Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-13

demonstrations she grew colder, until at last ! he began to chlde her for being so different | from what she had been in the past, and thus let out the confession the wife was striving | to obtain. All this time the conversation had l been in whispers, but when it reached this l point the wife threw off her shawl, and, 1 speaking aloud, gave her rascally husband an idea of his meanness which he will never for | get. divorce will probably be the result The man is over forty years of age
 Mir. Ambrose N. Markham, of East Hamp. ton, died recently. He had been sick for some time, but his recovery had been ex- pected. His funeral, from his late residence on Chestnut Hill last Thursday, was this town. He had been life resident, and largely engaged in ship building and dealing in ship lumber for many years. He was in company with MT. Elijah Clark, and Mark ham iS Clark were known far and near as en- terprising and reliable men in their line of business. They furnished the lumber and 1 took interests in many of the vessels built at l their yard at Middle Haddan. A few years 1 ago the firm dissolved Mir. Markham con- ducting the business alone, increasing opera 1 tions and dealing largely with Long Island l builders. This season he had sold and de- | 1ivered to people on the island over two hun l dred thousand feet of chestnut and white
 oak timber, and was contemplating the build | ing of vessel at his yard for New Haven | parties. At the time of his death he was
 
 the strictest integrity his dealings were of the I pleasantest nature. At the age of sixty-nine
 years he died, leaving place hard to fill. A | wife and three children mourn his loss.
 1 The Reindeer th. Banks of tho Thames From the Contemporary Review.]
 In the long course of ages the climate | gradually became colder in the valley of the 1 Thames, and vast numbers of reindeer wan 1 dered over the area which had formerly been l occupied by stags, uri and other animals Their remains lie scattered through the river grayels and loans at various heights above
 the level of the Thames, from Oxford and l Abingdon down to London. The numerous 1 remains, for example, found in digging the | new cavalry barracks at Windsor. belonged l one-half to the reindeer and the rest to bi- l sons, horses, bears and wolves. They had 1 evidently been washed down from 8 ford higher up stream, which these animals were | 1n the habit of using year by year. Tho vast l herds of migrating reindeer in Siberia and of ] bisonG in North America cross the rivers
 very generally at the same points year after year, and are followed by the same kinds of | beasts of prey, which bring up the rear and l prey upon the stragglers. The lion, too, 1 is proved, by the discovery of his remains in 1 the gravel beds of London along with rein l deer, to have shared in the attack on rein 1 deer, horses and bisons, as it is now to be l seen among the antelopes in tropical Africa. 1 Could we follow 1t to its haunts in the wood
 lands then occupying the site of London, we
 should see it springing upon other animals, l such as the Irish elk or the young of the l woody rhinoceros, mammoth, or hippopota- | Kus. And could we penetrate to the banks
 of the streams, guided by thin column of 1 smoke rising above the tops of the trees at 1 Hackney or Gray's inn, we should come up- l on the rude shelters of the river-drift hunters tho men selecting blocks of flint and chip ping implements out of them, the women preparing the meal of flesh. and the children ] looking on and breaking the silence of the
 evening with their shouts-on those very l spots where now is to be heard day and night
 the voice of our great city. Man is here, as l bafora tha rival of tha lion in tha nhaaa