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The Brussels Post, 1891-7-31, Page 71 ;Tri,v 31, 1801. Clefflosmo...mam.amegrawamscasaummwerommo Lath Foreign News KILLED BY LIGHTNING. A Desperate Murder in a German Prison. iensfee he Is 110121111 Party, Italy's ne kr war ehip Salele-gm will have the need powerful engines yet made -25,00 horse pewee. A ni %teem of postage Amines wee opened week before law. in Dreeelen ley Prince August us of 1125 1)21',. lip to dai e 7 I s,1180 Marks have been sub. meribed towards erecting 0 memorial church in honor of the Emperor Willieun 1, During the exereises of the infantry 1101r Weimar on Frieley and Saturday last forty were etuporuek, four killed outright, and nine pavelyzed. The °filmes are severely blamed for exposing the troops needlessly to such danger. Since the 1eprinese have bad war ships they hare berm experimenting with laoquee as a protection to the bottoms with mew- vellously satisfactory results, The Fuse - Kan, after having been lacquered for a year, was foend to be in perfect, condition The pethent population of Halsingfors, the capital of Fienland, is 39,647, of whom 20,- 737, are Finns and 29,860 are Swedes. Lest yetor there were only 14,479 Finns and 23,049 Swedes. The dimmiAing of the proportion of Swedes in Halsiugfors is due to the progressive Russianization of Finnland. A telegram, dated Budapest, Tuesday, says despatch from Losing, in the Oldenburg district, shawl that 18 field labourers having been overtaken by a thun- derstorm, sought shelter by the side 01 42 hayrick, which was immediately aftei win ds streek by lightnieg. Three of the men were killed on he spot, Oie others being stunned by the electrie discharge. ',reel] dissensions have broken out among ehe German Socialists. The younger men continue to denounce the moderate pro. gramme proposed by the party. There was a stormy meetieg of the Berlin section of the Socialists last night. Herr Babel defied and ridiculed the extremists. Those who pre- ferred street fighting.to orderly legislation were entitled to thew opinions, but must form their own party to carry them out. One of the greatest obstacles to the settle. ment of vast regime ie Africa hos been the tsetse fly. Although harmless to auto, 11 civilized anitnale die from its bile in two or three days A inan of Nand has discovered a remedy for the poison in which he has euch confidence that he has contracted to ro rry the Port -Noose military stores through the tabooed districts on bulleck. Thepotato crop having failed in eastern Prussia, the merchants combined to raise prices. They have been attacked in mese. queen° in many villages, and broken heads and frequent arrests aro the consequences. The magnate sato emphatic, and complaints loud and deep are mode of their conduct. Count Bismarek•Bohlen is an exception. He is buying abroad and selling at cost prices. For years there was a beggar ott the steps of Saint Selpice with a hump which steedlly grew. A few months ago ho was taken ill, and in deliriums jumped out of a window and wets killed. A neighbor who picked him up epee investigating his hump fonnd 11211.1 11 contained $20,000 in bonds and coin. Finding that the beggar had two relatives to whom he had left his fortune by will, the finder sent the money to them, with the ex- eeption of $1,000. The relatives discovered this fact, and after prosecution for theft the num in question was condemned to two yearsimprisonment. The Russian Ministry of the Interior is considering a project to put all drug stores under the monopoly of the Government. Should this project be approved the people will get thew medicines at cheap rates, and the Government, charging 0513 10 per cent. profit on drugs; will be able to keep two saltoried physicians in every drug shop to treat poor invalids gratuitously. The Russian Mining Departments of the Ministries of Imperial Property and of the In - tater have sent three engineers to Americo tc study the methods by width gold is worked ont in the mines of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, California, and Utah. The yield of the Russian gold mines has been very poor 11 late, and the rising of the Russian velues in the foreign markets has made the mining of gold almost unprofitable, It is believed that the introduetion of American methods of milling will improve the -miner's trade. A. further installment of the diary of the lath Emperor Frederick is published. It is crowded with proofs of the kindliness and manliness of the ill-starred Emperor. After the battle of Trautenau, on the 29th of June, 1860, the parish priest, Pransnitz, prayed that the blessings of heaven fall on their new master, the King of Prussia, striking out of the service the name of the Emperor of Austria. Frederick, then Crown Prune, makee a note of the priest's servility, and says be 0119111 to bang on the gallows for it. Many pessilees- in the diary deplore the ne- cessity of bloodshed. Dove:Woes from the Cemeroons, West Africa, armour's° that Dr. Zintgraff, who has been exploring the interior, bas been repeatedly repulsed by the natives. He has himself been badly wounded and Ids forces wee demoralized. Tho colonial press iesisti thel: the Government take 115. 11021421 measures in view of ayeneral unlike ing, which would be more serious there than in the East Africa, the natives being bettor formed. A waterspout burst over the city of Brunswick recently, and spent its force on the famous museum containing a gallery of pem tinge of the greatest mestere and a superb collodion of classical antiquities and works of art. The bending was parti- ally unroofed ; weter poured in in terrente, and many unique pleturee and other works were ruined. or badly demaged. The loss is inealculable. The institution has been closed for repairs, whieh will take a month or more to complete. A "Moscow dully seyer "The cbistrueeiott of small Mr& in large numbers is a peolleable trade, but it is not devoid of bad conse- quences for the agricultural regions. Along the lines of the Razru-Kozlov and Orley -Gees railroads dead and live birds are shipped by the ton thousands for their leathers or as songsters, and in thoth thefts various kinds of Meseta and worms multiply curresponding. ly and destroy the Moils of the orchards mod kitchen gardens. In several districte in Blototerinoslov a lively trade is carried on with the skins of magpies ;and there rats and field mice are multiplying rapidly and deedroy the crops of grein. Although Rus- sia &bounds With birds of all kinde, the destruction of the birds ise net carried on with impunity. Between Belthath and Forgan, in Central Asia, is a large stretch of land known as Golednn,ya Step (the Henget pr(2irie), 111 11425 ht.. The soil of this steppe is of 04,01. lent quality, bet it, 'Rieke irrigation, The lieeenon Government has made attempts to irrigate this 0511, and momot millions of ro- 11100 in digging eanithi 121111 artesian walla in various Mold i 10e2 but, on becount of the melees proepecting e1 the engine/we and imperfect ar1 angemen le needle foe the Meth). Int/ of the 8111, all these attempts MVO fall. ed, 140(1 011010101' Um Al in islet' of Fineeffiere on his tom 10 Central Mho, inade a personal ; impeetion of the (ffilffilmoye Step and of the abendened woelno of irrigation there, lie noted Mom ceorefully what heel been done, and wlutt, ilecording 141 11(2 opinion of expert ! might be done to 2)1)111211(1 211, 01.4)15) 10 fer• tility, Receetly he unheated to the (10)'. (40550)0(1 to plan foe the irrigation uf the whole region, propming to utilize convict labor for the purpom, 1 Lim plan was meepte ed, and work will soon begin from the (010 01210' etation of liooyluke, eight versts (about one and a quartet' miles) from the military station of Taelikent. A laborer named Iffisch, who murdered a family of four peewee at Nenhol, near (1 n is- tron, was confinell in the prison at, the, hotter place, and proved au exceedingly difficult men to handle. He repeatedly tried to eseape from the jail, and was finally placed in irons, a warden being Motioned 111 the cell to wetoli him. The prisoner, by dint of persuasion and holding out visione of 014. 101(1 wealth by a career of burglary, inclined the warden to assist him to escape and 10 acOompany him. The overseer, Hoppe, was surprised the other morning to see the two ;nen creeping through corridor armed with iron bars, Finding they had been discover. ed they boldly attacked the overseer, knocked him down, and began beating him to death with tbe Iron bees. Hoppe, how- ever, clung to Busch, although the warden kept battering at his , head. The nois8 aroused the other officers, help came, and Busch and the false warden wore overeonie and heavily ironed. It is doubtful whether the overseer will recover. Maggie. The mother of the family was an invalid, and there were so many little helpless chil- dren and only Maggie to do for them all It was Maggie here and Maggie there, from nun n to night, and often the sick mother would lie and &lifer rather than ask for what she needed and so increase the haste and worry of the little housekeeper. For Maggie was only a child -a little girl who had learned to work instead of to play, who when other children were amusing 0040150140e with dolls was bathing her sick mother's fevered head, and keeping the home still. There had been no eahool room nor ploy house for her, y015110 had somehow learned to read, and it was the aim of her young life to send all these other children to school, as she know her father would have demo if he had prospered. And to keep home so bright that he 00108 contented with it, to make an altar in the sick room around which all the family should meets at night - this was the work of little Maggie. It was not easy week, nor pleasant work, and except that she had unseen help to bear her through, little Maggie would have fallen by the wayside long before her work was accomplished. For sometimes when die little troublesome children were asleep, and the sick mother settled for the night, Mng en sat 1100011 at the window and "took a spell of thiuking." She wondered why some people should be born 010)1, 2111(1 others poor ; why some should do nothing and others everything; what it was to know all about the world, to be a line lady, and wear Mee drosses, and sail away. in a grand ship, as the had seen them do m piateres. And she looked tit the moon and stars, and wished sho knew if 'Heaven really did lie on the other side. Then always a stern human voice broke in on her dream, and it told her to go to sleep, for she must get up again in the morning, ready for work. When Maggie was 12 years old all her dreams aawie true A grand ship of state was sent to bear her to a distant comitry, where she could wear beautiful clothes, and learn all that she 41(2010(1 10 know. It sailed away with her to the Blessed Isles, and as ber friends attiv her face for the last time, they knew she was forever happy. But her work, her influence, are still hero. In the house where she lived she still exists. Not as a memory, but as a precious presence. For you will hear there all day long her name repeated in tones of loving remem- brance. "Maggie used to do so and so 1" "Maggie said we must do this ; " " Maggio said God would hear Mt Say our prayers when she was gone ; " "Maggie said if we were good we would go to her some day." And the stricken mother, when appealed t settle some vexin g question, answers humbly and lovingly : "Do as you think Maggie would have you." Is this not the perfeot epiritualism that challenges no critielem, the living influence of the ministering anuel who still controls the household she has raft 1 No stone marks her grave at Woochnere, but she herself erected a monument whose tops shall malt the skies : 'To livo In hearts we leave behind Is not to die." The recent illness of the Hon. filr. Glad- stone, Which by the way was less severe than at first anuounced,• has led the Now York Becord6r to enquire as to what will happen When the G. O. M." shell!' Move 'I ehullied off this mortal eoil." After al- luding -to the olotongee that have conies over the veteran- stateernan'a political 0911(10(18 during the course of his except:lona* lengthened patiliementary career, and to the hoot that though Ito is the inost, deepieed inion in all England by those who live in the serene alimosphere of privilege and oast°, Mr. Gladstone has done more than any other to savO the throne nue' the Chetedi from the attacks of Mime radicals from whom the Church and the throne load every. thing to dread, tile Reeoeder continues : "After Gladstone -what? Who will take his place 1 He is a commander•ineffiffif with - opt generals, a leader wiehottt lieutenants Hastington played at leadership, invoking Forty fealty with the prestige of tt proud and noble name. The voice of Glachitone wag heard, and nothing remained for his Lordehip but hie hoeses and his hoends, Harcourt is a good all-around swashbucklee, O loind of Disraeli in dough ; Morley is an tooademiciare and lectures the House ; Trevelyan has hard, Scotch, unsympathetic sense ; Roseberry is among the Lords and Dilice in the limbo of soeial ostraeitim. Who 1011 bond the bow that these aged and ' withering arms lay down. Twenty • lastlea I earambling to the trent; 2001(211(1 1110 De51113e! brook row ; radicalism learning the steps of "Coe bra" and tho Carmagnole ; twoney leaders with more or less head-rathee loss than morci-penting for the oomenend, After Gladstone --what ?" To ntl of these Ties - timings thin reply is evert, a reply the truth of Which history has again and again confirmed ." There never leas the hoer without the man, Gladetone may go, as Chatham, Pith and Peoi have gone. Anoth- er hour will come, aucl 1110 181(211 likewise Will lead it." THE BRUSSELS POST, FLOWERS TAT TRAP SLOTS; A nd eege 11•114:4 eirrtg.!tp eat tet 1 (ewe A new epeelee of vegetable whiekey shop been edeled to the welleetion eff plant earos es it t it, 1 ng on au eit $8, ,,,j.1„m iti h 11' i 11 t I Garden, Ile liquor it dieting in the piteher. ! of these eel raerelinetry plane( wliese 11010410 1 HO 124 112 t ritilMiltl. a portion of the 11011011 121 1 ELBA RKABLB TREAOH.ERY. Ithe stigma. Idiekily this neourei often .. ..... enough to perpetuate the plaid. whew 14 Nihilist Cali 1)0, , Some kinds of orchids imitate to the life 1 .1.11), „„,„„,,,,,,,,,„ ,,1 21,23 Niiii1142, 1,„g,,,„,r, ,11015, butterflies, and moths'ap parentlY 1,12e in eoh Repletelitfor tile 11221 teler eel Send halite, thp e purpose ,IF attraetiag (1 esti Weems,n „-„, tho t„;,;„1„,,.. e„, „I- !oh, deeoy (levee p5111,01)110. r,biect, 0114;e1 110 a lira+ dull X111111.1 over ran. 111 011 %'01ll14 ago liegaief reeee f 'apt toile .of / gimped receptaelem that ffieeg 111 81 owl .0eunierfeit with ,11,,,,,,444 toads, is especially liked by frogs, 1,vhich hop into; huge spiderm, and other animals. There ie theme thane for the inerpoele of eirin Mug it. one wee.), 9,-„,„;„ 1„, e„ „1,„„ „I! „ 1111111 AI though the meet fluid is pooveri haziging ley the 1, 53'.)!, and :mother t hat epene in tux Want, the 21121012111(l 111134"11102') 110w. land shoWs beitiltifill dove in ion enelosure Mule eon t again were it em that two ver3: A. book inlielet he made of the freak 1.1121410 1411 1111,! ly overffitimuleted, would ear! IY ref petals. elms!, ,Iseger.it Ice therm project. elownwarit , of Leo world. from the lip uf the vessrl 121 Hutt') a manner !constrictor of Iii.1,1t,rein11000101111eu‘Seigleata!'•I'I'111111Tid", that Mr, Frog in trying ie ()seep() le thruet climber,' which twinee about great Inc through the body ley them at every leap 114211 1111111 presenty ha i'alls detot in the " sTitm,a.i.Ls TB To PS .1 011, refreshment appropriete object leeson; ;hat ;;;;ay (11.1ay, fall in, anil often leave It" nlit ("at "re8-wh"afq"'" the empty towel' of clinibere standing erect. plant absorbs his substance, 118 din ordinary /a sand; America ow1,0 ;a a „ 00w, whislooy shop consumes that of its f requen ter, and 10 1111(0 supported. This species ie tropioal and 1100 to be kept, In the greenhouse devoted to plants of the equatorial belt. Naturally there are no feogs in the Vonservatary, and so Superin- tendent Smith id obliged to feed lens FICCENT1210 vntisTABLE with raw meat (hopped fine, on which it thrives excellently. For lack of insects likewise ho supplies with the Name artificial susteneonee the other sorts of whiskey. shops that find in bugs of various descriptions their chosen prey. They will all eat beef, although each variety seems to have in nature its particular line of customers, one capturing cockroaches, another ants, and so on. Doubtless they all could live ou any animal food, but there seems to be a differ- ence of taste among the insects as to the liquors. One species will only touch the drink served by a certain representative of this carnivorous plant faintly ; another seleetS by preference a difl'erent brew, and so on. Thus but one sort of bug is ordin. (oily found in each set of pitchers those de. signed for the acoommodation of large beetles and cockroaches being as big as small shoos. It is very curious to cut open one of these vessels after it has become withered and dead, being merely formed at one end of the leaf, and to flnd what a Wen - aerial collection cif victims it bus gathered in and not finally digested, often numbering meny hundreds, if the prey iS small. The whole structure of each trap beyond measure curious, the inner surface of some coated with little bristles that project down - over(' and prevent the guest so hospitably received f rom walking out again. This is particularly a feature of what the superin- tendent calls the vegetable login. beer saloons, which prepare a liquor of much less intoxi- cating quality in tall chalice.shaped vessels instead of pitehers, depending upon drown. ing their customers rather than upon making them so drunk that they cannot get away. A deplorroble thing it seems, by the way., to find such bad habits prevalent among bugs, the opinion having been always hold that only mon, the moat noble of animals, had a right to indulge in vices to the elaboration and invention of which he has given 00 1150011 attention. bo far 01 000 be ascertained, no analysis over been made of the liquore dispensed by these veg etable 9111 11111)0, chiefly owing to the fact that such an experiment would involve a very difficultproblem organiechemistry. It is known, however, that the strongest of 1118112 contain a large proportion of alcohol. Persons hard up for stimulants have often achieved a istAnttrst OP InToXicATion which 91000 (1111112 that id shown by chemical analysiu to be of edema exactly the same compositim as that of the 0014', which it re- sembles to perfection in appearance and quality, tasting like sweet cream. Deep in the swamps and Millets of the Island of Formosa groove a plant the stems of which are filled with a line whi to pith. This pith is cut, by the Chinese into thin strips and ie called rice paper." Bodies of the dead suspended within bellows of the " baobab " tree thao grows in Africa are transformed into mummies for all eternity without further process of embalmment. On the elevated barren plains west of the Volga grows a plant closely resembling a lamb, which was said by travellers of ohl to bend from the stalk upon which it could turn and feed upon the herbage about it, but when the gnoss died 11 perished from hungcr. 'the likeness referred to is note= o be denied though its death when the grass dries up is due to the same cause that kills the other vegetation, namely, drought. How to Dress the Children. Your baby and mine wants to tbink of summer time OA the beautiful period of the year when the flowers and the grass spring up in answer to the invitation of the sun, when the skies are blue and the sun is so golden; when the birds ewe siuging because the waves are dancin.g eo brightly ; when everything In nature is happy and baby is, too. No smell person cae be happy W110 15 uncomfortable in her clothes ; and no small person can see any pleasere in life 11 10 hes nice." to sit up primly on the chair and " leek How to dress the little girl? Put on her a gingham frock, smocked if you like, intode with a full skirt, not long enough to let her stmnble 0000 10, and yetnot short enough to look like a hall to her bodice. Peit on her a thin, cool pair of drawers and one petti- coat, a little bodice that both of these tire guttoned to, a pair of block stockings and to pair of shoes that are soft, suffidently large, without heels anti comfortable. 1 say " without heels," and yot 1 1120011 that where the heel usually is there should be sufficient thickening of the sole to be of as much as the ordinary heel is to you or me, Put on her a big hat that will keep the sun from her eyes, and, so matter if you do sacrifice beauty to comfort, braid her hair and get it out of the way. Then let her go out with shovel and bucket, and dig for diamonds and find wriggley worms and queer bits of wood and funnyfflolored stones, and never come across a single diamond excepe that Kohinoor among them -good health. You can give as many gingham gowns as you like, but don't make the prom by swallowing the cvntents of a few 01 1126 little dot's life unhappy by scolding her pitchers, which sometimes hold more than 0 for getting emu" mid dust on her clothes, gunner 01 12 pint each, without bothering and don't scorn, for one single minute, all about the insects in the fluid. Why may it the marvelous weeds that she may designate not be that from this origin the term " bug as flowers end brieg to you as the result of juice " is derived 1 How appropriately is her morning's work. 01 000080, if you are such a bovetiage adapted to the convivial staying whore it is cooler, a flannel petticoat uses of the tropitrol tranop, Nr11 0, while pule lent be required, and under ony eireme suiug his leisurely trovels van pluck his stances 111 10 just as well to have them along drinks by the way side 1 with you, for 3eou don't know when they A novelty at the Botanic Gardens is a will be needed. plane whose leaf bears a remarkably well If there ie anything nice in this world, it executed eerie:atm° of the Duke of %Veiling. is a boy about five years old who thinks 110 ton, all done in the minim ; but in the in- knows all ebout the country, Moving been tenet of visitors it does pot seriously rival there for two weeks, end who is willing to either the " mother-in-law plant," a scrap .netruat you in the ways and manners of of which swells up your tongue so that yoe birds, pigs, dogs and horses, He is still in cannot speak for flays, or the famous skirts, but there is to reason in the world "butcher plant" of Maryland, that los, in- why his skirts should not be comfortable steed of leaves, so many pairs of toothed ones, and why they should not be limited to jaws that close upon any insect venturing one. Dress him like a little man whose life between to get lot the bait within, this summer is going to be blissful. A wise This "butcher plant," which eroWs no- mother has bought a quantity of blue flannel, where in the world save in the vicinity of light in weight and not expensive, and of Wilmington, N. C., suffer for its carnivorous this there lofts been made tiny little pairs of habits, being 22014101110 victim of indigestton, knickerbockers, kilt skirts, and shirt waists. Hach stomach trap, having used up niost of Some are a little finer than others, having the gastric juice which it secretes in digest- cults with white feather.stitching and sailor ing the first living prey naught, usually finds collars with authors on them, but these will the second victim it captures disagree with he reserved for special 000/4810118. I3ut my 11, and the third it is enable to assimilate little gentleman eau have hie kniekerbock. satisfactoeily. Thee the trap turns from ers put on, hiskiltand hisblouse, and nothing green to brown and dies, like any leaf, °Hoer underneath them but a calico shirt ; he wears fresh ones developing meanwhile to take up with them dark -blue stockings. These the work of gobbling. After all, this greedy flannels wash as well as If tlie were cotton, vegetable is not nearly so bred as the ' cruel for the first washing given them is very plant," as it is called, whose flowers wan- careful, and they do not shrink. The hat tonly capture unseepecting butterflies that to be worn is a big blue sailor one that could alight to sip honey, and hold them 0111111 stand being lef b out all night, and thesummer they 000 (101011, when the grasp of the nth. dew Would not hurt it. less petals is relinquished Mod the luckless "011 1" says somebody who adores pie. visitor is dropped on this ground, turesque children, "1200 there to bane pretty - Plants even employ insects 00 111010 ear- clothes?" My dear soul, these clothes are vents in the work of reproduoing their spe- pretty. They are suitable and they lore wee- ders, paying them wages in honey. Most fortable, and when Jack and Me.0gy come in vegetables combine the two sexes in one from playing? end Mergy's gown is decorated flower ; but breeding " in and in " 10 110 with studies in black and white the vesult of more healthy for them then 11 18 far animals a great desire to soo hoov tile rocAs of the trees One blossom must marry with another if the look, and Jack's kilt is rather off color ito its miracles is to be continued in to. healthy way. appearance because he has been out in wheat So young Mr Honeysuckle drosses himself with the inan who goes after the crabs, and in a spring suit of bright yellow and ho has brought yeti home some seaweed and rnart/mUS 111-.010101fi n01,1Clous2.1, a ehoice collection of clam shells, there won't a siglt arise ; bet you mut greet your little lovers with a laugh, trot them off to be fresh• ened up and put in now clothes that, except foe thew oletmlinessare exactly lilt° the ones jusb taken off. If, when going to church, /tweet liquor, but In doingsoshe cannot avoid glial ergyetoviritti to whiteoOktit) ilqi tut le c kfinnecer b, tteolitl acsir k ibelt getting some of the pdlen on her head, thissheeareiesto another homysuckle where shirt and fleeing white collar. Then he may mud and little outoway jaaket, showieg a white she stripe for et second bit of refrodoment, have bleak steoltiegs, patent -leather shoes its stigma. Thus is accomplished the Inas- and a white strew Sailor Wi th abroad blue incidentally rubs off tome of the pollen upon Hoge of the flowers. ribbon tobont it, As for Mergy, she can have But the bee is the Cupid of the vegetable h, pale -blue 'zephyr made just like her every - world, to whom is assigned meet of this '11' lg.:78%0171 bileaiantsjilsyncIdoelkziolfraileileplonn. tuareying and giving in marriage amorig the blossoms, There is one kind of orchi ; trial like bee dress. She min wear her best ;that depends altogether for the cent intan.,06 aOlt stoekings, and patentdeather shoes of its species upon flights among 1 m ith buckles on them, and yeti will have two a, moral delinquency on their pm t itIng.ay re of the noose pieteresque•looking people who said to owe its survival entirely. The icetals over sincerely sold " amen" in the Wrong Of eaoh of its flowers are 00 bent as to form a palotete14, ialynd, ttheal(t1 syoomn af tar wards, very eon ft- ;sort of little tunnel, and to got at the honey and it wasn'tpolitc6DloYsSily"o'gultied in church 1 a boo must go ire at ono end or the othat. lf little people , nailing interferes it will never come 1 11 eons so they will have a good time; and when they tact with any of the pollen, Ma 110W and 1g1r001rataqycsthoy Will ever remember the sinn. Ithem it happens Diet it, meets another boo which has entered from the other side, During the last ton days the heat 1140 1 Then there is e fight, and ill the scrimmage boon alinost unprecedented in 0010)1118 the combatants got bounced around end ate 80001'01 &Atha from heat a plexy have oe. covered with the reproductive powder, muted in Calcutta, and 9° the treenway ; However, in order to accomplish enything, oompremy have 11a,d Over a InIndred horSetl 011001 theee bees mon go off mol heve the struck amen hy the sun, a largo proportion I , Sallie sorti of fight in another orchid blossom, of tho eases ending fatally. for the purpose of attracting the gRy better. iliesthed. {lettere-round. also provides a small store of nectar in a golden cup to offer anyinseetguestthatinuoy 00111011 is way. Pres. ently a butterfly valises to take a eip of the I • • 1 t'ntllosIol 0', well edema eel, fuel ;lie' ...relive ffiel. 4508 1111 ideallot awl .2 111 ne heliever 112 11111i004 of the state ef 21114110111 inolnril 1121(111, lit: was i2241 4 [(('1121 Nibiliet, but lie 101 112 Mtn all 111,9 material) men .Nileilists are ! mule, bit' slo wly and natiirally in 1 o ' the somety of radicals, 1211.1 1400.11ne steadily , twee e‘t reale Ili 1,214 rad; Elea' views, 1111 12 (nue, It holt he 1,nte.1 hineelfat ilut bowl 1(1 21 f•onvii .Ir`y against the life of tbe, Czar. The vete-Tim ey 503.4 trisenrel ell, 1111 thf1 conspir, atop, were arrested, aud Degitiet 01118 von. 110101110,1 to Ilk without a whimper. Three dive before the 11J? ,11 11PTLI, 11 14 dote eat for exeoutiug him the door of his cell woo opened te mina Soudielkin, whom Degnief reeounieed immediately 20 1111 old 01141 long.forgot ten comrade in arms. ''11)10' are You, 0111 fellow 1" said the Chief. For a 11101;10M Degaiel felt liepe, then relaxed i»to 11 State of resignation, and answered, " My last opportunity to speak for myself, isn't it 1" " No comrade," 4008 the reply. '1 bring to you the pardon of the Czar." " 'What 1 What 2 fleet' he empires from me some service in return, " Nothing at all. You are free, unconditimally free. Come home with me and wo will talk abont it." Degaief went. In his study Soucliniken said-" Yon know 0000141 friendship. Well, that saved you. 1 went to the Czar and in0 threaded for you, giving my word of bonen that, if freed, you would quit your old ways, I have the good fortune to enjoy I he rear's confltlence, and he granted me the life of my friend." Dageoief stink 13 TEARS AT Tun elilltr's FEET, and protested his determination never again to make common cause with the Nihilists. The chief continued :-" What do you expeet to do 11010 1 Your return to the army is impossible. 102211 offer you my secre taryship, with salary enough to pay tor you e daily bread. You will be, 10 0(080 you accept this, a member of the secret police and my right-hand man. Go home, think about it, and decide 1010001 umlue attention to my advice." Full of gratitude, Degaief hasten- ed te enlist in the service of the chief, He put his head, heart, and hand In his work. He pursued his old eolleagues day and nigh. .Nineteen Nihilists were brought by him to death, and scores were sent through his in- fluence to Siberia. Degaief obtained the fell confidence of his elitif. Souffleikin hacl estimated him correctly in everything save his seseeptibility to the pangs of remorse. Degaief could not forget his old Rtodieal tell -denies, The scorn of lois former col- leagues scorched him till ho 000..» 11100112010 Tun e.tt:V 100 1,010n120. He went one evening 00 the house of 0. Ni- hilist leader, and swore by his revolutionary past to do anything required by the revelm Homey party es the condition of his rein- statement, ''Kill Soudieikin," said the Nihilist leader. Degaief requested (1(27 112 which to think over this suggestion. Twenty • four hours later he promise(' to murder the man who saved his life. Soudieikin (nem pied lodgings in several quarters of St, Petersburg. Every eveuing, however, he met Degaief le the third story of a modest clwellingfflouse, occupied otherwise only by small tradesmen who knew nothing of the identity of their fellow tenant. Here, Degaief decided, the Chief of the Secret Police milst die. Two Nihilists took 000510 00 the third floor in the next house, and with the outside refill adjoining the outside well of Sentinel - kill's eipartments. Dering the day time, when Sondiefflin 4000 01,001101 for three weeks the consphators laboriously. SPRATtliti) AND NUM AwAv brick end mortar between them and their vietine Not a blow was struck, not a frill - moot was ent The powder from the walls was carried off in the pockets of Degaief's accomplices. At last only to thin sheet of plaster and paper seperatlfel them front the Chief's study. On the night of the murder Degaief and the man who had saved his life sot together at the study desk, Degaicif let fall a heavy paper weight, the Wall was burst in with to blow from a hammer, and the three Nihilists sprang upon Soudierkin. For ton minutes all tour men struggled up and down the eeom'and then the chief was struck down dead by Dogaief. Half an hour later the Nihilists in disguise left the neigh- hourhood and hurried off to announce theie deed to 0 company of waiting revolutionists in a far-off basement. The murder was dis- covered on Hie next afternoon. Shortly afterwards Degaief's accomplices wore ar- rested, but as they were only his oreatures they were let off with a life 06)1101100 10 hard labour in Siberia. Degaief aoullil not be found, tolthough his portrait wee scattered over the length and breadth of Russia-, and high rewards were offered for the capture of hien, alive or dead. Eight years later, while attempting to enter Russia, with falsepasses he has been overtaken by retribifflon, All this is not the fairy tale told by 00120 haters or Nihilists haters. 21 10 the plain, unadorn- ed narrative of the Russian courts, in which the details of this remarkable crime have been revealed. Compressed Tea. Tablet ten, is manufactered at Ilankew in factories belonging to Russian firms there. 11 18 made of the finest tea dust procurable. The seleutlon of the duet is the work of skilled expel Ls ; the oas1 of the dust varies from 10c1. o pound upward. This (hist is manufactured into tablets by steam machin. ery. About two onnees and a half of dust are poured into 0 steel monld on a steel cylinder. The dust is poured in dry with- out steaming, and the pressure brought to bear is two tons per tablet. Great (ewe is required in the ennenifinture and packing , of tablet tea, end the cost 10 comparatively high, The tablets lore wrappedfirst in tinfoil, ; then in expansive and attractive paper I wroppere, nenl fieally packed bi timlined eaSes for export to Bessie. The tea, it is stated, losses none of its flavor by being 1 vested into Roblets, rood, as tablet tea is only one-sixth of the bulk of leaf tea, (lis , most convenient for travelers, and also for, impothing into the remoter regions of , Russia, The inorease in the export of tea dust from Ilankow to 726,720 lb. in 1890,! from 140,033 lb, in 1889, is deo to the feet that while Indien itricl Ceylon tees nth oust- ing Chine tea from the British market, many consumers, being accustomed to the flavor of China tea, wish for it, To moot this demand grOcerS 1.188 China tea dont to flavor 1110 1121111210 tea. All the tea dust exported gees to Great Britain, Lately a now oants mod ly has mine on the Hankow market, to which the ellstoms give the Immo of leg tem It is au inferior tea with stalks packed in the shape of loge, which weigh from 8 lb, to fi0 Ib. "each log, The tea is wrapped in the leaves of the Bandatsn lOOilOUSl, ancl then re. (bleed in bulk by binding round the log with lengths of split bamboo, NIAGARA FALLS TO -DAY, r WI Increasing ttruetiven r 8 f the Wondv The surroundings Pleasanter Tlnin Ever - All Parses Aeentaniodated Whet Dors lit Co.( t The Niagara Falle of treelay is a far more claiming and inviting moot than at any 1 liar 111 the Iasi thirey years It is probably pleasanter them at any LIMO 1511408 it litaakino a remorl ; lull 1 speak from niy own experi- eu...e, whteli eovten 1110r titan a quarter - mute ry frequetet visits 0), the place. The changcs for lic better began with the m - em vation, when the State of New York and the therinion of Caned& bought the lands mob on its own side of the Cat.araet. The reign of the pirate tied highway robber mused 111011 end there. It hail been grow- ing steadily ovorse, and even the men who shared in the spoils saw min in the man- tle Meth. The extortions bad hammy a by- word and reproach, aud the Canadian peo- ple do not like to be swindled. They spend money with the greatest imaginable reek- lessnees, provided they get something for it. The something may be (291050 extrava- game, but so long (08 14 in not a cheat they ovill not murmur. The reform saved the falls as a resort, The place is recovering all its old. time popularity, and it is " eime place 10 90 to," as the 1011100 8123'. Speaking of spending money, one eon get: rid of as much or as little as one pleases. The h igh and holy privilrge of being 0001101n - load Or 115 extravagant as une desires remains. There are hotels from five dollars a day down One very pleasant betel °harems fifty emits Le meal and fifty cents for lodging ; but if you go to the four -dollar aud five -dollar plueell you get food and accommodations that are worth the money. There 180 cook at ope of the big houses who serves good savory food, and the rooms are large, cool and pleasant. So,too, with seeing the sights. For fifteen cents one can travel all about the American aide of the falls and the walking is free. A. dollar will Carry One person in comfort to all the interesting spots on both sides of the falls and many persons succeed ia spending ten or fifteen dollars in doing he same thing. An elegant victoria or lamina will cost five dollars for half.a.day, but yon ean get a cheapee carriage for half that money. If one gets the beet it is plea 01211101', of course. Ali of us enjoy a beau11- fel, easy carriage, handsome horses end a polite, well-trained ile thee, The luxury is agreeable to anybody. But if one does not care to spend the money, the cheap- er weep; arc entirely comfortable. Here Na table of expenditures for one who was extra- vagant, the time being twenty.four hours and the visitor arriving at his hotel by a five -minutes' walk from the railroad station : 0: I3oaril 005 (1)51' 9 Carriage ,1l'10'0,,1l'10'0, evening 4 Carriage, all morning 5( Whirlpool, American side Whirlpool rapids, Canada side Crossing bridges 00 rents for elevator) 5 060000°005g GmenT4:111:\ 01:1 trailpis 0002(2( 121 811o1 (second trip, "for fun 00 Silly purchases, because the 913009124511wore interesting and the attendants were polite. fees for waiters end money otherwise wasted 0.8 Total (13 That is the way about twenty dollars can take its flight. Now this is the way another man spent Isis money (luring the day from 8 A. atl: 10 5 P. M., having come to the falls by one of the many excursions Around Goat Island. with several stops., 35 1)11(1 01 the Mist trips and elevator. lid New suspension bridge 25 Horse ear faro down the river and back10 Whirlpool rapid,: fie Good dinner. , , 60 92 10 The trip on the Mehl of the Mistis good fun, but it does not help one see the falls, and loony be omitted wi thou , practical loss. The whirlpool rapids are not eeceesary to 12 full impression of the falls, aud by omenit- Line these two trips actual expenditeres are 111.6 -tight doWil under a dollar. There are people who stay a week, flnding plenty to see every day and managing to get rid of a ton -dollar bill every twenty-four hones and still avoidhog extravagance. The point of the matter is this : That you are privileged to cut your garment to Ster might be written upon t:it 0\I:lohelh oiglncaoir°uitla. so Arouriosities at the falls. They no longer beseige you on romantic paths or interriipt you when apostrophising theglor- ies of Nature. They are not permitted On the Governmeat reservations, either side of the river, and confine themselves to their shops or the stands at the entrance to the rapids elevators. They do not make you huy ; In fact, most of them are young WO - men Who wouldn't harm a fly. But they get you just the same, having a persuasive amiability that ann ue more be denied than the spray from the falls. Teere is riever 12 suggestion of anything but 12(000105 to please, to make you enjoy yourself, with the heart- iest sort of sympathy for you and your plea- sures. But, a* remarked before, they get there justthe same. The whirpool rapids are visited by nearly everybody, and the sight is assuredly equal to 1213( 421 the falls. The whirlpool itself hae, however, ceased to be 01)11951110 attraction. The 019111 10 interesting, and the top of the cliff can be reached either by oarrlageOr (with in two blocks, 01631,1 113 horse car, lint there ere over 600 steps to be token to reach the surface of the river where the real scene is ahme visible, and the stairs are neither safe nor eonvenient. leew persons go down and the whielpool is no 1011900 a favorite point for visitors. In ita place is a wonderfully interesting journey by rail along the face of the cliff learn just below the whirlpool to Lewiston. The trams leave hoerly, 011,1 Lho trip may be recomtnended for those who stay More than a day at the Ms. The falls are always disappointing at first. They look so exactly like the pictures that one fails to appreciate their gratcleur. Then the impression strengthens, end afterward it steadily grows in power, The fascinetion sometimes fairly becomes a terror, holding one bound to the place and suggesting the splendoe of a grand plunge with the roaring waTtrosroinuteholiornagwfallelaopv.ely drives to be taken all around the falls for those who have the time to spend. On the Canadian side, a little removed from the sightseer, the country is pretty and the houses and people quaint anti peculiar. Glorions stinsets are a feature, and for thelastforthigh t lung drives from, say, quarter to 7 until (Mader to 0 in the evening have been mire delight. The Peer and the Washerwomen. The spectacle of a peer entertainffig ti, party of washerwomen with tea and buns was witnessed at the public bar of the ammo of Centimes on :Monday. Lord Aber- deen Was the entertainer, and his guests Wore a deputation whetted come to Westmins iter to interview members about their griev- meas. The ladies were dispose(' to be shy and retiring et first., but the Democratic Earl contrived to put tho, at their eaS0 ; aria, having done so, left them to disarm their tea alone.