The Brussels Post, 1889-8-30, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS.
Some More Don'ts
Don't appear iadi8'erent when others are
talking, Listen politely to every one, and
don't interrupt,
Don't .contradfot any one—nothing could
ruder. if yon do nab agree with tee
peakor, express your opinion, of oouree,
ut do it with o0urteoy.
Don't attempt to be witty or "smart" et
he expense of another, Remember always
hat confederation for others ie the first
hasaotorietio of a lady or gentleman,
Won't trim or clean your finger nails in
1ptatllo. 'Keep them in good oondiblon by
,all means, but all toilet duties should be por-
,ormed in private,
Don't play with your napkin, or your
Sam, or with anyebbeg ae the table; whoa
mot eating sit with your hoods quietly in
your lap,
Catching Fish With a Bottle,
THE BRUSSELS POST.
AUGUST 30, 1889.
THE ERI'IISH NAVAL MANOEUVRES- WREN A DEAF MAN CAN REAR, PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
clow the nivel Fleets or Creat Britain and
Achill Will lonteu4 wlili Each Other.
Tbo naval reviow off Splthead is attraot•
ing the attention of the auoboritios at Waah.
Ills linea are Most teuxtllvo When There
Is the most Bneltet About.
Tho deaf man has just di000vered thab
ington. A correspondent at the Amerloan riding in a rumbling oar robs kin fllaiotion of
its terrors, and is getting oven with hie back
Capital writes as follows :—Although the
annual ins Lotion and review off Splthead la l
biting acgnaintunuoe who have oxpreeaed
for the Braieh navy the great show of the thou opinion]] of him heretofore without
year, there ie mono Interest in the manmuvreo
which fellow it. Those continue through
several weeke, and give abundant exorable in
attack and defence, penult], concentration,
bombardment, equadron evolutlone, torpedo.
bootpraotiae, and indeed roost of the opera.
Liana of naval war. Last year the manmuvree
began at two points, one on the northern and
the ether nn the t.outhern comet of Ireland, ab
each of which a British squadron woe found
and attacked by the equadron of an imaginary
enemy called Achill. The excitement of the
operotiara ran bigb when the attacking
equadron withdrew from the froab of their
opponeute, and seconded In making ravages
on the southwestern coast of Scotland, and
thence southward for some distance in bho
Irick Sea before they were made to Buffer for
their audacity.
Thio year, like last, there will be an ale
book from Achill, and the two principal offi
cera who than took charge of the enemy's
forces will ohmage places with the two Ad•
mirale who conducted the defence. These
nnrnmuvrea Lim ueationably teach more than
a parade in the Solent as to the real condi.
tion, degree of efficiency, and shortcomings
of the Britsh navy. For example, the
structural weakness of nob a few of the
torpedo boats in heavy weather was made
quite manifest by them, whereas nobhing of
the sort might be apparent in a fair•weather
review.
The composition of the opposing fleets
ahcwe thab the British navy oan spare from
its regular force In home waters for an
imaginary enemy a equadron of vast power,
while retaining for itself quite enough
otrength to defeucl the ielanda. As recently
arranged, the Achill forces were to include
the armorclada Inflexible, Camperdown,
Anson, Howe, Devastation, Monarch, Iron
Duke, and the flagship Northumberland, the
first five being of from 9,300 to 12,000 tons,
and carrying very heavy armor and gone of
from 35 to 80 tons. The enemy's unarmor•
ed cruisers were to include the fast vessels
Iris, Magioienne, Mersey, Arebhnsa, Arm
tralia, Calypso, Curlew, and one or two
others, making from 16 to 20 knots, besides
the fast gunboats Grasshopper and Rattle-
snake.
To meet this array the British squadron
brings together of armorolade the flagship
Hercules, the Rodney, the Warepite, the
Conqueror, the Neptune, the Shannon, the
Invincible, the Collingwood, the Rupert, the
Aj Ix, and the Blaok Prince. It will also
have four belted cruisers, the Undaunted,
Narciesue, Aurora, and Galatea, bwo of the
same alase being assigned to the enemy. It
will have the unarmored cruisers Medea,
Melpomene, Marathon, Mercury, Forth, and
Thames, of from 17 to 20 knots speed, and
the gunboats Serpeab, Mohawk, Sandfly,
Spider, and Sharpshooter, of which the last
named oan eo 21 knots under forced draught.
In addition to these main squadrons there
are no fewer than five smaller bodies, classed
as divisions for use in the English Channel,
and the Irieh and North Seas, and on the
Scotch coast. In the aggregate they In-
clude bwo armorolad ships -of -the -line, seven
armored ooast-defence vessels, seven near -
mored cruisers, eleven gunboats, and near-
ly forty torpedo boats.
Even this array does not take in all the
vessels which were present at the review of
Monday, and possibly in the final programme
dome additional or different assignments may
be made, some of those at first detailed for
service under Achill being transferred to the
colors of John Bull, or the reverse, But in
any case lit is the British navy that out of ate
abundant resources furniehbobh the hostile
and the home equadron. If imperfections
are found on either side as the result of the
encounters, they oan be remedied without
waiting for a real war to matte remedy too
Tate. There are compensations and console•
them in advanoe for varione kinds of un-
pleasant developments. Should the attack
prevail over the defence, it will be reflected
that after all English skill conducted it.
Indeed, while the pessimist is already
counting on the foot that British sailors will
surely be beaten, the optimist is finding
equal inspiration in the fact also assured
in advance that British sailors will be
vectorious.
Catching fish is surely a very novel use
ler a bottle, but the feat is easily acoomp•
$tailed and affords a groat deal of amusement
and excitement,
A number of empty champagne or beer
<7rottles being obtained, each one is to be
';filled with sand or shot until ib will otand
upright when fleeted in water. Each bottle
8e then tightly corked and a sbrong tapering
ash or hickory stink, 18 inches long, is peas•
ed through eaoh cork, this stick having o
small, bright -colored bargee (a three corner -
cd flap) at its tip. Next a piece of wire is
twisted around the neck of the bottle,
that it cannot slip off, and in this wire a
darge loop is made to which the fish•line is
'doao:ned, The length of the line must
depend entirely upon the depth of the water
to be fished; 10 feet is usually long enough.
:'The hooka, for general use, should be of
medium aizo—say No. 5, Moderately
ieavy sinkers are attached to the line.
,A swivel will make the outfib complete,
although not abeolntely necessary, If the
bottles thomselvee cost nothing, a dozen
- may by prepared at a coon of 25 ciente.
The bottles, thus having been made ready,
.may be used in a number of ways, They
may be set in a row on the bank of a stream,
or on n pier, close to the edge; the books
having been properly baited, are to be drop-
ped into the water. It will not be long
before one of the bottles will begin bo waver
and suddenly take a mighty leap overboard,
•swimming off and bobbing around in a very
;peculiar manner. The excitement which a
row of these Gahing-bottlee will arouse, and
the gnawing as to whioh bottle will go first,
is very amusing, and not to be deepisod as
report.
'Coe or more of the bottles having popped
off and been taken in tow by a fish, must
now be rescued ; this can be done by means
of a long stink having three hooks, without
'barbs, lathed to it, back to back ; some one
-of the hooka will thou catch into the loop of
wire around the neck of the bottle and you
azan draw in both bottle and fish.
Where there is a lake or pond at band and
.a boat available, the bottles may be taken
^ant from shore and set afloat around the
boat. If the fink are ab all lively and there
are many bottles to tend, there will be some
very exciting sport in chasing the bottles,
for they will start in all directions at every
moment.
Where there is a number in the parby
e" sides ' may be chosen—two sets of bottlee
being furnished, an even number to each,
and each eet having a flag differing in color.
The side catching the most fish who what-
ever prize is to be awarded.
For sea fishing an additional arrangement
its needed, because the waves cause the bot
ties to bob up and down eo that it le hard to
know when a fish bites. The flag is brought
into nee as a signal. The upright rod ie
tarnished at its tip with a small screw -eye,
and a strip of tin three inches long is fastened
by its lower end to the lower end of the rod
pantile' with it, so as t0 make a spring•olip,
The flog is fastened to the end of bile line,
and ie set by being oanghb in the clip made
by the strip of tin. In this position the flag
de "lowered," as it were, being ab the foot of
the rod ; bat when the fish bites he pulls it
away from the clip and raises it to the top of
the rod, where it stops, being too large to go
through the eye. That the flag may fly
atraight, and nob be drawn into the eye and
crumpled, it is beet to eery ib to a ebraight
hit of wire, having a loop at the top to which
the line ie tied.
Anobher improvement le bo paint the in-
side of the bottle white, by pouring in white
,paint and shaking ib around and then pour-
ing it out and eettirg the bottle dry. When
:prepare the bottle as described, and should a
large fish turn the bottle upside-down, as he
very likely will, it oan be readily seen and
d:oliowed,—[Wide Awake.
A Talk About Tigers.
-Little folks are always anxious to learn
something about natural history and animals,
eo they are given here a little sketch of the
a fiercest of known animals, The tiger is the
admiration and dread of young people. We
aro all familiar with the appearance of eta
''tawny, striped skin, its fiercelooking bead
and mouth and its long, mueonlar body, It
is one of the most active and agile of beasts,
and bas enormousetrength, It leaps twenty
feet an a bound and oan carry off a big ox to
its lair.
When the tiger is huogxy tbere is no dan•
gar that tt will not brave bo get food, One
has been known to carry off a soldier from
the middle of a Damp, nothing daunted by
the presence of a crowd of men. Many
years ago tigers were a perfect scourge to
the people of some parts of India, and they
aro yet where the settlements are scattered.
They carry off both people and cabbie, and
•naturally the Inhabitants devise all aorta of
ways to rid themselves of such a dangerous
foe. One of the queereeb devices is to
spread broad leaves smeared with glue in
the tiger's way and when he steps on them of
,course they stick to his paws. He then rubs
.hie paws on hie head to get the leaves off
'and they stick to his head and blind hie
eyes. He then lies down and rolls on the
ground howling with rage and when the
hunter hears the noise he Domes npeand kills
the beast,
Like the lion, the tiger oan be tamed unti
3b le almost are harmless as a oat, for, you
know itis only its big cousin. A story is told
,of a tiger that came on a ship from India,
rand it was so gentle that the boys who were
'employed on the vessel used to sleep with
their heads resting on its body for a pillow.
The Roman Emperors used to have tame
tigers that wenb about their palaces with as
moth freedom 80 wo allow to the most ordin-
ary pets. They also used them to draw their
chariots, just as they did the lions we have
told you about. Emperor Nero, the Warn.
.nus tyrant, who is Bald to have "fiddled
while Rome was burning," had a pet bigrees
'which he kept always near him, Some.
times, at the end of a feast, he would point
6dt to the tigress some one with whom he
was displeased, and the beast, trained to do
hie bidding, would leap upon the unfortunate
victim and kill him before the guests' very
gyes-
reserve, An eccentric] millionaire who bad no
hearing under ordinary olroumsbanco, found
this out bile other day AD the expense of isle
lawyer,, and the latter now mourns the lose
of the most profitable client, while the deaf
mac thinks he hae learned a thing or two.
The lawyer .was sitting in a oar talking to
a friend when his wealthy client entered and
dropped into the vaoaab seat beside hie legal
adviser, "Thi, old curmudgeon will talk
mo deaf, dumb, and blind," field the Black•
stonian to his oompanlon and they both
scowled at Moneybags, who was looking
out of the oar window, "He has spenb lots
of money with me, bub it's worth a mint to
yell in his ear. I'm tired of it. He is deaf
as a pub,"
Then the deaf man turnod around. "Yon
oan send me your bill in the morning," said
he," and I'm done with yea.
Lawyer and companion looked ab each
other amazed. The lawyer set about to find
how is client recovered his hearing so
quiakly,
Ib is due to the connteraabion of the
noley motion outhe dram of the ear," said the
mullet to whom be applied for information,
" The rumble of the heavy wheel on the
track causes the drum to vibrate, and the
aiii'oted one can hear quite plainly. Some
people thin k that they voluntarily raise their
voicoe in a oar. t:Thab is 2100 so. Always
speak in a low voice to a deaf person
moving oar or vehicle.
Ocean Greyhounds
The twin -threw steamer is aseociabed with
one might almost say the outgrowth of the
triple expansion engines, which are as re-
volutionary as the latest of the iron -clads or
the institution of Bessemer steel. The old
ships of all the linea are; far behind, and
while they may carve bheeepurpose of ferry
boats for many years and yield comfort to
old-fashioned people, they will nob be suc-
ceeded by anything like tbemeolves. One be closed at midnight and on Sundays. The
of the marvels of the age is the machinery situation bas given rise to a number of
of the steamers thab are famous for their interviews between the County Commission -
speed on the Atlantic, If a locomotive la ere and Mr. Dann's counsel, with a view to
attached to a " limited express" train and obviating the diffioalty.
run at a rate of speed approaching a mile a
minute for two or three hours, she is with- The Old, Old Story.
Sir Edward Watkin propene, if ever bo
gobs bio o.a mol tunnel out through—and
that's a big, big if—to run trains direct from
Loudon to Gibraltar, transfer care by boat
to Tangier, end thence elocg the north comb
of Africa, through Egypt, down the Persian
Gulf bo Kurraohee, and so on to Calcutta,
without ohange of oara,
Tho Standard 011Oompany'o noweteamerm
for carrying ell in bulk will bo ready for
service in September. The first vessel,
named the Bayonne, was lauuoted on the
Clyde on July 2, and has a oapaaiby of 4,000
tone. She will Iwo eleobrlc.lighte,steamsteer.
Ing gear, and triple expansion engines, and
will carry 1,500,000 gallons, whioh can be
discharged in ten hours,
Sande has 124,589 Indiana, of whom
37,944 are la Britlah Columbia, 26,388 in
Manitoba and the Northwestern Terribory,
17,700 in Ontario, 12,465 in Quebec. 8,000
in Athabaska, 7,000 in Maokeozie district,
4,016 in Eastern Rupert's Lind, 4,000 on the
Arobio coasts, 2,145 in NewSoobland, 2,038
In bile Peace River diobriat., 1,504 in New
Brunowick. 1,000,in thsintorior of Labrador,
and 319 in Prince Edward Island.
Joseph A, Donohoe, of Menlo Park, Cal„
has offered a modal to bo given to tbo first
dieaoveror on bhab coast of every new cornet,
and to the first oboerver who makes a precise
observation of a telescopic periodic oomeb at
any of its expected returns, Ib is a curious
coincidence that the same wook whioh saw
this recognition of aebroeomical research
wionessed an offer by J. Mervyn Donahoe,
another Californian, of a puree of $7,000 for
a prize fighb between Kilrain and the Aus-
tralian negro, Peter Jaokaon, provided the
canted should take place in San Francisco.
The naw law In Connecticut requiring the
removal of saloon Barcena hae brought about
the following aituabion, "T'he new screen
law has produced reahor an intoreeting and
a tomewhab complicated situation in New
Britain. Mr. Dunn's saloon is set off from
the restaurant by a partition so arranged
thab on Sunday and after midnight on week•
days the bar oan be entirely closed up and
separated from tbo restaurant. The latter
can then, by law, be kept open all the time.
If the partition between restauraub and bar
is removed, so as to give a clear view of the
latter from the street, the saloon and the
reebauranb beoome one and the latter must
The Kaiser in England.
Exit the Shah, enter the Emperor. The
lion of Persia has lofb the stores of England
and betaken himself to France, whither the
German emperor, at present on a visit to hi
august grandmother, our most gracious and
revered Queen, for obvious reasons is nob
likely to follow him. The Emperor William
is accompanied by Connb Herbert Biro
marok, whose injndiaions utterances at
the time of W ilhelm's uneaten to the
throne of Frederic, hie father, fanned
the feeling of irratibility that then pre.
veiled in Hoglund. Ab the present moment,
however, the hatchet appears to have been
buried and things eeom lovely. The Oounb'o
alroy master has taken part in a family
dinner ab Osborno and has been treated to
the grandest of all the spectacles Eng.
land can offer— a naval review, in which
150 veesolo of war took part, inoluding 30
of the moat formidable line of babble ehipe
the civilized world can produce. The
Emperor was made an honorary admiral of
the fleet and in the full fig of that] exalted
position surveyed the magnificent soon -with
complaaenoy, if nab with satisfaction at the
thought that some day all tale maniere array
of ebrengbh might be arrayed against his be
loved naterland. Bub nothing untoward,
beyond some unplemsahb weather, occurred
to in the glories of the occasion, and
in the neer future the Priuoe of Wales
will return the Emperor's visit and make a
brief sojourn at the court of Berlin, while
her Majeoby the Queen has been appointed
chief of the first Dragoon guards of Germany,
She Was a t' Native Daughter,'
"So you're going to marry old Jones, are
you, Mande"
" Yee, Cicely."
" Awfully rich, isn't he f"
" Yes, beastly riot,"
"But I thoughb you were going to marry
young Sprigging. Weren't you engaged 4
"Oh, yes, indeed 1 But he has just gena
abroad for a couple of years. I expect to
marry him when ho rsturne."
"Oh 1 And Mr. Jones 1"
"Humph 1 He won't last that long.
Nothing like having a nine young husband
and plenty of money, too I"—[Wasp,
drawn, another aubetltuted, and every part
of the rattled engine is olooely examined,
while ib le carefully provided bhab the return
trip ie made with a slow train. Contrast
with this what is expeoted of the machinery
on board the City of Paris, the Auguste
Victoria, the Columbia, or the Teutonic,
or the Etruria or Umbria. Daring the fast•
eat voyage across the Atlantic, that of the
Ciby of Paris in May last, her engines were
driven unceasingly during five days and
bwenby throe hoary at the average speed of
eighty-eight revolutions of the screws per
minute. When Captain Watkins left
Q reenstown on the 25th of lash month, and
started on a course fifty-nine miles shorter
than his famous run—shorter because he
ran norbhward where the world grows
smaller and came down over the shoulder of
"the great globe we inherit," taking any
possible chance there might be of foga andioe
crossing the banks of Newfoundland at thio
season—the engines were put ab full speed,
and for something over four days they were
driven at bho average rate of ninety revolu-
tions of the oorawsper minute. There was
a variation from eighty-six to niuebytwo
revolutions. When the lurneces were open
ed to be cleaned the intensity of the steam
would be diminished for a few minutes and
the speed of the screws reduced to eighty.
six turns in the minute. It will be noted
that the average speed was three revolutions
in two seconds, and the screws are twenty
fees in diameter. Ib is astonishing bleat thio
velocity can be maintained day and night
without a eeaond's waiting, and avoid devel-
oping excessive and crippling beat, The
fact that thirty men are employed to pour
oil upon the bearings and all parte where
the friction is severe, will perhaps account
in part for the phenomena, but certainly
only the greatest perfection of material,
and bile most delicate adaptation of one part
to the other, could provide for suoh a strain
without disaster. 1 doubt whether so etort.
ling a teat of inbegrity and absolute exacta
tude in manufacture Can be found in any
other machinery. During the late run of
the City of Paris the wind was so strong
from the north one afternoon as to give the
ship a decided list, elevating the larboard
screw so that ab each turn the blades threw
showers of spray with a dazzling rush far
behind the vessel. There are four blades in
the screw, revolving three times in two
seconds—so there were six white surges per
second dashed to the winds, and a fine re-
minder of the snowy rapids of Niagara.
An English finanoial paper relates that in
1888 391,000 in Canada sent
,90 persons money
by postal order to relatives in the United
Kingdom amounting to $5,260,000. These
figures aro said to have been made public by
the Postmaster • General of England.
Assault by an Indian.
Have you forgotten the old, old story
You whispered to me on that golden day
When the sun was flooding the earbh with
glory,
And hedges were fragrant and white with
Our path
may
over the cowslip -meadow,
Where birds sang gaily from every tree,
And the way was flecked with ennebiae and
shadow ;
Bu only the sunshine fell on me.
With the lads and lessee to go a-maying,
,lhab morn wo had left for a apace life's
toil ;
And we beard the sound of their footsteps
ebraying
Where the hawthorn promised abundant
epoil.
Their hearts grew glad in the golden weath-
er ;
They gathered the flowers beneath their
feet ;
But we two loitered behind together,
F'or the old, old story seemed new and
sweet.
MONTREAL, Aug. 29,—An Indian from
Caugbnawaga named Jeseph Sharoahati
was sent for trial to the Court of Queen's
Bench for a fiendish assault on a girl
eleven yearoof age, daughter of Constable
Leforb of that village, In the preliminary
investigation the young victim and her two
companions, the Misses Latch, of Ottawa,
who are on a visit at Laobine and Caughna-
waga, maid under oath that bile accused
had lured them away from the vil•
lage out of aerobe]] and view of any
habitacion, and bben dragged little Ida
Leforb into a bush. Her companions
dared not follow ab first, bub the child's
Dries finally induced them to enter the brush,
whonoe the accused fled precipitately upon
their approaoh. On hearing of the occur.
nun Constable Lefort armed himself with
two revolvers, determined, he says, to
punish the brute. He did nob, however,
find him at home. In bbe evening he mob
him on the area: and took him into the
presence of the girls, all of wham identified
him as Nieman in question. Leforb raised
his revolver bo the prisoner's face, but be.
fore bo could fire his wife prevented him
from killing Sharonhati. The victim IS In
a amine if not dangerous condition,
The Folly of it.
Ib is altogether beyond belief that it will
be possible for us to sustain the pretension
of Seeatery Blaine that Behring sea le des.
tlnotly American water, Our maintenance
of each a theory on the Pacific nide of the
continent, in view of the claims we make on
the Atlantic aide, oannob fail to make us a
laughing stook of all ioreiga diplomatists'
for, if the United Staten oan claim that
Behring sea, which, dividing ,America from
Asia, is ab certain places more than a thou -
mend miles in width, ie a oloeed pea, then
there 1s nothing to prevent England from
claiming that the Gulf of St, Lawrence,
Hudson bay and Baffin bay are eloped seas, Queen Victoria hae just paid more than
In which American fishermen and whalers $600 fol a Shetland pima, whits was recent•
have no right to ply their trade.—[Boston ' ly much admired ab sae wins for cattle
Herald, a show,
ENGLAND'S ONLY PA .AOQUTE
WOMAN,
eke Calls lleraelr 2Ilxx llerey, and Teles or
Ilex Bxperlenaex.
Mice Do Voy is the only lady paraobutiet
in England, and, for the matter of tbmt, bite
only one in the world that has made air mus.
oaeafal descents, She performs with "Pro -
feasor" Higgins. Mies Ds Vey ie a young
lady, not more than 22 perhaps, of gentle,
quiet demeanor, bright epee, and pale bub
regularly out features, She seems to poamaes
no exeraordlnary physique, and, indeed•
dopa nob at first Bight] appear ea exuepbional•
ly fibbed to porform a task whioh requires
the exercise of muoh sbrengtlt, nerve, ehill,
and judgment, Yob le le impossible nob to
observe the
KEEN GLANCE Or I100 EYE,
the firm•seb j ow, andthe determination ex -
pranged In her tightly oompreseed lips. She
conformal to the posseeelon of a strong and
powerful uervoue oystem, over which eke
oxerobes bho fullest control, and her per-
formanoea in midair have proved her claim
to bhab cool•heaaed ekill so necessary to ono -
me se a paraohutfete She did not enter on
he " businoes" with a groat deal of oonfid-
enne. She had Been " profaners" galore
drop from the clouds, and there had crept
into her mind au idea thab eke might attain
the ouooese and handsome eatery which com-
mon rumor attributes to those aerouaube
who, In addition to going up, up, up, oblige
by coming down, down, down in safety,
Her first venture was made at Manobeater.
She wenb up with "Profeaeor" Higgins, and
ab a given signal was eenb off from the bal-
loon with her parachute. 1b wao a bad be-
ginning. She fell with a "rusk" for some
three hundred feet before the paraehube
opened, "Ib was over in about half a sec•
end," she said, "bub it Boomed lo me like
knotty. For an instant I bad the eloken-
ing thought that I would bo
SMIASHIED TO PIEOES
on the ground, and than the parachute ex-
panded. It opened gradually : I floated in
the air for about a second and then slowly
descended." Moab of those who wibnesaed
the desoenb though it a capital ono, but they
little knew of the experiences the plucky
little woman had gone through in that brief
half second. She always takes the precau-
tion of strapping herself bo the ring of the
parachute by a small belt which . paeeee
under her armpits, Thia effectually pre-
vents any obance of her losing bold of the
machine, and gives her thab confidence
which alone oan make a oafs descent posse.
bio. Ab Liverpool recently Mise De Voy
wenb as high as two miles, and took sixteen
minutes to make the descent. Oa the same
occasion "Professor" Higgins oocupied•elgh-
been minutes in coming down.
The gentleman—and ueodlees to say, he
expresses Mise De Voy'e opinion on this
point—thinks parachuting much safer than
ballooning. With a balloon the gas and the
sudden changes of atmosphere have to be con-
sidered. In paraohuties the only thing de-
manding attention ie the machine itself. Ib
must be well made, constructed so as to open
without fail, and warranted not to split
when aubj ea ted to au enormous preaeure of air
Of coarse, given these qualities, the para-
chute mueb expand, In the descent and as its
course can be neared in exactly the same
way as a yacht mr y be guided by its nails,
there is little or no real danger. If, however,
any unforeseen accident occurred to the
parachute, the life of the performer is in ex
trema danger, but, with ordinary Dare and
attention, Botha chance is rendered exbreme-
ly unlikely. Prof, Higgins and Mies De goy
are almost inundated wibh offers of engage-
ments. They have already bad to refuse twen•
tyfive this season, and they have deolined
bo perform in London unless paid £200:
'Tie May time again ; and youth and maiden
Hasten away to the country road,
To cut down the boughs that are blossom -
laden,
Or help to carry the fragrant load.
The sunshine is flooding the earth with
glory ;
The birds are ringing on every tree ;
Bat you have forgotten that old, old story,
And only the shadow° fall on me.
[E. MATx0sox, in Chambers's Journal,
ese
Most Terrible of Children.
A visit to the little island of Marken, in-
habited by primitive fishing folk, still wear-
ing the cootnme in fashion with their fore-
fathers three hundred years ago, was made
memorable by the vexabioue conduct of the
boys of the plaoe, "I did not mind the girls.
Bub by and by school broke np, and down
bo quay -aide ran all the naughty boys
of Marken. We suffered a terrible persecu-
tion at their halide, so that the tender-heart-
ed girls pitied us and rebuked, but bo no
effect, bheirunraly brobbero. The Holland-
ers spoil their children, never punish them
and allow them—provided they don'b play
the truant from school, for education is a
eerioue business in this country—to do
pretty well as they like. Should a stranger
—my authority is one of our consuls over
here—take it upon himself to eprank one
of these iitble raeoale, for throwing antes at
him or otherwise misbehaving himself, the
whole of the parentseof the loaallty would
Hee in a body and Beek that stranger's blood.
A Corsican vendetta would be obiid's play to
what he might expect. If you value your
life, pub up with insult, robbery, blows, tor-
ture at the handy of a Hollander infant, bub
do not venture to chastise him, Of all
the children in Europe the Dutch child Is
most bo bo feared, Now the Zaider Zee
child i° the moat terrible of Dutch ohildron,
and the Marken child the most terrible of
the Zufder Zee, and hence of the whole
species. Our position oan, therefore, bo im-
agined by any father of a large family."
The chief amueoment of these boys was pelt-
ing the vessel with stoner] and briakbats,
and, finally her berth had to be altered to
get oub of their way.
She Knew the Scheme.
A pirl with a bundle in her hand wao
going up Park street yesterday when she
met a girl with a bundle coming down,
They seemed to intuitively divine each
other's occupation, and the foot that each
wao out of a job.
"when cid yon leave Y" queried the first.
" About an hour ago, When did you?"
"Same time. What did you quit for l"
" Folks had too much company and I
worked like a slave, What did you quit
ford;
or 4"
"Folks had no company nor nothing to
do, and I was gutting too fat. Don't we have
hard times, though?"
" Drcfful. If it isn't one thing it's another.
I am now after a plane where the lady is
said to reopeob her servant's feelings,"
"How nice 1 That means every evening
out—all the beaus you want—breakfast ab
half past eight and girl company every
afternoon, Oh I but it can't last. Ib'o a
echeme to get you there and put a double
wash on you for starter."— [Detroit Free
Press,
Two Brave Sailors.
In the year 1872 a French vessel, the Me-
laine, was lying at anchor ab the mouth of
the River Adour, waiting for fair weabher
to arose the bar which separates the porb of
Bayonne from the Bay of Biscay. She was load-
ed with 500 barrels of petroleum, which, just
as the crew were turning in for the night,
suddenly exploded. The ship was soon sur-
rounded by a belt of floating hre. Tar
nearest vessel ab the time wao a British orig.
the Anna Bella Clark, from Ardroeson. Her
master, Capb. Sharpe. knowing there were
some Frenab sailors in the mideb of the
Hamas, shouted to one of his Drew, John
McIntosh :
"Come on, my lad I Let us go to their
resoae."
Without a moment's hesitation these men
launched the dingy, and Ina few minutes were
alongside the blazing vessel. In this short
interval what remained of the standing gear
of the Melaine had become ono blazing masa
of flame, Nobhing daunted, the British
Bailors, with the oertainty of incurring the
greatest physical suffering, if nob the loss of
their lives, dashed through the floating air -
ole of fire and laid hold of the rigging of the
burning ship. They succeeded in taking off
two men in such a helpless state from burns
and bruises that they could not portafbly
have been caved bad their rescue been delay-
ed much forger. In theperformonoe of this
heroic an the Englishmen were more terra
bly burned than the men they rescued. Ib
was first feared that Capt. Sharpe would
Ion the eight of ono eye and hie face was
permanently disfigured. Malntoah fared
still woroe ; ao severe were his injuries that
his discharge from the ship was absolutely
necessary. He was conveyed bo bho Bayonne
Hospital, where he lay for nearly a month,
at times in the greateat suffering. To show
their appreciation of this mob of heroism the
British oommcniby raised a sum of £60 for
the two heroes.
About Women.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Thoy',are making an attempt to aoolima-
tize Connecticut) oysters at several placoa on
the const of Sweden, So far the young eye.
tore have thriven well,
Reports come coneteutly from St. Pebere.
burg of the ever inoreauing nee of naptbha
dregs as fuel, Rueelan mauufaaturers and
railways are adopting it in plane of wood
and ooal, and it ie even utilized for domestic
purposes, in stoves of spoolal construction,
Ib ie about 35 per oonr, cheaper than wood
or coal, and it occupies less opaoo in storage.
The floods of thlo summer have obown
how great a protection againsb the inroads
of water a row of willow brace may be. The
engineer in charge of the Potomac River
improvements says that where willowa were
planted the land woo protected from wash-
ing, and practically no damage wao done,
while in the improved land not so protected
there woe great loss,
A oarriage road to the top o Pike's Peak
hae just been eomplated. 1b begins at Caro
Dade Canon, and extends sixteen miles, until
it reaches bile very summit of the mountain,
14,147 fen above the level of the sec.
There Is ono point, Grand View, whore ab
an altitude of 20,852 feet one may Bee the
smoke of a locomotive oroseing Marshall
Paso ninety miles away,
Dr. Hammond abops public expectancy off
short by announcing that the material used
by Dr. Browu•Sequard and himself is not be
any sena an elixir of life. He is only trying
experiments as every eolonlifio man ie at
liberby to do. People who. had decided to
live their liven over again, when news of the
elixir wao made puhlia, will have to declare
all ongagemento off.
News from the Celestial Kingdom makes
it known that a Governor of one thoChinese
provinces bas lorblddea the young men in
his province to wear gorgeously Colored and
embroidered garments, a practice which be
says is foolish and unmanly, end he gives due
warning to fathers, elder brothers, and teach-
ers that they will be held responsible for any
display of remarkable clothing on the part
of the woald•bo dudes.
At the Marxist Congress in Paris on July
21 Mr. Cunningham Graham, a member of
the Beitioh Parliament, who presided, took
a slap at the British workingmen in these
words, Speaking on the eight-hour question,
he Bald; "Thio is the great question inter•
eating English workmen, and ib is very
diffioulb to geb them to demand more, so
degraded are they by the pipe, the Bible,
boar, and admiration for bho upper classes,"
According to the "Dejevnik," a paper
publiehed at Saratoff, Russia, there is living
chore a man who is 140, years old, His
name is Daniel Samoiloff, and he was born
al Saratoff fn 17.49: lie acted as Adjutant
to Field Marshal Pugatohefit, and took
and took part in the storming of Kasen and
S imbirak and in the bombard men b of Samara.
He was arrested with Pugatcbeff and
brought book to Slmbirek, where he was
oubjeoted to 180 blows with the knout, and
condemned to hard labor for life in the
Siberian mines. After thirtyelghb years'
banishment and hard labor Samoiloff was
permitted to return to his native city.
Despite the hardship] of his exile, he is
described as still robaining all bit faculties,
The bad effects of the suspension of sye-
temabie labor in the State Prisons are shown
in the abatement made by the doctors ab
Bellevue Hospital that more insane ariminala
{were received from the three State Prison
during the veer bhab the convicts were un-
employed than in any other three years
previously. Five prisoners who bad become
insane in Auburn Prison, and whose terms
of imprisonment had expired, were received
the othe rd ay, at Bellevue Hospital for trans-
mission to the lunatic asylum on Ward
leland.
Interest here in the Salt Trust is merged
jun now in a greater excitement over the
oinking of a lot of places in Cheshire owing
to great q,uantibieo of brine being pumped
ant of the earth, Over 1,700 acres have been
subject to this alarming ouboidenoe. One
hotel ani two ohnrches have already been
destroyed and at Winsford several houses
have sunk Bo bhab the chimney tope and ridge
tiles alone are vlsible above the ground,
while the sinkage in the markeb place is
fully 30 feet. A new town hall whish had
just been built on the bop of the old one was
completely buried on Thursday.
The Common Council of Tacoma, W. T.,
has sent a plaintive appeal to Boston for
10,000 women to become wives of forlorn
male residents of bhab city, and Wyoming
Territory has sent a similar request to Sec-
retary Rusk ab Washington. Why Boston
women should be preferred in the one one
does nob appear, nor ie it quite plain why in
the other the Department of Agriculture
should be expeoted to supply the Westerners
with wives, as well as packages of seeds. It
remains to be seen whether the fact that
women have political rights in the territories
in question will be regarded by bho women
of the East as a speoial inducement.
One of the most important resolutions
passed by the recent Labour Congress in
Paris was one bo the effect that demonstra-
tions in favour of efghb•hour legislation
should be held eimulbaueously in America,
England, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium,
Austria, Greece, Switzerland, Germany,
and Resale. Whin is an indioabion that the
workingmen realize the def bnutty of induo-
ing any one country to shorten the hours of
labour by ouch logielation so long as other
conntriea refuse to do so, Industrial com-
petition Is now eo keen that no nation will
voluntarily handioap itself by making its
produoing capacity less than that of its ri-
vale,
"A Yemen is worse with an imputed
blame than a man with a convicted fault,"
No woman, even the most lntelleutual,
believer] herself to be deaidedly homely,
—Stahl.
Man oan bettor philosophize on the hu.
man heart, bub woman oan read ib better,
—Rosman,
We are apt to be kinder to the bratee
thab love us than to the women that love us.
—George Eliot.
Most of their faults women owe to us,
whilst we are indebted to them for moat
of our bettor qualities.—Lemiolo.
A woman frequently racists the love she
feels, but oannot resin bho love she inepireo,
—Madame Fee,
It is universal rule, whioh, as far as I
know, hae no exception, bhab great men
always resemble their mothers, who impress
their meatal and phyeioal mark upon their
sone.—Michelob.
In everything that women write there
will be thousands of faults against gram•
mar ; but alto to a certainty, alwayo a charm
never to be found in the lettere of man,—
Madame do Maintonon,
Rio Views on Grammar,
Libtle Tommy—"Can 1 cab another plea°
of pie?" Mammo(who 10 oomething of a par
int)— I suppose you oan, Tommy(aoofn
the poiatl—"Woll, may 11" Mamma--" No
dear, yon may not." Toegmy--•" Darn gram
mar, any, way."
The Rev, J. H. Camp, an agent of the
American Baptist Missiono in Central Africa
who has just returned to tho United States,
reports that he followed Stanley's trail for
several hundred miles, tracking it by the
oorpseo of the explorer's followers. He states
also that ore of Tlppoo Tib'e Arabs, to
whom Stanley had confided his plans, told
tbab the latter Intended to make the best
of tie way with Benin Paella to Zanzibar,
taking the cvayan route between the Vic-
toria Nyanza and Tanganyika. It is nue-
peoted, however, that this was merely a
blind, as Stanley bad reason to be suspicious
of Tippoo Tib, and would be likely to
throw him off his track if be oould.
The Se, Paul " Globe" does not minoe
matters in speaking of the drawbaoke of Da-
kota, The State finds an urgent need of
more water to give the needed activity to its
soil, and large areas are suffering from look
of euffielenb rain, Ib is said that there are
water sources not far off which can supply
rhe drying•up territory with the moisture it
requires, but bilin irrigation will cost money,
and it is proposed to ask the Government to
aomo to its aoalsbanae. Tho older settlers
aro said to look with growing a preheneion
upon a ramices period that will oft'eobually
blight the prospeote of Dakota ap a wheat-
produoing country. The outlook 10 certainly
- deprossingfor the settlers who find themsoives
g monaood by the drouth, Even If the Govern-
, meat anent to the ory for help, which is Ira.
• probable, the settlers will be better off In a
land whore irrigation is not required.