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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-3-1, Page 3LOST IN TILE SNOW, ALOOMA TaA0EDIC. I mambo that during that afternoon the eky elouded up rapidly, and a bitterly cold snow /dome so in from the 444, fim it Must haw° owept aloes that deeolate there, driving the mow right hate the face of the beleted traveller Poor fellow, he had. started out to walk to 4 village uearly twenty miles' off, and ia- temled to return on the third day. The weether was clear and mild when he set off ia the feren0on. an4 he thought he eould, ea/41y reaele hie destination before dark. There were so many hills int the inland wed tb,at he resolved to follow the men eourierh route over the lee along the lake shore, It VMS a lonely jouruey wiittere for there Was not 4 eingle house teethe way. A good deel of now had fallen the week boor°, the oaerier's traok was riot well hrehee, aud, the walking was bech Xhen hie berm' over- coat impedee him. So when early in the afternoon, he met the old courier in hie dog- eleigh, as the weetheretill promised fair, he seut his herdenetene overeoat back with him. The lamely veteran of many Algoine winters predicted a storm, aud warned hie young aequeintance of the danger, Bae. stroug ano light-hearted, he laughed good- emurealy at the old man's fora, end sa etruck out again refreehed, walking vigor- onely eestward. Leto the aext day the search party found Mem and oh, she pity at it #, When the storm came down he was still weal mike Uwe the village, end he bur- oa. How he miened Ma geed overcoat now He bed pelted aeon hie cep over bie eere and Waimea up hie undeeceet to hie Ohio, but the Awe cold wind chilled him 'through and through. The 4e:reeler's traelt gradually filled up with the drifts The Mr was tleick with tire whirling snow, and be eould not make Out cleerly the Ontlinea of the bille near the &tore or et the larger a. lauds in the channel ;ht heti previeuely been hie lend-roarke. Sacal 4 amigo new feeling, vague and hemible, began w grove on him, He teied to repress to think of sOraething arm to Osaka it off tee welkin Weereven by run- ning wildly eleog h tne &eaten he theught he blastula go But in vaine The iterrible thought mild not he rotreireed. It eagle apt% him, like a duetting blew. Ife was kat, lea, lot I and he the agony of that thought he stopped abruptly an groaned Aloud. When the fiat wild enema had peeseil ho looked about Mae How coldaud cruel it efl income, wilderuene of ice aud new 1 The locality WAS all anamee tom und unfamiliar, though he was mire he (met neve toweled, Oda way he hie brat newly tittles flintier", the ettinurer. Summer Had, there ever been suzy reamer he this &eery plan, aud would thew ever come another to it audit° him? Or was this teerible present only a wild and fearful (Imam from which he woad WM awake to lane the few et Ms bleeping wife with a very rapture of tender globe:se thet he was aill !Mug and in, the came reed(' with her? And his two little me I Surely it could not be that he was never to eel) them auy more. Why, when be got had: home he knew they would run to him, and =it to be talsen ou bia kuee before he hed rightly set down. True l the beby could but just toddle along, but how glad the little fellow would he to see him again Thou he had eat blue eyes and red cheelte, and looked just like his mother. Alas, alas I tide so happy peat to the poor traveller wau now but a dream, and there was early a eltuddering hope in the wakening The storm was blowing more fiercely than ever, and the old teemed eo have become more intense. Wheu the and, Meet reverie had ended, he *leered violently 48 ho be- gan to walk slowly and, aunkesly on through the deepening mum Than he noticed that the early dusk of a winter (remain was alrendy corning on. A sudden energy eeized, hine—an energy of desperatiou. If his life ould yet be sexed it was only (luring derylight, When night had once sot in the heat hope would be gone, Re know not sena direetion he should take, but he know that his only chance was to go on, Ho was quite ealin aria determined now. Peering through the cloak anti the blinding snow he saw to the right the dark shade ef the woods oa the main shore. Suddenly he remembered an aid wed that ran up from the lake somewhere here, through the woods and far on to an outlying settlerh house. He turned in the direction in which he thought this road lay, half running in the eagerness which the new fluttering hope had inspired. If only he could once more get home to his wife and children Ah, how the thought of it stirred him unutter- ably But it was almost dark when he reached the shore. He felt himself growing weak now. His feet began to drag more and more with cold and bewilderment. Itwas so hazel, plunging, angering through the deep snow. Soon he stopped for a moment and leaned up against a tree to rest. Then his knees beganto tremble and he felt him- self sinking, sinking. But he drew himself up with a jerk and struggled on. He had only taken a few steps when he tripped on a dead branch, stumbled and fell forward in the snow. Ab, it was not so cold after all! He would rest just a minute here be- fore going on . . . How pleasant it was only to lie still for a while 1 The snow was warm and soft and comfortable, and he was very weary. . . . No, he could not give up yet. . . . He would go back home now, it surely was not far andedary and tie children were waiting for him . . He would rise soon, and try once more to find the way. Yes, it was cold again, so cold 1 and the tree -tops clashed and rattled and groaned with the wind. . . . Towards morning the storm gradually died away, the clouds dispersed, and the sun rose clear on a world of snow. There was snow everywhere. It lay dazzling white on the vast ice plains of the channel, here and there piled up in heaps and banks by the swirling blizzard. It had blown and drift- ed into the clefts and chasms of the great granite hills that stretched far along the North Shore, smoothing and softening their rugged outlines. There were no drifts in the pine woods through which the lot traveller had wand- ered, but the snow had filled them deep, deep everywhere, Little reflux eel on the dark green branches—the wind had swayed them' too violently for that, And now that the strife and fury of the storm had quite passed a great stillness had settled down upon the woode, pervading all its sombre depths. It seemed the si- lence of finality, of completion. At first the influence of the place was not positively melancholy, only subduing and quieting. And yet one drearily wondered if the world lied, ever been any different, or would ever be any differeet trim what it was then, There Seemed to be no place for chaoge no hope for spring, no memory of eunneor. It was as if the solemn voice of Netare had cried. " Ideal V ages ago and not even a twig had fell= sinee to, breek the awful still/use. At tunes one is conscious of a companion - Ship in trees, even a frienestrip and console.. Hon. Bat the possibility of sympathy and communion had goof) out of this foot for- ever. Heinen lito with all Re viclinitudete its teudernese and its tears, was a thing outside of it all, unrelated, utterly remote, The great truoks of the towering pines op.. pressed the spirit,. oeerwhelmed it with the trublimity cif thew indifference ; 'their (leek gleoroy beenclaes might neve boo funeral alte. Into the solemn atilkess of that aftertioon there came a party af men on snowshoes, searching in the woods for some trace of the missing traveller. Their pallid solemn faces /showed, how aerione was thetrerrand. Hardy fellows most of thein were, long familiar with dangers on water and on land. They had been on such expeditions before, awl their experience made them realize more terribly th(epity of it all. Lost in the Bum. Tbe words are A preyer for the deed with the people ef that region. lowly they Write oa over the yielding mow. There 1 that eurely was a sigma Silent from erre of theparty. All the othera harried to hint. Traehs in the snow'? Holes rather, euce deep down but now half-Alial and obliteretecl. \That A struggle there meet hew keen here in the derheeee end the aunt 1 For the EtneW Waa ereerly three feet deep ell throe& the Weed% Aud iu 4 hot. IOW 4 little farther an they VW where the peer evenderer bed am* deeper, plunging up to his arempla la the cruel anOW. The men !oohed et eaeli ether for a moment And then hurriod forward, They said but little, stud their woken were softened and tremulous with A greet fear, tor 4 time tire tracke led ariy etraight /dread, Then they eiverved here and thine, waudering eciOn in a sad ite rsaler zigzag among eiteedreary treee, .it. terrible expeotetien Was upon the seerchere. They knew how it meet cud, And ea at brat they found him, holf-cover- ed by the drift where lee had, fallen. No tears wet their cheat ler him, but one of them old quietly, 44 139Qr feiow I" And 4 tender pity filled all their tape. Sorrowful- ly, revereittly they carried the bedy to the neareat settler'a house, and from there It was aheer scan afterweiefto the lonely home. The tregie story epreed fer and first tneeugh the district, and en the friteerM day the eeetlere came from maw miles to give their Mint eyrepetley to the etricken wife. Awl uow to her forever the /solemn gran- deur of the piers woode is a hitter moaker,y, eleaddering *remembrance cruelly the wiuter eterenebrieks like a pitikee destroyer, and the white anew See= bat a free= A. Seteenheose The Deugalees. The political agitation vehicle has &prima up in Iloila is drawing to the side of the Britieh some powerful alike amouget the mare coneervatIve ram of thee auoieut land. TheBengaleen are the =Mee foment - ere of the agitation Pad the leaders in the demand for a mare influential voice in the government of the country. The liongelees are the most intelligent, acute, and, in- telleetually active of the Indian rues, but they belong to the lower castes, are cern. paratively uuwarlike, and, until raised to unwonted itifluence and importance by the new education, were regarded as inferior to She warlike Alehonwdene, Reboots, ate., by whom they are still hated and. despised. LI A lecture recently delivered to Mahone, edans atLucknowe Uir Syed .Ahmed, ono of the meet influential Mehainedans in India, repudiated on behalf of the whole coa mune ity he represents, the proposal to throw open all appointments to native competition. Recognizing the inferiority of his own pee - pie in both mullion and education, he point. ed eel to them that the result of competitive examination would be to place the most warlike and fiery spirits in India under the heel of the Bongsace Baboo, "who a the sight of a table -knife weuld crawl under a chair. There wouldheno partof the country," ho declared, "where WO should see at the tables of justice and authority any faces but those of Bengalees." It is quite natural that the rapid rise of this intelligent and quick-witted race should have at laat arena - ed. the jealousy and indignation of the more masterful tribes, his former conquerors, and that these ahould hasten to denounce him as an inferior. But none the less the agitation will go on, and the old-time warriors will have to learn that a new order of things haa dawned, that brains henceforth will count, before blood, and that they bad better set the ahoolmaster at work if they do not wish to come, eventually under the official control of the low castes they have hitherto despised. Russia in Central Asia. While Russia is making so much stir in Poland, she does not intermit the business of constructing military railroads in Turkes. tan. She is now running trains across the Amu Darla or Oxus, the great bridge at Charjui having been completed and opened for travel since the beginning of this year. This gives her a continuous railroad route from MichaeIovsk, on the east shore of the Caspian, through Kizil Arvat, Askabad, sgerv and Charjui'and soon the road will be pushed throughBokhara and Samarcand to Tashkend. With the railroad to Baku, on the west side of the Caspian, and the connecting boats on the sea, there is already steam communication from St. Perersburg beyond the Oxus. The value of this line for rapid military concentration on the Af- ghan frontier cannot be evereetimated. Mercury Frozen Four Days. Trempealean County is still the banner county of the North West, For the past fifteen days the thermometer has raged from 10 to 58 degrees below zero. .Four mornings in that time the meroury has congeseed in every thermometer in the village, and last Saturday morning at 6 &el ock the spirit thermometer indicated 53 below. Friend (to plaintiff)—" Well, I see you won your snit. I congratulate you." Plain- tiff—" Thanks. Yes, I beat the scoundrel." Same friend (to defendant)—" I'm sorry to hear you lost your slxit, old man?" Defend- ant—" Yes, the scoundrel beat me." A California Panther. John M. Gannon and Frank Murray have returned from a 43;0 of big, game in Alendo. oino county, Cal. An Air. Ganuords right arm is a silog and Mr. Murray is all dorm up in sticking -planter, it is sappeeed that they found what they were looking for, Terey inteutlecl to huge About two weeks and slay large numbers of deer, but they got only on. deer, a coyote wed 4 few jeek-rab- hits, and they, remained only two days. It Was en the second day tnat the pan- ther, also looking for big game, got theni. apravg out from the brush and Itnocked Mr. Gennon down without giving, him a ehance to sheet Mr. Murray then knock^ ed the panther down with the butt of his 110 and trouble ensued. The panther got up and tackled Murray, and they rolled about EP fast and were so promieenoue that Gaunoo did not dare to shoot, He danetd aroand, looking for an opening, while Mgr - ray howled and the panther yelled and clawed. Murray'a clothes lasted about a minute, and then pateltee of sMo and shreds of flesh began to fly. Gannon drew his aneath knife, and lueged at the panther whenever he get te chauee, giving him sev- eral alga that mere/wed bis discienfort and iris ill -temper. Murray arra the animal relied dewa a WA, both of them covered, witl3 blood, and when nearly at the bottom the panther suddenly lefused more pathoa into his sereeehiug and stepped rolling. is grip relaxed for an iastent, mot Murray wiggled, out of the bloody embrace and tonhese into the creek. A sharp root pre - jesting from the bank heel impaled. the pan- ther through the lotus, end he was atueh feet, There was &urger that he would free laimeelf in a Moment auti reneW hotitnitieS* and Gannon promptly threw himeele ;vim the etruggling beeet and eteele the kuife 'nth his V11414 4 few times. Murray Was about need up and Oannen bail a broken arm. They crawled over to Kearohr inoeit, where their wetted() were &coed. The ;text (ley some a li:earnhr men Minted up the deed peutiree, and teak olio bide that measured sue feet three and a half limbo from Viet of nose to tip of tell Students and Czar. Lea yen' the Czar of all the Rueeke promulgabed an edict, known as the Listivi e eity Statute, for the gevernureat al the various univeraitiee within his dominions. lersout 2001 them met in the old turivereity, nearly 140 more being outside; but the pee lice Wakened and brake in, Orating the uter gate after them and wounding several the atudents in the heed for trying to rent them. A detethreene of eaSaeke =dine nerearreded the naiverelty they ecem to have atone e* wantonly inehing the alt e cruel knouts thee term the Realm police, 7th of A:goober another meeting amicate was called, wirieh was /deo token up ley the miliary, a Cossack ugh meet eharelug dowa on them with lances in rot and evidently meaning miechief. It was =elm to attempt to hold a meeting in the wrivereity, and the intention wes aband- oned accordingly, Bat a meeting of more titau 1,000 students was eventually held in the Steastnoj Boulevard, the following tui - count of wInelt he given by a. Landon Tierce correspondent: A. deputation of lady etadente proented an ad(1:esnyieeeceuragetnent aud empathy. It Was reed amid elm:emend loud applause. At this very moment, however, a deteelo eut of mounted gen/brutes CAMP up at a sharp trot, surroandine the orowd on every aide, aud melted on the unarmed students, nein fists and sabrefeeler/4y. Before long the policemen and gendarmes were joined by dvorniks, butcher boys and the like. Resietance beccone inmeeeible and the stmdeuts dispersed in all directions. The ground borne frozen and slippery, many of them stumbled and fell down, and while on the trround were fiercely beaten and trampled upon by policemen and deer- niks. At the Strastnoe monastery the pa. lice managed to cut off the retreat of the fugitives and, pin them to the high walls of the monsetery and the punishmeut went on worse than oven Many foll exhausted and aonseless ; two were beaten to death. A great many of the lady etude:Its were thrown down and injured. At last tome of the stud- ents succeeded infinding shelter in private houses, others ran through the streets end were followed and beaten by the infuriated. police. Even in remote parts of the city the atudents were not safe from assault. A student, N„ was beaten by two dvorniks in night of two constables. Mr. N. asked their help, but they would not interfere. He fell down senseless, and when he came to him- self was being driven inc cab with a goraaa- Toy to prison. There were many aimilar in- eidents. Scme mon went home with brokerx fingers. others with broken ribs, wounded etc. Five students were killed. After this day's work students were arrested every- where—in the streets, in private houses, and at home. Those who were badly injur- ed were mostly taken into custody and stow- ed away in some prison in order to shut their mouths and prevent the truth from booming known. Several hundreds were exiled at once. As soon as Professor Skin. fassoveky—one of the best operating our- • geons in Moscow—heard what had happen- ed, he sent his assistants to the different homes of the injured students, but it was too late. They were all prisoners of the Cz er. No doubt many of the unfortunate prison- ers have been hurried into exile, possibly into Siberia. No satisfaction, at all events could be obtained by any of their friends or comrades, and it even became dangerous to press the authorities with questions. The fears of Nihilism are of course the motive cause for such deeds of violence; but no fears can palliate such deeds in the eyes of British freemen. DEvra 0r4 P.illATE RING. o was it Terribie Fettow, Irnened and Big, with a Voice .1,11te litander- Avessel just arrived la San Fr :101000 Porn Honolulu bringe news of the death of a man whose histery in AS thrilling ea that of DAY pirate kin of yellow covered literature. Twerety-five yeam ago he was A pirate king as brave and as wicked act pingo kings al- ways are. Sicee then he hae bona hermit: in the daye of in wickedness anti power he commanded 4 v014:01 called the lted Cloud, stanch. unusuelty fuSti and funeiched with powerfal guns. Periodically thie cermine- red. malt disappeared from the seam, and in her pinee would come another, all in amaze Meek, and named the Black Cloud. Tide pieee of theatrical effeeta which cost neth ing more than a little peiet, had, its ex- pecb33 influence upon the Eupora:Woo minds of the sailers who were annictimea Bent in pursuit of the vesseL Mcat of them fully believed that thele was some tiing canay about the craft, and that her captain had super natural help. In those days he WAS the terror of the South Feeley seas, and the British Gevernuteut Act a bis price upon his head. Huedrede el attempts were made to capture him by fair fight rued by taps, and by every meaue that could he devieed. But he eluded all the trees, came out 'victorious, in all the fights, and ie every ceee trailed away with the treditieleal seorzeful iaugh of the plate king. Ile had a Spanish name nwiticir nobefly remembers now, end he, was sup/lased to belong to that netionahty, Although he spoke :epanislas English, Freud), /wei Gernert all with equal fluency. At 144 4 yeang Eoglieh uteele- man, loin eelveleture and deetrette of the rerverd, undertook to eoptare Liz.. ,After ernieriug arouudin the Peelfie for Selna time he eatne late free aftenteen, directly upon the Reffeleud, The humor spoke the Euglishmeu =king where /she we't. bound end whet elbed on leserd. The Tonle, waa that they were looking for the pirew, ;bet they Itnew they Ware talking to him, And that 140 had bettergive himeelf up ot ouee. Iu iteetint briget hights eppeered ell over the Reel Cloud, end her Captain !armored in geld English. "I will see you hell fiat I" Titeu A gamma bell whized ugh tile air, but it was aimed tee high • pmeeed above the veseel. "1 will et ou there," ahonted heek the Eseglieheoeu ud 4 hreadeitie from his gene aimed low: nt the Red Cloud to the bettore of the sea. at theltuceaucer esteeped, and nos keg ord hewed. two of his crow appsared Agee on tire toners leleird of We - Melt it ueer the Ent Maui Wend% avo Hut group. It is a mall, bmou co, uniethebited. There hie two a even left him, aud there he ye e for twenty -Ave years. Street his lug there he was celled ooly Morrotin- the native POMO for the ieland. r who has been going te audi fro from Sandwich Ielande for ten or twelve yeare, leanel all he could about Murrain - nee, and saps that he WAS rtAlCh liked and feared by the natives. They carried to him all the delicaciee to be found in the king - dorm and ()trebled him to life a life of cue end luserry. They eeid he was A tall man, big and orntranding, with A VOice like thunder—ee pewerfal that they firmly be- lieved he could ;came the wind to rise or the waters to enhaide. They would not allow white men to go near the island if they could help it, probably becauae :they had been to cormnanded by hint, and when he (lied they Varied hira near the place where he had lived, with much mourning, over hise deperture. The man in the moon must have had an uncomfortable time of it last the night of the eclipse. According to the Pittsburg Dis- patch, Prof. Langley, of the Allegheny Ob- servatory, has been able, with the aid of a delicate little instrument called a bolome- ter, to measure the temperator of our satel- lite; and has found that in winter it is in the neighbourhood of 200 degrees below zero. He has also found that during a total eclipse the temperature of tie° moon rapidly falls as the earth's shadow passes over the sun's( rays being shut out and there being no atmosphere to prevent radiation. The gentleman who dwells in the moon, therefore, must have experienced a cold wave on that day, and probably spoke of the earth in terms the reverse of compli- mentary. Egyptian Types. Here is e. string of camels With their heads aloft above the erowd, moving with soft step and long stride as they cerry bees of epic() that hue come from the distant nem - dam Here is a rich official with his reel running intrent and his pipa bearer behind. Here cornea a lady of auk, perehed high on her peddee saddle, riding aside legs and except for the 'large eyes that glaneelfrom the kohl -tinted eyelids above the white veil. mid the little henna -stained kinds that hold the reins, ahe might be taken for a bale of silk. Peasant women hurry along with voila hung by a kincl of thimble to their headgear, their lithe forms thinly draped in the long bathing gown sort of dress of blue cotton, and carrying astride on their ehoul- dere their little naked children, with, weak eyes and grave faces. There comes a Beds - wee on 111 hardy horse, that frets linear the cruel bit, the saddle richly caparisoned, and the stirrups broad and coarse as iron shovels. And here, with many a stroke on the tough quarters of the long-eared donkey he drives before him, comes the donkey -boy shouting bis " Berach"--" Sheneeennek." "Reglule —as he steera some large Englishman, who sits perched over the quarters of the "Homan" Crowds there are of brown -leg - gee, brown -bosomed labarers, wearing the kind of gray felt cap which we tee on clowna in the drone at home; and water -carriers flounder past, bearing the bursting skins that palpitate and surge with their liquid contents; and sellers of bread, carrying flat cakes on a tray on their heads; and sellers of monk, bristling with steel, like moving stand e of armour; and then the beggars— blind, kilt, and deformed—such as Re -phase introduced into some of his pictures, but to be seen in the flesh only itr an Oriental city. Ophthalmia is so common in Egypt that weak eyes are the rule, not the exception, and total blindness very common. In no cases however, are bad eyes so distressing to witness as in the little children. Mere infants carry swarms of flies settled in the corner of their eyes, and no attempt is made to remove them, so that at first when you see them with Ouch grave and patient little faces it is difficult to restrain the impulse to rush to the rescue of the sufferers and have one good "wipe out" of the irritating pests that infest them. A -Unique Election. • A unique election recently °coned in a small community in Gormany. The vote was taken to decide who was the "best man" in the community. Only one man, a shoemaker, voted, and as he voted for himself, he was declared to be unanimously elected to the position of beet man in the municipality. Mistress and. Maid—" Where have you been, Jane ?" "I've been to a meeting of the Siris' Friendly Society, ma'am." "Well, and what did the lady say to you." "Please, ma'am, she aaid I wasn't to give you warn- ing, as I meant to. She said.I was to look upon you as my thorn—and bear it !" . The China Tea Trade, . Infect net generelhe hnowri is that the tea trade. with Greet Britain is rapidly de. /main Chine end being transferred to India. Renvily taxed -China tee cannot eunpeam it eeirres, with the duty-free tee of India, and if .thn taxation ia not reraitted the tee -trade. of .Ohlueis within, Measurable eieMuce ef .extinetion. The entire .crep of Indio, tea in 189e will he lela clown in Lon. den at. Di coarof file per pseud or under, while the overage cost Of the FOC:04.4W Qen• gou this year was 93, per pound laid down in Londoo, for teas inferierte 't1:040 Of 4ndia • growth, It is• thmgiat to be toe late to re, never the lost growed, het thee timely/gel vigorous measures May yet -euehle Chine to retain A geed share in Vile important trade, Otheie cenens ila-Ve eoutributed to the de- ef the Chino tea tack. Among those eneationed are negligent .eultleatione imper.feet ethig„one-4We odeeleteee ,ef sleet and ritalke, •and, fraudiderit preetices . . , on the pert of the /retie* tee guilds. . merlyit was the preake . :amen Pea e • g °were to e.reteeli the ground ef the plan. • : tatienSo. manure the pleete end prime thew' • at lemeerice 4 ye.er, wieile every year scan were replacedby new armlike Now, how- ,. ever, .110 trenehragA reesseriug, or mama no , done, no new eteck is plaided, and eh.e . wernesee Uwe are mo stripped, thee few . • and even five crops ..ero ,token foamed of '. three, awl .theleeeeerope are ;ern oa with ' are.are .or hilidreolte. OWites to want of . I :rap in the leas .the teas are se lightly fired: 1.thet they come/mewl to derenierme within theee cr feter.erenwhe of peeking - The duet ' IIaud atelhe drove beet the :corgi/got/al Mare ' Lae and View ref Attstordie and Canada te ,. theFe0Ae47 tgan and eatted -.the later te lj he repleeed, ley tare item Ceyleu.' The lefee of the tealrede is undeohteelly . grave .blow to Chum, hut . AM gene by Inure could be taken as ..4natler engutaeut in fever of Imperial federation and felt toed; as ilhowleg.how thereeghly dedee perldent of' all oeteide euppliee the Etitith Empire might be made, Sprin in Uglan The crocutee ami hyaeiuthe are already begintring to pude theirgivenpoluts through the here heele and law= of our suburban rdens, end more titan eue moruiee tlur- ing this moan 4# January hem brought with it o feeliug of epriug time in the Mr, giviug, pleasure to all eeve the gardestere, who arced e too cerlyiltuddieg a tender growthe. More indicative edit of the raikbeese of the enaeou is the reoweheuing af thehirds. An obeerver of natural phenomena reperin that in Leocaebire the Mao ha select ef the 'tweet autennual wigwag:1e, Are pat neW evegywlzero very pleuriful. Golden plovers, stumeratis during the treat, Are tanCe the caller grew milder away again to the We. The fleet's of lapwloge ere reperted be very laroe, and the fleets !neve not been nuiliekettly pvolono,ed to drive them away to the eea-coast to procure feel The me obeerver has heard the throstle aud blacithird diming Monet every day Olio mon ; but, adds this Laneathire Gilbert White, though there erotical: of Skylarks with us, they have tett twee eroging muck yen as thew hal been little eim.—feendoe Daily eth tef, Jan, ••••••••••11.613.1.M. He Got Ills DiNebarge. A.patmtoter in a email viltaoe Mleels- rpm bee written to the pasormeter general estate; him to flieventinue the °Wee. He extremes Oa his neighbors, who are wool growers, became distrustful of hie rabbit dog, and in corerequenee, he etetea "ft tutte- d up missing. Si I am kft here " With. ut tha means of sustenance. $o 11 yen ex- pect me to get up nighte for the train you will have to forwerd at once not= pork and beaus or some ether nourishment, or a um postmaster n ill here to be eppointed at this place." He We in poetecript " Alts—s wants me to split him some rails if I can get rid of this (ellen; so burry up with the grub or the dhcharge.h The Oleo was dia. continued in response to bieappeel.—Rorbes• rte- Democrat. Torontonian in Vancouver. A former resident of this city, writing from Vitecouvere B. C., to a friend hero says :—"There itt a great demand tor brick- layers at e3 per flay, plaaterers $5, carpen- tere $3, stonemasons $5 and painters $3 per day, and it man can work, with the excep- tion of it few days, all winter. Builder's labourers get 8.2.50 per day. With the ex- ception of house rent a family can live here as cheap as in Toronto. House rent here is very high. A house that rents for $12 in Toronto is $30 here. Lumbar is about 30 per cent. cheaper here than in Toronto and bricks are $10 per 1,000, so you can build a. house here as cheap as in Toronto with the exception of labor." Brown (to Robinaon who is reading a telegram with a look danguish on his face) —" What's the matter, old fellow? Some- body dead ? Robinson—(crushing the tele- gram with both hands)—" No; somebody alive ! Twins." In. Salt Lake City the houses of the Mor- mons all have two front doors, even the smallest of them. Some have else two wood- sheds and two wells. A house that is begun with only one room is frequently lengthened out room by room and door by door as new wives are taken. A curious complication has arisen in con- sequence of the nutrder of the Woolfolk family by Tom Woolfolk near Macon'Ga., which was one of the most revolting trage- dies of this generation. The murderer now lies in, goal under sentence of death, and he has been approached by the heirs of both his murdered father and mother. No one but the condemned man knows the parti- culars of the crime. 11 he killed his father first, his mother's heirs will come into the property; but, if his mother died first, his two surviving sisters and himself succeed to the property. A full confession from this monster is expected before his execu. tion in order to clear up this point. A good deal of fault is being found in the United States with the manner 'in which Old Probe" at Washington has been doing his work of late. During the past year or so his "indications " are said to have been singularly fallacious and misleading. This winter Ilea a dozen cold waves which never tuirted up have been predicted tor the East- ern States'while no warning was given of the great blizzard in the North-West. It may be that "Old Probs " is losing his grip, and if so the people will have to re- turn to the good old method of spying out weather by means of the goose bone and the ground hog.