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Exeter Times, 1898-2-3, Page 6CHAPTER, III. 11 " When a man le oid And the weather blows cold, Well fare a. fire and ti, tarried, gown ; But \rhea lie is yine And his blocel new aprung. UL s sweetheart is worth belt the towels I" It in a month'titer and raW very tilos° to Christmas. Soft wreaths of en.ow hang upon ev- ery bough. Nature has spread herself a mantle se white, so chill, that scarce one dares to dream. of life beneath it. In the old hotiste if nothing else is plen- tiful, fires are. To the McDereaot warmth is gold-ana so much gold he grants hinaself if in otlaer ways he is corapelled to study strict economy. Something in tbe brilliant glare of the huge pine logs lying on the massive lumps of lowing coal remind him in a measure of tbe days gone by, when Jae could hold. up his head with the best, and keep open house for all his friends, A whole moiath Thirty full days .and still the young ,an who has been brought in fainting to the old castle a the McDerenots is the McDerraot's guest. The doetor, summoned in baste, had pron.ouncea him in a highly fever- ish state and unfit for removal. He had broken his arm oat shooting iu some unaccountable fashion, and the walking for miles afterward trying in vain to find a short cut to Ballybeg, the resid- ence of Lord Begmore, with whom he was staying, and the subsequent im- mersion in the castle bog, and his ex- ertions to escape from it, all had com- bined to realer him, as weak a crea- ture as nature ever kept life in. To remove ham had been irarossible. The McDerraot to whose sins inhos- pitality certainly never could be laid, bad made his guest as welcome as pos- sible. Lord Begmore, too, whose guest the young man was, had. been assidu- vies in his attentions, calling every oth- er day at first, and to the present moment sending flowers, fruit and game. These last were a godsend to Bridget ana Dulcinea, who, with the short purse thee held for housekeep- ing expenses, would hardly have known how te keep their guest in the little delicacies needful for an invalid. with- out this help. And after all he has not proved an artist! He has never "wandhered" in the sense Bridget had suggested, and certainly he has always had a grand- father and a roof over his heaa. In effect, he is a young man of family, and next heir to a title, his father be- ing dead, and he an only son, and his grandfather Lord Branscombe. So there certainly is ho doubt about the grandfather. His name is Lucien Eyre, and. his ap- pearance beyond. argument. A better featured. man it woaldebe perhaps dif-e, ficult to find. Miss McDermot came' to this conclusion early in his stay with her, and even now, when he is mending,, and one need not feel so altogether aentimental about him, as when he lay stretebed upon his bed, hovering be- tween beeutiful life and. hideous death.. she sees no cause to alter her deci- sion. As a fact, he is distinctly hand. - some -of the dark Italian type, one sometimes sees In English people. And at all events, his free laughing mouth and the tall muscular figure he pos- sesses are essentially English. Yesterday he was well enough to be moved down to one of the lower rooms -a rather gaunt, impossible room that had. once been a schoolroom to judge by the general break up of the furniture. Miss McDerrnot bad wished hin to be brought to the drawing - room, the one decently, if poorly kept up room in tlae house, but he had beg- ged to be taken to some other place, where the advent of visitors need not disturb him. So the old schoolroom Lad been requisitioned, and a comfortable chair put into it, next to a roaring fire. "Well, how do yoa feel?" asked. Dul- ranee, conainv into the room like a young spring breeze, all life and fresh- ness. " Tited-eb r She used to be afraid of him at first, when she learned he was so near to a title -afraid of the poverty of her own surroundings, that must be felt by bim so long as he was her father's guest, but he had. proved so bright and. so gay, and so grateful for even the smallest mercies. that her heart had gone out to him. Even tbe difficult Bridget haci been conquered -in a measure. She has stepped into the light of the jovial fire, and is looking down at him with a little smile. He from the cleeths If the ancient armchair smiles back at, her. "I'm, a swindle!" says he. "I feel as well as any fellow, only*" "Only what ?" "Only I don't want to go," says he, in a low tone, but boldly. "How good of you that is 1" says she, slipping into a chair at the other side of the glowing hearth and spreteling out her pretty white fingers to the blaze. "Just pretending -to please me -that we have made you comfortable. Well," with a sigh, "we've done our best, father and I; but it hasn't been Much, I know that," The firelight has fallen on her face; she is leaning towatd it, aied. the rays, catching her blue eyes, light them up until they gleam like sapphires. "I am not pretending," says the young man, leaning toward her. "And , —' he paused Have eou underetood, roc, rg "11'm l" says she, ueirig the light, sea questioning sauna that belongs to her, and that has often struck him as being so delightful, "No, you have not understood," says he imw. 'Ducie don't yen know why I don't, want to lei:reef-why I weula rather be tin., invalid forever than leave? Don't ,, ea -don't you know e" .'No," says ehi, Sheinkieg from him tfaireliiiitglittaild growing pale beneath the "Oh, you must know!" says he, ve- leemently. "For a whole .week I have believed you knew. Last Monday, when you brought me these Christmas roses, . . . and. I took them, . . . and you . , . you blushed . . . and, Dulcie--" 1.Te breaks off suddenly, and rising to las feet comes over to her. Dulme, I love you." "Oh, o! Oh, to!" cries she, sharp- IY, rising let turn, and drawing back from him. "Ton must not. You can- not. You cannet, Don't you know about me V" " Know about you?" es. No man must love me," says the girl, putting out both her hands, as if in rezzuncia,tion cie all affections, "But why? Darling, why V' "Because 1 an engaged to be mar- ried," returns she. \vita terrible, sol- emnity. Being e young man of the world, this declaration might, on another occasion, have given him food. for rairth; being, however, a young man of the world for once honestly in love, it only eves him food for consternation. "Engaged!" is all he can say. "Yes,' yes! Indeed.1" hanging her bead. There is so little joy in her announce- ment -so little of anything but grief in the banging of her dainty little head, that grand courage comes to him. " An engagement! What is that V" cries he, eagerly. "An engagement can Ile broken. Blessed -thought ! Now, ef you heel been raarried-though even so -well; but an engagement." "4111 you don't know," says she. " This one can't be broken." "Why not? And -who-- ? Oh, Dul- ciel I think you might have told rae before, something about it. "It didn't occur to me," says Dul- cie, opening her fingers in her little explanatory way. " Never 1 not for a moment V" "What didn't?" in a puzzled tone - "your engagement. But really you must have thought about that some- times, any way; and, besides—" " That! Non,sense," sere she. "Whet didn't occur to ine was, that you ever -were—" she glanced at him shyly and shamefacedly, "well -were -you know." "Dulcie!" cries he, "Oh, no 1" cries she. "Don't touch me. It is so absurd. You couldn't be in love with me in a month, could. you?" " Couldn't If" says he. Well, eve.a if you could," says she, shaking her head, dismally, "it isn't of any use. Father bas made up his mind I am to marry him." "Sir Ralph Anketell." "Ankerell?" yes )1 Wby, he's twice your age." "Oh, no, he isn't 1" says Miss Mc- Derruoa quickly. "He is thirty-four." "Looks more like ninety-four in my opinion, and. as ugly as sin." "I have read somewhere that sin is always beautiful," says she sentent- iously, "Then Anketell is as ugly as some- thing else. He," gazing at her anx- iously, "he is ugly, isn't her "I dent think he is so ugly as you think him," says she evasively. "I believe you are in love with him," says Eyre, somewhat "You ca'i believe what you like," re- turns she, loftily. Silence. "Well, are you in love with him?" clem.anis the young man, presently, with open ire. "I'm in love 'with nobody," retorts she, with crushing ineanirg; "hub fa- th.er thinks it will be a good. thing for me to marry Sir Ralph." "And be -Sir Ralph -does he know you are being coerced. into a marriage with him ?" "I don't know what he knows." If he doe,s he must be a mean hourid!" cries Eyre, with passionate contempt. "He is not a mean hound," says the girl, quickly. I may not want to marry him; I may have been persuad- I ed to engage myself to him; I may ! not care for him in the very least; I but he is not mean, and he is one of the kindest, best men I ever met." "Well, never mind:what I have said," puts in Eyre quickly, Her sudden defense of the man whom she so plainly does not love has struck him as a touch of nobility in her char- acter. He ca.n admire it the more it seems to prove to him that love has no part in her defense. " The thing I do want to know is-- Dulcie, look at me, Tell me you will try to love me." "Why should I try to love you 9" says she, tears rising in her eyes. "Why should I try to love any one? I tell you, I am bound. to marry Sir Ralph, and -I must fulfil my promise." "Surely not if you yourself object to "To what?" "To the promise." A pause. "You do not object to UV" "I don't see that I have any right to object, the promise once given," says she restlessly. "But -t do, for all that. It was fattier's doing. He thinks Sir Reline perfection." She shrugs her shoulders, the suddenly turns to hire. "Fanny!" says she vebemently-"Fan- cy a girl being told elle must marry a. man whether she likes him or not 1" "I caa fancy a girl being told to do it. I can't fancy a girl doing it," returns he slowly. "Ton meati—" hotly. "Never mind what I mean just now, 'You tel] me it was your father's do- ing?' , "That is enough for me. But An- ketell "He knows nothing. He proposed to Me through my, father. I hated that" -rebelliously, "Why Why couldn't be have come to me direct?" "Why, indeed?" "Ho stad he was afraid when T. asked him," says the girl, with a frowning brow; and speaking as if addressing herself only. "But -afraid Ffie must he a fool," says Byre, with conviction, and might eye% said mere perhaps if the dark blue eyes had not emelenly raised 'themselves to hie with a rather Menacing expression in them. "Dian% he guees?" asks b.e hastily. "What f -that 1 didn't love bien 9 No, There was nothing to guess about." "You didialt tell Mm?" "I told him I Ilea no love to give him," eaya Dulcitlea T13:311 " Well V" "IIe asked Ine then if 1 lOYOd aPY Clf*131a. ell it" " Well -I said 1 clididt." "Thep ?" eignificantly. "When lie beard I didn't love any one be :seemed quite contented." "But did it never atieur to, tine that in the future you -her -might love some one? Eh?" "There is so seldom 'some one' here," returned she, with a sigh. At this moment the door ia thrown "Miss Dulciaea.1" says Mrs„Driscoll, appeariag on the threshold in her beat bib and tucker ana her worst temper. "Sir Ralph wants to see ye. He's just ridden over from The Towers." Behind. her appears Sir Ralph. " \Veli-bere 1 ara,", says Dialoinea, ooldly, She rises with perfect calm, but in spite of herself a tot blush springs to her cheeks. She walks with a touob of defiance to the door, "You want me, Sir Ralph V" "Not here -not now," returns he, his tone ten times, colder than ber own. If you will give me five minutes by and by in the drawing -room, it will do. Pray don't let me take' you away from your guest now 1" He pauses and looking toward:Eyre compels him to be civil. "Very iglad to see you looking so rauch better," says he, with a ghost of a smile. They have, of course, met during the past month. "Thanks," says Eyre, not too grac- iously, "I can come now, if you want me," says Duleinea, perceiving her betroth. eldturn to the doorway as if to go avity. "Thank you! An hour hence wial do very well," replies he coolly, and closes the door belaind him. " Therel" says Dulcinea, lookiug at Eyre, with angry eyes full of tears; "what do you think of that? I'm sure I offered to go with him, didn't I? and. you see how he treated me. You saw it, didn't you ?" "I saw it. indeed.. Dulcie, why think of him at all? Why care? He is be- neath your notice." "Oh, he is more than that. He is a wretch. I hate him?" cries Dulcie, vehemently. She stamps her small foot upon the ground, and thentuddenly, for no such great reason certainly, she covers her face with ber hands and bursts into a storra of teari. To be Continued. MARRIED MEN LIVE LONG, interesting Statistics Compiled by a Ger, man Scientist—Warning- to Bachelors. Persons who desire to live to a good old age will do well to read an interest- ing work 041 the subject which has just been issued by Dr. Schwartz of Berlin. The doctor has given much time to the study of longevity, and the conclusions at which he has arrived are based on statistics which seem in, all respects reliable. He begins with the bold. statement that any one who depletes to live for four score and. ten years should get married. In other words, he claims that conjugal life is a necessary eon- dition of longevity. Here are the sta- Usti= which support his statemeat: Of 200 persons who had reached the age of 40 yeara the doctor found that 125 were married. and 75 unmarried. Of 70 men who had reached the age of 60 years he found that • forty-eight were married and only twenty-two .unmar- ried. He next took thirty-eight men, each of whoni was in his seventieth year, an.cl he found that twenty-seven were married. and eleven unmarried. Fin- ally, he took twelve men, each aged ninety years, and found that nine were married and three unmarried. It may be claimed that no sure conclusion can be. drawa from statistics of this na- ture, for the reason that the institu- tion of marriage is spread. all over the world, and henee it is natural to find the majority of persons married. Dr. Schwartz in reply again brings for- ward. some curious statistics. These statistics show that the mortality among bachelors between the ages of 30. and 45 is as high as 27 per cent. whereas among nhose who are married it does not exceed. 18 per cent. "It is evilent," says a, French writ- er, who has closely studied Dr. Sch- wartz's statistics. "that we must; ac- knowledge the poteney of these figures, a,nd that, if we desire to live to a good old age, we should get married as soon as possible. We should. cer- tainly do so if we wish to live a full century, for Dr. Schwartz cites the cases of fifty centurians, not one of whons is a bachelor. A. curious fact, too, is that these fifty centurions were all widowers." NELSON'S WONDERFUL FEAT. Writers of historical reminiscences have to be masters of a certain amount of accurate information-- about their heroes if they wish to avoid. mistakes. If they are not, they are sure to "get tbings mixed." a/along since a reviewer in the Lon- don Times, writing of a, book named " Roving Commissions," related on his own account the following episode of Nelson, the great admiral: "While in chase of Villeneuve's French fleat, he was Wormed of the enemy heaving in sight, at which in- formation Nelson evinced the highest satisfaction, and gleefully rubbed his hands." As a correspondent of the Timeit points out, this incident oecurred in 1805, Nelson lost his right arm in the attack on Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, in 1797 -eight years prior to his pursteit of Villeneuve's fleet. It would have been, therefore, a difficult matter for hint to "rub his hands" in 1805, FOOLING /Inv/. Dumpiest, I hear that yoa ha,ve been, mierepremnaing ate, said his neighbor indignantly. larozer told mie an about it, Ail 1 said. to him was that you were OW Of the naost honorable men wad con- siderate neighbors that I ever knew. Wonder where 1 Ottri find that, intern- al. Brozee TSB. TI14748 1118 EYES LIKE "X" RAYS THE' MARVELLOUS POWER$ OF ' A ' FRENCIIWOMAN. eke Van See Throagat searia lien neat and eau need nitudielded I he CentelktIt 01 Lefters Miles AWOY. Great are the Roentgen rays, but greeter, ;say those wbo linew her, is u, certain Frenchwoman of Narbonne, The Roentgen. rays enable us to see theeugh wood. and flesh, but they are powerless against na'Aals, 'rot this woman of Naboone, we are told, ce,n net Duly read a letter wrapped in me- tallic paper, but can, read. it when it Is at a great distend) away from her. Dr. Ferroul discovered this marvel- lous woman.. The Doctor, who was some years ago a sooialist Deputy in. Paris, recently settled. dow.a at Nar- bonne and. determined to devote all his leisure to the study of ocoultisra. So he tried his band at taming tables and, like so nutty others, strove to obtain messages from the dead by means of Plancleette and spirit rapping. His success was jsf meaked in any direc- tion until one day be 'became aequaint- ed with a woman who possessed the strange faculty of "reading letters through opaque bodies." - , The doctor was amazed. He tested the woman several times, and in no in- stance dad she fail to read the letter correctly, Then he sat down and sent word of his wonclerfal discovery to a friend of his, Dr. Grasset, professor of medieine at the University a Montpel- lier. The latter, who is well known in Paris as a savant of great merit, was at first wholly incredulous, but finally promised to test the woman's Power in his own way. First, how- ever, he went to Narbonne and had • losia-conference with Ferroul, after which be returned to Montpellier and wrote the following words on a half sheet of paper: - DUE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. "T.he deep sky mamas our tears in its .stars, for we weep this evening at feeling that we live too much." Over these words he wrote in one line three words, one in the Russian, another in. the German, and. the third in, the Greek language, and. then he added a final, line containing the word "Montpellier" and the date of the month. This pa.per he folded in two, with the writing on the inside, and. then he covered. tt entirely with a sheet of tinfoil, swell as is used. for ohocolate. This sheet he turned down at the edges and he then slipped the whole in.to an ordinary envelope, which he. tightly fastened. with gum. Finally, as Dr. Ferroul had. warned him that string sometimes interfered. with his subject's • reading powees, he fastened the envelope with a safety pin, which pierced in, such a manner tbat formed a. sort of padlock, and, this be- ing done, the pin was embedded in a. mass of black sealing wax, which was staenped with Dr. Grasset's coat of arms. To this sealed envelope Dr. Grasset attached his card with a few words, and then he placel the dominant an a large envelope and sent it by mail to Dr. Ferroul at Narbonne. Two days later he received 'the following letter from. Dr.- Ferroul:- SHE READ IT ALL. 'Won, cher maitre:- "Whea your letter reached me this morning my subject was not at hand. I opened the first cover containing the envelope and found your card. Hav- ing some visits to make, I decided to bring my subjeot to my house at about four o'clock and I called at her house to leave word. "When I told her what 1 wantect her to do she expressed a. desire to make the reeding at once. Your envelope, eealed with black wax, had been placed inside its big envelope on my desk, and my subject's ie.I.USe is distant at least three hundred metres from mine. "As wel ea.aed against a table I pass- ed. my hands over the subject's eyes ann this is what sbe toed me without having seen your envelope: - "You have torsi the envelope.' "'Yes, but the letMr to be read is in- side in another cloaed envelope.' "'The one with the large black seal?' "Yes. Read.' "'There is some silver paper, . . Here'.is what there is: -The deep sky refletts out tears in its stars, for we weep at feeling that we live too male' "'Then, there are letters like this.' She showed. rae with her finger tips, D. E. K. "Then there is a, short name that I doxi't know.' In what sense are we to take this? "Then, she read the word Montpellier and the date on your letter. "There, cher' maitre, is the report of the experiment, which lasted at most a minute axid a half. I ani returning your envelope with my letter. Tours, Signed DR. FERROUL. A NEW EXPE.RIlYIENT, Dr. Grasset was exceedingly surpris- ed whe,o, be received this letter. To him, indeed, tlae story savored of,, the supernalural. The sealed envelope was mire marc in his possession there was sot the slightest evid.enee that it had. been tampered with, and yet this strange woman bed read tile entire contents with the exception of the few words in Greek, Russian' and Gerraan. Are we to conclude flute this experi- ment that reading through opaque bodies belongs to the domaia of pos- eihilitY? Wonderful, if true, end yet not as wonderful as tbe fact that the readieg in this instauties wee done. at a, eonside.rable distance. The subject not merely read tbe words that were inside the OlOrgea and sealed envelope, bat nhe did so at a tinale where the en- velopie was three hundred metres away frani her and when there were between her end it such solid objects as her own home and Dr, rerrotel's house. Clear, however, aa the forte were, Dr, Grimed was still half afraid of be- ing mystified and therefore he submit- ted the sealed enveleile to the members of the Aeadelay of Scaenee and Lettere of Montpellier, awl, by opening it in their presence, satiafied them that the envaballe had not been tampered with. The members were as puzzled as Dee Graseet, entl at onee derailed to tinalee a ow expexiiment. Consequently a Committee was emaciated for this pur- pose, and it was a,grieea tbat, the raera- biers thereof should. not know tbe con- tents of the envelope and, while on their way to Narbonne should not let it for a moment out of their possession. As to the result a tbia hest experi- ment, teething bas yet been made pub. • DINNER FOR 755 PERSONS. Two liantired and TwelitY Walters Were, nequired to Serve the lionat. Sint* the simplification of means for publics and private dinners has become universe], the task of feeding a large number of people at one time is much less complicated than formerly. Our public, dinners are noted for their per- fection of detail and of service. The French, however, are a close second. At the banquet given recently to M. Felix Faure by the Member of Com- merce of Paris there were present 755 persons. The dinner was served in the large meeting -room of the chamber, which is occupied until 5 p.m. The members -declined to out 'short the hours of business, so that the caterers could begin operations only after the adjournment of the day. They had. therefore, Dray two hours or until 7 p.m. to complete all the arrangements for the banquet. In that space of time eighteen tables were laid. out with all their equipment. This, in part con- sisted of 12,000 plates, 2,500 knives, 7,- 000 glasses, 3,500 spoons, and 3,000 forks. In addition, there were eighty baskets of fruit, as many of flowers, 300 sets of petits fours, about 500 yards of dam- ask, tablecloths, ankl. eighty candelabra. The service was in charge of four head waiters, eaoh of whoen had fifty-five subordinates under his control. The culinary department was divided. into four sections, each consisting of three chefs, five helpers, two ice makers, a.rid a. number of others, making a. total of forty. persons to each aecition. The provesions consisted of forty pounds of shrimps, twenty co tails, 800 cassellotes and bouchees, fifty-five trout, sixty quarts, about, of sauce francaise-a white sa,uceein. „which, with other in- gredients, crawfish butter is incor- porated -sixty haunches of deer 110 quarts of mushrooms, 110 fowls, 800 quails, 125 pheasants, 120 pounds of truffles, and. eighty ducklings. Besides all these were the materials for the des- sert, All of the eiaoking was done in. temporary booths outsid.e. MARTIAL MATRIMONY. ee-e. curious net:wearies tiorerning Army Mar riages in lilltrope. The restrictive conditions at pres- ent in force with regard to the mar- riage of officers in tha Russian: array forbid this privilege under any circum- stances in the case of officers -under the age of twenty-three; between the ages of twenty-three and twenty-eight years the dot of an officer's wife must amount to a sum representing the minimum income of 250' rubles year- ly. On comparisoni of these conditions with those regulating the same ques- tion in other European armies, it may be noted that in the Austro. Hungarian army the number of offi- cers- authorized to contract mar- riages is limited by a, fixed proportion assigned to each grade, and, these to- tals being reached, all further . Mar- riages must be deferred, pending the erg:carrel:ice of vacancies in the married establishments. The Italian army re- gulations, which fix. the income of the fiancee at a minimum of from 1,200 to 2,000 lire, would appear to be more rational in their operation; Italian of- ficers, however, apply& somewhat lib- eral interpretation to this law, tvith the result that the iaumber of mao• riages occurring under actual provi- sions do not exceed more than. an eighth of the total number, seven eighths of the officers being united under the conditions of the religious ceremony only, and thus exposing tbenaselves to all the ineonveniences which attend a marriage not recog- nized by civil law:. Similar disabili- ties would now appear to be incurred by Russian °Moors, and suggestions have been made by the press of Russia that a general, revision of the latv is becoming necessary. The question is assuming some importance from .the fact that Russian officers reaching a total number or nearly 40,000 represent one of thd most important classes in the state. -WHERE 11E WORKOD. The prisoner was =king his appear- ance before the magistrate for the hundredth time. Well, said the magistrate, you here again? Yes, your worship, responded the prisoner. Wbet's the charge? Vagra.ncy-same as before, your wor- ship. It seems to me you, are here 0..bout half your time. Rather more than less, your wor- Obit). - • Welloehat do you de it for? Why don't you. work? I do, your worship, more than belf my time. Ate now, said the magistrate, sur- prised, 19 you oan bali rae ivbere you have ever worked, I'll let you. off, In prisot, your worship§ smiled the prieme,r, and the court kept its word. THE GMT OE EQUILIBRIUM. -- Aunt Araeline, what is being Nveil balaeceit? Weal balanced?. Well, it is having sense enough to make more friends then enemies. AN ODD 0.A.SE, Bicycle Dealer -I ran across a pecu- liar bicycle crank to -day, Rio Piirtner-Who was he? Bitiycle Deter -s, ortan came in who geld lie wanted to buy a low-grade wheel. MOND THE VllO1E WORD. WHAT IS WINO ON IN Tl -H3 FOUR CORNERS OF THE °LODE. 014 and Nev World Events of Interest Chron. Idled Briefly—Interesting Happenings ot Recent Pato. A telegraph lam recently run to Coo- massbe from the coast is highly appre- ciated by the Asbanti natives. They cut off the wire in auiteble, lengths to make armlets. - France is test/ening to, make Siboutil, on Ithe Red Sea, the beg port for Abys- sinian,' trade to: counterbalance the ef- foot of the Italian transfer of latiesala to the English in Egypt. Lord Alfred Rothschild sent a brace of pheasants to every one of the 3,000 drivers and conductors of the omnibus company In which he is interestedas ai Christmas present. Herr Liedee, the senior member of the Gerraaa.Reichstag, is $7 years of ege, and has sat in. every session since the empire was constituted. He had also been a 'member of the Prussian Landtag cottinuously since 1854. Berlin University, owing to the large 1231Mber of foreign students frequent- ing it, has established an instructor- ship in elementary German to enable them to learn the language in which the lectures are delivered. Princess Theresa. of Bavaria, daugb- ter a the Prince Regent, has bean made an libnorary emator of philoso- phy by the University of Munich. She ie also a, member of the Royal A.caderay a Sciences, is 48 years of age, and at spinster. Africa's monkeys are giving out. In the neighborhood of the Gold Coast they have bean eaterminated and last year the coleay could collect only 67,060 mon- key skins, whereas 18 1894, 168,405 skins, valued �,t 005,000, were exported. Railroad traffic in Geemany has in- creased to such an extent that the Gov- erninent finds it necessary to four - track the main lines in Westphalia, and tar as rl e Rhine iiieno. vinee, with the prospect of extending the improvement soon aS Paris's police is trying to discourage murder as a business by showing that it does not pay. Out of twenty-one re- cent murders the average profit to each assassin was 016.37, and in many of atndex hetieecascustsedtb..e murdeeer was caugbt bill -posting combination has been turned into a limited liability corpor- ation in London, with a. capital of 812,- 250,000. It holds out as an induceenent Lo -buy shares a number of contracts it bas fete bill posting at the rate of a, penny a sheet per week. Em.prese Elizabeth of Austria has col - Meted the photographs of all the pret- ty women she has seen dueeng the last nine years. To each picture is attach- ed a statement of tbe name, age, anti cortditioa of the subject, with theelate ana jeace of the taking of the photo- graph, " Mr. Stua,ri, Erskine," is the name under which the bankrupt Earl of Ros- slyn, the first British peet to become professiotad actor, will appear in the cast of Pinero's new play. -Through his mother, li Fitzroy, he is a de.scenettat of Ring Charles II. and Barbara Vil- liers, Duchess of Cleveland. In all Italy there were but 920 duels fought, last yeer, according to the re- cord kept by Conunendatore Galli of Milan ,and of these 103 had serious con- sequences. OnlyOne, duelist was kill- ed on the sot; six others died of their wounds. Of the serious duels seventy - fare were bLween civilians, fifteen be- tee-een officers, and in thirteen officers fought civilians. Princess Raetio lVfaruan of the Fiji Islands, according to the Berlin Doreen- blett, is about to visit Europe in search of a husband. She is the heir to the throne ; has an income of 835,000 a year from the British Government, whiob will be doublyi on her accession, be- sides her domain lands, and is looking for a well-educated raan of good birth, as the Fiji Queen's eonsort is her Chief Minister and Chief Justice. One branch of the Bourbons has learned - to forget, and is trying to Live up to modern elem. Both sons of the late Count of Aquila, King Bomba's brother who married the tate Emper- or of Brazil's sister, married wives of non -royal rank, one of them an Amer- ican girl, and settlerl down as loyal It- alian citizens. A grandson of the Counb has just becorcre engager], with his earent's consent, to a young wo- man. at Naples, who is not even noble. In dee first seveln years of Wilbelm IL's reign, 4,965 sentences for lese-ma- jeste were haflictea by German collets, the average term of imprisonment be- ing 175 daye. The .yearly averags of senten.ces is inereasing, either through greater aensitiveness on 'the part ef tbs authorities or through the Kaiser's giving more °mutton for uefavorable comment. Among the offenders pun - Weed were seven ebildren under 15 years of age and 231 other persons unier 21. F,arl Russell, freed from leis divorce court, troubles, is agitating the "one man one bath" queatain in British workhouses, At, Maidenheal, the scene Of the reeent, typhoid fever outbreak, where the Earl ie One of the Board of Guardians, he discovered that they had bathed forty trams in six betbfuls of water. -With poem ,difficulty he rot the:nigh e praaosel to bee the rime water kor only tevo or three persons, one overseer objecting that " he dile not know when they were going to stop eievieg luxuries to trampe," There was a, hot thee in Acielliide, Australia, on Nov, 10, the teMperatere in the 6har1e reaching 106 degrees, and hi; the sun 164 degrees. The sky look - e(1 queer, the suis was blue rod, and many people concludel that the world was coming., to en. end, At one public seheol the ebildren were seized with • ranic, wilich was stopped with data oulty by the head Master, who later aept 'the whole schoei hi till it haa ramie up the time lost 18 the stare. LORD KELVIN'S PREDICTION. No More CIO, Three nand ted and irerty•Sir Veers Front bow. , In 346 years there will not "do a pound. a coal or a gallon of petroleum left ia the 'whole earth, aecording to the state - merit; made by Lox -4 Kelvin before the Mathematical and Physical Section of the :British Association at its recent Pleetiug in Toronto, Lord. Kelvin, with' Iris unrivalled power of applying his Mathematical Imowledge to the solution ef practical questions, has made this startling calculation very carefully. ' A fair average of the growth of coal in the earth, Lord Kelvin said, was twee , tons for each square Metre in a thou - and years. Dividing the figures al- ready obtained, would give thyage of the earth since plant life began, as 20,- 000,000 years. Turning to Geeat Brie Jain; Lord Kelvin said that there Was still available al that country 146 thou- sandmaillioin tons of coal, or about six- , tenths of a ton per aquare metre of ycaaearnesarsu. mIoulrlititric3eisnaSg.thfisr°74suPtlilAYe Prallsge.In'ittlraastte5-01 Sir Henry Bessemer, the great steel manufaeturer, bas made some calculao times ebout coal whicb will mare tbe,se figures better understool. One million • tons of coal would form a cube 300. feet squaxe by 300 feet Male or they would repreeeat a bed of coal one mile square by one foot thick. The coal rained in' Genet Britain in 1881 would make 555 great pyramid; or IVOU'Id re- build tbe great wall of China, with one, quarter to stare. The British output of coal in 1883 would. form a pillar one mile ihigb by 164 feet square. Edward Hull, a famous English' geo- logist, bas calculated that the amount of coal in Great Britain, which exists at depths at whieb it can lie rain -ea" is EIGHTY TROT/SAND MIILION TONS. W. Stanley JeVons, reasoning from a these figures, ealculated. that the Brit- a ish coal supply would be exbausted in. -1975, Sydney Lupton, reasoning from another set of figures, set down the consumption of the last pound. of British doal for 1990. Mr. Lupton, replying to a atig- geetion that Great Britain might im- port its supply of coal from North,Ara- erica, wbioh now has forty times as - much as the United Kingdom, after its. own stores were exhausted, figured. out that it wonllid. take 2,100 steamships, each making thirteen trips a year, and each carrying 6,000 tons of coal as cargo to make up England's aeficiency. Huxley pointed out in a earefully written article that, "wanting coal, all the great towns of Lancashire and Yorkattire would vanish • like a dream, Manufactures would. everywhere give place to agriculture and pasture, and not ten men could live,. where 10,000 are now -amply supported." Richard P. Rothwell, who was the nailing expert in the eleventh United. States census, gives the coal produc- tion a the Ttnited States for 1896 at 186,241,271 short tons, a,nd Bads that tbe anthratite naines of Pennsylvania are a being rapidly wcaleerl out. a- . e, Lord Kelvin says that, when the 'ea' world's aupplv of coal is exhausted at 1,4 the end of 346 years, mankine will only. have wood left for fuel. Meanwhile, he advocates the uee of all the power of Niagara Falls, which be calculates at 4,000,000 horse -power. While this pow- er could be distributed by electricity over a radius of 300 miles at a pressure - of 80,000 volts,. with' a loss of only 20 per cent., Lord Kelvin thinks that all the factories which want to take ad, vanta.ga of Niagara's rower shoule be gathered within a radius of forty miles. FROM THE SIXTEENTH FLOOR. A ORCC Prosperous 1111411114tRA Man's Plutst. to Death ilk eideage's Masonte Temple. Alliert C. Greenleaf, plunged from the sixteenth floor of the Masonic Tem- ple, Chicago, to the floor of the rotunda on:Saturday morning. His body crashied through the thiok marble of a stair landing at the fourth story and deep - Ped; mangled, to the floor underneath. A short time before tlais Greenleaf had climbed to the twelfth floor of the Cbamber of Commerce Building and was getting ready to jurap there when he was observed ena ejeeted. Appar- cntly he eveht direct from there to the Masonie Temple., He ascended to the sixteenth floor - in the elevator. 'On the next trip, tbe elevetoir !man noticed that Greenleaf had removed. his overcoat and hat, but he merely supposed that he was awork- Mat getting ready for some work. Greenleaf nalkea about the floor while the elevator made three more trips. Then he elimbed over the heave' iron railing ani aropped. He shot down- ward I at the inner windows of the Masonic Tempie. offices with such. veto - city that, eersons evlio haw him from the moment he vaulted over the rail on the sixteenth floor, until his body struck the inarhle stairway •did not suspeet that i t was a human body. His tali mai; uncheeked forthirteen floors, Right off the rotunda on each side of the building the stairway es - maids to the fourth floor, Between the floor thie,re is an inte.ratediate a marble slab about six feet square. The body struck the wooden railing o of the etairii ay first, and then this I - curiae slab. The railing, although it is made ,of three-inch oak, was eplia- terea alne the marble Slab was shat- , tered. '11P Ten yetere ago Greenleaf was a 1,ros- perChti dry -goods merchant et Colum- bus, O., and reporteel to be worth 8250,- 000, Re foiled 111'1o/slimes, and five rears ano he came to Chicago to reek for it situation as a bookkeeper, Last spring' he spent a merit)); in jail on the charge otf embezzling $1,100 from Dearhorn street etre dealerfor whom he werked as liookkeeper. Saturda,y he started out from it 10 -cent lorigiade house in Ste tie etreet to end. his tom - Mem, Greenleaf wee about fotty-tive years CORRECTING AN lafPlIESetgle, leekeole-f undost and the VJs1 turtn apeeittlix is of no use. Dottoe--Noneenee. 1 it hp e leeeiti gola Mine 10 tie) meeical ei ofeteree