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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-02-11, Page 6•• e' Dig Farning, I monk which knew the valve a thia lend, to A TA PC 'yarn we. niALEFSqX,E, Fan annAT gamma oir Undo, Deixores—Xow HArer A strutort ausw„.r.s Or witicAr wren num rx onis FEAR Ar A raison or giver Taft oraer—rws zrzar AND ITER., vitilv oar= vs:paw or ertz emp lavers eat:pm nonnt. a William, F. Dalrymple, who,' with, hie brother, runs the largest wheat farm in the world, near Fargo, Dakota territory. He said that the past year he had harvest- ed 22,000 ,a.cres of wheat and nearly 2,000 acres of other grains. The wheat had, yield- ed at the rate of twenty.three bushels to the eon, in the aggregate . oven 500,000 misnEr.e, which had been dispoeed of in Raffeinsat clear profit of over half a dollar a bushel— thus making the profit of the farm for a year over a quarter or a million dollars. Thire he said, was several times what theland had cost. The wheat had been loaded on the ears directly on beingthVished, and•taketi t� Dtiluth, whence it was shipped to Buffalo, where it sold at an average prism of $1.25 a bushel. The freight from Fa rgo to Buffalo had not much exceeded twenty coats per bushel. The.00st price a raising tho wheat to the time of loading sit in the care had . been fifty cents a bushel. When asked • whether • • MIS McKim O Ansialver , • - would not eventually run out the laud,he replied that it would not, necessarily, since as soon as the land showed signs of deterior- ating it could be changed into paetuie, and would be better thart.new ground for the purpose, as it would have become solid. from the cultivation. Part of the farm had been under cultivation five years, and this had yielded better than the newer land. The only fault the land has at first, is that it is too rich, and it is, of xi:torso, an improve- ment to it to reeling, ite tertility to a certain. extent. During the past year. he said, they, had not broken quite as much land as usual,' only four thousand acres. Proriously be. tween five mid six thousand acres had been broken annually, and tt was the intention to continue breaking at this rate until the whole 75,000 acres of land which they own- ed should have been brought under cultiva- tion, or as much of it as could. be spared from meadows, which would be needed to supply. • HE limns. . • ' ,used in working the farm. These at preseht number four hundred, 4110:1 will 1:1rol?ably have to increase with the growth of the fain] as it was pito doubtful if steam could be, made to take their place. This has been done successfully with thrashing, straw be. iug used as fuel, but sWittempteeto _pleogh. - elbaghe riiiiitifactured in this 'country, had proven chiefly, • he thought,•because they are operated on a. lo- . comotive plan and are not adapted to the' ' variable cendition cif the soil, and -are i more eirpensive than horses'. In England the ploughs are drawn by 'stationary engines. with oliaio attached; and he believed thet if, _L steam ploughing can be made practicable on his bsitin it it in this way. s The experrdlent will be ,madethis year,, but he doubted whether it would he: found profitable; at horses will still be required on -the farm for cutting gratn,and hauling -it to market., • stated tbat he does not makeany experts ' ments in the use offarm Machinery, but al- lows the manufaeturere t� prevo the 'merits of their improvement:: by,a season's work before investing in•theme, The farm is ' di- , • vided into trots of e*othousand acres each, and each of these trahts is provided ;*.• - with a set of farm buildings, and is presided • over by a foreman; who receives a :salary of • $100 per month -during the 7working season; or $1, 000 per annum, while ordinary labor- ers are pal $18 per month. Ho has exclu- sive charge of his trace, and. islield sible for ite managements .It liadleenfound • that a spirit of emulation arises between the different foremen, and they are tisually at anxious for A taxer. Finn or otiAIN , • . as though they Owned the land. There is no opportunity left, however, for :peculation on the part of the foremen, as three:sets of books are 'kept, and 'ether preiteutions to prevent anything of thekind. • • • Mr. Dalrymple spoke enthusiastically • of • aim aniareWar,AT sniff • .; lying in what might be called the basin or Lake Woampeg. His farm is intuated in the • valley of the Red Beier of the,North :which • einpties into Lake Winnipeg„,,and off the.- ' • line of the Northern :Pacific Railway. Thi e - valley, he sair.1 contains an area he Wheat land • fully three tunes as largo as Wisconsin, - while to the northward- of this, in -British . • America, is the valley of 'the,Saskatchowars- . with an area of seS0,000square miles or. - • mote then ton timea that of .Ne- York :tate, •' and fully-three-foarthe of which is well a- dapted for vsheat-raising. Throughout this whole extent of territory .the•-olimato and Soil are all that mid be desired,and the wheat prodneedis the finest in ' the world, being all "hard," • and chnunanding the • highest price. The climate is , Cool in srini- • mer, and dry afCer harvest, so that the two • grer:test dangers to Wheat:raising and har- . . vosting—heat and rain—are eseaped. The outlet for the wheat of this immense region, he said, will be by way of Lake •Sutierier, and there is no probability that it will ever, to any great extent, be Shipped to either Milivankee or Chicago. ' The Red River is become pope:seed of a trs.ot eves' in Biz° to all of the United Sates west of Lake Mich- igan and Borth of the line from Olden° to San Francisco, whiob. reelly Iselougea to this country. exotreatens or SETTLERS he said, are now rushing into this, and be. fore many yew tbe, world will wonder at the agrioulturel wealth which Will he de. veloped, • He stated that the heavy rate of profit which his farming operatious had. yielded the preeent year were due, in a large meas- ure, to the size of his farm, and that small firmingeould otot be made to pay AS well, there lieing the same gain of prolit in raz. ping a large farm over a small one that there is in conducting a large mat:War:Wring eatablishraent compared with a small one, and to the feet that his land is immediately on the line of the railroad, and the grain did not need any storage, being loaded on the cars ' at once. Still he believed that grain could be raised at a good profit any. where throughout the tract -referred to, and stated that when he coeses to olear more • than $5 per acre yearly he will do no more farming. • Mr. Dalrymple spends.part of bis time on the farm, and the remainder at, his winter residence in Pittsfield, Pa. , . F4CT1 AND INCIDETS. • • Timm are no in the field between 16,- 000 and 1,7,000 men fighting. qn the celonial side ih 'the South African war with the /3asutos, of whom nearly half pre European colonists aud the reminder natives, The ' expense of Thee force is -onormoue. The direct war expenditure cannot be less than from1350,000 t 1400,000 per to th ; aud as aearly all these men are citizen soldiers,. taken from their families, and their business, the indirect loss must bd nearly if net quite as great,, fathoms. • • , ter a recent oommunietstion tolis tenants, an Irish landlord said "1 should first men. tionthat duting the year I have redeived •fourteenthreatening.letters, which in tun have been duly honsigeedeto the fire. A few months ago summoned ae thany tenants as • 'possible, and reaa.them is very distinct ex- tract from my revised will, win:item simply to the effect that on whatever townlanti I Iney be shot, my successor, before coming into the property, must eject every single tenant off that townland ; and. failing to do • s so within a given the property to be passed to the Crown, they first, in like matinee, dealing with ehe instructions in . , . . , • How completely -the Lend Leag.ue,. has *overcome the consicleratiens which have heretofore so laxgely. influenced the Minds of Irishmen is seen in the fact of ouch a man as Lord Granard having been compelled to invoke the aid of dragoons and constabu- lary: Lord Granard is among the dozen tiobleinen of ,consectuence who always reside in Ireland. Except to attend the session in London he has for twenty rears rarely hititted'his estates. His' father's mother, the Countess of Metre—the friend and pat- roness of Maria Edgeworth—became. al- though, by birth English, more Irish 'than the Irish themselves, and Moira House, her magnificent home onUsher's Quay, Dublin, Was, ninety yeas ago,. not merely that city% most- brilliant- socIal centre, but the very foeus of the anti -Union party, of which her husband, her eon. (the famous: Marquis of , Hastings), and her son4n-law, Lord Granard, were Most active Members. The present Lewd Granard, inheriting the ttaditions of his house, expressed, on more than one occasion, opinions s�Irish, from a patriotic Irish. Catholic point of view, as to lead fo his resigning—the resignation being expected by the facivernment—the Lord. :Lieutenancy of Leitrim, as he is; too, '• head Of- the Catholic Union of Ireland, and -on tornis of the elosest intimaey with, the pre- lacy. Moreover, his flit wife, .a great heir. ess, waii descended from one of the victims of 1798; but all this has proved to be of no avail in the present agitation. How They are Going to Perfect the Mom the Now Fork Oen.) A society liars been organized in Beaton, about which 'that large Wass of our readers who desire guidance with respect to matri- mony, may be glad to hear. It is palled the Inetitute of Heredity. The object in founding this institute is to teach people to select husbands and wives in such, a way that the moral and physical health of tbei progeny shall be tbetter as- - sured than it is now. It proceeds on the theory that both our good and bad charac- teristics of mind aud body :tome to ue as an inheritance, of which we are forced to take • possession, fromeltr ancestors. The offapring of a vicious horse, or one afibeted with serious physical defects, are aure'to have or tie tranennt the infirmitiee or ugly tricks of their progenitors. Jest so the descendants of a man with an evil twist of character or debauched habits are bound to suffer for bis transgressions of the laws of morals and of health.. They caunot escape. They cSn dissipate and. squander their in. - herited fortune, but they must retain the traits of character and the tendencies to disease which .their parents bequeathed to them. That is the scientific truth which furnish. • ee a purpose to the founders of this Boaters Institute of Heredity. In plebs wordisthey have undertaten to improve the, humen stock on. the same general, principles which prevail in the management of a horse farm. instead of leaving marriage under the eon- trol of caprice:cue sentiment or mercenary considerations, they would teaoli people to regard it as an institution requiring scientis fie regulation- . Tlin English Chancery Paymaster Inside at this inonient the enormous enra of eeven. seven millions stetting for chancery suit. ors, but is likely .very shortly, by virtee of a ,nevs act, to receive the whole of the money p.aid into cehet in the Common Lew Divi• mon, What suin in' harroash this gentle- men will eventually represent it consequent- ly h000inesdilhoult to eonceive, imagination ot misery and happiness bound up in I - equally failing to reckon the amount the huge money bags Of which he holds the strings. , ' his recent dredging expedition from Charleston, S. Cesicross the Gulf Stream, Commander,Baktlett of . the -United States Coast Survey- was surprised to find the 'depths muoh less than was' &Incited. This induced him, although, thp trip was one' prismirly for dredging; ter extend- the work: of eounding; and he, aceeedingly ran a line of soundings nearlialong the warmed band -of-the Gulfs-Streit:nee coinmonly calledethee axis eof the stteam, fcir distance •of 150 Mile's, Orem latitude 32? eo latitude 33 ° 30' ninth, on whieh he. obtained depths varying item 233. to 450 Whom, where it Was supposed elie depths would range from 600 to 1,000 fathoms. At the northeast end of this line, inobout latidede 33 0 30' north, the depth •soddenly increased, in a tance of -fifteen inaspeettoM-457 eo. 086 - Wagon and Goat o Ziving 1 hinni . mom the San Francisco Bulletin.) There have•heen mini books written on China, from the time of. Abbe Eno to the proem*. But most of th.eni have bean too general to present any precise idea of the aotual ooial couditiene XII that vast empire. Resent official observation has, however, done muoli to clear away the mists which obscure real life. Most of the trades which We have are carried on in the Central Flowery laud. There are thore the tradi- tional "butcher, baker, and. candle-atiok maker." But there its .apeculiarity which is not found in civilization. The artist obtains ,no higher rewards 'than the ordinary crafts' man. There appears to be e dead level for all who work with hand or finger. A. mare. ter workman in any of the trades in China gets $3 per week, or $156 per annum. But The workmen only get half that remenera. tion $L50 per week, or $78 per annum, is the average rate, and it is not every work- man who oFsn obtain it. Youligsters or wo- men get SO cents per week, or $26 per annum. It will be observed that these are the wages paid in the higher walks of art and mechanics, There is only One dais of operatives who are niore handsomely te- Warded. Gold and silversmiths do a little bettsr, The silk reeler or spinner some. -times gets frortill to $2 per day, becianse the eilk has to be reeled off the cocoons in a given rime, and, as a consequence, the work has le be prosecuted day and night. Consul Denny, at Shanghai, tints figures out the expo:uses, per annum, of living in .00nnec- gen. with the compensation,speeified , For. a Mar:tor. For,food, •$72 For rent, &c.. „ • ... 36 For olothiug.... ......,.... .. • • • • • • • e • 12 . 'ACTS AND INCIDENTS, 4•4.4444.1 A ram, Wild to be proof agairnit fire and Water le prepared in thie WAY 1 After a mixture of two-tbirds ordinary paper pulp and one-third eabeetua hair hiten thoroughly incorporated, it is steeped lis a eolutioe of common salt and alum. It ie then made ant() paper, which is finaily . coated with libellee varnieh, "Whet hreedet of live stook," they. say, "wouldroat oontentwith seeing near is one. - half of his colts, calves, and lambs clic: before they were onequarter grosyn: r And they further ask, How long would he centime in the business if of thole: that lived a large - proportion became diseased, misshapen mon- - strosities, or so ugly and vioious that they had to be eonstantly chained up,to prevent - their doing, misehief 1, But that, they con. - tend, is just What human society 'is doing, • so far as the race of man is cohcerned. Nearly' helf the children die under tiva. years of age, and of those that live to matute rity a large part are handicapped in the race of life by hereditary disease,or are aotnally -ineaparatated by it for doing anything at all, and so become a charge upon their 'sounder- fellows. To keep another largo proportion from preying onthe rest like wild beasts, society has to bear its greatest eipenite in maintainiogjtsils, insaiie asylums, - police, and armies. To get ridof these gigantic evils, we must, set about improving the human breed, say the officers of the Institute of Heredity, -of whit= there- are nearly: eighty ,natited in theirs *vier: prepoee," they . an- -op a onsime -asmove- Mont as will aim to put an end to disease, vice, and Mime in offspring; and' fill the generatiOneof the future with: wealth, tura, and intdieente.P. . • • , If this Movement succeeds, it, *ill iii - questionably be •one a the grandeetever undertaken. Instead ofthe hinnao ours and mongrels, so to speak, of which society is new so largely inede up, the Worldwill be 1fiblfeir71nor4gnoreas only. mere will be homier°. spavined and balky stock, but only soiled, fleet; and. willing human animals.. And the Work of regenerating -the world will be PO in the . hands of science rather than religion, which his -been rinithle to accomplish so desirable molts.. • :But investigations into the.. sabjeCt, of heredity; a v'erifashionable Study in these days, -have -net yet developed out of it a science 'which •funiishes 'ES eReet laws for the regulation df human breeding. Nor Can men and Women be controlled in their affee- tions like heroes or J'entey cattle, They do not marry. for the benefit of..the race, but to gratify their individual preferences. The lover who . should employ, physician to search the vital .recorde of his sweetheart's ancestry, as h9•vvonta laWyer ,to examine the title of :properter.he proposed -to buy; Would not be favourably regarded. . It cans - net be done in that Way, • : • .- ' And yet injedicioue marriages :are.; tin. questionably' at the bottom of muck of the: orime, the vice, the disease, the insanity of. soeiety. A mail andd woman will marry though experience teaches them that they will be responsible for quadrupling in, their Offepring dangerous moral and physical ten- dencies which are common. to both of them. The Institute Of -Heredity will never Arran sts founders hope Mihail. fanatical enthusi- asm; Mit, through the , publications it pro- poses to issue it mayuccmaintepeople With the known laws of transmissions of moral •and .physical .disease, and stsea aceereptish "niegoottrine .oe.. hered Their dity does, not fur- nish the •cure-all fen ;hiiman Their boasted panacea' is not universally applica- ble. . They are likely: to .run theirtheory into the, ground, after the faehion of men whO allow one idea to get control of them. Their' circular announcing their e intention shows that. But the subjeet. is worth ealke ing about: • The Instituto of Heredity ter, taiely Offers a more rational cure for human ills than maty of these hawked about by • other would-beadooters of Seeiety., , MAMMA,. 1' don't think the peoPle who' ' make dolls are very 'pious people,-" said a little girl to heriniothee ono day. "Why not, niy child "Because you can never mike them kneel. always have to lay My doll.: down rai her stomach to say her prayers." , • Tim president of the Manchester Literary and l'hilosophical society, Mr. E. W. Bin. ney, is in favour of using boulder stales as navigable for three hundred miles from Lake Winnipeg and on this the-Wheitt' raised in the great Saskatchewan, Valley will be trim-•. sported to Fargo, whence it will be ehipped to Lake Superior by rail. The Saekatche- wan is navigable for fifteen him:axed miles of its length, and of ,oeurse will give the •Can - tusks cheap transportation to Lake Winni- peg: Therewill be no probability that the grain will be shipped through Hudson'Eay, to whioh Lake Winnipeg is tributary, -as Hudson, :strait id closed to navigation fully nine menthe of the year., ' He regretted that thefUnited States had allovved the Brttish government to totain possession of this magnificent tract of land when the northern boundary was being ete. talelished. The democratic party, he said, at that times, had decdared that they Would have "55.50 or fight "hat had taken 49 de. greet and thud allowed the English govern:. • • • • • grave -stones. HO has been visiting Ashten- under-Lyne .reeen y, .and observed in a church -yard on the Manchester road a greenstone boulder need as a tombstone over the grave of the son of an alderman of that borough. This was the first instance where he had seen a 'boulder so employed, but it was put to a purpose where it may not only be preserved but exhibited to the public. A Warren in Nature says that before the Voyage of the Challenger scarcely thitty deep.seeefishes were known ; that, althoiigh this number has nowise:3h very much in- oreistie4, yet no new types of families have been discovered, and that, although perfeet- ly novel and very interesting modifications of certain organs have been Met with, there has been tiothing more diacevered than what Might have been expeiotecl from what was known previeuely of the pimp. • • • .• For .food, ... For rent... 12 Yoe clothing • •• • • .... 8 . •-e-• Total . 465 . The emne auehority adds: The master generally lives at the workshop, where he has, perhaps, two rooms, besided place to cook in. The' I -leasehold •furniture may: be estimated at frone 00 to $00•. The ordinary workman, if married; will share a- email house with a friend, and occupy: one room, and have acme to. the. kitchen. He mays live with his •esamots, in which carte his earnings, go: to • the Ammmori fund. Under Mich oweeinistaeces $10 to $15 will covet . . the -value of the household furniture," We have no form of Chinese life in California, except in .• very rare cases, which corres- . ponds • to that :Which is . hetes portrayed. - There are- only a few Chinese Manlike in • Hsi:: city. Nearlr all 'the Chinese are males - adults withatit gay family ties Or. connece time, atleaet in this :cimeary... ;Bae regret__ -a glimpse et-that-pee:111er state :se, thugs in China also. : Cowin Denny further says that if the Clibasintaminth ".a bachelor, and away from his .frithily; he will either -sleep at ins employer's for a consideration, :Or seay, with -a friend ; in either. case his whole inventory, consists of a•lsox with lnseclothes and his. bedding.-" nit is a complete portrait- of - the Chinaman in California., He is got up _iralighimetehing ordei• • • • - ' Brit the-cant:ion hibetirei;', whether infield-. or kitchen,. does not get anything • like the. wages of the ekilled ,areisan The farm.. .labeerer,:, during harvest time; gets besides hiemeale-•aworth:abent. 10 epode -fret: let oentir to fifteen cents a any: oietrone70 centre gLoo: a week. ' He •pitn heshired 'by the month for from $1.50 to $ff. If he gets per.. massene employment he itiewilling -to accept ,per annnni, with board and lodging. It he works. for shorter -teems, 50 ciente a month .will Mace ,for house rent, and $2 ,per annum will keep hie wardrobe in. repair. But there. is a grade below these freela- bourers known as ceelies, who are often glad to work for 'five. cente aity: • . . , . . -• • .. • _ . .• Dentrnild.. Duieli Barbers:. • • •.• . • • • Recently a Man dressed iti a thin summer • Woollen Snit and a 'dilapidated straw hat entered miteianctum. ‘.,!Seis? .he said, " yeti see before you. a reminder 'of the suitimer's sun; so -to speak. - I am not from the treaties,. neither ,am I dressed . for enjoying all the ' comforts of a -trip in gearch of the north pole. Exanse me, no north- pole for me," and his teeth _ chattered While a quiver- of My -chillness 1 • • f Boomed toe:en:sorties his whol� ranee. ' "Are You cold?" we asked. "If so;walk . -why the stove and get warm. . " No sir, no 1 warm as the sportive Afri.' I • . ; can• who' swings his , juvenile ern the equa- - toilet line. ern heeds', busted; broke; sir. Yoo see before you a speoolator 'wheels cart . is keeled over and broken, with the hems on is ruzisso Inc ahead e. greased streak of . lightning oepuot • oreetake 'era. Pour _ :months since I started a.barber shop. Now, thinkri I,- I'll. strike a new 'beat. So I-jiist goes and bites four deaf and dumb toesorial - artists and. then viz up notices that ous- tdmers 'doming to my shop ; would have a . ceinet shave by deaf anddianb barbers and no questions asked. • The thing on.the start, tint when the confounded barbers, pulled their elatee and begin writing out the asunt gdestions,blow Me if discover 7 that I was -ambled man. Yee, sir,harbere is. barbers, end When I closed My shop, Misted.. Up and started on a tramps I Piet says to myself it's n� use. It dead 'men -could ho learned to handle the remit over a inan'e facti the blamed dings would have spiritual melitune asking their. rictiens the. same act line of queritions—Ah, thank yer, sir—ta.ta ; with this dime Flls:send: a, counter -irritant .downosy throat that'll knock -the thinnees' Mit of. this summer suit and give my fates mach * cleanet share . than any barber min," and, as the shattered vete retired the. per.. fume of th-e roses remained in the sanettein, 'until an Open window Teetered the naturel. tone of the atmosphere. , - • -.7 . • •Salatextr WM the olergyfruin Who paseed and addressed a man esuning intOokutch after a• semen had begun, with •the rematk • "diad to see you, sir coree • in ;„ sheave glad.te see those horelato that rian't come . early' t And • decidedly. prurient* was the man -thus addressed the - presence Of an astordahed congregation, as he responded "Thank you would yon Wait me With the text r • Olen of the officers of the steamship City of Beelin deter* that heheti_received the current from a Siemen'e dynamo -electric machine through the legs, trunk, lel* arm, thumb, end one fixIger. He says he did not like the ;sensation, but that he geoid have endured it if neceeeerY• altbOugh the current was capable of giving four lights of four \ hundred candle power each. Arr abstract of the gross 'produce Of the revenue of GreatBrition and Ireland for the pest year shows that it exceeded the pre. 'Worts year by £600,000. There WAS a 40. • crease of nearly a million in custom and excise but there was an bierease of etamps of Z9414000, and, the Post Office and tele. graph service showed an increase of nearly £450,000s besides an inorease in interest on advances of fi200,000. The /and tax and house duty gave an increase of 45,000. Tem London Amish World says t "A statement has been published in several journals to the effect' that 'the Sews of Lon- •donshave recognized the services of tbe late Georg411Eliot to the Hebrew nice by offering up. prayers for the repose of her soul.' Al- though the Jewe generally gratefully ac- knowledge the liberal eentinamets'oxpressed by George Eliot in her Workti toward Jews and Jeclaism, no suckprayereziestated have been offered. up in any synagogue." ' Tun fide& in Holland have caused wide- spread devastation and auffering. Dykes at Nieuwkuyk that resisted stem and wave for 80 years sucou tubed to' the tempests of this wild winter, and a vast area, containing hundreds of thouaands.of acres ands popu- lation of 90,000 persons,. was flooded. Add to this severe cold. and it is easy to form a conception of the suffering that ensued. Many houses were torn from: their founda- tions, others fell in,. end in many the in. mates were made prisoners in the garrets , and on the roofs,- where they Were sutler:cited to all the pangs of hunger and exporsere. The catastrophe was owing to the neglect of the Government to maintain tbe dyke in proper condition. • THE English Registrar -General estimates • that the population Of Loedenwill-be found to have ncreased from:3,253;260'in 141' to 3;707,130 in the nii dle of 1881. Similarly, Beightrin is estimated. to have increased • from 90,011 to 108,062; Portsmouth, from 113,509 to 136.271; NorWieb, from 83,386 to 86,437; Bristol, from 182,552. to 217,- 1589; Plymouth; frora 68,758 to 751700; Wolverharriptoe, from 68,291 to 76,850 Birniinglietn, front. 343,767 to 400,680r Leicesterefrom 95;220-to104350; Netting- • ham, front 80,621 to ).77,964 ; LiVerpool; „ from 493,405 to 549,834; Manchesteie from 351,189 to 364,435.;.Salford,, ,from 124..,801 • •. • to 194,077; Oldbatti, from 82;629 to 118,- • .658 ;.Bradford, from 145,730 to 203,544; Leeds, from 209;212 to 327,158 ;. Sheffield, from 236,949 to • 612,943; 'Hull, from 121,- 802 to 152,980; Stinderland, froth 913,240 ' ' 118,927.; • and. Neweeetle, from 123,441 to --15-s113012..s.ho it time. ago tin hid lady • res'iden. of Klingershof, East -;Prussia, received noti- deaden, throughflieFroisincial Government of Koenigsberg, thather ,only sealed clied •, - 'iettestate At Padang, in the iiiland-Of • hp the Dutch. Military service. This • , information was,: acconipanied. by •• the • iterly of ae .request; . emanating froth' the . Netherlands. Colonial Departnicnt, that the • natural heirs of the deceased, would furnish - the authorities at Padang with snoli deco-, mentary evidence as should justify them in ,. handing over his property to the Getman Consul foefransmissicin to such heirs in due .couree. The ;Estory ef this' traneecetinio heritage soon got wind in Klingershol, atici : . mouthed amazingproportions among the old lady's neighbours', Rumor 'speedily pros meted the dead rzioldint to the rank -of Gov.: ernod-General of Sumatra, and credited him ; • With pecuniary accumulations amounting to: , . two tons' weight Of coined gold, an inheri- • ; .• • • lance whia•h,, When his aged Mother should come into its possession, could not fail to • snake her. the- richest Woman in. the. whole .• • ,prevince of East -Prussia. .Une. acqueint., •• • • • ance :offered her a liandionte residence, an. . '; • • other a complete set Of new and costly.forn. •.• . . • • iture, a third money. loans .00 a considerable • •• figure . She, hoveevere. declined these.. ' proffers„ and ferebore from changing her . manner f living.U h • • h • reaching her. hands she foinia it to consist ' otexactly Wren shillings and threepence. . . . • PRESIDENT NOAH PORTER "says • that he met George' Eliot in London in 1858, when . • she was a woman "33 years old, with plain but interesting features, Of: a little.Above _ medium size„ of a Very .ceuiet and "tiniest • • timid bearing, Most noticeable for her singu- • ' Leidy refined voice, 'her, cleat thoughts, her. choice yet by no means stilted diction, and above ail, ter her fervid yet imaffeeted sett- . .• sibilitY." She was then' overworked at • trieslating works from the German, and Was commonly, preoccupied.' -D-r. Porter " re- members once 'Whig greatly. moved at ieeing her; atter having.come late to the breakfast table and beitigIeft almost alone, give way • to a mood of abstraction, during whieli the tears flowed•inetteams over. her strong yet • gentle' fade." As to her :Anti -Christian seez • timents, as shown in her latter' writings, he says: "The England which -Was :her home has for centuries (ion a temple, notindeed . • wholly consecrated,: but still a temple, of whir: Chrfsb has been the light,: Early lire, we are told, she knelt ' at the shrine of Om temple with earnest • worship., Later she turned her back upon thit altar, led we know . not by what unao. countable influence. „put elle never could cease to be guided and cheered by the light • that fills that temple with its refidoted.radi: ewe. Hove iihe came to fall hitt. the serious errors of ethieel jridgmeit Whicik must seer-, tainly have eaddened even lithe,. lengthen- ed her life we do itot :care to atik. But of One thing We are certain : that shetild Eng.. land cease to be Christian WS Worship, mi. der the agonistie theology of Herbert Spen- cer, or Christian in its faith in immorality, under the guidance of George . Lewes, • England could nom produce another George Eliot hi either sentiment Or innigihre. Con. ' ' FIVE weeks ago the Abyesinian lioness in Kreuteberg's. menageries At Budweis, in Bohemia, was Safely delivered Of „,three magnificent cubs, two male and one, female. The keeper of the carnivara in that &tab. lishment on the foLowing day, when a oroved �f spectators were gathered around the front of the lioness's, gave expression to his pride and exultation by going through a Mock ceremony of baptism with the Male cube, whir% he formally besprinkled with water,beitowing upon one the 'name of Francis and Upon the ahoy that of Rechilph. 0/1 the ground that Ennicia and Rudolph aro the Austrian Emperor's and Crown Prince's "front names," the Imperial State Prosecutor Of Budweis has indicted the editor - of the paper announcing the fact, as well as the keeper who chtistened the Cubs. 4 : .