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SEA ugssjrma mt the and Actual Ogres of m if: '5 Ocean.» fut. ' â€".â€" - A v a I 4.»..‘1 . _.., m b ll~Plsh.",fableâ€"The linkersâ€"lt- I I cw .r jig yang [mun yond the delta to: give them the benefit or a "no, “on. I I II emuâ€"«no Killer-“Whole brine rel-1h base I The British naturalist Bucklsnd pr0posed to define man as a “ religious biped," but l die recent explorers of “the African contin- 1 ant have come germ nations as devoid of religious would be a more apriatc designation. At a time when Southeastern Europe named with lions, the Greeks preferred to beat their ima ination With Stones al’flub wooddevils and asilisks ; and Jack Tar, in relating his adventures on an element. where truth is strange enough to dispense with fiction, continues to deal inseaieer,‘ penis and devilofish. The Scandixmvi‘ani Iailors of the eighteenth century favored‘, the world with blood-cardling accounts 6 amonster called a [timbersâ€"a sort of lant lobster, equipped with iron-hard o awe, and strong enough ’ to drag down 'a good-sized sailing ' vessel, crew and all, before the victims had time _ to shriek out a prayer to their patron saints. The cephalopods of the topics undoubtedly grow to a formidable size, but their aggres- siveness has been absurdly exaggerated, and Victor Hugo’s ". devil-fish" is a zoolog- ical impossibilityâ€"a combination IoIproly with the marine monsters oi the fo‘reworl . The seas of the antediluvian era moist have been decidedly unhealthy when creatures with the head of an alligator and the wings of a colossal bat could, pursue their prey through the air as wellIas by land and water -several species of the pterodactylu’s, to judge from their skeletons, having measur- ed ‘24 feet from tip to tip of their outstretch- ed wings. ' ; THE Davin-FISH. But the “sea-serpent” has thus far not been convicted of aIsingle homicide, and the natural food of the octopus appears to con- sist of crabs and mollusks. A few weeks ago a fisherman of Rovigno, on the Adriatic, caught a “devil-fish” measuring 2.1; meters (about 9 feet) between tlie‘sntremities of its outstretched'arms. ‘ The captive was an exceptionally large specimen of tho nphalop- ods now and then washed ashore on the coasts of on Mediterranean, and having the additional merit of being alive, was shipped to Trieste, and thence by rail to Berlin, Germany, where he was adopted by‘tlxe man- agers of the Royal Aquarium. 'On .his 9.!“ rival the interesting stranger appeared to homers dead than alive. in his travelling tank was. down to 30° Fahrenheit, but'on being transferred to n' warmbath his long arms arose and groped - about, suggesting the revival of his appetite as the most‘pronomiced manifestation of his vital energies. Among the marine miscel- ianies on hand there was a surplus-of hermit crabs and abclone oysters, ‘ on which the distinguished guest consented to (line, after . breaking,' his fast; with a mouthml of white- bait; bumvheu they ofietcd him larger fish his touaclcs shrunk, and be evidently avoid- ed the encouu terI with aquaticfellow-crese -turcs capable of anything like serious re» sistance. ‘ ‘ The monster octopus found a'few years a 0 on the beach of Andros Island, in the \ estern Bahamas, measured I14 feet across the tips of his arms and weighed more than 200 pounds, but the limits of his digestive capacity could hardly be expected to include larger creatures than a young seal, and only the hungricst specimens of the tropical Iva- rieties can ever have tried their proheusile talents on a human being. THE WHITE SHARK. , But if Hugo’s ‘i Toilers 'of the Sea ” had extended their vo wage to the Indian Ocean they could have ound a'nundaut facts for Iguassu» fashion, lazily smoking a cigar- , 'nciplv|““Chi°°8° “rd 1301131 :aaun moredreadful amine haunts lama. 31‘ ‘5 “busbeu'mkms “rum” *the coasts of the North‘Pacificâ€"the arm, ,f l the: attempt to 's'w I The weather had ! been chilly and the temperature of the water I the purpose of his sensation novel. The most formidable carnivorous mammal of the pros; out world is not the lion, but the polar bear. But the entire head of-that terror of the arctic fisherman would find room within the jaws of a white sharkand could be crunchâ€" ed into fragments by the multiplex rows of terrible teeth. The shark of the Sunda Archipelago has four rows oflteeth in each jaw, from firmly to thirty-two teeth per row, each tooth ‘2 inches in length and jag- ged like a’Soudanese dark-knife, which it far surpasses in its combination of elasticity and strength. The best steel in the world, worked into a flat, thin blade, is not half as supple as a shark's tooth, with its flexor muscles that can bend it back till it is resscd close against the roof of the palate ; at by a reverse action these same muscles can make the long row of fangs bristle like the quills of a porcupine and become rigid enough to cut their way through a4~inch lamb of the toughest wood. In the City lusoum of Amsterdam there is a 26-foot skeleton of a white shark, captured on the coast of Java after a struggle that demol- ished the quarter-deck f urnituro of a Batavia steamer. The monster had been hookâ€" ed by a ssseuger, ‘ who was almost jerked over ard when he attempted to haul in his prize, and a dozen of his com- panions had to exertall their strength (in the temporary absence of the captain) be- fore the ' could dragthe captivoIIout of his native e smear. Every now and then he made a jump upward as if trying to snap through the chain attached to the hook, but the tackle held, and the passengers at last lauded the ogre that smashed a dozen chairs before Mynhcer Captain rushed in with re-cuforcements and a showor of blas‘ phemics. The skeleton jaws of that realis- tic devil-fish * look like the entrance of Dante‘s Infernoâ€"a gaping cavity so studded all around with dagger points that a man’s face could be torn off like a mask by ,push- iug him in headforemost an-l'dragging him out again. The horrible apparatus displays almost a superabucdance “of destructive coutrivauces’, and if the giant shark. bod been gifted with the agility of a dolphin it wank make the ocean untenable to 5x33 creature above the‘siae bf a betting. " nastiest: BIAS-8AM“: - M‘- " ; Asit lg, thecerchlfisamaxhnnfiifluckily as sluggish as a gorged bee. and really less . formidable than of h'e , g;- "hu- tlie while slide eoqufg . *8 semester execution? lib-"the 5"Mdlay"- reason you coast waters. In the harbor of Singapo'se inflamed l1! laMkMOdrannn’ers? ’hwered t l0 fatherfgldbmily. “I seem the to and {roles-gs of an ore bothers warming” ‘ ,.-,Mother:â€"-“ Search wish myjnurhter for heat these boats themselves. are attacked h i‘shea'l efijth’e fien- inadame, scriptural]. that, on ma , be Mill? been: out ofxbvnur in‘motheréimlsii. ‘V ' y " a y‘ \ 1 . JE‘ 7 this moisture hippo", gets, intq'tlie mind a: “and it.“ l on FOBElliIN NEWS their efi’orts is get a 'vepnbite at their (8‘ c“ng Frets “ On the bcich of'd'll Moro, near Havana, Cuba, a estiso was watering s ,drove of hotness ‘ut a year ago, and after"“giving them a chance to drink at the mouth of a small stream rode a few dozen yards.le a I v 2.» Throughout the‘German Empire the cori- dition of trade is almost as bad as in this I country. =' salt-water bath. He was riding his horse trade especially there is great distress. 1 ette, when suddenly a big shark leaped out of the water, seized the rider’slez and drag- gedIhim put of IsightI before the horrified spectator' some make the‘ ‘leii‘st‘attenipt‘ at 1 rescue. many announces itswlisoovery in,a.iew minutes. . Tea will. kill themin an hour. A large body of musicians in Vienna have of military bands‘in public places. an, Qua, a merchantpf Canton, is the , or killer-whale, a close relative of the por- : poise,=but large enough to swallowca seal 1 without the preliminaries of mastication» With the single exébptiomof the Javanese fox-bat, the ores. is the most voracious mes-- , ture of our latter-day world, and Yrof. a Echricht describes aspeciinen that had beén summoned . . “The Emperor William ordered . killed in shallow véwster after devouring "‘a‘ 'cago Exhibition. ' . dozen dolphins abdgfonr=seala “The atro- ciousI glutton,” he as; 3', “had got‘c‘haked in w a seventeenth vic- tim, as its throat was obstructed by an in; tertwisted massof s'eal'hobes..".;-. ; 7?." "1!” 0a the coast of Vancouverulslaud areas have sometimes been seen chasing a blue whaleâ€"a creature five or six tiines‘tbeir own weight, but unable to, ofl‘er direct resistance to- their Ice-operative “attacks, “These demons,” says Dr. James Marie", ‘ ‘will assail theirulargest relatives arid pur- suethcm like raging ‘hounds. I They have never been known to attack a white-painted. herring-boat, mistaking it for a beluga, and a ' will not hesitate to lay hold of a harpo‘oned whale and 'drainngqrfogceI,,undei-' water.” ' . Asiugle monster of' that species could work more havoc among a crew o‘f'J ship- : wrecked sailors, swimming for. their lives, than iall'the ‘I‘devil-fish” afloat in the seas of cated in thesii'gsassinationbf Alexander lI., lined labor in’thc mines. ‘ mall, and'anotber for Harvard. Such boat‘s weighs about 225 pounds.- her 3,000 dresses, andif the baggage smash- er doesn’t. handle the trunks aegingc-rlyI , if they werefilled with eggs he is taken a ' the track~3and fanned With the bastinado. .The city of Annaberg, Saxony, wasmauy years ago‘a prosperous silver-mining unmp‘. An uncxent history ofvtlie citngives an in- timation of the wealthof the nabobs of the time. It says that they alwzrystébathcd in red wine. . ‘ " ‘ It is stated in Paris that‘M. de Lesscps lanows nothing ‘trial and the sensational circumstances air bending the. present investigation. mind, the report says, is so impaired by'ago that he is totally incapable olIIconsecntive thought, and he never even asks for-a; news- .-papcr. . I During the ancorl‘tussian \var'the officers ofaRnssianregiment picked up alittlc Turk- ish girl in tlie’Balkans. She was married the other day and the Emperor of Austria sent her a magnificent gold bracelet set with diamonds and pearls. The. regiment has the Emperor ashonorary commander. Louis Kossuth, who is're orted dying at. his'home in Turin, attains the 011111 year of his age Seytemheiflast, when acongratw latory address, signed by 15,000 Hungar- ians, was presented to him, together with a {and sufficient to support bim"iu comfort forjten years. . ’ " . .1 ' ‘ _ George Kennan is desirous of returning to Russia, but is regarded with such disfavor by the authorities of that , country that he. does not think it wise to do so: II ‘Even from this distance it is 2: disadvantage to the exiles whomthe ‘wishes to befriend to show the tropical J nutter's, I'iftb. Moon. ' The new satellite is so close to the surface of Jupiter thatthe difficulty of its detection is greatl enhanced by the fact that it is so frequent y hidden'by'the great globe. Only for comparatively a'small part of each rev-' olution does the little body appear well away from the margin of the planet. When mostremote it will be at a distance of 36 seconds from the edge, that is, about two- thirds the diameter of Jupiter. Then six hours later it will be at a similar distance on the opposite side of its orbit. - It is often difficult to observe one of the large satellites when in the "act of tr'ansita'cross the planet’s disc, so that we hardly. can be surprised that the transtts cf'an object which is such an extremely small fraction of their size should not be perceived. 'Of course there is a notable differenc‘e‘between the case of "a ltrausit of_Ia satellite over its primary and that of a planet, like VenusIor Mercury, in front of the sun’s discf- In the latter case 1 the planet appears'as a black spot against ' the brilliant background. In fact, it may be remembered that an unsuccessful search ‘ for an infra-Mercurial planet has actually been conductedin the manner thussugeested by seeing if it could not beIobserved during the progress of the transit. But the case is very different when a‘sate‘llite of Jupiter transits over the facecof the" planet. The lustre of thesatellite, arising wisdom from sunbeams only, is equal to the lustre of the face of the planet, except in so far as ine- qualities in the intrinsic reflecting powers of the two bodies may sufice tocaus‘e a differ- ence. The shadow of the newfsatellite on theglobe of the planet, though, no doubt, it would be an extremely small point, would still nevertheless beintens‘ely black in- com- parison with the surrounding surface, and, in the Czar’s dominions is liableto get them into trouble. . literally madly in love with Bernhardt fifI- teen years ago, requiring his commitment to an insane hospital, died in the' institution the other day. Though he lost'hismiud, his writing letters to his divine Sarah until the last. , ' ’ ‘ . . " " ". .‘X . Of fifteen cholera patients repeived'at a hospital at Bruges, Belgium, within forty- 'eight hours, thirteen-died. The plague is ‘. we. therefore, it might be expected that it ought gill-n Clues- to be comparatively ,Ieasy Ito sec when Isuffi- _ cicut optical power wasavsilable'. ‘ at Monte Carlo were $4,200,000 and the ex-,. penses $2,200,000. Included in'the latter Wonderful Bohoes:’ " In the Roman Campauna, at the sépulchre of Metella, wife of Sulla',II_Ithere is an echo which repeats five times, each being in a different key. ‘ It will also ’ repeat a hexa- meter line, or another sentence which can IFi-enchnewspapers. L r _ Osman Pasha’s pretty daughter is sup- posed to'be the only Turkish poetess. ' She is superbly furnished for her use. She'dines daily from a service of pure gold. I The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is such a tall man that he has to carry._his own ‘ bed around with him when he is on his travels. be spoken in two and a half seconds. On the banks of the river Naha, between Bingen and Coblcntz, there is an echo capa- ble of repeating a sentence seventeen differ- I cut times. A peculiarity of this echo is that, although the original word‘or sentence couple of chairs in a hotel bedroom. be uttered in a whisper, yet thevolume of sound increases many‘ folds in Lhe‘echo. In the chapel of the- Abercorn family, at Paisley, the closing of the door produces a sound which roars like distant thunder. trating masks that had been bgnt and re- paired. A fencing master strongly urges fencers never to have masks repaired after-I being once broken.‘ I Tolstoi, writing in the Russian Gazette, says it- would be impossible for him to de- scribethe real situation of the people in the famine district. Famine again threatens The echo at the ‘.‘ Eagle’s nest,” .Killar- ney, Ireland, repeats a bugle note at least ‘100 times. Between the two wings of the castle of Simouetta two miles out from Milan, the report of a pistol shot is repeated sixty times. At the same place a single musical , I harvest has been very poor; and cats have instrument produces t~he_cflect of a full ‘ entirely failed,‘ There is a complete deb.th of firing, and added to this the people have used up their last reserve of strength in the miseries they endured last winter. ’ M. Gorebkofl’, the Cossack officer who recently killed his bfithgr.,oiiioer; named Ilovaisky in the reciihexffal'meés, has been sentenced to 12years’ hard labour in the mines. The affair has had a very dramatic ending, for the ladywho' was the [cause ‘of the quarrel whichtermiuated so tragically was married on Wedneéday” to a third suitor. , ~' _ ‘ . Au immense dining hall for students, to be known asthe 'M’ensa‘ Academics, was opened in Vienna last week. In Iit two thousand students can dine _togethcr. The [intent of the institution is to enable stud- ents to eat-together at a minimum cost, ind stead of being compelled, by reason of their small means, to obtain their meals in cheap and low resorts.~ ‘TIhIe _ privileges of :uie Mensa Academics are restricted to regular submribers, and the rates are, for dinner, alone, $2.50a mouth; for breakfast and dinner, 83.25, and for breakfast, dinner, and“ suppei‘, $5.75. am“...me Mr. Geiwa Faith!) ....Vi°e;99n§ul '10? orchestra." . . I. ,I i .The; WaterrWh‘jesl at Night. : ,1 For years the question as to whether water-wheels ran faster at night than dur- ing the day has been catalogued among the things which no man can find out. .IISurely the answer is : They do rthat is, _‘if they are so geared as tabs allected.'by:tlie"vary- ing fullness and speed of the current in which they are set. Therer no doubt but that all springs are fuller and 'all‘streams carry more water.“ midnight. than they do at noon. In the first place the increased coolness of the air apreventspevaporation and subsequent drying-‘upof the smaller tributariesatvandin «the second place, the condensation of the moisture in the air in the shape of dew is alwpys sufficient to add something to lsige streams ;‘ and their branches. HeaVy‘de'wsiin-e often so‘l‘opious as to be almost canal to a small shower of , fellingfrom alloiposed d the ovérlgs («I eaves. pp objects’is‘ tifél. as“ if they "ha‘d undergone a shower during the night. A Large part f rain. \Y (magi? def}; channels, which? ego ct‘j .go Msmlagthas these. attac hysbsigands . mill fstreanis. a‘gl’ten,’ says stubble, whilst driving’out in the chantry. The ‘5 the effect. u n a shallow stream is vex-y robbers stopped the carriage and shouted, mummy: sum it a " ‘notic'e’i- v Your money or so“ .. life’,’ . . . “able” a wheel turned by such a stream would Obi!»in “0 Mil“; 5“ {mil-breamed “go faster by night than by day.’3,;. the“: Mr. G n ‘ ' ' ' 'c‘oinlngfromE I_‘I‘Fnther" k the hey .“what’s th - old , $343 Eh; .II' '_ JI':.V l , cured I0 e I w‘ ,I_ . ‘llowna; ' mun." ’“ rough .7 1e hle dis a I owner as tobe Among the workers in the irbn. ' The imperial Cholera Commission in Ger-- that wineâ€"‘ claret or hookâ€"will kill the bacilli of cholera. entered apubllc protest against thiejpliying ; i'iohest man in China. “He'i‘s'k'said to'bbhvorth“ ’ model of the church erected in. memory of: the Empress Augusta tolje sent to the Chi-i Petrol? Narnscliine,~bneof the men implifI' has jusbdied in Siberia, ‘afternine years of; ' "A Philadelphia boat builder‘fis’making ans eiglit~oared aluminium racingashell for Corr weigh U5 periods. _A paper-gr-pedur shell The Empress of China carrieahround with ' . most urgent matter confronting the Russian Whatever about the Panama ‘ His them any interest. A letter to'his friends M. Benatres, a Paris clérk,le_io became" devotion did not gowith it, for he kept on ' inakingIrapid progress in a number offBel- . Last year’s receipts of the gambling-house are $160,000 in " gratuities” paid to certain. . mortality was 60 per cent. great-er'thau in lives in a fine palace on the Bosphoros,which" and from private cliaritya What willinggbe He doesn’t. believe in roosting his heelspna‘ I ,I ' _I I ' rye ispoore'r than last year, where has oats Two deaths during fsn'cing‘ebouts have’ occurred in France through ther‘foils pence 7 lacking, and whcre~- physical strength. has Treport continues : vfamiucs; but‘that is an old story, old and the district in‘which- he‘ lives. The ryc‘ without hearing the same old tale“, under my feet.; I go_.down the court, Inez? i 4 Wherefore ,yob imam“: , ” e’fd‘ also: our I I look at hiwdes irIand knowth t - Elms: ,..h,i.i9%@.al‘d. . - - ‘ t = 4 cruelty is, it seems, to be found in the fact- that. the girl "inherited certain property-e which her Ether coveted, and by thescÂ¥ means secured to himself. Thésulgan 'of Turkey hasliimadp ous break through thetrammelslb Y ‘t I ‘ tradition randhas' given the (Fords that Turkey shall take apiece in the mareldoi civilization. He. has aorautetl-{icodoeiilon for the ‘constructiouof long railways *hich will open up his territory to the east, the north, and the south, all having their termini at Constantinople. Ono road is to run to-wlhm'ascus, and soothersthmi'gris and Euphrates Railway, to the Persian Gulf. The concessions have beeuigranted to German and Belgian firms. ’Euglish’firms being entirely left out. - I » :~- assurances-t a as}? mean m RUSSIA. SnfleringsIof the People Dose rlbctl by Count Tolslol. If Russia’s starving thousandygjnhopld openly revolt and insist that the efio'i‘ernv 'Ifment make provision against the famine "which seems to be in prospect this winter, "the outsude world would not be surprised." Everything points to show that they ‘aro‘ deserving of assistance. ‘ It is a case of treme poverty, but not of pauperismll 'In other words, “ it is a mituation, and noun condition." Without dwolling up the philosophic subtleties which walddgh ow. the hair-line distinctihir between the wo. the fact ‘remaius that the distress" duo'to scarcity is so widely prevailing that it is the Government-today; . .Iv, .. . louut Tolstoi has be'en busy, not‘only'in collecting funds for temporary assistance, but in striking a blow at the causes of dis- tress. His second repo‘r}; giving v.;detailed lists of expenditures, and setting Ifc‘jIrth, in the author’s forcible style, the condition of the peasantry. was notI addressed-to the laissez-faircists, and the subject lies/ha no way been treated‘ as a_ 'problcm that im- nishes its own solution or as a matter that would satifactorily regulate itself in the course of evolution. Count Tolstoifiepbrts having received from the Government, and from foreign countries, between the middle of April and the first of August, $21,453, besides great quantities of provisions from America. During these months the ' “ Irnax'aas'rroxs Eon wus'rsa ‘- have been going on. Refactories, bakeries v and provision bureaus have been etnblished and supplies distributed throughout the districts. After giving figures and,qu particulars in regard to the workiafccom- plished by himself and -his'.friends, the philanthropist explains why it is‘difficult clearly to define the economic situation.- He .has been too busy ‘I during the last Jy‘eariu ,I feeding the hungry poor todiaguo'se the case. . «_. ~ “ Ihave not been able-to reply to those who have asked if the situation is distress- ing,” ‘he writes, “ because we who are liv- ing with the people have become so’hard- eued tb‘their suffering that we are unable to gauge their misery. If anyone from a :neighboring town;should . venture into the intense cold of these districts; if he were to see; the people huddled togethergrouml and under the stoves in every Ihous‘qt‘rying _ to keep waruf, burning-“the stubble {ide eat- in? "mode of, farin'a'yor bran re- mainiug indoors for the lack of‘apI‘ropsr 'clothin'g, he-wouldnaturally be great-.y af- fected. Only one Who visit: us for tbs-first time can attach importance to thesez'tbings, but not we.“ We have bebome inuredeto it. 7To us it'is no longer notideable.” VI After giving a- fui'tiier"~'idea of the situa- tion, the author published several statistical resumes, showing that in the four districts of Bogorodisk, Epifan‘é',’ Yefremb'vé and Novossd, where the famine is worst; the mortality for the yeaffhas exceeded the number of births in the proportion of 7 to 5 ; while in the other districts where the dis- tress has not been so general the natality has exceeded the mortality. Last .JIi’u'pe'lthc June of the previous‘year, the increasehas been 115* Yefremov fully 116 per cent. Such were the results of the poor harvest, of last year}, in spite of theablc assistance received. from the Government, the Red Cross League, At Boggdorisk this year in'distrxcts wuerc the harvest in 'crop has failed ; where life year’sQ?»-§fuel is given away under preceding sufferinng The “ Then what? There will be morezfdmiuo. Fammcs and refcctories ; rcfectories and t-iresouie. All this .Iwearies you who live at Moscow or St. Petersburg. And we, see- ing these people morning and night planted before our wmdows and uponour doorsteps ;-. ,we, who are not able to cross_ thestrceg sormxc TO EAT for two days. We have eaten our last bit of food; what will become of us? The end is not far off. Have we got to dis Z'jgf-well it must be admitted that wcuhairb’beebme so wearied that we regard these people as our personal enemies; _ =; . l 4 l. a “ l arise early. It is a; clear cold mprning and the rezl sun is rising, The snow creeks have had thinking thatl shall see no one. open the gate. Alreatly'two‘ have-taken their stand. One is an old man, largemnd-ydl built, but costless. His features areIlIividâ€"â€" I , all have livid faces; it is the mark. of’ the 'l‘heother isaIfittle; wail ‘- PIQltEIGNERS IN was TBANSVAAL. Tubing)" Government Assumes a non .i v 'frleually'auundc Toward Them. peasant (0-day. of four years, coatless, wrapped in a sarau worn threadbare, and with tattered hhbesf I attempt to pass, but the Istopgnfai They tell the same old story. There is nothing forms to do but to retrace my steps. They follow- ,. 25. ‘-::.‘ “ ‘ ‘. ’ell 1’ ‘ CharityJI ‘ What} ‘ Char. ity.’, .‘ What3do youwuatl', J‘Hclpfflfi How quIIcIWlIiI'IZI‘II "IIOnIl Mtpwlwive.’ ‘But what do you need 'i' ‘l l e are .v-.e,., "11‘ s. "m i‘kn’ofi‘gthgs'the I :blpgt’é not ybtsucc " If lines lisfingai” cot! ory. Thebéggdri (Kline‘th ms} and 1 negard thi’szinau as ’a’ beggars byzi mffi‘ssion. .lyiiigo new, - ..'. .II‘" ’ v {I ‘4' ..: ‘1‘ I 5: ‘ 1 n '50‘ - s again~the montouos e- rcltals'i *Li'Wa‘NhaVePl outlast tfrlmfd- are years ’the period ., child. _ thief. all but a few of his chums. 1! mt '; ' iii-owl ltis always the'sarhe. Ibo to ,,_ has cannot. ‘I have not “ odwillsitnow.‘ ‘ ' ' “I wish to get away but Heloolts up atone. beautiful dark eyes are filled , and expect. fancy. It is already thankful, thisloak of :1 9 o 1.1651: at us the littleoue. I watch his pause in. with its fawning of blond hair and his fee-I. cures drawn down with suppressed sobh. ~l.‘he.speeches of the father are familiar re- citals to me, butto him they recsllaterrible year and these very words which have long smce lost their power to move me were, know, wrung from him only after weeks and months of ion suffering. it is this that wearies me. cannot «caps to get a breath. All this is so old to me. To him it is so terribly new. Yes, these things weary me, ah, how they weary me! But the poor must eat, they must live. his a lot they cannot escape. One must show a little compassion. I thinkhss I see those childish eyes filled with tears, and with their look of patient suffering, that one must indeed show a little compassion.” SAD RUSSIAN TRAGEDY. Relentlessly I'm-sued by! Bad Luck. A curious story is told by the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The son of a Russian university professor, Ivan Kaminsky, sought to ~ have a sum tenet: qu ishcd which condemns him to four mouths’ imprisonmentas a common Kamiusky is what Europeans term a Nihilist, but in truth merely a member of the numerous but unorganized of Russians who are dissatisfied with the present regime. In St. l‘ctersburg he" was arrested for dis- tribumg pamphlets calculated to bring the Imperial Govern ment into contempt, and interned in the terrible fortress there. How he ever broke loose from that gloomy retreat is a mystery, but in some way or other he did contrive to escape, and nob only from the fortress‘but irdm Russia. He arrived in Austria, after a series of adven- tures, without a cent in his pocket, and having no friends or acquaintances, was fanishing of hunger. One day, when he could no longer endure the pangs of hunger he entered a a peasant’s but and looked for bread in the drawers of a cupboard. While opening one drawer the owner entered. seized him; and accused him of attempted theft, a coral necklace happening to be kept in that particular dvawor. He was taken to the police station, and gave a false namcIto the superintendent, because, as he afterwards explained, he knew that the Russian Government was negotiating with the Austrian Foreign Office for his extradi‘ Lion, and he was, naturally, unwilling to betray himself. The Austrian Court of Justice, refused to accept those explana- tions,aud condemned the unfortunate youth -who had taken his degrees in Russia, and was preparing at one time to qualify for a chair at the Universityâ€"to be imprisoned for four months. He appealed against this sentence, and to his advocate, Dr. Fryd- mauu, wrote a long letter in Latin beseech- iug him to leave nothing undone to have the sentence quashed. “ Not,” be exclaimed, 4“ that I fear imprisonmentâ€"i am, unfortu- nately, very well used to «it by this time.- but it would kill my poor father, wh ) is a professor at; the University of \Varsaw, were he to learn that I have been convicted of common theft. I am incapable of such a crime. I sought for broad only, not for articles of value. I was literally dying of hunger.” The Court of Cessation, in spite of the brilliant speech of his counsel, upheld the decision of the lower courts, and Kam- insky will have to undergo the sentence of a thief. He is also to be expelled from ‘ Austria. Are Girls Slaugier Than Boys. '2 Awriter states that girls use more slang â€"espccially if they’ are grown up «than boys do. Girls, it is affirmed, talk much per cemhjaudsmfi more than boys, so that their stock of un- couth words is in more frequent use. It is also larger. If a boy were a mine of slang his taciturnity would keep itconcealell from His inventions are confined to a small circle, and his op- ‘ portunitics of borrowing are correspondin - lydimiuisbod. Not so with the girl. T in loquacity of her associates, ridedb her own, spreads and multiplies slang Wit 1 the- gr.utcstrapidity. She is more sociable. At I school she is “thick” with a dozen and gathers in all the dozen know. And be- sides, says the some authority, girls are so reckless in the use of language that they give a slaugy character to good English. With the girl at the period of gigglehood every good thing is “ perfectly ” so She “ never ” does this and she “ always” does She sometimes “feels hateful," but it is oftoner some one else who is “ perfect- r-ly horrid.” Nearly everything is "awful." Such are some of the charges this abomin- able person brings against the sweet young creatures. Another authority flatly conâ€" tradicts them all and says the boy is the sum of all villainies. The words he prefers, it is asserted. are so tinged with profanity that he cannot use them at home, and it is thus only that he gets his reputation for freedom from slang. Who can settle the dis utc 2 We are of opinion that injustice is one to the girls. \Ve are confident also ‘ thavfew, boys are as bad as represented. 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