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9 little, with conteut, is mune
To hide who'll not teeese it
Who taxes it as the Lord bee sent
Aute then does rightly use it
e`er ostmen, with tion. ng, have a thought
That life would be a p ensure
lit they moult share, in stateliest part,
With those who have the treasure
But is th"a true Experience chows
That, in, this world ofson ow,
"The man who 1l bte for bread to dee
Will neht'for pie t l -morrow.
Ile vows be does not want theearth;
i
His thoughta are far above t;
'3`hegold ot Ivies and of O^,
Hee aim vie tastes dcu'c covet.
A vera little meets Ws manse;
.ifuongh to furnish living,
Ile says, is cella nwei abauld ask,
And.tbank the Lord for giving.
But, ie it "rue? Weil. if it ba,
The truth you'll have to borrow.
The man who tights for bream today
Will fight for pie toe:ileu iw.
Of wealth. fraction's all he asks,
with smallest numerator
Set out in unit bold, above
A, lace denominator.
That makes the cum of all his joys,
Of ail his hopes mid bused ;
'Tie all he needs, 'tis all he prays ;
Tia bread and cheese and kieses.
But, is it trot You bet it ain't,
For in this world of sorrow,
Ube man who fights for bread 'o -day
will fight for pie to -morrow.
Three French Marriages
I was present recently at a wedding -mass
in the church of St. Thomas d'Aqulu In the
Faubourg St, Germain, Paris, In the square
before the church ladies in elegant costume
were descending from their carriages and
mounting the eteps, where a rloh carpet was
laid for them, as one would see in New York
on a similar occasion, At the door stood
`two vergers in white hose and scarlet
'breeches, with blue coat, gold -embroidered
baldrie, and the pictureegoe three -cornered
hat trimmed with light gray oatrioh feathers,
While awaiting the arrival of the bridal
cortege I took a survey of the church, which
was built by the Dominicans near the close
of the seventeenth century, and daring the
Revolution was ocaupied by the Theophil-
enthropieta, It was rlahly decorated, like
nroet Roman Catholic churches, where art
Seems to levi'h all its resources. Some one
,.has palled Art the handmaid of Religion,
but she some often to torget this aubordin-
ate position, and to arrogate for hrraelf a
temple in the home of Gad. I noticed par-
ticularly a marble group of Saint Vincent de
Paul with an infant in his arme and an older
child at his feet, and a Descent from the
=Cross,. length the bridal party entered, pre-
oaded by the vergers with their glittering
halberds, The bride was leaning on the arm
of her father, while the bridegroom °enduc-
ted her mother. They were attended by
•several bridesmaids and groomsmen, and
followed by a long train of relatives and
friends. Passing np the main aisle, they
took their seats in the enclosedspace before
the high altar, the bride and bridegroom in
the centre, apart from the rest, in chairs of
tarimson velvet and geld, rich enough for
thrones. There was a profusion of white
do were around the altar, but they were all
artificial, ae seems to be always the case in
France on such occiaioue. Though they ars
wxquisito imitations, one would perfer to
have real flowers at one's wedding, More
chow than sweetness is a bad omen.
The officiating priest and his assistants
wore white robes, with laoe which would
have made the despair of e. duchess. The
bride looked very graceful in a white gown
perfectly plain, with the tulle veil floating
to her feet and orange blossoms gleaming
out trom her dark ringlets. The ceremony
orae long and impressive. In one part of it
the priest presented to the bride and bride•
groom the " pieces de marriage"—that is,
eiIver meda{e about the size of a dollar bear-
ing the names of the young couple, with the
date of their marriage and appropriate
emblems, A little later they advanced to-
ward the altar, where the priest presented
to them two golden paters;, which they
reverently kilned, and, returning to their
seats, two of the groomsmen held ab ve
their heads a long white mantle of cloth of
silver with fringes of gold, while the priest
want on with the service,
Daring the cffartory the vergers passed
through the assembly with their monotonous
chant, " Pour les pauvrea. e'i{ vous platt"
(" For the poor, if you please"), emelt fol-
lowed by a groomsman and a bridesmaid,
who held eat the small crimaon velvet bag
to receive the offerings. I would rather
bane taken past in the charge at Gettysburg
than do this myself, but the perfect ease
and grace of these young French girls made
it charming,
At the close of the mans the bridal party
paned around the altar into the sacristy,
when they received the congratulations of
their friende, afterward returning through
the grand aisle of the church in the same
order as they had entered, except that the
'bride now leaned on the arm of her hnaband,
iwhile the organ pealed forth exaltingly the
't' Wedding March" of Mendelesohn,
As we came out of the church my friend,
Madame Lefort, said to me, " You bane
iaeen what is very rare in France, a marriage
i of love and inclination, a l• Americana, It
ma the only one I have ever anown."
" And your own, madame ?' said I.
" Mine has been a happy marriage, but
'T was not acquainted with M. Lefort when
I was married to him. The first time I
wirer saw him was on the day of rejoicing at
the birth of the prince imperial, He was
iresented to me in the Champy -Elysees, but
T was engrossed with the scene around me
and did not much observe hire. ' How did
you like M. Lefort ?' asked my mother on
the way home. ' I do not know ; I scarcely
1.eoked at him,' ' Bat, my daughter, your
lather has selected him for your husband.
He will dine with us to -morrow, and unless
he is very disagreeable to yon—' M. Lefort
was a handaome man ; he is eo stili, you
know, and he was much handsomer then,
He pleased me, but I never speke ten worth
to him till after we wero married, whiot
was just a month from the day I first saw
him; and all the time we were so buoy, my
another and I, with preparations for the
wedding that I had not a moment to think,
He seat into the most beautiful flowere every
•day, and far my corbeille hie me riage he
gave me diamonds and an India shawl
which eclat five thousand francs. He was in
a atate to commit follies than," Bald madame
with a little sigh, " I was bewildered with
► all tide new splendor, for French girls aro
e,lways dressed in the simplest way—not at
all as in your country, where miss has
everything ea handsome as mamma—and
they never go into the street without a
haperone, 1 was fall of life and longed
sfor excitement ; my mother was an invalid
rand went out very eoldom, eo that marriage
ovas Iike an open door to freedom,"
" But I do not see how you dared,"
" Oh, lit to thsat, I was thoughtless
enough, and besides I hover expected any.
-tiling different Begone was very good
by and bye we had our little Clar-
%nae With each other by do'
groes, and, we fiat a been very happy. I
think marriages areea hippy in France as
anywhere else, 1: helped to make three tarot,
winter, and they have all boo happpet"
" Do tall me about thein," said I.
ac With the greatest pleasure, this evening
after dinner,"
" The girls will like to hear the story
too," eafd I. ('The girls were four ()harm-
ing (specimens of Amerioan young woman-
hood who were under my cine temporarily,)
A000rdingly, when the lamps werefighted
(for there le no gas {n French parlors) we
drew our chairs around the table tehear the.
dory Yon
the three marriages.
" on remember, "" began madame, the
fat :olouol who dined with us last Sunday
His wife is my cousin, and a year ago she
was not M %dame de Courcallesd'
" But the little boy ?" said Aloe with a
naive surprise in her blue eyes.
" Oh, the colonel was a widower," eaid
madame, laughing. " My cousin lived
with her father hi a country town. She
was the youngest child. Her mother had
been dead mauy years; her brothers and
slaters were married ; she bad been asked
In marriage, but she did not like to leave
her father, and he would have been so deso-
late withcut her that he had not the heart
to urge it. My uncle died about two years
ago ; hie property was divided among hie
ohlldren, Pauline had a moderate income,
which would not permit her to live
in the style to which she wee aocuatom-
ed. She wrote me a very sad letter,
lamenting her father's death and her
oien loneliness and desolation. She
asked me to find her a room and hoard In
P.erie, in a convent or in some quiet family.
I wrote Chet I would do all I could for her,
' Bat, my dear oouain,' I added, ' why do
you not think of marriage? It will be very
disagreeable to you, who have so long been
the mistress of a handsome establishment,
to live is the way you propose, Seriously,
marriage is the only solution of all your
perplexities.' I had not long to wait for a
reply. Pauline wrote that she would will-
ingly marry, but she was now thirty six
years old, her dowry was net excessive, and
she feared it would be imposs'ble to; make
an advantageous marriage. ' D•fault,' I
wrote in reply, ' but not impossible. Come
to Paris, make me a little visit, and we will
eee,' Now I hag in mind my friend Colonel
de Courcelles, whore wife had been dead
about a year and a half. He often came to
see me, and always bewailed his loneliness
and the unhappy condition of his oriildren
(he had but two, a girl and boy) without a
mother. It occurred to me that two sorrows
rightly mingled might make one joy ; and
the next time be called and entered on his
usual monologue 1 interpolated the question,
' Why don't you marry again, colonel ? It
is the only thing that can make you forget
your sorrows,' ' I know it,' said he, ' but
there is no lady.' `Pardon me, colonel. I
have a eouein who is j est my age. She has
recently Poet her father; she has a dowry of
fifty thousand francs, and the is coming to
upend a few weeks with me.' " I eha11 bo
delighted to meet your charming cousin,
madame.'
"In due time Pauline arrived. After the
first greeting and condolanoea were over, I
said, ' Pauline, I think I have found a hus-
band for you —C tlonel de Courcelies. I
have been acquainted with him many years ;
be has a fins petition, and he was very in -
diligent to his wife ; she war very happy
with him. He will dine with ns on Sanday,
and you will have an opportunity to see him,
I have said nothing to him about it ; you
may feel completely at your ease.' "
(My Canadian readers, who have been
brought up, I hepe, with a strict regard for
truth, will doubtless be ,hooked at madame's
want of veracity. I was not sorry to see
my young friends exchange a glance of
surfeit -a, which madame did not cbterve,
ana would not have understood if aha had
observed it. Frenchmen appear to regard
a lie as a thing innocent in itself—one which
may be even highly meritorious, and which
becomes criminal only under certain circum -
dances, deriving its moral character entire-
Iy from the motives that prompt it) -
" O.i Sunday the colonel came. Clarice
was at school then, and there were only four
of us—M. Lefort and I, my cou>in and the
colonel, who sat opposite her. They looked
at each other furtively from time to time,
and when their eyes met dropped them in.
atantly on their plates in the most comical
manner. Dinner over, I took my cousin
aside : ' What do you think of him 7' " He
is too fat,' s9id Pauline. ' Fat ? You think
eo ? Tae idea 1' " Oh, madame, how could
you ? He is immense 1' geld my innocent
Pauline, with a look of distress. ' Only
consider what a fine position he has,' said I,
' and such an excellent man 1 if you could
only see how well he looks on horseback at
the head of his regiment 1'
" Litter in the evening I had an opportu-
nity to speak to the colonel, 'Well ? Bald I,
interrogatively. ' Madame, your cousin is
charming, but she is rather too tall' The
huge oolcnel had a giant'a penchant for lit-
tle women. ' There is no occasion for you
to go any further,' said I, ' I have not
mentioned it to my consin, of course,' " I
should like to call to morrow,' Bald he.
" In six weeka Pauline was Madame de
Courcellos, but np to the wedding -day she
continued to say piteously, ' If hs were only
not so fat 1 i "
" That la not romantic at all," said E ally,
" But they are very happy," said mad-
ams,
" Doesn't she think he is too fat now ?•'
asked Belle.
" I dare say abe would be vary Indignant if
you were to say so," laughed madame.
" Now for marriage Number 2," said
Helen.
"A short time before my cousins mar•
ria&e," continued madame, " my friend, M,
Auber, called on me, ' That {e a strange
idea of vous, to marry your cousin to that
great fat colonel,' said he ; ' I bent a friend
who would suit her muoh better, I am sure.
' It is rather late for that now ; she is to be
married in ton days.' ' How vexatious !'
said M. Auber. ' P3•et, monsieur, I have a
aieter•in•law, a young widow, several yearn
younger and far handsomer than my cousin.
Your friend might be pleased with her.' ' d
wieh I could see her,' Nothing easier, Dine
with us the day after to -morrow, you and
madame Auber, and I will invite Julie to
meet you.' My slater is really very beauti-
ful, and M, Aubor could not retain his ad-
miration : ' Oh, madame, she le adorable 1
If my friend can pieane her, he it man to be
envied, Let me Bee; to -day le £ueeday.
Well, Thursday, if you and your sister and
M. Lefort will dine with us, my friend will
be there,'
"Thureday.. came, the dinner and the
guests, I had told my sister what was in
contemplation, and we were naturally a lit-
tle ourious to see M. 'Vernon. He was a
good-looking man, about fifty years of ago,
" Oh, madame, wasn't he bald 2" asked
I Alice,
" Well, he was a little, on the top of hie
head."
"I hate bald men. How old was the 2"
" A little under thirty,"
" I should not think she would have mar-
rlod him if she Wee so beautiful."
" Well, ray dear he hada fine natal peti-
tion and a ,,large fortune, hotel in Pads,
house in the country, elegant carriage, and
servants in livery. It ,was a great tempts.
tion, and thenshe was not very young, you
know, Well, dinner was over and we pad.
returned to the parlor, M, Auber seemed
reaGiese and fiigety, for he is of a very im-
patient temperament, ' Madame is ifort,'
maw tie, teeing, I would litre to show you a
paintlne by Paul Dederoohe in the next
room.' I had seen the painting hum
dreds of timee. but I followed with.
out a word. ' Vernon, wouldn't ycu like
to eoe It too ?' sold M. Auber, No sooner
was the doer closed than he asked in hie
eager way, ' Well, madame, what does your
sister think of my friend ?' ' But, monsieur,
how should I know; I have not had an op-
portunity to speak to her: Besides, it would
be more suitable to know M, Vernon's im•
pression first.' ' Oh, I saw that in an in-
stant,' said M Arbor. 'Thera is no need of
asking him. He ie enchanted,' ' Truly,
she ii the most beautiful creature I ever
saw,' *aid M. Vernon. ' Far too young end,
lovely for mo, I am afraid,' ' That remains
to be seen,' said hie friend. ' Ask her, ma•
dame—j est as well now as any time,' ' But
M. Vernon must go away.' ' Certainly,
madame ;' and he opened the door into the
parlor, ' Come, then, Julie, don't you wish
to see thio beautiful palating ? Have you no
taste for the arta it She came. ' N. Auber
wishes to know bow you are pleased with
'oh friend.' ' He is very well,' said she cooly
—'rather old.' ' Oh, madame, le that alt
you can say for one of the beat matahos in
Franca ?' ' I do not know that 1 have any
obj sotlon,' she added. ' Then, madame, we
will consider the affair settled.'
" Early the next morning M. Vernon
called to ask my husband to accompany him
to the hcuse of Julie's mother, and after the
usual compliments of presentation he imme-
diately asked the hand of her deughta;, In
three weeks I had the pleasure of being pre-
sent at the wedding."
" Oh, how dreadful 1" cried the girls in
a chorus. " No lovemaking 1" " No walks
by moonlight 1' "Se preset's!" "Everything
hurried up so, just like a parcel of geode
bought and delivered."
" Why, how long are betrothals in your
country ? ' asked madame,
" Two or three years generally. Seldom
1ese than one year when the parties are
young."
" 1 should have changed my mind three
or four times in a year," said M. Lefort,
looking up from the book which he had been
reading all the time, apparently.
" And I mine five times," said madame.
" How, then ? Are not such long engage-
ments eften broken ?" she inquired.
" Oh, never 1" sold Belle wtth fervor,
" Bat, my dear child," interrupted I, "
am afraid you are mistaken there : I have
known a great many broken in my time."
" And do these young lovers see each
other often during this long interval 7'
" Very often, madam, if they happen to
live near each others"
" But always in the presence of the young
lady's mother, I suppose 7"
" No ; it is very common for a young lady
to receive her betrothed alone,"
" 0n, chocking !" and madams looked
rigid with astonishment, " But if the en-
gagement were broken, she would never find
a husband after suoh au intimacy?"
" That would make no difference," I re.
joined, " unities a girl were engaged six or
seven years, and the man broke his engage-
ment then, as sometimes happens, She would
have lost her fresh young boauty, and her
heart might be so set on the faithless lover
that no other could ever take his place."
" Ah," said macama, " our young girls
are at least saved from all pains of the
heart,"
" And they are kept from indecorous
flirting and mar coevres to attract attention
too," said I, with a glance at my young
Canadians—not that they needed the hint
particular'y, however,
" They flirt enough afterward," said Baffle
spiritedly, "Don't you remember that
odious Madame T-, with her yellow curls.
and the young dieter at the Grand Hotel ?
I never saw any sure flfcting in America."
" Don't talk, girls," said Emily. " I
want to bear about the third marriage."
" Well," resumed madame, " I felt a
good deal of complacency in my sucoeas, and
it formed a subj -ot of oonveraatlon at my
next reception, ' I am dlegueted,' said
Madame Belval, ' I have been trying all
winter to bring about a marriage between
two of my friends, and it has failed at last.
I will never try again if I live a thousand
years.' ' I am ready to try again to -mor-
row.' " Pray be eo kind as to give me some
aseistanca, then,' eald Madame C.; wi`e of
the minister of marine. ' I am looking for
a suitable wife for E nile, ae I sm very de-
sirous that he should marry. Young men
are exposed to so many temptations in Paris
—actresses and grisettes, and all that kind
of thing—enough to drive a mother direr to-
ted. Emile will be twenty•five next month.' '
" I should think he was old enough to
find a wife far himself," whispered Alice.
" His salary is twelve thousand francs,
which is not bad for a young man, and hie
father will do something more for him when
he marries,' ' I know a girl that will suit
him exactly,' cried Madame Belval eagerly,
forgetting, like Rip Van Winkle, that she
had 'sworn off,' ' (This Isom interpolation.
I am afraid the French ladies had not the
pleasure of being acquainted with Monsieur
Van Winkle,) "'The administrator of the
Lyons Railway has a daughter almost nine-
teen, the most amiable, the moat lovely, and
her father will give her a hundred thousand
francs.' ' That is very reasonable,' said
Madame 0, ' I shall be under everlasting
obligations to gnu if you will speak to him
of oar son,' ' With the greatest pleasure £n
the world,' •
" Madame Belval had an interview with
the administrator of railways, He would
make inquiries about the young man, Tho
reault was satisfactory, and in a week the
friends of both families, concluding M. Le -
fort and myself, received an luv£tetion to a
soiree at Madame Belval'e, where the two
young people would meet for the firat time.
It was very embarrassing for them in the
presence of so many curious observers,
Mademoiselle Therese was lovely, with long
fair purls and that delicate blonde beauty
which in so rare in France, I pitied the
poor child, she was so distressed at the
thought of being on exhibitien, at it were,
and looked pale and then flushed alternate-
ly,"
"I am glad I am not -a French girl," Bald
lelen,
"And the young man was scarcely less
agitated, They hardly darod to look at
each other, and wero as Wont as deaf•mutes
the whole evening. The next day his father
made a formal demand of M. Thouvel 'for
the band of his daughter,"
"His father 1 and the young man had
nothing to do with it ?" exclaimed Belle,
amazed.
" Marriegoe are altstaye arranged by the
parents with ua," said madame, "M.
Thee -eel gave an affirmative answer, and
the marriage took plaob shortly after, as is
usual in Franco,"
"And shall you bo married in that way,
Clarice?" asked Alice compassionately of
madamo'n pretty young daughter,
".How else f I ate not going to America,
HEALTH.
Diroeaied Money,
A writer givoe some very pert nent advloe
outhls eubject :
In the numerous speoulations aa to the
variety of ways and channels through
wh oh the germs of oonteeloue disease may
be disseminated, there ii one to which but
little or no ituportanoo has tbua far been
attached, but which, nevertheless, prob.ebiy
playa an important role. We refer to that
meteoroid oirouiatieg medium—money. It
pastes impartially front the hand of the
millionaire into that of the bagger, con•
stantly circulating through every plass and
condition of soolety. The person of fas-
tidious teethe, who will taro from hie path
rather than risk coming Into so',ual cone
tact with others of unoleanly dress or per.
son will rcoclve, handle and carry in hie
pocket without the slightest symptosis of
disguet, or perhaps without giving it a
thought, money that hat thousands of times
passed through hande or reposed In pockets
whose contact he would. deem to be pol
laden.
In respect to the dangers that may arise
from this oause, paper money is undoubtedly
more to be feared than coin, and the in
doacribably filthy e.ppsaranoe of much of
that which is seen in clroulation Is fem•
filar to all who read tete. Tag the handl-
Ing of Kroh "amity stuff is often fraught with
serious danger, no sensible person oan
doubt. It would be well if the system
'aid to be in vomit) is certain countries of
Earopo, of destroying every note that
Domes into the beetle and keening new ones
to their stead were practiced with uo,
though even dela would only to some extent
lessen and not do away with the danger.
Bat though paper currently is the meat
to he feared on the score of commudieating
disease, coin is by no means free from dan-
ger of the seine kind, It hat been shown
that the blackieh coating, which may be
seen in the reverses and in the millad edges
of coins that have been In circulation for a
short tine, consists of organic) filth which
when introduced into distilled water and
examined under the microscope was found
to be swarming with bacteria and fungi.
We are not sanguine enough to expect
that our readers shall deoliee to touch or
handle the stuff, for tho reasons here point-
ed out, but we can not refrain from utter-
ing our protest against the unutterable
nastiness, of which many persons are
guilty who would feel themselves deeply
insulted at any insinuation of a lack of re-
&nement or good breeding, of plata/lig paper
ourrenoy or coin in the mouth for tempor-
ary convenience, while making change or
the like, This most disgusting habit {e
singularly enough, confined almost exoiu•
sively to womankind, and is an act of
thoughtlessness which, if any who reade
this ever practiced, we feel auto they will
never do again,
A SIBERIANN B 4ILROAD•
The Completion of the Canadian Pacific
Alarms Russia.
A Se Paten') erei, despatch says:—The
completion of the Canadian Pacific railway
has given a fresh incitement to the discus-
sion among Rassiana of their oten long talk-
ed of llne to the Paoi&c across 5:beria to
Vladivoatock, If Raesia ham stolen a march
over England in railway progress towarda
Herat, it will be a long time before the Rra-
sian locomotives oampote with those of Eng-
land and America in reaching the shores of
the Pacific.' Tne branch to Tiamen has not
yet been made, and the Ufa Ziatoust suction
to Eaeterinburg has only lately been decided
upon, after years of dispute over the con-
flicting claims of different towns, Yet the
almost chimerical idea ef Rass£an Pacific
railroad is already talked of one written
about as an undertaking of early and easy
accomplishment. The ether day a meeting
of the society for furthering Raraian trade
and commerce. under the presidency of
Count Ignatioff, was enlightened on the sub-
ject by a discussion of several projects for
the great work, among them being a curious
ene tendered by an enterprising exile living
in Siberian banishment, All difficulties
were very satisfactorily disposed of except
one, which was quite left out of calculation.
and that was the source of the 150,000 000
roubles and more that would be required for
the enterp-iee, The addition of the Cana-
dian Pacific railway to that of the United
States naturally makes the Ruasians feel
more keenly than ever the disadvantages of
tbeir isolated position on the Amoor and the
Pacific coast,
Two Mining Hermits.
Leet November two men took a lease of a
mine belonging to C. W. Sickler. located on
the west aide of Little Cottonwood canyon,
on Bald mountain, near Alta. They took
up a good supply of provisions and went to
work with the in'ention of staying in that
elevated place till spring. A few days ago
some citizens of Alta missed a familiar tree
which stood near the mouth' of the mine
tunnel, and beside the cabin, and supposing
the tree, cabin and men had been swept
away by a elide organized a party and went
np to prospect for them, The trip was a
diffrmit one, requiring moat of the day,
and when within 150 feet of the cabin their
progress was stopped by an immense bar-
rier of snow which they could not pass.
Tney saw smoke coming out far abovethem
and calling to the men were able to a onveroe
with them, They could not time to greet
their visitoro because they dare not trust
themselves upon the snow bank hanging on
to the tile of the mountain, and which wan
ready to rush to the bottom of the canyon
thousands of feet below, They said they
were well, had plenty of grub and fuel, lots
of ore and did not Wend to come out till
Mty. This is one phase of silver mining
which the world knows nothing et, Two
hardy men imprisoned 9000 feet above eea
level, delving in a mine six long winter
month; with no other ooiriponiona, no news
to read or talk about, virtually out of the
world so far air its doings are concerned, is
an experience few men would like to go
through. And this, too, within sight et
this busy, bustling city,—Salt Lake Tri-
bune,
•
The Angelus.
IVY rruxcas 0, MACE.
Ring soft across the dying day,
Angulus !
Across the ember -tinted bay,
The meadow flushed withsunsot ray;
Iain g out, and float, and molt away"
Angelus.
The day of toil eeems long ago,
Angolan ;
While through the deepening vesper glow;
Par up whore holy lilies blow,
Why beckoning bell -notes rise and flow,
Angelus.
Through dazzling matting of the west"
Angelic'
We sea a eiarine in twee dressed,
And liftted high in vision blest,
Our every heart-throb is confessed,
Angelus.
Oh has1ingelue i ang angel touched the WI,
For now upon Its parting swell
A!I sorrow scone to sing farcical,
There falls a peace no words can toll
Angelus 1
FOREWN ;OHQES,
Madame Albini will sang the odo by Ten'
nleoa at the opening o! the Iudlau and. Qo1o.•
Dial ext:ibitton in London.
It is reported that King Louis of Bavaria,
has become bankrupt, and a regency will be
declared,
The oldeet merchant' vessel afloat is said
to be the 'auk True Love, which was built
in Philadelphia in 176'l, and is, therefore,
122 years old, She is still in aocive service,
and is owned by J, S Ward of Landon,
A Boptiet missionary in Calna writes
home that what an American family throws
away in a year would keep a dozen Chinese
fami,iee ; and what a Chinese.famiiy throwe
away la the same time would not feed a
moue.
Aa an ex maple of the eccentricities of
British elections, the London Globe gives
thie as a reault of the minted at 1pswioh :
"An English borough r j eta two Pagliah-
men and elects two Sootonmen on a gaeation
of Irish policy."
Rouse rent is so high in the oily of Mix•
loo that many houses are vacant in the older
quarters of the city, newcomers nearly all
awaking the suburbs, especially toward the
west. Landlords do not come down, how-
ever, preferring to welt, since their pro-
perty is not taxed when un000upiod.
The plan of throwing a bridge over the
Straits of Messina, that separate Stony from
Italy, will when consummated, -be one of
the moat striking feats of modern engineer-
ing, The place selected ie where the chan-
nel it two and oae-half miles wide and 361
feet deep, and two piers will euppnrt a via•
duct of alae{ rails to a height of 328 feet
shove the water.
The Egyptian Sphinx le soon to get a
thorough overhauling, A company has
been formed in Paris to aid M, Maapero iu
carrying on his excavations. It is thought
that the Sphinx is a tomb, and that under
it or inaide of it some valuable and interest
ing m aterial may be dlsoover:ed that will
add a few years more to the length of his-
tory. The work will los carried on with
care, so that the great Sphinx may not be
disfigured by the somewhat tardy antcpay,
A life insurance company in England
bears the amazing title of "The Royal Liver
Friendly Society." { Its mission is not, as
might naturally be supposed, the insuring
of persona afflicted with or liable to hepatin
diaordera, bur general, like all other life in-
surance companies. Indeed, it would seem
that It rather seeks to ignore, if it does not
actually contemn, the functional service of
that important organ after which it is nam-
ed, Blume in a recent manifesto its carers
assure the paella that "no longer there will
be a s:ecrotive atmosphere in the affairs of
the society."
Various trials of the new French horse-
shoe, which is made entirely of sheep's horn,
are raid to show its partioular adapteduess
for horses employed in towns, and known
nit to have a ateady foot on the pavement.
Tho results of the expo►Iments are therefore
regarded as very eat:,factory, [horses thua
shod having been driven at a repf3 pace on
such pavement without slipping. Battles
this advantage, the new shoo is spoken of
as more durable, and, though a little more
expeualve than the ordinary kind, seems
destined Boner or later, to replace the iron
shoe.
Tae unnamed severity of the pant winter
gave Englishmen an opportunity of indulg•
ing in many sports comm an to colde
countries, but rarely enj eyed there. Skat-
ing line been general, and during the week
that followed the new year many toboggans
and sleighs were seen in and about the vi•
einity of Leaden; but all these amusements
wer., eclipsed by a man who built an ice
yacht and was able to sail in it for two
weeks in January on the frozen surface of
the Reading resorvo;r, to tho delight of
the whole nelghborhooct,
The will of Kite Rowland, the little dwarf
that was known all over Earopo as "Ma-
dame la Mame-the," contains a novel feature.
After she had dispoeed of all her p-onerty,
there remained her wardrobe. •' Well,"
said she, "my dree es and linen and every
thing that I wore must be far too small for
the littlest child ; but, in order that some
poor little girl may be happy, I desire that
the sum of ten pounds sterling may be ap•
plied to the purchase of twenty dolls of my
a7zi, which shalt all be dressed from my
wardrobe and given to orphans."
The German ship Auguste, belonging to
Bremerhaven, and bound for 11 nig Kong,
narrowly escaped falling a prey to some 150
pirates. When not far item her destination
she was hailed by a junk, all of whose crew
seemed to be unarmed, and were persistent
in their efforts to trade with the ship, which
bad slack sned her pace by the wind falling.
Presently a number of armed junks ewarm-
ed up and began to attack the Auguste. -The
Garman crow had to defend themselves vig-
orously. Five of the pirates were killed
and several wounded. A smart breezy
sprang up and the German vessel got away
without lose,
It is M. Girard, Chief of the municlpal
laboratory of Paris, who gays a " From 1510
to 1850 about 25,000,000 gallons of brandy
were made yearly in France, and fatly
seven -eighths came from grapes. At prevent
more than 50,000,000 galione are yearly
turned out, but not one per Dent. of it is
made from the grape; grain, cider, beet,
potatoes,'eto., forming its principal sources.
Tho spirits thus obtained would be fairly
wholesome 11 they were properly reetlfi yd
But they are not. Invariably when put
upon the market they are charged with
acids, ethers, and essentials of elle of the
most deadly nature." The startling increase
of violent insanity and other maladies in
Franco, in late years, is by 111, Girard attri-
buted to consumption of that deadly brandy.
We import large quantities of it into this
country. •
A gentleman who travelled on the Yel-
low or Hoarngho River in January last tells
how great a source of trouble that river is
to the millions who inhabit the central
plain of China. Much the same story was
told nearly a century ago by Lord Macart-
nay about this moat disorderly river, Nine
instances are on record of lie making a com-
plete change of oourse. It has moved ita
mouth from south to north over four de.
grecs of latitude, leaving only sandy wastes
and ahallow lakes where populous plains
had existed. Western engineers have been
much interested in the (potion whether
thee, digestroum overflown and changes of
the riverbed can be checked, They have
been convinced, for tome years of the feaei•
bility of koopleg the river's erratic tenden-
otos within limits, and in the eouree of hu-
man progress "China's sorrow" may some
day be robbed of its terrors,
A somewhat weather-beaten tramp being
asked what was the matter with his coat,
replied, " Insomnia ; it hasn't had a nap in
ten years,"
When the fashionable youug lady makes
A dive and grab at her dregs ekirt, a fellow
feels very muoh like dodging, for she acts
for all the world like oho was going for a
brink.
IMPORTAN'QE 0r HALIFAX.,
Alone Pertinent Iiemarlcs Respectful Calle
olio's Atlantic "'art.
The Pail 11 Tall (Daze;te &aye :—A oorree-
poudent who had ooeupfed an influential
positiuu at Halifax, Nova Sootia, sends us
tee following recount of what to to be done
to improve the dooke there :--North of the
rgaater there are two naval dock yards --
Bermuda and Halifax, Nova Sootia—but
they are very far from being kept up to the
high standard of el&oietey they ought to`
bo. Bermuda as•an outpost and as a repair-
ing station ie doubtless of valve, but culy eo
long as the store of coal lasts or eau be
renewed ; In fact, so long as the fleet can
keep open communication, After that, in
those days of steam, it is practically useless.
IIelifax,1Nova Soda, is, Ito wover,'differently
oirounistanced, Planed in one of the fiueet
harbors of the world, free of ion all times
of the year, facing the Atlantic ocean, yet
sheltered from Its adverse story ac), it is sit-
uated within eight to a hundred iffies of the
regular route of the steamers, O rr inviting
the Atlantic, The extraordinary benefits
of its position oan be appreciated at a glance,
Bat as a coaling station either ,fere the
navy or for mercantile ships it is ipiijiue.
The coal fields of Nora Scotia are brought
into oammu ei:ation with it by the Inter -
colonial railway, while there is a non-
tinuous supply of coal from Cape Breton
carried by ooastiag &ohooners. Tao coal of
Nova S retie and CipsBreton is used by the
mail and other steamers, and the supply ie
praotioalIy inexhaustible. Halifax, though
the headquarters of the North American
and West Indian egnadron, and possoseing
a dockyard, hat not had, up to the present
time, any taoilitioe for the repair or for the
rapid coaling of vowaols, Thie is, however, to
be altered. Already work has been ordered
ou what will be, taken alt over, the largest
graving dock in the world, and in two years
it will be complete. This dook will take in
her Maj ,sty's ship Inflexible, the largest
ironclad afloat, The fo iowing d{monelons
may be of interest—length 580 feet; width
102 feet ; width at entrance, See feet ; depth
ot water over the eill, 30 feet. Arij lining
this dock will be a large ;o ,ling wharf with
all the appliances for the rapid coaling of
vessels, with atorehousea for supplies of
coal, with every arrangement for the repair•
ing and fitting out of ships, Both the dock
and the coaling wharf are to be in commun-
ication with the Interoolonial railway, and
through that system with the whole of
Canada. Halif.ix is to be the winter port
of the Caned{ in Pacific railway, and as au tb,
with the facilities which these new works
now in ountemplation will afford, must be
the grand and central depot of the navy in
the Atlantic, and as the alternative route to
China, Auatralia, and India meet he always
kept open and maintained. The defences of
H ilifax are strong, but not so strong as they
should be, and no attention has brei given
to the land defences,
CANNIBALISM IN HAYTI•
Fearful Practices Among the People of the
/thick Republic.
The foil swing is a tr•,nslati+m—m La
Peuple of January 53, a journal published
at Portau-Prince, Hayti :—"General Al-
fred Milerd, commanding the arrondisse-
ment of Grand Goave, accompanied by the
police, proceodededlent week to arrest ten ot
twelve pencil r of both sexes who were
carrying on a trade of killing people in order
to sell their flesh in the market -place at
Grand Goave, The citizen who has report-
ed this fact to us le in every way worthy of
belief. When these people were being con-
ducted to the town, a woman who had taken
tae communion but a few weeks before,
overcome by remorse, died on the Way, and
her body was buried by the aacort,- other,
named Sophia (corrected Francoieee arrived'
at the town tied on a donkey, was recog-
nized by the neighbors and by the wife of
our informant, who spoke to her thus;
` H iw is it, Sister S ,phla (Franeoise,) you
who have been nook to Padre Frehel, you
who have taken the Communion scarcely
fifteen days ago, you feast on human fieeh?
You should have committed auicide rather
than have permitted yuureeif to be brought
here in this state, Arriving at the police
office, situated about twenty paces from the
house of this lady, the said Sophia (Fran-
coiee) was taken from the donkey quite
dead, and immediately the prisoners had to
dig a grave is which she was buried. The
other anthropophagl have deblared that for
some time they have sold human flab for
pork in the market of Grand Goave, They
have made revel:ationa of great importance,
but incredible if it were not certain of tee
facts, seeing them praoticed or executed be-
fore us." The correspondent who forwards
the above to the Daily News says :—" It is
an important corroboration of the atatemente
contained in Sir Spencer St, John's, Hayti,
or the BlacktRopublIc,' as well as ef Cap-
tain Kennedy'e notices of his eoj turn in the
West Indies, The euthoritiea at Port•an-
Prince were very angry at this publication,
and threatened to prosecute the editor, Mr.
J. J. Audis, for having had the courage to
bring before his countryman what is pass-
ing daily in their midat, The women who
are supposed to have died of remorse no
doubt fell victims to the clubs of the po-
lice, who never spare a prisoner, whether
innocent or guilty. I trust none of your
readers will confound Hayti with its progres-
sing neignbar, San Domingo.
He Intenciei to Keep the Day.
The following incidents are believed to
have occurred in a prominent railroad town
in Texas :—
It was late oa Saturday afternoon when a
travel stained stranger dropped into the
ofGca and asked where the superintendent
wits, The clerk responded that the gent Ye -
man sought after had gone hone and could
not be seen on liminess before Monday.
" Yea, but I must see him to -morrow.
I've travelled several hundred miles to see
him, and have get to loose town early Mon-
day morning," •
" Can't help it. IIs can't be seen on
business until Monday morning."
"Do you mean to say tbat he is so infer.
natty religious that he can't come down to
bio office and transact a Iittle business on
5undY'
"Thatay's just about the size of It. It wan
only yesterday I heard him say he would
be hanged if he worked any more en Sun-
day."
The Sobbing Wren.
There Is a bird in southwestern Texas
known an the sobbing wren, Its note begins
in a high silvery key, descending from one
sweet note to another, each more delightful-
ly clear titan the others until it bursts into a
sobbing cry, ending in a gasp like that of a
suffering child, The effect of this strange
song is startling and distressing as it is borne
on;the early morning air, or at twilight, The
bird is email, with a plump brown breast,
Bpookled with elands of black.
.4-s.w..P-4+,oie,-- --'—
iood will like a good name is got by ace
done and lost by one,
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