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The Exeter Times, 1889-8-15, Page 4Remain in the paperthe other day of the arrest oe tbe Mate oe the lele otearer Finance for cruelty to three or fear stoweeveye who Mado their appearance after the vessel wee well en her voyage, has recalled vividly an adveuture I lad ween o boy 4 14, and 'then& I was a very hum,* individual mo es% the particolers of that eclventure stirreci the eteeple of a great kingdom, 3. know the sailor Irene topmaet head to kehon, I have oiled in elf sorts tf orafts, with, all ante of crews, and Moe served many Captains. I know that sallore are rough and uncouth, and that there is always Oteposition to find fault end to magnify emit+. Jack would lime his growl, me mat- ter Mew well fed and how well used. On, landethere is a certain antagonism between employer and employed. On shipboard this is inteetsified, but that is because the em- ployer has so much more power over the +employed. I frankly admit that I have never met a half A dozen sailors, no matter what sort of Captain they were serving under, who were without complaints, but it does not follew thee: all the others complain- ed without reason, The ship ma17 be com- fortable and full -handed, the faro all right, •and the Captain e rood men, but the mates oan still make the craft mighty ueoornfort- able for the men, I venture to assert that there are nob half a dozen long -voyage selling crafts leaving our shores in which abuses calling for loteel growling do not exist, and what Is tin. Of Americo, is true of ell other •ocpuntries. The Dutch, Swedes, Ruselans awe Lesuars Nati atand overwork, poor grub: and the abuse of cfacers, and as much for this reason as any other the Yankee sailor has been driven frora tlae eea and his place filled by theme substitutes. When I Was 11 years old my mother died, and my father decided to go to Aus- tralia. I was his only child, and he was by no means burdened with money. He was a master plumber, and be set out for.Sidne under tiontraot. Three montshie after ou arrival he married again, aod 11 was not six • weeko before my stepmother pushed me int the street. I was under-erzed and sickly, but I never gave her the slightest cause for even a harsh word, She simply took an aversion to me, and aomehow her hatred came to be reflected in my father. He saw me thrown out on the world with hardly a protest, and. two day a later, when he met me in the street, he gave me about eight shillings in money, and aclvioed me to set up as a bootblack and newsboy. I should pro- bable- have followed his suggestions had 1 not on that same day chanced to fall in with two or three lads Nebo were planning to stow themselves away aboard of an Eoglith brig called the Charles H. Churchill. They were boys who had run away from home or been *own over like myself, and the idea was •thAt they could do better in England. I was invited to join, and when our plans had been laid there were four ot us of abottb the same age. We looked the brig over, found that we could get aboard, and made our ar- rangements. One nighe, when the brig was nearly ready for see., I stole aboard, carrying with me about two quarts of water and four pounds of bread and meat. This was the share I was Po furnizen I was to be first ',hoard, slip down the :Blasi:1p ketch, and the others were to follow at brief intervals. A fire on board et ship a few hundred feet away collected the crew of the brig aft, and I got aboard with- -oat risk. The hold was nearly full of bags, barrels, and boxes, and after -waiting a few minutes I made my way over these toward the how, and found a very conafortatle place on a lot et dry hides. I remained awake and alert for two hours, and then fell • asleep without realizing that I was a bit sleepy. it was morning when I awoke, and as bhe eail- -ors were at work below I dared not move or eel' out I figured that my companions were in hidiveg around me, and BO rested easy through elm day, sleeping most of the time. lib about sundown I felt the ship under 'motion, and an hour later the hatches were closed and I was in midnight darkness. I had matches and a stub of candle, and, after striking a light, I moved around and whited- od and called to my corapanions. I could snake my war over the freight pretty eareily in azoe direction, and.3: mould not give up that I was alone until I had searched for a null hour. Then I was positive that I was alone; the others had either backed out or had been baffled in their, attempt to get aboard. I was much upset at the discovery, and crawled back to my bed and cried my - elf to sleep. It had been agreed among we boys that we should keep secreted three days ofter tailing. None of us anticipated any trouble when we shuold make our presence known. I had no way of computing time, as it was night all the time in the hold; but after my bread and water had been used up and I was hungry and tbirsty, I decided that the three days were up. • Crawling to the cover of the hatch I knocked on it and shouted, •and after a little it was opened and I was The Crew heel elideertained to bate4e0, and their action excited the Captain and mate to a terrible: degree. The former bad a. re- volver In his pocket, and when the crew refused to go forward he fired M v,nd wound- ed one of them, This brought ono Agin:, la which both officers and ono of the gallon were killed. It was rebellion—not mutiny. The edit idea of the ormv was to proteot me leom further °rooky. In oterryiug this out murder was done and all were liable to the gallows. The dead bodies were lyiug on deck when I recovered consciousness, while the men had congregated in the waist of the brig 1:r consultation. The second mate, whose name was Chapman' had sympehiz- ed with the crew, althoughhe had no hand In the fight, Be was now ashecl to bake command of the brig until ft could be deter- mined what should be done, and he did SO. The three dead men were prepared for buri- al in the usual way, and launched over the side vvithont eervine, and an hour after the • Oght not a trace of it was left. When the question of what should be done came up for diet:union most of the men were appalled at the serionstmee of the case. It was the firet duty of the mate to pet &signal of distress 'but, of course, nothing of the sorb was done. Under the law he ellould head for the nearest port andthere surrender brig and orcev, bob of course, he had oo thought of tide While he had not Molted the orew to resis- tance, he had nob come to the aid of the offioers. It would have been easy toprove his symnathy for me, and that wouldhave made him the acotossory of the crew. It was malls - ed that all had oublawed themselves, and the question was,where to go and what to do with tne brig. It was finally decided to beta up for the Solomon Islaods. The brig was bound home through Torres Strait:, ate she had two ports of call to make before reaching the Cape of Good Hope, and we were not over 450 miles out of Sidney when the murder occurred. We therefore had &voyage ofquite le500 miles before us. For the fireb week men could not have be- haved more sensibly. The discipline was o good, and all were under proper restraint. a We were sighting vessels daily, and on several oceasione we were passed so closely helped out. It was 9 o'clock on the morn - Ing of the fourth day. The drab word from the Captain was a curse, and his first act was to seeing me about the deck by the hair. Then he called for a rope and beat me until I fainted away, and while lying uncon- scious he and thefirst rnatekicked me sever. al timea. When I came to I was ordered forwaxd among the men. They gave me hind words, satisfied my hunger and thirst, and +hoped that the worst was over. It was net, however. At+ about noon I was called aft, and after the Captain had interrogated me •as to my identity and why I had selected this vesael, he gave me another beatiteg, and turned me over to the mate with the woras : "You can have him now, and I hope you'll kill him before the week is ont." • "Aye, dr, leave that to me," was the reply. TB, find a dozen ways to make him wish he'd never been borne' I had committed an offence, but nothing +deem -deg such puniehraent se I received for • the next three days. I was flogged, kicked, cuffed, and maltreated in every way Captain ty and mate could thinkof, and wasmore than map rendered keen:Able by their cruelty. I funird the men coming the officers for their condemn and encouraging each °thee to in terfere, but I was panne. Indeed after a sheeting or two, I was so harried that I could scarcely remember my own name. On the afternoon of the) eourtla day, 'soon after din. mere while I was forward with the watch and aSoisting the sailnaaker 10 repair a mil, the first notte celled me aft. The wind was light and the owe smooth, and a few fathoms astern of the brig wail an enorreotes shatk, it had oocurred to the two brutes to have some fun with Imo The Mate noosed e rope and passed it round my waist, and then, • eyleile X Struggled and shrieked awl begged for mercy, he carried me to the port ginet-t- er and clopped me overboard tor shark bait. The Auk made a rush for mo, but I was hauled up jest hi advance of b� jan,& The Captain and mate leteghed uproerietuttly, and the latter had picked me Up to &Op etie from the other quatter Wfien the entire oraW •catee rtutning aft. I eatv that mtioh and then fel:teed away, and What took place While 1 tvats Utah:sakes Weer' never eateries tele -tad to MO. that we had to signal our number and report all well. On the third day a man•of-war exchanged signals with us, and through some bungling on our part his suspicions seeneed to have been aroused, and he would perhaps have boarded us had not a change in the weather occurred. After about a week, however, the men began to get independent and to bring forward new plena and there W&8 no longer any harmony among the crew. While Chapman was the only one who oould navigate a ship, and while he had been put in charge of the brig, the men finally refused to do any work beyond that of sailing the craft. Some openly advocated that we turn pirate, and others wanted to run into some port and sell brig and cargo and divide the money. This was hooted at by the more intelligent, and gave rise to furbher ill -feel- ing. The brig had light or contrary winds and made slow progress and at the end of two weeks the situation on board could not have been ranch worse. There were nine of us, including the cook, a black man, and each man of them seemed determined to do as he pleased. All messed in the cabin, and all nad access to the liquor, and as a came - gnome fights frequently Da:furred, and there were times when the brig had close shaves from being made a wreck. On one occasion the men charged the mate with playing them fake, and with planning to deliver them up to justice, but he somehow satisfied them that he was holding to the course originally agreed upon, and he was honest in what he said. After a run of some twenty-five days he announced that we were approaching the Solomon Islands, and the men at once made ready to carry out their further plans. Oae hundred miles southwest of San Christoval, which is the easternmost island of the group, is a smaller group mama the Little Solimcsons. It was this group we were approaching, and at that date no white man had set foot upon there. They were inhabited by fierce and blood -thirsty natives, who combined piracy, wrecking and fishing, and the mate was for makiag for the other group. He was overruled in this, and when the brig had hauled in until the land could be seen from the deck the long boat was got over and loaded. The men intended to play the part of cast- aways, oud hada story all fixed up. They erased the name of the boat, and took noth- ing aboard which would betray the identity of the brig, which they meant to scuttle. At noon, after working all the morning, they had loaded the boat with whatever suited them, divided up the sum of $1,250 found on board, and were ready to bore holes in the brig's bobtom. For two days I had been ill of fever and confined to my bunk. I knew from the conversation around me what was going on, and at at noon, when one of the men brought me a cup of gruel, he said we should soon loe off, Half an hour later the brig became so quiet that I grew afraid, and with great effort orawled on deck. The long boat was a mile away, with every men in it About four miles to the west, comingup under a light breeze, was a British man•of-war. All sail had been taken off the brig, so that she was simply drifting. It was the sight of tne man-of-war which had burried our crew off so suddenly. In about an hour she came up and eater a crew had been pub aboard both vanilla stood in and came to anchor in a bay and then boats were sent out for the mutin- eers. Not even a eight of them was ever obtained. • Ten years later it was known that •they made a landing on one of the small Iolanda, were secreted by the natives Until the ship sailed, and every one of them was then knocked on the head for the sake of the plunder. X was taken bug to Sidney and later on bo England, and AB I was the only survivor my story was told and retold in the °mute and raw until the whole world had the details. • In the Reatanrant. "See here, waiter, there's a roach on this butter," :add a guest at an east side restart - rant. "Just chuck bine down a little herder so he can't git away an I'll tend to his case when Tgib froo wid dia gent." •Had a Good Setter Himself. " Do you know Who has a good getter dog to emit 2" , • "Ores that sets everything 2" "Yea, a reguler setter." "Ores that will set every time and all the titne--a thoroughbred Better ?" "Yen of coutee." "Well, Eve got that kind of hen I'll sell cheap," leerortnenly Sympethy. "e often feel an aohing veldt" renearked yoiing Fitzperoy to Miss Susie. t"I am sor- ry yea are troubled -With &rank headeohe," replied the girt feympetheeticelly. The farmer must be a man 4 deaden, ;rival. to gee hie eon eeep by the ear Med AR111011LTITRAL Too Waitrons Polo oo Pones, Pones, July el, 1See• Eaton+ Country Gentlernao—Four days Vent at: the Bads " Univereal Expoeition" hove eteabled me, in some mamma, to grow up to a comprehension of ito vastness and Jto endue. By its value I have reforeoce to ite oompleteness as a world's fair," a represen- tation of the produote of men's labor and :skill in all countries, a partial gazetteer of the world'a material progress, The value of Its influence upon France aol other countries has yet to be Been. Doubtless it will not be small. Who OSA measure the yoke of our Centennial Exhibition ba 1876 upon the United, States? From it we date much of advancement in architecture and other arts, our development in many manufaetures, And A great enlightenment: of our people. Some of the readers of the Country Gen - Venom, remembering the exhibite of live oteck and in many other departments a agriculture at our Cloatannial, may suppose that they would find the like at .Parieibat there are none anoh eta:opt the exhiblts of agriouleurel machinery, grain and food pro. dads, If there are no domeatie animal wibhin the inelosures, the American will feel satisfied by examining the horses outside -- those at work upon the street railway lines and in the heavy omnibus !service, and also those upon the stylish Parisian carriages. The latter are often of the French Coach type, and are superb in every way—fit for their elegant aervice in this most magnificent city of cities. Those animals employed In heavy work are Percherons or Percheron Moments. A Paris omnibua is au immense affair, carrying eighteen persona inside and as many more on top. Three stallions, or three mares, are hitched abreast and give magnificent exhibition of animal power. Oe oourse my readers know that horseo are rarely ever castrated in Prance. The streets are noisy with their neighing, and bee ond this little inconvenience is experienced. The best exhibit connected with agrionl- ture is the superb collection of models of farms and farm buildings, representing those of all countries. There's here much to learn. lb is interesting to find, as might reasonably be expected, thab man everywhere meets the requirements of his situation, determin- ed by climate and soils, by 8110i1 means aa are adapted thereto. Yet each country has something whioh abhors might imitate with advantage. There are °lames of horticultural exhibits, half of them belonging to the ornamental departmenes. The most intereatine one to me was that of "orchards and fruit cultiva- tion." The French people excel in the cul- tivation of many fruits, among them grapes, pears, plums, apricots and •cherries. Their vineyard systems are nob suited to Amer- ican oonditions. We already practice some of their methods with pears and plums. We •might profibably imitate their "espalier' training of apricots, but not against the south sides of walla. In our eliroate the Warmth of a few early spring days so pushes the blooms forward that later cold destroys them. Near New•York I have had good success in training them upon north expo - Bares where the circulation is kept back, and no injury from late frosts result& For eeveral years I have not missed a regular crop of excellent French cherries are particularly fine. The Paris fruit stands are now loaded with many varieties • of the choicest quality. Never before have I seen May Dukes of such surpassing excellence. The organizeleitened the enhibition have wisely provided for international meetings on special sulbjeots, to be held in the Palate de Trocadero. This week is devoted to those on agrionlbure. I regret that my time has not permitted my attending them. I hear them sleeken of as very interesting, Ameriotne exhibit is greeetest inthe deport - meat of machinery and useful inventions. In our electrical exhibit we outstrip the World. Ediame's inventions are always, saw rounded by admiring throngs. France makers her greatest glow in those manufactures which she sells to the rest of the world. Her works of at are atmost numberkaa. • Her sculptors and pakten seem to delight most in scenes of carnage and destruction, and in representing the humeri figure in the state which the French- men considers glorious—in 8 wealbh of nothingness of clothing. The Peenchmann ideas of war are peculiar. • In one of the divisions is a magnificent building containing what is called an exhibition of the progress of civilization. De is in five departments, and the chief one is of military science. We might: sappose that this has been a cause of retrogression rather than of advancement, and yet Hosea Biglow put some truth in the lines— " Civilization does get froward Sometimes, upon a possoler Ont." An international peace conference has just been held in Perk. .A resolution was c ffered calling upon European nations to reduce their armies. A prominent French- man acivoteated it, but said it must not apply to France; if 11 was intended to ap- ply to her, he would immediately leave the hall 1 I have greatly enjoyed a trip through Normandy. Her hillsides and valleys are the moat fertile in France. Upon the for- mer many promising colts were grazing, and • getting the qualiby of wind and bone and feet which limestone hill pastures give to stook reared upon them. In the valleys and upon the broad plains no fences are seen. Cows are tethered upon the grass, and grain is cultivated to the roadside. The little patches„of different crops give a crazy quilt appearance to the landecape. This comes of the small " peasant -holdings " of the land. The French peasant not only gets e living for his family, but saves mon- ey, upon a farm of less than four acres, and sets a Valuable example to all the world in using every Inch of land and in practicing wine economies. I leave :men three or four hundred acres with not more than a quarter acre of one crop together. • Farmers rarely live upon the lands they till. Those of a large motion of couotry live together in a village, and go out with their wives and aileron to their work. Thie has frame limn- veniencee, but the =sem had its origin in remote times, as best suited to &knee in time of war, lb is the same in Germany. The wheat and rye harvesto are note going on, but not te mowing Or reaping machine have I Seen in any field. A attaightentethed soythe end the sickle do all the work, The Preneh are truly a wonderful people, but in nothing else are they so woe -Awful at in their ability to live: well—yee, elegant- ly—upon a smaller allowance, or with smaller opportunitiee, than would be 'tufa- dent for the bare subsistence of other% them Woom Weaken heen 'Penman it CAmite-GetOwn ,rn PREMBTORIO TIMES, What, Which is tuner the Weed °Oen of tWelvo Etteepeleet Maki* tend is bib egti• pleating nudee 10 Anierido. and -general tin Wier greenlet in Inclinietae, nteelenbe0 Widely grate* In the. peeliiiiterelte Meted as the Ealuburee Review, The Chinese oulelvated it 2700 B. C. ea a gift direct from heoveo ; the Egyptialm attribute its •origin tolele end the Greeks to three, A classic: aceouut and of the distribution of the wheat over the primeval world :above that Ceres, having taught her favorite Tope tolemus agriculture erel the arb of bread making, gave elm her oeariot, celestial veniole, Welch he •used In travele ler the purpose of dietrifeatiog cone to alt neatens, Throe ornall•graiima variet1,30 of eenunen wheat were cultivated by the firsb leke dwellers of Sivitharlaod ttime of Trojan war) and by the less enchant lake dwellers pf western Switeerland and of Indy also by the people of Rungary ia the stone age, and. by the Egypt:Jena on °Menem of a brick perearnid in which a grain was imbedded, and to which the debit of 3359 B. C. has been as• darted. None Pow CwEESE•MARING FOR ARGUST. A cheese factory's reputation la largely de- termined by the quality of its Auguet, Sep- tember and October output, The beginning of August is a fib time for every cheese - maker who has had ooly partial success dur• ing the hot weather to redeem his reputation and that of eis factory. A comparison of the prime realised for the 'summer cheese of Ontario with the figures reported from the United States markets shows that 'Cienadien cheese are in demand ab higber rates than American cheese will sell for. Thot we have gained in reputation and in woke:: favor with British importers And consumers is evident. That this advauce and advantage are the result of the applied skill of less than half of our °been -makers is well known to those who vise) factories and handle their products. To reach and to speedily help those who work he cheese fat:bones without any ambition or asplration for improvement is well-nigh impracticable. However, we desire to make helpful infor- mation not only attainable, but unavoidable to such. Shortly time there will be numerous cable orders from England, calling for "coot Aug- ustecheeee." That brief description implies a mild rich flavor that may be preserved for the winter trade, a firm solid body "bit of meatiness," a fine outside finish with °leen bright rinds free from cracks, and bandages hesh-looking and not likely to appear mouldy. Making the Cheese,—When the eveningss are +tool and the milk needs ripening, don't fail to leave it in the vat until it reaches the proper state of maturity before the rennet is added. Use enough rennet to coagulate mature milk, to a state fit for =Wog in forty minutes when seb at 88‘ degrees Fahr. Dilute the extract to the extent 01 008 pailful of water for every vatful of milk, mid then mix 11 thoroughly by vigorous, rapid stirring. • When you are troubled with gassy curds, allow a development of acid, suoh as will be indicated by threads from the hob iron test a quarter of an inch long, before the removal of che whey. It is a good plan bo run moat of the whey off at an earlier stage, and to leave only enough whey on the curd to permit a free stirring of it. After the whey is drawn, air the curd thoroughly and make proviei on for keeping it warm. Wen a curd sink is used,if need.be to retain the heatipire the curd back into the vat, bat leb the temperabare be kept above 94 degrees. Frequent turning and aeration will facilitate the development of acid, providing the temperature is main- tained. After the curd cutter has been used the curd should be etirred for fifteen or twenty minutes, before the application of salt Prom* 10 n pounds of salt per thou- sand pounds of milk should be added to curds that are fairly well dried by the previous stirring, They should be put in the hoope •withintwenty minutes after the salt has been mixed in. Pressure should be applied very grad- ually. The cheese should be bandaged neatly when they are turned in the hoops within two hours after they are pub in the presses. They should again be turned in the hoops some time in the following morn- ing. Where practicable, cheese should be pressed for at least twenty houts. Endeavor to geb everyone who sends milk to your factory, or who is concerned in its management, to try to bring it to the very front in point of reputation for the excellent qualiby of its produce:. Work conscientious- ly for that end, than talk your facbory up always and wherever you go, and get your patrons to do likewise). In abort, think anp work to make your factory and ite produce: worthy et a higher reputation, especially for August cheese.—aTas. W. Robertson, Prof. Dairying. Gunner, July 23, 1889. • Udder Guard. • The danger of speaking in %foreign tongue receives a new illustration in an incident re- lated by the Minneapolis "Tribune." A newly -married couple from Minnesota were passing the honeymoon in Fiance, where they had taken a villa and were enjoying themselvea to their hearts' content. • The bride, like many American women, spoke ikently several modern league:0s, while her husband knew nothing but Eng. lish, or as the Tribune " call it, " plain 'United States." Ore day Mrs. nameable started out on a shopping expedition, leaving Mr. Reynolds at home. At the iast moment she turned beck and instructed the new men -servant to be sure and look efeer the file. At least she thoughb she did. Bub she may have odd fon, which means madman, when she intended to say /in, Are. - Ile servant may have been deaf. At all erents he understood the lady to tell him to watch the lunatic, and thought she meant her bus band. , Mr. Reynolds was °coupled with a batch of American newspapers, recently received, and knew nothing of what had happened till after some time he got tip to leave the room. To hie astonishment he found the door locked. Ire called loudly for some one to acme and unlock ib, when he was still more astonished at seeing the servant appear at the window with a mnaket. "Keep quiet," said the faithful fellow. "Keep perfectly quiet, or I shall fico." ' Mr. Reynolds, who by fhb time was a mad man, if not madmen, kept quiet, pre. serving leis equanimity as best he could till Reynolda returned, When the remitery Was cleated up, settee some rather hurried WC. planations. War On the Jane Begs. At the blatant of the Government the pea. sante 'king neat the Tuehel it:mkt:de in Weal: kruesia Imo° been waging a war of extermination on the June huge, which ap- peared by the million in the fir 'onsets of that region a short tfine ago. Altogether 489,000 litre e of June burl evere killed and &Mooted. As every litre contained some 486 Wge, the total number gatherecl by the peasants was abbot e16;000,00,0, Por every eked hug tee geaernment paid one -thirtieth 4 h pfennig, leas than one-oneehandredth of a emitehtleat 18 for the whole batch /,000 marks, TURIN NEWS, The "Heavenly Feet Sooletye •hat: been started in Chime by the women, ut rebellion agEkfRet the venerated fashion that +empress - et+ their feel:. British reports of the inland fi,sheriee show that oat of 77,870 'salmon oaptuted in seven. be ditibriOt$ 011ly 2,744 vvere taken by che rod. The othere were netted. TWO hundred and thirty. one -foreignere were expelled from Belgium b :tenon the 6 at of February, 1888, and the 6 eh 01 3.! ebruery for potic89liTharlon. eereeaxsPnelsiene only were o rdered The value ot Franoe,heetiereated by M. de ravine, a as +gnized authority, hao depre• elated since 1875 ab sub la per cent. of the entire national wealtn. TOM, in property held ab home and abroad, is estimated at about 200 inieliarcle of franca, or $40,000,000,- 000, Such a depreciation is tremendous. The moat extensive building in the world I� undoubtedly Machinery Hall, in the Paris Exposition. It is nearly 8 quarter of a mile long and 370 feet broad. .fte roof, which coven 60,000 equare feet, is one great arch, spanning the entire distence from aide to tide wibhoub a single intervening support. On Sundays, when on the imperial yacht, Kaiser William officiates himself. The orew is drawn up on the quarter deck, and in front of a providenal altar, covered with the war ensign of the Guinan navy, the Kaiser reads, in a loud voice, a sermon, and concludes the service with some Collects and the Lord's prayer. An "Arnerlean" syndicate le said to have offered eight million franca for the right of keeping a gambling house, like that of Monte Carlo's, at Tontchider, about four miles from, Belgrade. Toptchider is highly pictur• +segue. But, although the syndicate offers one-third of the profits to the town, the authorities hesitate. The Hague Museum has reoerilly acquired the tongue of Jan de Witt tend the great toe of his brother, Cornelius de With, two statesmen who were torn to pieces by an en. raged people in 1672. M. Cookhuyt of Ley. den, who has presented them to the museum, vouches for their genuineneas as "they have both been in our family since 1672." The Austrian Archbishops are probably the :most highly paid in the world, The Cardinal Arehbiohop of Vienna has only about 46,600 a year, bub the Cardinal Arch- pishop of Olmutz leas £10,000, the Cardinal Archbishop of Prague has £35,000, and the Archbishop of Mira has £60,000. And the primate of Hungary, the Cardinal Arehblehop of Grau, has £80,000 a year. .A Parisian wbo had grievances against his wife took advantage of the new law and obtained a divorce. Then he thonghb he night at the same tine suppreas the pension legally agreed to in favor of his mother-in- law at his marriage, but: that lady resisted, and the question wont to the courts. There it was proved that M. Naquebn law was defective, for it Waf3 decided that although the divorced mart had no longer a wife, he had not been divorced from lite mother -in - low, and mast continue to pay her pension. Two weeks ago, while engaged in examin- ing the publio art:hives at the Hague, Gen, Jamea Grant Wilson met with a letter addressed tp the States General of the United Netherlands by P. &flagon, dated Amsterdam, Nov. 7, 1626, announcing the purchase of the Island of Manhattan by the Dutch West India Company for the sum of $24. Two days later he found the original deed, which had lain unknown for263 years among the papers of an ancient Datch family. Gen. Wilson hopes to be able to purchase the deed. Liberty, the well-known London dealer in Oriental goods, gave the Japanese a eeriotts lecture recently at Sakuregeokaa" Tokio. He told the natives that they were permit - tin' their arb to be vitiated by that of Europe. Their eyes for form has been dull- ed by the debasing effeob of the worse ex- amples of Western pottery, and their schemes of color and fineness of ineanpulation have been manifestly subjected to similar lamentable influences. They should re- form or the unequalled artistic inheritance of the pasts will be thrownhway. The present Emperor of Germany is known to be hostile to the excessive bebting which is practised in the army:When as Prince William he was Colonel of the feed Hussars he intimated to some officers of his regiment that they should withekaw their names from a club where gambling was notorious. An important nobleman asked William I. to ask his grandson to withdraw the prohibiton ; bub the old Kaiser's subsequent requesb was met with the question, "Am I Colonel of the regiment r "Of °outset" said William 1. "Then your Wadley will allow me to maintain ray position Otto return it:nowise- to your hands." The emote time the noble- man spoke to the Emperor upon the sub. jut the latter said : "3. am very sorry. I have tried everything, but the Colonel positively refuses," The business of the Eiffel Tower turns out to be immense. M. Eiffel calcutated that when everything was in working order the gate money would be $5,000 a day. Since the lifts have been in operation he is thought to have averaged more •than this. It costs a franc to enter the tower, two francs to getup in the lift to the second floor, and four francs to the top. On any one of the ordinary full pries days more than 20,000 people have paid admission, and, with the increased pric- es for those using the elevator, the entire re- ceipts exeeed $10,000. The orfginal cost of the Eiffel Tower, all included, WAS 8 little lees than $1,000,000 The proprietor has to keep 11 in repair and hand over one fourth of hie gate money to the Exhibition. Ibis es- timated that itr Will behalf paid for when the Exhibition doses, and then it will remain certainly three years more and perhaps ten. A Tender Revelation Brighb child (to prospective stepfather— "' wish you had lived with III3 when my other pa was here." • Stepfather--" Why so, my darling 2" • Bright Child—" Then, when ma would have made one of you make the beds and sweep, I could have had the other to play with. He Ware An Abe -teener - The Rev. William Lloyd has a keen and ex- qttheiteaenseofnumor, W/aen he returned from a trip abroad this Pall he occupied a seat at the table d hote en the eteamer oppoeite an obese lady who ate an (wormer: quantity of pastryand who frowned eignificantly every time the clergyman took a draught of his daily porton of ale.' Ode day else leaned mutes the festive board end inquired loudly 44 MaY I arek you, eir, why you drink that nasty stuff?' "To the glory of Godmadam," answeefed gri:Wjjleolylecie,tethrilenetintlaiPliP70'd, helping heteelf to another eton tart, "3. should think you would be an abstainer." 4: ifittglatI 4ttidnaenriii°Or Whati Should like fO know?" she °bemired, sciteasticelly. "Madam," replied the clergyman, quietly, from ple."-etArgoteeente The gareau of the ,Shah, Without indiscretion, it may be noted that the denizens of the royet tieroglio be- longing to his interesbing Majeety, who are under the care of the Koji Bashi, or chief eunuch and hie f ellowe, are about three hun- dred; that+ of these three hundred many are children, and two hundred at least+ are sinaplo etervente, a large number being ne- greeees• Eech, adle of the Persian court has its oorreepooding dignity in the Ando - raw Few Additions have been made of late yeare to the inmates of the royal aeraglio ante it contains absolutely no Europeans or male permit+ over the age of eleven. olech royal favorite has her separate pavilion and her staff of servants, separate equipages, her e meek eyed her revenue. The prim:iota tevorite generally eas some high sounding title opnferred upon her as "The Delight el the State." The ladies are never sem abroad unveiled, neve one or two of the handeomer or more flighty of the number, who sometimes, when driving in their "glass coaches," purposely give a rather liberal dieplay of florid charm to passers-by in °adages or on hornbook. The legends of Mamma Greek Peincen not- withstanding, it is quite certain that, as a rule, no MEM save the Ring enters the royal harem, or, having done so, leaves 11 alive. Some years ago an unfortunate workman, while engaged in excavating a water course, suddenly found himself in the royal harem and nearly died of fright accordingly, (by the way, the indoor dress worn by Persian ladies has been desoribed as precisely le- sernbling the costume of a ballet girl, minus the menet!) but the King, seeing how the matter stood, pardoned hien. The means of getting rid •of those who have ceased to please is simple yet ingen- ious. There is no sewing up in Backe, no casting from towers, no bowstring, no pois- oning. Some provincial general is Wormed that he will be favored with a wife from the Royal harem. To refuse is impossible ; the disgusted lady arrives and is placed at the heed of her new husband's household. She usuelly Malabo on his divorcing his other wiveti, and in any case treats 'them as ger- vanta and inferiors. One old general, who had become the recipient of one of these royal favors (the lady led him a sad life) never alluded to her but—in a -whisper, of course—as " the old camel." Beaany and youth are the few and okapi° qualifichetions fer entering the Royal harem. Various accomplishments, such as singing, playing on the hand drum, or tumbek, the tambou- rine and the harmonica are often acquired after the lady has been received into the seraglio. Only the fresh arrivals and those who have failed to please live tegather in a sort of barrack under the supervision of the-Amin- i-Akdies, an old favorite Who acts. as a sort of "Mother of the Maids:" Every Thursday there is a kind of review. The Shah person- ally inspeobing the whole establiahment obher than the recognised wives and favor- ites. The throwing of the handkerchief is no invention and has not gone out of pract- ice. The number of legitimate wives (for eekdi) for every Mumulman is four. The head wife of the present Shah (who is hie condo also) and who bears the title of Shuko- es-Sultano is the great grandaughter of Fatteh All Shah, a =nettle whose family was so large that 110 of his descendants were alive at hie death. This lady is the mother • of the crown Prince, or Velliad. Her mar- riage wihh the Shah waa one of polioy. The next wife in seniority is the daughter of a, son of Fade& Ali Shah. • She %only lusown so ruiner as having a somewhat sharp temp- er. The third wife, and the actual favorite, is Anys u-Dowlet. She has been a legiti- mate wife nearly thirteen years is very fat, fairly goodlooking, and is said' to be very good-tempered and attractive. She actually accompanied the Shah as far as Diarmow on his first journey to Enropeebut the attempts to see her, made bye the Russians of all classes were so perunacions that, to her great disappointment, she was sent back to Teheran. The Anyteu-Dowlet has immenee influence, and yet she never takes a bribe, but her own family- is well cared for, three of her relatives filling important positions at the Court, where their reputationis not that of her royal. kinswoman. The whole family were the children of a village miller, who lived near Direarvende a nearly extinct volcano, which, capped wibh eternal snow, towers over Teheran, and may be seen, ib is said, at a distance of 200 miles.--(Biodern Socieby. Saved a Hyena's Life. A correspondent of the Cleveland "Lead- er" thinks there is but one instance on re- cord of a Man being rewarded for saving the life of a hyena. Writing from Philadelphia, he tells how the aft& happened, at the " Zoo" in that city. The carnivore house was filled with visitors, watching the feeding of the animals, when the hyenas, which are young and tuausually fierce, began to fight over their food. Suddenly one of the brutes began to choke, and ib was found that a big bone with the meat attached to itt had parbially slipped down his throat and he yeas sbrang- ling. If the animal was to be saved 001110. thing would have to be done quickly. One of the keepers, named Shannon, grasped a :scraper and, without beak:Alen, opened the iron door and sprang into the cage. The hyenas made a dash as bizn, but he beat them back, while the head keeper, Byrnes, clubbed them with a broonnhandle. Both animals frothed at the jaws anti acted as though they were rabid. Watching his' oppoitunity, Keeper Shan- non finally succeeded in striking the choking aninaal on bhe jaw and looeenifig the bone, and it fell out upon the floor of the cage with the meat etihl attached. The plucky keeper got out of the cage without being injured, and hisaot of kind- ness in saving the life of the animal secured for bien the anti -enmity socieneds gold. medal. Did They Mean it ? .A. Vireetern paper prints the following Jugular card of thankrn Alr. and MIR, limeys hereby wish to em- press their thanke tothe friends and neigh- bors who to kindly assisted at the burning of their house lath Monday evening. •100.M.•••=it, Funnv Little Polka. A little four-year-old brother wee led into the room to See a new deter. He stood for o nuement in deep thought, and then salami " Mamma, did, baby tum from beaten?" " Item" "Did I tune from hereven ?" "Yes, dear,'' "014 'oo turn from heaven 2" "Why, yes." Is we ell doing back to heaven 1" "3. hope no." "Den I'd dens as leave hare gimped de and netted tar faro." The Russian papers report that limn° ex. oeedingiq rioh veins of geletheve been struck itt Ozeaeg.bd diggintat Yeittga ox Meithe,