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ndergrouti. Saurus of Watv Supplyoeaeyeeauuauanettppy.
IA SURVIVOR'S TALE.
sulphurous watee. Le:J.11314We is bone
eurip eel by eee.,„litii w„Lee hem.,ii0,,,,/,`, How *New Torn sleeker - Woe Resoled Vrom
wine) at .0. notyms they have tel3taime1 et the eti•rrited Irt(iptit.
the mut house a lbw steeply, and at, other The first pe1001et1 amount of tho OillklIlg
points sulphuroue water as artesian supply of tho Utopia, t111 :1 104'011 17 all' ho mast of
le boring% 8311'iugs ouI'lpJlillg up the 1 libralter, iii whkh iicarly 500 IlVeS Were
ot %cote creel: at S. minas, flow. loot, mime the other day in a letter from one
When it is remembered that our inland ing frent the superficial sands mid peyote of the two saloon pasemgers. The letter
towns, shunted (31 etreatus of ye illy diode- ere likely to be developed foe 10 1 1 WIltten 13y W, T. Culinem, ts well, known
halting volume, have shortly, mud many have publie supply. Around London, bo .ings to New York broltee.
already begun, 10 eepba for the rock lave supplied sulphurous erne:hen 10 a letter whieli has pet been received
their supply, we must recognise how import- water in some instances, and in others water from Mr. Colbron he gtvel tho followieg
ant becomes tide (11)eet1e11 ef melergroue 31 of a perfect character. The city 131 1,011(1011 Omelette( tietema of his miscue ;-
waters for peddle puiposee. While tee pro- 18 obtaining an abundant supply of splendid " We had very 103331 weather all the way,
blein 01 olunining these waters fen drinking Water front spume wince1 appene at the and errived opposite tillmeltar on Tneeday.
purposes is not a 1)0(1' me, sieve 11)) t0 the 01)111)1' "1 the hillside alette, the bank of the ! evening ist the midet of 0 violent gale. I
preeent they have beau pew:tic:ally the mele Thaime, some three miles below Gm vity, heel just loft the saloon for 1110 deek, and
source of oue supply as taken hem wells, yet and the impply Mee been enormously dove. I was admiring the lights of the town which
there can be no doubt that the popular be- loped by sueply ruuniug n. gallery al ant the shone out in the darkness WI1011 I noticed
lief that these wells are due to the happy herebpan fur half .1 mile or so, and ounduet. wo were drifting very near a huge mainof-
accident of striking some iselatecl spring, mg the water to th11 mall pumping basin. War/ This gave mo 13 terrible sensation,
prevails very geueraily. Manifestly, there. These waters are gathered on tho higher 1 knowing that in ease of an ambient my
fore, 10 is important to those of us who have growths, which to the south of this point chimes would he a slim one. In aeother
to deal with these problems of publio water rise to nearly 200 feet, and aro formed moment we had collided-noe very
aupplies to enquire to what extent we may largely of pervious sands and geavels. No hard, it seemed to Ina -read I thought
look to these underground '0(111310 10113 solu- tests that 2. am aware of, have been made 11111081 of tho danger over, when I
tion of the difficulty of obtaining public the variations of the flow of these magnie- notice11 theough the 11041111080 1111(1 the water
water supplies for at least our inland towns, cent spriegs. At St. Marys, and I believe was rushing into the vessel and was almost
That their volume is enormous may be eon. at Woodstock, artesian Ns'ater is ohtained, up to the deck. lo the meantime the
eluded from our knowledge that where sure Springs nboued above Berlin, to public water emigrants had swarmed up and taken pose
faces consist of leaf -mould, humus, or sanda supply being there obtained from theme session of the whole deok, and were filling
and gravels, an amount of water roughly while Guelph too is eupplied mainly by the air with their screams. I took in the
-calculated 00 03 least equal to that which springs. .At TilsolIborg is found artesian Situation 1(3 10 glence and, throwing Minty
Rowe from the surface into the streams and water, while at Dellnv11. e and about Jarvis heavy ulster, rush eh for the stern of the
rivers, penetrates the soil, and passing down. in Haldimand County artesian water la boat, where I remembered to lave seen a
ward is either stored up iu subterranean obtained within a few feet 01 1115 surface, life preserver. 11031111 it quickly, bide to
reservoirs or flows gradually along the hid. Brantford has a magnificent aupply obtained my horror, it was fastemed tight. I had my
den inolinedstretteappearine here and there from perforated pipes, laid on the hard -pan heavy gleveS on and they would not come
-again where the strata have been denuded, 13 feet under the sand and gravel of the off I tugged and tugged at them, but they
as springs. island in the river. Niagara-on.the•Lake resisted all my efforts, Ifewever, I got at
has numerous springs which are now being my knife, After what seemed an eternity,
developed, with a view to a public supply. and out the life preserver loose None too
St. Catharines gets the supply from springs soon either, for in the quarter of a minute
forming Deeew's creels flowing from the that had elapsed the waves were breaking
Niagara limestone mountain south of the over the etern, auel I was being carried
city. About Toronto, no true artesian well against the wbeelhouse and almost stunned.
water has been, so far as I know, obtained, I had not even time to adjust the litepro-
although Mayor St. Leger has obtaimit at server around me 011011 1 felt the boat going
his residence on Bloor Street, near High under the water, and I leaped as far as
Park pees, water rising,in a six inch poseible into the water 133 order to avoid the
I ming, 1,0 feet deep, to within 40 feet of suction.
the surface, Borings down to the rook " 1 found myself, witlt my lifepreserver
under the clay at the Mimic° new asylum clenched in my arms, hi e, raging sea. It Was
buildings obtained no water, nor yet when clerk as possible, tho Ivied was blowing a g.ale
over 1,000 feet of rock had been bored. and the rain Was falling In torrents. Coming
Curiously enough artesian teeter is obtained presently to the top of a big wave 101 10 10001'
at Newmarket, situated on the north side 0111, I Saw that the steamer had sunk and
of the Oak Ridges, while Barrie and °all& was gone olear out of sight, except a portion
both have artesian water, at depthe of 100 of the bow, the top of the smokestack and
to 150 feet. Smith's Falls iu the east has the mast, I had noticed several men of war
water, partly artesian, rising in borings 111 near, and knew that my only chance was in
the rook. Penetalig, and Markham are being able to hold on long enough. I, how -
developing springs to obtain public supplies, ever, determined to make 10 fight for my life
while most 00140118 of all, Sundriclge, on the and keep my wits about Inc. My thoughts
Leurentides, some fifty miles soutli of North Were -well, you have heard '0-1100 11 drown -
Bay, is obtainint, abundant supplies of ing man's thoughts were. I had them. .But
artesian waters at a depth of 100 feet. I clung on to life and my life preseiver, and
Such ie in the briefest possible way a when again 1 WAs lifted upon the to of a
statement from memory of the underground mighty wave, I 00.111 13 boat pulling in my
sources of peblio or private supply which direction.
have been deveMped in different parts of " It was still some distance away, and
the Province. They clearly point to the was making but slow progress through the
extreme importance of the problem which heavy sea, but I was encouraged, and it was
lies before you future engineere, in Lhe mat. not lang before the boat reached me, I had
tar of simplyieg our inland towne with not really been in the water more than ten
water. It is by no means itnprobable that or fifteen minutes, but it seemed a lifetime.
the problem of applyingto these under- Theboat which pickedineupproved to beone
gaound sources for supplying large cities in of the ienson's. They had job to pull me
Ontario will be discussed in the near future, aboard, owing to the roughness of the waves
Brooklyn, New York, is now supplied with and my weakness. They afterward rescued
30,000,000 gallons 0 day, from pi?e s driven four others, and for an hour 131110 exposed
11110 13 sand stratum, within twenty feet of in the boat to the storm. I was, as I have
the surface, and so abundant is the supply said, very weak, completely numb and
under the level surface of Long Island, only powerless. I wee, beside, badly exhausted,
O few feet above the sea -level that I person- but I had still strength enough to notice
ally SW from 125, 2 inch pipes coupled to. that our boat was the nearest to the steamer
eethor within an area of one.eight of 110 13010, when the bow, covered with salaaming men
over four millions being pumped day after and women, sank below che waves. .All the
day. nien-of war, four or live in number, turned
their electric search lights on the scone,
making it and the wreck quite light. But
nothing More could be done for the poor fel-
lows, who were being constantly washed off
from that portion of the wreak which still
remained above the water; but to pick up
and rescue those that happened to drift near
the boats.
"Tho boat I was in, being unable to get
back to its own vessel, took 1110 10 the flag-
ship, where they took off My clothes and
rubbed me well and gave me half A tumbler
of brandy to bring me to. The officers soon
discovered that I was notan emigrant, but an
American citizen, and were very kind.
" Some idea can be gathered of the sudden-
ness ofeehe collision when I say that the first
thought of impending disaster the engineers
and fireman of the Utopia had was when
they saw the ram of the Anson, which pro-
jects some fifteen feet from the bow under
the water, coming into the firs room. This
accounts for her going clown so quickly, for
she sank not more than three minutes after
Ile 001118b0,11
081 011,110. auvon, a., 31. o.,
5ee1'e11u7 of the Provhwatl Ward of Bellth of
()merle.
It here becomes important that we en-
quire into the conditions elm which. the
.storage of underground •waters depends
generally, bee especially into the conditions
which prevail in Ontario. It will be remem-
bered that we have bordering the province
along the east and north the gneissoid laur.
ontian rock, and that superimposed on this,
and following each other in regular order,
the series of silurian and devonian rocks,
mostly of coinpaet limestone or calcareous
shale, till the river St. Clair is remeed lo
central westenn Ontario these have an eleva-
tion of over a thousand feet, and from this
height the strata dip more or less regularly
in every direetien. All evidence goes to
show that at the close of the glacial period
these rocks weee c6emeed with a body of
fresh water, anel that metevials from their
disintegrated suefusses were gradually depos-
ited hi a, mom or less.quiet inland sea in ten
order clepeeding epon their character, in
the shallower Waters the heavier materials
of boulders tied graveis sank to the bottom
or were threern up on the shores or deposit-
ed on shalluw beaultes many of which can be
seen in the highlands of Wellington, Perth
and Huron cOnlaieS.
Inasmuch as the rainfall of any region in
Ontario may fer practical purposes be eon.
.oidered as uveraging a geeing ainount, any
30 Mulles as snow and rain annually', it
must become apparent that it will depend
upon the nature mud condition, ae also upon
the inclination of the surface strata, whet
propertion of this rainfall willsink into the
soil to become the source of them under-
ground waters that we have been (1iscussing.
It will further be apperent that the order
of arrangement of pervious and impervious
beds, as well 115 the thickness of strata,
must become .ssential factors 10 0005) laving
the amount and constancy of any under-
ground supply. Thus, to illiestrate this we
have only to refer to the variation in the
prevalent depth at which the water of
ordinary webs is obtained in different
sections. For instance, hi Ontario, in the
fiat country arnund Chatham, and Windsor,
shallow wells of ten to twelve feet are
most common, these being .supplied only
from the soakage from the blaek henna
learns lying on the top of practically im-
pervious clays, and becoming dry when the
dry season comes on. Further east., as
around London, 'Woodstock, eto„ abundant
waters for household purpose0 are found in
sands and gravels lyine upon the top of the
clay. Similar variations mu be pointed out
as occurring in closely contiguous dist:riots,
and nowhere are they better seen than
Toronto. While, however, these shnllow
wells may afford in many inetancee abund-
ant supplies for the purposes for which they
are intended, 13. 18 apparmit that inasmuch
as Um area of their gathering grounds is
very limited, their supplies men easily be
exhausted. Let the endue be locally
eroded by a water-eourse ancl lye find,
cepa:jelly in the sands and gravels, springs
cropping out, creating local bogs, eta., and
presenting exactly the same general condi-
tiors as would a spring, far down the decliv-
ity of a deeply eroded valley, except that
Pointed Bayino of John Wesley.
There are no Methodists that will bearno
restraint.
What may not 10111100 of small natural
talents do 11 110 be full of faith ancl love 1
There is no encountering a buffoon by
serious reasoning and argument.
Free thinkers, so called, are seldom close
thinkers.
I he soul and the body make 101111311 ; the
Spirit and discipline make a Christian.
The Methodists do not muke impulses
and impressions tho rule of duty. They
totally disclaim any other rule of duty than
the written Word.
He who governed the wold before I was
born shall take care of le likewise when 110131
dead.
Loyalty is 0010) 110(0 an essential branch of
religion, and whieli 11310 sorry any lelcitho•
(1103 01100111 forget.
in the first ease a summer drought would I know the value of learning, and am more
cause it to dry up, while in the latter the in diteger of priziug it too much then too
flow of water would rot 1 e altered by one little,
season'e drought.
As springs are teething more than s.urftice
indications 013110 existeece of underground
streams they become interesting as an index
of the locality of snob enderground streams,
and of their volume. \Ye have aleetely re-
ferred to the depth of these under ground
streams as being to some extent a measure
of their perennial ohm no ter. Remembering
the mum of their supply we naturally ex-
pect, variations in the amount of the flow of
O spring at different seasons of the year.
These variations folioa movement con.
sem tive t) that of therein and subterranean
streams.
Having discussed some of the principal
points in the origin of springs and Under.
ground water courses, rt will be proper
for us 11010 to oonsider them in their ap-
plication to this province. Unfortunately
we have no literature nhatever bearing
upon this subject, and any investigations of
the subject heve hitherto been of a most
partial character, The Geologioal Survey
has, I understand, been collecting data with
regard to borings in different parts of the
proviuoe'but only relaeed to salt, oil tv d
gas. The most that we know is gathend
from towns and villages here and there
which have utilised some local souroo for
fire purposes and in some instances for
-domestic purposos. Owen Sound obtains
an abundaut supply from a large spring
flowing high up out of the hillside from a
fissured limestone stratum of the Niagara
formation. Kincardine obtains at a depth
of 420 feet (also at adepth of24Oprobably),13
splendid artesian flow, while on the 1111101110
numerous springs orop out supplied by
waters flowing along a hard -pan 16, 213 and
30 feet below the town, the present source
of walls.
Ooderich obtains tt daily supply of really
2,000,000 gallons from six eightenah b rings
clown about 210 feet, within 11 quarter of an
acre of grated. ‘Valkorton is obtaining
from springs situated on 01111101110 011011513
Lor a supply by gravitation, Various places
in Lambton County; as about Forest and in
Warwick township, obtain from a sand
love some 75 feet deep, artesian water
coming to within twenty feet of the surface,
In Chatham and vicinity are 3, number of
artesian wolls owning to tho surface, or
nearly so, from a depth of 64 feet, At
ItIngsville, in Essex, some boring() awn to
Ono Intel need to be an angel, not 010011,
to convere.e three or four hours at 01100 (on
personal religion) to any purpom.
In religion lam for as few innovations as
possible. I love tho old wins best,
Of all gossiping religious gossip is the
worst ; it, adcls hypocrisy to uneheritable.
ness, and effectually dues the work of the
devil in the name of the Lord.
INS OT BRIDGE BUILDERS,
How 15 zes,a(iosItaLe.30. rcis)((ijgke;int,(43031.5.0aTitit.ain,f4Tteked
The following remarkable story, 00111 1))'
an eye witness, is entitled to aplaoe among
the instances of intelligent:n=031g the lower
animals. .A coolc was much annoyed to fincl
1310 paetry shelves attacked 13y ants. By
careful watching it was discovered that they
came out twice a. day in search of food, about
I believe it was to obviate the supposition seven in (ho morning and four in the after -
that this work 10 0111011)' owing to the force noon. Ilow were the pies to bo protected
of nevelty, that my preaching has so rarely 85(311151 1110 invaders,
merle any impression at all till the novelty He did not 1111V0 Iong to wait, for at 13.50
of 13. 10115 over, O'clock he noticed flat off in tho lefthand
corner of the pan try.was a lino of ants slowly
making them 001?)' Wry in the direction of the
pies. They seemed like 0 vast army coming
forth to attack the enemy. In front tvas a,
leader, who was lager them any of the
others, and who always kept) o little ahead
of his troops.
They tvere of the sort known as the med.
ium.sized rod -ant, which is regarded as the
meet intelligent of its kind, whose soientifie
name is Armieft rnbra.
About, forty auto out of tho 600 stopped
out and joined the leader, The general and
his aids held 04 501111011, 0/11e1 then p •oceedeci
to examine the circle of molasses. Certain
portions of it seerned to be assigned to the
different ants, and each solooted unerringly
tho point in the section under his charge
where the steepen of molasses was nanowest.
Then tho leader made his tour of inspection.
Tho order of mareh WAS given, and the
ants all made their way to a hole ir the wall
111 which the plastering WM loom.
Here they broke ranks and see about oar.
1331115 pieces of plaster to the plam 111 the
molasses whith had been agreed upon as
the narrowest, To 111331 110 they wont, from
3.110 111(11 hole to the molasses, 11110)1 )30 111,30
o'clock they had thrown a bridge across.
They then formed thansolves in lime and
marobed over, and by 11,45 every an' wee
eating pie,
Though I anialways in 10)10010 710111 never
in a harry ; because I never undertake any
inore tvork than I can go through with per-
fect calmness of spirit.
The Mikado's Appearance,
His Imperial 1\fajosty comes first, and all
alone 1 I have often seen him, and &Meets
find the same difficulty in analyeing My own
impressious, or conveying them, as to that
impessive, reserved, ahangless, dark, far.
removed coentenanoe. I have seen it all
day long in the smoke of the mimio battles
at Nagoya., arid all night; long in the foetal
halls et the Shiro, and at receptions and
eourt ceremonies;, but I never witnessed 1110
slightest. elteration of its fixed immobile fee -
tures. Only 0 flatterer could call the proud
oold face handsome, and only an enemy or a
soshi would, I think) style ite austere 0011.
8101(1111 and lofty disoontent ill.looking. 73.
is a typical Japanese man's face, in many
pointe, You shall see n, thousand such in a
week's traveling hereabouts, lotb this one
stanch; (that in alternator as in elevation,
touched in ite most ordinary linos and
lineaments with an tamest marble rotioence
and au iron.olad refusal to be e0)0131031,00011
if Neture stamped lb common, in so much
that the slightest bend of the brow hi
salutation appears to be tho result; of a
super human arrest of relectant will. Ono
would soy this le a Mikado of the past, who
is obliged to belong to and to howbefore the
too -prevailing present, but who novertho.
less keeps his secret soul apart in the stern
and great society of his ancestors, and "with
the far.off company of 0113.1(1110 311103.0 gods,"
If you want to see jerked hoof come down
and watch a Texas cowboy lasso a running
steer,
"Let's see. Do we got condensed milk
from Cowes?" asked Emithors. " Of eourso
not," returned Whithers, " Chiefly from
Cannes,"
THE BRITISH PRBS.S.
Laudatory ttereretters to ter tar port* 81 (1)0
1141 Ing T11_11_1_1_14 P111.IH1.01,
1)11(1 11 VA Lvk term Net 111,R,
The 3111 110 of 1110$0 repeals, Mill topende
testimony of Willett Farmers well actinide
ed with all the decade and With every nspeet
of agriculture, menet be over oseltnared
Phey allot 111130 reline& 11111111,4 (31 obliptit
information welcoming Leeman, which is fr
from the 0)igh 3Let suspicion of exaggerate°
suoh as 11115111 attach in the minds 01 111041
desiring emig ren le to reports 0)1111013)1)15 1)11
Glom who are 11,V0Wetl1y (1.11,X10115 10 111114
population tete the Dominion. 'l'ho fawn -
tees tifibriled by the canadian Clovernetent,
foe the free diesemination of the reporte in
thin country theough Ilia Goverenient egoists
(Mr. .101111 H. 8. Dyke, Canton buildings,
Water street, Is tho Centielian Government
agent in Liven -pole from whom they may be
obtained on applicaLion, ensures wide
funion of infotenatiou 011 the true state of
affairs In Otoutda.-[Liverpool CoUrier,
TIM EFF.SCT TIIR IMPORTS,
The reporta of the tenant farmer delega.
tion's visit to Canada, if carefully perused
and bravely noted upon by emigrants to the
Dominion, should prove the means of show.
ing thousands 01 11)0(1 and women who are
now struggling unsuccessfully with pp , erty
in England, hew to 11313,110 10 new start in life,
and wm cheerful comfort, told even nib.
stantial prosperity.-ELeicester Journal.
1100EsT 21MRNCE.
For those anxious to fincl 11011108 10 the fee
weet the pamphlets in gelation era invalu.
able. It sometimes happens that agents got
up glowing aecounte of regions into which
they wish to direct the stheatn of emigration.
13ut the farmers' reports have been prepared
teth an holiest purpose, end state feet(
without Indulging the pleasures of the im
agination.-CNewastle Chronicle.
nerruroh AND TIWSTWORTItY,
Amut, 24, 1891,
REARLs OF TRUTH,
Philosophy lentil 11e1e1' better (arils to
Fihow' 1111111 when she chookoth preentim
11,111, and eroeseth (30). enemy ; when 111 11111111
11(1)11 she aelthowledgeth her ireesolution,
her wealthese, aml ignorance
Exigeneiee erettte the fiecessary ability to
et meet and to confiner then).
Authors and Invers always slam. some
infatuation Irmo which only itheenee eau set
'5 them tree,
re
110110 (13(0)' lei but lonelier name for do.
" ee mion and il.sappointmen 1 ; but youth s i
Y 1
supreme happineee in itself, bectinee all
poseibilities Ibo ln it, and eothing in it, is
yet Irrovecable.
The Dominion Minister of Agriculture
could have adopted no better 11100115 of mak-
ing known the excellent resources of the
country, and to the 13ritish public the re-
ports published by the delegates will bo of
the greatest value. People have begun to
01000 With suspicion the glorying accounts
given by emigration fields by agente, and,
no doubt, rit times, worthless and inmeurate
stntements have been made but the four
little pamphelts that have been issued for
distribution in the three kingdoms by the
delegates can be aceepted as thoroughly
reliable and trustworthy. Being practical
men, they have reeorded everything and
left out nothing which will help the reader
to form a just estimate of the country. In
order 111131 310 suspicious mind might accuse
the delegates of being biased, the Cantecliau
Government allowed them to go where they
pleased and see what they liked. The
result is that we have a thoroughly impel..
tial account of the advantages and disad-
vantages of tho territories in the Domin-
ion.
10001•E5T TESTIIMAT OF PROGRESS.
Viewed in the light of the experience of
the last farmers' delegation that visited Can.
ada 10 years ago, the report is striking con-
firmation of the views then expreesed, and
eloquent testimony of the progress that lies
been achieved during that interval. For all
practical purpeSCS the reporta are far and
away the beet and most reliable literature
available for those who wish to learn the
true condition of life and work and the pros.
pects for settlers in our great dependency.
-(Cornish Post,
010.11(111.010 .0130, THEREFOlta, CONY/13M:10.
The delegates have meth to say that is
resit, based an their practical knowledge of
agriculture, and they are to be aongre tainted
on the spirit of impartiality in which they
carried out their task. -[Boston Independ-
ent.
NOT GOING PROM IMAM.
Plenty of room, indeed 1 If capable High-
landers at home eoulcl only see in vision the
prosperity and comfort of those who at home
had lived from hand to mouth, they would
not hesitate, bIlt W0111d at once hasten to
join their friends, who are able to havefrom
18 to 80 and 160 acres under wheat, and to
sell 20 head of cattle in a year, yet have 40
head more 1 But Canada is a land of many
provinces, each having its own peculiarities
and merits, with openings for thousands
upon thousands of men, especially agreed.
turista, with experience, a litble wealth and
an abundance at the spirit of enterprise. In
going to Canada such people aro not going
from home, or among Strangers, bot to e part
of 1110 01(1 etnpire, and among friends who are
of their own blood and kindred.---[Olasgow
Times.
DEATH SWEET TO THEM.
So 'wrote Two vomits ;women Will) (103))'
11110(0)0 5014110 0115030 alexeco.
News has reached Santa leo of too double
suicide of two young women, at White
Oaks. They were Mrs, Howaiel Doyle aud
Mise Jessie Riclgoly. Mrs. Doyle bad
been Separated from her hualseili for some
time and was an intimate friend of Miss
Ridgoly, Mee, Doyle WaS despemelent and
prevailed upon bliss Ridgely to commit,
suicide with her.
7:110 bodies of the two women wore foiled
in a lonely part of tho town. Over the
heart of each was a bullet, hole, Thoy were
clasped in moll other's arms end batmen
them was Miss Ridgely's revolver. Their
hats hung on it 3051 0001' by and their cloaks
had been molly folded and served as head
reste, To mob cloak were pinned notes Lo
various friends. One expressed the desire
that they should be burled in t110 131111113
grave. None of the letters gave any reason
for the act, except the sentence "Death is
sweet ancl we prefer 11 to life."
Mrs, Doyle come to New Mexioo two
yore ago to serve as governess in tho &rally
of Mrs. Goodwin Bilis. At the end of a your
she married Howard Doyle, brother of Mrs.
Ellis and a well-known young =climax'.
Their bridal tour took timm back to Mit.
souri, and there they met an old friend of
tho bride's, bliss Ridgely, who, upon their
recommendation, waN subsequently employ.
ed to euemed 1)1 re. Doyle's its governess in
the Ellis hoe o. Doyle and wife lived to-
gether less Male year, and for some cause
or other separated. On Sunday Mrs. Doyle
000113. 10 White Oaks for It visit to hor friend.
It ended in their micide.
Neel Cablea.
The longest ocean cable in the world le
that of the Eastern Telegraph iCompany,
whose system extemle from England to
India, and measures 21,000 miles. Africa
is 11031 completely enoiroled by submarine
cables, which make up altogether a, length
of 17,000 1311105, There aro eleven Galilee
merest; the North Atlantic, though not eel
of thom aro at present lu use. Five com-
panies control the linos of telegraphic com-
munication between America and Europe,
It, its reported largo ((111001)0)00 01 diamond
have been discovered in north Lapland.
There Is no sort oF wrong deed of which it
man eau bear the punialuneut elone ; you
ean't isolate yottreell alid my that evil that
is in you eliall not spread. Menet lives 11111
as thoroughly blended tvith awl) other as
the air they breath ; evil spreads as noces.
eerily 110 disease.
\ 'ant is the world ? 'What 1)111 ,3, eptieirms
burial field anwelled ? 'Cite very turf on
which we tread ( two lived.
High birth is a thing whites I never know
(tuella to disparage except those 31110 111111
it 1101 ; and I never knew any one to boast
01 11 who had anything else to be proud of.
Aefit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a
dose of ammo is to life.
How full of error is the judgment of man
kind. They wonder at results when they
aro ignorant of reason&
Etiquette has no regard for moral quali.
ties.
It is not expedient or wise to examine
our friends tno closely. Yew persons are
raised in our t./11.00111 by a close examination.
What we gain by exper'en 11 ie not worth
what we lose 111 ill 'talon.
A passionate woman's1ove 10 101113190 0101'.
shadowed by her fear.
Experionee is the extract of suffering.
The eyes are the windows 01 (1 woman's
heave. You 'nay enter thee way.
A face that has a etory to tell. How dif.
ferent feces met in this particular. 80me of
them speak not ; they aro books in which
not a Ilea is =atm, save perhaps a date.
3'hat which is called firmness in a king is
called obstinecy in a donkey.
Will be a Battle of Giants,
A naval encounter occurred the other day
in a Chilint port between Govermnent and
rebel forces. One torpedo completely des-
troyed a floating dry clock. A single shell
from an ironclad blow an armed tug out of
the water, killing or wounding every mau
of the (new. One broadside from another
vessel knocked a torpedo boat to pieces, and
a shell from one of the forts of the harbor
exploded a gun on board 0110 of the rebel
vessels, tore the whole quarter deck out of
her, and blew nine men to atoms.
These brief particulars of a short nucleon).
paratively insignificant engagement give an
idea of the frightfel scenes of carnage and
destruction that may bo 01331001011 if tho
owning great war should bring two first.
class iron -clad fleets 11100 001110/011. A meal
battle on a grand scale now would be a very
different thing from what it WM in Nelson's
time. The fifty guns of a first-rate man-of-
war such as fought at Trafalgar, combined,
could not throw as heavy a weight of metal
as eon be discharged from a single gun of
one of Britain's big iron-olads to -day. At
the beginning of the century a mile was a
fairly long range for an ordinary cannon.
Now a vessel could lie ten miles off a sea -
meat town and drop percussion shells the
size of large beer kegs in the streets. Nearly
all first-class ships of the present time carry
torpedoes, one of which is capable of blowing
anything that floats out of the water, and
one crash of the ram of these immense float-
ing fortress of steel, which moclerns call line
of battle ships, and the stricken enemy
would go down like a shot.
Lot two fleets composed of such vessels
mine together, and the shock will mako the
earth tremble.
Hours of Work in Sootland.
A return has just been issued showing the
average number of hours worked ELS a week's
work in the chief trade centres by the lead-
ing incluetries in Britain. The return has
been mainly compiled from returns made to
the Board of Trade by employers on the one
aide and workmen's associations on the other
in response to eiroulers sent out by the
I300111 of Trade. Broadly speaking, the
lateen may be said to show that as regards
handicraftsmen tho number of hours consti-
tuting 33 week's work has during the past
forty years been materially redneed ; bee in
the ease of agrionitural and dock labourore
tho reduction has not been so conspiouous.
In Scotland generally the hours of bakers
110/0'0 been reduced from 72 in 31450 to 5510
1800. The ride in Scotland is 51 hours for
house joitters, while ship joiners work 54.
With the 00 1111 Li on of In verness, where they
work 57 hours 5011 000)1 in summer, plaster.
ors in Scotland, mantle, work o111y51 hours.
As to plumbers throughout Scotland 31 1 lump
per week is the rule, but in Invernees the
week's work 27 hours. Slaters in most towns
work only 51 11801`0, bet in Crieff it is elated
that they stil I work 00 hours in summer.
Stonemasons in Scotland work 31 hours in
summer and 45 in winter. 111,1101)0 111 Glas-
gow work 00 Ileum, whieh was the number
worked 40 years ego.
The Government and 0. F. R.
A despetch from Ottawa says (-The ar-
bitration between the Dominion Govern-
ment told the Canadian Pacific railway with
reference to the claim of the Canadian Paci-
fic arising from the alleged defective eon-
street:ion of the Onderdonk section in Bri-
tish Columbia will be remmed about May
Isle Mr, W. D. Hogg, One of the counsel
for the Crown, has started for British
Columbia to prepare for the sittings. The
commission, winch will travel by special
train through the mountains, is composed of
Chancellor 'Boyd, Mr, T. 0. Xeofer, 0. E.,
Ottawa, and Mo. 0 0. Gregory, Antigonish,
N. S. One week will be spent at ,Van -
convex.. Mears, Edward Blnke, G. T.
131aokstook, and Cassels represent the
C. P. R., and the Crown counsel are Messrs,
Christopher Robinson, 13, 13, Oeler, end
W. D. Hogg.
The Legislative Council, or Upper House
of Now Srunswisdt, must go. So says Sir
Leonard Tilley, who in the speech from 1.10
throne announced that the government be.
Having thee tho time harl come for tho abole,
tion of this useless Chamber, intend 10 1)01115
in a bill to that cml, Prrietioelly the Coma
oil is as absolutelyuseless as a eattclal append-
agos would be to Men 11000 that they IMAM
abandoned their arboreal habits, It is said
that by the recent appointment to the Coun.
oil of six now members who aro in favor of
its abolition a bill to itholish ie eure to pass
4nd then the House will voto Wolf out of
existonee, It will if those six member do
not forget their prornisee
EARLY DAYS ON THE FRONTIER.
5)1110)01)00 eag Cabin,
leeneabin buihting 3)118 great fun to the
111,70, aleliongh they did 1114 1111d 11 easy
work, T111.1 11110 vertain novelty about
the tab tee ef the etrueture that was to be a
home. and an Interest in learshig the rude
teols, that betted mit I 1 the eablit Was liniSli.
• 'nip =01 1111,1 1 111. 011,1500, the frow and
the little moil ititended 1111 10, and all the
00101 11100110 aud appl ti eve to the building
te ere all pew and (orange 10 those bright:
lade,
First, the mien of the cabin, twelve feet
w ide and twenty feet Mug, was marked mit
cm the sito on which it was to rise, 111111 four
logo were laid to define 1 ho foundation.
These were the sills of the 11010 house, At
each end of every log tWo notelies were cut,
ono on the under sido find 0110 011 010 1155011,
to lit into eimilar note:hoe out in the log
below, and in that whielt wee tu be plaued
on top. 8o molt emmer 3)110 10111331(1 by these
interlacing and overlappieg 03119. .1110 logs
were piled up une above Another, just 00
children build " colehenees," from odds anci
ends of pleyt hinge eabin.builders do nee
Rey that a cabin Is a aortivin number of feet
high 1 they usually say that it is ton loge
high, or twelve logs high, tie the ease may
Ire. SVIten the forename is as high as the
eaves are intended to be, the top logs are
bound together, from side to side, with
smaller logs fitted upon the ripper logs of
each side ancl laid across as if they wore to
be the support of a floor for another story.
Then the gable.ends aro built up of logs,
slinetee and 51101154 (10 tho peak of the gable
is approached, and kept in place by other
small logs laid across, enclwiee of tho cabin,
and locked into the end of each log in the
gable until all are in piece. On these trans-
verse logs, or rafters, the roof is kid, lIoles
are cot or sewed through the logs for the
(Moe and windows, and the house begins to
look habitable.
The settlers on the Republican Fork ant
the holes for ,boors and windows before they
pot on the roof, and whon the layer of split
shakes that made the roof was in place, and
the boys bounded ineide to see how things
looked, they were greatly annired 10 110110e
how light it was. The space between the
logs was almost wide enough to crawl
through, Oscar said. Bat they had studied
kneeettlen enoegh to know that these wide
creeks wore to be " ohinkcal" with thia
Strips of wood, the refuse of shakes, driven
in tightly, and then daubed over with clay
et fine bed of which was fortunately near at
hand, The provident Younkins had laid
away in his own cabin tho sashes and glass
for two email windows ; and these be had
agreed to sell to the new -comers. Partly.
hewn logs for floonjoists were placed upon
the ground ineide the cabin, previously
leveled oft for the purpose. On these were
laid thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven
ant of logs drawn from the grove near by.
These sin bs of hardwood were" puncheons,"
and fortunate as was the man who could
have a floor of sawed lember to his cabin,
he W/10 WAS obliged to use puncheons WAS
better off than those with whom timber was
00 00013.0 that the natural surface of the
ground was their only floor. -St, Nieholn4.
WIRELETS.
Derails from grippe in New York yester-
day numbered thirteen,
.A. steatner arrived at New Orleans Sun.
day with 450 Sicilians on board.
Mexico will send fino specimens of pre.
Mous woods to the Chicago Exhibition.
Yowls went through the Welland Canal
and the Straits of Mackinaw Monday.
Arrol Bros., to well known Glasgow firm,
have suepended payment.
Rioting by the strikers continues in the
Pennsylvania coke regions.
The burning of the Canadian Pacific
eabinet shop at Montreal caused a loss of
875,h0re‘,:
Tes went through the Plateau hotel
at Hot Springs, Ark., on Friday night,
securing $8,000 in money and diamonds.
The British Columbia Legislature, after a
session of 54 days, during which 00 bills
wore passed. was prorogued yesterday.
The town council of Whitbybas passed a
resolution to petition the Dominion Paella.
ment for two cent letter postage.
Judge Falconbridge was presented with a
pair of white kid gloves at Sarnia yesterday,
there being no prisoners in the jail for trial.
Mrs. Mary E. Gough, aged 71, widow of
the late John 33. Gough, died at Hillside
farm, Boyleston, Mass., of paralysis.
Six hundred of the 050 laborers mimed
in grediug Jacicson Park, Chicago, for the
World's Fair has struck for an increase in
wages front $150 to $1 75 per day.
Three hundred coal heavers employed on
the clocks of Cleveland went ou etrike the
°thee day, They wane ten increase from
Len to thirteen cents a ton for handling
coal.
Federation in Australia.
Advices f vont Atistralin concerning the
federaeion movement 11030 in progress ou the
ishunloontinent continuo very meagre.
Little 113010 10 reported than that tho colon-
hil delegates are still in Sidney, and that they
are trying to devise a scheme of union thee
will he generally acceptable to the colonies.
But just what the nature of the union will
prove is not certain, or whether it; will more
nearly resemble the conetitution of the Do-
minion of Canaria, which gives specified pow.
ars to the provinces ancl reeerves to the gen-
eral government all remaining legislation, or
that of the United States, which gives to
the general government eertein specified
powers and reserves all remaining leguslation
to the State. It is expeeted, however, that
the MOVement will pr000ed generally along
the lines indicated in the resolution of Sire
Henry Pukes, moved soon after the assemb-
ling of the convention. This motion was to
the effect, that recleral Parliament be estab-
lished, composed of a Senate and House of
Representatives, that freo thado be adopted
throughout the federation, that anthOrity to
iinpose °nate= duties be vested in the Teed.
oral Government and in Parliament, i3nd
that the military and naval deforioo be en-
trusted to federal forms tinder one eommand,
The most troublesome provision of this re-
solution is that of free trado, againet whioh
ib ie stated considerable opposition has been
shown by the protected interests in the col-
onies, Hut whether the influence of these
monopolists will be sufficient to prevent this
&Attire from being incorporated into tho
plan remains to be SOIL 711 would 1)0 matter
of deep regret, however, if any aloes consicl-
oration should bo allowed to wreck tho
scheme ; for, unless a, more friendly relation
between the colonies is established and tho
war of fiscal policies brought to an end fut.,
ere progress connot be reasonably oxpootect
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, no life that
breathes with luaman breath has over truly
longed for (loath.
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