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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1880-06-10, Page 6a What Is Glory What is glory? Say a feather Mounted on ths buoyant air. Prey et every wind. and weather, Oitma soiled, and seldom fair. Whet is glory? Ask the maiden Wedded to a titled drone, Sick at heart and heavy laden -- Empty nageanny her own: What is glory? Ask the garter Twining round. his grace's knee, Woulde't thou ease and conselence bartor Binh gi. thing on thine to see? What is glory? Ask the lawyer, J• veleta trudging into court, ° garder work than any sawyer -- Ceaseless labor -less support. What is glery? Ask the _poet. Pocket low and wishe4 nigh, Wanting, and yet none4aust1411ONV All but earth, and air and sky. What is glory/. Ask the sailor, Weather beaten, tempest.tossed, Ship his prison, winds his lailor, Country, home and kindred lost. . What is glory? ger° shiding • Madly o'er a ruined land. What is glory ? Time is gliding, Death and judgment are at hand. Whet is glory? kik the Christian, Looking for immortalioys, go can wisely solve the question• , geir, through Christ, of 'paradise. CHURCHES AN CLERGYMEN. The flale of Canon Farrar's 'Life of reached over 200,000 •aopies. • ' MifiE{ Hogan, Christion "unattoched, is missionizMg at Arnprior. he is an open vi ors,tor„ , ,The Bishop of Toronto, during his shirt episcopatehhas confirmed more than 1,000 persons. • RQV, john Stewart • (Prdsbyterian), a pioneer ministet in New Brunswick, has just died at theage of 80. Rev. John B, Battey, M.D., a prominent Wesleyan minister, has just died at Exeter, Ontario, et the age of 73. The Mr. Cain of Smith Carolina, bishop at the recent African. Methodist conference at -St: Mini, waif hornin Virginia. After a warm debate at the M. E. Gene&t e onf erence on the appointment of a color- ed bishop, the matter was indefinitely postponed, The Channing memorial church at New- port is to be built of the nise-oolored granite taken from the quarry. of' Judge McCurdy in Lyme, Cohn. It is expected that the Rev, Naroyan Bheshadri will shortly revisit this country, and take part in the proceedings of the Pan - Presbyterian Council at Philadelphia. ' The widow of the late Jelin C. Green has given $100,000. to the American Sunday School Union, to be used in developing. a higher order of Sunday school literature. • Rev.13. M. Buckley, D. b., has "been • elected editor of the New York Christian Advocate, in the plaoe of Dr. Fowler, who has been appointed missionary secretary.. An end having been Made of the Unjust • scandals to whichCanon Duckworth.has •been a victim,.the canon has resumed: his duties at St. Mark's &Fah; St•john's Wood, London. ' •• 'Rev. Charles Niven, Queen's' College, ' Cork, has been appointed- Ptofessor of natural philosophy:lir Aberieen'Univerteity auceessien to the late, ProfeSsOr Thom-, •• Religious peOple in Rochester tire agitated Vrieausia lost Sunday Rev.., Myron Adonts,of • the Plymouth Congregational' church, in two sermons expressid his disbelief in the •doctrine of future pumelutent. •• .„ Rev. Dr, Graham, of Liverpool, has been unanimously.appointed by the synod of -the English Presbyterian Church to the chair of church history andpastoral 'theology, ate eatery • - • • The resignation by Professor -Bain, the • well-known logician, and author of numer- ous works on mental science, of his chair of logic and English literature in Aberdeen, • University, is'announced. • . -The popularity pf the works written by the bishop -designate of Liverpool .may be • gathered from the' fact that of a, little work entitled, Shall we know • one anether?' 34,000 copies have already been Etolti, whilst the We& is flow again reprinting. It Mutt be satiefactory to the members of.the Canada Presbyterionfihurch to learn that more than the 1146,000 needed, by the Home, Mission Committee in the tvestdria section of the.Church has aittually been re ce,wed by the treasurer; so that All the de- e:hands upon that fund will be fully met. Rev. Dr.Otosby,.in his Yale lecture to •studente for the miniatry, said: !A preach- : er who is shivenly in bis attire, . • his hair, to be unkempt, his nails unoleaned, hits boots unblacked and his Clothes un- • brushed; wilt prove a very poop conductor Of divine truth.' The entire length.Of the diocese of the Anglican Biehop of 'Algoma, which embra- • ces the Muskoka. tettitory, and &donde nerthwest abobt forty miles beyond Fort William, on lake Superior, to Pigeon river, is eight hundred miles, and the width from one hundred, and fifty to two hundred miles. • • The Church of Scotland expended, during Met year, ott 'foreign Missions, the sum of • £20,164 6s. Gd." It heti eight different mis- sion centres, of which .SiX are in India, one in China, and' one in east Africa: On its colonial wink the same Chinch expended £9,013, while on ite jewieli mitisidn the ex- penditure. was £5,885. • , •• ` Mr. 'Charles Heade sine° his reported • conversion to Congregationalism: is said to •be a roost diligent student of the Bible, the whole bent of his mind being new toward • attaining Christian knowledge and doing ' •Christran work. It is said; furthet, that • he is meditating upon' a delineation of ' • scripture characters andevents. , • Dr. Pollen. has beefl appointed as medicel Missionary tothe Church of. Scotland Bien- • tyre mission on the bruit coast of Africa, . and was hid God•epeed o farewell meet- inglekt in Blythswood church, Glaegovr, on the 14th. of March len, Re*. Dr: Cumming delivered a stirting and appro- priate addrees to the departing miseionary. • the late meeting of the United. Pres- byterian Synod, of Seale:aid, motion in fever of disestablishment Was denied with but one clissenting voice. The solitary dis- senter-wire:a minister lately from Canada, 'and hie,e/sieatten to the motion was appar- ently net' that it went too far, but that it eoen be in a warmer place. It took the worthy man a long time to understand what there was funny abont his sermon. Ai the closing exercises of the Victoria, University, the president, the Rev. Dr. S. $. Keno, delivered a discourse remarkable for its eloquence and breadth of view. He is reportea to have said: Thee theology of to-dtty is not the theology of the future. That which has most widely prevailed was not the Christianity of theNewTestament, but rather a caricature of Christ' Menare everywhere asking, is Christianity trtte.? and what is Christianity? But the answer to the question, is Christianity true? must depend upon a better end more harmonious °newer to the question, what is Ohristianity ?' What we neea th purge aur Christianityis a power of. vision no longer through second-hand spectacles, a power to learn a,nd decipher whatever ill right and good.' According to the registrangeneral's re- turns, it appears that there are altogether upWards of -120 religiciria derionairiationeiii - Great Britain, Of nonconformists, the most numerous and influential are the Wesleyan Methodists, the Congregation- • alista or Independents and the Baptists. • The first of these (including •the Primitive and New Connection Methodists) are said to have more than 9,000 plimes of worship. Those of the Independents are set down • at 3,500, and those of the Baptiritsat 2,000, The Presbyterians and. Unitarians and the Quakers Come next in influence. It is estimated that the population of England and Wales, in connection with the Estab- lished Church, is about 13,500,000, •that of all other creeds together., makes a total of 11,000,000. A million and a half added to the other side would, according to this estimate, ploce the Church of Eogland in a, minority. The diesenters from,the Church of Scotland are said to number more than a half, some soy as much as two- thirds of the population of that country. scoTpur commay. Xr. Donald Crawford A ' dvocate has been appointed legal secretary to the Lord Advocate. Ate meeting in Aberdeen it has 'been -resolved to establish a, museum ef science and. art in that city. Mr. Smith, teacher, Ferdyce, has been appointed rector of *line's institution, Foehabers, in place of Mr. Lobban. The death occurred suddenly on the 2nd of May of Xt. RobertAlexanaer, late head • master of the Aberdeen schools. • 'Rev. Dr. Gray, Lady. Yester's, Edin- burgh, has informed his congregation that he had accepted, the call to Liberton. Archbishop Eyre administered the rite of confirmation on the 2nd of May in St. Mimeo's church, Gleam', to 538 children' and a few adults. Er. Butterworth, painter, Ayr, ha,sfallen heir to the 13utterworth estate, near Rooh. -deli, the rental Of Whicli,Thi said to 1)0 per year. • At a meeting of the . congregation of the Hurlfora parieb church .the Rev. George Gardiner, late assistant to Dr. Taylor, of Morningdale, was elected minister. Sir T. 'Gladstone, Bart., ef Fasque, has given notice to the tenants that at the col- lection of rents in August he will allow a reduction of 10 per cent. Seientffie and Usefate' A prize of §100 has been offered by the Royal College of Physicians, London, for the -best essayonhydrophebia. According to a recent patent, paper may be rendered non-conalaustible by treatment with a solution of silicate of soda,. The Marshfield tornado, Professor Tice betieyes to have been a storm ef electricity, and:'entirely independent of wind. The longest reeorded drought in.A.merica is said to have Occurred in 1762. • No rain fell'from the lst of May to the lst of Sep- tember, a period of 123 days. Basing his calculation upon the rate at which the delta of the Mississippiis de- , posited, Professor Mudge reaches the ,con - elusion that man has been on the earth not less than 200,000 years. Recent discoveries have 'shown the in- teresting fact that the ancient Chaldeans • and Babylonians attributed changed of the weather to lunar influence, and kept up a system of regular observations of the Moon • Ron practical purposes,. ' A Gramme inaohine is being built for . a French establishnaent which by the elec- tric current, will transmit over wires to a considerable distance a normal power equi • valent te:that-aof: ten horses, with a large. increase of powet Mader special conditions. • The .phydleacerit was lately discovered upon a wild. vino of Panama) which grows inforests fax remoted froM leoalities Where. the cultivated gropeq's found. This fact seems to oonfirm the opinion that the de- stroyer of so many French vineyards is of American,origitt. • •• • . The giass sleepers 'te which we referred sornetiffie ago is undergoing a trial en ona of the Metropolitan tromway•lifies, have proved so useful that it is proposed to make the rails,themselves of 'Siemens' hardened glass, and by making rail and'sleeper in one, to overeoree the principal difficulty, of' •the tramway companies, -Echo. • • ' His studies upon the influence of forests' en moist currents of air passing oventhem have convinced M. Fautrat that pines and other needie-shaped trees have a :strong attraction for watery Vapor. He belieyeS that resinous trees .:Obsorb much mere water-thanbthet trees, and exhale it more M. Simmonar heti produced a peculiar effect in portraits. . A negative of the sitter is' taken withhis eyes wide open, and another with his eyes shut. One of these is printed on each side Of _the paper in Such a way that the :front -ilia back images exactly coincide. . When the two sides are t lternately illuminated bye, lamp, a rtroit is then presented with the. eyes opening and shutting; and if the light is nioveil rapidly the singular stagotaele• of a winking photograPh is shown. •' Ocean waves . and currents ' exert an aggregate power of Which we can ferm•but• faint conception.. In the west of Scot- land Stevenson finuad the average force of the waves striking the coast to be 611 .pounds in the summer, and 2,086 pounds in ...the winter. A •ground : swell beating against the Bell Bock lighthouse. he esti- mated to give a pressure 'of ',nearly three tons per Square foot. Serural instances have been nueorded of -the moving of huge mosses of rock: 'by the waves, and in one case a block of concrete weighing, 125 tons having been pushed. more then throe -feet •frointhe hed. • , aia not ge• far enough: „ The Bishop of Ortteriohtteing been found ' !Welt with for sitting while confirming, has written to say that he assigns no impor- tune° to the posture observed, but reserves his unquestionable right to i.dot in the, future any position When * adminiatering confirmation not forbidden by the ruhriete of the prayer Wok. ' During the last winter the resident pastor of a Manitoba village church asked& brother minister to campy the pulpit for him on it Sunday evening ; but the luta- pressible boy had net kept up the fire, arid -the church Was SO tam that the visitor con- • cluded •to shorten hie 'aiscoursch, no • preacher introduced hie eubleet by ronaarle Mg that the place was Vety cola, and he yreuld, be Intef, and he hoped they WO • Mr. Brander, for the last twelve months gardener at Skene House, has been ap- pointed gardener to the Earl of Fife, Duff Howie, in room of the deceased. Mr. Mackie. • A memorial has ben prepared, and will shortly beforwarded to the Foreign Offiee, relative to the deathcif Mr. W. Jenkyne, of Aberdeen, who perished in theinassacre at Cabul, The Dochess of Boxburghe and Lady Fanny Majoribankshave visited the Abbey at jedburgh, and expressed themselves as highly pleased with the beauty of the ruin tie• • • Mr. Duncan McLaren and two of his sons took their seats members.of Parliament; the father -represents Edinburgh,- ono son is membenfor the Wigtown Burghs and the - other for Stafford. • The town of Inverness now extends to the canal on the rforth, tollaillburn on the east, to King's mill on the south, and to Tornnahurich on the west -houses being now all but continuous in each of these di- rections. DE Alex.,Dickson, -who holt been acting for sometime as professor of botany in the Edinbutgla university, has been appointed by Sr majesty to that chairin conjunction with the keepership of the Royal Botanic Gardens: 0 St. johree -church, Hawick, Was opened on the llth instant by the Rev, Di. Gray, of Edinburgh. , The church. including a. splendid organ and stainedglass window, • With representation of the NatiVity, has oost £6,00Q, and is seated for 750 persens. • .The Free•Presbytery of Glasgow has met • specially to disorisean &vertigo „requesting. the aisemblylo inquire into the character of theteaching in the Free 'Church Theo- logical Hall and to examine the published • writings cif thitheologioal professore. The motion watt rejected. - A feW poundeorewentedio put -railing .. • round,the handsome 'Monument erected by priblie subscription in hie native perish of Gairloclx to the monkery of John MaCkenzie, author of the Lives of ' the Gaelic Bards,' and •editor of • The Beauties of atuilie Poetry.' • • • •Gentlenten,pretis • Neatly. It is highly necessary. that,a, gentleman's dress /Mould fit him nicely', otherwise he has the appearance of being inducted.in his father'e pr grandfather's clothes, width, carry with tlaeni the individuality of the • other wearer. Grace Greenwood tell e of a little boy whoa° first pants fitted him .so peculiarly that he eriedrand said 'honever • Would know whether he Was going toschool or coming from it,' and we have distinct memories •of an usher at a fashionable wedding Whose Prince Albert dress coat -fitted him so badly that Bowan accused Of appearing in an overcoat. It used •to bet recorded of 'Beau Brummel, the famous Englsh fop, that he had dress suits iriwhich • he never sat down for fear of creasing them, and then he frequently sacrificed eeveral dozen neck -scarfs before he tied a bow to • snit him. Fashion has simplified that matter now by tying the bowri in advance, andthe masculine soul is no longer har- rowed bythe total depravity of ties, They have goneout with fob -chains and hairoil and patent leatliet boots. • .. Arnong.the pots whieh are newly earning into fashion are playful' ydung tiger, • any rate, one which is described DA a bean- tifully method and splendidliattriped tigress, and whose Mirthfulness and docil- ity were especially dwelt imp, was sold. a few days ago for fifty-two ginnees. It was one of the most playful tiers ever known in India, which getting loose on a fine sum. ,mer's evening ni the Walled city of jeypore, &Wonted or otherwise disposed of nacre than twenty of the rajah's loyal stibjects before its joculerity was satisflea ; andnot long ago a delightfully clooile epeoimen walked off with its keeper in the vizinity.of 'Ziroda. The rumor is again tevivea that the Hon. Hector Langovin will be knighted next month. Where has not yet beet time to trace thie tunion as previous whispers in the same effeet were traced to the vionla. be knight hirnself. °• There exists in Steels, Skye, o Very pecu- liar method of 'planting potatoes with the spade, by which every alterete stripe, of. about 9 inches in breadth is left unturned, in which atate it is allowed to remain until the middle of suirimer, This style, Which: is very expeditious, as well 'as -uncommon, is called onahan giant lit. grey bones. The Registrar -General's report states • that While the birth -rote of Scotland in 1879 was slightly below the average, the death -rate was the lowest recorded since the registration act came into forma, and the percentage of marriages, to the popula- tion was likewise lower than has been re • corded during the last 25 years,. • ' • A. raonunient, consisting of a large cross, of Aberdeen granite, has. been eteoted in Canengate ohnrohyaraTEdiliburghTirt name- ory of the :soldiers who•hcive died in Edin- burgh astle from 1692 to the preaent time. The monuirient, which in the gift of Mr. • Wm.•Fora, Holyroodovas unveiled on the • 13th inetent itt.. prellence of .Major-Gene.ral Hope, eomrnander Of the foMeti in North • Britain, andthe 71st Regiment'.. • • lEODISON'il 1{114ROCUSP-11101r0R. — Raperinisent with the Electro.li.ocOntotive 'on the !Reek) Park Railroad -An Accident Preventit a SatiafacitorY Test Being Made. For sometime past gxlison Ints been on. gaged in perfecting an electro -motor to be used ba countries where the traffic would be insufficient to pay the interest upon even a narrow gauge road operated under the present system. The engine consists of a simple four.wheeled truc* on whicb a dy- namo -machine is placed l: An armature re - velvet just as in obtainingtheelectricitk for thelights, but a system of gearingisucted so that the armature may work perfeetly in- dependent of the ear Wheels, enabling the operator to use as much power as he desires, The line of railroad at Menlo Park ia a, little over half 4 mile in length, and has some 'very sharp curves and eteep grades. The system on which it works is as follows : The electric engine receives its motive power -from a -large steam engine at the station, but before the power ia used it is turned into electricity, which, passing through the rails, supplies electricity enough to tun the motor or draught engine. When the road would be laid for practical purposes there weuld be a station every ten miles from which electricity Would be sup- plied for five miles on either side. Tho power of the machine at each etation would be Sufficient to rtm several trains at the same time on the section. Mr. Edison claims that all the movements. of trains on each..ten-mile section are •controlled absolutely, and that crossings and awitchings can also be done automatically. It is intended that ear% train will carry thirty tons of freight or from two hundred to throe hundred, -passengers,- •The. cors, Mr. Edison gays, will have the same lightness aa street cars, hence the. dead Weight will be small, so that more freight can be carried. The average.speed of the freight trains will be &bent twelve miles an hour, and passenger trains twenty miles. The motor or engine -used in drawing the oars weighs about two and one-half tons.' The road can be laid in mining or agricoltural districts, wherever a woggon can pass, as little or no grading need. be done. The -traction necessari, to - ascend steep grades is produced by means of magnetie attraction, the powere of which can be so exerted that the tritotion of the two and a half ton motorembe made equal to that of a, heavy locomotive. The cost of the ' plant ' for the -most broken country would be about 115,000 per mile, and, as it is of a 2i foot gauge, the inventor says it can be stored away. enite easily. Mr.Edison was led to the discovery by the question of .luarting tailings from many section's of the placer diggings in California to the piece where his diode will• be iodated. Of.the experiment very little can be said. The engine was brought:on the track after great difficulty, and everything being ready. the circuit was Made. As the motor began to move nearly every one of the workmen got on it and away they went slowly. When the down grade was reached the track' was found to he very.dirty, being eoyered, iri seine_ places by Band. ' The man who had charge of the friction' gearing pressed on the lever too hard, and the large cast iv* wheel burst in four -sections, stepping any furthen mover:nerd of the motor. The power of the :eleetric current Must haVe been ye* great, as the reporter saw where to .electric spark •ffinned everything in the-sliarie of rust pr dirt off the track. It was quite mi.: • dent that the crowding of ,the menon the motor caused the accident and Plat an end to a very interesting experiment A gen- tleman who is engaged in the manufacturo. • ot, buoys fin the Government called on Edition a short time Op and gave him an idea of the 'Whistling buoy,' notv in use: H9 said the buoys weigh about fifteen tons, • and that their plunging, even during eaten weather, :',..genetates nearly three ' Wee poWer. Edison took the hint and had a •small. dynamo Machine made for the pur- pose of putting it into thebuoyand utiffz-. • ing the three horse power of energy. . He has guaranteed that he will give a onegas jet light for twoyears, and if necessary will increase the light. As • the buoys are to be 'placed along the Atlantic coast they. Will, if successftd, be valuable to Mariner's.. -N. Y. Herald. • . . The Australian colony of. Victoria ' has undertaken the task of.devising a satisfac- tory measure fpr solYing tose dead Jocks. betweenthe upper and lower bodies of the Legislature whieh so -frequently • occur. under modifications of the English system. The long•dispute between the Conservative majority in the tipper house and theLiberal majority in the popular branch was termi- nated. some months since by a UonsettlatiVe victory, and the use the party have niade • their opportunity by the introduction of n • comprehensive measure. The franchise is to be extended, the gualifica- tion for membership lowered, and an arrangement known as theNotwegian plan provided for the settlement of future differ-. °noes between the Houses. Beth branches of the Victorimu Legislature are elective, • the suffrage far -the lower house "being universal, fend for the upper chamber re- stricted. According to the proposed scheme, both will be dissolved after a disagreement on any impotent measure -and an appeal taken to thepeople. If the difference is till 'Maintained by the newly elected, odies, the Houses na'eet in joint convention a d the question is settled bye, majority of .. e whelp. •• . • , .. : , . The death occurred in Dundee,: on Wed- iiesaay, the '12th May, of MM. Margaret Hutchison, in the .9f31h year of her age, and, in her person haelinseted, away one of the last living contemporaries of the poet Burns -the last, certainly, who could assert that ithe had looked on the face of the bard. Mrs. Hutchison, who was a native of.,Dun- dee, while but a girl • of .10 or 1.3., went to service at Finny or Linlathen, and saw the poet on -One or two occatrioris when he was on a visit to Mt. Graham, his friend' am.. 'patron. This was somewhere in the year 1792-93, at which time the poet.. was placed under the bann of suspicion by the excise authorities. Mr. Hillehison, with Whorn the deceased -was in service, and who afterwards, when ihe•was a, little over 3.5, gave her his hand and his name, was , • pendicler on Mr. Grahanesestate, and Mrs. Hutchison :used to state with pride that aim on one occasion 'washed a stark' for the poet; and 'Faded it 'i the burn' -the Dighty Water -which ran' past some little distanceliom her. door. Mrs.' Ilutchison'a life has not been without the elements of ronaance. Born 18 1782, a18' was married at the early ageof 15, so had ...given birth, to her first child; by 'whom she is survived, on the 23rd ot.Noverober°, 1798, when sho was it little" more than 16.. She had been a widow for 60 years. THE ABOLITION OE TO SENATE. Opinions of the Press. Halifax Chronicle (Lib.): The late Hon. George Brown was a strong believer in the: necessity of the Senate, as a -nomi- nated body, and when the House of Com- mons several years ago, at the instance of Mr. Mills, passed a resolution declaring that the system under which. the Senate existed, required. some modification, the Globe strongly condemned the action of tbe House. In this respeetwe think the ma- jority of the Liberal party waa in advance of the Globe. Now, our Temente contem- porary takes a. long stride and advocates, not a change of the system, but the aboli- tion of the Senate by a slow process.' Woodstock Sentiliel Uoview (Liberal) There ea.0 bo no limit& whatever that t is the general sentiment of the country wl11 regard to the upper( 'ha other and the que tion wilt most sure, j• I,» ita 131311018 the mut g e Kingston e ra lelco t ne w. icow tba.0 131ake and Mr. Maelttozte see about 'eye to eye' upon this subject now that the Globe, soddenly, awl, therefore, unexpect- edly, has commenced to clamor for Senate abolition, because Mr. tkeorge Brown is no more, it is reasonable to a Peet that the cry will be taken np two it will be enade a leading gm .ition at the general *lePttia'a Citizen (on.): s' The public" have not yet awakened to the necessity. of a change in the Sott,tta. The more presaing Cornwall Freeholder (Lib,); 'We belieVe • practical problems ;4•the day are the ope- the Globe to be quite right in Ma views relative to the uselessness, or worse, of the Senate as at present censtituted. That pretentious hotly will interfere to prevent -ffirety tialt-da iiiicidet-tWieg in the ease of the repeal of the Insolvent Act; it will oheck foolish legislation as it did in the ease of the Boultbee amendment to the Temperance Act; hut it will do thesethings only when there itrno partizan reason to dissuade them. For one thing the present Senate may be absolutely relied upon: it will not do anything whatever against the will of Sir John Macdonald, or against the interest of the party which he leads,' Huron Expositor (Lib.) : We rejoice to notice that the Toronto Globe, which hitherte most strenuously Opposed any change in the constittition of the Dominion Senate, has made an important ohmage on this question. It now aavocatea the abo- • lition of the Senate, On this matter it will now be in: accord with 'the sentiments ' of a very large majority of the members of the Reform party, andwe believe also with , a majority of the people" of this country. •The Senate is doomed.' • Kingston Whig (Lb.) : 'We do not deny but that occasionally these venerable gen- tlemen do something in the public interest and itt harmeny with popular sentiment, but they are far more likely to do the other thing and defeat popular demand as ex- -ptessedand. complied with bythe repreeeia• tative-chanaber. The- harm nia,y be safely" set off against the good they do and if these should balance or cancel the Other it is easy to see that the compara- tively vast °urn of one hundred and .fifty thousand a year is squandered in empty and meaningless legislative dignity. Pressed as orir finances are, and discounted as our resources will- be by the terrific expenditures to whieh the present prodigal Government isl ..itOtrinaitting the ,country, there is no good: Mason why the annual cost of this legislative luxury should mit be discouraged, anyway. The new 'departure bids fair to become such a power in the next elections as shall largely contribnto to' the overthrow of - the present regime of • corruption, spcliation, bad faith and rook. les extravagance.' , Fergus News Record (Lib.),: • The second chamber ,is an institutiOn as un- necessarytethegeml-Werking -of- our parr liaMentary machinery as is a fifth wheel to a Waggon.''While professiog to he Ito() from party bias, it is literally, made Up of extreme •politiOal partizans.' 'And itmust of necessity continne. to be se-aa.longes its •membeiS are appointed by. the Ministry of • the day. And. that the ..country. would: 'suffer because of its abolition is something thatbut very few if any Otba believe; The Senate's usefulness is gone, and the sooner it is Wiped out Of existence the better. The signs of the times ,indicate that the doom of the Senate of Qanada is sealed.. As to when and how . it may . be got :rid 61 time' will' soon reveal., There are no*- doubt a large number who would be -lavorable to•inarneffiate ex- • tinetion. But that course may; not ,be *.availahle; and 18 18 'possiblethat the Senate may exist -during the life -time of a majority of its present members. However, if any steps were taken which must ultimately lead to the extinction of the Senate a great good would have been accomplished, and if necessary people vectula be disposed to wait With a fair degree of .patience for • the full fruition of the schence; although, for our- selves, we are advocates 'of the bag and baggage' treatment at the earliest day pos- sible.' . When a Fiji husband dies his widow is strangled. The woman's brother performs the operation, and is thenceforward treated - with marked respect by his brother -in-laws' kinsfolk, who present him With a, piece - of land,. over which the strangling cord is hung up. Should lie, however, fail te Strangle • his sister, he is despised. When iewornan is abont to be stiongled; she is made to emeel down'and the cord (a stipWI native cloth) is put around her neck. Shale then told to expel her breath as long as possible, and When she can endure no longer to stretch out her hand as a signal, where- upon the cord is tightened, and soon all is over. 1118 belied that if this direetion • befollowed inseosibility ensues immediately oil the tightening of the cord, whereas if inhalation has taken Piece there ie an interval of suffering. This is severe, an& we might suppose would make marriage Unpopular. It would eeem to be only ' square,' moreover that thehuaband's neat should he squeezed when the Wife dies. •1301 'We nen' have a way of avoiding these /dement retaliations ; end SO in Eiji the htabancla elite of( hi a beard and buries, that withhis adat departed as heicertificate to be presented to exacting authoritiets1 it the worla below that she was lawfully married Iranian. .The NationalTemperance League held their annual meeting in London on iliondity week, The Biahop of Beafordpresided. The • annual, report stated that of the 60,000 men in the navyupwards ef 7,000 were registered abstainers, and more than' One- half of the 4,000 boys in training•sbips had • signed the pledge;while in the officers' branch there were 1.58 members. In the army the testimated ntinaber of. abstainers was about 20,000. The income for the year has been £7,045. • The Methodist General COnforenee, re- cently in session at Cincinnati, has dis- posed of the question of permitting women to occupy the pulpit by an adverse vote to the proposition. The question came up on • the petition of Miss Anna Oliver, the suc- cessful and popular pastor of Willoughby _avenue ohureh in Brooklyn asking for full ordination, The vote .stood 46 for and 48 . against, • • A girl- 7 years old was carried to Brittany to spend her Siteter holidays a peasant's daughter 3 years old, wear-. ing an immense crown given it as the prize of ,innocence, was brotight to her. She was asked: Have yon, _too, won the twice of innocence?" 0 dear, no ? Wo are taught at school only reading, writing, dressing and music, but not -innocence.' ration of °the tarVi, the build:nag and management of tint railwoys and the deve- lopment of the Ncrthwest. Till these have settled thenealtxs--we do -not think •that the public mind will be prepared to aiSCUSB changee in 'the Corm of our consti- tution, suggested by an organ which for years past has been most velionaently op- posed to molt °henget,: • • Dundas Banner (Lib.) : The Globe now declares itself in fat or of the gradual but, total abolition of the Dominion Senate. We hail with Pleasure liti4 dew departure on the part of our big brother. Less influen- tial Reform journalS have aciveoated" Ode. reform for Many yean't•paat2 • Whitby Chronicht (1,1b,): ‘ The abolition of the Canadian thm•tto is amongst the 'questions which will w igh, by and bye, in the division of.partiert. . The -uselessness of the expensive nrcundire,nds is, seasion after session, 'becoming only' more and • more, apparent.' • • --••• , - Vienna celebrated, a few days mice, the unveiling of the statue of Beethoven. Vienna, 'width the greet composer called his seeond home, has thus paid its debt of grati- tude -to the man whose works still reign inipreme in the eapital of Austria. The montnnent'Was initiated and executed by private subscription. ' Gen. J. W. Iihelptl believes that tornap, does are elootrical, arid, might be, in a -measure, artested by exploding small map. azines of powder, or making a high littme, Bet would they have time to try it? • l'etiarboroi-Eiaminer, (Lib.): * * * *. In this the Globe adapts itself- to the un- doubted. tendency of public opinion, and adopts a well settled* conyietiou of the peo- ple. These considerations have long been. familiar ta our readers,and that the change, which is one of the necessities of the near future; will be early braught• about, we make no doubt. • That a body should exist • Mader our- form of Government, as Lord • Dufferin-remarkeci, independent of the Crown, the Parliament and •the People,' is ananomaly which cannot long endure in a country like this; arid which it is the duty of statesmen to devise Buell means for removing is may be ...within. the .powers of Parliament We make no doubt that when the, will of the people is expressed in favor •of its abolition, constitutional means will be found to give it effect,' •Norfolk Reformer (Lib.) : We Only de- sire the utter abolition of the Senate, which, in addition to its greet expensive. ness, has, since Confederation, been used .os a tool, by the men now in power, for party purposes. At the next general elec- tion this question Will, no donbt, be made rallying cry by the Reformers. May they he succesAul. . • __ • Brussels Pest (I,Ab.): !Brit this hope has • never beenrealized, and , instead of an honorable -body 'composed of respectable gentlemen, we have now a Senate which had degenerated into refuse for partizan' hacks and politioal inicapa,bles: The blackguardism which has been tolerated in the Senate during the past session, and the foul epithets which have been bandied. be- tween the presumably honorable members, have torn the last vestige of deceney from • this•rotten institution and, exposed it to the popular gaze as ti relic of barbarism which should be relegetW to obscurity. The members of the Senate should now be made to 'step down and out." To use the wet& of an eminent Canadian statesman, their usefulness is .gone." Port Hope Guido 1,1 .ib.); 'in times petit andunder the old 1.•••1 arbitrary forms of government; there might poseibly have been an mimeo for their existence; lint in dine agecif enlightenment, 'and under our form of government, • there is not the: shadow of an apolugy for the continuance ' of an upper charabor,' , 00- • • -• ecteic it;edigimes. ' There -is on'e hiatorlaet hardly fail to hair° lbka a considerable in - finance in rooting v.neestral pride very deeply indeed amen., ' lie es:tly Irish, The enjoyment • of the trincipal posts and honors of the state was confined to some ' half•O•dozen warns or coons. In the early days Of the Irish remit roily . a few select families of ' ana.'.0' took to them- selves all the lordtthips arid prince- donas, the • commend.. and. governor- ships. To belong -to one, of these favored families witseverything. From the' landing ef. tho Mliesian children to. the landing of king 1 ituiry 11., :a period of 2,140 years, no one but n, lineal descendant • of one of the throe sonA of Mileaius sat on 0an.lkish throne. Anti this, if true, appears, more curious still wh.in we remember that the Irish princedom; :were at all times elective. • This eitretno attention to purity . ''UfliloTia-hatifrallyhog,A.a, Mete for heraldrn • • and a rigid system. „of preeedence seena& , to have sprung up among the early Triela whieh •itiodoru Ulster king- ' it.drmswould have envied. According to ' Keating, to • presc,rve • -seine orcler and •regularity -among duo Celtics • ohlefs.who as- • sembled,42, solemn ecensions at the -Hill cif Tara, , Prince ;'011ani-efodlali, of sacred. •memory; directed his earl rearehal or principal. chamberlain to hang up. their ,targete on -the over the pieces intended - for them; so that ripen mitering the &Part-, • infante:each chief tpok his spat Under his : respeotiVetarget without • the slightest die , • thrbance: . This wits . pretty'well for )3. 350,_ There is many au Irish cottier . the estoteof • an Irish .• cert. who, • prima Of hie native anceatry; hada down On • • his landlord; who dame over with Orem .- well or Times. • St. Catharines News (Lib,) Looking to the abolition :of the Senate, no more popular move could be advocated, and none' to which the majority of Reformers is more generally and consistently com- mitted. Thereis no brgunient in favor of eecond branch to our federal administra- tive Machinery that would not apply with equal force to the Loetd Legislature of Ontario and herb its absenee is never felt. If the Commons do wrong, they may well be left to the eonstituencies under our admirable constitution. It ' may be asked what would have beenthe fate of the marriage with deceased boon. -sieter bill had. the upper House not nega- tived the action of the Commons in regard Thehill Would have become the kw of the land ondropularopinion wotila have 'found legitimate and wholeaome expression as it Will be after the next election. The cost of this third and Irresponsible wheel to the parliamentary coach is too great to be einployea as a plaything, and, besidep, the assumption of the old lady habitues le intolerable. • It appears -that Mr. Iretten (says' the SanTrancisco Post) was invited to a party . at the house of ono of our local plutocrats, . • alarge importing merchantpand, attended . . • the same with his wife, as would. any other " ' expected guest. To his surprise, however. . he found the eompany sitting solemnly • around -re though in a contort hall, and ' himself •at once pressed. to 'play. some- . thing ' by his host. The cOurteous ' , Frenchma' •complied, and, • hi • re- • sponse to repeated- requests, continued to entertain the company fornearlytwo hours. • When at last he was thoroughly fatigued, ' -supper was announced, whereupen arose and said ;. You've got piano punch, - ing down ,fine, Konen, cid fellow. NeWif. • you'll play these young folks a few quad- ' rilles and polkaa while the balance of nap do*n to hash, I'll sendupMartha Lomse • to relieve you 'Presently ;or, if youlikeyou • can have something pent up and eat it right •. here on the piano. I first kinder calculated; to hate engaged:-o-coupleotfiddlors, butthe old lady said she° thought you • wouldn't • mind. Till make it all right when yeti go,' The astounded artist gazed at the speaker (who was well known to have:been a bar- keeper in the good, old days') for a feiv moments, 'utterly •dumbfounded ; • then, , Controlling himself, he gravely- tufted' his •beek and began playing !lance mai° as • requested. When the company had all assembled in the •parlors, he raised his voice and said Pray, lot seine whiskey, • lemonts and'. sugar "be- brought in.' :It was done. Now,.• then,' said Mr. • • Kelton, fixing liis eyes on the host;-' now, then; mix us some coblaidle, my good fel- •_ low.; every man to his trade.' There was. . -an awful silence, and then tlieshoddyerat, ' • with a ghastly attempt to carry off the joke.. •••, ' • prepared the drink and handed it to the musician.. The latter drank the beverage. • oritieally. • You're losing practice, my good man the fellow at the bar does =oh • bettor. • There you may keep the change,' and tossing the alnioit asphyxiated mil- ' • lionaire a half dollar, he put his wife under . • his arm. and •welked out. - • A ton of gold or silVet contains 29,166.63, • Ounces. A. ton, of gala is worth 11602,875. . • A ton of, silver, at the present rate per " ounce, is worth about 032,000. A cubic ' • foot of gold weighs 1,200 pounds and is - Worth nearly 11300,000. A cubic foot of -silver weighs , 600 pounds, and is. worth • about 4110,000. The ' value of gold coin, bars and bullion in circulation in the , • world is • eetintoted at 33,500,000,000. • ThiS Would make hi a mess & twenty-five • feet cube: • • • Tho London Truth says t 'The gtate- ment which appeared in 0., contemporary, that Mr. Gladstone takes office in the teeth of the remonstrances of his medical adviser°, is absolutely without foundation. It is an entire fabrication,' In the engagereent on Thursday near Santa Clore, Cuba, between the gender. merle and the insingente, the so-called General Celilio Gonzales (colored), his aidedo•tamp, Emil 0, Lopes, and other officers, and men Were killed arid [leveret ether in- thirgents were captured. laingfellow's Hiawatha and 'Evenge. line have been translatea into Bolternion,, and: a second edition of the Bohereittia, translation of Shakspettres ' Othello' and, "The Merchant of Venice' has appearea.