The Expositor, 1869-02-19, Page 44.
-A xtussitin Funeral.
Theburial of the dead is pieturPsque
and interesting o61einerty.. ftri Moscow.
A body -4 Kieste, dressed in. black
robes and eveaaing long , beards, take
the lead iri the funeral cortege, bearing
in their hands shrines andburning
-tapers: The hearse follow -s, dritivn by
four norsest` . 131ack plumes wave from
the heads of the horseS,., and flowing
black drapery covers - their bodies and
legs. , Even their heaqs are draped in
, black., . nothing being i perceptible but
their eyes.. The coffin he expomcl on
the top df the hearse; i,iid is alSo simi-
larly draped. The combination' of
eombre plumage and, drapery has a sin-
gularly eriurntful appearanee.
. _Prieits stand on steps attached to the
hearse, holding images ef bhe Saviour
oTer the coffin; others lopoW in the
rears comforting the -friends and rela-
tives of the deceased. :' A wild, monoto-
`none chautis sung freni time to time
by the chief -mourners, as the proces-
sion moves toward the• burial ground.
The, people cease their . occupations iii
the streets through. Which the funeral
passes, uneever their l'aeads, a,teel bOwing
dewn before--theimaees borne by the
priests, utter prayers'Dfpr the , repose of
the d6ied. The 'rich* and the poor of
both sexes stand upon the sidesvalk and
offer up their humble petitions. The
deep -tongued bells of the Kremlin ripg
Out their s6InaN -peals, and the will
and mournful 'blunt of the piiest min-
gles with the grand knell Of death that
sweeps through the, air, All is pro-
foundly - impreesii-e. . The procession of.
priests with their , burning tapers ; the
drapery. of blaa ', oh the horses ; the
• eoffin with its i dead ; the -weeping
mourners.; the Opulchral chant ; the
• sudden: ceeeation 'of aal the,- business- of
life; and rapt attentiOn_ of the multi-
tude : the deep, grand death -knell of
the bells, the glitter of dome ti and me- •feet The bin
poles on every. side ; the green -roofed thee like. the hi
sea ofhouses; the winding strdets, and. a yard in lengtl
the eoStumes of the people----efrom a
spectacle wonderfully wild, strange and
mournful, In everAhing that comes
within the sweep of the eye, there is a
mixed, aspect. of Tartaric barbarism and
European civilization. Yet even 'the
stranger from a far drista,nt clime; speak-
ing another ,language, "accustoined to
other forms, must feel, in. gazing upon
such a scene, that death _ levels all dis-
tinctions of race -that our common
mortality brings -tiS -nearer. together. .
DEATH BED tONFESSJON.-.4. singular
story is relaeed by the Dundas News
respecting a death -bed confession said to
have been -made b3r a young man, . for-
merly a resident Of that town. It will
be recolectedsthat, some seven years agi,
a clergyman named McLean was found
near his own house, in the village of
. Moriston, Puslinch, in a state bordering
on death frora 'an injury recieived from
seine party at that time unkno-wn. When
found he was unconscious,' and . never
rallied ; but died, carrying the secret of
his murderer to .the grave. Much ex-
citement prevailed -e< the time, but this
wassoonallayed, and. the, matter re -
=tined enslerouded • in impenetrable
mystery until a very reeent date: The
gushy party (as the sequel Shows) short-
ly after left the -eoene' of his'. prime and
emigrated to the II. S., where be led a
• sort of _comedic lifer. -roaanireg here and
thereendeavoring po blunt his ,feelings
to the weight uponl his mind by chang-
ing his abode, and i finally S eking to
• \t_
drown the evil spectre by che nghts in
thecup that not only eheers b ,-t Me-
- briates: For a time he workeil\at his
trade(harness maker), then We find\him
• L11 a concert rsaloon siniing and pla •
• the banjo ; another step lecrings him as .
• hanger on or ' habitue ,c)f dance houses
• and saloons of an Unetiviaola character;
• then a teamster for a •Circus company,
• seeking in every way.. to • • dispel • the
. gloom, whioh continually , haunted -his
racking brain. , Eventually be , -1•,vas
.. ,
stricken down by t i ease. and the hand
of deathelaid u on s wretehed body• .
In, his last mo ents e revealed to . the
priest who attended im that he and he
• only was the murder r of the imroetune
ate Rev.' Mr McLean; =It appears that
upon the fatal nighthe had been. en-
gaged in a religious discussion with the
deceased minister, and as frequently
. the case in sifeli i„ontroversies; high
words engentlered ill -feeling and. subse-
n quently blows, which ended in the
clergyneln being thrown down. stairs
and receiVing such injuries in _the fall
as to cause his death. This unlooked
for confession was 'forwarded to . parties
in Moriston by the , kind pastor, and
-thus -became public • Out • of ' respect
for the family of the young man, who
hies thrown them into such a; world- of
sorrow by his confeasion, his name- is
witlield, but the facts are sudstantially
• as stated. .
A Huge Animal.
i
In the city Of Cambridge, three Mile
from Boston, is al Museum_ of Compar
tive Zoology. Here.arEl collected oral -
asides from' all parts • , of the ; earth.
Rocks, fossils, corals, shells skeletons,
and various others samples of different
ages and climis, are .here brought • to-
gether for the benefit.- of those 1 -Wh
cannot travel the world Over to see its
wonders. • Many bus and ' girls visit
this place ; yet thousands Ore are who
cannot even see these, but Nvho, sittin
by their home -fire, can read of whit
• ethers la.are seen, and to them we send a.
description of t;he Magatherium -Cnv
ei.i. •
• l'AVI at a name • !" some young medals
may exclaim. feMeeattherium Olivier'?
How J-tard!" Well tfle name is not lav-
er than the ania al, for that, from tl'e
nose to the tip 9 • the tail, is - eightee
1,..,
feet long! - J us think! Take • thr
-tall men and Oa e them with tlev f .,et
one against the had of anothei au
you h avt, the len gth of this hu 7 ani.
mal !... It is lr!gher than an *plant,
and its legs are collossal. . Bac, leg,
when -covered with flesh 'and skin, muet
of la
issiie
supe
as we.
,3 the
p.ever
sn le
ell
iftl 7
, )
trod-
1. -
have been litiever than :the -body
man. Prof. Balla says,' ."Its m
limbs. are more like columns for
port, than organs of motion,"and
stantt looking at them, eve realiz
ferceof his remark, forl stiell legs
moved rapidly. A Itanbering gi
an animal must .bave had and. w
was, for if he coula have moVed
all Small toirnals must have been
den under his iMmensee feet
• At first ,ave think. he, has fouri feet,
but upon closer examination, the tWo
front ones, prove to. be hands., .The
fingers are six. inches frbi,n joint tie joint
and the, nails, which. rdSenible •claws,
are four or five inches in length, and
from the wrist to the elbow is three
feet have heels and
an foot; and aee.•:- pearly
. The tail ,is cuei-
osit .• It congsth Of Minimise bonce
firmly. locked togeth er and the
thus formed is tritineenlar
Where it joins the hugeebody,
foot in,. 4iameter, -sbut ;) tapers,
beendis • a smpll bone.- Tl
must ba,-Ve been. es stpait -as th
and when the great -'unwieldy
therium-evished to raise his .h
grasp the limbof trees which
• as his food, he lifted his head,- t
fore feet or arms, .seized the .tre
his claws, and .then, 'tipping bi
body, which was larger than
head, and twice-asJong,. he res
immese weight on his tail, -whiel
his bind legs, formed netripod 01
ol uMn
shape.
t
ncl nt
e iil
legs,
Mea-
adf to
servea
len his
ck his
ed his
with
-which
Beards in the liouse of Conarnons.
It struck us at first sight that we had
.never seen sucb a mass of Nu& rugged,
shaggy, unkempt men together before ;
and though the feeling became some-,
what mitigated when we came to look
More dody at them as they sat in order
before us on the benches, we have not
got quite rid of our first impression.
Much of this apparent ugliness of the
members we suspect, is to be attributed
to theirhirsuteness. There are no more.
ugly faces here, we suspect, than would.
be found in any otheraverge assembly.
•But then their countenances are so- con-
cealed by- beards, moustaches and whisk-
ers,, that it takes a long- time to dis-
cover what /their features really are.
The time was, and not long ago'when
there were/ beards the House.
Mr. Kuntz; of Birmingham, was the
first member who sported a beard ; and
for seve!eal years that beard was unique
and the observed and wonder of all ob-
serving strangers. He died in 1857,
and up to his deathtlie House was beard -
Soon afterwaidS, though, beards
began to crop out paid every year since
they have increased in number -and
this year the number is greater than
ever. Indeed, we believe that now
considerable more than half the mem-
bers are bearded like the bard. And
th'ese be,ards. as a rule, are not well
kept -not clipped and trimmecl like
your 'French and Italian beards -but
are left to grow as nature wills ---loose,
shaggy; luxuriant, wild -like old-fash-
ioned hedge -rows, such as we used to
see before farmers. discovered that good
farming required* that the hedge -rows
should bell eptslawn-and this increases
the &acuity of discovering the true
• features of the men. AS we have said,
when we come by close observation to
penetrate these hairy veils, we shall
most likely find that the new members
are, not really Specirlly ugly.-Illustl'a-
te,a Times.
the heavy. body. eould be ,stieported,
while, with his month he strip' eel the
trees above him of their -foliag-.
four ribs, are from three to four feet
in length, and three inches in
We ' can imagine this- slow
raising his Ilea& eighteen feet, c
evic4h.
ions -ter,
'°Pl#g
tne limbs of the trees, and then kneel-
ing on. his fore -arms, drinking from
some stream near by. His. m utle is
narrow and long.
When -man came upon the -earth,
adin.-.8.1 life became less in Biz, rnoi e
coMpact, and more perfect. Tin earth
samed a new, appearance,
-giant quadrupeds, "which have
.
its surface, either decayed altog
buried beilet0 the soil to
and await the examination of tl
ing. ages, --when the 11.0W creat r
should walk the earth. The fn
of the past our naturalists ge
silent, witnesses of the . history
earth, and as testimOnials-
progression. upon the sulfa
Student and Schoolmate.
•
• SOCRA TES. -When• Socrates was
asked wily he had built for himself so
• sniali a house, be replied, "Small as it
is T -Wish I coulci Pill it with friends."
These, indeed, -are all that a wise man
would desire to assemble. for a. crowd
is not company, and faces are but a
gallery of' pictures, a,nd. taIk . but a
• tinkling cvrabol, where • thore is - no
lo
THE _NEW it_TLANT1E CAUL
st inetalment of the French
]25 miles in length, 'which
Baste" , 'has arrived at Sheer
stowed in the fore tank of the
the hulk Iris. The testing -r
the use Of the electricians is- to
on the upp r deck, and its con
is in a forward- state: A .
length of the core of the cabl
used for testingpurpose)has been sup-
plied on board, aid workmen are busily
engaged, fixing it eady .for eonection
with the instri.rnent,S It is lexpected
that the whole of the work will be com-
pleted by Junetnext, ar\iszith4 the 'Ca eat
Eastern' will llei ready to sail From
Sheerness to Brest (the ,port of depar-
ture from the FrenCh coast) some time
during the same month. We under-
stand that the command of the, 'Great
Eastern' has been'. given to Captain
Halpin, who was first officer under
Captain Sir Jarnes Anderson while lay-
ing the 1 856--66 Anglo-American
cable, f •
11
A party of hunters had a fearl#1 en
counter with a full-grown American.
lion, near.the Belt Range of mountains
in Montana Teritory, one day last
month. The a-nirnal received seventeen
bullets before he succumbed. He
naeasnred eight ,feet from nose ;to tip
of tail, and was nearly four feet high.
The contest was desperate an.d, pro-
tracted, and several of the hunters
received ugly Wounds.
ncl
avei
th er
ossilize
e cpm -
man,
°snouts
ther as
of the
of the
e. -The
the
secl
, oi
0 -
The Secret. and Manner of PocIcet-
picking.
Three of, us go tegether, each one
having his particular duty. We go in-
to a crowd -any large crowd, but pre-
fer a still crowd, such as you find lis-
tening to a political veach-electiens
are rich times with vs -and to 'suppose
a case in such a crowded throng, we
single out a man who is promising- and
whose money we want; one of as works
his way in front of him so as to crowd
against his left arm, another gets him-
self behind him, and the operator stands
at his right, partly back. In this par-
ticular case it is -supposed that our game
• is a stranger having Considerable money
about him. He is careful of his money
• and keeps his pocket -book, Which is in
hie right-hand ,pocket When the pro-
per time comes the man behind tips up
or smashes down the hat of the country-
man, whose first impulse is to restore
it, and as he can't raise his left, arm he
takes his hand from his right pocket,
when the operator dives and seizes the
money. This action the poor devil
does not feel Dino times out of ten. ; be
is generally mad at having -his hat
-knocked over his eyes and &urns to seel
who did it. The one who did the act
seizes the grst "flat" near him and
shoves him adead, then dives and rush.e.s
through the crowd ; this we all do and
meet at some appointed place to divide
the profits. Generally the man whose
modey we have got has a "jaw" with
the one he findSbehind him, and by the
time he has missed his money we are
dividiner it. Of course, we conform to
circumstances in- the way of operating,
but this is a fair illustration, Some-
timeS, however, when it is safe, we
adopt the method of lifting the lining
of the pocket -and so extracting the
money. If • we are caught in this,
the same manner of getting away is
adopted. •
The
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seventeen in number. • According to
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half, the second to one-third, and the
youngest to one -ninth , of the -whole
number. As the animals could not be
divided without destroying them, the
subject was refered to the decision of
the Faithful. Ali The Caliph added
an. ox to the number and. then made
the division. This gave each, brother
more than his share -the eldest nine,
the next six and the young -es two -and
yet left Prince the ox he had added. •
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• Yirumerous custonaers d t e public
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OPPOSITE SIDE OF T • E STREET,
Into Scott's New 3 story 33 ick Block, next
to4(idd & M'Mulkin's stor and direetblt
south' of 'Hickson's new sto
built the best Gallery in th
ally for my own work, bein
modious and. with the prole
being the only Gallery in Se
ed on true photographic
only light that can, reflect lite
flatter myself that 1 can sa
Reuiember, 1 don't
for nothing; I am bound to
As many have had pictures
were. dissatisfied, having
name with another, 1 woul
want a good picture, pro
divable, that you. ask for
Don't ask for Paltridge's,.
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✓ actenie light
ortb. construct-
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fy all -who ma
'ant your moue
lease or no pay.
in Seaforth, but
confounded. Mil
request if you
erly made and
rank Paltridge.
Paltridge. I am thus expli be' butcausFearei
think they are going to gt a picture .nmde
by Frank Paltridge; but bT a mistake, in
not going to Frank P.'s get sadly disap-
pointed.
“seASK FOR*, AND (Q TO FRANK,
In the Brick Block, up o4 flight of stairs,
• and. turn to the rig t hand.
My specimens at. the do r are an My oNfit
make, and are not bough or borrowed to
decoy the public.
Come any day, Frank is always at hoMe -
,andin Good Temper.
Pictures of deceased. ca fully copied into
any kind of Picture desire •
Remember, it is to Fraik Paltridge's yea,
have to go to get a gOod. hotograph.t-- Now
and rich Furniture,Sc6n , &c., that
wili
make your picture look rich, and WOTtli
sending to your friends Who does no
know FRANK PAINS DG -E?
Seaforth, San. 6th. 53,1Y
The _Inter -0
epartUre
south L(1
r our Go
1e.;of III
Au1nii,e4i ;It lir
rtinte c‘ne the
of Ceiba. He has
tuisned up et Ans..
poi it he eats
the IL
Qtr:1 1lt,
carry' 011
pr•,.'e• eenel
fr:10 su
paiper timtr
i 01 1 -ra- 'P i19
,
•
11)0 o•t!rt-ant,-
has 4 111 the
-capitalist:4 or ifl'or
-century lids
conuirii.i 4nter9
two
• strated. ; that vs,?-ou
ewe upon .
course of the
If it w-eee earteleace
ikaistowhnit: of tl
vei--.4.3 or,
the traik,
whi.:11 it 11,31.1..
wouda at oni!e revel
inerel,of t iosvhol
weste'enet as tbe nc
is -deetined -to {lam
pleted, the route 01
-well as :American,'
would:ie a-simdl. al
•a snit:0e Ship canal
between the Alanikt,'
liONV ntreS,S'it:tteS
or months,' and Wi
perilous at ithlit. '41
'which the Paeilie
carried throw): h, nov
ion and the freeden
has flown in. to sm:1
ment, shows what
snth a, work
These great publ
bringing the nation
-er, and w4i2h are pd
dom f ntemierse,i
and -a promise for tl
Chrietian eannot
developing More al
•a COM:Men • 1)1'00
nations, and are op
• ways predicted jj
and thns preparin
and fulfilling th p
shall ran to and
• skit b inereased.
Since the abov
find, in One of the
following estimate -
tame of this canal
the the world
immense ad vantaw
the wOrd's tommere
prise, • From NeW
Vire- shall save
10,900 ;t Melix
• value of the comnr
pa -s trough the •
United St-Aes, be t
of dollars ;for 14
the same ; for E'),
In • fact
effected 1)37 the tan
than five hundred
annually, while th
saving of the -work
estimate, some fif
laran--147: Y.- 0
1
FEEIA1K4 THE
needs blood to kee
the muscle, end al
of the body. If
contain he proper
ing good brain, we
properly develope
Hence diet ansi
much connection -
as to its cause a
food people have
morals than 111.0,f3
not only their fooei
cation. and ventila
and the
and associatfons,
Thavonoral. condit
the law, -Who are
ed society, and ;t4
ences of penuiy
place of punishm
better than the)
• tomed to being fe
wholesome air a
will not be benefi
ansi religious
faithfully. admin
.unalterable.law o
of man, which is,
cause one organ. to
lant applied to
• lealthy impressio
estive system w
effect upon the brj
tur4a.-Dr. Pam,
s At the annual
flies' Institute, at
that the a -swifts
$770.82, incluct
from the previou.,
diture was for th '
ing inve,sted ip
prosperous 1nstit-