DISASTROUS FLOODS.
RAILROAD COMPANIES AND FARMERS
SUFFER GREAT LOSS.
A PORTION OF NEW ORLEANS :UB-
MERGED AND A FIRE RAGING,
New OrnLeEANsS, Murch 13.—The
river rose so rapidly to-day that the
situation bas become critical. At 8
o'clock in the morning the water was
16 3-10 feet above high water mark, or
sne-tenth above the highest water ever
known. Shortly after noon agreat wave
struck the city and the river went to 17
feet. Such asudden rise was never before
fnown on the lower river. The water |
ame over the embankment in several
daces and sections of Canal and other
itreets were flooded to a depth of two
‘eet. The water gauge now marks
I5 8. Tue levees in the upper and
lower sections of the city aresufliciently
strong to keep out the flood, but above
and below the city crevasses will surely
eeur If the river remains at its pres
ant stage for a few days. Several have
already occurred, but they have been
stomptly closed by the railroads on
soth banks of the river,
The situation below the city is es-
decially critical, the water having al-
most entirely demolished the new lev.
es, and it is now running over the old
iykes, If the volume of water predic-
ed by the Signal Office comes down
efore the present flood subsides a large
section of Louisiana must necessarily
get under water,
MeMpPHIS, Tenn., March 13. —Only
meagre details of the floods in Arkan-
as Lave been received. At Batesville
the White river rose 32 feet In 24
wours, and all the lower pait of the
own 18 flooded, Thedepot and freight
10use of the Iron Mountain Railroad
ire two feet under water The de-
struction to property of Black Rock
will be heavy, The water stands six
‘eel deep in the hotels and business
aces,
A gpecial from Little Rock says the
ews from the interior towns is that
sl streams are high and that a large
aumber of bridges have been washed
iway. No trains have reached there
‘rom Fort Smith since Monday, and
sll the road’s traffic is badly delayed.
The Arkansas river is rising rapidly at
Pine Bluff, and there is danger of the
sovernment’s dykes being destroyed.
I'he situation between that point and
‘he Mississippi river is sald tobe alarm-
ng.
CArgo, Iil., March 13—The river
‘ell one-tenth of a foot last night and is
10w 43 8.10 feet. The Ohio is falling
‘ast at Shawneetown, and it is thought
aow that the rise reported above there
will net cause much, if any, further
“ise here. The first train for the past
‘ew days from the morth arrived via
he Illinois Central this morning, the
rack at Ullin baving been repaired.
Mexruis, Tenn., March 13th. —The
‘iver at this point is three-tenths above |
he great rise of 1882 and one-tenth
2elow that of 1887. the highest on rec
ad. The Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis, the Iron Mountain and the
Little Rock and Memphis Railroads,
whose tracks lie through the flooded
istrict opposite here, are confident of
scaping inundation, the road beds
iaving been put in excellent condition
luring the past year.
NEw ORLEANS, March 13, 5,30 pr. mu.
~The levee at this point has broken,
snd the portion of the city upon the
river front 1s entirely submerged,
A large fire is raging. One of the
argest tallow factories here, with
>oule’s brewery and several other large
Juildings, 18 on fire. There is a bonded
warehouse next door, on one side of the
ire, and on the other side ons of the
argest oll mills South, Fire not under
eontrol at 5.83.
The city is lower than the river. The
water is all through the streets, and 1s
seing pumped out at back part of city
nto Lake Ponchartrain. The fall of
waler may exceed the capacity of the
»amps and flood whole back of town,
Jut they are making all possible efforts
0 check the overflow.
S71. Louis, March 13.— Reports from
wints on the Musouri and Mississipp!
ibove here show the rivers tobs rising,
Celegrams from the interior show all
‘he smaller streams to be very igh and
be lowlands In the vicinity of creeks
ind rivers to be under water. A des.
satch from Simpson, Ill, says: “All
dreams from Carbondale to Paducah,
£y., are miles and miles out of their
vanks. Crab Orchard Creek, above
ere, 18 eight miles wide, while Big
Jay covers a territory hardly short of
en miles wide, Four trains are water-
ound here and cancot tarn a wheel
intil the waters subside and all bridges
wre fixed,
-A man pamed Shephard was ar-
rested In Keokuk, lows, on the Sth,
charged with making counterfeit
money. He confessed his guilt and
old a pitiful tale about bis family
Rarying and not being able to get
work:
-Caplain Tidd, Government Timber
inspector for the Indians, returned to
Minneapolis, from a trip to Red Lake
ind White Earth Agencies, on the Sth,
He reports that the Indians will cut
16,000,000 to 18,000,000 feet of pine,
and that the reports circulated about
{estitution amoung tbe Indians of those
reservations are all false,
~The postoffice at Greenville, Texas,
was robbed of several thousand dollars
on the evening of the 7th. The
shieves succeeded In breaking open the
mail boxes of the Fifth National
Bank and other (rms and carried off
sheir contents,
Howard B., Sterling, of Detroit,
was urrested in New York on the 8th,
sn his return from Europe, on the
charge of having two years ago, forged
his uncle's name to $10,000 worth of
mortgages, .
~The committee appolnted to inves.
tigate the deficiency in the State Treas-
ary of Mississippi have found the cash
B10,000 short. It 1s thought an ex-
ainination of the books and Papers wil
¥
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
~The flood 1a the lower Mississipp
river has reached dangerous propor-
tions, The levee at Sappington Hoop,
six miles above Arkansas City, broke
on the afternoon of the 9th, It was
believed on the 10th, th within 24
hours the whole of the Te 13a8 basis of
Louisiana, embraciog four or five par-
ishes, would be submerged,
—Michael Morgan, a well-known
merchant of Kansas City, Missour!,
was killed on the evening of the 9th,
by falling down stairs, Inthe fall his
neck was broken and his skull orushed.
—The house of Charles Gibson (col-
ored) in Beaufort county, South Carc-
lua, was burned on the evening of the
perished in the flames There is a
suspicion of foul play and incendiarism
but no proof.
~The body of Bernhard Junghans,
a horse buyer of Peoria, was found
lodged in the Illinois river on the sth,
Policemen surrounded a den in Pekin,
Illinois, kept by Link Hummel and
Bill Tuckey, and attempted to arrest
them for the murder of Junghans,
the policernen entered the two men
dropped through a hidden trap door,
and escaped to the river by means of a
sewer. Two women living with them
were arrested, and the murdered
man’s wateh and ring were found
in their possession. All the police
have orders to kill either Hum.
mel or Tuckey on sight, as they
to have committed many crimes,
Charles Williams and is 12 year-old
son, living In the suburbs of Galen,
Kansas, were found murdered in thelr
bed on the morning of the 9th, Wil
liams was blind and had lost both arms in
a mine accident. A man suspected of
in Prescott, Joseph H,
prominent citizen of Hazleton, Pa,
was found dead in his house at Free.
land, late on the evening of the Oth,
that he was murdered,
the divorced husband
daugliter of Mrs. N. N. Lounsberry,
went to the latter’s house, a. La-
grange, Indiana, on the evening of the
Sth to see his child, Mrs, Lounsberry
refused to let bim see the chlld, Mingus
could bear the child in an upper room
calling for him, acd this so infuriated
him that he started up stairs, Mrs,
Lounsperry stopped him, when he drew
a penknife and cut her throat. He
then surrendered to the police,
~The flames in the South Wilkes-
barre shaft were extinguished on the
afternoon of the 11th, and the pumping
process was stopped. The water wil
be allowed to remain in the mine for a
week, when, it is hoped, the strata will
be sufficiently cooled Lo prevent another
outbreak of the fire
~A% soon as the police authorities
in Washington were notified, on the
11th, of the deathof ex-Congressman
Taulbee, his slayer, Charles E, Kip-
caid, was arrested and lodged in a
police station. The Chicago police
have arrested Joseph Chivislowski, On
June 28, 1887, he shot and killed his
father, near Stevens, Minnesota. He
is 20 years of age, and is thought to be
weak minded. Advices from Sonora,
Mexico, state that on the 4th inst. a
posse of Mexicans overtook and had a
fight with six Apache Indians. Ouge
Indian and one Mexican were killed
and apother Mexican wounded. These
Apaches are part of a small band that
has been depredating In old Mexico for
the past four years, 3
~The Iron Mountain and Texas and
St. Louis Railways are unable to get
into Calro, 1llinois, as their tracks are
submerged. The low lands in [llmols,
Kentucky and Missouri, south of
Cairo, are all submerged. A despatch
from Lake Providence, Louisiana, says
the nver Is stationary there. The
washout In front of Salem was quite
serious on the llth, but sacks were
supplied, and the danger Is nearly
over. Guards are patrolling the levees,
-A passenger train on the Alexan-
dria Branch Road, while backing at
Greensburg, Pa., on the 11th, ran into
a freight train. Thomas Donahue, Jr.,
F. Atkinson and Thomas Heilman
were badly injured. The passengers
escaped by jumping.
—A thief broke the plate glass show
window of Donevan & Samuels, jewel-
ers, in Dallas, Texas, on the evening
of the 10th, with a heavy stove, and
succeeded in escaping with a tray of
diamond rings, valued at £5000,
~The grip has made its second ap-
pearance in Hazleton, Pa. On the
evening of the llth forty cases were
reported,
~—Rev, David McGrew, Mrs, An-
drew Beyman and William Jackson,
all colored, werg run over and killed by
a Pacifle tra'n In Kansas City, Mis-
souri, on the evening of the 1ith.
They, with others, were returning from
a prayer meeting.
~A passenger and freight train on
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Rallroad colilded at Blue lsland, near
Chicago, on the evening of the llth,
and some of the passengers were cut
and bruised, John Berry, a brake-
man, died of his injuries, on the 12th,
~Peach growers in Michigan ex-
pect from one-third to one-balf an
average crop during the coming season,
notwithstanding the recent cold snap,
which damaged the buds,
~The body of Rowland Leach, the
New York drummer, who has been
missing for several days, was found in
the river at Chicago on the 12th.
There was no evidence of foul play,
~A water spout at Ullin, Illinois,
on the 12th subme the tracks of
the Illinois Central Railroad to a depth
of about five feet, Traffic was stopped.
~An autopsy and an Inquesi were
held in Washington on the 12th In the
case of ex-Congressman Taulbes, shot
by Kinclald, The Corover’s Jury
found that Taulbee’s death wes the re.
sult of the wound inflicted by Kinelaid,
and the latter was committed to awalt
the action of the Grand Jury,
~=John Williams, of New York, was
arrested in Trenton, New Jersey, on
the 18th, after be bad passed about
fifty counterfeit dollars in various
raloong,
of Anne, the
!
i
two negroes, charged with the murder
of Constable Belcher, were taken from
the jail in Mercer county, West Vir-
ginia, by a mob, on the evening of the
8th, and shot to death, At & coroner’s
Inquest in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on
the 12th, in the murder of old Mr. and
Mrs, Jones, Joe Bhellanberger made a
full confession, He says that Neal
committed the murder and forced him
to uid in concealing the bodies. When
be tried to esenpe, before the old peo-
ple were killed, he says Neal shot at
him, the bullet eutering his Lat.
- An explosion of dynamite occured
at the water works in B ooklyn, New
York, on the 13th, killlug Peter Stat.
ney aud Thowas Baldwin and fatally
injuring Cherries Smith and Dallas
Raynor, Thedypamite was being used
for blowing up tres stumps on the line
of the extension of the Drooklyn aque-
duct.
~— AS a freight train on the Georgia
trestie, 20 miles east of
Alabama, on the 13th,
wheels of a coal ear broke.
ing of the deratled car broke the trestle
and 12 cars went down in the wreck,
the engine and one baving passed safely
over, Five of the wrecked cars were
loaded with coal and
merchandise, All took fire
stove in the caboose and were destroyed
with the trestle,
injured, none wortally,
Birmingham,
one of the
— A deed was recorded in Bay City,
Michigan, on the 13th, transferring the
two divisions of
and Mackinac Railroad to the Cineln-
the consideration being
Accompanying the deed was a general
first mortgage issued by the Toledo,
O00 18 to be used
tional terminals in Saginaw, West Day
City and Bay City.
- A passenger train was wrecked by
rails near Pembroke, On-
tarlo, oa the 12th.
sengers were injured. A
chained to a seat got free and rescued
bis keeper and helped the injured.
blst CONC
a
RESS.~~First Session.
BENATE.
In the U, 8, Senate, on the 11th. the
his new term, beginning March 4, 1801,
were presented and filed, The
amendments to the resolution for
investigation of the workiugs of
immigration laws were read and laid
over. Mr, Mitchell introduced a joint
resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment for the election of Senators
by the popular vote, Mr. Hoar called
up a resolution reported by him on the
10th, for ihe expunging from the
Record of the sentences interpolated
by Mr, Call lo the report of his debate
with Mr. Chandler recenty. A long
debate followed, after which
was taken and resulted 27 to
quorum. Four Democratic Senators
voted in the affirmative. Without dis-
posing of the matter the Senate ad.
journed.
an
the
House amendments to the resolution
for an inquiry into the operations of
in.
the Fecord the interpolations made by
Mr, Call agreed to by a vote of 26 to
14. The resoiution declaring the com-
pelency of the Senate to elect a Presi.
dent pro tempore, to hold the office
during its pleasure and until another is
sion. After an executive session the
Senate adjourned.
In the U. 8. Senate, on the 13th, Mr.
Fry, from the Commerce Committee,
reported a bill to repeal the law of last
guns and rockets for casting lines in
cases of distress, The reason for the
passage of the bill, he sald, was that
"the greed of certain companies might
receive the notice required.” He .x-
plained that after the passage of the
act the companies furnishing the guns
and rockets had exorbitantly raised
their prices. The bill was placed on
the calendar. After an executive ses.
sion the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE,
In the House, on the 10th, a resolu-
tion from the Senate for an Investiga-
tion of the workings of the immigra.
tion laws was agreed to, after it had
been amended so as to include the
effects likely to follow the purchase of
American industries by foreign capi-
talists, and also an inquiry into the
expediency of having an Immigration
depot on Bedioe’s Island. Senate bill
to prevent the Introduction of conta-
gious diseases from one State to
ancther was passed, with some verbal
amendments, A resolution reported
from the Committees on Elections was
agreed to, for the appointment of a
sub-committees to go to Arkansas and
investigate all the methods in the con-
test of Clayton va. Breckenridge.
Pending consideration of the Ok
homa Territory bill the House ad-
journed,
In the House, on the 11th, additional
public building bills were passed, 1n-
voling an expenditure of $1,845,000,
Among them was the bill for a puble
bullding at Chester, Penna, The bill
for the admission of Wyoming Terri-
tory as a State was reported and cone
sidered in Committee of the Whole,
vending which the House adjourned.
In the Hous, - fhe I bill ra
passed granting hieago, Mil
waukes and St. Paul Railroad the
right of way through the Sissston and
Wahpeton reservation In Dakota. The
Oklahoma bill was conmderated in
Committe of the Whole. Pending con-
sideration the House adjourned,
In the House, on the 13th, several
raliroad bills were passed, and the
consideration of the Oklahoma Lill was
The bill, which is a substitute for the
Senate bill he
ported
journed.
PARISIAN BIJOUTIERS,
Slgnts ana Scenes Inthe Poor Quar~
ters of the French Capital.
Those who know the poorer quarters
for a couple of sous (equal to one
and that, lacking
cure a draft of bouillon from a spout
continually flowing, for just so long as
fora single sou, Those who prefer
more solid food, and are withal of a
speculative turn, can," for the same
small coin, run what Is called
This is a single
plunge of this useful instrument into a
smoking caldron, with the privilege of
whatever you may
fish out, should you chance to flghh out
anything. If, however, you prefer the
bird in the hand, and require to
You part with
your money, you can patronize a
“bijoutier” (who 1s not a jeweler), and
invest 1t in *‘harlequins,’” which have
whatever to pantomime,
The **harlequins’” of which we speak
a
relation
Of
all colors and shapes, when mixed to-
they present a resern-
réther certain
¥
The deslers in these delicacies
nave coulracts with the scullions em
ministries and
the more weallhy
hotels, 1
icularly with those engaged at
+
the great restaurants—men who spend
the best part of their lives in a species
forty to one hundred
and eighty degree, for
ty-five
a salary of twen-
francs a month, on condition
that all the
have
sald scraps belr
ten times the amount of
scraps on the
to wash up are ther perguisit
g usually worth at least
their salary,
18 the average
price they obtain for the scraping of
pass their
all of which, from truffled
turkey to tiotters, from hare to hari-
cots, is thrown pell-mell into a common
Every morning the dealer
or his agent, dragging behind him a
closed cart, furnished with ventilators,
visits all the establishments with which
there is & contract, and bLasketful after
basketful Is flung into the cart, which
iat
¢
the platters t through
hands, and
receplacile,
a pavilion of the Halles Centrales set
apart for the sale of cooked
Here each dealer sorts his
meats,
nameless
with the roasts, and vegetables with
eniremets, and where fishes’ heads,
scraps of cutlets, fricandeaus and fil-
ets, half-picked drum-sticks ant por-
IAyonnaises are
intimately blended with fragments of
pastry, salads, macaronies,
chiwese and fruits; the
moreover, lu pregnated
twenty different sauces,
whole
with at least
All that ns
recognizable in this conglomeration is
carefullly put on one side, cleaned,
trimmed and placed on plates, Out of
regard for the stomachs of their cus
tomers, the ‘‘bijoutiers’ perform this
delicate operation of sorting in private,
and it is only when all is finished, the
discordant pieces duly assimilated, and
the “harlequins,” arranged in little
piles, with the best pieces, or jewels as
they are termed, temptingly displayed
bel =
cont,
stays on the wrong side, and press well
from both sides with a wet cloth laid
over, as before.
the right side with the machine, fol.
lowing the same line of stitching.
Where the pocket joins the coat, which
18 generally faced with farmer's satin,
or cloth like the garment, the facing
sometimes becomes worn; rip it off and
Buttom
tear out, taking bits of cloth with thes,
feil on a new piece neatly,
work,
wrong side, matching stripe or plaid, if
any, and fell down on
the wroug ride
down all around the worn place, press,
inspect and purchuse. So much are
these “‘harlequins” in favor among the
poorer classes, that by one o'clock in the
day every dealer in “‘harlequins’ is
nearly certain to be cleared out. That
the trade in these scraps is a good one,
is evident from the fact that there aie
many retired “‘bijoutiers’ in the city of
Paria,
———————
Homely Advice nn Repairing Men's
Clothes,
Rip out the old sleeve linings; press
and cut new ones by them. If the
sleeves are frayed around the hand,
you can either turn up the cloth for an
ineh or less, or if, which is likely, they
are not long enough to allow of this,
you can rip the hem or facing loose,
cut it in two where it is frayed, and
then pat on a new facing, which will
only shorten the sleeve by a single
seam. Of course, a machine is an es
sential article for all such work. Baste
it will not be noticed. There is a black
rubber button, ribbed exa tly like the
silk and cloth
much used
buttons which are s
on men's suis, and w
give such poor wear. y cost
10 to 15 cents a dozer, and never
ont. Where Yer
baste under Aa piece of
like it as
the lininz 8 worn
OG is nH
possible, cut out the worn
place, turn in the scam and fell around
neatly; press fre » wrong side of the
hning. Don't hurry with any part of
your work. Neatness is worth mor
butts
you must not let the stitches
the
sewing the is on down the front
wrong side, ion
thread, but draw the ends th
tween the
thie
t *
al
twist,
an ole
will d
in which CAanG
iid with
the hand,
iien, rip the seam, cut «
and cut a new piece by
Baste
r seam, bottom and t
piace, scam on the machine and
press. You must be careful to cut the
worn pisce straight across, and in set-
ting In the new piece try to the
The
essential part. Af
have
y
i Tun exactly the same wav,
pressing is the most
the knees are broken, rip the log seam
, but of ¢
trousers thus patched cannot be worn
r
and fix in the same WAY UT Ee
to business as they can be on the farm.
If these spots are simply worn, and not
n
broken, lay a piece of new cl
and
on the right side. and with silk
fell down,
then
of the
on the wrong side,
same shade, darn the thin places. If
this is done neatly, and weil pressed, it
not be noticed. Stitch up the
seams again, and press open on the
final
Warm
will
wrong side. Give the
after cleaning with water, to
every quart of which you should add a
tablespoonful each of ammonia and al-
cohol. You can make the fold
the front by laying the legs on a board,
right side out, with
pressing,
down
he seams
corresponding; place a wet cloth over
and press with a hot iron
will be surprised (and so will your
suit. — American Agriculturalist,
—
Reporting Rapid Talk.
the mayor's private secretary, Tom
O'Neill, at the Press club the other
day. “I was something of a stenogra-
pher and had always been able to keep
pace with every man I had been assign-
ed to take, Bo, with no misgivings, 1
sharpened my pencil and took my seat
at the reporters’ table and waited for
the distinguished divine to begin. The
subject was ‘Evolution,’ whieh, in those
days, I knew absolutely nothing about.
Wall, he started in, and for a minute
everything went all right. The second
minute he took a spurt, and J found
myself pushing my pencil at a high rate
more steam and I had to write so fast
my pencil got hot and came near setting
the paper afire. The fourth minute he
the seam by laying a wet cloth over it,
and using a heavy iron, hot as may be
without scorching. You cannot do the
pressing too well. 1t is not suffieiont
to pass the iron over it. You must lean
your weight on the iron with patient
firmness. Now seam up the linings,
and put them in, felling neatly around
the shoulders before blind-stitohing
the hem about the hand,
The linings of coats are generally
Jooss around the bottoms, which will
greatly facilitate work on the pockets;
if not, you must rip them loose. Ifthe
places and seam on pieces of stout
muslin of the exact pattern, allowing
for the seams, Bometimes the corners
of the pocket are torn loowe from the
on spurting until at last he struck his
gat.
“Heavens! how he talked. No manu.
soript. No notes. He just stood up
there by his desk with one hand on it,
the other by his side. His mouth was
open, and without changing the expres-
«ion of his face or moving a muscle the
words came rolling out one after an-
other like drops of lead from the sum-
mit of & shot tower." Chicago Jour
nal,
“And so Mr. Grimsby 18 dead. -
And, pray, what did he die of #*
“Well, 1 don’t know for certain. The
stories one hears are so conflicting, you
know, Somes say he died of home
pathy, others declare it was allopathy,
was hydropathy;
but, between you and me, I suspect §'
was faith cure,”
ho siding of the ut. Tha is Hee
Tun
our life is gone.
EDISON'S ELECTRIC BUG.
| The Inventor Puzzles His Friends
i with a Curious Invention,
| 1 wonder bow many ever heard the
| wonderful story of how Edison made a
{ bug? It happened away back in 1580
tor 1881. There had been two or three
{persons killed by the electric wires,
| aud people were seriously contemplating
| some plan to get them out of the way
{and still keep the new wonderful white
{ light,
Edison proposed that the wires be
| put iu the gas pipes but how on earth
i was the pipes to be ‘‘threaded’ with the
| electric wires? After studying the mat-
| ter one night, Edison said to a
{ electrician,
“Why, see here, Johnson, I'll make
[a bug that will drag a wire through
| every foot of pips in New York city, if
it becomes necessary,’
“Make a bug!” exclaimed
panion, thinking the inventor
8 mind; “what 1n the world
wean???
“Well I'll make a bug,”
imventor, confidently, ‘that
where 1 send him and drag
1
fellow
his com
had lost
do wou
ald the
will go
a wire,
Loo,
A Tew days afterward he laid a curi-
Ousiy constructed thing op the table in
{
the office before time to go to work: it
¥ 3 Ts
s but !
yipg Dug, il
A
cted thus: A minut
Was iu
slru
i gas Was cone
SCAT O-1L AE
{ ted
net, carrying beliind it a fine
wire-pawl.
lusiia
Now, chserve—every time
the circuit was closed through the mag.
net the armature
pawl c utched the mdes of a plece «
£as pipe provided for the occasion,
the magnet behind was drawn
was allached, the
f
f
and
toward
VOWATa
the armature about the sixteenth of ar
inch,
Wien
Lhe circuit was opened the ar
rward ready to take
ue, at every closing
little bug advanced
{4
0 3
mature reacl
step. Th
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The Old-Fashioned Winters.
Some people are always wishing for a
Thanksgiv.
said
mild and open season from
ing to Easter, and it can bs fairly
| that they have now had two of them ir
Will
yw they like it?
have enjoyed as
when the
succession. they reckon all ug
and say h
(Can they say they
: air is
and the
energies ace compelled to make a vigor
ous resistance? Are influenzas, rheu
matisms and catarrus a satisfy ng sub-
stitute for the dry, cold and bracing at
mosphere that packs all the ice-houses
and makes tubogganing and spow-shoe
tramping and ice-palace carnivals pos
sible? We doubt it,
The rough truth about it is that we
are acclimated in a latitude that regu-
| larly provides snug and snow-bound
winters, and only irregularity permits
such genial, but strange, interlopers as
these last two. Take us as an en
| population, we are hardier,
| more vigorous and energetic In conse-
i quence of these rigid but wholesome
| conditions than if we all fled to Florida
| right ater ™ hanksgiving, to come back
only with the orioles In May. We ig
norantly lament the necessities which
| our sharp winters impose, If the sea-
{ son is a cold one, our single wish should
be that the cold be continuous, and as
{uniform as possible, Then the blood
{ tingles, the nerves brace up for rerist-
" } aul) “
1 sound health as
oiNy
gq
crisp, the winds blow sharp,
ire
manlier,
| ance, the spirits flow in wide and deep
i channels, and life is really worth liv-
| ing.
The Canadians, in and around Mon
| treal especially, know how, not only tg
take winter, but how to make the very
| most of it, They do not mope and
| hide at its coming, but go out joyfully
it halfway, and more, too.
heir robust example is well worth our
study, even if we are not all still young.
Such ruddy and boisterous health 1s not
| to be seen elsewhere on this continent
| or on any other, It would be almost
an impertinence to ask any of the
members of their winter ¢'ubs to ac-
company us on a trp to Florida or
Santa Barvara for the sake of escaping
from the rigorous atmospheric condi-
tions, They desire nothing so much as
these same conditions. A glance at
their clear skins, their rosy cheeks and
their crystalline eyes, vindicates thely
good sense, — Boston Globe,
{ Lo meet
A Deputy's Eccentricity,
M. Thivrier, a workingman, elected
as such to the present chamber of dep-
uties in France, wears all the time in
publie the blouse which is ths badge of
a laborer in that country. M. Thivrier
began work in the coal mines st Com.
mentoy, France, when twelve years old,
and for twenty years remained in them,
handling the pick. Afterward he bes
came a vinegrower and dealer in wines.
He is a Socialist, but nota communist,
“for, having,” as a French paper puts
it, “acquired his capital by his own
hard work, he cannot easily understand
how that capital should belong to all
the world.” Through all his career he
has stuck to his workingman's blouse,
and it was largely upon the stre igth of