WHAT ONE WOMAN DID.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 17 March 1885, Page 2

WHAT ONE WOMAN DID.

About thwe years, ago a young worqan in one of our Eastern, cities, unmarried and with no close family ties looked about in the world for some helpful word t i Near her had lived'a deaf and child, a jfttlo girl with BpeakjnfT intelligent eyes, Efer parents were: not able to send her tp the asylum/gKei! kind. hearted . neighbor became, iPry much attached to tho child, rstiidied the German method of oraKtaaok ing for the dumb and brought littleTSary every day to her house to try to'lmpart it to her, The child placed her Kaiid on her teachor's throat,, and, bringing her face close to hers, learned first toiinhale and expel the air, Then each sound of every letter.and word was'taught by sight in tho..same manner, The pupil followed the motion of the speaker's lips and replied in the same mechanical way, One deaf and dumb child after another joined little Mary at hor task until the school numbered sevonty-eight pupils, with nine teachers. Tho infinite patience required in this twining is almost inconceivable. But the progress is rapid. Three years have passed since the oponing of tho school, and. tho pupils have acquired all that > child-would Ifsjn} if* its nursory and primary school" to' speak',' read, write and understand tho first 'four; rales of arithmetic, The school h free. Its work so far, has been toinake of these iDf creatures, who we're little betterJtija! W animals, active, intelligent-human b™ s, and this frork is due to one earnest, timjly woman,—'Truth.'..

( MisßDargon is going to play a season in Melbourne, '. ' ■'-"• Biatoria is playing to poor buaines New York,' ' '' '• ' . Twenty-five tramed sheep appear Glasgow pantomime. Australian waters contain 1291 speci of fishes. It is proposed to erect a statue of the late Mr Edward Henty at. Portland. At Foo-Chow, in China a "stone bridge apann.ng the river is 800 years pidJ h "- ■:■'•' '■■"" A'tDuxbury, Ma«B,awoman, seventy six years old, climbed a tree the other day to escape from sqme qorijes' that frightenod her, ' ."- A fourteen-mpnths-old child in fhjla: delphjasatijqwnqnajiflt lflaf'of jpad, and died, the other day fyom the rss.u]t of the injuries he received. A cat with one eye is a ruling sensation in France, not because it has but one eyt but because it was set in the head tho Cyclops fashion. Jfc W Under the title of "Letters to Gtry*" the publishers announce a now book by My Barker, her experiences qt Ijfe i|i Wepterii Apstralk in tho gfcyla familiar to. the n]any fearers qf '• Sfatlpn Lifo in New Zealand." ' ' '"''' A 180-ton gun has been cast at the Krupp works for the Italian Government!

If the experiments with this monster gun are successful, others on the same model will be cast at the Royal foundry near Spezzia for coast defence. It is proposed to erect a memorial to King Ajeianjjer 111, pj Jutland on fhq sppt by the seashore between BuWfslatfp; and Kjnghgrn, where j|e met with hjs. death by an accidental fall oVej on 19th March, 1285, " A species of rice has been discovered in Manchuria, which can be cultivated without irrigation, and consequently without risk to the health of the district, Whether jt ip equaljy promotive with the common specjefl remains qneji question, . ', At a New South Wales country raoa .A meeting the_Secretary stuck up the fol> lowing notice;—"No-iprgs allowed A the corse, Orses is to keep hinside '<9 rales," Several of the leading railway. companies are. arranging for the instruction of their employes, jn "First aid to the Injured" tho St John AmbulenceAssociation/- '•'....'.'' '; :- ; ,'.'*V: v , ■ .An examination into the price of bread in various cities, at home' lately -i^ibwel''' that at l4ncok the;pric6 / :Ws'4dp9i t 41b- ' loaf j Yarmouth,.Bd.|.'Cambri^c, ; -M'fo''" ; 64'; -'Mwchwter.M. ioM'i 'flwcastle, ' .64 toft; Bristol-; Wdto6ld; Edintorfih, 6d and 6Jd; Cork, 6fand7d, . , .. Anewppe.KettibfMy : Attkur"'ffill. ' Composer 0f.,'(.1n the.gloaming-." hasibeen ■ 'performed- at Devonshire House .lip' great success.' Thelibrettoi-hy'tHe'Djow-ager Marijhioness of Downshire, is slight, \. but jsingiilarly o|ew. ■•■ :• ■"; ;;; ' , ;?'£ ■ Afthougii ' of the noWemennohiinated recently'fqrthe <- Chancellorship of Glasgow University, he.. did not receive one vote. • . '<.■'. .'■!'' Thereare'l67townslhConnectioufc;-of : these, at present, ?6 grant license! and 9'f , L. are prohibitory under the local option' vote, .- . ~'-.to.

Foreign tourists in Switzerland yield" I yearly revenue of £2,116,000t0 the hotel-, keepers alone, and it can thus be uiidek: stood how deeply the cholera scare affectf* the latter. W? The Jate Miss Baxter, the foundress fifths Dundee 'University Bolleague has lefjf';!; £71,000 in legacies, and the sesidue—tjv'■£ *■ tween £300,000 and ' ; devided between ten nephews and MurMamong whom are the Right Hon, W,- E,# • • Baxter, Mrs Armstrong, Mrs W, O, JJ#'''' glish, Mrs James Ramsay, M!i". : B&i|j!«'' ; and Mrs Sheriff Robertson, of fldtfat-^/r;.,,; Bull-fights for the relief of flood atijSJc£ ersare indulged in throughout Mexiw^-V : - ""' An English syndicate;hive -, 16,000 squaw n^jjei. in ' £?09,000.. -- : - '.. "_^ t^-" ' Of the-thirty-eight-WomfcV-|o»ig«wa MisßionatyS6cletieß.in;theworrdTWeijt*J :^ seven-are in the United .States." '•■•' M^" The receipts of the Municipal Cijufiii ■**' of Sydney for the past year over£4so,ooo. ■. . / ™# :

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"You Americans," said an Englishnn to a young lady, " hayo no ancestry which you can point with pride. '•' ' 'Th is very true," sho assented. "Most of'o ■ ancostors came from England, you know Another attempt to prohibit the sale tobacco in any form to minors under si ■ teen years of age is being matlo in Vermo a bill to that effect having been introdu '.' ed into'the Legislature. | The directors of the Bank of Englar ;; have issued an order prohibiting any clei "-."■ connected with the establishment fro . ; marrying while his incomo is less tin £l5O a year. Many of the clerical fori •'< were engaged to be married at the. tin the order was issued, as there are ■ amor '«' : them some who'arc earning less than tl x amount specified, they are in a quandar "■ i There is the humiliation of being unab' to cany out their promise; the disappoin ed hopes of their coming happiness; 'il mortification of being obliged to exjjai the situation to a lady-all these conib.n to overwhelm the unfortunate who ai ■■■ caught ot the moment of their -enga'gi ' Ajent by the ukase of the bank. The col wns of the London papers are filled wit the complaints of these distresse mortals, many of whom are furnished wit] the alternative of a suit for breach o promise or the loss of their situation. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, in.an ad • dress to the Grand Jury at the opening ■ of the autumn assizes lit Bebford, Eng land, the other day, spoke at length o| the character of the punishment whicl Justices of the Peace frciiuontly inflicted, He strongly condemned the passing ol heavy sentences for trifling offences, sucli ...-. ~. as pilfering and the like, believing-.that such a .method was but manufacturing '■.''.. criminals instead of correcting them. In '■illustration'lie"cited a case where two urchins were sent to prison -for three moa- " ths,with liard labour, for the paltry iluft of a few-apples from an orchard—an offence of which perhaps nianv of the magistrates themselves were guilty when they were boys. If heavy sentences were awarded in such cases, there were no others y. which were, adequately severe for the far graver crimes which frequently come bejgjfore Judges at Assizes, ~ A remarkable case of eccentricity in will matters has just been reported from Bradford, and rival in real life Eugene Sue's-dramatic story of "The Wandering . Jew," John- Taylor, died at Bradford in ... 1860, leaving considerable wealth and a . : will dfrecting his property to be so administered as to accumulate for twenty-five • years. The only charges which were to .- be paid were the cost of maintaining and investing the property and of discharging - • certain mortgage bonds as they became due. At the end of twenty-five years the ■ property was to be divided among certain ■ heirs named in the will, or among such of them as should then . bo living. In case none of the heirs should " qhen bo living the share of each one as ap- . portioned in tho will, was to be paid to his .', or"her_ natural heirs. The • beneficiaries ■ named jn the will were all relatives of . • faylp'r and all poor. Thoy. vainly, sought fo set aside the will, and vainly appealed' 'time and again to. the executors for -some -j .relief out of the shares which were eveny jfelly to come to thenr The executors. jßcidly adhered to the terms of thewill ( .and Ijome of the heirs, although - prospective jhiliipnajres,' becanie reduced to. great poverty and want. Several of "them- died in poorhouses, Only eight now survive to share the property, which will bo-dis-tributed among them earlyin the spring-;' The fortune amounts to'no less -than L 4,000,000 sterling, '■ • " .-"- '.. .. A special reporter of the "New York World;' newspaper, who was recently instructed to visit the starving factory hands at Paterson, in New Jersey gives some terrible details of what he saw':— "Those of-the inhabitants of the houses who were able to be abroad were thin and attenuated, and utter starvation wasdemcte.duppn thejr features. Hallow cheeks pd glaring, hpg'rflooking 'eyes,' made the, men, women, and children look little less like savages,- but an inside yiew. of some of these houses presented a terrible sight, Sagged little children stood in the doorways am.] besfitigljt the yisitprs, not for money, but for food'. The women and children werp in tatters, and the latter were supplicating for nourishment which the former were unable to <■ provide, Grey-haired grandmothers and "* sat by, crying like children. Wa family of six all were in the last stages of starvation. The head of the family said that neither himself nor any of his family had tasted meat for three weeks, and was only through tho aid of charitable'neighbor's that" they'had obtained crusts of bread. The neighbors of - the surrounding, villages have done all they can to assist the poor people, but the number of destitute has gradually in- ' creased until their means are' exhausted and they have been compelled to give up iu despair. One of the villagers said that one of the families had subsisted for nearly •a week upon the carcase pf..ft big Newfoundland dog. He said that the children eagerly ate the flesh and cried for more, although they knew whence it came. It is said that cats have also been eaten. Other incidents of a more sickening nature are related," The success of Cantons during the past year in athletic contests is beipgeoinjnented upon in the Dominion with considerable national pride,' .In at least four" *ty distinct-departments the-championships ' T ; jLthe American. Continent haue this year . sSnwonbyCanadi'aiis. Of these Montreal has contributed the chanipion.cross-'. ... country '-rtinrior, tlie cHampioh'all-round , athlete, the, chainpiori..sculler,.. and ■ the _• tho champion lacrosse team, -while .all .. Canaeamay lay claim' to the credit .of the victory of the picked .twelve in the Inter- • inatibtial;CMV.e.V;hiat?h;. at'.Philadelphia, .'•^eDtatfe^yf-^o'iitrtfaj''Jiam'laken fore-'^j&hj'dijui-Jiort&s have •in;,the:Uiiit^Staks,--'. ' "■■■;■ ■■■■■■ ;