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The Clinton New Era, 1890-10-03, Page 7r•'n '•tet-Tf,Ji �" eo • VE1/4 - s Jobbing Department is not surpassed in the Oounty PRESIDENTIAL POETRY. 'THE FAVORITE POEM OF Pt- ESIDENT ASE LINCOLN• ' ?nbllshod io 1865 -Shortly After Lincoln's Death -He Had Memorized It and Many Others -A Touching Side of the Porteous edam eat Lincoln's favorite poem is here given. I1 was last published in Oincinnatti in 1865. It ie a lovely piece of language and a poem full of pure pathos. Almost stat•e'ing in their premonitory apt- ner`a are the th et and the last verses. They are like uuemecious prop♦sty. The author of the poem is said to be William Knox wilt died at thirty-six years cf age, in 1525, at Edinburg, Scotland. The poem was continent cated to the N. Y. Post by F. B. Carpenter the artist who painted the picture of the Emancipation Proclamation. He seys:- I was with the President alone one evening in his room, during tee time I was paiuting my large picture at the White House, last year. He presently threw aside his pen ant papers, and began to talk to me of Shakes r'.}. peat•:•. He senttlittde "Tad," his sort, to the libr,>. y, to bring a copy of the playa, and diet 'read to me several of his favorite passag.rs showing genuine appreciation of the great poet. Relapsing into a sadder strain, he laic •the book aside, and leaning bark in his chat• said: "There is a poem which hits been a groat favorite with me for Veto•', which was 1,11 shown to rue when a young titan by a frirn•1 ..'v. and which t elf term al•,l sow and c•tlt fr: t•1 newspaper and lox nee by heart.. 1 tcou .1. •he continued, "give a en -at deal to teew sr„ pyrote it, but I never have been able to lister lain." Kms" Then half closing- I1'x eyes he repeated tc me the lines which 1 enclose to you. l;reat- 1 1) ea_c.1 and intere.to I, 1 told hint 1 tsoulr ( (-veered tc o• '1 cru yytto ,aunt fig , like, if ever an i i ) 3:; . write thein dwn ., front his lips. 11.• said he ?.` • would solus time try to give them to In• few days afterwards lie asked Ins t" x(1010 ' pany him to the temporary stub, of Dir 'Swayne, the =sculptor, who was Making t bust of him at the Treasury I)epartutent While he was sit.: in; for the bust I was stud ;'. denly reminde.1 of the poem, and said to her • that then woul sl time to dictate it to me.. Ile c• )nip;:. . a t I sitting upon saute books at his feet, tt;tl..t,t a.s Ica could remelt] ber, 1 tvrote the lines down, one by one from his lip:. After we had discussed for a brief time the merit of the poem referred to abov •, Mr. Lincoln said: "There are some quaint, queer . verses, written I think by Oliver Wendel Holmes, called 'The Last Leaf,' one of which is to me inexpressibly touching." He then repeated to tee, also front memory, the poem. The verse he referred to occurs about the middle of the poem, and is this: "The mossy marbles rest . On the lips which he has pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for nt'iuy a year On the tomb." As he fiueshcd this vers•', he said in his em- phatic way: "For pure p nems, in my jud; ment, there is nothing :In n than those six lines in the English lauga•tge'' . O1l11vhy s}tbul 1 the spirit of mortal be proud Like a swift, fie: ting mete ,r, n fa:;-tl?tnl clout!, ' A flash of the lightnine, a break of the wave He passe;h front life t , his rest in the grave The leaves of the oak and the will,w sled • fade, Be scattered around and together be laid; ' And the young and the old, a:1.1 the low ane the high . Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie The infant a vurther attender, and loved; The mother that infaut's affection who ' proved: The husband that mother and infant whc blessed, Each, all, are away to tbeir dwelline of rest The maid on whose check en whose row, , it wheelie ac• Y Shone beauty ett>d pleasure-heft)mmposat, a+7i And the memory cf those who have hove,, her and preise•r1, Are alike from Ile Minds of the living erase.! The hand of tme, king that the scepter ha, ists4 ' The brow of the priest that the miter taw Ti, eye of the sage, and the heart of tht brave, c and lost in thedepthof 1 • grave Are hidden ) the e The Peasant., whose 1 t wits to sow and tt reap ; The herdsman, whnclitubed with his goals ul the steep ; The beggar who wandered in search of hi. brew 1, Have failed away like the grass that we tro td So the multitude gots, like the Howe •, o: weed, That withersaway to let others succeed ; So thb multitude com'3, even those we be hold, ' To repeat every tale that has often been told "The saint who enjoyed the commit/dim o' Heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just H;teee quietly mingled their bones in the high rank in his profession, he died in • dust" London, enjoying the honors of surgeon • For we are the same our fathers haste been : general to the army. Dr. James Barry, We see the same sights our fathers have seen - We drink the same stream, and view the same sun - And run,the same coarse our fathers have run. The thoughts w' are thinking our father would think, ll'rom the death we are shrinking our father would shrink ; To the life we are clinging they also wets r. cling. But it epee's for uy all, like the hird on du wing. IN STRANGE APPAREL. EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF WOMEN IN MEN'S CLOTHES. Some Very Strange Seasons Given for snob Acts -Some Maidens were Romantic, Others were Unhappy at Hoiue—A Deception Which Lasted Until Death. The case of the poor little sea appren• lice "Hans Brandt," who the other day fell into the hold of the bark Ida of Pen- sacola, at West Hartlepool, and was kil- led, adds one more to the long list of wo- men who, for one reason or another, have put aside the garments of their sex and have donned the habits and imitated the ways of nten. Not until "Bans Brandt's" body was being prepared for burial was it discovered that the Ida's apprentice was a girl. Why she dis- guised herself and why site shipped are questions to which no certain answer can be given. An uncomfortable home or possibly nothing worse than acraving for adventure may supply the explanation. Both causes, it is well known, have oper- ated`in the past, but although domestic: trouble has undoubtedly led many woolen thus to disguise themselves the commoner stimulus' it would appear, is provided by that love of change and excitement which at one period of life take possession of almost every one. Romantic ideas were not lriously the disposing crag's in the celebrated case of Anne Jane Thornton. Her retiree, who was comfortably off, wale very kind to her, but at the impressionable ago of 13 she suet Alexander Burke, an Ameri- can sea captain, rind when he went to New York site determined to leave het home in Donegal and to follow hint. She succeeded in shipping as a cabin buy and in reaching America, but site there discovered that Capt. Burke was married and so resolved to return as she had conte. She shipped as rook and steward. first in the Adelaide, then in the Surah, ('apt, McEntire, and was return- ing in the last named strip to London in 1834 wheu her sex was by accident dis- covered. Site had then been for nearly three years absent from ]tone. Upon reaching England she appeared before the lord Mayor, to whom Capt. McEntire stated in court that Hiss Thornton had done duty as a seaman in a most admir- able way, and that she had behaved her self with the utmost propriety. A few kindly people undertook to send her home. What afterward befell iter is {m - known. Romanticism also played alt inneetant part in the case of Mary Atm Taylor. Her domestic affairs, however, were not the most comfortable; and it is uncertain whether she acc'ontpauied her lover, an infantry officer, to the West Indies. sole- ly on account of her aITection for him or partly on account of her home troubles, But aceemprtny hint she: slid, and in boy's dress. (Going with hits afterward tel France, ;.he acted ;LS a drummer, and was wounded at the siege of Val- encienne.;, Upon her recovery she de- serted and took service, still as n boy, on hoard a French lugger, but which she believed to be a trader, but which was really a privateer. In this craft she was captured by tite fleet tinder Lord I [owe, to whom, without revealing her sex, she explained the circumstances of her en- gagement. Her explanation being. ac- cepted, she shipped as a cabin boy in the Brunswick, Capt. John 1[arvey, and fought in that capacity on the glorious 1st ofJuno l^ •1 Although she rt"cive d two severe wounds on that occasion and was sent for treatment to 1iaslrtr, she nevertheless managed to conceal her sex, and subsequently joined the Vesu- vius bomb, then a Yankee t'adr•r. In- deed site only proclaimed herself at hist in order to avoid being pressed as a sea- man on her return again to F:ngland. This woman who was the youngest of 1C, natural - ' children of Lord William Tal- bot, enjoyed for Many years a small pen- sion from the queen of George 111.; but, unlike Miss Thornton, rel e seems to have been in all her relations a very shady character. About 40 years ago a far more extra- ordinary instance of successful disguise was a current topic of gossip in the army. An army surgeon served successfully at the ('ape, at Malta, and at Barbados. This person was a small, thin, individ- ual, with a little voice, an effeminate as- pect, and strong vegetarian opinions. At the ('ape he actually fought a duel with an officer, who at the mess table, had called him a woman; yet in spite of that "lie" was a woman. though the fact was not discovered until, having reached They loved, but the story we ran not unfold. They scones', but t11P h• -art of tip lieu gl••y 1' cold; They ):listed, but no %rail from their slumber 'will comp; They jeyed, hut the tongue of their glad no I Is dumb. They died, ayel they died; we things than are now, •'Who walk on thea turf that lies over t'. !- brow, And make is their dwelling( a transient abode. Meet the thinne that they met, en their pit- grinelge rand. 'real hope in I despondency, pleasure and pain, Vire, min, le together in sunshine and rain; And the s:nil'sand the tsar, the song and the Still follow retro.' other, like surge upon surge. the •vinkof an eye. 'tis the draught ht. rube roost !.;o> , 1 s m of hr !aS to the paleness EOM +Tenth' •multiplied to et great extent; but one x lk/tha tail lel saloon to the bier and the more will a re. On the 20th of Janu- tsh'iotc-._ by elle e'el the•irr it : t merltalter tett4' SITo e a v e nn,; 3 'r, ,nun , a J of a of as this lady was called, was well known in military circles. Mtuly ollicei't wito can remember her are still alive. Among other examples are the oases of Ann Bonny and Mary Reid, who, dres- sed as then, were fearsome buccaneers 011 the Spanish main in their day. 1Ian- nah Snell is another example. Born in 17,.'3, she married a Dutch sailor who de- serted her. 1 [annah went in pursuit, first MI a soldier and then as a marine. Site was several times wounded, but always managed to conceal her sex, and Wright perhaps haceconcealed it for tit:uly years 3 having SO desired. i ut 1st < longer had iK g learned that her faithless sponse had been executed for murder, she proclaim- ed herself and returned to England. Yet another female sailor began her false career by running away at the age of 13, in the year 17.12, with her sweetheart. To avoid discovery she Marled as a boy, and, liking the disguise, she nftetwards went to sea in it. Returning. she ob- tained articles of apprenticeship with one Angel of Southwark, and secured the affections of a girl named\Inry Par- lour, whom rhe went so far as to marry. When Diary, upon tb.ccovering the im- position, was indignant. Manned Bundy, as the other called herself. joinsl a nta.n- of-war, She suhse,1w'ntl•x, however, returned to her "wife," who forgave her, and the pair appear to hare "lived hap- pily ever after" tie small tradespeople in the borough. !Similar rases might be . oro to a London lawyer, Dr. Edward Chamberlayne. Inclined to adventure, the girl, probably with the knowledge of her brother Clifford, 'seem* to have en- tered as a man on board his ship, the Griffin, which was engaged in the action with the French of $etch)• Haul lit 1690, of which vessel the brother Was com- mander. She fought bravely; rind soon after Iter return married a Mr. John Spragg. but died in ehildtirt h on the nth of Nov. 11191, and was buried in I'belsea church, where a monument. upon which some of these facts aro set forth. w•aa erected to her memory, Mr. Spree's; or Spragge. is believed to have 1....•11 a near relation -probably a son -•d' the eall:tnt Admiral Sir Edward Sprier_••. te. to fall in action with the Dutch in 167:1, tend there are grounds for suspecting that the child. which cost its mother lier life, vas Capt. Edward Spragge, who cununandesd the Princess Amelia in 1744, who died in 1157. -St, Jani.esliazette. GARTERS AS A MARRIAGE FEE• 1667 onl 1 1t 1 a tins A Fa,l ioaable clergyman Stii-prised by a Itri,k ]bung Lady. 'l'lu• rector of a L ery- fashionable church was called out "1' his bed One night last week by LW() young lairsons, who de- manded to see hint me business of the ut- most iutporlanee. Doing down into his library in a stale of nillld Nellie!) w•as as near to ('hristian humility as the e'ircum- stances would allow, he peered into the fates of his late callers anil demanded what they wanted. The girl was trying to conceal a bashful young 1111111 w•it11 Iter skirts. It ivas she who replied to the minister. "We want to get married." Tile pion, man recalled the time in col- lege when he was driven to tl,)e utterance of the unholy phrase, and he found him- self wishing for that day to return. Upon looking however, into the tender blue eyes of the girl before him he soft- ened a bit. Site 5016 decidedly pretty, and looked as sincere and enthusiastic as possibl(•. Then he realized that she most indeed be sincere and enthusiastic to in- trude on him at that time, and he smiled at her and she smik•d bark, "'Well, well," he said, "what ever im- pelled you conte here at this hour to get married?" "•Oh, Billy and I didn't decide till an !tour ago," she said. We've been engag- ed for a year, you know, and we've been waiting for ]silly to strike it rich, but he doesn't do it, so we made up . our minds we wouldn't wait :soother minute. We knew this was a rectory, and we've got our license, and there isn't a soul in the world cares whether we are married of not, so we ran in herr; and now you can say the words over us. The girl was determined. In vain did the minister suggest that she wait till the following day. The young man carte round from behind the girl and said he could not wait, and that's all there was to it, and if this minister would not marry them they fvould chase over the city until one 5•as found x•110 w0111)1. Su there sons nothing for the minister to (10 but 1 take them loan and wife. Js tier tite ceremony the groom pushed iii; wife tip to tine Minister, and the young woman hung her head and stammered out the explanat ion that just at that 1111)11W/it they nnlyll:id: 3 between then!, but if the minister would talc) security t11eV would redeem it with 1 handsome foe within a few days. "Security!" ext'In )t 't1 the rector. What sort of security: • Thegirl turned her ! ,1••k -to the minis- ter and til down. \Viten she rose she held in her hand t 0o stripe of blue silk 1 in circular form, each clasped by a silver buckle. "1 sing at the 'ashy 4." -said she blush- ing: 'and there have helm lots of young fellows gone ori mc. They give nu' pre- sents, you know. and one worse than the rest gave I11e these garters. I guess they're worth 310 or so, Kcep 'eat till r • you he fee." Billy sends � (ll t . I. 5 y The minister burst Out laughing and handed the young woman her garters, saying that no security alt's necessary. In relating the anecdote he does not ex- plain whether he availed himself of the traditional privilege of kissing the bride. --New York Letter. Plica letia's Martini Mirage. Any one who will take the trouble to go to the intersection of North Los Robles avenue and Villa, street, Pasadena, by looking south on the first -named thor- oughfare will,see on a (bear day about the place where Colorado street crosses the avenue. There would be nothing strange or startling in the above inforute'ttion if the water, plainly visible at Villa street, did not disappear as one approaches its ap- parent location. In other words, there is no pool at the intersection of Colorado street and Los Robles avenue, and whet the spectator sees from Villa street is nothing lest than a mirage. To witness this rare optical delusion the place indicated should be visited be- tween the hours of 11 a. m. and noon, al- though the mirage has been seen as late as 1 o'clock. A perfectly clearday must bo chosen, for when there are clouds in the sky the water does not show up. The spectator hail Letter be in a buggy, the elevation thus afforded adding somewhat to the effect of the delusion, (!ranted these conditions, a small pool is s e 1 visible , o h orlalcedthnt cif t t0 Y sonthward, about half a utile distant. Let ft vehicle pits' Los Robles avenue on Colorado street and its shadow will he plainly reflected beneath the water's surface. The water is seen most clearly from a few yards south of Villa steet.- Los Angeles Times. .t work of the IInwk., :\n engine driver em on) of t!le Scotch lint's reports that he hay noticed tliat ccr- tains hawks notice use of • h) passing of trains for predatory pnrpow's. They fly close behind the trains, partly hidden by the smoke ,but carefully watching for the small birds which, frightened by the train as it rushed roaring past, fly up in bewildered shoals; the hawks then, while the little birds are thinking more of thetrain than of lurking foes, swoop on them from the ambush of the emoke and st'-ike them down with ease. They can e •ily keep pace with an express train tit d outstrip it when they please. THE FAKIR'S CURSE - A Prophecy of Evil That Cane True With CrusWug Effect. James 31:tss, 11t' u•avellet•, tells t:us story: "It was about a .i cbn•s ut the eveni.r;, and Col. Yeager and 1 sat on the veraltd t of the 4 toullah Hotel in Smithey, end on the edge 01 thenative oily. why it is called Vlen ii•eh, and not Bombay. The Colonel is dead; all tirtt ne once owned and loved is gone. He was ex• peCllttg his wire and dauguler, wile rad been out to England cit a year's visit, slid tee ves- sel was to arrive at Ca,cutta arta day, while w•e were going to get the bungaio•.v ready to receive theta. The ('„louel was itt the best of spirits. He joked and laughed and told old stories of love and war: hew he wit; nearly captured and murdered -ley the renowned Nana -Said at e.mt , •r • t of hi • vest poppy plantations and the r.“. elle. tri drtive•1 from the opium he distills 1 es• ry year. Finally we started to 4,614 to w-ltera we hal our h•'r- s stab:ed, and t ten for a coot -•r overt e beouti fol roe Is to tle' bungalow fifteen tu:.o. lie 11 We had to go throw=h \'10011.411 to ren -ii I•u! destination. What a kaleide,..ope that um iv, city is! The barrahwallah water carrier wearing uotiiiuz, but tt breech el ,u', and tui., Male belly servant, 41111 his r d turban ant, long wLee jacket,. Jews from Palestine. Parse'es, or tire worshippers, who travelled 3,000 utiles over desert and mountain froze Persia and carried their sacred tires, all pie. tures sue, all in white, borderiel with red of other bright calors. "Well, in turning a corner 111 Vieullah we felted a crowd being harangues) be one of the best known fakirs in India, I had hear( him spoken of as one who could put s blight npou you. People called him Sadi-Sail), Sadi my master. Col. Yeager pushed through the crowd to within a few feet of the fakir, tc whom be said something in llindostanee. It seemed to enrage S:uli, who jumped from his little platform in front of Yeager, saying •• *Englishman, be careful, or blight may fall upon you and yours. Tread not upon the smallest thing Buddha has created, or it may turn and sting you.' "Ilefore I could stop hint the 5 ,lonel bat cut the fakir across the face, auel with at oath had shouted: "Out of tit: way, you Hindoo pig!” "The fakir• with blazing eyes said: "'Englishman, you will not ttu,t your wife. You will not meet your child. Your plantations will be devastated; your t r eves heart will }either within you. You will die. "The fakir's words were prophetic. 1 fell it then, and 1 also think the Colonel did. We were on in bed and so au reached the bungalow, Huw I s ept that night I don't know. Tht words, 'Englishman, beware," were oontiau ously raging in my ear. Next morning went into the breakfast room, and 1 shudder when I think of it. Tho Colonel was there walking up and down with a telegram in hit hand, his face drawn, and he looking twenty years older than he did the night before. With tears in his eyes he handed me this nes sage: 'Steamship Fiago went ashore at the mouth of the Hoogaly. Your wife and child drowned.' I have never seen the Colon el since, but I have watched his career. IIh poppy Crop was a failure that year and ruined him, his bungalow was burned by either accideutor designs, and Verger died withal a twelve month of a broken heart" - Inquirer. BRUSH YOUR HAIR• GIRLS. tf Von Wyant to (:eta (:L'vs on it-Itow la Itetttove holes. Brush and brush your hair, if you want tc got that lovely glues that soviety girls for se eager for. Give your hair 20e strokes every night before jumping into bed. Don't be afraid of brushing it too murk. Tho more you brus'.1 the more• ;_:o;) you get. If your eyebrows are thin b :uit those too with a tiny brush, rind if they don't curve tc suit you, get a tiny comb and traiu their in whichever directiou you wish thcut to go. Brushing keeps them in good shape, and it it so much easier to brush than toyrim them. Besides if you do not understand how to trirs them properly, you are apt to look funny until they grow out again. If y O u wish tokeep awaywrinkles, slew on u back. I know will have Lad dreamt • , ut o Y if you do so. but I lied rather reit up with the dreams than the wrinkles. Hadn't you 1 Sleeping on your side cause wrinkles under the eye. Be sure to both wash and wipe your face toward your nose, for the nose never write kles. By wiping toward it you will prevent those little wrinkles near the e,u• which are so plainly seen. Wsmile do it wire the .• yes and When you ) mouth, and not with the face, Laughing makes wrinkles, but keep 01 laughing, only don't do it with the face. I have just taken four stoles front my fa-, and it is very badly done. You can d , it yourself, only be careful; for it burns, btu .. Get five cents worth of muri'ttie acid ale. three times a clay, toueh the mole with a toothpick dipped into the acid. It will come off in about a week, leaving a red spot on the face. Leave that spot alone and it will heal by itself. They say "moles is a sign of beauty," but 1 prefer the beauty without the moles. ---(Bos- ton Globe. SPOTLETS. A choir girl was forced by the other girl, to give up her sweetheart. Sha was the vic- tim of in-choir-ry. The fact that Camben is now "wet" is of no interest to the Weather Bureau, :\ "wet' town is not a meteorological item. Kemmler may yet escape the dynamo. He may be bored to death by being sentenced ss often. In Saint Paul the waiter's have won their fight. They were good stayers as well as waiters. Porcupine has been inhabited from distil- ling the Ooepal to the Crows. This, not without caws. "A switch -1s matter," said the Loy : "It guides my acts, 1 flnd. 'Tis thus a force my folks employ of matter over mind." -Washington I'ost, "The talk of the 1)ay" is humorous in 0114 Yorkdailies, of the New } c 11, but the talk of th e Dey in Morocco is not always humorous. "A Trust in Nitro -Glycerine" looks like a blind confidence. Too Late. "Madam," said the grateful (mats enu- merator, "you have replied courteously and kindly to all my questions. 'Unlike nearly every person I have mot since I began this work, you have not treated mo as if I were an enemy 811,1 nn intruder. Von have an- swered sntisfeetorily all the questions as tc age, plirsi-tI condition end ownership of property. Your conduct meets my hearty approval not only at a Government officer but tie a citizen, and with your permission I will ask you a question not down in my list. Are von engaged tote married to anybody?" "1 am,sir," replied the handsome widow, blipping tot 1 smiling. "1 feared so," Raid the cereals taker, with a sir;l•. oil lie led nn his hat and event nut into the e.•1 • w , • .1 needn, his faith in hum m na- ture n•. • .• 1 h it his heart broken. Trial: "THE TOWN OF FIRE" I The Clinton New Era BAKU, THE RUSSIAN CITY ON THE Ispnbliehed every Friday Morning by CASPIAN SEA. Place of Diabolical Aspect, Enveloped in Smoke Traversedby Tongues of Flame - Springs of 0(1 so Abundant it is Im- possible to Store Their 0verlloty Tiflis is midway on the railway that eat the Caucasus in its whole width and puts the two seas iu communication -tie port of Batoum on the Black sea with that of Baku on the Caspian. As we leave the capita; iu the lat- ter direction, says Vise mut Eugene Melchoir de Vogue is liirpe}''s Magazine, the eye is at first ravished •tad then d.'sol,ated by the chang- ing aspect., of the land. The track follows th • !Cur, which roll, its broad sheet of water ntaje.;t1Ca;iy through wild forests and rich, tined eel, with two chains efsnowy ridges , ;,'telt aw..y out of sitiht in the distance- ': A• Caucssus to the left, the i1 Luntaius of .Sierientu to the right, Soon we leave the l'5%.,1% 'wide11 q,es to join the Araices toward t :r s )titli : the pea n gets broader and barer. . eeeess built or p.anks perched on foul t s....::, ri,, in Coe midst of the rice -fields wat,•-tow-: rs. '1'hc inhabitants of the s ere,. who are MI Tartars in this region, ;ore r •. age at night to these aerial oasts. The lend ie se unhealthy that it is danger- eeee there. lu spite of these precau• Gee: tee pro -ants wuont we see are devoured by b•ycr. Th.•in emaciated visages remind us et Ile se. of the inhabitants of the Roman Cant- ; ,t,:ra. Atter leaving Ilad ji-Caboul, the alien in Moorish style where a uew line 1(4 111e•tids elf -"the 'Teheran line," I ant told by the eugiueets who are building it, and who le me to carry it into the very heart of Persia -lye enter 1111 African landscape, sad and lutniuous, The mountain (hams 1 e - (sem' lower: tt1sy are now _simply cliffs 01 gilded sa ldstoue festooning against a crude blue slay. At their feet, the desert, a sandy rxpatse, e-,vered here and there with a coat i.e.; pet 0t flowering tamarisks. Herds of camels browse on those shrubs, tinder the guard of e half -naked shepherd, ntotioules! as a bronze statue. The fanta>tie silhouettes of thea. animals are increased in sire and changed in form by the effect of the mirage, Ns hich disc: ays before our eyes, in the ardent heze of the horizon, lakes and forests. From: time to time w0 meet a petroleum train, com- posed of cistern trucks in the form of cylin- ders, surmounted by a funnel with tt short, chin a ori Whensee them F. thick neck. you 1`p; front a distance, you might Mistake them for a procession of mastodons, vying in shape- lessness with the trains of cancels which ,they pass. The sun burns in spate. Yon- der a green band glitters beneath its rays ; it is the Caspian. We turn around a hill, and belted ! on this western shore, in this primi- tive landscape, which seems like a corner of Arabia Petrua, a monstrous city rises before our eye;. Is it once more the effeetof mirage, this town of diabolical aspect, enveloped in e cloud of smoke traversed by tanning tongues of flame, as it were ; Sodom fortified by tlat demons iu its girdle of cast-iron towers l I eau find but nue word to depict exactly the thst impression that it gives ; it is a town of gasometers. There are an houses -the houses are rc•leguted farther away on the tight, in the old Persian city -nothing but iron cylin• tiers, and pipes, and chimneys, scattered iu disorder from the hills down to the beach, This i; doubtless the fearful model of what ntunufitetuu•ing towns will be in the tweutietlt ceuttu•y. Meltt)Witile for the moment, 'this ono is unique in the world ; it is Baku-tbe "Town of Fire," as the natives call it : the pe- t'oleuut towel, where everything is devotee n:•1 subordinated to the worship of the lora: god. The bet of the Caspian sett rats upon a second subterranean sea, which spreads its floods of naphtha under ten whole basin. Or the eastern there the ,building of the Samar- c:md railway led to the discovery of •immense beds of mineral oil. On the western shore front the nn st remote ages, the magi used tc adore tete tire springiug front the earth al tite very spot: where its last worshippers pros r 3t e s.• nes at the resent In But trate th m 1 t P Y after having long adoredredit, im io a men be. gun to uc11r profit by it commercially. It the thir4;nnth century the fatuous travolet Marco foto mentioned "on the northern side a great spring whence flow's a liquid like oil. It is no good for eating, but it it useful for burning and for all other purposes, and so the ueighbering nations come to get their provision of it, and fill many vesselr without the ever•-t[owiug spring appearing tc be diminished in any manner." The rea: practical work u g of these oil springs date back only a dezret years. At the pr •sent day it yields .3,00l1,no,) kilograms of kerosene pet annum, and disputes the markets of Europe against the products of Kentucky and Pew nsylvania. Thu yield might be increased tenfold, for the existing wells give On ar average 1,O11N) kilograms a day, and in order to Lind new ones it suffices to bore the ground so saturated is the whole soil with petroleum. C. Marvin ("The Petroleum Industry in Southern Russia') cmnpares the Apsheron peninsula to a sponge plunged in mineral oil The soil is continually vomiting forth the li- quid lava that torments its entrails either is the form of mud volcanoes or of natural springs. The springs overflow iu streams ec abundant thnt it is hopeless to store their contents for want of reservoirs; often they catch tire end burn for weeks; the air, iter- pregnated with naptha vapors, is then aglow all round Baku. See proprietor, RosT. HOLMES, at his printing establishment, Isaac St., Clin- ton, Ont Trams. -$1.50 per annum, paid in ad- vance . JOB PRINTING in every style and of every description, executed with neatness and dispatch, and at reasonable rates. NEWSPAPER DEC191ONS. 1. 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Accord ing to his computation there are exactly 115, 711'2,0Sf,t3.'37,:,16, IMI8,-1'.[t,.i70,03.i,00e,697,t107, 35:3, 2t19,08-1,015,610,5114,0:19,457,584,007,913,129, 6:19, 1386, which will surely beonough'to go around and have plenty of grace and glory left. In proof that his calculation is accurate he says that the sun represented by the above figures is tbe two hundred ane flfty-sixth power of the number two. What the number two and its two hundred and fifty-sixth power has to do wth g • re and glory he duce not say. Others have attempted to sole the problem by transposing in every possible way the let- ters in the well-known question: " Chy graces, O Virgin, are told where the stars of heaven are numbered." -St. Louis Republic. Parliament !louses Crumbling. The British Parliament houses aro crumb- ling to pieces so fast that there is constant danger of some portion of the Imildings top- pling down on the members, l'arts of the front of St, Stephen's have had to be entirely refaeed beeauso of the wearing awns,' of the soft stone. (Inly n week or two ago a heavy pi0•a• of n stone heraldic. animal suddenly fttl cense to IbP eet.ranceto Westminster Hall, le 01d Pelee, yard to rienns of entreneo loll. hoose which is lareely favored. 13trtArag days before port !0't of the erne nio•ltr. 1eau* work fell close t01.he menti, •r" entl•anre it ,elf, and another heavy pie 11.11 on the pnvemett 1 of New Palace yard nota month ng'. "I wish you eould be erred of that com- plaint," his wife said iel'116 (omelet ahopt the dinner attain. 14 ANTED! A good pushing Salesman here. First- class pay gt,aranted weekly. Commis• sion or Salary. Quick selling now Fruits and Specialties. FARMERS can get agoorl paying.iob ter the winter. 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