The Brussels Post, 1891-5-29, Page 66
LATE BRITISH NEWS.
DOstiY Man-of-War—A Miser's Death --
Farmer Roasted. Alive --An Astound-
ing Wedding,
A shoeking (Recovery was Made et the
Post Office, Manchester, an Wedneedny, A
box came by morel post for an address which
proved to be fictitione. Upon opening the
box it was found to contain the body ef
child. The police aro investigating the af-
fair.
The raising of her Majestyti ship Sultan
cost aver X50,000, mul an additionol X 11,•
000 Ins expended in fitting her for the vote.
age home. Since elle has hem). in port no
steps have been taken to peeper° her for use
as an effeetive inen-of•war.
A mill manage named Aspinall met a
terrible death at He wood on Monday even•
lug. He Wa.6 descent ing tile mill hoist when
menagerie anti circius whieli is travelling the
the rope broke. He made an effort to jinni)
His eeso country.
from the cage OS it was felling.
%MS caught lietweea the cage and the float • Unless something ts done to keep down
ing, altnost eevered front the body, the inultiplicetion of rats in the agrieultural
A. jury in the Queen's Bench Division heal (010istri Ms of England, these rodents will soon
come as great e. scourge to that country
to decide what damages should 1:8 given in
as the rabbits have become to New Zealand.
1 i 1 1 1 1 st her left foot
posssmosessms3marszoossummosissa.
teld hint 1:i. The f whey eaid that tdrers
been made isy ilefmidant throngh his father
and brother to marry his (laughter, bm that
ho bed refused. The itemised time etinimitted
for taint, and was allowed bait as before—
himself in X1000, and two sureties in 1.11000.
Ile 1083 removed eustudy, one of the pre.
vions eureties deolining to renew his respon-
sibility%
A wedding of on extraordinary charaoter
took pittee at the registrar's office at South
Shielde on Saturday, the bridal pair being a
little lady mite, who is only 02 Welles high,
and ilrofessor Hadley, solo euphonium Pay-
er, who is 611 lin in height The geutleman
' M • •
Hobert, a now Wilsh011t WhO signed
the morriage eertiticate RA a witness with rt
pen between his teeth, and the bridesmaids
were Nina etn Anetriean giantess, who is 44
stone in weightl and Setoneno (the " Fire
Queen "1. The best mon was Captain Dallas,
who is ift 10in high ; and General Metilene,
who is 29tio in height, formed oho of the
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a case in w ell o
and part of hoe left' leg through being eon
over by a flour Niter's van 111 tepiltalhelds.
They awarded e 1181 1 1110 child, mid X25 to
her father. .1.1.1.suatit teas given atieord•
ingly with costs.
William klittlier, about 50 years of age, a
hawker, who lived by lnoiself at :1 Johnson
Street, Soothport, was on Tuesday fetter)
deed. in bed by a earter who called to see if
he required any coal. There was no food of
any description in the house, but the pollee
discovered a. sum of nearly X.70 in cash, and
a bank book ehowing that Mather lied de
posited E110 in Parr's Bank.
Sir Charles 'Mike, addressing a mass meet
o it L s ,
f ers tt tlsto •It advocated a
eight.hours day. He said the perfection o
this organization would lead them awe
from strikes, end, as trades unions became
unaohnous tiler ought to use the extended
franchise to obtain recognition by Parlia-
ment of their riew, Ho aid not anticipate
a general election before next year.
About thirty persons took 0.0 involontart
bath at Wantleworth on Sunday. A do
had got into the \Vomit.: mod could not ge.
out again. A roan weiit into the water t
rescue the animal, and the operation wit
watched by 0 large crowd, some sitting to
and others leaning against an 01.1 wall. The'
watee is net deep and everybody escaped
with a ducki
Mr. A. Shuttleworth (of the tirm of Messrs.
Clayton &Shuttleworth, engiveers, Lincoln, '
has invested X 10,0011 hi ( Onsole, the proceeds 1
to be applied io annuitiee of Xl 6 each (061
mea who 11 toe been employed at the work
and have been in any way iiijured or become i
infirm. Mr. Shuttleworth has also inereas
ed his subocription to the county hospital
from X50 to £200 per amulet.
A.young man named George Wi ight
ton, aged 21, died et Portettiouth Hospital
on Monday eveuino from a Millet wound, in -
flitted under singular circumstances. A
cousin returned lately from Buenos Ayres
to deceased's mother's. On Saturday night
he was showino a group of young men a re
volver, which in the hands of deceased s
brother exploded, fotally injuring deceased.
A Colwyn Bay correspondent telegraphs
that a domestic servant, aged I 8, who lived
in hamlet, near Llanrwst, in Denbighshire,
hos been accidentally shot by a young man
named William Hughes, of Lianawst.
Hughes had been chatting with a young wo.
num, and was just turning away front her,
with a pm under his nrrn, when the charge
.fired. The young woman wes severely
wounded in the face and breast, end died
soon afterwards.
A. young man named Charles Brenton,
sentenced to six weeks' bard labour for
robbing his employers, the Isle of Wight
Railway Company, was being conveyed
across the Solent to Portsmouth, when his
conductor's attention was engaged by the
ticket collector, the prisonee broke away
from the policeman and jumped into the
water. A boat was lowered, and Iirenton
was picked. up. The prisoner, who has a
wooden leg, WeR not handeefied.
Geettt Britain reeeived from Russia nearly
/9,000,000 eggs last year. France and Ger-
many between them sem ovee 7 14,000,000
of eggs : Belgium, over 200,00%000; Port-
ugal, :1,000,000, and smaller quantitiee from
Norway mud Sweden, the Channel Islands,
Morocco, Malta, Daly, Egypt, end Turkey.
It seetos that altogether the British go
abroad for between I I 1,010,000 and 1 12.000,•
000 eggs, representing in value over $15,•
000,000.
Superintendent Oliver, of Consett, who
lad control of the baton charge at the Silks -
worth evictions on February 25th, has re.
cowed notice from molieftore acting on be-
, half of nineteen mon, intimatieg that lie
will he sued for Xf/500 damages, being 1500
for each man who liad bis skull damaged in
the fray, Supeein tendon t Oliver, in conjunc-
tion with the Police Department in its munici-
pal caPacity, hoe received notice of another
action for X500 on behalf of another tram
who wits injured on the same occasion.
Although thousands of rats wore slaughter.
1 ' 1 L' 1 1 • f I
conaiderable number escaped from the stack -
yards to the drain baoks, Mitch they have
honey -eel -abed in all directions. Now that
the crops have been gathered, there is
nothing for them to eat, and they are re-
turning to the stackyards, where they bur-
row in to the stacks aud destroy quite as
much grain as they eat. 11 here rat-killtng
was neglected the plague wilt be far greater
this year than last. Rat • cat eller. are busily
eegaged all over the district, and In many
- banalities receive six cents per 1100d for
every rat: they kill. Farmers are trying all
sorts of experimente, with the objeta of
revenling the rats from remelting their
f tacks'
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MURDER -RIDDEN ITALY.
The Sons of the sunny Peninsula Are the
champions In lIonilehle.
Itely has an evil pre.eminence in Europe
, for murders. Dr. Basco, an Italian auth-
ority., in los monograph on " Homicide '
git-es Italy 3,606 trials a year for murder,
O with a 5(1500.110n of 23,000,O,00 'serer 111
t years of age 2, while Franc° (treat Briton
, ; a „nit am
Germany have hut '2.777 a year, with a
population of 198,500,01AI over ten, Holy
has from sevon to eight times as many
murcier•trials as Northein and Central
letirope. With a population of 111,0111 one-
sixth the oonntries mentioned, her murder
trials aro one-third more numerous.
The Satistical Society some years
ago published a return inregaril to the nunc.
ber of criminals in every loti,0011 of Impala-
• tinn hi the dfficeent European counteles, In
couvietion for honicide Italy led the list
with 8. 12, :spun next with 5...3, Hangary
6.09, Austrut 2.24, Femme 1.56, Germany
1.11, and the British Tales .60, Hung try, it
will 1,o seen, stands third, and our coal re-
gions are only too well aware of tho tendency
toward homicide in this class of our popula-
tion. 1 he most dangerous quartcr in Paris
is that occupied by Dalians, Stabbig case:
and always among Itainto seamen. Lately
Italy seems to bo the only country in the
%voted where the eural district furnish more
than their proportion of crime. Only one-
third of the popelation of Italy occupied
with work, or 8,173,382 nut of 29,551,156,
were in agriculture in 1881 ; but one-half
the inmatee in Italian prisons, or 8,720 out
of 7,51-(8, clone from feigning to their cells.
The knife is everywhere worn and every.
where used in Italy among the working.
elesses. No greater kindness would be done
our Icalian population than to deprive all
immigrants on landing of concealed weapons
of this character—a, perfectly lawful stop.
The syetemetic arrest and eon vietion of every
person ilt our streets carrying a knife con-
cealed would do 01'1011 to check all crimes.
If the knife habit were broken up among
Italians murders would decrease.
A GIANT ALBUM,
Ab Carnierthen, on Monday, Mr, D.
Rixon (Morgan, coroner for Western Car-
, inarthensitire, held an impost on the body
of 'Thomas Thonms, auml 72 years, a farmer
of Troedyrhyw Abetment, who was foetid
lying 00 hie back on a heap of leaning furze,
Owen Piotoe, a neighbouring farmer, with
• commendable postmen of inilisi, tool( off his
cont. ond with it succeeded in etibffiling the
llama ITo Wee then unable to mitricate
the fearfully burned body of the old. awl.
• culte rist, who expired in great witty before
further neeistaitce multi be obtichied. The
deco:reed wail effitteet to tits, A -twang. el
" imeitlental (teeth " was returned.
A story 00Me0 from armee the Wal 00 11181
• a yontig Indy in au English clinrch itcchlont-
ally let her handkerchief fall. By repeat.
edit( stooping to reach it Naively she at.
treated the notice rit a gentleman in the
pew behind, who thought elle war, abont to
faint. With the best of inetivee, therefore,
/to' took her gently under 1110 11.11110 and
• rairsed her up, greatly to her sue/idiot As
she tried to release homelf asottler gentle-
, man wont to her assistanee, and before the
holy knotv what was the matter they were
• • moving her out into the aisle, and, indeed,
moiled her into the vestibule before ehe
• eottld tecover freest her astonishment suf.
ficiently to find words for probed. Th
finale, of corneae was ludic:roils in the ex-
' teem.
At Maidenhead, on Tueeday, the Rev,
Agostino armies Pullitg, curate of Mt Po.
• tor's, Cranborne, Winkfield, was charged on
, rernandwithinfic000t tumult on Emma Jane
Beare, oged 15, The girl, whole mem:010de-
looking, said she went to the lavish (wheels,
whore defendant tatight her and etherri
fieripturti lessons, Defendant itelred her at
the Huntley school what her age was, and sho
occur every day in .anglish seaport town
it is Two Peet Square &nisi IV/Os Made for
Olt andthu Prince.
A veritable leviathan of photograph
elbunis has just been manufactured by an
English tint foe a wealthy Indimn Prmee.
The volume is not only got up in a most lux-
urious fashiou, being bound in a smooth,
dark -blue Russia leather ancl lilted with pure
white watered silk ; it is liege in its dimen-
sloes, measuring some two feet scream and
six inches in thiclmees, and ffiso unique in
its perpose, being filled with fifty panel per -
traits of the reigning menarche ot the world,
. their coosorts and them:at heirs to the void,
ons thrones.
At the top of erten page the name of the
country is blitermeti in red and gold, and at
the loathe name of tile eubjects--if onemay
term monarchs 1111(1 their heirs -apparent
subjects oven in pholographie sense. The
whole th ing is a quite remarkable production
in its way, and as handseme as it 10 uncom-
111011.
The same firm has idso just collected a
cabinet of current coinage of the world for
the same potentate, the examples includoig
the largest gni() tool silver uoie respectively
of each country.
The Princo for whom those unique pro-
duetions have been made is the same per-
sonage who presented the Duke of Clitrenee
and Avondale with gold cigarette ease,
mounted with the tusks of the first wild
tear kilted by the Duke during his revent
Indian tour.
Extraordinary Case of Somnambulism,
'rhe Nil!, Paris1 0OrrvispoliS
Melt save : • An eXiliterdillarysease of mom-
thmilmliem reported trom one of the rural i
1 dist pieta Aiseegling to the itecounts which
1 I let reached Paris, the pat holt is a riling
I nian whose legs have boon completely para.
1 lyeeil for Home time, In his usual 11011th, s
be is unable to move withoot the help of i
crutches, but when the fit 18 ell him he can
'Walk long (listeners without the Blighty:4 ,
neeistunce, A few nights ago he got
Atelier' for a neighbouring village, followed
by some of his relatives, who moor I eise sight
of him when ho 1st in thie condition. He
arrived withoo miewlventiire ut the houtte
of a friend, knocked at, the door, nod Asked
for rofreeliment. After having rested for tt
fow moments he 0010111ed home, and, as it
wee still very early in the looming, lie sot
down on it booth arid waited Imtil the people
came out nf their houses, Ife theft went to
bed, awl awoke (110(1, hotws torwarde with-
out feeling the least; fatigue, though lie limi
walked more than ten 01110e, »00 1111(1 he the
slight est remembranee of tile expedition
which he had uniertaken, The case is fetid
to be exeithig the utmost interest throngli-
out the Deperlinent, and to bo the ((object
of indocile' diseuesion.
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P 0 S T .
ll'EALT11. eon: pi to 0 re11101111 01111181e mat (ors.
The 118vvos, Loo, att,1 the whieh le tie
it weve t 01111 of the Hemline system, (100
TUE BENEk'IT OP EXERCISE, .maintiiined in the highest :date of functional
efiluienty in the sumo way tut the other
TI • 1 ,IT t f • i •
re nevelt emeicenzie fixolitins the alma
and ceneret ;fired -
That it eertain amount of mends° is need
I ful for health is 0110 of the few things aboti
which all doctors are agreed, mill ono of th
still fewev things me to which medical teach
Ing submissively accepted by the non
professional peblic, Ufficetunately,
telleetual asseut no more implies practice
performance in the domain of hysione that
that of morals. Itis by those " populou
ciao pent," by professional and busbies
men chained to the desk or tho consultin
room, and by women, that exercise is mos
ttpt be neglected.
1Vith regard to youug ladies, Indeed, It
not eo very long since nearly all exereis
worthy of the name was tabooed by Mrs
Grundy as only lit for tomboys, and a
tending to (ive an appearance of robus
health, wine 1 was thought to bo inuoinpat
tisk with refinement, Moro rational notions.
ere now beginning to retail, however, and
the limp, antenne man en, with uneonifort
able botty prominences, made fashionable
for a time by the genius of .11r, Berne
Jones, is rapidly giving place to a type
more like the 1.1reek ideal of healthy W0111811
hood,
The ruddy.eheeked, fffiblinffied girl of to.
day whit ettinbs mountems, rules, 0011110,
rows, and is not carat(' of the health•giving
kisses of the god of day, is a living illustra.
tion ot the value of exercise. She is health
ier, stronger, more lissom end withal mole
intellectuol, more energotie and self•reliant,
us wen DA more amiable and be:tee-tempera(
then her teasp-waisted, beeingleted great-
pandmother, with her languid (,legance
and her Draconian cosi° of fenun decorum.
In the physical " betterment," which is so
eonspicuons in the girls of the period, lies
the best hope for the future of our race.
.C.S13 811.2 MrSC'1.1(31.
ThOtIgh " nniscular Christianity "--that
curious cult of the biceps as a divinely ap
pointed instrument for the regeneratiott of
armors—may be mail to have died \vitt* its
prophet, the prinetple that, the mental fite•
ulties reqoire for their fullest, exemise
basis of bodily health remains as a, solid resi-
due of Charles Kingsley's teaching. Other
things being equel, the reee that is strongeet
in muscle will also be most powerf in 1 mil n.
The intellectual predominance of the Greeks
was, I am convinced, largely dee to their
almost religious care of the body.
The Germ tos were mere dryorsolust pea -
ants and unprofitable dremners till the in-
stitution of compuleoty military service by
Stein, after the crushing defeat of the Pros-
siansatjena, wroughta physical egeneration
which speedily enabled them to take their
place in the forefront of intellectual progress.
In liko manner, under the energizing influ-
ence of the drill sergeant, a physical
renascence has within our OW11 memory
taken place in Italy, whereby the subtle
brains of her sons am being rapidly weaned.
from rom,,ta an 1 dilettante trifling to
manlier objects.
proper exercise of the body is (1,
powerful factor in the development of Om
mind is no paradox, but a plain, physiolo-
gical truth, Without a sufficient supply of
pure blood the twain can lio more a. iw
work efficiently than a steam engine without
cool, and withent museular exorcise perift
cation of the blood is incomplete and
imulequate for the needs of the intellectual
tench -me when it 10 subjected to any extra-
ordinary strain.
A nittion of leggards in the flesh will also
be sluggish ill spivit ; and brains half as-
phymated by imperfectly :mated blood will
breed nothing but unwholesome mysticism,
Robert lfismerean literature, ceitioism of
life in Count ToistoPe later style, and
schemes for the regeneration of society, like
that by which Medea tried to renew the
youth of her father. The " lees -haired neon
and the short -haired women," whose chief
tuitions of social reform, seem to bo the abo-
lition of solf-restraint, would be healthier
in mind as well as in body if they would
ventilate the close chambers of 111018 brains
by regular outdoor exercise.
The effects of exercise are twofold ; first
local, on the muscles themselves, said seoonds
ly, on the body as a whole. The former
produces muscular strength ; the totter the
state of functional perfection of the vital
organs.
The local effects consist in an increase in
hulk and a hardening of the substance of the
inuselee brought directly or indirectly into
play by the movements executed,
cir.Nrot.tr. Errarrs 081001100.
The general effects of exercise are produc-
ed mainly through the agency of the heart
and lungs. The stress of violent, exertion,
MS every one knows, makes tho breathing
more rapid, and the beat of the heart quicker
and stronger than under ovdtilary condi-
tions,
This precious gas is the true elixir vita.
it dinses itself throughout the body, pene-
trating into the innermost sanctuary of the
temple. of life, revivifying, stimulating, en.
orgieing. PItysiologinal experiments have
shown that if blood from wheelt the oxygen
has been withdrawn is injected into living
flesh, that is mosaic, the latter ot once be.
Domes inert and powerless. If blood, highly
charged with oxygen, is then injootect into
the muscle thus atifficially exhausted, it 11,1
once recovers its tone, and " answers the
w hip " of stimulation as readily a0 before.
So groat is the necessity for oxygen that
it Ims been peeved experiinentally, that in
mosoular contraction more oxygen is elim-
inated than is actually suppiied by 1110
01', ill °thee words, that in order to
provide for the neeetisities of the tnosoles,
oxygen him to be dratyn fro») the tissues as
well as fioni the lungs. Snell, indeed, 10
the Vitalizing potency of Gorges theta great
thysiologist by outlining highly oxygenated
dood into the carotid arteries of a clocapitat-
ea dog wits able fer a few seventh to being
melt all the appearances of life in I 110 001 ar-
il head,
The lump( end the heart therneelves share
n the good effect of excreter', and thus be.
01110 Still 111080 able to do their appointed
vork 1 the cheet rows more ottpacioue, the
1111„,(31 larger and more elastic, the heart firm.
r stracture and more vigorous in action,
rho ttle inuatiles which encirele the sterner:11
ont the inteetinal tube aro quickened into
realer activity, while their contraolile pow -
or is increased, a, matter, which, trifling as
it may seem, is ni incalculable importance
for the health of the plied as well as of the
b
other internal organs thoso secret
loboratories where rotture poi:forms feats of
elleinical trenemffittlion beyond the dreams
of alchemy, the glands of varionskinds,
ony derailgement of whose functions fluty
give riee to seas of trouble against, which
mediethe takes items in vain, ore enabled to
work to hotter Advantage by being supplied
With batter KM ma, oriel ill the shape of more
generous blood,
llowy WALT, IsourtIalI1M.
The body is at (men bettor nourished and
kept mom free born the burdensome (watt.
Mulotion euperfluous tissue by the more
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1
more or less chemical, and mere mechanical
g jolting of the organs may be stimulus to
t healthy aotioa. 1 do not ageeo with Cabenis,
or whoever ie was, that said that the brain
secretes thonght SS the liver secretes bile,
6 11111, nevertheleee, inclined to believe
• that a shaking of the " organ of mind"
s from time to time they make the " very
1 fiery particle" which dwells within its mazy
folds start. Into brighter flame,
The manifold evils itrising from deficient
exeroise need not 1,0 dwelt upon here. I
• need only say if a proper amount of exereize
is not taken not only do the muscles become
• weak tool flabby, but the funotione of every
organ and the smuttiness of every Lisette
• must seller, —IVe ie York l'rrath.
mgons. 10 genet lt. et! 0 0.13.01 0 SO al 0
ti1000fOre, brivily, a more abundant simply
of bettor blood to all tissues and organs
imace, all the eotoponent elemente of tile
body are better lantrielied, Ho that eaeli is
able b, play ite allotted part to the best pos.
sible vautrage,
summed up in it half dose» words 1 Bettor
fuel,
In Omit the effects of exereise may bo
and more of it for the vital engine.
llosides the effects whioh have been deserib-
ed, afla wiaa 0.4.0 all in this essential nature
A Big One
Big ships have not yet had their day. A
monstervessel hos .1001 arrived at New York
from Calcutta. She Is called the Plninore,
and Waft bat mt Cremoele, Seotiand. She
is 310 feet long at the water line, •12ot feet
beam mnd it4 feet 7 inches depth of hold, She
is builtofsteelthroughouthavine aeteelhull,
steeldecks, steel houses, steelmasts and steel
spars. 'Ifiree ef her four masts are 153 feet
lugh, and the after, or jigger, mast, is a single
casting of steel, 1 46 feet long from heel to
head, being tho longest piece) of steel ever
put on board a Ship. Thefts are 700 yards of
Call VMS 1» her 1110110, IWO i» the cross -
jack and 520 on the foresail. With all sail
set on her recent paseage she corered 308
miles in one day, Whits11 means a eitstmined
speed of thirteea miles au hour. Tito Pintoore
ettrries a crew of thitry•four men. Below,
the Pinniore presents an immense sweep of
hold, in whieh 5,000 tous of corgo May be
stowed. There is o vessel certainly that
ought to gladden the Motet of any " ohl tar.'
Satisfied With the Explanation.
A 'nal oversew' in Hamilton discharged a
boy, the other day. The next morning a
determined looking woman oppetteed in the
mill aloe and wanted to see the overseer,
and he come out to see her. Opening the
door in came the ugliest bulldog that the
overseer ever SaW 111111 the dog stdled up to
the woman.
" Did you discharge the boy I"' asked the
woman.
" Yt s, mit'am."
" 13e you goin' to take him back ?" asked
she.
The overseer looked at the W01110.11 and the
dog and the totter began to lick his chops.
" Ma'am," said he, " ts that your dog 1"
" Yes, sir," said the 100111a11, " he is, and,
sir, be you a goin' to take my boy back ?" o
The dog geowled and the overseer: said,
" les, ma'am. our boy can come back in
the morning," and then the clog winked his
left eye wtckedly (so the overseer avers) and
the W01110.11 and the dog went out together.
One man may start a paper, but it takes
a good many to keep it going.
Order is heaven's first law, no doubt, bat
pity for what you order is an amendment
adopted by careful business men.
" Now, boys," said tho Sunday school sup
erintendent, " what shall I tell you about
this morning?" " De shiggin' match 'tween
David Oil Gerlier 1" creed the infant class.
tr,ftufge—" And he took,you by tho throat
a al ohoked you, did her Pat —" Yis, sot.,
he squazed me throat till Oi to'hit he'd mole
either out of me Adam's apple."
Britoin is drawing considerably more of
her food 0upplies from her own possessions
than she did twenty years ago. In the case
of wheat, for instance, in 1 870 the importa-
tions of wheel and flour from foreign coun-
tries amounted to 33,000,000 cwt. ; from
British possessions, 0,000,000. Last year
65,000,000 met. Were imported ftom foreign
countries and 14,000,000 from British poses -
sloes. Itist Chaplin, the Minister of Agri.
culture, stated in Parliament the other day
that the removal of the euetome registration
oe of lo per quarter upon imported grain
in I ti139 hits twine effect in the price of brawl.
If that duty wave in force now it would
yield an annual revenue of 12,047,000, Ac-
t:meting to some econotnio theories thab sum
should be saved to the consumer of broad,
lint the present price of the medal° (1000 1101
show any saving as compared with 18139,
The editor of the The Canitdion Almanac
has published little brochure entitled,
" Forty Veers Ago." Ati that time, ho
points out, neither the Grand Trunk nor the
P. R. was inexistence ; eeignoriffi tenure
was in force in Lowe!: Canada ; the 010055
1301400000 question was unsettled ; there were
2,871 Public; Schools Ootario with 138,•
4(35 pupils, mid the animal expeoffiture
8340,000. The population of Upper and
Lower Canada, 1,842,2(15, and the
revenue about, 52,054,000, with cm expenclis
ture of $1,804,000, which left the very sub.
stunt -tat surplus of $290,000 in the publio
chest. The total Imports amounted to
about $1 2,000,000 a.011 the exports to $9,
000,000. In 1890 the impoets of 1110 Do-
minion were 5121,858,000 and the exports
596,750,000. In The Canadian Miocene for
1852 the tariff of custom, ooeupied a little
more than ono page, while in the 1 891 testi°
nearly eighteen pages were give» to the
some informotion.
Do Carl Seiler, in the Now Vork 11'01.111,
gives his notioo of the disease is iss
extensively prevailing tinder the (lame of
ta Grippe, but which be prefere to call
" it," lle ridicules the idiot that " it" is
calmed b microbee or that it has any aflin.
Ay to nif tionza, cold, or any like melody.
"It" may closely ecsemblo typhoid ftivor,
pneumonia, aggrovated dyspep-
sia., spinal meningitis, and /natty other
disclaims, but is difforoutinted from all by
peculiar nymptoms, viz., low puleo, high
teniperatere between 2 and 3 a, m., lightly
coated but moist (chigoe, atm= of thirst,
and 10000 06 loss morose perepwation the
least mental or physiord exertion. It " is
distinctly nervous disease and Only the
cure for it ie benzoate of soaps with some
alcoludio stimulation, It " does not run a
course and got woll in the 00t1The of >name,
as is the case with inlluenzm and other self.
limited diseases, but becomes amide and
Inv 1m6 foe ycarg. " " is moaned by
some poison in the the water or the
food of the eufferer, that hoe not yet been
dietiovereci. Tho proper treatmeot is ben -
mato of soda in two grain (locos ovory two
hours and aleohol half -ounce dorm every
four home, The tdoohol treetinent will be
popular.
TREACHERY EXTRAORDINARY.
The TAM 1,3:11 1.1( he URNS' MI
The recent arrest of tho Nihiliet, Degitief
in south Russia foe the mnrclue of Homlielcin.
was the torinhettion ot aorenutrIcable time
etn. as a leneeitut Nihiliet: ran. Eleven yours
ago Degitief 10118 0. Captain of t he Guards,
lie wee keen, 011081(40413e, well educated,
and discontented. He was am icleellst elol
n. firm believer in the bednese of the elate of
affairs in modern Ruesia. lie was not thei
a Nihilist, but he had in hint all the mater10-
from which Nibilleta nee made. II
drifted slowly and naturally into tho emilety
of radicals, and became eteadity more ex-
treme in his political VieNVES, 11. day when
he found himself at the head of a conspiracy
against the lifo of 1110 0111.8. The conspiracy
Waft discovered, all the conspirators were
arrested, and Degitief 3.0(88 condemned r
die, Ho accepted his fate without a whim-
per. Throe days before tho date est for ex-
eoutieg him the door of his cell WOR opened
to admit Sontlieilrin, whom Deward reeog•
nized immediately as an old and loins foi -
gotten comrade in arme,
" How are you, old follow ?" said the
Chief,
For a moment Degetief folt hope, then re
taxed into a state of reeignation, nod an
swayed My 11,st opportunity to spent
for myself, isn't it ?"
" comrade," was the reply. " bring
to you the pardon of the Czar."
11 hot 11 hat 1 Ilion lie requires Bonn
me seine seevice in return."
" Not hing at all, You are free, uncon-
ditionally free, Come hoine with me and
we will talk about it.'
Dageief went. In his study Soudieikin
: " 1:no know our old friendship. Well,
thet %avert you. I trent to the Czar and in-
terceded foe you, giving my word of honor
that, ff freed, you woold quit your old ways.
I have the good fortune to enjoy the Czaaes
confidence, and he granted me the life of my
friDjill'gt;tief sunk in team at the olden, feet,
and protested hid detOrnlinatiOn neve( twain
to make common cause with the Nihilists,
The chief continued
" 11 hat do yott ospect to do now? Your
return to the army is unposeible. cum offer
yott any eecretaryship, with salary enough
to pity for your daily bread. You will be,
0000 you accept this, a member of the 00-
cret police and my right-hand mem Go
home, think iffiout it, and cleoitle without
undue attention to my advice."
Full of gratitude, Dagaief hastened. to en-
list in the service of the chief, He put head,
heart, and hand in eis work. He pursued
his old colleagues day arid night. Nineteen
Nihilists were brou ht by him to death, and
scores were sent t itortgli his tufluence to
Siberia, Degaief obtained the full confidence
of his chief, Sourlioikin had estimated hint
correstly in evelything save his susceptibility
to tile pangs of 1 emorse. Dagaief could not
forget his old. radical tendencies. The scorn
of hie former col longues scorched him till lie
could endue(' it DO longer. He wont one
evening to the houge of a Nihilist loader,
tool swore by his revolutionary past to do
anything eequired by. the revolutionary party
as the cotolition of his reinstatement.
" 1(111 Soudiekin," mid the Nihilist lead.
el%
Degaief requested a day in which to think
over this suggestion. Twenty-four hours
later he gave luspromise to murder the titan
NV110 1111,1 saved his life,
The full significance of 11110 promise can
hardly be comprehended with mu under-
standing of the position of Soudielkin
that time. He Wile at the height of his
power. He was 00.15 nominally dependent
on the Third division. He came and went
as he pleased, had constant 14001308 to the
Czar, was master of agents ttnsweritble only
to him, and had unlimited credit at the
Inmeeial 13ank. He was, in short, nearer
to omnipotence than any other officer of
police before or since his time, end all. this
power lie applied with all his iunazing
energy to the extinction of Nihilism and
Nihilists. He ocetipied lodgings in several
quarters of St. Petersburg. Every evening,
however he met Degaief 01 the third story
of a modest dwelling house, occupied other-
wise only by small tradesmen who knew
nothing of the identity of the fellow tenant
Here, Dept& deoided, the Chief of the
Secret Police must die. Two Nihilists took
rooms on the third floor in tbe next house,
and with the outside walladjotoing the out-
side wall of Soudilikin's apartments. During
the day time, when Soudieikin Wal3 absent,
for Gime weeks the oonspiratorelaborionsly
eerotehed mod tiled away brick fool mortar
between them and their victim. Not it blow
was struck, not a fmgmon WaS cub. The
powder from the wells was carried off in tho
pockets of Degitief's aceomplicee. At last
only a thin (Meet of plaster and paper
separated them from the Chief's study.
On the night of the murder Degmief and
tho nian W110 had owed his lifo Bet together
at the study desk, Degnief lot fall a 110aVy
paper weight, the wall wns Most With 11.
blow from a liammov, and the three Nihilists
sPrang epon Soudieikin. Yoe ton minutes
all four mon struggled up and down tho
room, and then the Chief was struole down
demi by Dogaief, II elf am hour inter the
io disguise left the neighborhood
and hurried off to minimum theft, deed to a
company of -waiting revolutionists in a fav-
or? basement. Tho murder was discovered
ou the next, afternoon. Shortly afterward
Degaief's accomplices were arrested, but (Is
they wove only kis creatures they wore let
oil with a life sentence to hard labor in
Siberia. Degaief could not, bo found, al-
thoogh his portrait was scattered over the
length ttnd beneath of Russia, and high re-
WILMS Weee offeeed for the capture of him
alive or dead. Eight years offer, while
attemoting to enter :Russia with a false
pass, 11e was oveetaken by retribution,
All this is not the fairy tale told by Gear
haters or Nihilist (atm, 11 is the plain,
unadorned narvative of the Rosman courts,
in whieli tho detitile of this remarkable clime
have been revemled.
The Open Sesame Explained.
Neopline--" smy, ebony, why does it
fellith hove to (vette a necktie that he ties
himself, don't you know Why clown% a
fellith Wear reedy-tnado necktie, don't yeti
know 1"
Alitgalluster 1111100—" 5(30 Boo,
me boy, how it is It's the socinl test, don't
you know,"
" Any fella( oan efford to buy any ore
of a nooktie, cawn't ho 1"
" Alt, yes ; but, mere sordid wealth doesn't;
count in scusiety, mo boy. It's lovable, cul-
ture wofinement, don't you know."
tiol;:What has thot to do with the nook-
" Onavn't you see 1 Society, me boy, ad-
mits only those who have bwains enough to
tic their OW11 ncok tie, don't you know,"
Peat Of the Street,
What is the tnattor 1" asked rem Mundy,
poking her head out of her flat window nod
iffidreseing the policeman.
" Matter enough,' said he," A pion of your
angel cake fell on a nian'S head and wo'ro
wading for tho ambuienoo,"
v -(1, 1,401s
1,41101.1.4=NIMMISSMIMMS4
PASSING EVENTS,
Tho annual convention of the Natiotial
Educationist Assovial ion of ho United tilatee
fur the present pow lath be 110111 in Toronto,
1111111 be of International character, anti
of iffierest to ell teachere.
Britieli genius naol etatemanship work-
ing wonders with the finances of Egypt.
'rho revenue laet yen. of the once boak•
rupt (weary meta 101 million atirling,
the largest over colleeted. And this does
1101 11101111 increased. burdens on the follalteen;
the postal atol other public eervice rates
letve been codueed ond 33656,000 lots been
Miceli off the corvee tax.
• ,
.A London correspondent points oaf; the
importance ot Canadian Rea fisheries by
eomparing the returns issued, for the United
higdom with our figures. The value for
Ireland, Scotland and- England is given nt
:e7,3e5,000 for the year I 891, which shows a
tremendous inereme, while the figures
quoted for Camola represent the year 1889,
and stand at X3,678, 178.
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Aecording to a census taken last Decem-
ber, the population of Germany is growing
more rapidly than that of nny other Euro-
- pertn country except lemon& In 1885 it was
46,885,704 ; at the end of last year le was
49,420,800. Ten per cent. of the into:ease
was in Beelin, and more than ono -half of it
in the ten largest CiLiet3 of the empire. Ger-
many has ,oeinea about 4,200,000 in the last
ten years, but It ussia, ichows a gain of nearly
1 5,000,000 during the same period.
The refine) of Great Bettitin to allow
United Statue cattle the same privilege ac -
cooled to Ctunelian laminate of entering the
country is being amply justified by events.
Morse neumonitt has been detecteein the
lungs o two animals shipped from Baltimore
by the ateamship Parktnore and landed at
Egtford April 7. The British experts
have no doubt that it le the disease so much
dreaded by British cattle owners. The
United States veterinary inspector declines
to expeess any decided at present,
but has sent a portion of the animals' lungs
to America for exandnation.
It appeare that the accounts of ether,
drinking in Ireland have been somewhat ex-
aggerated. The Irish Secretary, Mr. Balfour,
has been informed by the authorities ia the
distriot concerned that there are not nearly
so runny 011101' (trinket's as is supposed. The
spread of the hebit having boon brought to
the notice of the government last Noventber
they took stops testi ()press it by lowing ether
scheduled as a poison and only allowed it to
he sold by authorized chemists for a poison.
Since that time the sale has been lorgeLy
diminished, so that the deem drinker must
go btok to old reliable.
Prince Bismarck, in an interview on the
eve of the re -ballot, (teetered that if he went.
to the Reichstag be would never attack any
policy dieectly initiated by the Emperoe,
and that his line of eimiluet mould be the
same as that followed by him since he left.
Berlin. He M15 convineed, he said, that the
gecatest dtmger to the fatherland was not
from without but from within. He would
nos refrain front exposing it, but he certain-
ly would neve:: say anything to give his
oppouents reason to Charge Iiiin with attack -
Mg. the Emperor from personal motives.
This sort of assurances promises lively timers
in the Reiebstag.
The report of the Minister of the Interior
for the year 1 890 allows a large falling off in
homestead and pre-emption entries and sales
in the North -11 est. The figures are 0.8 fol.
lows :
1 889. 1 890.
Hemesteo.ds (acres) 090,090 471,040
sPirdee•semptions "
f t 177,092 139,030
212,651 97,600
The report attributes the diminution in
the area taken up as homesteads to the un-
foveurable impression created by the drought
of the previous year,. while the falliugoti 121
pre-emption entries is explained by the fact
that the right to obtain them lapsed under
the statute on .January 1, 1890.
Within the past few years five New York
banks have been plundered, and in some
oases wrecked, by their presidents, and o
sixth is now added to the list, The pest
dent of the Ninth 'stational Bank died in
Morel, last, and it has just been discovered
that he had embezzled over $400,000. His
operations had been °eerie(' fottr years by
means of the familiar device of manipulating
the lotek's securities. ll'he case is evident-
ly another one of Om directors who did not
(tired, but were satiefied with making a
mere pretence of disehatging thole impor-
tant deties. The loss of the $400,000 would
be disitstrons to the bank, were it not thitt
it possessoe —on the ely, for national banks
aro forbidden ky law to hold real °gate—
ttbout the 81.11110 amount of city property.
The board of trade veturns showing the
n4unMee of railway aecidents reported for
B( teat vitain and Ireland are ueually satis-
faetory reading, For 1890 they are platen-
litely so. Thirty persons, of whom eighteen
were passengers, were killed, being a de-
crease feom ninety-two in the preceding
year, Official returns, however, in addition
to what ave called " accidents," cover a mul-
titaule of sins bot, ohargeable to the railway
companies, and while WO find that in the
eourso of public trallio the totolnumber from
all onuses killed WW1 1,070. Throe hundred
and twontymine of theeb wore brosspassors
and suicides. Tho decrease in the number
of deaths due to accidents to roiling stock
certainly shows moolt vigilance on the part,
of British railway officials and employes.
Mr, VanHorne, whop ill Winnipeg tho
other cloy, expressed tho belief that ot the
not, dietant future Chicago will be the fore-
most city of the United States, and Winni-
peg the first of importune° in Canada. Both
does, he said, aro bound to be the principal
teede centres of fertile aucl extensive terri-
toeieS, Already Chicago has m1001011 a vast
population and groat wealth, but Winnipeg,
Mr, Vim Homo seems to think, will in good
time hove its innings, and will incroltso
rapidly (IR a res011 of an. overflow of p_opuln,
Non riorthward as soon (48 the WeSi.0011
States and Territories hove filled op. The
qtrestion of Winnipeg, in other words, is the
question of the North-West.
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If we consider the following table of agri-
cultural production between the last two
00110118 enumerations, some idea will bo
gathered 01 what tvemoy entieipato front the
forthcoming description of our development
during the current. period of Ion years, whit%
the Dow census is expected to reveal ;
Canadian if orioulturat Production,
1871. Mil,
AMOR under cultivatioe....,11,820,108 11,1M,281
Stores (tempted Sae:Kele 4aliete141
(1351eitt ,,,,,,,, lit/113,81:1 ag,l120,2110
II'laotrasientngn; b 11 1424101 1%1,3A
liaeley "
Domed oottle oberl ,,,,, .72,10.14 078 47 6:940"123181,:931