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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1881-07-21, Page 6July 21,, 1881. avenieene: Three 'Wonders. maiden of twentY and fair to behold . Itedined in her eafiy chair Lo tbinica the lovers who'd called that day, And snaoeth out her Silken hair; They'd vowed and protested her face was divine Rer Mr= put a fairy's to shame; Ohe thought as each wooed her Ella 10,00. Jahn the best, And the did-ttlt another one came. Oho ceunted them over, Ralph. LOP, 041,c1 Fred, Tom, Willie, and Ellerton Then howingber, head, she despairingly said; "1 vondcr iolvia one .T Bhall etece 1" A maidon. of thirty still blooming (pearl bloom) Reclined in her easy chair To think of the lovers who'd called that year, And brush out her lank, thin hair; They'd vowed and protested they seldom had time To call, andmucla shorter to stay; And whenever she felt they were sure tgopropose, They were certain to gallop away. •She counted them over -the list wasn't long - All the marrying men of her set, Then bowing her head, she despairingly :aid: " wonder which ono I can act 1" A maiden Of forty, pale, peaked, and prim, Reclined in her easy chair To think on the lovers who never called now, And ecimb ontaerstorcebought hair; • e• Her lovers had left her this many a day - Ralph, Leo, and Willie and Fred, So she turned with a sigh fromher lovers gone by To acquaintances still unwed ▪ She counted them over, Tom, liarry, end Dick, All the men under seventy-three, Then bowing her head, she despairingly said: " worider Mach, one niiithave-nui/ " G. W. JOHNSON. ELECTRICAL ENERGY. „ Ilow it brio be Applied to Running Street Cars -A, Second Cousin to Perianths, Motion --Only rive Cents a Day to Run THE YOJAINTEER -REVIEW.' The ,Greatest Muster of ,Troops on English Soil Since THE INVASION IT SCOTLAND DV KIN EDWARD The Queen Looked Her Best and Seems to Grow Younger, COD. GIBSON AND THE CANADIAN Tie Break DOsvo of the Commisenriat as • lihntal-Orilliant Gathering of Notable* .14.0 Sham Eight Attempted. A London cablegram say& the grea unteer review at Windsor Paris oarae off successfully. There were more men under arms (58,000 all told) than ever mustered , at Mae time on Britioh soil shim -Sing Edward marched to the invasion of Seetlarid. -In-- Jane,- 1860, ' stvlael---the Queen and Prince Consort • reviewed the Volunteers in Hyde Park, there were only 23,000 on the ground; at. the review el 1864,•22,000 ; and at the last i 'Windsor review n 1867;'"28,000, The volunteers to -day were drawn from 119' .regiments. England was repreeented by twenty-eight counties, Walee by two - Glamorgan and Pembroke. There Were no volunteers from north of the Tweed, but Sootlaod was represented. by Lord Elchoat corps of the London Scottish, under Colonel Lunasden, and 'Ireland by the London Irish, under Colonel Ward.. The War Office maintained its prestige 'for blundering, the space set apart for field exeroisea being altogether too areal! for handling so large a body of men. . The transport -service, too, broke down as usual, and 10,000 'meta who had neither bite nor sup during the day swore like the army in Flanders. With these exceptions the review was a success. There was to ;lam fight, buy the. troops were put through a number of field exercises, displaying great steadiness and intelligeoce. . . . Tbe • Queen, „eecorted by a scoustilebn of the Royal Horse Guards blue, drove on to the ground at 5 p.m. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prime ' Leopold and Prince Beatrice, and. attended by a large etaffonduding Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sit Frederick Roberts. In the next Oar- riageteane the Princess Lotise, attended by Lady Sophia MacNamara and Captain Ceiling. Theo came the Crown Fringe and Princess of Germany; the Dar:1118es, of Edinburgh and suite, the Duchess of Con- naught, the Princes .Christian„ the Duke, and Duchess of Teak, Count Gleiohen, the Prince of Lennington, and the foreign ambassadors. Leg lIaleknom, of :the Sandwich Islands, occupied oue of the . Royal- carriages. . The Princess of Waled, attended by Lord Col,. wile, • Hon. Mrs. Francis Stoner, Lady. Buffield, Hon. Mrs. Arthur Hardingand •Lady Emily ?Itingecote, ' &ova 'tip shartlya afterward:a and was- received With enthu- siastic cheering; the. multitude having in mina the crawl Stook Exchangeeanard :cirOulated ale.* days ago that. her -eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, had been drowned a-Vali:Abelian°. "As the ontriderd to the Queeras carriage, whica was drawn. ay,?fonr greys, were seen trotting ay from the Castle into the' great park', the royol standard was runup on the flagastaffat•tlie• saluting -point„ thealand.e„ fOrty-five. oumbeaplayed the noticaial anthem, and • the velnnteers, drawn upin long lines,' predented arms, while the" artillery bat- teries fired a salute, heard distinctly; at Primroge Hill. ' The Duke of 4ambridge, who had gene - ;al &ergo ot the day!:: WOrk, onoupiedea position next.te the Queeti at the saluting point, and Witlailde. Majesty was 'Prince Christina in theantique, garbo! the Banger of Wineldor Park, and aii array of army Officers in air the pomp and circumstance of the Horse Guarder Behind them and along the Main pavilion clustered the largest and meet brilliant gathering of lords and ladies ever itesembled in England singe the 'old jousting days. Although; through 'oversight, Prince Christian had 'neglebted to provide accommodation for the Members of the House Of COMMOH/3 until the •las t Moment, there -vas a large turn- • out of thatbody, and nearly.forey•Gom- mith the volunteer co s to whith they metiers besides -togis ped the review belong.. The Radical dement, however, Wes conspicuous by its abigiace.• Sir Hugh 'Childers, Secretary for War, was 'warmly - thanked by the Queen for his efforts in making the great show succeseful. The House of 'Lords was well represented. A group of grizzly veterans, headed by Lord Strathnairn, Earl Liman and Earl Head- wickeonoanted and in full uniform, stood close 'behind -the royal carriage, with Earl Kenmore, the Loral Charaberlaibei corps of gentlemen -at -arms under Earl Fife, a number-BrIalaileihe'weitiligelfidaauaintly- • caparisoned - yeoraknesf-the-guard ander Lord Monson. ' • . '' The Canadian riflemen now practising at Wimbledereevere on the ground notfar from the toyel flagstaff, their: 'Shakos decorated with Maple leaves. Col. Gibson, their ecinomander, who wort the Pali:tee of Wales' prize at Wimbledon two years ago, was' cordially received.. Among the foreign officers present Were.,,:',Oetterals Crawford and Schofield, of the tnited States. The Prince of Wales, who rode at the bead of the Honorable Artillery Company, of whiola he lit boaorary °plena', -received a perfect ovation, 'the boys from Eton, who odoupied a tented square of their own not far from the Queen, giving hint eine and a tiger. , • The sunadhene out brilliantly as the infantry regiments, headed by .the Prince Of 'Waive corps, began' to file past, the officers ealuting Her Majesty as they passed, and the bands playing "God Save the Queen." When the last inan had pasigal the saluting points the regiments formed into two vast sethaciroular lines, and the Queen and. Royal Family drove, through thetn, the tweet presenting aring, the bands playing, and the artillery firing a salute. At the. close the, Queen drove off the, grounds, and the Duke of Cambridge on her behalf thanked the commanders. At the t'eview the Queen looked hethest, and seems to have growe younger during her voluntary retirement litre public life. The Prince of Wales marched atthe bead °flit° Honorable Artillery Company, but was not recognized by the mass of the petiole, and peased -almost unnoticed. The -Duke of Cennoughta looking the beetaideal of a soldier, rode at the head of the Mat beigade of the second division, and was the lion of the day. No reanceuvree were attempted, the troops merely taking up a position and marching past. The general appeantnee of the men „was satiefettory, -especially the regiments from the aorthern counties. One man Was reported to have died Moho fatigtie. 'The Princess Louise was present in the House of Lords en Monday fortnight, . the ceremonial attelidantupon KIS Iteyal Malawian Prince Leopold taking the oath =alio teat -as Duke of Albany and Earl , :otAtklOW. Steamboat. -Mr Alva H. Dome will commence run- ning electrical:treat cars at Cinoineati in a few days. • He says he can run; a Steam- • boat at a cost:of aye centaa day, Respect-. Mg the street ears • old the method of - working them; a reporter of the Cincinnati Enqilirer says : There -is simply. to be eataohe.d to the back axle a clog wheel 16 inches in diarbeter, by which the power. is communicated to the car wheels. This cog wheel is adjusted to another •one- ,,seyenali it diameter, which is termed the motor, and commas with the generator' .. either by its shafting or otherwise, There is one revolution of this motor to ten of the generator, Which gives seventy revolta tions of the generator to one of the oar axle. The generator consists of oae *heel of emery and oneof steel, with their peripheries in cent:tot, atea revolving toward' each other. What is applied in the way of pressure to the avvheels to cadse frietiore or-eiy What; -wheth-er -by copper brushes or Otherwise, the current is received, was not explained, and it is not important. In what manner also the posi- tive and negative ourrente thus generated .are t� be applied to the motor, the smaller cogwheel mentionea, Was not eipleined. Suobaan application resulting in maim has been for a Tong time an accomplished fact," and in regard to the degree of power • involved, when Mr. Been,* oileirnag that a gig& drop of Tinter will tone Ientatheaeleotric energy -of-thunder- bolt, sufficient to scatter the strengent Marne; ',and .briagathem topOlingteethe earth, there•can, of course, be no doubt : that sufficient can be obtained from the emery and steel wheel o somehava The renaarkablefeature of the invention appeared to be in the.fact that "thisgenera- tor is run by therevolatiOns of the very Jeer exiles whiciathey are assumed to keep -in ratitioTar.--Con reciftile-iVertlifaliffeapita7 • ton, the- preen reporter, having some' . suspicion of the inveation's kinshipao•per. petual melion.eiaterprises, whistled ;softly and inquited, 'When a ear stopsaluOpeSing it will ever run, what is to start it again r ",0h,, this isn't any perpetual motion, business," ,-replied the inventok. There is a pedal attached to the generator,, and the manager 'of •the car can revolve it 'with :his , foot. A dozen „revolutions swill start the a car, . and theh with that 'electric 'capacity on hand' it con- tinues to Tun iteeif.•• "Why, if -it karts it is simPly immense, and if it continue e to tun it is too.stupendous in its, resUlts for any but the most conprehineive minds to grasp I" exclaiihed.the reporter as he bade • the inventor aboalye. He saw, in anagi, nation, afahe wended hie .wayhomeward, • one of those street ears ,with an.electric motor attached, and from iwhich 'the eta, dilator had fallen, going :thing Broadway ot • the rate of a mile a minute,"gathering . momentum as it. mbved, 'wit k its axles ablaze and its inmates .paralyzea with fright, knoeking men, apnoea and children ' to Times Oo its way, a peefeot beoom of. destruotam,• 'For it Beans Oita apparent that the faster the male revolved the faster the generators will cause then 40 turn, so o that the eVentual Speed of this forthcoming electric carriage, uncontrolled, in terrible to • contemplate. Wrotectien ior Vircimen and Children. . The London S'oeiety for the Protectioti • Women and Children Were consulted, last yews, on two thousand ocoasiene. Its prose. • , outing officer Made four hundred andfifty- three inquiries, and attended police courts and session hollows one hundred and sixty- two times. Forty-seven sentences„varying • from one month to two years' imprisonment, were passed by means of the society, 'in • easee.of beats,' character, where the victims ;were the helpless and the weak. In • reference to Italiah organ grinders, the society reported that many persons were not aware to what an extent these nien are the mean e of enreadieg:oorruptien by inducing young English girls to •become their eompanione. The society has • done what 11 could .to reitedy this evil; but as these -girls contracted such alliances of their Own accord, and refused any offer of help to be restored to their • friends, effectual Desistance could not he giyen to -these' who 'were not willing to be alasistAd. Thesoaiety urged upon parents . and guardians the, guardians !of seeing that no young people 'tinder their care should correspond or entee into an engagement in consequence of. aavertisemepts without the Most ample and "unquestienable reference Eepecially dia this; Warnieg apply to those Who correspond with a vieW to going on the Continent. Due caution in this matter • wouM bo One very effective method of stop- ping the horrible trafee in English girls, Slav, °releases hadbeen broughtbefore the society of English women ligaing married French- men in England, according to English law, who afterwerd found that, should they go with their btu:Undo to France, it wotild be mitireTy optional -on tile ptt�tthhbabant whether the metriage duly celebratea in England shotild be regarded 'as, valid in France. William Bennett, of Denton, Ala., wanted f� marry a servant girl, ." If you make such an alliance we vall disinherit you," his father wrote, "%O girl refuses me, and X am about to commit suicide," was tiee meta • sago returned by the son before killing him. self. The populatiot of victoria, 13. OE, eaiatt- faked of ladlitns, 1I5 „beet( ascertained by the cenetts entinterators to be 6,684. The peptilittion of the Province, ozoltisive of Indians, is about 25,04 LATEST SCOTTISH NOTES. No fewer than 400, prisoners were tried in the Police Courts of Orlaegow one day lately. Most et the delingoents, of coarse, Were foreigners." Instrumento for taking daily meteorolo- gical observations on. Ben Nevis, the highest land in Great Britain, have been erected 0nthbee zaZohnetarini Tine COMPanY has been fined by the Sheriff for not scouring proper accommodation for their emigritnto whilst teMporarily located in Glasgow. The case was considered an a aggravated" one. The Pollok family have been evicted froni a farm in Eaglesloara parish which' they have occupied for etleast two hundred years, and where one of their number com- posed the greater part of "The Course of Time." In the Registrar -General's mortality returns for the past week Glasgow stand' within severe:Id the top of the list of twenty jams towns, with a mortality cif la per thou,eandethe average Wag 20, The cal- culations for the week are for the lat time based on the resultsaof the recent oerisue,' ' - • :ea-a-ea—a The weather at Balmoral las been. bitterly cola. The thermometer on the tower of the Castle registered 8 degrees of frostahe ether morning.„ Her Majesty has not as yet made any of her usual OX0Or- SiODS, and has only taken long drives three times. • . Cardinal Manning preached in connection with the opening of a new Roman Catholic Church in Gleagow a few days ago, and eapeeseed his opinion o .regarding the Christian Church in general, and his • pleasure in contemplating a union cif the :Scotch end ,English-Churehes. with' that of Rome. At the High 'Court of 'Judiciary, ROI - burgle on the lath ult., achn, Shewanwas senteimed to 15 years' penal- servitude, and David Rintoul to la months' imprisonment at Edinburgh for to blatally assaulting a policeman that he afterwards died. The Prisoners were seamen from H, L. 5. Vigi- lant. • • In the statement of the eesults of the musketry instruoticia of the army for 1881 .issued reoeatly„ Scottish regiments take :amend place in firing both in infantry tegi- ' month and brigado•depets-the 42nd High- landers being the second, best ehooting regi- ment, and the Hamiltonbrigade the oecond best among brigades. -• •Mr. Biggar, ISf. P., entered the Glasgow Boni Exchange redently, but Was told by' the porter that erily members were admit: ted. He then withdrew amid the hooting of the merchants. .Later in the day, how- ever, the honorable gentleman returned,, • accompanied by member, who entered Mr.-Biggar's name in the visiter's book, entitling him to use the Eichange for one day. .a .CHAINED LIKETNING. Brush's New Electrical Discovery - Electricity as an Artlele o(Connuerce. The Cleveland Ileailer contains the fol- lowing: After years of patient and quiet investigelion'and experimentiag, Mr. Chas. Brush, the electrician, )aa completed anew inventioe, which be considers to be an ample rewara for his life and study and work, He bag succeeded M perfecting a ?mailed of storing electricity. Faure, a French inventor, ver recently discovered a method of storing electricity, and to use his method a company with large capital h es been formed in Paris. Ftsure's limn.' tiou was an improvement over the inven- tion of Plante made some years ago. Plante?. a good many yeare ago, described and used on many occasions what he calls ct secondary battery, and, Fame inatle some &lenges M it toad additions to it, and called it his invention. It was merely a modification of Ple,nte's second ry battery; thougla of ceuree, better perf oted. The 'news that Faure had invented i method of 8:480-7;1--alleotriottYs" attraoted muoh attention in E gland and AM -84M f1111,21le Pot a99901.L in the eastern press. Wha M. Faure describes ashis inventien was by Mr. Brush years ago, but Some time ago• two Glasgow constables swore that a man named Lyon hadcom- mitted an assault, but the evidence showed - that he was assaulted bye- constable, who bad mistaken him forcinother-pdrebn. The Stipendiary said the two constables should be tried by Sheriff and jury, . but the cape "dropped because the Fiscal found there was not suffittient evidence to sustain -a prose. cution. The attention of the CrOwn officiala having been deawn to the matter;the two constables were apprehended, and are now to be tried Ws charged perjury. Landlords in Scotland -are wiser than their neighbors on the unhappy island to the-setithwest Alme weeksagoaciperavaaft. anid:e of a refnarkable case • of rent reduc- tion and now another' comes. There is a farm. ih Foefaishire Which let in 1862 for .£400. It has justheen relet for £540. It is pointed out as an example of the previa. lent over-niting of land that this farm, at 'e, ceomplished be latter WaS not satisfied with such poor esults. .Wbat ladhas since perfected goes farbeyondwhat any other inventor has yet itcoompAhallecl. Mr, Brush's is a secondary battery in the same sense as it3 Plante's and Faure's. There is no eosential differenceiu the basis of the three inventions. The improvements of Mr. Brush are in the Method of storing and inthe amount oreleotricity capable of being storeciaaaa givan time and in a. given space. The details of hie method are an:direly , different from those of the French inveatbieisiardianotinfriage Urn the rights of either of these gentlemen, Mr, Brush uses for his storage reSereoirs nietal plates so arranged that „they are capable of receiving a very large charge of electricitY, and holding it an indefieite time. The storage reservoirs vary.. in size as desired., and may be transportedfrom place to place and titled as desired. They may be Out to any use of whioh electricity • is possible, Nhey can be taken abdut in waggons by day and left at the houses Of citizens like go motel 'ice or kerosene, .end used at eight. Each citizen may nee his own electricity as he pleases. The plates can, be put on street cars, connected with the axles, and made to run without horses. Railway cars may be ultinoately run i,p the same' way. Mr. Brush recently stated that in a given space he was able to store doable as much electricity e,s Faure. • Southern . . la large firopertion of girl is are .engageci from 15 to 17, and if unmarried at 20 are set (limn hopelese old maids. Yoeng mien from 25 to 80,I found often the fathers of half a 402'011 children, and marriage before the firSt. voto .had been cast not at all uncommon. Ad to the mental calibre of the Southerragirl, &judgment bas already probably, been • formed. Sweet-voioea, stipple, graceful °restores, themogeof them, with is curious self-possession, and yet o certain timidity and shrinking •whioh gives an indesoribable eharm. There is little 'or to selfaeliance-none of the sturdy quali- ties, the .ownership 'of whipli .is stamped 01,0'» the Northern, and especially the New England, girl ineffaceably. Tp reagon, With a Southern girl, is a useless and hope. hag uaderteking. The emotional nature, :strong • in any case, is cultivated to. tile _laighesqitch.. They are full of sweet and gent:rime iretpingeteraillaibliteiaterifiadadem- onstrative to excess; passionate and enjoy- ing their own capacities for storm, and the calm, that fellovvs storm: Olingiag, aepen, dent, conseeth vatiee in thought, so far as they may. be said to tainkloving ola rent of 80Q, was not considered to be let 'ways, simply because they are old? 'owl at fat unreasonable rate,:or above the aver- with a, wild and passionate loyalty to every age•in the'district. But the tenant was Southern bebief. ad practine; simply absolutely =aide to make both ends meet, because it is Southerh; and you may know and the landlead ,had the pod sense not What type of womea these. girls become, only to see it, but to give him practica and how slew must be.the process which relief., • Undoes . the' work ..of generations. -Con • - Boston. Heralci. • •• A UYBIENE.A.L. BITCH. , . . The suggestion' has been made that in A Discarded. 'Young Lady Wished . to excessively warm weather like'ahe present, a atop the Banns-Filteiy Lucre OS a. butinesswhereirer possible shmildbe entirely Cure for a Broken Ilrenrt. . suspended -that the. stores and factories •be Closed, -the newspapers doebleap to one- Qn last Wednesday morning at 8 'o'clook. halftheir usual size,and the world- give (says the Halifax Ilerald),•o; nephew of one itself up' torest-not to recreation. The of our most prominent real estate agents lawyers the better paid 'ministers, profes- was manied ei St. Paul's Church, corner son and wheel teachers, have learned the of Spring and Agigall streets, whereas large trick of doing little or 09 work for six or assembly had .gathered to witness the eight weeks in the:hottest part of the year, ceremony. Previous to: the marriage the' 'and other prOfessione and trades might do ,yonag men bad been engaged to a respeet- likewise if they once found outtheir secret. able, well -behaving young girl, the niece of As much work could be done in ten months a welato-do brewer of this city. The as in twelve if people spent the other two young lady, hearing of the contemplated in rest. But -.when -will the public ever anion with another of the one who 'had , realize such a fact? pledged her faith, called upon- Father Tunis advioes state 'that arau- t native ra Ferneding wath the • engagement ring • and other evidences of the court- den stopped some caravans' twenty miles ship, under the impression that - the •from Tunis. , Several tribes near Gabes Church-- "-did- -not-- -allow- -parties- have revolted. Two French frigates and - ihreilttfs -are ' matrimonially inclined to break their con- Sbelling Sfax. A trans- - tract unless by censent of both. But, as port withtwelve hundred Tunisian troops is lying off Sfax. Ala English gunboat has everything had been prepared for the ocoa- gone there: A vessel which left Sfax yes- • sion„ Rev. Ferneding refused, to interfere. •terday morning reports that the French The raarriage was a double on, the young fire had destroyed all the forts, the great man's sister and her groom being the -other Mosque. and part of the, Mussulman quar- contracting parties, and when the prooes- ters. The insuigentg are still resisting. sion catered the church edifice, the noia- After the bombardraetat of Sfax, the French treated yoling lady :ems° from one of 'the pews, and with the ring in one hand and troops lauded unopposed. Orders have of , been given tp strengthen the English the letters of the young man -the proofs she , squadron in Tunisian waters. • hie unfctithfulnessin 'the other, • . marched, amid the. exciteMent of • the An item ofinteingence o a parthoularly ;looker:acne at ibehead of the bridal parties reassuring eharacter has come to deer the towards the altar. The father of the languor of the summer months, remarksan• groom, geeing the disagreeable .position ib English paper. A torpedo has been lost, whioh hii: son' was placed; stepped up to and is floating about lazily some where on the young lady, and whispering a few. ,Thames' silvery' tido. The delight of the words,. then and there (so seemingly well frequenters of the river knows no bounds. founded rumen has it) bought her 'claim on Thee/coital/lent-of never knowing when .yoi1 the young mat's future for a bandoome inay tome suddenly upon the lost'engine of calm of money.; , • desteuction will add •zest to many a plea- -gent water party. . . A New York elergyinati, in a lecture on " Modern' Courtship, told Ma -audience that young ladies and 'gentian:Leh should be catirely-frank in their courtship; they ehoulcidescribe tb each other 'their weak points. Many of the young people of his audience xetnichaded to take his adeiee, and the result was that ' twenty-two engage - meats were broken between the yoang mon ana women of thet neighborhood. • Coe-Fisnied'e EXTRAORIHNAHY.It will toueit many °tour readers in a very tender spot to bear that the cod-figh crop for '1881 us going to be immense. _Nothing like the oleindence of the cod has been nown in thirty years. [By the way, this is a, por- tentotie fact. Herd. is More food or the superstitious lj Prom alraost all the great fishing centres north andsouth ef St Joints the reports are uniformly favorable, In nattily places," says a Newfoundland corres- pondent of the Montreal Gazette, "the catch is so great that the fishermen,though working almost night and day,, eat with difficulty diepose ef the fleh and get it salted. Here in_ Staffolips the fisherman are taking such enormous quantities that they are selling their overplue to curers at a dollar per hundred -weight." Just think of it 1 Codfish at one cent per pound! Why, we shall all be able to order aro fish - bells this season malts° get our bread for nothing. • Vuring tbe late storm, gays the Port Hope Guide, the hoes° of Mr, Xohn J30yd, on' Rice Lake toed, near Bewdley, was bodily carried,. completely over his barn ,sttrae distanee away, the flea and founda, Sou being left. To this citeumstance Boyd owes withOut doubt the preservation of the lives a his two ehildren, who wore alone in the house at the time. At the seesion of the New York State Teachers' Association the CoMmittee on ear -sightedness in the schools reported that there is a large percentage of short- sighted children in the sohools, which' appears tti come from the iiiihateallatiffeia- tioh of the chilaren While engaged in steay. In some schools this tendency to near. Sightednese Into been ovorconte by using the blackboard more, instead of text -books. The French Assembly have abolished the right of the judge to deliver a charge to the jttry in priminal oases. Nothing gives.a stronger iinpreesiOtt of the differ- enee between France and Englend than the fact that the Senate, no lege than the Ciitanbet of Deputies,, have sanctioned a change which revolutmeizets the Whole character of trial by jury, and Would in England meet with atonements opposition from mon of all patties. ROSIANCE OF TRU AIOND EAU LIGHT. Row SlimeMoouwns Slurried. (Chatham Planet) Seventeen years ago a woinap of some reauenient eutered the laduee of Ur. Thee. Harrison, then residing on the lake shore, near Morpetb, as a dressmaker. After two weeks it was decided 'that gibe should re- -main in the family as a companion and maid to Mrs. Harrison. *She was a French, woman, and had with ber a, lovely child of two years old, She continually tonesponded with her husband in the States, and when at the end of a year be called for her, she went away' with hira to get settled in a new home; when elle would return, she said, and take away her little girl. In a short time o letterolated at Buffalo, canoe from the mother to the- child in oared Mr. Harrison, Was full of affection and endearing terms, end spoke hopefulfy of the geed time to come. This was the last they, ever heard of Mrs. Mooa. Both Mr. and Mrs, Harri; sou had taken a fancy to little Minnie, and havingno children of their tinvu eaeia gt' aii74-doPtan datightei meth 'oldaralitathas child, they kept her as 'their own. Wherresomerayearsaageretheallend-Eau light hems was ereoted, Mr. Harrison moved there.. The little darlaeyed child, reared on the lone lake shore, without a companion of her own age, grew to be a quiet thougatful paid. She wept over the letter -the only; 'memento of her mother - and her strange lot, disagreed with her Meter aster, and grew bitter against the world. -"A stalwart lumberman, the chief of a party of men engaged in restoring wrecked rafts along the shore, meeting the pensive maid at the light house, liked her, and his kiudaess to her won her affection in retiran. Mr. Harrison objeoted to a znar- rage, and One bright morning a few days "igo Miiiin lBrt' the-bause ad walked along "the Point" tiowara the foot of the gau„ where elle was seen by some of the men in her lover's employ. They reproached him its having driven lier from horde. He replied thatalieedid not intend that they shoula beariarrinclaust yet, but that stashe had taken We step he would stand by her. And he did that day, before the, Rev. Mr; Downie, et the altar of the English chureh ,on Talleot etreeti east of Mot:petit. She is now'stoppiag With some friend- near the Eau, having been bountifully supplied by her husband with funds to meether require- ments nail he can ,take her to his Own home across the lake. Su& is one of the may romances that dilater around Rend Eau., . . A. LeeAteet Acertora. • • Piarrow Estape of a Child from Drowning. ctenuing weene. I went tocan upon my friend, and to re) great • surprise, Upon the gate at little Pet, with sad and tearful eyes. "What is it, Petfo''' The tes,r3 no, 41,0194 upon her ireitatainea Molina "My dolly's lost, my dress•S' Wand, at:animal/Vs °remain' bowel " I lifted Pot from off the gate, I.wiped ber tear - marked face, And took her by tier litailand to penetrate tbe place; A voice cried out -between each word 1 beard. the water douse- " I -say you can't come in that way, for we are cleaning houseW I glanced above whence came the voice -a form was standing there - 0/1, coulcl that be rnY,dainty. friend, with such strange coiffured. hair; With skirts pinned ue, with sleeves tuckeebaok, with queer, matting blouse? Sure, matron never wore such guitio, unless when °leaning &ewe! • backward Atwell in meal dismay, I bad not glanced around, And heeded not the tub of water, near me on the, • ground. I hit my (tidal -o'er I went, and tumbled In "kersouriel' high'the, mooking--voiypsrcta,tout" t-- Take care, you'll splash the heusel " right nor left - But hied in hot haste to my home, as one of sense bereft. I locked my door, and here I'll saw, as 011ia 88 a mouse, 'Until each wife and meta in town bus Anil:lied • cleaning house. The famous aural bell controversy, which has been in the St. Louis courts for a year, has reaebed is Supreme Court. opinion. Tbe plaintiff complained that the hells_ of the Pilgrim Congregational Churciawere it nuisance, and sued to have them sllenced by an, Injunction. Xudge- Lindhey decided that 1,01110 relief was desirable, and that the opening en the side of the bell tower -toward the . plaintiff's house Must be cloned. This le "equally ansatisfactory to both iiidea, isedthe case will go. to the Court of Appeals. An extraordinary affair was hivestigatedi , by the Somerset County Coroner at Reyna. • ham the other day. .0u ISLoilday uight the charred remaine of an independent gentle- man, 70 years of ago, flamed Whittuck, were found on the tep of as blazing gile of faggots ueer his residence. His coat and boots were at the'aide and there were oil . cans about. A son 'of the deceased, a Bris- tol solicitor, stated that deceaped had been -very low-spirited since the death af his son, • during the lust Afghan wane:sign and had lately exhibited Barnacle): tendenctes. • The jury returned' an open yetalut, Prof. Lewis SWif t, of Rochester, says that "if a great comet liao the oneavhich has just 'arrived should enter our .atmos- phere and penetrate the earth we iniglat all be coneurned by the great aerate:suffocated, by gas. But as.loug as' the coincit is' 37,, 000,000 miles away we may cow:idea our- fielves'reationably safe." As the Allan steamsaip Moravian .was getting res,dyfor departure from the Mersey forQuehee, an Thursday, Jab° 'Ord.. an exciting incident :occurred. Mrs. Helen •Beacook, 82; a passeuger, threw one of her children -from the ship into the river and attempted to throw oyer a seeond one, aut wee prevented. George Sieger, :the boat- esvain, and another sailor jumped ler after the child': and the fo tenet, with considerable difficulty; brought the child to the ourface. It was taken on board and attended to by Dr. Stone, a passenger, whd after seine time succeeded, in bringing it annul.. :The fetheraird mother aud the two :children Were landed at Liyerpoolead taken to the , pollee office., It was stated. by the father therIiiii-Witralid her tomily were subject to hereditary, ineanity. Viola Becomes of • the ...golcon'o, Ana The following edvertisemeet appeared recently in a,New ,York paper:."Ladies desirous of purchasing articles from ;the ,waidrobe of Qiiken Victoria can- do so by 'calling On Mrs. Martin, — West Firatieth street"- The _vendor of the east -off cloth- ing told a. reporter for the Mercury that every 'three mooths -witnestion a complete renewal of Queen Victoria's wardrobe. It falls the perquisite .-of the maids of honor, who, iz fact, receive no other reward; --These-exalted but frugal 'ladies sell it ima lump, and divide the money it bridge among thein. The discarded ga45of Britain's:greatness haying been 'packed in bundles is transportedly night to the resi- dence' bf it Mrs. Marks, whoreceives it from the trusted carrier •and, returns the money. She does with it whet ladies and. gentlemen, who deal in ()Wit off clothing, plebeian or regal, the world overdo with their wares. It finds a ready sale in Lon- don, at comparatively e,norm,oue prices, to ladies who desire to possess porde souvenir pf•thair 'sovereign: In free America the -demand is ecandly great. The customers are.all natives, but they gush over the rem- nants of royal finery with as much fervor. as any full-fledged cockney toady. " ever could. The first thing , they do is to 16'es them; the next is to try them on. Then • they conamence to criticise them ; but there's one thing they ,never do, which is to refuse to pay the price. • • A Plucky Wonapa and the Burglars. • A despatoh from Manchester, N. H., says . Two burglars giving the names of Thomas Callahan and Dominick Moran were discovered at Piserstaquog early in the mbrning inthe bed -room of Frank Elutehina sob, rifling his pockets. Hutobiason seized Callahan, and in the snuggle both fell down stairs, Mrs. Hutahinson, with a revolver, ran to the aid of ler husband, pounding the burglar's head and face severely and enabled her tuisb'and to secure him. She then telephoned to the police, wbo placed Callahan in jail end pureued and eaptured Moran, who had fled. The brave conduct ofMr. Hutehinsot is highly commended. A despatch from New York says • jataes A.dland, one ,'ear and three months old, died at the residence of his parents, NW' 140 West Fourth street, yesterday morn- ing. On aline 28th worm lozenges were procured for the child, Ana' after they had been given it the child began voraiting, and ie is supposed the lozenges caused the obild'e death. Corner Brady will investi- gate the case. . The young Duke de Mc:ray is said to be ono of the coming goldea youth of Franco .,-clever, witty, discreet, sceptical, and a sportsman-aelements of success, indeed, in that world which-Alphonge Daudet oPertri out to us in a Kings M. Exile," The steamship Arizona reached Now York yesterday, and her passengers were safely landed. The etiptain stated that none of the ship's papers or lotter's are Mis- sing. The voyage was' pleasant and he could acit aceeent for the false revert cir, oulatied dint the loss of the Vessel. John, C. Perabertoe the: Confederate Lieutenant -General alai) surrendered, at Vicksburg, to General Grant; died -yestor. day, at Philadelphia, aged 64, The road from Bharat°, in Bueniab, to China, which hag been olbsed for twenty years, was root:witty reopened. It is said to be the easiest and meat convenient route fee trade. A mother at Prareidence, 1. L, recently took up a pistol, end thinking it a toy. pistol unloaded, snapped it at her 18 rc ott th s old baby, shooting it fatally in the ttbaomen, Austrolia has producest-. the Iwo biggest, photographic plater& yet taken. One is of Melbourne anti the other of Sydeey. • One • ': of .the pietnres is five fee.t byjbree. WATTS & 00,, Agents,-Ctratim. 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