The New Era, 1881-08-18, Page 7Mr*"
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Angerst 114, 1881.
S1IK11-, NO IVIIDIIVOn.
-The neittle Rapid city wanderer Not Telt
Wound:
The melancholy details of he los by
Bev. Mr. Sargent, •of Rapid City, of his
, young daughter, who atrayed from home
and has not sines been heard of, have
already been pnblished in the Toms. The
•-case poems particular interest toElam-
iltonwas'seeing that it so closely resembles
that of the missing Dolly Thornton, of
whom no tidings have yet been learned.
The little girl, it was supposed, was lost
on the prairies,. and parties went out in
•-search eller. The Rapid City Enterprise
now says : Nothing has been learned
that might lead to aso1uion of the mystery
'connected with the dieappearanoe of the
Rev. Mr. Sargent's young daughter. Mr.
Shunamen returnedfrom Portage la Prairie
• on Sunday afternoon without* any tidings
-of the missing one. Mr. Gardner, who had
reported seeing a boat pulled up on shore a
.-few miles below the town, accompanied
Bev. Mr, Sargent to the spot, and it was
found that he boat wee the same that had
disappeared from opposite • Dr. McIntosh's
mill. It was therefore decided to make a
-close examination of the tracks around the
boat, which was lying near the pond where
the Oak River trail branches out from the
main trail. The track of a light -wheeled
rig, and also that of anox cart, were plainly
but after- consulting with the
settlers in the neighborhood it was con-
cluded that thc: former was made by a
party looking along the river bank for sand,
and the latter by •parties carting off
:alder lifrablir,--The 'lumber wheahliff.--
...Gardner tried to take -to Grand Valley, in
•small rafts, by river, and which "broke up
in passing the rapids, is scattered all along
the shore, and it •la thought that Dr.
MoIntosh's boat was taken for the prime
• - of gathering up someef the boards, and the
ox cart used for moving them inland, On
• Monday last Messrs. Barker, Crofton and
Shunamen dragged the river for a °onside -
able distance with a grappling iron made
for the purpose, but the earch proved a
.'fruitless one. A watoliwas kept at various
points Meng the river on Monday and
Tuesday, it being thought ;probable, if the
child was drowned, that the body would
rise to the surface on either of those days.
VP to the present,' however, no •tidings
•have been received, and the Mende of the
missing girl are left to suffer •their sad
,bereavement without any hope of relief.
Prayers were offered in the various
churches on Sunday last for the distressed
family.-Hanailton Times.
momENGJJISJL IftEAtiemEn.
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Mrs.. Ltengtry Ending -The New Favorite:
' I saw Mrs. Langtry, says a Lindon dor.
respondent, the other evening at the opera
on the ocoasion of •the .first performance of
Rubenstein's opera of Demonie." She
skt With her back to the stage during the
entire evening, having evidently come their()
to be seen, and not to see. The Jersey
Lily looks"worn and faded, and her pale.
grey toilet lacked the. showy splendor that
used to chatacterize her costumes in former
daYS. IneVer -admired her, even, when I
first saw her in the -very height of her.
renown. How any fa* could be considered
handsome with that bread, heavy:jaw was
• to. me a mystery. And. she always
leered the supreme charM of beauty,
namely; ,unconspienenees, whether real
.or feigned: She' is always attitudinizing,
and always on the look -out for admirer%
The Prince of Wales dropped in to visit
her in one -of theacteactes, biit Hie High,
nese had a bold in his head,- apparently„as
he passed nearly the whole of his period in
a series of vehement and most .unroyal
• sneezes. Thebemity of the present Lendon
season is said tobe a Mrs. Simpson, who,
with her husband, itits just returned from
a five years' residence in 'China. There is
also a Miss Graharo,who has a most lovely -
'face, but who -spoils her very undeniable,
-charms by the tee free use of cosmetics.
However, I think the °pooh of professional
beauty in London society is pretty much at
an end, which is fortunate for society..
Endhr. up de World:.
MILOOTleica 0111 1111.0111,..
A Note Weataire Inerrodeced at Wim!
London correspondent writes: Anew
feature has this year been introdueed tev
the Wimbledon shooting, a competition in
which the Canadian Team were not per-
mitted toenterthe lists. All through the
Transvaal war, and espeeiqly at the con-
test on hfajuba Hill, the Boers showed
their superiority over our troops aa marks-
men. Thi a our officers thought to be due
to thedefloieney in practice of our shooting
at moving objects at various ranges. It
was this consideration whisk Ulla year led
the Nationid Rifle Association, aided by the
munificent gift of £2,500 by Mr. Mullen,
to found prizes. for "field firing" under
conditions as closely resembling those of
actual warfare as possible, In this,
which was named the Mullens Cora -
petition, five flat pieces of board, to repre-
sent the head and. breast of a man, were
substituted for the ordinary targets, and
fixed on tramways moving from right to
left and left to right from mantlet to want -
lot, at a tolerably slow pabe, and without
any noticeable pause. The squads were
stationed at400 yards. from the targets, and
at the word of command advanced at the
double until it halted by the bugle call at
an unknown dietance from the dummies.
From this point each, squad fired as many
shots as possible, and at the word of com-
mand they again advanced, repeating the
same process at a second and then at a
third unknown range. Although this com-
petition lean improvement, it is open to
question if it would be of muoh avail in
actual warfare. For then it is seldom that
troops are called upon to fire at any enemy
nrossing-theit-line-of-fietras-these dummies -
do. What I think would be more practical
Would be a target on tramways moving in
the direction of the line of fire, as would be
the case with an advancing enemy.' This,
I believe, -would better fulfil the desired
object. '
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Pienennt *lace tor itsegestrInne:
The San „Francisco Call says: Archie
McComb, the San Francisco sprint -runner,
recently came' to grief in Denver, Col.,
Where, with the Resistance of Thompson,
he bad woo a great deal of money. He
ascertained that •Thompson had swindled
him out of about $1,900 in two matches,
and resolved to get even by throwing the
next.' match, A match was made with
Quirk, of Canadaovhe was running under
an assumed name, and Thompson, believ-
ing thatthe race was fixed for McComb to
win it, induced all hie intimate friends to
bet their money on the Californian.
McComb had meantime told one Jim Moen
that he intended ta thtow Thompson,
and Moon het Cal the money he mild raise
on Quirk. The result of the race. was
'that the Quirk party carried off about 06,00
from Denver, and Jim Moon pocketed as
much more. Thompson and thi confidants •
lost heavily, and, known.* that McComb
had run to lose, resolved on vengeance.
McComb, having reason to believe that his
life Was in danger, went toMoon andasked
hira to divide- the winnings, so that, he
could leave Denver and go east. • To his.
astonishment and dismay, 'Moon coolly.
refused to divide one cent, and turned him
out of his lidese. • MeComli had barely got
into the street when.-Thompson't friends
opened fire on hini, and he had to runfcir
his life. His pedestrian abilities Stood him
in good steaclu,and he. escaped: without
• injury. By running and walking all night
he Managed to reach a point of safety, and
board,edan eastbound train, never stop-.
ping until he reached'Illitois. He states
that the day after his hasty departurefrom
'Denver, Moen- was shot by the victimized.
gang,,and died almost instantly, • '
"Dem Africans dar' in llaintnek has
got me all broke up," said the old man ee
he stood•his brush up, on end and leaned
against the rear Wall el the market,- •
" What'athe troiffile?"- ,
"Bout de endin' up of de World, sah.
.Some of 'em said de .gran',Splash would
take place las' week, an' some•of 'em My. it
• has been put off till the tWentieth, an'
some of 'em am gwine to prepar' to go Up'
nex' Saturday,' When I leff de hese dis
mitwin' I tele de - ole woman I war' gwine
to ex- some white man all 'bout it an? git
right down to de dead -level. • Now, sal,
what ate de cold facke in de case? Amtde
world gwitte to kersplash dis summer or
not : ; •
"01 course inat."
"Dat' s 'Maly what I tole 'em up der.
She can't de it.. She can't afford ft, Why,
sib, if de world should:bust 'up, Whatwould
become of all de folks?" "
"That's true." • ,
"Yea, sah, an whar Would de -pieces. go
to? Why, der wouldn't he roorn- fur de
splinters, let alone de big chunks. De ole
woman maysot up all night waitin' to-lfer
de hist crash, but she'll be disappointed.
Yon haven't smelt brimstun; have ye?"
"Nor I, either; but deli Kainittok.
lunatics ani sniffin' an' muffle an! °bin'
out dat de world am 'all on filth. How
long, sah, do you* 'sped *die • world will
"Oh, about ten million years More," :
Honest ?" • - ' •
" Yeah:" . •
" Defi.I guess I'll walk tip home and tell
de ole woman, One reason why she feels
so bad. is belmse she was 'g wyne down_ to
Toronto dis fall, to see her sister, an' she
thought de exidin' tip of de world might
stop de railroad kyars from runnin'.. Ten
millyon y'ars mo'.1 • Why, she'd have time
to finish. dat • log cabin bedquilt and visit
herSister, tool "-Detroit Pree. Press.
A Montreal despatch says Adelina Patti,
whose agent had taken the •-• Academy of
Music here for a concert in january . next,
has defined to come, owing to .her tinie
on thissiontiuent being too limited, Great
disappointment is felt by those who were
anxious to hear the celebrated eantatrice,
but it is very geestionable if her audience
at $20 a ticket would have come up to the
expectations of her manager.
The Duke of Richmond hed the narrowest
possible escape from death the other even-
ing. As be was crossing the railway line
from ono platform to another at Chichester
station, the train conveying the Prince and
Princees of Wales ran into the Station, and
the Duke would have been killed had not
the station.master need rare presence of
mind in pulling him on to the platform.
Not long ago, a well-known Boston o'er-
gyroan preached one evening for a brother
who had to be out of town. On hie' ration
he Inked his friend if he had a good emigre.
gation. "Oh, yes," said he, " thbont five
hundred brethren of where the greater
part had fallen aslebp,!'
A Conductor's Priothijil tomee;*.
It appears that German railwaycion-
cluctors are made happyby the addition to
their equipment of a paper mill and Print-
ing °face, the inVention of a Berlin engineer,
to be hung round the neck, which, accord-
ing to an exchange, lite: completely manu-
facture passenger: tickets before the ayes of
the wondering public. The apparatus is.
cmid to be somewhat tomplicated in con-
struction, tat its manipulation ia as simple
as its working is.. cermet, for, should the
'operator not proceed in the way required
by the theolianisincit will not print all the
flgnres and words Wanted, but the Word
alsoh "(wrong) in the place where the
fault wait. committed. At the same time
this portable printer checks the number of -
tickets issued, so that at any given moment
the money in the hands of the conductor
can be pampered with thevalue of the
tickets printed and taken.
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Row She Sacrificed Mar Weddit_eg Ring
A despatch from New York says a well.
dressed woman giving her name as Mary
White' was arrested in -Paterson yesterday
for swindling. She represented herself as
a widow, and said that she was poor and
had•sold everything, till at last she was
forced to part with herwedding -ring. Then
she exhibited what appeared to be a massive
gold ring, rounded at the edges to look as if
worn'and engraved on the mside with the
initiele "II. C." The ring appeared to be
.Worth $15. She sacrificed it for $4, Then
she went to Some one else and told the
same story and sold another ring bearing
the same initials. Pretty seen the pur-
chasers went out to make their neighbors
envious with their bargains. Tliis resulted
in the diseoverY that the neighborhood was.
lull of the rings. A jeweller tested them
and found that theywere brass, and worth
about ten cents apiece. The woman was
arrested yesterday. - • •
Lucy Stone is still on the rampage.' 'She
says "the' waste of time, the waste of
strength, and the waste of health whieh
Women • accept. on .account of fashion is
appalling. The shoes of women have pep
for heels;half-way under the foot,. on which
they 'walk with a tottering, hobbling gait,
like Chinese women, Frills, fringes, cords,
straps, buttons, pullbacks, and 'flounces,
supposed to be Ornamental, but which have
no other use, burden and deform even our
young girls. II the rising generation 'is to
be healthy, 'there -raust be a reten • to,
simpler as well as more beaomieg styles.
We ,need artists who can devise simple and
heautifid dresses, which :kali secure to the
wearer the free and untraninaelled use of
the whole bodY.". ‚She is right, and we
should, like to see her put an artistic dress
on Mr, Lucy Stone,
Lord Sandhurst was married a fortnight
ago in St. James' Church, Piccadilly, to
Lady Victoria Spencer, youngest daughter
of the late Earl Spencer, and half:sister of
the preeent Eel, by 'whom she was given
away, The Prince and Princese Of Wales
were present and gave the bride a. very
handsome Chippendale writing -table,
India ialia,w1, which appeared among the
presents, was, of coats°, from the Queen,
who sent, in addition, e, gold.enamelled
diamond pendant, with lier own" miniature
in the centre, and having a,large pearl drop.
Robert Browning is pleasantly desoribed
as wandering . through the Crowd at the
Royal Aoadenly entertainments with .a,
kind word and warm grasp of the hand for
all his friends, an, above all, 4, -stolen
glance of affection'at his. son's piettres es
he quietly paclees them by."
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flieLVINft .111111ollet
awe by gamertuanee ne went no by Diode
of etravery,,
An extended interview has been bad
with Sitting Bull at Fort Tates,Dalc. He
says he was born near odd „Fort George On
the 'Willow Creek, below the mouth of the
Cheyenne River, and believes that he is
about 44 years old. His father was the
famous Indian Chief, Jumping Bull. He
esYS• "1 am chief by inheritance as well
aa by deeds of bravery." Be has with hilTI
two wives and nine children, inoludiag
twins. After himself he regarde Four
Horns as. the greatest of living chiefs,
When asked why be surrendered, he
denied that he had done so. Be says that
when he went to Fort Burford he did so
with the intention of remaining only a few
days, and did, not understand that he had
given himself up. He will now demand of
the Government that it shall Bet hire, free.
He was asked in what way he moldered
the Government wronged him, but gave an
evasive reply, saying that he had never
had either a misunderstanding or an
agreement with the Government. He had
never made any treaties with the whites,
never sold them, any land, and never Made
war upon the 'United States. Without
ever having committed any depredations
upon the white man or the white man's
country, he had been driven by force from
lands whose possession he had never
yielded, and had been placed in a position
where all his ads were dictated by name-
sity and not by any desire on his parttor
war.
A lilac*, Walnut Story.
. Tile smartest Texan, and, in fact, the
smartest farmer ever met, is old Saul
Graves, who lives oia a 100 -acre farm west
of Waxahatchle, in Central Texas. After
Mr. Graves had shown rne his oattle and
cotton, he took me over to see his woods.
"Well, what of it?" I asked, as he
pointed out a ten -acre forest.
'What of it?' Why them's black wal-
nut, sir. • Ten acres of 'em. Planted 'em
thyself, ten years ago. See they are ten
inches through. Good trees, eh?"
And sure enough there were ten acres of
hand -planted walnut trees. They stood
about 200 feet apart, 200 to the acre -in
all 2,000 trees.
"Well, how did, you get year money
back ?" I asked.
"Inackwalnuts are worth $2.50 a bushel,
ein.'tthey ? ,I'll get 400 bushels this year,
That's $1,00'0. A hundred dollars a year is
geed rent for land worth 016 an acre,
ain't it?"
"Well, What 'else ?" I inquired, growing
interested.
"The trees," continued Mr. Graves, "are.
growing can inch a year. When they are
20 years old they will be 19 inches through.
A black walnut tree 19 inches throligh is
worth ,015. My 2,000 trees 10 years from
now will beworth $30,000. .11 I don't want
.th out them all I can out half of them, and
then raise a bushel of walnuts to the tree -
that is, get $2,500 a-- year for th'e crop.
Two hundred and fifty dollen an acre is a
fair rent for $15 land, ain't it ?"-Chicago
Tribune. - •
d4 How 'They Parted:"
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A new song is entitled "Row They
Patte-d." We haVe - not read it, but no
doubt they partedin the usual way -about
2 a, m., after kissing each other "good
night" :at least 37 times. " Well, 1 guesii
j must go,",he says, with a sigh, about two
hours before he does go. Then, after
another half -here conversation Omit one
thing and another, he presses her hand with
-much Pressiveness, says he really 'mutt go,
and -lovingly lingets another half-hour.
Then be eays he didn'tknow it wee So late,
picks up' hie hat and moves toward the
door, where helats his -arm eround her to
prevent her from falling M a swoon,and
kisses her fite•Minutes in one inning and -
still lingers: 'Then he gives her onemore
kise just for luck,' and reluctantly steps
down, and gut 'Into the black, • lonesome
night, and calls around the next night.
That is hew they:parted yeats age -if we
have net been misinformed,
• Queer Things About norses.
In a meeting -at Newlerk the other day,
Dr. Garrish, speaking of horse% said. that
greater attention should be paid to their
comfort. They filiould get fruit and sugar
occasionally, and, above all things, they
.eught to have one day's rest out of seven.
lie said that horses, though not So intelli-
gent as dogs, are very sagacious, and men-
tioned ea instance of a horse of his that
used to Stop of his own accord at -the door
of a patient whom he had been treating for
fever; a year afterward, passing by, the
horse astonished the doctor by 'stopping as
before. -Dr. Lambert thought that while a,
horse 'might not be so intelligent as a deg,
'he could see further. 'A long-lived horse,
he said, was known by the elasticity ana
firmness of its ear, and a short-lived one
has a flabby ear. The same rule, he said,
held good with regard to women. A woman
whose ear was pulled out of shape by a
' heavy ear ring had not many years to live,
.while one 'whose ear stood the strain would
attain a good old age. • . •
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A recent traveller in equatorial Africa,
says :7 "Lions are one of the dangers
between Zanzibar and the great lakes.
They some times bunt game in packs' of
six to eight. Some animals show fight
against them suocessfally. • Liens never -
venture to attack the adult elephant, and
even avoid the buffalo, unless they are more
than two to one. In general they never
attack caravans, and never • in daytime.
At most a hungry lion may sprieg. upth
and carry off a Straggter while passing
through the brakes arid jungles. But it is
otherwise at night. When lions scant the
caravan from afar, partionlarly if it *-
tides goats or beasts of harden, they
approach and announee their vidnity by
terrific roars. Xeverthelesp in a well
enclOsed. camp there is no danger •' the
lions never attempt to clear the obatacles,
and nOrksmen from behind the palisades
pan Pick them Off with almost unfailing
aim. There is danger enly whei the camp
is not borepletely enclosed, or when. those
'inside go out to attack them," .
"Ob, please giverne one of my babies!
Please give me one of my babieril"
Soreadied Mrs. Rapp, of Cincinnati, who,.
having sued her husband for a divorce on
the ground of adultery, heard the adverse
decision of the judge granting the custody
of the children to hint. ",0h, G�d! Oh,
,Godl I Must have °noel my babies 1 Oh,
I have waited so long and so patiently. Oh,
take all the money;but give me my babies."'
'Unable to reeiat such a pathetic appeal,
whieh thrilled the crowded court room„the
judge subsequently modified his derision,
givittg her the youngest child for the pre-
eent. God bleu yon,- judge 1" was the
grateful acknowledgment."
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"She got On the box and I coked her for
ten cents before .she put her head in the
rope. She trolildn't give, me the ten cents
and / let her go ,..and ehe didn't put her
head in. She hollered and fell down, and
then yen men eame running." This is the
graphic stay of a Colurclbus, Ohio, boy
Who hadcagreed to amid a woman in, com.
raiding suicide if she would Ore him ten
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A. NEW *IND OF lia015141141CO,
The tiovenioz•Cienerali and ma 'Thasolpes
• ticolcbmoop
When the hlarquig Of Lorne visited
Winnipeg he was invited to gisit the ',ark
in which the Scottish games were being
celebrated. In reply to an address from
tlae Scotohnien of 'the city he said: I
rejoice to Bee so touch good Scotch blood
here to help the wally other races in filling
IV this wonderfully fertile land. From
what we have seenof the lovely little
prairie flowers whose beautiful suighig I
have been listening to here, I am glad to
think there is no difficulty or danger that
future generations willthave to encounter
from any want of population, (Great
laughter.) I assure you it is always a
matter of mot heartfelt Estisfsotion to
me to meet wherever I go so many
good, honest iiicotchmen and their
descendants throughout the Dominion.
It is a pleasure I have experienced
from Cape Breton right through.
Ontario up to this point, and I believe the
further I go the more Scotolimen. I shall
find. (Loud applause.) You mention :in
your address that a good manyof you COME
from settlements originally founded by
Lord Selkirk. Well, I may mention that
the first Manitoban to greet me in the
country between thie and 'Thunder Bay
was one of the settlers of Selkirk. (Ap,
please.) It was delightfully pleasing to
me, after a long walk through the woods,
to be greeted by the skirl of the bagpipes,
and, let me add, bagpipea uncommonly
well played -..I have never heard them
better played. (Applause.) But there was
one benighted Bassene.ch with mit who
said. when he heard the•pipes,,„"nallo,-4
that another mosgtito 2" (Great laughter).
And as soon as they stopped -you all know,
of Comm, the sudden stop peculiar to the
Soot's. national music --he showed his
ignorance in satin more benighted.fashion
and exclaimed, "Hallo, they have pitched
Mtn into the lake." (Roars of laughter).
New, gentlemenj hate. only„to thank you
for the extreme kintinese and the cordiality
of the reception with which you have met
me singe 1 entered Manitoba, and I desire'
much to see how far the Claoh, Next can
be pitched on the prairies.
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"IN THE TWINKLING ON AN EYE."
Wwo' Ken ,Killed by Lightning -Another
• a. Raving Minim.
A despatch from Manitoba says a•tent
containing six men at work grading on the
Canada Pacific: Railway, near Grand
Valley, was struck during a thunder storm
on the night of the 30th Of July, and two
men killed outright. A third, at first also
thought to have been killed, and laid out
for burial, recovered, but, on seeing the
blackened corpses of his comrades on each
side, it so affected his mind that he is now
a raving maniae. The names of the parties
are as yet unknown.
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The Ojibbeway War Dunce:
Reader, dickyou ever see an Inthan jam-
boree-fione of your tame, listless affairs,
in Which the participant's are attired in'
their ordinary, everyday habiliments, but
real,live, aboriginal. omens, where each
individual one is rigged out in all 'the pomp
and glory of war • paintand feathers and:
fantastic garbs -many half naked; their
bronzed bodies partly hidden bystreaksof
vermilion and yellow and blue and white
and daubs of paint of all imaginable • and
unimaginat"de gaudy hues • They carry no
tomahawks, and -their guns are laid' aside;
but they present no less aleme and warlike
appearance because thesafamiliar Weapons
are wanting. • Sitting around in a • circle.
these fantastically decorated sons :of
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the forest.* eqUit, tailor fishiOe; and
as the tom-tom, respcinding to the.
quickly plied stick in • a . dozen
willing. hands, gives forth a monotonous
sound, assimilating- with the chanting
accompaiiimentome fierce brave starte Up
and .leads of in the 'mazes of iliadance.'
then another and another, till a. more- or
.ihore of the savages are keeping tread to
the not over exhilarating. music. Then a.
rest :fellows and the tom -tom -ceases its
dreary din, But 11 10 for a moinent
otily-
a wild whoop -and Manitobanese ' darts
.fotwardireciounting his heroic deeds. As
he :finishes • the tom-tom again strikes up
its monotene,and many braves join in the
preliminary.dance that leads to the war-
path. %Pio darts here With uplifted min
and snake -like foOvenient '118 1! in pursuit
of an imaginary foe.; another crestm
stealthily.along, hiding himself as it were
from the enemy ; another covers the
retreat, and in All shapes and 'figutes they
imitate the manoeuvring of Indian warfare.
The torn-tom.beats louder; the voices &ant
stronger and the Blimp shrill yells of the
inspired warriors become frenzied shrieks;
:while the: dance le made more:madly wild
-and the strangely ;attired -figures mingle
-wierdly in the scene. Another rest and up
springs. Right-up-in-the-Skynot a very
tall man, as his name Would indicate: He
tells how he had taken the :mains of seven
Sioux --.the hereditary foe of the Ojibbe-
ways--two near Fort Garry, tivo:at Grand.
Forks and . another on the Plains. His
deeds of valor recited; the war dance is
resumed and'oontinueswith unabated vigor
for a few minutes. Clear 'SkY, following
his firmarnentiy named. comrade recounts
his .exploits -he also had killed seven -
and the dance is again resumed. .A.nother
rest and Floating Lily -a brawny chief,
Ivhose untrousered blue and white Under
gaiment floating to the breezeshould have
mere apprepricttely• mined' him Floating
Shirtaildarts into 'the centre of his
admiring brethren, and tells that although
in hicefirst battle with the hated Sioux. he
had been unsuccessful, in the Second fray
he had cantered six 'scalps and one in the
third, and, he perorates, that is the
reason these ,quills -are on my head, a mark
of what.I have done." Another frenzied
yell, in admiratien of his 'valorons deeds,'
andthe dance again goes Madly on. The
• ton:I:tom beats its loudest; the chanting
'increases in volume, the movements of the
dancershome more energetic, and, in a
perfect pandemonium o yells, the war
danee of•the Cjibbeways comes to 5, sudden
end.--1Finnipe# Tines. " • ' •
. . .
Why do so many soldiers die on the
battle field? Because •their wounds are
fad, some will say. But that bra mistake.
'thousands of soldiers die, not because their
wounds are fatal; but because of the &M.-
celty Whieh. prism in. regard' if) the arresting
the fiotv Of blood. There are a great many
arteries in the body; and a French military
Burgeon propesed to tatto sonothing on
each artery, so that the wounded soldier
'may be able to compress the artery and
stop the bleeding until the surgeon &trivet;
A: despot& dated August 3rd, free Fort
Assinihoine, says " There is not the
slightest doubt but that the surrender of
Bitting Bull is wholly attributable to the
able and untiring efforts of Col. Irvine,
Commissioner of the Northwest Mounted
Police. Col. Irvine has labored unceasingly"
to bring about thie desirable 'state- of
affairs.. The Canadian Government aid
well be oaMy cat Col. Irvine's policy with
Bitting Bulk."
--Eight 'hundred cigar Makers are on
Strike in Detroit for higher *ages, and
that they 10 paid in; cash:
Ammormaimeennimemeemm
'LEA TAMA& GOSSIP.
"miaow, wAlt,iviiry;
...11••••14,
TilliartitYteAYIrlrilosslInzaid-arflge4114inaglyd07s:
look for EsirnIssero Men,
A few years ago black walnut *as a drug
on the market, and was not at all popular
With furniture =flatlet -firers and. dealer%
but recently it has been SO univoreallY
sought for and used eo extensively for
almost every kind of furniture, that latterly
it has become very scarce, and now it is
!mind next to impoesible to obtain a WIAM-
oient supply tomeet the increasing demand,
at almost any cost. An idea of its scarcity
and value may bedigained when Oloo per
thousand feet has 'Dean paid this year for
the Immo axiality and quantity of black
walnut as could be purchased last year for
$70. The rapidityat which the supply
has decreased is owing to tha impetue the
trade has received through the organization
of a large number of extensive furniture
companies in the United _States, The
immense number of sewing machines (the
wood -work of Which has been manufactured
frorn black walnut) that have been annu-
ally turned out both itt the States and in
Canada is one of the principal mune of
the rapid consumption. A. prominent
dealer in the city dated to a. Globe reporter
that there are now ten anxious buyers
distributed throughout the States to every
one there was two years ago, and that
there is more difficulty in procuring a few
thousand feet of the precioris lumber
now than there was in Immuring
halfe, million 'feet three years ago. , When
walnut fire cameto be used it was
obtained in large quantities from Port
Stanley, the counties of Hent, Essex and
-South Micithesex,--randlt also grew in abun-
dance on the banks of the Thames River,
Ont.; but now the Canadian supply is
exhausted, and lately it has been obtained
from the State of Indiana. There was molt
a, great similarity between the wood,of the
two eountries that manufacturers had no
°holm, and paid the same price for either.
Since the Canadian supply has failed the
immense drain on the forests of the State
of Indiana, has caused the aupply to give
out there, and now the walnut (which is of
a lighter. shade and consequently not so
good) ie obtained from the States of 'Arkan-
sas, Kentucky, ROAMS and South Ten-
nessee,
Mr. Hay, of Toronto, states that when.
he first came to Canada, walnut was .used
for. rail fences: ' • •
The principal value of walnut is that it
is an excellentwood for furniture and is
handsome in appearance. It has a close
grain,cis not liable to he affectedbychanges
of temperature, and at the same time is
not hard to work, which renders it a very
valuable timber economically. Another
reason why it is so expensive is that it has.
to be hauled a great distance by teams
before a railroad can be reached.
- • A SUBSTITUTE.
Butternut has been considered au excel-
lent substitute for walnut, but as it can
seldom be obtained without flaws, it will
never fill the place of the tithe-hem:red
walnut. Besides this it is also very,'searce,
arid is gradually increasing in price.
'Cherrywood, which is as enduring as
• walnut,and. which has been rapidly grow-
ing in favor with' furniture dealers, -has,
doubled in pride within the last two years
on account of its mei:Hy. ,
TEE itEMEBT.
If Walnut is not replanted at on*, the
outlook for good furniture in the 'future will
be very dreary. 11 11 were planted along
the shores of Lake Erie or in the .counties.
before mentioned, or in any part of the,
Province west Of Toronto, in twenty years'
tirae it would pay 62000 per cent., so saye
an old arborkulturist. In the meantime
'the prospect is gloomy lathe extreme, and
dealers look forward tila.apeedy and com-
plete exhaustion '5! the supply.--,Terento
Globe: . .
Motel Keepers:.
. (Johnny. Bouquet in N. Y. Tribune.)
• "Mine host ". was once a terni of mean-
ing when tavern keepers were not above
their trade,and the pest found at the
doer a plain, well-fed man,' With honest
eyes, who took his baggage orliis hand and
said, " Now„come to me if anything gees
wrong.", In thesedays somebarkeeper
turned great man has replaced the host,
whose ambition it. is to appear to do.
nothing and to look' Mighty and iritenec-
tual, as if a glorious- ancestry kept 'his
impnlsiveness_in. check.' Som& of these
parv.enusrun foto or five hotels and 'spend
most of their time travelling between them,
instead of looking after the personal comfort
of the bird theyhave caught. The wordtable
d'hote they are now affecting means the
table of the host's family, at which he pre-
sides and earves,but the average host now -
a -days is so ashamed of his guests' that he
hides his family like a MeXieall or Brazil-
ian grandee from the sight ,of travellers,
Women have .an opening in the hotel
business here as in England. They are not
hotel speculators, and are 'willing to
undergo a host's responsibilities. At
Brighton, England, which is the largest
watering place on the globe, with above
100,000 permanent residents, the chief
duties of hotels are performed by women
mainly; the porter's 'work excepted. Whe
hotels frequently send the • guest out
• to one of the thousands 'of clean private
dwellings, where for from 15 to 30 shillings
a week room and attendance &refurnished.
British extortion, so celebrated. among
Americans, omits the exasperating Bonin -
teflon here, but more boldly expresses
itself in the tariff. The British hotel sys-
tem, rapidly intruding here, is popular with
landlords as a means of greater. revenue ;
in general the same cooking is served as at
the publics table, but with higher tariffs on
the various diebee. Wine, which is the
matter of greatest profit to the foreign
landlord,ie of small relative censumption
here ; a profit of about $10 a base is made
upon champagne. Claret, which costa 40
cents a- quart bottle' from the groeer, 10
oharged111 and upward at the hotel table.
• The Qu en's Doctor.
It was announced the other day that the
Queen had appointed "Dr. Reed, of Ellon.,"
to be physician to the royalitt
- household,
place of Dr. Marshall, which moans that
Dr. Reed will have to be in constant 'resi.
dence wherever the 'Court may happen to
.be. It naturally causes somestoprise that
Her Majesty should pick out a naedical
man from an obscure town in Aberdeen-
shire, but tlie post is a somewhat arduous
one. When the' Queen went to Italy Di.
Meehan was granted a month's holidayS
(his first for several years), tler Majesty
being accompanied by Sir William jenner,
btit within a week a telegram summoned
Dr. Meehan to Zaveno. It turned out
that a faithful retainer of nor Majesty, of
the name of Brown, wee suffering from
some slight temporary indisposition, and as
he scouts any professional man raised
south of the • Grampians he would brave
nothing te say to SirVilliam Wenner, but
clamored for Dr. Marshall, who came at
tho Queen's eXtunase.-London Truth.
A.Billline been introdueed in the Georgia
'Legislature making the preaching of
Morhionieni or the decoying of emigrants
punishable by $1,000 line and .one year's
imprisonment
-Green oorn and green -apples are akin.
-,E4ohange. And the mean boy is akin 10
tackle them- "
-A West end young roan cane his sweet-
heart " Silence," because When be wanta
to kiss her :do "gives content,"
-Says G. A. Sala; "ie object of all
&vile ' in cookery is to provoke thirst and,
to incite the guests to drink heavily."
-The Mem is the name of a new
temperance paper pnblished in Toronto.
It is edited by Mr. William Burgess.
-Hecent tests phew no perceptible
change in the strength and elasticity of
ken after fifty years of bridge service.
-A Buffalo girl will not have her wedding
dress made in that city, for fear somebody
will say she was married in a buffalo robe.
• -Pineapple shortcake is one of the new
departures in cooking, Butthe old veteran,
huddeberry pudding, still holdslits own
-The polo quadrille, just introduced at
the watering places, is much like the old.
basket quadrille, and the feature it a very
rapid all hands Mud.
-As a rule girls rather like, military
men, but they •universally complain of
General Indisposition when asked by their
mothers to help wash the dishes. .
-" air. Smith, father would like M bor-
row your paper; he only wants to read it."
"Well, go back and tell your father to
send me his supper. Tell him I only wane
to eat
-A strange astronomical phenomenen is
men in the fact that when the- irate' father
fakes down his trunk Oran there is liable
IQ be spots on the son.
-The giraffe is a Very timid animal.
Efis neck is to long that when his heart
conies up to his month it takes Iiim. half a
day to get it back where it belongs,
-Sounds near the pyramids: "Myclank
good donkl" "My denk he speck Inglem t
He very good!" "Sty donk name Yank'
Doodlei Have thy donk?"
-A woman may der in excuse for h*
red nose that she lame too tightly, but
what shall a man say ?-Rochester Express.
Well, old fellow, what would You say your-
self ?
• -,-This is the latest Western.form •of -
saying a ',Man was hanged :7 "He was;
unanimously chosen by a convention of six
property-holdera to jump from a new pine
platform into the sweet subsequently."
-We shall have a no* comet on exhibi-
tion in abciut ten days, when the fiery
visittm now being examined by the astrone-
merawill be visible to the naked eye in the
norehern sky. - • •
-" Tommy, did ,you not hear your
mother call yon?" "Corse I did 1" "Then
why don't you go to her at Once ?'"4 Wel1.
yer see, obeli' nervous, and it'd sheik her
awful 'fi-should go too suddenly,"
-It is Said the children are ," dying like
flies" in Brooklyn, and the cause is a mys-
tery. It is suggested that bad milk May be.
a fertile 08,1180, or too much ice water. .
They die frcim similar causes in this neigh-
borhood, . • .
•' showerof meteors regularly seiatt
in this month will take place from the 8th
to the 12th. ' Unfortunately the moon will
he verybright aboutthis time, afid' motel*
hunting will therefore not be very interest-
ing„except perhaps. on the morning of the
. ,
-A abeacf" Warning tobibulotia folks is
telegraphed from New BrunswickN.J., as '
follows : AnnietPowers, of this city, died
to -day from the effects of tartaric:amid `
poisoning front " lemonade," of which she -,
-drank fifteen:: glasses., at an: .oxetthi, .
recently. ° -- • .
-A toreign exchange,in &MOM on
made Rays: Ae-in cookery,- so in musk,
the question may be asked,.''What goes
with what?" So far acI summer.musio 10
concerned, it ma' be said that the same
nights that produce the cats produce the •
accordeonee. '
-A queer eery is told from, oronto of
a man.named Loud= selling his wife and
children to a man named Elaine% The
wife bad deserted her husband. for Haines. .
Failing to induce her to return, Loudon
handed her and his children over to Hainea
on the receipt of $5,
-The mighty have fallen 1 Edward
Hanlan, the oarsman, has been summoned ,
fOr selling liquor on Sunday. en Toronto
Island, and his brother John is also sum-
rnoned on four charges el selling liquor
without a, hoense. - *
-On account 'of intuitionalism we have
relapsed into utilitarianism, or universal- .
istio hedonism. This gratifying statement .
• is made on the authoritY of a professor of
• philosophy at Concord. It is too,
--Little Johnny had been caught by kb
aunt teasing a fly. "Johnny,"said -she,
"'supposing some great beast a thousand
times bigger than yourself should tease
you, and perhaps eat you all up ?" "1
hope," said Johnny, "he'd feel as bad as I.
do when, I swallow a ffy."
• •-:" Hi Where did you get them
trousers 2". asked an Irishman .of a man
who happened M be passing with a, remark-
ably. short pair of tremors. "1 got them
where they grew," • was the indignant
reply. "Then, by my• conscience," ssaa
Pat, "you've pulled them a year tcip soont9' •
aoseearrnvrare's sonn.
• o come out of ft,
Come out of it, my Soul, thou are not at
For thls vile trafficehous0, where day by day.
Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart,
And the rude people rage with ignorant cries
Agatmars
innhyaeoritira: wie
ageofcieorntfuorri:ins
It
earas.01 itre•
And loftiest culture 1 would stand apart, •
Neither for God, no_rfoosrearhislovnizedme,ie.
tsnacaikatio..
*-:-There is a war among the weather
prophets, *Simmer predicts one sort of
weather for August, De Voe, tlie jersey •
meteorologist, another and the Weather •
Department a third. And, in the mean
time, the average citizen le made thoroughly
aware of the fact that it is hot.
-Alcoholic fermentation generated fez
the roots of apple trees has been found by
Dr. Van Tieghem to be often the cause of -
disease in such trees. As the roots do not
sometimes receive enough of oxygen in wet
weather, drainage is the remedy recent--
mcnaca,
--I correspondent of the New York
Eoenino Post asks if any one ..pan give him
the authorship of the following striking
lined :
Below the dark waVos, \viler° the dosage down*
ThOto are gulfs Of night more deep.?
but little dbi:o they Whom tho waves once drawl
How far from the -light they sleep.
But whd, in sorrow though he be, .
rears not 5 deopor still '?
Ali, Goa. 1 that sorrow Wm% like the salt se
wa,
hese topmost waters kin.'
-The -Coin for soldiers
raweob' Strauss. The cain, for musicians-.
the lire, -Boston Courier. The coin fat
Congressinen--the francs.--Ifilt and Was.
dein, The eoin for telescopists-s fax.
thing. The coin for authors -e, pow.ela ?-
Now York grantne Post. The oom tor the
lawyers-tnee anything that will pailerst •
the bar.-Radietter Express. The coin for
everybody -common cents.