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glare at the tug or mth
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_Drotin.rott dna we ek, the audience uu
hymn ta ae folows :
I:hour:ire' of Providence awl grace,
Ow lathersGod io daya of out,
Aikt1 to lib reveal Thy face,
..d ell '1 lay e ono', ous love nufold.
We gamete magnify Thyname,
yfu bye, Tby entree to sit g;
To -404a, yesteretty the wane,
Tat Thee our tribute song we bring.
I. with Thy rich taw r deign to crown
The waeting of Thy SerVeOt8 here
•AAL„I%ka W lair telft, great r 41.140 WU
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451,14111141hou hast help, d luta this ht.ur.
War 41tile Past and Prosperee dale, a
>ours Of greetoue poer
x,
enezer hereaterei-e—
earateaul. we own Thy guidinghand,
By which eur fathom nut were led—
Which.hromht them te title goodly land,
aud them them hely mistion bled.
For all the goodnese Thou haat ehown.
INT all the a ondera Th, u bast rought,
Fur all we've heard and semi and kuown,
khop 41840 ',raise thee aa we ought.
Flantea by Thee, by Thee we've grown,
The ne betoume a litn3t
The -glory be to Thee alone
To r ether, on anu They Ohost. •
M d nay the century to con e
Witue.s new woutters of rhyerttee
ukieht) worke thruugh us be done
Totter= The eaut blebs the race i
me bit cibia Atilt Lillita (at? 1 WES
A t'olort 4 Moister la North aterolioa
wheee 'Nick JII. tetotnething Colossal.
FicetOli Globe :' Ruttiness men are not
et/pecked to laugh at auy order, however,
extravageot, that may be bait thorn, but
if one of Lynu's big shoe dealers chtlu't
indulge 'hi a real ghastly snide when he
.recoved ohe order this fall, it was bectauee
lie had not eildoient streugth lett. _ j: M.
Parc thit is ii alloyed preacher M Charlotte,
N. C., at d hie. fighting, -weight when
bkliMaluteg with the legion ot Satin is
4 , 410 pouodes Eta etands 6 feet 10 inches
hio boote, ah'd, telieu collet),
Lively, would beli-adeatitercus • nion to 'fall
-
under at aektoting riok.tanae ago U
Southern gentleman met Mr. 2--Favuum
in •the• South, and the letter ordered
a ' pair of • about triode ft& him at
the North, for which thia geotlemon took
the Meiteure. The- order was given.
to, lnun'ii—leading k hoe tthulutaaturer,
but it was too 'n.uch for binx, ood a, pair of
thoet, were made from a epecial 14044 111 Bos-
ton aid oint the revereud gentleman. The
oboes are thirty-fivee.". The length from
heel to toe' hi jut Comity itichee, aud.
the width ot the ball, iuoluding a protub
eraboe that may be a, corn and may be
uaturan le a tr fie over eeveu anti oee-half
inches. Stone bee. of be"ttout eueemele "
• may be gained from the foot that a perste-
board ric py of the bole of. one of the Shoed
which a reporter carried in hie over -moat
pocket, extended tram the loweet depthe of
, MI6 puokee to tbe arm -pi tr. Thi, copy was
• taken from a meaeurewent of the bootleee
foot of the, en reyman, and those. wbo know
prououuce it correct. • FC00.1 the •forward
end of the sole apieoe the I.iZ8 of a deseert-
plate could be •mostly our. Tirabeel, if ot
the proper mate ittl;•" •a".•alidtritake a oeoici•
edlY gellertars Ilattejeok; : 'and , the whole
thiug, in thape hod eiii, t,ives one the
• irresistitne`impresinon of a -teuuts.recket,
' elongated iiiiirt:frotat, without. its.
symmetry.
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• , ' 'Fhe Herniation Hied.
* Entirety peculiai' to Anutrica are- Ole-
• humming bode, Their Oily male in -the
_ mettsllre trolitmoy of•eilor, the 'min buds,
. belong tu Best Iudia. Thus far about 450
st.to eti Ufa hurnaiug birth, heve beeu
detc•Lbed, of whieh. only fifteen specaee
beloug to the Vetted Suttee,. aud ouly U/le
single epecies to Witoonsin. • Not knowing
• • the differeoces between the ' eexee people.
• frequeetly say : • " ..have seen them .on
my mornitre-gloritie and betray suckiese and
I know I have seen two specie& oue with et
• fiery.red thioatatud the other without ihot
ortooneet." It no geuerally••believed that
the humining-liirde entwely •ou the
nectar ot ft •wers. • TLI-i in tia p'..p Aar
mietalte. Their • princip.1 feed jti small
insects, ai. t•,-titied by nurnerotie eaten:ono.,
tioute of ,t mennie of those bird, ; • yet
meaty titnee bud huntetehave sqUe, zed out
sof the thruate and bi is. , of humming-
- birdsthet • were shot while feeding
• severe1 drop of • the sweet -et ,
The time when ..the hi.rutrung birth,
tirrive ill the boring • isgenerally when
the eat ilex, °mamma ai
ee n flower ; immeir
• s is little eal Imo The realms 'strive
first, Iota tuiprisiog hew abuedeut they
et metimee ore around • the corraut buthes
The nett, ari excecuougly, neat little struc-
ture, it, belch m' ever an ihoh arid a bolt tti.
dianieter, and le' built ou the ut.per ode of
horizuutal hianch of a tree—carefully:
lined On the-1•41•bidO vit precise of leheu
so as to •eppour likg a ,batural liobers-
cove rt d bii.t be the 't se. Wti have.
obteived beyerta Lebta • built eltae to otie,
, "aid et men rues' .betweetr'. two , very 'Yeting
•traiehlt te, volume hovel, wolild, wbeu fully
ext.ehaea, for urel umbrella OVOrl.
tile a.t. • There are alweati two ekgs.in the
treat, and ihey.are ot a white oulor.. The
ti-uol doeerver will Ito querory take the
etin•titds to be butettiiegobirds, .while the
orrathologist eau polut 'out .niarketi dffer•
et.ees ' be trieete I heater t we beautiful houniiee
• of passerce. The • Worooronti readers who'
would lite to see at d trumpeter sPecimetke
of thew %eta fid a dczen or more, niorkuted111 •
verioue pohltkna ii t publie tuuteorn
irk the. Expctiocn
Wisconsin. •
Corsets 31 ode el flerk.
The boyadt:reit of India, who•possess the
most perfect figures of any woolen of atty
man try ou eitrib, have /boob more
• healthful and charming device ' thita' any
Eurot,eune. Their (rota ate are•formed out
• of the bark of.the Medegescar tree, on a
• priempie • 'which permits • them eVery
freedom of movement in breathing told io
any form of exertnee. These are Wonderful
produatione • a ingenuity. The color
reeemblee the likin to a remarkable degree,
sod the matetial 03 80 fina that the moat
delmare touch will hardly distiuguieh it
from humeri flesh, Outie made thee cot -
are FlOidOtil removed, the bityacleree
eveu sleeping in them. The v thus peeeeeve
isetoundougly beautiful fisuree to att
advanced too, without pain or ditoimfort
to thsnatelvet, while tve,who bckastoureelvee
intelteotual arid clh1ihZ d, torture without
beautify tog ouretilvoe.
Biebhp Hugh Miflr Thompson of Miti
shay pi ttdvieeti the Protestant Hpiran p .1-
iantt not tt) employ ni,ero clergymen for the
tutheih romroeti •Separate cougtegatious
. with vat it° rectors itrearhat he r. commends
He belie ves' tb a t the hlaeite • eutertain tio
• resteat foe Ministers ot their Own ooler.
Two lediett dontetulerl for preeedenoe in
the court of Charlee V. They eppealed to
the monarch, Who, like Solon:min awarded:
"Let tbe eldeet go first," Stich a clispUte
wits never known afterwards, '
.T16101 Till/94Titte$ CONIT91:144 POO.
The litirendanit annanY41Plulur184
404.-7.4,0
performance net Okl the only.
Tbe "InVelitigation " OnninanYi at the
Victim° Otnnique, gave- a pertain:mane
Wedoeeday nignt that the audieuee hi the
trout of the house did not witneoi The
ouditorium wao empty, but the patfOrth-
Was held just the borne, aud without a
rehearsal, too. It wait iuvestigetiou, but
uoll the kind in which Mows. Harrigan
trid Hort figure. The inveetigation wae
• done by a deg, and he did to well ; so well
that the Actors were beelegiug the treasurer
yesterday for an advance on their tielariee
to buy pew elothee with. g
• 04 the northoeide ot the theatre 18180
alley wham the gallery flee (assayer§
deecend. In it are etored lumber, barrele,
noxee, laddero and all hove of e Some
one had also Wired a d ;14 that Wedees.
• day night and fastened but by a rope to a
.property box. It wee a big dt g—a Hoes
tietweeu a, Newfoundlaud audit Shepherd—
and he looked kittenish and tiloyful. He
had a double row of double back action
teeth, all the time. In tUe, alley is the
bietorical •" Hole in the Wall," an aper-
ture that tipene into an adjoiuing ber-rborn,
through wItah are paused foaming tumblers
of milk and seltzer to Blake the peeehed
throoto of thirsty aotore.
At the end of the first act in 44 Investiga.
lion," Mr. Joint Si arks, who *mecums tbe
rote of 1/41•048Z Rogaxi, Maiseil Me exit uo
tuecitigh the thee and duee not coin° on
• agaiu fur nearly half au hour. During tide
time Weclueeday evening, as was his wont,
Pdr. Sparks went for his utuel beverage,
told to be milk and etsloaer, He got it, aud
as he loctlied through the htittbm of the
gla,s he ;saw the dog,
Nice old fellow," said Mr. Sharks,
diplomatically.
The dog wagged his tail. M Spathe
approached to pat hitn. The dog jumped
up to meet him half way and effectiouately
tripped Mr Sparks in the hp, and fiebitekled
tpLee iuto the bargain. •
44 ttless him," rood Mr. '
r. Sparke or Words
• boa coutrary effeett aa .I3 rosthed...betok
the"• Hole"auu oti
milled for atwitter milk
and iteltzer- • • . •
" Efere,•bathe your face in this," said.„the
gaemou aa he brought up •a• -can of alcithon
Mr, Sparks shuddered and wanted to ithow
if seltzer wouldn't do as well. Ihe blood
was stanuched, a doctor eummorsea, the
wounds ceuterized atid the Ware hidden by
ta1sew14tkers,so that Mr. Sparks came
up beforethe footlights at the proper time
as binning as a day in June. Meautitue it
• was put and.oarried that the dog must he
shob.-Ali-eien-oas the ptinforniatioe • was -
Over three poliaernan,were Milled in to •du.
14. The Male coutingi3ut of the 0.114?„ny
turned out in the alley to help end to but
two dogs with one idiot,. as it were—to get
• a fiutil millt and seltzer at the o
. Each policemau drew • his pietul. One
mitre veutureeome than the iskii• aimed
hts'oaref ally at the dog'alread. 1r. Doyle,
ihs gus mem, •held aIam Tilt3 pistil
flashed. The dog looked eatoniebed 'Laid ati
the bullet had out the ropele atagurstedly
walked away; Then the officer fired the
other barrele, anct:Mili dog yelled aud.
began ta jump. The other ffioere tried to
fire their pistols, but they wouldtftao oft.
The Properitoroom !Ore sucked for fi-e-
Orme, and thacioropeny.appearee brandiah-
iug ti o sworde mon • wooden . umekete.
Meatiothile plate's were pepping end. the
dog Was gettiug lively. Io- the excntemeut
eiltne one allot the lamp, mad in the enema%
coutiteirin and darkness' Mr 'Llarrigan
p.c.:red a rpiltt aud seltz •i clown a oitabine••
• barrel. ,Mr,•Pb.t.vigtou Said he regretted his
,tritiitake.• This gave in an idea. A
• muuderbuse was btqught out and loaded
with a paper of tacks. • When they 'were
fired at the dog they seetned to exespeiate
• Wino forielmadeordaelr theca -ugh -tile ortaw(1'.
aud ran on tbe•stage. He wee -allowed to
do eo. No OLIO seemed to have the leapt.
Objection. • 44 Zialie ". climbed it
leader. . •
•, Tan "hoe OATS ON
Mroaltiarke 'men to crawl. through the
".EIUle' ih•athe Wall." . Mr. 'Guuld,, the
secretary, 'made' a wild lerair tam the stage
into a box, oloaely followed by the dog,theu
down to the orohestra, arid, its•trouble
'never corties• singly, 'tattled on, his. high
• The.dog hounded like a hurdle horse over
the meats, alternately pivoting and pursue&
by the company. Through the, parquet up
unto the balcony and gallery they went,
teakingat frautio dash ot him, laid when he.
turued retreating,ae fast as the seats would
at them.' Jetunly Wild said he buyer- saw
'anythiog like ieinuoe.Toromy Shiele played
rat being abe-goat. At Jest the dog gotanto
the lobby, eemiped through the main
eotrahce andvithielted dowar BroOdway,
while— the amateur.• dog • attichers felt
exhausterterinet the' HoIjthe' "'
" If 1 fiud that dog my fortune is made,"
said the gas man. ' " I'd sell' him for old
lead. Heas got twenty,seven bullets iu him,
habitues lots of other things.",—N. Y. Herald.'
• The Soudan a prayiog countiy.
•. • Narly• in the meirning throughout my
jowl -My, awayon the other side of the Nile,
a red gleam in the sky betokeus the
apprciach of dawn; , I aux awakened by the
• early prayete'of My two guides.Heeding
on mate on the ground,' and with •heads
.1 urned toward Mecca, they alternately or
out with loud Vedette, and alterriately mut-
ter their petitions- for a sacceesfut day's
joutmeY.", The toilet pray log country in the
world is this Soudan. Quite independent
o the Mahdi'irmovemeht, the people every.
where are filled with reltgiouis favor , wbieb
it pf eaey to tinderetaud with little effort
' may be turued into fauaticism. In his
rigorous ohiServaime Of the .1aWs Of the
kora u lies in great part tbe secret of the
Mudir's power ; arid Oanian Dien* to
Surtkiro, by dressing like Infaltit, iti asiogis.
duty eotton Moth, and covering himself
• with duet, and prayiug • continuously:
initiated the Halidendowas. to follow him
first to victoey and then to theie death. lu
Suakim keen •the. moolah in the little
-Mosque began to call- the people there to
prayer at 4 &cloak ()eery morning: At fleet
.the sonoroue tones of his deep voice, rising
emd falling in mueical cadence, Was pro.
tiouuced interesting in a high degree ;tato'
on we detoribed it as bellowing and a nui.
ititaran,ce of the first citrder,—Cor. London Stand-
.
•
A son of the 13iebop of Rochester
become a Roman Catholic.
• A Fret (Annan Who recently (Veil direoted
ib his will that the Bum of 1/5 000 Should
be given to the "wounded in the next war
with Germany,
The uneducated palates of a Wiscootie
total abstinence 'Moiety did not detect the
turn id the lemonade oh a feative occasion
until galloua had been ewallowed and
viiiihle irJtOlil88tl�n -had beett produced
The wicked mixer of thebeverage bed told
them throttle peouliar. flatter Was dile to
gond thit g tieW in linger.
General Grant la a very painstaking
writer, His "Century" attiole oil the
battle of Shiloh Waft Written and reteritteb
elle times befilee he °Mild let it go te the
ptintent. He is Mier writing a history of
the'we,r, and has floished PAO or 1,590
paged of the malatteoript.
•
ISIAtallIONV.
Triteilcial Mess Dniurntle Plotters
That Are %neon ilfetieldnrlatin
Philadelphia ad/ : The valne ot home is
in its attraotiveuens not oo mnoll with
refereuce to esteem:I adornment al the
restful, genial feollug that in onpecially au
taming, of home, .6.ud this more then
eine, the outgrowtu of harmony id the
family. It moot ezint between husbaud
riee•
and wife as the ptpale an before it cbe
luouleated ainoug the oinicireu. The °stab.
bailment of oorditot relations betweeu hue -
Maud and wife govern all thor later
the hepptuese ot wedded hfe depends on
the rottener in whieh tine oceemplished,
la 1)8 rarelytbecase that pertain congeniality
of diepositaou awl temperameut HEMS in a
newly welded pair, Whet' the glamor ot
the courtship 'loud boneyrnoeu boa ponied,
the peouliaritiete of character, temper and
habit on the part of each appear. And it
cheoovered that these do 1394 per-
fectly hartuouiza. Necessarily, if a happy
wedded lite to be eujoyed there roust be
ou aocsommodatiou to each other—eaoh
yieldiug for the bake of he,rtnouy. Where
et:althea bee that Faeroe are bind and
agreed the tendeuoy of exiample •tuti.
, duce. the same remits am mg them. They
are exceedingly *sharp observers of human
nature, and motioe the temper aud epirrt of
part:inns with+ alumat percale ieuutton
Reuter, 486 14 rule, a good example will (mu -
trot arum* them. But Oita noe alwayis
the oath. The charaotere childrou diner
ars widely as therm of adults, mid in the
same femily circle there will be the widest
dteparitiee. Thus there will grow die-
ogreemento out et there cifferent peopausia
ties. The proper mutual and hormeuiziug
ef these iuvolves priucipaily the crateful
tandy of the peatiliortues at each. Om
-same thud uf control will no e apply in
each tome, Oue child is betodetrong and
deternrinea, another timid and yielding.
One is vicioos and puguacioue, another
• amiable' and • pettoeful. • The' ova
•wili need a firm, repressive • control,
the bther encouragement apd support. To
take the them entails eletneuta that' often
tire found in f mullets arid hlend -there, iuto
harmaroy requires skill and mouldiug pawer.
•It is here that the motherly quahtme nod
.ploy. • The gentle, !eying, aud forbearing
spirit of wife aud mother, and the strong
but kindly hand of the, judicious. huallatind
aud fouler imperceptibly'bleud the dis-
ci admit elemente tutu harmony, ond cause
them to regard home as the meet delightful.
place un earth. • There are web hOmes,
wad ti up of material that would have been
diecordaut atal quiureleowe bat tor.the
moulding ieffireear.exeried by huatiabil d
wife, aloe heve ,first learned to hermobiza
their own eiftu
,recee. Aud there are few
cases of ..Maouoparibility thet cermet be
oured if a toothy earnest c- flue is. made.
There is little eeed of enibutisted, welded
hetet if thittleesou of oultivaoiug compati.
iH properly learned. Aud nothing
teiidsto make home wore delightful.
• • '
1lLow the. Ancients kisde'llareteal.
, • .
. That they had saddles of Rome.. Bait,
there is, no doubt, • but they werekelikS
oure. They,' were:chitties of. a eiugle piece
Woven tbioklikea ato pet, or were doubted,
or .eten quadrupled, *awl sometimes wad-
ded. Among the thoutioudt, • of hernias
tee:mitts of, • hardese,, 'heidle.bits, backfire
auid other* horse-paraphereethrt in the
• roake;rterteetrif the; " brnoll brOLZAi" in tile
Naples Museum, there 48 4304 a Stirrup, not
a spur, .u. t: a burseehoe.., Among the
equestrian istatuesmaulatathettee tu bronze,
traarble andtiurit orate, the eaddte, is rarely
to be found Int 88 .04,01patiiOn 40 thOse
1 queetrion .statues. : greeter part are'
al'tren a einiplei "oloth. The full
equeetrian"B4H4lieSilLtili441:618 of theBsiiioa .
Balbi-.thattier-rand-a'apilr he,
(not in the theatre, as moat
ciirerohe LtOdi goidets. tell the. traveller) ,at
Heronionautat, are 'Without eaddies, aud of
,coureau. without ettrtupia: ..The Balbi ride
bare -back The fttilooze eqUerierieteetittue
iu brork'zioof Nam,' duscerveeed obly half a
century. ago iu.'Potepeit, represents the
Emperor ridieg .without saddle or stirrups.
The 'wouderiul • brot•ze anattuette-group of
Alexander tom& Bueeplialus gives ua, the
•pose of ,thegreat Mairedotrian . seated upou
his bare -back isteee, and he Oppettreriding
oahnly teed fearleeely into, 'battle; dealing
heavy blown•tVi,h tot much three as it he
had tatirrupa to steed up C.
F,ktcher, in the Evangelist. • •. •
Neiveille, the I8Junmt.i. as n Book agent.
• A few years agOtt Well -Wilt and pleasant
looliiug man Of atkoit 50 year caliedoti me
40 SOliCiD my subscription for Appleton's
Vectycloped He wait very agreteable,oud
thinigh cf Etiglieh birth had a wide rituge.ol
•thfortuattoo, Ruth int• could ouly be obtained
by trattelHis card bore. -the name of
"George tf.:Peroy,"• and during out tater-
View her referred .40 his HAM!, uies among
the Zalus and denounced the Zulu war in
au earnest manner. The favorable ite pees.
loll he wade Was deepeued by eubstodent
convereatious. H113 intorniation Was sur-
-prising, and I never' funnd hint:at fauit.
• He had atudied at.O.xford, end when I aeked
him what offiotie morreeponded to . OUT
college president, he readily replied : "Sir,
our Premdeet is theoCbaticellor.' The co'v
no:Anise ofthie reply. preed that he knew
sucoetbing of univereity life. Agent'while
talking of Africa, I kqeired obnoeruillg the
routeof travel, aunt- he intinediately
replied "Sir. the beet way is to follow the
-mountains." Other queeticani were spawned
iu an equally norreot niauner. 114 an agent
for the sale of the euoyalohedia• he was
remarkably succeueful, tarot the Al platens
telt highly favored iu Obtaining hiseervreee,
awl yet he was 'at:that very titne rebbiug
therein a very iutemiourt manuer,'and had
his 'fourth wne at his boarding bouee.—
N cut York Correspondence Cincipiati Enquirer,
•
Arr. 4.1odstone. •
Mr. Gladstone, the stateeman, has been
repeatedly deeeribed, but it ni not often
that we see ally thing of Mr.. Gladstooe, the
math • He Is retiring He loves btek
streets. • It is no impede,' thing to gee him
looking lute the windows of a hric-a-brito
store. On summer days heoftert ttrolle'
from Parliameht to his beget) in 'Halley
• Street, an hoer/sided epeotetor of all thot
goes on around hitn.. He is not well
deemed. Efikl.troueere ore generally baggy
at the knees. Hie tall collars are already
familiar in caricature& He rarely buys a
maw hat. tle,has a strong, hard, bohy face,
to powerful forehead, a obaracteristio hoe&
a firm month (a little toa hard in its limn).
Ur. G schemes would [drib° the " Most
ordinary observer as a man of great intel-
lectual phyteque. •
Th a wedding otttat of a S nith Carolina,
bride enibremeti fointeen dresses, teh paint
of sheet; aud live bonnets. She is going to
be very happy.
The rarest and most expensive stookinge
are those of flue Brusseie lace. They are
moulded to shape and put on like a glove,
and are Need Up at the back with bilk
twist;
Dry.,W. Y. &pith, a Moog° oculist,
propoilee to Satinlitle 70 000 pairs cf eyes in
ThioitgoSOL1001,1, for the purpose of study.
ing the Why and wherefOre of the increase of
myopia.
Tow Kenosszvo impLompo.
The passer Meg in the exp, bus fu Gas
Venerated Front fit.,
Girhi aa Wan as boys netd to ut derstand
about kerosene expioeione, nage the Vitra-
tion Union. A great many fatal ardsdehte
happeo frow. trying to pour IA Into a lamp
whiuu it le %kited. Mont perbous suppose
that it ia the kerosene need that explodes
and that if they are very careful to keep
41)0 011 from lisieg touched by the fire or the
light there will be no explosion. Rut that
48 uot so, /1 180480 or a lump iii left about
half full of kerosene oil the oil wili dry up,
that n. evaporate " a little and will form,
by mowing 10 the in the upper port ot
the eau, a very explosive gas. You copilot
SHa thol gas &by more thou you can Bee air.
But 11 14 is disturbed an driven out, aud
blest) remelted it, there will be a terrible
explosion, although the blaze did not touch
the oil. There are 'severed other ligindit
used in hoitsewand workshope which will
protium) on explosive vapor in this way.
Beozine 18 One, binning fluid 18 another,
and neptha, alcohol, ether And chloroform
may do the same thing. In a New York
ehop lately there was a can of benzine or
gosoltue on the Sim. A boy 16 years old
lighted a cigarette and threw me burning
'BAUM on the floor nor the Oen He cltd
not 'dream that there waif soy danger;
became) the liquid was looked up in the
coo. 13tit thero. woe a great exploaiou, ahd
he *as badly hurt This pouted very
mysterious, The probability is that the
out had-beenattandihg there a good while,
and a good deal of vapor had formed, some
ef which hatl' leaked out eround the
stopper and was hanging in a sort of
invieiblp °loud over and around the clan,
and the aloud, when the match struck it,
exploded. Bookie° a girl dies to fill a
heroserte lump witherue first extinguiph.
tug the • frieze. Of 'courts° the lamp
ill needy empty or ehe wiaild not care
to fill it. The empty tiptoe ha filled
with a o'oud of •explosive • vapor aria-
ina from the., oil in• the lamp. When
ehe lushee the nozzle of the OHL into the
limp at the -top aud begins to pour, the oilt,
running We' the "lamp, filis. the empty
•oparne and pushes the oloud exploeive
vapor, and the vopor is. Obliged tO pear, over
the edges of the lamp into the room out-
side. Of coulee It !strikes against the
bleaing Work which the girl is holding dowu
by the aide, The blaze uf the wick diets the'
anviatele cloud a vapor on fire,' and there,
Is an explomen which ignites the ,oil and
sermors it over her elothes and over the
furniture in the room. . Tbie Lithe way in
.whirsh a herneene limy buiet&L .This &Wm,
thing may hat pen alum a girl p Aire the
oil over the firean the mug& 0t atoye, if
there hi Is olcud ot 'exploeive vapor le the
upper part 01 the atir, ur if the steam is. hot
euorigh to vamorize quiokly some of the oit
• 488 14 fallii. Remeenuer iii M not the oil but
the i eel/able vapor which 'explodee. Tak-
lug care et the .oil will not proteet you.
Ahern is ••.-no safety except to the rule ;
Neyiar 'pour oil on 2. lighted tlye eir int0. a
lighted lamp." ••
• rertional.
Thomas Harrison; the "boy" preaoher.,
•hes just celebrated Ida 43rd hirthclean "He
objects to being spoken of .as.." tho old
buy," • •• • . ,
The Prioce of Wales will be again nomi-
nated fot the office of Grand Maliter ot
• Euglibb Freeniatone at the quititt•rly -core.
Mollie/ultra of the Greed Loewe of Erigland
next week. . •
Pepe LBO XLTI, will,before the clime of
the ' year, coiner' the Order of • the Goldeu
• Rose upon Freindi ladies who live
ietbcii:lwtyurdhltitigundhed themselves by:char-
-Si tting Bull is now BO far advanced in
0381 1)48410, that he is brought to believe the
nepkin to be 'the beams 'of oivilization, auad
whet, he comes to the dinner table he oere-
folly enreade his napkin on .his• chair and.
itotemnly sus down on it.
• The venerable Edwin P.;Whitple, of BOE...
40n, Inks veetured upon a veritable ntot in
remarking to Mies Rote Field at the con- ,
elusion 01 one of her Mormon. lectures "1
do not tide's your euuuciation •ie half • so
beautilut as your dentuiciation."'
• The lath" Peter Paul. McSweeney "the
don labarreled apostle," es Jribia Mitchel
: 'bailed him, Wes several times Lord MS/or'
of Nubile. • When he was first eleoted lie'
• made to very ridomlomi opeenh at48 bouquet
he the Mennen House. Eta spoke of, the
huge gallovvglaseee of his tweet tors,: and of
the - gimlets of Ottaholio 'emancipation,
whichanuabled kiM, the son of a peasant',
to become Lard .111tio Or of the proud eity`of
Dablin. 10-0h,"..he cried, 44 if my greed-
• mother could •• only .see, me now, how
estoniebed she.weuld." • The next day the
Fettion paper, :Tits Irish 'People, whioh was
bitterly oppuee,d to McSweeney and the.
loyal Oatholiee, gave Val amusing account.
of the batquet, tiocomPanied by some'
queer versee,..ete f winch Was as •follows
And there stood DicSweeety; of battle-axe fame,
And b• Side hire the ghost, et ma arationaother
OBItte_
• astmished," the thouted," This teems to me
• quarel • . .
Arramhayroettevr341148 gouthon, what made you Lord
• • Thai Prince of Wales,' whose taste in
tobacco am the respectful admiration tot .ail
disciples of Raleigh, got lately from BAUM-.
gorten, the gleat lobaccomst of . Betel
eareet, a ..spetual brand of •Havana, for -
worded by the proprietor, 'who grew aud
*manutactured the artiale. . The . Prince
'called in a few days latek, and', having in;
Biafra/1k way proiredthe weed, cffered to
buy tibe -lot. "All right ; • honoxed, .de-
lighted'!" " Ooly: Baumgartenadded thot
the cigars were 61.25 apiece. "Your cigars,"
at once said Albert Edward, "are the
fineet I have ever enaoked, btit I am 'too
poorto give nob sluice." There happened
to drop Pa a week iatee—the fates arrange
%Moe fortunate coincidence:le—the Duke of
S therlaud, to whom the merchant tendered,
.14 epeounen of the particular ware, His
Grace, having teethe by fire and smoke,
surd the oigarsaiere delightful, bnOtoodear.
Just whoa the Psi, be , remarked.'" 44 Ab,
thenhe priced but • did not buy, because
tbey Were beyond his Weans. On,
take .the lot. Saud them, with my compli-
ments, to 'Marlborough House."
• George Gould,' Jay's sen, ie said to be a
nice youog man. He is apologetically
spoken of as not having iiad mutat chance
yet, for be is only 23 food does not look
over 20, but his father is puithing him
eaid when the old -Mae hi dead the
•boy will make the nettle better one than
it hi bow. He has already put him into
egieral boar& of directors, end Sven now
he often efts at the head of the table as
Vice-Presideut of the Western Union, and
calla to order and ptesides Over a hoard ih
whi,h Russell, Sage and Sidney Dalton tit
as directors. He ie careitil af himself,
avoids bad oompany, and is perhaps natter
fitted to take charge of hta er's millions
than Maby another eon of a father tvith
letie than a tenth of Gould'e wealth to leave
John Roberts, M.P., otitis about three
hundred metes of laod on which Ltver; out
is built, ()obtaining at present 7,500 hinnies,
with a population Of about 40,000. No
liquor ealdOne are permitted On the pro,
petty,
ISPIRANISE 1811101'.,
nnOirtntilarate:tri nuteeisrlexioymiinittutile 41.eutWtirhe'R
Have ver into I reunite.
The Winnipeg Free Press says:: About 10
o'clock on Satlinlay night all unfortunate
awn:lent Ocourred in room 46 of the Brun,.
wick Hotel, %violin may yet result fatally.
The abl
to ou 20y years W
s fluego,Ilivt?Vtiohtsyuboeturtgwmorakn-
ing oh summer at Moose ;few as head
Paiater tar 1114 0. P. R. He Arrived from
t/3e went in coinpaoy with three other
young men OD Saturday afternoon, and
regietered at the Bruntwioh. At about
hall -p584 9 he thud oue of his friends, named
A. B; Ledingliain, went to their Nun fur
the night. leginigham had partly Un-
dreseett when hie nose cohomenced
bleeding, and, he pmeeeded to bathe it in
a barrio cif water on the wathstand. While
in that potation he was otartled by the
repore ot a pistol within a few
fest of- —him, and immtdiately the
lamp was extinguiehed. He at once
euruutoued amistauce, aud beveral persons
from the parlor near by rubbed into the
room with a lamp and disoovered Roust
clinging to the bedpost with one nand 'while
the other was preesed over his right Ilkley
and blood meant through hie fiugers and
eaturated hie Writ% Medical aid,wite
diately tomitummd, when to was found that
a bullet had eutt-red Ms right hide between,
the Mai aud sixth rite, and, taking an
upward direotton, lodged beneath . the•
shoulder blade, near the erne, Blood
!lowed profueeky trona the wound, and
borne diffieulty was experienced in check -
lug the hemorrhage. The victim retained
oonsciouenees,, and though sufferme, intense
pant wail able to tell • 11044( no received the
olut. He stated that it wee purely acci-
dental, aud cleared his rooro-mate of all
in:apemen which the peculiar eireureets,nces
• mighe have totaohed to hitn if the bullet
had calmed inetaut deeth, He paid he was
uudreeeing lumeelf, aid was taking his
revolver, o 22 -calibre one, ow of his
:hip pocket, wheu it blipped from hut hand
mud tenth that:ker. The report folloWed
Inetautly, and he felt a sharp twinge in his
a:de. The .weepon must haye fallen with
the butt downwards and the hammer ex-
ploded the mutt idge agaiost which it rested
wheu it etruok Late last night
ittruittl" wee• still couecioue, though very
weak, ited. suffering a good &sal of pain.
• The doctors were not able to exPress an
'opieion'as to the reiorli of the wound, but
earwig hi pe of his recovery are enter-
tained. /lomat has been' uhout three years
thisnoutstry find has &maven'. -Hetvils'
ou his way to epehd Cutistmas with his
widowed mother, who lives iu Tuokersmith
township; three miles from Sealorth, Ont.
He }ss. brothers' aud les:ere aed a Jorge
Lumber 61. trieuds lli 4110 tiounty. of Huron,
who Will deeply eeeree 13133 miefortutte.
Toni not Isis wa4848ivis14.
Thc iternit.r.oa.ble Ativeneures ot n rrenetle.
•• Count und laIs 014012eY. "
Mciet petiole in thie neighborhood have
•
. heard or 'read of detective T. IC Wynn, of
•Niegara Falin, who has been thetrumeutat
iu the capture of hundreds of oruninals
great mud email attempting to °roes the
_border. He ir, now Oa 1)148 way to Bogota,.
the capital of the 'IIuiced States of Clolom-
• hitt in SoLlth Awerioo, in company with a
•Freneli nobltinau, :aunt Charles de Wris-
orri. Their dowpattionehip eagle .about
in this Way. ' About the eud of last •july
the touut, withhtti isecretary, arrived 111
NO York from Perla, and the Count who
•is about 50, tok oak and he wag laidup
two nitortue. • Just es he Waraahout to leave
:hitebed; itte Beisretary, 11/.. Paequay, stole a
.fi,c21.11.1.61....11,31.., .12 equattit ..e.potturialt. PA -pi conattuen_di.
•theri oanie to tue Falls where he tenteined
wine time rind took a run over to Toronto.
:•Ditring hie etay of tbree weeks there his
valise was out, open i.0 his room in one of
the hotele,thei-Aritermainattici 8600 in gOld
Wite 'Apter, and thaw eel tiebte pegs. This
'also wits lobo, as the thief was not caught.
He then rettiruedto the Felts where, being
afraid of ruorta.'robtaeriee and extortions,
,he. Wats • odvieed by the manager of the.
Bank of Briliett Moab Antetica and another
ieflueutitti Twtouj�1 gent:en:1%u . to consult
• the Police Magistrate et the Foils. ' Be did,
so, tied for o iew dap, Datective.WYrin Woe
detaileilui look alter turn. Re made up
hiermiud Tom would have to iiceotopany
him to Bogota, 'lied he got•the required pet -
1336111011. from the Chief and the •Pctegistrate.
They spent a few :Needle- in Chicago, St.
1.40Ule,Itlackson, Teritt, and Js,oksoo, Plias.,
and are now lu New 0:tea1s, awaiting. ilk
stettmer for" Clohno by way of Havana.
They,vajll °roes 'the 'Is alined efyitantina to
Aspeuwall and their take the steotner again.
Dettsouve Wynn will not be back, 4111 41)6
middle of neatezieuth.. •.
. *ELL sterar:A. TiStenzv.
drartiten nensitlion 1 hcRuaa1ntateum
Leona Lust Sight.
• ' "013!Oh 1"-iihrieked fully five hundred.
terrified emcee leet fright in .the. Royal
MUMMA Theritre'or, ()kettle, a trapeze per.
• went flying. headlong .frout • his
lofty [oriel, perch onthe east eule of the.
ceiling dowu 4aaI gle and os tiwift 488 1811
arrow towards the fl ,ur Oil illo west side of
'the, halP-alfeat ezcl1enueuut. emoted Nearly
all presetit root to their •feet• with 'owe-.
stricken tountenancee, itud amid the din
and olottereould hoheard on all tidea ouch
painful; eaprestionstte".ne's killed," "poor
fellow," boa. The more.- oaurageoue, .to
prevent any Mutt mg general .• oat,coma'
tuanded dime on thkar feet to it down... A
short 'suet:mese thilbWer, While " Manager
C.im,Direetor Sprague 'and .a feat others
were mending aroutai the prost0,te actor.
The;imptelision euteetaiued by nearly all
that Orville had beer, either killed or badly
wouhded was, it wee tbetight, In a measure
verified Wheti a atnakgroup were Seen lift-
ing the uufortubette fellOw on to the stage
aa if he were o corpse and carrying haul
bellied the wimp.; lo a few Bea:nide after-
wards the audientie were greatly surprised
to see. Oreille Walk ou t) the oebtre of the
stage as if. nothiug hacl happeued to him.
Ele.e.poke 'a few words, .expeeseitig his deep
regree that the aueidentbad octurred.---•
Ottattuz Nee Prep. ,
• • An Rusty on Molise
"Finger noile," eitye tie Peal Mail
Gazette, according to the experte of the
uew fad, if long and 'slender, denote imegi-
• nation and p ketio feelibge, love of art tura
litmus ; 16 keg mud flat, they are the eign
ot prudence, good smote aud grave mental
14411141e8 ,ib wide ateirobort, tif anger and
rudeuess, controverity and obetinuoy ; a,
heolthy eerier siguifise vIrtue, health, happi-
nese, courage and ; dry had
brittle trade are mites of shger, Cruelty,
quarrel, 'oultuivating even in Winder ;
°naiad in this ellepe tif clovae, hypOeriay and
wtokedoess ; soft, fetsbleueSa ot body and
mind; and lastly, we are told that short
nails guitwed down to the Hsieh, signify
itillineee and &temp ,tion."
Looltwood tttair TiUtie Wilkine when
a child, ttud lived hstu Suippeneville and
Corsiott,Cflatrion twenty, Pa. She retteried
as la,wyer named thong, hut separated treat
him before marrying Air. Lockwood.
1 UN 41 in I IC 'to St KtMilliA.,
noly• Dott flro wps 21.,124,2f.• Ikea
Irroinea for reairs setoonto Wertz.
Cirand Doke Radio/al •i• -•ti horn May 19,
1868, at ezqi.koe Selo 4 r•ir't• village], azi
•impbrial summer pa'ater
of St. Putersluirg, say s Jiu,o Doan Proctor
in " St. Hicholue," Tine ni tit us palace
Eitel:ids upon the Neva .-or tnti hun-
dred feet above the tvet••,r, and is stn.
rounded by extensive vs?. bo perfectly
kept that you oan hae•ily ii4. ovon a demi
• leaf upon the lawns, ntmeee have
so mnoli to learn the.i, they must begin
early and lose no time. Until Wu ninth
year the education of tho GrabDuke wee
Superintended by Madame De Plutow, one
of the ladiee of hobor who 3uti4 followed
the Prituseeto Dagmat from Denmark tO
Himont. Itt 1877 the charge wee given to
Lieutenant -G. tiered Datalovatun, litho has
arrangeh•the Prince's hoore 4.1 instruction
1*4 anoordance with thotie of the militarily
gyMnabillins, Hie reghlar loosinie are trona
8 in the morning till 3 in the tifternoon, but
With tomb inteirci•inious that the,
never exceed five •hogars a day, Hut
afternoons are • Spent- wallie
with the Emperor, or la outdoor
sports—ridiug, ewittat 1444, fl48Ilu, fortchaga
gymnitetice—of all of w total hot, very fend;
and his eveninge ore to rreparing
next day's leebone, realung d kteping48
•
diary, He is ao woe:at-Lit :goody aod lin.
guiet ; enters into lite .3*"3/1.1411 muck
',pith, and spatter, fitter. tly Russian, Demuth,
Ftench, Gorman mod Erigitell. The Crow*
Princes of Engleud ithd Germany may
etudy if they bite tot the but
the heir ot Russia mirat csuc ed by prim
vete tutore. Last May, upeo„, hie 111th
birthday, the day ou which the Prince
became of age, he m tiewLd Lin oath or
adheeenon to tti orteriaolt Olourob, the
cereilionies ado photo iv, the chapel of
thaWuz4ter Palearu ot . St. P. torahurg. Art
htir to the'llarodati tit/tate lte tteetnopanied
• the Emperor seri Emoross to thou. recent
melding with the tiototalgt 8 of Germany
and Anatria. In person th Prume le slight,
and delicately formed, vo th f•e.ir euinplexion
and auburn hair, !dui ize manelly wtare 48
sailor costume, whi 1 attue hie blonder
• figure. He 40 a 411484e1 *ha Preobra-
jenoky (Transfigure- _or f losat .!, the. fametui
reguneut foiroded by Peter tate Greta, ahd
)an, birth he fe attention (tibia) of all the
Cossacks of the empire. I 16 114' privilege
to wear' the Uniform tf tuay:regiment he
pleases. •-`1 • • s
(unions, Action leer grIceelt • •ai
•'A. decision was elveri feeterday •
in a breaah-of•prorniee co..e to withal a•sin-
gular point WAS railied TOO notion Wes at
the instance 01 ne1)7.1 chat, 48 cloonistio
.Servant, who oltiartied ilatitagoe of 2i0O
againet Robert By, ouotrao or, Lor breach
of• pronlitie of matnago. Oloority alterthe
action: wag .00naniebead tier, plata toff wade
the acquairoance 01 eon( hi saw-
miller—whom alie maul :Lq tbo action
agalpet Ray was p.mairat. Tho dimulty
thus raked v71411; i4 appaarod, entiono pre.
cedent. The Solioitor ler the (16fendant
pleaded that tun wortatto 16a; mit aue With-
out the conaurreuce of ithtliatiol Alter
hearing conneelthe r 43•,..intb8ed the
aption, finding that,* the ktuthand of the • .
pleintiff had not neon ei red as a concurring.
party, Bite we [4 nOtentitLintd proceed. with • •
• it. • The eller& said the let lin far as •
it Was an action tor' danototia far alleged
-
breach of proinise of that.leg:•,'wea absurd
and irfappliCable. The t of damage
in encik a .case aroae 1143411 tile luBB'Of the
expected bttebeud," :tun1 whet the older .
lawyeendoeoribed 1.)89 of market"
with 50038 U1101/Mbe for .w(iu.r4ded "feel-
ings." The plaintiff Ilaywg'ulatried 481000 : •
..the.aOtioo.vttaa.ratseti4iod- ota.veed
Buller:it of any such dau.dige: She had been- •
already coropenated, wad had p4141 it out Of ..
the power.of the defemi, All longer ' to
•offerhimeett to hat, evou lar ieclined
to di) so, It Wee to be Jeri vq the' but an/
she had got Was as good tit', 414(4.9140 she said
She had lost: Bdt, at toll ovcoliiii it watt not
the function of the cement of ht ,to.attecUpt
to decide that the ot, s was worth es ,
muoh :more -or leis tinin tho other.— Et.
James Gazette. '!•1 • • •
• ;
• The .Cintreh otAktegiona's Wealth., •
• .
The Wealth of: the Orairch of goklaud in •
-worldly,. not spiritua$:. goeds ui just now .
recetvivg. considerable ' attention, but
• 'speculation hao not .muolr hoot) whioh tea .
base iteelf! for the :reason that no one
• knowe prionsely what tor income is, eXoqpt.
the ,two .archbishops; 'and they, probably •
wiSely,keep the knowledge st,oureir to ';
themselves: -Borne of the plOst valuable
property in Eug)and•boluugs to the Church
whioh has held it ever sines it L'In taken
• away from the Roman'Catholica by Henry
VIII. and bOdowed upon the -newly created
bishops to make their. fealty ••:sure. ' The
Arobbifilep of Canterbury,' the primate of
all England, has an an weal hicatne of
875 000 In addition to L .tutieth Palaces, Pit
Itondott r city resitleuce. The Archhiehop.
of York, the Primete of/Englan 1, receiver
660,0001i year beilidw• Two reeldennes and a
large household dr nffi•itle. The tithes of
eortie of the °thee bi-linpo are: lotedon,
850 000; Durham. 855 000 ; Wioterester,
055,000 ; Ely, 827,500; :trio 13h, I/termini; -
Oxford, Saliebury bald Woretp,rei-, 825 000
etaoh. The hirshop of , &id :reed Mar., who
has neither eithedral nor di6 ,iu:, $10 009
a Year fin doing nothiug.- iqiefili:e4;i Beg ibte.
Vagaries AS tet•atittetzu
• Mrs.•Parvenu bed been ahrtiad, attd when
she returned she had moot( to *418, eays the
Merchant Tretreitcr; Gee Atiar• 6 liy *Ai
talking to her: "Ah, toy clear Mrs, Par -
Venus did, you go into Lely ?" "On, yes "
was the reply, "We w4* all over it titid
saw everything." ,," Dd ytai at i.be \Teti,
oat ?" "Yes, we went there, het• it Wail
erupting fearful %hat day, theiltvP ri up lava
and smoke and stuff, and they ettioutied 14
woulenet be sate to go up to the top.. It.
Watt rt fine epeetaole from the- eoutoovattry '
of :the hotel, and 1 ebieyiko q,/re as tnneh '
As if I had been 11481)4 (143 tin, 1.1
—, 1-Ge4ting at lite ;? his,. ; •
"Note, eir," Had the Ptoneett ing atter-
nay pompously, "yotturii a railroad man, '
you say. NoW, sir, let'm 1300 how touch you
ktiow about your bushwee, sir. • What •
motive, air, hen your company for moiling,
its trains thrOugh the eity faster Alan_ the
ordinannee decree?"
"What motive?"
0 Kea, eir, What motive? (1,mne., airl"
"Why, locomotive, I iihodl s.oy,"
The withese wee fitted' for n.intetript ol
e4art.—.6'hicago News ,
•
Lotd Mayor Nottaae, od, in the
author of a plah to'raise F-10 24 memo- •
rial kind in aid Of aged Iiingly-h toit-adoe
empioyeali. • '
. joileph' Thorpe, who btu intiiri Leng.
fellow'o,daughter, hamie, a' nt 4100 bt a
wealthy lumberoiat of Witootoati and a
netted athlete. He is 481•40 11. g..altiate Of
tiarvard.
The Wife of Lietit. Grimly titOilaa the
elavyieg admiratiolt of her frh tnitt by dis-
playing on her parlor ti mr i irge rug o
seal fur, a rode of her Ituohahil'o Arab'
fe.