The Brussels Post, 1891-6-26, Page 22
THE
BRUSSELS POST.
JUNE 26, 1891
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LATE BRITISH ‘EW
sto. The 1,, mid looked itround, awl 88Ar
'Sullivan a mass of flames. She, with great
;promptitude, threw wtder on him, and sue
!corded in extingeishing the thones, Sullivan
• ;sees takee in a tereible eondltion to the
cholt of teventy eittives of South Aide
tribeleft for Loeclne last week to show t
resmit of their etluetstion and meaning
giving eoncerts.
The Dnke of Argyle is 8, witness in a tri
ist Dnmberton eonctorning a eerteen en re 1'
eiteumetisel, in solteequence of havieg fee
a testimonial of its rine in return ter 11
• treatment.
. Hebert Turner, aged 3S, was found han
ing on Taesiley morning in the dokeho
under the steps of St. Alphage Chure
Greetiveich, life being quite extinet. it
eupposed thua the unfertunete Ulan CO/IMO
ted suicide.
The annonr•plated erniser Neleoe uhde
went an unsatisfactory trial of her tnaehi
ery at the mouth of tee Thames on Tnestla
after being refitted at 0 cost uf 31140,000 1
service as; napless az Pertsmout le
A fatal lire dent -red at the hairelresser
ellup of Mr. Roberts, Gosport, on Tuesda
af edema]. Mr. aud Mrs. Roberts left ti
premises far dinner, and appear to ha \
forgettee that, their child was in the shot
Wben they returned the plaee was i
flames, and the deed hely of the child ws
afterwards found.
At Bodeen, on eatersie.y, Thennae
tham, a Loy, W115 arena ,411,.1 ill a M10110118
belongirg to his employer, .11r. Jane. TO
bay was hanging by A repe feutrt to bean
W eon 3tuestioned about Ns:tenant's proem
ed abeenee from the hoese, 0 young son t
Mr. Jazte 11031 stated that he and es erthat
hail been "playieg sit hanging," Ilene& th
teareh made in the etorelionse
The wild beast businese seems to be ver
tive. Cowl Ilageebeek of the Ltnelo
-ystal Pehtee lies daring the past yea
...reposed of 74ti lino, over ene tigers, ne
350 elephants tuttl is:tethers. ;teen ti us pet
for a feuutle hippopetannte, Clam for 4. Ithi:
000108, end ;C;300 for a tapir. Lions ma
iu price from 1240 up to Ceote A fine tig..
fetches C200, and a white beer oily :Mee
Early on Tnesday morning alary An
3Io3nestic servant, was procealin
to her place in Poplar wben she was follow
ed by 'Moines 110W(1011, With WhOln site Int
kept compeny. After vet:emitting a fet
words Bowden, declaring the girl should uo
jilt him as she had dole; auteher man, ut
tacked her with IL knife and inflicted an in
jury in the artn, ehe bladc breaking in ell
struggle. Bowden escaped, but was arrest
ed hie house atter 0 ilesperate struggle, it
the nourse of whieh he tired as. a eonsteble
and shot him in the side. Bowden wa
chargee with the double serene tit
Thames Police Cetera London ami retnitnci
en for a Week.
Operations will etenntenee elmost at one
in connection with the iarm wheal "Gener
al" Booth hest:emelt near eouthend for hi
home colony. Ti;e General hopes before It
starts on his tour lettnid the werld in July t
have the colony i11 adValleed state. H.
believesa
that morg the people wito hav
been swept eau tiarkest elugland, not it
London, he will have no difficulty in fitelin
an initial band of euitable colonists. Not
withstentling the melancholy forebodings o
some of " teenentl" Booth's midv
is over 1,1
turning farmer. he is himself very coneniee
that the vett- ere will prove a saceeee.
A shockine merder was perpetuated on
Friday at Gr&ftonstowli, neat Delvin, eounte.
Westmestle A nom named William ivory
shot his wife fatally, and then inflietet
-wounds on his own throat that are expect
ed to prese fund. tin Thursday night arm
ed masked moceilightet's tivet severe
shots at the reeitlenee of Jhn oReidy, at
Mullen, aud then enterel fuel Fan!, swk al the
house, taking away a small St1111 Of InOney.
Reidy escaped uninjured
. No arrests have
been made.
Lliza Jones, agel LI, left inr home in
Fleets Street, Bootle, 011 e evonMg of the
I 3th i»ste, aud tlid nut return. The follow-
ing day she wrote to her mother to say that
elle was ti' e1 of her life, and that she
thought of drowning herself. Nothing has
s'nee 'been heard of her, and herpnrems are
in a, state of the utmost auxiety. The fol.
lowieg 31eseriptien of her is Int -lashed by the
police :-Height rather over 5 feet, fide com-
plexion, end beown Itar ,• dre.ses dart -
jacket and froek, tired felt hat trimmed with
Sea ribbon, leads stockings, end laced
boots,
iinfirmary by the police, who helmeted Jere-
ite midi lealliniut end John Bellinan,
be; The ',apartment:0 Committee of the
. British Board isf Trade and lanuel of Agri.
al cultere, which wee apppointed to inteeire
or: int.(' 010 E111,1113031011t10 cattle evade, bee just
eli :nettle its report. The agues given to show
ee the growth ot the trade are -interesting. In
i 1 877 the Ottited States cern 11 ,5231 cattle
'and 1 3,120 sheep to British ports, while
Canada sent 7,039 cattle and 10,875 sheep,
eh In 1090 the funnel' eonntry sent over 2,94,•
lee 3111 tetttle and 3s8,64 11 sheep, and Cenada
te I 83,555 matte itnd 1 21 ,300 sheep. The report
ileale exhaustively with the 1'11110118 CI 13011,
tiU114 With regurd to the trade which have
recently been so much diseassed, and the
!general eonelusion to be drawn from it is
Y.' thar, while the toos
tal ls of cattle is still
or; eoneiderable, ;tad is sometimes. iatended by
'meal sullerina to the :feint:Os, the n voyage
loes 10 00 mparetively and is'deereas.
3,- ing 015,15g tO imprevements in tee vessele,
le;
*e ,Baron Gilves $15,000,000 to RzpeRetl
t Russian Jews.
n
It has become very tiled that the Russian
' lovernment intends, se fay ne possible, te
te 'destroy the prosperity el its Jewien
tan and to drive it tea ef Resent, Aesere.
ing to the 11 apologiets it is eilleS1i011
Id selie3lefense, the .1 ews being 'altogether
too succeesfel in their commercial dea
lings;
,f with the less auto people about them, and
11 ;at the sante time emitted:, to Is large extent,
" the burdens of eitizenship. It is a (furious
confession on the part of the vast empire of
:Russia, under au autocracy, that one of its
y mewee
d at e po mee
peoples sttees it. prosperity
11 that an extreme farm of political pereeeutioe
r. ill4ti flea. That 81101 lb persecution has
d been deliberat el' mitered 1131', awl will be
a sareonoway carried out them is not the
1- slightest doubt. Life in Russia is to be
y ma -de intolerable to the Jews, for tile ex.
r pretest puree e of forcing them to emigrate ;
they are to Ire so surrounded by restm et ions,
"so emit in by liinitetione, that. they will re-
" !use to stay. The various restrietions whieh
g•we have enumerated many times in these
columns are bein,g impesed every-
where, while new -hardships ate studiously
e 'added front time eo time. The Jews are
13 ' already s9 limited as to Opportunity,
en put 1011. and location that it must be almost
'.impoesible for the gaeat majority of them to
e obtvin livelihoed. Moscow and Keiff have
-; been added to the places in which they are
:forbidden to live, and they are no longer to
s3practice their nsual trades in any of the
8 cities of Old Russia. It is said that leany
of them 1,0 accepting baptism for the suke
" of diminiseing the hardships of their int,
i without, ouwever, intending to surrender
et their faith.
.; one taken into account the fact that
e there are about live Inillione of Jews :in
e, Russia, the magnitude of the injustice which
:the Czar is abott to inflict on this people
c becomes apparent. Three tittles in their
history the 'Jews 110.00 804» ford bly compel'.
ed to change their teed of residenee-twice
3 front Palestine and once from Spain ; and
a Russia is adding another tempter to this
ei terrible stery. (inc province after ap-
e other is being cleared of them, city after
a (say is being elosfed ageiest them, occupetion
! after occupation is being prohibited them.
They are to be driven 001 0.0 rutlilessly it, if
' the bayonet were behind them. It is loubt-
'' less trne that the Russian Jews llama many
, looked into the question believes for an
1 instant ehat the economic miseries of
• :Russia are to be laid on the shoulders of its
'Jewish population. Ths charges brought
-against '010111 81T, for the most part,
saintly cloacks for race and religious
antagonism. It . doubtful if so great a
:race tragedy luta been seen since medirsval
Tne miseries involved in moving
: about a million women and three millions
' of children, to say nothing of uprooting pee
:ples who have lived for hundreds of years in
:Umpires:es from Which they are now driven,
'who are peculiarly dependent on their dem
eiations and their communities, mem are
ilieliked by every other count'ry to which
they nifty go as emigrants, tire quite beyond
the imagination. That a smealled Christian
nation should be guilty et so base a brutality
tie this ege of the woeld is (terns -hill' a mot e
sel for pessimists. It might to be mention
ed DI this connection that Berets Hits= r
proposes In devote tile her:tense sum of $1 50 b
000,1ei0 to relieve his lelhasesountrymen in a
1suesm, by planting Jewieli eolorties. No
location has, as yet, been fixed von t but
11 is; robthle that some province of Brazil
0,11) se ,dented. The great difficulty in the ,
‘'ay of such schemes Bee in the inaptitude )
csf the .fettes for agrieulture, del their entire 1
lack of training and skill as colonists,
Vincent Borg, 34, stoker, was at Clerken•
well Police Court on Tuesday, iedieted for,
while on a B&W' ship, having itesaulted
Vinceut elide 111111 ceseasioned him bodily
barrn. Mr. Lesley and Mr. Lawlees prose.
cuted. Evidence was given showing that
the prosecutor, who is a &mum on bo r 1
the steamer Anther, when oil'Ilarcelena, was
asseulted by the palmier, who bit him on
the 0111,1.lhe proeecutor had a piece Of
• flesh bit t an off, and a wheeze stated 13e could
see meander s teeth throngli it. The de-
fence was that prosecutor had greatly pro-
voked the prisoner during a dispute which
took place between the two concerning the
prisoner's fluffily, The prisoner was round
guilty, and senteded to 12 months' hard
ou
A further contingent of about 05 foreign
Jews, mainly in the laet stag,e of poverty,
arrived at Tilbury Docks London, from
Hamburg by tiatarclay inerning's packet.
Theyare mid to be chiefly of Russian origin.
i
The mmigration of these aliens has for some
time been on the increase, each boat to Lou-
don, of which there are three weekly, bring.
1113 a complement, while membere arrive by
other routes, and, excepUting a few who go
right through to the nited States tho.
whole of them settle in London, Mancheder,
Leeds, and other populous towns. The
number ofeforeigners 0Y1 Saturday morning
awaiting the Tilbury train was so great at
Fenchurch Street Station that Um company's
• police were compelled to retnove them from
the platform.
YOUNG FOLKS
T
I think sho hatellfeLn1leintitiseLovers,/eepinte setae.
Wing low, sing 10W-.1001 awake herd
CM, r•Ole's the loveliest little team ;
And her father's oar finally baker,
such beautifel hnns and ehoeteatemaltrs,
wing low, very low -you'll alarm herd
And on, ketch eleganv tart. hem:deal
And els 011010 14.100)101 110471101.
And her sweet 11111110 it Minor Jane,
And her step 10 O eget 110 11 10041,011
And we meet every day In the Idne ham,
Ana Ivo go to school together,
And 110110' and then she brlegeme nettle
(Sing law or she'll hoar what we're .aying.)
And after school, when PlIr aqks arc clone,
ln the meedows we're fond of straring,
And 1 rnalie her wrwth of cowslips there,
A. 100.11 in the blosgozning clover,
And then ells hinds It 'wound her hair,
And twines; 11 over :nal over.
She's ten 1 l'in site ; Mit 1 am as tall
As she 1., 1 gire.s, or nearly.
And I cannot ,qty that 1 cire for her doll :
Butch, 1. do love Sri. dearly.
Weary tired of playing at Icing anti queen,
)Sing 1, w. tor we teuet ea awake her.)
And ole fell rt-aceir lir the Inaso. se green ;
And 1 thought that 1 rue 81,11 forseee her,
And when 1 am grown te a tag tall man,
1 men to be mart and Meyer;
Atel then 1 win niurry tow If 1 care
And well live Itren huas forever,
-St. Xfeho /no
A Well Adventtre.
g1.011V I On BOYS.
" 01111 Aflame it large wolf within
the city Ihnits, hut Satheiley, while out
hunting rabbits. The wolf has been duffed,
veld may be seen in the window ofJackson's
fur store.'
So reati my father from the Daily Choaker,
one everang, lei we 50110 all mattered about
the fireside.
''1 didn't emcee titere was a wolf within
twentyaive mile of here," remarked Unele
Torn. " lint 1 can recollect the time when
you couldn't step out ra night herenbout
tvitliont being bothered by the pesky
whelps."
so can I," afernted my father ; and
then they proeceedel to tell numerous blood
curdling tales of the -pioneer days of the
comary, and their own personal adventures
will, wolves and other tierce vrild animals.
I went to bed that eight with my brain
fun of the stories, and 11114 almost sure,
when I gazed upon the chrome which hung
over the mantel, that the wolves Ode
portrayed really moved as they went how.
ling after elle two melt in the one horse
cutter who were trying strenuously to BONO
themselves.
1 was eo excited that, it would have been
little wonder if I had dreamed of fighting
wolves all night. You eau itnegine, then
have my hair deed up when I was radely
awakened from a troubled sleep by an un-
earthly bowl, such as my uncle said a wolf
uttered ivlieu it smelled blood.
I listened a momeet. The night wee made
hideous by another awful howl. I arose and
looked through the window. The peacettd
moon made Lite surroundings white with her
light, but I could see no wolves. Then there
came another end still louder ery. Determin-
ing not to lie there and be murdered in bed,
I jumped up and into my clothee ; took
down my little shot gun ; smelled the win-
dow, and cautiously dropped upon the abed
roof underneath it.
When I found myself there I would have
given anything to be safe in my room again ;
but I could not reach the window, and felt
ashamed to cry for help.
110001 make up my mind to be brave, as
the 110,05 in the stories had been 1 and being
rendered by not hearing any more noise,
jumped to the ground and peered abont in
the uneertain light. 1 went toward the barn,
keeping as much in the shadow as possible,
.As L neared the building 1 811AV something
eleek lying upon the grouna-evidently an
animal of some kind. It did not move.
" It's Tiger 1 Poor old Tige ! The wolf
Iran done for him, sore 3' I Thought, Anti
my blood boiled with a desire for vengeance
upon our maned enemy.
I wee about to see if Tiger WiLS very badly
mutilated, when my ear caught the sound of
a cautious etep in the rear. I looked, my
blood, from boiling immediately earned cold.
The well eves coming elowly but directly
toward me 1
I dropped gem fortitiele and my wish for
veneeence, and fairly flew to a grove several
ods away from the barn. 02100 I looked
ackward 1 the wolf was following slowly,
s if sure of his prey.
1 remelted the grove ; the trees were all
too small to afford a safe haven ; but re.
meinberieg so tall, 411111 maple tree thatetood
a some distance 1 ran to it, and breathless.
y climbed up its bare trunk, I was not a
noment too soon ; for as I reached the first
1111113 I saw the umlf cm:tithing lieuentla
I thought it etrange ;lint the animal did
not howl, 0.111 110011', well out or danger, be.
an to feel bold again. I thotteht of poor
ige, lying stiff and cold in the barnyard. If
only had my gen 1 How foolish raised to
rop 1
I soon grew tired of my erempedposition,
nt would not, cry outs I did not want my
nele in his joking manner to say,-
" This is the boy who dro pad the gun,
and took a run, and deemed a tree to
avenge his dog's tnurder
I had heard that wolves always slunk
away at dawn, 00 I resolved 1.0 remein
where I WAS 11/1 morning. The moon
sank ; it beretme piteh dark ; endthen in the
le east a rosy tint began to displace the
acknette, until Icould once moredistinguieh
y perseeator's dark form at the base of my
fuige.
gh
Lter and yet a little lighter ; the
imal boson to grow restless. .1 heard a,
nine -that wolf was beginning to wriggle
it ridiculously unwollieh manner, still a
ttle more light end I could see that my
roe fact was -Tiger 1
With an exclamation of disgust I slid
down the thee and s»ealiod towards the
cover of the barn, hoping to recover my
gun and reach my room unobserved, Use•
less endeavor 1 As I turned the corner of the
rn, I saw my 00.113 1101113 unole looking at
o and shaking with mirth as he pointed
ward my gun, which lay 110150 5111 old buf•
1110 rolte.
The cat was nue of the bag ; and I have
not palmed the last of my awful adventure
with a wolf.
Big Pacts in Little Space.
Abont .450 B. C. the Ionians firet intrc. ef„
• duffed the present system ef writing from e
left to right ; preteens to the above date,
:from right to /eft prevailed,
There are at leaet ten million nervefibres
in the human body.
Three and a half millions of people arc "
always on the sette of the world,
Onehalf the people that are born the be-
fore the age of sixteen
.A recent survey has established the num-
ber of glaciers in the Alps at 1, :8;5, of which
2.49 have 0 length of more than four and
three.quarter
A grain -of musk will scent to room for
twenty years and at the end of that time 0,
will not allow it luts diminished in the- re
least. re
A grain of carmine or half a grain of ani-
line will tinge a hogshead of water 40 than an
strong microscope will detect coloring mat, le
in
At Loneester Castle on Satueday ,Tehn
Beek,feriner,Higherlfaylefte,Roebarndene,
was sumtnoned fur cruelty to a mare. Super.
intendent Moss said there could not possibly
•^ ' be a worse case of cruelty to an animal. The
defendant fastened the mare in a hole, and
left it without food or water for several daye
rintil it died, The clefendent's excuse was
that be went to Lancaster and gut on the
spree, and so neglected the animal, MaJoenes
Robertson, veterinary eurgeon, mid that he
heel made a poeMmortern examination. Ho
bad not the slightest doubt thitt the mare,
whith W118 aliont 17 years old, had diol from
starvation, The Beech orilemel the defetelant
to ply 85 and £3 4s costs, or a moetliet irn•
prisonment, with hard labour.
Your men named Philip Sullivan, .Jere.
mink Hallinan, John Hainan, and James;
Colman, of labouring class,were drinking in
a public•house s.t Cork on Saturcley evening.
They were on friendly terms, .ind became
somi.intoxicated, It is stated that Jere.
rajah liallinan asked the barmaid for 801110
partite; oil, and it is alleged that he thee
saturated tho neat and trousers of Sullivan
With the oil, whieh wae afterweed etre fire
ter 5» 50150,0 1111,3.
A lerninous buoy has been invented, the ,11
light of which is produced by phospinmet of 90
calcium, anti is visible two and is half miles
away.
Tile proportion of Anglo•Sexon words in
the lenglish Bible is 07 per cent, of the
whole,
The receipts of the Vrencli Treasury aro In'
larger then those of any °eller civilized ",
notion. to
It takes about three seconds for a mes-
sage to go from one end of the Atlantic
cable to the other. This is about Seven
hundred miles a second.
Only one person in a thousancl dies of old
age.
An inch of ride means 100 tons of Water
on 0001,0 0010,
The smallest known idea, the Morato.
Ines Putnamii, o. .arasite of the ichneu-
mon, is but one nineteenth of an inch in
leegth,
The thiceeds of the herrem hair varies
hem the two.hundredguiddiftleth to the
siednitelredili part of nal inch.
Blonde hair la the finest and red Die enema
set,
Teo force required to open an (triter
appears; to be 1,3lee times the weight of tho
shellems creature,
le lots been, ealeulabed that there aro
:Onset 200,000 feud:lies lirirtg ht imedon on
about CI a, wet&
--
Self-Made Men.
christopher Columbus was the eon of it
weever and else it weaver himself, Clem&
Lorraine was bred apaatremsook. tervante
wits a oommon soldier, Horner wee the eon
OK a farmer, Deutostliend waft the mon of it
cutler, Oliver Cromwell Wass the non of a
Ismever, Howard was an apprentice Lo 0
grocer. Franklin wag a journeyman 'mine.
er and son of a tallow:chandler end amp.
boiler. Domini Defeo was to hosier and son
of a butcher, Cardinal Wolsey was the sou
of a butcher, Lucian was the eon of a maker
(if statuary. Virgil was tho sob of iort or,
Berns wits the son of a ploughmen in Ayr.
shire,
--
The Fen,
Tite defied moiled wilting wee on Meeks,
tiles, oyeteaehells, stones, ivory, bark and
helves of trees/ ; and front the hitter the
term " leaves of tress" is probtubly derived.
Copper and Mess plittes were very early in
use, and it bill of fetsibeene on eopger 11158
some years emelt diseevered in Indus, bear-
ing the date 1 00 years le te, Leather was
else used as well as wooden tablets. Then
the pewees comes hito vogue, end 'theta
the eighth century the papyrus; was super.
seded by parchment, Paper, however, is of
great antiquity, especially amoug the
Chiuese ; bit 1 the firm, paper mill in Ragland,
was built in 1548 1.50 (10110811, 1.11.D1411.1.0111,
111 Kent. Nevelt:aids, it IV 1,8 nearly 11
century end a half -namely, in 17 1 3 -bel ore
Thomas Watkins, ft stationer, brought
paper•making to anything like perfection.
The first approach to a pen was:the styles,
O kind of iron bodkin, but the Romans for-
bade its use on in:count of its frequent and
even fetid nee in tputrrels, and then it was
115d0 of bone. Subsequently, reedit, point-
ed and split, like pens 00 111 the present day,
were need.
The Opium Trafflo,
The preepeet 3if putting an end to the
viten traffic 111 belie is not en bright its it
seemed et month ago, 110 )ten the House of
Cominons, by a vote of 10 to Me, pitesee
resolution that the Indian Governmeet
should cease to greet licenses for the eel ii•
vation of the poppy, and take measures to
prevent the traneit 01 elalwah opium
through English territory. The member
who introduced this resolution has since ex.
pressed himself as °merely 8iLlisfiod with the
declare tion of the First lord of the Trea-
sury that the policy of Off: flevernment bad
been toward a steady reduction of the
quantity of land placed under poppy diet.
vation, and that thee policy would be per-
severed within the future. In other wort's,
the Act of Parliament was little more then
a harmless expression of ii philanthropic
sentiment. The great " praetical" objec•
lion to its execution 111111.8, of course, the loss
of revenue which would result. Those,
however, to whom duel en objection is not
tsli.sullicieet attempted to show that moral.
ity and selaintereet were on the same side.
The London "Spectator," for example,
insisted that if the opium eraffic were pro.
hibited in India, the coarser and more
poisonous opium of Smyrno would take
Its place. This ergnmeet would have
seemed to us a stronger une had not the
" Spectator" followed it ep with the de.
claration that in a few years "en Americen
syndicate world import. Indian poppies into
Florida, prepare the juice as carefully as
the Opium Departmed 13as always done,
and divide a profit, ne tee Indian Govern.
ment does, of five or six hundred per cent."
111 Ot1141 1VOrd$, the English Government
should corainue in an immoral business in
order to prevent this rernute chance that
some Americans would take its place. In.
stead of simply suffering to prevent others
suffering,Eughsh eltrutem has reached the
point of sinning to prevent others sinning
Yet the morality of this propoeition is not
more grotesque than that of Sir Lepel
Griffin, formerly opium agent in Central
India. This old -school gentleman writes to
the " Times " that " the outcry against the
opium trade is the most conspicuous modern
instance of the wicked intolerance of the
fanatics who are willing to commit any ee•
travagenee and impoverish 'millions for the
gratification of thew own selfish vanity,"
and supports this vigorous pieee of denun-
ciation on the ground that the $25,000,000
amnia/ revenue is raised without burdening
British subjects at ell, inasmuch as tile
opium is sold entirely to the Chinese. 'The
ethics of this reminds its of a story toled by
Dr, Trumbull of to minister wile saw °lie of
his country parishioners picking toadstools,
and upon expostnletion with 11101 received
the answer that he was " not picking them
to eat, but picking them to sell."
Too Maar for the Landlord.
An Irish landlord, who is now on a visit
to London, relates that oue of het tenente
came to hit» before his departure anti asked
to have his cottage enlarged.
" ,eure," he sae", " it, do be ton small
already, an me family does be ueedin' more
room. •
" Brit, 'Mancha- replied the landlord,
"you've not boon inerried very long. How
old io your oldest 9"
" they're eight years."
" They S"
'3 Isis. 'nwo ay them. Twina"
" Ah 2 And what's tile age of thenext 1"
" They're six, yer honour."
" They ?"
" Yis. Twins."
"Goodness 1 Have you any more ?"
" Vie The next, do be three years."
"Boy 01' gira?"
"Both, sot' . Twins,"
" Francis, this secnet 1106 "
'' So I thought, sor, but there were only
wan in the last lot, He's a yea. meld."
" Well," sigh,ed the lamllor 1, "ten afraid
I shall have to enlarge your eettege."
The Charge Against Parnell,
Meanwhile The National Press in Dublin
has been noW for a week daily charging air.
Parnell with having, stolen some $75,060 of
the funds belonging to the public purse of
time Nationalist movement, and in plain Eng•
lish reiterating teat he is a thief and chal-
lenging praseention for libel When it is
bormi in hand that ebb:Ilse, conntry in which
you ottu mulct an editor in damages if ho so
much as suggest in his paper that you are
isanclemlegged, it will be seen thitt this open
itemisation marks 0 very grave etage lim the
faction tight, elr. Parnell is striving against
hope to =Wain, How he ran renntin
silent under it 11r1 one sees ; bet then no one
enev how he could wriggle out, of his chat.
lenge to melted Cork with Maurice Healy,
01 110W 1113 oniihl do rtny one of a score of
other incredible things he has (101)0 WINO
hie clowefell. To suffer himself to be callesl
it thief 110,0 01101' tlay is, however, a matter
which the House of Commons may welly
feel called upon to ask ono of its members
to cspittin.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for
it ; if footl, you meat tell for it ; and if plea.
sure, you meet toil for it. Toil is Dm law,
Pleasure mops from toil, neul not by self
indulgence and indolenee. When one gets
to love work, UN lie is a happy one.
11 10 best to strive to cultivate au intermit
in simple, innocent and inexpensive plea-
sures. Wo may thus aid in cliffueing that;
spirit of contentment which le of Wadi is
rich anil it permatione possession.
One of the plainest of human rights is the
right (0 1,8 let alone, and to be elle wed. the
Horace wan the snit of a shop coper. privilege of a:omitting one bent:voted fecul-
Shakespeare was the son of a wooleitapler, ties anil extending one sympathies in 1101100.
1150.8 tbo A011 ef o inoney.serivener, ever direction '11/41 prefer -aright which can.
l'opo 111118 1-1,0 eon of a merchant. Robert not be invaded without tyranny.
Air• AND MRS. BOATER,
What's elle matter end -wit et have you got.
there ?" queried Mrs. Bowser as he came
heme the ether day 1,slfien hour ahead oi
his 11811111 time, end beim; lo Idea down with
a heavy purchase of sotnething.
"Don't yak me any questions11010 1 he re.
plied, ne lie dropped his Int isnd squirmed
ont of hitt overcoat,
" Is anything wrong -are yeti sick 1 " she
anxiously demanded,
Don't say a word -not a word, and
lon't bother me fel ten minntes ! I hope I'm
in time to avert the clanger 3"
She tented pele anti fell upon the oda,
end be Itueriedly broice the dregs securing
Ole package, seized the three quart -bottles
Which comprisee its contents and rushed up.
etairs, clown the back stairs, down into the
basement and up again, .A. strange, ,lis'
agreeable odor followed hint ea he heeded
around, ana by the time be lind returned to
the sitting.room Mrs. Bowser heel recovered
sufficiently to ask t
".011'. Bowser, what on earth 1110 you do.
ing anti what in the name of goodness is
that stuff? "
" What have I been doing ? Saving our
lives, Mrs, Bowser -saving the life of every
one under this roof 1"
11110 I-1 didn't know our lives were in
danger."
" Of eourse not, If the house eves on fire
from top to bottom and the firemen pitching
our f urniture out, of the whitlows, yet, thighe
poisibly realize the fad, but it lets never
01 11511 you that death silently lurks in every
room in this 1101180."
" HOW you talk, Ma Bowser; What has
been the demger hanging over us S"
"Microbes. elms Bowser 1" he whisper.
ed, as he '-s. tlown and wiped his heisted
face, " elmrobes and bacteria- 'Milled
of 'em
" 1 t be 1" she related.
" Can't it You've lived in New York
twn weeks, been out XS far as Broadway
once and yon think you know all about it ;
I knew of course, bet having so many
other thiugs to see to this one slipped my
mind until toglay."
" Bat what, (muses that terrible odor ?-
" Nothing terrible abed it, as I see. On
Ole contrary, 1 rather like it. It is tee odor
of disinfectants:, Mrs. Bowser -the odor oi
something which has no donbe saved our
" How?"
" By hilling oil the mierolses and bacteria,
whiee would soon have entered Otte svetems
and produced terrible illnee.s, if not death."
" Well, I suppose you 11110110 best," she
seitl, as she opened it window to let a yard
or two of the ettrbolic smell dodge out.
"Certainly I do, oertnaly. All husbands
de. Mrs. Bowser, let tee draw yoa a picture
of a mierobe. Yoe can then 1 ealize the dam
ger which menaced use"
"Nice thing to have about forty of those
birds muttering around through your eye.
tem, eh ?"
" Where do they come from 1"
" Seweagas, tide time toenorrow the
house would have been switrtning -with them
and nothing on earth could have saved us
from typeorl fever or 31iphtherie. If the
microbe was the only thing to look out for
I shouldn't have been to anxious, but there
is the bacteria.'
" What's that 1"
" Here is a pieture of him. Comes in the
sante way, and his mission is to vat out the
lungs. It is calculatea that 2,000 of them
will eat out the strongest inates lunge in a
month."
" And they were in this house ?" she
asked.
" Right here, in this house"
" And ready to be absorbed into our sys.
tents V'
" Not only ready, hut ameious."
"You are sure you don't -mean cook.
roaches? I saw two under the kitehen sink
yesterday, and was going to oak you to get
some powdered Berne,"
" Mrs. liewser !" he began, as he stood
up, " are you growing soft in the top of
your head 't Do know a Bengal tiger from
a woodchuck 1"
I -I sinppose sto."
"But I don't know a microbe 01 11 bacteria
from a cockroach ? " he thundered. '
"But I never heard you speak of them
adore, and I-1 "---
" Do you imagine that I or any other
tusband sits down and tells his wife all he
cnowe !" he shouted. " Because I heven't
old you that a jack rabbit's begs have three
tents is that any reason why I haven't
keown it for forty years 1"
" But this is medical science, isn't it ?
he softly protested.
" And etippose It ist 1 Dn you seppose
've gone sloshing amend all these year
vith eothing bet a recipe for milking soft
top in nis head "
She W88 silent, and after striding up and
lown the room a few times he halted before
lel. and continued :
' A. wife isn't expected to know these
Lines, of course, hut Pll be accounted a
&die' husband and fathee and member of
cientifie club if I knOW all about
nicrolces and bacteria."
" But that picture of a bacteria looks
iko a lobster," she presided.
"Lobster 1 Looks like t lobster, does it ?
'ery well, Mrs, Bowser, this dieceseien
vill end right here. It is plain enough
hat you haven't the necessary knowledge
o appreciate it."
" Bat don't you "-
" Never you mind, elre, Bowser 1 Let it
rop right here. Is supper ready ?"
Plus odor was so strong, in the dining
own that the butter tasted of it, mid after
upper the cook called 'Mrs, Bowser into the
Relent eo ask :
"
Is it going to be • like this all the
ime ?"
" Oh, no. Mr, Bowser had to kill off the
iernbcs and beadle, you sea"
" What's them 1"
" 011 have him coma out and explain."
" No need of it, ma'am, for my bundle is
11 meele up, and Pin going. A man who'll
rag dead eats through his own house
'cited client et poor girl out of her wages at
le end of a month, Itlicrobas fuel baderia,
h 1 / don't believe it 1 Let him show them
o ma np in the Zoological Gardens
eVhen elree Bowsor told Mr. Bowser
hat, had occurred he bridled up, got red
1 the face and exclaimed
"1 see bete it Is ; conldn't carry your
Met with me, and so you went out and
pea the giel 1 Mrs. Bowser you are tread -
g on dengereus gm/end-very dangerous,
husband may be worm, bue if that
orin ia stepped on too of ten he turne 1
Re Was Very Oenseientious,
30811-"eTeines, T bear, givo rip studying
for dootor and is now etti,Iying for tile UM.
vereity."
Holdis-" Yes, so he informed me the lett
time We dined together."
John--," Did he toll you the reason Why
he gave ttp 81 9101 prolvesion for the dieted
ansi ?"
elobbs-" No, finless; it is Ohl r think
that he found he could enamel better than
1 he could practice, "
ITEMS OB INTB1B3T,
01 )048 yeers mesical schools have multi-
plied exceedingly.
An idol collector in Nan Francis°, who in18,
just died, hail it eolledion 01 130)1 little &mdse.
Exeentant musiciaria experience an erer-
increasing dillicnIty In mining their
according to elle John Mar-
ley, " don such foolish things as an excused,
ingly clever /11011."
Among bird food the summer rane seed,
found in Germany, is elle best kind' for the:
use of breeders or bird OW11018.
There la room on the gentled floor of the
»ew Scotland Yerd, on the Victoria Ertl-
beekinee a to assemble 3,000 men,
A In miltous buoy has heen invented, the
light of whice is prod:mei by pimplier:A Of
caleiture and is visible two and a half mile10
neaYikenny consiste of two towns, 0110 of
which is termed the English town, told i15
larger and better built than the other, whittle
18 called the Irish town,
Among English temeicel amateurs, ready
11,1101 correct sight-reading, which need to be -
regarded as a surprising gift in the fifties,
is now a common acquirement.
A new departure io earination is; reported.
A patent has been taken out in France tor
an electric formtoo for the rapid incineration
of human remains,
The caterpillar feeds with two saw-edgeti
jaws, working transversely, ane lied them
to such good purpose that he ads three or
four times his own weight every day.
Carmen Sylvta the Queen of Roumania:,
begins her literary work before it is day.
Site disturbs no one, butlights Iteeown lamp,
and tvorks until the sun briegs more light.
In Germany there are 20,360,847 EvangeS-
icals, 1 5,785,7e4 Cetholies, 125,073 other
Christians, 4563, 172 Jews, and 11,258 of
other religions or of none,
Egypt has been inundated tvith crowds of
people "doing" the Nile in steenters nr
dahabealte, etten armed witlt Ins 0 1/ 11 speeial
fancy in the way of 14 etemera,
The quantity 01 1151110 nuale throughout
Preece butt year amonnted 00 0001 Mx hun-
dred teethe' gallons, ebout eighty million
gellons in excess of the peevious year,
It is ealculated that it will require 3,780
cars to 30000 the orange crop of Southern
California thie season. The value of the crop
is estimated at e,6031,000 dols.
Inceadiarism is just now very rife in
Russia, Nire out of ten lives are intentional,
while conflagrations ere so f repent and ex-
tensive that the annual loss amounts to nine
millions sterling.
A liotele thiown into the Atlantic on
November 2401, 18117, from the anhafos fa,
about 400,111100one from Boehm, wae recent-
ly washed ashore on a little hetet in the
Caribbean Sea, 6,300 utiles away.
Fully 2,500 persons commit suicide in
Russia every year :indeed, the violent deaths
of ell kinds annually reach 45,000, while
18,0011 people ale of typhus fever -the mese
destructive national disease.
At Strasbourg, and in most Of Ibe great
towns in Flanders, hotted of industry ere
established with 0 view to extirpate idleness,
beggary, and mendicity, These workhouses
ere in every respect malterpieces of political
economy.
The lulinence of tobeteo upon the heart
ie fregnently more secnagly markea 000 in
any other direstion. Teere ere few persons
who use this subset:nee to excess who do not
suffer from the disordered action of the
organ in question.
There has just died in Texas a es:loured
man, named John Shaw, who wee born in
shtvery about 100 years ago, in Little York,
Vn. In 1819 he end flee other slaves escap-
ed to the RI ieish warship Sapphire, hying in
Chesapeake Bay, and were 'ended 11, Ber-
tnuda.
The Gernmn canary ia usnally grey and
yellow. Theee is to bright: yellow canary on
Ole market which is bred in Norwich. These
birds are fended by many on aegount of
their brilliant plumage. They are not
nearly such fine singers as the Gort0040 0.0 11
general thing, but they bring about the
St"ZatitPtitee' Pat, i recently did a kindly ace
to the Welsh poor in her district. Ascer-
taining the 1115551ee of those in receipt of
perieb relief, she drove down frotn Craig -y -
Nos Castle to the schoolroom, where she
had invited all the recipients to meet her,
and there she :supplemented the parish
charity in every ease with a gift from her
own puree.
The objection to the hest kind of pipes 10,
flea very neach more of the eicotine ana oil
of the tubed°, are absorbed into the system
than is the ease with cigars. With oommon
pipes. especially those with short stems, the
degree of irritation which is excited in the
lips and interior of the mouth is fne: greater
then thae 111otnilitlg from tobacco usedin any
other form,
A oandidate for priest's orders preaching
his extempore trial 0011000 before the Into
Archbishop Tait and Dean Stanley, in his
nervousness began stammering :-" I will
diserle my congregation into two. -the con-
verted and the unconverted." this proved
too much for the Primate's sense of humour,
and he exelainiod:-I think, sir, as there are
only two of us, yon heft bettor stly tehich is
WIiitel'
i's's'eid that some of tho young nobles
of the Austell:4i Court are about to make a
gift to the German Empress Augusta Vic-
toria of a fan forzned of the featlide of tho
mountain cock. The handle is to be set
with jewels of greet splendour. It appears
that of lute the belles of Vienna have intro.
elected the fashion of carrying a fan outdo
of tho feathers of birds shotby their admirere
an ideal one madding the skill of sixty oti
eoventy sportsmen.
A diamond mining oompany lieve for
some: time past been hoarding up all the
rere storms which have been mee with in
their mines, end now they ttee in possession
of a dried collodion ot strange colored
diamonds. Among them, eo far as they
have yet been ent, are et few green diamonds,
varying in colour from the palest green to
grass groan, and weighing from one to three
cartete. One of the finest stenes is said to be
o beantiftil brown, weighing ten carats, anil
valued et tt, fancy figure owing to its rarity.
The collection also includes Beverel yellow
donee of varying colour gentle and brilliancy,
An ingenious device has been designed for
the German navy, by which the officer of the
watch can instimtly infortn bimeolf if the
orders given to the engineers and lialmentru
111000 1/0011 understood and obeyed. The ap.
paratus, which consists of a dial bearing Ins
dientinue relative to the speed and handling
of the ship, 10 platted upoil the bridge and
the orders ate !min.:pitted telegraphically
10 1)10 engineer, whoby tho exoeution of them
eauees the hand upon tee dial to point
eueeessively 10(110 hulications of the move-
ments Which letVe 1+000 made. A similar
arrangement Tints tho officer in communica-
tion with the helmsmen.
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