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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-13, Page 37A.11i('lI 13, 18{)1 TEE PRU'SSBLS POST. g u Wellmat ma :outer day fromLate Foreign c1 vaasn thnwUtoofmftudnuy NAVVIES PilOZEN TO DEATkfl, Curious Fasting Case. AN ALARMING 7TSI'PA7'ION. Ingenious Vagabonds. A native Y, M. 0, A. has just been form ed in Bombay, The total savings banks deposits in Prussia on Jan, 1 were $773,000,000 Greater Vienna, according to the °ensue of last December, has a population of 1,33'2,- 82.3,, A bride in Germany was recently mar- ried iu a dress of red and white, the colors of her husband's regiment. Monte Carlo is very dull the year. There are two tables less, than last year, and the crowd about those in ploy is not gay in any respect. In April, on all the railroad lines to St, Petersburg, waggons will bo placed with special appliances for the transporting of 111'0 fish. Tbp Victorian Railway Counissionecs have decided to lit the whole of thorailway. rolling stock in the colony with the 'West- inghouse brake at a cost of £200,000. Russia has the largest royal fancily of all civilized conntries. On Jan, 1 the twenty- seventh living Russian Grand Duke was born. The Russian Grand Duchesses number eighteen. Jan. 31 was the anniversary of tke•bronty betweeu Hussite and Japan, by which Rus. sten eitizene may own real estate im the lat- ter country. Duriu g that year Russian merchants have estahhlishcd large faeto'ies in Tnitio and in several other eines in Japan. One million and a half mon work it, the real mines of the world. Of these England has 311,i,e00 : United Stairs, 30(,000 ; l;cr- tnnmy, :545,(100 ; Belgium, IIi,1,001) ; France, 90,0111); Austria, 110),(X10; tussle, 4.1,1xt0. The world's miners of metal number 4,000, - ate The lliuister of the Interior at Athens has received a telegram stating that out of forty men working en t30 road between Densit. same and '1 ripolibza, in the Pnleponneses, with the object of open¢ng communication with the snow -blocked villages, fifteen have been frozen to death. The reemi vier were removed in a hopeless condition. Two hundred and thirty.four Gorman papers having petitioned for reduction in the rate for press telegrams, the Emperor disposed of the petition by a eurt note on the margin to this ed'cat. " The present rate is not too high ; the number of useless tele- ;trarrs published in the newspapers alon- dautly proves it." It is not generally known that every im- portant factory in Russia is opened with divine services. It »nay be of great interest to our temperance friends to learn thee on Jan. 19 a great brandydistillery was opened near Kazan, ora the borders of the Volga, with services conducted by the clergy of that locality, A magistrate in •Ceylon, finding that a witness would persist in prevaricating and tailing lies, ordered the culprit to be then and there ltaadeufred and ton-tonuned round the village as a liar'." This summary 'nethod of dealing with perjurers has not mot with the epprevnl of the Government of the island, and sen official enquiry is to be held into the ease. Sultan Abdul i'larnid of Turkey has be- come a finished German scholar since Em- peror Willtam's visit. He has studied the language with such zeal that he can now talk to the German Ambassador with very little help from an interpreter. The Sultan much admires German poetry, and some of Heine's verses are being translated into Turkish at his desire. A correspondent .of the Shr•lifeld Daily Telegraph, writing from Wodoltga, on the Murray River, upon the subject of the latest Australian pest—the locust visitation -- makes a most interesting statement. " If the scourge continues another week," he says " there will be no grass left. Sheep have already gone down in three days from 6s. to 3s. a head, and I am told they will drop to le" The oldest man in the world lives on the Republic cf San Salvador. Michael Solis is of Indian descent, and claims to be 180 years old, his statement being eapportecl by all the aged inhabitants of Bogota, who declare that they knew him as a centenarian when they were little ehil,b'en. This American Methusaleh has always lived very carefully; eating only once a day, and thein taking cold food of the most nourishing description. The Italians have got a new carbine which can be fired at the rate of 200 shots a min- ute, It is the invention of Lieut. Cot, an. officer of the Bersaglieri,-and has net with the enthusiastic approval of General Cioid- ini. This new carbine does not weigh gait') 3 kilogrammes • its calibre fs less than that of the Lebel rifle ; and the soldier armed with it can fire, as already stated, 200 shots a minute without moving it from his shoul- der. An official rotten just published on the influenza epidemic in Austria, which lasted from the llth November, 1889, till the end of January, 1300, states that there werenine hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and seventy-eight certified caste, and two h , eight ht hundred and twee : it •tne thousand 6 yt, certified deaths through the disease in the Empire. The total number of cases inolud. hug the many nob recorded, must ham far exceeded a million The town of Wanganui, in New Zealand, bad a ourious and alarming visitation lately, People in various parte of the town began to fall suddenly and dangerously fit, and it soon became evident to the local doctors that some irritant poison was the cane. of the mischief. 10 was eventually discovered that a large quantity of tapioca, Which had been received from awholesalo firm in1nno din by a couple of Wanganui grocers, was strongly impregnated with areenf0. In Lifland and in Kurland Russia there are more than 6,000 blind persons, 60 per mint, of whoa are between 50 and 00 years, !Steps are its 0' ofgtaken Rim society tto establish intelligent elements an Asylum far the blind poor. There will bo throe diviaione in that institution --ono for young persons who know a trade or 0611 play on any musical instruntont, the second for 8(1011 (15 have learned no trade, and the third for the old anti feeble whose blindness is in- curable, A meeting of sono four thousand mutat plotted was hold in Ebanburg recently a- winch iC was unanimously resolved to peUi time the Senate to mance every possible effort to meet the tlietreee caused by the scare:By of worst. With this abject the Sonato is re- fettasted to tom ton emergency late prohibit' from State funds, and to supply in schwas rlaily a hot meal for those children whose pJ's now distributing 10,4(10 melds daily, The now Anetrhut Coinage has stirred up race nota ggoniom already. The florins bear on one salt the Emperor's bust, with the in. scription, " Francis Joseph, Austrian Em- poro•,° and on the other the donblo-headed eagle arid the words " King of Hungary, Bohemia, (lah((ole, Su." The .f egyars are offended at Hungary beingput in an utfericr position to Austria, and demand that the name of their (many should be ineeribed on the salve eide rue the Imperial effigy. An indignant deputy has raised the question in the Hungarian Parliament, causing much trouble. Two ingenious vagabonds sneceeded the other day in robbing a bank at Pyrmont—a euburb of the New South Waleseapital—by the old plan of representing themselves to be officers of the law. They called myeteri. ously upon the manager, told him they were detectives, that the bank was about en be robbed and that they had been specially sent over by the police authorities to protect tine place. The manager waa also told that the robbers were desperate fellows, and he was advised to look out for his own personal safety. So be retired to a secure plaee after hiding the sham detectives behind the eounter, when, as a natter of course, they helped themselves to all the money they could lay their hands span, and decamped. A curious instance of fasting hs reported from ROakivitz, Silesia, The sem of a car. punter named Ranthal, 90 yeses of ago, was refused a second supply of pudding on Christmas Day, In revenge he swore he would never touch food again. He left the lounge and since then until Friday has wan- dered about, living on water alone. On that day his parents, becoming alarmed, com- municated with the Local doctor, and he, in consultation with others, had the young man put under chlorea:tem 'Vhi'e he was in an nnconscions state, two caps of milk were poured down his throat. After awakening ho ate a hearty retell. The youth says he kept himself alive by drinking water and sleeping only. A peasant In the government of Poltava had his child christened, and the officiating minietor hennaed on the boy the name of Judah. The father was highly displeased. with that nacre. Without saying a word about it, be invited another minister to christen hi. bey again. This tiers he was more feliciaions, for the child got the, eupltonioueagppellation of Leontin. Shortly. afterward the Church took notice of this ease of dseiale christening, and reported it to the Archbishop of Kiev, Other eases of a similar' stature, In which priests had be.. stowed prejudicial nines on children against' whose parents they had a grudge, same to the notke of the Archbishop at the same time. idoreepon his Eminence issued an order that parents should be allowed to choose Eames for the children. In cases' where the parents leave the choice of a name to the priest, the latter oust submit, ha elmiee,to theirapproval. The island of Krakatoa, which was Mown almost to pieces by the terrible seismic out. buret inthe Straits of Sunda in 1883, is mow said to be aecovering its lost vegeta:rine. About half oft he island was tern away and dropped into the sea by the oarthqualte,and what was;left was overwhelmed with lava, stones, ashes, and debris of one sort and an- other, to the complete destruction of ,every- thiag in the shape of vegetable life. The island hes, however, just been Wetted byllir. Tree%, the director of the Botanic Garden at Buleesorg, near Batavia, and that geurloman cow reports the reappearance of plant life on the island. He counted eleven different species,of ferns and saw a few scattered lioweriatg;plauts in bloom. He ateribubes the revival to the agency of birds, or the wands or Omelet}, currents bearing seeds, for the Isbell& is quite uninhabited, and all vestiges of original vegetation had been deotreye(f, arenas are ill want. The relief committee TELE 'MEASURE T1i0VL IN SKYE. Oriental Corns and Ornament+Found atter. 0 Thousand Years ortouceatnteet, Last week the papers contained news,of the finding of a hoar(' of Oriental treasure trove is a case in the island of Skye, off the northwestern coast of Scotland. Further in- formation on the subject has just been re- oeived here. Among the treasures are seven- teen Oriental silver coins of the class known as antic, about the size of a florin, and minted atth° time when tate seat of the Mohammedan Caliphate was at Cute or Bagdad. These are also fifteen silver iugoto, out by an axe into lengths of about half en an inch, besides persot)al ornaments, Of the latter the largest is o tare, or neck ring, twelve hellos in leng"h, formed of a circular and tapering rod of silver, with hooks at the ends, There are also fragments of a Iarge penannular brooch, formed of a solid bar of silver a geometer of an inch thick, with punched ornamentation on both sides. There are also portions of two thin bracelets, one of them ornononted with rows of marks made by a punch with four dots in the field, and another with marks of a circular punch. The Cnfic ooinsare especially interesting. Around the oateramnargal they bear two lines of inscription in the old Arabic character, and within the eirole'the distivativofo'mula of the Mohammedan. faith, Being difficult of decipherment, it isatotyetpossihletogive the details of the time and the place of their mintage: but there is no doubt that they belong to the early portion of the tenth pen• bury, and era probably from the mints of the Samasside and Abbaseide'Caliphs at Bagdad and Samareand. The archaeologists are trying to account for the curious fact of the exiseende of these Oriental treasures in a cava of one of the isles of northern Scotland. The time o :their ooneeallnent, 1,000 years ago, was that in which Use Vikings and see, rovers were he the height of their glory. At this period there was much eonimetelol intercourse be- tween the Asiabio eouutrios lying to the east of the Caspian Sea and the countries border- ing on the Ballo, the route being by the Volga to the north of Russia, The Vikings were traders as wall as plunderers, and when they could not plunder they traded, always strsvtng to convert all booty into silver, Which was then the x111100 5(1 median of ex- change, It was in the way thus indicated that the Hattie Vikings got hold of the silver oof,ts and jewelry from far Asiatic oountrioe, The long shipe of these rovers Wore then sweep- ing the North ,Sea, turning into the Atlantic, aud operating on the wort coast of England and Scotland, as well as on the Irish coast. They were especially 0otive at limos in the region of the Hebrides, and it was clonbtless some one of them who buried in re oavo in the island of Skye the treasures that have been found after a thousand years of eon- ootelment. I'ronoh statesmen aro desire us 11 fntrothho- fng more athletic games mnomg their school. boys, and a reward of a thousand francs has been offered for the invention of rho most suitable pastitno, A HUMAN Van. The 51'eParty Who gave punted the Delta orate Site, 01 the cruelty of the 'l'nrkielt grandee, Defterdar liey, who married a dangler of Mohammed Alt, numer:ou t anecdotes are re• rated in Egypt. He had, it is said, a tame lion, usually lying at the font of hie divan, which, although mild toward its master, was eutioiently farocinun to terrify his visitors. Sometimes he allowed it to worry Ids slaves, eelliug it off, perhaps, just as It was about to kill the wretches. This savage, when governor of the delta, piqued himself of the simplicity and prima themes of his rummers and Els entire free. dem from European habits anti notions, During the period of hie command in the upper country a soldier' robbed a poor woman of a little milk. The woman, not foreseeing the result, laid her complaint before the bey, who demanded her to point out the culprit, This being dote, the soldier was ordered to be lad upon the ground and his body ripped open, The milk being found in his ssonmch, the bey paid the complainant, and, dismissing her, observed : " The robber has been punished.; but had he been discovered to be innocent the same punishment, world have awaited you." It was the custom of this barbarian, who always moved surrounded by the terror of arms, to ride abroad accompanied by a num- ber, of mamelukes (or domestic: slaves), each of whom carried a thousand sequins in his girdle, that, should he he compelled to fly, which, considering his decided hostility to the pasha, was by no means improbable, he night still be provided with money for his immediate use. During the Syrian cam- paign six of these young men, dreading the effects of his ferocity, examples of which they daily beheld., made their escape, and took refuge in Ibraham's cautp. Being dis- covered, however, they were immediately apprehended and conveyed back to Cairo. Here they wore commanded to appear before their inexorable lord In the great hall of the palace, annexe they found htn1 encircled by a manlier of blacks, armed with drawn swords. Theyy were not long iu lemming their fate fie commanded them to take every mane sabre and int tack each outer inhis presence, unOlive of their uemlarshould fall prombeing life and a thousand eegains to the Weber. The mauneldtes obeyed; ranged ]tnnsalves three and three, thud, having been trained to the nsa of arms, and unit- ineg aloin with courage, fought desperately, shedding their blood like water, while the lOefterdar sat calmly of his divanen,joyinr the spectacle. At length, after along end sanguinary -struggle, one only remained the victor over unhappy companions, lia:•1.enel-° ed and bleeding in every limb, he raised his eyes toward his master to receive the prom - Ind pardon, but at this moment the bey gave the nod to one of the blank slaves who stood behind the victim and the bead of the mamelteke immediately rol.ed along the floor. On another occasion two of his military slaves, quarreling, drew their swards in his presence ; at which his anger being kindled, he commanded their heads to 11a, stretch off. The mamelnkee, however, mindful of the fate of their companions, resolved to sell their lives dearly, drew their pistols, .and, aiming at the head of the tyrant, wereabout to rid the world of such a monster, 'when the interposition of other of life slaves en- abled him to eseape into the harem, Reck- less and desperate, knowing escape impos- sible, the mamelukes, now jotted lay several others who all had wrongs and insults to revenge, pursued and besieged him in hie private apartments, where, Inst for the speedy arrival of a party of soldiers from the citadel, he world have paid the forfeit of his innumerable barbarities and crimes. With this assistance lie succeeded in repell- ing the assailants, who, in their turn, were shut up and besieged in one of the narrate of the palace forming the powder magazine. Here they held out during several days, fighting desperately, but at longtlt, finding their number decreased, std being entirely destitute of provisions, they set fire to the powder and blew themselves tip with the tower in whici they had taken retfuge. A LAD1;'S STRANGE ADVENTURE, 44ypn1alxetl try Swindlers. The astonishing adventere of a very well- known YVtntl laxly with 0,10 diaauoud ven- dors in Perla las jmpt come to the knowledge of her friends. Even the most experienced travellers confess themselves au -ouzel at this latest dovelo »anent of fn Fie Poteienne, It was in the Hotel 0---onepleasant morning not so very long ago, and 41:0 young woman in question weir enjoyhhg to the full her Dolts,-aud-roll•sleep, as the French say, when something seemed to compel her to emerge from dreamland long enough to open hcreyes onher dalatybed. °bomber. Whit saw was enough to stake her shriek ten times over; but she didn't, Surprise got the better of horror as she saw leaning over the sides of hot hod tufo old worsen, hideous, yellow -skinned and !took-nosed—very eager old women withal—each holding A 1(03 0FUt Oa DIAMONDS in her withered palm, a,d each pouting from het skinny lips an Incoherent torrent, uI supplications—which eeetned half threat— that la belle would bey her wares, How dial they get there ? Who were they ? What diel they want '? And, oh, where in the name of wonderful Paris even did they get so many btillhants'3 If there were edger questions than these which rushed through her still somi•somnolent brain the young W01110,11 didn't allow them to alarm her. It was still the ninetosu(h century in the ,Xn doSteele capital, even if these harpies did look like ghouls out of the " Arabian Nights." At last she managed to auderetaud each of her hideous hags still clutching at one of her wrists as they proffered the gums, that site had the honor of receiving a visit frorn tura of the agents of it certain well- known diamond house in the Rue do Sot, bonne11011 that the bargains they were then and there ofexing her were 00 very seductive that 511E ,11aULmN'T RESIST BUYING, The Oan and the Milk; or, the Wanderer's Return. Twenty-five yea's ago, a boy living in an Ontario village was sent for a piu,t•of milk, He hid The can Beneath A stone, Directed His course To the Nearest wharf Shipped es A cabin boy, And wont to eea. Years passed hy, and by all Ifs anxious friends mid relatives he was given up for dead. But he was not dead. In a faraway and foreign country he li v ed, and by well -directed energy amassed vast wealth—a common thing, by the way, svath sailors. The other day he returned. He stood agalm•in hie native village. He found the can where he had lad it, lie ,prooured a pint of milk. He went to his old familiar boyhood's ,none, eutured, and In a hesitating and troubling voice, said " Father and mother, hero's your milk," $i0 MRS given warm welcome, but he noticed there was a change in itis parents' appearance : they had not the old familiar, look. iso questioned thein ; explanations fol. lowed. The young man discovered that, though the good people were still his parents, the change in then' personal appewranoe was read ay aceounted for. Shortly after this sudden and mystsreus deparbore from (home his father died, and his mother married again. Then his mother died, and his new father married again, Thus on his return the wandering boy found the dear old home as 110 had left it, the only difference being that the had a new father and a now mother. Verily, troth is etreatger than fiction. Love's Byes. Two leveller eyes', any, eon there be, That try (heir (eve to !tido from plot But orbs that spears, their secret gives, And toll that there true love still throe, Ilcr words in sllvorn 1ipplo, flow, Melodious, softs', si Dot and low ; And 1Colian accents 1111 the air, Breathed train lilts of her most fair. Entranced Immo on that sweet face, Adorned with ovary gift of graoo • Dano Notaro'e lavish mood was then, To make hnh10 so admired of along levee that speak 50, ore you close, Make this hearth nonce renesn ; ,And say mem day we nuc than be ' Through all time anti eternity, 'rill then thorn eyes shall haunt me still, Beering me on through every 1111 And ;tattling stars they'll be to oto, Drawing nu over near to Otto. Toronto, J. STRAouoee Mofrai laR, etc: had sae not already as many diamonds as she coeid use. What is more, she began to les, tree feeling of intens, horror at her surrouis8iogs and aversion to the physical presence of the ha'py-liko diamond brokers. When she came to herself and described what the hideous oil diamond tnerchants'i !tad done, her maid assured her sloe load leen hypnotized, and advised that the police' should be called in, But, after all, there didah'tseem to have been any great newton of berm done; none of the young welnan's' money was missing from her portemonnaio OS the -dressing -table and her jewel case in tthe.tray of her trunk had not been tamper. ed with. Beside„ all that there was the ,handful of diamonds the hypnotho page had left on the bed. Examination showed ceniokly enough that the states were yellow, uneven and faulty, The stamped paper in which they were wrapped born, the name of a diam nd-house of which everybody has heard. It was easy enough to go and ex- plain that the young lady didn't, really want the diamonds after all ; that in the dint light of her beclrootn, when they were so mysteriously exhibited to ler without even " by your leave." HEY HAD 50010t100 SW015 14A$DSOSIER than when viewed later on fn the calm, clear sunlight, and that besides and above all it was an outrage demanding legal redress, tint two of their disreputable -looking old diamond vendors should force their way into the bedroom of a guest at the hotel and in- trude upon her privacy so shout:hagly,to say the least of it 1 This all was done, with- out delay and without ocher result than the calm announcement by the Frenchman that his agents had received from Mademoiselle a written receipt for the atones, with an ex. plioit promise to pay 5000 francs a month for stent until their total price, 45,000frau cs had been paid ; that a bargain was abargain and Mademoiselle, having bought the stones, and received them, must pay for them 1 " The trade is male, eel Pend that was the end of it 1 The hotel people expressed polite surprise that any one should have bees able to enter Mademoiselle's apartment while she slept and her maid was within ear -shot. If Maclemoiselle said so, they believed her of course, but as the lock showed no signs of having been forced, and as NO ROBBERY 011 PERSONAL ormaarO had been committed while they regretted the whole affair, whet could they do? Re. course was next had to the Consul -General's office, where the gentleman in charge ap- preciated the situation keenly, and was en' raged at such extraordinary, debased and dangerous methods of plundering his fellow. countrymen. That some hypnotic influence heal been exerted by the two women on his fair young countrywoman there could be little doubt, since the reaotiol had left her, in a da rigorous condition of nervous collapse, Yet ea no personal violeuoo had been offered her, no money or property taken from her and no direct threats made to her, it was exceedingly di lilcult to see how to take help- ful action 10 the case An eminent lawyer was retained at a cost of 9600 franc, and after racking his brains for a way out of the bargain, after acicnowledging the hopeless. ness of sectoring redress for the hypnotic as- sault and insulting intrusion, he discovered that the two porta:Mar old women in que5. tion had n0 Blease to peddle diamonds, and that therefore the sale made through them was null and void, and the promise to pay 45,000 francs must be instantly returned to Els client on her surrender of the diamonds, all of which was done. THE AIR SHIP A FAILURE, It 15 Slvnply a 'l0'o1't111ess and Overgrown Toy. The Meant Carmel air ship, invented by a man 1100155 Pennington, has turned out a prodigious failure, Tho faot was announced that the air ship would ily from Mount Carmel to Chicago, but the inventor thought bettor of it sad reached its destination on a freight train, Now the machine has been turned loose 'di a largo building, whore the public is charged 25 cents to go in and see tilts "air shin" float. In the mitre of the room is a, ol,'etrio battery, from which a wire earryieg the motor power extends to the air sltih, which floats slowly around at the higi, l of abort 26 feet above the heads of the speete tors. 'Cho Chicago Times says the machine looks like an exaggerated bologna sausage, ,id it is evidently far from what it was Dias n' d to bo In a taut$, or oven in a 3011t1013 o. itwoulclbeentirely untnanagge. able, Tho nosy sums up the merits and de. merits o t h. ,.enttrivance thus : "It inn..•:1 newly and vaguely, likea cat- fish in 8,ia, 11 of refreshments. A snore of spectate ills wide.open mouths watched it. It Al,milt' a toy about 30 feet in 10nggelt , :1.•1„111(tg about five pounds. It ootild 1 ,,;tAr 1 to the floor by a piece of cotton . 1 was a very onc-herso fake. Barnet ,gad grow tired of it fn a week, and s, 't it- plaoe by a woman with whisks Mor i .•11 hni dalte notoriety for fame, and Would e as l,• ?marked for their vines or follies than not bo noticed at all.—[ llsop. Wh ' death, '! It ie 8 resting from the vtbrai , , 1 of reimatiou, and the swayings of desire, +''q1 upon the rambliftg thought, and a .un ferns the drudgery about your body. j TERESTING PAOTE, 3J*1, a \0'lsieb we Would Remember Concerning' the 13a'lll find 118 illi, /lnitnnl,,. Thor, is only one sudden death among women to every eight among men, New York, 1'aris and Berlin all together have not so large an area as London. At present there are 218,000,000 Calho• lies in the world, according to the figures furnished by Rome. On June 0 the meth is farther away from the sun than at any other time. Tie country hoe 1,000,000 miles of tele. graph wires --enough to resell 40 times around the globe, Vf the white population in America 8 per cent, is unable to either read or write, Farm lands in the United States, taking the country as a whole, occupy only 259 501,0(n every 1,000. To complete their growth, the nails of the left (land require Dight or ten days more than those of the right. A healthy adult, doing an ordinary amount of work, will require from ten to twelve ounces of meat a day. England has more w0111011 workers than any other country in proportion to popula. tion; 13 per cent. of the industrial classes are W0111011. A grain of fine sand would cover 100 of the ltnnllt0 scales of the human skin, ar-d yet each of these scales in turn cover from 3(10 to 500 pores. From 00,000 to 100,000 hairs grow in a human scalp. Nine hundred and fifty submarine tele- graph cables ace now in operation, most of them in Europe; their total length is over 09,1100 miles. es- DEOIDED BY TB.E TOSS OF A COIN, The Goddess or Chsulee Invoked by 31r. Stan ley In Arriea. In a little speech to the New York Press Club Saturday tven:ng Henry 11. Stanley said In Central Africa it was not the fashion to indulge in after-dinner oratory and he was eonsreptentiy somewhat otlt of practice. Several times in bis career he had been compelled to decide in a moment what course of action to purs0e. In his first African en- terprise he found laimseif stiundecl oil au df04.01111 island without friends and tvithont money. This carts nineteen years ago. He had to decide in m moment what .0 do, and he determined to go on, He raised a loan of 00(30,0011 in a few hours by paying $3,000 premium, and wont ahead until after a lapse of nine months, he found Livingstone, the object of his search. When he reached the spot where Living. stone lead turned back he wasagain confront- ed with the necessity of instantaneous decision. He was in a quandary. If he turned back he would stamp hie enterprise with failure. If he went on he knew not what world happen, He held a consultation with his lieutenant, awl tholatter suggested that the matter might be settled by tossing a coin. He accepted the suggestion and tossed up a.rupee. The coin decided against going on. But Stanley was not sattsfled, He tossed again, and still again, and each time the coin said that Stanley should not go en. nen he had recourse to long and short skews and three times this divination declarecl that the explorer should turn back. lint he was still not satisfied to go back. He thought that something mg Joust be the blotter with the rupee and the straws, and so he cast aside the prophecies of both lend went on following the course of the great river until lie found whence it came. When he reta"ned to London after this expedition he found the Geographical Society debating whether it should Balt bine a pirate or give him a dinner. It finally decide.t to give him a dinner, "IN A MINUTE." Just Stop and Consider 'What May lin peen in Sixty seconds. "Don't fret. ('11 bo there in a minute." But, my friend, a minute means a good deal notwithstanding you affect to hold it of no consequence. Did you ever stop to think what may happen in a minute ? No, Well, while you are murdering a minute for your- self and one for ole, before we get ready for the business we have in hand, I will anus, you by telling you some things that will hart!) aen meaein10010 averwe. e shall he whirled around on the outside of the earth by its dmn'na l motion a distance of thirteen utiles. At the stone time we shall have gone along with the earth on its grand journey around the sun 1080. Pretty quick traveling, you say. Why, that is slow work compared with the rate of travel of that ray of light which just now reflected from that mirror, A minute ago that ray was 11,160,000 miles away. In a minute, over all the world, about eighty new bora infests have each raised a wail of protest, es if against thrusting ex• ist0nc, upon them ; while as many more hu- man beings, weary with the struggle of life, have opened their lips to utter their last sign. In a minute the lowest sound your ear can catch has been made by 690 vibrations, while the highest tone reached you after malting 2,228,000 vibrations. In a minute an express train goes a mile, and a street oar thirty-two rods ; the fastest trotting horse 148 rods, and an average pedestrian has got over sixteen rods, Each minute, night end day, by the offi- cial reports, the United States collects $639 mud spends $461. The interest on the pub. lie debt was $06 a minute last year, or just cxaotly equal to the amount of silver mined in that time. The telephone is used 595 times, the telegraph 136 times. Of tobacco 925 pounds are raised, and part of it has been used in making 6,673 cigars, and some more 0311 has gone up in the smolt° of 9,202 cigarettes. But I am afraid that you will forget that We are talking about a minute, sixty seconds of time, No? Well, thee, every minute 000 pounds of wool grow in this 00untry, and we have to dig suxty-one tone of anihra. cite coal and 200 tons of bituminous coal, while of pig iron W0 turn out twelve tons, and of steel rails three tens, Inglis minute you have kept the waiting fifbeeh kegs of nails have been made, twelve bales oC ootton have boon taken from the fields and thirty. sit bushels of great have gone into 149 gal- lons of spirits, while $66 of gold have been dog from the earth. In the same time the Mated States mints turned out coin to the value of $121, and forty-two acres of the public domain have boon sold or given away, Love's Telegraph. If you've a saerft for me, Tad," Said Judy, as she bent her head, " whishper it, me hearty I" Then, with the ,pose of ono intent, A dainty, nunk.rinnmed ear she bout To'rcI 1Ir. 'Ted McCarty, Whisht l° answered Tod, "it's not yer ear Ito tvouthu' for me aaorit, clear, IVs to yet heart Old ehpako it, An' so't:nay :qquicker go, be half, Oi'll shod it down be tiligraph SEALS BY THE SCORE. $0enes on the Island in Bohrinio8ea Where Fur -Bearers Rule the Root' Pribylov a Great Pl; oo for Mammal Atter the Breoaing Season in Warmer Viraters, Each Plereo and SYarl!ko :tate the P lace!..,• 01' n Score el• .0301'(: Sleet{ and Oenure Wlyes. The controversy on the Bebring Boa gree. Cion still wages. Our sealers go 001 to the fisheries and defying Yankee n oioera sent to protect the Alaska company, they take the valuable mammals right under tho noses of the gun bolts, and clapping on all eel/ speed' for Victoria where they land their valuable cargoes. hloanwltile we hare appealed to the United States Supreme court. At this there is much wrath, but Salisbury laughs and in- quires, with touch feeling, '" What's the !natter, Jonathan ? Can't you trust your own Supreme Court, if we are willing to?" slut," rejoins the sapient Blaine, " will you agree to abide by the Boding of the court whose decision you invoke?" "\Cell," says Salisbury, "let's try it and SW. 'oVs can keep up the diplomatic eon. tention, anti if your court decides wrong, then will bo time enough to inquire about the next step, dou't you know'" For twenty years the exclusive" right tri, . kill seals has been vested fn the Alaska. Commercial company, but het year a now company cane to the front aid anode a better offer for the privilege, which was accepted by Secretary eVimlom. The agent of tltu gorerument is Charles .1. Goff, and he allowed the new company to !till only 93,- 000 seals, on the plea that if it killed 100,000' es formerly, the seals would soon be ex- terminated. But as no females MVO' 100)0 killed, and as the surviving males are polygamists to an astolishiugextent, and as 1nore competent experts than Coll' declare that seals ere rapidly increasing, the opinion and the reason given for redacting the harvest must be taken with a good deet of salt. ghost of the seats are killed on the Prffty- Iav islands, but they winter farther south and spend much of the year going and Dom- ing on the surface of the great Intervelting ocean. So it is easy for poaching vessels to intercept them and slay them by wholeoale, and if all who wish are permitted to club. the silky mammals while swimming in Behring sea to and from their northern breeding -grounds, the whole of the interest. iuet race will soon be exterminated. Half of the sealskin sacques In the world come from these Pribylov islands, lying in Behring sea 200 miles from the main land. The two principal ones are mere islets—St. Paul and St. George—each ten or twelve. miles long and half es broad. For two months in true summer of each year the Aleuts, or natives, kill seals and skin them; the other ten they lie around in rhe twi- light, never going to bed or taking of their clothes night or ,lay, gossiping, eating, and getting drank on genes. They out raven- ou^ly, averaging tiro potm<ls of seal meat pc: day for every man, wutnan, and child,', in addition to vast quantities of other food. Up to last year they took about 100,000 skins a year, and the United States treasury, received $3 for each skin, In the beneficent or malevolent economy, of nature and commerce there are twice as many females as males in the sent somans. ity, so polygamy flourishes fn the spring the adult seals come swim+- sling bark from their mysterious tropical visit, acaompaeied by a millionof the yotmg pups of the previous summer, and the llry- bylov islands are very lively once more, - lively and reverberent with roars of anger and of a friendly greeting. Mostly roars of auger, for every male seal is the foreordained enemy of toll other male Beals, and must defend with his strength and often with his life the position he has assumed on rho rocks as his partial/AP so. raglio. Here lie gathers his harem, ono by. one, and here, in a few weeks, the young ore born. Some of these bulls exhibit the same desperate courage and insensibility topain as is shown by the Indian brave who le hamstrung and hauled up to a tree top by quivering sinews. One was pointed alt to the goverment agent who had survived forty or fifty pitched battles with as many an. tagonists and still hold his place, covered with scars and frightfully gashed, raw, fes- tering, and bloody, one eye gorged out, and a fore -nipper torn to ribbons, and yet lord- ing it stubbornly over his harem of fifteen or twenty females huddled admiringly around hfm. The fighting is mostly done with the mouth. They seize each other with their canine teeth, always leaving ugly, and sometimes fatal, wounds The nate seals arrive from the south first, and are followed by the pretty little females sone weeks thereafter. Tho Hon. George•. Wardn,an, the treasury agent at the Prib - lov islands, expresses no opinion about, the : question of mare clausum, leaving that tobe bythe aeorota of state and settled ry m he British premier, but he describes this polyga. my in a very lively manner : "The matured male seal when he draws up out of the omen after a six or eight months' cruise- in water's to us unknown is a magnificent an- imal. Bold, bad, and beautiful, he takes a position ht May among the basaltio rocks which are washed by the surf in storms, braces bis broad chest upon hisfore-flippers, steetoles his heavily maned, glossy, undo luting neck, throws hie tapering head aloft, mud roars forth a hoarse bellow of defiance' to the world. He closes with a guttural growl that sounds like two quarts of pebbles rattling in his throat, while down the oor- ners of his throntening mouth, stockaded' with ivory fangs, droop the long, gray lines of his aristocratic mustache. Here he takes his stand, and here hewillmoothis expected. family h," In Janeor todeatmes his multitudinous bride. The male fur seal is a huge but eymmetrical brownish bulk of 600 to 800 pounds. The female is a meek, modest, submissive -look- ing little creature, averaging about a hun- dred weight. She oreops up out of the water with a demure, downcast counte- nance, the shining !hair neatly brushed back from ken' pretty little head, and—ar. rayed le a brown moque, think you'? ,loot at all, She is a Quakerish looking matron. in an unpretending steel gray, but sleek and tidy, withoteba wrinkle to herdress. " There could not," says Mr. Wartime% "boa greater contrast ;he, aggressive, fierce, and bloodthirsty ; she, meek andla, but, as rumors go, sly audio*, and were she sole mistress of her lord's affections would, no doubt, exhibit a temper ofber own, Com petition keeps her spirit down, poor thing, l'l,00ld bulls 0001py their ppro-ompton for weeks without goin�Y- halo tine water, await , ing th0 ar'ival of tine fontalos, sleeppingg osi the ground and neither eating nor drinking fro::: wok to wooly. This, however, is bat preliminary to the longer vigil and iastj which icontitnues for three menthe after the are vooft females, When they do, part they are Weak anti loan,"