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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1893-01-11, Page 3tr11101110401k4g0004a4W44-47:4040,144441/4414434,g4"'N444400:41t!W40144:;4474'6."'"7".." 14114r.:4:4C1: • • "Yen Swear Vihatr • "1 • . "Wouldb Onitko. YononOadenea if I Were to,prore. that no Irein ran part Of the waiy• parallel with the 0 o'eleelt express 1". fitiKaRSO 10 W91114,-' "MOO ,you aro »IA WItie:trident al you pretend to be N the actuality of your via. fon?' "I merely etate whot ;410 • V hat yea thought you atm." "You may put it that way 11 you like-% "There is no other way to put it. You were in it tietni-intoxhieted Estate, and you thought you SAW a struggle Owe train which I will show exiets only ht your half.drunkett imagination. That will do, eta" The defence celled severel officiate wbo were On duty that uight at the terminus. Their evidence wee all to the awe effect. anti went to show they no train full di pee- sengere could possibly have run parallel with the () o'clock express. "Yon remember the 9 o'clock express ou the night of the 27th 1" .• yes. o ,0704 iIrizsT04 if 1111.1 keep 4jt, is -apt tcttell upon the liver. 'AO t11100 te prevent thisaml/r4 Plarcela rite** relict& . ace ono et Wig) litt)e. roots' tor- A ISS4TeSt10 gchtle laxative—three for A•vetkart.10. The)riftt the aU- ei!eMie to take, pleasantest and ‘„ Wok natural lu the ways they ad. 111e7 eloprrinonent good. _Condi- 44#9#*A4lgeetiee, Bilious; Attacks, Sick or Pilious Headache,. awl 4i1 iclarancements of the liver, stomach, and bowels are prevented, relived, ,red. 'They're parcotteed to give satis- PtIOnin pyery ease, or yetr money is , The. worst 'cases of Cbronie\ Ca- ' tar% in the Head, yield to Dr. Paget; Catarrh, Remedy. So cer- We is it that its makers offer $500 xewara, for an incurable case. ,--Kereits the way a Birtle, Men., tnafritige licence issuer advertises t Xeeriage licenses thewill not weal Otit at the Furniture Steil:. e-eThe'World wOuld. hive leer crank?, i Children wore taught the difference be• tureen sentinr..ut and principle. • .bEcasaniptIon Cared. if An old physician rattre.:1 from practice, having 14511 Plakee4 le his blots by an Last India luissi.m- ',,. eV the 'formal 'of a Id t .the speedy inistlperat muslteev.eng::',.ifatlorausm taliNlpYtlefunr, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma d all throat and Lung Affeettons, talsoaan.po.suitriliarand ',wheal sure •aufterhavang testol WI 0 'II 1.,r0arlve'',41:"ialc..i7plaintrs:' t Oh meads et oases. tam) fet It his (bay to''mw:Ite tor Norville Debility 1 'mown to bissatlerint fellows. Auto:aced by• this motive aid a desire to relieve human sniteriat, 1 will scud fr6e of Cha,ree, to all wit' desire it, this re lips. in Dermal, French or English, with fall direetione f 0 prooiring awl using. eeut by lead : .-... , bv 11,01ronslog with starn,.. naming tili* P*"4"*. W'.6. N.)78A8381POLOirelE)ck, lilcheeler, .V.. I'. 135'3- y iss SI-S,S A train') nearly murdered firmer Leech and his yontig•wife at Fenton, 'Allah , last week. was feth,il with an axe and rohbeil and his wile shot with a rill which w la the house. 11.)th will likely die. 111,. fiend is still at large. 0/18112•1016.08011•0111011:8. sysg. CAUTION. PLUG OF THE uT9 javu IN BRONZE LETTERS. 14. NONE OTHER GENUINE: COPP'S WALL PAPER and Paint Shop IS STOCKED WITH A SELECT ASSORTMENT --CP-- floftos et IV the 'Mil To the nohle floral of honeetfl Comte me 1 Oeine o RA Say, the SiorthWeet, elensi ted.xree• )141"' 'OU ‘I homss• Weir holies, On the vrelriss' vest domeine; calve its life ehiewst litet Oriels the plains in Wed aeeleime, Th' he valeena the wood, eltviaue lettee In torrents Hood Ev°r$ bay, eve*. poitil7 Where he Indian loved to hunt. Where the Oree, where the Sloux Stunted in iheir bark come, • Dttztvnggirczi.o. Pill with wheat, fill with rye, And your twarts with otiose of Joys The butYAN gent) ; go, take your rights ; Take your God by the hand, He'll gulde you in our prairie land. —W W. Turver, M.D., Torora. CRIME ON THE LINE. About five miles from the London tetierti- nus the track.walker, swinging his luutera over the rails, came upon the mangled body of a man who had apparently fallen or had been thrown from a passing train, and ran over us he lay there by a succeeding train, or who had been walking on the hue con- trary to all railway rules. and had thus been overtaken by swift death. It might have been a ease of euicide, for these was nu money on his person, and nothing to estab• halt his identity. Still, the fact that lie was well dressed imide the absence of money, watch. or papers, indicate murder rather than selfdeetruction. The body wus found a few minutes after 11 o'clock on the night of the 27th. On the afternoon of the 28th the body wus identified. The victim was Alexander Rogers, a respectable merchant who lived at Brenton, a suburb about twelve miles from London. No reason could be discovered why he should have cotnmit- ted !suicide, and when he left. his office on the 2,7th he had both money and watch. He had been kept late that night, aud it had been his intention to take the 9 o'clock express which did not stop until it came to Brenton. At the inquest, one of the station men at Brenton said that when he closed the doors of the train, as it stood at Brenton station, there was one empty first-class compartment which had both doors open. He had stepped in and closed the door furthest front the platform at which the train stopped ; after which he closed the other door. He thought nothing of the circumstance at the time, because the door might have been opened by the passenger who left that compartment, under the im- pression that the train WaS going to stop at the opposite platform. The 9 o'clock ex- preas sometimes, stopped at the middle platform and sometimes at the side plat- form, depouding on whether the 8:45 down was late or on time. He had noticed no signs of a struggle in the compartment. Mr. Rogers held a first-class season ticket. He thought someone must have come out of that compartment at Brenton, otherwise the door on the platform side would no have been opened. A verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown was brought in, an the body of the unfortunate man wait buried. The day after the verdict was rendered and thesday it was published in the morn trig papers, Jonas Grant, of Brenton, pre sented himself at Scotland Yard, and tol an extraordinary story. He was travellin on the 9 o'clock express on the night of th 27th. The night was very dark. Shona after they left -the terminus he noticed b the increasing noise that they were runnin parallel with another train. He looked ou on the left hand aide and saw that the ex press was running faster than the othe train, and that the carriagesof the latte were gradually falling behind. There was nothing strange about this, for frequeutl as many as three trains run parallel t each other as far as the junction neve miles out. Suddenly his attention wa arrested by a struggle in a. carriage. H could not be sure whether it was a firs second, or third.class' compartment. bu he knew it was in a carriage near tb engine. He sprang to the ',window, bu just as he did so the door of the carriag opened and ono of the men fell out. H could not identify the man who fell, as h back was toward him, but be he got a fu view of the murderer, and could never fo get his face. At the same moment the mu derer saw him and dropped back in tl seat without closing the door. Mr. Gra then gave a description of the murderer minute that the police seemed to recogni the person described. When asked why he did not come fo ward next day and tell what he had seenf why he did not at least put in an appea ance at the inquest, Grant hesitated. A last he said that the whole thing so sta tied. him, and was all so vague with t exception of the face of the murderer, th he had some reluctance about coming fo ward. He knew the carriage was near t front of the train, for a moment after t man was thrown out they passed the e gine. The police at once made enquiries aft a desperado named Wallace. whom th reognized by Mr. Grant's description. was found he had not been at his usu haunts since the 27th. His description w telegraphed all over the country, and in few days Wallace was arrested near t coast, making his way on foot towa Southampton. He was well supplied wi money, but there was no watch upon h or anything else that could be identified belonging to the murdered man. The pol sere confident that he was the murder but when the trial came on they had new evidence against him, and everythi depended on how the judge and the ju looked on Grant's testimony. Grant repeated his story in substantia 'the same words he had used at Scbtla Yard, but he went all to pieces on cro examination. "Why did you not come forward once with this extraordinary story yotirs?" "Because I was not quite sure that w I saw was an actual occurrence." "Why aro you sure now t" "I have thought over the matter sin The man's face made a great impression me at the time." "I can only come to one conclusion gardiug your evidence, that is, presum you are a truthful man. I therefore you if you were sober on the night of 27th ?" The witness hesitated. At last he s "I was not drunk." •ig/;'z OF bi*„Ct Merlon and Canadian Wall Paper WITH BORDERS TO MATCH, from five cent rolls to the finest gilt. Having bought my Papers and Paints for Spot Cash, and my practical ex- perience justify me in saving that all wanting to decorate their houses Inside or paint them out- side will find it to their advantage to give me a call, VS' Shots south of Oliver Johnston's blacksmith shop, and directly opposite Mr. J. Chidley's residence JOSEPH COPP -Practical Paper Hanger and Painter The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Farm and Isolated Town Proper- ty only Insured. °Moons. Thos. E. Ilays, President, Seaforth P. 0.; W. J. Shannon, Secy•Treas., Senforth P, 0. ; John 'Hannah, Manager, seaforth P. 0, 51850301(5, Jae. 13roadfoot, seaforth ; Donald Ross, Clin- ton; Gabriel Elliott, ClInton'; George Watt, Harlock ; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; J. Shan- non, Walton; Thos. Garbed, Clinton. AGENTS, Thos. Nellans, Harmer; Robt. McMillan, Sea - forth; S. Carnochan, seaforth. John O'Sullivan and Geo. Murdie, Auditors, Battles desirous to effect Insurance or trent- iiet other business will bo promptly attend .99 ed to on application to any of the above officers, *tressed to theirirespective post cflices. ' sismonsweimmonsimanemlemeseemeslosionneaMt t d g e y y g t r r t, y. 0 n t e t, e is 11 r - r• nt so ze r - or tr- bbs r- at r- he he 11' er ey ab 85 he rd th im as ice er, no ng ry Ily nd 38 - at of hat en re - 85 the aid, "Did it leave on time V" 'Dne minute after, sir." "When ditl the next train leave the ter- minus!" "At 9:25. A slow train." "No train left from any of the other plat- forms before 9:25 ?" "No, sir." "Did the 9:25 overtake the express that night ?" , 1•No, sir." "What was the last train -to leave before the express?" "The 8:45, sir." "Did the express overtake the 8:45 that night 1" "Not till both trains had passed Bren- ton." It is always a .good plan nut to try to prove too much. If the prisoner's advocate had etopped with the witness ;above quoted the result might have been different. He called the engineer of the 9 o'clock train to the stand. "You are the engineer of the 9 o'clock express?" "Yes, sir." "You took ont the train on the night of the 27th ?" "Yes, sir." "I suppose it is hardly necessary to ask you if you passed any train running paral- lel with you, and in the same direction, be- tween the terminus and Brenton'!" "Yes,,sir, we did." This answer was a stupefying surprise to the defence, and there was what the papers described as a sensation in court. "You have heard these witnesses swear that no train could have been pulsed by the 9 o'clock express ?" "This was a train of einpties, sir. It came from the yard, and was going to the june- tion." 'What is u train of empties ?'' "Einpty carriages, sir. Shnuted and left all night at the junction, sir." "Then there were no passengers on that train 1" "No, sir." "Were the lights out in the carriages?" "Yes, sir." "The doors were locked, I suppose S" "Yea, sir."' "Then no struggle could have taken places on that train 1" "No, sir " "That will do." "If I may make so bold," said the engi- neer, "I can—" "Stand down," said the lawyer, "you must not make statements. You have said quite enough. "I think my learned brother is entirely right," remarked the legal gentleman who conducted the prosecution. "The witness has said rather more than was, perhaps, expected. I wish to ask him a few ques- tions. Where did. yon pass. this train of "We passed it near the Midwall sig- .nals." "How far was that froth where the body was found ?" "That is where the body was found, sir —near the Midwall signals—just this side, sir." "Did you see anything of the struggle Mr. Grant has described'!" "No, sir; but as I was a -saying, or a-goin' • to say, sir, I know what he saw." "This is not evidence," objected the de- fence. "The man is going to advance some theory. He admits he saw nothing of the mythical strttggle." -The judge, however, seemed impressed with the engineer's testimony, and he allow- ed the question to he put. "What did Mr. Grant see?" "What he saw, sir, is what anybody can see passing a train of empties on a dark night. He saw the reflection in the win- dow of what was going on in the compart- ments next his own. A sober man would know that what he saw was only a re- ilection, but a man on a booze might think the train of empties was lighted up. I think, sir, the murder was committed in the compartment next the one Mr. Grant wouldn't he hear the struggle -- the sound of the fight ?" "No, sir ; on account of the noise the two trains made when they were close to- gether and both running fast." The effect of this evidence was to make the jury disagree, but before the next trial the watch of the murdered man was found pawned in a country town by Wallace. That, added to the vision, hanged him. • Scientific American Agency for CAVEATS,_ TRADE MARKS, icemen PATENTS OOPYRIONTS, oto. tOtinfoiroation and free Ilandbnok write to sfUNN & c0.,, Bet IMOADWAY, Nnw Yong. • <Mast barenu fer securing patents in America. 'ivory patent tsken ont by us 16 brOught before, the public .by 13 Wale° giVen free of Charge in the ziottific titetitall . riarirdst ordination or tenr octentmo poor In the Worm, Splendidly 1llutrn$0d lSo intenment mon ehould be without it, Weedy, $1.3.00 a tents $1.63 eix month. Address MuNN & 00e 4U3trastn1ts,36113roadvrtiv, New York. "Answer my question, if you please Were you sober when you saw this remark, able vision?" "Not exactly." "What do you mean by not, exactly ?" "I was at a dinner that evening, and there was the usual quantity of wine drunk. I left at 8.30 in a hansom. I was not in- toxicated, but I had been drinking." "You wore in that happy tate between sobriety and drtinkennese?" "I suppose so." "Has it not occurred to you that a man's life or death hangs on what you supposed you saw while in that condition?" The witness did not answer. "You are positive that a train ran aleng- side of the 9 o'clock express on the night of the 27th 1" " LAW WgaT QF 7.14g MO64" t14.7, POTTeii WPIIKgRA who They4r14:444),$07.011700:400.174 444 139118/ very interesting part is niers respect, eilt71 alltsuctkiliiirUol°111114144:(tt:11:4*S01.4"egrYn1701:17- given. 10 ip a recent report 'which.. the Austrian Cron - •rester put the peas initnufaetured had a aide 16t11011$ tourists end foreigners visiting the ceuntry. Speaking, geueratty, the Egyptian industries of to. tlay rosy be divided into three groups The minor .or "house" industry, agriculture,. and the factory industry, Of the first group, one of the oldest IS the ceratnie in7 duetry, whiell is Carried on in pottery, works en the elver alike in Cairo,.klexan- dria, and Rosetta. The (AWE articles of this class produced aro the porous bottle - shaped vessel:I and bulging refrigerators known by the name of Alkaraze, as well as filters known as Sir, the latter Chiefly made at. Keneli. The liner classes of goods, such as ornamental vases, lamps, and ornamental articles generally, come. from Assiuut and Upper Egypt. Calm is the ehief center of the metal in- dustry. Articles of old and silver are mainitactured inemall quantities'indeed and chiefly for the peasant population and tour - lets. They mostly censiet massive ailver rings for decorating the arms and ankles, twisted bands, chains, and. filigree work of tine gold and silver. There are several lapidaries in Cairo and Alexandria, chiefly engaged in cutting turquoitses. The wood indestry, besides employing a large number of joiners engaged in produc- ing ordinary European furniture, includee also some establishments in Cairo and Alex- andria, where art furniture in Arabian style is turned out. This mainly consists in wall screens, presses, chairs, fautetiqs, small tables, so-called Koran s'ands, mirrors and picture kernel pi' to„,i„A, general' nictlier•ofpearl, bone, or meta near Ileittii1141stliinV, si4,s4•k•Ir t ;a5tailsktiri.:.ti let er &Me , Tile benenSa days of 'Al olsyttotieti some vet%) queer 'Ammeters in OM west, and ToSati mimeo in for her share of them. Most of theau eici.tiniers ore paler the soil long ago, bet there are a NW of them left, autl according to the St. Louie Post -Dies patch abotit the meet origisuil is eta Pray Bean, ...Lew weet of the Peelle," as lie (tailed himself. Ray wail °looted juetiee of the peace along tu the fifties and he still ed. miniatere justice to all according to hie owe method, Whieji ie one that would cause one of our modern ltswyere to have palpitation of the heart were he Le prat:tiers in his eourt. lint withal Ray generally sized tip the case about right, and one let him be satisfied of the guilt of the eulprit trod all the stistutee, technicalities and prat:intents front the trine of Adam down could nut save him, and it came to bo a pretty well undee. stood thing that appeals from Squire Bean% court didn't go. At least that bit the impression which Ray tried to convey, and his language was always remarkably elear • on this point, as a young aspirant for legal glory discovered one day when, after a case hail been decided against him, he gave notice of appeal. In a second Squire Beau had him covered with a six shooter, and in a voice of thunderous tones declared, "Sir, there is no appeal from this court," and the lawyer concluded' that if the squire said so it must be that way. Ray was the pro- prietor of the out1et. saloon in the place end quite frequently when someone wus brought before him ettarged with sonic minor offeuee, i Ray would ecotone!: him to pay for the I drinks for the orowd. Such sentences were i always executed to the letter. Ray was a very illiterate man; in tact he could not read or write. Ile often boasted that he had the cleanest docket iu the sto.te, t yog.11 Things Women Have Invented. Among primitive pupils women were the originators, it is claimed, of industrial arts, and it was only after th,ey became lucrative that men usurped them. Women devised the curing and dressing of game and the fashioning of the skins of animals into gar- ments. Woman invented the needle, the shuttle, the weaving of textiles. She was the first potter, and she originated basket - making. The old Bayeux tapestry made by Matilda of Flanders and her Maidens is the best and most authentic history of the conquest of England by her husband, Wil- liam the Conqueror. Reproductions of the statues of Salina von Steinbach, daughter and assistant of the architect of Strasburg cathedral; to her is ascribed the change from the stiff medireval angles to the grace- ful flowing lines that followed; and of the remarkable book prepared in the twelfth century by the Abbess of Herre.d, which contained a compendium of all the know- ledge of the day, illustrated by illumine - Wins, and considered by many to be the origin of the modern eatlyclopedia. There were records, too, of the women who were professors in the early Italian universities, and many other things of interese illustrative of woman's early prowess, and proving to the New York Evening World that the present uprising in the ranks is only the natural fere° of the etream seeking its level and not at all a new departure. The Dog and the coon, Sam—Does yer know what makes dat dos look at you so cisme like? Julins—Can't prove it by me. Sam—De reason dat dog in puzzled is bekase when he sees a big black hole he spects dar's a coon on de Inside, but when you open your mouf hesees dat de coon le on de ()Meld°, and dat's what he kaint onderstand 4 "there not being the scratch e Fen (25 311 Duriug the celisiruction oi the Southern The pr' elpal purchasers of these articled," too, are foreigners, eithersettled in or jour- BaYillg through the country. Assiout does Pacific ruilroad through western Texas Ray became famous for his knowledge of law, A white railroad laborer had sorne difficulty with a Chinese coworker and killed him with a pick. The murderer was taken be- fore Squire Bean and pleaded not guilty. Without taking a word of test jimmy Ray went to his library and got a volume of patent oilice reports, or something of the sort, and examined it very carofelly, hold- ing the book upside down. Finally his decision was as follows "Gentleinen, I find a law hare against killing a white man or a nigger, but darnme if this book says a word about a Chinaman, and the sentence of this court is that you (the prisoner) be fined the drinks for this crowd, and may the Lord have merest on your soul." The Sweetness of Life. It fell on &day I was happy, And the winds, the convex sky, The flowers and the beasts of the meadow, Seemed happy even as 1, And I stretched my hands to the meadow, To the bird, the beast, the tree "Why are ye all so happy 1" 3 cried, and they answered me, What sayest thou, oh inetulow, That stretches 80 wide, so far, That none am say how maay Thy misty marguerites are? And what say ye, red rosea, That oer the sunblanched wall From your high blackshadowed trellis Like flame or brood drops hall? "We are born, we are reared, and we linger • A various space, and die, We dream and are bright and happy, But we cannot answeIr why" What invest thou, oh shadow, That from the dreaming hill All down the broadening valley Liest so sharp and still? And thou, oh murmuring brooklet, Whereby in the noonday,gleam The loose strife burns like ruby, And the branched asters dream? "We are born, wemre reared, and we liogsr A various apace and die We dream, and are very happy, But we cannot answer why." Ami then' of myself I questioned, That like a ghost the while Stood from me and calmly answered With a slow and curious smile; "Thou art born as the flowers ad wilt linger Thine own short space and die; Thou dreamst and are strangely happy, But thou canst not answer why" —Archibald Lanipman, in Youth's Companion • EGG OF' THE GREAT AUK. It is Worth *I1,000 and Is Now in Posses- sion of the Smithsonian Institution. The Sniithsonian Institution possess the most valuable egg in the world. It is an egg of the great auk, which became extinct about fifty years ago. The value of it is nominally $1,000, but it could not be pur- chased for that sum. According to the Boston Transoript few people realize that there are other eggs besides those of hens which have enormous commercial value. In England socalled "plovers' eggs," which are really those of lapwings, are sent to the city markets from the rural districts by hundreds of thousands. They are esteemed a, great delicacy, and fetch a very high price the use of them being for that reason confined almost exclusively to the aristo- cracy and other luxurious persons. Being only about the size of pigeon's eggs a good many of them are required to make a dish. Men make a business of gathering them from the nests in marshes and wet fields. A very extensive trade exists in the eggs of certain sea fowls, chiefly the murres and gillemots, which congregate in vast numbers about Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, the Hebrides and elsewhere in the north Atlantic, as well as in the north Pacific. Fleets of Vessels, known as "eggers," are regularly employed in gather- ing these eggs, Which are as good to eat as those laid by hens, though the flesh of the birds is too fishy to be edible. Much of what is known as "eggalbumen," deed by bakers and other rise for cooking purposes, is manufactured^froin the whites of these eggs and sent to market in the shape of a dry, crystallized product resembling fine glue in appearance. These sea fowl's eggs have one remarkable peculiarity. They are nearly conical in form, broad at the base and sharp at the point, so that they will only roll in a circle. They are laid on the bare ledges of high rocks, front which they would almost surely roll off save fa/ this happy provision of nature. indiscriminate cueing. It is all very well to preach against in. discriminate charity, and to those who axe inclined to benevolence the lesson is most valuable. There is too much careless giv- ing, for charity no doubt often breeds men- dicancy, and if there is to be giving it ought te be thoughtful, to the end that it may do good and not evil. Besides the charitably disposed, however, are thee' who are careless of the misfortunes of their neighbors, and those whose «elfihness is rarely tempted to make a sacrifice for the happiness of their kind. When such as these do a charity they are the important beneficiaries, and it is to them that the divine precept concerning the blessedness of giving applies. It matters little whether these give with discrimina- tion or indiscrimination; their gifts are so few that, they cannot work inuch harm. If the encouragement of begging depended on the occasionally and spasmodically gen- erous, the trade would assuredly die out. It is well not to preach the cold truth to them, .foc they need little enough excuse for buttoeing up their pockets. Let them open their hearts when they will, thought- lessly or not, as it may chance. What is done by them will be chiefly to themselves, and they will always, for a time at least, be the better for their improved opportuni- ties.—Harper's Weekly. Carlyle and Canada. Thomas Carlyle was the outspoken and consistent friend of Canada, in whose vast untrodden wastes he saw, even before the value of the colonies was recognized by his disciple, Mr. Fronde, the tree remedy and refuge for Great Britain's distress. More than half a century ago, after some of the most terrible passage's in his work on "Chartism"—that in which he commented on the Chinese policy unfolded in the Mar- cus pamphlet—the writer of which was call- ed "the (lemon author"—he dicl not forget to remind his readers of the unusual abund- ance of land that awaited industrious toil- ers in this Greater Britain of ours. For all this of the 'painless extinction' and the rest, is in a world where Canadian forests stand nnfelled, boundless plains and maims unbroken with the plough; on the West and on the East, green desert spaces never yet made white with corn; and to the overcroWded little western nook of Burs)°, our terrett,ial planet, of it yet vesiant, is tenanted by nomads, in atill crying, come and till me, come and reap me,"—Mentreal Gazette, an export trade in articles of ebony of finer Cwhorrokumicalnes.hip inlaid with ivory.—Jewelere • Lai Tile shah. The smallest detail is submitted to hiei. and is not decided except upon his author. ity. His Ministers disavow all initiative and tremble at any executive responsibility. Imperious, diligent, and fairly just, the Shah is in his own person the sole arbiter of Persia's fortunes. All policy emanates from Min, He supervieses every department with a curiosity that requires to be con- stantly appeased, and his attention, both to foreign and domestic politics, is constant and unremitting. There is a consensus of opinion that he is the most competent man in the country, and the best ruler that it can produce. Nor will anyone deny him the possession of patriotism and of a genuine interest iu the welfare of the nation. . . . It is no mean criterion of the strength and also of the general popularity of the Shoh that he is the first Persian monarch who has ventured to leave his dominions and jour- ney in foreign and infidel lauds, not ae a conqueror at the head of an army, but as a friendly visitor, if not as a volunteer tour- ist. . . . The immense amount of money spent by the Shah in the purchase of furniture and curiosities in Europe also excited a feeling of discontent, and his eecond tour was unquestionably unpopular among his subjects. That he was able to venture upon a third is a proof of the abso- lute security of his position, but it is also due to the,sentiment which he has taken care to diffuse among his subjects that the Princes of Christendom vie with each other in anxiety to entertain so great a potentate, and squabble for the honor of his alliance. —Persia and the Persian Question—The Hon. G. N. Curzon. it Progeessive Duty ors Legacies. The verdict upon Jay Gould in many canes has been one of unsparing condemna- tion. Ingenious and peculiar have been some of the measures suggested for dissi- pating the power which ?1, is represented is wrongfully possessed by vast fortunes. Mr. Labouchere's is worth mentioning. "Were 1 an Anicrica,n," he says, "I should meet this tendency by a progressive death duty on all bequests. What I mean is that the duty would not progress on the sum total loft by the individual, bet on the sum in herited by the individual. Suppose that a, inan left $1,000,000, and that my progress- ive duty doubled itself on every $500,000 inherited by and of his heirs my plan would iserk out in this way. If the duty on the first $500,000 were 15 per Cont., should he leave one. person $1,000,000 tee' sum of $75,000 would have to be paid, $175,000 by anyone getting $1,00,000, and so on, until the effect of leaving an excessive amount to one individual would be that the State would become the sole heir. This would prevent the perpetuation of accumu- lations and oblige a millionaire so to spread his money on his death that a large number of individuals would profit by it."—N. Y. Sun. The Mixed Race of India,. Eurasia has no boundaries. It lies, a varying social fact, all over India, thick in the great cities, thickest in Calcutta, where the conditions of climate and bread -winning are most suitable, where, moreover, Eura- sian charities are moat numerous. Wher- ever Europeans have come and gone, these people have sprung up in weedy testimony of them—these people who do not go, who have received somewhat in the feeble in- eritance of their blood that makes it pos- sible for them to live and die in India. No- thing will ever exterrrsinate Eurasia; it clings to the sun and the soil, and is mar- vellously propagative within its own bor- dere. There is no remote chance of its, ever being reabsorbed by either of its origi- nl elements; the prejudices a both Euro- peans and natives are far too vigorous to permit of such inter -marriage with a jat of people who are neither one nor the other. Occasionally an upcountry planter, pre- distined to a remote and •jungly" exis- tence, comes down to Calcutta and draws hfs bride from the upper circles of Eurasia this not so often now as formerly. Occa- sionally, too, a young shopman with the red of Scotland fresh in his cheeks is carried off by his landlady's daughter ; while Tommy Atkin falls a compargively easy prey. The sight of a native with a half-caste wile is much rarer, for there Eurasian as well as native antipathy comes into operation. The whole conscious inclination of Eurasian life, in habits, tastes, religion and mast of all in ambition, is toward the European and away from the native standards. When the cat was sacred. In the Middle Ages brute animals formed as prominent a part in the devotional cere- monies of the time as they had in the old religion of Egpyt. The cat, 2Elurns, was embalmed after death and buried in the eity of Bubastis, because, according to Herodotus, Diana Bubastis, the chief deity of the place, wan said to have transformed herself into a cat when the gods fled to Egypt. Royalty on a Fish Train. The Duke of Edinburgh led the orchestra at the performance the other day of Mac• kenzies "Drama of Jubal,"which was given at the Plymouth Guidhall in behalf of char- ity. The royal lea4$1 used his magnificient Stradivarius violin, which had been on view at the Vienna Dramatic and Musical Exhi- bition. The Duke's four daughters were pre- sent at the performance. The Duke adopted a novel method of rail- way travelling in order to be present at Plymouth. He was shooting at the seat of the Earl of St. Germans at Port Eliot, St. Germans. in Cornwall, and arrangements had been made to apprise him in good time when the train on which he was to journey to Plymouth was signalled. The message of the approach of the train failed to reach the Duke' who, consequently, missed the train. Aspecial fish train was due almost immediately after the first train passed,and the station mastei, when he learned that the Drtke had no insuperable objection to travelling on a fissh train, stopped it. The Dtike boarded the guard's van, in whioh he travelled to Plymouth. Judge Waxem's °Proverb's. Some in6n rattle around in the arises they hold like buck shot in a bushel mez- cure. Thar ain't muteh news in 3 President's message. The way to git at the right ov a politikle mezzure is to try it on the people. Millionaircs aint so bad till they git to buyin offises. Polliticka is mighty thin when you git all the dirt scraped Ott. rattriotisin fer penshuna only is bad biz- zines. 4, Defensive partyzanehip is all rite. Does the wonmen know whet they want? Some men coldilnt love ther country ef it waznt for the offises. ' • .rvin**4) A )U0