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I N EGYPTIANROMANCE.
4 Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded, upon Startling Bevelar
tions In the Career of Arabi Paella,
�y the Atiti4or of " NINJ1, THE NAuLisr," THE REP ternitni" " TUX SiRn8dN Srlr,
Exp. E'D0.
At thie point the Valide Khanoum glare-
ed up off the letter at her auditor, to note
what effept it had made upon bet and she
uttered a little cry of mingled pity and con.
sternation upon perceiving that her " little
deter," as she delighted to call her,,, bad
week down upon e. softly pillowed divan in
a dead swoon.
CHAPTER LVLT.
BEHIND THE CONTAIN IN TILE HAREM OF THE
WAR MINISTER.
Whilst the Unit victor uponI g tian soil
g by
has thus been gainedY 3yP her hua%and, 1lailie
Is half guest and half captive within the pink
walls of Arabi Pasha's palaces at Cairo,.
The vvar mfnieter had kept his word by
dispatching her and her parents thither, ex•
aptly art he had pronieed he would do, and
here ahe has been during the whole of the
.five intervening weeks, leading a dull and
%sadly monotorioua life behind the harem
ourtain, sexing her n'othtr daily, bat her
lather never once, for he might not enter
into that auppozed semotunry of female love -
lineae though it ottimea ecreene female
hide
eAenaa9
asel
w 1,
So Mr Trezarr ie the guest of the war
e'niniater's only son, a pleasant gentlemanly
youth, who does his best to make the bank-
er's enforced Imprisonment bearable to him,
and never loot an opportunity of informing
him that if he ware to venture forth into
the street he would assuredly be killed, and
who has always some wondrous tale to tell
orf the sint-ing of .British ironolads, or the
annilhilation of Britian armies, or that the
Sultan was on his way to help them, for the
Egyptafnleaders were quite clever at the
spreading of false reporta as were the Rue.
mane.
Very similar tales were told to Nellie by
Arabi Pasha's wife, only to her account
'wan alwaye added something of the miracu-
'1ens, as was to be expected from a lady who
'believed in sorcery and always kept a dream
'anterpeter in her employ in whose predic-
tions she placed the moat implioit confi-
dence.
Nellie felt veru uncomfortable in this
lady's presence at first, lest she might know
*err guess the future that was intended to be
in stormier her and feel angry or hurt there-
by. But she before long broached the sub-
ject of her own accord, and it did not ap-
pear to be at all a sore one.
" When you are my eider we shall love
each other very moth," she murmured
gently.
" When I am your sister ? I don't exactly
understand ?' answered NeIiie ; nor did
she,
" Why, when you are Ahmed's wife we
obeli. be sister, ehall we riot? That is what
all wives of one man call each other in this
country, and they generally love each other
like real sietere art well. That is to day,
when they have so good and kind a husband
as Ahmed, you know."
" Then I must be your sister already, for
the pasha believes that he hue married me."
" Believes, little one ? If be has done so
he must know for certain, I should say."
""Well, he thinks so then," rejoined Nei-
n°'
petulantly, " but I am quite sure that
he has not, first, because I was no consent-
ing party, and eeoondly, because I was an-
other man's wife at the time."
" Ah, but, little sister, , if any one has
made a mistake in the matter it mast be
yourself, for you are young and donbtleia
foolish, whilst Ahmed Arabi has the wisdom
0f mere than double your years, and beside,
he would not de wrong to the meanest thing
that breathes. :1 good and blessed tbiag it
is to be the wife of such a man, for she never
hears an angry word drop from hie lips, He
Is realty ono in a thousand, and now that he
has sank all the English abips and taken the
English King prisoner he will doubtless be
made the sovereign of all Egypt and will be
almost as great as the Sultan himeelf."
His taking of the English King prisoner
amused Nellie, despite the sorrows of her
heart, After that aha saw It would be a
vain and foolish thing to pump the Valide
Shane= as to how the war was going on,
since her replies would be very antitrust -
worthy indeed.
From that date Nellie felt that she should
know no rent until she was possessed of
better information concerning affairs of mo-
ment outside her gilded prison.
Mrs. Trezarr accommodated herself to her
changed position wonderfully well.
She felt a keen interest -in the moat trivial
themes of harem gossip, and would roll her
eyes and clap her hands at any marvelous
narration as though to the manner bern,
As to Mr. Trezrrr, she seldom even itquired
after him, such conduot marking the dif.
ference between living with a husband twen-
ty years and two hours.
One day the Valide Khanoum came into
Nellie's little room with an open letter in
her hand and a face that was very cheerful
and bright, and addressing the fair girl by
leer natal affectionate epithet of "Little Sla-
ter," said to her in excited tones :
"I am the bearer of good new. I have
received a letter from our lord and hus-
" And what news does his letter contain
and how is he ?" said Nellie, desirous as
much for information on several points as
she was anxious to put a stop to this Male -
criminate praise of one whom she was firm-
ly resolved should never be any more to her
than he was at the present moment.
The Valide Khartum quickly made an -
ewer :
"Praise be to Allah and his only prophet,
he coald not be better and he writes in the
highest spirits. Hear what ho writes, little
sister, for though he writes in Arabic, as a
true believer ever should. I will do my
beat to turn it into, I hope, understandable
French,"
Nellie nodded her head, for she was too
agitated to epeak, save when of necessity.
"Our lord and bueband is a great man, but
I need not trouble you with the commence
wentof
his letter, 6Y since : it meetly
e of
compliments addressed to myself, n Iatwill
dip into the middle of it at once, where he
declares that he has at last got the Feringhee
invaders in the hollow of his hand and has
bad to clove it in order to utterly crush
them. He next pays many compliments to
their courage and the generalchip of their
chiefs, but says that their graves, neverthe•
less, await then at Tel -el• Kebir and that
In another sun and moon, by which he
moans a day and night, they wits have 00.
copied them and Egypt be free, And now
comes the all important peat of our lord's
letter, little sister. He goes on to nay that
the very hour in which he 19 crowned with
victory he shall hurry hither and change
from conqueror to slave in your preaonoe,
but he hopmy kind heart, quick sm'
es
Watley and good counsel (what sugar plume
of speech fur the both of to 1) have ere now
taught ue to yield freely and without re,
gret to the inevitable (there you see, little
sister, he says the inevitable and ao there it
no getting ottt of It,) though, if not, it will
.not much matter, he adds for it will' only
leave him the task he' had intended for m
that of teaching you himself to bless the in.
svilable and to thank Allah that he had nor,
,given you to a Ghieur,"
CHAPTER. LVIII.
FRANK DONELLX AT LASt CROSSES SwORDS
wiTH ARABI.
When C;iptain Donelly fell bath with bis
little force on the main body of his regiment,
carrying his wounded and the captured
Egyptian battery, he received some praise
from the colonel for the succors which had
upon his reconnaieance, and his
representations and at hie request Pat Mon.
aghan was given a oorporal'e chevrons on
the spot,
It was not the time to rest on a mere
handful of •laurels, however, for the war
upon which they had entered was to be one
of the sabre and the spur far more than of
the cannon and the rifle,
Within twelve hours of this brush at El-
Magfar Sir Garnet Wolseley felt strong
enough to press on towards Cairo, for he
knew that against an Oriental foe dash and
daring were everything, With General
Drury Lowe's splendid'cavalry brigade, Gra-
ham's fire-eating Irish and Soottieh Infantry
and the stolid English guards, under the
Queen's third son, the Duke of Connaught,
who. if not very quick in the advance, would
at all events, be a deuced deal elower In run-
ning away, he prepared to carry a strong
position at EI-Mahula, ten miles nearer to
the capital
Bat the Egyptians found out that they
only doubled in number the British and eo
retreated precipitately directly they name
in view.
Thereupon, Drury Lowe's cavalry, com-
prising the Irish dragoons, the Life Guards
and an Indian lance regiment, made a sweep-
ing -flank movement on Mahsameh station
and the railway, hoping to get in their rear
and cutf them off to a man, but the Egyptians
were so swift footed and the ground so bad
for cavalry that he failed in this.
By midnight the British vanguard, con-
sisting of General Graham's brigade of 1,500
bayonets, a Bengal lance regiment and our
friends, the Irish dragoons, were at Khasaas-
sin, with their nearest supports half a dozen
miles in their rear and the slow moving
guards just as far to the rear of them again.
The British van had thus accomplished a
quarter of the dietanoe to Cairo with no lose
at all to speak of, but now intelligence was
gathered that at Tel-el-Kebir, some dozen
miles in advance of them, Arabi Pasha had
formed a perfect desert Gibraltar, with three
lines of defenses, all defended by heavy bat-
teries ef Krupp guns, and that there he had
displayed the green standard of the prophet
and had called together the nlemaa to bless
his cannon and his cause, all this that hie
soldiery might be brought to consider defeat
impossible.
Such a formidable position, defended by
so many heavy Dannon and manned by five
times as many soldiers us the British could
bring up against him, formed ample grounds
to authorize such hopes and fill him with
each convictions.
But at the last moment he had not suf-
ficient patience to wait for the hated foe to
immolate themselves in front of the grinning
muzzles of his cannon, but on learning how
far the British vanguard had pushed ahead
of its supporta, and its paucity of numbers
as well, he resolved to attack it at once with
overwhelming odds, roll it up'and have done
with it.
So he quitted hie trenches and advan,led
on Khaasassin in force during the night,
hoping to patch General Graham napping,
but that gallant commander slept with one
eye open, weasel fashion, and his out piokete
were too tried soldiers to sleep at all, so the
sea -like murmur of the advancing Egyptians
was challenged in three different plane at
once by the waap-like " ping -ping -ping " of
British rifles, and the out sentries retiring
on the pickets the alarm spread like, light-
ning, and within five minutes the infantry
brigades were falling in at the double and
the cavalry trumpets were sounding " boots
and saddles."
By this time the Egyptaine' shells were
whistling into the British oamp,,fired point
blank like cannon balls, and knocking ever
the red -coated infantry like ninepins.
But before they bad done much damage a
battery of horse artillery ran their guns up
to the top of a sand hill and began to give
them cold iron In turn, so that for a little
while it was " bowl devil, bowl baker," and
when the British infantry deployed as steady
as en parade and peppered the dusky foe
with their H•enri.Martinie, the seasoning
was ao hot that it eeemod to turn their
stomachs for fighting.
But hark to the screeching of the railway
engines art they bring up long lines of open
cars, all crowded with soldiery, to the sup-
portof their comrades, and behold away to
the left the dark clouds of Egyptian cavalry
sweeping across the plain with the evident
resolve of outflanking the small British force,
even if their further aim is not to drive
every mother's son of them into the narrow
Fresh Water Canal.
An aide-de-camp at this juncture galloped
up to the First Dragoons and saluting" the
colonel, says tersely, as he pointe his drawn
sword towards the advancing horse :
"The general looks to you to account for
those fellows, I am sure Kneed say no more."
"
Nota word, sir
to either me
, , or m
men," was the proud retort as the veteran
drew his sword.
Its brandish in the air was seffieient sig-
nal for every trumpet to blow out, for every
knee to grip the pigskin, for every foot to
turn in and every heel to drop.
Obedient to each brazen sound the regi-
ment formed by the troops, changed into ser-
ried squadrons and then 'advanced out into
the plain at a rapid trot hi a glittering col-
umn of egaadrone at wheeling dietanoe.
It wait a grand sight to see a body of men
zo cooly advancing to engage a force that
outnumbered them by at least five 'tb one,
and who were evidently the elite of the
enemy's cavalry,
Then, suddenly, a fearful shell fire was
opened upon them from a battery on the
railway hank, and many a man and horse
WAS rolled over,
But not the slightest apparent confusion
in their ranks was occasioned therebyand
Pat Monaghan presumed on their longclose
intercourse to observea
to Captain :Donelly,
whose horse's tail twitched the newly -made
corporal% oharger'e'nose, y
" Boded, an' this is a hardeundin yer
honor ; but the laugh will bo to themg'who
pound the longest."
"Right
, m y brave fellow, and my heart
pomade against my vibe more oyeaely than
it hart done for weeks, for he who has stolon
my young wife leads that cavalry in pereou,
and I will edit discover whether either hie
a'word or hie vaunted tatisnieu tan guard his
life," responded Frank, as he looked back
at Pat with flashing eyes and grinning
teeth,
At this moment. the gray.haired colonel
shouted In c1erlou.like tones ;
'" Close up 1 Close up 1 At them ')ike an
iron wedge, my lads? Gallop 1 0 li'arge 1"
A jeyoue ringing ohout, a momentary
flesh of sword blades in the air, the neigh
Ing of the war horses rushing to the battle,
the blare of trump, the clattering of empty
sword scabbards and the jingling of chain
bridals was succeeded the next instant by
the aheok of the charge (for, inspirited by
their great leader's presence among thein,
the Moslem cavalry came to the scratch for
once), and then steel rang on steeland horse
bit at horse, and there was the horrid noise
of cloven skulle and the thud of falling meet,
all intermingled with shrill British cheers,
the thrum -like Arab teobir or battle cry,
curses, shrieks and groane, and now And
then a pistol abot, but, strange to say, this
latter few and far between.
Amidst the tumultuous sea of awaying
human
forms and tossing ai g borne s heads it was
come little while before Frank Donelly could
discover him whom ho espeolally sought, but
suddenly in the very thlckeat of the strife,
he found himne f face to face with him.
The recognition was mutual, and the next
instant their blade3 were crossed.
Both had been previously whetted, and
both Briton and Egyptian was full of the
blood lust that is over born of anch deadly
strife.
This, added to the private animosity that
eaoh bore unto the other, made then fierce
indeed, and they attacked each other se furi-
ously that sparks of fire flew from the tem-
pered steel, and almost immediately they
were engaged to the very hilt.
Both were superp swordsmen and each
horse knew how to aid its rider by rear,
demi-volt and curvet, but the Demasonseteel
had for once to succumb to the well forged
Sheffield blade—for Damascus forging Is not
what it once was—and Arabi Pasha found
himself all in a moment grasping little on re
than the hilt of his weapon, for nine-tenthe
of the blade had been whirled into the air.
There was no time to draw a pistol from
hie holster, for his rival's sword was at his
throat, and there was death in that rival's
epee, if it was expressed by human orbs,
"Strike," gasped Arabi in French, "strike,
Do I look as though I was afraid to die 1'
For a moment longer Frank DanelIy
striking aspect of one who could not help
hetbero, bat then he suddenly lowered his
sword point, at the same instant hisaing be-
tween his teeth :
"Shall a Chrietian be outdone in gener-
osity by a Moslem ? Never. Retain your
IIfe, at whatever coat to me rand mine. I
cannot take it," and as though fearful that
he might stili be tempted to do otherwise,
he wheeled bis oharger sharp round and
galloped away.
But by this time the battle was nearly
ever. The Egyptian infantry were in full
retreat and a second or two later the Egyp-
tian cavalry also broke and fled, whilst the
Irish drageone, now reinforced by the
swarthy Bombay cavalry, pursued them
moron the desert piain to almost under the
guns of the Tel-el-Kebir batteries.
(CONCLunED NEXT wEER. )
""Phil„
There were a bent and trembling old man
—a white-haired and broken old woman, and
as they sat beside the coffin the old man
said :
"He was about ten years old. We found
him in a basket on our door -step one night
in the long ago. We were old people then,
but wife the begged that we should take.the
little atranger in and care for him."
"Because my own children were sleeping
under the sod," she explained as she wiped
the tears away.
"So we made him our child," resumed the
old man, "and in a little time we came to
love him as if he had been born to us. He
was a strange boy—quiet, gentle, thought-
ful, sorrowful. There seemed to be a burden
of grief weighing him down. He came to
know in time—not from ns, but from others
—that he was no kin to us, and it troubled
him much. Not that he did not love as but
that we were old and poor, and he felt him-
self a burden upon us. Lust night a creditor
came and abused AS because n e could not
pay a debt, Little Pell had crept cif to bed,
but he must have been awake yet and heard
every word. The man was argry became
we c uld not pay, and he said something
about our picking up paupers to feed and
clothe. If it was his case, he said. he'd ship
the boy off to the County House.•'
"I went in to say good -night to him,"
whispered the woman, "but he had his face
to the wail and seemed to bo asleep. We
hoped be had not heard the harsh words,
tor we knew how they would wound him.
Why, air, if worst comms to worst, I'd have
gone hungry to give that boy food. He was
the bit of aunshiee in our livea,"
"In the morning when I got up," said the
father, " I palled to Phil, but he did not an-
swer. I entered the room to find that he
had put a rope over one of the clothes -hooks
and strangled himself—committed suicide.
He must have got up soon after we went to
bed, for his body was cold and stiff."
" And—and he left this on the stand,"
sobbed the woman art she held out a note.
It was written on the leaf of as old mem-
orandum book, and the writing was in pen-
cil, It read :
"I no you wouldn't send me to the county
house, but you are poore and in det. I'd
go away if I could, but I dean't no where to
go. Doan't feel bad. If God lets ins into
Heven I'll see you up there,—PHIL."
Disraeli's Asi;urance,
A little volume has recently been publish.
ed made upof the correspondence on r
deuce
of Lord
I?
Beaconsfield with his sister in the years
1832-1842. This man's career was indeed
wonderful, and it iantereating to observe
the young Hebrew novelist, Benjaman Die.
raeli, foretelling his subsequent career. Hie
firm belief in his talents is thus expressed
in a letter written to his sister in 1833 ;
Went to the House of Commons to hoar
Bniwer adjourn the House; was there yes-
torday afternoon during the whole debate—
one of the finest we have had for years,
Bulwor epoke, but he is phyaicially dis-
qualified for an orator, and, in spite of all
his exertions, can never snceeod. He was
heard with great attention, and in evidently
banked by a party. Heard Macaulay's best
speech, Shiel, and Charles Grant. Maoau-
lay admirable; but between ourselves.I
could floor them all, This entre nous; Iwas
never more confident of anything than that
I could parry everything before me in that
House. The time will come 1
His brother Ralph, who edits the colleo-
tlon, adds with evident pride hi
" Thirty-five la thin foot -note:
Mita -
later."
y years after he was rimoe Df in
Fond parents should not forget that
a
child can shoot a pistol as hard as any.
body—especially a pistol that is unloaded,
ITEALT$.'
Cautious for the .A c,od,
Age works great physical ohaages, many
of which are generally reoognlzed. Same
of them involve dangerous liabilities, and
Impose the need of constant oaetion.
Oaeis to guard against undue exertion,
The tougb, clastic coat of the arteries is apt
to become, on the ono hand, ohalklike
and brittle, or, on the other hand, fatty and
weak, Nature eeeke to guard againat the
oenaequent dargor by rendering older per.
sons loss inclined to effort, But a little ex-
tra exertion put forth suddenly, may oauee
the weakened voaeels to give way, frost the
increased foroe with which the heart thrown
the blood into them. Hance may result ap-
oplexy or fetal anc uriem—the latter bait g
a sudden bulging sub of arteries,.
So, too, the 1ieert ',Moll (or its aorta—the
great curved trunk which first reoeivee the
blood from the heart) may be In a similar
condition, and maidenly fall betauee of un-
due exertion, when it might have been
equal to the ordinary work of years. Saab
no doubt wen the last ease, when an elderly
gentleman hurried to reach a railroad train,
and fell dead on entering
he. The
aged
should firmly rafuee to hurry.
A like caution applies to whatever quick•
enc the action of the heart, Every one
knows the newer of violent emotions in this
respect, Noone wishes 10 fail dead in fit
of anger. Undue eating, especially of stim-
ulating food, is almost as dac•geroas. All
the appetites need to be kept under mai-
tre',
A special oration is needed in desponding
the stairs, In our normal voluntary move-
ments there aro certain nice adjustments af-
fected by unconscious mental acts. But
ago effects such a change in the brain sub-
stance that mental activity is lessened. An
old man can no more think as quickly as a
young than he can run as fast, or jump as
high, Hence the missteps of the aged in des-
cending stairs. Aged persona, therefore,
should form the habit of taking their bearing,
so tospeak, at the top of the emirs, and keep
their mind on eaeh step down by a conscious
voluntary effort, a; i
The aged should alab'most carefully guard
against a chill. It is more dangerous for
an old man to catch cold than for a young
man to catch a fever.
Pack the Lungs with Air.
Deep breathing and holding of the breath
is an item of importance. Persons of weak
vitality find an uninterrupted succession of
deep and rapid aspiration so distressing
that they are dieoonraged from peraerving in
the exercise. Let such persons take into the
lunge as mnoh air as they can at a breath
and hold it as long as they can, and they
will find a grateful sense of relief in the
whole e,bdomnial region. Practice will in-
crease ability to hold the breath and the
capaoity of the lunge. After a time the art
may be learned of packing the lunge. This
is done by taking and holding the long
breath and then forcing more air down the
tread re by swallows of air, The operation
may be described by that of a fiche's mouth
in water. To those who have never learned
it will be surprising to what extent the
lungs may be packed. Caution at first is
needful but after practice will warrant large
use of the treatment. The whole thoracic
and abdominal cavities will receive imme-
diate benefit and continuance and temper-
ance in eating, good air and right exercise,
will bring welcome improvement,
Palatable and Pare.
Distilled water is not essential to good
health. It is " flat, stale and unprofitable."
Unless well erated it is unpalatable. The
process of distilling separates the mineral
matter, but not the volatile substance. The
eon pounds of nitrogen and sulphur may re-
appear in the distilled water, and the pe -
culler odor so repulsive to delicate tastes.
If clean soil -water cannot be obtained, make
a large, deep and clean cistern, and keep it
clean. Take a sound oak or ash barrel, put
a false bottom (pertorated) 3 inches from the
bottom of the barrel ; place three inohea of
ch as washed gravel on the top of the per-
forated bottom ; on thin twelve inches of
granulated charcoal, made from hard maple;
on this 4 inches of clean washed sand, and
then place a perforated false top over the
sand, so that nater poured into the barrel
will not dlaturb the filtering materials be-
neath. Insert a wooden faucet in the side of
the barrel, close to the bottom, and you will
have a filter which will make good rainwa-
ter filtered through it as clean and palatable
as can be desired.
Eating Lemons.
A good deal bas been said through the
papers about the healthfulness of lemons.
The latest advice la how to use them ao
that they will do the most good, as follows:
Most people know the benefit of lemonade
before breakfast, but few know that it la
more - than doubled by taking another at
night also. The way to get the bettor of
the bilious system without the blue pill or
quinine is to take the juice of one, two, or
three lemons, as appetite craves, in as much
ice -water as makes it pleasant to drink with-
out sugar, before going to bed, In the
morning, on rising, at least a half-hour be-
fore breakfast, take the juice of one lemon
in.a goblet of water. This will clear the
system of humor and bile with eflioienoy,
without the weakening effects of calomel or
congress water. People should not irritate
the stomach by eating Lemons clear.
Bad Effect of Pickles.
The influence of acid in retarding or ar-
resting sallvary digestion is further cf im-
portance in the dietectic use ofpiokles, vin•
egar, salads and acid fruits. In the oast
of vinegar it was found that one part in
5000 sensibly retarded this process, a pro-
portion of one in
1,000 rendered very slow,
and one in 500 arrested it completely; so
that when acid salads are taken together
with bread the effect of the aoid is to pre.
vent any ealivary digeatien of the bread, a
matter of little moment to a person with a
vigorous digestion, but to a feeble dyspeptic
ene of acme importance. There is a very
widespread belief that drinking vinegar is
an efficacious moans of avoiding getting fat,
and this popular belief would appear from
these experimental observations to be well
founded. If the vinegar bo taken at the
same time as farinaceous food it will greatly
interfere with i1ts digestion and asaimtlation,
The Wreck of the "Algoma,"
The C. P. R, authorities mean to raise
part of the cargo and, the onglaee of the
wrecked eteamor "Algoma," The cargo
,embraces a voluble consignment of steel
raffle. Drivers have visited the wreck and
declare that there will be no difficulty in
raising the most valuable part of the freight.
The company have called for tendons from
the leading. •wrecking ' companies of the
United States:
There 'are plenty of bandits ih Peruet
and they are giving as muoh trouble art the
braes; bandits: in tide country"
PEQPLE.
' Mark Twain 10 talked of for Mayor el
Hartford.
Henry Ward 13eeoher le out West on his
" last" lecturing tour,
The belle of Batu, M, T., WOW'S a shoe
fourteen inches long and hue boon tendered
the captaincy of a base ball nine,
Dr, Burney Yeo, of 'London, reporte the
ourioue observation that there ere persona
who usually drink tea without injury, but
in whom, when fu a depreaoed mental condi•
tion, h occasions indigestion and palpita•
tion ei the heart.
Baron Tennyson has been in great distress
over the sickness of hie second eon iiouel
who contracted the Indian fever during hie
recent visit to Earl Dofferici, but at latest
a000unte the young man wee in a fair way
to recovery.
It is admitted that the reooptiens offered
by Saoretary and Mrs, Whitney ali Waehiog
ton have been the most interesting gather
Inge of the season there, although Miss.
Cleveland's luncheons lave had the strik-
ing merit of originality,
Guar Wfll
deo mother, r, particularly
art
f ularl
p
y
bright woman who writes stories and poems,
and from wbom Oscar derives his little lit-
erary ability, has completed the complies•
tion of what is considered an important col-
lection of Idale legends.
Phydiologlats who hold that the rage is
deteriorating should remember that Mho
Kitty Austin walked the other day from
Claritaburg, Md,, to Rockville, fourteen
miles, and expressed herself as being lively
as a cricket, Miss Kitty wae 83 last birth-
day, •
Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chicago, has one of
the largest and moat valuable collections of
autographs in this country. Mr. Gunther
ie a baker, but he prides himself particular-
ly on his rolls of original manuscripts, which
include Payne's manuscript of "Home,
Sweet Hone," and many other unique
specimens.
Hereafter women deaconesses of the
Church of Eagiand are to be specially con-
secrated to the work by the laying on of
hands by the Biehop. This is according to
the recommendation of the Dean of Cheater,
who, in a report trom a committee appointed
to investigate the question, con idera their
work of peculiar value.
Lampasas Jake, the cowboy revivalist,
who is doing successful work in New Mexi-
co, wain it is said, never in ohuroh in his
life. He is described as a tall, loose-jointed
fellow, with a full beard oovering sunken
cheeks, a big mouth, a high forehead, and a
voice that might be heard a mile if the wind
was right.
Frank R. Stockton inside that the strange
characters In hie stories are drawn from
real life, and that the odd Pomona in his
" Rudder Grange" was actually a young
servant girl in his family, while hie latest,
" Mrs, Null," was a Virginia termagant,
whose husband killed himself rather than
live with her.
The Grand Duke of Saxe -Weimar has In-
trusted several of the most distinguished
grammarians and philologiate of Jena, Wei-
mar and Eisenach with the work of correct-
ing the German vocabulary, studying the
neceeeity of introducing into the language
foreign words and deciding whether nth
wordsehonld be Germanized.
Queen Victoria has decided to visit Liver-
pool some time during May in connection
with the International Exhibition to be
opened in that pity. Her Majesty's last
visit to Liverpool took place October 9, 1851,
when she was aocompanied by the Prince
Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Prinoeeses Alice and Helena.
. The Prince of Wales is said to be troubled
with chronic dyspepsia. Too much high liv-
ing will bring a prince art well as a plebeian
to grief. The stomach of royalty differs in
no way from the stomach of every day life.
As the Prince sets the fashion in England,
dyspepsia shoaid be very popular there just
now. In faot,no real "swell" can afford to
be without it.
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi told the Nine-
teenth Century Club that woman has become
" discursive and superficial" in her habits
of mind, because ahe has always three things
to think of, the pot on the fire, the baby
and the expected husband coming home in
a stew. Whereupon ene of the fashionable
ladies, of whom the audience, was chiefly
composed, whispered to her neighbor:
" Neither the pot, the baby nor the husband
ever trouble me. Do they you ?"
The number of suicides at Monaco appear
to be increasing at an alarming rate. One
of the noblest families of. Austria has been
thrown into mourning by the death of a son
at Monte Carlo, who, after losing over $20,.
000 at the'gaming table, blew his brains oat
in the doorway of Monsieur Blanc's estab-
lishment on the 20th February last. Ma
announced on good authority that the Ital-
ian Consul of Monaco has just been arrested
at Rome for falsifying, and in some cases
totally suppressing, the reports of the deaths
by suicide at Monte Carlo of Italian subjects.
The Deadly Knife in Sicily.
A horrible deed of blood committed near
Girgenti gives an ililiBbristion 01 the use of
the knife in the Island of Sicily. Two
butchers, father and son, of the name of In
delicate, who kept a shop in that town, not
long since took two brothers, named Alfonso
and Giovanni Csnnetonis into partnership.
Before long the Cannetonia began to trade in
lambs' carcasses separately on their own ac-
count, and disagreements arose, which ulti-
mit ely led to a collision betweenBeldaaeare
Indelicate and Alfonso Cannetoni, They
drew their butoher'a knives from their belle
on each other. Alfonso aimed a well -direct-
ed blow at Baldassare, He parried it with
his left arm, which was cut to the bone,
and at the same instant drove his knife into
the heart of Alfonto, who foll dead en tho
spot, At that moment a young son of Al-
fonso, aged 19, came up with a bludgeon to
his father's aesistanoo, Baldassare struck
him to the ground, and then cut his throat
across, " as he would have slaughtered a
sheep." : Mad with rage, Baldassare then
rushed into the shop, and taking Giovann
the brother of Alfonso, by surprise, killed
him with a slash across the abdomen. Turn-
ing then to leave the shop, he inflicted a
serious wound on a parson just entering.
Ali this occurred within the space of four
minutes, the result of the collision being
three persons killed and two wounded,
What with strikes and 'defaulting bank-
ers and treasurers the lump in this coun-
try's throah never gets a chance to Subside.
The codfish continues to grow indefinitely,
without regard to age, so long as; it has a
plentiful eupply of food. The oldest' codfish
aro the largest, and they sometime grow to
bo ao long its a man is high. r They, swim
about near the bottom of the neat not often
ascending to the surface, fending on all
sorts of animal life, eaoh all crabs, shell fish
and other small fish, but hot on vegetable,
VICTORIA CITY,.
What an Fngllahrnau, Ones ent British Vule
Tumbia'a Capital.
An Engliahman: thus writes of Victoria,
B C, ;— The climate of Viotorla appears
to me all that could he deeired. Thoroughly
temperate and healthful; winter short and
pleasant, with a very acuity snowfall trim-
mers such as we in England and Ireland re-
member with regret, or hear our elders tell
of many years ago. The only complaint I
heard was concerning a cool breeze
gi owe every evening with greater
which
opining over the Olympian sno regularity,
Washington territory. p It aoted
range in
constitution like a moat invi, ted on my
bath, The country round Vic aria l cold
feria Is lovely.
Tho roada aro hanged with thiokete of wild
roses, and here and there wild atrawberriee
carpe; the ground Gorse and brown (both
from the old country) in immense buehea.
The rondo remind one of the lanes is Kent,
but nowhere in Kent is ouch luxuriance of
vegetation •, such wealth of green and light
and shadow, A land of extreme beauty; a
very paradise of scenery, with the great
snowy background of the Oly pian range.
Compared with Victoria -tido • delle of the
Pacific—'Tunbridge Wells le ' worn•
out
ce
az
m
on
s
and
Brighten r htcn
an .;
�` a
with all their wealth, are far outshone by
the natural charms of the Canadian Paoifo.
A most lovely neighb ncood
Bat, oh I these Vletoriane want to makeup
their destiny; to learn to spend as well as
make money; to drain, and clean, and wa.
ter, and Liget, and do the very little nature
has not done for them. Day by day the
dusty streets are swept by the breeze to the
infinite discomfiture of the dweller and
visitor. Night by night the noxieue gaasea
of their primitive roadside gutters are digin.
footed by the coo ,draft from the mountains.
Were it otherwise they wouldeoon learn
their penny wisdom was pound foolishness,
and even as it is, typhoid is tco common,
A Sleeping Car Incident,
In a sleeping oar, just at the time when
the seats were being turned into beds, I
happened to be lazily eyeing a bridal couple
on their honeymoon tour. How did I know ?
Because for an hour her head had been lay-
ing on his shoulder. Might they not have
been married several yearn ? No ; her man-
ner did not have the confident, proprietary
air of an aounatomed wife. Then why was
I sure that they were not an enamoured
pair, enjoined by wedlock ? Bscanee the
girl was neither ashamed or defiant, No-
body ever makes a mistake in pioking out
honeymoon teuriste. Therefore, the negro
porter of the oar astounded me when he
said to the young husband :—" Wouldn't
yo' alatah, rah, like to have her berth let
down ?" She lifted her head from the mar-
tial shoulder, smiled sweetly, and murmur.
ed, " Yea,"
" This is my wife, you rascal," said the
man, but with what seemed to me singular
amiability ; " you needn't make up the up-
per berth in this section. The lower one
will be enough."
" Beg pardon, ash. Yee, rah ; " and the
porter went at the job with the kind of vim
and alacrity never seen in a darkey who fe-
n't sure of a special fee:
The incident puzzled me, and I sought an
early opportunity to get the` porter's expla-
nation, e
""It's die way, boss," heeH Id, " de brides
don't like to be spotted. 'Course dey Is eb-
ery time, bat dey flatter demelevea dat dey
can't be told from odder ladies, 'Sperlence
teaches me dat dey is tickled mightily ef yon
mistaken dere husbands fo' bruddere, I
does it ebery time now, an' hits 'em fo' a
dollah shnah."
The secret was plain once It was out. The
gentle'bride is delighted to think that her
bridal fondness looks like sisterly affection
and fan;iliarity,
The Cruelties of' eathenism.
On his way to the centre of Africa, Mr,
F. S. Arnot wrote from Bike art follows to
Mr. Sanders at Bailundn, concerning "a
Biba' barbarity" : "A few days ago I no-
ticed a little boy, about eight years of age,
who belongs to Ruakit's town close by, go-
ing about with both his hands in a sad meas.
The left ene was completely distorted and
three of the fingers jointed together in_one
red, sore mane, the palm bulging forward.
the i arm above the wrist was skinned
and also the right hand. I found that Vele
youngster had been out visiting at the king's
town or somewhere near there. The boy in
playing about had stolen some beans belong-
ing to a daughter of Jamba Yamina, the
king, they call her Naroma Cunengile, who,
to punish the child for stealing her beans,
put his hands into a pet of boiling water. I
have seen something of that work before,
and from the state cf the child's hand's she
must have kept the left hand. at least, for
a few seconds in the water. The poor little
tallow, smart and good -locking, is injured
for life, and this creature in woman's shape
has not been called in question for her cruel-
ty. If you are passing here at any time,
you could see the child; the boiled hand bag.
gars description,"
To this Mr. Sanders adds
"People talk of the innocence of the hea-
then, but they only needtoIive in a heathen
land to learn that " the dark places of the
earth are full of the inhabitants of cruelty.'
What do yon think of a man taking his
hands full of dried grass, setting it on fire
and then applying it -to the naked shoulders
and breast of his wife, simply because his
beans were not cooked quite as soon as he
thought they ought to be ? This has hap.
pened here in Chilumi,
(L? . The Good Die Young.
The right kind of afelIow is modest and mellow
and generous and brave and benign;
Hie nature's apparent and clear and transpar-
ent like yours, gentle reader, and mine,
He has no verbosity, no3y:
ue tortuosity, and
tie rover is boastfuloud
He is gentle and quiet ain
in his d'
et
never ate
m
adi sofaad
ng w d
He's, grand and majestic, yet meek and domes-
tic, and spends his spare evenings at home;
He's a tireless searcher for all kinds of virtue
like the author'and proprietor of this pome ;
He don't play the fiddle, part his hair in the
middle, nor dress like an Anglican dude.
When he goes to a party with Mtigs or McUax-
ty he never is noisy and rude;
He lives in frugality and sweet conjugality,
and wants pie but two antes a day;
He never eats onions nor treads on. your bun•
ions nor growls when you get in hie way;
He's wise and he's witty; ppe severing and grit
ty, and has a mai niticont head;
He's ail light andsweetness, he's thorougho
pletenees, he's perfection in pmt
short–but
he's sena t ,o...
More than four thousand devices for
coupling have been patented, and yet thou-
sands of bachelors and maidens go .it alone
in this country.
A. young married lady who moved into t
e
country from a pity home boneidored keep.
ing hens a pleasant and profitable duty.
she became more absorbed in the pursuit As
enthusiasm inorea. ed, and +" hen9 "neat her
made a
favorite sabjeot of her thoughts and conver-
sation. During one of hor animated descrip-
tions ofanooees, a (friend isquired : ""Are
he re-
plied in a our hensgdeligoodhted ens ?ttone, 0,they,ih
""avon't
laid a bad egg yet,'