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The Brussels Post, 1891-5-8, Page 7MAY 1, 1S01, TnB BRITS$ELS PO$T, REMINISCENCES OF BARNUM, Stones Dinatrating the Great ShOWinan'a Nature, -110 Loved The Children and They Lovett Sitin--ite Loved Joking Amil Never COI Anere—The Enigramtnatie choose- nhy " or sue Lin., There is perhaps no IMMO that it would be harder to erase from the 'Mode of the people Ilion that uf Phinems Taylor Barnum, the great showman, There are few mon who du not, retain throngh life the distint improts• Mons made on their inhuls hi youth, and Since the old men of to.clay wore boys the advent of Barnurn's circus has been an event in the life of young Amorket and Can - 'Wm Barnum, with his wild beards and his wonders, has been the connecting link be. tween thechildren and the land of their atory books. While to millions Barnum was only a mime that was synonymous with eines. the man himself had to hundrede of thousands been a personal preaence of familiar form and feature& Until a few years ago, when the pressure of the hand of Lime became so heavy as to check his enthnairism, it was his pleasure to appear itt the performances of his °frees in the larger cities of the coun- try. In this way Ise formeda slight acquain. Vance with perhaps more persons than any American ot hie tine, The life of Barnum is a familiar story to the public. Enough has been printed con - coring him to till a library, and Ms death has resulted hi a (lettings; of anecdote aud reminiscence. The ways and wherefores of his suocess have been assigned by a thou• sand pens. That is his encase was 'genuine one, who can deny? Born with no inheri- tance Rave Yankee shrewdness, he made millions in a business that it remained for him to raise from a disreputable to a legiti. mate standard, and he died honored and loved by those who knew him well, and re. epected by all. At this time, therefore, it IS libting to tell tl lose wl to ha it not a p0114011111 acquaintance with him /101110thing, of those chartacteristies jic him which were most pro unused to those who did. No phase of Barn um's character was iv, fol of 11 CI Mall id crest OH his love for chil- dren and hie apparently innate power of Re- treating children to him. A happy amile 011 a Child s face iteted like a Leith.: on the old than. TO be surrounded by a group of such was his pii radise en earth. 3 -lis face would light up, his eyes sparkle, aud he would rub his halide weather delightedly. No title e given to him pleased him nearly as much 101 that of ."I'lle Children's Frieml," a name Inc reeeived many yeare ago. With him it was not a case ot liking some °U. dren. He loveil them all, black and white, homely anti pretty, so long as there v ere miles on their faces. Asa the afteedon of children seemed to go oat to him at Best. sight. Barnum Wad probably never more' *sincere than when Ire wrote what he was pleased to call his '' Philosophy." wide,. wile printed in the appendix of his bank. It consists of the following epigrammatic sem tences : ,If you would boas happy as a ellild, please one. Childish wonder is the first ettp in human wisdom. To best please a child is the highest truiinph of philoeophy. .A happy child is iikely to make an honest 111/111. To stimulate wholesome curiosity in the mind of child is to plant golden soest. I would teatime be vtlled the childrou's friend than tho world's King. Amusement to children is like rain to flowers. Ho that niakes useful -knowledge most at- tractive to the young is the king of sages. Childish laughter is the echo of .heavenly music The noblest art is that of making others' haPPY. Wholesome recreation compere evil. thoughts„ innocent amusement transforms tears into rainbows. The author of harmless mirth is a public benefautor. In the old days the matinee performances in Madison Square Garden were Bernum's special de iglu, because the children were there, He rdweys reservocl IL box for him- self in the centre on the south side of I be garden. The happiest mon-lents of Inc life seemed to be those when ha was walk ug wren the arena to his box. " There Barnum," would go riround, The children would all clap their little hande and Barnum taking off his hat, would bow to the right and the left, einiling to the ears. After one of these receptions be remarked with a chuckle, es he took his seat in the box : . " I don't value the applause of the adults half so 100011 os that of the children. The clapping of their little hands and their shrill laughter is a whole symphony to me." Barnum know how to talk to children, and it was 15 pleasure to him to do it. No Sunday school entertainment in Bridgeport, his home, was complete unless Barnum went and addressed the children. On a soore of occasions at the matinees in Madison Square Garden, he used to mount the stage before tho performance and talk. In what he said he never considered the adulta. It was the boys and girls to whom Ire spoke, in words that all °Mild rinderstand, telling them storiess about manuals and birds in the mena- gerie, and asking them to go after the pee - fertileness and soo partittilarly the bliels or animals of which he spoke, so that what ho told them mightbe impressed on their ininds. 13arnum believed whmt he said when he as- sorted that his show was a great educator to young minds, Any feature of the show that, could be made particularly interesting to eliildren, Barnum wits quick to tiner to their enjoy - men e It was tut his suggestion that a groat saddle ,vas built for Jumbo, on which twenty children nuld lie seated. It WW1 pretty sight avhen the great elephant used to 'little trips around the gmeden before the perfor. Man 000 With a score of laughing youngsters on its Imola 11 eery animals wore bore in the menagerie Bareum at ones issued orders that the Mauldin of 1 he children be special- ly called to the "babies" Two stories; that ere now will illustrate more feroibly than anything else could tho bond of affection that existed between Bar- num and the children. Throe years ago, when the show was about to open at the ordeal, it most pathetic letter, addressed to Mr. Beam" ono from a little trine -sneer - Old boy on tho Sae side, It was printed on a scrap of paper, mod is given hero verbatim Dime hlrco, Bantenu :1 am a little boy an I am verry sic in.bed, I hex bon waiting a long thno for yinie circus to nine an now ite come I can not go the doetur safe. Dere Mr. Barnum please lot the peraid go by my hone. Barnum at once ordered the parade 'Ino :seldom its route to that isiek boy's Wiala though it wee four bleats out of the line originally laid down. Another story, hoWingtho children% Jove fot: Barnum, is told in onneetion with the Stay of his deathbed, MOntlitY a wOat ago 10 pindvage arrived at Mr. Barnum'o Bridge- port house, 11 was opeued and found , to contain a little folio with twenty orude little sketeines illustrating the Mecum. There was also a letter addressed Lo r. Barnum. IL came from a ten-pastel:1 girl In Now York. She said elie had been to his cirene asul had liked it very much, She heard that he was Melt and could not come to an his (arena, 00 8110 IOW drawn him the pictures about it, aa she hoped they would plsctss , Barnum WaS an inmate joker, and a joke did 11011 1030 its filV10r to him if it was turned against himeelf. He loved to relate the practioaljokes in which Inc had participeted. One of his last jokes was played on a perey of good (Unicorns and elders, pillars of the cinirelr of which he Wakl 11, member. They were allotted his private yacht, and early one Numbly morning were steaming toward New York, intending to go to church there. Two of them needed shaving. Barnum also wanted a shave. Bttruum had the only vazor on board. They drew tote to see who should shave first, Thallium was the lucky man. "I'll tell yon what Pll do," Raid Barnum with a chuckle. " 131 shave one side of my face and pass the razor along to you. You both shave one side of your face then. While Tarn 'shaving the other side of nay face you can be lathering the other side of your's and well get through quick." The good Deacons fell into Ma Boanum's trap without a struggle, Each shaved one aide of his face. Barnum etarted in and finished his shave. As Inc did so Inc turned and threw the razor out of his stateroom window. His merriment and that of the rest of the party at the plight of the two half -shaved men restered their good -nature. Making the beat ol the situa- tion, they washed the lather off their faces and finished the trip with one-half of their faces beacelleas and the other half cove.ed with a heavy srub Barninn's last joke was perpetrated on his legal advisor two ((aye before his death. He turned to that gentleman and very seriously said: My neighbor here has a lot of pea. cocks. Seppose they enme over in my garden cinrl lay eggs. Are the eggs mine el. his?" the lawyer innocently responded, " tSitt is au isitricitte point. The next time hie peacocks come 0V01here and lay eggs we'll erratic° them sue to recoeme them." Barnum chuckled and asked : " 13111; +sup- pose his peahens come ?" The accent he put on the " hens " showed the lawyer how he hitil been caught. and he turned from likt client with: " Confound youe neighbor's pea. cloche and peahens 1" No 111011 ill the world was closer to Barnum than lieu Fish, his secret:ley. Three days before he died Fieh was standing beside Ins bod. Suddenly Barnuin turned to him and said, in his high.pitched voice : '1100, I am going to (lie this time." " Oh, whataro you talkiug about ?" Fish answered with feigned indignation. "You know you ain't going to die, Mr. Barnum. You know it !LB well -as 1 do. You'll be ap around making plans for the Summer in a w"..kNo .", Ben," Mr. Barnum answered slowly, " T am going to die." Fish made no answer, and for a moment there was silence. Then Barnum turned to him again and said brusquely : " I say, Ben, you had better see the con- tractor about pneting up some houses on those shore lots. I've got too much money ill the bank, Ben, too much money in the bank." " Why, Mr. Barnum," Fish answered in surprise, "you said you wore going to die 1" " Yes, Ben, yes," Barnum responded with a twinkle in Iris eye, "bub I ain't dead yet, 13011, -ani Pr' The man has yet to make himself known who ever saw Barnum angry. He exhibited his displeasure by getting•sesty once Inc while, and when in that mood he 15080 hard man to swerve from an idea. Where moat men would take offense, howover, Barnum would turn the tables on the offender. On one occasion, in the Madison Square Garden office, he said to an employe who ranked as Inc agent.: " Well, Mr. Blank, this work is in your department, you know. Leek to ie right away, right; away, You are the bill -poster, you know." " No, 1 ain't no bill -poster," hotly answer- ed she man addressed, his (agility offended ; " and you kuow, Mr. Bateitim, I ain't no bill poster 1" " Oh, ain't you, ain't you ?" Barnum snapped ont. " What are you then, what are you ?" "1 am an agent, Mr. Barnum. That's what I am and you know it," the employe reeponded. " 011, excuse me, Mr. Agent," said Bar. num, taking off his hat and bowing low ; " excnse 1110. Do what you're told to do just the same ; do what you're 1.0111 I" Barnum was my proud of the way he had habnobbed with loyalty when in Europe ; but he hated to have it thought here in America that he bencled his knee at all 'to Princes and pears. On the °cousin of his last trip over, (Inc Prioce ot \Vales mine to the show. Barnum had met him before. The Prinoe Wita very cordial, and, extending his hand, said : ." Mr. 'Barnum, 1 am very glad to see you again." According to the reports of that meeting Barnum took the proffered hand, bowed very low, thanked then:ince very profuse. ly, and answered : " Ala your Hightitas, you hitve nurclo oo old Marl very happy." Barnum went great lengths to contras:0ot any impression that he had been °vet: - obsequious to the Prince, and insisted that instead of saying, " You have 100110 au old man very happy," he haul said, " You have 1115410 all Old Mond vete: happy." Though Barnum in Ilia life showed his big. heartechiess by giving ttway hundreds of dollare to his children, to institutione and charities, there was a streak of closet -listed. miss in his character that bordered on neon - Welty, Ile was mon screpulonsly particu- lar inc eatting every. fivmeent piece that he thonglit he was entitled to, and, in spite of Ids open.handedneiss, he was as quiak inc lightning 10 000 au opportunity to turn an lumest penny. 011811 lie came down to Now - York on show buisiness, the best that the -Murray Hill Hotel coulIl give him was what Ire wanted yob ho would tum in to tho Treasueer al' tho show an expense hill for his cae end cal) fame. One jest:lame is also eclat - ed where. on Thursday he borrowed $30,000 mash of it partner, On Setorday evening he handed the partner a cheek for the $30,000, with two days' interest, liaelving hours were over. Tho check was not available until :Monday. 103,11', 13itenum saved huneelf two days' interest on the money, or about $13. In Barnum% nature, however, there Nvits everything to admire and little to °Obtain, His acquaintance with the Rev. Dr, Chapin, the Timers:diet orator, began when both men were 111 their prime. It non ripened into warm feiendahip. Mr, Barnuin attend- ed, whenever in the oity, the Cleueoh of the DlYine Paternity, of winch Dr. Chapin WOA pastor, and the clergyman and showman found time to OiliOY 0O011 other's company when either needed relaxation, as Die Chap. in'a liking foie. joke equalled the ehiswman's When One of them got 0 ChAt100 to play pawl( on the other, tho story wont the round. of their friende, 1/r Chapin leetured 1 ems - Weal in. Isle best. days within a limited cumin of New York, It wits of lam that the stm:y wail first tohl that, when some ono milted lain why lie hollered with Imam es, having a ruill perith aud comfortable home, he replied : ''1 lec- ture for fereeme, fifty, 1001 1111' expenses,' In Wall Led lunt to lecture at Bridge- port. It took euveral year's of persuasion before he would cement. When itt last the day wits sot Mr, Barnum arrenged that the lecturee should troth° the Barnum lenne his stopping place during the stay in the Com neetieut town, Befoim leaving home on that overran]. day, Mr. &mum avid to hie wife : "Busineas may 110140n ine late in the eity. I must ask you to receive Dr. Chapin. Von will find Iiiin a MOOG airablO mud pleasant man, but he has 0110 great infirmity. He bias (leaf as a post. And, like ell deaf people, he is very sensitive about his affliction, . Speak loud to him but on no account let him think that you notioe his deafnees." Arriving in town, Mr, Barnum sought out Dr. Chapin. He informed him that he doubted his ability eo return to Bridgeport with the doctor, but assured him that all preparations' had been made at home for Iris entertainment. Ho would find Mrs. Barnum, at the hones to receive him. Then Ile spun for Dr, Chapin a pathetic fairy tale about Mrs. Barnum's deafness, warning him that she was exeeedingly sensitive about it and that he would need only to speak loud with - (Mb appearing to notices that she woe deaf. Dr, Chapin arrived at the 13nanum house as had been planned. Mrs. lhernum wee waiting to receive him. Dr. Oha-pin-I-be-lieve,"ecreamed diet good lady in tones like a shrill elarionet. "I am de -light ed -to -meet -Mrs. Bar- num," roared the pastor in return. " You fonnd your way here eas-i-ly, I hope," the hostess :shrieked, as it the !reuse wits on fire. " Mr. Bar -num was kind e-nongli to give ate ell -roc -Lions," replied the pastor with the voice of a Rea Captain in a storm. As the conversation proceeded oath seemed to think it necessary to incense the volume of tone for the other's benefit. When they evore both on the point of vocal collapse a boisterous guffaw from behind a pair of curtains revealed the presence of the show- man, who was unable any longer to contain himself. After laying his deaf trap he had takea an early train back to Bridgeport, and managed to slip uneeen into his house, to overhear these exhaustive greetings. Dr. Chapin was never able to square 6ff that practical joke. "THE GHOST EXPRESS." The Latest Sensation ta itailreading. The superiority of the accommodations generally provided by railways for the t alma- dian and American travelling publics is fre- quently commented upon by European vis- itors. It is to be remembered, too, that the comparisons usually made on this score are with the first-class passenger service of foreign countries, neglecting entirely the third and fourth class :paasenger cars, which carry three-fourths or the passengers, as with us rbstantielly all the travel is what is known as first class. In most foreign countries it is never possible to be oblivious of the numerous class distinctions among the people, and the cerrespondiug variations in 1110 service are very numerous. A noteble new brain of Pullman cars has just been put into service, and which Inas been styled by the railway met] the " ghosb train," because it is composed throughoat of cars which are exteriorly of a creamy white. The lettering and outside decors& tion is don?. 111 gold, and tho cars present striking I:anti:list with the cars of all other trains on the road. This train leaves New York for Boston at 3 o'clook every afternoon, except Sunday, over tho consolidated road of the New York and New Haven and New York and Now England lines, artieeng in Boston at 9 P. 11. A mean: truin, made up exclusively of the same style of oars, leaves Boston at 3 o'clock every afternoon, arriving in New York at 9 P. iof. As the distance between the two places, hy the route traveled, is only 227 miles, it will be seen that no special effort is made to attain a high speed, thereto of travel being a little under thirty.eight miles an hour, inoluding stoppages, but for km clock -like regularity and comfort the service leaves nothing to bo chimed. Theae oars have paper wheels, whiell is said to contribute to their easy running, and are brilliantly lighted by gas at night, their platforms also having special burners, The gas stipply is carried in cylinders nine feet long under each car. No bell cords aro employed, but each car has a conductor's signal connecting with the engine, there be- ing just over the door a ahoet lever working 111 a pipe connecting with a rubber hose under the car supplied with compressed air, whereby a whistle may be blown in the engine cab. Near this lever is another levor by means of which the conductor or nue passenger can open a valve to operitte the air brakes for stopping the train. The cars are at present fitted wall the Baker hertters. Each train has a combination car, rapier pessenger coaehes, arid drawing room care, there being thirteen in all of these specially built cam provided for the dnolly makceup of the tavo trains, Tho combinetion car lute a small portion of its fot ward end adapted for a baggage room, the remainder being fitted tip for a smoking mom, with upholstered willow chairs, a Holt carpet on tho floor, and the windows filled with white shades and drap- eries:. Thq drawing room cars have emelt twenty revolving eludes and six reclining chairs, and itll modem conveniences to pro- mote condoeb in traveling are provided; The oars eost about 88.1mo each. SOWING 'HUMAN TEEM. A. Discovery made by a eiescow Inenitst or interest to Ali Who Suffer. 11 510 can only rely open a statement in a Ressinn journal, a dentist of Moscow has discovered a toothed of mutually planting meant tooth in the mouth 111 such a manner that they will in a short time grow into the gnins, and become Inc all hi tents end purposes real ouea, with the culditionol a:leakage of being free from nerves. Here, indeed, is a graod diseovoey, if it only turns out to be genuine I To escape the horrible ficletting alternative of " epriogs" or "plate and, to have a third set of praotically real tooth that; never echo and can never come out mama to Inc a dremm of detariatry too fasoin- ating Le luave its aright in fact. I,gather from tho description that the pre. Ilinnutry process is not altogedther A °horrid one, as it app,00.111 to be necessaey to bore holes in the Jaw ; buts that, of ammo, ia Merely a 'transitory ona incident:a diseom- era Hitherto we have only heard of " goer:- ing la eon's teethe" but if the prooess can le. .ly extended to Inman molars, and they ecu be set, "Like etneslips, all of a row," in the mouth of the dental patent), there will havo to be an international sub. scription to Tith10 a monunient—fit ivory, of eoutee—to tho Muscovite dentist to .‘vhom is duo the oredit of tho invention, RUSSIA'S GREATEST CONQUEST, - The immir IA 11 41 or Ber Trons•Siberlatt ItattrOad has Bees Surveyed, Rieiro is oultivating the erts of peace tie Well OS those of war. While her agents am nteiguing in Bulgaria Anemia, and her armies 11111110i Lig ou tie. A 'let rin is frontier, her 1 0.0)100N are pi:cueing fore ard cilt entorprin of fox greeter import than the dethronement 'if Ferdinand or the d11111[110• 1101 of Stamboul, Thus is cicctl,icig Ion than the cons:emotion of the trans -Siberian rail. road, 0111011 hos been (Summed of and Milted of foe yearn, nail generally iliM1118. soul as an impractimbility. That it is, however, entirely practicable has low been detsionetrated. The whole lino line been surveye 1, and the e051, estimated with reasonable acouracy. And during the present spriog the work of actual conetruotion on the longest railroad in the world will he begun. The avostem extremity of the roma will be at the ;Miring town of Mink, 111 the north- ern pavt of the province of Orenberg, on the (eastern side of the Ural mountains. Russian :calends Meeatly extend to 7,1atoust, on the westein side of the Urals, only twenty miles front hliaelc, and a connecting line between the two towns will soon be built. From Iliaele the road will run to Chelabinek, sixty. four miles; theece to Tukalinsk, ceonsing the It:08h river, to Kfteesk, to the River Dim, a branclo of the Obi, 987 miles; thence to Krasnojarek, to 1Cansk, to Nijni Oudinsk, on the Upper Tungopee river, the ohief branch of the Yamnrei, 760 miles; theme up the river bo Irkutsk, 322miles thence around the eouthern end of Lake Baikal to Mwees. offsky Pier, 194 miles ; thence northeast to Srjetiusk, on the Shellva river, 060 miles; thence along the Amoor river to the junction of the Uesin 1, where ie will cross the Amoor and run in almost a straight line southa est to Vladivostok, on the Sea of Japan, 1.780 miles. The total length, from aliask to Vladivostuk, is thus 4,785 miles, or iearly twice that of the Canadian Pacific railroad. The country through which this ronte runs is, on the whole, favorable to railroad building. It ia generally well populated. Much of 11 10 phenomenally rieli for agricul. tuml peep:fees, and the rest of it is egeally rich 111 metals. Excellent timber is plenti- ful, and there is no leek of water. There 'ill be some bridge Wilding and some moun- tein tunneling, but them will also bo hum deeds of miles across plains, where seereely any grading is required. Tlce estimated maximum met, including surveys, grading. building stations, rolling stook, and indeed everything needed for the construction and equipmenb of the road ranges from $33,450 per mile from Miask to Chelabinsk, to 808,• 000 on the short section around Lake 13,tikal, and of the whole road, $ 183,825,000—a large sum, but how small in comparison w.ieteh. the cost of a war with the triple alli. . This route, it will be observed, entirely ignores and abandons the magnificent pro- ject of an Americo-Asiatio railroad system with its two great divisions in conjunction at Behring strata 'The Pacific terminus is thousands of miles from the shores of that strait, to which desohtte region no railroad is likely ever to make its way. The road will cross three of the great rivers of Siberia, securing the already enormous comnierce thereon. And it will place the whole north. ern frontier of the Chinese empire at the mercy of Russia, whenever the conflict for the nutstery in eastern Asia ispreeipitat ed. In. deed, the commercial, industrial, and pelitical possibilities which the enterprise brings into immediate contemplation are itelescribably great; so great as to dwarf, by comparison, all plans ot Russian conquest in the Balkas, iu 1011ht, and in frau. Ibis Annenkoff, the engineer, rather than any of her gem era's, who will inalve the greatest mark on the current pages of Russia's history. Couldn't Help But Admire Him. An enraged 111100 10001 into a butcher shop kept by a negro. "You old hound 1" ex- claimed the man, "1 have a good notion to 1011 you," " Why, what fur, cap -n?" "What for? You good for nothing scronndrel, that beef you sold me yesterday was from a cow that died," " Now, jest Bastin ter dab white man's tally. De cow didn't do no siobi o' a thing." " 13u1 I heard a man say that he saw her drop down in your lot" " all, I do 'Oar ter goodness. Ain't folks got nuthin' ter do 'cop' go er bout talkin'erbout der neighbor's cattle ? It uster be 1101 (10 talked or bout folks au' now da has 'gnu ter talk °Mout de cattle. Die do beat any country ober lived in since de day I wuz horned." " But I toll you this man saw the cow drop dead in your lot. How do you aceount for that ?" " Why, de ow did drap can she was knocked in de head." " Bu1 the man says that there WM no one near her when she fell. Hoav about that?" " Now, lemtne tell you. Dat was do wildes' cow I cher seed in my life. W'y, salt, she didn' want ter do nothin'but run all Is time. And the udder clay she had er 1000- 5010 runnin' fit on her an do fest thing she knowed, ker bip, she run or gin do end o' a rail, De rail Int her Scaolvly 'tween de eyes an' killed her in er minia I hated i b might'ly, too fur site wuz °ale fines' stock an' I wins gwine tor keep her. W'y, sail, you englaser Inc grate's:Ain' yo'se3 dab you es:et some o' slat fine meat 'stead o' roun' 7515 11700' ter reise or row wid or man chits is tryin' ter ack agent: witl ever'body, an' l'se got do rheum- naiz so bad eight 11050 dot I doan hardly know win11 1111 (10 C10 dO0tOP 110 111111 t010 me dire lessen I anus keerful I wa'n't gwine live bnt sr mi (slay short time, an' my folks all sick an' dun buried my wife yisterday an' my son hatter be set up wid all night an' daughter dun inarvied er man ditt beaks her like she wtiz a dog. 1 doan think I gwino live long maze de Lewd Ho sorter whisperin, ter mo dna my time dun alums' coma " Tho white man looked steadily at the negro foe a moment awl then said " ought to knock row heed off, lint you tweet/ replete a rascal and so thrilling a liar that, I cannot help admiring you." To Ciroep From Russia to Paris. A Paris teilegram says :.-The prevailing fashion of making cetraord Mary journeye on foot, which WM 111'0t Introduced in Paris by Lioutenent mans every day an ad. ditional adherent. 'Do Figaro has ennouno. ed the somewhat incredible informetion that a Russian olTieer intended to proceed from the Russian frontier to Paris on all fours and to eeturn ho the saano matinee, .A, glazier from the village of Figarieres is now said to have made it wager of 300 francs that he will walk backwards froin Marseilles to Paris on foot in order to salute thoashos of Napoleon I. Should ha fail, M. Cartagne—for suoh is the name of the eccentric glazier—offers to present 1300 francs to the museum of rare modals at $t. Helena. M. Sylvitin Dornon, the LandaAs baker, who is on his way to Moseow on stilts, reached Ilorsberg on Sa- turday. Ile comphams of having,tnet With *saline dilfieulties in the Red Mount:eine, being covered with deop snow. ESKIMO klJNISIIMENTS. 1;1:T;:inldt'int (‘Ir" 4" (1sntI1yA; It4f. A ems:ding Lo the ensue of 1504 1 here were 10,221 13:skim:e0 scattered ill 1111,, OM [P- 11101110 Irian Cape Fereweil to Ilperietvils. Foe the peep:one al governiunt the en et 13'bs IliV1'1011 111 1,0 tWO /1001,10104, V./110d Olt North 1101))00111Pate 014 WO 340111 11 Inepe.... torate, each of which has a gor.tro,,r called the inepector, who le respoileible only to the eoloniel depertinent lib Copenhagesh The:North limp:saturate 115110111111 Mtn seven (Betel:am— Uperunvik, Llincurak, Codhavii, it (*Out) k, .hteoissintve , 1 hrietiensietels end Egedeemitele ; in the South Inispectmate ctre live districts -11 olaLL111:11/011t, Sukk or tem - pen, Codtheab, Freelerickelinale and :Julian. '111aaaboh 3districe has a ruler or governor is. sponsible to the inspector, while every little settlement within the district has its resi- dent, government agorae who is responsible to the dietrict governor. The ISskiencie are a peaceful race, with the hearts of children, and good children atehat. In the ahl days they used to kill ono an - alum under the vendetta prineiple, but, that has long eine died oub. They will still steal if good opportunity offers they will quarrel over game taken ; they will commit adultery ; they will sell furs to other than government agents if the market happens to come to them propei:ly. Fo.: these thread the governor, after Judicial inveetigatimi, may punish the men by flnes up to about $12 by tying them to the flagstaff in front of his house while the fia,g of the nation floats above, and flogging them, the number of blows being limited. .A woman when proven to be chiefly guilty in a case of adultery has her hair cut off. — --- DID TEE BEAR CARRY HIM OFP ? Hurter es of Ben 11 in Bug fur Little 11 Id 1e The disappearance of little five,yeat.old Eddie Lips has caused great excitement in Hart, IBoli, ale was one of ten obit:hen be. longing to John Lips, a. Gorman farmer liv• ing four miles northeast of that place. Monday afternoon Eddie went with two older brothers into the sugar bush, half a mile east of the house where the boys were gathering sap. The older boys worked on opposite Rides of the camp and each thought that the ether was looking after the little fellow. Thus it was that the boy was realty lost two hours before itbeetuneknown, when the two elder boys reached the house. As diligent a search as possible was insti- 1,ted that night, and the next morning n general alarm was given. A large number of neighbors joined in the search, but all without avail. Yesterday fully throe hun- dred men were on the ground, and forming O lino eight feet apart, swept the woods for several miles about the place where the boy was last seen. No trace of the child was found, but well. defined bear tracks were seen a little way from the camp going into the swamp. The most tenable theory now is that the bear took the child. A Wonderful Carpet. Au exhibition of Oriental carpets is now iu pragress in Vienna. All the exhibits yield the palm to 0110 speoitnen, which has no equal in the world. This is the °eke brated carpet from the Palace of Schen- brunn, which was presented by Peter the Great to the Emperor Charles VI. It is known to have been in possession of the Russian Court 300 yeare ago. Judging by nine details of the design, it appears to have been made in a part of Conteal Asia, borderine on Thibet, if not in that province of the ehinese Empire itself. Its dimen- siona 'about eight yards long by three - and a -half yards wide. As to the value, that is something fabulous. Since it is the property of the Austrian Emperor, it is, of eourse, not likely to be 1/1 the market. But were it otherwise, oven the South Kensing- ton Museum woold consider it a bargain at twenty their:maul poends. This article is eirtirely hand.matle, of pure silk interwoven with gold and silver thram(IS 121 the tapestry manner. Four artists inust have worked on it at the mune time, mob at one of the earners. The four corner designs of the body of the carpet represent a pair of dem. gous and a pair of plicenix birds, with beet& Wel plumage. In the centre there is a group of four pairs of dragons and fourpoire of pluenis birds. The intervening space between the corners and the oentre is closely (lotted with groups of huntsmen on hornbook, porsumg alli1111L1S of all descriptions—lions, bears, gazelles, and even hares—in a word, big and small game, the riders being armed with bows and arrows. The perspective is primitive, and the dew- ing so naive that the riders and horses, as well 0.0 the animals, seem, as it were, to be pasted on the groundwork. and to have no connection with each other. Flowers of varions colours mol shades, some of fantastic shape, form the groundwoelv, and the branches and blessonis intertwine among animals ancl riders, so as to give the i0- pression—which appears, however, spoiled by the lack ef perspective—of a hunt tak- ing place icu 101 extensive field of flowers, The ceepet has three borders, the broadest, in tho Initiate, consisting of whiged genii, some kneeling and some eitting cross-legged, They are arranged always in pairs, ono fee- ing the other, and the on presenting a siterificial cup to his companion. Of those groups, cull appears to be surpassed by the usixt, They aro divided be, fa»tastio Idea in gorgeone colours, (Inc smeller borders are rich lions' heads, boars' heads, and so in each with an individnal expression, and, of course, with flowers and ornaments an they suggested themselvee to the faney of tho W011:00. LATE CABLE NEWS The British Parliament ta Diseolve jES Pew Weeks --Tainell and Ireland- Grief of Germany Over Iklolthe's Death, LosooN, April 2.1. Suddeidy out of a Mg which, if not helly clear, looked most inoffensively dull mei hazy, has descended holt ot the first magnitude. Tins two big English parties have been so um evenly 111111 .'hod :luring the preeent Parlia- ment, at least moneeieally, that their prolonged sparring end baciking for posi- tin against another life and death grapple had palled cm popular ourioeity even before Mr, Parnell's treason had fere thee depleted the Gledstonian ranks. Since, that (saint the Liberals themselves had grown negligent, and they confess them- selves now to have been taken by surprise. Apparently the Government is going to dis- solve within Ole oext month or six weeks and go to the country on a cry of free edu- ce ti°10" Iar 10.1107 that Mr. Gladstone is in great spirits over the prospect of an early dissolution and is both eeger for the fight and confident of the result. Whether the contest comes or is postponed till next year the remainder of the 1S/tenementary session,. which, in an ordinary course, would stretch, into August, will be f ull of striking episode& "di IbamPr ee°5ita re1111 ilel' leIatasTt two weeks in Ire- land, covering a good deal of ground in Leinster und Munster, and talking the situ- abion over at first hand with scores of rep- resentative poisons, priests, merchants, professioual men, and landlords. There are just two taw's in Ireland where Mr. Par- nell has probably 0, majority following. Ono is Dublin, where the PrE•inaa's Jour- nal has exerted tremendous influence in his favor, and the other side 1mi since been. tillable le get an intelligent hearing. The other is Thurles, where Mr. Parnell is to epoult on his way to Clonmel. The secret of the Thurlee attitude is as, curious as it is characteristic. Archuiebop Croke there, and, as Mr. Parnell% most . powerful opponent atnong Irishmen genet,- elly, -might be expected to exert paxamount influence in tho town. The feet Is just the - reverse. His (4ran is a Cork men, and through all the years of his episcopal reel- ' deuce hits had all his groceries and other provisions brought daily by railway from Cork. This has made every merchant in Thurles his enemy, and the town at large ything momen- retoilc, tathipcisosnatuinti,,nn. ii,etetv.r Malty overehadowecl by the death ef Count von Molmke, Demth came with absolute pain- lessness, just as ono wonld have preferred the grvaid old figure should depart from among seen, and in a restful evening after a busy dey. Apparently,there Mid been no warning, but it is found that the venerable soldier's work was all done, and his matounts wore in order. His position is ideally secure in the hearts of his countrymen. it, is impossible to describe to you ihe sweetnt 83 and purity of affection with which. :luring these last few days this son of the first year of the century had come to be re- garded all 0000 Germany. It became great- ly heightened and strengthened, of evaise, by the neceesary contrast between his simple, knightly, loyal behavior to the young Kaiser'his old sovereign's grandson, and Bismarek's froward, stupid behavior. Moltke never really liked Bismarck. He had no sympathy with the Chancellor'e splenetic egotism, whIch lad hini to regard himself as more important even than the empire and openly to 1130 all the powers of the Governmene to hunt down and pmeeeute every German who dared to critioiae Lim or his acts. The Census. A dos:patch freer Ottawa says i—Columes could be written respecting the peculimr experiences of Canadian census enumerators. , In the older portions of 1110 Dominion the county of Ottawa is, perhaps, the most die.. finny notioe of country to gel: through, mut from all neounte the census men have Orrick anything but a bonanaza. Out on rho Pacific :mast two mon will take an open boat with a ssitilly of provisions ancl go to I Howe mord to enumerate the population:a of the Indian villager and logging camps. 'Prom there they will go northwarcb along the coast as far as the 11911111 011(1 of !Knight's inlet, a distance of upwards of 300 miles. 'Elroy understand the Chinook language well end aro expert boatmen. In Vancouver ono enumerator 10 spending his Ono taking tho census of the Chinese, In his worlt be is assisted by the Govern- ment interpreter. Tho enumerator finds that 011111e8e names bear seem relation to those of Europeans, at least with regard to the frequeney with which they occur. There Is, however, the dIfferonee that in Chinese the family AMMO nomes first. On one ocs, elusion he had to take down stroll Mines aa Wo, Ab Sin, Ah Wung and several others with the same beginning. He re, 'marked, "You seem to have A lot 01 Alm among your people," " Vas," a philologioal Chinaman replied, "Ah, alloe umne 'white Man Smith," A DEVILI6If DEED. A Butcher RBIs Hhcc WM, and Two 6111141-' ren -A. strange Letter Lett Behind Bun. A despatch from KausasCity, Tie., says e— The police last night received from Archie,. Mo., the details of a horrible crime, the murder by 13. 13. Soper of his wife and two. children. On Tuesday night he bought a. ticket arra left for Keane City on a Mis- souri Pacific train. His absence en Wednes- day and ninthly caused suepicion, andthe city marshal looke into his house to make an investigation. When he burst open the door he witnessed a terrible sight. In the middle of the sietine room floor lay the , holy 01 15 youeg child', a boy with his head . crushed into a shapeless mass, and through the open bedroom door was seon the dead bodies of Mrs. 110901 11111 another cbiid. Mra. Sopers's head and face were chopped nearly to pieces, and the head of the chilcl was split in twain, An axe staiang in the corner of the room, the blat10 COV••••:+d with blood and matted hair, toll the method of the murderer. A letter on a table in the: sitting -room addressed 1—' To te TotitlLe abodies,utiiori tied, or whoever may iii present." In the letter (mound this pass- age :—" It was best for me thus to act rather than to desert, them. I have slain, them. What could they have done for a. living 1 They would have lived miserable. The letter wee signed by the husband of the murdered woman and the father of the children, Soper WaS a bateher. Although poor he was regarded favourable by the community. No mot:ye for (Inc Cr11110, be- yond that hinted at in the letter has boon discovered. Love Shall be Crowned. Love shall he crowned by you anel For over Love our Lord ehiailnh::11, wine We'll hure our 01,01105 11,1 his seerne, Well oat his broad, and drl And Ito shall hold our beerts in fee, To eam dany bond the knee And 01111 11 nonerous s5rttroign0 Within your hear 1 me: sweet end mlne Love elia bo crowned. Lim', Mahn,: hollildiess 05 the ,,ett, 31(5 litimbiest va,saInge ne froc AA nom' eters brood exilnum, ht 'itro To love lo to be half inviter, Therefore through all al orri:ty o'lmoll 111 eroe ma. Awrittra ISItanoull.M.: 10,7:1`80:1. Whitewater, Mee., clanight, Rough on Undo Item, Mr. Brown—Uncle Mose, I hear that your son has been arrested for stealing a pair of boots from in front of a store. Uncle Mose---Yes, sah. Inc sorry to any that hit am a, tack, It must be very hard to have such a. son. Itit am, sah, Indeed. An' 1 tole the, -blame' fool to be powerful keerful or they'd catch him, too 1 L reekon nox' tins 1 want a pair o' boot:: ril snatch 'cm myself I Stopped Calling. "What has become of yea*, old Sans Martin, Cook? I haven't non him itronnd inueb. lately." "Nol mum, Martin. Wine rouncl much now, he's married." . " Oh, ho ES'S married, oh'? Whores to ?" "Ivto, mum,"