The Exeter Advocate, 1889-1-10, Page 2IR TWO IIALVE.S.
When. Joie Newhiggbe got beele to the
persoessge 'wham(' that. We twet heel &C-
cbpteOE tbkl lovitetioo for them both to dine
VIZ =ST UAW'. at the "Big 1101.18e," aa Waa Valle& the
Wet awl dreary. It la midwinter; the 4a4trY seat of 00 Pg,late of the Peneh. tit -14M bY Lady Malittith =he, who Waa
"1 haVa benne:bang your I:Attlee all in. Lewle pep, for the Reddy 'WA. ROA and
cloYt" hegwe Meit. Sitwell* the hoeten, when heir. This KM and heir wee heeded over
seated at dinner netb to Jack. to another accomplkie, Heater Oerrifsan,
Weit ineessuarylideriuldheve thought who was bribed -with $100, half down, ha
myself teee insignifientethe shape of A Ualf-ROW, tin) other half to
*
" They were talk/0g at limolt of yoor be petd, when be AMdeaRded ider sate
Wonderful trfelte in conjuring, aedsome one arrive' its Won with the stolen child. It
eaid theft the akill mighe prove tincooveniene, occurred to hdris. Gorrigen in her transit
—when you planed mods; for lostonee." betweeo London and Liverpool that though
"( A 4heXitabla imputation ; with whom $109 would be acceptable on her arrival,
did it origioato the child weeld be only an hectimbrusee.
""Cept the bank note. That was n a She theretore threw the basket eontainieg
poor old purse with a pa.weettelosts and, a him out of the window, forgetting that in
thimble. I kept them all." ,she had for safe4 deposited her pram,
—he a true detective jut; exualtied every Ie waothe watch borrowed from Sir Lewis
article minutely. The jentse bore the mune Mallaby which firet aroused Jack's sespicion.
Hester Goeregaz, in rude teethes Wilde* and
the pawn ticket wee made on in the wee
name.
Arta tiformation of the.. feet, put into.
execution & interlines proeeet; *bleb, he • heti
earefelly owe:toted in ACtir#40., As girl wee
obteineel in a foundling h.oapitel and 'enh-
•, 'gene Xirldington, on the Iondeu
' Noethweateen •' the time, 1W46 ; jut after
the night mailhedtleshed then& without
stopping—bouod fee Liverpool and the
meth..• Therailway officiate are eolhoting
PrePet'atori to goihg off duty for the night.
Wheze'a Den it tusked one a the orowa
tip:IS the piatform.
I saw him ha the het just after the
10.46 wen through. cants have come to
any harm, surely th
"No • he seta he'd seen something drrm
hem the train, and be wont down the line
te pick it up."
Aud Dan had pIelted up aemethiug,It
leesa haTikat—^a catiltaon vrhite basket—
WM A lid footened down by A fitting, What
did it contain, 1. Dirty clothes ? What?
A baby. --a. &Ad half A deem weeks old,
DO more,
"Where did you come aeroalt it?" tusked
one.
" Teying on the line, jut where it fell,
Parttime it didn'ta1I, peroapa it waa chuck-
ed ona What metter? I've got be and got
to 'oak after h ; there enough for me 1'
The little ratte'a limn win white and of
Roo materiel. but he ley won an old newt
ead a few bin et dirty Hamlet, All they
fatted wee a dilapidated puese A commee
setaphele bas.punte tif faded, breovn Reath'
Inside Wad 4 brass zldub1e, a pawn, ticket,
and the halt o a Bk et England eon ef
£100.
.
A new person—llarold Treffry d
OQMA lately to Kirklington,
.#em now paying IVARil of pare I
vain, accomonted by an old college chu
who if; epeeding Ohriatmes with biro.
Y944r " said. Trefiry, pointing
4 die, d ot *melte which roso
from Levee gaunt tree into the autism. winter
air, "yowler is the houee—tf, indeed,. who not wily. did not tumble loweelf
deserve!, so
grand notaee_tba hoed, rather back up the mweetion, but whets the per.
of one whose case is the hardeat of all th,1 f"..rx"4"ce beg= was at Ito Poma to =mai
hardones IR ray parish. Two eau le a mere his coutempt and diegoat.
hedger Eel ditcher, 940 who wake for
any :nester, mast often for the railway,
tab who le never certain a a job 41 the
year around, ao haa a warm of young
ehileIrdo, and he ha* jut bat hie esife,
Ile u abolutely proatrated ; aghast preltably
at hie utter tumhulty to do late duty by his
inotberkee hetet ones, I wonder erbother with an meentetien that slavered et
you ueum roue, tore. yeet emote eeey rodeo" he tea cut hts wetch—e. greet,
get wee to role o oigo, or cry, or lough, gold repeater, looked at it, mid octant -4c.
or to take the smallest iisterest in comrade 4143' Yowoed•
Asko Jock, I boom y9lez. e the e„). (lark burigeret1 for tint wateh ha
man. You might get at hies through the !ewe' Pethape theough it he might matte
clalren—thet niarvelotia henkh.4ott.F gai OWner Undosufoztable, if wily for e um,
you oeturoey once. Try siza uutetorieuee Ile aehed for A watt -.-a —A deem were offered.
ood weteli—e repeater.
them interested and Amused he may wenn
h Attie, apooth perhaps „prole, herbepe Six Lewis Mallab?! was the only one in
pee bh heel; win the room, and he aisurse distieetly refuted
mile. and in the end
Tat; eectowe riAx
" Lewis Mellishy."
"Pleas, point tum out to me."
He was shown A grave, seowlitio tem epen
the right of the hotesse—a face like 4 RaitaUx
the eurfue rough and wriohled, through
whtch the eyea shone with a hateful light,
like corpse•eandlee in a nerd -thee.
Jaek let his companion chatter on, It
. .
Was his Wait to get all the enforecettou re-
in% 0014 mey Onmeny 'en which lie Wiwi
DOBB IT HURT TO BE BBIT,
ether Soon Cameo eneetniestelty After ,the
Stroke orthe Headsman.?
A very interestigg Volume has juin ben
published at Paris an which Dr. Peal laoye„
under title orLa Mort par la Decapitation,"
studies, the question as to whether, after
deosultation, 0013,449134e aurvivea for a short
time in the severed head, and phyeical suf
tering lefelt in both ports of the body. M.
fele idea% ishoply and solely with the ochre
vtiodleuma:peols tho retha mult ooth years
8 The 04ehieureetwen:
experiment's made under the guillotine as
wefl as in the laboratory.
Every time o head falls under the sword
cse ender the eeceentiager'si axe, nay* Dr.
Loye, the imagination of the eneetatore has,
in the physiognomy of the vietim, looked for
It tore the same ereet—two hammers crow prob. ot the survival of Will teed condenses.
ed, whit the motto "1 strike—which was The eye, turned, wee& wee e sign of pain;
marked upho the linen of the child that Den the opa mooed, which ebowee, that they
Blockitt picked up at EIrklington Wain. weothe to epeak ; the mouth opened in order
The initiel of the name /Wallaby minelded estee in a woo of fury. There is not
with the mem:ogre= He le M. From these e „ammo of the hoe veto, hes not bee,
heti and whet he had been told by Mrs. Sit- suterproteo as wart; of the cmothmotion of
well slack fePielli drew- )113 owlcluolitml 44" feelteg, Awl ever eince the guillotine mew -
made * hold shot, whith. the mark) as We ed clown the heeds of multitudea dating the
theeeherhe tRhefognaotTme,rreard, ernoieriaettseleauv:etoodu4eruleuntied
have WO,
tombs Mallabyts confesalett, COM. ,g4 ee fib b h, roan A
that of him Gerrigan, who was fend eautab, and concentrating their whole Intel -
the men reinstated. the rightful her, foetootheomqueeteou Doe., oomeioneuete
4'14 Dan 13feakftt fa after rkr°14Ati no reas°' remain after the vietilea head severed
from the body 1"
GITILT.011111Nel DA%
In order to be able to speak with. seethe*
tide grewome, but important eubject.
Lase bee devoted mach Thee to the
tunde deeaptestiert and it e immediate
nsegrieuees, lletere„ laowever, proceeding
o the study of the human victim of the um
jf the lew,_ expeetineoted OA A member
doge. He saps
"The inetrameot whieli I Rind for toperist.
Ing the head !Ma the, trunh fa woustruoted
sifter * model of the guillotine. It le le
trianguler *keel krafeeermenuted by 4 IUrap
Alleableter is Inghlegstoek ; a fed of lead weighing aboat twenty pounds; It
who's. alerays gels:miss; ; teana a height of about three yards on
Bat little women love ao math, ono falls ia the animare ueele. The nimalt head was
pet into * openieg formed of two
somheirouler boards, between which it le
firmly fixed. The Unite teethes the pert
ste in front of Vets opeuing and cuta the
east itheirely tiff. The betremeot did he
teek la lea theu hen ivseoud, in order te
make the loth felt It was ooly necesaary
to let go the cord by which. it wax featerseel,
Notwiehatonding the it that o &tea eeck
win +towered wIth a good deal of hair itRil
that its ;Oda was very thiek the cut win
alsokitelv th
to referee the genereetty WWII, Uad premph
hiewseits ter hia (Iwo porpoott eh% cleirvoyent ed Winter give the little foundlleg the ;shelter
aud white hire. Sitwell aage.od he p I or of lite redo home.--"Leitdon Tid-Bita.'"
with artleee quaiitioren and led her on trete ....1•11/M.1,...........1•11,1710•11tM%
persen to nether, enekieg mental mite;
orve hiee hereafter. It is Won hy careful Little TireMen,
tI 1 bight= preparations that ;navel the
ange and seemingly myeterioue feats/ to melee my ear4204 brief to *UMW
the OlairVeyant eoreurer ere peeformed. ley oratiee,
Wheutite whole perty were auerebted eeverteuttlug isermen le my utter de -
the drewto ,r09M aftor diet= A elorws tots/Atom
v bee ed by that of the bedew, adifi short women—suite at law withnt
()
Jack Wins work, There appeared Peworestimettoh„ „
034 OTIS dleoutieut,SIrLowIs hielleby, 444 ere elWeYs Ille/t tiedShto4 with thiofili
• et allot duretien,
The coejurer made the cenventieuel pled- love oitle euening.
P°441.4g in hat, #r‘4 Weaatagli'4g4 4444 There ere woeseu who are very tall, nil yet
geartere Itievee, slid 41 manner of cord ' eueworot tiatt %diming,
trick*, huge teteltes Pieta trleks. aad 3eg.• Asid in the. clienge of ehortler long Tome
gleel oo ceueeleuttowily rielet throuelt het -.mese ghee beewhoz
repertory. There was never Untie on Sir
Lewitt' hoe, Re mietrel tineeietekelely. Toprelse the little womee Leve beleught
me in my =dog
To tell their uoble qualities is (tette beyoud
refuebeg,
So 11.1 padre the lath women, aed yowell
and the big =Gettig
They are I know as ttelti els snow, vbilet
Anne Around digesting,
They're eold without, Whilldi Warn* withi
theft:me of love to wising;
They're gay and phenol; le the afteet
sofa eheerful and elegaglog ;
They'm thrifty and dleereeb at homo—
to lend V. But so Metty earliest entreaties ems of life maueglog ;
were eddreasied to him, the bosteee leading Au ohs end marc; try, and you'll fine bo
the attack, that he could not la common,
courtesy coat -haw to refute true ta ray preaeging,
Whin ilometbIns like a growl he took his A. poppercarie la very amen, but ielsoue
watch off the ohne and littuded to to Jack every dinner,
Ishvebiggin. Moro *tux all other coolie:note, although
A curious old fashioned watch it was, 'th spriukled thinner t
which would Wive gladdened the heart et a just so a little women is, it Live willletyou
wateh collector—all jeweled and enemeled, win her,
to:breed with crest and inscription—an heir. Thar* not a joy irt all the world yote
loorn which bad probably bon in the Mal- not End, within her.
laby fatuity for yeah Jiwk lookoh it over
if a; her size inoreues are woratitth &truth
decreased,
Then surely it it Is good. to be from, all the
groat eelemed.
Now of two evils choose the len, said %Wile
Mau of tile Emit ;
By consequence, of wounnekInd be sure to
acme the lent.
yours, tooteeurpreefog tritote it. coo teotoao meet. But how to rt it inte hie handa
with thud Perbms wb.en the father sees No, none of these would do, It Meet be a
ern try!"
Jam Nowbiggiu was by profeiseion a den.
voyancer, but nature had intended hitri for a
Dow Beadle, or a wizard of the north. Re
will more then half a professional by the
time he was full grawre In addition to the
truck eye and the facile wrIat he bed the
river gifts; of the suave =inner and the face
of braze Ho had. even studied meameriem
and clairvoyance, and could upon oecaelon
aurpruse his audience conaiderably by his
power,
They entered the miserable:dwelling to- aurnualy, meclitiettvely ; then, auddenty
gather. The ohildren—eight of them— rating his eyes, he stared intently into Su*
were ell skirmishing over the floor, excenb
- Lewis Mallaby's face, and ablaut oa quickly
one, is child et 6 or 7, a bright eyed, exceed.
Ingle, beautiful boy, the leaat—were not
nature's vagaries well known—likely to be
born among and belong to nth surround -
Inge, who stood between the legs of the mon
himself, .who lead his book to the visitora
dropped them again.
" This is fax too valuable," he said eolith+.
eddy, "too much of A treneare, to be riaked
in an conjuring trick. An ordinary mod.
ern wateh I rnifillt replace, but not A work
and was crouching low over the scanty fire. °f art lik° thf°'
And he beaded ib back to Sir Lewis, who
The man turned hid head for it moment,
gave it blank stare, then an imperceptible received it with ill concealed satisfaction.
He was as much pleased, probably, as Jetties
nod, and onoe more he glowered down upon expression of posaible fellure in the propoind
triok as at the recovery of his property.
Another watch, however, was pounded
into a jelly and brouebt out whole from a
cabinet in an edjainlug ems=
"Oh, but it im preposterous," Sir Lewis
Mallaby was heard to say, quite angrily;
The continued applause profoundly dhgusted
him. " Thh h the merest Charlatanism. It
must be put an endto. It is the conunonest
imposture. These are things which he has
coached up in advance. Let him be tried
with something which, upon the foc* of it,
he can not have learned beforehand by arti-
ficial means."
"Try him, Sir Lewis, try him yourself,"
cried several Telma.
"I scarcely like to lend myself to such
his shale of the spoil and describe volumui- folly" or encourage so pitiable an exhibition."
mealy what had occurred. This and there., But he seemed to be conscious that further
peated shouts of laughter seemed to produce protest would be in Jack's favor, me he said:
some impression on him. Presently he look- " Can you tell me what I have in this p00 -
ed over his shoulder and said, but without ket pe He touched the left: breast of his
animation: coat.
"It is very good of you, air, surely; very " A pocketbook."
good for you to take so kindly to the little " Bah 1 Everyone carries it pocketbook in
chicks. It does them. good to laugh a bit, his pocket."
but it ain't much as they've had to make "Bat do you ?" asked several of the by -
'ern lately." standers, all of whom were growing deeply
"It is, good for all of us now and again, I interested in this strange duel.
take it, said Jack, deeiuting and going sir Lewis Mallahy confessed that he did,
toward him, the children eradually collect. and prcrduced it—an ordinary morocco-leath-
ing-in a far off corner and comparing notes. er purse and pocketbook, all in one.
"You can't laugh, sir, if your heart's " Are you prepared to go on ?" said the
heavy; if you do it can be only a sham." baronet, haughtily, to Jack.
While he was speaking he had taken the ., hertehoye,
bible from the shelf, and resuming hie seat "What does this pocketbook contain ?"
began to turn the leaves over.• " Evidence."
"I'm an untaught, rough countryman: "Evidence of what ?"
sir, hut I have heard tell that these strange "01 facts that meat sooner or later come
things you do are only tricks. Abet ids° ?" to light."
Here was indeed a, hopefal symptom He "What ridiculous nonsense i I give you
was roused then to take some interest in my word that this pocketbook contains noth-
what had occurred. Ing—absolutely nothing—but it Bank of Eng -
"All tricks, of course ; it all comes of land note for £100."
a fire.
"Here, little ones; do you see this gentle.
maul He's it conjurer. Know vslutt a con-
jurer is, Tommy 1" catching up a mite of 4
or 5 from the floor. 44 No, not you; nor you,
Sarah ; noryou, Jakey"—and he ran through
all their names.
They had now ceased their gambols and
were staring hard at their visitors; the nee
ment VMS propitious. Tack Nenhiggin be.
gen. He had fortunately filled his pockets
with nuts, oranges and cake before leaving
the parsonage, so he had half his apparatus
ready in hand.
The pretty boy had very soon left the
father at the fire and had come over to join
in the fun, going back, however, to exhibit
practice," said Jack, as he proceeded to "Stay 1" said Jack Newbiggin, famn" g him
explain some of the simple processes, hoping abruptly and iipeaking in a voice of thunder.
to enchain the man's attention. It is not so—you know it—it it only the
"That's what I thought, air; or I'd have half 1"
given you a job to do. I've been in want And as, he spoke he took the pooketbook
of a real conjurer many a long day, and from the hands of the really stupefied bare. A neeevhich, gathering strength from di -
nothing less'll do. Set here, sir," he Bald, net and exhibited. for inspeotion—the half of verse founts,
as he took a small, carefully folded paper a bank of England note for £100.
. Will—a majestic river—onward flow '
from between. the leaves of the bible, do There was much applause at this harmless Pull -voltim'd, vaet, its guide itseproper bent,'
a
you see this? and sucoessful denouement of what threat And take its char:at:ter and hues from all
It was half a Bank of England note for ened at one stage to leadto eltereation, per. That makes the present: great—rolling along
Quebec.
2naost "ROS," oc es. Y. DAVIN,
We passed that city hoar
Whit% weans an old hoe in it world all now,
Prom whose high plain and etoried
Wolfe's glory 'trews forever, and we
mark'd
Very Sevin.
Stories without number have been held to
illtisteete the "penurierianeas of Oogidental
Phan, but not one of them It more graphio
in setting forth A rafeert williegnese to ;soh
ter wane that ho may smite Something, than,
tide anecdote from the Perslan.
werehant of Ispebon, why. left at We
death a tinge sine of money, wee ao great a
niggard thin for mini yeare he deleted htm-
*elf aud his little eon alt food +tempt a cruet
of moue breed daily.
Ows dee, he was tempted by * friend's
deoription of the Steoor of a metals, kind of
cheese, to ,buy email photo Before be
remind home, he began reproulting hiin
self for hie extravastawee Fite rePentenee
WM Wary thorough, for instead of eating the
thaws he pat it into a bottle, awl Q4n1§4164
hilatelt 'wit& rubbing the crust et bread
liOnlit the betides to ehie isomewhet im-
ehnooteve eeleYment of the chew hie eon
was allowed to share.
Doe day the misim, on retunlin. g how,
later than meal, foend his eon eatheS bit
crust and rubbing It ogisiost, the doer.
" White eze yea Went, foal V' exidalmed
the father.
"It te dineeedihne, father*" senwered thv
SOU "yea boo* the key, and AS I meld
;set open the door, was rubbing my bread
ag4nst it, for I mold net get at the bottle,"
"Conoco you go without cleeese ere day,
yCU luxurious Bole reveal 1" asked the irri-
tated father, "There, take tht, reMell
war be etch I" an d he Waked the rev boy
ay frees the door,
ie
Of the late lard Chancellor Weatbery
Icernien pa r 'elle this story ; " Ida
later w an be was ;sitting regiderly un
the Judielel Committee ot the Priey Veneoll
he met ex•Chlef Juittee Este and eeked him
why he old int etteed. 'For three very
geed and Petiole:4 resoseee,' eaid Sr W;l
9M beeenee agt
deaf, loonies I AM *timid." 4 Theta ATA AO
impedlwentoe Weetbury ;"--levery
olde—le very deer, ench-o—le very etupld,
and yet We toer make au excellent) mutt.'"
rantintabanC 474 MO=
44 4121444 OP said Mr, Clitiegwatets as
%wed the felony row, " have 'bought
Yollleke the *Whet of the faMenii ROW
book, 'Reuel= Refitettout,' with:sloth toth
Ila ie la this puler. I hevebece tellbg hire
how mueli wi eetelre the work, and he
freforad_ pleued," "Per geselitme
mike, Ur. Chugweter 1" exelelend the wile,
"take him Wu mine other reOrti Vatilq I oat
the twee of thin copy of 4 RAPC)0131 itt0^
"At the Merle= vNben tic 104 tion4' that's 931 theparlor Utile r— EChieage
entitle le Poorly elwaye penly epee, 40 it ettebnue,
the imbed were breathing deeply. The
sue is proud/ egaiwit The roof of the DifferitsCe Between the Two.
tle or tremblee the eyelids; EV
defied and thew alight eentrutlene ; then Tudor ; "Now, Johney, look et ihn.
eyes open and roll be their Kama lip, Is thet the weer to spell 4 windevr'—'w.i.d.
rd, dewuward, and to •either aide—the 0•W' ? WTelesitiy: "No, sir." Teethed "Whet
pit fe contracted. At the oleo time the le the difference New.= 'erledow and
we epee, thee close quickie', and ell the 'widow' V &hone. "Yo elm see through @pear* dead. Ileum the necessity and the
the ono bubno through the tither."
nig mueoles MOWS in Tepid couvulsione. esetubein of courage b provhig that oven
The labial cortunheurea are violeutly
taB ii.smusno
laekeencereN lerne weartceithised Woot
a iletirew etaiiepeiesea Wenepee, IjiraeL
Q49 of the Jargon eomereeetiens. of the
SOASOR 404,04aded yesterday Mezeing at the
Greene Ayenge Temple Ierael, eleeWn theta
by the .ssowouneement thee ROW :Iteeeleon
veoeld .oretiehe, Sitalteepeamee. Morph:net of
Felice tom Jewlith etaadpoiet and thew
the InjOethe et couidertag ell Shedd/lee to
he Jews. 17ndee lierriteee
tkra Tal#10 Tatata bide fair to 'bloom :the
leading thieogegee of the •eowity. The con.
swe.gtatee. has naggessed, now utinatodog 14
memberehip onto of ehe bob known Mb -
brew of the o457, and the Seuffey ,4b901
otanksee aro largely ettenned, The Aintag.
'el the now ohoir "is tette the. lease 'attentive
portion of the Mretee 104AgOTatficl by Ite'
former tferrione Mr. Berrien . mid yes-
terday, among other thins:
The living are enlett by. the deed, Our
menerolte alt in the .iiepnleher„ The Prune
le thole* eitd. vehealjef thelPeet. Preeldeista.
meet obey offieiel. teatittien ; worldling*
exibmili to time benear.ed. faebfeesee helteeete
aunt to the hoery creed of their fathers.
Thhikerismay dlet thoughts tiever, Poeta.
ahoy pulth i rote *seder% And AO IR IV
edam, Sgate ere -Immortal. even la thte
.world, We AXO born thati into the.teteodom
of 4 ghostly dyeesty. Only the deed wog.,
cove/Se; only the dead wield scepters over
114, DAM WI post ritertens government
eeene beeedible to yon l Yeti' go fur-
ther. .elalco .reere. .oall dots
thie strove" irresistible power anceeed
death,. it even .ceatedatee birth. °hereto
ters unborn. end. never to be bornheve meld-
ed Mea'e tbOyightri, UgArts, .1)4s40/44; have
Oen re. roe. . , , . •
ether* mut oche !Ave that wilt O get
loA :iuolre deeply than reality, and the MAU
of Rebus ie the singlet= Of the imagewthai.
WO doelit with Itionlet, we struggle with
Fame, with. Copperneld we laugh reed weep,
owl Sheleek huhu:MO tis tile fetoey, bit
exult*Iou, bit eodden and cutworm. despair.
Thee imporieboble OWAtiellA, eurviring their
creator, have Molest solved a. populerpezzlo
AA aver potent mous. it not of perpetual
motion, at lemit of perpetnel efesettoe. I
wiUishitale to Teo to day Of A perAORIAGatifM
.91 fopfitille., cif AR -epitome of age, lot%
twinge, of ley ggere .constructed by
;fleeter band whereby it whole melon was
hung in .cfagy., lb leen linceortaloarloatures.
perfect in chneetstleti end exeeetterwadeteed
with every geed) Of Vetthy and. every re -
Nero ot lenguoge, 4Arl yet en :ay the
begat envie, AM:IOWA Of the :foulest CMS.
ade that .evor disgraced civilisation. The
splendor of the frame only intensiiies the
grotesenonese el thopicture. Thelolay will
MVO; die, tier prejudio with lt. You hue
been teld what beeline:tittle vitality it in e,
work of genies ; weat audleiti paean over
P.;e11 rer good or evil ruble in a masterpiece
if art. Itather .se 'arena:co living '3:cokere,
Dements, Goldwin Smiths. nil embtrodieg
traducers leuguithiug he the Tombs,. other
cotrilin ell them then face ono Sink -
••••••••••=n•e•
he, the wield poet, In ono inetance mode
placed, the nostrils quiver, the lips tremble, —United States Posliztuiter General DJU briC1(61 Withetkt *straw and built well on 110
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moVe. M. Diemotoo jo oold to he eeleorotwoue on theouwndaestttor:.0 I.I:}t whullmItte eAuarstutoroprhoovevtinioatuott
and. the tare steed up. All theaa
mute together make A fearful grimace, by the aubject of white horses, Xhis may
. b tone to the Jewish Ilature nor to Metaled
which the mein intenee pain and e any tb b-
osom to be expressed. Tlus drab Philo hug reddioh tinge. At ell evonte, be holds the
about ten aceonda, after which It Period ol belief that the Oahe of white here° elwaya
repose, hosting about five monde, corn. brings him bed luck. Heave that he never
menace. Two minutes seem. eeehoitetion sew to many In hie life in on eleetton day,
every put of the heed b000raea rigid end and by night he felt convinced that his party
eedeverone," had boon beaten, though he heel heard no
EYES TUBE HAD, A2i'D EARS, A,RD reoturn*.
In relation to the complaints of the inter!-
iingt„ non."
Betides these observations, which were
the alone on nearly every dog which Dr.
Loy.) aomplteted for scientific purpose he
aubjeoted the heeds' to other testa.
".Bat no deaspItated dog Ina ever re.
spaded by any apeolet =pennon to the
reetoratives applied to its nervous senses,
whether I whistled or ahouted into he care,
pseud a striking objeet before its epee, ir.
ritated ita tongue or tried anything elle.
All perception of externe.1 improsalons had
ceased."
Thus lb appears' that consolonenees disap.
floor the broad river tolled along, bettursed peso immediately after decapitation. Tee
in question now ariees whether toneolowine.as
With wooded shores, the land and water all la mlY auePeuded' as in a state of. syncope,
One mighty maze of ruby sun -lit mist, andoan berevived if the head be eepleeed in
Far -burning wood and sheete of silver O. the same physiological condition In WW1 it
A shade of thought passed like a cloudlet was before it was separated. from the body.
o'er Bat this is peeved to be imputable and thins
Her face, and like a summer cloudleb went the conclusion is arrived at that a do&
antique - head, at all events, does not undergo any
more suffering after once the fatal blow hat
"Lo 1 there," ahe aaid, " a piece of French
'Gaut which the wavea of time ha blasts that any movementa are merely
Would seem to break in vain. They 11e raftenulaarna.
"After the heads the trunks of decapitat-
and. storms
down there— 0.---h ea dogs were subjeobea to a, number of ex=
•
Bet strange ?—to glories and traditions old periments, discussmg which Dr, Loye points
Of other lands and of long -vanished years to the example of the ostriches of the Boman
And while they live beneath one rule they by
, Emperor Commodue, who amused himself
own cutting off with sharpened spear -heads
The civilization of another nob the heads of the ostriches ruining the race
,
In harmony therewith; nor can they cease
, round the circus. To everybody's astonish.
To look beyond the sea until thet day, ment the birds continued to run to the end
Far off, which impulse new will give and, of the course, while their heads lay at the
bind Emperor's feet. Bat although no dog has
The heart's affections round the land they eemen is by
been known to perform such a feat, the
till, no means motionless! immediate -
Their motaesr then, no nursing substitute ly after death.
For one long leagues away. They have the"He arose and jumped, like a frightened steed,
Toon stretched himself and died."
force,
They have the genius of a mighty race ; "In nearly every case the moment after
Poets and thinkers, statesmen eloquent- the knife had fallen the body of the animal
Their peasants gentle, virtuous folk ; but executes several energetic movements with
lost •tha hind legs and tail. Sometimes these
Are many winning graces of the Gaul movements are so violent that they threw
At home.- Old wine is pent in bottles new ; the animal out of the hollow, in which it
You see the same thing farther west in those was idd• Daring one experiment the dog'e
Blind egotists who damn in others whet body jumped right oat of the hollow and,
They dcoantemselves—the merest slaved of
our feet.
to our greatest stupefaction, fell down at
Of what has been—ineapable,of deeds 4' Half a minute after the head has been
Strong -limbed and bold, snob. isis are born of cut off the four legs and. the tail begin to
And will. But there shall come • it race in move, often these moveinents are stronger
in the hind lege, and result in stretching the
thought
This G -------------. ill play a noble part, • limbs oub to their full extent. , Then the
muscles of the trunk are greatly contract.
which
ed, and. this • powerful contract no-
tion accotintst doubt, for the fact of the
animal's body jumping out of the hollow
Sometimes, indeed, the back of the animal
is quite arched after the contraction. After
two or three migutee tbe spontaneous move-
ments own and the corpse becomes stiff in
haps to a quarrel. Bali Jack Newbiggin was A. crowded avenue of wealth Red power."
" llow air • couldany conjurer help rat: not satisfied. •
to the other tialf ?'' "As you have dared me to do my worst,'
"How did you come by it ?" asked. Jack said he, "listen now to what I have to say.
once. . Not only did I know that was only the halt
" tell ion, sir, short as I can make of it tote, but I know where the other half
it. Conjurer or no conjurer, you've gob a bi to be found.
kiudly heart, and rm main sure that you'll "So much the batter for' me," mid the
help if you can." ' baronet, with an effort: to appear humorous.
Dan then described how he had picked up
• the basket from she 10:45 Liverpool ex
prees.
"There wee the linen ; I've kept it, See
here, all marked quite pretty and proper,
• with lace round the edges, as though ha
mother loved to make the little one senert."
Jack examined the linen' • it bore a mono
gram and creat The first he made out to
mean H. L M., and the crest was plainly
two lialnmers croseed and the motto "1
strike"—not a common crest—and he never
temembered to have ;leen it befote.
And was that all?
That other half was given to—shall I
Lewisay. Sir ?"
Sir Lewis nodded indifferently.
"It VMS given to one Hester Gorrigan, an
old nurse, six years ago."
" Silence! Say no more." cried Sir Lewis
in horror.
Six. Lewis had been it younger son; the
eldest inherited the family title'but died
early, leaving his widow to give him a poet.
humoue heir, the title remaining in obey
doe until' time showed 'whether the infant
was a boy or it girl. It proved to be a boy,
whereupert Lewis laalleby, who;had the
Where the Shoe Pinches.
I think lb is safe to say that ninety-nine
ont of every hundred women wear shoes that
are too large in the instep. Shoes that tire
too large in the instep allow the feet to crowd
forward on the toes and the result is there
is a deformity of some Bort. When a wo-
man's foot hurts her nine times out of ten she
will have the buttons of her itheee so they
wilijbe madelargeriatheinetep, endif her toes
are troubling het the mischief is only in-
creased. The buttons should he reset so as
to make the inetep smaller and the shoe s to
fitthe hatter. The elovenly fitted shoe is
the cause of most of the trouble.
Marie Van Zandt appeered on Deo. 12. at
Lisboe, singing Mieenon with coldesel success,
death."
The net result, at whioh Dr. Loye arrives
after 'a long and detailed study, is that
decapitation putt thp animal into a state
of repici, asphyxia and into that of more
or 100 complete inhibit:Nei, but that, after
once the head is severed fromthe trunk,
there is no more suffering.
Next year there Will be it celebration of.
the fiftieth annivehary of Verdhs debut as
a composer. • His first opera, " Oberto di
San Buonafacio," was produced at Milan on
Nov. 17, 1839. •
Shun has 8,000,000, and to convert this
vast host to Christianity there are only 8
missionaries. The mine proportion of
preathera in the TJnited States would give
as lees than 65. Michigan world be entitled
to tWO.
0
fan; nor to poetic jestiee. Refusing, then,
to be daunted by tho splendour of the
pleywdelith bane, let no exembe the play,
"The Merchant of Venice," and. lot on
anelyza the ohareator at Shetlock, the Jew,
"When I sew this piece produced In the
Drury Lane Theater," wrote Heine, "there
stood behind ma in the box is beautiful
pole English lady, who wept bitterly at the
or quality of the bayonets used by the troop;
end of the fourth sot and cried out again
at Saaltim, Wilkinson & Co., the arm* and again, The poor man is wronged, the
maniac:Curers who furnished the weiponel poor man is wronged 3' It was a face of
explain that they aro unoble to oink° bayo-
the noblest Greek type and the era wore
note in England now owing partly to thek largo and black. I have never been able to
Inability to flour° akllled workruen, and forget thorn, those largo, dark eyes that
Partly to the Inoompletion of their new wept for Shylock." Theao words aro ,the
factory, work on whin is being pushed far- keynote of the play, "Tho poor man is
wood. They state that Germany in now whengeeee
History was dhtorted to load
the centre of tba aword-making industry of him with ignocalny. Be deem not receive
the world, Tho War 0 041 authoritio common poetic justioe in the play and he Is
regard this explanation aa reasonable. made the shop:awned typo of s. whole moo
who suffer in repute for his traditional of.
Irene.
From the speaker's point of view the
pound of flesh bond was originally made in
i;
A very visionary atheme is thab which h
being disowned by prominent engineers for
the construction of it railway on the Ameri
can continent through Britittit Columbia. and
Aleaks to Behring Straits, whence the dis. the form of it joke, at men say today, "
tance to the north-eastern portion of Asiatio will bet ray life," or "1 will stelco my
Russia n but a trifle over SO miles. It is
said that no diffioulty would. be experienced
in keeping this section of the road open in,
winter, owing to the mild climate of the
Ahab:a coast, As, however, several thou-
sand miles of road aerate the Siberian deserts;
would he neoeseary to complete the under-
taking, it is difficult to imagine how it /a-
venue for the tine could be provide&
A year ago a Halifax legal firm was charg-
ed with the canoe of conducting law busi-
ness for a price below that fixed by the
Sapromo Court. Whether or not the mem-
bers of the firm were atruok off the roll the
bar of Nova Scotia will remember. But
application was made with mash a punish.
mane in view, It turns out that the offend-
ing firm was really meeting 'the public
norms:side% for the Government of the Pro-
vince has j wit appointed a Royal Commission
to enquire into the question of hey colas and
to reduoe the fees. It is officially announced
that litigation has become so expeneive that
many men are deterred from seeking justice
is: the warts for fear of the enormous foes
whieb would reenit front failtme.
The recent victory of the British foroee
at Suakim, whioh by the way will do much
to dhoount the effect of Lord Randolph
Churchill's attack upon the Government's
Egyptian policy, will help to awell the fear-
ful list of lives in or about this comparative-
ly unimportant town, The Pall Mall Gaz-
ette aptly describes Suiskim as it slaughter-
house. During 1884 and 1885 above 9,000
lives were lost in the battle -fields surround-
ing it. The measure of Baker's Egyptian
force by the Arabs mit 2,200 lives. at one
stroke. General Graham's vietories at Tete
and Tenni were won after the slaughter of
4,500 Aralthland 2,000 more were killed sub-
sequently at Mishears and on Baker's battle.
Herd. The Britinh hes in these battles was
between 200 and 300. Our ()able dematehes
The words navy and shipping are apt to
excite their.; of the average citizen of the
United Slates. The reason is °livid:us, for
Uncle dames navy is in an unsatiefactory
/state, and the decline of American shipping
in the carrying trade of the world is it sore
subject with him. In the annual report of
the Seoretery, of the Treasury it has to be
admitted that whilethe trade of the country
has bereaved, the proportion carried in
United States immesh has decreasedfrom
over 75 per centbefore theme 'toeless than
14 per cents at the present time. ,Over 80
percent: of the trade of the United State,
is done :through the medium 01 fotaige
vessels, chiefly those of Great Britain., 'As
one of their papers regretfully saps ." Our
merohante and =mule:Aware:pay anneally
into the pockets of Europeanship otniero
nearly or quite $200,000,000 freight charges,
while they are necessarily also placed DA: a
disadvantage ha compeition with the mer
chants and manufacturers: of Europe, both
as to rates and privileges.
head," butr that after Antonio's friends had
robbed him of not only hie daughter bub
his property, Shylock save it chance for re-
venge, and claimed his pound. of flesh,
prompted by that very natural feeling and
not by avarice. Mr. Harrison related an
old etory by Gregazio loth wIdch he olaim-
ed served. Shakapeare with the incident of
his great play, In the story the pound of
flesh to ba forfeited was the Jew's and the
judge before whom the cue •was tried sen-
tenced both to death—the Christian for his
wish to commit murder and the Jew for his
attempt at. suicide. • In his concluding ad-
dress Mr Horrieon said :
We are appronhing a season of good
cheer, when men proolaim "Peace on earth,
good will to men." If only nineteen cen-
turies of war and hate did nob rise before
us in ghastly apparibion how gladly might
these ,blessed words be heard and heeded.
When that day shall dawn of real peace and
true good. all creeds and races might well
join in its commemoration; for then there
would be no longer hate but brotherhood,
no tragical Sbylocks, no heartbreaking
wrongs, but a universal sympathy, an all
embracing charity to do what no religion
hat yet done, join the whole world into a
single human family.
Fan and Physics. *
The doctor who could not laugh and malai
me laugh I should put down for it half-edu-
oated man. It is one of the duties of the
profenion to hunt for the material for a
joke On every corner. Most of them hese
a° esteemed it. Garth, Rebelals, Aber-
nethy, and a hundred or so more too near to
be named, whet genial, livershaking, heart -
quickening, wit-wahing worthies they were,
and nature reveals most of her tricks of
workmanship. He knows there is it prize
in every package of commonplace and sad-
ness, and he can find it—not only the hit of
hue shining to the eye of it connoisneur like
an unmet jewel, but the .ementrioity, the re-
eemble.nce, the revelation, countless ague
and tokens of the evanescent, . amusing,
pathetic creature w,e call the human. .
Heartiest, grasping. irreverent! The deep-
est companion of human ails, the broadest
generosity to hunian needs, the highest re -
meet for all that is strong andpure and
holy, in human lives. I have seen it in the
men who come dumb in the rayetery of life
and the mystery of death, who read the
naked heart, when it is too weak or too sor-
rowful to eade ets nakedness, who knows our
.best and our avorst and are most of them
wise enoughto strike ,the balance. if they
are.cynies it it we who have made them so.
We are the books out of which they learn
their lestoni.
The Britieh success ali Saakim puts an end
to all notions of surrendering that port.