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he replied that by
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reply that they will
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i of the question.
answers ie obvious.
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t, but it is not the
;he energy. Trains
:y, but all that the
convey the energy
is generated to the
3.
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with which e horse
anal. There is much
dri saying: " Money
an in the optimistic
spoken of with re -
man for dealing
7 large part of the
alization is merely -
Teased capability of
ire we doing every
ppliances to exhaust
idity the hoard of
certain number of
e earth, and when
! be no mere forth-
lanufacture of coal
:nt time. The use-
luct of a very sin-
h's history, the like
n occurred in any
the geological ages
ieir course.
methods of spend -
hat we often hear
" in human progress
ient of some fresh
,extravagance, We
an as guilty of ex-
'astefully if he could
ithout a coach and
riders, and yet we
'.amers which take
ellen be run at a
gines, let us eay, of
sengers on such a
0, we have for each
ce of twenty-four
, throughout the
nts will think that
n emptied in a very
larly when they re -
en content with a
han at present den
onsumption of coat
a in a far greater
nere alteration of
Departs This Life,
k, cat.
h says :—A case of
pened here shortly
'ng. Fred Horning
bert Horning, took
on Dundas street,
fello N' was on the
'clock. He return-
inutes became vie-
s sent for, but on
ing for him, and he
rters of an hour.
pund him in painful
in his opinion, by
vas verified when,
iefound immediate-
& paper labelled
deemed an inquest
lag it a case of sui-
victim of this rash
ife of idleness for
ose who know his
news quite calmly.
sions figured in the
yesterday morning
to pay livery hire.
ned to take his life
is father is a black-
oundry.
tildren-
at such a child as
!re. The majcrity
ponplace material.
per how to get 011
dstone. Very few
rate—would, even
f age, be quite so
waiter as to allow
without uttering a
rery doubtful, too,
have been quite
Emily and have
it in Mr. Pegotty's
sea at Yarinouth.
David is real and
tent with himself,
more than can be
ie.cters—Ham Peg -
we are first intro -
more than a half
but becomes before
really mangificent
p mind many other
writings of Dick -
ter has given as to
!, none of his chil-
h those of certain
aVitY.
ow the difference
rine brother's cake
lu do"
6 oity.
pia have a nice time
ran on th' walks,
ceman, an' dodged
es at the keep-oll-
ything."
nt.
giri)—" Why, the
ien ia Nue. What
een trying to get
burnt my fingers.'
Keep Her.
pi the news? Yes-
,lawson jumped into
d eloped with the
setber done aboutt
td 'Send back .
rtiAtsivea.'n
TIE ALUMEN MAN
Perm Now Living in the
EockylifoUntains.
0..:4afulng Immortality—How
• He Carriedlt Ont.
A correapondent writes that he knows a
man living in a certain region of the Rocky
Mountains who merely wished to live to be
500 years old at least and enjoy himself with
utter immunity from physical decay for that
period, and who attained the corporal con-
dition necessary for the fulfilment of his de-
sire by exchanging the gaseous part of his
oreanisin for aluminium. On the occasion
of -the correspondent's first meeting him he
explained his materialistic views of life and
nis other ideas at great -length, and then
spoke ef the remarkable project which he
eventually carried out.
I asked him, writes the correspondent,
how he proposed to defeat the laws of na-
ture? No man in history had compassed
such an age, except those recorded in the
Old Testament.
"That," said he, "is precisely what con-
firms tie in my belief. If Methuselah com-
passed nearly one thousand years why
should not I reach half that span? The trou-
ble is that some element in the human make-
up is wanting. I propose to find it, and
with an electric battery which I propose to
invent I wK1 force out the ephemeral and
weakening elements and introdece a more
subs tantiaml one."
"This is sheer nonsense," I replied.
"The elements composing the human body
are so aptly and evenly adjusted that to dis-
turb any one of them would result in death,
so !hat you will only succeed in shortening
the liSe that God has given you."
At this point in the conversation he
paused for an instant, not from any lack ot
argument but in order that he might scan
me More closely, I was no less interested
in observing him. He was a man about
thirty-six years of age and I will never
forget while life lasts the picture he re-
sented while he stood there, his fine form
outlined against the sky, his dark -blue
eyes lighted up with interest and deep
thought, his hands clasped as if he would
wring out the secret he so longed to possess.
Suddenly he was roused from his con-
templative mood, and with great delibera-
tion took a paper package from the inside
pocket of his coat. Selecting a slip from
the bundle he handed it to me with a request
that I would read it.
I found the slip to read as follows:
witAT A MAN IS MADE OF.
Man is composed of thirteen elements, of
which are five gases and eight solids: If
we coesider the chemical composition of a
man of average weight, of 154 pounds, we
find that he is largely composed of oxygen,
which is in a state of extreme compression ;
in fact, a man weighing 154 pounce has 97
pounSet of compressed oxygen in his make-
up. The volume of this at an ordinary tem-
perature, if freed, would Exceed 980 cubic
feet. The weight of the hydrogen is only
fifteen pounds, but were this in a free
state, at a temperature of seventy-eight de-
grees, it would occupy a space equal to
2,800 cubic feet. The other three gases
are nitrogen, nearly four pounds; chlorine,
about twenty-six ounces; and fluorine,
three and one -twelfth ounces. Of the
solidi: carbon stands at the head of the metal-
loids, there being about thirty-one pounds.
Next comes phosphorus, twenty-six ounces,
and sulphur three ounces. The most abun-
dant metal is calcium, more than three
pounds; next, potassium, two ounces; and
iron, one ounce. Of common salt there are
two ounces.
I read the document through and saw
that it contained a chemical analysis of a
man's body.
"Now do you understand ?" said he.
I failed to catch the drift of his inquiry
and confessed that I was more deeply mys-
tified than ever, if that were possible.
"Can you not see my friend ?" he said,
in a low but petulant tone, "that. I pro-
pose to eliminate the flitting, ephemeral
gases contained in the human body and sub-
stitute in their place a solid, metallic sub-
stance, thus rendering the human form di-
vine, not only in name, but in stability and
endurance."
Yes, I saw. It was plain to be seen that
tbe man was insane, but in such a case ar-
gument was useless. I was then on my
way to Helena, Mon., and was obliged to
be at that place on the following day to
eneet a business engagement. I was dealing
in mines, in those days, and expected to
meet a party of capitalists who had come
out for the purpose of buying a gold Mine
which I had in hand. I would gladly have
convireed my friend of the utter futility of
his hopes, but deemed the task beyond my
powers of persuasion. So I bade him good.
day, arid mounting my horse, rode on to-
wards my point of destination.
That was the last I saw of him for five
years. The sale which I expected would
make me a rich man did not take place ; re-
verses followed, aid I found myself at the
end of five years prospecting in the moun-
tains nee: the spot where. I first met tbe
man who was going to revolutionize human-
ity by introducing more metal and less gas
into its anatomy.
As a matter of couse I was anxious to
learn the result of his experiment, believing
in my own mind that he was doubtless at
the time confined in some lunatic asylum.
I rode up to his dwelling -place, which
was a beautiful spot by a mountain stream
and near a waterfall. The only person
visible was a man engaged bt stringing cop-
per wires on poles in the yard. I enquired
of him if the owner of the place was at
honae. He said he was in the house, and
asked me to alight and walk in. I did so,
and to my surprise met my friend of five
years before. He did not look a day older,
and except that he was intensely pale, and
that his features appeared as if they had
been cast in v. mould, he seemed to be par-
ticularly strong and supple. He knew me
at once, and his greeting was exceedingly
kind. He said he was glad to see me, and
I noticed that his voice had a peculiar me-
tallic, bell -like sound that was pleasing to
the ear. He was dressed in a - working
Bait and stated that he had just been experi-
menting with some electrical appazatus of
his own invention. His electricity, he
said, cost hini nothing, as he secured all he
wanted by utiliiing the Waterfall.
Surely, I thought, he mustbe still onthe
hobby. Apparently divining my thoughts
he smiled, but offered no explanation.
We. chatted f*some time -upon indiffer-
snt subjects, but the thought that was up-
permost itony _mind was the experiment,
At last Leonid no longer curb my curiosity.
so I asked him how be had succeeded in his
attempt at strengthening the human form.
"Most admirably," said he without any
-attempt at evasion. "1 am now, thanks to
discoveries in eleetricity in Metallurgy, &-
fres and indeeut being, 110 longer
hampered with sea. ; neither am I subject
to sickness, diseaseor death itself, unless,
perchance, it (knife itt the shape of some un-
toward accident."
I e.sked him upon whom or what he had
"Myself," he said, with the greatest
solemnity. "It was four years before I
penetrated the secret and then all was Plan -
f secured Oho hundred pounds of
aluminium and with that and my electric
apparatus, which is most complete, I suc-
ceeded; but it was a hard struggle. Many
times I was ready to give„ up in despair.
The variety of electric currenti is almost
limitless. It was a question of discovering
the right one; and I thought at times*
could never succeeded. I succeed in replaeing
most of the oxygen, carbon and hydrogen
in my body with that pure and incorrupaia
ble metal aluminium, which I am -abun-
dantly able to prove. Aluminium, you will
understand, is almost precisely the weight
of water, so that my 'weight is now nearly'
the same as before and, what is infinitely
better, I possess the strength imparted by
this wonderful material and am now ten
times stronger than I was before. No
bacteria can enter my system. I am forever
free from all aches and pains. I take an
electric -aluminium bath once a day and eat
once a day and eat scarcely anything
at all. I am endeavouring to overcome the
laws of gravitation, so that I may float
through space at will, and eventually I hope
to he able to visit' the moon when I have
perfected myself a little further, so that the
breathing apparatus may be dispensed with
and I can subsist entirely upon electricity."
That I was dumbfounded at this state-
ment can well be imagined. But I did not
dare ask any other questions, but sat gaz-
ing in stupid awe at this man who talked
of things deemed unknowable as if they
were as familiar to him as a b c.
"You seem to doubt me," he said.- " I
will convince you, and you are the only man
I will ever take the trouble to convince, for
they are not worth it." And with that he
walked -out of the room and returned pres-
ently with a carbon fully loaded.
"Take that," said he, and he thrust the
weapon into my hands and walked to the
other side of the room. He turned, facing
me, and bared his breast, which was as
white as the driven snow and shone like
silver. "Now take good aim and fire
directly at my heart."
" Oh ! no, my friend," I replied, in gre
distress, for 1 thought the man was surely
crazy. But he insisted. I still refused,
and he touched a button on the wall and I
heard a gong sound. In a moment the work:,
man I had seen in the yard entered. At h
sign from his master he took the gun from
my hand and before I could interfere fired
point blank at the breast of my host.
The aluminium man stood like a statue.
I could see the mark of the laden bullet
where it had flattened over his heart. He
came forward smiling and asked Me to ex-
amine the spot where the bullet struck say-
ing Jake was a good marksmen and always
did what he was told. .
I was so overpowered with this perform-
ance that a feeling of faintness overcame
ire. I said my friends were expecting me
back at camp, and I hurriedly took my
leave. Once outside, the fresh air revived
me and I felt glad to eecape.
On arriving at camp I felt ashamed of my
weakness and resolved to return again, but
circumstances intervened which prevented
this for several weeks. But when I did
so, to my intense regret, I found the place
deserted. Whether my aluminium friend
had discovered the secret of gravitation and
sailed away to the moon, I have never been
able to learn.
The Oare Of 0 hildren.
One of the greatest mistakes which
mothers as well as law -givers mske is to ex-
pect uniformity of result from different
individuals. Children, like communities,
must be regarded according to their needs
and individual characteristics. Two child-
ren of the same surroundings may develop
diametrically opposite characteristics and
need a diametrically opposite course of
training. It is unjust to lay down a rigid
law embodying what we believe should be,
according to our finite knowledge, and ex-
pect to mould people to it. Our conclusions
are as apt to be as narrow as that of the
Scotch schoolmaster who remarked to
Burns's father that Gilbert was a bright boy,
but Robert was clean daft and good for
naething. It is not given to us to compre-
hend the abilities even of those bound to us
by the nearest ties. The lad who fulfils the
conventional type of a bright boy may be
but a commonplace fellow beside his duller
brother when he arrives at mature years.
If we cannot then tell the difference between
the dull and the genius, how' muel less
should we presume to lay out careers for
our children to follow. Only the All -wise
Father, who gives to each his gifts in his
degree, can do this.
The utmost that the f ondest and wisest
parents can do is to watch the development of
their children, notice what their tastes are,
what interests them, in what branches they
seem to be proficient. It is iu this way
that the child is started best and at the
earliest time on his most congenial and
therefore his most useful start in life. It
is by a kindly but intelligent parental sup-
ervision of this kind that inventors, archi-
tects, engineers and orators are started on
the careers that most fit them. It is pain-
ful to think of the waste of time to which
a different matte. One mine home. with a
men of ability have been compelled by the
few small perch, which he assured his wife
ELECTRICAL NOTES.
.1•
The electrical department of the U. S.
Patent Office is overcrowded with appli-
cations for patents, some of which have
been on file since last fall without ieceiv-
ng preliminary examination.
' A telephone exchange having about six
hundred instruments is to be established in
the'World'sTair grounds, About- twenty-
five will be public toll telephones 300 will
be for the use of the Exposition aficials and
employees, and the remainder for com-
mercial purposes. Connection to New York
will be completed by the time the Fair opens,
and will be made directly to the grounds.
In England the unit of one thousand Watt
hours is hereafter to be call a "kelvin,"
after Lord Kelvin. The London Board of
Trade and Sir William Thomson have ap-
proved the use of the term. Electrical units
of measurement heretofore named after dis-
tinguished foreign scientists are the volt,
ohm, ampere, joule, watt, coulomb and
farad.
A new portable incandescent electric desk
lamp has been brought out baying a flexible
arm so arranged that the light can be
placed in any desired position. Over the
lamp is an aluminium half shade which can
be moved around at will so as to throw the
light in any direction. Being made of
aluminium_the shade will neither break nor
tarnish.
The ease with which telegraph messages
may be understood by any one familiar with
the Morse code of signals listening to the
sound of the sending instrument, has,. it is
_believed, caused the leakage of many secret
cornmutacations of importance. A recently
patented device has been brought out which
is intendealato de away with theclick.ef the
sending iiitiunients and maknh e, rebeivlag
instraineista. soitnal to,the opereeor only by
' a .
mearraf a resonator saaa
The 'Board of Direetoraof the World's
Eair. heelof.ind it ne.cessary tohave a road
bnitate eatry the visitorsafrone one end of
Jackson Park to the other, and it has been
decided that this intramural railway shall
' be an electricsy.stem. The Toad will. be
elevafed, elouble.gtrackerla and sametbing
over ffve miles in length, With stations at in
yals of .1;000 feets --The cOn tract eallt for
_carrying 20,000 passengers per hour, and it
is proposed to run trains of tour cars, includ-
ing the motor, with a capacity of 320 passen-
geiit• -
One thoesandenght hundred operatives,
with a weekly payroll of $40,-00O3 are em-
ployed in the railway department of the
]Thoniscm-Houston Company at Lynn, Mess.
The total number of electric roads this com-
pany has in operation and under contract is
30, and the total number of electric cars,
.4,369. A monster marble switchboard, 18
'feet long and 10 feet high, having plugs for
!40 arc.cirpuits, which is the lp,rgest board
eter -adusitneted, • is now building atthis
f actoryfor the-Narragareett station at Prov-
idence It is- Made up of 3,500 -pounds of
marblee 1,793 pounds of brass, 6,400 brass
bushings, -9,300 brass nuts, 1,995 steel bolts,
6,040 brass washers,. 3,040 rubber bushings,
3,200 rubber buttons, 200 brass screws,
3,400 brass connections, 320 brass binding
posts, 640 feet of copper wire, 80 contact
plugs and 8 cast-iron standards.
The cable that is to be laid :between Sene-
gal, in Africa, and Pernambuco, in Brazil,
is now on its way to the African coast in the hat sea,son in creameries may most
British steamship Silvertown. It was taken advantageously supplement the mak-
aboard coiled up in three twits and ready ing of cheese during the summer season.
INFROVE/tIENT OF BUTTER;
A Matter of the Greatest Interest to Every,
body.
Better butter and more of it seems to be
the cry from both hame and foreign mar-
kets to which Canada's dairy products are
sent. The efforts which have been put
forth during recent years by vhe Dominion
Department of Agriculture promise to bring
about that, desired condition of things in
the near future with great advantage to the
farmers. At the numerous agricultural
conventions which have been held 'during
the winter season over the whole Dominion,
unusual attention has been ma,nifested in
the question of manufacturing creamery
butter in Canada during the winter season.
The higliest authorities on agrieulture agree
in the opinion that an extension of the
manufacture of butter during the winter
would result in the keeping of larger herds
of caws by the farmers, the raising of larg-
er nambers of thrifty calves, and conse-
quently the extension of our live stock
trade and an increase in the fertility of the
soil by reasOn of the quantities of stable
manure which would be available. Any-
thing which can be done to increase the
direct income of the farmer, while it forti-
fies and enlarges, his permanent sources of
revenue, must be of inestimable financial
advantage to the whole community.
For many years the practice in Canada in
most -districts has been to keep the dairy
cows milking -during the: summer months
only, when '£), supply of succulent feed in the
form ofgrass was easily Obtainable. Dry
fodder, cold winter . weather, badly con-
structed buildings and no special instruc-
tion in regard to winter dairying have left
on the minds of many of even the enter-
prising farmers a notion that winter
dairyieg is unsuitable to our climatic
sation for,the extra cost of th,e additional
conditions. The educational work' of the
feed whien is required -by the cows. Noth-
Dominion Department of agriculture has
mg seems to. be wanting to develop this
done. ameh in recent years towards bring -
most promising branch of cattle husbandry,
ingbefore the attention of the farmers the
except some little help on the part of the
benefits which may result from the growing
Government in assisting the farmers to pro-
m large crops of fodder corn, the making of N.,ide.
the new machinery which is
ensilage and the feeding with succulent
indispensable for making an econ-
fodder during the winter months.- It has
me real and successful start in this
peen illustrated on the experimental farms
business. .The. dairy commissioner men -
that corn ensilage as feed. yields an excel-
tioned. in has evidence that he was conyineed.
lent quality of milk, and -a much larger flfirw_
that, if par:, of the machinery could be pro-
of it, than - Can. be obtained !upon a
vicled by the .Government for a few years,
fodder. The economy of growing fodder
all bonus towards the purehesing
corn for the fattening of cattle has also been or 'f a Bra
of the machniery were granted to eery
demonstrated in the feeding experiments
creamery which manufaetured butter during
which have been conducted during the last
the winter for three years, there would be
two seasons. The results of the feeding
a very rapid and prosperous extension of the
last winter were summed up by Prof. Rob -
dairying interests of the Dominion. The
ertson in his evidence before the House of
amount of money which it would 'cost the
Commons Comrnittee of Agriculture in the
country would be a mere bagatelle compared
terse conaparison which be made, by stating
witlhthe great good that would result to the
that steers fed upon a ration mainly consist-farmning interests. There need be no fear
mg of. corn ensilage gained one-quarter more
on tee part of anyone that there will be a
in weight during a period of live months
surplus of fresh made winter butter. The
feeding at a cost of one-quarter less per day
from
expense of shipment to Great Britain
than steers of equal- age and breeding- fed
...rom points in Ontario, including trans -
upon hay, mai and meal. The quantity of
portation, selling commission, discount
meal in -the ration of corn ensilage was the
and shrinkage in weight . has been
same per day es in the ration of hay and roots.
less than 2 1-2 cents per pound of butter.
While corn eesilage is admira.bly adapted
That. there is an unlimited demand in the -
for eheapening the production of beef, it is a
English market during the winter months
specially suitable feed for milking cows.
for fresh made butter is assured by the
The information whielt has been spread
rapid extension of butter making dairying
broadcast over the country must have con -
in Denmark, Sweden and France. Canada
vinced the farmers that, so far as a supply
new sends to Great Britain over 41 per cent.
of succulent feed is concerned, it is now
of the total value of cheese which she Un-
easily possible for them to kcep their cows
ports from abroad. Our exports of butter
in milk during the whole winter at a
for 1891 amounted to $410,060, while the
profit. The making of -butter during
imports of butter into Great Britain for the
year endirg December 31, 1891, amounted
to $55,637,668. That indicates that while
we send to Great Britain over 41 per cent.
of the cheese which she imports, our ship-
ments of butter amount to less than 2 per
cent. of the value which she buys from
abroad. One of the leading importers of the
British market. has reported in connection
with the shipments of butter sent from one
of the Dominioa experimental dairy stations:
"The butter trade is an increasing one, and
notwithstanding a substitute in margarine,
there is an encrinous demand for fresh
made butter that will always command a
good price from the 1st of December to the
1st of April. Ireland supplies us well with
summer stock. Stared butter will not now
sell at all, hence the trade have ceased to
hold summer make, and buy fresh made
winter stock."
To sum up the whole matter, it seems
that while the competitors of Canada in
butter making who live in some of the other
colonies receive the benefits of large bonuses
from the government on fresh made butter
which they export, Canadian dairymen do
not need to have that rather unwholesome
stuff offered to them, but it is equally
apparent that 710 good reason can be urged
why the Government should not give its
customary assistance to this new industry,
by way of providing some means whereby
farmers may be encouraged and assisted to
provide the machinery which is required, in
order to establish an industry which is
capable of doing so much for the agricul-
tural comtnunity in every branch of their
work.
with 'our Canadian creamery butter in the
riglialt market% ancl.ove AtAiLhis opinion
that if the Government of any country con-
siders it prudent to bonus any article of
produce which is exported, no one article
can be bonused to greater advantage to the
people than butter made during the winter
months. He stated that judicious encour-
agement given to this industry for only
three years*ould give such an impetus to
it that Canada would export more cteam-
ery butter during the fourth winter than
would be the case in 10 years without any
assistance from the Government being rend-
ered. He pointed out that the main diffi-
culty lay in the providing of new machin-
ery for buildings which are already well
equipped for cheesemaking.
The cost for providing the additional ma-
chinery, apparatus and utensils which are
required for altering a cheese factory and
equipping it as a butter factory for opera-
tion during the winter, would be from $750
to $800. Joint stock companys of farm-
ers and individuals who own cheese fac-
ori es are timid in the matter of investi-
gating new machinery until they are quite
assured that this business will be both prof-
itable and permanent. The experience of
one or two years would doubtless convince
tire farmers in every section where dairteng
has been developed to any considerable ex-
tent that a large and reliable source of rev-
enue from their cows might be opened up verely shaken.
by supporting creameries during the winter. A sad fatality is reported from Caerphilly,
The capital which is invested in the cheese where the three-year-old child of a railway
factories would not lie dormant for 'five or signalman, residing in Harding Terrace,
six moeths of the year. The men who are was playing with a halfpenny. Placing the
of the season, The farmers would derive a moned, and administered emetics, but failed
the child gave a gasp and
occupied in the manufacturing of cheese coin in his mouth,
would find employment during every month swallowed it. A doctor was hastily sum -
direct income from their cows during the to :recover the coin, and before midnight
winter months. The big product ol skim the child died.
milk has been estimated to be full compen- A shocking accident occured on Saturday
morning at Ewhurst, near Guildford. Two
bricklayers, named Luff and Stedman, were
lowered into a well with the objet
of arranging for pumping out some water,.
when they fell out -of the bucket, in conse-
quence, it is supposed, of being stupefied by
foul air, and were killed. The well was 75
ft. deep.
Mr. Coroner Wyatt -held an inquest, at
the Lambeth Coroner's Court, on the body
of Frederick Badge, aged 21 years, lately
Living at 17 Bankton Road, Brixton. It ap-
neared from the evidence that the deceased
was found lying dead in the kitchen of an
empty house, situated at 18 Beelgeworth
Road, Brixton. A post-mortem examina-
tion of the body showed that death was 6ue
to asphyxia: -Deceated, (said the doetor)
was no doubt seized with a fit, and while in
a helpless condition was suffocated by tits
dollar, which was very tight. A verdict
accordingly was returned.
An Australian matrimonial agency ad.
vertises that a clergyman is kept on this
premises to perform the marrmse cep!
mony.
At Gateshead on Saturday, after a wed.. I
ding, the organist of the church and three
young men connected with the choir toctic,3
a boat on the Tyne. The boat was upiet,
through two of the occupants changing
seats, and one of the young men was
drowned.
A woman named Connolly, at Belfast on ,
Saturday night, upon hearing that her son
had been sentenced to penal servitude fora
three years for assaulting a police -constable, -
dropped dead in her kitchen, the shock
having apparently killed her.
A poor woman in Sunderland has by the
death of her uncle, become "interested" in
a large fortune. It seems that he was one
of the principal English contraetois in the
Suez Canal venture, and by speculations
amassed over £160,000. The only other
sharer in the fortune is a lady in the South
of England.
At Sunderland, on Monday, Mrs Allison,
of Shiney Row, was killed by being thrown
out of a trap which she was driving. The
lady and boy who were with her were se -
'for paying out at the bow end of the vessel,
not at the stern, as was formerly the cus-
tom. :Aentitnlier oh new inventions. have
been used in the construction of this cable.
It is of varying thickness, ranging from two
and one-quarter tons per knot to four and
one -hall tons, according to the depth of the
water in which it is to be laid, while the
shore ends weigh about fifteen tons per
knot. at Senegal te shore end is to be
covered by a hut and left in charge of an
electrical engineer, who Will beineommuni-
cation day and night with the cable-beering
ship. Signals will be exchanged every five
minutes during the whole operation of lay-
iz g the cable to Brazil. In the deep sea the
,cable will be paid out at the rapid rate of
ten knots an hour, though large allowance
muse be made for stoppages through im-
pediments 1,000 fathoms deep. According
to the engineer in charge the line will be
laid and the Silvertown back in England
before the end of the month of July.
Aboard the steamer there is a large staff of
engineers and assistants who work in four-
hour shifts and then have etht hours off.
The strain upon them while on duty is very
severe. The cable is 2,165 miles long.
The Secret Out,,
Two young men who were anxious to be-
come fly fishermen, but had had neither
time nor money to indulge in the pastime,
and had only given serious thought to the
sport after they had become family men,
went, at the opeuing of the trout season; to
a district where they had heard that the
ponds and brooks running into mill ponds
were not cloied to=the pablic. Each chose
foolish jedgment of parents in forcing them
into studies and callings for which they were
unfitted,
At the same time, parents must not ex-
pect too much of their children. It is na-
tural to exaggerate the bright sayings and
doings of those we love. But it inay be
carried to such an extent that keen disap-
pointment will result when the child of
whom so much is expected develops only
into the common -place, sensible, every -day
citizen, instead of a genius. Men and wo-
men of great talent are rare, and the Imes
of us must expect to walk in the humble
paths of life. Nothing is more dangerous
to a child's future than to foster its vanity
be expressing exaggerated hopes of its fu-
ture. Excellent service to the child and to
the world in which it lives is done by mak-
ing of it a good practical citizen. Let the
parents watch the bent of the child's inclin-
ations, and judge from them only what call-
ing he seems most fitted for. In, the vast
majority of cases, where it is essential that
the child should be a bleed -winner as Weis
as he attains years of discretion, it may be
necessary for him to do much 'work that is,
irksome and for which he has no special
adaptation before he can choose a calling of
his own. The man who is compelled by
penury to carve out a career for himself ac-
quires a rugged strength by the means that
often enables him to out-distence his rival
who has moulded his life from more plastic
circumstances. The time has gone by when
wise people judge the young in the -masses,
and when the quantity of workers is of more
consequence than the quality. These are
tbe times when only the individuals who
are specially adapted by their ability for
the calling they have chosen • are likely to
make a mark. It is not enough. that #1,. tad
be educated to a profession, but ha- intuit
have natural adaptation to his carem; Or he
will be a failure; and it is far better for a
kid that he be a successfulenechnic in the
humblest walk of life than a lawyer with -
were delicious pan fish, and were almost as
hard to catch as trout, and were considered
by many epicures to be the better fish. The
other man had a dozen or more fine trout to
Ow for his day's angling. His friend's
jealousy and astonishment found vent in
inquiries.
"Look here, Tom," he said, "this fly
fishing is as new to you as it is to me. How
do yonapaeage to have always the same re-
sult ? I've fished in the Same brooks and
ponds, and never got anything but perch."
Tom declered 18 was "all a matter of
skill and instinct," but Jack determined to
ferret out the truth. He hired a small boy
to keep Tom in sight from the time he
boarded the train until he reached the city,
and this is the small boy's report:
"You see when he got to R --he just
went off on the back road and dug about a
pint of worms, and then, before he event on
the pond, he got a net full of killies from
the creek the other side of the dam. Then
he got a boat and rowed around the pond
awhile, kind o' looking around, before he
anchored, and when he found the right
place he threw out a few worms, and then
got out a book and began to read. After.
a while he threw out more worms, and kept
on reading, and then he threw some killies,
and I just thought he was stark, staring
mad; but by and by he put away his book,
got out his pole, and I could see fish jumping
all around his boat. And then, I tell you,
he began to fish."
"With the fly ? " interrupted the hearer.
" Yezzer, if you mean the new arrange-
ment city chaps use ; yezzar, and 1 bet you
he just pulled -in the fish a -smiling all the
time, and then I knew what a smart 'au he
was. It's -the best dodge yet, but you may
just bet I'm up to that. now."
So was the other man.
EiIt has �ften heeirobservedjbat the nails
actually pow on titie stumps Of amputated
out a case or a physician without a practice. Angers.
That this can be carried into successful
practice has been demonstrated to a certain-
ty by the experience of the farmers who
supported the two experimental dairy sta-
tions, which were operated by the dairy
commissioner in Ontario during the past
winter. Cheese factories at Mount Elgin
and Woodstock were equipped with the ma-
chinery, apparatus and utensils needed for
the manufacturing of butter and were run
during the whole winter. At both places
the farmers have by unanimous resolution,
expressed their satisfaction with the busi-
ness and their determination to continue to
support the factories during the next win-
ter. That a great deal of interest has been
aroused in this matter in the British markets
is manifested by the nurnerous eeomments
which have appeared upon this new enter-
prise in the provisions trade and other trade
journals of Great Britain. An issue of the
Canadian Gazette of London which came to
hand lately contained an article which has
a peculiar interest for Canadian farmers in
this connectien. Two raragraphs from that
'article are as follows: -
1. Th e French consul at Maybourne has
presented to his Government a report from
the butter industry in Australia. The sum
of E30,000 set apart by the Victorian Legis-
lature in 1889 for the encow agement of the
trade has been increased to £45,000 in view of
the unexpected development of the exporta-
tion Of butter from Victoria to the United
Kingdom. The export between October,
1889, and the end of January, 1890, that is,
during the grazing season, was 828,822
pounds. In the following season it had
risen te1,700,596 pounds, the quality being
of a dialinctly superior character. Of the
moneY offered in the way otbounty, £1 5,907
had been clairnednp ttea, year ago, and the
season which lie Pat closed promises to
show a marked advanc4 in this direction.
It is )eoped that on ace:punt of its high
qualitf and loWeprice the Australian
butter will successfully challenge the posi-
tion which has Wen acquired by the Feench
and Danish productiin the English market.
2. It seems pertinent for us to askr What
has Canada to say for herself that she Should
have allowed distant Victoria to try issues
with the French and Danish butter export-
ers upotr%the Jeendon market ?Ti a
nogetry alniost -'as far away from
mit-hshores as it is possible to be,
and on the ether side of the equator, can
send us butt ea whiekconunands a top price
on the Londteh marltet, surely Canada ought
to be able to do the Same. It is quite pos-
sible for butter, produced on some of the
rich dairy homesteads of Quebec and Ontario
to be on the English consumer's breakfast
table a fortnightafter it is made. There is
not much room for sentimen t in the questions
of trade, but, inasmuch ammo cannotpro-
duce at home all theabutteraeie require; we
would rather have it perhapa from Our
countrymen in Australia and Canada if they
can beat the foreigner in competition. Cana-
da has done and is doing so well with her
cheese output that the general appearance
of Canadian butter in the !palish market
Ought to be a question of only a short time.
it is evident that our action is being
watched by competitor! in Other countries,
and also that we must bestir °weaves to
win for our butter trade a reputation of
equal merit with that of our cheese.
In his evidence before the Committee of
the House of Commons on agriculture a
few days ago, the dairy commissioner cited
some interesting facts in relation to this
matter on the competit ion with which Can-
ada was to contend in the British markets.
He .stated by way of :illustration thst the
province Of Victoria had paid • last a year
over a quarter Of a million ot dollars in
bonusing the butter _which was_exported
from that ecilkaiy,,: end 'ivinelr_sompeted
ealtivation of' the Hair.
Vigorous brushing of the hair with a
stiff brush will accomplish wonders with
the most unruly and most obstinate of locks.
To be successful such treatment must be
persisted in. A good-sized brush with stiff
unbleached bristles should be chosen for
this purpose. All snarls should be taken
out of the hair gently with a coMb. Every
part of the hair snould then be brushed
vigorously and long enough so that each
portion shall receive at least thirty strokes
of the brush. If such treatment as this is
continued for five or six weeks the result
will convince the most incredulous of the
value of this treatment
The hair and the scalp shouldhe washed
as often as once a month, but not oftener
unless the hair is oily. No alkali like borax
or strong stimulant like bay rum should be
used in washing the hair, but simple caitile
soap and lukewarm water. After washing
the heir, all soap should be thoroughly
rinsed oat with separate waters. The hair
should then be ,dried, strand by strand,
with abundance of warm towels. Where
the hair falls out, a simple preparation of
ordinary 'tea, or if this does.not prove
efficacious, of sage ten, applied td the roots
of the hair with a sponge, will usually prove
an effectual cure, and moreover, will tend
to prevent the accumulation of scaly. dan-
druff which accompanies this trouble of the
scalp.
If the hair is naturally inclined to be dry,
a little vaseline applied to the scalp near
the roots will stimulate it to a healthy con-
dition. If, on the contrary, it is too oily,
it should be washed every two weeks
instead of once a month. It is wise to avoid
all lotions for the hairs. which you knew
nothing about, as 111EfIly of tjaese yenta* ju-
intim ingredietite and stimulate it lo _pat
unhealthy condition, and et entually cause
it to fall out. -
No Wonder.
Why -do you 4)01110 ecaced
with your hands and face so Airty, and- yotte
clothes all dust ?"
LittIelleyg-" WeWeileanin' house."
About a week ago a gentleman a member
of a well-known aristocratic familY, escaped
from his attendant near Birdlip, and hat
not since been heard of, although the polies
have been scouring Gloucestershire and the
adjacent counties. The gentleman, as al-
ready stated, belongs to a very distinguish-
ed family, and lies for some time been con-
fined in a private asylum. It is feared that
evil has befallen him.
On Monday evening, Dr. M'Ivor, coroner;
Moneymore, held an inquest in the public -
house of Mr. John Magee, Moueymore,
touching the death of Hugh M'fitta.ggart,
Of Stewertstown, who was found dead the
previous evening in the tovrnland of Tam-
laghdee, about a mile from Moneymore.
The jury found that deceased came to his
death from want of proper care aud food.
On Wednesday morning, the Preston (ter- '
oner received information of the suicide of
Mr. Richard Barton, farmer, Lowes Farm,
Duxbury, near Chorley. About a fortnight
ago he was robbed ie Chorley of £37, and
had been low spirited ever since. His wife
and nephew both heard him say he would
commit suicide. On Monday last he
bought a shilling's worth of rat powder in
Chorey, and swallowed it on Tuesday morn-
ing, dying in great agony in the afternoon.
The Marechester police authorities are en-
quiring into the circumstances of the mys-
terious death of a gentleman in a cab late
on Monday night. Deceased hired s cab and
told the driver to take him to a house
at Old Trafford. When the driver pulled
up he found blood dripping through the cab
floor and his fare with his throat cut quite
dead. He was subsequently identified as a
highly respectable gentleman named Per-
cival, and is supposed to have killed him-
self.
A Cork correspondent reports an extraor-
dinary attempt at suicide at Midleton. A
girl twenty-one years of age, named Con-
nolly, (laughter of a farmer, was found in a
glen in a semi-conscious state. On the doc-
tor being fetched he discovered that the
young woman had attempted to committ
suicide by cutting open her stomach with a
knife. Owing to the bluntness of the weapon
the wound inflicted, though of considerable
extent, was not deep, and hopes are enter-
tained tnat she will recover. She did not
make known her motive for the crime.
Rose and Butterfly.
Ere we saw the vernal sun,
In a shroud a worm had spun,
1—like a kernel of a nut—
Lay in utter darkness shut.
And the red rose in the germ,
Dormant through the wintry term,
Dwelt, from day as deeply hid
As 118 my chrysalid.
Springtime resurrection brought,
Far traneeending human thought—
Far surpassing mortal might—
Out of shadow, into light.
Subtle forces in the gloom
Wrought our rescue from the tont
Silent, yet potential, they
Rolled for us the stone away—
Broke the rigid bands of death;
Breathed revivifying breath;
Gave the rose a fragrance meet
To perfume the Mercy-seat—
And'-to me. my golden wings,
In whose teiniee the poet sings,
When the queenliest of flowers
Woes me to her musky bowers.
Risen like our Lord. indeed!
_Glorious change for worm and seed!
"Sown 18 weakness, raised in power"—
Lo! the Butterfly—the Flower!
—Rhea. H. Hill.
An idea of the growth of tlie telephone
!indufetrrin Claitida may he :gathered from
'interesting figures published by the Cana-
dian Electric News. Since 1880 the number
of Canadivn subscribers to the Telephone
Company has increased from 2,100 to 26,-
212. Montreal heads the lists with 5,872
telephones. Toronto comes next with 3,965
Hamilton has 1,160, and Quebec has 1,011.1
The number of felephone,s in use in Canitida
Is greater, according to population, than in
any other country. In '..4reat Britain there
axe -167 ielephones in use for every 1C0,000
iehabitants in the United States 350, ana
in Canada 540. Compared with th rate*
charged in other cannisies tke C-naclian
rates are extremely low. The te !phona!
isa great convenience, 04
now lndispeusable -to- business. But *be.'
&reit ,WP:AAvented no, ong ---aPaeleATI Mt«
the nee A of it. Like many anothe% wadi:
thatima-comiaahded.
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