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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-20, Page 66 -IE RI tr s 1iS FOST. asnegneneseeetgaseeeeeeteseeeasteeeesessenereseeneceseetwesseremnaweeseeeresecieelfetereWeesee4tWelesetweeeteneWeeawe NG. AND THE Bitt , Mg (Auer uit the Mame air," ett (nee* mans of geteng a teeing, mei sleek. Moe Canton hest a maim of kindly feeling after the erst surprise, and even told ,1110 hoW glad Abe 1000 111) Apt 0whO was BY 0, Ce. PUB LP:Y. I claim none in the world, poor girl ; for that ! wung brother c21 11e10 WaS worso than 010- , tee -sheen lind a protemois hut 1 doubt it !mune felt :melt Medusas. 2 'We had how 1,02r21t1ie1 Ostia a week CHAPIF,R 1. his about toll years suwo I went to at MI'S. Bretton's. 1 DM an arehiteet effice was in Southamptou Street, an there still ; you, can seie " F. Lam t F. S. A., Architeet ancl Surveyor " on door.plate any day ; told it Maimed jeer that it suited me better to live in buy than in the eennem. I was writi book an the old City churches, not by rneans with a riew to fame, _hut only a advertieeniene vi my qualitictaions might eateh the eye of the building tra and it was convenient to be within eeach of my subjects, and isle° to be so 1 my office that leould run roune Ice an ho week in the evening when 1 felt inelined 1 Wes ceetaiuly rertemate in lighten, Mrs. Gretton's. She lived in me of t! long dull Blocensbary Streets where lie eveiy house displays a erred with the inee tioa, .. Bear/1 and Apartments." e firemen's did not ; but having called ie cession at six houses that did, I rang bell withunt noticing the omission. It fortunate 1 did so, fee more rearms than simple one of personal cennfert. But I tainly imperitlee my chance of effeeting entrance into the Meanest a.nel Meat con» able Muse I had seen that day by ask the landlady if she 1104 my lodgings to 'No, sir ; 1 have not," she repliee sti "I do not let lodgiegs. I am willing to ceive ladies and gentlemee of good Mame and meted standing as members of my fam for my dr/tighter and 1 find this house lar than we require for mu:selves ; bet only boarders. 1. do not lot lodgings.' This suited me well enough, A slice the family joint is usually more appetis thane lonely chop ; I really prefer to 11 litele society, especially at my mettle u Mrs. Grethen, though ehe showed the e vous determined gentility of eme who seen better days," wee evidently a lac Having given ber what she considered be sufficient guarantees of my charmer a emits] standieg, I 'back up my abode in house. She was an officer s widow, arid 1 real reason for taking boarders was the c sire to keep her little pension in Met for I daughter Louisa. To lay by euough Louisato saveher fromever having to work her living, to rtecumulate a doe ey for Lou if the Parks were kind and sem. an elige husband in her way -these were Mrs. Or ton's ambitione. Meanwhile, Conies, wou perhaps have been litho. pleased if 11 mother had thought less about the furl and allowed her more pocketenoney slow. She lease pretty girl, and dressed wend fully well, emeidering her means ; but s was diseonten red. The life of Bloomsbu galled her -it e Petty domestic duties, euetomed to parrots 10 1111111, mil --e.:, eloor I -I really t.Oultin't help buyieg live The reasons for the purehase were peeletp ; my (rather confused, but none of us aealyees 1 re ; them too earefully, toe ;somehow dea parrot nue, 1 beeante e. item of centre round which the my 1 household malverged. We all petted i L ; even then II who am no biablover, took en interest in ;ens. i its duineee, and steove re (elevate it amending ug a ; to the best trectitions of the parrot school ; itny ' teaching it such phrases as .. Who killed 0 an Creek Bolin ?" " Polly put the kettle on," hieh and in imitation of Sternees ems:ling, ...1 de ; ; can t get cut 1 let me out. ' Polly wee a 127e1 ettsy I of inteiligence, and pieked up these sentenees tear ; with wonderful rneedi ty. It premised them ares when alone met settee no one wam paying any . 1 attention to it, while et other tunes it would t oil shatter vigerously in 0/3 unknoWn toegue, lose which I heel to be the dialect of parrots, arly though eles, Gem tom who was infatuated rip. ; about the creeture, declaree it to le " Sum les, skrit or Hindustani, or whatever they speak etre- i where it came froth." hue "I believe 000 expect Polly and Cclonel • was Fairer to hon couversatione in elincluetani, the 1 Mrs, Gretton," I eael once with sarcascie in. eer- 1 tention, for of late ma hostess had spoken an ; of only two subents, the hitelligenee of the ore • p u ret, and the greatnear of the 0015/11no ('01. 11117 , 1,1101. But it was r.ever ;tee. use 10 be ear. let, each" svite Mrs. Craton ; she always took I Sty. one's words pat as they were uttered. 15. " 'Weil, why shouldn't they 1" she sahl. 10111 sure it would Le u great comfort to gY, I haye ;some 0115 who could talk to 11 111 its Ea- ger . dye tongue. I remember a poem that I ae !learned ellen I was at school about a parrot that The Spartish, and, though it learned 01 , Enlists, was comforted (30 1E8 deathbed -- 111g : 100111), when it. was dying -1,y n ettilor 001)1• eve : 1077 02211 speeking senteith to it. Of eontee nd ; l'ully will enjoy talking to the Coloriele- ee- : Woe c oo, ray pretty pet t" O when, (e)nem home one cluy, I notieal ; subtle excitent t pervailing t he hollse. ." What'tr3 Ilp 't" 1 asked sAgatha " Have you forgetteit 1" she aneweeed, " The Colouel coning teeny- , mete. own deer l'ohetel Ferrer. lenuer 20 1 to be on 4 Seale ui miparalleledetagnilieence 1 -ethnical and lamb and gomeberry tart. • lemein made the 10) 11121)1 the 0ustarel, du hope the Colonel Is worthy of the efforts we have en le 12 his I • I 1 break itentee's Item.) 11 1)0 18 not hero of romance." 1 etre, thettcm'e must have mealy- ! ed miaow, The C'ulonel was net n hero of romance ; he was a Rate, bad-tempered, reel -fend num, who bolted his roue and 04413. becl Mrs, 11et0o11e2 attempts 01 100177;)'. Hu • was vain, I 8110011 e.ay, judging by the elm berateness of his ,1; tee, the size of his watch. : chain, and a really magnifieent ruby ring which he wore tot the little finger of his right hand, and which le the it/reveals of eatiter he conetantly played with, ! Do take a little more tart, Colonel," ; said our neither.; " daughter made it. , Dear. Lonitta ourece Bit one pestry. 1 think, you know, that it testily requires Mayes • light head to rarke geed paetry ; and , Louisa, though not one of those modern w0- . men who ad:tempt all a man can do, is ; thoroughly ammainted 22 1(71 -womanly duties." " What an abomineble row that bird is making !" answered the Colette]. It was true. Polly was very obstreperous, He was dancing ;Mont his cage, flapping hie seiner. and screaming, " Let me ; can't 7701 (211." at the top ef his voice. We were used to Lis st ays, bet I have no &Alit the Colonel found the noise very irritatiug. Agetha turned to the bird, " I'll let you ' out presently, Polly," 5110 said. Be 0 yen err n met don t Matter too much.• became quiet at mice, ceased to flumes. about his cage, and manented him. self with murmuring . re.gesee at intervals. When we had finieliecl &inter she releasm1 tim. He at once flutter ed to bee shouider, end Mere mounted, was carried up -stairs to . the drawiteseroom, chuckling and ceming 11 Agatha's ear all the time, ' i e Loewe was inuklug tea, her mother, meletemed by the Culenel s chilly manner, latgau catechiee itim about ids Indian enieer. " For I know, cleta Colonel Ferrer, that you have wen service, I temember seeing your moue in 11,0 aewepapers lately -was it suppressing inmate proteeting some poor oppressed creatures 7 Probably he latter," Iran Mrs, Greaten with a beam- ing smile ; " it. would be vo much more mantel to you toprotete. the weak. -Do be • 1 ; y. Polly was, again making himself audible, oug . not in a very objeationable faelnon. He wit* creeping down Agatha's left arm low, saying, Who killee-wbo killed" in an uncertain voice, as if he could not recall i he remainder of the phrase. " He is trying to remember " Who killed Cock Robin " said, He hasn't manage cl to pick up that phraee very well." Polly paused to laegh in his shrillest , ones, and then reeommenced his march I I own Agathee's 4leere. To sepport bina she tretehed out her hand, the hand on which I er engagement ring gleamed modestly, 1111 este iton a little table on which her vorkhaeket stood. "Do tell us some of your e.leentures, 'olonel," Mrs. GI:otter, wen : ea. tt Yon nest have had so many. New, leam sore here le A, romance commie with that autifhl ring you wear- mesh a splendid tone, I oould eet help remarking it 1" For once the Colonel looked pleased, 05 110 wirled the ring On his finger, 'Isuppose it is very valuable?" said gains thoughtfelly, , s 11 ent up to tlie age, arel begen coo. 10 ing to the 1)1(7 1(1 t bat Mysterious Iiimt,0117011 women inostly keep fur Irebies. Hut the ; babiee ustuelly take no interest in Me bele "er tences addreesed ro them, whereas Polly, '," 100 queerioned about his deeire trdk to `4" ; e Colonel, winked and melded ana squawk. 1111 ed eu " Try 31 on, try' it on "-be w.18 a to very slangy previa (-in snob a knowing tisc'a ; way that I coubt not help laughing. -t'e! Although Mrs. (=ream be:levee like a ' „, doting grandmother to liet. pet, Poey did , not by any means reciprootte her a:fee:ion „ , tee Wean of his love VMS Agitate. He • • }careen her name witlicut An,0. teueling, anti !would, Cry 011t A.gesen, A•gitefa ! er. in hie most joyful mitten weenever the ; ee entered the route, When, after a forteight's ' cloniesteentien, legen to let him leave his ry jte • eage and move ;Mout tlie room, his greet de• : . light was to etc on her shoulder and rub it ; TA, caressing heml against her reek How 1 ! e, envied the parrot at that time. Had 103. re opinion 07 1171)1 then Leen what 11 71 teeny, 111 I have no doubt 1 sh Ind have been ;Monies - ably jealous ; though I must say that Polly t e always treated me with the etanosteourteay, ee and eeemeel in no way displeased that 1 01 should share his opinion of Miss elerch. ' e I &haired Agatha March ; I have always le admired women who can stand alone. Seth t ye an tebeiration is, however, perfectly compa- d tible with a desire that they-nr et least s some one milting thein-shnuld not stand h n &me a moment le • 1 ' ry, a ht There may be a certain cowardice in prefer. o ring to support strength rather Mae weak. 4. 11055; but in the vicissitudes of life a time is C a sure to come whe» the conregeand capacity t n- of the woman he loves shall be a man's sae t *0 vation, ne some, perhaps, the burden of ft be - helpless wife my bring inspiration ; bet, for s SO me, let me have a companion who can , derstand the struggle, a fellow.worker who t O can share the aspiration and the effort ; a e whote hand can 'fee Ole e queen, whoseclear 5,005 001 judge the labour, A deeteng, its mistry-maktng, its monuton 'On summer alternoons she weuld walk up Hyde Park and nit in one of the pen chairs, watching the cart ages and the ride and saying that she ought to be among the 'that 11 1100 father had lived she would ha been. _And so home agate with a headaeh end the tonsciousnese (het the hat 0110 trimmed for herself with such eure had n the touch of Bond Street alter all. "Agatha is better all than I am," sl would say to ber mother disectutentedl "She has more money in ber pothet, al she knows what her fetore is to be." "Hush, my &aline," poor Mrs. Gretto mad to answer to this plena. "You ortg to pity poor Agatha -forced to g out and fight the world, and eith no peo pect of anything better. It's so bad for woman, makes her so independent and u feminine. I am sure Agatha would hat been much gentler and more clinging 05 a lady should be -If she hadn't lived long in lodgings with chat wretched brothe deers, But I hope that now she has ou society and your example, my child, th -softer side of her nature eill mime to th front. I overheard this conversation, and it bot amused and astonished me. -Agatha Mame 'was not of a clinging nature, but I had no thought her unfeminine ; and, moreover, couldimagine means of developing the soft er side ot her nature more efficacious than Louisa Gretton's example. In fact, I had already- some such in rny mind. Agatha was Mrs. Gretton's niece. She was perhaps rather too fond at styling her. self a working woman, and I think she did so chiefly with a view of shocking her aunt who could not get over the idea that any work done outside the realm of home was unlady-like and derogatory. "Don't call yourself a working woman, my dear," Mrs. Gretton cried. " It sounds as if you were &factory girl. You are a young lady whom family eircumstances ! compel to give lessons in art -which is quite I nice and lady -like, though I wish it was flowers or something pretty, and not those dirty street -boys. And you teach in a nice College with a Princess for its President; and I really think --yes, Agatha, I do -that you ere insulting Pfer Royal Highnees in •-011114 yetimielf a werkjeg woman," dear aunt, don't deprive me of my proudest title, even to oblige the Primate Yeber by the AY/ IA* mer Entered the Vellege eineo the tlay she opened it," said AgatInt leftllyn. She knew how her aunt re. garded her opinions, and, as I say, liked to shock her. Gusts of the type of Agatha Meath often like to shock their aunts ; they have broken the bonds of those conventions that tend to fill our towns and villages with waisted futile livens, and in the first joy of their freedom, they would, or think they , would, break all laws whatsoever. They !, Will talk of marriage 01 a way to melte your hair stand on end; they will resent your suggestion that all Anacreon wrote is not muted for their reading ; they will cry out against the absorption of women in the nar- row things of home, and spend a watchful night by the cot of &sick child, not Amasser- ily their own-ey, even though they are pledged to deliver a lecture on women's suf- frage on the followingnday ; they are more full of exquisite inconsistency than ever wo- men was since time began. God bless them, these women of our day I Indepeadent, in, telleetual, impatient of control, they are women, first and last. These throe ladiee constituted the Grafton menagewhenIfirstentered. it Shortly after- wards another member entered the family, to whotn I must dedicatee few worde This was theparrot Why Mrs, Grattan, vvhose Meuse. ' Wifely soul loathed doge andeate so strongly, beughtehat bird I do not know. Perhaps because she was so meth elated hy a letter she had received that morning from Colonel , letterer -an old friend of her husband's, she was careful to inform me -Who was coming 1110th from India, and had asked if sh000uld teke him an te boarder for a abort time, ' "Andreally," she oxplained 10 0)0, " when thought of Hoeing the dear Colonel again- te men who 1110045 in the society I have been ecenstomed theyee know, Mr, Laurence - awl the poor anima looked so dejeeted and rnieerable, and the man who brought him to the door only wanted half ts crown and I thought perhems the Colonel Would be am Artsgionept, AMONG TEE LONDON POLICE, -- .Au Estimate, of the TluoveS' Profits in Ufa murderer, it evengee --Phenomenal es 911e-.! - er the Foyer Of'not ,1,011 pone 1)110 tra 011 eel Crtarlante, An ellen:sting story of erime fit a great inetropolie is to be found in the lest annuli report (titiet for 18 201 of tee Commissioner of Pollee for London. The 11101 rupoll tan reit gett0110,1 by the force was 700 square 117110 ;me fol. the peuteerion ef tenon end pro. piety 15,600 mos were on che rolls, Of the MVO, )10Welier, 01011177 to reasons not detail. mi, several thot.salld Wero continually unit. vendee. At the head of title list of &inns memo it - m ill spite of the paldic guardians stand eereeteen hombildee, tbe most of which were plainly deliberate murder, but not a single eapital tenviction ie recorded egainee the names c,f the eriminals, le fuer (1(5)1 the criminate meld me be foutel, n»e of the fern. being Jack the Ripper of Whitechapel, fit other cases the the assailant was insane, some committed suicide, and few cases conviction for manhlaughter was Martinet]. On the whale it Wilt fail'13' safe to kill a inan in 'minim, quite as safe as in Neettesky 80 ; any' 01 1715 American States where a feeling ; that the criminal " done had to" conimmey infinencee the jnry to acquit, It is likely t 1121 :'iutte shows so seri me a failure of j us. dee it0 111 11 report shoWS for LO1ldOn. In the report on crimes against property, it is ten plainly that stealing does /tot pay. Even leayieg out. of consideration t he awards ! of punialiment meted on t to the thieves, they ; would searee have made the wages of honest ; later. Thee, there were but 409 burglaries, rd but 23,000 worth of properte, gathered n, about VI per job on 1130 avetege, But of this a great 'part was recovered, witile 124 cases not a farthing WitS cheated by the burglar. Mereover, these figures represent the 1088 to the owners, not the gain to the thief. No statemeet of the actual 111-71 re- ceipts of the thieves can be ineele, but when one considers the prices at which . -- mat sell their plunder 10 (10 fences, it remonable to suppose thee had they all gen ten nif woe free of imprisomient, sufferin only /rum the loss of the (100(101,0 05111011 wa recovered from them the . • 1 1 Iav made 4411 job on the average, perhaps not $2 There were about 1,500 cases of house" breaking, and here the same story is toll The thieves mat no mrt f ' 011110 setae of 2 1 1 ,0o0 Rhe ownees always estim ating their losses es as possible), In mum was recaptured. Even cm. the basis o the estimated less in over half the cases, the value was less than while in only thirty- two 11)080 0111 of the 1,1300 did the value ex- ceed e(50. The eases of shopbreaking numbered 51 7, or seventy.three less than in 1888. The num- ber of burglaries, too, was less than hi I 888, end so, too, were the housebreakings and 1- • , Sir Edward Bradford, who writes the re. part, stye the decrease would be still great. er were it 2101 1110 the leniency with which habitual and evell-known criminals are treat- ed by judges. On on everitge, however, crimes against properte. Wore 13 (101 01111. less numerous in 1889 than in 1888. The portion of the report referring to the health of the force shows that 379 members sere invalided, of whom 280 obtained pen- sions and the other received gratuities only. The latter had been in the service lest: than flfteen years. Of those pm on .pensiort 03 had rheumatism and 40 were retired because of" age, long service and debility," There were 11) cases of plIthsis and disease of the lung,s, I were affected with banichites, and 20 had injuries that rendered them unlit for d 011% *e roll of boner gives 2,000 names of men spectrally commended by magistrates and others for meritorious conduct in the discharge of duty. In 100 of theme cases the men bad been hurt. Of the cases cone mended 200 were for stopping. runaway horses, 40 of the 200 having been injured in doing so. The story: told in the" Loet Property De. partment" is perhaps the most interesting in the report. For instance, 3,100 purses were deptaited in thio deparment, besides 130 de. posits of coins found in public carriages. Twelve deposits were 01 11211) notes, ono do. posit alone amountinf to 2290, while tbe number of watches, va liable pieces of jewel - 1')', kr., left there was 2,209. It is true that rewards atnounting to £2,183 were paid to those who brought In the articlee but it is e very good showtng for Bei dell police honesty. In the department, of accidents it appears that 140 people were run over and killed by rations kends of vehicles, while the number of mimed and injured was 5,3e0. Curiously enough 1111 of these cases were due to velocipede elders. ezeitaTi,o) GIVLNG REASON 10 AN IDIOT, Tromping a Vtilltt's.;;;.; It to CO t.nt‘ mr; Meet, tthom to remand. Two weeks ago there mune to the eine l th 115 re, esti ed 11(1 ed he es in testi hospital it poor woman, who tole story pit tall indeed, She 11)107)0 mother of two Children, be girls, One of Mote, the etti 1, Was Id yei old and the utlwr a little child of 4 yea rho elder daughter had been a hope] idiot 51n..e and noW the terrili mother was convineed lier baby, too, 71 halms ether a clam. The httle one 11 never aeted like other children, had ;tee played or prattled in her Whitey, mil 110 though 4 years old, ahe could not epee!: word. '11e mother came to beg t help and intermit of the huspital authoriti atie her pathetic appeal WAR liOt Made Though it not 111000010m 01 1710 hospital to receive 0(800 01 yee the meaner ciremestances of this leen woman's eurrow, and the suspieiou Mar the case mightf urnieh remarkable diselteure in nein nffectioes Induced the officers to promise atheittan 101 110 child, Next day the mother emus. el with a hopeful heart. 'By her side w her. 111.110 girl, just toddling out oi fancy. Her features were regular, limo pretty, and her litt le Henry strong tuel we termed. But the sad story o1. heti life 111 written plainly in her face, :so intelligen was there no light in the 13 50 ; none ot ti bright joy of loving, Itarnieg 011101110.0; The little patient was taken te the surge! ward, and fee the next ten claws elle was th subject of the most careful steely hy the emi- nent and visiting physicians. It 'wee die - covered that the cause of her nuintal lin. pairment was the premature attenuation c.,f the several bones 0) 1110 retitle thus confine 1110brain in too smell it space end ereven tin its development. Then the operatton Mete at was ,letermined Nene the, the purpoe being simply to remove a strip of hose fro] the skull, thee allowing expulsion, just a one would slit ic tight shoe with his knife t relieve a teedet. foet, Yesterday was the day eet foe the opera tion ; 10 o'clock the room 1(41 filled wit/ • wetchnig physicians. The child knew no Ile agony of fear. She was la unmeiscion e 1ott the meaning of the strange feces ebout he nd the sharp insturments of the surgeon a . the young lamb led to the slaughter. Ever idiocy has its eonpeusatione A. tong, narrow table was placed in e eon venient light and the eltile Irefully Ini, upon it. After the mother Lad eivin her parting Ides chloroform wee administered O alit It AA ItS net long until all conscionseee 10 . MA jam J. 8 91. 1. Latest From Europe 11. Polities le Europe --The Empreas Frederick Incickt -Death of Lord Alhetnarieei While the acme anxiety conversing the general European eitention has passed away, there aro mill enough elements of uncer- tainty and inismulermantling drifting aboet to make it probable that we shall hear more rumors of trouble daring the month. The mein questio» between Berlin and Paris miming over the affronts to tho Empress Frederick has encloubtedly been smoothed over. Serious Frenchmen have tirade it ap- parent that they are ashamed and mortified at the stupid furor kicked up by a group of prefeseionel patroits, mid the Kaiser has wisely Angers to regerd them ae lenity reps resets tative of French feeling eu coot; ;me y it le Announced that the re- mit limey amens in increasing the /severity 00 of the Alsace pastime restrictions will be reconeidered, This is all the easier (01 170 ' Germans to do bemuse of the revelation et that the Alsachuts themselves resented. the entry autism ef the Parishre mob and ttre dieposed to look to Berlin indict' than to ee lu 1 neer kr sane friendship. in So far 80 good ; but there ere a lot Of sj eiges that 00 sae upon the Metalloid • of another period of malignant activity in , tussian pc, nacre. mientry envies. 'The Muscovite hear 15)0 1)0011 hibernating, as it were, 1,1 11111 putt two or three pearl+. It seems as 01 75 were ROW 04141y to come out; g ter11:111•Orouti"c'd their „it 1 1 g lk around, frightetun small ant per tape bet - ,N sing embroiled iri an ;mutat teeth) with the e arnied conservators of peme. it is remad- e ed fn Berlin es ;eyelet queetion thae the „ recent wild tusiortioe in Paris against the ce Keiser's mothlir was del iberetely incited and paid for be accredited Russian egente. Such de'llnite reports have also been re- , ceived In Bettie as to the recent eecret Movements of trOops in RuSSilt, the furtive creation of a »ew division 0 infantry, and , ; the bananee of private ordeis to hasten for. • 'weal the concentration 01 000.06, provishm, teed iciee, &a, as if for actual mobil Swaim, tiler inereaSed vigilanee is bein observe 1 both on the German and the Austrian Erni I tier. , l'110 recent denth of Lord Albemarle was n seltzers( to have loft only one commissioned o te battle 0; 11 aterloO, hen. s Whielieote, lnit the eorresponcletwo elicited nee reseals the existence of at least one other in England, Col. Hewett, who Was a Captain in the Foueteenth foot, and five in Germany, who were officers in the Hance Verian eolith/gent at the battle. The youngest of the lot is n inety.two Probably there trotted be an even greater number of strew rs in France, where the cominual conserptions had drafted in mealy youths, but th Frenth seem to take less interest. in traeng them ollt. 0110 01 11,., many incidents which are crop- ping tint of t 1,e recent great disaster to 010 house Of Baring Brothers le the story told, upriver), good authority, that the prelim fils aries were in negotiation for the marringe of. the eldest son of Lord Reveletoke and one of the daughters et the Prince of Wales. 1 pain luol vaniehed. Then the eurent domore gathered round to view tee bold pro cedure. The scalp was earthily shaven and thoroughly cleansed vith alcohol and biehloride of mercury soletion. The newly shareened scalpel was then applied and an imiston was made clear down to the bone, extending from near the root of the nose directly, backward over the top of the head for a distance; of five Filches. The Ares of the wound were gently held. back by re- tractors so as to expoae largo area of the 5305111,Now the tropmne, nistru- meet resembling a :lithe., evae put to work in one end of tins incision and a cir- cular piece of bone the size dm dune 810.0 04;71004d; OXV0.01111; the traneparent covering of the ratisating brain. Now ambit. of cut- ting pliers were inserted in this opening middle bone clipped off' piece by piece until an area five inches long and half an inch wide had been removed. This put of the operation wets done with the utmost care, for the delicate 01111 important armee ures in so close proximity might have been wounded by the slightest slip of the Metre - inane After the wound had been thOrough- ly bellied ha a 65101010 of clear, wartn water the dges were brought neatly together by fine silk stitches and the whole well covered and protected by cotton and bandage. The child was then carried back M the weed. and in the course of an hour rallied from the effects of the chloroform and clisplayed no untoward symptoms. It will be several days before anything definite can be ascertained as to the success or failure of this case. At present every. Meng points to a favorable issue. I persuaded Agatha to accompany me in wanderings among the City churches. e had suffieient knowledge to be an three ent companion, and she had sympathy d insight -that touch of inspiration which orally goes with the higher grades of h my 1 SI t lig I an - gen womanly intellect. 11 hie I studied a care, hog or a brass, she would draw from the in- scriptions on tile tombstonessuchhints ofthe lives of those who lay below no made the dead congregations live again -gray evanem cent figuresdialf seen in the dusty sunlight. Lenin, Grettoe came With 110 0000, but she s ei 1 t ' "I shone think so," returned the Colonel. ".A good deal more valuable than that dia- mond you wear." Agatha's face crimsoned, anti her eyes fla.litd, She withdrew her hand abruptly, somewhat endangering thereby Polly's pro. oarions balance. But tbe bird flatter d back to her shoulder, and secure there, glared at the Colonel. "Do tell as about the ruby," persisted Mee. Gretton, " 011 !I got it after a frontier dieturbance -a thing, yon know, that might have se- emed serious dimensions if I hadn't nipped c no tare tl h 1110churches were doll, empty, and cold ; they leaked the colour and variety she craved; and Agathe and I were glad to be rid of her discontented face and restless presence, Had she been a pleasanter conipamon, it is quite poesible we would not have desired her more there comes a time when all companions save one are wearisome 111101 011111, Oh those hour ;mon the duety pews and wornmeaten pule pine those walks along the crowded city streets !Don't tell me about flowery meadows and country lanes. Were I to go a -meeting apin, I would still choose the mete hills and dales of Holborn and Cheapside, The crowd threatene to jostle your lady, and you Venture to take her Lem -unteproved. Could you do that under the hawthorns'? The stumbling worde that would seem so flat against o blackbird's thrilling tong are elo- quenee itself when uttered through the dull mermur of London traffic. Hearts press closer to eaoh other in the stress of the throng; the constant risk of being parted makes union more desired. Give mountains and lakes and scenery" in general to those who need them; but my garden of romance lies in the busy Strand, in forgotten 'meets by Cornhill and Lombard Street, soul in the gray silent Bloomsbury Squares. Perhaps my book progressed "but little during those days, although my studies for it were sopereisten t ; buttliat really did notelet - ter, for i n time 1 hoped to have Agatha's help and then we should get on quiekly enough. Bet let nte admit thet meanwhile 1 wrote hardly a line, end thee I spent some of the money I had set aside for the publication of 01,0 "magnum byre " in the purchase of a diemond reng for my betrothed. Mrs. Gretton and Louisa were very civil when Agatha and I come home ono dayand said we were mgaged ; very_ civil and con- gratulatory -and yet-- Now, Is it not strange 7 Lomsa Gretton did not care a straw for Inc ; her mother would certainly not have allowed nee to marry her daughter without lotting me know how unworthy I was of molt &boon7 end yet I could see they 1811 &little hurt that I loved Agatha, I believe there are some women who would carry etiquette to such a poiet that they would like e man, purely as a matter of courtesy, to promote to all the WOmen who 000'04 108'o Imn before asking the one who will. "To think of you getting engaged, Agatha I" said Louisa, with a senile that was not event I thought you despised marriage and all that." "Did you ?" answered Agetha in 00 511)' boretelyuniettone, whieh I know to be dens woes. "You misunderstood me, I only deepiso the 1101)11 01 regarding marriage aes It in he bud. The natives pretended it w only a squabble between two religious see but these things always mean mischief - ways, This ruby -ah -was in a senue ti emus ball, so I -that is, it was advisable remove it, and the Governor quite juetifi my action, so I retained it," " Just so," murmured Mrs. Gretton. "Loot I" I remathed in c, tone by 11 Means sublued ; bat my criticism on tl Colonel's proceedings passed unnoticed, just at that moment the parrot, safely petal ed on Agatha's shonlaer, stretched out 11 head toward the Colonel and screamed i his most vindictive tones," Who killed Bo Aeoka e" • (To 1117 coSTInubj, Alf TELEGNAPHIO TICKS. The Canadian Pacific roundhoeee ut the Sault was burned the other night. The wrecks of three English steamere with some loss of life, are reported. Much damage bas been done by the floods on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. The Toronto Board of Trade 1105 prouortm- ed against the city operating the street rail- way, Chas. M. R, Pronoveau, lumber merchant, Montreal, has assigned with liabilities of about $18,000. Mr. James Carroll, editor and proprie- tor of The Quebec Daily Telegraph, Med suddenly the t,t110r night. The reports of the British farmersole. gates who visited Canada are tow being circulated in Great Britain, ;The steamer Kathleen, built for service on the MUM, has been solcl for $10,500 to a compony to be used on Georgian Bay. A eynclicate of leuropeem eapitalists claims a royalty on nickel stool armor, On the ground that all tech prattled is covered by the Schneider patent, Sir Charles DMus has been invited by the cenmeil 01 1710 Liberate of the Forest 01 1)01115 to be is eandidete for Parliement there, and has accepted the invitutiOn, The Botanicel Gerdens at Ballarat have been uttiteked by the locust plague whieh has ravished the wheat mops of Victoria,' causing a loss of 18,000,000 bushele, ton millions 0( 0111011 were for exportation. Lord Aberdeen, giving evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Corse r110111 on colonization, seed he fennel the Killarney settlement of Highland oroftere in Manitoba was o. moose and might be eafely tepeated to 01110000 extent. A ROYAL TABLE. now the Euglteir red Their ItInge byre amen lime, The profusion which oharacterieed 1110 071. fortunate Charles It is well sboem in the following amount of the lavish mid wasteful table which ho kept up. It is ashram' that there were daily ie hie court eighty-six tables We/1 furnithed each mese µthereof 1)110 King e toble had twenty-eight dishes, (115 Oateen'il tWenty-four, four other tables eleteen diehes each; three other ton diehee each, tWelVe other had eeteen dishes each, seventeen other. table's Ifed 'each el them five dishes, three Other had four each, thirty. two 'Other tables had each three dishes, and thirteen other had Mitch two dishes in all about 500 011711105 each meal, with' beer, wine, and ell other things necessary --all which wets proVided most by the several purveyors, Who bet commission legally and eegularly anthorieed did receive those pro. visions at it moderate prim, ouch as had been formerly weed upon 01 the eeveree counties of Englend., 0111611 price (by re09on 'of the value of money emelt altered.) was bemire low, yet a very Itooesiclerable bor. den to the kingdom in 'general, but thereby wee greatly w7)m:wile/1 the dighity royal in the eyes of strengers 014 Well as subjects. The Iffigliab nobility and gentry, according 'to the King's oxemple were excited to keep 10 prepottionate hospiddity in their several eountry mansions, the husbandmen moue; aged to breed cattle, oll tradesmen to 0 cheerful industry 1 and there was then a free circulation of moneys throughont the whole body of the kingdom, There 0000 spoilt yeerly in the King's house of .gross meat 1500 oxen, 7000 sheep, 1200 reale, 1300 porkers, 400 Merits of young beeves, 0800 lambs, 300 flitches of boom and 20 boars ; oleo 140 dozen of geese, 250 &teen of capons, 470 doeen of hens, 750 dome of (11171015 (10111 1,170 dozen chickens ; for bread, 31100 bushels of wheat, end for drink 900 tuns 01 01110 and 1700 tens of beer I more- over of b 154 utter 40,0 pounds, together witlifish and flowl, vonaion, fruit and epiee proportionably, of yours -that follow Smith." Mr Drewn - Do you thuds you aro it voey good judge of mei), toy dear ?" Mrs, Brown (with expreeeion)-" I do not think I wag," Mrs, Brown-" I don't half like thatfriend On a Buffalo's Back. Latter VS Gridley, 0 North Platte, Neb., stockman, related recentay the story of a ride be once took on the back of a buffalo, near Fort Wallace'Neb. Returning from (5 hunt Mem with 1110e hindquarters of 00011(110 of young bulls be had killed over his should. 00 138 accidently 0111 into the herd again and At sa. surrounded before ho realized his situa- " My dodging in and out almost calmed a stampede," 15 001111011)001, "1 knew Ha panic took place among the beasts I would be trampled to death. I suddenly determined on a hold stroke, and edging up close to a. shaggy young WI, grabbed -hold of the long hair on his foreshoulders and swting Myself on to his back. The bellow that came from tee fellow made me wish I had net decided on such a risky push for liberty, The bellow. log WAS taken up by the rest of the herd, and soon We were flying along at a terrific rate over gulches and uphill and down. I was blinded by the sand thrown by the hoofs of the beasts, but with my eyes closed hung on like grim death. lior half at) hour the herd kept up a terrine pace, and during that time leg ,e were elniceteIllehed out of my boots by thte Crowding anitintle. " I began to 111111101117 (.1100 11011 (some, / was so week I could scarcely keep tny tient, and was about to lenyself full from the back of My buffelo when 1 succeeded in ecraping some of the sated out 01 (5)1 eyes. diecovered then that sve wens running par- allel with the railroad track, and as the bulk was high and steep the cutinials hall Insot, ventured (0 0110111) the incline, The beast wile riding was the closest to the thank, and I know if 'reached the top of the em. bankment I teould be safe, I dragged my. self together the best 7 could and prepared for a spring, I got my feet on his back and Mmped for the embankment. I leaped at the right One, for the movemsrit of tho young bull's body sent mo flying half evey up the bank, awn there I Wat3 safe In the sand, For live weeks afterwards was oontined to my bed." 0, Labaditelageave writes in the Par's /eiortro et recent date as follows 1 " Mr, Edison has arrived at that solid degree of glory whore a man's least utterances are gathered up appreciatively by stenographers. The illustmons Nventor would have had no need to 010110 11)0 phonograph in order to eeouro for his words a prolonged teverber. ation irt history, There Is much to be glean. ed from the conversations of which et 0021. teibutor to Harper's Magazine haa mado note, Mr. ledison's tablotalls is much more lacerating (71010 1110 table.talk of Illoneieur Von, Bismarck, Heading the clult farrago of gossip compiled by Mr.htorite Busch, ono would bo tempted to doubt the genius of th,o Chanoollor, whereas Mt. George Palmate resthrop's article justifies the effiversed ad - nitration which the most fertile Inventor of the century exeltee etneng his followeelti. Mena" Bathieg Habits of Birds, We 'sever see hawks] or falcons bathing when wild. Trained birds, in good health, bathe almost daily, and the bath of a pere- grine falcon is a, very careful performance. But no nymph could be more jealous of witness than these shy birds, and it is not until after many careful glauces in every direction that the falcon descends from her block and wades into the shelters, bath. Then, after more suspicious glances, she thrusts her broad head under the water and filegs it on to bar back, at the same time raising the feathers and letting the drops thoroughly soak them. After bathing head and bock, she spreads her wings and tail fan-like on the water, and rapidly opens and shuts them, after which sho stoops down and splashes the drops 171 0101,0 direction. The bath over, she flies once more to the block, and turning her back to the sun spreads every feather of the wing and tail, raises those on the body, and assists the procese of drying by a tremulous motion in). parted to every quill, looking more like an, old cormorant on a buoy than a peregrine. If man had nothing better to learn from the animals than the 1700101 1088011 that elean- liness means health, the study of their hab- its would be will repaid, and it is not the least reproaell to be brought against our own Zoological Madam, that these fine hawks and falcons, while deprived of liberty, are denied the only means of that cleanliness which would make captivity endnrable. (The peregrine falcons at the Zoo are kept in O cage sended like a canary bird's with no bath at all, and en room to spread their wing%) Sparrows chaffinches, robins, and, in the Very early morning, rooks and wood pigeons bathe often. Ono robin we knew always took his bath in the falcon's bath afe ter tho hawk had finished. The tinfortun. ato London sparrow has few shallow places in which he can bathe, and a pie dish on the leads delights him. If the dish be white, his grimy aide hody soon leaves evidence that his ablutione have been gennino. The Most Ronorea Beast Re is the ass. May we presunie 16 a ek why the Bacteriologists never thihk bf tey- ing 10 experiment againet disease by the transfusion of his blood? NO tieing moat ture i blesse4 with a greater Mashie of inummity ageinst eampleinte 161011101) flesh is heir. Ho is the perfeceion bf health.. His name has /MAW appeared on ts veterin- ary surgeon's bill. None has 1 batter name in the world's history. It Wes from 00 01000 jawbone that Samson dee* strength and water. It WAS all ees that warned Belton, and another that advised Chine Marine, and another thet went with 'Origen and the test of the 80110105) te men to the ieetoree 'df /ernmonies of Alexandrine The prophets, 0110 and all, henorecl bie back and It Great - or than the prophets. Under the Old LW, every first born might be elain kir bacrifloo, except these two - man end rtes. A.puleiuti of elegara's aes 'was admitted to the holy mysteries cf Isis. " The ass entries mete - theists," seys the ancient .proverb ; and the 00100 Agrippa wrote 01 11701 : "07 a clean and innomint heart, void of choler, being at paw with all living creaturea; patiently carrying all burthens laid upon leis back ; as a reward whereof, he (5 115051 troubled with lice, or any diseasee, and livoth longer them any other boast," 511001,0 11011(11)77 but good 'wend remit from the tranefusion of the bleed 0( 10 creature so honored and so ole POTATOUS ALM 0NION0.-1'are and slier) eight potatoes and 00)0.1101700 many onions ; (1111 111 stow hotble with two tableepoonfule of butter or lard, and &little water, salt and pepper, and leb 11 510)10 till they ere sofband well mixed together, etirrieg often to pre1 vent burning.