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Flesherton Advance, 11 Sep 1884, p. 6

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A CIBCUa HORROR Car Contttinmic Poopla BurneU l'i>. Sixty HEARTRENDING SCENES WITNESSED. A Small Window the Only Mean* of Escape. A Greely (Col.) despatch says: Tbe burning of a oirciiB oar blue uiilea north ol Greely wa* at'.euded with iudencribable horrors. The burned oar wae next to tbe engine in a t am of 17 care ootitaiuing iinon'ii Auglj-Auirican Circus, wbiob lell Fort (' illius about miduigbt for Gulden, over tbe Greely, Salt Lake A Paoinc It u 1 Tbe tram was ueariug Windoor, a email station near Greely, running about 25 uiil<*> an hour, wben tbe eugiueer discovered tut oar to be ou li -e aud reversed the engine. There were 60 men in tbe car, arranged in three tiers ot berths on either side. The forward side door was closed, aud tbe men in tbe bunks were sleeping again*! it Tbe rear aide door wa* also cloned.. and the men who awoke diecovered the lower unoccupied berth next to it, containing the rubbish, to be oo fire, filling tbe cr with smoke and cut- ting uff escape IL tbat direction. Tne only means of ogress was through a small window between tbe oar aud tbe eugiue John Pine, of Edgerton, Wia., andJIliuer Mulelt, Iowa, crowded through tbe opetiug aud tried to pass in water from the eogiue tank. O*iug to tb* suffjoatiug gases u was ditVuult to arouse the bleepers. Some wure kicked and bruised in a shocklug manner, aud PITCHED OCT Or THI WISKO*. The scream* of those unable to get through t le bl..okadd aperture were terrifying. In the wild glare of tbe tl >mes tb* sight of tbe burning victims ouiri.lt', who, writhing in agony, oauaed Ihe wild beasts in the adjoin. iug oar to bee jrue fraulio with terror, uiak- making tbe scene appalling. The per- formers, who occupied the rear car. gaz?d witb white faces upon tbe awful spectacle. In the midst ot tbe confusion tbree heroic eouls appeared equal to tbe occasion aud bravely out their way to their oompauions, to find tanu already in the agouti s of deelb. Albert Lake, in charge ol the auimals, aud bis friend Kent walked over the cactus io tewir bare feet pouring bucket* of oil -ou tbe blistered unfortunate* and wrapped them m blanket^. Ao old Paoifia Cuait soldier, named McDonald, formerly of Fortptugh's sbow, wan terribly burned, the flesh uat-giug iu sbred. THE BXiBTBENDIMO CBIEI of the men on the prauie, tbe smothered pptala of the dying within the oar, tbe roar of tbe flames, and tbe bowling of tbe animals, made tbe scene terrible beyond deecrp.ioo. Tbe odor of roaating flesu, tbe din taut cry of tb* coyote* added to tbe geueral horror cf the scene. Tb* voice* of the dying grew faiLter aud soon ceased. Meantime the engine had gone to Gretly for aaaiatauoe, and it ntjrned with Dr. Jesse Uawes. Many of the rescued in bviug pulled through the small window had tbeir limb* broken, joints dUlooated. Hand* and feel were found burued off, and roaated trunks of bodies ware found in one place, legs in auotber, aud piles of routed, shrivelled oaroaoes were | tilled out of the ruios. At daylight a tl .t oar carried tbe charred bodies into Greely for intermeut. Tbe burued bodies were placed in a huge ocffio ssveo feet wide aiid ten feet long iu Greely cemetery. Kw. Mr. Reed, 1'reeby- teriau Church, conducted lervioes. A coroner eiupaunei led a j jry who were unable to learn the oaune of tne are or any import- ant facts, as tbe managers, with tbe re- mainder of tbe company, left immediately for G Jden to fill the afternoon engagement. It is impossible to get a complete lint of tbe dead, a* many were engaged but a day or two and were unknown. I l< I M II 1 X.I ..I-IIOIII Krrulna- nl Fuming by Cri m him ii I u- rallr<l Hlacc Ikr Bun It- ! Wleil*. A I'ari* cablegram say* : Never since the battle of Waterloo ha* public ( pinion in France been more savagely hostile to Eng- land than at the present moment. Tbe papers of all creeds have united in trans- ferring tbeir batred from Germany t J Eng- land, aud are ooustautly recalling the feet tbat wben " France bas wept or France has bled perfidious Albion baa rrjiioed." The official Itrpublique t'rancaite is a* loud and bitter a* tbe C/i <fu Prupte, while tbe Bona- parlist I'aiji for ouoe give* tongue with the Dtbatet aud Voltaire. What tbey consider tb* supercilious hypocrisy aud sbam high moral ton* adopted by tbe entire Eng- lish praee hi* fairly exasperated France and rank I e in tbe breast of every Frenchman. A prominent French states- man remarked to your correspondent last night : "Even supposing that tbe slanderous comment* or tbe Ttmrt and Standard were truo concerning oar victory at Fooobow, yet it doe* not lie in tbe M .utb of any Englishman toutter oo* word of disparagement after tbe bombardment of Copenhagen years ago, and etp-oially after that of Alt ik'idria, where tbe logical oon- xequeuoe t f Aluiiral Seymour'* tolion wa* th* waotou destruction of a oity, the tbird in comnuercial importance in the Mediter- ranean, aud bandiug over an Bit re civil- ized community to pillage and fire." Tbe Jlfpuhlii/ue trancaite scoff* at tbe Jeremiahs of the I . .tidi.ii press, and compares them to oroondiies' tears. There is no djubt but tbat Kx>pt i* t the bottom of all this hatred and venom towards England, that now 1* fanned into Rometbiug akin to fretzy by tb o nutrients of tbe English paper* on tbe French victory at Fooobow. Tbe lira butteifly Men in spring, if a white on, ii ULderstood to betokf n, m the west of England, good luck throughout tbe year ; bat to make sure ot your luck it i* ueoehsary to immolate the prophetic Inneot ; for kuoh is the iuhereut vilei ens of human nature that au infeiior creature is seldom permitted f> become an orjtot of human legend without cementing tue superstition with itn blood. True glory consist* in doiog what de- serves a place io history, writing what deserve* to be read, and in no living a* to make the world happier and better tor our living in it. WOLSEUY IN COMMAND. The Expedition to Egypt to be on Large Scale, GENERAL GORDON REPULSES THE ENEMY A London cablegram say* : Tbe expedi ion f r the relief of Geueral Gordou IB to be ou a much larger >cale than at firn oou tempi a ted. The War Office has eon uaoUid for 400 more boats on tbe Nile tiit-v being reudertd utoeBsaiy by the large additional ooutlogeut of troupa which It IB uow decided shall be suit Tbis obaugsol plans is oue i> tbe stipulations of Lure Wolneley, who, when it q jested by tbe Ujvuruujent to take tbe chief command ade it a oonditlou that tbe expeditiou abonld be on a scale adequate to the J.ili:ulties to be euoouuttrdd. Orders have been sent off t > day to employ extra bauds at Woolwich and !><<i t( >rd, who will work day and nigbt uutil ibe requisite t ires are ready aud on board. Nutwitb ^lauding General Wolaeley's recently pronounced cpiuion in f vor of shortened eulisluieuts aud youthful soldiers, he now insists tbat tbe corps shall oonniat only of easoued veterans, not likely to sucouoib to tatigne in a tropic.l climate. Tb< increased foioe is required to kep open the line cf oommuuioatioc from Wady Haifa to Khartoum, and to obaatise ai y rebellious ti-ibes likely to snack the exped lion m tbe rear. Lord Wolseley will atart for Egvpt on Sunday. Hit- Brit if u newspaper* approve cf the despatch of Lord Wolseley to Egypt. Tne ffisjal auuouuoement of bis appointment aay> the pnpiratious which have been iu progress for some weeks for tae expeditiou up tbe Nile resemble, iu a great degree, tuone adopted iu 1870 for the K.-d Hiver expediliou, wbiob gave Lord Wulaeley au xparleuoe which no other officer poaveBses Lord WuUeley's appoiutmeut is due to tbe tateuient of General Stepbeusou that the [ireaeut plan for tbe oarnpugo fia the Nile is impracticable. Tbe rebels attemjted to capture Khar- toum on the l'J:li. aud continued tbe attack until the 14th, when Gen. Gjrdou cleverly outflanked them. Mauy rebels were killed A I. mdou cablegram says : Tbe an- nouuotmeut tbat Gen. Wolseley i* to itart !or Kgy pt has oanaed a considerable flutter u Paris, wbere il is believed tbat bis em- ployment betokens a much more vigorou* policy ou tbe prl ot tbe English Govern- in in tin Egypt. Tbe Freucu pap rs say that tbe increased force is eut, nit to release Gen. Gordon, but to take poesewioo of tbe country. How far the Government shares these view* is nit known, but an mportaut despt t >h bss been telegraphed o Baron De i 'o r el. ihe French AmbasBa dor at Bernu, aud ai. Barrere, tbe French ripreeeulative at Cairo, who bss been on a vioi i to Paris, ha* been ordered to rt tarn at ouoe to Egypt. Ibe Eughsh War Office, now tbat it has determined to adopt General Wolteley Ian* for tbe autumn reliif expedition to ibarlonm, seems di'() wed to auopl every >ropoaltiou tbat pan K ad to the iiafety aud BUI-CUBS of the enterprise. The latest idea ot the officials at tbe Horse Guards is very novel. It I* proposed to procure from Luberia, on tb* wot ooaat of Africa, three hundred Krooicen, who are to act as hewers of wood aud drawer* of water " 'or t le Bi i Hub soldiery. Tb* idea in tbat hi fi- men, who come from oue if thn womt cliuialea iu Africa, aud one tbat i almost invariably fatal to Europeans, will i* able to do much of tbe bard work re- juired, without suffering from tbe climate ot the Soudan. Tbe international coarse- er which tbe expedition will sBume with hi-fi 1 allies Is the subject of numerous okes and cartoons in tbe comic papers, one ot ubiob represetti the Br.tinb Grenadier ridug 1'ick a-back on a uaked blackamoor. Tbe oouituisiary supplies are declared to >e as curiously assorted as tbe motley crew they are intended to feed. Tbey include arge quat. titles of oompnsied beef from a Chicago firm, canned vegetables, c indiuied muk aud bami- preserved iu parafln. Tbe Government is expediting tbe depar- ture of ao increased number of reinforce- ment for Egyjt. Tbe staff at Woolwich i beeo iuoreaaed and additional band* have been engaged to put tbe transport* in readiuens as rapidly as possible. It has 3een decided to increase the expedition for the relief of Gordon to 7.000 men. Seven luudrtd Riyal 3cot* will be dcfpitohed 'rom th* West Indies. The rest ot Ibe iroope will go from Gibraltar, Malta and y prus. Four hundred more river boats lave been ordered. Tbe rebels laat night removed two mine* bioh bad been laid near tbe town of 8ua- iiiu for exploding when tbey attack the gar - riaon. Tbey also captured three dhows Dear th* harbor and killed tour lailor*. Tbe dhows escaped and have gone fifty miles south, where tbe rebels have collected a large force. The man-of-war Condor will proceed there. Geo. Wolaeley hat sppointed Gen. Earle lecood in command. Gen. Earle s brigade is* been ordered to reach the second oata- aot in October. Gen. Stephenaoo, disapproving of the iii* campaign, sska to be removed. THE THEATRE OF WAR, Vary Mi* Ci<tiat tUt Freuil 1J U CeleetttU. A < II . -I I oil A til UK. Mir < tun ur. Hrr Ml.,.1 .. , ii,. i>..... ,.,,.! iii. i.. on Wlifc i >,,,,, t, OM AD Eaton, Ind., report Bay* The con- exatioL gathered at a school -house near lore OD Sunday expected to witueaa the carriage ot MIM Auuie Poore and Jonepb Cbompnon. The attendance wan accord- only large. At the appointed hour Mini ,'uore a|p)sred m bugy driven by a ouug iii,u rcoogui/t'd by many M a former over. Boon afterward Thompson arrived a buygywilb the minuter, and alighted. 1'oore remained lu her buggy. Wben baked to a)ibt, nhe ooolly told her xpeotant lover that tihe bad changed her mini, aud drove off. Thompson jumped n lux buggy ai.d gav chase, begging ber to ulnl ber promina. Tbe mce was an exoit- og oue, iii full view ot the congregation and minister, hi.t it WSH fruitions Thorn p- n returned without hit bride, and t'ae toiuinler left without a f it. *E<Jooat all the faculties and propensities of children ; Out, above all, aee that the ooDHOienoe, the balance wheel of the moral nyntetn, is trained onto perfect aooord with tbe principle* of positive truth and absolute mm, WEDDING AND BUR AL CELEBRATIONS China i the OOUL try of long tre*ses Mid short feet ; a country wbere tea in drauk itaont milk or sugar, aud where two little ivory ntiokf:. skilfully handled betweeu tbe ti iger and thumb, replace the fork aud -poou ; a country where you call tbe firs <uau you meet your elder brotber ; where 1 1 auk a bootmaker bin address it la necee nary to aak " wbai noble palace " lie in habits ; a country wbere the credit >r ban ihe rigbt to make au insolvent debtor p y his bill with a piece of bin flush, aud where tbe debt ,r. by way of revenge, hangs him elf at hi* creditor'* door ; a country wbere vbe IOQ ruiua himwlf to buy a ooffiu for bi> dead father, and, covered with a hempen garment, walks backward as be followB bin Bumptuoas funeral ; a country wbere people work for tbeir rioe instead of working for their bread, but which in of eattb and not of lacquer-work and porcelain ; and wbere, a lu other OOUL tries, tbe husband loves his wife and tbe orange < jlored mother loves her slant-eyed obildren. Ii I* a oouotry, moreover, wbere tbe buie attaouen great iiuiKjtttuoe to tbe perBoual 9 p,aranoe of tbe bridtgroom, aud tbe bridegtoom equal importance to tbe mural qualities ot the bride ; aud tbe baniii of mauy Chinese drama*, a* of drama* iu other paruot tbe world, is tbe pasnion of love. Women have boon forbidden to appear on tbe ttige tiuoe tbe day when a celebrated aotreaa inspired the Ernpertr wito. a fatal opcioe. Tbe men, wbo under- take female a. well as male pat U, play with good expreBion, and ue a super buudanoe of geHtures, some of which, tbougb derived from tbe observation of reality, have at laBt acquired a purely coo- ventioual value. An actor ho, pivoting on bis left foot, makes a circular move- ment with his right, is understood l > be getting on horseback. To out tbe air with riding- whip in ao indicate, through tbe connection of cause with effect, a gall >p og pace. Tbe exhibition of pieces of guU olotb witb wheels painted ou them has almost an arbitrary moaning, and signifies ibat tbe Empeior is com lug. Etiquttie in rigidly obaurved. A young jirl walking in tbe street mutt uot turn jur bead round ; nor at bom* is she to glance slyly at visit jr*. She is to retnem- Mr, moreover, that girli who are always aogbiug and talkn.g are not esteemed, and that virtuous women have been honored ii tie earliest times. Tb* p ailoeopbor tfeudz* grieved when be aaw nis mother break her shuttle ; tbe woman Tuoun threw herself on a sword in order to save ber uiband's lit* ; tbe muaer of Ao, being so >oor that she could not buy writing mate ials, taugbt ner aon to reed by traoiug characters in tbe sand. Wouieu should be able to read, write- and use the counting machine, so as to be in a position to direct a household. They should read books of iiety and stories of morality in action, rbil* avoiding love pie try, songs and aneo- iotes. Women ehould be reserved ; aud bey are cruelly enj nued never to occupy iiiHolves with other i< plx's affairs den ougbt never to talk > f domenlio natter*, while women should never talk f any t nug else When a vim tor la iu tbe drawing room, tbe lady of the bouse should net be beard raising ber voice iu the kitchen. V.'ineu are Lot t > paint their faces aud ear striking ool >rs, for tbe iotuffi Jieut eaaon that if they do men will look at hem. Youug women, as well as young men, are to be dutiful to tbeir parent*, aud always in a good Lutuor, even when t'jeir atber aud mother sre uot. Cnma IB, in short, a c lUtitry of primitive mauiiers and primitive uiorala, very timple, ranquil aud picturetqje. !!* far tbe American version c( tbe !LiueHp funeral differs from tbe Celeitial rigiual may be judged from the following cojuot, which la kindly furuisbed by Mr. n'derick Carman, of the State Board of iealtb, aud for many years a resident ot be Flowery Kingdom. Ou tbe destbof a 'liinarnau tbe relativm are notified of the ad event, and repair to tbe bouse to con Idle with tbe bereaved. Tbe tlJeet sou m mediately prooeedf , bowl io baud, t} tbe parent well or river, to procure water with which to wash tbe remains of bis atber. Bom* money i* carried in the xiwl, and thrown into tbe well, or river, ao bat it may appear tbat the water is pur- baaed, aud uot tbe gift of charity. The body is then st tired in tbe most OMtly obtts possible, to produce the impression of <>]' otability in the spirit world, and is ilaoed in tbe coffin witb a Ian in one hand and a piece of paper io tbe other, upon which a Chinese prayer i* written. ue ocflio, wbiob is called tba " longevity boards," is constructed of stout planks, bree or four inches thick, rounded on tbe op, and resembling, when finished, the trunk of a tree. Into this the body is laid, resting up >n a lining ot lime. The edges are closed witb mortar to guard againit the escape of aoy offensive odor. It is thus an hermetically sealed casket. This home for tbe dead is sometimes a oostlv investment, ranging all tbe way from 15 to $2,000. Wbeu sufficient mean* are collected M de- fray the expenses of interment (which may not naur for two or tbree years after death), a p'ooessioo is formed, beaded by a band of sacred musicians, with a oeolie sent a long way in advance to Matter paper money by tbe road, so that tbe devils can be occupied picking it up long enough to give tbe body a chance to alip by. The anoettral tablet i then sent along, cars- tally inclosed in a Sedan chair aud carried on the shoulders of two stout bearer*, aud accompanied by sign bands, showing tbe rank and greatness ot the deceased. The coffin oouies next, after whioh the mourners follow dretsbd in white, with white band* arouud their beads. Tbese usually occupy wbeelbarrowa or chairs, or are sujpirted upon tbe arms of strong men. and Rive expression to tbeir grief lecundum arlem io tbe mcul vociferoui strains. Ou arrival at the grave crackers are fired off, libations poured out, prayers recited, and all the needs of tbe deceased supplied by burning paper money, servants' clothes aud furniture, which ate imme- diately converted by the fir* into the identical articled used in tbe spirit laud. The Krave IB a mound of conical shape. A lucky place is selected, wbere water cannot reach, or whit* ant* attack tbe coffin. Tb* chief mourners approach I Kneel before vno w ffiu. knock tbeir bea and scatter their libations freely, and uiid a volley of fire-crackers, tbe bereave* party take leave ot tbeir beloved, aud luave him to pursue bin own iweet pleaour* waudeiiug among tbe genii." Albany Argut. AftUI.OPHOBIA IN VKAIMCK. ll.nirrf oi HrllMn Op. iiti Mk>*wn m It. I'ubiioiu i mi... A London cablegram sayi : The hatred 'f England, which is always latent iu France, baa now become ran p tut, aud every movement ou tbe ptrt ot tbn Eug'isb Government furuiahe* a text for a tirade iu the Paris papers. All tbe preparation for the autumu expedition in Kxypt are. iii the minds of the French edi tonal writen, only added proofs of tbe proverbial peifidy of Albion. Tbcy say tbat Mr. Gladstone ouly waited until the termination of tbe Egyptian conference aud the ritiug ol Parliament to put io operation a ylau which be bad long contem- plated, aud which means no lean than tbe absorption by England oot only of the fertile Soudan, but of all Egypt. Oue paper says that Dmraeli earned bis earlsbip aud the gratitude of the Queen by making ber the Empress of India, and that now Mr. Gladstone is tre- mulously following in a greater man's f .ot it pi. He is trying, the wr.tir says, to capture Kxypt aud cares nothing for the loss of life, of treasure or of houor that may be involved, if ouly he can aid this otber bauble to the diadem of his aged mistress. Tne most scurrilous article that ia* yet appeared is publmhed in La France, a paper which ha* it* circulation entirely auioog republicans, and is supposed to rtdeot in seme degree the views ot Preai. dent Orevy. Tbe article indulge* in tbe most dingusting pr*onal abuue ot the ,'aetu and the Priuoe of Wale*. urm and Ur.lrui Una ! t*r*|rrlr n. . i tar in.. .! ..n ike Track II..H 1r. 'l... i. ../ 1 . Trip. A Winnipeg despatch if Thursday nigbt'* date say* : Tbe heavieet storm lu mauy jears vim ted this Province last ught. Tb* rain poured in torret t < aud :be lightning was very vivid. Several bouses were blown from their foundations, aud sheds were blown down, sidewalks torn up, and the front* of boose* blown off. L<tghiniug struck tbe Hudaou Ii .y Com- )auy's storehouse, and ripping up ih roof, did damage to tba extent < f about 110,000. o Beadingly the Eogliib Cburob wan >lown down, several boutes moved iff heir foundation* aud grain stacks levelled to tbe ground and scattered over tbe >rairies. Report* from other country dis- riots show tbat tbe rtorm raged from Varmillion Bay, on the east, to Brandon, on the west, but that the seventy of the term centered in Winnipeg. A great deal of rain was lodged in some localities, but n other* little or DO damage wai done. The wind blew at uoh a terrific rate as to low a street oar off tbe t -ack in tbe city. Phis is the first big storm io many years. Hoo. A. Mackenzie returns from tbe Went tonight. Sir Hettir Laugeviu tarted to-day for tbe It'iokiea. He laid tbe oorner stone of the luuat.o asylum at Bui- ink yesterday. An invivtixation into the cause of tbe naiieitl muddle is cow going ou. Tbe ity solicitor, so far, has explained away several of tbe charges made sgaiust kitu. HI). %tOI n KA I I * IM >> A (-..I ol I? in i. i.. I >. .. ill. sllarlr l* A Boston despatch says : Kttie Dunn, a pretty aud well-developed irl of 17, was arrested yentvrday on oaarge of bixsmy, ths ii-l'n mctber bti-ig tbe iuformaut Wbeu Kttie was 10 year* old her parent* removtd from Cbarlottatown, P. E. I., to Halifax. Four years lat she became arqunii.twl witb Oeorge McDonald, ol Bummenide, aud tbey were married. Tbey did not live ba|pily together, aud after five month* parted. Not long after she became infatuated with a young man named Mayoard, who bad been keepiug company witb her Tbree mouths after tbey were s< pirated by his being transferred with his regiment to England. Subsequently she became acquainted in Halifax with Wm. Bannis- ter, a harness cleaner. Two years ago she and her mother removed t} Faruingbam, Mass. Tb* lover* kej t up a correspondence, and she induced Bannister to com* t} Boston, l-'ive weeks after her departure be came here and they agreed to marry Banniiter beard tbst bit intended had kipt company with other parties, and asked it there was any truth 10 the story. 8he denied it, and on Saturday last tbey were married. Tbe mother, learning of tbe wedding, came to Boston and informed tbe police, when tbe girl was arrested for bigamy. A Hnrni t . Hkrewd Device. A Canton, Mia*., detpitab lays : Numer- ous attempt* have been made during the past six mouths to wreck the trains of tbe Illinois Central Uailroad near Duck Bill, seventy-nix miles north of tbis point. One of the wrecker* named Cooman was arrested and lodged ID jail six weeks ago. Since then a stranger was arrested aud placed io tbe same cell witb tbe wrecker. The two became intimate, and tbe wrecker made a confident of tbe stranger, confessing what be had don* and telling who hi* ooufederttM w. re. Yesterday the stranger who turned out to be a Chicago detective wa* released, sod two white men and t *o uegroes were arrested a* the nooom piioes of the man in j til. Oood game for evening Gold roast part- idg for cti| par. Mnjor F. C Denimn, ot the Qnvernor- General's Budy Guard, has been i ITered tbe command of tbe Canadian contingent of tne liOO voyagers to oo operate with Gen. Wolf ley in hi* Egyptian campaign, and has i i-pti-il tbe i ti r Tbe Majir will leave for Eugland oo thelSvbprox. He owe* tbe present prefermeut to tb* fact that be was aide-de-camp to Gt-nsral Wol- seloy in the Ked River expedition in 1870. and was one of his most trusted officers. Tbe Major is also an alderman ot tbe oity. W. T. Sutoliffe, corn merchant, of Man- cheater, England, ha* tailed , liabilities, 1100,000. Brlllab HIM! Foreign Jotllui*). Tb* EmpreBi Eugenie u at Carisbtd. Tbe cholera microbe was discovered first by Dr. P acini, au Italian, iu 1851. The King ot Sweden's tint son, the Duke if Boderiranlaud, was bauliaed auild groat rej Dicing at Tuilgarn Cattle. /.alulaud i* described as miserably dm t it bed. It is eipioted that the Boers aud I ' -.utus Will Miiijiily fall out again. Iu old day a tbe bjodsmeu " t-p >iled tbe Kgyptiaus nowadays tbe Kx)ptian .ureateu to upoil the boudhoMers. Tbe Queen uf Eugland's laat book will -hortly be tranalated into old Norman- Freuoo for the beutfii of tbe C&anuel Islanders. Dr. Samuel Kiuns' " Moses and Geo- logy," showing tie harmony of tbe Bible and Soieuoe, has now reached its seventh edition. Tb* Governor of Alssoe -Lorraioe has been summoned to Berlin to confer with tbe Emperor up JH important matters oon- ueoted with tbat Province. Tbe Figaro consider* il wise io time of epidemic uot to wear a round -topped bat bearing resemblance to a melon, f jr fear of attracting the attention of the ebolera. A bistorio tree of Liberty was destroyed lately at Strasburg by a thunder i-t >rm. It was a tall poplar, p'anted iu 1793 to commemorate the foundation of the French Republic. Price* Henry, second son of the Crown Prince and Prineess of Germany , ha* fitted up a studio near Pollsdam, wbere be >nd* moat of his leisure i me painting in ode ; while be may often be met io tb* neighborhood witb a email camera, photo- grupbiugsome picturesque spot. To* attempt upiu the life of Emperor William on tne occasion ot the inauguration of the " Ger mania " statue, has now been proven sgainst tbe prisoner Hupsob beyond all doubt. Hs bs* bimitelf givau a oiroum- Htautial account ot tbe lieudiob plot, winch bis stricken conscience alone averted at the lat minute. The French have now been in Mtdagai- oar over a year but are scarcely furtber advanced than they were on the first day. Tbe squadron ha* sbelled several town* or village* on tbe seaboard occupied by the Hovas, and troops have lauded aud takso puMtesxioD of Tamatave and Majunga, the two principal port*. Bat all this hae not brought matters nearer a solution. A itttement drawn up for tb* French Miniolry of tbe Interior shows that during the past year 1,308 wolves were destroyed in France, :12 being ehe wolves witb young, 774 male* or female*, and 4'.t.'J young wolves. Tbs *anm paid out as premiums amouLttd to 103 720 francs. Tbe greatest uuoc ber were killed in Lower Urnttny. Dr. Holnb, tbe African traveller, has went leu irs to Vienna stating that the expedition ha* been delayed by bad weather and the onnetqaeul indifferent state of tbe roads. Dr. hilub. who com- plains of the exorb tint prices bs is obliged to pay for provisions, ha* made some valuable addition* to bii mintralogioal, botanical and z wlogioal oolleoiiou*. aud repot t< tbat all the member* of the expedi- tion are well. At a meeting recently of tbe Smok* Abatement Commute in tb* <oodoa HealtberiiH it wa* demonstrated tbat 42 per cent of tbe beat geuerated in tbe domestic grate* of London pasced chimney, wire without being utilized in warmitg tin room* in which the grafts burned sot I coal. Yet fuoh i* Eugliab pnjjilice tbat John Bull would not burn anthracite il mine* cf it were underneath all Surrey. ....,. i. .. i. ! the ii. r Imagine wbslei fencing witb one another for amusement. It seenm an if snob a thing could not b ; and yet there ars whale* of a certain peeie* which IK t ouly fence with oue auotber, but UHB tbeir teeth for swords. It is tbe narwhal tiat fencer. Oue of the teeth of t IB male narwhal slways grows through tbe ippor lip aud utaudnout like a pear, itraigui in front of tbe animal. Il seems a* if all the material tbat should bavsgooe to fill tbe narwhal's mouth with teeth bad gone to tb* one tooth that grows through tbe lip ; fir sometimes tbis tooth i* eight feet long. Tb* animal it !'. from bead to tail, I* aeldom more than sixteen feet m length. Of what use such au enor- mous tooth Is to tb* narwhal no one know*. Bom* persons say it is used for spearing ti-li ; other*, that its u*i to stir up tie mud in tbe bottom of tbe ocean iu order to scare out tbe fish tbat may be hiding there ; snd one man aays tbe tooth is tor tbe purpose of breaking bole* in tb* ioe in winter ; for tb* narwhal, like all whale*, ii obliged to onme to tb* surface at intervals to breath*. Whatever tb* t >oth is intended to be used for, it i* certain that when tbe narwhal wih*e to play it finds another narwhal ef a like mind, and away they charge at each otber till tb* long tooth sword* clash together. They are active *s well a* frolic- corn*, and Bailor* tell of aeeiog them cross- ing iwords in tbis way, thrusting and parrying, and rolling and darting about with marvellous agility and grace. The narwhal Is light gray In color and covered witb black spot*. Fora great many reason* it IB valuta by the Oreenlauders. It furuishe* a very floe quality if oil, it* flesh Is used for food, and its skin, made into a jelly and called mattak, i* considered a daiuty loo choice for ordinary occasions. This " iwordsman of tbe deep," a* I bav* called him, is a warm-blooded animal, and must not be oentonoded with the law-flsb or tbe sword- Dob, tola of which ar* entirely different from the narwhal. John Jl. Cor- yfU, in St. Nieholai " for Stptember. Expect not praise without envy until you are duad. Ilouors bestowed ou tbe illus- trious dead have io them no admixtjr* of envy ; for the living pity the dead ; aud pity aud ouvy, like oil aud vinvgsr, ssiimilate not. The [iiiint glorious exploit* do not alway* furuiHh us with tbe clearest diHOoverie* of tbe virtue or vice in men. Bometimes a mati-ir of lee* rncment, an expression or a jest, informs in better of their character aud inclination* tbsn the most famoa mega*, tb* greatest armaments, or tbe bloodiest battle* whatsoever. AD effort m being made by tbe munici- pality to purchase tbe Waterford and Himooe gravel road, and at their la*l meet- ing the Townsend Council granted their I quota, 11,000 toward* tbe came.

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