NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2196, 26 August 1890, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Charles Gr. Sfcowell and Lottie E. Anderson were married in an anchored balloon; in Lowell, Mass. The ceremony was witnessed by 10,000 persons. The clergyman having tied the nuptial knot left the happy couple in the balloon, the best man and bridesmaids also retiring to terra firma. The bridegroom, who is au accomplished balloonist, then " let go," and the airship sailed gracefully towards the skies amid the cheers of the crowd. At last accounts the balloon had not descended.

•: The English love of dancing still puzzles lazy Orientals. At a recent ball at Rangoon two native grooms were watching the festivities from a verandah, and one of the observers asked his companion why tbe couples walked about after each dance. The other groom described the reason in stable phraseology—" The Sahibs runs the Mems and Misses ronnd to make them hot, and then walk them round to cool them down."

'The practice of exposing the dead to the public view still obtains in Naples. Recently, in one of the small streets, a baker lost his only daughter— a very beautiful girl of 16. I saw her, says a writer in the ' Beferee,' after she was dead, because the. baker had cleared all the bread from his shop window, and put his pretty dead daughter there instead. And for a whole day she lay there surrounded with beautiful cainelias and lovely flowers until it was time for her to be placed on the bier and carried off to .Campo Santo. The prison population of England has fallen off so much of late years that out of 112 prisons fifty-seven have been altogether, closed. .The" registration of the Bengal Provincial Railway Company marks the beginning of a new era in India's industrial progress. -Hitherto all Indian: railway projects have owed their: inception to Europeans. Now, for the first time, a company formed and directed entirely by natives has undertaken railway construction. The company's field of operations is confined to Lower Bengal. •— A story is going the rounds of the State presa of a child in Burlington who ran a needle in his foot and in a few-days it came out at his thigh. The cap sheaf was put on stories of this kind some years ago hy the statement that an Englishman ran a needle into his foot when a boy, and in twenty years afterwards it came put at the end of his son's thumb ! ; . :

j... The other day, the grandmother of the" Queen" of St. Kilda died while all the. ablp-bodied men were away on one of their fowling expeditions in the neighboring; islands. Eev. Mr Eiddes,!the missionary on the island, made a coffin for the deceased, and it instated that the men, on their return, .were; greatly , surprised at the workmanlike manner in which the minister perf primed .his work. This is only one of the many ways in which the minister has ingratiated himself with Kis fastidious people. /.JDonald, after, consuming a little liquid grain, entered a provision shop ,tp purchase a few subsbantials. On the shopman requesting him to tasta aisaniple of the meal, :D6nald, tossing hi 3 head knowingly, exclaimed, " Na, ria 1 *' she may look Heilan', but she's no sac Graelic as to put the taste o' her dram dot iier moo* for a taste o' meal." -

• r J ' {A.tiHfripbrtarit experiment in screw "•pi'dptit-fot. Has been' made in the '^^.^Ji:'-'^^'''' i^iaee has been iSiiil . r i_i wHich * the propeller, instead b_.' b_ing r at ijbe ',' stern . as : usual, is ;plk#£d';; amidships. 'The experiment iitr6hi6ly s'atisf actdry, the advanthe screw' was con■Btaiitly 'submerged, "steering was much 'easier iahdthere' was an absence of (the 1 1 noise' so' annoying to 'pasSengers:genefali|yi '"' , * 7 ■__* teacher who' is' [ oh a pedestrian fcou^tiitough' the; Perthshire Highlands, 'tolls' me that hb^asmet no fewer than

'.^'i^itirip. r; or' Vagrants, -_9 of whom 'solicited . ! eithier ' money, tobacco/ or ; . ./TfHo : 60'th-,'-cQzijGLded to my 'friend; as they itiarched towards Aber-i-lay" tliat "he 'bad be'eh. Horns; the country, on foot, for the. past four years, 'ij^elM^'^mllfba'k o r Groat's ,tq Pen., zince, and 'making ! h f i toseff acquainted With, the iii teraaiec6hO_jy, of the casual Ward ancl, the jail alternately, fi/qm pure love of^agrah-y.— i' Glasgow Hpbald.'' j X'^l iW here was. -'tfifr garden of Edenl'l ./wa^ o'n'. : of '^iie interesting questions on ' ,whicrf Mf. iloruiukd' Rassain discoursed ■ before'tHe Victoria Plii.l6?orjh ical Tnsti'tufce;^ to;G-^ G. Stores, M. P., in the chair.,, ,' o _i,t' KisaaDri ; _as been recently ahd Assyrian .sites,, but, he has not found the Eden p ( ue,' in.d <( he'shpvvf)d how utterly impossible, iV was to, fix the 'locale in a! land "where, volcanic action and physical alteratjipns had in many : places changed ' > i i h6 > 'course3''qf/the rivers in past ages. 'In "this sense ; ib is really " Paradise dWOSt."-. | ; ., iV r u \ ».;-•{ -a 7 „.< „-.,■ ~ t X A'boe. 'Orthodox Greek \ 'Gburct!\k£e! jp^osecuted . in Russia. ■ A J fe V ! weeds' agpiisjev'en of a dis - "sph^j-g/B-cV calieji the] Stundists were . .QQU^b^it^k.p^ the charge of hay- ' ingV propagated; ijS. .^Vitebsk jfmd, ,'. f he : njeighbb rhoo'<i .iho-^r^icai doctrines , of A^rsbippihg,' bhe^kop's, or hol^pictur ( es,| and^' lastly, for having rejected JJie whole of the ceremonial worship belong-* ing to the Greek Ghurch. They were

also accused of having made several converts. The Court found four of the accused guilty, and sentenced two of them to banishment in the Caucasus and the remainder to six months' imprisonment.

About midday on July 26 an extraordinary scene occurred at Workington, Cumberland. A dense darkness set in in the neighbourhood of the Hag Hill, followed by a wind which blew with cyclonic violence for about ten minutes, sweeping the dust into the air and mingling it with the smoke from the chimneys. The atmosphere became so dense that for a short time people were unable to see more than about five yards in front of them. Many people were lifted off their feet, and quite a panic prevailed, those who happened to be in the streets rushing to houses and shops. The whole of the stalls of the market were thrown down, and in some instances broken butcher's meat, vegetables, potatoes, eggs, butter, hardware, and other things were whirled about and destroyed. Rain fell heavily, and the wind subsided as suddenly as it had arisen. The storm was confined to a small part of the town.

Addressing a large congregation in the City Temple Dr Parker said— As many people cannot, and some will not, attend places of worship, I intend to send messages now aud _ then to such willing or unwilling outsiders. To-day I send a message to the policemen of England. You are supposed to be a collection of very questionable characters. Some of you are said_ to have been employed on the principle of " set a thief to catch a thief." I do not believe a word of it. My message to you is — Make the best of yourselves, read useful books, avoid the public -house, and seldom follow the example of those illustrious personages whom you watch at midnight dubiously making their way out of banqueting-rooms into luxurious carriages in the hope that a merciful Providence will somehow get them safe home. Faithfulness isthe passport to esteem, and sobriety is a guarantee of a healthy old age. In a salt mine near Hermannstadt, in Hungary, which for many years had been full of water, and was visited by tourists on account of its great depth and repeating echo, a recent heavy rainfall raised the water to an extraordinary height. On Thursday week (says a Vienna correspondent) a number of dead bodies appeared on the surface, and on Friday they were taken out with considerable danger to those who undertook the task. They were found to be the bodies of Hungarian Honveds, 300 of whom fell in the battle of Viz Akna on the 4th of February, 1849, and instead of being buried were thrown into the salt lake of the mine. The bodieß are so well preserved that, the wounds which caused death may still be seen quite plainly. Two of the bodies are headless.

The lions of India appear to be going the way of the great bustard and the dodo, and the reason is found in the extension of railways, for the monarch of the forest shares with Mr Ruskin a moral antipathy to the smoke and screams of locomotives. Within the memory of many persons lions ware Common enough in Rajputana, and even now the roar of one may bs heard occasionally in the wildest parts of central India ; but the new railway from Lagpur is now being constructed through this country, and this is practically a notice to quit served upon the few remaining lions in the central provinces. Practically the only lions now remaining that are worth mentioning seem to be the race now existing in Katty war, which was visited by Prince Albert Victor the other day. Their number remains, it is believed, pretty stationary. It is strictly forbidden to shoot them, save by way of the grand sport ; but many conditions are unfavorable to their multiplication, and even the Katty war lions are clearly doomed ere long to disappear.

Speaking of the effects of the late gale, the editor of the ' Charleston Herald ' thus humourously discourses : — " The town of Charleston got a good shaking, and we regret to have to say that our institution suffered considerably from the fury of the gale. The beautiful Gothic porch at the entrance, which was looked upon as a rare specimen of architecture, and against which every vagrant horse and cow in the district used to scratch its back, detached itself from the main structure at 10.45 a.m., and fell with great force in the middle of the next street — a total wreck. The main building also suffered to some extent, several portions of it having come to grief, there being nothing left of the chimney but the framework, and the massive wooden pillars of the corridor leading from the editor's lunch-room to the bullion vaults were knocked considerably out of plumb, and to add to the misfortune the paste pot is missing. If ever a long winded subscriber had an opportunity of performing a meritorious action that time has now arrived."

Recently a young man named Walter Woodmason, of Malvern, Victoria, was terribly injured by a bull belonging to his father, and it is feared ho will be permanently blind. Tho youth uaod to fondle the bull when feeding him, and since the occurrence the animal refused its usual' feed and died of starvation. The bull was of the Jersey breed,' and J wa_ a noted prizetaker at the agricultural shows.