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SiRANGELiWED’DED. A Thrilling Story of Romance and Adventure. ‘ . CHAPTER XXX. ,room. I have seen him turn so eagerly to- , , , :the door when we have met here and you “Thu” “influx :have not yet come to us. I have seen a ‘ A Mad-lei: bold auduncxpccted question Will, , thousand signs good enough to tell me what ; many 1.“:1'5 surper a maul and lay but) open. I he fuels for y0u_and I say to you, little one, j It must bc owned that although the old ' only have a little patiepce and all will to Jack had in a great measure come back ,I well by and by." , again, there was still a great gulf fixed be- So Ethel, with what patience she could. tween Lord Rosstrevor and Ethel. ,muster, set herself to the task of waiting. I All the sweet friendliness of the old rela- ' It was but weary work, and before many tions between them were gone, for a time at ; days had gone by, Madame “'olenski, \vho least. The weeks crept by and were into had kept her eyes open, made up her mind months ; Etliel’s time as a tenant of Mrs. 9 that she would take the matter into her own Ackroyd’s came to an end and she moved her hands and put uncertainty to an end once for belongings to another flat on the same floor = all. I _ as Madame \Volenski’s was on. These j Now Madame Wolenski, like all persons rooms were larger and brighter in every way , who have travelled much and lived in many and Ethel would have been perfectly happy i countries, was a woman who did not hesr- in them if only that barrier of restraint 3 fate long after she nad once made up her. which existed between Jack and her bad I mind; therefore she did not hesitate very‘ been removed. long at this juncture. Having decided to act' But they seemed to see far less of each she very soon found a way of having a little other than they used to do in poor Cosmo's; private talk to Lord Roastrevorâ€"in fact, timeâ€"he never came to dinner now, never the very next time she met him at Mrs._ Den- suggested going anywhere with her, and ah i nis’s, she found an opportunity of saying to though he came in to see her nearly every him, “ I particularly want to have half an I day it was always about the some time in l hour’s quiet talk With you, Lord Ross-; the afternoon and he never stayed at veryi trevor.” , g on time. In fact, he was, as he believed, “ Certainly, Madame,” he replied. “ W'hen en. ing such a very circumspect life that not shall Iâ€"_â€"-?” . . even Mrs. Grundy could venture to couple “ I Will go nowâ€"Will you come into my , his name with that of the young widow room when you take leave of the little one ‘3” 3 whose husband had been so mysteriously “Certainly I am at your service,” he said, murdered. courteously. So the pleasant spring days wore on; “ N ay, it is not for my service exactly,’ London became gay and bright, the trees in she said smiling at him. ‘ the parks and squares put on their tenderest He smiled too, and then Ethel, who had shades of reen, the smart boxes in front of been to fetch the majestic Cruinmles, came the smart iouses began to be filled with all back again, and very soon Madame betook colours of the rainbowâ€"with great moon- herself away. daisies, red geraniuins, rich-hued begonias “ Yes, I must go, dear child,” she saidl and gay calceolariasâ€"ond people came and when Ethel began a. feeble protest against: went to all manner of entertainments, clad her going so soon. “ I am dining out and in the gayest of garments ; indeed it was a. have something to do before then.” brilliant season and Ethel began to feel like She kissed her and patted her cheek, gave some humble mole stranded in the midst of her hand to Lord Rosstrevor and alsoa mean- a. great garden-party. ing look as he held open the door. And pre- She might have gone out a. good deal her- sently, that is after half an hour or so, J ack‘ self at this time, for Madame Wolenski was also took his leave and instead of turning ins. very smart set, thanks to her good in- down the stairsâ€"Ethel never went to the troductions, and would willingly have taken lift or the top of the stirs with him, as she her everywhere. Apart from this, a lovely used to doâ€"he went on and rang atMadame young widow of twenty-three, with an in- \Volenski’s hell. come absolutely her own of seven thousand He was shown into her boudoir, a. a year, does not generally want for friend- pleasant little room with plenty of flowers ship and attention in the gay city where and plants about it and with a tiny con- feelings are really not very dee â€"where you servatory at one end. may see the frisky widow of ii ty years, and Madame calmly. “ She told you about her!" he exclaim- , ed. i “ She told me nothin'r. She only asked me one dz. ’, before Major Dennis was kill~ ed, if I but ever met or heard of such a mu,” “ And you had not 2" “ I told her I had never heard of Valerie as a surname,” Madame replied. “ \Yell, go on with your story please. I am deeply interested. ” “ Well," he continued, “ I don’t say that Dennis ever actually struck her or beat her i â€"â€"not when he was sober, that lS~â€"l)lll. he thought nothing of catching hold of her 1 little delicate wrists with his brutal fingers I and gripping them till they were black with E bruisesâ€"I‘ve seen them so myself, and ‘ though she tried hard to pass it off. declared . he only had caught at her to steady himself . and all the rest, I’ve been half-maddeued “ Ethel has mentioned her to me," said I l l more than once, Madame, and would have given half my fortune to take him outside and give him a jolly good thrashing. But you can’t do that sort of thing in the Ser- ; vice: your oath prevents it, and besides, for her sake, I had to bottle up all I felt and , force myself to be decently civil to the! brute. She wouldn’t leave himâ€"not for his ‘l sake, of course, but because she had beenI brought up in that sphere of life in which: that- kind of slur becomes insupportablep and although I had asked her to go'- and would have gone at any momenti that she chose, yet I did not press: it. I didn’t want the woman I loved to go wrong, do you see? \Ycll, one fine' morning, to everbody’s horror, this man is' found dead with a knife in his back, andi his widow, still more than a child, comesj into a large fortune absolutely at her own ; disposal. At the same time his death is; apparently shrouded in mystery and asi likely as not the mystery will never be solved. Now do you not see how I am placed?" ‘ | “No, I don’t,” replied Madameâ€""unless . you think that the child killed him herself, l and with the usual selfishness of a. man, you have a lurking fear that she might have a. . knife for you also.” i “No, I did not think of that,” he. said unguardedly. “Then you did suspect her,” echoed; Madame quickly. ' Lei-d Rosstrevor looked upâ€"“It’s no use , trying to deceive you, Madame," he said, i “that thought did occur to me. She wasi so strange andâ€"and I am ashamed even to , remember it of myself. Please don’t talk’ about it any more. I shall never think of . it again if I can help it.” i “ But what then,” cried Madame, “ is it ‘ that still stands between you?” I For a moment he sat looking irresolutely ‘ "Come in here,” She said bowing out 1181‘ into the fire. “ Madame,” he said, “ while of six weeks’ widowhood, going modestly to hand to hiui. “We shall be less likely to I ,hismnrder remains undiscovered,everybody the opera under the thin disguise of her duty be disturbed than in the other rooms. I find ‘ to society and an unwillingness to intrude my friends have it way of coming unex- her private griefs upon the world at large. pectedly and wishing to write a. note to- But Ethel, who now that she was complete mo.” l mistress of herself in every way had begun to Lord Rosstrevor followed her into the . deve op a very fair will of her own, had room and she closed the door behind them. made up her mind to one thing, which was “\Ve shall be quite undisturbed here,” she ' that she would not go out into Society dur- said. “And now, I daresay you are wonder- ing that season. She had promised to go ing why I asked you to come up here ‘3” abroad to Homburg or Sii'albachâ€"in I “ A little,” he answered smiling. August with Madame VVolenski, and Ros-' “ Ah! yes. \Vellâ€"I am going to ask; strcvorhad half promised to follow them. you a very plain questionâ€"perhaps what Indeed if the truth be told, he was already you will think a very inipertinent (pics-j busily engaged in getting up such symptoms tionâ€"but I am almost an old woman,‘ as would steruly necessitate a sojourn at a. Lord Rosstrevor, and I hope you will for- German Bad during the late part of the sum- give me if I seem either iinpertinent or iii- iner. ; trusive. But as you must know, I take a ‘ But meantime Ethel was still the other very great and deep interest in our dear’ man’s wifeâ€"and the other man, poor mis- little friend, Mrs. Dennisâ€"and I want you guided man that he had been,stood between to tell me in the strictest confidence,i them far more than he had ever had any Whether you have any strong feeling for wish to do. i her '2” i “ He is so different," Ethel complained ' “ Certainly I have,” he replied. bitterly to Madame one day when that lady ; “ Then let me tell you, ” said Madame I had been taxing her with her altered looks looking straight at him. “that you are; and low spirits. “ He has never been the making her very unhappy, very unhappy‘ same since he became Lord Rosstrevor. I indeed.” ‘ don't believe the difference is anything to do “ I hope notâ€"â€"â€"â€"” he began, when the lady , with poor Cosmo’s death at all. He used to interrupted him. j be fond of me, Heleneâ€"~yes, indeed, he did ; “ Lord Rosstrevor,” she said laying her â€"heâ€"-he told me so.” i hand on his arm-“ I beg you to answer me I “ A great many men tell married women plainlyâ€"What is it that has come between he answered. that,” remarked Madame drilyâ€"“it is a. . you ‘2” a very safe way of amusing themselves.” “ lint Jack never wanted to amuse him- self in that way,” Ethel cried indignantlyâ€" “ but listenâ€"if you will keep it as a great I CHA PTE R. XXXI. A STRAXGHTFORWARD ANSWER. Truth needs not many words. secret, Helene, I will tell you all, and then t When Madame \Volenski‘put that very plain who had any connection with the dead man is liable to suspicion, and who, do you think, is so liable to the suspicion of being inter- ested in his death as I? If I were to marry Ethel to-morrow and she ever got an idea into her heathâ€"and remember, it might sug- gest itself or be suggested to her at any momentâ€"that I had killed him, I should be : perfectly powerless to defend myself to her or to put the idea out of her mind.” “But you know where you were at that time 1'” she cried. “ Yes, I know where I was, but as a. mat- ' ter of fact I was not at Trevor Hall. I got so sick of the gloom and randcur and lone- lincss that I went into Norwich, dined, did a theatre and slept at a hotelâ€"they might know meâ€"tliey might not. I got back to "rcvor Hall just in time to have got back from Londonwuow do you understand ? All that I womler at is that they didn’t haul me up at once and charge me with the murder.” “ They did not do that because they had é followed your movements dmvn to Norfolk . and back again with tolerable accuracy, and - because you were well-known here and . would certainly have been identified hadI 3 . you passed in or out.’ . “ Pooh ! Somebody must have got in or out without being seedâ€"that is unless it' was done by someone within the building,” z “ Yes, that is so. Then your great objectl is to find out who killed Major Dennis '3” “ It is." “ And you don’t mean to marry her until you do know?” “ That is just so. Madame, I can’t marry l jewels. The towering forms of the oak and :iippreciative beholder who passes through Allow Year Transformation An unmistakably gloomy day. The sky overcast with leadeu clouds, gave little promise of future sunshine. The rain came own with a steady patter as it struck against the window pane. Glancing with- out, thc woods wore all the dreary dc~ piession of a rainy day in winter. You realized then, if never before, the literal meaning of the wards “Nature is weeping,” -â€"â€"not with the tender half regretful passion of an April shower, but rather weeping with a sullen lllOlll‘Ilflllne$ of wintry despair. “ “hat a discouraging prospect for the day before New Year 2 No hope of pleasant weather to-morrow :" and Bricie turned from the window with a sigh which was mentally echoed by all present. Surely this dripping sky and dark, dreary earth contained little assurance of a cloud- i less moriow. The gray shadow of early twilight settled over the landscape, but the storm increased rather than diminished. As evening drew apuce, the wind moaned in a sad minor key as if wailin r a funeral dirge over the departing year. future’s requiem mingled with her copious tears, filled kin- dred hearts with sympathiziug sorrow. 0h inournful memory, you haunt other than Nature’s universal heart as she sobs in anguished \vitil. Past joys, half forgotten dreams, awoke in many hearts. The dying year has countless mourners to-night. Each listener to the moaning wind is filled with sorrow, as the year passes rapidly away to join the throng of passed yearsâ€"hardly less dear in their flush of youth and beauty. Still Nature wept iii unavailiug regret. The last sound heard before entering dreainland was the plush and patter of the rain. The sighing of the winter wind was the weird strain which sounded in our ears as we sunk to sleep to await the drawning of a New Year. The sound of the rain had ceased as the morning light flickered through the window drapery. Drawing aside the curtains a vision of entrancing loveliness met the eye. Nature was metamorphosed from the Ali-eariness of dark despair to the brilliancy of joyous hope. Each tear of the evening, was this glad morning transformed into a. radiant, spark- ling gem. The tiniest shrub was not forgot- ten in the distribution of this wealth of oz- zling beauty The slender branches of the Willow trees swayed beneath their burden of 1 l the poplar trees, bore their treasures proud- ly ; while the red berries of the mountain ash gleamed faintly through the ice crystals which covered, but did not hide, their cheery brightness. . 0 marvelous and beautiful magic which has clothed the naked limbs of the forest treesxiu a mantle of such radiant beauty ! Each branch revealed a new and hitherto un- discovered delight, its the bright rays of the sun flashed into rainbow hues the delicate crystals. Heart and mind were filled with admiration closely allied to awe, as realizing and acknowledging the Power, which, cloth- ing Nature with loveliness in the springtime of the yeai, clad with still more bcauteous adorning, the landscape in the gloomy and desolate winter. Nothing was forgotten, from the tall forest trees grand in their nut- jestic stateliness to the humble and despised weeds of the garden. No, that Master Hand had endowed each with its own share of Heaven-sent jewels. Was not that New Year day prophetic ‘2 The sad music of the evening changed to faint notes of delightful harmony as the ice crystals under the smile of the sun relaxing their tenacious clasp, fell with a silvery tone unheard by all save Nature’s lovers. To her true, friends many rare secrets are re- vealed, many delightful melodies sounded which to the indillcreut observer are with- held. Her most hopeful and glorious pro- mises, contain no encouragement for the no- life blind and deaf to the charms of Nature’s varying moods. Nature‘s charms are mun ' to some hearts. Springtime the timid vio ct starts : Summer with her wealth of splendor fair ; Autumn tinted when bright and rare Are Salt‘ilirc's charms all fled,â€"â€"whcn winter co , Hushcs to rest the blooming, smiling wold. No. Nature‘s churmsare never lost, )ut grow Alike in summer bloom and winter snow. Failure of a Salvage Expedition. From cable advices which have been re- ceived in Liverpool, it seems that the at .-..â€"-â€"- The Inquisition in Indianw The interior of the edifice of the notorious Inquisition of Goa has been often described by the old travelers, to whose works in “ Collection of Voyages " we must refer the reader. Sufficient it will be to mention that the building now razed to the ground cover- ed a space of two acres, contained three lar e halls, and 200 prisoneis’cells abovo out under the basement, and was girded by walls of immense thickness. At once the palace and the prison of the Inquisition, it was the pride and terror of the eople of Goa. Suddenly and silently won d the black-robed myrmidons of the es- tablishment appear in any house in the city, touch the accused upon the shoulder, and bid him follow them. No matter how popular the victim had been, not one band would be raised in his defense as he was hurried through the busy streets within the minorseless doors of the “ holy office." At Goa to. large majority of the Hindu popula- tion had embraced Christianity, but they would often revert to the practice in secret of occult rites. Such acts were regarded as sorcery and magic in those days, and if the native had been baptised he could rarely es- cape the stake as punishment for lapse into these practises. To this day the few Hindus who dwell at Old Goa speak with bated breath as thoy point to the stony heap where stood the In- quisition. There, they tell you, stood Orirm ghor, the “ Great House." Many ciao-daâ€"fe were held there in this last century. The last auto-day? which took place in Goa was in February, 1773 ;but the number of per- sons condemned,and those, if any, who were burned,does not seem to have been recorded, In the year 1800 the number of prisoners was forty-seven. By a royal decree from Portugal, dated May 21, 1814, the Holy Iii- quisition was forever abolished. The build- ing was then shut up and abandoned to do- cay and ruin, which, indeed, for a long time previously had been actively oing on. In 1820 a large portion was pulled down, and of the remainder the Abbe Cottineau, who visited Goa in 1827, says : “ The whole is now fast decaying, no doors or window shut ters existing. Shrubs, thorns, and rubbish block up the front entrance, and the interi- or1 must be filled with snakes and other rep- ti es. Finally, in 1829, a complete wreck of the dread edifice was per ietrated by the au- thorities, who require materials for build- ing operations at Punjim. The whole place was pulled down and left a hideous mound of debrisâ€"a sort of accursed heap in mem- ory of the deeds of barbarity so long on- acted within the hellish place. Fonseca, however, relates one stage further. In 1859, when the grand exposition of St. Francis Xavier’s remains was being pre~ pared for, the greater part of the stones, stucco, and rubbish was carted away. And lo ! the men who were en aged on the heap discovered steps going be ow to a subterranean vault or dungeon, and be- neath this cellar, uiidor a heavy, boat- shaped piece of lead, was found a human skeleton. â€"il[1m'ay's .1! ayazi'nc. _.â€".â€"â€"â€".â€"-â€"-â€" The British Navy in Detail. Great Britain’s commanding lead will pro- bably not only be maintained, but increased. Eighty thousand tons of wooden armored vessels must be crossed ofl‘ the list of (311130- tivc vessels of the French navy within two or three years. Their average value of about twe:_ty-fivc per cent. giving about. 20,000 standard tons, will reduce the amount iven in the table to a stindard (our standan bat~ tle ship) tonnage of 285,000 in 1893 or 1894. By that date England will have completed all of the ships at present laid down, and probably none that are considered in the table will have disappeared from her list of efl'cctives. Up to two years ago, when the )resent British building programme was ecided upon, France seemed to be in a fair way to catch up with her rival. Sir Edward Reed, late chief constructor of the British navy, in an article in IIarper’s film/mine for January, 1886, said that umler certain circumstances the issue of a naval war between En 'liind and France might be very doubtful. ow- ever true this may have been then, it is no longer so. The English naval strength is increasing at a hitherto unprecedented rate : that- of France, very slowly. The British Naval Defence act of 1889 tempts Whicb have been made to float the authorized new construction to the amount 1 you can advise me, for I have nobodyâ€"no- question to Lord Rosstrevor, he gave a start - her until this hideous possibility is done i Africa“ "mil steamer Opobo have been 1",, body to help me in any way but you.” “ It shall be a Madame solemnly. “ Well, I will tell you all. You know i the look and answered it at once. when Major Dennis exchanged to the 15th I g “ You would ask me what I mean ‘2" she was then a very unhappy woman. He did said. “ Of course, that is very natural. Be- not ill-use me, at least not. actually, although lieve me in the first place I beg, when I say i and looked at her as if to ask the meaning of perfect secret," said her words. And Madame, who was a woman 1 away with," he cried. ' “Lord Rosstrevor,” she s:tidâ€"-“ have you , l 0f quick pCl‘CerOHS. 08-1131"? the meaning 0f any idea in your own mind as to who did i it.” “ Yes." “ \Vlio was that person '2” ‘ He hesitated a moment-â€"” Oh? I don’t I have had my arms and wrists all bruised that I have no curiosity on the subject , thin I ought to mention it name when the‘ and black from his roughness." :whatever. I am putting myself forward' “ My little oneâ€"never!" Madame cried , wholly and solely for my dear little friend’s ' indignantly. l welfare. I have thoughtalways thatyouwere ! “ Yes, it is true,” Ethel replied. “And exceedingly fond of her, and 1 know that one day when Jack and I were out together, she likes you not a little. But-something has i he noticed itâ€"‘andâ€"and he asked me to come between you, something which keeps 'i leave Cosmo andâ€" on know the rest.” 1 you from speaking out and asking her to bc- 5 “ And you woul not." I come your wife : is it not so '3" i “ Noâ€"l was fond of Jack, you know, and l “ Yes," he said, “ that is so.” he wouldn't have suggested it if he had not! “ Then," she returned persuasively, “I thought that Cosmo hnd ill-used me. But ‘ want to know what it is, because it is pos- i really Cosmo scarcely knear what he was sible that I might be able to help you over about-lieâ€"â€"â€"hc " i it." “ lIud been drinking, I suppose?" ended, “ We... will tell you how I' Madame. “ Well : and Mr. Jack asked you ’ am sitiiateu. .mt first, shall ive not sit ; to end it all by going away with him. And, ' down? It is a pitv to keep a lady standing i of course, that was what unymun who cared so long. That is better. Well, Modame,to s for you would do. And when you said I beginst the beginning and to tell you, as i No 2" ' ‘ ‘ you wish, precisely all about itâ€"Ethel and l “ \\ ell, I think Jack was rather glad," 5 I ought to have been married when she was Ethel answered simply. “ I'm sure of itâ€"â€" married to Major Dennis." ! only Helene, although he told me uiore than “ I have already gathered that,” she' once that he loved me with all his heart, he said. has never told me so sinceâ€"since he might _ “ But her mother kept us apartâ€"mothers have done. I think about it all, and I think have sometimes a disagreeable way of inter- ' about it till I scarcely know what to believe. ' faring in their daughters’ lave-affairs and the i Sometimes I feel sure that he does careâ€"i marriages they make do not always turn out} and then again, I feel as if I have been mis- l the best that could have been brought about. taken and that he only ities me. Sometimesi In this caseâ€"well, Major Dennis is dead, I fancy I have too muc money, and if he , and I don't want to speak against a dead ' Wcrc Jack Trevor still I would speak out man, but for once I am bound to say that a' boldly about it. But Jack is rich now, very more unmitigated brute never lived. In the rich, and my seven thousand a year are a more nothing compared to his income. And then again I fancy that- now there is a title first place he was more than twenty years ' older than Ethel, in the second he was a i, hard, blatant, drunken bully. He was never ' it become, as further and further . matter is so serious as murder; it- isn't fair-â€" I may be utterly wrong.” , “ It will be perfectly safe with me,"she ' said calmly. “ I give you my word of hon- ' our that I will never divulge that some.” She held out her hand as an earnest of good faith and he took it for a moment in his own. “ I think," he said rather unwill- ' ingly, “ that the woman Valerie did it. You see, she had every reason to do him a harm, ‘ | I I at leastâ€"~by her general conduct, it would , seem so. He had the most mortal and abject . :felll‘ 0f 1161‘. and I 1091 pretty 5‘11“! that “he to be. abandoned. Much sympathy is felt : meant doing for him sooner or later, and? that he knew it.” “ Then why did you not set the police on 1 her track ‘.' ” Madame enquired. ' " I would have done so. 1 wanted to do i it, but Ethel would not hear of it : sm- wasl so convinced that the evidence against her was so overwhelming that she wouldn‘t have a chance of getting off. And as it couldn’t; have been possible for her to get in or out i without being seen, it Would not be fair to , set the police after her. lint she did it, ’ Madame, all the some." never fall to her own lot! Not without 1 reverence did Mabel regard this little syin- ' bol of innocence and helplessnew, though it had once belonged to one whom she had such cause ‘0 dislikeund dread. For twenty years it had doubtless been a sacred trea- I sure, the existence of which was known toI his mother only : and less dear, perhaps, had ier son to consider and he the last of the name, that faithful to herâ€"he thought nothing of rak- i had wandered from guilelessncss and love. he may not want toâ€"toâ€"marrv a widow, ing his best friend out o I think till I am nearly out of my senses. wife. Why for weeks down at Chertsey, he And at the end of it all, I don't know what was literally limited down by some foreign . shining trctullll‘e, and Was about to enfold to think." woman who had a grudge against himâ€"aye, Madiune “'olenski took the girl's small and was hunted out of the Service too, for, she got entrance into the house at lastâ€"their i so! 1 hand. _ his rave to serve ' P h‘ (h I ' t1 . 1. at' ofthose who might have no heir. Oh 2 I think and as a blind to his poor little ignocent child- I pled-in‘iife igord‘sfis“ .lllell up 1" m" poor tlarli'ii'gs hair” “'ith reverent fingers. Mabel replaced this of the outer sheet also. There were only a time, " It is very hard v“ you, my little one," but you knowâ€"and that frightened him so ' few lines in dim and faded ink, tear-spotted she said, '.‘ but 1 would have patience yet. that'he sent in his papers and came to Lon-l I‘dun i think about the matterâ€"I blow Lord don to lose himself." I Ivowirevor loves you with all his heart." “ And that woman's name wasâ€"â€"â€"â€" ‘3" I “ liow do you know?" “ "Moritaâ€"Mademoiselle Valerie," he “I have seen him watching you about the answered. too, as the inner paper was, but they could not have rapt her attention more bad they appeared in letters of fire upon her chamber- wall. (m in: roxrisuzo.) successful, and all efforts in that direction of over $100,000,000. In armored ships this includes one turret and seven barbettc battle have been abandoned. The 0190110 got: shipsof 14,150 tons each. Their names are stranded duringa dense fog on the Westhhc Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Revenge, African coast near Grand Bassam. The surf which breaks on that part of the coast is so terrific that salvage operations can only be conducted with the greatest difficulty. The powerful steam tug Wrestler was sent spe- cially out from Liverpool to try and:tow the 'stcamcrofl', and was provided with steam pumps of great force. The cabli-gram shows that steam had been got up on board the '()pobn herself, and that she had been moved with her stem out to sewâ€"indeed, that lit-r bead had been Unit on the second roller or surf-wave when her bow was so strained by thcforce of the towing that it broke. The steunier‘s stern was still hold; fast in the sand, but. its the bow was ~ncarly ; pulled out of her, all further attempts had for the sulvors, \i'liO,altlioiigli thcv failed to get the steamer off, nevertheless had the satisfaction of recoveringa quaniity of the vessel's cargo. British Enterprise in Brazil- According to recent. news from liraziltherc are now sixty steamers plying on the Amazon, nearly all of them belonging to lirtisli capitalists, and We learn that this commercial fleet will be greatly enlarged before the cml of another year through British enterprise. Many of these steamers are of heavy tonnage. and are more stanchly built than those that ply on the Mississippi. They carry on business with the townsalong the banks of the Amazon, and Home of them traverse its main aflluents, the Rio Negro and Rio Madeira, while others go so far up Repulsc, Renown, Rainillies, Resolution and Hood (turret ship). Also two second class battle ships-thc Centurion and the liorflcur â€"-of about eleven thousand tons each. The magnitude of this addition to the British Navy may be appreciated when it is found that the power of these ten ships is over one hundred and seventy thousand standard tons, or greater than the entire Russian navy, or the cmnbincd power of the German and the United States navicn, including our new- ly designed biittlc ships and thirteen new ar- mor clads building in Germany. The gun oral character of the eight great iiillllc Hill )8 maybe seen by an examination of their i- inensions, (so. They are :-â€"â€"l.ength, 380 feet; beam, 75 feet : draught, 27k feet ; armor belt, 15' inches thick at the water line and 230 feet long ; barbcttes and turrets, 18 inches thick; battery, four Ell-inch 07-:0n guns. ten 6-inch ra iill fire gum-i ; maximum speed with forced ( ranght, estimated at 17% knots: steaming distance with 900 tons 0 coal, 7,000 knots at 10 knots per hour. Al these vessels are now in process of construc- tion and are to be completed by 1893. -â€"~ 9â€"â€" About the Dairy. A comfortable cow stable need not be costly, but a stable will becontly if not com- fortahle. A stock of straw will make more warmth for more cows if used as bedding in a warm barn instead of out of doors. \Vhen you go to buy a cow note how the owner goes up to her and how she accepts the approach. If she receives a at or toward its navigable headwaters that there , stroke as though she Wen.- accusimnm in it is now a probability of its soon becoming a i well and not , but if she looks afraid or highway for Peruvians bound for Europe. A l steamer trip across the continent from the vicinity of the Andes Mountains to any; surprised, ook out for her to be mine time in getting acqumntcil. A good creamer ' man lulmu'kml the other place at the cmbouchure of the Anismn. and day that he Wullll giw >5le to have his pa- a voyage from thence up the Atlantic 5 trons together in: two hours, an he could it as before. when she perceiierl for the first through the West India Islands to the port time thatthere was writing on the inside of New York, might take up two months of a in his pockets to do w, do it would be igtalk tothem. 11c know it would be money but would certainly give the traveller money in lht'lf‘ pockets, and what puu aspectscular panorama that could not bciinoney in their pockets ls money in his. found elsewhere on the globe. It is announced that the nun Hoverin- mcnt intends establishing :.i.-torics for the niauufactiircof the Koch consumptionlymph. N0 creamery man, no farmer can aflord to liniss attending eveiy dairyiueii’s meeting ‘3 that ctmics anywhere near him. In fact, be ' cannot afford to miss them, even if he has to lgo out of his way to attend them-