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.
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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.
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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,
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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,