The Gazette, 1893-08-24, Page 7water,it appears
,and several men
ssed as they are,
iuced, which is
ed with a coating
l,la,e from which
water, there is a
that once led up
y Tiberius upon
minutes in the
all the while and
>erience to shoot
>ut getting a wet -
very skillful and
to wait for a wave
with it success -
,E HEAVEN S.
int Cetaaapm•attve-
I e Earth,
account was given
fell near Beaver
was reported as
sharp reports in
it explosion being
was heard twenty•
mistaken for thun-
te. Following the
sound. Several
from the sky were
to suppose that
proper sense of the
i. " But it often
broken to pieces oi.
of the earth. This
'at let me call your
y. Strike the suit-
,
list, and, though a
>pposes to the blow
as if it were solid.
moving at a tre-
1 If small, it is set
i the friction of the
sr a moment bright-
'lummer yon will see
Ind then. They are
coming into contact
here, are set afire.
inasmuch as they
pi which we live at a
lips forty-four miles
lr the destruction of
dere serves as a pro -
e globe, who would
such missiles to a
is estimated that
of them, big enough
ked eye, strike the
r hours.
isplanet the meteor-
temperature which
to 4,000,000 degrees
nsume the hardest
est instantly. Thus
size reach the earth
rnt up. The greatest
ies can be seen just
use by that time we
f the globe as it moves
elevation at which
.le has been found to be
d eighty miles, very
eater height than 100
ost astronomers that
ors have entered our
passed out into space
,entumbeing sufficient
om the earth's attrac-
`flying bodies are is a
much disputed, but
likely that they are
n -up comets. In one
correctness of this
king proof. That was
of Biela. It was dis-
was again observed in
In 1345 it had split
in 1872 it failed to -.
here it should have
had been smashed up,
ade that there would
ower composed of the
t comet. This predic-
meteors move in ellip-
e sun. Occasionally,
rough their clusters
known as meteoric
ars occur annually from
>f August, and there is
November once every
! The stream of the.
timated to be from 5,-
)00 miles thick. The
'fling with a velocity of
,y, is immersed in it for
,eorites to the earth is
'Flied by a great display
9 illuminating an
area
square miles. When
s at night, and by loud
in some instances as to
ghten mei and animals,
caused by the break -
meteor. Ordinarily
that such meteoric
on the outside with a
ich is the effect merely
erficial material by great
ela's comet was actually
o in 1872 at the time of
mains. Naturally it is
ng.
rest is taken in meteor-
•cse collected have been
. ed. They are mostly
ith usually a percentage-
lt, and sometimes copper
tomary to saw them into
laborious process, for
mond; museums. Some -
prettily polished, or the
ched with acid so as to
- talline structure. This
osuch bodies exactly the
erences are thought well
ttempts have been made
orites, because they are
ithout success."
111
report many valuable finds
Idition to the ancient fort
the solid rock, there has
another and larger fort,
the manner_ of the work
ound builders. Numerous
teed great antiquity have
red.
Miss Jumper is dreadfully
ler ways." " What does
-" Oh, I've seen her get off
Sopped • without: falling."
ing until the coal dealer's
lying la weight for them
AGRICULTURE HONIED.
very fine exhibit and one to be proud of—
Miss J. H. Adams.
-- Canada takes a front seat in agriculture
No Other Itdnetry Receiving So Brach A,t• —John Dryden;- ;The Ntisnister of` Ag cul
tendon- tura adds ben ath�and=Mem: Dryden thins
Ontario's Exhibit Exciting, Wonder and
Admiration.
F. Howard Annes,press representative at
Jackson Park, writes as follows:—
Agriculture in all its branches is honored
abo•,e every other industry at this Colum-
bian Exposition. No one who loves the
farm and life on the land with all its varied
charms of health and communion with na-
ture can help being exalted when he comes
here and sees what.has been done to glorify
the oldest and most important calling of
the human race.
AGRICULTURAL HALL,
the great building devoted to this depart-
ment of the Fair,is second in size only to the
palace of liberal arts and manufactures
but yields the palm to none in this dream
city of white palaces for lavish adornment
with appropriate statuary and mural paint-
ings. These artistic features are of impres-
sive -beauty and withal are startlingly true
to nature. At night when the powerful elect
tric aearcli lights on top of the manufac-
tures building, across the Court of Honor,
(as the big lagoon around which are grouped
the main buildings is called,) are turned on
these works of art, latent loveliness is
revealed in every one of them. St
Gauden's golden statue of Diana, airily
poised above the dome, fairly gleams and
the transcendent beauty of that sculptor's
masterpiece is never more apparent.
The magnificent oornpliinentarybanquet
at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Friday night,
tendered We I. Buchanan,
THE WORLD'S FAIR CHIEF,
so too. -- -- _ -
- Mr. P. F. - W. Moyer, editor of the Berlin
Daily News says :—The Ontario exir.ibition
is far beyond all expectation, and every
Canadian must feel increased pride at the
wonderful display made by the people of the
Dominion. Canada is in all respects ahead
of all the nations when population is taken
into the count.
_ Mr. R. :B. Tomlinson, of Minneapolis,
Minn., writes :-I would not be true to my
sense of justice if I should hesitatelo state
that this exhibition of th e products of On
tario, in artistic display, variety of cereals
and grasses, surpasses anything which has
come under my observation in the World's
Fair. I had no idea that any part of Canada
could offer suchan elaborate display. .Team
an American, and—it is almost useless to
add, in view of what the United States can
offer—we shall be glad to welcome Canada
as part of our republic.
Quick as a flash was written beneath by
some patriotic Canadian—Thanks 1 we have
higher aspirations.
Mr. H.H. Dewart, Toronto, is responsible
for' this :-The Ontario exhibit is one- of
which all Canadians may well be proud and
is well calculated to increase our confidence
in Canada's future greatness.
Mr. Clifford Sifton, Attorney -General of
Manitoba, writes :—Visited the Ontario ex
hibit and am proud of it. It is most credit
able and se;ond to none in this building.
Mr.._ Robt... W-atson, -Minister.-:of_ .t ubiie.
Works for Manitoba, signs next beneath as
if his sentiments were like his associate's.
Ontario is all right, writes Mr. G. W.
Johnson of Upper Canada College. -
Mr. E. C. Eidmann of Mascoutah, Ill.,
expresses .himself th szway ;—The designs_of
the Ontario exhibits- in the -different courts
by the exhibitors and commissioners of the are surpassed by. none. :iThe quality tit ..the
different departments he controls—agrieul- grains and fruits ranks among the best of
tune, -forestry ,and_ liy_e stock,—is another any country on earth.
evidence of the -honor that is being heaped Mr. B. F. Justin, of Brampton, Ont., is
upon-themost honorable of the professions on record as follows :—The Ontario, exhibit -
farming. The head of the agricultural is artistically designed, appropriately ar-
part of the exposition has been the first ranged and is truly representative of the
dignitary of the exposition company so hon- varied and abundant agricultural resources
ored by the men from foreign countries who; of the Province.
in their capacities as exhibitors or mem-
bers of commissions, have -had businesslwith
the exposition authorities. The conclusion
inevitably arrived at by a careful observer The Vanishing Wild Pigeon.
and enquirer is that at least in so far as
agriculture is concerned a pian of extraor-
dinary ability and influence must have been
at the head of affairs.. There is no ques-
tion that to Chief Buchanan is largely due
the credit of the wonderful success that has
been attained.
It is well to remember that the laurels
already won by Canadians in the_ cheese
contest have been obtained in the dairy de-
partment under the supervision of this
whole-souled gentleman, and that the vic-
tories Ontarians expect to come to them in
the live stock show and final dairy tests in
September and October will be gained be-
cause Chief Buchanan is above all else
bound to see a fair field and no favor as be-
tween competitors. This notable banquet
was the play -day after the months of hard
work which have made these departments
at the Fair of so much interest, to the visi-
tor from all lands. Mirth and revelry,
wit and wisdom, the scholar, the inventor,
and the farmer held sway in the big ivory
and gold dining -room. The guests, to the
number of over 200 assembled in the entresol were counted in one tree : tell us -of
and parlors of the hotel and passed the roosting -grounds forty miles in length,
time in social- chat until 8.3Q a':elock• At with a breadth of several miles, the uproar
that time the signal was given by Chair- from this roosting -ground being heard at a
man Henry W. Pearson, distance of three miles. They tell us of one
BRITISH SiTPERINTENDENT OF AGRICULTURE, column of these birds in flight covering 240
miles of country in length 1
the great dining -room doors swung open, Grand indeed inust have been the, move
the mandoline orchestra struck up, the •mint over the continent of that oast
guests marched in, arm in arm, and the living winged cloud, a great `marvel of
ba ISS he as one. This t what each "guest nature. Nothing to equal it has been -known
saw as he took his allotted place : Great on earth.
tablee extending down the long room and elsewhereThe old pines on the hill -tops about the
forming the letter "M." On the centres, of Otsego wet, r some forty years since must
the head table was a large meund of smilax have bweteomfrequently over shadowed by
and ferns studded with s-Wuet peas and .La-' ocks of the wild pigeon, much less wonder-
France rosea and oosic "sling a loving cup, ful than those farther west, but still r -e•
afterwards pre l`t a to Chief; Buchanan. markable in their numbers.
Tables• tri u , ;ivit'h ferns and sweet pease On the early morning of June 8, 1847, the_.
were dra.•- , witlfTstoogs of smilax. Car- lake and the village lay shrouded in a sum
lie Deere at each corner, and, growing mer mist. A large flock of wild pigeons
. ismartler as: they a�ecede.i hone the center ebcame bewildered in the fog, and lost their
mass, there werethirty cut glass vases filled be
unusual incident in their history.
with Japanese lilies, lilies of the _ valley, Instinct failed to guide them. Their
tnberofes, gladiolus, and La, France, Ameri naturally keen sight could not deice the
can beauty, and _,Mermot Duchess roses.. - mist• They droppedon the nearest, trees,
Above was a mass of-- oval and diamond its the of the village, • on our, own
shaped figures of electric Iights, and; over lawn, in the church -yard, in the gardens,
the entrance to the room was a heavy rope ms and on the elelms and maples shading the
of smilax and ferns intertwined with roses: streets. W e,first rays of the sun; ap-
At eeeh'plate_ was an'et'abori to menu card.bovet
In the wPPe r left hand corner, and holding and thea'birds tooknflightion the -mist rose
a velvet bow in place, was a great wax seal In the spring of 1849 a large flock of
.bearing the- monogram-" W I. B. - The, pigeons sup ring _to number thou -
first page was a steel engraving of the --Agri- $ sands, selected for their bier severalground a
cultural Building and then came the menu. wood in the valley of the Susquehanna,
-Following this- came thetoast list, which • same miles to the southward o the lake.
suggeated- the feast of reason and flow of The details were similar t those reported
tout when the cloth had' been removed. The of the vast breeding -places at tree Weid—
a-silken
nandaome affair was fastened with nests `carele`ssly built of twigs, a number:
asilken cord. As a- souvenir of an event close neighbourhood in the same tree
of allele interest to the friend of the.farm- broken limbs ot trees ; a low -murn+ar of
caret with Mr. Buchanan
er I thought my copy s autograp of the menu wings But the ground occupied was a
which narrow one.
I secured, ought to go to the�H-on: John Since those years no large flocks of wild
ffor so far, the prizes aric atwaredfa O hoar pigeonshave passed over Lake. Otsego. y
p few onlyhave . been seen, where formerly
Canada has won have been but a tribute to they were numbered by the hundred. To -
the wisdom of the Ontario Government in day you enquire if d any wild pigeons have
To -
assisting by pal possible means the progress been recently found in these woods. "None
and development of scientific farming in that we have seen or heard of lately,"
the premier province of the Dominion. I shall be the answer to your enquiry.
never felt more honest pride in my life What a change within forty years 1 Alas
than when Mr. Awrey, who found it impos- for the vanished wild pigeon.years per's
Bible to attend, asked me to represent
Ontario at the splendidly spontaneous
recogniation. of Chief s of • Agriculture
Buchanan's worth. The , ai , ` y of the
Dominion was upheld by thitetaVad good
fellow, superintendent of AgRalture for
Canada, R. S. Hodgins. The pont-prandial
art of the proceedings was almost wholly
eulogistic of the guest's good qualities. .
From his name and fine appearance I am
sure he must be a direct descendant from
that well-known Scotch family ydeose cog-
nomen he bears though he is a native of
Ohio. One of the best speeches was that
of Cyrus H. McCormack. He caught the
spirit of the occasion most happily. Another
was that of the Rajah of Jahore.
The register kept in the Ontario agri.
cultural exhibit is a perfect mine of treasure
for opinions of visitors. Here are a few,
recent opinions :
Ontai ibsi exhibit beats ''thee earth:—Jas
4. x
S. 14Mucxaye*d Wife. 'niton,
s
Two famous "Boston ladies say : 'The
Ontario exhibit is very artistically arrang-
ane Miss E. F. Cook ; . and—certainly a
FACTS I EW WO$3�S= 1iut.ei A 'TO r s6LISS` EYES:
Fzeitic . s soon to adop5 all intereatiii`g in• 31
1
e Falls by Day and �y Nf tteL IYte fn'
%ovation in the. postal card system. The Diressions Flt's Tiaveter.
cards will be issued`. fhe form of ch ck-. Not ever visitor to Niagara Falls has
books, ;with stubs. The sender of`the con- for his benefit a full moon every night and. Government Officials Think the Canadian
tel card can make memoranda of its con- a brilliant gun by day; says a writer in.the "Dark of els ThInk is Cana a u
tents on the atub,and can have this stamped London Telegraph. '`They tell me that that a g Beneath the Sg" is Gr
at the post office before the nand is etach- grand time.:=.to see Niagara is at midwinter,
Valley in bite Centre—Droves Beautifulof mild
ed, so'that - verified f word :of the' coria- when huge tons '8f lee go thundering over"f1oraes=A Known Record o[164 Wrecks
spondence can be kept. the cataract; and the Lower .Falls are one
The archives -of the port of Southampton, mass of sparkling icicles. But one gala not • and Mote Than 1,O00 Lives Lost.
England, contain a curious naval law of the see everything, and Niagara in -summer Government officials and marine circles
fourteenth century, The document holds time is quite good enough for me. Arriv- generally believe that Sable -island, in the
the captain of a vessel responsible for the ing in the _ middle of the night, with the gulf of St. Lawrence, is slowly shifting and
value of the goods lost if his vessel is wreak- moan at the full, it was impossible even sinking, and must soon disappear, a circum -
ed on any voyage begun in spite of the then to resist the fascination of . Niagara's stance that .should cause great joy to navi-
opinion of a majority of the crew that the deep diapason sound of welcome. We gators who might be induced to shun that
wind was unfavourable. wandered out,: the night as light as day, dangerons vicinity.
Almost the sole hereditary trade in the under acres of white blossoms, to see the Sable island has always been a snare and
United States is that of the deep water upper torrent before it falls over the preci- a trap to the unwary who sought a harbor
pilot. At most of the important seaports Pee This was to be alt. The rest was to among the breakers and deadly shallows of
pilotage has been confined for generations be left to the imagination. Yoii can . not its serf -encircled shores. The lighthouses
to a ,few families.. The Delaware pilots conceive the effect of that midnight ramble waits unfriendly heights have lured souls
'congregate at. Lewes, where they have lin- —the eternal thud of the cataract emphasiz- to death instead of serving as a' warning,
ed these many generations. - ing the delicious silence of thenight. Stand- and won for the islandsuch historic naives
ing, as I did, on the edge of the -green as these : "Dark Isle of Meeruing," "An
A Mr. Talbot, of Tacoma, Wash., who garden on the American side, looking over Ocean Graveyard," "Ossuary of the Atlan
recently returned from Lake Chelan, says to the deep and somber belt of pines on the tic," and "The Primeval Polypus.'
that the miners about the lake catch all the opposite island, watching, and eternally CAUSED GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
trout they wish with their shovels. He watching, these angry 'waters lashed .into-' .
saw a man with one push scoop up four. No other island in navigable waters 1, .i
fish, not one of which weighed less than a foam and hurrying to their downfall below,it did not seam to me at first that this con ,paused such great lose of life, beginning w.
pound. .' paratively narrow course could end in a the loss of .100 valuable lives in the ye
when the Admiral, commanded by S. •
France,_ Belgium, Greece. Italy and triumph of magnificence. 1583,
Switzerland constitute the "Latin Union." But there was no vestige or shadow of Humphrey Gilbert, a half-brother ot S r
Their coins are alike in weight and fine- But
in the morning.. How should Walter Raleigh, was beaten to pieces ca
nese, differing only in name. The same there be ? The apple blossoms were waxen, the fatal sandbar and shoals
the grass of emeraPd green, the sky was There is a graveyard on the island, ie
system has been partly adopted by Spain,
Servia, Bulgaria, Russia and Roumanim blue, the sun was in the heavens. At. last Which many unknown dead slumber, but the
Asa Hefner, a Maryland farmer residing it was all right with the world. So I _took .island itself is at best only a naval cemetery.
near Sykesville, gave his guests wheat the picture gradually, piece by piece, like a _ It is•recorded that the first colonists were
bread at a G..o'clock supper the other even- miser. I Iifted the curtain gradually and French convicts brought to its shores by an .-
ing that was made' from grain' that was peeped at the wonderful scene point by ted Frenchman, who, being left alone on the
growing in his field at 11 o'clock that morn- . point and bit by. bit. The plan was'to walk ship was blown back to France by a Sab'e
ing. by the side of the torrent, and to pause at island gale. The island was then rich in
In Maehyn's Diary, entry of March 3, every resting place—first, the very edge natural possessions. The black fox, whales
shoe- where the water breaks from its narrow •bed and the walrus and the seal were paid for
1557, is found the following : " Seen a
maker soundly thrashed at Cheapside to- into immeasurable distance and beeomes a in bounty- by the crown. Wild cattle and
day by ;order of the bailiff for making a mighty cataract ; next, a"little lower down, horses -these had swam ashore from wreck -
hi h -priced boot of a cheap•_ quality of where can be seen the effect of the great fall, ed vessels—were plenty and there was
g the majesty of which seems incomparable wealth and in time forgiveness for exiles in
heather:" then a little further down, where you find-that.wild island otrefuge.
According to a report of the French that the first fails are mere child's play con- THE ISLAND DISAPPEARING.
Minister of Finance 148;8')8 families in pared to the misty majesty of the Horse -
France have claimed exemption from ger shoe Falls. The proportions of this indes- : Sable island lies near the province of
tain taxes recently voted by the Parliament oribable picture are so equal and admirable N.ova-Scotia, on- the North Atlantic coast,
on account of having seven or more chin
that at first, as at St. Peter's in Rome, you diste,nt•about80 miles, in latitude 42, long-
dren. are apt to be a little disappointed. Yoh etude 59.. at lies in the shape of a crescent,
Sunday was' a -day of amusement with can not be convinced of the magnificence of and it has a history for disaster that is un -
the Londoners of 1800. According to a cal -St. Peter's unless you go to the top of the ique and- unequalled. The storms on that
culation 200,00,0 of,them spent each Sunday highest dome. You can not be completely part of the coast are terrific. The winds
in summer in the suburban bine and resortspersuaded of the astonishing majesty of blow with a fury that is seen and heard at
in getting rid of $125,000.. Niagara unless you decend to the very the distance of many miles, as the waves
An American "peerage," has been lately bottom. Modern enterprise allows you this mount in columns off water crossed with
published. ' It includes,alh titled American experience. Formerly you had to stand on foam, and break with the report of a can -
ladies from Timbuctoo to Paris, and, better a slippery rock in a mackintosh and go non; yet, strange to say, in the sterile spot
`11; appends a list of unmarried scions of literally under the falls. Nowadays a springs of the sweetest fresh water can be
the British nobility. plucky little steamer plunges into the very found, the sands acting as a constant filter.
The gold mines of Peru were so rich that heart of the torrent- and takes you so near The size of the island has decreased from
Atahuallpa, to buy his ransom, filled a room the falling mass of glittering and rainbow- 40 miles in length to z2, and from two miles
22x17 feet to a height of nine- feet with tinted water that you gasp for breath. and a half in width to one mile. Large poi -
golden vessels. When melted they pro. Thisexpedition should be missed by no one. tions of it have disappeared in the waves.
duced $15,480, 710 of gold. You can not see the falls or understand them In one instance the rock supports of a light -
without it. house Sank into the sea and vanished dur-
In Madagascar ,a dissatisfied husband has
only to give his wife a piece of money and You will ask me, What is the effect of ing a fearful storm.
Niagara Fella on the spectator ? • To me The rough men and hardy fishermen who
say, "Madam, I thank you," and, accord- g
ing to.the _laws of Madagascar; he is di= they have an indescribable attraction and live on the island by permission of the
vorced straightaway. fascination. While resting there I could crown revel in the fierce storms as do the
There are some words in the Chinese lan- not get away from them. The roar in the herds of wild horses galloping over their
guage that have as many as forty different distance seemed a call which I was bound narrow domain with ththise fierce pride of pos-
meanings, each depending on the intonation to answer. All day long I was strolling s suon.es ohSeSablewriteit of con ap r has
early
used in pronouncing it. about Goat Islandor standing on the bridge,
When a person loses the sense of hearing or over on the Canadian side sitting and pair of shaggy ponies,wild of mien and
•
in one ear only, he finds it impossible to looking at the rainbow and the waves of fierce of eye, which were born and raised on
locate -the, du ction e rear'_ which a sound the opposite fall. Try as I would T could that rock-bound fastness of the sea and
not tear myself away from the attractive were bought for a song from the traders
Proceeds. cataract. The most hideously fascinating who caught them from the
corner of all is the exact break where the WILD HERDS ON THE ISLAND.
rushing water falls sheer down the pre-
cipice. One-half step here and death No amount of grooming ever reduced their
would greet you in less thane second. This shaggy coats to a state of civilized gloss,
is a corner that ought to be barred from the and they could never be tamed, their kick -
sight. If it is necessary to heighten the ing and biting propensities being savage
barriers of Clifton Suspension Bridge it instincts which neither kindness, author -
should be doubly right to hide these las- - ity, loaf sugar, apples or thumping could
cinating;corners of Niagara where the roar overcome. They were finally sold to a
soothes and the rushingwater allures. But caterer for even less than they cost,
for all that, hither suicides eternally come. Historians tell of nine miles of roaring
Niagara has been the Nepenth of many a breakers between Sable island and deep,
weary soul. If I were to visit the place a sea water on the north-east coast of the
hundred times I should still be found all island. The one safe landing place is
day longdAids, waroundtching
and round vela t- north side whethe known to local revtheors and it is on the
Gove nment boat
-falls and rapids, and watching the everlast-
rush from peace of lake to turbulence of anchors. Even at that point a change of
whirlpool. Niagara is, to my mind, one of weather might prove disastrous. I was
truth
the most fascinating spots on earth, oflthe statement, that theand the recordsecentre outtofethe isl•
and is
TUE FIELD DAISY. LITE A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY,
Its Change from a Detested Weed to a with rich meadows, flower gardena, and fer-
Fashionable Flower. tile trees; wild strawberries were plentiful,
The field daisy is an anomaly in the and even the sand -dunes were thick with
American flora. -Formerly it was the most tempting flocks of wild ducks, sheldrake,
despised and detested of all noxious weeds. and sea game. The herds of wild horses on
the untenanted part of the island ramble
We say noxious, because it was the abhor about on the beach,lazily regarding the seals
rence and often the despair of the farmer. sunning themselves on the.aands atlowtide.
His name for it was white weed, when, from And among these, and the shells of strange
a certain legend connected with it, it was marine animals, glisten the white bones of
not something worse. - It was tenacious . of those who went down to the sea in ships,
its place in the soil, when it once obtained and found death on this fatal and unfriendly
a place there, beyond any other nuisance of shore
the grass field. Plowing did little good. The. Canadian Government has built two
If it did not still stay in the furrows it lighthouses, one of which was afterwards
would find its way out in the manure n oh destroyed, and equipped a life-saving sta-
tion on the island. All these aids in main-
taining a succoring discipline over the winds
and waves at that point are as nothing com-
pared with the awful loss of human life
which has given to the place
ITS GHOSTLY FAME
ANan CilikillTt SPOT.
'Bleak Sable IsTand'ie.Di appearlue.
F. HOWARD ANNES.
Very remarkable has been the history of
the native wild pigeon, a bird entirely pe-
culiar to North America, from the Gulf of
Mexico to Hudson's Bay. Its.history is not
only very interesting, but quite wonderful'%
in some of its details. The bird itself taken
singly, as we rustics know, is elegant in
form, and very pleasing in its slate -coloured
plumage, tinged with pale shading of red
on the breast. It it very gentle and peace-
able, entirely harmless, and even timid by.
nature. Who would have thought it pos-
sible that gentle birds like these.; Should
have swept over the interior of the: contin-
ent within a century in flocks se vast as to
obscure the sun at noon as though the coun-
try lay under an eclipse, While the ceaseless
-rapid motion of millions "of wings produced
a loud roar like an approaching tornado?
Accurate and experi ced men of science=
us g vast flocks
in
They tell us
estern forests
inety nests
Wilson and Audubon tog
covering 180 square .{ -+.I' -
Kentucky as recently - =ti
of vast breeding -places in'
many miles in extent,,hee-
In Moscow the winter cold is so intense
that it freezes quicksilver, while the sum-
mer temperature is as high as that of
Naples
There is a salt mine at Wieliczla, an
Austro -Galician town, that has been worked
for 600 years and is still yielding fresh sup-
plies.
The Sultan "is: establishing a;public Library
in Constantinople. All the libraries of the
mosques aresteibe transferred to it.
At the Belding Bros.' silk works, North-
ampton, Mass.,- there is a well 3,700 feet
deep that is perfectly dry at the` bottom.
The -Goose Neck__ district, in ,Platte Co.,
Neb.,'boasts, of a nice old lady who was
recently married to her eighth husband.
A prayer book was among the articles
found itethe stomach of an ostrich which
was lately dissected in London.
An ordinary day coach weighs about 50,-
000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh about
74}040, pounds
Lake Michigan is twice as'deep as Lake
Superior- and nine times. as deep as Lake
Erie.
Mulhall estimates that the civilized na-
tions pay annually $13,700,000,000 for food.
. A Boston housewife utilized hailstones to
freeze four_giarts of•ieeeream.
Horses are said .to be particularly fond
of the skin of the banana.
In the rock of Gibraltar there are seventy
miles of tunnels.
One-fifth of the families in &lasgow live
in single rooms. : .
Women of rank go bareheaded in Mexico. 1 -year and uprear its saucy head more fr
There are only two lawyers in Iceland. and blooming than ever.
_ The worst of it all was that it was always
THE :LOST VIOTOR,IA, beautiful. The aesthetic sense is not greatly
what
it conflicts with his profits it is never any -
An EWillMade to Raise the developed in the average farmer, and where. He could not see its beauties, and in
English
h Warrship—An Italian Inventor
Confident of Success. l earlier days almost everyone else was wit
A Valetta, Malta, special says:—The
him. But of late the beauty of the daisy has
Victoria, lying seventy fathoms deep under been too much for the sense of utility.. lt
Tripoli, the hidden tomb of many gallant
has become the fashionable flower, Its plenty
the blue Mediterranean, off the coast of no longer precludes it from this distinction.
Maidens go into ecstasies over it as Oscar
to tthe sailors, mayosoonbebrought-back Wilde not long sicca bowed down in adore -
British
the outer world with all its . ghastly tion to the sunflower. While it is but the
freight. el Italian ninyentortbhas taken it ' worst weeds in one quarter it is enshrined
upon himself to return the bodiespc thell in another. Here, indeed, is an anomaly,
dead,me and arase oftheir, sepulchral the and it teems in a fair way to be continued.
home to the bereavedEngland. families a 'and the ,Fashion has put its stamp on flower to
has of nw Sig. ampere-samello stay, while those to whom it is thea nuisance
has invented a e new dis Na ampere- will still regard it only as to the grass field
due, known as the "Bans. Nautica, or what the canker worm or the caterpillar is
deep-sea ball. It is an enormous metallic to the orchard. It is a pity that this gestin can by a complicated system nf erous work should all be done with a face of
pampa, can' be sunk to mlmoat any given such smiling beauty.
depth. By an:ingenious mechanism it can
be raised to.the surface in a very short
time. The chains and grapnels necessary
to bring the Victoria teethe surface could
thus easily be put in place, and so the one
difficulty attending the :undertaking would
be conquered: --The King of Italy is said to
h witnessed the workings of a model of
and -to ve�ex reseed a hope
A NEW 'W AE VESSEL
Which Will Fill the Gap Caused by the
Loss of the Victoria.
ALondon, special sagap s :—A created in e the navyw l
by the loss ofwhich will lthe e Victoria, has just bee
completed on the Tyne, and has arrived at
Portsmouth to go on service. • This is the
new first-class line of battleship Resolution.
She was launched on the 28th May last
year, so that the tine taken to complete
her has been only a little over thirteen
months. The builders are the PalmerShip-
building and- Iron. Company (Limited).
The Resolution is one of the largest battle-
ships afloat, comprising one of the eight
built under the Naval Defence Act of ] 889.
She ie 40" feet longer, 5 feet broader, and
3,680 ..cops more disblacement than the
ill-fated Victoria: When used as a flagship
the ResolouttiCnT� and men, have a complement of
over 700
Russia produces 111,649 barrels of petro-
leum daily.
Prof. H. M. Ward states that there are.
probably more than 300 species. of oaks —" Do it a
(Quercus), of which the majority belong to Mi of weakness in mano too eider Mr.
have North America, Europe, China, Japan and sign Factor—"
invention, I#a p other parts of Asia. There are nnein on Factor
is p aging the piano." depends up -
the
;that the attempt would suooeed:' S Africa south of the Mediterraneanregion,Late revellers singing " There's no plat
- nor in South America or Australia.he Some like home," always stop heir melody just
Thieves may break through and steal, but remarkable species are the tan H he before they get there and creep melody
3t
they can never rob the telephone girl of .alayas, and many in y their stockinghey feet.
her rings. fipela lie
and a known record of 164 wrecks and more
than 1,000 lives.
It is said that once a ship rode ashore at
Sable island during a terrible storm and
was flung high and dry on the beach with-
out injury to herself or death to her crew.
The superstitious islanders were afraid to
approach her, as they believed her to be
guided by supernatural powers. But the
case was finally explained understandingly.
Five brave sailors had preceded her in a
dory, to which they had lashed some casks
of fish oil. With these they made a path,
literally casting oil upon the troubled wa-
ters.
From being a life destroying station,
Sable island: has become a life -station, but
in less than another century it is prophesied
that the wild waves will dash over the lass
vestige of its existence, and the dark strip
of land that has hurled so many souls to
destruction will be submerged.
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