The New Era, 1881-08-25, Page 3•
3,gast fZ5, 1881.
That Bay. '
That day was one of th050 OWeet rare days
wbet Only come in June,
When hearts breathe forth instioetive praise,
. And, Pulses are th. twee;
And o'er the hill and teer the lea
My own, tree lover came to lite
That day.
I know that skies Were never o bine,
Or Bowere'er half so sweet
And neer a rowl so smoothly white
Did lie 'neatli treea that bent to greet
where we suet, my lover anal,
Mot once in Bette of our riestiny,
Viet day.
'Twos but a glimpse of the "might have been,"
A clasp of hands o'er years,
A brief forgetting of worldly die,
A precedent of Wale;
And we, with its eeaseleas ebb and flow,
• Caosea o'er two lives their weal mad woo.
Tilat day,
Tot 'twill stand forth on ItleteOtrO VOW;
Markel 'With* ellOW-erhite Men01
'Twill come to meet in the land 1111Seeli,
Wbou eath than claim his own;
And 'we cast wait, my love and I,
Bildiling in truet from 'Memory
That day.
1.4)111::)EiT SCOTTISIX IITEWSe
The Queen is expeoted to arrive at
Balmoral on the 27th of Augaat,
Isarge numbers of young grouse have
•• been drowned in the nests on the moors by
the heavy and continuous rains.
Recently a VOnsiderable portioo o:tho
• .great eastern areh of the Kelso Abbey
tower fell. Several other porton e are in
. an uneatisfactory state.
Of the eight principal towns in Scotland
- Greenock sheweci the lowest rate of
mortality for the Week ending July '2nd.
Paisley stood highest.
Professor Biagi* has out his connection
with Oban on the introclootion of railways.
He is disgusted with its intrusion on his
• country house. at Altnacraig.
, The , London. Seottiedi Volunteers have
tresolved to attend the rEaview by the Queen
Pt Edinburgh this month. They are to be
• very hospitably entertained. ,
Melrose was visited lately. by a large
troopof thilaren fromEdinburgh, upwards
of sixteen huildred arriving with their
guardians and friends from John • Hive's
Institution.
A rare instance of longevity of animals
has just occurred at Craigend Denniston,
Kilmalcolm, where a mare died aged 36
years. It was bought 16 years ago for £7
and never had an hour's laxness. .
It is proposed by the War Office to raise'
a couple of battalions of militia on the
Borders, with tlieir headquarters at
Berwielnon-Tweed, to form the and and
3rd Battalions of the 25th (King's Own
' Borderers) Begin:teat. '
Her Majesty, ou the recommendation of
Mr. Gladstone, has directed £50 to be pre-
sented to Mr. John Mackintosh, Aberdeen,
-author of "History of Civilization in Scot-
land " as "au acknoidedgment of his meri-
torious literary' labors."
The Viscount George de ,Fontenoy has
been cotnruitted for trial by Sheriff Balfour
on as charge of stealing £11600 worth of
-diamond jewellery, the property of Muir -
hold ik Sons, from the Royal Hotel in
July, 1877. The Viscount has been Wend -
.fled by several persons.
In the Kilmarnock Sheriff Court,a toll.
man who sued a Roman Catholic priest for
toll upon his carriage in whigh he drove
through the bar to church on Sunday was
nonsuited, the Sheriff remarking that toll
• could. not. be exaated.from any one going to
his usual place of worship on Sunday.
Punch has chosen the Duke of Sutherland
as the -subject. of one of its Fancy Por-
traits." The Duke is ' represented ' as
dressed in the kilt, and is seated, smoking
a cigar, on the foremost' part of a railway
locomotive. The picture reprosentS" the
Duke finishing his great American ride of
:20,000 miles and returning as fresh as when
he started."
The Edinburgh Merchant Company is
one of the greatest publics boons which
Edinburgh possesses, and a deep interest
is taken in all concerning it: For some
time it has been thought highly desirable
to introduce some changes in the manage-
ment. , The whole matter was referred, to
a eonainittee, which met in private and who
have unanimously recommended (1) that .
the clerk, instead of being paid by fees, be
paid by a fixed salary of £1,000 a year, with
an allowance of £450 for clerks, and be
permitted to carry on hie hiniinesa as a
• practitioner within the premises of the
-company free of charge; (2) that there be
a general treasurer or chamberlain, with a
salary of £500 per annum, to take charge_
of the finanoial arrangements of the various
trusts connected with the Merchant Com-
pany; (3) that Mr. John Scott Monorieff,
C. A.., who has been formany years trea-
surer of Stewart's Hospitel, and was so
previous to that hospital being given over
by the late Mr. Longrnore to the charge of
the company, receive it retiring pension of
£105 per annum during his life; (4) that
Mr. John McLaren, treaeurer of Watson's
Hospital, who was elected four or five years
ago to that office, reeeiye antionorarinm of
one year's salary -namely 1200.
AnitAltig the Chltirebeel,
Rev.Breolte Lambert, of the Eetablislied
Church, England, is reported to have old
of Spurgeon: 44 Whatever Mee nlay be
said of him, he has revolutionized modern
preaching."
Tlie Wesleyan tioankegiving fluid in Eng-
land hoe novr reached v. total of over
01,000,000, and is Mill inereasing.
A Punehon roereorial fund is being
organized in England by the young men of
Methodism, with the laudable object of
paybog off the debt of the Foreign Mission-
ary Society, whioli weighed sb heavily on
the mind of Pr. Morley Poushen. That
the movement will be a success thereseems
no reesOn to doubt.
Rev, 'William Taylor has in three *ars
Bent out ninety-one missionary workers to
India, Dumb and. South_ and, Central
Anaerica. Ile says they have made it vary
deckled memo in their self-aupporting
work, with oue or two exceptions. He
expeets after the present year to spend a
large part of lue time abroad, opening up
new fields.
They make it missionary:8 life in 1Boston
busy, It is related of Daniel W. Waldron,
a city missionary of the Hub, that between
last Saturday and the following Tuesday
he preached twice, conducted a prayer,
meeting, provided for seven other religious
societies, officiated at wee funerals, united
a couple in marriage,spent a portion of One
afternoon in distributing tracts and reading
• among tlie patients at the -City Hospital,
and made more than twenty calls. If
variety is the spice of life, that missionary
must have plenty of vice in his.
Sone interesting discoveries have been
made in Lower Cluddea by the Vice -Consul
of France at, Bassorah. He has spent
nearly •' three years making reaearclies
among the ancient ruins of that province,
and has brought to light a large number of
Objects, ineltoling eight very handsome
statuee, all of which are covered with
inscriptions in the old Babylonian' chars°.
oters, and Which are Supposed to .,,be 3,300
years old. The French Government pre -
pose to IMY the collection for the Louvre,
now SPO,rgeOn le/centimes,
• (All The Year Bound.) •
In the vast throng the eye soon recog-
nizes the central figure of the 'whole. If
he were not there, the pastor of • tbis
immense flock, One might speculate, ignor-
ant of his absence. Is not thatperhaps he,
or the other? • But, being there, no (lona
can. exist. The oue figure 'tames out to
winch all others are a setting -a full, pallid
face,. with thick, iron -grey and fringe of
dark bearcl. As the clockovershead_showss
the half-hour the paste; comes forward
andat once, tlie Confosed sound ceases -
the shuffling of feet, the frou-froit Of
dresses, the nervous cough that runs over
the area like the rattle_ of f1e-firing, and
A profound stillnese greets the first
words of prayer. The voice is Worn
With much ..aervice,even husky
iu the higher notes, but admirably taailaged
and niochilatediso as-tosreachsevery-cornen-
of the wide armies We feel at once that
we are in the presence of a born orator.
-Without book or sorap of note, there is
from thefiret a confident edgy fin* of well
•Chosen words. Some distinguished orators
put you in a coolperspiration till they have
fairly warmed to their, wink, but with Mr.
Spurgeon all ,is ease and • self-cOnseious
power which inspire confidence in the
listener. It is part dee preacher's system
not to spare himeelf in anyway, but to
give the whole service the emphasis of his
own unaided powers, His . reeding Of
Scripture is accompanied by , running
commentary that. isis kind of pre -s
limivary sermon, and be 'gives out
each verse of the ' -hymn . with
appropriate feeling and action.
There is no organ, and it seseites a certain
feeling of disparity Of means to end When
an elderly precentor leans forward from
the tribone andsounds a tubing -fork to
lead off the psalmody -the assemblage is
so big and the tuning -fork se small. But
the singing itself is disappointing. There
is not that grand outpouring one might
expect from suchalin asseniblAge. A great
deal ,of the °barna of Mr. Spurgeon's dis-
course -and there is it powerful Charm
about it; eaushigigtime te-ii.ow on unper-
ceived end the risk of losing alrain to ,bo
disregarded-fis dueto the thee and -cer-•
tainty of delivery and the.good English' in
,which it is expressed, If the preacher in
former days sometimes sacrifieed good taste
to force of expression, time and experience
have toned down finch -exuberances. But
much of the 'ancient Are atilt emotilders
beneath the surface; and, perhaps, the ex-
peete.tion of - ,the breaking forth of some
sodden flash of electric nature still further
increases the berare-mentioned °barna.
But really the time the likes Mr. Spurgeon.
beet in when lie metaphorically descends:
altogether from the platform, and taking
this audience button -hole, so to speak,
recounts some :telling • little story or epi-
gran:mating saying;
•
Certain circumstances not - generally
known have influenced many persons in
taking a more lenientOny than they Would
otherwith have done of Pasha Valentine
Baker's ease, and materially affected :the
vote of readmission to the 'club, There
was reaeon to believe that his offegoe was
•
committed under a misapprehension, to
which the really innocent behavior of the
lady gave rise. • She was a jolly country
girl, who, meaning no harm, . had per -
knitted men, who equally meant no harm,
to take freodora with her which a sibling
lady better Acquainted with the ways of
the world would miter have permitted.
Consequently he, up to a -certain point,
niisled 13aker; who, had she comported
herself from the outset With prudent
reserve, would never live molested her.
He' refrained from the slightest imputation
upon her ; whereto; ib would have been
easy for him to have averred that she
eneouraged him, and tots of thousands,
. especially of hex own sex; /would have
believed him. .
ANOTIMI TIMMS Tottisers-At a recent
weekly meeting °Me London Motropolitrin
Board of Works Baron Henry de Weems
presented a moinorial in reference to an
improvement of the eminnunioatioo
between Greenwich and Poplar by meths
of a tunnel under the river, no
urged that tho great and inereasieg traffic
in that division of the metropolis 'showed
•;the neementy for improved communication
a that part of the Thames. The tunnel,
which in 1874 was estimated to toot
£1,000,000, eiatild now he made for half that
sum. It would, if carried out, greatly
develop busitess on both aides Of the'
Thames, and would materially benefit both
Essex and Kent. The memorial was
referred to the Works 'Committee.
La Edinburgh it shipownettof Glamour
hail accepted is tender of a25,060 bona the
Caledonian Rahway Company Ott tiothinit
of injuries received in a collision in Sop.
tenober last
saa
*AVE VIIUM 11.41,011401
detusenalelle Advice whieb•Evevy Mother
*boatel Read to elotatere Everywhere.
The 13t, Ohio's Guild, of New York,
which is doing so nouoli good by the
excursions for sick children ou the
"Floating Hospital," has prepared a
printed address to be delivered per -
smelly to every motherwhoktakes a child
on one of these trips to the Seaside Nur-
sery dining the remainder of the summer,
with it Viet,/ of diminishing the great mor-
tality anmag infants. A few of the most
striking points of advice contained in the
circular, as to elmailineee and healthful
treatment, may be found of interest. They
are as follows;
If you with to have a healthy and good enild
you must bathe the baby twice a day. Tilers is
perhaps no OMB or irritable man or woman who
Roe witbout a daily beta but woulki be better
-it it were regularly taken. Your infant will be
so meat MOre eeiet with daily baths as to Amy
•pay you for time and trouble in giving them. Itr
will grew up etronger, and will be more likely to
have cleanly and genteel instinete all through
life. Begin -with water that is moderately warm
and change gradually, very gradually, to cooler
Water, but not to cold water. .41. cool bath will
be more strengthening than if you koop to the
warm water, provided the child is not too
&Meet° to stand it. Do not be in too great it
• burry to get to the cool bath. Reaction conies
only when the child is woll, strong ' and old
enough' to generate animal heat A handful of
salt may bo thrown into the bath. Dry the child
quickly And gently and dust the skin with starch
PONvdor that boa no agent in it.
Clothing for infants should be light and warm.
Through the earflor years -say for three years,-
a child" needs plenty qf warmth. .Let the feet,
abdomen and chest always bo healthfully warm.
-Do-not-Overdo tale; however; with newsy gar -
minds that will keep the child in a vapor bath -of
perspiration. The flannel cicthing, as well as
other dross of the Child, must be frequently
changed to promote beams. AU the clothing
musg be loose enough to give tree play of tho
vitarorgans.
Ryon, hour that it young child is exposed to a
temperature above S5 or BS dogma in a crowded
neighborhood it is robbed of vitality. Ilightheat
este injuriously on its blood, teary° and naueole
wins, and alsb, on the digestive system of the
child. and tao miik of a nursing .mother- rfiga
heat does more -it decomposes organic refuse
,and dirt in houses and about them and poisons
air, waten•food, clothing, bedding, carpets, etc.
Hence the need of frequent exeursiona tor chil-
drom and of cleanliness at home.
Be demi in everything pertaining to your
rooms or you. will poison the child you love, not
enough to kill it perhaps, Lear etillibiently to
impair vitality and make it harder for the child
to 'Jim If 'neighbors will • not keep atonal -and
especially if there be foul °dont that come tido
your rooms-complaha to the Board of Health.
Nem) the child clean or it will poison itself. All
discharges from the body are poisonous -those •
from the skin as well as others. .An unpleasant
smell that iapereeived about many persona and
in their apartments is known as thoodor 'lantana%
or bunion odor -that is, the smell of dead, foul
poisonous matter, exhaled through the skin and
never washed -from the body.,
Neither milk nor drinking water should bo
allowed to stand 111 open vessels where it Might
hemmer -contaminated by the gorilla of disease or
from foul or infected air from sinks, drain, cess-
pools or other. sources. Both_mills- and water
reaclily-anstMitlfe-gerine of a great variety of
diseases, as for instance, cliarrhcoa,„ dysentery,
tYrbola fever, diphtheria, me.
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51Cito Rawly Religion.
We have found in the most ancient
records of the -Aryan language proof that
the indications of religious thought are
higher, Simpler and purer as we go book in
time, until .
last, the very oldest corn-
spesitions of tomarr'speenli- whi�h haVe.
come down to we And the Dissine Being
spoken of in thestibnite limeade which
forms the opening Of the L'ord'aagrayer,
The date . in absolute ehroholligY ef the
oldest Verdio hteratore does not seem to be
known. Professor Max Muller, however,
'considers that it May possibly take us back
5,000 years. Professor 'Monier Williams
seeing to. refer the 'most ancient Vedic
hymns to a . periods not much more re-
mote than. 1,500 years before Christ.' But
whatever .date that may be, or. the
corresponding date of any other very
ancient literature,•thela as the Chinese, or
:that of the' oldeet. Egyptian -papyri, when
we go .beyond these ' dates we enter upon a
period whop weare.absolutely Witlicnit any
historicaleVideneawbatevor, not only as to
the history orreligion,tigt as to the history .
and condition of Mankind:. We do not
know even approximately the time during
which he has. existed. We do not know
the place or the surroundings of his birth.
WO do not know, the • steps by whieh his
knowledge .1 grew from , more to More."
All we clan Bee with certainty is that the
earliest inventions of mankind are the
most WOriderfol that the race has ever
made.. The first beginnings of. Ininaan,
apeeolf .must • have ' had their.- origin
in powers ' of the highest . order.'
The . first . use of fire and the
discovery of the Methods by which it can
be kindled; the domestication of wild
animals •,and, above all, the processes by
which the various cereals were first devel.
• imed put of Some wild grasses --these are
all discoveries with which in -ingenuity and
in importance no pubsequentdiscoveries
may oomptire. They are all unknown to
history -all lost in the light of an effulgent
dawn. In' Speculating, therefore, on the
origin of these things, we must take one or
other ot two aesiimptions-s,either that man
always had the same meatal faculties anc1s.
the stone fundaniental intellectual consti-
tution that he Iota no*, Or that there -mem
time when these faculties had not yet risen
to the level of humanity, and when his
-mental constitution was essentially inferior.
-The ,Dukd •of Argytt,
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Stage Couching in Rugland,;
The various coaches are still ronning out
of London, and will: not be Stopped until
early in September. The most popular
coaches are the Old Times, running' to
Virginia Water; the t.jew TLmes,..to Guild-
ford ; .the Perseverance, to Dorking;'the
Vivid,with Edwin K. Fownes as guard, to
$t. Albans ; and the Windsor coach, I
-came up from the Star and Garter a few
nights ago on the Frolic, which runs down
to Richmond every afternoon and returns
iia the early evening. The latest enterprise
in the way of coaching bass been it line
running from Liverpool to York; 112 miles,
with ten relays of horses and excellent
appointments. Thie thich was started.
about a moth ago by Hudson, the well
known soap maker, whose advertisements
or placards of " nucleon's Extract. of '
Soap" are widely distributed, throughout
England. • Some ono said to .Mr. Hudson,
"It will cost you £5,000 to van the coach ;"
to which be responded, " That may be,
hub 1 shall make £25,000 by the advertise-
ment."
- A 'Lover's saninhin.
A epeoial from Ilitrrisonburg, Vit., says
that Robert, Lamb, who had bovii disap-
pointed in a love affair, ended his life by
shooting hireself through the heart after
quarrelling with the girl. Ife requested
her to accompany Min from the house.
This she refused to do, whereupon he left
bee, saying, "It would be the last film would
Roo of him alive." Ile walked .about fifty
yards, pieced the stook of his gun through
the rails of it fence, with the nffizzle
pointed against hie browns and then drovv
the hammer back, exploding the Weaptin.
It was loaded with sixteen largo buckshot,
every one of 'which entered his breast,
tearing •him to &sees. In it fens
seconds he was a throe.
Daylestord, the recovery of which was
the romantic dream. of Warrek Hastings,
now belongs to it beekhottler mined Byass,
whose father's Otiedesc is said to have been
largely due /So - people's confounding him
with Base, Ile left £2,000,000.
Armed Men raided more than Ilfteem
houses in Milletreet, County Cerk,onMoa
day in seer& of gulls.
A Billlionnire's Remarkable Will.
. The will Of the late David K, Carroll, a
niillionaire manufacturer, who died ha Bal-
timore a few days, ago, has been admitted
to probate in tho Baltirciom.Cotinty Court,
and in one respect is it remarkable doini-
malt.After bequeathing' all his property,.
attracted to be worth several Million col-
late, to hie large family about equally„ he
places the sum of a100,000 in the hands of
his executers to defend tbe will in case of
litigation: In this connection lio says;
Where -I have often beheld with dis-
gust the efforts of children to break their
parents' wills and the waating of the
friaits of their labors in litigation, I boreby
essprese my hope and earnest desire
tine my .enildren -wilt" chow:fairy
accept the previsions of my will. No one
• of them has attempted to influence me. I
had rather my property were buried in the
depths of the ocean than 'Wasted in litiga,
don and the peace aod harmony of my
family destroyed in the bitterness of con-
tention."
Therefore the income, of 4100,000, or so
-
moth thereof, or of . the prineipal, as may
-he needed, is set apart t� defray any'
°anemias reasonably ineurred irt defending
the will or resiatieg any offinitto break it
or alter any of He provisions, and the
balance of the $100,000 is to be divided
anmeg swill of his ebildren, or their beirs,
as make no attempt to break his will or
resiet any of -Ito provisions. Should all
&equine°, than the 1100,000 is to be thrown
into the residuum and made subjecit to the
division. • -
IskantlIKASifilE AVIRIVE.
illfotv a Newfoundland 'tarnished foyer
naitreae--Aa *tires', tartans.
Nite
(rang Brenela /letter.)
Among the immense number of bathers
here are few good swimmer& and out of
these few the moat expert 1 have seen yet
is Mrs. Oliver Doud Byron, the wife of the
actor. Mrs. Byron is 40 411101a at home in
the sea as it mermaid. She glides through
its green depth& swims on her book, using
only ber arms, Wee to the bottom and
brings up shells, and treatte water gynonse-
tics. The other day, a little tired after
her exercise, she threw Iterseit On her back
and floated, along for o. few minutes, some.
thing which she eeldom-doeth Suddenly
it long howl filled the air, and an enor-
mous Newfoundland dog belonging to the
actreau plunged into the water and aware
toward her. Mrs. Byron, unconscious of
the approach of her anxious friend, for the
dog Lion was lAer pet, lay with closed eyes
dreamily wafted on by the waves, when
euddertly Lion struck at her with his huge
paws, and she disappeared under the
water. The dog floundered about until.
she rose with it face AS 'Matta as marble
from the fright, when he seized her dress
between his teeth, and in spite of her
struggles and remonstrances made for the
shore, tugging her along. It was a moot
comicial and touching ' scone, for the great
brute was so strong that it was itivain that
his mistress tried to free herself, and, as
he had seized her dress by one shoulder,
bu was perfectly helpless, 'When the
faithful creature dragged her on the beach
he jumped up and down, sniffing her
hands and feet, and evidently was quite
convinced he had saved Ws best friend
from drowning: . . .
4{155)009 Round and neutered ha a
Brakeman.
. • (Kingston, t. L, Freemat9
Colonel Bryson, of No. 5 Wall street, New
York City, took the Summit special 6,45
Ulster • ea Deleware Railroad train for
Phoenicia atthis city last evening, and put
up at the Tremper House. Just before re-
tiring he discovered that he had lost his
wallet, and in great haste, be proeured a
horse and waggon at Phoenicia, and followed
the train as far as Dean's Corners) where
he overtook it. Alter the train liad left
Phoenicia Plmer Emmett, a brakeman,
was walking through one of the coaches,
and seeing it wallet lying on the floor picked
it up. Tinagine his feelings whea, on open-
ing it, be found 055,000 in Government'
bonds, and severalhundred dollarSin green-
backs contained iu it. He said nothing to
any one about it. When Colonel Bryson
arrived at Dean's Corners he acquainted
Conductor Rerdnoart with his loss
and together they searched through the
train without avail. When they were
about giving up the search they met
Emmett, and he asked them what they
were searchingfor, when Colonel Bryson
said 050,090. Emmett inquired how it had
been lost, and on it correct description of
thepocket-balkby the owner, the purse
Was produce d; and -given- tcrilre- Colonel:
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The latter gentleman was extremely grate-
ful for the recovery. He gave Einmett•020
and told him to come to the Tramper Rouse
to-night.and hewouldnegotiate With him,
as to the choice of a position as conductor
on the nucleon River Railroad or on a
Southern road; a lucrative position on any
of his many Mississippi steamboats, or be
associated in his Wall street Mace. Emmett
is it trustworthy, intelligent and lamest
young naan, and hie good fortune is looked
upon by his many friends as a. deserving
windfall. . ^ ' • -
ADopalarity ot the.ft*Prinee tit Wake.'
' .
, 'There, is (Me•
The Ministerial 'Association of London
have resolved that hereafter reporters
shall not be admitted to their meetings,
Cattle men across the line aro stirriog
themselves with iv vie* to etanaping out
infectious diseases.
Fiftyconviets escaped from the Goietto
i
prison n Tunis on Monday evening, armed
themselves and rushed through the 'streets,
all but two getting away.
• It is eta,tea that the Bolivia, Convention
had deolded to continue the war againilt
Chili.
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feature' of the seasOn Which
deaerves a passing word, and that is the
increasing, popularity of . the Peace and
Princess of Wales. The Princess is the.
favorite of all classes, and has only to show
her:•face to win- the hearts of the public.
The Prince, however; has in his time been
the Subjeet of a good many " admonitione,"
and of some not over -good-natured :criti-
cism. Fact and fancy -have alike been
celled into play to iinpress the people with
a sense of hisunwerthinessAnd every slight
indiscretion has been put under it =Allay-
ing :glass. Few men could path through
suoll'an Ordeal unscathed, but certain it
is that the Prince of Wales .hati aiiffered
very little, it at . all, and that the people
thereughly respect the sense of duty which
evidently guides hiria in all the publio rela-
tions of life. Everybody can see that he
is always willing to assist in works, of true
charity, and that he never spares himself
when it claim is made upon him. He will
go to the Land's End and back again- to
help it hospitalor-amid in founding an
orphan asylum. The demandsupon, his
own purse during this season cannot have
,been light; for he has had to attend many
fancy fears and bazaars, and noblesse
obligea prince ' cannot welt pay
less than • five guineas • -for a
paper-outter on it penholder. • Sir
Charles"Dilke forgot to make allowances
for these expenses when he dwelt, some time
ago, on the cost of the royal family. it is
not all profit. The Prince of Wales, more-
over, has been preemit at a good many
charitable dinners this year, arid has 'made
some verysolever speeches, thus proving
that Prince Leopold is the Only mem-
ber of the family who has inherited Prime
"Alberta; happy gift of saying the right thing
atthe right time. Thug the , seasoncloses
with a distinct increase ot popularity for
the occupants Of Marlborough House,"
a1icl-n0 Ode can say they • have not fully
earned and dtherved it.
*ern by Inds Own llomult.
Judge Sidney T. Holmes, if Bpy City,
Ifieh„, who was once a 18,W partner of Ros-
coe Conkling, imbiber of Congress, Judge -of
Madison County, N. Y., otos Met with a
singular and distresaing necidept it ishort
time ago. Ile is fend of hunting ancl kept
it pack of hounde which he used iu phasing
large game. These animals liecaree
engaged in it furioue fight articing them -
Selves, and Judge Holmes went out to quel
the quareel, when they turned upon hi
and lacerated him ' se terribly that it was
expected that he could never reoover from
his womids. While the brutes were tearing
him with their mad ainl apparently,blind
fury, they seemed suddenly to discern
whom it was they -Were rending, andthey
oornmenCed to lick: his wounds, running
around and -jumping at and OVOr him,
whining piteously and mainfeeting all the
affection for him that it was po'ssilile for
demi) auinaals to do.
Sfrine interesting experiments have beeo
lately carried out IA Leipsio With a ouiraea
made of it newly invented preparation of
Weil, The metal of the ouirass is only 11
noillimetreg thick, or about .06 of an inch,
and, is, lined ineidii with it thii layer of
Wool. The euiraee itself is 14 inches wide
anal.° itches high, being intended to pre,
tea only the heart and longs, ma weighs
pounds. Moven rounds wore fired at it
at a distance of 175 yards from a Martini
breech -loading rifle, and .of eight bullets
Which struok the cuirass two only pierced
the Metal, while oven these wore nompletely
flattened and remained iri the wooltim
lining,110 that it man -Wearing the Ouiraiiii
would have been uninjured.
4001mOR couiwramy.
intarldertato Altai* and AttenIPttaltaboot.
114 of One Bookbinder 47 liknother*
On Monday 'morning, shortly before 8
°Weak, a bookbinder named. W.11. Bulmer
made an attempt on the life of the foreman
of jail Lovell'e bindery establishment,
Montreal, Benjalnin PIM by name. It
appears that the man had been diecharged
last week from the establishment, but was
in the room on. Monday morning, and when
questioned about his presence there Qom-
menced to abuse the foreman. From
words the controversy went to blows and
Balmer drew a seven ehooter. Quick 40 a
flea% Plow jumped at Bulnoer and caught
the weapon. It was ,diechargecl, however,
the bullet grazing Pletee head. The
men then struggled a few steps, and
rolled down the stairs into the ' press-
room. It was a fight for life.
Plow- struggled but feebly in the grim
of Bulmer, who, though it sickly -looking
man, seemed to possess the etrength of a
demon, and butted Plow's head against the
floor, while he strove to disengage' the
revolver and use it. llfeantimejohuilevell
and others canoeupon the Beene, having
heard Piety's pries for help. Mr. Lovell
took Bulmer by the throat, but it :was not
until the man gapped for breath that lie
loosened his hold upon Plow. Bulmer is
believed to be demented. It appears that
b.e once was foreman of the bindery roomy
but has been more -or lees shiftless Pince,
owing doubtless. to _mental derangement.
The pollee were celled, but at Mr. Lovell's
request were allowed to depart without
arresting Bulnaer, When' Mr, Lovell
learnedthat a revolver had been used lati
deeply regretted allowing the .man to go.
He was subsequently ariested on it warrant.
The *leaner was brought to the police
office onMonday afternoon, and when asked
if he had anything to say, denied that. he
ever had it revolver, affirming that it was
Mr. Plow himself who drew the pistol and
fired at the prisoner: HO continued, "The
fact is Mr. Plow ia it prejudiced Englisb.7
man and I am an American, and he owes.
me money. I lent 0850 three times over,"
The prisoner was remanded. till Wednes-
day for the pistol to be produced. When
taken it had four Cartridges in it besides
the shell of that which had. been, fired.
Balmer is it young man of 'about 18 or 19.
Suicide as Per Pretlietton.
. (Lorton welearraeli,)
About a month ago Era,noill Sa,nthy, it
Government Inspector of Factories sta-
tioned at resth, was picnicking with
seam friends in a wood near the Hungarian
capital when it venerable gipsy weina,n
approached the group and prayed perrniej
Mon to exeroise her gifts of divination.
One after another of the excursionists held
out hie hand for her Mendelian,. When
.Santhy's -turn ovate she- examinedTbri:
palm with prolonged attention and in pro-
found silence. As she ,seemed to . have
fallen into a reverie over the disclosures
acorting to her from her long contempla-
tion of his •"" lines," Smithy became
-impatient and jocularly exclaimed, " Out"
with it I How. king 'have I to live ?"
".Withitt. four weeks;". solemnly replied
the 'aged • fortune-teller, • " youwill
kill:- yourse/f....in. this., very.' -wood."
Shouts of -derision greeted . this
serabre•vitieination ; the old woman hob-
bled away, and :neither Sauthy nor his
friends thought' anything more about •the
matter. About . a, fortnight later Santhy
began to complain of violent headache and
singing • in the oars, and confided_ to his
intimateacquaintances his intention of
travelling. to Rome, for tho purpose of .
imparting IMMO highly important iiitelli-
game to the Pope: A day or two later he
disappeared. Unit Friday, while it.. patrol
of pollee wasexaminingthe very wood i
,which.the above prophecy had been p o-
nouaced, the sergeant edinnamoding he
party suddenly perceived a lninoan* body
hanging from one of the lower branches of
a dwarf oak. It 'Proved to be that of
Santhy, who had thus fulfilleeth gipsy's
prediction in every particular. n all pro.:
bability he had brooded over ib until his
mind had .become possessed y the fixed
idea, that he Was dooined by fate to take
hislife in the, manner • retold; when,
regarding himself as th instrun3ent: of
destiny, he deliberately e narnitted thicidti.
An linden Attdres to Lord Lorne. 4
. At Wabigoon Iia)ie the first view of
painted Indians was obtained by the
i •
Vice -Regal party/ on their Northwest
taip, •These r were the red men
of the Little/ Vabigoon. Their faces
were painted in the most hideous
manner wit thick stripes mid blotohes of
white, blue green, yellow andscarlet paint.
The Chiefs resented the following address,
which wok neatly written in- English on
birth bark :
..,_,.. ,
telY .Thostnapotilf to you through this writhi
as the Chietof tho Wabigoon Ojibboway Tribe.
Walleye come bore to -day from different parts
of the country, with our wives mild families, to do
ourselves the honor of . Meeting our great
mother's son-in.le,w, and het speaker for .this
.country. Wo all shako hands with you through
me as their chief. I wishto ropkopent to you
that otir reserves aro no ljenellt to WI as they
• ammo, and„we crave the right to eta and. use the
timber upon them in any way we like for our
general good. Wo are glad to see the iron road
come through this country, as it will relieve us
from the oppression of traders. We thank the
Queen for her. honest treat/Tient of us and all
Canadian Indians, as we have not boon cheated
by her agents as the Indians have been in the
United States. I wear this silver medal which
you see upon my breast, given to .nao by the
Queen, with'the greatest love ,tind respect, and
wo hope she thinks as nauch of is al wo , do of
lier.-Yours in sincerity, . .
• • RAwArritrereosn..
, .
• IVE,A,41.1131f.E GOSSIP.
-The Bailor who took it bight Of rope
"4-8401:ne;, hard thing
011 Main t*$;rheeer C;a8-
gentleman to. young lady; " Have you.
seen Amos?" "No -..what Amoe?" oAk.
nmequito." Coroner's jury found mak*
of_MTehtieliaubot hinoVouscidete.Toronto,has puse4
into the bomb of Mr. Chewett, wino"
father owned the ground, upon which the
hotel was built. The 1101100, of course, will
be ruu. by the present proprietor, Mr.
.„
-,cn pais country when it man is to eick
to hold his head up the cookstovea are Area
up, and as muehis boiled, stewed, fried and
baked for him as if be were a healthy say, -
age
*
-The criticisra is made on the gathering
of the bankers at Niagara Falls that they
are not even passable orators. And Yet
tnivollaily alma tallekloudest ond most (aft,
lawyer asked a woman in the viit•
n‘es-boxher age, and she proraptlyreplied;
"011 enough to have sold -milk for you to
agy
ui!wybeetu,,,a baby, and I haven't got my
n
--.44 Oiliness barbers shave without
lather." This reminds us that our ;old
schoolmaster used to lather without shav-
ing. One is said to beAri painful an
operation as the other,
.It is said -that -kerosene- will---remOVe
al:tine from furniture. It has 400 been
known %remove the furniture, stains and
allovith the Move and a red-headed ser. -
vent girl thrown in,•ofttimes.
-co Lizzie says you (=teem. to see her
any more," said 'a boy to his sister's
admirer,"Why not?" Because you mine
to see her every evening now, and how •
could you come any more 2" , -
rne-z-rot myeaantowrdaalkyrailigtoi tql rEe aa,xx A ro teC omyo
tho teller?" a Yee." "Well, what do you
teller?" He dodged, but the club bit bit
in the head and lie was carried out on a
811-,utt"ler''cl laugh it I should fall and break.
my neck, Jestingly remarked James
Maloney, of Tappan, N. Y., while in the
ant of descending from it tall pear tree. The
next moment he lay on the ground, with
his nook broken. But he didn't laugh.
5 -At the annual meeting of the Victoria,
Philosophical Institute of ,Great ,Britain,
recently held in London, one of ther'epes.kers
was Sir H. Barklyt
F.R.S." The room being crowded, he left
,the get of the alphabethangi g -upon -the
hatrack in the vestibule.
. .
Olive Loganbegan one - f her lectures
recently' with the realer "Whenever I
see a pretty girl I want; 'clasp, her in my '
"So do We," s crated the boys m
the gallery. For a moment Olive wasnon-
plussed, but, recovering her self-possession,
she replied, " Well, ,beys, I don't Mamie
... -, T erra_m_ one ‘delighttut fellow- to • ' 1 •' ' : '
-fishing with. g „lie doesn't catch fish,
within two minutes after he 'reaches water '
he pato on it float. . Afteranother- inimate
he elides the float down.. ;Then he slides it
-up • Then -be -takes it off.' Theirlielnite IV .
an again Mid slides it up. Re doesn't .
catch any/fish and he ascribes it all to, the
float. j • •
-An/old gentleman, finding a couple of '
hisni bee fencing with broomsticks, said:
" Co e, come, my dears, that kind of an
acc mplishmentrwillnOt help you in getting
• li bands," "1 know it, Uncle," responded
e of the girls, as she gave a. binge, "but
t will lielp us to keep our husbands in
order when we have got em."
-A certain politician being called 4 fed
a fortnight ago, ciao of his defenders said: ,
"No, • he isn't a. fool, -he's a noodle." • .- •
'. What • is the difference 1" gtqwled the '.
original accuser. "Why," answered the
other, 4t. the difference is just this t a.
noodle is a personwho hasn't backbone
enough to be a fool." ,
. •-A traveller whohas itlet read on the
guide post, "Dublin two miles," thought to •
.make game of a passing Irishman by asking, .
"If it's two miles to Dublin, Pat, how long as;
will . it take to get there?" 04 Faith," '
retiirned Pat, ." if .yer heels is as blow as
3rer wit&ye'llget there abent the judgment
day, boded." • • • „ -
-When . a young ' man tells 'yen be .
doeent believe in churches begging all the,. ,
'time, and he won't go to church at all if he .
can't listen to a sermon without having.a
contribution basket stuck under -his nose,
you will generally see -that man Whack in
to make up a purse for a, horse race or
subscribe for the Sunday 'Amite without &
murmur. . . .
--The gold en& silver -medals awatded to •
the-, successful candidates 'among those
called to the bar in Hilary and Easter
terras this year have been received by the
Secretary of the Law Society from Eng- '
land. They have on the obverse tho arras
of the society, anff on the reverse the name
of the .recipient and the words In exibue
prestantel.
.-A, eorrespondent of the, Cleveland
Leader cornputeathat if one should buy a
pound of butter per day for a year at 80
cents a pound and have it weighed motto •
himma a wooded 'plate, ha would •at the.'
. end of •the year have paid 09 for 865 wooden •
• plates, which cost the grocer about 0L25."
Evidently this won't do. What have the
grocers to oily about it?
'I -It is a matter of complaint that tem- .
perfume arinks cost name than those which •
are intoxicating. A .piece of lemon, a.
..tunoblerful of water and a teaspoonful of
sugar cost ten cents, while h'" hooker " of
rye or it 'glass of . beer is only live 'cents.
Temperance reformers should make it note
of this and ' endeavor to put drink in the
way of thepublic that shall be cheap, ad ,, ,
well as appetizing:110 harmless. • '
-A Writer, expatiating upon the running
abilities of the breed of wild ' Southern
hogs, says that he once saw one keep up
with a railway train for about a quarter of.
a mile, and then,:gathering himself for an
effort, dart past the locomotive, acrosh Cie
track, and into the woods with a squeal of
triumph. Ete sums up in these words:
.O.Probably, next to the carrier -pigeons; the -
•Southern wild hog . isthe'swiftestbird in
sthuno .world."poi;Nov= rotaries.
,tyou pot your arm around trly neck
• You -ii rumple oll my ruffles.
lig. Then let roe kiss you Veitlidut forth,
And thus avoid all amino.
Soli, trhere Is no sweetness in a kits
'Unless by fordo 'tie taken,
lin. I know if, taboret • Oh, this is bliset
This style of oseelatiem
Son. My ranee you have rumpled, love, •
s, Mid put me in a Mister.
Ilm Ob, never mind; rn fix it, dove,
For I'm a Iteadjtister,
Wheatinil (Va.) Zedocr,
.-A, very small boy can get outside of it
very large watermelon, in it vdry Mall
Space of • Cum ; but it takes it very large .
dodo to harmonize the two.
A marehtint pommeled a Alio viola,
Bad money, a hetitte and a laeht ; •
In businosii he treated,
And, therefore be bested, .
And now it Is all "gone to naelit."
you."
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The Other Future Stratuship.
The Geneva. correspondent of the London
Theca telegraphs as : Professor
• Raoul Pieta., Who has • been giving his'
attentiou lately to marine architecture,
armounoes it discovery which, if his antiei-
patione are realized, will effect a revolution
in the art of shipbuilding. The diseovery
consists of it new method of construction,
and such an arrangement of keel as will
diminish the resistance of the 'water to the
lowest possible point. Vessels built in the
fashion devised by Pictet instead lat sink-
ing their proses in the water is the speed
increases Will risosout of the Water ..tbe
fruiter they go in sueli a'amy that the only
parts exposed tothe friction of the water
will be tini'sureerof the hull and the neigh -
hothead of the wheel. In other words,
ships thus constructed, instead of pushing
their waY through the water, will glide
over it, !wording to the professor's ealcti-
latithIS; in the aeouraey of whieh he bee the
fulleat conidenoe. Steamers built after
this design will attain a epthit of fronalifty
to sixty. kilometres an honk. A model
steamer is in course of construetion $51a the
principle which he has discovered, at GO.
neva. The reathieery has been ordered at
Winterthur. When ready the now vessel
will make is. tral trip on Lake Leman.
'5I t
-If gir s were tough to truat More to
'nature and len to art it would bo all the
bettor for them, and they woUld discover
that nature le the host thediOille chest, And
fernishee the moat attraotive -coloring.
painted woman is an abomination, and it
woman who hi trailltd to vale physical
axon:dee requirea no art to give the appear.
anise of reality to the flail Of health and
the bearing of a gt10011,