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. ANT ASYLUM STORY.
iik nrek mare.
. lwerde of the letter 1 hod found the day
;eignature coned in ontoket oltape, And
oometbing eto4 to -me thet art he rooked. to
:before danced before. My ,eyes ; the initial
44afrot he liOekOd'enother woman in bit,
seemed to pierce my brain, end tny
My head bed *cited and wilted all that ones, Another women laid her cheek
upon. s !meet end olung to lihn end
.eighecl in hie embrace. - At their moment
1 itnew whetwat meant hy--hell. I Sting
my halide up • solidly ; 1 cou/d not breathe.
tor h tioillea. Then 1 Jooked again,
Watched agebt, but I could only aee the
!lamming motion of the . chair. The
agonrgrew upon me. I left the window
end began to Wolk wildly up ind down the
room. It seemed to me 1 mutt know the
truth .ok die. I put On my bonnet, and
fiew down the street. 1 'wooed and rang
the bell of my loveee bow for the firot
time. 1 ioiced for him, demanded to me
him instantly.
Warr it my fancy or cliff/ the servant re.
gard MO OUrlOhrly i She answered then
thatthe waa 'Very buoy, beoeuee his wife
had come.
Immediately she spoke the pain ill- ray
head 'owned to loosen; a. strange numb*
ness came upon me for the moment. The
'servant, however, had Continued her et.
p/azietion, that they were very busty get.'
tingready to go away lupin. himr. I tern.
ed and went down the atope and back to
my own /maw The flight of atairo were
-very long and steep, yet 1 did not l000e
My breath ascending se •hurriedly. . 1
watched Again . for .a Moment 'hem the
Window; And again 1 tote hitn rooklng.
"rid knew that her head Wes pillowed on
Ms breast. I knew . that he wee Nee
again to me; that he. had returned to one
he heti worn to me he never loved. .
• I did not waote any time. . My mind
Was instantly madentp. I knew it was
My cluty,that whichI ohould do ,O once;
a dety to myself end the world. . I only
pettoed a pu2ment'te perfect ho vit was the
beer way,! e surest. An idea came to
me, as I glanced at the little Pirrorof my
dreetineosoe. A card watt sticking in the
frame :the cerd of a mane -friend of his-,
with"); I lad phsyfully taken fromhis
placket -one day. I took this •eard and
wrote upon it„, disguising My hand:
il Oome to me at inicci at the. -----hotel"
eea 'hotel beta blot* away. "1 muot see
you on important: business." I took
eornething elm besideto the 'card ; ' oome-•
thing out a chest of . drawere ; eemething
which I firat examined.carefetly to Bee if
It was -right. Jimmied: dowii into the .
etreetand over to the hotel which I had
mentionekhiring a menenger and biding
him 'take the card at once .anct eity 'the
'goat/email would wait there..
' V welted in the ladies." parlor, whooe
windowle meat pato to the Mitt entrance.
I waited cal:Ay, for it was my duty that.
I-ihould perform. . • .. , ' ° .-'
a He came promptly. 1 eaw . bine': Crow
the street blithely. I . knew he- had .• no
• thought of deAbh or the women he was ith
ready .to foreake. • 1 ,knew his Judea
heart -at last. ' And (seen so I, ran out to,
• reeet hiMa what that: which 1 .had taken
-froth the -cheat Of drawers nolonger Eitt-
fien inrhy drops bosom, bub. levelled ist
his bre:min:tows brain: •
So it, the aingle piatol -Shot he fell down
dead '. so'rey duty. area done. As of Other.
iernitn, the world' 'was -well rid of 'MM.'
And she atlY waited 'night wait. -forever
for his vele% He Would lie no more ; he
Wiefild harni none other, '' He woe deed,
and at my, hands, • • ,
Yet here in the graynens and the silence
of nay .retreat;•1. sentetiraeo retnerab.er his
. Attar grade, his "eareleas &oaf . his- bttthe
gat': so he came to meet hie death, and at
suclalimes I ltke to write itialidoetn, iny
'reatan-my reason why 'I:killed bint 1'
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mornieg ; beginnleg before daybreak, the
nein gredually altered from an ecoesionel
Mew, Pr start to. a dull eteady throbbing,
which could hi. no Way be cured or leee.
sued. I bad hardly gent all hour
tineigghatit the night ; the troubled ohm -
beg in,te Which 1 had dropped at Mot:gents,
st bad been ben/II:With horribleeceneo and
altadows tbab iniee down open me with
stifling prepare. I awakened frequently
So toes the covering! away and rime front
the bed in the dhn light of my 'Viet
room, and °Oh time I would pass hastily
to the window of ble apartment oppoeito,
where1 knew he "leg soundly_and with-
out feet:. I often hunted eut of iny
clow into the: Pill September night
and listened, listened alined. aa If I
would like to bear bint breathing in his
• Peseeful slumber. And when I had lean,
ed and lietened and wititeduntil exhaust-
ed with my own intensity of feeling, I
wtrehl releirn and throw myself again
upon the bed encl try vainlyto find met.
That nighb 1 That night t The thought
of it atilt halve over tite like promo huge,
terrible winked crenture of the dark.
. Never WAS I escape lto cruel horrout 1
It was the end °fedi, and yet 1 knew' it
not, lb wits the liner night of many sint-
liar night" through whiohhe had slumber-
ed peaoefully and I had lain 'awake and.
euffered. The end, ef the torture to
'Which he had subjected' me was at heed,
and yet I knew it not. Since that terri-
ble day, months. preview!, when I heti
trot found him -false and Once which I
could place no abooltte faith' n his deede
and wordci; he had apparently striven to
make amends. •He had come to live
nearer my own hone l .he had .pleaded
over and over again for Pardon, had prom -
hied over and Over that tnir confidence
should never again be so abutted. And, in
the month o that needed elapse before.our
- tutoring° he chose to dwell close to Me -
se that from liht window he could see nie
at my own, at .work or oeatieg, ao,that I
might wave my hind to Uri And *new
that he was smiling back. • •
Juab now, in the ellenee- of- this place,
and with my.eyes e2oised,1 could ego his
face again; framed in the, -half 'opened
heavy ,green shutters of Me windows!.
• eould hear hint vrhistlinga snatch Of blit'hc
melody, across the narrow street.
a Sometimeo my eyes feel as' if they were
. on fire. And -'et how long ego it happen:
. ed 1 But sometime even now, when I.
a am sitting here :done, it seeme to be all
happening over again, .and 1 nail myself'
wandering again the streetti of thecity,
breading the smooth stones of bite...pave.
ment, as if to treed out my own former
.footprints left there in ,hours of bibtereet
agony. At ouch times I re.live•the whole
. of.that terrible year. Every honk, :every
•. moment repeats' itself with unaltering_
fidelity I remember, how he looked.; how
long he had been. my! lover; how ardent
. his 'eve and devotion had seemed ; how he
had soughtand pnioutia me ; howatlength
Ihed been rti.oyect to care for hImandhd
promised to Wed hint. 1 rernemb.er the
certain °Wade's which.delayed our' mar;
; the friende.who Warned me against'
• hint; the acorn ,witit which 1 repelled all
who miglit seek to. Warn me against him.
Iremeraber the Bacrifices 1' made forhint.
I remember Iny 'disooietto ef Ms first
and'the agony I euffered thereat..
After that the old conildenoe, :the old
treat 'teemed toyanhilt and life to becoine
a dreadfidihniertairity Of hones and featat,
All the morenerrYtattas my 0014es/1-melt
hadostorificed friendts and acquientatiees
because- of my lover, rejecting 'all . their
hints and ,admonitions until they turned..
fr.:Milne in anger and disgust). • All alone
was ; all alone, and waltieg petit:Ably'
for -the dais to pass,and working diligent-
. ly when. and as I siould, thorigh . secretly
diaturlaed . at moments 'by little things
that he might de or say,. and 'other little.
incidents of which. het.wasintaWare.
One into the finding of; a leitei ono°
after he had gonenway, upon • the flo.ors'
beaidethe chair on:wide/a he sal; a letter,
. from another wontazi,. though whether or
no to him 1 loved -1 Cottld hot., tell. No"
sign:Auto but One initial letter curled
• snake-eheped at the end ; notteginningbat
t'lly darling." •Ne., date so that Tcontd
. t11 nothing, nothing,. nothing 1'' I could
only fear. It-avaa on the day beferetitio
terrible last nightathitt1had found...this
letter. In the everting when he had Anne
somas to call ttpon me, I spoke to •hlm,
of ib, queatiOpecj hint and frankly told
himlny .thonghts. Helauh�d and kiwi -
ed nie. I know not why, but instinctively
• I bhotight of the klatiof Attlee, and won.
.dered if that earlieet ttaltor - had not
langlied;and if 1i1 laugh had not Sound-
ed like that just et thy. ear. "A oillygiel,"
• itty lever had fetid.
As 1 saidbefere, "ray hear WWI aching
.vireteitedIy that morning,. and1 could
barely force a amileWhen the heavy abut.
tent across the way -Were thrust wide open
and hie face looked Out, •
I watched for Ulric) leave the home.'
Ho remained a 'Ong time in his-Morti;
• moving about busily, .puthing thine here
and there; I wondered why. .• .
. 'When at length I. saw a him Atm otit
into the Street, he walked very rapidly
and did net GLIM look up to lift. his hat
and emile.
My head nehed dully as 1 Went abotit
My work. :
A
It was mid-afternoon When, Mated at
nay window, watehiughle Window to know
when he should have teterned, I fell into.
a dreamlese, exhausted doe, from Which
1 shortly aronged at'a cllcldng dolma ft.am
acroes. He had cora° 'untie for one of
• the /hatters, Which had both 'been epee,
Woe closed, and Sonia one moved behind
It. -I looked eagerly for Mete Sign, and
nerkthat he was rocking to and fro in hie
focWng.chair behind the ehutter which
.was cl000d, and at each Motion Arab plott-
ing it A little lie that 1 ceillti catch a nor-,
rtrix glimpse of clittir back and hie head
above..„ 1 waited and Waited. And etill
he rocked to and fro. And /dill he haver
tented te look Upon me, X °Odd not
uncleretand why he ishould not turn. ,1
loaned forward and 'Whistled . a anateh Of
tune we both know and kited. 1 *creed
My. band -At Attuned tit MO he Meet hive°
seen and known. -And Mill he rooked./ .
Then, auddetty, terrible thetight
• o raa e.
• • "
Conceit it an lusuffetable quelityth a Men
or woman, an -honest.oelf-eatitnatien le quite
another' thing. A maxi must, however, have
Indisputably prored by his deads'tliat he. le
worthy to atand Among the greata:beforean
aosureption of worth can be forgiven him.
• Boma . of the nail -laudatory remarks of
fantails 'Men' hare an honest shriplieity,
which amities 'tie, while we are linable to
cliariiite• their enbstential - • '
*. Victor Huge , vet a high valuation 'upon
his own geeing. . lt Is said that, In speak-
ing of a continued exiatence after death, he
depleted that only. in a future' life should
he attain the.truo greatness whioh hie teeth-
ly. career merely,promised.•
At. present,' said he, "1 am but the
todpole,ef an arel'engel,"
Although ihis metaphorIcel natural (or
aeleetia)) history may have are,* his hear-
ers as beiiig irreveriettait evidently
expreoned his honeet,opinion of his own.greet
powers.,
•• John Huritor, a wonderful .anatonlist and
surgeon of the eig'iteenth, century, had no
delieak ecraples againet laudation• of his
own Valenta. • • •
"Ab, John Hunter, still hard:at svork 1"
one day exelainted a• medical tilted, who
found him at the a 'atecting-table.
" Yea, ,doctor," was 'the reply, ."rind
you'll find' tt difficult to meet with another
John'Entiter 'When 1.* am gone .I" •
Again he is reported as saying, "•I•k ow
am but a pigarty le knowledge, but1 feel
an a giant when eoiped 'with other Men.
• Solf.pritise is not confined to individuate ;
often it-erriliraces an entire natlonatity. °
How do you like the English tr? Asked
a Britioh squire of hin Socitelt, gardener.
" Wool, eir," teas the Answer, 44 beire
Iran hatne, and oanoog the English, I find
nod great fautin.theri ; but I maun mak',
this remark, that for onecitiders or wanton:,
era, or anything needing hada-wark," ye
nuein come to us i' the north I" .
retaarke are merely amuiing, :bto
Cause wo are occasionally willing to 'bear
*hem from a .great mart, and from a small
Wait they are palpibly absurd. Remember-
ing, 'however, thet Socrates eaened hit
right to be called the wisaat ef nate by hist
recognition of his own ignorance, and that
Sirlaciee Newton deo:tiered himself to be „ a
child, picking up a few pebbles Of knovr-
ledge, while the great oeoun of truth lay all
undisoovered before him, it will perhaps be
+sliest for tho great majority of tato preserve
a discreet eilenee in regard to our powers.
In a Medloal report -to the Natilime Cut.
toms of Cigna, Dr, Al Henryr rotate to the
astonishing prevalence of suicide loheng.
One day a young girl broke • a begin, and,
being 'molded, woneinto an Adjoining rown
and hanged horoelf. On the same day a
men -Committed 'Alicia° in the stone Way
after an altercation 'with hits father. 'rot a
sitnilat memo a young man attempted on the
following day to out nit, throat, .The writer.
ears that outside la a Verittye Ma 1(1.14
lady,
Bl1fiDBIT•4I1 aliADA. writing about them for six months. after-
ward. Ile might say something he would
Hefsesibe* She Deratinion With Der not °DIY regret, but which he ootdd net
Winter Clothes aris. prove, end for which. MS Churell would sub.
joot bipi to 'averse* discipline. The hest
way Ur a beginner to wear onowehoes te
imitate the ritclien who sells them. Ha oar-
riee them on his 'Moulder, lam now carry
-
Eng mbi� In the baggage Oats kosill continuo
to oittrY them there until we reeds the Clue -
tem -house. Then I don't know where the
Inspector will carry them, I dent went to
pay duty on* pair of vile eonapiratore 'that
have held me Up 10 ridicule, threwn Atte
down in thi weir, terntair clothes tall ruf-
fled my toropilr.- But I would like -to get
them home,1„tried to ellp them inside imY
trousers lege, but Ryon ever maw a anowehee
you will readily understand how, with the
preeent Style of panteleoms, that Eleme
would be a ooleleal
Leland in Eltintmer.
Holiday makers who are at a lees where
go I:aura a coed spot, meg, perhins,
be tempted to try Inland. 11 1. not neare.
sadly cool there, natwithshanding the . re-
freehirtg sound of the name, but lt la a good
denlless likely to be hot than Elwin or even
Sooteh Valley's, and there is a flued deal
more to see that Would be fresh to the vial -
tor, Nor is the island by any means difficult
to got tit.
Tho Dedalin Royal otearnere make a
monthly voyage from Copenhagen to Rey-
kjavik, and five of thinn run all round the
island, as well a* calling on emit voyage' at
Leith. There is also an Englise line during
the summer .froni Leith to Reykjavik. .
Iceland is by. no monist tim diminutive
osuntrY Whieh people who dorm* look at
!area map" are in danger of unpile:sing It to
be, when they read thet the population does
not exceed that of a third•rete English town.
It fe .possible to travel from east to west in
a direetline for a greater distal:me than' from
London to Carnets, eo that.the island ie real-
ly of very reepectable dimensions. .
Nor are the people,. remote as lc their
dwelling -place from the canting of sweet -
mess and light, by any Means an uncultured
rime. They .have had,a; Parliament of their
own -the ,Althing-for now nearly a thou-
sand years and they -are great deal better
insturoteethim-Europeen populations gen-
eraily •
The Ordinary.ocookney tourist would hard-
ly find himself at home [among them; but
an intelligent obserier, interested in the ;study
.of niters) and in the ways.of,4isolated oom-
mnnitiles,, might really do flinch worse dur-
ing the summor months than breoehimself up
for the winter by a week or twe10 Iceland.
Melling and farming are the leelincleee
prinoipal pursuits, and -fishing la more ini-
portantapertuipo, than farming. There .are
prat:tit:any no manufacturer.stn the country,
and trade his, little developq thet- up to
last year the island did not ,eyen possese a
though the Althirg was seriously c0.
etzpiing itself with the establiehment -of
such .azt institution. Sornalnteresting in-
forznation on the Rfelandic. fliheries It win -
'
baffled: in the last reptirt presented te the •
Foreign •Oitoe.by Mr. Consul Patereon.
The Iceland fisherman's best customers are
not • hie nomparstively 'near neighbore-he
has no neighbors -at all but the Greenland -
ere, within ' tir hundred -miles-but the
Spaniards. A geed deal- of the fish caught
goes to Copenhagenebutmore to Spain, and
Spain gets the .plok of the catches. •
Wheas. growingis no part of the' Iceland'
.fermerle industry.For that the climate is
not warm- enough. .He' breeds flocki and
herds, and during hie short suriamer is mush
concerned for the. remelt ef his bay harvent.
These, lastpier, were not • saiiefactory in
the southernparta of the inland, owing to
the Occurrence of wet weather 'late in .the
autntner. • A ferther rednotion of live &took-
w.as the ooneaquence of the scareityolgodder.
In .tite, north; however; the hay orop ' was
good, and the farming intereit there le -fair-
ly proeperouiz," • . • .
Pront the Rrooklyn
• 'Irchu 'Aye never ;leen Canada, unless" you
have seen her with her winter clothe" on,
She is °harming in the*ime f the reign, but
so is the desert at That time, Ilut when the
DominIsfu-PutS on a toboggan *nib and muf.
get, hensell in furs end et/trachea, and
stando up inaa snow drift that reaohee Irian
the great lakes to the North Pole and back
again, ohe 1. *jest to dozzlieg to look at,
itV0 through omaked Blames.The glosses
are smoked peat, or ioneithing of *hot
mot, which, is sold to add a peculiarly dell-
oate fis,vor to the bottom of the gime. To
get the full benefit of the omoky aroma, One
ratiot look throughlhe shoo with one's note.
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You ammo* Imagine bow animated and
•briiibutt le Toronto when she pate on her
snowshoes and gets heraelf up en runners,
and fills all the air with the ()Mutes of the
aleighbells, There is an endlehl VarlotY 10
design and pattern end color of sleigleancl
robe, and bell and phinie, and the street
look like .Christinae so long al thesnow
lasts. • Even the etreet oars feel the infect
tion (bemuse a who ordinance compelthem
to) and mount themselves on bobs, and
With plebeian independence jinglee the
.1Oudest bells and- take the best half of the
'etreet, right out of the middle ne usual, and
turn out for nebody,and. run into everything
maid in every way conduct tlaemeelves 1110
the well -ordered, broad -shouldered, ming hey
the jolly street oars that they are.
wno inn non IN nr..i.zircwr email
It le pleasantto tarry emong people widese
girle wear satin 'slippers when they dsnce
and erotica when they wade tlwough the
snow. Onr. fair eanadien cousins haven°
dread et oornfart; The mow liao no tawrorit.
for them; dress for theitorm ars sensibly
se for the reception, . They dress prettily,
And if there is A prettier figure on the North
American Continent than a daughter of Can, -
oda, apparelled for the leo or the toboggan
slide, herself's part of the snow drifted
landscape, a picture of health and comfort
that fatrly Attune tbe piercing wind/ into a
senile of 'warmth, I have nos seen it 'She
drains in perfect herremiy-with ' the wittier
and landoeepe, obe has a complexion dear as
the ice of • °Maria and her warm blood
'Mines through it doh as the flashes of the
aurora, grace:fel and free in every movement
-when you -look at her you *target there is
.stioh a thing as A roller rink or.an Atnerietui
banker in Oenada. • .
Everybody dream for the winter here.
whewthe winter comers, and.yet it is a °line
ate no more severe than that of New .York
State1 was the only num in Oat:trio with
a "tiff felthat and a oloth overcoat, and.?
felt all the time I was' in the .province as
tliough I wee lost Arotio explorer, and had
eaten my fur • overcoat, cap, *mittene and
boons, and was waiting for a rescuing party
to' •find me. Before I had time to .die of
atervetion,nowever, J Rota Robertson and the
Toronto Pressa Club found me, and carefully
nursed and fed me back to life. They would
. have fed me more had Ibsen a larger man
with greater 'stowage .oapacity, for their
hospitality is • air boundless as their land;
which, yen know, is bounded not on the
north by anything, and:reaches away out
into the.great unknown beyond.
. • Acacia pittolutstra.
. .
a The toboggan is a did with -a "insole run-
nere width spreads clear [term* the bottom
of the. sled. The ttop ofthe .•toboggenbr
just like the bottom. It lo somewhat thick-
er than. A sheet of writing paper and about
sto long as en after-dinner speech.- Its seat
Ing capacity isliraited only by the number-
-of people who•can get on it. The urbane
and gentlemanly tionduotor,sits rift and wee
one -of his lithe and willowy legs fors Steer-
ing ripiarattis by-whieh ne,guides the tobog-
gan soros way or other. It is easy to • slide
down hill on a toboggan, fact, after you
start dein You oen't. do anything t else..
True, you could falleff. That istasily done..
The flying maohlne • le , not ,high,. so - yen
havn't eery far to fall. • Still, if you have te.
fell front a 'toboggan half way down the
slide; or oleo fall down stain with' a kitchen.
stove; you. take.the. stove incl.. the .ataire
everytiine, len't so exciting. and its oe
soon. The prince: and 1 walked • up.the
steirwey_for the.purpone cf eliding down the
banister on *toboggan: The president of
the club toolchis piece aft; somebe'dy sad.
"let ber go."' Then we etoppod.lend the prep-,
Wept said "How did We like it 1" 1 left toy
breath at the.top of the elide and we had to
go tip and get it.. There it wee, a great gasp
4,inches long, sticking lir the alt likeent
lolole'just where l'hed gaspedit 'When we
s4rted. . I took itdown, stack it into my
left fling and began to,, breathe:again WIWI
great freedOm.The-, toboggan is to any
other way of • getting :down hill *bat
flying is to going to sleep. If. I was in a
hurry•and It was down hill . allthe, way I.
Would rather have a tobegganatharea-pair of
wings any, Atty. • • • --
. P. $-There is usually an . liege' on the
toboggan with.you, whioh has a tendetioy
to oenfirra the irepreassion that you are going
down, with winge,-- . •
young Genadien Of bread eXpe-
rienceassuree me that Toronto engele really
and truly have wiags innotrzuch 'that often
ho beta° drive •With' Oat -hand; ,ttaing, bit
other -atm to field the angel front !lying
Addenda -LI haVe known the same thing
tolirippen,this United. States.% • ,F,• •
'oviriaria. .• ,
WO wont to the Graniteylnk and watched
the ourlers. Ofirling ie a game that will
probablaanever become a eroneral le:pular
sport. The inaddening excatexnetat attend-
ant upon this thrilling pastime, whickseetris
to be its great fo,solontions de etre any eiceept
the strongest heads ondtiteadieat -nerves
from venturing into the seething maelstrom
of its recklete gaiety. • Itis gelled_ curlingbeeaute it makes your hair curl to watch it.
A man tekee a boulder gf ponalied granite
with A handle to it, and palters it away from
him. 'Than it elides *long the foe. Two
men with brooms walk along in hold of it
and swoop a clean plum for it • to slide in.
Another man:says,. "4y mon.". He aise re-
marks at intetvals,-"Soup her °op." A
stranger once In is reekhees hour joined a
bornpaily of deoptensto curlers, In -511 me
guerded motitcrit aid "man" instead Of
"mon." The franzied curlar.ant t))tioo tied
"atano" about hit heck and ohnoked hire
through a hole in the ice, .
But theinnonnenoe aoide, everybody knows
how knows anything at all, that a
man moot he to the manner born to
appreeiote and enjoy curling. A etranger
internieddleth not with the „toy of the Ang-
er. The barbarian Can never be taughtto-
underetend it and so hie life eattet ever re.
main. ineernplete. And even an alien cite
nee that it to more of a g,aine than chess.
I hold it to be tolem self-evident, heaven.
horn truth, that a inert who will play ethos
for amusement would sort a iterd, of wood
for it jolm,
• ' eneek- Cavemen. • •
The showohot: is to the Canadian light.
Mineneee, and to all the rest of the' world a
stumbling blook. A men who has tried mote
eheee for the first time le diequalified front
• • ' • 1. .0anna Thole.
/f a Ifindoe has a' 'daughter. Who rot:Mina
"in unappropriated:blessing"
at the age of
.ten years, be coneiders. himself 'disgraced.,
lerem the day of her birth he is anxious. to
.seoure her a husband .tta a. portionleoa girt
to reitatttraotive to men, the father saves is
little • every- year, so that his . deughter's•
'dowry may increase her value in the. MAUI-
rtioniel ,inerkee; ' • - • • '
-The Young lady is ' not oonsulted. The
bridegroom maybe old anti . repulsive, but
she acoepts him ai the ' hunband te whom'
her father ha o sold her, Even- if hile. young
and comely, her inter.est in him is far less
than -that with which 'she. itrveys the jewels
that adorialteepereon. The wedding core -
Monies and feaato,which Celebrate her sale
ifid delivery to a master, are 'far more at.
tractive to her childish tiatnee •thati la her
husbend.!.
When .10 1. trinsferred, as if she Were a'
heartless and 'soulless animal, teller lord's
itpuse; she begies adulladreary life' volley-
. ed only by that:arms of the kitolienAke nur-
oery, and,the idols And .broken by the scold-
-logs other mother"en-law.
, .
' Soliolo.rof tell •uos thet not a few *1 the owe
teem of modern civilization originated dein-
dia.. Perhaps they, would eseekt that the
oultored European marries off his daugh•ter
'to -day as the nuottitured Ilincleo hat done
tor hundrods,of yearo. 'Certainly, the fel,
lowing aneedote, if It le illustrative al
general, praotioe, enderses hie assertion. a
A Scotch farther's wffe Was tine day ex-
plaleing ,to a neighbor bow well she ho.d
ractiried her daughter, -who had &nese hetet°
filled with:. ewe. furniture'and inany
on whioh• cows, *sheep, pigs and poultry 'fed,
to gee" nothing of a gig,in which to drive to
market, cj155 like a 'eddy)"
The neighbor extbreosed her delight at
snob a grand marriage. "0h1 there's- nae
doubt hes S. grand naarriage;" answered the
mother, "an it WatIla ASS for ae thing." •
An' whaeinight the cio thing .bo t" sok.
'ed'the now cunlonanig1ibor, -_
• Weal, ye eee,", answered themother, at
if the "aa thing" was 'of Iittie :consequence.
"110 puir silly orator comae thole • [endure]
her-inen
,
Hadebt By gailwat,
Mr Hugh Sutherland is in Winnipeg. con.
forrieg.with the owitractows-far the propos.
ed Hudson 13ay road. On boIng,interview,
Al he snide-. "I hopsi to he able to an.
;lounge irere shortly that all arrangements
are corenTete for the building of the railvvay,
and 1 believe that in lose than two. years s
train win run from Winnipeg to Hudeon
tay,,. I do not .11442 lb, however, -to be 'under-
stood that alt diffioultiee have been over.
come,,although I do -say that everything
looks most prombling, It is no easy milk to
raise ets,000,000, for . that IS the least lb
*111 take." • 110 also.subutitaL a report of the
CotripanSv's offieer with the Alert, expreesing
the opinion that navigation will be open'
from April er May till ,bIevenaber.
• It doan meoltno diffiume hoer big *Or liar
or. pluton • is, he hotelier pitmen dat won't
tell de truth, • ,
Paper retie, are truffle in Russia. They
are longer than ordinary raila, and !bald to
have kgrectter adhesiveness in cotitact With
• tered,
A
FOUKEIN gaff0,1:8.
TainPaBile le now the Whim
ngland.
New Zatlencl,-with a population of about
a00,000, has a debt of Wooly X31,00%000,
or ever $250 to moth inhabitant.
King Milen et Sortie wears
nafl made ef oompresaed d
rawhide, which eovero hio trunk,
arms,
100ppasigeassamosommisimi
.0NOW IN T114 8TAELTE
able Wine)
Slow is ils itemoved buzzio4-11,04-Tex,o,
: I.
The queetiZiwerabaltejletelabe"et way of 0.
dltseitigteltinea°70: ttethNeow°1Y1117014rteeWt:o7ld14.'4;1011"110
a "met of man smegette that ties city Amid areinis
1owneg u andand' I pa° alt (3°t hal a el perx ot wict tt nbldeo dma ynpgals ye Sofhfre °do iktt ha "!'er1441pa
and aee it dumped 440 the river. The whet
inventor of thie Method thinks that dam
aimed all the carts and wagone are idle
alurtng the prevelenoe of Wow there would
be A universal .turnout of the, uneMploYod
Clue, and the tvhole island would be °leer.
ed of anew in twe daye,
In London *he snow is emptied in pits ex -
°mooted for the purpose, wjth perferated iron
bottoms, under which there la a coll of pipes
heated by oteam, In these, pite.the onOW fe
rapidly melted, and the water runs away
into the sewers. • In, this meaner the no
front the bumbles" panto ofaim city is rapid-
ly retrieved et A very modereto expense.
In Milan the removal et the ',mew fo 10*
out by oontrect taO per inch. AS
110912 as the "new ceases falling the olty en.
Omer, in the presence of certain officials
and the chief contractors, measures' the
depth of anow on stone ;Ambit whiett are clone
pletely sheltered from ,the winds, .Tlits
mesotrement furnishes the basis for compute
lug the pride which the city is to' pay for
each ward and district. • There are portions •
of the city whioli present peoulier cliffioul-
ties, and for oleansing thee° the contractors,
get a larger allowance. • -
On a winter's day in Milan, after a, fall of
snow, there Mil be as many sometimes' as
three thousend men in the etreets sweeping
and 'beveling,
Tim remarkable circumstance IS the small'
mum of money ,whioh 11 °este Milan talaget
entirely rid of ite snow.. In the winter of
1874-5 the total fall of snow amounted to a
little'over three feet six inoheu.' The -ex.
pense of ito removal was about $42,000,
The winter. before hot the tall was only fivet,
anti a quarter. inehes, whloh wa". removed),
.for $5,200, ' The oity, we should add, fur.
nielteeill the implements employed except ;
vehielea and horses. Generally speaking,
it 'bestto remove the snow- from the Street*
of Milan afloat 1;1,000 an inch. • .
One thing la certain : The .now ohould •
be Annoyed front our °Mei within forty.
eight hours after it hie fallen. It is .the .
worst poseible economy to let it remain te„
thaw and freeze and frees, and thew trent
Revempboi;LteA71.5.5714iiiparil:',
.
lnloa.r travellers agree that eleplient
steaks are very tough. It takes half an
hour to .a* a square inch ef elephant meat;
At a race in ff.nth Ansinilie, a few weeks
ago, the falling ef n leading horse breueht
DeArIx the whole field tumbling over- him.
Two jockeys: were killed outright, halt a
dozen others rrerienelY (genie fatally) injured,
and levers', homes killed or maimed. •
The London Timos contained an
advertisement for a emart-loeking second
footman, who must have unexceptionable
character and be aotive, an early neer, end
'peek Irrenoh and 044114. The induce -
mental held out tit this paragon are, $80 a
year.
A WOZhall in Bohemia was lately sesitin-
oed to imprisonment for ten dopier forgery
became she changed her physician'', pre.
seriptien calling fer I 20 grarume of mor-
phine so thatit read ago grainmer. It is
maid that no eiraller wise has over ep apered
PA She court records of the United States or
England. •
Lady Grenville 'Gordon, who're new de.
'Arturo 00 11 hat and bonnet maker in Lon-
don bait excited attention, 5the daughter
of Mr. Roe, the Dublin distiller, who has
fallen on evil days. Hence the bonnet shop,
as Lord pordon has not, nor ever had, any
money. Hie grandfather, the Marquis of
Huntley, waa sold out by the Sherift, and
his brother, the present Marcella, had writs
out &goblet him for obtaining money under
'false pretenses, bat him brother-in/ow cams
to his atd at the'eleventh hour, and the pro-
ceedings were withdrawn.Tha '
"Claimant s' has just delivered a leo.
tura in Dublin. He drew an lemmas° audi-
enee,, who hailed him six he oame on with
cries of "Hallo, Roger 1"' and " Wagga,
Wagga 1" AU the other performers with
him were blued. oft Sir Roger was in
evening drearli, and ir described as tall Of
stature, portly in build, of dark complexion,
and as solemn am a professional undertaker in
appearance. Hie powers of oratory are not
good,. his voioe is had, and hie twenty min-
utes' addreea was et the plainest character.,
The raiiway haricot Russia, nays a writer
In Xachtqace, are among • the most comem-
dious in the They retemble ours
rether • than .the compartment Oars in. use
elsewhere on the continent of Europe, but
in Russia the aisle is ahifted to one eide, so
that *he teats on the left will ''acoornedate
three paste:igen side by side, and thee° on
the right but one. This' is espeoially ooze
venient when the oar is not crowded in night
travel, The end doors of the' Oar, inesead
of opening .upen the platform, lead into a
small, enolonedveottbule, whencedoors open
eut at. right and left.
At the Royai.Aeadethy exhibition In Lon.
doh, Which given a fair idea of the arohiteet.
ural tette. of the time, ft vvill he ,found that
the plain early lingliohatyle SO tiopttlarviith-
architect" forraany yearapast in teedosigns
-foe ohnrohes, is giving way to litter 14105,
eepecially. the flamboyant . decorated. .A
curious example of- this' new departure la
shown in the ouhjeicer oh000n .for • study by
the art atedente In the Akiihttectural Mum
enixt, Weatininoter. • A• few • years mince
ooaroely any 'subjects were .elected for
drawing or modelling but -the beautiful foli.
agest of the thirteenth century, whereas now
perpendioidar details are preferred almeat
to the McMeekin of all others. . -
• A scientific journal gives an acoohnt ofga
pieneferte. mute in Poole la which paperwas
mede to take the plase of wood, the whole
case befog made from paper too oompreased
thet,it wao eneblod• reeeive a. herd ewe
hum, ,whiott tobk a perfect polish. The c0.
lor wee cream white. The, tone p1 *10 in•
strinnent is reported to. be' not loud, but
very sweet.' The short, broken character Of
the sound emitted by ordinar.y, pianofortes
is replaced by a ttft, quasi•continuoui
sound, resembling someWhat.thet of the or -
:gen.' It hag been suggested that the. even-
neso of texture of the ocim,pressed paper may
.have some iniluenee in effecting thio modifi.
cation' of sound.
surprising how' many. Blitish Oates-.
.
f Mete have Ono itt" leatirepniPletely:
ed,t1deir politioal-views., •LeirCastle;'
began as * burning Nationalist, -and
in 1706; at a dinner to the Northern
Club; " to thARevointionl " It will
rprise any one if, tee, in another &t-
his great nephew, Lord Randolph
ill, 'Amnia veer mend. Again, the
rd Derby mainly- carried, as thig
°fernier, -the measure reducing the
teroue number of Irioh Protestent
s. Hia own One' change -of views.
at ofthe late Sir R. Peel are notoriofte,
e fact that Lord Beaconsfield Was not
aft ardent Tory, or Me Gladstone an
ed .Liberal. . Lord . Rumell toyer
d. %England 'cannot 'point to Amore
nt career) .• •
am awe, SP'
de -as thing : 4. poet. ,
. .
d gracious," Raid the hen, when ehe
red. the porcelain. epg in' her nest, "1
a bricklayer yet.' , ' • ..
urified fat of sheepae' wool, • which
n intrecinced..inte tce 'drug -market
e Same- of lanolin, leimid to posactos
ble streeeptibitity to absorption- by
,• When one thoheand parts of it
d withal/re gait 61 a- sonible metal -
mice and applied to the scalp, ri.me
to is)noticed in, ths mouth.Within a
face. It is thought the substanciis
It is
num e
oliZE
drank,
Whig
not an
cede,
Chwroh
late Lo
and r
propos
prelate
and th
ea th
always
advano
wavere
consiste
An o
" Goo
cilsoove
shall be
Thep
has bee
•wader th
remarka
the akin
are mixe
lio sabot
tailia tax
,few min
wfll 13_0_9,f great.value for ointments,
You didn't Pay long at Miss kongoef-
fin's latt night ?" "No ; Mims Esmeralda.
was not in good humor. She had the tooth-
ache, What are you laughing about 1"
44 She hasn't got a real tooth in her head.
She complained of toothache -just tolneke
you believe) hor teeth are not faille. I know
her dentist,' attd 'jaw him making a hfit up-
per and lower tot fur her mere tho.n ten
yearwago." .
A news item statce teat e number of
tiotuips took posoesalon Of a palatial resi-
dence, cltirbig the almond° of the- tenants,
wade tin gtepafortable firee„ slept in the lux.
trieue bow, ate all the mood edielee in the
hOtlift, aha succeeded in eserly ruining the
costly carpets and furniture, And „then it
adds with an aitiof 'winds° ; "They even
went ao far :tte to drink all the Wined and
liquor that had been left in the. oloeets."
Trutt certainly was an unexpected:piece of
vandaliern," When treinpo eat the tales
and canned -fruit lying around loose, de-
molish the deafly furniture, build Area to
Impart a glow of warmth to the deserted
rooms and kick the atufhtig out of an ONO
-
piano, they Merely follow tho bent of their
nomadic) natnree ; but when they drink all
the wines and liquors left in the'olotedis, our
faith in tramp human nature is beat?, :hat..
, In matters of .love nethieg le* so ocoriniorr
to.: en women as the desire' that another
....,slitriallanmoititgoanien that Which she hercelf refuses..
When, one 'peaks of Women there is is
'weapon More terrible than eisitunnye-the
truth.-a[Leopardt. • . • a
Love is more' pleating•thear marriage, for
the testoon tItat novels. Are mere amusing • ..
than histery.--[Chanifort. . •
It is ineenveitiezit to be 'a widow.; it is
necessary to resume the modesty of a piling-.
girl without being..o.,ble to' feign her ignor.
ance-[Mme. d'Hondetet. ' - • .
It ia noes:nary to Awe at least four
• *lees in order to find,one ht good health and • .
gentle.humette- [The Koran. •. • . •
. ,The moot heautiful girl le the, world Ain '
only give that' which .fthe has,-.-[Ohamfort..
Women are angelo.•-[Tennyion.
Angela heve wings and always endup in; • .
flying off.--glynna. . .
We take women for what they are not; •
:we quit them for what they .are., -(Saint -
Evrernont, • • ' .
Womee .fiemplein of pewit minunderatoodef
. . • ,• • .
• ,He who compreheedo, them is their Ina-
plecotble enerey,--[Diderot. • •
• ...Perfidigut as" a Wave, --(Shakespeare. . •
I have men those (the tempests). of women
• and nave seen those of -the wilt& •and. I
pity moro . the . lovers than the tailors. -
[Byron,
One leads is horse hy the bridle, an ele-
phant by hio rope, a woman by her heart.
-•[Oriental Proverb. ' • •
Magnified Incidents,"
The dwellers in lonely regions are forced •
to Reim ohthe-most-trivial events and -wring :—
excitement front them, if -they would find, ,
reliel 'fitenrathei atagnations .of their 'daily
Ute. . A traveller among the- San Francisco
:norm -tains. teltoi. in .Outing, his oven experi-
ewe in.finding •eireninstanee digni.. • '
fled into matter for Omission. Ile says.: •
. tteee itt.Ash,Porke, .a.oelleotioned is down*.
shanties; the onatless ruffian who •aerved a .
mockery of .a dinner brought rue, e. glase of
.milk. it had turned a little •tiorir and .no ' •
wonder; fer in. that desert place the auk
.
-berits doWli with 4 tropioalleat.
,Quite oenscione• of posSible unpleaaaut
'consequences, I objected to my milk. The
bearded waiter arms' akimbe, stared defiant
ly, then slouched to the door, where sat the
bulky landlord, -and made knOwn my'enne '1
plaintv . ''• .•
.NO.lests thanfour idlers followed that •
landlord to my table. The et:fortunate .
glade of :rank • woo paned in tileoce down "' •
the line, felt the situation te be serious:
"Hanged 11 11 ain't oeur V' spoke at last
the portly. heat, and .eyery loafer eolieed, .. •
Alt -Hanged if itain't • ••
Banged 0 we don't, make that ranch-,
emit drink the 1" vrao .the further ver-
dict, eupplemehted by the .cheruo, "Hanged
if we don't. 1" .
An' if he'kloko; Well hang hire 1"
- "Shoot us, of we Want I"- •
That' derenged milk was the event" ef *10
day for' eix mon1* ftunisbed them with --
material for thought end epeeChe
•
Flea and Moscieito. •
Fleas.abound 10 tiouthern Europe, an
mosquitoes flourish in An:Brion, A Spittle
or Italian lady would no more blush to
seen with a Ilea on hale') parson than- would
an American girl to belbitten forearms))) nit°.
But the American thinks that the presenee
of &au indicates nnolearalueos, and this
fact liso at the A:Atom of the ongoing twee -
dote told by the Argonaut of San Pranotteo
Some days ago a young lady wee welkin
with a gehitleman rather older than hereel .
Soddenly he eaw upon her satin neck a
bleak object. It moved -it Was an 'meet*
genus puletc.
Taking the advantage to which men with
gray hair are so prone, -a younger roan ,
Would have been more titnidiz--.he at Mite
removed the insect With his 'finger and
thumb. The young lady turned at the totuth
' Pardon'me,"'s said her nompanion, btit
yon bed 4 Ile& on your beak.'
The young lady showed 'meek displeasure.
"Shottld I sot have removed itl" asked
he anxiously,
" Ye e -os," ohe replied, hetitatingly,
"but yeu Might hoe called it a thottquito.'
A theatricial neaneger thanks his stets
when they don't Went all the recelpte.
'