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The Rear Window.
Thrtitegh my open rear -room casement, late in
the afternoon
Float culinary scents in on the ltelniy.elr-. of -
Jima,
Froin half a score of kitchens the odors fresh.
arise
Of roasting beef and boiling ham and sundry
kinds of pies,
And the fragrant smell of Coffee salutes the
practised nose.
These are the substitutes for the clover and the
rose.
Across the back -yards, in a house not very fax
away„
UV—tlrad' fix.,,,..,, r, �. t'•r ..2;w,,5s�r�c ..xer" L £ "ci'id d t�fir`_u'Yb Ntlfin a-. i fcy 0
T v plf6n0 9a t0
pll—ay.
m alsat~heie wailed a i,anjo s •- plunk."
Another house within
A youth in emulation sorapea upon a violin.
And in the general chorus a parrot's laugh is
heard ;
-These are some town equivalents for songs of
brook and bird.
Here and there pn window ledges are flower pots
arrayed ;
With them often siphon and' darker bottles are
displayed.
Bornetiines brown paper parcels and tin cans
their presence lend.
And the beautiful and useful harmoniously
bleu
THE siEuOLI.1icTE IN MODERN LIB
A Severe Arraignment of the Low Neck
Dress.
In ,the current number of -the " Forum
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, author of " T
Gates Ajar," aeks the question ".$as t
sense of personal modesty keep pace wi
the progress of the ago ?" And her army
is an emphatio negative. The indelicao
of the stage, the license of the ball-roo
the freedoms of flirtation the oiviliz
cult ninths nuden"art, }an
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adduced in evidence that the Amerio
woman of to -day has retroverted 10
ruder and earlier state of developmen
Has the -writer any euggeetiona to offe
any plan to propose whereby the instinct
feminine modesty may be nerved to ke
stroke with the moral development of t
age? She has. She enforces, howeve
her plea for a revival of modestyby m
tives that, we fear, possess but little molt
power. She appeals to the pride of bot
COlflitCH VS. LODGE
Societies /told to be Beep:mon
.t feetil4k Cku>reh Work.
What shall be the attitude of the church
toward the secret orders wbioh have multi
plied ep rapidly throughout the country
daring the last few years ? With many of
our churches no problem is more serious or
beset with greater complications. The
problem would be simplified somewhat. if
..1a a iaiaa4a.
of men n who have ve professed no alliance to
tea the church ; but the plc which folie lodge
an holds in the affections of many a church
member is what gives rise to great anxiety.
t, Sad though the oonfetsion is, it must be
r acknowledged that some men whose names
fee are on. Abe chnralneoll habitually give -pre-
en cedence to the secret society over the
he church. If the meetinge conflict, the sna-
r, ceaefnl competitor for their presence is the
0- former. They have no time to spare for
ve the great religious gatherings, like those et
h . Saratoga. butt they will go a long distance
brown.
Her cool and sylph -like— ; but a white arm
jerks the curtain down.
Upon the fence -top softly treads acalm and blase
oat,
'in the ye id below a pup indignant yelps
ereab ;
Th- s the eyes and ears and ncees of some who
are restrained
From going to the woods and fields are daily en-
tertained.
With all these things and red brick walls one's
spirit can commune
Here at my back -room window in this blessed
month of June. -
The Old Folk's Longing.
Don't go to the theatre, lecture or ball,
But stay in your room to -night ;
Deify yourself to the friends that call,
And a good long letter write- -
Write to the sad old folks at home,
Who sit, when the day is done.
'With folded bands and downcast eyes,
And think of the absent one.
Don't selfishly scribble, " Excuse my haste
Lest their brooding thoughts go wandering back
To many a by -gone night,
When they lost their needed sleep and rust,
ind every breath was a prayer
at God would leave their litale babe
o their tender love and care.
Don't let them feel that you've no more need
Of their love and counsel wise,
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When age has dimmed the eyes.
It might be well to let them believe
You never forgot them quite '
That you deem it a pleasure when far away
Lon: lett:r: alai: . ;• ' ,
Don't think that the young and giddy friends
Who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxious thoughts for you
That the old folks have to -day. ' c
The duty of writing do not put off ; Y
Let sleep or pleasure wait, i
Lest the letter for which'they waited and longed p
Be, a day or an hour too late.
For the sad old folks at home,
With locks fast turning white,
Are longing to hear of the absent one,
So write them a letter to -night.
g egree of delicacy ; lack of elioaoy
betoken° the savage. Convince the woman
who exhibits herself for promiscuous surf -
bathing, before a thousand spectators, in a.
bathing costume which etops-where it
does ; convince the half -nude woman
that she is not a lady, but a
savage; make it fashionable to be decent
and the day is won. Convince the
writer of indelioate literature that he is
not an artist but a swage, and he will burn
his manuscripts and discover a new:
literary fashion. It is to women, however,
and to. women " in society" that the bulk
ot the article is addressed. Mothers should
keep their daughters under stringer ear-
veilianoe ; they should know exaotly,.by
questioning them, if neceeslary. what they
are thinking, reading, doing. Women
should have nothing to do with aasooia-
tione for the advancement of moral purity
which questions of delioaoy are allowed to
be discussed irk pablio. Mach mischief
iif-rerougat 'fly reiddribeiliretrfot rule o
reserve in speech. In the ooneoiention
treatment of a subject like thio, it is a
question whether one should omit a matte
so hard to discuss that only the urgency o
the Daae could induce my pen to meddle
with it. I refer to the injury wrought
upon the delicacy of our women by the
fashion of resorting to physicians of the
opposite sex in oases when any sensitive
woman 'would seek a woman's care if it
o uld be had for the r& ing or the as in
ar row t Is peneb any flippant flying at
the honor, the uprightness, the delicaoy
of , honorable , and pure -minded physi-
ides who happen to be men. Dat, for
oang women who prefer attendance which
abhorrent to nature, to that which the
regress of science has made practicable
from woman to woman -for girls to choose
ternity.
At the last meeting of the Vermont Con-
gregetionaliste at Rutland, the .subject
aroused the liveliest discussion of the whole
session. Resolutions mildly deprecating
the absorption of some Christians in-- such -
interests were set on one aide, because a
few thought. that the formal protest would
be considered a declaration of war, and
would embarrass them in their efforts to
counteract the baneful influences sof these
sooietiee. Yet not a man who spoke failed
to admit . that Christian concerns in his
own community were suffering on account
of them. Several who live in towns of
only a few thousand inhabitants reported
from twenty to forty thriving orders. We
believe that Vermont is not exceptional in,,
this respect. The lodge -feeing the term
to include the meetings of the vari-
ons secret orders -will he found strongly
entrenched all through the country,
growing in numbers end power, ai d everv-
whnre dem hung the devotion of Christian
men from the ohnroh, and too often, we
fear, from the etraightforward eervioe of
✓ their Master. Recent figuree, carefully
f compiled, show that Boston has 243
churches to 599 lodges; Brooklyn, 355
churches to 695 lodges; Washington, 181
churches to 316 lodges ; Chicago, 384
churches to 1,08$ lodges, and the same pro-
portion obtains in other cities.
The fact that some .of these orders
em lo a ch. plebe and have an n�na to
roue , that they oondtiot religions services
and preside over funerals, does not make
them religions, least of all Christian, and he
who finds hie religion and hie Christianity
at a lodge room and never feels the need
of a church is woefully defective in his
idea of what religion and what Christianity
are. -The Congregationalist.
Fly Time,
I,
Man.
When we have reached again the days
Of torrid rays,
The man -who says there are no flies
Upon him, lies.
II.
Beast.
The -cow who whieks her supple tail
While cropping herbage on the lea,
Thinks as she sniffs the scented gale.
I wish thein were no flips on me.
III.
Minister.
When Sol throws out his searching flames
In brassy skies, •
'Tis then the minister exclaims :
Confound those flies 1
Iv.
Layman..
When Sol pours down his burning rays
From cloudless skies,
'Tis.then the angry layman says:
— those flies!
FOR THE COMPLEXION.
It May be Preserved if These Precaution•
are Observed.
If you want to know how to make the
most of your complexion follow these
rules : ,fit
Don't use.- coarse towel unless you have
a oast -iron ja%e -
Don't be afraid of a steam or hot bath
just before retiring.
Don't use a sponge or linen wash -rag in
the bath ; flannel is best ; and never wash
immediately after coming out of the cold
air or hot sun.
Don't try lotions that you read or hear
about on the fame, if -you must experi-
ment study ,the effect on your arm or
knee.
Don be rash enough to use any cos-"
metio co. twining .white lead or arsenic
unless you are anxious to disfigure .your-
eelf.
• Don't try to do without a cake of white
oaetile soap, a bottle of glycerine or cold
cream, a box of borax or spirits of
ammonia to soften the water and a bottle
benzoin for the weekly cleansing.
Don't meddle with wrinkles, for they
are as inevitable as gray hair or old age.
Don't . forget that sea air is a natural re-
storative, and that whatever tomes up the
system will beautify the complexion ; hence
the value of wholesome, simple food, good
hours and temperance.
Magnificence in ]hallway Building.
" B while in Mexico on• my last trip,"
Says correspondent of the St, Louis
Glob Democrat,'"I had my breath taken
away when I saw what I guess is the most
magnificently oonstruoted railroad in the
world, I refer to the Mexican Gulf road,
where ties are made out of the finest
mahogany and brides built of marble.
The waste seems criminal, but the builders
are actuated by motives of economy, as
they find the mahogany and marble along
the track side.
Of 'Course He Was Sure.
Stranger -I beg your pardon, sir.
Citizen -Well ?
Stranger -I am looking, for a tenement
in this locality, sir, and I want to ask yon
in confidence if you think that lichee ytni•
der is situated perfectly healthy as to
drainage, etc,?
Qitizen-Yea, Dir, it is. I am sure of�it.
Stranger -Why are you so positive ?
Citizen -Because I am the owner of that
tenement house.
Geld bracelets made -Pt -satin gold and -
fastened with small padlooks are very faeh•
1onablo and equally expensive, �.
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there is no condemnation too severe. For
others who encourage them, what is to be
aid ?" The writer holds very decided
iews with regard to the as °tylee of undress
hioh now disgrace our sea."' " It is a
ot, that decent women have never dressed
o indecently in our country and our oen-
ry as they do in fashionable lite to -day.
What is the evening dress of e
shionable woman but a burlesque on
vilizabion ? It exposes the body with an
difference which nothing seems to abash.
he reproofs, of the pulpit, the complaints
the press, the denunciations of modest
embers of our own sax, pit over these
ared bosoms like the feathered tips of
eir own fane. The impression goes no
eper. " Face the truth. An immodest
see does not cover' a modest woman. If
ur costume is coarse and vulgar, you can.
awe no voice or pen which calla you
arae and vulgar too. If the dress is die.
aoefal. the wearer is disgraced. The
omen • who dresses indecently -never mind
ho, never mind where, never mind why
indecent. The woman who dresses with -
t shame is ahameless. " By their robes
shall know thorn."
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Capital and Labor.
The, Boston Typographical Union is
striving for the Saturday half -holiday and.
is at war- with the Rand -Avery Company,
who reply that they will not have their
busineee interfered with by " those who
" neither pay the company's employees'
wages nor assume ite liabilities." Tho
printers reply : As to this, there are differ-
ent opil ions arising and growing every day.
In fact, there are those who boldly assert
that no one man employs another -that in
our complex industrial conditions the pro.
dame and consumer are more dependent
upon eadh' other than in the primeval
stages ; but at the present day those who
have the managing of affairs display a
disposition to asenme a patronizing air and
arrogantly assert themselves as the mind,
soul ana body of prodaotitfn. This phen-
omenon hae, no doubt, grown out, of the
mistaken view that wages are drawn from
capital. On this point an eminent writer
has this to say : " It is from the produet
of labor, not from the advances of capi.
tal, that wages come. Labor always' pre-
cedes wages, * * * Paid by the day,
week or month, or by. the piece, the pay.
ment of -wages' by an employer always im-
plies the previous rendering of labor.
* * * As the laborer who works for an
employer does not get his wages until he
has performed the work, hie case is similar
to that of the depositor in a bank who 'me -
net -draw money ont until hehaeput money
n- * * * The valve of the partly oorn-
pleted works stands in plane of the valve
paid out in wages. During the time the
laborer works for the employer be is ad-
venoing capital to the employer, but at no
time, unless wages are paid before the work
is done, does the employer advance capital
to the laborer. * * * The disaster
which prevents, the employer from reaping
benefit also prevente him from paying
wages."
It Did not Match.
Groner -I'll sell yoti that melon for 15
oente.
Customer-Thatmelon doesn't suit me.
Grocer --What's the trouble with it ?
dustomer-It's green and I'm not.
-Yankee banlpresident (to cashier in
,jail) -Why didn't you go *0 Canada ?
Cashier (haughtily)---Beoanse I've got some`
pride about me and I didn't want to go up
there with only $25,000 and live on a back
etreet in a strange city,
Narrow ribbons of fine quality ere now
used to 'Unser ibe bodices of drapes at did
back rather then the wide sash which has
baon so long favorer!. _.._._.. . _.,.. , -_ ...-
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GRAY'S ELEGY:
How it Was Written and How it Got Into
Print.
Thomas Gray, the poet, died July 30th,
1771. As every one at all acquained with
English literatare knows his most famous
poem' is the Elegy." For some time after
it wag written Gray showed it 'around
among his friends, but seems to have had
no thought of publishing it. He allowed
copies of it in manuscript to circulate, and
s Dopy fell into the hands of the editor of
" The Magazine of Magazines," who at
once informed the poet that he meant to
print it. This left Gray no alternative but
to have it printed himself. So he wrote to
Horace Walpole, giving direotions to that
'end. " I have but one bad way left," he
said in his letter, to escape the honor
they would inflict upon me ; and therefore
am obliged to desire you would make
Dodsley print it immediately from your
Dopy, but -without my name.' Walpole
did as he wee asked, but the editor came
out ahead after all. The poem first ap-
peared in print in his magazine, and the
author's name was boldly given. A few
days afterward Dodeley's edition appeared
in quarto, anonymously, . with " An Elegy
Wrote in a Country Churchyard" for its
title. The original mannecript of the poem
is still in existence. It is 'written on four
sides of a doubled half -sheet of yellow fool-
scap, in a neat, legible hand, with a orow-
claill.
A Melancholy Joke.
A prominent lawyer in this oity had a
client the other day who related a 'story
which shows that the watermelon may
accomplish great damage when used as a
weapon under certain circumstances. The
lawyer's client is, a conductor on a Central
Railroad freight train. A few days ago, as
the train was going up the road at is'speed
of twenty miles an honr, the conductor
was standing in the top of hie caboose look-
ing ahead out of the window, wide hie head
resting on his arm. The train rushed by a
email station were a lot of watermelons
were being loaded into some oars. As the
freight train passed one of the bends en-
gaged in loading, in a spirit of 'fun, pitohed
one of the melons at the oonduotor'e head
in the window in the caboose. His aim
wee well taken, and the consequences were
disastrous. The melon struck the oon-
ductor squarely on the face and arm,
knocking out three teeth, out his face open,
and almost broke his ,arm. The joker's
.melon almost finished the oondnctor. The
speed at which the train was running was
responsible for the unusual force of the
blow. The conductor is now preparing to
sue, the party who threw the melon. The
man who threw it says he only wanted to
treat the conductor to a melon. -Macon (Ga. )
Telegraph.
Tory Bdlttors in Germany, Too?
A . young woman requested Moltke and
Bismarck to write in her album. The
Marshal wrote : " Falsehood paesee away]
troth remain&. --Von Moltke, Field Marshal."
Bismarck took the pen and added : " I\
know very well that truth will prevail in
the next world ; but, in the meantime, a
Field Marshal himself would be powerless
against falsehood fn this world. -Yon Bis •
marck, Chancellor of the Empire."
-" Out of debt, out of danger," is a
maxim that can be always regarded With
safety.
The German universities have been un-
usually well attended" during this summer
semester. Berlin hen 4,713 regular etndents
and 1,822 visiting studonte • Lejpsio, 3,177
Halle, 1,626; Erlangen, 1,000. Heidelberg,
Kiel, Munich and, l cettingen...,also--hav,e
exlraordinarilytwil rolls.
tr AERIAL NAVIGATION.
A - E. Nan Claims to ii lave Solved the
Problem.
Patrick Peters, of Prince Edward Inland,
claims to be the king of the air, says the
St. John, N.B., Sun's Portland, Me., cor-
respondent.
it will be good-bye balloons after this.
Railroads will be distanced and " ocean
greyhounds " will be nowhere to speak of
ing machine, or a deluded inventor. "If he
;y to he believed he has navigated the air at
his own sweet will and in perfect safety.
Last evening at the house of Thomas
O'Rourke, 52 Pleasant street, a correspon-
dent had a talk with Patrick Peters, the
man -who claims for have volved the •prole
lem of navigating the air with absolute
safety, and at a rate of speed to be governed
by the will of the navigator.
Mr. Peters is 23 years old, a farmer, and
who has seen but little of the world, and is
not quite at home anion: strafe • ere.
of his great invention it lights up and
becomes interesting. He Saye that Ave
years ago he turned hie attention to the
problem he claims to have so .completely
solved. He watched the birds in their
flight, and felt sure that by copying their
'movements lay the great secret. For five
years be labored on, working to pay his
way, but giving all the time` he could to the
one great labor of his life. He made many
mistakes, and was at times depressed by
his failures, but be worked on, and at last,
when seated in his final machine he felt it
lift reeponsive to hie movements.
" I can fly" he thought, bet be was too
prudent to go more than a few feet up in
she air at first. But with more trials of
hie machine his confidence increased, and
at last he allowed the machine to go high
up in the air. A forest -was just aheadand
he went over the tope of thegreat trees. He
thinks that he was at least 5,000 feet high.
After eaflieht eat tn_,.xnilee he -thought -he
would like to _ come down and -quiokly're
eponsive to hie touch the bird, for in the
air the machine has, he says, all the ap-
pearance of a big bird, descended to the
ground. Hie success was complete, and
since that time he bas navigated the air at
will. His seat is in the body of the "bird,"
and the wings are moved by a combination
of wheels. From the head to the tail it :is
sixteen feet, from the point of one wing to
the other fourteen feet and from the body of
" irrl" ccs the--F;oint-et-flee-wing-t;rreei-
feet.
Mr.
trial of his maonine Friday afternoon if he
Peters proposes to make a public
can make the necessary arrangements. He
doesn't propose to show what he can do
unless ho can make something oat of it.
The total weight.of hie machine, he nye,
is only 38 pounds. It doesn't ooet muoh,
and he is confident that in a 'little while
people will discard steamers end trains
and will fly from place to plane. He nye
the motion of the wings in the air olosely
resembles the fluttering of & bird's wing.
The strokes are very powerful and quick,
and a speed of about a mile in two minutes
is attainable without special efforts on the
part of the flyers.
Some very reliable Portland people have
full confidence in what Peters says.
COOKING A CHICKEN.
The Old Virginia Cook Knows AU
About It.
Housekeepers do not always understand
that 'a chicken, after the animal heat leaves
the body, is not fit for food in less than 24
:hours. During this time the musoles are
stiffened by the rigor that succeeds directly
after the departure of animal heat in all
animals, and are tougher than they are at
any time previous. In Virginia and meaty
:parts of the South, gooks kill and dress
poultry with great rapidity, and plunge the
pieces of chicken while they are still warm
with animal heat into the frying kettle.
This secures the tender, succulent dishes
of fried chicken which are justly the pride'
of the old Virginia nook. There is some-
thing repulsive to the Northern housewife
in serving up a fowl that was perhaps a
few moments before strutting about, the
pride of the yard-. An equally good and
sunder dish of ebioken may be attained by
keeping the fowl till the muscles relax, and
it is in prime condition for food. In fact,
only by the rapid process of frying can a
chicken be cooked done before the mausolea
stiffen. This the -Southern cook knows. -
New York Tribune.
Sex in Plants.
At a repent meeting of the Academy of
Natural Sciences Mr. Themes Meehan re-
counted observations recently made by him
on a dwarf, horse-abestnut-resealing
macrostachya-growing on his lawn, to
determine the proportion of male and
temale flowers. By proportionate meas
nrement be estimated that there were
about forty-four thousand flowers on the
tree, the female blossoms being less than
one-fifth of the whole number.- In oon-
firmation of this theory that the production
of • female • flowers is in direct ratio to the
nutrition of the plant he observed that, on
those branches the growth of which wee in
Fitly way . interfered with, either by
crowding or undue ehading, the blooms
were all males. The great preponderance
of the latter explained the fad that the
production of seeds by such a tree is very
small as compared to the number of bleu -
some. Tho growth is rhythmic rather
than continuous, the organs of the flowers
an early period of their growth being in
such a state of development that either the
anthers' or the gynreoinm may determine
the sex enbsequently.-Philadelphia Ledger.
How Kind the Gentler 8ei1 Are.
Mies May Ture.- Oh 1 Edith, dear, do
yon know that Fred actually proposed to
me last evening ?
Edith -Just ea I expected. -
Miss M. T. -Why did you expect it ?
E. -Why, when I refaced him last night
be said he would- go and do something des-
perate.
-" WeIl of all .the ways of reeking a-
livin'," said Jinks, "I think literature's
about the easiest." " The easiest ?" " Yee.
I've watched the feliere that do it. All a
man's got to do is to sit down an' elide his
pen over the paper."
-A countryman visitingthe surrogate's
office, on observing the huge volumes of
wills on the shelves, naked if they worn
d3i11s. `.,Na, itir,a� said- .the ,-clerk,-."They°.
are testaments."-,dvaer3ean Hebrew.
A FRUGAL PA MON. I7
H_e Egte Snt Ono Meal Daily and Thrive .
On It.
Over thirty veers ago Rtv. John Eberly,
a well known minister s;f Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, suffering fc::::: dyspepsia,
continuous headaches and nervous
ordere, conceived the idea I;..: f he should
eat but one meal a day b. • •,'.;ht experi-
ence some relief.
ijrt 1
Hie former health prnntt.0�
he has followed the plan ef t t t eating one.i
a day ever since. He ce! e t -r, Z. a hie 671h
birthday anniversary last ie :feebly, and if
ever there wawa perLc,lw --• •i hale and
healthy old gentleman, he : • fee, says a
letter from that plane. 11.• :; tla and thin
as a rail, but he says he it -i-,,. , light that
he could shims' tread u:. „r. He now
eats bis daily meal in the : , r leg. When
he first started the syate m I. r t,artook of a
substantial dinner in the mi.,.,e cf the day.
He has found howev.r al':iti;:lgl,n nrt*n,
eieternientireffMYevening is
more beneficial to hips. O o a,n sing in the
morning he drinks a glass c° cold water
and goes immediately about :iia round „of
dutiee. He is very energetic. ;And is con-
tinually at work from morr, i fel aeliinight-
He eaves about two hours In <, very twenty-
four in the amount of time which other
old gentlemen oongem° with breakfast and
dinner and their after dinner smoke. He
is uneesuming and makes no pretensions to
originality for hie dietary syeif-znl.
W7rdi kt;:' , • ,i a charm.
RUNNING A CITY.
During the last half century great im-
prov'emente hove taken piece in the man-
agement of the large cities of Great
Britain. Sanitary arrangements have been
made so thorough and complete that,
despite the congested coneition of many
districts and the abject poverty to be found
there, the death rates have been reduced in
a most gratifying degree, and the
i.average
fe-Lisuep`pil ,meaisui-ab"y . 7_41i
Sewage -end w& er systems which are 'the
admiration of the world have been intro-
duced, Street' cleaning and scavenging have
been reduced to a science, and street rail-
ways are run, public baths maintained, and
even workingmen's houses bailt by the
municipal authorities. Glasgow is popu-
larly supposed to be the best governed oity
in Europe, if not in the world, and from
the report of 'United States Consul Sher-
man Liverpool is a city whose affairs are
"Wfst6ffli yldiiiunietered. According to
Consul Sherman'° report . to the State
Department,iverpool has an area of 5,210
acres, with a Population close upon 600,000,
or 115, people to the acre, the moat densely
populated city • in great .Britain. The
street pavements cover 250 miles, and are .
claimed to be the best in the world. The
paving and sewering are done by the
corporation with great care and. with
ooneiderations of close economy. In 1870,
with 226 miles of streets, the expenditure
for repairs was $136,080. In 1889, with 254
milee, the expenditure was $40,824. Per-
mission is • never given to private com-
panies or persona to cut throngs the pave.
ment in any street for any purpose. When
such work is necessary the eorporatio>!t
do it in its own thorough way, and''tld
interested parties must pay the entire cost
-a regulation worth noting, especially in
entreat with the incessant npeeavale in
anadian cities. The street railways are
aid and owned and kept in order bythe
rporation, arid the companion using them
ay 10 per cent. on their cost to the oily.
he city engineer declares that the rails,
s laid in Liverpool, " do not form the
igbtest impediment, even to the nar-
owest-wheeled vehicles." The sewers laid
the last 17 years have cost $1,703,000,
nd have brought about a senitary'condi-
on snob that the death rate hye dropped
om 27.2 in '1880' to "20 3 in 1898. House
rainage is carefully provided for, and
sin sewers, not self-oleaneing, ere period -
ally flushed by large movable tanks
coed over a man -hole. These tanks con -
in 1,800 gallons of water, and can be
°charged in 28 seconds. The cost of this
rk is about $6,000 per annum. The
verpool corporation has cleared away
eat masses of buildings andneconstructed
see for artisans. These houses are fitted
th the latest improvements and are
feted at 24 cents per month for each room.
ne of these buildings on Victoria Square
ntaine 611 rooms and covers 3,924 super-
ial yards, besides 5,271 in approaches
d -the quadrangle. The etruoture is five
ries high, and Dost, with land, $350,000.
e return in: rental is estimated at ei per
t. after ali`'expenses are deducted, and,
th eh/dance " which, if capitalized on a
per cent basis, will represent the fall
rket value of the site.". The corpora -
n, in doing thin work, have done Some -
ng not exactly within the'understood
itations of our municipal corporations,
t they declare their object not, so much
o Dover the space with buildings, .bat to
ot buildings of the best class for their
rpose and of the highest sanitary stand-
, thus effording an example to bo "fol -
ed in the future by. private enterprise,
ile at the same time providing a large
built -upon spaoe in a densely populated
strict."
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One old lady in the Kingston Penitentiary
whose name we could not learn was a cute
old character. She was sitting beside a
window that looked out upon amlittle lawn.
She was knitting away at a woolen stocking
and rocking herself to and fro. The matron
told us that a long time ago she roasted a
(NATIO ,e/- her children to death, and she
would have been hanged had there not been
strong evidence showing that she suffered
temporary but very violent fits of insanity.
The woman is now too feeble to do any-
thing but knit. She rises at sunrise and
retiree at sundown, eats very little, and sits
in the same rocking-ohair by the same
window every day and knits away; She
rarely 'Menke to anyone. She mist be over
70 years old. -Toronto Telegram.
Something in It.
Brown -That's a handsome pocketbook.
Robinson --Yes, it's a birthday present
train` int; wife.
Brown -Did ehe put anything in it before
she gave it to you ?
Robinson -Oh, yea, the unpaid bill for
the pooket-book was in it.
ilton in a Bad and
lonely woman, with Qodore Tver.nrr eked hair, it . ..._.
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