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Home My WebLink AboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-11-17, Page 3`.1 EHARA. ha Chinese inel Drifts ✓ aesengers by Leavy rvlvors hi :ate' Lives Stearnehip sceived the Dm Hong steamship eked. The; and of the or Fishers' be Chinese, China Sea. the raging ie steamer. T,eable and majoeity of Twenty - It is feared costly Eur - each Hong next. The ded to the left Shang - ill and the ►loft to ride to be ap- t was blow - was to the i•phoons are i the corn- ea diel not vas running ere made to th the wind 4culiarity of Soon a ter- n the steam- ipty bottle. d down, but n tore the itches them• overboard. er the open - 'vice in pre- : the hold, 3ntered the ur into the effort was (gain on the heir utmost Ifg the pas. Ilowed on h they fully more calm Among the They were een for the w many of rown them- emen were ing in the er the fires y boiler on , however, rk, keeping pidly as it ce the fires anageable. as Sterni the steamer t they had and carried sails were st. now most ewn out to Sad, but she Ig and pitch - is that wase faking clean Mand shriek- was heard, wore drift- , noise they ars crashing ilinding rain d in a few Everybody sengers had ;se were of i were swept seas break- ble to lower and side of pieces soon on the lee reuse of the r s decks. f the deck ,ey afforded. er the vesse. f tbem hay - saved man - arts to holt/ Then thea d condition. ;ued will be slay. The o the wreck. s very Yalu- , amount of of silk. masted iron is. She was and 29 feet ick in 1873 a that port. iwere of the 11thesteams fed. Twenty ee sergeants e among the Lowson and lies. 14 belong to has a patent paper. inventor of .re -bottomed sing the ag- tudying vet - he Denmark ea appointed ,ensive farm.] is probably d the battle neighboring the evening Her mental ttle Alabama sight at the, e_ She enter - he Blind, is. :sides taking anguages she ?ears ago she k, and enter - r Deaf Child- teak distinct. lata is well. IN 13..J.iA lR,ANGLEB°S GRID.... Exai till; Adventure o:' an English Engineer in India. 'Me Urine,, Detection, Confession, and Exec,,elou of the Last Member of the Tetibie Religions Sect of the Ruane Voiintry—Dow Peter Killed the Sergeant aad Hew he Failed to Kill the Sahib •--liis Grief at`onsnecess, and 1114 Fatal- istic Belief Which Led to Co iyesston. Three years after the Sepoy rebellion had been put down in India, and with the coun- try under such military and legal discipline as ft had never known before, I was at Hy- derabad, a large town 500 miles east of Bombay, in the province of Dekkan. It was there that a band of profession 1 thugs numbering thirty-two met was captured and executed in 186') The vigorous search after and prompt punishment of criminals was having a due effect, and not a case of poisoning or strangling had been known about Hyderabad for several months. In fact these two classes of murderers were sup- posed to have become extinct in that prov- ince. One morning a ryot, or farmer, was found dead on the public square, and it was speedily discovered that he had been choked to death. The imprints proved it to be the work of a strangler. The thug used a cord, while the strangler used his fingers. His marks could not be mistaken. He brought his thumbs together on the "Adam's apple," whi'e the ends of the fingers got their pur- chase just below the victim's ears. Some- times the fingers clinched his ears or hair. The ' mark" was always plain to be seen on the neck. Now and then asucvictim h ca wawas the et - tacked from behind. strangler's thumbs were brought together on the back of the neck, and his fingers were locked together over the " apple." Several suspects were arrested, but noth- ing came of it. About twenty days after the first case a woman was found dead with- in three blocks of the public square, and she had also fallen a victim to the strangler. Not only had she been choked to death, but her neck was broken. The police were again aroused, and bodies of cavalry scour- ed the country and brought in dozens of suspicious characters, but as in the other case nothing could be proven and all had to be released. At the investigation almost e'; ery suspect made the same reply as fol- lows : "No, sahib, I am ashamed to admit that I am not guilty of this. crime. We are no longer men, but slaves. I no longer have 1 courage, but am a coward and dare not lift my hand." Ten days later the strangler counted his third victim, and this time it was a Euro- pean. Only at rare intervals before the mutiny had a European fallen a victim to the professionel3 of any class. It seemed to he. an understood thing with all not to med- dle with them in any manner. The victim in this case was a clerk in the civil -service department attached to the tax collector's office, I believe. He lead been ill for a week or two and was occupying a room in a bungalow in the heart of the town. Ten or a dozen clerks kept "bachelors' hall" to- gether and there were half a dozen native servants to take care ,of the place. This clerk, whose name was Adams, had a native man for a nurse, but was almost conva- lescent. One night at 10 o'clock he sent his f a nine nurse srsaent. The nurse was absent about a note to a, bunealow three quarters of an hour and upon his return he found Adam dead. There was the mark on his throat and there was no question about his having been the victim of a pro- fessional, and probably of the same fiend who had strangled the other two. bite The police and the military now q lost their heads. During the following week there were about 700 arrests, some of them being made 203 miles away. Nothing like detective work was attempted, and as a consequence every suspect had to be dis- charged for want of any evidence against him. The authorities seemed to go on the idea that if a sufficient uudiber ofpeople were arrested the guilty party would somehow betray himself. Strong efforts were made in three or four cases to convict on shady himand he got revenge. Tien -se I eau find a buyer. knew he hada monke at the stabteand I y his explanation was perfectly satisfactory. The matter was forgotten in a moment and it would' never have occurred to me "again but for what followed. It was'a''scorching hot day, and after an hour's work we sought the shade to rest. As I was lighting my pipe for a smoke Peter observed that he was v ry thirsty and would visit a spring he knew of about a quarter of a mite away. The field on which we were working had once been cleared, but was now pretty well grown over with bushes and small trees. He disappeared at y back and I gave him no ii` -fTea *mkt ,RBL .►.--fl4eQY� �0'�oie-sury - '.-onrioat. �.9ii.dhy:end•. anavigate -dears As cocouiti-not navig Vers -i$ TOrQRto. _ - ta�ecl - to lien sttt sP ac �. TBat aeeet .-44s= i ns 11 then#ace -We were.far#ram Iielp and all night we stayed therewith starvation "D.. A. Ti,,kis, Little Curr appeared on the This name and address we had escaped the fierce billows only to register at the Walker house early last die of hunger. _ week. The. name is one which ten years f� During the night I fell asleep, but not ado was familiar to- almost every person n to rest. In my dren.nis 1 saw again the Ontario as that of the sole male survivor of ti,,.,„,,,.o „f the da.e.r, us and -starting up the Asia - ent.” staring us in the face until it seemed ae if suddenly I fell into tee water. I struck The Asia, it will be remembered, . was .a out, but in the darkness and confusion I propellor that went down in Georgian bay took the wrong direction and'soon found myself heading P ten years ago last month, carrying with her, sa cares m , with the exception of Mr. further thought for many minutes. notes when all of a sudden it struck me Morrison, the 200 unfoftunates who formed out my hook and was making some field her passenger list and crew. In conversation with a reporter Mr. Tinkis yesterday told again the story of that ter - that Peter had a peculiar look as he explain - hands, I remembered that his face harden- ed how he had received the wounds on his rible disaster. "I went aboard at Owen Sound, in company with my uncle, on the ed and that there was a cruel glitter in his night of the 13th of September, 1882," he eyes. Things of this sort never strike one said. "It was blowing heavily from the at the moment but are vivid when recalled. southeast at the time, but we were anxious When I remembered his looks I wondered to reach our home on the. Manitoulin, and that he had not killed the monkey for at besides we did not anticipate any special tacl.ing him, and I reflected that the man danger. must have a hot temper when aroused. I "The steamer was billed to call at do not suppose I devoted over five minutes French River, on the east shore of Georgian to this train of thought. As time passed by Bay, on the way up. We went to bed soon I forgot my surroundings while busy with afteroing on board and. although a gale the pencil. Peter had been gone about was raging all night, we did not feel it very thirty minutes, as I afterward figured up, much until morning, as we were still when I was soddenly clutched by the throat. under shelter of the Bruce peninsula. I was leaning back against a tree hardly „about seven o'clock, as we changed our larger than a man's arm, and was reclining course to run straight afiross the bay for to the left. My eyes caught no glimpse of French River, the sea, now quartering aft, anything, nor had my ears detected the began to shake us up pretty well. Very slighest sound to put me on my guard.few had breakfast on this account, but still The first sensation was exactly like that no great alarm was felt. At nine of failing. I remember a roaring in my THE SEA WAS RAGING ears and fireworks dancing before my eyes, and from that until ten the crew was busied and 1 was perfectly cousciuus that my throat in throwing over freight. was in the clutch of human fingers. What " Between ten and eleven the excitement saved me was the tree and the position in was terrible. Men and women, crazed which I sat. I did not realize that I strug- with fear, were rushing around tearing the gled to break the clutch, but i did put forth hair from their heads in handfuls. Rev. a mighty effort. My tight shoulder and Mr. James, who had been a missionary at arm were a lever against the strangler's the Island, was one of the few passengers right wrist, and as I heaved I broke his who kept cool and he went about among clutch and leaped to my feet. It was Peter, the others administering the consolations of as you have suspected. He had only gone religion, and urging all to be calm. a few rods away and then turned and crept „13ut it was of no use. The wind sud- back on me like a serpent. His route was denly chopped from the southwest to the through bushes and vines, but when I came northwest, and with a crash the vessel to go over it I could not find that he had rolled over on her beam ends. The sea broken a twig. My springing up threw hien was now like a mountainous whirlpool down, but he was on his feet like a cat, and and the ship was helpless. The aft gang - with a cry like that of au enraged beast he way, leading from the promenade to the sprang for my throat again. His eyes were main deck, was jammed with inen, women, fairly blazing, his face distorted with pas- and children who could get neither up nor sion, and I realized in an instant that it was down. At every pitch this mass would bis life or mine. - writhe and twist like a serpent while the He clutched for my throat with his right waves broke over them from above. The hand as we rolled about and I caught the horses in the meantime•—there were about ends of his first two fingers ineny teeth and ten of them aboard—had broken loose and bit to the bone. That one bite gave me at every roll they were thrown from one victory. Still gripping his fingers I strug- side of the main deck to the other. gled to my knees, reached for my revolver, About this time my uncle and I, with and I had the muzzle against his. body when the thought flashed across my mind that he was the professional strangler wanted by the police. Up to that instant I had no thought as to why he attacked me. When I dropped his fingers and covered him with the revolver he made no further resistance. The native of India, like the Arabs, believes in fate. " Sahib, you have won," he said as I stood over him. " It was to be, and so it is. Do as you will with me." " Peter, why should you seek my life?" I asked, even yet half hoping there might be some mistake about it. " Why did I strangle the others, sahib? A voice commanded me, and I obeyed." " Good heavens ! but you are not the murderer of the farmer, the clerk, and the soldier—you who have been considered so faithful to the English?" " Even so, sahib. It was to be and it is. Take me to the police and I will admit everythingand die like a man." 'inkts and Miss I had OUT INTO THE LAKE. I. turned back and in a few minutes reached the shore, but at another point. Then I called for Miss Morrison but she was too weak to answer, and it was not until after a considerable time had elapsed that I found her. - "At last, on Saturday morning about 9, we saw a sail. We were both almost deliri. ous and thought it a large vessel, although ie was only an Indian mackinaw. I hoist- ed my coat on the oar and the Indian came over. "We had practically been without food since the previous Wednesday evening, and this was near noon on Saturday. But the Indian had fat pork and `choke dog,' and from that I obtained the best meal I ever had in my life. "I tried to get the Indian to take us to Manitoulin, but that was eighty miles off and too far for the Indian. Instead he agreed toturn us into Parry Sound and we reached there Sunday morning. Thefirst man I inet was `Josh' Belcher, then of the Belle, but now purser of the Atlantic. You may be sure I never was so glad to see anyone in my life. "J. C. Miller —he is dead n0W, poor fel- low --took charge of me. Never shall I for- get his kindness or that of his family. They could not have done more for me had I been their own son." The Sort erg- ' Sonthera�= lel- It was a party `.z�f four- iircF;oliai$ • e lows who found - t`hemsplvea'after�a weary and dangerous,..journey-:of-sidays' from Westport on the top of Mount William, of the Southern: Alps of - New- Zealand, in November, last.: - They ha pitched their tent in a gully that seemed to -have been the refuge of mo-. squitees for centuries, but by lying close to the fire and smoking heavy tobacco they managed to get a little rest._ They had brought four dogs with them for the pur- pose -of hunting the pigs, but whether it was advisable to take them after the goats was a matter of much discussion. Finally it was agreed cion to leave them tied up at the tent. Early in the following morning they set out and soon found that a herd of goats had lately been near their last camp. They haatend on in pursuit through a wild, weird coin' - v. Sometimes they struggled through the rise forest with thick underwood that greatly impeded their advance and tore their stout buckskin clothing into shreds.w growing, beautiful ferns, rough, gigantic brakes and millions of parasitical plants with white and red flowers surrounded them on every side, while a hundred singing birds warbled and flitted merrily from tree to tree. Then again they would be forced to creep on hands and knees over and under immense boulders or, with the greatest dif- ficulty, to round a craggy precipice„ where the slightest giddiness meant a horrible death in the chasm that waited silently be- low to destroy the men who had dared tempt its cruelty. THE QUARRY IN SIGHT. testimony, u a b t fter a few weeks ev I drove him before me until we encounter- ed a troop of cavalry which had been scour- ing the country for suspects, and which was then returning to town with no less than twenty-six prisoners. Had Peter denied his admissions to me nothing could have been proved, and he only would have been punished for assault. But he felt that fate had delivered him into the hands of his enemies, and he was willing to help convict Y himself, He gave the particulars of eaen Mr. Tinkis was a youth of about eigh- teen when the disaster occurred. He is now a prosperous business Ulan at Little Current and shows no ill-effects of the hor- rible experiences of ten years ago. But his eye moistens and his voice shakes even yet when that awful time is recalled to his memory. STEAM ENGINE LORE. Morland, in 1683, built steam engines for mines. Watt's patent for road engine was issued in 1784. Saeery, 1698, built an engine to drive a mine pump. In 1769 Robinson suggested to Watt the road engine. 4114e, - - _ �ounda reel ytba re is to b waam t' ggle= Weitivei reiteguns other impediments from `im and abide. of time, spear in hand; The boara striae tp slash the dogs with their long,curvedtusks but the hounds nimbly evade olein, at the same time biting at the flank and ear of th pigs. The latter see us and make desperate efforts to shake off the dogs and atteek the; men. The excitement increases, for the sow has come upon the scene, and in self, defence we are obliged to dispatch her. One of the boars, with a dog han:ang to its leg, makes a rush toward George Williams. He stands coolly awaiting the onslaught with his feet firmly planted on the earth, and holding the spear poised in both his hands, He i;3 a strong man, and we are all sure that he will be lucky this time in downing the first game. Zish—goes the spear into the side of the boar, but instead of falling it rushes on, forcing poor George to the ground. A NARROW ESCAPE. Beforewe can cdTe to his aid the mad' dened beast bas gashed him twice in the thigh. With a cry of horror we see the ground wet with his blood. But before, brute has time to do further injury the three of us have sent home our spears. Even then the boar tries to rise and do us battle, but Kerrigan falls across him and sends his sheath knife deej, into the heart. One of us attends to George, while the other two de- fend themselves against the second boar, which is killed only after a fierce struggle. George Williams received two very severe flesh wounds, seven and nine inches deep 'respectively. They are sewed together, and George was carried to the camp, where we were obliged to remain a fortnight before the Sufferer could proceed. Sometimes wild boars are hunted on horseback with spears, and this fashion is doubly dangerous. I was once present at a hunt of this kind in which a wealthy young Nelsonian was literally gashed to death after he had been thrown from his horse by a big black boar, who cut open his stomach with a stroke as clean and straigho as that a knife could make. SURVEY OF GEORGIAN BAY- -Capt. ISoniton Gives a Reporter an Insight Into the Work that Has Been Done. But suddenly dangers were forgotten, for beyond a sharp turn, and about half a mile away, e herd of goats were seen lazily pick- ing up a little food or chewing their cuds; several little kids gamboled about in the heyday of youth and carelessnesa, while a noble specimen of a buck stood contemplat- ing his kingdom. Approaching warily under shelter of trees or rocks, and against the wind, we could see that he was a magnificent creature, standing over four feet high, with colossal ringed horns of about twenty inches in length; his beard was only a few inches from the ground, and a shaggy black and white coat of long hair gave him a formid- able appearance and made him look much larger than he really was. Our eyes water- ed with delight as we took stock of hien, and each mentally determined to secure the prize. As we came slowly nearer and nearer, the "Billy " became more and more suspi- cious of some unseen enemy who was threatening the safety of himself or some of his subjects. He sniffed the wind, looked up - and down and all around, walked majestically hither and thither, while his family rose and followed. Something had frightened him ; what could it be? Look ! they are scared and are scampering off. An expletive escapes each man's lips as we all find all our hopes so rudely shattered. But what was the cause ? See, there it is. "Well, I'm blest !" exclaimed Jack Petitt. "Look, Nero's got loose and has followed us." Sure enough, there was the dog. Every gun was leveled at the poor panting be st to punish hint for his faithfulness, but better impulse saved him. No more work for that day. We slept on the spot. In the morning we secured Nero more firmly Comte d'Auxiron built steamboat on Loire a number o e f the passengers,moved up to in 1774. the pwimenade deck forward of the cabin. Watt, 1765, invented condenser separate W. D. Henry, of King Township, was there, too. In a little while we were join- ed by Purser McDougall, carrying the books belonging to his office. As soon as I saw that I knew that whatever hope there might have been before was all gone. " The cabin was already broken in at several points, but still the old craft float- ed. At last, about 11.30, she pitched up by the bead and went down stern first, the cabins breaking .off, and the boats, crowded with people, floating as she did so. " At the very first sea, however, the cabin went to smash and the mass of people hanging on to it were thrown into the sea, which was now running steadily from the northwest and in mountainous waves. I wan in one of the wooden boats. It was CRAMMED WITH PEOPLE erson who had been arrested was set at murder with such detail that no doubt could liberty. Being new to the country, an having taken a great interest in the work of exterminating the " professionals, I asked for information on every hand. One dayy, fear that he might be su=petted, though a be c taveraing wither Maj. Burke on the subject matter of fact he would have been among the very last to fall under the an. "I had no thought of strangling you his uwhen we started out,"he said to me after trial. "It was only after you had noticed my hands. While you appeared indifferent, I was afraid that you suspected. and could have snatched away your pistol you dead, or I could have beaten Son to death with a club, but my creed would not permit. I must either strangle you or let you live wa north asbeen ssful fastiasiould have madee myy Y pos- sible." He did not hesitate to tell the police that he was a professional strangler, and it was with considerable pride that he exhibited his flattened thumbs and illustrated the manner in which the deadly clutch was made. He had been a professional for upward of twenty years. He spent one whole day making out a list of dates, localities, and victims, and the ur ruber of murders was ran up to forty-two or forty- three, �g- three, and there were seven Europeans among them. He begged no one's -forgive- ness—had no apologies to offer. Peter went to the gallows with the utmost indifference; He did not even betray the anxiety of a man walking about the street. He was, I believe, the last professional strangler executed in tbat province, al- though his class flourished elsewhere and were picked up one by one for many years atter. exist. It was the sergeant who had lacerat- ed his hands. He was keeping shady while he waited for them to heal. He woald not have accompanied me that day but for the he explained : " In my time I have inspected the hands of at least a score of stranglers. Their strength lies mostly in wrist and fingers. Before graduating as professionals they practice on dummies and resort to certain gymnastics to strengthen the parts I have named. This man now among ns is certain- ly a professional. If arrested you will find his thumb flattened on the ball. If I were a detective I should go about looking at thumbs. In most instances the victim leaves scratches or cuts on the bands of the assassin, which would further help to identify him in case. of suspicion." From that time on I instinctively glanced at the hands of every native with whom I came in contact, but without cothe slightestf ate hopeof making any Y Five weeks after the murder of the clerk the strangler was heard from again. This time his victim was a sergeant of infantry, and he met hie death on the highway be- tween tk,e town and the camp. It was about 9 o'clock in the evening when he started for camp, and it was known that he was considerably under the influence of liquor. He was almost a giant in size and strength, and it was reasonable to conclude that he had made something of a struggle, even though half drank end taken unawares. Indeed, when the surgeon came to look him aver blood wasfound in his finger nails to prove that he had lacerated the hands of his murderer. This was a point to go, but was not even considered by the _ authorities. They followed the course previously pur- sued and made severel hundred arrests. On the third day after the sergeant's, death I bad a bit of chain work to do on a piece of land two miles east of the town, and my helper was a native who had served in the department for a year. He was a middle-aged man, very slender, and his weight was not above 120 pounds. He had drifted . into the town at the close of the war, and it was said of him that he came from the north and had been faithful to the English during the strngele. When field he had the acting care of some hoas a in thehelper be- longing to the department. The only name that he was known by was Peter. When I sent him word that I wanted him he re- turned a reply that he was ill, but half an hour later he put in an appearance and ex- plained that he was feeling better. We had reached the field and had fairly begun work when my attention was attracted to his hands. The backs of both were scratched and lacerated, though the wounds were half healed. "It was the monkey at the stables who d16 it, sahib," he explained as he held up Ma baste for inspection ; " I was teasing from cylinder. Comte de Jouffroy built steamboat on Saone in 1783. Potter, a boy, in 1783, made the valve gear automatic. A working steam engine was invented by Papin in 1681. Giambattista, 1601, made a steam pump for mining use. Rornblower, in 1781, solved the problem of double action. In 1769 Cugnot, French,made an excellent road engine. Blasco de Geray built a steamship at Bar-- elona in 1543. Watt's expansion engine brought to per- fection in 1778. • Beighton, in 1718, substituted a plug rod for cords to valves. The Aeolopile, a steam engine, invented B. C. 241, by Hero. Watt, in 1778, solved the problem of ro- tary motion engines. Smeaton, in 1764,built a seventy•two•incli cylinder engine. Watt, 1781, built the first complete double action engine and scores hung on by the sides, and others further out in the water clung to then again. But this could not last long. The sea soon broke the hold of those in the water and filled our boat at the same time. " As she was about to sink I sprang over and swam for the metallic lifeboat. There were great combs on every wave, and these, loaded with floating debris, broke over my head every time I came up on the crept. My hands and head were both cut and bleeding, but I reached the lifeboat and managed to clamber in. "Notwithstanding the horror of the scene, it was incomparably grand and awe- inspiring. Every time we went down -in the hoilow we seemed in a valley of endless length with towering mountains on both sides. Some were still hanging to pie es of floating wreck, but we were driving fast before the sea and soon lost sight of wreck- age and the other boats as well. " Behind was the gulf into which two hundred had rust sunk out of sight, all about was a mountainous sea and no land was visible from any quarter. There were about thirty people in the boat when I first got in, but, as we only had one oar and mile not direct her, she upset in passing over almost every wave and at each upset some were lost. "There were two brothers -Sparks, of Ottawa—aboard- They were splendid fel- lows. At one upset a woman grasped one about the neck and pulled him down. The other seized the life line and held on to the side for two hours. We each had all we could do to take care of ourselves and none could give him a hand. He was too we to pull himself in, but for two hours he held fast to the line and floated. It was the exhibitionfinest nerve endurance ever saw in my life. But at last hehad ter let go and was drowned. " About. 7.30 in the evening we came in sight of Bying Inlet light. The wind had gone down, but the sea was still high. Of the thirty with whom we started but six were now left : Capt. Savage, Mate Mc- Donald, a man named Little from the Mani- toulin. a Montrealer, Miss Morrison and myself. " I thought—eve all thought—these would all live to reach the shore, although two hours before a French deck -hand bad gone crazy and jumped overboard. As the light gleamed over the billows we all, led by the mate, began singing,' Pull for the Shore.' But the song ceased, and one by one the singers fell into that sleep that knows no waking. The Montreal man died at eight; Little went next and the. mate who had been singing so joyfully a little over three hours before—succumbed at eleven. I felt the premonitory symptoms myself ; an intense cold followed by numbness in the finger tips, and then the warm glow and drowsi- ness accompanied by , AN ALMOST OVERPOWERING DESIRE to doze. But I knew fifteen minutes of that meant the beginning of the eternal sleep and I resisted. Three times I aroused the captain from his lethargy and told him he was dying, but it was no use, and he, too, crossed the bar before midnight. "Our -boat was still full of water and as each one died I placed the body under the seats to prevent it from being washed out. There was no sleep for Miss Morrison or myself all night. At da; break we found ourselves about ten miles below Bying In- let and drifting towards the isande that dot the shore. Between ten and eleven we struck land Over And Over Again. Over and overagain My duties wait forme; They ever come in monotonous round— Breakfast and dinner and tea, Smoothing the snow-white clothes, Sweeping and dusting with care. • There is ever some task in my little home To brighten it everywhere. What may I claim for my duty's fee ? Naugthese ht butea dull monotony, ss tasks to be Over and over again t Over and over again The sun sinks low in the went, And birds come bas over ck to nes sin The robin sins to bis loving mate, Close. close to my cottage door, The same glad song I bare heard him sing For many a day before. And the robin says to me If the hart is tuned to love's glad key, No task can be dull monotony, Though over and over again. Watt's patents renewed by special ant of Parliament in 1775. Marquis of Worcester, 1663, built an en- gine to run by steam. Smeaton, 1765, attached a separate con- denser to his engines. Watt's first patents taken out, 1769 ; en- gines set up in factories. Jonathan Halls, 1736, issued proposals for boats driven by stead. and started out again. After two hours perilous walking we again sighted the same huge beacons, and then by the use of pal- ater, herd. We came upon mall iunexpectedly adnI transfer tthe o buoys being in a patch scrub 300 feetwyodroppdateitherend. Having 'reported edlc of aprecipice that ran down to a favorably on the composedcutter, Capt. ve officers and In 1883, owing to the numerous disasters which were continually taking place in Georgian bay on account of the unknown rocks and shoals which abound, the Domin- ion Government decided on a complete sur- vey of the coast and accordingly the spring of 1884 saw the arrival of Capt. Boulton, R. N., from England to take charge of the work, at which he has been nengagedheven since. Yesterday he passedg he city on his way to Ottawa after the con- clusion of his seaso-r's operations: Talking to the reporter the captain remarked that he could hardly say very muck about his work without a breach of confidence, but what he could he would Before leaving Owen Sound Capt. Boulton was -3'eetresit owing to the illness of Lieut. Gordon, nautical adviser to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to test the newly launched revenue cutter H. M. S. Constance. This was interesting, owing to the necessity of laying out a mile upon water, a thing which the captain says has never been done in Canada before. The 'method employed was to measure a mile on shore, to mark it with Watt, 1768, first used oil and tallow to keep piston from leaking. De Caus, 1616, published anaccount of a machine to run by steam. - Thomas Payne, 1778, proposed scheme for steamboat in America. Tubular boilers first used in America. in 1875 Inventor• unknown. Papin, 1696, built an engine to run a boat. Destroyed by boatmen. Newcomb, Dartmouth, built; 1712, the first self-acting steam engine. Marquis of Worcester constructed a spherical copper boiler in 1663. Roger Bacon invented esteem engiue,1282. Imprisoned for sorcery. - Pliny: A.D. 60, described a boat run by a with his party, of fi 23 men, sailed from Owen Sound on board the Government steamer Bayfield—a • boat by the way, which gets its name from Admiral Bayfield, Capt. Boulton's predecessor of nearly a quarter of a century ago —for Parry Sound to finish a section which they had not completed during the previous year. Thethen between Wayeupok bausheneandParry Sound niinclud ng the Christian islands), but were unable TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY. This will probably be finished about the middle of next summer. Sufficient, hover ever, was done to show that these waters, which are in reality the head waters of the bay, are splendidly suited for navigation by the largest vessels, the harbors being good and the approaches comparatively free from danger. In the captain's opinion the best solution of the north-western freight ques- tion would be the establishment of a port somewhere between Parry Sound and Wau- baushene, which would be almost due west Ottawa, and a direct line of railway L sparkling cascade. The scrub prevented us from using our old-fashioned muzzle loaders, so we quietly and carefully cut pieces of the ti -ti tree, and forming them into a kind of bower that hid us from sight, slowly and cautiously advanced. THE FIRST SHOT. Each of us wished to get the buck for the sake of his horns, so we cast lots for the first shot. George Williams won. Inch by inch and foot by foot nearer we drew while the stones disturbed by the goats above rattled not over pleasantly down upon us and threatened an avalanche. The wind was blowing strongly against us. Every- thing was in our favor. Now we are only 100 yards away. A little nearer and we are all right. Keep cool, boys, and don't get excited. Now is- the chance ! There are seven goats just ahead of us, and in their midst stands the lordly male. Now every gun is thrown to the shoulder. No missing them this time. George has the first shot. and " pot of hot water and wheels. Here of Alexander, B.C. 260, described machines for utilizing steam power. Roger Bacon, about 1280, anticipated ap- plication of steam power to navigation. NOVELTIES OF INVEN'1'ION. Rubber belting with wire threads inter- woven in the material is a novelty in power trans m ission. The first -merchant steamer ever built in Spain was recently launched at Cadiz. It is called the Joaquin Pielago. The long-distance telephone from Tri>sste to Vienna has been extended to Prague; a distance of 728 miles. The sounds are heard at each end of the line with great distinctness. A novel - invention is a spatula composed of a blade of rubber having a broad, thin steel core and a handle. Cars on the Hampton & Old Point Elec- tric lectric road, which is about eight miles in length, run at the scheduled rate of forty miles an hour. He seems a little nervous. He fires . trom down drops the she goat on the right of Montreal via Ottawa. A rattier curious the buck. Ere our astonishment i over to circumstance of the trip was the fact that Kerrigan has fired and brought down rhe two of the party took typhoid fever and one diphtheria. Capt. Boulton attributed this phenomenon to the drinking of too much water while rowing in the shallows off shore, a thing, as the captain waggishly said, rather unusual with sailors. Capt. Boul- ton left last night for Ottawa, where he will be engaged in plotting and draughting from his summer notes till spring, �, having severed his connection with the Gov- ernment and accepted a position on •the staff - of the British Hydrographer, which is being kept open for him, he will go to London, Eng. Though there is Captain Boulton's last season the survey of Georgian bay will probably not be completed for at least two years, as two long stretches along the south- ern shore of the bay still remain unsurvey- ed. These are from Christian island to Coilingwood and from Cape Rich to Thorn- bury ; but, when ahese are done, not only 'will the Georgian hay north surveyed, have been but also theorth chnnel of Huron as far as St. Mary's river. Capt. reportsBoulton also sstead of beingl id up this yar a asBayfield, ual will go out again in November, under com- mand of Capt. McGregor, Capt. Boulton's old sailing master and pilot, to watch the fisheries during the close season. The Atlantic Oceanissaid feet. be higher x than the Pacific by y Nearly forty thousand people in Great Britain pay a guinea a year for the privilege of displaying their crests on their stationery and plate. buck. Two more reports and two more goat, fall, cleanly shot. The others have disappeared. After three days' hunting we left this field of danger and sport to seek another. Accompanied by our dogs- we started across the ran es for. Motucka Valley, be- tween which and us many wild pigs scour the forest and field. On our journey, which lasted a week, we dined daily on royal fare. A young kid would serve us better than the most dainty dish of venison, while pigeons, kakasa and this formed a meal fit for a Lucullus. Now for the pigs. A few years ago the descendants of Captain Cook's gift to the Maoris numerous land that, they caused aserious annual loss to the farmer. In their search for roots they d the grass and nce he food of sheep and cattle. A bonus ewas t offered of half a crown—a little more than half a dollar for every pig, This reward aroused the slumbering energies of natives and hun- ters and hundreds of pig -killers made a handsome. living. their method was to hunt the pigs with dogs trained to fly at the grunters and hold them by thenean beastsil the hunters could give the struggling the coup de grace by sticking them to death with the long pole at the hteend with a short, heavy piece of • Although the invention is a little unsea- sonable just now, an Englishman has patent- ed •a novel fly trap. An electric motor drives a broad band smeared with some sweetened substance, and upon this the flies alight and are then swept into a wire trap. A Pennsylvanian has invented a einbne of obtaining hydro -carbon gasby burning ordinary illuminating gas over a series of long narrow metallic plaes, the = resulting gas black being ped t me,tiealiy. GEORGE'S SAD VENTURE. Now, however, the pigs are not so num- erous, although there are plenty for sport. We had provided ourselves with hunting spears and determined to have as much fun as ossible. n the as we were meandering tthrough hroughthe brahth sh with our dogs at our heels, we, were startled by a porcupine grunt in our -vicinity. The- dogs broke away at once to a large clump of thorny bush and out rushed big sow da with a litter of squealing young. She straight at the first dog, but not being the kind of game we sought we called off the dogs. The mother, by the love of offspring in- furiated, bit, squealed, and trampled ' ali- eiously around. Her cries brought help in the shape of two huge brown and black boars. What savage looking brutes they are 1 How -quickly they cover the interven- ing distance. Large flakes of foam fall from their jaws and bespatter legs, - face and breast 3 and their eyes gleam with a wicked The web of our life is of a mingled yaree good and ill together. Do be natural. A poor diamond is better than a good imitation. The people of the United States conum it is said, 200,000,000 bottles of pickles an- nually The area of vineyards in Tunis was on1$ 7,500 acres four years ago. It is now neat. ly double, while the quantity of wine mad° has increased during the same periodofront, 337,5:0 gallons to 2,362,500 gal1n A steam dynamo is the latest combine- tion.noted. In this the steam engine --au upright one—is attaelleed to the dynamo, in. stead of, as at first, the dynamo being at-. tacked to the engine. 'lie floor space rt quired is no larger than if the dynamo h id a pully for belt driving. A little boy wan tint& `{spy to ,ray, but papa made "him gat up and say his prayer and at you it was, ai Yl saOh. y his pr Is don't t makea up papa get:i when he is so sleepy