The New Era, 1881-08-04, Page 3a
.A.1.1.gaSt 4, 1881,
• Tet1le$11t IOW roirelfealt
An old brick buildiug, known ae the Old
Quaker Meeting lions°. at Neweaatle,.Pe.,
*be* Penn ie oaid to have ,ocoupied„ le in
eourettof detn-olition. '
Mabee from die Aleutian ifflande report
that-th
e 'Oboe aro eafferieg from a fatal
opidemie which has carried off a large
niarnber of the tribes.
The adnaiiiistration of ,the Buthareet.
Tramway Soolety are at preeent employ.
in oxen instead a noreee, the former
being a decidedly Oheaper means of loco.
ameba. -
scoundrel'of Paris -bate -been palling
upon unruerriee ladies who have passed
30, and after referring them to. hie aunt,
into made love end repeated his. Odle..
Meanwhile he has stolen what he could
find, and tha ladies, fearing ridicule,. have
not oorepleined, until one, more plucky
than the'rest, uow hands.the ratioal over to.
the police.
A. Professor Rapp, of Cincinnati, defend.
ing himself against his wife in the. Divorce
Court, says: e To show what a • mbar I
woe -bought 'My wite•tvgold--Watehi-avold7
chain, gold bracelets, gold ear -ring, gold
breastpin, four gold rings, e fine piano, Mur
silk dresses, twenty-four. eats 'Of . under-
wear, and Beet her to the College'of Musio.".
And notwithstanding all this,. the spoiled
and petted one did not "care a rap" for
M. Geyer, a London milliner, was lately'
,fined e94.50 fix employing workpeople after
4 on Saturday, which is against the law
there: Three of the Workers pleaded that
they were on piecework, and thought they
were entitled to go on. The justice said
"No." The ,A.ot was passed to obviate
." Work, work, work, from weary demo to
•ohim,e ; work, work, work, from • weary
chime to chime; work, work, work, as
prisoners work for crime," eto,
Argostole: or Cephalonia, where Lord
Dufferie latelytoudied on his way to Con-
stantinople, ioa. mill worked, by a streem-
flowing from the sea. An Englishman dise
coveied that the.water.always ran one way
;and built a mill which has made his for-
tune. He tried. hard to find where the
water', which disappears intq the earth,
ultinilatelyweut, and, among ether expert -
menta with that end,„pouriad oil on its
surface, but its course reniains e mystery.
ECCENTRIC SNAKES.
They item& on, Their Tang alai Dance
Around a calla.
iWillicentneet. rite bun ode Banner).
While my wife and I were bully engaged
back of our log -cabin clearing the ground,
our little 4 -year-old girl had strayed frora
the house into the deep dark foreet. We
looked all that evening ter her, but oould
find •no trace of her athereabbatte We
came back, but Bleep was far from us; we
sat and speculated all night. Thenext day
several of the neighbors joined in the
search, bet to no avail. We mooed out
that night, and at midnight were aroused
by many and loud sounds of hissing and
rattling. We jumped up and follo'wed in
the direction from which the Bounds came,
and had not gone fax when 'we all stopped
suddenly as if we had been rooted to the
ground, for before is we beheld our little
girl surrounded by three dozen of rattle-
snakes, varying in size from three inohee to
fifteen feet, the larger oees standing on
their Mile in a circle with ereot bodies and
their peeks curved down toward the head
of the infant in he centre. We:looked en,
in horror, but obuld do nothing, as the girl
vas in too dangerous a position. Bat soon
after the snake,. had, what we oupposed;
'Ilienetid their wilt -dance -and sung their war -
song, tile larger ones • made eaokfor the
hawed branches on one of the tree e in a
direct line with our cabin; wrapping one
end of their bodies around the branch, they
dropped the• other end toward the ground.
In the meantime, two large snakehad
wrapped one of their bodiee around the
• child, so that.one of their heads was on one
side and the other on the ,toppositta side.
One of these snakes then tied itself with
the, one hanging from above; they then
ewung themselves, together with the child,
tilt the other snake on the child could
catch the snake hanging on the adjoining
tree, when the fermerlet go and the latter
swung the child to the next. During this
novel proceeding' the other snakes kept up'
an incessant jubilee rattle till the child was
landed inside our oaten, safe and sound,
whey they, once more repeated the scene
in the weeds by dencin&aroutul her, after
whicia they Tat.
There were thirty-six British and foreign
wrecks, of which eight were British,, one
being a steamer, reported during the past
week, making's, total of 906 for the present
year, or an iucreaee of 228 as compared
with the corresponding period of last year.
The approximate value of property. lost.
was 23,500,000, including British
000. Four vessels Were lost off the coasts
of the United Kingdon, and ' twenty-one
'off Sweden aud Norway. Sixty lives were
lost. •
Prince .Bismarok objects tothe new
fashion of printing German .becke in Latin:
characters, as appears from the following
letter to a well-known publishing house in
"With reterence V) the letter
directed to Priuce Bisniarok, X beg to return
. you heiewith the paniplitet sent, informing.
yoistlbe same time that it is pontrary to
rule tolay before the Cliaticeltor,any week'
or works written in the German language
with Latin characters, beep:use thelaerusal
of such would take tee much of .His High-
ness' time." ' • •-•
Charles B. Heim, of Ranh:tore, dii4.
June 10th., Fearing grave robbererins• •
mother and wife•ha,d his remains deposited'
in. the Baltimore Cemetery vault, the num-
ber of the ' permit being 665: Op Men.
day they wend to the vault 'to remove
the body for battier an the -greund, when
• they found that coffin No. 065 was notethe
coffin in which Mr. Heim's body was placed,
and prolonged ciectroh failedto discover it.
All the graves dug since June 10th -are to
.be opened. The keeper thinks he Mud
have got the coffins mixed..
Another memorial of the suoCessee
achieved by the German arms.. in 1870-71
has been Lady set up in Berlint-In 1816
• three pieces of ordnance --two mortars Mid
a heavy gun -captured by the Gerinans
during the eatepaigns of- 1813-15,were
placed within, an iron railing on a Small
mound opposite the Zeughans or, arsenal in
the Prussian capital, as a medicine:a' of the
• glorioue issue of the war. The gun,how-
over, although taken team the•Frenoi, was
really an old German piecerhaving been Lot
many yeers one of the teea,snres of the
town of Lubeck, and having only fallen into
the hands of the French When they seized
the latter place. Consequently it. hae new
obeen removed, and in its place an historical
French,gun has been mounted, This latter
piece was many years in the fortress •of
• Mont St. Valerian, and bore the name of -
La Belle Josephine," until, after the fall -
of the Napoleonic dynasty, en the 4th of
September, 1870, it was rechristened "1.al
Valerie."
ierininm Horgan Heard From. Again.
A correspondent of the. Alta California
writes that in 1849 he was detained • at
Malta several weeks.and met there United
States Omani Winthrep and an English
bookseller tamed Muir. Beth of them
knew William Morgan, of anti-Alasenie
fame. Morgan's story t� them was that lie
was abducted, as known, from Rochester,
N.Y., taken across the river and given
in the middle of it to another- party,
two of :whom wed) British offioera, and
put upon a ship .bound to the _Levant.
Under a sworn promise never to return,
his life was spared. He lived a, preaarious
life in Smyrnaovas very poor and-hved on
the charities of the Franks. Both Mr.
Winthrop. and Mr. Muir saw him die one
Sunday miming on a bench in front Of a
Turkish cafe. The writer foundthe cafe
-and veriaed the statement; -Neither .Win-
throp norMeir were 'Masons atthe time.
Soine years since . the -writer lived in. the
"same hotel with Judg• Gillis, One of the
men tried for the abduction, and who was
familiarly known .as • the' man Who killed
Morgan., On relating_ the ..ahove_teetsto
him he replied that for all the Masons -did'
to him.he (Morgan) might be living yet.
HOW KA -TIO IHR1Hdlit klik.vE0 Tale
WAIN,
Eresidas a Railroad Bridge In a Gale
at Night to Renck the Telegraph Office.
On bet Wednefidey niglit, when O'Neil
DOnabueand Olmstead went down to
death,a noble girl, but 15 years of age, was
watching for the safety of those whoseduty
celled there out over tbe railroad in the
fearful atom. Kate Shelly, whose father
was killed on the railroad some years Deo,
live e with her mother jiist on the east side
of the river, and nearly oppoeite where the
engine made the fearful plunge and
Donahue. and Olmetead loot them lives.
Mimi Shelly and her mother heard the
orash, and, realizing what had happened,
Katertook a lantern and started for the
wreck. Her light erten went out, but She
felt her way through the woods and fallen
timbers to the edge of the dashing waters
that covered the drowned men. She ould
hear, above the roar of' the storm, the
voice of Wood, the engineer, who had
• caught in a tree top. She knew that the
express with its load of passengers, was
nearly due. Slie, a young girl,
was the only living being who
oould preveat an awful catastrophe. The
telegraph office at Moingona or Boone was
the wily place where elle' could notify the
officers. To. Boone was five miles over
bills and through the woods, andbefore she
could get there the exprese would have
Passed. 'To Moingona was only a mile,
but between here and Moingona wee the
Des Moines River, ten or fifteen feet above
its natural height, and to cross this she
must pass over the railroad bridge, fifty
feet . above the swollen waters. She
must cross this bridge, 400 feet
long, with nothingbut the ties and
rails, the wind blowing a gale. • Not one
man in a thousand but would have shrunk
front such a task. But this brave girl
gathered about her her flowing skirts, and
on hands and knees crawled over the long
bridge from tie to tie. ' With the blood
from her laseratedknees etaining her dress,
she reaChed the shore, and ran the remain-
ing half -mile to the telegraph office.
Breathless, andintroken accents, she told
her story-eald fainted in the arms of the
bystanders. The wires were set at work
and a more horrible disaster was averted.
:--Ogden Iteporter.
• etrineese
/ am Kure (writes a Globe etaireepondent)-
it willgive universal satisfaction in the
Dominion, vvizere the Primed; Louise and
her husband are so popular, when the news
.is published that Her Royal Highness has,
entirely recoVered her health. It is
runaored that she •was a few days ago corn:
mending aoconimodation in the Allan boat
of the 22nd,- but as I have heard nothing
from Meesrfe. Allan about this, I.eireeume:
this Wimbledon rumor of her approaching
.departure M join her husband and re-
assume,her pleasing duties at the vice -regal
court is premature. Of one thing, however,
all loyal Canadians may be sure, that Her
Royal Erigliness, like alt: Her Majesty's
children,
ever lipids duty first, and 'that
she will net rerciaiutirda,y onthisfde after
her physicians pronounce it safe for her to
return toiler beldvedhome OtRideali Hall.
That the happy daY.of her return willnot
• be long delayed .,mayf'be judgedfrom the
fact thOr Her Royal Higianees is now
happily onabledeven, tliissialtrpperither
to discharge some of the duties, and per-
haps enjoy. some of the pleasures, attendant
upon' her high station. This has 'fortu:
nately been the ease for sortie weeks. past.
During the last' Seven days tfee published
appearanCes Of Her Royal laighnesoinclude
three- dinners with the reembere of the
aristocracy, twO visits to, the theatre, one
to the French paid one to the German play,
several picture galleries, a visit to Windsor
Castle to the King of .the Sandwioh.
Islands, -now honoring :England with his
august presence, and t� severe.' charitable
and other entertainments and areceptione.
On Monday she arrived at the Windsor
statioirjust after • His Sandwiciretlajesty-
he iii•not eable„and the papers in recording
• her journey back to Kensington had: Her
Royal:Highness...drove to the station at 5
&dock,. and the royal waitinwroem being
occupied by the •King of the Saridwieh
Islands, took O seat MI the platform till the
train -backed into the station.'! • 'The wags
the'olubs all asked. what -the King had
:dcine at the castle that H.„ItI. refused to.
sit inthe game roomwith him at, the
•station. • •• . . -
• Tee 'Hope #1 the • Future. . •
• How To W. Matthew Wil-
liams says: "1 have taught many to swim,
. and my first lesson is on balancing the
*body. The easiest formula for attaining
this power is to keep the hands dOWn and
look at the sky, while the chest is .expanded
as much as peg-1bl° by throwing the
shoulders well back, in military attitude.
Any man. or Woman of ordinary speoilio
gravity, who can do this, can float and
breathe, but to dolt, simple as it is, requires
practice or training -physical training of
the muscles, and oerebral training in order
to acquire that command of all the foul.
ties without which therecari be n� treading
of water or other device for keeping the
mouth and nostrils in the air."
The London St. Jaws' Casette, .of anly
• tth, sitys : "Mr. Gladstone, appeatingin
light colored ooat of fnimmer-like •breezi-
,
• gees, a white waietcoaf and gay tie, was
apparently &t the eerly sitting.of the ECousb
' of Commons yesterday as juvenile and
fresh in spirits as in attire."
False fronts of shirts, vest ond coat are
now fernished corpses by the New York
undertakers for $10--L.a saving Of. 080 On
Suit. "Ain't tho.. deceased lees' diet&
without chucking in his clothes to?"
queried. Imo of them in defence �f the sham.
• Ho computed that e3,000,000 aro annually
wasted in grave clothes, .besidee being e
temptation to gravo robbery.
. •
Nine 'ear i 'before he died •when verging
upon 70, Sydney Smith amid one a the evils
Of old age was thinkittg every little Mimes
the beginning of tho end. Whim it man
expects to be arrested every kndolt at th
door is an alarm,
Miss Elizabeth Ftelning, whose death is
recorded in the Scotch newspapers, was in
• former clays an intimate ftiend' of Sir
Welter Scott. Pair deter Marjorie was brio
of Sir Walter's pots Up to the tinae of lier
early death.
Flower sermona are fashionable in Eng-
land. The children take bemmets to
ohuroli,'arici in the !Midst , et the sores
deliver there ba the clergyman the
thanget.. .
Friinee fieet4,087 in:aigrette to
New York, while Germany furnished 104,
204.
• • -
Poison in the Cup. .
. .
"There's . a :beleziefie Which aught to be
plerefireedM-rerriaiked an , eminent profee-
sore& ehemietry to a reporter ke the couple
•yesterday pissed, a stand Where " lemon.
a.ae" wag being . dispensed from an ice.
cooler which had :evideatiy seen its best
.11.1f9111AN 10100TOA NIVIICIEA.R.
Tragedy as a. Ton -case.
(ri'rorti the Indianapolis Sentinel.)
The toll -gate •on the Greenwood and
Franklin pike is a half mile eolith of
Greenwood, and about a quarter of a mile
from any neighbor. The toll -gate is kept
by a lady naMed Mollie Hurt. She is a
hardworking woman, and is trying to sup-
port herself and fear children by adding to
ber pay as toll -keeper the small pay vvhich
she receives from washing done for persons
living near by. About a year ago Mrs,
Hurt was startled in the night by the
presenoe in her house of a burglar. She
was seized, bound wrth cords, gagged,
all her money taken from her, and
left to the meroy of the firet traveller who
might chance along. No trace was ever
obtained of the robber.. Since this robbery
Mrs. Hurt has kept two doge in her room,
one of them a savage and trusty watela-dog.
On Friday night at midnight she was
awakened by the barking of these dogs.
The house stands east and west, facing
the road on the east, There is a door
entrance on the east from the road, and
one on the • north teem the „ewell,
About two feet from this 'door
there is a window, and after ,Mrs. Hurt
was aroused by thei harking of the doge ehe•
got up and started toward the door, when
one of the panes of glass of this window
came crashing in Then she heard a
noise at the door. She asked, "What is
wanting ?" A gruff voice replied, "Make
the dogs stop barking.and I will tell you
i
what s wanting." Then he said," Get all
the money you have got and hand it out
.of this window, or we will come in and
kill you and your childeep." She went
and got all the money -she had, amounting
to 07.72, and handed it to him. She
put herbead out through the window to
get sight of him, when he said, ".G -d d -n
you, stick your head back," and cursed her
for the smallness of the amount she had
given biro.. The robber insisted that she
had more and he wanted it, butshe assured
him that he had all she had. ,
Then he Paid. Give me that revelver
'you -lave got inthere."- •MrirHiirt-replied,_
"You dial have it." She procured the
reyolver, and, as she held it in her hand,
she determined that he should not have it
until it was empty. .Standing by the door
of -the room, Some twelve feet from where
the robber was, she aimed the revolver in
the dark toWard the voioe and fired through
the door.
Then she instantly fired again. All was
still. She was just ready to fire the third
• and lad shot when her little son, remem-
bering that there were only three charges
in therrevolver, said: . •
," Oh, mother, save the last shot ;le may
try to get in."
• She acted on his suggestion and Waited a
few moments to hear the sound of his
movements. No sound oame, when she
opened the south window and put Willie,
her second boy, out of it and told him to go
to Mr. Single's and tell them•abbut it.
When the gentleman mad boy returned
Mrs. Burt told them to .go around -to the
north door and Bee- if they could see any-
thing. There lay the robber weltering in
his blood.
.....Why rco ? " asked. the' scribe.
"Lemenado,"' '
replied • the prOfeesor, in
his most impressive manner,-" even when
rnade from temons, in a tin vessel' witla
soldered joints, or in a galvanized hoe
vessel, Will take up the _lead from the ono
or the zinc froin the other.. A salt is then
formed which is very unwholesome, and
'when taken continually or in large quanti-
ties, absolutelypoisonous. The injurious
action is considerably II:cramped if citric
and tartaricacids are used instead of
lemons ' in inaking the himoead.e. • Cen-
sequently, the use a . such vesselfor
lemonade ought to be avoided, espeeially if
the contents are allowed to stand for any
length of trine: An overdose orally of these
acids is bad and they are worse when taken
in the form of lemonade. Nothing wouli.
be likely to giveyou the' oheleret7quicker
than a stiepeesion of those drinke.' • -•
A Fttnally 1Plio Hundred,. and .leitty.
•
• JErom the Shenandoah ValloY4 • • •
An ]step, residing in FOiest-
.vilte, Va., is now in her 91.at year, and has
enjeyed goad health until recently.: Shet.id
the mother of twelve children -nine sons
• and three datightera; the grandmother of
eighty.six children ; the great-grandmother
f 146 hildred • the great -g rest.g rand:
mother of ten children -254 souls in all.
One.eon,has only one child and another son
only two children; so the other ten 'child.'
ren of Mrs. Estep have eighty-three sons
add daughters, an averege of over eiglit to
each. "Moro the merrier," it is said, and
happiness greatly abound e in this house-
hold.
SCOTTISK NOTES.
Inthe Routh of Scotland there has been
quite a plague of large wasps in eoree plowed
Bey. Dr, Samuel Mill, of Free Bt, Mat -
_5
thew's Church, Glarigowt ied from asthma,
at the ago of 72 years, the 5th inst.
It is openly asserted in London that the
Marquis of Huntly.has had to leave, Great
Britain hurriedly tri order to escape his
creditors,
The Queen has been invited to open the
Leith, Docks next month. The ground. hex
beenentirely reolaimed from the Firth, and
the extender', when completed, will have
cost $375,000.
London Xrele sari it is certain that the
Queen's Park review at Edigburgh will
be a great emcees, and about 30,009 men
are expected to take part M it. • The Duke
of Oatabridge is to command.
As to 'that verY4delicate .question where.
dutyto our neighbor begins and ends,
President Gardner,•of the Linke kiln Club,
takes thidesafe positionOur dooty
begins when we let his phial:Lis match up
our garden, Ms children ride our gate, an'
his deg chase our oat without complaint.
Our dooty ends when we havelent him our
hoe, shovel,' spade, ice -tongs, an, sugar,
to,a,oOffee, milk an' barer, an he has for-
gotted dot he. owes ,us euythin boys& a
request dat we Will Come Over an' turn
grindstun fur him tO sharpen a crowbar.",
• The baby elephant born in Philadelphia
on March 1311.1, 1880, weighed 13 potindo at
birth, and 'within the year gamed .700
retinas on an exclusively milk diet.' It now.
weighs not far from 1,000 pounds. *
The wheel authorities of Paris are deter,'
mined that the children attehding the ele-
• Mentary Sehooletchall growup true patriots.
Every boy and girl is to be compelled to
learn to -sing the '
It is. assorted in official circles that
.1Nlidhat Pasha, in appealing for a ',Orden,
confeicsed thothe had been. accessory to the
wittier of Abdul Azis. •.
In thirty-one years- Shormen
been but once late for dinner. His wife is
the authority for this statement, ,
The reigning bernity of the present Y.lofl.
don season is said to be it Mrs, Simpson,
-who with hor husband has just returned
from a fivo years' redden:le in Chita.
Rev, Dr. Ives, the noted oblirch debt
• extinguisher, succeeded St the 'opening of
the net:, M11. Church, Made° in raising
the amount' Whieh had, not tdroo,dy been
sUbsoribed ori behalf of the 'building fund.
M. do toaseps will soon return to
Panama in high spirits at having "three
great irons in the, lite." • By this ho mean
the fresh water canals toPort Said,Corintl
and Patiania„
• ..
:• The threat! Gun Baker.,
(New York Tribune.)
Do hot be flattered when 1 say that, in
many respects, you are, 'of much greater
importance than your more robust associ-
ate. The whole social f abrio in the greatest
degree rests upon you. 'You are to be the
future women . of the land, and your
influvce• is the strongest factor in the
molding of the society. ' You cannot aot the
soldier's part, or fill the legislative halls, or
perform the severe labors that . were
designed. for your stronger brothers. But
you have dutiedto fulfil of a higher, purer,
ixtorenaored natare. You are the embodi-
ment of modesty, patience, • sympathy and
gentleness. Preserve and oultivate these
virtues; guard them as you would the'
apple of your eye .-they are the jewels in
the'cirown of womanhood. -Dr. .1. B. Morun
to Boston. Schoolgirls: • ••.
1
Three additional Circuit Courts are to
be held in Glasgow each year., making six
the total number now. Four similar courts
will sit every year in Perth,- Dundee and
Aberdeen respectively, being double the
number held heretofore. By these addi-
tional !muds the criminal business of the
country will be greatly facilitated.
an a email parish school cerise to the
bonito of the Shinnelt Upper Nithsdale,
there are at "'indent iniittondande three
pairs of twins -two boy twins, two girls,
and a boy and a girl. In fact when the
roll is called nearly 80., per cent; of the
whole attendance consists of twins, which
we are safe to say does not take place in
any other tethool in Soobland.
• Mrs, Julia
Mr. J. S. Potter, United States ecnisnl at
Crefold, Germany, in a private letter gives
an interesting description of the steelworks
of Herr Krupp; :whose colossal establish-
ment -at Essen he has recently.visited. The
average mintber of Men employedial.8,542,
representing a popalition of more than
80,000 persons dependent uponthe industry
controlled by a single Pall. Mr. Potter
was .partioularly impressed byethe perfect
system, . oecler and quiet which prevails at
the works, and does hot•remember having
.heard a shigle loud'word epolida amorig•the
thousands of workmen as he passed through
the vast buildingscovering'6513 acres. Her
Krupp, who thirty years ago was a poor man,
provides everything for the great 'community
of- which he is the centre -linos for all,
schools, churches, preachers; supply stores,
bakeries, -slaughter houses, • butchers,
doctors,bathing • 'eatoblisliments, • life
instirance .and. tire Companies, pension
institutions hospitals undertakers and
funerals, and all werkalmabothly and well.
In reply to a question concerning the vast
reeponsiffility, anxiety, care and difficulties
• in managing such a 'complex and extensive
establishment, he sold hdhad little anxiety
and no difqoulty in managing his loran's-
ing business. His Care and responsibility
were chiefly exereised in the selection of
men fer positions of Management. He had
no friendship for " bodies." who were not
exactly fitted for the positions they were
engaged to fill, and no mercy -for those
found negligent or inefficient.To his
caution in the selection of managers he
attributed the .chief encodes of his life.
eivia servant, bolding a prominent
position, was having.,:a promenade with a
young lady on Notre 1Dame street; Mon-
treal, on Thurriday,whon he was confronted
by his jeolend wife, who lest no time in
retaking an attackupen her rival for her
husband's attentione. The gallant Lothario•
made hie exit from the scene leaving the
women to fight it out. The pc,line restored
peace between- the belligerent'. .
The death of . Dr. Andreas Baler von
Hofer reeills the fadt that this bearer of
a iambus family name was a grandson of
the famous Tyrolese patriot, Andreas
Hofer, who was the William Tell of the
peasant soldiers" of 1809. The deceased,
however, did not shine simply as it refleoted
light. He bore his name wcirthily, and
will not be forgotten. Ile was an active
Worker politics, and in 1870 was elected
Deplity tis the Tyrolean Landtag. •Ile was
o faithful representative n:p to his death or
the "Tyrol, ,
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Mr. W. Bannerman, M.P.., has A° up
Lake Winnipeg With o large strvey potty
to locate the Hudson Bthy Railroad. Start-
ing from Norway Muse, they will also
explore the distrios as 50 118 agricultural,
mineral and other econoniie reemlnes. •
' no Empress Augusta is spoken of by a
foreign Writer, who gives an account of her
early life ond strong characteristics, nE1 the
ono of all crowned -women of Europe who
honors mod a prond position. She fa a
woman of high mental- culture, and*Was
bbrn and brought up in Weimar during.the
d&ys 01 158 literary supremacy. Thackeray
wae at Weithat when the Princess Augusta,
Was leaving it to marry Drince- William 'of
Prussia, She was at that time it slender
girl, with a mama diatinction of manner
and carriage; though she dreseed ill he
was romantic, and aspired to live an ideal
life -but her youthful houre Were passed
in a barrack and, in honcirable poverty.
German princes Oro frovently poor in
pecket, and William Was a good eXample
of the dna. ,
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Lord Curriebill has given judgment
respecting the delta of General Gordon to
the estates in possession .of Lady Gordon
Cathcart. General Gordon claimed the
extensiveCluny estates in the counties of
Aberdeen, Banff, Nairn, • Inverness and
Midlothian, Lord Curriehill assoilzies the
defenders from the whole conclusion Of the
action, and Ando General Gordon liable in
all the expenses. A long note is appended
to the interlocutor, dealing in detail with
the various points in the ease. .
Georclie Tarnscsn was ,precentor de, rural
kirk not a hundred mike feat -Stiffing -end
courted the minister's maid Jean at the
same time.. One day the minister gave out
the 66th Paraphrase, and Geordie led off
the singing as usual, but`When he came to
the fourth verse his wandering. thoughts
made him cause some amusement by sing-
ing but
"HOY presence fills each heart With joy,
Old Dresses.
Where aro the footsteps 1 was wont tobeer,
0 spring, in pauses of the blackbird'a song ?
I hoer there not; the workd lute hold mine ear
With its indolent sounds too long, too long 1
The footfall and the swooping robes of spring,
Beer 0000,1 heiled them as life'a full delight!
Now, hale moved, 1 hear the blackbird slug,
As blind inert wake not at the seaden liglis
Nay, not unmoved 1 nut yester-eve 1 stood
heneath thee, throned, (Nectar:Gustav/BO. in the
beech;
And for one moment heaven was that green,
wood,
And the old dreams went by, too deep for
speech.
One moment -it was passed; the gusty breeze
nroughtlaughter and rough voices from the
lane;
Night, like a mist, clothed:round the darkening
A Rope oi WepnaWs Bair.
Xn Inidetail of Indian herrors that came
under his notice Mr. Markley, the New
Mexico Indian killer, stated that in 1eG7 be
gave an Indian half a dollar for a hair rope
ten feet in length and about the size of his
little 'finger. He untwiatedthe end and
found that it was made of red, auburn and
black hair,which, from the'length �f each
hair, Was evidently that of women. He
questioned the Indian, who told him the
tope was made from the hair of.the women
and girls plain in the Mountain Meadow
massacre, for complicity with Which mur-
dor Jobe D. Lee, the 'Piton:non, was tried
and shot a few years ago. The plaoe where
he purchased the rope was at Paleronagote,
05miles from Mountain Meadow, whore
She most harrowing and brutal maseacre of
modern tilaida ocourred.-4t. Louis „llepubri-
TUttOS every heart to sing; •
• By day, by night, my fancy's !light,
Is ever with my Jean."
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Not long ago, On a military funeral arriv-
ing at a Glasgow cemetery, it WM discovered
that there was no minister to perform the
ceremony. After waiting along time, an
ecolesiostio Of O different .persuasion from
that of the defunct arrived on the scene,
and -:proffered his services. What was to
be done ? , The address of the proper min-
ister was unknoida. The- funeral party
eonld not -well return with fts unburied
'man, so the officer in command accepted
the' proffered icervices, and the obliging
ecolduastie 11OW maintains that he has
indeed made a last Moment eonvert.
William Porter, whoewas wrecked early,
this year in •tlie steamship Diamond, a
Dundee; bears testinatanY, in abider' pub-...
lislied in Clio:others' Journati,to the extraor-
dinary. effmacy of oil- in calming waves:
"I first heard- of its good effeees in the ogee
.of & whaler in the .Seuth Seas. She Was on
the point of foundering. The men' were,
Unable, owing. to heavy seas, to remain sit
• the Fillips, - *' * when some :of the oil'
casks broke a,drift in the hold and smashed.
The oil was then ramped out with the
water, and the sea, thinigitstill as high; did
not break on board." At the wreck of the,
Diamond.he considers that they owed their
life to the oil thrown Out. „ •
A disruption in,the Janotion Street U.P.
Church, Leith, b threatening. The
ister, the Rev. Walter Duacian, who was
suspended fOr three months for plagiarism,
is determinektO return to his charge. In
Onsequence, uPwards. of 200 have' left:tlie
church already, and Others have .signified
their intention of doing so as 5000 as Me. •
Duncan resumes his -pastoral duties, "-The
session clerk; 1.4 elders; 17 Sabbath s,ohool
teachers, including' the euperietendent,
Secretary, treadirer and leader of Praisci,„
10 missionary. collotore, 10 ex-preeidents
of 'the 'Young Men's Mutual Improvenaelit
Society, and 10 members ':of the Dorcas.
Society, are stated to be among those who
have resigned.. .
•The Earl of Home was fonnd dead in the
• grounds Of his seat at Hersel,• near COM,
stream, upOn the 41h a July. Though an
Old:Man (aged.83) he Was in the enjoyment
.of good health, &nailed not beencomplaie;
big.' Death had evidently . been inetan-
taneous, The Emies are an andeet family
of the. Scotch peerage, the Barony having
been created in 1475, and. the. Eitrldom10
1604, while The Douglas was it chief of
baronial rank at tho tune of William ;the
Lion, the Earldom of Douglas being con-
ferred upon William Douglas in 1342. The
late Earl was formerly Under Secretary Of.
State for Foreign Affairs, and •held other
positions Under ,ConservittiVaGovernments;
Lord.Dunglass, who now suoceede to the
title as Earl �f Home, hes not taken any
actiSie teat as yet inpiiblic affairs. He is
isomparatIvelY a young men, and since his.
marriage nee many - years-Oo he has
resided chiefly at Bothwell Castle,Lanark,
which belonged to his Mother, the Countees
ef Home. .
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tr000,
And I was with the world that mocks again.
So neer is 4den, yet so fax: it lies,
No angel guarded gate, too far for sight;
We breathe, we touch. it, yet our blinded. eyes
sun seek it every way ereePt the right -
CIROBED ON A. SIKTAJPAR MAAX..
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A Flees of Beefsteak Sticks in a Farmer,*
Throat -Saved by a Surgical Opera-
- Ron.
Yesterday afternoon a farmer named
Wm. MoEwant living on the 10th conceit-
Eficill of Blanchard, about four and a -half
Miles' froiii Grafiton,' was quietly eittincrat
the dinner -table at the Ontario Hotel,.
Granton, and was eating' some beefsteak.
Suddenly the other persons in the room,
including the proprietor of the hotel, saw
the man tlirovr hie head up end raise his
hand to. his mouth me if in distress. They
rushed to hini and found that be
was choking with it piece of beefsteak.
Jilis breath was gone, and it seemed as if . •
he was dead. Dr. Lang was at once sent .
for and hastened t� the wee°. A . few
minute e had elapsed and MeEwan had net
breathed at all.. The doctor had recourse
to traoheetomy, cutting a email aperture
in the man's windpipe. This relieved him,
• and he began to breather bat the piece a •
meat in the tlaroit had•to be got out. After
the breathing had continued,a few minutes .
Dr. Lang with an instrument was able to
dravi• outhe p1000 of meat, which was
abolit iind i elflong by threti-qiy,tters cf
inch in thi knees: - The man is improving '
gradually, nd hopes' are entertained of his
entire rec very.
Remarkable scene at a Funeral.
can. • '
According to statistics recently men-
tionedby the Marquis of Hartington in the
House of Lords, English prisons in India
are in shockingly bad oonditiotn,. the
death.rate por thousand in the joal itt
Dinagopore being so high as 360, and id
other prisons in the Prosideney of Bengal
reaching to 220, 280 and so on, the cause of
this groat mortelitylieing the small quan-
tity and Old poor quality of ,the prisoners'
food: During the year 1870, 8,433 inmates
wore flogged, chiefly for non-perfortnence
of work allotted to thein. In tin following
year, owing te representations to the
Home Govern:bent, the number of flog-
gings was greatly reduced. "Although,"
said the Marquis, there is Fibril° inaccuracy
and inueh exaggeration, in the ilth,teraent8
of Indian nowspapera, thercff is, regret to
say, Home and too much foundation for
them," •
The mere shape of George Eliot's head
would be the despair of any painter. It
•*as so grand and =arrive that it would
soartely be possible to represent it without
giving the idea of disproportion to the frame,
of which no one ever thought for it mornent
'When they saw her, although 15 was a our -
prise, when she Abed up, to 'See that after
all she waa but a little fragile werriaii who
ben this weight of brow and braint
Rev, Sas, Robertson proiehed his fare-
well discourse as pastor of Knox Church,
Winnipeg. On Monday, and will to..aay be
inducted: by tr. Cochrane as Superirtten-
dent of Missions in. Manitoba and, the
Northwest Territories.
During thelu'enweYraolrksePrivrae
ioe% at the Green-
ville (N. J.) Evangelical church, over the
remains of 'Wolfgang Steeeelt a member of
the Order, of Knights of Pythias, a thunder- '
bolt struck the building, descending to the
,ground at the sideoof the °hut& by way •
of the lightnine rod. The shock was
terrific and the entire- structure was .
shaken to its foundoliet. A scene of eon- •
sternation at. once ensiled. There were
about two handle persons present, and a
inaultaueous rude was nmdelor the door,
ilo the :building resounded with the
shrieks of women and ehildren.' There
were a ,sufficient number of cool-headed
persons . present M :intercept the crowd
at the door and „prevent the loss of life •
which inust have enstienad the vestibule . -
and steps -been reached. While this excite-
ment was going on a number of old ladies
who were present fell'upon their .knees and
prayed dead end -earnestly. Several of the -
knights who sat on the side where the light-
ning stritok were proatrated'by'llie-shook; -
• their swords attracting the electricity: The
minister exhorted the people to •remain
quiet, saying "It is the lightning of God,
which purifies'allheorts." The excitement
lasted half an hour. While these seenes
.were going on in the church 'another bolt
struck the•poIe of one of the coaches which,
were etanding inthe streekshattering it and
•prostrating the horses. The horses attached
to thebther minima took fright and ran in
all directions. They were finally gathered .
together and the funeral proceeded.
Can is sic A•ris!3
Luoy Hainilton Hooper writes front
London of Queen 'Victoria's only untharried
:daughter "Poor Beatrice, who is rapidly
verging en a, royal old maidism, is very
like the members of the suicidal family in
the old comic swig. of f A Horrible Tale,'
wile never had no fun nor nothink.' Slail
never goes to '500 theatre nor the opera,
with her brother and sister -ie -law; she
never makes her appearance at the court
balls, and still less at any other ef the
seoial gayeties of the Beason ; she never
drivea in the park, and though reported to
be the wittiest and most brilliant of all
Queen Victeria's daughters, she certainly
leads the dreariest existence to which
princess Witold° of a fairy tale full of
witiked fairies and impregnable toWers,was
over doomed,
'Dancing; Against WWII!.
Tom .Cline and Mary Gorden, George
Viotti:her and Mary Hines, Jean Marsha-
lauor and Mrs. Pewit, M. KennoVart and
Nellie Heeney, Henry Stroib and Florence
St. Clair, John Monahan and Annie
Latham, Walter Gonzales and X.lizzie
ie White,
ming nine
afternoon
eighteen
and all
Gorinan. Newford and A
jota Moore rind Della Moore, fol
couples, started out yesterday
Of 2 nelook to endeavor 50 done
houra. At 11 °icier:it-411 the iitai
tho men except the last five namejl gave up
the job. At 10 o'clock lest.t4lit Arline
Latham hed danced eight hous Ana live
naireites, and received as a prize it pair of
gold braeplete. Abbie White received the
•seeond, a locket apd chain, having danced
fieVels hours arta forty-four minutes, The
Man who holdoat the longest will•reeeive
S geld medal and NO, the nod a gold
medal.-Saa Prat:disco Examiner. •
Fortunate Sarah.
(From the Cincinnati inquirer.)
Sarah Reinhardt gave me e succinct
account of 'her financial position the,other
night while driving me to the theatre in
her handsome brougham. She has 0100,000 •
in cash, safely invested in the best seouri-
ties. She has e90,000 -worth of works of
art in her two houses. She has 05e,000
worth of jewels. "1 know," she. observed,
" that for an artist • I am 10 :50 exception.
ally fortunate position." • ' '
•
.The Grand Duke Nicholas, late Com.
mander-in-Chief' of the Ruseian 'armies in
Turkey, is living in Paris. He is accome
panied only by a doctor and one aide -de.
game. He occupies .x.eemenn the third
floor of the Hotel Chatham'.and is living
in a very retired reannef.. He is suffering
from nervoue derangement, 'and . says that '
the • recent' campaign in Turkey left his
health in a very unsatisfactorreondition.
The Nigadoo Silver 'Mining Company,
with a 'capital of 4150;000 in 30,000 shares
of 05 eaoh, heti been formed to work silver
mines in Gloucester obunty, N.B.
The wooden . gas -piping put down by the .
London company seven years ago is being
taken up and relaid with -iron. It hasbeen
found not to stand the wear and tear, and
te leak badly, although coated with tar.
The first fall' wheat of the season was
brought to Menden ntarket on Saturday and
was purchased at 42 10 per contd. The
fell wheat Crop in the 'neighborhood is one -
of the beet ever known. There is very,
little spring wheat, •,
A. Frenchman who stole 4300 from Mrs.
Mooney's- hone° in Halifax on Wednesday
hat Was arrested at St. John, N.B., on.
Saturday on landing from the stearnee
ElnpieSS from Annapolis. Ho is a coma -
donee man, wire has bon operating under
the' guise of a Jesuit father. Two deteetiyes
'rave arrived to esoort hint to Efitlifalt.
Mr. Bradlaughratinmened a meeting
of his supporters in Trafalgar Square,Lon-
don, on•the evening of . the 2nd August to
make an orderly Protest against hisexcolli-
sion from the HOMO Of Commons"
The Pritislt .11.taitcol Journal • pUbliahes
some hospital reports by "-Miss Clarke,
111, D." These are the first papers of the
kind eVor printed in an English tnediaal
ilewsiPa't;ounrogi tla°drnywin°1211.
TieWas naarried • to
Lord Colin Campbell on Thursday at the
Bilvoy Chapel Royal, Strand, is the young.
est daughter of Mr, E. Maghlin Blood, Of
County Clare, Ireland. The
• young bride Is not only very handsome,
blit i£3possefised of intellectual accomplish;
'tents and social graces much to be
admired.
1,v.M. O. "Osborn,. D.D., has beea
°looted President of the Wesley Confer..
• eneo. He was earthed), Secretary. Rai,.
Robert Young has been elected. Secretory.
James Bridger, tho coropanion of Free -
Mont, after whom Fort Bridger was
netted, and the first white naan to follow
the Santa Fe trail actasS the plains, is cload,
aged 76.
Comet, in its Original Greek, signifies
long•haired, and might, With propriety, he
D)X1Kni6nlign°1Keaall°Ef,Inutit'has hoen grizettorl
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honorary Member 61 the Order of the
Grand OMR of St. Midhael and St. George.