The New Era, 1884-06-13, Page 9,
- Jurtp 18 1884.
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IVY. •
raunettie Asylum Founded on
Superstition.
B,Evommt- REVELATIONS.
• ,
Dr. George A. Triage, who has been
augaged some time under the aueeioes of
the New South _Wake Government,•in a
tour of Ameriea and Europe (and who was
in Hamilton some two years ago), inveeti-
gating the cure and treatment of the inane,
has piiblished in a little pamphlet just
„leaned in Birmioghem, England, an amount
Sfahe lunatio colony at Ghee', Belgium,
which he visited in December last. Dr.
Tucker does not give a captivatingdescrip-
tion or Ghee!, which is a rathergloomy,
dirty place, with narrow, ill•Itept Omni.
The commune of Gheel has a population of
over 100,000, of whom nearly 2,000 are
lunatics. The town itself has A popu-
lation. of 6,000. The leading feature
of . the place is the frequent
drinking shope. The hoepital, to which the
new patients are first brought, is a building
sug,geritive bf melancholy. New comers are
retained for a while at the hospital, and
then drafted out among the oottagers, one
or two patients, and sometimes three being
assigned to each cottage. In ancient times
the patients were at. first lodged in an old
house near the chureh, still called in the
Flemish language the " Ziekenkamer," or
sick room, where they underwent religious.
.tmeatment for nine dap with a view of
their cure. Sometimes a second course of
, nine days"similar treatment was gone
through, and if they still showed no signs
of reoovery they were committed to the
care of some family in the neighborhood of
the church whioh they (lady attended to
, partioipate in the benefits of the preteire
specially offered on thole • behalf. The
lichee is still used as of old, though not to
,the risme extent. In addition to the
medical director, who resides , at the
hospital, there are four medical assistants
tieing in the town and to each .of then a
,q. -ter of the colony is assigned, which
they are expected to visit twice a . month
and pew/pally to inepect each patient.
. There are, besides, mix inspecting atten-
dantie-ieho are also suppogedacr-visitamoh
patient twice a month.
Dr. Tuoker impeded the hospital very
thoroughly and went about among the
people freely, talking with many of them.
He found the dulness and monotony
universal. There is nothing to occupy the
time or attention of the patients but the
almost -enforced labor impoeedtteenthem;
whioh in many instapoes is repugnant to
their feelings and unsuitable .' to 4 -their
mental and physical conditio,ne. In other
respeeots they are left to their .own
resources in the families and amongst the
frequenters of the houses in which they
are lodged. Their life hem day to day and
year to yea; is .a were torpid exiatence,
devoid of variety in the 'meant and
of hope in the future—an exoteric° as
stagnant and . unwholesome as that
of the water in the dirty pools soattered
all over the place. At the hospital he
leaned that the planate on their first
coming are detained there ' from five ,to
eight days. Every Wednesday the medical
staff meet and decide what •patients shall
be drafted out. At the time•of.his visit
there were in the hospital 32 meirand 22
''"i% women. The drinking shops referred to
are very freely patronized by the pa-
tiente, numbers of whom are 'domiciled
therein. Generalizing on the aspects of
the place Dr. Tucker says: "Many if
not most of • the patients I saw
. loeheci neglected, cold, • . dirty , and
miserable. A number oi them
seemed to have no object or pre.-
poire in life but that of sittingnear the
smoky stove (if there is one, which is not
always the case) of the kitchen
,
with•noth
ing to divert the mind or breakthe eternal
monotony of their existence..., Only in one
house did I find any books, and nowhere
did there seem.any provision made for the
intelleatual or other ,aninsement of the
patients. In thie, aa in many other re-
spects, all the canons of modern treatment
agreed upon by the beet authorities in
lunacy are ignored end probably unknown.
The patients are watched by the whole
population as well as by the authorities,
and moves are rare. One of -the .naethode
still used for the treatment of patients With
a view to their cure is so full'of aupersti.
tion as to seem scarcely possible • in this
age in a oivilized country. It is pursued in
the old houseof " Ziekenkamer, ' already
spoken of. This ancient house is said to
stand on the spot where the saint Was'slain
by her unnatural father. The first room
shown to visitors is a kind of kitchen, dark
and gloomy, with iron -bound windows, a
stone floor and a large, open, old-
fashioned fire -place. In the .uprights
on each side of' •the fire -place two
large iron rings- -are ' fixed. . One is
close to the floor and the other about two
and a half feet higher. To those rings
the •Isithful patients are fastened, the
ankle of one leg to the lower ring and the
wrist on the same side to the upper king.
By this arrangement the patient en each
.side of the fireplace is doubled up in a
hbeeling position, and the evil spirits by
whom he is possessed can incite him' to no
effective renitence to the exorcisms of the
priestu or the operations of the saint. In
an adjoining rdom the only light' and air
admitted pass through an iron' bound,
nngleeetl_..1„svindow, looking -into the
kitchen. The room is almostd ark,'and cat
be rendered oonipletely so by a heavy
wooden shutter attaohed to tho window
and fitting oldie teethe bare. The door is
strong and further eeoured by iron. To
the fixed wooden bedstead at one
end heavy iron chains are attached for
mooring the patient in bed. ' The floor is
of stone, the room aold and prison -like, and
the grim gloom of the apartment (however
much it may favor sently. interposition)
is not,•from the mundane point of view, at
all calculated to mitigate the insanity of
an inmate. Dr. Tucker's convictions
are altogether against the Gheel system
in all of its particulars, . and in
oonolading hie observations—lie
says: "I have %Oiled some hundreds of
lunatic asylums in fourout of the five gee -
gophers' divisions of the globe, and in the
worst of them I have seen some cheerful
fame, At Gheel I did not hee is single one,
and (apt% from the other causes of this)
the dreary aspect of the town, and the
initire country is incompatible with cheer.
!ulnas of spirits , it any mortal not
endowed with the Teployen gift of being
happy under the mold adverse oiroura
stances. Ina word, Ghee] is an abode of
desolatiob—a lingering survival of remote
ages—a monstrosity in this nineteenth con -
Jury, Ando humiliating reproach to our
naotiern civilization." - .
The sufficieney of thy merit is to know
that thy merit is not iniftiolent.—St. Augus.
tine. .
A miser grows doh by deeming poor; an
extravagant man grows poor by rimming
zitth.--13henstone,
v aa!",.../oaa,/aoret•
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*30 IA* 100 aririare
a akhil 010111/taireate, On
°heti* ABM Oittleciii.
It hie been datdded to Met a reredos in
01. Andrew's Ephroepal Chtiroh," Aberdeen, -
in memory of the late Bishop Sather.
The erd Battalion Royal Soots Maniere
(Soottieh Borderers Militia) is declared to
be thelest shooting battalion of militie in
(teat Britain.
The Princess of Wales is to present new
oolors to the Royal Aberdeenshire Meta -
lenders at the dose at the annual period of
training in August.
On the 8rd, at billion of Balgonie Spin -
fling Mill, while is Dundee steeplejack was
at the toe of the etalit, his clothes were set
On fire by a spark, and be was severely
burned. •
A beautiful mortuary chapel has been
mated in Arbroath cemetery by Mr. Pat-
rick Allan Fraser, of Hospitalfield. It hag
been -in course of erection_ during nine
yeari
It is understood that, before returning to
America, Mr. Andrew Carnegie will for-
mally hand over to Dunfermline the line
memorial window whioh he is to place in
the Abbey Church, at is cost of about
£2,500.
Captain Davidson Monro, chief oonstable
of Mid and West Lothian, has reoeived the
appointment of Impactor of Police of Scot-
land, rendered vacant by the resignation of
the Hon. 'Charles Carnegie.
Temporary buildings have been erected
on the grounds of Donaldson's Hospital,
Edinburgh, for the International Forestry
Exhibition, covering an area of 56,000 feet.
It has been resolved to introduce an elm
trio railway for the use of visitors.
One oe the lamest and most ettocessful
meetings of the elynod of the United Pres-
byterian Church was brougbt to a close in,
Edinburgh on May 14th. The attendance
was 444 ministers and 325 elders, and only
exceeded in 1876, 1877 and 1878.
A Fifeshire manse, that of Carnbee, is
mid th be the fleet private Wine in Scot-
land lighted by eleetrioity: The first pri-
vate house inBritain fitted with as pipes
was another Fifeehire intone, that of Kit-
meny.
At Greenock, on the 51b, Mary Murdoch
attempted auioide by • outting her throat
with a table -knife. Her parents, who are
Roman Catholics, had looked her up to pre-
• verithernttending meetings -ofa-the -Suave-
• lion Army. • •
• The Scottish Liberal Club is to entertain
the Earl of Rosebeky 'at a banquet, as a
home welcome on his return from the
colonies, anti in recognition of bis servibes
to the Liberal party in Seotland. The ban-
quet will- probablyinit askiipleontill the
autumn.
The Bridge of Brechin was the only
bridge on the South Esk until 1796, when
another was ereoted at Finavon, but for
many years peat there have been bridges
on the mama river at Cortachy,Justinhitugh,
Shielhill, Stannaohy and Dun; besides the
one at Montrose.; • .
."--r---warrant has been issued for the artest
cif Donald Ramsay, teacher, Inverness, who
lin left for paits unknown. He is an'
•embezzler of funds from the Reformatory.
Ramsay left behind him it wife and five
children, and a' young woman in said to
have disappeared at the same tinie.that he
•
Attention having been called to the di-
lapidated state of the atone which marks
in the Abbey ehurehyard, jedburgh. the
resting place of Mrs. Henderson (jenny
Crookshankt), the "Beauteous Rose Bud"
•of Burns, a relative hair signified his inten-
tion of having is suitable memorial emoted
over the ereit. .
The failure of the Oregonian -Railway
Company has proved a great disaster to
Dundee, Whore nearly.the whole subscribed
capital of £320,000 is held, as well as
£125,000 of the . debenture bonds. Mr.
Robert Fleming, of Dundee, is in this
country looking after the interestrOf Scot-
tish ehareholderaand bondholders, and it
is hoped that he may effeot some sadder -
tory arrangement, though many fear that
the company will be forced into liquida-
tion.
wesimeet STRAWBERRIES IIIITGLY.
•
The MIngleal Iflixtures That Lull the
- Palate to Ecataicv Supreme. ,
As the strawberry season is at hand, a
few „ideas regarding the disposal of the
delicious berry might be timely. Here is
one of the best recipe' for . strawberry
ehortoake : One pint sifted flour, once:half
teaspoonful salt, soant ; one-half teaspoon-
ful soda, measured 'after pulverizing; one
full teaspoonful bream of tartar (omit if
sour milk be used), mix together and sift
two or three times ; one-quarter cup 'but -
'ter, one oup sweet or sour milk or cold
water. Rub in the butter, or melt the
butter and add it hot with the milk, grad-
ually mixing and cutting with it knife and
use just enough to make it of light,
spongy consistency.. Either bake on it
griddle or in oven. When baked„ tear
open and spread each half of the cakes
with softened butter. Put half of the
cakes chat hoe plate. Mash it pint of straw-
berriee, sweeten to theta, put a 'nee spoon-
ful on each cake; then put another layer of
cakes and whole berriee, well sugared.
Serve with cream.
Strawberry oharlotte.—Line it bowl 'with
strawberries and fill with • Bavarian
cream. The cream is made up ok one
quarter hex gelatine, one quarter oup Cold
water soaked together. Whip one pint
of cream till you have three pints ot the
whip. Boil the remainder with one-third
oup sugar, and when boiling add the
gelatine. Add one teaspoonful vanilla.
When .the mixture is . cold add whipped
cream.
Strawberry sherbet. ---One pint berry
juice'one pint sugar, one pint water, juice
two lemons, one tablespoonful gelatine.
Or, one put preserved fruit, one cup eager,
one quart water, two lemons, tablespoonful
gelatine.
According to the Chinese, cask making
has been known to them for many thousand
years. They labored, however, under tide
drawback. They did not know how ,to
give the final tomb by which the lid is
fastened in, the only Method that atraok'
them as feasible being to place te,boy inside
while • the cooper tightened the,. hoops
and secured the lid in ite position. But
how was the boy to be got out Thin re-
mained an unsolved problem for 3,000
years. , •
Here is the (doing section of is letter
which Sir Walter Soott's 'betrethed tient
him two months before their marriage
"Before 1 oottolude thin famous epistle I
will give you a little hint—that 18, not to
tu4: so many Musta in your lettere. It is
inning rather too soon; and another
tb ng th, that 1 take the liberty not to Mind
them much. but 1 expeot you to mind Me.
You Must take oare Of yourself, you baUst
think of me, and believe Me yours, sineerely,
0.0,"
It taros out that theDominion Govern.
inent's ohm* in Canal. tolls ditioriniinatea
against Canadian grain.
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The new swivel bridge et Dublin ie caned
May RielsCer trent the Bureau of Indestrilie' the B4°134444
&private :a the Leigh bonstabulary gets
Very Favorable- ' £72 e year, with lodging, clothing and
firing.
000D nospEon; roit FRUIT muTitienogroanve itisf MW
Kichhatn, in
• went.
.7 The oenius returns for 1881 give the
populatiori of Donegal at 206,035, or 12,299
less thee. In 1871.
11, Alexander ICioltham, brother of the late
; Charles Eickhani, oommitted suicide in
New Ross on May 3rd by cutting his
' '
throat.
' Wm, Jenne, taxidermist was recently
amidentally poisoned while working in the
" establishment of 3/fr. Williama, naturalist,
a Dublin.
Lord Howth was, on the 80 of May, in-
vested Knight of St. Patrick by the Lord-
! Lieutenant at is private chapel held at the
Viae -Regal Lodge, Dublin.
. Mee Captain Magee, who was a noted
." tiger° with the Curragbmores, died at Blar-
ney,iat ly, from th effects of injuriee sus
. e, me-
tained by being thrown from horse.
A procemion of it peculiar nature recently
primer! through Belfast. It onside& of
scime 25 drays laden with 20,000 gallons ot
whiskey. on its way to Maneheater frorothe
o stores of Dunville it Co.
7 AtDublin, zneMay 12th, the Viee•Chato
2 calor heard's petition for the compulsory
winding up of the National Discotuit Com -
8 parry of Ireland, the Direotors and officials
7 of which were charged with lending- the
funds to one another without proper
security. The losses of the shareholders
The May report of the Bureau of Indus
trim is based on returns made by six bun
deed and thirty correspondents on the 15t
of the month,and in the following Romany
the condition drip, grass and frnit crop
must be regard as their condition et tha
date. Winter wheat is in a much mor
satisfactory etate than it was in May o
last year. led it is not uniformly good
and there are Borne districts in which th
outlook is gloomy. This lernoticeably th
casein the extreme elide of the Province—
westward of the meridian of London,
eestward of the meridian of Kingston. Fo
the large middle district the milieu/Ito are
on the whole, favorable, and the wee,the
of this month has caused a marked iirl
protement to take place everywhere. Tb
following table gives by county groups th
acreage in winter wheat, together with th
taoreage of cleared land, for the years 488
and 1883, as collected by tie:018111p seem
ors :
sallat 4222 282451e:nrceid42,23
Lake Brie.,.219,489 245,991 1,259,432 1,933,84
Lake Huron,159,719 197,481 1,149,798 1,1M,65
Georgian
Bay • 79,542 105,798 953,780 949,05
West Mid-
land 270,986 34033 2,182,380 2,10597
L. Ontatio159,191 212,554 2,218,9u0 2,193,31
13t.Pewrenee
&Ottawa. 24439 37,422 2,113,031 2091,195
East' Mid-
land 28,094 88,113 810,111 836,61
Northern
• pistriote534 4107 85,77
The returns for is number of township
have not yet been received, but they wil
not affect the totals to any appreciable ex-
tent. The area under wheat is about 20
per cent. less than last year.
The orop of winter ayo. is a partia
failure in the eastern counties of the Pro
vino°, having suffered - from winter -killing
and spring frosts. From all other parts
the accounts are almost without exooption
favorable.
The clover fields in every part of the
Province are in is magnificent condition,
apd give promise of an abundant yield.
Many , correspondents ierort the prospect
as better than it has been for years. Old
meadowsa-were -somewhat thinned out by
the heaving action of the spring frosts, but
the new crop generally came through un -
&lathed. The fields look from a, week to
ten days ahead of their condition at the
corresponding date of fast year. .
The general outlook for fruit bespeaks a
high average orop of nearly all kinds, con-
trasting agreeably with the failure of lam
Beason. All orchard trees survived the
winter without eerious injury trona frost,
excepting the peach •trees, so many of
whioh have beezedestroyed as to lea,ve hopes
of only it very small crop. Apple and pear
trees are everywhere healthy and laden
with blossoms, and are likely to bear ones-
nniusly. The prospeot for small fruits of
all kinds is equally bright. - '
The season having opened early, a much
larger area than usual of spring crops was
sown in the month of April,. arid -owing to
the absence of heavy rains farmers were
enabled to get the land into excellefit'oon-
ition. Oath, barley and spring wheat
'.htive made is line start, and give promise of
ca a unmarked by it menu -
1 were stated pit between £70,000 and ,x8p,-.
2 000.
.Totals..,,957,259 1,181,425 10,780,845 10587,688 •• r°RN1 • Olif 11,0111SUSE.
•
PePtlY Reed by Mr. W. J. CoPP et ale
Rapillat Union. •
Can we Improve our Forms of Church
Worship ?" was the title oe a paper read by
• 1 Mr W. J. Copp, of thirfeity, ( at the Baptist '
Union held . at• Brantford this week. . It
excited a good deal of attention: Mr. Copp
deprecated the careless conducting of
public, worship, and earnestly exhorted
ministers to do all in their power to oulti-
vete reverence in the services, and also
urged that the Baptist form of worship had
been too bold, and insisted that it was their
duty to make the form suitable, in harmony
with the thought and spirieit was intended
• to expresa. • He spolthitronglyin...favor of-
clienting,lindalso responsive reading, and'
thougbt the Ten Commandments should be
more frequently read, also that prayers
should more often be offered for the country
and the governing powers. He suggested
an attractive and appropriative_nrder of
Berviee" and hie paper -throughout favored
is forward stop in this matter,.
Rev. J. W. A. Stewart, also ot this city,
followed approving the suggestionse tbe
paper. He favored is sheep distino on be
tween the form for the 'exhibition and that
for true worahip. Baptists had loegoraved
for a good form of worship, something
more elaborate than they had hitherto had..
He protested that this feeling -was not
one of ritualism, but the outcome of holy
desire. • • • •
Dr. Wheaton Belida followed in the same
strain. •
.r. Ativice to Plain Women. .
Let her whoni her slaters oall ugly ex-
-amineliereelf coolly. She mum have some
"points." Besides her plain . and • ehape-
less face, has she an ill•shaped band? a
figure that no corsetwill liriprove ? Can
the dressmaker do nothing for her? Can-
not this ugly quality be conceived, that
subdued, something else less offensive
brought forward a little? Can the dentist
.do nothing for those yellow fangs, the
scissors for those nails? Cannot mme
little artful padequalize them crooked
shoulders; some raised heel that limping
gait; some oculist that paintul spaemodic
obliquity of vision? Some powder, wash
or paint (let us call a spade a spade)—
that last resource of unbearable misfortune
—cannot ecime paint cover that purple
atm, that frightful soar on cheek and
plain Woman with any wisdom will
make the most of any good point in her
. physique and as little as she oan of her
worst points. For instance, if she has a
bad, coarse complexion she will not exhibit
name square feet of truiterial then are
needed, (equate foot? nay, nor equareanches.
She will not 'wear low drone, nor 'very
short eleeves. She will .carefully seleot
hues in dress that improve, not inprie her
own natural coloring, and will wear dresses
high ta:the throat, just enough trimmed
with lace to give richness, without eon -
fusion to the lined her toilet. Nor will
she pima that lace quite while. Only
against an ivory skin does quite white lace
tell prettily. A woman with a poor com-
plexion wet tint her lace with brown (te
and coffee are good dyes), or with the pre-
dominant colors in her dress. Thus ehe
will get the softening effects of broken
colors at the edges . without the risk of
calling attention to tier own blemishes.
A very brown woman, however, bray
,makeherelark-skin "point.' -Thenehe
'will tile whitebait/ and all colors that en -
hence their °wieder/La-coloring.
A plain woraan with a bad figure can
adopt many other bernalees devices—at
least as harmless as borrowed lecke and
teeth, which ne one now condemns.. She
can borrow a little embonpoint from the
friendly cotton trees; she cart swathe in a
handsome sleeve the too thin arm or too
sharp shoulder which deyteate from any
lingering merit she may have. • She can
hide her long, ungainly figure with a Mort,
deadest waist; or she can mend the churn -
like shape with a corset only sufficient to
induce a feminine Curve. A thin arm may
be hidden by a riohlyoaraped sleeve or
improved by thiekly lining it Woe° one. A
shoulder too. low may be'inendee bye, skilful
puff or epaulet; one too high by a trimming
so placed ite to oarry away from the uppilr
part.—Houtehoiregotes. • -
is good harvest. The area et spring wheat
will be larger than last year in the western
counties, and will, to is coneiderable extent,
make good' the reduced area under fall
wheat. •
:Owing in part to a' drop in prices, but
chiefly -to the 'Velure ' of the root and oorn
crops, afewer number of cattle were,tied,up
for stall -feeding than in the previous year.
Thiedemand this toning, however, ha then
active, and purchases have been largely
.made for the Britieh markets. The supply
of, store cattle Hi Above an average, and
having come through • the winter in good
condition they will be finished on the grass
by July or August.
, The supply of wheat in •farmerte hands
is limited to the requirements of horoe con-
sumption, and the stook in granary and
wareheuse has not been ao low in'the Pro-
vince as 11 18 at' the present time Fame the
. year following the bad harvest of 1876. A
large surplus of hay will be held over for
next winterelfeeding ; but as an unusually
large quantity of oats was sold to grain -
dealers, or was fed ite chopped stuff during
the winter, the supply of this grain will not
be more than sufficient for looal wants.
There appears to be a niers abundant
supply of labor now than there was last
year, and the average rate of wages is
lower. Several 'correspondents mention
the influx of Old Country farm laborers as
affording a much needsd relief to the fent-
ing population. The ecaroity of female
help is being severely felt in different parts
of the Province.
A. Royal Custom.
It lin often struck me as a most ludicrous
=atom that, in certain countries, whenever
exalted persons _marry, have_ children
adorn themeelved with ,crowne, or go througg
.othee commonplace experiences Or . silly
ceremonials, a number of prisoners should
be released from durance vile. A man is
imprisoned either rightly or wrongly; if
the former, he ought to serve out hie term ;
if the latter, he ought :to bp released in any
case. The praetioe May, perhaps, Work
well in Ruses, for, in that delightful
country ninetenthe of the prieoners have
committed no orime at alt; but I must say
that I was considerablyaMtnied on reading
that the Grand Duke of Hesse, in the pleni-
tude of his power, had pardoned several
prisoners in commemoration of the Dorm-
staat marriage. in order to give full effect
to the sentiment which is at the 'bottom of
the practice, all prisoners ought to be
hanged on the occasion of a royal death.—
Labouchere in London Truth.
Glycerine after
Like the ancient; Romans, D. S. Troy; of
Montgomery, Ala., (Popular &lance News),
has taken to using glycerine after bathing,
with Most happy results. He 'puts one
drop of attar of roses in two ounces of.
glycerine, sod rubs the body after bathing.
The result was charminglett the akin
sofewith all of its Muff= in as full opera-
tion as before the bathing, and with it de-
lioious sensation of perfect oleo/linen. He
has been using it for fete or flee yeaie
regularly, leading it life more sedentary
than ever, and it SUMO to supply to the
/skin a vigor similar to that resulting from
physiiiiil exercise, It has been of great
benefit to his general health and personal
etomfOrt. No care is rooked in rubbing it
on, except to see that it is applied to all the
akin except the face, and particular), to the
Boles dethe feet. If any remains after the
rubbing, it oan be readily wiped off with it
towel, ' •
Awarding to the last regulations, the
study of German hae been made obligatory
for all students in the Univereity Of Tokio,
Japan. Formerly ' German and French
were optional atibjeote Latitude, however,
in nearly all subj.:lets, are delivered in
Engliah, both by foreign and native probe,
sere.
Payiee New Noel,
Mr. je,meePayn, the novelist, and editor
of the a Cornhill Magazine," has arranged
with a combination- of Anaeriaan newt,
paper publimhent foe the simultaneous pub-
lioation of hie fiorthcoming novel, which is
to be entitled "The Talk of the Town."
The story is founded , Upon the ,evente
attending the production end ultitaate
deteotion and exposure of Ireland's Slialo
sperian forgeries. It introdttheit among its
characters many of the Amoco MAORI end
edema of the time' of Richard Brineley
Sheridan, and the menet of the aotion are
laid Mostly at Stratford -on -Avon and
London. .
Mises Leach, one of the "Bayhara
lainbs," sentenced in October, 1883, to
three years' imprisonmentin the penitent
Gary for robbing Canada Elouthern care,
heti been pardoned out, owing to failing
health,
Deteative Smith at Harlem, N.Y., is a
Met Of a mousetrap. As several intoxi-
mt.& men had been robbed in his precinct
he feigned drunkennette, "set" himself on
a stoop, and was eon rewarded by feeling
e nibble at hie with% chain, it is needless
to say that the trap napped and the rat
• 'wee caught,
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TIM rialtirSINT elf TUX eat1/4111e
Sulliterranealii Silver Illetweesi illaperlor
mei Batarle, •
(Interview In the New York Semi
I believe there ie a subteeranesai river
running from Lake Superior through Lakes
Huron anti Michigan, under Lake Erie,
and emptying int° Lake Ontario. There
is no other way in which to explain certain
mysteries connected with our great takes.
.The surface of Lake Superior is about 650
feet above tide, tvinle its bed is 260 feet
below tide level. Lake Huron's eurface is
50 feet below that of Superior's, and its
bed is about on a level with Superior's.
The suttee° of Lake Michigan is 800 feet
lower than Lake Huron's, and its bed is
sunk a cerresponding distance to the level
of the other Iwo lakes. Lake Erie's sur-
face in nearly as high ae Lake Michigan's,
being 565 feet above the tide, but its bed is
also %boy° tide, being 350 feet higher than
the ocean level, consequently its bed is 250
feet higher than those of the lakes above it.
Lske Ontario's surface is the loweet of ell
the great lakes, being lees than 500 feet
above tide, but its bed is 260 feet below the
men, or about the Same level as
Huron and Superior. So there is a con.
tintioue fall from, Lake Superior to Ontario,
and all the outlet that the upper lakes hem
that is known is the comparatively insig-
Efficient Detroit River. That stream never
can care for, all that great preesere and
volume: from above, and the theory
of an underground river such as I
mentioned seen; to me moat reason-
able. All the St. Lawrence fishes are
taken in every one of the lakes but Lake
Erie. Why? became they follow the
course of the subterranean stream, passing
300 feet heneath the bottom of Lake Erie
and enter the waters of the upper lakes.
The great lakes above Lake Erie have an
measional flux and reflux of their waters,
corresponding with ocean tides Kiva in
regularity. The. subterranean river; ac-
cording to my theory,becomes ocomionally
obstructed by great obstacles that are con-
stantly moving down from tbe lake bet -
toms. Then the channels of outlet are
insufficient to carry off the great volutne of
water, and they are dammed back ansi the
lakes rise. Finally these obstructions are
swept away by the irresistible pressure, the
river flows naturally once more and the
dammed watees subside. That is the whole
mystery of the rise and fall of the tides • in
the great lakes.
Why their's* Teittant_Has_No,..Trult,-
When travelling in Ireland (I explored
that . country rather exhaustively when
editing the fourth edition of " Murray's
Rand -book"), Iwas turprised at the absence
of fruit treee in the small fume where one
might expect them to abound. On speak-,
nig of this, the mann given was that all
trees are the landlord's property a that•if a
tenant should plantotheen they would Bug -
gest luxury and prosperity, and therefore a
rise of rent; or, otherwise stated, the
tenant would be fined for thus improving
the value of his holden. This was before
the passing of the Land Act, which,. we
may hope, will put an end toteuth legalized
brigandage. With the abolition of rack -
renting, the Irish peasant may grow and
ma,fruit ; ratty even taste jam without fear
.and• trembling; may grow rhubarb -and
eat pies and puddings in, defiance of the
agent. Whon this is the oase,his cravIng
for potato.pottish will -probably • diminish,
and his children may actually feed on bread.
—Popular Science bIonthly for June..
THE recent Walivorth murder in England'
etill remains in the long and increasing
catalogue of undiscovered and unpunished
crimes, although John Bolton gave a 'most ,
circumstantial account of the murdee,
_tulle agreehig7with feats known to the
police, and further &infested himself to
be the murderer. But on trial, to the
surprise of everybody but Bolton, he was
acquitted • and it comes to light that
• Bolton, who has been undergoing imprison-
ment for burglary, conceived in his solitary
• cell at Pentonvilie the idea of assuming
the murder in order to out short his sen-
tence. • He did all in his power•to be
convioted tied- inthished. It is a curious
commentary on Engliele intim that in
place of the solitary oorifinement in the
model penitentiary of Pentonville, e.
prisoner should -prefer to be hanged. .
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A Veva ret Teleansoloy,
We have often heard of the wonderful
line between this onntry and Weimar:
the capital Of Persia, it distant's of 3,800
miles, but we scarthlyrealized the lisot that
good signals were ;obtainable through 10
Peek %length or Meet Until recently, when
we availed nireelves of an invitetion from
Mr- W. Andrews, the managing director of
the Indo-European Telegraph Cempeny to
make a 'Visit of inspection. It was between
7 sod a on aunciay evening when we method
thnofficie. In the hutment of an unpra.
tentious building in Old Broad street we
were shown the Morse printer in mimeo -
Sion with the main line from London to
Teheran. The courteoue oink in charge
Of the wire, Mr. Blagrove, informed us that
we were through to Emden, and with the
same ease with which one wires " from the
oity to the west end, we asked is few clues.:
tione of the telegraphiet in the German
town, Wilma we bad finished with Elides
we spoke with the estate facility to the gen.
tleraan on dirty at Wens. This did not sat-
isfy us,and in a few emends we were through
to the Persian capital (Teheran). There
were no messages about, the time was fav-
orable,and the employees of the varine
countries seemed anxious to give an an
opportunity of testing the capacity of this
wonderful line, T. II. N. (Teheran) said,
Call Kurraohee," e,nd in less time than its
taker to write them words v7e gained the
attention of the Indian town. The signals
were good, and our speed must have
equalled fifteen words is minute. The
operator at illirraohee, when he learned
that London was speaking to him, thought
it would be a good opportunity to put us
through to • Agra, and to our astonish-
ment the morals aid not fail, and ,
•we chatted pleasantly for it few minutes
with Mr. Malcom Khan, the clerk on dtitY;
To make this triumph of telegraphy cora.
plete, Agra switched us on to another line, • -
and we were soon talking to a native Ula-
n:giblet at the Indian Goveenment Cable -
Sfation, Caloutta.` At first the gentleman
"at the other end of the wire" could nob
believe that he was really in direct commu- -
nication with the Englin capital, and he
exclaimed in Mortis language, "Aro you
really London ?" - Truly this was it great
achievement. . Pdetallio communication
without a break from In Old Broad Wed,
London, to the telegraph office in Cal-
cutta! 7,000 mike of wire 1 The signals
were excellent, and the speed attained was
not leee than twelve, perhaps fourteen, '
words per miuute.—Teeeraphirt.
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Alleged Primer Cure. /
• A notable and remarkable case of prayer
cure has met 000urred itt St. Louis. For
many years Hon. D. H. •Anostrong has
been a aufferer from mute diasmosis, which - - --- -
in common parlance is a subtle and in-
corrigible type of malarial infection. ,
Travel, mineral bathe, medioel treatment
and patent nostrums of every variety
failed to work •a cureor bring even a,
temporary relief, till at laet Col. Armstrong , •
was on, the point of abandoning himself to
the life and despondency of an incurable
invalid. About this time Harrison, the so-
called bey ,preacher, was holding revival
ineetinge in SL Louis, and a mutual friend
spoke to the young evangelist about Col. .
• Armstrong's malady. "He can be cured
by prayer," said Harrisen. " Do you ,
think so?" asked the friend. "1 know it,"
inud the boy preacher, confidently. When
told of this, Coe Armstrong was prone to
believe ; he ion convinced that , nothing
short of divine interposition could restore '
him to. health. He began attending the
Harrison meetinge, and in the course of it
fortnighit. called a special circle to meet in
his room at the hotel. While the circle .
Was in session, Armstrong suddenly cried
out "1 ani healed! All my pain has
left me I" .Frona that . raonaent he began
to incream in weight and strength, and nor
he is as robust and free from disease
ever. Col. Armstrong will be renlemberer.
as' the appointed successor to Lewis V. '
.Bogy in the United States Senate and the
immediate •predecessor of the late Gen. •
James Shields. • "
. Any worla„ntematter how burable, that a
man honors by efficient labor and steady
-application, will be found iniportant enough
to secure respect for hinitielf and credit for
his name. ' • •
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