The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-17, Page 7A TENTVJEsvia E 41OURNJY,
Party to attempt to Cress the great
4recnland Ice Plateau.
The study of the glaciers of Greenland,
only recently begun iu a systematic manner,
derive$ its great interest and importance
from the fact that we may seethes in actual
operation the stupendous: fwcea which once
covered the northern part of our country
with glaelal drift. Here we may investigate
an ice period of the present, and elucidate
and peir1tape ravage our theories of glacial
action by careful observation of the very
egeucies that were at work in an ice period
of the past NO other field of polar research
la now likely to yield more aatisfactory
ealentific results than the study of glaciers.
Greenland its the only easily acassetle
land ;ea whose costa the phenet ae fg_ac
lel movement and the launching of doatna,g
icebergs may be conveniently observed, and
where deka relating to glatcial formation
may be collected intend. For twelve years
past the D. wish Government bas had email
parties in the field studying physical geo
grapey of the west coat, and examining the
edge of
TITH QRHeer SU Oa'' ICE
behind it, which baa ita outlet to the ocean
through Korea o£ deep Gorda down which it
pnehea3 ite glacial: rivers,. 'these explorers,
whose work is atilt ixt progress, !nave found
that bast. of the fiords the greet lee wall
a ,bout,1,000 feet thick Stretches iiartlawei.l
for SCO melee in eouthweat Greenland, and
Pa the 349 initea they have theroia,'aly ex-
plered, they have not found a elle* breek .i
to this =rain g the itaterior tae. Two
oitiaave Lire known to be operaating, to prove*
[trio iao well from renderxrat; the watt meet
eninhabitable by ndvareleg to the tea AS fn
the lentarede ceaatinetit. OAta is the Bummer
beast along the "coed., the'ssing the trent and
eurfeco of the ice energin. nn'i the other is
sibs rrautrerone fiords, vole of Whicb carry to
the ewe ca sually Oat much ea 189.000 uailiion
enbie feet cf the interior ice. liven lo the
depots of`srttrter tire=s icor/veep new dead',
ly on, Buil the Urged glaciers, like tet of
Jacobshevon fiord, from SOO to 1;00 feed
thick and half a mile wide, move to the sea
at au average rate the year round of from
twenty to liftyr feet a► day. Om
It is evident thee the atud y ofthe ice p
tears of the it,tcirier, s;I-i-It irtrpelt thew
ictal[= tt°u fAIDI3I=4'is
nieweede ls"cd the highs$ inti rest. Atdd4
from Nardctaehiolci 1 quoit for r 'daioutiry
Area of intatel vee etatte% this h.se beta the
.hien pomade of the recezat bind explore,
tten% Lientevent Peary, in Iain UP•
auecetsful attctsafit to creta the Ward ice,
has Centrikutca1 more then nuyother taf them
explarera to our ktnewlcdgo of the phyeienl
weds of the tee Itra!Eiaa Arad of the ,:.ntly
defog ice plain habled it, franc whist, dur-
ing the onnar er !Kat, greet boulder's crop
gut thet have teen torn Irvin the tops mist
;We of interior elevattione, in the irremet-
Die move:neet toward theme,. It is for i1.e
farther study of this ice tornmtlen that Dr.
NTareen is ant to bead an txpitlition frim
Norway, in the hope of nosing Urecnl.antl
from the cast to the west omit.
1)r. amen, is m nicotine man and the
Curates of the hlueeum of Natural llietory
in Bergen. lie cxpceta to sail about May a
with :four hardy etiowrbee trnvellere. Iiia
destination is the east eraet of Grcrultuol,
and as there is little probability that the
scaler ori which he will take paarwf;o sale;
force her way through theico thatis usually
DJLU) VT AGatlit T TIM was;'
the explorer expects to walk over the ice to
the eltore, taking with him a light boat to
luso if be meets open water on the way.
Nansen's previous experience on a realer in
this region hue convinced him of the fee d-
bility of reaching land in this manner. Ho
expects to gaiu the coast to the north of
Cape Dan, at a point which no white man
hoe ever visited, though -Lie ut.Holmwintered
four yore ago n little south, among the na-
tives whom he found cut oil from the rest of
the world in Anmagealik floret, The ex-
plorer expects to start iuland along the aborti
of some fiord until he strikes the inland ice.
Be then hepea to take a straight course al -
meet directly northwest to Cbristianahanb,
somewhat south of Risco Ialaucl, on the
went coaet.
The little party will dreg two sledges
with broad runners over the ace eeateau,
whoso deep snow mantle they hope to °roes
with comparative ease anti comfort on
snowshoes. The sledges will carry provi
,cions, a tent, scientific instruments and
guns, and the weight will, of course, be re-
duced to the least possible minimum. The
distance to be traversed is 400 miles, and
Dr. Nanaen bopea to complete the journey
in a month. He will carry provisions for
two months.
This little party will push into the un-
known on a very venturesome journey. If
they do not emceed, they will be compelled,
if possible, tc struggle back to their starting
point, and they will have to winter on the
east coast,
rlionanLY AMONG THE :NATIVES.
who so hospitably entertained Lieut. Holm,
the first white man they ever saw. The
two Lapps who accompanied Nordenakiold
in their journey on snow shoes to the iuter-
ier and back, travelled nearly as great a dis-
tance us that which will separate Nausea
from his deatination on the west coast. In
the opinion of Lieut. Peary and others, the
project of Dr. Nausea is the only feasible
method of crossing the island, as recent ex-
perience shows that it would be almost im-
possible for a party, worn out by the diffi-
cult journey from the west to the east coast
to etruggle back again to the white settle-
ments.
It is to be hoped that success will attend
Dr. Naneen'a hardy travellers, and that as
the result of their toils they may come home
well freighted with information about the
mysterious interior of the great island where
the glaciers are formed that cover a part of
our northern seas with icebergs.
He is a model busband who will pretend
to praise his wife's ability as a cook and
then use bei doughnuts as sinkers for his
fishing lines,
The King of Dahomey has embarrassed
the King of Portugal by sending six negro
girls, the "moat beautiful" in his dominions:
King Louis doesn't know. what to do, with
them, and has hooted them in the .Zoological
Edardens, pending reflection.
A. minister overtook a ;Quaker lady and
politely assisted her in opening a gate. As
she was a comparative stranger in town, he
said : " You don't know, perhaps, that I am
Mr. ---. Haven't you heard me preach 2"
"I have heard thee try," was the quick
rejoinder.
IONDON 1ASHIot $.
Among the new materials for spring wear
is a slate -grey beige, with deep embroidery
in pities of two, lighter shades, whish, fortes
a gracefully -draped tunic, coming from the
right abonider, drawn across half of the
bodice front, in folds at the waist and ie
carried to the left of the skirt, where it is
caught up and then softly draped. A vig-
wane, in grey or a new shade of green, has
embroidery on it, of oxidlzeei aiiver (which
does not tarnish) and coloured silks inter-
mixed ; and another serpent -green, which
is a greeny grey, is ao embroidered .as to
form deep points, with simulated braiding on
andab eve them, failing over whitecloth rich•
1y open-workedin white ailks. This ernbroid.
pry forms the akirt, while narrower trimmiug
is tor the bodice; altogether, it loan eff pct.
we toilette. Long, close -fitting coats are
made of this embroidery, covering the entire
skirt. .A. satin -faced cloth of a peculiar
Shade of green has rich openwork embroid-
ery in gold and silver tinsel as lido panel
and bodice-t:itnmfng, which is intended to
he laid over a, decided red, so that the color
shows through and thrown up the design.
There are several other meteriale, some of
them shot with an Indefanable color, which
ahawa in Certain lights; anal. a great marry
rich tinsel embroideries and triwwinge ro
go with them, ono having email and
Largo fares in t n1 :tea ailks, mu -round-
ed b tined trace
y ry , :*rad another
with detached sprays of emcee fancy
dower, weinewhat reemnbling seaweed, A
bride's wedding gown wee of white cloth
witha gaxel,aint3•narruwetetrimrminttof oo-y.
dined and platin saver toed, very lnandtonac
ip apiaeerataee, The bonnet; umtclied. Io
other materials there is broad strietel velvet
sad teethe de Lyoatafaiths Francente, with
four different width; of ve,vet of a deeper
shade* than the ground, with a delicates era
eery of coloured atik dowers ruu;xiug up be-
tween; awl oleo a faille and satin strips
with a trio and plash cleeigu of a etelk acid
leaves partially e'verisg each actin stripe.
These cats ba sou in several colours, and
aro /Mewled to be tirade up with catltaucr-
etta and other plain materials.
For bell gowns tulle is need embroidered
with coloured tined flowers, priit ipalky has
shades of pink, blue, breeze, with silk
Bodices trimmed with the scone,acrd
[shite -Melte sashes. Qat tulle gown is
px is brctwrs, and hos a lovely dGait over it
iso sererel shedeis et timed nil alike, with A
lase effete Taming he a><tad out its white,kith*,
Tina is inteud'ed to 1e arranged over aAtin
Merveiitcux of rata et the colours in the de -
sigh. Abseilto eeifnnergewnofl:elkeatrope
tube bier the trent arraeged with threat
panels of bowl poecementerie, cennectetl ty
leafed drirtga elf freSted grey peariv. For
young girls' eveuitg wear there are tome
pretty pele•eclouredembroidered traics chs,
etude up over aillc and huddled off with rib•
b n. a stud arashea; eats pinle and cream ferule
the ground. A great iattny eveskrrg ,gowns
are alto composed of soft tilt, t:epeciatky hi
pules pink, and aro trimmed with lace rand
velvet riibbous. Seine tea newton are cosi;-
peseta of plain and foamy ilevrered leloorieh
crept, witk straigh: long stole fronts, listed
and thrived back with velvet of A decided.
centrist in colour. The high collars are in
velvet ten
d mope, arranged in au nucornrnn
wYoay�
in millinery there ere notna pretty 'oval.
ties in caps, hats .and bonnets. The caps are
daintily made of female tick, embroidered
handkerchiefs and coloorcd velvet bows. A
navy-blue atraw hat, much turned up with
velvet on ono side, and put abort on the.
other, bad a tuft of eornttowcre, beautifully
harmonised, on the crown, with loops of rib-
bon ; another in browns had licenle guipure
round the crown, ,nod a plume on ono side,
in many shades of brown. A becoming
black mixed straw and chip had a cluster of
jonquills, violets .and narcissus mounted
nigh at one side, and a brown velvet had bis•
cuitrcoloured wings itt the back, and brood
Dplumage, in a tinker shade, at each aide.
elicate open work fancy Tuceau hcnra,te,
with brown velvet and n 'Ander of heliotrope
or other new_r.% nod open jet ones, with;;
emerald -grata velvet and a large jet arrow,
aro pretty, and there aro ethers, in shot
velvet, powdered with small pearls, and or-
namented with olive velvet and cocks'.
plumes; and simple ones in coarse coIcred
straw, with a full ruche of frayed silk round
the edge, and largo oow in front—all most
beeoiniog. As a ball gown garniture, there
is a lovely one, composed of wonderfully
natural primroses and leaves, with a few
foxgloves tied in. Mixed flowers are the
height of fashion.
No Monis Banns ot: HATS.
Ladies aro no longer to wear birds on
their bonnets and hats. Thns it has been
decreed by fashion. Tho benevolent edicb
comes just in time to save the last remaining
members of the race of hemming birds and
birds of paradise. Tbo great !meats of In-
dia, Brazil and the banks cf the Misais-
eippi have been ransacked and have yield-
ed op their treasures ot winged jewels
to adorn the feminine headgear. Now
at last there is to be a trace to the mas-
sacre, and the pretty denizens of the woods
may sing and fly awhile in peace. To esti-
mate the extent of slaughter perpetrated for
the sake of womankind's adornment we may
take the statement of a London dealer, who
admits that last year he sold 2,000,000
small birds of every possible kind and color,
from the soft grey of the wood pigeon to the
gem -like splendor of the tropical bird. Even
the friendly robin bas been imrlated to
adorn the fashionable bonnet,—[London
Queen.
To DO Awix wren THE BUSTLE.
The Reoamier gown, which promisee to
come into vogue as a result of the produc-
tion of "La Tosca" in Paris, is a direct
stroke at the bustle, and every person of
taste will be glad to see that atrocity
driven from the field. it never had a hold
upon fashion more deserving than that
which any freak has upon popular
fancy for the momenta It is, moreover,,
a libel upon nature. Nearly every
style of dress bears some obvious relation to
the lines of the human figure, either to make
the legs look longer, the shoulders broader,
the waist smaller, or something of that sort.
In none of these cases is a hideous defor-
mity imitated. But how essentially in-
artistic the bustle is may be judged by
considering how few women :would be wit -
ling to be formed by nature's band in the
shape that the bustle gives to them.
NOTE.
London sanctions for street wear long
veils of grey gauze tied in a big bow nndet
the chin.
The empire gown admits no bustle, but
what it leeks in that particular it more than
makes up in sash.
White and pink are so Iuueh the brides
maids' colors that a bevy et then: strongly
auggeste the belated apple blossoms.
Plounoes are very much revived, and may
be put on the akirtpretty ninth as you will,
provided only that you do not let them go
regtlariy ,ever
A WIU. AND A CONVESSI'rl N.
Tragtcsegtael to a story tole the i!JIniatg
tamp.
Not many yore ago as group of invaliae
and amour., were seated about an evening
fire in the spice of a Colorado hotel. The
inatitutfon was in a region where nature
had launched her gifts. ealing springs ani
inv��igorating i_nountaie breezes attraeted zu-
vaiida from every quarter and the pr prietor
of the can tori in was reported a rich man.
He had been in that ometre, for thirty
yeaarla He was a silent, uneg nntunlcativc
Man, not moro@e nor suttee, bat deeply un-
communicative. He never spoke of his
family or of " the States," and were it not
that he was a menet evident refinement and
edneation, he would have paaied 44 one
boat itt the life giving valley. wbicle be,
above all ruse, had developed, for anything
he would ever say of the woild ontelie ox
its paste fringed confines.
Qin thia particular night an old man iii the
grease told, with the wimple rathoa of en na-
lettered mend,4he story of the greet griefr of
Malik. He had gotta to Qaliforttia i 'aa.
leasvieg a wife and child t ehisd hien. He
prospered in thelaud of the Argouante rind
hese up a eviler oirtellefeetiMa With hia
family, eeuklieg them eutti,ieiat nexus from
tithe to time to keep theta itt comfort, but
sating aa4hipr About the "pile ' be would
have within a year or to. lru wanted to
surpries3 the folks at hero with his goad
fortune, Atlbst he had accumulated $10,601)
axed the lunging mane over hue to go home,
Ilia dust was converted into tee -crisp bank
notes and he started haiuetverd,
44 Yon see, boys, I didn't rig up in mew
tots, or anything like Chet. A fellow likes
t4 get beck henna in hia old camp togs, and
knock around a few days, letting, on nn
Brough he had porno home broke, and thou
when every one has .[grout trade, up their
zeiods that you never were any geed any,
liow, #isring your fortune ea then[, and give
them the laugh that had been gielog it; to
yen. I rustle the trip overland all right.
tied was on the relieved train within 3i0
mile* of my wife and belay, when I dozed
of for a few =betake. When I awoke I
hail hen robbed of my pile. I always was
ti- -.f'sol about teiliva ray bounce* tel
mouser,. and there waen't 51mart on the cu.
Met die 'e know that I woo a ruiner Ow
Louie with a fortune. When I iewoke and
found that I had becu robbed I gave the
alarm. No no had left the train. There
was great excitement and ono evenproposed
that ovcrybady in the car he searclaed. Zero
cue objeoted, and the esnductor and u yrelf
went through every than on the car and ex-
andeed every valise and piece of baggage is
it. I felt mat as though ray heart would
break, not for myself -1 was used to hard
luck—but for my wife end .little gal, I
couldn't go horse and fico them, so I got off
et the uext city, and the next day I was off
on my way to the carat to begin all over
again, I waa jast getting on my feat once
more when I got a letter ono day with a
block herder. My little gal had been taken
oick with the typhoid fever And died, and
two days later they laid her mother away
with her. That settled it. I have been no
good eines, and I ane only waiting the time
when I can join them up there if Is on get
The ailent partner of the sanitarium had
Mooned to the sad story with his face buried
in hia hands --a common attitude for him.
When the old man had finished the proprie-
tor left the room abruptly.
The group noticed that he was deadly
pale, and one of them remarked that it ap•
peered as though Jim had been taken bad.
Two bora tater a pistol shot rang out
from the hotel man's private office. When
the group ran into the room Jim lay on the
floor, with a bullet hole in hie head. On the
desk lay two documents, freshly written.
Ono was marked"my will," the other "iny
confce:don." The will left everything to the
old miner who had told thostory. The con-
fession was to the effect that he bad robbed
the returning miner as he slept. Retiring
to a closet be had with a knife scooped out
the inside of a cake of soap and secreted the
roll of bills and replaced the cake, which
showed no sigma of having been cut in two
pieces, in a valise.
The Chinese Ali :nine.
The great value which the Chinese attach.
to tboir almanac is shown in many ways.
Recently the Chinese residents at Lbasss,
in Tibet, implored the Emperor to cause
arrangements to be made which would en-
able thorn to receive their copies of the al.
manse at the earliest possible date in each
year. A writer in a recent issue of The
Chinese Recorder says that the most impor-
tant book to the Chinese is the almanac. Its
apace is far too important to be occupied
with the matter which fills Western alman-
acs. It contains astronomical information
which is useful ; but its great mission IS to
give full and accurate inforenation for select•
ing lucky places fcr performing all the acts,
great and small, of every day life. "And
as every act of life, however trivial, de-
pends for its saceess on the time in which,
and the direction (i, e., the point of the
competes) towards which it is done, it is of'
the utmost importance that every one
should have correct information available at
all times to enable him to so order his life
as to avoid bad luck and calamity and se-
cure good luck and proaperity. Consequent.
ly the almanac is perhaps the most univer-
sally circulated book in China." The writer
speaks of it as a terrible yoke of bondage.
It is issued by the Government and the sale
of all almanacs but the authorised one is
prohibited. Quite recently the new Chinese
Minister to Germany refused to sail for his
poet on a day which the almanae declared
to be unlucky, and the departure of the
German mail steamer was consequently de-
ferred at the request of the German. Minister
to Pekin.
Last year the hyacinth and tulip grower
of Holland, instead of sending their flowers
by tone to the London market, cut off the
blooms and used them for manure ! .This re-
markable proceeding was due to the Duch -
men having discovered that the sale of their
out blooms in Lottdon injured the sale of
their bulbs. English people did not care
to buy the costly germ when they were
supplied with the flowers at nominal prices
in immense quantities.
The Indian Zfnpire.
The fact that Lard Dufferin, so popula,
and eeient as Governor-General of Canada
is now filling a similar poeition it India, and
that our preaeut Governor-General is to be
bis successor, naturally attracts atone atten-
tion in Canada to the Indian Empire, and
makes ua feel most interested in its concerns.
Those who sea the journals of the neighbor-
ing Republic will be awaro that our good
cousins, or at least a section of their pross,
are rather fond of declaring that the people
of the United Kingdom exercises tyrannical
away over India and that its population
would rejoice to seethe fast of the British.
Score six naooths ago one of the great feuda-
ry princes, the Nazemofi3yd erabad, offer-
ed
6Q,000.0c0 rupees, nearly ,30,000.000, to
the Indian Government for theoefense of
India. We learn from the ,Allahabad Pio-
neer .lfail that hie example has beenfollowed
by other Princes, the hist being as foltowe
Rupees..
Hyderabad.. ...-....,¢0.000.000
Kashmir... , ........ 104000,f'00.
Jodhpur 10.000,000
Bhurrpur . 8.100,000
Kota .. .. 6 000,00
o
Mab
Kaphaurtha+la........... . ,00
.... 50.004
. 4,000,C-03
Maier Karla,,..,,.., tett 800,000
Total ......., ... 103, 800.000
halving the ewn will bring the figures to
the amount Ira dollars, taking the rupee at
face value," though, cwies to the de-
pvrehaticiatess., iort cif envier, it is row worth Y4rne-
-
These Prfucea do not eenfine their diode
to money gift,. As the Pitnetr ,,'lfoi1eays:
"The Chiefs of the State sbave eitumerettd
offers. OS tt *-tt e, sexraethieg mere them uionee,
rvecguielog leyoiny that, ale feudatories of a
great empire they are bound when danger
detileres itself toumake ctrmrnon COM again et
the cotnuron enettry. Tbua, in the cent of
war, the Wizen' offers his ' award,' a figure
of speech which all earn understand ; the
Malinrap. of Kashmir, hia troops and ma.
terials of car, awl hie pereciiai services
the Alnharaja of Jodhpur will, in time of
emergency, place at the disposal of the
Goverment all tho reaourcea of his SSrate,
his services[ and those of the reembem of .his
family ; the Maharaja of Blurtpur will glee,
e_ ae of war, at matey troops as can lea
sleeted from hia territu y; the ]iota Chief
will. be time of neccesity, give theservices
of himself. bis jegirdare and his treops,
while the Raja of Repurtbaalaa ol%ra the
servieve of his treopa, a eontin eiat being
srecially drilled a and prepaxed for ap:cial
Rervice, the aretstanco of ti verntneut tieing
lacked for drilling net anteing the ooutin-
gent
j vcni fedian Primo leave net all labs of
rupees to ;mare, and carne who acre unable
or unwillieg to offer hard cash anew their
goodwill by very substantial contribatioue
for the defence of their couiatry and ita
British rulers. As to thele (Akre the Nen-
Nile tams ;
ier.-
.1&tiitats; "We thud the Maharaja of
Mlyeere expreeeing a with to 'robe and
ntaint:ial a suitable military force trained.
by British officers lent to hint for the par-
poee, so that hie Gate may render valuable
service on any eceaeion of Imperial peed, it
being his Dighueas's dceire to take part in
the military defenco of the Empire. The
Maharaja of Petiole offers the resources of
his Saito in the shape of treasure, troops,
etc., whenever rigiwired by (government;
the Nawab of liahawal ur, his existing
contingent of troops and according to hie
means the outlay of hie fuels ; the Nawab.
of Tonk, the amine of himself, his family,
WS troops and the whole resources of hie
State ; the liahareo Reim of Alwar. money
and troops whenever they may be of service
to (lovervment in securine the Frontier of
the Empirp; the Nawab of Rammer will de.
fray the expense incurred in raising and
maintaining a native infantry regiment as
lougjas the war lasts. together with all the re-
sources of his State in tune of war ; the ]ta•
ja of Jhind, all the existing resources of his
State ; tlic Itaja of Mandl, his body and his
State to the British Crown for use; the
Raja of Suket, his servicer to the extent of
hia life and goods; the Baja of Faridkot,
hie g life and all the resources of his State,
whenever the Government requires the ser-
vices of native chiefs; and the Newab ot Lo -
barn, the services of himself and bis broth-
ers, with his property and a caravan of fifty'.
camels. The Raja of Chamba has actually
given Iancl, free of cost, near Bukloh, for
cantonments for the Sad Battalion of the 4th
Garkhae. Here then we have twenty elders
in all anxious to prove their loyalty.' Pew
viceroys or monarchs either can boast of
having received such offers for the defence
of the country as those that have thus been
made to Lord Dufferin. It is very Substan-
tial proof that the feudatory princes, great
and small, are not anxious for the termina-
tion of British rule in India, of which they of
all classes might have been expected to be
impatient. The truth is tbat the feeling ex-
tends to all conditions of men, for under
firm but equitable and considerate rule the
country has prospered. There is now peace
whore there was previously war and tumult
from time immemorial, Life and property are
now safe, as they never were before, and,
personal liberty is assured. The periodical
famines that destroyed millions upon mil-
lions are now almost under control, through
the construction of extensive railways and
other means of communication. And the
taxes by Customs duties are six cents a head
instead of the irregular and limitless do-
mande of old days. The people of the Unit-
ed Kingdom have no reason to feel ashamed
of their rule in India.
No I
" No " is but a little word only a wee
small word, yet who can measure its impor-
tance
Columbus said "no" to mutinous mariners
and adverse winds, and the bewildering
beauty of a new world was discovered.
The Puritans said "no" to religious oppres-
sion, and the "Mayflower. " sought refuge on
a New England coast, to build free homes
and found a nation.
Robert Fulton said " no " to those who
pronounced his efforts vain, and the first
steamboat sped along the picturesque Hud -
moo
Wellington said " no " at Waterloo, and
Napoleon, the invincible Emperor,, the un-
conquerable leader, ended his days a pri-
soner upon a seagirt isle.
Death said ." no " to weeping friends, and
there is crape' on the door, ' " The baby"
has gone away, or " mother " sleeps en
pen00. .
The King of Spain has a salary of $1,000,-
000 a year and is only 18 months old. If
he saves his money until he is of age he will
be able to start a daily paper and have fun
with it for a few months.
ANOTHER WEI L HORROR, el
inghly improbable aterydbout A Calm a
lwprisoaed is *Well Pore,
Ossein, NO, . Nay 7, 1888. •As the
snakes have not yet woke from their long
winter nap and ne lynching parties have
been heard from lately, sural Nebraska has
been anffering from a. dearth of ebcititxg
stories.: The dullness was suddenly ended
Cele week, however, by a report from Qek-
dale,. about a hundred miles northwest of
thin piece, that a, child three years of age
had fallen,into adeep bored.well froom which
about twenty feet oftubinghedbeen removed,
leaving a hole about a foot in dierocter ; the
child remained at the bottom of 'this hole
two days and night and was finally extricated
after keeping the papulation ox the surround-
ixfg eautrtry highly excited and miserable
through sympathy;
17o axsstozst to !irgaI ism
The alleged reeouer did not attempt to
grapple for the child, as was said to have
been dope in the case of the mythical k'enu-
sylvania child who reeeetly fell into a well
bore too small to admit a kitten. On the
contrary they deg a aheft near the well,
and from this newer hole tunnelled toward
the ireprisoned ebiid. The work in the
timed, i€t eend so loose and treacherouatb et
they dared stet touch it with ih pick or shovel,
is said to have been terribly exciting,, the
"tikes, burrowing softly with their kande
orate, bring stimulared by the raceme of
the child and not overeheered by the pros.
pact of a uavo•ia that would bury them alive
^,tt}a FB S!Oc8.
The time tunnel struck the) baro tco far
atImres the piece where the child was, eo u
second *heft wan dug from the tunnel itself,
toad the child was re.eued alive and appar-
eutly mankind, elthougb it had been
all the white so .doubled that its heed,
which fortauately (lid notsodown'frst, wads
pressed against the lower jolnta of the/eget
$uudrede of people wore about the mouth
of the shalt when the reecona tea hed the
surface with theirprccious bunko and faint•
lag is said to have begun and progreaseel
At a rate never before known except at a
colored comp meeting in the green apple
enema
It hue not yet been decided what than be
done with the ie airator of this story, should
his axatementss prove untrue, but the people
aro ripe for nary vengeauee if They lora that
all their agony hsae beer; for nothing.
;NOTES ON CE1tRE:1ix 'TOPICS..
It is reported that General Both of the
Saleetiiera Army sold seven thawar d tiekets
of aaslrriixakou to the tve.i le f el' anis doplater
the obiter clay is 1 eta3on at tis each. I'roo.
bably the story is a hoax, but it lengestathe
irtinterrao duanciral possibilities that there
may be iu the penmen of teem or eight
daiugbtera when the osmier `' them hafrpeus
to be a celebrity.
The Boston Poe: baa made a aiiecovery
which baa somewhat discoucerted the 11. S.
fsahermeu who have s*o loudly clenioured far
protection ogainet Canadian aggression. It
publiahea a List of over twenty masters of
Bailing vee:telc sailing from (llaucreter to the
'Banka, and state;[ that all of them came
from Nova Scotia, while in many easels the
crows were also Novas Se:etiane, It will now
be in order to protest that the native-born
Ameriean fishermen aro being robbed of
their trade, and to calk upon the Govern -
meat to set in motion the law forbidding
the employment of alien labour under cone
tract,
Ono would .hank that Now York should
be a heaecnier city to live in than London,
but it report of the health department of the
former city for the year 18SG proves the ecu
teary. In 1SS0 the mortality of Leaden was
only 2'0 per 1,000 of the population, whereas
in Now York it was i0 per 1,0L0. It seems
than New 'York is really more overcrowded
than London, notwithstanding the five mil-
lions of people in the world's metropolis.
Tho report states that the average number
of persona to a dwelling in New York is
10 37 as compered with 7.8 in London. Tho
excessive mortality in New York is aeeribed
to diseases -caused er aggravated by over-
crowding, snob as diphtheria, croup and
diarrhoea.,
The encroachmcuts of tlio fair sex upon
domains which were once hold to belong ex-
ciusively to Hien are gradually increasing.
In the united States women are employed
as shorthand writers, typewriters, cashiers,
bookkeepers, compositors and photographic
retouchers, and leave been allowed to enter
the profession of medicine. In England,
their services are utilized as telegraph oper-
ators. In a town in Kansas the mayor and
the ecuncillors are women. In the city of
Philadelphia over five thousand women have
obtained employment during the past few
years in branches previously filled by men
alone. In process of time it may. be expect-
ed that the ladies will monopolize all the
genteel occupations.
A Brooklyn, N. Y., journal is now oham-
pioning the English sparrow, and protests
against the measures being taken for its ex-
tirpation. " The much abused sparrow," it
says, " has done a great deal for Brooklyn.,
as he has for other places. When- the inch
worm or measure worm had possession of the
city, dropping from the trees on pedestrians
and so torturing the nervous system that
life was robbed of every charm, this pug-
naoions little bird made short work of the
nuisance. He was brought from England
with this one object in view, and when he
had done his work quickly and effectively his
praises were sung in every borne. The bird-
houses which one sees in the treeo throughout
the city are tributes to the sparrow of grate-
ful appreciation." A
It is not surprising that some members
of the Dominion Parliament are impatient
and even indignant at the apparently slow
progress of British diplomacy in putting a
stop to the seizure and confiscation of Cana-
dian fishing vessels in Behring's Sea. The'
pretence that the nation which bas just in
seated upon and scoured the right of fishing
in Canadian Bays exceeding "ten miles in
width at the " mouth may justly exercise
territorial rights over a great open sea, and
that too in virtue of the ownership of but
one of Its coasts, seems too preposterous to
become a matter ot serious international
correspondence.'. To even the coolest heads
the seizure of inoffei.sivefishingveasele,
with their cargoes and crews, at the dis-
tance of ninety or one hundred -miles from
the mainland, has more the appearance of
privateering than of legitimate protection
of rights by a civilized and Christian na
tion. •