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the value of their hides. The 1ua•kets of
Late Fo rel n`n N ews , rho large edifies are overfilled w•i I1 horses,
eager, oxen, sheep, and goats, 11011 large
5
The reports that 1''.ntperor 11'itliam wil
'visit Heligoland this fall to inspect the net
defences there, are false. 7j he works it
question are 81/ far from completion the
there is practically nothing to inspect.
A. St. Petersburg dispatch aunetteee8 th
departure front that city for Denmark of 1b
Czar', the Cz0111)0 and other members of til
numbers of them are transported to foreign
001111trie8, According to the calenlaton of
Government experts, [about 3.10,0011,000l rubles wilt 110 required to keep the Menthol
w:
1 people and part of 611011' cattle from st:arva•
t doll until (ho nest summer,
Wien 0118 ('zarelvitoh nn hie racoon
journoy vn.itotl the Arasto �orskt m settle.
a •N t ks in Nlherii ,�f1 bol (cossack
journoy
a, , 111011( n( t'„-. • t'
• 13 years „4t begged to aecompauy him an
lbody guard to the border of tine sett linen
t m distal) •a of 193 verats (sere)) volts 01'
litre 1011011, '1'11e pvivii1ge W.,x ;punted Mtn
I and the boy, triol and nice on his little hors
O ['ode the whole distance by the right wbee
1 of the t'zarewitoit's carriage at an av(rag
e speed of twenty eons 011 hour without to
least, sign of weariness, 13e had a stool
O satin ensign with the imperial osentehen
O 011 000 sid0 and the inscription, " God Save
O Oar A11g1181 Atainath," on the other, The
ensign land been wrought by a Cossack
W0111011, the aunt of the lad. The boy re.
ceived a gold watch and chain for his
bravery, and his amt received a dltunond
ring.
imperial family of Russia and the rept
family of Greece, 'I'itey sailed on the yauh
-Polar Star,
Frederick Junket., a locksmith in Hall
on the Seale, killed his 10)10, (laughter ant
sister, one night this week. lie laid all th
dead bodies m one bed and then stretcher
himself out at their' feet, The police war
auminoned by neighbors who heard th
women's cries When the entered th
1 y
house they found Junker sound asleep with
III knife beside 1tin1.
The projoot for an underground railway
in Paris is said to have disappeared.
IHELLESPONT AS IT IS,
The Narrow Neel( of 'lister That
Gives England, Bassin, and
Tar;ley So 311 mit tial east.
'inhere 1.01tn48)' Peru to Pl•t•il'nl III
)1'undrr(at Ague tir 80018 la FC0
"01 Lit Ilan acro,
The whole eirililizatl wafld was startled a
t fele weeks ago at the repot that a detatch•
c
meet ofbtu 'auk 1 1 ''n 1 •o
1 a La mid na i 1
J e a to a3 f m a
British irotl•clacl, accompanied by a battery
0 of field pieces and asverin liabling guns, haul
1
1
n
Much talk has been created by a speech
of Deputy
Von Stobleurski-Thorn, in which
Prussian Poles re advised to sHPPort i1/
future the great and good German Emperor,
the deadliest enemy of the Russian Czar.
His position is endorsed by the Polish Cath
clic Church.
The efforts in St, Petersburg and Paris to
induce American financiers to Join in taking
;he Russian loan have failed.
The slow progress of the commercial
negotiations involving Germany and Austria
is said to be clue to Emperor William's
orders. The scarcity of,grain in Germany,
the sufferings of the Silesian weavers and the
poorer people of the great cities ander the
agrarian laws, and the universal complaints
ofhi,ipri
1 cos have convincedhim i n tl(at no
6 1
new burdens 11
1 b1/ hs s )01/111. beP lac
ed on hamasses.
t
The Governor of Mittan, Russia, has or.
tiered all municipal councils under his
jurisdiction to fix the price of bltked bread
in their respective towns, in ore :lie
ler Out .l e
bakers may not be able to make their own
prices and to extort from the consumer a
larger profit than is due. It is supposed
that the Governors of other regions will
follow his example.
The bread baked by the famishing pea.
sante on the Volga is made of flan/. of goose
feet (chenopodium rid» •urn) with the admix.
ture of a small quantity of rye. The bread is
black, light of weight, and looks like turf.
The criminal statistics of Odessa fc r the
year 1890, according to the police records
recently published, show that the moldier
of crimes was by 26.9 per cent. larger then
during the preceding year. The whole num.
ber of crimes actually continitted was 3,061,
Of these 64,3 per cent. consisted of larceny,
theft, shoplifting and similar offences ; :31,2
per cent. were assault and battery, itaubori.
nation to the authorities, and disturbance
of the peace. The rent were crimes of a
high order, such as burglary and murder,
This increase of crime is ascribed to the in-
crease of poverty among the population of
Odessa.
lvau Shafrauskly, a master mechanic of
Kiev, has come to grief. His wife ha8 eons.
plained that he desecrated her sanctuaries.
The attorney of the Church indicted him,
and he was sentenced to imprisonment a t
hard labor for fear months. The trouble
a0ise8 from the
feat that he is a Roman
Catholic, while his worthy helpmeet oonfes-
se8 the Greek Catholic faith. He became
tired of the images of her saints, which his
wife kept in the house and persisted in put-
ting in his way. Two such images which he
found in his room he broke, and of a.third
ono he put out the eyes with a bodkin. His
punishment followed promptly.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that the
Czar, daring his brief return to Russia to
attend the funeral of the Grand Duchess
Alexandra, expressed the deepest concern
for his suffering subjects, and that he has
personally directed and dictated must of
the measures for relief,
Berlin (Melees state that bitter letters
have been received from Russia by business
men with agencies there denouncing 0110
action of the Germans relative to the Russian
loan, and threatening to retaliate.
A Berlin surgeon reports that pure water
injected under the skin with a syringo is an
excellent an)a8thetic,
The authorities of the Lyceum of Sara-
tov, Russia, have decided that all students
must live in a certain house annexed to the
institution. Only students having parents
in the city may live outside of this house ;
other relatives, brothers and uncles) even,
are declared incompetent to take caro of the
students. The reason for this °nactnheut is
that "objectionable " ideas has spread among
the students of the Lyceunn.
A curious kind of unrest is apparent in
court and military circles in Berlin. The
001180 10 a lank of confidence in the judgment
of the mercurial and impulsive young lim-
eror. His claims to infallibility in State
matters, his rashness in speaking what is
last on his mind, and his belief that all his
acts are done "by the grace of God," have
led all patriotic statesmen to be fearful and
uncertain as to his attitude in eaoh new
crisis in European politics,
There ate 181,000 foreigners in Paris, or
one-tenth of the entire population, Among
these the Belgians lead with 45,000 ; next
the Germans, 37,000 ; then the Swiss.
25,000, and Italians, 21,000. Then comes
Luxembourg, and next Great Britain with
13,000.
The Prussian Government has made a
report upon its buildings struck by light.
ping between 1877 and 1886, There were
52,502 buildings used for official purposes
in Prussia. Two hundred and sixty-four of
these were struol(, or one-half of one per
cent per thousand annually. Of the total
number 6f18811 only were fitted with ooduct,.
ore, and only one of these escaped injury,
Generally the conductors were found to be
either dangerous or useless. In six they were
not touched.
A letter from the champagne district
says: "Things here aro most unsatisfactory.
There will be a still further rise in all the
brands, and we shall be at last forced to
follow suit. I have visited nearly all the di0-
triete In the Champagne, and the .vines are,
in most eases, a complete failure. Upon our
own vineyars we shall not have at most
more than a sixth of the vintage. * *
The season is so baokward, and the grapes
in many places are so green and hard, that
wo are of opinion that the produce will not
be suitable for Vin Brut."
The number of students seeking admission
into the St Vladimir University at Kiev is
460. Of this number 160 are Jews, Ae.
cording to tho prevailing Tawe only thirty
Jews can be admitted.
Besides the 011Ormou8 efforts which the
Roman Gavernmenthus to make to alloviato
the distress of the famishing peasants, it
must also devise means to preserve from
Starvation the cattle of the famino.stricl(en
region, The peasants sell their battle for
Whatever they can got, or kill them only for
The Pcsther 0' publishes ublishes tan extremely
sensational article i1/ which it emphatically
sn t
declares that an enormous concentration of
troops has been effected along the Russian
bank of the Pru111, opposite Roumanian
territory. •. A large and iorulot4 deserted
K Y
tract of country is now• swarming with Rua•
sian troops, Tho article states that tents of
substantial structure are being erected for
the ahoomnlodation of these troops, and in.
deletes that everything gives evidence of
the near approach of an unmistakably hostile
movement on the part of the Russians,
The Russian Minietey of the Interior in
conjunction with the Ministry of .Justice has
prepared a new set of laws against usury.
By these uh3 persou lending mono atrate
of interest higher than ten per cent, per
1
annum can be proceeded n a1C1 •t
o s mon l ,
Upon aniudietnlentby tnelli8triei attorney
and regular trial before the 0011 rt the person
found guilty of usury can he imprisoned for
a o : t -in term, exiled to anotherP lace and
put 1/1/1101' the supervision of the )elite, de•
prive11 of his personal rights, or [despatched
to Siberia, according to the enormity of his
crimp.
The Odessa polies force 3000 at in great
commotion recently by a singular incident.
Before the louse of the Natehalnik of the
pity, tho Chief of the Poliee, was a big gun,
fired every clay at 00011. The gen was fast.
ened with a heavy chain to tine granite base
of a pillar before the houtie of the official,
On Aug. 30. when the artillerymen came to
fare the gun they did not find it. A search
was immediately instituted, lint nothing
could be discovered, One week later parts
of the gun and of the heavy than)) were formol
before the residences of the highest officials
in town. Iris supposed that the revolution-
ists or Nihilists removed the gun to show
the Government officials their power and
craft. There is no doubt but that many
persons must have labored at this feat. Still,
not trace of the perpetrators can be dis-
covered.
Japan wants reciprocity or some other
sort of closer trade relations with China,
ami the native newspapers are agitating, and
advocating the matter.
In the ukase by which the exportation of
rye from Russia into foreign countries was
prohibited, Finland was not mentioned,
Nov the Finnish S at b notified
Senate has a been no ]lad
that it must petition the Czar to inol11de Fin-
land in the ukase, otherwise the klintster
of finance will be compelled to regard that
province as a foreign country and to prohib-
it tie expertatiol of rye to it. The Finnish
Senate is thus placed in great difficulty. If
it sends the required petition it will praeti.
0011)' renounce the last vestige of independ-
ence left to the country; thepetition would
be an official acknowledgment that Finland
is a part of Russia and not a State by itself.
Ilut the consequence may be still \001'30 if the
Senate refuses to send the recpur.:.1 petition.
The belief is fast spreading in the Ger-
man army that it no longer 811150es to be a
capable officer to gain promotion, but man
must be also a courtier and time.server. The
belief is sapping the eiiicienoy of the officers'
cops, hitherto the irreproachable feature of
the imperial army. This state of allaire is
especially evident in Berlin and Potsdam.
Nobody, for instance, dares go to the once
popular Union Cleb, because the neighbor-
hood thereabouts is infested with the Em-
peror's spies, who note the names of 1111
visitors. It 18 equally fatal to en 0111.
cer's prospects to stop at rho Officers'
Casino on the Parisor Platz, 'Ile Emperor
has expressed his disapproval of these planes,
and has warned his officers that the bar-
racks' messroom should afford them all the
refreshment and rejaxattiun that they need,
WHAT EUROPE TALKS ABOUT.
1'e,'sonnls and I'olilies from the Gret.N
gannets or the Old *lbrid.
The Steamship Conference opened at Bre.
mea yesterday. Representatives were hero
from theNortb German Lloyds, the Hamburg-
Amerlean,the French Line, the Netherlands.
American Line and the Red Star Lino, It
was decided that the examination of ami.
grants for America should not be made by
consular inspection, but by sob -agents con-
trolled by the companies,
The singer Marie Wilt, who recently com-
mitted suicide, left 7200,000, mostly to chart.
tins, She disinherited severed members of
her faintly, accusing thein of intrigues to
secure her money.
A Madrid dispatch says that the judge
who has been inquiring into the cause of
the Burgos railroad collision, has issued an
order compelling the Northern Railroad
Company to deposit 6400,000 as 0eemity
for damages claimed by those who suffered
injury, and by the relatives of those who
lost their lives through that aouidenb,
A letter from Venice says that Don
Carlos, the pretender to the throne of Spain,
is in very straitened eironmetan0es and
recently pawned a valuable jewel,
A dispatch from Bridgend, Glamorgan
Colmty, Wales, reports the killing of
eight miners by the overwinding of the pit
gear at the Abergwnfl colliery, near that
place,
Iva. Ribot, the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has been informed by the Chinese
Charge d'Affafree in this city that the gov-
ernment of \4'gclnt, province of Ngan•Hoei,
on tho Yang -tats -Kiang, where the recent
outrages on foreigners were perpetrated,
has bean disinfected in compliance with the.
demands of the powers,
Reports received in Dublin from Bore
Haven and frotn other fiehinf; stations in the
southwest of Ireland indicate a complete
failure of the maokerel•ouring industry,
which fur0f0hc8 a supply to the Amarioan
market, The failure is Clue to bad peeking
and bad oaring.
Tho London fatiyNews says 1 ".I'he pay
sent of members of the House of Commons
will b000rne a practical question in the next
Parliament. Tho theoretical objections do
not amonel; to mush,
The .London Chronicle's 13erlin oorros-
p1pondent gays that the Jaime of 011•ryo bread
has been resumed in to German Army,
landed on the 'Turkish Island of \Iitylone,
fo•nn111y 0ccll lying it in the name of the
Queen of Llllglaild. There 1058 an element of
truth Ln the report, The lauding had tale
Islake, but the 13rdtah force remained on Il
land but two days• Nevertheless it ha
the effect of ettraotmg attention to th
perennial eastern question end making ti
world wonder what would be tho next mo
011 the European political ohess•board.
The whole matter resolves itself into a
very simple proposition : shall Rll8ai1 have
Constantinople and drive the Turk back '
Into
Asia whence 1110 C
r
hs ase Y Since the year 1
nearly a hundred years after Mohalemel
the II, stormed Constantinople, the Rus-
sians and Turks have been fighting. Tho
various wars have been complicated
ddif-
ferent by
fe•ent issnee, but the plain object on the
part of Russia has been to obtain command
of the Bosphorus and the sea of Marntora,
and thus have an outlet for her vessels into
the Mediterranean, During there 08111nrie0
thereinto been varying success on 1)0111 sides.
Russia has never lost an opportunity of
provoking n Harrel. In 1853 she 7ros the
aggressor and made war 011 the 1111•)11,1 pre-
test tint the holy places in Palestine
were improperly looked after. Turkey
was coinedthis st • .•
in t us Ln le byEngland
]n0'
J
a
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and France, r ce and a was ins roulalined
after the fall of Sebastopoolpin 1151,
This peace treaty of Paris neutralized the
];lack Sea, Russia 0101 Turkey alike engag-
ing to keep 110 war•shi )s and to nlaiutadl no
P t
0 1
arsenal there.
The overthrow of France in the war of
1871 and the eonsequont isolation of Eng-
land led Russia, to declare the provision of
the treaty of Paris, which excluded its ships
of war and its arsenals from the Black sea,
to be no longer in force, In 1877 the ad.
ministration of government in Turkey had
grown more corrupt than 808x. Some Turk.
to provinces had revolted, and massacres of
the most fearful character hard taken place
in Bulgaria. Turkey could give no real se-
curity for better government, so Russia took
the opportunity of declaring war, The Bal-
kans were.passed in midwinter, Adrianople
was occupier], and the Turkish armies were
captured or annihilated.
The vietbtious Roesians marched to the
very suburbs of Constantinople, to St. Ste-
fano, where peace was concluded March 3,
1878. Great Britain refused to agree to the
provisions of the treaty and sent her fleet' to
the Dardanelles, Tins had the desired
effect and the treaty was modified by a Euro.
peen eongresa assembled at 13e'hu,
Great Britain will not allow Russia to
take possession of Constantinople, lamelae
it wo11d be a menace to British power in
the lo" east. It is the high road to India,
that •• brightest jewel of the British crown."
England carries on an enormous trade with
Asiatic cowntriee, 101x1 this she con81ders
would beendangered o
s well as her influence
impaired by Rnsaian occupation of Con8t0n-
tiuople, For this reason there is nlw0ys 11,
powerful British fleet in the Mediterranean,
and the English 0110111 of outposts, Gibraltar,
Malta, Cyprus, also the Sue,: canal—the
latter being controlled by (41'401 Britain—
ere kept fully equipped awl garrisoned an
ready for any emergency.
The Dardanelles, the narrow channel
separating Europe from Asia and uniting the
sea of Marntora with the Grecian archipelago,
ie the bone ofleoutention that has caused 1150
British naval demonstration at Mitylene.
Several treatiesbetween the fivogreatpowers
and Turkey have confirmed the provision
that no ship of war belonging to any nation
save Turkey should pass the Dardanelles
without the express consent of Turkey, all
merchant ships being Mao required to show
their papers to the Turkish authorities.
A Russian vessel coming from the Biaok
sea recently was not permitted to pass, on
the groen11 that she was 0 war transport and
had soldiers on board. Russia protested,
the ship was allowed to go through, and the
sultan of Turkey practically apologized,
England views anis notion on the part of
P,ussia a0 ea effort to get in the titin end of
the hedge that the provison of the treaty
may become a dead letter. The Mitylene
incident is to show both Turkey and Russia
the British lion i0 going to look after his
own interests at all hazards.
There is probably 110 part of the world
that so teens with historical and mythical
associations as the Dardanelles. While
sailing through the channel and stopping at
the forts, as all vessels aro obliged to, one
feels In sacred waters. It is the ancient
Hellespont, widely known from the story
of Hero and Leander and from Lord Byron's
successful attempt to rival the anoient
awinlIner. Here Xerxes crossed by means
of a bridge of boats, ate] 0.lexandor the
Great performed a similar exploit. Xerxes
crossed 480 B. C. to enter Europe, and Alex-
ander almost at the same spot to enter Asia
nearly 150 years later.. Now the Dardanelles
is strongly defended on boot sides with for.
tifications mounting many guns of more or
less power, but some of t110m being of im-
mense caliber.
011
10
d
e y,
15' to 200 feet. At Kilid ]3811r there is low
1'a g�ro1n11 between the water' and the 11111 be-
hind, and metal gglistening in the sunlight
ION eals the foot tlat there are powerful bat.
torics almost flush with the water, On these
are forty -ton Krupp guns, some of vhIcl1
ore mounted on earthworks,
c entero on Gar•
bette,
Above en the crest of the hill some hun-
dred feet above the tenter are most formid-
able batteries These constitute 1
. T tttttt0 thorecto
et
danger to an advan0mg fleet, as from their
elevation the shot of the fleet would pass
over them, while they world be able to play
upon the clacks, the most vital part of iron-
clad ships. The uurrent, toe, 1s in favor of
the forts. An ascending squadron would
find the treads of the vessels tending toward
the powerful guns of the Chanak batteries.
Merchant steamers going up tine Dardaneles
pass under the very mouths of the common
4f Ii' 'd Bahr.
th I A fleet would be 6 met a it
t. k
advanced by the fire of Kili
1'l Lahr and
Ch0n0k, it would pass the gums of the
former within pistol shot, as it crossed to-
ward Chattels, it wonid be raked fore and
aft by the guns of bout forts, and as it left
G
Chanak it
would he s' '1
ami arty raked by other
forts, receiving the fire of loud Baht' on its
broadside.
Chanak is not so strang naturally 0011ihd
Bahr, but the fortifloations are 11111011
stronger, the guns being for the most pars
in cas5mat55. When it is remembered that
in addition to these very powerful frits
there may be torpedoes in the 1111,1103 than.
nel, it will be seen that the difficulties in the
way of forcing tate passage are enormous.
Later in the day we reached the &goon
aehipolago,and were within a few miles on
the island of Mitylene or Lesbos, which lay
on our left, its warm purple hills wrapped if
a soft drearily haze. It is quite near enough
to the Dardanelles to make both Russia and
Turkey feel uncomfortable should Great
Britain takepossession of it. The island,
by the way, recalled Shakspeare to mind.
Several scenes in " Pericles, Prince of Tyre,"
are laid i1/ Mitylene,
in the clear morning air the fez -capped
Turkish minds% paled their lon0ly rounds
on the parapets. 1V0 1031)•0, linked, in tho
laud of Byron's " Bride of Aboydos,"
lieaetiful is the scenery of rho alsiath'
shores of the Dardanelles, the town ' f
liilid Lahr is piotlll'eethle, the Melees being
nearly all hidden by Cho trees, And then.
are gentle slopes and hills in strong tem
trust to the 19nropeau shore, which is
generally steep and ragged.
A exhume rows towattle 118. -00mes 111011g
Sid0 WW1
rows I1 Turkish officio/ 1111 0101113'
boatmen, Our papers aro examined bund tee
reactive permission to proceed on 0111' 305
age, The delay, however, gave us ample
or
timeto -take 'n o .1 ,
l thoroughly p n surround
1/ i 1 0 1/101
€ Y
bogs. There are ao•eal forts and castles on
both sides of the Dardanelles, but the two
most important ones are Chanak Kallessi
and Kilid Bahr, They are distant but a
short 111118 from each otter, 1 rom the en-
trance the European bank 18 the higher,
rising abruptly but not precipitously from
the waters edge to a hal Mt of front 100 feet
•
Easily as this narrow passage is defend-
ed, nevertheless in 1807 the English Admiral
Duckworth made his way past all the fort.
resses into the Sea of Marmara. The feat
was also accomplished by a Russian 00)110l.
0011 in the wars of the last century, but itis
probable that, modern artillery well directed
would make it an almost impossible attempt.
The British fleet in 18711 had orders to force
its way through if permission were refused
by the Turkish authorities,
By leaving Constantinople in the after-
noon one macho about sunrise tie next
morning the fort or castle of dhanak Ka-
lessi on tho Aeiatio shore. This is the place
where all vessels paesing through the strait
are obliged to stop until they receive a fir-
man allowing them to proceed. The guns,
facing the water throw stone shot of two
feet in diameter and 150 pounds in weight.
The town, which stands mainly to the east-
ward of the castle, consists of about 2,000
wooden 11ou5e8 anti a dozen minarets, Its
streote are narrow, dirty, and ill -paved, and
tho population is a mixture of Greeks, Turks,
and .70308.
About a mile distant, on the European
shore, is the castle of ICdlhl Bahr, a build&
Mg of peculiar construction, being all on
tho elope. It elates from the time of
Mahomtnod II„ and in 1850 WAS repaired
and fitted with pixty.fonrgnus for throwing
huge stone shots. ' Many of the gene have
gone, lint close beside it atingle the formid-
able Namaviele battery, upon which aro
mounted modern guise of fifteen to eighteen
tons.
The oun rose. The Ottoman element and
star flag fluttered in the balmy breeze, incl
The Sagacity of the Dog,
An English paper presents the following
account, which sets forth the sagacity of
the dog in a manner which will please all
110 lovers. The paper says : " A serious 00-
cident happened e. fav day ago to Mr. Platt,
farmer, of Knoll Wood, who might 1111,0e
suffered considerably more inconvenience
that he slid had 'he not been accompanied
by his Collie dog, an animal worthy to vie,
as for as intelligence goes, with the Most
gifted of the canine race, Mr. Plant was
leading it young home along an unfrequent-
ed and rarely used by road when the animal
knocked himdownand injured trim so severe-
lytilat he had toremainonthegrounclwhere
he fell, being quite unable to stand or make
his way home, which was a considerable
distance away. Thea was no house near
and none whose attention could be %ttraet-
ed, so i\lr. Plant wrote a few words upon a
piece of paper and, fastening it to the dog's
neck, told him to take it home, This the
dog did at once, and led tine relief party
straight back to where his master lay. The
latter when conveyed home and medical aid
procured, was found to have sustained two
severe fractures of the leg, and might have
lain many hours in misery in so lonely it
plane had the not possessed a Collin of
more than average intelligence.
Here is another canine story, It is of a
dog that can tell the time of day and
that is owned by Col. 1. %r. Barksdale, a
gentleman on the staff of the Pennsylvanian
railroad. The dog acquired its peculiar
talent in a very remarkable way. Col.
13arksdalo has a tine cloak that strikes only
on the hour' and then very slowly. The
colonel got into the way of Making the dog
tap with his foot at each etreke of the cloak.
Finally he got so he would tap at the hour
without being told. Just before the clock
strikes it 4)iv88 a little cluck, and whenever
the dog heard this, he would prick Hp his
ears, raise his paw, and gently tap his paw
at earth stroke without being told. After
awhile he got so that when toy one clucked
like the cloak he world get into position
and wait for the strikes. 1{e Wee for along
time confused at not heaving the cloak, but
after awhile began tapping lti0 paw anyway.
The remarkable point is that after awhile
he remembered how many strokes were due
(8t ee,oh succeeding hour, so that now when.
ever the colonel clucks he gets into position
and taps tie number of strokes the 0100k
should make next time. Thus at any time
after 10 o'olook he taps eleven times, after
4 o'olook five (aures, etc. Some learned
scientists arsgoing to investigate the mat-
ter to see whether the dog 0otually posses•
sea reasoning faculties.
Bedtime Tales.
It used to be, long tato ago,
In days of boyhood sweet
When yyou were my big brother Poe
Ansi I was little Pete,
T11414) when you took lne tlptho s fair
Andetowed mo into bed,
Iturned, when I had "said my Prayer,'
And " Toll a 'tory," said.
And you old boy what wondrous things
You told, of talking boars,
And ponies that flew by on wings,
And djlnne with golden wares,
And pprineossos in 8iikon gowns,
4110.Robin .]food's bold 80amp8,
And poor young men who built groat totem
)3y rubbing magic lamps I
And soon that darkened room of 0)108
Became a fairy hall,
And everywhere 30805 gorgeous flowers,
And diamonds over all,
And glittering llghte from stone to stone
E'er seemed to dart, and leap,
And sbral0s of music floated on,
And then—I Poll aslakp,
Al, dear Old boy, 7 cannot hear
Those tales you told agate,
That tbuo is past now many a year,
Alul both of its aro Goon 1
Bet memory cannel and dtvolis with me,
And visions rase to VIM,
And thereon times I think 1 see
Those fairy 008(108 with you,
Fos there is ono, militia tyke,
Who, when the night la new,
Commands that fairy army like
111e »apaneed to do 1
A.jld
there bestdo hie rib I greet
firs° 808noe of long ago
When 1, you know, was L
lo
Pete •
And ou wore brotlaroo
fl.xnn S: CTrt,
GIANTS OF THE QORAILL411AS,
'filer Gourd lytuntotla Treasures or Gold
and Sit ver 4,1 '1110 h• 1Notud4Ins.
11/ 11'eslen Patagonia, among the ('011111•.
It 0)11 immutable, dwell 11e grouts of whorl
s1/ man' big 8to1l)'8r)ave Leon told. As 0
uli8tt1'r of Met thee0 Araurrlttlana, ns they
are called, aro rarely under six feet in
height and sometimes reach eight feet, mem
font 111011 being+ 11,11, imfrcgoeml. 'Though
mildly disposed, they admit o0 stranger,' to
their 15rritnryandl ly still:horn reslstallee
they have compelled ('hili to let them alone,
1'' 1/1110118 trea8ures of gold and silver are
hel'eved o b 1 s
r t d tm•ednt•1
away in their moue.
(111,18, but proepecturs who have ventured
tiitlterhave always been driven away. They
commonly adorn themselves in rich and
heavy ornaments of these precious metals.
The greater part of Patagonia belongs now
to the Argoutino Republic, Chili holding by
treaty the strip along the Pacitio coast,
which continues its :shoes tring-liketerritory
for nearly half the lengthof boat)) America.
Most of the country is a desert waste,
cold of climate, and eoutl'asting etroegly
with the richly productive p0mpa8 or plains
of Southern Argentine. Thesep ampas are
remarkable s
for the strange tKo f h
1 illusions which
beset the eye of the travelers who journey
over then[, On any bright day a distant
thistle field is as like as not to be trans-
formed seemingly into a forest, while to few
f o
clumps raps will Lal
p grass 1'o on the appearance
of a troop of horsemen. Mirages are con-
stantly in view, frequently offering a dela.
sive prospect of water, by 10111511 men are
often deceived but their horses never.
Indemnifying the Sealers,
Advices received ab Ottawa from British
Colombia inchoate that in promising to in-
demnify the
Canadian I 1
3 is
sen cis for nn • loss
they e might sustain in K t
Lein 111'1 •
on out of
Bellying Son this season the ]British Govern-
ment assumed a responsibility they had not
aoeurately estimated. It now appears that
Groat Britain will have to pay at least
7500 000 and possibly 77 l 11
4 166 ()()) t fulfill its
pledges to the sealers of British Columbia,
The understanding was that, basing the cab
cnlation upon last season's total catch, which
includes all the seal taken in and oat at
Behring Sea, the British Oovot•nunont
Agreedtomakegoodanydoflcienov those vas.
eels might suffer between the average catch
per vessel lust year and tho difference be.
tween that average and the total catch per
vessel the year. The returns received here
show that the average catch per vessel last
year was 1,356 shins, while this year it is
estimated at 600 skins, a decline of 756
skins per vessel, or 55 per cent, Last year
there were only twenty-nine vessels in the
Behring Sea sealing trade, while this season
there are fifty. Tito aggregate catch this
year in and out of I3oln•tngSea was only 30,-
000 skins per vessel, the value of which at
717 per skin would be 712,852 per vessel ;
or, in the aggregate, to make the average
good for the fifty vessels engaged in the seal-
ing industry, 37,800 skins at 717 por skin,
amounting to 7642,600. This will be rather
a surprise party to Downing street, as the
British Government did not expect to be
ailed upon to pay one-quarter of that
amount to the Canadian sealers who had
been driven out of Behring Sea, Every ar-
rival from Bullring sea reports that never
in the history of the sealing industry have
souls been so plentiln1, to which fact the
Minister me1' of \iarfnen0'
8 t Fisheries pointed
as a vindication of the position the Do-
minion Government hail taken against the
contention of the United States Government
that seal life m I3ehriug Sea was becoming
extinct,
The Pleasures of Prison Life.
Here is a very suggestive passage taken
from William P. Andrews article on the
" increase of Crime by Reformatory Pri.
sons" in the Ootober Forum:
" Several times the prisoners have eons -
plainer] to the writer that the officers hare
made a mistake in copying their vnit0imuses,
and not given them time enough. Hee is
a complaint of this character last made to
him : I have got but two months, and I
an entitled to four. Please have it altered
for mo: I want all four menthe that I was
sentenced for.' Again : meeting in a county
prison a physician sentenced for two years
for malpractice, the writer was astounded
with anis conversation. The primmer lune
a man who hail been noted for itis enjoyment
of the luxuries of existence. He said, ' Ib
is a great mistake you follows make in
thinking you are in hitting punishment when
you send man here. I have been hero a
year, el d can truly say I have enjoyed )t
so nn1011 that I (hall not feel sorry if my
pardon is not obtained, Von coo, it has
been vacation, with ,just enough to do to
amuse me. The novels ie the prison library
are entertaining, and I am very fold of
dominoes and checkers, and find some first
rate players among the men. Now if 11
stripes me in this way, who have been as-
oustomed to every luxury, bow must it be
to the poor devils who never have a square
meal outside? Do you wonder that they
flock by hundreds and thousands to the
jails in winter 1 My only surprise is that
you can keep any of them out at a11.' Te
is the opinion of an educated man who has
experienced the benefits of the system lin
his own person, and finds them ' delightful'
—a life from which he is loath to part. But
itis evident that it is far from the ' auster-
ity' which onee did ' pervade the prison
plane ;' and it will be hard from this to real-
izo the good man's desire of ' impressing
the prisoner with the idea that the wayof
the tranegree0ot is hard.'"
Jolly English Clergymen,
Owing to the fact that so many English
citizens spend the summer on the nontinonb,
the different Church of England societies
detail preachers of that faith to take thole
own vacation on the continent, and at all the
resorts the preachers conduce religious
sorvioos each Sunday. I have met a number
of these ministers or rectors, and they seem
to he a very jovial sot of men. In contrast
to oar own preaohers'they not only frequent
the gardens and drinking-pla0o0, but they
do not hesitate to eat in the smoking -rooms
of the hotels and indulge in" grog"—Sootah
whiskey and water, " Why not l' said one
of these preachers to me, rte he sipped his
grog and smoked his pipe. " We enjoy the
good things of this world but do nob abuse
them." They are evidently the same kind of
persons that Thacketay so vividly describes
in his'novelo. I observe when handed a card
by any of these preachers that they invari-
ably give you their club as well es private
address, and this i8 pertioulclrl. true of
London and the outskirts. One of these
preachers seemed much surprised when told
that it was a rare sxooptton 111 America for
a minister of the gospel to belong to a club.
--'[London Lotter,
Mon who have papront81 feelings for ne—
on r landl0rd8.
As man and wife aro one, the husband,
when seated with Ms wife, meet be side
]himself,
YOUNG FOLKS".
Patsy.
1')118)' 110'8 my brother, an' I wish 3" could
x)1)1
I1 inn o yen r ago, 'fore lids hurt 111/0111.
(111141' noir 0'x
a h awful 1/+1111:0 like an' uoEhht'
howl, 111/6 boors
811100 hci;ul. a41 11 by that big earn all loaded
up n•lthmmoms.
Somehow f fuel11ko er3'1n' when taro flim I1Lyin
1l,opo
A•xmil(II 011' 11.1,1',•111' (0 lot on' al lie don't cum,
\\'he'. i 1;11010 hos wlwhin awful Ie 1' 1/d trend
))n(lde 'lilt ole
An' he n•l n
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1'110110011,1' wet comas round our ward, he told
"IIo's
m8 sori'e8ry, Loy1,ea-,
t Gels 18)1011 nfonrd P0t8y'd
always be that wry,"
Minute me xwatler mighty hard an' then 11
made me mad
T' think lilt 1 3008 big at' Arent; w1,118 Patsy
felt est had,
When the doctor he told Patsy 'at he Wouldn't
wank no more.
Patsy he ,leo' 8)1111811 011' said " he knower' that
long before,'
An' 4,1,801' belt al l laughed1an' joked 'lth me, jos' 's 11
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A Glri Sovereign•
lVilhol mina, Queen of the Netherlands
000 'n t Th
w bet n e Hague on Aug.
31, 1880
f
n0'
received rho full name of \Ytlltohnina
Helena Pauline Marie, Tho monarchy 0
(8 Nethet'londn 11101111100 not snly Halla
utitscolonial(lepondo80ineinSoutllAm 1
n and the East cul West Indies. , 'l e1'
31011105 are both rich 811(1 extensive hu
ng an area of S00,p00 square males, and eon
airing population of 1111400 than 27,01)0,000
x times that of Holland hoall.
'rho youthful Dutch Queen 10 Vie daughter
[ William D.I 0'110 died 2t ti
on Nov. ? 1.00
n0' of 1':n11r.0Adslaido 11 IJheln,i
1311 Pl'ill cos
r ,
f \1 aldecl)-1. linen[. II ' father 3
el was the
est (lesoondal11, in the direct 11110 of one 0
e 1(1051) fllm008 families of Europe, the
3080 of Grange -Neeson, 8111011 has given to
hist()) splendid fir,
I p three 1111/ b0' mos • 1'1' '
llhnn
Y l g
no Silent, the first NtadLhntderof the DntOh
Republic:, his son Maurice and William 111,
who became also King of England.
From her early childhood Prhtcoss Wil-
helmina 11415 1100)1 trained to prepare 1)01'(0)
e1' royal dnl.ios, Oho has been easefully
rheatedtlndaran7Cuglishgoverness, Gavin{,
4011 regnhrnd to master 1118 English and
1'811011 languages a0 well a0 the Dntel(, and
rear 00101111011 has 1,0011 given to ler dict,
1810158, 011(1 811 that 11511 contribute to her
health. She has also received the constant
1p000101nn of her mother, 0 woman of amia•
le chtu•aotor (11111 excellent judgment, 30)11
greawlyan(ldesorvedly b'lo'od fn Ilol-
aud, and who acts 08 Queen Regent during
e1' daughter's minority. As Princess, 3Yi1-
obuina is (11000011 plainly, wearing simple
1(11,0 gowns, and 1100103 a0 her 0111)' urea.
0 tm•4110158 or pearl 11801)1880.
She will not take up the full duGos of
118011 fur six or 800811 y0000 to coma and.
robably there 3111 bo no groat 011084)0 in
her habits and )01011)(180 in the 10101val,
privileges
Ind
Tim people of Holland 110'0 welcomed her
o the thane with (5011114)8 of tender pride
and interest akin to those 30)1111 which ,11000
fan half 0 celtsryy ego Great Britain greet-
ed the 1)00500111 of their " Bonny 1311;