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HOUSEHOLD.
TEE BRUSSELS POST.
The Wrap And Woof of Idfe.
The way may be to us no dark and nerrow,
one beet efforts so hedged in and eiream.
Beribed ; bub if tho " Wrap and Woof " of
our daily lied be woven In with faithful
hands who shall be able to deuido in tho
vad inspeating room of the future how glori-
ed; will be the fabric Y.
The frailest hand may drop 11 good seod
Imo good aoil time shall grew up into a
magnificent tree to shade and bless thou-
eands of welting pilgrilne weary with the
joarney of life.
tenth let fell into a hungering
Baal radiates the eternal spheres with bright.
new and beauty,
5trenthe immortal are gifts of God. They
are not might, and confined, and sold to the
highest bidder, as do men with material
wealth. They RI% the skies, the fields,
the brown and yellow of the autumn leavee,
the sunebine, the flowers, in everything that
God has made. We have only to attune
ear soffits to receive them, We are then in -
*Ned to good deeds mid itoble acts. Then
do wo weave into the fabric of our own lives
potterns of immortal radiance and beauty.
Teach on, 0 Mechem 1 Hold up the lamps
of light to aid and guide the weak and fel.
tering,
Strive on, faithful mothers ! Weave into
the lives of your little ones the golden
themes of goodness, purity and truth.
Think on, 0 thinkers, in your dark and
hisiden corners of tile world Reach out
into the vent unexplored regions of thought
and bring in your jerrels. Though the mul-
tritadoe may call them worthless pabbles,
the few there are who recognize their true
worth will be to them gems of surpassing
Strive and toll and teach. Every priva-
tion brings a thought. Every thought
tweaks; a fetter. Strive unceasingly. Think
independently. Teach what you think. By
and by, thie greet, good, bountiful world
will fill with comforts the hammier the hum-
blest toilers. Every atripe will beeome
golden band. Every fetter a crown of
freedom.
Every pattenn woven In from day to day
with pure motives and good resolves will
present a perfect -picture.
Every life -work, however ()bemire or in.
aomplene, spent in the service and for the
benefit of others will form a, web of empties-
ing value.
And however imperfect the pattern 10113I
appear to finite vision, when on t down from
the Loom of Life, end placed in the vast in-
specting rooms of Eternity, the motives and
the efforts will stand out in bold and bettuti
ful relief ; arid the grafted° of coming gen-
erations will be the glorious results.
Does Every Housekeeper Know ?
Quilted hoed -pieces of bonnets, too much
worn for wearing, the best iron -holders.
Tubs me kept front leaking by being teen-
er] upside down flat. on the ground, with
water on the top.
To run a thimbleded knife around the
rubber of a " self-senling " fruit emu will
cause its easy opening.
An iron disincloth for witching kettles,
etc., inny be conaiderea a necessity ; useful,
alao, in washing lamp chimneys.
The furniture of a eleeping room should
be wiped with a damp oloth. It is as health-
ful to allow the (lust to remain on the for -
niter° as to remain in the room on the floor.
Neatnees compels care, in making beds,
to have always the same side of the sheet up-
ward, ancl L1/0 &MO end turned toward the
head of the both
The old rule to make sheets two end a half
yards loug is not a good one; they should be
at least two and thremfourths in length, and
three yards is better. There will be plenty
of room, then to turn it et top or bottom.
A nickel's worth of plaster of Paris will nice-
ly fix the lamp with a looseeed socket, with
enough retnaming for another time. Mix
the plaster with water to the consistency of
oream; with a knife place a coating within
the socket, after the old has been carefully
seraped off, put it on the lamp, press firmly
and allow it to remain undisturbed till dry.
Cornmeal.
A. few days ago a neighbor brought me a
eook boon, which'had been used inher fare
ily for at least three generations. The
rough yellow paper, the faded, quaint writ.
ting and curious old-fashioned spelling,
were in themselves interesting, but the reci-
pes, which neighbor 13. assured me she lutd
tried and tested, were more eo, A (header
on cornmeal seemed eepecially so, and some
of the clishm were entirely now to me.
PUTTrlil 11 INMAN PUDDING, -With a, pint
and a half of stewed pumpkin, mix a pint
and a half of Indian meal and n, teblespoon.
ful of ground .ginger. Into a quart of boiling
milk, stir di pint of molasses, Add, stirring
hard, tho mea and pumpkie. It will be
improved by adding the grated rind of a
lemon or orange, 'Fie in a puading beg,
and drop into boilinu water. Boil four
hours. If West India molasses is mod, it
requiem no eggs ; withont it, add throe.
What is left may be re -boiled next day.
13.11ERD URAL P1.1131ONCI.0110 pillt Of sift.
ed ineal, half pint West India =lassos,
quartor pound Milder, ono pint of milk, font)
eggs, grated rind of an orenge, 0110 10118110011•
for of einnamon end nutmeg mixed. Boil
the milk and pour ovee tno dried meal.
Warm together the butter and molasses,
end stir them in well. Add the eggs when the
(Leal is odd. Pour into It dish, and base
well. A ported of °eremite or reisine may
ahe added. Severe het, with cream and
augur,
MAntsox CAP:H.-00e and ft 111111 p111 1.8 of
sifted meal, half pint wheat flour, half pint
sour milk, half ma powdered sugar, half
pound butter, six eggs, ono pound reisins,
0110 teaspoonful of mixed spices, one snit.
spoonful of macrame, ono smell tettspooeful
of soda. Mb: as for any cake. Fill shallow
pans, and bake in brisk oven. Better when
fresh,
CAROLINA CORN CA 1.1119. -Ons and n, half
pinle of corn meal, half pini; of wheat flour
three eggs, salt. Add those, beating well;
to one quart sem; inilk. Add ono deal tea-
spoonful of dissolved soda, end imp small
saltspoonful of tartaric acid, Bake in nut ilin
rings. Serve hot
INIRAN RI09.1 CAILID9,-.411.q110.1 coutntitios of
=aimed cold rim. Moisten with milk, end
kneed well, Form into flat; cakes and bake
on hot griddle, Serve with butter and
sugar,
Xxnr,kx Catnursgs,-000 (punt of meal,
half pint of flow, one quart, of inilit, salt,
throe eggs, two tablespoonfals of etrong
yeast, Add yeast last. Stir well and. let
it rise. Bake on 0. hot griddle, like any
batter cake. BAtenanel lartnenet
'Sam Armit &non, -Pool and quarter 10
or lit medium -sited apples, Put 1 pint of
woter awl cup of gramilated auger 011 10
boil in a gine ite som epee, 'When it boils
put in A low apples At a time ; theln boil
nail Lender, but not until they fell apart,
tate them out carefully with a silver ink,
and when they aro all done pour the syrup
over them.
linaturr CA 11 119. 0110 ll.r141 0110-11011 °OP° of
brown eugari nne enp of butter, one cup a
(Mopped raisins, one teaspoonful each oi (dn.
nernon, cloyee, nutmeg end inelit, three egga,
flour enough to roll out.
Poxasm Pom-Take two oupfula of cold
mashed potato twal stir into two tablespoon.
fuls of molted butter, beating to a white
cream before) adding anything else, Than
put with this two eggs whipped very light
and 0 teacupful of meant oe milk, aidting to
taste. Beat all well, pour inton, deep dish
and bake in 0, quiek oven until it is nicely
browned. Tf properly mixed ib Ivill conte
out of the oven lighe, pufly and nice.
The Past and the Present,
The ages ace telling the glory of God--
" The Heavene declare the gloryof Cod, and
the firmament showoth his handiwork, Day
unto day uttereth speech, and night unto
night showeth knowledge. There is no
speech nor language where their voice is not
hearel.".-Psalm
What a vision opens before us at the
first note of this gran cl old Psalm 1 The
heavens all glorioue with the light of noon
or resplendent with the glittering stars of
night, Bitch and both, the day lighe and
tho dark, a revelation, a goapol sweet
emceed silence, telling the. glory of God, the
firmament by day declaring in messages of
living light, the gloryof the Lord ;nest igh,
and the stars by night :
"Forever singing as they shine,
The hand that made us is Ovate."
To the seeing oye, all things are revile,
tions of the power divine ; to the hearing
ear, all voleee me harmonious in his praise,
and even the very silence is andible and
eloquent. To the thoughtful mind all things
in heaven above and on the earth be-
neath ; times, all seasone, the
limitless expmese of being, the flying
years the rolling centuries, in one
grand,ovenaugmentinganthem, the gloey of
Gm'. The years, aa well as tho heavens are
telling the glory of God. And the year of
grace 1890 adeledtile testimony to all the
years gone by. •Cheracterized especially by
an absence of mere eventfulness -a quality
for which WO may justly be thankful -the
petat year witnessed the onward march of all
things hely and tine.' It woe predicted. it
decade ago by a voice that then heal great
power to cherm, that in these closing yeare
of the nieeteenth duality the church woeld
manifest signs of sad decety. But the years
are telling another story. Not " decay,"
bue "growth," not " decline," but " ad-
vancing power," is written upon the banners
of the church. of God. One community of
Christians alone, the great denomination is
building four churches every twenty.four
hours. That is to spy, that the matter of
building elm:miles is going 011 continually
and that one denomination alone is opening
a now temple to the glory of God on this
continent every six hours. Bet these and
similar signs of growth are only the " out.
ward and visible signs" of art inward power ;
that in due time Will Assert itself aud prove
by irresistible force the might power of God
to the salvation of tile souls of men. No
year since the grand year of Pentecost wit-
nessed such glorious thinge. The prophet
on the mountain top shows a ratlinut face;
there it; light upon his brow that never was
on ace, or shore. We ory to him, " Wittch-
man what of thenight ?" And Ileums e The
morning I the morning 1 The shadows pen !
The day is hero 1 The day of the Lord, the
day of imiversal righteousness, and, there
fore, of universal peace, dawns upon us !
The anthem of the angels is being translated
into fact. The ages aro singing as they
march along " Glory to God in the highest,
On earth peace, goodwill to mon."
Electric; Warninn.
On no condition let two wires touch your
body at the seine time. It, may mend in-
stant death.
Never open a current without giving
notice to all concerned. A telegraph notice
received in the back of the nook generally
arrives too Into to do any geod.
In a dynamo rocnn, touch not, taste not,
and haudle not. The most inoffen-
sive looking dishpan may strike you like a
mailed hand. Nothing re safe to you hero,
unless you know everything.
Don't think any wire is not dangerous.
There ik differenoe between e. gon with a
oap on it and one without that can be detect.
ed by the naked eye ; but a loetted wive
-who knoweth
-An electric wire should be handled with
one hand only, as the clangor is greatly in-
creased. wben both hands are us«1. If it is
necessary to taco hold of n. live wire with
both hands -don't clo it,
Never toneh an eledrio Wir0 that has fallen
down across your way while yoe aro standing
on the ground, as your body trill become a
ooncluotor for the electric fluid to the earth,
enless you lutve rubber boots or rubber
gloves on.
In handling any kvirelying over any of the
ordinary street Wives, especially such as con-
vey currents for electric lighting, use tt dry
hand lino for the purpose, or grasp the wire
with insulated pinchern An ordinary'
clothesline may become the concluder of a
deadly current,
Should you receive a thock, (muted with
iron, done or earth should be songht as et
moans of drawing the fluid onte of the beely;
but when your hands ere connected with a
wiro bearing live current, avoid tottulthig
those things and all substauces that have it
receptivity for tho
Don't ettempt to fix (my electric appara-
the nit any power nbout your preporty,
whether tho current is turned on or not,
Men who work ot this lerainces wear rubber
gloves and use tools with insulated rubber
handles that have been tested PM 10 their
111111. eorelneting viand; by expel:lanced
electrichtes.
A. Dead and Alive Soldier.
Aft er the battle IL, Custozzin a soldier, dm -
weed to have been kflied, was entered 011
1110 110011H of his compeny, " Died 011 t110
241,1t June, 1 860," do. A few days afterwiteds
it turned out tbitt 110 101114 still alive, and the
honest gnarterinnator made the following
ditty ; " Dien by mistake," Ationgth them
cane letter front the Minister of War an
neutering the death of the men ante liospit-
0:4 when our sergeant recorded the fed as
follows " Ro.died by order of the Minis.
try-, "
A good handful of vook salt added to the
bath is the next best thing to am " mean
dip," and a gargle of a weak solution is o
good and ever ready remedy for sore
throat.
Croat difficulty is being experienced in
the choice of a 80000000r to Ittibinstein,whoso
resignation of the directorship of the 8t,
Petersburg Conservatory takes end in
dune went Stverol eminent intunieiens, in.
dueling ilacoliaikowski and Auer, have de -
alined, owing to the "fileulty Rubinstein
Nina in dealing trio,. t,n, 0 °titles.
Brother Whalebene Rowker Passes Over
the Darkest River.
At it apeciel ineating of the Lime,,Kilti
Club, called en Friday evening, the sad an,
nounennent wits made tha Brother Whale.
hone Hawker had passed from earth away
It amens that he stoppeet an Me wagon 11.1
Lho middle of the tartlet to melt the liver
in winit particular year Oulumbue discover -
ad Anierioa, and while the delver was camel t•
ing /tie memorandum book a grocer's wagon
mune along and collided with Brother How.
ker. The sheek of that alone might not,
have killed 111111, but he had had conetimp-
tint), enlargement of the liver and the wealt•
newt of the heart for 1111111y years, and with.
in two home of beffig carried home lie
breathed his last,
Remarks of &other Cardner The Prost.
thmt maid that this Willi another inward=
of the old fleying " When ye think ye
stand yo may fall." Brother Howkor W8.8
a close atudent of American 1110tory,
had settled the fact, that Colentlyne (Un-
covered America, bid 110t Wilt° satisfied
as to the date. It was in seeking this to
fix that he nobly perished. He did not die
leading a brigade of oheering men against ft
battery of belching cannon, but history
would 1;011 remember him and record his
name on its pages. Brother Howker bor-
rowed considerable money and forgot to re-
turn it, now and then be didn't seem to care
whether he told the truth or Bornething
more solid, but Ile averaged up with other
men and only hie virtues Amid be reniem-
bored.
Remarks of Sir Isaac Walpole ; Sir Isaac
Walpole said than death loved a shining
mark, and Brother Howker was a good deal
of a shiner. He waste patient, even-temper-
ed and good-natured man. re made not the
lead difference to him whether he wee bit-
ten by a fifteen•oent or a five -dollar dog.
If it rained he hoped ie would be good for
sotnebody'a cabbages. If it ,wea dry, lie
knew that thonsmale of wash-wouten
would rejoice. Ile was ambitioue, bat not
aggreseive. He had hie aims but wen not a
wire -puller, No doubt he meant to repay
borrowed money, but absence of mind stood
in his way. Brother Howker WR8 generally
behind in his rent, but he had figured out
the weightof the Pyramids to ce. pound. He
was in debt to the butcher and grocer, but
ho could tell all alma, Demosthenes and
Cicero. While all flesh must die, there was
a good deal of flosa.e walking around which
could have been spared.
Rommks of Samuel Shin: Seined Shin said
that the sad news was broken to him while
(driving home a 0011 of oysters which lie had
purchased at a discount accoent of the
thaw. He Wes stunned, He felt like 000 who
had received a crushing blow on the encl of
the nose. It was only tho day before
thee Ile had met Brother Howker prizing
burlaps at a grocery, and his remarks that
the turnips of to -clay were 'not the turnips
of forty years ago still sounded in his 011r8.
He hal alreacly called on the bereaved
widow and assured her that Brothoe How-
ker owed him 54 borrowed money, but thet
ho would not prees the matter for a month
or se.
Remarks of Waydown Hebei): Brother
Bebee said he could scarcely realize the sad
mws. just ono Mid hour before the word
en= to him Brother Howkee had called at
his house to ask him what year William the
Conqueror died in and to borrow helf cake
of bar soap. That soap wets found. in his
coattail pocket as he was taken home, end
that feet would always be a, consolation.
He bad known the clemosed for twenty-
two long years end he had nevm hotted him
express diseatistaction with his lot but once.
That Wt18 when he wets laid up in bed with
the rheumatism, and an afternoon paper
steeed that 2,00D chieleens had got out of a
barn and were scattered all over the north-
ern suburbs.
There were IL number of °thee speeches in
this strain, and efter 1 committee had 130011
appointed to draft resolutions suitable to the
occasion the meeting fuljourned.
G um of Gold and a Carpet of Gems,
317. S. Caine writes us from India of his
visie to the Maharajah of Baroda " We
wore taken to the old palace, in the heart of
the city, to see the treasure room. Two
huge oheetahs, carefully muzzled, used for
bunting bucks, were on the palace steps.
Tho regalia of Bitroda is valued at '23,000,-
000 sterling. We were first shown the jew-
els worn by the Maharajah. on state oc-
casions. " These consist; of gorgeous
collar of 500 diamonds, some of them es big
as walnuts, arranged in five rows, surround-
ed. by a top and bottom row of oinoralds of
the some sieo ; the pendent is a famous
eliemoncl called The Sten of the Deccan ;' nal
aigrette to match is worn in the tend= ;
then followed. etrings of pearls of perfect
roundnees, graduated from the size of a pea
tO that of a largo marble ; wondrous rings,
necklaces, olustees of sepphires and rubies as
big Ha grapos.
'' The greatest marvel of all is n, cetepet,
about 1 0x6 foot, lead() entirely of strings of
moo and maimed pearls, with grettacentrat
encl corner circles of diamonds. This carpet
took threeyears to make and cost :00(),000.
This was one of Khande Rao's 111011 11•01110,
0111.1 117115 intended to be sent to Mecca to
please Mahometen lady who had fascin-
ated ; but; the scandal of Bitch e, thing
being demo by a Ifindoo prime was too seri-
ous, and it never len lktroda,
" We were also taken to see two guns,
weighing 280 pounds each, of solid gold,
evith tat o companions of silver, the aninutne-
tion wagoas, bullock harness end ramrods
ell being silver.
Rules for Geoci Health,
1. 110 regular with your habit.
"2. If possible go to bed et the seine hour
every night. .
3. Riso in the morning soon after you ore
awake.
4. A sponge bath of cold or tepid water
should be followed. by friction with towel oe
hand,
5. Eat pletin food,
6. Beget your newning meal with fenit,
7. Doe't go to work immediately after
01‘111e1gAmeleritto in the vse of liquids tte all
sensone.
9. It is safer to filter ma boil drinking
wnlitc.r,laxereise in open air whenever the
weather peetnite,
I. In 'nefarious districts do your waking
in the middle of the clay.
12. Keep Om feet, oomfortabk and well
protected,
13. 'Wear woolen olothing the Tem rotmd.
16. Soo that yonr steeping rooms and liv-
ing rooms aro well ventilated, ancl that
timer gas (Mee not enter them.
15. Bensh your teeth at loasttwioo a day,
night and mornieg.
H. Don't worry ; interferes with the
healthful action of tho stomaoh.
17, You nand have interesting occupation
vigeroue «141. ego, Continue to keep the
brain active. Rest omens then
Still irem the fount of Joy s delioious
$01110 bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling a -ay tho jury found that (teeth W;t8
vononi caused y domestic quarrelling.
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BRITIBR NEWS,
'A Paris correspondent says that from
observatione made with the Authority of the
French Alinieter of Marino, M. Renaud,
hydrographie engineer, has come to the eon.
clusitm that the most advantageous line for
the proposea Cbreinel Bridge JH Il1/1 11./81
fixed on in the preliminery scheme, The
line, he recommend/I, draight, dada
from 0 point 350 metres noeth•east of the
light to west of the South Foreland, and
it terminates 300 =tree no:aliment of the
entielnce of the tunnel, neat. Cape Grisnee.
'1'he length of the bridge along the line DOW
prOp080d is shorter by 5150 inetees than
that seggested in the preliminary sehemo.
A verdict of (loath from hydrophobia Ives
returned by the Coroner's jury at Westntin.
ster 011 Monday In the case of Grace Cutler,
aged eight, who WR8 bitten by 0 (log in Au.
gust, 1 889, but felt no ill °fleets until tho
100 inst., when she was seized with violent
pains and died in agony last Wednesday.
It was state(' that no came was recorded of
death so long after being bitten,
At Faversham on Monday, Charlet; Lye?.
don wee brought up en remand, charged
with the murder of Dr, Reeks Lyddon, by
administering poison. Mr, Moull, whodpro-
eeented on behalf of the Treasury, mice for
remand till Theraday, to enable him to
erefully consider the depositions, which
were very voluminous. Ile would then
open the easeand witneeses. The delay
would be no hardship to prisoner, he being
alrencly committed on a coroner's warrant.
The defence concurred in the application, to
to which the Bench assented.
A boy, eleven years of age, named Robert
Smith, of 59 All Saints' Road, Westbourne
Park, London, hall IL remarkable adventure,
on Bentley. He new, according to his one
dory, elidatisfied with the behaeior of his
Parents, end MO ILWay from home, hid him/
self in a railway earringe at Huston Station,
and determincil to go to an aunt living in
the capital of the Midlands. He overshoe
his mark, however, cold lauded at Wolver
hampton, where he was found hiding in a
carriage. On being telcon before the =gin.
trates he W118 ordered to the workhouse in
order that his dory might he investigated.
An exciting incident occurred in Holyhead
Ilarbour on Tuesday night after the arrival
of the express from Ruston and the north.
The North. Western steamer Rose was key.
ing the harbour when, owing to the easterly
gale, she came into collision with the Royal
mail steamer Connetight, After consider.
able difficulty the steamers were extricated,
and fot•tututtely the Rose, af ter examination,
was found not to have sustained serious dam -
ego, and the captain decided to proceed on
the jorteney. All the steamers were 1110011
delayed by the gale.
At the :Birmingham Coroner's Court on
Tuesday, a yerdiet of manslaughter was re.
tunied Against Elizabeth Owen, a nurse at
the City Lunatic Asylum, owing to careless-
ness on her pert towards tt patient, Annie
Lena The deceased, who was thirty-one
years old, \vas a cripple, tuld the nurse had
occasion to put her into IL War111 bath. In-
stead of tilling the bath and testing the
water, r ecordiug to the printed regelations,
deceased wee placed in it while the hot and
cold were turned on, with the result that she
was fatally scalded on the back 011C1 legs.
Au extraordinary occurrence is reported
from Bolton. On Saturday night a fire broke
out in a bedroom over ft thop in ono of the
main thoroughfares, and, es the corpse of a
womau ley in the room tho greatest excite-
ment prevailed amongst the crowd which col-
lected until the hotly was got out and plac-
ed. on the counter in the shop. Even here it
WRI3 not freed from the effects of the out-
breek, es the water used in extinguishing the
fire poured through the roof on to it. 1310-
hinonutseely the body was removed to another
At Bolton, on Tuesday, Wilhatn Henry
Gray, spinner, \YRS charged with e violent
assault upon his wife. Without the slight.
est peeved:floe ho kicked her savagely on
the head half -a -do= times, streak her with
a brush also on the head, and gave her a
bled: eye. To escape from further violence
the unfortunate W0101111 j11111ped through the
bedroom windmv, anti 'sustained serious in-
juries to her head by contact with tho pave-
ment. A fine of 20s was imposed, and R
judicial separation decreed.
On Friday night, at seven o'clock, two
achoolboys, named Thomas Foxon and Wil-
liam Len/theater, aged eleven years, residing
at Hare Park, Walton, near Wakefield, Were
drowned in Aire -Calder Canal, neer Ryhill,
seven miles from Barnsley. During the
afternoon tho lads crossed the meal near
their home to go to Gold Heindley Reser-
voir to slide. During their absence the ice-
boat broke up the ice. On remelting, in-
tending to cross, they plunged in and were
drowned,
Early on Sattneley wearning theee mon
fired la the home of Dr. APRodniond, Cath-
olic Bishop of Killable, at Ashline Park,
about a mile from Ennis. Phe shot was
aimed at the hall door. Tho police aro in-
vestigating the matter.
An iugnest was hold on Tuesday after-
noon on the body of Mrs. Boothinan, wife
of the vicar of Shelton, Stefferdshire, whit
W118 se nodal by 11. di80.141111110111011t of the
pillews whilst asleep itt Clifie Park, Mal'
Look, on Sunday, A verdict of accidental
death was reterned,
Joseph Gardiner, of Bourne Heath, near
Stourbridg.e, met his death while cleaning a
gun, Ho blew 110W11 t110 barrel whi10 his see
held utteelle to the nipple. The gun, um
known to Gardiner, 1V181 10011011, 011 11 W8111
off, inflicting deadly wounde on the unior
tunate num, who tmevie (Al only tW11 11011 1`8.
At Woreester on aloe day afternoon it
number of boys were playing olt the Woe.
coder end Birmingham Canel when the ice
gave way, end five of them were imencesed.
George Lerge mod Ernest Andrews, eged
about seven years, were drowned, and tho
others wore rescued With nivelt difficulty,
The London Board. of Trade have inti-
mated to the proinotem of the Channel Tun-
ed that it the bitl which has again 11001 re..
(wetly (lepteritell by them in the Private
Bill Office pel'AcV eyed with, it will be th
ditty ,of the Covernment. as on previous
enteeseme, to oppose in Peeliatnent.
On eiti whiny n 4410.1301;8y Hal", aged forty.
eight, wife of a leborer living in fox Street,
lfietekbutin ot ea lone downstaire drunk.
1 ter husband, who luta mule to boa, being
novitheued by tenenues went downstairs, and
fauna his wife envetioped in flames. She
W011 friglltrully injured, and (lied soon after,
weeds.
Tho late 141r. Ftiehard gitineoy Pepper of
Redding, a .Lincolushire grazier, has 'be -
*mailed by his will two ponnds to every
child in the perish over six and under twelve
years of age, ' es o nueleue and 11110010re to
industry, ()entrances, and thrift," end re.
quests his executors to open a Government
Savings Bank aceount for email recipient,
A.170111/10 tamed Bryant hael.30011 11.11r0S'
at Baldoyle, near Dublin, on suspicion of
having eausecl the death of hor husband,
whose body was found on Christmas•chty in
tho yard adjoining their house without any
marks of violeme. At the inquest on Yen
T1 eI di; t e
n 1 11 Dope pit:up/dates/eft Ports
month on 'Wednesday ;tweeting for Bombay
Willi military detaile, under the command o
Cote1101 Lewitt, ft, A, She will collet Queene
town for drafts. '1'lle troop -ship Orontes
orri vet! At, hydsmoutit yeeterday with tho
relieved el ewe of the Drettffinniallt And
Agemenemit mtvid supot 11 itineraries Iron) the
Meilitellauvan and JAMUL, y drafts and cle.
• BRORT TIBOR/NG IN MIRROR,
- Grains or knowledge, nein; etit or 11111 81
114 80 much Power.
A ccitage occupied by Michael Monaghan
And his wife, 0111 couple, at; Cong, County
Galway, took tiro Oil Friday night. There
WWI II0 help near them, mid their dwelling
Wa8 aompletely acnieumeo and they with ite
Nothing W0.8 found of them the ruins ex.
eept low cheered bonen, and the bare walla
only of their cottage were left standing.
A regular aecould, has been kept of the
enormous member of sheep worric a and kill.
di by (loge on the Centurvonshire and ad-
jacent mountains during tho pest year. The
greateet destruction was wrought in Liana
beris distriot, which ineludes Snowdon.
where the loss 111 V11100 sudnined by the
taxmen was Z908, while in seven parishes,
included in the returns the aggregate loss is
2 I 958.
Over 4000 men have been added. to the
Mato/ass Army Reserre during the past
twelve months. The total number of these
men who ean be oalled im at any time for
service with the Army is 57,000.
At, the doe of 1889 one steamer only -the
City of Paris -lied run from Queenstown to
New York at the rate of twenty knots an
hour, but at, the elose of 1890 four deign -
ors have accomplished this feat.
On Seth reley, Swalhan, Mr, Goddardo
miller, and his wife were found suffocated in
bed, having lit a fire of coke their beet -
room,
A man named Pieton died ill the London
Hospita on Tuesclay from the results of
Nemo; sustained in wrestling with a bear
at a runic hall for a wager.
The cost of warships, according to the
Times, is as followa per ton :-Englandoe30
5s ; France, 246 Os ; Russia, 287 5s, The
price per indicated horse -power is 1 -Eng-
land, i/30 4s ; France, 256; and the United
States, 207 2s.
Women in the Conference.
The total vote of the Methodist laity of
the United Mato on the question of admit.
Ling women as delegatee to the General Con-
ference has been muele larger than it Wr18
supposed it woeld be. It seem to have
readied nearly 400,000, three-fifths being in
the affirmative. This is a vor,y handsome
majority, but it does not settle the question
by any means. The ministry have yet to
exprese their opinion on the subject. Three-
fourths of them must favor the innovation,
and two.thirds of the next General Confer-
ence must concur to bring it to pass, It. is
probable, however, that the ministers will
respeut and follow tho decision of the laity,
awl that the Conference will authorize the
belga in dee course ; for in the :Methodist
Church, as in all others, women are in the
mejority of tho inembership, and their in-
thience over their pastors is always power -
fel. If they 8110W a strong desire for the
extension of their privileges, they are sure
to have their way, and the vote of
the churches indicates veto, clearly that
they want and intend to take part
in the ecclesiastical legislation. Vet
this recognition of the rights of thefeminine
metjority is sure to lead to importantand far
reaching consequences. If women are ad-
mitted to the General Conference as the
equals of men, they will naturally been=
eligible fee all the offices of the Church. They
will not remain of the liuty exchLeively, but
will be ordained as preachere, possibly even
as Bishops ; for the gift of oratory is a fre-
quent feminine possession, and in ell eoun-
tries ued all Churches the Christian faith is
itrongest mino»g180111013. Religious skepti-
cism prevails emong the men of this period,
but it is rarely discoverable timing women.
Viley also are full of zeal for good works and
frequently 8110W 1110011 executive eapacity in
operying them out.
Mr. Plimsoll's Vas:te.
lalr. Samuel Plimsoll, al, P., after two
or three weeks' sojourn 111 Calutelnehas re-
turned home to England. His was ple-em•
inently enema of mercy. Shortsighted
people in Montreal, blinded by their own
selfish business interests, doubted his airwor-
thy, affeeting to believe that the venerable
philanthropist's object was to destroy, ;lot-
to preserve and improve, our eeport cattle
trade. Luckily Mr. Plimsoll, although for
an instant, lie did forget his usual suavity
of trimmer end dispassoonate methods, stay-
ed long enough with us to peeve that lie
was not the ;Tonle of the deed meat ship-
ping trade sundry Quebecers declared. He
showed both by speech and action that t'10
object of bie iniesion to this eountr,y was
two- fohl : first, to lensen the mamma of
cattle while creasing the stormy Atlantic,
and, second1y, to impeove Cauade's chaplet,
ter for humenity, anti ultimetely to benefit
one business interests. If he had dome noth-
ing else, ale. Plimsoll woad have perform-
ed a noble work in bringing about the in.
vestigation that the government is at pre.
emit conducting into the whole syetem of
cattle shipping. Such an inquiry cannot
hot ultimately bo beneficial Mike to the
cornitry end the trade,
Terrible Night At Bea,
The Nerwegion bemire Helios, of Stevan -
ger, lett lie es. Ceptain aletthieson, whiell has
errivtol ot Queenstown for ordere from
llite te, with et cargo of logtvond, reports
ha vi ng experienced a fearful hurtle/me on the
1 lit 1118t, 10 1111. 1 56 N, 1011z 40 4W, during
wheal the vuesel haa to be hove to. There
we; et rementlettely high see minim:. which
threetened every militito to brook over the
barque. 'rwo ;nen wore /dewed me the wheel
to steer the vessel, mud the renutieing mem.
hors of the crew were lashed with ropes en
deck to preempt their being waeluel over-
lemett. liege or 011 110110 then towed netele1 to
calm the lingo seem which threat:teed to en.
gel! them. At 1 1 p. rit, tromentlens wave
111114 passed, whiell smashed t 10 wheel and
knocked the two steering down, one reedy.
ing eevere injuries to Ms leg. Christopher
Olsen, the carpenter, teas swept overboard
and drowned, A seaman was carried from
the (leek to the top of the etthimbouse,
whore his body became wedged in auto:twit
it portion of the deckle/01, which sexed his
life ; Ceptain Mattliteson WIL9 dashed
mama, the starboercl rails mut would lutve
been carried overboard and drowned, had it
net been that he took the precaution of
lashing himself to a rope, The vessel
boots, which had been eecurely fastened 011
L110 1011 01 t110 deek load, WOre knooked away
several feet from their fastenings. During
the entire night the hurricane continued to
Lot the vosaol battled With tho sea
ettiele nutil the foltowing mornh1g,
The ether day a baker in Maryport receiv.
ea 0 ourioee (Leh to 000k for dinner.
emist,ted of y'emo dressed nod allege, Which
were t „tee er prcrty gipsies who
w art, nped in too neighbourhood,
1 The candle power 10111011 18 need tut the
standard of illuminatin Y erileiemey means
t he li ght of a sperm cand e, &Wall. togh Um of
nn Mull in diameter, burning at a lute of 1 20
grains per. hour,
Cold copper wire offiirs lese resistmete tre,
an electric current than a hot wire. The re-
sistanee increases at the rate of about 1-5
per vent for each Fahrenheit degree of rise
fn tempereture.
All ordinary transparent glass globe 111/ -
sorbs about 10 por yen of the light passi»g
through It. Ground glass absorbs about 30
it:1,4,64T t, and opal glass !Non 00 to 6 0
A new insulating compound for eleetric
\VIM is made by mixing one part by weight
of Greek pitch with two parts of learnt
plaster. T110 compound 18 applied hot with
it brush. It is =barns/lord! and polisbable,
and will stand unusual heat or moisture.
Aa tegards their capacity for coeducting
electricity, the principal metals rank thus :
Silver, WO; copper, GO ; gold, 79; Aluminum,
52 j zinc, 90 ; platinum, 10 ; iron, 15 j
lithe!, I 9 ; 1 1 ; load, 7. Copper and
ron are the cnly metals that helve commer-
cial value as electrical eonductore.
The hoatmonduoting qualities of the met-
als range about OA 10110878 : Silver, 1 00 ; eop.
per, 73,80 ; gold, 53.20 ;annealed aluminum,
38.87 ; unneuled eluminum, 37.96 ; tin, 1 9.-
50 ; iron, 1 1.90 ; steel, 11.00 ; lead, 8.50 e
platinum, 8.40 ; bismuth, 1,80.
After ten years of construction an elab-
orate telephone system connecting all the
forts and military establishments of Bel-
gium with the City of Amwerp has just
been completed, The system was epecially
devised to prevent the tapping of the lines -
by ail eneiny ill time of war.
Some three yeas ago two Froneh altern-
ate, MM. Fremy and Vermeil, succeeded
n producing rubies artificially, but tho
crystals were exceedingly minute. After long
continued study and experiment they have
succeeded in continuing the process over sev-
eral months and producing as much as seven
pounds of rubies at a single operation.
Palmy Work.
A novelty is Russian table cover made
of bands of loosely woven cotton cloth, in
lull offi blue, Indian red, And pale buft The
betels are about six inches wide, and are
embroidered in a delicate, arabesque pattern
tit& crewels of contrasting shades of color
mingled with son- egoldthreads. Between each
band is a strip of Russian lace inaertion two
echos wide, the pattern outlined with
erewels and gold thread. The abate of tho
loth is square, end it is trimmed all around
vith Russian lace, which is also worked in
outline like the insertion. It maltose beauti-
ttl table cover, and has the merit of entire
novelty.
Some new teacloths «nenulde of creameolor-
ed glass towliug, which is cross -barred with
(arrow red and pato blue bars, making
eathee large squares. In the centre of each
quare a rall flower is worked, either ire
oat= or solidly in alternate rd1 and pale
due marklug cotton, and the whole cloth is
ringed around with red, blue and ore=
colored cotton fringe. This toweling is 1JCW
LIM very aecorative.
A handsome buffet cloth is made of white
Man of rather heavy texture, and finished
all around with a twodnolt hem.stitehed
lam. Covering the whole semen which is
;early three yards long and three-quarters
of yard wide is a splendid conventional-
zen lily pattern with beautiful flowing
scrolls and lines. This is worked in outline
with white end gold colored silks, all the
enter liues beiug worked in white and tho
nner ones ancl shadings in gold,
Russian Rulers Who Nave Been Assassin-
ated,
The early history of Russia is mixed rip
with so 1110011 unreliable legend, that WO
cannot go back with any certainty further
thanl 584, whenDemetrius, Czarof IVInscovy,
was murdered by his successor, Boris.Godo.
not In 1605, Feeder II. wee assassinated.
by the soldiery, Severed impoetare appear.
ed on the scene after this ; each claimed to
be the murdered prince Demetrius. held.
the government for a short time, (ma were
then assassinated. In 17134, Ivan III.
(or VI.), the .grand-nephow of Peter tho
front, after being immured eighteen years
n a dungeon, by orcler of the Empress
Catharine I , was assassineted by theofficers.
of the gereison at Sehlusselburg. Peter III.,
son of Anne and Charles Frederick, Duke of
Holstein•Gottorp, was deposed, and died.
soon after, it is sad, through grid ; but ho
'0 g.enerally supposed. to have been murder-
ed in 1 769. Paul, son of Peter I1L and Cant -
rine II., was assassinated 94th al arch, 1601.
Ho had been kept extreme seclusion by
lb mother for so long, that when he came,
to the throne, he was utterly iguterant, and
totally unfit to goveen. A conspiracy wee
therefore formed to force him to abdicate ;
lis obstinacy, however, led to 0 scone, in
1vhich he was strangled. Alexander II was
assassinated March, 1881, by Nihilists, end
de son, the present Emperor (Alexander
III.) done to the thtene,
A Hundred. and Forty Religions.
The census mintouncemeet that there are a
lunched and forty religious bodice in the
United Stettes,exelusive of many betepentlent
congregations, will be received with some
surprise by most people wheeeknowledge of
liflorent sects does not embrace more than a,
lozen or twenty at the most. In the list a,s
liselesed by the preliminary bulletin isseed
ty the Census Bureau from NVenffington
tbe General -Six -Principle Baptists, the
nchwerkfelyliaus, the Theosophical Society,
the Life end A dent Union, muluthers which
to majnrity of penplo will be entirely new.
With hundred. and forty creeds. formally
adopted and "many 101109011110a erganiza.
time" with their own notions besides, the
task of those who favor church union is aif-
ictiltindeed. If only the inore menternee
leuominations exieted tho labm of effecting
a unity of ehurches with regard 1 0 polity
0111 the more ceeential doetrintie inieht bo
reside bot evhat shall be said when h,
bed little denomine,tions,stertly their be-
tels ma onsboins, are nithe field, loth to givo
them up.
The rebellious ontbrotic in Notre Nos.
Argentine Itopublie, has boon impprossed.
The ease with which land bird, when
wounded, will take to the water is 111m/trot.
ea of ten on the meadow near 0 lake or river.
Hugland gentleman this Fall flushed 0.
cock pheasant in his garden 'ancl sent a shot
at the b ra. The bird was winged, but that
did not hinder front rushing down to a
100111114.1111 stream that flowed near by and
from swimming quiekly morose ittul reaming
np tho opposite hank, whore tho gunner
downed it with tho second barrel, Art
Amerioatt partridge will do tho same thing
WOUllata 00 ta Al • -Nst fly..
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