The New Era, 1884-06-06, Page 9•,7 .7,
A Country School.
Pretty and pale and tired
She it in her stiff backed chair,
While the blazing annimil sun
Shine') in on ter soft brown
And the little brook without.
That she heard through the open dear,
lioeks with its murmur cool
Hard bench and dusty door.
It seems an endlesp round—
Grammar and A, B, ;
Theblaekboard and the sums;
,The stupid geography;
When from teacher to little Jim
Not 'moot them cares 1phew
Whether " john "„iii in any
Or nemesis inimahs.
For Jimmy's bare 1,rogn feet
Are aching to wade in the stream.
71, Where the trout to his luring bait
Shall leap with a quick, bright gleam ;
And his teachers blue eyes stray
To the flowera on the desk hard by,
Till her thoughts have followed her eyes
With a half unconscious sigh—
Her heart outruns the clock,
As she smells their faint, sweet scout;
But Shen have time and heart •
Their measure in unison Meth ?
For time will haste or lag,
Like your shadow on the grass,
That lingers far behind,
Or flies whcarlini fain would pass.
Have patience, realties Jim,
The stream and Rah will wait;
And patience, tired blue eyes—
Down the winding r aa by the gate, ,
Under the willow shade,
Stands some one with fresher flowers;
So turn to your books again,
Arid keep love for the after hours.
!Memories o' the Past.
I canna think o' ither daya,
Or Bing the songs o' gladness;
Na merrie th,cht can drive awe'
The ghaistly ahadea o' sadness.
ilk bird upon tne leafy ,ree,
Ilk mernent fleeting fast,
Ca's to my mind and i e re me
The mem'ries o' the past.
•
Na mocking bird, like that I hear,
Soft warbling on Ton tree,
In bonnie Scottie sings, and yet
it sadly brings to me
The bitter thochts o' ither years,
When in that Auld lung syne,
She sang 10 010 the liongs so dear,
Fferlittle band in mine.
•
ken the flowersare bloomin' now,
That bloomed so meetly than;
I ken the pebbly brooklets flow
Still throthe silent glen
I ken the birds are building limits
Amid the y, ilow whin;
It gees me turu as eauld as death,
That ali ia not as thin.
•
'Tie blushing daisy blooms the same
The mossy brae. adornin' ;
The golden sua, still trite the Rest,
Proclaims the comin' mornin' ;
But she, who in those nappy days,
Made life so sweet and fair,
Now sleeps beneath the mossyloaes,
An' left inc lone and sair. • •
The mockin' bird's sweet sang to -day,
Brecht tearcirops to rny
With thochts o' itner brighter days,
Per iver gone frae me.
We swear our love should last thrO' life
By ilka burn and tree;
And 'ere I wad forget my troth '
rd lay me down tied dee.
—G. 4. Cutter, in the Chicago inter•Ocecta.
at Maw MI virtu JJr.
"'The Insane Love ot Woman for •ti Pet
Hog.
What fools these mortals be " Ands an
• exemplification in the followieg attempted
suitable : Mre. Julia Colson, wife of Nor-
man Colson, lives with her family at 8,304
Elliate street. She ovrneclai peedog named
•Jip. Several days ago the deg bit a little
daughter of Mrs. J. Beagle, No. 8,248 State
street, and was coudeuinel to be shot.
.When Mrs. Colson heard of the °intim--
stances, and that her. pet dog *bald cer-
tainly be killed, she beeemea seriously
, grieved, and, beitia overcome witia amittaa
choly, conaluded " to 'take her Own.
life. Friday night the looked hereelfain
• her bed•room, and after turning on the gas
threw herself on the bed. While lying in
an unconscious state her husband and son
came home, about 1.45 o'clock , in the
,morningaguld finding the. deer loading to
their apartnientalooked, they.feared that
all was not right: 'Mr. Coaion returned to
the attest and came back shortly afterward
with Officer Mahoney and a step -ladder.
'The ladder was placed against the door and
the son entered the rooms through the
transom. After admitting his father
and the officer they went to Mrs.
• Coleon's bed -room, the door of which
wae also found looked. It was
forced open and thewean= dis•
covered in a comatose condition, more dead
than alive. The gas was found streaming
from the jet, and furnished a reedy ex-
planation of the scene. Mrs. Colson was
removed into an adjoining room, and two
dootors, who had baeu summoned, ad.,
ministered restorativee, and after working
for two hours left the wouldbe to:acids in a
fair way to recovery. Iu the woman's bed.
room was found on a teal° the bottom et a
'paper collar, on 'which was written with
lead penoil : "Borg roe with Jip." The
message explaiued why the women • had
been driven to the Hilly sat which oo nearly.
cost her her life. Mrs. Colson 18 00n3pletely
restored, but latest iuquirnia state that Jip
was put out of the way last eveaing.—•
Chicago Times.
43rnelileii in et German Prition. ,
-aa A Berlin' cablegram says: The German
Socialists are very indignant- over a• series
aanaleged barbarities in the Beacon State
,priebo at Halle, Which hail rebutted, h. hi
declared, in the death. of throe paboriera
and the hopeless insanity of a fourth.
They, with five otbere, were tried arid con.viobed at Leipsio in October, 1801, on
aharges of treason, and tieut to Halle to
serve their terms ',at iinpritionment. The
save survivors of the party were released
'yesterday, and tell tales of trightful
orueltiee to which they affirm they were
tubjeoted. They say that the iron (lie,
.cipline at Hello absolutely . prevents sleep,
and compels the wreathed prisimere to
lebor outfit they drop down trona ealatuation.
The opponente of the extension of the
anti -Socialist laws propose- to use this incl.:
• dent as an argument against these laws
when they pie soar brought. up far nut-
.oussion in the Reichetag.
•
Melte ot n 'Wreck.
The body of a' woman was found on
'Grand River Point; about five wilful west
of Port Meatball, yesterday. The body
was v g much decomposed, and looked as
thoug a had been in the lake all winter,
as all t o hair had tenet) vut, She had on
a polonatee of brocaded lustre, flue etriped
hose, kid shoes with heavy Woollen Books
pulled over them, and red woollen untier.
wear. The body was buried on the beach
by Dlr. Docker, Reeve of Dunn, and Mr.
C. N. Crawford, of this place, who found
the body. As decomposition bud gene so
far no further examination of the olothibg
was made to see what was in the pooketa or
if there were any telltales or letters by
which it might be identified. She is sup -
_
posed to have been the cotton thesehooner
—Fitzgerald, of Burble, whiela was lost on
Long Point last November with all hands.
Modesty and dew love the shade; aoth
sparkle in the light of the earth, only to
aeoend to beaven.—Laniartine.
"
It tit. urtal.
°Dr. anseph Leidy, the eminent anatomist
and President ot the Penneylvania
Academy of Natural Sciences, has written
a letter to the Philadelphia Times, in wbieh
he says: I have alwais been an advocate
of cremation on sanitary grounds, and I
believe that if it were adopted in tbickly
populated ooramunities it would. promote
their healthiness. Ordinary banal ie the
easiest and moat economical mode of die --
Visit% the dead„ 'and when removed
proper distanba from bureau heantatione
MUMPS all good purposes, but in cities and
in contiguouri positions, where, from the
aocumulation and decay of bodies, the air
and water beoome liable to pollution, it ie
better to dispose of them by cremation.
Many diseases have their source and othere
are greatly exaggerated ' and rendered
more fatal in crowded communitiea
by the decay of dead, exere-
naentitious and waste organic, sub.
famines. These are rendered thoroughly
innocuous by burning, egg ,thie. means to
destroy them should be employed when it
can be readily done. Fire IS the great
purifier. Cooking food in a great Measure
secures as from many parasitic, affections.
If We eould with as little objection treat
the water we driuk and the air we breathe
n the same manner we would greatly
diminish our liability to disease. My expe-
rience has led me no regard cremation with
agreeable feelings compared with times
produced by. the reflection of rotting in tbe
grave. I was glad to learn that my honored
friend, Dr. Gross, made the provision he
did, and I look upon it as a last good ttot,o,
a good life. It is an example I wish to
follow and I hope many others may do
likewise, The. objection made to crema-
tion, that it is a heathenish =atom, iB
alieurd. In cremation and ordinary burial
the ultimate result Is the same. In one it
is rapid, the other slow, combustion. In
both proeeesee the material of the body
endure and, acoording to Christian doctrine,
await the Omnipoteat millet the last resur-
rection."
Au Aurlent asab)lonlan•Itherlption.
The London Goriest:ancient of the Mena
ailreetea—ffairadiatri says that aniang the
ineoriptione brought home by Mr. Rassam
from his explorations at Aboo Hullosisone
of peetilier interest, which has, formed the
eubject of tranelation by Messrs. Pinches
and Budge, of the British Museum. The
inscriptional' engraved on, a conical block of
white marble, and is, in almost perfect'
preservation. The front face of the stone
is covered with a quaint and valuable series
of dremonological and astrological emblems,
such as figures of the serpent, orab, soor•
P1°11,14111, two•headed . dog, and a remark.
'able campeund figure of a scorpion eagit-
tarius. The Monument "dates back from
•the twelfth century before Christ, and is a
grant of certain civic and:vice-regal rights
to a man named Riti-Merodach over tbe
city of Bitalerziyabku by King Nebnohad-
nezzer I„ Who seems to have been a
minima as his father's name -dime, not
appear, hi the inscription., Early,. in his
reigit, a aeniarkable comet appeared, Which,
according to a tabletin theBritiehmeseem,
is said to have had a tail like s scorpion.
Upon this omen the kipg marched toobtain
eatiefactib#, for earbain border forays on
the Kings Of Elam and South Kurdistan.
It is thought that die curious figure above
referred to—the soorpion eagittarit'
ur which
as pawed. as if roarobitig before the Ring—
is intended for ' a. representation of this'
comet. The expedition suffered greatly
for want of water,and met apparently with
a serious reveresin s n it battle fought on the.
banks of the Mal. the Modern Diaful. The
army was saved frcim total defeat by the
assistance of Ritiarderodaoh, who burned
hitaisityatiadffelitrayed the tniaged eo as to.
hinder the advance of the enemy. In ye-
tuarfor this timely succor the Babylonian,
king made his friend ruler Of :lhe distriott
free from all taxes of tribute: • This imbrips.
tion is the largest historieel document of
atacieatialebybraa which hae been recovered,
and its iinhortinbe even in ancient times is,
,cariconla: prOvedi. by the fa,ot that there
:Wail obtained` Mat Nineveh a- email frag-
ment of a duplicate copy of the inscription
made by order of •King Acteutbanipal five
hundred years after thu. original dociainent
.wai written.
Banking a Queen.
Bees do not venally want more than one
'queen. In, fact, they will not have more
than one unless the swairahas grown 80
large an to crowd the late and they , are
going to found a oolony, or "swarm," as it
ie called ; in whath come &tea family will
needs sovereign. As 'Boon as itie-oleer to
the wiseacres that it will 'be neeessary to
send off a swarm, the bees go to ' work to
make .6, queen. A worker , maggot, or if •
there happens to be nOne • in the hive, a
worker egg is seleoted near 'the
edge of the ' comb.Two'cells next
door to the ono in .wbfah thia
maggot id are °bared .ont, • • and the
dividing walls are out down, so that three
ordinary cells are turned into one. .The
food which the worker %foam has been feed-
ing oh is removed, and the littliscieature is
supplied with.a new kind of "lead—a royal
jelly. Change of food, a larger room and a
, different position—the .eueenai cell • hangs
&tam indeed liorizontalthese
three ohanges Of , treatment turn the 'bee
that is developitig from a. workerfate a
queen. 'She is different in her outer shape,
different in almost 'all* rorganu and differ
eiit' io 'every 'Jingle instinct. There
nothing else in all nature that seems to me
more wonderful than thio. Forfeei tbatone
queen may not come ' out all right, the
peovident litIlo Creatures ubually start
two or three queen cells at once. It is
=Hem to watch the first queen as elm
comes out. She moves up and down the
'comb, looking for other queen chile; and if
she finds One she falls upon it in - the
greateet excitement, and stiege her rival to
death. Sometimee, by accident, twonew
enema 'came out at the mane t nie ; then it
re wonderful to see thiabees. They clear a
space' arid bring.the two rivals together, and
ettiod beak to watch the ..fight. And it ie a
royal fightindeed ; a fight to the death, for
they never give up till one of the other is
fatayy stung. The abbot' is then accepted
as sovereign. — airs. S. P. Herrick, in St.
Nicholas. •
The, Poor, Dear %Ideas!
First dear girl -001y to think, we came
pretty near nob going to Europe this year!
Second dear girl—Hew horrid I What
wail the matter ?
Vint dear girl—Why, mamma heatal
that the companies- were putting, down the
chargedfor paesage HO low that she was
afraid it would get oonamon to arose. But
then the found out that the new rates were
only for • the steerage, so of course it is all
right and we'lago as usual.' But really
was quite soared. . .
'A 5-yeat-eld, girl 'fell from a third -storey
window in Cincinfiati on. Friday afternoon,
but a gentleman passing by Haw her coming,
taught her in his aims, and saved her from.
any harm, .
An unknown woman attempted anicide
by throwing herself in the Bed river at
liVinnipegon Sunday. She wasreigned by
boating partied The ballad of the rub act
is unknown. .
" CURRENT TOPICS. tom 133. lately as a fad, though / cannot be
he
I8
oed
that he bad already oonfirmed a cor-
tindteaaeO"°nIntidEmid7"lito 7alillaildPhirme,rent TdrhblehmeArillialetilintt dilAreraaeoclag.
went up`ta him, saying, Have yen been
confirmed before2' but the man Was
deaf, so he hpd brepeat hie queetiim, add-
ing, ' The Bishop thinks he has oonfirmed
you before,' But ,the old man vise, or pre-
tended to be, kill unable to hear, eo the
Archdeacon epoke again in a louder tone:
The Bishop feels sure he halt 000firnied
you before.' Then the old .man, hearing at
last, and being perhaps a little nettled; re.
plied gruffly, ' Tell un he's a lee'er,' with
which unique answer the Arohdettaon waa
formed to be content."
macrame infarcts Azatirilaeour1
Account otitis° Present Surroundings
• Ike False Preppie!, •
In addition to the thirty or 'forty thou-
` sand regular followera camped at El Obeid,
the Mahdi can count on the 'Support and
aotive co•operation of abme eighty tribes
who occupy the vast tract of country 1018
between the desert of Bayudah and the
Equatorial Provinces, and expending sozne-
what indefinitely toward the western hon.
ties of Dufour. These. allies can furbish
from two to three hundred thousand fight-
ing men, who are very different in temper
and physique from the soldiers of Arabi
Pasha/. In general type they approach
closely to the American Indiana of the
the Plains but in many omen there if3
atoll adniiiittlire of negro blood. Thai is
especially the cube with the Arab tribes
nearest the Equator; but there iii no rem.
son to believe that the admixture of negro
blood dimishes the fighting qualities of the
raver In many respects the Arabs mid
Baralpari who inhabit the districts now in
rebellion are models of what good soldiers
ought to be. Their bodies are compact,
the bones large and the membeas _sinewy.
The men are strong and'aetive and capable
of ., enduring .agreat fatigues. 'They are
sober and abstemious to a miraole, and
when engaged on difficult military expedi-
tibias they live for Weeks on a little •grain
steeped in water. The mounted tribes,
like the Baggers, are adtairable horsemen
'and well trained to use their swords and
spears. Such are the rough materials out
of which the Bfahdi's armies are Made, and
in the hands of an able nailitary organizer
obey might be moulded hit° a really for-
raidable force, itotwithstandiug their data).
five armament. In the beginning of the
movement the only offensive weapons
punned by the insurgents were the
spear, the sword and the knife.
But the various •debate %Meted .on
the Egyptian army, and above all
the capture of El Obeid, bate tarnished the
Mahdie followers with very considerable
supplies of improved ,breeoh•loading arras.
It is calculated that something like 40,000
Remington, riftee have fallen. into their
hands and to these also must be . added an
unknown quantity of the . older claseee of
firearms which had been turned into the
,Governraent stores. Then, in matter of
artillery, the Mahdi 'must be fairly well
supplied, as, including the guna—de,ptured
from HIOIM, "Xessilt Pasha and Obeid and
Barra, he • probably disposes of at least
sixty pieces of ordnance. In addition to a
large supply of arms, the Mahdi at the
fall of Obeid came into' possession of an
enormous supply of munitions ol war. In
the uremia' there ' was stored 6,000 owner
loads of -various classes of ammunition,
but. principally • Remington cartridges.
These figiares have been furnished me by a
Coptic clerk who was in charge of the stores
in Obeid' at the time of its oapture.
Street Drew. lat Mexico.
responsible for its absolute truth. T
of /341.terrv.t, although ibs hams win be ersleall !NOV sr Linooln, knowing of th
belief, Was an one omission almost oonvin
Fashionable Lacliess,
ouffs are fastened with hammered,
'Silver buttons. '
Dark, rich, plainly defined colors are own,
ing into fashion again for parlor carpets.
Bed -room windows are hung with Swiss
ourtaineedged with late and looped with
gay colored ribbons.
The now gauze crepe is a lovely material
for millinerypurposes, and 'Imo& used in
white, pale pink and blue for bonnets for
evening wear.
jfiladrae curtains in a mixture gt foritheki0
•ehades are more used for vestibule demi
than anything else.
Visits of condolence ban begin the week
after the event which ocoasions them. Per -
Bona visits are only made by relatives or
very intimate friends. ,
• 'White stockings ate • &ming ia' fashion
again for ohildren.
Moss greet and &liana oiiiiitheA plalds are
very popular at present. '
Nearly everybody hag some Porter a gra)",
gown.
Palest bine is extensively taloa in the
decorations of fashionable bed -rooms.
• Hall lamps of cathedral gime are exten-
sively used.
Gold bracelets are very narrovi, and may
be a mere cord Upon wkdoh bangles are
tatting, or glee made of lapped ooh -shaped
pieces of nugget plain of linked chains.
For Meat tidies the 'side panels are "'still
used upon pkirts, and the space .betwaien' in
front ie filled, in by a lengthwise fan pleat-
ing, or else by two large box pleats that
may be double or triple in their bide. •
Ladies, it is said, prefer to dud their
own wetlybriok-a. brao rather than to trust
it to careless hands, and use small bellow',
which are as luxurious as bribe:leather,
plueh and embroidery esat "make them. But
what, one; might ask, becomes of the (lust
afterat has been blown from the brio -a.
brae?•
Cards of congratulation are left in per-
.
ecitiaatid it Ibm 1adieara at tome' the
visitor ehould go iri and be hearty in his or
her good wiehee. For such visits a card sent
by post would, among intimate friends,. be
-considered cold-blooded. It must, it least,
be left in person.
• Quaint feather fans are' mutat, in vogue.
OLIO ShOWN a peacook with a proudly spread
tail and jewelled head, and another an Owl
withcrafty eye . and outspread wings,
springing with life -aka action from a stick
of natural wood. .. • . •
• The old- splint straight-backed rocking
chair has undergone a sort of apotheoeis
lama -crash, paint and 'etnatroidery. Large-
leafecl pumpkin vines and flowere are the
ornament. •The' drawing hi carefully' done
,and the forms outlined 'in green and
yellow. The tint ancf,shading are then put
in with thin Waehes of pada and the final
touches are added in green and yellow rib-
bons atthe corners and at the top.
One of .. Redfern's- stylish . designs' for
draperies nearly conceals the- lawer skirt,.
and consists of a Boit puff hilling below the
belt in the book, beneath Which are two
very full broad box pleats that fall to the
bottom Of the 'alba -and Indeed formits
entire back. The front is then a deep apron
that opehe with trimmed revere onthe,
right eideate shine some pleating') of 'ii lower
ekirt that extend from the belt to toe feet
Tbis lS suitible for any aim woollen diem,
-
and the revers aye, nearly covered :with -
rows of soutaeata. '
A novel nee of embreide# and plueh 18
found in: 4 pedestal .on 'which stands ea
baelmatif flowers., "Thealiedestal has the
top, base and tipper and lower partsiotthe'
abaft covered' with red siik plush. In the
'centre hie, band Of bleak wrought in irregu•
ler zigzega•Of gold with flatters and foliage
in silk embroidery. .. •
' While short women delight in theun-
bniken lengthwise .ploats in their skirts,
Ogee who are tall have 'rows of tucks or
braid put On before the pleats are taken pp,
or else they get their best effect by having
from three to ten gather -ea flounces across
the front and side breadthe, while the
bank is ooaered by the long drapery of . two
breadths, whica now, though 'Made of the
richest Patin, may aave- three wide ttioke
samosa it at the lower end: The coat sleeve
is preferred to all othere, and ia high °Atha
shoulderea but not NA _tall there as it was
worn.last season. Scarf drapery; plain turn
up cuffs Of letedor velvet, -and the puff that
imitateeanderaleoves made,either of lace
or of silk,. are the triminiugs,most tieed on
dressy sleeyee, while for eimpler woollene
Many rows of sotitache 'are ' put on quite
straight aroutid, -the close - waist, or else
to imitate a • "vane .;ouff. Foi • the
front , of the: ..battaite „..4t taney pre -
vela, fbafialciwingthe oprVing outlines of a
pouave jacket with- drooping lace,"headed
by a velvet band, aria:ending in a rosette or
nation bow. 'Whoa that is not done, the
shirred front at ;the dress goods ie used in
vest shape, oa' there is a treat eat in, or
elee the dress is out away in. V &awe or 10
a pompadour square, and there ts a cherni•
sette set in which maabo of the dress Das>
teifal or of laee tally .gathered, or it may
be of plain .embreidery or velvet. There
ie usually a revere ,of ;some hind outlining
this guimpe or •chemisette, and this- ex.
tends. back ta the' ehotader seam, and
-sometimes aliases back of the atending.
collar. ' • ,
Le..staikirig novelty for chair . betake, and'
for the mantel hanging' of a boudoir, is a
strip of guipure d'art over crimson satin',
thelace being. Healy overwrought • with,
flowers in colored Bilks. A band of ecru
hand -made lace is wrought with traceries
of gold thread, and is 'tad over raitize natal
for the border of a small drawing -room
table.
•
PrerentIon of Forgery.
According to the Journal de Liege'the
'forgery of bank notes goes on as merrily ite
ever, ono- clever seta)f operators being in a
poeition to split intotwo, new notea that
have never been folded. Blue ink, which
was adopted by reason of the difficulty...in-
volved in reproducing it by photography, is
not now relied on so muoh by bankers
abtoad ; aortae of theta have recently taken
another meana of defeating. the
photographic! ferger. This is no
other than the employment of
an' invisible aotinio ink, of which
no trace can be seen on the. bank paper nor
upon the "hinge on the focussing screen.
AEI aeon, however, as you oorno to develop
your plate bearing a raproduotiott of the
bank note, the woad "forgery "-appears111
bold letters right across the negative.
The Cokaaies and India says: "A woman
named Harriet Cleaver lab been , etruok•
dead by lightning at Evans Creek,
Stoney Pinch, near Mudgee, Nate Beata
Wales. She had halt covered up her sew-
ing machine, and had one of the -needles in
her hand when the aleettio fluid penetrated
the slabs of the hut and killed her on the.
spot. The needle was twieted in all direct -
tions."
Within two Months tbe Man of Lords
has had two Boman Catholic, modem—
be Earl ot Abingdon and Lord North beth
converts,
With
they,: fltrituensie ihighistotilostisvidassoairy ohaugtede,
hitherto remained in unimportant town.
It is, however, now beginning to develop
resourects, '.and bide fair to become *
fatillionablo resort for invalids. A Medkai
Dointaield(0.3 'visiting 11 isso Bummer has
poreritarrafiativdesCYolitil.fige9.1ablY1:1 0it8 helierea
A heroin% latelypublished in the ,Tournat
Officio/ shown that the unfavorable condi-
tion of Fiauce as regards the inereage of
population is more merited than ever. Aa
far es such inorease iB dependent upon the
augmentation of births over deaths, the
population can now double iteelf but onee
111 067 years. In reality, the doubling takes
place more rapidly, owing tO an increasing
number of immigrants. Itis once in. 166
years. . ,
'ml London lifealeal .Times believes that
the eympathy expressed for criminals sup.
poked to suffer pain on amount of the con-
tinued action of the heart after the neck is
broken in hanging, is misplaced. . It cites
the repent triple- exeoution at Prague to
'show that the heart may pulsate for a
quarter of an hour after deaths which are
shown to be instantaneoue. Many oases
are reoorded where the heart's action has
oohtinued for a long time after Complete
decapitation.
Faeraottmia ' weddings are expenslie
. ,
enough in tido mantra', -hut in Liam they
are even more so. There a fashionable
wedding means unlimited hospitality to all
the ommtry round 'during the several days
of the festivities. At the wedding of the
Rae of Out& 84,000 were -feff on the first
day, 87,000 on the sesond and 86,000 on the
third. Such a custom in this country
would be warmly welcomed by the poor,
but in a majority of oases it would make
the groom's savings , of a lifetime look
ftightfully indisposed.
,
Tait Canadian Gazette pointe out that
though only eight years have Passed since
Canadian phosahate was iirst put on the
market, and the trade then was nOt thought
to have a great future before it, the demand
for the artiole has grown Bo rapidly that
last year no less than 19,000 tone of phota
phew were shipped from Montreal, and the
shipment this year ea expected to amount
to 24,000 tons, It is, moreover, a more
concentrated phosphate than any other tia
the....woridaand there is every reason fcr, be-
lieving that tacierade will °Mame to de-
Sielep year by, year; „ .
AN interesting. piece of news comes all
.the way.from South Africa, and Itis that a
diamand weighing 302 carats has been un-
earthed , at the Kffiaberley Mines. This
stone is only 18 trifle smaller than the .oele-
brated Pitt gem, which was sold in 1717 to
the Regent Orleans for £130,000. The
London Standard, in commeuting onthis
find, points out that no iamb price could be
obtained for a stone now, and attributes
the depreoiation in diamonds to the in.
tressed supply from these mines. 11 10 not
generally known that diamonds have be-
come oomparatively common. s.
. ' ' • •
• ... other countries besides England
flowers have not jackea their 'followers.
Pharge for the gaden lilies," was .ever e
potent -war pry_ among••the chivalry of
'Franiie. The Giglio Blanco if Florence' in
its days of -evanatteeet greatness, the red
and whits,hliee, niere ))1OWy.even 'than the
English roses, of the Gtelphi and Ghibe.
lines; the Habit of Prussia,A0 Mignonette
of Saxony, and the appropriate tinker
maple of Cancide, are all badges of more or
less universal aoceptancea while the violet
hae been the selected symbol °fah° two
mightiest eespiree the world has seen:—
the autoorsoy of the sword of the first
Napoleon and the universal crivay of art and
literature 10 anchiat Athens: a
• Taave will bee vacancy for a maid -of.
honor in Queen Vietoriee household in
eonsemiettee of the marriage of the Hon
Victoria Baillie, who, in acoordance with
the usual custom, Will receive a present of
£1,000 from Her atigeety. A. list of .ean-
didates for these p,oste is -always kept, but
there are very few 0581005 on it just now.
When the Qoaen and Pantie Albert visited
Taymouth in 1842; '„Lady Breadalbane's
nieces Went away for the period of. the
royal sojourn, as neither .of . theta . was
'anxious to be Waimea a (Matt appointment,
each ,offer, of ',coupe), :beingpractically
equivalent to aciontneana, end refusal being
resented as n• pieetaollaiaratitude.
A Balms .:Parliateeirtary return' just'
issued showsthe;110baber of electors in
, •
Great Britain -upon tae) register now. in
force. The total ie 2,660,444 in England
and Wales,.331,264.10aSootland and 230,156
in Ireland. The largest county iionstitu.
ency in England and Wales 'is Middlesex,
with 41,299 electors; the next 'being South.
west Laneaehire, with 30,624; the third
Southeast,Laneabbire, with 28,728 ;and the
fonrtb, the southern ditision of . the West
Riding, with 27,625.. The largest borough
cionstitueney in England is Birmingham,
with 63,483 electors; Liverpool hating
61,326 and Lambeth following with 55,588 ;
but, Gleagow iis the largest. in the United
Kingdom, with 68,025, .
national monument at Washington,
•
when 'finished, will be the loftieet struoture•
10 the world, by about thirty feet. The
towera of the cathedral at Cologne, jest
flubbed, have a height Of 524 feet and 11
inches; tower of St. Nichola, Hamburg,
478 feet 1 inoh ; cap.oht of St. Petera, Rome,
469 feet 2 inches; cathedaal 'spike at Straa.
burg, 488 feet 11 . inches; pyramid of
Cheops, 449 feet 5 inches ; tower of St.
Stephen's. Vienna, - 443 feet 10, imams;
'tower of fat. Lendehut, 434 feet 8
inohee ; cathedral spire at Freiburg, 410
feet 1 inch ; cathedral of Antwerp. 404 feet
10 inches; cathedral of Florepoe. 300 feet 5
inches; St. Paula, London, 865 feet 1 inch;
cathedral tower, at Magdeburg, 839. feet
11 iaches tower of the new votive 'church
at Vienna 814 feet 11 inches; tower of the •
Rathhaue at Berlin, 288 feet a inches
towers of Notre Dame, Paris, 282 feet 11
inches. Of American structures, ti e
Washington monument, Baltimore, is 210
feat; Bunker Hill, monument, -221 foot;
Trinity Chard, New York, 284 feet; St.
Patric:kat Cathedral, New York, to be 880
feet.
Immo*
A coneaspormatrx writing to Notes ond
Queries from Lincolnshire, agland, 'says :
I am told that in the villages near here
oonfirniation le considered a sate mire for
rheumathet, and that, consequently, old
persons are in the habit ot prisenting
thenisolvee to the Bishop hem time hi tibio,
as,often as they OEM get an opportunity, to
Women of every rank go bareheaded,
writes a correspondent from Mahar. You
meet them in the shops, at church and on.
the 'streets, either entirely without head
covering, or with only a !igen veil-like
dress for their gloesy hair. It is said in all
seriousness that five years ago there wae
not' one. bonnet in the city of Mexico.
Bonnets and hats are still infrequently eeen.
Their presence attracts attention rather
than their absence. Women of the lower
class shelter their ' heads with their
rebozoii ;• their wealthier sisters are content
and even proud tO expose their raven
tressee. . Bonnets, it is almost needles,s. to
say are not required in ahis climate for
protection. The Mexican" style" is wonder-
fully °atria:ave. No pen can do justice to
the clothes of the poen tribe. Mine will
not attempt the impoesible. If mate of
these' poor peeple-were to proclaim' that
they . had " nothiog to wear" it would be
easy to believe them. -Individuals so
scantily clad that they are called in the
vernacular '4 skin men" are to be met
every hour in, every city. The skinnies
whore it has been my fortune to see walked
through the,portalis at Queretaro the other
day wearing Only a Biwa° garment, a pair
of white cotton panteloone. coarse
white cotton cloth, known as manta, is the
staple fabric for the dream common,.
altar, - •
Plantation Plilleisephy.
. ,
De bee' relation is madev' de smile an de
toy. Sunshine an' rain la What makes de
Ootton
' When er ole inituagits 'mad he's awful.
De ale faraily hose, whet) he rune erway,
tiara de buggy all ter pieces. . .
Domo' er man thinks o',hismel, de mo' he
thinks o' de dobia. for in all things, de (Mil
shotaa dat he 'eiders hics't lust.'
De wuet fool is de feel'. Wind tries ter
'time his 'mulintencee dat der sin' no God,
fur at de laa' he oriee vhd de ioudee' voice
an wants muesy de quickesa .
ate man what tellp one truth, aldough
may make de ourmunity mad, is.greater
den de man what tells a hunnerd lies ter
please de neighborhood. . Truth, follered 10
de right way, is de foundatioo o' dis worl's
happiness. De liar may 'muee de folks,
but nobody wants ter •at his 'pinion don-
sarnin' a 'portant matter.—Arlainsain
Traveller.
• Sense Fruit Prospects.
A. St. David% Lincoln despatch
says : The appearance of thefruit crops at
preeent is very good in and around St,
Davide. Strawberries are generally good.
Peaohee make a fine show for a large, crop
if nothing further happens. The pear crop
shows rather light, and it is a little too
early in the season to tell much about
apples aud raspberries. Currants and
other small fruit appear very well,
Apple and pear bloom that year is most
Iuxurant. There has been nothing like it
for some • time. if Vie are not miataken—
espeoialty in pears. The plum and cherry
bloom is idea prolific', but alas for the
peaches. Wool:lee will 'be peaches this
yearaon this side of the line. The crop
will be a total failure about the eity,.*St.
Catharines News.
•
A Paeadena, Cala hum has Invented an
apparatus for grafting vines which is said
to be a great improvement Over the hand
Method, and by it two men Of411 graft 1,200
receive the rite. The following etary Was via"'m t'm hwIrs'
VANDE121111147re OPTIIIONG BOX.
A Insult That 114slis 9200,0000100.
I etood the other day in the vault of the
formidebili tortures of ken and masonry on
Forty.seoond RUM, where last year the
*heat nabob in the world looked up his
If200,000;000 in stooks, bonds and other
securitiee. It inono of the most redoubt.
abbe works of defence on the American
continent, though you may not be entirely
certain of thet by surveying the building
from the outside. Its foundations were
blitetea out Of the rook; the front wall is
five feet in thickness, and the side and rear
walla are throe foot, the materials used be-
ing preesed brick with brown -atone trim-
mings. The beams, girders and main .
pillars ea iron, inotteed in fireproof
material. The doors, window frames and
Miner partitions are iron, marble and glass.
No wood is to be found in the ritruoture.
The greet vault ze 36x42 feet,
Of wrought iron, steel and Frank-
linite iron, is imposing in strength
and proportions, aucl ie situated on
the ground floor. Its four outer doors
weigh 8,200 pounds each, and have every
effeotive and known improvement in defen-
Sive devices. A mageive wall of rilaffOnry
surrounds the ironwork. The Vault, which
is burglar, fire and water proof, constitutes
a distinct building in itself. The armed
watohmen who guard the building day and
night are under tire strictest discipline, •
their liciurly movements being recorded by
an electric] olook connecting with various
points on each floor of the struoture, and -
there are 6,16o wires running to police head.
quarters and the offices ot the district tele-
graph. In one corner of this great vault,
behind heavy iron bars, are the heavier
Iron doors of the worke containing the Van-
derbilt seeurities, which can be opened only
by skeleton keys held by the owner alone.
I suppose that a hundred men in this build-
ing, with Gatling guns, could easily defend
ib against a mob of 100,000 assailants; it
could be reduced by nothing less than the
continued play of heavy artillery.—John
Swinton.
He who neglects himself tato that extent
weak. If he eachanste hie energies they di-
minisb. 11 10 -strains them still more by
continued endeavor, they grow yet feebler
,
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LYDIA E. . PINKHANI'S
* VEGETABLE COMPOUND *.
ISA POSITIVECURE *. *4.46* n*;
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For all of those Painful Complaints ndi
. .
* Weaknesses 80.001111111011 to our best *,*
* ** * *FEMALE tocanatATiQaa* a,* '*
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IT WILL .OURR ENTIRELy TUE WOltei'.701pf OF Fre
MALE COMPLAINTS, ALL OVARIAN' Tea:Tatars "Itt-
FLAMMATIOti AND ULCERATION, FALLING, AM; DIY -
PLACEMENTS, AND THE,OONSEqUENT BPINAR.WEAK- '
NESS, AND IS rattribtri.:Anty enema) • To TM:
Cri,mor or 'Luz, * • * * • * * -** • * .4%*
*kr WILIIDISSOLTE AND EXpEL TUMORS PEON TEX
'UTERUS I.IAN EARLY stItati op DEVELOPMENT: VEDS
TENDENCYTO CANcraious III/MoRS TLIERIIISCHEMED
VERY SPEEDILY 7111" rrs us& * * * *
*IT ItEmOVES FAINTNESE,;FLATULENCY, DISSTRoygil
ALL CRAVING FOlt STIMULANTS, AND RELIEVES WEAK..
NESS OF THE BTOMACH. IT 01711ES BLOATING, DEAD -
ACHE, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, GENERAL, DEBILITY,
DEPRESSION IND INDIGESTION. * * * * *
* tHAT FEELING 'OF BEARING Demi', CAUSING PAIN,
WEIGHT AND BAOKAOHE, 18 ALWAYS PERMANENTLY
'CURED BY ITS USE. * * * * * * *
* IT WILL AT ALL TINES AND UNDER ALL •CIROUX-i.
STANCES ACT IN HARMONY WITH THE LAWS THAT
GOVERN .THE FEMALE 80113E3I. * * *
* 4E6 -ITS ri,nosi, xs SOLELY FOR THE LEGITE5LATA
HEALIZRi'OF DISEASE AND THE REMIT OF PAIN, AND
VILAT IT 110E8 ALL IT OLAINS To DO, THOUSANDS OF
ZAD1.138.0.kil GLA,Drx TEwrit'r• "Vt4 * 41. *
* Fon CURE 08. KIDNEY COMPLAINTS IN
EITHER SEX VHS. liblEDY IS UNSURPASSED. * * •
LYDIA.E. PINKIIADVS VEGETABLE OCOMOUND
prepared at Lynn, Mass. Price $1. Six bottles for $5„
&Id by all druggist& Sent hymen, postage paid, in form„
of Pills or Lozenges on receipt of price as above,. Mine
"Pinkham's "Guide to..Eleanh" will be mailed treat° sal
Lady sending, stamp. Letters confidentially answered. •
*Fo family should -be without LYDIA E. PLIKEIAIPS
LBo*.PILLS. Thoy cure Constipation, MIlousness and
'Torpiclity Of the Liver. 25 cents -per box. s• •
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Aloe; S. per hottle. Seta by all Druggists.
EYE, EAR AN& THROAT.
G. B. RITBSON, R. 0.E.
LF s. 11.,1;acturer on the Eye, Bar and Throat
Trinity Medical- College, Toronto, °culla adid
Aurist to the Toronto General Hospital, late
Clinical Asdstant Royal London, Ophthalmic
Floapital, lloorefield's and Central London
Throat and s ar Ileopital. MI Church Sheet
Toronto. Artitiolal Human Eye*,
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nothing for a trial, and / %xi II 51100 you.
Address Dr. 10.2. hoe,' ,1'8 Pearl st..Nowirork,
ESTABLIStfED 1889.
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