing to the rhetorical
ymnsetics cf the Gladstonian organ. Lord
alisbury, if you credit "The Daily News,"
has not been ashamed to preach the gospel
f anarchy, to sneer at respect for law, to
proclaim that "if an act is passed of which
any seetion in the. community:: disapproves,
ebellion becomes legitimate and submission
ontemptible." This was said, if at all, in
trict confidence to the editor of the organ.
o other papernas'the news, nor has any
paper suggested that Lord Salisbury
ought to—he hanged. I suppose the truth is
ttat the Gladstd pians see that Lord Salis-
pry's speech has altered the condition's of
the Heme Rule contest: He has not,
'Sir William Harcourt says, cried to
Ulster to rebel, nor, as Lord Rose
ry says, sounded tbe tocsin of civil war.
It is impossible that a Prime Minister should
o anything of the kind, and it is impossi
ole to guote from Lord Salisbury's speech
y passage which justifies either charge.
hat he has done is to recognize
the probability that Ulster will refuse
to obey:a Dublin Parliament and to aft the
people -of this country to consider whether : g
has is
the Izn erial.Parliament anymoral
p
right to hand them over to their enemies d
After the locomotive department of the
Argentine Great Western Railway,had
mastered the gnestion.of ming petroleum as
fuel and most excellent results had been
gave
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tnthe borings not . going deep enough, and
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LATE BRITISH NEWS.
It a curious but certain fact that last
winter's, scourge of influenza in England
was almost confined to well-to-do people.
The jockey who won in the largest field
ever known to the English turf, Goater, has
jest died. He rode Joe Miller in the Ches-
ter Cup in 1852, when forty-three horses
faced the starter.
Rabies have broken out among the splen-
did pack of coursing dogs belonging to Mr.
Thomas Dickson, in the North of Ireland.
Forty-five greyhounds are now suffering
from the malady, and Dolly Dillon and
Daily Duff have had to be destroyed.
Patrick Roche was committed for trial on
Wednesday on a charge of murdering a man
named James Morrisey. It was alleged that
during a melee a few days ago Roche hurled
a stone at Morrisey with such force as to
fracture his ribs, -inflicting injuries which
terminated in death.
At Cardiff, on Wednesday, Robert Shorm-
ston, master of the British steamer Avalon,
was fined £100 and costs for overloading
his vessel so as to submerge the winter load
line by four inches. The Magistrate said
this was the ninth or tenth case of the kind
during the period of two months, hence the
imposition of the maximum penalty.
An inquest was held at Manchester on
Monday onthe body of James Henry Sharp,
aged 42, who fell unconscious while umpir-
ing in a cricket match at Newton Heath on
Saturday, and died almost as soon as he had
been carried to the pavilion. The deceased
had just called " Over " when he fell. The
jury found a verdict, " Death from natural
causes.
At the Hyde Park meeting of domestic
servants, male, and female, convened by the
London Domestic Servants' Union, the Sec-
retary gave the estimate that there were
10,009 domestic servants walking about- the
streets unemployed. The last census re-
turns showed -73,000 coachmen and grooms,
5uCi,000fmale-clomeetio.serFants ijidoors, -and_
1,230,000 female ..domestic servants, or
1,359,000 in all.
A Cardiff correspondent telegraphs that
during the dense fog in the British Channel
on Friday night a disastrous collision took
place between the Cardiff steamer Earl of
Chester, coal laden, and theSpanishsteamer
Soto, from Hamburg for Cardiff. The Earl
of Chester sank in seven minutes, but the
crew got out their boats, and were picked
up by the Soto, and subsequently landed at
Penarth.
A young English lady named Elizabeth
Davies, who resided at the Villa Dulong de
Rosnay, Cannes, has met with her death
under very distressing circumstances. It
appears that she had entered a roan with a
lighted candle, and had just closed the door
behind her, when she accidentally dropped
the candle on her dress, which was soon
ablaze. When assistance arrived, the un-
fortunate lady was just conscious enough to
' utter a few words of farewell to her mother
and her betrothed, and soon afterwards ex-
p.red.
A N ewtown, Montgomeryshire, correspon-
dent telegraphs that an extraordinary scene
occurred there on Tuesday night during a
performance at Sedgewick's menagerie.
Lorenzo, a keeper, was putting the lions
through their tricks, when two of them
escaped among the crowded audience. The
people were terror-stricken, and quite a
panic prevailed, but fort'�nately no one was
injured, and the audience left as quickly as
they were able. '1 he lions were not got
back into their cages until eight hours had
elat.sed.
Russia has again been checkmated in
Persia by England. The London Times
says that Persia has refused Russia's prof-
fered loan of £5'J0,000 to pay the indem-
nity to the Imperial Tobacco Corporation,
and that instead of accepting financial aid
from Russia, Persia has decided to raise in
London a loan to pay the compensation
claims. The Times says that the now sat-
isfactory end ot the negotiations for a new
loan frees the Shah from an einbarrasing
financial situation -without exposing hire to
grave political dangers. It also free Brit-
ish trade in Persia from the effects of a
customs tariff that would have been adjust-
ed, under Russian influence, in the exclu-
sive interests of Russian traders, while at
the same time it frees British diplomacy
from the discredit of being outwitted by
her rival in Asia.
From the Beethoven centenary in Vienna
comes the account of the composer's terri-
bly rough treatment of his copyists. The
only copyist with whom Beethoven was
ever 'Satisfied died young. All after this
one drove the composer nearly crazy.
Either the notes were not clear or the words
of direction were not written correctly un-
der them. In one letter he writes : "I
spent the whole morning correcting two
short pieces and I am hoarse with swearing
and stamping my feet." A Bohemian who
undertook to improve the Grand Mass got
such a tongue lashing that he sent the next
work back with the message : " My only
comfort in all this is that Mozart and Haydn,
were they your copyist, would be treated
just the same at your hands." In reply to
this Beethoven wrote : " With a scoundrel
of this sort, who robs one of one's money,
one is likely to exchange compliments in-
stead of pulling his pair of donkey's earl.
Scribbler, stupid, just you correct the mis-
takes you have made through your arro-
gance, carelessness, and stupidity instead of
teaching me how to compose."
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Thimbles made of lava are extensively
sed in Naples.
A century and a half ago wig -wearing
was at its height, and little boys four or five
ears of age submitted to having their heads
haven preparatory to donning their false
ead-dresses.
Moat people believe that there is no
nown chemical that has any effect upon
articles of gold. This is a mistake. Le-
lenic_. acid will dissolve it as readily as
uafaortis does the baser metals.
Cheese making in Canada has enormously
mproved within recent years as a result of
the method of instruction which has been
romoted by the Government in sending
ompetent instructors among the cheese-
akers.
Lighthouses are classified by orders de -
ending on the height and diameter of the
ghting apparatus. There are four orders.
he first three are used for sea or coast
ghts and the fourth for harbor purposes.
In a full return of the vintage in Spain
last year, the total yield,was 540,000,000
gallons, and it is described as good in ten
rovinces, fairly good in thirty-four and
d in five.
The Registrar -General of England states
that during 1890—the returns are issued
vhen they are a year old—no fewer than
,554 infants lost their lives by suf-
focation in bed. The proportion on Satur-
ay.night is twice as high as on any other
the week, andthe•nat r f
of a online
ni ht rents
that intemperance of parents on the last
ay of the week is the cause
and subject a Protestant community to the
rule of Roman Catholic priests. Yo doubt
there is a suggestion of what we used in
America to call the higher law. Lord
Salisbury may be right or -wrong in his es-
timate of the situation, but as a statesman
he is bound to take account of facts. He
puts them before the English people. He
tells them—it was his duty to tell them—
that the attempt to set up a Dublin Par-
liament is likely to lead to civil war in
Ireland. That is a probe bility they must
considerhaldeciding to vote for or against
Home Rule. It has never before been- put
so plainly or with sack authority. It has
produced, I think, a great impression. It
may turn many votes; it may alter the polit-'
icat future of this kingdom; it may keep
Gladstone out of office. The possibility of
this last catastrophe angers the Gladston-
ians, and they express their anger freely. I
imagine some of theta would, if they wer
frank, be inclined th date the doom of
Home Rule from Lord Salisbury's speech
at Covent Garden.
PERSONAL.
Madame Patti has " sold her voice," that
is, for a consideration she has promised to
permit her throat to be examined atter her
death, to see if the construction of it in any
way accounts for her marvellous gift of
song. The probability is that the secret
lies more in the braiu than in the vocal
mechanism.
The marriage of Count Herbert Bismarck
to the Countess Hoyos is likely to be one of
the most brilliant events of the Vienna sea-
son. The wedding will be attended by a
great gathering of the leading nobility of
Austria and Hungary, among whom the
family of Hoyos stands very high. Th -
Countess Margaret is 21, and is one of seven
children, the eldest of whom, Countess Leo-
poldine, married Baron Ludwig von Plessen,
of the German .diplomatic service. Count
Herbert Bismarck was an intimate friend of
Baron Plessen, who invited him two months
ago to pay him a visit at Flume. During a
fortnight's stay witieCount Hoyos he made
hisfiancee's acquaintance.
The German Emperor's Imperial train,
which has just been completed, has cost
£150,000, and it has taken three years to con-
struct. There are twelve carriages, all con-
nected together by corridors. The library
saloon is hung with Gobelins tapestry from
the Palace of'Eharlottenburg, and the din-
ing saloon is furnished and panelled with
oak, while there is a drawing room furnish -
en entirely in white satin, and two nursery
carriages, a reception saloon, which contains
several pieces of statuary, a luxuriously -
fitted smoking room, and three sleeping
saloons, each of which is fitted with a bath.
There is a large kitchen, and accommodation
for the suite and the servants.
At a -meeting of the Japan Society in
London Mr. Shidshi, a graduate of the*Un-
iversity of Tokio, read a paper on " Ju-
jitsu," the ancient art of self-defence by
" sleight of body." It differs from wrest-
ling in yielding to strength instead of op-
posing it. It has been cultivated in Japan
by a hundred different schools, the oldest of
which is the Takenouchi-Rin, founded by
Takenouchi Hisamori in 1532. Ju-jitsu is
the chief daily amusement of the boys of
Tokio. The priests there, too, are all oblig-
ed to cultivate this system of physical cul-
ture. ' It is prescribed in the Naval Acad-
emy and in the higher academies and the
Imperial University. The method for gain-
ing a victory over an antagonist is describ-
ed as " drawing the body by the hands,
waist, or feet," " straight self -throwing"
and "side self -throwing" by "holding the
body, or part of tbe body, or by striking a
vital part of the body." Ju-jitsu is strongly
commended for moral and mental training,
People don't drink so much in Germany
as they used to, says Bismarck. When a
visitor lately refused a glass of whiskey of-
fered -by the Prince the latter said : " I
think drinking is dying out more and
and mere here. I only hope we shall not
become like the English, who drink only
water and tea." Then he made the follow-
ing statement : " We northern people re-
quire a wetting. The Hungarians, the
Spaniards, and the others down there come
into the world half seas over, but if the Ger-
man is to become thoroughly conscious of
his strength he must first have swallowed
half a bottle of wine—or, rather, a whole
one. I don't like liqueurs and such sweet
stuff, but at the late Empress Augusta's
there;was nothing else. A good glass of
cognac that's more in my line. Among the
non-commissioned officers in my time there
were some smart fellows—especially one, a
bong artilleryman. I can see him now. If
he stepped up to me and I winked with the
right eye and he winked vzith the left one,
then I knew quite well that on that aide
there was a good glass of cognac."
The Czar of Russia is reported to have
been plunged into the deepest affliction by
the sudden death of his valet and confiden-
tial servant, Dimitri Varkoff, who had never
been absent from him for a single day dur-
ing a period of more than thirty years.
Varkoff always slept in the room next the
Emperor's, and within the last ten years he
three times saved his Majesty from assassina-
tion ; but these attempts on the Emperor's
life were hushed up, and the exact details
have remained a secret. Varkoff trained
the ferocious mastiffs which always guard
the Czar wherever he is, and when the Em-
peror was travelling or when there was
reason to fear treachery in the Imperial
kitchen, Varkoff cooked all his master's
food. He was a man of dauntless courage
and a Hercules in physique.
Gold Discoveries in Burmah.
A Times Rangoon telegram says :—Dr.
Griesbach, of the Geological Survey of India,
who has returned to Rangoon from a tour
of exploration to the north of Bhamo, re-
ports that near Myitkina, in a district
absolutely uninhabited, he has discovered
most remarkable alluvial gold deposits,
stretching for a great distance up the course
of streams, and no less than 15 miles in
width. A ton of alluvial deposit produced
25 grains` of gold. Lead has also been found
in abundance.
Some large blasts of rock have been made
to provide material for the new . harbor of
refuge at Brest, as much as 100,000 cubic
yards being thrown out at one time.
Costa Rica is about to have a law making
the sale of Indian antiquities to foreigners a
crime punishable with severe penalties.
It has been ascertained that food cost
$243.65 per year for each family in the
United States, while in Europe the cost is
$222.52.
The Government of the Tyrol has passed
a bill imposing a heavy fine upon any person
caught selling Edelweiss.
Since the Franco-Prussian war Germany
has spent $2,200,000,000 on her army and
navy.
In the Samaritan Hospital at Belfast, Ire-
land,has beengiven
chloroform gi en in over
3,000 cases of operations, without a single
fatalresult..
HEAL
Hints on the Care of the Sick.
The comfort and prospect of recovery o
the sick is dependent in a great meas
upon their surroundings and treatmen
For the well-to-do invalid, the presence
trained attendants is a great advantage; but
the majority of sick persons must look to
member of.the family or a kind friend fo
the ministration of necessaty things. Rare
ly do we find, however the person who is-to
the nurse -manner born, and when we do
the convalescence of a sick one may be pre
dieted with confidence. For the treatmen
of -invalids generally, `then, the following
advice will find application, and it is valu-
able enough to be posted up for reference_
on occasion
In the first place, the most cheerful
room in the house should be` that o
the sick. A change from a gloomy,
dark apartment to one where there is
warmth and brightness is better in its
effects oftentimes than medicine. The
sun should come in at the windows, and
there should be blinds and shutters also,
whereby too glaring beams may be temper-
ed, or, if necessary, shut out altogether.
But the sun should still be allowed to shine
upon the outer casements, for the thought
of his golden beams is cheering to a sufferer.
A dull room, where the sunlight can never
penetrate, is depressing to even a well
person. Invalids are even a bit childish,
and a new object now and then does infinite
good. Change the objects in the room as
you have the chance, and do not be afraid
to allow the patient rosebuds, if no other
flowers.
Never begin to change the clothes of the
sick until ydu are sure that you have every-
thing requisite in readiness. The garments
of weak bed -lying patients should be chang-
ed twice a week at least, and in many cases
oftener than that. Observe carefully before
beginning to change a patient's clothing that
no draughts can touch the bed. Let all the
hnen be properly aired and warmed before-
hand—too much caution in this' case Cannot
be observed. In changing the clothing do
not move nor uncover the patient more than
is absolutely necessary.
Begin by removing all sleeves from one
arm, then, without moving the patient, put
on all that is to go on this arm. Now raise
the head and shoulders, removing the soiled
and adjusting the clean linen well down
under the shoulders. The patient may now
lie down again and the other arm be dress-
ed. After this the hips can be slightly
raised, the soiled clothing removed and the
clean garments arranged. Never let a very
feeble patient help too much ; as such action
is very exhausting ; on the other hand, see
that they do such things as they can and
ought to do themselves. After the change
in linen has been made, enforce strict quiet
for a time ; then interest them with some
pleasant bit of news,, some rumor that will
cheer ; never bring ill -tidings to a bedside.
In giving to any one who is sick a d rink
of water, when the draught should be limit-
ed, hand the patient a small glassful. This,
be it ever so small a quantity, does not fail
to satisfy thirst. It is much better to limit
the draught than to present a thirsty per-
son a large goblet of water and direct that
only " so many swallows " must be taken.
The patient will not be so well satisfied as
if he could drink all that was offered.
Never keep anything eatable in the sick-
room. This is one of the greatest mistakes
made by nurses. The sight of fruit always
before the invalid robs it of its novelty, and
the capricious appetite refuses to enjoy it ;
besides, the impure atmosphere of any sick-
room renders the fruit kept therein unfit
or use, as it is more or less an absorbent.
If yon would have it eaten, remove it and
etch it to the patient in different shape
and dishes.
Keep company out of the sick -room.
More harm has been done by such maI-
treatment than has resulted from wrong
medicines given by experimenting physis
cians. Let quiet reign—not the suppressed
buiet so fear -inspiring, with bated breath
and stealthy footfall, but a cheerful quiet
that is full of tranquility. When address-
ing an invalid do not lower your voice to an
affected whisper, or put on a solemn conn-
tenance. The more nearly an invalid is
treated as though he were in health, the
sooner will he reach that condition. Speak
to the ailing in a gentle, cheerful, usual
voice; converse briefly upon every -day topics,
as if he were an interested member of society
still. Keep his thoughts from dwelling upon
himself as much as possible, yet do not
weary him with too much chatter. A bright
smile is better than a loud laugh in a sick-
room—but the laugh is infinitely to be pre-
ferred to the lachrymose symyathy shown
by tactless, if not useless, friends of the
afflicted. These few admonitions show
the necessity of intelligent, thoughtful care
in the room of the very sick—care that can
scarcely be found outside of disciplined ex-
perience.
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Outrages by Chinese Soldiers.
Advices from Shanghai describe many
ruthless acts of barbarism committed by the
rebels during the recent warfare. Innocent
villagers were mowed down by a diabolical
and unnecessary fusilade, and the estimate
made by the officer of the Imperial troops of
the lives thus sacrificed places the number at
three thousand. On the other hand it is
said that many of the Imperial soldiers as
the troops passed along on their way back
to Tientsin were loaded with booty, many
valuable silk garments being carried under
their blouses, while their arms were covered
with valuable bracelets. A number of boys
and girls whose parents had been killed were
taken along as part of the plunder. Thtt
testimony of many villagers is to the effect
that the Imperial troops were much more
wanton and cruel in their treatment of the
peasantry than the rebels.
Forty-nine per cent. of the days in Lon-
don are wet ones.
Actors were so much admired by the late
Dr. Morell Mackenzie that he never charg-
ed them for medical advice.
A grain of fine sand would cover one hun-
dred of the minute scales of the human
skin, and yet each of these scales in turn
covers from 300 to 500 pores.
In one of the great Paris hospitals, out
of eighty-three patients who suffered from
epilepsy, sixty were found to be the chil-
dren of drunken parents.
The first railway in India to be built and
controlled entirely by natives has been sanc-
tioned by the Indian Government. The
line will be about' 30 miles long, in the
Hooghly district.
The telephone in Japan is said to be grow-
ing in popularity. At Tokio there is a gen-
eral familiarity with the instrument and
its uses, and even in out -of -the way districts
it is not unknown.
Formerly the greater part of Irish butter
was packed into firkins, but the farmers
are now turning their attention to making
butter suitable for preserving in tins.
The Russian Tolstois have now in opera-
tion twenty-two relief kitchens,. which are
located in fifteen different vilhays aatd feed.
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