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Selecm‘g "* IPdeE'Placfii um In?“ W‘ l" mg some simple domestic means, such as cold . _ The caravan of burdened horses, and of men for worpormmm By 1) "‘8 °m3ld° “"1 EV"? 1'" 0f the human frame, bone- wmc, 0,, we forehead and driuksof waging closr-ly woven and diligently drawn, but a in the heavy, “Amuse dregs of u Siberian watching the breakers, they find that after muscle, b cod, flesh, sinew, ligament, has a fruit juices, would procure sleep. When, goon story sometimes escapes. This story, clearly defined reason for existence, except. however, 0pm,“ are no longer to be “mm. ' or rather hint of a story, from the far and oneâ€"h .hlue pond" cyl'ndncal I" 31ml”: ed, they should not even then be used with- ‘bom' 2‘“ “The” Tug ""1 °l “"3 thwknm 0’ . out a physician's prescription. To become ‘ la“! l‘cnc‘l‘ Th”. WWII.“ .known as “"3 accustomed to the use of opiates is in the vem'fom nppend'x' 1," "i attuned “t m," highest degree objectionable, because the 1?“! end of we “'88 Inteslme- 1“ P05“ =sleep which is thus recalled, is never refresh- "on ‘3 ’“Ch I'll“ 3' “maimed “Ch ‘3? gmpe l ing like that which is natural, and because PM' mumi by 9‘ {are Chum": "’"h "'5 “‘3' l the doses must be continually increased if "no 1"? pond" “he” “Ch 3" “Cid‘im’ ha!“ I they remain effective. Complete destruc- Pfl“: “‘9 “Ppendlx causes Mime PM“: 3nd tion of the nervous system is the certain deal,“ has, gene’i‘ny ensued I." “Ch ems» and enduring result of such habits. medical history informs us. Some time ago the Hon. Edward Rose, lately a captain in Tenth English Hussars, of which the Prince REGENT FLOODS IN THE SCOTCH a?{Eggegidtb:hlélimfifoiklgdmffs822110533 HIGHLENDS' Si‘m government appears t° “"6 “baudmed Until the and 0f last year (535'! the Pan Islet-fireflyiiufil‘acgmvzlietrlhet‘hebebrteiksgf‘: sec'iiillfi his vermifo’rm appendix Heel-“gating _ 51““ Gazelle) Grem’ Brlmini the h°me of roll in parallel to the beach and not slaut- pain followed He conm'dtcd‘ the mos-t , . . the first railway, had continuously led the ingly and the“ they row toward them as -, successful apéciwsts in surgery in Bug. vatn‘c (Iii-(Eesliillts pf this. llate floogs pi :2: 189:) left Irkootsk, Siberia, in command ofa. world in speed. The Americans, howeVer, c1088 1“ they can with safety, and tum the w, ‘ . a _, . ‘ _. s ' _ z . . . _ land and France, and was tad that the :13; :firsgstrlggu;:::.Livizefnivnsrnv- military guaid winch was escorting to ct. I18.\e been gradually creeping up to English boats bow out to sea. Next, “my back m a speenil operation sometimes undertaken to ing memury or written records go, we now amputatc the pouch was one of the most severe; f v - . f b ‘d. - . , y elt. I‘he sweeping away 0 r1 dlmwlf' “sled dangling)“ 0?“ knol‘”: w l ges and buildings, the destruction of roads, smgew' * 0 one o t mm “"93"!” “Mom I fences, &c., and the damage done to property be consulted displayed any eagerness to undertake the operation, and Captain Rose was treated inedicinally. In his case the difficulty of an operation was all the greater generally, are now found to have been un- derstated by the newspaper reports. In the districts of Ardgay, Boss-shire, and Bonarbridge, Sutherlandshire, the damage desolate regions of Siberia seems to me the most unique instance in some time. Several weeks ago a New York daily printed in an obscure place a paragraph about a startling happening in eastern Si- beria. Although I read it attentively, asit interested me and recurred to me again and again, I have not been able to find it since. A few days ago, howeyer, there was another paragraph, printed in the same obscure way, which makes the loss of the first of no con- sequence. Hcre it is : “Sr. Prz'rsiisnt'nc, June 18.â€"The Rus- I’ctersburg a transport-train laden with gold ore of the value of several million rubles. Since then absolutely nothing has been heard of officers, men, or train.” Such an indefinite and imaginary view of Siberia’s unexplored vastness is current that many people will at first glance see nothing startling in this. It is true that. A True story of Siberia. In this day the newspaper drag~net is winter is toiling along. Tiien â€"â€"tlie caravan vanishes. Where! How ‘3 You cannot tell. You cannot imagine. The wild winter rages on, and that is all. Captain Osersky and his seventy-five men were and are not. This is no ghost story, but in arousing s. ‘ crccpy” feeling, it. comes nearer a ghost story, than any tale I ever heard when the lamps were unlit, and the fire light glisten~ ed on the wide fascinated eyes of the child ren.â€"â€"[Harper's II eekly FASTEST TRAIN RECORDS. ll. 8 I’llglits AIIBI'HIEII Runs. speeds, and recently put on a train from New York to Buffalo, which excels our runs not only in speed, but in the weight carried. A comparison of the East and \Vcst Coast Scotch expresses, as these are the only lone- a certain number of heavy outs there is a quiet interval, and after several counts they know when to expect this interval and take advantage of it. If there are but two or three lines of bad breakers near a seemingly steep beach, a bold dash, bows on, duriu this interval of quiet, will probably lan them high and dry. Much more frequently, however, the water will shoal far out from the shore, and many lines of breakers will have to bo pass~ ed. The quiet interval will.bo too short to allow a boat. to reach the shore. Only courage, coolness, quickness, and good judgment can save the men in the battle for rapidly when the quiet time comes, but keep the boats bow pointed squarely at the breakers. Tne lull is too soon over, and the battle begins. A mountainous sea comes distance trains in the world which approach it. The fastest trains on the Continent of rolling in and mounting upward from a rounded crest to a thin green edge, which tumbles above them. Then the near‘er side Europe are those run by the Prussian State seems to pause, and from the green edge between Hamburg and Berlin, which just . .r‘bw . on account of his corpulence and large ab- dominal girth. Eventually the captain de- cided to consult an American specialist, Dr. Bull, consulting surgeon at Saint Luke’s Hospital, New York City, who had lately I. 1- . performed a successful operation on a. suffer- ‘I‘ or from the some trouble. The operation Was performed by Dr. llull after two days strange, unconventional things do happen in Siberia. But this is startling enough to have aroused the astonishment of even the Bus- sians themselves. sweeps hissing backward a curling, feathery spray, as the urtlier side of the wave seems to rush over the nearer, and descend with a crashing roar in overwhelming volumes of whitened surf. If the little boat is caught in this deluge, she may be thrown end over end, or shied so for around that the next son. will roll her over and over ; and even if done has been immense. The value of live stock and farm produce swept away, to- gether With roads, bridges, fences, embank- ments, buildings, and boats destroyed, is estimated at an aggregate of upwards of £20,000. The greatest loss of all is the de- grand old iron viaduct touch 50 miles an hour, but the distance is only 177 miles. They are, however, at least five miles an hour quicker than the trains of the International Sleeping Car Com- pany, who are now advertising that their trains are the fastest on the continent of Europeâ€"quite an unfounded The facts in the above despatch may be supplemented by some which were set forth in the first dcspatch. .â€"~ v, struction of the The guard consisted W. n M.m(.m q-.-«~ 1 W.“ W W mm -mâ€"N» . ‘ 5.. “ya... ' . he K le of Sutherland at Bouar- f 1, t t ,f . u f .h . 1 - T1 1- . b . L d d . 0“,an l _‘ :, _ . across t ‘ y , O o a on seven y “cinema 0 v. om were c aim. ie gratients etucen on on an 8k “- 1 n ‘ 1 m k 1 compute; ,.§;§€2:.;t£lb;;fihi61:22: (11:11:31): bridge, ‘Vl}10h Was "118 Olllywl'OI‘gd connection thoroughly familiar With the parts of Siberia Perth by the West Coast route are distinct- hezdu to iglclsgiglgntvmflaousoo“ {Zip “or: ' ed two i'ours a: d a l alf l ' -l t' between hint“ Ross and butnerland' By lto be imvcrsed' IV was" than those 0f Ameriw’ but “‘8 letcl ' swam ed These oints where I ‘ l l ‘ “""g w u ‘ "no this catastrophe traffic has been completely ' p "l ‘ p ' p Captain Rose was kept under the influence of other. The first incision revealed the as- tonishing fact that the subject’s abdominal wall had a thickness of four inches ! To add to this difficulty the vermiform up eiidix was found to be abnormally bent up ehind the large intestine. The appendix was am- putated. For the two days following Cap- tain Rose’s condition was critical. After that, in spite of a complication of the grip, he began to mend rapidly, and be was dis- chai gcd from the hospital sound and well. Sleeplessness and Its Ours. We live in an age of nervousness. Weak- ness of nerves is the proof of an over-refined civilization, which overexcitcs the active life and weakens the negative. Whole na- tions have already been ruined on this account; Rousseau prophesied the ruin of all civilized Europe. This destruction will certainly be for some time deferred, but it is a melancholy fact that the number of those who sififcr from nervousness and sleep- lcssucss is greatly increasing. The animal life cannot continue an unbroken activity, either in work or enjoyment ; from time to time the nerves are exhausted ; life returns periodically into the condition of unconâ€" ciousness ; man in the natural order of things. needs sleeps as well as food. Sleep- lessness emociates man, weakens him; and a continual loss of sleep leads, under great suffering, to death. The celebrated physician and chemist, Max von Pcttonkoffcr, has ascertained,from careful experiments, that even by slight exertions proportionally more carbonic acid is secreted than the quantity of oxygen amounts to which is taken up in that time and used for the production of the outgoing carbonic acid. The now absolutely neces- sary balance is found in sleep, during which not only half as much oxygen is consumed, but twice as much is taken up. The need of sleep is thus the warning of nature that the time has come when the disproportion between the expenditure, supply and stock on hand of oxygen has reached its extreme limit, and that itis necessary, through fru- gal use and heavy supply, to replenish the stock. This adjustment is most energetic during the first two or three hours, from which it follows that sleep is then sounllcst. A healthy, normal sleep ordinarily lasts seven hours. The causes of sleeplessuess may be differ- out, but they always affect the brain, which is. the evil to be kept in mind during an at- tunpt at recovery. As already stated, every disturbance of the brain signifies a sleepless night ; and nothing is more wretch- ed and exhaustive than when one hunts for his nightly sleep as a pressing need, and fails to find it. Then arises a feverish heat and restlessness, a wild succession of plum- toms appears, and if one falls at last into a short morning slumber. even this is not re- freshiug, but only exhausting. Even the disturbance of habits excites slccplessuess ; for example, a strange bed, strange diet, or unusual events of the day. Though this is only temporary, it particularly affects such patients as suffer froui chronic sleeplessncss. This has its origin in continual physical and mental over-exertion, in great trouble or anxiety. Further, intcmperance and glut tony produce sleeplessuess, as well as bung- cr and thirst. For too many attacks the best cure - is a physical and mental streng- tgicning by means of continued measured i ict. Sleeplessness arising through grief, care, or sorrow, must be cured by a strong will and recreation. Nurture and education of the mind are as necessary and wholesome as that of the body. The will is to be exercis- (d and strengthened, for very much may be done by will power, through diverting the mind from the sorrows and disagreeable occureuccs of the da ', by compelling oue‘s self to think of indifferent matters. One must not yield to despondcncy or despair, but COIISIl or that trouble and anxiety will not make things better, but weaken the health. which is the first necessity toward a joyful life of usefulness. Onc already en- fccblod by sleeplessness must necessarily change his way of living. Change of place, other associates, other scenes will be he] ~ Inf and quietin ; but if the patient is is- ready complete y conquered, then. for en- tire physical and mental health, careful nurs- ing and good nourishment are needed, and at intervals of from two to three hours, light digestible food must be brought. Also rub- bing of the body has been proved healing in the highest degree, because the bodil ac- tivity is strengthened throughout, whi o the mechanical pressure on the brain. nerves, and bowels, accelerates the circulation of the blood and the digestion. Hip crates learned, two thousand years ago, t in the body was hardened h vigorous. softened by oils, and made hes thy by moderate rub. mg. Both in severe and light cases of sleepless- ncss optics should be avoided. Sad to say, ~ 1 January, 1890, and was last seen a few days Diwali/filed: 311d indescribable inconvenience 9 later about two hundred miles to the west both sides of the Kyle. How the monthly markets can be held under existing circum- stances is a problem. Since the disaster A Strange Story of the Sea. Particulars have been received of the l which it stopped for the night. A Week after the disappearance had been definitely settled, the Russian government set about; communication 9f 3- klml has been lie?“ “P ' tracing it in the most elaborate manner. by a cable supplied by private muulficcllce- The Czar issued an ukasc commanding all Siberian subjects to aid in the search. Couriers were sent to the Tartar tribes al mg the route both north and south. Scouting parties went over the entire territory so far \Vhite Star steamer RunIC, which arrived i nsiwas practicable. Traders across the great at New York on the inst. from lecr- Chinese desert to the south were questioned pool, haying fallen in With a large derelict and the machinery of the Chinese govern- Slllp named the Florida: 0f 1’ orsgrund, meut called in aid. So forayear and four laden with timber, on the 29th ult., at 7 p Havana to Norway. _ . months the search was kept up. m., "11M. 44~50, 10115",V 42-46. bound: from sult has been told already. Not a bag of bhebad llel‘ Sails 8813, gold, not a recognizable skeleton, gun, or The re- and had the Norwegiin flag flying at her 3 bit of uniform was found, and the mystery fore p liadacrew of 25 men, whose fate is en- shrondcd in mystery. Speaking of the matter, Captain Thompson, of the Ruuic, said â€"” Early we sighted the Florida. the mate reported from the bridge that a About 7 o’clock ed be in trouble. half-mast. She looked weatlierly enough, l and I (lid not imagine she was deserted. down on the pier. be seen. The ship was clearly deserted. not true. on the vessel. and the ship was broadside vestigate ?” was asked. “ Simply because was a great head sea running, and to have stopped the Ruuic, turned steamed back, launched boats, and board the Florida with- out assistance would havc been the matter of three hours or more. It was not to be thought of. I am confident that the Florida could not have been abandoned more than twelve hours. The heavy gale of the day previous would have tom the ensign to rags. The topgallant soils were set aback and the others Were stowed down as neat as a mw pin.” “ Were the boats all there ‘2” but two tackles were up and hanging at the jecture, as I do not even know whether she had a longhoat or not. The whole thing looked queer to me. If the crew had been long away the two tackles would have. been ‘ unrove’ by the wind. As it was they were all as taut as wax. The ship appeared to be in good condition. ‘I do not think the crew ever deserted her except for another ves- sell), The Strange Freak of a. young Lady. Shortly before nine o’clock on Friday night Mr. Bridger, of the Great \Vestern Railway Gloucester (Eng) received a wire from Mr. Evanson, handed in at Slirewsbury, to the effect that his sister, the young lady who left her clothing in a railwav Gloucester, and dressed in a in , overtaken and was safe. After a fruitless journey to Monmouth on Thurs-lay night, Mr. Evanson, it seems, went on to Hereford, where, after inquiries, he discovered that she had slept there on Wednesday night. The landlady of the coffee tavern where she stayed was quite certain as to her identity, although the young lady was attired in boy’s clothing, which the police have found had been purchased at Gloucester early on \Vcd- iicsday afternoon, Miss Evanson remarking at the time that she required them for charity. She also visited a local hair-dresser and quite astonished the man by demand- ing that her hair should be cut short. On being rcmonstrated with, she replied that her head was bad, and that a Reading lady had advised her to have her hair cut. After she had spent the night in Hereford, her brother ascertained that she had booked to Shrcwsbury, evidently with the idea of reaching Liverpool. Since a child,it appears, she has been imbued with the idea of go- ing to sea, and some years ago she attempt. ed a similar freak to that which she has just practised. WM“ A few nights ago a band of masked men broke into a house in Minin, Austria, occu~ pied by a young widow. They found their way into her bedroom, bound her securely to the bed, saturated her clothes with petâ€" rolenm and set her on fire, and remained, unmoved by the victim's agonies, until the body was a charred mass. ak. She is 1264 tons register, and i has been left to time and chance for un- ravciling. The road from Irkootsk, three thousand miles and more across mountains and plains on the morning of the day i to the frontier (if Russia, where the railroad from St. Petersburg ends, is amilitary high- way much travelled, and dotted at distances The caravan set out late in has been caused to the populous districts on ! of Irkootsk’ at one of the posghouses at big ship was lying dead ahead, and appeal“ ' of twenty miles with post-houses. 1 It is not . I Went out on the bridge, I as smooth and easy as the River-side Drive, and about twp miles awayon the per}: hour but it is a perfectly plain road, from which I saw a full-rigged ship With the enSign at . former perils were thought to have been banished entirely. Yet somewhere between . two post-houses in the mountainous part of We veered up a paint or tWO for a nearel‘ the road which lies between Lake Baikal There was not a soul to l The report that side lights were burning is known places undpeoples,is most suggestive. There was not the sign of alight i The wheel was lashed“ " _ t0 beings and these several ‘hundred horses the sea," “ Why did you not stop and in- ' and these great bags of gold ore? time is the first consideration with a White of a. Siberian winter. Star Ship. If there had been a soul on l incredible depth, there were swift and cut- board I would have stopped. I hailed rc- l ting peatedly, but there was no answer. There ; wins scarred and seamed by the attack of : each one of which measures ,7“ 6m by S“ “ There were a couple of boats on the skids, ‘ forest, inspection, and passed her almost 20 yards 1 and the level plain to the west. this consi- off. I could see right down the Whole ' derable caravan vanished sway, leaving not length of the deck Just as you can look ' a. trace behind, A happening like this in a country so be- set with bitterest weather, so full of un~ What terrible, what unheard of fate can have overtaken these seventy-five human . This caravan was journeying in the midst ‘ There were snows of winds. The road lay through moun- . the sharpest elements from an immense an- I tiquity. Old and untrodden forests o boundless extent were all about. - In the winter-time packs of fierce wolves sweep through these forests in great num- bers. They are frenzied with hunger, and of- ten rabid from the bites of mad wolves. They eat one another, and attack any party of travellers that may be abroad. It'may be that some pack, of a size not known before, l fell upon this caravan, which was driven or had wandered from the main road into the Then the wolves, after a long fight . conquered, and men and beasts were devour- weatlier starboard clcws as if the longboat ed, and skeletons and gold now lie in an had been put. Of course this is only a 0011- I out-of-the-way place where no man will ever find them. Although the length and strength of the arm of the G rest W hitc Czar, and the perils which await those who do art from the road, are well known, it may lie that part of the guard conspired to seize the treasure, and make off with it across the desert of Gobil to Chinese ports. If this be true, and if the faithful part of the guard was killed, the thieves may have perished miserably of hun- ger or thirst in trying to cross the desert. Or some restless band of Tartars may have wiped the guard from the face of the earth, and the treasure may now be turned into arms and powder of warriors, bracelets and anklets for flat-nosed Tartar women. So relentless is Russian vengeance, and vigorous is the terror of it, that it seems improbable that the caravan vanished through human agency. The severity of the weather suggests that. it may have lost the road during some blinding downpour of snow. Wondering about, a crash of ice and rock from an overhanging precipice may have dashed horses and men to the bottom of some mountain gorge so deep so dark that not even a vulture could seek them out. There arecrevasscs in these mountains, and a from cover often hides them. There may have been a sound of splintering ice, the shrieks of men helpless in the face of swift and certain death, and then ayawn- ing of the bowels of the earth. In this disappearance there ismatcrial for the most vigorous imagination to work upon without limit. It is not a small and defenccless party that is to be accounted for. It is a large caravan, well armed, well acquainted with the road, well prepared to meet any form of danger. The road was constantly travelled ; the Tartar tribes to the north and south see and bear all that goes on. The place of disapo all hope of discovering the fate of Captain Alexandre Maximovitch Osersky, who in line between New York and Buffalo has 14 miles heavy grades, many severe curves, and the weight of train (exclusive of locomotive) is about 160 tons ; that of the English train up to Preston, where it drops the Lake dis- trict carriages, is about 130 tons, after that about 80 tons. we believe, only been late six times, and has frequently made up as much as 33 min- utes, while two engines are never used, one locomotive of the ordinary American type, the seas break must then be eluded as often as possible, but only experience and judgment can tell how to pass them with more than occasional success. By pulling a few strokes toward the sea, a wave may pass under theboat just before it breaks. Then what a ride they have! More swiftly than by express train they are shot shore- ward by a mightly power utterly beyond control. The roar around them is frightful, and the swirling, broken water terrifying ; The American train has, coupled driving wheels, 6ft Gin in diameter, being employed. found to do its work so easily that in the spring it is proposed to add another car of 27 tons to the American train. lish train, beyond Preston at any rate, has generally two engines, and altogether it looks as if our English locomotives were falling behind the American in the work often loses time. worth the while of one of our great English lines to bring over an American locomotive and give it an unbiassed trial, as the Ameri- cans are doing with our locomotives. It is Made Like a Fox and Has Immense in process of manufacture by Messrs. J. Show & Sons, engineers, Coventry, is now completed. Moore placed a contract in Shaw 8L Sons’ hands for the manufacture of a machine ac- cording to the anatomy of the flying hat, but when the machine was nearly completed ments in‘ India, changed the model, and 1 Shaw and Sons had to draw out a second es- timate for a machine to be constructed on the lines of a flying fox. shoe that is now completed, after being six months in the course of manufacture. What particularly strikes the visitor on a. first they are covered with calico, but when at- stitched on; the silk will cover the box as This engine has been The Eug- which they perform, since the Perth train Surely it ought to be All ENGLISH FLYING MACHINE. “'ings. The flying machine which has long been Exactly a year ago Major Major Moore, guided by extensive experi- This is the ma.- lance is the immense size of the wings, 6m in the widest". part. For the present tacked to the box and electric motors will have double-woven silk, specially prepared, well as the wings. A closer inspection shows hon carefully the anatomy of the fly- ing fox has been followed. There are seven bones, leading off with two of Sit and 10ft long. and finishing with one of 12ft, and are manufactured of best weldless steel tubes, with brass-hushed joints; each joint and bearing had been forged, and this is the work that has delayed the completion of the machine. The tips of the wings are flexible. The head is formed of a loop of steel tubing, covered with silk, continu- ous without break from the body and wings. The tail is of tapering tubes, in prolongation of the side or upper edges of the box which forms the body. Returning to the wings, which are of concave shape, each will have a sweep of 24ft. it! up and 12 down, and are expected to make 50 strokes per minute. They are to be thoroughly tested, and when supported from the hinge only will have to bear a distributed deadload of 41b. per sup~ erficial foot when the machine is turned on its back. Itacb wing is 1201b in weight and the machine, with the box and mowrs, is expected to turn the scale at 70011). The motors, which are being made in London, will be of three-horse power. The box is 13ft high by 3ft 5iu long, and at the base will be fixed small wheels, so that when the machine alights it will run along the ground. It is also intended to carry a parachute with the machine to ensure a safe journey to the earth if the silk should become torn or the motor fail to act. The total cost of the machine will be about £1000. It has not yet been decided when the initial trial will take place. An application has been receiv- ed from Birmingham for the machine to be exhibited in that city. Reported Execution of a Chinese General- A telegram from a rivatc source which has reached Paris via Singapore, states that General Techcu -ki-'I‘on , a former Chinese diplomatist in t c Frcnc 1 capital, has been executed in the prison of Tientsin. The Emperor of China is reported to have shown great unwillingness to sign, the death-war- rant; but the chief members of the Old Chinese party prevailed, their arguments being that General chheng-ki-Tong had be- trayed the interests of thepmpirc, and had pledged himself in 1889 to support French pesrance was between postshonses but-i influence. It was discovered me, it is said, twenty miles apart, and within easy reach of any one who might have escaped from the ; destroying fate. The more it.- is considered the more the amazement of the Russian gov- ernment is understotd. It is hard to recall an occurrence so mysterious, so uncanny. No natural theory seems to account for the total annihilating of~so large a number of living things. ' ‘developing the Christian missions in the that the General had embraced the Christ ian faith, and had endeavoured to obtain an audience of Leo XIII. with eview to Chinese Jmpirc. These negotiation fell through because the Vatican held General Tcheng~kianug in suspicion. General but while that speeding lasts they are. safe. Every effort is always made to keep on the back of that shore rushing wave. enemy a moment- before, but now it is a. guiding friend. The boatmen back in upon it with all their might, but watcliin all the time for the next wave to rise and orm for attack. It was an \Vlieu the welcome shore is close at hand the lielmsman presses down the loom.nr shaft of the steering-oar; otherwise the blade would suddenly catch in the sand, the boat would rush over it, and as it pivot- ed in the oarlock the our would fling the man for astern. was still water to fall upon ! Lucky would he be if there “Him the boat touches the bottom, all hands spring overboard, and seizing licr gunwales, rush her high u on the beach; otherwise the waves would 0 this for them, probably broadside on, and in a vrry ruth- less manner, perhaps breaking bones and crushing the boat, as if angry at the men’s escape. ._____.__..______._ Dr. Peters on African Wonders. Lively news is received from German Africa. Two expeditions are now on the move. One intends to restore the caravan route from the Mountain Kilima-Njaro to the Victoria Nyauza lake. It was got up by the East Africa company with money raised by the Anti-Slavery lottery. It is composed of 200 carriers and fifty soldiers, and is led by Dr. Baumaii, who expects to be able to return to the coast in about twelve months. The other expedition is led by Dr. Peters, and travels from the Kilima-Njaro to the Soda lake, Where Herr Ehlers found large quantities of soda a few years ago. Dr. Peters has now improved upon Elilcrs and reports a. find of immense quantities of salt- peter with gas wells of sulphur, bromide, and chlorine. ‘liese reports of Dr. Peters are received with great caution, because none of the numerous travelers that passed these parts in former times ever reported such dc- posits. Dr. Peters is credited a certain amount of inaccuracy, which lends color to the doubts expressed regarding his reports. Edward Bcllamy’s “ Looking Backward” has inspired a German author of the name of Hei‘tzka to write a book entitled “ Frec- land,” in which he proposes to found a communistic colony in a valley near Mount Kenia in eastern Africa. The region is described by all the travelers that passed it as an earthly paradise. Twenty-eight socio- ties, with a total membership of about a thousand, have been formed all over the country, the members declaring themselves to be willing to go to Kcnia. One enthusi- astic disciple has given to the association the enormous sum of $l0,000â€"that is, $10 a headâ€"to start them in the enterprise, the remainder of the members not having any dollars, or cents either, to invest. But here the speculative mind of tlic sclicmers has come to their assistance. The Kcnia re ’ion is located within the sphere of British in ucnce, so that the would-be German 001- ' onists can not count on any help in the fatlicrland. They say therefore that the British nation, being recognized the coloniz- ing race par excellence, ought to assist them to go to Kenia and prove to the world that the idea of communism Can be made an astounding practical success. So for the British ockets have remained closed against t 10 IIcrtzkaitics. Now the latter have sent an exploring expedition of two to Kcoia, the report of which is anxiously expected. A member of the German im- perial family is said to be deeply interested in the scheme. Iii it because William would be glad to have a mild Siberia where to send those that dare to criticise his govern- ment '.' It would be a way to show them how to “shake the dust of Germany from 05 their feet.” The Sunuicat Spot in the British Isles. Persons intending to take a journey in search of sunshine without going icyond the British Islands must direct their steps to J crisey. It appears from thcobscrvations of the sunshine-recorder for ten years that that little islet is the brightest a not within the limits of the four seas. l’alinouth is the next. and there are several stations on the south coast almost equally well off. It is hardly necessary to name the place which carries off the palm for sunlczsncss. In the City of London there was no registered sun- shine at all in December, 1834, in January, 1835, or December, l890. 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