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; fl . shown, y their parsed up mout Co the 1mm QW.â€"5enso Wins (pistons by Pursuant Citizens. Dr won-s Among the nut. ~m§ " Globe” andrhobbeial Pmy.â€"‘w-: us has? and. the “sunsâ€"m Brampton Ma tesmâ€"adflee to, Both Senna. ’ It is not the weather that perple have been speaking about during the past week, thonfli that too has not been entirely over- . looked. \l'ar, terrible war, has made the blood course through the veins of even the moat slu ' h with surprising energy, and Egy t an Alexandria, to say nothing of Aug Bey and the Khedire, have been the chief topics of the hour. What a lot of wise shakes oi the head there have been during those ei lit or ten days 3 How ple have and con rugnred forehuds, how they appreciated the viiy of the situation, and how they can dhave easily untied the Gordian knot without much or any bloodshed .had they only been where the fitness of things _indi- cated that they ought. " It is my evident, ofmurse, that had Gladstone taken the pro- per plan he might have CHILCKXATED .iiuai long 0, for," etc., etc. " Yes! ah !_but after lit issgood thing to burn a little powder, were it only to show that Nelson's ‘old sea dogs’ have worthy successors.” "That massacre in Alexandria was, no doubt, very terrible. Still, ten thousand times better all that, and a great deal more, than that England's prrslige should have been diminished." And soon, and so on. What has specially struck the Crock is the jasnty, whole-hearted air with which the whole thing is talked about. The number of killed, wounded, burnt, and outraged, has been read and talked of in as easy and comfortsblea fashion as if the whole had been the destruction of a mole hill or a waspa' nest. “’e have all, as Goldwrn Smith phrases it, witnessed a bombardment by tele mph, and have all apparently been gratified by the sensational and. unwonted character of the exhibition. \le cry out about the awful times when hundreds of rwretchea ‘ were butchered to make a moan holiday,’ and with turned up eyes and turned down months we thank heaven that we are not us those heathen heartless monsters. Yet, after all, what is the differ- encc? Which of us had any sympathy With, or listen compassion for, the iniserobles that were shows ixro n'l‘M'E by those " admirably served" guns on board Admiral Seymour‘s fleet? It is, perhaps, too bad and too uiiclinritsble, but tllu'CLOCK does not believe there was one ; while had nobody been hurt the whole affair would have been, in the estimation of most, shorn of its attractiveness. It would have been stale, stupid, and uninteresting. To think how those ponderous masses or metal but only battered down the towers of the City, but swopt the opposing soldicry iu swathcs. Ah, that was the thing It was only then and thus that the warming up process be- u, and dapper little mennie, who fora iving deftly handle the yard-stick, or furi- ously drive the uill, walked two or three inches taller. uni looked for all the world like “whiskcrcd panthers,".0r fierce has aura, as they said to their neighbour gossips, “Ah, this is like business. It does ono's heart good to hear the rattle of hngland 3 guns! Whether or not this show is'to issue in a general War is quite a moot pomt among the Oraclcs. Some affirm that they always thought it would come to this. Others are certain that apassagc in the Pro- phat Daniel is just shout tobc fulfilled,_wliile two or three dreainy-lookin' iiitlividuals whose whole bearing shows t at they have long cultivated the interpretation of the Apocalypse, combined with n qmiytm’n any) of watery iicgus and ‘pcnuy swipe, say, with the air of masters, that the time has come, and that we now umlouhtcdly.‘ tread the threshold of stirring ovciits,’nnd live ’un‘ questionnbly in a very wonderful ‘iircvi of this world's history." or COURSE, on. wrso sails steadily and knowingly before the wind, giving us all to understand thatho knows a "wrinkle or two" really worth while, and that the fact is, though he doesn't care anybody should know it except a few of his esoteric disciples, that he carries a ground plan of the Universe in his waistcoat pocket, and could give the Almighty owner vor valuable hints about managing things, if ll’o could only be persuaded to call the .said prophet of Bond street iutodlis secret counsels. Their with what an air Goldwm Smith has laid down the law and. philosophy of the entire situation, and \vitb \vhnt a .smirk of object llunkcyisrn has the ll orlil interviewed and pumped that good man dry :and bottled up the not n-sults in the holy vessels of tho journalistic sanctuary. It 'was all entirely delightful, especially taken win connection with that agomzcd message to tho New York .‘Icmld and tho stupidity of the miserable littlo wretch who knew no better than to trifle with Gordon Bennett's telegram in a on too terrible and tantalizing :for ordinary llcs i and blood to even think of, far less to forgive.. _ Ah! whnta thing it is to have money! Tull vax must say it for the hundredth time. What lots of people, young Bennett among the rest, would never have been thought of but for their cash : and yet, just see with what an agony of business multi- tudes who ought to know better at down Cl“ their knees and perform the old and other pieces of [kindred devotion to those who remind one of nothing so much as the golden calf in the wilderness away over somewhere in that region the geography of which is being at the present moment rubbed up so assiduously by any number of folks who want to speak with authority on the whole Eastern question. is nu: CANAL 10 hi: our! ~ is Arabi to make his final and de- stsndl Is Garnet “'olsel'ey going to n trophizo the pyramids? \\ ho. knows! Still it is all very interesting. and if one go cautiously, he ms pose as a prophet With a {sinsh amount 0 success. and as nobody remembers today what the newspapers said yesterday, it is all right. .110 (r. Iuimlr, Rom-mos n‘uwrv coast. The Cuwx does not pretend to say what that'mea‘na.‘ Duly this, a somewhat seedy-looking indivulual noted it yesterday to Johnny Hallsnior ohnuy Morrisonâ€"it does not matter which ._and thereafter both shook their heads in a v knowiu fashion, while both also visibly wiuka . Some say the Turkish hm- pin is now bound for sure to go to pieces. Uthen so ' No. 'l‘us Cuwx is much of the opinion Sir Roger do Covcrley, will speak more tivelv on the question a lb once. William» sure. What a racket. has been goo round Tin: Clm‘li inihai matter oi posed do ‘tion of Gordon Brown and the rehabilitation of the Globe. What is all muss may not at first appear: what itallaimsat isnot farts-sch whennncis June ' would have been said on the fish act. I???“ things want it is all did}:an thaalrom doing an“ reimburse-a we?» lt nouns Tilt .W‘s funershtn‘l'm halfvmlnn jollsbissvllv. VOL.X. another? There is the little World'as ponl tectionist, cocky, and courageous us please. make it not merely a “ full fledged rooster? 't it doing work against land grabbers and monopo you lists. FEXELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1882. 30mm or a Bin-led City. For the past six months the work of dig- Why not adopt the hurtling. and . ging the canal to connect Lakes Eustis and chicken" but a Dora, in ordertoo u up the more southern good lakes of the‘ “Great e Region of Floridi, has been prosecuted. At a distance of over though why their protected interests should four feet below the old level of Lake Dora not have the benefit of the Government‘s aniound was discovered. " fostering care" is not very evident. Come. you folks that are burning to put a quarter ofa million into a newspaper speculation. go for the World, you'll bag it sooner Hum you will the Globe, and it will serve your purpose better. no rust riiu'rizvriox i.ivi-;Lv, all comfortable and ail satisfied. Coals taxed a dollar a ton and made cheaper by the process ! Flour taxed that the Blue Noses may eat cheap bread and wholesome ! Su taxed and made chmper all the same ! Redpath pocketing his millions, and yet not a soul paying a cent more than if there were the freeat nude in sweets the world has ever seen ! Unnecessary millions in the Exehequer, and yet not a man-jack paying a red cent more than he ought. Yes, yes. It is all delightfully fine. Down with all revenue tarifi’ scouudrels and ” ignorant old tyrants." Let us rejoice in monopolies and bow down before millionaires. Let us put. every hindrance in the way of trade inter- course. Let us row our own oranges and feed our own si kworms. So shall we be a. great and prosperous people, from whom sorrow and sighing, cheapuess and cheese- paring shall forever flee away. Let us above all things get up grout laud companies that nym draw all the public domain into their lands and keep it in barrciiness until the struggling toilcr be forced to pay ten prices for his lot, and the land grabber p0cker. that which he has never carried, and thank God in idleness all the days of his life. Oh, it is all so nice. ’l'iir: CLOCK cannot but. say, " Bless you, my children ;‘ kee all to your- selves or some other body am be happy." But what about “ Lian now.” 2" ~ And what about the Mail? Why there have lately been whole days in which the “ little hypocrite” has not been so much as men- tioned, and there has not been an oath worth a cent. How is this? At this rate the con- stitution is not safe, and the key-stone of Confederation will, if this goes on, be loosâ€" ened, if not actually shaken out. But didn't the CLOCK say there were going to be no more politics for never so long? All right, but then people will talk, and the corres- ponding echo will come. How Wimau’s baths go on ! “'ere there no fear of a pun before the CLOCKS eyes it would say swimming/i], but it won’t. The ladies are going in lor aquatics. All right ! And gentlemen are to have the privilege of bathing en jamille, which will be nice, and as it ought to be. It will he jolly for a clerical bother to say to a five hundred pound feminine, “ Muyl have the pleasure of a ‘ header’ with you? I’ll see that the waves don’t stir your feet." The number- ing of the‘batliing dresses is also a. fine idea. But then, are there only to be a hundred ladies allowed to bathe? If so, why so? If not, what comes of the numbered dresses, or what is to become of those for whom no water garments have been provided? The mere hint“. at such a. thing sends scold shiver through the CLOCK’S machinery. 'l‘flA'l‘ BRAMPTON KISSING AFFAIR, too ! Why, heaven help the clergy, and laymen as well, if every one that kissedn. girl were to be brought to book for the iniquity. The infamy of the man “that kisses and tells” is proverbial, but the idiocy of the woman that can’t protect herself from being kissed against her will is something mon» strous. Does the man Starr want folk to believe that his fiancee: was kissed against her will before his very face, and that he did not there and then sla the offender’s cars? At that rate he must e apoor vessel, and the offending brother must have had culiar notions about kissing with comfort. I‘he CLOCK does not believe in this kissing business, for it is often like ringing the bell to something much more questionable. At the same time, a girl that properly'rescnts an unwelcome liberty of the kind will never be troubled by that same man a second time ; while one that can bottle up her wrath for two years over [ice stolcn kisses, all told, and thou come out with all the blushing in- dignation of virtue, must bcâ€"wcll, the CLOCK does not like to say. Looking down on all that is going on, as the CLOCK does, it may be permitted to add that the slaver- iug idiocy of some clergy in this matter of kissing the female lambs of their flocks, not to say anything about the full-grown ewes, is as offensive and dangerous as anything well could be. Oh, oily men of God, keep your kisses to your own babies and your own licl mates. In ninety-nine cases out of a bum red your're no great temptations, and the girls, though they don't care about bringing up your elephantino osciilations before church meetings and " sicli," would just for rather have nothing to do with your salutations, especially if you smoke, have decayed teeth, or Chadbxnd china and coun- tcnances. In fact, onus Alt): xirr iqu so roxn or KISSES as some foolish feather heads of men allege, and when the “gallant” smells, as he geno- rally does, of brandy and bad tobacco, it is no wonder that tho dainty little minx tums up her pretty little nose in indignant con- tem t. and bathes hcr ruby lips with mm (Ir- ologne. for a full quarter of an hour after such an assault of stinking importinence. Hear the conclusion of the whole ‘fhattcr. Men that minister don't give yourselves to oaculatory exercises under the pretense that Paul commands you. Young women. slap the cars of the man who dares to kiss you against your will, and for a second offence get your big brother to thrash him. Young menâ€"well, rinse your mouths, and be sure of your ground, before you play Jacob uith Rachel. So saith Tim C. 'riii-zuiui. Cux‘x. 'nio Armies of England and mm. An interesting article recently appeared in the St. l'etcrsbiirg Galas on the armies of En land and Egypt. it proves that Arsbi l’na could oppose 60,000 men, including 10,000 reserves and 30,000 irregular troops; whereas England at the pmeiit moment could hardly bring 20.000 European sold~ iers into action, as none could be taken from Ireland, and Government would pro- bably not run the risk of weakening its blth garrisona. India could only supply 5,000 l man, as probably no native troops would becalled out. In com clusion, the Galas remarks that England eanonlybcsunol aucceas if she pares fora ampaign and not for an ex 'tiou. ~â€"â€"-â€"â€"N<-.->90â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"- If the old Egyptian dufl’m, whose inuru milled remains are the wonder and admu-a- tiou of the vulgar nineteenthme bard, couldoal he rovivified fora brief period, they woulilheastnnisbsdâ€"il such gravesnd reverend sci maid besatoniahcdâ€"at the knowledge world es of the country which gave than Methinng-ibly, _ shsntbeimmcaaepoireraad uencclo the modern pn- ia the disasminationof knowledgethaa the mannerinvrhich every pum‘blaacnpolinformation 'gtbe usesofthepvuentwaris ' beforethe rasdersol thedaily . Peoplawhqa brief fortnight ago. history and antiquities. the” as it will require at least an ave lacs “8 the home c and railways, it is evident that there is a scarcelytell-hete intbsgarden, and thereupon Warn,th diaeoarasofher The first excava- tions revealed the existence of a clearly de- fined wall lying in a line tending toward the southwest, from where if. was first struck. The wall was composed of a dark brown sandstone. very much crumbled in laces, but more distinct, more clearly de- fined, and the stone more solid as the dig- gin increased in depth. The wall was evi ently the eastern side of an ancient home or fortification, as the slope of the outer wall was to the west. About eight feet from the slope of the eastern wall a mound of sand was stuck embedded in the muck formation above and around it. This sand mound was dug into only a few inches, as the depth of the water demaddsd by a slight uncrensed depth of the channel at that point, but enough was dis- covered to warrant the belief that here on the northwestern shore of Lake Dora is emerged a city or town or fortifica- tion older by centuries than anything yet discovered in this portion of Florida. Small, curiously shaped blocks of sandstone, some of them showing traces of fire, pieces of ttery; and utensils made of a mottled int were thrown out by the men while working waist deep in water. A spear head of mettlcd flint, five and a half inches long by one and a quarter inches wide, nicely finished, is now to beseen at the Herald office, which was taken from the top of the sand mound and about {slip feet below the water level of the c. -â€"â€"â€"‘”‘~.e>”â€"â€"â€"- FEMALE DETECTIVES. The Opinion of an Old Export no to Their Usefulness-The Best One no Ever Saw. “ Looking over the paper this morning,” meditatively remarked an old detective, one hot afternoon last week, while he pushed the mint aside to a car with his straw a bi strawberry nt,tho read an advertisement that caught my eye, the offer of a highly educated widow to engage as a detective, and I’ve been wonder- ing to myself if it can be the same widow I knew once in a certain western city put upa job that I had to look into‘ pro- feaswimlly. She claimed to be a. detective, and a woman who wanted a divorce from her husband engaged her to find the evidence requisite. to manufacture it, by entrapping tlfé man into what seemed to be a very compromising situation with her, and having him sur- prised by witncsscs ready at a signal from her. little game, and (lid so. the same woman. that was fifteen years ago, not long after the war, and that woman was 35 then. I don’t regard women as detective work at all. working up a. case circumstances may occasionally arise in which, to one particular little detail or item of fact, a woman may be employed to advantage, and every detective knows women that he can get and use for such an occasion, but their casual utilization in thutway does not make them detectives. into a place and tell him to notice if there was in there a person answering a certain description, detective, would it? a little idea of what I menu. often emplo ed as detectives by divorce lawyers, anal, houses, put on to work up some young em loyco that they suspect is living too fast, per ups, on their money. a smart woman, especially if she is pretty and has no squeamisliness about the sort of society she goes into, or what she does, has advantages over a man. known or heard of a woman doing any lead- ing or prominent detective work in the un- ravelling ferrctiug out of the perpetrators of a crime such as a murder, a robbery, or n forgery. The women who have the mental force and power of concentration to do that class of work are rare, if indeed they exist at all, and do not seem to go into the business. ttom of his glass, " who Her way to find it was I was engaged to ex ose and beat the l erhaus this isn't Probably she isn’t, for oorl for straight u the course of get at some If I should send a. boy that wouldn't make him a. \- ell, that; gives you \Vomcn are are occasionulzy, by business For thcsc things But I have never of a criminal mystery, or the "Another thing: a. woman who obtains the personal knowledge of and familiarity amon pensa Is for it inevitably ends by joining them herselfâ€"if, indeed, she has not actually commenced thereâ€"and is much more liable to be their accomplice than their betrayer to justice. And that consideration leads me to mention another peculiar field of usefulness for the uncalled female detectivesâ€"viz.: as go- betwceus or negotiators between thieves and their victims for the restoration of stolen property. common dodge for women employed in that capicity to pla themselves as detectives. But, after all, the detective is in a novel or a play, and Lotta :Svas the best one I ever saw."â€"New York 'im. the criminal circles that are indis- good detective, almost It is not at all an un- best place for the female _â€"â€"‘”4 0.- b” â€"-â€"â€" Monov in India. i DICKENS W815. An Interesting Talk with the Han Who Used toerte for Charles Dickens. “ You were an unanueusis of Charles Dickens, were you not 1'" “ Yes ; 1 did short-hand work for Mr. Dickens for eighteen months. I did not take dictations for any one of his novels, only his fugitive pieces. He dictated to me most of his articles in All the Year Round. He was a very clever man to those under him. He always treated me very well indeed. Most people seem to think Dickens was a ready writer. This is by no means the case. lie used to come into his office in St. Cathe. riue street about eight o'clock in the morn- ing and begin dictating. He would walk u and down the floor several times after dic- tating a. sentence or a paragra , and ask me to read it. I would do so, anpilllie would, in nine cases out of ten, order me to strike'out certain words and insert others. He was generally tired out at, 1 o'clock, and went down to his club on the Strand. A ve singular thing was that he never dictated the closing paragraphs of his story. He al- ways finished it himself. I used to look in the paper forit, and find that he had changed it very greatly from what he liaddictated to me. - I “ Dickens had a very odd habit. of comb- ing his hair. He would comb it a hundred times in a day. He seemed never to tire of it. The first thing he did on coming into the office was to comb his hair. I have seen him dictate a sentence or two, and then be- gin combing. then he got through he dic- tated another sentence. He was very core- ful about his writings. He wanted every sentence to be as peifeat as possible lefore letting it go to press. “Dickens was an odd fellow regarding the company he sought. I have known him, while I was employed by him, to go down to the Seven Dials, about the worst place in London, and also add eat there. He roasted his herring w iere the rest did, and slept with the poorest. lie loved low society. He never seemed so happy as when scatcdin a poor coffeehouse, with a crowd of the lower classes talking around him. Hanover missed a, word that was said, and was the closest observer I ever saw. Nothing es- caped him. When I was working for him he was at the zenith of his fame, just before his death; and even then he loved these careless, rollicking rounds among the poor better than a high-toned dinner.’ A “ Was he as great a drinker as he has the reputation of being ‘2" “ I never saw him drunk myself. I have seen him several times cxhilnratcd, how- ever. He’only drank the best, of wine, but he drank that very freely. Sherry was his especial favorite, and he never refused a glass of fine old sherry. He was an insatia- ble cigarette smoker, and when dictating to me always bad a. cigarette in his mouth. He wu‘s a very spruce man, too. He brushed his coat frequently, and changed his collars several times in o. day. He .vnsovcry bitus humorous in his speech as in his writings. “’hcn lie was in a peculiarly fine humour he could kee up laughing by the hour with his witty tal . He was not one of those men who are above those they employ ; he chatted as freely with me as with any mem- ber of his club on the Strand. Dickens was undoubtedly the best after-dinner speaker in England. Iheard him at \Vhi‘tehall once, the occasion being the anniversary of the British museum. There was an enormous crowd, hardly standing-room, and he kept them in one continual roar. lie was a. fine actor, and this, added to his wit, made him irresistibly funny. He was s. great enter; not an epicure, but a. gourmaud. Ho ate, and ate, and ate, and cured little for the quality, so there was enough before liim."â€"Louis- ville Commercial. â€"-â€"â€"â€"‘.â€"¢.’â€"~v*â€"~â€"-â€" MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. General. Alfred “'ilkie has scoredu big success as I'm DiavoIo at St. Louis. It is said that Mr. Gladstone has written a play for Mrs. Langtry. Lawrence Barrett will appear at Huverly’s theatre, Philadelphia, in two new plays. Minnie Muddcrn’s new play “ “’ild “’ave” has been successfully produced at Indianapolis. Aimee, who opens at the Fifth Avenue theatre Sept. 18, will be supported by a French speaking company. Alice Oates has arrived from Paris. She has brought a couple of new operas, and several pairs of new stockings. Wm. Stafford, an alleged Shakesperian actor, isamong the stars who are to illu- minate the dramatic horizon next season. Miss J ulia Hunt will open her next sea- son at Montreal in August. She will play as heretofore, the chief role in ” Floriuel." Mr. Booth's recent performances in Lon- dow are said to have been the chief theatri. cal event in London life ; his Richelieu being es ecinlly admired. The b any “far, contrary to expectation, will be withdrawn at the end of the present mouth. Things have not been altogether as merry as was hoped for at the Germanic. A new musical genius has risen in Lon- don. He is a boy named Galsotti. His Forapoverty-stricken country like India Performances 81° extraordinary. Md his pen ollicial en- preacnt time, as we showed the oth- rom 40 to 20 lacs of rupees per week, and, e of 40 per week all the year round to meet barge of the Indian government hidden as wall as an open acevrnulatron of drafts going on. The affect of this accumu- lation must be to lower the average price of the drafts later in the year, when the favorable remitting season comes on, and thus to neutralise, in all probability, the a parentan shown now. ,It would aotst surprise as, indeed, were the end of the system to hes considerable loan raised to puith the exchange from collapsing alto- gethcr.-- Pall Mall Gazette. a- hlrw An eccentric old tlernan who had snar- ried his second info, 'a hoydcnish g mMntcrtnnedapart ofgen omen wesfumndtum the non-ade his ' ‘ spouse. Bponinquiringhaaacertainefi‘r sham . invited his gacataonttobeiattodacedtohar. Aathey kingsandha- motoaceept, theinvitationhia lad mustang: gramme andhcrprueat of ll, exclaimed: »“Doa't do w . statedslavcy. Andthisisbatoneexampls damnyoltnohamedacathg poi-std m. w s. naked 1‘ y m I . O. I returned the half a y' y, “she‘s packer-nine. “00.000 in mg a sum to mt away ; but. I rapturous admirers think they have found a before accepting this as the exact truth of 9 New MON-rt- the matter, we must know at least two things. The first is the result of the sys- tem over a much longer period, and the second is the consequence to the silver market of this direct and o couragcment of competion between the price of silver and price of bills. As to the first point, what we have always contended is that the effect of the system is to accumula- unsold him, and that in consequence of this accumulation the average price for a year together is likely to be just as low by the one method as by the other, if not lower. At the or day. the council is over £1,000.00?) be- hindbandâ€"shOrt in its salesâ€"that is, com- pared with the amounts put up for tender. One afiect of this has been that the amounts put up for tender have had to be lowered W. S. Robertson, a brother of T. IV. Robertson the eminent English playwright, and of Mad c Robertson, who, as Mrs. Kendall is sue a favorite actress in Lon- don, Eng” is a bartender in Detroit. . Mrs. Laugtry continues to draw large audiences on, her theatrical tour of England, and is making a great dealof mone ', though a crowded house there yields on y about half asmuch money as in this country. Mdlle Theo, of the Parisian Opera Boufl'e, is under contract to Maurice Grau for sixty performances, which must be given within two months. Her firstappearauce will be at New York, Sept. 11, when she opens the new Casino for the season. The variety theatres have turned out a good many successful stars. Lotta com~ menced in a ’Friaco variety theatre ; so did Joe Murphy. Then we have Nat Goodwin, Gus Williams, Joe Emmet and several others of prominence, while next season at least a dozen more W'lll make their debut as stellar attractions. The mysterioui disappearance of Alfred B. Peasc, the well known pianist, which caused a good deal of excitement over a month ago, has been cleared up in St. Louis by the identification of a stranger who dro ped dead on the street from congestion of a brain. He had been drinking heavily fonoma time. J.R.Bogsrs, manager of “hi heart," Minnie Palmer, ls cumin a collection of silk stockin s to order {or that little lady, wh' will prove the admiration of all the American manufac- turers and the envy of all the ' And now C‘knj wants to know how e Parisian makers got themcaaure of Minnio'a l-oarer extremities. ' Minnie Madden: a to the same taste that found a sa ' ymg deity in Lotta. Talent, style, and general bent, she is of themsort. Theiaests'mable advan e ofyouthiammsadtho a very pretty sun ' ' tins. helps her cause. . illusion of stag-slasher“), Mica Madden can not be more 18 years of age. Sweet- k with '3' would certainly Keenan's Water-Kalonâ€"A Turkish Story. I There are few lessanter world than the hi of Western Anatolia, and the dainty little white villages that look down upon the bright blue waters of the Bos- phorus form a maze of clustering vine and sunny melon~patches. But three hun- dred and fifty years ago, it was a very different matter. Then, all these shady gardens and green bill-sides were one rest mass of savage forest, through which fierce beasts and fiercer men roamed at will. The town of Brusa shutgand barred its gates, in those days, the moment the glow of sunset began to fade from the great, white dome of Mount Olym- us overhead. ' 3 night, the bowl of the ' wolves would be heard close under P the walls and robbers haunted every road. But‘there was one man who seemed to fear neither wolf nor robber, cultivating his little garden on the slope of the mountain, and trudging into the town to sell his fruit, as coolly as if he had been in the heart of Con- stantinople. Many people told him that he be robbed or catch u some day ; but Hassan, like a sturdy old urk as he _was, only answered that no man can avoid his destiny, and went just the same as before, raising and selling his fruit, and providing food for himself and his little girl, the only other inhabitant of the clay hovel, and jogged along, altogether, contentcdly enough. Now it happened that one day he had in his garden a fine melon, so much bigger thiui all the rest that he made up his mind not to sell it, but to keep it as a birthday treat for his little Fatima. Old,Hsssan was sitting watching it, one hot afternoon, as he smoked his lone pipe in the shade, and listened to the tiukle of the tiny stream that kept; his littie plot alive. when suddenly the garden door opened, and in come three men, with guns on their shoulders and long spears in their hands. Hassau's first thought was that: the rob- bers were upon him at last ; but one glance showed him that the new-comers, roughly dressed and dusty though they wore, did not look in the least like brigands. Two of them were finc-lookin men of middle age, whose long, dark bear 5 were just beginning to turn grey. The third was a tall, hund- somu young man with large, black eyes, who said courteously: “ Peace be with thee, father. \Vc have been hunting on the mountain and lost our way; to“ me, I pray you, how far it is to Brush.” “ It lies right before you," answered Hassun, rising at once to receive them, like a hospitable old fellow as ho was : “and when you have rested awhile I will gladly guide you thither. But first, I pray you, sit down and repose yourselves, and take of such food as I can offer.” “ That we will do gladly, for we have fasted since sunrise,” said the youth, seating himself ; “ and we shall be well served with some bread and a. slice of you mequ ; a finer I have never seen l" This was more than poor Hassan had bargained for, and he looked ruefully at the_ splendid fruit, his little daughter's promised treat. But it was not in his nature to deny anything to a tired and hungry guest, and in ii tries the cherished melon was vanish- ing piece by piece down the stmngcrs’ throats, while Hussnn stood by with a. gal- ant attempt at a. smile. But little Fatima did not take the matter so quietly by any means, and suddenly broke down in a burst of subs and tears. “ Ila ! what means this ?" asked the young- cst hunter, looking up from his meal. Hus- sau tried to avoid an explanation, but there was something in the young liuntsman's look and toxic not easy to resist, and at lost the whole truth came out. a “ And thou hast given thy child’s chosen fruit rather than seem inhospitable l” cried the guest ndmiringly. “ “’ould to Heaven all men followed the Prophet‘s teaching like thee ! then should I have a quieter life of it. How soy ye, friends? What doth this man deserve '3" But before his comrades could answer, the garden gate llcw open again, and the who o place was filled with richly-dressed men, who threw themselves at the young stranger’s foot, crying: “ God be praised, we have found the Commander of the Faith- ful, safe and sound l" - " Purse bearer, ” said the huntsinnn, pointing to Hassau, who stood petrified at the discovery that his strange guest was no other than the Sultan himself, “ give this man a hundred zcccliins, to show him that Solyman leaves no good. deed unrequited. And, as for thee, little one,” he added, hanging around Fatimn's ricck tliogold chain that fastened his girdle, “let this comfort thee tor the loss of thy melon. Had I a daughter like thee, my palace would not seem so lonely.” And away be swept toward Brusa with his retinue. Now when the Governor of Brusa, a mean, greedy fellow, heard of Iiassan's luck, lie at once picked out; the finest horse in his stables, and away he went post-haste to present 1'! to the Sultan, expecting to get something very good in return. “ Thou hast deserved a good reward, my servant,” said the Sultan, with u twinkling eye ; for he saw through the man in a moment. “ Yesterday, I paid a hundred gold pieces for this melon ; I give thee the goodly fruit in exchange for thy horse 1” You may fancy how the Governor looked, aim what a hard time of it his household had that night, though he took good care to tell no one what had made him so angry. But the story got abroad, nevertheless, and for years afterward, ” Hassau’s melon " was a proverb throughout the whole district.â€" Diu~id Ker, in St. Nicholusjor Angus. o-â€"sooâ€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€" Some Blunders in Print. Au absurd blunder appeared in the Par- liamentary rQort of the Daily Telegraph on the occasion of Mr. Gladstonc’s resolu- tion on the Eastern policy of Lord Beacons- field‘s Government. There a right honor- able gentleman was represented as account- ing for the action of another member of the House by the statement that he had ” sat at the feet of the Gamebird of Birming- bam,”an allusionto his preception which was not wintelligible as the rendering of other 'ournals, " the Gamaliel of Birmingham." erhaps Irish reporters, owing to the re- cognized tendency of the soil and climate. are rivileged in matters of this kind. One oft em, in describing the result of a re- cent conflict between the Police and the pie in which fire arms were used, writes: “ Inthe union infi lies John Smith with his shattered leg, which was amputata ed on Tuesday last." Ordinary mortals might have imagined that the surgeon would have caused the shattered member to be removed from the immediate vacinrty of the crippled patient. That Ireland has a strict mono ly of this class of composition can hardly sustained if this a correctly credited ton Glasgow pa r's account of a shipping disaster: “ a Captain swam ashore, as did also the stewardess. She was issued for £3,000. and carried 200 tons of ' -iron." But lea ephemeral publications is newspapers have occasionally furnished instances of ladierousambiguity. blond-old geography, forexample, ' tad out an architectonil peculiarity a an EXde eluiracter when it informed the rising generation ofita time that a certain town contained “400 houses-ad moo inhabitants all standins witth gable ends to thestrettfâ€"All the Year Baud. AGEING SEVERE!) LIKES. th in the Pct-sons Who Claim to Suffer From Paul- tlona of Buried Members. The feet of Josiah \Vest, who met with that terrible accident on the railway a few days ago, were yesterday taken by his wife to Fremont, N. H., for burial. When the unfortunate man regained consciousness at the has ital the morning following the loss of his iinbs he complained that his toes pained birii a great deal, that they secured badly cramped, and he requested that some one move them for him. At that time the feet were tied in a bag, and the hospital plo did not know where they were to be ouud. It seems simply incredible that the position or condition of u severed member of a person‘s body should affect in the least the sensibilities of the owner : but suilicc it to say that tho undertaker with whom the writer converscd affirms that he personally knows of numerous cases where persons who have lost a limb declared they felt pain from an awkward position which the mem- ber was in. He cited an instance of a lllllll wholost an arm in this city last fall. After being am. utated it was sent to the undcrtaker‘s for mild. It was placed in a box, the back of the hand beingdown. rcmuiiiiugin this posi- tion for several hours. The owner of tlic severed member, during that time, ox- pericnced pain in the arm, which grow so unbearable that at last he asked ii friend to go to the iindcrtakcr's and see about the limb. This was at 5.45 in the afternoon. The friend was busy, and did not start off for half an hour, and during that time the pain had ceased, and the wounded man said he need not go. He wont, however, and found that the undertaker had just finished caring for the arm ; that it had been placed in an easy and natural position in the box. The time when the arm was channg from the awkward position to thclnttcr coincided exactly with the time when the owner had felt the pain leave him. \thii the friend reported to the unfortunate man, [in (tho latter) said he liucwjust how the arm was placed, that he could feel its position and correctly describe the some. Another case cited by the undertaker was about a. man who lost an arm above the cl- bow. The member was given to the under- taker and buried. The mini subsequently went to Lawrence to live. About a your after the accident he paid the undertaker a visit and told him his arm fora long time had pained him a great deal, that the lingers seemed cramped and that he wanted to see the buried member. Accordingly it was dug up and examined, and, strange to say, fouizd to have the lingers tightly turned up toward the palm, as the man said they felt to him. The fingers were straightened, and the arm consigned again to the ground and no more troulls was experienced from it.â€" Manrheslvr (NJL) Mirror. "-«9. i‘-'>..»â€"“- A. California Cloud-Burst. A dispatch from Bakersfield, Cnl., gives the following further particulars of a. great cloud-burst at 'l‘cjon canyon: “A water- spout broke in the T vjon canyon, ycgtm-dny, which occasioned grout destruction, as far as the effect is known. This locality is the valley of the 'l‘cjon crock, which discharges into the south-western port of the Tularc valley, on the lands of Gen. Beale, utupoiut about; thirty miles from this place. At the lower part of the canyon a settlement re- mains of the Indians of the tribe which once claimed the principal part of Kern and Los Angolcs counties, iving there by sufl‘ernncc and under the protection of Gen. Beale. They had good nuts, farms, vineyards. and gardens, lllltl were living in plenty and coni- fort. Abovc them the canyon is occupied by white settlers, who have good, well-iiiiprovcd farms. About. 4 pm. yesterday a. wall of water apparently twenty fact high was seen swooping down upon the Indian settlement with irresistible force. Immediately there was a scene of the wildest confusion. Mothers and fathers snatched up their little ones and endeavoured to escape to the high grounds. Those not fortunate enough to do so were either swept away or saved themselves by clinging to the branches of trees. The rush of water soon subsided, and when it did so, everything they had was either swept away or ruined. The news If the cal iiiity was brought to-duy by an Indian. ‘ He could not give u. very intelligible account. When llt'. left only two dead bodies had been found» which had been carried a long distance. If more perished it can not be known until an investigation is held. Fourteen persons are known to be badly injured, having been struck by the drift brought down on the crest of the flood. He came to bring the news touwhilc man in whom they have great anfideiicc and are necustomcd to apply to for advice and assistance in emergencies. They returned together. Nothing is known of what occurred further up the canyon." sr~<q->â€". A Religious Ups-tats: , A correspondent of the London Daily ’1'rlr- grapli says zâ€"lt is four or live months since I first had occasion to call your attention to the grave symptoms of Pain-Islamic agita- tiori‘s. "ram l‘uiiis, Tripoli, Cairo, and India, intelligence was forthcoming of u secretly-organized propaganda, the threads of which dolled detection, butwiisovidcutly spreading rapidly amongst the Mussuliiian world of Asia and Africa. Strange to wily, not the rcmotcst trace of it was or is to it: found amongst the Mussiilinaii population of Europe, either in Bulgaria, toumclin, or the occupied provinces. But clscwiicrc it has assume I formidable proportions. Secret cmissarics, whom it is uch to impossible to re ognizc as such, and who are intlucnlially recommended and wellprOvidcd with funds wherever they go, have been overrunniiig the two Mussolman continents for the past; three years. The number of pilgrims to . Mecca is largely on the increase. It is said i in the East that he who goes to the holy city I half a believer comes back a fanatic. At all , events, he returns with nprcstigc uliich hr- did not possess before starting, uiidtliat hs-i ‘ within the past few years been (7XCI’Cl'ICllbll behalf of the Islamic revival movement. Those whose duty it has br on to study the question have arrived at the conclusion that the pcndin agitation has a two-fold object â€"â€"firstl , tie regeneration of the Mussul- man religion : and, secondly, the emancipa- tion of Islam from the Christian yoke. .. -vâ€" l’rivatc telegrams f r( in Egypt to llrllllfdl state tf at the situation is so strained that a collision is unavoiiiblc. “I can't amolve this cigar mllr'l) longcr‘,‘ said Chowder, as be worried with a stub. "No," said some one present, "and you can't smoke it much shorter." gave the imbecile one plying glance, and then hailed a streetcar an bailin street-tars, isn’t it dangerous to be out 0 doors? The latest official and other reports show tbsttbe apple and peach crops of Canada will be nearl a failure. This was Wire been the “ leari'n year" both for appch and peaches. App e blossoms were never thicker than this spring, but nearly all fall off. The cold and chilly days of the latter part of spring are set down as one of the cause-of the failure. Plums and other meit will be good on the whole. while the grain crops will be very bury if the weather continues fair. went home with America, new. a and heart. By the way, when it comes to “gimme Mn, . rel-alias otlbe Drainâ€"Palah mus “Thirteenth Hub.“ do, ate. I The ways of the Caressa ans peculiar. ,Thcir great horn-r of and the ‘ utions 5 taken against the outer h rbarisa are in themelu-s a curiosity. The ‘ have a syr tem of sentineis all round is coast, who report by beacons of tire, to the capital the approach of y adventurous or unfortu- nate individ' that very few Europeans land in Core. un- less after going through the ordeal of ship- wreck. But the last days of Coroa'a exclu- sivcuess have arrived, and the opening up i of the country to foreign intercourse is soon to be accomplished. In Athens there i no excavation '9}: cu exec t a clearing of the soil of the gnom- polis, w ich is likely to yield some good re~ sultsasrcgsnls inscriptions. In the course of digging in several streets for the con- struction of sewers, various old graves havo come to light, in which a few objects of art have been found bosriu reliefs. Moat bad inerclyluneral inscriptions. Since Thessa. l ' was incorporated with tho Greek king- i om,‘ archaeology is beginning to show signs of life there. Inscriptions have been published in the local papers and those of Athens, and frequentlyit is aruiounced that such and such a. find has been made. ' Joe Miller made a chaii o of sweethearts in Louis, discanling hate Hudson and taking Mattie Ford. If he had made a quiet transfer of his affections, trouble might not have arisen from it: but he sent lvstc a letter announcing that ho was soon tomarry Mattie, and inviting her to see bin. and lllrl new girl walk through Clabboi alloy at a certain time. The three persons concerned were iicgrocs. and Clubber alloy is the negro Fifth avenue of St. Louis, so that Joe's proposed exhibition of his bo- trotlicd wile greatly cxcitcd Kate. She went to tho rendezvous, however, and loud. ly berated him for his pertidy. lle knocde her down twice, and Mattie smiled disdain- fully at her. This so enraged her that she drew ii knife and stabbed Joe to the heart. “llut l cziii’t callrcrlntc how it killed him," she adds, “ ‘causo I don't believe any knife could liu’ gone into his heart. lt was too hard, so ’twns." ’l‘cii miles from London is a line old place called Charlton Park. Many years ago a great sale of mulberry trees, with other timber, took place there. The auctioneer could give no explanations as to how such on inimcnsc quantity of mulberry timber should be there, but it was siibscquontl explained, that with a view to British silk culture, James I. had done all in his power to encourage mulberry plantations, and ac- tually appeared to court in a silk suit wo~ venout of cocoons which the Queen had personally raised from her silkworms. It was later on deemed to be ini mum to chock French imports, so tho silt scheme fell through. Tho Charlton troos had been pluiitodnt the time of tho rage for silk- making. -m»..â€"._.._ English Commanders. Sir Gnrnct Wolscluy, who is probably to lend the British military expedition to Egypt, has, in ii military career of thirty yours, established his reputation as one of tlienblcst and most successful generals of the present day. Entering tlio scrvico as ensign in March, 1852, be rapidly rose to the rank of colonel. lloservcd in tho Bur- mese war of 1852-53, for which ho received n medal. Afterward he achieved distinction in the Crimea. At the siege of Scbustopol lie was severely wounded, and received the French Legion of Honor and the fifth class of the Turkish badge of the Medjidio. At the scigc of Lucknow lie was inndo brovct lieutenant; coloucl, and in 1860 he received ti medal and two clusps for his services in the Chinese caiiipiiigii. llo commanded the cxpcdition to tho Red river, Canada, in 1867, going as qunrtcriiiustcr general. In August, 1873, \\'olscloy was appointed to command the British troops on the Gold coast during the Ashuutcc war, with tho locnl rank 01 major general, and thch sig- nzilly defeated the enemy. On his return to England Sir (luriict \\'olsoloy received the thanks of parliament; and ii vriiiit of £25,000. lie was also created K. C. 5. At the com- mencement of 1875 Sir Garnet Wosclcy was dispatched to Natal to administer the government of that colony. After remain. ing in command of the auxiliary forces until November, 1876, he was appointed admini- strator of the island of (.yprus under the style of licriiinjcsty's hiin COIllllllBthllcl‘ and coiiiinuiidcr-inrchicf. When Lord Cliolms- ford was beaten by Cctcwuyo iii Zululand, the English govcnimciit sent Sir Gnrnct to that part of the world to take command of the expeditionary forces, but not arriving until after the buttlo of Uluiidi had been fought. he had only to pacify tho countr ', which he did. lie left the Cape before t u outbreak of the :l‘riiiisvanl troubles. ' Vice Admiral llcnuchnmp l'agct Seymour was born in 182]. He wasjunior naval [on] of tlic ndiiiirulty from 1872 to )8”, Ma for the three years following cUllllllnuded we choose] squadron. He has been inder of the Mediterranean squadron since 1330. llc is a Knight Companion of the Bath and ll. Fellow of tho lloyul Geographical “c,ch . Maj. Hon. Sir Henry l'lvclyii Wood, K_ 1%., is mentioned in tho dispatches M the commander of tho expeditionary {on-o 0L fifteen thousand men now embarking for Egypt. He entered the III“? in 1852 and served with distinction as iiiil.de.camp a, Capt. Sir “'illiuiii Pool in command of u“, naval brigade in tlicCriincn. llo joined the riruiyas ensign in tlinficvcnty-tliird regi. merit and became lieutenant in lbw. lle wns promoted to captain in 186! and major in 1561!. In lSTl ho was major in tho lilth regiment, and ill 1578 lieutenant colonel. lie was rlrfllllflll'll to the rank of major general for his services during the Zulu war, and “115 also knighted. Sir llcrbcrt'l‘aylor Macl'licrmn, l{. C. IL, who is hi command of the liidiuricoutiugciit, first served under llavclock during the Persian campaign in l857. Then he fought ill the Indian mutiny, taking part in the most of the engagements. includin the relief of the residency at Lucknow. Vheii the Afghan war broke out Maol‘heison was putiii command of a brigade and distin- guished himself in many battles. After the war he was given command of the Bengal (li\ir.iuii with, tho local rank of major gciieral.â€"â€"- ll'unllinylmi I’ml. â€"~-â€"~â€"â€"-â€"oe 4-» sob-mu”... "The Queen's lace llaiidkcrcliief,” a new opera by the composer of the “ Mcrr War," will shortly be produced at Wu - luLk's theatre, N.\'. lk-echur any»: " Worm-ii can syiiipathiw uith wumcn." llut she won't. \lhco a woman get» :- bonnet that is u ly and un- bccmoiug. cvcryoncof her sex w io know of it is glad of it. The son of a butcher experienced great . difficulty in comprehending fractions, al- though liis teacher did his very best tomake him understand their intricacies. "Now let us suppose," said the teacher, “that a customer came to your father to buy fire pounds of meat, and he on] bad fourto sellâ€"what would he do? " “ up his hand on the meat while he was wei g it, and then it would Weigh more than 1 vs wands." Chowder was the candid response. There seems to be a disposition among pen and correspondents to gtry as an actress ‘. and to prepare for her an unfavorable r tion. 1 This is scarcely falrplay. saris it altovsther to cross y. . or is it jus t e to '5 all I v - t u. h lady say, as many are saying, that she has gone on the stage to exhibit herself. liar fallen fortunes rendered some such step necessary. That she has beenâ€"and ls-a " professional beauty." is her misfortune; she has been written into the position also now holds In such almost in spite of herself: but it is to her honor that she has so carried herself tlsshlhough possibly the niosttalkedvabost ladyin England, no breath ofscsndal has touched her reputation. ‘thtll “cautions-lino and nip-tu- ~unfortunate from the fact ,