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The Brussels Post, 1890-8-8, Page 66 HOUSEHOLD. The Little TAM At Home. The dear little wife at home, John, With ever so =eh to do. Stitches to set nod babies to pet, And so many thonghts of you ; The beautiful household Salty, Filling your house with light, 'Whatever yon meet toolay, John, Go obeerily home nonight. lfor though you are worn and weary, Vail needn't be cross or eurt There ere words like darts to gentle hearts, There are looks that wound and hurt: ij 'With the key ht the lateh at home, joint, Drop the trouble out of sight ; To the little wife who is waiting, Go cheerily home to -eight. —For Tenth. The Bitting -Room Window, DY ANNIE L. .7.te13. "And so the shadows fall apart. And so the west whirls play. And all the windows of my heart open to the day." So I hum to myself this fide morning by the sitting -room windows' while the children go about their duties, andthe sunshine gives life -to everything where it eau penetrate, Through the cool white eurtains I see the I garden where the roses bloom aud the robins sing, but we are busy making up summer , dresses, fair matins and lawns that no be done so easily by amateur dressmakers noW that dresses are simplified and patterns ea- sily obtained. When the machine stop, humming and they are busy basting 1 -sometimes lean latek i11 my easy chair and I siteralize on events of the days—of men and women, and of the mercies we enjoy and ' only half appreciate. Patience sometimes takes a little time to paint, Ruth stitches bright &nuke int() 110r work, and bright haired .klerey attends to the domestic needs, comforts the children. and does the thousand and one things that I. fall to a willing wornan's share of life's burdens, now and then bringing her work ! with her to a chair by the pleasant window where we all congregate. So this morning there is a little breathing spell, and we are talking of the lo ot each can make of life. We talked, too, of the various avenues open to our six in the world of work, and I said that onr many duties kept us from concentration, from doing one thing well. A wood engraver, for instance, beim, asked why he ,lidnottake girls as appren- tices, said it -was simply because they did not make it a life work as boys did. There S was always the thcaight (.1 marriage, and • they had not the ambition that inspired u boy whose lifework it was, and who =lea. vored to excel. " Why," said Mercy, indignantly, "do men think gills cannot do wed: well bemuse they are so full of the thought of a possible husband. What an uncharitable idea. There are girls and girls—and the world 13 just beginning to lied it 000--s" " Yes," answered, " lett would you blame the world for judging by past experience 1" The thee is not far distant when every sensible girl will have a profession, or a business, mut if sbe lives al, home, will all the same be a speeialist 113 001:110 department of the world's work. Besides being useful, it is health to body and mind to have some particular pursuit or study, or work that interests the mental and physical powers. I aln always struck by this idea when in Boston, and though matly jokes are made at the culture at the "Hub,' there is a great deal of common sense in the method of being a specialist, so long as 11: 10 not earned 10 0301051, to Make 000 a nuisance to any one else. Then when old age comes you will be able to follow your pursuit by the mark you I have made and to fill your time with plea- ; sant remembrances when you do not care to battle in the foremost ranks. " I suppose," said Patience, "my mark will he best seeo if I get a dress album and put in a bit of each pattern I am making up. It will be easy to see them, and to be remembered for what I have done.'" And theu the solv- ing machine began to hum again, and each ane went her separate way, So June comes to us, and we see the promise of the glorious Summer, as the morning gives the promise of a fair day. CHATEGUAY, Que. Ohoice Receipts, BETHLEHEM APPLE PTE.—Line a deep pia. dish with good light paste ; cover the bottom with apples, pared, cored, and cut into halves; put tho round side down, and crowd in ns many as possible ; sprinkle over four heaping teaspoonfuls of sugar, a teaspoon - :fel of cinnamon, mid place here and there a bit of butter ; bake in a moderately quick oven until the apples are tender ; serve warm with plain cream ;the apples should be tart • and of such kind as will cook quickly, BEARNAISE &trim—Put four tablespoon. fuls of water and four of olive oil into it small saucepan with the beaten yolks of four eggs ; stir over boiling water until quite thick, beat until smooth ; take from the fire and when cold add a teaspoodul af tarns. gon vinegar and one of finely ehoppeft pars. bey; season with salt 0101 cayenne. DOUGHNUTE.—Bent two eggs without sop - seating until very light ; one and a half cups I of sugar ; beat again ; told a lialfpint of milli I and two clips (one pint)of flour, and beat. -until smooth • melt two ounces of butter an- ' til soft, not liquid ; stir itinto tho mixture : add half teaspoonful of salt, half of a not. meg, grated, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and sufficient flour to make a soft slough ; work lightly • roll out ; cut into doughnuts and fry in hot fat ; to have them -very delicate handle au lightly es possible BRIAD STICKS.--Setild One phd of milk and adclsvhile hot two ounces of butter; when lukewarm add a teaspoonful of salt, one of sugar, and about one quart of sifted flour ; beat vigorously for five minutes add a half compressed -yeast cake dissolved in half it Cup of lukewarm water, or half 0 cop of good yeast ; mix, cover, and stand in warm place over night ; in the morning add the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth and sufficient flour to make a soft dough ; knead for five minutea, then pound until ' soft) and velvety,. put beck in the bowl um til very light ; then take a very small pieee of the dough, roll it out into a long strip • shout the size of a thick lead -pencil, a0d. six inehee long ; place them in greasedparis ; when light brush them with a little white of egg and water mixed, and bake in a quick oven ten or fifteen minutes. Ottshatts'Jntr.,v,—Pick ripe eurranis from the stems, and put them in a stone .jar, mash them, and set the jar in a largo irial pot and boil. Pour tho fruit in a flannel jelly bag, and lot chip Without squeesing. To • every six pints of juice add four pounds of sugar. Boil twenty minutes, skim. When thuds put in glasses, let cool, and °Veer des°, BLACHEERRY OR RaSrnitultv JANL—Pielt ripe, sweetherries, put in a kettle, math With a, large spoon ; allow half a pound of sugar to pound of fruit. Gook slowly and carefully, ;Stirring to preVent Stioking, until very thick. THE BEUSSELS POST. Auo, 8, 1 BO 0. .41:6.03.1.311,...117)11ZIEDMILEN1110=111000.412.11W11. PALMER() CORPSE WORSHIP, , RUSSIAN NEWS AND VIEWS, Things tit' interest rroni *133501 (30 Journals A eertain A. S. Pertillwil has presents) - to the Imperial Museum of 53 Pet ershnr the cptill pen with which the late Bement Alexander IL signed the ukase to alcolici serfdom in Russia jan. 58 Web, 01, .1801 The identity of the pen is attested by th I signittnre of Count Lank', who Wag at tiot r time a member of the Imperial Conmdl, IThe Chief of Pollee of the city of Orlci has procured for his men a new kind of rifli , \Odell shoots without produeing any noise ;fur destroying vagrant dogs. ! The droaliky drivers of Kursk have inveu led a new kind of a strike ; they will 311 carry passengcws through it street that him paved, As most of the atreets of that tow are not paved, the public is in trouble, es peeially on rainy tlays when the mire is kne ;deep. The drosliky delver will take thei rody its for as the pavement goes, and let 'them 071010 through the mire, I Two officers of the Russian artillery her made their way from Kovno to Nizhili.Not :gorod, a distance of 2,000 versts, on veloci ,pecles in twenty,five days, During the International Prison Congres recently held at St. Petersburg, the weekl J15()01' d /a of Duo, eity called latent:1in to the atrocious disorders that prevail 01 the island of Saghalien. In 3(175, whet Russia obtained full possessien of that islaud she transformed it into a penal institution transporting her criminals thither for colon ization. The families of the 04111111MA were also transported there and 0 law was enact- , ed that no person, either of the criminals or their families, should be allowed to return to Russia. But the arrangements for the reseption of the criminals in Saghalien were very poor ; men, women, and children were huddled together in small barracks, where they had te sleep promiscuously on the floor, .kt last snob a state of affairs wits develccped there that not only the criminals, but even offieers of the military posts and teachers itppointed to establish schools, were " guilty of crimes whieh the law punishes with fin- prisonment at lewd labor for life." This sitnatioo continues these still. The paper from which we quote shows that a better order of things conld easily be establialied in Saghalien by the appointment of honor- able officers to govern the mike turista popu- lation The Minister of Finance has granted 10 1:110 "Russian Agricultural Trading Company" of London the permissimi to operatethrough- out Russia. The mammy will establish grain elevators mid houses for the pickling of meats at the central railroad stations and seaports of Russia, with a view to prewar. Mg those articles for exportation to foreign coon tries. On tho steamer Alexander IL, which plies between Orenburg and St. Petersburg, O passenger became insane ctuil wounded his wife and several fellow travelers with a butcher's knife. The Captain and three sailors, who tried to cheek him, were also severely wounded. At last one of the sailors hit the maniac with apiece of iron and felled him to the deck, where he died within an mur. The body or the unfortunate man and ds wife, who also appears to be iusane, were tooled in Riga and handed over to the police authorities. The sale of raw wool has fallen off greatly n the market of Kharkov for the last few tars. The reason is that the importrition luties on wool have been 10(510) 111 Dermahy 11(31 Austria, and foreign manfacturere find no profit in buying Russian wool. Russian actories, too, have learned to inake cloth of mullet) remnants, which are imported at a -ery low duty, ; and they ref 114e to purchase Ile native material, party et scholars from Austria-liungary lave arrived in Vladikavkoe to make the istoricabetlinographiealexpi .ettimis in the *gior of the Argoon River, it: .1 e; its ourse clown to the point whe •• 1 j the rerek. The ancient Huns, on :ads inigra- ion from Cireassia, left their s !suss t those •egions. Marks of their presen 1 41 i a /da- d on various localities, and lCCOileltiOIlO preserved ht the legends d the /satar Catacombs Against Widen all Eiltel nos ,iost Been issued. "Corpse worship" takes a Vegy titrange feria111 the eemetery of the CePlnlebli at Palmer», says a writer in the i'oll I,', 111, "11 1(10 been found that the earth of this commery—powdered tuff rock of some sort- slats the power to hasten the proc ems 01 deeomposition, so that in a year, i07 less, nothing remains of bodies buried there but skiu and bone, some of the attitudes at. tachments, and often the hair, ' At thia stage they are somewhat. like mummies, TO be burie11 in the Capeueini is amounted a privilege, am also the stthsequent exhumation and stearin ill the •galleries."I'he mummies, being disiaterred, are clothed by the 'piety' of their'families ; and so long its a yearly sum paid for the honer they are placed among the ghastliest eempany by which I ever retina myself surromuled. " A monk from the adjoining convent leads the way, and the -visitor deseends 31 broad flight of stairs into Well -lit corridors eat out of the solhl rotik. thiethe Saw Tllitslt oALLERLES 1.0111 and 0111,1 the live toff Iota been hewn mit with a flue amid teetu ral effect. The dead in those days reposed in ditches, as they did in the ancient Greek tombs found in Sicily is the Roman rotenthorei. Perhaps in mo - lent times there was no more mon for thus pieeon.holing' the dead. Perhaps it was felt to be better that they should hold their levee standing, right and left of the passage --for so they are posed to -day. (Your sleeve brushes their costmnes ahnost Merit • ably as y•onelm: along.) To these grim corridors cruneVlica sorrowing survivors, moved by the atrangesV orm of the cult of thecorpse ! And what do they see 't " 'These,' said my guide, 'are the monks --all these—in both these corridors ; ' and we erossed the Capuchins' quarter into that - of the general public. 'These,' he said again, `are the rneo.' (Great Heaven 1 what men 11 Mostly people choose to have our monks - habit for the bodies after they are exhum. ed." In serried ranks, all down the galleries standing or leaning against each other, are these parodies of humanity. They lie tier above tier, toe, as if in the berths of 'The Phantom 511ip."1"hey stand in groups .aloft on braekets, or singly hung against the upper parts of the stall. Some keep their coffins, but 0 glazed or wired side or lid stews you auother version of '1(10 3(510 GRIM see1r0or1s Few of the men areclothed in anything but the monks' uniform. But by and by you feel that finery adds another element 01 511111 irony. to the allow. '1 Ins is the quarter of the priests,' said nly monk. "That is a Greek priest with all the gold on his vest - meets, and the strange cap—a Catholic Dreek. And the red ones belonged to the Cathedral. Yes, the purple cassock is a eanon'--he smiles, and added : 'The priests here don't look better than the rest of us.' Re Was. pleased. I wondered that pleasure could visit 11101111010u1 mind hi such surround. ings. The biec.ili of the priests are some- times tilted tipsily over the noseless faces, I sometimes jauntily over the eyeless eye orbits. Sonic bodies have been regularly t embalmed. My monk said : 'See, his lips lire red. The color is bright in his cheeks. Ali, I cannot tellyou if those are glass eyes,' These poor shades are ticketed, like the , blind beggars who parade the streets of London, awl their names and death dates 1 figure on their placards. Yon are invited tic- admire Signor Giuseppi Caccio's fine head f of hair ; the half of a beard still adhering t to this other defunct Palermitan ; an eye. brow here, a fragment of a mustache, there, as you move along. 'A Frenchman said those corpses looked 1 to him ati if they were writhing in fierce. h pain would presently jabber at him or t shriek ; that, they huddled together for fear or helplessness! :They struck me dif- ferently. The unsparing display of teeth, t the wide-open mouths, made for a weak, wild hilarity. They wore fox from being all Mike. One hollow-cheeked figure., with e gray flowing locks was exactly like an ab• pet, chureh-door bit ger, still aboveground, and whimones in Palermo. 'Undoubtedly the ugliest of the sights is the Ladies' ChtUery. Corpse worship !' here has prompted freaks of burlesque mil- 1 linery, such no the trimming of the vacant skulls with deep frills of lace. One poor 11' shade lay in purple silk. A young lady's:, intlinMy Was adorned with silver crown fantastic shoes, open-work stockings, and !' white kid gloves! A Princess—among the I', most recent of the interments— • 11 t. A • 0 11 • tubes. he Austro-Hungarian 553,0015 in- tend making a thorough study of these races of antiquity. They will give a y6ar o it. Thc .Yoveye Fronye reports that the 10011:1) of Count L, N. Tolstoi is considerbly improved. His aversion to medicine uts been conquered, and he consents to take be prescriptions of the doctors and follow heir advice. He will take a kumys cure luring the summer. It will be administered o him by a specialist invited for the pur• ose front Samar. He is feeble; all sorts of physical exertion havebeen forbidden, Brd he is diligently at work writing. He has finished 0110014 entitled "An Epilogue to the Kreutzer Sonata. The Ministry ef the Interior has appoint. rol a special commission to frame measures r the prevention of accidents in factories, and to devise plaus for the building of cheap dwellings kir laborers. An agricultural colony for idiots has 13een established near Klittrk0V 00 a piece of land °f about 100 acres, which the citiv,en's 006111' ell of that government has bought for the pur- pose h mu the Countess Shoovalova. Two large pavilions have been built fits the ae: 001101103101 I5, of forty-five men end thirty women, Seventy-two patients have Ulreritly been reeeived there. The land is laid out in gardens, althea, and fields for sowing grain, and the patients will be trained to cultivate them. The outside appearance of the place is that of a wealthy farm and the pavilions are fitted out with all that is re- inired;for the ease and coin fest of the pa ti - lents, Besides agricultural work they will be trained to take care of cattle and fowls and to light manual work, such as spinning and weaving of baskets in the wilder time, A staff of three physicians anti men and wo. men superintendents has been engage'd to take care of the institution. Go June 1 th, early in the morning St was discovered on the MoscowiBrest ReAlroad that at Tt &SWIM of about 1,000 veruts from Moseosv several rails had been dia. placed and the ground dug up to cause the wrecking of a trai». High officials, who take the early train for 'Moscow, are summering in the villas near the place whore he mischief was clone. A squad of Cos. oaks has been detailed to catch the woold.he rain wreckers. LAY 10100,0 COFFIN, which bore many artificial garlands and yards of muclomottoed, funerealrthbon, and I know not what other offerings besides. 0» AU Souls' Day the dead in the Cappucim maybe said to hold a grnesome sort of re -I caption ; but the richer class, whose "dear departed" stand there ffiregoent' the acme. tery at all seasous. Imagieci coming to pay , your deviors to the ladies with Whom yoll used to dance ; to your hostesses of former I years, to the nwmbers of your family, to the wife of your bosom ; and being received by I these phantom of grizsly bone These be - discoed siceletons ! 'Theee rag and bone things, aping humanity ! 11: 10 too horrible I Vet there are Palermitama who fincia melee- eholy pleasure, some a eertain censolation, 1 a few a terrible fascination, In the relics of their dead preserved in this cometry I But not all the inhabitants approve of this effete of sepulture. The ediettjuts gone forth that there are to be no more interments at the ; Cappuvini. !We, ourselves; must go nOW,' said my mook gutde ruefully, 'op there, to the Campo Santo l' "Out certain fete days these " catacombs' are open to all comers. A drunken man Onee strayed in here and fell asleep. At uight the porter locked up without noticing the sleeper. Awakening sober, with the early light, the horror of his surroundings seized upon the man. He ran about wildly among the dead. He shrieked, but no one, even those in the convent, could hear him. The earliest, passersby found him clinging con- vulsively to the bars of the entrance „gate. They could hardly loose his hold. s was stark mad !" To Color Canary Feathers, It luta long been lcnown thatgivingenyenne pepper to canaries has the effect of producing a red tint in their feathers. The birds do t riot always like the taste, betSauermann, in ,11 studying the chendeal and physiological thanges involved—for the foot is often referred to by Darwinians—has hidden. tally ellown that tho coloration ean be °fleeted without) tho burning effect of Gm pepper, Treating cayenne pep: per with alcohol lie dissolved ottt tho pepperine and the triolerne, having only the coloring matter left. This, however, when mixed with food, failed to produceany color effeets. He then tried mixing it with an oil containing Intel) trioleme, 011(1 1:110 coloring effects on plumage falowed. He noted that the }Aerie tonic it without repugnance, while the scientific Emit he gainod Watt tchat the coloring matter by itself cannothe absorbed, but in conjunotion with trioleine it can, Several cases of cholera have minted in Odessa. The writers of that city have Woo 0 the low mark early in jone, which thoy ever reached before the middle of ,thly. P1110 10 said to be a, stile Sin or the spread of cholera in that place. The Ministry of the Interior is at) work on a phut of sequestering the land of the die: trict of Vakoofa Itt tho Crimea and appor- tioning it to the Tartars of the place. Tho Pies/stile of Rign, reports that early in •June there arrived in Riga Dr. L„ Svith his wife, from St, Petersburg. The doctor was of feeble health, and hy the advice of his wife intended to spend the slimmer in Marianhoffer, in Dubelna, The pair atop. ped at a hotel in Riga. Mrs, Is who has an old widowed dater in that city, very often absented horsolf from the hotel, Every non, and then the tried to draw the hotel Waiter Into her coalitions), and te persuade him to tesliiy that lter husband was noisy., awl Oita he treated her badly, 11131 the Waiter not, Sillee he bad 113.0e1 nol 1.0(01 /Well deportment oll the port of the doctor. One day she atm in a carriage to 1(11' hotel, avuompanied by ft stranger, whom sho intreduced to her husband ato all old hived, who would take them for a drive in he olllnlrhs. The demur refused to take O drive. The ,striniger inittle a sign in the window, and two gnaw mot appear- ed, who wanted to take him forcibly to tho carriage. At the uolice that ea - sued the proprietoic of the hotel 1111110 1(3 with two of his clerks. The stranger told him that he was the superinteedent of un inset asylum, mot that he had come to take tl e demoted doctor into custody. But he was not allowed to du this naive was sent to the jadice hearbotarters, A Captain and two men socm. appeased, and iuntearl of the peer doctor, his scheming wife and the su- perintendent of the insane asylum, were arrested, Go examination it was found that the 1100100 Watt perfectly now, and that his wife and sister-m.114w -were planning to put him in an nisanc• ativItun with a VieW of get - 11g possessicm of ilia property. The most eurieus feature of the story is that the wife of the doctor is an elderly woman and has lived with her he:4m11d ever forty seen, and has always been treated with grout con. sideration. Even lioW the doctor refuses to make a complairt against, her accompliee, the superintendent oi the asylum. The Ministry of the Interior hes approved a new plan for the admission of patients in- to the insane asylums of Russia, according whieli it will be impossil Ile to confine in such institutions any but motivated lunatics, Competent medieal authorities will be ap- pointed directly by the Government to de- cide in such eases, and no patient will be accepted in an insane asylum without their sledsion. Two ofiicers of the Narvskiy dragoons have been shot at Warsaw, by the deciaion of a military court , for the morder cif one of their eon wades, An Enterprising Maiden, MONTREAL, Aug, 7. -Mr, Marshall, the secretary of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, relates a good story of an American girl only 15 years of age, named Cerullo Cook, who gracefully wheeled up to the ladies' entrance of the SN'indsor hotel the other day, mounted on a handsome tricycle. Dismounting, the new ly-arrived engaged two rooms, one for par - en ts to arrive in the morning and one for herself. - The father and mother dicl mat arrive, however, so Miss (Swede went out to take a spin down town. She took the spin, but, instead of coming back to pity her bill, the tricyclist engaged apartments at the St. Lawrence Hall, where, after the same story had been told and the 51000 trick played, she went to the Albion on McGill street. There, however, the enterprisinggirl did not meet with much success, tts the hotel proprietor seized the velocipede in payment of the account. Miss Cook here hecame disconroged, and went to board at the St Brigid's home, where Mr. Marshall came across lier last evening, but she left this morning for parts unknown. Miss Cook, when she came to the Windsor, repre- sented herself as being the daughter of a lawyer in 'Worcester, Mass., but is now known that she forMed a part of the Robbin's circus, and detached herself from that combination during its last visit to Montreal. Money Slang, Speaking of money, the large monber of synonyms therefore in our language illus. .trates remarkably well the sources from Which our slang words arc recruited and the striking appositeness of .some of them. One may speak of money in mitres of ways without mentioning the word and yet be be thormighly well understood. For in- stance, here are some ways in which money can be referred to without the necessity of calling in an interpreter to explain what is meant: "The needful," "the wherewithal," "the actual,' "the boodle," "the stuff," 'blunt," "tin," "brass," "chips," "boodle," 'shekels„' "simaleons," "dust," "stamps," "dollars," "chink," "brass," or palm oil," —which last is such an obviously appropri, ate name for it that ' 'shinplaster" seems feeble by comparison. 11: 18 itllinonoy,how. ever, and therefore the root of some, if not all, of the evil 111 the world,. Faithful Unto Death. The railway accident had been a terrible one and one of the men Nvho were carrying the tbirty.seventh victim op the embank. meth said with strong feeling : " Somebody will have to pay clearly for all this !" The mangled passenger opened hisoyes and glared at the apeaker. ." The ommany is net to blame," hia Said, feebly ; " this isa dispensation of Prod. donee . He svas attorney for the roacl. Expecting Too Much, 411%, l'eterhy—I am afraid that our son Johnhy is getting into bad habits. Judge Peterby—He may tern out to be 11 great man neveYtheless, Some of the great- est Men who ever lived had bad habits. But he does not show any other aigna of 1 Ong a great man. Well, you can't expect everything from him. Not Exaotly Mated, "It's really too bad, Laurct, that you have sneh hard luck. Jack Wag quite a different man before he got married." "I hope yen don't mean to reflect On me, I'm sure it's not my doings" "No, clear, I don't blame you. I can't help thinking, however, that if, Jack had married some other 07010 111 you would be much happier to -day," At the Station, " Dearest Lauht, don't cry so ! If every• thing else vanishes, we shall yet have loft to us memory I" " Ali, clearest Emma, then perhaps you will remember that I lent you five dollars two years ago I" You will forgot the face of the num you 0007 doing a wicked thing much atones than you will forget the face of the 18011 who caught him. Dilution svitli water 10 all that) need be clone to reduce tho amonnt of ermine to the proper level ; but as thio diminishes tho al: toady insufficient fat and sugar, 11: 10 mem. dal to 0(1(1 1(1000 materials to the mixtese of milk and water, Fat is best added in the form of cream, and of the sugars, eitherisure, white, loaf sugar or sugar of milk to bo ab' tatted at any chemists, may be ttsed. Tho lattes is greatly preferable, as it is little apt to ferment, and °obtains somo of the salts 01 milk, whiell 010 of a nutritive valve, smok esompotisosoisponsomowomorstom000tsoortsri YOUNG LIVES QUENCHED, 1*53 Wren Sten now it end ou 31 15411. way Trus. derpod eh from Paterson, N,J„ sop,: Five children, who hod been blackberry pieking, started this evelthig to ores); the l'assaie river. The bridge has no n,til or footpath. A train approttelted on the witst• ern 1 rook and deo' stepped on the eastern track ill the way id it fast passenger train. 'rho eogi000r of tilo latter blew the whistle, but the eltittlNu, paralysed with fear, did not stir. 'Ile engineer ala noi .priy tho ',hikes for fear the train would go threugh ills bridge. Peramis oh the river banks \Idols. sheeted to the children, telling then; to go between the tracks, In 1111 instant the lo,onlotive struck the little ones, and hurled three of them upon the tritek dead. The engineer was almost fainting, Int stuck to his liost, Lind stopped the truth as soon as he ernored the trestle. Passengers got out to investigate, and \ecru sielieiced at the horrible sight tvhieli met their gaze, Jennie Brewster, aged 1 3, Nellie aged ((1, and natio %Varren, her :sister, aged 8, were dried, .lane \Verret), aged 13, tvaa fearfully injured, mid their 1( 111" brothel. NVillie Was hilried into the river fifty feet below, IvItere he Was found ie the Water Inlet, but alive. The twe injured children were token to the hospital. Both will re. cover. The grief of the eliihlren's parente was heartrend Mg. AUSTRALIAN WILD HORSES, now the -Herds Grew from Two Soble Brood Mares Were Lost, It may be some twenty years or so ago that an Australian settler lost two valu- able mares, The sanil flies were led, and drive,t by them, now ss•alking and new trotting, these mares, 0110 followed by ;k noble colt foal, never touched 1.3' 1110107 hands, and with blood in him that could tell of Dpsein and the Grand National, journeyed on toward the west. Fifty miles from their imiler's 1101110 15 reached ; but the country is ruggea and riot to their taste, and on they go. An- other fifty miles, and a pleasant valley afibrila good water and pleutiful grecs ; but a smith») panics—caused perhaps, I a party of blacks chasing native game—starts them afresh, and still weatward they go, till fin- ally they rest in peace far from tile dwellings of men—far frinn the sound of elanging hobble chitin or tinkling horse bell, Month after month rolls on. Each mare foals again, and two, st rangers, straying from some other part, join themselves to the little herd of flve and raise their lonelier to Seven. Then another Summer laights, and four col- ditienal little foals bring up the total to el - rem Recruits began to pour in us Soo invaded the wild West and when filially they were first really deterininedly hunted by the white ,,,an, he sueeetled in taking but afew of the quieter ones, Nrhile those who escaped beeame sharper than the sharpest, wilder than the wildest and fleeter than the fleetest roebuck. A Victim of an AnetHilt MONTREAL, July I.—The victim of a serious assault which took place on St. Domin ique Street early in the present month died at. Notre Dame hospital. The details are as follows Ou the evening of the fith Jean Baptiste Perrault, a welbknown darter, went to his stable, and on entering he found a man named Samuel Faille, who was evidently mules the influence of strong drink, An altercation took place, and finally 'Faille was struck dawn withSan iron Ism. Perrault, who gave himself up at onee, and who has since shown every disposition to do what was right by the authorities, maintains that the victim of the fight sprang at his throat told would have dashed the tar- test() death had he not taken energetic means toprotect himself, SaumelFaille, the wooed. ed man, ss -as taken to the hospital, ancl al- though everything that medical skill could suggest was applied, Ile gradually weakened, until at last death came to the sufferer's re- lief. A few hours before breathing his last his "ante =stem " statement was taken or as long as the dying man was able to talk. Faille said he remembered being struck twiceon the Satuaday night in question. "The first time," he said, "I was struck in the head hut I do not know by whom. The second time is WM Perrault the big carter who struck me on the head about 4 o'clock in the morning." Here the moribund be. came too weak to continue and in 5. few moments his spirit had taken hs flight. Seizures of Pork. OTTAWA, Aug. 7,—A number of seizures have been made 0( 1)0000110(1 pork which has been entered at certain ports of the Domin- i ni as boing the "product of hogs weighing not less 1:1)03) 200 pounds, and containing lilt more than sixteen pieees to the hicri•el," which class of heavy pork collies under a special enstoms classification. Upon exam- iation, however, it was found that 1:110 110111 thus desigagted contained more than six- teen pieces to the barrel and was cut from other potions of the hog than provided for in the tariff item under \Odell they' weep entered. In other cases it was found that the original brand upon tho potic bunnies( been obliterated Etna a nosy brand placed thereoe, in order to bring it ostensibly With- in the meaning oS the tariff regulation. The officials in the different ports of the Doinin- ion have been instrocted to look closely afterfrituds of this nature. A few seizures and confiscations of pork thus fraudtffiently entered will have a wholesome offeat upon unscrupulous importers, and will afford that measure of protection to the Canadian pro - chicon which the new tariff wks designed to extedil to them. Little Girls Worried by Dogs. Conouno, Aug 7.—Two little girls named Lottle Foxand Lillie Sugrn, dauslitsr and niece of M. O. Fox, near the old court house, were quietly going to cherch last Sunray morning when they were fiercely attacked and badly bitten by three savage dogs They were passing John Combos' house when Robert Hutton's clog run across the road and knooked Lottio down into the ditch. Almost at the same time Coombes' clog ran out and sprang at Lillie. Tho Hutton dog then left Lottie, and joining the other brute, jumped upon little Lillie and threw her down ih the road, almost smoothering her in the dust. The dogs tore her clothes badly and bit her ter. rids, about the hotly and legs. When help came the child was covered with blood. Mrs, Richard Commie heard the ohildren saream• ing rota ran out to see what was the matter. /31: 1:110 seine timo her dog ran out, too, and before she cotthl reach the prosteate child dog No. 8 wee helping the others in their intiedermis work, Only for Mrs. Comrie's brave and timely rescue, these is no doubt the children svould have been eaten alive, ; The newest German idea la to make nor 11 .Alroctec-Lorraine„an independent duchy-. . THE GREA.T BI11(.+ FACJIORT. 'Where the litileras Originate and the A.11., 0(0)35 0033(505 0111 Cinder, nudge Hugh Rodman of the Cid led States 1 iydrographie Office of the navy hats prepared 101 11(11110011115 report of lila recent, trip to Newfutiiiilland to inquire into the condition of lee in the north Atlantic, lee origina t es along t he coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, the (lull' of St. Lawrence, 11011 mainly in the Acrtio beide whence it is transported south by the /1 retie and East Oreenland unrrents. Add to this the shore currents, tidal influences, the fere° and direction of the wind, and the problem of avoiding ice may well baffle the best local pilots. Icebergs originate in West (Armin. land, which Mr, Rodman calls "the great berg factory," Thu ice massed in the in- ter(or of the 03)110(1')' is grucluelly forced out 1,1 sea hy glacial 0107e1)1e118 on land, which advanee at the tato 451. at least fifty feet 0 clay, glacier ie broken in Mtge inasees, when once in the water, by ha buoyancy and brittleuess and the currents, 'this proeess bo called ertl0101!. A berg variea in size, the average beitig 00 to 100 fent high and 3110 to 000 pada long of exposed 0111, face, which 10 usually, 00 eigth of the whole news. The loomed output of a glacier ia estimated at 0001. two hundred billion onhic feet, a product whieli, allowing five pounds ft day for eaell person in the United States, would hist over one hundred. years. Only a smell perventage lif these berlsti fled their way to the transatlantic routes, old even those bergs which t10 drift that far scan li have had a lotig, erratic trip, oceapy- ing four or live months. They follow the current and penetrate the ice fields without difficulty, mill oftentimes vessels are Untied through these fields by a berg. All ice is brittle, especially that in bergs, anl it is wonderfel how lath; it takes te aecomplish their destruction. A blow of an axe will at times split them, and the report of a gun, hy eoneussion, will accomplish the same ena. They are n101.5 MA to break up in 3e00115 weather than cold, and -whalers and sealers note this before landing on them, when an iteeltor is to be 131011101 )L' fresh water to be obtained. On. the Nast of Lalimilor in July and August, when it is peeked with bergs, the noise of rupture is often deafening, 11101 those experienced in iee give them a Wide berth. The bergs assume 0 variety of shapes, from those approximating to wont. regular geometric, figure to collets erowited with spires, do nes, minarets, and peaks, while others still are 111101101 1'', deep indentations 01: eavekl. The presence (11 bergs may be detecte,l by their effulgems. at night, their apparent blitekness in foggy weather, the echo of whistles, and the noise of their I wee k- 1135 1110 ield we 10 1111110 from the Arctic to Now- foundland. ((01135 11 continual, often violent , motien, the field is rafted and piled (10111 10 is full of hummocks. One field will jrcin an- other and drift until broken by gales or thaws or large bergs. Snow acts as It pre- servative. '('he great danger in at tempthig to sail through ice lies In the faet that a gale may come up before the hie is cleared mul cause the hie to have such 0 heavy mo- tion that the bows may be stove in, rudder carried away, or pieces 3,1 130 be thrown oil dock or do other (11(1013(01 11, Tholnian recommends that underwrin rs should give better rates to those vessels that keep clear of ice and fog. A HERO OP THE ORIMEA, round nit slug Berme to Keen Iltiuset rt root Startlog. OTTAWA, Aug 7.—The ease of (1 veteran named Thos, Adams, whe went through the Crimea, ie the 17th regiment, is a suit one. Be wes subsequently 0 member of the Royal Canadian Rifles. For the pest few 5,011(5 (10 has been employed by the Deport- ment to do oda jolts. His 07111 111111 daugh- ters are not what they should le, and some dine ago were before. the Police Magistrate charged with keeping a disorderly lemse. Adams himself is a quiet, inoffensive fellow, and naturally felt keenly the disgrace thus brought upon him. Troubles never come singly, and this adage was yolked in Atlanta' case, for in a short time after le was dia. charged by the militia authorities, who ap- pear to have no sympathy with men who have fought Britain's battles, and deserted by his wife and daughter he was hulled into the streets to starve or seek a vagrant's refuge, the gaol. The old man weferred the former course, and was found by In - specter O'Leary, of the Dominion police, eating the castout refuse of the fruit and vegetable stores for a meal. O'Leary, hav- ing ascertaiued the facts of the case pot him in the way of gaining admission ti) the Old Men's Home, to which place he will probably be admitted after the next meet- ing of 000 board. Meanwhile he is beiug eared for by is countryman of his, who can ill:afford the expellee. Rudyard could find a text in Adams' case. Solt for Domestio Animals, The Freneh Government appointed a oonunission to test the effects of feeding salt to domestic 01 0111010, ancl it is not noted for making foolish work in such cases The connnission arrived at' the following conclu- sions : Thee salt ought to be adcletl to all cooked foods, to supply the loss of salt by boiling, .steaming, etc. ; that salt counter. ads the effects of wet food and meadows on sheep ancl prevents foot rot ; that it increases the flow of saliva, and therefore (means fattening ; that in preparing mixtures of °bluff, potatoes, beets, bran, oil cake, eta, salt ought always to he added to it, and it (30 1011: stand fora couple of clays to ferment slightly ; that animals should receive per clay—the svorking ox or milch eow, 2 ounces; the stall fed ex, 2 to 4 ounces ; the fatten- ing pig, lt to 2 ounces ; the lean sheep, to of an ounce, and the horse, donkey or mule, 1 ouncie, Down with Monopoly. little Willie, four years old, was tired of hearinghis baby brother cry. So, marching up 1:0 11110, he shouted " You just stop. I want; to talk now," A Viotim of Competition, Gentleman visitor (to sehoolboy)—Do you love your teacher? Schoolboy—No, I don't gat any ohne°. You follows corno so often. -- Preparations are already boinq made for the greatCentral Asiob Pallibit1011, widish will 40 opened at Teskend ill August, in order to celebrate the conquest of Turkoste,n by the Russian troops, Tashitend was taken by tumult on the 201h of Juno (831(1, and it Wins at first intended to open the exhibition ot that day this year, but this project was wisely abandoned, the tomperatnee being usually too high in june and July, Many travelers, we learn, are expeeted from *rope, especially from England,