The Brussels Post, 1910-9-22, Page 3LIFE IN JAPANESE HOME
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WI;FI} IS NOT EASY,
Many Stories of Hereto Wonren of
Jaliatt That Recall the Weleen
of Sparta,
"The Japanese child,,' writes
Jiro Slximoua in the Japan Maga-
eine, "is required to honor its
parents and to"saorifice itself for the
Homo a little altar shelf where the
spirits of the ammeters, receive daily
homage. Detente the eucestr•al tab•
lets as 'well as before the favorite•
gods of the family gifts of sake or
rico 'must be laid and prayers of•
fend before tho shrine. The wife
/nest attend to these re]igioua .du-
ties though all other's fail, Often
this duty is left to the old lady who
has gone `inkyo,' and she may pass,
her leisure time going to the tern.
pies and shrines in the vicinity,
"Since the Restoration some of
these old ideas have been modified
somewhat. This change has been
effected Welly through the infle-
salre of the family. The parents eneo of Occidental philosophy and
#•.must not spars themselves for the literature, and 'the ideas of some
,good of their obildren. The obil-
dr'eu must reflect this attitude,
"As a result there is the peculiar
custom calle4 'inkyo,' or the retire-
ment of the head of the faintly from
active life as soon as the children
become old enough to 'take the
management of affairs.
"Delighted that their . children
are able to shoulder the burdens of
life, the parents devote themselves
to the pleasures of old age—games'
the tea ceremony, horticulture;
some are even affected by, the
`muse+ endaro abandoned in their
declining years to poetry.
"For this reason very few Jap-
anese parents . hold property in
their own right, assigning it to
those of their children 'on whole
'they are dependent. A son who
would ignore the claims of loyalty,
and filial piety would be Consider-
ed outside the pale of human soei-
few of our women are beeoming so
Westernized that they are begin-
ning to discuss the independence of
woman and advoeating the Oeciden
tat custom of having newly married
couples:. live inhouses separate
from the parents."
WHERE DANDIES 16IET.
Tko Ohl Bell Tavern of Pall itali—
Noll Gwynne's Home.
The ancient thoroughfare of Pall
Mall, which in its checkered history
has witneaed ao many outward
changes and with whose very
stones" one might almost say are
boundup .the •social records of a
bygone age, its romances and tra-
gecties, its 'amusements and scan
dais, is about to undergo another.
"transformation, says the London
Telegraph.
oty. Seldoiu indeed NaarPho:Uld"$ell Tavern, standing at
e there the corner of what used to bo called
found in Japan such examples of John street, but which is now prac-
forsaken parents as are too oftentically included in St. James's
seen in Occidental lands. Square; adjoining, is doomed to ge
"What is still more. surprising to
outsiders is the fact that the wives the way of maria another building
re -
of the children are expected to ren- gimwhich, while an interestingsurvived ithat der the same loyalty and. piety twee, formeddsdthepre link be-
tkeen the past and present. Af-
TO TELE PARENTS-IN-LAW ter having served the agreeable
as the children themselves; and Purpose of a house of refreshment
in Japan every dutiful wife is Edith for centuries the tavern is to be
fur to this custom, 'Hence every removed and in its place in due
Japanese daughter on the verge of course will uprise an automobile
marriage is told by her parents show room quite in the modern
that she must be as true in every style.
respect to her new parents as she Among all the notabilities who
has been to those she is leaving and made Pall - Mall their home Nell
that anyfailure in this respect on Gwynne will ahvays assert her own
her part will be regarded in talo place in the imagination of the ro-
old home as a dishonor done the mantic. Tradition has not always
aged parents. spoken, accurately as to the precise
One of our Japan se savants locality of the mansion which' the
has said that though a wife .wore royalfavorite inhabited, but it is
complete', in all accomplishments of now pretty well accepted that the
the modern world she would still house occupied the site on which
not be a perfect wife if she did not now stands a part of the Army and
Navy Club. The residence sozfie One of the things typical of the
times •orroneously attributed to her Indians of Mexico, declares Mr.
was actually inhabited l v another Carson in h,s book on that coun-
try, is the amazing contrasts of
cruelty and kindness, at once hate-
ful and admirable. He gives two
little incidouts to illustrate:
Near an old bridge in the main
street of Orizaba, spanning a
mountain stream, there sat an old
Indian dame, in a much -tion re -
hose, placidly puffing oe cigarette.
Before her was spread a poor little
stock, consisting of half a dozen
bananas, two or three oranges and
a few sweets. As I stood there, a
small mongrel dog came up and
sniffed at her wares. Seizing a
stiok, the old woman dealt the ani-
mal a. vicious blow, and he ran off
yelping down the street.
An ill-tempered, cruel raoe, these
Indians, I thought; but a moment
later I gained a different impres-
sion, when there came along a
small, barefooted, grave -looking
Indian urchin, scantily dressed in
ragged cotton clothing, -with a
piece of old bagging about his
shoulders. He halted near the lit-
tle pile of fruits and sweets, and
gazed wistfully at thein. Catching
sight of him, the old woman's face
underwent a remarkable change
and aotu•ally took on an expression
of benevolence, Piaking up a
bright red stick of candy from her
little stock, she held it toward the
child. "Hero, nine," she said,'
r "this is yours."•
Aa he took it with a polite "Gra-
eias, senora," the old dame gave
him a kindly pat on his closely crop-
ped head and sent him off over-
flowing with happiness.
know how to shampoo the head of
bei.• husband's father or mother.
To married women of the tiVest the
I may comp as a shock, but in all notable personage, Moil Davis, a
respectable circles of Japanese so- young actress whose professional
ciety it is taken as a- matter of oareor, we are told, presented cer-
course. In fact any violation of it tarn features similar t , those of
would be 'a legitimate cause for .di- Noll herself. But this house on
voree, for a true husband would the north side.•of Pail Mall was not
sooner see les wife show veneration the only one which Nall (iwynne
for his parents than for himself.
'The . two Chinese characters
representing husband in the Jap-
anese language mean heavenly
person. Accordingly, his wife is days before he club became an in-
stitution the Old Bell, standing in
from heaven. She does this by at- the very thick of it all, was a fav
tending carefully to the duties of orite resort of the citizen who
the household so as to leave her walked abroad' There men sup -
husband free to carry on the busi- fled their port, discussed the
nese of life. The true wife will sac- latest scandal of the day, ore re-
r'ifiee festinate and even life Potations to tatters. A school for
gossip the place doubtless was just
FOR THE SAKE OF HER. LORD. as much as a shrine of Bacchus—a
"In ono of the dramas of the im- haven of good cheer in daylight
mortdl Chickamatsu, the Shakes- and dark. One canpicture the
pears of Japan, there is a passage company that was aconstomed to
representing the ideas of a devot- gather under the oaken beams of
Japaneseod wife 'For the sake its low pitched roof—the men who
el y husband, I would even flay could quaff their wine and retail
my nails from my hands and feet.' their story "with an air:" So too
can one bring to mind the changing
clientele of the tavern as fashions
altered and society migrated fur
II0I4lL'rrE (4"11114 TILI OIIIMEit,
£etches l ieballgalc Still Watered
in 'Viirlsey.
Sir Edwin Pears, the Clonstanti-
maple oorrespundent of the iron.
don Daily' Mari, writes in part as
follows t—
The•tried/W.ons, of Minn Night-
ingale here are still vivid, The
keeper of the lemmas Britinh come -
tory +zt Sartori tells of how tEiok
and wounded lay in long rows, feet
to feet, in the great room of the
Selirnle barracks at Scutari, and
how in the dead o£ !eight he has
seen Florence Nightingale passing
algng the corridors upon her mise
sign of moray, The alight, dolieate
figure, moving so indefatigably
down the tong lines currying in
her (rands a lamp by which she
could find her way and the sick mess,
couldsee her, made a deep impres-
sion wall.
It was of "the lady with the
lamp" that a private soldier wrote
the new famous expression, "We
could kiss her shadow as she piste-
sea.+' Tho incident bas been im-
mortalized be Longfellow in a poem
called' "Filomena, ' Americans no
less -than Englishmen glory in her
great work, and in the great hall
of Conlon University, at Washing-
ton, is a beautiful window dedicat-
ed to Sancta Florentie.
.N or do other nations fail to ap-
preciate our most noble tYPe of
nineteenth 'century womanhood.
When German reecho.' men dined'
Lord Lister and several speakers
praised highly their guest's servic-
es in the reform ,of hospital prac-
tice, one man declared that he melt
recall to them that the glory of in-
augurating hospital nursing and
Practice belonged to the never -to -
be -forgotten Englishwoman, Flor-
ence Nightingale, The whole audi-
enee applauded the se.atiment,
showing that the name of Sancta
Florentia was dear to German
hearts.
Tho generation on the Bosphorus
which remembers the Crimean war
is fast passing. away, but Turk and
Englishman, Moslem and Chris-
tian, have kept up a tradition of
the great English . nurse, who, in
the midst of the mismanagement
and misery of that war, gave hope
to thousands.
BOTH BIND AND CRUEL.
A Traveller in Mexico -Relates Two
incidents.
tenanted in the thoroughfare. In
1071, as we are told, she crossed
to the park side of the street.
Who can doubt then that, in the
"Such aro the ideals of duty
- cherished .and obeyed by the faith-
ful wives of Japan, who not only
beartheirsacrifices without any 1 ther westward and northward, un-
..tnse of loss, but are delighted that I til a time' was reached when "gen-
they can show their desire to be of;tlemen's gentlemen" furnished no
signal service to their husbands, inconsiderable proportion of its
daily or nightly customers.
Indeed the life of the Japanese wo-
man is ,one of noble self-sacrifice
and renunciation.
"Nor is it to be understood that
the Japanese man is indifferent to
the noble endurance of his wife,
Though exacting, he must treat his
wife with consideration and sympa-
thy. The Japanese woman is loved
as a wife and honored and respect-
ed as a mother. Thus, though her
lot is arduous, her We on the whole
is happy and contented, 'and when
old ago Domes she goes inkyo' and
spends her last days in peace.
"Though the Japanese woman is
required to be gentle above all.
things and to keep that spirit alive
in the home, she is. not a creature
withoutcoux'age and bravery. In
old Japan when a daughter' was
married she brought as part of her
dower a vaginate or halbred, and
her dagger, and prepared to defend
her husband even on .the honey
moon, and to risk her life for hiin
if need 'be. There are many stor-
ies of heroic women in Japan that
recall .the women of Sparta.
"But howevor loud the call to
other things, the main sphere of
• the Japanese women is in the home,
DOMESTIC DUTY
must remain her chief responsibil-
ity:. As the Japanese are a race at-
taching greatwimportance to clean-
liness, the wife must see that the
house is -daily attended to and kept
scrupulously ill order end that not
p y. o
e s: eek of dust is allowed
p to cc1-
BRITAIN SAFE SOON.
German Critic Speaks of El;loieney
of Territorials.
Tho "Old Prussian Officer" who
followed the English. Territorial
manoeuvres brings the record of his
impressions to an end in the Frank-
furter Zeitung. He notes the most
astounding improvement in the
Territorial artillery since 1900.
' `From the incompetent arm of
last year the artillery, not without
the must diligent endeavor, has
brought itself," he says, "to the
position of one of the best blanc,at-
es of the' Territorial Army, Oiliceers
who last 3 -ear had not the most
elementary notion of how to handle
their batteries, this year conduct-
ed themselves like veteran Rogue
he officers. They have also learnt
map -reading and topography,
which oven to English Regular of-
ficers nob so very long ago were
hidden mysteries,
The lack of p
disci line displayed'
u
p s3etl
by battalions ie. Wades and the Isle
of Man was, regrettable, but with
this d feet a voluntary arena will
always be troubled,
"The English Territorial Amey is
nnrtninl
y not quite ready cly fur war.
That ,it. is better than its best
friends could have expectedis ogle
ally. certain. My final conclusion
isthat it nvnu,.l very • •
ti snonb become
G
lost anywhere within the cltvelling, equal to its teak of repelling an
"In aco'd ,g
c rt once with the Japanese invasion. were s.teh a thing at ail'
habit of devotion there is in every, conceivable.",
WORRY POISONS BLOOD..
Habit of Worry 11111 Cruise Poisons
or Toxins in S3'stein. •
Worry causes - oains•or poisons
as tangible as the a resulting from
food waste and the breaking down
of tissue from muscular exercise.
Both cause exhaustion, whish it is
the purpose of sleep to overcome,
by restoring the normal condition
of the nervous system, while the
poisonous matter is eliminated
through the kidneys, lungs and
skin. Thought cannot continuously
be perfectly harnnoniotis, "info
each life somo rain must fall! some
day must bo dark and dreary," By the Icing's wish says the
Stoicism 15 not entirely admirable, t
Gentlewomen, the apartment in
and sympathy implies capacity for 'Buckingham Palace, with the win-
feelieg the panes as well as tine joys doves overlooking the Gi'een Park
of another ; but most of us are Ear in nvhie), itis father died will bo
too ready to borrow trouble and kept ns it was on that nnournfel day
loan it out ab interest. 1f n u''i'3' nn which he breathed his last. When
had Lome magic puwer for Mending the now sorereigns go to the pa-
matters, it might still be, expensive, lase they will dealt i , the rooms
for only tiepe can tell which mis- e,.et•inokhs the mall, which Queen
fortunes •are real and whish ae Vlctesrin g refcrrad. i )
blessings 1isguine; and eruct crr- tl,as i 1 Atr an t
!host n by Ring tut
ing over spill; milli does not p511 t. , 'Edward and t for these trifles I.care nothing.
it backbeet .ii e. eon :11' a.ndra 1181'0 a rue's ]' telt that; I had conquered that
ac. in'pitchr, it isi
the c
1 ,
iron r fi•
tit.,l nucn'ixl ora's 1 ir 1i,
n and that Tc
houtchave little away and see the silver lining,
attensehet•e, thew' reemorios +e,•ip t-..diflic.ulty in masteringit on the
Whore "behind the cloud the suns rd witht;hc'•rn are- frau hb with too next occasion in rubl
still shining,'- g l
SYRIANS WONDERFUL DIVERS
Cnn Beueain Tseng Under 'Witter—
Their ne of Their Petits.
Perhaps there tore no noore ea,; -
pert divers than those of tine Syrian
coast, who, it ie Walla/sad, employ
no other .apparatus than a hooey
stone for a sinker and a light line
whereby they cense up '°hand over
hand." Once certain naval officers
whole vessels were making a some-
what protracted stay at Beirut were
enabled to witness an interesting
exhibitioa of the skill and endur-
ance of these divers. It ,should be
stated that the vessels lay In six-
teen or eighteen fathoms of water.
A midshipman, on duty at the
gangway, one day raised iris sword
belt too high and the blade, slip-
ping from the scabbard, went cit-
cling to the bottom of the sea. The
water at the spot was between
ninety and one hundred feet deep.
A diver being summoned, the point
at which the sword had fallen was
indicated. The Syrian stepped in
his' little boat, pumped his lungs
full of air, seized his sinker, disap-
peared in the water and brought
up the sword almost immediately.
Another day a boatload of coal.
was swamped beside the ship and
sank to the bottom. Other divers
name, located the coal and the
boat, -and descending time after
time in ninety feet of water, they
placed the ooal in .bags, and suc-
ceeded in saving both the coal and
the boat. Officers timed these div-
ers frequently and found that they
remained under water as long as
one minute and fifty-five seconde.
The most interesting. and startling
feat performed during the officers'.
stay was accomplished when a col
tier snapped its cable and dropped
its anchor and forty fathoms of
chain in twenty fathoms of water.
After being directed to where the
anchor and the chain lay; the div-
er summoned divested himself of
his clothing, went through his
pumping process, and disappeared
in over 110 feet of water. One min-
ute went by, then a second was
called off, when the officers began
to get nervous. But it was not un-
til two minutes and fifteen seconds
had elapsed that the diver came
drawling up the rope greatly s ex-
hausted.
He hacl found the chain though,
had attached the grapple .and the
rope, and had succeeded in recover-
ing both anchor and chain at the
first dive. it seemed to the offi-
cers unbelievable that any human
could withstand the pressure of
the water at such depths, not to
speak of the excessive variations of
pressure involved in the descent
and ascent of more than a hundred
feet within two minutes and .fifteen
seconds.
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FIRST ERIE STEAMBOAT.
Trip of "Walk -in -the -Water" in
Sumner of 1818.
The summer of 1818 was memor-
able in lake annals k
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'WRESTLING WITH A LION, however, that, the great fight las
but two minutes. When he wou
Saudow and the Bing of Beasts in fight no more, I,lifted him up as
a Fierce $trtigglc, walked round the arena with h
on my shoulders, he remaining
The story that Richard, later firm as a rock and as quiet as
termed "Coeur de Lion," derived old sheep.
his name from the feat of -leafing
a live Iion's heart out of. its body, THE STAG AFLOAT.
OAT.
is' usually regarded to -day as apo
chryphel, At t_is distance of time Not Afraid of Water—Sone of His
it is impossible to tell what' was Swiiuming Exploits.
the .truth. But if Richard had the
strength of Sandow, and .strove
with the lion under conditions si-
milar to those under which Sandow
wrestled with a menagerie. lion in
San Francisco some years ago,
there maybe a basis of fact for the
legend. In the Strand Magazine
Mr. Sandow has told of the events:
It was to be a struggle between
brute strength and human
strength, Merely in order to pre-
vent the lion from tearing me to
pieoes with his claws, mittens were
to be placed on his feet and a muz-
USESS FOR THK SURFLOW
...---mow..•._.
It yields Valuable 011, Fodder sniff
Beautiful Fabric.
Canadians do not regard the sure
dower, which is said to be one of our
own native plants, as being of much
practical service, but in Noesis 11 ie
utilized 10 many ways,
There the seeds aro eaten in ha.
manse quantities, raw or roasted, as
peanuts are in this eoamtry, and the
oil obtained by pressirfg the seeds is
an important article of Sood. The fre-
quent religions feast days in Russia
restrict the use of meat and lead to.sf
large consumption of eegetab1e oil,
and the manufacture of sunflower oil
has consequently grown to considerable
dintensions.in that country. The best
seeds yield an oil that compares fav-
orably with olive oil fog table put --
poses,
Even the upper classes fn Russia, it
is said, eat the seeds, they larger and
finer ones being quite equal to most
ted , nuts in respect to . palatability and
wholesomeness, The stalks; and dried
ld leaves are highly prized for fuel, boiag
rd in some parts of the Empire almost
int the only available substitute for wood,
,as An acre of sunflowers will yield many
an cords of good fuel.
The oil appears to have +fore of ties
general properties of olive oil than
has any other known vegetable oil.
It takes about a bushel of seeds to
make a gallon of oil, and 50 bushels of
needs can bo' grown on ono acre of
land. As the oil. sells at' about 51 a
gallon the profit is large.
ns At one time putrified .sunflower oil,
le was used quite extensively to adulter.
to ate pure olive oil. It is of a pale.
ng yellowish color and decidedly palat-
ot able. In a crsi a state it is used by
t_ painters to some extent, but it is iu
nt ferior to linseed oil for use fn paint.
In addition to the oil from the seeds
a- the stalks when green and the oil cake
id make excellent fodder. Tho fiber of.
it. the stalks, which is fine, silky and:
g strong, also has value. In China it is
b. woven into beautiful fabrics, and it
re is believed that by the use of proper
machinery it night be used roost pro -
r ;fitably in this count
The stag is not by any mea
afraid of the water and when tl
necessity arises he is ever ready
give an exhibition of his swimmi
powers. Such a spectacle is n
uncommon in the Highlands of Sco
land and excites • little comma
among foresters. The noble ere
ture frequently takes to the limp
element in order' to elude purse
Only the other day a fine stn
which had apparently been su
jected to some molestation in t1
neighborhood of Mehnsdale Ha
zle over his head. 'This lion, I must bar, Sutherlandshixe, plunged int ,
the d sot 1 e°.,
i
el
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3'
e
tell you was a particularly tierce ie sea an is course ocea
animal, anti only a week beforet had. ward. He swam lightly and rap'
enjoyed a dish that was not on. the ly and succeeded in placing tw
miles to his credit,
menu—his keeper.
Well, the engagement was ac-
cordingly made, and 'cA Lion -Fight
with Sandow" widely advertised.
The announcement, I' am told, sent
a thrill through the cities for a
hundred miles round, and in or-
der to be equipped for a perform-
ance which would be bound to at-
tract hundreds of thousands of
people, I decided to rehearse my
fight with the lien beforehand.
I had it in my mind that the ef-
fect of mittening and muzzling the
beast might be to put 'him off the
fight by frightening him, and rea-
lizing how foolish I ishould appear
facing a lion that would not fight,
I was desirous of making certain
that this should not be the case,
Accordingly the lion was mitten -
ed and muzzled, but only with the
aid of six ,strong men, and I enter-
ed the 'cage unarmed and stripped
to the waist. What •happened was
in direct opposition to my expecta-
tious; bagging his paws and encas-
ing his head in. a wire cage onlyI
served to enrage the brute, and no
sooner had I stepped inside than
a s as marking e.
he crouched, preparatory to spring -
the advent of the first steamboat in u
pon on Lace Erie. This was the Walk -
His eyes m ablaze with fury, he
in -the -Water, named after the hurled himself through the air, but
chief of the Wyandotte Indians a
truly remarkable craft in its day. 'missed,. for I had stepped aside,
Leaving Buffalo August 23, 1818, and 'before he had time to recover
on its maiden trip the Walk -in -the- I caughth him with n my left arm
Water was hauled through the ra- round the throat, and round the
pids at Black Rock by sixteen yoke hmirddle with my right, add although
Two fishermen in a boat capture
the animal, which unhappily wa
dr -owned while being bowed aslxos
It was a nine pointer and weighe
about eighteen stone. The occu
rence reminds me of a similar in
cident which some four years .ag
came under my observation in th
Island of Mull.
A certain proprietor had order
ed a number of stags from th
south with the object of infusin
aonne fresh blood into his rudd
herd. On arriving by steamer th
animals were carted in their crate
to the park assigned• to them an
where they were promptly liberat
ed. One. of the strangers was evi
dently much alarmed by his new
surroundings and instantly made
dash for the adjacent shore.
Without a moment's hesitation h
sprang into the water—which wa
at the time very choppy and in
tensely cold—and struck oat gal
tautly for' the nearest point on the
mainland. T,�ho Sound of Mull
three-quarters of a mile broad, was
duly negotiated, and after resting
for an instant on the iaugie cov-
ered beach the gall int ezeature
tripped it lightly tows et the rug-
ged bens.
Like Master, Like Men. '
, In 1814 Baron Stieglitz in St, Peters,.
burg, went to great expense to have
the news of the treaty of peace con-
veyed to him ay a private courier a
few hours before it came to the knowl-
edge of the Government. 1 -le therefore
gain a few hundred thousand rubles.
� But his porter, to whom he communi
cated the news, tried his hand at a
little speculation of his own. In an
hour or two he bought up all the
lamps he could find in St. Petersburg,
so that in the evening, when the whole.
city was making ready for the illum-
ination, net a single lamp was to be
found in any of the shops. The crafty
porter now sold out his stock at a
price which left him a nice little profit
of ?5,000 rubles.
The Volcano Circle.
Volcanoes would seem to be arrant
- ed with more or less symmetry in
; belts circling the great oceans. A.
ring of fire surrounds the Pacific.
a' Starting at the South Shetland' Is-
Ilands, several hundred miles south
e i of Cape Horn, a belt of volcanoes ex -
s tends un the west coast of South Am.
-1 erica, Central America and North Am -
_1
m -_1 erica; from Alaska it crosses the
' Pacific along the Aleutian islands to
' edge
Kamchatka;
the Pacific ethrough the Kut follows the -
' rile Islands, Japan, .Formosa, the
' Philippines, the Moluccas, the Solo-
mon Islands, the ,North Hebrides, New
Zealand and finally ends in Mounts
Terror and Erebus, on the Antarctic
continent.
Have Animals a Prophetic Sense? '
One of the puzzling questions now
claiming the attention of scientists
and which, so far, has defied all ex-
1 planation, is the premonitory sense
of animals in regard to earthquakes. •
Horses snort, throw up their heads,
and gaze about in affright; cattle put
their snouts to the ground and moan;
sheep huddle together and bleat;
birds flock to the trees and setup a
prodigious clamor. The only .plausi-
ble explanation yet offered s that
animals possess a more delicate or-
ganism than that of roan, which en-
ables them to feel preliminary shocks
which, to us, are imperceptible.
A BIT OF BYPLAY.
An Interesting Incident of bice
Crimean War.
Ecen war, with all its grim Mir-
e; its engines being insulfi a weight was five hundred and ror, has now and then a bit of fun,
01 oxen, is propel it against insulin,
thirty pounds, T lifted him as high and enemies, pitted against each
cleat to
Once puta in thes; stiroeggake, as my shoulder, gave him a huge other in deadly struggle, can relax
however, everything ever thin hug to instill into his mind that he into friendly controversy. Gen -
favorably. nes, Leaving Buffalo at 1.30 to rho floor. Sir Daniel Lysons relates a mai-
on the day mentioned, the arrivedsteamerWhileons incident of the Crimean War.
at Dunkirk at 0,35, The Roaring with rage, the beast the army lay before Sepepas-
morning it reached Erie,the rushed fiercely toward me, and tepee much speculation went on in
raised his huge paw -to strike a regard to the relative merits of
captain leaving run at slow speed heavy blow at my head. As his paw certain Russia®
so not to pass that port. The cut through space, I felt the air lisp guns, and certain Eng -
steamer was a wood burner, and fairly whistle and realized not One day, duringan armistice a
after taking on afresh stock of iy my lucky escape, but the Russian officer of rtillery came to
lions weak point and my strong the British lines and asked to see
one, he t
If only he struck me ones I knew trustyco,mmander of the English ar-
it would be my coup de grace, and "kour sixty -eight -pounder that
I took partioular care that he nev- your people call 'Jenny' is a beau-
er should. tiful gun," said the Russian, "but
As I ducked my head to avoid we have one as good in the embra-
tlle blow, I succeeded iu getting a sure, and we should like a fair duel
good grip round the lion's body, with hez•."
with my chest touching his and his Ar'rattgesn•ents were made that at
feet over my shoulders, and hug- twelve the next day all other fir-
ged him with all my strength. The ing should cease, and that the two
more he scratched and tore, the guns should be put to the test,
harder I hugged him, and although At the appointed time a large
his feet were protected by mittens, nteuiber of officers were ussettthled
leis claws tore through my tights to view the contest. The British
and part of my skin, But I had sailor's of the gun detachment took
him as in a vise ; his mighty efforts off their caps and saluted the Rus -
to get away proved of no emit, slats, who returned the compli-
Before leaving the cage, however, 'neat. The: English gun, as the
I was determined to try ono other senior, was allowed to fire first. It
feat. Moving away from the lien, struck the side ef the Russian em -
1 stood with my back toward hinn, brasure. Then the Russians re -
thus openly inviting him to jump on turned a good shot,
me, At once he spraxlg right on. The third shot from Jenny went
my back, clear through the enemy's cmbra-
Throwing up my arms, I gripped sure. The bluejackets, thinking the
his head, then caught him firma by victory was theirs, jumped moon
the nrek, and in one motion shot the parapets and cheered. ling
him eine over tiny head, assisted they were mistaken. In at minute
y the animal's own impetus, and ant came the .Russian gun agam,
launched him before nee like a sack and delivered several accurate
of sawdust, the action causing itimt shots, Jenny got a bad thump on
to turn a c„ inplcle somersault. her eic,e, but it did no material
While she lay there, dazed, Elie harsh.
floor was uuloeked, and 1 went out, :1t the seventh shot from the
mi' legs and neck bleeding, and British side the Russian gun was
wrath
scratches all over n»' betty, knoeked clean' over, The British
fellows cheered veciferoush•, and
the ss
. "
. mounted ih
lie ,tanuntc
c c parapet
rt
1 1
and tools• off their fiats in ac'know-
bedgtiicnt of dcfea.t,T.lus ended,
the great gun ,duel, and mon:seri-
much sadness. • So thoroughly Ives he tamed, ons hostilitieswereresumed.
fuel ]eft for Cleveland at 7.30 p.m.,
reaching the latter pont at 11 a.m.
the following day. Sailing from
Cleveland at 6.20 the same evening,
the 'Walk -in -the -Water arrived off
Sandusky Bay at 1 p.m. Wednes-
day, laying at anchor ',during the
night and then proceeding to Ve-
nice, where another supply of wood
was taken aboard, From here it
sailed at 3' part. and arrived at
the mouth of the Detroit River,
where it anchored over night,
reaching the dock at the foot of
Bates street shortly before noon on
the 27th. The actual running time
of this trip was a trifle more than
forty-four hours, and the histori-
ans of tho time recorded with
much satisfaction that in spite of a
head wind being encountered most
of the nvay the machinery worked
adtnirab]y and .not the slightest ac-
cident happened.
1.
ROOM WHERE KING DIED.
How to Clean. Varnished Wali Paper.
I
Varnished wall paper thudnever
be cleaned by rubbing with
or cloth. Procure a good soft _white-
wash brush, which can be bought at
any oil store; theta have a bucket of
clean soft warm water in which yet -
low soap has been lathered. Dip your
is
brush into the water, slightly squeeze
it and commence rubbing gently from
the bottom of the paper, working up-
ward, You will thus have your paper
free from smears and the varnish un-
iniured,
Miser's Hoard Dug Up. 1
A hoard of sovereigns was discover.
ed ono Clay lately by workmen engagy'
ed in clearing the Great Western Ca-
nal between Crickhowell and Brecon,
A pick emelt a hard substance, which
was found to be a bag full of 'sove-
reigns bearing the image of George
111. They had been placed in a jug,
which in turn had been placed ia a
bag.
Paris pawnshops.
Prurtieally fur more khan a tern
tura and absolutely fur more than.
fifty years the Mont de Prete has en-
joyed u (templets monopoly of the
pawnbr••slug bnolnces of Prance. By
a'tiele 4il tl the penal code any per-
son ]cndiag•r, s' -en pledge is liable
to imprisonment fifteen clays to three.
mouths said a fine of 100 to 1,000
Lanes (a franc equal to 10.3 nuts),,
Queer Way to Display a Trousseau.
An Arabian bride is arrayed in Ali
her dresses, one over the other. Sitio
is perched on a high stool, so that
they all hang down over it, and one
by one they are taken off with much
display and admiring
none:emit from
the guests.
The last is, ef course, the
most beautiful. The bridegrooms is
hidden in some earner where ho can
see his future wtfe';t dowry, which*
Menne, hp Mt_41, .riot-