The East Huron Gazette, 1892-11-17, Page 6444.
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- die eh eine en ehinioiakiller of i,Iie-world
ee'Prince Aa obarg-Coburg, who, has
t;at kilter h;s t<wa thonsandth. The Eel-
p,ertir of Austria stands second, with 1,899.-
The
,899.The French Rowing Club, whose crew
lately beat the crew of the London Rowing
Club on: thoSeine,-has only about two hun-
dred, member's. against the two thousand
Londonei e r•
A Finnish ' ornail who ulurdered her hue -
ben. to conceal kert'forgery, has been con-
demned to have: her right hand cut off, to be
beheaded, and then burned as a beacon.
-Only the czar's intervention can stay this
barbarous execution.
Land boomers in Melbourne are com-
peunding with their creditors by handing
over all their assets—mostly unrealisable—
and paying a cash dividend of a few pence
in the ponnd.
--- -The death of a Spanish lady, Dona Mar-
garita Rivera, is reported as having occur-
red in Mexico, at the incredible age 132. It
is seventy-four years since her husband
died.
A new spinning mill, to contain 4600
spindles, to be known as the Fukuyama
Boseki Kwaisha, is about to be started at
Fukuyama, Binge Province, Japan.
AllRoman Catholics are being dismissed
from some Russian railways ; only ortho-
dox members of the Greek Church are to be
employed.
Russian Jews ate now forbidden to call
their boys Paul, Constantine, or Matthew,
or their girls Mary, Anna, or Sophia.
"Adam Bede" has been translated into
Italian, and this translation is coming out
:an a -serial in a Roman newspaper..
The olive crop in Spain has been much
damaged this year: by the great heat and
severe storms,:_
The Shah possesses a chair of solid gold
inlaid with precious stones, and the other
day he noticed that some of the latter had
been stolen from the leg. The `culprit rforthwith
found (a, youth of sixteen),
beheaded and his bead carried on a pole by
the Imperial bodyguard through the streets
of Teheran.
There have lately been a shocking number
of murders committed by soldiers in and
around St, Petersburg. The Czar has given
orders that in future no officers of any regi-
ment to which aconvicted murderer belongs
shall be eligible for promotion for a period
of four years after the crime has been com-
mitted.
In Bellavista, near Portici, Italy, a small
colony includes more than twenty people
who are over ninety years old, headed by a
farmer aged 105, who still works in the
fields. They are all natives, and have lived
with hardly any meat in their diet and
drinktne only rainwater from a cistern.
Two hundred women of Berlin assembled
to denounce the trailing skirt on the street.
The history of the trailing dregs was given,
and a diseussion followed, which ended in a
resalutio ndingthat the Police Board
issue- an order forbidding the wearing of
long dresses on the street.
UNION AnI
Dvarsieerostenexpit sl1feW York Vlliake.
A elfritish subject named - Mackenzie
thought properto honor the 'Columbian
celebration by, hoisting a British flag last
Wednesday over his home in Tuckahoe,
Weschester County, New York. The vil-
lage constable; Dennis J. McMahon, soon
gathered a force of some two hundred
roughs, armed with pistols and gens, and
surrounded the Mackenzie home, demand-
ed an interview With its proprietor, but
found that gentleman, although assent in
body, was well -represented by his better
half, a Virginian by birth, and, although
devoted to the Stars and Stripes, dared Mc-
Mahon and his armed roughs to molest the
obnoxious flag. The following description
of what then took pla_eis given in the New
York World :—
"Two young huntsmen were watching.
the proceedings from the street. Both had
rifles, and MacMahon directed them to turn
the weapons over to hint. Others in the
arty had pistols and muskets, and got
Off f PfHE'': BITSHBARIE
The Adventurous -Career of a Pollee _ Mag
istrate in Australia.
FrancisAugustus Hare, a police magis-
trate, who recently died at Rupertswood,
Sunbury, Victoria, was born at the Cape of
Good Hope, in a little village called Wyn-
bery, eight miles from Cape Town, on Oct.
4, 1830, and was the youngest son of a fami-
ly of seventeen. His father, who was a
Captain in the Twenty-first Dragoons, set-
tled in the Cape when the regiment was div-
banded there. After leaving school he was
for a time sheep farming with his .brother,
but the life was not congenial, and he de-
cided to go to Australia. He arrived in
Melbourne on the 10th of April, 1852, a
few months after the gold discoveries. He
paid a brief visit to Sydney, having a run-
away convict from Norfolk Island as a mate,
but returned at once to Melbourne. By
Christmas Day, 1852, Mr Hare was on the
.;elebrated Read's Creek, " paddocking " for
gold, and afterward on Spring Creek, where
his share of the proceeds of one claim was
ready to use them if necessary. £800. He led astirring life here for a
sed"Don't shoot a woman, boys," command- time, digging, or evading the digger's li-
ed
McMahon, as he saw the preparations
his men were making, " but if that British
renegade is in the house, and I think he is,
a'id he fires shot or brickbats at us, blow
his head off."
This order was receivedwith cheers, and
the men loaded their guns and awaited
-developments, A moment passed and then
they saw Mrs. Mackenzie go to the parlor
window and pull down the shade. All was
quiet within after that ; and, finding that
no warlike demonstration seemed to be con-
tempiatedby the besieged, McMahon yelled,
" Now, boys, down with that rag.
In a trice half a dozen men had seized the
pole' and wrenched it from its support.
Amid cheers it fell to the ground. Scores
then made a grab at the flag and a tussle
ensued for possession of it. McMahon
finally secured it, and placing it in the cue
-
tody of a lieutenant, called upon his men
to help put another staff in position. This
was done very quickly and -then the Amer-
ican ensign was hauled up and saluted with
three times three and a tiger and howls and
jeers for the British flag. Then McMahon
ordered his ct.mmand to fall in. The Eng-
lish trophy was placed in the hands of a
couple of men_ and was dragged through
the dust all the way back to Tuckahoe vil-
lage.
The party had by this time been swelled
by the arrival of recruits to upward of two
hundred. Singing " Yankee Doodle,"
" Hail, Columbia, " " Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-
ay " and other melodies, the paraders march-
ed up the main street. A halt was
made in front of ex -Overseer Kerwin's place
of business. Then the dirt -bedraggled flag
was held up while Ralpn Hodges, a butcher
and formerly an English subject, spat upon
it. This seemed to set the crowd wild
again, and they demanded a speech from
th eir leader. McMahon mounted a plat-
form, fashioned with boxes and a barrel,
and asked every man who would pledge
himself not to permit another insult to the
,American flag to hold up his hand. Every
hand went up amid tremendous hurrahs.
McMahon also paid hie respects to the Brit-
ish Government, denouncing it in the
strongest language for its brutality towards
Ireland and its coercive policy towards all
the provinces subject to it. He made each
one of his hearers promise to tar and feath-
er Mackenzie if it should be proved that
he removed the flag that had been hoisted
be the party that had participated in the
storming of the castle; and predicted that
Tuckahoe would very soon have an evacua-
tion day—that is, the British would be run
out of town. The speech was rapturously
applauded. Then those who had taken
part in the expedition tapped several kegs
of beer."
cense, which afterward on this same go
field it was his duty as an officer to enforce.
But e serious illness sent him to Sydney,
with very little prospect of ever reaching
it, and in his book, "The Last of the Bush-
rangers," which contains the record of his
life and adventures in Australia, Mr. Hare
tells
A GRUESOME STOP.Y
of his lying on top of a loaded dray beneath
a gum tree, with a crow perched just above
him, waiting for the end. The fear that his
eyes would be torn out while he was yet
alive seemed to give him a stimulus, and
from that point his illness turned and he re-
covered. He afterward went to the War-
anga diggings with Mr. G. D. McCormick,
who, strangely enough, was born on the
same day and year as Mr. Hare, and many
rears afterward both were made police mag-
istrates in the same year. Mr. Hare was
desirous of joining the Victorian mounted
police, and on June 1, 1854, he was appoint-
ed a lieutenant in the force by Mr. (after-
ward Sir) W. F. H. Mitchell. In his later
days in the police force the more stirring
episodes in Mr. Hare's experiences were the
captureofPower, the bushranger, who, after
surviving many vicissitudes and a long
term o£imprisonment, is supposed to have
been accidentally drowned in the Lower
Murray not long ago. .
Mr. Hare was one of the party led by Mr.
Charles Nicholson, now a police magistrate,
which captured Power, the other members
of the party being Inspector Montford and
Donald, a black tracker. With a promise
of a reward of £500 they were able to secure
the help of an associate of Power's, who led
them to what was thought to be the safest
of Power's retreats in the ranges. The only
road to it was past the house of the Quinns,
a notorious family and active friends of
Power. ' As the bushranger afterward
stated, one of his best sentinels was a pea-
cock at Quinn's house ; but on the night of
the capture the police party got past with-
out the peacock giving the alarm.
AT DAYBREAK
they came on Power's hut, which was at
once rushed upon, the bushranger being
asleep inside, and Mr. Nicholson had hold
of him before he could lay hands on his fire
arms. Still more stirring were the inci-
dents in connection with the notorious
Kelly gang of bushrangers, Mr. Hare have
ing command of the district police at the
time the gang were finally exterminated.
They had been criminals, chiefly horse and
cattle stealers, from childhood, but their
outlawry commenced with the shooting of
three mounted troopers on the Wombat
ranges in October, 1878. From that time
the pick of the Victorian police, aided by
six Queensland trackers, were in pursuit
of them ; but, aided by a wonderful system
of bush telegraphing, the help of friends
and relatives almost as criminal as them-
selves, and a thorough knowledge—gained
in horse stealing—of some of the wildest
mountain country in Victoria, they man-
aged not only to evade capture for two
years, but to provide themselves with funds
by two well-planned and daring bank rob-
beries, Mr. Hare was given the command of
the Kelly country after the successful raid
upon the Euroa Bank.
One of his first acts was to seek an inter-
view with Aaron Sherritt, who, like Ned
Kelly and J oe Byrne, was physically a splen-
did type of a bushman, but a known sympa-
thizer with the outlaws and a participator
in some of their earlier and less serious
horse•stealing raids. By a promise of the
h le reward of £8,e00 offered for the gang
whole
The feats of Leander and Byron have
been rivalled by a woman.' The Princess
Marie Bibesco succeeded in swimming across
the Bosphorus recently and is now inclined
to think that she could swim from Dover to
Calais Court. Starenersky, her brother-in-
law, accompanied Princess- Marie, the two
swimming strose for stroke. The Princes
of Bibesco are Roumanians of the highest
rank, the head of the family being semi -
royal. They reside at Bucharest.
Two hundred men belonging to the 23rd
and 63rd Infantry Regiments of the Ger-
man army recently attempted "swimming
attack" across the river Neisse, with the
result hattseven soldiers were drowned.
An official Journal, in giving. particulars of
doesnot
express 33
regret ret for
" g
r
the affair, p any
thevictims, butmerely states that the swim-
ming attack proved "a very interesting
%.ud instructive exercise."
The Sadie-ul-Akber (Bhawalpore) writes
in its issue of the 25th August that Ahmad
Raft, a traveller, while on his journey from
Katif to Bossarah, saw in Ashra Muteer, a
place twomarches from Katif, a man with
four eyes —two in their usual places and
two above the eyebrows. This man can see
with his four eyes. Even When his lower
two eyes are shut up he can see with his
upper two eyes. He is (adds the report
somewhat quaintly) a man of horrible ap-
pearance.
A little time ago, in Melbourne, a young
girl died suddenly—at least was supposed
to be dead—two days prior to her wedding
day. The body was placed in the coffin and
Ate lid screwed down a few hours before the
time fixed for the -burial. Her grief-stricken
lover was permittedto remairea while alone
with the dead.. Presently he was heard to
shriek for help,. and the girl's father and
brother entering the room, found the Iover
prying open the coffin with a poker. In a
few: minutes a very much alive and
hysterical corpse was clasped in the lover's
arms, and the clergyman invited to read
the burial service performed the marriage
ceremony instead.
A painful --sensation has been caused in
the. highest quarters in Vienna by the _sad-
den madness of Pr i cce Peter of Saxe -Coburg
,G`iotha,�� grandson of the late Dom -Pedro,
Bn peror -ci Brazi2. 'The Prince, who is
only 26 years of age, has been staying in
Vienna for some time past:' He has lately
been in a somewhat edepressed condition,
and seemed" to brood a good deal over the
misfortunes of his father and grandfather.
Yesterday morningthis depression suddenly
developed into violent madness,. and the
Prince shouting out, "I am the Emperor of
B a�zii," usbed to the window.- of . his room
on the fol rtl storey of the hotel and tried"
to jump out He was seized by an atten-
dant and a member of the family, and held
with difficulty in a dangerous position until
finally rescued by some 40 men of the fire
_brigade. It is feared that the Prince will
te have to be .consigned to an asylum.
Shopping. -
A woman enters a dry good store, .
Steps to a clerk who stands near the dcor,
Asks him to show her the latest style,
And she pulls over the goods meanwhile.
Says she : " I want a dress for my niece,
Will yon please show me that under piece?
Oh! I didn't see it was a polka spot;
That is too near the one she's got,
That pisco with stripes would just snit me, -
It's just a:, pretty as it can be ;
With a sort of vine runnng all t she wants a better covered 'round.
She don't want too dark nor yet very light,
Not a striped piece nor yet very bright.
I think she'd like what you showed me last,
"But do you think the colors are fast?
Cut oft' a bit before I decide; -
TH
take home o piece and have it tried.
I had a dress like that last fall, -
And the colors did not wash at all.
I like those patterns there on the end,
1'11 take a few samples for a friend;
Now, one of this. if you'll be so kind,
And one of this, if you don't mind:
They're the nicest styles I've seen this year;
I most always do my trading here.
I've got a piece that came from here,
I've forgot the price—'twas pretty dear,
It's sor!' of dark plain stuff ;
Do you think you have it in the store ;
The dress is spoiled if I;can't ger. more.
Will you put these samples in a bill ?
I'll know where' got them if you will.
I'll take them home ; if shethinks they'll do,
You'll see me in back a day' or two." - .
- The Snowstorm Widow.
EscapeFrom a Sinking Ship.
The Royal MafiCompany'ssteamer Atra-
tee, from the West Indies and: Pacific, land -
e& at Plymouth- On Wednesday morning
Captain Alexander Higgins and the crew of
the barque Castleboir, of Liverpool, The
Castieboir- left the Port of Spain, Trinidad,
on Septem . r 5thwith. a cargo• of asphalt
for Rotte� and :soon afterwards sprang
a leak. The water gaineeae the rate of a
foot an hour and=the tressed was`abandone i
on -the following Morning, sinking almost
before the boats left her side. The` crew
were picked up_ by a. Spanish schooner and
aided near Trinidad.
The secret of a; happy life is loving:.self-
aeriilee. _
illarsattaina great eat size in Anstralia
(itez'p
—some of thein a foot in length. _
dere is a newspaper published in the
'roughage in in North •Dakota, ,
ling Int a good—life—can fit men for --a'
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AN...&DYENTUIt Olt iEI ROAD
A Drummer's Evening . Bide and Its" llin-
• pleasantineidcnt.
"I remember on oue occasion," said the
drummer, apparently going far back in his
memory, "when I had one of the queerest
experiences that ever fill to my share."
" We all have them," ventured a young-
ster, who was out on his first trip.
The drummer merely looked at hi.a and
then went on with his story.
" I was going -to see a customer`who lived
about ten miles from the railroad," he said,
" and as I reached the station about 7 o'clock
in the evening.aud.it was a half moonlight
night, I concluded I'd drive over at once
and get back in time for the train at 10
o'clock next morning. The road was fairly
good, though it was a lonesome one and I
felt pretty sure I could drive it in three
hours, carrying a heavy trunk. I got away
by 8 o'clock with a pair of horses, doing my
own driving, and for the first five miles noth-
ing occurred. In fact, everything was going
so smoothly that I began to doze. After a
number of rods I was suddenly awakened
by the noise of wheels just behind me, and
looking back I was almost frightened by a
horse's nose nearly over my shoulder. He
was hitched to a buggy in which sat a man
and a woman.
"'Look out, there,' I yelled, and whipped
up my own team.
" Their horse fell back, but they made no
reply and I drove on and nodded again, only
to be awakened as before.
"Then I became more angry and said a
number of things to which I received no
answer. Indeed, neither pian or woman so
much as looked up as me, but kept their
faces down, and did not even pull up their
lines. The horse fell back, though, and fol-
lowed twenty feet or more behind me. The
mooh was beclouded at this time and I
could not see very distinctly, but I did not
nod any more, for I was not exactly satis-
fied with my company. I called to them
several times, but they remained silent.
They kept right along behind me, though,
for three miles. and at two or three
places I took little side roads I knew of,
which led back again to the main road, and
the others did the same. Once or. twice on
long stretches I touched up my horses, but
the horse behind me followed at the same
speed. The longer this thing kept up the
more nervous I became, and once or twice I
thought I must be having a nightmare. The
last mile of the road was good, and I con-
cluded rather than to have a row with
these midnight intruders I would run away
from them, and as I turned into the home
stretch I let my team go at its best, and I
went along at a four -minute gait but right
behind me came the other horse, trotting
smoothly and whinnying every now and
then. Somehow I felt the cold chills down
my back, and a panic seized me. I didn't
know why. I laid the whip on and my team
broke into a dead run, evidently feeling my
own fright and showing the signs of fear
they say animals show_ in the presence of
ghosts.
"But running was of little avail. The
other horse was much better than mine
and he came after me with 1 is nose nearly
in my buggy, and the two people never
making a move to pull him up. With a
yell at last I dashed up to the store of my
customer, who hadn't gone to bed yet, and
he came out with three or four men on the
rush, and t almost fell out of my rig as he
asked what was the matter."
"'There,' I screamed, 'there, there,' and
I pointed, back to where I had seen my
ghostly visitants, but they had disappear-
ed."
"'He's got the jim-jams,' loudly sug-
gested one of the men, and I thought pos-
sibly I had, but I rubbed my eyes and look-
ed around, and fifty yards down the road I
saw the thing that had followed me. It
had evidently passed me when I pulled into
the store so suddenly, and I told the men
to go after it. They did so, and in aminute
they cane back with a yell that beat mine.
" `Jim -jams, is it ?' I asked scornfully.
" `No ; dead people,' replied one with
his teeth chattering.
" It was so, too, I found out when we
had get a drink, and braced up enough to go
after it again. They had been strangled
for pure malice evidently and had been tied
in their buggy and sent adrift. The horse
being a strange one in that section, had been
simply following my team by instinct, and
was probably as badly frightened as I was
and didn't know half ae well where to go.
" My customer took care ot the horse and
buried the bodies, and it was a week before
he learned that the people lived about a
hundred miles to. the north and were on a
" Did you notice that glittering combina-
tion ot yellow and black that sat opposite
us ?" the fat man said to the man with the
long whiskers. after they had left the car
and were plodding up the side street.,
" What, that lady with the yellow bon-
net ?" asked the man with the long whisk-
ers
" Yes," answered the fat man ; "-she's
the snowstorm widow." - -
" The snowstorm widow ?" repeated the
man with the long whiskers in a wondering
tone. "What does that mean?" --
" Oh," said the fat man with a laugh,
"she used to live in our. block. Her hus-
band died in the winter, a year or so ago,
and she was so resolved that she never,
never would look at another man that she
had her own tombstone, with her full- name
on it—just ready to get under it, you know
—erected beside her companion's grave out.
in the cemetery.
"Then she had a large photograph taken
of herself arrayed in solemn : black,- with a
crape veil to -her heels, in one of those imi-
tation snowstorms that photographers get
up with bits of white paper. - This was to
indicate, her friends all supposed, that eter-
nal winter hatl'set its cruel seal in the re-
gion of her heart. - Nearly everybody in the
block -had one of these pictures, and we
dubbed her 'The,,Snowstorm Widow,'
"Now I see she is -out in a bright yellow
bonnet," addedthe fat man, as he turned
-in an his door. "I who the - - --
is.' _.
EALL FDN.
"I mustkeep this dead quiet," as the mar
derer said while planting his victim.
--Maud—" How is it that you and your
husband get along so well together? Violet
—" Oh, I never cook and he never talks
politics."
" I have lots to tell you about," said the
real eastate man, meeting an old friend on
the street,
Night Clerk—" How does it seem to be
a hotel waitress ?" New Girl—" It seems as
if I was made to order."
Dimley—" Why did you leave the ler
ture platform, Larkin ?" Larkin—" Well
I was egged on to take that step."
Blobbs—" A good deal depends on your
luck in poker." Waggles—" Yes, but your
luck also depends on a good deal."
Brine No. 2—"No other woman ever wore
this ring, did she, darling?" Widower—"No
woman on earth ever had it on."
I have noticed,"said the observant
man, " that the woman with a mole on her
neck is usually dressed up to the mark."
Attalie—" Did Chollie Bohrman enjoy
his vacation at the seaside ?" Amelia—" I
don't know, but his friends in town did."
" Didn't you think Miss Figg favors her
brother to a wonderful degree?" " Not so
much as she favors some other girl's
brother."
It is when a young fellow in love has
lost his head that the girl in the case is
likely to mercifully lay her own on his
shoulders,
Maud—" I don't see why they call this a,
light opera. There's nothing very light
about it." Toto—" The costumes I am sure
are."
Perdita—" Is he going to marry you, do
you think?" Penelope (dejectedly)—" No, I
don't think he will get any farther than
proposing."
The girl who marries for money usually
has a look on her face after marriage that
indicates that she is having trouble collect-
ing her salary.
Claverly—" Oh, yes, of course she's pretty,
but she -knows it so well !" Haverly—
" Well, that's better than being ugly and
not knowing it, you know."
"I should hate to have a mother-in-law
always around," complained the youth, and
then a gentle whisper fell upon his ear, " I
am an orphan."
" Where are you going ?" asked a little
boy of another who had slipped and fallen
on the icy pavement. " Going to get up !"
was the blunt reply.
"Bridget," asked Mrs. DeLeon, " can
you cook on scientific principles?" " Sure,
ma'am, what's the matter wid cookin' on a
range ?" asked sensible Bridget.
Plumduff—" Has that charming widow
any property?" Ketchum—" Yes, a lot."
/Ph iflduf —" Real estate or personal ?"
Ketchum—" Personal—six children."
WHAT SUSTAINS TSE XOON.
The Earth Keeps it From Flying Further
Away,
Vie have read how the coffin of Moham-
med was poised without support in the
mosque of the faithful from which all unbe-
ievers were so rigidly excluded ; no materi-
al support was necessary to sustain the
remains of the prophet, the body itself
seemed ever on the point of following the
departed spirit to the realms of bliss. A
perennial miracle was indeed necessary to
sustain the revered sarcophagus in space.
The infidel, no doubt, is somewhat skeptic
about the marvelous phenomenon, and now
as ever, the truth is stranger than fiction.
For over our head there is a vast globe
larger and heavier than millions of sarcop-
hagi ; no material support is rendered to
that globe, yet there it is sustained from
day to day, from year to year, from century
to century. (What is it that prevents the
moon failing? That is the question that
now lies before us. It is assuredly the case
that the earth continually attracts the
moon. The effect of the attraction is not,
however, shown in actually drawing the
moon closer to the earth, for this, as we
have seen, does not happen, but the attrac-
tion of the earth keeps the moon
from going further away from the earth
than it would ot erwise do. Suppose
tor instance, that the attraction of the
earth were suspended, the moon would
no longer follow its orbit; but would start
off in a straight line in continuation of the
direction in which it was moving at the mo-
ment when the earth's action was intercept-
ed. What Newton did was to show, from
the circumstances of the moon's distance-
and
istance
and movement, that it was attracted by the
earth with a force to the same description
as that by which the same globe attracted
the apple, the difference being that the in-
tensity of the force becomes weaker the
greater the distance of the attracted body
from the earth. In fact, the attraction of
the earth on a ton of matter at the distance
of the moon would be withstood by an ex•
erticn not greater than which would suffiese
to sustain about three-quarters of a pound
at the surface of the earth.
The Married Man—"I tell my- wife
everything, sir—everything." The Bachelor
—" Ever tell her .a lie ?" The Married
Man—" Didn't I say I tell her everything ?'
"Whenebbah yoh feels like yoh- want
sympathy," said Uncle Eben, " jes' laugh
heahty an' you'll fin' people jinin' right in.
Laughing am de ketchinest ting dat is."
He—" That was a very funny thing about
Mrs. Parvenue." She—" What was that ?"
He—" Why, she went into a wheelwright's
shop and wanted to buy a carte de visite."
Rector--" My dear sir, have you ever
known the discomforts and perils of
poverty ?" Chappie—" Have I ? I've been
stranded in London, sir, with a chorus girl
on my hands and my allowances quarantin-
ed, b'gad,"
Friend—" You took your son into your
establishment some months agoto teach him
the business, 1 understand. How did it
turn out?" Business Man (wearily)—
"Great success. He's teaching me now."
,
dead or alive, Sherritt's co-operation was driving trip. It was never known who had
secured, and Mr. Hare had always a belief killed them, bat it was supposd to be
in the genuineness of bis assistance, though tramps, who had expected to get money by
other officers doubted hits. Mr. Hare, in murder, and were afraid to steal the horse
his book, tells how Mrs. Bryne, the mother and buggy"
of one of the bushrangers, found her way When the drummer finished the young -
one day into a police camp and recognized ster got up and stretched his legs.
Aaron Sherritt as he lay asleep: Sherritt " Well," he said, "if that sort of thing
learning this • hen lie awoke, turned deadly goes with this traveling business, I guess
pale and said ; "Now I am a dead man," I'll send my samples into - the house and
and the.prophecy proved to be a correct one. quit. " -
Sherritt's connection with Mr. Hare was so
little known that he was once fired on by
the police and on another occasion arrested
for horse stealing. On the 26th of June,.
some considerable time afterward, and just
after Mr. Hare had a second time been given
command of the police in . Kelly county,
Aaron Sherritt was called out of his hut,one
night by a German neighbor, who was.then.
in the hands of the bushrangers, and the
moment he crossed the threshold
WAS SHOT DEAD
by his former schoolfellow, John Bryne.
Knowing that upon news of this further
murder a special train would be sent to
Beechworth with police and trackers, Ned
Kelly and Hart had ridden to Glenrowan,
and, taking possession of the town, tore up
the line in order to wreck the special. The 1 T$e advent anthem palpitates the light,
story of the stopping of the special and the The sea grows
ov. s calm, though° in the m orn and
No hills of palms rise radiant on the sight
Nor silver shores, nor crowns of temples white.
Monitions come, impalpable to sense,
The sea winds feel the distant highland's
breath,
And venturous bird ',.the songs of Providence
"Fvaft through the air above the tides of death.
We know celestial airs around us glow,
We know celestial tides course through the
sea,
Of spheres unseen we feel theinfinence, .
The eye of faith looks forward and believes,
And to ! the white winged dove brings olive
leaves.
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.
A Famous Carriage.
The carriage which Napoleon I. used in
his famous retreat from Moscow, and in
which he started out from Paris in the cam-
paign that ended at Waterloo, is now held
by the trustees of the Wellington estate,
having been captured by thellron Duke.
It is a two -seated conveyance, with top
and sides lined with iron ; there is also a
front "curtain" . of iron that can , be raised.
and lod w.
The wheels areatilllarge and heavy, and the
steps are
werefinished with enrious:battledesigns
done in silver. The Emperor used the back
seat and kept his pillows and blankets under
it The back of the front :seat was used as
a. cupboard,and was provided with all sort:,
of culinary articles and a• small spirit or oil
stove
The use of cork for bottle -stoppers was
the invention of a blind monk, who was em-
ployed ina vineyard attached to • a monas-
tery. Previous tothat time bottles were
sealed with flax soaked in oil.
Society::.
'rhe =Humane t4of Boston has
.
ambulance for disabled horses: The W
End Railway Company owns one also, 0 Pit.
six hundred: policemen of the city are m ver
tiersofthe'Humane Society. sir
street carni Fitchburg, fitted with
A sir as per.an exp iiient, has
at+selball bearings;:
been run for several months without .being
tailed since it was first -put n service.
The Prophet Bid. -1492,
The sails hung listless on the pictured sea
Where green Sargasso meadows pulsed and
dreamed
In lipiddatinospheres ; the sea birds free
On silken pinions sank and ro=e and gleamed—
A sea of grass and mingling gold it seemed.
-The great sun rose. an open gate of Heaven,
And landless seas filled the horizon broad.
Columbus gazed; when from some far shore
driven
By venturous wings, a happy land bird came
And sang upon the spars. The Prophet Pilot
heard
That wined messenger, on seas aflame,
That the dead air with mystic warblings stir-
red,
And, as a lore disewerer, hailed the bird -
Sent out to 1 ead the New' World's ark of God.
So when the soul draws near its final haven,
fined struggle with the outlaws at Glenrowan
is a familiar one. Mr. Hare led the rush of
police on Jones' Hotel at Glenrowan, but
was shot through the wrist and disabled on
the first volley. He directed the attack for
some time, but being finally faint from loss
of blood, had to leave for Benalla.
He received afterward the -congratulations
both of his Excellency :,the Governor and
the Chief Secretary. A great deal of dis-
sension among the police force followed,and
Mr. Hare, retiring from office, was made a
police magistrate in 1881, which place he
had since held. While his discretion in
connection with the pursuit of the. Kelly
gang was matter for comment, his personal
courage was never once doubted.
Vigor", energy, resolution ; these carry the
day.
The law of Denmark now gives to every
Danish subject, man or woman, the right to
a pension at 60 years of -age, except in cases
of convicted criminals, paupers or those who
have come to distress by extravagance.
e "Rattlesnake -balm " is the curious lotion.
made and peddled -by ,a denizen rf Potter'
county. The "'Palm " is 'maufactaredt of
rattlesnake fat, and"is warren d. to knook
rheumatism higher than ; Gil eroy s cele-
brated kite. This summer h killed,} skin-
ned and fried the fat out of293 rattlers and
he has it cider barrel fall"of"-balm." .
Pacts and Figures.
Sweden has 2,000 school gardens.
New York is responsible for the manu-
facture of 2,000,000,000 cigarettes a year.
The efficiency of the world's steam en-
gines is calculated by some to be 20,000,000
horse pcwer.
United States farm mortgages amount to
$15,350,515,000.
The Irish census for 1891 gives a popula-
tion of 4,704,750—a decrease of 470,086 in
ten years.
The consumption of beer in Germany in
1891 and 1892 is 17 per cent. greater than. .
in 1886, while the population has increased
only 4 per cent.
The thinnest tissue paper measures 1-
1200th of an inch in thickness. Iron has
been rolled.so thin as to measure only 1.-
1800
•1800 of an inch in thickness.
French statisticians have elicited the
fact that of 1,000 children born of woolen
working in factories 195 die before attains
ing 5 years of age, while of 1,000 born of
women working at home only 152 die.
A statistical item of interest to women•
is that wom •n today are two inches taller,
on an average, than they were twenty-five
years ago. The cause is found in the change
of the embroidery needle for the tennis
racquet, oar and the gymnastic apparatus -
of the school and college.
The official statement has been made
that in 1891 there were produced in France
663,958,100 gallons of wine. France has in,
round numbers about 35,0 0,000 of inhabi-
tants, which would give anaverage of near-
ly nineteen gallons of wine to each inhabi-
tant, provided all were consumed at home.
" Why didn't you congratulate young
Jenkins on his marriage !" " I could not
conscientiously do that ; I do
not know bis
wife." " Well, you might have wished her
joy." "I could not reasonably do that ; I
do know Jenkins."
She—" Emma is the prettiest, but Lena
is the smartest. Now, which would you
rather marry, beauty or brains?" He (very
far gone)—" Neither, I'd rather marry
you." "
Brown—" Here is some tobacco, my poor
man. You must feel the loss of a smoke
after dinner." Beggar—" Yes, sir. But I
feel the loss of shy dinner before thesmoke
a good deal more."
Proud Mother—" Yes, my love, it was
on this very spot, twenty-one years ago,
your father proposed to me." Fair Daughter
(carried away with interest)—" And did
you accept him, mamma?"
Do your suppose she rejected you because
you were not rich enough?" " i'rell, she
gave me to understand I was a man of no in-
terest and not much principle."
Mrs. Chinner "I wonder why lightning
never strikes twice in one place." C'ninner
—" When the lightning comes around the
second time the place isn't there."
A man may have a jolly good time
And feel his oats all day.
But he hates like sin to feel his corns,
Because they ain't built that way.
"Bill," said the burglar, " there ain't
nothing in this safe but a receipted milliner's
bill." " Is that so ?" " Yes. I'm goin' to
huit this.biz. It doesn't pay. There's too
much competition in it."
The Bering Sea Modus Vivendi,
AnOttawa despatch says : Some time ag-
the Goverment of British Columbia n emorial
the
best
u
ised her Majesty'sGon overnment )
of the losses sustained by the sealers of the
Pacific Province through the modus vivendi
with the United States. The memorial was
forwarded to the Imperial authorities in
due course by the Governor-General, and a
reply has been received from Lord Ripon,
in which the Colonial Secretary says :—" As
you are aware from the correspondence
which has taken place, her Majesty's Gov-
ernment have ordered an investigation to
be made as to the losses sustained by Britisl.
sealers owing to the modus vivendi of last
season. The investigation is now being
made, and on the receipt of the report of
the officers appointed to conduct it, her
Majesty's Government will take steps to
satisfy any just claims against them on this
account. With regard to the renewal of the
modus vivendi, it will be seen from the con-
vention under which it . was arranged that
in the event of the arbitrators deciding
against the claims of the . United States
with regard to the Seal fishery, the Govern-
ment of the United States have undertaken
to compensate British Sealers for abstain-
ing from the exercise of their rights during
the pendency of the arbitration.
Columbus Dying'.
Hark! do I hear again the roar
Of the tides by the Indies s /seeping down?
Or is it the serge from the viewless shore
That swells ;,o bear me to my crown?
Life is hollow and cold and drear.
With smiles that darken and hopes that
flee;
And, far from its winds that faint and veer,
I am ready to sail the vaster sea!
Lord, thou knowest I love thee best,
And that scorning peril and toil and pain
I held my way to the mystic West
GlorAnd thou d r thee lead ruegain. church to
, only thou,
Cheering my heart in cloud and calm,
Till the woundrous dawn my weary prow
Greeted taine isles of bloom and palm.
And then, 0 gracious, glorious Lord.
I saw thy face, and all Heaven came nigh!
And my soul was lost in that rich reward,
And ravished with hope of the bliss on high.
So I can meet the sovereign's frown—
My dear queen gone—with a large.disdain :
FWill thbee that 1 sailed from his reatime will come when his lm of Spief ain.
I have found new lands—a world, maybe,
WAndhlife and death are alike to et the omoutshine ;
e,
For earth will honor, and Heaven is mine.
Is mine What Yhat billows that nsone rer, gentler rolls of sweet s
Into thy hands, 0 loving Lord,
Into thy hands I giveED A DEAN PROCTOR.
The blood travels through our arteries at
a rate of about 12 feet per second.
A Confession Album.
The English " Society " drawing -room
has a new fad, which is as unique as it is
interesting. On a table in the drawing -
room or reception hall is kept a handsomely -
bound volume with the word "confessions "
running in large, gilt letters over the hand-
some binding.
In it are contained all the gossipy or sen-
timental thoughts of the members of the
family or intimate friends, which they ins
scribe from day to day.
Here and there one finds a line quoted
from some more or less noted poet to indicate
the sentiment that swayed the writer's
heart and communicated itself to his pen at
the time he made the inscription, or some
sad or joyful happening has caused him to
leave behind the imprint of his state of
mind by purlioning a phrase from a famil-
iar author.
The name of the writer is signed to each
inscription, and weeks afterwards this
quaint volume furnishes food for the amuse-
ment of the initiated by its curious contents.
It is not only in many cases an index to
the character of those who are permittedto
write in it, but it reflects their temperament
as well, like a diary in which are entered
the events of a space of one's life.
When eight years old she sat upon his
Knee ;
At fourteen she was very shy of men ;
At eighteen she was not so very shy,
And then she sat upon his knee again.
An up -town shoemaker had a card in his
window reading : "Any respectable man,
woman or child can have a in this store."
Jones--" Smith is about your closest
friend, isn't he ?" Borrowitt—" Yes, con-
found him ! It's almost impossible to borrow
The theatres in Melbourne are almost all 1 a cent from him."
equipped with billiard -rooms.
- A gallon of water would only cover a
apace of 2 feet square if spread out in a layer
an-iueh thick.
B
"No matter what subject you talk on,
my friend Bilkins has tin matte!' at hie
finger's ends." "Is that i.4" " yea ; ke's
deaf and dumb`"
s3
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found in hor
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needle is too
these miniat
affidavit that
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the great ma
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in most part
as it now st
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by powerful
gurg,ta'.ions
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speak of a dr
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Superstitio
The ancie,
with super -
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is not unns
battles to n
display of
Lights," whi
inhabitants
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which espr
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an account o
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night before
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1859 the peo
of the grand
history, and
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day that th
skies at the
of the great
29th of Sep
in the forego
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world.
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singular lot
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sharp admlri
library of 30(
made of a <I
back of each,
its particular
its mature st
wood, and tit
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these reinark'i
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the flower, st
from which t
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large enough
one Colonel
Cassel oddit
tion of wood
tion. Each 1
was aphabe
with both the
of the species
little wooden
collection wa.
showing up
the Australia
Taking ad
in the woode
commendahl
the antipode.
ployed a cab
Winter of 18
woods found
eats. These
for the Rus;-
Itions of bo
Cassel librar
showed the
well as fru(
natural or im
Row the "
One of the
the constant
changes taki.
found in the
stars collecti
par'." Hugg'
ror longenga
stars are mov
►cher two are
contrary. Pr
ed the Huggii
a system, a
These ingenioi
lines show the
per "stars we
cross, and th
will have ass
diamond, stre
times as mac
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Three differ
claim the dist
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caused the "
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