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The Brussels Post, 1891-5-8, Page 66 TRH HERO OF 1812. 13rook's Adtninistration in Upper Canada— The Difficulties Re Faced and Overcome. General Brook wee eppointed president awl idnistrator of the Clovertunent ef Upper Canada, en the 901 thatober, 18 1 1. Ou the 2nd Deeetuher, the SE1.100 year, h eftys, in a letter to Sir deorge Prevost ; "1 cennot ceiweel frotn your exeellency that nitleta a strong regulav force he present to animate the loyal end to eonteut the disaf. fected uothing effeetual can be expected ' On the 4th February, 18 12, Piro* openet the eession of the Legielature and urge( upon the House: 1. A militia enpplement my Act. 2. The suspenaion of the Habeas teorpus Act. 3. An ttlien law, 4, The offal of n, eetvitrd for the appreheesion of desert ers. " The many doubtful t-haracten in the militia," he says in 000 of his despatches " Inside ine anxious to introducte the oath o Abjuration into the bill. It was lost by the casting vote of the chairman. The great in finisnee which the numerous settlers ken the United States pewees ON'llr the decisinue of tho Lower House is truly planning, and ought immeatetel by every practiced means to diminished. ' The hill for the suspen- sion of the habeas corpus weeds° beaten by a very trilling majority. Willeockri, Mat. lory end NI trete were all members of this House met ',sling spirits of the Opposition, When tt a was declared Brock at once settle:: ou the flank competilue of the Illiti110. '1_ his produced a force on the Etagere frontier of 800 met, who turned out very cheerfully., and he calculated that all 0003 the province the number would ailment to about 4,000 men. In the dis- triets originally settled by the U. le. Loyalists the flank companies were instant. ly uompIeted with volunteers, an almost unanimous iliepositioa to servo being mani- fested, and 011 these men General- Brook seems to have depeuded to overawe the disatleeled end to aid him in the field. In fact he seed in answer to an address at Kingeten that " it was the confidence in- spired by the admirable conduct of the York and Lineoln regiments of militit which had induced. hint to underteke the expedi- tion which •terminatod in the capture of Detroit." These men who were with him when lie died at *menden were the sons of the loyal veterane of the revolution. All .aloug the 8t. Laweence the eame spirit •was mainifested, the teen of diengarre in particular performiug at Chateaugitay and en other tights the most Wilma service for Canada. On the 6111 July ()enema Brock issued a proclamation, orilering all persons sus. pouted of traitorous intercourse with the ienetny to be apprehended and treated .accordinee to kw. His letters are filled with references to his anxiety us to the maeldnat ions of the disloyal end illeattect- ed. IPeas to divide that force to support and co 'Memento the militia, That the conduct et the western militia had eeposed the segu ars Ainhorsturg, and he had mule a largo detachment ot the 1st with ban the home and Niagara dist riets, That titu commandant at St. Joseph hal taken , Affickinao and might deswend to Ainherst• 1 burg, aad trompel the Meader:, to retreat, with the aid uf the detachment now on the march to Long Point lint Lila no good result meld he expeeted 011100$ he had power to restrain the militia and genend Impute, tan from treasonable adherence to the , enemy or neutrality les summary procedure, I asked u holier it- would be expedient to pvevogue the House of Assembly and pro- . claim martial 0111010.108 1111,.1.41'11ES TAKEN. - Tlto eouncil adiourned till the next day, the 4th August, tor delibevation, aud then ulanimouely expressed the opinon that, , under the eireninstances of the colony, it E was expediere from the prorogetion of the Assembly that the genteel should proolaim and exercise martial law under authority of 1 hie commission from the King. 00 the 5th Brock prorogued the House and proclaimed nuirteal law: In all probability the action contemplated by General Brock beectme known en the 40, for en the 5th, day of provogation, the loyal party carried in this sante House a most spirited and patriotic itrldrees to the people of Upper Canada. In this it te stated that the population is deter- minedly hostile to thu laded States, and " the few that might be otherWiSe will lad it to them sefety to be faithful," and calls upon the people to " deem no sacrifice too costly which seeures the enjoy - meet of out; happy constitution." The outlook must have been very disiteriet. ening to General Btock when he wrote tide minute for the council on the 3111 August. ith only a handful of troope and no money or eupplies, with a Home of Aseembly weak whole put under ground. Day after day and tintorons, and coutaining it few infamous went ou, the suffering of the man with the secret traitors, sufficiently influential to tle. buried leg and foot gre,v intolerable, until lay and embarrass every step for the defence finally he begged his brother to dig up the of the country ; with an invading army with. pieta of lialese flesh, remove its wvappiege, in our borders, and a portion of the and change Its position in the box. Only in the invaded district mutinous and disloy. sick manes whim, thought the leather, who, al. was musing the unfortunate fellow, Still Mak, the author of Tecumseh, puts in why he could never explain, he too was Brook's mouth a fine picture of his dittiette seized with a fancy that if he were to do me the 1111(0111.1 101811011, and then tell him 0120111 it. the effect might be a relief to the sick 1. a t's mind, It's all nonsense, of 1011100, lie 0, i 1 to himself, but Ile went one eight, just. the same, dug up the limb, relieved it of its weappilig, turned it over in the box, tted buried tho grewsonut thing &gain, thinking the next morning he would tell his brother all about it. The erst thing his brother said to him when he SIM 111111 11'110 ' Moinething rincor happened last night." tVliat was that ?" Well, you know what I have been telling you ebout my buried limb, how aw- fully it ached, and how it ffilt as if something wee preeshig upon it. Well, juet abcut 1 0 o'clock last night, when the thing seas aching The turning point we,: the pro- its worst, I all at ouce felt a tali, f The pain claiming of martial law on the 501 August, was completely gone, and I have not. felt it Then Brock 10110 master of the situation, and einem' the change in the prospecte itt a few days "The brother 10118 astonished beyond ex. was elmost miraculous. 'flat very day the pression, It was lust exec:1.1y live minutes stirring address from the House went for th, before 10 o'ciock on the night provione that to the people. 'rho next day Brock left for ete had changed the position of the buried .Ainherstburg, arriving there ou the 13th at limb, mei he had nob told a living snul nf midnight. On the 1501 he WWI Sendwich, !what be had done. Rather curtsies, isn't with 330 regulars, 400 militia and 600 In. it 1" dant. On the meriting of the lOth he uross.1 ed to the Itlichigan side of the river with these 1,330 men awl captured Detroit, with I the whole of army of 2,500 men and( Inquiry is made for the best remedy for their immense stores and supplies. (Loud the apple and pear scab, which so often die - applause.) Two or three days miter he set figures and spoils some of one best fruits. out again for York, where he arrived on the; While the selection of such ve Haim as are 27th August. !generally meet free from. this diseaeo for The sncecee at Detroit, so unexpected as plamting isimportant, excellent results ere it 10‘13, prod nee,1 an electrical effect. throngle obtained by :spraying with the cathonate of out Canada. It inspired the timid, fixed copper 001111100. TI1030 Ore 1100 or three the wavering and awed the disloyal. After forms of this solution. When the fruit is this event the disaffected saw that it was as about the size of 11 pea, moray thoroughly much as theb• property was worth to disobey evitli it Solution made by dissolving 4 oz. of orders, and what they were at first:compel. carbonate of copper in a pint mid a half of ed to do, after a little while they did from liquid ammonia, in It water pttie When choice. Aliens were required to take the dissnlyed, pour the liquid into a bat rel which oath of allegiance or leave the province. eis then filled with 100101', TiliS will matey a Many were sent out of the country, large dozen or more large trees, and the nutterial numbers loft on their own account—pass., will cost only two eents a tree. Spray twice ports being furnished those desiring to leave, I afterward, ewe weeks apart. Spray strongly 'lapse who refused the oath of allegianee, or covering the leaves thoroughly. .A modified to take up arms to defend the country, and prepare:0011;s trunle of 1 lb. ofsnlphate creep - remained the prorate a f tor the 1st Jane. pate lbs, of carbonate of soda, a pint tend my, 18 1:3, 100re to be considered alien IMO- a half of liquid ammonia and 30 gellons of nues and spies dealt with accordiugly. water in a berme Dissolve the 001plutte of When the militia of the London distriet were copper and soffit separate \emote and then me/erect out, Smith, the author already reemix them, add the ammonia end then the fert•ed to, says : jbavvel of water. 'This will spray from a " Many refused of their 011(11 !wetted end dozen to twenty trees auconling to size. others e•ere persuaded so to refuse by a, Mr. Them applicntions have been used foi• 1100 Cnivey and a Nile Boomer and one more, who or three years with muds success, and the t•nde among the people for six (lays telling trial will be coneinued. Carbo»ate of cop. them to stand back, liowevet•, they were per may be made moles cheaply than to our. apprehended and the most ef the people be. chase it at the druggists, by diesolving 3 Ills. mane obeilieet. After this they had of sulphate of capper °due vitriol) in six thole choice to go or day, and some wont." gallons of hot water, and 4 lbs. of sal soda This power of compelling the traitorous to in other six galloes of hot water, Stir cease I heir treason soon bore fruit, Large well on pouting them together. In a day or Inin els V ant to tbe etates, among them so pour oil the hirend, add water and stir hree reernher:4 ef parliament—Joseph Will- and pour off again ht another day, and the ioelts, thole:eke ot tlieOpposition, 13enjamin sediment will be caramel:0 of copper. Mallory leul Abraham eterele. At the neet seamen e5'lliceeks and Mantle, who were still' members, were expelled the House " fine Very Careful. their disloytd and infamous conduut in! '' Like many admirable people," writes a laying treitorouslv deserted to tho enemy."' correspondent, " our Biddy had but one Atallory lied not -been realm:fed in 1 812. auk, effie was tidy, honest and obliging, Willeocks was killed at lfort Eric in 1 1 4 in bet she 10051d put kerosene on the fire, command of 0 regiment in the Yankee army Her mistress had remonstrated in vain, and serVell during the weir as melee one morning entered the k dollen ill 111110 10 in the mune regiment, Fifteen traitors were see her with the oilscan tilted rot a (angers tried at Ammeter during tite win and sen- 0101 angle over 0 grate where there was still Mimed to death. Seven of them were lutuged fow Arlle egether at that place by order of (teemed. .• • Note, biddy, step at 01105 p eeete see, emmeloncl and eight were sent to tencliece (low often hive I told you or punishmeet. A huge Lumber of the not.i't • me a dem of nil en, the lit•e 0" lieloyal must have been areteeed and mit in • " • Oa envy, 1111V11.111,' 111(14, 11,0 5110 1,00011 reee 001 1e' in the wee, fee "" the %hie ream Mit ly ent, down the can, " it elver yee r the battle ni (same:ton Helga S, OCI01/10' did iiitylnely harm," 3, 1 S 12, the ail and eourt houen at Niegarit, •• There:two aucklents every day from yore lilted with political prismare, as well the carceases tete of Iteroeenee s the 1 dials 10/11.0 ill f.'010 I /rOrfie, ;0110 0 111.• " yis, ma'am, 801 001 W11011 11 1104'0 1;4 .(110i10 to over 11011 aliens mid 1 •lito,, c ireful like tee ! lent folks is that, ;amid ffi °1-1'%""ly, W0,1, Mils a .fr.w 11110 rniiitia, to laving it used 1 Why, Mrs. Windsor, at 113,1,1 teem. When Brae!: lost hie life et Inc het place, locked ep the can for fear lel rteieriara, he did net have many mere titim 1,10, at it. 1 I remember that morning well, ;to soldiers with hint in nigher, KS 1 he 1011111 for 100'11 1111 110.(1 D. 111t Of u fright." num had not come up, After the mine I '"VVID3, 100r0 you frightened?" ientwment of the war the offieete of the: " ' Well, ye see, 11111.11A11, that morning P,1 nny, tho Indians and tho leyffi militia all , put on a /limp too much, end it blow ell olnitteeroil their service to force the few the atom covets ofie and split the lire. gegards into the ranks, They thought it, board 1' Red and unreasonable that they shonlei eitr ell the lenelen mad (angers of the war, Inl /111/1thUrS of them were zealously engaged 111 1.I.'s riVA.S10N. 011 llr 12th July General Hull invaded Catena at Sandwich, and the militia. in that district believed vet.y ill, They seemed either to lose hope or to be disaffected. Five 'tun. deed of them, chiefly of those alien settlers, gave La their adhesion to the enemy, and 0 party of Genet al Hull's cavalry, ;Institute ing only to about 50 men, led by a traitor named Watson, a surveyor from Montreal, were able to penetrate eestward as far as Westminster, about 1 10 miles east of Sand. erne:Meisel piviof of the apathy, to eay the least, or the settlers in that district, The Yankee Believe in lie Not.folk district also reftteed to turn out. At this time General Brock called the Parliament together, and on the 270.3 July, 18 12, opeued extre.eession. In his speech lie says, '• A few teatime have alrendy joined the enemy : Ilene been suffered to come into the country with impunity, and have been harbored and coneealed in the interim!, * To protect Dud defend the loyal inhabitants from their machinations is 111/ Obj:30 worthy of your most serious de. liberation." His speed). concluded with these well known 111111 memoreble words, showing in the face of ell his difficulties and dangers, and in the feta of overwhelming odds, the true heroism and confidence of a gallant soldier. " We aro engaged in en awful and event. fel contest. By unntimity and despatch is our; council:3 aiffi by vigov in our operations we may teach the enemy t hie lesson, that a counery defended by fi•eo men, enthusiastioal- ly devoted to the mum of of their King and reinstitution, can never be conquered." Two days later Brom; appealed to the militia of this plam, the York eaffie cone paniee, whether they would follow him any where in this province or om of It, in cidence of he The whole fol•ce volunteered cheer. fttlly, without a moment's hesitation, The House, however retested to suspend the Halteue Corpus Ant, or to act ae promptly es he desired. The disloyal section, led by Willeocks, assisted by Alwain nt Mamie, del everything they could to t Wart and ember t rase dotterel 13rock. The state of the countty eertaiely required prompt and vigorous meaeures, but many of the House of Ast 011114 20010 seized with apprehensions ane endeavored to evoid bettering the 111. dignation of the enemy. In coesequenee of these difficulties Brock, feeling that General 111111's 0111180011.00 throughout the countty were vei'y numetents and active, called to. geteter Ids et:calve council on the 3re Augnst and 1110.110 the following representa. tion to them: " That the Homo of A samid inetioad of ptempt exert:tons to strengthen iis hamlet or the government of the militia, providing for s' seetwity from internal treason by the partial ettspension of the iffilietts Corpter elet, ' nettling a partial exorcise of martial law con. 1 currently with the ord Mee y (entree of just ice, 0, and placing at kie dispesal the fends not ' actually applied of the pa.d appropriation, had consumed eight day., in :tarrying a ,j1141, 11100401113 of party, thc repeal of thii school !! bill, and passim; an Act for the ',ureic ilis- came of 1.1.01Seilable 1,0foro j.1,, magistrates should lin ',Ayer to 0,,,ninit withentbail. Thetnnil se ells:tuna:tame :s1 little :meld expeete om a prolonged " sterssims. The crams bad evaded and taken " post in the western distriet W113 mutt iplying a daily his pi•eperetione to invade in °there : that the militia, in perferl stale of insobor- dination had withdrawn from the mike " actuel eurvice ; had refuse:I to march when • leettily nommanded to roil:levee dateelmient of regular foreort for the relief of Arita:rte. 11 burg ; hart insulted their °Meets, and 50010. 4 not immediately Innborlied, had mad tested 1, in many ill0t01100$ IL 110 0101/10,:0 5. frit. et (0 fnutiny and clisaffootion ; that the 11‘,; 11115 on Grand river tampered with by disalfeeted whitts, had witinbaNVI1 front their vol. ' unteer sorvicos, 011(1 declared for a neutral ity which was equally Inadmissil le as with the King's other subjects, That in tho western and London distriefesoverel persons had negotiated with the enemy's oommand. or, hailing his arrival o,nd pledging their support. That tho King's forces consishd of tho 41st 300 strong, part of the Royal Newfoundland 200, with a detachment of Royal'Artillery and several vessels. That the eeterit of eenSt and distanoe ef prominent TElfcl BRUSSELS POST. Mm" 1, 1891. Irish end Smote -who settled bore that they might. retein their allegiarme and remain under their ling. Cicada can neva egain be celled upou to face Buell, dangers aud dillieulties. It seeme imposeible Oita the odds 0011113 PrOr again be auything like so great against ns, yet them are tuo 151111), 00110 of Oarierle linen upon her ;toil and too many other men loyal to their sovereign 011(1 to the land of tilde adoptien for 8111(11 1 fritetion of sirangem tn be ithle to seriously endanger the national life. His Burial Leg Pained Him. " That reminds ine," said the num who is Always being reminded of something, " What is it teat reminds you, 01111 What of 1" " This item about a man heving his leg buried the othey day, I wonder it he will lave the same experienue as a f rienct of mine. Strangeet thing 1 ever limed of, Yon see, this poor follow lad suffered untold agony for a yew, or more after injuring his right leg by falling down stairs, end 111111113 the member became so dieeased that impu- tation was necessary. The matt nearly died under the operation, thongh that ie not the interesting patt of the story, The removed portion of the leg was taken %WV Ulla buried, It is well !mown, of course, tootle. gad. 80101100 that when a man hes had it limb cut off Ito still suitors, or thii k ; he suf. fees, lain, which amounts to the seine thing, in the part of the member removed. It WaS 00 ill this ease, end as my friend 011111 1/110/r. 10 0611S01011S110S0 1110 constant cempleint was of the 01001 01350r0 )4111 ill 1110 /Allied foot. " There is eotnetheng pressing upon he wottld eay, in what seemed like delirium. t's_peelted too tightly.' "Now the sufferer keew nothing of wher or how his lost limh was buried. but its e matter of foul, it hael been swathed in a lot of bay, peeked tightly in a box, and the ties and his nuttily eourage 'Tie true our provinee tace.. heavy odds ; Of regulars hut ntteen Imndred 111011 To p.m,. a frontier of a thousand. Lidice Of volunteers what assistance 100 01111 draw From sevont-y thousand stedl.isecat terra eouls A ?league shoeing. 'maim BM enemy's, If 110111 WV( be the test. Mit odds lie net In numbers only. hut in spirit too, Witness the might of eaglande little isle And what made England great will keep her 'The (tee soul and the valor of hey 5.000 Al111 40011.1 0,11111$ tier wilt seetain eon now, It yen cunt tin her courage 0.03 her faith— :9011M 11100(1(1s so mach are to be feared AS private disaireetion, treachery— Those openers of o (biers to ramie.: . And the poor crouching spirit that gives 1011Y Ern It hi forced to richt. Apple Saab, Growing Wa/king Sticks. 1 bringing forward tho dembedient. Some Walking teaks iti•e to a great extent imi t 0 Men of Col. Grahame e regiment, refused ported into Enghtutt front abroad. The b o turn out in the neighborhood of Whit. numberrencived from other eountries roaches le mreh townehip end retired, into tho nearly 5,000,000 annuelly, with a conthined 'Mortices, and the whole regithout man. value of T20,000 or so, Commoner sticks, a, erect to go and feta them in, an oiler as those of beech, ash, thorn end hazel are p , pr iy goat extent grown n1 tins coentry. it fettling that such men wore better in tho aloucostershire, for instance, many aeres m woods, ere devoted. to no other purpose than the Tho result of the Wee watt .,praatically that raising of wood for the walking stiok market. .;$ the disloyal minority' wore driven Ma, and A peculiar Juana ot busrfloAs is the 1 the apathetic, unable to rtvoid actevieg the importation of ovorgrown cabbage stalks tl country, soon became enthusiastic 111 010 from the Channel Islands, where callboys ea cause, Throe years of war weeded out, the,Iare regularly trained With 0, 5iOW to being ti bad elements and welded the Canadians into,' transformed into walking sticks by a process 11 a loyal and potriotie people. 11 also stop.gef sbrippins off each leaf as it appears and pi pod Ste Yankee emigration, and afterwards , finally drying rtnet hardening the stems.— th the oeuntry was filled up with loyal English, ' [London TitBits. ex FOREIGN NE wa, The Cunard steamer Autania arrived at. Queenetown at, midnight, on elundity front New York, awing. been delayed for 24 hours over her usual time by 11 dlerwrangoment of her machinery. On Friday morning she shipped a heavy sea, ane young men lamed Devid (Almon, of Damao, in endeavouring to avoid it, fell twee the starboard into the sea and was th•owned. A boat could not be lauuched to rosette him owing to the heavy soa running at the time, )s. Paris tolograi» says 1 —tieys, shoemak. er, suddenly strangled his mistress, Mutable Hague, as she was bending over to embrace 11101 on Saturday innen1113, He then went out and gave himself up to the police, stat- ing that he had intended to poison himself carefully with strong dose of salts of sot, rel and petroleum, but that Ids heart failed Mn at the last moment. He had no fault to iincl with Alathiltle Hague, and his lama is supposed to have been affected by sum stroke, from which he had suffered in Maria- g41.S;a1Or.1011 0110111 Man 111 Etteope is Herr Peter Leolnietewho a connected with the Weathete Bureau eervice, and is stationed on the top of the Sehonnblick Mountains, in the Ans. trian Alps, There he lives month in and month out, engaged in noting the meteor. ()logical changes in the highest stetion in Europe. It IS the custom of the villagers on Christmas dav to out their way through the snow -clad valley and up the monetaim tarrying presents to the lonely observer. Tide is the only time throughout the yeite that Petee Lochner sees a human face, The lepers of India have a.patrou snint — Piz Johanyan—to st hose shrine near Al twee barged', in Lindh, pilgritnages are now being made. After ionumerable prayers to the saint the pilgriins smear themselves wit] lampblack trom his tomb, and tbo native; declare that cures often result from this treatment, A aper colony resides mend the shrine, and the sullerers mix with their eeighbors, no»0 cif whole have—so it 18 aver• red--evor been knowil to contract the dis. 01600. A Vienna telegmen says 1—Newe received from Pannier!, near Pressburg, states that all the Itorsee in two stables there had to be killed on account of au outbreak of glanders among them. The veterinary surgeon and two farmers to when) the animals behmged 1001117/011111.1(01 1/1 carrying out this/teems:try measure, blood poisoning ensuing in ail three cases. The veterinary surgeon died last night, and no hope is entertained of the recovery ot the two farmers. During a performance at the Bourns Thea- tre, Pans, on Sunday evening, one of the audience edged eery of fire. A terrible panie was the result, and a rush was made for the doors, The manager, however, 111 once came forward and eamounced that the alarm of fire was unfounded. The audience thereupon became reassured, and after a short intevval tho performaime was resumed. Brothel; Auselin, who has just died monk and porter at the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, had lace el, de Bre. court, onee weleknown in the best :Parisian society. Al. de &etyma on coming hotne from shooting one day fired into a thicket, hotline which his daughter 1i:1,330110d to he standing, and killed her. In despair he 01110311.1.- Lt1 Grande Chartreuse, where he ended his days. The Warsaw papers report that the tula, heving burst its toe, has risen Moeda- :wily high this spring and overflown tlie towns anti villages lying on its borders. It carried away whole houses and bares on its course to the 'Baltic Sea. The Polish pea- sants of the inundated distviets were dupery. ed of almost all their fowl, whit& oonsti Mites ne of the prinoipal lines of their farming. Chickens and turkeys weve drowned by the millions, and whole nooks of duoks mid geese were =Tied off by the high waters. The papers of Kiev Russia report that there is tt perfect standstill in the trade of wain in the whole region of the eouthweet. 'fhere is eo detnencl for Russian grain in the foreign nutelme and priues are so low that farmers would not sell their stock unless they are mm1411130)7 the direct necessity. In the dovermnent of Kiev itself tamest every line of businees depends on the grain trade, and shim the latter is at a standstill thet•e is 110 activity in any department of commerce. 'elle commarelet• nf the St. Petersburg police force has issued an order thee allJew. ish stores and business houses should have signs evith the names, patronymics, and families of tho proprielore wt•itten in largo showy letters. The cause of this new order, which is the nearest, ttpproaell to the mediae sete regulati n hy which Jews 100r0 00111 polled to weer yellow patellas on their gammas, is that nietehants of the Hebrowtaith do not write their names plainly on their eigns, in order te avoid the too frequent intrusion of official extortion lets and the prejndice of the unreasonable masses. The temperemee movement white', was re. candy introduced in Russet leads to somex ery amusing incidents. Levee of learatov reports the following : Three pellet -tins of the village of Potrovsk pledged thenteelves not to taste any liquor during the Lent 80(10811. The ono teho should ht•ealc his pledge made himself liable to a line of twenty.ii ve rublee or to receive twenty lashes on his naked body. Not many days tamed before two of the company found their third associate drink. ing vodka. in a geng shop, They required him to prty his lino or eubmit to the lashing, The forme he could not do because he hied re money, so he had to accommodate Iffin• self to the latter. Ho WU stripped naked awl:lashed, Btit in their melee his coin. modem in the teniperancie 0111180 forget the count, and administered to hint more than the twenty blows that 100r0 dos him. He mainly put ou his clothes after the operation, end calmed. that now his companions had 'woken their pledge, giving hint 1110r() Howe than their agreemout hall called for, The peeple aesombled in the inn recognized the inatice ef Ids deem und adjudged his cams minima to pay ehoir fines or to submit lo the istme chaetimement Oue of them enbmitted, and remit -al hie twenty blows without a murmur. The other ono pre. ferred to pay his fine, Since their agreement hall been broken already his .25 ',tibiae were spent on rodku, by which hell' the village got reelieg drunk. Prom figures lately published reltdeing he liquor trade in A10111`10/1 00/110 idea »my e formed of the proportions of the rum nwor in the wintry. In Now York oily lone, having a population of a million attd half, 1,11c teed° in throve is estimated at 80,000,000 annually ; while in support of churchee of ell denominations, which ay bo suppozed to moment tlie chief ounthriteting moral agency, not 1nore than 3,000,000, it is believed, are annully spent. 1 1,110 whole Union, 1,01,0011bn a mule,. on of 62,000,000, $000,000,000 aro spent eh year for rum, while over and above this cre is an annual ehargoof $400,000,000 foe 10 maintenance of prisons,.. poorhouse) hos. tabs, and asylums, whose inmates ate, for e most port, the victims of the steaddy lending trade drink, e VITAL toTATIBTICS, " TaS PAB31 NG SOUL." Intel esling l'OrtiViLlonf or the MITA, Grent WI" 1 a eraaak 8,1"3" w1113 04 ID" II"n. Tkinks 11e Sem Unman Erenfa, 81 10), narringo 111Ifi Dente. A eciettlist ham Invented en opticel in• The report relating to the regietratimi al abetment whereby epirite of ghosts or mate,' teethe, marriagem mei deaths 111 the Provinue bodice een ho leen. This experiment, 1 of Ontario for the yeltr 1889 bee _late been ,Decor ling to the musaut writiug le it Ft•enelt batted, It is it nena elabovall, Mid OXIMAINt• :pllbliCatioll, 1033 very difficult. Beeolleet. lye one and militias eau ifficrostieg thal, it had Icon assorted that it wag figures. For intitanee, the totel registe ite lone possible to 800 010 astral hotly corps made during the ytar amounted to 8.1,7.17, if/nit/kw ) have the hatly at the moment of ooMpeeeil of 48,538 births, 14,880 marrineees , death, lie says lie wee not, willing to twain and 213,320 deaths, Clomprred with, the longer la ignorance ; 110 therefore arranged registrations made during 1 588, the births !the apparatus, ond when bo eueceeded 81,1110011.0yaasen jhri08,(1,0,1t,1111100 :1,70.10,jvaognesoe 011r,1 in getting the most pecfeet adjustment al to 405, making a total increase in 1889 of 1509, 113111 an,inagnifying power, he was called Ito the bedatie of a dying penult. He had 0.1,10101.1,rwelopie)ortilob.,iitolfgtewleatsot4a01.:tiegisIlt.lea jto,inettnIsantaolbeen expecting the summons, and ite re - entitled beside the dying man until the isp• them wevo 50.7 per 1000, in Scotland 45 per Proud, a aath became inallifeet• p1000,000,ailitodn 1101)1,0tahlite.11111ita,t1000501.111ilar in I " A sudden trembling, :Making the whole pads", amnounced the!. the supreme moment The highest birth rates wero in the Ihad. mine. Selth one of my friends who was s30000inictili.01:eLL11.:,ICE:,13,09r41011415;(11,0.4 per 1000, York assisting me, we pineal our heads under the thPsi absicottito :dark covering of the apparatns and Itepe our eyes etendetstly fixed on tho object glees numberatl 4737, the feinelea 23,801, an 'The particles of dust in the ah• were reagni. penv0veLisOnof o0f36 1 Onleu.'51° ibuiltitehs8' to81101 040 gfe°;11131111'8).. tnent their violent movement produced a tied many thetistmets of times, and for it 1110. There was v. small 10030000 ill (he number clotal in front ef the glees TI1011 delioato of twin births registered. Three eases of (esteem of violet vapor, condensed into it triplets were returned in BS% the same 1100eulent 111ass, 100,11 clearly scene alloy° and number as in 1888. They eceurred, 01/0 111 around the lady, Paetieles appeared to the teounty of Peterboro and one in the Pursue om, [mother Its if obedient to some County of York. I kind of central attetetion. The 010101 0011 - :WORKS 31.100 111"1(11 (01 1'10'11ns. Idolised more and meta, and took the aye''- , ous form of a mate then vapidly becttnto Of the 48,538 births dut•ing the year, 088 purified until it was as colorless as the moet ot• 2 per cent. were illegitimate, In 188t) perfect crystal. the perceutage Ives 1.3. 01 the 29,780 per- " At the time there wits aromul us a, feel - sous married, 9140 were Methodists ; 602'2 ing temil,le stillness—e. 001111 altar 11110 al - were Presbyterians ; 5041 were Episcop. mom. ageniziegt An indescribable sensation aliens and 4130 Roman Chtholics. f mete beld tie to the instrument, while 01111 hearts nage is a &Imre, the Methodists won't pay seemed to collect pulsating, We kept our ten center on the dollar. The report shelve eyes fixed on the glass. Particle ef ter par. that thet•e are certain months which are Lido grouped themselves together so as to genitivally chosen for eying the nuptial knot. produce the exact form of the man we ktlew October, December and January are still so well. The form larded at ialfltlt foob the favcrite mentlm, especially Dee, inber, above the body, 10 which it W140 di$1111eLly whielt heads the list with 783 weddings, united by a CiOliel610 0Ortl. The face 20014 This fact, nay perhaps be explained by a undoubtedly the face of the men, but much gentle insinuation that Christmas mid wed. finer 11101 calliter. The eyes were alosed, and ding presents might be conslidered one and the netted :daps monied to be asleep. By u, the same double impulse, we, both of us, experioneed Itt August there were only 9 le woddinge. the desire that the form should awake. At A temperature of 00" in the shade may drive that very moment the bond which joined it 0. ntau to a getet wateeing place whielt sperts to the leely broke. A slight trembling four German bands, he D it evidently can't piteeed over this beautiful perfectly model. drive him to narrates Tho number of males al form ;a violet lame shone wheve the heart married tinder the age of 20 was '25e :gel sbould be. It stood up and gave a sovrowing females 2583 Oval; 20 simony old gouts tori• look at the mbemiloned body, extended the dled to the altar with the weight of three right mind with a gesture of adieu, then some end ten years, and 20 prim old lattice vanished, condensing into a small sphere decided that at 70 they were " eutliviently whielt disappeared ill the dawn of the ever - decayed " to ask mamma's cense), t. Only ast Remorrow." two brides were older than theirbriaegroonis, one 1000 82 years old end the bridegroom 0.2 0 OST OF FRENOTI -G-071ERNMEN T. years, the other was 70 years and the bride- groom 6 I. years. The united aye of the old. Tee omelet sera sy7,101. 1,1 the nn; Euro. est couple mange(' in 1889 was 148 years. The bridegroom was 81 yeare and the bride »Pan 302», IA le No1 tame, Ito begt paid funetionee•y in France is, of 67. Pour persons were married et ffir yeiti•e „ ' • ottree. tthe President of the rett...u.blic. He of age and over, three males and one fentale. Nine girls of 14 years of age united them- ms raiarY b1 2 '13 1 ' 0 00 phut leb0 000 fee selves to youths under 19 years and ;0 Ate,: house to expeeses, am as 1110011 again for were married at 1 6 years of age. cost of traveling. The president of the Chamber of Deputies, the president of the 0110 51.111111,11111 1110,X101, 80111110 and the ()inventor of ..elgeria each ter - The youngest couple married was ie git I of maims salat•y of $20,000, the Cabinet ofii• 14 yams of age to a youth of 18 yeers. One con have a salary of $2000, 01101 11 11 these of old gentleman of 79 is credited with ceptur- ticals lave residence vent free. ing a in 141011 of bashful 1 5. The sturdy set.. deuerel Irevier, gt.und chancellor of the tilet•s of Halibutton district are credited Legion or Honor, receives it eatery of $8000 ; with being the most, generative, the rato of the Procureut• deemed has $.5000 ; president births per 1000 of population beiug 41,3, or Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal, The Frenchmen of Essex seetn to be meet 82000 ; an archbishop gets 83000, a bishop, thoroughly uonvinced of the tedvantitges of $2000 the orchid, of the Seine turd the pre. mat•riege, 111111 head the list with 14.7. York feet of the police, 38000. The marehals of is second with 1 1.6. '1'lle death rate is high- Ift•aileesetheve are only two now, MiteNlithon est in littliburton, and York is again second. and Can t•obert —each receives $6024 ; genets. There were 1 045 more births iu Toronto in als of divisions, 83000 ; major genenth, '86 than '88, 1 88 MOM marriages and 03 $2640 ; M0310101. generals of ninny corps, more deaths. It wou1.1 seem that num has a 82990, and the seventeen ooniniandersof army decided pencil int for appearing on this busy corps—generals of divisions—each rieupple• scene during J Auguet and September, meat of $2270 to theit• salary. A colonel of in time foe lecemeitin and mosquitoes. There infantry receives $1629, lieutenant colonel, were over 1000 01010 bathe in September., 81320 ; major, $1090 ; captain, 8640 ; tiesa August. m. July than in January, February lieutenant, 8568 ; second. lieutenant, $5:11), Deceznbert The numbee of pairs of WINS mud a subdieutenant, $192, A celsnel of 2011,0 26(1, 118 teneepered with 240 in '88 and cavalry receives $1 705 ; lieutenane colonel 407 in '80. The dwell roe to 100 i of popu. 31340 ; inajor, $1 117 ; captain, $01.0 ; first beton in Toronto VMS 1 8.3, the loweet fov lieutenant, 8563 ; second. lieuteactut, $530 many years. Phthisis claims more victinw and 811E11011100am, $492. General &wester, than nny. other distutee, but pneumonia, military governor of Paris, has 85000 in diphtherta and nevvous diseases each peep eddition to his salary as a gallant! of division, large harvests. and theta are 1 42,870 horses in the French The list of centenarians who died during twiny, France has an Ambassador at Berlin, 1889 is as folloses ; Jane Campbell, a,geel 102, Berne, Constantinople, Lendon, Madeid, Dittleriu eounty Margaret Menard, 100, Rome, the Vatican, St, Petershet•g. and Elizabeth Mooney, 1 03,111gin ;Sarah Thongs Vienna, each receiving 88000. 1%111110re son, 100, Ewe ; Sarah Ann Griffith, 100, plenipotentiary of the first and second etas; Feententte ; Scott, 105, Haliburton ; trent to the other capitals, receive 86,000 Margaret Phillip, 1 02, Anne eloPhaill, I 00, and $4800 pet; 11111111111 respectively. The Mary Marta, 105, Huron ,• John Blue, 100, best consulate is that of New York, where Kent ;James Doherty, 1.01,Lambton ; Henry the Count d'Alazac! receivee 8 11,000. A sum Aleeetigh, 100, Lanark : John Vaughan, I 05, in of 38000 is inscribed in this year's Onturio • William Flood, 106, Leeds end dreoneele •, Charles Snmeituht,,e1,0v1; 1 buligneitnfpoeradoi,pgloalaltiel opf re0ssuebultteLinstruction Elizttliet8 Morgan, 1 1 6, eihnoom is paid 82400 ; the vice rootor of the Academy I of Paele, 83600 ; the director of the superiov Intrusive and Bellierent, leormal school, $2400 ; each of the professors at the College of Wenn, $20000 ; direutoi• A gentlenme teavelling in a part of Russia of fill, 01,15, $11100 directoe of the Paris where there WOVO 110 railways was forced Conservatoh•e, $2000 ; director of the °beer. to resort to post -horses. It was during the eetery, e3000, and the maintemtnoe of his summer, when the roads were heavy with large telescope costs an additional. $1 000, mud, and progress WAS very slow. After, Members of the French Aceelemy, besides being forced te spend two days 111 his cart, having the gift of immortality, are ellowed dragged through morasses and often stuck 8300 each, but the perpetual secretary of fest in the neve it is not to be wondered ati that illustrious assemblage receives $1200. that he found his tetnper somewhat tvied, !The secret polices force of Franco costs $300. Wit Ile in this mood he ',vas astonished ono 000, and there is 0110 department of the morning, as he lay Multi led up in the narrow Government, that of religion, that burns space which the poste:art eftorchel, by the $250 worth a a1111,11,,, overy intrusion of a man, who jumped into the ante pushed hint to one side, and calmly seated- himself withoet eeeinnony or epology. —....,,,,..____ FOr the Worse. On my nuodieng what Ise Inmate and 5k hen a conk begins to ex setement with explid01113 that the post:eart, WAS hued by , , 11 0 1 „ 1 ,., , me, paid tor by met a»d intended only te I/0 1,1021 1 1. 03_ 1 ngs 01 0 tionlehmes 1100,1y to he :110oree before t ley aro better, 00 1110 t011111ited by me and mine, the intruder justi' 111111011 0111'1110 goes. At all evente the inan deigned to tell nie that he was a ' tchapar ; , 13 low lincl Id:take Melia it. ' that as 011011 110 1011 11 right to travel in any! )0,, Hem „je be, e, 8,04 gt „ wi i cart he elms), alid meant to travel in mine, „ , ,' - ''' - ' " " ''''' 1 11, here re yoe going wear whether I liked it or not. I " I'm going to the hotel to get my dinner," "Now if I kis lad been true, it svcald not te soistvored 1511• Hicks awe made his peceouce tho more destreme 1, „ , • • . ' . ruffled I t 1 hy don t you dine at 801110 1 but 1 fitadeci it: VMS 1101 true, en 1 valuated I rdwayis heard. that Mrs. Molts WAS 101 lily would-be followdenvoller to make him. excellent cook," self ac:i ree at tame, and as he persleted in, „ i eli ! Inv dear fellow that was before the wheel. referring, I heated him into the mud 0001`, 0 ) 1 . 1 1 1 '0 11 , /0 10 1011fil lt a 000 1 )00 Z. -- 000011 I MI. "As 00011 SA ho recovered an mirigh 1 peak "criP/' lion, he clapped his old flintlock rifle to his I Ilow to Obtain a Spark, shoulder, and putting the muzzle almost btto i my faro, deliberately pulled the trigger. I A very temple apperaths for obteining au Luckily for me, in his fall all the powder electric spark 18 made by a Carman physic. whieh should have formed the train to tho let. Around the centre of a common lamp charge heel been epilled. Altimeter, his chimney is pasted a strip of tinfoil, iteit an, barrel was ehoulted with good holdieg cley, other strip 110111 one end. of the chiinneF to so that, telten altogether, had the puree not within a quartet! of an inch 01' tide rag. I hen missecl fire, the danger would have been a piece of silk is wrapped around a hrterh, greater to hint than to 100. l land tho interim; il rubbed briskly. In the " After this display of rage end impotence, 'dark te bright electit•ic sperk may 110 seen to he tut•ned to the peoplo of the station, mul pass from one Isaac of tinfoil to the other so worked npon them by his arguments eaeli time the brush is withdrawn from the that had I not token the reins out of my chimney, Molly other experiments 0011 he cieee.sereates hands and driven oft I should tried with this apparatus. axe boon detained under most unpleasant nudely C 1. lyre absorbed in g;I: 4 80—_-____...tilnIteir mk airsi--zont circumstances," thought t ny, whataro you The European Anarchists axe busy mak. thinkin 0 ing preparations for their Isloy.drty meetings, , miss ramly—samsthil,ggritna;80„lothinc; and are distribeting fiery circulars in Patio, sublime 1 Vienna, and Ivlacirid. All outdoor demon./ Dudely Conesucker—Vott were 1 Now toll strations will be prohibited. ' Wilftt iNttS ft yott were thinking about—me ?