The Brussels Post, 1891-10-9, Page 2THE BRUSSELS
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-CURIOSITY JO7UIVIN' f newspaper type, would 111 two all three•
quarter volume of any of the groat metro-
politan dailies.
M9untaiusoYFoe, Lottt•euhock has computed that loam
threads of the web of a full'grown spider
" You sea stories about blgicobergs 111
Atlantic sometimes," said an old salt
other day, " but do you know they ea
hold a 0011110113011080 that arc found un
South Atlantic, in the Autorctie Ovua
1' ty a berg iu the Aretios three-fourths
a mild long and 300 feet high is thought to
be enormous, and so ie is, too, 1f yon eaten.
late its cubic contents and remember that
only one-seventh of the whole MUSS floats
above water, the balance below. Tl, weight
of a berg this size is about 9,000,000,000
tons,
the 010 net large' tltall 0. single hair of a man's
the 11 lira, lie maculates that when young
n't epiders begin to spin -180 of their• threads
the are not larger than one from a ful1sizod
n 1' insect, If this be a fact, •1,00,000 \ewes of a
of young eplaer are 110t as large as a single
hair front a ,tun's tate,
—
A Fish Line Male of Women's Bair,
James Thorne, a Toronto barber, bus
just completed a novel fishing lino. It is
composed entirely of women's hale of every
,go molar amt shade, \\ honorer a customer
ve with particularly long hese came to have
00, her hair dressed he would beg of her a few
er silken threads, which he would carefully
ata lay away and work up at his leisure. This
eh has been going on for five years until now
tweet' -five sections, fifteen inches long,
have been completed, Each section .'ot.
tarns one hundred hears. Tate seetion0 are
so nicely joined that it all appears to be of
one shade. The line le surprisingly strung
01111 light and will hold as much weight as
any first-class line. Thome exhibited the
line to some friends the other day for the
first time,
"But in the Antarctic Ocean the her
are something stupendous. Some that ha
been noticed from time to tinto were 4
64'),700, and even 1,000 feet above the eat
and were from three to five utiles Long. O
can scarcely realize the immensity of 00
masses of Ice.
Where do they come from? \Vhy from
the ice about the email mile, to be sure,
You know a good loony expeditions have
been sent out to explore these seas front time
to time, Capt Cook m 1773 being oe of the
earliest. He discovered, as others did, what
he 8nppo501d to be lam!, but it has generally'
happened that where one explorer loos set
down land on his charts a second one die.
covets water 1,000 fathoms deep.
"Oh, about the ice. To be Dere. Well,
these explorers when they, penetrate to
about 75 deg. 5011111 latitude, come across
a great wall of ice rising above the water
higher than the masthead, and extending as
far as tate eye can see, Capt. Ruse when 110
saw it, says that it stretched along for 4111)
miles and it was from 150 to eke) feet above
the water. W'lmen x0011 n mass of ice is
about, do you wonder there are big ice
-
Ler_gs ?
What sort of land is there at the south
pole? Well, that's rather hard to say, since
hardly any one has overseen any of it, and
that only at a distance. Ross discovered
some volcanoes Maga 70 deg. south latitude,
which is as far as any one has ever peretrat-
ed, but most of the other land discovered
has generally turned out to bo only ice,
"It is supposed that the land at the pole
itself is a duster of low Islan0s, may be with
mountains, but these are all covered with
lee. Taking the 810011est slope down which
ice will flow, at 1 foot in 211, leis estimated
that the ice at the pole is seven miles thick.
Yes, it does seem big yarn but, then, when
you know that about thirty or forty feet of
snow balls there during a single year, you
can easily see that it can not all melt in the
short sumntet' season audit goes on accumu-
lating year after year.
"The expedition from Australia? Yes
there is some talk about that, and the eel: onies have raised 1.4,000 or £11,000 to pay
expenses. But it can't pay in a commercial
sense. No one lives down there. There is
no trade and it is the height of the improb-
able that any expedition can reach the pole
overland. Well, if they do, what then? It
would solve no problem of science and world
be of c0 benefit to the !human raee. The at-
tempt to find it is only another one of those
foolhardy things that men will often risk
their lives to do, and all to no purpose.
" When you again see an account of an
Atlantic liner that Inas run afoul of an Ice
berg and had a close shave from shipwreck
remember that those she is likely to enooun
ter are butpygnliesoompared with the giants
of the south seas,"
A Cotnioal Bird.
••
Pour or five mangrove trees in the vicinity
of Bird Key, South America, were occupied
by a colony of brown pelicans. The nests
were a simple mass of refuse, twigs and
seamed, and the flotsam and jetsam of the
ocean, upon which were perched two large
blood.marked eggs, A young pelican may
be considered one of the centical things 1,1
nature—agrotesgne, it I -proportioned animal,
a modified dodo, and like that famous bird,
of which an old writer said it was " as re•
markable to the eye as to the stomach,"
The voice of the pelican but adds to its
absunclity, being a huskyasthunatie whisper,
writes a correapoaden t,
This patient bird, with its solemn, decor.
-one bearing, 10 a victim to the laughing gull,
The laughing gull, being lazy and heavy,
labors at a disadvantage in fishing, so prefers
to borrow from its companion, the pelican,
'Tee operation, which I have often observed,
'a5 well as its sequel with the frigate bird, is
as follows : The pelican flies along at a die•
tense of about 20 feet from the water, moo.
sionall precipitating itself upon a school of
small fry that, not being able to see an object
directly overhead, often become victims,
and are captured by the long bill and pouch.
Having cauvhtthesardines,thepelican rights
itself, and for a second floats serenely unrn
the surface, wagging its diminutive tail in.
satisfaction. To swallow the game, it toss.
es its beak upward, which 1!110880 the fish
from thepouch between the bills, the
next
movement being to swallow.
But here the Laughing gull becomes a
'art to the performance,
He has P Y P been
a watchful follower for some time, and now
alights upon the pelican's head, or some-
times its back, the pelloau uttering no pro-
test rand apparently not objecting in the
least. As the tempting morsel is tossed by
the pelican the gull leans femur(' and deft-
ly plucks it from the long bill, and either
coolly swallows it then and there, while
standing upon the broad back of the victim,
or flies away with the stolen fish, uttering
the victorious " ha, ha," that may attract
the attention of the frigate bird, which, fn
turn, proceeds to rob the gull
The Largest and Smallest.
The three r 111est trees in the world are
believed to be a sequoia near Stockton, Cali.
forma, which 18 326 feet high, and two
eucalypti in , lotoria, Australia, estimated
to be 435 and 450 respectively,
The lake which has the highest elevation
of any in the work! fa Green Lake, Color-
ado, Its surface is 10,260 feet above the
level of the sea. In some places it ie aver
300 feet deep. The greatest depth of the
ocean is 27,030 feet.
The largest sheet or pane of glass in the
world is sot in the frons of a building in
Vine -street, Cincinnati, Ohio. It was made
in Marseilles, France, and treasures 18e by
104 inches.
At Allegheny City, I.'enn., there was re.
cenely rolled asteel spring six inches wide,.
1 inch thick and 310 feet tong. It is the
largest mailed spring ever rolled, 'the order
was tendered to all the large European iron-
works, but none of them would undertake
the task.
The smallest known epochs of hogs are
buarterod at the Loudon Zoological Gardens,
They cane from the southern part of Aus-
tralia, and ere known es "tate pigmy hogs
of the Antipodes." They Oro well formed,
frisky and good-natured, and about the size
of amuskrat, They are real hogs and not
to be 001100end011 with guinea pigs, 88hieh
are a 0p58100 of rodent,
Jelin .7, 'Taylor of Streator, Ill„ once
Wrote 4100 words on the blank side of a
/instal card without artificial aid. Tho words
on that single card, it printed in regular
John Wesley's Pulpit.
The horse -block in the High 13e11en,
Wednesbury, Staffordshire, from which
John Wortley p1eachod forty-five sermons
during hie twentyseven visits to the town,
has been banded for preservation to the
trustees of Spring Head Wesleyan Chapel,
by the directors of the (Town lube Works,
who are building on the site. To commem-
orate the acquisition of this stone the lVes-
1030,115 held an open-air melee on the spot
00 Sunday afternoon. Addresses based
upon Wesley's life and work were delivered
by the vicar of the town and Mletihodist
ministers, and it was suggested that a
statue of Wesley should be erected on the
block, which is uow to be placed in Spring
Head Chapel grounds. It was Wesley's
presence on this block that caused the
famous Wednesbury riots in 1743.
Habits ot Wild Ducks,
At the period of incubation ducks melte
their uest whenever the desire to deposit
the first egg comes upon them. 1f they
have neglected to protide a suitable retreat
it is too late to mend matters.
Since then I have passed and repassed the
spot and have seen the eggs handled free
quently, but for all tinct Madame Duck does
not desert her rocky home.
Jock suggests that I go to his camp, three
181108 distant, for dinner. On the way we
cress an immense marshy flat and in the
middle of this is a beautiful spring some
eight yards in diameter. The tracer is fairly
blue, icy cold, and no bottom can be seen
at the center, but about the edge, where the
water is from one to ten feet deep, the 111a8 -
sive rocks that are fantastically draped with
aquatic mosses and algae so that it seems
like looking down into fairyland. The
waters of this spring run for a clonrter of a
mile and then sink to reappear a mile
away, bursting into the creek from crevices
in the volcanic rock. The swamp ht a great
breeding place for teal, and three or four
ducks with their young broods are swim-
ming in the miniature lake. As Nye burst
upon the scene one duck flies off, but the
rest stay to conceal their young. How do
they do it? Bring them in to shallow
water, where they can rest upon the bottom
and stink their bills up through the 111058.
Then the old ones swim out into sleep water
and resort to the sane tactics. We drive
tie ducklings from their place of conceal.
anent and they swim out to their parents
with half of their bodies exposed. Though
the moss is just es inviting they will not
hide where they cannot feel bottom and
their mothers bring them back to shore,
Young ducks can dive, but have not the
power of remaining beneath water for any
length of time until they can make a strong
flight. The power of remaining beneath the
water is acquired by practice and is not in.
nate—Forest andSh•eam.
Captain Hawley Smart, the English
sporting novelist, is an old soldier, and
fought on the Crimea,
Probably the smallest locomotive ever
constructed has just been made by William
Jacobs, a machinist of Meoklenberg town-
ship, Pa. It weighs but one and one -quay
ter pounds and is a portion of an eight-day
clook. Around the dial is a miniature rail-
way track, and on this the tiny locomotive
moves every five minutes.
There 10 no more attractive bulb, and
none 10or0 easily raised in the house or out.
doors than oxalis, It is now found in
beautiful rose -pink shades, and in yellow
and white.
Thereis afine t'y soh
artet • ea
of b florists, y some rests, which is white with a
yellow eye, and rosy pink tint on the out-
side. These e !ats need
scarcelyany
nate
except watering,
and a sunny situation in a
window or oitdooes. They will give a pro.
feeion of bloom fol• four or five month,
when they require a period of rest.
Pmrtr,un Pu.tcirss.—Select ripe Clingstone
poctohes, To one mutton of good vinegar ;
add four pounds of brcwn sugar ; boil this
for a few minutes, and take off any 5011111
which may rise. Rub the peaches with a
flannel cloth, to remove the clown, and stick
a clove in each ; put them in glass or stone
jars, and pout' the liquor upon then boiling
hot, When, auld,00ver the jars and let then
stand in a cool place for a weep or ten days,
theft pour off the liquor and boil itas before,
after which return it,boiling, to the peaoltos,
which should be carefully covered and store,
away for future use. if your peaches are
very hard, boil them in water till tender
before you pickle them, and they will be fit
for use ahnost immediately.
It is not much solace to be complimented
for your courage 1711011 in the same breath
you are !notated in tate sum of two thousand
dollars damages, but that is what once
happened to the recently deceased 415',
Charles 1)13 nrault, the well-known English
11e:1100 in wild beasts. A tiger escaped from
his oolloetiral, and rushing in amongst some
children on Radeliffe Higlhway clawed one
of them so badly that the court thought the
suns I have mentioned fair compensation,
Thorn would, however, have been a fat' more
serious ending to the incident but for Mr.
,Ian,raeh's prompt pluck. When he 5)817
the beast loose and in for carnage he ran
out, jumped upon its back, and by main
force wrung its head away from the child it
had attacked until 050 of his men handed
him a crowbar with which ho drove the
boast Back to Ilia don. Thorn was a crowd
aretina all the timo, of course, who receded
and advanced .aenording as the tiger or lir.
Jameneh appeared to bo prevailing, and the
leader of tee crowd 8800 a policeman with a
drawn t,nucieeon, That is the 0118113' touch
given to the et. ry by ivIr, Jalnraoh himself,
whose 001100 of tine 110101.0os was even in
those cir,.ntn8taimes fully alive, But
neither pluck nor humor could 50,70 Mtn
that two thousand dollars,
HOUSEHOLD.
Among the Flowers,
Now with the eagle's flight *110 sues below
• him
A 11illulte lrlentn, n phtu )15'13,'13 clout, In stud,
A 1 c lake ndlt, n olvut clic old punnl
Ron ilselfin tiueateligbt Ineough the prose
of land.
Nor wheel the sailor steers b3 Southern is
lamas
Sighting same distant. Thule of tho sea
Through deserts of alternate sound and sil-
ence,
And trilde 0f wonder, let my roaming be.
1;
would walk humbly whore no glace between
us
:lust show me natures countenance and
come
In dive whose evening eta• bo always Conus
9 o spurt Reith dewdrops, like it bee, at Monte.
"lis Eden everywhere to hearts that listen
And }retch the lift of wards and meadows
gr•o w 1
$,toll tiniest blade Lore's holiest kisses christen
And Beauty asks not where to bud and blow,
'''hero is no music for 1Ile Joy of thinking
Like 1 105'11'0 hymn in smiles and odors play-
ed,
No mond like that when sense and soul are
drinking
The red and yellow honey that Cod rade.
The blooming wilds his giteden0 aro; some
elivecing
11811ifs ugliest waste Irani felt that flower's he-
gura1b.
And atfill the winds o'er summer hills career -
Sound softer for the sWeetue08 that th
breathe,
Doti•\ lonely glens, is bells unshaped, linseed
ed,
The snowdrop letters of Joy's earliest word
Whiten the earl, and pink aur: shine, ferti
shaped,
Where old creation's curse tuns never hoard,
Peace, Freedom, Purity her blossomed sample
Guards each In field and forests evermore
And the lost glories of the world's green to m-
ole
Show still sono flakes of splendors on its
floor,
These eve nay school -books, and 1 study in
them
A voice, a bliss of strange forgotten dors
That brings me nearer the love that could be-
gin them
Anel makes each petalled sweet a song of
prefect.
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minutes ; pieh over, wash, tie in a Lire ba
and put it into the double boiler with the
milk. Moil until the milk thickens when
dropped 011 11 0001 plate. Add the salt,
aerate and flavor, Mold 111 email gips or in
eggshells,
.fu 101111>el' earthenware which is to b
used for Inking, lent tho Waite N 1l) CUI,I trate
overthe 11re, and bring them gradually to
the boiling point, When the Neater boils
around then!, remove them from the tire,
and lot them romrlltt in the water till it be-
comes cold,
A simple cement for broken china or
earthen wm'e is made of powdered quicklime,
sifted through a ammo muslin bag over the
wh11 egg,
Cottoarseof 0the>oso-cloth may bo need for take
ing the bags used in the bath. Tboy may
be tilled with either almond ,noel, or else
with bran in w'hiell 0 great cleat of orris
powder has been mixed, With care a bag
may be used twice, that is, if after the first
bath it is pat in the sunshine to dry, and
not allowed to grow sour, for in this condi.
tion it b000mes unlit for use.
A hot slaty represents one of the best and
111001 wholesome methods of preparing
cabbage. Shred the cabbage on a bread,
but rho not chop it. Put it, into a deep
poroelaith dish. Heat a pint of vinegar till
ie boils, Arld two tablespoonfnle of butter,
n t0as1)ouf0l of salt and a tittle pepper.
Sprinkle two tablespoonfuls of sugar Over
the cabbage if you like the addition, and
• pour the boiling mixture over it. Cover it.
11,
A Woman Among Siberia's Lepers.
Miss Kate Marsden hos been telling the
British public about her work among the
lepers of Snl>elie. Her uudertuking 10 one
of no common interest.
She is a Red Cross Sister, both in Eug-
land and Russia, and was engaged with some
Euglieh companions in tending thowountled
in the Russo-Turkish tsar whore her do -
voted Ministrations and those of her col-
leagues endeared then greatly to rho ob.
jests of their care. One day she and a
companion were seeking for any scattered
wounded they marl find, and strayed into
a departed barn whose sole instates were
two wretched lepers who had taken shelter
there. One of these was so utterly maim-
ed and disfigured as to have lost almost tie
semblance of a human farm. The sight
made so strong en impression on her, that
site then and there resoled to devote her-
self to trying to ameliorate the condition of
lepers.
After the war she was called to another
field of labor in New -Zealand, and it was
some years before she was free to follow out
her own plans. As soon as she could, she
began her researches in several countries as
to the mode of treatment, eta„ followed,
her main object being on unfortunate fellow
subjects in India. She revisited Russia, an0
fotmdslte could gain touch information there.
Backed by royal patronage and aceompanied
by Visa Field, whose perfect knowledge of
Russian enabled her to be a fitting inter•
ureter, she set out, and, before elle had
reached tate last railway terminus, she met
with one able and twilling to he her best in-
formant, in an aged missionary bishop of
the Russian Church, who had spontd0 years
among the Siberiahs of the northeast, be-
yond 1 akutsk, and had translated
0 grant
part of the Scriptures into their language.
He told her that in that remote part there
is a large colony of lepers, outcasts from all
their aonntrymeu, living a wandering life
among the forests and marshes of that In-
hospitable climate, and obliged to make
thew sole food from the fish in the lakes,
which have been found to contain germs
eouteying the taint of leprosy. Time poor
creatures are very anxioue for hospital, and
have been hitherto unable to find any to
plead their cause• But they are said to have
discovered a remedy, an herb known only
to themselves, which, though their wretch.
tad anode of life hinders its good effect, is
believed to cure the disease when it can bo
fairly administered under favorable oircnui.
stances.
Miss Marsden resolved to go on in search of
this remedy. The kindness of the Russian
officials, and of many in positions to help
her, has been great, and this it was which
made the journey possible, for they had
always e
u escort and every facility lit afforded
teem ; but the hardships were such as would
have been felt severely by the strongest and
most active men, and 1135' two }}out and
delicate women tltoy were au ordeal whielh
nothing but the courage born of devoted
benevolence and lively Christian faith could
have enabled then to face.
It 88180 midwinter, the frozen rivers pre.
vented steamers from plying ; the only land
conveyance was by sledges of the roughest
description, with a head 00701 ug behind,
but no seat ; the travelers must lie on their
baoks on the luggage stowed in tine bottom,
shaken fearfully by the rough snowy roads.
No sleeping places but a kind of "caravan -
egret " post houses, no beds attainable but
the floor on their outer coverings of reindeer
skin ; none but the coarsest food, supple-
mented by wall tinned provisions as they
could bring ; and this mode of traveling had
to 1111 carried on for weeks, with only rare
and occasional intermission, whore a more
habitable place could be reached, and a
little rest taken.
Their chief earthly consolation was the
power of visiting the sick and prisoners in
the hospitals and prisons they passed, and
giving them little comforts, principally
squares of " brick" tea std sugar, and kind,
ly words of sympathy and Christian love,
At last it beoamo clear that Mies Field
must retorn to seep further help 111Engl1,ncl
otherwise means would not bo forthoonfnp,
Miss Marsden proceeded alone on bee dtf-
ficult enterprise. The last part of her
journey wee to be performed on horseback
over the roughest and most primitive bridle
ppaths, in tate remote country beyond Ye-
kt,tsk. Thorn she hopes to discover anal
test the remedy, to see how the discovery
car be applied to the amelioration of tho
state of the lopes in India, and to plead
the cause of a hospital for the poor Siberian
lepers, 01111 then return to England, N'.tl,.
lug has been board from her for 001110 time
but e0ntribmtiono in her behalf are bring
asked for in England
,Hints to $oufeekeopere,
To make Irish moss blancanango, tanto
half a cup of Inch moss, oto quart of milk,
one salt'spooaful salt and ono teaspoonful
vanilla, Soak the owes !m cold water fifteen
with a plate and set it in a hot oven for
about five 111111utes, Servo It warm or oolp
as you fancy.
What They Should Learn;
N ewspapers eat d magazines ovo1lo1Y with
directions for women to follow and tell them
tjust what they should learn and how to learn
at. They are le0turea on decorum and taught
everything from how to eat their soup up to
how to thane the baby's bib. Following is
a 0lippiug ofgthings for a woman to learn :
To sew.
To cook,
To 11101) El.
To be gentle.
7'o value 1100.
To dress neatly.
To keep a secret.
To be self-reliant.
To avoid idleness.
To mind the baby.
To dare stockings,
To resp00t old age,
To stake good bread.
To keep a house tidy.
To,couteol her temper,
To be above goeslpimg.
To make!). borne happy,
To take Dare of the sic.
To humor a cross old ratan.
7.'o harry a ratan for his worth.
To be a helpmate to a husband.
To take plenty of active exercise,
To ewe a mouse without screaming,
To read some books besides novel.,
To be light-hearted and fleet -footed.
To wear shoes that don't cramp the feet.
To bo a womanly woman under all air-
ounstances,
The writer takes pleasure in nanking out
a list of things for a man to learn :
To chop wood.
To build fires.
To Beau walks,
To put up a stove.
To carve a fowl.
To dress himself.
To keep track ot his clothes.
To whip a carpet.
To hill a tat.
To be unselfish.
To cleen his boots.
To shave himself.
To hang rap his coat,
To keep his word,
To "et up fn the morning.
To be above flirting.
To taut polhtios without getting; mad.
To foam a burglar without quaking.
To value what belongs to a yeoman.
To avoid the sopioty of bad tvotneu.
To marry ,a woman for something besides
a curl or her forehead and a jersey waist.
To tolerate a woman's sentiments.
To read something besides a newspaper.
To never expect a silk hat to take the
place of brains.
To think of sem ething besides hisstomaoh.
To value a woman's affection over and
above what it contributes to his personal
comfort.
To make 110 pretensions to any woman:he
never intends carrying out.
To treat a woman as his equal.
To take no advantage of awoman's Ignor-
ance of the world.
To expeot no woman to swallow excuses
made for inexcusable things that another
man would hoot at.
To never expect a woman's implicit confi-
dence under such oirenmstanaea.
To have fewer imperative "business
calls."
To keep a 010an brei
tt.
To exist without a club membership.
To be as
g women generous with the won folks
as he is with the fellows,
To remember that the paved walks wore
not made for the exclusive purpose of load.
ing n with tobacco juice,
To keep his head at the sight of a pretty
girl.
To break the cardamom seed habit.
To expect no dress suit to pass as princi-
ple.
To keep his hands cleat.
To have faith in a woman's capacity.
To attend to business.
To be temperate in all things.
To keep the eevettth commandment.
To curse not generations to come evltlt
bad blood, nervous diseases and physical
suffering.
To encourage no vice vltioh will become
a second nature and leave him toothless,
gray and bald when he should be in the
prune of ntanlrood.
To keep his mind free from filth.
To indulge in no obscene sous d
stories as an amusenene at banquets an
ts Land
stag parties. q
To never forget when ladies are absent
that there may bo gentlemen present.
To be a manly man upon all occasions.
.ur•oarw. ,r
Firma Portraits on Chita,
A new art loos been developped in the firing
of portraitsot1 china. Hitherto painting
was the ordinary method resorted to by
those who wished to preserve the likenesses
of their friends on porcelain or any dosarip.
Lion of ware. 13y the new method the
pictures aro photographed on the porcelain
and then fired, 111 ale Nano way es tho ordi-
nary d000ratioes of the ware. Ile portrait),
boli like tate finest photographs, and unless
broker, will last forever. The pioturoe eat
he adapted to may Also, and eat thot'ofure be
put on cups, fiancees, vases, panels or mc.
dal#fons with equal ease.
Anton Rmbinetoiu has 8051nded ltt,naelf at
a country place near Dresden, intent "pee
OCT, 0, int
FALL PUN, TES LUCK OFA STOWAWAY,
cue ea'alluw doesn't mate Spring, but r
cold will make a aoasfdo resort 80 sick tl
doctor's medich,o le of no avail,
" I took my husband for het ler or
110155," said the gautblur's wife, .1 A
you fouml him a hector," replied Ivor frio
11113 s01r'ted 1'115' 1011411d
z11 181 11 11111 (11811, 11 11 11
1111 A' 010 Bee it n Toes mei* 01011.
Eduard 11, 18 ❑c 1300, n e0111111111411141King" of
for San l'auln, Brazil, toll the story of his life
ml at the PalmerHouse Chiougo, steeply end
ml, his sister, Mrs. Lily Kneese•ltttree 88158 ,t
Tho latest popular ballad is entitled "
Never Came Beek.' This is probably 11
to the fact that he slid not dial's a >81111
trip ticket.
He
uo
a•
rah
He (on the straw rld0)—" Don't you bbl
you bad better be wrapped ftp in lay coat
Seo—" Yes, But hadn't you butter put
on first Y'
If Eve" 011 airs," it may be remark•
ed in extenuation that site had little else to
put on.
The American hog be still excluded from
France, unless he goes over disguised 00 a
tourist,
A man certainly has little to do when he
spends his time trying to break down Itis
prosperous neighbors.
New rye is high. 010 rye is not high
until it gots inside a man, l'tten it is fen.
gaemtly voey altitndinous.
Adapt 8300 the first odd fellow, but when
lie took Eve into partnership he ceased to be
of the independent order,
You may mach 010 mosquito
And crush if 'oi will,
But the photos where he bit
Will bo eensitivo still,
?11
lettuces to the veracity of tho groator part
of the talc, lir. Kneen() is a woll.pmfeeeved
middlo•agod tutu, He said he Karl travelled
ttonsends of tulles to see again the sister be
had left twenty-nine years ago in this' home
in New Orleans,
"Thirty-one 1001.5 ago," he bogan, "I
it entered college to New Orleans, Fallow
was a cotton merchant, but at ardent
Abolitionist, 1Vhou 1 entered college I fell
in with at crowd of young Southerners, and
I soon became imbued with the spirit that
geveened nay companions. When wear was
declared I joined the Crescent troop with
the met of nit, college chums std wont to
the front. that was the beginning of the
trouble of my family. Pothole mother,
brothers, and sisters, all except Lily hero,"
casting a glance of affection at the woman
beside hint, when eyes tilled with tears at
010 remembrance, "turned against ate, and
even my letters wore returned unopened.
" Nene the close of the war I was taken
prisoner, and was confined seven months,
'When peace was declared I was tinned upon
the streets of Baltimore without a oe.of
money or a friend to whom 1 couklgo. n% For
three days I lived with scarcely a bite to
eat. Southerners were not wanted, and I
Wee thrust from every one's floor, I was
110110 too strong, and ens nearly in despair,
— when I boarded a vessel bound for Brazil
and secreted myself in a cask about one-
third full of water. A day and a night I
remained there, and was nearly dead when
discovered Tho officers treated ate brutal.
ly, for the skipper was a Northerner, end
had no sympathy with a Southern stow-
away,
Upon arriving at llrazil I started in to
make my fortune, resolved to stay there
until I ties wealthy, Naturally, I had a
severe time, as I was tutaegtainted with the
people, the customs or tato Ianguaga of the
country ; but at last at old Euglislh carpen-
ter gave me a place to worlt, and front then
on I Jed a much easier time. I spent a few
years' with the Englishman, and then, hat' -
mg some money saved rap, I patented a
Inttchiue for coffee cleaning that I hurl in-
verted and stertor] for the interior to sell it.
1 got up into the diamond country, and while
t,eme 1 hail an adventure that nearly cost
1115 my life,
" I was putting up a machine for a planter
upon the bauks of a little stream, and while
riot busy wandered down the brook and
gathered ftp stones. An old! \ogress who
waited upon me 81010 the specimens in lily
room and presented me with three pieces of
beautiful crystal. I left there a few clays
later, hailed to peek all of the specimens,
leaving one of the oc•sstals in my room. The
planter discovered it and thought it wee a
diamond, and the \egress confirmed his
8115)101018 by saying that I had found
that one and two more. The platter
thought I had a priceless treasure
in my pos'essioi, and teas trying to mope
with it, Consequently he notified the police
and searchers were sent out 011 over the
country. A reward wasoffered for me dead
or alive. As it happened, I was hunting in
the forest, and heard nothing of it until a
week later when I returned to the city,
when a policeman ordered me to throw- tip
my hands, A bullet whizzed by my ear the
next instant, and I obeyed and gave mvselt
up. 1 of course I was cleared, and the plant-
er made all sorts of apologies.
1f 1 lot's the fund I have adopted," con-
cluded 9Ir, ].O,neese. "Ian successful now
and shall return to Bruit after a short visit
tvitlt my sister.
Hay lever Victim—" boater, can't you
tell ne hew I can find relief from this con-
stant iuc::nAden to sitsczo?" Phyei01 ii
"Yes .f5'; sneozo 1"
D:aor—"Did you have a heavy. chill
"..Ir Patient—" It seemed so," Doctor—
" Did your teeth chatter 1" Fair Patient—
"No ; they were in my arming case,"
Gigantic Lady (to policeman)—" Site can
you not see me across the street?" I'olice-
man —.See yet across de strata, is i0 ? Sure,
muni, I0en see yez itmile otl'."
0111 llacltclor—" 1)o you expect to marry,
or do yon prefer to keep your liberty, Miss
van Senile" \hiss Van tient—" \\'hat a
funny question 1 11nt0tlrl to do both."
Alas, for all their ecstasy,
They knew not what was 1,est :
The young man reached the front floor,
The old ln0n did the rest,
Minister—" _fly dear sir, you are full of
whiskey. You'll pray for it some day.
Tipplerro— "1Pill 1? Then (hie) stop
across the street and tell the saloou-hoeper,
He'll be glad to know it."
Teacher—" To'nnny, than has been callod
the ' laughing animal' Can you moraine
801110 otter attribute that raises hint above
the mere brute ?" Tommy Rigg—" Y e3 m,
He—he knows how to spit,"
Paresis—" The Summer girl is a great
mathematician," Solyal—"Is that so?"
Perosis—"Yes. She multiplies our joys,
divides out. attentions, adds to one cares and
subtracts from our intones."
"Pray tell me how do mittens woo?"
Shu answered hint : "I don't
Know low because—bemuse—aren't you
Aware they always won't 9'
Jinks—" That man does not look very
smart and yet you sae he has made a
million." \\'inire—" Smart? He's a genius,
He's a great invunter," " Y011(1011'1 say so.
Whitt did he invent?" " He invented 011
apple barrel that won't )hold scarcely any.
thong,',
1;:0. Snith—'
Deacon Passer must be
Dried Fur bossy."
Bro. Prey—'• What's the
good deacon done?" "He wan ted to bet two
dollars that Pharaoh's army would 'never
have been drowned going across the Red Sea
if they had had souse enough to wait till the
tide wn5 out,
y1,
\Vifo—" McAbee is going to have her
picture. taken 10.dlty." Husband—" Is she?
May I go with her and see her hating it
done 1' thlie.—r' (.'ottsiuly, \\'ray do yet
w'an1Lugo '!" Husband—"The photographer
will tell "her to look pleasant, you know and
1 want to see ler that way for once, "
"So you passed yourself as a widow- while
you were away, eh ?" said Mr. Brigga to his
spouse, who, by the way, is rather good.
looking, " You ought to be ashamed of
yourself but I suppose you are not, " " Of
coarse, I am not, " was her reply. "I did
013 n1erely on Johnny's account. You have
no idea !tow kind alt the gentlemen were to
hint,"
loporter—" Now, I want all the facts
about the suicide. How old ryas she ?" The
Interviewed—"Just nineteen," ZReporter—
"H'm 1 Talented and all that of course,
Beautiful, with Venualike figure and flair
that reached to the— By the way, why did
she kill herself?" The Interviewed—" Be-
cause she knew that she was too homely to
ave"
A Lawyer Baffled,
Webster Jim \1 bstet• was being tried
for trying nB
bo
bribe a colored witness, Sam Johnsing, to
testify falsely.
You s this s clefendaut
offered '
bribe of 8 50 to testify .n ? ' d
$ y 1 his behalf , said
Lawyer Gouge so San Johnsing•
" Yes, salt."
"1 Now repeat precisely what ho said, wing
his own words.'
" Ho said he would got me $110 if I—"
" He can't have used those words. He
didn't spotlit as a third person,"
" No, sale ; he took good keerclab der !vas
110 third pussot present, Dar wee only
two—us two: De defendant am too smart
ter hal) anybody lis1eniu' when he ate talking
about his own roskelity,"
r1 I know that well enough, but he sponte
to you in the firet person, didn't he 9"
' I was tlo fustusson, myself."
"r Yon don't understand mo. When he
was talking to you did he use the words, "I
will pay you 850.'"
"No, boss: hedidn't say nut&nabotttyou
prtyin' me $50, Yore ,name wasn't niontiou-
ocl, 'oeptiu' dal; he tole are of eber 1 got inter
a scrape doe you was ale best lawyer in San
Anton° to fool de judge and jury. In fee
you 8808 do best lawyer in de town for
00701111 ftp any kind of reskolity.
You eon stop down,"—
The Power of Lo ve,
Love is omnipresent in nature as motive
incl reward; to love isonrhighest word, and
the synonym of God. Every promise of the
soul 11011 Innumerable fulehmeuts; each of his
joys ripens into a tea mart. NabIne, um•
containable, flowing, forelooking, in the
11101 sentiment of lehuinese, anticipates al.
ready a benevolence which shall lose all
particular t'egat'11 in its general light. The
introduction of this felicity is in a private
and lender' rollution of one to one, which 10
the e1,01talienant of Mumma life ; 18)11011, like
a w rivil,0 rage and enthuolesm, 001x)5
en 5',,u, ,t one period and marks a resole
0011 .o bin mind and body, 811ito0 him to 1
is ran,,, pledges him to the domestic and
ivil relations, carries him with new 011•
by
hut, maitre, mnban0e5 the power of
completing a new k,uasi,,n opera, its wort as
Ms oratorio, Moos. 11e is oleo bey pro.
paring abealt of musical or#ticisms autl
oploions for publication.
Lady Tennyson.
Unlike the wiles of ninny great mon,
Lady Teunysot bus modestly merged her
y
individua it •
1 in that of her husbaml; but it
is not because she lacks intellectual capacity
and scholarly acquirements. Her father —
a solicitor of Hardoastle in Lincolnshire—
educated her as few girls of that time, and
when Arthur Tennyson met her cho was in
full sympathy with his high ideal and lofty
inspirations. She is an excellent musician,
and las written scores for several of iter
husband's ballads, although only one Inas
been published. In fact, it may be said
that had Lady Tennyson been but poorly
endowed in the intellectual qualities, she
would not have succeeded so well in her
life's lot ; she would not have realized the
chiareoterof "revered Isabel "—
The stately flower of female fortitude.
Of perfect wifehood, and pure lovelib ood,
It has been said that °lever men should
not marry clever woman, and, if it 11150.015
that genius should not be united to genius,
talent to talent, the aphorism is, perhaps,
perfectly true, But the woman who elates
with a man of geuuia and finds marital hap-
piness must
have lifted
herself n
P somewhat
Yh0.t
e
above:the comm
onplace to become her hus-
band's sympathizer and confidante, In
ministeringto
a
5'081 poet's s
da+
i
Y
needs
Lady Tennyson has exhibited alttie0 8111311
as no mere drawing -room
dowager or socie-
ty butterfly could have shown. She hie
fed his msthetic feelings, studied his sense
of the beautiful. In the largo mansion near
Freshwater, as well as in the summerhouse
on the (till overlooking Haslonlo'e, there is
that sw•eee, calm, and harmonious beauty
which pleases the poet's temperament, and
whioln only educated Mate and cleft work-
manship of re wife can produce, In the
white stone house, with ils ivied walls and
flower-bodeoksd terraces, equally with the
little Gothio structure that lir. Knowles,
the editor of elle I\ritteteo/Ell Century, design•
ed, the traces of Lady Ten nyson's tender
care are visible in drawing -room and library
fn emokieg.room and study. Every meers-
chaum pipe, evory oaken stick of the mas-
ter's is rehtiously guarded from saceileggions
hands, ,511)1 this self sane spirit of devo-
tion she has inspired all her children. So
far aft the most intimate friends can say,
there has neva been the sliglltootrift iu the
Tennyson household during its forty years
Mouton, Other women might have token
offense at the pleasure the poet was wont
to fake in the society of certain clever mus-
ical and literary women with whorl bo be-
came acquainted ; but Lady Tennyson's
heart is too large for soot, petty jealousy.
She fools and knows that the devotion and
love she has lavished upon the ,poet differ
essentially from that of his admirers, It
10, perhaps, her elowuit,+ virtus, never to
have felt jealous of the e told.
A tach points heaveiward when it means
the most uusohiof, It )las many !finnan
itlnitatOre.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, writing to
a friend in San Frahoisoo, from Samoa,
under date of July lent, says there 118 " a
co,5tant tttinrrlt of. tlu'eatencil war and
wiseacre of the whittle" in that country,
Of her lmebatd she says 1 " Louis is
ridicelously well, You should see him cone
galloping up from Apia, Iooking so 8ve11 aid
cheery, It would doole• lomat good, Ho is
Nay or ' The 1Vreaker' and several short
stories of island iifo—lopoods that are very
interesting,"
ti osen'tes, wee, the imagination, adds to
hie t i , uc for bowie and tutored attributal,
eetabii'attos Marriage and gives petentmeneo
to htittnan sector t, --(Patterson