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The Exeter Times, 1885-11-19, Page 5AN EGYPTIAN RC)MANCE. Ai'Story of Love and "VAN Adventure, funded upon Etaitling Revela- tions in the Uareer of Arabi Puha, 4 Mc Author of " NLIA, TAX "Ts RED SEW' "T Desethet Skee" Deo., Ego. oHARTEa ILL--(COliTINVED.) VIE ItIMSONATED FETE AT Tee PALAU., Poor Idellio knew well teat her mother would not cheep her views, no matter what she said te tayto controvert theln, BO she bad. relapsed into 'silencer awl this was why she did net look ita heppy SS 4 PeT4 th,oegla quite ae bee-Milt:1 as one, en appearing bait au hour leter (ite we harm before eleecritiede in the illontinated gall of a fluedred Uirreres and aeare why the triter the earliethoppoetrin- ity to tranmult a litthe !secret telegraphic IVA to leer lover, who for 4 loeg while had been imPatleotly 4Waltieg her aclveet, that " Ito had better not appraisal), her juat yet, or that the materned wee not quite as ami - ale as ehe might be ' So. Fran lt Doeelly, who had donned hie beet aniforre aed caxef ally waxed the elide oi hie loeg jetty muentehe for the occesion, heed Algot, mutt,eriog anytlatog but bleesinge feed. on the atairt British eletIOn We014 he baked , ene day to tranemogrify Jetor hie niother Ans 7 lom ; au d Nallie eeeted liereelf on ono of the 4 somptuens ottemene thet lieted the wallas belt reeolved that ehe would remain a FIX. t . turethere for the entire eveerieg rether than h elhece with any oue *eve the lover of her " eizeice. m Waneirg argued. the scene of pomp and tdi reitenitieencer, with les huodreds of dancing end prom:heeding ccuplese and where in all en dieeetlene be " ern ewe lecleid love to ewe tbet epe viewie, he wiellea Alt over SItttV SI A IVB.Dftyge bell; lAQ bettgitl QDO LItliVid3441 TAO legked. th (it to Ray 4464Henand dimouieuttd, h It thet gibe hereelf wan defog, and nti next instant she recognised hire as Arahl wi Pasha, the eewly greeted wer minister, P Breed cheated, erect end etera of Aimee; weth e premineu t Imam derce, eagle -like eyee, a erin but aomewhet cruel looeing mouth and a rearsoive chin, expreseive 9f undaunted teeeive, Ahuud Azehl :reeked like true who wee tont to SW4g rind eQ4trol the dreitleiee ce men; but Ille fortune's were deweedto give his face the U. Itiscleining all ftiffe yin, hiaattire, he wore 4 .14Tk bale militery uelforna with the least eeeelltie =Cent ef gold teem 'thereon, wb.ele are ecaree red, blue zaeseled ttrimuch (which 4 ', Tures and Egypemee le worn elwaye, be- deere ee well 34 DUO, SUTTLIQUItteti 4 hiO4(14 it nmere brow* that wee ATriuliled by auxioue 44 teens by yeara. WO I V. 4 thi4 trait heel intodo hie appeermece ''.411141 ereirlin a teeme wheel tie appeared SO little eetcy wee 4 pezeren te the f sir ed. who, int lee eneventet t wt h es limn he:tweet thet she Ler. tee leuterily, ars kt were, wetelred tie every 1 ree you met' coele to roe way reetenot for. too " gow oery beaettifid 1" exclaimed Nel- lie, involuntarily. " It is a veritable fairy land." " If it be so, then ansuredly have hang- ing 04 my arm the queen of the fairy reeIme' anewereci Arabi', In the melodious! Preach tongue, widish he had chiefly maaterea 4rler to seeable hint to oonveree freely with lelonelenr de Leeeeps, the coaatruotor of the great ohip canal, and for whom. he bad ever eiVertedned. greet frlencleltip and admit... Mime ; and be uttered, the word* he but on the lovely glrl a g. lame which somehow OL' other mede her wieh that ehe heel not 3Q rearill accopted him aa her cavalier ow few people are In the gardens," eho "Qh, how eau they mins aolaeau- tful a eight r " Yoe may mat pe,arls Itefore swine, yet will they pot leave the leuelca whereon they Our religion teaehes tb,at woman at PO sioul, and that therefore for her there no future otate of rewerd and punishment never doubted the d-gma uutil I metyou.' " Perhaps. your religion also teaches yoe hat women baa no ceneneon genet), but do ot try to conv nce use that no man peewee- either1P The htdiee el your country ay like the sugar plumbe of *peewit, but to ems of nano the flavor is reeeseous." "But surely I may ay what I sincerely d meant? You leave taught no to neve that eiome weresen, at All eveete, Ve awk, aye, and hearts MI well. My art you made eeptivo the wry drat time at we met at Alexendria, and ternigtrt, ad you not generouely looged to teetew on me youre ht return, you would not th ouch eviemet rerure have accepted roe' ropowil to teem you tbe ardeu W was quite unprtpared fig what (groggy thereon ensued, tor with a cry amen like that cf a byeoa, Arabi Paella darted for- ward, reized his hand in its desoeutt wrench- ed it around until the opal eing that /not there on altot forth ite many tinted rays of seem- ing blood and flame, and then dropping it es unddenly as he bad laid hold of it, he turned sharp around with a scornful, abrupt laugh, and sallied away, muttering to him- self ae he went: "A double debt, aid by Allah they shall both be peld, and that to the ottertneat Vora 1" CUATITER V. ER SAERET, WINDOW—THE $17110EONS Or nun noxns ri.oWsr4, EQt until the tell, stalwart form. of the war roinieter had grown dito lei the clietance did Frank Denelly end his tongue, and then. the 6012 use that he made et It We.4 to demand feona Nellie what the Egyptian had said or done to frighten her so. "He only made loyo to me in a warm puluve manner that waa as novel es un. welcome. Not that he intended the least m rudeness, leo sure of that." "I'm glad that you are, or oleo wou It he been my pahtful deey wriog hie ea neok, Pasha of Three Tails alid war mints- w— ter though he is. At all events', Nell, his eenduee has taught you aot to weate your te isdmirattee upon such fellowe." "1 am Elmo the Buffoon," was tile an. steer, spoken in almost 44 execrable Egypt an as his own. "1 can quite beli'eve It; but you have •nly replied to half my emotion. What gent you ?" "1 want nothing, Effendi; I an but a ewer old sieve. Bu e I an the messenger of me who le brighter than the stare and fearer tan the MOOD in the heavens, and she mode diee this and bids nie telt thee to remember she summons of the lotus flower," And with these words the strange looking 'Id Woman predueed from within the volu, ninous foids of her 'bright yellow satin attire, vialeb glittered all over with spengles, one the long lotos flowers ef the Nile and held t towara bine The perfume was sweet yet faint, and Frank Donelly took it frora theold vroman'a nand and resolved U. obey the mysterious luminous. At any other tines he would sesuredly not have done se, but the little erase that he aad just experienced and the unpleasentnese loch had precerled it had etirred up hie hot 401 blood and made him ea iipe for peril, isehief or may epeolee of adventure aa even Irishman well could be, He rose to his feet, therefore, and motion - to the female buffoon to lead the way,' Mott elle did, but, firet of all, Into att a4. cent ontege grove, where, taking down ern one of the treat 4 bundle, she shoed; it t into a long, flowing robe, and eiguified the young Orageen tenst he attould pat it /tie did not heeltete few a moment, but tipple% ie over his heal, the next moment tcovered that it wao a garb which gowned combine tbe cffire of *overalls, one, for it voted hine entirely no from. the crown of ir head to the soles of his fee; a yeatenevele, fent meek, oven formieg an integral per - 4 'thereof, for/dolled with the neuel eyelet les for leekleg out through. "Ds not feer " veid the old bulleon, en. uregInglY, "IJakt "Mont aud discreet and ere an be ne danger to either of us, for Mohenamedan dare T4140 a eiatibmackto whom it vovere," end as sbe made thie mforting explatestiou, the withered crone chuckled as tbeuge ahe had given utteraece to an exeelleetjoke, She then gileed on afresh, with 4 strange kiod of clanotag atop, ever and anon glane. tote beck over her oboulder AS though to Ineke 44re that oho was still followed, aud oho did t f to bestow on the dragoon a ma and grimace of eocouragement every thaw the perceived that he was oleo at her in thie etramee and grotesque itemiser the ace wee pre wetly reached, arid approavir 4 little low vaulted door that sweineato painted in 4 lutudrei differeut Iowa and blazened ail over with texts from El leer - the drew ekeyfromout her eleeve, opens he little door therewith and eotered h treat, atilt elevely followed by Frank elly, who felt atom now that either for or for ill he bed enterei in where It Id be death for hint to be eliaeevered, harem of tile Khedive. (en tie emerntietio ) "I am by no means ramie that 140 net ad- to mire him as much ma did inform We on Meet not 5adge all people by onr own stend- and of what is etiquette and. what not, Re dr asked me to be his wife thet was all, and a vowed that I should Ise; Maim; though 1 to eould not be hie Ont. Thenewhee wants co ed to get away, he detained me gently in hi order that I should beer him to the tied, or whereat I geeer alemed and ruled gelp wo and you kuow The reat." Ito feet is, Netlie. I had been following you about for long while. though of eouree QO et 4 tliStenOO. 413.1 t was glad of almost may tit xerure to relieve blot of your caret oly, that no 4644Ve re, 114. it X WAS MA QV r 4'ae PO an end feelinge," • b-gyptuitos ere readera of the thoughte re have utterly felled to read mine rI ight, and if you really think what you say, pray take me back indooragedre r assure you that you are eutirely mieteken In me. I lot you ehme me the garden a be- a.' cause —well, oecause I somehow or other liked end renewed you, wed more atilt f .r tine reeeort th;st stained to get away from —from—fronann" Yo d Aimee courteom to him heegeve mea egta4v tit for tat, and SO We are quite. wader whet robed hie Ire in my opel ng "1 ceedt think, bet it tr afire' me never- eaa preitively tate that riegt ohudelered the drat time that I ever look. ri upon It and beheld tbe red, cletrunalike fire at was imprisoutd ite heart, I wish It 3 at the bottom: of taloa:MO' "Agree to marry we without weitheg for ur pezerstel consent, which. I know full ell their we ehell never obtater and he it *The Khedive? I goessed as mugh. ere, I know I read your feellogs oright. t do you mean to say that your ambition uld allow s on to deoline beillieut an sweet" 'Aunt:wily it would, if for to tithe eon than Cut he lam other wives al- • m on Erglish girlyou must believe r rs always ours, and won at have reed therein how that na He 4tt meal to her Wm ;mite ore who was noornbion anelecely for num attnction raid .erswhere 1414 to dna 1; for le c ratio nn.1 uot ironic :mewled lieauty which was P5 lavishly dieplayed on all el en awe to the estele of wider -the effoutiarite Khedive (oat. .e movenienta and In Ids fawnjna as walil sculled ta himself with the keea t aileasure mull di II dit 'Yoe seem. to have no eyes for the giver elle tf the feast, for the =little and gentle iihe- atte, remarked Nellie 4 mother presently, :oohing too witilo au though she could have esnitared thot distinguished nersonage her- self, diamond hilted scimitar and all, "1 positively dislikes Win, dear mernme, .".cr he books at every girl whom he deigns to a,laress (yea, euppooe deign is the proper \Nord to apply even to hie Puppet royalty) et a veoif would look at some lamb whom it weuted to feed ou." " Nollte, how can you be so harelejudgbag and ill natured? I think lila higheess is al. 'together too utterly delightful. I do not Wt oder at his keen apprecletive vague,. of to ladies, for I'm suro many of them aro both pretty and well formed, and then 'tis rnsro than whispered that he aeeke a wife eanonget their number, and that thie Leto oen bast been given to afford him an tipper- eanitw f making minim." " I'm MTV '1 mamma, if any one had hinted tech a thing to me beforehend, I would neat es. heve come here, but I should think that no English girl, at ell events, would marrya =an (prince and Khedive thoogh hews.* be) who boa three wives already, for I have been told that that IS the preaent number." " Net le, for shame I'm positively shock- ed at yam It is the deareet with of my imart to see you form a high and distinguith. ed alllanee, and at this naoment I feel that It is aimoat within your grasp, for you are certainly by far the —" How elre. Trezarr would have ooncluded, her speech we cannot inform the reader, in- emuch as at this point of her discourse a voice exclaimed in French: '4 Is Mires Trezarr too much of a philoso. pher to care for the frivolous amueoments that seem to delight her countrywomen? And if it be so, am I sufficiently old an se- ousantance to hope for the pleasure of being ellowed to show her the illuminated gar- dens 1" "Oh ! I ahould so like to aee them Please Wee me thither at once," answered Nellie, and, witnont waitirg for her mother's per- L.:lesion, she apron to her feet, passing her Tara within that of Arabi Pasha, the war minister, euffered him with the greatest confidence, to lead her away from the ab- horred presence of lois royal master. mem, wane of them 4Vett hOPOTed help called the friends of god, possessed vory any wives," "Ala, that was under the at dispeosa- tion, but it ban been altered wader the new." "True, but we, you know, reject your w diepeneetion, re maxima to matinee on title point beceuee I feel ensured t you love me. You above tt in your ;ook, your romenew your speech event and et, like the good girl that you are and that would lute* you to be, you try herd to combet arid overcome the feeling by reason that you imagine it to be sinful. Were It really so would help you to conquer it.". "Indeed, the you flatter yourself moat needles:41y," retorted Nellie Treater; burn- ing with indignation that the Egyptian ;Mould think hor guilty of ench (in her with ;radioe) uninaidenly conduct, "fax' far from mixing in the slighteat degree for tyou at all manta In the mu= that you matt e, or linked in any other rammer now, I Ave for menthe been engaged to be married to one of my own countrymen." "Ala thea you hey° trifled with me and are what Is called by your people 4 flirt. I can hardly believe i; because had thought better of you, and as a flirt is altogether Ulm and despicable eharaoter, I` will rot credit it even yet, Conical thee you have mild this thing to try me exel to see whether ant sincere. To convince you that I am I will smear to you by Allah and the holy lesaber, by the Zemzen well and the City of the Prophets that if you will but marry rne I will ziever take unto myself a third wife. I have one already, which commit be helped, but verily and Indeed you shall be mylast," The war minister spoke most fervidly, whilst his eyes flashed, his swarthy cheek fivalied and his chest heaved convulsively, Nellie was now positively afraid of him, She glanced nervously around, but though there were many couples promenading the gardens, in one direction or another, no one was really near by, and overcome by a sudden strange terror she attempted to eecare from the man whose rage and in- dignation she had evidently kindled in no small degree. But he laid a hand on her wrist and with gentle force restrained her. "Perhaps we only disagree because we do not tightly understand each other," he persuaeively. "Listen to xne, there- fore, for yet another minute. Marry me and you shall never forget it. lam rich and powerful, and ere long I may be 'yet more powerful, Marry me and it shall be a good thing for you, and for your *people as well. I dare not speak more plainly, because— Imight raise your hopes too high, or on the other hand awaken terrors within your gentle breast for which there is no cause whatever. I—I would but remind you that war minister is not the highest rank that lies within the gift of his Highness the Khedive, and that I would climb to any height in order to make myself more worthy .of you, Come, what do you say row ?" That I will not be detained here a second longer against; my will. Help 1" The last ej,cuktion was uttered in a sort of wailirg cry, but hardly had it quitted her lips wberi there was a flash of scarlet and gold between her and the Egyptian, whose wrist was grasped in tarn with a force that made his hand fly open, "Nellie, what is the meaning of this? Tell me in order that I may know what to "The paaha terrified me with something that he was relating; ths.b 144 ail," Frank Donelly, for it WWI he, perceived that lois affianced wife dreaded a scene (that bugbear to all educated women), and he himaelf loed no wish that her name should be made the Bubject of idle goseip and cen- sorious scan He theeefore released the war minister's wrist from his vice -like grip and said with a bow: "This lady is my affianced wife, and consequeatly I am her moat fitting compan- ion and protector. Yon will find the palm-. In that direction," As he poncluded he raised his hand to the gold -laced rim of his cap, la a half ironical 'salute and leavetaking, but, in so doing he CHAPTER IV. A WITMER CP LOVE AND A monaural Os' Dan —A cry FOR DELP. Another minute and the grim war minis- ter with his trembling prize (for as his prize he already regarded her) had paned out of the Hall of a Hundred alirrors and through a magnificent conservatory that lay beyond it into the open air, where the great full moon and a myriad twinkling stars (whose eize and lust, e can hardly be guessed at by those who have never beheld an Egyptian firmament) gemmed an indigo hued heaven and eeemed to be reflected not only in the mighty river, as it rolled sluggishly along, veith a murmur that wax at once solemn and soothing, but on the dry laud likewise, for at least fifty thousand tiny lamps of divers (stolen flashed like sapehires, garnets, rubies, diamonds and amethysts around flower -bad whose tints were equally bright and beauti- ful, Nvhile fully as many hundreds of Chinese lanteras gleamed. from out the shrubs and dangled swayingly from the tree branches, some of the more daring of the illuminatoxs having climbed the loftieet pahns to suspend them aanongst the feathery foliage. As to the palace itself, it looked as though it was built of fire for the whole facade and Ovary architecture:1 desIgn thereon was out- lined with little I imbent tongues of flame, which aleo encircled the onion•shaped domes with many a cordon of fire, and climbed up pillars and collee round minarets in spiral folds tbat resembled fiery 'Amperes. Altogether, the eight was one whiolt once seen would never be forgotten. g Q. BODO betWeelt y04 leg and I, shouldn't wonder if it nes of very be great value, I shouldn't, hacked." ern "If its value was almost fabuloos I, en itoold yet wish the Nile to have it," !edt "Weil, thee, reely agree tinlyin andtnrra asthe j4 1 staid bofort the Nita gete it," Don "Oa, Frento Taal the darling of beet my goad parents' hearle, so bow can I do it • won itetily, because they trill take you. to the herr beano again dimity they have learned reallno the vulgar axiom that what can't cured muotte odured." Frank, give me time to think, 01, do gIv e mo a little while to think," "I never could refuee you anything, den - rug, so take whet you ask ; but I shall weer thie opal until youbave decided in my fever, and thou away it goes at mice." "Then I bate It so much that wIll auly sleep over the matter omit and give you a deeisive answer on the morrow. And now, Frank, you shall take me ell over and around this scene of fairyland and allow me every. thing, for my fece le eo fluehed And I'm too agitated eltegother to oubjeot myself yet awhile to mammies awirehhtg regent in the Hall of Mirrors.* "Come, then, my darling," the young dm - goon whispered in her ear. "Yon have net me a task that I shall never tiro of • yet P.ERSONAL. Lwly Dafferin le organizing mewing an ref societiee among the women of India. Oscar Wilde hoe rwentered the lecture field with hie hair cut and English troueers on hie lower limbs. Molex Ceuta of New York originelly owned the minority of the 'Illousaud Islande and dispersed of hie rights for a very small BUM. Accordingto Thompson, the African tra- voter, tho greatest complitnent you can pay A member of the ei lag tribe is to emit on him, or her, se the case may be. • re Goo noverthelenelet usstert at once," meat Tey wintered though the grounda for tralIa some little while admiring everything that remain they saw, and, then the Appearance of re his o fountain more beautiful then any that they , led yet beheld attraoted them near unto a -r; wing of the pelmet that was strange to them Mee' both mond After admiring, therefore, the brigh; am. bee lute of the Iountainei wetere they ex amined ita arthitemural featurea aorriewhat pleads-, and presently Nellie exelaireed "How lovely, yet how quiet it is here. I declare that delicate fretwork of athne is al- most like lace, but how amall the windows are. They seem to be oloaely barred as well. It meet be a prison, for it is too beau iful far that, and yet I seem to see peeiple look- ing ont at us from the gloom of the interior." "1 see them clearly, dear. That which glistensso white against the darkbackground is bare make and arms, so they must be la. dies. 'Tis doubtless the harem." "Poor creaturea, theyremind me of caged birds. How painful it must be for them to see gide like me, free as air, and able to go wherever I like. Oh, it ia cruel and inhu- man creed that allows of auoh prison house, for in sober reality they are nothing else. Come away, Frank, for as I cannot give them liberty, I will stay here no longer to tante, Ike them with the spectacle of my own free. dora." " Juat yonlike, my good, right feeling Nell. They Oarl see us very plain', as we stand here in the full glare of the illumined fountain, though they look to us like shad- ows," "Shadows possessed of sad enough hearts, doubtless. Oh, gracious, here's mamma." It was Mrs. Trezarr without a doubt, and Mrs. Trezarr in anything but an amiable disposition as well. " Eleanor 1" she exclaimed, " have been looking for you everywhere. It is very wrong of you to wander away from me in this way, very wrong, indeed." ("Pray, Mrs. Trezarr, allow me to bear the blame, for I am the only guilty party," said Frank. The stately and offended dame bowed stiffly to the young officer, as though she quite acquiesced in what he had said, but voucheafed him no answer in words, and then she tucked Nellie's milk white arm within her own and walked her off, a most unvvill- ing yet at the same time unresisting captive, leaving the discomfited dragoon standing alone and looking somewhat ridiculous ; at all events, he thought so. " wish Nell had a little more spirit, and I do trust that a merciful Providence will never allow her to grow iike her mother ' muttered Prank to himaelf in aidudgeon ; and then seine strange amd. unaocountable fascin- ation drew him back to the amber -hued fountain, and resting himself on the carved stone balustrade that aurrounded it he pull. ed out his cigar caae and fusee box and be- gan to smoke as though for a wager. rge Augnetua SeIo. reeorde the date - that treeo and 'shrubs in South Awe die from the top downwerd, in that ding one of Dean Swift's prediction of wia end. Spurgeon declares that he bee been oing vegotArianiain for the past eight is, and ia "not only livin but live The Abetenenee is, however, be Laved to have bawl compulsory William K. Vanderbilt has not been to church for four years, and it is said that thy Gould haen't heard a sermon, far an even greater length of time. Both might change that record with benefit to themselves. ) Mr. Samuel Rowlanatien, who has been appointed to the bench in Yorkahire by the Marquis of Ripon, is said to be the first tenant farmer ever selected in England for such an honer. The Princess 'Victoria of Hoherzollern, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, is lees likely than ever to marry Prime Alexander of Battenberg now that his Bulgarian threne looks decidedly shakY• Labouchere meta Mutt Prince Frederick of Saxe-Altonberg will be the German and Austrian candidate forth° Bulgarian throne in care of a vacancy. Bismarck won't hear of Bence Waldemar of Denmark. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe - Weimar have taken up their quarters at the Royal goepital at Rilmainham, near Dublin. They doubtless expect a obit from the In- vineibles and want to be near surgical help,. Mr. Cable, the eouthern novelist, gives in his adhesion to woman suffrage by saying: "If our mothers are not fit to vote, they ought to stop bearing sons." By this bril- liant logic, as our fathers don't bear eons, they will be deprived of the right of voting. The Empress of Austria has had a hunt- ing lodge built in the Lainger Wildpark near Vienna which took three years to com- plete and (Mat $1,730,000. She has ittdefi nitely postponed her return to the Irish hunt- ing fields on account of the prevailing agi- tation. • One of the Paris papers is resporsible for the statement that the Prince of Wales smokes forty cigarettes a day, and that when in Austria lately he prevailed en the Pein- cese Louise of Cobourg and Countess Ester - hazy to join him in amoking at the dinner - table. A Sioux Indian named Two Strike enter- ed the tffice of the Valentine (Dak.) Blade the other day and assumed a warlike atti- tude. The editor got ready for an Indian outbreak, but was agreeably disappointed when Mr, Two Strike threw down a $10 gold plece to pay fora year's subscription. Madame Patti has a small, cold and wrin- kled hand. Modjeska's hands are round, long, well formed. They are geeerally in repose. The hands of Clara Morris are der, rether wiry and nervous, Her pink and pretty, and the wrists are well turned. Mary Andeenonhas e had not been engaged thee for more long, slim than five minutes, thinking lad as hard and nails are viciously as he puffed, when he felt hie smell and eeve twitched, and, looking round, beheld a hideous, unveiled old woman dressed en- tirely in yellow, and with her poor, wrinkli d face chalked and painted almost after the rammer of a eirous clown "Who in the name of wonder are you aiod what do you want with me 7" snapped Frook. it cold hand that almost gives you it chill if touched, Margaret Mather's heside, ItItt hereelf, are small, graceful, and effective la gesture, Garden alchi, Pursch•Madi and Materna all have large and generous hands hearty to clasp, and looking able for 018 work their ample bodies and brains re- quire. BE 1,1TE, Sleep. aY D. 1e, PATTERSON-, N. D. • • • • We ars sect AWE de dreams aye Sosde,pf ;and oux little Igo le rounoed alai a eleep.—rtmpe.vg. ClaarlesleingsleyWari onee &eked what was hie favorite anousentent. His reply was "Sleep" Ite the shady of the various pbenomena of life there ie not, pertiaps, any one while 18 more interesting than thatof elev. Sound. cenneeted sleep obtained at suitable hours, is not only refreshing to the miud, but its as comotial to the maintenance of boiily aesith ea our daily supply of food. Whatever may b3 tbe meet rcientiee denenition of sleep, there can be but little doubt that the true object to be obtained by this phenornenen Is recreation. By this term; we Ine44 an op. port -unity for the inure es of the body to root; the brain to cease Be activity, and tlitis ;Mow a recuperatien of the whole syetem to go on with as little Interruption ag po.oible tit order to obtain thie res eft in ite beet pole sible maener, eertain ernditiooe are emcee - *my. Theee may be divider:144o two ohnises, viz Internal or peyeleal, and external or meohanical. First,---Interraler phyeical, this elute may be oonsidered the chenge in tho working of the machinery of our physical beteg. In order to secare good, refresehtum natural ateep, there should be perfect repose of the body in a horizotral poeitioe. We are *peaking now of the beet method in which to obtain eieep. In the horizontal position, the limbs areat rest, and the name Pleernet being oalled into me, relax their teneion, cue consequeatly. all effore thee' direetion ceasee While lu that potitiore, the heart, which is the evgiret of the heelY, view* up, and it has repeatedly beim proved by examinetion'that the heert Imes% are frent five to tenless in number, when a per- SOO la alkop than when awake, and 18many inetancee, eVele that number has been great- ly exceeded, Of coarse this reterdation of the palsatioos of the heatt lessens the wear and tear of 04 orgae, and alert rellevee to some extent, the pressure upee the Arteriee and volne, It IS to the condition of tee Waal dereree eleep, that the greateet anumut of investi- within has been direeted, It is easy to make out the number of heart beater during sleep. but It is not 'Jo easy to exemice and study the condition of the braia. Effarts neve been made lo this direction, by opening the skulle of living animals, and au 4:Igniting gime pieta for the bony coveriug, and through this medium watehing the reeve - inmate of that ergan. This experinaent ha demonstrated the foot that the blood Sawa more slowly through the blood vessels, and that the veseele thenaielvee Are anneh er then wheu the artlinel Is awake. As, it 18 lenown, os above stated, that the heart in man beats a less number of times daring *deep than v, hen awoke, it is natural to pre- sume that, the coaditions of the blood vessele in the human braira preeents a similar ap- pees-mice, and it fa natural to infer thet 'such COnclition is essential if notneceasary to sound, refreableg eleep, Again, the Several organiser eetise utide go ienne transit- ory change during sleep. Probably the remoon why death has been ao often called a sif ep, is not only becawe the latter le a more beentlful figurative term than tin) former, but more especially because that the leek of ;emotion le 83 Hee that t 1 the other, Tho tier 18 dull of b wain, the eyelide close, the imago of touch lo fete acute, and all is qu'ett save the alowimeeaurea breathing. I' hat aleep is a neceasity, no *sue person will deny, and to allow tandem Lashton, or pleasure to rob us of a aufieoleut amount of kleek in suicidal,. We, as Canadians, have been called a sleepless nation and th Lord a F MISC:f% 9 REOlf 11' It le rneen encash to put water la the dalailtikon; IleillatythwaltatrrdilekPenthe:fdnieseacentadlecidasergn4'ho. daily &nee the lacteal fluid with bortelle Acid to keep it from eonringt,00 quIckly. Another pang added to life. The girl,' are beginning to use Solomortei words 'to snit tlaemselves. and say, "A, woman &won it a. thousand have we not found." And that, thouseed helm eve fpumi, but A pima among say many of them, is the reeson. they don't marry, Sensible girls they are, too. Very sensible objection's are being urged against the UBEI of rilthy bask bills. Weey me not only exceedingly unpleaaaat to look at and handle, but dangerOtls lurking place* for the eeede of contagious &semen There aoght to be it Jaw forbidding the eirculatioa of such ragged and loathsome billo aa are all too frequently presented as legal tender', What is probably one of the most unique exhibitions on record is being ehown ha Chicago just now. It le a coliectien of thirty oid maids in all stages of faded oharms. An odd phase of the battle of life, certainly, aucl hardly less and than omens, What a light it throw on the . struggle for exieteecie, for eurelY nothing abort of dire Pleoeasity oonld induce these women to pat themselves on exhibition for the amazement of a gaping crowd of vulgar sight -seers. For pooderoos cheek, joioed to the soul 0 a thief, cerenetrid ne to the Beaton man who built two hemmer side by side Ilvecl in (Me eitneelf and sold the ()Ozer. into the one he sold, he had put it furneme, dose to the par. titioa wail, conneoVng to its hot air chamber Lima leading to hie ream, residence. in thin way he heated hinvelf at hia neighbor's ex - pellet, for a whole wiener before his lite -e ochenle Wal diecovered, I enybody kuowe nate/ dog reported from Allegheny City TA.) T ei a meaner pieee of kelt ere we want to hear about it quickly. Adeocetes of be m a h nen" temperance drink ehould pooder the cue of the St. Ber- ge la a maguideent nitrite, very eagacume, leed ruatil retvently very docile and gentle. gefortunately he beeame addicted to beer - guzzling, far which he has Acquired an liter- elinate appetite, and hie neturehm altogether deserisrated under im influence. At a cers tain stege he becomert welly ferocious, and wive hie life is injsepardy, baying in cue of his paroxyame of drauken fury aeverely bit- ten a man. Arglomania, as It iti celled, hi so prevalent in Boston Newport and other American cithe that"tbeatrleal managers regent, it 44 an important fact -or la advertiving, An ie. Itestration of the fact was afforded in Beaton recently. A yeung fellow newly out of Cambnere, ma d.witeout theatriml experience, Lute been given it leading role in a company vdtich Is to star the country title sees(); for BO Other reason tbae that he cello himself " Honourable Cecil I'. Vivian, Glemis Coati*, N. 13,' and says his awl= is a naember et the House of Lorain It is thought his mere preeence on the stage will be iuducenteut enoegh to make the tuft-huntere part with their dollars. There is ecnnething grotesque in a reoeut telegram to the effeet that though the Duke of Connaught le etstiotie to return tie ledle, to something like the real life of a man in attendance upon his military drake, hla mother ia unwilling to letttini beeause ahe fears the climate and the dengerd of the present complicetione with Bunnell. She would like him to etay quietly at home until ee euceeede the Duke el Cambrian() as Commandcr.in•Chief of the army. Poor, dear boy 1 From Edward the Elack-Priece to the present scions of royalty, kept close to their mother's apron strings for fear they get into danger what t b ate I o ier poised away when Strathneern died lesekweek. lie was ield Marshal, and ra full title was Rt. lion. Hugh Efenry Role, Baron Strath. - cake, tai.O.B,G„C,S.I. Ile is remembered among other thinge for Ids severe treatmeat of the leaders. of the Sepoy mutineenovrhom he caused to be blown from the mouthe of caution. He wars undoubtedly one of the saltiest and pleat brilliant soldiers who have figured ia the British servide since the days of VVellington, His rank eil field rnaralaal ia held by only two other men In the British servioe who are not of Royal birth, viz., by Lord Napier, of Magdala, and Sir Patrick Grant. Ihe othera are the Duke of Cam- bridge, and the Prince of Mies. A curious case at conflicting evidence was , brought main a recentleigamyeaseitiEngland. The defendant, James Malcolm, wait ideate fied by various witnesses as the man who, under the name of Mead onald, met a young wo- man in Brighton, and married herafter a very brief wooing, having a wife living at the time. Various circumstances told heavily against him. For instance, Macdonald gave as an ex- cuse for his return to London everynight that he was obliged to be on board his ship at four o'clock in the morning and Malcolm was a tnarketinan whose duties began at the sameearlyhour. Thiswasonlyoneofanumber ofstrikingooincidences. Nevertheleasnumer- one persons were found to prove it complete alibi for Malcolm on. the occasion when Mac. donald was engaged in marrying the bride. As an outcome of the conflict of testimony, the jury disagreed and a new trial was or- dered. The whole story commends itself to lovers of the mysterious. Miss Braddon at her best never tried to unravel a more con- tradictory snarl of circumstances. The movement to confer on the women of China and India the benefits of western med- ical science has brought brilliant opportuni- ties within reach of female physicians. Dr, Woodhull, who began to practice her tro- fession the day after her arrival at Poochow last winter, writes that the calls upon her services are more than she can meet. Lady Dufferin is President of the association that has been establiahed in India to import skill- ed women physicia,nsfrem Europe and A/nar- k:a, for the purpose of training capable na- tive nerses, midwives, and medical practi- tioners, Every white physician ,in Orientsa countries is asked almost daily 4 he cannot prescribe for suffering women wi ut seeing - - 1 . them. Debarred by social oust, ar Min consulting men. doctors, Oriental women are the viotims of great and unnecessary misery. They are thus shut out from the advantages of Western medical art, although theyknow its value, and desire to avail themselves of its resources. ...poo....,........................,......-0,{1.......•.........o.m •••• "It appears to me," said Muldidheron, "that I can't go out nowadays without being insulted." "Why, what's the latest ?" in- quired his friend. "The other day a young lady asked Inc for the loan of my face to start a crazy, nilt." WLU ineny thlogs in the ournoulum of our daily lives which lay us cieen to Ode charge. It has been wirsely said that probably no better divieion of time could have been made than that into equal periods of eight hours each, eight haunt for business, eight houra for atudy and phyeical enjwiment, and eight home for sleep, Ali name and ADIteal creation teaches us that night is the beat time ta aleep ; it is nature's °boson period. It is it time when all is limbed, and the beat condition of our surroundinoe ie favorable to repose, It is then that "Sleep knits up tbs ravelled sleeve et care," and the negative forces of the body 'are in operaticie, and that needful reed is obtained which gives "brightneas to the eye and a glow to the cheek," Of the eight hours allotttd for sleep, at least two should be obtairei before mid- night. The sleep secured between the hours of ten and twelve at night have been felicit- ously called "the beauty aleepee It is not difficult to notiee the difference between one who habitually retires at ten o'clock, and one who site up until twelve, No rule can be laid down which will govern all people with reference to ther hours of sleep, any more than one kind of feed is esteetial to all. There are certain occupations that require a part, or all night work. Of course these exceptions must be admitted, and all- lowance made for them. Then again, some people need more sleep than others. Child- ren and elderly people need more than in middle life. But there are those who do not sleep as much as they ought to. This is a mistake, which, if they live they will great- ly regret. But regrets will then be of no avail, and the loss can never be made up. Some one has beautifully said, "there is no touch so powerful to smooth out wrinkles, to whiten sallow complexions, to darken fasled tresses, to flush pallid cheeks, as that of velvet-ingered sleep. In sleep we find the Lethean cup far sorrow. It is 'sore labor's bath, the chief nourlsher in life's feast," A Fight far Life. A despatch from Gienullen, Dakota says: News is just received that James 'Gray, living four miles north of Glenullen, was attacked on Thursday night by two Indians, who came to the house and aeked for food. Having eaten all they desired, one of the Indians, large and powerful, took down Gray's repeating Winchester rifle'placed the muzzle to Gray's breast and pulled the trigger. Fortunately, there was no car- tridge in the barrel. The Indian then put a cartridge in whereupon Gray seized a whiftletree, and before the gun could be brought to bear upon him struck the In dian on the head, and the gun was discharg- ed into the side of the house. The rifiewas dropped in the scuffle. Then commenced a rough and tumble fight, both Indians tak- ing part. Gray lost hie hold of the whiffle - tree, caught up it carpenter's hatchet, and struck the Indian nearest him on the head, which felled him to the floor. The other Indian fled, Gray seized the Wien Indian by the heels and dragged him out and fats tened the door. Whether the Indian was dead or not Gray was unable to say. Fri- day morning it settler happened to go to Gray's house and found him in bed badly bruised and scratohed, scarcely able to stand. ,1 • Widows who live 'in grAss • retirement shouldn't throw &newt Runt and honey is invid to be one of the beat cough medicines for e. family. The wife can me her, share of it—the honey— while the husbaed, with his usual eelfmacri- fieleg devotion, gets away with the na.sty rum. An Eye to Economy—Young Husband : "I believe I would like a nice turtle steak for dinner." Young wife (of a thrifty clis. position) : "I am afraid turtie steaks are rather expensive, dear. Wouldn't you be satisfied with a mock -turtle steak 7'