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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-6, Page 2FOR THE LADIES. In A Tender Hour, Ytcomee again, the fond iftuassloned yearning, Velma. which I thought the world had steeled m heart; And In my soul, unquenched, the lira es burn- ing That made mo play of old the sorry part. Olt, love, thy eyos still hold the wondrous power That gave the spring -time of my We its light; That made rho world a poet's fairy bower. And thou jt ocoo b' divmest right, It Comes again, with all its dreamy wonder And I lie sleepless in its memory; Though thou and I are irony miles asunder, L never know thee, swoot, so near to um. A poat's fartay7 Yet I'dl not surrender Tho gladness that comes flower -decked with Youth, To turn my mood in ways divine and tender, And prove that loving is God's highest truth, The Model Wife. If a wife wants a peaceful atmosphere and the sante unlimited adoration that she had from the individual who was her lover in her earlier days, one of her first endeavours must be to retain it by in some measure de- serving it. One of the brat things for her to attend to in that line is that of keeping the household and other expenses entirely within the sun that she and her husband have decided t 1 be 1] • a.n,1 proper ; and a system that will • esu, h.,•t 11.1 rn,g been established, to let he' nus.,.."u'a pockets rest in peace, to ask fee no more money, and to have none of those trilling, teasing expenses of which each single amount is small, but the sum is comparatively enormous, One of the next things for her to do is to remember that a well-fed man isvastly better and more amiable, healthier and happier than one poorly nourished, and to govern her table and her cookery accordingly ; and if the effort causes difficulty with her servants, to let him know nothing of it ; and if she Mae no servants to husband her strength in other ways and to make the work easy for herself by a systematic prooeduro—a day for thio duty and a day for that; a place for everything and everything in its place. It would be a poor sort of bus. band that would not appreciate this effort .and meet it more than half way. That business attended to a wise wife will try and keep up with her husband's tone of thought and with his reading, and will bring forward subjects for conversation and .discussion not altogether personal, omitting scandals and fashions, making herself so •companionable andagreeble to him intellect- ually that he will not need to go elsewhere for such society. Still another point for her to oonsider is that of the exercise of as much courtesy to her husband as she was wont to use towards him in the days when it pleased her to think she attracted him. And then, as her husband is mortal, she is to cement her that fact, and not be enrprised and manifest her surprise at his want of j rfection, remembering also her own want of It, and the possibility that she,too, may have fallen short of an ideal. It is a good plan for to remember that she pleases not so ranch by brilliancy as by charm. The Starvation Tad. A number of Washington women have been fasting for the good of their health. A writer has asked several of them about the pleasure and pains of fasting with this result. The longest fasten record is not that of Succi, for Mfrs. Hannah ManLaren Sheppard, a resident of Washington and a daughter of Bishop MacLaren of Illinois has endured n fast of sixty days' taking nothing d neing that time save a teaspoonful three tunes a day of nutrient. Mrs. S :ep arca had been a suf- ferer for many years from rheumatism and heart dieease, , S have her word for the statement that regular practitioners of medicine had pro - flounced her incurable, that she adopted the fasting system as the last resort. She says that after the second day of her fast she began to feel better ; that instead of losing ,strength, she gained it. When she began •tire feet site was hardly able to walk acmes the room. On the tenth day she walked 'three miles ; she was able to attend to her duties, make her social calls, and in every way enjoy life perfeotly up to the very last of the sixty days, and then she says she began to eat because it was deemed advisable, not because she really felt hungry, as she did not. This sounds like a most remarkable story, but Mrs. Sheppard vouches for the truth of it. Another fatter is Mrs, Conger, wife of ex - Senator Conger. "I believe," said Mrs. Conger, " that I was afflicted with every ill that flesh is heir to. I had rheumatism and neuralgia and heart disease and dropsy and I won't attempt to say how many more things. Life was misery to me. I was not able to walk. Neither was I able to Bleep ;. everything I ate seemed to distress ate. Finally, in my despair, I determined to try fasting. My friends told me that I would die if I did not eat. I told them I would sorely die of I did, so there was about an even chance. "My first feet was for fourth= clays, at the end of which time I ate the inside of a ripe watermelon. The next day I ate a roast potato," Mrs. Conger's experience in doing without food was quite the same as that of the others, She insists that she felt no inconvenience from hunger or weakness, "I only felt" site said, "as if something was lacking, I hardly know what. I supppose it was force of habit ; most habits are hard to break, and the habit of eating food is not an exception," bars, Conger so far recover. edher health as to taloa long trip throughthe northerupartofM'£lnnesota, While riding out in that braoingatmosphere without sufficient wraps she contracted a aeve'e cold, which resulted in a settled long trouble and a seri. pus tough. She returned toWaehington and sought the advice of the apostle of fasting, Ho told her that she must begin again to do without food and that she must continue in that line until the cough was starvod out, That time Mrs. Conger oontiuuetd her fast for thirty- three days. At the end of that time the nu. trient became so nauseous to her that she was not able to take it any longer. She was than told thatshe could take raw onions. " But," said bars, Conger, " I cannot oat onion0 without bread." As the bread wail not allowed, she oompromteed tate matter by boiling part of the on1on0, and elle lived no this way for six weeks, on a dint of boiled onions and raw onions mixed together, At the end of six wooke she went again to the director of her health, allying, 'i r am tired of onion and tired of the nutrient end tired of water—what shall I do noW ?" As a crisis seemed to have been, roaohed and the congh had coasod, Mrs. Conger was allow. oil again a rigid filet of brown bread and met potatoes. She says, With•a11'ginoority that alto believes she would have loomdear{ long ago ]oast it not beep for .this lystom of lasting. At it is,. she o;tjoys-life as well at ins wo m n of her age, rides and drivge,atd visite and ie certain that site is quite happy without takinggmeat and that the tan exist aory cotnfortably on oto meal a day. THE BRUSSELS POST. i;;mother of the Darters, hurl while WEATHER LORE, r faith in the thou-, and its results is i gnite ;1,4 et thug as that of members, site doe not tett tit S;"11,. story of happiness too 1 comfort during the ordeal. She says the treatment a a neat heroic one, and diaolaime the idea that ilw e is anything pleasant in going without a. ,a. She suffered continually flaring her fast, and eiuce then the neeeesity of living upon 0110 meal o day and the neves. 0ity of doing without It great many things of n•hdoh she is fond mattes life more or lees of a burden. Stilt she insists that it is the only way tbatehe can be well and she is willing u1 orecify her appetite in order that she may have good health. Nor case, like all the others, ryas 0110 which the doctors of medicine pronounced hopeless, and etre is as firm in her belief that her life has been saved by this system of abstinence as are any of the others, The Ooiu of Polite Sooiety. Whenever a kindly or considerate act is shown you, any dear, be always careful to say that tragic index to good breeding— " £hash you." Certainly you say it is the neon who has given you an evening of amusement at the theatre or the concert, or who has taken you to and fetches you frono n friend's Monte. To whom olee should you say it? To the maid servant who hands you your letters, who makes a special point of keep- ing your room in gond order, and who, re- membering that you liked certain things placed is a certain way, was careful always to do it, To the stranger who holds open a door for you, to the elevator man who saves you climbing so many stairs, to the man who gives you a seat in a car or omnibus, and to anybody, in any station of life, who shows you a courtesy of any kind. We are apt to be very stingy with our thanks; to accept things entirely too much for granted, and to believe, in having court- esies shown us, that they are only what we deserve. Now this is the wrong way of looking at it, aucl some day it will serve the girl right—that girl who believes that the good things of life in the way of politeness are hers lawfully, and that without any of fort on her part they can be retained, will discover her mistake. You can never be too generous with thank yous ; they are the current coin'of polite so- ciety, tate aireolation of which tends to snake everybody more eager to do unto others as they would be done by. No girl makes a mistake who has a thank you always ready: It is the index to a good character and a loving heart. Politeness is golden, aril thank you is tho coin which passes everywhere and is recognized by all. No .Mercy for Their Helpless Enemy, . Some hardy sperm wswore engaged inavery eel dbath in apuddle ofineltedsnow in Qtteern's Park Toronto the other day, when a young husband and wife, who with their two little girls were evidently ll100ing frotn one resi- dence to another, placed their hand baggage on a Seat, and sat down to rest beside it. One of the children put clown on the ground, some yards from the bench, and behind it, a bird cage eontaining a savage looking iolal• tole cat, The cat must have been introduced by the removal of tie bottom of the cage, for the door WAS too narrow to have admit. ted hint. He secured to bo dejected by the Mose cotttlucment and when an aitlaenna sparrow hopped close to the cage and stared at Lint he spat feebly at it and cowered in 00.1.01 on the floor of the cage. Then the sparrow, stimulated, no doubt, by its brac- ing plunge, picked at its ancient enemy's tail aid elicited a feline growl, hot no active reeentntent. Before very many minutes load passed a soore of other sparrows had joined the first assailant, and every one of them 2000 111• dustrionsly engaged in pecking at the not. Iris head was the only part of his external anatomy that escaped their wicked little beaks. None of them oared to meddle with him above his neck. The cat was completely cowed. When he could endure no more he fell over on his side in a fit, foaming and cater- wauling. The noisy attracted the attention of his owners, who had not noticed ]tis pre- dicament. The mans wore the children scream - ad, and thewomanhad tears in her eyes SS she scolded half a dozen bootblacks who had been far too deeply interested in the scene to interfere with it, Then she put the cage and its convulsed tenant under her shawl and moved away, with her family, toward their now home. A Calamity Escaped. MONTREAL, Feb. 26.—What narrowly escaped being a terrible fatality took place at the Montreal Court-honee yesterday. The building has lately been under repairs, and on Friday afternoon tine gaefitters were called in to make connections for the gas pipes. It was late in the afternoon, and by some mistake a connection was made with a pipe that wa6 not used and had an opening in the end. This was in a vault near the centre of the building. When the meter was opened the gat commenced to esoape, and continued to do so throughout the night. Yesterday morning one of the brieklayere at work on the building happened to go into the vault with a lighted candle, and a terrific explosion followed. The man miraculously escaped, but the noise of the explosion was each as to create a panic in the building, which was soon sur. rounded by an anxious crowd. Fortunately no one was hurt. Had the gas not had a chance of escaping through large openings in the floors, the explosion would have been a terrible one, and would probably have re. stilted in groat loss of life, The Support of Minleters. "As melees, our minister's are notaclequate- ly supported, So far is the support from being adequate, that most nthtieters are in m humiliating dependence ; many aro 110000. oitated to turn aside from that singleness of purpose so essential to Sttee00s, aucl combine some seceder vocation with their appropriate work ; vary many aro berdoned with debts ; many are in want, and some in positive mental and phyeioal distress. The realfaots aro not overstated, nor the plature over- drawn ; and yet those aro the men whore God has called to doelareglad tidings laying upon the Church the duty of their support, Theft are the mon, overhurdaned with oar°, worried and perplexed with their own ao0nty Jinanceo, to whom the church is looking to save our country from oppressions and wrong," .New Word Needed. Polhomus—"I've had my typewriter two years and all it has cost me it one dollar for o . and ribbons," Powolson—f' Mine costs me seventy-five a vette for'ribbons alone," ' How' door thatltappon ? " 1 marribdmina ' That's'libw." „ TCl$ Caleb of Aip•'eaii'disthiaeecd theppeal of a trhdo0man who laid been mulcted in X1..00 damages for slander, in stating of the plaintiff, a fancy goods trailer, to a third party, that he was "next door to hank - M re. i:,ippitt, the widow of General 'rttptcy," and "not Worth powder and shot,' 11, tt. 1 The to1i ititurist and the 11uebnndm 111111 Cabal 1. lh.>s" ulu,so conditions of fnree 01e01 1" rot,' 01)011 tido soil for 111011,11,1 of anl•oistesee, are eo dependent upon the clautgee of temperature and the alterna• tions of foul and fair; of wet foul dry, th54 it is not surprising that questions regarding the weather, should from time immemorial have been nt0de a subject for particular at- tention, Long, therefore, before there wa0 any meteorological bureau to enlighten the world with its scientific predictions people had begun to study tine face of the slay, the shifting of the wind, and the changes of tit moon, and to embody the results of the. observations in rough and ready rhyme and proverbs for the guidance of themselves and those who aho0kl follow in their steps. One of tato most widespread and popular of these old weather -superstitions was that width attached a peouliae and miraonlona importance to two particular days in the year, The first of these was January 25, known in the calendar as Saint i'aul'a Day, from the fact that this is the alleged anni- versary of tato conversion of the great apostle to tato gentiles, The vulgar opinion 2000 that from the aspect of rho weather on this day, prognostications might safely be made for the whole euasequent eoutseof the year. " If," says a very old writer, referring to this subject, " it be a fair day, it will be a pleasant year •, if it be windy, there will bo wars ; if cloudy, it doth foreshow theplogue that year ;" while a Shepherd's Almanaek, dating back to the year 1076, further informs us that if on that day there were mist, there would be famine in the coming months and if thunder, then high winds and gr'eab mortality. These opinions, as usual, found expression in verse. dram instance, there was an old Latin stanza which was very popular, and of which the following lines form one of seta eral English versions : " If St. Paul's Day bo fair and clear, It doth betide a happy year If blustering winds do blow aloft, Then wars w111 trouble our realm full oft ; And it it chance to snow or rain, Than will be dear all sorts of grain 0' Even more important for the weather- wise of the past was the 1551 of July, a day which, as the (oast of St. Stvithln, as even today by no meats shorn of all its former reputation. In England, at all events, it is not unusual to hear people of some pretense to education, frequently in joke, perhaps, but sometimes partly. in earnest, remark hat as St. Swithin's Day is wet or dry (as he ease may be), so for forty days there - ter there would be a continuance of the ane kind of weather, Thus the old rhyme ran : St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rano . For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithin's Day, it thou be fair. For forty days 'ttvlli rain no more." The commonly-no0epted explanation of lois ancient and widespread superstition ie 0o curious to be omitted, though its value van as tradition, has been authoritatively mpuggned. St. Stvithln was a bishopof rinoheeter, who, after his death in 05`was anonized by the Pope. It is said that he ail expressed a wide to be buried in the o pen churchyard, and not, at was usual in he case of bishops, in the chancel of the athecb'ol. Some time afterwards, however, 1e monks of the establishment were seized vitha fit of pious indignation at the thought lot so groat and good a man should sleep is last sleep in so humble, and, for a saint, unseemly a spot ; and heedless of hoe ell -remembered desire, they determined o convoy the body in great state into the athodral and reinter it there. But just as ley were on the point of commencing their peratlons a heavy rain burst forth, which amassed without intermission for forty ooeeding days. The monks, ever ready to ard any departure from the ordinary arse of nature in a miraculous light, at tae interpreted the tempest as a spacial warning from Heaven, and relinquished eir undertaking—whence it is said St. within's day derived its prophetic chortle. r in relation to the condition of the wee th- for the ensuing six weeks. Unfortunately fqr the value of the old - me tradition as regards both this and St. awl's day, it has to be remembered that, ing to the alterations in our calendar, the ativals of the two great saints have not nbinuouely fallen upon the same days. 'e are therefore driven to ask with Horace 'alpole, whether the old proverbs can poo. bly be made to St the new calendar, and tether St. Switltin and St. Paul would be ely to be accommodating enough to bring emaelves and the atmospheric arrange - onto into keeping with the requirements of odern astronomical calculation. But for those—if any such should read ese lines—who are posseseed of any linger. g faith in the value and trustworthiness auah mettles utterances, it may be well add that it has been experimentally pray - to demonstration that the popular belief s not the most meager vestige of founda• n in fact, In the strict tally kept for wenty years at Greenwich Observatory, gland, it was shown that in no one ease s the proverbial statement borne out. In years when St, Swithin's day was wet, highest number of web days .was 26, and lowest 1.3 ; and in the years when it was the highest number of rainy days 20, the lowest 12. These curious hgtu'es alt for themselves, Did we not know w blindly men and women will ever cling the cid auditions and superstitions of it childhood, we might indeed suppose b in fact of these absolute oartainties the l -worn legend about St. Swithin would a natural death. But it takes a great a1 more than ascertained and proven facts ]tante the faith of some people, as daily perieloe ehowe, But when our forefathers were content to it themselves to a less extensive field of pro bog instead of endortalt• to settle the weather for weeks or nth beforehand, they simply attempted rovids against the changes immediately easeful. Many wore a great deal more Iaty of the wise lawe upon ioh titoy placed such implicit reliance are to be laughed at or thrown aside with re, based though they wore, not upon Mafia clean or reasoning, but on simple ervation and experience, Everybody, I pose, is familiar with the curt little se whi0lt 00118 ELEOTRIOAL, Novel And t'se02ss Ways In Widen the glee. •10 tele Current As Wing ;gut. life Various new applleationeof electricitya the reported from banes, It ie bifid that tl Guvel'ntnent tnilitaryworkshops at Menilo are now quite busy with the mattufaoture of eleotrie motors for use ie ballooning in time of war. The discovery is regarded as of so muoh importance that the operations .how in 1trogreae are carefully guarded from the public. An enterprising firm of French weavers have just been awarded a gold mot al by the Society for the Encourage- ment of National Industry for an ingenious application of electrometers which they aro using in their workshops, and another manta lecturer has received a similar honor for an effective applicntiou of electricity to the reeling, weighing, laud making up into balls of silk and smiler woven fabrics. A further marls of distinction loas beau given by the same society to M. Realigned of Paris for his eleotrie knitters for use is the hosi. ery trade. pump. and tie irpcnire , at the sante l line, of any valve required. In 3 110'3110, for hr , 5001100. S.1+ul SW11.110a dontt'ollieg tine tl!'e house, Nada ba located to any 1100' re of places afoot the building, On the 10 ao0ery' of a tire, 007, in ono 01 the leered II rooms, the ept'htklrr euttld be started in roost from any of the reepeattve owit boorde, or in the roost itself. In the s manner, rho exit and lobbies could be la with streams of water, which wound al of the escape of the audicnee, 00011 rho rho tiro should bo raging 00011511 them, complete and instantaneous control of lata of water thus gained, and the ability Jambe° their flow, suggest possibilities lire oxtinotion which wileinaterially Mere its ease and certainty: of e 11 et tl tl so av nt sn reg ao 0 th S to er ti P ow fe oo i wl lik th m m th iu of to od ha tlo tw Wa the the the dry anc ape ho to the tha wed die da to s ex lint pr' lug Ino top 5000 tvh not 500 sole abs sup ver A Boarding•Hottse 5'oko, " The last minstrel died a long time ago, slid ire not?" remarked Do Mamie, apparent- ly apropos of nothing in particular, as he pushed the egg -cup a trifle fnrthet' awayfrom him, " Why, yes, I think so ; quite an ago ago," responded the landlady with some wontde, as she poured out the coffee, "What made you think of 001;' "1'Mtit egg.' "Was it so poetic?" inquired the land. lady sWbotly. De MASIOao folded tip hie napkin and ppob. ed hie ohair back before he replied, "ago, not poetic. I thought perhaps thab•that egg Was the lay of tho last minetrel that some. body wrote about," ' And with the glance that followed him Ono you might dtav0 fried onions, 0, l Kid l THE KING OF TEER O, en. ; -_.. bei' dia. • Iso Iie:lpe an Awful, Hama in a 1'I ' (ku±atllan Opal Mono. eh• ke1010 ilea IOW U dt In estimating the chances of a settlement of the dong•standing troubles of Ireland, a, most hopeful sign is that the employment of light eleetras railways or telpherage ill that country Is now being seriously consid- ered. It is shown that telpherage lines might bo used for bringing to market from the remoter districts parcels of farm pro. duce which cannot now be marketed aeon. moically. In suchdlstriots, while the pro duction is sot enough to support evert a light railway, there is real need of some ready menus of reaching the market, espec- ialty with perishable goods, The establish. meat of such means would to a certainty give an enormous impulse to small farming, dairy farming, poultry raising, and other occupations of tate peasantry. The carriage of the mails, too, which is now done by horse oars and foot messengers, would be enormously expedited. The force of the greatest objection to the whole scheme, the possible expense, is very much lessened by the fact that water power exists in plenty and its utilization would minimize the costs of working. --� It is thought that a decided step in the solution of the electrlo-traction problem for totves has been made in the Introduction of the Gordon closed conduit system, which is regarded in England as giving greatpromise. The system 15 an ingenious method of 'barging underground conductors by means of special automatic distributors, situated at considerable distances Moog the tine, the construction of the line and conductor rail being of the simplest and cheapest descrip- tion, It is proposed that the closed conduit bo laid through the crowded streets in cities, where the oar will travel compares tively slowly, and connected to an overhead system outside the city limits to the suburbs, where the speed aim be increased up to twenty utiles an hour. Snell a system as this will meet a serious watt, and will prove a very serious rival to the suburban steam railways. Edison has come out in a new oha•acter. The process of accelerating the passage of drugs through the akin by electrical erodes - floosie has for some time been regularly lpractised under medical sanction. Edison oad noticed that gouty ooneretiois aro often treated with the aid of lithium salts, taken internally, to facilitate the formation, dis- solution, and excretion from the body of urate of lithium. The diftimtlty in this treatment has always been the uncertainty of tato absorption of the salts into the sys- tem, and it occurred to Edison that more rapid success might be obtained by external application and the employment of electrical enclosmose to carry the lithium into the tissues. For the purpose of testing this rip.piioation ho curried out a series 01 expert. menta last year, the results of which were plaood before the International Medical Con. grese, recently held at Berlin. The subject experimented upon was 78 years of age, and had. lived an active and healthy life until ten years previously, when he contracted the tendency to gouty concretions through sleeping in clamp sheets. All the joints ex• eopt the knees were very much enlarged, and the joints of the little finger wore almost obliterated by concretion, The patient ex- perienced freedom from pain, which had up to that time been intense, after the first tray's treatment, and In fourteen days a re- daction of nearly an inch and a quarter was effected in the circumference of ono of the. fingers, whose form was favorable to oconrate measurement. The general oonditioa of tate patient was temporarily ameliorated, and the results of tine experiment were in every way encouraging. A writerin len English paper states that he has succeeded in a remarkable degree in the utilization of the rise and fall of the tides for driving motors continuously during the twenty-four hours. I•Iis experiments, though on a comparatively small scale, were coop as to enable him to form a reliable estimate of the cost of the horsepower bhus obtained oompared with that of a like horse -power obtained by steam engines and boilers, The initial expenses wore found to be very nearly equal, but the after saving in the use of the tidal plan was likely to be very groat, as the cost of looking after tidal machinery would be but trifling. One man for the clay and another for the ttiglnt would ho sufficient to see to hundreds of horse power, the tnaohin- ory would be nearly self-acting, and the wear and tear would be very moderate. There are hundreds of places around the eoaets of Britain and on tidal rivers where this plan oouldbe carried orb and the power obtained could be transmitted to any part of the kingdom, A very novel telephonic phenomenon waf observed the other day. Two electricians were conversing over ono of the Long Dia. lance Telephone Company's lines, when, in order to shut out soma conversation, ono of the speakers placed the receiver with the diaphragm end over the mouthpiece of the long-distance transmitter. The receivers at both cit de immediately gave out a oontittttotte masioal sound, The effect was duo to an action almost analogous to that brought into play in tie buzzer, or vibrating boll ; dais ie neither more nor less than asorb of brittle - (lore and ehuttleeook action between receiver and transmitter, and its continuation, which is tlepoudent on the time tho receiver is hold a 01st the transmitter, gives 0 =Ideal note of high pitch aril uniformity, The affect is an ill Wresting one, and the clisootory of thie rottener illustration of it will load to furtho exporitnonte and poesibty valttablo results, 11, L Lufkin has just pint before tato Fire. men's Convention, Dotioit, Mich„ an ad, Inhabit+ system of 'extinguishing fires by eleetrioity, Mr. Lufkin prop0500 to modify tato presoitt 0y0tein of automatic sprinklers by the use of a motor and primp mod a tom- plate *stein of apriukler piping, On welt Boor, or it ttny nutober of places on the floor, aro planed in convenient positions push buttons for the Storting of the motor and 0rr1. On ll)tnuI ,u1 WOO—luny iy ll'lelen% and flilietren Le111ie11Htrns, A tate despatch from Halifax soys:—Tho details at hand from the terrible calamity 1100 that happened at rho Springhill colliery on 10 Saturday show that it was the 111001 ,tieos. of ate The repent mention of the Hon. James D. Reid in this column as the first telegraph superintendent has excited is good deal of interest and discussion. Mr. Read 10110 is now United States Consul at Ittnfortnliue, was undoubtedly the fleet regular telegraph superintendent in the world, and his Maims as such were reoogtized a few months ago, when on leaving for Scotland, ate was pre. seated with a gold medal by the telegraph. ors of this city, and was given it dinner by Andrew Carnegie, Dr. Green, Gen. Eckert, and other magnates and veterans, It is an interesting fact that when Carnegie was a little boy in Pittsburgh, Reid, who is a warnt.hearted, generous soul, took him into employ es messenger, and presented him with a warm overcoat. Carnegie has never forgotten the kindness. Reid, by the way, was also the young man who, at the time of the Mexican war, agitated and convulsed the weary by tanking ou to President Pollc's telegraphed annual rneesago the phrase "God and Liberty," Prentice of the .Louieville Journal said he didn't know what Polk had to do with either God or liberty, and wanted to lick Reid with Santa Anna's wooden leg for the impertinence, Probably Reid would have been dismissed for this amusing ejaculation of relief, which burlesqued Santa Anna's grandiose proclamations, but, being his Own superintendent, he could not very well dismiss himself, Reid was a lifelong personal friend and conlldeut of Morse, and retains many invaluable relics of the great master of the key and wire. 01'An expert report has been made on tato lighting of the London, England theatres by electricity, which goes to allow that tem- porary electric lighting on a small scale can be produced there more cheaply by gas en- gines than by batteries and dynamos. The great saving effected by electric lighting in the absence of dirt and tarnishing of decor- attona is also called attention to, as well as the advantages of coolness and reduced fire risk, and these constitute a source of econ- omy wloichibis estimated will enable the cost of the plant for a theatre to be paid for hi a few years. Of novel applications of electricity there is no end. Bakers are 11002 using the electtio motor as a bread mixer, and are thus en- abled to do in four or five minutes an amount of work that would otherwise require hours of hand labor. A writer in a medical pope says he hos frequently obtained match relief from facial neuralgia' by applying an incan- descent light to part erected. lie suggests that the lamp could also be used in poultie- M1; advantageously. It could belahl 0000 a fl ixseed or other fowl of poultice, and son - 05000 heat. could be thus secured, THE FRENCH. SOLDIER. llitrrers erdiff Life in Foreign service. Horrors of soldier life in the foreign legions of Brnnue aro described by a [Get- man offic r who once served in bite midst of them, He arrive atOran, capital of the pro- vince of Oran, Where the foreign legions, 20,000 strong are stationed, after a stormy voyage of throe days, and was at once see to breaking stone. His comrades at tho work 11'000 counts, doctor, barons, lawyers. and all sorts of uneducated men of every European nationality, for the foreign le- gien are a refuge to which any sound man between 15 to 45 is welcome, whatever his bloodarecord, or oho ranter. Al] the soldiers work like day laborers with picks and shov- els, and 0uy one of them who tries to rest' for a minute during working hours is spur- red on by a hick or a blow from a non-oom- missioned officees in command. This kind of abuse is so froquent and so reckless applied that shortly before tine German officer's arrival a young Austrian had knocked out his own teeth in order tnab Ile might be discharged and thus escape it The smallest offences are punished by arrest and confine- ment. Thirty or thirty-five men are thrust into a room not large enough for ten, and therefore so crowded that at night eaolt has to sleep sitting, with his,knees under his chin. During the clay the prisoners are eter. reed in running, jumping, and the most difficult military movements for six hours without cessation. Few men are able to endure the fatigue, Dozens faint from ex- haustion in tho third or fourth hour and are carried from the parade ground. The terror of all legiouairae le confinement in the syloa a hole on the ground, with a narrow en- trance and a broad bottom. The depth' of the hole is twelve feet, and the grieoner is let down on a etring The heat in the sylos, uushadocl from the African sun, Is so terrible that but a fete days of imprisonment snflioe to transform a healthy matt into a white. hoed elnaaiated, and nerveless invalid. Nothing Wrong About That Top, Mamma—" Willie, you must not eptn that humming top of yours today. This is Sun. daqq." Willie (whirling it again)—"That's all right, manmla, It's humming a Sunday eeltool tune," Lots of Diiforenoe, Small Boy—" Here, sir, ie a whiskey flask that fell from your pooket." Inebriated Old Gont--" No shir—no whis- key flask fell ou' or my po—hie—pooket." Small Boy—•" But it diel. I saw it," Otil Gent -e" Shonny, if it fell on' ee sty pooket it 2005—hie—or flask of whiskey, en' not jus' or whiskey flasltic; There'elt loch nr differensh,' ebony--1otsh 1" Nautical Bleed in nor Veins, "You may sit in the stern of tato boat and work tato tiller, Miss Gaswell,l' sacci the young man as he took the 0005, "if you think yen can steer." " I gttos that won't be hard to do," re- sponded the proud young heiress. I have often beard mamma say she crossed the ocean in the steerage." Irish poplins aro in demand for the Louie Quinze coats, and plain skirts wore never more fashionable, Goer e MitS alt, 010 engine driver, was struck by a stein', white treveilingatoteprese speed to Calderhridge, but although the eollar'bono was, broken by the blow, he um flinchingly c,mfrfnted 002111100 his engine to her tloetinetion. Ho bps boon forty yoar0 in the sol vice mar hots t over having suet with tiny accident, a., 0 18 well ]mown to railway men as'0 1'hn 1' n, r,a ,lune " Uwe as regards loss of lifo that ever hap- pened in the history of Canadian mince, or, in fact, 011 the Continent of America, with the exception of the explosion at Seottsdalo, Pa„ recently. Tho death roll foots up to 117, and of the victims 5t were married men and 57 single rnott and boys ; 181 fatherless children aro Mit. By the Ford pit explosion about ten yeats ago 53 lives were saerilieed and by the Drummond pit disaster twelve years ago 04 lives were lost. The explosion on Saturday occurred shortly after the men went to worst from taking their dinner. It came so suddenly and without warning that few of the men in the section of the eastern slope, where the disaster occurred, eeoalled, although some of the workman in Oho vicinity were able to get out. Over 1,000 men were et work at the tilno, but those i11 tho other slopes easily made their exit. The force of the explosion rent asunder the anthems supporting the roof of the eastern slope and allowed it to fall. The colossal weight crushed the boxes and Mt/MATED AMEN AND 100105E0 in one slope most horribly. Some of the bodies were so badly torn to pieces that they hall to be gathered up In bags and thus conveyed to the surface. They were, of course, unrecognteable. The men in the other slopes died from sulfonotion by after -damp, and when found looked as peaceful in the face as though only sleeping, though their clenched hands and twisted limbs showed that the Moor men had met death in convul- sions, the .cause of the explosion Is not known, but is thought by same to have been caused by an outbreak of gas which had form- ed while the men were at their mettle, An. other. theory, and it is the most generally aooepted, to that the 01680.11,118 cine 10 0 blown out shot in one of the fords. The mine had been inspected on Friday by a t3ovorn• meat official and a few days previously by a committee of workmen and pronetlneetl perfectly safe. Among the dead is Maaag• er Swift, but his body will nut be recovered till some of the debris is cleared away. Some most miraonlous es. oapee are recorded. A trapper boy named Farris was sitting at his door when he taw a flash of ilamo corning. He dodged under hie seat and placed hie hands over his face, His hands and ears were burned and Ole doors blown on top of him. He was stunned, but got up and ran away and thus escaped suffocation. When a boy named Beaton heard the explosion he rushed away to the place where he know his brother tuns work- in.: and succeeded in carrying the latter ou:, although he was unconseous and badly wounded. As may easily be understood, the ppalmg character of the affair loos complete- ly DAZED TUE 0NlIA5rTA2"r$ to iipringhiil. Thousands have been flock- ing to the scene all day from the surround- ing country, many because of cariosity and others to lend assistance to the grief-stricken widows and orphans and other stunned and bereaved ones. This afternoon it was ,1 gruesome sight to see 40 bodies and pieces sufficient to make up a score more ly- ing in a row, while around them were moan- ing frantic women and weeping men search - tog for husband, brother or son. Special trains conveyed a score of doctors from the outlying towns to look after the wounded, who number about 50, sono of whom are fatally injured but the majority will re. cover, The enormity of the deprivation at this time of the year of so many broad - winners can only be met by prompt and extensive aid, and an appeal has been issued to the generous public of the Canadian and American people. The damage to property at the work is not great outside the eastern slope, and at •will be poseible to roeume work in a few weeks. The volunteers to outer the mine to search for victims were many and prompt, and.their bravery in entering the mine s0 soon after the disaster 000urred is much praised. Chief Manager Cowsne and other ofHoialsand bosses of tate mine led the rescuing party. The position of about 50 of the dead men showed that they were not killed by the force of the explosion, but were overcome by and succumbed to the deadly are -damp while trying to escape, MAD OOIJNT KLEIST. fills Second Attempt at Murder—Engaged to nn Arnerlaan 61101. Bertram, Feb. 25.—Cotmt Kleist, who has been in prison for some time past for an at- tempt at manslaughter on Herr Albert, pro- prietor of a hotel in this oiby is again in trouble. On Friday last, on the plea of sick- nese, the, Count was liberated from prison. On Saturday he was seized with a fit of ma• niacal rage and made a savage attack upon his valet, who was m bed at the time. The Count boat the man so brutally that he frac. tttretl his ekttll. Count Kleist has been rear rested and taken back to prison. After the Coent's attack on Herr Albert in September test he was wanted in a lunette asylum in this oity ou the ground that he was insane, On Sept, 24, however, he was removed from the asylum by order of the Crown Solicitor, who was of the opin- ion that the Count's 1nsanaty was only sham- med for the purpose of taking advantage of She eaelieot opportunity to escape to the United States, He was, consequently, placed in Moabit jail, and, boiug an oifieor iu rho army, his nalne 2000 struck off the army list. During the morning of Sept. SO Count Kleist attempt to commit suicide by hanging himself with his suspenders from a boom in foie oell, blit was dieoovorotl and out down before life was extinct. Until a month or so before that time Count llleist had been engaged to the daughter of 8Iayoe Thompson of Detroit, Mich. A0 the tune of the Count's attempt at suicide it was said that tato motive for the rash act Was mortification over his expulsion from 4110 army. He was also said to Have been deeply affected by the suieade of his friend, CouintSchlointz the moral res onsi-, bility for tvitioh was said to met with Count' Maid. Count,':iololeintz ruined himself by gambling and eommlttocl suicide by shoot- ing himself with a revolver on Sept, I0, 1800, • Dora--" Do you think, Clear, thatClaronce le in earnest?" Nora.," I'm certain of it, Ho told me last night hie favorite (tower was n poppy." England has inoro wdntett workers than any other o0tttttry, fn proportion to papule. taut; twelve per, cent of the industrial °lessee are 'Moues,