The Brussels Post, 1891-5-8, Page 3NTAy 1, 1891
LATE BRITISH NEWS.
A Str)ka of Gut POPt11113.
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KIM BY HU LITTLE 11-10T1111.
011 the Irish Coadt.
A Idoadineete lelettne'vetT,
At Hampton Wick, L0110011, on Tuesday,
0 coroner's jury returned a media of (loath
from nettled 011 010 body Id Alum.
Mahe. Primaviei, who expired suddenly on
Thursday night het in the of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, when the (entitles of
the niter took fire. hied lea evidence show.
ed that diseased safered froni heart disease,
and that death was eceelented by excite -
meet,
it revives tlte mei-novas of the political
past to be reminded that Thomas Cooper,
:Luther of the " Purgatory of thu ettioldes,"
and in the troublous times of I 811 leader of
the Leicester tanseists, lute jest rompleted
his 86th year. Mr. Cooper wail originaly
sceptic as well as a ladled., but in 1855 his
religums opinions underwent a (Mange, aid
he lectured extensively on the " Evidences
of Christienity."
Throe young men of tho fanning class,
who embarked at Queenstown nu Seedily on
the (Jenard steamier Etntries for New York,
were !wrested on board the vessel charged
with moonlighting in Count y Newry. They
Were taken to Cork and brought. before a
magistrate before being conveyed to Tralee
for tele),
The body of' Samuel Hill, an aged Antrim
farmee WAS felled on Monday itlinost naked
ill a snowdrift near Ballyntire On Thursday
Hill was reported to he missing, and n seerch
having been made daily for him since, he
was discovered as deseribed. It is supposed
that under the influence of tannovary in.
sunity or other cause be NVCI0 late a field
close to his house and divested himself of his
clothes in the belief that he wits going to bed,
Snow Wilt heavily et the time.
Tnesday an old women named Rushton
died et Blackhure in great agony, A neigh,
brew wits peeing deceased's house when she
saw smoke. She entered, end was horrified to
find the donased ablege in front of the tire.
I tea was called in and the flames 'Were ex-
tinguished, hut the old woman wart literally
roested ttud died soon afterwards. Deceased
was toasting oheese when she caught fire,
Two eel Oxalate shooks were felt last
.Thursday at Delahole, near Ti tatted. on the
Covnish coast. The first shock was very
severe, the windows and doors of sane of
the houses be' ng violently shaken. The
second shock occurred two minutes after.
wards, and was distinctly kit, 1101110 of the
people denribing the ground asetrembling
under their toot for several seconds.
In melee ret with the fire in the Gas.
gow coerthoese, woe hoped the saes in
the different °eine would preserve intact a
number of valuable documents, but it has
now been discovere that some of them
Nvere vulnerable, Ammo. the important
documents that hat c been'th LIS deetroyed is
the Parliamentary Register, aid it is stated
tag it wilt now require a special Act ef
Perliament for the bottling of an election.
his house for llte Whet' (lipping abeep, The
only ITIOLi W 114,1 could be aseigned Was Dlefil
fll111101,1 Wile held Ile °vetted tarm was ex-
ileMed to tea. The defendant is alleged to
inten admitted to two policemen that ho,
wanted to nation Mr, Del VOL.% guest, 0 01011
named Jeckson, Lading that she well knew
the sultana.° to Ile poison, She also embed,
me it is alleged, that Bite Ives induced to com-
mit the crime by some outsiders, Thu girl
was retuned for trial to the Wicklow Quite -
ter Seesitms.
The My/neigh Mutiny/ tutpeliest an 1001
dent of the great blizzard 111 the 1P48t in the
appended extract fortnight agp Mrs,
fratherley,who results neav Bickleigh, mimed
a hen, and man Ig enough °etude (led that the
bird had boon buried tho snow. Ae
thee passed, however, alio had misgivings
08 to its fate and ultimately gave up ell
idea of seeing 'the bird agein. Gnat was her
&tepee°, therefore, idler a lapse of ton days,
to hear a loud crackling proceed frote a, heap
of snow. On going to the plaeo her surprise
1008 considerably incrensed to find tho long -
lost lent force an exit through the snow, oottl
flapping its wings makes its way to the house
with all speed, Mrs. itatherloy thee examin-
ed the spot, and found on the ground :we
egga which the bird had laid whilst hold
prisoner by the snow.
A. shocking tragedy was enacted near
Great, 'Marlow on Saturday. A young woman
named -Mary Cooper, residing with tier par-
ents at Moors End, returned to her home in
the &Renew), awing been absent from the
°idly part of the day. She found her father
and mother in bed, the woman dead with
her throat ca, and the man also with it
severe wound in the throat, though still
aim The aireumstances indicate anima
beyond 0 doubt that Cooper murdered his
wife and then attempted suicide. A knife
covered with blood lay by his side, and with
it his wife's fatal wound, the injuries to his
osvn throat, and some deep stabs in his ale
domen had evidently been inflicted. A
doctor was called, and when Cooper's wound
had been dresaell he was removed to Maelow
College Hospital. is about sixty years
of age.
Several whales have latterly been report.
ad mislaying been seen off the Irish coast, end
en Saturday the death of one a hundred feet
long Was reported from Wexford. On
Thursday a. fisheemen named Wickham, be-
ing au the entrain to the harboer, sow nal
unuatml disturbance in tho sea, a short de-
fame out. He plainly discerned the back
and tail of an enormous Greaten°, whiel»vas
evidently erupting to get out into deep
water. The pacts at the fort station put
out in a boat, but were eantious rot to ap.
preach too close to the unusual visitor,
They continued to watch, and its struggles
becoming weaker, Wickham venturecl to
approach the monster, and succeeded in
plunging a long knife into the body of the
oreeture under ono of the fins. 10 turned
out to be a whale about 100ft long by 60ft
girth.
A. great sensation has been caused in
Blackburn by the my steriousdisappearanceof
Mr. John Dixon, manger of the Blackburn
Bank (Limited). Me Dixon went to London,
ostensibly to witness the English Cup filial
at Kennington Oval, and should have re-
turned on Monday evening, Instead of
doing this, however, Ito sent a letter to the
directors intimating his determinotion not
to return to Blackburn. His books were
found to bo in perfect order, mud the motive
for his disappearence is totally inexplicable,
Mr. Dixon to married, and has loft his wife
at Blackburn.
An account has just been arcuated of the
eniolde of a lady who reported to be sof a
titled family, but who has reeently been
living in a somewhat secluded way at 88
'Fulham Road, London. The name of the
tuffortunate woman is Iles. Pringle. She
went down to take some milk cm last
Friday morning, and ahnost at the aumetime
took a heavy dose of carbolic acid, which
in the encl proved faal. She is said to bo
the deughter of a Into Privy Committer, the
widow of a betionet's son, and sister-in-law
of a living baronet.
On Monday, Mr. Wynne B. Baxter held
an inquest at Shadwell respecting the deals
of Edward Loy ry, aged six months, the son
of a dock labourer, residing at 44 Coshers
Buildings, Ratcliffe. The mother said that
she left the deceased and a boy aged two
years in charge of her deughter, aged four,
while she was serubbing,on Saturday last,
Durino her absence the little boy pulled the
baby el the bed on to the floor. The child
was taketi to Oho hospital ana efterwards
attended by Dr. Nickel, but death took
place on Sunray afternoon. Dr. Nickel, of
495 Commeniel Road, steted that death
Wat dee to cerebral luemornage set up
by the fell, and the jury returned a veedicts
of accidental death.
THE BRUSSELS POST. 3
" THE NOD OLD TIMES."
What England Was Under Their
Mild Sway.
When PeOpIe Were len allely w al/sod
Matted ern Tortured nee Fannon
Briggs, eteeereted With the
settle or tedisinuitt.
Who has not Weed of the " good old
tam " of England '1 They heve been Ee
painted that we are amoid deceived into
wishing for then recurrence or at least our
fancy dwolle on them with 0 :cad of coin-
placeoay, It may be that men, like chit.
area partake of the spirit of tempting the
unknown, of sighing al.01! the 01810.111.
than the neer andfato y BlInlight and per.
onnial bloom beyond the multilane's (nest
which bas never been visited, but where
there reign only sorrow, gloom and decay,
Bayley in this way mon are denived tete
talking of the "good old times" The term
nasnomee and judged by ta present
standards of honov, honesty end k
a blot on the name of Christianity. Content
poraneous Iva and Immediately subsequent
to the reformation what was 'England? Thu
population did not exceed 5,000,000 end it
was considered good atatesmanship to main
tain that population as a eonetent etandard.
The peasant's cabin was made of r CeaS Or
sticks plastered with nmd, In the man or
of his existence he was butt a Mop above tho
intimations beaver, building its tlitin in the
adjacent stream. There were highwaymen
on 1 be inads, pirates on the rivere, tuel vet,
min in the home. ThetT was little eounnerce
to obviate famine. The townsman wae no
better than tho rustic. Ilis bed Wet IL beg
of strew, trill 0 round log for hia pillow.
In every village there were Mooke for the
pnitishment of haggises. By an act of 1531,
vaginas, " whole and mighty in body "
might be whipped ot, the earetail for beeg
ing for the first time ; the second time their
eirt were slit, and by an act of 1 559 if they
were °aught beggtng a third time they
were to be put to dentle The name was
so illiterette thee many of its peers in Parlia-
ment
DOULD IEBITIEBIL READ SOD WRITE.
London, the most populous capital of Ba-
rone, was dirty, ill built and unprovided
with senitary provisions. The deaths were
1 to 23 ; now with a much larger population
tho ratio is less. Much of the surrounding
emitter was heath end swamp and within
sight of the town was a traet 25 miles round,
with only three houses on it. Queen Anne,
who reigned in the beginning of the eighteen th
century, counted a herd of 500 deer on her
way front London to Portsmouth. Tho
roada were horrible and pock horses were
commonly nsed. When Hying coaches"
wore introduced, traveling at front 30 to 50
miles 0 day, tnany believed it was tempting
Providence to journey at such a high rate.
Thu mail bag Wag °ended on horseback at
the rate of eve miles an hour. A:. the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century there
were 34 collates without a printer and pri-
vate libraries were confined to the few. Fio-
Mal discipline was not what we call month
Tho master whippedhis apprentice, thepecht.
gogue his scholar, the husband hia wife.
Peale punishments were exhibitions of
barbarity. It was a day for the nubble
when some oulprit was set in the pillory to
be pelted with brickbats, rotten eggs and
dead cats ; when women were fastened by
the legs in the stooks the market ploce,
or 0 pilferer flogged through the town at che
cat -tail. So for from the oomertuniey beinso
shocked at such. exhibitions they appeared
to agree in the sentiment that, ' sines his
fano could not be made to blush it was
well enough to try whet could be
done with his back." To a calmed
public life private life corresponded. The
houses of the rural poptantion were covered
with straw -thatch ; their inmetes, if able to
mocure fresh meet once a week, were con -
saw ed. to be in prosperous circumstances.
One half of the femihes in England could
hardly do that. Children of six years were
unfrequently set to labor.
TILP. LORD OP Tile MANOR 4.
spent his tam in rustic pursuits ; was not
an unwillieg assoeion of peddlers and
drovers ; knew how to ring a pig or shoe a
horse ; his wife and daughters " stitched
and spun, brewed gooseberry wine cured
tnevigolds, and made the ornst for the ven-
ison pasty." Hospitality was dieplayed in
immoderate eating, and thanking of beer,
the guest not being considered as having
done justice to the occasion unless ho had
"gone under the table." The dining room
was nucterpoted ; but then it was tinted
with a demotion of " soot and smallbeer."
The chairs were rush -bottomed. In London
the housee wore mostly of wood and pastor,
the streets filthy beyond expression. After
nightfall 0 passenger wont at his peril, fot
chamber windows were opened and stop-
page unceremoniously emptied 11011.11.
Tate+ Were 110 stiset temps. The moral
condition of the people is expressed in the
satement that men were willing to sell
their religion for pelf. Theatrical exhibi.
ill01111 Were impure tuul indecene, jests Were
pa into the mouths of pretty actreeees,
while the dancing was such as would
scareely now meet approval in Bowery eon.
oert kills. Law wag adminstored with in.
credible avoeity. In London, the ornzy
old bridge over the Thames was (lacerated
with griening and mouldering heads of orbit-
als:Is, under on idea thin Lase ghastly
spectacles would fortify the ormimon people
in their resolves to act according to law.
Sheleking Scotch Conveuantere wore submit •
orbere by
catesnIDT 1 TIIElno a NEWS FLAT
ill the boot women were tied to stakes on
the sea elem.'s; and drowned by the
&lemming thin because they would not at-
tend State worship, or attract on their
checks and then shipped to Amettica ; gal.
lain and wounded soldiets Were hung in
Scotland for fear they would die kale,
they could bo got to Engja,n(1. In the
treelike connected wah Moninoutit'a ret-
inae in ono comity alone, Someraotshire
233 persons Were hanged, damn, and quid
toyed, to say nothing of Italian y let:reasons'
for the soldiers misused theneelvee by hang.
ing for c‘Itell toned they thank, and
making ;the and life; play, am they
said, to his danoing,The works of Buchaenn,
Milton and Baxter were ordered to he pada.
ly burned a the courts a the schools. The
immortal vagabond, lanytte, had been eons.
misted to jag for preaching ottt of his head
U1010031 1301.11.11011 10 oommon people,
and luta remained there 12 years, tho stout
old man refusing to give his promiee not, to
offend Women, foe suoll idle words as women
nee always using, were seetenced to be whip-
ped et the certi'etail throat:di every market
town in Dorset ; a lad mined Tauhing WaS
condemed to be lagged once o, fortnighb for
sovon yeara Eight hundred. and forty•one
lumen beings judicially condemned to trans-
portittion to the West India leitteds, and
antibring tho horrible pains of a slave
ship the middle passage, "wee° never
salbred to go on &Mg" in the holds below,
Ins dalcness, stoma lamination,
disease and death." Otte fifth of them wore
TatioWttt OVenneAttn To Ma 811,OtaS
before they teethed theie deatinetion, and
the rest oblig.ed to be fattened before they
could bo offered in the reerket to the
An extmordinery scene occurred in
Macclesfield Pollee (Joliet on Tuesday morn-
ing, when John Tilos. Corbishley, a labourer,
10115 sentenced to fottr mon the' imprisonment
fee an aggravated asseult on the police. Ile
uttered IN fetu•fill oath, end tht•ew his felt
len at Mr Joseph Wright, the presiding
magistrate hitting him the face The
pesoaer was seized by several policemen
and School Board alines, and a violent
struggle ensued. He eventually apologised,
and the Beach added 11 Week 10 his sentence.
The Rev. N. IL •Babb, the rector of C1111.
comb, W inehest or, ens seized set th apoplexy
while preaching on Sunday. He was re-
moved to his home unconscious end died
at night.
A marine, maned Armitage, of H. M. Si.
Contain, with the Australian Squadron, re-
cently received a draft for 66300 from the
promoters of a sweepstakes in Syduoy, he
having drawn first horse. He had paid an
entrance fee of 10s.
Ott 'rustle), morning, in tt &tipsy camp at
Handsworth, 0 girl Wet nursing a two -
months' old chal, named Sydney Cleyton,
before one of the camp fires, when she foil
asleep, and the child rolled off her knee into
the tire. The child was et. once conveyed to
the General Hospital. He was found to
leave sustained burns on Om head, evms, and
cheet of so seeious s, nature that at first no
hopes were entertained of his recovery, twit
at night lie wtts much bettor.
The molting of the snow on the coastline.
lealcombe, 1 evou luts revealed the dead
body of a soiloe mill° undoubtedly was one
of the crew of the steamship Marina, wreck.
ed during tIte late blizzerd. Unknown to
the other survivors he must have managed
to teeth land, to crawl through the BMW
500 yards ep the rooks and into the field,
where he made for shelter beneath an over-
hanging rook. ln this place Ile is believed
to have perished from exposure.
The decomposed body of IL child was
discovered on 0 piece of waste land at
Well:ley, Sheffield, by the wife of a outer.
The lett foot and right hand were missing.
Thebody had evidently been beefed foe some
time in e hole near by, • and had prolably
been disinterred by ts prowling foxhound.
At Liverpool, on Monday, Milian Tel-
mer, working man, wee charged with at-
tempting to cooling suicide ni an extra-
ordinary mauler. Ito wont to Sefton Park,
tied tho key of hie horise to it coat, along
with a laver giving MN Isaias and address,
and then took laudanum, but 1011,0 yenned.
Ho pleaded deepotation and want of work,
Twe extraordinary outrages aro everted
from Tipperary. The dry geode store of
Mit O'Neill, tut evicted tenant, has been
broken into, and 1.1200 worth of goods stolen.
Beoken ghee, pins, and imedles have been
placed in tile it100111g tronglis of 1 4 cattle,
the property of Mr. teetheen, e boycotted
eatle dealer, with the vesult that the 00100
refuse thog food.
'Between cloven and twelve o'clock on
Saurday aced fire broke oat in the chap
ory ostablislonern; mcssrs. Outer Brothels.
Portainonth. A nurse girl and the infant child
of hie Tully, who manages the business,
won awned to death, tho other inmates
having a narro0 escape.
Janata platitere, The court !mine, 1010
00011 the Queen of England Itereelf, Nene
80 utterly forget to wemanly meroy and
common humanity ne to join 111 this infernal
traffic. Thal, prineese requested that a
hundred a the conviete should be given to
her. " The orolit which she element on the
Largo after linking a lerge allowaeite fel
those who died of hunger anti ewer during
the pai•sege, eau not be etnimeted at lees
than 0 thousand guineas,"
Such is a partial pieture of the " good old
Ulm& " ot Englitml. Fortunately there has
been almost miraculous progreem sinee tan
and justiee and morey ore better known at cl
practised.
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BLAUGHTER OF GIRL B A.BIEB,
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TIVa nultdrvil Thousand Of Thelli TC1111.11
Every Vette In Chitin,
In China tens of thousande of reeently
horn gims among the peon relasectiare thrown
out to peel', and et Shanghai I ease a tower
fo meetly need te fauiliate the infanticide, says
Di...Joseph Simms, who lee re -nutty returned
from an exteetled t rip nf 1110 flowevy empire.
It to practiced in every part a Cbina, Ina
cepecally in the interior and in the Loess dis.
trtet. As 80011 um we get 111011Y 1110E01 from
the coast, it is quite ttaual to ree Deer a joie
home, or plaue of worship a small stone
tower front 10 to 30 feet Ing'11, Willi 110 door,
but a hole in ono side, remelting into a pit in
the center. The children that. parents wish
to be rid of are thrown into this hole, tuul
quicklime soon consumes the lifeless WM°
form. It is said that the priests take charge
of this cruel work. It has been estimated
that every year 200,000 female babies are
brawl!), slaugh ed in the empire, Ono
Chinamen being interregated maga t he de•
emu:Lion of Ins ree, ntly horn girl, ,0
" The wife my and cry, but kill aloe
same."
In every lergo city in China there ere
whims fur the emu a mediate, supperted
and meat:teed by 1.0ruigtivis, 11,110 MVO
yearly from slaughter me ef thouvautle ut
fenutfe haunts. A t Han-Kow, which le 0130
miles alma, I veiled a it0111311 Catholic
orphanage for children tad have time been
eaet out to perish. Mothee Paula Vienetra,
the lady superior ot this institution, in•
formed tue that she had received seven that
day, and one day thirty were brought in,
Of orturse these Isail never been consigned
to a baby tower. Sometimes hey ttro found
wrapped in paper and left at the edge of the
Liver. 8ometimes they ere buried alive by
the father, bat while yet living are dug up
by some one else and brought. to this matt
tutan, Severna women are employed by the
mother superior ia lookino about for the
little victims. Upwnrd orts, thousand are
received every year. Many of them, of
course, die soon after the expebore
and neglect they hey° suffered through
beino abandoned, inel many It ve boarded
out °Ity the histitution in the tewn.
Those who accept the charge have to brine,.
the children once a week for inspeution, and
then, all being right, they remise the pay
for maintaiiiiug them. This is an Italian
charily, and ene of the most estimable in
China laving the twenty•three years of
its existence i -t has saved the lives of say
25,000 to 40,000 children, of whom a fair
proportion have grown to wotnnehood.
received considerable support from the
European residents at Han•Kow, of whom
there are about 1 20.
Those children who remelts within the
premises of the teethe tic.n are fed and cloth-
ed and when old enough, aught to sew,
make lace, knit Mot:lungs, and do other
usual work. They novel: know where they
canto ftem, or who their permits were, When
they are 4 yeters of age theirfeet are bandaged,
eceording to the general custom ef all classes
in China, to keop them small, as thitein-
creases their chalices of marriage,
Death of a Famous Tiohborne Wlimess,
Our Liverpool correspondent telegraphs
the deeth of Mr. Vincent Gosforth in that
city. Deceased was a, remarkable witness
tite famous Tichbortio tvial, lie being agent
for the estate at the time the real Roger Tiolt.
borne loft this country, He was given pos.
session of the famous willed pecket by Roger
Tichborno previous to his departure from
England, but which was unfortamately de-
stroyed by Gosforth. Lady Radcliffe, it will
be remembered, confirmed this by producing
IL similar document to that men Moued Alt%
flooforth's evidence, her ladyship's copy
being _actually signed by tho anashig heir to
the °stens, Alta Gesforth's examniaion
the hands of Sergeanb Balantitat extended
ovee thew weeks, and. the contents of the
sealed packet; were dfillerently described by
the element and his alvocete, Sergeanb
Bellontine conteedieg that Ale Closforth
had boon won ovee hy the holdees of the
Tailbone ostate—le face he designated
him as tho villain ol the piece. Deceased
was 74 yeers of age.
Fight Between Boars and an Engine,
A farmer cashed. IV ducat ttb the Netional
Provincial Bank of England at Southampton
on Wecluescloy, reeeiving among other
money ten five -pound notes, Ho allowed
the Delet 00 remain on the counter, while
he put the gold in puree and while ho
did so the notes disoppottre'l , and no traco
of thom could be diseovered.
Murphy, aged twelve years, Was
elenged ot, the ilacketstoten Petty &melon
with putting a quantity of white corrosive
sublimate into a tett kettle, with intent to
murder a matt named Driver. The defendant
was servant tolvir, Driver, an extensive far -
Mer mid 'Sheep denier He kept the p MS 011 at
While tweeting " Rattlesnake Trestle,'
near Lakeland, Florida, the other (ley, two
large bears wore overtakrn by to train, The
bridge VMS loo high to jump from, and,
finding °scene impossible, the hears turned,
stood upright, and faced the train with
fore -paws up in prize•lighter style. Tho
might° cashed ono of them ore the trestle,
but the other was theown up Into the air
by Oho cow•eittolier, and in hut fall clutched
the brass rods in frout of tho locomotive
Desperate with peen, he growled savagely
and serambled along tweeds the "
settee° the stokerat face was visible, The
eteker had jest been raking the fire, and
made a lunge at his feroeious assailant with
the groat rett.hot poker, With a terrific
hotel the poor beast tried to spring upon
the stoker, bet lost his footing and foil
Almost under the wheels. He 1?sb part of
hincl leg, bet in spite of all Ills wounds
he -pielted himself up after eoning clown the
ombeekmoub (hy this time the train was
off the trestle), and bounded off into the
Woods
ito Knew.
0/lark—Yon say you Wear a fotniteeminch
thirt and 'you tvottb a eixteeminoh
Whet ere the two Wehrle for ?
Customer—Those extra two inches, young
matt, are for ft boil, and don't you forgot it.
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U_OINAGB, ANGIINT WARFARE,
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isneixii,,,tie:81itt.:11,tdali)eitiletleouoitcleveorf nrne,all lensrieastentlret1171 pledreenuoe of gunpowder in tim
history of war bail always been cousiderca
contimetible known ita,
the Nortutina subilequently
Greek fire, of which the moat marvelona ace
tug:in:vette mete! end left the de inocrittic
eat „„ gee, 1 counts have been circulated amoog inan-
ities to take etre of itself.
kind during the paat two or three centuries,
Ity Beery and copper wait made
iuto wine in 1 1172. Ti» was twod for coin. let iosbstoeminerwxtemett idellielite41ettalstdiet Itil,tleeepepreerinetitthltseyo
age in 1 640, end the liatioted farthing was
to the competition of the substance or the.
made of this Cantle ian product with a ettel
fenestration of the engines or other apparatus..
of stopper set in the centre. In 1 000 awl
. employed In projecting it. The slinging en -
I dill tin half -pence were homed In ammeter
gine was construeted to throw a barrel of the
coinbustible compound. The bee m was drawn -
back by means of a rope wound round the
capstan. Ite elastiotty, after being brought
into estate of great tension, Wall then sud-
delay, released, when the end of the beam,
cerrying the barrel of combustieles previ-
ously set on fire, was thrown violently for-
ward and the barrel hueled from the Ming,
all in flames, into the works of the enemy.
A battering engiue is represented stunting. •
by the side of the sling.
IN NAVA). WARFARE
1/species of vessel WINS used, covered with a
roof sufficient to protect. the navigators from.
spews and arrows and provided with to
pointed prow to act ad U. ram, and project-
ing beams bearing „ barrels charged with
materials for producing Greek fire. The fire:
was also used by fon soldiers In armor or by
men on horsehaelc or in chalet -4a in wa,r. The
ty, ordering the guano to p000 for -I sal- torch borne by tho foot.soldier, or 17 the
lings sterling. The present English sever- horseman, W3.8 used often for the purpose o
011,11 WWI tatted in 1817 and weighed 20.21 seentetni7, efirroterieepOsm f levoonol(11,ent,,itiesbretekpsreo‘fietnean.
ly ptled up before a gate or other pond as -
soiled. There ere acconnte, also, of 'Lege
bodies of men beleg thus armed to operate
againet a hostile foree in array upon the open
field. Piet this method of warfare could. not
be employed with advantage except when
thou NVIvi IL .11.0114 51 hat blowing from tbe
;mei t ion of the assailants towards that of the
metalled. In this 01130 the advancing line
would be preceded by a clued of smoke con-
eiat irg of the
1111011' POISONOUS AND SUPFOUAT1101 VAPOZA.
beim a which no hutnan being could stand.
The lances used in these cases were forined
with an iron receptacle for the fire at the.
end. This receptacle terminated the points
at the extremity, which formed a very effi-
cient weapon after the fire was exhausted,.
or eve. perhaps while it coutinued to burn.
II, the case of the horaemen tbe shank of thee -
lance was supported by a ring open at the
top, fixed upon the horse's head, and. the
!torso as well as man was covered with
an iron armor, in order to protect
them from any sperks or flecks of flame
which might be dviven against them by the
rapidity of the onward tnotion, notevith-
standing the 1 -incautious taken in respect
to the direction of the wind. Shells were
alarm:instructed that when thrown from a
height into the water, their buoyancy raised
them to Oho surface and the Greek fire
which had been previously kindled continu-
ed to burn and natter ruin around. Water
added to the flatne merely created steam
whose explosive force soattered the buraing
materials fat. and neat
able quantities, 1 he only pure geld. coati
itEtIlell English Itiatory wera those of
Henry llf,
In the reign of lalwerri I. the pound in
tale of sliver coins woe equal to the pound
ht weight of standard silver. The pound in
0118 divided into 20 shilliugs, the
Mailings into 12 peen, and ouch penny
(demi weeglied penny.weight or twenty-
four giants, Before the mintage of gold
coins in England the byzant, vaned at
.1 0 eh 1000 imported ifrom Constantin.
ople, end liorences of the sante value from
Florence. Edward ILL subsequently mint-
ed the polite, Edward IV, the riot, Henry
VII. the double rial, James 1. the laurel,
and Chelan 1 1, revived the old laurel coin
millet' the name of the guinea.
The guinea in the reign a feeeen Anne,
originally !weed ait FL '20 shilling pine, rose
Valaa 11) 30 shillings, and was acrobatic in
valatee till Sir loam) N ewton secured all thori-
A 1Voitun With rorty -Three Husbands.
A young, Englishwoman named Entine
Leal, who is said to bo exceedingly and.
some, has for a second time fallen into the
bands of the French police for palotioising
whet may be °idled the marriage trick.
When, in 1 887, she was first arrested she
was at hor thirteenth -marriage, but to -clay
she is in no fewer than 43 hitsbands. Her
method of procedure was as simple as it, was
ingenious. She put advertisements into the
journals, stating that a widow, possessing a
fortune of ono million two hundred thousand
frames, wished to marry a Mall hl good cir-
cumstances, belonging to the nobility or to
tile high continental chtss. Answers wore to
be sent to a post office. Her accomplice,
who occupied the position of companion,
seems to have had the important duty of
°homier, the victims from among the applie
etude anyrate, sane 50110 110Ver ad•
milted into Eveline Leal's presence nukes
personal nppearanee was in his favour,
Then ho was granted 0 rendezvous either in
sumptuously.furnishecl apartment in the
Champs Elysees quarter or at one of tho best
hotels. Ntturally, Events° took a different
name on almost every Qv:Aston. For some
of the suitors for her hand and fortune she
°ailed herself Mame. Ferbank, Mane
Rappy, Mil me. Doeomay, aldme. Burnelly,
6-.0. She elwayti commenced by making some
objection. Sometimes assuming the ohter-
act er of an ingetlions Mitt, tile said that,
ter ell, her mailer considered she W118 too
young for marriage, and that the applicant
must, if lie loved her, -setae awhile. She
often teenaged things so cleveley that she
renived rich presents from her stares, and
after getting es leech its she could
else etultlanly disappeared. I 0 most eases,
howevee, she considered IL bettor policy to
sem re posaeseimi of the wedding gifts by
gning through t marriage ceremony. For
this she ins arialdv crossed the Channel.
After the elergyerot had in all good faith
prononactst the imptial benediction she re-
turned with late victim to the hotel, and
always mantle:ell to clisappeer before night:,
but never leaving hor wolding gifts behind
hoe tar last exPloit, which led totter aerest
at the Hotel Memice, Rue do Rival, teas
walla certain nobloViscount, who Imamate
\veil ruined hinist4f through gitniblinie and
'svho WWI anxious to regild his menial bear-
ings with the 1 ,200,000fr of the fair charmer.
it woad OVen :10(1111 that he W118 really in
love with the ILtiVellLilVeSS, ha' ho travelled
with her end her companion, a certain Mr,
Calet, in England, Belgium, Norway rie., It
was, of course, the Voseount who paid all
the expensee, and by bovrowing money
right end loft on las expectetionti, made
1(I'veline rich presents wherever they went.
AL last bac: in Paris the visconet insisted
on awing the day fixed for tho wedding, but
to no twat. hIiss Reynold —that, was Us
name she bad assumed—was inexorable.
lie meat. This feet at lest awakened the
suspicions of the Viscount, who loid the
wee before AL Goren, tho chief of the doter"-
tives, When Oho officers, presented them-
selves at the Hotel Alaimo, Evelino Leal
was greatly astonished, bet .followed thorn
bravely. As forhereomrattionandaceomplice
Mrs Cabe, she was absent from the hotel
triton Ivliss Bveline was arrested, end has
not yet boon teen there again.
The creosoted wood floors of a building
recently burned it Now York NVOre the only
portion of the struoture ttot destroyed. TheY
Nv,ote only charred.
pens a a guinea. The present standard of
fin:mites for silver coins is eleven ounces or
two pennyweight Mit er and tenetten penny.
weight elloy.
Broiler, mins were introdueed in
Vvphwiog ehl copper refine filet tegalized
by t he re:1 lesees f. eta afterward 1110,1e
by 1 1. front old guns, 000por, vessels,
pewter pets, and a genera ansemblage of
comperatively worthless metal.
The hish Widow.
" Do 01 like a crazy woman, Ile
el larger y
" Not this inawrnin, Mrs. Magoogin."
Ne, nor fumy other alumina' lather,
Mrs. Mel 1 laggorty."
" Oi hope not, Mrs. hiagoogiu, but fwhy
do yo ax the kustion ?"
" jislit because," said the widow.
evidently in doubt whether or not to pro-
ueecl with her explanation. " lIut do ye
lain over here a bit, Mts. itlefilaggarty, antil
Oi fwisliper a sextet into yer ear. DO ye
know that this blissidinawenine afore anny
av iz was out 01- led, a tall faille lukin'
gintleman witl eye in his head that id
make an angel blieh for her sex, Isom in an
top av iz, an' a bow an' a schrape an' a
foino. bit es' apology he sad 110 reprosinted
a lsycyclehouse over an Adelaide St, that
N a 1110 to make 010 prisint av a buyeyole
aft Oi wed only pramko to void° Oi
called tee daughter Toozy to shpake to th'
gintlemin, because slie kuil throw in a few
higaeltuned worrnels, an' mobbe give him
a deb or two 11.1" lerinelt thyt ml laid him to
be suspicious that we wero mashers ay the
foor hundherd. rea she keel in her
robe do matmay, all' up silo goes all' gives
10 to this buycycle wen edge t an' left. She
sod she'd take 00' buycycle herself an' be
glad to rade id, but hoc mitenetw—that's
lee Mrs, Ale( thiggerty, do ye moind?—was
too owld rhetimatielry fur any bizniss
av that koind. Lishten to that, Min Me -
(Haggerty ; me too owld tut' rheamaticky
at nut 4010 nv loge fur ridin' bneyele ur
dela anyt ha' else. llegorry they'll be
ether tietyin' hymeby tad, Orin too owld to
ait ur breathe. Upon me sowl, 00 felt loike
„,eiven' her to clip in the lug, an' 01 no suner
hued the \yentas out av her mouth than
out Oi apt all' towld the gintleman to sind
tlio buyeyele around an' opa show him nr
onybody else that wen Led to know lint 01
was neither too owld nor too theareaticky
to ride 11. thankt 1110 vera kebab,. alte
sed he'd sind it an' a. taicher around to-
morrow, "rare now, miss,' sez Oi to
Toozy, ' don't you think you'll come auy
yee little doidoes over 1113 With yer owld
an' rhonmaticky nonsinse,' sez Oi. But
you ex' too owld. inimmawe sez she, Mel).
be 01 sez 0i, but id's nobody's bizniss
to toll me so,' sez 01,' an' Ink id here, mad-
ame in °nye,' aez 01, '01 wasti't a bit Emitter
than you tte fwhin Oi WM your age,' rez
Oi. Sho slauck up her nose an' sailed out
as mooch as to say that Oi wasn't in id,
But 01'11 have RV buyeyele anyhow, 'Mrs,
Motilag,gerty, an' 01'1 1 throy to nide id elf
breake me nick an' (Halm:kits mo jah'.
01111118111 get me a pair av devoided shkerts
an' It ureulueter's cap an' whin 01 gloide
through Ciuthral Park an me 'boike,' as
Temmy calls el—not me boickbone, bet me
buyeyele—th' ateishtoerats 11 have to tern
their rigs out ay the svey an' give mo plinty
av elbow room. Ow, wow, but wait till ye
reo me Gilt he out av soight intoiroly,
lira MeGlaggerty 1"
Fresh -Water Commerce.
Probably then arc few peoplewhose atten-
tion has not been specially directed to the
subject, who aro aware nf the magnitude of
the uotnmerce up 011 the Great Lakes.
1 t has been asserted that 1nore tone of
fie 1101, peas through the Detroit 'River hi a
year then the total importc of the Mated
Steles for thoseme period.
The commerce of die Great Lakes is ear,
ric a upon more than two thousand vessels,
of which more than half are propelled. lay
steam
About. six hundeed &dimmers, some of
them great four -masted craft, ply on the
lakes tinting the five or six months when
the straits end ports aro not closed by ice.
Many aresmallschooners ; and of these
to large number, on the upper lakes, are own-
ed anti manned by hardy Norwegian sailors.
who have emigrated to this country.
Steam is gradually displacing the wind as.
the motive power of the lake traffic and
steel is displacing wood as a material'. The
steam vessels, too, all) constantly increasing
in size. In 1 886, there wore but six steel
vessels on the Great Lakes ; in 1800 therm
wore sixty -MOIL
At the same Mine that these changes in
the size and nutteelel of vessela aro taking
placo, Italian° is going, on in theirownership.
There is a smaller pruporsion of vessels own-
ed by individual or small partnership% .The
traffic of the lakes it &tidally coming under
the control of corporetions possessing large
capital.
The two groat items of frit:1ga in tho vast
teethe of the Great Laces ttre ore and grains
Many millions of tons of ore are yearly
100115110 through the SauleSte, Marie caner
down the lakes. Seventy million bushels of
wheat and four million bushels of flour • go
annually by water to Buffalo. The corn ton-
nage is still larger,
Yeit the Groat Lakes are closed to naviga-
tion dering at least six months of the year,
and winters heve been known when Lakes
&politer and Michigan wore frozen from
shore to shore,
Dogs and .Languages.
Certain experiments atre gravely proposed,
among French caul English mou of science,
which have for their object to determine
whether men eannot, by persistent training
theough mania generations and by selec-
tion, introduce ototally new faculty into tho
brain of orn mantel. It is. proposed to make
the experiment with dogs, aucl ascertain if it
is posei hle to produce a (log which will utter
a Monate sounds, like those of human speech.
There is already, in France, a dog which
111E0108 e011110 110t Unlike " ?Da MUMMA "
10 is little mom 111011 a howl, but the dog
appeare to he striving to " talk," and it is
proposea to begin the &trios of experiments
wit h 11
hl, Paul Bort, a French man of semen,
who (lied five years ego, hes left on record a
statement. which, i Hommel &teed o Ise truce
none to prove that dngs $0111e1111108 under.
stand ordinary spoken convereation,
An old woman, to test her rages devot tom
feigned to lie engagoa in selling him to a
friend. • In an orilinai,y tone a van, and
Altana, gestures, without resting on any
paraientee word, she agreedupon a price for
the dog, and concluded the bargaie ; where.
upon the dog came up to her, whininig and
rolling at her feat in a supplicating 1Vay."
elan he have been told 01 dogs which en-
derstand the &one command iit two different
littigniagee. A compitnion to this story it one
related, 00 vory good authority, of an Eng -
Holt dog which was taken to Franco anti left
among people who spoke only French,
leor to considerable time tho dog appeared
confused, discoecorted, ill at ease and even
melancholy. 10 was plain that he understood
pothingof what was said about him. Every.
thing was new and strange.
After.a tittle, and little by little., ha re.
covered his gaiety, solf.possession and
intelligence. He vats himself again ; 10
seamed, indeed, to have " learned -*moll,"
Setae people," said a clever observer,
speaking of tut over.sonsitive friend Oho other
day, "leave their feelings lying around toe
other people to step on,"
The Kangaroo.
The kangoroo bid fair soon to be es imam,
Australie, whom miler a few years ago
tare weremillions of them, as the bison now
are oil theAdnerican plebe, They formerly
not infrequently outniunbered the sheep OM
tile ranchos, or " stations" as they are called
in the continent, but the sheep rais-
ers discovered that they were voracioue
feeders and devoured as much grass as four
times their number of sheep. .As a conse-
quence they wore huntea anti butchered to
the point of extermination and now a ranch
that formerly !supported 1,000 sheep is suf-
lielent for 5,000. But it has tome to pass,
such is the Irony of fate, that It kengaroc
skile prieed for book binding, Mc, nou
worth as much in the Australian market a
er100131ully 30 varieties of kangaroo
or lather were, varying from the .gigartic
red kangaroo of Queensland, averaging eight
fent in height, to the little kangaroo rat of
Victoria averaging only that many inchesiit
stature. The animal more generally accept-
ed all the trim kangaroo le tile meuse-eolore
ed one, caging ebout six feet in height.
Teacher—" Where do we obtain cool,
Freddy?" ll'reddy—" Prom the coal beds,
ina'atm" Toacher---" Right I Now, Shinny
where do we obtain icathors Jimmy—.
" From the feather beds, ma'am."
Out Vain:louver they aro advocatingthe
idea of a groat demonstration on the armlet
of the Catadien Pad& steanship
of India, The Mold thinks 0 sontething
ought to be (10116 to make the day a eed
letter ono M. the Mallory of the port," The
WortrZ is right, the event will be one of
ordinary importance,