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The Exeter Times, 1894-2-14, Page 38ITfEEN," an,eo or Wild tdre In it.b c canadatko Neill, wes $, A few evenings ago the welter awl, several rlemis were eerily nestled around, the fire, ne of the cepipeny was a tnedieal man who ad 'Tent twelve years QV tie in the Canadian Vortimoat territeriee, Outside the attic/e- rre waaoltillYi mad the inclicatiene favoted elder weather. "If you weld. be trenepoeted from St. JOhe to the prairies on such a day es Wo had to.da.y, ' remarked. the doctor, "and Were ignorant of the (Mango that a few holm bring ie that climate, two surprises would greet you, To -day you observe dotted in countless mention over the vat stretches of prairie sluices or small ponds, whose placid waters •weeld. remind you of ' so Many mirrors set in rustic frames. "Toonorrove morning, as *C111 again looked over the prairies, the whole face of the country would tioani to be changed- Pretruding from every sluice you would see cones made of grass, no. These are the winter houses of the muskrat—reered, finished, and occupied in a single night; as If them fragrant little creatures pesseeeed the pewer of the 'Wizard Panerates, "That night the sluices would be sere to freeze, and the mutkratt would live in peace until the spring, when the Indians make t air tweeds, plunge a spear down 0 throe the cones mud thus capture.'num- hem the occupants. The rats are in prime order in the spring after' their long rest, The flesh is eaten and the ekine are taken care of by the squaws. " These skins as well ea all others, Axe e kind of legal tender, and, it's a common occurrence for the Indian' to visit a store, make his purchase, take a bundle of tat* aldose from under hi a arm, and count them out as five -omit pieces,. The Indian Department displays much energy to suppress small -pox, whit* often Creates great hamie among the natives at the phone. Doctors are sent out regularly to vaccinate the Incliane. The Doctor makes hie rounds with the agent who pays the bounties. A large tent is pitched, ona the tribe is requested to appear. The stipulation is that all must be vaccinated befere receiving the money. • "The Indians are distinguished by numbers as well as nainesemed, as they are paid so much per head, every member of a family must be produced aiicl pass through the agent's tent. Before being paid those 'requiring it are vaccinated. • "One day," said the doctor. "I was vac- einating a tribe of Crees,when a woman ap- proached with a couple of children. She had a ricknIelodiOus voicenvith a Scotch accent. When she spoke I stopped for a moment and bold her 'toga into the next tent and I would attend to her in a few moments, I saw she wee not a equaw,and thought she was the wife of a Hudson's Bay Company employee Who wanted to gebvacomated at the expense of the Government. "While I was speaking the clerk shouted sub: 'No. 18.' and the woman said in a low Voice i 'lam No. 16.' Sheleareet her AM, and both she and the children were ettend- ed to." She passed onmeceived her bounty, and then out among the herd of Indians. -"The face and voice of that woman haunted the rest of the day while I kept iotis seracthi the arms of breves; squeove, seed pappoose "At IAA e day's 'work was over and ire- struments laid aside. After supper I set about to satisfy my curiosity as to the his- tory of No. 16. A few inquiries enabled me to locate the shack where she put tip, and thither I bent my way. "The shack, I may say, is a small hut, ' clay or mud. A fire can be made Amok. The place is so construct - t the squaw stands thd sticks 'of to jut ad wood on -their ends so that the fire is fed as if from a self -feeder. No. 16 related to me how and why she occupied the shack, It'wasrather a romantic story, but yet one full 'at sadnese from begining to end. " 'My father,said No. 16, in a voice full of pathos, 'is a Scotoliman, and is factor of Fort Palley, belonging to the Had - Boa's Bay Company. Before the North-. west territories were, taken-0er he ruled the country for hundredof miles around. He was a magistrate, too, and of course administrated the law.' , " WheriNo. Ile reached a certain age she , was sent to Scotland in one oftthe cora- Pany's ships, which leave for Fort Nelson a couple of times each year. This was no easy trip in those days. For hundreds of miles she had to cross prairies and then by canoe and other conveyances the [great rivers were traversed until Hudson's Bay was reached, where embark -Aim took place. ' It took Some months to do this, - "When Scotland was reached she en- tered a university and remained there un- til she graduated. These were pleasant days for the meting Western girl. She be- came acquainted _ with an intelligent Scotchinan, and the attachment became ao strong on both sides that before the left the land of heather for the wilds of Canada they had plighted vows. "One of the company's ships bore heraway from her pleasant associations in Scotland to the higher latitudes of Davis Straits and the Hudson's Bay, where the iceberg is familiar in August, there again to rough it lever fords and stretches of swamps, up vast water courses, and along bewildering trails, In company with the trappers and porters of the company for months, until Fort Polley was again reached. "The journey was made in safety. Of course it was understood that her young Scotch lover would leave the land of cakes and follow her to the Northwest, where • she pictured to herself the kind reception . he would receive from her parents, and ,11 e where the battle of life vemildebe commenc. r ed in the nearriedeF.- Iteee a But this dream wasame_ . . a. Aye, the -golden tto if ' web was to be shattered before it was near- ly completed. "After duo time the father was inform- ed of her attachment to the young man Its Scotland, of her intention to marry him, and how he was doming out for that pule peso. The father become angry mad would not cement. He already had a husband ehosen for her. The person was an employee of the company, and was stationed at Fort Gang. TO' GIRDLE THE EARTH, lived like e bmein finidiel thrice. Meele were eerved iu la large. halli While betiore attended to the ordinary dutiett. "One morning, after the factor and his! feet table, le wee noeiced thee thedesightet'a '""eee PV v4A9 m4414 P' 4*V"" 444CV" retinae had teleen their plemee at the bre ak lefeticese et, the ve,,,,„ 'Vitoria Trip. chair Wee vecant. Tito Mother Wee eekeet &girt bn a Round. the the reason, and. the replied that the girl watt ill and she was unable te leave her room.r" "The father, wording that she had heard of hie 'notions toward the young B*IfItheeetitleeetette MAGMA Seetehnlen) and that she Was feigning sink' On Feb, 22 a man whoa° name from then nese, determined to show her he was not to on will be knal Jones will enter the Turk. be trifled with. The mother was requeatcd leh beth room of the Boston Athletic, to tell her to home down, and the daughter obeyed the summons, When the entered the hall it was <tette evident that she had. recently been weeping. The father, letting hie passion get the bet- ter of doreum, up braided his daughter be. fore the employees, using the most harsh language toward the young Seotolimate " Fier a time the daughter Hothead to him meekly, but the elimair was reaolied where patience ceased to be a virtue. 'She arose, and.,. tossing batik her loose heir, etood before him in defiance. Looking straight at her father, she said with much bitterness and detortninittion : Before forty-eight hours I will disgrace you With that she rushed from the dining hall. The meal proceeded, and afterward the employees went about their usual vocations. "The fatherthought the affatr ef the morn- iug would soon quiet dowe s far as hie daughter was tioneerned, and eventually -Film would conie around to his way of thinking. But be woo mistaken. " The young woman left the fort. It was no %le for her to try to leave the coma try, for elle was too far away from dm ilizetion, and she also knew that none of thereniployees dere assist her. She there. Sire made her way to a tribe of Cree Indians. It did not take her long to make up her miud evhat to do. It was a terrible sacrifice, but she was determined to thwart her father's plans, and in order to do this she became the 'pale -faced squaw' of e full. blooded Cram "Although, with her husband, she often encamped near the fort,.hr father never noticed her afterward. Her mother used to send her articles froim the fort, but that was the only intercourse she had with her parents. In order to distinguish her hes- band and family elle had, them assume the name of McLeod. , "The woman's story affected me very much," said the speaker, "and I was -glad when my work was over, but the eaorilloe No. 16 made has never left my memory." " aro wee an obstacle that she did liot count upon. She debated the subject -with her father, and. Enmity asserted her prerogative of accepting as her husband the man she had chosen, while the father' was just as determined that she ehouId marry the Man he had chosen. "This Matters stood for a long time. It was impossible for her to lot the young man in Seotland know how matters wer lit. In the mean time, hovrever,he had deter]. mod to roach the Northweet, "He haute out to Chicago, and from there made his way to Port Garry, where he jolts. ed a party who were going to Fart Pelley, The journey between the two forts—some 800 or 400 Miles—wee made, but his recep- tion at Port Palley wan a cold one. The fethet Weald not allow him to see his daughter. Fre was ordered to leave the eettutry at orice. This ordee Watt supreme, and bed to be obeyed. "HO :Valet not reside in the country an hour without the factor's knowledge. Even if no could, there was no means for a young. man like him to gain a livelihood. The forte y ' held all the tecoseariet of life, and none emild be p etches° d elm ewh eve, Then, again, at ootit ail „ reeolted the border et the tItht:eigogwlieas tblimeerldeaterIrnacifeebe.ciug killed by "With. roluetance he turned his back to Fort Palley and all- it contaieed that wet dear to nine amenne rOtraead hie ge 'hebest ... ,l, -it tit, Simi all trace of hien. elni$ _ jORN OHO AMAYS INSENUITYs How Ito Cheats Not enly Departed eaten& ' but Ike Gods Themselves. One of the industries of Kiangsu is the manufacture of mock money for offering to ehe dead. Formerly the Chinese burnt sham paper money, but in these days of enlightenment and foreign intercourse the natives of Soongkoug, Hangchow, and other places have come to the conclusion tlaat silver dollars are more handy to the ghosts than clumsy paper money; hence they now to a great extent supply their ancestors and departed friends with mock These are only half -the size of real dol- lars, but there appears to Immo more harm in cheating the dead than there is in cheat. lug the living. Besides, the deceased are not supposed to know the difference, for many of them departed this life before sil- ver dollars were imported into China. A hundred mock Ce.rolus dollars, done up in boxes, are sold for 84 cash. The operation of making this money is interesting. First of all there are blocks of tin which are melt- ed down and then poured between boards lined with Chinese paper, and when the upper boatd.is pressed down on the lower a thickness of ten remains. This is next cut up into strips four incb.et long, one wide, and an eighth of an inch thick. Some ten of these strips ate' plaoea evenly togethenone on top alike othemaad one end is held between the fingeriewhen the workman proceeds to hammer them out till he has beaten them so flue that they are now three feet long and a foot broad and so thin that they are nos thicker than the thin - est paper. This is next pasted on cotnrnon eardboard,whieh is lb en out with a punching machine to the size of half dollars, and this having been done a boy takes the cut out pieces in hand,e.nd with two dies,one reins - smiting the one side and the other the re- verse, hammers impressions of dollen on them, and the money is ready for use. Anothervery curious instance of the prac- tice of cheating the gods is recorded, but from quite a different part of the country. It appears that districts of the A.nhur prom, ince have lately been ravaged by ea epi- demic, so that in meaty places the people were unable to attend lathe harvesting of the crops. An attempt was then made to deceive the gods bee "playing at" NewYear's day and pretending that Sept. 1 was the first day of the new year. Every prepara- tion for celebrating the bogus new year was made, such as burning firecrackers and past- ing happy sentences in red paper on the doors. The object was to make the god of sick- ness think that he had made a mistake in the season and had erred in bringing an epidemic on the people at a time when no epidemic in the course of natere should apPear. As any aotion contrary to nature done by the gods is liable to punish - meat by the king of heaven the actors in this farce thought that the god of sickness would gather his evil spirits book to him f tr fear of the displeasure of his superior Avinity: This child's play received the permission and co-operation of the local au. thorities, but so far no ,yisible effects for the better are apparent. - Association, strip to his skin, end at the call of time start on a journey around, the world, he guaranteeing to reture in one year With $5,000 in his poseeeeion. Jones is not the real name of this young mall. In real life he is a prominent club member, e gratuade of Harvard, was once captain of the 'varsity crew, and is quite wealthy. 1110 present Wager is the result of a comma. eation of adventure held scene time ago in the club Oslo, It was introduced by Jones, and a lively discussion resulted. Jones thought the task could be euccesefully ec. coraplie:.-' e and finaily, made a bet that he could do ithimself, e..11 arrangements for holding him to his word were oonipletea on the spot,anil on the day set for the giving of the ward "go,"Jeutes mug epresent himself at the ()lab house, enter a room and mole TO Tan SKIN. It is so nominated in the bond that he shall neither ask for nor receive money, but Lot any services, such as blacking slums or brushing hats and coate for the club mem- bers, he may take whatever they are hr. dined to oiler. By little services of this. leind he hopes to earn enough to buy A bathing outfit or a suit of heauteentadowne in which to say adieu to the club house, Once on the street eite. Jones proposes to teach the unemployed a profitable lesson in wage-earning by selling papers, running errands or doing anything that comes in his -Ivey. For the sake of e start friends may pot odd jobs in his way, but this is merely a conjecture. It will be hustle from the, call of time, and when money enoweh is obtained to clothe himself aud purchase a ticket for New York, Mr. Jones will feel assured that the hardest part of the journey will not be before him. Mr. Jones is a very persistent young man. Re looks upon Km) as a small amount, and in spite of the difficulties to be encountered by A MONSTLESS MAN A salorionS The Sb. Lawrence is a phenemenon amonigrivers. No other river is fed by such gigantic lakes. No other river is so independent of the elements. It despises alike rain, snow and. sunshine. Ice and wind may be said to be the only things that affect. its mighty flow. Something al- most as phenomenal as the St. Lawrence itself is the fact that there is so little gen orally known about it. It might be Safely affirmed that not one per coot of the Amer - Man public are aware of the feat that among all the great rivers of the world the St. Lawrence is the only absolutely iloodiess one. Such, i however, s the catie. The St. Lawrence despises ruin and sunshine. Its greatest variation caused by rain or drought hatdly ever exceeds a foot or fourteen inches. The cause of this almost everliesb. lug eminence's of volume is easily understood. The St, Lawrence is fed by the mightiest bodies of fresh water On the earth. Immense as is the volume of water it pours ittto the ocetientineono who has traversed all the int. mema lakes that feta it, and for the surplus waters Of which it is only the channel to the sea, 'wonders that it is nob oven More gigantic theo it is, Not one drop of the eraters of the five great lakes Ands its way to the mean save through this gigantict Mt- traordineyr awl Weedrously beautiful river. No wonder, then, that it should despise the Toni and defy the eunehine. The alleged bullet proof eloth, invented by a German tailor, which was talked of same time ago, boa beeu received by the German military authorities,It is throe times as heavy as ordinary °loth ; me difficult to manufraiture into tunies ; is clumsy when made up, and finally, net bullet proof as all, us it l weeny pieeced by the projeetile of the Irebel rifle. A dinittte over a Belgian estate among tAirtiot4lemthi.4teriefiveitilia,sriecitsaolr-tIZIIIIrt on such a trip, he feels confident that he will, be back in Boston one year from the - time he started with every dollar of the $5,000 in hie possession. It is hinted by some that he hopes to accomplish the journey in much lees time, and on his 'arri- val on the Pacific maim engage with dime museum teenagers to exhibit himself as the man from Boston who started naked in a race against time and possibility and came ins, winner. But this is only an insinuation and may not amount to anything. By the time Mr. Jones reaches New York it will be heralded about the city that a than with a real idea is in town. There he ex- pects to make money enough to pay his passage to London. Then should fortune favour him with an opportunity to work his passage he will probably do so, and with the money earned in New York lay the foundation for the $5,000. Mr. Jones will be his own press agent on this long journey,and he assured. hie friends that he will see to it that the news- papers on his route are kept well informs d of his doings. A pert of each day will be devoted to writing and mailing advance notices, and when well out on the road that leads around the earth more time will be devoted to writing and sending back stir- ring exaounes nna ADVENTURES. Mr Jones writes well. His style is well in keeping with his idea of a world trotter. It is original. Once in London, he will use his Yankee wits in an endeavor to add dome - thing to his foundation money, and, if pos. sible, get passage to. Paris without paying for it: In the same manner he will go from point to point on toward Japan. Mr. Jones is a man of resource. Re speaks French, German and. Spanish and enough Italian to order his meals.. When he strikes San Francisco he will begin his dime museum career, working east on to Boston, awl the conditions of his wager require that he shall walk into the fashion- able Boston Athletic Association rooms on Feb. 22, 1895, with $5,000 in his possession, having earned every, dollar of it on his way around the world. ruffletBn$ or IsTrIWO, D nor,. Ty eLttey are ro.n d °11 :::144 117: jiY t11711:87:3;"d al r yaill I in A belie/malt hat been found irithin a OgIV just slaughtered at tilande4 Vielt are not se cold as is generally sup- posed. The normal temperature o a limit is about 77 deg. The Britieh Postmaster -General says that his department deals with amid 100,- 000,000 newepepers annually. • The buttons op the wedding dress 0 a millionei -. ' daughter, recently married, toVes were m e -et jewels, and cost $100 each. ltin. Oscar has efinferred the Grand Crow, ., St. Olaf upon Ibsen, For many ye' lbsee's plays were feebidelen in hie own country. In twenty years (1872-92) the number of thIrd-claes passengers on the ivletromilitan Oietriet Railway has doubled, while the first oleos remains about the same. Some idea of the magnitude of the Cape Railway system may be gathered from the fact elicit it is over 1,000 miles be, rail, in a direct line, from Cape Tome to Johannes- burg. . As a proof of the exceptionally spring like weather, primroses cud violets were gathered on Christmas day from the sheltered tiooke adjoining the Alexandria Park, Muswellehtili Itinerant street musicians are not allow- ed to reside in St..Peteraburg, and foreign- ethrseoefmtphiirsee.lass are prohibited from entering One of the Queenee treasures at Osborne House is a splendid dessert service of Revas ohina, the hand -painted centres beteg eaeh of a different design. In the districis of Scotlane under county police jurisdiction there is one drink limes to every alff of 'the population ; in city and burgh jurisdictions one license to every 304 of the inhabitante. ' Modern opera was born at Florence in 1594, the first work of its kind beiag Peres Deepime, which was produced in that year. The Italians accordingly purpose te cele- brate this year the tercentenary of the opera. , Sculptors contend that the height of the Venus de Medici, 5 feet five inches, is the perfect stature for women. . Dogskin, trained by a new electrical pro- cess whereby it retains the utmost flexibil- ity,,„ is now the favourite wear for ladies' boots in Paris. ' Paris has more newepepers than London. Daily, and weekly together they number 2,000. . Only about 1,393 are published within a six -mile radius of Charing Cross. The annual financial statement,of the AncientOrder of Foresters,jast issued, shows that its income during the year was Z1,025,- 324, and the total capital £4,343,573. Market rights in Brussels and throughout 13elginin are vested by prescription in Com- munal Councils, which have power to establish markets on public or private property, and can increase or diminish them according to their appreciation of the wants 'of the community. The strength of ice is well known to be very great. A thickness of only li inches will support e. man's weight. Cavalry.are safe on 4 inches; an 84 lb. cannon on 6 inches e and a railway train on 18 inches thickness. The humus Khajah Tunnel �f India pierces the Klevraia Atnran Mountains about 60 miles north of Botta at an eleva- tion of 6,400 feet.' It is 12,800 feet long, and was constructed broad enough to carry a double lite of rails. Italy's 'eatimated population is about 30,000,000. The permanent arny consists of 8503000 men, of whom 250,000 are under arms, while there is a reserve militia liable to duty of 2,000,000. The total of all ranks for the navy, including reserves, is over 70,000. Vivisection.umau For cold-bloodeduess and deliberate in- humanity it would be hard to' find any- thing in the Dark Ages worse than e, bill that has been introduced in the Legislature of Ohio. This bill, whose author is a phy. sicism, proposes that persons condemned to death shall beplaced at the service of physiological science, to be experimented and operated on in order to study the vital organs in the living state. The Committee of Prisons is now listening toile arguments of the enthusiastic soientist who proposes the measure. His idea le that capital criminals owe society a debt which can be discharged only in this way,- There have been Governments whose sympathy for the advancement of scheme has led them to be experimented upon, but the experiment was not supriosed to be torture ; it was usually for the purpose of examining the phenomena of instant death by some par. dottier mode. But the monstrous proposal to legalize the vivisection of human beluga was probably'never made before. In this human ago ib is hardly conceivable that a standing committee of one of the obief State Legislatures in the American Union should entertain so horrible a measure. In all other parts of the world the outcry against the vivisection of animals has been too strong to be disregaeded even be the most eminent scieatists. Mortgaging the Crone. Opposition to the system of mortgaging crops leas develope& to such an extent in Manitoba that there is a possibility at the present session at the Legislature of reencee legislation upoo the silbjecb. The difficulty Is one which cannot easily be overcome. Last autumn dealers in wheat and alevator owners at many of the shipping ing points re. echoed notices from agriculturalimplement firms warning them that they had chattel mortgages on the crops of certain farmers, a,nd that in ease the dealers purchased from these named the payments were to be made to the firms serving the riotice. Tbis is the statement of the preeident of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and he adds that it is quite impoesible for the buyer to distinguish between mortgaged and free wheat. The evils of the atop mortgaging System are felt in the Southern States, where nearly the whole yield of cotton is pawned at a steep rate of interest before it is harvested,' If Manitoba farmers pursue a policy of yearly borrowing they may fall victims to the same form of slaVory. Their tootviedge, Mr. toper—" I've known that fellow time out of mind." life'. Lender—" I've known hint money out of pocket." The Kilauea Crater, in the Sandwich Islands, le the largest active voleaho in the world. Four thoueand four hundred fact .above the se level there is an oval opening lp4unifermtne5' Wttli Vertical ilongreen. Oen Voce Above the eiee, to he Awned ?Or itte aleetrie Itellreed. ,Not. tie many yeare ago it Was a question ethers and other folks whether the Jungfreu, the niegnificene peek of the Beruese Alpe; floeived its name whichi in the Q1:1001114 fin g Shp is Virgin or Mektee, from Oho fact that no traveller had ever reached its highest point, or on account of the virgin purity ot the 'Perpetual mum on ite summit, which. on air shies is surround- ed by preemiees. To.day the lihereeeen hours% are selling the Wel; of a promoted .Tungfrom eailetey, for which 111. teelYer^ Zeller, of Zurieh, the prilielpel owner of the great Northeast llailwey, has just received a " ceueeseime" by the Swiss Federal. Conn oil. ' The jungfreu is eituaterl on the boundary line of the Cantons Bern and Valaie. ts height Is 13,o71 feet, :200 feebless than that of Mont Blanc, the giant among the moue., tains of Europe. In .L890 a projeet to reach the eutrirnit by rail was learnt:bed, but the plane were not feasible, The preimet plan is to start the road sit the Sheidecif Moen. lain (Wezegern Alp), some six thousand feet above the sea. The raele system of railroading, which is employed by the Mont Cents, Rigid and Zerreett ritilways most succeesfully veill be used in pulling up the cars to the Jungfrau, being reinforced by electrici- ty. The rack engine, as the illustra- tion shows has a boiler of the vertical order, and 'four cylinders, the outer pair of which are connected with wheels running on ordinary rivils,while the inner pair oper- ate a central -toothed wheel, running on a single racked rail. The two sets of ey- linders can bO worked separately or togebh- The route of the Jungfrett Railway will be as follows: From its starting potut,the lie amend to the foot of the Eiger Glacier, which is to he tunnelled, the trains entering on the east side and coming out in the south at Station Eiger, which la 9,500 feet above the level of the sea. The tunnel is to be open on the outer side. From Station Eiger the line moves, again by tunnel, in the direction of the "Monk "Mountain,until it reaches the JungfrawiToch, and, laving the tunnel there, the railroad ascemde to the so.oailed small plateau, winehig itself around the 'mountain in emral form like the threed on a screw. The small plateau is 12,500 feet above the level of the sea, and in midsummer clear of snow. There a gigantic elevator will be constructed, powerful enough to hoist fifty people to the mountain summit on each trip. . The railroad will be 50,000 feet long, and for power and lighting purposes electricity will he employed throughout. The falls of the Imetechine River and the Truemmel stream are to furnish the power for electri- cal engines. Work will be started in the spring. The engineers hope to finish the railroad to Station Eiger within two years. In the summer of 1898 Ainerice.n tourists will be able to reach the summit of the Jarierati, as M. Guyer -Zeller says, in true 'United States fashion, byelevator.- The cost of i the undertaking s estimated at about $2,000,000. The first great mountain railroad con- structed in the Alps was that to Mont Canis. 6,775 feet above the sea, -finished in 1865. Then followed the Rigid Oulm Railroad, finished six years later, and fin- ally, the Zermatt railway,which was thrown open to travel in the summer of 1891. The latter istwenty-two mites in length. The locomotives on these railways,which are fed by coal, are of 105 horse-powereand travel at the rote of 16,000 feet per hour. These roads are also constructed en the rack system. A shorthander writer in Berlin attends the funerals of all prominent persons and takes down verbatim the addresses of the officiating clergymen. He prepares highly ornamented copies of these and sells them, to time friends of the eulogised dead. He is doing a, roaring trade. • The eldest daughter of Mr. Frank LOak. wood, Q. C., possesses her father's well- known nimbleness with the pencil, and is always dashing off caricatures of people whom she knows, or strangers evhinn the chances to see, As the result of long experience, it is stated that the effects of imprisonment are far severer, bodily and mentally, on wom- en than men, so that equality of sentence does not neoessarily carry with it equality of punishment. When a man is waited for drunkenness in St. Petersburg he M compelled as a punishment -.no matter what may be his social position—to join the street -sweeping gang On the followingmornixig. It is not an unusual thing to see gentlemen -well attired—some even in evening dress—en: gaged at daybreak in this useful, though humble, occupation. - Kid gloves have an aggravating way of ripping in spite of one's best efforts. You will .find that the very best way to repair a slit is to take a small piece of good silk. backed court -plaster, turn your glove wrong -side out, and neatly apply the plaster over the drawn -together edges of the glove. A novel advertisement has been hit upon by a French tea merchant. A real live prince has been engaged. at a good salary to attend the counter and dispense packages of pure tea at a high price to people who worship anyone who has a title. The thrifty tea dealer has built up a lucrative trade by this great stroke of enterprise. The three rings the Queen prizes most are—first, her wedding ring, which she has never taken off, then a email enamel ring, with a tiny diamond its the center, which the Prinoe Consort gave her at the ago of sixteen, and an emerald serpent which he gave her as an engagement ring. Het Majesty sleeps with these rings on. A decree has been issued in Belgium for- bidding any Belgian to capture or destroy frogs, to consign them by any conveyance, to expose them for sale, or to buy or sell them, either whole or in part. Scientific men may bay them for experimental pur- poses, and ilit certain places whore frogs are reared for the French tritieket they may be exported to France, King Leowad is de- terniined his subjects shall mime to be frog. eaters.. s.T mhemee nariyi the novelist of Wes- ter, has had the good fortune to eel as quite a benefaotor to the cottagere on the estate of Lora Pembroke, in Wiltshire. This conscientious landlord wrote recently to Mr. Hardy that, after reading the chap. ter in "Jest." is which the Puriwilelds are turned oat of their cottage, he was so im- pressed by the argeinerits upon village de- cay, that he will en future grant long leases toMe t, steisrenraotr TY. length of life of the clove We in Zanzibar appeal's to be from sixty years to seventy years. Such terrible do. vastation restilteit from the great hurricane of 1872, o heti nearly all the clove planteo tiote on the land were destroyed, that the overarm age o the trees bow growing may be put down as below twenty years. The trees in the Sultan' e plantation, the largest in the island, axe from ail -teal years to seveu teen years old. DA. Meier, the Frerich ,I,tiekeetteteh, to give him his official title, ntaatItor of Fliot, Werke," oissnatt filealin very com- ote v d r Infants and Children. "Csetoraa eetrell aelaptedteehildresithat i recommend Imes temeetoeto any preecreption leen= tome," IT. A. Anoroal, 111 So, Ceened Drookera, N. "The use of 'Casterla ' eu) naivernal one its merits im well emowa that it (memo a Work of aiteernrOgatiOnne enclorge it. Few are the Intelligent families who do not keep Oviform within eesyreactee Camps leteerem, D.A.. Or New Yorick,,vge Late Baster Idoeiningdale IhAormotiChurelt, Castorla caves Optic, golielpiittele, our Stoma* Piaxtheee. lexeetettoo, Worme, give& eleep, azia promot Wit out ialurioue metleatioei. "For seveml meetsI have reeotereeeded your Caetror* * tend shall always watt:lee te Mt tie tia te has invariably produced benefieial melees Ft. P.4zpvt, wttaxop,- inethStreet and Vdi.ave., New/ark Diem 'rue Ciarratni Co are, 7 Near= .„ Nam "Com A QUEER COUNTRY. The baited States and. lye Congress in ill " Financial Crisis. This, says the New York Times, is un- doubtedly the only civilized country in the world in which theteinance Department is obliged to beg of the law making depart- ment and plead with it for authority to maintain the credit and honor of the Government. Mr. Carlisle has repeatedly staten the great needs of the Treasurer to the Finance committee of the Senate. He bas explained to them that the receipts of the Government are now running so far be- low its expeneitures as to foreshadow a deficit of $78,000,000 at the mead the fiscal year, and the statement of the Treasury balances shows them that the gold reserve upon which the enormous paper issues of the Treasury depend for their stability has been trenched upon to the extent of $25,000,000, in meeting the cur- rent drafts upon the Treasury. In such conditions no Government can maintain an uniamairing credit, and in no other country would the immediate relief prayed for be denied. There is, however, no prospect that Congress will give the Secretary the authority to issue 3 per cent. bonds. Tbe Senate of the United States now contains so small a proportion of pat- riotio men that it is diffioult even to make It understand the desperate straits of the Treasury, and yet more difficult to per- suade it to take prompt and wise action: Between the silver lunatics on the one hand awl the reptile Senators whose main object in life is to oppose the main Admin- istration of Grover Cleveland on the other there is small hope of securing even consid- eration for a bill authorizing a 3 per cent. bond. lune. Meanwhile, as the Govern- ment is now dodging creiitors, and every day sees its available cash of all kinds dim - hushed by abeet half a million dollars, the Secretary has no choice but to avail him- self of the authority to issue 5 per cent. bonds under the at of 1879 for maintaining specie payments. The Effeots of °settle Chewing. The Indians chew the cactus hearts and swallow them. They induce a conditioo of exaltation. While under the influence a man is lifted out of himself, as it were. He is wide-awake, yet tireaming. The intellect is not clouded, but stimillated in a high degree. But the most remarkable thing about this plant is that its peculiar effect is nob followed by any reaction. On that account it might be ideally adapted. for Sprees. It immediately arrests the reaction which makes the toper so sad after a "jam- boree," At the same time, it is neither a narcotics nor an opiate. The Southern prairie Indians with Whom the eating of the cactus plant is a religion, regarl it as a eine for all diseases, especially for con - gumption. At their sacred festivalthey rettifitt for days in the stet° of ecstasy de- eoribed. Each man consumes the cactus hoot, at the rate of about one an hour. The songs and teremeniee are of a dreary kind, ap- propriate to the method of inspiration. Experts at Johns Hopkins University will obtain from the material 'furnished the active principle of the Inset. Thus it is expeeted that a new medicine, valuable, petheps, for many remedial parpoileil, Will bedded to the pharmacopoeia. Dr. Carl Lumboltz has recently discover- ed. that four Varieties of thia °act& are known to the aborigines in Northern 14exi. co. One giant kind is regarded by the In - diene itt thee part of ihe country as theft greatest reedimem, being much more power fel than the plant employed by the Xiewrie. They can drink any Amount of corn bear, and this temedy vehl take away all ill elite -M. The neme in use among them for this big sorb of eta IS *' Wetter i."-- LWaSh1ngt1111 Star. 'VOA ail:Wane eetrikeecdee emeame, if allowed to run, will destroy the lining to Throat and Lungs, weaken the system and invite the Consumption Germ. Scott's Emulsio Amcommzzaktragszmorsffir Aimaussizamastwasszmw of Cod-liver Oil, with hypophosphites of lime and soda, builds up the system, overcomes Chronic Coughs and Colds, and strengthens the Lungs, .Physicians, the world over, encloise it. SCOTT'S ElVIOLS1ON is the most nourishing food known to science. It is Cod-liver Oil rendered palatable and easy to assimilate. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Belleville. AU Druggists. So cents and $11- emie.o UNACCOUNTABLY LOSING eLes-it IS REFUSING- TO TAKE ITS FOOLI LISTLESS AND DEBILITATED YouTRY 7J, IT WILL NEW WOINIDERFuLev eleette, • VY.z,7 itiVin Zr 4 te; %11r.e. 5.4Beill,,A1II5ee? .eer.gfitite4 fau•aordaeaftwaustallt WONDEFUL CURES THOMAS X.INCIIIN. • MAJOR W. A. SIMFIELD. • , Ratan+ Troatmant, After Treatment, Nervous Debility and Catarrh Cured, Thomas Minchin gays: "I was reduced to nervous wreck—only weighed 118 pounds. The result of early abase'was the cause. 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