NEWS OF THE WEER
~The bodies of Bridget Rowe, aged
47 years, and her daughter, Elizabeth
Reed, aged 26, were found on the 17th
in a field near Metuchen, New Jersey.
The women were dissipated characters,
death while tramping homs fron. New
Brunswick, in January last.
—A great ice ‘‘shove” in the St.
Lawrence river caused much damnge
to property in Montreal, on the 16th,
flooding the low lying streets and cel-
lars,
~— By the breaking
ervoir two and a half miles above the
the 20th much property in the vil-
lage was destroyed, and a number
of persons were drowned, Eleven
bodies have been found. The loss on
Property is estimated at $200,000,
—--Abt St, Louis on the 17.h, Marlin
son, for whose arrest bench warrants
were issued the day before, appeared
and gave bail in $300 each.
Burdett and Chase, acquitted a
days ago of the charge of obstructing
trains, were indicted for tl
fence.
— Agent Bigelow, of the
Carpet Company, at Clinton,
chusetts, on the 16th, notified th
lectmen of that town that, in view of
personal violence to workers for the
company, and threats of future vio-
fence, he deemed it his duty to a
work for the present
mills. By this ac
persons are thrown «
The cause of the
strike of 80 dyers.
~—There have been no new «
ments in regard to the murder of
Tillie Smich, at Hackettstown, New
Jersey, Munnich Haring,
young men arrested on suspic
been discharged, a more careful
amination of t!
ing the case tending to
nocence,
-~A telegram from Cent 3,
says that on the 17th, the Superintend-
ent of the Ohio and Mis pi Rail-
road served notice on all station
and foremen that their wages would ba
reduced in consequence of business
pression resulting from the
western railway strike. The cut in the
wages of station agents varies from $5
to $15 per month.
—Our Consul General at Rome tele-
graphs to the State Department tha
from the 8th. to the 10.L inst. thers
have been 16 deaths from cholera
Brindisi.
—The total number of dead from the
tornado in Minnesota foots up 74
jured, 213. Mrs Hogue was killed
a woman visiting ber ‘fatally
by hightning near New Castle, Pe
sylvania on the 16th. A storm
ported in Dakota by w hundre
of trees were leveled and large numbe:
of cattle killed,
Gzarry,
16 same of-
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« — Robert Sm
ed in Nicholasy
17th tort
James lee, i :
millo Gouzales, eon
der of a ranchman in
on the 16th Brackett,
was laughing when the dro
A fire at Luis Ouispo, C;
fornia, on the 18th, destroyed
Andrews Hotel, the post-office
several other large buildings.
$120,000.
-— While eight kegs ol
were being unloaded [rom
Clintonville, Wisconsin, on i,
they were exploded by the accidental
dropping of one of the kegs. One man
was killed and six were Injured, two
fatally. Whileexperiments were being
made in compressing steel at the iron
works of Singer, Nimick & Co., in
Pittsburg, the same day, a mould con.
taining 1000 pounds of molten steel
exploded, scattering the metal 1n are
directions. About twelve men
injured, six of them severely.
~John Carpenter, under s: ute nce of
death in New York for the murder of
his wife, committed suicide.on the 19th
in bis cell by cutting open his jugular
vein and the arteries in his arms.
had twice previously attempted suicide,
The wife of Charles Cole, in Covington
Kentucky, committed suicide by taking
poison on the 18th. She had been mar-
ried only two months, but it is sald her
husband treated her cruelly. Henry
Faenzer, aged Cars, a grocer of
Newark, New banged himself
on the 19th. :8t money in his
business,
~A boy named Thompson was
drowned by his boat being carried over
the dam at Shelburne, on the 19th,
and Hugh Foster was drowned while
trying to rescue him.
— The bodies of Mrs, Flynn and an
old woman named Minogue, who had
been visiting her, were found on the
ha 111
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Pexas,
uli 3;
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at 8
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Loss
giant pow
A train
the
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bh
Lemont, lllinois, The women disap-
peared two weeks ago. It is supposed
fell into the pool while walking
ong the edge of the quarry after dark,
~The flood at Montreal is described
as the worst which ever visited that
sity The greater part of the business
whole country along the south shore.
In the lower section of the
were forced to the upper stories of their
fiouses, where many are without fire
ate prospect of relief in the shape of
provisions.
18 six feet deep. Merchunts say the
‘osses wil amount to millions of dol-
fars.
~The French cable broke on
18th 220 miles from Duxbury, Massa-
shusetts.
~—mtate Veterinarian Bridge and Sec-
tary Edge on the 19th, viited the
‘arm of B, L. Fry, at Masonville, Lan-
saster county, Yenna,, where 30 out of
110 head of cattle have died of pleuro-
pneumonia. To prevent the spread of
the disease, one steer was killed and
sighteen animals were inoculated with
the virus, The rest will be inoculated
A8 Soon as more virus can be obtained.
— Henry Smith, 30 years of age, was
savagely beaten by three roughs in
{front of his boarding house in Chicago,
in the 18th. . His recovery is doubtful,
He was employed in Maxwell Brothers®
| box factory durlpg the recent strike,
t and on the 17th he argued with‘some of
{ his fellow-boarders that *‘it was every
{ man’s right to belong to a union or not,
| as It pleased him. " Hence the assault,
{ Two of his assailants have been ar-
| rested. Policeman Curtis, while being
| beaten by rougls, shot and mortally
wounded Michaesl Boland in Chicago,
fon the 18th. Two colored women,
{ named Mary Love and M
i quarrelled and fought with dirk kuives
iat San Angelo, Texas, on 18th,
Mattie was gashed in four places an
Mary in ten. Finaliy the latter hua
Ler tongue **cut out near the root,’
and she is not expected to recover,
Jealousy caused the trouble, At
| Anthony, Kansas, on tne 10th, a mob
of forty men surrounded the Sherifl’s
house, where two brothers named
Weaver were held in custody for the
| killing of a man named Adel, and at-
| tempted to capture them. The gaard
rushed the prisoners into the basement
! of a new school building adjacent, but
| the Stent! being captured by the mob.
the deputies surrendered. The Weaver
brothers were about to be strung up to
the rafters, when the tramp
of
preaching foolsteps was
the
1
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Aap
heard. The
m.b thereupon riddled their victims
with bullets, killing both on the spot,
and then rode off, Two Mexican horse
thieves were caught and lynched by
ranchmen nzar Corpus ( { |
on the 18th, Moeim
dristl, 1eXas
Keils
who bad murder
1
a welt v
4 & While 1
"ni veil . :
an, colored,
iy | and
fish arnia
ialione,
near Axton,
captured and
Virginia, on the same
— William Snedecker w
Eatontown, New Jersey,
on the charge of murd
Jack,” wa
oJ CK,
. §
COlnie
who
neugecsel
T iti!
A000, 81!
ia
placed
Fhomas
Oceanport,
ingo Jack's
'n issued for the
6k
damage is
¥) fort
evelient
x " fart nord
ive hundred and
out 30 (0x)
TE
iazieion,
the
"
ii
i on the West Penn
Railroad ran into an
liarmarsvilla on th
was thrown 0 an embank-
down
Lhree hands were
$e
Voki
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injured,
ween $4
John
Amal
Pittsburg that
of the
Iron and
arew Carnegie,
ser, have .m
of an
bank,
3 reported fr
Jarrett,
Workers, and
ti tonalre i
contemplation
i5¢ CO-Operatli
stock is to be t
nizations
int r,
Anzation
and
Vie store
DOT Org clusively, and no
THON W
: the stock.
successful ot}
If
J wort of
scheme is
the
er st
the country.
—The State Doard of Pardons at
Harrisburg, Pa., on the 20th, refused a
pardon to Ellis P. Phipps, of Philadel-
phia Almshouse notoriety,
— William Snedecker was. on the
20th, arrmgned at Freehold, New Jer
sey, on the charge of killing “Mingo
Jack.” Several wilnesses testitied
i that Sgcedecker said
| ¢f the lynchers, but they admitted that
{ be was drunk at the time, Snedecker
sald he did not believe he ever said so,
{ drank or sober,
bail.
—The City National
| liameport,
| 20th. The cause is said to bs 4 defal-
The stockholders say the de-
full,
losses,
positors will be paid in
| was assistant cashier and bookkeeper of
| the bank.
—The Secretary of the Treasury on
| the 20%h issued a call for ten millions of
i Three per Cent, bonds.
mature on June lst,
—An attempt to move an engine out
of the round-house of the Lake Shore
yards at Chicago, on the 20th, was
prevented bya large crowd, A con
ductor drew a revolver, but did not
use it. The Superintendent gave up
the attempt to move trains, Governor
Ogleaby was in consultation during the
day with the Sheriff and the Lake Shore
officials. He said he would not inter
fere until the Sheriff had exhausted his
powers, Its understood that a posse
will be organized to protect the moving
of trains,
~The ordor for a *‘tle-up’’ on the
street railways in New York City was
rescinded on the 20th, by the “Empire
| Protective Association,” and travel
{ Third avenue.
the flood at Montreal places the aggre-
| gate at $1,785,000, to whieh should be
| added $20,000 for repairs of streets and
| $20,000 for losses by the gas and elec
| tric. light companies. The water is
| receding steadily and the river 15 cleat
| of ice at several points. **All along
j the St. Lumbert shore in the city and
| extending far back info the fields the
| country is white with the ice deposited
i there,”
~The impeachment trial of Keeper
{ Laverty, of the State Prison, before the
| Senate of New Jersey, resulted on the
{ 21st in uis conviction on the
{ charging him with criminal
{ with Minnie Schaefer. I’residen Griggs
his office of
disqualified
from holding any oflice of honor, trust
or profit hereafter in “The
old gentleman stageered to bis seat and
his two young sons, weeping copiously,
folded their arms aflectionately about
his neck, Tt ite chamber and the
galleries, thronged with
silent as death at the touching
After a moment he retired
counsel and Lis
conviction was
two thirde—14
yeas were Republican, all the
ine Democratic
| IDE Democratic,
{ that he be deposed from
State prison keeper, and
the State.
@ Dent
BULLS
exaclLly
1 +3
and all the
ays be-
out ol
Hiram
On
James Harvey
Davis and a boy
thetlat a
HAI #4
LTowned win
aped
believed that ITALIC
Will the The Pate
ng and Finishing Company
New Jersey, were hu
Los ¥
ery e material
an ins
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nger,
v covel
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Osh,
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3 wel
GAC K Wala,
discussior
a .iong
nil to prevent an
th of Ju ¥.
he Senate y 21st confir
Hiam LL. Wes
be Governor of Utah.
—The New York embiy on the
passed the DI repealing the
of the vroadway Surface Rall-
| way-——ycas 100, nays 18. The blll now
goes Lo the Governor for his signature,
—Johin Welsh and William Stokes
were dangerously injured on the 2lst
| by a fall of slale at the Crabtree coal
mines, near Latrobe, Penaa,
#
Ww hentucky,
}
A
AS
21st,
clhiarier
n-
was
Two
~The town hall at Cornwall,
tario, which contains the jail,
partially burned on the 2lst,
ners were burned to death.
Eddie and Charley Kinsmeyer,
| aged 12 and seven years, and Charley
| Kallerbach, aged
! Quincy, [llinos, last September, and it
{ was thought they had been kidnapped.
| On the 20th their bodies were found in
a sand bank on the river side. They
were probably killed by the falling in
of the bank while digging a cave,
man for the wholesale dry goods house
of Marshall, Field & Co., of Chicago,
| pute in Miiwaukee on the 20th.
The dead body of Laura Stern,
aged 18 years, was found in the public
| #¢hool grounds at Brunswick, Mis.
uri, on the20th. Foul play is feared.
i a few nights ago al the Dolores Silver
Mines, in the State of Nuevo Leon,
Mexico, The mining camp
{ miles distant from the town of Valle.
cillo. A band of mountain bandits at-
tacked the camp for the purpose of
| robbery about one o'clock in the morn.
ting. R. J. Bogusch, superintendent,
and W. 8, Toal, engineer of the mines,
both Americans, rallied a hundred or
more Mexican miners and charged the
bandits, The battle lasted an hour,
The camp was finally saved by citl-
zens from Vallecillo, at whose approach
the bandits retreated. Five dead and
eleven wounded bandits were left be-
hind, About a dozen miners were se-
verely wounded,
~The independent coke manufac
turers, operating nearly 800 ovens in
the Connellsville region, and employing
6000 men, have followed the example
of the Coke Syndicate, and advanced
wages from five to sixteen per cent, to
take effect May lst,
1
A fire broke out on the 224, in the
| Bix-story briek building extending from
| the United States, Also, request
{the President to Inform the House
ro wv —
A BOTTLE OF WHISKY.
| to No. 66 Crosby street, occupied by
August, Bernbeim & Bauer. wholesale
| clotbiers; J, W, Goddard & Sons, im-
porters, and several other firme,
{ upper floors were burned out and the
lower portion of the bullding was
| flooded with water, The police esti-
| mate the loss at $100,000, A. H. An-
i drews & Co, ’s school furniture factory,
{ in Chicago, was burned on the
| Loss, $100,000. The Ely &
i Block, in Danielsonville, Connecticut,
{ was burned on the same day,
{ $40,000,
The Senate has confirmed E. G.
{ Rose to be Governor of New Mexico;
Loss,
| torney General for the Interior Depart-
ment; W,. 8, Rosecrans, Register of the
at Hong Kong.
—The Senate
21 coullrmed John IH.
[ Monmouth county. to
rison Keeper for the unexpired term
of P. H. Laverty; Waters P,
Commis of the State
Fund; and Richard J. Byrnes, Judge of
i the lunterior Court of Common [leas
! for Atlantic County.
iE
pa
Patter
1
be Slate
O
Pris
HOT
While Mrs. Albert Neff was plant-
ing vegetables in her garden West
Newton, enna. , on the 22d, her house
caught tire and her four children were
iperously, if not fatally burned
at
Any
Addl .
2
A elegram
nee the int
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0 lial
fu rob ivy
1a CLOts
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FORTY-NINTH
BENATE
Oly
DA
CONGRE
es J. 8
was received fro
League of America,
thanking
or his Irish Home Rule Asure
ring the Senate to pass a vole of
tobim., A bill was
srection of a fireproof
Washington
LO execu
ii
solutions
fis
passed for
“Hall of Re-
The Benate
and whe
t!
ve Se
urs alterwards,
CHET 3,
ie
wirned. he
n Treaty was
No «
aa]
. Wagn
Toronto:
318,
of
£1
at Charlotte
New Hamp-
Senate on the 21st, Mr.
resolution, which, at his
request, was referred to the Judiciary
Committee, directing that commitiese
to inquire whether any legislation was
necessary, and, if so, what to require
the United States Courts, when they
take posession of railroad property in
any Stata, to carry into effect the obli-
gations of the charter of incorporation
granted by such State, and {o prevent
| violations of the same by such courts
and the officers thereof, and the waste
and
sels and the receipts of such corpora.
{ tion in the interest of individuals, The
bill granting the right of way through
| the Naval Arsenal grounds at Brides.
{ burg. Philadelphia, to the Kensington
{and Tacony Ral road
| passed. The Senate then took up and
| passed in quick succession about 500
private pension bills, being nearly all
that were on the calendar.
nthe U.
Call offered a
aN
| railway limits was then passsed. After
an executive session the Senate ad-
| journed.
In the U. 8. Senate on the 224, a
large number of petitions were pre-
| sented from local assemblies of the
| Knights of Labor in opposition to the
Frye Ship bill. On motion of Mr, Ed-
| munds, and In view of Good Friday,
the Senate dgreed that when it ad.
Journed it should be until Monday, A
| bill was passed appropriating $15,008
| towards a national monument at Ply-
mouth, Massachusells.
| tions, reported the bill to idemnify the
Chinese who suffered at Rock Springs,
| for consideration al an early date. A
| message was received from the
ident in relation to the labor troubles,
After an executive session the Senate
| adjourned,
i HOUST
In the Homse, on the 16th, Mr,
Clements, of Georgia, from the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, reported
back the Dingley resolution, calling on
the President for any information in his
possession relative to the exclusion of
American fishing vessels from the right
to enter porls of the Dominion of
Canada for the purpose of trading, pure
ising supplies or landing fish caught
in deep water for shipment in bond to
the United States, or doing other acts
which Canadian or other British vessels
are freely permitted to do in ports of
|
i
| such vnwarrantable and unfriendly acts
i of the Dominion authorities to the at-
{tention of the Dritish Government,
Randall, the resolution was adopted,
| The rest of the session and also an
| evening session were occupled by the
{ consideration of the vrivate bills.
In the U, 8, House of Representa~
tives on the 17th, the bill granting the
right of way to the Schuylkill River
| East Bide Railroad Company through
{ the Arsenal and Naval Asylum grounds
| in Philadelphia, was passed; also the
{ bill to authorize the establishment of
| export tobacco manufactories, and for
drawback on imported articles used in
| manufacturing export tobacco,
{ bill appropriating $150,000 for the re-
lief of the rufferers by
| Alabama was discussed,
In the House, on the 19th, a num-
ber of bills and resolutions were 1n-
troduced and referred. Among them
| were bills by Mr, Hewitt, of New
York, to ereate a Court Customs
and provide for the trial of
customs revenue cases; by Mr, Crain,
of Texas, to provide for the distribu-
ton of the proceeds of th: sale of the
| public lands among the States and Ter-
for educational purposes; |
Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, to provide
for the transportation of the Iaci
and Central and South Atlantic mails,
and Mr. T. J. bell, of New York,
] irreticy of t
motion of Mr.
the Com-
Adjourned.
vier
of
speedy
ritories y
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he rules
sod]
Mr. (
n the Com-
reported a bill
nited States Dis-
Mr. Caldwell,
the Committee on
Commerce, reported a bill to regulate
cominercial sales of by sampie,
price lists, ete, between residents of the
several ates and Territories, Mr,
Storm, of Pennsylvania, from the Co
mille ivil Service Reform,
ported a bill amending
as to give honorably di
w@idors a preferend
ments, The Rive
idered,
3
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the statutes
seharos
ayy ae
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point
oO Was © pend
House adjourn:
Hou
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the
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inuing
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the
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nted on
ihe a CONS
ional amendment giving the Preside
OWer to velo specilic lems
priation bills, and on & bill
the adulteration of food,
laid upon the tal
Harbor bill was cons
mittee of the Who!
Adjourned,
«it
in appro-
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and they were
River and
in Com-
10t concluded,
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Ne,
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A Burmese Fairy Story,
* .
tajes are popular among them,
one which comes from over
h was
:
Fairy
and there is
the border in Siam, whicl
by a Siamese, The exaggerations
hang together artistically and are in the
same key, as it were. ‘There was
once a king who heard that there was
an enormous giant in a far country,
and he declared that he should neve;
rest till be got a hair of the giant's
Bead. So he sent his fleet, and they
sailed and they sailed and they sailed
for weeks and weeks and weeks, and at
last one day in the afternoon it became
suddenly dark, and they stuck fast, and |
could get neither forward nor back-
ward. Now, the fact was that they
had got inside a hole ina sort of carrot,
the smallest vegetable in the giant's
kingdom. And behold the next morn- |
ing the giant's chiklren went out
to fish, and as they went they picked up |
two or three elephants on their way for |
bait, but they were only able to catch a
8
Oil
£
country-—' something equivalent wo
the narrator.
“And as they were going back they
saw the carrol growing by the water's
edge, and pulled it up to put it into the |
curry, and inside it was the whole fleet, |
After they got home the giant threw |
the fish and the carrot into the pot in |
order to boil them, when the fieet rose |
out of the 100t to the top of the water |
with all the men in it. ‘What ared
those curious insects?’ said the giant, |
peering down into the pot.” Then
came a good deal more, which the nar-
rator haa forgotten. “The men tried |
it was that they wanted, but their
voices were too weak, and he could not |
hear a word they said. At length he |
and a whole boat's crew marched in at |
the hole and went ever such a long way |
up inside, and then they all shouted |
together and told him that they had |
come from their king to ask him for a i
hair of his head, So at last hie was able
to hear what even then seemed to him
only 8 whisper. Unlike his Kind, the
giant was apparently as good-natured !
as he was big he gave them the hair,
lifted them back to the sea, where the
hair, when put on board the feet,
nearly sank it, ‘after which he puffed
out bis checks and gave a tremendous
blow. which carried the fleet straight
home, hundreds of miles, at one go Yi
a AANA,
That milk which stands too lo
makes bitter butter,
Bearch of Arctic Heroes,
4th
On the ol
tenant Schiuetzs, started
February, 1
to
bail
the Lena
oinrades,
Just before his departure several of his
friends met ia ti
29 Broadway, New York, to }
godspeed on his journey. One
Henry C. Ellis, of Ney York,
sented lnm with a bottle of brandy
a bottle whisky for his cold
18 handed S shiuelzs ¢
fine whisky and said «
‘1 want y to take
shipmate and friend, George M
rille was already in Ru
way to the Lena on the same errar
Schuetze, and it was very j
the Arctic region
of half dozen wit
was sealed and labeled
tect Boliuetze from templation,
and to bear Melville the n of
thie friends who had sent it.
On Monday, March
elze and Harber, whom
im London, rkutsk
their missi
tween Irkutsk
thelr friends saw
York papers
} Of the
chance
6 paymaster's ofuce,
pid
* Ol
him
ie,
pre-
and
of urney,
ou this to my oid,
iville,
Melv s%ia on b
robable that
the
iy
Li
piesence a
nesses the bottle
fi Tyre
to Mm
to Aes
aX
the 20th, Schu-
he had joined
to proceed on
hey met Mely
i
ile be-
When
statement in the
seussed the
di
i Ww hisky
8
alnul
+ ey
fate bottle of
1 wv »
» slim tha
was
yp vial ida t
OINginag sige La
main facts o
-he ) ‘4 ’
wrapper. Un the out £
iSLOTY were fe
New York
4 x 14
v Yauil,
wrded
y
je
s
its 1
cached
2 in a sale deposi
} Mis
mere child, the pr clive
{ whisk
. 1 4s ¢
that bottle of
. 2 % } ¥ py
15 enotigh to torment
Greely 18 vel a
bouquet
is open i
he dreams of
od agus s
HE 1S
al
ure
a
A Gross Breach of Etigquet
“Never touch ;
wi you in
gentlewoman
to her
the
the olhe
httle daughter.
propoieties is one
18 might well lmpress
upon tne r children. Among the rul-
ing cl:sses in China, I am told, it
co sidered A gross breach of etiquette,
to bury the nose in the buds and bios
soms of a bouquet, Surely, from an
aesthetic point of view, any such prae.
nose en Me
said a
my hearing
A his lesson
which all mo
1%
Who has not sanled at the appear-
lovers of the
who, for example
thrust their nasal organs deep down
amid the perfume-laden lilies, and
after many long-drawn iInbalations
raise their face all golden with the
pollen of the desecrated broom, To
treat in this way flowers that are in.
tended for another seems alinost a sac.
rilege, To say nothing of the injury
done to the petals by such »n invasion,
there is something distastetul to sensi.
into such close contact with
nf§ matter how
The enjoyment of
the perfume of flowers is Keener and
more refined when the fragrance is in-
haled without touching the blossom
brought
“human face,’
Content is betier than money, and
just aboul as scarce.
The weather service of Great Britain
dition. Statistics obtained by the House
of Lords show that during a period of
ten years 120 unpredictod storms visited
British coast, or an average of one
storm a month,
Wollney considers that the results ob
tained by Schiosing, Mantz, Gilbert,
Warrington and others place it beyond
all doubt that the changes which the
hamous matter of soils undergoes are
almost exclusively connected with the
vital activity of mierobia,