The Brussels Post, 1891-4-10, Page 7APRIL 1.11> 98Oi. THE "BR''[.TSSELS POST.
YOUNG FOLKS.
Just Like Them
"Ills mothers: ryes, 1118 (nether'' brew,
Ills 11011,010 ilp",'Gs plain to see.
"1Its Is 1110 father's self egnln,"
That Is ('hat people say to me.
1 wonder w'llloh of them is wrong:
1111' how oral both of them I, right?
Could one smith boy ho like Ilie taro,
If he 1410(1111 try with 1111 hi, :eight'
Like papal If I ever grow
To bo ns 011 lig and 1411 ns he,
1 ow 10,180) and I1w ranee mid true
1 t ,d
And ueurmns 1 884)114 401111 be
And manuea--gentle, loving, kind,
and sweetoed bountiful and geed-.
Of com•ee (a boy would like to be,
Well, something likelier, if 110 could,
30, If I should bagel to•dny
And do the very hest 1 can.
Perhaps what people say to 010
slay 11,1'71 out (rite whenl'III a mon.
TALKS FOR BOSS.
By (colonel Tbc,n,t.s 11'. Knox
Tis ems' unlet:'/.tis OF CEYLON.
A letter from a young man who is now
making the tour of the world, says that
while passing the shores of Ceylon ho could
perceive distinctly the smell of cinnamon on
the wind that was wafted from the land. I
am afraid he has been the victim of a placti-
caljoke that had been frequently perpetra-
ted in that region ever since Bishop Heber
wrote those famous linea :
" What I tho,g11 the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's Isle."
It is the trick of the locality to entioe the
stranger below deck for a few minutes, and
while ho is abs0nt the rail of the ship near-
est the land is liberally sprinkled with es -
Bence of 011namon and other fragrant pro-
ductions of Ceylon. When everything is
ready the stranger is called up to smell the
spice•laden breeze, and his movements are
so directed that he looks over the rail at
the very spot where the essences have
been distributed. The joke is helped along
by several conepirotors, who snuff the air
like foxhounds and declare that the atmo-
sphere is densely charged with the grateful
odor. Under all his surroundings It is no
wonder that the victim is deluded. Many a
letter has been written ander rho circum-
stances described, and the writers have cle•
v0l0ped 0 very natural enthusiasm on the
subject.
0191101' 1REBEtl AND Ills 1118810NARr ITYRN.
Bishop Heber was appointed to his post
in India in 1823, and from the time of his
arrival there until his death in 1S26 he
trowelled extensively, and made an intent -
Hgent study of the British possession in Asia.
is tomb is at \la&•as, and few travelers
who visit that city fall to see the spot where
the famous divine is buried. His repute
for learning, liberality, kindness, industry
and tolerance was very wide, but he is best
known as the author of the hymn Comment•
ing
"From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,"
Few pieces of verse are better known in
the English language than this. The story
goes that the good Bishop 1800 to preach a
missionary sermon 0110 Sunday, and when
the morning cane he looked through tho
hymnbook to find something suitable for
the occasion. He found nothing ealisfac•
tory, end in an hour he was to start for tho
church where ho wee to officiate. Sitting
clown at the desk in his study, ho seized s
pen and dashed off the lines which have
become so famous throughout the English-
speaking and church -gong world: As ire
enterer: the church he handed the manuscript
to the leader of the choir, and ut rho end of
the sermon the hymn wns sung with an
effect that must have been highly pleasing
to its author.
through the sale of ticket:, and at Inst am
1, cmma, there was to be a great race at Elem.
iugtan (the Jerome Park of Melbourne), the
proceeds of the admission fees and the preen
won by the ravers being given to the ex-
ploration enterprise.
w11A1' 11 'I) 11NOw 01t '1711 AN'r.1R1•'r1'1 anh'rl-
I:S'r,
At present 1111 kuaw very little about the
region alrruntndhlg the Pole, and that
little is not at 011 pleasing. 1711e few voyugee
that have boon Made 111 extrema Southern
waters show that there is 11 1t Me extent of
land there and that 11 abounds h1 111111101108
Prates of ice and snow, and great numbers
of active volcanoes. All along the coast, as far
1 as has been examined, there aro fields and
Coes of ice often extending many tulles from
shore, rendering acees8 to the laud a matter
I of great difficulty, and goner/illy impossible.
There have been ten or twelve expeditions
to explore the Antarctic Continent; no fow-
e'than !sour of these were fitted out by the
Edorby brothers, two wealthy leen, of
London, the first tire) entirely at their own
Be pease, and the last of the four 1D connec-
tion with the others. Their name is per.
petuated in Enderby Land, which was dis-
covered by one of their ships in 1831, in
latitude 67 dog. 30 min. eolith, and longi-
tude 50 deg. cast. Inasmuch a1 Captain
Biaooe, who discovered it, was not ably to
approach nearer than within twenty miles
of the shore on account of the ice and the
intense cold, he was not able to examine it
oarefnlly. The wildest of speculators is
not likely to propose to establish 1a oolony
in Enderby Land, and sell cone' and other
lots to intending settlers. Th object of the
Australians is to find if thele may possibly
be islands in these waters that abound in
fur seals, which aro rapidly increasing in
value owing to the destruction of those :anis
mals in the North Pacific, and to s,ttte
other questions that have either a practical
or a scientific side.
1000L'E ELEPHANTS.
From the south of India comes the re-
port that an English officer was killed re•
contly by a " rogue" olepphunt which he had
shot at 0nd wounded. The reader may pos-
sibly ask in what way a " rogue" elephant
111210rs from any other, and how ho obtained
his name. This I will endeavor to explain.
A rogue elephant is one that has been separ-
ated from his herd and forced to },o by Mtn -
self. If he (lies to enter any herd 111 is re-
pulsed ; even Should he happen to bo cam
tnrecl aloegg with other elephants in a
"drive," all his fellow captives shun him,
110 matter how great may bo their excite-
ment while soaking to escape from the pri-
son, or their grief and despair when they
find themselves bound and starved into sub-
mission, " The " rogues" are vicious in the
extreme, vary hard to conquer when captur-
ed, and very determined fighters when at
large. They wander about the country, al-
ways single and alone, and devastate plan-
tations and gardens in great number. Ono
rogue elephant will rho more damage than
a herd of ten or twenty ordinary elephants,
as he destroys from pure nialico, while the
herd destroys only for the sake of food. No-
body tenon's the reason for the sep1(1041ol of
theta creatures from the herds, but it o
supposed to be in consequence of their bail
tempe•, or possibly for the commission of
what their follows consider crime, just as n
human Ori1111110(1 la ostraoisod in civiUacd
00111111i0Sgmorally. In South Africa there
aro rogue 1)nffaloos, which are kept out of the
buffalo herds in the same lvay that the rogue
elephants are tabooed. The rogue buffaloes
aro quite as vicious 0ncl clangorous as the
rogue elephants, and when a hunter ancone -
tots one of thein he runs a groat risk in as-
suming the offensive, Rogue elephants and
buffaloes will generally, though not always,
mind thele own business if lot alone, but woo
betide the man who distnt'bs thou uuloss he
is is first-class shot, has weapons suited to
the necessities of the occasion, and can run
at groat speed.
EXPLORATION OP Tint SMITH 1'01,0,
Tho people of Anstrales are greatly Inte•-
oaterl in the expedition which is to said from
Melbourne, in July next for the exploration
of the icy regions surrounding tb 0 south pole,
If,10 to he oonunonclod by Baron Nortle,tskjolcl,
the first and Omar the only navigator to
sail around Europe and Asia by passing
through the Amble Ocean, from North Capo
to Behring Straits, The " Vega," that
made the femora v0 loge in 1878.0, is to bo
the principal ship of the Autarotioexpedition
and the oestof the enterprise will bo large.
lydefrayed byprivate liberality and public
nt
0ribu61On'tt effort was made to nduce
the colonial governments in Australia to
mance a grant of money, bub this movement
is not likely to sne0oed. The expedition is
to stmt form Melbourne, ail rho people of
that 0ity aro specially enthusiastic on the
subject ; as they oro noted for their genet,
o0iby( it is quhte probable that they will
make up the desired slim in ample season
for it to bo applied to tho purpose designat-
ed, They havo given a rand'ball, at which
soveral thousands of 'dollars were raised
PRINCIPLE'S Or )t0IIA1,HEn Y memo ustr.
There is a general impression that the
Moslems consider Christ an impostor and
Christianity a fraudulent religion. Such is
not the ease ; the Moslens, or et least the
intelligent ones among them, revere the
name of Christ as the predecessor of Moham-
med, but they deny that He 008 the son of
Goll. Their claim is that many prophets
and apostles have been sent on earth slnee
the creation ; of those prophets and apostles
81x were specially commissioned to proclaim
nolo laws and dispensations which sot aside
the preceding ones. Those apostles were
Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Christ, and
Mohammed, the last being greater than all
the rest and the giver of the final dispensa-
tion to mankind. They put Christ on exact.
ly the sante plane as Mohammed, as the
apostle of God, and not His son, and they
deny, as already stated, that Christ hold
that relation to the Divine Head of the uni-
verse. Some of the books of the Old Testa-
ment are accepted by the Moslems, though
in a inntLlated condition ; many of Moham-
med's religious ideas were borrowed from
the Join ish legends, others from Hindoo my-
thology, and others, again, from the Persians
and other Oriental people. Some of the pro-
hibitions that Ile (made in the Koran are to
be anlmeuled in the highest degree. The
Moslems have always been noted for their
temperance in comparison with other people ;
this comes leans the decree of the Koran,
which forbids the drinking of wine or any
c
t Moslems Ther intoxicant, though 1
mealy g Y \
in-
dulge in secret, and some openly, in o0nae-
quencc of the example, which is shown then
by their European acquaintances. The
Koran forbids gamed chance, 60011 as cards,
dice, and wagers upon uncertainties, and to
such an extent that a gambler's testimony is
rejected in a court of law. Chess and games
of skill that do not interfere with religions
observances, and of which no waga00 have
been made, are premittod. In sleet, a man
is forbidden to nital10 any profit by chance or
dishonest practices, except in buying and
selling, in which, rather singularly, any sort
of deception is j ratifiable.
ECPERIENOE w1Tit A 1IOSLEII SHOT -KEEPER.
I can beet illustrate this last point by a
bit of my personal experience. Ono day I
went to the bazars of Cairo with a friend,
who wanted to buy an olte (about two
pounds) of cigarette tobacco. Wo found a
shop where the keeper spoke a littleFronch,
and 'toted our wants. First it was heeessay
to boat down the price, which required con•
siderablo talk and several movements on
our part to g) elsewhere. On the counter
was a pair o balance scales, similar to those
we see in Amorloan drug stores, where
weights on ono side balance tho merchan-
dise on the other, While we were talking
the follow managed to hid) his oneesk0
weight, and when us cane to weigh out the
tobacco he put the /sake weight in the
scale 01101 two or throe small weights which
he said made a fulloko, which ryas not true.
Bre chocknlnted him in this by balancing
the }-oke Haile with tho small weights and
then putting the whole together en one
side; then Ile placed a sheet of card-
board on the side where the tobacco was to
go, "so that it wouldn't injure the brass,"
es he said. We checkmated this by tearing
the cardboard in two pipes end putting ono
on each side of the scale, and then told him
to pile on the tobaoeo. His final attempt
to cheat was by taking the tobacco from a
jar other than the one 180 had selected; it
was dripping wet, fairly and thoroughly
saturated, and quite 111151 for snaking a el -
aretto, Of 00urse, the Oorreated this trick,
in spite of 1111 declarations that it was the
tobaoeo we had chosen ; the negotiation took
half au hour, at least, but Ivo had no much
fats in the transaction that we dill not be-
grudge the time, The dealer dkl not seen(
in the Ioastdisco.ncerted by his many failures
to cheat a en0Yamer, ail when we left ino
asked ns to Call 1(501(2. ;[Io was simply do-
ing wilat his religion ppetmittod ; 11 is per.
featly proper for the Moslem to cheat the
infidel, or deceive ilial in any way in his
Power, and it is for the infidel to look out
for hie 0181 interest and prevent cheating
and d000ption.
How Knights Are Made,
The ceremony of oonforriilg the order of
knighthood tat tho halals of the (100021 ie not
imposing. It i5 not a public aerenmnial,
and only diose aro permitted to witness it
who, by 1110,1' 011101aal connection with the
Queen's household, may attend her, Array-
ed in whotevor uniform he may bo entitled
to wear, or whatever dross court etiquette
and the timed day make proper, if he bo a
civilian, the subject presents himself before
his sovereign and kneels at her royal feet.
Seated on the thione chair, the Queen logs
the shining blade et a sword soros' the
shoulder of the k1)0011ng but exalted benefi-
ciary, and rays, tieing the title which she is
about to give. "Arise, Sir So -and so." In
other 01008 than this of a plain knighthood,
and when tin title carries with it 0 deoora•
tion, the gracious Queen, with her own royal
handspiFs the glittering and mttcltcoveted
bauble upon the coat of her elevated sub
jeot,
MEN AND WCMEN,
11ra, Janes, a wealthy English lady, is
Building a subarbau town and a railroad
neer Decatur, Ala,
, St The wife l.n mond,
bowl t r
ltnabot, has peotent011110rliege lord, who i
75 years old, with twins.
TliE KOLA NUI,
Cant It De Battle to 'Puke the Place or Ten
and Correa?
A well-known lncdioal journal is recoup
mending tht kola nut as a substitute for lea
and cotiee. The nut, it id d:ud, 111410110111.
tle 1001(111 ((11,1 ((0t (1111111 11800 rn 1 .nm. It
18 claimed that it will 08011 take ills place of
Oen, Deodnrn da 100000011, who bas just' 1521 awl noifa• entirely.
been 010aed pros 40121 of the Brazilian re- A botanist, who las (undo a 41(00101 5tuly
•
public, is 117 'oars old. All hie life 810(00 of (ho nut an(11ts ?rope -anis, rase; " It 1e
t k t tl til t t Int take '1
boyhood has ,ecu poised ill the n(('Iny. a mistake o Bay In the (711 \'1 Il the
place of too and eofi'ee. It has ran astringent
Simon 811ulborg, 0 1'hilndclpbi0n, is only taste that is intpi0asunt, and 1 do not he -
311 yyears old, but Is the grandiathor of two 'love it will Duct be used extensively, or at
c1n!hlret (ln(1 1110 faLkor of 01081,1, Stu hos all in civilized countries, The kiln out le
a gnuuluuut 107 years old, and his grand• it native of the comets of Africa, but has 1,een
father is but two years younger. lid reduced Into and thrives well in the west
The sale by \Ire, King of Corpus Christi, Indies and Brazil. It gro ms on a tree 40 feet
the "cattle queen" of Trams of 1,1,000 2- high, which produces pale yellow (lowers
year-old steers is probably the lergOeteinglo spotted with pulplc. Tho leaves of the tree
order for cattle ever filled in Teens, The aro six or eight inches long, and are pointed
consideration was $89,000. Mrs, Kings' at both o0ds. The fruit consists of five long
ranch is worth $900,000. slender pods radiating from a common aan-
A Wasllittgton hastens house published ter. One of these when broken open is
this advertisement a few days ago: " Robert found to contain several 1 its somewhat
Magrndor, who died at 6 o'clock p.m. Marchsimilar to hazelnuts and abort the. same
4, was in our employ and our predooessors'for aize. The nuts are solid, being slightly softer
sixteen years, most of the time as porter and toward the cedes than on the outside,
delivery clerk. In a lifetime experience we " The natives of the countries where the
never met 000h a faithful, upright, con- nuts grow use them for various purposes.
sciontiotls man in evety dealing and trans• They pass for money in Africa. They aro
action, and, though poor, humble, and also used as a symbol 01 friendship and hate,
black, he was a model and example to every the colored 01108 signifying the farmer, and
one of us who had known him for years," the dark the latter.They are supposed to
Queen Victoria's family cicala nolo num• aid digestion, and it
, is the practice to chew
a small bit before Dating a meal.
bees fifty living descendants, including sons They allay
thirst, and if apiece be chewed and 10111 e
and daughters, grandsons and gro0tdaugh- the mouth while drinking, the most bitter
tete, great•grandsons and great•grond-
and stagnant water can be taken, and this
daughters. Besides these she has four sons•
in-law, four daughters -hi -law, five grand• taste sweet and agrering 8 bio. I doubt if this
sone•in-law, and ono granddaughter-m-1a1v. quality of rendering tagnantwater pure is
ther think that
The queen has Lost 011e son, one slaughter, Lj°esastrhnssible 4)001 taste the sof the anut paralyzes the
five grandsons, ono granddaughter, 9110 gustatory nerves momentarily, and for that
great-grandson, and ole son-in-law. If reason the water is not tasted. Hunger
these were living her family circle would they aro also supposed to allay, but they do
number seventy-four. no more than paralyze the nerves. They
Itis not generally known, says a cores• (lave a stimulating effect, and when going
0pondent of the Leede Mercury, that our on long marches the natives chew bits of the
queens daughters, in addition to being ex- nuts continually, and'with about the same
uellent need e1,0men, oro also good cooks. effect as if intoxicating liquor had been used,
When they were children they had a 111110 though without the same bad results. Pow -
kitchen of their 0011at Osborne, who's they dared kola nut is sprinkled in cuts and
concocted all kinds of dishes, sweets being wounds and has a healing effect
naturally the favorites. Hero they con- " A chemical analysis of the nuts shows
vented into jam and fruit products of their them to contain 20 parte of caffeine and but
own gardens and turned out many n savory a fraction of e, part of tannin. No, it will
dish for the delectation of their brothers, never be used in the plane of tea and coffee.
all of whom had as excellent appetites as Its taste and chemical properties are agelust
generally appertain to boys. At least one ;L,"
of the j.rineesses continues to cook an oc-
casional little plat, and has been heard to DANGEROUS TIMES IN THAYTI.
say that she would have made an excellent -
chef. The Never-ending !Fear of lnourreeI ion.
According to letters from 1 layhi there is
still danger of insurrection at Port.an-Prince
and of the overthrow of the Government of,
President Hyppolite. The President, who
has maintained his power for nearly two
years, has been in constant trouble with his
Ministers during that time, and, thoogh he
has made many changes in his Cabinet, he
is unable to allay the hostility of his numer-
ous adversaries or to pacify the malcon-
tents.
The safety of the State, for the time being,
depends upon tho 'fact that the many dis-
cordant factions aro unable to form any coon
bination by which they can concentrate their
strength, and that they outagonizzo each
other with the utmost bitterness. Elyp-
polite is of course desirous that the squab-
bling between the gangs of conspirators shall
be kept up, for there is no probability of a
suocesfu Linsurrection as lonas
itcontinuos.
He i8 a shrewd Politician, at once strong•
willed and conciliatory, and he has a very
able assistant in his Minister of Finance,
Firmin, who has been his adherent ever
since he obtained lower in 1880.
The financial crisis that alarmed the nom.
mercial class some time ago has become less
serious. The public revenue, which is large-
ly derived from the export duty on coffee,
is more than sufficient for the needs of the
Government,
THE EYES OF DEEP-SEA FLoH,
Very Large 111 seine and Wholly Lachine 4t
Other Varieties.
The queerest thing about deep•soa area.
titres is their arrangements for vision. Fish
that live at very great depths have either
no oyes at all or enormously big ones. In.
deed, there are two ways you may get on in
these gloomy abysses, by delicate -touch or-
gans or by s ght that collects the few rays
of light due to phosphorescence or other
accidental sources,
Now as we go down in the water we finch
of each depth that the effects produced
upon the eyes of fish are steadily magi -naive
in one direction nr the other. Spectra that
Live at a depth of 014111y fathoms have the
eye ale dy a good deal bigger then
heir nearestrepresentatives at or near
• ro utatives that lite n
the surface. •Down to the depth of 200
fathoms where daylight disappears, the
eyes get constantly bigger and bigger. Be-
yond that depth small -eyed forms set in,
with long feelers rloveloped to supplement
the eyes. Sight, in fact, is hero begininng
to atrophy. In the greatest abysses the
fish are mostly blind, feeling their way
about entirely by their sensitive bodies
alone over the naked surface of rock at the
bottom. Some of theta have still external
relies of functionless eyes ; in others, the
oldest and most confirmed abysmal species,
the eye has altogether disappeared external-
ly, though its last representative may still be
recognized imbedded deep in the tissues of
the head.
But many deep-sea fish have a curious
system of hollows in the skull or along a
Tins ou the body which. secreta nmetts or
slime, and this slime often envelops then( com-
pletely, as in a sheet of jelly, from head to
tail. Strange no say, it is phosphorescent.
Moreover, nosey other deep-sea species have
two sets of organa buried in their skin, con-
sisting of round, shiniog, opalescent bodies,
very closely resembling ino'ther-of•pearl.
One sort are largo and oval, and aro placed
on the head not tar from the eye ; the other
kind are smaller and arranged in a series
along the body and tail, 0 pate usually
answering to each joint of the backbone.
All of then are abundantly supplied with
nerves, and they seem to be orgsus for the
production and perhaps also for the per-
ception of phosphorescent light. If so,
we may suppose that emelt such fish goes
about like a string of glow worms or a train
of lighted cars, all the organs along his side
or tail shining faintly in the dark, some-
what after the fashion of luminous paint.
Dr. Gunther suggests that in certain cases
the phosphorescence may be produced in a
sort of book all:unbar of the organ, and
than emitted in partt0n01(1r directions through
the lens in front, prooisoly as a policemen
Bashes his bull'e•eye on any point,
--a• - ,
Consider the Stomaoh.
The evil habit of going too long without
food is ono from which many people suffer
in the prosenthurrying age. Mol Bit in their
offices, 11-0111011 rush abort et their slopping,
and both 110801110 so absorbed in their in-
1020ote that the period of hauger is allowed
to pass ail that of fatigue and depression
to set in. Theo worst of it is that, onoo the
second stage is reached, the denim for food
is gone ; and after many house' abstinence
tho man or Nonan is too exhausted to digest
a meal.
To avoid this extreme it is only necessary
to take the most light and rapid rep, 1st dine
ing the hungry stale, A glass of milk or
merely a biscuit 01110 hungry will prevent
rho after leen of oppotito. Anel yet manly pro-
ler to ruin tiheir health lather that take
the trouble to turn into a dairy shop 01111
drink a glass of milk.
Tho Small Boy's Revelation.
This the small boy who usually tells things,
and the dinner table is his favor -theatre.
Not long ago a bright little follow peered
over into the dish at the hood of tiro table,
mid exclaimed :
What a little ehieken for so many
people.
The son any smiled eurreptitiontly, and
his mother endeavoured to quiet him. Bob
ho was like llalgqno's ghost. After they
1 cl all boon helped wore eating, his face
to o j ,
suddenly lib all, and, clapping his hando, he
shorted 1
" 011, yes; I know now, mamma. This is
the little ohleken that was sick 8o long in
the yard, ain'a 11 ?"
Thaokeray and Irishmen,
It was on the same Joy that a broken-
down Irish gentleman, not unlike the great
Costigan, fell into talk without being intro-
duced. His brogue was thick andnoblo, and
after a time he said : " Y e might not believe
it, Seer, but I'm an Irishman."-" Good
heavens I You don't say so 1" answered
Thackeray. " I took yon for an Italian."
This playful love of Ireland and the Irish
was for aver with Thackeray, and many of
his Irish ballads aro Mae less racy of the
soil than Lever'sovn. But it was not under-
stood, as he always felt henever wits. Hisgood
tempered banter was set down as mockery,
and one day, in Anthony Trollop's stables,
a curious old groom who hoard .Chaokorny'e
name said to hint : " I hear you have written
a book upon Ireland, and aro always
making fun of the Irish. Yon don't
like us." -" God help me I" said
Thackeray, turning his hoed away as
hie eyes filled with tears ; "all that I have
loved best in the world is Irish," Much did
he love to talk of Irish oddities, and Ont ing
Ma American lectures was delighted to tell
how, dining (at St. Louis, he overheard ono
Irish waiter soy to another : "Doyon know
who that is ?'•' " No," was the answer,
" ThOt,u said the first, is the celebrated
Thacker." " What's lie clone ?" D -d if I
know." -[Life of W. M. Thackeray, by H.
bi5rivale and E. T. Marzials,
Brain Work at Eight.
To the imaginative young writer there is
a fascination about the quietude of miinter-
ruptod night work until melt of its mischief
has 115011 done. If he has it fixed daily occu-
pation, or 15 popular among his friends, the
night off0's the best chance for continued
application by its quiieness and peace. This
very caseation of life's turmoil and the Pc'
suiting feeling of case should bo accepted as
ratnrc's preparation for rout. Unless it is
intporatve, night work should be avoided,
says a writer iu ale Herald of Health, It
must bo imperative to the staff of morning
papers, and the question then assume im-
portance -of accomplishing the work with
the least possible expenditure of vital force.
While by working during the day persistent.
ly asal deliberately an mimeos amount of
copy can bo thrown off, that produced after
midnight absorbs the best part of the
writers vitality.
Rust in Machinery.
To avoid rusting s f machinery a mecha010
says ho takes one ounce of camphor and dis-
solves in a pound of molted lard, taking of
the scum, and mixing in as much fine hlrck
load as will give it odor. Tho nlacbinory
is tion :leaned and smeared with this mix-
ture. After twenty.tanr hours the maclliu-
ory is rubbed oloan wilt a soft linen cloth,
mei it will koop clean for months. Tho
same artisan gives the following method of
hardening tools ; Forge the tool In shape,
then molt 111 a dish sufficient Babbitt motel
to 00701' rho end of the tool 5.8 far as it is
wished to harden it. Thrust the tool into
themotal and lot it cool. This method melted
the tool much harder Than 00olfing in oil or
tempering by any other process.
A FLEA FOR OSTRACISM,
Might not modern democraeic0 profit by
adopting some wisely modified farm of os.
freewill .(sill ? nee peculiar institution, so ably
defended by Grote, was also approval of by
the motor- thinker Arlatotlo, it saved the
:amnion -wealth of Athens from sundry
da (:gee for it century, and its principle was
rippled by other an0]ent stator with Jenne
orati0 constitutions during ((1100:, in their
history.
It will be remembered by most. studenle
1' at, when the swain and pablfe assembly
of Athena do, idad that any too powerful
citIzen or eiOzone might 50(laurer the eta.
bility of Cho state, these bodies Endued it Joy
furaplebiscitten, On this day each voter
)1'08 entitled to write on a shell the name of
the individual he thought most dangerous to
tile commonwealth, and to drop this shell
Into a t'CCOpLttele 51(0(1de(1 for the purpose.
No name was suggested to the people, but if
any individual happened to be vaned on
(1,1)00 ballots 1" 0110 fourth of the entire
citizen population," stays Grote), he was
exiled for ten years. He retained his pro-
perty and mould travel where he pleased,
outside of Attica. Ostracism 18118 i n8ti toted
es a safeguard to rho state, not as as punish.
moot for individuals. Indeed it was a0t'0ng
evidence of a man's prominence in his native
mimicry, and a man so exiled nsnally enjoy-
ed a good deal of prestige al'rood.
Have not modern republice in Hayti and
Central and South America repentodly had
their Governments violently upset, as Ath-
ens had, by intriguing military leaders?
Might they not to some cetera guard them-
selves against this danger, as Athens did, by
some form of ostracism? \Viten the person.
ality of an untrustworthy individual looms
ominously large befcro the people, would it
nob be desirable that they should have some
method of decreeing b is p les fill withdraw.
al, as a precaution, net us a punishment?
Should not the reputable element in a deen-
oeraoy-the men who prefer the welfare of
the state to the triumph of any person or
party -have the privilege of venting to avert
a. threatened crisis, ins( sad of being con-
strained to battle with it?
Wert the principles of ostracism adopted
by a nation, the machinery could easily be
arranged. One method would be to require
the president, on the signed petition of a
large and specified number of voters, to
name o day for tho people to give choir
answer, by secret ballot, to some such ques-
tions as these : "Have yon good reason to
believe that any citizen is so dangerous to
the state as to justify his summary exile ?
1.1 so, who ?" If a fixed proportion of the
registered voters (not of those voting on the
occasion) should name the same individual,
this would 0on0111010 a verdict of ostracism.
What this proportion ought to be would of.
course need grave consideration. It might,
perhaps, vary from 0 third, a fourth or a
fifth of the registered voters, in a small re•
public, to an eighth or even a tenth in a
large one. For it seen clear that the per.
ae1tag0 must be greater in 'Ismail than in a
large state of persons who have direct and
reliable knowledge of each prominent
citizen and who are qualified to Gauge his
ambition, his conscientiousness, and his
resources.
If the adoption of this expedient might
enable Hispano-Amenfran commonwealths
to get rid of menacing military adventurers,
it might help France in dealing with her
Boulanger' and pretender's. In the great re-
public 0(1 our borders there were seine
years ago persons v o mi c 8
ructind the character of General Grant, spoke much of
the dangers of Cns0risnl and military dicta-
torships. But dismissing such fears as
obimer,,s, our neighbors may have quite as
formidable public enemies in the shape of
influential demagogues. May there not melee
in the United States, may there not be there
11019, some great political wire -puller, elo-
quent and magnetic, shifty and masterful,
skilful in playing on passions and prejudices,
a leader proforring his own (aggrandizement,
to the welfare of his race, who would stoop
to risk thepeace of his country for the thence
of winning some ignorant votes, and who
would not shrink from burning the record of
his errors in the blaze of a fratricidal war?
If it has a citizen so brilliant and so um
scrupulous, might not the American Union
also profit by copying the old Athenian in
stitntion?
7
THE BAY NUR.
Mrs, Quigley Said to Have Confessed ob.
Her DsatIs•-hod
liel1ed her 111101110' 10 01e41101 V'il'e Over
the hIngara Pr(' Oyler • Sho ''ails leer
Mother the ivory when hying -(the
Mother ttefn a le Sprat ,talent Fl,
A Rochester do niton etnlci that Mrs.
Quigley, sist'•r of Arthur Day, wi,o 0att
hanged at Welland in December Inst for t' •.
amu ler of 10o wife, hail confessed o1 :or
dootlebed her complicity in the '1(bee. The
Rochester Democrat card t,/"•ocicte, contains
the following with reference to the confes-
sion n-
' 1 pnllod her dress over her facie and
helped Arthur push her over the bunk !"
Yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, at the
hones in which she had been living, Mary
Quigley, sister of Arthur Day, tvhewaslmng
in Welland, Ont,, on December 18, 1890,
for the murder of his wife at Niagara Falls
on July 20, died, and to her mother she
made a confession in which the startling
sentence printed above occurred,
After the murder Mrs. Quigley lived
for time with her mother in the Sibley
block, but the two did not get ...long well
together, and about two months ago Mrs -
Quigley got a room on South street. Nearly
a mouth ago she became ill and took to her
bed, and it woe three weeks before she sent
word to her mother that she was i11. Last
Saturday her mother learned that she was
sick, and at once went to the place where
she was living, returning to }ler own rooms,.
No. 62 i•, the Sibley block on Monday, and
at Tuesday going back again and remaining
with her until she died,
For the last two or three days Mrs. Quig-
ley was very nervous, and asleep or awake
kept muttering brokenly about ' Arthur'
and "Desire" and just before she died she
made a confession to her mother that she
wasust as guilty as was Arthur Day of the:
murder of his wife. At the time when the:
confession was made Oras. Day was alone•
with her daughter. At two c'cloek Mrs.
Quigley died, and shortly after the body
was removed to Ingmire & Thompson's un-
dertaking rooms. There it now lies.
Mra. Day returned to her home in the -
Sibley block, and about eight o'clock lash
evening site confided to a gentleman, whose
voracity is unquestioned and whose name
will be announced if necessary that Mrs.
Quigley confessed to her that she was equally
guilty with Arthur in the killing of Desire.
Mrs. Day said :-
"Ma'y kept (loaning and tossing all the
morning and kept looking at one spot ou the
('all opposite the bed She would look at
this spot half an hour at a time without
taking her eyes off it. I 0slredherwhat she
was looking tat, and she said that she could
sea Arthur there, and then all of a sudden
she burst out crying and said : ' Oh, mother,
I have got something on my mind that I
must tel you.'
"I quieted her es well as I could, and then
she said : ' It wasn't all Arthur a fault that
he killed Desire. I was just ad Punch to
blame as he was, and we went to Niagor
Falls to got her out of the way, When w
gut het to the edge of the back we decided
to push her over. I pulled her dress up over
her face and helped Acular push her over-
the
verthe bank. I can't die without telling this,.
and now I feel so much better.'
"Then," co0tiuned Mrs. Day, "1 got
right clown on my knees and asked the
Almighty to forgive 11er, and before I was
done praying she was dead. 1 know that
Arthur died a happy man, and I think that
Mary was agoorl deal happier for telling me
whet she did. It was hard wen dr for her to
talk, and it took her a good while to tell me
what she did."
At 11 o'clock lust evening a Democrat and
C)n•onicic reporter went to \urs. Day's room
in the Sibley black and famed that she bud
returned. After some knocking Mrs. Day
came to the door and the reporter was ad-
mitted. Mrs. Day is a mall women, appar-
ently over GO years of age, with white hair..
She 01'laa not at all pleased at being wakened,.
and was inclined to be vary uncommunica-
tive. " Mrs. Day," said the reporter, " I
understand that burs. Quigley confessed to
you that she helped Arthur Day push
Desire over the back at Niagara Falls. Is
that true ?"
" It's none of your business whether itis
or not."
That don't mane any difference. Did
Mrs. Quigley confess?" •
" Who told you that she did ?"
Tho name of the informant wets mouti0n-
od, and then Mrs. Day said sharply 1-
" What business has he telling things that I
told him ?"
It was intimated that that was another
matter, sed that the question Dns whether
or not Ira. Quigley confessed, "How could
she confess when she was so sick '2 She was
sick three croaks before I knew anything
about it, and I went down there 1"sa Satur-
day, She was so sick that. it '0nd I:ord to
nnderstald what she was trying to say."
" Did she confess'("
" Young man, this is late atnight, and 1:
want you to get out of my room. I don't
want any true's with reporters, or detectives,
or any of those people. I know thorn, Yon
needn't ask nae any more gm:Atlone for I
wont answer thele, "1'11 never tell you
whether Mary confessed or whether she
didn't. Arthur died happy :cul so did
Mary."
Repeated questioning on the sane point
did not elicit 1117 tether information, and
only suece0,1011 in getting Mrs. Day 9007
much excited. There i8 not a particle of
doubt, however, that Mary Quigley did con.
fess that she helped Arthur Day murder his
wife, and that she was equally guilty with
him in the planning and execution of the
murder.
To get rid of self-seeking demagogues was
not, it is true, the original object of ostrac-
ism, which was designed merely to guard
the Government (which hod no standing
army to sustain it) from falling into the
hand of usurping despots. And thissnggestn
the reflection that, as novel uses of the insti-
tution would he probable in a modern com-
munity, novel (abuses of the institution
would be probable atsn, Though the name of
nobodY wouldbepinomlbeforetllevoters,and
even thoughitshoukl be madeaunisdemeanour
to calsus against say indivieluol, yet some
worthy and lingleminelodcitizen might hays
unselfishly championed a eanee obnoxious to
so many of his countrymen as to render his
ostrae!sm quite possible. An energetic
apostle of direct taxation, or of a angle•
tax, or of female 80tl'iag0, or of more gener-
ous treotment of the Chinese, or of checking
the tyranny of labour unions, or of curtail•
ing ornamental studies in tho public schools,
night find himself sentenced to involuntary
absence from his country. Bub to such 0
ratan his exile would be a glory and not n
shame. He would be woleomod and honour-
ed by the thinkers and reformers of every
cit 110021 country, even by those who dig.
agreed tvith his theories. His property
would rennin in his possession and, 1f bo
necdud it, luerativo employment would
readily bo found for 0 (mann so minim 1as he
would necessarily bo. Suppose there were
In this Dominion enough bigoted prohibi-
thonists to ostracise Mr. Golrlwin Smith
on account of his dlsintel•rsteel impel -
tion to their favourite panacea, or
suppose there wore enough bigoted patriots
to Ostracize him. 011 account of 1115 "manifest
cdestiny" alarmlaos, is it likely that the
"latus or the property of that great writer
and honourable man would bo impaired? If
the sslaahhl8 politicians, who antler at mon
who combat their party when they think
their party wrong, could pr0vail on on0ltgh
voters in the United States to ostracize that
ar0humglvnnlp, George William Curtis, they
would only send him abroad with hie altar.
eater as a patriot enhanced and his income
as a writ0r doubled, And in case the loaders
of any political party wore silly e1004�h to
remove a worthy but too popular standard=
bearer of the opposite party by inducing
their rank and filo to vote falsely that ho
was a danger to tho state, It Is not likely
the blunder would over be repeated.
that L) p
Sympathy for tho distinguished exile and
indignation against the dirty tootles of his
foes would do more effective work for his
party than his preson00 and his loaclorehip
could possibly perform.
As to whether any system based on tum
principle of ostracism would bo workable in a
modcrulation, or whothor its good ivouldout•
weigh its ovil, I can only hazard a gue08. This
is merely a erudo and hasty suggestion, difli.
donty offered for the consideration ofdeopor
thinkers.
P. BLAME 01108803,
Stabbing Affray m a Train,
On the arrival of the mid -clay train Eton
Dublin at two o'clock the other afternoon, a
elan, in a wildly eve ted state, was observed
to jump otiwithin e, hundred yards of the plat-
form, and to run in the dirto(lon of a neighbor-
ing -wood. His conduct and general appear•
auoe were so strange that a porter named
M'Noil and ConstableGlynnstartod in parsiut
and olfeched his 00ptur0. \1oalwhile the train
hail pulled up. It was then discovered that
uo fewer than five (ler who bad travelled in
the same compartment with the fugitive had
been brutally stobbod by him 111 a most -
wanton manner. Tho man, whose name
proved to bo Govan, nv08 a pa05o0gor from
Liverpool to Castlobar. Ido behaved all
right until the train was getting near Castle-
roe, tinct ho suddenly jttmpod up from his
spat without the slightest provocation, and
commence:1 hooking and stabbing furiously
at ovary one within raavell with e-twa•bladed
packet-klnifc. Such Alas the mad fury with
which ho used tile 19003)011 that lie brolto
both blades, but nob told ho had succeeded
In wounding all tho 110001 five in ntu01,0-
in the compartment. They cer0 for Alm
moment too panic stricken, to 501110 their
opponents, and ho managed to jumpeloor of
dtrain. do is detained .at Ca0ttorert
relied Barracko, and is believed to be 10640;,