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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-23, Page 6NEWS OF THE DAY, e dormer, The will of the late Mr. John Ogilvie, of Montreal, bequeaths property warned at #o,, Capt. Boyd Smith's mine, at Parham, b'xonteuao, is yielding a hundred torus of phosphate daily. The leuighta of Labour int Kingston intend •shortly agitating for the adoption of the nine boort? system, September 20th is appointed eteetion day in Rarstem A.ssiniboia, where Minister Pewdney fa to be oaradidate. Mayor Abbott, of Montreal, does not think it the duty of the pity to take any Action against the booker shape, Owen Sound has passed a by-law granting $15,000 to the G:enadrau Pada° railway, we wards buUdiru another elevator in sleet town. A very seriauaoutbreak oftyphoid fever him occurred ca the Carmelite convent at Roche- lege.. Several novices are (law svi.h the dictums, Mr. Daehrem, from Etl'rfex. I?k. S., who was a•a}ing at the Sid nndeor; Montreal, woe relieved of Side on the ,stale trick of os.shing a Name chtgas Sheckleton Hey, peattuaster at.AileaQ who alae earriaa ariea teueing Ims nems, Made= anio orient, and the ausoatat. d depesitera is said to be, .9.0e0. Gape Helens, Dominion. 3itipeetor Fisheries, ie on a tour of the coarse ct LAO Rnrrn to tplre evidence in diepretea arising between leteete of fiehiug grounds. Tlie lefirfrs iA the eastern Townshilas twee . obtaitztd a gced crap of bay thin sea• Stan Ord are prel°a ?leg to *hip their surplua ttaCoterie, where will fetch a geed price, The 71';r'Iatreel end Europratt Short Line railway have gird a statement of claim against the De -minion Government for ex propriatiou a their line alnerrtatiegte $649,- About 649, taco. .About a dezen soldiers of the Salvation .A;iray, mole an4 female, taativns of the East Ipva, dewed lit p oturveque coatumee, have arrived in t uebee,, and intend ?making a taut of the atiny R44119114 14 Canada. Capt, Wigle, of toe Windsor propeller' T.;,keeide, ha>a been geed $262. for plektag alp arsine exaueti:onieta at Detre.* and ca}rryirg ir"arazeli's ivaadwritag, them an to Cleveland, in vlotatien of the The ilablin Gourthart confirmed the cnri• Aet wirier Itrohibita C porta. !Woo vorsehr ?rad- sle#fon of Mr. Jolla I.lillan, aid refuses the ing between Anaericaneortar, application for a writ of Treks, morn for awx:r?eed , his release from prison. Detroiter ss 1 t' n ' 1'ttic It is annaaviced that the Emperor of Ger- it is reportedthat the Czar will meet the Shah, of Persia at Baku iai Septeniber. Silesia is toeing devastated by terrible. Hoods, and the grope are oompletly ruined. A aerboua fight took plaoo between French and Italian laborers at Laon, Prance,. scions day: The Turkish Governaneuthave seat a Me teat to the powers agtinet the ocnapetion of Maseewah by Italy. Immense dansage has been calmed by vol• canio distnrbancea in the. Lipari Islands, in the Mediterranean, Mr, Gladstone saya that when he bee seen Horse Rule for Ireland hie political work will be finished. The Marie Lane EEpreae aa_ye the damage done to the British grain crops by tixe wet weather is irreparable. It is reported that the Crown fringe of Italy will be shortly betrothed, to Pxh peas Clementine of Selgiti ir. The Vandeienr tenants who resisted evic- tion have been sentenced to jiunpthietetnent for from omonths., to six onthsmonths., The Idle% of Sweden will arrive is Berlin on the 20th loot., to act as godtatlter to Em- peror William's youngest on. Gen, Boulanger and 11i. L•eguerro a abent to issue another eleoEorsal =miles on the revision of the Ooastitat me. Tia ninon of a meeting Between the .teen cud. Emperor William at Braden are flunkey declared in Berlin ea dna ttultrue. It is atatedthat Jeatice D•ey ham declined o cit on the Parnell Conunlaaioit and that nonce Wills will be a bet turd for hila. Oa the occasion of Emperor Williani.'s visit Route there will be a review of 40.004 elope drawn from alt the itetiaa eegiuteriew. The leceudia,ry fires in Pert an i'r_irine the eal?4tel of Hayti, on July 4 Arid 7, dem troyed property to the meant of °;010,• The London Daily News whew that the Pnrnellitea have ori intention ac present to offer further aerioue oppusitien to the Qom• mbasiou bill. The belief new prevails that the white .Pasha isnot Stanley, but; Eosin Eley, svho, threatened by the Reith, xeaolverl upon sulking a held blow, Mr. Parnell writes be the +'Tinea," DREAMS FULFILLED, Anal e�t#tcate4 (•*so Tod by People rr lieraettee H. B. A.:of jfiortford, 3',tw., writes : The foilo.viog story of a strange dream real re lated tc me by the gentleman .to whom to occurred, and is strictly true in every respect, the facts having been. known at the tierce to several persona beeidea the gentleman in queatlon. 1 will xeia. to it as nearly tie f, can fn bio 4,414 words. "Do yet wish to know bow I became. acquainted with my wife. le ell, it is a strange eters, alaroe too strange to. be true" It happened this way?, Qoe evening alter a bard day's work I retired to my be t for a good night's rear. $acts after retiring 1 fell asleep, when the dream :occurred to mer I thought I steed by the chancel -rail in the little country church where I attended meetrng, and by my aide stool a lady, a stranger to me. The minister who :stood before ns seemed :in the ant of performing the marriage ceremony. I recognized him to be the inrniater who had charge of the church I mentioned. The scone g'radaally faded away and when Iweb, it woe morning, 1 did net think the drone atrarne at the ilreaa bat when it was repeated on the inns, everting_ exactly as before, I to grow interested, 1;rnaUry the was repeated on the third night and addition. I thought the lady by my side nded rue a card on which was her name Woo. The dream seemed to feeds away as Were, 'nen i awoke iwegt morainelm after thinking the matter rover, I eaacieded to write to the addreea wlriatr see ned &rely faxed in my memory, telling of my dream and seising if there was 411411% 'mrason alto the ladylsdrean ed of, I did so, and *eked it there was mule a lady to please recti me her Woo, In as few Jaya I teeived a raphe titetang that there was such a person arid, veolotsieg a photograph which I at once recognized as the lady of my dream% I emwespeaded with the lad ter ;socia time and Nally siztted tor at her htowe, I teuud her very agreeable and �eho seemed to have found me the acme, for when I return. edAllege= with me and wo were utrarried fru the sante ohnrch and by the salmi Minis. ter as appeared in my drearna. That wee tell year* ago and I on truthfully nay the at tit her due bas ever regretted. tray dream, MAN OF Two rt? one, T. S. liawerws, of I1awron eettlt:rsrent,,, N; V , mem A Mod Wee bother who fie as aail- or. The tailor heel been absent for tasilve yore, and bed not been itowl irem ter a lee time, when mai night rmy.Weed downedthat if he went to a eertata aeapert town the wing day lee would tweet his brother. rove there, a dietsoee of about thirty end *eon otter arriving, er,cenntered. tier en the streets The torn, though M1 separated, at once reoogn'owl each Ater the draft greotinge were over, ppm,'" old the !miler, "you are very surprised at moan mo here to day." replied biabrcther; "I wan ex - le, for I dreamed lasttii . ht tion!, If 1 d =Open here tootey; and the eo mach like se reality' that I arncaaed and drove all the way here to find you and taloa you home!" "How strange, how very strange," paid the other, "I was not :much surprised to see you either, eel dreamed lair night that I would find yea here today, end the dream bas been on my Wad over eincel" The two brothers rode joyfullyhouiewarde, beth rally setiefted that dreams mean something sometimes. A atoxlu II`a mew. Mesa M. A, Leonard, of Mt. Alton, Pa., tells the story of a dream of her mother as follows : Our home is situated in the =Wet of oil wells in the wilds of hi Bean Co., and although 3 retard the vicinity as dreary and tireaome, my city iriende terns it "bcnutfful and.pictnretgee is rho extreme," Bub I Ant wandering from nay subject, My father and my two brother% took char e of this lcaee, and removed the family to tete neat of their employment about Sive yyears! ago. The boiler and the several wells at- tached to it which my oldest brother at- tended were near our Immo, and we could see him almost any moment hurrying, as wan his wont, about hie duties. The deck- ing or crossing of a 200 bbl, tank, into which one of bis wells flowed, had fallen in, and there wan nothing to stand upon while ganging the tank, but a 6 in. board acroae the top. 1 was attending school a considerable distance from home, but came hose once a week, On one occasion when I came home, I noticed that something was troubling my mother, and she requested me to remain at home the following week. After much plcadingI prevailed upon her to tell me her reasons. On two nights previous, she had a very strange dream, which had impressed jeer so mnoh, that, try as she would, it would not leave her mind. She dreamed that she was visiting at some friend's house, accom- panied by my younger aiaer. She thought that in front of the house was a large vat, filled with a foaming liquid, from which a gas was arising. Missing Cassie, my slater, they immediately instituted a search, but without sucoess for two hours. At length my mother approached the vat, and seeing a guaging pole lying near, put it in, and striking some object on the bottom, pulled it np, and it was Cassie—drowned. At this point she awoke, and on the following night dreamed the same in every particular. This seemed rather strange to me, but I did not heed it, and went to school in the morning. About 3 p.m. a messenger came for me, with the news that my brother was drowned in the undecked tank. He had been lost for the same period that mother had dreamed, and they felt for him a ith a guage pole, joat as in the dream, so that the dream came true except that my brother instead of my sister was drowned. hinging M. Vharuberlatrt to l,ubliela the Iso- : Government scheme alleged to be is qtr, presen+ pope a re is a r over two hundred And fiftyftve ticouaasid, many, the Cur of gnosis,, and the .Emperor .:leder-General Schofield has been ordered et Aeetrie will. meet at asoma paltat sir the to weetweheeo to take eoromand of chs Auatrien frontier in the autumn, ISLE ROYALE'S DEADLY TAWS: The °stopms. orlba Upper ].ekes. When orosa€ng Lake Superior, broad in the path of cornuterce ilea Tele Royale, a gigantic leviathan waiting, watching for prey, A long, partially wedge•ebaped, crooked backed island covered with rocky hummoeke and granite protuberances, here and there flat, treacherous shoal beachea and envie bluffs rising abeer out of the water to a height of hundreds of feet, crowned with ataotecl growths of pine and poplar; jagged creel reefs of reek running off into the lake like Kulp of an oatopns-the inland the body of a giant reptile, the teas Ica teeth, Ira WAAOK oto Via AI.G 313.. A terror to marieera is fele Royale in bad weather. More than one Ship's akeleton lies along ita harden!, evidence that the hungry. jaws have been at work. le was on thie shorn, Aon►a unites down from the point, that the proud Algoma laid her broken bones in that awful night a couple of years ago when this queen of the .takes went downy, end the number of linea !oat sent grief and desolation into scoree of booms. 1 said en awful night, I was teold at Port .Arthur that en that occasion the waves on twenty feet high abrave the breakwater, and thio was witban laud Motored bay, ndwi yon. Oat 4n the lake the fury of the elements was terrific, A blinding snowstorm raged, while a hard .eine tore the waters into apray and thraahee the n pow flakeeand 'dent intewhirliag abeete, tltait simply meant ft$indoeas to wbeaver at- tetufiterl to two them, Add to thio pitch, daarkneaa and you will have tome idea of what the Alt}oatalabered r.brough-thee live - heed night, Capt, Moore fought for his abbp and Ger tr th effreight ll e theof aho o her$ u.liVee Through ail that terrible finical he node but ono moa tekta, art error of eedgmeut, an error of cal conation rather, of half a minute of theef but that thirty eeeeends !met ruin to brie ahi,p, death Oniony el lsi_spaateogere and craw and svonnda and eugaiale to hisnaa lf, ON TIM It ES. In that acini wreak of roaricg windtt, thundering waves, icy spray and,frezen scow TAO light mould be amen ter deg whiatte heard, It was itepoaat'ble to uneke port that night. knew be -mist berg approaching fele e,, and that iia only chance was esu turn and Budfight for ()pen water.. The aa given, reel t ga)lerttl3 thereobia aasar,sveterd her imine and bore up the buffettieg wavea ; eau: Aar ho ad her stern swung OA ..to out of those long arum of the ectopua rash, the wind; shrieked in lie t,tinou%tuueea! rush - age at her Iran 'idea with muted. higher mai beat her rely---auil ell was over. e moment it is told that hie erew ahowed the true sailore. Many were lest wail through their exer- be rift o iu which anything could be done woo but tiiteatetite, Taey did what could be done, eoelly and determinedly, took their lives iii their hands to Peva what they could of those other livers eutrueted to their charge; thea with the remount were thrown, bettered and woauded, hald drowned and with bene* broken upon the recite to welt for deylig�hf and help, while the mad sea pounded the wreok to pieces and in mockery threw the franente up on the shore. The reptile tale Royale haat a hours• t)ful feuat. Thirty-aeven people died the death that night. a s PEOPLE BOWLED, There was a howl raised *bout Capt. Moore after that by ignorant, chattering landsmen, He was called Ineompetentr--did not nnderetand hie bueineas. Bah 1 Ask any lane oaptain about that. They will tell. you that the same might have occurred to say man, that tbo wonder was, not that the vowel yuan wrecked—it erould have been little short of marvellone 'bad oho escaped through that night. I have never mot Capt. Moore, but the proof of what hind of a mac he is, ie shown by the feet the new big steel steamer the Algonquin, which the Moans. Murka, of Port Arthur, have just brought over from the Clyde, is in his charge, and I am told on pretty good an• thority, too. that the command of the new Algoma will be offered him. Bush vessels are, not offered to incompetent men. . earre tie na3roNein1Lrries. United Statea army. It le atated that Prince Tilemierek basin It is reported. from New York that afire. lntltaatad tc fire Queen, through the Herman mantas become a raving; martins from ex embassy, that Emperor William desires to ceeaivc cigarette rmDking - pay her a state visit in. November,. Over 3 00 Relieve, diel;uetea at not being uoci�ed bo oro that the noeador t B $iotas be• Yoriin bee ablek to aobtain rdayfor home, aailodlron►New twoen Germany, h.uatrla, and Italy regard. York ycaterday for home, bag the 'Vulgarian question will anon 'begin. A friendly est finete of the coot of the Mr. Patriok Egeta !supporta i11 r.1'arne)1 in Trent Valley canalplacee the figure at 1614,= the atatemeat that while hie, t+hamberlein 400,600. It is a goad round sum, wits in the Miniatry be divulged (Cabinet 1'Senator hoed eberger believes that the secrete to the Isiah party from time to tunes. United States will never be a great nation The !talion Government threaten to with, time. has whipped England for the third time. The United States Immigration Coconut. tee recommends that a tax of $200 should lee placed upon every immigrant arriving in that country. The Senate yesterday adopted Solicitor Boar's motion to apieaint tw committee: for the purpoaoof minions into commercial re. Intim between the States and Canada. The California grain crop will bo rather below than above the average, although some localitiea report that land which wee be- lieved amonth ago to be not worth harveating will yield a fate crop. In the United States Senate yes. erday the Cotnmitte on enter State Commerce watt in. strutted to make full )nveatigation into the relation of Canadian railroads with the transportation of ctmmerce across the con. tinent The crop report of the Illinois board of agrieulture allows the prospects for grain and corn to be better than several yeara past. Winter wheat, however, is an exception, though the crop has improved within the last month. The crop of lambs in Colorado this prex- ent aeaaon will reach near onto a quarter of x minion. Eighty-five per cent, of all of the ewe Hooke will raise lambs. It bas been the moat favorable season for this Drop the coun- try has ever had. Mr. Levi P. Morton, the candidate for the Yice-Presidency of the United States, will cease to be a director of the Canadian Paci- fic Railway Company to -day, a fact which the Republicans deem it expedient to pub- lish as widely aapoesible. At a meeting of the Anglers' Association of the $t Lawrence, held at Clayton, N. Y., it was decided to appeal against the decision of Judge Williams, of Syracuse, who held that the law ordering the destruction of nets need in illicit fishing was unconstitutional. In the United States Senate yeaterday Mr. Riddleberger, representing Virginia, opposed the ratification of the Fisheries Treaty on the ground that it permitted the Canadians to participate in all the coast, bay, sound. and riverfisheriea;of the United States, and that no laws could be passed on the subject without the consent of the British Government. One night John R. McLean, editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer, was seated at his desk np to ' his eyes in bueineas, when a bumptious young reporter strolled in from the city editor's room and seating himself familiarly near the editor in -chief, inquired in an off -hand way, " Well, Mac, how does the news pan ont to -night?" Net in the least disconcerted by the extraordinary con- duct ofhie subordinate, who, by the way, was a newcomer on; the paper andhardly known to him, Mr. McLean responded in an apparently pleasant way, " Don't call me 'Mac,' it seems to stiff, call me Joh • nie." FOREIGN. Theotato disease is spreading in p g 133g - land. Rain continues to fall in torrents in: Ger- many. The British troops at Suakim are'suffering terribly from the heat. Relations between Italy and France are becoming seriously atrained. draw their sabaidies :trout Catholic rulaelons in Asia and Africa: unless they permit a Government inspection of their eurrbculum and books. The news of the result of the haat English Darby was telegraphed from Foglend to Australia in one hour and four minutes, which le believed to be the faeteat time ever made between 'these points, Type Writing Contests, The New York "Tribune" says of a typewritingg contest which tock place in that city on Wednesday last ;—Iu yesterday's test there was a aloe struggle for lira plane be- iween Miss M, E, Orr and E. MoGurin, the latter weaning by only three-fifths of a word per minute. The test was for five minutes, and after deducting all errors the jury an.. nounced the following decision: McQurin, 479 words, an average of 95 4-5 words per minute; Miss Orr, 476 words, an average of 95 1.5; Miss M. C. Grant. 469 words, au average of 93 4-5; Mr, Myerson, 431 words, an average of 861.5. The 'prizes were $25 to first, $10 to second, and $5 to third. Mies Orr is unquestionably the fastest female op- erator in tbe world. Thin is her flint defeat, and it would not be surprising if she turned the tables on McGnrin in the tournament which takes place at Toronto for the world's championship on August 13. Wouldn't Accept the Fit. We once knew L. W. Allen to preach a sermon for the benefit of one member of the congregation. She was very rich, very old, and had not been to church for 20 years. Atien'a fame drew her, and he determined to make the most cf it. His text, his illus- trations, everything fitted her (and no tail- or ever made a better fit). The services over, we went with Brother Allen to the hos- pitable home of the old lady, only to hear her say to him:--" Mr. Allen, your ser- mon fitted my overseer so welt that all the time you were preaching I was regretting that he was not there to hear it." 'VI/titer's Cramp. A Broad street mother reads a child's ataxy paper regularly to her little daughter, and most of the tales are continued from week to week. The other day the little one heard the expression, "writers' cramp," and asked what it meant. " It is a stiffening or cramp- ing of the fingers, my dear,'•' was the reply : " people who write,a great deal of ten get it, and have to stop writing for a while." "Oh t" said the little miss, as a great light brake upon hex 'perceptive faculties " that's it, is itt I've often wondered why the writers of those nice stories always stop in such: inte- resting places." English Railway ,Accidents.. The Ersglish railways made a good show- ing as regards accidents last year. In 1887 only 121 passengers were killed, and, leaving out the loss of life by the Sep;.horpe disaster,,, the victims would not have met death had they exercised common prudence. Of em- ployes, 798 were killed, 1,297 paseengera in- juted, and 2,293 workmen. These figures aeem large, but they show a decrease of ac- cidents when eompsred with the records of former years. Railways in India Men in middle life are scara.ely likely to realize the fact that in 1853 there were in all only 20i miles of . railway in India; that in 1873 there were 5,695 miles of railway, white in 1887 there were 13,386 miles, Telegraphic communication with India was first opened in 1865, and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 'was scarcely of leas importance in developing her trade, firat by shortening the passage and second by mitigating the risk from. wlaeat.weevi1. Another agency has been the development of irrigation works. We read that "only" 30,000,000 acres have, up to date, been artificially irrigated, but the appropriateness of the clualifyiug adverb is rendered evident when it is employed its contrast with the total area of 200;000,000 acres of cultivated ground, and the vast tract of 868,314 square miles whioh include British India. line peeved through Isle Royale, Now it passes northward of Call island, some 34 inlet northward, In exchange the Britiah Government acquired aome islands near the month of Sb, Mary'a river, and the Ameri- cium pay we got the beat of the trade. vi son' or vfl7tDuno rn. toing to Port Arthur yon Few between Iale R iyale and flail Island. There aro other telande lytur woad. loose of greater er lessor iatereet, but they are scarcely no- ticed, 'beoause right before tnwera Op the great blank rna4s of Thunder, 0413e. Stand - 1,300 feet high, it oan be seen at a great disrasnce, Itis simply a great reek table - lend rising out of the water and joined to the main hand at the foot of Thunder Bay, Right au the top of the table land is Tonkel Luuiae, a body of water 0O feet deep, with no apparent inlet, its aortace a thonean4 feet above the level of Lake Sanction. de one point in the face of Thunder Cape the rock Is as straight andemooth as ats'all, They fell a story aimed tete old Algona not the C. P. R• weasel, but an old timer made of wood, and built iu the shape of a tub. tihe was !yipg outside in a fog one night when the watch heard aeculiar sorapteg forward. Examination showed that ben' bowstring wee aoraping rip and down the face of tubs well of rock, I don't vouch tor the trtuth of tide story : is wee Capt. Rob' ertsan, of the United Empiee, told it. Thunder Cape gets ire teams from the In. /lien belief that the thunder made its home there. -Another belief is that a great giant Res there entombed. In pictures Thunder Caps le airways eon wrapped about with ' oda end mrat, ,A reality rt i.:t we fair as elitoni as nue could with to reee, 01 in darkweather or during a thunder he ease tie different—then the cape rime, with the clands laweri ag over it :igletuing pla5iug about it, au Owfol sugro. oft against Thunder Capco lira Pie Mend -why so malted deponent aayeth not. .It in a beautiful, nicely -eroded etretchi of lend, with little have, erniiiteg walleye, wooded - hints —the moat boutifal spot, perhaps, Qrt this ahore. But right here, lying railway between, Thnuder Gape and Pee Island. is *good Placa to atop and look about. It fa a eeeane never tot he forgotten, a scene Of irmpreeaive grandeer, where the phey works of the Meade of man are baa;, eight of in the bold moulding of the heed et the Almighty, b the presence of which emir gyros eteams5;i but a coeide-abell Anal men brunet* tem, Suah a rceae must form the went unci not the end of art. Very few people have much of an idea of the responsibility weighing upon the captain of one of these big lake steamers. le is much worse than an ocean-going vessel. Oat on the aalt water as soon as the steamer is clear of land the is laid in her comae, and then, unless unusual oiroutnstanees arise, the oaptain can take a comparatively easy time of it. Not so on the lakes. ,If there as clear weather, no fog, not much swell and everything bright, the captain may get a few hours' rest, otherwise not. He is the navigator as well as the captain. Going up from Owen Sound, Capt. Foote, of the Atha- basca, was on the bridge all afternoon. He was there peering through the fog at mid- night. Towards morning he was atilt there. At day break he was pacing the bridge, all that day he wan on duty, ail the next night and the next day until Port Arthur was reached. I asked him at last if he was go- ing to take any sleep that voyage or wait till the close of navigation, and then learned that a great deal oftener than not the cap- tain does not close hie eyes or get a Mt of rest throughout the entire journey, and the the first mate has nearly as bad a time of it. Add to it the care of the entire ves- sel, including paeaengers and cargo, and you will have some idea of the duties and responsibilities of these men. 1 have spoken of the first mate. Hie work, too, is never ended, and only second is responsibility is the chief engineer. IT sEEPs ITS DEAD. Lake Superior is like the ocean in many respects, notably in this, that it never gives up its dead. The body of a person drowned in any of these waters re never found, unless washed up on the shore. Drop a man over- board and that is the last of him. I think the reason is this The water is very cold, seldom if ever rising above 40 degrees. This temperature prevents decomposition and ae no gas is generated the body does not float as it would in warmer water. Ohly ' a couple of the bodies lost at the wreck of the Algoma, I believe, were found, and these had been washed up on the rocks by the storm. The same phenomenon of drowned bodies not floating is observable in Lake Simcoe.l Originally the international boundary The Banana Tree. banana 1.11* variety of the plantotizt tropied ely need as feed,oandtbe c itivetei for ?ton, With the exception of two tie palms, it would not be esay tit the whole vegetable kingdom any !title is applied to a greater number es then the plantain. "l'he stem;, of the plantain, or Niemen., ie from fifteen to twenty feet ]nigh, although there Are varieties h*vdtlp a atom of euly err feet. The leeveat are very large, the blade being aontetimes ten feat long and three feet breed, undivided, of a beaantiftal ahining green. The plsnt fn propagatel by sackers!, and a sucker attas'inu Irtaturity in about eight mouth* or a year after being planted, The atern is cut dowu otter fruit - Ing, but the plantation sloes not require renewal for fifteen or twenty yore. Ito has hems cultivated aaccessfully in hot. liouaiee. 1Moro than a hundred bananas often grow 1 on a single stem, and so closely do they grow together, that tarrentnlaa, the. deadly insect of the tropics, aroeemotimes brought to the north concealed among them, aid. oven small enekcs have been found by the dcalera when unpa:king the fruit. The banana grows more in favor taoh year, and no ace is too remote for its exporta- tion. But to walk through the markets of a southern city, where bananas aro for sale on every hand for almost nothing, and note the immense qttantitiea in every stage of ripeness, ib wouln neem as if they must decay on their etalke, so glutted is the market with this fruit alone. A Dutch Fisherman's Discovery. A salted herring soma a rather simple thing, Yet the man who firat salted her- rings revolutionizedtrade and became abeae- factor to his country, It was a long-headed: Dutch fisherman, William Bnokels by name, who found out that salt fella will keep, and can be packed in barrels and exported. Be. fore this time fish had to be consumed di - reedy they were caught; bit the new dis- covery created a great industry in Holland, and the salt fish trade, which she monopo- lized for some time, added immensely to the country's wealth, Statues were erected to commemorate Buokela. and Queen Mary of Hungary honored his memory in a very pe- culiar way. She seated herself in state upon the old fiahorman's tomb, and called for and ate a salted herring. Good Wages—A Dollar an. Kour. Eaterpriaing, ambitious people of both sexes and all ages should at once write to Stinson and Co., Portland, Maine, learning thereby, by return mail, how they can make $1 per hour and upwards, and live at home. You are started free. Capita' not needed. Work pleasant and easy ; all can do it. 411 is new and free ; write and see ; then if you conclude not to go to work, no harm is done. A rare opportunity. Grand, rushing success rewards every worker.. Mrs. H. J. Minnie, of Tampa, Fla., killed a rattlesnake a few days ago that measured six feet seven inches in Iength and i011 inches- in nchesin circumference. It was in the act of devouring a rabbit when she ound it. Two weeks ago, she killed an alligator eight feet long. Edison has just turned out a new clock which talks. Instead of striking the hour it simply announcea in every -day English, "ono o'clock," " two o'clock," etc., and at meal times it cries t" dinner time." , The in- vention suggests unlimited possibilities. For instance :-Mr. J ones, whose daughter has a young man dispoaed to stay late in the evening, bays one with a deep . and• powerful voice. He places it on the Mantel- piece, primed and timed. At 10 30 p. nit it remarks :—" Mr. Smith, it's time to go. Look out for ,the dog 1" The new cloak ought to have a great sale.