Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1881-10-27, Page 6Oot. 27, 1E381., A. Little MOprops Ireland, Here, Grantee, heriee a preeent,. it uw owe a distance too, &little pot of shamrocks, and it comes Addressed to you.; 'naafi the way from Ireland, and the card inere mentione more— • Tbey were gathered, at your 'birth -Ouzo on the peaks of Avonmore." "From Ireland( do you tell me darling, is it true? Mutabla let me feel them—and you say 'twee there they gayly 2, a _ , , way I can soesoe believe. it ie, reauy wee') you any, _ _ rroza birth -place in old Trappe! poor Ire- land. far away. • I'm old and. Bait and feeble, and in darkness, God be praised, Yet, Katty, tow it stirs me, how ray poor old heart is raised, To feel it here so near me, the soil that gave me birth, The very play of Ireland; larnekise the holy • carte. Them blessed little similar:Wm 1 cant see them, yet I anew They bring int) beak the eyesight of the tapey • iong ago, And gleaming thro' the &Anew comes the vision that I love, The dear green Bads of Irelan4 and the sunny •• aky above.. . • I see as mice Isom them when a girl like you • stood. • Amid the furze and heather; there's the chapel, hill and wooda . There's the abbey olad with ivy, and the river's -winding shore, • And the boys and, girls ell playing onthe hanks of Avonmore, e • . • 'God bless the little shammekathen, for caging. e'beautyof the sufeili Thiiik 'arneehtnesit a back the mane, • •••••,* i• • ; the green ; • • • Tar:Nona long years to see it,aette to see E all so plain, •* Alla child, I'm sure you're sinning, but I'm • feeling young again. fl And though -Pre truly thankful for the.hlaming that god's hand. •Ilas brought around me, EattY,'In tgreat. • andbappy land; . • I can't forgo the old "home, 'retest the co • oftbe new, .! • My heart, ifi three parts buried where - little shamrocks grew," • ,••• ^waling Situation in a Frenclt Sleeatha Oar. ' .In a letter from a correspondent of the Daily News, describing -a visit to the Enga- dine, the following acute A new route has been , blished this year to Switzerland. „Lea _D ;London at. 10 a.m. you'find yourlialtki&th afternoon at Calais; there, you take a train direct, to Bale. I had investedthe euin of eighteen shillings in a ticket- for a sleeping oar. This car consists of compartments contain- ing either two or four couehes. The couch -to whieh pay ticket gave me a right was, 1 found, in one of the compartments licensed to carry four. Three ladies already were • there when I entered it. To say that I was received cordially. would be an exaggere. tiori. The ladies felt that I was an Intruder, and, to say the troth, being rey7 self a somewhat bashful man, Lfelt,se too. . I took my seat. The ladies whispered to each other, and eyed Me as did the nymphs . by the Streams of Hellas when a shepherd .broke in upon their natatory exorcises. I essayed a•remark or two about the weather And abet- commonplaces. The reeponsee were nionesyllable, In the daytime, those "•.compartmerite have only two.,couches fading each other. At night two others are arranged overlaead,' like berths 'in a ship. ' We had passed Analepe, when the attendelit entered: With a number Of sheets in his hand:" The ladies leased aghast—,. '• so did I. : One—au 'elderly .spinster— supposed than was not -going to remain, and thus prevent her and-liorserapitnione from taking the rest for which they had ; paid. A blush suffused .ray cheek, but • . I . plucked up. eufficient .courage to . hint that I too' • had parted ' with coin of the. realm in :order • to enjey.:a. • like repose. After: a chorus of a Well, I Devoe V it was finally agreed that I should retire into the paosage .until the ladies had :got into their beds, and drawn the curtains before each of the bowers. To this I assented, and hiving paced: the passage•for : about half an hour, returned. . All the cur tains Were drawn. "1 hope you are not nndreesing ?" proceeded from 'behind the eurtain of an elderly. Spinster. ". He WOn3 have the inapudenciz to do anything of the '..kind," ;fleeted through the air item • behind another curtain; "Ladies," I said; 1‘ sleep in Maiden meditation behind your curtems.• I am clothed from beadle feet, I tin:ipso to divest myself of my coat and bats. 1 shall theri. climb up into my berth, drawmy oartein;- and you will see nothing More of me until to -morrow morn- ing." Mine; sir, only your abet erid bootsa' said the elderly spinstet a. and, with this. • parting Weaning,. I turned in. The train was timed to reach Bale at 6 aan.: An , hour before that time my rest was dis- turbed. by shrill cries from behind the mit- taias. ' I was sternly ordered to get Op and • t� go at once into the airrider in order that the nyinphs might also rise. "No, ladies," I -answered, "1 mean to remain in bed until We arrive. Get up Without fear, and • trust to the!innate thivaley of the humble male who now, e,ddreeses you. ,Ile pledges • his word of liorior not to peen through the parting in his ..curtain.". So they got up, and I did not leek. My experiences of this night led Me to suggest that in sleeping- _ Oats the Flexes Bhonia be plead apart, and that there should ' be a separate compart- ment for men and another for women, instead of the present eclectic earangca malt. • Piton' Mut Miami has aipiounced a 'Carload discovery of Sanscrit maaniscriptte reantly :made in Japan .by two Of . his Japanese pantie at Oxford.' The woels is the text of the celebrated Diamond Knife;" forming partof the Seared Canon, or Bible, of the Buddhists, but hitherto litowe Only 'through Thibetian and Mon- golian translations, the original being sup - peered to be irrecoverably lost. Owing to the early practice among the Chinese "Buddhists of making pilgrimages to the holy places of their worship in India, and ' taking .back with them Sanscrit menu- seripte, Prof. Max Muller has always been of opinion that a liiimbor of such .precious 'relics haat be existing in China. Such didoovery in &met, however, was wholly Mazxpected. . ICeokiik's Gate City says the Meanest man in the world lives in Burlington. When deaf, don* and blind hand organist was sleeping on the post-offiee cornet the wketeh stole his instrument and substituted a note fengled diem therefor • and when the organist awoke he:oeizethe handles of the chart and ground away for dectr life, and when the shades of .night was tailing fast," that Meanest Man in the World .came arteirid, totals his Chart, metered the organ to Ito owner and carried home four pounds of eteamy butter. • Cora L. V. Richnitind, a Spititualiet medium, induced 800 Chicagoans to pay 25 anti each to hew what she Raid was an address by the spirit of Garfield. She • *resented the dead President as saying that Lime:ilia was the first parson he, beheld in the spirit land, and that together they acoompanied the &Metal' train from Long Brandi to Cleveland. He afterwards enjoyed the Wady Of Washington, jeffet, son and Adams. 'British Wild VOrelltio Notes. • A, thousand pergolas, mostly women, are employed in engraving and Printing gov- ernment money and bank notes at Wash- ington. They are so otrials watched during working hours that they look upon themselves as prisoners; Hazing at Smith College, the Massaohu. sets ipetitation for gide, is quite sweet and gentle. The newcomers are eeizea,led into the Main ball, presented with boliauetia kissed affectionately, and then shown the pictures and statuary in the art gallery. The inhabitants of the great znanufae- turing centre of Crefeld; Germany, have begun the construction of a splendid now school of textile industriee. It will be replete with appliances appertaining to the produotion or textiles—a laboratory, work- shops, library auct museum. Nearly all the ladies about the English court are well on in years. Some of the maids Of honor are deep in the forties. When they get venerable they are turned into "women of the bedohamber," who are eligible for that office even when eon- tortartane. • China mud be the seat and centre of commercial honor, crediting the averments of Sir Samuel Baker, the famous traveller. He slays such a thing as a business suspen- sion in the American or European manse is rarely known in that country, and that when one does occur, other merchants voluntarily come forward to help the cen. barrassed trader out of his d1ifficultics. A seitimentitt fellow atWrightstown, Mien., wrote to agirl that be would hang himdelf if •ehe.didezot marry him. Asl'he. was a stranger, obe took his, queer missive as an insulting joke, and replied angrily that he would please her greatly by. choos- ing the tree which grew near the window of her room. When she looked out next amorning there hung his lifeless body. • Two prisoners Were charged in a London police court with, exchanging Sentences of imprisonment by each anewering to the °theta mune. This is net an uncommon thing in India, *liana native jailer has been known to allow a tarisoner, to go out tO get married. and spend hie honeymoon in the city so long as he found a friendly imbed- tute willing to endure incarceration in the mean time: • Davidson of Tullooh, -who died last month in Scotland in his 82nd year, was the Count d'Oraty of Highland life fifty yeas ago, a wonderfully handsome man,. and celebrated for his good luck. He was married five times, held a commission in the 'Grenadiers, and Was once a member of Parliament. For„egiveral years before his death, however, he Was living in utter penury at Brussels. ' Ono of the oddest oases that ever came befere :a court was tried in Beaten a few days ago. It was an application for divorce. The applicant, the wife; testified that in 1872 her husband indueedlier to join " The Etijel Message Association," the heed of which' was a party who claimed to be the resurrected , prophet. When . 140,000 believers were collected, the leader was to conduct them to Georgia, thereto round a kingdoniuf heaven. The woman's husband inal.beenappointed one of the " witnesses." • Among the hopes held out was that of never dying. The 'craZy Crowd came to. grief, hence the application referred to. It is • rather a remarkable coincidence that'jest as 'Hughenden Manor is let the seat or Disraelei3 old antagonist, •another Prime Minister, is advertised on lease. The present Sir Robert Peel, who seems, after a stormy yeuth, to be sinking into a very calm, if not .obscure,maturity adver- tises Drayton :Marion The late Robert, mindful Of many escapades on the part of his • firstborn; tied' uphis property in the striotest Possible rummer. The present baionet has a villa on the Lake of Geneva, where he lias spent much of his tihie Of late years, hating never taken kindly to the life of a country gentleman. . • . 'Edenderty: Ireland, Was latelythe scene of a demonstration on the occasion of drawing home the turf of' an ' incarcerated tenant. At 9 a.m. 3,000 carts were assera- bled under the direetion of a mounted. curate. The Edenderry carts, 850, headed the procession. 'After than came 20 little boys, in green and orMage, mounted:en asses. " The drivers of the,' 3,000 parts fought for the hazer of carrying e tied. Prier to these), proceedings the _prismaer's nephew inaugurated the demonstration by driving round the feral in a basket carriage drawn by six spirited beasts, and that number of juvenile outriders in green livery:- . An exhibition is in progress in Leaden showing the career of the • straw hat from. the field to: the fashionable store: The 'workers are all from Luton Beds, a town of 25,000 people,- of whoth it is computed' that 24,000 are in some why orother connected with the straw trade:. The business at. Luton dates from 1605, when a. colony of striverphilters; who had emigrated from Lorraine to Scotland, settled at Luton in view of the• superior straw' rased in the . district. A particular wart of knife Used inalplittingetraw was invented by one of the French prisoners detained in England early in the oenttiry. • • • . . • and " Ilaird Times" Periods. An exchange thus SliniS up the proportion of "good "• and "herd timed:" During a • Period of sixty.eight years there have been eighteen years of a good. times" and fifty years of "hard times." The good times Were the periods 1812 to 1.816,1834 to 1897, 18,53 to 1856, and 1862 to 1869. In; each there was a great increase in the quantity of money. The -fifty years of "hard times" are remarkable for the enormous contrac- tion of the naoney volume and the increase in its .value. During the eighteen Years of "good times" ihdustry prospered, ' and money loaning was at a discount, but dur- ing the fifty years of "hard times" labor and production languished, and money loaning was at aprernitiM, The pute polled. Aberdeen or Angus cat- tle belonging to the trustees of the bank- rupt Marquis of Hun -Sy wore recently sold 'at auction. The herd, which was corn. mance., in 1870, had. been carefully bred and Mama, and contained several splendid animas. Thirty-two animals were offered, ited these comprised twenty-four cows, the ahem being bulls and calves. • The cows were an exceptionally good lot, beteg large. framed; handsome, and very highly bred animals, in the best breeding condition, and representing all the roost fashimiable tribes of the breed. . Vine Smith Wag the higheet. priced, animal 'sold, bringing 115 guineas. The sale realized an storage of over 9250 per head. • * _ The clergymen a Rolleity, Mass., are -deVieing rime methods of temperance work, and one of them is to employ an agent to visit the Police Court every day, nitereet himself in the cases of men arraigned for the first time for intoxication, and adopt whatever ,course may seem Most judicious for their reform: Ex-Preindent Enoch Pond, of the Bangor Theological Sadao, is 95 years old, and says he bas not had a headache in 66 years. Man, says the London Lancet) was intended to eat slowly. TUE 1E111E 1101M014* reprint Scenes as the Philadelphia COO. fingration—iIrantle Leap. WSW 131.0— Imprisoned in a Sheet of Flume. A despatch /roar' Philadelphia -nays the fire at Landenburger'e mill last (Wednes- day) night originated in the finishing room AM the second floor, and Reread. upwards through the building vvith amazing rapidity. Fifty bands, twelve of whom were girls, were at work, the majority engaged in the moving and weaving departments on the upper floors. The wooden stairways on either end of the building were soon ablaze, and the bridge connecting thebuilding with another mill was shut off from approach by lire proof doors, and in the absence of any fire escape a panto ensued. Nen and women robed to the windows, crying frantically to the crowd below to save them. It was proposed by the crowd to form imputresinthe street and catch the men and girls as they leaped out, but before anything could be done one young woman jumped from the fifth storey. It Beenzed every bone in her body was broker', for she never breathed again. After this the imprisoned people seemed to become frenzied, and though the crowd outside sought to encourage them by shouting that help would speedily be there they began jump- ing from the windows like sheep: .0he man, apparently bereft of reason, flung himself headlong into the street; and while his body was still in the air others followed; now a, paan, then a woman or a half grown kirt• antil in a faw minutes eleven persons, all unconscious, with frac- tured skulls andbroken limbo, were carried to Gm neighboring sateen and laid on the 'floor until vehicles were procured to con- vey them to the hospital. By this time the relatives of the victims began to other outside the building, and the cries of mothers Outside to their children Oil' in the burning mane, and their lamentations over those who jumped out, • were heartrending. When the fireman were able to enter the building they found on the third floor the bodies of two femalesburned almost to a crisp, and it 'man badly Boorched and dead; but before theygeoid aproli further the fourth floor, with its heavy machinery, came crashing- through, and they barely escaped with their lives: a The firemen were compelled to desist from their labors because the floors had gone throughto the ground, -and .machinery, charred wood and what remained of the upfortunate opera, tiva were mingled in one unrecognizable mess, which was sending out columns of steam as the cold water was poured on it. The victims were carried off in all direc- tions, some to their homes, some to houses (doge by, and others,to various hospitals, AO that their exactnumber cannot yetbe stated. The physicians say that nearly every case admitted to St. Mary's Hospital has ended fatally. The total deaths will probably exceed twehty. • George Dougherty?, who 'ilia:mad from the fourth storey, died in the hospital this -morning.' . . Toll Storiee of Old AMC. From Brazil' comes a stay; of a roulette woman having died at the age of 187 years. Just as the Goth was "butchered to make a Roman holiday," so •this upfortunite old ,colored lady seems to have been killed t� furnish forth a newspaper paragraph. This is itpity; because she would have akewared thaporpose just as well in a couple Of Min dred years' time, if the' zamespapers tclliug the tale could have had .patience to wait. She :is said to have lost bee sight at the age of 100, but to hate recovered it some- what later. Her death:was brought about by a fall from fr bench, so that there is really no knowing how long she might have lived if the Brazil paper had not erranged the fatal 'fall. The subject of longevity is always being disputed, some persons being oredialmis of all.soits of wonders and others being as sceptical as. the late Sir G. Comae- w ll Lewis.• The 'case of the .Brazilian mulatto is put in the shade by that of: One Johannes de Temporibus, who, according to Stew, died in the year 1014, at ,theage of 96.1.-4Infottapately, that was , not an age of etatidtios,and marvellous statements Were supplied. A native of Bengal is sad to have died in 1556 at the age of 300; but here again distance of place is as important an element as distanc,e .of -time in the other instance: In 15884 native a .Evetoreech, Somerset, is reported•to hive died e,sed 200.: In theletter part or the last century death at the Age of 175 .or thereabout seems nate liave.•been uncom- mon, but as we come .nearer to our own Swathe records are rewelaniitil notv we are Obliged top) to Brazil for a .striking instance of extreme age. The metal would appear to be that if in it time of registra- tion andresearch this class of wonders had become extipa, the former statements with regard to than Were myths. Perhaps life WaS so dull in those slow times that a man put his sensations into figures, and thought he had lived two benched years instead of seventy.—Liverpool Post. • • • ' • ' ' , . . AN. OFT-EEPEATED ,HINTp-,-There is one thing ladies will never do; and that is.wear .smell hats at the theatre. They seem to take delight in wearing bead-gear•fearriilly and wonderfully made, resembling an open umbrella covered with feathers; and &were made out or pink cloth, arid then of course the unfortunate loan' behind them gets• Merely a gliropeeof the top of the dress curtain for the dollar he pays to see the show. • If the ladies with the huge and hideous hats•acould hear the muttered mimes • of the unfortunate man behind them they would take •pity on. him, and. the next time Would wear anie of those small hats whieh are neater end prettier 111 °Very way. A London. anti-vaecunator has Met with and caused sad misfortunes. One of his children was attacked by small -pox. . The • child recovered. The mother mid two other phildren took it and died, and three more went to ' the hospital. The anti vaccinationist borrowed ' from aneighlior a suit; of blak clothes to'weet at his wife's funeral.He'kept the clothes in the house a few days befordreturning them. ,Shortly after their return their owner also took the small -pot, was conveyed to the h.• 401 and died there. Since then several h.. es in the same neighborhood het° bottom° infected and a humber of mime of email- pox„hate been taken to hospital. Even clergymen sometimes take a practi cal view of life. When a couple called:one day at the parsonage for the purpose • of ceasing to he awe and of becoming one, the man of piety took down his.. brayer boa, adjiistedlie spectacles and began :44 Man that is born of a Woman has hula short: time to live and is full'a trouble.' ,' The bridegroom here interrupted hinriwith, " we are hero to -be tarried, not burial," "Well," areavereet the clergynian, With a Sigh, as he turned over the pages for the other service; "11 you insist upon it I will marry you but, believe me; you had Much better be batted," Comets were considered quite a luxury Until a man advertised that he would pay a reward for the disoovety of comets Since then the woods have been full of them, and the advent of still another le announced to -day. The metal of this is— if you want anything, from it cornet to a situation, advertise for it.--l'oroate Seto. TIIE VAT. An logotorto , Illae4ggirird liege for nem, It Will be ,remembered that a diabolical PtterePte at outrage - was perpetrated . at Kingeton on the person of Arum Campbell, aged 16, on the morning of the 16th of September, by 0/notorious °tweeter named &tat Coulter, son of a We. Coulter who kept a house of ill -fame there. The young girl had been soot by her employer from Glenbornie to the city, and when opposite the lime -kilo, _ hear the Kingston &Peni- broke Railroad creeping, elm was accosted by Coulter,who endeavored by coaxing, and i bribes to nduce her to accompany him dam a lonely street. Failing. in this the ruffian Weed her round the watet, pitohed her over the fence, and then dragged her along the ground to a secluded opt. Her meanie brought a gentleman who was pass. ing to the rescue. Coplter's face was covered with blood from the blow which the heroic girl had administered in her desperate resistance. ° She was in a pitiable condi- tion. Besides being covered with blood and dirt, her olothing wee 'torn to shreds and she was suffering from exhaustion and nervous proaration. Coulter was promptly arrested and denied having had Anything to do with the girL Coulter was brought before Bake Magistrate Duff a Kingston two _days afterwards, ou the 17th, and found guilty of the heinous -crime Of attempting to com- mit rape on Ann Campbell on the day mentioned. He was severely admopished as to tbe orime and sentenced.to one year end 860 days in the Central Prison and to receive fatreight laciffegivithe twenty-four at the expiration of oft month, the other twenty-four at the end of six months. In accordance with the above sentence, twenty-four lashes were, administered' to Coultek„ at the Central Prison at 0 o'clock yes- terday morning. The prisoner- was stripped and placed on the Wangle. lIe* showed considerable tetra st.the approaeli- ing punishment. One of the guards bared his Orme, and taking e hold of the Matra- ncient of torture he swung it round his head and brought it down with great fOrce over the prisoner's bare back; who roared with terra and pain, aud implored the doctor to have mercy upon him. Hie cries were unheeded, and again and again the blows fell With redoubled face, -while the victim continued his cries for mercy. After the flogging was over the prisoner's back was bleeding, the skiu being btoken, and he was taken to the prison hospital, where a cloth saturated with oil was placed over his back and he was,•ordered to do light work for the remainder of the day. Two other prisoners who were • pre- viciusly flogged at the prison acknowledged after the punishment was •adreinistered that they deserved it, but Coulter was of different opinion, and ehowed by his Conduct the cowardly rufaiih he is at heart:, ' . • BITIL'Elt Xtui.IdieIblecine's Irailker linOrviowed7-A: ' liroywne lietter loak • Ont. , A Engel.° everlieg paper publishes the following affecting intervieWas a sequel to thealeerae eafie against a A. W. Browne : When the .,teedia was rendered' Wm. A. McCrae,' the rather of .the unfortimate Woman, burst into tore and wept like a child. '4 ft's too bad, it's too bad,"- sobbed he; "for, God' 'knows, I :am.entitled to better . justice at hite hands. Par, poor -Middle. I to you, apl&- he 7with •faltering,toice;= us ho turned to eareperteri. "she was the pot of our faintly, and I honestly believe there was not a better; dispeizitioned girl,there w'as not a kinder, more woinanly girl on the contieept ewe whou 1 '.3a,nae to Buffele and learned under whet ciroumstazices she died my...first amputee • was to rush . to it gun - store and Obtain .IL weaponfor the .instant destruction of the base, betrayer. But District Attorney Titus and Stiperin- tendent Wolfe quieted ree a,nd advised me not to do any vieleace, but to allow the la* to take its aurae. 1 followed their advice and have done everything to assist justice hi a speedy award. Alas! my sons have eliared my sentiment in .regard to this person and have frequently threatened • him., • Often have my relatives in Chatham - telegraphed inc at Dunriville:at all timesof the dayand night to come down quick or .Allie that is rciY, youngest, a fiery fellow,) Will kill Browne'andl have been obliged to go and bad to.beg On My knees that he •gtveuld do nothing of the Jsind. 1 pleaded My lion, don't do that. If any shooting is tobe done, bit me do it. I aiti Old and haven't long to live, and can easily hear the ill results or such an action.' But now that we have felled to Obtain, justice- owing to the insufficiency of evidence, only the Lord knows what Ailie will cm.. I feel outraged at my want of success in the Courts. But next time if any. one of :Our family is led astray '1 shall take the law into my own hande and try the effect of lead. But, sir, if nothing else results from my efforts I hope that it will be a warning to•some poor girl.who has a taiderfoy to . step ipto the downward pith. If it •prevents her from going astray I atiltlcd fully compensated. In -looking up this ease I have come Befoul • nearly similar came, which I know luive never been whispered- publicly and never will be known." • •r, cose oraaishionableatiarrtages. • Now that the seasori of fashionable city. weddings is Once more upon unit nasty be interesting to know that soma enemy of the human race had prepared and printed the following tale of the &tattoo expenses larp'Wedding for 1,000 guests, :with millers . and brideetnaidia exclusive of . hada dress and trousseau: : CardS from $200 td 1360 Matrimonial undertaker....,100 to ' 200 Ushers' scarfs A. t 5 Minister's fee " 100 to 200 Sexton's fee ,25 to 50 •' Dinner given by groom ' 30 to 45 Bridesmaids' _drosses 400 to. 000 !Caterer 500 to 41,000 -Music .... •.... ........ • 69 to . 75 Florist • • "' 800 to 600 'Organist „ .... . ... . ... " L.00 Miscellaneous: • " 100 to 200 Total ' • $1,857 $3,402 People about to incur fitieh BO outlay May either take Punch's adviee or imitate the Wall street bear who aciantly caused a friend to puthis eon.itelaw, up to eloping with his daughter on the ezPress ground of ecdnomy.—N. 1: World, , ' Rev. George Bernffeld, M ., astor of the First Presbyterian Ohurcli, Brookville, starts in a few days for the Holy Latta, where he tablas to epaul several menthe chiefly in archaeologioal and philological in - 'mitigations. Mr. Burnfield is an excellent Oriental scholar, and has for a long , time past been praecuting his reeearehee into this breach of learning with etch materials as he has at hand. Ho intends to make a 5peoial study of the ineoriptione found hi various parts of the wilderness of Arabia, some or Whioh me in a patoic, which is it \mixture of Hebrew with the Semetio tan- glitigias. Ile takes with him specially pre- pared paper for the purpose of bringing back fac simile impressions of the inscrip., tions, giao cal bills the cold elaMidere , TWIG STORM IN GRFATBRUN, Numerous Shipping Casualties Reported. LIVES LOST AND PEOPLE IMBED. XteliDQN, Oct. 15.—Upwards of fifty Ber- wickshire unmake were at sea during the sterni and it is feared atiest of them will be lost. It is reported that twezity fishermen were drowned at Dunbar and three pilots drowned in the Tyne. By a falling roof at Stockton-on-Tees five persons were killed. During the height a the gale yesterday the British steamer Cyprian,,.from Liver- pool for Genoa, was wrecked on the Weleh coast, Only eight of the crew of thirty were lowed. The steamer Olympia, from Glasgow for New York, grounded in the Clyde, was run into and returned eon. adorably damaged. The steamer Helvetia, from Liverpool for New York, was com- pelled to put back, New YOH, Oct. 16.—The Herald's Lon- don cable says: The damage to property all over the country by Friday's gale is enornaous. Many lives were lost by the blowing down of houses and chimneye. At least twenty persons were killed in London and a large number' wounded. Reports from the country mention innumerable disasters, especially on coat, un to the morning of Saturday. It is efffited in a Dundee telegram that about fifty or sixty boats belonging to ports on the past coast of Scotland are , . unaccounted for. : Great azudety inside as to their fate. It is esti- Mated that between sixty and*seventy lives were lost between NortlreBawick and Ber- wick -on -Tweed. The papers are filled with ,harrowing details of disasters. • A Dublin despatch says it terrific storm , divides attention with the Government's activity. Immense damage:has been done here by the hurricane. Dozens of: houpee and hundreds of trees have been blown down, and several people were killed. The roof of the Gaiety Theatre, where Mr. Irving and Miss Ellen Terry were acting; was partially raised. All telegraplaio,com. munication with Liazidon is completely Bus - panda Another report says a severe gide Prevails in Englandand Ireland, and has prostrated the wires. All despatches are delayed. Later' advices report that communication between England and Ireland is reduced' to a single wire. No despatches have been received here from London awe daylight. The storm became it hurriciene„ and the British Isles are out off from all telegraphic communication with the Continent. Lama, Oot. 15—The hurricane in Beg - land was the most disastrous for years. But few continental or provincial tole - grams have beep received. Considerable damage has beeh done to the shipping in the Mersey. The parks are strewn with fallen tipaber.• Many. boats. are aground hi the Thames. Steainboat traffic is appended. Very few places in England have escaped- damage by the storm. Four , hondredtrees were blown down in South. wark.. Shipping ce.sualiies are numerous, 1)6no great disaitep is reported. ' The gale severely damaged property in all parts of the eouritrya Several persons were killed and many injured. Hinnies were unroofed and unfinished buildings col: lapsed. It is .reported that forty-five fishermeo at Bournemouth end Eyemouth,' Scotland, have been lost.. • . . . • • ishavingi in Seven .11i,ingdotias, ' I have now heed shaved in seven king- dorias awl in six lapguages. They all perform the ceremony differently. But they all; from Scotland to.Napleta 'bast on settidg you in a plan; straight their, and betiding your head over back unal your spine howls in agony. A,nd they all ageee in another custom—they never wash off the soap they have put On. • But tliey bring you a bowl of water, hold it under your •ehin as you are leaning back and . insist 'on YOU washing your own face then and there. If you object to the attitude; they shrug ell the upper part ' of themselves and sling. e disdainful smile at you ; if you comply, rivulets run pleasantly dawn inside Your shirt and some of the soap they have generaltyswoggled into your ears getsinto youfrstookings. I have seen no barber wash his victirreeface since I landed in Glasgew.' Prices Vary:. In Lon: don they ethane a shilling' (twenty-five cents) for a shave; in Naples, they will for fifty centimes' (ten cents) shave you, cut your hair, Wash yourlaee and hands, curl your eyebrow, and wax your moustache till , you .look like- Victor- Erdmanuel and can pass for a prime on any of the aide areas. Yesterday I was shaved for ten centimes—about two Ameri- can ants—but I took the remainder out in garlic, of which I had -a generous bath in the form tif respiration, in Verona, the city of the loved and loving juliet, the barber 'iteked me if I would have -my feet washed and my toe -nails cut: That cer- tainly is going to extremes—Naples letter. 111A1{VELY4-010 WOE 11" itinitatim, Some OuggeoLive Vargo mai Iniscuustous. Prof. Young, the matlimiatician and astronomer,gives nri some concrete Mtn- -trationenf thermarvele el the universe that are fascinating in their way. The traveller who would make the circuit of the world in eight days would require nearly twenty- four years to circumnavigate the sun. -The sun's outface is nearly 1'4000 tirnes and its volume or bulk more than 1,800,000 times greater than that of the earth. If the earth is represented by it three-inch globe the sun, on the same:, Kale, will be more than twenty-seven feet in diameter, and its distance 8,000 feet.' If the sun, were hol- low, and the earth at its centre there would be room for the moon 240,006 miles may, and for another satellite 190,00 miles beyond her. The MOAB of the sun, that is, the quantitrof matter outlined in is nearly 330,000 times as great as that of the earth. This mass is about 750 times as great as the combined maws of all the planets and satellites of the solar system; It is two octillions of tons. The attractive pull of this tremendous* mass upon the earth, at a distance of nearly :93,000,000 miles again transcend* all conception. It is thirty-six Quadrillions of tone in figures, 36 followed by 17 ciphers. If gravitation Were to cease, and steel wires Were used to hold the earth in her orbit, each wire being -as large -as the heaviest telegraph wire (No. 4), it would require nine to, each square inch of the earth's surface, and the whole sunward hemisphere of our globe Would have to he covered as thickly as blades of gra4 upon a lawn. A man who on earth oftki weigh. 250 pounds, would at the stui weigh neuly two tons, and be unable to stir. A planet as far away as the nearest. fixed iitar,wh lob *more than -200;000 times more _remote than the sun: ' from the earth, if not dieturbed by any otlidr attractions, would still be governed in its motion by the circle, though, if gam- ing in a circle, nedirly 90.000,000 years Would be, required for it Single revolution. If the maim' seethe slrw ieji, because the distance is so vast ; but the planet would still be BQ powerfully bele iii its:orbit that • it could only free Welt frOill solarattrac- Sell by darting away with a velocity of more than BOO feet per second, “Should the Girls Propose ?" • That is the question that a correspondent —evidently some fair one, to judge from • the writing --asks. In reply. to the quote tion, should the girls propose?' We Would say, of came' they should --at all tithes,. leap year or no feap"year ; they should propose that young men behave themselves upon the public streets and at plebes of •public amusement; that young men should Mee less upon the highways a.nd chew lees, tobacco and cloves and be more indUstri. ous some other hied.. of occupation.- Now, take anandividual case %, a girl ehould propose to her young map, when he calls to see her in the evening, not to stay until 2 &clack the next Mailing, mid not to dome to see her more tlian.seven nighte a week ; that he part his washerwoman and Miler, and speeds less money on sport than on beneficial things; that he ceases to part his heir in the middle 1» order to keep his head level; that he courts no. other girl than her at one arid thp same time; that. he arranges for keeping houee at the earliest possible date. Will that do? ' lf, in the evolutions of • riature and society, only the unreasonableness of both sexes oould be gotteh together and made husbandand wives everything would be carried out .a,ccerding to eternal fitness. rules; but as such 0, thing is beyond the bounds of expedtation we suppose the world mat go on mating the reasonable to. •the 'unreasonable, to the destruotiOn of haamoey, peithe end ocinoord in the domed - tie journal. A man was paralyzed by it stroke of lightning at EfighWater, Minn. Some -of his friends reasoned that if the earth would keoeive electricity from the buried end Of a lightning red it wotild in the same manner draW out the charge with which they supposed him to be filled. Therefore they dug a hole and covered hien up to tre-chin, Ile died in that positieza, • Herr Wagner, it is asserted, speaks of King Louis of Bevarie, as his "dear young friend—a man Whose mind is sufficiently developed to appteciate the great things 1 hate done." The composer ie qUieter and lees &inpatient than he used to be. . 4.• Lunduous Imeicers. At the . recent BeesleI1 of the British Association, at York, Professor A. S. Heisoholaead the repert of the committee on luminous meteors, in the course of whit% he referred to the itrelite which fell near Middlebrough this year, and embedded' itself to a considerable depti in the earth. It was estimated that it struck tha. earth. with a velocity -of 402 feet per second. There was no doubt it fell ",it least 40 miles. , The eommittee rewiring:titled that as the • • information they had received was of Bich a miscellaneous ehatiieter, they should not mike any further reports foi. a few. years. , Sir William Phormion a the great majority of meteoric stoneaLiatead of fail- ' ing to the earth in a solid :oleic; like the one produced, geeerally 14ot eliivered to piecea. in the air through . 110.00110g SO in- tensely hot: •, Prof, Herschelelieettad that the stale in question had not lieea c3,pOsed to any groat heat. • . . Sir William Via soil observed that in all pro hairy .somo tlu vr-citation exist- ing wits.of ineteorie mcaearv. The stone in question was not en the ....Loh it quarter of an hour beton) it wb pedied up, and it wes,Oeitain that it ea uft, froni inithide the : '" ' earth. • He '11180 sidd illf;to• was a general , consensus pf sentimental belief that In many other ' *Ales. Lh iuiiyer5e there was something likes to lire :op this earth, . but that was not a saieetelo belief; how- • Mier, ;esteem was In What Might be called, . a sceptical eouflitione'' Info elsewhere was ;a possibility; and scinnen oiilt. the , ' length of haying that w iete w not impossible. At the 'smile titsie be did not say that the sentithentat holief' /night not • be as well founded tbs.:Ina seientifio belief, but all he could eity nt pteseilt was that such a belief was net founded on scientific grounds. . • • General Devereux, the ' (ally Democrat • elected to the Ohio I, tiskture from Ham- ilton County, :was no hated through the .. efforts. of an Rnqiiii•cr rcip rtrir, who cirou. lated•the repOrt the ) ,ereux" wee the man Who led' the ellargo 'under Hancock ' at Gettyaurg, The General was nomi- nated by am:lame:Soil amid • a storm of cheers and'yells, whit& earried'him through • the campaign. . • 011121002011k • . ' • vvAlri.,s CO,, Ageing, Chilton. GRAY'S SliAnilfilfils! RitorrIcone: TRADE MARI; The Groat Eng -i RADE th EK. • . ilsh Itentody. — an tin failing cure foramina' wealt - IVAN Opervabtor- u Impoteney ( mid all Dimases A44- , that follow as a •;agleam() f Self. • Abase '• 0 loss • -5, Before rtakito motno y uuivorf a eat L Pain in the 'Back, Din,f yision,Preltattir0 Old Age, and many .ethei !Soso that' lead tt Insanity or Consumption and a preinateregraVe. particulars in our isimuhiet, which we del re to send free by Mail to every ono. The 8 eoiflo Medicine is sold by sit druggists at ek per paekags,,Or siit panage for. $5, or will b sent free by %mall on receipt, of the niOney addreeeing It4OA.V inimusella utiew TalftottTO Out., Canada -