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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-7-26, Page 3NEWS OF THE DAY. CnaAnnaR. Woodetoek is to have electric light, Load Stanley deeirea to pay a visit: to Kingston. at an early elate. Two bucket shops have been started in Montreal in defiance cf the law, Barrie is expecting to get electric light for 20 cents a night. Shalford the same, Track is being laid on the Red River Valley road at the rate of two mites a day. Citizens of Kingston have met and de. nursed Sunday traffic on the Wollend Gaited, Discontent issaid to be causing newer - Qua desertions from the London Military School. Crop report front the'neighbourbood of the city of Quebec are, of a very favourable character, The, Minister of Justice B8) the Pre?.'ia-' Bucket Shorn t must enferoe the Dominion P The Salvation Army barracks: in Xing - Ston, rebuilt at a cost of $10,400, were opened on Sunday, Mr, and Mrs, liegh J. ¥acdoneld will spend their summer with Sir. John Mac- donmld at the seaside. Five oftisers of the Governor Gemral'a Foot Guards have resigned owing to a dig puts with the colonel. A recorder in Montreal compelled a young man to enter into bonds to dig: ontinue visiting a young lady, Rev. Mr. Matthews, of Qacebea, bas been s ected peranattent teoretary of the l'axa. reebyterian Alliance, The wharf labourers of Montreal are on trike, aud the chopownera are determined,. resist their demand. It is rumoured that there is a possibility a strike of telegraph operators for more pay and charter hours, Sir John Macdonald hale anal lvathan biased, a llentreat tobacconist, for tieing bia same for advertisingpurpotet, Gabriel Dumont hat received letters frownt alfbroeda in the Northwest, threatening hellion unless: their properties are rooter - The naii•feeders at the Hamilton nail worke are atilt out .ea atrake, and it is re- ported that self-feeding mach/net will be ob. mined. It is reported that Bishop Latleebe, of Threo Rivera, has snependedthe Janata from, exercising religious lctinittrations his diocese. The bookkeeper oft eeauell, the abscond- ing esrrisge.waker of Montreal, says that be and his employer have been carrying' en *spite'''. of forgeries. It is aataounced that Major Oiener.al Cam- eron, son -in law of Sir C'•harlea Tupper, le to succeed Oeueral diver as C nnmandant of the I:. M. College at Kingston. The atxuetaro toeing 'erected at Ontario Beach for a summer thoappita►l for children WAS blown down on. Saturday, One worst. nese was killed and another injured. Two Meunonite gentlemen from Resale have chosen a townabip west of tho Souris river, La Manitoba, for a party of their fel• low•countrymen, who will arrive in the spring, Judge Falconbridge, who, with lir. T. P. Galt, and others, is spending Ilia vacation salmon fishing at Mistime, P. Q , succeeded in killing tho largeat salmon taken there for several years, The fish, whloh was captur- ed after a, hard and exciting struggle, last Ing one hour and fifty minutes, weighed 4u pounds and treasured 40 inches in length. A large number of salmon have been taken by the judge's party. AMERICAN'. The citizens of Canton, Mass., are alarm- ed over an epidemic of typhoid fever. Senator Soar made a longspeech in the United States Senate bittery attacking the Flaheries Treaty. Tho weekly :statement shows that at the present date the United States Treasury contains $710,409,610. Tohn Zoeller of Racine Wia, has convict. ed the fiftieth day of his fast. I{e is very weak but his mind is unclouded. petition would mean sixty days in the cooler. !1r. T. M. Arens has completed a clay model of the bronze statue of James. W. Marshall, to be erected on the spot where. gold was first discovered in .California. It Le of colossal size, and represents Marshall clad in a miner's dress, holding a nugget in his right hand and with his left pointing to the spot whence it was taken. Rev, Oscar C. McCulloch of Indianapolis, read a paper before the Convention of Char- ities and Corrections in Buffilo, on a study of Social Degradation, in which he shows the condition of thitty meanies, through five generations, embracingi,ti91 persons, which, with its startling facto of hereditary crime, is worthy of the most careful reading. Two perfectly pure white birds, Which. were caught in Galena, Ill,, have been ex- amined Is'y local ornithologists, who pro - flounce them genniee robins. These ex- ceedfngiy rare specimens of the feathered tribe are apout two-thirds grown, and were taken from a neet known to have been bnilt YJ robins of the ordinary red -breasted var- iety, Anew method of punishing dishonest bank clerktr is now being tried in a certain in- stitution of that kind in New York. Some time ago a elerk'a accounts were investigat- ed and he was found to be several thousand dollars short. To remove and prosecute the man would /ave been troublesome and apt to hurt the reputation of the bank, so the�y made him stay as if nothing bad happened, but have placed hien in such *palatal that Ile On take no more, and informed hie fel lose -clerks of the defalcation. ,ide is avoided by the insiders, and hie position is about as dfaagreea.ble as can well bo inseetiod. Con atantly Ander surveillance, he will work out iia time the amount he hag taken and will then be discharged. alonst(ilt'. The Emperor of Brazil has quite reooverod from his illosas. The Boers are asfd to be an?iioita to fight Great Britain again. The international Law Congresaa will meet atLaumnne on September 1, Dr. Morrell Mackenzie coanpletea his fifty.first year Saturday of this weep. The liorviaa Synod has annulled the xmar* riage of King Milan to Queen Natalie, The French revenue surplus for the first six menthe of the year amounts to 28,0110,- Q0Zobehr Pasha Maim that the White Pasha a&en in the region of .'Bahr-ol-Ghazel is not Stanley, but Brain Bey, At a meeting of Unionist Peers it WAS de. Bided to support Lord Salisbury's bill to re- form the Roam of Lards. The report of the German pphysiciaus who attended the Emperor Fredrick is a direct .attack upon 11r. �kenzie. • ;plea new Papal eneyclicaal is said eta he Inroad and tolerant, bait decidedly opposed to the *operation of Ciauroh and State. The 1'ceneli Conservative pepera denounce the admire of the lettered the Lount Of Palle to the Consery:also mayors of Prance. At a mercantfloconferenee at Biramingham a committee vat appointed to report on a whew for a ship canal from Liverpool. to Birmingham. Themes A. Edison, the inventor, will. send to each crowned head of Europe a per- fected phonograph. Such A. • present will speak for Balt. General Sheridan continues to gain strength, and it is hoped that the work of permanent improvement has been entered upon. United States Representative McKinley is of opinion that the passage of the Tariff bill is a foregone conclusion, and that it will take place within two weeks At Long Island City during a drunken row Saturday night Mrs Watson was thrown from the stoop over a three foot bannister by three of her tenants and killed. The Maplewood Park Aaeooiation of St. Pani, Minn., will sue Rev. Dr. Talmage for $10,000 damages for failing to deliver an address there on the 4th inst. as agreed. The floods at Parkeraburg, Weat Va., con- tinue and the destruction to property along the Little Kanawha and Ohio rivers is greater than in 1884, when the first flood came. It is reported that the efforts at destroy- ing the grasshoppers in the northern part of Minnesota have been so successful that at least half a yield of wheat may be ex - paged. Robert Bryan, a sixteen•year-old colored boy, stabbed Riley Hancock (white), aged nineteen, on Saturday, at Henderson, Ky., and killed him, The murderer was lynched by 50 masked men. General Fisk, Prohibition candidate for President of the United States, says that the Temperance plank of the Republican Convention has driven thousands of voters into the Prohibition ranks. Serious trouble has arisen on the " Q" road. The brakesmen have struck, and the chairmen of the Grievance Committee of the Brotherhood of Engineers and the Firemen's Brotherhood have been arrested for con• spiraoy. A. little French Canadian boy in Oldtown, Maine, is credited with one of the shortest and most comprehensive compositions on re- cord. The teacher told him to write about anything he could see.. and this was the re- sult " The stove. She be cracked." An Albany woman named Briggs lost her husband a few weeks ago, and, to ahow her grief she slept on his grave in the ceme- ' tory.. The police finally caught her at it and the judge warned her that a re - FOR AND /MOW WOMEN, A Bumpier Wxsii. Oa tide, thy birthday, my dear friend, What is the wish to time I'd send ? That earth may be a garden: fair, Wherein bloam only flowers ra.s e? Nay, that were vain, for here below We always find weeds, too, will grow, And e'en the rose, esteemed by all, kas thorn that's sharp, although 'tie small, But who would e'er reject, with acorn, The rose because it has a thorn? Not one 1 We prize it for its worth— Naught perfect is of earthly birth. Wile though, my friend, accept front me This earnest with I crave for thee ? Oh, make thy heart a garden bright, Wherein grow virtues fair to tight,. And may to thee be giv'n the atrength To root oat every fault et length; For faults, like weeds, do show that we Meat watch ourselves continually. The choirs st dower of every 'teeth Is love ---of life the sweetest part. Oh, may it for thee ever bloom, And abed on all its rick perfume For love ,grows moat when moat it gives, And bliss beatows if it but lives;. And should'et thou find that, like the rose, Sorrow (loves thorn) time may diaelose,. Be not cast down, thorns will decay: For all things earthly pees away. But love to man alone WAS given To be it foretaste here of Heaven ;. And when we reach our Home above, And see at last the God of Love (Who known how weak we are, and frail, Aud aeea bow frequently we fain Te keep: our hinge at ell tiinea white, M they should be In Hips pare eight), Ob, may Ilia tough en weed and thorn Buse %owere immortal to be born, Aad :doge in Heaven no sin shall dwell, Their beauty aye His praise will tell, In the Imperial House of (summa on Friday night it resolution in favour of the payment of salaries to members ^eaarejected by a vote of 102 to 136. The Austrian Grand Duke Vladimir saga his stay in Berlin convinced him that Bin. peror William wan I'.aasia's friend, and was prepared to become her ally. though The Britlsb array authorities are pushing of tat Ifeatu 0 othbo arwitie politicallysmart, liels. experiments in military'cycling. A regular bicycle carps has been. formed, with 120 tarn, iiia is clever 'with her needle, as they had to make their own clothes before their father got to be Xing. should she not send ;ome of them to her soboalmate for a proaent ? There seemed tet be no objection, ao she sent the butler down to the beak with .orders' to pick out it pretty case of spoons. The butler fulfilled his anion, None of the presents were ticket- ed, so that it was altogether impossible to tell from whom: this particular set of spoons bad come. The spoons travelled ,once more to a hymeneal altar,, and the lady who 1 Bentthem heard nothing about there for sev oral days, Then else received the following letter :— liners isieneat ..-.,I am very grateful to you for returning the epoona. I thought they were too ;good foryou whew I sent theca to you as a wedding present, and le ie 'limiest for you to &end them, back. Yours, etc., It is not wise to give away your welding presents. drour Grazes., Queen Elizaboth of Roanmanis ie intensely anlmml, :fond of dancing, acid has written a ballet.. Elizabeth of Austria has developed an un. fortuuate skia desea,e, and wears a veil continually. Isabella, ex -Queen of the Spiniarde, when aha appears abroad wears a couture much the nuns as that of a non. The Qeeen of T nnisrk fa intensely deaf, hut feud of music, and has a big and power- ful orgau that she can hear. Olga of Goose ie the moat banditti Meeea of Europe, and is stater-%a•law of the Empress of, runaia anal the Priecesa of Wales., Queen Olga of Greene is preeticai, dreatea Fleetly, and goes is for demotic 000nomy, ete., even snaking her cern beanets, it is said. Marie, the dt►ugbcer of the Empresa of Austria, is about to marry Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria, who is,aocordieg to loyal Jacob- ites, the heir apparent to the Bugiiah throne. The Queen of Spain recently, after theper- farmance, culled Sarah Bernherdt into the FOINWASFOA Morisns. Never ticklo *child, it is dangerous, and reduces vitality. Any unnatural emotion must be avoided, The more quiet and free from excitement a little child la kept the better for tete child's health, atxength, and mental vigour. Tf there •is •much sickness about the neigh- banrhoed, boil the water which ie used in baby's food, for bailing kilts all the anianal.- eube contained iia, the. water. Cool it tae. fore using. For headache, or any form of indigoa� tion, drink hot water, hall a pint at a time if pee- • aide. owe chi.dren oranges before breakfast fn the apriug tune. It is better than sulphur doses or any spring medicines, dine cream, with hot water and sugar, in place of condensed or natural milk, as it is• more easily digoated than milk. If hot water is added then it will not require any worming proeesa, whereby it may come in contact with metal. Werrn the food by placing the bottle or cup la water to heat .it with the water. In the opting let the child take his out. door walks in the afteraaoom;'in autumn let bloc go out la the forenoon. The spring morning partakea of the preceding gait, Iriiauttivanthe;morningis more like outwear, the afternoon like winter. The whole bath la to be preferred to the partial laath. Flinty -eight degree$ Fahrea,- holt must be the degree of heat ; to tae re. dosed as the child grows older. • If the child does .not sleep, well give hiraa ?a bath before going to bed, ft is an excellent sedative —1 omen. ,=ia Fanlber's Fanbraie, Short savage roars broke upon my est, miugled with the oaten:eats el the =Alga, who were evidently below chased by the naw turione beast. At this crinis I fele that my hat would probably do more for me then my gain, as I crashed the former on ,to any head, and, without waiting to adjust the chus.strep, I seized the latter in my hands and facedthe enemy. The panther bad meanwhlte floored it boater and got him by box and gave hero bouquet tied in ribbon thg arm, but, dropplag bins, elle at arcs andsecured by a splendid sapphire mounted came for me with ledhtuiug bounds. I could with diamonds,ace nothing owing to the besets trornendoue speed, bat a ahaitowy-lookiafiform with two The Queen of Sweden, ranee she learned large bright round eyes iibe3d upon miewith and began cooking by the advice of her phy all uameaniug stare as G literally flew to- ward for her health, takes long walks, and ward me, Such was the vision of a moment 1 oftengooalato thepeaasuts'houseaaodahows lyfy presence of mind Old not clean me. 1 them bow to make good dishes. raised my gran end fired with all the care 1 The latest Perin /sadden in dogs commands could at anon short notice, But I missed, two pockets in the canine ulster or dolman and the panther landed light as a feather whoa travelling, one to hold lumps of sugar with Be arms around my shoulders. 'Trus and the other for a small fine pookethand• wo stood for a few seconds, sad 1 distinctly kerchief to wipe the little brute's nose felt the animal sniffing for my throat. with. Mechanically,. I always turned my beadle Dogma of Ramie, the Princess of Wales as to keep the thick, wadded curtain of my helmet cover in front of the creaturo'a muse tilt; but still I could hear and feel plainly the rapid yet cautions, efforts it was mak. Ing to fined an opening, to as to tear open the jugular vein. Thad no other weapon but my gun, which was ageless with the animal closely embracing me, so I stood perfectly still, well knowing that Sanford would lib. orate mo if it wore possible to do so, At the first onslaught wo wore so placed that he could only have hit tho panther by .firing throagh me, which would have been very injudicious, to say the least of it. As may naturally be supposed, the animal did notr apend muck timo in investigating the nature' of a waddod hat cover, and before my friend could got around and take aim without jeopardizing my own life the boast pounced. on my. loft elbow, taking a piece out, and then buried its long, sharp fangs into the joint until they met. At the same time I was hurled re the earth with suehforcethat I knew not how I got there or what became of my gun. Still, throughout, I maintaned a clear impression of what was going on.. I knew that I was lying on the ground with the panther on top of me, and I could feel my elbow joint wabbling in and out a9 the brute ground its jaws with it movement im• perceptible to the bystanders, but which felt to me as though I were being violently shaken all over. Now I listened anxiously for the report of Sandford's shot, which I knew would be heard immduaato.y, and carefully refrained from uasem s the slight- est sound or movement, bat his aim should be disturbed thereby In a few seconds the loud and welcome detonation, which from its proximity almost deafened me, struck upon my ear. I sat up, I was free, the panther gone. men, of wham 11 are offieere. A 'meeting announced to be held in Trafalgar square on Saturday, to denounce Mr. Balfour, was prevented by the London police keeping the crowds continually mov- ing. owing. A, bill which hits passed tho Federal Council of Goruiany provides for the pea. stoning of all working people who aro :in- capacitated or who bavo arrived at the age of 70. It is reported that a marriage is being. arranged between the Czarewitch and one of Emperor 'William's sisters and that the alliance has the entire approval of Prince Bismarck. The Pope is making strenuous efforts to suppress the slave trade throughout the world, and non-Catholic Governments are invited to assist in putting down the in- famous traffic. The linnet plague in Algeria is becoming worse. Sixty thousand laborers and two thousand soldiers are powerless. The whole country is devasted, and it is leered fam- ine and pestilence will result. Mr. W. J. Ashley, M. A.. lecturer of Lincoln and Corpus Christi Colleges, Ox- ford, has been appointed to the chair of Poli- tical Science in the University of Toronto. There were 33 applicants for the position. Patrick J. Tynan, known in Invincible ranks as Number One, published a card in yesterday's New York Herrod stating that the announcement that he was in collusion with the London Times is a font and un- natural slander. Herr Dietz, an Italian railway official, his wife and a railway assistant named Kappel, have been convicted of selling to the French Government information relative to German military operations, and have been eentenced to long terms of imprison. ment. Sir W.H. Smith, leader of the British House of Commons, intimated that' a Par- liamentary committee was incompetent to inquire into the charges against Parnell, but Parnell afterwards gave notice of a motion for the'appointmenb of suoh commit- tee. The monthly organ of the German Free- masons states that the Kaiser is strongly prejudiced -against the craft, and is conse• quently, in this respect, very unlike his tetherand grand father, who were both dis- tinguished Masons. Wilhelm II. has never been initiated in the Order. Dr. Gerhardt, in hiereport on the late Emperor's disease, accuses Dr. Mackenzie of duplicity, and that among other things,. while ,he knew the. Emperor was suffering. from cancer, he removed a sound portion of. the throat, which` he submitted to Prof. Virohow, thereby deceiving that eminent scientist The Queen Regent of Spain ehoosea a word daily for the c ounteriign, without which no ono 18 admitted to the palace by the .many guards. This is communicated to the highest military official, who happens to be lfarahal Campo, who proclaimed Alfonso Icin Mrsg.. Oscar Wilde is said to wear the same " beet" areas through the season. If not the same dress, it is made on the same plan, being a whits clinging silk, embroider- ed down the front in gold and adorned around the neck with a high standing ruff a la Queen Bess.. Eugenie, ex -Empress, is said to have de veloped "strange idiosyncrasies, besides being a recluse. One faatendenoyto Spiritualism and a belief that she can communicate with her dead Prince Imperial. It is wellnnder- atood that she intends to make Princess Beatrice of England her heiress. Queen Victoria has now reigned over England longer than any monarch but two— Henry ITL, and George III. She overtook Queen Elizabeth sixyeara ago, and has out- done E iward III., who only reigned 148 days over half a century. If ehe lives a few yearn longer Victoria will have reigned longer than any royal personage of history. The ceilings of most rooms will not need whitening every year, but they will always need sweeping, as well as the walls. No one who has not swept a wall down with a clean duster, firmly pinned on to a broom, would imagine the amount of dust that will have collected in spite of the most tidy housemaid. THE RETORT CotmTrova. When a sister of the governor of a neigh- bouring state was married, a few years ago, says the "Tropical Talker" of the Pittsburg Dispatch, she received a great many relit - able presents, and among them were many pieces of plate and silverware of all sorts. But particularly was she overwhelmed with silver fruit spoons. Beautifully chased, gold - lined, in every sort of variety, were these spoons. After the wedding, and when they had returned from the honeymoon, the bride found that she had no immediate use for half the silverware she possessed, especially as for the time they were to live in her mother's house. So she consigned some of it to the care of a bank in town. The fruit spoons all went to the vault. A fee months later she received an invita- tion to attend the wedding of a sohoolmate in a neighbouring town. She knew she would have to go to New York to buy a suitable present, and she didn't cave about taking the journey just then. All at once the idea came into her head that she had a great superfluity of fruit ,spoons. Why A School of Alligators. We had .reached the .9 in Jean river, and following its course for a rapid ride of a. don, en or More miles, came to a aeries of wide, low bayou$, or lagoons, which setback from the river in some places for miles. • These were fi.ted with all manner of lug- nriant tropic vegetation and reeds similar to those four which the Guinea valley takes: its flame, igterpersed at intervals with stretches of wile cane. ere and there drifte of mons clung from limbs of gigantic tress to the very surface bf the atilt lagoone.. Toe silence of the locality was something wonderful, says Edgar L. Wakeman in the Louis Repubticeu. Strange birds, with long, gamut bodies and trailing. lege, circled dolorously above, Not a ripple broke upon • the surface of the slimy bayous. Tee reeds were straight and Still, The grass mos4 wait motionless in the abadows. The doge kept close to our horse+t' heels, and when we halted and tied, the latter crouched close and silent beside them. 1 had 'noticed dose at work upon some old piece') of blackened canvas, Wben we dig- mounted he retnoved his sombrero end'pttt of thesen one ups his head, placing others in the waist of Ibis blouse, "Come," said Don iliamie), "we wiUl allow you how harmless alligators ars when you know them, and what a simple thing ie ie for Cubans to kill them 1" Moving stealthily along the edge of the lagoon, we suddenly heard here, there, be- yond, and again as if all about us, heavy splashes into the water, and the gebok part- ing and subsoquent trembling of conntieRa swathe of reeds showed where unwieldy ob- jecte bad made startled pis -ogee. We were among a aehool of alligators. Bow many ? t' Well, maybe several sa thound within a /square mile," answered the Den, eottaphiceattly. Joao had a treuaeadoua quebrabacha. clamped stick as large, almeat rs heavy atad r;uito as strong Al a erowbar, in his heed,. At a word from Don manus) Ipso glided for- ward and Dong bimetal im a reclining nes tare en it firm bit of ground, perhaps 1rUy' feat Irma. the edge of the lagoon, while the, Don and rays* hid in the edge et the, jangle, An aleleat uaemdurable silence el perhaps hail an hour sawed. Then geode spla alt• logo among the reeds were herd, Theta were shortly followed by znany soft, half- whietled gruutiogs. Directly than heads et two alligators part- ed the reeds near where Jose Jay motion - lees. For it time these were Met motionless as an Oriental study im bronze. 'Chen the undies followed, 'lowly and eautionaly tat tile, but soon with iioeredible rapidity they moved apuai .Jonas. I believe I was never to apprisheative sad excited in my life, "Steno l" placed Mata Mansel, instantly nue dapped about,t ampered. to the tand•edge and whealed himself lute the bayou.Bat the other, with .eimpping eyes, snit quivering jaws, was lent ea. having Cuban meet ler breakfast. In another instant be WAS at Jose a side. The latter bounded into the air like a rub• beg ball. Fl-inghig lata esuvas bet into the allig trda two, whi,;h snapped axed crunch- ed st hideously, the gsebreheeba stick whistled through a wide air-eir«le and de• wended with is crash lute the reptile's skull. Before ite first quiver and sprawl Joe's machete was through its abouider a foot into the wild Soil beneath, and the bull alligator. seventeen. feet lu length, wan dead. Three alligators were despatched in title renmrkablo way. A Two -Foot Sea -Serpent. A Bailor, just arrived from Central Ameri- can waters, brought a curiosity in the snake line to the Academy of Sciences. The ac- quisition is a veritable sea serpent, according to the statement of the local scientists. It is about twenty-four inches in length, with flattened tail and narrow head. Its body is a bright yellow, with a broad, wavy stripe of deep black along its back. The specimen is undoubtedly venomous. Dr. Hewaton says that he cannot at once claBw- ify the reptile, but he supposes it to be a species hitherto unknown to science. There is, however, a watersnake much resembling this one in East Indian waters and along the coast of New Zealand. These snakes travel there in great schools, and are a con- siderable annoyance to fishermen. It may be possible that the specimen in question was drifted by ocean currents from ita proper habitat to the place where it was found. There are only forty-five female lawyers in the United. States, but they talk like " sixty.". Life in the Bltlhamas. Sponging hat 411 the attractions of a gamnling adventure. Should the agile be successful, the profits are largo ; enou h money may bo made in a short time to lure the enaoymcnc of months of idleness, And idleneas is a real luxury when a nam ran recline under the shade of bis own gassy* or orange tree, and have the latest news from the passing neighbour, as they saunter along, their faunas (round gat baaketa of palm leaves) piled with glowing tomatoes, large,green evoeada pears, or rod and yellow peppers, for sale is town—or else chow sugar cane or smoke a pipe, as the spirit nioves him, taking no thought for the morrow, whloh is pretty euro to be aunny and balmy as today. Dwellers in the dark andsombre north can hardly realize the charm and joy. oneness that seem to radiate from earth and air in the lotus -eating southern climes. The mere seine of existence becomes in itself a happiness; one can underatand what ani. male probably feel in pleasant pastures on brilliant days. Then, as the sun sinks down- ward, the golden heaven glows over a re. joicing earth, flushing every moment into richer beauty beneath the departing rays, while rosy beams of light streaming up. ward like ao many auroras, is a aingulatand very beautiful effect often to be seen in a Bahama sunset. When the sun has set new beauties appear, every bush and tussock be- coming alive with thousands of fireflies; and when a silvery -green moon rises in the calm, deep, sapphire sty, it is difficult to decide whether night or day be the more full of Loveliness, Besides the fireflies, a firebeetle —one of the elytra—is a singular insect with a brilliant green phosphorescent light proceeding from two round spots on the thorax, added to which, when excited, the insect has the power to emit a regular blaze of light from the segments of the abdomen, of such brilliancy that one can read by its Fght. In Cuba ladies fasten these elytra, as ornaments, in their hair, or let them flash beneath the folds of tulle dresses The Emperor Frederick bestowed the order Pour le merite upon Sir Frederick Leighton. It raised considerable discussion among Teutonic painters. "Ma, is a porous plaster good at draw 1" "Yes, dear." Does pa use it in draw poker ?" "Hush dear." " Can I have one to draw my sled next Winter? "No, indeed, you little wretch," and she took her slipper and drew out all the curiosity in him. A New York house which ten years ago employed 100 travelling salesmen now does its business entirely by iUus$rated cata- logues and correspondence, and its trade is ahead of what it used to be. Others are moving in the same way, and in a few yearn hence the drummer will drum less numer- ously. • Notwithstanding there were already 320,- 000 species of insects in the world, of which 25,000 are found in the United Ssates, Prof. Simpson has gone and discovered a new kind of bug. A man must be insane on bugswhen 25,000 specie" don't satisfy him. -[orristown Herald.] We presume it has wings.