The Brussels Post, 1891-4-24, Page 91
AP -AIL 17, 1801.
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The IJse of Oplum Defcntied in the British
House of Commons --A iloore. M Oana-
Won Immigration—Affairs on the
Danube.
Ina defeat of the Governments in the
lIoase of COMMODS the other eight by it inns
ty of thirty was du o to dieted management
of the Conservative whips, and will have no
mportant poll ical con eequelices, The opium
queetion hue nevee been strietly party
one. The politic:inns of ell eluoles opin•
ion admit that theoretically 10 le tt very
wicked thing for the Government of Indio
L o raise millions of revenue from the opitun
troffer, and for the British Government to
1111 its exchequer with the proceeds of taxes
upon Uglify ; but fa each ease the trouble le
how to obotin the same am nint of Immo' ie
a more desirable manner, India would loan
over 5,000,000 rupees not revenue: yearly if
the cultivation of opium were prohibited
as proposed in the Honse of Commous,
told it is not likely that as the mover
of the resolution the ether night suggested,
" for the sake of Christianity, ino•
relay, and humanity," Eugland will pay
Indio thtst amount out cf her own pocket.
Two members were not trammed to defend
the opium tattle, end indalgence 1,, the drug
as well.
Of the three parliamentary seats now vise.
not the oity of London will not 14 eantested
by the Liberals, but they will fight and
probably wit, Whitehaven, and are not
without hope of wresting the Woodstoek
division of Oxfordehire teem the Tories,
although they ore labouring looter
initial disadvantage of being uneble to lhid
their clinsee cannel:Ye who is travelling in
foreigu perte unknown,
It is esseeted that the best eines of British
et:lig:suite show au increasing diepesition to
go to Catinolit in preferenee to the United
Star tes. The Alm; alesian ie(' newel:lent
is duo to the persist out prepaganda, carried
on from he Hish Commiseireier's (ace in
Lotidon, end 10 0,1110eetiol1 11,ere:111i th tO the
admirolde plait ::1 eel:ding to CS:nada every
year et delegation of tenalit farmers to see
the country and revs.; up.a: 11,, esenrees
and capabilities. The 1.0.1.0/110 reputtn (011,10
by last year's delegates ['eve heel: embodied
in a pamphlet. of which to, fewer that 000,•
000 have been printed end aro le ilia" (Arent.
atod theougliout the United Kingdom. Jr
is thought the full effect of this missionary
work will not be felt untl 110N t sensor:, loot
every one coneerned seems coetident that
189e will witness a great boom in Canadian
emigration from this Englaad.
Some uneasieess is felt in diplomatic cir-
cles, and is publioly expressed, at the aspect
of affairs on the Danube. No doubt what-
ever exists that the Russian Government is
actively moblifizing very lergo forcee of
cavalry, imantry, end artillery ntong the
froutiere. Russian influences ave completely
paramount, in Romaitnia and Servia, tool
what is deecribed by a Govinan cliplotnntist
as a state of politic:id war exists between
the Russet") agents Red Bulgaria, How
seriously the eituation is viewed at Berth:,
notwithstanding the optimist statements
recently published in the Berlin official
prees, is inferred from the fact that wherene
two monthe ago 1.101:11111I1 officials negotiating
for 0 11090 Bulgarian loan were ad vieed by
t he GormanGoyern merit not to tak e m ensures
for bringing it, out in Berlin lest 1211001011 sus-
ceptibilities might be offended, in now un-
derstood Oa: the Berlin banks will take the
loan openly and that quotations will be made
for it when it is issued on the Berlin ex-
ohange. The consequences of this need riot
be dwelt upon. In short, many things in-
dicate that Lord Salisbery's " etulden sum.
mer shower of war" ma.y break over Europe
almost at any moments So fire as Soria IS
concerned Russittn influence is now openly
accepted. King Milan's nog,otiotions with
Patchich appear te be coming to a antis-
foctory eonclueion on this basis the King
giving up all his Austrein proclivities, and
the Russians agreeing that Queen Natalie
shall be kopt outeof the country on 11)0 000'
01101005 (151-001 upon between her husbeed
and the regents, Meanwhile the Servians
are negotiating for the purchase of 100,100
rifles.
TIIE BRUSSELS POST.
GOEBT OP O10WS7,---
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a aternarhatoy Queer Sight Seen in a Pre•
11101410(1 state.
I never wnrild have 1,elieve:1 storiee .told
about crow jostle() had not, attended their
"court," says Ewing limbed, 111 the Kansas
City Slat.. One beautiful day ill December
I wan ridlog 011 t110 p.11410 read two miles
north of HaI0111i, Kau, I had noticed great
llochs of crows flying ithout 100, and when
nearlog It cottonwood grove, in making a titrit
to the right, law hundreds of them perehed
in the trees in solid lino to the mid ol the
rows. I had read eoinewhere that clews
were well -governed birds, and whoa I saw
thio liticalooking body I judged thot it Bat
ther0 00 give trial 10 all (Ander of Roma
sort, I stripped my horse, half fearing the
erafty birds would fly—adjourn: court or
continue the case. To my deliglit no atten-
tion wee peid to mo—it takes a man with a
gun to dieturb these mocking, impudent
blaelelees. I Wan just in time to bear and
see all that was done,
From a, tree at the head of a row, wbere
ton crown eat, thore 0101110 BU011 lOtld and
repid clawing as I never heard before from
so few throats, and every 11010 and then all
Ole fleak joined in making the 110100, end the
chorus thus furnished was ell that could have
been miked if noise was desired. After twe
or throe minetes 01 11110 racket o silent rest
was token, which witis broken by 11010010
urow, who made a little talk in the crow
dialect, followel (slickly by others.
Things became more dignified and my in•
101001 10 the proceedings Wan 00 111tenae that
when a fine, fat bird submitted a few
remarks and was applauded by general
cawing from every bird proseat 1 could
scarcely keep from clopping my hands.
Suddenly twelve crows flew clown the line
twiee and back tool all was still as they ditl
so. 19000 amused and startled. This night
be tr jury of crows on paeoele. And I believe
it was. Af ter two or three crows had again
spoken the twelve flew down the linos once
morn ; bet this time there were fierce ems
from or els' Lwow onswer to 00100 from the
twelve. aly fancy explained 1 The mry
was: seekiug its verdict in pedalo opinion,
foal the excited crowe, like revolutionaey
mobs, elemoneled blood. Beek to their
perches for the laet time flow the crows and
again a silence fell not unlike tile abrept
111101) of's:out:tromp whispere tie the priseuer
eteps forward to learn the woret. But 1
mulct distinguish n M looked
for the peer tel OW there Was a great angry
CILNV from 0001 CrOW and all new to the cen-
ter of the line, where, as I live, they tore
throe of theie nesnepeating kind in shreds,
leaving only a few feathers to float upward
and eat of bigl t. as they separated end noise.
loesly llow away, seemingly Beth:lied with
whist timy hool done.
Prone and England to rbitrate,
As was stated in last week's FOILICS'll ANT,
'FA UM, France and England have egi eel to
arbitrate their Newfoundland difficulties.
Accompanying that statement 00110 1.1101001'
dear:ring that the 0011,11y 90, to bo eoereed
into giving effect to the trolley of the lin'
pedal government. This natatory rebel
quite a storm in Nowfoundittod and 011
Tuesday a depotation of merehentis
gaged in trade with the Island visit-
ed Mr. William Hooey Smith, the Gov,
ernmeet leader in the House of Cum.
mons. Mr. Smith, in addressing them, re
pudiated any desire on the part of the
Government to eueree tho people a New.
foundlend. The British Government, no
said, was hound by 110111.0 1, and when the
other peril held viem 0 so strongly
as France did, there WM 110 alternotive fee
arbitration but war. If the Newfoundland.
ers thought the terms of arbitration rvere
injarioue Le their interests, the Govern-
ment was prepared to hear their views on the
matter ;but it must, be 1 emernberedthat the
conditions: of the arbitration were imparted
to the colony before they were agreed to
by the Imperial Government, whiciti, being
responsible for the peace of the empire,
must be responsible for the conditims under
which it endeavored to procure the s
men of an extremely difficalt subject In
reglad to objeotions, omissions and admis-
sions of the treaty, a basis o! arbitration
must be agreed upon between the parties.
The French 000tentions could nob be
ignored. We must ascertain whether their
vlew is right or wroeg. One ,gentlemen
had objected to limitation of the arbi•
teistion. He himself desired it should be
extended to include all points of difference,
but the Government had every hope thot
as the orbitretion proceeded a decision
night bo arrived nt regarding the most i10.
portant points of difference. When onoe the
rights of the respective pertiee were awes
tamed 11 11105111 Impossible 10 0911.00' into n ego •
deafens to settle efiliculties which had ex-
isted mere than a century, The Government
contemplated the probability of arriving at
41 decision as to other righte, which ho ad-
mitted had. been paiiitul subjects to New-
foundlanders, and had had, undoubtedly,
moll impended tho developing of thocolony.
Refoering to the necessity for the modus
vivendi 111 view of the approach of the fish-
ing 10400i19 he said a moet bit .mmatory doe-
ttmenth od been circulated on the westcoast of
Newfoundland, and was likely to seriously
imperil the peace, This showed 1.110 19)50)10)'
of the case and the deng,er 00 whith tho
was exposed by restatonce to an twang.
ment directed solely to scouring tho interests
of Newfoundlanders. Itavasperfectlytruothot
11 rteenctoted old power's, bet simply with a
view to seaming peace ond exerting the ter-
rible oonsequenee which worth" result !roma
breach thereof. Tho Imperial GOV01111Mallt
Wan compelled, much against, ita will, 10011-
01)9491.010 performance of the treety ob'igotions
by the Loco' Legisleturo, The Uoeernment
did not desire to interfere inin Urea ooneerns
of the colony, but \Odle the treaty remained
THE FINGER
Important Reasons Why (ke)' Should tie
Siept 01,011,
There is to common belief thee the finger
nails etre poisonous which Wets is nittural
enough, considering the fact that sereachee
made by them are generally quite irritable
and much incliner' to neusual mflammution.
The reasoning is erroneous, however, for,
as fel' 00 is known, the ottils themselves do
not Mee poisonouit propertiee. nor
trouble excited by them is due to the foreign
deposits under them, In other words, 1± 000
keeps his finger nails clean, seretches cannel
by them will he no more irritable than those
produced by any like instrument that is
considered innocent.
The results a the examinetions made in
Vienna show that it is more important that
the finger nails be kept clean than naly
would suppose. Segenty.eight wore made,
and there wore found thirty kinds of micro.
cocci, eighteen different booilli and three
kinds of weenier besides, 009000011 mold
spores were proson't in many Matinees,
It 900111d S00111 fr0111 that the apnoea
TELBGH &PHI° TICKS,
La grippe is agala epidemic in Sheffield,
Fingland.
Coattnakers in WIlldflOr /ID" litrnek for
higher wages,
Alonzo Speneer of Now York hen been
appointed United &otos (200801 et Planta
lo. 8.
retail grouers of Toronto will eirou.
late petitions for the Owing of raw sugar on
the free list.
Tito eastbound 0. 1', R. morose met with
two mishaps between Rat Portage and Lake
Superior on Sunday.
8090001 dead balies were fomul in the
Lachine enual at. Montreal when the water
Wan let ME
Indian tribee in Colorado end NOW MOX.
100 110011 lost nearly all their livestock in the
past winter:Si eternal.
Charles J. Weir, assistant trainmaster 0)1
the Michigan Central at St. Thomas, eliot
himself dead the other morning,
The Gonadial) Pacific Railway Co. has
issued in London Se 1,000,000 of mortgage
bonds on its Minneapolis and Sault line,
A groat meeting of striking weavers at
Bradford, Eng., yesterday wee dispersed by
the inilltury and the pollee, a good many
bang hurt.
Is My Heart Right 'With God?
A missionary from Indio., in telling of his
work in that: country', said that whon he
could get a foothold in an outlying village
by obtaining permisaion from the author-
ities to adtivess such of the villagers 011
would come together for the purpose, lo
fennel that the pcople were always eager te
know more of the Goepol story. As soon ire
arrangements could be made he sent ant
from the mission etistion a teacher and his
wife with this charge: " You are to go to
this people and live with them. Yon are to
teach them to read and write ; you ere to
teach them the troths of this Bible. Romeo'.
bor that MI they will know of the religion of
Christ, all in fact: that they may 0000 11 11090,
901 11 be what you manifest to there in your
daily live, and what you teach them teem
this Book," Would not the mulemnity of
living be more deeply impressed upon us if
we could feel that WO ran neither so live to
ourselves not: yet be so 100011 10 port of n.
000111110y that there aro not those who eve
getting their only knowledge of God and
Christianity throngh oar lives and our
words? Suvely, with the thought of such an
influence 00 11)18 comes the consolousness that
one hearts 111t1St be right telth God before we
can manifest his truth.
"Is thy heart right, as my heart is with
thy heart?" This question, which the
newly anointed king of Israel puts to the
man whose help he ueeds in the gteat week
to which he has been called, of exterminat.
ing idolatry and restorieg the worship of
Jehovish, may well come home to us as we
contemplate the fact *et we, as Christians,
are "God's follow.workers." Let us look
at the question 010190 9(1011 CIO& enenestly
and prayerfully, lost we be among those who
shall ono day nok, " Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy hy thy name, . and by thy
name do many mighty works 1" and restive
the answer, " I riever knew you. Dessert 1'
We may know that our hearts are right
with God just its Jerats keew dust thee -VON.
loved him. They were one in desire and
purpose. " God so loved the world that he
gaye bie only begotten Sou." " While we
were yet shiners Christ died for us." "There.
fere," save Jeaus," cloth my Father love me,
because 1 lay down my life, that I might
take it again. ' Becituse he kept his Father's
nommamiments, his abidingaplaca was hie
rather's love. God has made known his
will concerning 08 through his Word. As
Ilia Son was sent to seam the world, so are
wo sent, not only to bear the message of
salvation, hut to impart to others the We of
(heist 9(19i011 is in ns. Ho has given us his
commandments : " If a man 1000 MO, he
will keep my words : and my Pother will
love him, and we will come unto lihn and
make our abode with him."
We knew that if our desire euul purpose
is to tiro° the world from the Rower of sue
and to this end we give ourselves to be sent
wherever ho sholl appoint, if our will is con-
formed to his will, and we yield obetlieuce to
his least command, 11 900 seek not our 01011
pleasuresor our own glory, and seek not to
he ministered unto but to minister, then we
0011 answer this question in the afiirmative.
lint what if in our doing WO fall far short of
our dosire, and oor wills are erten rebellious
and leact us into disobedience, and self is a
yet unconquered fee? How, then, shall we
nswer the question? There is encourage.
meta in the thought that it ie a gaeetion
between ourselves and God, W110 1010900 otir
heart fair bettor than the tenderest human
friend can know it, tmel who vill consider
well the odds egitinst which we fight,enel
will understand our ansrlear to be et prayer
for help, and will give us of his Spirit to
work in us thtst which is well -pleasing in
his sight.
under the finger path: were favoroblo tiding nurevised it must bo respected lsy all the
places for minute organisms which itro more Queen's subjeas wherever they nights be.
or less peejudicial to health, tool that therein It had been a source of lIrcat sorrow that re-
lies the poisonous element attributed to the
nails. bwrthorLnoro, thot cleanliness of tho
nails is a very important mantled It is
not sufficient: to use merely a knife blade,
but at the toilee 1111111 brush and plenty of
soot: and wetter should be celled into service.
Surgeons long ago learned that, cloposite
under the nails wore a menace, and that
throngli thorn wounds wore easily poisoned.
This led to extremo care in tho matter of
pummel elemiliness on their 09011 part 111191
on the part of (11 111000 assietauts, Before
on operation is performed all who touch the
patients or the instremonts which aro to bo
used 11111st first °lean their hands thoroughly
with wrap and water, hoing especiolly care-
ful to haps the epaces under the nail$
abeolutely elean. After this tho hande ate
11011 11110 dismfootivetiantion,
Little V,oap Thad hi India,
It is stated that snap 09 1111110 IS regarded
anted. in the fight of a natured 01101(0!15',for 01 00 tetrel)' if over to bo obtained of tr 8195101111.By the woy, Honolulu papers
shopkeeper there, Of mune, 11 10 sold in toll us that when the tato Mug died some
peeled requests to the owfounelland Gov'
eminent had failed ofvtheir objeet. &reces-
sive governments 1,9 England had done their
best to mitigate the undenioble 0110000011'
101100 barasseng all misting ooeditions in
Nowfanulland, He 0001111 only hope that
good councils would prevail, and that the
colony would take steps to obviate the ne.
aossity 01 1001.10)1 on the 131101 0) the Imperial
Cloyermeent
Pleasant Telegram for a Sobool Girl
The Princess Kainlaei of Hawaii has rev
some time past been living in the ark:test
privacy and retirement in England. Only
a few 0(11:19010 Mewls know the school
where the young Princee% is 1(01115 01100000(1.
Sho hes now received through her school..
reietrese an official telegram from Ihoweii
it:forming her thet alio had been chosen to
succeed Queen T,1linokabl, the reigning
Sovereign, and anothey telegram with rein-
maul:di:ins from the Charge d'Atlitires in
the larget: towns ; but the mount used by
the natives must 14 very smell, seeing that
the 1.00(11consumption of soap in India last
year Wag 0)11Y 5,000 tens.. This 11100110 that
the amount used bsi each person for the yeee
9050 oonsiderably loss than one ounee,
old customs were 5001(0)1 the ialand,
Torches, which aro regarded ne symbols of
ancient decent end sovereignty, were lit, and
seine of the mons olcdfashionoil natives
shaved their heade in patehes or knocked
'out front teeth to ideele thole grief.
Long in Sugar-makin' Time.
Ever'fkoeltHetchtourb,.1.
e0.11110 0009011 that Ids feelin
li
slaytileu,sznueltrit,litiornotwinter, that he thinks
But 0110 A11011 Ulla 10011ee my firoopitispirits
lest git (10and (ellen
Air the dyin' days Iry welter, 'long in sugar.
makire L11110.
Then the Ilttle birds le obtain', tur.lre up their
little throats,
Thinsin'uy the cumin' harveet, no the cern,
and wheat, and MA a
An' the union' or the theop bolls with the
tingle' row bens, equine,
5,1 the d'in' 11lLy8 90(11 001', '1000 111 sugar.
100101111 (010,
Then the little lambe are playin' en' a.caPerin
around,
An' 510 11901 blue Johnny.junnimps are alicaiiin
Uwe' the ground,
An' the thavved•out hranch i101(11 happy, kinder
01)15(11 111 a rhyme.
In Mc chin' days uv winter, 'long in 01150)'
111)011(0' time.
IllverlhIng, both dead arid then', tvetxt the
earth an' sky above.
Seems 80 81111110 an' 00 pleasIn', as it all had fell
So, fulr01101001..011;110 side itv heaven, there can't be
no fairer dime
Than t11,okeili,y,Iiitnelear, us' winter, long in sugar
a,9 '
A Hopeless Paradox,
There are many funny things I trow,
In this strange world of ours,
To comprehend the half of then;
Is gado beyond ray powers.
Bob there's one special paradox,
Poe nmeh epou 11130 mind ;
But no solution, 1 01 a cloW,
able yet to find.
11 18 the dimple in May's cheek—
'Tie only empty space;
And yet this vacant void is full
Of such bewildering grace.
People who Eat Bones.
There was an account recently given here
of a 111101 who ortmohes the shells of the
boiled eggs that he takes at breakfaa.
There is another man in 0011/11 W110 0000 1)0000
and who is known among his frintols as the
” great American bone -eater." He is a
ecienthst, and when a question was put to
him he said ;—" I do not follow this habit
for any fantastic reason. I holm that the
organic ohmic:al elements found in honer,
such as phosphate and carbonate of lime,
are greatly needed in the human frame for
the development of the OSSIODUS system. 1
do not make a dinner of bones, but merely
take a little bone delicacy at times, when
not in company. I will go through the rib
bones of a epriug chicken 90 quail, or what
not. I will have tho grilled leg bones of a
yonng aticken, which are easily eaten when
well grilled, and are very nioe. Then there
are the grilled bones of a sucking pig, or of
a lamb, and, in fact, there are sundry bones
that can be prepared 10 0001000 ways to the
advantage of the eater. I hove had benefit
from bone eatinf, and I Icnow several bone
eaters. Some o the African regimes, who
are very strong, eat the bones of 50.090 after
making them erisp at the fire, and books
tell of the bone eaters of Europe in olden
times. I would advise you to get o few
dainty beneath nice order and try them"—
New York Sue,.
PERSONAL,
---
The English nobility are shrieked because
a grandniece of the Dnke of Wellington is
obliged to earn her living by selling flowers
in a 'London arcade.
The (boot:um...General of Indio, the Vice.
roy, receivett Realms' of Sti250,000 a year, with
ellowanees that include a gorgeous palace at
Caloutta and 5 Bummer residence, all malting
his position worth 8100,000 a yeita
Lidderdalo a Leedom:a raieed 585,-
000,000 111 10110 Aye, and yet Ile was not
huetling with 1001090 to baying hia wifo 0.0
Easter bonnet. It was simply to besinese
traneection intho intereet of Baring Brothers.
Jam Bland, a ChM, player! 13re/110000 10
revolutionize tho game by mak1ng the board
nine squares wide and adding, besides a
pawn, mother piece, to he called the "pre.
mier," posseseing the combined powers of
gneen end 109115111.
Queen Vietorie retains the loyalty of her
enbleets to a remarkable degree. Whenever
the visits Londoil she is greeted by the
populnoe with extvitordinary enthusiasm
Even Englishmee 11001 astonished by the
warmth of her welcome.
Scarcity of Tigers in India.
The 1100109y Gazell, attribetos Sir Seanuel
Baker's haying begged only six tigers:loving
his lac expedition in the content provitmes
to the growhig scarcity of tigers. 'rho fact is,
it allegro, ligm s aro dying out. In 10100011991,10
of the Iltelonamitro some few years ego there
were 00 1)110)1)' that they '00001091(011 the chief _,,, 1 , /
In ner ( ay 101101 1111( 1 n ry W0111,1 00 la 111 ,110 feel:el:hood aml 1mila:rimed, moth his 19111110 are usUally BO deprOSSI011ft a 1 1.110 111111 ....,linea ,
() ,erntieg,a iotal alistlnellec .....4elY, eista- tightly :dosed upon ha; 1,,,e,,,,asieg; there is te a page rfooleeitp), tioneunthee eltogether
population, aud scarcely tolerated it villager r r
among them. But Gm improvemeut a the I nine ont ot 'I I tA, 1 Of arventpultor et ood itp a eeree a:lit:sr:et, " eer..ee bet. total. lint to leolf deproseious to a .1 rt ea 'T. -write 15
on the river, and the fertility of the islands, ' - — deep." It may e:fely be aitirmed that ono e i
o, 5110,1 pages, whieh iS usually considered a
novigation and the appearance or eteamers , f ,„ ;S. ' '
, ads day 0110)):, 10,,, type:writ er eititstitrshoopdrebs; .
11 01.,)) 191S it 1.1111.1 the laSt 101/1‘,1111110.p. belle I i in 0 tii, 11, 111 i ,..1.1 0 )111119 (1101)0 hi 0 el 011- r
in the hall Of '17.0.4 took place in the y,,,,,. inanity W010:1 111010 ;lead): halm to Christ.. 1
, tan keys: 22,a00 times, whiell nut
11.' ill:reel) racusstiis11011°;13110Oirlaila ll
.t.91,11; ..i.:1, 1,04r...i. i'l,',191.::71,,t1.11(r ill:I:ail:1:s : (71,1,...iiii ,:i..,t, iti.Lltilr: :1:1.1111,Y,,,,,113,,I,1,,,,,i1,1,,,3,4„1„.„11It,..is:,::i!1113i'i,'11:1,11,1ii,m,tl:eisieess'ti,11.0.11,:111t7rigic.).1131,1.,r()Yrf 80111111:::::eteallimatiit,i:11111(13.,rt.toefIluitiltiy1ge 1.:Ivetlea,
Irish nation 9000 11001 (here fur SeVel al vela os
of the imer ie Cnst, driving num into atheism.;rosult of st,4115 potteds of energy exPended. '
who had fled for safety to the monastery
'Ilhie really dote not amount to moat ea
My distimodelled townsman, Prof, Ely, 111 a
81. Reim leol beet: .1r:wised to the hall and
most euggestiyo lecture, itopiree lute thee eemparod with other labour, yet tho result
executed, tho led: Abet etad the metier
plea alionittion or wage -workers front Cheiatiitro . is marvellous enongli to vouse the eyes of
mitt' aloud agave., t lin etteelloge, aud
noy Ye kings over iigain sat at Tara. such aliens:anti undoubtedly exists, ', wonder at her own greatness.
Proteotion of Fruit Trees.
M. W. Murphy writes to the Prairie
Farmer giving an in:count of the remedy
he has used for excluding mice arid rabbits
front his 400 trees, since which he has not
had one of thorn lujured. He makes a wash
of half a gallon of soft soap ond half it pound
of sulphur to a pail of water, and vats it on
with a cloth by the hand.
SUMO twenty years ago, the Into it.1 B.
Be tenian published his remedy for the peach
grub, coesisting of carboliu soap. He dis-
solved (190 13009110 01 1110 neap ill eight gale
ions of bot reeler, and then a barrel of water,
was added. This wes enough for a thousand
trees, et a cost of half a cent et tree. 50 9000
applied in July. Housed it with entire suc-
cess on 3,000 trees. Another remedy is to
use paper wilted with grafting wax, which
is applicable only to youug trees. The paper
is wrapped about the stem so as to reaoh a
foot high. The wax causes it to adhere to
the stem without tying. Any grubs mustbe
taken out before the wrapping is performed.
It may be applied to you915 trees before set-
ting them out. It nuty be renewed every
spring. Unlike tarred paver, it cannot in.
jure the trees.
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SICILIAN SECRECY, i 100-TOLGU11S,
Trouts Observell A in—ons 011,0 People In TheIr 1484.8 (474,::‘,1,1:;711 01,14 ((u' fire "li"
ste'linihyo re17,siotrkBBri,111118.119 11y1;.,(1:41,111.001',utrrekPogivitik7 in 1 Ai I 1( ,71, )er1411001di'aritit:a101t181e:si oa:attaltilnsit:lekt,gtoLfail, dtai ;(11Y1tietrZEKt:ellioit.1:i .
Nati VI' llifind.
1110' 810111011 oharaoter which contrast with
the i001,10 to lie wholly peseeseed, They any ot,;,,,, v„„.„.. 1.1,, Duos° met tgo,10,20
100.ton 511110 011 War ships,
The Andrea
tile simplicity by which one might 111900411,0i /toly rim 11,090 ai ti (ay geniis smoke sem,
ran be deceitful, retieent, malicious and have 011111 feel, 111.„,,,,,,,.,
yholletive ; petty thefts and roateries aro Dovia, gimovs„ yloo„ssfo, 1110 p,„ggi„rmui
gini ro°11Ltet11 4t11,11.1T1 e059:1.1111.:00,,y.l:;,a, 111 ash!: tn, otteahijaidil 01,4,01:wc:i ,`,'01:1110Yaltt (t1,:1"::, ,1LI:e7a: eiii:t: 1041 ,..an.nv i1,11:111sajlt 1:aysi 11 italwr(!c:e3,110:11)1,1,e71cri gfArititlitird11:61E,
(cunningly clever), la with them a meritori- ......i .41
regarded with favor, even in eldhlreit. 10 .tonriers, mounted and ready,
I No point in Lord. Braesey's important
(0.1)09 011 ous quality, and that advantageous lying
which pervades all :molly, they ennibine to i;3nildiu8,:::1,e'lie Future Polley of IS ar.thip.
ad a few days ago before tho
Owls g to °wapiti tof "matia"and"omorta,'
hide mob other's inisdeeda, and in the case
of robbery, and 0V011 assereination, it is gen.
Insaitotion of travel Architeets, mom
:striking than the 000 relatiog to the 110.1(911
guns. Time° monsters, he buys, will not lie
wrong -doers, even from the viutarns °tete-
get ""lw177 1.4sraluBt °altered in in the ships of the future. The
objections 10 them have been found 100-
111)1919'
impossible to
selvea. There ia a Booed: underetanding .1,1118y and too great. They aro of very limited,
among ell that no one shall moist Ole legal
authorities In their efforts to bring criminals
to justice, and tho Sicilian, as a rule, relies
on himself and on hie friends for obtaining
retribution for prirette wronga, aud every
one who transgresses this unwritten law
has to fear the emulate of his neighbors.
One of the most disagreeable traits in their
ohmmeter is excessive cruelty to animals of
which travelers in Sicily frequently have
seen revolting instances. When remonstrat-
ed with on account of this they siinply shrug
their shoulders and nay "What matters ?
They are not baptized." They cannot com-
prehend that any creature has any claim to
consideration outside pale of the Church.
Frightful rows in horses and donkeys go no.
noticed, and are fed on by flies ; deep holes
areplugged with tow, and hone animals are
made to work with heavy loads as though
nothing wae the matter with then,.
As for relieving a hors., or ilookey of a
heavy burden going na bill, that a thing
never enters that' heads. To see a country
cart crammed with people behind horee
which can scarcely stagger under its heavy
load, aud to observe that 110 one ever en•
cleavors to relvieve the poor animal in the
most difficult passages, 10 a common mein,
—nee. Live poultry is parried to the mar•
ke slung from p saddles, or by p d Arlan
iron; the liand, by the logs. birds keep their
heads up as loug as strength endures, till at
last they can do 00 110 longer, tool ,'ie 1(13010.
ful death by a rush of blood to the head.
children aro, it is said, taught cruelty to
=twat sights in town and country is to see
children playing with newly eaueht robin
redbreasts, goldfiriches, which they hold
tied by the leg with a string, and pull hack
when the poor bird attempts to fly.
Another defect in the eharauter and hal>
its of the Sicilian peewit is lank of (dearth.
110SS. But in spite of all these tho general
derneemen. aud habits of the Sicilian are so
pleasing °ma one feels inclined to regard his
deficiencies with moll leniency.
endurance, and, in feet, some of them have,
shown grave defects after 00017 few rounds.
They are law difficult to manufacture and
very costly. The 0000)05 00 iaterior wearing,
is naturally greater ie the laveter calibres,
as the mine quality of material is eubjeot to
much heavier powder charges mid chamber.
pressure. Wall the original cost or a 100.
1(111 gen so great, every ellseharge Very 090
pensive, and Be life at beet much less than,
that of 001011 calibres, it has already ceased
to be popular on shipeoard.
Again Lord Braseey pointa out, the I 0 -ton;
gun is very slow in tiring, IG is also a viey
long gun, and more liable on thet account to
be struck and disabled. Then it depends on
hydraulic loading gear, which may be dam-
aged by hostile shot, so that the big gun it•
self will then become utterly uselesa
Finally there ie no need of these lingo
guns. Lord Brasaey saya the naval authori-
ties consulted by the Admiralty intro con-
cluded that the heavieet ordnatiee for battle
ships ellortel not eaceed fifty tons ht weight.
which is a reduction of more than cute -half
from the monerers of the Benbow, the Satin
Pareil, and the Victoria. Admiral Scote
new plaecs 1111 limit of maximum weight at
thirty toes, und Lord Brassey also doe:lures.
that :Once each is gen can peneti ate twenty-
one inehes aux:not:at 1,000 yards, it is " etife
fie e t fur all praotical purposes." Redueieg,
the eize of the heavieet guns will :thew au eie
foctive auxiliary battery ot rapidtire pieeese
which pour a had of shot upon conning
tovvers end into emelt ports, and may disable
animals from infancy, for one of the com. a big gen before it, gets to wolleing, Lord
Geo/ go the Poet 0.ird. a the Ad-
miralty, ma:only defended the 1 10-tou gnus,
doctoring even that the tone which sagged
(101011 and 1 lent 011 tho Viotoria' was perfect-
ly safe ; and lie also ceintrecoled the hydrau-
lic hauling gear, :in the geeund that "hy-
draulic power has no nervosa is very come
pact, 1011 01)0 be eitsdy protected." He com-
pared the prejudice in favor of th i manual
management cf guns to that in favor of re.
mining sail power 00 war ships when steam
had superseded it. But Lord Brassey holder
that uo gun too ponderous to be worked by
111(1111111 power slieuld be motinted on ships.
INTERESTING ITEMS,
leIr. Gladstone has rernarked that " the
orator receives front his audienee vapotir
what he pours back upou them in a flood."
The underground system of telegraphs of
the Geemen Empire, it is reported, has a
009110 10115011 of 3,600 miles.
When the carpet has been salad by ink
instantly apply blottiug-paper, then milk',
then blotting:paper, and so on until the
spot is out, as it will be. Don't rub.
Railway oarviages were in the first in-
stance iatended for well•to do people ; they
were even designed and painted outwardly
in itnitaaion of the rival coach.
The German navy will have 371)1090 yeesels
in active service this year than laat year.
The total number to be asaigned to ditties
lasting from three to ten months is 96.
Whoa the London, Chatham, and Dover
Company got into deep water about a quer.
ter of a century ago Parliament gave
powers to Lord Salisbury and the late Lord
Cairns to deal free-handed with al the
intereets involved.
The first idea of the railway men was to
put coaches on iron rails and thus supersede
" The Tally -oh,"'' The Wonder," and other
gay vehieles which behind four horses tree
versed England at the then rvonderful rate
of ten miles an hour.
The Japanese census shows that the pop-
ulation a, year ago was 40,072,0910—'20,t145-
339 males and 19,825,081 1e0001e0, 7,840,872
inhabited houses, 3,825 nobles, 1,003,1337
ehizoke, or members of the old military class
38,074,558 "00(1111500 people," and 7,443,1 10
married eouples.
Near Tanga, in German East Africa, an
important series of stalactite caverns ham
been lately discovered. They are in a sys-
tem of Jurassic limestone, end, it is said,
the caverns surpetes 011y similar one$ in
Earope, both in extent and size. 'Millions
of bets seems to be the only present oval.
pants of Ole interior.. Africa already pos.
sesses one of tho cavernous wonders of the
world—the stalactite (eves of Wonderfon•
tele, in the Transvaal,
About the year IBM the "Potsdam Life
Guard "11110], attained its inaxim1101 of 1111991'
0)100 and inches. Tho shortest private was
little loss than seven feet high, and a few of
its gronodiers oppronehed the extraordinary
stature of nine feet. The tallest at these
was nigh:num or "File -leader" Hohmann—
mast appropriately maned of giants—the
orown of whose head Augustus the Stroeg of
Saxony, himself Colossus:, cotild 001 0010)11
Willl his hand, standing on tip -toe.
It is stated thee while foreignera in
Irristure nembee three per oent, of tho popta,
Won thoy aro eleven per cunt of the
convict class. 111 1837, 1,247, and in 1814e,
1,279 foreigners Were convicted, the number
of English beteg fifty -ono and fifty-three
respootively. ltaliane head. the list in 1888
with four hundred tuul eighty-five then
mune two.litmelrecl and forty-eight 13agians,
one huncleod and rdeetydevo Germans,
eighty-six Spaniards, eighty-six Swiss, and
aftor the fifty -ono Engliell come forty•three
Austriens,
A Brigand in Retirement.
An interosting question has just arisen
between Servia and Bulgaria. In the sum.
mer of 1098 two railway officials aud a rich
Greek merchant wore captured outside the
own of Bedevil by a band of brigands, veld
carried off to the mount:mins. The robbers
demanded a ransom of el5000 for their
victims. The amount WM paid, and the
captives were released. It has just now
been discovered that the head of the hand
of brigands, "costa Abramow, has for some
time past been living quietly on his
earnings in Belgrade. The robber bas
been identified by one of the rOil•
way officials mud the Greek. The Bulgarian
Government now demand that, according to
tho Extradition Treaty, Ahrtunowtheald bo
delivered up to bhom. 11 it can be proyeel
that the brigand is a. Bulgarian subject. be
90±11 1)0 given up at once ; but if there are
any doubts: as to his nationality there will
probobly be difficulties placed in the way of
111$ arrest.
A Very Pathetic Bernlon,
A certain minister was preaching a seta
119011 011 the prodigal BOIL HO tOOlt &Shia text,
" Atid when he catne to himself." " We
have here, brethren," said ho, "an instance
of the wonderful depth of the meaning there
is in Scripture. Wo seo how low the
unprincipled young individual had Odle
Whoa he come to himself.' Whet does it
mean ? Well, look at home, Whot do we do
wit on our mcney's gone, and we've no credit?
What do we turn to ? Tho pawn ehop.
did he. Filet his coat woad go. Re might
live a week on that. Then his waistcoat.
Thea, wouldn't serve long. Lastly, Ili
dirt woold follow ; tool --0•111 then, 11151
ftiends he eatne to himself.' Uo coudn't
peoen himself and so he went hom o hia
father."
When the studente of the Free Chureh
Norma Scheel in Aberdeen Were 110:),11 the
In the distinsiion which followed the read..
ing ef Lord Ilrassey'spaper, AdmimlOolomb
ertee that the navy \multi suppert the peliey
of snialler guns, :eel thee in building op to
111) thus they hiel guile too for ; While Ad-
miral Hopkins, Centruller of the Navy, ad-
mitted that the diffieulty about -monster guea
was their limited enchwenee, aucladded that
" they had all mado up their minds to &gnu
with Admiral calomb as to the 110 -ton gun
being too large." The gun, he said, bait
been a disappointing onefrom t he first.
We may therefine conclude that tho day,
of moustee guns is over in the British navy.
Indeed, the British appear now to 1101411'105.
1)15 0: the other extreme in their dissertate -
tion with monster gues. In proposine 100
limit the niaximiun to fifty tems, they e .na
down to the 12•Inch calibre, or a fraetem
above it, and Admiral Sco it would oven 0 ,t110
down to 10 inch. This leaves out the MS.
inch 911110 of sixty-seven toe earrjed by the,
'Trafalgar aed the Nile, as well as by the Ane
son, Clamperdown, and ahem, The armee
will keep 011 presumably to the 1 64nolle
stnee many of the naval objections to this
calibre do not Apply to its use ia forts ; but
the limit 0( 1.110 work of the navy, so far as
maximum calibre is concerned, seeme to be
already in sight.
Close of a Strange and Eooentrio 'Career.
An eccentric gentleman, who, under the
name of Dr. Heury Montgomery, has lived
first at Marazion, and latterly et Madrous
Cornwall, died the other cley. Da Henry,
as 110 9000 generally called, 9011.0 myetery to
all who knew him, He admitted that
Montgomery was merely the metleu name
of his mother, and that he had a brother
who is a membet. of Parliament, naul that,
he bed other relations. lleyouil that Ito
woad tell nothing. He destroy:al all enves
lopes and lettei 0, and even on his denalibea
the other day, though betouglit to so byi
a faithful housekeeper of many years' sere
vice, refosed to disclose his name. He
oertainly bad a dread of something evile
reel or fancied, befalling him, for he never
snowed out in the ditythne, but wandered,
pliant in the night rsith his (logs, of
which he was passtonately fond, couple
of loaded revolvers a tough stiolz
and a toll of 'Ha, preenmably to
treat ryounds in eau: of accident. Ho had suffte
aunt means, which seemed to bo regularly
remitted, Ho lived well, was exceedingly
charitable to the pont:, and fed his dogs from
the veiniest meat. He rode a greet ilea,
read considerebly, and lets left a stone of
mannscript behind bine Ho has been ailiug.
lately, and on Friday hem= worse, tuna
died en Saturdity, as was afterwards discov-
erect, from an abscees on the brnin. A. pocket-
book aud the key of a box in his room aro
missing, end it is thoeght that the dying
mon 1111101- IlltVG got out of his bed and hidelen
them. The box was opened, but nothing of
value was found, and no clue to hilt itlentity.
The housekeeper has decided to have her
old inasteteburied in a. mien with a glass lid,
in case any friends or relativee namear on the.
seem before the fettered.
Cardinal Gibboes writes in The North
Antorican llevitly :—Those fomiliar rvith tho
daily lives and sentiments 01 1-010 laboving Typewriting Net Light Work,
classes know whet a stumbling.block to Would you behove it that the girl typo.
Hair faith to.pioaspentvietwam, the clior• lwritor whom you can see in ally' business
ity that begins eted ends ne• home. They:office down. town requires an energy equal to
cannot nee:mono 90111111000 ni,a z,md. F.1' soz perouls to do o fair :lays work? But
trust other fronts of 11111110,11 weakucee there figure the matter out for yell:1'00K
lo tolerance, even al thnee cempeseion ; but', To deprees a key on a typewriting nuts
for the man who acknowledges one common' chine r0loireet six ounces of mmt5y. There
WOrked 1000 tO the tigers. So many 1011.10
01101 01101 8ir 101009-9 Tliompotel 5)090 010101011
at the outgoings toe rewards, and reduced
the head motley from 50 entrees to 25. The
lowering of there vard in no degeoe chocked
the destruction of the tigers ; indeed, it,
rather worked the other way. Tho villagers
combined and engegoel professional tiger.
slayers ; and now on the islands whore mute
the Bengal tiger 9000 supremo he semeoly
over presents himself 10 be oho or trapped
proving that in most denominations many ts fair typewriter to open wido With
clennood ourst, itS *II% From that