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THE RING AND TIF BIU .
THE Eri J SSELS POST.
A THRILLING ADVENTaiP:.E,
PORTUGUESE TROUBLE,
'Pl,i'81 mit°uiiearrtbett-1'l,ramebas south
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ttnetisa Rule.
CHAPTER IV,
T htttried hour with the desecrated trio
in my pocket. The first thing that toot to
car wet the screaming of the parrot, wide)
seemed more violent than I nod over irnuwe
and from other :canis 1 ;messed that is
was throwing the weight of his body ttgains
the wires of the eahe.
" Can't you stop that c•reattn'e 1" I cute
the servant who upelletl the dour to W8.
"No, Slr. I've onvered it up and done
allI could; but ever since the ladies went
upstairs' it has been :wreathing like mad."
'Theladies are epee:tire?'
"Yes, sur, in the tirew'lng room, and the
Colonel is with than."
A wild sorentn cane from the parrot.
" Let Polly out, Jane," 1 said ; "that ie
the only way to keep it<pulot, and my hand
is aching."
They were all hi the drawing -
room; they had moved there in
somehing like military order, and all
'the time of my absence the other three
load watched poor Agatha ns cats might
an unfledged sparrow. Louisa and the
Colonel had gazed uellinuhingly—I heard all
.this afterwards ; but llre, Gretton had shed
tears ice every moment their poisoner grew
-more exhausted and more deathly pale,
They had given her a cup of tea, whirl now
stood untested by her work -basket on the
small teble by her side. There their charity
had ended ; none had spoken a word to her.
She looked Italf•dead ne I entered, but she
turned her end eyes despairingly to me. 1
.atnewered the look by clasping her its my
arms.
"It's all right, my darling; I know ell
about it, now." I ori ed.
"And \fill?" she asked ; "what about
him ?"
"I have m• de It all tight for him in the
meantime. We'll talk about that after.
wards."
Then turning to tl e others, I said : " it's
all right ; you made a mistake, It was her
own ring—my ring—that Agatha gave her
brother.
Itook the diamond fromsmy pocket, and
put it again on her hand, the hand she had
kept ooncealecl—f could guess wily, 1/oto—
under the folds of liar shawl.
"Oh Agatha, I'm so glad," cried Mrs.
Gretton ; but Lonsia said : " It may be all
right about Agatha, lett it doesn't explain
what has become of Colonel Farrer's ring."
The Colonel took tap the strain. "Oh vet,
it does," he said contemptttoraly. "'that
precious pair tf lovers are in collusion, that's
all. They know where my ring is well enough;
and I shouldn't wonder if that brother of
Miss Marah•e has it in his possession. He
seems to be a scapegrace at the hest ; and a
wouldn't injure his character so touch as it
would that of the estimable and affectionate
couple here if stolen property were found to
his posseseion. That, I take it, is the whole
mess ery."
This was too much for ane. I had, I think,
Rept my temper fairly w ell up to this oto-
ment; but the Co onel'swho:esaleaccusation,
and the strain in which I.e worded it, stung
me past patience.
I have kumen one doer in my life,
Colonel Farrar, one receiver of stolen pro-
perty," I cried, " and that one is—you 1 I
have not got your ring ; 1 should be ashaln-
ed to possess a thing thethad such a history.
, My hands aro clean ; I possess nothing 1 have
not honestly won. But you became the
owner of the ring younow lost have
b
Y
means of robbery and inure Itis a ruby
t
inen
y r eyes: It is a great blood -:tato in
mine, and I hope you will never 'know a
moment'°P y b eace in possessing it. If you had
d
any some of honor, your chief desire would
be not to get that ring back for yourself, but
to restore it to its rightful owner."
"Its rightful owner 1 And supposing I
don't Own that ring, may I ask you to tell
me, in that fine eloquent way of yours, wlo
it belongs to?"
. To Ram Asoka,"
"And where ant I to fled him ?"
The Colonel had me there. " I—I can't
say, but that parrot eeeme to know, and'—
The Colonel actually smiled, so pleased
wet he with hie advantage, "The Mee of
referring to a parrot for information as to
the abode of a departed spiritseents—well"
"I don't care," I burst in impatiently.
"The parrot knows something; he knows
everything ; and I believe that the soul of
Ram Asoka, the man you killed, is imprison.
ed in that bird's body. '
"Air. Laurence, I181n a Christian," said
the Colonel with all imaginable dignity. "I
don't believe in t11° transmigration of souls
or any such heathenish doctrine. Anil if I
did, I couldn't make restitution to a parrot.
. It couldn't wear a ruby rio"."
I don't know ; I'd give it a chance, It
evidently wants the ring."
`"And he won't be he ppy till he gets it,"'
. sang a shrill voice behind ate. 1 turned,
and there wee the parrot—I had almost said
Ram Asolat..—hopping in at the door. Ito
looked at me in a confidential manner, and
with the courteous comment of " Right you
` are, says Moses, sprang upon the back of a
I chair and surveyed the company.
Wo all laughed, even poor pale Agatha,
even the indignant Colonel, With the per -
lot's opinions most of us sympathised ; but
there wa8 no denying that his manner of
expressing tient partook of rho Iangnage
common to Ratcliff Highway or Seven
Dials, or wherever was situated that dreary
retreatfromwhich Mrs, 01-0ttoil had rescued
him. Like te good many Indians who s
pick tip our language from conversation, he r
used our colloquialisms with more aptnees
than diglity. p
' But when our brief outbnret of omega- e
ment wits pant, we were still left fate to p
face with the question, Whore was the s
ring ? Indeed, I olly'e entrance had, after
all, but brought it back from those cloudy b
regions where nay bawildermont, my super. sti e:en, perhaps, had taken it. T
"This is very amusing," eeid the Colonel, rn
"and no doubt Mr. Laurence nppreoiatee t
the valuable :support his opintone have re- b
served. lint even be musb admit that before in
I give the ring to his learned parrot I must In
get it back myself • and that," he added o
trnoulontly, " will, I think, be beet manag- d
ed by giving Miss M18roh into custody," s
We all exclaimed ; but the parrot's cry sit
of grief rang high above all, 1 began 'home s
'threat, ivarttculate, blustering ; but Agatha,
turning to the parrot, said in a piteous tone: tl
" 0 Polly, cant yes save mo?" 0
No stronger proof could well be given of an
our growing faith hi the mystic connection g
between the ring and the bird than this ap- tl
pool of Age,tha'e. It sounds absurd when h
set down hero, hut atthatm montitseemed n
meet reasonable and feet. <I
And Polly owe to the ream. Ito Aur- A
tercel on to the little table whioln held el
Agatha'a work•baeket. There law pushed h
with all his might against the slim molter. N
geed till he tbruat it and, as it ehanood, the b
Italf.coid cup of tea et well, on to the draw. to
,ing-raom fled. And thorn, among the cot- th
tan bobbins and 1ssPs n£ worsted it 1
I Neither( iia crimson gloats, that omelet
lthe red light of the snmeet, the ruby of Iran
I Asoka, Somehow at that lmenm'ut I betex
to understand )tow the greet of pos8etea
w such a gem as that might tempt 0 man
t elm I made some allawancetl
(.010001,
Vie all rushed 10 the ring ; but the parrot
was ahead of ue. He picker) the ring up au
his beak, and 'lying to A patio's arae, drop-
ped it into her basil. 'rhea he retired to
his chair -back as one wino has done his
work.
Agatha went up to the Colonel. " I n
10ery pleased," site said with a cold snail
I " 10 he the per8011 w'li0 hands to you the trio
which had so miraculously disappeared."
TIe took the ring from her ; but it t1'ae
the parrot Butt Ito directed hie reply. "I
he said "ant much obliged to you for d'
covering the ring, which, by 8000 m•
another, had got bidden in Mies March's
work•baekot,"
The sareasm of his tone 'roused me once
more ; but as my voice was raised in protest,
Agatha interfered. " 01 Prank, let him
alone," she cried. " For my sake, don't
quarrel with hint. I can't stand more to-
night."
So, most unwillingly, I held my peace, and
before long we soparuted, weary with the
strain of the day,
A few words more will eud this brief
eventful history, Next morning, the Col-
onel heard a tapping at his door. He thought
ft was Jane, who had brought his hot water.
After a minute he opened the door ; but
there, on the met, there stood, not the heves
lesswater-cat, but—more dreadful to ham
than Edgar Poe's raven to the gloomy bard
—aur magically gifted paaot, (We found
out afterwards that he had manned to 00 -
fasten the door of his cage and so make his
Way out.) \ViW 1 an exclamation that. had
better be left unrecorded, the Colonel start.
nd Lack, and Polly hopped into the room.
He made straight for the dressing -table on
which lay the r+by ring, still too small for
the Colonel's injured hand. He seized it,
while Lhe human claimant stood helpless and
amazed at this latest development. Holding
it in his claw, he bent his eyes on the
Colonel, and again said, as lie had so often
d sae, " \V Iso killed Ram Asoka ?" Thom
tee ringstill tightly grasped, he flew out of
trio open window, and was lost to view
among the surrounding chimney -pots. And
that wits the last any of us saw or heard of
Rani Asoka,
Was the spirit of the murdered priest in-
deed confined beneath the bird's greet feath-
ers, and did Ise come thus to claim the gens
of whic)u he had been robbed ? Or was the
whole thing a chapter of accidents, and our
parrot no more than 18 miechiev0us thievish
bird, to whom chance gave an appearance of
reason in his deeds? I cannot venture to
say. I think—whae I think 1—and Agatha
agrees with me. But for yourself, render,
answer the question as you will, and as you
are the Moro akin in mind to Horatio or to
Hamlet.
t".TME END.]
Mars. leIag'aogin's Daughter Has Her Hair
Pleaohed.
Two Batteentee Putt n JLRa 'nix natio n
8018 in um Atte.
11, lleunerptin, of Paris, i'raura. w
The leteet advices from South Africa ad was h' Fontenay at the tints Ttesie'itt' and
Mit that 1110 British South AfricaCompttuv Gower had their thrilling ndveunue in as
aye .
is in a :onto of War with 1'ortug,tl. The balloon, tells the story of Lhvfr hQl of a
cot»pnuyaLvoletidy ref moss to aobandetthe utile: "'l hey ascended from Tiasindier'e
territory wldvh it has occupied in iIaaiun- house in Paris and floated o0' toward \ria.
„g I land, nu,1 is arming the native chieftains to cosines and, ae the wind was somewhat
resist the Portuguese. All that theeompnny strong from tho nurtltcaei, the two mon
asks of (brat Britain la u, be lot alone, soon disappeared from the view of Paris,
trustiug to ire own st,engtlt and to velum. having roans to a )light of 1,fx10 feet,
teems faint Cape ('along and Natal to carr}' 11 lien they )tail reached 1'outonay, bow -
its alms encoeeefully 1510 Portuguese teal- ever, they were fun) 0,0011 feet above the
tory, or territory wh: •'1 Pnrtugai chines, mirth, They ware sailtug along emoothly,
The nutivoe favour the Britille Portuguese watching the scenes below, when suddenly
rule is Marsh anti arrogant, old involves the they gowned to fall into a holo in the at.
practical eltslaoeluent of the eubject race, nlosphere, and down they went at n ten'ilic
• 1 he English, on the other hand, treat the rate, Gower glanced at the needie of the
e African strietly buthumwnely, and allow the vortical setae. It was traveling with light -
e native chiefs to retain the appearance of laing speed. A roar filled their ears and
• dignit7y and authority, besides compensating both men thought their time bed 001110.
to them far any concessions, The Natal Coke. Nothing had happened to the balloon, It
mal (,verlimant has openly taken aide's Was in perfect condition, but there seemed
,y- against the Portuguese, ami is sending arms to be no air to hold at op. Tiesindier
and ammunition to the tribes that are desperately threw out sandbags. They
threatened with attack by the Portuguese were falling so rapidly that the bags were
forces. This means that the British colonies left far behind and disappeared above them.
of SouthAfi•iccare arrayednpminstPortngal, The earth seemed to be rushing at them
for the South Africa Company i0amnipOtent with the speed of a comet. There seemed
at the Cape, itehead, Sir Cecil Rhodes, being to be no atmosphere left, and they could
Pretnierofthe colony. It is stated that in scarcely breathe. Asa last resort Tissindier
his Many conferences with Lord Salisbury, threw over the anchor and the remaining
during his recent visit to England, Sir Cecil ballast, anti tho big balloon, after a rush of
Rhodes arrived at the uuderstn.uding that a mile through the air, regained its poise,
without open indorsement on the part 0f and they were saved. The earth was but
the British Government Ile would be allow- fifty feet below.
ea a free hand in South Africa, anti Sir ' This goes to show that too mush precau.
Cecil was entirely satisfied with this minces. tion cannot be observed in carrying plenty
sion. Not Lord Salisbury alone, hut also of ballast. There ore in the air occasional
Queen Victoria, was highly pleased with rarefactions, and when a balloon once gets
Rhodes and the spirit he displayed for ex- into one of them it drops like ap10ee of lead.
tending the British Empire. The mainten- Gower and Tissindier sailed into a veritable
anoe Had extension of the umpire during pit in the air, and had they not had lots of
her reign is a subject said to be very dear ballast aboard they would have been dashed
to the heart of the Onset,. ' to pieces."
.1
"ITurroo, there, Mrs. licGlaugerty 1"
" 911' fwhat is id now, Mrs. llagaogin?"
" Did ye see me daughter Toozy senor
yisthere's , burs, Motlaggerty 9"
• o =Vain, • \ ane Oi<iidnot Mrs, In on '
tit."
g
"\Viii thin, l n•�
the 1
Lord 1 c Bane '•
c sr. and
hnrrum," staid the widow, that giddy
traythure 00 a ge'l has gone to w•orrek au'
had l.er hair blotched. Fran) beta' as black
as a sloe she's turned an' made hersel' a
blong, an' her hair now is th' color av a
yally dog. ' Fwhut did ye do id for, Toozy,
the darlint?' gee 0i. ' To be in th' ehtoyle,
mimmaw,' see site. 'An' fwbat did id
cosht ye?' sez Oi. 'Foive dollars,' sez she.
' Foive dollars 1' sez 01, ' Whoop hurroo 1
Fwhy, woman aloive, foive dollars id put
hair on a shkelpod Injin,' see Oi. ilut
fwhisper, mnvonrneen, ye ought to see ho•
wanet. She Inks bike en acthress. Her
hair is loike th' wavin' Dorn that th'poethry
wruitees wroites about. Id Iloofs an' pools
an' is as rich an' Iooxuriant as ti' dyowers
that blyooms in tie Shpring toimes. No.
body tel over know her from bole' a (laugh -
thee av th' Vandherbilks. But my soots
Tammy tuk th' starch nut av ]ler. He gen
Ivan luk at th' blaiched hair, an' turnin' up
his 51000 towlcl her that id moight be rail
noise un' 'risbtya'athic, but he'cl bet his
loife agin a foit'e-stat nickel that she kncln't
walk down Broadway in dayloight wid that
hair on her -widest Barin' twinty-noine
diffrint remarks mad about her respectabil-
ity, cos' all koinds as perslnigine mrd about
the naclet.° sto ber bringis' up. She color-
ed up to th' two eyes, so she did, Mrs,
lIaGtaggorty, an' LewldTammy that he was
110 gins ems., on' ho sed he knew that him-
scl' an' that wa8 th0 iud av id, flub, Inver
mind, Toozy has her lair blaichel all th'
same, nn' she's very proud av th' witfd
makes her luk, But beeline onset's etre.
McCloggerty, 01 wish to gudness that fwhin
oho gods out an th' sthreet wid bhat wisp av
:throw an tit' top av her lead she'd tell th'
payplo that somebody else an' not dayciut
Airs. Bordio Magqoogm is her mother, Mrs,
McGinggerty. Troth's' upon Inc wurrnd 01
do, Mrs, aloGlaggerty 1"
Driving .kway an Eolipse.
Esquimoux are believers in ghosts. They
also believe in the transmigration of the
eel, that 6111115 return to animals, winds,
Ochs, ice and eater; that they ate evil,
angry, or good, as the elements may be
avonrable or unfavourable; and that they
au bo appeased by hoodoo rites if the
erfo•mer Is etrflleiently versed in occult
oiencos. To change the wind, for ir,etnnee,
hey chant, drum, told howl against it,
ttild fires, 811ont against it, and,
as a lest resort, fire the graves of the dead.
vibes put hoodoos 011 each other by acre.
onial dances end howling. The hoodoo of
ntstl destruction- upon neighbours is 1110
uilding of a firs within sight of those mem
fi tinder their diepleasnro, Tribal re.
Mons are teemed by malting a Jiro
utsido and burning all ornaments or
lsguises used in ceremonial dances,
itch as raven skins, eagles' tails, doer/ions,
d masks. 'tribes that are Itood000d an.
wer by areturn hoodoo ; brit with families
ancp fusiivklnals it is cliff '•"nt. Outlawed by
tele tribe or relations, they l aaome cite•
mimed, hopeless, mid gloomy, mid "go off
d she." Eclipses of the moon creat tiro
rostosteonsternation, end alines') paralyse,
111 panpplu with fees. Arctic esartissittakee
anng'Leen coincident with eclipses ref the
soon, they say that an (traipse is the spin•
ow of the earth being piled up end shaken,
11 the unutknots in a village will howl ancp
ruin till it is passed, claiming that they
avo driven the thing away. Atnong the
oeat0ks all hands rally around a pair of
uckhorns, form a circle, and morel' around
the inusf0 of dtama and Wild chants till
o eclipse is ori:
Depth of the Sea.
At adepth of about 8,500 feet waves aro Chinese hledioine.
not felt. The temperature is the saute, I The medical art in China is mysterious and
varying only at trifle from the ice of the pole empirical. The medical profession is regu.
to the burning sun ofthe equator, A utile pared by rules almost the opposite of those
down the water has a pressure of over a ton which prevail in England. In s Minn the
to the square inch. 1F a box six feet wide doctr reeaives a fixed salary ns long us his
were filled with sea eater and allowed to patient le in good health. If the patient
ret•rtporateunder the sun, there would be two falls i11, the doctor's pay is stopped until a
incites of salt left on the bottom. Taking cure is effected, In England, a sick person
the average depth of the ocean to bo three usually tries to assist the doctor by explain -
miles, there would be a layer of pare salt ing the symptoms of his case. In China,
230 feet chick on the bed of the Atlantic. this world be considered an insult to the
The water is colder at the bottom than at doctor, The doctor may feel the patient's
the surface. In many bays on the coasts pulse, examine his skin, and lo k oat Isis
of Norway the water often freezes at the tongue ; but he may ask no questions. lie
bottom before it does above. Iis then expected to diagnose the disease
Waves are very deceptive, To look at from which the sick lean 18 ailing, and to
them in a storm one would think the water prescribe a remedy. The medicineprescrib-
traveled. T'be water stags in the same ad is usuatily very cheap and very nasty ; but
place, but the motion goes on. Sometimes some drugs are highlyprieed ; and there are
in storm these waves are forty feet high and certain precious stones which are believed
travel fifty miles an hour --more than twice to oe rf wonderful efficacy in aur-
ae fast as the swiftest steamship. The die- ing diseases. Oue of these expensive
Mace from valley to valley le generally fifteen • preaeriptiens consists of very costly in -
times theheight, hence a w•nveliive foot high gredients. White and red coral, rubies or
will extend over seventyflvc feet of avatae jacinth, pearls, emeralds, musk, with 0510 00
The force of the sea dashing on Bell Rock is two earths in special quantities, are crushed
said to bo seventeen tons for each square into powder, rolled into pills w•itis guns and
rod. I roso-wateo, and coated with gold -leaf, This
Evaporation is it wonderful power in unique medicine is reported to be an infalli-
drawing the water from the sea. Every ble cure for smallpox, measles, scarlet fever,
year a layer of the entire sea, fourteen feet and all diseases which arise from blood-poi-
thilck, is token up into tho clouds. Tho smniog and break out in cutaneous eruptions.
wit as bear their burdens mute the land, and, The strengthening qualities of this morino
the water colas down in rain upon the fields, atioi are said to be quite teluarkuble. The
to flow back at last through rive''s, The' Jesuits, who flourished in China in the early
depth of the sea presents an intersntiug pro-; part of the present imperial dynasty, iotrol
that they blem. If the Atlantic) 'were Levered 1e have seen m
v e 1 eted f en ani
sl y ached from the
I
0 504 feet the distance from aloe .last convulsions 1
b r to shore of death byits judicious
Ia
would be half as grant, or I,;,00 miles, If
lowered a little mere than three miles, say I use.
Another remedy is called liiicrhiu, or bit -
10,680 feet there would he a road of dry land ter wine. This seems to be a strong tonic,
from Newfoundland to Ireland. and is not really of Chinese origin, as it is
supposed to have been brought from India,
It consists of spirits, aloes, myrrh, frankin-
cense, and saffron. These aro to be mixed
This is the plan on which the groat At.
lantic cables were laid, The Mediterranean
is comparatively shallow. A drying up of
660feet would leave three different seas, and and exposed to the sun for one month,
Africa would be joined with Italy. until the fluid becomes clear enough to be
The British Channel is more like a pond, used.
which accounts for its choppy waves. It The following is a presoription for a
has been found difficult to get the correct Chinese love -potion, but is is understood to
soundings of the Atlantic. A midshipman be only a burlesque of some of their ordin-
of the navy overcame the difficulty, and a ary medical proscriptions : Take the pistils
shot weighing thirty pounds carried down of a white peony which has bloomed in the
the line. A hole is bored through the sinker, spring—of it white Lotus that had bloomed
through which rod of iron is passed, moving in the summer—of a white poppy that had
easily back and forth. In the end of the bloomed in the mutant, and of a white plum-
ber a cup is drg out and the inside coated blosson that had bloomed in the winter, of
with lard. Tho hnr is made fast to the each of these, twelve 01111Cee The pistils
lino and asling holds the shot on, When are to be kept over till the vernal equinox
the bar, which extends below the ball, of the succeeding year, dried in the sun,
touches the earth, the sling unhooksand the :nixed int° powder, and dissolved in twelve
shot elidoe off. The lard in the end of the
bar holds some of the sand, or whatever may
be on the bottom, and a drop shuts over the
alp to keep the sand in. When the ground
is reached a shoots is felt, as if an electric
current had pasted through the line.
A RAVAGING ARMY.
A 1'Inoete or Leerslo easing waste Austria
Ilan tones.
mace -weight of rain, and the some amount
of pure dew, hoa•-frost, and snov-liakes, all
of whieb must have fallen 011 a particular
day. These ingredients being mixer/ in equal
proportions, they are to be nada into pills
she sire of a dragon's eye, and plaood in an
old porcelain jar, which le to be buries)
under the root of a flower. \V hen the love-
sick patient fools unwell, site is to dig up
rho jar and swallow one of the pills
in a hot demotion of jul,iper•bark.
The Chinese author has omitted to state
Recent reports from Australia shove the what °fl'eet 18 produuod by thise potion on
devastation caused by locusts fn certain either the love-aieknmaidet or her 'twee But
parts of that country, to be alarming. In he proceeds to observe that the preeeriptiot
Victoria particularly is this so, where these is oleo . good for' some Dares of toothache ;
creatures Have been known to mass so thick- only, he adds, as it taken some time to pro-
ly along acme of the lines of railway that, cure all the inggredients of thevemedy, some
although the liralces wore shut down, tho patients have beenlcnovn to dao, and others
trains could not be brought to a stand until havo been cured spontaneously, before they
they had gone half sa mile beyond tho sta- could try its efect,
Cons, owingg to the multitude crushed bo. Under those circumstances, it is not as.
noath the whco1s, causing the triune to pass toniahing to leans that the medical proles -
as if the rails were covered with oil. The 81on 18 held in rather Ioty esteem in China.
wheels actually slid along the rails. In It is an hered)l ay profession, which receives
many of the north'nn towns the inhabitants' fou recruits from outside, and theeeforopre-
hal to close their doors to keep out the in- fees to stand on its own aucient ways and
Yelling hosts erad)tione,
In end around Bernawatha (Victoria), the
insects are causing greet dostrnotioe, A.
resident of that district reports that in tree
versing tilee parb of the country in 11 buggy,
Blank "Jttiok the Rippers."
the iv lads of his v0111010 wore completely A correspondent, writing from Sierra
imbedded it) masses of young catorpilla o t oot so, West Affrica, by the mail steamer
and grasshoppers to a depth of about four P 05110 terrible outrages fn
inches, the vioiaity of tkataoloty very inuclt reaenlb•
Ltthe Ralhe'glei;listriat (Victoria) Lho,ling those of the uotorions "Jack the
loatebs are doing great damage, eating, up ltl�tppon.' It seems that in thclmpeni oouu-
aha grass and invading the extensive vino- y, which bas recently been taken over by
atives
tands, Olio a0005 01 vines,.tiro arts histhere
eltirolaero having
kn0 vnld1s L" copeede aro a men.""otThey of T dress
00 sppoiled. So dmise aro aha insoots ilial themselves up in leopard skins and hide in
worle has to bo suspended, as the hoses will the bush until dusk, If any porion should
not taco them. pend is 00th from bio Pass tho leopard mon spring upon hinter Iter
Albsssy district that the locusts are attacking ax rho °asoma) be and kill Aim en the spot,
the flags on the wheat stalks, and 111 some Iis° leopard mot theu,mnitilab° tit° body in
instances the whoat•hoads have been eatenla dtundfulmarliior, Lalling away cartafn por-
el In the lonnlfty of \Valbnndrfo about tions and leaving the horrihlo spectacle on
thirty miles from Albury, the pestis travel- the roadside, It is said thatthe pari.: which
ins southward in rho direction of Murray in they fait° away the leopard noon ant•
eel mmneseveral miles wide, partially obsour•11ast Hedy feted ryas that of Se man,
ing rhoslry, oast advaanciag at bio sato Of heed bad been opened and the brains taken
ten miles no twenty-four hours, resting to 014, Lh° right hand and the left foot out oft
devour groan spats and 110 heart also taken away, Tho dos.
patch is dated from Sierra Leone, the ,3rd
Sam Johnaing—" Ilow's yor ehi°kens Don- ins1nut, and the writer bays that those ter -
fn' 00 Jeoms 1, obst00— ' 1)0Y had de pin riblo leopard mon wore kept in oitoolt for
Ik1c1 was'd0Ing mighty poorly, but cloypnain't sono Lime by country law, or What do
got itno more, Whet cured ant? "Two natives call "country timetable," which to a
Mofodist preachoes What's boon stopping ing eb sort of wibohoraft, but since the taking over
my house for fps lest two dam You )tin of the country b the Sierra
oanblo doe) obiokans ain't be pipno t "m - tie" a Leone ti the
g gatpp theedicdnb law las oeasod and the
Broils," 1 mimeo have again began,
APRIL 10, 1401
TELEGRAPHIC T'IOKS,
Nine Imminent Apa-has have beer, placed
under arrest at the San Carlos, -Arizona,
AAtnncy.
It is reported that Prince Henry, iEmpernl•
1Villiant'e brother, visited lit,.muck on
Tis radsty,
Irlreployee of the coal urines in 1'vslrssl
Penesylvuntu are preparing for nil extensive
strike un \ley let.
Strikers in Pcnneylrania coke region de.
stroyed several veIce °urns sol other pro
1101.1)' yostrrdny morning.
1'i:e missionary sehoos,er Chttpnuul 1110
wrecked ori"l'ahltl Last November and her
tam of sixteen were chummed.
The Rusei+ln p'Ipers, as a bettor of course,
81)015530 that 11 S ft'tssssaseivation calla for
Retsin's interference in Belga' inn alleles.
The Department of Justirn at Washing-
ton has received the rotnrn of tho Alaska
District Court i s u 1 t to the ev'lt t.is
sund by the Su•
pre'ne Court in the case of the schooner
` ay'tvard,
Duty First,
Duty first and pleasure after is a loss
that it takes a great many boys their wll
life to learn. Others learn ft almost
instinct and these make the world's gra
est noon, but by far the greater number hs
the lesson taught thorn about the time th
got through sullool and settle down to to
a man's piece in the world. The soon
these boys learn the lesson, tete sooner w
they be on the high road to e112e08:.
once know of a sixleen•yenr•old boy w
had obtained a position as asefetant eat
clerk in a ,")s'lusale house, his duty bei
to aid in ell ping and shipping goals. li
a week i ed Ire been tib hie post. Sealed
canto, and it was the first he had over se
ed. It came to him 11110 a shock, panic
lacy es his " nine," for which he pitolnc
was to playa " crack" team from au
joining town. Membership of this elnb
had not thought of giving up. Ater dinn
his employer was told of Isis desire to lea
work about two o'clock, " Well, my bo
there are those hills to bo charged." 1l
hadn't thought of them, and his heart San
His club would bo beaten, and all on
count of Isis absence ; so he mustered
courage. "BBut, sir, 1 promised the bo
I'd be there, and they'll be beaten sure if
don't pitch." The response came quick)
" Yon can go, but don't let it ocenr ngsin
That night at stopper, limbed with vi
tory—for they had won n close game—th
boy told his fattier of tete conversetiol an
the result, adding, " He's a bully ma
father 1" After a few moments' thought th
wise and sometimes severe patent said
" My son, bad I a clerk in your positi
who made such a request, involving Ieavin
work undone he was paid to perform,
should have told hint to get out end tak
up base -ball as a meansof livelihood. Yo
aro paid 56 for a week's work, and befo
the first weak is finished yon shirk yot
duty. Leave your club or abandon yo
p051tlon at once."
The boy thought his father harsh, but 1
was only just, and when, on Monday ono
ing, he learned that this " bully " employ
had taken his place and pone what Ise h
left undone, the implied and merited rebnk
cut him. Manfully he apologized for h
"shortsightedness," and neves• again in tl
many folowing years slid he allow any pe
sonai preference to interfere with his pini
duty. He had learned the lesson.
I have a word for the boy who is about t
enter business, says the Christian Union
Yon are shoat to launch your boat in ne
waters. Tile current is swift ; somatim
g
1t ural b but ntt ftti.n against o es tat •ou,
g y
ea s carry y year mother near your heart
She loves you, site se fibred for you as no on
will. If doubt accompanies mu in the COM
M1881011 of any act, think what she woul
say; would she approve? If you care fo
her, a little voice will speak, however fa
0110 it tvill be a thoroughly representative body.
by It has already been decided that the Pei
Oa ciente of the various Chamber's of Commerce
3 shall serve on the Commission and that it
kc shall be represented in Chicago by anexecu-
er' tive body.
Ill A German princely marriage is now
shoo mooted for the eecond daughter of the Prince
ry of Wales, Prince Victoria, for whom it was
ng past year understood a marriage was about
0°' to be arranged with the Hon, John Baring,
"Y the clever nuc] popular eldest son of Lord
1`-.lievelstoke. The plan then contemplated
')',was that a dukedom should be conferred
aai f- upon the head of the house of Baring and:
that his heir, being a marquis, should be-
" come brothor-in-law of the Duke of Fife.
er Circumstances hating mode nn end of this-
arrangement,
hin
v'0 arrangement, the hand of the young prin-
y, cess its been sought by one of her cousins.
° Her sister, Princess \laud, who is now Leber
00• twenty-second year, theyonr)gestdasphterof
the Prince of (Vales, has been asked n mar.
°p riago by Prince William of Nassau, old-
YA est sou and Heir of Isis royal Highness,
I the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince
\',', William is now in his fortieth year, and a•-
noosements are making, it is said, t0 restore
0A' to his father and eventually to himself a
dgleet part of the enormous fortune of the
Dukes of Nassau which was confiscated by
ce I Prussia after the event of IS66. In the event
18, of the death without children of the young
I Queen of Holland, now th richest heiress
O° in Europe, the crown Duke of Luxembourg,
and Princess Aland of ]iisglend might thus
I l come to fill the throne once occupied by the
°Idanghter of James TI.
° The murder at Sofia of the Bulgarian
r°IFinan°e Minister, AI. ConstantinoBeltebofl',
tr is a seve•oblow to the Stamboiloib Govern-
'', sent, as M. P,elteheff leaves no man in tho
le! ranks of the Government party who con-
, bines his real administrative abilitywith his
'thorough knowledge of the counry. The
noel
'finances isresent xmainly duen�to his man aitioil of ge Hent
and my information leaves no doubt that he
Latest From Europe
England Languidly Consents to Take Part
in the World's Pair --A Royal Matrisge
—Tile Murder of tho Balga:ian .t'inanoo
Minister.
The news) that England will mho part
c,0iciallyin the Chicago lixlibition waspub-
lislteti in Loudon the ether meriting, and
hes attracted vey 11111e attention. Not a
singe editorial late yet been written on the
snb,ject, end m,e•lsere is any but the most
leugeldinterest manifested in the matter..
'l'he fact is, Chicago is so inseparably con-
nected there with unromantic pork that On
thnsiasul in regard to its affairs is quite out
of the question, Tho Royal Commission pro.
nlisod by Lord Salisbury will not l,a consti-
tuted for a considerable time, but the For-
eign Office 1s in commnnieationt with other
Government Departments respecting its per -
sonnet, and there is no reason to doubt that
is; was shot by uustakeu for the Premier. Both
16 he and Stambonioff are men of small stature
and somewhat corpulent, not easily distils-
";gntsheble from ono another in the desk of
111 evening. As 111, Beltaholf was nota violent
t• Ipartisan, bet a cool Man of bnsinea+, cf
!'lniable temper, and personally popular, it
"'lis very unlikely that the shot could have
been intended
for
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t while ft l6
Wm, an open
Al•' P
egret 1
a that 1l.
Hitrovn former Russian re-
: presentative et Sofia, now Russian Minister
at Bucharest cherishes an intense hostility
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developed decided characteristics, wjoioh,
°xortod in one direction would be of greater
neo then fl in another. ri
I have known boys possessed of good o.
vorsatioual powers, pleasing address, who
had the happy faonity of making Mewls
everywhere, forced by thoughtless parents
or guardians to labor behind to desk, dis•
placing sone one, possibly, whose qualities
peculiarly Ari od hint for just this work, and
would have made a success where the other
failed, because Ise was intended for a sales.
man. I say failed, for there is no half -way
greeted. If ono does not adyanoo, iso
fails.
'°moved from those hind oyes you may be
f yon lore her as you should, you will then
wed her commands and counsels, your ski
will always find calmer waters and leas dif
cult to stem. A very trying time it is, tlm
omeuonscionely so, this transitionperiod
boy, wIowa with all of a b's fondness for pia
nd harmless sport ; a bay with a brain
early to receive the hundred impression
oily presented to it ; a boy with no con
option of the word responsibility, and he
ery little of duty --how can lie leu
ake mistakes at first? Ile cannot
ut, oh 1 if he would only profit by
hese errors I Few of us—I 'nigh
hnostsay none—will reoeivotho experiences
f those who care ferns. The child will no
sed its mother•'° warning, but the lit ale
and must be placed in or near the flail for
to lasting lesson to be taught„ The boy
cellaa at his father's caution against souse
hell vice—smoking, perhaps—sari, later in
fe, with weakened nerves or impaired
igestion, he will say, " had I only listened
0 father I" The ntan,confident hi hisstrength
id the business experience of ton years,
nnghs at the advice of an old friend, risks
id lases. Solt is through life ; and wise is
e, and pr08pe'ons will !'e be, if the errors
f the past are allowed to guide to future
ttceess.
A boy surely has some preference, anti
est positively, though but sixteen has
to 111. Stambouloff which would make the
news of theo murder of that energetic oppon-
ent of Russian influence not aboalutapy
disagreeablato him. Tlsopopnlerindi+nation
• in Bulgaria, whatever the truth maybe, will
certainly attribute the murder to Russian
tl agents, who are less noisy now in Bulgaria
than they were a year ago, but not lose
° numerous. M. Beltcheff was 36 years old.
. In IMlle spent several months in London
Y on a epeoial financial mission for his Gov:
t ernment and made a most favorable
° impression. Ho went from London to Me-
t duct negotiations with Servia at Belgrade,
t and, being appointed Under Secretary of
Finance tit Sofia, became AIinieter on tine
Esc retirement of Salabatcheff. Should his
t death be followed by any disturbance in the
financial position of Bulgaria it may have
serious consequences.
Another London Mystery.
A despatols from London dated Tuesday
says :—A bargeman on the Regent's Canal
this morning carate ao•oss the leafleted and
decomposed remains of a Mullen being ht the
teatorn ear Cambridge Heath Bridge, Beth-
nal Croon, Dr: White, divisional surgeon,
made an examination, anti found the body
was apparently that of an adult female. All
the bones of the skull, with tho exception of
throe co four pieties, were missing, as were
the spinal oolcunit, ribs, breastbone, haunch
bones, right thigh and log, and all the h1•
toetines were gore. The body was in an
advanced stop of decomposition, 'Cho doc-
tor is of opinson that the bones had been
rudely dragged from the body, Tho body
had probably been in tiro water for six or
eight months, and it is not likely that melee
to nee identity will be found. The latostiu-
quirios wi11 reference to the discovery last
nigheiu Regent's Canal, London, of portions
of the mutilated body of a woman -Show that
tiro pollee areof .opinion that 11 was a ca,0o
el smeida, and that the mutilation was
caused by barges' or other craft,
"bIave you a largo staff of reporters to
gather the news for you 1" Country editor f
No ; W0 have a wife,"
Quinine,
Quinine is a drag which is liable to abuse,
while it has utgeestionable value in the
class of diseases for which it Jos shown
°peoifie qualities But it omphatieally is
not to bo taken without medical direction and
supervision. Its outsets a on different, per-
sons (1 1130i. greatly. while it seems to be
easily assimilated by sone, and to inrodn00
quite rho desired o6sue other's ere unable to
use it without alarming roealts, while still
others apparently receive no beneflb from
its admruietration, This may bo partially
explained by the fact that the sulphate, in
which form it, is generally employed, is
very insoluble in water, requiring 800 times
its weight of distilled water fol• solution,
and oftentimes needing the administratfou
of acids to enable it to yield its full enact.
A weak stool/telt, therefore, would be un-
able to assimilate the sulphate at all.
The hydrochlorato, which is a more recent
form of the drug, is now coaling into use to
a large extent, owing to its greater solu-
bility, which requires bat fifty volumes of
water. Still, oven thab is not to be habit.
natty employed, and if the oonditiot is such
as to demand its use, it is stroll as to require
medical attetdanoe, A substitute for mein -
ins, a medical egentmu°)t more ell'e°tive and
whose use is said to be attended with none
of the evil effects liable to follow the use of
tholatter drug, is being experimentally used,
It is oil of eucalyptus; but reader's should
not, from an y pr(at°d reports of its finalities,
,pomp to the ocisMusio) that itis a tiling to
bo need by then. inromisououe dosing.
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Awful Suffering in Italy.
The people of Florence, Italy, w+oro in it
most distressing situation during the past
winter, They have been visited by exceed-
ingly cold weather and snow Itasfallon from
18 inches to 2 feet deep. Florence depends
for its very existelsoo upon the 111111(11'edo and
thousands of visitors who flock there during
the season, Thio lmproeodented winter has
had tho effect to almoat completely shut out
foreign travelers, and in consoquetco of this
the smell shopkeepers, who abound in the
beautiful city, have been ruined and all
Masses of people who depend immodiately
upon foreign visitors aro 111 great dlatnmss.
Cold weather and doe p snows are compel,
tivoly unknown to the people of Southern
Italy and such a visitation, therefore, is a
deal moria severe than itwoul l be 0oneidered
Ivy an.