The Brussels Post, 1891-9-4, Page 7Siirr, 4, 1k91
FOR THE LADIES.
THE 33RUSSEL'S POST.
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Ketinel n Nonee Keeping.
At the leaden of all the heartache end
hethaehe etheod by modern housework,
there 'lewdly heti "My mie trenble—waet of
method. ()illy within the last hundred
perm has there been tiny Wort wile to train
woman. she woo regented as 0 being 1.0
governed by Matinee ttr intuition, and all
her work was eepecte•I t be dime by item
mweet haphazard medial which ',Medd
mitke teed right 111 the mei by some rule
unknown to every law of nature. The ono
who euggested direct rules 01 doing house-
work wits hell up to derismn neecentrie.
Cooking wee like a game of chance, and
sitecess and failure were looked epon genera
ally an matters of hick, lffie breadmaker
who metaintred the ingrefficiete foe her bread
was looked upon as little lees than daft,
Thee/nerd result of want of method in
beenultnalting itt lunne 10110 the coming in of
the foreige baker, whese loaves, though in.
fesier in every wity te a, good homemade
Iota, could alwaye be depteffied upon to be of
thiforin tmality. The baker produced loves
which were peeve the name sew and
yeality, while the domestic' loaf,
though delicenus at Bums, waa often
a. ilure, teviug to the want 01
method, When home inethoels become
systematic method,' then the home baker
may come into active eoutpetition with the
profeseinnal Though there t1120 dm.
duels of women who coffid bake better
bread then the tradesmen bakers, end would
glailly earn the motley fot• doing eo, they
lam not been able to gain any considerable
market beetiuse they cittatot be depended
0» for a poei t i vely militant reaul t. Whenever
a woman et sitlitets Gm work of baking by
purely besinese methods, likes her breed
by strict unifonn rule tut a lacer does, and
charges only the regale price for it, she
finds a renumerati 01, uarket at once for her
work. Froll remote generations men hare
been taught to do their work by dile. No
01811 hires a letterer without engaging his
time for a certain number of hours. The
man servant knowe ffietinetly 1011811 and
what time he inust devote to Ins work. The
female servant alone is expected to do her
wed; in a harpsego•easy way. Al one time
she to ettrioasly reprimanded for what is over.
Molted et enter times. The trouble with
servants is largely due to want of order in
laying out their work teal making them
adhere defile, (0 11. The nearage maiteof-
ale work s 90810 reaeon in rebelling against
her pesition when her work depends, as it
often dote upon the whimsicel rendes of a
niistrees who drives her from one thing
to another without system or order.
Strange AS 12 Ma0 00010, 2) 10 yet true that
there 11120 113 Imeeekeepers who have so little
tronble with their Itelptte those who exac• 20
Um uttermost that which is required,but who
tie not brealt int" the ',indite of work by
redoing ell 1010 001of unexpeetel and
mime:essay eery. The 00012e2 Of peace in
the household, of freedom front the thnitsand
and one petty worries inducted by domestic
Inisinamigement, lies it, 0113 0110 brief word—
met hrel, When women are trained to do
their lieneeliold work as craftsmen de theirs,
when the head of a house nuteages her help
with 1)28 0110 exactness that the 'nester
workman manages his men, making sure
that every stroke of work tells toward the
end, then we shall begin to see a solution of
the problems of domestic serviee. These
problems present themselves on every side
and have evert reached a p01122 02 which they
threaten to turn our homes into vast hostel-
ries, to be managed 011 the cooperative
P1°".
Pate in a Teacup.
Here are a few old superstitions regard.
ing the ever-frienely cup that cheers: If
while the tea is beieg made and the lid
which has been removed topour in the
wetter, is forgotten, it is EL hire sign thnt some
one will " drop in to tea."
lf a single person happens to have two
spoons in his or her saucer, leis a prediction
thee the fortunate (or thforetinat)) drink•
er of that particulue cup will be married
within a year from that date.
If you put cream in your cup before the
sugar it will " cross your love," so be very
careful.
11 12 tea stock floats in the cup, it is called
a "1)0(01)," end when this is seen unmarried
evomen should atir their tea very quickly
roiled and round and round, end then hold
the spoon upright in the centre of the cup,
If the "bean" is attracted to the spoon and
clings to it he will be entre to call very
shortly, if not the same evening, but if the
stalk goes to the side of the cup he will not
come.
Examine the tea leaves in your oup if you
are plebeian enough to boil your tea instead
of drawiug it in the refined encl dainty
fashion for a lot of leaves mean money and
fordine.
If you want to know how many years
will elapse before you may expect to be
married, balance your spoon on the edge of
your cup, first noting that it is perfectly
dry, 1111 mother spoon partly with tea, and
holding it above the balanced spoon. let
the drops of tea gather to the the tip of the
spoon and zanily fall into the bowl of the
one below, Count the drops—each one
stands for a year.
12 (0 a sign of fair weather if the cluster
of email mr bulebles formed by the auger
collect and remain in the centre of the onp,
If they rash to the sides it will surely min
before night.
When the toast is made, three or four
thin slices of bread must be cut the whole
length of the loaf end placed one over the
other. This done, they must all be cut in
half with one sweep of the knife, If this
is done by a young woman, and the slices
are not severed cleten through to the plate,
she will not be married within the year ; if
the bread pares in two even heaps, she
might as eve11 order her trousseau. On 110
account mest she take the lase piece of
teeth or bread on the plate, unlesa she
wishes to be a» old meld.
A women's own fame is barren. It begine
and ends with hermit, Reflected from "her
husbeind or het son, it has in it the glory of
immortality—of continuance. Sox is in
eircumstenee as well as in body and in
mind, We'clide nom our fathers, not our
mothers; and the shield they won by valor
counts to us still for honor. But the initiate
able 11t61e mannikie who creeps to obscure
ty, overshadowed by his wife's glory, is aa
pieffn 1 ie history es contemptible in fact.
'The husband of his Wife '10 no title to
honor ; and the beet aud dearest of our fain-
oes women take care Bleb this shall no
be said of them end theirs. The wild
womee, on the contrary, burk their Intebands
altogether 1282101285 when they are not
widows 'tat es if they were.
To : piling who two wavering beeweee the
Minh i2 individualism teughtby theinstngt
one Old the sweeter, clearer, tenderer
celestine; ef the true women would de Well
to ponder on this position, They °annals°
on both eide5 nA once. Polities °epeeist!, the
platform or 6110 1101110, Mille itlitelism Or love
moral sterlity or the rich and fell end pre•
dons life of die nature we call womanly—
married or mingle, still menden 11'omanly--
1 hey meet take thole elleice whlol, It
be, They cannot have both. Nor Mu TbOY
11111'0 110 /Ala 0 VOl2gb09, "pdvilegee" they
desire In this identity of cendition with
man, end retain the chivalrous clevotiou,
the admiration, reel the reepeet of men.
These pee born of the very differences be.
tweeu the sexes. If men want the slipperb
of equality in friendship, they find Oa in
each other ; if they wane the spit Mal pin.
illetion which goes with treenail lofty love
they look for that in women. When womeu
have become minor men they will have lost
their own bolding and not have ginned that
: Lynn! Linton.
Hints On Nairdreeeing•
when hhtur5 has thidowciii ithy omi with
plentiful supply of hair it 10 very little
trouble te maintain it, but when the hair is
thin and poor it requires plenty of time and
attention to keep it in order. The hair is
extunly like a, plant, and it soon act -11110$ a
neglected look 11 )2 don not meet tvith ite
proper share of attention. Cleanlinese is
110 11002 important point, and should never
be neglected on account of the trouble it
entails. The 10210 ahould be thoroughly
washed at least once a month, and bruthes
alla 00111 101 should be kept sanpulouely 018,05.
Rock 121)22000112 10 the best thing to use when
washing the hair, a piece about the size of an
egg being used to a genet 01 boiling water.
'The seater 'haul(' be stirred with the head
till n, lather 101001,2811, and the hair 01121 110021
should then be rubbed all over with the
solution. The hide nuen TIONV he rinsed out
in plain warm water, thoroughly douched
with cold seater, and rubbed 101211 it 15 1)00
reedy dry, or it will become rotten, and this
is perticularly the emu after seeebething.
Plenty of brushing is beneficial to the little,
and not less than a Muttered strokes with the
brush should be seven every clay. The
brushee 011(1 combs should be of good quali-
ty, as inferior ones are ruinous to the hafr.
eome combs seem to be naturally iletem.
pored ; they mullet go through the hair
without tettring it, aml they have unexpect-
ed slashes in their teeth svhich catch the
fine hairs end break them inetenel of allow-
ing them to pasa through. Life is impossi-
ble with such a comb as this, and it. should
be thrown aWay dill/001y its ohmmeter is
discovered. Frietton is eervicentble in pro-
moeing the growth of the hair, and a the
mulating lotion tnay be used lvith good re-
sults The wash shneld be well rubbed in
at the roots of the hair, and also et the
templee 11211(1 (180021 the perting, and at any
p11208 where the heir is becoming thin.
rthinese may be successfully combatted by
friction OS 1011g ELS it 18 i/1 an early stew!,
but if the friction fail to produce redness of
the akin, the case must be considered hope-
less, and the baldness eau be covered bet
never cured.
WHERE PUSH TURNS TO STONE.
remitter and ellitx;ntsc:,11.troper ay 0)need!
The character of the soil in and eround
Rapid City. S. D., has a peculiar and mar-
velous property, a wonderful characteristic
which completely controverts the Biblical
injunction, " Dust thou art, and to dust
thou shalt return."
For the last efty years the "Bad Land,"
lying seventy-five miles to the southeast of
the little city above mentioned., has been the
wonderland of America, it being a locality
nnegaallecl in the world as a receptacle for
petrefactions of animals of both the land
and water kincl. But the wonders of the
"Bad Lauds" are equalled in one respect at
leest, by the mineral saturated soil at Rapid
City.
True, petreletion of remote geological
ages are not found it: streh profusion at Rae
picl City as they are farther South, but
whet is equally ad wonderful, human bodies
width have reposed but a short time in the
soil of those South Dekothen hill aro trans-
formed into statues of stone as bard as the
hardest marble.
But few of these last resting places have
been disturbed,and those only when friends
thought it ttbsolately necessary ; however,
in each case the same peculiarity 10118 exhi•
bited.
The Feculiturity of the Yew 1900.
The year 1900 will not be a leap yeme and
the following explanation is given as the
reason. The year is 305 days five houra and
foety•nine minutes long ; eleven minutes
are taken every year to make the year 305e
clays long, and every fourth yene Nye have
an extra day. This was Julius Onesar's ale
rangement Where do those eleven mi0.
etas anise from ? They come from the future,
and are paid by omitting leap year every
hundred years. I3u2 if leap year is omitted
regtdarly every hundredth year, in the course
of 400 years 161 found that the eleven min-
ntes taken each year will not wily IWO been
paid back, 13112 that a whole dey will have
been given up. So Pope Gregory
who improved on Otesar's calendar in 1582,
decreed thee every conturial year, divisible
by four, should be a leap -year alter all. So
we borrow eleven minutes each year, more
then p07 001 borrowings back by ornitti»g
three leap years in three =aerial years,
and square /meters by having 8, leap year in
111101o110211 oenturiel year, Thus 1700; 1800,
and 1e00 are taken one of the list of leap
yeers, but 2,000 left in, 120(1 00 on for every
four hundredth year thereafter, Pope
Gregory's arrangement is $o exact, and the
borrowing 10121 )1123411)1 back balances(' close,
that we borrow more than we pay hater to
the extent:of only ono clay in 3,800 years.
Spring 3idiSig Saddle.
Most of those who have done much horse.
/tale riding hove sad reeol/ections of having
had at 0110 time or enother, to jog along for
weery miles on the back of an ill-bred
straightpasterned nag, whose every step
jarred every nerve in the body, and aroused
.the most pronounced feelings of resentment
Acoordinglo the inventor of a new saddle,
'melt memorable incidents as these need
never inore ocean, and the horseback rid.
ing of the future will be pure, ttntnixed de.
light, This seddle owes its peoulier merit
to a eenes of op 20)11', The upper saeldle
tree or that is conneeted with the lower
simply by these springs, so thole is nothing
to interefere with that free working with-
out: Which no spring saddle can fulfill the
putpose and object of 11 onstruction, viz.;
to relieve the rider from the constant, eel
experioncee in riding on it springless seddlo.
Tho springs aro 'sone aflame working with-
in well other, cold aro mado of tetnpored
steel wire so placed between the wooden
tree, and the upper tree or frame sot (rend
siding of a steel wire 1101111 )0 the shape of
the lower tree awl alesped by brass heeds
which three each other) as to work freely
wherever the motion of thohorse may being
the weight of the elder.
A 1161 further on is a memorial
four -footed fevorito : " Bully, 1, Mee
year& pee,"
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ONTA1U°211"S‘
The Ontario depertinent of Agee/tiltiid.
has just land ar impede/it, ehow.
19g the general Mate of amps in this province.
By it, we learn that the spring reports filen
the western portion of the Provinee, where
our largest fieldo of litil wheat are to be
found, were exceedingly hopeful, and pre.
sent lvices 811010 Butt these bright 00)1002'
10110118 have been hilly realised, in tho
three points of yield, quality and housing
the crop this season line en enviable record,
In Western Ontario the yield in most 098014
hashes)l really magnifica tt t. It haa ranged all
the way from 15 to 53 Imelielti per thre. In
the eastern part of the Province, especially
in then eountees stretching from Durham to
Stormont, a light, yield ie the rule, some.
thnes feeling as low ao eight lineltels TO 1110
acre, although even here Home uorresponl.
ents are remicing in yield of 30 buthele
per IWO. The average yield for the pro,
settee is estimated at 94.1 bushels to the
thre, while foe the nine years les2410 the
111121211)10 (0110 1/116 1 9.4 bushelsper acre. Near-
ly every correspondent has a favorable word
to say regarding the plempness antl general
qualny of the berry, and instaeces ere given
of the grain weighting Oa, 04 and b5 imunds
per bushel. The straw W118 111/11 011 111s
ground and was 111 21011 shorter 1111111 IIS1141
owing to cold weather and drouth during
May and June, but the mutiny is reported
/18 good. There 0119 hardly any net, and
80100 15 epokon 111 10 bet two or three in-
stances.
The reports regarding spring wheat are
generally of R. 11080 favorable character.
When correspondents wrote, however, only
a few fields of spring wheat hail been cut,
end harvesting was not expected to be gener-
al for about it. week, The crop will go 0011-
siderably over the average in yield, and a
plump and deem berry is assured. Casual
mention only is made of rust or swan, ail
the Hessian fly has been heard of but rarely.
It can be safely said, however, (.bat it is
many 1 year since so large a yield of spring
wheat so generelly free fi•om injury ft"om thy
mune bas been reported upon. White RAU,
0i1/11 appeere to be the most popular variety,
while Colorado comes a good second. In the
west goose 10 in Much favor, while all over
the Province the old white and red Fyfes
are still largely grown. The names of other
favorite kinds of spring wheat, es given by
cioognie
'les.pondents, would make 0.1822)1011)' cata•
Correspondents do not agree concerning
the crop of barley. In souse locelities it is re.
ported as all cut end under cover, while in
other places reaping had just stele:ed. In
the wise of two-rowe11 barley, however,
little, if any, had leen cut. While in seveeal
localities the crop appears to have suffered
discoloration from wet weather, It is pleas.
ing to know that the greeter part of the
0111was got into the barn untouched by
rain and is of good color. Much difference
of opinion is netnifested by correspondents
as to the benefits of growirg the two -rowed
barley. Some who have experimented with
the samples sent ont by the Ottawa Govern.
ment ere delighted with the result, while
others spend: very slightingly of the new
barley as compared with the old six.roweell
It is worthy of notice that while much of
the six -rowed barley 04/9 0110 and housed as
correspondents wrote, a week or two more
W05 needed to ripen the two -rowed variety,
But while later the two -rowed sort this
year. gives promise of a greater yield than
its s1 -rowed competitor.
The reports regercling the colts crop are
favorable on the whole. The straw Is de.
scribed as short but elan, and, while stand-
ing thin upon the groancl, it is carrying long
heads well fillecl. Only tt small portion of
the arop was cut MS correspondents wrote,
but it is aneicipated that the average yield
peuro jaceI.rsefor the Province will rentch 37.1
b
Very little rye 1 now cultivated, but
where it is grown the crop is reported fully
up to the average, except in a few eastern
points, where it empeares to heve suffered
soinewhet from the early drouth.
The reports indieete an exceptionally
nod peas crop throughout the Province, the
yield promising to be the best 11) 001113' years.
Owing to the drouth at the time of plant-
ing, a considerable portion of the seed did
not germinate, 0101 the crop generally made
so lee a start that severel correspondents
expressed the fear that, frost might yet injnee
the growing corn. Although the hills
were thinned by the (10021)1112 111 most locale
ties, very encouraging reports come, from
the counties along the St Lawrence, where
ens is being more grown for the ear than
formei•ly. In the great ...ern raising counties
along Lake Ede, however, the tone of the
returns are rot so eneournging, Where
grown for shelling, corn is chiefly raked in
hills, but for soiling (where pastures are
poor) or for the silo the drill /9 generally
used. Very little is now sown hroadease
The question of the hest eorn for Ontario is
not yet settled. In the Lake Erie district
the eightrowed yellow appears to be most
inlayer, while the yellow and white Flints
and Dents are also popular. For the Esse.
ern Ontario silos the Mammoth Southern
Sweet, Horeetooth and Cromptonl Ettrly
are most in demand.
The bean crop is likely to be a light one.
This crop has suffered very ninth from
drouth in the conntries where it is raised
to any considerable extent aa a held mop,
ole., in Eesex, Kent and Elgin.
Ilay and clover have been enntreally light
all over the Province. It was of average
quality, however, and was for the most pert
secured in excellent condition, The drouth
Was doubeless the ahief cense of the defiaien-
97, but in addition to this clover in some
mstanees suffered from winter -killing and
from the frosts of May. New meadows
yielded better than old ones. Both clover
121221 1)0102)23' were short in stalk, endtimothy
was ((00 rule somewhet thin in the ground.
There has been a vigorous second growth of
clover. Tho prospects are not fevorable for
a good yield of clover seed.
The prospects for all root 000)10 11000)20011
seriously impaired by drot,t1, 111 the ex.
*erne southwestern countiee all roots have
been very seriously effected, and there the
yield will be small both as to size and quillity, Potato vines heve frequently drooped
eor leek of moisture end in some instencea
dried up altogether from the heat. As re.
gerde tho rest 0( 1115 Province, a !ergo yield
of potatoes of good quality is expected.
Turnips are likely to average a very fir
crop, but neither mangele nor carrots will
be quite so good.
The yield of apples will this year probab.
ly be light so far tes 011110210 18 concerned,
lighter even thee last yew. The quality of
the fruit 10 however very fair, and thosample
generally tvoll shaped and free from Went.
ishea, Hervest apples have yielded some.
whet better than the leter varieties. Pears
are also tt light yield. The causes of the
dellioney ere stafed to 1 e frosts et the time
of blossoming and the general drouth, The
treee are gutted te (ewe blossoned well, but
oven whore tem y •.ung fruit hall formed it
efterwerds fell etr, 111 some instthees cm ea.
count of insufficiem, moisture. Thoth bag
1 9011 11 fairly good yield of other tree »mite,
thierriee have been =mal1-. e enrelane
Plum troth ads well leaded with fruit, but
their innyther hae 0000 boon 0411 etttly dim.
initheil by tbe 11111011-k 1100 0,.!0119g0 011111 the
yieetl of fruit eannot be a Iargo 000. 111111108
1111d 1100400 were slightly injure 1 by tete
frosts, but the yield 00 both is good, Small
fruits lieve been 0e03' plentiful alienist every.
where, but lent» so in the Lake Erie, (dewed.
Raspberries were unnthelly plentiful ill
HOMO of the more northern emelt Straw.
berriea yieleed fairly well, but the fruit WWI
11121100 11101/1'•811.011, 011 0110 N'ittetam, penile
auks there lets been a good yield of all
varietiee. Plums ere yielding well, end 80
are peaelles, with the exeeption perhaps of
Crawfords.
In spite of the generally poor ettndition
of pasturee the preeent state of live stook
levee but little to be desired, Live stook
generally are in a thrifty' and 11051117 con-
dition 1(11 many caeca 1111201)1111)' so. 11 010108
is complaint at ell it ie that cattle are in
001110 instances a little defident 111 flesh for
this 000.9011 of the year, Inn 06 0110 saute time
the flesh is firm and the condition healthy.
A etheidarable number of cattle 110.00 112100811)'
been sold for the foieign market, In the
weetern part cf the Province, and 'entice.
tarty in Brant, the tnilk supply, wlech has
held fairly well all through the nummer, is
now beginning to fail 83)1)20001102 0111121(1 to the
unsatisfactory paatanuge for milli ems.
Cheese factories are reported to have had a
favorable season in Lambton, and !eventide
reports for dairying also come from eliedle•
sex, Oxford, Huron and (leyleactoriem
lied' had an autive season in the Eastern
canaries. The Inilk supply hes been good
and the dairy output, hem been a large one.
The past seethe hes not been a pole.
larly favorable one for bees, A scarcity of
nectar in the eerly summer end a conse-
quent lack of food for brood reat•ing retarIl.
el swarming my materially. As a general
rule swarming 1048 not nearly so fingeent
as wend. There has not been an abundant,
sepply of nectar from any sourer, and the
yield of honey is not likely to average more
than between 30 and 40 pounds per hive,
although the season is tht, yet over.
There has been a eutficiency of lemur dur-
ing harvesting, chiefly because farmers are
end eitvorine to do tts much work as pOSSible.
Within their own fatuities. Occasional
reports only were made of a scarcity of la-
borers. There hits been no appreciable
change in the rate of wages daring the mum-
mer, but mews vary eereatly aceording to
locality and the rate 00012g85 'mid 11,100-
0120 121 other branches of work. Based upcn
returns by farmers who employ help
every section of the Province, the following
averages of wages paid farm laborers are de•
rived. Yearly engagement with hoard 31 10)
or without board 8.230, es compared with
8137 and 3233 respectively in 1890len-
gagetnents for the working seethe, per
month with honed 610.00, 00 without lend
61211.8), as compared with 310.00 and e90.36
respectively in 1890. Servant girls average
30.91 and board or two cente more then in
1890.
The tend area in fall and spring wheat is
1,303,007 acres, as compared with 1,391,851
acres in 1800. The area in tall wheat wes
increased by 182,1332 acres, while the (MIL
devoted to the sprieg varieties was dimin-
ished by 01,110 acres. The estimated
yield of wheat is very large, being 30,437,•
05)1 bushels, as compared with 21,951,988
bushels harvested in 1800, or 20,313,8t17
bushels for the nine years 18149.90. Fall
wheat promises 24.4 bushels per acre, or 5
beshels above the average. Spring vheat
is expected to produce 18,8 bushels per
acre, or 6 bushels more than last year. As
was anticipated the area in barley hal been
diminished by 148,160 acres, but the yield
per acre will be 1.2 bushels over the average.
The area in oats is a little less than last
year, but the yield will be enormous, being
estimated at 37.1 bushels per tierce or 2.7
bushels above tile avertge and 9,1 bushels
higher than last. year. The area in rye has
been reduced by one-third. Less pees were
sown than last year. but the total production
will be 2,500,000 bushels more, which menes
au inereaae of four bushels to the acre. The
acreage of field beans has been again ex
tended, but the prospects are a bushel per
acre less than last yette Kent County
claims three.quarters of the bean area.
.Although the area in hay has increased
there were nearly 2,000,000 tons less cut
Ilion in 1800. Last year's was, however,
am exceptionally heavy crop. The crop
averaged less than a ton per acre, but was
not as small as in 1888.
The total area, in crop was 7,838,081 acres
as compared with 7,912,207 acres in 1800.
There were also 2,791,281 acres of pasture on
leered land, an increase of 179,189 acres
ver last year.
On ,Tuly 1, as estimated from schedules
ent in by fanners, there were 678,459 horses
of all classes or an increase of 18,823 over
the preview; year ; there were 1,978,815
head of cattle, en inerease of 84,103 over
1 800 ; the 10111011 cows 0000 0)2111)281 773,234
012 4,604 less than last year ; of sheep and
lambs there are 1,693,751, being it let -go in.
crease of 854,0561n the year,but isstill 196,-
9S2 less than in 1884, sincie which year there
have been regular decreases. There is a,
further increase of 15,7571n the number of
hogs, the present number being 1,156,310.
The number of poultry is 7,006,090, /111 /11 -
mato of 151,225. The total clip of wool is
2,498,141 pounds as compared with 4,574t•
700 pounds in 1890.
Chances of Death In War.
No doubt every reader has semi the stato.
meet that it takes a man's weight of lead to
kill him in beetle, end they may have eon-
sitlered it to be merely a rheeorical hyper-
bole, thggested by the Mot that comparetene.
ly few outf of the whole lumber of shots
fired in heat of battle take effect. elarshal
Taxe, we believe, fitst made the aesertion
which forms the basis of the above, when
he said it would take one hundred end
thirty-three poneds of power to put each
of the enemy in the long trench.
Wild and visionary as Ude may seem, it
eppears that there 0088 more truth than
poetry in the remark. With all the improve.
meets whieh bade been made in the art of
war since the days of Saxe, Gasseude the
French entrain, proves that the groat mar
shal's philosophical remerk bolds gold.
At the battle of Solferino, according to
Gast:taffies carefully deduced calculations, a
comparison of the neither of shots fired on
the Austrian side with the number of killed
awl wounded on the part of tho enemy,
shows that seven hundred bullets wore ex.
peucled fol 0(101 010.11 wounded and four thou-
sand two hundred for each man killed. The
everage weight of the hall used wee thirty
greins ; therefore it must have taken me
least one Mewed and twenty-six kie
gritunnes, or two hundred and twenty.soven
pounds 01 18(0(1 for mush mon killed 1 Vet
801101400 0080 10 Most important battle.
In the Franco-Prussian war the sleughter
emend by the needle gun among the French
soldiers shows how much superior that gun
is to the Austrian carbine 1 yet with that,
deadly weapon ono thousand throe hundred
shots were bred for every soldier destroyed
in tho enotnyl tanks.
Lenders bekershave reduced the price of
betted from six tone° cents p00 loaf,
"LA REIN_E LE V,E1714T."
Hew the queen, Agrees Io6,'t', Or
Ptlrltu-
51)01)1
It is 'inanition time in the house of eend
mons, 11/1/1 ministers 1100 laboriously reiteing
their (mewed; to the lung tun of printed
411111.71t101(1i1innO "InetiLuthfenritt: 'raj tflit'lli°e
chamber, es:telly wide open, are shut mal
loeked, and the doorkeeper halide guardiug
them, peeping through a tiny wicket in the
door, 40 11 110 expected alIlIlo011 venient dun.
" But san ; the deore have only been locked on
tin! 810118 prinelpal that the little boys on the
towing path ot the 0101 shin 1)18 )18.188 when
they IWO an undergraduate approthhing 111
order to have the pleasnre of opening them
agaj1-.400 9 con01a099/ ion. 1V1at the enn•
sideration of the doorkeeper of the house of
contemns may. be 10 1102 known tO the public,
but the very Instant thee the etranger ap-
proaching has made three modest taps 011
the door the watchful intendant flings it
open and announces the wither with a sten-
torian shone of Black Rod." Slowly dime
the elderly geneleman in braided uniform
who bears this title and the short red that
meters it advance up the floor of the house,
scrupulously three times ie 1110
passage.
Arrived at the table he 8(1)11111)118 " Ode
honthable houtie" 111 the name of the ',them
inunetliately to attend at the home; of peers
to hear the royal aseent giveu by commis.
sloe to various bills. Having given hie
message he slowly retires backward, bow.
ing again with the elyetie three bows.
Without a word all moulbers rise in their
places and the speaker leaves his chair end
joins Black Rod, who has been waiting for
hint at the bar of the house. Side by side
in brotherly converse they walk ote follow-
ed by the sergentateatetrnis 'mil two 00 three
members us rept•esentatives of the house,
while strong:lunged policemen in the lobby
bellow out " Make way for Black Rod."
"Make way for the speakete" •
In the house of lords 0111201)10 but nnt
impressive spectacle awaits 10e. Through
the stained-glass windows of the beautiful
chamber the sunlight is streaming, lighting
ep the richly.carved woodwork and the
decorated veiling, and nialting the del
hunches below seem retitle!' than ever. In-
deed, on the lleer of the house red, crimson
red, is the single 11001, Row niNal row ol
erinnsou benches, all empty, and on the
woolsack three silent peers robed in red.
At the table, scarcely noticed in the blow of
red, are three silent clerks in wig and
gown ; that is all.
11111 11)' this time the speaker anti ho
companions have rentehed the houee of lords
and Lave packed themselves 11) a littl 3 pen
opposite the woolsack aud the
There they steed, patiently er impatiently,
thrnintletut the ceremony.
The tide homeless is the reeding ef the
commiesion eppointing certain peers to act
on behalf of her majeety. rhe document is
very long and very legtd. The !emitter of
peers named to serve on the commission
seems legion, There d the Ponce of el ales
and the Duke of Connaught ; there 10 " the
most reverened huller in Goe and my well -
beloved anti trusty councillor," The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; there is the archbiati-
evf York and many other nobilities.
enmity colites Lord Halsbury, " lord chan•
cellor of that part 03 111)' kingdom of Greet
Britain and Indeed called Great Britian,"
and et these words of the reading clerk the
lord chancellor, hitherto motionless on the
woolsack, raises his threecornered hat in
response to a deee how from the clerk. The
next name is the -Earl of Liffierick and the
elerk be ws again and another three -cornered
hat is raised by another figure on the wool.
seek. The same double bow is repeated at
the 1112010 08 Lord Windsor, the third of the
three figures The document then recites
thee these numerous commissioners " or any
three of them," shall have power to act for
the gneen and notify her assent to the bills
passed by parliament—" Given at Windsor,
by the queen herself, signed with her own
110T0(1.11.15" ends the first stage of the proceed-
ings, The lord demeanor then immediately
without moving, melte a little speech to the
empty benches, which he addresses as ''bly
Lord's," and calls upon the clerks at the
table to pass the bills in the usual manner."
The two othee clerks now step forward
and stand one on each side of the table. One
reads the titles of the hills, the other an.
nommen' her majesty's assent. But this
bald statement gives but a poor idea of the
acted seene, for the bows have been alto-
gether omitted. No ceremony is complete
without a bow, end the passing of bills in
the house of lords seems to an onlooker, ell
bows. • The junior clerk, as he takes mesh
bill from the telde, terns to the woolsack
and mites it profound bow to the commis-
sioners. Rising, lie reeds the title of the
bill and then bows again. As soon as this
bow is over the senior clerk on the other side
of the table makes his bow to the woolsack.
This bow over, he turns round to the repre-
sentatives of the commons penned up under
the clock, and in a clear voice pronounces
the crucial words, La reine le veult ; then
turns round again and makes another deep
bow to the red -robed eera 011 the woolsack.
All this ceremonial is gone throegh with
every bill, and as the titles of the bills are
read it is not easy to avoid tt scilicet the in.
congruity between the nature of the bill and
the antique fornedity by which it is passed
into law. At length the higb pile of bills
is disposed of and the last of the bows has
been made. The three figures in red then
sinnelteneously raise their triangular hats to
the faithful commons in the pen, and these
promptly retire. At the 8011)0 11101110112 the
lords commissionore leave the woolsack and
vanish through another door.
The scene is over, but 112 last touch of
cornerly is given to the thremony by the
speaker on his return to the house of nom.
mons. Immediately he has taken his seat
he rine and says : '1 have to inform the
house of peers there," et, The house, un.
moved at the information, proceeds to the
Peet businese—The Queen.
NI:eluded to DestIL
The Shelburne, N. S., Budget tolls a. re.
markable thory &bout a pennon -Hoe robbery,
In March last a package containing 81,500,
mailed at Lunenhurg for Mahone By dis-
appeared Mysteriously. Postmester Jost
of Lthenburg, Postmaster Burgoyne of
Mahone Bay end the _postmistress at
Chester were thspeeted. The money be.
longed to a, bank which threatened to sue
Jost. Jost " became seriously enfeebled in
health, his appetite failed, lie could not
sleep," and a few weeks ago 110 "died of e
broken heart," protesting hiS 111110001100 to
diciest. The postmistress at Chester 00a8
811E0090d 1100111180 11, portion of the wrapper
01 the paoltage wits found in the Chester
moil bag, tilie toe fell ill and eke( antel ft
deed ot swipe:ion. Meanwhile a -detective
was operating upon one linrgoyno who was
5)10021111g 111011032' very 1411121131 and at length
11 01-100 /119000000d that the money 11101 both
thole by Bergoyne and a Man named Rhu-
land. They 1 1 been a”rastad, 110100 Tho
ewe eneens 2') Mt 1 t•.. L111001 into
'Budget says, 'thing 1 hack the
the grove by the 1.1 41, S1111113 mul by
tho untoward eirenn :,,Les which led the
authorities to suspect them of the theft
LATE BRITISH NEWS
At Denbigshire Athizes, on Weilioseay,
Catherine Roberts, 30, a elemental', 00/10
eenteneed to 20 years' penal servitude for
the manslaughter of ber illegitiIllli14 female
whom elle had subjeeted 10 v, low/
eourrct of illetreatmente
Mr. '1'. Stead, who has been apologizing
for the Prince of Wales, suggest01,041010
time peewees he ahould be made the head
(53 (1 emmuissiun " to elaborate a normal
standard of the necessidee of odeletation,"
Twe 111(1(1 (101(2110 are 001/01.1011 by drown-
ing in County Donegal. TWO young men from
Rounowlagli were out boating, when the
boat 0008 tweet, by a squall, and both 00070
drowned.
A cycling corps has been added to the
equipment of the Salvation Army, Fifty
young teen heve been regitested di volunteer
for three years to travel on wheels.
The oldest church 111 Europe 1 said 17
some who are discussing the guestion to be
St, Martin's,Canterbury, which was hnilt 123
e church before the end of the 10,10112 century.
et, elitry.in-theeeeetle, Dover, 42-105 1/1111t
40101 11119 time but fee utterly two Mewled
years it was used as a garrison fuel depot.
The liaddely brothere, who won the
doubles lawn tennis cliampimiship in Eng -
lend this year, and one of whom won the
championship, are more like each otherthan
the twin 1100814008. 80 le said to be abso-
lutely impessible to tell them apart, unless
they wear mime clistinguithing mark in
dress.
The Hon. Arthur elontmoreth 1VIr.
Douglas Johnstone, Mr. Percival Browo,e,
end Mr, Ralph Caldwell, midshipmen on
Witted H. M. armnured cruiser Warspite the
flagship on the Pacific station, are missing.
When last seen they were in two Lelia»
canoes in the ;Straits. A search 11115 beea
heititated for then!.
A end fatality was reported on Sunday to,
have out:erred at, St. Bridgee's Well, near
Ole cline of Moller in County Clare,tipltiche
people visit in the belief that they w
cured of vertuin ailments. A man of twenty-
seven years, Buttering from paralysis of the
left aide, when praying there slipped and
fell bea,t foremost into the well, and being
powerless to save 1,11110011 WELT drowned,
Two boys, named Cumleigh and Gard,
aged 1 and 10 years respectively, living at
Congleton, Cheshire, obtained possession of
tlyuannte cartridge to which one of them
applied a match. The cartridge exploded,
end one of the boys had three fingers and
thumb blown from one hand, and the other
lad had the sight of one eye destroyed, in
affilmon to other injuries. They were at
0/100 conveyed to the cottage hospital.
Charles H. A Brinson, a boy of 13, was
charged at the Liverpool Police Court OIL
:Monday with robbing children in the street..
The police had been in search of him for 1(1
mouths. He is believed to /141.0 been reeks
ing 21 a week. Thirty recent cases were
t•ead out, in all of which prisoner admitted
robbing children of money varying from is
to 24, the total being e20, These had all
occurred within three months. Prisoner was
remanded.
The British Government has undertaken a
preliminary survey with a view to acertain
00)1021 10 a, railroad between Mombassa and
Victoria Nyanza is practicable. The con-
struction of such u, railroad was recommended
by the Brussels conference as calculated to
diminish the labor and expense now incurred
in the suppression of the slave trade on the
east coast of Africe. The House of Com-
mons has been asked to provide 3100,000 to
meet the coth of the survey.
On Tuesday two brothers mined Rice,
who had been drinking freely, got to revue
ing which was the best swimmer, to settle
which they went to 810i111 11 the sea near
the North mer at Whitehaven. The young.
or brother, Tom, got a considerable distanc80
in front. When he was near the pier enol
his orother Joseph, who was about thirty,.
and a collier, stunk end was drowned. Tom,
who heard of his brother's fate, 0,108 208011021
with difficulty. A young man named
Walker 2110521 011(1 boats went in search, but
the body was not found.
An inquest was held in Manchester
touching the cloth of Edward Wall, a
brewer's (layman. The deceased AVM 08518.
ting to load a lorry with barrels, when he
exclaimed he had swallowed a piece of
tobacco and was going to be sick. He got,
off the dray and almoet immediately fell -
A. doctor was sent for, but the man died
before his arrival. The jury retnrued
verdict of "Accidental death from choking
by swallowing 10011010 of tobacco."
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia, which
arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday, reports
that while.passing the Tusher Lighthouse -on
Monday signals of distress were seen flying
from the rock. A boat was lowered, and it
was found that the lighthouse keeper bed
his right right hand shattered by a rocket
whieh premathrely exploded while he wee
making some signals. He had alao received
other injuries. He was taken on board tit
Cephalonia, where it 5005 found necessary
to amputate tho arm. He is progressing
fav.e.mfelltrbmieYr. named Thomas Moffitt, a man
of about fifty yeara of age, wee engttged 011
Saturday in shimming turnips on farm at
Denier, near Carlisle, when the horse took
frighe at a mowieg machine that was wdrit.
ing in an adjoining field, and ran away,.
Moffat became entangled in the plough, the
souk of which entered one of his legs, and
he was dragged across the field fqr some 200
yards. When released, his body MS f011nd
to be 1111211)115(1 00 a frightful manner, and he
was removed to the Cumberland Infirmary,
where he died on Monday morning
-
The Indian elephant which Queen Vicitoria
ordered some time since to be forwarded es
a gift to the Emperor of Morocco has, aos
cording to amounts just to hand, got no
further than Tangier. The great beast is
described am deeidedly thinner than when
it arrived, this being attributed to the dims
inished dietary provided by the local au.
thorities on the ground of expellee, and its
gthrtersare most tmeomfortable. On the
other hand, two endian attendants sent
with the elephane are home seek, and arms
sequently n ot over attentive. Tee Emperor
10 on a tour up 8 0!vy0 iFhotettilyriee,(0,1cinrdow11.181:grei:ftllt::
County Donegal, lath
Itaibnat
etdeike °s:O011: elaaine3etgetil,:it frtat In &ate 111200 come to light
which show thet but for gross superstitioe on
thepart of the fishermen deceased mighthave
been nteved, The bodies wore floating out.
wards, and a, boat secured them, but ignor-
ant superstition prevented tho mon talcieg
tbe With into the boat and attempting to
resuscitate them, 80 they held them by the
arms and twee them not to the boat quay,
ll'atittltoodttlbte 1110171711 lei 11 Nay 01.1A13d'e plva0tr.
At the sleeted, superstition mme more eat in,
mei the 1101101'nier% refueed to 00( 4,
1,1101 1s1(180(1 181 1(21 eV, gut' 'o nanoLti. it1 1 11"111 174° thyr°15dt
part.
Hope will not revive:Mitil confidenee has
td1;at nearly 40,000„"ntert', 12)05001b o ei)tt irsoa,taeiare
the German Army Avery year. Lees