The Sentinel, 1883-02-23, Page 34
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A Fititlikces Ode to 11.1 Old Fiddle.,
-Porn0.
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W0/11,. -
Oppressed I triourn
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!;Bad,
Sad,
Three- waiters Mad.
Money gone,
Credit none,
Di4us. at door,
- a score;
Wife gone larne• g
Others
Nurse a -railing;
/31,-4y whooping, .
•alaby. owl:ming;
Besides peter Joe, .•
. With festered toe.
(Tame, my thne-worn friend,
_ With gay and brilliant sounds
Thy sweet, yet ttransient olace lend,
Thy polished neck in cloSe embrace .
elesp, while itly inllnlea my face.•
hen., o'er thy strings. I draw ,ray bow,
• A.13r drooping spirit . pants to rise:
•• A iiVeiy Strala.., tot/WY, and. la
I seeni to mo.nrit above the skies
Where on Fancy's wings _ I War. -
Heedless of the ditn4 at door— b
ObtLvical, all, 1 foel )y woes no more,
It "skip e'er 'the strings,
As ley Oa fiddle sings, • •
Cheerily oh xnerrily • go
. lgotid master
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AN, - •1 will t,tind music
ff you will find bow.
. From upto al;tcy,taG downlVelow.''
Fatigued,1 pause ta change the time, •
• For some adagio' solemn and sublime,
-With graceful action moves. the arm -
My„heakt, respondS to the' soothing charm,
Throb s eumi ; health -corroding . carp
jos, -ftnquished L the soft ruelifinoiis
Afore plaintive gro:tyu ray veil'
And „resi.piation sooths • my wrinkled - brow,
iteedT hautlroy i1ayrtiqueit4-, flute May squall,
The serpeLlt grunt, and the trombon e ba•Wle
Lrt L y Ain, my old fiddle, Prince of all,
it Dryden return, thy praise ro-
hearse,-Ilis Ode te Cecilia Would seem,
raggc,4 e
verse' 'viow to the ea,qe -in
f•
flarnief waini to lie, Tin cratea .
again- to pipe tthy niastoi,s :axe,
F-Apolio.
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BIRD FLI1E4.
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y Zia Combination of "Wings will
Enable atillanto Ely:
The 1.c,Yadon„ Eng4nter; in a review of the
vitriou'e hying 'meettirtes .that- have been
invented(rtemes to ; the conclOeiop that 0.
succeestel one la a physical
and that the -attempt to deviseone moat
elaied with Wilch delasione as the
• _Eleakoh for the philosopher's stone or the
• secret of perpetual •raotion. ;No- coral:dna=
tion of --wiegs will enable a Man to fly till
he cen:wield them with as inuah Muscular
epower to the pound of weight ea . a bird
exerts in flying. it Man had in his legs
theenausculaa energy ahdleveeage bf a flea,
he could. inrap a mile- irti three baps.; and
; if hie arms bad in proportion to MS weight
the driving pewer of a wild pigeon's- wing,
-he would have no nse • for railwayor hal-
loees- The trenipartationproblena -Would be
solved. Mairtni hirneelf so eatillyandswiftly
he w.celid -not tneed to 1330VO* anything else
The albatross, - twenty-eight
pomade., czta keep its wings, thirteen -feet
fronaltiei to tip, in motion all day, while the
strongest man, weighing six or eight times
as Much, would exhauat all his Strength in
keeping even an albrierosS? wifigs in motion
for half an hour. at We have in the bird,"
says _the, Engineer, :“ a machine burning
concentrated fuels in at large grata at a
tremencleue rete, and • develaaing 'a very
targepoeter in a emall spa.ce. There is. no
▪ engitie iu cxitlfence, certainly no steam
eni.....inteited boiler cerahmed, which, weight
'for Neiglit,-; gives out anything. Iike- the
. • mechanical power exhibited by the alba-
tross.?' ,Qoasequently no machinery yet
'theiriSed can operate wings with safficleut
6 power to•tnistain ite;own weight in -the air,
iTtid. thereat no blown nItioltinery by which
a man can wield the force necessary to -fly
like a bird. Keely'S areged discovery, or
seine new prodess o storing and exertingT
greet and -electric power in epparattet of
light weight, might fsuppbr the deficieecy,
but science -las not learned how to detelop
-iiriiaraete machinery anything like the
mig,hteie nervous energy whieh.E4ets in the
'bones, sinews ail Muscles of a 1iv.14 bird'a
- wing. .- '
• - The *41a..Eater.
A. RAT PULL OF 1'1014484E8.
. GETIRSIERA:NS.
-guie-Cruvic. e .01 *Merl& and Row ffAite Among the Trappist 20 unke n
, . . e• ' :' 1
• „. 1 •. the Trick was Played,- .i .• likenntaky.„I
• (llo *Ville, Cor. New York T, • ties) '
:Fie* people; even in Kentuck Iknewthat
only a short journey frinn, this Hefty there
fiontishes a monastery of Trapp' t Menke.
ham
.et is situated in a:little ha. iet iii the
southern- pith of Nelson cOti -0y.,- Ky., °ti-
the Louisville & Nashville .1,041Tp-ad; about -
e0 miles south Of bete. 'EXtOnelly the
menagtery reeembles any other 0 but ..When.
-the doors are once passed the., .1 itor feels
as if he had stepped Woe inte•,1 e r.aiddle -
ages. The•visitor is courteous received
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and given -& cot in a cell. 1A1 Midnight
-he', is awakened. by . the 4 11 which
-calls the inonks to the midnigh [Mess. The
meaks continue at, their-: devot4ons abbot
six arta e half hoursesand then they march
in silent - procession .:to the eh ter room:
• Here they meet every raorem , and . here
punishment ..- is 'meted foiehalI offences
against the rules. --: The abot'sI.ahair is an
elevated throne, and in walki to his seat
. the abbot passed over his own grave. The
.Culprit who awaits judgmept,a1O atabds on
this terrible spot For -punieh`nerit, some
are fiep4ved Of - their impale or a day;
others are ordered -t� - preetrate temselves-
on the floor- while the monks alk over
then!: . - When et decision is give the -dello-.
Tient .- never murmurs, but i , niediately
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sets about its folfilreent. e . -I! • 1
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13-,, an apoientrule of the ordr all -Trap-
pist monasteries are builti ' t • form of a
quadrangle, *closinga coue, All'around
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this court extends the'eloisteri Bed by the
monks as a promenade. Here. he inuiates
7neveespeak: not even to 140 /131 lioi do
they in thierefeptory,.clorinitory, r churches.
In the graveyard back of _the o -uech is the
tomb of Mts. NaticyMilete end y her. side.
the remains of.. Mrs. Mary Br Iford, only
sieter., of , Jefferson DaVis.1..E We monies
grave is marked by a black Oro , 'on which
Latest trout Manitoba.' ' in White letters, is painted hie nionaetery
- A Winnipeg telegram says: It is reported nitine:' At the '' foot of ecic - grave is
here that Mr. E. Pe Leacock; . M. P. .P1 e stool, which the monks :Us od- in pray -
foe B rtle Will succeed -Senator Girard. as i4negadffarretheuotsOianlaaiobsef dtiiines(16. doP rn,te. db .0 t- Theare
ernm, et . - -
Mini- ter ;if Agriculture in.th• - . e Local Gov -
simply wrapped in -their gowns nd buried.
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The City QOuncil et -its meeting last night When a death occure, :a heel?. Rep is bi-
inetructed-a specialcominittee and the City • inediatelY opened for the 0
, one ' who
Seliciitor to dealt a. .memorial to the Dom- Passes away. In the dermit. ryeeach monk
*ion Goverrmaent _asking that immediate has a cell with walls of heavk fire -brick,
steps betaken -to have . an accurate 'survey coubainink an iron cot. • ,The rOnk always
of the Bed River Made neipb ofWinnipeg, sleeps with his clothes onj1 *e regular
With e. view to .deepening . and widening it time far rising is. never later than 2O'olock,
to prevent e. rePetition oktlie floecla a last` but on feast days it is- two th ' rs sooner.
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A eebbety committed finder peculiar and
iudicious circumstances was on Tuesday
evening explained to the Central adze
autherities in New -York. Tbc,ittOry.top
by the Mende of the viiitim isethet on
Friday afternopn' well,dreEised stranger
entered the grocery store at the cerear of
West Televenth and Washington- streets,
and asked John H. Von Dohlen, the pro-
prietor, who was then behind ',the. counter,
to change a ten dollar bill: The grocery-
eiEiii took a roll of bilis from hiorpocket and
gave his.visitor two five dollar ,. There
,was all about 3O0 in the bundle of green.-
be,elts which Von Dohlen foolishly dieplayedt
A short tithe afterward' two young men
neat1y4reesed walked into the store: They
appeared pita merry and 'laughed I loudly.
One of them. said to Von bohlen. that they
had madea rather odd bet and wanted him
to settle -it. Von Dohlen asked the nature
-of the bet-, -whereupon he was :told that
they desired - to know which of their bete
would. hold the Most .molatises.J The
aroceryman laughed, but when one of the
.15t'trEtngorit- gave hina his hat ittla §aid he
would!. pay for the • molaesee used Von
°hien began filling it with the . oyrup.
hen the hat- hadbeenfilled to the brim
Von Dohlen gave it back to the stranger.
A second after one of the grabbed the
storeteeper about the arms; while his com-
rade pteced the. hat • filled 'with molasse.s
on _hie head. They then rifled his pockets
and reheaeti him of - his roll of greenbacks.
Afterliecuring. theenioney. the men ran out
of the store, and ;Von Dohlen; although
nearly smothered, . Started in' pureuit, but
after „ratauieg Severa1. blocks: gaveupthe
chaset As the trick is new the police are
anxiu to -diseover -the ingenioue young
men. -
The superatition of the sin -eater in Wales
is attic' to linger even nowa in the secluded
vaie.of Cvein-Arean, in Caermarthenshire.-
Themeaning of thie most singular institu-
tion a 'superstition was that when a per-
son died the friends sent for the sin -eater
of the distriet, who, on his arrival,eplaced
a elate of Batt ana bread on the breast of
the deceased peraorre he . then uttered - in
incantation over the. bread; after which he
peoeeededto eat it, -thereby eating the sins
of the dead person ;ethis done, he received
a fee of two -and -sixpence, which, we sup --
potter, was much -more than many a preacher
. - receeeedeffer. a long, •and . painful service.
•• H814let received. this, he SEiliwiftly
as possible, all the feiendeand relatives 91
the departed aiding his exit With blows and
. kicks and other indications of -tteir •--faith
in the service he had rendered. A. hun-
dred <years since, and through ethe ages
, beyond that time, we suppose t is curious
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- - superstition, was everywhere pre alent.
new to -Square Numbets .
- The; new method , for squaring numbers,
-invented by Mr. -Botts, of. the Williams
College freshman . class, is BA folleivs :
'Beginning at the left, multiply, the double
c a each digit of the -given num.ber by the
euun'eaer representedlby the -Preceding digits,
and write each product underithose already
obtaine -n such a way that its right-hand
sii
- taure all be two places to the right of
• .e - _
theright and-figiere a the preceding pro-
duct. Then square each digit Successively,
• beginning at the right, and place the right--
- haled figure Of the result one place to
the right of the right -band figure., of the.
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last product before 'obtained, and the iight-
hand figura of eaeh [ sueceeding square two
e places to the left °Ohs right-hand figure of
the -preceding squaee. Add the -columns
togetheir, and the result -will be the r%cipired
- square. . .
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• --7,03ae, of the besiof /ivinget Oati-
11.0t carve turkey.:,
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• the following artisiti -have been engaged
topaintsceneryforthe CinoinnatiDramatia
Festival: Voeghlein, Maeder, - Harley
-Meery,lEloyt, Witat‘11 and Grate -her. „
•—"How did- we come to possess oir
present armee?" is one eif the questions by
the editor of Nature. -Can't say, sir.
spring. - . , 'Iii these cells,• every Friday iiniglit .1 the
i Onebaindrad and_ Any 7newatoys wera nafi s„„scolrge themselves it alnotted
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.entertaited to . a festival last night •-in.-ww-r) w- nntnY laAille5 in Hall
brance '31
the scourging -.of the Stavio . Exeept by
Selkirk Hall by Slate- Pitblado, wife' of the
a physician's prescription nk ' never
of St. Andrew's Church. lieutenant -
tastes -Meat a any kind, fish, eggs. butterGovernor Aikine presided, and jcistice
Tayloand Other speakers addressed -the or laed. Their diet i is exclustyely .vege-
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boys. The hostess was presented with two.
table. NO stimulants, not pen tea or
coffee or tobacco, are Used iikerfy feriae. „In
. pieces of silver as a mark a. appreciation
the dining-eoom each monk a. Provided
• of her kindness-- - '• ' • - '
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with a. tin plate and a. woe*, ' fork and
spoon. From September I4th 'a Ash Wed-
nesday- . only' One meal a da As allowed.
'Prim Easter Sunday until po ember 1.4th
they eat two ' meals -dailyrbia , at 11 and,
the other at 6 O'clock: Fe' vim years.
those who wish . to enter it 6 kth trial and
all ithe. hardships are pu ipou them.
;They can go. away any day during. - this
period if they desire, but when i:the time of
probation is over they take .flEal vow and
are - irrevocably _sundered tfroii the world:
-There araeabout sixty inoiike in ,this mon-
astery. Only two AniericaMi let 1meg to the.
Order, ane from Selma, Vat,loai d the other
from Philadelphia. • A. reinark _ble- Tule of
the Order is that which .1 P $cludes :all:
ilm4les from enteripg the abi, save only
the Wife of the rifler of • the ;tion. The
Gethiemane .: Abbey:, owns 1,8)0 acres. Of
landehalf of whiou'AS: in -' s te of:high
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Presoine the tailor ''didn't know you. - -
The Local Legislature has again been
p• rorogued.until the lQth of March, and it
is not stated that it_ will then meet for -the,
despatch of lbusiness. . • -
Aman named Stixsinith, supposed to be
from Mount yordst, iOnt., while 'Working
in a well on. the -farm of John Barton, six
miles westof Wolseley, bear Regina, struck
gas, and before the rope could be low, eked
he became„. powerless, owing • to. the gas.
The body has not yet been recovered. 1 '
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Prof: E Stone Wiggins, of Ottawa, is
reported as saying thee' the gale blowing at
that city yesterday freni: the k west was the
reflection of his storm from. the Rooky
Mountains. The se,oem -must consequently:
have croesed this Meridian west over the
Gulf of Mexico early -this „morning, and is
now on its eastern course'via Quebec to. the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The professor says
this storm isaneof the most -dangerous to.
shipping that he has weer -predicted ancr
• must Already have -been disestrotia
North Atlantic. - .
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Crow it Rave • a _Lave Meal.
The weather isextremely. cold in owe:,
The Newton, Ia.; Journal says: "One of
tlae remarkable incidents of the present
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spelk of severe cold, weather is the fact that
erptvie are actuellSefeeding off the bodies of
1i hogs in the stock yards in thia city,
and several .large fat .hpgs there have at
thiitme large hciles an inch or entire deep
tt.bittet the shotildere that have been bored
into thein_by the bills of the crows.: The
belief is --that the Crows- are so nearly
started to death that they have adopted
this plan. Boys have -been hired to .shoot
-the crows congregate in large num-
,bers--tci keep them from utterly destroying
the hook."
_ The Great Cold out West.'
• S'ayii the Brandon Sun: The 'extra-
oedinary average Of thirty-two and a -half
degrees below zero was the result- of the
mettiorelegicalebservations takeo at Preirie,
College, Rapid City, during the --week end
ing We.dnesday, the 24th ult. The highest
reading for the week -ware 17 and the lowest.
49.5., • A record' ..sueli as this.approaches
perEcusly near to the. appalling. We are
glad to be able to qualify, to some, extent,
the terrors. it is calculated to excite by the
information that the cold was, not oidy
exceptionally severe but of exceptionally
'Iongicluration. . Nothing hasbeen
-known for years. • • -
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Since the British occupation Of Cyprus
very aittle. systematic attempt has been
made to excavate the archceologicel treas.
am' of the soil; but Wherever the ground
is probed it yields fruit, and -the result of -a
recent diggiing on smell Scale at .Salamis
has just arrived at the British Museum, in
the _shape of a consignment . of curious
snaallhalf-round figures in terra Otte, for
the most part draped female divinities
holding various attributes, and .scimewhet,
rudely modelled according to archaic-typese.
though the execution itself . does not'
Apparently- date fronka-very early- period.
"Revolutionists," Said Dumas; "are a
good deal -like the .street -sprinklers. They
can make it needely in sunshine, but they
can't map sunshine When it is muddy."
- The Medical Press relates that at Chetiter,
.England, an inquest was held• over the
Is of a inan evirehacl beeo racire Al' less
/Ire k for forty consecutive years.... -He, his
fe ande his son had been inthe habit.of
drinking the droppings of various. tap
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.1eltiVISDNe
A WrIbknorin -Adventurer Gone to Ws
. _Last Accottifi. -
.The recentdeath of e.eotOrioue adven-
turer named Denison has .brought to light
the fact they the young .man was actually
;elatedto the aristocratic family whose
patronymic he. always bore, but also revivee.
a whole host of . steties which reflect
nothing but -.discredit open- the 'scion of
'nobility. It appears -that he was a son of
-Lord Londesborough e His lather Was a
member of the Cunningham family, but
elttinged his name to-Denieon an receivirg-
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a legaoy.'. When Lord Londesborough died.
young Denison's Mother married Lord
Fitzgerald, betweenwhom and his • step-
children- much ill -feeling 'exiated. -. At 18
years of age the young man was required
by his stepfather to enter the arrafyebut
.this he refused to do, and ran away to
Belgium.. Here he was • reducedto such
straits, that he was compelled to dispose
of all his -persontil property, and. so, as
a last resort, he , shipped . on 'a
teseel to Philadelphia . as a cabin
boy He • He • .lended • there penniless, and
'accepted employment at picking straw
berries, making from 10 to 25 cents a .day.
This means of livelihood eoulde not lest
long of 'course; .'and. --he was: compelled to
write to his stepfather for assistance, and.
was granted an annuity of . 2100 Until- he
.beeame Of age. Then followed -the methods'
of existence which ga-ve him • etch an in-
4neriable- notoriety in Canada - and . the..
States, where he visited most of the -.prin.
eipal'cities, and xelped It rich harvest
everywhere Until at length in each Case he
Was discovered as a dead beat In 1881 he
returned to England 'and obtained some of
-the private fortune tliat belonged to/ him.
While on this visit he received a. document
from a Welsh lady reoornmending him to
all Patriotic Welshmen, veldoli -afterward
,proved of great - valae to him. Shortly
after his return to this continent his meant.]:
again became exhausted, and in "roughing
it" in the Weetern States. he contracted
pulmonary disease. that -eventuelly. took
him off. Arriving at Denver he secured a
situation as an express driver, but after-
ward WOrlesclan a sheep reatch. Alma a
*year ago, being taken .suddenly ill; hewent
to beard with - a, Welshman named. Jones,
Who cared for him .until his death. - •
cultiVatipn. • - •
' STORING WITIfi
Inwardness of the Aleniteeeles
eon cfeternment.:-Whatr
Wants '
to DentinDhtiliers
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_ A fllistaken Marriage,.
_Some time ego . a gentleinan well known
ardong commercial travellers stopped it a
boarding -lionise noted for old-timeSilvere
ware :and deep dishes. The house was
operated -by a widow,; with whom Juckles,
the traveller, fell very nauch in love, that
is Ceimmeroially in love; .:- fiiijuckles has a
wide open - eye for !business. ." What e -fine
house this wOOld. be," , he mused. "-The
Widevi isvery handsome -add hiefft saY
particular education, but hanged if . itdon't
stand . a Diftli'i.hand to neitke the best shift
he can. I'll marry this Woman and have -a
.horae:" .". . . , • - - .' ' - -
Next evening he requested a -business
interview With the woman, and while they
were seated in the parlor, Jnekles,- who Can
be*ery tender, . Said: . - ; : .* ‘,... • .
- "Mrs. Hotsch, during my very sbort.etay
in this house. I haVebegrime very ranch
attached to you." . - .
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. " Lor,..Mr.. Jevekles,"- • . • - - -
-" Yea; my dear Mrs.- Iletsol, I am a pecu-
liar man and my love is inexplicable," and
he looked at the furniture. ' -"T have -never
been in love before." , '
. ": Lor, Mr.. jackles." : .
.• "'New; youarea VIOMIM of klub and 'I
-loVe you with -e devotion that . knows no
imitation; that ciannotbe. drowned:" -
• "Lor," exclaimed Mrs.. HOtsol throwing
hefself. into his arms, "1 never thought
that a rich streak of luck would _strikeme,"
1.11hey were married the following *night,
and the next day Meg. jueleleFe said: "1
didn't know what I was a-goin'. to do, but
Providence has. rotrided: you see I WaS
.p y
hired to run.this house while the owner
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.was away." juckles turned, away and
- - - woman whose husband- had 'died in peni-.
The Buffalci Expriss An &Pier- weeped.„ He had married' a "servant
entlyerather astomehed. press agent tele-,
tentiary.
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FUTURE FOOD OF TUE itnisre
Rtcommeading th7—Substitoition et 07,*;11
. tor Potatees-in Ireland.
A Mr. Robert D. Lyons, writing tti .
Louden: (gne..). Mail from Dublin, t .„
the date of &tonere, :-15th; says: f"
question - of. future food titipply of the -
people has, :so far as I am aware, no
been dealt- With. eIt is one, .howeve eel*Fe
the greatest poisibleinaportanCe, and veh?,,
has been forcibly called up before nay Oiel
in recent travels throughout Irelanalb, y •
ehefailute of the potato; which has neta .
estimated- , at over 2000,000. &WO* '
researches at the Cork Model Firm
that. every variety of the potato has ieVeei
.affecthd by the wetness of the .segdeaa
We have -passed through, the f e
of the- "Champion," the "Regent "Hiid
other varieties is .maihly chargeable t
the , distress, both present and pre
tive. Now, Chan this - already deprOe ,
population be lefteto its :own device*, tee
follow a blindroutinearid plant the Itied
of a tuber which'has left them in. -flael ' a
sore plight? I think it must be tidmt'_.0
that We cannot hope for an -abundant CR .
in the coming year from the seed ' nett•el tin !
the people's'. tends, if indeed,. in the We-;e7et-
dietricts any appreciable quantity .
trithall be found available by Rt. Pate, 'er .:
-Day -(M.ereli 17th), :thee usual tim -ger
potato -planting: in : Ireland. -I cope
that,. after , the most. prOlomid ty131.
sideration which' I• can give. to the t,halie
-ject, lam forced to conclude that the Oieeh
people would be Well advised. co 0.4t .
another staple article of food, .aad pat -
forthwith for its extensive substitati4e_
the.potate. - I:Certainly should not ree' e
Mend more than half the 'breadth o
land usually devoted to the potato .
planted with it in the coming season.e e ,
Qat -is : the next - drop in impottanceli leind --
financial value in Ireland. It thrives 11
as
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as a general rule. The people are fiete'tp r
with it as a crcip, though little sb as.a it vd:
I believe it would be a. wise, A judiiipeas
and a -feasible expedient in the paesent,n-
juncture to reconinaend the people of ii`,9-
land to double the oat oeop Of last Oer
with a view to its nee- as food. ' A : kineAd
tacte—the Gaels of Albin (Scotland)—t':
well Upon it.: No doubt a conaide** '
change in the domestic habits and utt,r, '
of thelyielt would be needed; lint I b ' fil e
the time is oppOrtuite for . such a Wig
There is a large; if not. general, feelic-
-distrnat in. the - potato. .I wisK
offer as few and as Simple ,suggestioiiiii
possible, but it is obvious - that with eia9ay -. •
littleintelligence and enterprise, one ot.' '
-a. the. cam -limner forms of vegetableeee*
as cabbage or parsnip, rmightbe here i4nd
there added, the potato, perhtips supp:-Iktig .,
One Meal each day-. I believe it to bite , •_
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possible in the two :Months which reei..e *
-for a few e - practiced and , sciegii#e . !-
Men to Out their heiade . tog? : r? e•
and consider at mature proposal
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graphs from Ottawa, the Cape larecapital, - -
that a great noinber of _IJnited tates wine . - - • • "
Men:lents' and distillers have Ben Making -- Maiden Slic Washin706° 711irls
quiries of - the. Doman' ion' feovermient -Few, indeed, are the people who -can keep
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regarding the importation onding of .up, the round of Washington gayety- With:
liquor in ' Canada. .They are . desirous out sadly showing their weariness. An
sending liquor into Canada in end, to be exception to. this rule is. a young daughter
held there for awhile and aged eturaed to of an army- officer stationed in that city.
.the United States. .There is ucli specni- All winter she has been.. busy withrecep-
tions and dinners, kettle. drums and Ger-
mane, and on Wednesday idealie °erne intci
'Mrs: Chandler's parlors she looked. as
fresh and rosy as if it were her first-day.
My curiosity ; Wae. thOroughly - aroused,
sod' presently L had an. opportunity
•to' . inquire .of . • her . how - was
that she . was able ' to endure 'that
to which stronger Women yielded.' "Oh,"
'shereplied, laughing, :"-neamma is almciet
a crank on that subject.. 'She is bound I
shall not look Oasie at the end Of this My
seacinCIwiiiter. Every hight when I get
'home, no Matter how tired ani, a warm
Water bath is given me, after which I drink
a. bowl of bouillon, and am put to bed in
the. 'guest charliber, which is more :quiet
than my own. 'Ile the . raorning . I am not
.eilledebut arise when I awake, which is.
not 4eften-befote' lunch time:. It grows very
'monotonous, I assure you, but if I go I have
to subedit I tell maixima she treats me as
if I was a Maud S. or a. prizeefighter."
Cleveland Herald.
lation is tothe object._ The igeOd people. of
Ottawa .raust - pay very ellittle .t 'atten-
tion to whet . is going • in. the
United • Statee;.. otherwise -1, t ey would
know that `these liquor, ld lees want
to get rid of paying some ),000,000.in
taxes on about 9_0,000,000 gallon of whiskey,
which has been held in .bond in his country
as long as the revenue la* '1 malt. 'If
.it stays -here it must pay :t tax, but It
may be taken out of the bonded alehouses
for export without paying it. If Carted&
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willlet it be in bond without paying -duty
till we eanziitikup the surphisitock,*ien it
will be brought back to this et: ,ntry, sold,
and the tax paid. - That da !' ot well be
done - now, simply _because) tie• distillers
have get on band as mueiti, tehiskey as
the American peOftle—chrOm ally thirsty
"though so many of thein are —an at daink in
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- three or four years.; If Oa adi Will' take
this whiskey on low storage n'-, no duty for
-a few years it will. thus ' help. -„'pr anaiable
distilling interest out of . the very painful
predioament-iitto which, with is eyes wide
open, it his very foolishly -3l ‘ged itself."'
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' nettle JLively maysLoomed.
'The famous old war ship Lt. Sacketts
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Harbor Is to be. sold. The ileselding of . it
New Orleans, and it was nameinhonorof
was commenced soon after victory at
that event in the winter of 814-15. In
mber stood
*need to its
he news of
. During the
undreds of
earail- and
b the ship
a -board` by
he growing
s the ship
its disape
I lose a
sixty days from the time th4
inthe woodstheFlip was gia
present state. On receipt of
peace the work was stopped
construction of the vessei.
choppers and - nurnercli.4
teamsters were at 'work, Wile
carpentembrought from the
Rokford swarzned the sides of
htie._11. In another thirty da
-would have been been finiehed.'1.
peareeice Saeketts Harbele .
. There are Borne persons Who canttetakt curiosity which_ has- attraete. Sight -seers'
a joke, but Fogg lit ,not one ef theia. One ;during sixty-eight yearsee-Kinettele Whig. -
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_of the boys, •aCqueirtted with Fogg's house; in the town—a beverage whichetheyi_ . I e_ - „ .------.—r—e---1 - -', •
frequent changes of abode; asked him what purchased for about a •shilling a gallon. I —The following wise saying by Bolen IS,.
Jae thought was the icheapereto -Move or.pay The (tortoni fact was developed that the I We regret to say, not generall recorded in -
rent. "1 can't tali you, „my dear boy," only eight he . had been soberfor. many i his works i " Yeting imam, ne ' r out your
replied Fogg; "'I heave alwaya buried." - yeate Wail that upon-y:41M he died. / nails before ,buttOning on a Ce
erle.
Dlr. Gladstone as. a.-JEtiglitantier
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-In a recent spec% Mr. Ashmedd-Bartlett,
M. P., -doubtless • thought •..-himself very
clever when he expressed the supposition
as an extravagance e that Mr. Gladstone
might at some future time chard to be
Highlander. • _Mi. Gladatone's Coniervative
brother; Sir Thom,* Gladstone, -of Pasqua,
has saved him that trouble; ,for if Mr.
Ailemeitd-Bartlett takes the trouble of
referring: to Rurke's Royer Descents,
`" Pedigree LIEL, :Sir Thomas .,Gladstone,
Bart.;" he _will find . that Mr, .Gladstone
can trace a lineage (beside Whiolieven that
of Ashmeed-Bartlett • groWs. pale) through
Highland Roleertsons, Munros, Mackays
and ," gay Gordons,". to the Royal housee
of both England and Scotland:
No permanent injury was done to e
atatbseof Daniel O'Connell, at Limerick,
last menthe by the unknown Snen who
smeared it with yellow paint. The outrage
was attributed to the Scots Greys quartered
in the city, and the feeling against them
was such that for a time it was deemed
prudent to keep them in their 'quarters.
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radical change in the dietary of the ,
try, with- what great ultimate Soda,
economic results I leave to the judgm f ._
the public,. I While a tolerably F3af
reliable food aupply.Could, I believe, bt.
assured, I am further of opinion that
one-tenth part of the _pains so succe0
bestowed on fish culture in America (_
Stands atthe heeel. of ,the list with -at, e
'cif elope : upon $10;000,000 per anent),
France, Germany, Italy, etc.,. an z: 1e
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supply.of the cheaper forms of fit31214,, th .
Which the Irish seas literally superalkeld,
could. be inadeva common article of dielor
the people of Ireland,- . - e '
From practical inquiries among . se -
'well calculated to judge of thikevant0 lid
'thee orthe °Irish people and influatitial
vtl
to guide . them, I believe this: greattpeed
salutary change. in the dietary of IalfiNad
could. be readily put in operation inFeere
than one county in the. coming year 4 It
will be admitted to be a subject wortV of
_the mostimmediate and the most prekOd
consideration'. . - , a
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WOULDN'T 'HAVE A- ItArRIR
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King Thedblvi his been celebratikr •he
birth of a daughter. . During the firettl- ear
of their _wedded -life hise favorite ek ose
presented him with a daughter, ane is
Majesty, disgusted with the gift, f. spok
his wife and took up with several er
rivals.. - The ,iQueen, however, coaxe6elhim.
beck, and eel a pledge of reconoiliatkel the
fond husband . canoed the rivals 41 'be
strangled. - rIn due time the:Quee4bare -
unto Theebaw—another daughter. ,Lithis
was. too Much: , The Xing went itybo a :
tremendous; and :. protracted.
wagering . a , wilclerneise of pee. - ren• , •
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monkeys :against a Jungle of si: riet
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anacondas upon his 'ability to drink % irty .
gallons of e gin --which is the Bni,ese
equivalent of our "rum "—in thirtfecon-
secutiie days, during which period h' r'vovat
subjects waited with patient perturee tiOle
fer further do,ivelopments. At the jeit of
this time the 'King came to wh ee pre
regarded in Burmah as his gent3613, aZV1 pit -
mediately killed- his niother-in,lavk He
followed up this proof of returning rift son,
hemmer, by opening all the prisons *4 the
country and terning their occupauttipose. :
His act has cdmplicated a situation Illicla -
for one brief moment seemed ceng4e* . .
tively clear, and. Burmah is now in 4,„lenbt .
whether the letting loose of the eonerite or
the strangling Fel her grandmotherieWki be
regarded as - the ' especial . complime -phe
Xing Meant to pay tot* Child. . ...e -
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Eating•Feats.
One Oliver Sweet writes to the B si1on
Herald: "The quail eating feat , cpne
Walcott in New York is very muerf ex-
aggerated. Any one with good healtMgeod
appetite andgood digestion can essitri esid
with relish accomplish the task. Igior a
reasonable consideration, or a wager of
05004 side, I. will eat a pot of bakel ans -
(quart pot) for my breakfast every nc niug
for thirty days."
The membership in Londonclub
gates, • nearly _100,Q00. . Their prope:3y .is
worth•something .over $25;000,000. 1.i',11.ktere
are clubs exclusively for clergymeki aud
'othere-whose members' devote theifiOaeet-.
lugs only to high gambling. A Co .45 pon-
dent of the Bostan, Herald. says foliar raw
poke;, is the lavffrite game.... He se. -lank
Lord, from: NOW . York, lose S1O, 0 at -
BOoksin one night; but subseque he
regained 0,000 at target practice ..riath a
pistol. His 'adversary at cards vregfloord
Rodney, a captain.in the Life Gnat
—Regina- is now the lieiclquarte f,th
Northwest .Mounted Police;
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