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A SAD STORY.
TWelve year ago there came to thief
vountry two Rnglish orphan:girls, eistere,
:whew' immea were Susie and Senate
Meyers, , aged respectively 10 and 8 yearta
They were in charge of the matron of an
English orphan asylum, and in company
With about fifty other girls stniilarly unfor-
tunate. The matrop [fought and obtained
homes tor them and returned whenoe she
uamd. For Jennie a home was found in an
tteirttoeratio family inHeiatilton Ont„ and
gusto was adopted by an aged couple in
be eirotunstences, but warm.hearted
'And generous. They lived in one of
alio northern villagee of Michigan,
.and, having lost a Phild of about
the age of Sufde, arelhieed that elm
should. fill her place and in every way be,
regarded aft they own. The sisters were
fondly attached; and on parting eaah prom-
ised never to forget the other, but always
Lo remain fond ana faithful. Years passed
and:Susie led arquiet, :uneventful life with
the aged couple who ever bore in mindtheir
promise. But at last misfortunes came
upon them and they lost the little property
they possessed, so that when they died,
three years ago, within afew weeks of each
other, Susie, now grotera to womanhood,
was left unprovided for. Sorrowing for the
death of her kind friends, she went; per.
kroe, to service in a neighboring family,
' 'andauntitwithin a few menthe, earned her
living and a small wage by doing hoosewora.
One a thisfamily was a youog.man, who
clandestinely paid marked attention to.
' Susie, eucieeededin gaining her affeo-
. tion,' and withapecious promiee accom-
plished her ruin. he soon • became
aware that, ehe was in a peouttar
situation and implored her seducer to do
her justioe, which he refused. When her
siondition beceane so apparent Mi to be
hnowil to the other members a the. family,
she was stormed at, told to pack up her
things, paid her Wages, and turned uncere-
moniously into the -street, After making
one more futile appeal to her destroyer,peor•
Susie took the train to go to her sisteett,
wheat: she made sure of being kindly
rebeived and taken care of in distress.
But imagine her surprise when, onapplying
to her sister Jennie (who had now grown
Fp to be afashitatable younglaily), she was
agnored, treated as an utter stranger, and
told to apply to the authorities..Nearly
broken-lieerted at this double affliotion-the
deseatioh of her lover and the poldnesis of
her sister -Susie, mechanically 'boarded a
trainisearcelylenowing or oaring whither she.
went or whatbecatne of her. Li this
frame of mind she arrived in Detroit On
the first day of last September; and home,
less, friendless, and with only aneftasbe
seriously meditated suibide. As he wan-
dered aimlessly about the streete a kindly
'
disposed person noticed her disturbed
e,ppearanoe and questioned her, and. learn,
mg something of her story ana situation
advised her to go to Harper Hospital,
directing her thither. She went tind-Wits
received, ba,Itra Game Duffield,
asaietati•reesiderit physiCian, thoughsh
told him she was destitute of means. Shp
served nicely .and was given light work to
do, and soon her gentle petiettee, 'sweet
• diepbsition and .willingness to ae all .she
oould made her b'eloved by every one about
the hospital.. She told, her story at a•boae,
• but no persuabions could influence her to
divulge the 'name or residence of her
betrayer, On the 19th of last Month elle
-gave :birth to a 'girl Way; which w'ati
-videlwith,oldthing andatitherafieeessariega
pro -
through the landmass Of DraDoffield 9:nd
at his own expense. The poor . mother
never recovered,but died about a week
. ago of Puerperal fever, . • •
• The custom in all hospitals.; in Cotes 'of ,
persons dyingthere wile. head 49 friends Or
relativesto -claim'. their 'bodies, ' is to 'give
them to the medical colleges for anatomical
purposes; but in the case of peer. Susie the
attendante and others' of the hospital had
bectime so:attached to her that they mild,
• nciabear the thought of her roe:Jab:fa-being
' given over to the dissecting •knives of the
surgeons, ,and: four of the nurse-. girls
'claimed the body as that •of their friend.
It .watt. given to them, and through their
efforts money sufficient to procure her
eelipectable burial was raised. Dr. Bailey
officiated at the funeral on Thuraday last,
and the remains 'found their final reating.
plane in a retired spot in Wocalmere, where
k a :reddest headstone ehronicles the name,
- age and death of Susie atleyeas.: The.four
generous friends Of the peer. girl 'acted as
pall -bearers. The little girl baby, a sweet
little thing, is at the he:vitaland anay be
adopted by any 'proper person desiring to
de ad. --;Detroit • •
•' The Moiler Princes.
Rev. A, C. Shaw, M. A.; bon of Col.
Shaw, of Toronto, sends some additional
news from . japan, regarding the enter-
tainment. at Tokio of Princes Albert and
George, • who arrived there lett. month.
There was a grand display' of fireworks,
a review; eto. but the Japanese touroa-
ment Wee tiu; greateet treat of , all, the
combatants, 60 in number, being deemed
in ancient Japanese armor. Theywere
armed with swords made or atrips •
bamboo bound tightly. together. Oet the*
top of the helmet of each warrior fvas a
small porcelain speweea- In fencing the
object was to break the fiaticet on the
opponents head when he had to retire
from the field, The combetents were
mountea, and the battle Wet a fierce Mee;
The' oorrespondeiati thinks it was a draw
battle. It degenerated into prontiscuoue
blows on the body, •The Chinese Minister,
who weigha 800, was leaning -against
bamboo pole' tehthh gave way, precipitating
him on to •the japenese Plinistef of War.
Mr, Shaw load a talk With Prince' George,
'whom he 'describes as a bright, amusing
little fellow, . .
. _
Origin orCliiirch reWS.
There is a 'speck of history conoeCted
with the origin of ohurch pews whieh
cannot help but prove interesting. In the
early days of the Anglo•Saxon and some of
the Raman ohurchest, stone bench afforded
the only sitting accoraodation for membeas
or visitors. In the year 1819 the people
are spoken of as sitting on the ground' or In
a stauding posture. At a later period the
people introduced low, them legged stools,
and they were placed in no order in the
chorch. Direetly aftet the Normaii con-
quest theta came in fashion. In 1887 a
decree wee healed that notio should otal atty
seat hie own except noblenien arid patrons
each watering and holdifig the first one he
found, From 1530 to 1630 seats were more
appropriated, a crowbar guarded the
entrance' beating the inital of the owner.
It was in1508 that galleries wore thought
of. And as early as 1614 pews were
arranged to afford comfort by being bathed
or eushionea, while the sides atotiod were
so high as to hide the Ocoupatts-a device
of the Puritans to avoid being seen by the
officer who reported those who did not
bow when the table of Jesus was antottneed
t
The Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of
AU Ireland, will be creattid a Cardinal
shortly after Chrietmae.
A sTowtor PASSAGE.
A New Yerk deapatela stye the mew
Ateatner Nederland, of the Red Star line,
arrived on Idonday at her dock iu Army
Oity,•*fter a rough weep from Antwerp.
Oa the starboard tilde, for her whole length,
the that); keg etenehiene are bent and
twisted, and nearly all the waterways into
Which they wore featenea are Wit and,
splintered; The bulwarks, are missing
entirely, net a vestige of thetu being left.
Upon this. side of the deck, when the
Steamer left Antwerp,. were four skint
heats, apparently solidly tieoured = with
heavy iron straps to immense 0.4one:hooks,'
The part of the °hooka wlaioh remaine is
not very great, and is aplit and splintered
in all directions, .giving evidene_e of the
terrible strain that they mtlita have
endured before the boats were finally
Wrettehed from their fasteninge and washed
into the eee, fan the port •sideathe after
boat is gone, and two of the other three: are
so badly etove eato be entirely useless,
Jut abaft the •bridge, whenthe ship left
Antwerp, was a house over the *midship
hatch, through waiola entrance was gaitied
to geoond cabin.. Forward of that was a
chart -room, communicating with tbe bridge.
There is not a vestige of either house or.
ohart-roona left, and the bridge is spruog
and twistedout of its original Wimp°. Away
aft is a wheel-bouse built over the steam
titeering-gear. The after part of 'tate is
(noshed in and the mete eteering-gear is
broken to piecee, it temporary arrangement
of tackles Of Manilla rope replacing it as
tfteering apparatus,
• The Nederland left Antwerp on the 19th
of November under the .command ef Capt.
• Nederbeg, with two •saloca: passengers,
twenty-eight second cabin passengers, and
463 in the steerage. For the first week
nothing particular occurred, the wind 'being
strong from the westward, retarding the
progress of the ship some, but at no time
aseuming the proportions of a hard gale,
On the night of tie 25t1i of November,"
said the • captain yesterday,. "the wind
increased to a very. high gale from • west.
aoutliwest. The sea rose to a tremendoue
height. At 4 o'clock on the morning of the
26th of •November the wind shifted in a
°hard squall to wesanerthwest. The shift
of wind seen kicked up- an ugly, irregular
arose -teat, causing a tremeadouti strain on
hull and a engines. Theehip, however,
behaved well, and tbe engines' at half speed
worked admirably. At about 1 p. • m.
wicked- curl ef a sea canto in over our Port'
quarter and with resiatlese throe tore away
the house over thesteering gear,and smashed
the -spindle .: into a haltdezen • • pieces,
rendering the gear useless.. The engines
had to he etopped as .soon.' aa it becan.ae
impeettiible to steer her, and •eheatlien fell
offinto the trough of the fiea, which made
a clean breacb over her,- One , after the.
other the atarboard boats were torn from
their fastenings We *mitt° Work at once
to rig a temporary, steering•gear, but -with
the sees cozning.atrese the deck it was diffi• ;
cult to work a and sia ()Four' men were
disabled- by bruises. About 4 a.m. ed •the
27th a terrific wave ewept a;orbes the deck
amidships, taking away • the deck -house
above the seeded cabin companionway, also
'telthertlercharta'rootitancialleita :contents::
antwistingthe bridge Out -.et position.
The boatswain was tittaidin,g near the house
at the time,. and was --dashed with 'great
:violence against -the -boat -in the•port watst.
'As the wave reoeded labor°him back and
he. fell 'down -.the open companionway,
breaking bis leg. Thai was the most
eerie% •casuelity that ocoutred. •• We had
one detttli; a Mee AfinaO, Dyeknians, of
Brussels,. a ,soloon passenger, who. who. wet ill
awitliaimasoraption.whenaiheeameeenaboarrda
and Who died and Was buried eases.. Our.
number, however, was more than made
,good, for we :have had two 'births , on the
passage... By:noon, of, the 28th„ w -e had a
.makeshifta steering geaz. riggd, and Were.
able .te start the etagiee•agein and tiring
theathip heed- to ' the ::Sea.: '' The Weather
continuedyery etorrey„all the way. to the
Banks, butafterwards' it Was oompata-
ti?Ltell.one. tBee‘ .14.4 -The cr. e1w en.f the banana
Varbjerg, which was abandoned at sea on
the voyage from Sb. Alta, N. B., to Palma
'de:Majorca, have beeti landed at Havre, •
• stew -Capt. Erownrieg Elea:
• . • ;
A.
despatch: ....received, at the British
Admiralty Offiee from aanzibatatatetathat
the -men of the British raan-ofowar London:
who • Were- wounded', in the -attercipt to
capture the dbow flying French colors and
loaded with, alaves are progressing favor-
ably. • Capt, Broworigg, ofhe London; was
on a tour of inspeetign, and had gone elohg-
aide of the dheve to ascertain whether she
was flying:the ()oared colors.The Arab
crew of the dhow seeing_ that the men in
the Londonpizinace: were unprepared,- fired
a volley thenr. aid then boarded the
pinottee, killing some, wounding others and
afriving the remainder of the crew over-
board. They. • thole .olosed on Ca.pt.
Browneigg, who, after a:gallant edistance,
during whittle' he ',received twenty-one
.wounds, fell, shot through the heart. A
boat fronathe London has since • captured
the. alabw,Which was empty. A body. 'of
the Sultan „ of ,. Zanzibar's troops • have
captured .a party . of Arabs who are
suspected of. having formed the crew of the
Emu. •larzwiertatt, who lately summoned
his tenants to Wentworth House to inform
them that they -had no lielf yeare rent to
pay, is one of the dozen wealthiest nobles
in England, and comes of a solid, respecta-
ble race, which has vigorously supported
liberalism, and nevet wasted, their.sub-
stance in riotous. living. He is grandson
Of the Earl for whom Dublin put tin its
shuttets when he was recalled from the
Vieeroyalty through the intrigues of those
who antic:waled from him a poliey far too
favorable in thole • eyes toward the Irish
people. Wentworth is sleet the only
house in England, whore the practice is
still maintained of having ,000aBienalla
public: day. It • is thou announced that
Load Mid Lady Fitzveilliern aro at home to
all friends, and from far and nealcome the
" nobility and gentry," not forgetting the
farmers, A naeinber of thelemily presides
at each of the dining tables. The servanls
a the guests are duly feasthd iO theaer.
vents' hall. On Ono occasioo the Fitz.
williams entertained at a fete nearly 40,000
people, Lord Fitzwilliara's income is not
less than 01,200,000 a year, of which pro.
bably a third comes from collieries. His
estate in Wicklow, Ireland (which conies
to him from the famous Earl of Stafford),
is estimated at $200,000 a year; lie spends,:
every, autunin there, and did not miss his
visit this year. Lastyear, deeming his
presence speoially desirable, he was there
for nearly six month's.
re" My mother," said the late Dr, Holland,
"Was Bo diffident and sonsative that she
was always ill at ease in the presence of
strangers, and 1 could not bear to see
strange hands lifting her worn-out franie."
That Watt why he and his brother lore the
loved form to the hearse, and at the grave
tenderly laid her to rest with their own
hands.
Dering the Vote ending May 26th,' 1881,
George Muller received for his orphan
houses at Brietol, England, and Reveral
rciissionary (Medd, the extraordinary surd
of $164,600.
a
TUE COMING WOMAN.
Meeting oil the Women's Entigeallen
Society an Londois-i•ord Aflame mul
One A. T. Galt Wooing Domestic
leervants to Vanada-The Governor an
Active Emigration Agent..
A London cablegram says : At a meet
-
Peg of the WOMEM'S Emigration Society
yesterday Lord Lorne preeided, and called
attention to the great demand in Canada
for domestic servants; Re also pointed
out the advantagea which Canada POs.
nosed over other colonies. Sir ,A,. T. Galt,
regretted that the Imperial Government
did not reeOgnize the importance of the
emigration question, ea gave his pledge
that the Government of Canada vas
anxious to co-operate with it to provide for
the surplus population of Great Britain
and Ireland. Sir Bartle Frere spokehighly
of Can da as a field for emigration.
An654er despatch Bart: A meeting of the
supper ors of the Woman's Rmigration
Society was held at Exeter Hall to -day,
to discuss female emigration to Canada,
The Marquis of Lorne presided. He said
be thought that committees sending women
to Canada should have affiliated commit-
tees in Canadawho should send reports to
London monthly; He specially dwelt upon
the capabilities of the Northwest for sup-
porting a large population, and soggested
that arrangements be made for the organi-
zation of committees in centres of popula-
tion with a view of encouraging the emigre, -
tion of women. Sir A. T. Galt, Resident
Minister of the Domibien in Great Britain,
also spoke. ge said he regretted that the
Britieh Government had never recognized
the importance of promoting emigration.
He hoped the Caovernment 'would:ripen
meet the liberal offers of Canada; and
co-operate in promoting emigration of Eng.
land's sorplus population to the Dominion.
0 Anions mai Historical Items,
Magellan Straits were first entered in
1520.
:Napoleon Bonaparte was made King of
Italy, March 31st, 1805.
The sacking of Roam by the Genie under
Brennis took place in 389 B.C,
In bats the heart is aided by rhytianic
contraotion Of veins in the wings.
.eitamps for taxation were invented in
Holland in the seventeenth century. •
The butcher bird is. saki to impale its
victims en thorns and devour them at -
leisure. •
. • ,,
in Rome, bankrupts were condemned to
wear in publio black bonnet e of a sugar -
loaf form. .
The nzones erepusculis, One of the animal-
cultes, is only a 24,000th part of an inch in
diameter;
George the Tiiirdas queen, Charlotte,
died in 1818;.the King himself died blind
and mad in 1820. • •
• : .
• In an edition of Ptolemy's Geography,
1540, a, double -tailed • mermaid figures in •
one of the plates: .
The eneient Chinese' used hydrepatley as
a cure for certain diseases, among others
chronierheumatism.
In China,a lady's distorted :feet, .whieli,
naked, looks something- like a hoof,' is
palled a." goldeo-lilyal • a. ,
• The disease called smallpox first meae
its appearanceiti 544, metteles. in 1563 ane
whooping -cough in 1650. •
The African negro is remarkable fo'r hie
length of are:1441cl leg l the,Aymara Iodkaa.
of Peru, for his shortness.
-
The mien:Ace:1)e showe the hair to be
-likeaete-obaretta-areund raspa-butawithathe
teeth extreniely irkegular and ragged.
• Theleligious ceremonies:of the Egyptians
-were preeedeclby ehstinence, and the peon-
ficeis were miaowed neither animal food nor
• CharleteCarroll, of CataelltoWn, long the
Inat:survivor of those who signed the
United States Declaration of Independ-
enceadied in 1832, aged 05 years. •
The Greeks held garlic in such. abhor-
rence that those .velia partook of it were
regarded se peofttne.-The Romani, on the
contrary, gavot to their soldier, with an
idea that it exeired their courage, and to
their laboreis, to strengthen them.
Atnoog the Chinese no relics are more
, valuable than the boots which- had been
worn by a magistrate. If he resigns and
-leaaes the city, a oreved aeconapanieshira
from his residence to the gates, where bee
boots are draw n• off with great ceremony,
to be preserved in the hall of justiee. •
Au ancient , and remarkable clock has
been recently set Up in the reading -room of ,
• the municipal library of Rouen. A single
winding keeps it running for fourteen
mapths and some odd days.. It was con-
strueted•in 1782, underwent alteratioithaiii
1816, was bought by Rouen for 1,000 fiance
in 1838, has recently be.eu reptiared and
just tieagoing. . ' "
The house of John. o' Groat was situated
on Duneensby' Head, the most northerly
point in Great Britain. n received its
name from John of Groat and his brothers,
who eanie from Holland in 1489: The
house was octagon in shape, being bne
room with eight windows and eight doers,
to admit eight members of • the family, the
hetabeof differeot bralehes of itato pre.
vent their quarrels for precedence at table,
which on one oceasion nearly proved fatal.
_By this contrivance eachcame in it his
own door and sat at • an octagon table., at
"which, of Course, their places were. all alike;
' 4 Pertinent Answer. '
'The man who travels on the railroadand
sits down by the side of lone females while
laboring under the impression that. he
recognizes a likepess in their faces to his
wifcati aunt's cousin, met his met& on one
of the roads in his vicinity lately. Ito sat
down in the half of a eat, the other half of
whioah Was occupied by a pleasant.faced
youtag lady. Hie first question was:
"Pardon me, miss, bat is year name
Tames? I hatie a cousin of that name,
whom you greatly resemble."
"No, sir,' ,was the reply; My name is
nat J'ames. But, pardon me, is your name
Zino or Copper?"
• "Zino or Copper? No, piet'aen ;" Reid
the, 'astonished man. .. Whet led you to
sappose 1 naa moll names V'
" Balms° me," was the quiet reply, but
thought•you must be Arst coutnn to a
brass foundry." •
The man fell -over two seats and kiolted
a bird cage half way dowh the oar in hitt
haste to got into the smoker, while the
young lady ereiled a gentle smile behind
her .bandkerchief. It was a proof of the
old adage that &witty answer toroeth away
bons.
The red clay bust of the Duke of Cam
bridge, which fell fkorn its pedestal at the
Army and Navy Club in London the other
was purchased afty years ago for about
a sovereign. A story runs thatathen the rod
clay but was found to he broken, all the
servant§ of the club were summoned and
asked what they knew about the accident:
One of the page boys Bald that when he left
the' hall, a little before the aocident, the
boat was in,thet, "Who was there when
you. left ?" he was asked. "Sir Garnet
Verohieley," he replied.
„ •
RAVEDnr PIER CORRICT,
Pine's% Girl Who Emptied. a Wrong, -
for Lite.
Kitty Martin, a servant girl in the
employ of Mrs. White . of No. 8,945 Wash-
ington avenue, had a lively experze000 with
a tramp at 2.80 o'olookyeaterdtty afternoon.
The ticoundrel at that hour rapeed at the
rear door of the White residence, andRittY,
who was at work ironing clothes in the
kitchen, dropped; the iron and answered
the call. The tramp was a beggarly -looking
fellow, shabbily dressed and of 'uncouth
appearance, but he said bewas hungry, and
the airl's sympathetic heart went out to
him, and going to the cupboard she got him
a couple of healthy slices of bread and a
good-sized piece of beef.
This food, which ought to have satisfied
any hungry man, did not Suit this particu-
lar tramp, and he asked the girl, in an
impudent way, if she could pot give him
some hot coffecato drink with it. be mad
she wished she had FiOlne to give him, but
she had none cooked, and iso she had for
that reason to refuse his request. This did
not suit the tramp, and he said that the
fact that she had none cooked dicl not pre-
vent her from cooking Some. Ie suggested
that she put the coffee-pot on the stove at
01300 and give him a warm oup of the liquid.
The girl answered that she would like to
accommodate him, but she happened to be
very busy and :Geoid not stop to cook coffee
for anyaone,
. At trfiestatement the tramp gat exceed-
ingly angry, threw away the bread and
meat, called the girl vile names and
threatened to strike her. She happened to
have an irona the surface of which was
almodt red-hot;in her hand at the time his
passion reached its highest pitch, and
when be stepped fotward and attempted to
strike her she struok :him in the face with
• the hot side of the iron, branding him for
life. The pain occasioned by the branding
procees, together with las previous wrath,
made the _scoundrel ready to do anything,
and drawing a large dirk -knife he made a
fearful lunge at the girl, the point of his
weapon striking her on the bosom, just
above the heart. The weapon out through
be dresta and then striking her steel
corset glanced off, se that instead of
receiving a fatal wound she escaped with a
slight flesh wound. The force of the blow
and her own fright Lade the girl fall to the
floor, and the tramp, thinking perhaps that
he had killed her, -bat the knife lying by
the girl's side and then took to flight,
eta She soreanied for help as seen • as she
recovered from herfriglit, ' and those who
.came and heard her story imagined that
she was badly wounded, for the knife Was
there, her dress was cnt through ei,nd
through, and there was the flesh -wound
also. "
A (misery examination, however, revealed
the fact that the wound was anything but
a -dangerous one, aid when thatmuch
became 'known Kitty breathed easier. She
gives e roost emirate deseripticiu of 'the.
villain, mud it, with his branded face, ought
to result in hitt early .arrest. . She says
that, .judging from the .man's v.oice and
accent, be is • an Englishman not loug in
this.. country; and that he is about 80
yeafe of age; He stands about 'Axe _feet
ten inehestrebeigbt, black,heir and eyes,
and his fake is covered with a dirty -looking
beatd. •• He is' dressed in black pants,, coat
and vest, and wears a sleuelaahat. The
police Of the mounted distriat were not
notified of the occutrence until. late last
evening. Had. they received ah earlier
notification, the•scouedrel, described as be
was, would not have got out of their
.bailiwick. AS it was, • he, perhaps think.
ingthathet ended_thagirl'aliferati-byaathis •
time across the fiver, and getting as far
away from St. LoUiS as possible, -St. L014iS
O lobe-.Dejnocrat.
All theiiinine it Iron Think Se.
It is an awkward' thing to be absent-
minded. The story is told ole certaba
Philadelphia • gentleman who discovered
this atitie cost. It so happened the other
day•that the dining -room of the club which
he frequents was quite full, when •a than
viho chat:iced to know his particular failing
came in very hungry. The wititertold the
newcomer thee° was no room' at present.
Spying Our absent-minded irieod conifort-
ahly seated and reading the newspaper, 4
brilliant •• idea strut* •the hungry Mail;
".Ras Mr. A. dined- yet ?" he questioned,
"No, sir," replied the waiter." Well, never
rebid, take him his hill and tell hira he has
had. hie dinner." The. waiter Wig -toted a
• moment, and then appreciating the 'Muta-
tion went over to Mr. A. told handed him.
his bill. " What is' this 'for ?" e.uoth the
poor fellow. "For your dinner sir." "My
Have I really had it?" • "Yes,
sir," rejoined the waiter in all innocence.
Pear me, 1 bed an idea 1 was waiting for
it. What a curious mistake." And with a
contemplative smile elate,.A. sauntered put
of the room, leaving his table for the use of
the genius who had profited by his ,absent.
mindedness.-Forney's Progress.
A. Comers nick.
• The oanael's kicsk is a study. As it stands
demprely chewing the ,cud, and gazing
abstractedly at some totally different far
away object, up pea a bind leg, ara,ven
tame id to the body, with the foot pointing
out; shortpause, and out it flies with an
flatlet% like the piston mild connecting rod of
a stem engine,' showing a judgment of
distance and direction that would lead you
to suppose the leg gifted with perceptions
*of its own, independent of the animal's
proper senses. I have seen a heavy man
fired:several yards into 'a dense crowd by
the kick ole camel, and picked up in-
sensible. -My harm!' to Medinalt ;cone.
The speed at which sortie wings are
driven is enormous. It is occasionally so
great is to eMISO the pioione: to omit a
drumming sound. To this source the buzz
of a fly, the drone of the bee, and the boom
of the beetle are to be referred. When a,
grouse, partridge or pheasant suddenly
spring into the air; the souod prodoced
by the whirling of its wings greatly
retionables that produced by the contaet of
ateel with the rapidly revolving 'stone of
the knife -grinder. It has been estimated
that the common ily moves its wings three
htiedred And Way times per second, i. ea
nineteen thousand eight hundred times per.
minute, and that the butterfly moves its
wings nine times per second, ok five hun-
dred mid forty times per minute. These'
movements •represent an incredibly high
speed even at the roots of the wings ; bib
the speed is enormously increttsed at the
tip of tho wings, from the fad that the
tips rotate upoh the roots as centres. .
Sandy was a drouthy carpentet in a vit.
lage in the total of Scotland. One night
during 0, very severe thiMaerStOrrn 110 was
awakened by his housekeeper about mid-
night. " Guid help tat 1" exclaimed the
old woman in great terror, "it's my firm
belief that the day of judgment's 0cene,1"
" Gif that bethe tate Baia sandy, )13
wid better rin for the pig wi' the drap
whiskey; for it wid be a pity to lab it be
Ten years of the sentence of the Tic&
borne oleittiant expired on October 29th,
and by a eontintanee of good tharks hit will
have three years and eight reenths more to
serve Were he is free,
.SNATCHED. iteeolta nyomp,
et Wonaertal Itatetalltarected, me Allettedehr
:. tho Porter oil Prayer.
4. deipatola from Oil Oit7, Ra., says: A
atrange and unttecOUntable occurrence has
.startled the residents of loraoldin, which
is denominated the miracle of the age in
the eil region. Bev, Mr. Bloyd was assigned
as pastor of the Tbird Ward Church aboat
eight weeks ago. He had formerly lived in :
West Virginia and removed with bis family
to Franklin, this State. Soon after his
arrival in thie city his wife became very
id, She came as pear the portals of death
asa person oan and live. Playeicittoa were
called, and three et the best in this section
held a consultation concerning her ease.
They decided that alia was afflicted with
what, in Engliela parlatice, is known as.
"quick cancer,' and so informed her bus.
band, telling- him he might as well prepare
for the worst. They Bald -neither skill nor
phytticians' remedies ,could save her, and
that her &Oh must and would oceur iu ,th
eltort time. Both Mrs. Bloyd and her
husband are Christians in theory and
practice. They believe what the Bible
says and. follow its teachings. If death
meet come they were both resigned. For
over six months Mrs. Bloyd has lain in her
bed, BO weak that she bad too be turned.in a
sheet. Death eeemed to be olowly setaleg
oveaher couch. Long and eartiestly they
had prayed for relief. Hopehad anklet
departed and feith seemed ' ready
to die. Her hueband deolded
to try once More, and last week
sent notice to the churches from New York
to Pittsburg, aaking them to assemble on
Thursday evening of lest Week at 8 o'clock
and wrestle earnestly. for the. tecoyery of
hiewife.' Whea one who saw her on Wed-
nesday night tells ' how low she was it
seems like a. nuraolo. She was so weak
that when. she wanted a drink she could
not raise' her hand to hold the glass, too
week to torte over in bed without assist-
ance. Her faith was strong and she said,
are well as she geoid, that she Would soon be
well. - tight o'clotilt arrived, a,ud in the
church which adjoin e the personage every
sound was hushed as the, sad hearted bus -
baud poured :forth his -feelings in word's.
_ In the parsonage lay his wife with a lady
friend watching the flickering • spark of
life almost reedy tO disappear. Just as the
olock struck 8 theinvalid,. who a moment
before could -not raise her hind
to her head, suddenly „ sat upright
in bed. Her eouipanion sprangto her
side, • thinking the lasa moment had
.come. Pushing. her gently eside, . Mrs;
Bloyd said she was better nowatnd thought
ahe would exam Despite the efforts of her
companion she got out of bed and dressed,
herself without aasistance. • Then kneeling
beside her bed she offered up a prayer of
thanksgiving, coming .frozn a heart bur-
dened with deep feelings. She then ,went
to the church. Entering,' the deOr, she
' walked .up the aisle' before 'the wondering
congregation, Who were amazed at the
sight.. Taking ber - husband by the firma
she told him whet had ' ocisurred, and then,
turning to the audience, repeated it to
theina• It Wawa itigat of rejoicing in the
Bloyd household from that:hour till moth-.
• ing. ' • Mks. Bloyd waaseenanerriday.e.vene.
ins et 5 ' o!cloek,.. and she informed her.•
'itaiteraliat he thlt very-, well f Mist she ,
,had:beehup and 'around thelmuse all 'lay,
and Was not : 'nein : tired.. 'Whether it was,
an exhibition of a, strongveilf power fos-
• tered by an enduring faith, in. something
.that does not exist, . or whether . it be the
exempliacation of the wooderful potter •
God; one fact reintiiias: The. women : has
undergone the changes asceibed to liea. Pfer
.weaknese-has-become-strengtari-And----there-
must be a reason for it.2 .if she continues
to improve and -.gradually regains - all:she
has lost in sickness it will be the Moat won.
a.erful thiog that has occurred for years; .-
•
. Experinnents in. a Itnenan StoinnOis
" . ,
. ' (From tho Louden Deity.Toiegrapli )..
Dr: Mikuliea, Of Vienna, has invented an
. .
inetrumenefor ilitatinating and inspeethig.
theinsideof the hating _human etomaoha
On the 5th int. he exhibited 'his appara-
tus; upon whiehbeehes .befitowedeth.e tia '
of a Galitkoscopea' to the leading professors
• Of the , medical, faeulty at the Polyklinik,
and ' Performed 'some . interesting ;experi-
ments With, it„ upon a female -hospital
patient frofferiog • from Clarmith dyspepsia.
It cOneists of a tube, . fitted' with 0. eat of
minute but poweru1 rellectore at onelend;
anti conneeted at • he other.With an.electeio
battery, . by. whii h a brilliant light is
projected into • the stomach, a • requiring
'teapot:don.. ' This tube was . I passed
down the; - eubject's throat; ' and . re-
mained there for full ?O.' minutes, during
-which time the' Viennese professors were
enabled to diagnose the- donditiooof every.
part of •the mucous membrane thuti lighted
up and revealed to their .0* The gastre- .
scope is aonsidered likely to render invalu-
able services to the cause :of :electreeende-
"scopic invetitigation,•which for :some tinie
past has been prosecuted with. ardor by
eminent Auetrian-. pathologists. Sevelal
ingenious contrivancee. for. examining the
interior of the body have been invented •
Width: the kat few years. They are allait
appears, very (Rattly, and BaronNathaniel
de Rothschild, with charecteristio gener-
osity, has • presented a complete , set ef•
electro-ehitescopioinstrunients to the Poly.,
klinikaby aid of which that. institution has
alreedy placed •on record a long aeries of
important end • highly instructiveobserva-
tions respecting•the phenomena of internal
diseases. • . . '•
. .. .• . . .
. • .
. ' The; Poi Northwest. ' • ,
The Battleford (N. W, T.) 'Hired, just to
hand, says
. Almost the entire crop of Wheat of this
neighhorhood has been marketed it a1,15 a
:bushel, caah. •.
• An uneapeeted and unprecedented frost
in the middle of October eaught and .mate-
rially injured what potatoes were ,still in
the ground on the Saskatchewan, .
Buffalo are 'very :numerous oh their eld
grounds between the Rid DeerForks and
Cypreas, and the veinterers at. the former
place mutt their buffalo meat by the ton.
A good many small bends are to be Met
withtwo days' travel South bora Battleford..
The gold miners, at Edmonton. have not
don.e much that year, thdivater.beieg too '
high. The tivo iota:blebs beve made a
fizzle of it.. Oliver's does net work well, as
the men in charge do not understand it.
It is timid that one day • they made fifty ,
defiers, but it iii doubtful. Ribbard's ma-'
chine is a poor oontrivaticeaand bele book-
ing around for a boiler to kepitiao the.
. horsepower, : • .. '
English &outs give summary powers to
the authorities for dealing with portions
who will not conform to laws governing the
construction Of houses, Recently the O&M-
berwell Vestry was authorized by the
police court of lAtinbeth to demolisli certain
houses belongingto a Mr. Munn, which
projeoted beyond the autherizeci building
line unless the terms cf the. Building Aot
were coroplied with. As Mr. Munn did not
conform, the surveyor freed him from the
necessity of doing so by pulling down the
houses.
Dr. I3egg has been appointed Assistant
PhYsiciati at the Institution for the Deaf
hhtl Dutnb, Belleville.
REVCILTING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
4realows anolbietod Bins Ids ChlIti-IWite
and illiothrr-10-1,nw,
THEN BliOtal irinsELF..
zw Tome Deo., .--• This morning in
a Thompson street tenement, Paoagauli
Tacuoito, aged 21, sbot and .killed his wife,
aged 14, fatally shot bib mother-in-law,
aged. 82, and then shot I:intl.:elf through the
neck. Bespattered with the brains of hie
victims and dripping with blood be went to
the Police Station. ffs ,has a chance of
recovery. There is great excitemeot in the
Italian colony. The murderer bald he shot
-himself once, then his wife, then his
mother-in-law, and afterwards ehot himself
twice. The murderer was unreasonably
jealous, and often abused his wife, which
°tweed the mother-in-law to interfere. The
latter died soon after reaching the hospital,
TIIE HOARDING HOUSE EIRE.
Nine 'Persons Burned A uve mid Eleven
Seriously Injured.
late Pittsburg despatch says the board-
ing house at Rock Out was a rude board
structure, and forty:three laborers slept in
a loft formed by a sloping roof. Two
openings for light were closed at night by
a sliding door. The loft was filled with
atraw and Other combustible material.
The stairs leading, to the loft were little
better than a; ladder. The fire was caused
by the explosiou Of it lamp in the kitchen.
The keeper of the home), who was up,
aroused his wife and -the servant gixle, and
they. all escaped. The keeper sheeted to
the men upstairs, but the flames, whi011
epread with great rapidity, enveloped the
stairway, cutting off all means of eacape
that way. Twenty-tbree of the oceopants
of the loft aucceaded in squeezing through
the opeeinga with some of their
underclothing an fire. Others rushed fran-
tically about the moth, uttering agonizing
cries, bot 'the smoke speedily suffocated
them. The survivors writhed in pain and
s'hivered in the frosty air. The sufferers
were cared for tia soon as poesible, and were
brought bore by epecial train. Those known
to be missing or dead are Petrick Foley,
Micautei Donahue, Thomaa Foster, James
Curren, John Reilly, Jibe Kennedy, Jerry
Hanlon, John Connors, John Conley and
John Duffy. There are othere to be added
• to the list. Among those seriously injured
are John Connelly, Martin Taffey. Michael
'11forgenrMiehael Leonard.; Hugh McKeown
and William:Barr. Six bodies were found
in a corner of the ruins of the burned
building,
Ptarsnuno, Deo. 1l. -The investigatioir
shows that only Pine persons were burped
in the boarding-house at Rock Cut.. Eleven
werb eariously hurt, neti Of these three Will
• probably die. . • • : •
-
y
• Tim cholera, after raging in Mecca a,nd
Jeddah for some Weeks; has reached Alex-
andria, end is therefore cm the .very high-
way by which it reached Europe in 1831..
•171.1rem Alexandria tO Marseilles it•was carried ,
by. the ragtraae, and the demand for east- .
,ern rags -to--inelib -western paper . is still. : : , •
vigorous. Before many .weekS the pesti, '
leuce. may'. he heard ‘of in the, sonth .of
France... The tilde:late reioian for .the out,- •..
break is found in the altered attitude , .of• . •
England and Prance toward Turkey:. So '
bong as these two. powers were the Sultan's
active .champions, their influence wassuffi-
• eient to sectire a proper sanitary regulation ,
of the -anneal pilgrimage, to the holy '
city. . Sine() ho findsthat there ,
ltrnothing-to-he-got-mxtlif-thein4burbother, ,
the satiitary. pollee of Mecca has been .neg- •
looted utterly. .• ••
" Briek " Pomeroy is " broke: again."
His career haS.certainly been one of " ups.... '
and downs." Just after the' war he made .
a fortuneathe sethe of his .pemoercit run-.•
,ning ua to 200,000. He lost hie paper and .
hie money, went to New York, made te
fortune there, and emigrated' to Denver . '
with exactly 52 in fits pockets. He went
intci jOurnalism and 'mining speoglation,
-and, With his usual luck, Soon bad a fine • ,
paper running, mid was enjoying an income •
of $10,000.a•4al from. his mining specula •
-
tions.. Now both the newspaper and his •
mines have. played out, and "Brick'.' .
'have to prospect soinowliere else. .
One thousand Italian immagranta in ••
.Textut were lately obliged to lie in tents on
straw; and wigiont eoaering, during a rainy ,
spell of three weeke. They found ITO work
on lending, having been deluded by emigre,- .
tion sharpers, " •
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