The Brussels Post, 1891-5-15, Page 66
LATE FOUR NEW
S' Stilf
on in Tiakoo the most prolific SQUITO Of
naphtha, called the " Czar Fountain," width
ILt certaie seasone of the yeer thsowe tsat
front 70,000 to 80,000 barrels a dee.. The
I Ste Petersburg papers opines theby virtue
L e I of their vest resources and sonnet:Wm, the
- rites Jewish tint swallows up all the
811)01100 11aphi1nt comptustes of the e an -
cases and rules the market to the
disadvantage of the poor Russian people.
The papers of Tillie and 13141C00, on the other
hand, claim Got the Rothschilde help the
email naphtha, miners end traders in the
most liberal manner. They cite instances in
which that firm bought the naphtha of small-
er concerns aud kopt in addition to their
Strangling a Mistress.
A SINGULAR DEATII IN ME
115 0 ENE,
Murder otn Blob Widow.
11111.11011Z0 1100 been very deadly in Japan.
The subscription list for the Meiseenier
memorise has revolted the SIMI of 05,000
francs.
A child three years old has actually been
canted oft byan eagle, near Trencsin,
Hungary, in sight of the father and tnothe
A nro whieh for a thee burned very fierce
broke out on Moudey night in the town
Fort de Femme, the capital of elartirsicri
Peempt Retires and en sentient supply
water tweeted' what threatened to be a se
ous disester. The flee was due to canto
nee..
A. very fine peva:mance was accoMplish
in conecetion with the recent Indian eons
in the town of Revilgunge, in the Chevy
dietrict. TiliS inenieipality has a leader
Tare Perched Mookeelee, Rai Bahadu
pleadd ee Rezernindar, whe does not alio
the grass to grow under his feet. 80 exce
,eent were this gentletion'e arrangements
that he ha ,i It his figures totalled and work-
ed out :lettere 1 10 svelte and the report
O po Islet ion e• 13,4th
00 souls in e collector
bans sit Lex o reek next morning. e% heter
records may come to light in England, thi
taking into consideration the subtleties
the Indian mind, and the scattered nate
of provincial Indian towus, is one that
anyrrtte =mot be beaten.
RUSSia 010/111S to possess the oldest soldier
in the world in Col. Griteenko of Pottawa,
near Odessa, who an Fele 7 celebrated his
1 1 7th birthcrity. Entering the seevice ill
1789, over 100 years ago, he received from
the hends of the lemps ea Catherine, after
the taking of Ismail, where he WKS seeming
under Souwarote, the military gold medal,
This 'bean the inscription .• "For exception.
al bravery at the 00800(1 of Ismail, Dec, 1,
1789."
Look out for rel stockings. It has been
remarked in Paris that the wearing by
ohildren of red stocking coincides with
notable eruptions on their legs and feet.
The Board of Health employee a ohemicel
except to aecertain whether the tlyse coloring
the stoelsings contented poisonous metter,
ann d hits I opesays that all the many specie
„,...rnens ettIntiittel to him derived their red
Color from aniline, and containing a largo
propoetiou of arithmetic oxide, As children
perspire. rwly, this matter enters into sofa -
tion and (5 (1100 teken lute the pores.
The all1011eL of money spent in beautifying
the new. p daces of 110 successful Paris
booesedese is 0115 10011g attention. Marble
itstircasee. temistried pstnels, 01101001 and
historie Ins tts re, and des:mated coin nge are
cessiperetively a new cultivation for the new
rich Paris an ; hat they are beginning to show
in greet fore?.
Taking a census in ladle always arouses
the popular superstitions and dread of
unkeown evils. After the Met census of the
Bhils their chiefs insisted ou new Imperial
obligation that " in future no Bhil woman
should ever be weighed,'' they fearing that
the plumpest end heaviest women, the nee
tional beauties, were being checked off for
appropriation by the 05051511 taken.
In own large stook in order to thm
prevent e
l• 1 selling at a too low price. Bac Xoroye
ly
of
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of
An important change in the French mode
se. of punishing criminals is effected by a law
lately promulgated. Henceforth a great die.
ea tinction is to be drawn between a first offence
us and those following. In case of condemnation
ee to imprisonment or fine, if the prisoner is
in brought up for the first time the oriminal
e, court is euthosized to postpone the executiou
w of the pneishment. If for years the criminal
1- is not convicted of auy offence, the postponed
sentence will fall to the ground. If the
eriminal, on the other hand, commits a see-
m. ond armee the first punishment will be
's
er
s,
of
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al A Vienna correspondent telegraphs
Zoom a large town in Moravia, a wealthy
widew of thirty-eight was found murdered in
her bed in her father's house, where she had
been living since her husband's death. The
circumstances of the ease aro very extranrdi-
nary. In a room between the passage and
the widow's bed room the maid slept, and in
the room beyond the widow's her brother.
He had arranged to leave for Vienne by the
early train, and states when he crossed his
ideter's room at half -past four he found her
lying in her bed strangled. The cloator who
came asserted that the victim had net been
dead long, sine she was still warm. Some
phsee is missing, and the iron safe had been
moved from the wall against which it stood.
The brother says he thinks he frightened the
murderer away when he got up to dress ;
but as no window was open, nor had any
look been tampered with, suspicion will no
doubt tablet' to the brother.
retnya says that those local papers are
venal ; they yield to the iulluence of Jewish
gold. I wants the Ooverntnent to take the
naphtha trade in its own handa
rewried out independently of that following
on the wooed offence. The presiding Judge
of the court is directed, on suspending the
sentence, to warn the criminal of the cense.
queens of conenitting a second offence,
The expedition sent out by the Vienna
Academy of Science to explore the Mediter-
ranean Mend its greatest depth to be 50100.
thing over two one a quarter miles, between
Moths and Omega. On the African coast,
where the water is clearer, white metal
plates could (0 00011 at a depth 01 144 feet.
Sensitive pletes were acted upon by the
light itt'a depth of over 1,000 feet.
Whoa number Prince Victor Napoleoe
should pat after his name has been discuss-
ed, One writer meinteins that he is Napo.
leon VIM The King of Rome was Napo -
lean /I, Louis Napoleon's uncle Joseph was
Napoleon III, his father Lotus, King of
Holland, 'Napoleon IV, and he himself
Napoleon V. The Prince Imperial was
Napoleon VI, . Prince Napoleon Napoleon
VII, and Prince Victor Napoleon VM.
The olfectometer of M. Charles Henry,
recently; exhibited to the Academie des
Sciences, Paris, measures one's smelling
powers; It determines the weight of odor-
ous vapor in a cubic centimetre of ale which
is petceptible by the olfactory sense of a
person. I . is based on the fact that a mem-
brane, slob as paper, allows a vapor to
diffuse echoes It at a certain rate. M. Henry
finds great differences of smell in power
among people, but in general from one to
two thotesands of a milfigramme of vapor of
wintergreen or ether per een 0 lave of air
can be felt. The more agreeabh 1 e 50051 the
snore of Itis required to prods ea tn effect.
The Melbourne Aye states t the " Rev.
Dr." Oswald Keatinge, whose) ot Irieus ca0.
eer and imprisonment in Dub in caused a
great sensation a few years ago, 5 n 'who was
also well-known ass a minister In Nortliamp-
ton has met with a singular death in Aus-
Walla. Some weeks ago at Sydney he WAS
sentenced to five yearspenal servitude on a
charge of criminally assaulting a solvent
girl, but since his conviction has died sud-
denly in the jail hospital. Ile had been foe
some time Doting as a clergyman in Sydney,
and was last engaged as a contributor to a
, Sydney paper.
A. terrible incident occurred on Sunday
evening at Clondolfo's Menagerie which
forms one of the attractions of the lair now
being held al Grenoble. Roeita Gondolfo,
daughter of the proprietor, a young lion tam-
er, 10 years of age, entered the lion's cage to
put the animals through their performance,
when she was attacked by a lioness, which
eprangat her throat and almost straisgled her.
The brute's teeth penetrated the unfortunate
girl's larynx, inflicting suah injuries thet her
life is despaired of. This was the first time
that Madlle. Gondolfo had entered the cage.
She died on Monday morning.
A correspondent. at Siena Leone, Afri
reports a singular incide»t which occurred in
that harbour on Sunday the 22nd. Febnee y.
: in the afternoon, one of the boats whieh
wore second off the publics wharf was seen
to suddenly start off up the river as if being
carried by the tide, Some pollens who
witnessed the affair pursued the runaway,
and on getting up to it found that the boat
Was being drawn along by a monster fish
known tonally as a " sea grapple." This M
really a huge ootopus, and for some little
Ono the ocoupants of the pursuing boat
Wore afraid to boned the other eraft,
it was captneed =I towed look to Susan's
Bey, In seems that it, 58 150 unusual Mecum -
stance ler this description of fish to visit
the Sierra,Leone harbour, and it is not the
first tireethat they haveniade oft With one
of the boats moored there. It is said that
some af the fish are of immeese airse, the
body elope measuriltg from 8 feet to 12 feet
diameter, and the lege proportiontstely long.
Novoye Trremya, =anon most vehemently
againel the monopoly in the trade With Rem.
It was reported some time age that the
loose authorities of the Ceetesteian (Leven -
wants have issuml orders that all Ureters
and peasants should destroy the eggs of the
leaflet:1. which wero left in their' neighboe-
hood by the posts last year. Prizes were
offend to those who would bring, to the
Government stations a larger quantity of
toeust eggs than was expened as an aver.
age from every peasant. The official gusette
of Bakoo, Karkee, now reports that in the
Government of Elizabeth up to Fob. 14,
17,571 poods of locust eggs have been
freehand and destroyed at the various
Governsnent stetions, Mission not include
the quantities deetroyed on the spot by
pouring naphtha over them. Tim Bakoo,
'PRIM, and adjoining districts are infected.
Serious apprehension is bad loy the crops of
the approaching season in the ta ans•Cesica-
strut region.
Caviar is a preeminently Russian artiate
of trade and regarded as one of the national
delicacies. Yet in the northwestern districts,
in " White Russia " or Lithuania, the com-
mon people hardly know whaelt is. On the
rafiromd staton of Vosha, near Vilna, two
barrels of maim, weighing two puede (80
pounds) each was stolen from a wavon by a
railroad employee and seld to a peasant for
axle grease at the price of one ruble eaeli.
The unenspicieus purchaser smerteed the
axles of his wegon with it. But the wheels
grated so terribly as to attract the notice of
his fellow villagers and other cart drivers nu
the road. They all assembled around him,
reproaching him with stinginess, and pro-
testing thee they would lend him no help if
hit. wagon caught fire. Poor Klopak (the
sole iquet of to Lithuanian peasant) swore
high and holy that he had greased his axles,
and displayednean of the stuffhe used for the
purpose. Now they all lope examining the
enemas grainy axle grease which appeared
ao odd and smelt so salty. No 000 in the
crowd latew what it was. At last a Govern.
resent agent came by the road, and noticing
a crowd of peasants stopped to see what was
going on. He ifnmediately knew the cause
of the whole trouble., and arresting the peas•
ant who lied used the caviar for axle grease
he found out through him the theif who
had stolen the ware from the railroad wagon.
The 00Mmonwealth of Australia.
Latest advices from Australia report that
the convention of colonial representatives
who have had in hand the draftieg of a con-
atitntion for the new nation has practically
concluded its labors. The details of the
scheme aro not to hand, but the general out.
line is complete. The name chosen is moat
felioitous, The Commonwealth of Austra-
lia." The Federal governmeet consists of a
Governor-General appointed by the Crown,
O Senate and a House of Representatives. In
regard to the manner of electing the Senators
and Representatives and the functions of
each house, the constitution of the United
States appears to have been more nearly fol.
luoved than that of the Dominien ,• that is to
say, the number of Senators is based on the
States or Provinces, the number of Repre-
sentatives on the population ; the former are
oho= by the Legislatures, the letter by Ole
popular vote. The salary of members of
both houses 10 $2,500 s year. In roc:peat to
the several States the peculiar feature is
Cot the Governors are elected by the Legis.
'abuses. From this it will be seen that the
Motet:Bans do not propose to S011.10 nitre
gother theie connection with the Mother
Country. They merely propose to govern
themselves eo far as local interests are con-
cerned ; and to remain ander the orders of
the Crown in all Imperial affairs. This order
of things, we doubt not, will add much to the
welfare of the colonies, and will not. im-
pairthe strength lid splendor of the Empire
sse
An Authoritative Deeigioli,
Tommy came running to his father ono
day with a weight of trouble on his mind,
14 Sadie says that the moon is made of
ream cheese, pa, rood I don't believe it."
" Mutts you believe it. Why not I"
I know 10 18011.
" 13nthow do yea know ?"
Is it papier
" aek me that question ; you must
find ant for yourself."
" How can I find it out 1"
" You mud atudy into it."
Ho went to the parlor, took the femily
bible from the , fable and was missed for
some time, Whe,u 110 MIII0 Yenning let° the
study.
" I have found ib ont ; the moon is tot
made of green ehoese, for the moon was
maele before the =Vs were,"
T ..0,3
BRUSSELS POST,
1000.1
re Knight and ye Ladle.
(./ Roma unt 00110 Crusirica)
t,
Sir .iolte wee vomely, i all and Armee
end va bint wee in fight, ;
111414.1c to war against the wrong,
And to upholtl the right.
Ills castle sto itpon hIP,
And for Worlookod the lend ;
Its moat WAS broad, and boded 111
To a besieging hand.
Its towers made the 011 11101111 quail,
So massive, bold and high ;
its banner soared noon the gale
To welcome es dofY.
Yo Knight was known wide o'or tho land,
First peeramong the great.
He mot the poor with open hand
And bade their 100011 101)1(0,
Ins lane, wore vaet end 01011 with°,
IN flocks arid herds increased,
And 501551 51511 ohnor onirtinood his hall
As bounty swelled the feast.
11.
But now the news =nee from afar,
That Palestine is lost,;
True knights must hle away to war.
Nor pause to count the cost.
StrJohn Indignant hoard the tale,
And soon declared his will ;
"1 shottld bo craven, should I feAl
My duty to fulfil."
115.
Tito gate swings open, and forth so Kolghi,
CIOSO 001101510d by his train ;
The armor briglitgleams in the light
The chargers shako tho
Why ride ye E:rtight away Mona,
Over tho whimerowned hill I
NVIlv sits ha on the mossy stone
Where W1110W41 sluide the rill!
151.
She cones ! upon a palfrey white,
Pure as tho now.falYn snow ;
But grief bedims her °yen bright,
liar boom heaves; with WOO.
Aol angel smile Memos her eliarnse,
But non It disappears ;
Soft folded in his loving arms,
She yields hor soul to tears.
" Abide at bowie thou nolde Knight.
Or also thls heart will brook
0 pity now my woeful plight !"
And thon shot:eased to speak.
v.
At last, he tenderly doth say:
"My Helen. coave to weep;
Restrain me not. -0, welladay I
i must my honer keep.
Thou wouldet not, dear. that T should be
Less worthy than 1 ant
Naught but u recreant knight kite
wee nature his name a sham.
My knightly fame and conscience cull.
I cannot faithless bo;
Should thus L prove tiod's wrath would fall,
And L not merit thee.
The land whore lived the holy men,
-And Uhrist himself once uod,
To held by sinful ...Natraccit,
His feet clotLe the sod.
To break the Crescent's h3alhod. length.
And to uptight the Crass,
I go endued with matronly strength,
All else is but as loss.
Bfr love for thee my nature ;Ills,
In vim my wet r; breams ;
"levill bloom in spit: of rarthlY ills.
Anti be enlarged ity dem It.
Mr beauteous one, tsslsot away. -
..thy love -hall me susta.n ;
Within thy chamber C041401033 pray
That I may come again."
The noble Knight the :»aidon viewed
Itido o'er 11)8steop ascent ;
Then sought her home. In pensive mood,
And heaven its comfort sont
Again the 110515 005100 1100) afar
-Hosanna to the Lord !
The Moslem hath been ;net In war.
And smitten with the sword.
Let gladness well and music swell.
The Prince of peace doth reign ;
The light was dorte,-and, sari to toll,
Sir John ia with the slain 1"
vit.
Whorestainotlgiass au bdu OS Ibis light
among the silent great,
sculpturod stone preconts yo
Bright ovens his deride relate.
Where songs of bine come from the glade,
Low ict a narrow cell,
'Reath yew-troo's shade, there sloops ye maid
Who toverl ye Knight 80 WW1.
WINDSOR, Ont. j,B.
A Fisher•Main's Song.
Tho 000)11311 tall kiaoed the cold gray sky.
And in front was the hungry sea,
And the river swept dark and drearily by,
While the wind sighed mourncutly ;
Away in the west, the low sun died
The amethyst banks between:
And amid the roods, the plover cried,
As I gazed on that well-known mono.
Anil -the fishermen's boats were far away
Ou the occan's heaving breast ;
And the rod lights gleamed wide over Um bay
From the high hill's windy ereet ;
And I saw my lever's boal;
With her white sails all outspread.
Like njoyous bird o'er the waters float
When the evening skies wore red.
To -morrow, the sun in the oast will rise,
And the fishing -TT oe t oonna home.
To gladden the weary, waiting oyes.
Wet with more than tho salt sea -foam ;
But ah no 1 for the boat that left the shore
That eve when the skies were red,
For the flatter lact I shall ems 110 tnore
Till the sou gives up Its dead.
MARI/M.1W ROOK.
Letter of Reoommendatior4
A letter of inteoduction is usually suppos
ed to he a sure passport for the bearer to the
favour of the person to whom it is seldressed
'Bet anoteling to the experiences of Anton
Rubinstein, the pianist and composer ib is
tionuoinfes well te, inveatigate the ern:tents
of snob a letter,
When Rubinstein wene to Vienna, ill 1840,
full of latent and hope, he took a dozen
letters of introduetion to prominent people
in that city, from the Ressiau ambassador
tunt his wife, in Berlin. Vienna was the
resident% of reset aild one of the gnat musi-
cal centres of Europe, mul young Rubiestoin.
anticipttted making ninny warm/deeds,
He made Ithe calls and left. his lett= ab
the honses of the people to whom they were
addressed, and than waited for 001)11118 181111
invitations, but none mune, After five or six
letters had met this response of absolute
silence, he was utterly 01 0. loss to under -
gaud the moaning of such treattnent.
"1 will see,'' he said, at last, " what Is
said about me in then letters" Atoording
he opened 011e, and this le what, he read :
1' MY DRAR COUNTESS TO t110 position
which we, the ambassador and his Wife, no.
oupy, is atteolied the tedious duty of pat.
ronizieg and reconsinending our lar10118 awe.
patriots in order to satisfy thefts oftentimee
clamorous Permeats. We, theme's:we, mom -
mended to you the beaver of this, ono Rubin.
stein,"
The riddle wee solved. The enraged -
pianist flung the remaining letters in the
lire, and resolved to rely Oil 015111 tint
aided effoets to preens,* friends in the
fitter°.
A ramily Anat.
Briggs -Poor Robinson. After his wife
riled he married her dressmeker,
Grigg-I/ow are they getting on
Briggs -I underalatut IOW e he WIT Wee
her mottey.
E3MALLOOX iI APRIOA.
Tnt. rieervottarg•irtbi,Srtiinolalteig, 24`eyrsr8i1o.leth.ltliserY
Funall9og le exteading rapidly ovoe con-
tral Africa, A0011111111S to all reporte the
natives ateackesi by this disease and thistle
tute of medical knowledge aye perishing in
large umbers loom the Clomp to Abyaillula.
Aloug the neat, as far as white itstItionee ex-
tonsle, vaccinatiort has been introdueed with
goods melte 11 (100 been found, however,
difficult: to inteoduee vaeseinetion einoug the
natives of contra! Airier:, not on amount of
opposition from the people, but boeause the
high temperature and humidity destroy the
potent quelitioe of vet:eine matter. The
letoot testimony en thls point comes from
Envenoms in the service of King Menelek
of Abyssinia, Thee say the mortality
nanong the Gallas and nt Shea Is largo and
that it seems imposaible to keep vaccine so
me to preserve its virultmee,
The editor of Afrique and Dr, F,bernod
of Geneve, Switzerland, have been engaged
in experiements to determine how vacelne
matter !soy be Sent lo 800100 SO AA to pre-
serve Ma potent qualitiea. The only monde-
sion they seem to have ressehad is that it will
be neceesary to introduce the cultivaeion of
vaccine into Africa. The suggest that cows,
goats, or other animals be infected with the
virus in the comet regions, and then intro.
duced into inner Africa, where they be
maintained for the production of vaccine.
and the supply be kept up from generation to
generation, In tit= opinion thegovernments
which have interests in Africa should at once
provide for the introduotiou of this preven-
tive in the mammy they specify. Otherwise,
they fear that stnallonx will make greater
and greater ranges, and will probably de-
populate large areas,
The last expedition which Mr. Stanley
led across Africa reported a great deal of
smallpox in the intoner. All the members
of the e:cpeclition were vaceinatated before
they entered upon three long march ; but
there neins to be no record of any effort to
introduce vaccination in the villages whites
they found affected with the disease. The
natives aro in the utmost terror of smallpox.
As 00011 05 050 of their number is taken with
the disease he is isolated in rt house erected
for hit», aud is left there to die alone. His
frietsda carry him food every day, approach.
ing wibhia u. isertain dietetic° of the house,
and, if be has strength, he (mewls out to get
the provisions.
Saloons and Oolibe Houses.
It is a fact which should nevey be lost
eight of by those who are fightiug tlte saloon
that the power of that institution lies not
alone in the cireumstance that it is a place
whore intoxicating liquors may be had, but
also that it ia the place where men gather for
social intercourse. To thousands of poor
mon it takes the place of the rich tnan's
club, General Broth in " Darkest Eug•
land and the Way Out," says that the tap
room in many cases is the poor man's only
maim., and that a men takes to beer not
froito the love of beer bet from a natural
craving for the light, warmth, company and
comfort which are thrown in along with the
beer, and which Ise cannot get except by
buying beer. Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler,
New 1. ork, asserts that a very large propor-
tion of the visitors to drinking saloone are
not drunkards ; they are not even hard
drinkers ; some of them eare very little for
a ease of turn ov brandy. They are drawn
to the saloon by the sueial attractions of the
place. After the dity's work, the labouring
man MVOS reareation, social intercourse and
entertainieg talk. These such as they are
Ise finds at the saloon. Here he on join his
companions aud gossip or discuss questions
of local or more general importance. To ia
useless to argee that a nutA home is the
best club, end that me sltould minuet with
their families after the work of the day is
done. Grantiug that no club can compare
with a properly constituted home, and
that a scan's nest duty is towarth;
wife and children the fact still remains that
thousands of reputable and resnootable citi-
zens do not so view the matter or if they do
their sense of duty is not sufficiently strong
to overcome theft. inclinetions. It is not
whet ouelit to be but what is which must
first be gruppled evith by the true reformer.
Foe dealing with the 01.1111S in question two
methods are open; either to try and convert
them to a better way of thinking iu respect
to their home, or to provide them with
beettliftil social surroundings which will not
tenst to degrade or deatroy them when they
go one The lettee is the method adopted
by the promoters of the Coffee House system
which though little known on this side the
Atlantic, has been worked with very gratify-
in,g results in the Moi her land. Established
with a view to giving tho working man
good -cooked meals at cheap rates and to
provide him with a comfortable and inviting
place "where he can read his newspaper
and enjoy his game of chess or draughts
without being preached at," it has not only
met the expectations of its promoters in this
regard but has been selesupporting as well.
One company in England whieli ovtms sixty.
five coffee houses has never paid s dividend
smaller than four per cents on the capital
invested. It goes without saying thee in
order to successfully compete with the
saloon the ooffee house must be equal to its
rival in every respect. It must be height,
cheerful and attractive ; distinguished from
the saloon chiefly in bilis that it is minus the
saloon's evil oonamnitants. Considering the
possibilities of the coffee house, there can be
libblo doubt that when temperance people
avail themselves to the utmost of this egeney
the saloon will receive .sueb a blow as it has'
tierce before sustained.
A New Profession.
Chimney -sweeping 18 110 longer to be the
function of a villain class. The art is to be
aised to the stale* of a profession; Not only
eo, but the gentleman who follows it ere bent
upon establishing certain tests whiell shall
create and meentain such a standard of
elliciehey as 8110,11 accotel with their idea of
the dignity of their callieg. Foe there are
professions and professions. In the army,
the nevy, the centrals, or the stage, many
well-known gentlemen are "practising '' by
reason of qualificat(ens which frail hemenity
°aside ehom mystic (similes may be pardoned
if they aro unable to define. On the other
lewd, law, medicine, chemistry, account:alley
aro all Accessible by a oortain and clefinite
way, more or less narrow. It is among this
hater clam of close professions that the pro-
feesion of sweeping chlinueys is to be num-
bered, The 080009,in short, desires Oust all
who asipireto Wylie the attblebrursh sliallfl rat be
duly graduated, certificated, anti registered.
In tine he is only following the lead of the
plumber. That, ho will tette no other len!
Lion) the plumber% book Intuit be the eerneet
evish of a humble nation periodically at his
nnwcy, lettney a slate of things in Which
the professor first mom, alt assistant to look
at; the hearth ; possibly mune himself, in a
fortnight to make to personal inspodion ; and
then adjourned 80116 81 sssbll tile I0000/10(.0
sermon when all attendant appeared. with Isis
bag wed Welshes. Should 11 (0 theintentsioe of
gentlemen with duslry faaes imdperaevering
voices to emulate the methods of the pelt.
tee, WO then all les.rn too late how worser
thus ft washing day 11 15 to have a chartend
setreep.-illenclicster 1.0xaminer,
JAP4IV8 PARLIAMENT.
stow 15 Were*.
Ths Japanese .Parlimneut or Diet, its it
seems to he officially called, Ion set for
namely five Menthe, and the ohief olutriteler-
istice of the proceedings of the Lowey House
fro far aro a marked hostility to the Govern -
meet teed it marvellous result ty roe raisin
delicate pinta of sonstitutheigl law sus
pertain, Use slisoussto»s 011 wheel aro use
ally earliest on with gene lint to a resole
tion of the House, which the Govern men
either referees wholly to ;womb or accept
only later withsoine difficulty, Bue when th
lase midi left inatters had at length reaehe
what had appeared to be sleadlock io re
geed te two important topices.
By the Constitution delegates of the
Government can appear at any time In
either House tent explain Government mea-
sures, They 000 alSO Babe to be questionesl
by the members, This praotice lists hid to
frequent squabbles, delegate.% refusing to
answer pertioular questiors, tbe House
oalluitg fos new delegates and ehe Govern.
numb supposaing Glow delegates. The lira
SOVICRIS difference between the house and
the Government took place on this question,
and now it has been raised again in another
shape. A prolonged debate on the Budget
heeing been coneluded by the closure jus
as the division on the main question was
about to be taken, the delogete from the
Foreign Office claimed the right to speak,
es delegates could speak at ally time. fl'here
were violent objections to a delegate speak.
ing who» he could not be a»swored, and
the House voted agninst bearing bine Tho
following disy the Prime Minister. himself
appeared in the tribune, and sleclarell that
the refusal to hear the delegate was consti-
tutional, and that if the House objected to
the rights given to Governtneut delegates,
the props», course 5,518 (0 MICR representa-
tion on the subject, and, if neeepeary, have
that provision 01 11)0 Constitution amended
The House appetwed disinclined to tak
this view, but the delegate withdrew, ols
serving that, as the Primo Minister had sato
all he wanted to any, tie need not stay.
Ths second topic is much more 900101111
The Committee on the Budget had cut closet
the estimates in the mese extraorclinar
way : offices are abolished (including lega
tions abroad), the staff of departments ar
reduced to a tnere fraction of their number
sub -departments and burerws areswepe away
altogether, and the salaries nit the official
terns:Ming, beginning wills the Prime Minis
tet hinssclf, are retleced sometimes to a
third of the present tunotinta. Tho sixty
seventh 01 ((ole of the Constitattion provide
that o large port'on thab a large portion 0
the expenditure, classed al "fixed expendi
tures,"shallnob bereduced by the Diet with-
out the concurrence of the Government, and
an ordinance WAS passed defining these fixed
expenditures. The Lower House, however,
has resolved thet this ordinanee is ultra
viree, and has interpreted this dense of the
Constitution for itself in a sense wholly op-
posed to that of the Government, and in
such a way as largely to reduce the items of
expenditure, with which 10 11410 no power to
deal without the conetivrenue of the latter.
Both the Prime Minister and the Ministry
of Finance delivered vigorous addresses to
the House on the unconstitutional nature of
its proceedings, and the Minister of Finance
declared that the Government would, if th
House persisted in its course, announce its
dissent and take other measures provided
by the Cotter:Maims,
The situation is vegard by the nativepress
as ono dinette gravity, bee there appeared
at the time the mail left to be no prosper);
of the House altering its position. The
House of Peers had not yet come to the eon.
sideration of the matter.
ANOIE11TLO7.
Whet 14es Beneath the7avvnents or tg.,:0acol853.
To form n true sonception of the Roman
oily we must weep away all the itoeume-
rated restate of modem' art and Wintry,
We In LI,0 orpitto bilwfit »owl., tind remove
as thig
e en ligments of faney, Ilse Cathedral,
" the Abbey, tlie Tossor, the swamping throngs
' of Oheepeldcs, and the mellows squaree or
' hriak buddlisge that shelter the inillione of
tho ',melon of Welty ; dissolve the splendid
O Vill1011, fent think only of the pest. Com.
fined within the narrow limits of these walls
4 its greatest longtls the eiverefront, ito
' greateet, breadth between Cripplegete and
tile Thames, we see tIte Roman city. 11; is
enclose:it by a wall of stonsework ;led cement
from twenty to thirty feet high. Towers Qv
oastelle appestr ab intervals. It was built
upon the ;stall of ell °thee Ronnie) cities,
and resembled Pompeii 00 Lindl1111, 1(8
four eltief streets, at least forty foot wide,
met in its forum ; they were perfectly
straight., and led directly to tile gates. .Ab
their aisle were narrower Unifies, or lanes,
all equally straight ansl free from einnositice.
The Boman engineers laid ont their dram.
with unehanging regularity. Every sweet
was paved with smooth stone, like those of
Pompeii. Bennie) the streets re» the sewers
and the water•pipes-we may assatne-so
invariably found in every Remise city.
It Is impossible to determine exactly the
site 01 (10 London ferrite ; is is only probable
that there must have been one. We may,
however, infer, fvoin evidence too detailed
and minute to enter upon here, that the
forum stood upon the oldest part of Roman
London, vie, south of Cornhill aud east of
the Mansion House. It is by no means car -
tale that there was a forum. But an in.
scribed title seems to show that the seat of
government of the province was at London.
Those, however, who consider the later en -
penance of lemnan Loudon can hardly believe
° that it had no publie buildings, At first an
' insignificant town, although 0 p051 01 some
trade, for more than two centuries it con-
trolled the exports and imports of the entive
• island. Its wharves were fittest with 55010)0.
tion, its harbor with ships of burden. Mt
Y the authotitiee point to London as a centre
' of commercial activity.
e So complete was the security its which
f :South Britain remained for centuries, under
the protection of Hadrian's wall and the
0 fortified cities of tis west, that Londou
was left without any other defence than m
strong eastle on the banks of the river until
' the age of Constantine. Unlike nearly all
the other Roman cities, it had no welts, was
f unprotected even by a ditch, and lay open
' on all sides to attack, At Met, however, at
some unknown period, but between the
years 350 and. 309, by some unknown hand,
the Rowan wall Wall builb, ItS extent may
easily be trend ; fragments of it still re-
main ; and recently, at an excavation made
by the railway COIllpally, 55 party of anti-
quarians were enable 1 to study and explore
more than one hundred feet in length of
these ancient defences. Saxon and Dane,
Normen and Englishman, hay! In the long
course of fifteen centuries attend, over.
thrown, or rebuilt them ; but their course
end (emit 100110 I10000 0110.1101d. 'The
Roman wall fixed the limit of the city, and
its vet:arable fragments still recall the dart
when the last Roman legions nut:veileb
down the Dover street, when Alfred restor-
ed the wall, or when Pytn and Hampden
found within its shelter the citadel of
modern freedom.
Ostrioh Panning,
In Southern Gedifornia and on the Peeifie
coast of the United States, ostrich farming
has already been developed to a point of
profitableness, Red the pains of the interior,
where uot: too mid, ought to provide sainble
.grotulds for keeping those Weds, which
require enormous mons for running in.
One who for years has been engaged in
the businese in Southern Californie, recently
told a (money of the Star that " the habits
of the ostrich are thoroughly well understood
nowadays through observation of domesti-
cated specimens. Perhaps the mosb extra-
ordinary fact about the bird is that it is the
male that does most of the setting. He
selects a convenient hollow in the moiled,
or scrapes out one, and tramples it into a
saucer-shaped nese ehont six feet in dia.
meter. The female lays her eggs pretty
much anywhere in the neighborhood of the
nest, fond her mato takes care that they are
aolleoted. Huth% his time for setting he' is
exceedingly pugnecions and a very formicl.
able Reined to epeounter. The kick of the
bird, whicli is its means of fly hting, is enor-
mously powerful-3011;MM y so, in fact,
to disable a 'sum and very likely kill trills at
one blow.
" Osteich farming is sob an industry alto-
gether new to the world. The birds were
certainly domesticated very anciently and
wore doubtless pinched for their feathers,
though probebly they were not bred in eon.
finemene More than a century ago many
ferment in South Africa had tame ostriches
on their farms, allowed to feed at large,
which supplied their owners with plumes
that were mode Into brooms for mosquito
fans. Various tribes in Central Africa have
for an unknown length of time kept ostriches
fey their feathers, bartering them with
headers for cloth and otItor commodities.
The most beautiful of the plumes are obtain-
ed from the wings, and one reason for the
great usefulness of the incubator is that
many of the feathers are apt to be spoiled
eluting the oPotetion of settnig on the eggs.
For some mann hot very well understood
tame ostrich feabhers are less beatitiful and,
therefore, bring st lower price in the market
than those of the wild ostrich, bet the wild
bird is disappearing so rapidly that the
tarns will have the market to himself before
very long.
110.1/111101NO TUE VEATIIIMS.
"W11011 the nasals for plucking twelves
my birds en driven into a natrow pen,
where there aro so tightly crowded as not
to he able to wove, while the operator
stands on a platform outside and sids olf
the plumea elose to the flesh, The very
valtutblo foitthers cm the wings.'. -there ere
about twelve in oaall wing, end they tams
retail for as much as $20 apiece -must be
taken before they are cleite matated,
Their growth hes to be watched so 115 10 get
thorn at their best, Mosb rerfeet and,
therefore, most costly, of all oe-
Wish feathers (do those beought from
Aleppo and obtained Rom the birds of the
Syrian Desert., They are very rare. Nexb
iit order of quality come those from 17ripoli,
from Senegal, from Egypt, from Mor0000
and from South Africa. The difference be -
tweets a wild find a tame feather is iminedb
ately perceptible to so connoisseur. While
the tame feather is =els stiffer, 11 is not the
Ise:Viral, graceful fall of the wild feather,
and, on when dressed and curled it, be-
comes stiff again miter a while.
:First Stucterit--"Is thee now etudeet
oily bred?" Armond Student (feeetiottsly)-
" Oh, no ; he's a °peaty egeteell,"
The "Ranging Day" for Criminals.
In the early days of English juatice, when
the hanging of a Mall was a most ordinary
oceurrence and was the penalty whiolt fol-
lowed lighter offences, Koh as stealing, rob -
bore', forgery, arson, and other 'felonies, as
well as murder, hanging occurred every day
in the week except Sunday. This Act gov-
erning the time of execution commanded
that a telon should be executed on the next
day but one after his conviction. In cense-
quenoe, no particular day of the week was
ever fixed upon,
All this was in thos.e good old days whets
Lord Chief Justice Jane's, in a circuit of
eight weeks, sentenced no less that 320 per-
sons to be hanged. Well, indeed, might he
boast that he hanged more Matters than the
whole of his predecessors sinee the Conquest,
That was after the Monmouth rebellion of
1085, when the King referred to these doings
of his favorite judge as " the Chief fTnetice's
campaign in the West,"
That, too, was in the time of the femous
Jack Ketch, who became so notorious as au
execueioner that 1118 150500 is generally given
to the common hangman in the Oity of.
London, lb was of fltis " rope artist,' as
the moderns flippantly ea I that functionary,
that Isis wife temarked, "Any bungler can
put a man to death, but only my Jack knowe
how to make a gentleman die sweetly."
Later on a more humane spirit pervaded
English justice. It was recognised that
forty.eight hours was, indeed, a short period
-
wherein to allow a criminal to repent and to
make Isis peace with his Creator.
The first step was to hold all criminal
trials on Friday. That Wall nob the period
when a trial lastest a week or longer,01
generally took the court only a few hours,
to decide on felon's fate, Justice was in-
deed quick, frequently too quick ; ands
murderer would'be sentenced on the seine
day, ley sentencing him oil a Friday, his
execution would fall on a Sunday, a000rding
to the two days' taw'and es no hangings
were allowed 011 the Lord'i clay, the execu-
tion would be defencel until Monday, the
felois thus gaining a day's respite. In eon -
ampleness of bilis Monday was the weal
heaving deer, and in narratives of the Old
Bailey, this explains the dark way in whiett
Monday was alawys spoken of.
In 1830 the two diva' law was repealed,
and the mount law came into force, which
allows a murderer a reasonable titne • but
the custom of appointing Monday for a ;tang.
ing day still remailied. In order not to
have two executions on the sense (ley the
judge sometifnes appoints Tuoaday, and for
nigh fifty years, in the English ceitninal
lender, it will be found that 99 out of 100
exec:et:Ions have °nerved on a Mouday or
Tneaday. Nowadays this distinction is be-
ginning to die out, althongh it has only be-
gun in England.
It was Sam's Faith.
Satre -Now, boss, I never dist p11540 etch
a tiug as dis on 110 '001111t,
BOSS -Well, Ram you know thet we keep
everything ie the ;tore for you, don't you 1
Vas, sae, 1 s'pose you does,
Then, if you don't got it, 1 Mit% our
fault, is ib ?
No, stw. •
Then you love to pay for it, ell the same,
for 10 10 your own fettle blots you did nob gob
ie, not ours. Alia Sam paid lb,
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Money and Wire.
Mrs, Herm Peak -The paper tolls about a
man who ran away with his noighbov'e wife
581111 11 gum of mono..
Ms',nm
o, rosIt—Too bad, Was the
amount large?
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