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The Brussels Post, 1891-11-27, Page 26 HOUSEHOLD. --- Saturday Night, There Is a restful aound about the men- tion of Saturday night To the rich man who lolls around all the week, trying to make the slow hour pose eon -whew, it limy not moon much ; but to the man who works tett hours a day. for six dap out of the seven it hse b siguracesme. lt meens root, It means goieg to bed with. out setting the tilarinralock BO 1.11a.t. 11 will ring out and get the house astir at bye o'clock. To the busy toilera in onr factories and workshops alas males, night oomes as a bless. ed relief—a 5 weak in 0 WOAry 1001•0tolly, The lomat ends sif t Wttelj'i 11't11'(i arei gathered up. The housewife side the g000ly array of Oat,IL11108 ill the (misheard, anti thinks, " To morrow 1 will rest." She draws her basket of mending toward her with inwetd satie:faction, nil darns the stockings and sews on the buttons with a senee of relief, , She will vest to morrow I The children will put away their toys am their school book, and gather round the lire to read the weekly papers and look at the pictures. Saturday night ! No more work for thirty-six hours ! Thirty•six hoers of sixty minutes eiseh ! :No wire =tray making, no fretting,no business earee, uo trying to make books Intlatioe, ne scanning of stook reports —nalung bet rest ! The farmer look.; about his well filled barns and over his grownos crops, and hangs up his eeythe in the apple tree by the grind- stone, end pays his hired man his week's wages, and congratulates himself that 00 - other week 18 os'er, He is tired ;he has worked hard ; his brow is wet with the sweat, by which it was said of old man should eat his bread. He has earned the rest which is coming. He pats on a clean shirt, combs his wet loeks, and sits down to the sapper which labour has given him the right to eat, and the ability to eat without killing him with indigestion. And the way the viands disappear is a sight to make a dppeptie howl with envy. On Saturday nights Inc friends drop in, and talk over the news, aed tell en what is In the p tpers, end compare notes on the weather, and give us 0 cletailed history of the way Aunt .alarist had the toothace, and what the deotiet sail and bow Uncle John had itu attack of eholera merlins, and w= cered hint. And we age thee, to stay longer for it is Saturday night, we tell them ; and we walk dowo to the gate with them. remark on the beauty of the night, and wonder if it will rain to -morrow. And we go to bed, tired. but happy, and reflect that we ean lie in bed just as long aa we plea°, for tremorrow Is Sunday. and Sunday is the day of rest. Boiled Meats. Bolting is the most common way to cook meats. There is more waste by this method than by any other, unless the water in which the meat i$ cooked is utilized as soup. In that case meny sensible people may say that a poor dish of meat or a meat soup must be the result of trying to make two dishes out of the material for one. There are some meats that aro always boiled. A. leg of mutton is usually more excellent. boil. el than when cooked in any other way, be. cause there is usually a strong lievor to mutton, which renders it not as good a meat for roasting as beef, veal or lamb, Veal and lamb are often mado into stews and pot -pies, but are never boiled, that is im- mersed in boiling water and cooked till tender. Beef iss.»netintes boiled, but moro otten it is cooked in a pa-rostst or braised thao leiled. Corned beef, however, is al- ways boiled. 1 Irate earned beef hee only laid in pickle a few slays, that is, is in a " light corn," it should be treated like , fresh, or like a leg of mot ton ; 10 011)111 be plunged in boiling water and eitionered -very slowly till it is thoronghlv done, When the Iteef has been thoroughly I corned it, should he covered with cold water and brought slowly to the boiling poiet, then simmered till done. All boiled meet shouls1 be skimmed after it has boiled gently several moments, end it is not usually necessary to skint it agent till it is done, Ally grease that has risen to the top of the pot should be skimmed otr as seen as I the meat is done, and it 011,151111 then be 1 the pot is skimtned it will liting with it taken up. If the meat is lifted out before .considerable grease. Boiled meats regaire an acid vegetable nr sance served with them, and for this reason a caper earice is commonly served with boiled mutton, ansl a mould of I spiced currants or o slieh 01 achl apple 08.005 is very acceptable with this meat. Cabbage 1 ansl beets which are dressed with vinegar I are the proverlsind accompaniment of boiled I beef, The liquor In which mutton or freth I beef is boiled makes a, delicious soup ; hot s corned beef imparts so much of its saline quality to the water in whicd»t is cooked that the liquor becomes particularly Vable. less for soup 1 moreover, salt meats lose little of nutriment itt boillng; by the process of corning the juices are sealed up and do not expend themselves in the water, Fowls and turkeys for salad, creep:settee or any similar perm -got whew, tio-o- see re- quired cold are boiled. le sbi •••s bss water they have been boiled in ehoulsi always he saved and used as stock for while soups. A fowl alma a year old or a few months older, but 1101 11 tough old hen, should be chosen for adad or croquettes or to servo boiled. A vonnger chistken is not so good for this purpose. A to rimy, chicken or fowl is prepared Inc hoilingin exactly tho same way. 11 (0 plu •Itedaleawn,thorougltlywiped, but itis not st Wroth It is then plunged in boil- ing water wit h the breast downward mill gen- tly simmered Lill it is (lone. If the bird is in- tended for magnetics or sided it iiitiloWocl to cool in the ws ter it was boiled in mall boils ed moats wit hill are to lie served add shonld he. Tf itis to Ise served (0 11 dish on the table 11 (11)1101 he taken Ilp hot and a nice oyster sauce prep-, "el from some of the liquor 11 WU cooked in with the addition of a little cream, oysters awl seaeoning. 'rho water in which meats aro boiled shottid be wilted about half an hour before tinware taken no. If salt is added before it teeam to harden.the water tool to prevent the mem smoking tender, 01(1(3 11 also draws oe the pines of the meat, If on the eons trary the salt 13 15,1110.,! after the meat is something noire than half cooked it flees not prevent i5r4 boanining tender while 0 coating hits been formed by tanking round the emit which aisle rip the juices, sb that tho salt haa littlo or no ofreet. THE 1124111011M•ausivalmax•ed••• Isnape sold, it Is tree, in all the groceries and bake »hope, bat they resenilile the old intim only tu wane. The obi:fashioned giegersimp had no socht or anything else in its composition to raise it It was, however, . 055110 01) thin that ie could not by any chenee I he clougby or heavy. The old rule for this ' cake ealled for a cup and a half of butter, a enp of sugar and ono of Porto Bice molasses I with s tableapoonfel of ginger, A teaspoon. 5 ful of soda could be added, but was general- ! ly omitted. Only Hour enough to roll out : the cake was stirred in. The dough was roll - est out tie thin as a 50 ant p1000 501! ea into round eekes with a sheep tin cutter. These meet be baked in m moderate oven so they will dry fivm anti m isp before they bur», ' They should be a rich brown in color, A pleiber rule for these cithes calls for half a mqs of sugar ; cep of molasses ; half e cep et boilieg water and a half a cup of butter stinted together and poured hot on the molasees and sngar. 'rwo even tablespoon- fuls of ginger are then added, and an even teasponeful of sods dissolved in. The dough should be rather stilt; knead it a little, then roll it into very thin sheets, and ent it into eakes and bake exautly as you aia the richer cakes. A great, many stooks who tura milk in place of water to mix these cakes boil the milk with the teaspoodul of soda and pour these hot over the butter, molasses and sugar, which had been previousIy mixed together, The flour was Lhcns starred in 1111 the dough was aiff, It was then kneaded up, rolled ant and baked. These two rules are diametrically different in method. The first one, in whieh no milk or water is need, has very little flour, while the other is mix. ed quite staff. -- Besieged By Wolves, A Sedan (Koos,) correspondent of the Lo Angeles Times tells the following story of a givl s terribleexperionce : Mary Booher, liv- ing with her parents on a farm west ot this city, had an adventure ono evening recently which will cause her to be careful aboa he. ing away front home after dark in the fntere. Shelled been tochurch withsomefriondswho lived closer to town than she did, and when they went home Mary told them not to bother about going on with her as it 15.00 moonlight, stnd she was not afraid. She started to walk the half mile to her home. About half way is a deserted cabin standing ; near the road , j astbefore she got t here she saw what she supposed to be her slog in the road. She called it, but the animal sneaked away, . and she then feared IC Ives a wolf. tile Won 3011, severel others, and as they mune toward her she ran to the cable and found tltat the door could be fastened. The ani- mas tried te get in and scvatahed and gnaw- ed at the door. Miss Beam- tried to inake her folks hear, but the walls of the cabin efrestually dead. enea sonnd, and it looked as if she wovid see to meke a night of it but her father Weenie alarmed at her oontinued absence, for he know that be would »a stay at the neighbors all night, and he started out with his son to see what had become of her. As they neared the cabin they saw the wolves, which fled at thole approaeh, and they called to the girl, who answered and opened the door. She said Unit she was not ft:tightened, for she knew that they could not get in, and 5110 WELS sure that tier father would come enter her before he wonld let her stay away from her home all night Wolves are plent- iful hi this county, but this is the first Maumee of their attacking a human being, and it Is looked epon 05 being a bad sign ; for if they sire ao hold now, they will become much woree when cold weather sots in. . A Bird's Treatment of Wounds. Sotne interesting observations relating to thesurgical treatment of wounds by birds svelte lecently bronght by M. Fatio before the Physical Society of Geneva. According 00 the If, dna/ 1? ",,'d, he quoted the case of the snitie, tie -dell he lusd oftett observed sogned in repairing damages. With its leak and feathers it makes IL very creditable dressing, applyisig plasters to bleeding wounds, and evett seeeriog a broken Inith by means of 55105)5 ligature. On one occa- sion he killed a imipe whieh bad on the chest is large dressing composed of down taken from other patte af the body and securely fixed to the wontul by the coagulated blood twice he had brought home snipe with ins terivoven feathers strapped on to tho site of the fritoturo of one or other limb. The meet interesting example was that 0( 11 snipe both of whoee legs he had unfortunately broken by a misdirected shot. He recovered the animal only on the slay following, and he then found that the poor bird had eons trives1 to apply pressings tura a sort of splint to Will limbs. in carrying out this opera- tion seine feathers had become entangled around the beak, and not being able to use Ito chime to get rid of thmn, it was almost dead from hunger when disuovered. le a case recorded. by M. Magnin, a snipe which was observed to fly away with a broken leg teas smiles gamily found to have forcesi the fragments into a parallel poaition, the upper fragments mulling 10 1110 knee, and secured there by means of a strong hand of feathers 551111 51010 iuterteingled, The observers were particularly etruck by the application of a ligature of a kind of flitt-loilfed grass wound round the limb, of a spiral form, and fixed by means of a, sort of glue, Ginger NUtS, There aro no cakes we have which arc, at 54(00. 00 inexpensive, so delicious and 80 wholesome as the old time gingerents, They were eriep, thin and 'deli cnongh to have a lino naty flexor. It is not esennum now to find obi -fashioned gingertinte 00 ;sings -it -mettle made at they inico worc, There aro ginger A One-armed Man. The doctors say that a man 0011 feel nail. es 11d tho arm that Iras beau cut off, but that ie nonsense. Any man who has lost an arm or a leg will tell you that the fingers and toes 011 the missing members sometimes get as cold as auy other part of his tioatomy, knew a man who was shot in the arm at Shiloh, mid after the battle WM over he was taken to a farm house near by, where the dootors perfortned the amputation, The man of the house pot the arm in a candle. box, nailed it up and buried it in tho or- chard. The next day the wounded soldier omplained that his 40111 tl!0111)1011 111111, Ji was all doubled up, he said, and the fingers felt cramped. He grumbled for two or throe days without atiybosly paying much atten- tion to him, for the house was lull cf wounlb ed men, 1111,1 1110 dootors were too busy to spare the tune to look after 011 amputated min, but finally the man become so trouble- some that they concluded to try 5 little ex• parimont. So without tellieg him what, they were going to do, they weals) the orchard, deg up the arm, took it out of the candles box, leid it straight, placed tho fingere in a natural peedion, wrapped 11111 cottotabitt• ting, put it m a, lo»ger box and buried it again, The loan declared 1s fit his arm relieved at tho very moment when they were straightening tho missing member, mei never complained again, They Lehi him nothing of 3 1)1,1 they had done until he was about to be discharged from the hospital, and then gave him the fitory in full, Univemal tomperauce in esttiog and drink ing Would quadruple the gesteral health and add years le the average life of 1110 115110, Physician to °envois:event pationt—" Isaly bill, sir, for attendee:to during your late 111 18 '5," Patieut---" Gnat Soffitschatter," looking over the bill nod turning white, " WiLB 1s Bleit ILB all that S" BRUSSELS POST. AGRICULTURAL The Praottoal Bide of Daiqing. The mutual bouquet of the Listowel Dairy- men's Hemel of Trade was hold on the lith inst. lAstowel hes alresoly become widely k11.0WIl LLB L110 COEltrA1 Of an 050011011'O dairy. ing (listriet, 5151 ,5 place where lirage (1111111. thin of fine cheese are marketed every second Thursday. The offering of cheese on WILS OYU 942.000 110XeS, T110 annual bring uut has Weenie a feature of ono nf the latest market days of the season, paid be- tween (1) and 70 repreeentative salesmen of factories and exporters of (Meese sat down together, Mr. William Messer, of Blum -ale, president of the Board of Thule, WILB itl the chair, Prof, James W. Bobertsori, Dominion Dairy Commiesioner, Was the first speaker. Among other things he said ; Listowel is fortunate in its eitination and surroundings, end the adjoining townships OWO more of their prosperity to tho exten- sion of the dairy business than to any other branch of agrutulture. Ihrongh the dairy businees only hail 11 1)00(1 possible for a town of its size, and even of its enterprise, to win a continental and almost world-wule reputation. No dairy market in Canada is watohed with more carom, commented upon in the press more widely than the ono held in Listowel. Somebedy's olear thinking precedes all rational action that makes for the improve - meet of the social, industrial or commercial world. Meetings such as have been held by this Board of Trade help to bring out the best thought and the best action that are ine the several met»bers who compose it, Then the good Immo and the superior reputation which have been won for the factories in the Listowel district, have created a measeve of enthusiasm which has had a very beneficial influence on the salesmen, ou the cheeses makers, and on the thousands ot patrons of the factoriee. Any individual or any action which helps to inspire oue with confidence in himself and hope in the future of his district mud country Is most commendable. These form the best part of a weary's capital, and should be encouraged and eon. served by every possible 11100110. It is a great mistake for farmers or other citizens of one country to depend upon any outside, farrafr, or foreign source foe help in the so. ; hition 00 1110 dillicelties that meet them in the prosecution of their own business, Tlie hard times in a country ean never be made to yield eutirely to any sort of legislation. Dairymen and other people need travel: ex- pesit to safely rely upon governmente to legislaf 0 good times, The only real Wale for substential, permanent and progressive prosperity, is the epplication of industry with skill in every sphere of endeavour, tee exercise of ecenomieal frugality, and fair dealing between all (1)00 01(1,1 elasses. These, with the blessings of Providence and good harvests, alone are adequate to bring and to keep good times. Still the attitude of the governments of to -day is most friendly to - 1111515 the agrioultural interests, and they have lout almost every desirable tuulpraotis eat he p to the farming eommonity towards increasing their profits and improving their condition. The Dominion experimental farms/ire the outcome at that attitude, and they are quite liberally and cheerfully supported by grants from theist's -Ilan -tent of Canada. The minister of Agriculture is personally greatly interest- ed iu their success and spares no 11111115 to make their work efficient and. useful. .1 think the same might be &Nisi with cendor of the experimeutal farm for the province, which has been ht operate, 1 10 Guelph for inazi years past. The awaketlisse and in- creased intelligence among the fellness has put great power in their hands, and govern- ments are willing to do their biddine soon. ever they will eat together and for theiv common good. The °idea of the Dominion experimental farms is to thseover tor and to disseminate among the fee:mere information that will assist them in their work, and which they lave no opportunities of finding out for themselves. Threugh meetings end by tisa bulletins void reports svhich 01.0 1111111i0110(1, they ends:over to shed the Itimlly light, of knowlet4gs. itto the hoinee of tho humblest firamere of the hut& as well 118 1100 those of wider and more fasared opportuni- ties. In the improvement of the grain of the country one beneficial change is being effected tisroogh tho action of Prof. Saunders in distributing varieties of gvain of the best quality and most productive White of growth. 'Most of the dairymen in Ontario aro now familiar with the counneneement of the work of the Dominion experimental dairy stations. Every experimental action hag within itself a twofold pelver of sevvitra. It has the pos- sibility of discovering some feet that was before unknown ; it also has the function of illustrating and teaching in an impressive way the advantages that result from the host P011011005 of procedure. The work 01 110 out- s side branch stalloos during thepastsumi»er has Won mainly investigations of niatt ors ' connected with the mentilaeturo of 0110050. The work of the ex peritnental dairy at 00- ! team has been directed tower& hater. ( making. In the investigations withal have been carried on iti cheese -making an effort; lots been made to discover the relation that 1 carats between the percentage of better fat In milk and Clio quantity and quality of the cheese which can bo made from it P1111, partietilars of that work will be given in the I annual report and also et the anneal (=Yen- I tions of the dairyince's trasooiations, Mao. 11010it might 10 015103 with safety that very ' large number of experiments point to the eon- I elusion that the percentage of butter fa in mills lima, be taken as a basis for rat- ing its actual value for the manefaciluve of ohoese. i,liIli containieg 4 por tent ; of butter fat on an average is worth, for ; the mesinfactere of cheese, 040 third more per :100 pounds than ;milk eontatieing 3 per cent. of butter fat In short, the expert - menial all point to the conetusion that the total quantity of butter fat in milk, in the milk whiall the savored patrons furnish tes it thec11 factory, might be need for deterins Ming 00) ib amity what sitars of the total proceeds front tho sates of cheese shoul31 be slisteibuted 00 smell pet aim The 1100 of a ilitheock milltioster snakes IL easily pos- sible for every sillsetammaker to test the 101110 of every 1)5 (011 tivioe a syssels, Then milk furnishes' ly the iseverel parsing ishould be paid for aceording to its real quality and gnentity. Ily the aslopthni of Ode prtietice thst irritable, st.Ithough pressen' ly onavoid. ntas, peosseotraos in eonnection with oases of itdelterated mill, would have no cause ' for existeene. When (ivory patron is paid for his milk according to ita real (nudity there will be no incentive towiteds dishoe• osty in the matter of !skimming, watering,' or re's:nine, af rIppings. Many tents have been wade diming the year to disuovor the effect of rennet upon the curing and the kooping cheese. This will be more suits able for 1 convention of choesemakees than for a general audionee of farmers, However, in this stouneciion, one matter is ef imports 111(00 (50)1 maim to every Canadian. While 0110000 bayrrs and itxportete have thnsilig an steerage of five yettrs laid the hightail. Tws. slim price which 00(11,1 1/0ari•;, )10.1 Ity t01 Englieli market, for einteee thie country, our best factories have not realized their rightful share of the prices pai11 by the English consumer for elleese ef faney qnality. large propottion of our foamy theism, lo still retailed over the counters In alighted as fancy Eng - Bah Cheddar. All the best, famorles In the country should brand on the 010000, RH WOO as on tho boo', the word Canas11011 so that it could not inieteken in Eng- land. The dillerunee on the retailer (1)1051(0' in England bet wean elieese of the oonotion quality end cheese of a fancy quality 14 from .1, to ti vents 3,01 3,00)511. The difference here seldom ex. mode half IL cant per pound, Out best foe - tortes would receive the higher price, providing thts extra mains winch is rason• °Lod retailer could be brought An otrort 10 beillg made through theexperi. mental dairy mations 00 change the manila° of the dairy farmers of Canada from having their 00WR a ry all winter to having butter- inekieg curled on during that period of the year. Ono of tho Lehman:gee that would accrue from winter da tying would be the inoreased spinally of inilk that would be realized from matey cow, A eow will give about 3() per oent. more milk during 10 wtoothe if she calves between October told Deceinlier them if she attests betweeit April and Jure, The coinovo prositiee of killing calves from July is a meet wasteful ono. A welbbred calf has in its life tho pos. si bilitr ef leaving 320 of profit for annebody, even 11 1115 life be cut shore at the end of two years as a well fattened steer, Thou wintee dairying will make it possible for Canittlit to develop an export trade 111 butter, which may by and by exceec1 her present expos.t of cheese. Buying the past year the total value of our exports of choose In round figmee was $9,000,000. Client Britain import- ed altogether about 320,000,000 wortli of cheese. From this country WO sent altoge. ther aboat 42 per cent, of the total quantity that Great Britain purohaseci abroad. Of butter Groat Britain imported about 1140,- 000,000 worth, we Canadians contributing to her supply a little more then one half of olio per cent. Through winter dairying and the altering of cheese factories into creamer. ies for the whiter seams, it is quite possible to build up and develop an expeet trede in butter to a greater magnitude than that presently attained by our cheese trade. During, the present winter this change will be effected in two cheese factories In the Oxford districts. It is expected that opera- tions ats both places will begin the 161.11 and 201h of the current meth Whim the Lists owel Dairymen'e Board of Trade continues its market: the year round and hasn't offering of better equal in quantity to its offering in the cheese branch of the industry, the whole seetion will feel the effect of the increased prosperity among the dairy farmers. AN EARTHQUAICE. Thousands or People Kttied 118 Japan, Adviees just received from Hiegel, .Teman, report that the terrible earthquake of Wed. nesday last destroyed tho towns of Nagoya, Gifu aud Ojaki. All the public buildings and most 01 1110 smaller structures in those places were thrown down. In Nagoya, ono 01 51,0 finest cities of the empire, fire Smoke out and cotnpleted the work of destruction. It is estimated that not less than 3000 human beings lost their lives. In the vicinity of Hinge many vessels aro reported wrecked. During the seismic disturbances the waters of the lakes in the surrounding coun- try WOM violently agitated. Few portions of Niplion island escispod the effects of the earthquake, but the town of Kobes suffered comperatively little dam- n The varions wagon leads 010 blocked by immense heaps of debris, and railroad trate is entirely suspended. Owing to the complete prostration of the telegrepit lines, full details] of this tervible cilamity caamot yeti lie tiseertainesl, A Yokohama dispatch brings another and even 111010 terrible story of the Awful earths tinake. 10 aultlen WM the dieftster tlittst svith the first rumblings of the earth the people were stricken svith panic aud were crushed in the 50 155 01 (011118(1 buildings or thrown by crumbling debris. The 1155000 Was instientaneons and unpre. eedented, Aa enornsone traa was laid desolate, Tho terror stricken crowds thought of nothing 101 escape from the yawning jaws of the myth. Those who were maimed or caught—and in the afflicted towns they utintheved roils- -wore loft to die a lingering death by the sides of thousende of corpses, Nowhere were the efforts of the Tapeuese officials adequate, and there was bet little doubt that many thousands of lives might have been saved had there been anything like a systematic service. An appalling feature of this national ilia. °stay was the feet that malty of the hueslreds of wounded persons who be the mad rushes for earay wove left to their foto, died not only front exposure, Ita Boni nervation. The towns of Okonau, Kano and Kassa. mutat have been literally wiped nut, buts very fow of the unfortunitte inhabitants escaped. At Gifu. 5000 houses wore destroyed and 5000 persons killed. Eighteen thousited hooses were wreaked and 2000 peraons lost their lives at Oragora, 'Fifty miles of railway have been destroy. oci, and in the earthquake district a number of European residents were engulfed, but Cook'e tourist parties now in the country are safe. Only the most meagre 1i0811001151n areyet to hoed, hut enough is known to oonvinee the Japanese people that their country has been visited by ono of the most terrible catastropliee recorded in its history. Nothing can exacted the indignetion ex- pressed on all sitles at, the government and 11 ,151 officials. There 00000 10 be 1 iti lo doubt thee svith tho mosiAlilisitinotit of communication there will come a foluifill recital of suffering and death. The earths -praise shock 'erased from east to wait Tho waters worn east up seething, as if thrown from a eauldrom and lontst upon the lowland% Malty pereons Were drowned without a chaotic to tempo. At the prosea moment the lowest; esti. mate of the killed misl drowne,1 throughout the empire pieces the !insulter a 10,000. One elemeet of shrowthicia is to realize that the 1111111 you are (larding 'with may bo more shyowd than yourself. A ptemlim habit of the trotter Jay-Fiyo See 2.10, us big trimmer of eating hie hey and oats, When fed a pail of water is plate oil near hie box of eats, He takes a mouth - fill of oats, ;drake hie nose in tho water, takee smother mouthful of oats, again dips hie nose in tho water, anti so en continually until his grain ie ration un clean. lie then premeds tho me way with his hay nntil be has eons -timed a liberal :limply: In this way leo avoids the duet in thy gram. .No 1,41)1 lara•walatzumatrUaarna.ivanunmetromarsetougewax•s••,,,,,,.... iTAPAN'S GREAT DISASTER, .— Peerleist settees; Outing site stsiestionalco— ireiteinie ierinegieum or 0088, NO further information lute item receive51 in regard to the venlig mike in .litpan which lute just delimitated the enjoy of Osaka, and Bingo. As the telegraphic sonsontinication between these Miles and the mashie world Ints 110011 BON'01-0(1 it will probably be some time before the compiete detei Is of the diss 118101' are known. ,As ()sake covers 55 area of 'wails, eight !KJ nave is,llos the ilamege done must be conmiderable. Otte great oity, which hits !some half million of inhabitente the destruction of build iege 10 immenee, hut the loss of life is phiced at only 300, The loss of Ilfe ILD 1:110p, W111011 1.000/V011 1110 worst ebooks, will doubtless be far grantee, Hlogo is the old 301)15(e5e port of the town of Kobe and is beantifaly situated at the entrance to the sound whielt separates 510 i$11111L111 f11110 11100011 11 islands, Shikoku end Kin•Sith Mountain vidges of volcanic; origin run along the thashore. TheJapanese part of the town consists of small holm% lint the European part hes maey stately edifices, including European lintels, 0111130 and country honaes, In the old itnperial p151ace, 3010011 1111,9 B100(1 0111011031 10E1 CVO,: 511100 55110 Mikado overthrew the Shogun dynasty and removal (o Tokio, theta is a shrine which was originally intended to loo- ted the Emporor•deity during eiratlunialtos. JAPAN'S 1SSS itsiert[QTTAILE. The last time that Japan WEIS visited by disneter of the presea kind wne on July 15, ISSit. T11i11 was °tamed by a terrible eruption of the apparently extinct volcano of Ban.11.1.0an, 10 Lho provinco of 'rektishi ma mew the eity of Waktunastn, about 165 01los meth sif Teich), on the side of tho island op. 1105115 to Osaka, where the present, disaster °cern:Ted. 5.1eeruption resulted 'lithe burial under volcanic mud and vodka and ashes of region of abeet aeventy.five square miles, and causing more or loss damage and devas- tation within Rimiest ex tendingover morethan 675 square miles. It was on July 15. 1 he morning was unusually hot and sultry. Them WAS 110 ground for apprehension of any kind, end EL few earthquake shocks felt two or three days ptevioes to the eruption prosetited also nothing unusual or abnormal. letratligtzake shocks and seismic tvemors are 00111111011 throughout japan, ,Some of tint people WON quietly enjoying the hot baths on the slope of tits) mounteins, others eon. versed with the visitors that had teon,t from si lettuce, while a nuiawity were ly leg on their mats, talking, smolt Ino. rs•stining. dozing, sleeping. Ohl Randal sau presented his usual appearence and Nessire liereelf streaming and drowsy, seemed erasint to fall into slumber. TnE, 050131005 SvESUT) rr. A strange stoe)' was told hy seam of the native papers afterward, Poe i.everal da before the disaster the monkeys near the hot spriegs ran up arid down the melanin howling and shrieking and screamine whish attracted general attention and it was be- lieved that they had lost their chief, Some few, however, belie ed it, to 110 011 ill omen and departed, They were the only 0110d left to tell the story, The following is an account, written from Tokio five days after the disaster. A few minutes before 1 o'cloels, while the inhabits ants of Witkenottse ware enjoying the smi- thies:, it low rumbling was heard like the sound of distant thunder, actually believed to be such by some ; bat before there 0000 titne for an interchange of welds the earth was heeved up and began to tremble vises lontly, the ground embalming like WILIAM' shaken in a bowl, Prom the peak of 13/1411i1L. Ball there then shot up 11110 11,0 air, 09 though 51 iseharged from tho emotion's month. and stecompaned by a noise as of a hundred thunder stornes combined, a huge ;mass or resi volcanic 10011, mixed with fire and rooks soul sulphist mid smoke, carrying with it the very peak of the munntain, and hisling tor a thno t he brood and brillistet slums, so heaven and then, in its fall covet -Mg the green (myth billow with a binieli.grity wbnsl- 110 of volcanic mud, heavy rocks, hot wilier, blueing enlpher, retlhot sand and gliswing ashes of n. bluish tint abides 11110 news, varying iu thickness fesns, seven to twenty fret, were hidden 600 men mud wo- men and children, dead at once or writhing in the htst agonies. Among these were no less then 150 visitors to the hot spvings who thus found it horrible death in place of the expeeted mirefrom sickness and disease. Within a fatal circle described by a radios of five miles around tho mountain few people were able to escape unhurt, but even beyond that distance persons were killed or injured. Donee black smoke contineed to issue front the apse-LUPO through which the sn btervanean forces heal found vent, and bleak clouds soon covered the eky fait stud wisle, while eon. stantly recurring earthquiskesliocks iuoreits- mi tho fright of the trembling fugitives. Whoever smelt' fled at once its every dime - Men, away from the smoking °voter. Some, stark naltal mid ashy pule, nth at the top of their speed over the glowing Minims, women fainted and fell from sheey Gallows Mon and terror a few, swaged by fright or hiltrauti by falling beanie and stones, hopped 00 crept away like so many animals set at largo. To inmate the otrors cif tho scone, pine trees, tall and stetely and eon laxities old, were torn from the grouna and thrown up. ward, while sulphurous flames blued forth between their melding roots, peesenting ID the wild and excited imagination of the people thospeotacle of weird.looking snakes, hissing and writhing in the tinearthly glare of the abysmal five. .551 10 o'o/cielt the scene had reached its climax, but oreptioes and earthrinake shocks did not cease until o'clock in the afternoon. Forby•four homes wore found beefed to a depth of twenty feet and many more were ooverod to a less depth. A Load off His Mind, " Waiter, Isie.come here p.plostee' said an inebrieto who had just sat down 1;',o dinner in 0 cheap Yeateturent. " Well, sir, what do yea wish 1" "Pray ivaiter, Isio-oon you see Oita plate 01 01)0500 wiggler The waiter was obliged to admit that, it ormtained just it few iikippord, lett expiale• ed that some of their csustomore wouldn't cat!wi Ulna, " Many Os titanic% waiter. You've taker. a norful load Frain my mind. 1 thought had 'em again."--Mansville Breeze, The average ailment of sieknoss in human life 50 (51(0 days per annum. . Tho peach Wail originally apolsonous fruit; but by cultivation the pewee luta dieaps poured. Thu author who wrote "There is beauty in extreme old age," probably never tnoklod 0.0 ovornursod ogg. The man who will complain 11101 11 twenty - minute soonon is too long will sit half -a day wal chime a couple of chess players mak. ine two moves, 'Thom ato niotamtis when by soma impulse 3vo contradict our 3,0.8! seleem—fatal mos Incas when a lit of passion, liko a lava stream, lays low the work 01 1551 our lives, CURIOSITY COLUMN. Re's a Brick. Perhaps no bit of slosig lo Italy language is more anniont than "Ise is a brink." Tho story of ite might is given by Platarell 5(1 his Life of ',purge% Au embaseador front Epiree visited rIparta and was gently ea, tertaineci anti edified by what he saw during his Duty, but ono thing .ptutzled him, the city hail tin wells, Inquiring the reason of 10 phonsimetton ao rare 111 thole) was like times ass a city without defensive worlie, lie Was promind an answer on the following day. At minis% tho next mornleg, he was escort. ed to 0 large plain mar the city whore all the Sparten troops wore &ewe up in battle array under the amonand of their King, "Here," said Lyeurgits, " aro the walls of Sparta, and every man is a brick." J'ohn O'Groat's House, In the reign of james 11,. of Scotland John Oa/resit and his two brotherS—daloolin and CILViil—arrived. al Caithness and bought the lauds of Wal',6 ansi ihnsishy, on the beech a the mouth of Pottlan firth, the nertlienstern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. In time thew families increased until there woro eight households of the same name. They lived as neighbors in the greateapeace and amity, holding an annual feast au the same house. At last the cmostion of pre. silence erase among the younger members, ausl they disputed as to who should sit war the head of the table or enter the rocnn 0.00b. Old Johnny O'Groab 30555 1110410 arbitratot of the dispute. He promised that before the next meetieg lie would settle the question to tho satisfaction of all concerned. Aecoriling- ly lie built an eight -sided house in which to hold the annual dinner. This oej,agonal 11011S0 WILB fitted With EL door and a winduw ou each side and ti round table te the center f the room, so that the head of each family of the O'Gronsts might enter by Ills 03011 door and sit, at 0, table which was practically " without a head." 'rhis famous house was situated about a mile and 0. half wail a the point of land called Dutisby Head. The site of the house is now melted only by soma grassomvered mounds. Singular Instance of Longevity. A certain housebreaker WAS emir/envied in the latter part Of Got last santury in France, itna under In -:Witty ,111510111.?08. to it Itun• deed year i in the githsys ; and, ittratige to relate, thie man reseals' made his unpile - mom in his own naive province at the lid reeved ago of 1 20, he being about 20 years of 1140 white the seamiest which condemned him to 9,/ 11/.00,11.11 I a 111111i:41111011 1 was passed 11 is difficult to conceive what the feelings must have ham with which he returned, as soon as emancipated from the iffieckles which hail enthralled him for a centalty, 00 100511150 once more the cherished air of the scenes of his infancy. Bourg, in the Department of Ain, 3004 Is native home ; htil time had so inuell changed the aspect of the whole plaeo dust be recognized it ottly Ity the nisl church of Brou, which was the mile thing0 hat Mut undergone no al teem ion. He heal trio mot ied ovet laws, 'minister., 11100. tittle, everything. Not a velation :sad he left, (*1 31 single Wing could he hail 04 BM acquaintance ; yet lie was not without experiencing the homage and respeet tho French invariably pay to old age. Foe himself, he had forgotten everything connected with his early youth ; tras-51 all recolleetien althe crime for whits!) ho liad sulrered was lost, or, if at, all reinemberedt 155 was as bet a dreary visloo, confutneled with a thousand other dreary visions of days long gone by. Hie family and conneetions for si,verol UP11 prat imis all dead, linnielf a living proof ef the clemency of heaven noel the severity ef 111011, regretting, perhaps, the very irons width hail been (15(1 1111351 to him, and lotif wishing himself egitin tossing the stool shed and suffering bei tens with whom lite tato had been s0 lroig as0ock51ed •;llti11ight he be called the pato LL1.011 of iu.,,. --- Rain-Betting in India, In England horse -owing is the favorite object of the gambling propeneittes of mans kind ; in India it is ''strata," ,ss' what ts called rainsbettiug. Calcutta seems to be quite as much addicted as Bombay to this Ismil of exeitement. On a Saturday night in last month it is stated that, a very largo sem of money changed hands hs the former city itmong. the Marwaris and others who congregate in Berea Bazar, Gotten stt'oet and other busy haunts. Bets were made on the question of whether the long.looked•for rain would fall on Saturday night, and tho alarwari who maintained the affirmative opinion. 30011, it 13 said, hy exactly thirty mtnntes, "It was a alote thing," adds this iteeount, " Ana. the excitement ELS midnight approached and a storm was eeen to be lac- ing up from the bat, Is described as having been intense. Airather half hour of the rainless eull'ocating weather which has never reIlaxecl deriug the past theen weeks and the spectilatimg nubile would have 'spoiled bhe lagyptiatis.'" A Moose Beats an Engine, Sunday, July 12, as a short traiu of flat ears 30E19 ronniug tip the Dninth and Winne - peg 10011 11110 Itasca county, Mine., 0, largo moose was discoveved near the track. In 005 instaa he fled allead of tho train along the old tote path used by the Indians and woods:nen Moto tho railway wits built. The path is elose to the ear track and parallel with it. As there aro no regular trams on Sunday, the 0310151e00 Mal a elear field, and determined to show the moose how to 000. The iron home snorted nod hennaed along over his track of steel, while till on board intently watched the raw. It was a four' milo straightetway nue Tho moose's gaits was an indescribable trot, euali ea only the moose can exhibib ; his hind feet fenning his ears, his tongue hanging from his mouth, overy muscle in his body moving, 1011110 11103,11000 were apparent,. ly two rods in length. At first it was only a little jog, but as the engine began to do its host tho moose lot himself ent a knob at 54 5511110, 1551:11111 the mysterious power of steam (multi not prevail against this monarch of the forest. Faster and faster spoil the engine, bnt still the frightened moose trotted in the van, letting out hie tongue natother link, and ad. ding a knot, as was needed, to his gait. 1310 when four 1011e5 lied thee boon traversed, the contestants came upon ts clearing whore inon wore gathered. Time drivee front Ids pathway, and forood to abandon what seem. od is playful pastime, tho moose dashed across the brook several rods in (0001 01 tho engine, and a moment Inter, without award of his wall -earned laurels, 30115 lost to sight in the forest, Folly most hold its tongue while wearing the wig of sviedons The art, of getting 01011 consists not in nclustry, much loss in savi»g ; but hi bettor irder, in timeliness in hob% at the righ era. •