The New Era, 1884-03-21, Page 3march 2 1884. • lLTi 14011111040 NIEWri•
lP OE flUllr.
The City Cnii,
ilo is gaunt and thin, with it ragged coat,
screggY tail, and a hunted look;
lifo songs of melody burst from n113 throat
As he teeke repose in ware (plat peek -
A Sae retreat from thie world of in,
And all of us boots and atouee and that --
For the Woof a eat is a life of din,
If he i- WV 014,
Tie is grumpy and stunipv and old and way,
With a sleepy 1008. in loi8 101101y eye
(The other he 108t at a matinee -
Kneen ed out by a emit from a window high);
Wherever be gO88 he never knows
Quark% or paese in the widinght spree -
For the nib of a ts,t is a the of blows
If he ii a city cat.
Ple is pelted by boys if he stirsabroad,
lilt/ He nt'obased by dog- it he dares to roam. •
Pia erfssied bosom halo never thawed
'Neatb the kinoly blare of the light of home.
His life's a perpetual rr..rfare waged
On balcony, back yard fence, and fiat;
For the Ilfecf a oat is a lite eutraged,
Xf he ifts oity oat.
Tbeeount-ry eat is a different beast,
Petted, well housed, demure anti aleek;
Throe times a day he is called to feast,
Aod why should'''. nut be quiet and meek ?
No dreams of urohies, tin °wits and war
Disturb his sense „us sleep un the mat.
Ali! cat life is a thin worm iiviiig fur,
• If hi. isn't a eity cat.
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And even when dead, the cat
With suident members uneasy lies
1I1 sonie alleyway, aud seems staring at •
A looming foe with his wild wide ryes;
Nobody o. 011 1401 and nobody cants- .
Another dead " Tom," nd who mourns for that,
If be% only a city oat?
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A tenbject tor a Saliieet.
So you wish a tiny Sonnet, •
Lady fair I- •
Shall it be upon youebounet,
This most complimented sonnet,
Or your captivating whirls and twirls of hair,
• Lady fair?
Or your eyes of greyisti-blue,
Or your ii tie f. ut and sh e,
Or the airy, fairy drosses that you wear,
Lady fair?
Or shall my verses tether, ,
Lady fair?'
Smock frock and maid toaother,
Happy lovers in the heather,
When tbe hut love sun of .10110 18 setting there,
- Lady fair ?
While most kind of chaperones,
The calm cows rest then bones.
A'g,,Alie bees ring-" Love, Love, Love," through
the air, . .
lady fair? •
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Let him know your will and pleasure,
Lady fair,
And your rhymester'. Lazy leisure,
With no stint of toil or measure, • '
Shall be given (lay stud night with ceaseless care,
Lady fair.
But a mouth like Cupid's bow,
With pearls set all a -row,
Or great eyo,. of greyish -blue,
Or a something that is you,
Lady fair.
Should you choose this for your sonnet,
He could writa book upon it,
Lady fair.
0171- OF LOVE ANL) 0132 OP DEI,M.
01 happy men, the happiest yet
In be that'& out c 1 love and debt,
Who owes no Ides to WI mankind,
Who has no duns to crag,. his mind ;
With h. art and thought and cOnscience free.
Where is diero man more•blc in than he '
" Out of love aud out of debt,"
Mottcrnone will e'er regret..
To all surroundings reconciled, .
Be rleeps as bweetiy as a phild ;
By neither love oor debt diatrussil,,
Hie , reams butglorifyhis rest.
Fie never dreads the morn to bee,
For days with days in peace agree,
" Out of love and. ut of debt,"
Motto none will e'et regret.
Who's had his share of debt and love
Knows what the peace they tibb him of •
t And, once relieved of love and debt,
Hie slavery never can forget,
No longer will he bend the knee,
But sing theirreans of the free. •
" Out of love and outof debt,"
Nutto.none will er regret. • •
Per all the bliss that love can give,
Theresr more of woe with love to ;
•He plucks the perfect, thornless rose,
Who, honoring manhood, no man Owes.
No love, no debt, ab 1 there'sthe key
of life fur him who'd happy be.
' "Out of love and out of debt,"
Motto none will e'er regret. .
Net Cost, but Gene Before:
This ie e very common expression, and
yet id) true source hair been almost wholly
overlooked. It has figured an an epitaph
upon gravestonen, and bat) been utilised by
the poets and other writers. No doubt
everybody is acquainted .with it, and it may
therefore be worth while to point out where
it in all probability comes from. The writer
of an interestmg article in a recent number
of the. Baser gives•fratious. instences of its
occurrence, and eitholudee Ete follows "The
thought its indeed'n Christian thought, but
the words are etlie' writ& of a pagau. It
was the kola Seneca who Paid; *Not loist,
but gone before ;' Non anittuntur, sed prse-
ntittusatur." No reference to any place in
Seneett DJ given, and it may fairly be ques-
tioned whether that author meth die aotual
words seedbed to him. There is In hie
86th Epistlea remarkable sentence in.
whioh we reads "Death. which we dread
and ehun interrupts life., dine not take it
away; the day will come again which shall
restore us to 'the light, and whicia many
would shuns -- unless it • brought
back thoee who are .forgotten."
The meaning of this is nut that of the
Christian, aud nothing etee in Seneca, , so
far as we inn disoov,er, can b compared
with the phrase under consideration. But
Cyprian, the martyr, who wrote in'thethird
century, supplies us with something
very definite. ,In his diacourso " On
Mortality," ,Oypiiiin epeeists in • thin Ian.
guRe: "Our brethren ehould Ilet be
• bewailed when by the summons of the Lord
▪ they are delivered from this'. world; for I
know that they are not lost but sent before
( non eos antitti, tied preetnitti), that when they
retire they precede (or,go before)sio that they
ought to be longed a/ter lie those who go 0818
journey or a voyage, and not lamented."
He adds what might serve. as a_snatittolor
the Funerals-Rstorm Association, that
black garments ohould not be put on here
when they already put on white robes
there." It will be seen at agleam) that out
common saying ie almost an exact render-
ing of the worde of Cyprian, and to him we
ehould not habitat° to iseinibe the enteritis.
mien.
A iaeed 14-1111 fa is Name. '
Walter Wileoniof Montreal, ran away
while his bride Wrtited for him to come to
their wedding. Hie brother, G. Reed
Wileon, notified her that Walter had fled.
Imagine the burprise of the,. PeOPle of
Buffalo on reading this, for Welter Wilson
is an aldertnan theta, and We brother Ci.
Reed Wilson is a conspiotione merehant of
that eity. Suoh ceincidenoes are not rare.
In Erie I,tnvi Daniel- Zino disappeared
from among his friends and relatives. His
brother some time afterward. saw the
name of Levi Daniel__Zmn on hotel
register. He hunted up the man who bore
that mune, and found him to be a etran 7.
The annual rainfall in the States, ac•S
%lording to the Weather Signal, is lowed in
New Mezioo (18 inches') and California (18,
Moho)), and /*thrall; An Oregon (49) and
Alabama (56)r The annual rainfall in the
Britith 'Calends oblong the mountsine is
41 itches; on the plaints 25 Welles 45
inches of rain falls on the west side of
England, 27 On the east side.
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Roes is dews steady work on the Timmer,
for bis Pies with Butner on Monday next
March 10tb. He has had John Clasper
build him a shell fitted with till the latent
American deviling), and it is not yet certsie
, whether he will row the race in tbia boat or
the Buckle& 'oraft which he took with
him to Eugland.
We are waiting with anxious expectancy
for the arrival of Hanna, who, it le
reported, igi now on hi way from San
Frani:litho. In anticipation of n, match
with the pherionienal Canadian,'Williaui
Beach is prams Sig abeicluouely on the
Parematte, and Elute Lay eoak is progres
Ring so rapidly that he Is now obis to take
a quiet brie every day. The salient "buith
Min " i confident tbat he has loot none o/
his power, and he is very hopeful of wrest
lug the abaramonship of the , world from
Hanlan, but I am not, though 1 think that
in time We shall have the honor of dome
oo, as there are some very ileitis sculled;
in New South Wake, whose aquatic out-
poiters will never rest eatiefied until they
have an Australian champiou eculler of the
world.. tifelbourne Correspond.nce London
Spcutstnetn..
Murdock, whose death was lately re-
.
ported, was in his time unsurpmeed as a
Mug -atop. Iu one 'season, for Surrey, be
longsitoppect in all. their matchee -without
giving a bye; and its two seasons he long.
topped to 12 NO balls for only 3 byes.
Lord Beeeberough's propoeition for de-
ciding the throwing queetion, on which the
Marylebone Club wiii take action, is au
follows " The ball Woad be bowled with
unchecked awing of the arm, and without
downward action in the elbow ; if thrown
or jerked, or otherwise unfairly delivered,
the umpire ehall enhi 'no ballA" - •
Hoh. Ivo Bligh, who sailed fronsEngland
for Auetralta on the 20th December, was
married to Mies Florence Morphy at Mel-
bourne on Saturday, February 16th. The
captain of the last Et glish cricket team to
vieit the Antipedee made the acquaintance
of Mies.11torphy at a .party in Melbourne
and it vies understood before he returned
home that he wait engaged to the young
lady.
The Australian creek, W. L. Murdook, is
ettid to be in better batting form thanever
before in his life. In the six tnninge he
hadplayed tinti BOUM in &UStralin.up to
the beginning of February hie scores were
IN, 140 (not out), 00, 158, 22 and 270 -(not
out). Tne last contribution wee, for •the.
Australian eleven intended for England
thie Year •egninot a combined colonial
eleven, and is dem:grand as baSing been a
faultless exhibition of cricket. -
Money making is set an'obieot of amateur
sport in America Tlin cultivalion of the
museles and the development of the physi-
cal DIS11 is the direct object. An opponent
might as well arguethat church stervices
ate held for peounia,ry purposes simply
because they are expected to te
taining.. . _ _ , . • .___
• -The Englisli athletic journal, Pastime,
whioh has for its motto, "Piny not for gain,
but sport." is devoting considerable optima •
to thOdisoussion of the amatedr.
Arthur L. Richardson, of Hamilton, Ont„
who is to play short•etop for the 'Detroit
League Club the coming seems:in, has been
in practice in a hall in Hamilton for some
weeks. ' Fred, L. Wood, who is to be change
catcher, practices with him. , They are said
to have Indian clubs, trapeze, runningand
ball exeroise four hours each afternoon, and
are getting in fine trim. Richardiron is a
fruit base runner, and says lie- was never
'running so fast before in hie life.Rearden
who is signed to play withthe Chester,(Pa.(
Club, also prim:nit:me with them.
The international (Rugby) metal between
representativefifteeno from Scotland and
Ireland came off in Edinburgh on Saturday,.
Feb, 164h. 'There were 8,000 spectators.
The Sootstmen won a capital match by two
goals and two Wee to one try. ..
A 'wrestling match between a woman .and
a an ie deeeribed by the San ,YratieiniO
journalo. The 'woman was leas than 19.
The ems:meters Which lasted five or 81X,
minutes, wits w confused struggle/ the
wreetlers hugging, grappling and tumbliog
about in every conoeivabie poodle°, and,
this was varied ocartaionally by the girl
being thrown to ,the . ground and almobt
literally biting the • dust. It is admitted
that the male wrestler did his beet not to
burt.his fair antagonist. and in the end she
came off victorious, 9.11 bed no doubt been
arranged beforehand. Yet, in order to
keep up the delubion, the woman got eon-
siderably hurt. . •
The National 'Aerosols Assocfation of
Canada will hold their annual' meeting in
Toronto on April 10th, and 11th. The
Montreal Club have Wen notice thatthey
will move to have the ohanapionehip rules uo
. amended that the reeult of one match will
;not decide the' ohampionehip, but, instead,
the club winning the majority of 8 series of
matches tu be entitled to the champion-
ship pennant for the following Beason.
Body checking will aleo write up for dis-
°Ortolan. . .
Mexican Girl! ey na ThArr.
The rich are so very rich -that they have
no ambition; the poor so desperately poor
that they have no hope, to epeak of. The
-
daughters of the wealthy posh their lives in
vacuity: those of the poor are so poorly,
fed and dreseed that they nearly all iook
hunger-titten and illdeveloped. There are
no lyceum debating Mahe., dramatic asso.
-Mations, pithlio leoturew limos or any
athletic eports, in which the' women can
join. They are as completely without good
Amp° as any set of 'women I ever saw. I
doubt if there. are a dozen good forms in
this city, and as to lege and feet -Apollo,
bless no l -the stockings of an average
Hoosier gild would go twice Around a
Chihuahua belle. A reeident phybician
tells Me that the health of the,
higher class women is wretchedly poor.
Very few of them inn nuns their
own children. They usually raarry at
from • fifteen to seventeen and are care-
worn at twenty-five. This physioien
admitted to introduce bicycle'', but the
young )adios had' neither strength to
manage nor perguatence to muster them.
...A.-few.hatuniooks were sold here, but the
feeble things _nearly broke their necks in
sitting out of them. A really plump,
vigorous healthy woman of the „wealthy
dames is % rarity, though inany of them
have a sort of . languid beauty. Pender
these thing in your heart, and the next
time you nee "beautiful senorita" swing.
ing in voluptUous' languor (on the top of a
oitiar.lox) in a gorgeous hatilmock, with
selmate wreaths of amoke oirelinglrom her.
pretty roee-bud lir, you will know her ft
kne priuteo hnnibug ohe is. As te teal
beauty, that whioh satisfies the heart of the
natural hsttor.I Can find you more td, it in
one class of Indiana high-echool girls than
in the whole "State of Chihuahua -if this
city is a fair lipeOiMen.--Froni a Letter
%from Mexico.
The total nuixiber of journals publiehed
'in Great I3ritain is 2,015, and the° total
nemberof DaliglIZILlea 1,260. Of the journalo,
Lendon haii 401, thetrownoes 1,177, Wales
80, 'Scotland in, Ireland: 156. and the
Channel Islands and Man 20. Acoording
to another classifieation, 179 of thorn are
dailies. Of the magazines, 382 have a
religious bander. •
GIOIDIDOIrre 1/161J141414111T.
irhe Tattier eV the Nemdati'm Dieregard et
/Filthy "mere.
When the letter of the King cf the
Belgians ;embed Gordon, inviting him to
take charge of the Upper Congo and to en -
cleaver to extirpate elavery there, the
General wati living on the Mount of °liaise,
studying day by day the topography of the
Holy Sepulcbre. People may wonder how,
baying made preparation» for his Weetere
African expedition, and beingsou the point
of startles for the Congo, hi could eo sud-
denly alter his plans ttttidj,dij forth for the
Nile. Tho fact itt that/ Gordon despise',
" preparations " and 'Tenses with them.
When, being roturneij to London from
Brustgels, he bad an terview before do
porting for Egypt wib a friend intereeted
in his IniBbiOn, convereation.of the follow-
ing nature -if not in these precise words-.
took talsee :
"Have you got your kit ready, General r
"I have got whet I always have. Thiii
bat is good enourwurl so are these
clothes." I eball I as I am; my boom
are quite strong."
" Aud how are you off for cash ? You
must have some ready money."
"Ab I I forgot it. Yea. I forgot that I
I had to borrowtive and twenty pounds, by
the ny, from ,the King of the Belgians, to
get over here. -1 Of course I must pay this,
and 1 shalt want a little more."
" How much? Would one or two thou-
sand ,pounds do, in notes and bills ?"
Ob dear, no 1 A huudred pounde
apiece for myself and Stewart will be
enough. What ou earth do we want more
for?" Thus the frugal hero departed, we
believe, with no more than £100 in ready
money, pet meeting an old and valued
Soudaneee acquaintance in Cairo, who
was very poorly off, Gordon oculd net
zealot the claims of '1 auld lang
syne "-even when' played on the black
keys -and lent or gave hie old African
friend the greater part of his travelling
money. He has always shown a °limiter
contempt for that which in the object of eo
-many desires. At one tune in his chequered
life he possessed, we believe, a eum of.28,-
000, and an intimadsfriend webbed Lim to
purse it in safety at proper interest,
replied he himself could talie all
,Gordondue oare of it, but the sum became reduced
to £2,000 by secret charities and benefao-
Mons within a year, and six months after
that his friend diecovere(1 that only £30
remained of the original amount.' The
root had gone to "the poor and him that
bath no helper." •
It might Ao thought that thiegenerous
nature had for its background of support a
robust and almost rude good health. The
contrary SO etrangely the ease. • Gen: -
Gordon is a martyr to BOMB obecure form
of heart disease, which has compelled him
to relinquish the solace of smoking, and
°Mimes almost prostrates bim.--=-London,
Telegraph.
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Evidences of- the Deluge:
Thorto is a mountain in North Wal
called &Mel Tryfan, which io part of t
Snowdon range, and upon which there is
very valuable elate quarry at a height
1,390 feet above the present level of the BO
In opening that quarry an immense bed
gravel was build upon the top: This grey
ociuld not have been formed by mere diai
tegration of the soil, ' became' it is full
ea shell') as perfect as they can be fouad o
he sea shore, dead Wiens, that* not shel
which apparently ever lived there,
hallo both of ' the shore and the deep no
which had been drifted there in the midd
ravel.. These shells are -heaped pell we
O the gravel on the. top of this mountai
nd I believe that -every geologist ..admi
hat this is marine gravel. I take it the,
t ie quite a Round conolusion that the se
ad been up to the top of thatmountain i
ery remain times, or that the mountal
ad•been down to the level of the sea.
taw; isseeond conclusion from this fact
hat the Bea WAS not a permanent sea:
as not the -6,8e that the mountain forme
he bottom of the ocean for utanY year
wawa we Phould then have had depoeit
ith Bbells living and (bring, as in the'oas
f the sea terraceb &Berthed by Mr. Smith
f jordanhill. The Bea, has been wieentiall
n
raaitory in its operation. The second o
he ' 'conditions of the 'Deluge '
oie way' fulfilled. Thirdly, it was turoul
tioue. It • has • no marks ot qui•e
Offing. These . being the facts, wha
re the rionolusione that follow? I
probable that , the • mountains o
ales alone were 1,400 feet lower than
ey are now? There might be very local
ery partial submergence' of volcanic moue
ins under the sea. • But what I litiae des
ibed happened, not in volcanic district
nd Meal Tryfan is not, a volcanic, nioun
in But we are not left altogether to
esumptive evidence upon this Etubjeot
e have similar gravels all over the °atm
es of•Lsnotishire, Cheshire, Staffordphire
d Worcestershire. In Cheshire they arc
nod near the towns of Maooleefield at
200 feet above the level of the sea, and
ry mud* under the sena° condition. I
ill, therefore, that there itt fair evidence
at the subinergenoe of the:Stand, wbioh in
orth Wales amounted to about 1,400 feet,
tended over the whole of the Britiah
uds --Duke ot Argyll in Good Words.
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The nitIllenaire.
Who is this hard-working man This is
the millionaire, the manwho wanted to be
rich and has got rioh, and is getting richer
every day. Is he the happier for it?
Happy? Blesa your boulr bee more miner -
able, fuller of OSLOS and • anxieties end
harder work than over. He is the veriest
'slave of them all. He is imbed with
business and businees is pushing him. He
has no wady irons in the flre that some of
them are burning his fingers while others
are getting cold. His presout life la a rush
from the meeting of this board to that board
and thence to some other board. He is
direotor of this oompany and trustee in
that and silent' partner in another, world
witnout end, and more coming. He hasn't
time to oat and hardly to Aleep, and when
he does lay hie poor head on the pillow he'
can't stop business plans and .sehernes,
.hopes and fears from whirling and whirring
through it. He can't take a day to spend
in quiet out of town, and if he could he
would 'take all of his bubiness with him
into the woods. He is a slave and a victim.
Elie millions in bank don't bring him eo
much enjoyment As does a new fentoent
piece given to a boy 10 years old. E(e's
infected with the mania for getting and
the more he gets the raore he Wants. If
you could see him jilt* AS be is and where
he is inevitably going, and how, he is going
there, you would only pity him. He is one
of the oomieg victims of -dementia pitraly,
tit:teethe prevalent ailment ataong no many
Wall street men. -Graphic,
°Mamie Diokens, daughter of the noVelist,
says her father's study was to the obildren
" rather, a mysterious laid swe.inspiring
-chamber, and while he was at work nobody
was allowed to bnter it." The little ones
had to path the doer as quietly as poseible,
and the little tengttett left off °Littering:
But at no time tbroMth his busy life was
he ever too busy to think of them, toaniwas
them, Or to interest him1401/ in all that
Concerned them."
TeleQVkLW NIIW 8001j,A WT
Oharecterhoole Cillorplogio trent ‘,0 Lite 10the isighisoods.“
At length Brown ran off to a cottage and
returned after some little while with a oat)
ull of hot water, but it was no longer boil,
tug when it armed, and the tea W88 nOt
good. Then all had to be packed, and it
made us very late.
Oue of the Duke's keepers had prepared
a fire and got a kettle beilieg, said here we
took our tea. Afterwards I sketched, but
we were eurrounded by it perfect cloud of
midges which int me dreadfully.
Aud there the poor' old woman, whom we
had known and eeen fromi the first here
these twenty-one yeare, lay on her bier in
her shroud, but with her tuna! cat on,
peaceful and little altered, her dark thin
taking from tbe usual terrible pallor of
death. She had on the eooke I gave her
the day before yesterday., She was iu her
89 oh year.
And very melancholy, and yet meet,
were my feeling,' when I landed and found
on the path oome of the same white peb-
bles which my deareet Albert had picked
up and had made into a bracelet for me.
I pioked up and carried off *handful my-
self. ,
This was the only contretemps to our
most buccessiule enjoyable day: How dear
last Albert would have enjoyed it!
MtioAltistee had broiled some fish and
got tea ready for us in a, very Brasil room
upstairs m this little oottage, where there
was a fire. I had my ooffee. We ladies,
and Leopold, all squeezed into this room.
It was a very merry tea.
We met those dreadful reporters, rebind
ing the man who behaved 80 ill on Satur-
day, as We were corning back.
Odd Happening's ,
Mrs. Thompson offered a New York Jas.
Noe twenty-four eggs she had brought in her
pocket, in consideration ,of his promise to
go light on her boy for stealing.
Francis Voile, a New York boy- of 15,
wants 020,000 damages for •htiving hie eyes
picked out by Philetue Dorlan's game cook ,
when Voile was but two years old. .
Terrance Campbell, a one armed operator
of Hartford, climbed a pote in three minutes
the other day and cleared the wiree of an
.En tanglement. • , .
B. S. Shelden, of Buffalo, bought a New-
foundland dog for his boy to play with. Tbe
animal pined after leaving home, and it few,
days later drowned himeelf. '
• A eitizen of Washington has flagella mo-
ments when he believes he is going to buret,
and his family have to pour oold water On
-him until, the strange delusion passes
John Trapp, a New York upholsterer,
because beelines watt bad,said to hiciptioner,
" Corne on, let's go outs and hang °undies."
His partner refused, but whhi he left him
.alone_for a time Trapp cut hie throat with -
au upholsterer's knife.
One hundred citizens of Anoka, Minn.
chartered it train 'List Sunday and went to'
St. Cloud to be shaved, the Anoka authori-
ties having forbidden 'Sunday opeuing of
• barber shops. They returned in time for
church in the evening Attended in a
body with clean faces., • ,
Factor and Figures.
At present about 19 000 persona are
exiled to Siberia annually, and about 6.0
• per dent. are noble's • •
In France there are 2,150 lady artists, of
whom 602 are oil painters, 107 soulptors,
,103 miniature painters; and 754 painters on
porcelain.
Russia' produces annually about 114 000,-
000 worth of honey, or .over 18 000 tons,
'beeidee 5,000 lbs. -of wax, worth $2 000 000.
It is nearly ad (unnamed in the empire,-
however. .
There are said to have been 500,000
Chriatiantrin-the world at the end of the
first century, 10,000,000 in the time of Con-
stantine, 30 000,000 in the:eighth century,
100,000 000 at the time of the Reforination
and 450,000,000 in 1883. .
, The imports of wool in the United States
have _increased since 1876 about 75 per
cent., and laet year wan 70 575,478 lba.
The home clip has 'increased about 35 per
cent., a,mounting now. to 290,000.000.1be.
,annually, „
' In New Ycrrk city, according to some
flatiron 'recently published, there are more,
than 800 rag dealers, and the pickers, who
are mostly Italians, gather 6750,000 worth
yearly in the streets and roads, while the
money realized for cotton rage alone 10 the
United States is tut at $22,000,000 per
annum. • .
- Trementioiaa4alat.,
Whatever they may say, ell that they
are doing at Paintma looks to the. conatruc,
tion of a canal that nowt have 124 feet
lockage*, and will then nest 1200,000,000, in
addition to the 6100,000-000""tialled- 111 .081
stook or 'obtained on bonda. About
620,000,000 has gone to the founders and
sub -founders; about au much more for the
purchase of the ,RtiLiaM11 Radioed, and 1,0
per cent. in advertising and extra, fee to
bankers; and as much more to'siontraotore.
Lora bonus. I have from an enethecir, ooh.
varmint with the work, that every cubic
metre of bard grotind exes,vated wets 11250,
which in fiver times what it bhonld oast even
there. But the difficulty, even for a leblt-
canal, is to get lid of the exeaVated
material.' An enormous aniount-of,,sicoav!ii
tion will be required to get pioper slopea in
the Calebra out. This is almost wholly in
earth, and the summit level of the railroad
its a mere "hog's back "--that is ''to say,
it, has very steepgrades on both Bides. The
out was made only twenty.five feet deep,
becalm.° of the tendeisoy of the earth to
elide. In fact.a, train was °aught in this
gap by a elide, and it required days, to dig
it out. The earth had to be carried off in
buokete and it was like putty. If the cane'
has a lookage 01 125 feet then the deep out
-will be at least 200 feet. So you see what ,
a out in width it. muet he, and what the
land slidee will be after heavy .raitis.-.
.Rear -Admiral Ammen '
Jay Gould said: "11 X were M giVe a
dime to charity where dollars are demanded,
I vvould- be bankrupt within, a year. One
half of the world enema to be engaged in
begging of the other half:"
Tim Mexican papers boas the political
nomination& No conventions are held
and the journals begin a discussion of can-
didatea about a year previath
us to e Preei-
dential election. Next they "postulate," Vi
Or nominate certain candidates. At e
head of the paper will appear, " We Posta-
late" so and so,naming the journal's eheiee.
Then, on eleation day, the voters assemble
at the polling plows, and Mk deposits a
written ballot for elector% who are to oon..
stituie the Electoral Board of the, State.
The law stipulates that the ballot must be
written, and a table, with paper aud writ*
Ing utensils, is provided beside the ballot
box, and the balot ratist be written - and
itainecliately deposited under the inspeotion
of the Supervieor. Sometlines the voters
of the different parties will meet a few
hours previews and agree upon some midi.
date, but usually wadi voter has made a
isheioe of candidaths without any pressure
from patty machitierY.
is 8 Al BAWL
I/ he itoisumde Youth mad Grasping 1e
at as ironing siestekaawy,
(N
Williana MaolcieY.World.,aSotch lad, hired it
small zoom in a house on Nostrandioventie,
Brooklyn, about 50 yeat age. Be was shout
20 yearn old and a good minion, ITO WEE /1,
eamiug and industrious youth and n ad t no
oequaintonces exceptIti kuo buhinesa After
five years of residence in Singe °minty
Mackie went to New Jersey and boarded
with Elesakiah Trimmer, a former. There
he etudied oivul erigineeriog and in N ehort
tune be)ame one of the most reliable
builders of railroade ia the Scat,. For 19
years he lived with the *Jersey former,
adding to hie money day by day, and upou
ine departure to the West, about 25 yeors
ago, he was reputed to be worth
550,000. Mackie went into the
mining business, and subeequently
made the acqueintance of Ididney
Dillon and other seethe:nen- His vvisole
ide wive boutid up itt the one purpose of
makiug stud saving money. Two years ago
the prupzietor of a frontier hotel reoeived
Ms.okie as a gueat of the house. The
Scotch lad had turned into gray -headed,
sbrivelled old man, wearing ragged clothes
and fleeting hitineelf the necebaariea of lite
Ile heed alone in We room and, though
possessed of 9150,000, starved himself to
death. But one executor to the estate
(maid be found, Julius Davenport,
of Brooklyn. Tim portioulare of the
death of Mackie were published
in English, mind Soot** mien, end
Ur. Daveeport finally tient to Scotland to
look tit the beire. He travelled throileh
Wigtonshire, Scotland, and there heard a
romantic tale MAW) Mackie family., An old
'mimeo, with -eyes almoet d nu and hair I:ar-
t.:1;30y white,wept wheo the heard how Mao-
lue.had cited. She asked for some giouveuir
by whieli tri'remembet hiro, but the executor
had none, and then she ,etvid she would go
to Atneriatv and see his grave. The people
of the village eat& than lotif a century
before Mackie ansi the, white.heacled-old-
wonan, were lovers, and she had refAsed
all otters of ma,rriage through her life, heti.
ing for the return of Mitelde. When the
news, however, had became fully known
that there were $150 000 to be divided
mixing the bistro, then every haudet ia the
country gave birth to an heir, and Surro-
gate Thorpe, of Brouklynswbo has control
of the, estate has received hundreds of
questions 181 regsrd to It. 11- zelnab Trim-
mer, the Jersey farmer,. 801I11 in a bill of
$10 000 for boarding Mackie for nineteen
years. Ile said he •hosi lived along for
twenty years in the hope 'that Mackie
would remember him in his will. Mackie
did not, however; but divided hie estate
between his brother Alexander and
Mary, hie niece. The former ov-
a° • be found, and the girl Mary
is said to be an illegitimate child. The
nearest relative, according to the laws of
this -State, who can inherit, is -a maternal'
mum, a man ninety years old named
Audrew Gordon, a farmer of Wigtoushire.
Messrs. Alexander it Green have been
retained by a dozen other heirs, who claim
that Mackie .bad au' intentien to return to
Scotland again, and hence the personal
property mint be placed' in the Scottish
courts, which would, give the dozen other
heirs a chance. Farmer Trimmer says
that Mackie •promined to buy him a farm
for 67,000 and to stook it with horses and
cows. The Court awarded him 84,509,and
the exeoutor of the estate has carried the grown again. While at work the coolies
,Wear their pigtails wound up en the baok •
of their beads; but when they have occa-
sion to pteeent themselves before you, it is
invariably unwound. For a Chinaman 10 °
appear in your presence with his pigtail in
a knot would be equivalent to your entering a drawing -room in America with it hat ,
on and your pante tucked in your beets,—
Salt Lahe Tribune.
2 HE LocArioN O rAutiono
A" Areoieseat Prove That Ole Garet*
of Eden Was at tbe,Plerti P.I.
A discussion took place before the Boeton
Evaugelical Allisoce the other day upon
the locution of the Garden of Eden. The
ttev. Dr. W. E. Warren, President Of .the
Enton University, read au elaborate paper
Hs et:ippon of the theory that Adam' i isbode
*ea at the tn Pole. The speaker said
that he first began, to study the subject
tenawie he had Sound that td1 rel.giutri
wiiyere wese,completely in the dark in r*-
IlArdhe10 11. True
Key
hreetot "At: cret gpohoe° sPaluogb1018Rd81 ),
in whioh the eaeth Res soppiest(' to . , 0,
sphere wi hi au exactly peependuadar ax a
The northern Or celestial pele was then
deemed the abode of the gods+, the Booths m
wad that of the demons or ev 1 evince, while
the intervening lauds were the habitations
of ebtides7ei"
TliePdividcd into five general
lines of inveritigalaun, a, follows: First,
the rethlts of explorera ; thoond, the
11) potheins that the garden was on a pre- •
hietotia math, wlibee conditione of Matters-
ture and opernegoey were different from the
preoeut ; third,the hypotheeis teeted under
the Holt of modern , science, includiog .
blistery, hotanb, zaolt.gical and typogrephi.
eel, sea palteiutolegy • fourth, tht3 coinci-
dence between the tispothetio, the ethnic •
tradition, each 11111 the old Rade°, Aryan,
and.Seinetio cheits.;, Mtn, the 'hypothesis as
agreeing with details of historic feet not
included in the other divisions, etch as the
Scriptural acnotthii of the, paradioe, the
.ccsireritie tree, the four -branched river, etc.
At the North Pc le less than one:fifth of the
t, me Itt epene in dorknese, and more than'
lour -tithe Au light. Hawse it le easy to
belivTe t1ii realm to be the one referred to
se tbe laud -or light and beauty. Such a
laud befcre the deluge might well have
been the sided° of men of extraordinary
strength, aud stature; and longevity. The
popular impressieth that tbe far north has
ever been the region of 'Unendurable cold
-has been generally accepted. Science, how-
ever, bee shown that the earth is a
gradually cooling body, and it was conceiv-
able, OD actin:Milo reasone, that the regionti.
which first reached the tenaperattire to sus- ,.
Wu organic life were at the pole,.and, con-
seqizently, the life of the race tnight natur-
idly have been there. Aetronotny ehowts
that this region is more favored as regards
light than,any other. 'No mote than two ,
separate fortnights are pulsed in darkness,
and these are relieved by the stars and the
aurora borealie. The exact length of the
pular day its an unknown quantity, and oan
be determined °ply by observations • on the
, spot. Whoevei seek° • a location for the
terrestrial paradise, •with respect to light
and darkness and celestial Panay, mint
beak it at the Arctic pole. •Proofs were
indicated to verify the esistence of a great
conduent around the North Pole before the
with-ite being the audio of the human
rdaeoleu.ge, with a flora and fauna consistent
••• -••••
ale C. fury 01 8 Chinaman in Mix
It is curious that what at first was the
token of Chilies° subjugation at the hands
of the Tartars, the pigtail, has now become •
the pride and glory of the race. Cut ofi
the queue of a Celeetial, and suicide is the
only honorable course open to him. If he
is especially tenacious of life'however, he
max don a, false article until hie hair has
case to the General Term.. People are also
coming horn the weat, and • it is , said a
woman 'claims that she was marritd to
Mackie twenty years ago, and, that he
deserted her became of the expense of the
domestic' establishment. The executor
feels certain, however, that ail such claims
will be set aside and the old man Gordon
will alone inherit.
. • •
a tRAnaiscsnokiley.,:,tist.o•of Texas.who lute. seen the
big meteor that has been dug up in Lth
Angeles, deedribee it as " about the size of character of late is likely to be soon intro-
duced lino the 13Citieh Legislature.
medicines; some of which -have got a bad
•
A bill to regizIate the sale „of patent .
t to be poor. . Whatever you There are 90 Englieh electric . light' own.
have, spend lees. Poverty it) a great enemy piniee, with a total capital of $26 000000.
to human happiness. It certainly destroys. •
liberty, and it makes some virtues impact- It .i ,
e repotted that Plunger Walton wid
tioable and others extremely difficult. ., sell for the other side about the last of the
'prepent month. .
• . . _ • N .
. 0010 IS UNACQUAINTED WITH THE CsoCrimiwi OF THIO COUNTRY. WILL .
. ,
• sEa. BY 'EXAMINING THIS. MAP, •THAT THE
CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND"86 PACIFIC, rIVY,_
, . ,
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Being the Great Central Line; aNcirds to travelers,by reason of its unrivaled gets.. -
,graphical position, the shortest and best route betWeen the East, Northeast and .
SoUtheatt, and the Welt, eltarthweat and Southweit;
It is literatiy and strictly true, that its connecticins are all of the principal ones
tt road between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
fly ItS 'main /Me and branches it reaches Chicago, Joliet, Peoria, Ottawa.
La. sane, Ceneseo,' Moline and Rook 'mond; in linnets i Davenport, Muscatine,
Washington,'Eaokuk, Ktioxville, Oskaloosa, Fairfield, Des Moines Weet Liberty,
Iowa City, Atlantic, Avoca; Audubon, 'Harlon, Cuthrie Center .and 'Council Bluffs, '
In Iowa; ealiptin, Trenton, Cameron . and Kendra! City, tn Missouri, and Leaven-
worth anct-Atchison In Kenos's, and the httndreds of cities, villages and:towns
Intermediate. The .
"CREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE,"
As It is familiarly caned, offers to travelers all the advantages ahd- onmforttt..
incident to,a smooth track, safe bridges', Union Depots at all connecting points.
Fast Express Treble, oorntiosedof COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL
HEATED. ,FINELY UPHOLSTERED and ELEGANT DAY COACHES4 a tine ot the .
MOST MAGNIFICENT HORTON RECLININe CHAIR CASS'evar built g PULLIMAN'S-.'
latest designed and handsemest.PALACE SLEEPING CARS, and DININCI CARS '
that are acknowledged by press and people to be the FINEST' RUN UPON- ANY
ROAD 114 THE COUNTRY, and In winch superior 1110a18 are served to travoiers at
the low.lrate Of SEVENTY*FIVE CENTS, EACH.
THREE TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER. .
,
• TWO TRAINS each Way between OHiCa00 and MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL...-.
-Ha the famous
ALBERT LEA ROUTE. . - -
A New and Weer LIne,, via !lemma and Kankakee, has recently been 'opt..,,
betWeen Newport News, .Rietnnond, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and La Fayette.. °
and ,Obunot1 alums. $t. Paulo Minneapolis and intermediate points.
All ThrOugh Passengers carried on Fast Express Trains.
For more detailed Information; see Maps and Folders, whloh may be obtalnet10",
'well as Tickets, at all principal Ticket Offleeb In the United Swim and Canada, or ot.
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