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Hints on. Move to Rear tle a Children.
at Ilome.
TAM O'SHANT.Efe pologT6.
cooking HeelPes Had Latest ideaddon's
ierodes.
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. Omit pee% leudgete
If you wish your ,c141dise's fame illu-
mined With geed holder; contentment and
—eatisesetion, Eto that they will be cheerful,
ilmyous and happy,day by day, then must
r own couuteoance atepear illundued
the sunshintioe love. Kum) wordo, hied
deeds and loving looks are true works Of
charity, and they are neededin our home
circle. ' •
Never a 'tear let dines tee eye
That time and petietiee cannot dry;
Never a mime eerved'in pain
That eon& be kissed into emnes again.
General politeness is a great fosterer of
domestic, love, and those who are habitually
polished at home are those who exhibit
good manners when' abroad. Wheel
parents receive any -little ' attention free)
their 'children they should thenk them for
it. They should ask a favor , only in a
courteous way; neverreply to questionsin
monosyllables or indulge in the rudenese
of paying no attention to a question,
for such an example Will surely be followed
by the ohildren. Parente should „never
check expreseions of *Aerate/0 in their
children, nor humiliate them before other&
as if will only cause suffering to little ten-
der heart)), and will also teed to harden
them. Reproof; if needed, ehould be
aineiniatered to each ohild einglyeraid aloe.
Never correct a child on suspicion, or with.
out underetanding the whole matter. Never
say to le child, 4 I don't believe you,' or even
imply your doubts. If you have such feel .
ings, iteep them to yourself arid etieelt ; the
truth will eventually be made plaid.' Never'
disappoint the confidence a child 'places in
a
* whether it be in mailing placed in your
dtis te and pleasures with others,others,to be
OM 1 a proneise. Teach the child to share
obliging, kind and benevolent, and the
influence of such instruction"- will come
baok to your bosom and bless your .lieteet
hours. There should -never be two sets of
manners, the one for home and the other
for company, but a gentle 'behavior should
be always required:
Welsh Rarebit.—Helf a pound of 'cheese,
two eggs, a spook of oayenne, a tablespoon-
ful of butter, one teaspoonful of mustard.
(dry), half a cupidi ot oreame and a pinch
of Belt. Break cheese into smell pieces and
put it with the Other ingredients, into a
bright saucepan. Set this over boiling.
water. Stir until the cheese melte, then
spread ou slices of toast: Serve manacle
diately and ho, t or the delinacy. is lost.
Escaloped Oysters.—Butter au oval or
any kind of a pudding dish, not tin or metal;
put a layer of rolled, meeker cruneberthen
a layer of oysters until the dish is full,
raying on small pieces of butter all through.
Season well with pepper and 'sale To a
quart of oysters take a large . cupful ot
cream or milk, into which one egghas been
well beaten. Pour over the oyster and
bake in a very quick 'oven but twenty
zninutes, long enough to set the egg, and
the oysters are prevented being tough as
when cooked too long. • •
Faxhionable Freaks. •
Gold lace and gold embroidery on tulle
_
are used sparingly for ball toilets. ' •
__Foreceolookaea is * rigueur an informal
gathering without cards beingeent.
Brown, green and dark grey izontinne to
be tae favored colors of the season. •
Artidoial dyed furs are used on street-
ocietumes of children and young:girls. el,
. •
Costumes entirely ef wool or of velvet
are fashionably trimmed with the lighter
furs.
The Marie Stuart oapote is rauole affected
as a theatre bonnet by those ladies whose
beauty is of the classic type.
Brides' toilets are very simple, but ai de-
parture is made in dreeses for. brideemaide,
which, cannot be too elaborate.
It is the fancy of the moment to weak
three bracelets on one arm, each a riviere
of a different kind of jewel or gem.
High Moliere Filmes of flee black kid, put
out in points at the ankles and • closed with •
• triple bows, are a recent'freak oteashion.
Some of the new ball shoes imported
from Paris have'rfoh embroideries of. belie:.
trope, forget me -note, and poppies, in their
natural color, on gray and brown kid..' •
Beautiful and elegant promenade • mufti.),
,
. to be•oarried on radd days with grave cos-
tumes of gray and brown, are roade•entirely
of velvet flowers and leavele in the natural
shades.
Stockings for ordinary.wear are still of
black silk, bub -those to be worn at evening
receptions and balls are of tileneostdeli-
cate shades, °looked and embroidered in an
elaborate' Manner, and matching or eon
-
treating with the shoe iri color and design
Cases for brushes, combs and epenges are
not hard to mike, and useful in protecting
them from duet.- Brush broom oases..
ornaidertted with appiique week, or with a
moifogam worked in silk, or with Ei bunch
of flowers, are very pretty.
Pretty °Mebane are made of paper fano,
with the rivet which holds the atlas to-
gether withdrawn and artier& substituted.
The fen ie drawn together and one sick
lapped upon the other and fattened, thus .
making a cone-shaped receptiole. A.
cornucopia of coarse, strong paper is fitted
into this, and ribbon passed in and out.
betweeu the oticke- toms beim in Ironte
A ribbon loop ie attaohed by which._ to Kni-
pe/id the catohall.
Met Milk.
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Hot milk, the Louisville MedicalieTeme be.
lieves to be a most valuable restorative.
" No one fatigued by over.exettion of body
or mind who has ever experienced the re-
viving influence of a tumbler of this bee/si-
ege as hot as it can be gipped, will willingly
forego a resort to it." "The PrOb2PtlIOSS
with which its cordial influence IS felt is
indeed aurprieing. Some portions seern to
be digeated and appropriated almost im-
mediately ; and many who fattoy that they
need aloe
by labor of br n or body, wtimulants when• exhatieted
eley
ill find in this
simple draugh an equivalent that will be as
abundantly satisfying and more enduring
in its effects." e
Rev. Mr. Kelley, of Florence, inibistmeof
• the Methodist Epieeopal Church there, died
on Saturday evening from apoplexy.
Mies Catharine Matheau died at the
House of Providence, Montreal, at the age
of 102 years. ,
Reeph Richardcharged with ateon in,
1876, in Markham Totenehip, wag accluitted
at the Criminal Assizes, Toronto, yesterday.
" IMAGES OF WEAltli.
The Remarkable 011100Yeries Made In the
Ruins of Pompeii. ,
HOW BODIES WERE PRESERVED OR AlGOS.
Who that hati an gigot before him ever
grows tired in Ponapeu? As I have lisle, tbe
expect of the local :museum id eliettet, It
glietens, it gleams withits polished oaken
fittings and glass cases. The pots and pans,
the fishhooks Andetirrupe, the calomel
Waves anddruits and nuns that have almost,
but not quite, brought me face totem) with
the People of A.D. 79 are from oarboeintion
bittele, but they are oomely. The whole
room looks bright and &aerials detOle (dale
side are there memetdoee Of death, sudden,
violent and terrible: •Range a , round the
walls are skeleton:le of menk women, infante,
horses, mule), ;190,, cote and poultry, all
dug from the ruins. Stay, the little sucking
pig yonder, that was found in the baker's
oven, escaped a violent Kid. He had been
mercifully stuck to death before they ecored
and trussed hint for the belle -house. His
tender crackling, the gristle of his Bout, hie
ears and (deo have long since been resolved
into dust and ashes, but the osseous moo.
Ore oe the tiny oreatore is yee perfect, even
to the bones of the pettitoes and the
vertebrae of the once curly tail. Pluin
sauce and not .purnice atone should havo.
crowned the funeral pyre oe that little pig.
How brown and shiny he must have been
growing; how nice he must have Arnett,
when the black rain of ashes crone dawn
upou him and covered /eit uP for eighteen
cookeries. But the middle of the museum ;
What ie'therie in the midst of the museum?
.Sudden, violent and dreadful death, the
we& of which is almost supernaturally
revealed to lee, but which boars no appalling
look. I have rarely: known it civilian who,
having once been over a field of battle, say
three days after the slaughter, ex-
hibited the -elightest desire 'tte make
a Emend time that • journey full ot
horrors. ' Yet thee() is nothing shocking,
• and namely anything,indeed, that can be
galled peinfnl, in . the appearance of' the
images of death ranged at full length int
the tables. The prostrate figure of the
man who, from the aquilline °litho of' he
countenance, is known as the' Roman, and
who is girt with a Money belt. His death
must have been !from asphyxiation. His
head- reposes on one of .his arms; the
expression of the couhtenence is one of
deeply thoughtful gravity7-soareely sleep,
.although the eyes are °toted, but rather
-profound meditation. * And then the
ragazzo, the boy of le or 12 sunimers,who
had torabledlace fOrerciest On the ground,
and died there in a liniment: 'And the
tagazza, the exquitiieely formed young giri
of 16 or 17, her face turned a little on one
tilde, so that .you can see her iiweet
innottent faeldlirefi,---and--eber— hair
fixed iu girlisb coquetry. Theseiniages
of sudden and violent death are • all•oaae• ;
but when they were ••strieken down by
death they wore the garment') of their time
and .rank --garments which the ' boated
hShoB celeinedand made to --vanish hi a
moment: • • But the 07U5 bollante, the boiling
tpor permeating the pumicieithe Waite
iitt the ashes formed round each body
fine paste, witch received the imprint of
the °brine which it ouriendered. • This
paste after some days ,dried, and Weenie
a sharply defined mould; • and then. cenie
the eighteen oeneuriee of' entombment.
The bodies deoayed, the .bones fell 'away
from ligarrieriteewhich turned to dust, but.
tile sharp 'moiled remained, retaining every'
detail ed the external form of o hat had
onoe, been human. •• And one day'Caealiere
Mottille - superintending 'Me...proofs of the
...settee," was told by one of leis workmen.
that with his pick-itte he had stuck into a
cavity apparently of considerable ditnene
sionp. The cavity was sounded, •aild• by-
anel-bye • some vestiges ofe mortality -.a
vertebra, a bone of a' tareue • or a meta -
&tem. whe ' brought to the matte&
rt instantly ocouired ' to the aatute.
mind' of Cavelier° Mogen& that a human
body .had once • filled that cavity, and
that the long -since indurated niuss of
pumice and -ashes had formed a mould
'whith should present an eattot imprint of
the disintegrated•corpse. 'Liquid plaster of
Perla was brought and poured through the
.aperture .ot. the eavify. The plaster was
&dewed to harden, and then the aurround.
lug mould Was gently removed, and these
astonishinge troseriptsqf life suddenly
turned into death were'revealed.—In mily
ono of.theete bodies, 'strangely tesuseitated
—if the paradox can ' be pardoned—by
• means of a,. bucketfiff • of I equefied 'Outer
of Paris, are any sigus of acute .phyaiattl
suffering visible, There is a teproducition
.of the borly of a dog *Ida, with a (dinar
round its neck, Was found by the sideof
the vestibule of a patrician's bowie: The
poor dog has died herd, it has rolled over:
in its agony and lies on its back; it mouth
Open, its limbs , Violently dontoeted. The
stretched -oat • fore-pates.are crewel almost
in an attitude of Supplication; and the
whole tramsis twisted and wrenched eie
manner euggestive of fearful pain having
been suffered ere the relief- of death came.
--Doncion Telegraph. • - •
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tn Incident in the Memnon Country.,
. ,
-Whlle I sat in a Mormon cottage Oneraay-
e little girl of e3 years taped me on the
shoulder and whiepered, "I know how to
melte mineina mad."
• "How ?".I asked; seeing she bad a teein-
kle he her eye, and that she wanted to
" Why," she said.laughing "by eading.
!mamma whose turn is it now ?' "
1. What you mean by that?" I wilted
the child: • •
• She said, "Why, you know papa ppende a
week at each house, and mane= watchers
and waits for her turn. She Always knows,
or thinks she does, vehose turn it is, but she
don't like to tell. She doesn't want to think
&keit the other wives." • • '
"0; that's it; is it ? How do you like
polygamy?"
don't like it," she replied. t • e''•'
What are you geeing to doEthent it when
you grow older 2" I asked. -
"I am going to be a Gentile and choose a
huaband,who will love me and no one else,"
was the unconditienal reeponite.—A. .tatager
in Chicago Tribune;
JInl an Object.
While a New Yorker Was fleeing around
Birmingham, Ale,, in search of a octal or
iron Mine at a bargainea native accosted
him with a requeet for Inc emote, and
added; '
" Only yesterday 1 owned a coal mine
worth 020000."
41 Aed Why don't you own it to -day 7"
"Became) a man got mei drunk and coaxed
mo to trade it for an old male."
.1
And how will ten cents help you 7"
" Why, I want to buy whiskeyetaget him
drunk enough to 'trade bee -le -for a blind d.bd
and an old eliblieun. Stranger, don't let
me lose 020,000 for ehe watt ?item cents."
He get it.—Wad Street, News.
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No matter how hardthe• tines are the
'scavenger's" buaineett ie always " piakind
upee
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LATEST OLD WORLD ,GOSels,
*he elliteleN Bleaitk..4•10/01Pg 14°,7011
WtafiliggS-.-801110 Leeelltrie Marriage
1401118Ink11-4POILLieS id weever in eat—
Illartptin's White Elephant.
: Old fashionel people complain of thenew
etyle which the Marg,uits of Kildare's and
other weddings have recently started. Tlie
bride =Aber inside instead of eppeatleg
an pure wbita are arrayed in yellow repp, or
" terry " velvet as it Is teohnioally celled,
and the party locate like a gathering of
coterie& In Perla, where the season is
already in full activity, the hostesseo have
adopted the plan of assuming a different
naticnality,and if they dress as a Speniard,
or Pole, or Italian, the costumes of the
other guests muse_ correspond, and likewise
the dome and mud& The betileverderei
!Meet boot, acoeedingly, is that he can
make a tour ,the world in forty minutes.
Lord Randolph Churchill, who has dis,
tinguitieed hitneelf lately by abusing Mr.
Gladstone, has been invited by the Con-
servative leaders of Birmingham to attend
as their Tory candidate at the coming elec-
tion
explosion took place at Aberdeen on
Saturday at the gas works. Seven person))
were iojured. The report was started that
the explosion Was the 'result of Penianism,
but there seems no ground for the rumor.
. An EngliebeditiOu of the Princess Alice's
letters with a ttanslationof the memoir') of
Princees Christian is anuouriced, also the
correepondence of Saul Rogers, a book on
America, by Blies Ize, Duffute Hardy, and a
new volulne of essays by Max Muller.
• Me. Tennyson, on his first appearance at
the House ofLord, Will be introduced by
Athregyrrd Chamberlain and the Duke of
Prince William, the eldest soh of the
Crown Prince of Germany, has-givett a lec-
ture before a large audience at the military
casino at Potsdam en "Roman weeekteee? t e first morning of 1880 dawnea aa morn -
The Prince is Et blear and emphatic ppeaker, •inge' had dawned for thourated - f years'
and showedthopough study of his subject. before, and have dawned, for more than
ealielike of the working classes to vac• fefie-score y Descriptions of
oination, especiaely When' compuleory, hai3 seeeic effete; are always vague and general;
beet' neuch fomented by the prosecution of and comparisons between the present and
same poor parents at Leicester for refusing the past are necessarily unsatisfactory.
10 peke their children to the debtor. 'eh Jueging; howevee, from whet aged
people
were Imprisotted by the, reagietrate. • have told us of 1799, our recent experiences
Tbe .concentratien of the garrisons at were for once, at least, equalled:—cin.Khadtoum will give Geperal Gordon 17,00Q nati Commercial Gazette. , •
troops. The .Geaertelseeeledeleied full
power to evacuee° oi defend Khartoum and Love, Courtship and RIartlage Ancona
treat with or figlet the Malidi, an he Sees • the Arabs.
fit. Gordon goes without an &Wort through The girls have little to do with selecting
the desert, and con& reach his destination their hustainds. •The men nearly always
under eighteen days, and the whole efuture lix that up among themselves. A bold
is taili really as uncertain tee ever ' a warrior sees a girl whom he loves in anoth
throat and lunge slightly. He also suffered
*UR KEDm THE Sale.
Deer our dinerlitere Ototal in Awe et It
The magnificent sunriseo and sunset!),
whith for menthe pato' have evoked the
wondering admiratiou of 'ordinary opeete•
tors the World Over, and have puzzled, if
they have not baffled, natural philosophers
intheir effort') to find an explaotion, 'ate
remarkable but hardly unpreeedeedea in
• this- country, at leeet. The °hieing yeare
of the lad century were gloomy one& trbe
avrocitiee of the Menet), „Rev.alutiou, the
preca.rions etate of our relation e with
France, winch drew Washington from his
rettremene in 1798, happily for a short
time, and the general fioancial dietrese, the
Patinae moult of the long year for indepene.
enoe, united to make ourpeople unhappy
and iospire forebodings of wore, things to
come- In 1799, which woe commonly,
though erroneously, reseeded as the last
year Grebe eighteenth century, a prediatior
was widely spread aned believed that the
world would • cone° to an end with
the 31st of December. , Childr
and their oreduloua elders were
greatly soared, and some of their roe%
phlegmatio. contemporaries did not feel
ettayeiti mind, as tfiturekeptical utterances
woke lead one to think. Throughout New
England the Obrietmas of 1709 watt phew-
me/Amity warm. Familiee dined without
firee and with open windows. This tropical
visitation was by many regarded as a fore.
runner of the final conflagration, and grief
at the unexpected death of the Father of
His Country added sadness to apprehen-
sion. The much -dreaded day mune at teat
and as its pun sank toward the western
horizon it was bathed, as were the whole
heavens, in a glow of fiery crimson. The
little ones and many of their guardians
trembled and feared, even when theywere
not aotually odovinced that $1 redder yet
thee) fires should glow." But darkness
oame as tusual, red gave place to bleak, and
h '
The Emperor Willie's cold affected hie
a little front fever. ••
The Macmillan') have issued a new and
complete single volume edition, • arranged
and carrel:god by the author, entitled, "The
Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate."
Nothing is said about "Lord Tennyson."
The Queen's " More Leaves From &Journal
of Life in the Highlands," in one volume
octavo, is announced by Snaith, Elderde Co.
for February 12th.• •
• All the Tory leaders except Sir Stafford
torthoote are obviously in, a fighting
humor; The nearer the opening of the
sessionappioaches the more violent become
the Tory attaoks at ever ed point open the
Government policy
Mr. Parnell hasagain indefinitely post-
ponea the often announced speech to his
constituents in Cork.
• There has been a lively didpute duriE.g
ribe. He rides np ,at night, findaout
where ehe 'sleeping, dashes up to her
tent, snetehes her up iu bis arms,.pute her
before him en the here° and sweeps away
like the wind. Ifoe happens. to be caught
he is shot. If he is not, the tribe from
Vehicle he has stolen the girl •pays him a
visit in a few 'days. Tbe,, dervish, a
priest of the tribe, joins the hands of the
young Man aud girl, and • both
tribe') join in neerrimeent. Ale lee bravest
men steal theirwivesebue their are smite
who do note Their method is a little
different. Of a 'oalm, moonlight 'night—
th
and moonlight in 'e tropics is far more
.beautifulthan here—you may see an Arab
eitting ,before' the tent ' of his inamorata
picking a stringed • instrtifeene shmething
like our banjo and singing a song of his
own aoroposition. This is his courtship.
They are the most musical people in the
World y. a im poetry,and extemporia
w o e week • as to. the merits of Bar- mei easy With them as it was with
oum's e ep ant, Professor Flower, 'Pq,15i- the Scalds of old. The corte,hip-enly-laste
dept of the Zoologigal Society, considering a week or two. If the girl is obatinate he
it to be an interesting speoimen. Numerous gees elsewhere sod seeks to win another girl,
.experts, residents of and tritvellers in India
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and Burmah,, testify that the' animal is fbathheiersagronagkeell'unpd•thmeunteb8,13Ttettilrawae;s tthhee
neither- white in a teeehnioal sense nor girl is the obedieht slave. Her religion, her?
seorea.. In no respect is it different from .peopleehee national instincts; the traditions
hutidreds of other elephants commonly seen of her ancestors, all teach her to be the
in the East. Professor Mower announces slave of her husband. The powerof life
that the pretended religious ceremony and death is in 'his hands, and slie bows
advertised will not be tolerated in .the before his opinion!) with the Most implicit
Zoological Gardens. • • . " obedience. It is only when the fair.faced
The announcement in the Court Circular Frank comes,with his glib talk.of woman's.,
ttegthe•(ueen is only.able, to take short highest duties and -grander sphere, with his
walks and cannot stand longer than a few winning manner, with his marked respect,
minutes was issued to serve as an exouse , so flattering to a woman's soul, that she
for the non-appearance of the Queen during leaves her husband, forsakes the teachings'
the . season. Her Majesty- is stronger in of her childKod, gives up home and
health, then she has aeon for years: She friends, and riska death itself to repose en
did go to Baden on April 151h to attend his arms. . They are as fine ridersas: the
the wadding -of ber• granddeughtere, the men, and as feaeless. They oan go almost
Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth of Hose ,any dietatice . without .fatigue The
wixh . • .
y arc
oe Lous of Battenburge and the fime shots, and don'tekhow what personal.
Grand Duke Sergiu.s of Russia. The :Ewe fear is. • . . • '
peror , of Germany' will; if his health per: The women* of these people are moeeet
mite; matte the English Royal family,' and andfar more faithful than the Women of
tbe German Imperial family will go. • The, civilized life. Indeed, it '5 rarest thing
marriage ceremony Will be private. in the world to hear of co • ' lit
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A Remarkable ItIosale. •
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very rem arkabTe monk' has just been
discovered Nimes. It is over 150 square
feet in size, atid represents a Roman em-
perorseated on a throne, by the side of
which atands a female figure. There are
also two figures of men, leading, the one a
lion endethe otlied a wild boar; A: wearier
with a Roman helmet and a number of
slaves • complete this highly:interceding
group. , The work has happily esoaped
injury; the Hoes and the colors are as fresh
as if they dated from yestiliday. It is de-
clared by competent judges to, beahe richest
mosaic yet discovered, po museum
Europe possessing one to match it. As for
its value, they decline to DaMe a definite
Om, though they express the opinion that
.it cannot • be worth, Jew than 1,000,000
francs •tet the lowest. . The unfortunate
owner of the house in which this temente)
has Veen disoovered hid just sold the
property'to the 'municipality for less than
£2000. .This body will frame :the mosaic,
and place iten the 'Iniuieuna of tho. town,
already SO rich in local relics of the Roman
period—Si. Jones' Gazette.
Why lie Wouldn't Let Iler Enter Society.
• "Ma, .1 km now 17. Mayn't enter
society 7" •
11•Yclu will have to ask your father,
Lizzie," *
"Oh, but he's so grum ; afraid to."
"Speak to him prettily, dear, and he will
hear you. He's in the sitting -room."
• Lizzie SUMF1101.18,0ourage and polio het
father. • • .
"Papa, dear, I'ne, now 17. May I enter -
society ?"
•
'What kind of atedety.?" • .
"•WhY, the. at society, of COUr80."
e•No. Did suppose I'm going to have
you retake "it of yourself agoin' about
here engin' claw,' for oar, 'faw 'for fur anti
Boole otupid talk? NO; never!" • '
After all the elaborate sine:lies made in
Germany to enable medical Men to di(fer-
entiate the normal front the so-called
criminal brain, Prof. beadleben is foroed to
decide that even "the allot) of the normal
bruin bas by no means as yet been deter.,
mined. , •
e,The Academy of Saloom has just been
firiialied at Athens. The new building,
which Comprises leothreeoams, besides a
library; has been built of tamale, in tbe
style of the beildings of the Aoropolie, and
within eight of then. :Baron eon Shia, of
Vienna, a Wealthy Greek, has made this
Munificent present.
, Thewomen mature at • 11 and 12, and are,
uJugaI ey.
old at 35: Wheie young theyeare very beau,
tiful. They have soft, daft skin,- black
flowing' hair, and -soft, Itteguishing eyes:
They are passiopeteir—lovese.be
alter marriage all their effect/on is centred
ontheir husbande. If a woman is found
to be untrue -to hee husband ehe inetantly
. killed, together with her, loser. But this
seldom happens.— Co. De Funk in Louie-
WZICCourierJournal. • •
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. 'Women ;St iihe World.
Afine. Jules Heteatie Who hie heed 134P-'
,pointed liespeotor of the Schools'of Design
in Meths, is the first woman on who soiree
an honor has been conferred,.
Mies'Annit irion; who rioently tiled in
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Bryafe'llexe .was, the • young Woinan Who
buokled on the sword of Gori. Houston,
juat
before; the•battle of San Jacinto, •
Mrs. IL B. Hayes enjoy% the distiootion
of owning the largest poultry yards weet of
the Alleghenies. Her husband's chicken's
must be coming home to roost. "
Miss Minnie Pope is the most popular
young lady in Sheboygan, Wis. She re-
ceived two 01,000 bonds as a New Year's
presenefroralrer unole in New Yorlreity,
The young men who.call in the afternoon
and remain to -supper con find seats, but
those who arrive after 7p.m. haw) to stand
in th%hall or Staab° front yard.
Lizzie Litideay, who is in jail at Carson,
Nev., for poisoning her husband, sings night
and day lei the benefit of her :fellow.
prisoners, most of whom are Chinamen.
:The heathen, however, de not &epeeist°
her effort, One of thent has died and two
'have been removed to a lunatio asylum.
The others have petitioned for hey :removed
to another jail. '
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Therier, the aerebat, fell from a trapeze
in Quebec yesterday and broke his leg. •
Why are washer.woineh like navigators?
Betimes° they often cross the line.
The enow blockades are having a.depres.
sing °Mot on railway traffo.
The Ouggegtion le made that Toronto be
provided with quarters for trattps.
• Ohl husband dear," she cried, "I've
'got auoh a pain in my jaw that I etett't
stand R." "Never mind your jaw, Luoy.
You'll get used to it in time—d lead 'lie."
A wealthy bank officer being applied to
for aid by a needy Iriehmane; answered
petUlatitly, "No, nee roan% help you.
have iifty Kith ,lapplioante as you every
day." "Sumo, and ye Might have a bun.
tired Without boating you "natith," Was the
eespenain
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NOF4. SIIIVOIBLER'S **ERIAIEffsit.
new Illicit Liquor Denier,* wry to Get
limit Suppliers Into the.Northereto.
The evening before we arayed at aespie
Creek (0.P.5.) Steliou Ibe omoer
noticed s. clerical holing gotlemau with
suemolously large valise etepping off the
train. Politely ineisting on thoPreediege•et
examination, spotless Warts sppoared on
the top and good literatare in abundance,
with oh& articles thas every goatee:len is
supposed to require; but odezneathde fine
ataaatiment of bottle' of brendy that had
()beeped the notice oe the sergeant, who had
examined oath° train. Alas for the ped.
larewhe hadederhapsinvested bis all in the
Ventura! He haa run the gauntlet ofineVeel
tion safely blade. the oar, caily to fall a
vietira to a Monster outside. His brandy;
every bottle of which he had hoped to con.
vert into hall a dozen, was there aud then
spilled on the ground, in a convenient
spot where some Crees, loung-
ing about the statiou, could ab
any. rate lined down and emelt it; and he
himself, unable to pay the hundred dollar
One, was sent by the next train to the jail
or guardroom at Regina. But he will
have his revenge when he is a tree man
again. Iio will write letters—probably
anonymous—to the presto, denouncing the
tyranny of the Mounted Police, and the
reepeotable class who believe what is in 'the
papers will feel vaguely that something
must bo wrotg, for where there's smoke
there must be lire" you know. The
fraternity of thieves range) from the Pick -
'
pocket to the millionaire who steals a rail-
way; and from the smuggler who is hippy
if he Call sneak away from the train with a
flask in his pocket, to the importer who
hides in orates of oroteseiy-ware enough to
poison o village. --Principal Grant in Vie
Week. •
"What an Egg Will Do.
For burns and maids nothing is more
soothing than the white of an egg, which
May be poured over the wound. It is softer
as a varnish for a barn than colledionotend
being always at hand oan be applied im-.
mediately. 11 is, also more cooling than
the sweet oil. and cotton which was form-
erly supposed to be the surest application
to allay the imitating pile. 15 10 the cone
taot with the aie which gives tlee extreme!
discomfort esperienced from ethe ordinazy
accident of this kind, and aziything th
exeludes the air and prevents inflamme,
tion is the thirg to be at once applied. Th
egg is considered 0110 01 the best of reinedie
for dystaitry?' Beateo up slightly, with or
without sugar, and swallowed at it gap, it
tends by its envellient qualities 'to lessen
tee inflammation of the tam h and intes
ince, and, by forming It tra) i needle/Ding
on these organa, to eu•Et re to resume
her healthful ew ay ove
Two, or at the most t
,
tiggass epde rb oddity;
would he alt that is re . ordinary
mice ; and, since egg is merely'? • meal..
(tine, but food as well th lighter the diet
otherwise and the, 'plater the patient is
kept the. more certaiii and rapid is the
. Late aieettiish News.
Janet adieLeotl, fieleetwoulan, Cromarty
Ferry, was overtaken by the tide and •
drowned on IsTipg Sonde on the let inst.
Mr. Wm. lialstoe. of Ferniegair, has
given 21 000 towards reduotiori of tho d
obb
on Piero:mega Public &shoo], HelenebUrgh.
A Provincial Greed Freeti4.494.s' Lodge
- has been feenied for the ledges in Orkeey,
Shetlarid and Celt/mess, with Sheriff,
Thome as Provineiel Greed. Mote&
A proposal is 011 foot to purobase an
annuity for Dr. Alex, Brown, Arbroath, in
consideration of the serviees he rendered to
astronomy and meteorology.
James Paterson, Greenlaw, died suddenly
on the 3 tst ult. He had, just finished taking
dinner, and was lighting hie pipe, when he •
fell back in hio chair and expired. ^
Mr. E. Erekuie Harper, advocate, has
been appointed Sheriff•Substitute of Caith-
ness, in room of Sheriff Spittal, who has
been transferred to Selketk.
Over Rothesay and the leland of Bete
the whips and printeoeee aro itt full bloom,
and in sheltered spots, especially at Ard-
maleish, the roses are blooming.
Since the commencement of the opera-
tion 01 e Parcels loot system more than
200,000 parcele have been posted in Edin.
burgh and Leith, w1ili120,000 have been
delivered.
Mr. Wm. Marshall,for fifty years pre-
centor of Queensferry Pariah Church, Lin-
litbgewshiree has been presented with a
timepiece, silver water jug and aver
salver,•on the occasion of ins resigning.
-About 55,439 persona visited the exhilei-
,
tion dontaming the word of honor pre-
sented to Sir Archbald Alison, the tiara of
diamonds .preeentecl to Lady Alison, the
claymore of Lord Clyde, and Either articles.
The
So Board of Duedee hae'reolved
to make a repreeeutation to publisher) and
teaoleere against thei me of the words
"England" and "English " as though they
were proper equivalents foe " Britton " and
"British."
The inventory of the estate of: the late
Mr. Thointue'Coats, of Pideeley, shows per-
sonal estate Arnow:Attie to over a1,300,000. .
This does not intelude his reel estate, nor •
any real or 'personal estate be America. He
leaves no obaritable bequests. .
'Mrs. Sohn Elder has purchased North-
park
, House, Hillhead, Glasgow; ancl has
intlifueted her inteution of handing it over;
• along with 8200 tqaure yards.of ground, to
e be used as a college in oonnection vith the
Glasgow Association for the Higher Mu -
mien cf Worcen. Atte& 25,000 of the
proposed endowaten t of £20,000 has already
. • =been. raised..
A difdoulty of a somewhat novel cleared '
ter has &hien between the Rea: Jai. G. T.
. •
Jamieson, of Portobello, and leis kirk -
*maiden. A few weeks•ago the rev. gentle-
man delivered tvoermon ni Which be gave
ie as his opinion that no publican should be
• admitted a member of it Christian coo-
gregation; and he stated that, with tho.
coke& of the•sesaioe, au applicant belong- !
lug to the trade had been refused admige
sion. Several niembers of the congregation
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---Bia;ok within. and red without, and fou
cornere found about? °A. chimney. '
Rev . -Father leamezo Soto of Vera Cep,
has discoy.eeed the key ' to the Aztee writ.
A letter from Naderiegua says the failure
_ttehoeocriaoneit8Bliporno ej exopei ri se 8 rseeeporenmi zbeedr alp; tf o t
A tramp wae. arrested in Montreal yester-
-day-Ica-forging-the eaigeatute of Mgr. Fabee
to a document reeommen,ding the Patty at)
an object of, obarity: •
, ...Pewee if ex:edible, justice at any rate,"
is what Wendell Phillips is most fond of
prefixing to hi signature •for autograph
collectors... • . .
Meredith, on ordformet SecretaryWei
,of the 'Treasury, • was yeeterdey declared
eine* . a Philadelphia jury.
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. When earth Wipe Irani wonean, saye
some philosopher, she seeks refuge ne •
heaven.. Thi e may be all very true ;
hut when earth suddenly slips from man
he is requested to °kook his elbow hoe .a
join some temperance acciety. . •
Were greatly offended by thee remathei
. . .
' General Grant Next. to Cream%
• At Washiegtou yesteidaytehepigjeouherl.
continued the &amnion of th
Porter Relief Bill. Generally speaking
:the Democrats eupport ihe billand the
Republicans oppose er, but Mr. Belford,. of
Colorado, has taken sides With Porter. In speech he teak . occasion ep air his
knowledge of the classees, and explained
his reasons for favering Porter inthe
following alauertre—"-Gelleirrea Graiefrieas
the greatest soldier wbo has ever been
upon the face of the earth since the days
of Julies CEesar. '•When Pompeii was con -
Tiered Hannibalwas conquered, Napoleon
was conquered, but Gen. Grant 'in • all his
.stelendid military career never lost a battle."
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• Mr. Beecher, according' to a correspon--
dent, is not mar fond of firsfelass opera.
At a recent performance, which is said to:
have been very good, he mead book through
an
e first two acts d then went home
I
lookingbore. •,,.
•• . Be temperate:in all things. •
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