| Show tho the earth out ont of order the london telegraph alluding to the inundations earthquakes etc which have visited europe lately says something surely must ha be the matter with the internal and external health of the little planet upon which we live the earth la Is apparently out of order and her malady takes the form of volcanic eruptions earthquakes cyclones and hurricanes in the warmer latitudes and of ed or ruinous rulious floods in the colder regions we britons have passed a moist un genial gental spring here at home and our farmers begin to td ask each other with anxiety whether cheth er the drenched grain crops can be nursed by any amount of future sunshine into a good harvest meantime the sun does not come or will not stay when it does come and the grass which has been bien growing fast with all this thia wet wants bright skies ekies to make it seed and mellow properly but the state of things upon many parts of the continent is tan fan mare more serious during the last fifteen or twenty days floods of extraordinary volume have ravaged bome some of the finest and most fruitful parts of mid europe bohemia has especially suffered A tremendous rainstorm recently itly atly broke over the district above prague and such torrents have since rolled from mountain and upland that the rivers of that province are like raging seas while fully one eighth of its pastures and arable lands lie under water houses and farmsteads have been swept away whole villages indeed have disappeared with live stock stacks implements and what Is ia worse than all scores nay it is said hundreds of the agricultural Inhabit inhabitant anty anti the moldau and Eger Egert thus hus bus permanently swollen have poured a monstrous volume into the elbe which has in turn flooded its banks with great damage other german rivers livers have similarly burst their bounds and even steady father rhine rhino ba has haa gone mad and submerged the country near strasburg while further off the moselle near nancy presents the aspect ot avast a vast and tempestuous lake switzerland has experienced perien ced a corresponding visitation at berne the aar has overflowed into the town friburg and the balais are drenched the pleasant cantons near and alid far beneath the bernese and penine alps have seen their bridges swept away their growing rye and oats laid low and their hay crop sodden but next to bohemia the case of north Italy appears perhaps the worst phe the rhe lakes and rivers of lombardy norm lorn bardy have been gorged with a flood of waters equaling or exceeding that which came down in 1869 the mountain roads of the simplon and st gothard have been beh rent and blocked by furious torrents bursting their embankments and leap ing through the massive bridges span them ane sesia maggia arid and other alpine channels which lead the upper waters to the plains have flaog a foaming deluge delue into the lakes of nia niu mug mag giore lugano and and these no longer able to discharge it jast fast enough by the dicina adda bid bia nos po have ri r iceo on above bank and wall and laid the tho nna hak fla x and mulberry districts of Lom lombardy baidy baldy under a sea of inundation which stands half way up the telegraph poles and is reported to have wrought ruin estimated at A mally malfy millions of livres we might lengthen the melane melancholy holy catalogue of damages by of the loire the rhine arid arld inan many y other otner rivers of france which have followed the example of the atta aita italian bt streams reams but enough hab hns been sald said 00 oo no doubt to prove that while child our farmers ae are soaked those of neighboring coun aries arles have been deluged I 1 r indeed tha th worst be over yet A SCOTCH R god bless this th is house and all within miles ilka side this house 0 bless the cow and the meal and the I kail kall ail all yard and the muchie toun oDum barton 0 godl god bless biess the scotch greys that are in lien in hamilton barracks they are brave chlela they are not the english whelps that dash their foot against a stone and damn the soul 0 the stone as if a stone had a soul to be saved 0 put a strong dyke between usand exand the wild irish 1 10 0 lord preserve us fra a witches and and Wl warlocks blocks war locks loeks and a lang be astles that gang through the heather 0 lord put a pain pair of branks about frances neck gle gie we me the halter in my ain hand that I 1 may lead him hirn about when I 1 like for oon thy names sake amen |
