The Exeter Times, 1889-4-25, Page 3SENSATI,AL SUICIDE&
Who ties* /Frequently Take Whoneelves otr.
-Some Peculiar teases.
Saioide la ler lets comma amen Vera"
old or very meting peafowl thanwith them/
of middle ep. Betvreee 40 anti 60 is the
period when life setms to become most
burdensome. Very fevr yam% nee& keia,
tbelneelyte, and very few old once. Ali
to the causes ot ettioide, ineenity, wheeher
incipient or declared, furniehee the lergeet
thetingent. impatience of eltysioal pain,
the suffering attuned by agoniztog end th-
curable Ulna's, oomee next. Drunkennees
eke supplieti a large eumbm mime. But
peverty and disappointea !ova come lowest
oh, the fiat; of prediepoeing (mums.
As I have said before, Wm repo and the
river are the moth extoller of all 11113A118 of
seltsla-aghter, The pistol o Ines next, and
thou aephemiation by oharooal Compare
Wetly few permute have reeouree to knieles
or to poition. Some few leep from tin• eleven
ed point, like the Aro cle Tlioinphe or the
towers of Notre Dame Instances ere known
a persene who have throve thonuaelvea
THB BAILWAV TRACE.
in trona of a pewsing meet. Poison, for the
reason I have already wetted, tureithea oom-
paretively few marline. People have been
known to drink themateves purporsely to
death, mellowing alehol in molt groat gam.
*me aa te produee euegestion ot the brain.
Azd laet year one uneeppy creature, a wo.
me deliberately starve d nevelt to death.
Tne most drainatio omit of euicide of which
I have over hoard was wee or which I was by
eh. te the witness mime years ago. On a
fin' afternoon in %weer 1 wee walking on the
Rue de la Pain, Pole, at he ind neareat the
Place Vendome. I Was hummed by the e.s
peot of the vast clerk Column Vendome ris•
ing againet the pale gold of the sky, and with
he last rays of the enneet •ingeriog up .n the
statue of its summit, Suddenly I beheld a
masa of white, flutteting drapery felling
rapidly down the front o, the gr t at dusky
Blatt, It struck upon the huge !aural wreath
Burrounding the cote= where its lase
conies in contact with the pedestel, and was
thrown by the violence of the shock elear
ow I the railtege to the ptivemeur, Therm
di aperiea were the skirls of a woman.
Sh tad climbed ,o the to nitett of the col-
on with a imam more t undo /teeth
her mam, and a mat the guide W 103 expleme-
prinomee aointe ow tee v ew to some
ethw persons, she profited by the morawat
the.. his attention Whti otetraeted, placed her
can p .stool just below the railings mounted
it, and
maw sunsets oven.
In her pocket was found a card requesting
thee her body might he sent to a certehe
holise irate highly respectable street. The
wilco caused the poor crushed rem:this
to be taken to the address indicated, thereby
unoonsoiously carrying out the revetmeful
purpose of the suicule. For the husband had
deeerted her, and hed gone to take up him -eel.
denoe at the plane she named with another
woman. The effeot upon the guilty pair of
eing thus confronted with the corpse at the
.tteman they had wronged must have been
-Painful and startling to the hist degree.
Some time afterward a young roan threw
`himself from the aummit, breaking eff one
of the spearheads of the railing in hie dee-
cent.
And eince the epoch of this last suicide the
column has been closed against all visitors.
• The broken spearheed remains lament:led to
this day. The Column of July on the Place
de la Beagle furnished for a time its quota
of suicides, but finally that too was closed
againet all persons wishing to ascend it. The
laat individual who soughedeath bythrowine
himself from its summit lodged on one of the
Gallic cooks in bronze that ornament] the
base; and as the law forbids any one to
touch a corpse till it has been viaited by
the pollee authorities, the ghaatly recnains
hung there, a dreadful spectacle, for over an
hour
Avery ;singular case of suiteide remarkable
for the deliberation with which it was re-
solved upon took place lately in the Feencla
provinces. A man who had committed a
theft of some magnitude found himself on
the point of being arrested. He caned his
wife and children together, told them what
he had done, and conaulted with them as to
the best method of disposing of the affair.
They unanimonely agreed that
ILE OUGMT TO IkILL HIMSELF.
The onlprit acquiemied, and deliberately
completed all his pteparations, which in-
cluded going some distance in search of a
print, to whom he made his lath oonfesaion.
Then be came beck home, got his gun and
went out into the woods and shot himeelf,
A very sad instance was that of the young
Viscount X—, who was playieg with hie
firstborn child, a spirited, active boy of
some eight months old., at the open window
of his suite of apartments, which was situ-
ated on the fourth floor. The baby, in the
gayety rand excitement of the sport, made
a sudden spring, escaped from his father's
clasp, and fell headlong to the pavement of
the uourt. The wretched parent gave ono
glance at the lifeless little form lying on the
cruel atones below, and then turned from
the window, took a loaded pistol from its
came and blew his brains out.
Fatal Result of a Wife's Flirtation,
A young Arab woman with a weakness
for the military has just been the involun-
tary came of an exciting adventure in Tunis.
A small convoy was being marched from
Susa to Kaironan, and ione of the ;soldiers,
by way of beguiling the tediura of the jour-
ney, began a lively flirtation with the fair
creature in question, who, nothing loth, met
his advances in a very encouraging manner.
Unfortunetely, however, this dark -eyed
belle was blessed with a huaband of jealoua
propenelties, who, disapproving of
the Nroprovised courtship, display.
his diesatiefactiort by Bouncily cudgel-
ling the eon of Mars. The ooldier, seizing
hitt rifle, Whi011 WAS lying at a cenvenienb
diebanoe, took aim and fired, killing the man
on the spot But the matter did not end
here. lneeneed at the deeth of their com-
rade, e party of Arebettatiembled and attack-
ed the troops composing the convoy, wound-
ing two ;severely. The authorities have in-
stituted a 'matching investigation into this
unlucky affair.
Mr. Lockyet, the English astronomer,
'Says that a comparison of the phenomena
observed during the total solar eclipae of
January let laid with the records of the two
previous with apt minims in 1867 and 1878
"indioates very dearly that we have now
very definite information concerning the
corona of the sun as observed at the
inium period of bun opote." He abates that
If it should be found that the epeotral phe-
nomena Of this year correspond with those
of 1878, there will be strovg confirmation of
his theory as to the origin of many molar
disturb:mom it may be, therefore, quit tit
no distant; day we shall be able to taillee
the sun spoto_for the purpose of weather
prediction.
-An Footinan's )31nnder.
Mrs. Hallowell was leeeere pretty and WI-
ableAmerioan widow, but the had a morrow.
She•brel arrived at that oeitieal peeled wben
age shows he marks twine the face, and ma
partially in the frost is eprinkles upon the
hair. She resolved to dye the 'latter, and
for 034 purpose tuede arrangemente with a
oartain hairdresser, who, at) her mimed,
was to meet her at ten o'clock at night, to
avoid observation, and, in the privaey other
own boudoir, restore her hair to a jet blaok
hie. She hod agreed to attend a party thee
niglikand o!course wee anxious' to 'Ave the
hair -dyer prompt. At ten o'oleckgeshe wee
awaiting hire, eager for hie appearance. The
bell rang, but the hairdresser (lid nob pre-
sent himself before her: She meet down her
maid to make inquiries of Matthew Riley,
the' lrirsh footman, wheals° officiated se at-
tendent of the door. "Who was ib riling?" ehe end of tlett. Wald- -would-, haprn
The End of the World.
di:Molding to Cardinal Nicolae de che a,
thie should have occurred 14 1704- it e
dernenstrates lb thus: The deluge happened
he the thirty•foartb. jubilee of 51 by year%
from, theoyeatiep (4. et. AM) earl therefore
the end of the world elabuld therefore ocular
on the thirtyfourth year of the Christean
era, or A. D. 1704. The four grace ye' re
are added to compensate for the blanche of
ehronolegisto reopeoting the firot year of
grace, t
; The most popular dates for the end of the
i
world, orwhet s practically the same thitg,
thmth
e .millennia, are - e following: 177,
Swedenborg; 18311i, Johann Albrecht Etna
gel; 1843, Win. Miller, of Amerma;
1866, Dr. John Cumming ;1881, Moth-
er Shipten, It was very_senerally Ilea
lieveda inee Vranotii , Gehnieny, etio„ that
asked Charlton tbe maid. "A blaotrguard," theetleetilsaididityeartafterephriete th re
replied Matthew Riley, "Who?" said Chart.
tau. "An impudent blackguard," said the
footmen. "Beelad, if it wasn't for fear of
the police, ra Oche him betted' " /no
did he want?" continued the maid. "Want,
iia It? Want? Sere I'll be after *silk' ye,
as ye're so curious, fot its meeelf asked him
the question!" replied Riley. "Well,'' said
Charlton, "go on." " 'Weil,' clays I, 'what
do you want at thla time o' night, my fine
foliate?' '111 tell your reissue,' mays he.
'Divil a bit,' save I, 'till ye've told me first.'
'My business is with the lady,' says he, 'It
will keep warm till tcernorrow then,' says I,
'for divil an inch you'll get in till I know
what you wane' 'Can you keep a sayeret?'
says he. 'Can a duck swim?' sap I. Upon
that he came close to me, and sari he —
But, arrah, you won't belave mal" "Indeed
1 will," said the maid. "'Well, then,' says
he, come to die hare.' • 'Die harer says
1. 'Yes,' says ho. And vvhare would you
wish to die?, says'. 'In year nalesures
room,' Bays he. So with that I kicked him
down the etepa." "Then you have dope
wrong!" said Charlton, ready to die with
laughing. But, bedad, he came back again
just now," resumed Riley, "and says again,
as pert as may be, 'Tell your redeems I'm
come to die hare.'" "Well, and what did
you Bey?" teeked Charleon. "Whet did 1
say?" exclaimed Matthew. 'Sure I said
what every honest man would!" "And
whet was that?" she asked, "'Bo jeberse
says I, 'yo're nothin' but an idiot, and you'll
not die here! Go somewhere ales and die;
you scamp of the world! Die hare iudeedl'
So for the second time I knocked him oat;
and, bedad, I'm tninking' uiver come
here again to die 1"
• She Grew Faint.
Miss Bostonbred-" have heard a great
many things about the Wear, blies. Nevada
belle, that) 1 am euro are not true. 01.18
reads so much that is not true, and I am
glad to meet some one who can give me re
bitable information about the customs of the
country, which is, I dare say, far more
civilized than 1 fano v it to bo. Pray tell me
about your experiences and ireprestsions."
Mies Nevaciabelle-" Well, as you say,
there's lots of rot in the papers about the
Mae that ain't nothiag but rot. When you
get down to bobtom Lints you seen find out
that there are no more flies on us then on
other folks. The cheek of some of those
newepaper writers would knock a bre.es men
ugly. They're reepansible for more aside
stories about us et eatern ladies than you
can shake a stick at. Octe of them had the
gall to—"
Mies Bostonbred-" Will you please ex
mese me, Miss Navadabelle ; I feel feint and
think I will have to get some one to bring
me an ice"
Miss Nevadabelle-" Oh, all right;
tri," whereupon Mies Bea ze,intaess increas
05.
Unique Recommendation,
The famous Lord Eldon hed (tension te
discharge a coeohman wheal he sweated of
purloining his corn. In a few days after
wards he received a letter front a merchant
inquiring into the man's ammeter, and his
lordship replied that he was sober and a
good eoachman, but he entertained eutipicioos
•that he had cheated him. The men cams
the next morning to return thanks to his
lordshipfor procuring him so excellent a
,
place. My new master," said he, "was
contented to find I was sober and 13, good
coaclunan, but, as to cheating your lordship,
he thought the fiend himself could not do
Should Have Told the Bull.
A person of quality was oue day walking
through a field when a bull addremed him
in an undertone and made for hien with its
head down and horns in a position to whim
him. He was a great official, a man of dim
Mem and found the owner of the bull calmly
contemplating the operation. What do you
mean, air '2" asked the irate efficiel. "What
do you mean by having an infuriated animal
like that roasting over the fieldii ?" "Well,
I suppose that she bull hes %some rights in
the dell—" "Right ! right! Da you know
who I am, sir? Do you know who I am ?"
The farmer shook his head. "1, air, -I am
General—" "Why on earth didn't you tell
the bull ?"
The Name Still Sticks
After gazing out upon the river from the
terryadock for a while, he sidled up to an old
lake -captain whowasleaning against the rail,
and aimed. "Row far is it down to Lake
Erie?" "Eighteen miles." " Why did they
cad! it take Eder "It was named after a
man called Erie, who never came down to
this deck without ;Wang 11/1 if We'd have a
glass of beer with hien, Ah, he was a •flue
man! He't dead now." " And, if a man
named Jones mane along and naked all of
von to drink, you'd °lunge the name to "Ake
Jones, I suppose t" "We would, itir." "Very
well. captain. My Berne is Blank; but 111
see Jones in a few days and 'speak to him
aboub it. Meantime try to gee along on
water. How long it this river ?" But the
captain would not answer.
This Case is Under Advisement,
A. stoop elm:lc:end specimen of the gentle
home from Nebraska, who in his neighbor.
hood 0508 85 a matrimonial agent' eanuterod
into one of the justice shops and handed the
intim the following note, given here verbm
um, with the exception of the omission of
names : "The bearer has an account against
one—, for services rendered for the said
--in seouriog for him a wife. The bearer
rustled him up a girl of fine fermi figure,
too'ruddy in lip and cheek, buxom ia body
endfaultleas in ankle, etc. The aforesaid
----now refusal+ to take the girl and pay the
bearer for his labor. Mr. ---e, the bearer,
la an expert in that line, and thinke his
eervicez are worth $15, and desires to bring
suit f or tleet amount." The justice has tak-
en the case under advisement.
Two hundred pigeons presented to Capt.
Wiontaan by the Strasburg ()Uri& Pigeon
Soolety wore a parb of the outfit he took
With him to Africa,
fore tattelitef eleieliend,;trerambet1 • Mu:Jule:iv.
a.ted,*ficl itgeneral fingers (Maned; - eLuckily
le wesoientewgrieedi '4vhetbiir. the thousand
pastel' Ilona datd feeMethebirth ise death at
Christi oritilettlePleitkineeWefeid have becn
muoilegf,eatiefe: Many einkrterer begin With
khesetiverds .1.("Ao thelrorldia,now drnw
ing to Another hypothesis le
this:. Wieder With eflod, equals 1,000
years, (Psalm no., 43:tiandeGode labored:: in
oreetioneeiie days, therefore the world ic4to
labor;ii. Wipers' gind then- to ..reate Accord-
ing tO this theitrinthemndoUthe Veered ought
to ocottitAe4 6000, or 1996 ..(suppos-
big tlie World to • have heed' ciliated 4004
years' befdre e...thse birth 'of Christ.) Tide
hypothesise which, is widely aocieptede is
quite safe for another century at least.
He Got the Tiokets.
The small boy was fend of music and there
was an opera in town. lb was Sunday night,
but he stole out, having been refused permis.
sloe by his mother, and got away down hi
front by the fiddles. He sae there liateoing
delighted/ea when he turned around and
suddenly discovered his father all aloae in
the next unoocupied seat. He made no ex-
cuse. He locked up and nodded pleasantly.
"How do you do, sir ?"
"What 1 J oseph ?"
"Yee, sir."
"Does your mother know you are here ?"
"No, air. She wouldn't let me come."
"And aren't you -well -ahem-"
A aense of juatice struok the old man, and
the email boy knew he was quite safe. So
they erdoved the opera together, and then
they atarted home. There was an awkward
anemic between them. The small boy wait-
ed for his father to epeak.
"Ahem! Joseph -we will not -it would
be better -that is -you ueedn't allude to
this matter before your mother,"
"No, sir."
There was another long pause. Again the
old man spoke. hesitatingly :
"Ahem! Joseph, how -how -did you
get out of the house this evening?'
"By the back door, sir,"
"Well -ahem 1-Joeeph, we'll go in by the
back way quietly, and not dieturb the house-
hold."
And they went in the back way.
Next morningeet breakfast the two met
withnut any sign. The mother spoke up:
Smith, I am sure I do not know
whatever is to come of that boy Joseph.'
"What is the matter, my dear ?"
"De you know thet he actually came and
asked me to let him go to the opera last night
-Sunday 1"
You refused, of course ?"
'Certainly; what a question."
Then the father turned sternly to the boy.
"Joseph, I am surprised, Are there not
enough week days for you to go to the opera,
that you must go on Sundays 1"
"Yea, sir. And I WaS going to aek you bo
give me some money to go to -night."
The old man looked at the small boy, who
was ingenuously looking up in his face, and
said nothing; but when they left the table
he took him by tlie ear and said:
"You young rascal, I suppose you are go-
ing to bleed me for tickets every aught ?"
"Yes, sir," said the boy, candidly.
And he got them. --(San Francisco Chron-
icle.
His Collar.
Like many other musical geniuses, Chopin
the compoeer, gave evidence of his marvel.
ions ability while yet a child. It is said
that his progress in piano pluming was so
extraordinary that when he was but twelve
years old, his parents and teacher thought
it beat to leave him entirely to his own In-
stincts, and follow, instead of directing him.
The warm approval which necessarily at.
bonded his musical course did not in the
least injure his boyish simplicity and cendor.
Before his ninth year he was invited to take
part in a concert given for the poor, and
for this extraordinary occasion he was ar-
rayed in very fine feathers, greatly to his
own dissatisfactior. When he came home
after the concert his mother asked him:
"Well, my lad, whet did the public like
best?"
"0 mamma," said the unveiled darling,
"everybody was looking at my collar 1"
A Sheep Story,
Much amusement was caused lately in
Baron Huddleston's court by the evidence of
a bucolic witness, His council wag desirous
of ascertaining what animals were grazing
at a certain time in a field. By dint of
much patience and perseverance he gained
the information that there were eleven CMArs
and one horse in the field, when the withese,
an old farmer, was asked whether that was
all. "Yes," he replied empathically. "There
were no other animals of any kind in the
field 7' "No," returned the witnese. The
learned counsel seemed nonplussed for the
moment; then after a glance at his brief,
ho returned to tbe charge. "Were there no
Sheep in the field ?" "Yes -thirty-seven,"
calmly replied the farmer. "Don't, you call
sheep animals 2" exclaimed the judge, who
had been testily watching this asettult upon
the natio intellect. The farmer replied
timidly to the effeeb that he did not know
whether sheep should be described at animals
or not. 'Perhaps you vvould call thorn
vageteblea," remarked Baran Ifuddleabon,
mining us the merriment of the Court,
Epicurean Cannibals.
Bit a little while before my arrival a
nueceesful "bag" of cep:lives had been made,
a feast had taken place, and, as a relic of
the abundance, there was a smoke -dried
human ham hanging froot the rafters in the
chief's hut where I eat and parleyed, which
swayed to and fro over the smoking brands
on the clay hearth. Lower down the Cross
River, in the district of &you (part of the
Ibo country))about the most cold-blooded
.
cannibalism reported to odd which /
have ever heard of. Youths are purchased
at the interior Stave markets and aro dealt
with as We deel with the young eheop and
oxen which we turn into waiters and
bullocks -are deliberately unsexed to that
they may fattete quiokey, and are thee fed
upon yams ata nourialang food till they are
may for the feask-tAftlean thrplorer in
Portnightly/teacw.
Daffodils,
song of them bright Owens, you know,
When 1 wee young, long years ago,
And how you praised the song!
Then weitly stroked my hair a -down,
And WhiePered of the poet's crown
Thee should be mine ere long.
I sang to pleaee you, as the &wen'
Were pulled to eruct your birthday hours,
That came with coming Spring;
WW1 so happy, for your love
Filled earth below and heaven above --
1 could not choose but eing.
I was 40 happy; and to -day,
Though God bath putrid far away
Your unknown life from mine,
A Senile of pilaw my boom fills;
And lo 1 I bring fair daffodils,
Beloved, for a sign.
A sign of love that tires not yet,
Thiel; would not, if ib could, forgeb ;
Of love by love made brave:
For I can bear your flowers to brimg,
.And bear to hear the thrushes sing,
Here, by your quiet grave,
And I can bear to turn away,
To leave you aleepiag day by day,
What time my task goes on
The teak I shared with you so long,
The work for whit% love makes me strong,
Though all its joys be gone
Oh I vanished far frorn sight and touch,
My heart leaned on your heart too much,
As by your side I crept,
My head was sheltered by your breast',
'You toiled and thought while I took rest,
You wakened while I slept.
The way Was long, the world was bard,
All fortune's gates were golden -barred,
Alas 1We had no key;
Goa closed in love those tired eyes,
Death ge,ve /He'd work its crown and prize,
And parted you and me 1
Avvhile-ah, work mate, not for long 1-
I sing my simple, saddened song,
And /earn my lesson plain.
7, yearly, bring our daffodils'
Till far beyond the eternal hill.
We meet -nor part again 1
-Ail the Year Round.
Love is Best.
All in a garden fair I sate, and spied
The tulips dancing, dancing side by side,
With scarlet turbans dressed;
All in a garden green at night I heard
The &edema voice of night's melodious
Bird
Singing that "Love is best 1"
The ehy white jasmine drew aside her veil,
Breathing faint fragrance on the loitering
gale,
And nodded, nodded "Yes!
Sweetest ole!! sweet things is love 1 and
wise 1
Dance, tulip! Pipe, fond bird, thy raelodiee
Weke, rem of loveliness!"
"Yet," sighed the swaying cypresa, "who
can tell
If love be Whe as sweet? 1111 be well
For love to dance and sing?
so -growing here always -year by year
The bullods die, and on their greasy bier
Jose petalsacettering 1"
All in that gardeo green the rose replied:
"Ali I cypress, look! I put my leaves
aside;
Mark what is mid this bath
Three blue ego in a clomly woven neat,
Sheltered, for mimic's sake, by branch and
breast?
There will be bulbuls I hush 1"
All in that garden green the bulbul trilled:
"Oh, erolieh cypress? thinking love was
kibied
Because he seemed to cease;
My beat belcred hath secrets at her heart,
Gold seeds of Summer time, new buds to
start;
There will be roses peace 1"
Then lightlier danced the tulips than before
To waftings of the perfumed breeze, and
more
Chanted the nightingale;
The fireflies in the palms fresh lanterns lit ;
Her mile of grace the blushing rose unknie
And blossomed, pure and pale!
-Sir Edwin Arnold.
A young danghter of Milton Blake, of
Keene, N. H., became seriously and myster-
iously ill. Finally it WW1 suggested that
the illness might be due to the new green
flannel dress the had been weating. A
piece of the goods was analysed by a
ohemist, and found to be heavily loaded
with amok. The girl had been poisoned.
Population is so scettered in New South
Wales that the failure of 50 per oentof the
voters to go to the polls at a recent exoiting
election, where the issue was between pro..
tectiou and free trade, is accounted for by
the dietanoes many would have had to Ma.
vel to cast their votes. In one case, where
there was an omission to open polls ab a
given locality, the electors had to travel 200
tulles or lose their votes.
The desirability of civic authorities paying
due attention to sanitary matters is etnpha.
timely illustrated by the lowering of the
death -rate in England and Wales between
1881 and 1887 from 205 per thousand to
18.8, This has been entirely effected by the
progress of sanitary science, and by Clain -
armed attention by public authorities to
matters affecting the publio health. 'If the
figures of our recent menthe are taken as a
basis the death rate of Toronto bears a
favourable comparison even with the thaprov.
ed condition of England and Wales; for
though that death -rate Amara in the re-
eently-issued vital statistics as 21,13 per
thotteend of the populetton, i aotuelly stande
at only a little limber than 16 per thousand.
Thee encouraging facie however, need not
lead our aldermen to adopt a
PuliThe'Y'
ereperts from the mines of thee rich
mineral region of the Derninion, the Pro-
vince of Britith Columbia, aro satisfactory
and enoouraging. As to gold, the teethe of
the ore experted by the banks at Victoria
duriog 1888 was $513,943, and the prospects
from these minea are declared to be good.
Regarelinircoal a rernerkeble heroes° ie re-
corded* the ontput having increased from
81,000 toils 1874 to 489.000 tons last yeen
the home consumption being 115,953 tons,
and the rest being exported, Dealing with
the official statement to a whole the Nana.
inect "Courier says e, "Taken altogether the
repore is a mot eatisfo.otory one, of couree
always excepting the terrible lost of life in
the Wellington explosion. Btitt from the
official report of the impeder just published,
it would seem that every precaution is taken
in all the mitten to render the lives ancl limbs
of the Mon safe from atioldents. While the
eatietit of tool during tho past year has
beee moat eatiefaetory, 11 18 to be elacetely
hoped that the prosperity of the collieries
will he greatly inereated during the preeetit
year,"
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
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The Czar's second ton, George, attended
by a large naval equa,dron, will visit the Paris
Exposition.
Gee. Drigg, a colored ertneine,1 was taken
from jell and lynched yesterday at Hemp-
15te$hdeB' Texas.
Th Bladgeb introduced In the
Commons yesterday shows a surplus of £2,-
586,000, the largeat stage 1873
Louis Helmuth, the Etung'arian patriob,
now at Turin, has suffered another relapee,
and his life ia cleopaired of.
At Ceetle Garden, yesterday over 200
emigrants', out of 4 MO landed, were detain.
ed as liable to become a pubbe charge.
A Sb Catharinee man named Albert
Smith was sericately injured by failing into
the hold of a barge en Port Dalhousie,
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has
decided that the wholesale licerute clause of
the provincial liquor law le ultra vires of the
Local Leg isleture.
The London "Chronicle" eays it will be
proven that Boulanger begen col:wing
money for his propaganda while in America
attending the Centennial fetes.
A forest fire bee been raging near Den
elite, Va., since Friday, burning an area ten
milers long end from three to Bite wide. Over
a hundred families are homelese.
THE VOICES OF TRH SEA.
Whiten to Their 'Words or Cheer and
Palthroll Warning.
Ons time a webbing grieving child went
down to the shore of the tom and etood upon,
the, white eands and listened to the mummer
of the wavelets as they lapped at the beacim
And their murmur eoothied hie wounded
. .
heart and thud lue tears. And the wavelets
whispered to him as he mil down on the
eof t geode :
"Sorrow and grief must come to every
life. Sleep, oh 1 child, and in your sleep
yen will forget your heart-eche/a" ,
And the child slept, and the sorb lappiumg
of the wavelets soothed and rested him, and
when he awoke he laughed again in childish
glee and re,nembered nee that he had ever
wept.
One time a youth, whose spirit had hoes
htirn and in whose breast; there rankled fre
tierce and dangerous thirst, stood upon the
shore and looked far o'er the blue waters as
he meditated revenge. Each wave as in
rolled in at his feet bore a oreet of foam,
and the foam was so white and pure, and
the waters were so limpid and sparklinge,
that little by little the hate went out of hie
soul. And by and by the aurf-beats be.
mace words and a voice gently said:
'Life is fell at disappointments and vexa-
tions, oh 1 yonth, but let not hate nor
revenge creep into your heart. It is divine.
to forgive -it is teemed to forget."
And the youth lietened and his heath grew
softer, and by and by he went away whisper-
ing to himself that the world was full of sun -
David Lindsley shot his eon D mid fatally shine and gamines%
One time a man in the zenith of life, who
in a quarrel near Bridgewater, Math., ob
Seturday. The old men ie 61 hnd the son had been so troubled that he cursed God
was 28. and declared that all men were against beam
welked by the thore and meditated his OF4732
death. This time the breeze was strong and
the waters were troubled. The waves rushed
in with swift pace and flung the foam -parch
At the feet; of the man who waited. From one
et the troubled waters came a gentle voltam,
which said to him:
"Make e our heart brave and try again.
Ho who moceeds in life mustnot grow weary'
emu become faint of heart, The sea may be'
troubled to day and its waters lashed to,
foam ; to morrow its plaoid surface shire -
nem in the sunshizat."
ed little by little the fire was drowned
eu of the made a heart, and his spirit grew
ceituer, and hope came back to his soul, and
Ise went back to the world with new courage
an a greater determinatien.
And one time an old, old man, whose hair
was enowy white, and whose limbs were
weak and tremblieg, stood upon the shore
end stretched out his ennead celled:
"I am weary with life, oh, sea 1 I am old
and broken and sad, but death does not,
And the tide WM going oat, and there
were evrirle and eddies and soft live:Anse
And a soft voice replied :
"Rest has come at last. Your soul shalt
go out iu the sunshine and the tide -through
the limpid watera-through the shimmer
rid the foam -through the daylight and
darkness to the golden shores of heaven."
And those who found him dead upon the
eateis whispered to each other :
"Ahl rho voices of the aea have bees
calling him from earth!"
There is still no news regarding the pas-
sengers of the waterlogged stearaship Den-
mark.
The employes of the Allegheny Bessemer
Steel Company's works have eeruok. Five
hundred men are idle.
Mayor Grant, of New Yorz, has set his
axe brigade to work on the Telegraph eed
telephone poles. Gloom preveile ou F Mth
avenue and in other lacelities
The powder mills /*Masted beta/tam Vel-ey
Fells and Sebaghticoke, N. Y blew up to
ouher oay, severely injariug t wo men.
Neer Canton, Ohio, Edwere L • z, a firm-
er, while boiling sap was melee wiLh a 6
and fell into the kettle, being madly 24a/c1
ed.
Over thirty busineee places arm residents
es were deetrayed by fire at Muir, Mmei ,
yesterday. Loss, len 000 ; bieurenoe, el0
000.
Another north-east gale clamed a good
deal of damage on the Atlautic coast on
Monday night by flooding oa land and dis-
asters to shipping.
The Paris police have smirched the residem
one of Gen. Boulanger, Court Dillon and
Rochefort, and have ;seized a large Dumber
of papers.
Mrs. Caroline Bruolteer, of Chicago, took
some "Rough on RAM" and gime aome to
her daughter. The woman is dead and the
child will die. A quarrel with the husband
and father is eupposed te have led to the
deed.
Par. and Mrs. Chauncey Taylor were
struck by the fast express on the Erie road
on Monday, while crossing the track in a
buggy, at 'Ravenna. Mrs. Taylor was killed
and her husband fatally wounded. They
leave four young children.
Feminine History Repeats Itself.
The tactics of the lady land -leaguer who
took refuge ia bed trusting to the modesty
of the policeman to leave her there and
thus save her from eviction, are by no means
new. In the juet publiehed memoirs of the
Princess de Ligne, early in the eighteenth
century the largest convent in Paris had for
its ruler the most beautitul young woman of
her time, daughter of the Regent Philippe
d'Orleans, and grand daughter of Leuie
XIV., the lovely Madame de blettespen.
To be a nun she had no vocation, as her
curious oonduct proved ; and the community
over whom she was, nevertbeleas, set to rule,
at the age of 18, petitioned the king at last
succesefully for her removal. But madame
would not go. The king's carriages went
away empty, but only to returo, this time
accompanied by several (Wenn of the royal
household, who lead ordere to bring her by
force if further persuasion would not stffiee,
Madame, when she heard this, completely
undressed hereelf and got into bed, askiag
defiantly who would be so bold as to lay
hands on a daughter of the royal blood of
Francs? The principal offieer, much em-
barrassed, returned to the regent, who or-
dained that his daughter, if she still resist,
ed, should be -wrapped up in her mattresses
and borne boldly away. Thus presumes the
sex in all ages upon the modesty of men
A Worldly Pleasure.
Brown (emerging from the library just
after his wife had shown out a lady caller)
-" I heard your conversation in the parlor,
Eliza. It surprised and delighted me."
Dirs. Brown -"Why so
"I didn't know before that two women
could talk together for an hour without
turning over their neighbors.„
"It's Lent, you know, Alfred."
"Lent V"
"Why, yes; and turning over the neigh-
bors, as you call it, is the worldly pleasure
we've given up tillLent is over."
Methodist Rego.
"N. Y. Hereld:" While other denomina.
tions are arguing, the Methodist pathetic-
ally pictures the clrownine conditiou of the
sinner, and then breaks into the stirring air,
"Pull for the shore." The ;Maid Presby.
berian keeps up the drooping spirits of 'iia
converta by persuasion, but the Methodiet
stiffens the baokbone of penitence by ohm-
ing "Hold the Port" until the tired soldier
picks up hie gun and goes into the thick of
the fight. Da, re, mi, fee eel are the
milestones in the Methodist's journey to
heaven.
Notwithstanding tho "boom" io progress
in the Argentines Republio the financial eon-
dition of the country appears to be desperate.
Gold is at a premium of fifty-nine with an
upward tendency, while the bank 110te8 10
circulation, 'Which are guaranteed by the
Government, have depreciated thirty per
As the Customs dutiee are pe,yelale in
thia currency, while many of the Treesury's
The Austrien bent -wood furniture is
manufactured of ordinary red beaehi which
is very plentiful in Hungary. The timber
is sawed tato strips item an ineh and a half
to two inchee equere, and thee° ate turned
into rotted rode. They are plaoed bn to air-
tight eitee and expend for fifteen Mintetee
to the action of superheated steam yvhieh
tattoo them to pliable that they eansbe bent
by hand to the iron patteene, where they are
seeured an lofts to dry for several days!,
After Which they are ready to be used in the
matufaeture of the furniture,
A FRENCH ORME
The Horrible Murder of a woman to rarls..
Another wretohed female has been done to
death in the French capital. Tete lateat
Marguerite 'Dubois, did not hold the
eatne position in the demi monde as those
who fell by the knives of Pranzini and Prado.
She exercised her wretched metier in a
humbler quarter, occupying a small apparte
men, consisting merely of an antechamber,
a bedroom, and a kitchen, in a squalid house
in the Rue Payenne'rented at £14 a year.
She was e. short, dark even -len, thin and
eallow. Miserable as was her life, she had
contrived to put a little money by, and,
like many females of her class, she was in
the habit of boasting of her possessions.
During the day she sat at her window sew-
ing a,na watching the ;masers by, and wham
night fill she donned
HER BEST ATTIRE
and patrolled the footpeths between her
greet and the Place de la Bestile. She was
a mita woman enough, so far as her neigh -
blurs were concerned, and as she paid her
rent regularly she was not molested by her
lendlord. Marewite Dubois was even an
tolerably intimate terms with a married
couple who live on the Same fieor, a vrork-
men and his wife named Bras. She used
te look in and take coffee with them nearly
every day ere she started for her nootternal
promeradee On Sunday morning .Bras went
out for an hour to make some purchases.
He noticed that Dubosi's door was open,
and finding that it was in the same state
when he returned he at once jumped to the
conclusion the,t some thing was wrens. The
hurried downstairs to the porter, and on en-
tering the apartment the two men found
Marguerite Dabnis laying on the floor in a
pool of blood
WITH A BEEF STAB
between the shoulderbladee. The woman
vitas quite dead. She was in her ordinary
dress. The police were at once cominnet-
cated with, and an examination of the ap-
artment showed that every drawer hied beam
rensacked. The knife with which the
deed was done was a common kitichen one,
belonging to Marguerite Dubois, Pare of se
broken earring was found on the sofapat the
side of which she was lying, and it re pree
slimed that the rolled off it, either in the
struggle or after she was stabbed. There
are tracers of two slighter wounds near the
sboulder blades, which were probably in
fileted ere the blow which proved fatal wan
struck. The assaesin has been discovered
and has confessed his guilt. He is a work-
man named Satter, about 30, puny and a
delicate appeerance, like his Saner
is a married man, but fer zone time he bas
lived
arana FROM RIO WIRE,
vehotn he ill-treated. Ib was ascertained
that he was a frequent abettor at the abode
of Merguerite Dubois! a face which wee
confirmed by a number of letters in hie
handwriting found among her papers. Ate
first, whert he was arrested, he denied
lenowleclge of the orime. Asked, however,
to expiate hie reovernents on the eventing of
the critne, he was unable to give a %tie-
faetory answer, and on Tueeday aftinneon
he made a Olean breant of it to M. Goron,the
head of the Criminal Department, he the
pretence of his lawful apotiso Saute aver.
red that he had nut releted Duboie on hie
Wifeti account, ea he had dicgtovered thab
she assisted his better half in her interview&
with lovers. Vengealiee WAN aonording
his story, the motive of the crime; bat as het
had taken Way what ready money Mar.
Filbrite ntlboig hail about her implleie faith
18 not reposed itt bit vet -tion Of the affair,
13reoelettai et arnehlete worn above the
elbow ate La vogue. Setnetirees they ern
made of ribbon fastened 'with a jeWolled