The Brussels Post, 1891-7-24, Page 66
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DIMELINO AND1IIE 11111ALNYAS.
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Traivelhnghi India—The Thibetan Oniony
—Kinehillj11.11ga,
'Ilse Wonderful Scenery in the Saps of
Asia.
To the Englishman in India Darjeeling is
a word of fascinating sound. It stands,
for reel, for recuperation, for health, for
life. It is redolent with happieat USHOeiTh.
thins, with rentinideencea of days speut
in clambering over rugged mountain
sides or hi gazing lopg and at the
meditatively mighty Alps of Asia.
In the Government offiees and stores of Cal.
cutta pirsIvras are swinging, yet even with
this help the untertunates tied to the eity
find themselves hardly able to thaw breath.
In the bazar of the native quarter the
blaelt-skinned Hindus have suspended trad-
ing for the time, and are untied up 01 of
the stilt it reach, fast asleep. Out on the
sollains of Bengal the ground is crack iug with
heat and the parched jungle is searsd as if
hot currents of wind from forest fires had
passed over them. The atmosphere seems
to serve as a lens. The sun's angry rays are
fminsed with a concern rated power on Judie.
The u In& land is a stilling Gehenna.
Gut if yon get on an eastern, Ilengal train
healed toward Darjeeling, in twenty-four
hours yen will Hod yourself translated into
an eitrildt, r reli• .% 1 auy an invalid, des-
pairing of life. has been quickened and re -
generic, (1 by the
enacts() itilIALAYAN Allt.
;Many a careworn worker in the Government
or the artny, in the mission, or the counting
room hits found relief for vexed nerves and
tired head in the shaded glens and by the
purling brooks of this hill station, Simla,
in the northeast of the Punjab, the other
mountain resort, is the seat of the Indian
Govertunent during the hot weather. Day
in and day out army officers and officials
high in the civil service throng its groves
and its gardens. There the Viceroys court
is hell with a magnificence worthy of the
great Rajahs of Oink, or of the Mogul Em.
perors at, Delhi. The cycle of balls and re-
ceptions and entertainments is unending.
Oely when the cold weather sets in again
are the festivities transferred to the capital
on the Hamel. But at Darjeeling the tor.
ma of fashion troubles one not. Society's
claims are at a minimum. You can wander
along the babbling Teesta and through the
deep forests of 1.1oda,,, or Himalayan cedar,
undisturbed ; if perchance yott climb Senc.hal
to get a glimpse of faraway Everest in the
afternoon sun, you need not ftel hurried by
the remembrance of some stately dinner
be eaten at 8 o'clock, in faultless dress and
with icy conventionality. The atmosphere
of Darjeeling is restful-. There reigns the
pesceof nature which passeth all understand.
The railway from Calcutta runs straight
as the crow flies. 110083 the
VEVER-HIMEDING JVIII•LES
of Bengal to the base of the Himalayas. In
the paddy fields the ryot8 are ploughing
with the littSle priinitive plough which their
Aryan forefathers used before they left the
home of the race to pour down through the
northwest passes into the plains of Hajput
0115. .At every station along the road crowds
of "gentle metaphysical Hindus," as Sir
Edwin Arnold calls them, are squatted,
awaiting for the down train. This isttle
season when great multitudes of these lidia
brown men come up from all parts of lnthe
to bathe in the sacred Ganges. Each one
has a pack on his back, and, in addition, a
bottle, often With the irreligious inseription,
" Bass's Pale .Ale" upon it, which he hopes
to bruag home hill of the muddy Ganges
water, This he may keep for personal use
or may sell to those unable to make the
pilgrimage, for great is the efficacy of
holy water, and great is the traffic in the
Ganges brand, Their dress consists of two
long pieces of white eotten cloth, uncut,
imsewed. The one is wound around the
head in au enormous turban, the other
itbout tlte body, being caught up under the
legs, You woeld think a village cemetery
had given up its dead to see them in the
evening flitting noiselessly about in these
ghostly garnet) te. Skeletons they are, too.
Thin chests, spare legs, unmuscular arms.
Fifteen millions of them perished in tho
great famine of 1770, and only eight years
ago they were dying in the Madras Presi-
dency like flies in cold weather. For we are
in a land where the seven lean kine and the
seven hungry ears are no fable; where
eating is a luxury rather than a common,
imperative necessity. rhe moon is full. As
the train rushes through the jungle yoti can
7TE1R TIIK JACKALS,
half a mile away hi the tall gram, crying in
shrill unison, Their bark eau hardly be
distinguished from that of the coyotes I
have heard in Idaho. An elephant, with
his native master on his back, shakes along
the highway with solenm, ponderous gait.
On the sixteenth hour after leaving the
capital the train stops at Slliguri, and' lye
get out for thp nigh t.
ho.s an institution which thereat of
the world might adopt with profit. It is
called the dak bungalow, and is no inheri-
tance of the days when railways were un•
known, and when hotels in the interior
were unthought of. In every towels a large,
low house, with massive walls, through
which little of the intense heat penetrated,
built by the Government many years ago for
the refreshment of travellers. A sojourner
can occupy a room for Wen ty.four hours,
but at the expiration of that tune fa obliged
to give it up to the next comer. " The Khirl-
m steads or native in charge, prepares an
excellent meal at nominal rates, and receives
o fee for the room also. But the bungalow
is not a money -making institution, The
Government is quite satisfied if it covers
expenses. Many a traveller, worn by a long
dity's jolting in an Indian bullock ea" has
sought rest and shelter from the heat in ono
of these little oases. And even taday,
when a superb railway system with coin.
plate sleeping accommodations has really
rendered the dak bangalow euperatinuated,
there are many who „still enjoy got ting off
and taking a quiet night's rest in the old
style.
In the morning (nth "gentle inetaphysi.
cal "tatid,nottgar, woke 110 up at 6 o'cloffic,
gave tis theta hangs, or early breakfast, and
helped us to the train. From Billow' the
road begin to clinib the foothills of the
Himalayas. As we get) furthur along, our
engine puffs and pants, tugging
IV TIM STEEP ASCENT,
The road itself twists and winds over the
mountain aide like the great serpent
Midgard, which encircles the world of the
Rados. The air becomes more bracing,
Tile wet Lefties of kasha grass, which send
their delioious currents of -cool air through
the car, often reducing an outside tempera.
tura of 110 0 to 00 0 aro no longer required.
Neither is the dark east of the windows, so
oompletely does the changing atmosphere
neutralize 110 heat and glare of the sun,
As wo get higher up the scenery takes on
Stvis0 character, Hardy Bhittatteae mon.
taineers pass with huge baskets on their
backs,such as you see In the passes of the Gri-
sons or at Chamounix, Little eliildree run
elopgside of the ears Where the ascent is
slow, tossing in flowers—not edelweiss, hew -
ever, but a beautiful amber blossom 55111111
grows in the Hintalayaa. At the various
stations you will notive the Gurkha
police—stout, tawnygikinned litt le fellows.
During the Sepoy mutiny they were 1103001'
)1 .trength to the Government. Irk fact,
with the exeeption of the tall S'iklts, whom
Sir John Lawrence sent 1105011 front the
Punjab to the siege of Delhi, they were the
only native troops on whom the Engli.sh
could thoroughly rely. In the Afghan
wars, and in the last trouble with the TWIN
-
tans, too, they fought with great/fans The
Thibetans load been toll by their Grand
Lama that the hour was o.t hand tvben the
English altould be driven out of john
They 111(1 the promise, too, of the help of
the tremendous glaciers and furious thunder
storms of the Himalayas. The stars in their
courses were te light against Siam. Even
the nativem op the south of the mountains
began to fear that the time of the English
had really come at last. But the Viceroy
simpls sent a detachment of Gurkhas into
the meuntains. Battles werefought in the
clouds. The Thibetans were driven head.
long through
goose TERHISLE ,PAsSES,
which rise now 11, 000 feet end fallagain
Lo a bare hundred above the sea level. rhe
force of nature were of as little assistance to
them as their poor old seventeenth century
matchlocks, Inounted on tripods and tired
only by the efforts of three men. The result
ol the war Was merely to give one more
proof of the power of English arms
Datjecling is only SOO miles from Lassa,
but the passes 8,re well guarded, and woe to
hint who tries to penetrate into the 11000111
land. Yet even here we are able to study
Thibet in miniature, for there is quite a colony
of Thibetan Immigrants who have settled in
Bhutan, and have imported temples, monos-
teries, and their peculiar religious rites from
their northern home. 'They have even gone
so far as to set up another Grand Lama,
called the Dhamma. Raja, somewhere in
Nepaul, who is as bitterly execrated, and as
frequently anathematized Ly his Thibetan
rival as any anti•Pope of the fourteentlt oen-
tury, fur of course there can be onlyone Grand
Lamsmasthatpresonage is an tranfar of Buddha,
and Buddha can inhabit but one mortal at as
time. The theory of the Lamaship is exactly
that of the French monarchy—"Le rot est
mort : vivele roi." When one Lamais poisoned,
for poison is the normal cause of death, his
soul departs into his successor. The only
difficulty is to find the successor. A parcel
of babies are brought out before a court of
priests. The goods and chattels of the dead
Lama, mingled with theproperty of other.
men, are displayed in their presence. If one
of the children by an infantile gestnre points
out anything belonging,to the dead church-
man, it is taken as an indication that the
soul of the latter has entered into himmod
he is chosen Grand Leine. One of' the
necessary qualifications, however, is the
death of the mother three days after the
child's birth. But there are usually Ito
difficulties on that score, for poison is as
freely used in Thibetan affairs as it was in
papaPpolitics at the time of the Renais-
sance.
Just outside of Darjeeling is the Thibetan
consistingof a 15 0' grimy stone Huts,
roofed with Standard Oil cans of tin flattened
out and laid one next the other. Inside one
of the houses are congregated fifteen ov
more priests busily readiug front sacred
books. They read alond and together, or
rather all at mete, and the effect ts not un-
like the buzzing of a beehive or the whirr of
4 cotton mill. At frequent intervals au old
woman pours out tea for their refreshinent.
In one corner of the room is little altar, on
which are o fferingsof rice arid of cleugh °ekes;
Their famous prayer wheels are there, too
—soma large as beer barrels and turned on
an axis, others of the size and shape and
appearance of a baby rattle. They are
novgnEn WITH WaTTINE.
Each revolution records a prayer. The
priests stop reading to look at the stranger;
the people of the village crowd round laugh-
ing and chatting, kindly, simple -hem tod
folk they are a few grades higher in civili-
zation than 'Cite "leaf wearers of Orissa,"
or than their distant kinsmen, those will
hills people of Assam, who have no words
for expressing distance, but reckon the
length of a journey by the number of plugs
of tobacco they chew on the way !
However, ma came to Darjeeling primari.
ly, to see neither' hill tribes, 'nor droning
-Priesta, nor Gurkha soldiers; but fer two
longdays the mountaina werchid Freon vietv
and the rain poured down as 11 (hoed only in
northern India.. At Cheryl ranji the rain.
tall has reached a maximum of 905 inches,
and 600 is not uncommon. Ih fact, our
" white squadron " would float with ease in
the sea which falls each year upon the pro-
vinces lying iminediately under the Himal-
ayas. If you had been here yesterday you
would have doubted it not a moment. The
rain came dotyn. in contin.uous sheets as if
thiek arose seetions of a lake were falling.
Theclonds, too,. Were eartentously grand.
They seemed like Valkyvies, or like that
never-ending train of souls which the great
Florentine saw blown hither and thither in
thesecond otrele of the pit. AS 0 study of
clouds it was" magnificent, but it was not
mountains. At times the gray masses tvould
break, and through the rifts the suow puha
could just be seen. Then they would dose
up agam, and our hearts would sink. In the
evening of the second day it seemed as if we
should have to leave, after all, without a
glimpse of Kinchinjungo.'s gleaming crest. -
The next morning, however, dawned Clear
and cloudless. The masses of mist had
sunk into the valleys during the night, leave
ing the nionntain tops unobscured. There
they were, the great galas of the Himalayas
—Chumaltori, Dwalagani, Chamango, Kin-
chinjungas -ranged along the horizon to
A STUPENDOUS PJJALANN,
Take Mont Blanc and pile the Great St.
13ernand upon it, and 1<inetisnjunga HOarg
far above them both. Matta Shasta, and
Mount Tacoma aro mere pigmies beside it.
Popeoatapetl falls 11,000 that short of ihs
magnificent height. The fichreekhorn, the
Grimm!, and Mount Washington 0Onlbilled
barely equal it, And so WO might go on
piling Pillion upon 0550 an11 still wo could
scarcely give an iinpression of the awful
heights. 1ha mighty conceptions of the
Hincloo theology were boen of meditative
lives passed under these snow-capped peaks,
"'rheindestruotiblelirthill,IIISOratable, 11
isnot born nortioth haver die ; ithas no past or
future ; unprodueed, unchanging, infinite,
eternal." Thusruns the " tiong Celostial,"ancl
in the presence of thesnowy range one Dahill -
voluntarily 11 11113 lofty abstraetion was not
auggested by these great symbols of nature.
The oonception of 1.1tharplat and Avassarpini,
the two eternally reourring eyelet, of tune,
of a duration Finch as to defy all human cony,
prehension I the Oonception of great, Vishnu,
the Unconquerable Preserver, striding in
throe immense steps across the universe ;
the tremendous coloulation of birth and re-
birth lalchs upon lakhs of transmigrations,
each lasting. no hundred thousand years,
metaphysics—all partake of the solemn vast FEE KAISSR. IN ENGLAND,
nem of Himalayan scenery. In the lirah.
inane are certain chanters entitled Araoya_
kw, eo profound in their myelin; contents
that they may be read only in the solitude
Butter would tt be if
of deepest foredo.
they 5010tea( ter%
To get a glimpse ef Everest yon Mose to
go about seven miles from Darjeeling to as
high eminence called Tiger Hill. From
this poin Kinchinjunga is distant only forty
miles, and cenfronte one in all its impressive.
ness. But Everest is tar °don the western
harizen, and little would ono imagine that.
it is the loftiest point on tho earth's surface.
Indeed, teeny are now questioning itspre.
'eminence. For to the north, and beyond
the trough in which the Brahmaputra ;the
Son of Brehm) rolls on its eastward course,
stand Mount Kare•Kortim, supposedto be a
few hundred feet higher even than Everest's
20,002. From riger Hill these famous two
offil feet seem to be almost all that isvisible
of Everest, Take a piece of white note paper
and mark off one corner, and you will get
some nOtiOn of how it loolcs. For greatly
does it disappoint one, and eagerly dries one
turn back to the great white throne of Kill-
ohinjunga and to Ito seas of glass. Here we
have scenery such as one hears of nowhere
out of the Apocalypse. Even the Thibetaus
are awestruck, and have hung up prayer
cloths, strips of yellow, red, or blue cotton,
which flutter in the wind from tall poles of
bamboo. Down in the valley it is still night,
though the sun has reddened the snow for
an hour past, Another hour, and the cocks
below will begincrowing, and the tardy light
n ill dawn on these nether regions. Dien the
clouds will rise to meet the sun and will
hide, as with a curtaiu tbe abode of snow.
As we walk away we titink of the old Vedic,
psalmist in the dawn of history, singing of
" Hint whose &Teatness the snowy. ranges
and the sea and the Aerial River (t. e., the
Milky way) declare." ERNEST GORDON.
Spentaneees 00Mbastion.
The origin of teeny a fire remains a mys-
tery, and no doubt many an innocent man
or woman lives under the suspicion of
incendiaristm when the true cause of the
combustion was spontaneous ignition. For
the benefit of those who have not mada the
:natter a study, the following list of sub.
stances and conditions has been complied.
Cotton -seed 011. will take fire even when
mixed with 25 per cent of petroleum oil, but
10 per ten t of mineral oil mixed with 10 per
cent of animal or vegetable oil will go far to
prevent combuation.
Olivet:di is combustible, and mixed with
rags, hay, or sawdust will prod ace spontane.'
ouS conffinetion.
Coal dust, flour dust, starch, flour (especi-
ally rye flour) are explosive when combined
with certain propot tions of air.
New atargh ts highly,explosive in ita gem -
minuted slate ; also sanffiust a very fine
state when. contined•in olose thme and
water directed on it. Sawdust should navels
be used in oil shops ar warehouses to collect
drippings or leakages froin mike.
Dry vegetable or animal oil inevitably
takes fire when saturating cotton waste at
180 degrees F. Spontaneous combustion
occurs most quickly when the cotton 15
soaked with its' own weight of oil. The
addition of 40 per cent of mineral oil (den-
sity NO) of great viscosity, and emitting no,
inflammable vapors,even in contact svith an
ignited body at any point below 33$ de-
grees Fahrenheit, is sufficient to 1)000001
spontheems combustion, and the addition
of 20 per cent of the same Mineral oil
doubles the time necessary to produce spon-
lumens combustion.
Patent dryers from leakage into sawdust,
etc., oily Waste of any kind, or Waite cloths
nf silk or cotton, saturated with oil, varn-
ish, or turpentine.
Greasy rags front butter and greasy ham.
bags.
B:tumfnous coal in hinge heaps, refuse
inapt of pit coal, hastened by wet, and
especially when pyrites are present in the
coal ; the larger the heaps the more liable.
Lampblack, when slightly oily anti dainp,
with linseed oil especially.
Timber, dried by steam pipes, or hot
water, or hot-air heating apparatus, owing
to fine iron dast losing thrown off, to close
wood casings or boxings around the pipes,
from the mere expanston and contraction of
the pipes.
The Name Above Every Name.
" What Is His name I" asked a heathen woman
of a missionary Who was talking to her et
Jesus. "Tell me His name Again. X do not
want to forget it."
Els name/ Ali, sister of tho darker brow,
The name of Jesus will no t leave thoo now;
Once taken 10 110' heart and memory.
Tb will retnain a Joy and strength to thee.
We pity thee that thou so late as heard
The name whims ha8. thy love and wonder
stirred, • •
And we half 0250)' 11500 the strange now bliss
Of few nins'airat once who 'Jesus is. •
tVo heard Bis nettle hi Many ickwildhyinn,
When oyes shone brightly which aro long since
• dltn
Our mothers used to see tic Itin their prayers,
Our fathers found it helped tliem in their cares,
We learnt to say it in our earliest years
To 'km Ito us good, and take away our /oars;
And all ourlives, in wantor grid or shame,
Stro have been comforted through this dear
mew,
There fano other name that saves from sin
And . mattes olr earth the 1110 of heaven begin ;
It binds ,is here below and those above
Together to the Father's heart of love ;
11 10)000 awitf from loath itg pain Sea sting,
And.teathes the Corgi lien ones to sing,
11 Wakes tholonging to be good and num
And givesus mintage bravely to ondn're..
The Mums of :Jesus has most wondrous,m1glit;.
Tis inspiration, Wi.dnin, guidatiochifiht;
It summons men to duty secretly,
And though non0 Watelt, they serve God loya1.7.
ly. •
11.10 11 trumpet -call, end the groat crowd
gospandawhen male high truth remit loo ttvow
od;
11. makes n II spok the 1.10 t and shun Wm wrong
A nil tiffs the soul with doy, the lips with song
Who have not hearts to tritsi and egos to sca
Dream not how moll 10 1150125 the name might
be 1
Salvation, hope, and lave of rightemeness
Have Dopy who know how Josus 01trist chn
bless, •
The highest life of eatilgto Omni gl4on,
And. everlasting life with Him in heaven ;
0, dark.browed sister, who dost know Ills
grace,
May we all see Him, one clay, face to face,
Funbli'S Tribute to Sir John.
Ono of the boot tributes to the memory of
Sir John Macdonald is that which appeared
115 Ploteh of the 200 ult. 11 10 in these
words :
en Memoriam;
" OLD TO -MORROW,"
linn MORT /100, ,101114 ALEXANDER MAC -
IMAM), 0ATE PREMISE 010 CANADA,
Plitteh sympathizes With Canadian flOrrow
For him known loVIEKIY as "Old To -morrow
Ilan to " the ellictistin„"he ilea orate taday,
But fame still speaks for 11bn and (hall for
aye.
" TomerlieW and tognotrow," Shakespeare
sIgne,
110 010550 the round of time.; nottn lives and dies,
But death °eines toot with mem aurcease of
breath, •
Tomah as him, "Tits road to duty, death."
Net " his yesterdays " have lighted, nay,
eadiada's " Olrl Tomertow " lives to day
in nnforgettfitg hearts Ana nothing fears
which are involved In their notions of Thelong to.morrew of coming yore.
{"I• 0.0 I
Co torten gititirgini Inv Han!! ng 11111 m
58
Following are full details of the reception
of England to Emperor William 1—Long be•
fora the hour set for the departure front
Ghent% Cross railroad station sattuglay
morning of the train which MIS to earry 00'
l'ort ietoria the members of the roval
family and others itito were to weleonte the
Id 03 of Germany to 1?aminud, that depot
was surrounded by n large erowd of people
bent upon cheering, 001110100 1515 upon or
guying the many celebrities who were ex.
pectett to be more 01' less On \los' at that
nOint. As the hour for the departure 01 1.110
" royalties" drew near, Charing Cross
station, outside and inside, was a sight long
1,, be remembered. The general nubile was
entirely excluded from the station platforms
more titan an hour before noon, the time
selected for the departure of the " royal
train," An imposing force of police from the
A and C divistons surrounded the statiou,
and the " bobbies" certainly managed to
preserve a hig15 degree of order anl to make
the arrival and departure of the earriages of
the welcoming party a matter of very little
tronble to anybody. The weather was de-
cidedly pleasant, a feet which tended to
make everybody feel goodhumoretl.
In order that the feet of loyalty and other
highly distinguished might not be soiled by
contact with the connnon flooring of the
railway station, a gorgeous rod velvet carpet
was spread from the entrance of the depot
ints and across the main platform and along
the siding platform, thus running the whole
longht of this depot. 'The edifice itself,
never very cheering even upon the brighthst
of days, was this mornings, rendered p&sitive-
ly brilliant with floral, hunting and other
.decorations. Sir Myles Fenton, general
manager of the Southeastern Railway Com-
pany, and other high officials of thu t road
were present, actively and personally super-
intending all the details of this important
event. The best of the saloon carriages
(well stocked with solid and liquid refresh-
ments) and the most powerful of the com-
pany's engines were provided for the occa-
sion, the guards, engine drivers and other
train attendants being quite dazzling in new
uniforms and brass buttons.
Among the first arrivals at Charing Cross
was Sir Edward Melet, the British ambassa-
dor at Berlin, who, like every other official
in any way connected with the welcome
given to the lilmperor, was clad in the bril•
hantdiplomatic or other uniform of his rank.
Thenextfew arrivals included Major-Gener-
al Sir john McNeill,equerry to her Majesty;
Col. Sir Frederick Carrington and Admiral
SirJohn Commerell, all tires with their
breasts covered with ordera and decorations,
These officers have been especially attached
to the stall of the German Fmperor during
the latter's stay in England. The Duke of
Edinburgh, in the untform of a Prussiati
general, was the next important personage
to be recognized by the throng ontsi le of
the railroiti depot. The Duke -who is pop-
ular with the masses, was was cheered.
Count von Hatsfeldt, the German embosses
dor here, appeared soon after the Duke or
Edinburgh. The Count was accompanied
by 021 1110 attaches of the German embassy,
all in the uniforms of the diplomatic corps.
The Duke of Connaught, in the scarlet
and silver uniform of a, colonel of the Z iethen
Hussars of tile Guard, followed the German
ambassador a few minutes later. 'I'he band
of this fine.regiment, of which the Duke is
honorary colonel, is expeeted to play in
England during the Emperor's visit.
A minute or so before it; WaS time for the
royal train to draw out of the depot, the
Prince of Wales, accompanied by his oldest
son, the Duke of Clarence and Avondale,
both wearing the uniform of the Red Hes-
sen and decorated with the Hohenzollern
Order, arrived looking somewhat annoyed
at the fad that they were !settled time.- The
station platform was now fairly crowded
with 11100 in uniforms of all colors a,nd dos
oriptions ; stars, ribbons and crosses by tho
gross apparently adorned the bosoms of
everybody present. To judge' from the num-
ber of decorations there displayed, the royal
party must have been composed of warriors
who had taken glorious part in every war
and every battle fought anywhere (hiring
the last 50 years. • .
After a short delay, chiring which the
brilliant relatives passed the time in ex-
changing greetings and cpmpliments, an ex-
ample Whieli was follaived by their equally
brilliant staffs the suggestion thatthey sin -
bark on the train was tittered, and some
minutes later the royal party was on the
way to Port Victoria.
At Port Victoria, the landing place of
royalty, near Sheerness, extraordinary pre-
parations had been made by the various of-
ficials interested., who were all under the
coMmitud 'of the Mike of Portland, who, as
master of the horse,,bad full, charge of the
weleeming Ceremonies in all their details.
Nobody was allowed to pats on to the lan1.
ing pier boteept, tihe members of the royal
families, their suite and thediplomatie corps,
Sheernesaliarbor, 11 151081 be admitted, was
a grand and' beautiful sight Both the clime.
nel and training squadron were at anchor
there as a guard of honor, Probably finer
than that hicls ever before saluted a mon.
arch, '111 addition to thIa Pol./caul fleet,
there was gathered at; Sheerness es floc a
flotilla .tof ilthopedo hhOtss as any ad-
mirarneed wish to have 1,1 • his disposal.
Vastly imposing and warlike tho. huge iron -
clads, and swiftly terrible appeated the
powerful cruisers, Particularly deadly ap-
peared those fine vessels of the admiral class,
the Howe, Antioni Camwdown an cl Budney,
and the ,huge belfedormsers Altrbra Itnil im-
mortalitc: It is not Mieessary nt this' nab.
ling to give, full 1101 01 the fighting ship
present off Sheerness 'tb dky;.but, roughly
estimated, it may be said that there were 50
vessels displayed( front theline-of-battle
ship to the warlike torpedo boat. The
warships lined eaah side of the harbor, and,
banked tip by the Mtge forts and ,Stnaller
fighting ships all dressed from stem to
stern with fluCtoring bunting, they formed
a pithier° caloulated tri Make an Englishman's
breast swell with pride. In honor of the
Imperial guest the warships, in addition to
their own distinctive flags, also flew the
standard of Germany to the breeze.
At 11,110 a. so, exactly the handsome steel
(truism, Tartar passed in advance of the fleet
as a scout vessel, t1.11(1 aecompaided by a flo-
tilla of tvarships and a swarm of torpedo
boats put to sett in order to give the main
body of tho heel; due warning of the approach
of the Imperial yacht which was bearing the
Gerinan Emperor towards these shores. At
noon the Tartar signalled to the ship near-
est to her that the Hohenzollern was 10
oiglib,.This signal WM repeated front the
second vessel to the third and so on to the
admiral's ship, The Hohenzollern was
escorted by the German cruiser Prinzesson
Wilhom, As thevleiting ships:net/rod the Bri-
tish warships all the latter thundered forth
royal salute andenanned their yards with
almost miraculous rapicft, while the hands
played the German anthem. The hoar of
150 guns, the aloud ef gunpowder Smoke,
the 'distant inttsic of the easel bands, the
fine brining weather, the splendid 1var vas,
sels, frowning forts and refreshing breeze;
combined to Make as attractive a piefalta of
.amosts.
" welcome" as any Emperor hail or ever
luny. ,•speet, to have.
Taken ati 54 WhOle, the io eking extended
to the Queen's warlike yeimg grandson was
without parallel in the Watery of Engin tul,
The general opinion expressed after the Ent •
peror had landed wile that he menet have
failed to bo delighted with the reeeption
his 101011000 iteeorded
rhe hest glimpse of the hlliperer Wag WIWII
he was seen standing upon the bridge of the
Hohetwollern, dresited in the nuiform of a
British admiral. He was in company tvith
the Empress, and bah were accompaffied by
William suites, The Empress, it was aeon,
was also apparently delighted in witheming
the grand reeeption which was given Ger•
many's ycning ruler.
The Hohenzollern steamed slowly through
the lines of thundering British war vessels,
preceded by an escort composed of a number
of torpedo boats and followed by the (lemon
ironclad, which reaponded 10 the welcome
with as ninth of 21 guns. As each and
every vessel having saluting rank fired 21
gunS tile din, the roar and the smoke may
lie imagined if not described.
In the meanwhile the special train from
Charieg Cross bearing the British royal
party had arrived at Port Victoria and all
the royalties and other high personages
WOTO awaiting the young Emperor on the
lauding stage, which was most beautifully
deoorated with flowers, plants and bunting
for the occasion. Finally the imperial yacht
ran safely alongside the pier and Emperor
William stepped ashore, and being met by
the Prime of Wales, he graciously kissed
the heir apparent to the throne of Great
Britain and then cordially received the
55001.105 01 the other members of the royal
family and also bowed to the welcome 01 1110
diplomatic corps and others. The Pi ince of
Wales, with Ms usual gallantry, gracefully
kissed the hand which the Emperor of Ger-
many extended to him upon landing, and,
after a pleasant exchange of complitnentary
phrases, the Emperor asked the royal psrty
to step on 'board the Hohenzollern. This
offer was promptly accepted, and the ISm-
perov showed Ins royal guests over the int.
perial yacht. Subsequently the whole party
partook of a light luncheon on board the
Hohenzollern,
After luncheon the Emperor, before leas,.
ing the jetty for Windsor, inspected the
guard of honor and uttered a loud compli.
tnent upon the soldierly bearing of the Men,
Bouquets Were handed the Empress as her
Majesty was entering the train, and salutes
of artillery were fired as the train was start-
ed. Everystation along the lino to Waterloo
was filled with crowde of people; who cheer-
ed enthusiastically as the carriages swept
past. • During a short halt at Waterloo th
Emperor, replying to incessant cheers, stepp.
ed upon the platform of his carriagn. and re-
peatedly saluted. Similar scenes ss -ore
witnessed all along the line to Windsor, Th
station there WAS one mass of color. Th
whole platform was draped with crimson
and the walls were covered with tin. colors
of Germany. The Grenadier Guards formed
the guard of honor. Upon the arrival of
the train the Princess cif Wales stepped out
of the waiting room and greeted the Emperor
and Empress. With her were the Princesses
Beatrice and Christian and Princesses Vic-
toria and Maud of Wales Prince Christian,
the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Henry of
Battenberg.
After all-round handshaking and kissing,
the procession, which consisted of twelve
carriages, was formed t—The first, drawn by
four of the Queen's creammolnred homes,
was occupied by the Emperor, the Prince of
Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the
Duke of Connaught. In the second were
the Empress, the Princess of Wales and
Princesses Beatrice anti Christian. The
third was occupied by the Duchess of Con-
naught, Princess Vietoria of Wales and the
Dekes of Clarence and Cambridge. In the
other carriages were metnbers of the' royal
family and mil tes. The route of the procession
was lined with igfantry and eavalry, which
kept in check the serried masses of specta-
tors Wile wore crammed so close together
that they threatened every moment to break
'the ranks of the soldiers. Everywhere there
was a lavish display of floral dee:orations,
bunting and flags, with plentiful motto greet-
ings, among which were " Gott init Wilkom-
men (len Deutschen Itaiserpaar," To the un-
ceasing 'ovation accompanying their pro.
gross the German Emperor and Empress
replied with tialutes
1.Tpon the procession halting at the Guild
Hall, the town clerk read a.n -address of
welcome to the most faVored Milne of the
rulers of Great Britain. The' address ex-
pressed the trust that the alliance between
the imperial and royal families would
guarantee a lasting friendship between kin •
dhed peoples and conduce to the maintenance
of the peace of Europe and the 'general ad-
vancentent ' of oivilisation. The address
further, dilatsd upon' the. Emperor's social
refernis. The inayer, 'stepping forward,
then Made 4 chart, °tredve speech,' to which
the Emperor made' it.laconic reply. •
The proCession then started toward the
quadrangle of thscastle. Here the Knights of
St. George ivhoSe bright uniforms conbraet-
ed with the agediappearance of the wearers,
were , grouped round the statue of Charles
IL' Life,guards and yeomen of the guard
lined the qturdrangle, while scarlet, uniform -
e 1 soldierkiffillell the approaches and • ram-
parts of trivieer, The Lard Chamberlain
bevelled:sled', awaited the arrival' of the im.
pedal visitors at the entrance of the main
hall of the State apuattnents. ' Amid rolling
volleys offelthees and salvos' of artillery the
J300001 1011 the nestle grounds'. As
the carriages meachedthe gerdrangle • ttie
band of the Scots C4 uardsplayed the National
Anthem, The Emperor's carriage stopped
beneath the portico of tho 'Waterloo door.
04 alighting the Emperor • eutered the hall,
preceded toy the 'Lord 'Chamberlain. The
Queen' met him at'the threshold and af-
fectionately embraeodhini, All the royal-
ties followed' the Eniperor and the door was
closed even to the favored few who had been
privileged to seethes far.
•
SoldierS illedby ritateS
Intelligence has been received from
13ototun that a boat with five Russian
soldiers, while out absea, met a twelve•ear.
etl boat manned by suspicious-loot/Mg
natives. The Russians ordered the natives
to heave -to, bat the latter immediately
opened fire upon the soldiers, killing four,
and wounding ono of the party, The mom,
rence lvto witnessed by seine people on shore,
mad II, scoond boat with four soldiers was
sent in pursuit of no pirates, These fotth,
however, on coming up with the natives,
were also received with a well.directed fire,
which killed two of their numb( r Filially a
third boot with soldier!, Waft Sea Old, and
In her appearanoo the pirates took to flight,
in all, aix soldiers wore killed, and throe
enjured. A gua-boat has been ordered in
pursuit of the pirates,
Catnille Flammarion, the astronomer
and the greetest authority itt Europe Ma
meteorology, saye the eastern hemisphere
has boon growing colder for the past five
years, but that he -sees rig Indioation or
/Mange in America,
`1111ITIA1tTII'll HUT.
Mose 11 lirott Conslitiolli se Owe Mt
41 istunotere nets toSifie 1g, tiler 't
i12ittly embed ille melt are 1)1,0111115 their
lives lo Ilial. g.1511 be learned
14130111 inthrior nr tid, ninnon) minim of
nura, onn of the labeled ire; problem ott
whiell they are engaged is the (11,1)1 It and
geographiral 1 liisl 0 11 f,.„,„„
Ihn An-nanal Ion list,s eolleeted
a large amount of date on thie question.
They have already Iola IIH Milne oleic/UN
things, KWh RH the fitet that eNeellela Wheat
littititt north of Mani tuba overlie frozen earth
that never thaws.
Sometimes geologiets find strata, of rook
that they are able to slum must have been
buried at a remote age, 120,000 feet tinder
the surface. These upturned edges of rook,
vhiali some terrible convulsion lifted to the
air, give us a glimpse of the coudition of the
interior some nay below the greatest depth
to which we can attain, The workmen in
the deepest mines of Europe swelter in al-
most intolerable heat, and yet they have
never penetrated over one.seven-thousandth
part et the distance from the RU11400 to the
center of the earth. In the lower levels of
some of the Comstock mines the men fought
scalding water, and could labor only three
or four hours at a time until the Sucre
Tunnel pierced the 'nines and drew ofIsome
of the terrible heat, which had stood at 20
degrees.
The deepest boring ever made, tho' at
Spereuberg, near Berlin, penetrates only
172 feet, about 1000 feet deeper than the
famous artesian well at St. Louis. The re-
sult of this imperfect knowledge is that
there are more theories and disputes among
aceintific men with regard to the interior of
the earth than about any other problems of
physical scionas, Some emin en t physicists,
for insta•nce, like Sir William Thomson,
have believed that the crust of the earth is
at least :300 miles thick. 'The majority ad-
duce good reasons for believing that the
artist is only twenty-five to fifty miles thick.
All agree that if the temperature within the
earth continues to increase as it does near
the surface—at the rate of one degree Fah-
renheit for about every fifty-five feet of de-
scent—all igneous rocks must be nsed at no
great depth.
In fact, 111 11,10 rate of increase, the tem-
perature at 200 miles is 18,000 degrees Fah•
renheit, which is Professor Rosetti's esti-
mate of the probable temperature of the sun,
a is improbable, however, that this rate cf
increase is maintained for a great distance,
and many physicists believe that at some
unknown, but not very great depth, the in-
crease in temperature ceases, One of the
most wonderful things ia the study of
sciences is the tact that the mysteries of one
science are sometimes completely or partly
explained by knowledge gleaned in some
other department of study. 11 10 thus that
naturalists who have investigated the fauna
anil flora of scores of Pacific islands have
learned how for south Aaiatic types prevail,
and have added great weight to the conclu-
sions of geologists that these islands were
once a part of the big °oedema north of
them.
He Nearly Became Governm,
Captain J. H. Beaty and Sir john Mac-
donald were sitting together at the Albany
Club, Toronto, one day when the news of
the first successes of the British army in
the Soudan arrived.
" Now, that Wolseley is a lucky man,"
said Sir John. " I remember tithen he was
out here at the time of the first Red River
Rebellion, and when he was nothing greater
than colonel, that I took Mrs. Wolseley
down to dinner at Lord Lisgar's one night.
She talked brightly of her °lever young hes.
band, and wound up by asking me if I
would not make him Governor of the Terri-
tories.
" I will,' " said I, " and 1 felly intend-
ed tO do it, but while I was at work in my
room in the East Blook a few days later 1
WaS Seized with a sudden illness, as every.
body knows, and lay there helpless for weeks.
In themeantinte Sir George Cartier assumed
control of affairs and appointed one of his
friends to the governorship. Wolseley was
passed over and became General Wolseley
and Sir C4arnet Wolseley and the greatest
English general of the day; whereas, If I
had iny way, he might have become Gover-
nor of the Territories, and in time even it
Canadian Cabinet Minister."
•
A Short Drop For Piga.
The pig orop this ymati will be considerably
short of the average of recent years. This
is the burden of testimony from hundreds of
trained observers in the great swine -breeding
States of the West. The cause is not (11111.
milt to discover. The general shortness of
crops laSt year,' and 'consequent staroity and
high price of feed caused a tMeh to market
of stare hogs, breeding sows, and everything
of the swine family: Tile stock of females
was greatly theffiteetig and then the eal:ly
Spring Was &nip and,abol, -and the losses
were very heavy from disease thereby en-
gendered. So the general .stook will be
short, and /mites well Up, for some time to
.$ans; 11110155 Sehl
Sir ArthunHaliburton, the noWly appoint-
ed Assistant ,Under-Seeretary of State for
She English War Office, is the youngest son
of that famous old Nova Scotian, Judge
Thomas Ohandlerailiburton, sthose Sayings
ender the -pseudonym of 16311,1 Slick "have
'amused -more than ono generation of readers.
Sir Arthur, wascalled to the bar in Halifax,
but he abandoned the law for the army, and
served with the commissary departmentin
the Crimean War. no 1140 Stfle4 served with
distinction in various parts of the glebe, and
his home in London is filled with curios
eolleotod:by himself and Lady lialiburton.
Golorecl CoUstaney,
Two colored dandies were overheard in-
dulging in the following conversation•on tone
of the streets of a Texas Town •
"1 say, Jim, you doesn't coil around as
mush as yer uster at de house of 114iss Matti.
da 18nOruwthaltillH
Da,m, Julius, I °ailed ort her so
many thnes in dis hear close dab I'se afeerd
she will mispeot my wardrob'e am limited."
Pshaw, niggah,.r)1.1 ion fool. Joss keep
on goin' ter see heti jes' as you is, and den
she will be sure to take to you, bekase you
ars so unchanging in yottr suit. Utah
heals 1 heali 1"
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Her Timely Wit,
You are all the world to me V
" Quail Itinaido to Reboocit
When, like pilgrim unto Meow,
Ito bad Warmly, foryidly,,
Offered ot the sought -for shrine
Worship verging on divine,
" Little compliment in that"
She made another In derision—
" Vor you've oft, with marked precis.
Ion,
Told mo when al; eve WO'Ve Oat
With your arm about ma furled,
You oared nothing for Olc IYQVIO,"
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