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The Brussels Post, 1892-10-21, Page 3OCT. 21, 1892, e'","""""*"'"ww.Tr'reells YOUNG FOLKS. The DarlY An owl once lived In it hollow tree, And Ito Was MI WI.11 11.1 W140 1.011 111 1/11. T110 Mantel of teareleg he iteliet know Gould settree on Lite tree of knowledge grow. knent the 1ree front Mallen 1 o root, And nu owl like that can itit'orit to hoot. .A nil he booted- 0111. ono ditY' lo ohnneen to Meta te a mutual way, Anil lexecuffleant little bird Make use or a term he luel never heard. lie Was living to beo in no ilaw0Ing light Whim he heard her winging with all her might, " flare* I hurray for the early went l" "Dear mu I" saki LIM Owl, What to singular terill 1 would look it 11111111 weren't, so late ; I meet, rem tit duels to i vestiltsitto. Early to bed and early to rem, Milk. en owl boalthy mut stealthy und wise I" So ho slept, Illte hone.t.ewl ell (ley, And rmte In Llie rl v twilight gray, And went In work In the y I igh TO 10014 for Llio early worm all 1134111. nonrelloil the Country for miles around. But the earty worm wee not, to ho (mind. So he went to bed In the dewing 1 A' 11. And looked for " werie again toed night, And nealn and egaln, and again and moan. IN.:merle and ie. iieright. but ell in valti , TIII he bare 1001,3,1 fore ,venr 00,1 nay For ho emit' worm in the twilight. gray. AL lag In cloqytle he gave lie the 1001.011, Ana wee lioard to remark, as he sat, on hie mirth • 1,1;1(1',,s1111Logf .1,11;1.210st in the 110110W tree, i plain as Melo; to me -- Nothing 000 titmice my eonvietton Men, There's no tot eh thing the eerie W011111." —10liver Redone 10 St. Nicholes. The Smiling Muselee. The story of Nanny Felconer's experi• onees, its told by Airs. Clara Doty Bates in Wide A /take, 18 an instructive lesson not only to young people, but to many of the little girl's elders, who have fallen into her bad habit of frowumg. Though slio had the advantage of beginning early to train the right muscles, much can bo dono in later years, by continual and uonseioutions effort, to remove those traces of worry nod irritability which 00 dist-Immo the face. Here is the latter half of the story :— Her mother tnk _Nanny's hand and led her to the mirror, " Look in there, my uhild. What do you see 1" " see yotir lovely fame" sobbed Nanny. " First, dry your eyes. Now look 01 youreelf. That Is not ton ugly face, even when it is wet with tears 'I loon lines are full of sweet temper. The Inughing mus- olee aro strong and tlexible—yoa see they make dimples, ' es t.Tanny ludf " They like smiling best of anything. The 'shadow of croseness is all a bad habit. It is quite a new one, too, Nitnny, not settled and hopeless. . . Here," pointing he. tween the brows, " is the trouble. You use these muscles too much. Vett will moon have a inark there that will stay, I'm • " Yes, Don says it will surely freeze the first cold morning." "Don't linen to the bays. Linen to me. We can make our faces, like our manners, largely whae we Iiice ; as we can be rude and abrupt, or gentle and considerate, so we Can be dark end forbidding in countenance, or open, fair and sweet. Keep the right face muscles in training, and the mood will be pre( ty certain to follow their action." Nan laughed merrily, " What do I know about muscles, mamma? You are so Behan- tific." " Whet you do not know son can learn. A. docile spirit need never show a sour face." "Pleaso tell me how. Often when Don and Rick call Me cress, I don't feel so. I may be only thinking." " Sit down. It has seemed to mo that if you would 11 ilk to a little better purpose, you might avoid being found so 111,1011 fault with—as you call it." " isn't thinking of one's self Van. ity " Not if you think with the hope of mak. ing yonreelf more liveable to those about you. To study to be pleasing is not van- ity." " But when I haven't thought. of feeling hateful, why do I look 00 ?" "Because you are not on your guard. I have myself often got an unconscious look ett myself in the glass and have seen looks of worry when I wasn't ill. All, these Muscles you know so little about, Nualny—they are very ready tale -tellers." "They are story -tellers, you 1110011, They tell What iSn't so:" "They get into bad ways. And if you do not want; them to make !nisi:ekes, you must educate 1110111." "But I might study phyelology a whole year and yet look cross all the time." "So you might if yon didn't take the trouble to rule your fan from within." Nanny discerned her meaniug. "1 shoold be like an idiot If I always laughed," she said. "Don't be perverse, dtaugh tor. You know very well what I mean. Try this rule for a week, and see evhat the resalb will be. Whenever yott feel irritable, even in a slight degree, go to the glass and straighten every drawn 1ine into repose. You need not laugh, nor smilo, but relax the tension csf the worry and see to it that there is not one visible trace of it loft By that time your fret will have vanished," Nanny tried the rule, with varying success, but with genual result of good. While she did it she never had reetion to complain Lhat people called her cross. In later years Nanny Fel cotter had a famous face. " Yoe never have any trouble," somo oue sold tabor, even when 11110 Wan pessing through bitter waters, " you. always look glad." An old negro deearibing her called her, " The lady tvith the glory -to -God face." And everywhere oho went the ammeter -I of happy 100110 W110 shed broncleast about her. She herself told me this story, of how she ammo to realize that a pleasant countenance ie largely n molter of will, and that worried looks, and mass and sail looks, are things of habit which can be educated. away. He Dared to Tell the Truth: A boy wonb Lo live with a man who Was remounted a hard master. lie never kept his bcys--they way or gave bolice they meant to quit ; so he was half his time without', or in Werth of a boy. Tho work was nob very hard, opening and sweeping out the shop, ohoppiiig wood, going errands, • helping round. AG last Stun Fishee went to iivo with him. "Srunts good boy,'' said his motber. , X should like to see a boy nowedays that heel a park of goodness In him," growled the new master. It is always bad to bogin with a Man that has ito couthlence you, become, do your best, yen aro likely to have little credit for However, Sann thought ho would try, Tho wages Were good mid hie mother want- ed him to ;go. 811111 1111i1 been then Ime three days before, in sawing at:resit-grained etioit of wood, ho brake the saw, Ho was a little f eight -mod, Tre know ho wee eare. 10, and ho kliew he was a pretty gem? sawyer, too, for a boy ot his ago ; m3;011,110 - lose, the 00A9 broke in his haurle. " Mr. Jones will thrash you for it," said onother boy who wits in the woutlhouee tvin hint, " WhY; of amino, I illdo't 11101114 IL, and aiudilonis will happen to the best of folks," Raid Sam, with a Very sorrowful air 00 the broken Niue. " Jones; never nerkee ellowanoote" Haiti Ilia other boy. " I never stow anything like him. That BM might have stayed, ouly lie jumped. into a hon'e nein and broke her eggs lie heron% tell of It ; but Ns donee kept suspesting told mitspeeting, 140,1 laid everything out of the way to Bill, whether Bill Ir110 to blame or not, till 13111 couldn't. steal it, and wouldn't." ;V' Did lie toll 51r. j ones about the eggs ?" asked Sam. " No," 11:1111 the boy, " he was afraid, Ale. J mute has got smell tempts" " Mink he'd have !totter owned up at ones," said Sam. • " I suspect, you'll find it bettor to preach than to 01 itetietie' said the boy, " (Mil away hefore lel toll him." Anil he soon rime 1 on 11 is 141111 left poor Sant Moue 1111111 11 18 1410It011 011w, 'rho boy .1111 not feel very eoinfertable or IlaPPY• 1 10 ffilot 1311 be out 111 the gatden, and went his chamber tinder envm4, I fu could tell _Mrs. Jones, but Mlle wasn't 801I• able, When Mr. Jones tame into the home the boy hoard hint. 1 le got, up, erept down- etairs, and met Alr, limes t he ko "Sir," maid Sam, "I broke 3 eur saw, and I thought I'd come and tell yen before you saw it in the month " " What del you get up to tell me for 1" asked Arr. Jones. " I shonid. think morn- ing would be time enough to tell of your - °tirelessness" " Because," 001.11 Mum, " wee afraid if I put it off I rnight be tempted to lie about it. I am sorry I Linke it but I tried to be careful." Mr. Jones looked at the boy from head to foot, then, stretching out his hand, 110 said heartily 1 " Sam, give me your hand ; Biotite hands. Pll trust you, Sans. That's right, thel'e ight. (In to bed, boy. Never fear, I'm gled the 011911 broke ; it; shows the inottle's ill yen. Go to bed," Mr. Jones wits fairly W011, Neves were better frionde after thttt than Sem and he. Sam thinks justiee had not, been done Mr. ;Jones lf the boys hail treated him hen - catty end " ahoy° board," Ito Would have been it good man to deal with. 11 10118 their conduct. which soured and made Inn sus. picious. I do not know 11091/ 11111b 10. I only know that. Stun Mallet' finds ill Arr. Jones a eind master mid kb fitithful friend. Norwegian Aspirations. There is another " Rade" crisis in Europe beside the It•ish ; and thee is in 1110 " Laml of the Alidnight bun. Jo other words Norway, whioh has been connected with Sweden by somewhab slender ties for seventy-eight years, desires to sever those ties and to become ni completely indepen- dent nation. For many years the situation in Sweden and Norwey has attracted as little etten- tion out -side their own litnits as that in any European nationality, By their geograph- ical poeition they aro, to a large degree, (W- hited from the jealousies and rivalries of the greater powers, Russia has long since ceased to oast a covetous eye upon the long western coasts of Norway ; anti the Dominions of the poet King Oscar hey° not been threatened by any foreign aggression. Norway was attached to Sweden not only by the decree of the great powere, but also, in 1 8 14, by military force. The nine king has sinoo reigned over both countries ; , othenvise each has had its separate govern- ment. Norway OM Well as SW011en bee had awl has, 1 115 own executive ministry, its own Parliament, its men eivil service, ha 011.11 fisted symtein, and its 0 1V11 system of public defence. The only ties which still remain between the two kingdoine aro that the semis king rules over linth, and that the lumen rela- tions eaul business of both are conducted by the Swedish fereign Mike. Norway luts by no 11100110 1119003'S enjoyed Ono realities nt self-government which she has to -day. lt is only after a series of ob. athlete struggles with the royal power, some of whieh have reached the verge of physical revolt, that she has been into to retint them. For many years after her union with Sweden, Norway was treated rather as a province of that eountry than tts co -equal kingdom. The king, French by birth or descent, was Swedish at heart. He chose to dwell amid the gaieties f Stockholm, the Swedish capital, rather than within the chill simplicity of Christiania, the smaller capi. led of Norway. From the first he 191ohloil his power over Norway with a high hand. He used. his veto without stint to proverit the measures whieb the Norwegians wished from becom. ing law. fie made eppointments without, regard to the advice of ministers. Ily the persistent efforts of courageous re. formes, of whom tile cillef WM Johan Sverdrup, many changes for the better were effected to Norway. Trial by jury wits seemed ; tho suffrage Wa0 extended ; cab. inet tninistees were eilmitted to seats in the Parliament, and the royal veto was reetricte ed. Tho rmactionery ministry of Selmer \VMS impeached nine yeers ago for restriet- ing the popular demands, and was °joined from elfin, end the reformer, Sverdrup, be- came Prime Minister. 111110 Illobib recoil conflict between the Nor- wegians arid their king has boon over the gentian of separating the foteign roletions of Norway front those of Sweden. Early in a Storthing (Parliament) wits °loot- ed, favorable to this change. The Tory mlnitiery of Stang, which had opposed it, distiffesed from office ; titecii, and the loader of the Liberal enformers, Ind a statesman long obnoxious to King Oscar, became Now Minister. Thin Parliament passed a 11100011 1'0 trans- ferring her foreigu relations 1,0 Norway's sole want This measure 90110 vetoed by the k ins, and thereupon Steen a»d hiseolleaguee resigned office, This of course, does not end tho inite ter. Tiy the present Norwegian law, the king's veto may be overcome by the toffee of throe sucicessive Storthings • mid this is the course whieh will now proliably be parsoeil Meanwhile, a formicloble movemeht is on foot in Norway to sot aside king and throne altogathee, to establish Republio ; and this limy be ehe ouree of Notway'e perplexities. Tt doom t elweete follow that a journal nothes e thundering report because it is printed on a lightmilig prose. Tim farm implements in use in iTapan were, until recent years, very primitive. The plough was vory email, win only ono han le, and A thrashing main Wag n01 known. The spade nitol hoe did the larger ;have of tilhug, eickles were nuirely tonight hem bledem moue four inciters in length, mottled. and filutepened on ono side, and eet at right angles in A. wooden hendle alma fifteen inoltee long. TIIE BRUSSELS POST, aceosansseinn.nnaoss THE PARTRIDGE, ,ii.,1,1:111111iliTenenablro:1181,t the meet tonio pentium tho the ambition to kill a partridge --to On i What country boy hile 1101 been fired with I end hung Immo retie hardy glo11114 ? 110 lute I not Wintheosperti genner Ito ham killed I his:memo tow teeny autumn (Jaye Move I, AntereslIng Unet0 About Thls Wontlerru 1 Bird -.1 44 lineal n 11,01 fin IA nett eleati nes. Ilie liurrouelm, a keen spertemen, writ. es to the Y Completion as folio vott :— Au interesting Imo lent, 10 mu the past, nano was setoug, on two onettsions, pertridgo Bitting upon her emit in the woods. It wile an incident WI11011 0110 dOuti not witnen every xenon. One of the partridgee had come up out of tlio douse woods and limited near a path on the edge of a large cemetery, A bevy of solioolgirls, after wild flowers ill May, fired diseovereil hor. Their Wrists teinven bruele tad her bolero sloi :stirred. J for nest was at the foot of an oak a few yattle from the open ground. Sho could men 'nand the approaeliee in all direollons, and tly whichever way mho chose. Aly friend. and approached to within a few yarde 01 her, and mood aiel reg her to oar femme' cement, Hor coler blended her with surrounding ohjem that 11110 YAM priee 'welly I IlViolde. On m ...- co:dent I lie 1,1,1 in 1/14 111,41.011104,1 11 AI 000, item her nest 0114 10 &don We did net di durb her this time, but wit lelrew 0,9 gently as 010 had typro,mIted. The brood was soon tnit and off, and I hope prosporme, T(,,, .13 1,1. partridge Wabl 141 ling upon her nest In the woods near an old road but little As it wos late June, it was prebelily her secentl attempt at rearing ft family. Tide is the more proletble oho WW1 sittieg upon only five ogee, whee front twelve to ; fifteen are the usual mini ploment. Indeed, I it. may Imre been her third attempt. Under Llio gait lance ef Martin, who lived nue by, we approached and observed het. from the road few paces away. Martin hail a task to pilot out, eyrie to the exaet spot. One hail to pass hie oyes over tho ground IV1 he paseee his bend over a tAble in the desk In 11114 a pin. She, too, was et i he font of a tree, but the reit leaves and the gray bark and ale 11110W11 fragments of wood were ell copied in her plumage. Presently we made her out, and then we wondered we hail not seen her before. After some moments we took a few stops towerd her, when she went humming away. As she left the itest, fanned the city loaves so with her wingti that several of them • sprang up and settled upon the eggs, quite covering them. 1 have observed this before. It is prob. (tidy the result of design 011 the poet of the libel. The neat uenally, merely a cle. pie:salon in the dry loaves, but its sirnplieley y be the resnit of a shrewd wisdom. If the bird ran front her nest before taking flight, silo would seem to run less risk of breaking her eggs by the sudden with. drawl of hoe foot boon among them ; but 10 that case ehey would not be covered up by the leaves, as they esually are when she takes flight directly I rom the nest. Mitrtin kept his eye on thia nest for me, and noted what time elapsed after the yonng won out of the shell before they were led away by the parent bird. Ono morning lie mated them at nine o'clook, foul the young were jttst out, as they wore still tnoist. Ap- parently ehey had all hatched at the 0111110 time. At noon he visited the piece again, end found the nest empty ; the brood WaS a feW yards away. So brief is the period of help. lessness of these areaturee I After they ean run they have little need of wings. The tactics of the mother and their own wit and protective colonic ehield them most effect- ively, eis you come suddenly upon them, does the mother bird flee and tell her young to fallow 1 Not a bit of it. hhe springs no with spread winge end Mit, and would fain fill the space all 011001,31011 with her presence and the sound of her wings nod Yoice. She makes herself just as conspirmous anti nobly its possible, and ;tete every dry leaf in coin. motion all alma her. Under cover of this bluster the young 08111101 and hide in a twinklinie Before you have grit over your eminent they have van. ished spirite, and the permit bird, lame and halt and appat•ontly blind, flutters along before you, temptiug you to stoop end pick her up, 111.1 she has hind you a fee yards away, when she suddenly r000vers herself and is gone. Seeing how you have been fooled, you re- turn to the spot and seareh for the young ; brit I have never known aperson to fin 11 01.10 under such circumstances. I once caught ono by refusing to have my attention diverted by the mother, and con- cientmting it on the young. One of them squatted amid the hewn which its nrbront's wings had sell in motion, and I picked it up, when it squatted in the paint of my open hand. After they can Ily, the brood when dis- turbed natter in all dieections. The moth. or gives the signal, when op they all speilig like an explosion. Union mey be strengvh, but the young partridges know that it is not safety for them. Later in the fall, when full gown, they will, on being flushed, nsually all take the same general direetion. The timeliness and the cunning of the partridge will probably enstu•o its continu. anoe in our woods in the fee° of all the guns and traps that aro brought against it, It takes edvantaee of every cireninstance. Think of it plunging beneath the snew and passing the nighb there snug and warin ; or of sitting; down and l'etting the falling 8110W bury it I When the hunter or walker 0011100 upon it ab snob times, there is a sudden explosion in the snow at his feet, as if same kind of frost cannon Or mortar had been discherged, and he sous the 1111011,11 111i:10410 go humming thmeigh the woods before him, When the pertridge cannot MIL food upon the ground, it cam got buds ripen the trees. Birch Mule a.ro its favorite, and when it wants ft change it visits in the ettrly morn- ing tho apple.troes in the orchard, or the appicetrees in no remote pasture. 11 is said 1,1111.1 L110 oomplannt tvay veli 1011 tho paetridge ;Mows itself to be snow. eel under sometimes briegs it to grief. The storm changes to rain before morning, and then as suddenly it becomes cold antifreezes, thug forming. a orusb beneath wtich the luckless bird Is imprisoted. I have never seen anything of this kind, and °mina be. linvo that this shrewd bird le °Reit naught napping in this way. 'rho pertridge has a attuning enemy in the telt, lea I nen oonvinced that Reynosa does not often hove this eholeo morsel for hie dinner, The olden Mutters repel; having Noon bob Bette evidence of this foot. The hawk, too, rarely surprises it, I ro.. member that once when was a boy, on re- turning from the hay.fielci at noon, we found poet:ridge, nearly grown, at the edge of the woods with its head partly torn err, ovidently by tho garotte of a hawk, Neste are probably morel often broken up by CrOWS Mid skunks Tho partridge is preeminently the game hied of nes country, 1 1 abounds almost everywhere, .3(1 11, 111110170 A challenge to the lint AM of f The Mint. ing of it is full AIL primes 10111. disappoott. melds. It is it kind (»bitter -Moot pleasure, 11,1 11.1, 0,1111'4 the wo0,14 ill finnet of this lent 111,1 itoW IOW of them 1111V0 1, n11 told, brough home Willi not I Probably not more than half a dozen in all my life, The country hey does not hope te shoot it on the wing in trim sportionan fashion 1 th le Is a feat almost beyond hie belief. 'He hopee to Nee it en the ground or in a tree, 11,111,11i vi 10. 119telyeeia..e.i,I. t,a,111110 osivi do 00, The li yet time I ever carried gun alone into t he woode I killed. my firet, partridge. Tile goi, W113 1111 OW filint-loek musket, which my et lute hail heeled for ine. The paereldee waa upon the grimed beside a tecall fallen tree ; and elei wit) evidently a kinti.l.earted. and went,: to give lite boy to oletnee elle jumped mein les trunk of thie little 1.1...0 Car o four y..13 from ine and le..p.11 In WrIlk 11 1011 11114 I'of III 11)1011 0 1. with 4prend tell and t-levalml tool littering n0110. 1.101,., 1.... If to say, " NoW, little boy, 11.4w lite &Way, - ANECDOTES OP DOGS. *once Itemarhaide (feature lefittee tow. Igen ee .t. pp ren shoe foe ellervetterre. have irbserved ite all Invariable Mlle that peewees el' all agee like readies well auction. dented encode ots el dogs - in Mete next to n good ghost story, I ehinIc inity eafely be said they ate &tem the inoet popular torm of narrittivee; 0011 11.1 thin uurprisilig, for the dog is the friend of it man, whose virtues, Waltee Scott prononneed, lie displayed without hie Vine% Having lately paetsed through a severe attack of hitless, I greatly Inhaled tWo tine dogs loot, through excl. dente, and who, when 1 was labl up on for - trier occasions, always' found ote out and peld me regular vieits. Thinking of those " loved awl lost" in the Weariness of einitalcseenco, led Me to rollout on mime ex 1 owning/wry Met -mimes of canine sager:ay, or more than settee; ty —white one eall " ilemb reaterning"—w Melt I hail willitaNed, and amongst alma the three fol. I lowing toieirred to ine forcibly : Smite years Sao We brewn weter ' spaniel esliml lenobey ;thee .111.1 till , of AU 1,01,Lionato di:T(41.100n and grew 0, 8114 Doinbey %Van Lin 0\00[11.1.1n 10 1110 1'11 10. ILO WM V..17 f"11,1 or 12.0, .0,1 on one I oemtsion ore were parted fel,' nem t es Whl1,1 tee rim motet out at „ete eemeet in ileettiend. When 1 eider/eel • arm a 1,4141 I -al, down by a send I bu sh, misted the gen upon a 1 wig, took aim and •egan to pull the r:gler. I felt it, begin to yield, and in half a breath expeetiel the crash to come, When the twig broke met let my gnu down upon the ground. Still tee game kept promenading up and doe n the prostrate treo, terkieg her mil and• threatening to be olr if I fooled much long - or. I lifted the gun tottnother branch, took aim again, and pulled desperately. The gun was discharged, and the grouse lay fluttering upon tho leaves. I earned it, home in great pride. Mother cooked it for me, and it 11,11,1 11 pert of my faro on the first jeurney I ever made out of my native county. 'rids experience convinced me that the partridge Was a very ensy bird to ; hut it wait yo1rs before 1 killed 1100111ov One, and it WW1 not becano I did nob make the effort to do fee did not find another bird so skeptical o my ability to injure it, OONQ UERED WITHOUT A SHOT. esitegreeor Mune the 1004.. tem. cover nebeitions enallee. Ono of the beet 111 011 W110 over heeded. a coloniel enterprin is Sir William elacgre- ger, 1V1y) Appr411 1,04 flrao Administrator of Brittsh New Gummi, four yaws ago. He i$ a man of great enei•gy and enthusiasm, manages tile natives with much tan, bas explorer's zest in the pursuit of geographical facts, and has tine more than any other man to nethe the interior of southern New uinee known to the world. Here is an in. cident that gives an insight into Sir 17111- iam's way of dealing with savage tribes : The people of the Salmi district had at- tacked their neighbors, the Drollery tribe. A chief of the Demory tribe met theattack- ing party and told thom that his people were friendly to " Government," manning Sir William and his rule, and that Sulnai had better not fight its neighbor, because the Government would bo sure to inflict punishment. Then the chief pointed to the shirt which he wore as being a Government shirt. The Sumai 11100 replied that they did not care a fig for the Govenment or Government shirts and one of them drew his bow and shot the unfortunate chief clean through the body, a feat W111011 18 often achieved by Nov; Guinea bowmen. Sir William decided that the Snmai warriors must receive a lesson in good man. ners. As 50011 as possible he landed a force in their ;notelets lie told the men they had attar:Iced people who were orderly and wellthehaveil end that they tnust sniffer for it. He advind them to get ready to tight. They replied that they did not wish to tight. tin; William made answer that a fight was necessary io te•der to aecortain W110 1911,8 to be mutee in future. They would not obey the Government and now the Govern- ment-, intended to find out whether it could make them obey. " My guns aro loaded and ready," nail Sir : " now you get all your wee. pont; fuel we wiil have a fight and settle the question who is master." Sir Witham had brought with hint quite a number of mon from neighbor. ing tribes to whom the Semi people had boasted that if the whites came against. them theie heads should rob on poles iu Sumel. The natives, however, haa. now lost their honetful vein. It was a greet humiliation for them to beg for morey in the presence of their neighbors. But they did beg most lustily. They said the Gov- ernment should be Mister from that day and that they would always listen to in ootnniancls. Sir Wilitam would nob promise to pardon them. Retold them, however, that he would not fight then, but he would return to them in throe WeekS to see if they had carried out, the ceders he was about to give them. Ho selected froin them two men as chiefs and two men as policemen and told them they were to be his agents in seeieg thab the people kept at pone with their neighbors. The Sumai men had treated the teacher who hail been sent amoug them, with contempt and neglect. Sir William told them that the church naulsohool house, which the Lonelier had tried to build meet bo completed by the time he returned. Then he went awity, and throe weeks later, upon his return, lie 1011.11,1 the church and school house completed, the teacher earrying on his work under very pleasailb oonditions, anti no people living in ntnity with all their neighbors. " I do not believe," says Sir William Macgregor, " net this tribe will again moloet any of their neighbers," They had been conquered and the white Governor had noL Shed a drop of blood. Au Awkward Mistake. A young lady presented her intended with a beautifully worked pair of slippers, mei ho acknowledged. tho present by sanding her his picture meowed in a handsome frame. Ho wrote a note to send with 1), and at the same time replied angrily to an oft -repeated dun for an unpaid -for suit of elothes. Ho engaged a boy to deliver the package and notes. The yonng lady received a note in her adored one'e handwriting, and flew to her room to dtwotee its oontont s, She opened the tnissive with eager fingere and read ;— " I am getting tired of your everlasting attentioes. Tho stilt is about worn out al - reedy. It never Amounted to much, any. way, Please ge to thultiler 1" tho tailor was struck utterly dumb when he opened it parcel and discovered a portrait of hie delinquent customer, with a nolo 1,11a1 sai(1 1— " When you gem upon my feetures think how touch I owe you," When the unfortunate young man called that evening te receive tho happy miaow. lodgement of his sweetheart, he wits very quickly 14101V11 off the doorstep by the young lady's father, -.01111 TI10 plumes in the helmete of the French dragoons ore made of human hair, home arriVed late, and 1 saw Ipalting of 1 he ang LI; night, in feet bo ie.t. seem to be idiom. tho ;hoe. Next 11101 1,1315 1 wad awakened vei•y early by lb great rutting with the handle ef my door, and wondered rather irritably who wee ronsine me unrea- sonably, alter my long journey end i•ough plumage. When the door opened iennet Mug sprang On tho bed, and there wee poor dear 'tomboy in an agony of welcome, having turned. the handle and opened the door with his mouth lint here Watl the mys- tery—how did tho dog, whop lie gut into tho houses in the morning, discover I had come Was by seeing my luggage in the kitchen where it hail been left, otewas it by hearing the servants talk 1 It puzzled mu , which, and though poor Dombey ittle long been gone when no good dogs en I have ! never torgotten his welcome. On auother 08004011 the kitelien Look fire dui ing the night, and Dombey, hearing' the iloieu of wood within, and oi couree seeing the blazes, rushed ofr the servant inen'e elecinng place in the yard, and dello-Amen banging himself against the deer and bark- ing till he hied roteiml them, My next MI011140001100 bears on the muell- debated point --can dogs con vet se with each other? and lay impression is they certainly can ; mid moreover 1011511 who will, I shall I 1 ways believe fused 10 see &small cur carry I messagee to try dog here from another, the result. always being that the two ineti at twilight ancl went off poaching, which ex- peditions resultod in the death of one of them. The special instance speak of was this ;--We had a. thoroughbred English ter- rier, vet•y wise, but very vicious, no fever. ito of mine, as he Wall usually snappish to me. However, poor Tack proved no mere 0Mnier day friend, for I got very ill, and though he rather frowned on me in prosper- 'ty he showed deep sympathy in my ad. versity. He used to steal into my room and look up at me anxiously as if he understood all about it, and the first day I was able to speak to him, and seemed able to (accept his congratulations, he jumped up and began licking my hands, and when I was able to get up he displayed great joy. When I heel been sitting up a few times, I said ono eVening, " Jack, I 118,00 not Seen old \Yel- len for three weeks ; go dOwn and tell him Pll bo glad to see him." "Now, \Vallee° was a largo black Newfoundland who never by any chalice came upetairs, 111 feet, I should nearly as soon hero expecte,' to ne ono of elto calves appear there. Jack left the room, and presently it noise 14.418 hearcl like all elephant stalinbling up the stairs, and in marolml hie Wallace with .rack be- hind. him, looking-moet self.salistied, as if conscionsi he hail done his message well, The great. animal neerly threw Iti.) down. in his etfueion at the meeting, whilst Jack looked up at 1110 an 1110011 MS to say, " Con% yon say thank you, Jack 1" width I certain- ly Odd most politely. Aly third anecdote is of recent occur, num, and relates to a dog called Don, who - poor tellow, gOt poisoned whilst poachone on neighbourine ducal preserves. He was giVen me for a terriee puppy, bet I sew at once Dun had a larger futuve before him, as pews were such a size ; and 01 110 grew in stature, but no means in grace, he puzzle ed everyone. Pirs1, he was declared to be a mastiff, then a St. Beruard, thou he de- veloped such a singular half growl, half howl, that I decided. lie was something to the bear dog oi the Pyrenees, Finally his spemes was given up es an insolent° prob. lem, but one fact remained certain—viz., that Don was about the most mischievous dog over born, Ilo played ball \yin the goslings ; he plucked the thong chickens ; he hung on to the cows' tails, and as for stealing, eobody else in the house would have got auy dinner had there not been eon. stent soutries over Don, Savona times he was condemueci to death for chasing our neighbour's sheep, and alwaye begged oir, as he Wee valnable watch dog, and very amusing when ho did not carry his jokes too far. At last 11 was discovered that he was stealing eggs from the fowlborise, and all Minds were against poor Don. A repast cerefully prepared. for him of an egg filled with cayenne pepper. Ho ate, he 'Amazed, and he forgot, and began. egg - stealing again. Then severe beathigs wore tried but ell nomecl useless, and one day, when caught red-handod, he was [Mantel into the house and about to remove the usual desert to his roost of eggs, when n man, Ntighy" by name, who happened to 130 the kitchen, interfered and saved him. In the evening poor Don visited the fowl. house again, found an egg, took it earefully in his month, carried it in, deliberately walked up to when liughy 1900 eating, and laid the oag dowo at his foot, looking tip Into his face as 11111011 as to say, " This its in gratitude for what you dill fee me this morning I love eggs but I'll give it to you." 'rho presentation luta a In Berens effect, but lent got, for once in his life, much praise, which he proIxtbly found a groat deal Meer than beatings for after that day he never stole eggs again. Silica writing the above, au 'mooing incident, showing much sagacity, Denney between out' LWO dress, My Onto was out walking, it000mpaniett by her fine young Russian terrier ivan and a little atom of a terrier belonging to me, called 'ratio. Tot. tic gob a large briar entangled io bin loog hair, and was struggling with it violently and unsucensfally, when roan oeme to the rescue and took the brio, orinuily in his 11100111 and V00107011 it front Tottie'S 110,1r, going gently to work as if not to hint him. Incidento like these make 0110 tv,,i doge. most have reasoning powers, there ia 111) doubt 110y reWard us tvell by geatattule and nirection, when we treat them kindly, for, though timely severity may on pros:etre he neoeseary, 1 by 110 111m111,1 believe in the old sayieg. "The thorn you beat a deg no more Ito lovee you." 3 ENO/MODS LOSSZ8 WAIL mmuuns or mon tented Dollars Spent ThIrlY Telte/I. It appears, aceordlog to tho °etiolates French and Gorman tatiaticians, that there have periabed irl tho 1411111 of the last thirty years 2.,auf,(101) mute while afore has been expended to carry them 011 no less than tho ieconceivable sum of $13,000,000,000. Of 1,11i8 amoilli ifeance hes paid nearly 83,500,e (00,000 as the cost of the war with Prussia, while her loss ill Inc/1 plaeed at 155,600, Of thane 00,000 were killed Oil the field of battle, Sti,000 died of sieknees, accideet, ote nuichte, and 20,066 in German prisons, while there died from other causes enough to bring the number np to the given aggro - gate. The 'sick and wounded amounted, to 477,421, the lives of many thourgends of whom were doubtlesti shortened by their dinette or mutton. As...lording to Dr. Roth, a German 'authority, the Germane lost dur- ing the wee letteiii men killed or rendered invalid, and t,1160,i11111,1100 in money, this being Gm exnes 01 expenditure or of nuttori, al 1.11,811.N trier the eteeeteleitette0 pnad by Franco IT wily of itelenniiiy, Die Etireil, another Gerieen statistician, gives t he toilet:hie 419 the approximate emit id the 11 rineipal rif te 4131 thirty yearS4 Crimean war 4.! 0110 ie,41 (Atli ; war of 1810, settee/mem ; PrusamDanish War !of 1802, k.:4:35,0t11.1,000 3, War of the rebellion. —north, te5, 100,000,000, S2,300,000,- 000 ; Preen -Austrian war of 1 806, $350,.. 000,000 ; leneso.Tuthisli war; S125,000,000; , South Afriean wars $S,770,000 ; African I war, 812,2,50,000 ; S'ervo•Bulgarian, $176, - 000,000. All these wars were murderous in the extreme. Ihe Crimean war In which few battles were fought, cost 750,000 lives, —only 50,000 lees than were killed or died of their wounde, north and south, during the war of the rebellion. Ihe figures, lb ! meet be reMenlbered, art: German and Imight not agree preeisely with the Ameri- can eetimates. .110 Me:dean and Ohioan expeditions coat 1:200,0e0,1)00 and 05,000 i lives. There were 2.10,1.101) killed and mor- tally wounded daring the Russia -Turkey war awl 411,000 each in the Italian war of 1050 and the war between Prussia and Austria. In the other ware the loss of life wee relatively Mee, Winch did not make either tho mon or the money mediae to part with in the more limited areas where they oeinueel. And this in lint a part in the accounting since it does not include the millione expended ;luring the last thirty years in maintaining no vast armaments of the Earopean powers, the losses caused by stoppage of commerce and manufactures, and tee continual derangement of industriea by the abstraction front useful employment of so many millions of persons hold for a period of military service extending froin three to five years. Tf yoll are afraid to 0341 yeet hait 110t, go fielting, Infectiousness of Tuberculosis. According to the latest advices from Ger- many, where Motor Koch's investigations in regard to tuberculosis have given a special impetus to the study of tho disease, the danger arising front direet contact with consumptive patients has been nmewhat overestimated, notwithstanding the infect- tious nature of the malady. Thus we have- recently been told that kissing might reSillt in the transmission of germs from one person to another. Again, it has been proposed in some quarters that persons suffering from tubereulosis should. be socially ostracized, as is usual in the case of some other coutagions diseases. More recent investigation, however, has shown that the bacilli which 0.1'0 coughed. up in the sputa of consumptives, and which are hence present in greater or less numbers in the mous of tbe month and noes, are for the moet put lifeless and inactive. This demonstration, %gill° it will bring comfort to many people thus afflicted, will prcbably tend to emphasize the fan of a nuttily pre,lisposition to the diseaae ; and this in turn will doubtless lead to a fuller study of the peculiar physiettl and anatomi- oal charamoristtee of 'special families and in- dividuals, who are at proment ',vaguely term- ed by the profeesion "subjeets with a pre- dispnition to tubereolosis." This study ought to lead by a nature, process to the correction ot such anatomioal characteristies, or " build of frame," by means ot special methods of chest or general exorcises, by the correction of habitual errore of breathiog, and by other corrective and cautionary measures, Bub if the dangerous character of con- sumptive exoectoratione has perhaps been overestimated, the danger ie none the less reaband the precautions whioh patients and nurses have beet) urged to exercise for the public, safety should. atilt be eontinued. Sputa should be burned 1 spitting in the streets should be avoided, and great care should be taken to prevent collections of dust in any form in the roams occupied by consumptives. This last precaution is of importance for the patient as well as for his family. Will They Bridge the ee,. M is now understood that the scheme to tunnel the Straits of Dover has been indef- initely abandoned. As soon as this an- nouncement was mado, Harclque the French ougineer, and William II. N'orth- oetc, the great English bridge builder put their heads together for the purpose o'f cies rising " ways and means " for throwing a bridge across the channel almost exactly over the line the tunnel would home follow- ed, AZ I From Folkestone, on the Bugled). side, to Cape Grisnez, France, via, Verne and Callan% the two reefs BO 11141011 dread- ed by navigators. The bridge, when finish- ed, will be about twonty-one and one-half miten length. The Varna, the largest and Meet important of the two reefs above 1101111 '11,04, will bu used for the center pier. The wafers between the Verne and Folk- stone eight miles aWay, &Vertigo about twenty-seven fathoms in depth. Tho Verne le six irides in length, which puts one and of i wi thin eight miles of the English shore awhile other within eight and a half mile of the French side, tho waters between the east and of the reef and the From% shore averagieg loss than thirteeil fathoms in depth. As 1,110 hien of bridging tho straits is now only In embryo the number and the sin of the piers to bo used in the deep water work between the Verne and the mainlands of both England and Romeo auelmtliii.770(stailtkilocild, 11,1% vori the main pititatrv)t of them will consist of immense stone foundations too large and strong to be dia. placed by die obb a»d flow of the tides, which is tbo only distnebing elements up to within a few fathoms of the surface. North- cote is confident that the bridge emu be coin. plotoil and ready for travel within 11190 y011011 teem the time when actual work is Iregt111. Thu eetimated cost is $60,000,000. Acooriling to a 1—elatm"—litine authority, the easiest language for telephoning Chinese. lt prineipally, inetiosyllebles, and 15 made up of simple robot 11011 inflectioose Genesi 11, it melee, not '10 I col language see telephening ati (night lie thought, Freed, M net bad, but ie 'almost as eibilant as English,