The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-10, Page 2PERSONAL.
Oa r Wilde hag in the prose a vole e of
Ave fairy tales.
The King of Spain can now walk, with
the assistanee of his aurae.
Otho, the mad Wog et Bavarie,
eeriouely itt, with pleoriey and bis deeth
may occer et any time.
hire, Illicke.Lerd, -select was one of hioneig-
nor Capers greet frimithe givea large mune
ef money to Catholic charitiee,
The meelleal attendant tif the Qttectc of
Centa ie au Ainertcan ledy phyeicians who
receiVe4 4 salary of $15,000 4 yeer.
Lady COLA Cempbeli hag beme efferecl
45000 fer two lectures Americas wash, en
the edvice of Matthew Areolde she has
declined.
The reincess of Walea writing to Mtn
Mir _keytQ thank her falter eilrer wedding
ift exiye.ed her deep gretificatien et the
exquisite reirrer,"
Zing Flembert of Italy has grown very
ef late. Tie numb prefers civilian
and ia ameetbing ef pAnglomeniaeas
rea4e his attire.
Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, who Is
new in itreace, hes hal eeveral halm chs
with seen Victozia. They are both re
resedieg Geerste 149Ye1
Lite 4I Lielee the Penult Feet,
S4Se thAt StiniceSpeare never wrote a play.
lie wee.' eenn de Liele, ct ulnedOCAted
And neceitivated heteher-boy, who diea
yopeg, with a great *TA -mos for the tattles'
lenteete unetheeneg 1S2, weitten Cote
dbral Riehelieu, were prae up for tale at the
Rad DreeZett PATIAa reGelAtly, tut nehely
W41 whieh wee the reaerve ptiee.
They were all in eetedleut peeseevatiee.
Metweelere ttp, temente Pond'. peieter,
• VerY email man With 4 veny lere bee
exad 4 beg white beard that AWeepa ev.Or bai
eheet.1eline 4 gOrgesnl3b011te iaPATIS4
bet ite is said to be diteenteated heeeneee
wealthy 0 he is, be le net weelthier.
Now•that Gem Deulenger Ism be Verg-
ed mat *1 the ArMy, he 1e entrtlee 0 4 pen.
elan of 10,490 frane I A TOT And 2,000 frAne3
Additienal ait A (=rand Ofaer of the Legit%
0 Ramer. Ille parliamentary ealary will he
9„4/00 fano* loxviug bLe 21^ treeee
ell.
inemedieteiy efter EmpererFrederick lefe
See Remo the Suiten gent Inin aeater,
eemitais;g ef uiceitazel-uutetvithPUeaa
from the Reren, ever which the Dervishee
and Sheiks of the nelese bad preyed. end
Math* *3 the Sultera 45StIred tut, Quin(
Prinee* would cute Lim ae if by en:glee
The Qatte of Sertie deselibed e
hunk= were= Ahem; *weeny-14kt elate
of eget Rer feeturee are very reneler* arrol
her complexien very white. Her OTOS Are
titek* arati SA ill her beix. She xuey be leen
On any fair day driviug three& the fat/dere
Ole atreetS ef Ficrepee, aerempeled by
her little eazu, dreased irs e sailer en% and
by his govereets. The noting Q4een bat
the reputetlen of lacing delver and telented.
The British Dairy rartnere sessocietiou
hose invited Mr. W. IL Lynch, who is at
prtnent in Ottawa, to address them
Ipswich on 1atter-M*1ring" ou the 22a
of May, Mr. Lynch, who ia au autherity
en dairying, bee accepted the invitetIou1
and van oil for Ecgleud early in My.
While *broad Mr. Lynch will study the
Europe= eystem et theryleg, vicitiug Den-
mark, FranCe aud other ceuntries for that
purpose,
Albert Vt aft am)/ in Le Figaro; Army
officers were not allowed, to gemble at Buten
%den. Oue evening the Ling wan visiting
the tables when he atiticed a sulaireleete in
civilien dreee trying his luck at trenteset-
quaranw. He had placed two or three brae
on the table and had won a ace little sum.
when he new the Mug opposite. Re turned
pele, trembled, Alla JAMtatca to take pos.
suasion of his money. Thereupon Ktng
William appreethed end whispered in hit;
ear: " Don't be afraid. Take in your money,
but don't do it again."
At Ahmedabad it is the ,euetorn that when
naive Government officers have to present
themselves before their European superiore
they remove their country aloes before en.
tering the haute 0 taco. If they, how-
ever, have a pair of Iniglieh boots on they
o n approach without being put to any
trouble. Recently. some Hindoo cflicials,
to avoid the indignity of presenting them-
selves in their bare feet, bought a pair of
English boots, and each wore the boots in
turn as he went up to be preeented to the
Governor it a levee. There wee greet fun
caused by the cificials running hither and
thither to take their turn with thenair of
boots, and often they put on the right and
left boots indiscriminately,
dalne Botteireaue mid the Eon
Marche,
When tide Century WAS in its Ant quer-
ter. Marguerite Guertin A peasant girl„lived
in Verjuttnea small village in the depart-
ment a the Seone-et-Loire in eestere Eranee.
Her Parents Were very peer. -they led the
simple life of theFrench peaeantrre work -WO
hard, earning little And. conm
cereg them-
selves net 0 ell about matters °aside of
their own aaci their neighbors' lives.
Marguerite was not gent to echool. She
had. to help her mother with the work, and
to pal weed.a in the turnip -pate -la behind
the house, and ehe hardlygueseee that the
i
world WAS not embraced n the hamlet be-
yond with* she had never travelled.
As she grew up, it was necessary to do
aomething to easn her living, and the only
oPnortunity open to her was to beeorea4
WasbertvetuaO. The washing of Verjux was
demo °nein% banks of the Saone. There Mar-
guerite Guerin Stood, ore her fleeting plet-
femand dipped her pileet linen clothes in
the river. Then she spread them ea the
plaiderm, and rubbed them with 4 Scrubbing,
brush, When they were eeruhbed, and
rinsed quite clam, elm carried theta—her-
self seemly less wet than they—to the
fields and epreed them OP the grass to dry
in the sue.
,At this time, there was A you: travel-
ing merelnent, or pedler, who drove 4 met
from villege to villeae, 501111 linen at the
fare or icoe$.. Every Prenele piece bee it;
menet fete, er entdeer feetivel, reade h
people who trevel from town to town ha a
aert of car, and set up tit* tents, beetle;
•, and InerrY-ga TOPMIsalougthevillageetreete,
iter 9P Wine nalidie equare* 0 CQMA100.
Among the tamn;4aen aest venders of trinhet4
are E9100 pedieve with 111919 Med Warta.
Ari5tide Ilneleallt WAS One a thew. la
'new be arrived with his at: of hem At
the /7 ele of -Vtrtux. Re became agettaleted
Ith the Vannes, atala after 4 little, pre.
sad to them for thew deughter Merserer-
Tire parents were well pleated ; fo
youneBerzeieme bore e. geed ehareeter, a
besides Wag the tamer of 4 bereft end ce
.414 helped hint to au honest living.
1 tbacy were married, taut MArguerAte rte A
Oen la the world. She eow trevelled in her
busharure earn Although they only met
their expellees with tire aelea they znedefrote
tley to dey, they were ematertt.
The Freneh know how to eceuemize in
thoneeed weszaz that Americaue 0 yet are
ignorent of. And by dint of contriving and
Wing 4 few reea at one time, And A few
Mere at another, they at length, aecumuleted
eum Wet tweed in these deye to take
them with their lithe boy to F4ris,
In ISIS they had SaTed CUOUgll tO me
a veutere 0 their owns and they bow*
a emelt plaza on the eager of the Rue
Itae And the Rue de Sevres, which they
epeeed es rt variety shop, They called it the '
(4 Bea alerche," width vacene literAlly
"cheap =kW's -4* place where bargain'
elm found. AlAdarne lieueiceut estisted her
husband. She made change and kept the
boat/. Together they erigtuated the happy
stem of "fixiugpricen° At that time, the
in Paris ;gores were very elastic, vary.
rating to the Merchant's geese as to
of his cluitomer'e purse. The Bouci-
ceute s that it wee not Agreeable to cue.
teener* to ioy uncertain valuell. Accordieg-
ly they attaebet " etienetten" or price.
tege, to 'their ettielee, which served the
double purpose of dee:enduing the prim
and ening time In pelting It.
It was 4 stru.ggle at first te Suntan their
humble begiumng ; but they were to cour-
geons, and took so much pane to please,
that their patronage inereesed, Presently
they added the adjoining atore to them own ;
d M. Ileueleaut gave his caIerks pernaistion
to invest their money in the butinese, with n.
return of elm per cent. hatereet. Gradually
the Boa Marehe abaorbed the adjacent
shops, until it had crept over tin; whole
great bleak, and riaen to the height of five
storien Re trade, too, wae mot confined to
Perin but extended over France entire,
then to the other European eountries, line
finally east and west to China, Jepan and
Araerka.
When her husband died, ten years ago,
Madame Boueleaut became the head of a
buelnets worth twenty millions of feence,
with an income of from sixty thousand to
two hundred thculand frames per day. Sho
contieuedthe business with eminent success,
austeiuing relations to finance unparalleled
in the history of woman.
Her store is one of the eights of Pavia.
Everything ifl sold there, from a pocket -
handkerchief to a Persian rug. There is
something, too, to suit the purse of every
purchaser; and the clerks are as attentive
in doing up for one a box of notepaper at
thirteen sons, as they are in taking one's
order for a seal -skin swipe.
. . .
France keew her as a magnificent philan-
thropist. She looked upon her vast fortune
aa 4 Sum entreated to her to easier the good
of others- She did not forget the scene of
her deka r the commercial world, an the
wife of Stpoor pedlar, and, last fall, geve the
conninuatty of her birthplace an bundred
theuneed francs to build a bridge aeross the
SARA@ab Verjux. This is to give the
formers a shert route to carry thew crops to
vaarkete
For heraelf, MademeBoucleatiti spent next
te nothing. She lived, in the west •:simple
ad uzzaseetaleg nosener. Of lateyeare, she
had terrible ettacka of 44thrrta, and spent
the winter mentb/s la her villa at Cennea---
the mild eliraate Of S914hern. Prance allevi.
ming hgraufferings. It Was there. that, 144-
exrAtediy elm died the 7th. of December.
She was e4ried Iron her parish church of
Ste Themes AgUIPAS in Paris. Theemploy.
ees of B94 Marche, and delegatioue from the
eheritable inetinationa, of France, with
friends and proteges filled the church to
overflowing, and made a vast processirm to
the cemetery of Montpernasda.
As Madame WsUCLCAlt13 left nOne hilt dia.
taut relatives, there WAS SOMA Curieeity to
knew what she woad do with her Andy
million hewn
"Seventeen million 'ranee are divided as
legaCies Meng the employees ef the Roe
Merehe, le Same varying from one thoutiand
to ten thoueand ham, eceeeding to their
Years t4 eervine. She also leaves them her
• beautiful chyteau and greunde at Pontenay.
aux-Reses, with enough reaMey to oeuVert
into a home tor coaveleseent zuvaini erePloy.
ee. This makes two Millimes more. Surma
e bemired theueevel toilve hundred
sand Imam are left to nllMherigeal WI*
tut estareletiene. Remo fur old women
cheeks fee young glen, are endowed.
• rdere founded by Baren Tesler—
one of artiete, of MntielAUN of
of tweeters, mad educational
r omit left 4 hundred theamand
leur Pasteur and the era-
elegaciee of (Me bemired
hundred theueend re.
ts of Paris are remember.
h et the twenty envie
is are te have some thou.
Icturesare given to the eollee.
ouvre and the Luxembourg
en auti silverware to a house of eau-
- poorg
Thee° are Only a few of the long list QI
.gatien All that remeine is to WldiA NA.
1 in the eity.
lootly Battle With Guth -vireo
WKIIIITA, Zan., April SO.— Reer eine°
fah farznere iu the ceruniee af TVA'S.% au
djoinieg Iudien Territory have
ely annoyed by horse thieves, who
unusually bold in theirperienical
isita from tbe untrandent at last
mut that the bonen formed
varnittee for the paupers) et
the thieves. Some time ago
the tigUa.uecs, armed. with Wiuelaceter
*hooters and Iate, darted en the trail
the marauders, but it was not uutil the
hal hem two weeks in the saddle that they
found any. taugihle trace of the robbera'
camp. Warm the vigilantes were travelling
through tire wsetera part of the Tex -rite
ten days ego they staidenir rau moss the
tIlievee us a deep ravine. The outlews were
in their blankets, but not asleep. Wheu
the vigilantes redcap the crest of the ravine
the thieves, who were in command of Bill
Iligghue alfaa "Scar -Face," epraug on to
their horses, but in mounting one of their
number was shot dead. Tao othere put
!spurs to their animals and were coon tbrow.
rug duet and bullets into the eyes of their
ursuere. The borne ridden by the vigi.
antes were fatigued and wore luno eon-
dition to give the outlaw& herses any kind
of a re.ce. But the chase WAS begun and the
trail of the thieves followed, After a furl.
one side,. lasting all day, the vigilantes enc.
ceeded us, driving the gauo upon a Draw
near a small creek, where preparations were
nuele for a dorperate reeistance. As the
vigilante's approaclied they were met by a
volley which brought downone el their
number, Peter Aekormau, of Medicine
Lodge, Kan. The thieves were surroanded
OS Well as possible, and the ileht continued.
Ono by one the rifice of the outletve were
silenced, until but few [lathes ausWered the
vigilantes' rifles. About dusk a white rag
was hoisted on the summit of the butte.
The vigilantes greeted it with 'another volley
and charged up the hill. Three of the oute
laws camped, but "Scar Fame," Hank Win.
dom and f' Curly Bill" were captured.
"Curly Bill." and Windom were riddled
'with bullets, but "Scar Fee° although
nearly dead from the loss oeblood, was
dragged to death suspended by a lariatfrom
the pommel of a aaddle. Four other mem-
bers of the gang were found dead behind
their stone berriera.
A. Sensational Trial.
A sensational trial began recently at the
Vienna Criminal Court. The facts of the
case are not devoid of interest to psycholo-
gists.
In December last a commercial traveller
named Alfred Frankenstein induced Julie
Kunerth, a housemaid, to steal some dia-
monds from her mistress, replacing them by
imitation atones. In January Frankenstein
declared to his accomplice that the theft
would probably be discovered during the
carnival, and that therefore it would be
advisable to abstract all the jewelry and to
feign a robbery, for which purpose he would
discharge a revolver into the upper part of
her arm. The girl consented, but when the
appointed day came, Frankenstein, after
having taken all the valuables upon which
he could lay his hands, shot straight into
the woman's breast, and left her for dead in
the room. She was found shortly afterward
lying in a pool of blood, and was considered.
the victim of a daring robbery. A series of
accidents, however, soon revealed the true
state of affairs, though the woman, after
her recovery, tried hard to exculpate the
man who had acted so treacherously toward
her.
Frankenstein was sentenced to sevenyear
penal servitude. The jury found him not
guilty on the major count of attempted
murder. The girl herself was condemned to
two and:a half years hard labo as an ac -
co mplice.
Mrs. Kass—" You seemed gree.tly chang-
ed and improved since you returned from
Europe, Mr. Thomson." Mn Thomson—
" Oh, vastly, I assure you. Why, I'm a
• different man altogether. Mrs. Kass—
• " Indeed 1 How pleasant that must be for
Mris. Thomson,"
A, saloon keeper wanted the motto "Yes-
terday, To -day and Forever" painted, and
when the painter presented the work it
read " Yeaterday, Toddy and Forever."
But there is another side to 'the Bon
Marche which is not known to mese of Its
customers. If it is so pleasant for those
who buy, it is not less so to those who aell.
There are more than thirty-two hundred
employees and they resemble an immense
family. Madame Boncicaut felt gravely the
responsibility of her position as mother to
so many children. After her husband's
death, she divided one -hall of the business
in shares among the employees, and estab-
lished pensions for those who had served in
the store more than twelve years. She took
great care of aged and infirm employees,
finding light work for them when they were
no longer able to do their full share. Only
Iast summer, she gave five million francs as
the foundation of a fund to support =perm-
nutited clerks.
Another fine idea was the erection of
kitchens and dining -rooms in the top of the
store, where the entire force of duke have
their meals without expense. She also
built a private infirmary ear the employees,
and engaged a doctor, who comes every day
to investigate cases of sickness.
But remembering her own and M. Bond-
caut's struggles for an education, Madame
Boucicaut provided food for their minds as
well as their bodies. She hired teachers of
music and languages to give evening lessons
to all who were anxious to learn As a re-
sult, the Bon Marche has organized one of
the best brass bands in Paris; while many
of the olerks are excellent linguists, inter-
preting six or seven languages with facility.
This makee the Bon Marche the most 00n.
verdent store in Paris for foreigners.
There is a gymnasium and fencing -room
for the men. And the hundred and tWenty-
five young women who serve in the ready-
made department are lodged in Madame's
own house, opposite the store. • Each has
her separate room, with polished walnut
floor, dainty white bed; and fresh curtains.
But Madame's charities were not confined
to the Bon ,Marche. The poor of Paris and
the benevolent institutions throughout
The Country Itonstivite.
One of the darkest teatimes or farm life
the hard lot imposed, on the wife aud mother.
Country customs have made the fare:tern
wife a slave to work, and. itwin be a blamed
ere in country hews when this hard work-
ing Martyr will throw off the bowleg° en-
tailed upon her by her female meestry, and
through the privileges thus seeured rite to
A higher pleee among woinen.
There is le prevailing Wee that has des -
minded from generation to generation that
the farmer's wife, in order to be 4 true help.
ineetemuet bear A far heavier responsibility
than is expected of any other woman, In
almost ell other tivemettioes of men the wives
are relieved Of Any fieitacielobligatiem But
the average farmer's wife net only performs
the work at the hot= anduresall the offer-
ingg and anxieties Of maternity, but also
amine largely in the family's support. Fer
the body and mind to be under =eh con-
stant pressure from work and caro must in-
evitably work degeneracy to both.
Some time since a friend of mine had been
visiting one of his aunts, a farmer's wife.
When Remaking to me of her, he said: 4,11
my sunt were made of east iron and every
joint in her body of the hardest steel. I
ahead think the would have worn out long
ago." And when he told of her inning be.
fore daybreak, And of her ceesitant labors
thet never comet until At A late hoer of
night, why it lady ;Redo my OW4 body
aehe.
As faets axe more powerful than fetney,
am going to relate. an =stance of one farm-
er's wife's work; Ana 1 W.iIL O prefteee ir by
eyieg. that 4.% biglklycOIOrea AS it may tnern
e net le the latest overfrzwe. I eheneed
eater aegualuted with the family e few
go, end the memory et thet WOIPArea
meclisino that Me was, will
ver beger itt tei laud.
Rer hmeiserade pew we. geed for fifty
thoessanl dollre. Ifer property coneieted
of meaty reeh, veluable acme bertha of hue
441.19r SP4ngf Of beautiful hers, aada heevy
hank ACIZSOUllt. TWO men were eteuatentiy
mployed on the farm, end extra tamale ta
he busy '0000. There were four child.
ren in the family, the eldeet e girl of twelve.
All the demotic lehor on We farm lignite
Cveil to the keicting wati Aiming for tbe
family, and weehing for the hired men, won
done by We farmer's wife, her only help
being whet leer little daughter gave her
when out of eehoel. Dairying WAS 4 prom
bent feature of the bra, end every year
huedrede of pouude el butter was made by
her.
It is needless to say that this women wia
aleve—weree, ovetnefer bed she peeteesed
ethieg there woad Ix teemed mere we
h hardwerk. I do zetbelleve she
moment in reet and recreation,
•maework was over ehe alwaye
mewleg in hand. She gave
e u, reedluve no time to home
dal pleasures. Her children were all
supplied with feed and clothe; but au to
imending anytime with thein in that sweet
intercourse which is fraught with so much
pleasure mad benefit to both mother and
children, it was rontothing outside of her
Iwniys compared her to a ;aniline. Aud
el for tho thoughe when, like the ma -
ism, bard ulegebesexhaueted her capecity
work, there will be nothing left as a
monument for her labor but some 'mullein
dollars.
Who wee to blame! No more the bus -
bend than the wife. Tberewas a fact -rooted
Mee iu the cemmunity thee extre help in
the fermiumee wee unneeetsary ; that, ex-
eepting itt Sickness, the worn= was unthrifty
who meld not carry on ber housework with-
out paying wages for hire.
Now right hero I Omit mention one plain
eubject which does not restive the attention
that it should when tho duties of the bus.
band and wife aro spoken of corapaentively.
A great deal of allowence should be made
for the physiial debility that maternity
produces on the system. For the woman
who is bearing children who epee& anxi-
ous, eleepless nights itt caring for crying
bableie to carry on the work thee warty a
fernier's wife does, Is sinsply barbarous.
040 excellent woman gave me her exp9ri-
°IMO whtlo passres through this trying
period. Cheese -refilling was the leading in.
ustry of the farmers in her locality. Her
huaband owned quite a number of come
eerie of which she always method. The
summer that her sixth child was born, she
milked four cows daily, in addition to her
housework. But weeks and weeks after the
advent of the little stranger, she lity upon a
siek bed with her vitality seemingly ex -
handed. The strength which should have
been so carefully husbandedhad been spent
in hare work, and the penalty to abused
nature was paid by long months of enfeebled
health.
There are various ways in which the coun-
try housekeeper can lighten her lab.r. Ib
is often impossible to get good, regular do-
mestic help in the country; but the washing
can be hired, and a seamstress be employed
at the house for a week or two each season
to do the bulk of the sewing. Even this
help cannot always be obtained in one's
neighborhood; but there are laboring wo-
men in almost every town who are glad to
receive work.
When we first comraencod farm life, we
were four miles from the city, with so many
factories near where girls were employed,
that it was impossible to get househelp. So
arrangements were made with a woman in
town who did our washing for three years.
Another way in which our housework has
been greatly lighteaed is by patronizing the
baker. Much of thetime our bread is bought,
and if we are unusually busy, we buy cakes,
cookies and doughnuts. .
The conditions of peoplen lives are so dif-
ferent that it is impossible to make plans
beneficial to all. Yet there are ways by
which every overburdened housewife 03m
be relieved of some of her work. The very
first sten in this direction should be in fit-
ting u, he house conveniently, and whit
eouveroinces for her labor.
t do not mean to have the reader infer
frees this article that all framers' wives
suffer the martyrdom herein described.
• There te e mitny country homes where the
'strength of the wife and mother is appre-
ciated; where the income from the farm is
spent in advancsing the home interests and
pleasures as • well as the interests of the
farm. And it will be glorious reformation
when they are all so.
I well understand and appreciate the
snatchy rreedy money on the farm. • How
hard is it, oftentimes, to touch a dolls • bat
is not needed for actual necessities. Yet
among the actual necessities the.guarding of
the health of that central home figure, the
wife and mother, should always be reckoned
—the entire happiness and prosperity of the
A Glimpse of Victoria.
The stranger who first visits Victoria' the
capital of British Columbia, ill struck bythe
great numbeeof Indians who live in the city.
They wear clothing of the European style.
The men work on the wharves andateamers,
lien Wand skins, or are occupied in differ-
ent trades, particularly as carpenters. The
women wash and work for the whiten or
stroll idly. about the streets. The suburbs
of Viotorm are aimed exclusively inhabited
by Indians. There they live in miserable,
filthy shanties and sheds or even in thin
canvas tents. The city has about thirteen
thousand inhabitants and of these about
Iwo thousand are Indians who stay there
over summer. Besides these,about three
thousand Chinese, many Sandwich /slanders,
a few negroes, and a white population com-
ing from ailparts of Europe and America,
live in the eine. The Internationality of the
population and its easy-going ways give it
a peculiar character.
!What Woman Never Admits.
That she is in love.
That she ever flirted.
That she laces tight.
That she is tired at a bell. •
That she is found of scandal.
That her shoes are too small.
That she cannot keep a secret.
That it takes her long to dress.
That she has kept you waiting.
That she uses anything but powder.
That she says what she doesn't mean.
That she blushed when you mentioned a
particular gentlemen's name.
'Finn some loving friend shirks hie bu rden of care,
That you may have doUble to carry;
When some other fellow is ringing the hand
Of her whom you 'wanted to marry,
Your principles may not permit ugly words,
Uut don't such things make you feel ewes. ry.
farmhouse depend so muolz on her. And i
there is a more unprofitable and unpleasant
object than a Wernollt, groaning, nervous
woman, don't know what it is.
111I4IE Bunn.
The Women of Englaiut
While the wemen lately in international
council at Washington were exulting over
what education had done for their sex dur-
ing the last generation, a very Berieue des.
cession was begun in England as to whether,
under the exietieg conditions there, this etl.
ucation bed really been of practical advan-
tage to women.
There are now in the United Kingdom
800,900 more Women than men, or, as the
London Spectator puts it, there are $00,004)
girls who, =lees we establish polygamy,
never can ho married at ail," The wait ma-
jority of tilegt sPitin_terk of Whin 0410'.000
are 35 years of age or older, belong to the
educated or partly educated ClaSSeS, and the
reat of them are without money. Meantime
the emigration of men from the crowded
islands is steadily increasing their nutoherS
actually and proportioaately, the continutem
agricultural depression fa adding to their
poverty., and the general diffuenne of edu-
cation ta rapidly multiplying the narks of
those WhoSO tastes and habits undt them to
esro their breed le the only employment* he
which there is 4 greet demend fer women's
Tabor. Sem though her pay be amen, en
ordinary workbag wet can always secure s.
place, but these " necessitous gentlewomen,"
these edacated girls without money, are
only competeat for the light work for which
the demand. Is eenmatatively
The eensequeuesi it that the great amp -
heaven+ wad fill their eatebliehanents with
the &meagre et clereymeze country eoliti-
tor, dectere en4 superior olerke, ma then
leave A Itindef worldful begging for admit -
Mace outeicite." These Setter eituatioes, of
otto ent or ?mother, are in to eager tiemared
y 4 yearly ieteremaing multitude of weir wo-
men that "the bestowal of Lite smallest pet-
reuege of the kind beeornes a beart•breNktng
burden." Mr. Valter Besent telhi hew a
Mee report that he had established an asso-
ciation tor providing " ladteV with copying
week brought him au " iueredible" number
et lettere trent writers who related terrible,
heertrendieg. 'Aeries; 0 suffering."
What its going to be the era af all thin:
To the Speetater there ceeree to be "a geau-
iue that twenty Teen heeee it will
melt in "s *atone demerelizetlan deduce.
ted wommt fora tile deeperate 'attire for a
iTelihend teeu to he almoet uturttainatale."
Tlutrefure it itt " bAlitemptea" Oregon:eider
the whole gueetieu 01 edueetion, and to
"doubt if the majority of gentieweuren
without Meatla WOUld not be better feriguer-
tinge, as leaving there better able to give np
theer grade at once," end join the elate of
the working wernee for wheee later there ia
a gees; demand.
It is else to be borne ies Mind that the pro.
portions,te number of edueeted men has in-
creased, and eouttuuee to Increase rapidly,
ared that there is a great cempetition be-
tween them autl edueeted women for many
of fireplaces that do not require bard menu -
id labor, or other gentlitication than the
41 generel intelligence" sahib iii AO large A
of what bete have to offer iu the mar -
The consequence mutt be A reduation
itt tbe prier) for the work, and, therefore, of
the incomes of fathers of educated daugh.
ter e who in their turn Neill find it tho more
necessary to miter into the competition for
work.
If, then we do not go to the extrema* of
the Xpecdter and question the advisability
of education for these womete 'we muse at
leaet couclude, that there le eoreething redi-
celly defective about the eert Of education
they are receiving. Though Mr. Walter
&sant takes a purely poetic view of society
when he declarethab " no women ahould
be forced to work at all, except at :mob,
things as please her," We cannot overlook
the fact that the introduction of women in-
to the labor markethas been ono of the chid
causes of t/ae labor dieturbenree of modern
timet.
Earthquakes in China,
San Francisco, April 30.—.A.steamer from
China brings details of the earthquakes in
Yunnan. Vrem tbe second day of the 121h
month of latit year till the third times of this
year there were ten shocks of earthquake
accompanied -with it noise like thunder. In
Ship -ping eight or nine tenths of the houses
in the south are falling down and half of
those in the east. In the north-west a thou.
sand are cracked, or bent out of the perpen.
dicular. Two hundred people, men and
women, old and young, were crushed to
death: of wounded and injured there are
over three hundred. At Tung-Hiang over
800 were crushed to death and about; 700 or
800 wounded. At Nan-Hiang thereat° over
200 dead and 400 injured. At Si-Hiang
there are over 200 dead and over 500 injured.
At peh-Hiang about 100 killed and the same
number injured. (The four places last named
are suburbs). In the town and suburbs
over 4,000peopde are either killed or wound-
ed. Belt or nine -tenths of the houses have
fallen down and the rest are cracked and
leaning over At Kien-Shui in the city
seven were killed and wounded; in the north-
west suburb 300 to 400 houses were over-
turned, 249 people killed and 150 or 160
wounded.
A practical attempt to provide super-.
ior agricultural education is being made
in England through the medium of
a bill which has been introduced into
the House of Commons by Mr. Josue Col-
lings, of Ipswich, and other. By this
measure it is proposed to utilize the public.
elementary schools in rural districts for the
purposes of affording to children practical
instruction in agriculture and horticulture
and to empower School Boards and other
managing bodies to purchase the land, im-
plements and buildings necessary under the
circumstances. A special grant of not ex-
ceeding fifty per cent. of the expenties thus
incurred Neill be made by the Committee of
education, and certain scholarships are also
to be offered for competition. Not only may
this course of technical education be given
in the elementary day schools, but continu-
ance and night sohools may also adopt it,
when allotment holders and laborers will
be given an opportunity of benefitting by
the teaching afforded.
In a recently published poem James
&men Lowell speaks of "champagne in the
air." There is sortie disappointment felt
because he did not mention the locality 'in
which he had discovered this inspiring at-
mospherio phenomenon. Doubtless ts WAS
in a country where the climate in extra dry.