The Sentinel, 1881-09-16, Page 6Stin. ROtg,ing Throughout
• Canada.
FIVE HUNCHED LIVES LOST 11 MICHIGAN,
alasiadaeasaor rartnera Lose Tft&eir
— Linznsrsuse. • .
For the past few days Rees have been
• burning all along. the lino .of the Capada
•- Southern -Railway -an this county; butnot
till this week wa,s any serious dams,ge done.
On. Wednesday- night; -n.otwithstanding
due precautions, Mr. Sicklesteen's mill was
totally destroyed, and Thomas 'Ouellette's
large stock of. -hatdwood lumber., at Mc-
•. Gregor was buteed and badly damaged.
When . the fire broke 'out the watchmen
were busily engaged on the north side of
the mill, whare the fire has been raging in
Hiram Walker ds Sons' wood, whichcaught
fire from a _Canada aouthern engine about
a week ago. At one time it was thought
• that the whole village would - be burned.
Mr:Sieklesteen's loss on the mill is a0,009
insurance, a2,500. Mr. Ouellette's loss.on
- lumber, etc., Is aa,000 ; inatiratice, a5,0,00,
a Which- a2,000 is in the Royal, and MOO
in the Mercantile.. - Mr. Sielcleetessa.'siniti
Was only completed laet. aear, and was the
sbest and Most cotrt-il t he 7- 1,
'ESSOX. 1 ts deStrUetiOU will be a groat lotgi,
not 'wily to Mr.- Sieklesteeu, asta to
'Villaae Of MeGaigearana the neighbotheod,
as a large number of Men thipeuded ont
employment therein and hout for their
livelihood. Between McGregor and Essex t
Centre the -bush is full of /Jae. and in many'
•places the fon,ceta along the track, LIFO
burned. Iu the neighborh,00d of Cottaan
considerable damage has been -done to a,
- fences, etc. Word was received here yes- a
terday afternoon that a sawmill at Geste -as
hadbeenburned, but it is hoped the report a
is incorrect. •
• osvor.n rsr..lcuza nuirsEn our. ,
The editor of the Woodstock Seritinei sP
- Review telegraphed to a friend at. Pert sa,
Sanilv.c, Michigaii, order to ascertain m
particule,rs conCerning how settlers trona
Oaten' County fared pi recent fires at
'Forrester and Riclaraohdvillea The nuns- F.
bet of Oxford , families located,' in that M
-vicinityis large anclincludeS, besides others. ,ra
•,whose names are not given, the' lollow-
hag a' Family of Andrew Burgess, and m
Burgess ; o the late Alex. F'attullo ; tbree a
a
of the Spiers' • families,- of James Me- (-;
Cormick of Joseph Allison and Daniel h
Aileen '; of James Tennant; ,James Miller, to
..-aa and Jaeob Bastedoaral of Blenheim ; of A. af
• .Cody, West Oxford ; Mr. Lee, and .several ser
others.. These ha.ve all more or less- suf-
fered.. , • .
nAsrrps.
Pe
' Beasavmaa, Sept.: 8. --.The bueh fires are w
again raging in 'the country hereabouts, and
-great datnag.,e is being caused. Several
people in different localities have _been
obliged to flee for their livea. Tbe loss in
' the township of Kingsford 'is eetim,ated at
$8-,000. Mr. John'Grahara's ioss. is about
$1,000, aud Mr. Thomas ‘Gralta,na'a 0800,
• whilst Chas Ruth- loses a900 worths of
_rails valued at a35 per .1,000s In Prince_
- Edward three horses were suffocated by
' the sinoke..
!wet:amt.,
Savaesi Bensoa, Sept. very laage
_fire is raging in the Township of Morrison,
on the east sideofthe Muskoka road, one
in the neighborhood a Leithbriclae,aanother
on the Third and Fourth. cancessions. .A
large fire in North Orillia, near the Severn
• River, is doing 'considerable damage and
:placing the mills at Severn' Bridge in clan:
-• ger. A. resident in°.the Township of Ride
states that the following.parties are burned.
out everything:- Robert W. Brass,
' Henry_ Rousehore, Charles. Tingey, Walter
Tingey, Samuel Fulton andaa.Creweetlier;
John Miller, house and 'barn.; .Jahn Lock-
•'hens4 house; -James Redinayin, house, barn
and crop; Chris. Pathan, SaWnaill and
,o house burnt. * Also, Inatly Of. the slides and
improvereents.ota the strearns. The fires
are still raging.. •
ancrizoAs:
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'Dninoir, Sept. 8.—In Michigan whole
counties have been swept by the bush fires,
and it ie impossible at this writing to
estimate the enornaous lose in farm
property, crops, houses, factories and live
stock. But, unfortunately, the worst
remains to be told, for .there is may too
much reason to fear thataalarge nunsber of
-families were burned to death. . Thus far
-one hundred pars -One are certainly known
to have perished, and it is almost certain
that later intelligence will largely,
izacrease the number of victims. The
fury • of the flames is described as
appalling: ithosin to the prevailing high
winds, the inflast a able cha,racter of the
couutry and the 'almost unparallelled
sdrought, thei fires found Abundant material
tafeed, upon, and it was idle to attempt to
arrest_ their progress. No resource was
- left the, unfortunate farmers but to
.their lives, leaving all they possessed
'Nhincl them. But many of them escaped
- Min fiery graves at one point only to meet
-
the same terribki fate in another. The,
calamity as the most awful that has fallen
upon the West .in many years, and the
unhappy sufferers will have the sympathy
and, it is to.be hoped, the Practical'assist-
.ance of the whole couotry... ' •
Darsen,-Sept. 9.—It is estinatted that
500 lives word' lost by fires in this State and
5,090- people are hotnelees. People - in
.
Forrestera Township .are burying dead
• hOlses and cattle fearing the effluvia 11
• breed Pestilence. ,
DErnoir, Sept.10.—At latest accounts
the Michigan:forest fires are on the decline.
The details become More and *more hor-
. ribas as the particulars come in.,. A:thou-
sapd satiate miles of , settled land. have
been swept by a hurricane of fire, And the
inhabitants- aisined. or killed. The conse-
. 'quent distress is something fearful. 'rood,
-clothing, seed,lumber, money, everything
. IS wanted. , Appeals for add' are being
nobly,respondefito by the. whole State,'
some 'of the- ha -consUrned districts even
' helping those -which have been entirely
burned -out.
--aa--aaaa-aa-ta,„a-aaasa-s.-as.eass-a_s-a
- -leers nal. -
Longfellowhasan s time declined three
embassies.
- A son of Rev. Morley Punshon. is in
Montreal. . - • .
Rev. Lachlan Taylor, D. D., it reported
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by 13:_n. Island aaperaas lying very ill there.
Mr. John I. Wood, ' ublic school trustee
T
for Foster Ward, Bel eville, is reported to
be dying. -*
Princess Louise has s,rrived at the hunt-
ing seatof Wolfsgartep, on a visit to the
Grand Ducal Family cif Hesse- •
Mr. George Whitman, of Round Hill,
AnnapoliaCounty, has :been appointed a
meMber of the Legislative Council of Nova
Scotia.. - • '
Rev. Geo. B. Taylor, of - Wallaceberg*
has been appointed t the incumbenca of
Listowel, rnade viaian by the death of the
late Rev. E. Bartlett. , •
Anton Rubinstein hails from Bessarabia.
He is 51. Hiii mother was a musical
genii's, and Liszt pers aded his father to
allow Anton to follow is bent. Debit and
.a.aendelssolin assisted his education.
A Victoria despatch says Dr. Tupper is
at Kamloops, and will return to Victoria
toanorrow, and -sail.' on Saturday for
Ottawa. His reception haa everywhere
been most enthusiastia. •At Yale he rode
eight miles in the first railway train. ,
The present Princess of Egypt, the Rho -
dive's only wife, is a cultivated and. liberal-
.
mulled woman, She received a. European
educatious and her obi ten are brought up
bylanglish gevern e sees nd in English Ways.
Ur. W. al. Vanderbi t has given a500 to
he Railroad Men's: sedation of Troy,
and the money. is to be applied to the ere°,
ion of a building containing a chapel,
There is a _spot in 13 ttersees Parli Lon-
,..
an, rendered memora le as the scene of a
uel between the Duke of 'Wellington and
ord Whichelsea mor than 50 years 4 ago.
t is intended to place stone there witharnrncrn_
.
ora ive inscrip ion.
Archbishop Lynch has arrived Winni-
ea. and the guest of the Arc shop of
t-ta. Boniface. He will reach the dedica-
on . services atithe ope ing of the new St.
airs Church on Sunday.
Miss Maud Harrison a young St. Cath -
tines lady, who has eels, for some time
the Union Square Theatre Company, is
pidly comiag to the tont as an actress.
ace. hisicaatgop.resent playi g to large business
. a
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Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scudder, of the
entral Congregational Church, New York,
as received a caIl from a Chica,go church
become its pastor at 512,000 a year,
hich is '0300 •more than his present
Iary.
Mr. Parnell, in talking with it, Parlia-
entary acquaintance e other day, hap-
ned to say,. that as oon as the session
as over he was going lo Ireland to do v,
ea mg room, et.
•Taie conflagration in the huckleberry
swamp of Dunwich was atarted bye h'uckle-
berry picker who carelessly knocked the
.ashes out of his pipe into the dry grass. -
--Greece has a fine Currant crop—ayery
/momentous matter to lier.
4
little shooting. 'a -What s your gs.trie?"
asked the facetiousmeniaer ; "landlords?"
This gentle joke failed to ha Mr. Parnell's
sense of hiunor and there was even some
tans of the ipterventiora f the Speaker.
OliveaLogan „says Oa' t Queen Victoria
wall not sleep in a room ale a carpet on the
floor and Her _Majesty a bed-roorne at all
the palaces are covered with matting, au
the new cottage on 'Dee! Sid'_, on the border
of Ballochbule forest, in Scotland, which
has just been erected for the Queetas use,
there are no carpets Whateaer, every floor
being covered with Indian matang. -
Mr. Roberteoa, Steward at Rideau Hall,
has received a letter from his sou; who is
with the Vice -Regal party in the •nrth-
west. It was posted 'at'ort Ellice on the
18th of August. The party were travelling
at the rate of forty nailes a day. One clay
they made sixty miles, bat as three horses
died fromtlie effects thereoait was decided
to go easier. , The .trip is, deseribed as
being rather a rough one, ,
, With an earldom, a750,000 a year, youth,
health, a pleasing wife, a taste for sport
and four of the choiceet homes in the
world, Lord Rosebery, to whorn Mr. Glad-
stonemies his seat in Midlothian, put his
nose to the :grindstone an a, subordinate
office under that not particularly concilia-
tory chief, Sia WilliamHtcourt. Englaad
may be congratulated on aer ,Reseberies.
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Telegraphic blanderingaad rash emenda-
tion brought _about a scare at Accrington,
in England, recently- A.• despatch was
received at the Mechanics,' Institute saying
the Earl of Edinburgh was dead. As no
such title was known, somebody in charge
altered "earl" to a dukea' and. the -news-
-spread far and wide that Her Majesty had
_lost her secoad son. The death intended
to be announced was tbat of the Earl of
Gainsborough.• .
Queen Victoria at Osborne, on the 17th
of August, presented to aix soldiers who
fought in the late Afghan campaign
medals for distinguished I conduct in the
field. Five of the men belong to , the late
66th Regiraent,which was nearly annihilated '
at Maiwand, their names', being 'Sergeant
Williams, Corporal Lovell,' Lance -Corporal
Martin,Private Battle and Private Clayton.
A color -sergeant or the 5th Fusilierswasalso similarly honored: The Queen, who
was accompanied by several members of
the royal family, pinned. each man's; medal
to his breast. 1 • . -
'The current nuniber of the London
Graphic contains some, sketches which will
•'specially interest Canadians. The first,
Called "Quebec—Scalp-dressing in the
Northwest," is by. the • speeial artist of the
Graphic travelling with the Marquis of
Lorne on his present prairie journey. The
astonishing aptitude of the- English jour-
nalist to /misplace things Canadian isallus-
trated here by the artist's, or more -proba-
bly the sub -editor's, location of Quebec in.
the Northwest. Among the sketches of
scenes atShoehuryness are "The Canadian
Shift," Colonel Oswald's cup, and vignettes
of Colonel Oswald and Captain Peters.
a Those indefati-gable and succesaful
Christian workers, Moody and, Sankey,
expect to ,sail for England daring the
present month—Mr. Sankey leaving b
the steamer of September 10th and Mr..
Moody on the The repert '
which has gained durreljey iddertain
papers to the effect that Mr. San -ey is not
meetings is without a,ny fouadat on in fact.
going to sing any longer in . Moody's!.
The two areaifully in accord S: ever. and!
as firmly united in. their wok;as ever.:
They go to Great Britain byffep ial invIta,4
tion of Re*Dr.Bonar. and man otherwe'f
known devoted Christian work s in V.
oountry, ••
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POSTAI. CURIOSITIES. '
The inuntorsiot ,the. -English
Enormous,Business.
_
The British Postmaster General in
recent report to Parliament says : A let
containing a 21,000 cheque, which sho
have been pealed in Lombard street on
18th of January, was found on the 24th
the Thames near -Deptford among so
snow dust which had evidently been car
from the city and thrown anta the riv
The letter, which had never passed throe
the Post office, was duly returned to
sender During the Christmas week m
- b
than 11a millions of letters and packe
over and abate the ordinary corresp
dence, and `four tons of extra iegister
letters'representing a total postage
nearly£58,000, passed through the cent
office. .
Over -5,300,000 letters -were dealt with
the Returned Letter Office, 475,000
which it was found impossible to deliver
return. One contained a bank -note f
2100, still unclaimed, and attached to t
seal of another was a.severeigns which w
his
ter
uld •"1 presume you found Italy overrun with
the young American girls who were provided
in I with slender purses and diaphouous voices,
ire ' but Who expect to -astonish the wOrl -with
ted their Operatic brilliancy?"
er. "Yes, I am sorry to "say that I found
gh hundreds and lhundreds there; and among
the that number were many, very many, in the
Ore direst aistress. My attention was attracted
ts, to them by their piteous letters asking for
on- assistance, pecuniary and influentialaand I
ed sought tberaNeut to, see what could be done.
of for them. The state of affairs I discovered
ral was sernething terrible._ 1 cannot go into
Allthe details, but I Will tell you se much
in as I can of the true state of affairs in r4tei:.
of cal circles in Italy into whicaaaarheracatt
or girls penetrate. I made it my business to
or talk with them; to investigate the truth of
he what they sadcl, and then made an hay -esti -
as gation of the musical schools andtheatrical
CRAZY TO SING.-
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Hundreds of Aineriettn Girls Struttaing
-inItaly.
From an interview, with Miss Kellogg, in Ithe
New York Herald.)
returned -to the owner, who had forgott
to remove it. In addition to the lette
about 600,600 of pesacards, •4,000,000
book packets and 400,000 newspapers foun
their way to the same -office. More th
27,000 letters, an inerease of 3,000 over la
year, were posted without any adclre
whatever, 5,000 furnished no to th
name of the sender, and 1,340 containe
articles ,,of valuelo the amount of nearl
25,000. The use of two fragi
covers eccasioned the escape- of som
30,000 articles, and .no doub
entailed much disappointment. Th
habit of transmitting animal and'perishabl
Matter, !mob as fiSh, sausages, birds to b
stuffed, clotted cream, fruit, yeast, , salad
jellies, live kittens and deacl ratteastill ;pre
vails. • The retutu of a letter, posted with
out an adclress, to a firrn whose directio
appeared within, led to the discovery of
systematic robbery of goods and th
apprehension of the offenders. At Hull a
incident occurred preying the elastiaitY o
the postal organization uncler heavy
preseure. The distribution of nearl
.300,000 pirculars, weighing twenty tons,
issued by a single company and represent-
ing £2,380 Worth of postage, was effected
without confusion or delay ih forty-eight
hours, The disaatch necessitated the
employment of seven 'extra railway vans,
and it is believed that all the documents
duly reached their destination. '
The aress revenue collected witain the
year was a little over X81250,00,0, arriveclat
thus: •
•
Poplar ootii letters, post -cards, new.spa-a:478,606
Commission on 'money oreers,....x24e,03s
Conimission'en ,postar orders.;. 3,750
V,alne-of unclaimed money or-
ders 4,948
254,731
Revenue from telegraphs.. ..... ... ... :,£81:36:73:388114
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The
Total £8
was :
For. postal service,' including
ironey- order and postal or-
der • business '' 4,470,213
Packet service .„.. - 065,446
Telegraph service, inauding
expenditure by other depart-
.. . ... ............ 1,305,006
' £5,440;65
„
The net:revenue 1N,as therefore ' .t2,926,646
--being an increase of a88,a17 on the pre-
vious year. ,
The capital sum raised for the piuchase
of the telegraphs since 1869 exceeded ten
millions sterling and hitherto the results
of the undertaking have exhibited an annual
deficiency. of interest amounting in The
aggregate to not less than £1,216,000. For
the first time; however, the net telegraph
revenue for the year—viz. £328,3,78—has
been sufficient to pay the fullinterest, 3 per
coat., on the capital and leave a teal sur
plus (sf £2,462 towards the cancelling of
debt. .-
en agencies of Italy to enligatenmyselffurther
on certain points. The -'average
girl goes to Italy with a small SUM of
money, being under the inapression that
she can live on a mere pittance, that the
beat masters teach .for little or nothing,
and that she will breathe in a musical
genius and dramatic talent by merely
breathing in the - balmy air of Italy.
She finds when she goes there that
it costs much money and more, tinae to get
even aalecent musical education than her
purse f will allow, but she studies and
practices and battles and 'starves along,
writing cheerful arid encouraging letters
honae for fear friends and family will recall
her, and struggling for very life all the
while in Milan or some other city. Injudi-
cious friends have told her that she will be
another Patti or Nilsson, and she hugs and
cherishes this mistaken idea with a fond
delusion and -ambition at first, arid with a
dull dread of the reality and a• tenacity of
despairing purpose under pinching starva- a
tion, as funds run low at the last, that is
piteous to witness. Years haVe come and 8
Buttevtrom Cotton -seed Oil. '
(From the New Orleans Derencrat,)
Two gentlemen of this city, after 'experi-
menting for several months, have at last
discovered or invented a method of making
ex,cellent butter out of cotton seed oil. A
sample was sent to this officeyesterdayand
was tested by several experts,who la-vished
high encomiums upon the new discovery.
Being of a purely vegetable nature, it will
not have the enemies to combat that so vig-
brouslY and rancorously assail the oleomar-
garinCwhich is manufaptured,-from animal
oils. The inventors propose t� .make two
grades of this vegetable butter, which they
claim to be far superior to all other kinds
of artificial batter yet made; and at the
same time profess that they will, be able
to sell it at a much less price. After a
series of trying and vexatious experiments
a coloring matter was discovered that
gives the article A most exquisite yellow"
tint, equal to that assumed by the finest
New Yetis butters. We have not learned
What the inventors intend doing with the
discovery, or whether they will ma,nufac--
ture the article here or elsewhere. ° They
seem to be sanguine of its euceess as a,
'Substitute for the different kinds of artificial'
butter now in use, but 'refuse to give any
detailed account of the. process employed
in its Manufacture.
A London -Methodist paper asks : "What
ss coming over 'society? In the old 'days
the Methodists were the people every-
where spoken against, .ar...d bitterly smitten
on the right cheek and the left. Mr.
Picton -(Congregational) most courteously
conducted the Conference through the noble
library and art gallery of Ltveapool. The
President and several- representative
ministers have Reached with the Bishop
and diuedwitlathe Judges, and the Mayor
invited the Conference to an at home ' to
meet the Lord Mayor of London."
A.barefooted redman with a delapidated
stovepipe hat/jammed down- over hie ears,
and his 13)2yit hanging outside his:panta-
loons, is a picture which the representative
of the London Graphic should have gathered
in whilst in Winnipeg. This picture would
show that the noble reclman is -making
rapid eaatowards
pee San. '
A than, who ga.-ve himself out as a
Tritish army officer, called a San Fran-
cisco woman a liar at a West Point hotel,
and she promptly gave hirp a, thrashing
The /mita of the 49ers is not dead yet
assThe railroad ionductoravhe called on
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the scjuire's
daughtertwithout 'the father's
sent, remarked, that the old man
ea terminal facilities as well as a
ssaigh the garden gate.
Novel and tleicntific.Notes.
Thr.eG. ermans have as -seated morocco
ixre‘.
Zinc will stand exposu.re li the weather
better than marble.
It is -claimed that electric lights 'can be
applied in bleaching textiles.; ,
The beet black ink, mixed 'with the white _
of an egg, will give -ladies' fine shoes color
and cosinhminoenwpitihasotuetrruoib,pbinargf.isoffigures may be
made to look like alabaster by simply
dipping thein into a strOng solution of alum
svater.
In Vienna meat is prepared -on the large
kale for the Paris and London markets by
exposure to cold and treatment with pow-
dered borax.
Sir Bartle Frere lately 'stated that in a _
single year more than £3,500,000 ($17,500,- •
000)worthof diamonds have passed -through
the Cape Town Post-offi.ce.
The, Bodie (Cal.) Free Press claims that a
resident of that place named Ciuueron is
the strongest" num in the State, and. LS ts
that single-handed he placed a 700-p d
&sting on asavaggon the other day. ‘'
The kauri trees of New Zealand,-knowia
as producinwthe valuable guna. kauri, will
be exterininated in about fifty 'years unless
specfameagiues are taken for their protec-
tion and propagation.
Nevse from the Willem. 'Barents shows. .
that the past winter ha,a, been very severe
in Northern latitudes'. _ Tne veaeel could
not reach apitzbergen, and the cotrimander,
although he will make another attempt,
•elieves that _Novaya -. Zerolia 'is entirelY
en -Closed in ice. • -
A little' girl .in Broasn'e Valley-, Yuba
Ceupty, California, 'lately found a blue
Jay's nest with four young ,ones in it.
Three of the young ones were inorthodot
blue feathers,. but the fourth was pure
white in plumage. She carried -the won er'
home and brought it up by han WLIS.,
/low full growp and is still- as white as
now..
Zngineering says that the Cunard steam
. -
hip -Servicv is bemg fitted with ninety:eight
lectric lamps .- The contract is being exe-
_
uted by Swan's Electric laght Company.
The ninety-eight incandescent Ianips are to ,
e disposed. in the followilig manner-:
Engine:room-, -20 ; propeller-ehaft tunnels,
, •
0; , grand saloon, SO. inusic-rooro, 8
gone, and she has been the usual round of e
the Amasters, each of whops has taught c
her for it while,, and ' then kindly _
bade her ..to go home, that she will 13
never do anything • great! But Mary,
is wider a faseinatine. delusion, . and 1
ose who will buoy up her h
aluatalle irito the hands of less scrim
masters. So she goes on; from ba,
worse, till she finds herself petinile
Milan. Now comes the worst phase
whole affair; and, what I am' about to
I eas, .as truth, after the most carefti
vestigation of facts. As . a rule, the
• irI finds in the end that she has little a
o obtaining public success; apd.I say':
s too -often set upon by. a oe
unscrupulous set of 'imen infesting t
cities who will de all in their power, it
a- promise of 'engagemente, • to lead
away where her .associations Will be.
that shewilabe nsorally. destroyed. a
if she has it -amid, but not. great -aa
she an aprobably gain no public
pear ces except under two conditicisa
—sh must baar her. Way in or :Ake
Pallet etibmit to the clemands of those influa
ential friends of the management w
a ies ondoir, 6 ; smoking -roam 4. The
ulous-
cases. „ , -
requisite current will 'be .'obtaitied tram a
ss -The eitp
d -to No; 7 I3ree4 'dY4anao-electric'maebiee. - -
era:trent of using an electric
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f the lamp in ;place of the head -light of a Joao -
say; has beeil 11,1ade, on a railway in
1 in, Austridia,„an_dthe results_ are Said to have.:
poor i been satisfactory. difficulty encetin. ,
ops l r_teredin previous ex-pet-line/as .Was that, on,
that account of .theeenSitiae natereaof tile lamp,
atain. it ethild not stand 'constant Jarring01these the locomotives' The lamp 'euccesefully
employed was devised, specially. fora the
slier purpose and gave 4 Steady light,- illunilnat7
such ing the track for edistance Of'iive hundred
Evenyards;and-bringing out the eelor-of-signaja-
oice with great elearnese. , • ' •
aps
The greatest discoveay-us eurgery, flats
fataisa the year 1881,-is..that of .Das William
_AracEtvelf.- He haS-, snecessfully. trans:. "
.tlose-.•Phityire7a4liebn°fIlreo—tu f;aatgiTnetnstifs‘oi-fenr.'eeddiletsib- i;f
one -ittuthnIose
word is law- at the theatres. This is p
speaking; I tell you my inVestiaati
the stories and tears of poor girlsWho ca.
to me in Italy and teal Me their sad ta
made me aow. that would Me
• and:Speak of this. through the land wise
came hame. I would say to mothers wh
young dmighters are leaving home witla
lusive &earns of eqpisy days in Italy and an
easy path in success: Keep your daugliters
at home unless- you opal' give herasrotebt
itt watehful friends and an, independ
incdme: say te you, in Others, that you
sending your daughters into. teraatatioh tliat
you d9 not appreciate. They Will be :-.tried
and tereptea as -yob. cannot iniagiee.sMy
investigations ha Italy have led me t�
believe your daughterateed MAO fkoziC:
that we, have. good masters here.. I think it
entirely, unnecessary :far their ordinary
musical education. - When that is fiiiI°Ied -
then send thein to Italy -for sl.fort7Teri
to receive the finishing touches and
pertain roles and then to retain. 13etia`
they go you will have • discovered. - whether
s
their voices will warrant that Ttalian *Op
Generally you can see for Yourself that -4,tis
useless undertaking. But de not think
that average Merit will open the stage
doors of Italian, opera houses. It will it:
And I say this to you on the Word: Of Ma
thanone,=fifty, atinsericati gi
whom' saw' there as airs Of h '
could Sent tc$,,,itheir hemes-in Ansealea4'.'
_
lain .a-aate the arina- of a child whose limb was
uee pas by reason of extensive necrosis;
o =tw_C--thirds of the .ammeaus 'had,been des- '
trOO41, and ,repair of W.:me had takth
place, A goodnewhurneras was the result'
ye:Sat-ban an inch. shorter than Iasi fellow.. .
'asliaaost important discovery is reported
to:4,1*e been iretae in Whileenaged in working the lead- mines in the
rovinee.of Segovia, eevepty nerth-
jaw- .WeatIlef - Madrid; • the miners -found an
e_laa- entrance into immense caVern- hi which
are they found:upon an a,rgiliaceous deposit
and in: the midst of stalagmites five hun- -
dred skeletons men and *Omen.. Ten .
well -shaped and perfect skulls of a -pre-
historic typo have been obtained, besides'
chipped atone and qinaatz implements and
_fragments of rude pottery. •
od
Hclice Uta4kin's New Plavs...-
iti •
McKee Rankin ha,s retarned froth lila-
etock farm on the Detroit River, looking as
brown as a berry; and with all the appear -
'
once of a prosperous farmer rather than.
an actor. 40 Will have two new plays
during the coraing season, one by Joaquin
Miller, entitled the "49ers,” and a new
dramatic version of "Black-Eved Susan,"
res-, putchased bylim from Wills, -the English
Is dramatist,, and °entitled "Susan and
•Wilham." "The Danites " will not ho
ever, disappear entirely from the Rankin&
repertoire. It has strong drawing powers
yet, and the talented couple do not like to
part with it Mr. Rankin speaks , in the
Most enthusiastic ternis•of his reception In
England; and of the cordial appreciation of
the English people.
Mgt,. Queen Victoria Travelled to cot-
- land. ?
(tandon Times.)
The Queen,,acconipanied by the.Prinease
_Beatrice, and attended by Lady Seiith-
a/instep, left Osborne laat evening for Scot.
land. The special titian left Goapertaat
1.45. The utmost Piecautions were taken
forthe safety of Her Majesty during the
journey, -versa detailed instructions being
issued' to the '.:aiitions tailasay officialeafor
the- parpose, sand it was distinctly. stated
that on the aa-deabion'nehe- of the public
were to be admitted under any 'circupa-
stanees' to tb stations 'between Ban-
bury , and Edinburgh .; that - the
conapany'e Servants were to perform
the necessary work on the, platforms with
out noise-; and that ne cheering or -other
demoiastraticas Were to be permitted,the
object being, that the Queen might be
undisturbed during. the night journey. The
royal train Was provided with .it eomple-
ment of fatera, la,tapnien and greasers and
was preceded by a pilot engine ; it was
flitinsned with continuos brakes and
electric C0riumuiiicLtir A a -look -out
Man " was placed oh the tender of the
engine with instructions to keep his face
'turned to the -rear Of the train for the
purpose of obaetaiag sigiials, and similar
orders yvere.given to the guard ins the
front van. -
The saying is that the golden calf is not
worshipped on German soil, while learning
and flit:ilea military and professional posi-
tioas have court paid to thern. Sahli
means and a modeat style of living are not
looked upon as degrading. The man is
esteemed aside from any of his surround;
It is stated that Turgeneff, the great
Russian novelist, has triedlais- band at
writing some children's stories, which may
be expected to aPPear by Christmas.
New Post -Offices.
Our Ottawa, correspondent telegraphs :
The following new post -offices were opened
orathe lst of September : Brandon, No -
west Territory; Dunboyne, Elgin, 4.- -
O --
',.
Glandane, _Victoria, nt. ; art: , ere,,
Hastings, Ont. ; Hall's Stream, Compton,
Que. ; Lascailles, Ottawa, Que. ; Lily Oak,
n .-
is4
elle-
Grey, Out, ; Lower Washabuck, Vi toria', -
N. 5.; Overton, Yarmouth, N. 5.: ictou
IslandaPictou, N. 5.; Riverview, . reY
Ont.; St. Damie_ de BuCkland,
chagse, Que. ; Thwaite, Hastings, Ont.
Tile Chinese Government, for some
_ .
reason not stated, recently issued a decree
commanding its subjects to abstain from s
shaving the head for it period of 100 -days..
Detected in the act oa disobeying this .
arbitrary regulation, between fifty and sixty
persons in the city 'cf Foochow alone were
on the 11th Of June sentenced to receive
castigation with bamboo rads and to pay
each a ,fine of 3,000 cash (about 06). It is
stated .by the local journals that •bef re,. .
It i Stated that the' late lamented ,
4
liberation the- heads Of the offenders a . o;
as it wholesoase warning to others, ca,aef lly • •
pa,intelaed varnished. -
. . . , -
Spotted Tail was mixed up in one hundred
and fifty love affairs with other Indiana' .
wives. ' Spotted Tail's tribe, at sonic time
,Berro.aokuelytsi
the,mr;ismeztaribeas..
vo be:en . visited by ,
a A London-taitor,ad.vertised the other day '
, .
that, a Haying witnessed the struggle in
which Mr. Bradlaugh's _coat was unfortn-
. _
:nately torn, I will be glad ,to replace the-,
same, if the•gentleman will honor me with -
a eaii.,,