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Lucknow Sentinel, 1893-06-02, Page 2LA 1 I ser' •"' - - EWELL AND THE GAMBJIRS. - Made Thew Disgorge the Bride- groom's Kelley. • 211E BRIDR, ALSO. TOOK • HAND.; A liontreel despatch sass : Mr. -3.; L. -Payne .Seeretary-to the Minister of Trade and '6ompreice,- gave - a Star reporter a' graphic account -Of * dram -die Incident which haPpenec12 on the .noon • train from Ottawa. yesterday, and in Which- the Hen. Idr..Bowell played the leading part - "There were in. the car," aid Mr. Payne, 41-beildeS the Hon.:. Messrs. Bovirell and Angers; -several: other groups worthy of aotice; Among them were three. impressive, font not ' attractive -ifidividuals,-= and a riewly-mairiect couple on their honeymoon. he three individuals firet name Were en- gagediu a'pait-throat-game of euchre. . They wanted a fonr-hand &Ile and they invited ettelo join them; I declined and then one of the trio 'familiarly tapped- the Minister of • Agricilture on the shoulder and asked him - take a hand just for the-. fun -of the: _thing, you know.' - He also. refusedend then they succeeded inducing the young Isenedict to enter the game. Not many deals were made when the beneclidt remarked,' -!93y,,- joie, if thie were eielrer -I would :bet *Vair* on this hand.'" : - 44.1itow-muctewould 'you go?" asked. one iff the trio _ ' 1." Fifty dollars.," replied the benedict.- - 4* DI see yon," saidlis euchre Partner. - The Morley was -put . up- and the newly. trarried man displayed three aces, but his -erstwhile 1.3artner sh)swed four nines. • Then -the young man returned and -Con- fessed himself a led to his bride. But she iletermined to asee.rt her -wifely authority. In the matteirr. She sought_ he aid of the snort venerable mau on the train to try to rimier-- the lost money. That man ..hap -paned- to be the Hon. . Mr. Bowell. eThe • albter dominerce Went to the three -. men who owned -the cards ;and inr formed them that he was - (as . he . Is) the Acting Minister of -Railways and 'Canale. MoreeVer, he pointed mit that the „laws of dnada . made samb- a penal offence,- He, therefore, inti- mated - that they should disgorge. .- They replied that his - little game was a dead. Miff.' Whereupon h�calledthe conductor- -and ordered the functionary to arrest the aniblert and he would seethem prosecuted... .he conductor knew liewala Minister of the Vrovixt.. The gamblers saw that the conclue- tor knevi Then they said "Well, if there's going to be any arresting; here's your fifty dol- '; Theyoung wife took the money and re.;- - turned: triumphant to her *lifter anti-'. hip: husband.", cHINESE - - - liebbegis Ffre -Hat, Sheds and Over - Two Thepsands Lives Are Lest. A San Francisco despatch says: Infor- mation has been "received at Hong Kong that -shows that the -disaibar at Kam Ki some time ago during the progress of a - fes- tival, in which 1,400 lives were said to have Iieen lost, Was far more terrible than at first reported. While the performance of some theatricals - was in full Swing,- three mat sheds, containing over 3,000 persons, were set on fire. The dry matting bttrned rapidly and the supports giving way tell and Buffo- - mated a majority of the audience. One of -the mat sheds -Was occupied solely by women snd. :children; and. when. this was fired a bud ofehineas rushed in and seized the best looking young women and girls to the _ minter - 30. or 40 and carried them away. As soon act other people went- to render as- sistance at the mat ZilOdS, another band of robbers sit fire to • hcinsis in the different Tarts of the village and plundered the shops el ail that waiavailable. -Boats were wait - ng at the river side, and the kidnappers rend.robbers were able to make. -good their escape. The Chinese state that nearly -2,000 persons were. suffocated and burned Lo • death, and it is certain that oyer 2,000 lives were leete • TILE MYSTERIES OF BEAYTT. - . • . .4...,Prize offered tor the Most Handsome Woman who. Will Present Herself. A New York newspaper is about to re- peat -the claisic experiments of Paris and offer a prize t� the Mast beautiful woman who will present herself .as a competitor for it. . To philosophize . on the taste of this performance is entirely. Imuecessary; as the originators of the: plan -.probably recognize Its shortcomings in that direction as. well as the ptiblic; - • - The maid -Wines Waco is her fortune May be serenely', -conscious: of the fact, ,but she knows also -if she be an enlightened nine- teenth century-Maiden—that'll° sort of asset is more diffi.cult to realize on ; and that in a world where 44. halAtiOme ' isas handsome does 2' entering a beauty show is far likelier to:bring. bitter and -.-wormeaten fruit than the -glittering reward of - the golden apple. . The constitution. -of beauty is complex, not to say mysterious. Its qualities . are so vaguely determined that walleye not even reliable connoisseurs on the subject.' The outward appearance of Woman; -like her character, • has commanded .4)he • severed -study of the ..other rex : fronr,..--prehisteric- times,-and_thi_'6tily possible reason thatcan be given forthe poor results solarobtained is that - it is almost impossible to pursue -scientific . investigations with a class .of animals which offers but one of a kind to be investigated. Wherever man has 'sought the perfection- of womanly beauty he has it--4.isually in the first specimen In- vestigated.- Like Orlando, - he has -dis covered the perfect stature to be "just as hias his heart.'" - • - Bub• beauty, as we all know, is not .a matter of stature, or form or coloring. It is the ability to create a certain impression, which is more or less facilitated by sundry personal advantages. Alew of the daughters of 'Eve are clever enough to be beautiful by sheer Nolition ; With others it is a more complicated process. Some wown---I say it with respect—are born showmen, RS far as their own attractiveness is concerned, while others, with all the, raw materials for beauty which nature canbeitow, never `attain a reputation for being More than numbly good-looking. he awarders Of the gelden apple mast bear in mind that beauty is an accomplishment even more, perhaps!, than it .is an endOwraent.--Kate Field. IMBIBITION OF MALIGNITY. -: Hatred 0 Oladsteile Shown at a Botal • . : - Reception? -A London Cable 'says The reception 'of ihe Piinee of Wales at the Imperial Ineti- • tute todsy was in every way. successful. The Duke of _York' and the Princess . May Wers Cheered repeatedly by the thousands Of sincestia.: Mr.eladstene warpresent,iooking tired:and itritated. -A hostile - demonstra- tion was made by so -me of the tatra.Tories. when he appeared,which Was'cothparatiVely mild. at Arsit,but increased rapidly inyointhe ..ved inaelefice; Deapite the fact that the Prithe-Minister was the guest of the Prince ef•Wilea,he was received eventually with -storm of hooting and Moiling whenever • and ;Wherever, he was _recognized.' The .Timesregards the demonstration aglinst ;-Mr. Gladstone as "4 lamentable factr' "Theevent was regrettable,"- Sari Tines, "because, after ali; Mr.. Glad - Stora was -the guest of the -Prince of - Wales. The . dernonetration. Was - not • organized, however, but was a spontaneous and lire- ipreasiblf5- breachofet :the cenventione.- of - 'DIVIDED COINS. . ' • Hinted Pennies Cut In. film -Once. Passed . For Ilalf.pence. --: • _English half-penritee have.a curious origin, and; one little-known tothepublio. it large. Half -pence- Were issued Centuries ago by English authorities and were nothing More than minted Itennies Cub directly in half. Specimens of _these have been 1 dis- covered- frequently among the buried- treas- ures which from time to tinie have been un- earthed in Great Britain: in Lancashire in 1840 were found:A-rare let' of, coins, among which were several .pennies Of the. time of 'Alfred and Edward divided . in this way. Similarly: divided -pence of. the tiree Of Ed- ward' the Confessor have been found, and .in speaking of the discovery; :. in 1833; of a number Of these-. Curious -.half-pence of the time of William the Conqueror, an 'unciries- tione:d authority states. . that they were probabably issued from the :Mints in that form', 'since the whole collection had evi- dently been in circulation. In the British Museum, in London, are, 'specimens of these divided coins bitted under yariotte inoriarchs from Alfred to Henry III.; with the litter -Of whomthe custom ceased. An eminent archeeolOgist accounts for the divided coins by saying that this' doubtless arose from the scarcity of small change, Which was hi part • remedied under the reign i Edward by - the coinage'ef half -pence and farthings;m2d E FAMOUS B •.•• - Histor of -the Most Ce1brated -=-00ort.tigh:.:Rorgiujitmtk; ••• .. . ATC11 •ORIGIN 01' TIIE ORGANIZILTIONi OUBTEDLY 'Black Wa4poliP e most -famous Of lseottith . regi- me a.- Ib isthe mosb larnotts in the- Bri ish army, says the London News. No thin' regimental naire, EngIish or Se ttish,:ii so closely __emaciated with the expansion of Britain: into a wo d -wide power. .Enrolled in ..i7291 twenty-two _ Yeats aftdr the legislative -union between Scotland aid England, the "Black Watch". hare:_epept more than a .Century andralialf in fighting and in *all- ots- other military busines all over: .the 'world, from the hills-14:Rosa:and 'Inverness to the Himalayas, and from _ American back - Woods, West Indian' ides and Ashantie to Nt the is t . • • tlAciZta • I - • - THE /ESTHETIC MAIDVIT. . . • r. - . ' • . She Will Wear a liaby Waist; Broad Sash _ _ • and Greek Coiffure. The mithetic maiden of the summer of 1893 is already making her appearance— with a certain diffidence, it is true, but with a strong undercurrent of satisfaction and joyous expectation. You will know her by thee things: • -. A bibtwalet. A clinging skirt, worn with a supreme and frequently expressed contempt for crinoline. • A broad sash of pale blue silk. A Greek coiffure. -And The expressien of a newly awakened-. yeavold.cherub. Whenever there is the slightest excus for it, the esthetic summer maiden will dispense with sleeves. She will wear white canvas shoes hose to match the blue silk sash, and ell will receive the undivided at- tention,of every eligible young man within reach of her childlike glance.—New York the Crimea. It began its career With task of national consolidation—the supersession of Jacebit- ism by the new monarchy in the Highlands and the other day, when brusque - young Abbatthought he would, be done, once and for all, with that exceeding Strong man, the British resident, it reappeared,on the scenes of its old exploits, to sail away nail When it became evident that there was no further trouble for awhile—to its. Post in the Indian ocean, and withersoever else the Fates and the War-Offioe might aired it. Where have _they not been, those kiltail soldiers of the dark -tartan and "the red heckle?" -what great war of thelast .two centuries has not yielded its share to the record of 4their valor? The iun, it is 'said, never ,sets on this empire of ours._ It never Bete on the graves of "The Forty-sedend," The "Black Watch"=-IiP called, in the first place, from the " sobre'appeartinde " says '1/4)1. Groves, in his -recent histories. of Scottish regiments, of itsiCriginal uniform; and, in the second place ifrom the nature of its original -and speAel duty (the Watch over. the Highland • frontier)—consisted at first -of six companies, -and was enrolled for -service in Scotland only. Not until 1739- 10 years after its formatibn—did the Black Watch become • A LINE REG ENT. The reaton for the. change -weir that George II. wanted men fOr his continental:wars. But four more years passed before the Hlgh-- lenders received their marching ordera from the south, ander on May 14th, 1743;ilthe regiment, now a king's regiment, -Wss re- viewed by Gen. _Wade On Finchley ;Com- mon, says our historian, before a vast con - c • warmly praised discipline 43f the Indies. It: shared. .in ' the occupatien of Havana, the capital of •Ouba. It had five years' fighting with the North -.AntOlcan Indians). In 1775 the Highlanders Were in -Ireland, and then they returned to Staid 4fter an absence of -thirty-two years.. We In this _era of ocean " greyhounde,"I tele- graphs and short service, cannot„ without an effort of ;the -imagination, under- stand- what long. periods- of foreign service Meant' in that, the heroic age of war. The Black . Watch in its wanderings ver the world was recruited by bands of dventuroua young- Scots from n6411 of he ..Tey. • But of , the,. first .generation of Black Watch- men who sailed- .clown the Thames in - 1743, how many returned in 775 ? . Not -until the 'following year, did he 42nd Highlanders lay aside the broad - word and -.pistol. Frem that dateei their only*ealiens were the "musket and bayonet. At last came the French Republican Nark; and the 42nd, .as a matter •of 'mune,: was again on the march-. For Guildersreelsen, January, 1725, the. men of the "Forty wa "- were rewarded with "the glorious ed heckle," or -vulture plume, which has ver : since “- been the distinctive badge of I he Black Watch. . They won - it for retaking two 1 guns , from 4f Li etrong • oice of French cavalry. And now here ie -a- story •a little incident within our • owledge. - - On the drizzling night before the battle of El Teb—nel the first battle, hat ' in ", which Baker's- ' force Ina destroyed, but the second one, that in which the Arabs of the Soudan first fought British • troops—a newepaper campaigner Walking.. about the camp stopped at the quarters:of-the 42nd; "Ah," said h' to a 42nd mate , ..-. course . -of - spectators, !w the fine appearance .and men." Each private carried shoulder, a _broadsword dirk . and : a pistol in buckler, - or small shiel thrown in. _ Each sergea the . long -shafted; :. -spearheaded Lochaber axe, Col.* :Grove passes lightly over • THE )1IGHLANitERS) MUTINT at Highgatillbut the general truth of the dory comes oub in the little he does Say. . • There Can, be no denbtl that the Highland- ers were deceived, and that the- deception practised upon them wig! marked by * groan want of tact, truly Han verian. It, is:7ex- r treniely-prohable that if the Black Watch; When •still le .Scotland, had - been frankly --told that Flanders Was its destktation, the regiment wcreld geneeally. have surrendered its _exemption from servi0e outside theieoun- trye : For the Black Watch was recruited to a very large _extent fro!n classes of well-to- do, wellborn. and .Well bred young , High- landers, Whose Motive for service was a romantic ...love of w r. . and --adventure. George 11. promised to eview the regiment at Finchley. • He elidindt.lreeP b.is .proinise; and the. oNortherners. thought • theniSelves :slighted. -: .But if King George had no tune to go to Finchleyhe had time to see 4.iper- formance of - the 'sword ance --by t*Oi men of. the Black Watch it the palace. - He pre- sented them witha- gu;nea each," Which they gave to the porter t the palace' ; gate a musket on his by his side, -.7.nd a is belt, with the _ of clan warfare ib was armed with as they passed oat." . OF THE THREE 1UT1NEERS who Were executed at7 the Tower,:I Gen. Stewart wrote: "There must have been something more than cl)inmon the case and .characters Of these unfortunate Dien, as Lord, John Murray,.Who ; was afterward colonel of the regiment,• had . portraits of • Hasheesh and its Effects.. • them hung in - his dining -room." In: the . Hasheesh 18 ehieflycomposeci of the linak8. same month ef.M40843, the_Blabk Watch of the innocent hempseed,but after its Bailed from Geavesend on.. its first fiireign lus I triou r preparation loses its innocence andlieco_mlis canTsignland 1begs3o n tsi see.eer, one a the greatest cursesof the east. one It splendid disOiplii:e, AnandSOMPU19#3. °b- - report states that- hasheesh disturbs the. function° Of the systems of digestion and circulation- ; that it injures the senates and motive powers; that it dieturbs the cere- bra' finctionti The phantoins Been bei'and Aberdeen the .tendenciesY manifested : in &bee whO- LeAly Aberdeen, who has charge . of the are :intoxicated With hasheesh generally ,trish viliage- at the World's Fair, 18 Said to indicate- the usual habits . of thought. and - bei remarkable *moan. . She is-notpretty and .moral • character of the intoxicated az pretty goes but ilhe• is • a an person or the thoughts and 'passions 4. - hatemigent400iing _wome44- and: her hair the min: was epossessed on the day being. -61 a reddish cad *et brown will be :that he. became intoxicated or ab the *patent known heir:dor* when the, Soler' appear* -in-whichthe iyinntems of piles:ming 'began on- theheads of other young . ladies as. toe Make themselves - - manifest.- • Persons Aberdeen: and not .auburn. - It is not given to the Use of • hasheesh who beCOme 3noritt rhythmical; but:it -smacki -with maniacs are-apb to" ceminit all sorts: -of acts -ef violence and intird.ers. •• _ Sometimes theintoxication of. hasheesh impels the person underiba influence to Sufi. cide or the commission of actsforbidden by morality. All - authors are eimatimons, basing - their eopinion On Aurnerousf obServa- tiont among eastern peoples, that the long nee of hasheesh - Weakens the --body and causes atropy, dulls the mind and .creates hypochondria, idiocy- and. mania, -Those who indulge in haeheeekhaVe a fixed look, without expression, and. an idiotic appear; 411G43. :-Aacording to.statistical inforinition Bair sign air, and if our young ladies - have foreign lords and counts they can have something though it be but in name, 1 the -poets rave of the e -auburn locks ; she will be all the wealth and glory of ale New& ' lost one oft its 7..gietateste men. .I "cirp . deed. Hisirecialty was __ale anh enorino manufactory -‘ • near Paris, probatay largest of its kind, In existence, and would turn out an order' °Italia from the lunatic asylums of Cairo on (3orunna,..and before that, - on theshores _ • ep.),000_pairs tboots for- the army and Bengal, the majority of the maniacs and t of Like Champlain, July, 1758, during the a' -, h, His -name lives; idiots became such from abuse of hasheesh. i- campaign which ended in the destrucii01.1. of akite day, for his mann- Inmosteastern countries the iMportation, ' the i .. , - Wn that Frenchmen . cultivation and sale cd hasheesh IS forbid-. I FRENCH POWER IN NORTH MORT, - servance of _law .and or prised:people aCcestpme continental warfare,- - - "For their sakes," s - tine, speaking- pf the .11 always -pay a reipect, and regard to a IScots; man." We catch- gliinPses of them at thei first big battle,- Fonten0 .(Aptil, I7415), as, utterlyloaing,patience .iiirider thei sl#ne of their allies movements, . they leave the lumbering Dutchman behind,. and ticeaahl their way, broadswordinhand, i.through 'the French Guards. : " Cot ' Sir.Robert Munro' was everywhere With ihis tegimenieh'.:not- withstanding . his great .COrpfelency„. and when in file leeticlus .he Was hauled -out 1 • • by the arms - and. legs by his own men:; ane. lb is .observed ';that• When he I aim - mended the whole regiment to clap to the ground, he himself altme-steod upright with the: col* behind him, redeiving the'Ore o the enemy.'; The Black Watch covered the, retreet at Ftntenoy, Winning as. nit4i dis..r tinction by that service; said Lord Crawford, as , if they had ,gained i a battle. Nor Wail that the only historical ;ccoasioti of,e0terne, peril in 'which the regiment performed* similar feat. .. We see l them executing iii, again and again, during the hereto retreat er must hay enr. to the ravages- of id the Elector !Pala- ighlanders, wil - • A -HANGMAN FEELS. • -4am6s Berry Tellsi-ilis Experience jfl arTUbliC Lecture. BILLED iiTHBRI '110TEER AND .840±HEE. - ` kr. . James Berri, ex-hingman, . as he - style ° himself,- delivered' two of his lectures • in the Waterloo Rooms, Gianoiv, on the 21st and 22nd March, and -. drew con- siderable audiences, 14arning from a hand- . bill that this amiable Briton had -assisted 4 500 'executions, and had -hanged 193.. • people with his own liands,•the Writer took the place of -,the timid yet curious -citizen and paid the .penitent' finisher Of the law - a wait On the first evening. The reason he gives.• for- his public appearances is that his _experiences lead bine to :advocate the abolition -,pf capitel Punishment."Tho e ex -hangman is rather.: a plea nt-I9-oking .441itz ihdividual, of medium. heigl, _ e_ appar- ently about forty yeartetWekie. Air. Berry, who ;Teaks with ".iiestroe$ York- = shire intonation, wisely pyefaced his "Iillarhe - as .follows : ' • "The position in vv• hich- I appear before you requires a little -explanation,'beeause it is the -;first time an eetecutioner 'ever -ark- - peered . before .the public to advocate the' abolition of capital punishment." in the-, course of ;a:somewhat !discuraive and eon- - versational lecture he fan over in -detail many -of the- scenes' in , connection with recent executions in various parts of the United. Kingdom' acmes in the condemned sell, chats withthe .felons, bringing Ott -. strongly the fact that a man Who had once -suffered the horrore of penal servitude never. 'fails to express himself' as being thankful he was sentenced to be hanged rather than to be sent back to the Liao. Few criminals, he avers, would prefer a seoonel term of penal servitude if they had theoleo of the 'gallov;s: This fact, coupled ' h the exe • perience that capital' pudishmen is no de- - terrent :to • crime—there being now more murders in the country than ever—has ' mainly, . influenced him, He gives as a proof this statement a pub- lished Hat of persona executed since the year, 160.6, and when the executienet to; what are , now petty offences are eliminated it is seen- - t that the ratio of capital ,offencea has been largely on the Increase. Mr. Berry, however, is not an abolitionist: only, he has a substitute for what he would . •do away with, .and, if criminals were con- sulted it is just a question if they would agree with him. . He,said : "If a man •kille - his Wife, probably in.* drunken fit, I would not hang him,I would.give him twelve years' penal servitude, encl every year, on the anniversary of the crime, I Would -tie him neiand give him a dozenlashes withthe cat, jut to keep the memory of his crime . green. ., Nothing appealsto these people like a bit of the belt-tbinker. In this way the brithinal has always something to look forward to." _ ' • . Thist.is how a hangnean jokes. Mr. Berry poses as being thoroughly conscientious in his -new Work, and regrotadoe'Plythat ever.. he undertook euah dirty work. He s_saye - "it never was worth .xnore than R,r5 a week, and it kilted io father, my mother and my brother with shame e and my wife, whose - hair was black as the raven before I became • executioner, is now white headed, all through it.. If I could only undo what I have done I would give my ritht hand from Of my body. If the Queen herself' woulde give me the Kohinooe or go -down on her banded knees / would not go back to the scaffold again. - INieve me I never gob a good night's seep ali - the time—unless, in- deed, I had gob some of your good Scotch'' whiskey in me. Nearly all oar hangmen have taken to drink. I never eould hang . anybody myself unless I had about half a-, gilt otbrandy in me, and then, why I could have hanged the governor himself..' • Berry has a very poor opinion of jarymen, and says "they act very stupidly on most occasions, convicting men and causing them to be put to death when no such thing. Should be done. / wonder ila'y we keep on sending - our missionaries and our money abroad -when a first-rate field lies open at our own door . for the conversion of jury- men." The lecture was. followed by a eeries of limelight' views depicting very vividly convict life inthe various penal 'pristine in England. The tory�f the dull, dreary, toilsome lives of cur unfortunate . - fellow creatures immured in these gloomy prisons is .soreewliet relieved by the ex- hangMan's explanatory remarks,- studdett., throughout with witticibme which tuight • -HONE .• make a bold man laugh, buit -must have New malteds: ei making the Howie PCosy " made the majority of hearee' Vie. — » • and Attractive 9 1 • . . Glasgow Mail. . During the warm -months of suminer no I apartment of the. house is more used and enjoyed than the. veranda. : From anima: until late inihe evening it serves boli as a. • general Bitting and -reception room. iEvery year sees the: veranda - more elaborately decorated: At the fashionable resorts, in the country and city the. furnishings with *high they are decorated transfer* them into cOzy...summer parlors.Besit-, es the regular awnings, curtains should: bO pro- vided. -A pretty and inexpensive if t can, be made of Colored bolting .sheeting. They. are -Made In sections, the width of the, goods (two - yards) andare finished with a'l fold- or band of the same.; They sere rttn in f email brass rods that are pieced bun e the i verancle-rOof,• so that they may be !drawn 1 'back or closed: The; ,deep ' - bamboo l'ohairei have linen cushions in blight colors. I The other furnishicgs are a bamboo : table, a couple of - hassocks, and a hammock swung adicstr the corner.. ' Japanese cotton • ruga ean be -used if desired and will be found Serviceable- • - - • "THERE - GOES MIR 'RED 'FEATHER 3 . • • C Of Course he spoke in a tOne• of worehipful admiration; The 42nd inan drew himself up. "Yes," said he, "we got that in Hol- land, -you know, for the cavalry affair - 1795." -He spoke as if the fight hal been fought last month, and. It lookedas if Col. Green's ..atalwarts, bivouacking :there _ tinder the soft - • rain . of the eastern Soudan, had had something It� do With. it. Well, 60 they had—in a sense not easy to put he weeds. - The life of a re- noWned regiment is an indeetructib* some- thing—an.ennoleling influence, a chivalrous inapiration. transmitted with proud., affec- tionate loyalty from generation to genera- tion and from age to. age. If- you want to win the heart. :of a --42nd • man—to "get round hira;". as they say—no matter Who he may be, old colonel or brand new private, you have only to show some knowledge of the regiment's history and a becoming reverential attitude. of mind. AliO, always be careful to speak of "the Black Watch:" "Forty -Second "is good, but the , ter is the proper thing. We need, not follow Col. Grov mary of the Black Watch's career Peninsular wars—at -Busaco, at' ' atm - !in the luentes d'Onole at Ciudad Rodrigo, at Salamanca, at •Nivelle; Orth.es, Toulouse—to Quatro Brae where its obstinate valor foiled Ney, "the bravest of the biave " to the OFimea ; to Cawnpore that Esombre region :of sad memories ; to ILucknow to Western Africa with Wolseley ; and again, under the -same • leaders to the valley of the Nile ; to Oa - Man's country; Sirbekan and the cen- tral Soudan. " ' DROWNING SEASON OPENED Toronto Canoeists- Capsized. .and one 'Perishes from Exposure. ' .4k Toronto report says The 'firs of the inevitable' series of fatal accidents which blacken the - boating -season - Occurrbd last night, the Bid:Actin:L. being. youbg man named William .Hartley, of No. 27 Major street. - appears the deceased and!.a com-- }pinion named J. C. Kemp; , of '14. 624 Epaaina avenue, were. notieed. by ' Island Constable Ward about 7 o'clock in the even- ing clinging - to their. capsized canoe about half a mile from. the. shore. Hastily push- ing off in hie own 'boat, he and some assist- ( ants reached the tWoffien, and after Censic1- 1 erable trouble managed to get them both to shore.- The immersion in -the chillyiwatera had, however, proved too much for,Rart- lei's constitution to bear. By. the time that assistance reechedthem he had hecoine uneonscious, though he still retained a grasp on ,the boat; . For three- hours birt Ward and these who -, were melding him worked hardtto pull him through, but the tOterept was in vain, and -unconsciousness was inc. -oesded by 'death. . -Kemp recovered.: The. deceased was about' 24- or 25 yearsiof-age. Kemp is about ijtheir bootsi.:but of ' den, butitia-usectin large. qaantitlea. nev-• After:Fontenoy the i3lack Watch' eried - --iertheleite • - • f in" Ireland, in IgerthriAinerloa,'intheWes 1 • NET THERM BE LIGHT.. Why the Ceiling of a Room Should Never he Frescoed. The lighting of a room is oomparatively easy jf t,he walls are light; almost impos- sible, if they are dark. Recent experiments . by an erpert are said to show' that with -- different decorations a room would be equally llghted by the following candle- power: •lack cloth, 100; dark brown paper, 87 -blue paper, 72; clean yellow paint, 60 lean wood, 60; dirty. wood, 80; 'cartridge paper, 20 • whitewash, 15. Only about one-sixth illimination is necessary for the whitewashed room as for the same ro-om papered in dark brown) An English artist, dismissing the same I estion says •that the ceiling of a room; no matter how elegarkshould never be papered or fres- coed, but left pure white: Pictures can't - well be seen overhead, and are decidedly enif of place there.—.New York Recorder. .-, -competition. Exmaneman Berry in Difficulties. "Then you are not going to send your Mr. James Berry, the ex-hangmani is in, ion to college, Mr. Newmoney ?" financial difficulties. ,,He is Offering a- oom- I "No ; we changed our plans. You see,. position of five shillings in the poundto his I an ex -prize-fighter has come to town and . creditors if they are willing -to accept the '• started a echool for physical culture, and. amount. If not he will havenoalternative 1 life &sight cheaper than college." . . 1 feared the creditors will get nothing, as he -mrs• Frank 14riueasserts. aerta in a recent to filing a petition, in which event it is ' - has piraetically 110 assets. .• Publication' that pretty society women are, 1 . more citicklaattracted . by ugly men. than Penelope—Why are y weeping, dear, i eree of thisis that the ugly men are More • is some one yealeved dead! ,i • readily_ utilised RS foe by women to-exploib. f perdit4—No worse. Hes married! their beauty. '• a I The Presbyterian minister of Ecclefechan,, Carlvle's native. place excuaed himself /e- lan: cently for not sending- a report on the - . religion and morals" of hie parishioners on tfnl. the ground thatthere is ueither religion _ worse. : they ;are: by ndsome ,Ones. Her .explana— ••Equelchett• . Chappy-4 weally believe I will send guages,-doneher know„ Miss James—How nerfeotiv delig . You will commence with Engl sh, otcourset nor morals In the district," -