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bad no time. to bury them in the %Ira). and
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I IT IS A LITTLE THINO BHT IT KEEPS
1 is n sl. ii th summer iaano, or
choice between death by thirst and death sembly rooms, should be liberated, he or- THE WORLD ON ERR,
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A %%valance Story of the Terrible Inas sore by bullet Or shell, Ten thousand Yelling dared that their throats should be cut,
, Ilindoos outside this frail wall and 1,000 The Sofffeers were commanded to do the
—The 11"4"Ing l'.4'°°6" Of 81111-"T" suffering, dying people inside. In addition work and attempted it, but failed because
atintax of ,Distbehism—A Mummy Weil— to the army of the leitaloos and lefoslemt the law of caste would not allow the Him
Wood for Vatturee. I an invisible army of sicknesses swooped doe to hold the victims while they were
upOu them. Some went raviugreathannee mann Alisventions,
,linteeitileee Tied 0.—Dr. Talmage today exposure. Others dropped ender apoplexy. being slain. Then 100 men were ordered Few people era
aelivered through the prose the second of .a. starving nentilatede levered sanstruek '
over the heads of the imprisoned oaes, and
to lire through the windows but they Reed aid eh. donnizireasteliattletihentloginhtmannbpou'intnea,
only a few were killed. Then Nana Sahib every -day trifle of a thing, Made Of wood or
was in a rage and ordered professional wax, tipped with latent twee wherewith
butchers from among the lowest of the
gypsies to go at the work. Five of thee) the7„ kindle fires and light . the
with batchets and swords and knives be soothing pipe or comforting mgar.
gan the work, but three of them collapsed It does its humble work and is
and, fainted under the ghastliness, and it contemptuously oast aside And yet the
was left to two butchers to complete the welch ' - . tive of
scalp and skull, the begging for life, the and is one of the best gifts sought out and
death agony of hour after hour, the tan. elaborated by human genius for the bene.
feebler f'
Is an evolution reoresenta .
slaughter. The struggle, the sharp cute
the blinding blow, the cleaving through much human patience, ingenuity and. skill,
gled limbs of the corpses, the piled ur 1 stoie
dead—only God and those who were
side the summer house can ever know, Id, _ i n o the race. When Prometheus
the sacred fire from Olympus
t aa
The butchers came out exhausted, think in the form of lucifer match that he didso,o';
In '111"Et TIM
he Present leery Article a 'Development
Prom a/olden orien lingusiiman Nearly
Sevestey )reare etto—e. Big Ditstness and
his round the world series of sermons, the ghastly group, waiting to Me. Why die
sUbject being "The City of Blood," and not the heathen dash down those mud
the textselectedbeinglesalins oath 7: "Our walls and the 10,000 annihilate the now
bones are smattered. at the grave's mouth, less than 1,000? It, was because theyseemec
as when one etettetlx and oleaveth wood eupernaturally defended,
upon the earth, But mine eyes are ante Nana Sabib resolved to celebrate an an
thee, 0 God, the Lord," niversary, The 23rd of .Tune, 1857, would
Though you may read this text from the be 100 years since the battle of Plassn
Bible, I read it as out by chisel into the when, under Lord Clive, India surrendered
pedestal of a cross beneathvvhich lie many I to England. That day the last Europear
of the massacred. at Cawnpur, India. To I in Cawnpur was to be slaughtered. Otletn
show you what Riudooisin and Moliam. anniversaries have been celebrated with
wine; this was to be celebrated with blood
medanisru really are, where they have full
swing,and Other anniversaries have beeu edornee not as they represent themselves a "parliament of religions," and to with garlands, this with drawn swords
•in
demonstrate to what extent of cruelty and Others have been kept with songs, this
abomination human nature may go when with execrations. Others with the dance
ing they bad done their work, and the or his punishment from Jove might have
fully let loose, and to illustrate the hard- a the gay, this with the dance of death
The infantry and cavalry and artillery 0 doors were closed. But when they were
entim process of sin, and to remind you been even more terrible than it was,beottuse
a
Nana Sahib made on that day one grave gain opened three women and three boys
how OUT glorious Christianity may utter its usefulnesa to upstart man would have
assault, but the few gnus of the Faiglise were still alive. All these were soon dis
its triumph over death and the grave I been so much more formidable.
and, Scotch put to flight these Rindoe patched, and not a Christian or a Euro
preach this my second sermon in the pearl was left in Cawnpur. The murder Long ages bad to pass and the nineteenth
round the world series, and I shall speak tigers. The 'courage of the fiends broke
of "The City of Blood, " or Cavenpur, Lis ' against that mud wall- as the waves of the era ,wore paid 50 cents for each lady slain e
entury be well on its way before the match
dia. l sett against a lighthouse. The cavalm The Mohammedan assassins dragged 1st
Two hours and ten minutes after its ow horses returned full run without theb
the hair the dead bodies out of the sum as we see It to -day, was even thought of.
1
riders. The Lord looked out from the mer house and threw them into the welle Trifle as it is, few things have had more
currence joseph Lee of the Shropshire reg- '
iment of foot rode in upon the Caeviswax heavens, and on that anniversary day gave by which I stood with such feelings as yea thought and ingenuity expended on their
massacre. He was the first man I met at the victory to his people, cannot imagine. But after the mutilated n warm
bodies had b h titian. In Great Britain alone, during
Cawnphur. I wanted to hear the story Therefore Nanah Sahib must try some" the grst ninety years of this century con
record of the scene remained in hierogly,
other plan. Standing in a told not fas
from some one who had been here in 1857, phics ot crimson on the floor and wall of siderable more than 100 patents have been
and with his own eyes gazed, upon the from the intrenchment of the English was
slaughtered heaps of humanity. I could a native Christian woman, Jacobee In the slaughter house. An eyewitness says applied for, having reference, wholly or in
name, holding high up in her hand a let that as he walked in the blood was shoe part,
hardly wait until the horses were put to . deep, and on this blood were tufts of hair, to improvements or novelties in ma
ter, It was evidently a communicatior chiner for the manufacture of matches, and
the earria,ge, and Mr. Lee, seated, with us ' pieces of muslin, broken combs, fragments Y
started for the scene, the story of whim,'" from the eneyey, and general Wheeler or
of pinafores, children's straw hats,
dered the Allan brought in. She handed a card; during the same period. at least as many
makes tame in contrast all Modoc and
, him a proposed treaty. If General Wheelei
Choctaw butcheries.
' and his men would give up their weapons
It seems that all the worst passions oi
L TO CHINESE.
A Day 0 tight ftiA Soule or eltelereenes in the
Eastern War News.
Newspaper readers who attentively fol-
low the course of events in eastern Asia are
doubtless oftentimes puzzled over the queer
names of Chinese and Conseil towns and
cities, and wonder over their meaning.
Although not in complete mastery ot the
language of the Celestials, we are able to
give the meaning of some of the sounds and
syllables which occur most frequeutly in
Chinese names,
Thus hei insane black ; his, the lower;
huang, yellow; nan, southern; pal, white:
pei, northern; pe, white; ishaug, the upper;
si, western ; siad, small ; ta, large, great ;
tung, eastern. The endings have a qualify-
ing meaning, and here is a list of them ;
Alin, means mountain; chef, city; then, oity
chuang, village; gol, stream; hada, moun-
tain; hai, lake; ho, river; hoto, city; hotum,
city; hu, lake; khi, stream; khinno, bridge;
!them mouth of a river; giang, river; kon,
stream; ktuden, fort or camp; hug, pass, men,
gate; muren, river. nor, lake or swamp;
onto, lake ; po lake or swamp; phu, village;
she, sandbank); shan, island or mountain;
shut,. stream; sq, fort or camp; sic, village;
ins, island; tseha.ng,,village; tsohen, city;
telmeriver; tamale river; thaterapids; thun,
Men, lake or swamp; tien, village;
tee, lake in swamp; tat, village; Inuit, river;
mate stream; wet, fort; ying, tort or camp.
This small list, which oontelns no less
than eleven different words all meaning
stream or river, gives an idea of the wealth
of words of the Chinese language. The
difficulties of learning the language of
these Orientals for foreigners are enormous,
" and it is equally difficult to learn to write
as to speak it. The Chinese use about
60,000 different signs or characters in their
writing and often a combination of thirty
or forty of these is necessary to express the
meaning of a single idea. The Japanese,
however, progressive in everything; are on
the way to emancipating themselves from
the bane of such a language; they are mak-
ing efforts to introduce the Latin characters
in general use, substituting them for the
60,000 characters which they have taken
from the Chinese and kept in use with
slight alterations. The Romanic characters
are taught in the better schools, and alreany
one or more nerepapers in the Japanese
language appem printed in Latin letters.
A peculiar squabble about words has
arisen from China's declaration of war
against Japan, dated Aug. 1. In it the
Japanese are termed as "Wo" or " Wa,"
which means " servants" or "vassals."
The word had been used for long centuries
as the name of the Japanese, but latterly
it has received a contemptuous meaning,
and as the Japanese have for quite a while
past claimed the name of " Ji-Kwo"
Jipen," the people of the," Land of the
Rising Sun," they looked upon the appel-
lation given them by the Chinese as an
intentional and deadly insult. Japan is
not the only country, however, which
complains about Chinese want of courtesy.
Other foreign persons have had reason to
protest against the habit of the Chinese
Government to insert, in the constant belief
that the foreigners would not comprehend
the meaning, terms in treaties made with
them which were anything but flattering.
Foreign Ambassadors, therefore, became
more careful, and employed experienced
interpreters to carefully search all deem
mimes composed in the Chinese language
for any opprobrious terms. When the
cunning Chinese noticed this, they hasten.
eel to conciliate the foreigners by applying
to them the most flattering terms of
endearment. And hence England is to -day
by the Chinese called " Yiug-Two," the
flourishing ; France, " Fa-Kwo," the land
where the laws live; Italy, T-K.wo," the
land of justice; Germany, " Te-Kwo, the
one rich in virtues, and the United States,
" MeeKtvo," the beautiful.
case containing a curl with the inscription, more patents Were applied for with refer-
"Ned's hair, with love," a few leaves of an encs to the composition of the inflammatory
the century were to be impersonated by 'Preparation For Death," a Bible on the the stem etc.
safety. They could march out unmolested -
one man, d h N Sahib,d our e
the men, women and children; they could
cort at Cannipar, Joseph Lee, knew the go down to -morrow to the Ganges, where
man personally. Unfortunately there is they would find boats to take them if
p scope praym boola also a book entitled part of the matches,the material composing
fly leaf of which was written, "For darling
mamma, from her affectionate daughter es an mous= •
Isabella Blair," both the one who present the manufacture of matches has very irm
no correct picture of Nana Sahib in existpeace to Allahabade ed it and the one to whom it was present., posing proportions. There is something
ence. The pictures of him published in ed departed forever. 'impressive about figures to the averaee
There was some opposition to signine
the books of Europe and America and
, this treaty, but General Wheeler's wife I said, "Mr. Lee, I have heard that In. mind, and a few statistics will carry weight
familiar to us all are an amusing mistake. delicate things were written on the wall.' Just take ene of the largest English fare
This is the fact in regard to them; A law.' told him he could trust the natives, and Re answered, "No, but these poor crea tories ior example. Ordinary wooden
so he signed the treaty. There was great
yer of England was called to India for the tures wrote in charcoal and scratched on tnatches are turned out of that establish -
joy in the intrenchment that night. With
purpose of defending the case for a native the wall the story of the brutalities they merit yearly at the rate ot 2,500,000 gross
who had been charged with fraud. The out molestation they went out and got
plenty of water to drink and water for s had suffered." boxes. Each box contains from ninety to
attorney came and so skillfully managed When the English and Scotch troops a hundred. If any one has the curiosity
Th
h
d was. e hunger and thirst and
the case of his client that the client paid goo
him enormously for his services, and. he exposure from the consuming sun, with came upon the scene, their wrath was sc to figure out what this amounts to he will
the thermometer from 120 to 140, would great that General Neill had the butchers find it means a great total of 36,000,000
went back to England, taking with him a arrested, and before being shot compelled' 00 of these wooden splinters, each one of
cease. Mothers rejoiced at the prospect
picture of his Indian client. After awhile of saving their children. The young ladies them to wipe up part of the floor of this which is a tiny magazine of fire and poten-
the mutiny in India broke out, and hTene of the intrenchment would escape the wild place of massacre, this being the worst m tial agent of mighty mischief. The same
Sahib was mentioned as the champion their punishment, for there is nothing a factory produces "safety" matches to the
beasts in human form. On th
villain of the whole affair, and the news- e morrow, Hindoo so bates as to touch blood, amount ofabout one-seventh of the ordinary
true to the promise, cary te carts were read
papers of England wanted a picture of him When Ravelock came upon the scene, matches—i.e., about 5, 000,000,000 in the
transport those who were too much ex he had this order annulled. The well wee Y
and to interview some one on Indian at hausted to walk. ear. It also produces about 52,000 gross
fairs who had recently been in India I now not only full of human bodies, but ilexes of vesuman's, while wax vestus are
Among others the journalist called upon I "Get in the carriage," saidMr. Lee, "and corpses piled on theautside. The soldiers poured out at the rate of 35,000,000 a day/
we will ride to the banks of the Ganges,
this lawyer lately returned. The only ' were for many hours engaged in covering or, 10,5003000,000 annually. This is all
picture he had brought from India was , for which the liberated combatants and the dead, very imposing and is calculated to inspire
the picture of his client, -the man charged , noncombatants started from this place.' But where rest the bones of the Herod 0 increased respect for the Match.
with fraud. The attorney gave this pie. i On our way Mr. Lee pointed out a monn the nineteenth century, Nana Sahib? Ne
ment over the burial place which was
tare to the journals as e specimen of the one can tell. But who shall reclaim foi mATERIALS MED IN °NE FACToRY.
way the Hindoos dress, and forthwith that' opened for General Wheeler's intrench decent sepulture the remains of Nana For the vestas produced by that one fetepicture was used, either by mistake, or he relent, the well into which every night the Sahib? Ask the vultures! Ask the rep- tory three tons of wax are used every
tentdead had been dropped. Around it is a
ionally, for Nana Sahib. The English tiles! Ask the jackals! Askthe midnight workiem day, Meaning a total of some 750
lawyer said he lived in dread that his , curious memorial. There are five crosses one at each corner of the garden, and one Himalayas! tons imthe year. Cotton to the amount of
client would some day see the use made oi Much criticism has been made of Sb 250 tots is also annually required to pro.
his picture, and it was not until the death at the centre, from which inscription I to. Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell duce these little effects. The same factory's
of his Hindoo client that the lawyei day read my text. Riding on, we came te because of the exterminating work they -annual 'cothiumption of vitreous phosphorus
divulged the facts. Perhaps it was neves.. the Memorial church, built to the memory did' with these sepoys. Indeed it was is thirty tone or more, while the number
of those fallen in Cawnpur. The walls are
intended that the face of such a demon , awful. MY escort, Mr. Lee, has told me of persons employed is in the neighborhood
covered with tablets and epitaphs. 3 of 2,000, Now, in the neighborhood of
should be preserved among human records, ' that he saw the sepoys fastened to the
I saicopied two or three of the inscriptions— to our escort, "Mr. Lee, was there mouths of cannon, and then the gum London alone there are about a dozen fac-
any pec"These are they who come out of great
peculiarity in Nana Sabib's appear- would fire and for a few seconds there codes of varying size, so that from facts
ance?" The reply was: "Nothing vela tribulation;" also, "The dead shall be vas. _would be nothing but smoke, and as the like these one can begin to have a faint
peculiar. He was a dull, lazy, cowardly.ed incorruptible." also, "In the world ye smoke began to lift fragments of flesh eonception of what the match making of
sensual man, brought up to do nothing shall have tribulation, but be of good would be found flying through the air the world really means. The total annual
and wanted to continue on the same scale cheer; I have overcome the world;" also, You may do your own criticism. I here value of English match manufacture has
to do nothing." 1 The Lord gave, the Lord bath taken express no opinion. There can be asbeen estimated at from $7,500,000 to e10,-
From what Mr. Lee told me and from all. away;" ." also, "Come unto me, all ye that doubt, however, that that mode of finally o 000,000, and England is not the greatest
, labor and are heavy laden." treating the sepoys broke the back of the -roducer of matches •
I could learn in India, Nana Sahib order. 1
ea the massacre in that city from sheer re "Get into the carriage," said Mr. Lee, mutiny. The man who grumbles because he must
venge. His father abdicated the throne, and we rode on to the Ganges and got out A mild and gentle war with the Emmett rise betimes of a cold frosty morning and
light a fire for the household white it is yet
and the English paid him annually a pen- at a Hindoo temple standing on the banks. was an impossibility. The natives of
"Now," said Mr. Lee, "here is the place tc dark should thank his stars that, unlike
sion of $400,000. When the father died, I India ever and anon have demonstrated
the English government declined to pay which General Wheeler and his people their cruelty. I stood on the very spot in the ancient Roman similarly situated, he
came under the escort of Nana Sahib." 1 in does not need to spend his strengthaubbing
the same pension to the son, Nana Sahib, ' Calcutta where the natives of India
went down the steps to the margin of the together two pieces of hard wood until she
but the poor fellow was not in any suffer.; ` 1756 enacted that scene which no othei
ing from lack of funds. His father left ' river. Down these steps went General people on earth could have enacted. The starting
comes. He has no such trouble in
him $80,000 in gold ornaments, $500,000 in Wheeler and the men, women and children Black Hole prison has been torn down, a fire as many a better man than
jewels, $800,000 in bonds and other re -under his care. They stood on one side of but a stone pavement 20 feet by 20 indi and
among his forbears has had with a flint
sources amounting to at least $1,500,000,1 the steps, and Nina Sahib and his steel cates the ground covered by the prison, nd stieel. For 400 years from the time it
But the poor young man was not satisfied, b stood on the other side. As the women The building had two small windows and made its appearance during the tourteenth
and the Cawnpur massacre was his re. , were getting into the boats Nana Sahib oh was intended for two or three prisoners, box,
this clumsy and ill -smelling tinder
jected that only the aged and infirm wo- These natives of India crowded into that . oix,bwitrit. its dass,ortmenict of steel, flint and
venge. General 'Wheeler, the Englishman
men and children should go on board the Mein s," was the main -
who had command of this city, although one room of 20 feetby 20 feet 146 Europeans. ''Ilstay f "IPPe
often warned, could notseethat the sepoye : boats. The young and attractive women The midsummer heat, the suffocation, the i o thy forefathers when they wanted
o start a fire.
were planning for his destruction and that' were kept out. Twenty-eight boats trampling of one upon another, the
,
of all nis regiments and all the Europeans were filled with men, women and groaning and shrieking and begging IT WAs THE DisCovErti
In Cawnpur. 1 children and floated out into the and praying of all are matters of his- f phosphorus in 1673 by Brand, of Ham -
river. Each boat contained ten armed ma
Mr. Lee explained all this to me by the tory, The sepoys that night held lights to burg, which first set human inpenuity at
fact that General 'Wheeler had married a tires. There three boats, fastened togeth- the small windows and mocked the suf work searching for improvement on the old
native, and he naturally took her story er, were brought up, and General Wheeler ferers. Then all the sounds ceased, That order of things. 'The first efforts, though
and thought there was no peril. But the and his staff got in. Although orders were night of June 20, 1756, passed, and 128 not groping inthedark altogether, were
time for the proclamation from Nana Se, given to start, the three boats were some- corpses were teleen out. Only 28 people far enough from suocessful. Phosphorus
how detained. At this juncture a boy 12
bib had come, and such a document went' iof the 146 were alive, and they bad to be was soon found to be both inconvenient
forth as never before had seen the light years of age hoisted on the top of the Hin- pulled out from under the corpses. Mrs. and dangerous. One of the earliest schemes
of day. I give only an extract: doe temple on the banks two flags—at Carey, whosurvived,taken b f it t'1' 0' t b
"As by the kindness of God, and the good ' signal th
which e boatmen and armee US,- w was en y the or s u i iza ion was o rub a piece of it
Indian nabob into his harem and kept between two folds of coarse paper and al.
fortune of the emperor, all the Christians tires jumped from the boats and swam for a prisoner six years. Lucknove in 1857 lose the spark of the fire so produeed to fall
who were at Delhi, Poonah, Sattara and the shore, and from innumerable guns the was only an echo of Calcutta in 1756.'
upon a "spunk." The long and the last of
other places, and even those 5,000 Euro. natives on the bank fired on the boats, Derma the mutiny of which I have been such clumsy methods was that phosphorus
peen soldiers who went in disguise into the and masked batteries above and below speaking natives who had been in the fell into disuse. ft was another chemical
former city and were discovered, and de- roared with destruction, and the boats service of Europeans and well treated by discovery about the beginning of the pres-
stroyed and senteto hell by the pious and sank with their precious cargo, and all them, and with no cause of offense, would
eat century that gave an impetus to inven-
sagacious troops who are firm to their rele went down save, three strong swimmers, at the call
of the mutineers and without
tion, and finally led to the match as it is
gion, and as they have all been conquered who got to the opposite shore. Those who any compunction stab to death the fa. to -day. Berthollet was the chemist, and
by the present government and as no trace struggled outnear by were dashed to death, thers and mothers of the household and the discovery was known as "the principle
of them is left in these places ibis the duty Nana Sahib and his staff, with their dash out the brains of the children, of the oxidation of combustible bodies by
of all the subjects and servants of the goy. swords, slashed to pieces General Wheeler Now, my friends, go home after what 1 chlorates in the preeenee of strong made."
ernment to rejoice at the delightful Inteland his staff, who had not got well away have said to see the beauties of the Mo. ettikeill practical aPP:fmtim of this prin.
ligence and carry on their respective work from the shore. hammedanism and Hindooism which eeer' Channel, in 1805, produced his so -
with comfort and ease. As by the bounty I said that the young and attractive we- many think it will be well to have intro- — led "oxymariate matches," in which
of the glorious Ahnighter and the enemy men were not allowed te get into the boat. clewed. into America, and to dwell upon strips of wood, tipped with a mixture of
destroying fortune of the emperor the yel. These were Marched away under the guard what natural evolution will do where it chlorate of potash, sugar and gum, were
low faced and narrow-minded people have of the sepoys. •• hashed its unhindered way for thousands ignited by contact with sulphuric acid.
been sent to hell, and Cawnpur has been ewehien way?” I enquired. "I will show of years, and to think upon the wonders
conquered, it is necessary that all the sub- you," said Mr. Lee. Again we took seats
leas and landowners and government sew in the carriage and started for the climax Pray more earnest
prayers for the mission.; A Novel Clock.
..
of martyclom for Christ's sake, and to
rants should be as obedient to the present of desperation and diabolism. Now we are aides, and to contribute more largely for In the shop of a St. Petersburg watch.
government as they have been to the for. On the way to a summer house called the the world's evangelization, and to be more maker a huratinlacied clock is on view—
mer one; that it is the ineubent duty of all assembly rooms, which had been built assured than ever that the overthrow of the only one of its kind. The hands are
the peasants and' landed proprietors of for recreation and pleasure. It had two the idolatries of nations is such a stupen- pivoted on its nose, and any mess ages
every district to rejoice at the thought that rooms, each 20 by 10, and some window- dons work that nothing but an omnipotent that may be spoken into it ear are re.
the Christians have been sent to hell, and less closets, and here were imprisoned 206 God through the gospel of Jesus Christ pasted by a phonograph through its
both the Bliscloo and Mohammedan reit- helpless people. It was to become the can ever achieve it. Ameni
mons have been confirmed, and that they prison of these women and children,
should, as usual, be obedient to the meth. Some of these sepoys got permission of now De won leer,
irities of the government and never suffer Nana Sahib to take one or more of these "I will be yours," she whispered.
my complaint against themselves to reach ladies to their own place on the promise He smoothed the raven hair that lay on
a the cars of the hig,her Authority." , they should be brought hack to the sum- the reusable brow and murmured passion -
"Mr. Lee, What is this?" / said to our mer garden next rooming. A daughter of Moly;
escort as the carriage halted by an em- general Wheeler was so taken and did not "Won at lastl"
bankment. "Here," he said, "is the en, return. She afterward married the MO- "No, not one until we are united in
trenchirsent where the Christians of Cavell- liemmedan who had taken her to hip tent. , marriage," and she laughed softly toter -
put took refuge, V-, is the remains of a Some sepoys amused themselves by thrust. self,
Walt which at the time of the mutiny was ing children through with bayonets and I "That's one on me," he said,
obey four feet high, behind Which, with no holding them up before their mothers in ; Re had forgotten that she was the
elicitor from the sun, the heat at 180 de. the summer house. Al]. the doore dosed, I humorist of the Weekly Bugle. --Now
grecs, 440 men and SW women and chit and the sepoys standinggnard, the crowd, York Press
droll defelt nearly a month. A handful of; eel women and children waited their down'i
mouth.To a foreigner) perhaps the most interest-
ing matter in allChina is the system of
sclacation. pursued end tested by a Series
of competitive examinations in which tens
of thousambe take part annually and by
whioh any man may win for himself an im.
portant official post, Unforttinately it is
merely education in the knowledge of the
works of Confucius and the correct classical
employment of the multitude of Chinese
characters.
Professor Bentley says that a fall of 15 to
20 degrees in the average temperature
Would be sufficent to iieeount for all known
glaciation in the northern hemisphere,
CENTRAL PRISON GUARD KILLED
Pound Lying rucouclous Beside the
lIsZt-
way Track With a Fractured Skull
—No Slope or Use Decovera Enter-
tained.
A despatch from Toronto stye :—James
Hume, 126 Lisgar-street, was struck by a
locomotive about 150 yards west of the
Strachan -avenue railway crossing about 6
o'clock on Monday evening, and sustained
injuries from which it is thought he cannot
recover.
Hume is a guard at the Central Prison,
and was to have reported for night duty at
6 o'clock but when he did not appear at the
usual hour nothing was thought of it
About 6.30 he was found. by some train
hands, lying beside the railway in an un-
conscious condition. He had apparently
been crossing the tracks by way of a foot
path frequently used by the employes at
the prism in going to and from their
homes.
When carried into the Central Prison,
Drs. Atkins and Riordan were called, and
they discoverd that he had, in addition
to a severe scalp wound sustained a frac-
ture at the base of the skull. The ambulance
was called and She injured mart removed
to the General Hospital, where a second
examination was made, but no hopes
could be given for his recovery. Hume is
a married man with a wife and three small
children. He is in his 38th year, and was
one of the most powerful men on the prison
force.
FAMINE IN _NEBRASKA.
Famines on the Verge or Starvation and
Suffering From Cold.
A despatch from Omaha, Net, says :---
The destitution in those Wersterxi Nebraska
countiett devasted by the drought is grow-
ing daily, notwithstanding the efforts to
aid the suffering feathers. The following
appeal has been issued by Mayor Bernie, of
Omaha :—"Information has come to me
within the past few days from the most re-
liable sources—from gentlemen of integrity
who speak from actual observation—that
the suffering among the farmers in the
drought -stricken districts of our State is
exceedingly severe. Families are on the
verge of starvation ; mothers have nothing
in which to wrap their babes, and have no
clothing for themselves, except dresses
made from gunny sacking underwear and
shoes are almost unknown, and fuel is a
luxury only to be dreamed of. One of my
informants, a clergyman, informs me
that he has partaken of meals among
farmers where the 'greens of potato tops
and mouldy bread, constituted the only,
food. I am fully aware that there is a great
deal of suffering among oar. Own people,
but. I believe that our citizens should make
a special effort to extend all possible assist.
mice to the sufferers in our State.
Whales are never found in the gulf stream
THE FIELD OF UOICIERCE.
Some Items of Interest to the Nan Of
BusIneSS.
l,a
Canadiananat 59
hioe.
is in London
ato
The banks at Toronto have deoided to
reduce the rate of interest on deposits from
3tret toofishpoorttloy.ent,, which rate will go into
e
Banking and monied interests in the
United States look with favor on the re.
oommendationa of President Cleveland in
his message on banking and currency reform,
The gold in the United States treasury
has now increased to about 105 millions
owing to payments for bonds, A year
ago the treasury gold was about 83 million,
and two years ago 125 millions.
According to Invention a building has
recently been erected by Herr Wagner, an
architect, at Limburg, solely of materials
formed of mates, without any admixture of
sand. It is claimed that hard natural
stones of almost every variety, have been
successfully imitated with this very cheap
material.
Tobacco prices: Kentucky leaf and
lugs at New York are unchanged, but the
tone of the market is strong, Reports
from the South state that the demand is
good, and the supply of fine leaf not as
large as was estimated. This has induced
much buying of choice grades, and higher
prices at shipping points. -
That gold should exist in the ocean is an
induction that Dr. Henry Wurtz claims to
have presented in 1866, and in 1872 the
discovery was announced by E. Sonstadt.
A careful computation with the best data
obtainable, on the basis of 0.9 grain of gold.
per ton of sea water, about the proportion
assigned by Sonstadt shows that the great
ocean should contain gold te the amount of
$80,000,000,000,000,C00. The getting of
some of this by electrolysis, Dr. Wurtz now
predicts, according to Invention, will be
one of the problems of the future.
A "cotton trust" to control and advance
the price of cotton,was proposed at a meet-
ing of cotton, producers last week in Atlan-
ta. The plan as outlined is to form a com-
bination of the cotton growers, with a
capital of $50,000,000 or $100,000,000. Each
cotton producer to contribute one bale out
of every five grown to the trust. Estimat-
ing the crop at 8,000,000 bales, this plan
the trust ' 600,000 bales,
arket,
the wi
it is urg would advance the price 25 p
cent. The gins in every country are to be
listed, and, if possible, controlled, so as to
make it possible to know the exact produc-
tion and to regulate the supply of cotton.
According to the London Mark Lane
Express the only comparison to be found
to the present low level of the price of
cotton is by going back exactly 46 years,
when the price of middling uplands cotton
was $1d. The cheapness was then due to
financial and political diaturbanee—the
present cause to over -production, diid, we
might add, improved methods and machin-
ery for production.
Although no extensive change has yet
occurred in the price of either refined or
raw sugar in New York, great uncertainty
is felt in the market over the closing of the
refineries by the Trust. The legislation
for free sugar is expected to continue at
the session of Congress next week, and as
the Sugar Trust repents that work has been
carried on at a loss for some time, the
shutting down of factories is likely to be-
come -very general.' The stock at most of
the works is not large and the demand
continues fair, so that the supply will soon
become exhausted. Imports have declined
heavily as compared. with recent months or
corresponding dates last year, and foreign
advices give no encouragement. The esti-
mates of German beet sugar production
vary from 500,000 to one million tons larger
than last year's yield. The customs ap-
praisers have decided that the duty muss
be levied on the foreigh market price for
beet sugar, and shall not include the
bounty paid by the German government
nor the internal tax on consumption.
According to the Shoe &Leather Report-
er, the shipments of shoes from Boston have
been 661,631 cases against 50,6'23 for same
week last year. Manufacturers and buyers
are by no means agreed. as to prices, the
makers feeling in view of the advance in
leather they ought to get 5 cents per pair
more for shoes to cover the increased cost.
But the distributors maintain that prices
cannot be advanced, with the extremely
low prices ruling for the chief agricultural
products. Meagre orders are received for
boots, and jobbers have very few on hand,
but there is fair sale for heavy shoes. In
split and oil grain shoes en effort to advance
the price is in progress, with little success
as yet. Manufacturers are also inclined to
ask 5 cents more for brogans. Manufac-
turers of woman's grain and buff shoes are
busy, some having 90 days contracts ahead,
and in answer to requests for advance in
price some jobbersassent 2,e cents increase.
Immediate orders for women's light sheers
have diminished, and the traffic as to spring
goods is irregular, but not large in volume.
Only a small advance is noticed in the
Wheat markes, in the United States
although there have been numerous rumors
that were calculated to cause excitement
and fluctuations. Large foreign buying
and bad news of the Argentine crop con-
dition were bullish inileeness, and damage
to Kansas crop was alio announced, al-
though almost immediately oontredicted.
On the other band there were statements
showing that exports from Russia had in-
creased about 850,000 bushels over the
preceeding week, and the total shipments
to Eurepe from all exporting countries
were about a million bushels in excess of
the estimated weekly acquirements. Re-
ceipts at the West are still liberal, and tife
American visible gains the usual two
million bushels per week. The spot demand
is insignificant, and the closing of sonic
western mills still further weakens the
position of oath wheat, although Albinos,.
polls and Dulath mills made their largest
output on emeord during the past week,
An tunumal amount of December options
have been shifted to May, both buyer and
seller preferring to make the postponement
rather than close out contraots at preemie.
AlHp TilE•.1111.?* ..04111„:,
AS A PRINCE HE LIVED WITH OST
TATION.
A Traveler Who net Slim lit the Fear
the Great Emulate Was Very rtivoran
Inepreseed with dim,
N the early spring of l692 I was in
interior of Russia, and while there rem
an intimation that upon my return to
capital the Czareveitz would be pleased
see me. Accordingly,when I arrived at
Petersburg, I was notified at what hour
the day following I could present Tripe
before his Imperial Highness. A Russia
friend who brought the messaue gave m
few necessary hinte as to the slig
formalities essential to the audience, an
unaccompanied except by a courier, w
was to explain in Russian to the guard th
I was there by appointment, and thus ma
my way clear to the entranee, I was driv
down the Nevsky Prospeckt towards t
Aniehkoff Palace, where the Cherowitz ha
his quarters. At one o'clock I reached th
palace, and entering its gates, was admitte
and shown upstairs into a sitting -
room, where I had. to wait some mo.
manta There was nothing about the
Aniohkoff whi3h suggested the palatial.
The room in which I waited was of ordinary
size, plainly and comfortably furnished.
There were
no SIGNS Or GREAT LUXURY
either in furniture or decorations. The
quarters of the eon of an Ordinary American
millionaire would be far more princely than
these, which were the living -rooms of the
heir to the greatest empire on earth: On
the walls were a few pictures, mostly por-
traits of the imperial family—not even
paintings at that, There were a reading
desk,a few books, a litter of writing -paper,
a couple of chairs. I seated myself beside'
a plain table. whereon lay in a small tray
a few half -smoked cigarettes, the odor o
which still lingered in the atmosphere.
It was a mild day, and one of the window
looking on the court -yard was open.
Through this and the half-closed door I
heard voices about the house, and
children playing somewhere near. The
whole place suggested the interior
of the home of some happy, frugal,
well-to-do and very unoetentatious
Russian family. By the time I had noticed
these small things, and began to wonde
how soon it would be before I should meet
the grand -duke, what he would say, and
what, peradventure, I would find to answer,
a soberly uniformed officer presented him-
self, and with a gesture and a word in 4'
Russian indicated that I was to follow
ing another, a smallee
&plainer room •
eh
the hall, I stood alone
THE ENTRANCE OE me 1
In a few moments th
the opposite door a tried
gentleman, whose boyish app
toe=
mums.
rough
him seem even younger theg UN and
not to exceed say one -and- ^ t He was
clad in a simple gray um,'tin, entirely
barren of ornament. He advanced and
shobk hands, with a frau' d please -a
welcome that immediately
'
It was the year of the fa, e,111rd*
and lda'sha'i
been in Russia attending tot kdistributi
of the flour which .the American mine
had sent over to the peasants. On t
subject his Highness addressed me, in t
excellent English of which the Russia
gentleman is usually master. He desire
he said, through me, to thank those wh
had contributed to the relief of the unfors
tunate, and spoke with deep feeling of wha
the peasants had suffered during that
dreadful year. He showed genuine concern
for the condition of the people; bus, turn
ing from this, the Czatowitz said that he
was filled with wonder at the sympathy
shown by the Americans, and while he
appreciated' the value of their aid, he
marvelled that a nation so far removed
from Russia should have been so 'prompt.
and generous in its glitz.
I ventured to remind him or the cordial
relations which were almost traditional
between the two countries and in reply he
said : " Yes, I fervently believe in the
genuineness of the friendly feeling letweea
etussia, and America, -which has long
existed, and, I trust, will endure forever.
The Czarowitz said this as though he .
MEANT EVERY WORD BE 17TTERED,
and coming from one who in all human
probability, would be the future ruler of
the Russian people, the words seemed to me
significant and worthy of remembrance.
After innuiring as to my opinion of the
system of relief -work in the interior,' and
kindly expressing the hope that I found
Russia congenial and pleasant and would
not hasten homeward, the audience was
concluded, and I withdrew. The Czarowi tz
impressed me asa kind-hearted, amiable,
wholesome young man, well endowed both
mentally and physically to cope -With the
arduous duties of his great position, and as
one who would conscientiously endeavor to
do his duty under all circumstances. His
eyes ware straightforward, steady, and
strong, his forehead of good proportions,
and his head well shaped. His figure Was
Of medium height, but well kml
sprightly. He appeared to be in emit
health, and was clear-cut, straight mbed,
li
and graceful—altogether an exceedingly
attractive and pleasant gentleman,not quite
matured, but without the slightest trace in
his face or figure of either weakness or in
health.
_
LORD ROSEBERY.
Assiduous he Ilis.Attentions so MAO' Aug
CIa ErlikinM—In Touch With the nigh
Tory Set.
A despatch from London says :—Society
is aceively discussing Lord Roseberyee
marked attention to Lady Angela Erskine,
the only unmarried sister of the Countess
of Warwick. The Prime Minister Ms 'just
concluded a series of (nub try house visits,
in every case meeting Lady Angela, with
her mother. Soolety gossip deolares that
Lady Angola, does not encourage his atten-
tions, her affections being pre-engehed.
But her relatives are exerting every influ-
ence to arrange a marriage which would be
a great coup. She is very heedeoiee,
bright, end clever, with a strong literary
taste and capacity, and is independent in
her notions. This assonation brings Lord
Rosebery into elose eoetect with the high
Tory set, a fact which excites dissatisfied
comment among hie political friends.
A genius in Ashatbale, Ohio has invent.
ed What he cello "indentruotible wedding
crake," It looks tempting to the palate,
4ot is not intended to be euton. It will
seep for years, and is to heavy thet a wise
mouse will shun it./