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Exeter Times, 1898-11-3, Page 6A HAPPY HOUSEHOLD. By MARGARET LEE, Anther et nineroce-de Weeklea nstoester-letriceer teni Wintglen, (Continued.) "What would your father say to all thi$ ?" "Oh, daddy is very sensible. • He will think just is I do -he always does. I am sure of him if you. will say 'yes.'" "Rose, this is a. great, an unexpected, teraptatiou I" "Temptation 1" "I should say a joy that Makes me tremble. Is it right for me to have ouch happiness ?" "You dear, dear Larry!" How did you conceive of this idea e "Oh, I have been thinking hard for days, Do you know the Collect for Whitseinclay? It ,is very wonderful. Wait, and I'll show it to you." She brought him an open prayer -book and left the room. When die return- ed ho was lying on the sofa, looking gray and nerveless. Rose eat down and put her hands in his. He studied her grave face for some seconds. "Sweatheart, has your father con- vinced yon that your plan is unwise?" "Ah, you don't altogether understaed my daddy. What do you think he said?" "What Did he consent ?"? Larry sat up. "He says have gone to the root of the matter -that I have the right idea of marriage. Larry, he is going to at- tend to all the details. I don't like details. I think the fairies have a nice way of doing things -just by wav- ing a wend. These are daddy's plans. We can go to the church in the morn- ing about eight o'clock and be married. Then we can take the early train for town. Mr. Proctor baptized me; he would have married us, anyhow. Daddy and grandma will come to town with us, and I can stay at the hotel with them, so as not to inconvenience your mother. And, Larry, I have lots of things. Daddy says to do everything quietly, but properly. I have a new tan -colored suit that I can wear." "I think I am dazed with all this kindness." "I wish I could make you smile." "And I have shadowed your bright face." "Not you. Larry, I want you to promise me something. May I do just ,,as I please for -for two or three days? After that, I will do as you wish.' "You remind me of the Spanish Pro- verb: 'A woman's advice is no great thing, but the man is a fool who doesn't take it.' I think, love, you can You don't see the beauty?" always do as you please." , at don't know enough to appreciate it." I "There's something in that, I'll CHAPTEB., XIX. ' admit. I've spent a lifetime studying. The next afternoon Rose met Pow- these things. Well! And so you are ers on Madison Avenue. He looked here again? I was thinking about you surprised, then delighted, and turned only a few minutes ago." He looked to walk with her, speaking earnestly: at her and hesitated. "I am so relieved to see you! When "I suppose you. know all about this did. you get here t" s id trouble," Rose said, quickly. "I have just left the train." "I know about all I cage to - yes. "You look so well, too. You are It is only one case in thousands. good not to put on black." You'll find them all over the country. "Oh I couldn't do that 1 I cling to Some men are in such a hurry to 'get hope." there!' Look at me -I'm twenty years ',Welt was there ever such a mud- older than Everett, and I haven't die? You don't mind if I allude to 'got there' yet. Why couldn't he this?" make haste slowly? This idea of eneoy- . "No, I want all the light I can get nag the blossoms and living off the on the subject." fruit of other men's trees is destroying "I can tell you that it is a pretty our whole business system. I tell dark one. Such a, burlesque on you, the prospect of making a fortune wealth. A man with more than he suddenly by one brilliant stroke in could conveniently spend, losing his speculation is demoralizing the whole reason in the effort to become richerl community. Our young men are I ean understand poverty driving a , blinded by the few dazzling successes, man crazy." .tand become so unsettled that they are "Perhaps it does, only we don't hear unfitted for everything. By Jove, of it." ' you can't find a young man who "True. This Is a most terrible en- hasn't a little hole in Wall Street tanglement. Nothing can be done to where he drop3 his savings! Ever - save anybody or anything If Everett ett was going in for a big harvest. I were proved, to be dead, why, the estate had some of his paper offered me a could be administered and something few days ago." might be saved out of it for his family- "Is it too late to buy it?" As it is, such matters are at a stand- "Oh, no. If he gets back within a. still; and meanwhile his paper is ma- day or two he can pull through. He hiring. He had quantities of it out. can at least get an extension; but a You see, with him speculation was a man with his ability and reputation mania. He was like a juggler with can always borrow money." his tops in the air. How he keeps them up is a mystery to everybody but 'lag "You think he is living'?' He had no more idea of sui- himself. Everett was a master of the aide than I have. This world pleases art. He understood the fifth rule me. I have no desire to leave it. I in arithmetic -substitution. Take don't concern myself with what peo- money from here and put it elsewhere, pie are calling the 'Unknowable.' but keep all your interests in good think that the good Lord of the pres- shape. The people at the bank are ent can take care of the future. I dose -mouthed. They admire Everett have no sympathy with these loud - and are true as steel; but they have mouthed infidels who propose to pull themselves to think about, and they away our tried bulwarks and leave can't protect his paper. I Offered nothing in their place." Larry all I own, but he tole me it "Father sayst hat these atfacks on would be a drop in the bucket.' Christianity are periodic, and al - "How good -how generous -you are' ways cause a healthy reaction.". "I am glad for his sake that you are I "He is about correct. I remember. here. The boy is simply going to when Tom Paine's works were pieces. He takes this to heart so much startling us with his fine theories. more thee his mother and sister seemThatwas a long time ago." to." I Rose put her hand. on the old man's "He is a. man; he rearizes what the atm. results may be." I "Suppose that Mr. Everett does not "Yes; and he was working hard when come back within a day or two?" the blow came. He had reached a, "Ah, my child, matters will be in a Point where any mental shock was bad way. You see, he has borrowed bound to unnerve him. It is hard to heavily from the bank. That may say what the end will be. It is well break. The directors only have his for eilm that he has you to think of. notes, and there is now a rumor By the way, when did you see him? I abroad that he holds Some of their se - was at the house this morning; but he was out of town, and Mollie didn't entities. That borders on the foolish, if not altogether dishonorable. You seem sure of his whereabouts." know a bank is not juatified in loan - "He is at home by this. • He stayed with us yesterday and. came down ing a man its securities in exchange for his notes. You can't understand with us to -day. We will be at the the thing, but it looks bad for Ever - •JR0%tlf.ck "I did what you had clone. 1 offered him all I had to give." "And he refused, I suppose? Unless you are a fairy with a gold ranee at your disposal." "No ; I only wish I had. I think fa - thee made him some such proposal, but ix vain. Larry is not willing to take money from where it might be missed." "Pray, what did you. give him -in your generosity and. pity?" "Nothing. You know, 'if you care for a person, that is one thing.' Mr. Powers, you are so kind and true that I am going to tell you something nice." "That would be a novelty, I swear!' "Larry looks a great deal stronger - that is, a little more hopeful. This is our wedding -day." "What I You are going to marry him at this crisis." "I have done it. This morning, in our own dear little church, we were married. Whatever happens, at least I am his wife." Powers caught her hand. "You are a good woman! This is the most joy- ful news I ever heard. I congratulate you, and I thank God, for Larry's sake !" "1 knew you, would be glad to hear it. To -night you • will come to see us?" "Yes." ,44 They walked for some distance in utter silence. Powers rang Mr. Poun- ce's antique bell and. waited until the heavy oaken door was opened for Roe. It was her privilege to be taken to whatever room Mr. Pounce might happen to be in, so she followed the servant to the pretty rosewood cab- inet. The old man bad just found a treasure in the shape of a cup. He was rubbing it with chamois and hold- ing it to the light. His eyes lightened as Rose came forward. -Well, I declare! Why, when did you arrive'?" "just now." "Stay a moment. A girl like you Be drew forwara heavy chair with should have a bright wedding -day. Let a high, Gothic back, and Rose sat me think. Powers offered all he had - down and took the cup from him. He the widow's mite, eh! You gave him was in an ecstasy over it. yourself. I have learned something "That's an old, old pattern, out of to -day. Young people are a great date for centuries!" de:el better than I supposed - warm - The sunlight had fallen on her hair, hearted, generous, thoughtful, ref - and while she examined the piece secrificing to the uttermost! You he feasted his eyes on the living pie- Poe cites t u ol.af ish on -d fai h It is tare before him. "It is so odd," she a nice vile us to have. It came honest - said, as he took it and carefully made ly to you. iy girl, because you prov- room for it. in the case. ed your faith in me this day, and for no other reason t I will do all that you ask. Come, come, now. No tears to- day. How does the song go? 'Tears for to -morrow, but kisses to -day.' Will you give me just one kiss? There - I want you to smile. Rose - Rose Everett -that is •your name now -you must have a wedding -gift." "Oh, you have given me all that I want!" br.a.Atinond."you must have a proper cele - "Oh, never mind about us." Amerleans, They despise their own country; they ape torega People and manners. Nothing. here la good enough for them. They are abroad half the time, wasting their MeneY. am told that Miss. Everett is looking for a nice bighsoundiug title! What pleasure would there be in helping such idiots? Poverty would. be the best thing for them. It would cure them of their follies and bring them to their senses. That boy that you engaged yourself to may have brains. Let bine use them for the good of his family. Anyhow, they have their own friends, I never aspired to their select circle!" "I suppose it requires so much. But, indeed, you are misjudging them in some ways. Mollie is engaged. to a young fellow named. Burow, He is in Mr. Everett's office. He thinks everything could be arranged if you would help him. Mr. Powers has of- fered all be owns," e "just like him! He'd. give away his head if it were loose." ' "It would be worth taking, 'I think." "Who sent you to me"? "No one. I was told not to come; that it would be useless." "Still you came." "Yes. I found out last winter that people were entirely mistaken about you. I think you might do this simp- ly out of good nature. Perhaps, if you save the Everette from disgrace they will reform and adopt their own country." "You haven't broken off your en- gagement?" "I've fulfilled it." "Pray, what do you mean?" "Why. L trry and I were married this morning." "You raerriel him ibis morning? Why. whet. sort of e girl are you? You took him in his misery, He let you do it? I thought such women were out of date." "Like the pattern on a china cup? Oh, no. Nature repeats herself." "So this is your weddingeday?" "Please don't speak and. look as if I were an object of pity. I am proud and thankful to be his wife. I want to keep bright and. strong for his sake. If I can't help him in one way I may in some other. Ha has clone nothing wrong, and if the worst comes -.why, we can live our life somewhere under the stars and make our own happi- ness!" tame house." e•' tt." "I may eall this evening ?" • "But it is not too late to save every - "Do. If we have to go out I'll leave thing -his credit -his fortune. If he a note and you can follow us. It will could do it, another can." only be to kiss, Everett's." "Yen if some one with the money "You will be here for some time ?" would come forward., It's an old "I cannot tell. It all depends upon what can do. story! I have seen many a house go a, few tlsou- "You! Whet are you going to at - down just for the lack of tempt?e "I am going now to see if Mr. Pounce , will put himself in Mr. Everett's place." "Phew! You are a. courageous girl! You must have faith in hunian nae tune!" "I should have. Didn't you offer Larry everything ?" "Ate, but I have always knowa him and liked hare If you ooze for a per- son, that is one thing." "Yes." "1 couldn't tell you. You could do "What do you think of Larry ?" it without losing anything in the end." "He frightened me nearly out of my "Yes, I could, But why should T? wits the night before last." The leverets are nothing to me. "What did you do'? You seem to never liked them. They have all the have recovered them," silly characteristics of our modern • sends of dollars judicieusly placed at the right moment. In fact, my child, I failed once. I learned a lesson - bitter, but good," "I want you to save Me Everett. I eame here today to ask you to do it." litr. Pounce stared at Rose for some seconds; then he stood up and walked about, the room, stopping at intervals to look at her, She met his glances with steady eyes. "What put such an idea into your head'?' "See here, little woman; I fancy you have been living for days in a. nightmare of horrors. Isn't that so? Now, the first thing to be done is to communicate with your husband. We'll go down to the library; I know of no- thing so conducive to rest and reverie as a wood fire. I'll carry out all your wishes. The messenger will be ready as soon as we are. Come." Feeling somewhat dazed, Rose fol- lowed the old. man and sank into a great arm -chair before the blazing logs, She perceived his movements and actions and heard. his voice for some minutes with a sense of half conscioueness; then she felt surprised at his business -like and r id proceed- ings. He bad seated himself at his desk while be talked.. To be Continued. BERLUS DRUG STORES cartons Names nestowed by Apothecaries on Their Skrips. The German drug store is always a mystery to the traveller when he first becomes one of its customers. The apothecary's department, which is only one feature of our drug store,' is an independent establishment in Ger- many and is devoted to the filling of prescriptions and the duties of the apothecary. The "drogeerie," quite a separate place; provides half the arti- cles customarily found here in the drug store. It is to the droguerie that one must go for soap, toothbrushes, drugs in the pure, and all of the arti- cles not dealt in by the apothecary. The division may be a convenient one after the mysteries have been master- ed, but it is confusing at first. Another peculiarity of the apothecar- ies is that most of them have names displayed. That custom dates from the earliest days of their history. One of the most famous in Berlin closed. its doors the other day, and the incident recalled some interesting facts. The old names of the shops have survived to some extent, although the purely fantastic names have given place to others better suited to the commercial exigencies of modern times. The city to -day possesses 164 shops of ' apothe- caries, and many have adopted names taken from the street, square or re- gion in which they are situated. There are fifty-six of these, and nineteen are known only by the names of their pro- prietors, Nineteen are named after birds, the eagle having ten named in its honor. There are ail sorts of eagles among these ten, black, red and white. Other names include wild animals, my-• thological names such as Minerva and Elora, and royal titles like Friedrich and Augusta, Victoria. Most carious are those ealled after famous historical personages‘ such as Arminius, Roland and Siegfried. One difference be- tween the early days in Berlin and. the Present is the praetical disappearance of the French apothecaries. In 1780 when the first count was taken three out of twenty-one were French. Twelve of these original places are known tp- day by the names they bore then. Jimmy and Jane, Those were their uames-jimmy and Jane. Everybody in the village knew them; they had mealy friends; yet all agreed with wonderful unanimity that they, Were two of the steangest itnlivid- uels ever seen, jimmy -his full name was James Bradford --was a bachelor of about fifty years, reputed to have a stocking full of gold and silver coins, which he kept in his feather bed, He was aaoted hater of women, and seldom spoke to one. Jane -or more properly Miss Jane Green -was °titled an old maid, lived in a, tiny house by herself, and had a holy horror of the biped man. Her age was "uncertain," but her fortieth birthday was of the past. Jimmy took life easily, but was op- posed to ostentation and the modern acceptation of the term "luxury." He dreseed without aegard to fashion, but within the bounds of respectability. He even rode out in his own carriage but it was by no means a modern vehi- ale; it had done servioe,he would proud- ly tell .you, since his grandfather's days, quite a century ago. He cared. little for books; society he abominated, because it was spoiled by admitting women, and of the few diver- sions that went to make up the sum of his life's pleasures, fishing held the place of prominence. Even in the pursuit of this gratifica- tion Jimmy was not free from harass- ment, for he was obliged to pass „by the door of gcottage occupied, by a woman in order to reach the river. The wo- man was no other than Jane. One bright afternoon in Seatenaber, Jimmy was lounging along the river bank when the splash of oars in mid- stream fell upon his ears. He looked in the direction of the sound, and then a scowl wrinkled his forehead. "Humph!" he muttered, "that old maid, Tana Green, is trying to row over to Ned Brown's. She'd better be to home, drinkire tea. Most likely she'll manaefe to get drowned. What a fuss she makes, splashin' an' flappin' about.' He pulled up his line with, an 'angry jerk, put a fresh worm on the hook, and then cast out the line again, with an outlay of strength quite unneces- sary, unless to give vent to his indig- nation. The "splashin' an' flappin' about," in- stead of dying away in the distance as the boat neared the other side of the river, grew.louder and more dis- turbing, and half in wonder, half ang- er, jimmy looked around. again. "Drat the luck!" he cried. "If she ain't gone an' rowed right smack inter that eddy -the only one within two miles at that. If that ain't jest like a. fool woman: I'd like to know what 'tis like." • Just then his -attention was at- tracted to his line, and. Jane's peril was for a moment forgotten. A forcible reminder came in the form of a loud piercing scream, followed by a. frightened appeal for help. "There, jest as might ha' been ex- pected.. The first bite I've had for an hour, an' that m1ser'ble woman had to let out a screech an' scare the fish away." "Help! Help! I shall drownl"seream- ed the woman.e There WaS no questiontabout it Miss Jane was in great peril. Her boat, an old leaky shell -was twirling about the rapid, rotary motion causing at fre- quent intervals foamy waves to splash over its sides, and it bade fair to sink in short order. "Let her drown!" growled. the WO - Man -hater savagely. "There'll be one lase woman -gosh 1 she will go down as sure as fate. Hein' a sort of human critter, I s'pose liev to pull her out, er the neighbors lynoh me." His own boat haPppencal to be near at hand, and, a few rapid strokes bronght hire as near the eddy as safe- ty .9erMit to& "Here!" cried he, grumblingly, as he threw out a rope, "ketch hold of that, if you don't went to drown." Miss Jane had been so occupied with her feats and struggles that up to this moment she Was unaware that assist- ance had arrived. At the sound of his voice she turned quickly. Her hasty movement caused the boat to go down, but see dung heroically to the oars and regarded her would-be rescurer with a look of horror, "Merciful powers! Jimmy Bradford, of all men lemma drown!" "Don't be a tareation fool, Jane Green! Ketch hold of that rope an' I'll pull you out." "Never!" pried Jane, spurting out a stream of water from her mouth and. paddling desperately with both hands to keep afloat. "Then I'll. pull ye out, anyhowl" ejaculated , Jimmy. 'I never knew any livin' woman had such grit. You're too plucky for fish bait, an' I'll save re, whether er no," Despite Jane's gurgled protests, he hurriedly hauled in the rope, formed a slipnoose at one end, and hurled it over the hate drowned woman's shoul- der. Then he exerted his strength in a, vigorous pull, which Jane resisted with all her waning phwers, and suc- [seeded in lifting her into the boat. "0 dear!" she gasped. "And to think that, I should owe my life to Jimmy Bradford,"- amid then, too much ex- hausted to bear up longer, she closed, her eyes and. fainted away. "Wesel an' wu.ss!" cried Jimmy. "Did ever a man hey such luck? What in the world am I goin'g to do with a faintina half -drowned woman I'd like to know! 'I've half a mind to leave her here in the boat an' start for home." But he didn't,. He did precisely the opposite, He drew the boat upon the sloping shore, 'anti after carrying Miss Tana to a sheltered spot beneath a wideespread- ing willow tree, proceeded to restore her to consciousness. When she open- ed her eyes the first thing that that her gaze was Jimmy's face. 0, ney soul!" she gasped, feebly, "Am I in the power of the Evil One?" "Draw it a, little mild, Jane Green. I ain't the Evil One, nor no kin to him as I knows on. An' you're show - in' mighty little appreciation for hay - g your life saved, I can tell ye." "Wall," said Jane, after a moment's thought, "perhaps I was a little too harsh, I s'pose there are wiles bein's on the tone of tine airth than you be. I reckon you'd ha' better Let me drown, though, 'than to set all the tongues o' scandal evaggin' against me." You re too plucky a woman to feed fishes on, an' too good looking, to." Jane's pale face changed in a mo- ment to a deep carnation hue, and her tone might have indicated either real or pretended reproach as she replied; "Shame on ye, Jimmy Bradford, to make fun of °misfortunate an' de- fenseless woman. EU go home this minute." She arose, trembling and weak, and attempted to walk away,but stagger-, ed and was obliged to grasp a branch of a tree for support. "You're too weak to go home now, Jane," said Jimmy, approaching. Toiled better stop awhile longer," • So you could make more fun of.xne, I s'pose," said she, tartly. "No, thank you, Mr. Bradford." "I didn't say more'n I meant, Jane Green, nor more'n I'd say another time. I never knew before that women had so much gumption. But if you're bound to go I'll give you a boost, for you couldn't get there alone. Here, take my arm." "An' set the hull town to talkin'." cried Jane. "Taint best -that they talk," retort- ed Jimmy. "The first one that says a word ag'inst you will feel that." ex- hibiting a hard and formidable fist. After considerable persuasion, Jane was at last induced to take his arm, and off they walked, a most singular looking couple. THE END OF, IVIAHD18114, Tun DEA)) YAttnti ANn his FOLLOvtrEkS ttESIDE, Tun KilAtiVA'S BLit.= FLAG. The finest heroic display in the dervish ranks was made by the Rhatifa's brother, the Emir Yakub, who, with his followers, gathered in A dense mass round their stand- ard and proudly faced the leaden hall. As Yakub expired, several of his wounded beclygtmed raleed themselves and fired at our men. They were promptly despatched. Stein Pasha witnessed the ,death of his old enemy and ceptonYalcub, who recognized "Now be careful and see that you don't talte ()old after yer daeltine" said jimmy as the reaehed the invalid' home. "You'd better make ,you some hot ginger tee to once, An if yen% agree to it drop in to -morrow an' see bow you are." 'ane agreed to it coyly, and ,Ilmttay turned awan, with new and streane feelings lingering in his breast. "Blest if she ain't a Plucky ne," he said to himself. "I never see a wo- man before that had any sense. She'd make a good wife for a feller that lik- ed women folks." But a mint"), later found her the wife of a man n did not like women folks, and that contented. individual was no other than jimmy Bradford. HE HUMBLED ITALY met xteptaines Martial newer is Quite a Ina fervor Thing. With the victory of Adowa. in March, 1896, Menelik leaped into Eueopean fame as a new puppet werth Plating with, says the London Daily Mail. His armies had humbled Italy and enlarg- ed his territories, his vanity was ripe for ambitious schemes, and there were adventurers ready and. eager to play upon it. , Menelik, Negus Negusti, "the Lion of jusdaht.' succeeded John IT. in 1889. In his earlier years, as litrig of Shoe, he had won SUCC3SSGS against the wild Galla tribestnen, and was known as a wily subject ; and by 18911 he had sub- dued by force or craft all the Danaquils of the coast and Gallas of the south to his rule. After his victories against Italy he may be excused for imagining that he is the "King of Kings," while he is old enough to remember the retreat from the Soudan of 1885, and -be de: ceivecl by it. The Negus is handsome for an Abyssinian -with a clever face and' cruel mouth. A general of no mean ability, he can put 200,000 fighting men into the field, and he has always large bodies of troops operating against the tribesmen of the south or the dervishes. The Abyssinian is a born fighter and a. splendid shot, as the Italians learnt to their cost; while at the end of the war there were known to be 100,000 MODERN RWLES IN THE COUNTRY. Menelik is anything but lacking in common sense, and he vye.$ reported. t to have .a wholesome fear of the Sou- p dan expedition; yet he has not been able to resist the magnificent tempta- tions of Prince Henri &Orleans to rule west to the Nile, north to Kassala, and, south to Lake Rudolf.. That is why at the present time Abyssinians are threatening Gedaren Ras Maakonnen, is on the Sieben and Leontieff is being painfully dis- P illu.sioned in his wide domains In Equa- toria. It 'would. be a mistake to imaging. Menelik an autocrat without a rival, and a. greater mistake to suppose he does not know it. Those who know Menelik have a shrewd suspicion that the Governor got his Equatorial nro- vinces because they were too trouble- some to keep. - The Gallas are always fighting. Only in October it took two expeditions and many men to reduce the king.gt Keefe. In. June, 1897, the Somalis out tie pieces a force of 3,000 Abyssinians, while in Ogaden 200 would-be tax -collectors were promptly massacred. No doubt IVIenelik smiled in his sleeve when he heaped his favonrs on Leontieff. In Abyssinia proper Menelik is stronger; but 'the Abyssinian is tur- bulent and treacherous, and divided, moreover, by bitter divisions. TRIBAL JEALOUSIES. Menelik is a Shoan, and the favour he shows to his tribe, the Amhara, is bitterly tesented by the tribes of Tigre E and. Lasta, who are the better warriors and horsemen. More important are the er religious differences, Menelik is no Hbigot, but he has an unpleasant way se of baptising new conquests at the point ai of the sword. et The French influence in Abyssinia has had two ends -to annoy and ham- ;at; per the English in the Soudan, and 4.: to carve out a French protectorate on be the east of the Nile. Nor has she alto- ee nether failed. She may yet succeed in s't embroiling Menelik with England at „ Gedarec whither some time ago an Ii Abyssinian force was marching, which bu will now meet "3,000 successful Egyp- it tans. And Boncharaps left French u a, officers behind with Ras Makonnen on et the Sobat. n • m But Menelik is not likely to press on either at Gedaref or Fashoda. In the swamps of the Nile the hardy Abyssin- ian mountaineers die like flies, while Kassala. is really beyond his natural boundaries, and his treaties with 'Italy show that he knows it. ROUND. THE fillOif WORLD. WHAT IS 00INO ON IN me FOUR CORNERS OF THE ()LOBE. .t—t• Old and New World Events ot Interest Chrone 'clod Briefly -Interesting .HaPeenings of Recent Date. Fowls are plucked alive in Malta, in the public markets. The best opals are now obtained from Hungary and. Honduras. In some parts of Norway corn is still used, as a substitute for coin. The British Government realizes £11,300 a year from waste paper, England. is 155 lb., and that of wonted 12:bleaverage weight of men in b. From two to three tons of stamps are despatched daily from Somerset House., It is said that about 50,006 servant girls go from the German provinces to Berlin every year, . German post -office employes are not permitted, to marry without the spe- cial permission of the Government. Some of the best sausages exported from Germany to the United States" are made of horse flesh. The Hay tian Government is very considerate of the comfort of soldiers. Every picket is supplied with a chair, To insure cleanliness in the handl- ing of bread, the bakers of Berlin put iesacbhakloead! in a paper bag just after it The present population of Bardeen; France, is 297,000, of whom 18,864 are ' sinocrectispt of assistance /tom charitable iet The sum of 525 guineas was paid in Edinburgh for a copy of the first edi- tion of Burn's poems, printed in 1786, It was in the 'original blue paper 00V. er. A curiosity recntly exhibited, at Stockholm was a section four feet in diameter from a pine tree, which grew 60 to 70 miles north of the Arctic Cir- cle. -Cloth of a pink tint is useclin Russia to cover the coffin of a child, or young person, crimson, for a woman, and brown for a widow-. In no case is black used. Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, has made comeiderable progress vith the model of the statue of he Queen for the west porch of Man - heater Cathedral. The members of the French Legisla- ure each receive £360 per annum. A member who is twice called to order during a sitting forfeits half his sat- een, for two reeks. . Thomas Harper, sergeant -trumpeter in Queen Victoria's household, who re- ently died in London, assisted in his :ofes jowl capacity at the to °flatten of IV., and the christenings of all the present Queen's children, Giovani Segantini, whose- painting, "At the Barrier," has sold for 620,000, began supporting himself at the age of 7, when he tended swine by day and studied by night. In a ton of Dead. Sea water there are 187 pounds of salt; Red Sea, 93; Med- iterranean, 85; Atlantic, 81; English Channel, 72; Black Sea, 26; Baltic, 18; and Caspian Sea, 11. Smoking was not permitted. in Eng- lish railway carriages until 1846. On many foreign lines smoking is so gen- eral that carriages are set aprt for non-smokers and so labelled. In some parts of the world the east- ern parts of cemeteries are consider- ed the most desirable. The choice is based. on the belief that the dead in . the eastern sections will first arise. The magnitude of the Escurial, the , great Spanish palace, may be inferred from the fact that it would take 'four days to go through all the rooms and apartments, the length of' the way being reckoned at twenty-three Spanish leagues, which is about 120 nilishmiles. Amicrobe-proof dwelling has been ected Yokohoma, by Dr. Van der eydon. The window's are immovable', t in air -tight frames; the out -flow of r is by means of openings near the of, through which no air can enter; ci all the air which coines into the use must ,first pass a tube, be Ba- red through cotton batting,and then sterilized by passing through gly- rine:Leipzig University refuses to accept me spent the University of Fried- rg, in Switzerland, in the count for s degrees, on the ground that the aching there has deteriorated below iversily sten 'a,rds s'nce the Do- inican monks have obtained eontrol e other German universities as likely to follow the example of Leip. zig, and will refuse to recognize the Ereidburg degrees as well. In a local match in itorkshire, a few years ago, one, of the fielders was in- jured, and had to be taken away in a trap; as the wounded player was be- g driven along a road skirting the oket field the batsmanmade a lihy NOT ALL BEETLES ARE 'BAD. The common ground beetle devours hi cut -worms in, great numbers, and the an soldier bug and the wheel bug are not- id ed for their predacious instincts. They live upon whatever worms, slugs and 8 insects they can find in the garden, b Even our waspe ,are great insect de- I a stroyers, and, if we could overcome our e natural prejudice against them we should find that they deserve to live. I They will not sting one unless cornered ‘• or frightened' in some way; but they o will destroy tent caterpillars and slugs P by the dozen. 13u a er ha ire which was splendidly caught by injute ra n into whose ha it es the 11 fell, and was held. The fielding e appealed for the catch, belt the tenet was declared to be 'not out," the ball was out of the ground when ght. I I fi'll!ef f/1 ustrieneHungary is making an tu- gging experiment to open up new nnels for its Janda, A steamer, the DEOLARED HIS INTENTIONS, Fond Mother -Has Signor Arturo, with whom you have been dancing all th eevenittg, at last declared his in-• tentiohs 'Wes, ;naming. Thank goodness! What did he say? Ile declared he would never get mar- ried. oseidon, fitted up as a floating exhibition of the products ot the monarchy, will soon leave Trieste for the ehief ports of the Levant, the Red Sea, Hindosta.n, the East Indies, China, end Sepan. Its arrival will be extensively advertised beforehand at eaeh port, and cerniiirogai travellers on board will try to Mi"ahre orders tor the exhibitors, and in find capable agents at the points touched. The Government hes grentea a t ol•eicly of 50,000 florine to ciesiet the enterprise