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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1890)
C4) She Jailij Jtftoran. ASTORIA. OREGON: SUNDAY.. MAY 25. 1890 BITS OP INFORMATION. Fewer daily papers are published in Boston now than in 1846. There have been thirty-one speak ers, including Thomas B. Reed. The largest perfect diamond in the world 13 the Imperial, owned by a sradvc&te in Paris. It is valued at Sl,OW,O00. In Prussia there are 20,000.000 !,.s cf forests, 10,003,000 of which aie sUte forests. Of these the income i.s 14,000.000 and the expeuse S7,50!. Kecently in the license couit nf Pittsburg Judge Ewing expressed the opinion that a man who drnnk Gve or six glasses of beer a day was not tem perate. Each member of congress gts about five thousand envelopes full of seeds every year, and the bill tint Uncle Sam pays for them amounts lo about S100.U00. There are 2,700 courts in the United States in which divorces arc granted, but on the other hand, there are mill ions of courts which mean marriage in the near future. The first missionary donation re corded in protestaut annals came from Sir Walter Raleigh, who sent bis 100 to a company formed Tor the conversion of the Indians. Miss Willard says that in the Bo hemian quarter of "Chicago, contain ing about forty thousand people, there is church accommodation for oaly about tweuty-five hundred. The salaries of the officers of the world's fair has been fixed as follews: President, SG.000; first vice presi dent, 12,000; treasurer, 3,000; au ditor, S5.000; secretary, 83,000. Itacent investigation has shown that the people of Great Britain swal I w ver affflflOO pills daily. The pill consumption for ono year would n -ich ITS tons anil would fill thirty--' freight ew- Silkworms, when newly hatched, rwroely weigh one-quarter of an iwojet in the course of their life, wh:ch only lasts about thirty five ias, tiiex will consume between 3.IUJ and l.'.W pounds of leaves. Ten thousand dollars ia now the highest recorded price for a violin. The Alard Stradivariu has passed from Frnuce to England for that sum, to go mto the collection of a Scotchman. It is dated 171C. The Tacoma, Wash., Globe has coined two new words, both badly needed "typoscribe," one who oper ates a type-writer, and "typoscript," the manuscript produced by a lypo scnbe operating a type-writer. Trade-marks were known in ancient Babylon. China had them as early as 1000 B. C. They were authorized by parliament in England in 1300. Even Gnttenburg, the inventor of priuting, is said to have had a law suit over his trade-mark. It is expected that the census will be completed for the whole country and the corrections all bo made be fore the meeting of congress in its short session at the beginning of next December. The estimates of population range from 63,000,000 to 07.000,000. Peraoss who will be born on Feb ruary 29, 1S9S, will not have another birthdav until 1901, eight years after ward. The year 1900 will not be a leap year, and consequently February in that year will have ouiy twenty eicht days. A similar misfortune be fell the individuals born on the last Jay of February in 1C9G and 1700 Thirteen at the Tabic. I am not superstitious,' said Chaunccy M. Depew: "I do not be lieve in 'witches, .spirits, elves, vam pires, ghouls or ghosts. Nor do 1 be lieve in an evil genius, the evil eye, a bottomless pit, or a devil with horns and a cloven foot I would not pass a nirht m a church or graveyard with a corpse, because that would be au tin-1 nleasant and unnroutable way 01 spending a night 1 wear nothing in the nature of a talismau or mascot and never carried a lucky coin. -as oriuhkuo.u t ,V r'fT1'- lmmigl.t:.5ffeui!lvdjjrnscow The emperor of Ifobsia, table, that is one thiugl would not do. silot nt i. m Wlti. a non-Mi,. 1 had de- n.MrM : ,.. ., ,.,.;;.,i i?.,Ja;n,. .. . .- js :n. i.:i But I respect the superstitions, not lecaiise 1 am superstitions, buton $xc m0niing of the third dav E becwe 1 do not want to feel nncom- fortablc. Three times in my life have I been one of a dinner party ot tnir- teen. On each occasion one passed the joke to another that he or sho would be the victim. In every instance ooe ot the guests died within the year. So. in niv experience,- the truth of the adage was proven, lo una & party numbering thirteen now would spoil the dinner for me. If one feels uncomfortable the dinner is a failure, no matter how excellent the food may be. A good dinner consists in something much more than things to cat and drink. Its pleasure de- pends more on the subtle elements of good company, minds at ease and at- ted to harmony with the spirit of the occasion. If your dinner is to be aaade uncomfortable by a mournful or unpleasant feature or this kind to might bettor stop at a restaurant sad swallow a dozen oysters. You ooald Uicn at least have a pleasant chat -with the man behind the counter wb3e be opens your oysters. I lie last of U tbree occasions 1 mentioned wns manv years ago. With all my dining out in New York since I have sever been at a table where there was thirteen.' 'Kew England Undertaker." We woald not advise you to come west under the idea that you can Make a car-load of money in your bMi&ess in a year or two. There are sot onlv plenty ot undertakers out thk way, but owing to certain pecul iarities the business is not ns flour isiTiBC as it might be. Our people doa'tmake much at funerals. The idea ia that after a man is dead he ia't good for much, and it's wonder ful how cheap yon can cut the figures if voa so desire. For instance, the last man we shot figured on us as fellews: Driaks for coroner's jury. Bax for remains Discing grave Head board Services of dray .? CO . 95 . 40 . 15 . 40 ToUl 82 a Yoa can't Ret things much below Dhs ttn while the people here woa't fitM.l much of a ra se on it. to Wisconsin, exinweu mm t mo V?dlUTvonrciJtv and we'd like whooping-cough, and then returned raidVoWooild up the t.mAjJe hat when vin tir n for facts aim igares we have got to give them to ywi straight - Arizona Kicker. Through telegraphic communication has Wb established between New York mi. Greytown, Nicaragua. DAYLIGHT. Where in the Wide World Does It Actually Begin? The succession of day and night depends on the rotation of the earth on its axis, and since the earth is of ! a globular shape, it is evident that the whole of its surface can not be turned toward the sun at one and the same moment; iu other words, that it canuot be noon all over the eartu at once. A littlo thought will show that whenever it is noon at any one place, it is midnight on the opposite side of the earth, and at the different places between all the times of day are at one and the same uumi-;il to be found. Take a particular e-ru,ile to make this clearer. When it is noon at ijoudon the countries oj di rectly the opposite side of the earth say New Zealand and its neighbor hood are turned directly away from the suu, and therefore have midnight Paris, being a little further east than London, will have been brought di rectly under the suu a little earlier that is to say, at Loudon noon, P.iri noon has bem gone a few minutes. Go to Egypt and Constantinople, fur ther east; their noon has been gone an hour or two. Further on, again, India is approaching her eventide and China and Japan have sunk into darkness. Turn your face west, how ever, across the Atlantic; you will find our American cousins have not yet reached their midday; in fuel, are thinking iu New York about breakfast, and out west iu California are hardly yet getting up. Still to the west we come arouud again to New Zealand, where the day which was only just dawning in California -which was high noon at London and afternoon in India this same day, say the first of Jul', is on the eve of departing altogether, to give place to anew one, the 2nd of July. It is clenr, then that while the 1st is shll 3oung in,Americat and long b.f.r5 it is over even in Jiingland, the uu win bo well started in New Zealand ami countries iu that longitude, and will come round the world from e.ni to west as all its predecessors h.ive done. The question then arise-", wh.-re did this day, the 2nd of July, first he- cm? It was not in America, for we saw the folks there jnst about to rn on tho 1st. iet it was begmmn,' zsi New Zealand. Therefore it mast 1m either in New Zealand or some price between there and America. The fact is that there is no defined place where the day cau bo said to appear first of all. " Civilization originally spread from east to west across the old world, and then across the new, carrying its calendar with it. The day came from the east and tnveled across to the wast, and ko on- .tsked whence it originally came or where it ultimately died. Thus the common usage, treating the day as first ap pearing in the old world and then proceeding to tho new. left no place for the new day's birth except the wide Pacific ocean; and when traffic began to cross that ocean, and the question was forced upon f men's minds, a sort of understanding was arrived at that the day should be deemed to begin there. Chamber's Journal. Hnt Ho Killed the Grizz'y. "Did you ever see a grizzly?" re pealed the man in the bearskin over coat "Well, I should remark! Yes, sir; and killed one, too. What do you think of these for claws?" And he pulled out and passed arouud for inspection several claws which gave one the shivers with their length and sharpness. "1 had a sawmill out in Nevada," continued the man, after the claws had been gathered in. "and one day when 1 was all alone a I humping big grizzly came down ouL of a gulch, entered the mill and drove m' out lie didn't seem very ferocious, but as soon jis he had chased me out he began rolling and playing in a pile of sawdust His anlies were laughable, aud it was plain that he ;.ts almost tickled to death. He slaved around for an hour or two and then walked valked ihour, ofT. Next dav, at abont the same he came again, and again he played in the sawdust like a pup rolling on th grass." "But why didu't you shoot him?" asked one of the group. "cpiisemynianiuutgone oil to get niv WinrMiPstAr r.inmrpil. anil Iliad onlv .'"' T ---,. ---,-- -- . termiued to do for him, however, and i,innted twentv nonnds of nowder in center of that sawdust pile, and laid a -,:,, around mnd behind the mill At noou i smi jowll ail j watched for 0j Ephraim, and at two o'clock he hove m as sight. He 1 if he had I world to be I came right along the best ngut in the there, and without lookius around for j mo? jie maQe far the sawdust and began ' j tc enjoy himself. I let go for him . -jth the train and took to my heels. t There was a flash and a crash and a ' j smasb, and I looked back to find 1 even-thing gone and the heavens showering down the blood aud hair of the grizzlv. I had blown him up, but the mill went too." i.;rjut where was the sawdust?" in the mill." j nd it didn't occur lo you that in blowing up the bear vou would I s .so blow up the mill? No, it did not. it was an error of judgment on ' mv part mH tbat accounts for mv be- jng jeaj broke at present, aud under the necessity of traveling second class. Gentlemen, bo warned by my sad fate. If you ever want to blow up a bear, lead him off to some deso late spot where no harm can come of it and five pounds of powder will hoist him as high as ten." Three miles east ot Snohomish City stands what is said to be the largest tree in the state of "Washington. It is a dead cedar which has been hollowed ont by fire, the top being broken off, so that the tree is only about sixty feet high. The Seattle Press man, who stepped inside the tree through ; the narrow opening left bv the fire, "made ten 3-foot paces from side to side, inside this large trunk is a spacious room, into which fifty people could crowd. About the tree are traces of Indian encampments, and it surely proved a complete shelter from the storms for very large bands of warriors. The tree is perhaps over one thousand years old." In one of the upper counties of Michigan a woman with one child was insulted by a woman with seven children. The one-horse one-child woman, we mean took her little dear to AVisconsin, expo3eu nun to tue fpime. The seven children now whoop. yell, cough and kick, and the mother says she had rather have been struck by lightning. The Chinese tan the skin ot the sturgeon and make itintoiboes. TORTURED BY A BIRD. The Punishment Inflicted Upou a Helplcs Man by Chinese Priests. He was placed at the foot of the tree and bound to it in a sitting posture with ropes which surrounded his body and the trunk of the tree. His left arm was bound to his side, not too tightly, so that it should be numbed, but still securely, so that it might not be moved. When they had tied him firmly and fixed his feet, tho at- foTwInnf. rlir lirul fnltowod Slirni- min-vuen approached and uncovered ' that 'which, he carried, and which Norris now saw to be a rough cage with a white bird of large size inside. One of the priests bent and assisted the man, and to-gether they bound the bird by the chain around its leg. So they left him thus, with the bird at his feet; and Norris gradually re turned to life to exist through these hours which were the most terrible of all to live through that night, God knows how, and to greet the dawn in the mockery of his sonl, and still to wait for the time to come. Thus it Wtis with him on the morning when Yanscombe and Chin-chin-wa set out for the Temple of Confucius; aud as they were nearing the gates a dull leaden stupor de scended upou the man, who only waited, alone in the court yard, with the bird chained at his feet, until the last moment of his agony should come, At last it came, for the bird, impelled by huuger, bent down at length and caught the flesh of Norris' toe in his beak, half wondering, perhaps, if this was food to eat The man's shrieks rose through the uir, and the bird a second time, and more greedily bent forward to taste his blood; and as its overlapping beak met in his flesh, a last great cry came from him, and again, as was so often the case, the whole world passed away in dark ness. -From a Swallow's Winy. ItPl.KD BY FOREIGNERS. Xih a Kuropeau Sovereign Who Belongs In I in- Naliou He Governs. Not a single one of the ruling I giving a warning on board the vessel, sovereigns of Europe is a native of the The dial plate of the counter on deck countrv over which ho rules, or at is graduated to register the vertic ll least his fainilv did not have its origin , soundings attained by the sinker co.i in that countrv. Iu Austria the house , currently as the line is paid out; con of Hapsburg had its origin iu the sequently the sounding is known m Canton of Argovie, iu Switzerland. stantly on toard without waiting for The male line became extinct in 1740, 1 the sinker to be hauled in, thereby al and Maria Theresa, the last of the ' lowing sufficient time lo change the Hap3burg, married Fraucis, duko of I course and avoid dangers. Lorraine, who became the founder of - - - - - the present ruling house that is, the TjJK nATHEAD 1NHIAX. Franco-Swiss family of Hapsburg-' " Lorraine. It is not au Austrian j who is emperor of Austria, nor a Hun-1 Only the Natives at the Colambii's Month garian who is king of Hungary. ' Crashed Their SkulW. Louis Philippe Marie Victor Leopold ( king of the Belgians, Duke of Saxony, i prince of Saxe-Coburg and Golha, i.s Even in those early time3 the a German. Christian IX, king of hunters and trappers could not dis Denmark, belongs to the house of Hoi stein, an ancient state in the German confederation. The king of Spain descends from the familv of Aniou- Bourbon, an old French house. The ' queen of Jingland (house or tue Gnelphs in Brunswick-Luneburg) is a pure-blooded German. George 1, king of the Greeks, is a representative of the house of Schlcswig-Holstein Sondcr berg-Gluchsburg. He was born at Copenhagen. Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Alcibiadcs. Thcmistocles and PnrinlN never foresaw Kiieh an accident, Leonid-is, perhaps would little from each other in laws, manners have preferred Xerxes. The king o? ' or ciiiioiiH, and were composed of the Italv, with all respect to him, ! Cathlamahs, Kilmucks, Clatsops, 41 a Savovard. The house ' Chinooks and Chilts. The abominable of Savov is one of the oldest reigning ' custom of flattening their heads prc honses in Europe, but it is not an ! vails among them all. Immediately Italian who rules over Italv. William after birth, wrote Mr. Cox, m 1S14, the IT!., lung of the Netherlands, be-1 infant is placed in a kind of oblong longs to the excellent family of cradle, formed like a trough, with Orange Nassau, which had one foot ! moss under it. One end, on which the in Vanclore and the other in Weis- head reuses, is more elevated than baden, but the king of Holland is not! the rest A padding is then pressed a Dutchman. The Ilohenzollorus are ! upon the forehead, with a piece originally from Swabia, which is a I of cedar bark over it, and by countrv of a mixed population, Ja-! means of cords passed through mu.iII varian and Swiss. The king of Prus-1 hole3 in each side of the cradle, the sia is not an original Prussian. Charles ; padding is pressed against tho he id. I., of ltoumania, is also a Jloheii Lt is kept in this manner upwards of a zollern, but not a Roumanian. The year, and is not, 1 believe, alien led j czar, the great emperor or the north, u from the Danish familv of HoWem Gottorp. He only descen led from the itomaiiofls through the elder daughter or Peter the Great, who married Frederick, a pure blooded Dane. The Jlomanofft themselves are a Prussian family, who i i i. .,,i.-ki:,i. ti ..!.., ..i i uii i uiilm ui isuiiuiinu inciiniura .ii. 1 0scar j 'father of the ntliug king of .,.! -NWvit. ,n,lnii pv(..I'i " hl .ii Muiii-ium u: ' i.,i- : ;., 1;,.,; nL;Ma , filrv wi10 iplon'ed lo a familv verv wdf known at Marseilles. He , I n,im ;ti,nn ,irt r vrmn,. . ' " An Indian's Efitins Exnerienre Montana Thoalro. "You see, it happened like this," said an old-timer. "It was in 'GS. My old friend Bill Hamilton, or Stillwater. sometimes called Wildcat Bill, was a United States deputy marshal and sheriff ot Choteau county. There had been some illegal whisky selling going on arouud the Blackfoot country, and finally Bill got after Ike guilty parties. "A young Indian named Two Wolves got mixed up in the affair, and Bill arrested him as a witness and brought him to Helena. Howey was , mashal here at that time and I was a deputy. ;When Bill arrived in town with his Indian he called on Howey and mo to help take care ot him. Well on the day that Bill and his prisoner arrived there was some sort of a show going on in au old hall up on Bridge street We all wanted to go but we didn't know what to do with the Indian. Finally Bill said: 'We will take him along with us,' which we agreed to do. "Neither Bill nor the Indian had ever seen a show before. Well we went up to the hall and got seats in the gallery, the Indiau between Bill and me. I forget what the play was, but it was one of the old-fashioned kind, where the whole company was killed off before the show was over. We got interested in the per- formauco and forgot all about the ' Indian. He kept quiet until the kill- mg began. When the actors began firing pistols and showing knives the Indian got nervous, and finally, when tho people on the stage began falling thick aud fast, he could stand the show no longer. "Suddenly he made a jump from the seat, and before Bill and I could stop him, that Indian had jumped clean through a window near by and ot out onto a sort of platform. "He got down to the ground, stole a horse somewhere, and rode twenty five mile3 bareback down to the val ley. There ho stole a saddle and went home again to his triends in the tribe. "Bill never caught him, but we heard afterward that the Indian said the reason he left was afraid ot being killed. He said the white folks in Helena were killing each other on a platform in one end of the room and the rest of the people were sitting around laughing at the business." Helena Independent. ! TO WARN OF SHOAL WATER. The I usurious Contrivance Against Getting Too Near the Shore. The seafaring man who was brought up to sonnd for the depth of wator by means of the lead aud line found in the compact sounding machine in vented by Sir William Thompson something that struck him at once as being almost perfection and as filling a most pressing and long-felfc want Bv its use the work that required almost all of the men of the watch on deck lo accomplish is done by tnree men, anu a suu greater miium aee is to be found in the fact that it is no longer necessary to stop a vessel's headway until an 4,np and down" cast is had and the line pulled in a greater portion of the distance run out To be sure, the twenty-knot ships do sometimes slow down to six teen knots in order to lessen the dan ger to those who manage the machine, the wheel of which Hies round with such velocity that should anything un usual occur there would probably be a very serious accident Accurate and efficient as tins little machine is, it does not afford a con tinuous indication of depths, and in these days of high speed the interval between two successive casts may be just the margin between safety and danger. A new sounding machine is about to make its appearance, which has for its object not only the taking of a single souudiug, but in thick weather and in uncortain iositions the sinker can be let to a safety limit, according lo locality, and thus become a continuous sounder, so that the vessel cannot get into shoal water without a warning being instantly givcu. The sinker is practically a kite inverted. It is made of wood loaded with metal and is so constructed that variations of speed do not affect the vertical depths at which it tows. While the vessel is going at any rato of speed this sinker j cau be let down to a known depth and will tow at that depth tut the bottom shallows lo such a limit of safety, when the sinker, upon strik ing the bottom, frees itself and rises to the surface, simultaneously cover wny tue xjjacKieec ami x'tac hcads received their respective designations, for the feet of the former are no more inclined to sable than auy other part of the body, while the hauls of the latter possess their fair proportion of rotunditv. Indeed, it is only below the falls and rapids that real v lalueads appear, and at the mouth of the Columbia that they flourish most snpcrnaturally. The tribes who practice the custom of flattening the iiead, and who lived at the mouth of theUolumlna. ditlered with much pam. 'Ihe appearance of the infant, however, while iu this slate or compression is rrigntiul. and iti little black eyes, forced mt by the tightness of the band:iges, resemble those of a moiiMi choked iu a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly ilaltcned, and ihe npperpart of it seldom exceeds au inch, in thickness. It never after wards recovers its rotundity. They (lctMU tms an !t:u P""1- r beauty, 1 Charles I. never entertained 'stronger aversion to a Koundhead t than the.se savages. JJrbwan unhung some skulls taken to England, i confessed that nothing short ot ocular I demonstration could have convinced I him of the iossibility ot moulding the , human head iuio such a form. , They allege, as an excuse Tor this j custom, that all their slaves have round heads, aud accordingly every child or a bondsman who is not not adopted by the tribe inherits not only his father's degradation but his parental rotun dity of cranium. Why the great Selish tribe of Montana were called Flatheads will ever remain a mystery. The In dians do not know by what meau3 they came to be called Flatheads. Major Pete lionan. Prior Engngeracnt. "Miss Florry," said the employer, "you have been in my establishment as bookkeeper for five years, and I have raised your salary each year until now. I am paying you all I can well afford, and I am afraid I shall not be able to raise tho figures for next year any higher than they are now S1200." "You have been very kind to me Mr. Plummer," replied the young lady, "but I have been offered $1309 by Swagg & Co. to take their books next year." "The underhanded sneaks! Try ing to take my emplovees from me, are they? "Well, they can't do it! I'll give you $1,400, Miss Florry, and you can snap your fingers at Swagg & Co." "Fourteen hundred dollars is a liberal offer, Mr. Plummer, and I am obliged to you, but Shroat & Belknap sent me word yesterday that they would pay me $1,500 if I would go into their office as head bookkeeper." "Shroat & Belknap, hey! They're a pretty pair of sharks. They'll give vou Sl,500,will they? I'll see 'em iu Los Angeles .first!" exclaimed Mr. Plummer, "See here. Miss Flor ry. Til do better than that I'll take you into the firm. I'll marry you. Tell Shroat & Belknap you -are "en gaged. Ha! ha! Til marry you, Florry P "Oh, Mr. Plummer de murely, I thank you sincerely for your offer, but I can never be nnytliing more than a daugh " "Wha what!" gasped the head of the firm. "I have promised to marry your son Harry, Mr. Plummer." Chicago Tribune. It has just been discovered that the world's fair bill places very little power in the hands of the Illinois world's fair corporation, and some people are worrying because it will nave little to do. Chicago Times. GAPE HORN INCIDENT. On a December morning iu the year 1SS3. a mail steamer, homeward bound from a New Zealand port, was approaching the meridian of the Horn, but on n parallel more south erly than it is now the custom of steamships to take iu rounding that stormy, ice-girt, desolate and most in hospitable of all the headlands. December iu those distant regious is midsummer, nud the weather of that morning was as fair aud ns still ns a breezeless April day in this couutn; hnt the swell of the vast tract of ocean ran ceaselessly, remiu iscent respirations of a "inutess whose conflict with tho heavens is eternal, anil whose breathing pauses are very few and far between indeed. Over this long, dark blue westerly swell the long metal fabric went sweepiug m long, floating, launching curtsies, whitening tho water astern of her with a mile of milk-white wake. The frosty suu, whose beams iu that sea have something of the silvery brilliance of the electric light, flashed a score of constellations out of the gilt aud glass and brass about tho steamer's bows and quartets and decks. A number of passengers were pacing the long hurricane platform. Far away on the starboard beam, poised, starlike, upou the keen blue rim or the ocean, was an iceberg, a dash of crystalline light against tho airy sky that out there, low down wore tho delicate hue of the opal. Otherwise tho ocean swept naked to its confines, a plain of rich, deep blue, with the heave of the swell smouldering the morning glory under the sun as it ran, and making that part of the deep magnificent with flowing light. The chief officer was on the bridge; the first breakfast bell had rung, aud the captain, smart as a uaval ollicer. in buttons aud lace trimmings, quit ted the chart room and joined the mate to take a look around before go ing bjlow. This skipper was a man of eagle hight, aud instautly. on di recting his eyes over the ship's bows, he exclaimed: "What is that black object von dor?" The chief mate peered and the e sp tain leveled a telescope. "A di!!.a 1-Mt. sans h and seem- high fu'l of i:le" Ha bout, when sighted. vas .-me th ;... or four miles dist-snt, and the spi-eil of the steariK-r va about loir teen kssots. En a f'v minutes ihe alarm in tu engisi rn im rang its reverbatory warning, sending a Iit:!e ; thrill of. wonder throughout the ship, so rarely is that telegraph handled on th the hi-'h se.is. ! "I count elghl men. s:r.'' ,-riod ihe , 3hief male, with a binocular gl w at c Ins u e. Again 1 ue engine ro.i:u aiann rang out; IhepnLsiug that .W davs had been ceaselessly throbbing throu ,,, i the long fabric languished, and in a few minutes, to another summons of j the metal to gue below, ceased, and the great bteamer floated along to her own impetus, slowly, and yet more slowly, till the boat was within the toss of a biscnit off the bow, with the passengers crowding to the side to look, ami sailms aud waiters and steerage folk blackening tho rail for- , ward. The occupants of the bnatconsistcd I or eisrut wild, iiairy. veritable scare crows of men circled in divers fash-' ions, Scotch cap3, jello.v sou' westers, sea boot:, toilworn monkey jackets? aud the like. "Boat ahoy!'' hailed the captain, as she slowly washed alongside. "What is wrong with you?" sheets cried lw'fc in"i strong Yankee nccen(. "For'Gnd's ..ke, air, take ns .-.board ! Onr w.it.T almost given out, rrtSil there's nothing lort to eat." "Look out for the cud of a Jino," bawled the captain; "are ..u .strong enough to get aboard without h!pr "Av ir we'll iint-vc it.'" Af-ipew-n thrown, and on.- after I r,atT ",0 steamers sides; and, m anothor tu. fellows came ringing' (lee(1- there as somo excuse for their and seraprna ami scrambling up the snlcs, for among them they were clean side of the steamer. The pas j carrying away the 31) which had sengers crowded round aud g-jzed at ! pec.n snoscribed for them. It would ti.... imM. onr;,;iv ,i .i,. I',,..;, be interesting to know what the skip- svmpathetin eyes seamed to find f:isn. I per said when he learned that they iuo painfnllv expressed in the JpthJhail lost a fine boat for him; but em countenance? that s( ired b iclc ocea" .mrnl hu"rs llavo, t :?eP V0' through mats of hair. "We must let your boat go," lid the captain. "Can't help it, sir: thankful enough j to be here. I reckon,' answered the fellow who had called from the strn sheet?, and who acted as spokesman. ! "Anything belonging to you to j come out after:" ! "Nothing by the Eternal. Irjt her ' go, sir. If sailors' sea-blessings can j iruigui ;i LTiiii, iii: still l gdiu; float long." The boat was sent adrift, the to gine ae bell rang out, onco more tho 3at mail steamship was thrashing ur the long, tall heave of tho C.ipe great over tue long, tan ueave ot tue u.ipe Horn swell. "How came you iuto this mess?" inquired the captain. . The man who had before spoken made answer: "We're all that's left of tho crew of the Boston bark George Washington. She was a whaler, 184 days out. It were four davs ago. I was the first to smell fire somo wh: ile arter 2 o'clock in tue middle wntcn. "It wanted ten minutes to six Emperor William's Alsatian shoot bells,'; exclaimed a man, and a gen-1 ing expedition was a brilliant failnro eral, emphatic, hairy nod followed the it i3 stated, his majesty missing every interruption. "I was tho fiist to smell fire," con tinued the other, "call it what hour ye like. I gave the alarm and all hands turned to with hoses and ir" L 'i" nr n,rt i,0o micro buckets. But there was a deal of oil , tho rnn,S o tbo lme-lers-in the hold, aud tho ship's planks A. German has luvented au appar were thick with grease besides, and au3 t forcing sidowise the swell in that gave us no chance. By ten ' frout o fast K,DS 3U1P3 b-v means of o'clock in tho morning the flames had .steam jets from a nozzle under the bursted through and was shooting up mast high, and then we calculated it was time to look to the boats." The others stood listening with hard, solid, leathery faces, generally gazing with steadfast eyes at the speaker, but sometimes glancing askanco at the captain and the crowd of others which stood round. "There was a tarnation ugly sea running, tue man went on, "and tho wheel being deserted the ship fallen off and lay in tho trough. had anu the lowering of the stern boats, whalemen tho' they wa3 who had the handling of 'em, cost our company of twenty-eight souls the los3 of all hands saving them a3 stand afore ye." "A bad job! a measly, cruel, bad job!" here broke in a long-jawed man whose brow and eyes wero almost concealed by a quantity of coarse red hair. "Well, ns eiaht men i ntmv in tho boat," proceeded the spokesman, "bringing along with ns nothin' but a bag of bread and about six gallons ot tresu water, we've oeen waahiiiL' about sinco Tuesday, and now, the Lord bo praised, hero we bo with the chance oE getting something to eat, and what's more pleasurable to our feelings, the opportunity of comfort- ably tarnmg in." A murmur of pity ran among tho passengers, several of whom were ladies, and there was more than one somewhat loud whisper to the effect that the captain ought really to send the poor creatures forward at once to get some breakfast instead of hold ing them, starving and dry with thirst, in talk. The eagle-eyed skip per, however asked several qnestions before dismissing them. "dince by their own confession tho fire gave them plenty of time to es cape from tho bark , how was it they had left her so ill provisioned as rep resented?' This was most satisfactorily ac counted for. Other inquiries of a like uatnro were answered with alac- rtv and intelligence. Every sentence that ono or another of them let fail was corroborated by tho rest. Their tale of suffering, indeed, in the open boat was almost harrowing; and the captain with tho first note of sympa thy that his voico had taken, ordered them to go forward, adding that after a good hot meal had been served then thoy might turn iu and sleep for the rest of the day, wherever they could make a bed. At the breakfast iu the saloon noth ing was talked about but the Ameri can whaler that had been consumed by fire, tho dreadful drowning of somo two-thirds of her crew, and tho miraculous deliveranco of the sur vivors from the inexpressible perils and horrors of an opeu boat in tho solitude of tho stormiest part of tho ocean the wido world over. A benev olent gentleman proposed a sub scription. Before tho luncheon bell was rung a sum of 30 had been collected. The incident was a break in the monotony; and when the eight men reappeared on deck during the afternoon they were promptly ap proached by tho passengers, who obliged them to recite again and yet again their melancholy story of maritime disaster. On tho morning of tho third day following the date of this rescue, a ship was sighted almost in a line with tho vessel's course. As sho was u cared she w;is seen to be rigged with stump, or Cape Horn top-gallant masts: she was also under very easy canvas, which gave her a short- 1 handed look in that quiet sea. Great ' wooden davits overhnug her sides, j from which dangled a nnmber of boats. She presented a very grimy, worn aspect, and had manifestly kept the sea for some months. It was ob seived by the chief officer, standing on tho bridge of the steamer, that the eight rescued men, who were looking at the sail ahead along with the crew and steerage passengers. iHscoverctl several symptoms of tin- tMsiuusa aim uvcu iu tiiiuiiun. ouu- i denly the stars and stripes, with the stars inverted, wero rnn aloft to the t penk-cml, a signal of distress! The engines were -slowed." aud the , ' steamer's head nut so as to pass the ' vessel vithin easy hailing distance. A man ahnaril toe ham stooa m tue I1I1...IMI llUI. H "bteamer ahoy! he roared Uirougu his nose. "Hallo!" 'T have lost a boat aud eight of my men. Have yon seen anything of her?" Tho captain v who had gained the bridge, lifted hi; hand. "Bark ahov!'? ho cried, "'what bark is that?"' "The George Washington, whaler, ot Boston, ISi days out." Tho captain of tho steamer con- trolled a sour grin ITow came vou to lose your boat aud the men?" "They stole her oue middlo watch and sneaked away from the ship." "Wo havo your men safe here,'' he shouted. "Glad to learn that you are not burned down to the water's pdRC. aiul that tho rest of your crew, look brisk considering that they are ' drnwucd men. Send a boat and you , siinu ave yonr sailors. i Twenty minutes later the eight whalemen were beiug conveyed to their bark in one of tueir own boats, , mo3fc tb,em snnmug as they looked nP n 'ae "no heads which deco- ! aud tho steamer could not wait lo send a representative on board the whaler lo report tho mauy elegancies of Boston sea-dialect which we. may reasonably assnmo embellished her skinpers ' rhetoric W. Clark Hits-1 Silt, rOREIGtf NEYfS A2ID G033IP. Study of tho Knssian language has been mad e compnlsory in Finland. It is claimed that German authori ties purposely snppress tho Polish ' langnage I jt - ' f .," , enorled by the commission on tho proposed Siberian railway that tlie road win no compioteu in ten years. Two ot the album3 sent to tho in ternational exhibition of stamps at Vienna are insured for $12,000 and $15,000. Tho National Kiflo association of England is in financial straits and . steps are being taken to raise money f frt oliorrt if- I bird he shot at. A son of stnrdy old John Bright has left tho ranks of the liberal-un- i r Ia .( mT HtiAnf PitJfoin on imno1 water at tuo oow. Experiments are being made with American cotton seed in Tnrkistau, and the Russian government is pre pared to enter upon its cnlivation on a large scale. According to official returns, in which the capital is not inclnded, no fewer than 40,000 fires took place last year in Russia. Abont 135,000 houses wero burned down and tho . :t;mnffd damn was G9.000.000 rn , hw I WW...V- -.-.- - -f, -- w Alexander Milouany, a Russian peasant, was recently on trial at Kiev charged with personating the Savior. The bogus prophet cannot read, bat can repeat the entire bible from mem ory, having had it read to him. 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