The Advocate, 1887-12-29, Page 6A CHINESE flOOD
The Yellow River Overflows, and Inun-
date* Maven Titoullanik Stlaura Kilos --
Terrible LOIS of Life and Property and
Great Ourreriut•
A Sew Francisco despatch ',aye : The
steamship City of Sydney arrived to -day
from Hong Kong and Yokohama. Chinese
papers give details of a diameter occasioned
by the Yellow River overflowing its banke
in the Province of Henan end describe it as
one of he moo t appalling occurrences in
loss of life and property recorded in ree,ent
times. The river broke it banks on the
evening of Septernber 28th:southwest of
the cityiof Ching Chow, and not only com-
pletely nundated that city, but also tee
other populous ()aim. The whole area is
now a raging sea, ten to thirty feet deep,
which wag once a densely populated and
rich plain. The former bed of the Yellow
River is now dry, and the present lake was
the bed of the river centuries ago.
The lose of life is incaloueble and the
statement is made by missionaries that
millions of Chinese are homeless and
starving. Thos. Paton, one of the Ameri-
can missionaries, writing from Honsn Pro-
vince, under date of October 28th, says:
"The newly gathered crops, houses and
trees are all swept away, involving 4 fear:
ful loss of life. The country was covered
with a fine winter braidy, which is gone,
And implies complete destrhotain of next
petrel crop, " Bread, bread," is the ory of
thousands who are on the river bank.
Benevolent people go in boats and threw
bread among the masses here and there,
but it is nothing compared with the require-
ment. The mass of people is still being
increased by continual arrivals even more
hungry thau the last. There they sit
atunned, hungry and dejected, without a
rag to.wear or a moreel,of food. Huts are
being erected for them. What it will be
in two 'Months r cannot conceive. ' The
misery is increased owing to the bitter cold
weather."
Yellow River hie long been known as
China's sorrow, and the present disaster
has served to reassert its right to theterrible
title. As yet details of the disaster are
very meagre. It has ocourred in a district
where but few foreignere are, and the re-
ports furnished by the officials and pub-
lished in the Pekin Gazette convey a very
inadequate account of the extent of the loss
of life and property and the sufferings of
the survivors. The Governor in Ronan re-
ports to the throne that 'nearly all the
people have been drowned in the district
reaohed by the water, the survivors being
those who escaped to the high ground or
took refuge in the trees, where theyre-
mained till they were rescued." This gives
but little impreseion as to what the extent
of the disaster really ie.
The Chinese Times, in the Provirce of
Chihli, where disastrous inundations have
also occurred, says there are 270 people
homeless, representing those whose lives
were destroyed, and adds that the misery
in that Province is trifling as compared
with that caused by Huango-Ho or the
Yellow River. The extent of ground swept
over by the overwhelming flood given in
English figures is over 7,000 square miles,
and the land thus submerged formed a part
of one of the richest and most • densely
populated plains in Northern China.
The necessity for liberal aid may there-
fore be imagined. Already considerable
sumo have been contributed towards the
relief of the sufferers. The Emperor of
China has given two millionsof taels and
the Chineee have started subscription lists
in Shan*, to which foreigners have
liberally contributed. Millions have been
rendered houseless and entirely deprived of
all chances sf earning their livelihood, for
their fields will either become permanent
lakes or uninhabitable swamps. It is fearer'
that the distress which will be bit during
the coming winter will equal in intensity
the famine of ten years ago, when charit-
able donations contributed from all parts of
the world were utterly inadequate. It is
stated that owing to the action taken by
the Yellow River, it no longer flows to-
wards the see., but seems content in Con-
verting Eastern Henan and Northern
Nge,nwhui into a lake. It may ultimately
flow into the sea through the Kiangon, or
it may even possibly join the Yangtse.
A PHYSICIAN'S FATAL BL1UNDER. •
He Introduces Diphtheria Germs in His
Family—Three Deaths Result.
A. Wellsville (O.) despatch says: Diph-
theria is epidemic here. After a post -
•mortem examination on one of the victims,
Dr. C. N. Kale took a portion of the
diseased enembrane of the throat to his
home for microscopic investigation. His
reeearch was conducted with the utmost
carelessness, even eome of his children
being allowed to view the germs. Two
died on Monday, and yesterday the doctor
himself succumbed to the disease, whilefive
remaining children are at the point of
deeth. To add to the misery of the situ-
ation, soroe time ago Kale became insanely
jealous of his wife and drove her from his
home. She sought refuge in Pittsburg, and
is entirely ignorant of her loss.
Piano -Flaying Led to the Murder.
in Enterprise, Fla., despatch says: At
Titusville, Aug, 26th, C.R . Cook walked up
to a man on the street and asked him if his
name was G. R. Hoyt. On 'receiving an
affirmative reply, Cook told him that Mrs.
Hoyt kept him awake the night before by
playing on the piano at her house until an
unseasonable hour. He finished his com-
plaint by telling Hoyt that he would kill
him if the occurrence was repeated. Hoyt
replied that the piano was the property of
his wife's sisterand that he could not con-
trol it: Cook flew into a rage said he could
not have any more piano -playing and shot
Hoyt dead. He barely escaped lynching.
A change of venue was, obtained and he was
tried here to -day and convicted, with a re-
commendation to mercy. A plea of alco-
holism W8.13 his only defence. The people
Of Titusville are indignant that he should
have been reobininended to Mercy.
Ah, sir," exclaimed a Scotch elder, in
a toile of pathetio recollection, per late
minister was the rnan He was a powerfit'
preacher; for, the short time he itelitared
the word arnang us, he knocked them pue
pits to pieces, and clang the ihsicles out ea
five Bibleel"
The Ontario Legislature will be called
together on Wednesday, Jetmety 25th.
# WIDOW AiiCoPrci TuA, rADgERS,
She Got Pledges to 8utra tkia 800E ifirtlir
aufl Made Trouttslian Notes of Theta,
4 Seem), Piglet N.Y.. despatch
Two weeks ago a aide woman, about35
yearof age, arrived in Seneca Falls. She
was in mournieg. She had an :nnesually
fair complexion; dark blue eyes and brown
hair, and her face was attractive and ex-
pressive of modesty and refinement. She
said she was Mrs.RuthArtustreng, of New
York, and was one of twelve agents whom
the Society for the Prevention of Killing
Song Birds in New York had sent out tut°
the rural districts of this State for the pun.
pose of getting pledges from influential
people that they would do all in their
power' to suppress the slaying of the birds.
She obtained several pledgee from people in
Seneca faille, and on the next day drove
over 41 the hamlet of East Variok, Seneca
county, where she went to Elder Colton, a
pillar in the ohutch there, and
the richest farmer in the town. She
stated her errand to 'the elder, and was
invited to his house to spend the night.
The Colton family were delighted with her,
and Elder Colton not only signed a pledge,
which Mrs. Armstrong presented, but pre-
sented the lady with three e10 bills for the
treasury of the society in New York.
Deacon Skinner, of1Lodi, was also visited
and moved by the fair lady's words to sign
a pledge for checking the slaughter of song
birds. Hezekiah Bighop, Justice of the
Peace in West Variok, and Daniel Simpson
and Peter !Lampe, of, Tyre, also gladly
signed. Next day the pretty widow re-
ceived a telegram froth Albany, ,and with
teaks in her eyes she hastily packed her
trunk at her boarding house in Senece
Falls. Her only brother was dying in
Albany, he said, and she took the first
train for that city. Several days later
there were some pretty mad men in Seneca
county. The pretty little widowee bird
pledges all turned, up as prornissori, notes.
Albert Hall, a banker and merchant se
Sheldrake, bought the notes to the amount
of 0940, which purported to have been given
by Elder Colton and Hezekish Bishop.
Mr. Hall bought them of a middle•aged
man, who pretended to have sold farm
machinery in this region, and thus to have
obtained the notes. They had been ingeni-
ously constructed from the pledges to pro.
tect the birds. Similar notes, varying in
amount from $1.50 to 8300 each, have been
sold by the man in other parts of the
county during the paet five days, and it is
reckoned that the total amount of notes
constructed from the song -bird pledges and
sold in this region is $1,500 or $1,600.
To -day it has been learned that a woman
exactly answering the description of Mrs.
Armstrong, worked the song bird -pledge
ewindle in Genesee and Livingston counties
several months ago. The result of the
work at that time was over 02,700. An
old gray-haired man negotiated the promis-
sory notes then.
TWO REMARKABLE JUSTICES.
One Awards Himself Damages, the Other
Believes a Witch Story.
A Vincennes (Ind.) despatch says: At
Murphreyeboroe in Jackson counte, Ill.,
William Bonner, a justice of the .peace,
brought a suit against his sonanaaw,
Samuel Derrington, for slender. Bonner
and his regular constable served the papers
and brought the case into his own court.
At the trial Bonner beard all the evidence,
and then called Constable Woolsey to the
chair. The latter administered the oath,
and the justice took the witness stand to
testify in his own behalf before his own
court. He then resumed his judicial chair
and heard with patience the arguments of
the attorneys on both sides. He finally
summed up the evidence and rendered a
deci-ion against Derrington, his son-in-
law, allowing himself damages in the sum
of $5,000.
A Vincennes (Ind.) • despatch says: A.
most remarkable case occurred in a jus-
tice's court in Mifflin township, which is
attracting very general attention. Mrs.
Seiler sued John Wahl' for assault and
battery, claiming that he knocked her
down. The defendant set up as his de-
fence that the woman was a witch, and by
her machinations had caused sickness and
death in his family. In order to keep her
away from his premises he had, in the
name of the Holy Trinity, hung a cross on
the gate through which she was to enter,
and the holy power thus exerted had
knocked her down when she attempted to
pass the gate. No other witnesses were
examined, and the defendant was dismissed
though the plaintiff was badly hurt.
Novel Contest.
Another hairairessing competition took
place last night in Paris, says a telegram
of &recent date. Thirty young women with
blonde tresses sat down in the hall of the
Grand Orient, and for the space of about
forty-five minutes the fingers and hands of
the perruquiers were busy among their
locks. The first prize of £20 and a cross
for professors was awarded to a M. Nesse
while a pupil won a gold medal and £12 for
turning out the beat coiffure in the shortest
space of time. After the competition
fantasias" in hair.dreesing evere executed,
old styles being temporarily revived or new
ones exhibited to the delighted gaze of a
orowd of coiffeurs and their friends. The
proceedings were terminated by a ball, in
which the victorious barbers selected the
prettiest of the damsels who had been
operated upon, and danced away with them
until the small hours of the rotrning.
Net ae Strange as it Might Have Item
The wife of one of X's friends, leaving
lost her husband, wrote. him a detailed
account of the melancholy event,
" My poor Edward had three attacks ; it
was the last that carried him off."
" It would 'have been stilt more remark-
able," thought X to himself "if it had been
the first,"
A New England /Nixon announced to his
congregation on a recent' Sunday, "You
will be sorry to hear that the little church
at Jonesville is once more togged upon the
Waves, a sheep without a shepherd."
' A duceate,
1 —A little child, eating her breakfast,
asked her mother to remove the " bark"
from her Mileage. She hinted at a great
canine tenth very closely:
I The Hotel Iturbide (once the palace of
, Emperor Hurbide) in the city of Mexico is
to have an elevator and electric lights. The
lattet will be quite an advance from tallow
candies.
411 REPEBO aTBAliGELT, .PA34,2?raiRS.
Aftal"Irlirilliti Y.ars Abifence She SettIFIV!
• ' end C,404141 Her Easeete
A Sharon (Ps.) aesPetoh !aye; Pea
Edgar and his, wife were seneng the
Weelthteit people of the county twenty
years age and lavished Obit affection on
an only daughter, shout 18 yeses old
Suddenly, to , the astonititunent of the
fashionable circle in which she moved, the
girl left "ehe parent"' elansion, saying her
father or 'mother would never see her !wain.
True to her word, they ,did not. The
parents succumbed to their great blow
without ever permitting the ,community to
know the nature of .the family skeleton
which caused the inyterious Separation.
Death soon removed f rom trouble the grief.
stricken couple, and after months of adver-
tieing for the lost heirese the estate was
put up et administrators sale and con-
verted into cish, which, in the absence of
the daughter, supposedly deed, drifted into
the hands of distant relatives. The latter
were astonished eec,ently by the reappear-
ance, after twenty years' absence, of a
portly, middle-aged woman, who with legal
assistance, eatablished her identity its the
doctor's daughter. Her identification WWI
placed beyond doubt by a peculiarly crippled
hand. JudgeBlandin, of Cleveland, with
several bacalattorneys, will to,rnorrow corn -
mance the trial of the plaintiff's case for
the recovery of the estate.
A PECULIAR, STORY.
An Old Soldier and His Three Wive.
A Detroit special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: The Pension Department
has unearthed the following singular story :
A veteran in Pennsylvania applied for a
pension as Daniel Tenney, of the 83rd
Pennyelvania volunteers, company F. A
womanin Stanton, Mich., applied at about
the same time as the widow of the same
soldier. An investigation was instituted,
and resulted in showing that the woman
was acting in perfect good faith and believed
that she was a widow, and that, further-
more'she was a good and honest person.
Her husband was a worthless man, who
one day started out for a hunt and never
ceme• back. The neighbors at Stanton
concluded that he had perished in the
woods. When the anew went off the next
spring they found the mingled body of anion,
a black bear and a cap, lying in the woods
near Farwell. It was supposed Tenney
had been killed by the bear. It is now
found that Tenney was not killed by the
bear, but bad ghne to Pennsylvania, where
he took up life with another 'woman, who
was his first and lawful wife, of whose
existence, it is presumed, the Michigan
woniarhknew not. Finally the Pennsyl-
vania wife went to Nebraska to get rid of
him. Then he married another woman.
Now the question arises, "Who killed that
beer and the man who was found dead by
the bear?" The man certainly had on
Tenney's clothes. Suspicion looks toward
Tenney, and the natural conclusion is Unit
he may know more about the matter than
any one else. Meanwhile no one has got
the pension, and there are three women
who think they have an undivided interest
in the husbe.ndship of Daniel Tenney.
Mr. Tenney is in Pennsylvania and saying
nothing.
THE GERMA.N MILITARY BILL.
Germany's Preparations for War and Wish
for Peace.
A Berlin cable says : According Co the
Reichsanzeiger's version of General Von
Schellenderff's speech on the Military Bill
yesterday, the Minister of War said that
the object of the Bill could be perfectly
summed up in the words of the Emperor
on the opening of Parliament—that the
Empire, by Gods help, should become so
strongthat it could meet every danger with
calmness, from whatever quarter it might
be attacked. The Minister, continuing,
said that danger threatened, not from the
warlike disposition of the allied Powers,
for the German people always leaned
towards peace, but from attacks by other
people. The Empire was strong and it
had allies, but in war its might depended
only upon its own strength. The Bill
aimed to increase considerably the numeri-
cal strength of thearmy through the ex-
tension of the term of service in the
Landstrum. The additional etrength given
would be of great value, and with the
physical hardinesa of the Germans no
difficulty will be experienced in giving effect
to the provisions of the Bill. The Ger-
mons, he felt sure, would not be sparing of
their powers when the time came for beat-
ing off the enemy. After referring to the
technical military arrangements required
under the Bill, the speaker concluded by
expressing the wish that the day when it
would become necessary to put the measure
to practical use was far off. Still, he said,
everything must be ready, if an attack were
made, for the German army to enter upon
the war -path armed in the most perfect
manner, so that their flage would again lead
the German people to victory.
Amoog the Churches.
Dr. Hamilton's "History of the Presby.
terian Church in Ireland" has been issued
in a cheap edition. In three days from its
issue nearly 9,000 copies were sold.
Rev. Moffat Jackson, of Sligo, who died
on the 17th ult., had a brilliant college
career, and was among the earliest alumni
of Queen's, Belfast, founded in 1849. Sligo
was his only charge. 116 was a man of re-
tiring disposition and of a cultured mind.
His son, Rev. Wm, J,., jackson, 'le the suo.
cessor of Dr. T. V.Killen in the pastorate
of Duncairn Church, Belfast.
A 'Martyr.
" My dear," said he teileetively survey:
leg the piece of meat ho had been trying to
mutilate, e I ben see how it is possible for
'matt to die at the 'steak, and entely seine
More richly deserves the nameof thartyk."—
Bineheettoit Pepe/Wage
'need petrified toadt3 were found
biteket in the collet of the Ceenberlatid
Valley Railroad station at Chambersburg,
recently. The bucket was placed in
the cellar lest summer, when the toads
ate supposed to have hOPped illte
Atlanta Constitution: The Ober, indii0i,
trioug yoting Man who killed hie whol
family, including himself; at Loilisville the
()thee day, beettese li was afraid Of poverty
belonged to a elate; daily •inoreeeing in
A. LITTLE *RAL PRIM.
Galiting ,
Iler PI!". After -Tears of ated
Privatiun
An Atlanta, Ga., despeteli says: 4. de-
termined little Washington County widow
named Bufford, after a quarter of a century
of edmirable perseverance and eacrifice, has
aceomplished no ordinary fest.
AS the breaking out of the war her huh,
band, an overseer in Macon County, an -
listed in a Georgia regiment and left his
wiee and eight small helpleee children, with
no funds, on a small estate, :spinet whielt
there was an indebtedness of 1)3,000. When
her husband wee killed, a year or twolater,
the eldest of her children was less than 12
years of age. She realized that the respon-
sibility of their maintenance and education
devolved upon her, and she did not
shrink from it. Thrown entirely
on her own resources she applied
herself to the spindle and supported her
family by spinning thread and weaving
Thii she did successfully until
"store bought" goods forced her to turn
her energies in a more profitable direction.
Uneducated and without copies' there WIN
no opening for her but the field. She rented
a mule and some neglected land and began
farming, actually doing the laborious work
incident to farm cultivation. Her ohildren
could not aid her, and for several years the
brave little woman ploughed her ground,
sowed her seeds and reaped her harvests.
She was exceedingly energetic and
economioal, and finally had saved sufficient
money to purchase a heave. Now she hae
a well paying estate, mules, cattle and other
ateck and a comfortable little fortune laid
aside. Her children are grown up and
command the respect of the community. A
few days ago the successful "farmer "
made overtures to seoure the ancestral
plantation, and, to -day the prosperous little
family returned to the home of a quarter of
a century since.
Llittlit 91 ottish News,
The City Peroohial Board of Glasgow
has reeolved, by a large majority, to send
93 Irish-born paupers back to their native
country.
The existing Old Kirk at Montrose was
built in 1791, but it stands on the ruins of
one built early in the 13th century, of
which the spire is intact, but built at a
later date, about 1641.
Mr. Archibald, senior pastor of Udny
church, where he was Nettled in 1843, is
dead. When still a probationer he took
part with Dr. Chalmers in the great ser-
vice at Banohory House before the Dis.
ruption. He was buried on the 21st ult.
The late Miss Jane Jeffrey, Portobello,
bequeathed £5,000 to the University for
founding two bursaries or scholarships for
young men attending the University of
Edinburgh, and studying for the ministry
in oonneotion with the Church of Scotland.
The Commission of Assembly has deposed
Rev. Mr. McRae, Cross parish, Lewis, who
was found guilty at last Assembly of
slander, falsehood, the use of profane lan-
guage, and scandalously inefficient and
irregular conduct of the services of the
sanctuary.
On the night of the let inst. Alexander
Robertson, better known as " Dundonna-
chie," began a lecture in the lesser of the
National Halls, Glasgow, on "The Absurdi-
ties of our Lane Laws." The proceedings
were suddenly terminated by the announce-
ment that a man named Laurence Rough,
well known to many of those present, had
dropped dead at the hall door.
An apprehension has been made by the
Glasgow police in connection with the
fraud which was committed the other day
on the pig iron market. George Robertson,
a young man employed in an iron mer-
chant's office in Glasgow, was arrested
charged with having forged the order on
John F. Alexander, iron broker, to sell
15,000 Scotch iron warrants on behalf of
James Watson ds Co., iron merchants. The
sale following upon the forged order de-
pressed the market and resulted in a con-
siderable loss.
As a minister of a country parish was
going along the road, he met the black-
smith of the village getting home pretty
much under the influence of liquor. "Ab,
Tam," said the minister, "10, instead of
drinking your eair-won Biller that way, ye
had ts'en a good drink o' milk, it would
have done you more good, end saved you a
bit of money." Tam drew himself up to
his full height as well as his unsteady, legs
would admit, and, with a look of supreme
contempt, said : " Milk! milk 1 (hic)—ye
may drink milk till ye burst, but it will
never gar ye think yerser a king! "
How They Do It In Heston
The modern girl doesn't give herself
away when she allows herself to be wooed
and won. She compels her adoring swain
to surrender himself. Per example, says
the Boston Transcript:
He put on his hat,started slowly for tho
door,, hesitated came back, sighed deeply
and took the lily white hand in his own and
pressed it to his lips.
"Katie," he murmured, I have waited
long—oh, how long 1—for this opportunity.
Will you, Katie, will you, darling, be
mine?"
"Henry," she replied, with a look hall of
sorrow and half of determination, "it oan
never be."
" Never bel Oh, why have you permitted
me to hope? Why have yon encouraged
me, only to stamp upon my bleeding heart
at last?'
"1 am sorry, Henry, but I can
never be yours. I have other objects in
view."
" Other objects"
" Yes, Henry; I cannot consent to belong
to any man. f intend that you shall be
mine."
•
800, No re Was an OM
Nato was an emperor, and et he fiddled
foe fah while Rome was burning: In these
ciaeti you can't got a high toned fiddler
fiadle for lose than $1,600 a night,
---Baitan: Courier,
Bronson Alett celebrated his 80th
birtlidey on the 2et1I of last treeette His
gifted citteghtet, Loitise. M., oelebreted her
birthday the Mine day.
1 —The girl with the highest hat is
reckoned at the loWest figuit.—hrete on
gewe.
—A spruce yourg fellOW is very oftan
pOp'lat with the belies.
"
APRoPEArf Tarcoo?a•
3
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Praise for the Germano Italians and iterlinh,
but lEsEktud Usa the:Mode swift..
Col. Clark, of the 7th ,:Regiment, whohati
just returned from a three menthe' leaSe in
England and the continent, had his °yeti on
things military while across the water,
811Y8 the New York Hera41.
Soldiers are met so frequently over there
as to impress him with the magnitude of
the burden their support must entail. The
English 'soldier, he says is a model is
appearance. He is strong and athletio,
very ereot, with a moot soldierly carriage.
His uniform is clean, handsome and well-
fittine, and when seen off duty, with a
natty little cap perched jauntily on the side
of hie head, cane in hand and well gloved,
"he is in appearance the most distinguished
poldier in the world." Distinctive nal= '
forma add greatly to the esprit de corps a
She army, for every. uniform has a history
and a record that is to be maintained.
While he deems the English volunteers a
powerful adjunct for national defence, be
thinks their organization and system hi
many respects inferior to our National
Guard.
The armies of Holland and Belgium are
email and insignificant, he thinks', com-
pared with those of the great powers Of
Europe. The soldiers of these countries
eeetn to have no pride in their military
duties, are not very museular or well, set
up, are clean but very slouchy, and their
uniform, which greatly resemblet the ser-
vice uniform of this State, is in strong
contrast with the handsome and close -
fitting dress of the English troops.
Mr. Clark's reference to the French got.
dier is very timely, and in view of the prta
sent condition of affairs they are very
interesting: French soldiere are a dis-
appointment, for they seem spiritless, dull
and despondent. They move about list-
lessly, are slouchy in gait and appearance,
are not always neat and clean, do not
appear to be educated or specially intelli-
gent ; in short, are not at all the ideal
seldiers of the period. Their drill, as
observed in and about Paris, was careless
and indifferent, and their discipline is
inferior."
" The German soldier, as seen at Stras-
burg and in other parte of the empire, its
the result of a most oareful and thorough
military organization for a long series et
yetero and of a military system that has'
reached perfeotion. He is an educated
man, physically and mentally, and a part
of his education is acquired under military
discipline. He is not so dashing in his
appearance as the English soldier, but he
shows in his figure the result of thorough
training in athletic and gymnastic exer-
ciees, and there ie an air and expression et
intelligence and mental culture about she
German soldier not seen in the army of any
other nation. Hie uniform is scrupulously
neat and clean ; he is sober, quiet, respect-
ful and obedient; he is faithful, loyal and
patriotie. My observation of the German
soldier leads me to think that in physical
development, in military education in every
detail, and in general education, which
includes the knowledge of several languages,
the German soldier has no superior or
equal."
The Swiss establishment he considers
something like our National Guard. The
men "are plainly but comfortably uni.
formed, passably well drilled, of good
physique, and are active, sprightly and
patriotic."
" The Austrian army is large and im-
posing, but its material does not compare
favorably with that of the English or Ger-
man armies, physioally or intellectually,
except in some favorite or select battalions.
The soldiers of Austria proper are superior
in appearance, more elegant and cleanly itt
dress, and more soldierly in bearing than
those from Bohemia, Hungary and other
parts of the Austrian empire, but there is
a servile manner about most of them which
must be the result of the despotic character
of the Governmenarather than good military
discipline. Some soldiers from the Aus-
trian Provinces are so poorly and cheaply
uniformed, so untidy in person, and so very
slouchy and unsoldierly in carriage and
bearing that a looker-on in Vienna' is
obliged to doubt the military efficiency and
success of an army composed in pert of
material of that character."
The Italians he likes better than the
Austrians, and thinks they will compare
" favorably with those of France and Aus-
tria, and ,considering the brief existence of the
Kingdore, resulting from Italian unity, de-
serve special notice. They are active and
sprightly, well uniformed and equipped,
and appear to be in a fair state of drill and
discipline. In appearance an,,. in spirit
they well represent a cotofFry that is
rapidly improving and developing under its
peesent Government, but why it is necessary
to burden this fair, sunny land, so very old,
and yet so very young in modern civiliza-
tion, with the support of so large an army
only those wise in European statesmanship.
can explain."
His Objection to Dogs.
She—And you don't like big dogs, Mr
De Garmo ?
He—No, I can't say I have very numb
love for them.
She—But they have such large hearts.
He—It isn't their hearts I object to ; it's
their mouths.
Enough for the Meney.
,
Deacon Jones (to country minister)—
Some of the members of the congrega-
tion, Mr. Goodman, complain that you do
not speak quite loud enough.
Country minieter—I speak ag loud as I
ea,n afford to, Deacon, at five hundred dol-
lars a year.—Epech.
A Gentle Hint.
Re—What will you havealear, candy or
110 cream?
She—No, Edward, get me some pop.cortt ,
pie
He—Do yeti like that stuff?
She—Ys I like every thing that pops.
—Harper's Bazar.
tired EnOugli to Sit Down,
Ile had been Out very lath the night
befiere, and it was 10• o'clOck when he came
down to breakfaet,
Husband-a:Whet mitltee the cold.) so
weak
Wife-a-Becattee it hes been standing to
long.
--eriaern k9l3py indtuitty the sleeping_
etir beeinees lute made lots of theney.