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"I SPY I". 15111 Nye Indulge In ItemliiUcaueae of Childhood' Hnpajr Hour Dear reader, do you remember the boy In your school who did the heavy fulling through the Ice, and was always about to break hm neck, but managed to live through it all? -Do you call to mind the youth who never allowed any body fine to fall out of a tree and break hia collar bone when he could attend to it himself? Every whool ha to secure the service of such boy before it can sue ceed, and so our school had one. When I entered the school I saw at a glance that the board had neglected to provide itself with a boy whoso duty it was to nearly kill himself every few day in order to keep up the Intercut, so I ap plied for the position. I aecurod it without any .trouble whatever. The ' board understood at once from my bearing that I would succeed. And I did not betray the trust they had re potted in me. . Before tho fiint term was over I had tried to climb two trees at once and been carried home on a stretcher; been nulled out of the river with my lung lull of water .and artificial rexpiration resorted to; been jerked around over 'the north half of the county by a frac tious horse whoso halter 1 had tied to my leg, and which leg is now three Inches longer. than the other, together with various other little eccentricities which I can not at this moment call to mind. My paruntsatlu.it got so that along about two o'clock p. m. they would look anxiously out of the wlu- dow and auy: "Isn't it about timo for the boys to get Ivre with William's re mains"? They generally got here before two o'clock. . . ' One day live or six of us were play ing "I spy" around our barn. Every body knows how to play "I spy." One shuts his eyes and counts one hundred, for Instance, while, tho others hide. Then ho must lind the rent and say "1 spy" so-and-so and touch the "goal" before thev do. Jf anybody beats him to the goal tho victim ha to "blind" over again. Well, I knew the ground pretty well, and could drop twenty feet out of the barn window and striko on a pile of straw so as to land near the goal, touch it, and let tho crowd In free without getting found out. I did this several times and got the blind. T, James Bang, pretty mail. After a boy has counted live hundred or six hundred, and worked hard to gather In tho crowd, only to get jeered and luughed at by tho boys, he loses his temper. It was so with James Cicero Bing. I knew that he almost hated me, and yet I went on. Finally, in tho fifth ballot I saw a good chance to slide down and let the crowd In again a I had done on former occasions. I slipped out of tho window and down the side of the barn about two feet, when 1 was detained un avoidably. There was a "batten" on tho barn that was looso at tho upper end. I think I was wearing my father's vest on that day, ai ho was away from homo and I frequently wore his clothes when ho was absent. Anyhow tho vest was too large, and when I slid down that, loose board ran up between tho vest and my person in such a way as to riispend mo about eighteen feet from the ground In a prominent, but very un comfortable, position. 1 remember It yet ipilto distinctly. James V. Hang came around whero he could see me. I lo said: "I spy Kill Nye and touch the goal before him." No one camo to remove tho barn. No one seemed to sympathize with me in my great sorrow and Isolation. Every little while James C. Hang would come around tho corner and says "O I see ye. You needn't think you're out of sight in) there. I can see you real plain. You better come down and blind. I can see vo up then'!" I tried to unbutton my vest and get down there and lick James, but it was of no use. It was a very trying time. I can re member how 1 tried to kick myself loose, but fulled. Sometimes I would kick tho if.iru and sometimes I would kick a largo hole In tho horizon. Fi nally 1 was rescued by a neighbor who said he didn't want to see a good barn kicked Into chaos just to save a long legged boy that wasn't worth over six bins. It affords me great pleasure to add that while I am looked up to and mad ly loved by every one that does not know me, James U Biuitf Is the brevet President of a fractured bunk, taking a lonely bridal tour by himself in F.uropo nnd waiting for tho depositors to die of old ago. Tho mills of tho gods grind slowly, but they most gcuvrnlly get there wiih both feet. (Adapted from tho French by permission.) Detroit Free Vt.. m m And That, Too. A Boston man got hold of a West erner tho other day in hopes of getting some consolation out of tho look of af fairs toward sundown, but tho man promptly replied: "I toll you. things havo just squatted out our way." "Won't wheat look up a little, eh?" "Mot a look. "Any new enterprises? "Not so much as building a wood shed." "Hut do tho merchants complain?" "I should smilet They ev n hire folks to help Ym prowl." "Isn't the rail mad business. a little more favorable?" "Yes. they manage to run trains, but that's bIhhiI utl." "Well, there must bo somo business in the West which holds its own." pr sisted the lUvtoniau. "How's matri mony?" "l'Vader'u Joseph' old boots," was tho confidential answer. "A vear ago j on could hav married anything and nnylwdy and counted on six per cent, dividends, but the general depr tsion hu flattened matrimony until a widow worth 920,000 has got to huut a man down w ith a gun!" Wall Sirtet News A man at St. Albans, Vt., was beard to remark that he would give twenty cent for a cat. The next morning twenty-two boys were on hand, each expecting to go away twmty cents richer. THE MGIC LANTERN. Jlmuir Urown'a Account of the Trouble lie and 111 Friend Cauaed so Innocent Lwrturer. Our town Is getting to be full of lec turers. Mr. Travers says that they spread all over the country, just like cholera, and that when one lecturer comes to a town, another is liable to break out at any time. The last lecturer that we had. hap pened a week ago. He was a niagio luntern one, and thev are not so bad as other kinds. Ho had magic-lantern pic tures of Europe and Washington and otiier towns, and he showed them on a big white sheet, and talked about them. I made a lot of magio-lantcrn pictures when I had my camera, and somo of them were real good. The lecturer came to our bouse to spend the night, and the afternoon before the lecture he went out to walk, and left the door of his room open. Tom was at my house that afternoon, and as we were going upstair we saw a tremendous lot of magio-lantorn pic tures King piled up on the lecturer's table. Most of the pictures were house and mountains, but some of them were people, and then thnre were a lot of real funny ones, such as a man falling over a pig, and a big goat knocking a boy over. Tom and! had a very nice timo looking at them, and we were very care ful to put them back on the piles just in tho same way that the lecturer had put them. Only once In a while Tom would forget just where a picture belonged, and we bad to put it iu the wrong place. This was what mado all the trouble, and if any one wjts to blame for it, Tom vm tho one. We didn't tell the lecturer that we had ' looked at his pictures, for that might have troubled him, and we ought never to give trouble to people that are older than we aro. Tom and I went to the lecture, and so did almost every body else'ln town, and when the lec turer began to speak you would have said that he was one of the nicest men you ever aw, he looked so pleased. Tho trouble began when, after having showed us a lot of pictures, ho said: "Tho next picture, ladies and gentlo men, is a portrait of Her (iracioiM Ma jesty, Queen Victoria." Now it hap pened that tho next picture was a large cat with a dozen kittens, and somebody said: "Haw! haw! is that the Queen? Tho lecturer knew he had mado a mis take, but ho pretended It was all right, and said that the cat belonged to his lit tle girl, and its name was really Queen Victoria. . Tho next pictures were mostly right, though what tho lecturer said would bo a picture of a steamboat on tho Khlno turned out to be a man on a bicycle, and what ho called a view of the battle of Waterloo was a boy being knocked over by a goat. After awhile ho asked all his German friends proscnt-biit I ' don't believo ho knew a single ono of them to admiro a beautiful portrait of that hero and patriot Prince Hismarck, and when the portrait appeared on the sheet it was a picture of a pig running away from a fat butcher. You should have heard the lecturer's German friends howl, and I believe they would havo thrown something at him besides heavy (ieriuau words if ho hadn't begged their pardon and Miid it was all a mistake, and ho feared that some evil minded person had wickedly mixed up his pictures. Well, tho Germans stopped saying things after awhile, and tho lecturer went on. His pictures got worse nnd worse. His lovely view of Venice, as he called It, was a picture of a herd of buffaloes, and what he told us would be a picture of a w'odding in Egypt was a cat and a dog lighting and tin old w oman beating them with a club. Ibis mado him nervous, and ho kept putting pictures into tho magio lantern upside down, and making tho King of Greece and tho Queen of Italy stand on thuir heads, and asking the people to excuse any mistakes, and wishing ho could put his hands on the evil-minded persona who had meddled with his picture. Fi nally ho told tho people that he would show them tho picture of two innocent ami lovely children. Tom hit me iu tho side with his elbow when the lec turer said this, and whispered to me: "He all ready to run." I didn't havo the least idea what 1m meant till 1 saw tho picture. I never was more nstou ished in my life, for It was a picture I had msido of Mr. Travers and JSuo sit ting on the sofa and holding each oth er's hand. It hud got mixed up in somo way with tho lecturer's own pict ures, and 1 believo Tom had something to do with it, though lie won't own up. Tom and I went out us soon as wo saw the picture, but wo could hear tho people laugh nnd yell when we were half a mile away. I heard afterward that tho lecturer didn't show any more pictures, and that ho lumped out of the wick window, with Mr. Travers close after him. Anyway, ho never camo back to our house. Mr. Travers, when he found that I really hadn't put the picture of him and Sue among tho others, forgave me, but Sue says she never will. I think Tom ouglit to own up, and if Mr. Travers catches him I think he will. "Jimmy lirown" in Harper's Young People. An Oyster Whips a Duck. A rough-and-tumble combat between a wild duck and an oyster occurred hero the other day. Tho duck was a largo full-grown ono that had recently come from the north to enjoy our wiu ter climate. It was of the diving spe cie, which inhabit tho bays till the spring, w hen they return uorth. When the oyster feeds it opens it shell w ide till the full oyster is plainly visible. A night of sm h a morsel was too much for tho duck. Ho mado a headlong plunge. Inserting his bill between the oyster' open shell. Like n flush, ami w ith the jnnver of a vise, tbe shell closed on tho duck's beak. Tneu came the struggle for . life. Tho oyster, which was quite a large one, was dragged from it led. w ith threo small er ones clinging to It, the cluster boiug heavy euough to keep tho duck's head under water. In this way tbe duck drowned. Its buoyancy was sufficient to float with the oysters, and thus drifted near the dock, whero it was captured. When taken out of the water the animal heat had not left the duck. The oyster ttill clung to the duck' beak. Corpus Vkruti Caller. BLOCKADE .RUNNERS. flow They wan Built and Painted Soma EicltlHf Capture. The vessels engaged ia blockade run ning were built for the purpose. They were long, narrow, low. side-wheel steamers, with sharp bow that cut the water like a knife, powerful engines, raking funnels, and two masts, rigged as schooners. The bull rose only a few feet ivo the water. They were painted a dull gray, so that even in the day time it would be difficult to seo them far away. Tho forward part of the deck was covered over, so that they could run through heavy sea?. Before the war there was very little commerce between England and the Hermuda Islands, but now the harbors were alive with ships great sea-going steamers from England loaded with arms, cannon, p-vdcr, good of all kinds returning to En gland freighted with cotton. The block ade runners brought the cotton from Wilmington and Charleston, delivered H to the large steamers, took on board tbe goods, arm and ammunition, and teamed back to those ports, always planning to run past the blockade ves sel la the night. When coming in all lights were put out, the steam was blown oft underwater. A man up in the "crow's nest" on tbe forward mast kept a sharp lookout for the Union vessels. The pilots knew every channel and sand bar. The vessels were all light draft. The blockade runner was only a runner, not a fighter. If he came too close to a war ship be took to bis heels. The run ners were so swift, the war ships so low, that they were rarely captured when the chose was a stern one. It was a hard, exciting service which the blockading fleets endnred. During the day tbe vessels cruised along the shores, looking into all the inlets, or tailed eastward to discover any ap proaching blockade runner, but at sun set they came close in-sbore; almost un der the guns of Fort Sumter at Charles ton, or Fort Fisher at Wilmington. All lights were put out, except the one lan tern at the masthead of the Commo dore's vessel. Men were up in the rigging straining their eyes through tho night to catch the sight of the swift runners. On an October night, 18G.1, the Venus from Nassau approached Wilmington. The lookout up at the masthead of the steamer Nansoraond discovered her. Lieutenant Lamson, commanding the Nansemond, when he had a duty to per form was always ready. The fires were blazing under his boilers tho steam was up. In an instant the Nansemond was away. , "Give her a shot!" he shouted. The long rilled guns flasied. The shot shat ters the foremast of tho Venus; another shot goes through her cabin; the third crashes through the forecastle, killing a sailor; Tho fourth strikes the hull below the water line. Both vessels aro fast, going fourteen knot an hour. The Captain of the Venus sees that he can not make the harbor and runs for the shore. She strikes hard and fast; the crew leap Into tho water and reach the sandy beach. The Nansemond lowers hor boats and takes possession of the vessel. Tho Venus can not be moved; sho Is set on fire and tho Nansemond, at daylight, steams away. "There she is!" Tho lookout of the Niphon shouted it at daybreak a fow mornings later. Captain Brock, com manding tho Niphon, saw a side-wheel steamer closo in shore making for Wil mington harbor. Another blockader was in pursuit The Niphon was in po sition to intercept the runner the Ella and Anna. The Captain of tho runner gees that he is cut oil' and he determine to run the Niphon down. Captain Breck sees the situation. "Ready, boarders!" ho shouts, and the jailors, who have been thoroughly drilled, seize their pistols and swords. The cannon of tho Niphon send a shower of canister. Tho next moment there is a crash, and the bowsprit of the Niphon breaks like a pipe-stem. Over the rail swarm the boarders, and the next mo ment the Ella and Anna is theirs, with threo hundred cases of rifles and a cargo worth $118,000. Tho vessel Is renamed the Malvern and becomes one of the blockading fleet. A great many blockade runners were captured and destroyed, but the profits were so enormous that others wero built The officers and crews were will ing to run the risk of being captured for the high wage they received. A Cap tain received $3,000 for each successful trip, each one of the crew 92o0, tho chief engineer 92.000 and the pilot $3,700. National Tribune. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Tha Work It Has Done and Uow It I I'ndvrrated. Tho political services of the House of Lord aro . vastly underrated. Violent party measure liko the Irish Land Acts apart the Education Act is almost con fessedly the last valuablo achievement of the Commons. The great legal reforms of lato years havo emanated from the Feors. They have given us a vastly improved law of landed property, and reforms in the law affecting married women, which I distrust and dislike, but which Liberal opinion strongly approve. They would, but for tha House of Commons, have given us a criminal and perhaps a civU code. Their Committees on private business aro much more respected r.nd trusted than those of tho Lower Hou.e. Their judicial functions are said to be of tho highest value. Our judges are and must bo excluded from tho House of Commons. The presence in Parlia ment of such men as Lord Cairns, Lord Selborno, Lprd Coleridge- and Lord Pramw ell is invaluable I might say in dispensableto sound and judicious legislation. As judges they are kept in touch of tho practical working of the law; as legislators they can amend with out fear of confusing its practice or tampering with it principles. The authority they wield in the Upper House may ere long be needed to arrest Far liamenUry interference with judicial questions; a danger w hich, after our ex perience of the Orton and Maamtrasna cases, can hardly bo exaggerated. Yet they neither could nor ought to sit by popular election, or 'in a chamber cbiefly occupied with mere "party poli tics. I'trtniqWy Review. EARTHQUAKES. . Tha Theories of StleutlHo Men and Sela-molog-Ut In Haf ard to Them. The Intimatp relation between earth quakes and volcanoes is universally ad mitted, though earthquakes do occur in regions which give no indications of either past or present volcanic activity. Along the southeast coast of Spain, however, there is ample evidence of such activity in past times; and has been remarked by a writer on the sub ject that an earthquake is dmply an in tegrated volcano. As to what, how ever, is tho exact cause of seismologies! action goologists have not yet made np their minds. The mathematicians have compolled them to give up as quite un tenable the old idea of a thin crust over a molten interior which In its surglngs would break through in the shape of a volcano, or reproduce in the shell tho huge waves which would swell along the internal surface. The hypothesis of a solid shell and a solid nucleus with molten matter petween has fared little better. The earth, it is now held by the best geologist and physicists, must be a solid body to a very considerable depth, if not indeed, to the core. At the same time we may be assured that the most intense heat exists at no very great depth below the surface, heat so great that but for the immense pressure exerted by the superincumbent mass the matter would actually melt; it is held that it docs occasionally do so when from any of the many forces which are at work the pressure Is relieved, and this, according1 to a certain school, gives rise to volcanio or earthquake phenomena. Others, however, maintain that these manifestations can be satisfactorily ac counted foe by chemical and mechani cal action. It seems to bo generally admitted that great masses of water are constantly filtering into the depths of the earth from the ocean bed; snd that the molten materials which issue from volcanio n nts have absorbed enormous quantities of steam and other gases, Prof. Judd tell us, we have tho most indisputablo evidence. "It is to the violent escape of these gase from tho molten rock masses, a the pressure upon them Is relieved, that nearly all the active phenomena of volcanoes must be referred." And what aocounts for volcanic action may also account for at least a certain class of earthquakes. For there may be other causes, most of them, however, reforrable to tbe move ments which must be almost constantly taking place in tho interior, owing to the cooling of the earth's crust Varia tions In atmospheric pressure have been thought to account for some earth quakes, and it is noticeable that a sharp fall of tho barometer was observed all over the south of Spain in the afternoon before tho first great shock, and that there have sinco been frequent fluctua tions. Tho mere falling of an internal cavity would almost certainly produce vibratory phenomena. Indeed Prof. Milne seems to believo that tho earth is full of cavities of all sizes, like a huge Grayere cheese, and that consequently vibrations of greater or less intensity are constantly occurring, as w should find had we Instruments delicate enough to measure them. But it is possible, perhaps, to have seismographs of mueb too fino a structure, so lino as to record the vibration of every passing jinriksha. Essentially tiie explanation of all these phenomena seems to bo that our planet is a cooling body, and they will only cease when every particle of heat ha left tho heart of our old mother, when also, geologists toll us, there will bo no more sea, when the air itself will have vanished, and the earth will be a dead as tho moon. London Times. There was no Kitchen Line. She was crazy about palmistry. She had bought half a dozen books and studied tho lines and the mounts and tho islands and the crosses and the stars, and she had read .hor Henry's fortune time nnd again. So he under took to read her hand ono night, with hor help. "This is my heart line, dear," she said, a she traced with her finger acro.-s the palm. "Yes; your heart line." "You see how well defined and strong it is?" "Yes, beloved, but it i not quite straight-, and this book say that those little line running out of it are evi dence, of previous attentions." "Oh, but this great big break is you." "Then there's mv head lim." "Yes, darling. If your heart were ai level as your head I mean in almistry I would not be so jealous." "But you nms n't read liko that What are you looking for?" Ho was anxiously scanning the book and the hand. "Dearest I love you. You have a magnificent life line and a splendid heart line and a level hoad line, but "Well?" "1 ain poor, and if you could only show me the kitchen fine tho future would be one unbrokon dream of hap piness." San Franeiseo Chronicle. Why He Didn't Fa' I. Last spring an Indiana man started a bank in a town in Dakota, and about the 1st of October, having secured de posits to the extent of $13,000, a notice was one morning posted on tne doors of tho bank reading: "lemporarilv closed. Hoiks to pay depositors in full." Tho banker wanted to test tho tem per of tho public previous to a big scoop. In the course of half an hour the doors were kickoJ in, tho offica gutted, the banker stepped on until ho wa seventeen feet long and only two inches thick, and tho chap who held a revolver to his ear jovially remarked: "Now, then, my friend, we give you just Eve minutes to unlock that safe and count out the slugs to depositors in full." Depositor were paid in full and the banker ha come East in search of more civil people. Vail Street Nevs. Ida Lewis, "the Grace Darling of Lime Rock." near Newport R. L. has sent a contribution to the treasurer of the Grace Darling monument fund in England. THERMOMETERS. How They Should lie Kipowd la Order to Work Bnturaotorlly. One of the first conditions to be re garded Is that of securing a good height above the ground, on which a consider able diversity of opinion prevails. Much depend upon the immediate conditions of the locality. When this point is de cided upon, a uniform and satisfactory sheltor or screen should be provided for the instrument The height and the screen should be so adjusted that the thermometer shall be free from ground-foo-, arid that access of the air to it should be perfect. The shelter should shield it from all reflected heat from all radiation from surrounding object, as well a from moisture. Many different forms of shelter have been contrived in different countries. In experimenting upon the merits of these devices, a standard of comparison is found in the swung thermometer, or, as the French call it the thcrmvmctre fronde, which is a common thermometer attached to a string or wire, and rapidly swung through a circle whose radius is the length of the string. The theory of this arrangement is that as the instrument is rapidly brought in nnninM with a nnre moss of air. it must give the temperature of the same, un less the results are vitiated by other causes, r ronj a numocroi experiment the following conclusions as to the best disposition of shelters are advanced: When exposed to direct sun-heat they should be at least thirty-six Inches long; with proper precautions the thermom eter "fronde" both dry and wet will give the most correct air temperature and relative humidity; a single lduvre shelter is sufficient. The Interposition of a second louvre prevents the free access of air, and if ventilation is used it must affect the air which is propelled to the thermometer. For obtaining even approximate relative humidity in calm went her single louvred shelters are nec essary, and for tho best results an in duced air current is essential, especially in tho winter in northern countries. When a window shelter is used there should be a free air-space of from six to twelve inches between the shelter on the north side of the building and the wall. Tho simplest form of screen would be four pieces of board ten or twelve inches square, nailed together box-fashion, leaving the bottom and the side toward the window open. The thermometers, dry nnd wet, should be placed five inches apart, near the center of this screen, with their bulbs project ing below the plane of the lower edge. Shade may be given, at such times as the sun is shining on the north side of the house, by tbe adjustment of the window blinds. Chicago Times. WHAT A BLUNDER DID. How a Compoltor'it Krror Tains Near Cotliis a Mun Kin Life. 'In the Youngstown correspondence of an evening coteniporary yesterday was an item to the effect that a well-known young Pittsburghcr dined in that thriv ing young city- yesterday. , It was hurriedly sent to the composing-room with a mass of other copy, where the "intelligent compositor set it up died.'r- The city editor saw the item in the proof and sent a reporter out-for an obituary of tho deceased. Supposing, of course, that the family wero already acquainted with the sad news, tlie re porter sought the aged father, who sat at his desk in a SiniMilield Street office. Mr. ," said tho reporter, "can vou give me any facts about John's 'death?" "John who?" exclaimed tho old gen tleman. "Why, your son, w ho died at Youngs town yesterday." "My God!" and the old man turned a deathly white and fell from his chair to the floor. He was at once laid on a sofa ami a physician summoned. The now thoroughly frightened reporter ran back to tbe oliice and told hi story. Again the proof w as "called down," and with it the copy, when tho error was discovered. Again the reporter was hurried out to make an effort to repair the mischief he had done. Of course his second appearance brought great relief to tho stricken father, who nad partially recovered. He was so broken up by the excitement, however, that ho had to be put in a carriage and taken home. The reporter was so badly rattled by tho affair that he had to put on a "sub" for tho remainder of the Any. Pittsburgh 7'imes. m m OHIO COLLEGES. The ltuckvye State'i Great Number ol Tlicne IiiKtltiilliinn of Learning. It Is a fact perhaps not generally known that Ohio has more so-called colleges than any other State in the Union. Whilo Illinois and New York have twentycight each and Pennsylva nia twenty-six, no other State having more than nineteen, Ohio has thirty-five. But it is only in the number of these institutions that the State can boast Their oggre gate income from tho productive funds is but $210,610, and from tuition fees but 912j,382, whilo tho value of all grounds and buildings is but 93,192,840, and the number of volumes in their libraries but 1C1.302. The number of students, however, In the preparatory collegiate departments compares favor ably with the older States, New York only surpassing Ohio. How much bet ter endowed tho colleges of Massachu setts are than those of Ohio may be seen at a glance. With but seven col leges they have an income from pro ductive funds of 921)1,812, and receipts from tuition of 91tt.5:iS and 303,126 volumes m iheir libraries; but the value of buildings and grounds is only 91. 310,000. The colleges of New York and Pennsylvania are also much better en dowed than those of Ohio, and are vastly richer in libraries and apparatus. Michigan, with only nine colleges, show up better than Ohio in the pro vision made for their support. Ctnc'in N'jrt Commercial ilazette. Canada bas a military force ol about 39,000 men, comprising about 750 regulars, 500 mounted police and about 37.740 "active militia.'' A NEW INLAND SEA. Tha Lata DUcovsry of a Hitherto Unknown. Body of Water In Canada. So extraordinary was tha story pub lished not long since in the daily papers describing a lake lately discovered in Canada a rivaling In sizo the greatest of our inland seas, that it was at once denounced as a hoax or an exaggera tion. Later and fuller reports, how ever, seem to confirm tho first Within three hundred, miles of Quebeo and within one thousand miles of New York City, nearer to the settled portion of Canada than any other lake except Winnipeg, stretches an immense body of water hitherto unknown to geograph ers, and estimated by the imperfect sur veys already made to at least equal Lake Ontario in magnitude. A glance at any good map of Canada will show directly north of Quebec a small lake named Mistassini, or Mistas sininio. but which henceforth will prob ably be called Little Mistassini to dis tinguish it from its great neighbor. Last year M. Comeau read a paper before the Quebec Geographical Society as serting that tho size of Lake Mistassini had been greatly underrated. An ex ploring expedition was sent out by the society, and the account now given to the world is furnished by Mr. F. E Bignell. who commanded the transport expedition which preceded the main ex pedition in charge of John Bignell, P. L. S. This account declares that tie great lake is entirely distinct from that already known by the name of Mi, tassini, and that it is an expansion o! Rupert River, just as the great Western lakes are expansions of 'the St Law rence. From September 10 to Sep teraber 17,'Mr. Bignell voyaged on this great lake, noting deep and numer ous bays and inlets ' and beauti ful islands, on one of which he was compelled to harbor for some days because of the high seas. He had then sailed 120 mile and had not reached the widest part of tho lake. The waters swarmed with many species of fish, fur bearing animals abound on the shores, and the surrounding land are well wooded and, in part arable. The main surveying1 party will remain in the field for two years. It has already been pro posed to connect Quebec with, tho lake by a railroad, and it is believed that many French Canadian fanners will be nttracted by the vast area of fertile land. Ono of the most curious fact in con nection with this lake is that, though map-makers and the general public have been ignorant of its existence, it has long been well known to the Hudson Bay Company,, which has had a trading station with the Indians on its shores for nearly a hundred years. The region was so rich in fur-bearing animal and so profitable to the Company that they havo sedulously kept to themselves their knowledge of the magnitude of the lake. Mr. Bignell is a man of scientific attain ments and a member of tho Quebeo , Geographical Society, and there seems no r Ason to doubt " tho substantial ac curacy of his description.: Christian Union. . "OUR AIN DOCTOR." The Officer Who Recovered From a Wound by Trusting to Ills Own Fhyalolan. A surgeon's position on a battle-tied is a trvingono. If he does his duty, be will keep near his regiment regardless of shot and shell. Tlipugh exposed to danger, he has none of the excitement of the fight, but must keep his- head clear and his hand steady that he'may alleviate suffering and save life. The soldiers soon learn to love and trust their brave, skillful doctor, who, though he may not take part in tho fighting, doe share iu their danger in order that be may serve them. "Gi'e ma love to the doctor an' to a' ma auld comrades." were the lost words of a Scotch soldier, passing away in a hospital tent In the capture of Lucknow, the right arm of one of tho Highlanders was shattered at the elbow. The surgeon, who was closo behind, arranged the shattered limb and ordered the man to bo carried to the hospital, a mile distant, ' at the Fame timo telling him that ho would come to take off the arm. , When the man was brought into tho hospital tho surgeon. in charge said that the operation ought to be performed without delay. "Na, mi," said tho poor fellow, "no till our ain doctorcoinesjlic said he wad come, and a'm shuns he will." . The surgeon came ns soon as the fighting was over. "Ye wero lang o' comin',. man," whispered tha wounded Highlander. "They wanted to cut nff ma airni, but I wadna let them, and tell'd them that naebody suld cut ma nirra off but our ain doctor; but ye're come noo, an' 1 ken that I'll be taken care o" During the same assault tho leg of a Captain was broken in two places, below the knee, and tho skin wivs badly lace rated. AH the doctors, save the regi mental surgeon, decided that to ampu tate the limb was tho only chance ol saving the officer's life. The wounded man was told that tho almost general medical opinion was that he must lose his leg or die, but that his own surgeon thought that both limb and life might be saved. "Then," said the officer without hesi tation, "I accept hi opinion, and will take my chance." He recovered, and though the wounded limb win a lit fie shorter than the other, he walked w ith ease. Youth's Compan ion. The Incendiary Mania. Somebody has set his wits to work to devise a new name for incendiarism or arson when committed by people rich enough to hire lawyer to defend them It is called pyroninnia a mania for set ting things on lire. Just as a poor rag ged devil full of liquor Is called a drunk ard, when a man who can employ a doc tor instead of a policeman to take care of him i called a dipsomaniac; and a poor girl who steals is a thief, but richer one a kleptomaniac; so we shall now have incendiaries and pyro maniacs. But will it cut down the an nual destruction of 9100,000,000? Sprinqjiehl (Mass.) Pcpubliran.