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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-10, Page 6ATTAC�E� In'T PIRATES. them, and in ten minutesfromthe beeinuing. of the fight all the pirates alive had sought 1i/tweet eel tathit h hotao s conmighid and shelter ',clow. We lool fourteen dead on wenamea the seo,,,,ie en our decks: and there were twice that num ber in sight on the felucce, while not one of ,is had a scratch. Leaving three men to fire away at any head eppearnng Above the hatches, we oast off the grapplenga and pulled, the telucca along our starboard side until the cannon vioute bear. Then we fired a sleet through her deck acid bottom, reloaded, and give her another, and then cast her adrift, She rubbed around our stern, drifted off about a hundred feet, and w a. quarter of an hour went to the bottom. Perhaps a dews living men came to the surface and swam to the bark, but not ono of them was allowed to board, You may think it a bloodthirsty act, sir, bat we wiped them oat to the lest loan without any twinges of conscience, and I've always been glad of it, Had they cap• tuned us, ear throats wouldhave been cut in no time, We -lay All that day without meniag half a xnilo, but sunset brought e breeze, and we finished our voyage without farther adventure. The excitement of the fight made the Captain much worse, but lie recovered in a few weeps, and was able to take connuaand again. In the autumn, of 1S5S, having been panel off ae Cape Town from an English brig which had, been condemned, I shipped aboard the hark "Raacue," Capt. Moore, bound to several ports its Madagascar and return, We had a small but excellent crew, ovary amen but the cook being white, and all beleo Wish, American, or Swede. The day before we Relied the Captain's wife came aboard, and I saw at once that she was a seller. She was about Sa years old, weigh- ed not an ounce over a hundred pounds, and her enevementa were those of a girl. She wan just such a little woman as you might expect to hear scream out at sight of a mouse and to see faint away if sbesavv a rat, As a rule, sailors are opposed to women folk et set, Teen are ail right 39 passen- ,gers, but when a Captain has his wife along there ie mere cr ?easy growlieg in the fo'eastle. It is telten fer granted that the "old nem" will be leas on deck and heave more to the rraatee, and insteedl of "cracking en" and eaarreeng all esil tea melte a short voyage, he will go slow and look cutler Equally. We growled about the woman corning aboard, beat, at the ?ague time, every old tar vowed her an angel eel hoped geed leek ler her. Drowned. Wo ereptato^g the cease as far ae fart" All day along the hurrying crowds bd Elisabeth, fend then tool; a depart -ere for the jostled' him ag lie wandered ai n ersly big island at the northeast,, a matter of 700 nteng the streets -,a restless, iaz;rard devil miles before we ebo0.1 eight its eentlrern urging him blindly oe somewhere, more end.�Ws t;ad .115ht, steady winds and than once hurrying pedestrians had stepped weather, eather, tnakien eney work for the to gaze after ham weneeringly ; more then crew, b:on. the third day. tout the cap ' in (rice hie white, drawn face, had checked a t wee hien down with fever. We hadn't b.,;gaee ery faera pittauca,. aeeu unuoh of his woe tip tO t4,at tine, bat Rut night tat had telleu, end with it a chill UUQW able was sverywbsra itt au h¢na, Al- mint trona the river. He loomed, weak thee h we load a twat tote who gas thor• and vent, its sa sheltered doorway, and eughty coszapeteet, gazed vacantly about him.. men t iween P;^I;l e C Across the street was a great building took full charge: of the ship. .Arca we sten ablazs with light, and a crowd surged at discovered that the wee entirelyeempetenb tlso catran Costly equipages drew up to de sc, She manse sterid by the legs prime before it, and drivers alzauted theusselvea Off the day's zed, Ooure drift and geese reek- hoarse. It was a theater, He wondered oeteg,and •order sat get cm reduced ass=era what play was on the hearde—wondered ly as sissy rssaeet d ever caw*, aald the mate? hard bow his own :life reviewed upon site stage SOWS) ezreugh teat to sail' over it. .Her hua, wanld Affect the 'bout hued the pit. He had band owned three-quarter interest ha the fait it LP ;SS vrorld, deelaerettlyaand bark miller venture, and It was unlytattzra$l ISSt. that the wife should know it. She was dem Ile moved MA wearily; Two polices -nee Mr, nesse, eapteia and coeinseller all in one, talking is low tones at a corner, ?tapped and things eonld not have some better bad and eyed him auspiciously. A wretched the eld roan been on sleek. , hrtuGhbaek paused ee a lighted corner to All went well until we were within nigh ' stretch out a heed for elute, bat at sight of or empty males of the esntiis end of 31ada- lsts ghastly face shrank heel.. With a stifled gamier, wbeu the breeze died sway in the c A tray reveler reeled past, elnantin tori nano ztutid we ecar;',ely heel eteeregew , n rnaudldnpsong—how it jarred upon his and alteoetat the meg time we sigbte4a nnmbedd seuaeal Oa and PA. felucca ori cur stastbaard how abont ten The lighted streets were at lust behind MRCS away. In those days_ there were and he was among the gloom; w.ere1ieuses plenty et =rive > ea Noma !athlete a sway ire by, the river: the bays ;end rivers at the lower end of The river! What a fascination it :had Mad;gireim, and they bad no hesitation in Ser bleu, 1 s boyhoedwae parsed by finch pluaderimg, esettliue, axed thruet•enttirg. a river, only be remewbred it as always We balm) saonermade eat the Mimeocrani brightarid sparkling—a godly Wont tins little wema.0 called us all aft and. glittering in summer auelight, or studded mil ; with ramie conetellaticna, among which c* Men, youitnow that the Captain is very this great moon lay ahimmerimg• ns, mender native craft le as pirate, and is He stood en the wet wheal and gazed into emits; down to wank ua, It we eurread• the malign tlde. Somewhere, perhaps, it or, not ono of us will live an hour. If we rippled patt green fields and laughed to r bsh do entities; we may beat her off and escape. the sledding fern, but here, pollute by the Thorn may be deter of then: ; there are onl y great city, It awopt en, muttering, hoarsely thirteen of tie, Will you fight or sur- of the Les. render 1" „ A nolo around him. It was only a rat Fight ! Fight l Hip 1 Hurrah 1" shout• scurrying away to his don, but he started ed the crew in cliorne, and, after thanking guiltily. Ho took a letter from his pocket ue, the woman gave ordere to prepare for and tore it in pieces, Ills empty lame he the attack. flung far out into the stream listening The sky was eloudleus and the breeze still Intontty for its faint splash. dying away, and it wan certain that no' How his temples throbbed 1 He bared his ohmage in the weather weld be leolced for. helm to the mist and atood thinkiug I We hadtwo cannon nino•poundera,, one on thinking; Was it yesterday bo read it either broadside, end dem were uncovered Yes—no—bo couldn t tell, but it aeemed. anud , burnt into his brain. I.o4DaD WITH SOLID shim. t A floater caught—the body of an unituown Luckily, among the cargo was a consign- man was fount, in the river yeaterday by went of makers' and wo broke out two boxes two fiahermou, and brouht to this city. it of fifty each. They were cheap affairs, cal had evidently been in the watersome days. created for traffic, but all were sure fire for Au inqueat was hold, resulting in a verdict a few rounds. I was one of the gang told of anpposed suicide, after which the body off to load them, and T know we loaded the was buried in the pottor'a field. There was oven hundred, This would give us a mat- no ulna to ata identity. ter of aeveu /theta :apiece without reloading.1 What a blank night! The dark watere One-half the muskets were carried aft to at his feet swaahed the shore mookingly; the quarters, and the othora distributed the mists clung to elothin , and the wind along the bow and waist. Four cutlasses roso, wailing, l iatontng, listening,he orept were hunted up and served out, and then forward -- there there lyse time for one more precaution, I• • • • The felucca wan coming down slowly, urged The ratran boldly out and scampered by her sweeps, and a man aloft with a glass noisily to and fro, tbo current whispered a reported that ahs was full of men and had dread secret, and a watchman a block away two eix-poundere on her decks. The head yawned sleepily. of the bark pointed pretty steadily to the . northwest, for there was neither wind nor, Found dr▪ owned! Found • with his ghastly sea, The felucca was coming down from face upturned, drifting down with the tide the northeast, and we could therefore figure the bright ripples tossing his dark hair, and that she would board no on the starboard,a wild horror in his ?taring eyea. They bow.drew him from the water wonderingly, Orders were given to search for and bring though the sweeping current moaned on deck bottles of every kind and shape. I remorsefully and babbled of ata secret as it think we routed out fifty or more in the fo' hurried on its way to theses. castle while the cabin furnished a hundred. But to somebody, far away, he is only miss - These were broken in niecea on the forward ing—and somebody watches and waits. deck, and a fine mess they made of it. We could walk over the stuff with our leather soles, but woe to the bare eel's which LEAPED DFP THE HAIL. Southampton : "With Capt. Ran - The felucca people did not auspeet our can- Sou brother saysf Capt. Harr Rpt. Sam of atne non until they got a shotfrom the starboard P ' y gun which made the splinters fly. Then Stranger, I went on board the new cutter they changed their course and pulled for our Arrow, better known as the Old Arrow, bows, and we could not train a gun to bear owned by Mr. Tankerville, Chamberlayne. upon them. I helped reloed our gen with Through the kindness of Capt. Henry Par- a solid shot, and we had scarcely finished ker, who bas been captain of the .Arrow for when the felucca was upon us. She grap- pled us just where we had figured, and, under the little woman's orders, we made no effort to prevent. She had foreseen that if driven back the felucca could take position on our bow or stern and pound us to pieces with her six -pounders, while we might not be able to retarn a shot. We were drawn up in line across the deck abaft the foremast,, with the spare muskets lying behind us: The Captain's wife was at my left, armed with his revol- ver. Mind you, there wasn't a shout or shot as the Mows boarded us. They pull- ed down to us in a grim, determined way, never a man opening leis lips, and as the grapnels caught they came swarming over the bows like a stream of giant ants, each man armed with creese alone. There wasn't a yell until they struck the deck, and then there were a hundred in chorus. Every man was barefooted, and every one was "a horribly cut, We opened fire at the same Patient (jumping from the dentist's chair montane, and and crying with anguish)—Oh 1 oh 1 oh ! ROWS WENT TaIN VIRST GANG.' eel I thought you said you pulled'. teeth The second was wiped out almost as quick- withoutpain? Dentist (smiling pleasantly) ly, and then we rushed forward and each —So I do; it don't hurt me any, man went in on his own hook. It was a " Mr.' S.," asked a Professor at Maine tante for us. A few musket shot? were p State College, "what do you. understand by. fired at ns from away aft, but the bullets naturalization?" Mr. S.—" Naturalization flew among the rigging. We rested our guns is the process of making a foreign -born per. on the rail andfired right down among son a native of the United States." A. 6S -Year-old Yacht. la An English correspondent writing from thirty-five years, and is still in charge, we were shown over the old cutter. Ship car- penters have been at work on her for the past eighteen months. Her square forefoot has been cut away and rounded up after the style of the cutter Irex. Thirty-five tons of lead have been bolted to her kneel, and she has been all newly planked outside. Below docks she is being newly fitted up. Her wood finish is teak and pitch pine, and looks fine. Some of the old timbers are still to be seen. Most all the old dock frame is left in her, and looks as good as new. The Arrow is 68 years old, having been built in 1820. Captain Parker is of the same age as the boat. He says, ' We were babies together.' Capt. Carter writes me that the Genesta will not come out this sea- son. The weather here has been very bad, and it has stormed almost all the time since we reached Southampton." VENICE'S VANISHED GLORY. BY GAIL #I.1,'-aiMTa;N. YExaoa, April 2, -There was a time when the princes of this world --emperors, popes, kings, doges—seem to have had things pret- ty much their own way. It was a time when painting and arobiteeture were at their highest, and, the men of genius reared in marble and spread ou canvas, the glory of the men of pawcr for the delight of future ages, and for their own delight in their owe age. The wen st power ease themselves al- ways idealized, euiewized, not to say apoth- eosized. Acres of canvas diepiay the gold embroidery, the jewels and velvets, the pomp and grandeur, the meetings and m lrchings of august putout ate, heaven and hell are depicted, to eontin a the triumphs of earth; and whether in earth or heaven it is to be obseeved that the Doges are always "in glory." Kneeling even by the eimeilied, with ovary pumsible splendor of robe, with outspread Hands of prayers and uplifted eyea of aspiration, the Doge demands his share in the reverence of the beholder ; and when it is the last great day, prominent on. the safe side among the :Arora and angels St. Mark may be seen doing himself the honor of plaeing a golden crown upon a Daae, whose fine clothes, far outshine the magnificence of the skies„ Ilia palace is still a wonder of the world. OQly the mountains are more cursive, only the rainbaw is more brilliant, only the tree - ems of the frost is more delicate than these piles of stone and marble wbieh weigh down the old worlds yet touch all lightness and grace and beauty rte tint and outline, Still stands the %loge's gondola of gold and vels vet�a dazzling dream of aptendor es it glided along the sunset water under the sunset slay 1 Oh 1 it was a gay and graeioue time 1 And below, deep in that glitter of d sat the gondoliers—heehe of slaves, aide by side, for whops no sunset glowed ; prise/acre who could net even look opt epee alter cm water, who could only row and pend and trel forever, hopelessly. Close by the Greet Palece, by the stone. stairs, asci the elan lions end ail the gorgssus garniture, of art and nature, courts and columns and foantaies and fiowera, juat aortas the narrow waterway the atone prisms lurks dark and silent. From the splendor of the Doe's pretence a marrow atone passage led as zf through and into the, gelid reek, detest into sire -mita" cavcrus be- neella the water, and whoever defied the will or tlswerted the achesuea of the eovereiga power went them Into thess depths of cdarlr- meas and despair and was seen no wore.. 14Q14eg up= these ranaasivc, impenetrable s . walls, these, tortuous, terrible passages, t e a zulema fuel hopeless wile, one must; nae bast ;pesvcr vara; abscluto. Rsristauce wan uasleat one GLORY limn IS NO MOUE. Azad -et — iueredible, inesplicablo but ins. dieputahle--it la the doges who have (Beeps peered; it is human atrial chained to the gondola bcnchee, buried beneath sand walla under wafer, crushed and tore in torture' chomhera, whielz eonyuered, which prevail ed, which is free to -day. who doges and their pride :and their hetreda are gone, and in their very hauuta, their strongest fast nesses the thoughte which they steadfastly and aucceesfully held in thrall mocha at their conceit and egotism, laughs to acorn their haughty aasumptioa and doss not so much assert as nuconacroualy oxeroiee the liberty they loathed, • The Lion's Mouth, where once a lion's bead. in mnrbto frowned through the outer wall of the Dogo'e Palace, and any spy' or informer who obese to destroy an enemy could mouut tbo stone ateps of the Gliant'a Staircase, peas between tho marble gods, and drop a silent letter into the marble mouth, through whose marble throat it dropped into client hands within the palace —mouth and marble and fateful hands all aro ;done save one iguoblo alit in the wall for the impudent modern world to atare at. The absolutisms which roared th2so superb abodes through the mysterious twilight of Mowry is supplanted by the merry and frugal irreverence of the nineteenth cen- tury, and a sueoeasfnl Itegliah commission merchant farce sumptuously at five francs a day in the apartments of princes, calling it the }Ietol de Somethinn or other ; where my lady leaned over her balcony the bettor to hoar her lover's lute in serenade on the moonlit water, u turniturc dealer arrays his .,wares to tempt the unbeguiled traveler, and royalty can never have a homelier box on the ear than in sailing proudly down the Grand Canal to tee that the Queen of Cyprus was born in a pawnbroker's shop. For the golden gondola, it is but a model, a toy, kept under glass, as dead as the Doge who sailed it, and a modern steamboat Iords it up and down, whose gonfaloniera are any prince or peasant, beggar, or banker, thee can 'steal or earn a copper coin or two worth one Canadian cent. Youth in the Sanctum. Agnes McLellan, of Seward, Neb. , aged 16, is probably the youngest editor of a regular newspaper in the United States. On attaining her 15th birthday else was placed in charge of the local page of her father's paper. In the tall of 1886 her father was taken sick and for weeks was unable to write even his name. The daughter gathered the news, 'prepared- the copy, ran the financial part of the institution and occupied the edit orial chair with charming grace and unu- sual ability. Luring the sickness of her father her motherdied, and then the young woman, besides caring for the newspaper, had to attend to her father's wants in the sick cham- ber and manage all the household affairs. In all she has been successful, and has won an enviable reputation as a gohead, wide- awake, enterprising business woman. In a speech at Croydon Mr. Goschen cre- dited Mr. Gladstone with a desire to have Parliament rise to ite former dignity, but he acid Mr. Gladstone was overruled by his co- partner, Mr. Parnell. The average American young man thinks if he were in the place of Alexander of Bat- tenberg he would leave Bismarck and the rest of them wrangling and elope with the gull Prof. .1. A. Lintner placed the total num- ber of insect species in the world at 320,000. Of those found in North America 7,000 or 8,000 species are fruit;pests, and at least 2] 0, attack the apple. Consoling friend (to henpecked husband) —Why don't you give your wife:a piece of your mind?; Henpecked husband (dazed) —Peace of my mind Great Scott, man, she never late me have any. ItEfl©VINO A. CANCER. Terrible enrolee -it operation en Josepik nuoree-Ills. Condition 'avorakle, �Mr. JoaephKnorr, busiueas manager of the e Dutache 2e?tong, in Newark, underwent a terrible surgical operation recently,. About a year at;eshe began to feel pain ;in hie throat, and'about amonthago expsrieeo ed aleo lifficulty in speaking and swallow - hag. About the samo time it was discover- ed that there was a aehirrua (hard), cancer at the root of the tongue, involving also its attachment and elands under the tongue, The pain because so intense that ne could not sleep, and after his physicals hadeonsulted with other pbysicana here and in New York it was deckled to remove the cancer, Dr, Henry B Sands was engaged to perform the operation. He would not undertake it unless Mr. Knorr was willing to have all of his tongue cut out, which the patient finally assented to, The uefortneete num was else Jelly informed as to the dreadful nature of the operation and knew that he might die under it, also that if successful it aught not gain him more than a year's respite from the ravages of the cancer, Re made careful pre- pnrationa for the worst, caroming ing all his basiness affairs as though he expeoted to die, tvhieb, in fact, was his desire. '1'he operation was begun at 3 o'clock, and for more than three home the patient was Hader the infcuence of ether, Dr Sands was assisted by another physician from New li ork and four membera of the profession its this city. Fired two of the patient's teeth were drawn, and thee. the right cheek was laid open from the corner of the mouth down to the side of the neck. text the jaw was sawed through,. nada the entire tongue and alt its ettaebments were expos. ed, After an exanninatioa it was decided Haat ie would bszseceasary to resistive only the right half of the tonne, whittle was dowse, ldr.Knerr bore the operation well. and at its close, being forbidden to speak wrote on paper expressing joy that this terrible twat was over and that half of his tempo remeiued, With this he will he Able to tweak. Ilia coudition is yet critical, bet lata last eight hie palae alai temper, ature were noroal and he seemed cheerful, His *twee nerve ?rad eiecellout general health will greatly aid in his recovery.: The phyaieians said that during his illness' and in his preparet-some for the operation he showed wonderful fortitude. Adventure with a Polar Bear, Either the east coast of Greenland ins more frequented by bears thanany other part of the Frigid Zane, or else the Germans cold, vete the aequaiatence of these annuals more encctoefully than other oxplorera. Gaptaiu Keldewee a aeconut of the expedition of 1869'7O oontsina more bear stories than all outer books of ,Arctic travel together. The following may be taken as a specimen of these interesting hssidents it winter life. It 'happened one morning hi January to 'i.'tzeodor Klentzer, who, during the time the novo were busied without,, or were ;obliged to 'tithe their deity walk, thought he would climb the Germaniaborg to view the tnereas. le.g midday light. Reaching the top, he seated himself on a reek, and sang a song in the still Air. As lie looked behind him, hvwever,ho saw not many slope off a huge bear, which, with greetgravity, was watching the stranger.. Now to our Theodor, who was as quiet and decided a mea as he was powerful, tide would, under other circumstances, lsavabeen nothing, for the bear stood wonderfully welI for a shot, and could not easily have b.on miesod; but Klentzer was totally unarmed, not hiding even a knife 1 Inorcdible, fs it not ? But, es Lieutenant. Payer writes, The bears always come when one has forgotten all about thew' Thus Klentzer naw himself unarmed and alone, far from his companions, and close to the boar, Flight is the only, though a doubt- ful chance, of safety and the audacious thought struck him of plunging down the ateep side of the glacier; but he chose the softer aide-alopo, and began to hurry down the mountain. Upon looking back, after a time, he per- ceived the great bear trotting behind him at a little distance, like a big clog. Thus they descended the mountain for same time, if Klentzer halted so did the bear; whom he wont on, the bear followed Slowly ; if he began to run, the bear did the same. Thus the two had gone some distance, and Klentzer thought seriously of saving himself, as the bear, finding the chase somewhat wearisome, might press close upon his heels. He therefore uttered a loud shout ; but the bear, disconcerted for only a moment, seemed to get more angry and approached more quickly, so that he seemed to feel the hot breath of the monster. At this dreadful moment—and it was mos t likely his preservation—he remembered the stories he had heard, and, while running, pulled off his jacket and threw it behind him. See, the trick answers 1 Tho bear stops, and begins to examine the jacket, Klentzer gains courage, rushes on down the mountain, sending out a shout for help which resounds through the silent region. But soon the bear is again at his heels, and he must throw away cap andwaiat- coat, by which he gains a little. Now Klentzar sees help approaching —seve- ral friends hurrying over the ice. Collecting his last strength, he shouts and runs on ; but help seems in vain, for the pursuer hurries too, and he is obliged to take the last thing he has, his shawl, which he throws exactly over the monster's snout. The bear, more excited still by renewed shouting, throws the garment back again contemptuously with a toss of the head and presses forward upen the defenceless man, who feels the cold; black snout touch his hand. Klentzer now gave himself up for lost ; he could do nomore ; but the wonderful thought struck him of fastening up the brute's throat with the leather belt which he wore round his body. Fixedly he stared into the merciless eyes of the beast—one short moment, of doubt; the bear was startled, his attention seemed drawn aside, and the next moment he was off at a gallop. The shouts of the many persons harrying to the rescue had evidently frightened him, and caused him toabandon the pursuit. Klentzer was saved. She Was Saved From days of agony and discomfort, not by„ great interpositions, but by the use'of the only sure -pop corn curemPutnam'? Painless Corn Extractor. Tender, painful corns are removed by its use in a few days, without the slightest discomfort. Many substitutes in the market make it necessary that only "',Putnam's' should be.asked for and taken. Sure, safe, harmless, Lam lttet�s tl atli eke fcooril Wives 1Vaien a young, woman behaves to her parents in a manner particularly tender and respectful—I mean from principle as well as nature—there is nothing wood and gentle that may not be expeeted from her, ie what- ever condition she is placed. Of this I am so thoroughly persuaded, that were T to advise any framed of mine asto his choice of a wife, I know not whether my fir at counsel would not be—" Look out for one distin- guithed distin- guishedby her attentioanal d. aweetuesa to her pimento, The fund of her worth and affection indicated by such a behevioz, join- ed to the habits of duty and consideration thereby contreeted, being transferred to the marriage state, will not fail to render her a mild and obliging companion?,• --Fordyce, SCIEm1'I1IC .AND VVSE1`CL. The csitiiaisims made by the English paper on W, A, Rawe are very eomplimentazy, They m y pronounce him a magnificently de- veloped specimen of hwnanity, and as to his mannera and speech, they say these are in " direct contrast to those of.sorno of the English profeseionaale." One can readily imagine tole amazement of our Euglish cons, ins zo hear from Rewe'a own lips that aim never tasted a drop of alcohol -ie liquor nor used tobacco in any form ; that he never yet had any eche or pain after any race, and. never found any one to push biro hard when in cmnaitien. Hie diet is oatmeal, beef chops, plenty of eggs, one cap of hot tea at each meal and no drinks at all between noesis. Rewe nays :--'• I have consulted the finest doctors andhysicians w the United d States, :end they "tell me that the greater part of wy eucd -ss lies in my ehstinence. L feel usyeelf that it is so, I ami "uet as good one day as another. 1 never bavo an off day, whereas people who take stimulants are. good ro.day azsd nothing the next day, It sometimes takes them a fortnight to get back again into geed order, Brother pro, fesaionals have admitted as runoh to rue. When 1• rode my greateat distance in the hour I had not done any work.un ray bicycle for a week on acoouat of bad weather, and though I thought 1 should not be in ooadi, flab, yet whoa 1 cater to ride I found I ate cowpiiehed the erre stent performance over yet done in the world--aacl all on tea, toe, wy beet" 1;ttazTlaiztea ,a DESai:z; the Oued now becoming sue of the most prosperoue regions of Almeria, is a great oesia in the Balzer?, It averrtiea a vast eubterranems reservoir from two and ore•half to eight Innes wide, which, in a distance of aeries" 75 milea from earth to south, is now tapped by ehfoul 114 kreueh epauting wells and 492 ua. five ones, 'with a total discharge of 03,423 alone of water per minute, The Oued Mr' has nearly 4120,000 pelut trees in bear• ing coudition, and an annual date predate tion of more than 5500,000. `The popula- tion, whivh, like the preduetive land, has snore than doubled in thirty years, is about 13,0Q), distributed through -thirtyoue ems, tree, F.:W.07nm PIANO PLAYr rte.---E1ectrieity'has teen invoked to supplyeubstituto for a tau. steal education. Bymeensof theStophoulurn, Qr "electric erode interpreter," Idr. J. C. M'gee, of Edinburg, proposes to enable per - eons ignorant of mueie to play the piano and. other instruments of similar action. The musto sheet is placed behind wires spaced to correspond with its scale, and each euccesia. Ivo score is aouteled by touvhieg the wire over it with. a metellio pointer, which closes an electric circuit, and strikes the proper hell or string. It is only ncceseary to follow the notes with eye and hand nail the the piece is played, By sliding the sheet up or down the whole range of notes is quickly transposed into another key,. Tho Stephen - bum may bo removed to any distance from the piano or other source of the musical tones. "That sermon was the finest effort I ever heard," said a man on his way home frown. ehuroh. "1 wouldn't heves missed it for 520," "I'm glad you enjoyed it, John," said his wife. "Yes, I enjoyod it; hut there was one thing that annoyed me." "What was that, John 1" "I had no change in my pocket less than half a dollar for the contribution box," Interview with the Popular Idol. The N. Y. Times' Paris correspondent had an interview last night with Glen. :Boulanger. The general aaid :—;,r I will never allow myself to ,bo drawn into any group and I even may not go regularly to the Chamber of Deputies. t shall be firm, calm and patient. I may not represent the antion yet, but I live in hope of doing so. My policy is essentially practical and con- structive, to make our Republican institu- tions conform to those of America instead of being built as now on the hybrid English model, which is wholly unsuited to the genius of the French oharaoter. In this work all true French citizens will be my friends. Tell them this in America where I know many good people and where some of my fellow.countrymen may be asking themselves if I am a charlatan. Tell them I am not." Consumption Curable. It cannot be too often impressed on every one that the much dreaded consumption (which is only lung scrofula), is curable, if attended to at once, and that the primary symptoms, so often mistaken as signs of dis- eased lungs, are only symptoms of an un- healthy liver. To this organ the system is indebted for pure blood, and to pure blood the lungs are indebted no less than to pure air for healthy action. If ,the former is pol- luted, we have the hacking cough, the hectic flush, night -sweats, and a whole train of symptoms resembling consumption. Rouse the liver to healthy action by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, take healthy exercise, live in the opea air, and all sywtoms of comsumption will disappear. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, shortness of breath, chronio nasal catarrh, bronchitis, asthma, severe coughs,and kindred affec- tions, ffec-tions,; it is a most wonderful remedy. P.1,1 ran (to restraurantwaiter)-'A Got any Brie cheese Y" Waiter (astonished)—" Only the pair. I've got on, sir," They Pay $500, or Cure. For many years the manufacturers of Dr: Sage's Catrrrh Remedy, who are thoroughly responsible, financially, have offered in good faith, through nearly every newspaper in the land. ^a standing reward of 5500 for a case of nasal catarrh, no matter how bad, or of how long standing, which they cannot oure. The remedy is sold by druggists at only 50' cents. It is mild soothing, cleans. ing, deodorizing, antiseptic and healing,