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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1881-11-10, Page 6—r, Nov.10, 1881. At Church. . - Bo, Harold, you wondered, you.gay, at my smile, i.-e•lis.Y,reY sneers? Wenr ray faith, yore not wroug-i We that eiegaetiady swept up giro' the, aisle And.kneitiu-the front pew so long: lihe was very devout, and se liberal, toe - How freely she gave of her gold 'When the raissiori plate passed for the heathen rondo°, 'PM= the longs to bring into the feldi 'get, Harold, I know of a grand life gene out In &madness et pain mut despair, Because of that woman eo sweetly eievoet, Tbat Christian whe knelt near us there. And Ilmow i yoenguife who has death in her face, The' the smiles end striveshard to seem bright. Whenevershe looks on the beauty and grette Oast robbed her ef what -was her right, Bo, Haroid, you see, if sneered 'had cause, At that ohristian in velvet and furs; And Twoedered whet pagan or heathen there was. Whoa chances were poorer than here. , NoturdaY Night Thoughts. Agricultural ploamplay'r Theta:We We' harvest is to reapIIISTe than you sow. Sow an aot and you'reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character ana you reap a destiny. , A religion that is false is usually intri- cate. The only two rites that oliaraoterize the religion of Jamie are noted or their • simple beauty. The Christian worship comes out of ther Soul and out of symbols., The wrongs we inflict on other o follow us like our shadow. •, • Cherish thy friend, and temperately earnonish thine enemy. Fortune often makes a rieh feast and then takes away appetite, • • Never excuse a wrong action by saying mime one else does the same think. Spare when yon are ybung and you will be able to spend when you are old, It is good in a fever, and ranch better in anger, to have the tongue kept olean ana !smooth. . • Order is the sanity °Vibe mind, the health of the body,the peace of the oity, the security of the State. • • -, Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives uniess'engrafted upon a stook of known and reciprocal merit. , • Instruction ends in the sohool.room, but edimation ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to educate. More hearts pine away in secret -anguish for the wantof kindness from those who ehoald be their comforters than for any other calamity in life. The essence of :true nobility is neglect -of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a greit action is gone, like the bloom frorn a soiled flower. The liuchess oi•Edinhurgh. The Duohess of Edinburgh. has made herself very popular with the •Sootoh peo- ple, and in England is a greater favorite than she was. The sympathy felt for her --about-her-mother's-deatinatlre-stratige-bit- -- cumeta,nces attending the second marriage of her tether, and then his terrible death, • :have donemaoh to remowithprejudices AN that once prevailed against the Duchess. • Then; again, she has proved herself an. • excellent wife and a tender mother and these a,re qualities that alwaysappeel to the large heart of the English nation: The day is at hand When the Duchess of Edin. burgh will be one of the most popular ladies inEngland: Pier manner in private with. those she likes is ohatming.; but she is a good hater, 'India uncoraprombilogly haughty and cold -With those who do not please her. She 'thus makes'enemies and. • keeps them ; but her warm ,heart, hidden ' under a tether cold exterior, as it is, makes, ;her plenty of Itiends.and keeps -them,. The Queen is muck attached to this Imperial • daughter-in-law. • " • . Total/ to Prevent Diphtheria. • In riew of the prevalence of.'diphtheria in varione Parts of this Proyince, it is interesting to note that the authorities at Sydney, Cape Breton, have oet afoot severe measures in order to restrict the spread of diphtheria,' which has been prevalent there, Here are mime ef their ordinances: 1, That all cases of diphtheria be completely 'isolated and that the headsof famines:where the disease exists display a yenoW este not less •than twelve inches square in some conspicuous place on the dwelling. s. That the medical men of the town be respeetfuny requeetedto notify the Secretary of this Hoard of the appearance and itmaiity .of any new - ease of diphtheria corning Linder their' observation, B. That any person coming into the Town of Sydney from any dwell- ing in which diphtheria exists, shall boilable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred 'dollars. A. •That all householders shell hevetheir premises • thoroughly cleaned and put in good sanitary condition, and that the Health ' Wardens -and Health Inspectors be instructed to see that this resolution is enforced. • . , • Death Caused by Piercing lifer Ears.l • Eugenia Arignea Ruymon, 1 month and 6 days old, died at 243 East Twenty-third street, NewYork, on Satutday;bf erysipelas, produced bypieroing her ears in order that she might wear rings in them. • A strabge explanation ha i3 been unearthed of the mannerin which certain freenaen of the borough of Giarneby, in England, 500 of Wham hive just been struok off the roll,' originally had the privilege granted to their • ancestors. When Queen. Elizabeth .visited the piece she was so struck by the excessive uglbaess Of the ladies of the borough that, out of cornpasisioaler the poor men who had to marry them, she put 'aside a piece of land, to a share of Which 'each Dative.: born women was entitled On marriage, thin; giving to the bridegroom "a portion," and a consequent right to vote at Perlianterttary elections. The land still remains, and the freemen have voted for 800 year, but they have now becorne a thing of the past as far as voting is ciMeerried. At the recent visit of the Prince of Wales at Mar Lodge there Wee sgrand torchlight ball. The procesipon of the guest's .from the house to the danoing marquee, Widen took -place shortly. after /0 0'01001Z,WAS very picturesque. Precided by four pipers came the brilliant artnY of guests, at the heaa of whona marched Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales lia full Highland ecestume, ofl .his arm being the Duchess of Man. cheater. The Duke of Albany, also in High.; land dress; followed next with Lady Lonodale, the Earl bf Fife an a the rest of the guests, among whom were the Marquia of Hartiegton and Lord Rowton, following, the company, being escorted by Highland- ers bearing pihe torehee. ' , john IL Berinett, after living reputably to the age of 65, at Bloomfield, Inds, sud- denly ohanged hie sedate 'ways to theoe of a profligate. In fonr years he sinfully atMandered 025,000, and about a week ago found himeelf penniletse. Hie neighbor's did not think poverty a sufficient punish - •resat fot his bad conduct, iso they forined mob, tea him out of bed, tied him to a tree and flegged him inhunianly. The friends of Profeesor Roberteon tallith at Ediubtirgh have, presented Mid With 4000 Werth Of leeks, and hoe also • raised a Bun" Elitfficient t preauce him a lager salary than he teceived trona the Aberdeen Prefeesorehip whit* 10 wail forded to reeign. Rafael() linbattints, the groat steamehip ovaner of Genott, Ugly, is 'dead. WEIN atialvieleaNa. , Pulitocat Covered With Courvitig ilea a stable Pitted Whit OfforPOIS. (New York Nun.) The palaces that are building for the Vanaerbilts along Fifth avenue, between Fif ty-firot and Fiftyasighthstreets, do not appeer to be mu& nearer completion than they were a year ago, but that le Weems° semi& work has been reqaired upon them that twelve months of steady application by the workmen. as altered their external appeitranee bat littLe Cornelius Vander. bilt'a magnificent stable in Fifty-eighth • street,near al,adisori avenue, is finished i and, n use. It breaks a. long block • of handsome - residences. Althoegb the interior is like a, gorgeous temple in which the galleries are need as hay late, and the 'stalls are where the best pews might have been, the front is the .front ef a stable. Soft, fringed curtains and stained glues panes darken tbe stableman'sverb:mats on the second storey, and above are bugs terra, matte, Agures by Xemeys, the Parisian sculptor. The huge head of the Siberian bloodhound is in the centre, and the mastiff and bulldog eye it from the sides. Five tiiifieiitbonier-Wein- broogfirtb-alie • stable yeiiterday morning, and the work- men paving the street in front of the hand- ing infermed the San's' reporter that they reached their stalls' upon strips of carpet laid to protect the newly varnished floor. on the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty.. eeventh -street is ,(iornelbus Vanderbilt% mansion ef carved marble. A dozen sculptors are yet at work carving the fiend oreareents and figures that almost cover • the ezterior . walls. As soon as the little bonservatory of iron and glass in the rear is finiehed. the .substantial Marble railing around the house is all in its place, the • windows and doors ate put in, and the carvers hair° done what little remains of their work, the exterior will be oorepleted. In the great rooms that can be seen from • the street are piles of bricks, tiers of bar-. rels and stacks of lumber. ' The fire -proof floors and ceilings are nearly coplIaleted.' Yesterday the workmen were slowly setting a flagstone twenty-two feet long and fifteen and a half feet wide in front of the main entrance on Fifty-seventh street. Ne such flagstone, except the one in front of William' H. Vanderbilt' e mansion, was' ever quarried in this country. Wm. K. Vanderbilt's" enorinotis dwelling • on the corner of Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue is equally far advanced. The fact that its "style of architecture is "in the form that marked the transition between Gothic and Renaissance" but feebiy characterizes its appearance. Itis an immense, tall, yet wellproportioned structure, bristling with gargoylesrturrets and gables, and littered over with grotesque •figures and fanciful phitures in 'stone, • Cats with hewed backs, dogs with obtrusive vertebras, dimpled babes., sleepy Owls and hideous satyrs perch on the•tiny pinnaolea, protrude from cornice joints or jut from olaitnneY "Sides. High above all the life-size pgure of a peulptor, malletin hand and -weating.his-whigraprenviaits ilt-dizzrsolt-- • tude looking down upon tis triumph obis art. The meet enjoyable of all thebits 62 • (Serving; perhaps beeause it 'is nearest to .the spectator from the Area, is the panel picture called the " EnjOyment of Life," in which chubbyurehins portray' the delights, of food and drink and musio under the semi-eirmilar bay -window on the side street. Seine of the .windows ate in place; the marble railing carved likb ihe house is la d going up, an a heap of greatoxeoner e_ • Fragile " and "Frem Paris "lying in the • street suggest 'what is toeonaeh but'the seme.beaps ef Woks and stacks of barrels, Mid the. scaffolds of the inasons that are seen in Corneliue Vanderbilt's house, ehow that the interioria yet all confusion: . In the Siamese joint :that combinefs the brown stone mansions that are building for William H. Vanderbilt and his married • daughters, the rear and side wallsOf the ,00r. • ridor that forms the entrance to both houses present a:eoating of neutral' colors with touch of gold above -them that maybe formed of tiles er ma' be done with paint. It is impossible to see It Well' from the astreet,And it is imposeible tO approach: it,: beeetinie 'S Admittance ." ILI:sainted up everywhere and men are there to enforce. the rule. These,houses : are further, advanced than.the thene. The -window lightif stein; big bronze lamps' of ornate design Otandin front otthe corridor, brass: .soreens 02 great strength -And beauty :pro- tect theground floor Windows; green grass is -growing between :, the railing and -the • building, and a blaze of gold and tile work in gime of the hide doorways givers a hint of • how the,interior may look.. - • Love's Oung Dream. • • Seated by the .rfirldjr. light qf .the grate fire whose flickering eerves onirto illurnine the room with the dildhalf . light that one, -sees so often in one of Rembrandt's best works, or a beer saloon after12.p.na, Mabel Was thinking. The door bell meg and in an instant a 'servant lathered into the room a fair-haired young resen'whom Mabel greeted • cordially. ' They talked Of commonplace subjects fot a while, but finally. George W. Simpson spoke the words that 'had•beenin hie heart so long -told Mabel of his stten4 deathless love,for her, and how he should neyer be happy until he felt' that it was returned. Rising from the their in which ashebad been seated, Mabel went to him, and, plaeing her hand in his,. said in a low, tremnlous voice.", Yea,Geotge, I am proud• ' of your love, and I love you an return:, , George drew to his heart the beintiful • girl who had said their; sweet- wads; and together they walked "deafly to an open window., and were soon standing on a:vine. embowered porch. "Here, sweetheatt," said George, "hero, With the. stare in all•their-mirity looking down upon Us, let =le give you cntr betrothal •, Nirhile these „wet& were Whig spoken Mabel's father had come silently into tho. parlor, and,Seeing the open wincle*,:had stepped to it and heard all, • * 'Five tninutei later George was on the :corner waiting for a:street car, A„ friend 'came up: " Are you going to the hall this evening,?" he odd. , " No, ' answeted George, while a pained look flitted across his feature's, "I am going to the county hospital." The box -toed boot had done its deadly 'work well. DAsrAsar WOrtx.-Senle human fiend broke the look at Marshall's gravel pit switch, near Putuarn, on the Credit Valley extensiOn, and tuthed the switch half way so ab to throw the train off the track, but fortunately the sot was diecovered in tinae. There is no clue to the perpetrator of the deed. • The strange practioe pieVelis among some &tones of London pawnbrokers of taking Bank of England Mateo in pledge. ./4. Vanden paavillariaker's manager recently admitted having taken In pledge from one India:Waal two netee for t100 °alb, beeidee one for t50 end font fot'45 each, advaimiag upon the whole Al only. The explanation, given was that the customer had aadunteered this stake:lent- that he metely desired to plea% theta temporarily in este keeping. Ad a foot, these note e Were the produce of rObbery. WILLING T� ^ DO ANETIIINicat Bus V$211"Crentti AllOo7011111/1:auttiolfla 84:""Iiird (New TOOK Oraphi0.) TO1114 WOOlall, y0111% woman, You've come to tide great wicked city to get "something to do." Do what? Oh, " any- thing 1" Young woman, "anything" is nothing. Anything is hardly a legitimate cocupatiop. YQU12g women, there are 5,000 or 10,000 young men and women who have come to this (Ay from all parts of this land and even from all other ends of the earth who are willing to do any. thing.. Yousag women, you are by birth Anaenca.n. You have been well bred and well educated, to lige the current expres- sion. But what can you dot Music? We have music teachers starving by the thousand. Painting? We have the best and Soothe of them who can't make room rent. Amanuenois ? Armies of them are on the street ey looking for work. Stenography? Ditto. • Telegraph operator? The towp is full. The fact is, young woman, the few comparatively easy employments have long been monopolized by young ladies like yourself, -who came here ready to do " anything," but eould only do and were only waiting to do a few things. Can you cook? Yes and no, and a little that your mother taught you at home, and' you don't want to go out - to service, of course; and small blame to you that younhould not wash to or become indignant at the idea of Alicia a • thing as sinking to. the level of "hired help." Yes, it's loss of caste, my dear, and social ostracism and a great gulf 'twixt you and your genteel younglady high01 00°1 -friends. Could you assist in a family as nurse .or houeekeeper or step into rnany.a place now open for some- body whi ich nvolves labor of the lower plane of respectability? No, you can't, young woman, for though the adage runs in thislree and happy land that all honest labor is honorable; exaot truths doesn't run quite that way. You can't do " anything2' Your high !lobed edinattion. hasn't taught you to do "anything." '3/ini have spent many years in learning to do w few things, along with thousands and tens of thou- sands of.yOung women all over the land, and the resultis that there are a great many more 62 you able to draw and paint and play, and .00py in a nice fair hand, than there arepeople who want to pay anything for drawing, painting, playing and copy- ing. But what are w6 going to du about it? . Where is the vigilant far-sighted watchman on the towers of our Modern Zion who shall ory long and lond that our schools and collegee are yearly turning out tens of thousands of educated young men and women for whom the busy money -making, bread -winning world.. has little or nothing to do, or if they get "anything" to de will pay them little or nothing. A skilled oyster -opener makes his $5 per day. A good bricklayer wants $4. per day. A good cook gets naore than many college professors. But these are net.genteel 9.991gletioneOu-veantio,lbe. genteel, and you 'are right in aspiring to -gentility and refinement,. but, young we-- rain, the world in this town -don'tplace a high cash value on genteel occupation's. Ida& 'sordid, aour world, this, maileMoiselle. Dramatic Notes. ' Gilbert and Sullivan are engaged on • another new opera. • Frank Mee, agent for Beverly's • Strategist COnapitny., is at the' Rival Hotel. • C. lit; Gardner, Elliott Barnes,: Milian Cleves and "Only.a Farms:it'd Daughter" ...Coinpany; areat the Royal 'Hotel. • Mapleson pays Campanini,.the teeor, 05;900 a mouth salary:. He only. sings twelve nights dering that Period, • . There have been set up in the Grand •Opera Heim t Parisa number, of mirrors, measuring 45 by 52 feet, and weighing item 1,200 te 1,600 puede: ' , • Booth often makes $1,000 a peat:Min:ince, McCulloch nets $60,000 a year, and Barrett in a recent eegagement-sectied a personal profit of $1,000 a week, . . Mr, John S. Clarke was last Week in • Cleveland and drew excellent houses. • Miss Kate Claxton will begin a tour. of the 'United Statee on the 22nd of December. IL.Roienfeld has Written a farci- cal sketch in four aets for Mr. Sol Smith Russell entitled "Ways andlzteaps,", • It is said. that the:receipts of, Late hist week in Philadelphia frotn her new play "Boli amountedto iipviards of $11,000.: Louise Pomeroy,- from Whom Brick" Pcmeroy, the howling Western editor, was dithreed because she would bean actress, is said to have cleared. $40,000 On her Aus- tralian tout. • Mary. Anderson 'says ; " SOme girls are • horn fat; some achievefatness, and some fix themselves up with old newspapers and things." •• , , Among the recent arrivals by the steam- ship Parthia from Liverpool • were .." The Royal Hand Bell Ringers," -who ate..te makea six months' tont in the Cnitha Mateo and Canada, That highly popular political riovol, " A Fool's ErranC! hat.',.1 ailed as a play. The venturawati made in'Philadelphia, With all the advanteges of excellent .acting and. extensive advertising.. The death is announced at Prague of • ',The P.refessor Franz Hilitiar at theage of 79 years, Profess& Hilmar has the credit of being the inventor ' of the polka, •It is Said he composed the first polka that ever appeared in print; both the musics and the step . being ' taken from a popular •Bohemian ocluntry dance. In Caeola the. word "polka" meanshalf ".; the analogy of meaning is Oviedo. The first polka ever written was the "'Esmeralda Polka." The Rochester Denzoerat relates the fol- lowing incident of the. production of "The Mighty Dollar" hi that city "Bather a funny inoiderstecourred at the Corinthian -Atiaderny last evening: In the middle of Miss Travernier's best scene a large dog walked on the stage, and just at that moment the lady's linee Were, And sir, leave me instantly." Site was posed to be talking to Itotand Trance, but as she eaw the dog she gave the Words' with such Pre and spirit that the brute 'seemed ;to oath their meaning at once, and turn- 'ing he retired as • quiekly as he appeared, amid the laughter and applause • Of the audienee." flwatiArivise t Toorimuni.-joim H. • Mobliillen, of the auditor's Office, EleVated RailwayNew York, returned to his heine in this village about two weeka since in very feeble health, his New York physician hav- ing advised him that 'his disease was Which prognege Was appar- ently verified it day or two after his arrival by quite it severe hemorthage. A fewdays later, however, during a fit of cdughing,he threW outabout half °fie wooden toothpick, Ohio° which time his oondition has Steadily and rapidly improved, and he is confident of opeedy restoration to his luanistorned health.-Eiteneille (g. Y.) J614,4141. Mr. A. A. MoTavish, the retiring Math. eniatioal Mader Of the GaielphAgticultuial College, Was entertained at a farewell dik; •her on Tuesday. • The Suequeliaania Rivet is lower than Osier before known': aalllf.inatut 13111111t. TRADE& , A warning **meta. 4 writersets the.- figarea at 100„000.per, on per annum in England alone, killed from comma in eouneotion with the inf filletriat '00Otirfiti011a in which they are engaged, Am si uchas six -tenths aro. acestibea to mining .acciaents. Tido aggre- gate is suffieieatly appalling, and ought to be inquired into in gala country as .Well as in England, but It is difficult to prescribe efficient le.gtelative measuree- to Meet the 08.50, It is probable that the diffueion of technical knowledge among .411 .classes. of laborer's and artisans, and especially the foremen and managers of Indus- trial establishments,. would do more than laws, not only - to decrease. tee- number of violent deathe, but to: ameliorate , the sanitary condition of: all establishments where tole or reachiime a Any kind are used. The welliighted„ well aired and roomy workshop or factory, moreover, pro - metes, the predoction of more and better - products than can be expected from dark, damp and dingy oellare and crowded, 111. ventilated., dirty shops in densely peeked neighborboodo.;-Eventhe dismal min e may be nsuch improved by the eleotrie light and more effiefent ventilating appliances and tbe natural 'result le more safety, better health and a greater. yield, eo that once understood no .thqughtful manager would need to he driven by law into the adoption of sanitary meane. The provincial eteausision question. The Exhibition Committee of the Toronto City Council met yesterday. A letter from the Seeretary of the Provincial Association to the Mayor, informing him" of the decieion td hold the next exhibition in Toronto, was read, when the advisability of holding it at the same time as the • Indnstrial Elthibition was discussed. It wail resolved that the Exhibition Coirn• . mittee invite the kaustrial Association to eend representatives to confer with the committee for the tamps° of ascertaining if the holding of the Agricultural Exhibi. tion at Toronto would be to the benefit of .the Industrial Association, and if it was decided that it Would not be to the benefit ofthe association that 'they Write to the • Provincial Association that they had no accommodation for them. Canada Temperance Act. A despatch from Ottawa, says:.In the case of RUssell vs. Woodward, to 'come before the Privy Council.of England, the legality of the Canada' Temperance Aot will be. fully , tested. The' respondent in the case is a ,Frederieten policeman, who 0,i:tea merely in the taublio interest in' eniciroing the Act, and _Ilea no personal intereet in the natter. As it questions the right of the Dominion Government to pass' such a measure,the Privy Couneil of • Canada have passed an Order -in -Connell to 'indemnify bothappellant and respondent, . so that the validity or otherwise of the Act will be established...The respondent, it .shouldbe-statedte-was--14nwilling-tce incur -- any expense opposing the appeal, hentes the pram:et:action of the Government; s • shooting ,vvisa a Vengeance!' • During the ' 'past shositipg .season the "'hag" obtained by the DniveiaVarcilton -and-his-friends in Arran.. amounted to about 6,800 grouse, an enormous number of hares, 'rabbits and •black game and twenty'fine stags. This island is, ofcourse, nthdelegaine preserve; being twenty miles •long and twelve broad, and ail the wretched teiiants being'as absolutely at the mercy of their landlord as though they were eeris. among the Steppes. To judge froth the abject address they recently presented'to the Duke,; they seers' to have been crushed. into:• a, truly satisfitetory State p1 Submia: Sion, which; however, savors more of the sixteenth century than the nineteenth. Possibly His' Grace,may find even the •Sootch land laws udergoing a startling transformation when her -returns from his Meditetranean druiee. ' • • .Charocterielic Dresses'. . The Colintesii Bective, who is tall, and handsome, and with ta, • lovely figure, ls trying.tO inake British alpaca popular. She wore lately;As out. belles did a. dozen 3;ears ago or so, 'a white alpaca evening gown ;, but qn, the •occasion of her visit th the Bradford manufactories she wore a bleak alpaca gown with' a flounce of wide bet . pleats, eaeh bok carrying a atriP of watered ribbon edged with gold braid down the middle; the 'flounce had a. harrow gold fringe, and fell over a kilt of pleating at the bottord of the skid; Willett WO;S loeped at the be.ok with a large water -silk bevy. The Jersey•was laced with gold oord ; the elbow sleeves were tight, trimmed with rows of gold braid ; the .collar was of watered silk, with a standing frill of gold fringe inside it; the bonnet was of blaok and gold, with bunches of 'carnations. • Dr. Ciiyier writesof Canon Farrar that he " attracts greet drew& every Sabbath that he preaches inthe Abbey,. Americans always contributing their'hare to •the. throng. He ie pe tall, Manly, intellectual looking persOnage in the'pulpit, andrilefiVete his brilliant discs:sures with much empha- sis. EVerYWhere and always Farrar asin dead earnest. But his .superb thlutineli ort Christ and St,- Paul, and his 'fearless elo- quenoe. aaitinet: the ,drinking magas have won for him the enthusiastio admiration of tens of thousands. He is a large -hearted • and lovable Man, with a- prodigious cape- ' city for work. Amdng the • Ministry the ArchhishOp of Canterbury and the Arch. • bishop of York are widely regarded as the two strongestmen in the Church of Eng. lanclobut among the laity Canon Farrar and Canon Liddon are regarded as the two twist brilliant preachers." ,The works undertaken:fallen:se to isolate the Pantheon froin the modern buildings 'which have hitherto shut it out Irons view are being carried on. . Already the exeave,-, tions have bought to light the greater Portion of an exedra, with its marble pave - Mont still kited, as well as two large frag- ments of •a, rearhle °plume. The 'digging out of an a,ncient road lying at a topsider - able depth below the modem street resulted also. in the diseovery of several broken Omit" ef Ibailan sixteenth-oentury majolica, including some Faanzawere. , • ' Three ears filled with corn were ternol- felled and an engine 'badly smashed by a oollisioreon the Great Western at' Gleneoe on Friday Morning. No. 20, in charge of Engineer Brown, neared -the swittili ts twe freight trains were approaching from the west Owing to the frosty &sedition of the rails the train could not be stopped in gra° to prevent a collision. The only lien on erfatin of which a Nor. folk, Vat, roan died seized, and whieh he left to Mis two SODS; was a claim of 43,0The heirs wanted a division'so the mixt Ordered a sale of the farm. Itbrought $000, and was placed in the hande of commis. Moneys for etttlentieut. It Oak six yearti to °loots matters, When the eorntnisiliohers had abeorbed the entire pkoCcede by expellees': The oleek presented by john Weeley to the Sohn Street blethodiet Chbreh, New 'Fork, 115 gest' ago, is Atilt keeping tiine fpr the wer,shipperis m that ettrictuttry.„ - A14TTEI$1* ••••.1,11, What Toronto Daetari Irbiuk of Von- Plieaset, be /awing, from A Toronto paper, with reference to a Board of Health meet- ing bei d there may be instruative In connection .with typhoid Pr. Ogden delivered a lengthy speech, showing the distinetion between typhus and typhoid, fever. Typhus, Which was the only kind of fever known pre. views to 1840, was intensely hike, - tams, Typhoid fever had been found after extensive experiments to be non-oontagioue M the same seines as 'scarlet fever and smallpox. It could pot be corn- Municated by touch nor by the atmosphere as thee diseases could, but its germs were capable of propagation by neglect of proper sanitary arrangements, want of cleanli- ness or impure water. He regretted ,that the City Cguncil had shbwn so little appreciation of the import - mice of providing a proper water supply. A difference arose between Drs. , Wright • and Ogden as to the contagiousness of whooping cough. Dr. Ogden w°1 opinion that thirnialady'vtaentitiiintiigial in the :same sense as areal/pox, and for that rem - eon it had not been incinded in the clause. Dr, Wright differed, and proposed the amendment of clause 6 by the insertion of whooping-ceugh. The amendment was agreed to. • A Pawl Falt io Leap -pro*. ; In the catalogue of games known U. the • average boy. there is one that has aIvrayis enjoyed extraordinary popularity, yam- monly called leap -frog. The peculiar char- acter. 'of this game is suffleient to indicate that it was intended for the Male sprouts of the rising generation exclusively. The • °moiler had a sad case to dispose of yester- day, which demonstrated most conclusively that the girl who plays the game doeii it at the peril of her life. Elizabeth'E. Zeller, young girl' residing at No. 2,001 De Kalb Street, left her borne gay and happy last Saturday afternoon for school. In the evening she came hoirie with'o. bruise on her forehead, which she said was only a scratch she had sustained While playing leap -frog With a number of other girls. '110 girls, sheexplained to her, mother, arranged themselves in a row, and she sue - seeded in making all the, leaps but one without the slightest difficulty, When she attempted to leap over the shoulders of the last girl in the row her dress caught on the girl'!" head, and caused her to fall head foremost to the ground. Nothing more was thought of the accident by her friends, and the leap -frog gime was scarcely men1 tioned until Tuesday, when it was recalled to memory by the girl's anxious mother, as soon as the girl, returned home from eehool in •the afternoon ,and complained of • a severe headache' and. began to vonait. •These symptoms were fol- lowed by a chill. On Wednesday 'nothing the severe pain that shot through her head opiased, her to moan and :weans, sn'great ,wss, be suffering—She lingered ,with„ -ie consuming fever until Wednesday , neon, when she died. The", .eotoper. held an impost. oci lietbody Yesterday, ancl;„ren. ,dered as his verdict thetthe decesteed demi to her death from ccmgestion of the brain, following accidental concussion. It was a sad ,enough case to .warn girls agaidet leap- frog in the future. The girl Was on the eve of her eleventh year, a. bright child, affec- genetic, kind, beloved by all her, °Associates, and idolised by her grief-stricken mother. -St. Leuis 1?epublican. •• .The sungovrer in xerosnions. • ,c'The °sunflower is now one of fashion's favorites. Good authority' tells us that •btheades 'are . wrought with these luige, glaring flouters. The trains of some ef the new evening dresses .are literally strewn with them, and olueters Of the golden and brown blossoms are placed at the corsage and eliewhere on the toilette; even 'a spray of the gigantic flowers,. in slightly, modified size, is arranged for the hair?' The baud/we:test artificial' clusters of sun. flowers are satin antique, wonderfully perfect in their imitation 9f nature and very expensive, it single spray, costing from. $10 to $12:.. These siusfloweis , of graduated 'sill will probably bae. popular. corsage holiquet all winter, though there are many other .flowers that rival them - nasturtiums blotched with brown;' the laves touched crimson and gold With the autumn frost Huge pansies in purple, white arid gold, golden rod, esters, °ivy- senthemums,tulips, great lilies • and orchids are all fashionable- Itt the fancy fp i flowers of splendicisizeand color it is :quite poslitle Marechal NirZ, Taegaennaot and other roses will for a time be thrown. aside. Holly hocks, which are coming into. favorin England, are not yet popular. • Sir Henry Havelock Allen has been .attitolsed with insanity. ' This Melancholy event removes for a time it. conspicuous, il ure ,frora. Military and politicalslife in Mid. SirHenry wee the eldest son of ' the fe,mousiludian !officer and he inherited the haronetoy which was conferred on his father in the last days of his eventful' life. In the last Parliament Sir Henry was mem- ber `for.Sunderland and an active mereber of the Radicatwing, of the Liberal party. Some time since he added. to the nem° of Havelock that of Allett on receiving:a rich beoest. • Sir Henry, like his father; was a prominent member of the Baptist cam - .0/"'i munion. . :. • After the pee rmanee of Coup'S (limns in Griffin, Gs., bile the elephants were being driven 'through the 'streets, some person gave one,of there a piece of tobacco. The elephant had no sooner received the tobacco than he became infuriated, and made a, dash for his teaser, right through a orewd. Everybody scattered, of course, and the scene represented a frightful stam- pede. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt, and the . maddened elephant Was finally captured. • Things looked rather squally lora while, as the elephant was in thorough eartteet, and roared and bellowed with terrific rage. • Tun Cottrinescs Questi.-Berthe, Hey - nem, who has earned, the police eay, the title of The Confideuce Qtteett'" by her daring exploits during the past fear years, and who Was • recently convicted, it New Yerk of „at:de:leg Damn& by false pretences' front Theodore W. Marriv, was arraigned on Saturday to receive her sentence. She Wag Sent to the penitentiary for two Years. She received the sentence with 'apparent unconcern. 'Phis is the woman who attempted to swim dle commercial men Ms London while She was stopping at the Tecumseh House. Jean Manner was it popular aotrese fifteen year's ago, drawing large and adiniring audiencee, and receiving a great ,salary. She" now earnit poor -living by teaching eleoutiori to ambitious seekers foe fame on the stage in Buffalo, Where she lives in a miserable tenement.This is what carnal of beings lirstrate sotrese. At a meeting of the Senittils a the VW- versity of Aberdeen, it Wag reeoltecl to center the degree of LL.D.. on Lind Itosebery, the preeent Lord Rector of the 1Thiversity. "Oh, yes; he ' bask' My hand in mar- riage," said a Philadelphia armload, testify. Ing itt her brae& Of prObaied 'suit. " r 4' THE lillUEST BANK. The Cashler and n Customer Arrested -- A Queer Way at Conducting ilusinese De(oletttioa,.. purr the ante Lett. A 'Newark (iNT. a.) despatch reports in reference to the closing of the doors of the Mechanics' Bank of that place that intense exoltemeut prevails there. The bank is the largest in the State. A meeting of the directors was held yesterday, The cashier, Dlr. 0. L, Baldwin, stated that the ties were on great that further attempts to carry en the huffiness wotild be useless. Mr. Baldwip has been Arrested on the &are of embezilement. The lose will fait principally on tbe stockholders, It is thought that the depositors will be to a great extent ohielded from loss. The bank's last statement showed a surplus of 1400,000, It is reported that the 'entire - assets, 02,000,000 to 53,000,000, have. vanished. It Weald that Baldwin calmly - told the directors they had their safe left and. nothing mere. C. Nugent et Co., Morocco makers,: sustained by the defunct' hank,"-Eb,ve. assigned. Other failures are expected. Baldwin, the cashier -' is a leading member of Trinity EpiscopalChurch and a vestry - Men. It is now expected that the batik will not.. pay depositors more than 40 per cent.. Another report ia that the 'meta will not be over 10 per oent. of the liabilities. The Wing agAmet Baldwin is bitter, • Christopher Nugent, head ef.the rctorocco ∈ was arrested thia evening:on 4 charge of aiding and abetting 13alciwni in embez- zling the funds of the baults.kle gave 425,000 bail. . . . Baldwin is prostrated. and confined Ohio; residene ,e' but was waited on by the United States Distriet Attorney and Commis- sioner arid adnaitted to $25,000 bail to appear at the Court ciii Nov. 7th. •Baldwin :stated Voluntarily that about the year . 1873 ..aie began to mike loans to C. Nugent it Co, morocco manufacturers, witheut security or the. sanction of the directore. Having begun, he was in the petver of Nugent az Co, and continued the itocounriodetione, sometimes allowing them 550,000 in a 'sleuth; till tha total warincreesed to it ruinous amount., Nugent assured hitu-that he had a large property, and a cepital in the business . which would make .all the loans good: Nugent was well aware that he ,(13al4win) was using the bank' e money, and always, proznise.... surrender hie property in case of tronble. 'Under these circumstances ' the loan was increased till it reached crier. :02,000,000. Nugent Would give drafts on friends' in. New York, Which be credited to him as cash, and Baldwin would use the bank's money to take up the drafts when due, The books were falsified to show • the accounts correct. Finally, however; the Fosses were placed in the account of the. Mechies' Bank in New York, the agent of • the Newark bank, an that While it appeared that the Newark bulk had laims -for-$2,000;000-aliallittitre-Ndiv-Ydrk-brCnk; the fact is the Newark bank owes the New York hank 8200,000. This, difference is almost whollY due tothe irregular tranime. tions with Nugent. In conversation with the Distrint-Attorney,Ditlawiu eaicl be had speculateevera little, bud lest nothing in • that yeey. The Diettict-Attorney says • Nugent can be held' liable for his part of the transaction under the revised statutee. The' rutnor that Nugent had made an • assignment was premature.. His 'iiccounte are involved with the banks and • await • Inrther developments. • • WuAr begornes of all the gold .and silver ? • . . Prof. ..Lbestbeer, .. of Gottingen, after elaborate researches coUeludes that the . annual..losa- oil coins by friction alone reaches' 1,703 pounds ot gold and 101,384 pounde Of Blister. He estimates the yearly loss of the preeious metals in the .arts at. 164,630 pounds, of, gold and 1,038,084 pounds 'of silver. He • thins calculateathat • tbe-sits have censuinia in -the last fifty, yeas neatly one-third of the total produc- tion of One metal aud over ono -fourth of that of the other: , The ex-Ereprese Eugenie; . it' few days. since, paid!" visit to Milan, and was not recognized any one, the hotel -keeper • even not suspecting her identity. On :the night of her arrival a fire broke out 'in the hotel, and :threatened to assume serious ' proportions. :The tx.E.Mpress displayed extraordinaryself-possessien and refused to go to another hotel, being :satisfied with changing her tepee, WATT & CO,. Agente4 Chinon. OnAt,S E cirr re MEDIA:IMO TRADE nom( Tho Greet Eng.reAng MRC lish Remedy. - an einailingeute for semin el weak nos, Seep-eater- reeh, impotency and all Diaeafles A,dequence of Self -e, Mat follow Af4 • Abuseas loss of A Bofore Taking racolutv, univer. A Old Age, and maana: othaesi:lisiti:elena"esAb:hat 1".sia:gte' rein in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Prematnre Dummy or Cloneureptibn and a premature grave tarzatli particulate in ourpamphlet, whlob we desire to send free by Mail to every ono. The SPeofflo riledioine is sold by all druggists at $1 per paekege, or sfx package for $6, or Will be sent free by men on receipt of the money by aerosolise ChitAilt ciIINDOCIND Co.. 0201tONTO out., -Camels. 4, ,