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The Liberal, 5 May 1887, p. 3

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I came to the Neiss, which was a little frozen, entered it with my friend, and car- ried him as long as I could wade ; and when I could not feel the bottom, which did not continue for more than a. space of eighteen feet, he clung round me ; and thus we got safely to the other shore. My father taught all his sons to swim, for which I have often had to thank him; since, by means of this art, which is easily learned in childhood, I had on various occasions preserved my life, and was more bold in danger. The reader will easily suppose swimming in the midst of December, and remaini ug afterward eight- een hours in the open air, was a severe hardship. About seven o’clock the hear-fog was succeeded by frost and moonlight. The carrying of my friend kept me warm, it is true ; but I began to be tired ; While he suf~ fered everything that frost, the pain of a dislocated foot, which I in vain endeavoured to reset, and the danger of death, could in- After crossing, I followed the course of the river for half an hour, and having once passed the first villages that; formed the line of desertion, with which Schell was perfect- ly acquainted, we, in a lucky moment, founda. fisherman’s boat moored to the shore. Into this we leaped, crossed the river again, and soon gained the mountains. I would have spoken; but interrupting me, and taking me by the hand, he added, “Follow me; we have not a moment to lose.” I therefore slipped on my coat and boots, without having time to take the little money I had left; and, as we went out of the prison, Schell said to the sentinel, “I am taking the prisoner into the officer‘s apartment; stand where you are.” Into this room we really went, but passed out at the other door. The design of Schell was to go under the arsenal, which was not far off, to gain the covered way, leap the palisades, and arterward escape in the best manner We might. We had scarcely gone a hundred paces before we met the adjutant and Major Quaadt. Schell started back, sprang upon the rampart, and leaped from the wall, which was there not. very high. I followed, and alighted unhurt, except hav~ ing grazed my shoulder. My poor friend was not so fortunate, having put out his ankle. He immediately drew his sword, presented it to me, and begged me to des- patch him, and fly. He was a small, weak man ; but, far from complying with his reâ€" quest, I took him in my arms, pushed him over the palismdes, afterwards got him on my back, and began to run, without very well knowing which way I went. Thus passed the night ; during which, up to the rriddle in snow, we made but little way. There were no paths to be traced in the mountains,aud they were in many places impassable. Day at length appeared, when we found ourselves near a village at the foot of the mountain, on the side of which, about three hundred paces from us, we perceived two separate houses, which inspired us with a. stratagem that was successful. We had My familiarity winh certain officers was not unknown to the gOVrl‘llOI‘; and becom- ing apprised, through a spy, of what was en- acting, he suddenly issued an order to arrest: Schell. Schroeder, who had heard the order, came, full of terror, to the oitsdel, and hurâ€" riedly told Schell to save himself by flight, for all was discovered. Schell might easily have provided for his own safety by flying singly, Schroeder having prepared horses, on one of Which he himself offered to ac- company him into Bohemia. How did this worthy man, in a, moment so dangerous, act towrrd his friend '3 Running suddenly into my prison, he drew a corporal’s sabre from under his eoat, and said, “Friend, we are betrayed ; follow me ; only do not suffer me to fall into the 1: ands of my enemies.” It may noanz unnecessary to remark those fortunate circumstances that favored our en- terprise. The sun had just set as we took to flight : the hour-frost 1e11, No one would run the risk that we had done, by making so dangerous a leap. “’0 heard a. terrible noise behind us. Everybody knew us ; but before they could go round the citadel, and through the town, in order to pursue us, we had got a. full half-league. Tlfe alarm~guns weré fired before we were a. hundred paces distant; at which my friend was very much terrified, knowing that, in such cases, it was generally impossible to escape from Giatz, unless the fugitives had gob the start some hours before the alarm- guns were heard, the passes being immedâ€" iately all stopped by the peasants and hus- sars, who are exceedingly vigilant. We were not five hundredvpaees from the walls, when all, before us and behind us, were in motion. It was daylight when we leaped ; yet was our first attempt as fortu- nate as it was wonderful. This I attribute to my presence of mind, and the reputation I had already acquired, which made it thought a service of danger for two or three men to attack me. It was, beside, imagined, we were well provided with arms for our defence ; and it was little suspected that Schell had only his sword, and I an old cor- poral’s sabre. ‘ Scarcely had I borne my friend three hunv dred paces before I set him down, and looked around me ; but darkness came on so fast, that I could see neither town nor citadel ; conseqently we could not be seen. My pre» sence of mind did not at this time forsake me; death or freedom was my determina- tion. “Where are we, Schell?" said I to my friend. “ \Vhere does Bohemia lie ? On which side is the river Noiss ?” He pointed sideways, but could not speak. Understanding his signal, I took him on my shoulders, and carried him to the Neiss Here we distinctly heard the alarm sound- ing in the villages ; and the peasants, who likewise were to form the line of desertion, were everywhere in motion, and spreading the alarm. Story of Baron Trenck. flict. Here being come, we sat ourselves down a. while on the snow. Hope revived in our hearts, and we held council concerning how it was best to act. I cut a stick to assist Schell in hopping forward as well as he could, when I was tired of carrying him; and thus we continued our route, the diffi- culties of which were increased by the mountainsnows. When the weather is wet We must not fret ; When the weather is dry, We must not; cry ; When the weather is cold, We must not scold ; When the weather is warm, We must not storm ; But be thankful together, Whatever the weather. Good Advice. (Continued) ESCAPE. At length ! determined to travel on foot to visit my sister, obtain money from her, and afterwards enter the Russian service. Schell, whose destiny was linked to mine, would not forsake me. \Ve assumed false names; I called myself Knex‘t, and Schell Lesch ; then obtainng passports, like com- mon deserters, we left Braunau on the 21st of January in the evening, unseen by any erson, and proceeded towards Bilitz in P0- and. A friend I had at N eurode gave me A After three weeks" abode at Braunan, my friend recovered of his lameness. We had been obliged to sell my Watch, with his scarf and gorget, to supply our necessities, and had only four florins remaining. From the public papers I learned my cousin, the Aus- trian Trenek, was at this time closely con~ fined,‘ and under criminal prosecution. It will be easily imagined What effect this news had upon me. Never till now had I felt any inconvenience from poverty. My wants had all been amply supplied, and I had ever lived among, and been highly loved and esteemed by, the first people of the land. I was now destitute, without aid, and undetermined how to seek employment or obtain fame. Thus in freedom at Braunau, Witnin the Bohemian frontiers, I sent the two horses, with the corporal’s sword, back to Glatz. I also wrote to the King, and sent him a. true state of my case ; likewise indubituble proofs of my innocence, and supplicated justice ; but receiyed no ainswor. And now was I, in Bohemia, a fugutive stranger, Without money, protector, or ‘riend, and only twenty years of age. In the campaign of 1744 I had been quartered at Braunau with a. weaver, whom I advised and assisted to bury his effects, and preserve them from being plundered. The worthy man received us with joy and gratitude. I had lived in this same house but two years before, as absolute master of him and his fate. I had then nine horses and five ser- vants, with the highest and most favorable hopes; but now I came a fugitive, seeking protection, and having lost all a youth like me had to lose. I had but a. single louis~d’or in my purse, and Schell forty kreutzcrs, or some three shillings. \Vith this small sum, in a. strange country, we had to cure his sprain, and provide for all our wants. -v up” V vanes- .u wuuAukuvu “v.” one vAAJto-'\n And now behold us on horse-back, with- out hats or saddles ; Schell with his uniform scarf and gorget, and I in my regimental coat. Still we were in danger of seeing all our hopes vanish, for my horse would not stir from the stable ; however, at last, good horseman-like, I made him move. Schell led the way; and we had scarcely gone a hundred paces, before we perceived the peasants coming in crowds from the village. At the moment of our arrival the people had been all in church, it being a festival day, and they only now made their appearance by having been called out to aid in our cap- ture. Fortunately, we had got the start of them, and soon were beyond their reach. We were obliged to take the road to VVunsherurg, and pass through the town, where Schell had been quartered a month before, and in which he was known by everybody. Our dress, without; hats or saddles, sufficiently proclaimed we were de- serters. Our horses, however, continued to go tolerably well, and we had the good luck to get through the town. Schell knew the road to Braunau, where we arrived at eleven o'clock; and were now safe beyond the Prussian frontier. He who has been in the same situation only can imagine, though he never can des- cribe, all the joy we felt. An innocent man, languishing in a dungeon, who, by his own endeavours, has broken his chains and re- gained his liberty in despite of all the arbi~ trary power of princes, who vainly would oppose him, conceives, in moments like these, such an abborrence of despotism, that I could not well comprehend how I ever could resolvo to live under governments where wealth, content, honour, liberty, and life, all depend upon a master's will; and who, were his intentions the most pure, could not be able, singly, to do justice to a whole nation. Never did I, during life, feel pleasure more exquisite than at this mo- ment. My friend, for me, had risked a shameful death ; and now, after having car- ried him at least twelve hours on my shoul- der, I had saved both him and myself. We certainly should not have suffered any man to carry us alive to Glatz. A; for me, I suffered myself to be led, as if half-deed, into the house. A peasant was despatched to the village. An old woman and a pretty girl seemed to take great pity on me, and gave me some bread and milk ; but how great was our astonishment when the aged peasant called Schell by his name, and told him he well knew we were desert- ers, having the night before been at a neigh- boring elehouse, where the officers in pur- suit of us came, named and described us, and related the Whole history of our flight. The peasant knew Schell, because his son served in his company, and had often spoken of him when he was quartered at Habel- schwert. Presence of mind and resolution were all that were now left. I instantly ran to the stable, while Schell detained the peasant in the chamber. He, however, was a worthy man, and directed him the road toward Bo- hemia. \Ve were still but about seven miles from Glatz, having lost ourselves among the mountains, where we had wandered many miles. The daughter followed me. I found three horses in the stable, but no bridles. I conjured her in the most passionate manner toassist me. She was affected, seemed half willing to follow me, and gave me two bridles. I led the horses to the door, called Schell, and helped him, with his lame leg on horseback. The old peasant then began to weep, and beg I would not take his horses; but he luckily wanted courage, and perhaps the will, to impede us; for with nothing more than a huyfork, in our then feeble con» dition, he might have stopped us long enough to have called in assistance from the village. lost our hats in leaping the ramparts; but Schell had preserved his scarf and gorget, which would give him authority among the peasants. I cut my finger, rubbed the blood over my face, my shirt and my coat, and bound up my head, to give myself the ap- pearance of a. man dangerously wounded. In this condition I carried Schell to the end of the wood, not far from these houses ; here he tied my hands behind my back, but so that I could easily disengage them in case of need, and hobbled after me, by aid of his stafl', calling for help. Two old peasants appeared, and Schell commanded them to run to the village and tell a magistrate to come immediately with a. cart. “ I have seized this knave,” added he, “who has kil ed my horse; and in the struggle l have put out my ankle ; however, I have wound- ed and bound him. Fly quickly, and bring a cart, lest he should die before he is hanged.” Keep clear of personalities in general con- versation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with personalities. Personalities must sometimes be talked, because we have to learn and find out men’s characteristics for legitimate ob- jects ; but it is to be with confidential per- sons. Do not needlessly report ill of others. There are times when we are compelled to say, “I do not think Bouncer is a true and honest man ;” but when there is no need to express an opinion, let poor Bouncer swag- ger away. Others will take his measure, no doubt, and save you the trouble of an- alyzing him and instructing them. As far as possible dwell on the good side of human beings. There are family boards where a constant process of depreciating, assigning motives and cutting up of character goes forward. They are not pleasant places. One who healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting table. There is evil enough in man, God knows; but it is not the mission of every young man or woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charityâ€"John IIall, D. D. A funeral in Egypt is indeed a strange sight, and the first one the visitor sees astonishcs very much. At the head of the procession march a. corporate body of the blind and acertain number of men, who proceed at a quick step, singing a most jub- ilant air, while swinging themselves from right to left. Behind them comes the fun- eral car, or rather a sort of bier, bearing a great red shawl, in which the body is depos- ited. At the extremity of the bier, on a. perch, is placed a. turban or the tarbouche of the defunct. Two men carry this bier. They follow with such high spirits the movement of the head of the cortege that the corpse, rocked in every direction, seems to jump under the shawl that shrouds it. The women bring up the rear, some on asses, some on foot. The first row is formâ€" ed of weepers or rather screamers, who send forth toward heaven at each step the shrillest notes. The wecpers hold in their hand a handkerchief, with which they are not solicitous of wiping their eyes perfectly dry, but which they pull by the two ends behind their head with a gesture that would be desperate if it were not droll. On arrival at the cemetery they take the corpse from the bier to cast it, such as it is, into the grave. The grand funerals, how- ever, take place with much more solemnity. An important personage is hardly dead in Egypt before his friends and acquaintances hurry to the house; during one or two days they eat and drink at the expense of the dead, or rather his heirs, indulging in the noisiest demonstrations. \Vhen the hour of the interment arrives a scene of the wildest character is produced. The slaves and women of the household throw themA selves on the corpse and feign a determina- tion to hinder it from passing the threshold. This lugubrious tragedy is played conscien- tiously ; they snatch away the coffin; they belay each other with blows, and the most violent and frightful clamour is heard. At last the procession leaves the house and re- pairs to the cemetery, preceded by camels loaded with Victuals, which are distributed to the poor hurrying in crowds along the road. All along the road the mourners and friends of the family fight for the honor of bearing the bier for an instant, and thus it passes or rather bounds from hand to hand amid the most frightful disorder. The in- terment ended, every one returns to the house of the dead to recommence the festi- vities, dancing and the mortuary demonstra- tions. Brooklyn filagazinc. On the 22d of February [1747], after a dis- mal day’s walking, we arrived at a place called Schmiegel. Here happened a singu- lar adventure. The peasants at this place were dancing to a vilescraper on the violin; I took the instrument myself, and played while they continued their hilarity. They were much pleased with my playing! but when I was tired, and desired to have done, they obliged me, first by importunities, and afterwards by threats, to play on all night. I was so fatigued I thought I should have fainted; at length they quarrelled among themselves ; and while all was in confusion, we escaped without farther ill treatment. An account of our travels from Braunau in Bohemia, through Poland to Elbing, a. distance of 800 English miles, in the midst of winter, would in itself fill a. volume ; and I shall content myself with a few particulars of our diary. After encountering numerous risks and \‘exations, and parting with my friend Schell a.$ {L house by the way, where he was well received, I arrived at Elbing, worn out, footsore, and in rags. Recruited and fur- nished with money, I proceeded by Dantzic to \Varsaw ; and, being joined by Schell at Thorn, we passed on to Vienna, where We arrived safely in April, 1747. What ample subject of meditation on the various turns of fate did this night afiord ! But three years before I danced at Berlin with the daughters and sisters of kings ; and here was I, in a. Polish hut, a. rugged, almost naked musician, playing for the sport of ignorant rustics, whom I was at last obliged to fight. I was myselt the cause of the trifling misfortune that befell me on this occasion. Had not my vanity led me to show these poor peasants I was a musician, I might have slept in peace and safety. The same vain desire of proving I knew more than other men, made me through life the continued victim of envy and slander. Had nature, t00,.bestowed on me a weaker or a deformed body, I had been less observed, less courted, less sought, and my advantures and mishaps had been fewer. Thus the merits of the man often become his miseries; and thus the bear, having learned to dance, must live and die in chains. Next day we underwent great suffering. At a village we passed through, to prevent ourselves from dying of hunger, we sold Schell’s waiscoat for eighteen grosch. This sum was soon expended ; and I shot a crow, which I devoured alone, Schell refus- ing to participate. On the 27th we reached Hammer in Brandenburg, where my sister lived, and where I expected suceours. I was disappointed. My sister and her husband, terrified at the idea. of receiving a proscribed wanderer, would not see me and requested us to depart. Almost distracted, I changed my plan, and we pursued our way in the di- rection of Elbing, Where I had some friends. a pair of pocket pistols, a musket. and three duqats, and we proceeded 9n gur jogrney. An Egyptian Funeral. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Personalities. The otter’s value is recognized by the Chinese alone. They train them to fish, and a. well trained other is worth £40. Just then a little girl, to Whom the school- master had Whispered something, stood up and raised her hand. “Do you know another ?” asked the king. “Yesâ€"Frederick VI.” “ “'hat great act did he perform?” The girl hung her head and stammered out: “I don’t know.” “ Be comforted, my “ I don’t know either. \Vith one accord they cried out: “Ca- nute the Great, Waldemar and Christian 1V.” “ Well are you better?” I queried. “ Better of what 1'” “ Why, the toothache, of course.” “ Humph. VVho’s said anything about my having the toothache ? Mrs. Bowser, I don’t; want to believe that you drink, but your conduct for the last two or threeweeks has been strangeâ€"very strange.” “ Weli, youngsters,” he said, “What are the ~magma of the greatest kings of Den- mark flow Mr. and Mrs. Bowser were Afl‘cctod by Toothache. I was telling you a while ago of Mr. Bowser‘s impatience and annoyance when he happened to find me in bed for a. few hours with sick headache, and how he went to pieces himself the moment anything ailed him. About a. month ago I woke up one morning with the toothache. It; had been annoying me for an hour before Mr. Bowser caught on. Then he said : everhsting gum.” “ I never cracked a walnut and I don’t chew gum once a. year.” “Well its sol/fie carelessness of yours, rest assured of that, and you must suffer for it.” I felt awfully sorry for him, for he suffer- ed dreadfully for the next two days. Then he s 1eddnly decided to have the tooth pulled and asked me in a tone he tried to make careless : The King and the Child. King Frederick VI. of Denmark, while travelling through Jutland, one day entered a village school and found the children lively and intelligent, and quite ready to ansvggr Questions. “ Toothache, e11? Well, I don’t: pity you abit. This comes of cracking walnuts in your teeth and chewing so much of that everlasting gum.” “And you just imagine that you are an old buzzard waiting to pick my bones l” he roared as he danced around. We tied a bag of hot ashes on his face, and we put on mustard, pain-killer and almost everything else in the house, and none of us slept another wink. ‘Vhen morning came the ache was no better, and I comb: obseryed : “Well, of course you don’t want to keep the house upset any longer. You’d better go down and have it pulled.” “ “'-what 1.” “ J ust run down and have the dentist draw it out. It will hurt awfully, of course but you are a man and can stand it I” “ I’ll die first.” “ Oh, well, if you Will permin your imag» ination to make you believe that you have toothache don’t blame me.” “ Mrs. ' Bowser, don’t you wan’t to go down to the. dentist’s with me '2” “\Vhy, does your tooth still ache '3” “ Still ache ! Great Scott, but it has never let up for a single instant.” “ I am sorry you were so careless. Men never know how to take care of their health. Can’t be imagination, can it ?” He gave me a look of boiler-plated re- proach, clapped on his hat and was off with- out another word. He returned in a. couple of hours, and I knew from his general de~ meenor that he had been to the dentist and that the aching molar had come home in his pocket. U He went off whistling and singing, and I went to bed to suffer. The tooth ached for three days and three nights in spite of all remedies. During the day Mr». Bowser_\voul_d yeqxsirlaz “Aches yet, does it? I believe you are pretending a. great deal so as to get my sympathy. If you’d get up and go around and throw off the idea. that your tooth ached, the pain would all go away. Four‘ fifths of human aches come from imagina- tion.” “ But it does ache so bad.” “That is, you imagine it does. I‘could go to bed and imagine my leg was off, and l have no doubt that I should suffer awful pains. \Vell, I can’t do anything for you. if you will let your imagination run away with your sense I can’t help it.” “I had it, you know, or thought I had, but I guess it was all imagination. Mr. Bowser, just imagine you haven’t a. tooth in your head.” “(Didn’t I tell you so? No doubt you had a. little bit of toothache to start Withâ€"â€" just a little bitâ€"and imagination did the reht If 1 had gone to work and called you my poor, dear, stricken sufi'ering darling, you'd have every tooth jumping out; of your head. It’s mighty lucky for you that you married a man with something besides sew. dust under his scalp.” My revenge came sooner than could have been anticipated. It Wasn’t two weeks before Mr. Bowser awoke me one night at midnight by exclaimng : “ But what can I do ‘2 This is the result of some carelessness of yours. Have you cracked any walnuts with your teeth lately ‘3” He sat up in bed and held his jaw and glared at me so fiercely that I was quite alarmed and went for the medicine case. I gave him some peppermint essence on cotton then some oil of cloves on a. rag ; then some camphor on the end of a. toothpick. lb was no use. “ I don’t believe I shall live to see day- light I” he moaned as he fell out of bed and begu}; to dress. ‘0, yes you will. Are you sure your tooth aches?” He looked round for his revolver, but I had §lippgq it undpr the bureau. ‘ The ache hung on so long that I finally went to the dentist and had the tooth pull- ed. This was unbeknown to Mr. Bowser, and when he came home that evening and found me singing to the baby he laughed long and loud, and added: “ Mrs. Bowser, are you dead, or have you become stone (leaf ‘2” “ What is it, dear, burglars or fire ?” “ Burglars and fire be hanged. I’ve been suffering with the toothache for the last three hours and you’ve laid there and snored away as if you didn’t care a cent whether I lived or died.” SHE HAD HER REVENGE. ghild,” said the king, Engineer Ross, of Mattoon, Ill., had the reputation of. being a truthful man until the other day, when he said that in trying to make up lost time he ran his locomotive into a bird that was flying in the same di- rection that his train was running. A concert-hall pianist in Baberton, Cape Colony, recently, on a wager, played the piano for twenty-four consecutive hour without; “ breaking harmony.” During the time he drank a little beef tea and smoked an occasional cigar. He finished in good shape, with lots of playing power to spame. Court scandals are just now rampant in Austria. The squabbles of the Crown Prince and Princess, which lately resulted in the latter almost threatening to secure a separation, are said to have been satisfac- torily adjusted. Prince Rudolf will join the Princess at Laekin and both will go to London to attend the Queen’s jubilee. Princess Maria, Josefa, who was married last year to the Archduke Otto, Emperor Francis Joseph’s nephew, has left her hus bind with the full approval of her relatives ‘ An old trapper informs the Til‘oury Times that th( past season h vs been the most dis- astrous )‘cal‘ on record for the muskrats of Tilbury East plains. In addition to the large number h'uppozh hililferdS wcre spear- ed and drowned during the late high water. Fully 5,000 are disposed of, and he is of the opinion that their extermination is only a. question of a. few more seasons. A vic‘im from the careless handling of fire-arms- says :~“ Since J was shot a little more than a year ago with a, revolver that was not loaded (r’) 1 have seen mentioned in the papvrs instances of nearly a thousand accidents from the same cause ; quite a. per- centage of these have proved fatal. Point- ing an empty revolver at a person should be made a. crime and should be punished as such.” It is stated that the quagga, the beautiful wild striped ass of South Africa, has sudden- ly ceased to exist. _ The bootmakers of Lon- don and New York wanted his skin for a particular kind of sportsman’s boot, and he consequcntly passed away out of Z‘)ology, There may be a few left on the highest and wildest plateaus, but the Boers, tempted b the high prices, have cxtirpated the herds which only ten years ago existed in South Africa. That will be the fate of the ele- phant, and, too, possibly of the crocodile. It takes whole provinces to supply ivory for one advertising firm in Oxford street, the price is fourfold the price of a quarter of a. century ago, and the beasts are hunted with a. persistcucy which in no long time must be fatal. The Indian Government is making efforts tn protect the Asiatic breed, but they will all be futile. Animals which when dead are exceedingly valuable contract a habit of dying, and laws establishing close time are powerless when it is worth while to run the risk of breaking them. The crocodiles skin is used by smokers and purse makers, and so he will disappear. Whatever Europe wants, Europe will have ; and if the fashion of turning tigers’ claws into brooches had developed and spread to America, tigers would have perished out. There will soon not be a bird of paradise on earth, and the ostrich has only been saved by private breeders. Man will not wait for the cooling oi the world to consume every- thing in it, from teak trees to hummin birds ; and a century or two hence will fin himself perplexed by a planet in which there is nothing except what he makes. He is a. poor sort of creature Furmers who raise turkeys in Lehigh County, 9a., drive them to market as chey would sheep. Some-Limes flocks of two hun- dred are thus driven along the public roads. A prophet has no honor in his own coun- Mrs. Price, of Yorktown, 0., cross-ex- amined her husband while he slept, and he gave himself away to such an extent that she has tiled a. bill [or divorce. A chap who can’t keep his llcml shut in his sleep has no business to marry. An accountis gi\ cu in the Chicago papers, apparently authentic, of a woman who re- cently (lied in tlu: city, lczwmg four living husbands from whom she had not been diâ€" vorced. \Ve shall have to call for some anti» Mormon legislation for Chicago as well as 7% . The probationer in charge of an iron church in a new suburb (m the south side of Edi!» burg has been informml that his services will no longer be requind. The mason alleged in a latte r to the newspapers is that he had been sen: carrying Ins baby, and afterward, when presented WM) 4:. purambulutor, giving the child in ride into the countxy. A French newspaper copies an item about a. hot journal set/ting fire to an American passenger coach, and changes the “journal” to “a hot newslinper.” That‘s giving the press of this country too much credit. New Hampshire paid the State bounty on eightyfive bears killed last year, and it is being whispered around that at; least forty of them were Newfoundland dogs which their owners were anxious to get rid of. Forty-six grocers and manufacturers of oleomargarine pleaded guilty this week in the New York Court; of General Sessions to selling that concoction. The fines. imposed amounth to $4,750, haid to be. the largest amount ever collect‘ul in a. criminal court in one day. A prophet has no honor in his own coun- try. Pasteur am! his method of treating hydrophobia. are soundly denounced by the press of Paris, and one journal wants him arrested as a. rash impostor. Utah. I'p'm our Queen, our country, flag (lud‘s blesamg ever rest, With peace and plenty everywhere Iler pevple'a homes be blest ! God am e the Queen, her people pray From hearts sinccx e and tree, Gud save our loved Victoria And crown her Jubilee ! Old England calls upon her sons To honour England‘s Queen; Her sons respond, and daughters, too, To keep her memory green. With loyal hearts and ready hands The Empire’s children stand Prepared to doâ€"prepared to die For Queen and Natwe Land. For fifty years our country’s flag Hath borne o‘er earth and mam The name of Empress, Queen beloved, With neither spot nor stain ; Long may it bear Victoria’s name, Long o’er us may she reign, And for our Empire broad and grand May she new honour gain I Man the Destrm’er. GLEANINGS. A J UBILEE ODE. II. Torrington.

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