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The Brussels Post, 1889-7-5, Page 3JULY 5, 1889, sobuposetimmossmamistcaromovra, carnia» _ raw; in s astaato r.u. seeraggieme THE BRUSSELS POST. IN THE TiGER COUNTRY. Seine °urioue and Startling Adventnree. While tigers are to be found in almoet every part of Ilindoeeten exoepb the mown. Min ranges in the north, there is one partiou• ler region whloh is n sort of Garden of Eden for them, and from which they will not be driven for the next hundred years. Ibis the Bengelee dietrlob, lying between the Ganges on the north and the head waters of the Wofewale on the south. Here ie an expanse of country 000 miles long by ae many wide, without a railroad, only three or four towns of any oleo, and not over three Government hiphwaye. Ib le a country of hill and valley and creek end jungle and extensive forest, full of fever and eubjeot to epidemics, and any inoreane of population ,e prevented by natural causes. A direob line from Calcutta aoroee bo Born• bay would out thio dlebriab in two and open lb, bet they refuse to run bhe railroad across it. I put in four menthe in that dietrict in company with two English naturalists and a party ol army officers, and every day brought its adventure with reptile or wild beast, Getting as near as we could by the railroad which rune from Indur to Allah - abed, we etruok out on foot and were anon beyond civilization, and in the midst of primitive nature. We had not gone five miles from the rail- road when a panther which had made his lair in a thicket was driven oub in alarm by the noise of our march, and throe or four of the hunters fired and dropped him. We had been out a week before I caught eight of a tiger, and ib was then under such err• onrnetenoes as to make me doubt whether I should ever see another. We had four army tents, wbioh were packed in sections on the baths of the na• tives when we wore on the move, (Chase wore for the use of the whitee, and I was one of three who occupied one of them in my companions had taken shelter in huts near by, The storm had long been gathering, and its blackness brougho night at ono, As soon ea the lightning began to play I could see the interior of the bub by the flashes, There was only one room, with the usual mud floor, and the only artlole loft behind was a hamper, auoh as the natives atrap to their banks to Derry loads. This etood in a corner, and I auppoeclrib contained some personal effects to be parried away at the owner's oonvenienoe, Had I not aeon this hamper, and thereby gob the idea that the hut had just been vacated I should not have dared Dross It and sit down on the floor with my back to the wall to wait for the storm to °ease, as every hub ie taken poeeeseion of by sorpentn ae goon as abandoned. The roof was In pretty good repair, and I bad nothing to worry about. The thunder and lightning wore noon over, but the rain continued to fall for at least two hours. Then ib ceased almoab in a moment, and the clouds rolled away and allowed a now moon to show its face. Tho remainder of the party had taken shelter under the trees, and as soon as the rain ceased they Dame out into the open and began to call for me. I wan resting easy end half asleep when I heard bhe first call, and and attire second I drew my feet under me and stillly pulled myself up. As I did so I heard a snarl end a growl, followed by the fall ofthe hamper and a ruab, and I was thunderstruck to nee a tiger spring cub of the door. Ae enheequenb investigation proved, he was crouched between tho hamper and the wall, and had been in hiding all the time I was in the hut. Why be did nob attack me Ho mighb have been frightened ab the storm, as many savage beasts are, or my boldness in walking in upon him may have rattled him. Unfortunately, he recovered hie courage as soon as he left the hub, The searching party was direotly in his path to cover, and heoharged righb among the men and knocked one of the nativea down, and ,topped long enough to inflict; a bite which resulted in death, On a subsequent trip, a year later, and further to the South,l had another odd en- counter with a tiger. It ought ho have poet merry life, arid whyibdid nob no tiger hunter Mu ever been able to satisfactorily explain, We had been ie the village of Syderpul for three days, three white men and adczan attendants, seeking to destroy a rnan•eater who had created greab havoc, when the beast came out of a jungle just at enndown, seized an old man seated in front of a hub not 200 feet from ns, and reaohed oover with his prey before we got the alarm. We raised a great shout and discharged our rifles after him, bub he replied with a growl and kept on. In this Daae, and in this alone, I saw bhe tiger's method of carry- ing off a human being. He seized the man by the shoulder and gave the body a twist until tho weight of it rested on hie back, and he trotted off under the burden as if it did not weigh ten pounds. There was a howl all over the village, and the old man's relatives, who wore many, set np a wailing es made evening hideous, We could do nothing that nigbb, but were astir early next morning, and were not long in tracing the tiger to a dense thicket in the bed• of a ravine a mile away. He had not carried the body ther°, however. Being either sharp sot with hunger or over -bold in self confidence, be had stopped within forty rode of the village for his horri• ble feast, and only some fragmente of clothing and a few bones were left to tell they, poor man'a fate. Our beaters not only toned the tiger at home, but he was defiant and ready for fight. Twioe he charged up the steep bank to find that h,e tormentors had taken refuge in trees and escaped him. He finally retired to the centre of the thicken to bide his time, We flung stones at him, and fired several bullets into his retreat, but while he growled his rage he planned to wait until he could get an advantage. - The loader of our party woe afraid the beast would sneak off unseen, and he station ed us to prevent both an 000urreno0. I went to the head of the ravine, and there found a great rock. I took my station on the left of ib, looking down upon the thicket, and the beaters redoubled their exertions to drive the tiger oub. I had been at my station about ten minutes when I felt, rather than hoard, the preeenoe of something, and I wheeled about to find that man-eater standing before me and hard- ly arm's length away, W e looked square into each other's eyes, but that was the only effort I could make. I was seemingly frozen the earth. I had been perspiring aeI turned. Within ten seconds I u as as cold as a naked man in midwinter. I don't know how lougwe stood there, but presume it was not over a min ute. The beaters were yelliog and shouting and ringing belle, but my ears did nob take a single sound. Tho tiger dropped his Bp ap wl and growled, or teemed to growl, Mimed one forefoot as if about to spring, then suddenly turned and bolted aor000 the open into the jungle. Then, like a Wefnen, I fainted away, and ib wag ten minutes later before 1 came to and found myself flat on the earth and three or four of the beaters standing over me and crying oub that the oahib had been mauled to death by bhe retreating tiger. I was not injured in the slightest, bub tho scare I gob unnerved ma for long weeks. Damp. We trod boon ant for four days uys when Iof thoroughly wet and wan token with chills would breakof ib inside and fever. Quinine two or three days, but in the meantine I must go slow and not overexert myself. I stuck to Damp, and on the third day, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, went sound asleep in my hammock. This was slung under the tent about two feeb fram bhe ground, and within three feet of the rear wall. It wee a warmish day, but with a delight• fol breeze, and, as the fever had gone, I fell into a deep Bleep. Just about the time I wenb to Bleep Capt. Williams, who had been oub for a couple of hours with hie gun, name in and reported a tiger in a dry ravine about a mile away. He had had two sharp shots at the beasb, but had missed him, He had oarefnllymark- ed down the location, and of ter getting a bite to the most of the party set oub with him to finish up the beasb. One naturalist remain• ed behind to overhanl some o° hie effects, the other took a native and went off after birds, and three of the natives were late bo mind the oamp. Tho party had no sooner gone than the trio stretched out in the shade and wont to sleep. The native of India is like the native of Africa in that respect and never loses en op. portunity to oatoh a nap. When the party reached the spot where the tiger wae last aeon, the beaters wore aenb in, but they worked for half an hour and failed to arouse him. He had done wbab tigers often do, bolted at the fireb alarm. They turned out a big hyena, however, and it was °onolnded that the officer had mistaken this bout fora tiger. He oontended to the oontrary, and was not satisfied until the beaters had examined every lurking place inthe ravine. When the tiger bolted he moat have made direob for our °amp, and he mueb also have been pretty badly frightened. Some• thing broke my sleep and I opened ny eyes. I was lying on my right eight facing the open doorway, and in that doorway, not over five feeb away and looking lull at me, was a igen is My heart bounded into my throat, the bllood rushed to my head and for a moment I thoughb I should Buffo. este, Then I went to the other exbeeme and wan as cold au ice. I had nob made the slightest movement :aide from opening my eyes. Ib wan not from nerve, however, bubeimply because I was incapable. I was not sure for half a minute but that my eyes were playing me a trick. Wben I knew that the dreaded beast hovered o'er me I could do nothing brit share at him. Had I nob boon so badly upset, I should have observed that; ho was skulking, He stood there with hie tall down for a couple ot minutee, uttered two or three whines of anxiety, and then bounded. atralghb - over me and crouched down between my hammock and the tent. I had my back to him now, but I could hear his every breath and movement, and I grew so weak that everything turned dark for a few min. tad, end the tent seemed to be whirling around, Lar away I could heat the row oreated by the boaters. The tiger probably heard more of it than I did, for he moved uneasily, and continued to whine. Men toll aboub how slowly time tithe away in moments of peril. The tiger, AB near es I could afterward oaloaletn, was in hiding about fifteen minutes, and no week aver spun oub so much time for me. When he gob up he put hie nose against my bank and sniffed and snuffed, and just when I expected to feel hie teeth be walked around bhe foot of the hammock, stood in the door for a moment, and then bolted for the neaxeeb cover. It was well that I had witnesses, or I should have been set down as light headed from the fever. The naturaliab and his man, who had been prowling around the outekirte of the oamp, both saw the tiger leave the tent, and both owe running in, oxpeoting to find me a victim. About three weeks later, when I was in the b°ab of health, Caleb. Williams and three more of us left °amp to rid a village ton miles away of a man-eater, The weather was oppressively hot, and in following a ravine to keep its coolness as hong ae poeslble we lost our course and went several mike out of our way. Wo ware nbil two miles from the village, and it wall nearly sundown, when a bhundor storm came up. We were in pretty open ground when the first flash of lightning oome, and knowing that it would soon be followed by a down• pour of rain we made a dash for grove to our right. gob to my feet thunder shook the earth, and the rain drops began to patter. I rushed ahead in what I supposed wan the direotion my oomradoa had gone, but as ib afterward appeared I bore off to the light, missed the grove entirely, and just ae the flood gator o heaven opened f doehod into a native hub on the edge of a clearing YOUNG FOLKS. 7ilisa Morialitee Alias Moriarity Was dressed for the party, In satin and ribbon and lane, She galled on the °at, And inquired, 'I How Is that?" And the oat laughed Duo in her face, Mise Morlarity, All dressed for the party, Wenb out to get into the gig. She was white as a sheat, For there on tho seat Sat the widow Mc.Uafferty'e pig. Mies Morlarity, Dressed up for the party, Inquired of a froggy the way, The frog with a grin Said 'twos time to go in, b?or the obiokens wore raking ]ray." Mies Moriarity, Complete for the party In fardingal, bodice and frill, Then gazedat her clothes, Till oho fell in a dose, And dreamed that she led the quadrille. Miss Moriarity Too late for the party With her laces and satin and silk, Was ready to ory, Bub an owl said " Oh, fie I" And an elephant soothed her with milk, Mina Moriarty So dreamed of the party, She danced herself all out of breath ; And ere it was day The moon heard her Bay : " Why, bleep me I I'm tired to death." THE SALT MINE OF WIELIOZSA. A STORY FOR BOYS. Whaty oa arenow,boy, my1 was ante • ago. a it is more than half a century g . The y nay that old men remember things that bap - paned long, long ago better than events bhab occurred recently. In the geography which I need in eohool when I was o boy like you wag a pioture of a some in bhe Tait mine whose Polish name is given above. The text told a wonderful story of things a long way rnderground, and I wished very much to wander about in the bowels of the earth among bhe Boerne described in the text. The picture represented a workman doubled up in a narrow plan°, digging out great blocks of ,alt. I used to think he must have the baokaohe, an I looked at him year after year from that time to this, for I have seen that man, and I was inclined to present him with a bottle of liniment, for I believed that he needed it. We were bold in the book that whole vil- lages of people lived in this mine, and that some of them never came oub. All this was simply fiobiou, for no one lives in the mine ; bub, in spite of the big stories it did tell, the cavern is vastly more wonderful than the description. Alter I had walked about seven miles through these subterranean gal. leries I wae ewe that the half had not been told. Wieliczlca is about Dix miles from Cracow, the ancient capital of Poland, where one may look upon the coffins of John dabfeaki, Pontitoweki and Thaddeus Kos - eiusko. Wieliczka ie a town of 5000 people. The earth under it is honeycombed with exeava- tlons, beginning about 200 feet below the surface, for three miles in one direction by one mile in the other. The Balt was die. covered 050 yearn ago, and the mine bas been worked all the time since. There aro said to be over 900 miles of galleries and tunnels dug out; ban I did not measure them, though I found no reason to doubt the state meat. In fact, when I got on the face o1 the earth again I felt as though I had really walked 200 of them, though I had really made but aboub seven miles. These mines yield an annual revenue of $1,000.000. Though pure white sale ie found there, moat of the product is mixed with a dark green. It is taken oub in pieces of the average aloe of one's head, or football, and in this shape hauled to Cracow in wagons. Our party of throe were on the way from SI, Petersburg to Vienna, and we stopped to nee this wonder of our boyhood. The firsb formality ab the entrance of the mine was to pay a fee of aboub 99, which covered all expenses of bhe party. Our retinue eon - aimed of an official guide and four lamp boys, and the stores aoneisted of a large supply of fireworks, We were provided with fnll uniforms of green baler. The lamps were open pans, with several wioke at the rime, held by three chains, so that they oculi be dropped to the floor, to light the way. There worn two methods of descent—ono by a windlass, the visitors being seated in rope ,lingo, the other by a staircase. We were taken down the stairs. They consisted of seven steps down from one platform to New Lie'ht on the Subject. A widow whose husband had lost his life in a railway accident received from the rode patty 10,000 francs by way of compensation, Shortly afterwards ehe heard that a ora. Waller who had loab a leg on the ammo 000ae. ion had been paid 20,000 francs. The widow at ono° pub on her bonnet and ,bawl and trobted off to the offices of the oompany. "Gentlemen, how le thio 1" she said, "Here you give 20,000 francs for a log, and you havo only allowed me 10,000 for the lose "Madame," h'ebrepplied one of the clerks, "the reason is quite plain; 2h 000 francs log, won't provide the poor man with whereas for 10,000 you can any day get another husband, perhaps a better one," The lady who is otitl young after a me. menb'a oilenb reflection walked away ;upper - wetly satisfied. The Sword of Damsons, Van Ribber, "Why so silent, .Mie Ovens 1" Mise 0, "To toll you the truth, Mr, Van Ribber, the bhoughb of loading the german to-nighb le hanging over me like the Sword of Damascus,' Per several years there wae a standing of. far of $10 for a partridge n neat containing ea of wbioh resounded over and over again through the awful cavern. We passed un• der a gracefully turned arch Tato another grotto, and then landed on the solid salt Again. A long walk down inclined planes and an 000aalooal flight of stairs brought us to the last lion of the excavations, whish wag a ball room, brilliantly lighted, ;or our reoeptioo. The Emperor o' auetrie, after whom it le named, has held court here. It it provided with galloriee, and in lighted with ahendeliere made of salt, The drops aro of the whitest kind, and they sparkle like diamonds, Ab one poine in our walk we were told that the lake over which we had orossed was direotly over our heads ; but the flier was dry and there was no oozing overhead, The asoenb of the atairs wan exceedingly trying after the long walk In the depths be- low, The light -boys seemed to be nob at all fatigued. They were forbidden to ask vis- itors for money, and the olltelale enforce the rule ; bub the boys are continually thrusting their hands very elyly into post. tions where a few kreu'zora could drop ih• to them unseen by the incorruptible guide ; and it is very amusing to sae them do bhie at every opportunity. At the head of the stairo:ee certain pre - sons are permitted to sell oarvinge, such as books and toyo in pure white salt, as souve• Mrs of the visit, of which our party oar- ried off a full supply. I had realized my dream as a boy, and the book I brought away reminded me for years, till it melted, of the geography which had induced me to vioib the minae. SHE SERVED IN THE SOUDAN, APluorcy oursc, Now in all American Ices. 0,1181. Miss Louisa Parsons, head nurse of a ward in Johne Hopkins Hospital, N. 7,, and act Mg superintendent of nurses pending bhe arrival of Mies Isabel A. Hampton, of Canada, has an interesting history. Mies Parsons is one of the Nursing Sisters, a Nightingale nurse, trained in 1879 at Sb. Thomas' Hospital, London. FlorenceNight- iogele, after the Crimean war, started thio field Of instruction under the name of St. Thomas' Training School for Nurses. For aervioee in Egypt during the Soudan war Mies Parsons has been highly commended and handsomely decorated, She received from Queen Victoria the B.oyal Red Crass, which the Queen, the Princess of Wales and other members of the royal family of Eng• land wear ; a silver medal from the English Wax office, and a bronze medal from the Khedive of Egypt. Mita Person is a0 English woman of me diem atature and active movements. She sailed from London for the Soudan March 3, 1885, and LANDED AT 00101, from which place the had a two and a half days' trip to Suakim. She was stationed on the stream trap• apart Gaagee, fitted up as a hospital. Tho boat received lie complement of patients from the seat of war, wounded and fever - stricken. There were ;boat 400 olok on the Ganges when Mies Parsons was assigned to that post, During her stay on the steamer the ship was cleared of all who could be moved. They were transferred to the Iberia and sent to London. Suakim is said to be the hottest place in the world—so hot that flies can nob live there. The last popular be- lief, Mies Parton, says, is a mistake, for she now and fcught millions of files there and all the plagues of Israel. Mies Parsons, with two other Sisters, took book be England 400 patients on the Iberia, and only loab four ou the way. She returned overland to Brindisi and oroeeed the Medi- terranean to Alexandria, whence she went to Suez by rail, passing the BATTLEFIELD OF TEL EL tin0ER, where the Arabs in 1883 lost 5000 in killed. The journey is described as terrible on at- oaunt of the heat. With three other Sisters she wag etationed at Suez, and received all sick forwarded from Snakim. As soon as oonvalesoent they were pub aboard home• bound ships. It was intensely hot ab Suez, and Mies Parsons had a thermometer, from exoeae of heat, to buret in her pooket. The hospital yard was gorgeous with beautiful flowers, but they had to be gathered before 4 o'olook in the morning or the hot atmoophere robbed them of their fragrance. In some of the marches the men, Buffering with dreadful third, would drink water that hod been ly- ing in the sun for days in the akin bags. The result was always a largely increased number for the hospitals. Sho was herself attacked with typhoid fever at Suez,suffer- ed a relapse on the homeward voyage on the steamer Ganges, andhad a a000nd re- lapse after she reached her home. Mies Parsons sent her resignation to the War Office before coming to this country. She came to the United States on a visit, but circumstances caused her to remain longer than she expected, and finally to 000091 a place in the Johne Hopkins Hoe- pital, She hag never served in any other another, on eaolr of which one tutne 0000210, hospital in the United States. repealing the operation until the bottom is reached. We went down 750 feet, but it Prefers the Canadian Girl, seemed' to be about 2000 when we walked Beaton Herald : Two elate of advantage up.fSame , but the latter beet rithe s aotualndepth the Canadian girl neonooes over the Ameri- hfthe mine, but ib n bettor to discount aboub can, and theeo are prooieely the qualities that Arnett - half Thef the Dag amen articular] appeal to men ; she is more re. o idataofa b ldinries are very like mantic and more aubmiesive. While as full the a wee any of a building, IncInwalla where. of sentiment as the ideal love lettere tied there was planked, in the walla or cell• with blue ribbon, rhe still regards man as ins troy were ling bubut generally the her lord and master, She rarely dreams of Neer Incase nothing but walla of Balet r con. disputing the eu remao of husband, father Near bhfact of the edi c ted to were ton• or even brother, and her privilege and plea. ducted tot e a inn, The atad to the patron euro is to minister unto them. She is so affeo• saint of the mine. The apartment b was n- tionate in her home oirole that the average bout 50 by 30. Ina niche at the bank of a roan has onlytobe admitted there to straight• ofof age was a lffr� a s ornal f At the endso. wayfall hed over heels in lova with a eirl land Inc nd the were , statue to erthKing of l o• whworehi a her brother, is forever kissing and the potnt, The nater wet a d in P sen, and on spot they believe that the mine her fond father and disputes with her slaters was discovered by men eearohiug for the the honor and delight of warming the pater• lady's wedding ring, which she had lost. nal slippers. Even when of high station," There is another statue and some ornament• aha takes her turn in making the tea and al work, all of which le carved oub of the preparing the toast and superintending the gelid rook of salt. breakfast generally, a task which mamma After hooking at the chapel we took a relegates bo liar daughters. The Canadian very long walk through the gloomy vaults, girl breathes this engaging air of domesticity. till we cam° to an immense cavern, in wbioh Man doesn't say, How she can waltz, a dozen city churches could be °ornfortably how well she looks an the opera, how she stowed. The boys touched off some Roman surpasses all the other girls in the cotillion!" candies, and the plane was brilliantly illu- No matter to what advantage Cho may minatod. This is the poinb, or ono of them, appear in evening drone, under the softradl• Where ib would bo quite proper to go into anoe of the wax candles, what the moat in. oostaofea and "gush," for the oavorn of veb°rat° bachelor whispers to himself is this ; grand, and the idea of beinghnndrode is "By George I What a wife she would make 1 feob below ground is appallin; bub there Is And what a home 1" no danger that the thing will "cave in," We wont into another tremendous vaulb What the Japanese Did Not Imitate in Us. of the 00100 kind provided with wooden gal. Japan nob only knows when to begin idles above for the pae0sge of the miners imitating Western °fvillizatfon, MO when to from Ono part to another. Then we walked atop. There was no hoeitabion aboub adopting more miner, passing monuments, statnes, a educational institution and our civic Med- banquet hall, and following a railroad miles butione, Newspapers followed, and tele• in length, and with oars drawn by live graphs and railroads and constitutions, horses, buried ad they were. In one of Bub when Dame woen'o drosses, there these immense excavations eve tomo to a "Wook O'Bages," Wook 0 lieges, kelt for me 1"mm Through the Io the words are ringing Uttered by a lisping tongue ; Liston, tie our darling singing :— 't Wook 013egen, keft fur me, 1%: me hide myso'f In Thee," Papa in hie study writing, As he hears the awash rgfrein, Pauses in hie work to listen— W aite to oatoh the words again : — " Wook O'Beges, keft for me, Et me hide myself in Theo," " Wook ()'lieges, kefb for me—" And Inc voice le tuft and low, And we bend to Batch the meaning, For the breath mimes hard and slow ; " Wook 013 ogee, kefb for me, Ile me hide myself in Thee," In darkened room he lies, Yet the same sweet Bong ie singing And to our breaking hearts 1'0000 and resignation bringing. Wook O'Bages, keft for me, Et me hide myself in Thee." " Week O'Bagee, kefb for me, Mamma, sing it, you know bow— Cbarlie'e dying—mamma darling, Wou'b you—sing it—for him—now Week 0132860,—kelt—for—me, Et me—hide—rnyse'f—in—Thee." "Rook of Agee, clettfor me," 'Tie s mother singing now— Death hes marked her precious baby, And Inc damp ie on hie brow ; "Rook of Agee, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee." Lob me hide myself in Thee— Thou who had bhe wine press trod, Spare mo, yet, this agony, He ie ail we have, 0 God— Fether, mueb we drink the cup? Must we give our darling up ? " Wook O'Begee"—and our baby. Sang the rest to Christ alone, As the angels tenderly Bore him to the great white throne ; " Week O'Bagee, kelt for me I" And he hid himself in Thee. --HAIS GOEBEL, I did nob see the hub until el000 on ib, and more than twelve oggr, the reoorde at the 'entered it snppoaing 1110 be inhabited. Even Smithsonian Instituto giving that as the when 1 called aloud and gob no r00poneo greatest number of eggs of that epodes, to and know by the sot,ud of my voice that the a nob, A party of Worcester girls recently hub had been abandoned, I reatonod that I won the money by Gulling a nest with fifteen wa1 on Inc outoldrte of the village, and the eggs, MISCELLANEOUS. He who comes up to hie own Idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his own mind, The man whom Heaven appoints, To govern othere, should himself first learn To bend hie passions to the away of reason. Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build ap barriers between different ranks. If a man empties his puree into his head, no man clan take it from him. An invest. mentis knowledge always pays the beat interest. Tho oil of black birth brings 1183 a gallon, In Inc halcyon clays of youth the ordinary blank birch used to bring— tears, usually. Ab whatever period of life friendship; are formed, so long as they continue sincere and affectionate they form undoubtedly one of the greatest blessings we can enjoy. 3 agatzagagua MAILS AT 250 ,t4I1.ES AN HOUR,. A Scheme to Carry Thenr •0p ' nri 1110(14080 Edevaietl Wire dead. Within a twelvemonth from the present date melte will be carried from Boston to New York City in sixty miantoe. So say the oapitaliete who are making arrangements for the establishment of a transport line on the so.oalled "parteleobrio system' for Inc convenience of lettere and paokegee between the metropolis and the modern Athens. Even the 'leash eanguino backers of Inc enterprise are confident that if the, xpeoted palette sup. port 10 given to the eoheme not more than two years will be required ab moat for the aetabliahrnent et the nem:sary plant in run- ning order to bring Inc two centres of populebion within an hour's diatauce by post. The said plant will resemble, as to its most essential part, a little elevated railway sup• ported on a single line of tall Iran uprights and stretohing from the Poet -cities here to that on the Island of Manhattan, Along Inc traok on top rune a small , an laden with mail freighb, which at certain intervals due, Monett onettis seen to go under queer -looking box shaped arohee, Triose bcx-like arrange. meats contain each one a coil of wird, passing beneath the rail below and around over the arch, so that the moving mail carriage rune, ae it were, through a suewesion of coiled wire hoops. And these latter communicate the motive power to Inc vehicle. The speed to Inc attained by the oar in thio manner is inceloulablo. Aa le reoognieed he mechanics, a constant repelling force is productive of nearly infinite veloolty, ob• etruoted only by the resietanee of friction. In this system the only friction comes from the air and the slight centaabet the oar with the rails, Two bundrea and fifty miles an hour in nob thought to be an overestimate of the speed weeny to be compassed by the porteleetrio despatch. At the starting point the wire coils will have to be close together and on upgrades, bub elsewhere, and especially on down grades, they may be few and far between, the motive power needed being alight. Six stations, planed at intervals between here and New York, will supply the requisite currents from dynamos. Many experts think that the system is destined to rovolutianiza the postal eervioe in this oountry. For instance, it is expeoted that instead of nail hours apart between Boston and Now York carriages will be sent over the traoke from either end of the line ab five: minute intervals, thus rendering unnecessary the waiting for maths to close, and giving people in one city an opportunity to read their lettere two hours after they are written in the other. Onoe prove the notion a 0000000 here and it will be gnickly adopted everywhere. By apply. log Won a larger ,°ale, too, who knows that it: may not serve for transportatio of passengers some day? At the rate of 250 miles an hour one could pat a girdle around the earth in four days I Truly, it is a won- derful century we live in. After being totally blind tor fifteen years Mrs, Todd Lottie, of Bconeon, Miele., was suddenly cured. The first person thab she saw w'an her daughter, and her first remark was, "My 1 how youv'e grown." In the Johnstown disaster enquiry, the coroner's jury found that the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club are responeihle for the loss ot life, because of gross if not criminal negligence, and of carelessness in making repairs from time to time. A new industry is developing on the island of Guadalupe. There are now aboub 50,000 wild goats there, and they are being killed for their skins and tallow. Steamers have already arrived at Sin Diego, Cal„ wibh oargoed of goatskins and Ballow. Thirty years ago the Thomas Diokason. a New Bedford whaling ship, was lost in the Oohotak Sea. Lea; summer the bark Cape Horn Pigeon took a whale in the sane sea, and embedded in the blubber was Inc iron of a harpoon, with the words "Thomas Dlokason" stamped on it. It was as bright and sharp ae when it wan first struck into the whale, at lead; thirty years ago. The Posb ono of Centre Rutland, Vb,, fa in a store. The other day when some Sheriff's deputies were taking an inventory of goods a peokago of 2,000 letters and papers marked "unclaimed" was found. Some of them bore date of six years ago, and why they were not all sent to the Dead Letter Office long since has nob ydt been ex• plained. A deputy United States inspector was summoned, who examined the letters and aenb many of them to their proper deed. nation, It is said bhab the finding of these lettere explains many heretofore mysterious oiroumetan0es in which Rutland merohants are interested. Ib ie said that the oleabrio light companies have bad something to do with the appeal proceedings in the ease of the New York murderer sentenced to death by electricity. They are strongly opposed to the new method of execution, fearing Moab, as soon as it has been osoertained how strong a current must be in order to kill, 11 will become much easier than at present to obtain damages for accidental death by elocttioity. It is very improbable, however, that the appeal will be anooessful, for ib is brought on the ground ;hat the new punishment is " cruel and un. usual," And therefore unconstitutional. Ae compared with the barbarous promise of hanging exeoubion by the electric current 10 most merciful. Probably few people in this aountry ate aware bhab there is an oxbraditioa law in the United States covering the transfer of parsons aooused of orime from ono State to another. It is under this law that Governor Hill, of Now York, has refused to surrender Maroney and McDonald, who oreesuepeobed of and charged wibh complicity in the Cronin murder, on the requisition of Governor Fifer of Illinois. Governor Hill's objections are almost entirely teahnioal, and 11 is very broadly hinted aeon the line that his action be diebatod by fear of a °orbein powerful pe• Utica' influence) in hie State. This influence, moreover, it fs alleged, is going to make Inc conviction of Dr. Cronin's murderers a very diffloulb matter. An oxbraordinary inotence of long houre of labor Dame to light through the Sweating w Committee of the house of Lords. A Roum- anian Jew, about 35, small, and of poor phy- sique, an examined through an interpreter in a mixture of Hebrew and Garman, He to arrived in Hull via Hamburg, intending proceed to Anecdote, bub no; having money t h enougho pay his faro he woe sent to Man Headgear of Some Queens and Princesses. A well-known Pariaiae modiste gives some interesting details with regard to the hate and bonneto which she snakes for soma of her royal customers. The Comtesee do Paris dresses in a severe and simple sty lo, and always wears bound hats —never bonnete. Her hats are small and ofqu a special variety, of the toe shape, which is prepared pnrpoeely for her. Dank brown and blank are her favorite colors. Her mar- ried daughter, the Dachaaee de Breganza, shares her mother's simplicity of taste. The Duchess° de,Chatrres, thseister-in-law of the Comteeoe de Paris, is one ot the moot ale• gent royal ladies inEurope. Her usual style of headgear ie the capote bonnet in black and gold, or cream -white, or red, all of which colors or combination of color are very be- coming to her. Her daughter, the Pei:mesa, Waldemar of Danmark, prefers a style of headgear which is gotten up especially for her. It be of the toque shape in front, curv- ing down at the bank in aomebhing of the oapote form. She likes straight, high trim• ming set 1 nfront of the crown, never wears otringe, and particularly dislikes hanging ends, whether of ribbon or lace. Ae she hag a fresh fair complexion she delights in deli. cato shades of pale blue or silver gray. The Empress of Russia, likeher sister, the Princess of Wales, never wears high•orowned or large -brimmed hate, Everything must be email and neat and oornpaot, whether hat or bonnet. Her favorite Debra are pale blue and mauve. Her sister -in law, the Grand Duchess Vlad• leek, who was a princess of the ducal house of Mooklenberg•Sehwerin, is one of the royal leaders of European fashion, being extemely stylish in manner and posoessing infinite baste in dress, I have just :Armed cut for her an idea of her own, whish was to com- bine in a toque a crown in real eealekin, with trim:mega of white eilk gaunt. This union of fur and gauze, of dime brown and white, was daring and novel, and perfectly suoceaeful. She doa delights in wtingfiowers, her favorites being chrysanthemums and violate. The wife of her second brother, formerly the Primes,: Elizabeth of Soxe•Woimer wears oompact oapotee with Diose bordering and strings, the bow under the throat being very becoming to her, When the was mar- ried three years ago I furnished the bonnets and hats of her troueseen, comprising some thirty in all. Everycostume won mode with a hat to matoh, and every carriage or recep- tion or theatre dress had the bonneb to oorreepond in maberial as well as colon It Puzzled this Dentist, "It'e a mystery to me," gold a dentist of large practice recently, "that a women will make up her face to Dome to a dentist's chair. Yob many of them do. Hardly a day passes that 1 don't have some women in hero rouged, powdered and penciled to the last degree. You would think they would hardly Dare to fame the strong, cruel light whfah I employ in my work, or my own °lose, if involuntary, scrutiny, bub they don't seem to mind either. Only yesterday I worked for three hours over a woman whose lips were so besnrudged with some vermilion paste that it Dame off generously with every use of the syringe to wash out her mouth, The powder on her face dusted my conn sleeve with every motion almost, and I disa°vored before I was through with her that even the veins ou her t0mplee. owed their delioata blue look to tome out, aide iuflnenoe,"—(Now York Sun. Not an Every -Day Ooourrenoe. Two teamsters came into oollieiou fu the street with their vohioleo the other day. First Teemetor—" My dea•� sir, len very sorry for thle 000idont. Will you kindly ib to mo,n" wee a halt. 'Frenchmen milliners and theater. There he works from 5 dolook in exSooconaed 0 T?eanstnr—" Pray do not mention English women milliners were dropped and the morning until twelve et night, and Ib, my dear air. The fault wag as much mine their needlee rusted for want of patronage. eometimeo until 1 or 2 in the morning, malt. ae yours. This was wise. We era oxaobly 500 yoare ing an average of 20 hours a day for 0 days After getting their Barth clear of each eek leaving only 4 harm for ;leap. other they bowed politely, and with a pita. apes° and In the roar of In Inctv g v „ omndohoJa ," wires, c° many n t behind senna, 3n our method of drooping Iia earned 3s, a day 3n the busy tbno, last-,santgoad day prao°ndod abou5 their regions. women. Wo should ole well to imitate our ing about 10 weoice, and from Gs. to 8a, per b is:Mess. Where:we were hull way u°0000 the lake :Oriental friends in awned pertioularn, bub week in bhe sleep ooaoon, and on this he had ! It i0 a great pity they had not had thole abmy luted a hooey vaanon•oraoker, the oche 4 particularly in female ooetume, ; to support a wile and pix Children, photagrapbe taken for ouriositios, lake 47 feet deep, Moored to the shore yeas a Gatboab, big enough to seat twenty per- sons, on wiiioh wo embarked for nail an these 517515n waters, The oral t wag drawn by1 like ferryboats i the tipper