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The term “ morganatio ” applied to marriages, had its origin in an ancient cue- tom by which the bridegroom on the day after the wedding gave his bride 3 morning giftâ€"morganobe. In the case of a noble- man wedded to a wife of low estate this morning gift conetituted the wife‘s portion endowment, and from this gift such mar- riages took the name morgenatioa. The German law. continuing this tradition, ollowa the members of the reigning house and certain noble families to contract mar- r'ogee in all respect legal and valid, except t at it gives to the partner of lower birth and to the children no share in the rank, titles and distinctions of the privileged house. Such marriages have often been eminently happy ones.â€"London Life. One used to think a great deal, writes a correspondent of the Independence Belge, of the Rigi Railway, with its gradients of from 18 to 25 per cent, those of the Uetli- berg of 30 per cent., of the Burgenstock and of Territat-Glion of 40 per cent., of the Guetsch of 50 per cent.. and of the Giess- bach of 30. All this is now only child’s play. Now one can ascend the Beatenbeig, from the station of Beatenbach, on the Lake of Thun, by a funicular railway at an incline of 26 degrees, and Mount Pilatus is climbed by a gradient which is officially stated to be 48 per cent., but which some- times attains to 75 per cent. The start is made from Alpnach, on the Lake of Lu- orene, and in 90 minutes the summit is reached, the traveller being comfortably dragged in his carriage up the precipitous peaks of this celebrated mountain, which is more than 2,000 meters high. They assure you that the ascent is perfectly rate, and this is quite possible; but the fact remains that travellers are oiten much alarmed, and that many of them ascend only with their eyes closed and their hands tightly clenched. Railways are also in course of construction from Interlaken to Lanter- brunnen, to Grindelwald and to Murren. From Interlaken to Zweilutchinen this rail- way will have a gradient of 15 per cent.; thence to Grindelwald 30 to 40 per cent.; up to Murren the incline will be 5060, a species of lift a couple of thousand feet in height! Orowds of Italian workmen will be set to work on it, and the new lines will be all ready next season. Harvest gOee on space On all the com- pany‘s farms. The cm s with one or two exceptions are fair, keep ng in View a sea- son of unusual, if not unprecedented drought. The crops on the Dunmore are all safely in stack Tuesday of last week, and a long array of stacks are to be seen from the railway care. It may be noticed as no email evidence of the fertility of the soil and climate of the Northwest, if not of the rare variety of pedigree pigs imported last fall by the above company, to state that the offspring of this rare stream of the porcine race are not unfrequently pos- sessed of five distinct legs each. No won- der the company talks of opening a busi- ness; five excellent hams from every pig is doubtless an encouraging factâ€"Calgary Herald. Mr. W. H. Levy, who is blind, says in his book, “ Blindness and the Blind,” that he can tell when he is opposite an object, and can perceive Whether it is tall or short, slender or bulky. He can also determine whether it be solitary object or a con- tinuous fence ; whether a. close fence or an open one, and, sometimes whether a wooden fence. 9. stone wall or a hedge. None of the five senses have anything to do with this perceptive power but the impressions are made on the skin of the face, and by it transmitted to the brain. He therefore names this unrecognized sense facial per- ception. The presence of a fog interferes with facial perception and makes the impressions faint and untrustworthy ; but darkness is no impediment. A noise which distracts the attention interferes with the impressions. In passing along the street he can distinguish stores from private houses and doors from windows, if the windows consist of a number of panes and not of a single sheet of glass. A remarkable fact, bearing on the subject of an unrecognized sense, is mentioned by Mr. Levy. A naturalist extracted the eyes of several bats and covered the empty sockets with leather. In this condition the bats flew about the room, avoiding the sides and flew out of the door without touching the door case. In flying through asewer which made a. right angle they turned at the proper point. They flew through threads suspended from the ceiling without touching them, though they were only far enough apart to admit the passage of the bats' extended wings.â€"Youth’s Com- panion. Speaking of London, Cardinal Manning says: “There are four millions of living and dying and dead souls. And if every church or chapel or place of worship of every sortand kind were filled three times to the full on every Lord’eDay. they could not contain more than 1,500,003. There must be, therefore, 2,500,000 who never can Eghyeionlly set their feet in any place of ivine worship or any place where the name and existence of God are recognized." It is a curious fact that the fine old 79th regiment of Cameron Highlanders which is stationed at Balmoral during Queen Vio- toria’s residence in Scotland, does not con- tain a single man in the corps whose name is Cameron. On the other hand there are no less than 360 Macdonalds in the ranks. It should be added that the Highland clan of Cameron and Maodonald have been on terms of bitter enmity for several centuries. The London Lancet says that Dr. Gra- denigo, Professor of Ophthalmic Surgery in the University of Padna, has just suo‘ (seeded in transplanting the cornea from the eye of a barn fowl into the eye ofa patient under his care. On the eighth day after the operation the transplanted cornea presented a quite pellucid and convex ap- earance. Such a result has not before geen recorded in the annals of continental surgery. Her sister follows twitching ungracefully from side to side, rolling from one foot to the other like a. sailor in midocean, only he has some excuse and she has not. The arms usually follow, but in opposite direc- tions. The body of the next one makes a. perfect bow, beck bent, head forward and feet trying to catch up. Not one with the firm, graceful step, erect head, straight shoulders, easy arms and hands to be acquired by sufficient ambition and deter- mination to prevent a. dignified carriage. When will deportment be taught in our Bchools.â€"Samt0ga letter in HM Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman. What Are “ Morganatic " Awkwardnesg Due to Lack of Thought and Lack of Training. Why is it our young ladies do not know how to walk? Look! here comes one with her head pitched forward, her hnndsewing- ing ungracefully by her side, her feet scuf- fling the walk, and altogether presenting an appearance quite unbecoming one of America’s lovely daughters, charming in. all else, perhaps, but oh, such a. gait! The next one walks with a jerk. her feet and lower part of her body having started on 0. race with her head to see which will get there first. The consequence is for every step forward she comes part way back with a Jirk. V Transplantation of the Cornea. Ne w Mountain B auwnys. Dying and Dead Souls. BOW SOME GIRLS WALK. Five-Legged Pigs. “ Facial Pl'l‘ (‘piionl’ The Clan Cameron. Marriage: ‘2 I have just discOVered that if any person subject to prickly heat in summer will bathe the places in a. weak solution of olnrutus water and dry them with a soft cloth, and afterwards powder them with a powder made of equal parts of fuller’s earth and rice flour, they will have perfect ease. It should be done night and morning in the hot weather, and it a. mosquito bites you, don’t try any heroic remedy, but simply spply a little cold cream, which somehow overcomes the poison and irritation when nothing else will. I have seen children that were nearly wild with the irritation of many mosquito bites calmed in a moment by the application of cold creamâ€"Olive Harper in Roseleaf. mally two linemen arrived and out the wires and pulled the body into one of the windows. just ten minutes after the wire had touched him. The body presented a horrible appearance. The wire had burned a hole four inches long and penetrated to the larynx. The hand which clutched the wire was burned almost to the bone. The odor from the body was sickening. An ambulance surgeon who had been sum- moned said death was instantaneous. Newspaper Postage. An Ottawa despatch says: The De- puty Postmaster-General stated to-day that the object of the Department in asking postmasters to note the weight of printed matter mailed at their office was solely for- statistical purposes. Not since the institution 0t free postage for news- papers has an accurate return been made of the amount actually carried through the mails, and for this purpose therefore, postmasters have been asked to furnish a return of newspapers and periodical mat- ter mailed at their offices from Sept. 1st to 14th. [ An Italian Fruit Vendor Instantly Killed by a Live “’ire. A Friday’s New York despatch says : Joseph Matz, an Italian, met a horrible death today by coming in contact with a “live " electric wire at the corner of East ~Houston and Chrystie streets. Matz and another Italian kept a fruit stand there. On account of the rain torrents of water poured down from the gutter, and the board awn- ing was partially filled with mud. To remove this mud Matz climbed an electric light pole and gained the roof of the awn- ing. 0:: this pole were thirty wires. When Matz stooped to clean the gutter he faced a. network of wires about breast high. In performing his work he slipped, and in try- ing to save himself be grasped one wire with his hand and fell forward on another, which caught him under the neck and chin. Matz then gave a about which startled the passers-by. The latter saw the man 30- 1 tually burn alive. Blue light shot from the 1 wire when it came in contact with his skin, ‘ and the wire burned into his flesh with a crackling sound. One Albert rushed into the house. and climbing out of the window, took hold of Matz and tried to pull him from the wires. The moment that he touched the body Albert received a shock tint ‘ nearly threw him _to‘ the ground. A despatch from Zanzibar says : Henry M. Stanley, on leaving the basin of the Albert Nyanza, endeavored to make his way southward by passing to the west of the Victoria Nyanza. He failed, however, in his attempt. He then went northward and reached the eastern shore of the lake. Emin Pasha accompanied him. After a long stay on the borders of the lake await- ing supplies from Msalala and Tabora, Stanley, leaving Emin Pasha, marched in the direction of Mombasa. He is expected to reach the eastern seaooast about the end of October. War [Amongst “Test Virginia Negroes. A Huntington, W. Va., despatoh of Friday says: News has reached here of a terrible encounter among negroes at Bramwell,Meroer County. A number of colored miners had been drinking and engaged in a fight. Knives were drawn. and Dan Lambert and Tom Kadle were literally out to pieces} Three of their companions were seriously, if not fatally, injured. The fight arose over a remark which some one made concerning Lambert’s Wife. The members of the Senate Committee are Messrs. Vedder, Lnughiin and Pierce; and they are represented by Mr. Johnston, oi Salamanoa. The Canadian Ceyuges are represented by Gen. James 0. Strong, of this city, and the Dominion Government is represented by Messrs. Richie & Mick- ham, barristers, of Toronto. Mr. George H. Thornton is the official stenographer of the committee. An adjournment was had until November 11th, at Brantford, Ont. v ..___ r ....... The claim of the Cayugas grows out of a treaty made between the State and that nation at a time when certain of its lands were purchased. the consideration being an annuity of 823,000, to be paid by the State. During the war of 1812 a portion of the Cayugae went to Canada and joined the British army and from that time out received no portion of the annuities, the American Cayugaa taking the whole amount. The claim now made on behalf of the Canadian Cayugas is that by the treaty of Ghent the United States became at peace with them, and there- fore that they were and still are entitled to their share of the annuities and should be paid the amount to which they were entitled from the date of the ratifica- tion of the treaty of Ghent until the pre- sent time, amounting to about a quarter of a million dollars. How It is Done. Sowâ€"Papa, how do they catch lunatics ? Cynical Father»With large straw hats nnd feathers and white dresses, jewelry and neat gloves, .my boy: _ Mavrnmav(mhain’gly)â€"â€"Yes, I remember that time how I dressed before we were married. â€"-Lord Brnsaey’a London house is lighted by electric lamps incloaed in sea shells of the greatest beauty, whose transparency sheds a. glowing retulgenoe over the whole trams“! Canadian Indians Want a Quarter Million From the State of New Yorkâ€"A Nona- genurlnn Witness. A Buffalo despatch says : The Standing Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, to which was delegated the duty of investi- gating the claims of the Cayuga Nation of Indians, was to have held a meeting yes- terday afternoon at Senator Laughlin’s office. There was no quorum of the com- mittee, but by consent of all the parties the testimony of Henry Phillips, a Seneca Indian, 94 years of age, was taken, to be used before the committee with the same effect as if all the members were present. ARemedy for Prickly Heat. ELECTRICITY WILL KILL. VOL XII THE CAYUGA’S CLAIMS. Stanley’s Movements. The Mansion House Committee announce that the dock directors and the men have practically agreed, and that as soon as other interests are arranged all the men will resume work on the understanding that the deferred concession will begranted in November. The Secretary of the Surrey Commercial Docks has officially refused to grant the terms demanded by the men’s manifesto, but it is expected the matter will be ar- ranged, as the southern men are only strik- ing out of sympathy with the northern men. A Fridaynight’e London cable says : The Joint Committee appointed to consider the proposals of the strikers have agreed that the wages demanded by the dock laborers shall be conceded,the advance to take effect on November 4th. The Lord Mayor, at a conference with the directors of the Dock Companies today, gave assur nce that the men were now ready to resume work on Monday. In view of the approaching end of the dock laborers’ strike, the lightermeu argseehing to resume work. The Ofliclal Investigation Into the Antwerp Disaster. An Antwerp cable says: Nothing re- mains of the cartridge factory in which the explosion occurred on Friday. The village of Anetruwell, situated 200 metres from the factory, and which consisted of 40 houses, has vanished. The hydraulic machines used in the dry dock were almost entirely destroyed. A number of mer- chandise depots, including the Prussian stores, which were constructed of iron, were overturned by the explosion, and an immense quantity of goods was ruined. Two stained glass windows in the cathe- dral were broken, but the building is intact. For a distance of 500 to 1,000 metres the windows of houses were shattered. Not a drop of the burning petroleum got into the docks, the depots being surrounded by a high embankment. The official report says 135 persons were killed, twenty are missing, 100 were seriously and 200 slightly injured. The Government‘s official report says nothing has been clearly established re. garding the origin of the explosion. The Governor says the cartridge factory worked three months withouta license, when it was closed by order of the city authorities. M. Corvillain, the proprietor of the factory, then applied for a license, which was granted after an inspection of the factory and the imposition of stringent regula- tions for its management. The Governor says he does not know whether the city authorities’ inspection was adequate or not. When the explosion occurred an inquiry was proceeding with reference to an accident that had resulted from the un- authorized introduction of a steam engine into a factory. The Pall Mall Gazette suggests that an organization be formed for the purpose of raising the £10,000 necessary to pay the dock laborers Sixpence per hour from November let to January lat. Aleading business man has offered to contribute £2,000 for this purpose on condition that the remaining four-fifths be subscribed immediately. A Montreal despatch says : Last spring a man named Hennessy was sentenced to 14 years in the Penitentiary for commit- ting an assault on a Miss Roberts. At the present term of the court a man named Mulcahey is being tried as an accomplice of Hennessy. A sensation was created in court to-day when Spicer, a Grand Trunk watchman, swore that neither Hennessy nor Mulcahey resembled the men from Whom he had rescued Miss Roberts at the time the outrage was committed. He pointed to one of the witnesses in the case as being most like one of the fellows. Hen- nessy, produced as a witness against Mul- ‘cahy, solemnly protested his innocence and declared that, so far as he knew, Mulcahy, too, was innocent. An impression is get- ting abroad that some of the witnesses for the prosecution may be the guilty parties. If Muicahy is acquitted it is possible an application may be made for the release of Hennessy. Some city gentlemen, believing the Aug- tralian contributions to the strikers’ fund have been sent under a. wrong impression, have sent a cable despatch to Australia, with the view of preventing further remit- tances. A London cable of Thursday night says: Australia sent an additional contribution of £700 to the strikers‘ fund today. The Mansion House Strike Committee announce that a. more amicable feeling prevails on both sides, and that only extraneous ques- tions now prevent a settlement, which it is hoped wiii be attained to-morrow. Further contributions of money for the relief of the strikers have been received from Australia. The Strike Committee have nearly $12,000 on hand. The Sea- man’s Union has sent a. request to the unions in Australia. to refuse to unload vessels from London loaded by “black- legs." The Pall Mall Gazette says: “ It has been arranged that H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, who is Commandervin-Chief of the Bombay division of the British army in India, shall return to England in March next. He will travel home via. China, Japan and Canada, paging through Ottawa, Montreal. etc. H. R. H. is a. Lieutenant- Genernl in the army. M}. Burns is ill from overwork, and is “1ng p day’s regt. r There is a. pause in the strike negotia- tions. Cardinal Manning has postponed his interview with the directors of the dock companies until tomorrow. Another meeting of strikers was held at Tower Hill. Mr. Tillett and Mr. Champion made addresses, in which they congratu- lated the strikers upon the increase in the subscriptions for their benefit, and the bet- ter organized plan for the distribution of relief. They expressed the belief that Car- dinal Manning, who they say is deeply im- pressed with the justice of the strikers' de- mands, would succeed today in arranging a settlement. The strikers are as resolute as ever. Their pickets display greater activity, and have prevented many batches of new men engaged to take the place of strikers from proceecting to the docks. The Dockmen to Receive an Increase on November 41511. A Wednesday night‘s London cable says: The negotiations between the representa- tives of the dock companies and the wharf- ingera were resumedto-day. The conference was private, though with a View to prevent subsequent misunderstandings a. etenogra- pher was present to transcribe the pro- ceedings. Several more wharfingers have conceded the demands of the strikers. Nearly 1,000 men reeumed work this morning. Probably Wrongfullv Imprisoned. PLACING THE BLAME. THE STRIKE ENDED. RICHIVION D HILL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1889. It is said the writ for the new election in Denis, rendered necessary by the appoint- ment of Mr. Msolean as Provincial Secre- tary, has been issued. Nomination is fixed for time 28th inst, and polling a. week later: Mandeville‘s livery stable, on the corner of Graham and Fort streets, was destroyed by fire and also the adjoining building. known an the old International Hotel. Seven valuable horses were burned. Total loss, $12,000. A brakeman némed kenné’dy was kill‘eid near Medicine Hat while coupling oars. His parents reside in this city. AParie cable says: Gen. Boulanger has issued a manifeeto to the electors of Mont- martre. In it he says; "If I ask the auffragee of the people, it is because I repre- sent, not the personality depicted by my calumniatore, but a national sentiment aspiring to throw off the burden of a grow- ing debt and the intolerable iniquities and humiliation to which the country is sub- jeeted." Despite the refusal of the Prefect of the Seine to receive Gen. Boulanger’a declaration of candidacy for member of the Chamber of Deputies, placards were posted in Montmartre, in the Department of the Seine, announcing that he would be a candidate. The police have torn down the placards and arrested the men who posted them. Commissioner Wrigley, of the Hudson Bay Company, has just nturned from a trip to Alaska. He was work has been begun on the coal mines in Queen Char- lotte Island. The Northwest Legislative Assembly will meet on October 16th. A Halifax despatch of Thursday says: On Monday, as the C. P. R. express going north was passing Greenville, it struck a young Frenchman named Melausen, a laborer, on the ballast train which had taken the siding to allow the express to pass. It is supposed he wasstanding too near the track. He was badly out and bruised about the head. His jaw was broken in three places and his oollarbone broken, besides internal injuries. The man was taken to Oxford for medical attendance and thence to his home at Meadowbrook, Westmoreland county, N. S., where he died on Tuesday night. Five Mennonite men, While under the influence of liquor at one of the Mennonite villages, in Southern Manitoba, brutally assaulted a young Mennonite girl, aged 18. After the brutes had accomplished their foul purpose the poor girl was released in an almost nude condition, and is at the point of death. The matter was hushed up, as the Mennonites do not believe in going to law, and the brutes were let off by the Chief of the village 0 3 the payment of one dollar each. Principal Grant has returned to the city from the Pacific coast. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College Hospital, London, England, says : “ Bright’s Disease has no symptoms of its own and may long exist without the know- ledge of the patient or practitioner, and no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity.” All the diseases to which the kidneys are subject and to which they give rise can be prevented it treated in time.” Warner’s Sefe Cure is the only recognized specific. R. A. Gunn, M. D., Dean, and Professor of Surgery of the United States Medical College; “Editor of “Medical Tribune,” author of “Gunn’e New and Improved Hand-book of Hygiene and Do- mestic Medicine,” says: “ I am willing to acknowledge and commend thus frankly the value of Warner's Safe Cure.” A New York despatoh says : Advices from Bolivia state that e mutiny occurred some time ago in Trinidad, the capital of the Beni Department. The revolting troops were joined by the citizens, and they offered a stubborn resistance for some hours. The mutineere surrendered after the loss of twenty-four of their number. 0f the Attacking force eleven were killed or wounded. - Gus (pathetically)â€"How I do suffer with hay fever! I'm almost dead! Jack (heartlessly)â€"Never mind. ’Sneezy death. ' Sproule, ex-Chief of Police of Portage la Prairie, was up for trial this morning for embezzlement, before Magistrate Giles, of that place. The constable in charge of Sproule was Sent out of the court room for some papers, when Sproule walked out of the back door. and before the court had recovered from its surprise he had skipped for the bush on the river south of the town and has not been seen since. He will doubtless escape over the boundary: A. Pearson has announced his intention to be a candidate for the Mayoralty at _the next election. The Morris afid Brandofi firhhch of the Northern Pacific will be opened for business about the middle of November. Between 800 and 1,000 men are employed on the Begins. and Long Lake Road. Forty miles of the road are graded and track-laying has been begun. It has been discovered that Messrs. Isaac Campbell and Perdue, the lawyers who acted for Burke, the Cronin suspect, received $600 for their services. The money came from three different channels, enclosed in a piece of white paper without a note of explanation. It was evidently the intention of the senders to give no clue to the source of the financial assistance given to Burke. . The annual meeting of the Manitoba. Branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club last night was largely attended by delegates from outside Clubs. It was de- cided to hold the next; big bonapiel in the second week in February. Rev. M. MoHafl'ie and his companions, who were reported drowned, arrived at Selkirk at 3.20 this afternoon. They report having a very rough trip, and were com- pelled to take shelter for many days, which accounts for their delay. Mayor Ryan received a telegram this morning from the Governor-General‘s Sec- retary stating that His Excellency would remain in the city on the 24th, 25th and 26th inst. Probably a reception will be given on the evening of the 23rd to His Excellency. A letter received yesterday from Sir John Lister Kaye states that harvest on his farms is now over and that the yield will be at least 120,000 bushels, which be con- siders very satisfactory. The charge 5f embezzlement against Martin McDonald, late Registrar of Deeds atiBrandon, has been dismissed. Currency is given to the reports that Mr. Hugh Sutherland will become a candidate fogjhe L_ocal Legislatqra for Kildonan. Another Boulanxist Manifesto. A Trinidad Mutlny Suppressed. Killed. by a Ballast Train. Beats Electriclty. OUR NORTHWEST. What has been called the Mistassini mystery has been dissolved by the journey of these gentlemen. Instead of an immense lake, greater than Superior, as has been current for years, the lake is about one hundred miles long and twenty broad, with a chain of islands running up the centre ; and parallel to it, on one of its sides, is another lake of similar shape, making three in all. But the three of them put together would make a very inferior com- parison with Lake Ontario. The mystery imparted to Mistassini rests entirely on the tales 01 men who had never visited it, but who had come in contact with Indians who knew something of these waters and who had been impressed by the terrible priva- tions endured by Montagnais and Nasquapees and the other hunters who lived in that inhospitable country. Most of those who had previously written about Mistassini, not having any facts to present as to its geo- graphical and other characteristics, succeeded in creating a mystery and a ter- ror in regard to it. The Hudson Bay Com- pany, too, it would appear, seem to have been satisfied that the country should re- main nnder the shadow of the mysterious, as their trading monopoly is best protected by the absence of intrusion of any kind. The country about Mistassini, as we learn from the expedition of these gentlemen. is a very poor one, totally unfit for settle- ment, with little or no timber, inhabited by only a few Indian hunters and their families, whose members are steadily de- creasing, marked by an animal life limited to bears and beavers and a few other fur- bearing animals. A land, in the short summer, of heavy rains, and in the winter of nothing but ice and snow for more than eight months in the year. Streams, lakes and rivers, and rushing rapids seem to be everywhere. The Toronto World this morning presents to its readers an account of the trip recently made by Mr. W. J. Loudon and Mr. G. S. Macdonsld to Lake Mistassini. Considering the country they travelled through, the time they consumed, the obstacles they overcame and the risks they ran from want of provisions, their expedition is one of the most rapid and most successful ever made by travellers in the unexplored and un- known regions of Northern Canada. Lake Mistassini lies about 300 miles north of Lake St. John, in the Province of Quebec, and between Hudson Bay and Labrador. The Rupert’s River, which drains this lake, falls into Hudson Bay about 400 miles from Mistassini. The Hudson Bay Com‘ pany have a post on Mistassini and take in their supplies by the Rupert’s River route, which, though longer, is much more so- cessible than from Lake St. John, the starting point of Mr. London and Mr. Mac- donald. The question, " How fast can a 1000- motive run ‘2” has been a good deal dis- cussed recently in the engineering papers. The conclusion appears to be that there is no authentic record of any speed above 80 miles an hour. That speed was obtained many years ago by a Bristol & Exeter tank engine with nine foot driving wheelsâ€"a long extinct speciesâ€"down a steep bank. But it has, apparently, never been beaten. It is indeed, not alittle strangehow sharply the line appears to have been drawn at 80 miles an hour. Records of 75 miles an hour are as plenty as blackberries. Records of 80 miles are exceedingly rare. Records of any greater speed have a way of crumbling beneath the lightest touch. The Spanish eye, large, humid, tender, grand, languishing, furnished with lashes so long, so curling and so beautiful that the pencil of the artist falls to despair ; the black pupil, the White sea, in which the lustrous orb sailsflall is indescribable! Spanish eyes are sad. Spanish women, when they are not coquetting and laughing, have a sad expression. Is there a little of the Orient left in their expression ? Is it Moorish, and does it speak of the harem and the inevitable heart-break ? Next to the beauty of hair and eye comes the beauty of the flashing teeth. These are so universally perfect that the student of dentistry should go to Spain and find out how they manage it. There is very little good eating in Spain. Perhaps these fault- less teeth are not spoiled by cakes and pastry and sweets in childhood. But the careless traveller expects to be rewarded when the Spanish woman smiles with a row of pearls, and he is almost never dis- appointed.â€"Cor. Philadelphia Times. â€"“ Yellow work” ie the latest popular phrase for bad work. Whence do these slang expressions come? All at once they are in the air, and all who are without repect for the purity of the English tongue are using them. They have their day and then they vanish. They die probably 01 inanition, but their birth is a mystery.â€" .Bpston Herald, ‘ In going into small shops and humble quarters one often sees the business of hair dressing in progress. One sister is dressing the hair of another, or the mother is ar- ranging the coiflure, etc. They have little heated irons, with which they frizz the one side and the other is allowed to go smooth. It is always becoming to the face beneath it. They wear it much over the face. avoiding the Chinese style. Little curls around the ears or pushing forward on the temples show that the Spanish woman values the purpose of hair, which is to shade the eye and contrast with the com- plexion. At the back of the head the nuque is always carefully brushed up. The nuque gives that character to the back of the head which is so essentially Spanish. It is a remnant of the high comb days and the mantilla. The high comb is now seldom worn, but the hair is always dressed high on the headâ€"â€"a natural crown which any queen might envy. How the Dark Eyed Beauties Make Themselves Look Fascinating. The traveller through Spain sees the young girls, anywhere, as beautiful as angels. They are tall, straight as an arrow, with the most perfect figures, and with faces which for a dark, tender, sad beauty are unexampled. The magnificent hair, always clean, always combed, always marvelloust dressed, with the inevitable flower in it, is alike the distinguishing mark of the poorest as well as the richest Spanish woman. In this respect the Spanish woman is unlike any other. Even Italy. the sister peninsula, so closely con- nected with Spain in the pastâ€"Italy has no such distinction. The Italian peasant does not take such care of her hair, nor does the Italian lady manifest the pride, the neat- ness, the ooquetry of fresh flowers, as does the Spaniard. That beautiful undulating hair, so blue black, with a rose hidden in its tressesâ€"it is the joy of Spanish travel to look at these heads. 'llne Mistasslni Mystery Disappears. Speed of Locomotives. THE GIRLS OF SPAIN. WHOLE NO 1,624. NOZIB. “ Just as though I was all strung on wire. It’s a very exciting feeling, and one very hard to describe. I believe that there are many riders who know nothing from the fall of the flag until the finishing post is passed. The first time I rode on a fast horse I was almost scared out of my wits. I had often r.dden horses slowly, but never at any speed. I was put on a young horse to ride a five-furlong trial. Away we went, and I just remember how I clung to that colt. The horse ran purely on his own courage and without any assistance from me. In a race I seem to become almost intoxicated. I forget everything except the horse. To hear the sound of other hoot beats on the track is only to give me a desire to leave them be- hind, and it I am riding a goodhorse I have to restrain myself as well a the horse or I should just run right away from every- thing. It is hard sometimes attera race to remember how I rode. I think the air sharpens one’s instincts, and then we guide the horses just naturally. I have very often shuddered when I have thought of the great chances I have taken. A rider, you know, takes his life in his own hands, and I think when he rides in a race he loses his sense of the dangers and just remembers that there is fame for him for winning the race, and money also. A jockey’s life is a very dangerous one. It is said we either break our necks or make our fortune. My neck is sound so far, but my fortune is not made yet.â€"â€"th'ladelphia Press. Now if you only knew how to cook a steak to make it good that would do, but it always makes me sick to see a woman cook a steak. She invariably puts her frying- pan on the stove. and puts in a chunk of grease about as big as my fist, and when it is hot enough to begin to crackle she puts in her beef and never thinks of covering it. The smoke and steam from it goes to the very ceiling. After she cocks it this way until it begins to look like an old rubber shoe sole she calls it done. When you go to eat it there is no more taste in it than a chip. Now, if you Want a good bit of steak have a clear, hot fire, set your clean, empty pan on a spot, cover it up, then pound your steak, and when your pan is very hot lay in your steak and cover quickly. As soon as it has crisped enough to let go its hold on the pan, turn over and cover quickly; turn again as at first, and continue to do so about every two minutes until you have turned it about six or eight times. Have a hot buttered dish ready for it and lay it in; add a sprinkling of pepper, salt and sugar, and cover tightly. Now, it you wish a gravy, put a bit of butter in your pan. When hot. rub in a pinch of flour, add a small teacupful of boiling water, let it boil a few minutes, then put in a gravy boat instead of putting it over your beef to draw out the juice. Now try this plan just once, and you will see you women know nothing about cooking a good steakâ€"An Old Butcher. George Taylor is an Englishman. He has been riding all this season for the Dwyer Brothers, but has just severed his connection with that stable. “ How do you feel when riding in a. race ?" he wagaskqd r_ecently.»_ WILLIAM ROBERTS, M. D. F. R. C. P., “ Pregnancy is a fruithiul caueeot Bright’s disease. The relative proportion of cases between the ages.of 20 and 45, are 80 women to every 100 men, while after this period the mortality falls to 59 women to every 100 men.” Women dnring preg- nancy are especially liable to contract kid- ney disease, which if neglected will ter- minate in Bright's Disease. Keep the kidneys active, and maintain a healthy flow of urine by the frequent use of Warner’s Safe Cure during the period of pregnancy. It will keep the kidneys healthy and active. l A pallid little child toils in the factory; his mates are as wan and pale as be. When at evening from work he creeps homeward, tired and limp, he sees the merry school- boys strolling back from play, hearty and plump faced ; laughing, leaping, carelessly swinging their hats, at random tossing a ball, full of fun and sport, hungry from the fresh air and healthy exercise. He never meets them going schoolward; when they begin to store up in their brains more of life's wonderful story than they knew yes- terday, already, for two hours, he has been at work. Brief and rare are the snatches of the story that may reach his ears while yet they are open to receive it. Ever the task unending, the same thing over hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. How he would like to laugh and leap and play l But childhood‘s privilege for him was long ago abridged. still, new and then his thoughts make daring sport while his hands keep on unceasing at their task : “ What fun ’twould be to snarl up all these threads, and let the shuttles jump about all helter skelter, like rats in the basement when the river rises and drowns them out I" But the play for him exists in thoughts alone; and soon even thoughts of play will cease, since the stream of know- ledge is turned away from him, and dulled by lack of use, like a well made tool grown rusty, he soon forgets to think at all. The gates of his mind swing heavily to, and open only to the duties known to the sentry by accustomed entrance to serve coarse daily wants. Then, plodding, he goes through life with body distorted and stunted, with soul repressed and crushedâ€"- perhaps he vaguely wonders why; this unsightly ruin of God’s most holy temple. Yes, why is it thus in a nation called free? Why is it thus amid a people professing love of Him who loved little children? What offence can be charged against these little ones, condemned to early toil and slowly darkening mindsâ€"while learning‘s lamp stands freely lit to guide their for- tune favored fellows? Perchanoe for lack of merit? Great indeed is their offence: Their parents are poor, and therefore have need of the brats that they breed 1 Yes, the children are slaves, and a barbarous State mocks their bondage with laws that their owners must break. For enactments declare that the child shall be schooled, but ’tis easy to lie in a matter of age, and no one especially cares. So the child slaves keep toiling ou,and strong armed men in vain seek work, or work for scanty hire; for the lords of the mills have greed; cheap to them is child labor, and gold is more precious than souls in their eyes, but dear comes that toil to the State. In ancient times ’twas thought no wall could ever stand unless with the blood of slaves the mortar was mixed. We now are wiser, we deem, since superstition rules us no more. Still, upon our mill owners‘ heads lies the guilt for the blood of those held in bondageâ€"blood that might swell the veins of the children, were they not held captive within factory walls. â€"Sylvcstcr Baxter in the Pilot. A Picture of Children in Industrial Slavery. How a Jockey Feels in a Race. THE CHILD IN THE MILL. How to Cook Steak. ' In the course of the century we have quintupled the size and increased by about twelve times the expense of our men-of-war of the first class. The cost of smaller line- of-battle ships in 1786 was : For a 98-gun ship, £57,120 ; for an BO-gun ship, £53,120; for a 74-gun ship, £43,820. The smallest seargoing ironclad of the present era. the Hotspur, cost, as a first charge, over £171,- 500. The frigates of 1789 were the equiva- lents of our present second class cruisers. A 44-gun frigate than cost £31,000 ; a 38- gnn frigate, £20,830 ; a EKG-gun frigate, £19,070 ; a 32-gnn frigate, £15,080, and a 28-gun frigate, £12,420. The original cost of some modern second class cruisers was as follows : Inconstant, £213,324 ; Forth, £201,952 ; Mercury, £213,252 ; Phaeton, £145,198. We may take it, therefore, that, roughly speaking, a large cruiser nowadays costs ten times as much as she did a hun- dred years ago. A young friend of mine, who has for several years each summer gone with his father on a camping trip on the south shore of Lake Superior, tells me of a novel expe- dient they often employed for preserving their venison in warm weather. In that country some of the streams are flanked by long rows of sandhills, whose composition is so loose that they shift about continu- ally under a wind of any force. In the winter time the high winds often blow the sand over the great snow banks which lie upon the north side of the sand dunes, covering up the snow to a depth of several feet. The snow is thus kept unmelted, and even in the middle of summer one can dig down through the sand to it and find the best imaginable sort of a natural refrigera- tor. In this way, said my young friend. they buried their deer and trout, and found them kept entirely fresh so long as they cared to leave them. This is certainly a new instance of nature's bountifulness with the sportsmanâ€"Forest and Stream. A Specimen Warship of John Bull that Cost $4,313,970. A hundred years ago the expense or building a ship-ofâ€"the-line of 100 guns in theRoyal Dock yards was £67,600. This included the cost of ooppering and eopper bolting, and of masts, yards, rigging, sails, anchors, cables, and all other boatswain's and carpenter’s stores. This was the original expense of the Royal George. a 100- gun ship, launched in 1788 at Chatham. She was of 2,286 tons, and was about 190 feet long and 52 feet broad. The modern equivalent to the old wooden line-ofâ€"battle ship of the first rate is the first-class iron- olad battle-ship, end the Trafalgar may be regarded as a good specimen of the finest and most recent vessels of this type. Her original cost, exclusive of armament, was no less than £862,794. She is of 11,940 tons displacement, and is 345 feet long and 73 feet broad. Thus, while the first-clan battle-ship of a hundred years ego cost only about £29 115. 4d. per ten. the first- olsss battle-ship of to-dey costs over £72 6s. per ton. Not one person in a. thousand laces his shoes correctly. About the nearest any- body gets to it is to lace as tightly as possible. The correct way is to put your foot when you are about to lace your shoe as much as possible in the heel of the shoe. You can do this best by lacing your shoes with the heel of your shoe resting in a chair standing in front of the one you are seated in. Over the instep the lacing should be drawn as tightly as possible. This will hold your foot back in the shoe, giving the toes freedom and preventing their being cramped. Lace about thennkle to suit your comfortâ€"Vanity Fair. â€"â€"Only one woman in Fauna has this year taken out a license to: shooting. Inst season there were five. The quaint character of the mechanical work, alone, of this old Bible makes it an interesting study to any one especially who knows much about printing. Unfortu- nately the quaint old title page is missing â€"ite place being supplled by a. pen and ink copy.â€"Hartford Times. A GOOD NAVY, BUT IT COMES HIGH‘ Mr. Johnson’s old Bible contains also the quaint psalmody of Sternhold and Hop- kinsâ€"the psalms of David “ done into" English verse. This quaint old Bible includes those Old Testament books that have since been rele- gated to the nebulous limbo of “ the Apoc- rypha,” and includes them without any mark of separation from those that are now accepted. There are the books of Baruch, ct Susannah, of Jesus the son of Sirach, the book of Maccabees, Esdras, Tobit,Bel and the Dragon, etc., all figur- ing as a. part of the divinely inspired word. If we can believe the various holy “ coun- cils" on those subjects, more or less of these apocryphal books are not so inspired. That picturesque attire is changed, in King James’ version, which appeared nine years later, to ” aprons”â€"the present accepted version. King James’ 54 translators only made alterations of the Tyndale and Coverdale text, and of the " Bishop’s Bible,” when it was found to be “necessary.” The new revised version, however, makes a good many changes. It cost poor Tyndale his lifeâ€"he was burnt at the stake, near Brussels, in 1536â€"for daring to make a translation into English. _ A well preserved volume of the genuine old “ Breeches Bible," so called, is in the possession of Mr. Horace Johnson of Hart- ford. It was printed in London in 1602 in the old “ black letter ” textâ€"enough to spoil the sight of any but the most per- sistent render ; but it was s kind of print with which Shakespeare and Lord Bacon were familiar. This editionâ€"probably copied from the “ Bishops‘ Bible" of 1568 â€"derives its irreverent name from its ver- sion of the story of Adam and Eve in the garden. In ohep. iii., v. 7, after telling of the transgression, it reads : 7. Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; end they sewed fig tree leaves together, and made themselves breeohes. A Copy of the Rare 01d Volume Owned in Hartford. ,,_ “may-.. wow .w Wynn Auun, Or, glimpsing, feel no anxious need. The utmost trust she asks of me, That trust where two twin natures blend My comrades woo right gallantlyâ€" But I would rather be her friend! We read for hours in quiet nooks, The tew deep authors of our choice; Somehow, the music of the brooks Is not so sweet as her low voiceâ€" And while the breakers strike the beach And over, under, curve and bend, Her heart my heart doth truly teach, Untilâ€"but I must be her friend I Sometimes the thought will daring rise, When touch of hand has thrilled me through And in her tender girlish eyes One sees the heavens reflected blueâ€" Wlljmt would I do it‘she some. day_ o..__h.:;:l._ _ Héf 6&{35521â€"{0113133 Eé‘éhéfi’la sendâ€"â€" I could not truly, frankly say: T15 better just to be hggrfrieud! And stiu'i'é ‘r‘a‘t'lxéfiaéii‘éfiifexidz Her soul is like an open book, Wherein the purest thoughts I read Ng‘gtrtgpgerq 'twgeq its covers look. Marie has lovers half a score, She wears them as she does her glovel. One pair when driving on the shore, Another for the modest loves Of country lanes, ’mid flowers and dew (A whirl that never seems to end)~ And yet, all seriously and true, I much prefer to be her friend! When tired of Charley’s tennis talk. And Wearied quite with George's draw] When sated with the moonlight walk After the ennui of a. ballâ€"- Ah, then she takes my arm in here, And I to her rare moods attend, Beneath the pines. am‘i jqniper§~ A...1 -an 1-.) , How do You Lace Your Boots ‘2 THE BREECHES BIBLE. A Novel Refrigerator. Her Friend. â€"WmianiHasz.-eu Simpson.