The Exeter Times, 1889-7-18, Page 811/iDE FRIENDS B'Z' TaE ELooD,
One et the tine raordina, Incidents et en
illeitestown Pleaster
The folio whin was related to the` writer a
few days mire by e survivor of the recent
joinestowu diSa9M •
Oat one ot the 111 tated streets in the petit
of the fl eed lived two neighboreetvhom I will
deoignate J hu Byers awl Henry Patter-
son. Far yeere a deedly hetred bad existed
between them, The latter WAS a shoemaker
and worked at his teinoh the year round,
Byere waa hrakerneu n the railroad, but
on the lalaeak Friday whicti wiped Johnstown
ont of existence he wee not ito hie work.
While welleiag about the towa he heard
people dieouietag the probable effmt of the
heavy raiat on South Fork Lke v e
standing mange be the town. He paid o
Attention to it, however. Tbe day pieced.
ing his femily—a wife and two chitdren—
had paid e visit to a neighboring village,
In the oourse of tinae Byers beceme intoxi.
oated and hie thoughts turned to Patterson,
against whom, as he expressed it, "he bad
a grudge." He cletermitied to pity the debt
and, swiallowiug one big glees of whisky,
directed his unsteady steps toward his neigh
bor's house. " I'll kill him," he solilcquized,
"if he dou't apologies. Yes, I will," he said,
later on in reply to an expression of doubt
from a fele ud. "Henry Patterson won't live
to crow over me."
Meanwnile, the great dam had burst, and,
like an avenging Nemesis, the waters pour,
ed down the valley, obliterating everything
in its ph ; the heroic female operator sent
a message of warning from South Fork, felt
the tide °trey away the station ot which she
was the sole occupant and went down in the
flood; and a nameless rider sped before the
huge wave and warned every oee in its track
to fly to the Hits.
Some cf the citizens of Johnstown heeded
the warieng and escaped, among them John
Byers. As he hurriedly made his way to a
place of s .fety he thanked kind fortune that
his fernier were nob at home. He also
thought ef his enemy, Petterson, who, slight-
ly deaf :Led working industriously in the
back p nit of his dwelling, could not hear the
caramel it to Aa Byers said: "I thought
of him and his sure fate with gleeful minis
factiou. I uttered curses at him, all the
while, too, blessing my stars at the justice
(?) which left me and took him. Then
thought '1 his family—what had I against
thein? Absolutely nothing. Stanger, 1
left my refuge, hurried ta his home and be-
sought him, if he valued his life to escape.
" ' John Byers, your coming here means no
good. Leave the house."
"'In the tame of God, for the sake of
your wif and children, fly l'
" Already the roar of the waters could be
heard, and in a few minutes it would be too
late. 11en, women and children were run-
ning everywhere, terrified. Petterson's wife,
alarmed, gathered her three children, and
came downstairs to inquire of her husband
he cause cf the noise and confusion.
" 'Henry—I will call you that—if you
don't believe me, look here.'
• " 'Wit b do you mean by barring that
door, J elin Byers? .Again I 1 ell you to go,'
" will not tee unlesa you go with me.
We will die together. What's that ? I ex-
claimed as a sauna of the breaking and crash-
ing of timbers ar,d the ehrieks of human
beings reached our ears.
"'M try, hurry ! out of the back door!'
cried Petterson, rising from his bench and
following.
"We tried to escape'but the flood lifted
the house from its feet, as it were and we
were cerried down the river, already filled
with a mingled mass of homes, wrecks and
henna ming% We crept out on the roof,
every minute expecting to be thrown into
the waters by the house dashing against the
mass ef debrie. We floated down to Nine-
veh, were thrown by the receding current
on to the shore and reseed."
That la why Henry Patterson cm be seen
on the etreeta of Pittsburg with his friend,
John Byers, aud that is how tlae breach was
healed.
Butler on Annexation.
The New York "San,' thus comments
on the recent speech of Ben Butler, on the
subject of annexation:—It is, indeed, but
seldom that the college commencement
season, which is usually conspicuous for
nothing but random talk, calls forth so
'weighty and remarkable a speech as that de.
liveredeby Gen. B. F. Butler, before the Cat-
hy University at Waterville, Maine. The
healiag of the Anglc-Sexon echism was his
aturpoee, and he would have the aim ao
nomplisaed by first, the political fusion of
the United S tates and Can eda, and secondly,
by an intimate alliance of theEoglish-speak-
ing race upon this continent with the lite
ited Kingdom so soon as this shall have
adopted a republican form of government,
There is no theme more likely to arouse the
the deepeet enthusiasm of the Anglo Saxon
world, and never yet has it been treated
with such amplitude of knowledge and with
such virile elegem:ice.
The speaker began by scoring the levity
wibh with the annexation of Canada is spole.
en of by some Americans. The levity, he
showed, is born of ignorance. They who
know what the resources and the climate.
logical conditions cf the Daminion really
are,
will acknowledge frankly that union
with British North America would be of
the utmost benefit to this country, It
would be a greab advantage now, and an In-
calculable advantage in the future. North,
ward, nos southward, must our fashgrowing
population move in quest of their prospec.
tive homes, if our citizens are to retain the
robust and energebic qualities thab
distin-
gaih them from the inbabitants of warmer
regions. Gen. Butler finds a proof of this
in the slow progress of New Mexico and
Arizona compared with the rapid develop.
ment of Dekote. and Montana,
All Atneeicans would see the pertinence
and force of thie argument, were they alive
to the fent that, considered merely as a
wheat-produoing country, Canada is an im.
Inensely magnified Dakota. Gan. Bader
points cut that the Derninion has twice as
many acres of unworn out wheat lands as
the Vatted Sia.tea. Her arable Nude, mtre-
over, are ao fertile that on the average they
produce twice asmany bushels of wheab to
the aore as are obtainable on this side of
the border. Such dereale as wheat arid
barley represent, neverthelem, but a frac.
tion of Canada's natural resource:I, The
Dominion, as the General reminds us, has
more timber than her own inhebitante and
those of the United S tato could consume
In a hundred leers. With regard to her
mineral poseibilities, it; may be 3onfrdent1y
aseerted that she he.s more iron and more
copper them any other country known in the
World.
Gen, Butler more then once recurred to
the oliniatio edvantageri of Candea. The
oil/tate of the Dominion is mull milder
thou would be inferred from art exclusive
consideration cif its latitude. Thiel phenoni.
Orion hi due, first to the feet that Canada
and her surrounding lakes contain fully
mie•half of all the fresh water of the globe,
and, rrecondly, to the oircunnitanoe that the
average elevation of its surface above the
level of the sea is niuth lege than that: of the
Northern States of this of this onintry.
Still, of mole°, the cliteete 9f Oanede, may
in general be elcseribed aa old. Bat,
acoording to Ger. 13ut1er, it is just cold
enough to breed a rem) of etrong and brainy
men. The olinuttologioal oonditione are
exactly graduated to the law of nature that
--we quote the General's words—" no men
are fit for anything but those who meet work
in order to eat and keep warm." Work you
in questionably must in any part of the
Thuninian, but nowhere are you. more certain
to reap a generous return from your labor.
The aanexaticn of Canada is a pramioel
queetion, If it were not one before, Gen.
Leafier hen foroed it into the forefront of
prude:al politica We must still, on the
other hand, regard as only a majestic and
inspiring dream the idea of a union, or
even a permanent alliance, between the
United Kingdom and the United States. It
is, we fear, improbable tha,b any man now
living vvill see that vision realized. But
a long step would be taken toward the ut
timate fu,lfilinent of euoh a benignant coal.
hien by the political fusion cf the Anglo-
Saxon race upon this continent.
FORIEGN NEWS.
At a garden party Queeu Margherita wore
her famous pearl necklace over a lace scarf.
An immense order for coreets hal been re-
ceived in Paris from Brazil. The explanation
is that the emancipated slave women have
Wien to wearing them.
About 30,000 people a day go up the Eiffel
town., Of them between 3,000 and 4,000 go
to the top. On an average a person has to
wait about an hour to go up in the lift.
The paid entrances to the Paris Exhibi•
tion during the .nonth of May were 1,208,000,
as compared with 1,269.000 in May of 1878
In the first half of June they have been
2 002,000, as compared with 1,101,000
Toirty million tickets have been issued, so
there are still nearly 26.000,000 to be utilized,
if possible, in four months. The price has
for the last fortnight been 50 oenfmes or 10
cents.
The alarm which was sounded at Vienna
a few weeks ago has succumbed to a emotion,
and the alarmist news papers declare that
the time has not yet come for Russia to raise
the Eestern question. The opinion is that
the tension which has existed in Eurore for
some years past has of late been grossly ex-
aggerated. The key to the situation is
whether Russia is prepared to bring the
E astern queation to an issue. In the opinion
of competent judges she is nob.
As an example of the spirit which animates
the German army, and which doubtleas its
force, Prince Kraft Hohenlohe tells a fine
story. At the battle ot Chateaudun a bat-
tery found itself without ammunition under
a heavy fire. What was done? The offieer
commanding ordered the gunners to take
their placee on the limbers and sing the
"Watch am Rhein," "in order," as Prince
Kraft says, "that they might pass the time
agreeably while wating forfresh cartridges."
A swindler in Vienna, who had borrowed
large sums of money and had collected a
great deal of jewelry which was unpaid for,
knew he could not get away from the city by
train, so he advertised a balloon ascension
and a parachute performance. He got the
balloon made on credit, also and, in coin
patty with his wife, not only went up, but
went off. His cepture was as curious as his
escape. Tnet evening a pigeon came to
Vienna bearing a despatch from a oorres-
pendent to the Carrier Pieeon Club announc-
ing the descent of the balloon, and the men
was soon caught.
"The King of the Sedangs "is being made
much of and making much of himself in Par-
is. His title is "Marie Rol des Sedangs. "
The Sedangs are an Indo,Chinese folk who
inhabit a kind of debatable land on the An-
uam-Siameee frcntier, notable for nothing so
much as its swamps. A speculative French-
man, M. de Merena, affirms that the tribes.
men elected hinotheir King, though it does
not appear that they had any knowledge of
such an cffice. As Roi des Sedangs " he
appeared in Hanoi and Hong -Kong, with the
object of trying to float a loan for the de.
veiopment of his territories. Colonial capital.
fats knew too much of Sedang, and so King
Marie is atten-pting to work his Sedang
bonds in Paris.
A touching story comes from the Congo
showing the straits to which brave men, cut
off from the comforts of civilization, are
sometimes reduced. Tho commissary stores
were getting rather low at Leopoldville, and
the cruel edict wern forth that the ration of
Portuguese wine would thereafter be only a
half bottle a day. Each white man was told
to send his bottle to the storekeeper every
other day to have it replenished. It was a
trying situetion, and a secret meeting of the
white employees was held to devise meta
sures to meet the emergency. It was found
that by apelying intense heat to the bottles"
it W13 possible to blow out the bulge the
partly filled the interior. In this manner
the capacity of each bottle was increased
nearly one-half. The ingenious expedient
worked admirably, and the 'secret was not
revealed until some time after fall rations
had been resumed.
Alexander Graham Bell, the millionaire
inventor of the telephone, is going to enjoy
his sutnmer in a novel fashion. A Baltimore
boat.bailder has built for him the most
einguler looking craft that has ever been put
afloat, patterned somewhat after Mn. Noah's
historic craft. Mr. Ball calls ib a house.
boat. Ib is an immense catamaran, housed
over with a charming cottage that contains
Jouble peahen dining room billiard room
and spacious sleeping apartments, besides
kitchen, beihrooms and servants' ginerters.
The house is elaborately furnished and fitted
up with every oomfort and convenience that
can b found in a modern residence. It il
propelled by two powerful sorewe'and in
smooth water ib is eetimated that the boat
will attain a speed of 15 miles an hour, It
is now being put together in Nova Scotia,
and will be ready for occupancy by the time
Mr. Bell reaohes there with his .1 amily and
guests.
japan has produced a champion to con.
tend for the prizes of literature in European
fields. She has a novelist who de3ires the
world to read his works. A romance by
Bakin, entitled, as it Is interpreted, "The
goon Shining, through a Cloud Rent on a
Rainy Nights has been translated into
English and German. The style is said to
be very seggeetive of Rider Haggard. The
hero, Amada 13 ahei, in the year 1335 kills a
five colored roe, a sort of an on-tici-Nti,
which unfortunately was to a certaia extent
enohanted. This act brought sorrow to
Buhei s family for generations. The roe's
epirit assumed the form of a lovely singer
at a Japanese cafe ehantant, and finally
ruined Amadei, jr. The moral is enjoined
that sporternen should be careful about kill.
ing enchanted game. .A secondary feature
of the book hi a divorce case that Would, a
oritbo thinksif put en the stage, ran 500
nights, takin also ocloadolially drops into
poetry with both grace and effect. Twenty.
eix original jig:arose illustratiote acorn -
patty the novel,
RRRAP CR. ON TAR WAT,E.G,( THE JuaaLEBs OE INDIA,
1
About inrowned Bodies 1)18 -
covered by woad.
Among beliefs current among sailort in
our owecottotry is the notion thet it is
unluoley to turn a loaf upside down after
helphig oneself from It, the idea being
that for every loaf SO turned a ship will be
wreeked, says "Notes, and Q aeries," It
is also eaid that if a loaf pants iu the hand
while being out it bodes dimension in the
fatnily--the separation of hueband and wife.
Apia, it has long beeu a wide -.spread belief
that the whereaoouts of a drowned body
may be ascertained by floating a loaf of
breed down stream, when it will stop over
tht apot where the body is.
A ourlous account ot the body thus reoov-
ered near Hull appeared some yeare back in
"The Gentleroan's Magazine" : "After dill-
geat oearcile in the river had been made for
the child, to no purpose, a two penny loaf,
with a quantity of quicksilver put in it
was set floating from the place where the
child was supposed to have fallen in, whioh
steered its way down the river upward of a
half a mile, when, the body happening to
lie on the other side of the river, the loaf
suddenly tacked about and swain across the
river and sank near the child, when both the
child and the loaf were brought up with
grapplers ready for the purpose."
A correspondent of "Notes and Qaeries'
maintains that it is a scientific face that a
loaf and, quicksilver indicates the position of
the body, as the weighted loaf is carried by
the current jusb as the body is. This prac-
tice, too, prevails on the continent ;• and in
Germany the name of the drowned parson is
Inscribed on the piece of bread, while in
France loaves consecrated to St. Nioholas,
with a lighted wax taper in them, have
generalle been employed for that purpose.
Get no Credit in this Sin -Cussed World.
The mayor of Louisville, upon meeting an
old negro, drew him aside, and, in a voice
by no means gentle, addressed him:
"Rendsom, I am going to have you arrest-
ed."
"flow come dat ?"
"Why, for having obtained money under
false pretenses,"
"1 einl done nothin like dat, I' °ler' ter
goodness I ain't."
"Didn't you mime to me yesterday and
get a dollar ?"
"Yes, Fah."
"And didn't you say it was to pay the
funeral expenses of your son ?"
"Yee, sah."
"Well, but—you trifling scoundrel, I saw
your son just now."
"Iiith
"You know what I said."
"Yas, sah; yas, but I didn't tell you de
boy WEZ dead, did I ?"
"Didn't tell me he was dead! You infer
nal old idiot, did you suppose I thought you
were going to bury him alive ?"
":No, sah."
"Then what do you moan by saying that
you didn't tell me he was dead ?"
"Now, jest hoton, sab; jest wait er minit.
Det boy ain't been in good healf Inc er laung
time, an' knowing' dat I'd hatter bury him
sooner er later, w'y I 'lowed dat I'd better
raise de money durin' de busy season when
de folks wan't hard pieseed. Ise mighty
kine hearted dis way, Bah,"
"You old rascal, that boy is in excellent
health."
"Who, dat chile? You doan know dat
chile like I does, sah. Dat boy suffers wid
de genet= sah, but er hones' an kine
hearted man dean gib no credit in din yore
Fin cussed worP."—[Arkansaw Traveler.
A Modest Wooer.
"Mabel," said the young men bashfully
" do you know, I think your mother is a
wonderfully fine woman."
"Ian glad. to know that she has won
your esteem."
"D, you think that I have succeeded in
making a favorable impression on her ?"
"1 don't know of any reason to believe the
contrary. Why do you ask ?"
"1 was only wondering.!
" Wondering what ?"
" Whether she could ever think enough
of me to accept me for a son,in-law."
And Mabel did her best to give him con-
fidence.— [ Merchant Traveler.
— —
A Close Clompetition.
"My papa's gob some new horses and a
nice new brougham."
"Well, my papa's going to buy a new
yacht,"
"And my mamma's got a lovely new
piano."
" Well—w—well, my mamma's got a
cook that has stayed two weeks I"
She Got it,
They were sitting on the piazze that faced
the sea, watching the white -sailed yachts as
bbey (wormed the moon's traok, when he sud-
denly said :
" I think it must be delightful sailing on
small a lovely night."
" On, lovely, I should think."
"1 wish I owned one for your sake. I
would take you sailing every night."
" That would be just lovely 1"
" What kind of a yacht would you prefer
—a steam yacht or a sailing one ?"
"1 think," Rho murmured, as she glanced
around, I'd just as lief have a little emeck. "
She gob lb.—[Boston Conner.
The 'Clonal Conditions,
Mamma—"Bobby, I notice that your
little sister took the smaller apple. Did
you let her have her choice, as I told you
to ?"
Babby—"Yes, I told her she could have
the little one or none. andishe oboe the little
one."
A Great &theme.
"What was that noble I heard here last
night?" asked a man as he entered a sa-
loon.
Sloh, h. Don't say a word."
"But what was it ? I heard a pistol
shot."
"Well, if you won't give it away I will
let you into the secret, I fired oft a gun.
See ?"
i1
"And then about a thousand people
rushed up to find out what the trouble is.
See?
"And then I sell about five hundred
beer s, It's a great rcheme,"
Soda RivalrY.
Mee, Hotilihan—"Teddy, have gee,' got any
change about yez to-noight ?"
Mr. Houlihart.—"Yis, eloot upon a dollar,
01 gueee, Mary."
Mrs., Houliham—"W'ell, kap e it until the
MeGonigles come round, OHL show those
Rourkes across the way that they ain't the
only wane in the block who can rush the
growler six timee av an evenin't"-4Life,
Wend ertia laic iteliiiVredro,ntett by the ill n do
we
have reeeived several lettere asking me
to look into this wonderful Indian theosophy.
I have looked, but it may be that• I lack
faith. I have talked with, eever41 •of the
mentere. They are bright, intellectual
aerobats, and some of the greater ef them
are more gross then spirituelle. I heve to
diaoussed Mme Blavotsky with the English
residents of Indie, among whom oho hue
lived, and I have yet to Awl one who thinks
her anythieg glee than a very clever fraud.
It may be the cam of a prophetese being neli
without honor, Rave ta her own eountry,
but I give you her reputation as I find it
here. I am told that an expose has lately
been made of her manifestations, and those
tricks of hers whioh *Me is eel:meted as per.
forming are to me no more wonderful than
the jugglery whioh 1 see here on the streets
every day. Might it not be their her study
of Indian philosophy was a000MpaIlied With
the teaching of Indian jugglers? I kaow
not, but I do know that the street jugglers
et these Indian towns could, by uniting
mystical philosophy with their sleighteofi
hand performances, easily humbug the eyes
of that large class of people who are ever
praying for some new thing in releg- ion and
in pysob.ologicel th ought.
Lst me give you a picture of an Indian
juggler! Orie stands outside my hotel win-
dow as I write. He is performing his tricks
iu the dusty road without 4 table, ci.binet,
patent boxes, or any of the aocionapanimente
of the Americoin Wizard. His sole posses-
sions consist of three smell baskets, ranging
in site from half a peck io a bushel, a couple
of cloths and a tripod made of three :Aloha,
each two feet long and held together by a
string at the top. Three little wooden dolls
with red cloths lied around their necks and
each not over a foot long, are the gods whioh
enable him to do wonderful thinge. He hes
O flute in his mouth and a little drum in his
hand. He is black faced and blaok-bearded,
and his shirt sleeves are pulled up above his
elbowe. His only assistant is a little tur-
baned boy, who sits beside him, whom he
will shortly pub into n basket not more them
two feet equare, and with him will perform
the noted basket trick of India.
This trick is one of the
WONDERFUL JUGGLING TRICKS
of the world. The boy's hands are tied and
he is put into a net, which is tied over his
head and which incloses his whole body so
that be apparently cannot move. He is now
crowded into this basket. The lid is pub
down and tight straps are buckled over it.
The juggler now takes a sword and with a
few paeses of these little Hindoo doll babies
over it and the muttering of incantations as
O preliminary, thrusts the sword again and
again into the baekete There is a crying as
though aome one wee in terrible pain. It is
the voice cf a child and the sword comes
out bloody. You hold your breath, and did
you not know lb to be a trick you would feel
like pouncing upon the man. After a moment
the basket becomes still, the juggler make a
few more passes, unbuckles the straps and
shows you that there is nothing within ie
He calls "Baba 1 baba 1" and in the dis-
tance you hear the child's voice. How the
boy got out of the basket or escaped being
killed oy the sword and where the blood
came from I do not know. I only know it
was a sleight-of-hand performance and won-
derfully well done.
The mango trick is performed with the
sticks in the shspe of a tripod. The juggler
takes a pot of water and pours 18 over a
little pot of earth. He then holds up a man
go bulb about the size of a walnut, and pub
ting this into the eerth, he throws a cloth
over the triton'. Ho now blows upon
his horn, makes mysterious passes, and after
O few moments raises the cloth and you see
the mango tree sprouting forth from the soil.
More passes and more musk follow, and the
cloth is pulled down again. After a few
moments, during which the showing of
minor tricks goes on, he pulls out the pot,
and the plant has grown about a foot above
it. There is more watering and more incan-
tation, and his final triumph comes In show-
ing you a bush nearly a yard high, contain-
ing great leaves. This he will pull up by
the root and show you the seed at the bot-
tom. It is a wonderful trick, and how the
man is able to manipulate the different
plants with nothing else bub a thin cotton
cloth to help him, which, by the way, he al-
lows you to examine, is hard to conceive.
He has a dcz ni other sleight °nand per
formances equally wonderful. lie puts a
little shell into his mouth and appears to
choke as he draws out coin after coin and
balls of stone almost as big round as your
fist. He spite fire, as does the American
wizerd, pulls roiles of string from his stom-
ach, sticks pins through his tongue without
hurting himself, and
ENDS THE PERFORMANCE WITH A SNAKE
TRICK,
which is to me the most wonderful of all,
In doing this imake trick he asks for a
piece of paper and asks you to hold oub your
hand. You do so and he places the paper
upon ib. He then begins to play upon his
pipe and to dart out his eyes as though he
ssw something near your hand. His whole
frame becomes transformed and he dancer)
around you like a wizerd, playing all the
time and keeping his eyes on your hand.
Now he starts back and points at it. You
look and see nothing and he begins to play
louder and dance wilder than ever. Rs
member his arms are bare to the elbow and
both of his hands are upon his pipe. Sudden-
ly he drops the pipe and continues his dance
with incantations, He points to the paper
again and while you look and see nothing he
claps his hand down upon it and pulls up
three great cobras, which raise their hooded
heads and dart out their fangs in different
direotions, and tquirm and wriggle as he
holds them up beton you. You jump back,
for the bite of the cobra is deadly, and I am
told that the snakes used have in some oases
not had their fangs drawn.
A juggler was killed a week ago inBenares
by the bite of a cobra which he was using in
this way, and they are the most terrible
snakes 1 have ever seen. At anotherperform.
atm of this same kind I was present With a'
party of four, and we alIdeoided to amertain
If we could, how this trick wasdone. I stood
upon a chair and overlooked the man as he
snatched up the onakes, but I could nob see
where they came from and I only know that
he had them end that they Were so big that
he crowded them with difficulty into a little
round basket the size of a peck measure.
reaw
TWO WOMEN JUGGLERS
at jeypore, They were bright, intelligent.
looking girls, one of whom appeared almost
old enough to be the mother of the other
They did reamy wonderful things, ODO of
which was mixing up sand in water and then
putting the hand into the disooloured fluid,
they brought a heocifel of Sand, which they
filtered through their fidgers as dry as be.
fore it wenb in, The youngest of them girls
was perhaps fifteen, She was tali, well:
formed and fine-looking. She had bracelets
On arme and onion, and her eyes were as
beautiful as thee° of it gaselle. Otte a her
trioles was the lifting of a heavy chair by
her eYelid41, thelenht of Whieh cannot
make!) my eyes eore. The chair was a heavy
mahogany one, which belonged to the room
in whioh I was staying. She tied two etrong
strings to the top of this and affixed the
ends ot these otrings to her eyes by fittle
round metal (lupe'each about the else el a
nickel. These fitted over the eyei3al1e and
under the lido, and she bent over White they
were so fastened, Raising herself she pulled
up the chair with these striege vvith the
lunacies of her eyelids and carried it from
one elide of the room to the •other. It was a
horrible sight, and as she took the metal
oups from her eyes they filled vvith water
and she almost sank to the floor. I told her
the trick was disgusting, and that she ought
never to try it again. Still for all this and
the rest of the show them girls were well
satirfied with two rupees or ebbut 70 cents.
FRANK G. CARPENTER,
The Holy Land Railroad,
One of the most interesting and sugges-
tive of reoent projects is that of a railroad
to ruu from Jaffa to Jerusalem and thence
to Bethlehem. The enterprise is a purely
eommeroial one, w.thout a trace of send.
ment or religion. Certain English and
French speculators propose to make money
by shortening the journey of the numerous
tourists who visit the Holy Land every
year, and by providing modern conveniences
of travel where they are now utterly want-
ing. The idea is legend and attractive
from a business point of view, it must be
confessed. Oce can readily understand
how the proposed railroad may be mode to
yield good dividends, And yet the thought
of suck an invasion of that sacred corner of
the world is not pleasant. To fancy a loco
motive thundering through the valley of
jehoshaphat, pub the tombs of the Kings,
In the shadow of the Mountains of Moab
hi to fee'. an impulse of protest against a
thing so foreign to those scenes and their
familiar associations. It seems in a measure
to imply sacrilege, so long as the spirib of
romance, the atmosphere of sleep and
dreams, pervaded the country and all of
its interests. The average heart can not
easily discard the impression that the lo-
cality is a consecrated one, which should
be forever exempt from alien and coin
promising influences.
There con not be any romance or valiant -
Jolty where the railroad goes, of course. It
is of all created agencies the most icono-
clastic and utilitarian. The philosoplay of
its Existence does not afford any room for
sentimental considerations. It is heedless of
all those facts and tradibtons which make
the Holy Land remarkable and precious.
In its theory of things, Palestine is only a
tract of territory. 12,000 square nines in
extent—not quite so large as Maryland—
which presents a certain amount of pas-
senger traffio'worth a given number of
dollars at Gould rates, with the customary
reductions for excursions. The pool of
Siloam is to it simply a good place for a
tank, and nothing more. It's oonception of
the Garden of Gethsemane is only that of a
convenient location for a depot or round-
house; the Mount of Olives is but an ob-
struction which involves difficulties of grad-
ing ;and Calvary, taking the latest and b est
conclusion as to the true site thereof, is
merely a hindrance to switching faoilities
in the vicinity of the Damaeous gate, The
Jordan means bo it only the necessity
of a bridge, with trestle approaches. Its
interest in the Dead Sea, where Sodom and
Gomorrah are supposed to have stood, is
confined to the feet that a branoh line of
eighteen miles will carry tourists there from
Jerusalem ; and Bethany, Jericho, Gllgal
and other noted intervening places are only
°Lmany names to be pieced on its time
d.
Value of Eggs as Food.
Eggs are most valuable food, for they
contain all bleat is required for building up
and maintaining the body. The white of an
egg is almost pure albumen and water,
while the yelk, the richer part, oonsists of
albumen, wibh minute particles of oil in it
—and small amounts of salts. Albumen,
which is 54 3 carbon, 7.1 hydrogen, 15.8
nitrogen, 21.0 oxygen and 1 8 sulphur, ex
lets in the blood in the proportion of sev-
enty-five parts to one thousand, in less
quantities in the lymph and chyle, juices
termed in the process of digestion, and in
trifling amount in other juioes of the body.
To supply this albumen in the body it is
necessary to use ailments that contain H.
That group of foods of which eggs are the
Foremost, are called albuttinoide. The
cheraoteristie common to all is that they all
contain nitrogen, an important element in
the body. Eggs, which are easy of diges-
tion, both when raw and properly cooked,
are never too costly a food -per e The pure
nutriment in them is one-third of their en-
tire bulk, while that in beef is only one-
quarter and that of oysters one -eight their
reopective bulks. So that with eggs at
twenty five oents a dozen, round steak at
sixteen cents and mutton chops at twenty
cents a pound, both food and money are
saved by eating the eggs.
Remarkable Fatality to an Artist.
A curious accident, which unhappily has
since proved fatal, befell M. Bouteb, an
artist, residing in the Avenue Victor Hugo,
the other morr ing. NI, Boutet was working
in his sbudio, when, inconvenienced by the
sun, he asked his bonne to get on thereof and
pass a light; linen covering over the glass,
As the woman was arranging this awning
she slipped, and, fallirg through the glass,
alighted on the table at which her master
was seated. Oddly enough, she sustained
no injury worth mentioning. M. Boutet,
however, was not so fortunate. A piece of
the broken glass struck him on the neck,
severing an artery. He tried to staunch
the blood, and failing, ran out of the house
in the direction of a neighbouring druggist's
shop; bull he fell down fainting ere he reaoh-
ed the place, and two hour e afterwards he
breathed his last.
Rare Good Luck on a Voyage.
The Philadelphia " Record " says :—Cap-
tain Purrington, of the olipper ship 58.
Charles, lying at Rade street wharf discharg-
itga cargo of Mlle makethe remarkable ern
port that for 121 clayri, the entire time oc-
cupied in making the run from San Francisco
M Cork Harbour, the oath: were Dot taken
In even in routiding Cape Horn. The finest
weather was experienced, and the same sails
that carried the vessel out of the Golden
Gate cartied her to the coast of Ireland,
Many of the rooks and islands in the vicinity
of Cape Hort were men by Captain Purring.
ton whieh perhaps have never before been
seen by a white man. The voyage was alto-
gether a mot remarkable one,
A Commercial Paradoz—Customer—
"Say, Rothstein, who's that man doing
all that yelling and ecreatning and swearing
at the olerkein the rear of the; store 7" Roth-
stein—"Oh, dob tees Iineeribetg, dor oilont
pardiier."-.-(Puolt.
nioniemonewemoweeseeet
Goo1l3raveq.
"I have hintrd iirsaid," writes Lerd Wel.
seley, in a contemporary, "that small men
aee genet -111y, ibraerini thue 'Men; but
one of the moat stolidly end immovable'
brave men I have ever kno wn is several
inches (wee six feet in height, I have often
seep him, from pure hishiese, whenntilleved
from duty, in the advanced trenches before
Sebaetopol, step out 04114 la the rear of
the pars.11e1 where he happened at the
element to be, wed teke a beeline for camp,
exposed for many hiandred yarda to a heavy
rine fire f5em the advanced works of the
Russians. Ele might have walked home
through the trenches in safety, bat he was
too lazy or too careless of his life to go so far
emend, 1 remember a curious instence of
his imperturbability ;some years afteewards,
when I met him in China, In the asoatilt
of the Taku forts we lied to Owes two
ditches filled with water. One of these Was
euffioiently wide and deep to require a bridge
to be thrown over it. In carrying up a
light infantry pontoon bridge to launoh into
bele ditch a round shot went through one of
the pontoons. To !aureole it in that con.
dition would have caused it to sink and
Wa had great difficult, in getting the
injured pontoon out of .the bridge under the
close fire to which we were exposed from
the works behind the ditoh. In OOMMOLI
wibh all the other mounted life:acre, I had
left my horse at a safe distance behind under
eonie cover. I was therefore astonished up-
on standing up after working at this little
bridge oo the ground, tg see beide me a
very tall man on a very tall horse, The
position was Actually eon -deal, and, as well
as I remember, I laughed as I saw my coot
friend there at; the edge of the ditoh, a regu-
lan cookanot for every Chinamen near him.
He said something to me which, owirg to
the great din and noise at the moment, I
oould not hear; so, moving nearer to him,
I carelessly pub my hand on his leg. He
winced a little as I touched him and, calrn•
ly saying, Won't put your hand on my leg,
for I have just had a bullet in there,' went
on with hie convereation as if only a mos-
quito had bitten him, That man is now
known to all as Lieutenant -General Sir Ger-
ald Graham, V. C., who commanded a brig
ado at Tel-e!-Kebir, and who was afterwards
in chief command at El-Teb and the many
other bloody engagements which took place
near Suakim."
Icebergs.
All incoming steamers report having seen
large icebergs. A monster berg, 1,000 feet
long and towering 165 feet above the water,
is reported by the captain of the French
steamer La Bourgogne to have been seen off
Cape Rice in the Gulf Stream, Navigators
bell us that off to the east of Newfounland
Roves by the chill and wide ocean river call-
ed the Polar current. It brings down many
icebergs from the Greenland seas. jthese
greatbergeareslovely pushed out over the edge
of the almost perpendionlar west wall of
Greenland by the glaciers, till the ice masa,
bent down by gravitation, hits these% That
buoys it up and breaks ib off with a crash,
and it goes rolling and thundering over till
gravitation settles its cmailibrium, and it
goes sailing slowly away, an iceberg. These
great bergs, some of enormous size, have only
one-eighb of their mass above water ; alleche
rest is submerged ; and yet some of thin -ice-
bergs tower 200 and even, it is said, 300 feet
above the surface. But the latter are rare.
They lose much of their submerged part in
the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream and
then topple over. This process is repeated
until at last they melt and vanish.— [Rcohes-
ter Democrat.
If we could use our own good advice how
happy we would be.
"That smell investment has brough
large returns," gasped the purchaser of a
dime's worth of emetic.
In France they now use for steam and
water pips joints gaskets made of wood pulp,
which are boiled in linseed oil. They give
satisfactory results and are nos subject to
decomposition at high temperature.
Tee largest orders for torpedo boats given
for some time pest come fro m the Govern.
ment of the Argentine Rspublic. Nearly a
million of dollars' worth of these boats have
been ordered from Thorneyctoft.
The Russian army has a grade of offiter
peculiar to itself. Each fortress has a sege.
femme. An advertisement in a Ruselan pa-
per for competitors for the situation at a
certain pest states the emoluments amount to
about £30 a year and a sub officer's apart.
ment.
As a cement for sealing bottles, &a., mix
ehree parts of resin, one part of caustic soda,
and five parts of water; this composition
is then mixed wibh half its weight of plas-
ter-of-Paris, The compound sets in three-,
quarters of an hour, adheres strongly, is not
permeable like plaster used alone and is at -
backed only slightly by warm water.
LYONNAISEPOTATOES.—Melt a large treble -
spoonful of butter and add two 01111008 of
minced onion. Fry to a light brown. Add
half a pound of °old, boiled, sliced potatoes,
turn them till hot and brown, add a little
minced parsley, and serve at once.
His Only Hope,—Henry (married six
menthe) —"1 fear my wife's love is knowing
cold. She used to come to the office two or
three times a day, but she never oomes now.
What shall I do?" Frank—" Have you a
typewriter ?" "No, but I sad get one
cheap." "Do so. Then get a pretty girl
to operate it, and your office will be full of
your wife."
STRAWBERRY a-BEAT/HR.—Take a paper of
gelatine and soak it as usual, adding. one
quart less of water with sugar and the mice
of ODO lemon. Have a quart of strawberries
sugaredand leftstanding for abouttwohours,
when crush them and rub bhem through a
sieve wibh gelatine. Whip up a pint and a
half of cream: stirring it into the gelatine,
when put ib into a form and set it on ice.
You may serve with or without creamer
&even POTATOES.—Pare thin and leave
for three hours in cold water. Put over the
fire in cold water, add salt and cook till
tender, then drain off the water, sprinkle
with Salt and set on book of range. Scald
one cupful of milk. Add one fiableepoonful
of butter cub up in one teaspootful of flour.
When ib bone add Belt, pepper and parsley.
Put in the potatoes, breaking them lightly
with a apoon ; shnmer two or three min-
utes and serve.
Moor. Ttrnanin Soue.—Cover a nicely'.
cleaned calf's head with four quarts of cold
watet, Boil three hours, reinoeing the Mum
ear it risee. Take out the head) add twelve
peppendoens, twelire allspice, cook for an
hoite longer, end etrain through a fine sieve.
lletern to the fire, add a tablespoon of flour
mixed lentil smooth with a iittle watery
pepper and Milk Pound the brains up fine,
add the yolk of a hard boiled ogg5 tablespoon -
tut each of finely Mit 'tamely and onion,
perEptet Mad mit, Roll this foedenneet hito
little Mend balls like it marble, place in the
thrdem add si id* creations and a half a
elatin "Very Olioes 01 lemon,