The Exeter Times, 1889-7-25, Page 3•
THE LAND OF THE PliAROMES
MODERN EGYPT, AND THE OPPRES-
' ED PALLAHEEN:
Telephone to the Spldeex-wEuropean Mo-
tet—A Fashionable Itesort—iteasents
Grouted to the Dust by Taxatton.
Modern eivilizetion is making rapid
stridee in the land a Egypt. Alexendaa
ham long dace arieen from the ashee of the
bomberdinent of seven yearn itego'and it hi
now a little larger than Toronto orM on treal.
Its buildinge are European rather than Ara.
bio, and ite streets have French nevem Ceiro,
the city of Arabian nightie is fast beeamhig
a city of Parisian nightie and the Moham-
medan call to prayer is mingled with the
Weil:Whin song of the oafe chantants.
IVInd tiOielli)0 is pulling the mummies from
the pyramid. A telephone line rune al
moat to bhe very ear of the aphinx, wed
the old lady ie being pulled frona the 135nd
by modem iron cars made in Europe.
There is a hotel at the base of the Pyramid
of Cheops in which Englishmen and women
drink brandy and Bode, and the spirit of the
nineteenth century, with some of its virtues
and all of •its vices, is breathing new life
into the land of the Pharaohs. Egypt had
more than two thousensi American visitor%
this Winter, and the amount left here by
Cook's tourists alone is now, I am told,
aboub $2,500,t100 a year. Cairo is becerning
a Winter residence city, and it has huadrede
of meneions 'which would do credit to Lon,
don or Paris. Real eetate has rapidly
risen in value, and the land upon which the
baby Moses lay in the bullrushes is now
worth a big price per square foot.
Inside the tvalls of Shepheard's Hotel,
where I am stopping, you are as far from
old Egypt as you wouldbe in the Grand
Hotel at Paris. The servants are French,
speaking Swiss, in black swallowtail coats.
The chambers have electric belle, and the
$4 a day which you pay for you board does
not include either candles or soap,
The houee is packed full and there are
Counts by the score and Lords by the dozen,
At dinner you gee half the men in steel pen
coats and the women in trains, low necks and
short sleeves. There is a babel of English,
French and German, and the only evidence
that you are in he land of the Pharaohs is
the tall palm trees which look wonderingly
in at the windows.
The dahibeye or sailboat, which was forur
erly the only means of going up the Nile, has
been superseded by eteamere as comfort
able as thence which cross the Atlantio, and
the journey from Cairo to the interior of
Nubia is one of the easiest and pleasantest
in the world. There are now more than a
thousands miles of railroad track in Egypt,
and I travelled to Cairo from Suez in an ex•
preas train which made as good aimed as that
of our trunk lines. The steam engine
sereeeted as we passed through the land of
Goshen, and at one of the stations, while
telegraphing to Cairo, I asked the price of
land in this country which Joseph gave to
his father, and was told that it was worth
at least $150 an acre. Our steamboat in
coming up the Red Sea crossed the path over
,which Moses led the Israelites and in which
Pharaoh was drowned, and I drove out this
afternoon in a European buggy to the site
of dikeliopolis, where Plato studied and near
ich stands the old tree in whose hollow
nk the Virgin Mary hid hereelf with the
Id Jesus during the flight to Egypt,
ate the .raw, indigestible Yogetehihi'tce the
very end of the green, leevieg not a 'liege
of it. I have peen them ,eating elever,and
am told that they iieleione Wive' anyhneati
Oat of the mate of the bteffelo and ow they
make A sort of a curd -like chime, which is
exteneively ueed. They use no knives,
forks nor spoone, and at mapper they hawse
in addition to their vegetables, v Berme ef
metope and 'butter, Into which 'they ' dip;
pieces ef bread and eat it.
Them Egyptian peasante wear little or no
clothing while working in the fields, and here
In Cairo the apparel et the men misdate of a
long blue gown which coma below the knees
and a brown *all cap of wool. The women
have gowns of blue cotton and the better
elms of them cover their Lea with et long
veil, which le fastened just under the eyes
no as to hide the lower part of the features.
Between this veil and the cloth headedreas
there is a braes spool about three inchee
long, on each side of whioh the eyes show
out. Some of the girls are beautiful, but I
imagine that many of them look bebter with
their veils on than off. The Egyptian eye
isilarge, black and sensuous. The eyelashes
are very long on both lids and the edges of
the eyelids are often blackened with kohl
The eyebrows are atraight and smooth and
never bushy. The cheek bones are high,
the forehead is receding and the nose some
what inclined to fatness. In the country
you find much darker women thaa you do
in Cede, and I me scores of them working
In passing through the streets of Cairo I
.w the troops of the Khedive clad in a mai.
orm like that of the soldiers of Europe, and
among them were English officers and the
red coats of the English army of occupation.
The great governments of Europe now con-
trol Egypt. England dictates the actions of
the Khedive, and foreign influence permeates
every part of the Government. The Euro-
pean bondholders practioally own the coun-
try, and the lands of the Nile, if sold out at
auction, would hardly baing the value of the
mortgages which the Rothechilds and others
hold upon them. The people are ground
down by taxation now as they have been
under the most extravagant of their rulers
In the past, and the Egyptian implovements
above mentioned, which ate mainly for the
benefib of the foreigners, have come out of
the peasants. Whatever Egypt may be in
the future, it is terribly oppressed to day,
and the story of Ireland is nothing in oom•
parison with the present condition of Egypt.
The Egyptians should be the richest in
stead of the poorest people of the world.
What a wonderful country they have It is
a valley of guano in the midst of a desert.
The land is asiblack as your hat and it now
teems with crops as green as Manitoba in
June. It produces from two to three crops
every year, and its soil gives out through the
ages bounteous crops with no other fertilizer
tiara this water of the N ile. Bop,' is the giftof
the Nile and a wonderful gift it is. The
'country under the Khedive today is the
narrowest kingdom of the world. Extending
between eight and nine hundred miles above
Cairo ite cultivable soil is no whereimore than
nine miles wide, and below here it spreads out
in a great, green fan, the ribs of which are
eaoh a little more than one hundred miles
long and the top of which does not
measure much more than the rite. This
fan is the famed Delta of the Nile and
with, this long narrow valley above it it
mates the Egypt of to -day. On the sides
of this valley are great tracts of desert of
sand of a glaring yellow silver, more sterile
than the plains of Colorado or the alkali
plains of the Rockies. The Egyptian desert
Is absolutely bare The rich fields of Egypt
come to its edge on either side and you can
step from the greeneat cf grass on to the
driest of sand, and standing on the green
with your face toward a the desert, as far tie
the eye can reaele, see nothing' but bleak,
bare sand.
Out of the wiz and a half million people of
Egypt, fully six million are peasants. They
are known as "fellahe." They. are the till-
ers of the soil and they are the people who
do the work, and make the money which
pays the immense yenly debt of Egypt.
Whesencifellahs" are the ancient Egyptians.
!They lieve been oppreeeed throughout the
ages until they have no apirib left in them,
and they are happy if they oart get enough
to keep themselves aline. You see them
mud villages everywhere and 'they sieve
from morning until night in the fields.
Their houses are rarely mere than ten feet
high and often not more then eight feet
square, In an Egyptian, village the houses
are built 01088 together. There are no
pavements, gas laraps, nor modern improve-
ments of any kind. The furniture of each
house ooneiete of a fevv mats, a sheep skin,
o. copper kettle and some earthenware pots.
The bed of the family is a ledge of mud
built in the side of the room, There are no
windows, and the 000king is usually done
out of doom in a little earthen potdike sMve
The fuel is of dried cove, mewl or buffalo
immure, and the food of the' family is a
mixture of sorghum eeecli millet and beans
ground up into a flour and baked into a tort
of a big, round, fiat cake, A large part of
:the food of the fellteheen cenobite of greens,
and I veatehed one mailbag a turnip yeater.
Tilt:8°13'ra' "(idia)IEL
4.
eteeent Discoveries in elle lireiX evDeYclioPefl
District.
E. 0, Ninon a young Californian, who
recently returned from a three years' exper.
thine in the Souell African. gold. fielda, g[vee
an iateresting account of Meat part of the'
world. Mr. Poimon was ruining he South-
ern California, when his ethention was di.
reoted to some dineveries in South Africee,
end he was °vet of the (het to explore the
new finds. Reaching there, he toured hinn
self in a etrange land and among, to him,
strange people. Johanneaberin the chief
town of the new mining dietrict is sitmeted
in the Transvaal and now omit/eine a pima,
lation of 25,000, although only in the third
year of ha exietence. The populeotion corn.
prises D etch and Engliah, with large num,
berg of Kaffirs, who are the laborers and
miners of the country: The mines are
around the city, easily acoesaible, and are
worked generally by shafts Bunk on the
"reefs," as the ledges are there (sailed. The
gold is found in a pure slate, withoub any
combination, and is easily worked hi proper
stamp inille.
The olaims allowed to be taken up are
150x 400 feet, and there moms to be no
limit to the number of " henna" vehich ooh
one men, claim. Upon a very elaborate map
of the district in Ili'. Poisson's possesaion
there are thousands of designated claims,
end the country isnpparently taken up for
in tie° fields without veils. These fellaheen miles in every diremion, in this respect
ere Mohammedans and they believe that the South Africans seem not a whit behind
the American prospector and miner. But
the names given to the churns are yew.
breakers to new oomers of American ex.
traction, though no doubt they sound inueic.
al and harmonious enough to South African
ears. Tekesuch aethese, selected at haphaz
and from a thousand others : Witevater-
strend, Lobengule, Klerksdorp Witmoorie,
Portschefstroom, or Zontipausberg, These
are easily pronounoable compered with
others, comprehensible only to the native
Dutch.
Christians will be eternally ,dainned. Very
few of them attain lichee and but few rise to
power. Arabi Pasha was a "fella.h" and
he was one of the few exceptione to this
rule.
It is ne wonder they remain poor. They
have been taxed for ages to such an extent
that they could barely live, Ismail Pasha,
the lest Khedive, would, I am told, oiten
collect taxes tvvice a year, coming down
upon the farmers for a second sum after he
had demanded the regular amount. I
they were not able to supply it the tax
getherers sold their stook at auction, and he
hed the right to make such art he pleaaed
work for him for nothing. At preeent there
are about fivo million acres of land under
cultivation in Egypt, and there is an aerie
cultured population of more than four mil.
lions, This gives less than one fifth acre
per person, and the taxes amount to from
$4 to $9 an acre. The best lands of Egypt
pay $9 an acre, and this is only one form of
Egyptian taxation. •
Just outaide of Cairo there is a Govern-
ment °facie, through which, every piece of
produce brought into the city for sale muet
pass, and every article is taxed. The farmer
who brings a donkey load of grass to the oity
for sale must pay a percentage on its value
before he can go in with it. It is the same
with a chicken or a piueon, a basket ot vege-
tables or anything that the farmer raises.
Then there is a tax upon date trees amount-
ing to $200,000 a year, upon atilt of raore than
a million, upon tobacco and slaughter-horn:es,
and in fact upon everything under the Egyp.
tian sun. The donkey boy here pays a tax,
the doctor pays a tax, the store -keeper is
taxed, and there is in addition to this a gen
eral tariff of about 8 per cent. on all imports.
There are te,xes upon sheep and goats, which
are paid whether the animals are eold or not.
There are taxes on wells, taxes on fisheries
and taxes paid for land Egypt once owned,
bub which she geive up with tireless of the Sou-
dan. It is no wonder that the Egyptien
people are Door, It is a wonder that they can
exicie at all.
FRANN. G. CARPENTER.
PLENTY OF IOEBERGS ADRIFT,
The Sinitic See g One in the Sunghine, Ths
Time U5 In 'Latitude 4429,
The summer supply of iceberga is not by
any means exhausted. They are still dodg-
ing about in the era* ef navigators who sail
In high latitudes to make ahort voyages.
Tvvo vessels that arrived in New York the
other day, tho North German Lloyd steam-
ship Seale and the oil•carrying bark Grander
report having passed icy ialands. The Seale
ran into the foot of a big berg on her voyage
on June 11. This time she passed ten miles
to the south of a crystalline monater. It
was on a Tuesday afternoon, in latitude 44 0
29', longitude 47 * 45, when the air was
unusually clear and the sun shone bright
Iv. Nearly everybody aboard ship crowd.
ed to the starboard rail to see the glis-
tening soli 1 crystalline maes. It had no
pinnacles, the sun pirobebly having melted
them away, and resembled, according to
one of the Sage's offioers, the hull of a huge
white ateamship. It was about 60 feet out
of water, and a quarter of a mile long. The
ship had an unusually fine and swift pass-
age, making the trip to Southampton, in 7
days and 13 hours, which is equal to about
6 days and 18 hours from Queenstown.
The Crusader was 47 days getting from
London. She passed within hailing distance
of a giant berg in latitude 46 ° 33', longi-
tude 46 0 50', on June 22, and on the day
following, jut after emerging from a fog,
she pasaed within a mile or so two trernend.
out; bergs, one a mile long and the other
three-querbers. They were three miles
apart, and floating in a northeasterly direce
Hon.
misaELLAilEOUS,
Entire armee cf red exteen trimmed with
ecru letheare worn at Feeresh country Incrusee
and ehe, eeaeleore.
Dotted white mull, Soles, and veiling
ermine are in voguei along with etriped and
berred white dreeme.
One hundred yore ago the' United States
had e populaeion of eboat 1,000,000, while,
Cartade had under 150 000.
ert
Handkerchtare eitiiy, cleitity marvele of
oolor end embroidery this inteurter, encl. at
the moment they are very cheap. '
The inert who invented the locomotive
ootv oatoher never got a cent for it. And
yet it hes given many e man it lift.,—(Yon.
kers &nebula%
It is irritating from a local point of view,
but consoliug from a national standpoint, to
hear how splendidly the Northiwest has been
treated in the matter of weather this year.
The Prince Albert "Tinea' 'Jaye : "We
on the Saskatchewan are eujoying almost
equatorial weather. We have never experi-
euced better growing weather anywhere or
at any time than here atipreeent. Growth
has been very rapid this season and the
crops are now as far advanced as they were
two weeks later lest year. The outlook for
a bountiful harvest is very gratifyine, and
framers feel more confident than they have
done for years."
The Sbetioning Committee difficulty has
broken out in New Brunswick. The corn
mittee for the Maritime Provinces recently
removed Rev. Dr. Sprague from Maryville,
the home of Mr. Gibson, the millionaire lum-
berman and cotton manfacturer, and stai
tioned him at the Centenary church, St.
John. Mr. Gibson objects to the transfer-
ence, 'and threatens that unlese it be can-
celled the oburoh, which, by the way, he
built and owns, will find a pastor from out-
side of the Methodist denomination. A de-
cidedly awkward feeling has resulted. The
newministeris in a dilemma, not of his own
seeking; and the commitee hes the chokes
cf altering its decision or losing to the
°hutch a powerful friend.
•There are now in operation in the district
etemp mine aggregating one thousand etarnps
and before the year is out these will be in-
creased fifty per cent. The first atainp mills
ereoted were primitive and hardly equal to
the crushing of the hard ore. Within twelve
months, however, an Ainericen machinery
firm, whoee headquarters are in Chicago,
sent out agents to such good purpose that
nearly all the mills in course of construc-
tion, and meny recently constructed, are all
of the latest improved California pattern.
Americans are quite scarce in the Transvaal,
and experienced rnine managers can command
high salaries : so with competent miners,
who muse sooner or later be substituted for
the Kars who are now relied upon to do
this work. Their labor if unsatietactory, and
in the end expensive. Mine promoters are
very numerous and Johanneeberg's finest
edifice is the Sbook Exchange, where shares
are dealt in, combinatioes made, and trusts
will soon be organized. There are good
mines and bad mines listed, and the wild-
cat ie just as prolifio in South Africa as in
Nevada or Colorado. Everybodyinand about
Johennesberg seems busy, and there ie plenty
of money in circulation. It reminds Mr. Pois-
son of the early days of California. and Nev-
ada, with the Keffir element: as a strange
background.
Johannesburg draws its aupplies at pre-
sent from Cape Toven, but the Delagoa Bay
Reilway; of which st -ouch has been heard
'
of late threatens eeriously to rival the
Englishcolony. From Cape Town the hun-
ter of gold has had an easy time travelling
to Kimberley, where are located the celebrat-
ed diamond fielde, for it is alleail-650
From Kimberley to Johannesberg is 298
miles, which must be travelled by stage, in a
bullock cart, or on horseback, So exterteive
is the travel the,t aeets in the coeches are se-
cured weeks ahead. From Delagoa 13ey the
dietance is much shorter, and it is a question
which railroad will be completed first. From
London to Caps Town is 5,950 miles, and the
entire distance from London to the gold
fields is completed within thirty-two days.,
nearly all the freight transportation is by
bullock theme, neoesearily slow, but not ex•
pensive.
The mines are at a high elevation, but the
climate is temperate, and there is very little
sicknese, except whe.tresults from undue ex.
poeure. There is scarcely any snow iu winter.
He Bit the Dust,
"Did you hear about Jones down to the
Mint ?" Asked a IVIontgomery-etreet broker
of his friend yesterday.
"No. What was it 1"
"Why, he had a piece of gold coin Beet
he wanted to change for smaller piecesand
the caehier at the Mint thought at firth the
coin was alloy and told 301501380.'
"Did? Well, what did Jones do ? HO'B
an awful fiery chap,"
"Well, you can imagine what Jones did,
The cashier bit the dust."
"Jones didn't kill him 1"
"Kill nothing I Of oourse nob, I told you
the cashier bit the dust."
"I know. Well ?"
"He bit it to see if it was gold metal., It
was and he gave Jones the change. Coed
morning," '
No Real Style.
litire. Parvenu —"Did you attend the aeries
of °perm given by the Bostonians at the
New California, Mrs.13lueblood 1"
Mrs. Blueblood—"I did
Mrs. Parvenu—"Well, I went one night,
and. I thought the preformence was real
vulgar."
Mrs Blueblood—"How's that Everybody
spoke in the higheat terms of the artistic
merit of the company."
Mrs, Parvenn—"I know that, Mra, Blue.
blood, but the night I attended it was a low-
down entertainment. Why, would you be-
lieve it, there yeasn't one ot the singers thet
wore a pair of glaeses 1"
Herr Leiven the Austrian journalist, who
undertook to drine from Vienna to Paris in
a min ha e etrived after a trip of tveenty-one
deem He took two -horses and they were
&ye He began at the tip of the root and used up.
WIT ANT) NVISDOld,
Teteehee—li Neme some of the moat im.
portaut things exieting to -day which wore
unknown one hundred years ego." Toniiny
"Ho* oicl are you, Samba 14 Well, milli
gel& on et hundred yeahe." "Indeed
Is it posaible?" aah, but I's got quite
er lithle ways forder to, go yit."
A oorresPfindent asks us if we believe in
trevelling for health. Under cervain oir-
mooted:tees we do—apartioulerly wheel we me
a mad dog or 5 runaway tense coming.
Thatie a terrible looking hat you went,
Snooks." "1 know it." "And carrying a
big umbrella on a fair day makes it worse.'
"1 carry the umbrella to whack those who
make fun of that hat."
On a Horse wan—First lady—" Do take
that seat. I don't mind standing a bit."
Second lady—" No you take it. You are
older than I." An ominous eilence, during
which an old gentleman pops into the seat.
A Chicago constable who went to seize the
widow Carter's sewing machine was seized
by the hair, his four false teeth shaken out
and he was then pitched down o. stairway,
and so used up that he had to retire in an
ambulance. The Goddess of Liberty wasn't
stamped on our thine simply as an orna-
ment.
"Uncle Ben , your son was fooling around
my hencoop last night, and I mime very
near catching him, lie had his hand on a
qhicken, but let ib go when he hee.rd me."
"Bose, did yer say he had a hand on a
ohioken aid den' let it go V' "I did." "Den't
war'n't none ob my son. Dat nigger war'n't
none ob my raising."
"That Betties it," said a priesmet whom
his honour sentenced to the workhouse for
sixty days the other morning, "Settles
what 1" asked the officer to whom the re-
mark was addreeeed. I have been troubled
in my mind whether to go down to Long
Branch or up to Mackinac this summer.
Now I won't have to go to either."
It would nob be unreasonable for Canadi-
ans to supports that all the moisture the
earth's atmosphere is capable of holding had
been emptied upon this Dominion during the
past six weeks. It seems, however, that
other countries heve had quite as large a
share of rainfall this season as Canada..
Advices from China state that on May 29
and 30 Hong Kong was visited by a storm
which lasted thirty-three hourei and in the
course of which 21Th inches of ram fell. At
one time the fall measured nearly bhree
inoleee an hour. An immense amount of
property was destroyed, public buildings
alone suffering to the extent of $200,000 -
Our rainfall has been spreed over a consider.
able period; Hong Kong seems to have hed
hers all at once.
In Persia boys and girls never play to-
gether, Even at home the inferiority of
the girls is ineisted on, just as much by the
mother as by the father. The lititle girls
have to invite pheymetes of their own, but
their games are never lively ones. They
generally prefer to sit by themselves under
the shade of mulberry or pomegranate trees
in the garden (which uaually is laid out in
the courtyard surrounded on all sides by
houses or high walls) and listen to fairy
tales which their mothers and nurses can
tell them very interestingly, indeed. While
there is very little companionship of love
between brothers and sisters, theie is no
quarrelling and no fighting, either, between
them; and the boys,while thinking them-
selves above the girls, show them many
little kindnestess.--(N.Y. Mail and Express.
A Home on the Jersey Shore,
Naw York Sun: I was tromping along a
Jersey highway in search of a farm -house
where they took summer bonders, when an
old farmer came along in his two -horse
wagon and aelsed me to ride, As soon as he
discovered what my errand was he exclaim-
ed:
" Land-o-goshen, but you've just bit the
right luau I I'll take you in myself. Got
one of the resorterest resorts on the hull
coast. You shall live on the fat of the laud
and gain aipound a
"Whet do you ask for board?"
" Well, that a according. Want much
sweet?"
" No."
Care about a carpet in your roam 2"
No.11
"Eat with the family ?"
"
"Very big eater 11
If
"Willing to live on meat and tabors and
doh like, eh ?"
it yeti,'
"Any objections to working in the garden
an hour or two before breakfast to get your
appetite up ?"
"Nob the slightest."
" Help,cuthey or stack wheat en a pinch
" Yes. '
"Party good at chopping wood ?"
"That's toy best hold."
"Kin ye milk?"
"And when night comes you evonie objeca
to playing on shut guitet and singing ?"
it No
"Willing to pay for washing, I suppose ?"
"01, yes."
"And for extra trouble if you'git side 1"
"Yea. How much will you, oherge me a,
week for board 1"
"Cash in advance?"
"Agree to stay all summer 2'1
4i
"Wali, stranger, I'll have to ask the old
woman. I've thought Of everything I mould,
but she's a great thinker, and will probably
think of lots of other things, doh as only
changing the sheets once a week, washing
youreelf at the (Astern, being setiefied veith
husk pillars, and so on. Come and itee me
to -morrow and we'll talk it all over, and if I
don't beat any hothl on the shore you oen
bake my hat. You'll know my pine by the
Bien on the gate, 'Old-fashioned home.'
Don't fail to close with nth toonottow, as
we may be crowded this amnion."
VALLBZQF D
A illavine lo di() V011OWSLOILC lharlyriltero
palace is ,Asikbpaatets.
"hl
thatim.Ye
0 velleciteawssaenaeallatrokantihratt lief, as sereitvhi:te
Death Valley of Java where *Ad _besets
perish by the score," said Henry W. mein -
tyre at bile ,Palace hotel hist night. The
gentlemen, ova tlee San Fran000 014ron,-
icle, vrho was ecinnected with the party who
surveyed the reservation, under the leader.
ship of Arnold Hague, the park geologist.
While following the anima to brace the ex-
tinob hot springs the exploors reached a
review in whioh the bones of many anirno.ls,
bears, deer, re.bbits, and squirrels, were
found. The presence of the renealue °mused
the party ninth wonder. and a solution of
the ethane effeir was found only when a
crow that had been seen to fly from the side
of the valley to a carcass that was yet fresh
lit on its prey and almost immediately 1 ell
to the groand.
"The death of the bird," continued Mr,
McIntyre, "was caused by gaseous exhala-
tions, whose preeesenee in the park had been
before unsuspected. The larger game also
met its death by inhaling the deadly gas.
The ravine is in the nortlamaitern part of the
park, in the vicinity of the mining oamp of
Cooke Creek, and not far from the line of
the meil route. All about this region glut-
eus exhalations are given off, which form
sulphurous deposits. ID the almost extinct
hotspring areas of Soda. butte, Lamar river,
and Cache and 3/filler creeks the ravine was
found. This region is rarely I+ isited ; although
it is an admirable spot for game which,
however, goes unmolested by inanAhe laws
against hunting being very severe. The
road to the valley has few attractions, and
the visitora to the fossil forests and Hindoo
basin seldom make the trip.
" In the center of a meadow, reaohed by
an old trail, Is a shallow depression that was
once the bed of a hot -spring pool. This is
now dry and is covered with a alight deposit
of salt, and the.t is the bait that attracts
the elk and other game of the region. The
lick' extends for seventy-five yards up the
ravine and is thicker and more palpable
towards the upper end. The creek runs
along the side of the valley and bubbles
as if it were the outlet of a hot spring. But
the water is cold and the disturbance in its
surface is caused by the emissions of
as, mainly carbonic acid. Italso cont.
tams sulpha() because very strong and
caused irritations of the bromchial pas.
mges. About eight yards above Caohe
creek 'Where the bon's of a large bear and
near by was a smaller grizzly, decomposed,
but with the *in and hair yet fresh. Only
a short distance farther on were ,the
skeletons of many more animals. such as elk
and deerand o therlarge game. Squirrels, rale.
bits, birds, and insects were lying about in
quantities, and the ravine looked as if it
had been the 'scoop' of a drive'into which
the animeds of the park had been hunted
and had there been left to die of hunger
out of mere wantonness. There was no
wounds apparent on the bodies before us ;
all the animals had been asphyxiated by the
deadly gases that hung a few feet from the
surface of the gulch in a dense, palpable
curtain.
" The first; bear we saw was a good way
down the gulch, where a neck is formed. To
that point the gas mast have been driven by
the wind, and its deadly nature may be easi—
ly guessed when it is remembered that the
slightest moeion causes a diffusion of the
ether that would tend to decrease its noxious
properties. Here is the explanation of the
oft -repeated assertion that garae was being
exterminated by hunters in the Yellowstone,
notwithstanding the stringent laws that have
been paesed for the protection of animals
there. I had seen it noted that each yen
bears, deer, mountain tigers, and other wild
animals acme disappearing from the reaerva.
don, and it was asserted that friends of the
people who had charge of the park were al-
lowed to hunt there in defiance of the law.
There were probably 150 bodies of wild ani-
mals in the gulch when I was there. But
although there were skeletons entire and
single bones it must not be supposed these
were the remains of all the game that had
found death in the ravine. They had ac-
cumulated only since the last rain -sterni.
Through this gulch a mountain torrent r11115
when the snows have melbed from the moun-
tains or after a hard rain. Then all thing,
atones, boncs, and bodies; are trembled to-
gether on their way to the mouth ot the ie
gulch, whence they are carried away in the
creeks or are left to mark the course of the
stream and bleach on the table lends. I had
noticed near the Mammoth hob springs the
bodies of mice and bugs, but had never at-
tributed their preeence to the deadly gases
that were so rapidly killing off the large
game of the park. '
Hotel clerk (suspiciously)—" Your bundle
has corne apart. May I ask whe.t that queer
thing is?" Guest This is a new patent
fire memo. I always carry it, so in case of
fire I can let myself down from the hotel
window. See?' Clerk (thoughtfully) —"1
aee, Our terms for petits with fire ezcapes,
sir, are invariably meth in advance."—[New
York Weekly.
Two Views of the Same Caste —Passenger
—Captain, you haven't quite as big a crowd
aboard to day as newel, nave you Captain
e have 1,500 peasengers, sir. Another
passenger (a few minutes later)—Capeain, it
seems to me you haven't enough beats cm
this steamer. Captain (with cold dignity) -
1 have boats enough for 250 pasaengere, sir,
whioh is all my license calls for.
"Now, Gus," said a boy to his pl tymete,
"we've got this dog in partnership, and half
belongs to each ot us. We'll call one end
mine and one end yours, and you can have
just which end you like. "All right," re-
plied Gus, "you can have the front end"
(persuasively), "with the eyes, and the ears,
and the mouth, and the collar, and teeth, or
the rear end with juat the tail." "I'll take
the front end." "AU right ; have to
feed him, then."
The Millennium.—Irate Individual—"You
published an alleged interview with me this
morning, sir, which is a time of lies from
beginning to end." Editor—" Ah, I'll call
theireporber who took it and see what he
says.' [Binge bell and reporter appears.
To reporter.] "This gentleman complains
of the ins.couracy of the interview with him.
You did the work, did you not V Repor-
ter--" Yes, sir." Eli Von—" Did you have
with you, according to general instructions,
the pocket phonographophone which records
unerrirgly every word spoken by both par-
ties ?'' Reporter—" Yes, sir. Editor—
"You may bring it in and we will compere
it with the paper." Irate Individual (hasti-
ly) —" I have to make a train novv —will call
again."—( Leaves.
A Novel Sanitary Detective.
A gentleman, making a call at the house
of a friend, was astonished to find the rooms
and passages in confusion; and, on inquiring
the cause, was answered : "01, we are very
much annoyed here ; a rat has come to finish
his existence under the floor of our large
drawing room. We do not know the exact
place; but we ca-anot endure the stench any
longer, ao we have removed the furniture,
rolled up the carpets, and called in the car-
penters, who are peat beginning to take up
the floor.
"Now, don't be too hasty," said the vis-
itor. " You need not pull up more than
one board. I will show you what I mean
presently; and, meanwhile, shut down the
drawing -room windows, and olorte the
door."
He then stepped down into the garden,
walked around to the horse stables, and
after a few minutes' absence mime back to
the drawing -room with both hands tightly
elapsed. Itlacing himself in the center of
the drawing-rooni, he opened his hands, and
out flew two large blue -bottle files, and
buzzed around the room for a second or two.
But presently one of them alighted on a cer-
tain plank of the fioor, and was almost im
mediately followed by the other. "Now,
then
,
' said the visitor, "bake up that board,
and 1'11 engage that the dead rat will be
found beneath it." The carpenters applied
their tools, raised the board, and at once
found the came of the unpleasant smell.
—[The Sanitarian,
M. Da Lenesso.n, deputy of the Seine,
who appears to be a French edition of Lord
Charles Bereeford, believes the French navy,
if nob already gone to the doge, it hastening
in that direction, whiele he considers cumin.
sively provedi by the redone manceuvres of
the Mediterranean equadron,
Jist to be in Keepin'.
" Ye're brew the day, Jock," observed a
man to a Scotch grave.digger who was on
his way to perform the grim dal, of proper-
ing & place of sepulture, resplendent in a
gaudy necktie, clean moleekin " breeks"
and carefully blacked boots.
"Ay, man,
" the bethral replied, " I'm
gem aff to get a grave ready for the farmer's
wife that deed yestreen."
" Weel, what for elm ye busk up like
that?"
"Por ma ain satisfaction, mar. When I
hae the howk for a puir body I set oot ony-
way ; bit when Ws & weel-taeclae person
windslike the be pit in a brave coffin wt'
bonny ornaments a' aboot ib, I like tae gie
mysell a dress up, jist tee be in keepin' wi'
sic grandeur,"
Even giogleam dresses have pertesole made
up of the material of the gown.
Honest Barber—" Mr. Jenks, you know
I never bother my oustomera about buying
my hair restorativeti 5nd ouch things'but I
must say to youe in all candor, that your
hair is diaappearing fast. Now,
my Elixir
of Life, if applied in time—"Mr. Jenks
(sadly)—" No Men my friend. Nothing can
stop my hair from coming out but death or
divorce."
Representative bodies place too low a
value upon education. For this reason the
salaries of teachers throughout the country
are so small that an indueement to theta to
remain hi the profession does not exist. It
is not often, however, that school intipeotore
are victims of sbarvetion salaries or thet the
small stipends they receive are grudged
there. Guelph furnishes one of the mop -
done to the rule, The inspector there re.
wives ZOO a yearand the School Board is
about to oonsider the desirability of teclum
ing it. Row a man of education can serve
the public for less than $500 is a problem it
is difficult to solve.
Mosquitoes; Avannt
When modern science and industry ar-
rive at the point of utilizing or destroying
all vegetable matter before it decays around
our dwellings ; when they drain the swamps
and provide us with pure water, mosquitoes
will retire from the scene because they will
no longer be needed as a part of Nature's
scavenger brigade. But until that millenitun
arrive what can we do? We oan put wire
screens at our windows, and gauze canopies
over our beds, and oblige thesemissionaries
of the goispel of cleanliness to pipe their
message to be "first pure, then peaceable,"
through bars, without givieg a thrust to
drive home their injunctions. If any have
succeeded in runningthe blockade and en-
tering the house during the day or preced-
ing night, they will try to get out at
nightfall and may all be disposed of by
abriking with the dampened end of a
towel while buzzing at the windows in
their attempts to escape. Indoors we may
conquer them, bub when we whale to enjoy a
pleasant evening on the piazze, they have
us at their mercy. We may "smudge" them
with burning insect powder; or anneal:It our-
selves with oil of pennyroyal or oa.mphor,
but these only mem to add fury to their at.
teaks. Our only hope is to diminish their
congenial haunts, to cleanse the drains, re•
move dense trees or shrubbery from close
proximity to the house, and protect rain.
water bunk; and *dem. The first water
from the roof after a shower should not be
allowed to run into cisterns and tubs ; but
let it wash the roof and cleanse the air
through which it falls. The rain water tubs
can be covered with fine wire netting, and
if a hag of charcoal le hung in it will keep
them sweet without the aid of vhe mos-
quitoes.
Small -Pox.
Here are a few interesting facts about
small pox, which we glean from the "Detroi
Lancet :" "The disease ghee by threes.
The period of incubation is nine days. The
primary fever is three days; the period of
eruption, six days to the beginning of the
postular stage, which also occupies three
days in reaching maturity. Dessication
lasts six days. The whole period, from the
beginning of the eruption to the falling off
of the Beebe, ie twenty-one days. A Dr.
Case was sick with emell-pox in the army.
He was delirious, and escaping from hie
watchers went to a pring and drank freely.
The water soothed leis sufferings to such a
degree that he lay down sad slept, and
made a good recovery. Dr, Wright, of
the West Indies, more than a hundred
yearn ago'advocated births as the best
treatmentfor smell -pox. The method was
tried in England with good success. An
illustration of the good effects of water in
this malady is afforded by a circumstance
whioh occurred during the war. Some Con-
federates, sick with mell-pox, were left in
fence corners, waiting for en ambulance.
During the night a heavy rain oame on.
That wee their bath, The next day more
soldiers wore left there, and they got their
bath in the same way, There were in all
forty or fifty so treated,' They got along
better than those treated in hospitoile."
Welsh Sayings.
Three things that never become rusty—
the money of the benevolent, the alms of
the butcher's horse, and a women's tongue.
Three things not easily done—to allay
thirst with fire, to dry wet with water, and
Vo pleaao all in everything that is done.
Three things that are as good as the beat
—brown bread in famine, well water in
thirst, and a gray coat in cold.
Three things as good as their better—dirty
wetter to extinguish the fire, au ugly wife to
a blind man, and a wooden sword to a cow-
ard.
Three yearnings from the grave—" Thou
knoweet what I was ; thou sent what I am;
remember what thou arc to be,"
Three things of short continuance—a la-
dy's love, a chip fire, and brook flood.
Three things that ought never to be from
home—the cat, the chimney, and the house-
wife.
Three eseentitele to a false story teller—a
good memory, a bold face, and fools for an
audience.
Three things that are seen in a peacock—
the garb of an angel, the walk of a thief,
and the voice of the devil.
Three things it is unwise to boast of—the
flavor of thy ale, the beauty of thy wife, and
the contents of thy purse.
Three miseries of a man's house—a smoky
chimney, a dripping roof, and a scolding
wife.
A Dog Adopting Chickens,
The Savannek News says —Mr. Brigham,
the dyer of Orlando,
has a bean.tiful and in-
telligent little dog te whom lee is very much
attached, He also has a hen. Not long ago
that hen hatohed some chickena. By zotne
incomprehensible Mental process that little
dog iinaginecl that she was the mother of the
chickens, and she could not have been more
affeetionete to a litter of her own puppies
than she was toward the little °Woke. She
coddles and fondles theta every day, and
ettempts to defend them against all intruder&
When takeia away from the brood she whines
constantly, and when released at once goes
back to them. The hen is completely non-
plussed, and !Av. trighato is almeet na leedly
puzzled. The little deg and the little chicks
aro the only. ODDS Who mem be understand
the situation.