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The Brussels Post, 1891-11-6, Page 22 TRF! BRUSSELS POST. A SILVER III, "1 was horn in the outskirts o' Moscow, and early in life worked in one of the many print -works in that town. T had complete my eighteenth year when 1 becnma Imbued with the revolntionery doctrines held by s many of myfellew-workmen. About lib. time, ton, I made the acquaintance of Tothanke Fedovoritch, a girl of abort my own age, living with her parents at a small • village elos h' Mosema 1 en, not convoy VI you, a straneev, all tee ,,sicced' lave flee girl awoke f» rite r RUMe It e say that for two years wei ewained l„ser», tool 1 worked hard during that time to pros i to a home where I could take her to when we mar'ieI. As last my hopes were crowned with suc- cess. The foreman of the deportment in ,which I workc.l was ono afternoon passing through the engine -roans, when carelessly passing too close to tee moving machinery, his clothes were caught in the revolr•iug wheels, and in a moment he was Hung down a crushed and II/elms mass, This accident procured urn my long -hoped-for promotion, and I took his place ns forerun, Within a week of that time 1 was married, and the World held PP no h r let• mortal than L "I think I told yon I had become a revo- lutionary—hieasel' words I had been for some time a member of a secret body of Nihilists ; and it was only when I bad been married a few months end had learned haw much happiness and joy life held for me, that I began to regret my vows of allegiance to thorn. But as you ere no doubt aware, there ie no recall from those vows once taken ; and had I cared openly to show that the views of the Brotherhood were no longer amine, my HMI knew would pay forfeit for my apostasy. I had been married nearly two years, when, owing to various causes in the noun - try, Nihilism became a stronger force amongst the people, and it was then that were first whispered those plots ageinst our "little father” the Czar himself. I had been working late at the mill one evening, and on leaving, proceeded cautiously to the ren- dezvous of the revolutionary lodge to which I belonzed, I had, after much hesitation, determined to announce to them my altered views; and whilst promisingstriersecrecy as to anything I had learnt or heard, beg them to release me from a position which heel become harder than I could longer bear.I found the Council assecbled when I arrived; and atter stating my case, they unanimously decided that my vows must be held binding ; and did I shirk any duty they m+ght see fit to allot to me, I knew the aur- seemenee—death ! I had half expected this reply to my entreaty; and I was endeavour. nee to shake their decision, when we were startled by hurried knocking at the outer d»or; and before we had time to plan any means of escape from the corning danger, the door of the meeting -room was flung open, and in rushed a body of police with an officer of the secret service at their head. Resist- ance was useless ; and in leas time than et takes to tell, we were all securely handcuff. ed and marched out as prisoners to the pelice barracks ; nod in a damp dirty cell of that building I had time to surrey my position. I knew no compromising papers would be found upon us, es it was our rule to do everything by word of mouth and piece nothing in writing ; but at the same tints I knew the police were in great terror of a general revolution, and would probably take the first opportunity of showing that they meant to orush it out with a heavy and cruel hand. Bitterly didI now repent my youth- ful folly in binding myself to such men, and the thought of my dear wife at home wait- ing my coming only added to my misery. At last, after a most wretc'ted and sleepless night, the morning broke, and I was taken before the chief of police. I saw none of my fellow -prisoners, and without waiting to hear any defence from mr, the officer read ,out my senteuce in slow monotonous tones : '" Ivan Dolgatoheff, being suspected of being et Nihilist, and fond attending a secret meeting of that body in Moscow, you are sentenced to five years' transportation to Siberia as a convict of the second °lase." BLJ ROC wards, living on the charity of the people in tl•e occasional villages through whhh 1 ppeasedi, sometimes ening rough work to do 11more often su6mug the pangs of bun 11 ger. Fortunately for me, my escape took team in the early spring, and the warmth of the summer menthe enabled me to live n and Bleep in the open air without hardship. One day, almost famished, 1 had bogged for food at s wayside posthouse, but without avail; and driven at last to desperation, I remembered my sliver charm. The templet - tem was too great to withstand ; and I en - ;eyed err the first food I had tasted for two day» at tine expense of my wifo's parting gift, Can you blame me 1 It saved my life then and I little thought, when I handed it to the fellow, that I should ever ,ret eyes , on it again. The summer of 1874 slowly passed, After many adventures I reached Tomsk and found work, But my thoughts were over on Moscow ; and as I regained strength, 11 determined to Have all I could to enable me eeentnally to teach my hone. I had writ - tee to my wife ; but no answer tune to mo, i and it was two years before I had saved enough and started again on my journey, At Perm I learned that the war in Servia had hr oken nut, Every ono passim through the country ants was oln g Bel uaeti nod i Y Y q o and being g unable to satisfy ono partieuln�rly trouble. some pollee -sergeant, I was marched off to the nearest station for inquiries to be made, Afraid to give them my real name or destina- tion, my evasive answers made them suspect all was not right, and I was drafted off to the barracks to find myself enrolled a soldier of His Majesty the Czar. "The Servien war ended, the troubles with Turkey commenced, and my regiment wee ordered to the front, to take its plane in tate army then forming on the south-east frontier. ' You now know my history. After bete in many hard-fought engagements and be- ing twine slightly wounded, our conquering hosts crossed the Balkans, and you know the rent. You also know why your silver Ruble has such an interest for me." - At this stage, exhaustion overcame him, and when I left, he had sunk into a heavy slumber. The following day I heard from tie doctor that he had had a relapse ; and feeling that perhaps my long interview the preceding clay had something to do with causing this, I determined to finel better nursing for him that he could possibly get at the hands of the one overworked doctor in the place• Events favoured me. The Turks, beaten back at 011 points, were even then falling back frau the Pass ; and during that day our numbers were increased by the arrival of some bemired and fifty wounded, in charge of a Red Cross ambulance. No sooner hail they found quarters in the village than F went to request that a nurse might be sent ,to the wounded Russian. This they promis- ed the should be done. That evening,after my frugal dimer was finished, I waled up the street with the intention of seeing how he was going on. All was quiet in the house, and entering softly, I pushed open the door of his room. There, on the floor, her arms around his neck, with her white cheek preesed to his, I saw the hospital muse ; and at that moment I understood what it did not require words to tell me—Ivao Dolgatchelr had found his' wife Within three months from then I was again in London, with the memory of their waving farewell to me as the steamer in which I sailed glided out from the granite quays of Cronstaclt harbour. I often hear from them. Little children have come to them to bless their lives ; but they tell me that, amongst all the gifts which 1 eovfden ee has given them, they still cherish moat the Silver Rouble, (TOR END.) "I heard no more ! I was stunned at the suddenness of thin end of all my hopes, and unconsciousness mercifully ended my sufferings. I awoke to find myself again in the cell ; and after a few hours, I was hur- ried off with many others to the railway station to begin my long exile. One idea was ever uppermost in my mind, to let my wife know what had happened to me. I had noticed that one of the police who was present at the breaking -up of our meeting glanced sometimes at me, and I was emboldened to try to gain his help. With some difficulty I approached nearer to him, rued telling him where I lived, begged him to acquaint my wife with my fate. This he premised to do ; and with that email amount of comfort I left Moscow for Nijnl-Novgo- rod, Arrived there, we were packed on board a large barge covered with strong iron netting, effectually cutting off all means of escape, and for days we were towed down tine Volga river. 1301 why describe the an- guish and misery of that journey 1 At lest we reached Ekaterinburg, and here we were separated into dilferatit parties, and prepared for the long tramp of months to our :teetotal destinations in Siberia ; some to the quicksilver mines; others,myself amongst the number, to the salt mines of ]rkutsk. " And now the hardest trial of all Was to happen to me, l'l'ltilst Standing waiting for orders at the Siberian gene, on the ontskirts of the town I hoard my nameealled by theguard; end on going to him, was taken to the guerdhonse, and there, travel -stained and worn by grief and fatigue, I found my dear wife. She had received my message; and after selling everything in our home to get sufficient fneney, had set out to follow me nor, se Russia, After hardships innumerable, she hod at last found mc, and owing to the. kindness of the Chief Inspector at Ekaterin- burgg, received permission from him to say go td -bye to me. Afterwa de, we should be Met to each miter for five long years. Need t'1we11 of the touching scene of our final adieus? After kissing me for the last time, she took from around her nook the charm that every Russian wears, and placed it around mune, palling down Gods blessing on me, and assured me that her daily prayer weudd be that it might preserve m0 from eery danger of my life. That charm con- sieted of a silver rouble, ghren to her when a child by her father, and roughly engraved by him with the image of a Greek cross, I liege never seen her since I We were hurried off that afternoon. " I lived for two years In the salt mines, doing work that killed those around me in benrlreds, Day and night in demi-darknees wn laboured, our only rest being two lours to every twelve, icor two years, I say, I sutl'erecl ; hitt the wild longing for freedom grow in Inc stronger and stronger, until mtc slay, with six others, I escaper!, and found sl•clter in the neighbouring woods, lVhat limiting! of my oompanimns I never knew, For days, weeks, months, I wandered west. Russian Jews in Oa iada, A large consignment of Russian Jews, just landed in Montreal, has been promptly ship. ped West. As the Toronto d/ail says there is a strong feeling in Canada against the de- portation of these unfortunates to title coun. try, not because the Dominion is not open to all who can work, but because it is feared that the Jews are not 't uited to the country, and are thus calculated to become objects of charity. That they will not do well in Canada, unless epeoial arrangements are made for them, is unfortunately obvious from the observations of " Darkest Russia,' an English journal which champions their cause. That paper sates agriculture is not their strong point. " The enforced inactiv- ity of the long Bunion winter dos not suit the Jews' energetic nature. In the colons of Russian agriculturists, founded in Vineland, New Jersey, U. S. A., by the Russo -Jewish Committee, the managers surmounted this difficulty by establish- ing a large tobacco factory for winter work only, and subsequently a clothing fac- tory, and the sane men who worked in the fields eight months, worked in the factory the remaining four months of winter. The colony in a great success, the colonists pay- ing for the freehold of the land by 3 per cent instalments in lieu of rent." Tho sane paper says: " Wholesale oolonleation can- not be attempted. All colonists, even when going to a land where -their own totiges is spoken, to engage in accustomed pursuits, meat, at their first smart, enennnter ditlicul• ties, To send these nervous, depressed, half-starved arlieens to till soil as yet mi. cleared, in a land whore language, climate, and mode of life are alike strange to them, would be not a kindness but e, enmity, a veritable exchange of the land of bondage for the wilderness," It is clear, then, that an emigration to Canada, for which prepera. tints are not made in advance, will he as cruel to the exiles as it will be t»njuab to us. An Bxtrayagant Raby. Mrs. Canby—" Oh, Time, the baby has swallowed a hairpin 1' Mr. Canby---" Thule nt'e it ; just as I expected. Now you'll want money to buy Borne more. It's nothing but money, money, money in this house the whole blessed tirne. I'i1 bet thab baby has swallowed more than $150 worth of hairpins ie the lest three months, Now, madam, this thin has to std right here—either that betty will quit eating hairpins and come down to common grub like the rest of ms, or I'll know the reason why—you ntdet- stand 1" How rave Horatio Pell• I wish I was an opportunity," said Clara the other day, gloomily, " Why, what itt the world for?" asked Horace, astonished, "01, opportunities aro always embraced, don't you knew 1" said Clara, Willi a fermi? stnile. And Horace fell in a dead faint while the foible city (rent zephyrs waited the etudes of a sweet lullaby over his inanimate Perm. INTEIZEST..NG ITEMS, Soma immigrants entry tin trunks. It is easy to imagine what happens to a tin trunk when an ordinary trunk falls on it. " Why anybody should make to tfa trunk," a bag- gage master says, " is more than I eau un- tln•sband, :They may he good enough to stent in it home to put things in, but they tare worthless for traveling, There is a l.utdition at various points nlong Lake Champlain that the lake laden. gorous lor sailing craft by roaeoit of the nit. certainty and shiftiness of winds. At West- port, N, Y., for example, there are not more than two or three sailboats owned, although the roglou Is untold frequented by summer visitors, and it is a rare thing to see it sail on the lake. It was en old tradition on the eastern shore of Maryland that slaves should have a half holiday on Saturday, and that only absolutely necessary work should be done in Christmas week, The custom spread to the whites, and it was not discontinued by the blanks after they were freed. The consequence is that thousands aro idle on Saturday afternoon, and the Chriettnas fes- tivities last all through the week between Christmas and Now Year's. An advance guard of the Salvation Army has pitched its ontnp in Deadwood and is throwingu fortifications. ' P fo trona. These warriors will venture almost anywhere, but they have been a long while making up thou' minds to tackle Deadwood. The Black Hills region is not what it once was. The pocket embrolla has snot yet arrived, but a Florida negro was out in the rain a few days ago under a combination hat and umbrella. It was his own manufacture, made of palmetto, and was abort three feet in diameter. He walked around in the Florida downpour without getting wet at all. Queen Victoria is said to rule a readtn embracing 367,000,000 subjects, This is a greater number of people than ever before sat under the shadow of one throne. There is an abundance of wildame in the mountains and a plenteous crop ofgwildgrapes in the valleys of New Mexico tide season. 9 terrific wind storm partially destroyed between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 feet of timber in and around Itasca county, Minn., lest week Some cattlemen in South Dakota, in ra- gions where rain has always been as scarce as pious dew boys, want topaythe rain sharp Melbourne, $400 a shower until he creates a a flood and fine up all the ponds and hollow places and makes the place famous for its lakes. 11 has been proposed, on eiceounb of the seercity of bleak- walnut, to substitute for it the black gum which grows so plentifully throughout the Southern States. It eon he statuesl so that an expert can hardly detect the difference between the woods. A deaf mute, who was walking on the Flint and Pero Marquette railroad was bill- ed by a locomotive. Two years before he was struck, but not seriously injured, by the same locomotive, driven by the same engin- eer, and nearly et the same place. A Minneapolis lawyer entered a demurrer to au indictment against a prisoner, charged with having shot several fine hogs belonging to a neighbor, on the ground that the shoot ing of the animals incrsasd their value, as it caved the owner the expense of killing them. A Boston bnanness man while taking a sponge bath 111 Bridgeport had his right leg severely cut by the slipping of his foot, which broke through a stationary wash bowl. The gash was eleven inches in length, pone. tenting to the bone and severing an artery. An artery in one of his wrists was also sever- ed. Mining is carried on in a very primitive way on the island of Madagascar. The natives work twelve and fourteen hours ra day, and receive from six to ten cents a day. To an agent for a mining drill, who explain- ed the amount of labor it might save, the aunerintendent said tient he could get a whole gang of men to work a lifetime for the money the drill would cost. Caricaturists have it ustrated the many methods employed by hayseeds to extinguish the electric light, but a rancher in a Seattle hotel can give them a point. After exhaust- ing his ideas for ex anguishing or obscuring the light, he uncoiled the length of wire by which it hung and etuok the lamp in the bureau drawer, smothering it under his clothing, The next day the lamp was found stowed away there and still burning, Henry George is so enthusiastic a believer in bicycling that he urges it upon persons who visit hen with much more persistency than he shows in the propagation of his own social theories. Many of his friends among men have been induced by his example to practise the art; be has permuted his whole family to learn to ride, and he has begun pmselyting among the women and children of his aequal. tame. A band of young desperadoes is leafing Jesse James footprint a all over Bend county, S. 1). The young robbers are well organized, with captains and lieutenants, and have a stronghold its the hills, to which anything any member of the bend steals is token and divided up, Their depredations are very annoying and are bee= tngquite serious. The whole uouutryion irred np, and measures are being devised to got rid of the gang. Rain fells, tornerly exceedingly rare, have been of frer(uofit oounrrence it the morin. tains of Sue than Cal i fornf a since the forma- tioe of the Salton Lake. A couple of weeks auo the in extended to the toast and estotnded the people of San Diego with an hour's heavy downponr. 1t was unwelnome to the people fn the raisin districts, but the city residents enjoyed the novelty. The Colorado River is still dowing into the litho, and itis expected that when the winter rains begin the lake will increase in extent to three tithes its present size. Several ye. rs ago Bishop Hannington was impriroted in a filthy but in Usoga, at the northeast corker of Lake Victoria. The sink man was seemed at. and insulted by hundreds of unfeeling enrages. At longus he was taken from his but on the pretense that he mould now go on his journey to Uganda ; bet instead he was led to a place whore he end all his carriers except ono, who miraculously escaped, were brutally put to dean. At the vn'y village where this t.ra(jerly Was enacted the Church Missionary Society, of w)liuh Bishop Huntington was one of tiro leaders, now hes a 'Mutat station, The Maharejah of Mysore is about to visit England, , avi;g overcome the pre. indica which all good Hincloos feel With re- gard to an ocean veya}}de. They ebbe', time ocean turd crossing it breaks the casco of the ollunding persontage, A eamtoil of eminent libelee ;Mesta wits called together by the Mtahnt'a!a 1, ami tiny arg»el the important question how his Highness could preserve Iiia a isle it Ito wank to England, The question was eetisfeetorily settled and the Mah tt ijah, who is one of the richest and most, powerful of the Indian rrtlers, will sells! beet he rattaeloll for another royal die - play Irr Great, Benefit. PRINCE AND FLOWEN- GIRL , aneerlote ertbe Fatter or rite Present Bis. pores• or t;ernany. A pretty story of the late l.mperor Fred. °rick is told in one of the Chimer; paper's, Some yetu's ego, shortly before the (oath of the old Emperor of Germany, a tall, hand- souto gentleman jumped intoe third-class carriage of n local railway at Berlin just as the trent was leaving the statirn, An old !lover -seller with a basketful of newly out hyacinths was the only other occupant of the compartment. iso asked the olddame to ecu him a bunch, and mollified by his Beare sumer mho otiose the frostiest and hargeet and handed it to lthn. Its price was apenny, but as the gentleman had no 'toppers any the old woman no change, not having sol any of her goods yet, she was paid with 1 merle pride, which, as the sand et once Wit a thing that had never been heard of before' in a third-class railway carriage. Presently the stranger and the flower -girt were deep In oouvorsation, and it turned out that the poor woman was the only breed- winuer of a family of four. Rer son was crippled, her granddaughter a little school- girl and her husband had for some months been out of work since a now railroad offi- cial had dismissed him as being too old to do much work. The stranger then suggest- ed that she should apply, on her husband's behalf, the railroad authorities. "That is no good whatever," she replied, as she Wiped her tears with hot' apron. 'If you haven't the pope for your cousin nowadays you can't get anybody to listen to you." "Then try the emperor," the stranger went on. " Alas I" she sighed, " if the old gentle- man was allowed tosee petitions that are sent it night do some good, but he does not get to know about us poor people." " Well, then, let your husband write to the crown prince." 'rtes," she said, "le might do that," and she would tell him so as soon as she had sold bar flowers. By this time the train had got to the terminus, the old dance bundled out her inasket, and no- ticed with astonishment that the officials and the crowd on the platform looked at her carriaee and saluted and cheered. "What's up?" she asked. " Why, the crown prinoe was in the sante compartment with you 1" Then the Holger seller held her head high and fold every syllable of whatltad happen- nd to the delighted crowd. Her flowers were sold before five minutes were over, and a fortnight afterward her husband was at work again in his old place. How the Queen Travels. An official of the Midland Railway re- cently took me into the Queen's carriage as it stood in St Pancras station. The walls of the saloon are of satin -wood highly polished. The cushions are of white silk ombrnidered in gold thread. A garter con- taining her motto, "lion soft qui ural y pence,' surrounded her initials, " V. R.1' Her large chair— and it takes a large one, too—is at the back of the otarriage and faces the engine. At her hand is a silver plate fn whfuh are electric belle, pressing which she can call her different attendants who occupy another compartment. Three other easy chairs are in her compartment, besides a satin -wood table about six feet long and three feet wide, upon which were piled the latest English, French. German, and American periodic.:els, The carpet is of velvet, end in a good state of preserva- tion, -considering it has been in use over fif. teen years. The curtains at the windows and a portiere are hung on silver poles. The door•hendlesare solid silver, and the whole saloon has the appearance of solid luxury. The Queen herself selected the furnishings, which are said to pattern after the white drawing -room at Windsor Castle. The whole ealoon with fittings is said to have cost between 10,0011 and 17,000. At first sight the carriage impressed me as being gaudy, but this idea wore away in a few moments. The railway official informed me that the Queen pair! about 7s. 6d. per utile for travel. ling, besides first-clttss fares for every ono in her party, As the official from whom I received my information was in a position to know, this explodes other reports that the Queen and her suite always travel free. A Ohinese Ghost Story. The following ghost story is related by a correspondent of the Alai -Jacobin :—At Nanchang, in Kiangsi, were two literary men who used to read in the Polar monas- tery, Ono was elderly, the other young ; they were united by the bonds of closest friendship. The elder one went to his home and suddenly died. The young man did not know of it, and went on with itis studies at the monastery in the usual way. One night after he heel gone to sleep he saw hitt oldfriendopen the bed curtains, come to the bed, and put his hand on his shoulder, saying, " Brother, it is only ten clays since I parted from you, and now a sudden sick- ness has carried the off. I am a ghost. I cannot, however, forget our friendship, and so have emu' to bid adieu." The young man was eo astounded that he could 1101 speak. The old man reassured hint, saying. "If I had wished to injure you why should d have told you I was a ehostt Do notfear, then. The reason of my visit is that hero a favour to beg of you with regard to the future," The young uta" grew a little calmer, and asked, " What .can I do ?" The ghost replied, " I have a mother over seventy, an 1 it wifo not yet thirty ; a few piculs of rice are needed for their mafhden- anca. I bug you to have mercy upon rte, and supply their wants, That is my first request. 1 have also an essay which I have written, which has not been printed, I bog of you to gob a block out for !t, and print it, so shammy name may not utterly die out, Phis is m.yseeond request. Next, 1 owo the stationers same tleouetmds of cash, which I have not paid ; kindly settle this claim, This is my third request." '.Pic young schol- ar assented with a nod. The dead man stood up, and safrl, " As you have bee» kind enough to grant my requests, I will depart, n "Deserving, Poor." Dives and Ion crowded street An ago! beggar ohatood to moot 1 Dive, tau c(t by with amebic frown, And said, to argue conscience down: .l treat all such with rude unowerving. Row can Ore know when they're deserving'?" ("fyou're right," 1 crlorl, with nodding head, (1 toll for Dives for my broad; n t sheen 1110 11111111 is !heaven -horn, And earthly fetters hold. in scorn, 1 thought, , That wretch and many more Starved through those words,' Deserving poet,' And then, because Timely know How1)Ivosrlell and rcltcr grew, 1 sneered, fiat thought! "such earoful alms, Such nine, discriminatingqualins, Should he obseemtd in rate trnewerving But by the rloli wheeze deserving. --!Tiro Century, Wheel and Woo; "De your warrant title bioyclo to Ito gen- tle ?" " I don't. understand you, air," " I want to know about its habits. Tho last bfoyel° 1 had not only throw me, but , whiled ebmit as 1 stench the ground and ntnped all over tnc," GI&NT WAVES III THE OPEN SEA An 4apiauatlan 00 (0 , Illaheps Ttai linear ret! (u (I '$5rantntlit 141rtu'Iq Attention has been attracted to 1115 00' conn ilt the papers recently of the expert, once of the Cunard steamer Etruria with what, for the want of a hatter terns, is called "tidal wave.' Misname has grow'nout of the agitation of tiro sea, nudes toe direct action of submerged volcanic or earthquelte lbs' ttu•bances, not uuc0tmnou fn the 1 erlifdo, but very unusual, if not entirely utlnma'n, in the Northern Altanllo Ocean, The terns cones more properly from the rush of the intoning titles In locations such as the Bay of Fundy, the French coast and the mnuth of the Colorado River In the Gulf of Califor- nia, where the wall of water constituting the first roller is frequently so formidable its to swamp vessels of considerable size, Inas- much as in the latitudeend longitude whom the Etruria Mot with her experience there has never been such a thing )mown as vol. canio or tidal action we cats hardly term the wall of water she encountered a tidal wave. T110 tcI n) oe SRA Tlitt W111.1'BIA 111 111!. Tho wind from any one direction for a period creates n sea from that direction. phis sea ;nay meet a sea previously formed y a wind that has blown from int opposite quarter. The result is to create an irregular sea—ac c on Hct of two seat from different directions, both contending for the right of way, causing thein to rest• tip, forming a toppling body of water with an tamest per. peudieular wall and a consequent deep de. pression in its front. Again, there may be an aggregation of several seas into one, aris- ing from the old swell of previous blows fromdiffereutpointo of the compass meeting similar waves, It is pretty generally estimated by sou aring mon that the speed of an incoming sea often reaches as high as twenty miles an hour. A swift steamer, as we know, runs ab nearly or gaffe an equal rate. Thus we have two powerful heavy bodies meeting at an aggregated velocity of forty miles an hour. Presuming the steamer to be on her downward plunge from the last larger sea that (nes passsed under her into the valley between it and ono of these aggregated seas suddenly Earned ahead of her, with its steep wall, there being no long elope on which the bow can rise by buoyancy elm must nnavolrlably plan into this corning wave below its crest, 13er great speed, added to that of the coming wave, gives her no time to rise forward to meet it otherwise. The consequence must necessarily bee boarding sea and swept decks. LESS 1110/101111 A SLOWL•`IR S1Ii1'. A slower ship would escape with less damage, because the force of the Impart would be lessened, although evert in that ease things might be quite lively. If the ship could be brought to sudden standstill there would then bo only the impact of the speed of the ware, which would give the bow a chance to rise partially and oncoon ter it nearer its meat, where there was a lessen- ed body of water. In other words, she would not dive so deep and the force of im- pathectdanbe ger. a0 lteh reduced as greatly to lesser! tn The ships of the present day, while per- haps no sharper forward titan those of rho past, have mucin greater length and hence are able to ride the crests of several short seas, giving them greater stendiness and lets liability to phutge. Best owing to their greater length and greater weight they are slower to rise for- ward to the approaching sea, and thew geeatspeel gives too tittle time for the bow to rise to the summit of the wave. Oonee- quently they divo 11110 it. Sharpness and great tweed make very wet ships. ratan hats OF PIi•tc DAY 5111PS. The effects of great speed in a sea witty, as I have tried 1n show, bring us to serious consideration of the question of safety fur the coining ship that is expected to cross the ocean in two days less time than at pre- sent, to do which she mast maintain a speed of seven hundred utiles a day, or sty thirty silos an hour, What about meeting one of these aggregated waves or walls of water rolling toward bon at the rate of twenty, causing au impact equivalent to fifty? I should not want to be on deck. Aside front this danger by head seas, what a terrible strain on machinery I Can shafts be made to stand and blades in the propellers to remaiu in their hubs? It must be patent to all that the steamers of the day are put to their utmost speed and the highest possible power is gotten out of the machinery. We all remember the accident to the City of Paris and ]now dangerously near she camp to going to the bottom, The next accident might not terminate as fortunately. A few hundred lives lost, a shook to the cotmnun- ity, the usual homilies in the papers, and in ten clays alt would bo forgotten and the struggle would go on ; and tine very people who -howled the loudest, if going to Europe next day, would take the fastest ship. It is evident that inasmuch as the struggle forsnprecnaey in speed is bound to continue and tidal or aggregated big seas are Itkely to go on, the only remedy for the danger oonsegneut upon the great speed of rho corning ship is to loo found in completely en. closing the deck with the turtle back and keep passengers under cover in rough weather, while the "Donning" bridge foe the officers will reoesserily be perched up to the elevation at the top of the srnokes,aok. In other words, make acomplete diving bell of her mud give her the qualities of Jules Verne's ship in wlnielt he cruised under 1110 Ha. Parrot and Hawk in Battle, The young quail's worst enemies are the hawks. Whore they all conte from and hots they live when the goalie are big enough to keep out of the way is one of the tnystor- ies. At other seasons e, hawk in the park is a rarity. There is ono liewk out there whose quail - days are over. His downfall was accomplished by the big red attd green par. rot that lives near the casino. A gentleman saw a hawk swoop down into the brush when ho was quite a distance off. Pretty soot thorn was the most extraordinary racket in the semi oak. The parrot had the hawk's neck in iia claws, and was driving away with his hook bill at the hawk's head. The hawk was willing enough to quit but contldn't. They flewt up and down, first one on top and then the outer, Ib was not is long fight, The hawk beat his adversary with his wings, and even gob his tail and beak to work, bit, the red and grout bird was too big and strong for him, and wonid nob mimeo his grip a moment. Before the gentlemen got very near the hawk quit fighting. The parrot had apperettbly sunk his tel. ens through the hawse's neck, and that le probably the reason they did not sepat'be, When the hawk gob quiet the parrot math, god to disengage himself end flew up into a tree, whore Ito remained scolding and traighbening his feathers. Ito was pretty badly snratohord up, and ono of his oyes scene[; to be goto, but he had killed the hawk. Nov. 6, 18D1. LATE P'OREIGN NEa A Lawsuit With Two Thousand Witnesses, A SINGULAR BEQUEST, A French 5portemat's mnitntn, A monster lawsuit le being tried by the Court of the Caucasus. The pltdrttifC' 10 the Primo of Minurelia. ,Dalziel says that for the convenience of rho parties, who 'mother, with wttnesses, ,e., over '1000 persons, the Court is sitting in the open air, A big welkieg feat, --A Russian athlete, Mr, Valowski, having made a bet that he would cover the distance between Bordeaux and Angouleme, there and back, or toot, a total distance of 145 miles, in twenty-four hours, started on Sunday morning. I -Io returned on tiondayq morning, having accomplished the double journey in forty minutee'less than the stipulated time, thus winning the wager of 0.000 frames. Tho old penalty standing against n Ger- man soldier or sailor of the Mantling army or navy who left the fatherland was a tine of 200 marks or forty clays' imprisonment, That has now been raised to a thousand marks' fine or imprisonment for four r A gang of strikers in Queensland Insisted on altotel keeper discharging his Chinese cook, who was excellent. When he was turned out the local police engaged hint. The leading striker was soon arrested for sedition, end the first thing he was sat to work at in the prison was chopping wood for the Chinese cook. Rubinstein, who has passed the cummor in the Caucasus, was in the habit of playing the piano for hours in the day, or rather night, Five or six hundred people used to assemble between 11 at night and 2 in the morning " listening with rept attention and in religious sflenoe to the flood of har- mony created by the master." The systematicraplanting of the Malagan forests is urged in a Kew bulletin, or gutta peroha will disappear. Fifty years ago gutta percha was unknown in Europe. Now the annual consumption amoente to 4,000,- 000 pounds, with a constantly increasing demand, and the trees where it is obtained in the Mast Indies cover a very limited area and are being rapidly used up. The Hindeo nose ring is said bo be doom. ed. A a meeting of the members of the Cutolloe Veesa Oscal caste, held at Mandvie l3undor, it was resolved that instead of a ring women should wear a Ilowor in the nose. Inasmuch as the nose t ing had led to " melt unfavorable comment," henceforth wearing nose rings would lead to a line of ton rupees and four aures, in addition to forfeiture of the ornaments. The library at the Chateau de Compiegne las been abolished. The 35,000 volumes which lined the shelves of the Third Ne- 'lolo0n's study have been transferred to the National Library, as well as to the Ma'rarin• and Arsenal libretto. It is stated that the same course will be adopted with re- gard to the library at. the Pekoe of Fon- tainebleau, in order to abolish the sinecure of State Librarian, vacant aiuee the death of M. J. J. Weise. An eccentnie South of France lardy named Cabonret has left, says a Paris correspond- ent, a fortune of 3:20,000 to any French- man who may emceed in oeanizing a caravan of five hundred of his compatriots and penetrtating further than anyone has ever done before ism the wilds of Africa. The caravan may contain a larger number of persons, but whether it does or not one half of its entire number must be brought back safe and sound to France. The will us to be disputed by her relatives. A Toulouse correspondent says the testator was n fervent ad infect- of Cardinal Levfgerie and thought that the best way to hill the slave trade was to make Africe well known. Chanaret, a small township of about 600 inhabitants, has (says a Paris oo•respoudeu1) lac(a a•(ndfa1l whteh will for ever relieve the dwellers in that happy spot of the bur- den of taxation, On the will of an old miser being opened it was found that he had bequeathed 600,0001.,the whole of his hoard- ed wealth, to the community. This will bring In a yearly revenue of from 20,0001. to 23,0001., sufficient, it is said to defray all the expenses of the parish, and leave a surplus of about 1410 to be expended as the municipality may determine. The only conditions to the bequest are that a stone tower, 90ft high, with a clock and a huge bell, shall be erected in memory of the tes- tator. The French newspapers itave•been filled with shocking accidents this week, for the French " spore," when he goes " a la cheese," is not all he appease to the naked eye, In spite of his beautiful costume, his elaborate leggings, his cooked hat with a dove's feather in it, and scented glue bag, he is a veritable walking dynamite bomb, Thu result is that he has been busy shooting his best friend for the )net fortnight. On Saturday, in the vicinity of Nome, a number of young men belonging to a tashionable society went out shooting, and one of them, M. Albert Domes, thinking he saw a hare melting through the bushes, potted it in true sportsmanlike style. It turned out to be a two-year-old baby run- ning on all fours, the nurse being hidden be- hind a Huge tree, and within a few feet of the child. The poor hbtle thing rolled over dead, and the enthusiastic "sport," who rushed forward to bag his game, fainted at the sight of the blooding co'pee of the child. The affair has caused great commotion. English Hats and Caps in Egypt, Viae -Consul Alban states that Englioh hats, especially double straw beta, are sell- ing well. English small straw late for ladies are also in demand. English travelling caps ere fairly liked ; bub " .English manufactur- ers are too fond of sending staring patterns, which few would have tie courage to waits," Again, as regards texture, the cape supplied for Egypt, instead of being light, and suit- able to the climate, aro often made of the thickest and he ,viest cloth, better adapted to the climate of•Sb Petersburg that to that of Alexandria. Beetle]) manufaobur. ens of thin and mono other artioles appear, adds the Consul, to be indifferem, to the tastes of their mamma, and continue to send unsuitable patterns, "until the trade is gradually taken from them by more into!, ligeut foreign firma," A Common Form. of Fiction Bunting—"I ani studying light Tftera- ture. Mrs, Bunting—" Noi in manuscript form, I hope?" "Yea; it is the quarter%gee hill I hold in my hand," It is, not definitely a reutvh wilt) brought the fleet wheat seed to America, When this continent Wan disocvered the only cereal that grow horn was maize. Wheat was introduced into Britain by rho ibotnate,e,ncl it can bo traced back for nearly 4,000 years, iY