The Brussels Post, 1891-8-28, Page 2LYIN DON
OF HIGH CLIFF
a—el
esali OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY,
C, Dasesath, Author of " When the Tide was High," "The Artist ana the
"Into a LD•Vger Roont," Ete,
CHAPTER XXI.
CXM:1,vsze.w.
They were married, very quietly, not on
the folio -wing day, for Mr. Stanhope, who
was more prudent than his wife, would not
hear of such haste ; so letters were sent to
gaglandi relating what had happened, and
lettees were received book again, full of con.
grathlations to the yoang people, and
thanks to the Starthopes, before any decided
atop was taken.
We can imagine, bet it is difficult to de-
scribe, our little fatty's amazement when
ithe heard that while she hail been hiding
from her faunae, a fortune which made hr
rich was lying at bottle, in the hands of
trustees, for her use.
How this fortune had come, neither of
them knew, Percy betng as vague on the
subject as she was.
He referred her to Colonel Lyndon for
explanation. As Colonel Lyndon wee in ling -
lain], 011 Letty could do was to write to him,
thanking him, with all her heart, for the
interesthe had taken in her, begging him to
forgive her, if lair rtionivz away had vexed
him, and eskiheo IthowhoW the change in
her en cuinstatiees had come about.
To this Laty received toot answer, as soon
as the answer ceuld reach her, mei the letter
contained a sum of money that mutual her.
It was the interest for eighteen months on
twenty thousand pounds, which sum, the
colonel said, had been lyiug in his hands for
her since the winter she left England.
The money, he weet on to say, was her
D1V1.1. It was impossible for him to send out
to India all the correspondence relating to
it ; bnt when she returned he hoped to be
able to show her, to her satisfaction, how
it came into kis hands, and why
he had chosen to look after it.
The letter ended with a reproach, so
kind that it made Letty's heart contract.
She had promised to look upon him as a
• father, and her promise had given him the
deepest pleasure. Why, then, had she not
told him of her flight? Could she not trust
him?
"That was just it," said Letty,as, with
her eyes full of tears, she showed the letter
'to her husband. " He was too kind to me.
I was afraid he might—"
"Tell somebody your secret," filled in
Percy.
but I bail not told him, only I
thought—I believed he meld guess it."
"And so, you perverse child, you rushed
- away from us aft, rather than make me
happy."
" If I hail known then what I know now,
Percy ! Bat 1 did not. I thought—oh !"
with a catching back of her breath, "I hope
she will not feel it."
"Feel it? Who?"
" Veronica Browne."
" Veronica I My dear little girl, if that
is troubling you—" Percy broke into a
laugh, and then bowline sudddeuly serious..
"Do you know what I found out while I
was looking for you in London?" he said,
" No ; ten me. '
"That your Veronica is in love with the
colonel,"
"Foray, you are dreaming."
" I am certain I am not. I happen to
, know how people feel and look under such
' circumstances. You take my word for it.
She is a grand creature."
" And. he I" she cried, (dapping her hands
repthrously. "He is one of the best mon in
the world. It would be like a poem, like a
romance. Yes ; I see it all now. I wonder
I never thought of it before. When are
WO going home?"
"1 think next spring."
"Oh, dear I what a long time 1 I should
like to be there now. Percy, we must bring
-them together."
" We will try, Letty, hut we winst not be
'too precipitate. From till I hear, their
• tiendship is progressing satisfactorily."
But friendship— that is so cold," said
',tatty,
"It iney pave the way for somethinsa,
. warmer," said Percy, emiling, "It is, at
least, a good beginning."
With this Letty was obliged to be content;
but, through that autumn and winter in
India, she often thought of her friends in
.England,
Thitt Palmy proved a true prophet is al -
'most all that we hare space to say here.
Common interestshad drawn Colonel Lyn.
don and Veronica Browne together. During
the months they were searching for Letty
they met almost every day. He began by ea -
miring her. No one who came in contact
with bet', who 83W her high spirit and vigour
of mind in constant excreta), and had the
opportunity of cameo ing her superiority to
the ordinary feminine weakuesses, could
hews failed to admire !Veronica. She was,
as Percy had said, a sated creature. The
colonel soon came to rely upofi her. They
were both in positions of almost singular
isolation ; they had both powers of mind
and body which they longed to employ for
the good of humanity ; and neither of them
was quite sure how to employ them. Few
but those who have been actually in such is
situation know what it menus, For most
of us our task is mapped out. There are
certain objects we must pursue : only the
.fraginents of our tune are our own.
Colonel Lyndon end 'Veronica were free
to choose their Own tasks, and it was
their similarity of poeition, with the anxious
sense of responsibility, not towards man
alone, but towards their Divine Master,
which first drew then) together in
the bonds of sympittliy. That they
struck out between titan large plans of
usefulness—that, long before they came
finally to mallet, how much they wore
to one another, Veronica's money and
talent, and the colonel's time, power of in.
fluence, and unusual gentleness and benign-
ity ha i proved of good service in some of
the darkest corners of our great and terrible
London—this ie 105 well known by those
who have the honour of knowing them to
require to be told here, When, is tho
spring of the year that followed the Afghan
war, Percy—he was Major Willi:lanky now
—returned from Melia with his wife, this
was the stete of affair:, between their Mende.
It required hut a spark to fen Lite slumber.
ing embers of affeetion between them into
f1.0.1te.
Thet spark was kindled by the laud of
Percy.
It was after an evening pertyat Veronica's
bongo, given in lionor of himself aed his
' Wife,
Letty loati gone to the hotol whore they
were staying, and bo and the colonel hed
strelled to their club to fint. a tho evening
•there,
They had beet speaking of all that bad
happen:al since they met, All at onoe,
Percy said, looking at the colonel smilingly,
"Letty and I have been hopieg that, when
we came bitekove ishould be able to con.
gretulate yon,"
" On wbat 7" neked the inilonel,
" Don't preteed not to know, my dear
follow. We should be blind if we did not
see what was going 010."
" 1ain mean my friendship with Miss
Browne, Really," said the colonel, vrith
little imitation 01 manner, " yon are as had
as the rest of the world, Isn't it possible
for a man and is NV0111114 to be friends without
every me jumping to the notion that they
must be lovers? I have the greetest respect
mid affection for Miss Browne,"
" Respect and itiTeetion I" said Percy inis-
uninvonsly.
"1 repeat the words. Thera is nothing
singnthr in them."
" And do YOU SlIppOSO that Miss Browne
lino respect and adection tor you, colonel. t"
" Ay dear fellow, pray don't ask um such
toolis hquestions !"
" Are they fooish questions, colonel
What if Letty and 1 had come to the concl us
sion,having watehed Miss Browne narrowly,
that she hid respect and affeetion for you—
that sne had more—that so long ago 05 the
summer when she showed so meal interest
in Castle Ettrick she had felt the amine
That, in feet—I am making you angry,
• I "
"1 think it a pity to make ladies the
subject of euncersation," said the colonel,
with dignity.
Percy was silent at once, fearing he had
gone too far. Whether this were so or not,
what he had said remained in the colonel's
mind. He, too, began to watch Veronica,
and a thousand little incidents meaning little
alone, but almost overwhelming in their
evidence when taken together, sprang to
his mind.
He was a man of the deepest humility, and
i1 was long before he could:mils-ince himself
that he was not the victim of illusion. What
could she, arich, handsome, and highapirited
girl, have seen in him to win her heart? It
was impossible, He could not believe it.
One day he made IL discovery, It came to
his ears, through a side wind, that High
Cliffe, the old property of his family, had
been bought by Miss Browne.
When he spoke to her of this—for he
could not keep bis knowledge of it a secret
—spoke to her tremulously, being strongly
moved—Veronica, for the first time, betray-
ed herself.
"Colonel Lyndon," she said, when for a
few minutes she had given way to her
agitation, " forgive me my folly. I should
never have told you this. I tried 0) thcle it
from you, I bought High Min that—that
—it might be yours again. I thought I was
going to die, That was very foolish. I had
left it to you by will."
" Bat why—why—," cried the colonel
—" my dear --why did you do this ?"
" Because you are my hero and my king,"
answered the young girl proudly. " Colouel
Lyndon, you aro answeced. Let us bid one
another goorabye."
a * 41
That they did not bid one another good-
bye—that they lived to be better and nearer
friends than ever—it is scarcely, perhaps,
necessary to add.
ETRE END.]
Too Mnoh Oritioism,
Girls, poor things, are subject to whole.
sale criticism. Everything that they do, or
leave undone, is found fault with, Their
failings are chiefly of a domestic nature—
ignorance of housework, which they ought
to know, it appears, by instinct. Every
paper in the country contains brief para.
graphs, or more censorious verse, in which
their intellectual acquirements are set forth,
duly accredited and classifier]. In these
poetical effusions it is learned that they are
familiar with all tho nntural sciences, with
lauguages higher mathematics, mate and
painting, hut of the homely arts of cooking
and sewing they Ithow nothing at all, As a
general thing the girl in school has little time
for anything else, if She masters the some-
what lengthy and heavy curriculum. It is
not expected of her brother, while in college,
that he shall pursue a separate course of
wootbsawing or perfeet himself in the few
domestic duties that are supposed to belong
to him. If he live in the country, when he
conies home fronthis vacation he may help a
little in the harvest field or do snob chores
as the hinsci man considers beneath his
dignity. But it is more frequently true that
hs is supposed to be worn ont with the year's
arduous labor in the classotom, and, for
this raison re3t and recreation are neces.
sexy. He goes camping out or off on hunt.
big or fishing excursions and nobody is
expected to manifest sympathy for the old,
over-worked father at home. If rest and
recreation are necessery for the boy
they must) bo equally necessary for
the girl, but she does not always
share the indulgence shown her brother.
There aro hundreds, those espeoially who
liVO in the country towns, who go home
from college and work all summer. The
young woman 1010 has canted the money
that pays her expenses through a normal
school, who expects to teanh when her own
tuition is finished, frequently goes home and
works quite as hard there as she did in
sehool. There is the family sewing to be
done, the pickling and preserving, house
claming, possibly, saved up for her arrival,
All (lay long, when she should be ebsolutely
Iran to be out of doors, walking, rowing,
driving, or lounging in a hammock doing
nothing, hey hack is bent over a sewing ma.
chine, or she is etooping ever the jars sho
has filled with jelly and preserved fruit,
whioh will be stowed away for filthily eon.
gumption whoa she hoss gone back to her
studying. Of :mum'not all so employ them.
selves, and, unless the mother needs help
nhich she is tumble to hire, she should not,
Of those who do not work there is a class
who are not to be held personally respon-
sible, These aro the daughters who, though
intelligent end willing, never receive ton(
instruction in the arts of housekeeping. The
mother may be an expert cook and may
pride herself upoe hor skill. She becemes
impatient over the first unetwoossful efforts
of her children, or can not endure to see
good material wasted. Sim would rather
do it herself than take her time tcaobcbng
genie one lso, Or she :my foolishly doolare
that the daughter will have to take up the
burdene of life soon °flouts, and for this
teasels think!: it the greatest kindnees to
spare her while she nifty. Al! these mistak.
on theories motet upon the girb If she is
not taught she will have to acquire newel.
eery knowledge by the herdcet mane, and
after (indices l'Itindering and wastes And
the sparing process wilt only make tho bur.
done more lrkS01110 to shoulders that have
not been accustomed by easy degrees to
their weight,
Little thoublee kill little mon.
PooPloL e for w at they hope for.
BitlISSELS' POST
THREE AND SEVEN, 1 OF GENERAL INTEREST.
501181' ticid Earts Ahem These Two Num,
111 el% 1Ss
Mr. John IV, Kirk, the whittalusiroil
veteran slim was with Morse when tho lira
working telegasph line was etretehed, and
who etimil lieeide the groat invoutor when
the that ineseage wits tranemitteil from
Annapolis junotion to Washington, line
made (luring his life s great many intorea-
Ina, ealouletione in number.. The two
most remerinthle numbers in the world are
3 and 7,
"Tile numeral seven," (aye Mr, Kirk,
" the Arabians got front Indie, and all fol.
lowing have taken it front the Arabians, It
ic sionepletwes in biblical lore, being men-
tioned over 300 times in the Scriptures,
either alone or oompounded with other
words. It seems is fevorite numeral with
the divine mind, outside as well RS inside
the Bible, as nature demonstrates in many
ways, and all the other numerals bow to it.
There is elso another divine fevorite, the
number three, the trinity, This Is brought
out by aconthination of iigures that is h01110-
8m5.171at remarkable. 11 18 the six figures 142,-
" athltiply this by a, the answer is 285,.
714.
'I Multiply this by 3, the answer is 428,-
57/.
"Multiply this by 4, the answer is 571,
498.
" alultiply this by 3, the R.11SWOr iS 714,-
283,
" Multiply thie by 8, the answer is 837,•
149.
" Each answer contains tho sante figures
as the original sum, ana no others, and
three of Oa figures of the stun mittens to.
gether in each ausweig thus showing that
figures preserve the trinity.
" Thus 283 appeers in the first and second
numbers, 571 in the second and third, 428110
the third and fourth and 142 in the fourth
and fifth.
"It is also interesting to note that taking
out of any two of these sums the group of
three common to both, the other three, read
In the usuat order, from left to right, will
also be in the same order in both sums.
',Take the first end second sums for ex.
ample. The group of 285 is common to both.
Having read 9.85 out of the second stun, read
right itiong and bring in the first figure of
the thousands Inst. It will read 714. All
the others will read in the same way.
" Again, note that the two groups of
three /1/ the first sum are the same as the
two groups of three in the fourth reversed
in order, and that Ole same thing is true of
the second and third. The last multipla
cation has its weeps of threes the same as
those of the original number, reversed again.
"Examine those results again and you
will see that in these calculations all the
numerals have appeared save the 9. Now
multiply the original mon by Ole mighty 7
.—the divine favorite of the Bible and of
creation—and behold the answer I The last
of the numerals, and that one on/yin groups
of three —again the trinicy
142,85'7
7
009,990
"No other oombivation of numbers will
proilizce the same results. Does not this
show the imperial tnultipotent numeral 7
and its divinity?"
The Royal Family,
The year 1848, that year of groat up.
heaved in all Europe, had a faint revolution-
ary echo also in England. Then ocourred the
abortive Chartist demonstration, which,
thanks to the national good sense, aided by
the national wet weather, came to nothing
During the course of these troubled mouth;
the Queen read no less titan twenty-cieht
thousand despatches eon!, out or received at
the Foreign Office—an amount of work
whioh few of the Qaeen's male subjects
would have accomplished without Qom
plaints of overwork, not CO mention thetas°
bad besides given birth to a child, the Prin.
cess Louise. No wonder a holiday was re-
quired and Balmored was for the first titne
visited. A visit paid to Ireland in 1849
ought to have convinced her that there, too,
she had loyal, warm hearted subjects. The
royal children in especial pleased thopeople,
and an old woman in the crowd shouted,
"Oh, Queen, dear, make one o' them darlings
PrineePatrick, andall Ireland will d ieforye."
And the next royal baby was indeed. called
Patrick ; but, unfortunately, the Duke of
Wellington's name, Arthur, which preceded
it, was the one by which'he became known,
so even this innocent little satisfaction wet
denied Glebes]) people. This was the seventh
child. Here is the Prince's aimouncement
of the Meth to his grandmother :—" May
lasy,1850-171ffs morning, at about a uarter-
past eight is little boy glided into the light
of clay, mad was received by the sisters with
anbiniti*, Now We are just as many as the
days of the week," was the cry,anda struggle
arose as In who was to be Sunday. Out of
welabred courtesy the honour was n000rded
to the new 00111er." The end of 1851 saw
tho reap rreicil of Napoleon III., end a good
(leal of ill -feeling result ea in England, with
fear of war between the two countries, Bat
before long the nation audits rulers resigned
themsehAs to the ohanged state of things.
Napoleon and his wife visited the Enghsh
Court, and wore received as equals, the
Queen and Prince Albert returning their visit
the same year. After seeing on this occasion
the tomb of the Greet Napoleon, the Queen
write.s It seems as if in this tribute of
respect to a departed deed foe, old enmities
and rivalries are wiped out, and tho seal of
Heaven placed upon that bond of unity
which is now happily established between
two greet and powerfel nations, The little
Prince of Wales, who with with his parents,
then acquired that love for the French
capital which has since distinguished him,
He tried lard to persuade the Empress to
keep him and his sister after the departure
of their parents, The Empress saki she
could not clo so, as the Queen and Prince
could not spare them, " Oh yes," was tho
reply, " they can ; there are six: more of us
at hoine."
Doyou know how steepletheaing origin.
ated ? Through the boastful vanity of man,
You know hew, eater a 110111 or a paper chase,
you will tell (or somebody will tell for you
—it's the same thing) bow big the jumps
wore, with whet eitse your horse tom them,
Ole. Jumps do grow so formidable end (Us.
lances so groat in the heat of triumph.
Heinen nature was vas, much the same in
the earlier part of the eighteenth century
when Ellis stirring spent began. The hunters
of those :lays also told great tales of their
prowess in the field and of the might of their
steode, There wore doubting 1.'homasee then
as now, end there wore men who thought
nobody wield outride them Thus matehes
woes madand stakes tamed hi one case
they coneisted of "05 hogshead of elaret, a
pipe of port and it quarter cask of rum,"
There uma tio regularly marked -out (mum
them !bet tho riders went as etraight Re they
could from point to point, than points
generally being church steeples.—Itctuth the
nano steeploolleso,
Elvis are dying wr.i. the rate of twenty
per ititnum.
Of the twelve hugest cities in the world
! tio ee are In Japan,
IA :moiety has helm formed in Berlin fee
• the broediug of ralente to serve ite an millet°
, of food.
I The population of Pavia ie staled to he 9,•
• 2do,u..15, or 189,024 loss then it WAS fire years
! ego.
The flag in use in the Allievienn artny
now coninets of forty.four stars placed in six
rows.
Ova 200 trellis are constantly teavelling
on the London and NortlaWestern Beltway.
The first word in a phyeleian's pee:script:ion
is reelne, abbreviated to R. winch is a riffle
of the astrological symbol of Jupiter,
If the thvont is tory sore, wring a cloth
' in cold salt water, and bind it round the
throat tightly when going to bed ; then
cover it with it dry towel. rahis Is excellent,
The malo locusts have the power of emit-
ting loud chirping sounds, the ineaus of
effecting which ranee in different families.
King Humbert of Italy understands
argicelture thoroughly, and manages his
large estates in Piedmont with the skill of
a practical expert in farmieg,
The people of London, according to the
latest water supply report, drink alma 17.]
million gallons of water per day, which is
10.47 gallons per head for all purposes.
The Freneh make paper umbrellas, rem
(loved wholly waterproof by gelatinised
bichromate of potassium.
It is quite a fixed belief among the Rus-
sian peasentry that throwing the dead body
of it drunkard into the river is sure to bring
rain.
The Russian Jew must serve in the army,
but can never be more than a private. He
must pay taxes, but can never be a mayor
or " eller" of hth town.
The water with which Alexandra Victoria
Alberta Edwina Louise Lady Fife was
christened was brought front the River Jor-
dan by Prince George of Wales.
The most precious life in the world is that
of Viscount Dudley, who has just been in•
aural for $0,000,000. Mr. Wanamaker, the
American Postmaster -General, is ineured
for $5,000,000, but the Prince of Wales can-
not get his life insured for more than $3,250,-
000.
Dressmakers read with alarm descriptions
of some of the costumes worn by Bernhardt
in the chnracter of Cleopatra. Several yards
of oostly material are simply swathed about
the body and limbs, and pinned in plea, to
give the drapery an artistic effect.
Meissonier was proud of his shepely and
delis:ate hands. He said that his (lagers
were so sensitive Oat he could with Ide oyes
shut lay on the exact amount of color that
he wanted on a given spot if somebody
placed the point of the brush upon it.
On at least one great English railway
the luncheon baskets which hungry travel -
lets take up at one station and leave wheti
duly emptied at another are provided with
very serviceable napkins made of aerated
tissue paper.
Boston is the only city in the world which
has an exact record of the proceedings of it:
Common council, Every motion, argument
and remark, no matter how unimportant i
stenographically taken clown. The members
are, therefore, veiw careful in thea utter.
Races.
The Mad King of Bavaria sometimes
smokes as many as 100 cigarettes a day. For
each cigarette ho uses an entire box of
matches, touching off the others to see them
barn after he lias used one to secure alight.
He has two new suits of black broadcloth
made for him twice every week,
Drunkenness is the failing of the Hercules
booties, a South American insect. It some.
times attains a growth of six inches inlength.
11 10 said that it rasps the bark from the
slender branches of the mamma. tree until
the juice flows. This it drinks until it drops
to the ground intoxicated.
The Gentlewoman's eigarettoonaking
society is an institution recently started.
Tho ladies employed by the society receive
id. per 100 cigarettes made—more than
twice the price generally paid. The best
brands are kept, and every cigarette is rol-
led by hand—an itnportent considaation, es
every tobacco epicure knows to his cost.
It was long thought that the water from
melted snow Wan the purest of all water.
This idea has been proved incorrea, es the
reverse is the case. Snow is really a plainer
of the atinoephere, attracting from it, ae it
falls, various impurities ; and these are
in the snow -water.
Interesting oxperhnents have been made
upon the effect of giving cows hot
water to drink in8teed of cold, The results
are satisfactory. It has been proved that
whet the °owe drink water at it temperature
of 451e5. (centigrade) they yield one-third
more milk than when they cloak oold water.
The olecteio light which Sir le Watkin
intends to have fixed on the summit of
Snowdon is to be so.powerful as to light up
every crag and precamo of the greet ineen.
tain, even in misty wenther. Moonlight
ascents of Snowdon in summer aro very
poplar'but one would expect that it would
be me nothing compared to what month by
electric light will be if Sir Edward is able
to work out his exhume.
A new use for foxes has been found in
Slade Island, which has exemplified in its
time many curious vicissithdos of animal
population. The Wand is as overstocked
with rabbits as New &Maud itself. These
ablinals ware introduced nt the begineing
of the century for the benefit of the life.
saving staff which constitutes the whole
popeletion of that wreck -strewn island.
Once the rabbits woo exterminated by,
cast -away rats and again by a flock of
Arctic owls. A'thircl time the rabbits wore
introduced, and now hey° sa increased that
Otero will be no grass left for tho cattle and
ponies uttlese emnothing be done. It has now
been decided to import a number nf fon%
with the hope that they svill keep down or
kill oft' the rabbits witheut themselves be-
coming a nuisance.
Some persons in Yorkelithe fonnd a toad
which, front a whimsical curiosity, they
placed in is pot with a slate Upon the top. of
it, end berial it three feet in the earth, in a
situation to prevent ite receiving any mois-
ture from the rains, de, They whaled them.
by to determine whether the wondetfel
relations roopecting the subsistence of that
reptile wore true In any degree, Tice spot
was marked, and it was resolved not 10 01)5)1
11 011 the same day in 1,110 following, year. A.
groat ettinber assembled ,11 that tiny, and
tho pot with its canton!, was oftre'Oly ring
out, when the toad nits nand tee only 11'-
ing, but greatly improved in eta
nthWed for some time, to obseeve whotoci lb
^
eeemedell'oetetl by ite expe8ere 10 the Mr after
so long to eminnement, bin no Outage was
aro!, /1 woe afterwards set at liberty.
Critical( Imo bought and sold in vedette
parts (,1 Africa. P001310 tn1)1111r0 0001, 1'0011
t11001.00(1 SOH 1.11001, uc110, 1111t11.0t1 aro very
fond of their music, thinking that imIttues
eleep. Su porst kir 118 re,oullIng the eel aceta
chirp are veined ; some 'believo that it iis
°milieu of eorrow mid evil while others
consider Ilto harbinger of joy.
Ono of the most copious springs in Croat
Britain 10 the famed Sia Winifroil's Well,
neaa tile town of Ithlywell, in Flintsititio.
The well is 141/ oblong square, about twelve
feet by seven, and its watee'say the people
of the district, has never been known to
freeze, This latter assertion may be true,
as besides contelning s fair percentage of
mineral matters that lower i ts freezing point,
the svoll is inside a beautiful chapel, which
wits erected over it by Queen Margaret, the
mother of Henry VII, The water thrown
up is not less than olglity.thur hogsheads
every minute, end the quantity appears to
vary very little eithee in drought a after
tbe heaviest rain, showing, doubtless that i Ls
prunitive sources are numerous and widely
distributed. 1:it. Winifred's has been the
object of many pilgrimages.
Important experiments have been curled
out lately et Portsmouth under thestipervis-
ion of Captain Britten, of the Naval Intel.
lig:once Department, with 15 view to aseer•
ta/11i114 tho value of carrier pigeons as Ines.
mothers between ships at sea and the shore.
A horning station baring been Hest establish-
ed at Eastney Barracks, the pigeons belong-
ing to it aro taken out in a torpedo boat teml
released at am° distance from the land, in
some instances oven as far as the French
coast. The experiment has proved most
successful, the birds almost invariably
reacbing home and keeping good time, On
oue 000asion they wore released in a thick
fog on the French side of tho Channel, but
after isirciing round foe a few minutes they
mule off', and reached Eastney well up to
time. It is expected that the trials will
shorOy be developed.
Mrs. Magoogin Hears That Women Oavr7
the Rod in Australia.
Wurra my, bat do ye know fwhat
Toozy's jisht bin readin' to me, ithe. Me-
al leg". irx,i
ty1;
i do not, Mrs. Magoogin."
" Oh, thin wait till Ve hear id an' id'll
break yer h'art, iXro. :Niutllaggerty."
" It musht be sumethin' puny had, Mrs,
Magoogin."
' Throth'n' id is, Mrs. Glaggerty."
" 01 shuppose so."
Yis, indade id is, mavourneen," said
the widow. " Lee over an' Oi'll tell ye.
It was only this blissid minute 01 WAS
iu the Wain lisithenin' to her readin' out
av a noospaper that womon—women, moind
ye, Nies, McGlaggerty—carries the lad in
Aushtbralia all' awns twinty cents a day.
" Arrah, hush lip thore, iroozv, ye're thryin'
to fool me,' sez Ui. No, Of'm not, num-
maw,' sez she. Here id is in black an
fwhoite'' se'. she, an' she p'inted her linger
an id. An' there id was sure enoof, Mrs.
MeGlaigerty. Divil the mimic' av loie she
was tellin' at all at all. Jisht to th ink UV
11b, me frind. Women carryin' the bad an
airnin' but twinty eints a day 1 Wurra
shthrue, but isn't id awful 9 Fwhat koind
av Woinen kb they be, Olen wondherinb
Sure'n' they can't be women at all ; they
man be railly an' thruly min in petticoats.
Th' oidaya av a Milan takin' a had upon
her showidhers an'clohnbinup a leadher
wiel a load ac' brooks an' tivrybody lukin' at
her. Begorry, but id's terrible an' Oid never
belaive Id only the nooepapers printed id.
An' only twinty chase nay. Think as id,
Mrs. MeGlaggerty. Twinty ants a clay !
Fwhy, that wudn't be enoof to buy a had
carrier in this counthry his beer, lamina,
Upou me weerud they musht be nfther livin'
au love au' shturabout. It's manny the long
day they'd wait, Mrs. MeOlaggerty, to get
Berths Magoogin, Ushquoire, to carry their
had fuv then in Aushthralia ur Westphalia
nr Ciethralie, ur army other alia, me frind.
No, indade, main, Fwhin the day comes
that !Radio Megoogin has to go out fram
her home to atm her thin" 11 11 not be to
carry a hocl ur siding a shledge iu a black.
smith shop. She'll larn toypewroitin' ur go
an the slave an' become a great Halmos%
They tells me there's lots as- champagny
waiter to be had either ways an' that toys's,.
waiter% an mattresses have aisy toimes, wad
lashin's an' le,shin's as' all somas au foon.
An' begorry, Onin beginnin' to think that
champagny wather bti agree win! me, Mrs.
MeGlaggerty. lOmb howld an en' On and
Tammy fur a sup WV bee !"
Alarming Sickness Among! Troops in
Burmah.
A oorreepondent at Rangoon telegraphs
that eupplias have reacheul the garrison at
the jade mines. Fort O'Donnell WAS only
rationed until the first week in August.
These supplies, which arrived barely in
time, were convoyea with groat difficulty.
On the lest day's march before reaching the
Uru river 14 transport ponies died, The
heciath of tho Tladvas sepoys in Upper
Burma continues very beat When Geueral
Woleeley recently visited Wuntho between
GO and 70 per cent of the troops were sick.
This, however, is an improvement, as frotn
eat lier returns it seems that et one paled
nearly. 00 per oent of the sopoys at Wuntho
were mck, Since General Wolsoley's visit to
Wuntho both the troops and the hospital
have been removed to a higher situation,
The health of the sepoys at Menet le but
little better than that of the Wuntho gisr.
rams. If the Govanreent of India continuos
sending Mailres sepoys to Upper Burmish,
notwithstanding the representations mode
by the local anthoeitios as to their useless.
ness, something ought tri he immediately
done to improve their diet and give them
some ammo of resisting the effect of the
climate, The reports made by the militery
and medlar authorities urging the neceseity
of improving the sepoys' diet havo boon die.
ennead, lit their present condition Qui
Madras sepoys in Upper Bernath an not
only uselees, but a source of clanger,
The National Anthem,
lengtheul, Denmark and Persia all have the
Sane national anthem—the majeetio strein
known to us as "God SaVO the Queen."
Whether written byDr, John Bull or by
Henry Carey, there is no doubting that this
melody was oomposecl by an Roglishman,
In Prussia it Was introduced 014 the state
anthem close upon a century ego, end in
Denmark it was introduced in 1790. "God
Savo tho Queen " was also at ono time the
State melody in Retails until superseded in
1833 by Lwars "God Preserve the Czar,"
and in tho United 'Salta 11 15 still retained
under the title of " Americo," In listening
to "God Save the Queen," the German Fon.
parer wag, therefove, hearing the anthem of
his own eountry. The air " Die Wealth am
Maim" which so many people fancy to be
the Gantlet State anthem,. oot; °spends
rather to our "Rule Britannut,"
Al,tioNT 28, 1891
WHAT ONE WOMAN DARED,
soars, --saltine..
me ltatresaJmr Arraton pastel teats by
!Mention has already been elude hy 0111115,
of Ate, eliellaillehltina exploration o the
remarkable erater Lithe Chaim at the foot
of the eastern slope of Iiiiiinamatro. An
explorer mimed New was the iirst Eltiropoan
to visit this African lake (in 1571), allti al.
though he denurihnil the orator RK OX0001.1.
ingly eteep, ttciot dillioslt • of descent, btn
managed to reach the edge of the water.
Ile approached the lake from the north,
and ileneribeil it AS tt!iangidni. bit nhape,
sursounded with an ahnost triangnlae ridge
of hills, rising above the surface of the
water to a height of from 150 to 300 feet.
Ma J. Thompson, on his journey to Masai.
land, visaed the lake and described its at.
tractions in glowing tonna He, however,
could find tie pleat -by width it wee possible
to deecend.
On learnining by telegraph that Mrs.
Sheldon had succeeded in gettlog a pontoon
Miura on title lake the Cenninittee of the
Royal Lthographicel Society of London ask.
eil her to send them S01110 notes of hor ex.
perienees, Mrs. Sliehlon's reply, dated
Taveta,Apri1211, hasjustbeenreceived. In her
letter she says t hitt tlte adventure was under.
taken bit company with ale. Keith A listen -
they, wile NO1110 111011 018 before had forced is
path ,lown to the water's edge, Mr An.
struther had two sections of a pontoon,
acroes which he proposed to place a soot of
raft or platform, ts ith a monism, of porters
there the attempt was made, Mrs, SIeldon
wait first, and, at considerable risk, secceed-
ed in forcing hor way through the denee
vegetation and loose rocks. Sometimes she
sank to ha armpits into the mass of decay.
en vegetation which hail itecuinulaLea for
ages.
Multitudes of birds whirred about and
110090 of monkeys leaped from branch to
branch, Soon, however, she found haself
upon a "ragged, rough triangle of tree -
trunks and rocks," with the water lapping
her foot. alr. Austruther encl the mon
followed with pontoons, which were locked
together and sec afloat. airs. Sheldon and
Mr. Anatraller got on board and with the
greatest difficulty persuaded one of their
superstitious men to accompany them. Mrs.
Sheldon and the :nom paddled, while Mn,
Anstruther " kept a sharp lookout for the
intrusive crocodiles, which were most num.
emus." Ducks of three varieties rose in
etartled flocks from their resting places.
The perpendicular rooks which come down
from the crest of the volcano could be seen
renehing fat' down below the surfaue of the
clear blue water. Abore the water they
were deueely clad with trees, tangled with
Ranee aud alive with birds and monkeys.
Mrs. Sheldon noticed a strange undercur-
rent in the water that now and again caused
waves to rise up and move forward through
the centre of the otherwise tranquil surface,
yet the air \ perfeals calm. Mrs, Shel.
don speaks ot "the resietitnee or suction of
the water which wee felt when the paddles
were put two or three feet beueath the
surface." Thin nlay possibly be accounted
for by the action eoe up by the water,
which 110 doubl collies in from be-
neath, for there is as pasently no
eupply front the outelde. The sound
ing line carried by Mrs, SlusIdon awl
Mr. Anstruther did not reach the bottoin of
the lake. The lake Meg. Sheldon describes
as an unequal oblong, the nester basin being
two miles broad by two and a half to three
miles iti length. The circumference is about
six miles.
This letter was discussed with much in.
terest at a meeting of the Geographical So-
ciety, and if Airs. Sheldon is well enough
when she roaches London she will be asked
to give her experiences more in deadb at the
public meetieg. It was hardly expected
when ales, Sheldon started •on her (for o,
ivoinani perilous journey to the Kilimeenjaro
t Istria that she would he eble to add any.
thing of importance to existing geographical
knowledge of that region. But it seems
that she has been fortunate enough to find
out a good deal about this partieular lake
that has not been known before. In another
letterreceived by the same mail to _Mr. Shel-
don no mention is made of ales. Sheldon's
illness. She says that her health has bece
perfect, with the exception of an injury in
one eye reoeived in making the descent to
the shores of Lake Chain. That she was,
op to the time of writing, able to stand the
fatigue of caravan life is evident front her
,,
tatement that she had only been carried in
her palanquin five hours during the journey.
Mrs. Sheldon said that with luck she hoped to
be able to reach the coast by the 20th ofJune,
in time to °etch the steamer :Madura. This,
as has been tolcl by able, she succeeded in
doing. The severe illness with which she
was prostrated just beanie her departure
was doubtless due to some sudden attack of
4:tingle fever and to the etreot of her long
journey. In the last letter roceived
Sheldon expressed herself as more than sat-
isfied with the success of her expedition.
011O very 011 l'i0114 thing she mentions : The
native» have no name for a W0111E1.11 lender of
an exploring expedition ; so they named her
Bwana Bete, which, literally interpreted,
means " master lady."
AN INTANT SMOKER,
A man to be rroseented tor Teeeldne.,
Young aul.1 to smoke.
A despatch from Chicago says —The
Illinois Humane Society has tieoided to pro.
seoute the parents of 9.yeamold Leonard
Turner, the tobacco -smoking baby. The
child's case was brought to public notice
only a day or two ago, Ever since the baby
was two months old his father, who is eaid
to be a dissipated ohmmeter, has been tenth.
Ing him to smoke, The chili hoe now be-
come so aeoustomed to the wood that he ovies
for his pipe and tobacco. The child is ill a
very feeble condition, idready suffering from
acute nicotine poisoning and having what is
known to physicians:1a the " tobacco heart"
His skin, oyes, and brain aro also affected.
Dootors express doubts as to whether the
child ball be brought batik to to healthy con-
dition.
Their Mother,
hot' set looking straight into the ooals,
ierom his stool at my feet ono day.
And the Menotti, 'burnished the wale heaa
And pointed the °hooks with 05 dash a red,
Asid brightened hie very oyes, as ho said,
In his most conndential way,
"Mamma, Ithink, when i'm a grown-up man,
shall have Suet two little boys,"
ionlled—he oo'a*nlx —1,1 he 801 101 sae,
And said, "Why, yes, how nice that Will be I
noun' 0110 N1,01'011 girl, 080t014 to rno,
It would:tad to your householdioys."
' Well—yes," reflectively, "that would bo
Mee,
Anti P0 tell youthst %vital; I'll do;
111 name ono Robbie, for 1110, yo. know,"
Then the beight eyee shone with a deeper
140W,
uol thera'nflist the f•WO Of 115 now and HD
%name the xtrl Annie, for you.'
"But how woltid their mother lilco than'
I naked,
"Do you think that elle would agree
For us to lave both names, while elto had
none!"
ilio mystified, puzzled look of one
Wholly befogged, said my toghsol gon,
" Thole /nether I Wins, 11110 Is slier