The New Era, 1881-08-11, Page 3a
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FARM AND GARDEN.
Seasonable Hints frorn a Practical
• Agriculturist. .
Olga way Corr.
The bee of her hide was dusky brown,
Her body SW IOSII anti ber neck was eliro,
One born was turned up .ana the other turned
Own,
She was keen of vision and long of1inb;
With a Roman nose and a abort stump tail,
And ribs like the boomo a Immo-made pail,
Mau y a malt aid her body bear;
13he boa beim targe for an things known;
On many a scar theausay hair
Would grow no moo where it mace had grOw11,
Many a passionate, parting seot
Bad left upon her SISStiOgsVot,
many and Many a well-timed stone,
many a. brickbat of goodly sim, .
And many a eudgel swiftly thrown,
• Had brought the tears to her•loVing eyes;
Or had hounded, efe from her boney back,
With's noise like the sound of a rine,oraels.
Many a day had she passedin the pound „
For helping herself to her neighbora corn ;
Many a cowardly cm' and hound:
nee boon translized,on her crumpled horn;
Many a tea-pot and oid tili pan- .
mad the farmer boys tied . to. her tizne-worn tail.
Qid Deacon Gray as pious man, • •
Tamb. sometimes tempted to be profane,
When many a weary mile he ran
To drive her Out Of his Orowing gram.
Sharp were the pranks she .used to play
To get her fin and to get away.
She knew when the deacon went to ±0W11;
Ohe wisely watched him when he wont 1.)s, ;
He never passed he): without a frown
Aua an evil gleam in each angry eye;
Be would crack his whip in a surly way,
And drive along in his one-horse shay."
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Then at his homestead sheloved to can; '
Lifting hie bars with crumpled horn;
Nimbly scaling his garden wan, •
meiping hereof to bis standing corn;
Zating his cabbages, one by one, •
Hurrying home when her work was done.
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His human- passions were .quicklo - " -
And striding forth with savage cry, '
with fury blazing from both hisayes,
As lightnings nosh in a summer sky, "
Bedder and redder bis face would grow.
And after oie creature he would go. •
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Over the garden, round ana round,
Breakingaiis pear and applearees;
Tramplingnis rumens into the ground,
overturning his hives of bees; •
leaving him angry and badly stung,.
wishing the old cow's neca was wrung. •
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Tbe mosses grew oti the garden
The years went by with 'weir work and 'plan'
The boys the' the village grew streng and tail,.
And the grayamired farmers passed away, .
One by one, as, the ma leave§ •
But the highway cow outlived them all.
Mow to Wen Good Mutter.
The Legislaure of.Ohio hat just passed
•
a bill providing for the inspecition ef, butter
and:cheese, ".and, all substances having the
semblance Of butter andcheese," and of
dairies and other places Where milk is sold
or butter and cheese manufactured ; to be
done by inepectore appointed by the State
Board of -Health. The superintendent of
inspectors of butte end cheese, Mr. Robert
Orr, has issued a circular of instructions to
his subordinates giving information whieli
may be of: veluel, te•.'huttet.inaliere and
buyers generally. 1e says: • • :
"When butter is properly chuined both
as to tiree•and terapetature it hecornee firra
with very little working, and istenaciousl
but Its most desirable -state 'is that of
any., shape; and.* may be . drawn out
a considerable length withnut bteaking. it
•is then Eityled•giltedged. Its only in this,
state •that butter posseSpee that nen nutty
flavor and smell, and shows tiparloh golden
yellow -color, which imparts so high a degree
of pleasure in eating it, and Whieh inoteases
its value Manifold. It is 'not 'always neces-
sary -*filen it smells 'fresh. and sweet .to
taste butter in. judgingit, • The smooth,
unctueuefeel in rubbing a little between.
the finger. and •thuinh 'expresses atonce its
rich quality ; the, nutty. smell. and rich
anima indicate a_sintilar_taste s. and the
bright golden glistening cream-eoloted.sur-,
face shows its high state oteleaplinesis. It
may be necessary at times to Usethettier,'
or eyenuse it until .yen become an- expert
in testing by -taste, smell and nabbing. • ••
D'on7t Whin `-si Frightened Horse....'
It seems to be a Oliaracteristie failing Of
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most coachrden to lay the lashnpon a horses-
thaf exhibitS.fear at an ;abject in the street
or beside the road. Mr. .Bergh, -President
of the Society.for thePrevention of Cruelty'
to 'Animals; says in • theorgan of • that
society, what. every reasoning being ought
to know,. and that is nover whip your horse
forbecording frightened at' any .Object by
the roadside; for if he see's a'sturep: a lcig,
- -or-whey-of :tanbark -in the-roacV-and,-
While he is eying it carefully and about: to.
pass it, you strike him with the whip .11:
the tog, or ettininor the tan -hark' that • is
hurting him in his Way of reasoning, 'and
the next time he :will be more frightened.
Give him time to smell all :these objects',
and use the bridle to aseist you in bringing
him carefullyto those objects of fear.
• • Orehard and 'Gorden .Work. • •
• ' The season of fairs is neat at hand. The •
.
best of the farmer'S wands, including
fruits and vegetables of the sear, are 'soon
to be brought together in hundred'e, yes 1
thousands of places all over the United
States, and will be seen by the great multi-
tude.of people that yearly. visit the fairs.
We are glad that there is.' such arapid
i
growth n the number of these. shows,•
accompanied by an advance in their quality.
We hope that the geed work may go on
until every 'owner of choice cattle,. everry.
grower of good . corn :or fine roots will vie
with the proprietor,, of_an orchard or a
vegetable garden, and that all may he . so
much interested as to not only h'e in attend.:
awe upon these fairs, but take to the fair
their best products and. have a personal
interest in the -success of the exhibition:
There is no better way . of gaining -and
imparting -information. The knowledge
to he acquired in the competition is far
above the fnoneyvitIve of any prize that is
awarded. Go to, the fair and take sone.
,thing with you. '
at CCM Elnot Oider. '
0OrteSponaant • suggests that the logos'
in bees during the past winter were largely'
due"to theistest that, from •the great abund,,,
. ancs of apples, bees apptopriated eider
quite extensively during the fall. It is
unquestionable 'that the juiCe from each
quantities of &Coyle& fruit, es well'aethe
older gathered in -the vieinity of cider mills,
would have a deleteriotie 'afoot upOn bees.
While this Can hardly be oonsideted as the
main *cause of our -heavy losses, all will
agree that all eenditione must he most
favorable during suoh severe weather if
meanie ie to be attaited, Good, well aired
and sealed, honey ie eseantial, and where
older is gathered in abundance late in the
fall this; condition can hardly be secured.
iillseellasseetie Notes.
Where other work.will permit, it le best
to plough the land far fallowing soon after
the haying and harvesting is over. .Thie
avoids the dreuth-dried seil that is fre.
quently found later in the saeason,,besides
turning undet the wee& • before they have
time to. ripen their geode. Theraigh use
of the cultivator will prepare the early -
ploughed land for seed when Bowing time
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The average daratiati of vitality in seeds
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of 001310 Of our cultivated plants is as fol-
lows ; Artichoke, fire years; broad bean,
six; beet root, five; cabbage, five; carrot,
four; cucumber, five; lettuce, five ; maize,
two; melon, Ave; onion, two; parsnip,
two;.peas, four or five; radish, nVe ; Blau -
Doh, five; tomato,five ; turnip, five; endive,
nine ; parsley, three; strawberry, three.
Experimenting on, the depth at which
wheat eheuld be covered, the following
reshlte were obtained Of fifty grains
depoeited at the depth of eight inches only
two came up, and these formed no heads;
at seven inches one-fourth came up, but
formed no beetle. Ten of the fifty came
up when covered five inches deep, but haa
defective heads. At four inches covering
there were a few perfeet heads, but most
were defective. Of those covered three
inolies all came up; but the best yield was
those covered only two inches deep.. Tho.
condition of the soil as to MOiStilift IS not
stated, nor the state, a the Season, but we
should infer it was Moist, or those planted
three inolaes would have been better than
those at two, The eameexperimenter says
he prefers to cover his wheat one Molt, and
never more than two.
Among the herd kept in connection with
the Manitoba penitentiary is a cow which
is ft cross between a buffalo and a grade.
The Free Press says she.is not like any
other cow, either in shape or color,the huge
shoulders of the buffalo being less promi-
nent, while the flanks are more developed,
as'in Aomestio cattle. ridge of long dark
hair covers her spine, and another hirte
fringe droops from her chin and ex nds-
away down under her belly, giving her the
appearance of some of the cattle one sees
in the pictures of Livingstone's travels in
Africa. She doesn't look as though she
would shine as a milker, but in the matter
Of beef•would be.a success.
Says at. practical farmer: 1 believe in
ploughing sod in the fall. .„Then work does
not press as in the spring, and the learns
hardened by their summer's work in good
condition 'for labor. Pulling a /*ugh
*through -a tough sod is hard work on a team
at any.: time,. and to hard .when -they are
unused' te laber as they, are in the spring,
Work always. hurries enough in the 'spring
anyhow, and if we can save a week's work
it is advantageoue and wise to do it. Then -
as a general thing the Rod .can be mere
easily worked when ploughed in the fall, and
can be got in better condition.- The winter
freezing pulverizes the ' gronnd and makes
the mechanical texture better then harrow-
ing will.
E. B. asks about drawing manure -in
winter, -and whether it is bettor to place in
heaps or spread immediately. Years ago
I began tb draw manure in winter, to gain
time in spring and to prevent tramping arel
cutting the lend when soft. At Oast 1 put
the manure in piles, but finding that where
I wished to plough early, as • to,r a gardera
the pound would keeP Wet for along tine
*under the heap, I spread it from the Bled
or waggon, After following this plan for
-fifteen years, Ithink •it is the tight way.
The better plan for one who contemplates
• setting an orchard, ie to go to an honest.
nurseryman,as near home home as possible,
tel him what kind of au orchard you Wish
to plant, whether ianiiiy Or oommeroial,
an1 place' him on his honor aS a man and a
.nurseryman,.then leave it. toliiintoreakest.
good choice for you. -*No nurseryman dan,
affordto delfts than his best in selecting, -
for you under sueli:eircuinstances.
MUCLIONAIRM MUNIFICENCE..
The kublie 'and Patine' Benuais of, tlio'
" Late Solgeplt Mciitty.
The following is a fidl list of the beqnests
by the late lifr. :Joseph IlloKayi-Of---Mon-
treali• The Timm: published a partial, list'
recently : Home and Foreign 31issiens of
Preshyterian, Church in -Canada, $20,000 ;
Presbyterian 'College, Montreal, $10,000 ;
Presbyterian College, Manitoba, $3,000 ;
Widows'. Fund of Ministers of Paeobyteritin,
Church . in Canada; 04,000 ; Presbyterian-
cluireliesin Montreal. for Sunday School
libraries, $4,800; Fiee Chufeh of Scotland,
$4,500 ; American Presbyterian Board of
Missions ; /0,000 ; _Preach Canadian Evan-
gelization Society of Presbyterian Churoh.„
$3,000 ; 'French Canadian Missionary
Society of Montreal, $/,000 ; Walden-
sian mission, a1,000 ; Labrador missions,
0300 ; to the Missionaries abroad, $1,500 ;,
to the Deaf , and Dumb Institution,
fainded by deceased at a cost of :180,000;
he left $2,000 ; 'Protestant: Infante' •Ileinae
and Orphan Societies, $2,000; Irish and
Scotch Benevolent Societies, 01,000; Sail.
ors' Home, $500 ; ,Protestant Houle of
Refuge, a1,000 ; General Hospital, $1;000...
The 'last bequest contrasts strangely With
the others. It is es follows: "1O0 to the.
maid Minnie who served so long in the
-house, a-Trid1)1b1Thr: *') Calharitia'." .
• • The following are the principal private
bequests r Miss Henrietta NE, Gordon, niece,.
$130,000 and a mansion on Sherbrooke
street worth 150,000 ; Edward McKay, of
•Montreal, and Donald McKay, of Toronto,
brothers of deceased, $30,000 each; Hugh
James and Robert McKay, nephews, $7,000
oath.; MSS Ann Gordon, niece, wife of
William M. Clark, $10,000 ; Catharine'Gor-
•don;niece, $12,000 ;. John Gordon, nephew,
$12,00.0: •
step ine raper,
We occasionally meet 0 -moo in this
world who is under the impression that if
he "stops his paper" he will thus get even
with the alitorfor some supposed injury: -
maybe it is only o, 'gentle request for sub-
scriptions past due. Elora° blueness maif
or rather Men in some business, are labor-
ing under the same apparition. Why, don't
these blissful fellows know that when. a
man outs" his paper it muses no cotanao.
dot with theaditor ? He is used to it. It
is only a proof that hi a paper it) appreciated.
Arida from that, an editor is very like
an ordinary man. He eats, he drinks,
he wears clothes (when he eaii get
them -they may not be the finest,
but he' Wearo thern all the same), he
wears it hat, he eats vegetables, eats bread,
eats meat and all other " indelicacim " of
the season (sometimes eats crow). No, the
editor does not go barefooted •(tinless
has to), Paradoxidally speaking, he is a
man like any other man; has feelinglike
a man ; likesfilisfriends as any other men,
and as a rule is not les!) charitable than
other men: Now, "slop' my paper," matt,
don't think to hurt our feelings by paying
up and quitting. This is a very large
world, friend, and there are Borne very
largepeople init. If we discover thab we
can'tseb along without you, why then, we
vifil sell out and quit the bueiness.-2'opeka
Conefunitvea/th.
A Atkeinnessr DogArrox.-krrs, Mary
Mina*, ef Toronto, has written to the
Regietrat of Toronto University enclosing
har cheque for $2,000 with which to enable
the Senate to found a seholarehip fo the
University of. Woronte, to be awarded in
the*raoulty of Arts on such terms and con-
ditiotia tbo Senate may determine, With-
out intending to direct the applieation
the proposed. scholarship, Rho gum:tits
'Whether it can be advontageonsly awarded
in the department of Greek and Latin
clastics, and either in addition to, or
lieu of, any existing scholarships in that
department.
Prince Leopold; Duke of Albany, ia said
to be a patron of eo-operative storee.
MANITOM AND , NORTRWEST.
-Uttest News by Mall.
The survey of the town plot of Norquay
hasbeen completed.
Early corn appeared on the Winnipeg
market on July 28th.
The 60th locomotive for the Canadian.
Pacific Railway has reached Winnipeg.
Oats were harvested tb. the Red River,
six miles from Kmerson, on the 27th ult.
Turtle Mountain district settlers com-
plain of the irregularity of the mail service.
A, large amount of • breaking has been
done by the farmers around Rapid City this
800000..
Winnipeg 3fasons twitan eXelarsion to
Portage la Prairie a few days ago and
assisted in laying the corner -Awe of the
new Presbyterian Church.
The Bishop of Saskatchewan has pro-
mised a donation of $100 toward the
building fund of an Anglican Church at
East Brandon.
On the 27th ult. Mr, Henderson, of
Marine River, leftat the office of the Gate-
way. Express a head of lettuce which
measured five feet in circumference.
Alex. Cardno, of Seaferth, Ont., was rob-
bed of over $600 while sleeping at Panlin's
bakery, Winnipeg, on Tuesday night. He
doesaft knew who took the money.
The daughter of Rev. M. Sargent, of
Rapid City, is still missing. The river has
been dragged and the prairie searched far
and near, but no trace of the child has been
diecovered. •
The Rapid City Standcirdrenorts that the
appearance -of the crops along the Oak
River. Road canbet. be excelled. Reports
from the Huron 'settlement and • other
sections are also very favorable.
The Previneial Agricultural SooietY have
• decided to hold its eighth annualexhibition
jn WinnipegLon. 'October .ttb, 5th, QUI,.
instead of on the llth, 12th and 13th as
previously announced. '
Four splendid Mares of the Norman-
Pereherodbreed arrived at Winnipeg on
TAursday from Illinois, for His Hertor the
Lieut. -Governor, One team is gray and
the other bay.
The recent cyclone in passing along lot
599, St. Agatha, pulled down Messrs. Scott
&. Quinn's honse, tearing it away to the
'bottom logs ;. also completely destroying
about four acres of potatoes and catrying
the hind wheels of their waggon into the
middle of Red River.
The train which took 311r.. Colfax and
party from Winnipeg to the Portage* wont
out there in thaunprecedentedly ohort time
of one hour and fifty minutes. On the way
back it made the run from the • Portage .to
Stoney Mountain in an hour and forty
minutes. Between Meadow Lea and the
.Mountain, where there is a good pia% of.
road, the train bowled along at the rate of
five miles in six minutes.
White Water rake, at Turtle Mountain,
is twelve Miles long and five wide, and is
navigable for small steamers -Wild geese.
and ducks are, plentiful. A..year ago there
Were-fidrOiffell here; aaidliiit a -*line man
to be seenTe-day there are 440 entries
for settlers in this distriat, and each settler
will average at least • three in the family,
.Which would make 1,230 inhabitants in the
Turtle•Mountain diStrictin one-year.-
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French boy, Whose name the Express
Was unable to aseertam, living down the
riyer a mile oa two from Emerson, met with
a serious accident on the 27th ult. fell.
froirt, the top of a hay stack. on the prongs
of a fork, lacerating his face in a meet
frightful manner. The fork was stuck in
the .greund, the prong's pointing 'upward.
One of the prongs entered near the ear and
came out of his mouth; another passed
through the opposite cheek coininl out
under his jaw hear the chin.
It will 'he remembered that a company
underthe name of the Saskatchewan
Transportation. & Trading Company was
incorporated by Act of the Dominion Par-
liament in, 1877. Since that date, however,
nothing appears to have been 'done toward
carrying out the original purpose of the
corporation. Just :new, however; in view .
efthe„,fact that the Camada,PadifieRailway•
route -hag been defleeted- so Jar to the
southward a new impetus has been given to
the prospect Of eitensive navigation of the.
Saskatchewan*: A, wealthy 'syndicate
England have taken hold • of the charter
granted,ii0877, and will. put on a line of
ste,amers. • ' ' ' -•
wrote. the BeAtlefonl, H.*. T., 40reld.)
iiheaavoltes...Lare a source of.. annoy-
ance to farmers in the vicinity af Battle-
`
New potato* stravirbernes and green
peas were among the edibleluxtries here
on Dominion Day.
' The grain °reps in this neighberhood,,look
as well as could be desired. In ooree potato
fields part of the seed seems to have failed
to germinate, but the portion that grew is
strong and healthy -looking.
S. G. Oliver. and party, with the engine
and machinery for gold baiting on, the
Upper Saskatchewan, and Mr. Cameron,
wife and family, for Edmonton, passed
Humboldt on the*27th of June.
Jos. Macdonald, of Ednionton,withfreight
for 'Villiers' & Pearson, of that place, reached
Battleford on the 1s1 of July. 'EM says that
during,the twenty-five yeara he has„been en
the road he. never sew the 'country so nearly
submerged. .
The Indian Department, with a paternal
desire to save the aboriginal fernier the
trouble of planting thia-year, tried to intro,
duce the cultivation of artichokes en the
reserves, but without success, as the first
.,eonsiginnont of seed designed for them.
fvoze In the mail bags,andthe second rotted
during transit: Lo, like his white brother,
will have M plantnext year again if he
would reap. ..
The netives of this land are fully up tti
the blizzards of the south. :Pew deceased
animals esettaie their repaciono maws; A
horse flied a few nights ago on the street
opposite our office, and at early dawn we
beheld a raga of native beauties cutting
the dead animal up a la buffalo mode of
peat days, and, eonveying it to eamp, where
&grand gorge was being prepared. We did
not attend that pow wow.
The opening of• the Bow River Country
and the establishment of numerous •large
Stools Mama there, make it highly important
that a mail route should he opened that
would connect' it with the existing postal
&yet= in the territories. A mail might
with advantage be run from Edmonton to
the south to connect at Port Macleod. With
the Benton mail, BY some such arrange -
went husihees *Mild be extended, and the
trade of the country developed to a great
extent.
A Port Iltiron ,(311011.) despatch says
Edward Fetto, fireman en the tug Prince
Alfred, loot hitt life on Satarday morning by
the blowieg mit of a Plug that was driven in a
damaged flue of her Wier. He was
engaged in platting a fire in when the plug
flew out and the hot Water scalded hira
about the head and breast so that he died
in a few moments. His Leine was DONA,
where his remains Will bet taken.
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Br1111$11 litald'Vereign,
• An old briolr building, known as the Old
Quaker Meeting Ileum at Newcastle,.Pa.,
which, Bonn is said to have occupied, is in
course of demolition.
The administration of the Bucharest
Tramway Society are at present employ-
ing oxen instead of horses, the former
being a deoideely cheaper means of loco -
:notion.
A scoundrel of Paris has, been calling
upon unmarried ladies who have. passed
80, and after referring them to his aunt
has made love and repeated his cells.
Meanwhile he bas stolen what he could
find, and the ladies, fearing ridicule, have
not complained, until one, more pluoky
than the rept, now hands the reseal over to
the police.
A Professor Rapp, of Cincinnati, defend-
ing himself against Ilia wife in the Divorce
Court, says: "To show what a miser I
was, I bought my wife a gold watch, a gold
chain, gold bracelets, gold ear -ring, geld
breastpia, four gold rings, a fine piano, feur
silk dresses, twenty-four seto of under-
wear, and sent her tithe College of Music."
And notwithstanding all this, the spoiled
and petted one did not "care a rap" for
•
Mr.: Gover, a London*Milliner, waslately
fined $94.50 for employing workpeople after
4 on Saturday, which is against the law
there: Three of the workers pleaded that
they were on piecework, and thought they
were entitled to go on. The justice said
"No." The Act Was passed to obviate
"Work, work, work, from weary .chime to
chime ; , work, work, work, from weary
'Ohime to chime; work, work,. work, as
prisoners Work for crime," oto.
At Argostoli, or Cephalonia, where Lord
Dufferip. lately toughed on his way to Con-
. etantinople, le a mill worked 'by a stream
"flowing from the sea. An'Englishman dis-
.coyered that the water always tan =Sway
mud built a.mill which has made his for-.
tuna e tried 'hard to find where the_
water, tallith- disappears lite the earth,
ultimately went, and, among other experi-
ments with: •• that end, poured oil on.its
surface, but its mute° remains a mysterz.
,
There Were thirty-six Britishand foreign-.
realm, ef which eight- We ',British, one
einga steamer, reported during the past
eek, making a;total of 906 for the present
ar, or an increase of 228 as compared
h the oorresponding period of last year.
Th t. a proximate value of property loot
was 0,000, including British
000. Fe\'.esseb ere lost off the °casts
of the 'Unite. ngdom, and twenty-one
off Sweden and Norway.' Sixty lives wore
lost. .
Prince Eismarck. ohjects to the new
fashion of painting Getniatt *books in Latin,
characters, as. appears from . the following
letter to a well-known publishing house in
Leipsio : "With reference to the letter
'directed to Prince Bismarck, I beg to return
you herewith the pamphlet sent, informing
you at the same time that it is contrary to
rule to ley before the Chancellor ally work
or works written in the German language
with Latin characters, because the perusal
of auch would take' too much of HIS High-
nessLtime." . •
Charles Reliaii of Baltimore, died
June .10th. Fearinggrave robbers; his
mother and wife had his remains.depoSited
in the Baltimore Cemetery vault; the num-
ber of the permit being 665: On. Mon,
der:they-went-to' the -vault to.- remove
the body for burial in the ground, when
-they'folind.that coffin No. 665.was otthe
coffin in which Mr. Heiro'sbody was placed,
and prolonged Search failed to disoov.er it.'
All the graved dim since June '10th are to
be opened: The keeperthinks he. nuist
have got the coffins muted.
'While ell the world nowadays knows of
the torpedo, invented and named •by Ful-
ton, as a machine to blow up ellipse com-
paratiYely feve know that ittakes its 'name
from a fish Of marvellous electrical pro-
perties; whichwas anatomized by the
famous surged] john Hunter.' The torpedo
is found in the Mediterranean, the Bay of
Biscay and the eouthern English and Irish
waters. The ancients employed it ao
therapeutiC agent." Itishelieved: to use its
extraordinary powers tobenumb w,hig•
enemy or to 'capture a . timelier fish.' It
loves. to lie in sand, in which it will bury .
ithelf by flapping -its eitremities, throwing
the mutts:a/o its back. Tread 'on it then
and you Will lie prone In aanoment. 'It is
sometimes sold for food in French Market).
Some curious statistics .Of suicide are
published in 4 german paper, from which
it appears that, contrary to the general
belief, the number of suicides in London
is relatiyelysmith less than. in the other
European eapitals. In Leipzig, the " Chim-
borazo of suicide," as it Is called' by; a
German professor, the average number of
suicides from 1875 to 1878 was 450- per
in Vienna 285, in Berlin. 280 and in London
million inhabitants; in Paris it Was a 00,
only 85 per million. Another . popular
notion, that suicides are more frequent in
November than ill other months, is also
incorreot, the greatest number of suicides
occurring in May, June and July. Those
.who are tired of life or are destitute of the
means of supporting it liBlially hong them-
selves. while those who commit suibide from
'shame?, remorse or unrequitted affection,
take poison or Pie firearms., The propor-
tion of men to women who commit suicide
is as four to one. • .
Another memorial of the successes
achieved by the German arms .in 1870./1.
has been lately set up -in -Berlin. In 1816
three pieces of ordnanee-two mortars and
a heavy gun -captured by the Germans •
during the campaigns of 1813-15, were
placed within, an iron railing on a small
biound opposite the Zeughans or arsenal in
the Prussian capital, as a memento of the
,glotieue issue of the war. The gun, how-
ever, although taken from the French, was
really an old German piece, having been for
many years One .of: the trea,oures •of the
town of Lubeck, and haVing onlyfalleri into
the hands ef the Frew% when they Seized
the letter place Consequently it has now
been removed, o,nd in its place an historical
French gun has heed mounted. This latter
piece was many years in the fottress of
Mout St. Valerien, and bore the name of.
"Lo Belle Josephine," until, after the fall
Of the NI:polio= dynasty, on the 4th Of
September, 1870, it was rechristened " Lit '
:Valerie."
Sir Thomas Parkyns was fined by a
Woolwich magistrate for running a steam
engine in the form of a tricycle, at the rate
of five miles an hour on the public road.
Sir Thomas appealed against thiedecision,
but Lord Coleridge has confirmed:it, upon
the ground that a tricycle propelled by
Meant comas under the Locomotive Acts,
and must he attended by three persone, not
go more than two bailee an hour, and have
'wheel tires of certain dirdonsiOns. .
Germany has nearly 400,000 sheen:1010ra
and cobblers, ot nearly 90 to every 10,000
of her population. Thiele a larger proper -
tion than in any country except Italy and
England. Italy takes the lead of all.
Then come, in the order named,. England
and Wales, Germany, Belgium, 'Ireland,
Denmark, France, the United States and,
swami. xt is a curious ciraimstatee that
warm Italy ohotild have within a fraction
of 100 cobblers to 10,000 of the population,
and 001a SW0a1311 IMO than 18.
' •
.•Erwprwm.ww...
otitialKE CEL�flfl
Venneesed with the Rem, Slanenten nd
• ---1" Bente Murder*.
The last English mails contain annouime.
ments of the death s of' three persons bath
nudely connected vvith the three most
sensational crimes that have agitated
liondort dining OM last twenty years.
Ex -Inspector XOnatharc Whiolier, who
• died at the age of 77, was one
of the Ant staff of detectivee organ-
ized, in London in 1843. It was he who
10 1860. arrested Constance Emile Kent.
for the murder of her iniant step -brother,
finding the absence Clurher nightgown
stispieious and Melding that she had taken
it from the wash -basket while she had omit
the maid who was O4ffyillg it fot a ghtee of
vcratep. The girl was set at liberty, and
Whioher Shared with her father the
popular opprobrium of the hour; indeed
hia diemisaal was urged in the Commons,
but the Home Secretary stood by him, and
When three years later he retired it was
with full rank and pension. Whither waa
subsequently sent to Banda to reorganize
the detective force, and figured iii the early
stages of the Tiohborne 'case. In 1865,
Constance Eent, who had joined an
Anglican sisterhood, confessed her crime and
instified Whicher's theory; she was con-
demned to death on her confeasion, but we
believe released on Pr. Buoknill's report that
she would go mad in confinement, though if
Dr. Bucknil had communicated to the
authorities the fads, indicating motive and
long preparation, whiolirecently he revealed
in his Lunaleian lecture, she would probably
have been executed. It is noteworthy that
the "popular element ".never accepted Miss
Kent's oenfession, butineisted that she had
'been torturedinto insanity by the
Ritualists, or else that she had confessed
to pave her father! The second ,deathwas
that of Radek Llewellyn Staiinton, Who
with his Wife, his brother. Monis so Alice
Rhodes .woe eentenced to death in 1877
for starying Louis' wife to death, The
verditst Wes returned at 11 o'clock of a cold..
foggy night, lint the adjacent Skala -
were crowded and it was hailed • With
triumphant yells', while Mr. Justice.
Hawkins in paseing ;sentence called the
-prisoners' =offence "a crime "so dark and
hideous that in the . records of crime it
would be difficult to flnd its parallel."
juot two weeks 'later Alice Rhodes was
given a free parden and the sentences of
the others were commuted. ' It may be
doubtect whether under less exciting dr-
curnstances the prisoners would nothave
been acquitted, or' at worst convicted Of the.
lower grade of homicide. The third death
• was that of the father of Mr. Charles Tur-
ner Bravo, whO . died so mysteriously by
poisoning With antimony. • He had married
a'dashing widow, MM. Florence Ridardo,.
who had maintained irregular relations
with Dr. Gully before her second marriage.
There was no evideace that these . had
been renewed, that the Bravos were •
unhappy, that the wife should have
desired her husband's death, or
that, the' husband ' had contemplated
suicie. His dying deolatation was that
he had poisoned himself, but with !Lauda',
num, a -Ong he could not have taken.
Offers of large rewards neverproduced any
testimony fit3 • to the-, peason. by -whom -the
decanter of Burgundy had been poisoned;
or to aunt, that Mre. Bravo'had. ever •plit- -
chased any antimony., ..Shedied•not long
ago of alcoholic eicessesrleaving Dr. Gully -
a large sum of money anff her jewels.
Chritaisly Whew- the-elder-Mra-
Bratro's, wine cellar was *disposed of two
years ago some sherry as found in:Which
antimony had been placed, and it came out
that the younger. gentleman had secretly
ordered pane anti-dipsomaniaopoviders for
his wife, which were composed of antimony:
But no definite clue to the Bravo mystery
has ever been discovered..:
. • .
• A., 1.dieral Hownitt Will bo Given
To the woman who, upon trying on a neW.
•
bonnet, never mentioned that, her hair
wasn't fixed.. .
To . the writer for the- press who never
said that his contribution was dashed off.
: To the person, age .or sex immaterial,
who,sa;wci r:a witness, did tot ley par-
lating an acoident of. 'which
he r she was ,.
tioular stress upon what ' I did". or 'what
e
' .To the young,maff who doesn't think the
'girls are all,dying after him. • ° • '
• - To the young woman Who Wouldn't. Choose
an ice cream t0. 0 substantial meal. •
To thesame: young *Oman Who never
retired Mille .cuaboarclupon reaching home'
for "just a bite." •.• ' . •
TO the Woman over 80 who never had an,
To theastdreketiper who never Said, "As'
it is You, I will,cahl it so and so," and then
charged double price. = . •
To the eohoollaoy 'who does . not at' times
look upon the .schoOlmaster as. his ,mortal
To the younglady gradtiate who Would
net rather have a white satin dress than
high class honots v:t the graduation exereises.
To . the married naan who never • con-
sidered the possibilities .of a second'
marriage, '• ' • •
To the nierried• woman who dem) not
oometimes wonder how she ever bathe to
say "Yee." • • '
,• To the clergyman who doesn't feel just.
little proud of the tears he calls up at a
funeral.
To theatr conductor who does not take
Ee.onliar pleasure in helping the ladies off
IS Oar. • ••`' ,
'To -the man whenever Umpired, "Is this
hot enough for yoti2" ' or "Is this, cold
enough for you. • '
To the butcher who weighs his Meat
'without the bone,
• To the dealer who: invariably pUts the
bi est sttawberriee atthe bottom of the box.
the roantaho 'ever exchanged -Umbrel-
las and went Off with a Worse one jest
because he didn't take his mhbrella with him.
To the small boy who never whistled. '
To the small bey who never Sighed to lot)
o. hunter, an Indian fighter or a pirate.
To the doctorwho•bas the hardihood to
tell a wealthy patientthat nothing ails him,'
" To the* undertaker 'who hors offfoath
With feelings of min:Angled grief.
To theboy Of .1,8,who does net knowmore
than his parents. -
To the Sunday eeliool that has not ,ex-
perienced a spasmodic) ,growth just befote,
Christmas at the picnic season. •
To the housekeeper Who hasn't Mid
them io plenty more in the cupboard when
peormespeiza.
gythe last slice of cake ort hot
To the anutteurfarrnet Who never drew
the hong' bow when dilating upon his agrm-.
cultural achievements.
To- the widow who does nob like to have
her mourning beceming.
To the ;Wheel !atelier who can ts. with
out seeming -to -
Watch every word she
To the poligonal who never songht the
plea) that seethed to seek him.
To out English fellow-oitizen who doers
not think things :are done better at 'Mile.
To the horse -jockey Whe nearer aid' 411Y
in business." • • .
A despatch frOnl Chautauqua 'Rays that
at the Missionary Conference it Was stated
-that the wahen thiis fat had, raised $4,500,-
000 for missionary Work, o.f Which $800,000
WaO rexeed this year,
allueselleememallemilasniamteenil
TEA TARIM GOSSIZ '
--One Would imagine a oat -boat to be thing for a squall.
-At a. recent State ball, at Buokinghans
Palace there was not a single lady prase*
without a orinolette,
-" You handle the truthi quite OSX80
leaSly,1! is the latest and More refined Style
of -°aLliaid4igesa WatallSaarliaatro.ga are Said to be*
heavily on nem race& Ladies alWaya
were prominent as betters -of men.
-Guittean claims . to be a tragediau.
because he played the leading rote m the
11r-eiffM4resn.tPiaalrtirnaggteoanyaastksWvaerigtirgn. ahtly
if the bills before Parliament are not coun-
terfeit, why ohould there be stioli adifficulty
in passing them
• -On the panel under the letter recelvet
of the general pest -office, Dublin, tbeSe
words. are printed.; "Post here letters too
late for next mail."
_There islaaany a man who threatena
to out off his son with a 'Milling who would
have to borrow the money in order to
accomplish the threat, '
-The paat, winter in Iceland has been
the severest known therd eine° 1690, and .
there was much suffering 10 coneequenee
among the inhabitants.
-=The town of Milton is likely to get into
a lawsuit ovea a fire engine which they
bonght fr<ini Blackwood,. of Toronto, and
whieli is alleged to be worthless.
-A dentist says that of people under 30
more young ladies than young gentlemen:
apply for igloo teeth, and he findothe ocum
in the fact that young ladiesiehew. caramels.
-A new " jersey " is imported made
of chenille network, with a fine rubber=
in the meshing, causing it to fit the figure
• as elooely as the gills webbing -used to last -
winter,
' . .
- tth ew Henrysay's "That "
Meh"
is wen ilt. will 'never wear. well;!,- but the
times areso out of joint that we don't care.,
whether things wear well or not s0. we have
plenty.ef them. • • • ; •
-.The revival of hoopskirtis belt:me in .
time to Make the goats smile. They expect)
soon .to resume their old article of diet *
when the hoops become old and, are thrown •
into open lots. • . • • .•
What is the greatest ;charge 'ma
record 2" asked the professor .of 'history,
and the absent-minded student answered:
"Seventeen dollen; for habla -hire for self
and girl for two hours.". • .
-Another dory. has started • aordas the .
Atlantic. The experiment has become so,
:Common as lose its , novelty, and. the
crew's•thiathance of securing publicity is
.that -of appeariag in an obituary notice.
• .
Varier has 'a 'barber saying,
"You're Very bald, sir. Have you tried,
outtalk . lotion?" • And the bald headed
patient 41 the chair' replieoa" Oh, yes. But
that's not what's Made all myhair fall off.'!-
.. What a rough ' fellow . that Sniggini•
is1" petulantly exelaithed the Hopedale'
girl after a 'struggle with the aforesaid
Siaiggins • et .0 Copenhagen." " He nearly •
snaothered, mei" "And did you • kiss him
for-his-smother:2" 'asked- the -other . miss,' --
naively.
. • -" Hello! tnole ZSCose;hellpr dried JIM..
Webster,ate he hurtled down' /Sfarystreet, •
trying to. overtake the old roan.' .' 44Be. keer-
, ful, Jeemest b kenriul yoy . undress •
reiterephenePtopMr •
-the indignant deacon. • . .
-London Feta: ‘"Pfettor---' Yes, Mrs.Rrovin..: Taking... into .conoideration. the .
fact -that the Smillas•hordly everpay' their
pevarents, 11 19 stattingely bad taste -on their •
• part to sing so loudly, and Vint. snob ..
unction into their prayers.'.. Mre.•Brovvit-H•
Quite too terribly 'Shocking! ' "
. The na". =Spring : of Italian, music- in •
the eighteenth century," *Says 0' recent •
writer, "was VW 08011ISIVSand passionate .
worship of the human voice." NM Italian
Pinsk has experienced a Change. ...Its main-
spring i0 now in a box, and is. worked With,
a handle: . • .. • •
-A gentleman who had a great -dread Of
being burned: alive had his man servant
recently exerctsed in a fire :brigade drill.
Wishing to know what progress the student .
.had made, he said the Other day; • to him, --
"Now, Thomas, ..What Wouldhe the first .
thing you Would doif you woke up M the .
night and foundtlie house on fire?"' "Do, •
kr 1: get outside as-quickaeff could."
• •-•A writer in London Li f e.sayS : saW
a bathing suit the other day 'which struck.
ineats.at once pretty and sensible: Reund-
Ilie.tiecliat had a little cork apparatus, mit.
Ainlikea.smallholsteroileverly-coneetthedin •
one of the ruffs so much wcrn, and quite
suffieient to keep the heaffout of water in
oasis an •itiexperienced swimmer should hose r
her ,balanee.t. .• • • '
-Du- Maurier . (at a smoking concert)
"Herr- Professor-' You haf . a blooming
foiceinay young vrent. Pot you tent .
brotioe it' in a lechidireate vay.' •Ofti •
Tenor -r, Perhaps if 1.• did it Would no,
lenge* please.' Hort Prefessot-, Ach.I
Vat of dat Bleasure is not eery ding.
Yom, should alive brotuce your fop:se:inn -
leishidimate,vay,.veddet itkifs blea.Sure or
not.' " .
--London. Truth : Dancing by daylight
is not looked en with approval by the per.
Men hate.% • Girls don't quite
hate it, because they Could net, under any •
einiumsto,nees, hate danoing ; but they ,
wouldinfinitely prefer that, to their. Minds, •
enchanting exercise by any other light, °
it gas; candles, stars, moon, eleotrulity or
•totches.' Daylight is • mereileseto flushed.
-cheeks, swindled flowers andtorn , dresses."
•••-A new Method of countingletters pass-
ing through post offices • has been devised, • ,
A snaell counter' similat to an engine
coenter,, is placedin the head or handle of
the hand stamp,and mush time the stamper ,
presses it Upon a letter it io 'registered .
on the en:pater. At the close of the daythe,
stamp is opened, thenumber of. leaky"
damped read off and registered, and the•-
oounter set • ready for the next day's work,
• ....Edward. Pear:tick, writing of early' .
Scotland,-.speakof the exttaotdinery pre
-judiee that because out forefathers lived in
'houses 'not 'moreoommodioutt,,, perke,130, 8
then moderti stables they Were therefore
'barbarians. . " It • io," says he, • " not in •••
nevelt; alone that we fihd Men Character-
ized as Savages •beciatiee they do notiise ,
ft)*--rksAafteawas
fi;eert" age, 'when 'Die Levtris 'Was:
the rage, he said that 'people wile ate many
Manatees would loee their teeth, There t•
are many people who are fond ota raw,
tomato, .bat who &moot eat one With oil
and vinegar. The add of the tomato min.;
*glee very nicely with .fine edger and a little
salt, and issaid not to' be disagreeable in
small cMantitiest0 people who Suffer from •
indf-gTehtei°t7ght bower -T •
he aim Where you
pleb your sweetheart. The left bower-,
The one where you 'toot .yout other Wed'.
heart. -Earl Marble. The. little • joker— .'
Your sweetheart% had little hr.:Aber-.
Paton, The jaek-The father's boot that
raises you. -Tarte Eaute &shoddy Night.
The queen -the little sweetheart heteelf.-,-
gyraeuse Sitascleird. Clubs—Mho old taansit•
Wedding reasent.-Bodheatef .gotest, Dia
bi0tids-bCQtir pteseht to the happy ette.
•