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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
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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