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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-07-07, Page 6FOR THE LADIES. But _Friend& (t was hat friendship, dear, I gave to you. And you to me- as man might give to man — So sweetly calm its gentle Current ran Adown orer pulse, what little time we knew Its tender presence—Ali, how fast they flew— Those sylvan days—till Summer's blush began To paiain autnmeagray. Then ItUte's full Email Was flung across the year and dulled heaven's blue. Do rearecall how on the day's glad wing We flitted?—saying Our friendship is the Better than than love —since pain with passion blends." Oh, friend! the day hasgrowa a lifeless thing Without you, and the star hang on night's breast Like frozen tears! Surely, we were but friends? —[Josephine Puett Spoonts. ••••••••••••••...• At the opening of summer, it is well to call attention to the value of lime -water. This is a simple remedy for many summer evils of the household, and is easily prepar- ed ; but it is often forgotten. A teaspoon- ful of lime -water added to a glass of milk corrects the tendency which milk has to coagulate in the stomach, forming a hard, indigestible mass. For this -reason, it is f reqnen tly ordered by physicians to be added to the nursing -bottle of ehin summer. It is useful for rinsing j y bottles; and as a mild disinfe -oze of the safest we have. To prepare it, place a layer of unslaked lime in a wide-mouthed jar and fill it with pure, cold water. The druggist uses filtered water for this purpose. Lime makes what the chemist calls a satur- ated solution in water, and, therefore, there is no danger of putting too much lime in the water. The water will take up only 'so much lime. When the water has stood a few hams it will have absorbed all the lime it is capable of receiving. It may then be drained oft and more water added till the lime is absorbed. If you are inclined to acidity of the stomach in the summer, it is a good plan to add a little lime -water to the water that you drink. Where there is any dampness about the cellar nothing absorbs it more rapidly than lime. A peck of lime will absorb more than three quarts of water, and by this means a damp cellar may be very soon dried out. All that is necessary is to scatter the limo about the cellar, and to renew it occasional- ly if the causes of the dampness return. At this season of the year it is always best to keep the cellar windows closed during the day and open at night. The air of day is much warmer than the night -air and there- ' fore holds much moremoisture in suspen- sion. When the warm air of thee/summer's day enters the cellar ii becomes suddenly mixed with the cooler air in the cellar and the result is a deposit of dew on the side- walLs and a damp and mouldy cellar. If air is kept out at the cellar during the day anii let in at night when the air is nearer the temperature of the cellar air, no such danger arises. It is to be regretted that so many of our country people have given up their wholesome white -washed walls for the more elegant kalsomined ones. No kalsomine should be used in summer bedrooms or kitchens, which need the purifying and dis- infecting powers of the yearly coat of white- wash. Fialsomine is seldom renewed as it lasts so much longer than white -wash ; and such a kalsomined wall must become more or less affected in time by the impurities of the atmosphere in such rooms'in the same way that papered walls are. Let our sum- mer bedrooms and kitchens at least be finished -in such a way that ,they cube thoroughly and frequently eleansed'ilibotit She walls as well as the floors. • Street Dresses. that vamen were the upholders of the ol eeelesiastical idea of wedlock. It is a sign of the times, and points- to an approaching complete revolution in our marriage laws, and that at the instance of the women themselves. -• Male and Female Brains. The_average man'e brains is between four and five ounces heavier than the average woman's. The reason, it may be said, is that the woman herself is smaller than the man in size and weight. That accounts partly for the difference, but not entirely. It is shown by many and careful observa- tions that if women were as tall as men, and as heavy, the average weight of their brains would be still smaller than that of men by more than an mince. The diminish- ed size and weight of the brain is said to be a fundamental sexual distinction in the hu- man -species. It is not peculiar to civilized men and women, but is found universally among savages, wherever sufficient observa- tions have been made. The difference in weight does not exhaust the catalogue of diversities. There is said to be also a dif- ference of balance between the various parts of the compared brains. The occipital lobes, • which preside chiefly over the physical func- tion of the organism, are declared to be more voluminous in the female than in the male; a physiological fact which is contrary to common belief. A third striking diver- sity is that whilst the matter of the brain, which has no thought function, is almost identical in NI eight in the two sexes, the specific gravity of the grey, or thought mat- ter, is desidedly higher in the male than in the female. Now, these are facts. it is tree that Sir James Crichton Browne has set them forth, but it is not true that he has originated thens. If any lady is dispos- ed for a quarrel on the occasion- she should not quarrel with Sir James Crichton Browne but with niggard nature, or with Mr. Mat- thew Arnold's unchivalrous "stream of tend - envy." It appears to be unquestionable that in purely intellectual endowment the man is superior to the woman. On the other hand, in the equally noble emotional capac- ity the woman is superior to the man. If these be the facts, as they certainly appear to be, it is well both sexes should recognise and make the best they can of them. Among the most tasteful walking dresses are those of very light beige -colored home - Tun or twilled vigogne made with a blazer, se else a cut -away coat, and a wailt-coat. The waistcoat is of white or cream -colored wool or of pique, and is single-breasted,eut very high, with small revers. This discloses e standing collar el linen; and the small square bow of a narrow semi Of changeable red and black satin. With this is worn a cream white straw round hat wi is staff brim snd half -high crown. A laegeselsacian bow- el black' satin ribbon is in front, and in aigrette of pink rosebuds at, the back has one high full-blown rose in the middle. A deep veil of black Taxed°, net is- drawn up in pleats at the back. The gloves are tan - colored Suede, and the parasol is of shot beige and rose silk with a frill of the same pinked on the edge. A second dress is of navy bine serge with wide old -rose stripes edged with lines of green. This is made with a cut -away coat buttoned only once on a soft vest of black and rose shot silk with. tiny dots of Week ; 18 18 puffed out just be- low the throat in two, lengthwise puffs in a im • e • • mil • Canadian Ladies at the World's Fair. It is expected that the work of the ladies of Canada will be well represented at the World's Columbian Exposition. Compe- tent judges will be appointed in due time to make the necessary selection of articles, and it is understood that arrangements will be made in connection with alt the leading exhibitions throughout the country by which the finest specimens of work may be chosen for Chicago. Canadian ladies will, how- ever, bear in mind that it will be necessary to show their choicest productions at these provincial or local fairs, in order to have them selected for the World's Fair. Ar- rangements will be made whereby the judg- ment of a competent committee may be had on the articles chosen so that only the very best samples of the taste and skill of Can- adian ladies may be sent to Chicago. In this way an exhibit in every respect credit- able to the country may be collected. Street Etiquette. • It is decidedly ill-bred to eat anything even confectionery, in the street. No woman, unless in feeble health, should cling to a man'es arm during a daylight stroll. Do not discuss polities, religion or love affairs in a public conveyance. Personal matters should never be intro- duced at a chance meeting if the third party is not conversant with the facts. No 'lady will accept a seat vacated by a gentleman for her convenience without giv- ing in return a smile, a bow, or thanks. It is optional with a lady to recognize at the.iecond meeting a gentleman who has upon a previous occasion rendered her a service. Never swing your arms when walking unless quite outside the town. If free from observation this will be found an excellent means to help locomotion. Bandying •words with an employe of a company is mere waste of time. Should he be insolent or unreasonable take his num- ber and complain to those in authority. Street flirtations are in this enlightened age regarded as the height of vulgarity. One breach of good taste in this direction is enough to destroy your claims to good breeding. The Mothers of Great Men. A great deal has been written about "the Mothers of Great • Men." • We imagine, however, that' the folk of Leonberg, in t mbeeg, hare started a precedent by way becomnig. ta slight figures. Another, erecting,meinoriale to a genes of mothers of gown of plain blue serge has an Etomja�ket,Treat men. This little township of about with a wide beltset inside the fittedbaok to hold in place a shirt waist of blue silk strip- ed with bright yellaw. ' Alpaca Dresses. Fashionable modistes are using alpacas again not only in dark gray and tan shades for useful walking and travelling= dresses, but also in white and pearles..olor for pretty afternoon toilettes. One worn lately by a gueat at a day wedding was of grayish -white, with a green velvet Figaro jaelsetne corselet and cuffs of velvet, and two narrow velvet ruffles on the bell skirt. A tau colored alpaca has height red surah- forming a ihirred yoke in a mend =sagest and a. panel of the red. silk 18 down= the front of the skirt. - atiamall circular- cape reaching only to the" waist is lined with red silk, and ha a aimed similarly lined. Small batten Mani& Covered with -alpaca are set n ear together down the front of the skirt and -cape, and are joined by loops of brawn cord. Othor 'Aram :drieiries and thoso of Mohair or briJIiantiu,e are inadeaiteja tailor StyK with aecoat waist,- pointed- in.front, and two tabs. at thebaefe;_ear eked even le-ntrsiA‘1414Ps tex .11ound. Thc upper 7r 'elinTle tithrelarge pants -or aitteres thatereedged with.earrow jet gimp. Eislepoiritleivicitiare 'midi a button-holelot a Iarge let: button eE.51-X-461-4‘it's..e:cli buttons.jat.S18 14664'-6dA6-6. placed to meet at down the arida& y ball-shaPe- The'0°Uar4a- - with eeven Are with close av Wand thebelleekirb-WAY exit -trim a oIz!enaiid is tsUo'arioati attlie.recentMee Aoratitii--741Car' *40 au - ewe- e 2,000 inhabitants was the birthplace of Paulus, the famous Rationalist theologian, of Schelliug, the equally famous philoso- pher, and of Hochstetter, the naturalist. It was also the dwelling -place of the mother of the poet Schiller from 1796 to 1801, and of the mother of the astronomer: Kepler two centuries earlier, though three villages in the neighborhood contend for the honor of • having beenKepler's birthplace. The town council of the "Town of Mothers," as it proudly cells itselfhas affixed • tablets to the walls of the old castle of Duke Ulrich the Well -beloved, where the Magna Charta of Wurtemberg liberties was signed by the -Duke, in honor of the mothers of the poet and the astronomer. • We presume that the patriotic town councillors will not stop short at these two honorable women, but will extend similar tokens of respect, to the other mothers of whom they are so justly Proud. Assuming the.Thashmid's Name. . . The praetice of the wife's assuming the husband'sname of marriage, actording-;_to Brewer, originated -frone aer,Roneatisalite teineend becalm the .eommenecilitom after the_Roman occupation: Thus, Julia `-_and Octaviira married to Pompey and Ciesro, were called-larthe Bi -:mans ,Julia of pOni- Pey,betivia-Of Cicero, andiniatter tithes innr, eied women 18 most European_ countries 4iied-..their names in the 'elame. manner, Mititted_the "of." -: - Aginst this view, it may be mentioned at*tintt_Sixteenthand even at z.the - igier*g;of tlieeSeventeenthl-centtiiii the age itiseinieclembtfid,- since- *6 -Ana - eketre,sesigning- herself after She had 'riceYMaTrii!ek*Aa we ahrip. hear of Fane Gray not DOd1ierbe:-'71Areleella our), etc. :,Sterie persona.- 4hAtgltegieCiriginist_ed.fraM the PERSON A L. • Mr. B. Sawden, of Toronto, is contribut- ing to the "Dominion Illustrated" a series of articles on "Civic Government in Canada." Mr. Sawden is a clever writer a,nd this sub- ject in his hands will be efficiently treated. • The Archdukes of the reigning house of Austria became of age on the twentieth anniversary of their birth. The attainment of his majority by Archduke Joseph Ferdi- nand Solvates, son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a few days ago, was celebrated with considerable pomp at Vienna. The young man is a pupil of the Military Acad- emy in the Austrian Capital. General Obrutcheff, recently placed in command of the Russian armies, is too stout to sit in a saddle and even walks with difficulty. His wife is a Frenchwoman, and he is one of the most enthusiastic ad- vocates of a Franco-Russian alliance. This being so, he is an ardent Pan-Slavist and a bitter foe of everything German. General Obrutcheff is some 65 years of age. Gladstone buys so many books that he invariably demands a discount of 10 per cent. from his booksellers. The story is told that when a dealer in the Strand re - refused to give the discount to the G.O. M. because be was not a bookseller, the ex - Premier replied: "I buy books and I sell them when they have served my purpose; I ought to have the eiscount." But the bookseller refused to give it. Otto, the insane King of Bavaria, is re- ported to have become much worse as the result of his incessant smoking of cigar- ettes, of which he consumed six packages a day. He is at times so violent that it is necessary for his attendants to strap him to his bed. He has daily periods of uncon- sciousness, and has recently been too ill to leave the apartihent ha which he is con- fined. General Lord Wolseley at Sebastopol lost an eye and received a severe wound, the trace of which is clearly visible on his cheek to -day. He was then &young engin- eer officer and stood in the advance line of intrenchments sketching a plan of the works when a round shot struck near him, shattered a gabion full of stones, killed two men, and threw Lord ‘Volseley to the ground. awee -.1114 114C-4WibMict4n4,41.k WaStlie mb of law so far _en-(died4R642),..nini itwas dee ii .`VellfuiStagh. - Blizabeth, thatafWiirdan by mare ally re - Altogether eft/grim& - • living dell becaMe Miehald The details of the shooting of two men by a Berlin sentry, imperfectly reported by cable certainly put a new light upon the act of the Emperor in publicly commending the soldier, and it is only fair that they should be published as widely and as fully as the original story. It appears that the sentry, Private Luck, was on duty in an unfre- quented street at 11:30 p. m., when he was hustled by three men who deliberately blocked his way and insulted him. He boys would join in the hope of ultimately warned them several times, and finally securing their man's wage. At present we thaw no distinction between the two classes, and as a result we fill the ranks with grow- ing lads who have to be paid, clothed, fed, and housed as men, and yet are incapable of doing a man's work. No system could well be more false; no system could be less cal- culated to popularize - the army among the classes to which we look to supply the bulk of our recuits. More important, perhaps, is the question of the service that will be performed by the immature lads. The .Continental armies generally put the age of enlistment in the line at 21 years. It is true that there may not an impulsive act by the Emperor, but / be three years of earlier service, counting the result ot a long and careful examination 1 toward the reserve, or landwehr or milita by the military authorities, five weekstterm which is exactedlike that in the army THE BRITISH -ARMY or Totiqty._ _ Its Numbers, Distributioi, Methods oflie- crafting, and Age Requirements. Fourscore statistical tables, issued by the British war authorities, give the latest information about the strength and com- position of the British army, so far as Bach facts and figures can do it. As in oureewn army, the enlisted strength varies a little from month to month, ac- cording to recruiting and discharges but the average strength for 1891 was 209,699, made up a follows ; Officers, 7,614; war- rant officers, 832; sergeants ese.. 13,199 ;- trumpeters, drummers, itc., 3,368 ; rank and file, 184,686. Dividing it according to stations we find that 104,860 are kept in the British Isles, 72,288 in India, and 32,- 551 in the colonies and Egypt. Another point of interest is the dis- elosure in regard to the territorial system of recruiting. Of the 35,346 recruits during the year, 28,863 were enlisted in England, 3,447 Ir31and, and 3,- 036 in Scotland. London alone fur- nished 59537 men. The London Army and Navy Gazette, which collects the figures for various recruiting districts, con- sidres that the plan of territorial recruiting simply "creates an unnecessary amount of confusion." It does not deny that there are some advantages in such a system for some countries, but questions its value for the British army, "which is a foreign service army, recruited hone a country where the railway system has been brought to the highest perfection." Its argument is that the population, or at least that portion of its which yields soldiers, is so migratory that it is best to take the recruits without reference to territorial divisions and assign- ments. i` The very districts," it holds, "in which county feeling ought to exist are those in which the poorest show of martial enthusiasm is displayed ;" and although manufacturing centres are known to be excellent recruiting fields, yet their popula- tions are more or less roving. Another subject of interest is that of ages. Of last year's British recruits 1,260 joined under 17 years of age, 321 under 18 years, 16,614 under la years, 6,935 under 20 years. 10,967 between 20 and 25 years. On this point the Gazette thinks a mistake is made: Considering the ages at which Continental soldiers enter upon their military training, there is much in these figures which the British taxpayer has to deplore. There is one fact of which we ought to take cogni- zance—the unnecessary outlay which such a system as ours involves. Would it not be better to lay down a rule that a man who enters the ranks of the army should be paid as a man and a boy as a boy? Men might then be attracted in greater numbers, and threatened to arrest them, when one of them drew and brandished a knife. The sentry seized him, but the man broke from him and fled. Luck pursued him, crying "Halt!" to the end of his beat, and then, according to regulations, fired, killing his chief assailant and wounding one of the others. The dead man, who drew the knife, turned out to be one Brandt, who had been convicted of participation in the February riots, and was "wanted" by the police for a murderous assault which he had committed only a few days before his at- tack on the sentry. Luck's promotion was after the shooting. Why there need have been so much delay in finding all this oht no one seems to know. SOME OF THE HEROES. Awful Stories Told by Members of the Rescuing Parties in Oil City. A thrilling story is told by Harry Me- Veagh, a member of a rescuing party which saved a number of lives. The party found eleven persons clinging to the foot bridge crossing at the bead of Seneca street. " Their condition was horrible," I wish that I could close my eyes and shut out the sight. Their clothing was burned off of their bodies, their hair was singed, and their eyes, even, in some cases, were burned out Yet Some of them, I believe, will itself. But this last is the service which Is exclusive, and not carried on with ordinary civil occupations. The British army has five -sevenths of its recruits enlisting under the age of 20. As it is a volunteer service the case is naturally different from that of the Continental armies where military duty is compulsory. Still, there is much specula- tion as to the relative results in efficiency under the diverse systems. Lady Salisbny. Lady Salisbury has never thrust herself into notoriety. Her influence, though un- doubted, has always been ' exerted_ in a wo- man's sphere. Her talent is decided, her intellect strong, her judgment of affairs acute, her instinct not ihcorrect. • She has always seen what was politic for her hus- band to do from her point of Yiewa and urged BOUND FOR ARCTIC REGIONS. A Number of Scientific Men Are i etting • Their Faces Northward. Two well-known Swedish scientific mere Messrs. Bjorling and Kallstemuis, arrived in St. Johns, N. F,, a few days ago. They are commissioned by the Geographical and ZoOlogical societies of Stockholm to ex- plore the shores of Smith Sound, in the Arctic regions, to collect specimens of the flora and fauna of the district, and to take astronomical observations. They will hire a schooner here for their voyage, from which they expect to return in September. Whalers here who are acquainted with the work these explorers have planned for themselves think they cannot carry out the programme. It is believed to be utterly impossible for a sailing vessel to reach Smith Sound this summer in time for the party to do any scientific work and return this season. The last sailing vessel to pass through the difficult ice of Melville Bay was the schooner of Dr. Hayes. He had a terribly hard time of it and could not possib- ly have returned the same season. The sealers and whalers here think that vessels depending on sails alone have no business at all in Melville Bey. It is thought certain that unless the Swedish ex plorers equip their vessel for a stay of a year and a half at least they will either come to grief or will return without having accom- plished anything. Information has been received that a party of Americans is coming to explore Labrador and visit the Great Falls, which were discovered last year. It is reported that the expedition which will leave here about July 1 under the leadership of Prof. ETeilprin of Philadelphia to bring back the Peary party who, it is supposed, have been sledging on the inland ice of North Greenland will bring back as large a collection as possible illustrating the life and arts of the Smith Sound natives for exhibition at the World's Fair. Another American party will leave here soon in order to transport for the World's Fair three villages of different tribes of Eskimos with all their belongings, and also a village of Indians inhabiting the moun- tainous districts in the interior of Labra- dor. Maori Version of the Deluge. According to the tradition in the Ngad. tahu tribe of Maoris, men had become very numerous, and evil prevailed everywhere. The tribes quarrelled, and wars were frequent. The worship of Tane was neglect- ed, and his doctrines were openly denied. Men, says a writer in Science Siftings, utterly refused to believe the teachings of Para-whneuamea and Tupunui-a-uta re- specting the separation of heaven and earth by Tane, and at length cursed these two devout men when they continued their teaching. Then these two teachers were very angry, and got their stone axes and cut down "totara' and other trees, which they dragged together to the source of the River Tohinga (baptism). • They bound the timber together with vines of the pirita and ropes, and made a very wide raft. Then they made incantations, and built a house on the raft, and put much food into it— fern root, kumar (sweet potato), and dogs. Next they repeated their incantations, and prayel. that ram might descend in such abundance as would convince men of the power of Tane, and prove the truth of his existence, and the necessity of the cere- monies of worship for life and for peace, and to avert evil and death. Then these teachers—with Tiu-Rete a female named Waipuna-Nau, and another woman—got on the raft. Tiu, who was the priest on the raft, prayed that the rain might de- scend in great torrents, and when it had so rained. for four or five days and nights he repeated his incan- tetions that it might cease, arid it ceased. The raft was lifted by the waters and float- ed down the river Tohinga. All men and women and children were drowned of those who denied the truth of the doctrines preached by Tane. The legend then gives a detailed account of the wanderings of the raft, and the doings and adventures of its occupants. /Once they saw goddesses wan- dering on the face of the ocean. These came to make a commotion in the sea, that the live. They clung piteously to us as we feeling sheputs her husband's success above ra ft m ight bedestroyed, and those on it might perish. The sea was boisterous, but the him to do it. With a woman's personal and the cries they sent up were the most interests of the government require him at raft and its occupants were not overwhelm- ed. When they had floated about for seven took them from the bridge into our boat, everything. Doubtless believing that the Pitiful that ever reached my ears. There moons, Tiu spoke to his companions, and its head, she thinks everything should be were seven men and four women. The are sacrificed to place or keep him there. If he said, "We shall not die; we shall land on pearance of the latter was particularly dis- the earth," In the eighth month the rolling could do more good by subordinating his tracting. • We have cared for thern the best motion of the raft had changed; it now feelings or repressing his convictions at a we can, but God pity them." crisis he ought to do so, and in the end be William L. Stewart of Siverlyville last able to accomplish more. • pitched up and down and rolled. Tiu then said that the signs cf his staff indicated that his -life while saying others. His body was It is doubtful whether, with a less acute thesea was becoming less deep,and he declare ed that was the month in which they would land on dry earth. They did land at Haw- aiki—the place from which the Maoris, ac- cording to their tradition, migrated to New Zealand. judgment and powerful influence at home, - fearfully burned. John S. Klein, superintendent of thel present position. With another wife he Lord Salisbury would have, achieved all of shops of the National Transit Company, his gave timely warning of the disaster, thereby might have remained a stabberd obscure saving many lives. °He was near the tunnel i Tory lord, consistent but coniparatively on the, Lek e Shore road, when the pungent odor of benzine -borne on the breeze attract- ed los attention. Knowing that some acci- dent must have happened upstream, or that a volume of oil was floating down the creek, e recognized at once the fearful result that would ensue if it should catch fire. Running as fast as he could frombouse to house he shouted: "Put out your fires and run for -your lives." Many heeded him and fled to the hills. He had not gone far before a flash as if from some huge thunder- bolt illuminated the valley, and in an instant a wall of flame arose from the creek, enveloping everything within the compass, of the rushing water hi its awful grasp. Jestbefore the fire a little boy was found clinging to a plaelt insthe :week. Yves unimportant, writing fine criticisms of some other premier. Yet no one believes that Lord Salisbury is anything but a strong man ; no one supposes he is managed or controlled unduly by feminine wiles. He simply has a mate worthy of him; who in- spires and suggests and encourages and con- forms. , • Lady Salisbury is no longer ayoung wo- man, but she is attractive stille Though never a beauty, she was at her prime genial in appearance and generorisly formed. Her fair complexion and light.hair and eyes are thoroughly Saxon and her proportions not unseemly. She dresses with all the magni- ficence proper to her rank ; her manner is sufficiently distinguished if not absolutely imposing; she entertains not only grandly rescued, but died in a few minutes after be- bet agreeably, and, more than many boy English hostesses, succeeds in making her ing taken out of the water. While the guests really at their ease. Her blond, physical type is in marked contrast with Lord Salisbury's dark eyes and hair and heavy beard. was being taken out the rescuers saw a dead baby float down the river with the drift just after the explosion. Thomas McGinnis rescued a little bay 3 years old who had fallen in the mud. The child said his naine was Johnny Green. Aliva After Execution. That weird story comes from Texas of the negro who Was hanged upon the scaffold until justice was satisfied that he was legal- ly dead, and who afterwards came to life and is noyv able to polish off a 'possum in first-class style,. reminds me that there are several casesonrecord of criminals surviv- ing judicial execution. More than six cen- thrice ago Jiietta de Belsham hanged for "What will you give for it, miss?" was the counter -question. "Half-a-croven." - "Very wen, said the 'AVOrati. "Lets see the *nese"- If was produced, and the sale Made. The ,little.girl took the baby, carried it upstairse' and laid it on her bed, and after she had fondled it -" MoUgh for Mice," scampered -downstairs, calling to her mother: " " Mamma, mamma ! I've gat a live doll ! 'soon 'after married.. In 1808 -one John I always -wanted one, and now I've ite"- _Green was hanged 1» London and recovered 'The baby was found, and the the dissecting table of Surgeon Wizard. ly toll; but though the bsggar; eveote Neks- Ac fi.Ainaigi_Heloaletifdoruthagtis Maggie." "note" heisvvthe hsat esoughtoubthde. town, no trace Axtr.hfilieers in Edinburgh in 1140 dame to life while little" owner" begged SO hard that itshould being taken to potter's field and Iived for be kept that the parents Her B arg Etan- The following true story illustrates the truth that if one really desired' an article, the most sensible may is to purchase it as soon as an opportunity -mei -M. = _ little girl near as one day playing before the house, wheniae Woman appeared and begged a few pence. S -e had a baby in her arms, and the child was so delighted with the little thingethat she asked the we - man if she would 84'0 to her. threesdayie was cut down and pardoned,the. superstitious people believing that God had otherwise. Obadiah Walker, a former meiter. of New College, Oxford, Eng-. land;tells of a Swiss who was hanged thir- teen times, every attempt being frustrated by a peculiarity of the windpipe which pre- vented strangulation. Ann Green, who was hanged in Oxford in 1650-, survived the ordeal, was pardoned by the crown andwas • Talk From a Horse. bon't ask me to back with blinds on. I am afraid to. Don't lend me to some blockhead that has less sense than I have. Don't think because I am a horse that iron -weeds and briers don't hurt my hay. Don't be careless of my harness as to find a great sore on me before you attend to it. Don't run me down a steep hill, for ff anything should give way I might break your neck. Don't whip me when I get frightened salong the road, or I will expect it next time and maybe make trouble. Don't think because I go free under the whip I don't ret tired. You would move up if under tle whip. • Don't put on my blind bridle so that it irritates my eyes, or so' leave my forelock that it will be in my eyes. • Don't hitch me to an iron post or railing when the mercury is below freezing. I need the skin on my tongue. Don't keep my stable very dark, for when I go out into the light my eyes are injured, especially if snow be on the ground. Don't leave me hitched in my stall at night with a big cob right where I must lie down, I am tired and can't select a emooth place. Don't forget to file my teeth when they get jagged and .1 cannot chew My food. When I get lean, it is a sign my teeth want filing. Don't make me drink ice-cold water, nor put a frosty bit in my mouth. Warm the bit by holding a half minute against my • body. • Don't compel Inc to eat more salt than I want by mixing with my oats. I know better than any other animal how much I need. • Don't say whoa unless you mean it. Teach me to stop at the word. It may check me if the lines break, and save a runaway and smash-up. Don't trot me up hill, for I have to carry you and the buggy and myself, too. Try it ymuself some time. Run up hill with a 4ig load. 41, • French Royalists are said to be alarmed at the friendly attitude of the Pope toward the Republics CURIOSITY Bnrthng of an Oak 1,100 'ream out The other day an unusual Byre taste was witnessed in the Home park at Hampton court, w hen a magnificent oak growing about 20 yards from the long water was discovered to be on fire. The Palace fire brigade, touter Superintendent Moorman, were quickly on the spot, and the alarm having been selle Kingston and Surbiton, the stanmers from those places arrived shortly afterwards, a copious supply of water, pumped from the Long water, being poured on the burning oak. The tree is said to be 1,100 years old, and one of the eight largest oaks in England. It is 33 feet in circumference, having art average diameter of 11 feet. "I'le3 trunk is hollow for about 10 feet, and several of the larger branches above that are also in a de- cayed condition. It was in the hollow of the oak that the fire burned fiercest, and as the flames spread from branch to branch the effect was singular in the extreme. The fire was extinguished in a few hours, but not before the fine old tree had been almost completely destroyed. The cause of the fire is unknown, Horseflesh as Food. Horseflesh for food has increased wonder- fully in popularity in France. At Paris, the first horse butchery was opened cm duly 9, 1866, andein that year 902 horses !Fere slaughtered. Through seventeen years the business steadily increased, and the count shows that 203,537 solipeds were consumed in the city. On Jan. 1, 1889, the horse butcheries numbered 132. In other cities of France the output of the horse butcheries is enormous. Hippophagy is also in great favor at Rotterdam. Horse meat is used there as humall food to an extent that is un- known in Denmark, Sweden and Switzer- land, as well as in parts of Italy. It is extensively used in Milan, while it is scorn- ed in Turin. In the latter city only fifty- five horses were slaughtered in 1888, and the flesh was used exclusively for feeding the animals of a menagery. A Spanish writer regrets that hippophagy is not adopted in Spain, where it would benefit numerous poor laborers, to whom ordinary meat is an article of luxury on account of its high price. In Paris, the price of horse meat is about half that of beef for corres- ponding cuts. The Temple of Baal. There rises a huge wall 70 feet high, tit - closing a square court of which the side is 740 feet long. Part of the wall, having fallen into ruins, has been rebuilt from the ancient materials, but the whole of the north side, With its beautiful pilasters, re- mains perfect. As the visitors enter the court they stand still in astonishment at the extraordinary sight which meets their eyes; for here, crowded within those four high walls, is the native village of Tadmor. It was natural enough for the arabs ta build their mud huts within these ready- made fortifications, but the impression pro- duced by such a village in such a place is in- describably strange. The temple, so to speak, is eaten out at the core, and little but the shell remains. But here and there a fluted Corinthian column or group of col- umns, with entablature still perfect, rises in stately grace far over the wretched huts, the rich, creamy color of the limestone and the beautiful moldings of the capitals con- trasting with the clear blue of the cloudless sky. The best view of the whole is to be obtained from the roof of the naos, which, once beautiful and adorned with sculpture, is now all battered and defaced and has been metamorphosed into a squalid little mosque. To describe the view from that roof were indeed a hopeless task. High in- to the clear blue air and the golden sun- shine rise the stately columns; crowded and jumbled together below, untouched by the gladdening sunbeams, unfreshened by the pure, free air, lies all the squalor and wretchedness of an Arab mud -hut village. The Eagle as a Symbol. The history of the eagle as the symbol ol idea Roman Empire, and of other powers maiming succession to the same, is here fully stated. In Europe there are still the eagles of Austria, Russia and Germany, besides others pertaining to minor principalities. An able writer remarks that" owing to the res- toration of the Western erapire during the rule of the Byzantine Ciesars, the world has never since (the time of Augustus) been without one or two Emperors of the Romans. The present Austrian Emperor, though holding scarcely a province of Adrian's, is the direct successor of Charlemagne who was crowned in Rome Emperor of the Romans, the sixty. ninth from Augustus." The Czar of Russia bears the doubleheaded eagle, which was as- sumed by the Grand Duke Ivan 13asilovitz, who in 1472 married Sophia daughter of Thomas Paleologus and niece of the last Emperor of Byzantium, Constantine XIV. The German Emperor reigns over some Roman provinces and bears a single -headed eagle with the crown of Charlemagne. The single -headed eagle, assumed with the im- perial title by the first Napoleon Bonaparte, sets forth the union of the whole Roman Empire as the traditional aim of his family. All this strikingly harmonizes with the ad- mitted fact of the continuance to the pres- ent time, though in a divided state, to the Roman Empire, and suggests thoughts as to what may be the ultimate useanbag of the words, " Wheresoeveirthe body is thither will the eagles be gathered together." Nails It is safe to say that not one person fn * thousand is able to give the origin of the terms tea -penny, sit -penny, two -penny, tee., as applied to nails. For many years these useful commodities were made a speci- fied number of pounds to the thousand, and this standard is still recognized in England and other countries. Fer instance, in the first -named locality, a ten -penny nail is understood to be one of a kind of which it wOuld require 1,000 to make ten pounds, and a six -penny nail one of a lot of which an equal number would comprise six pounds. "Penny" is really a eurvival of the Eng- lish "pun," a corruption of " poinid,i' as originally intended. Formerly the pound mark (E) followed the figures designating the size of the nails, -thus : 2E, 6E, 10E, and so on, but this in time gave way to the peace mark (d), as at the present time. • An Inherited Attitnde. Father—" Your school report is general. ly good, but -you are marked very 16w in deportment. Why Is that?" Boy—" I always forght and stand on one foot and rest the other on a. railing or some. thing when I reeite and teacher marks me for that. I told her I couldn't -help it and she says maybe I inherited it." • "Inherited it I!' "Yessir. She said that's the way. me$ stand when they are talkinwiner e DUNG A Rainy Setin, rain, go aw s Phcebe's in despa •Come again anoth When the trees a When the skies a plc When the birds ha - When there not The bee can call h When the leaves a All about the lawn When the wind is For the summer g That's the time fo No matter how it And Phoebe then To play all day ind !' WHICH AS Oh, Mamma !" cried I don, " you should have he's been telling such a rid—he says—' and th account of a profane an conversation he had hear school a few minutes pr " Ilarold !" exclaime scarlet face and eyes fia pain and anger, " nsv speak of such things a wicked of Dick Stuart, naughty little boy to 1 have grieved me greatly "But Mamma, Dick s true and—" Not another word, wicked boy. You must again. Good little boys Listen th such talk as tba, to your play, but reme has told you." Ashamed, although no Harold ran out of the honorable and dutiful li tried not to think of w but occasionally it occu of his efforts, "1 shall ask papa ; he fria always shuts me u little indignantly; but t in the bud. Mr. Brandon returned ter, and Harold followed library, where his mothe He teas wondering how father's undivided atten utes, when Mrs. Brand° "Henry, do you kno has been very naughty? tening to such horrid ta and repeated it to me. • She glanced at her hus with an expression her I meant a great deal mor Mr. Brandon was a quiet his profession, and with his wife's ability to tmi the way he should go. He and on the present occasi self with saying: "That was very wron must not listen to anyth mother or I would be neither must you repeat s Certainly,to his mother However, his parents h him to play with Dick St of his wickedness Dick w antest and jolliest boy in against his conscience, H be very friendly with him became quite aecustome language, and although i deal at first, for he was little lad, the evident ap the older boys had such an plastic mind that he bega positively manly. A yea ,• mother have heard him dis miring group of schoolboy would almost have broke minded little Harold wa yet neither of his parents grew th manhood; tall, and energetic. He was a and greatly sought after, high principled and self co sipated in any way, he ye in the society of men who When he was twenty -set with a beautiful girl of tw fortunate_enoueh to win h Grace Bethune was as as she was clever and pre intensely refined that it wa that she did not feel that mind was out of unison w perhaps not either, for she women who instinctively b there is in their associat sense of unworthiness may deal to do with it. He felt • the effort of his life to be her and, happily for both, not wear off after they wer One evening. a month o raarriage he thoughtlessly e in a manner that made Gr him in honor. "You do not really inea not beposSible that you r views?' she said, tremu seemed to him as he looked pained fags, and dark, hor he had not meant it, altho one of his pet theories amo " No—no ! I merely g, most men take." "Never speak so again, earnestly. "Do not associa are so immoral, for immo at heart anyway, to hold s if you were to speak an manner, it would almost k "11 it did not kilt her, it ' slay her love for me to len I must be careful and shun her husband thought "hounds," as he called the been his dearest associates, a ered very eligible young m mammas in town, but Har undergoing a great change. wife were more constantly! - most husbands and wives, a aluc thoroughly disgusted anitheste and unrefined. Yet watch himself, lest he sh -7,-1enthis mind had been in.ch life was very harq *scOvered ere the honeyme rhusbandwas not qui.te-&', hatt pictured him, but he ws, • her and so unselfishly anxioi piooss that, . like a seasibU she kept her disappointmee seemed only to remember ti unfailingelevotion she wasbli She realized this more and is' held the many tmhappy hon and neglected wives aftioni alms. Then too, she tho haps hoe hasiand had been her, although she fondly ho] ed not. Years alter theyhatilsem old Brandon was lying on t wife' e prstty rating room- • suffgring with a neuralgic • wife was rating boAde Win wiling temples With ieoft 8 tooth. Just as she Mat;