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The Exeter Times, 1887-12-15, Page 7b. ill at , TWO CHRIST/V[3 GIFTS How "01(1 Humdrum" Made Twin SiSterS "1 wonder what Old Humeleum will give ue for Christmae present," eaid Nellie fleeting, AS the twisted her curie hefore the eitting,rown mirror mid Online her pretty face, ea therein displayed, " Don't, Nellie " said )ie sister Ag,nes, looking up from her sewiug ; are ieteneely vulgar, and it pains nie to hear our,kid friend so spoken of Kind friend, indeed, said the beauty, saucily. " Whet has he ever given us but a few proey sermons ?" "�h, NelIie, whet should we have done et without his care for us? Think how cheap the renisof this little cottage is made for us, and how many ecliolars he hae procured for ou, and how well he pays me for the sew- ing. He is a kind friend.," and tears deed in Agnes Haag/Ives eyes se she spoke, " Well, then, don't cry about It, and Nellie gave her saner a hearty kisa. I won't call him nicknames auy more, if it diapleases yen,and 1 shell soon be inde- pendent of his kindness," with a scornful emphasis upon the last word. "'ahem le one of my tiresome brete at the gefe now," and the sauntered into the little parlor, to meet the music seheler coming up the garden walk to take hi, lesson. You would soarcely here supposed the sisters twine had you been there on the dull December day that °pewmy story. Nellie, , tall, graceful and brilliantly beautiful, was in the full glow of her youtlful beauty. Her rich brown hair iell in profuse curls round a face with regular fsy eature a clear red and white complexion, and lighted by a der caress of long ago, and then came the pair of largo black eyes full of fire and life. agony of parting. She heard the pleading Agnes, pale and thin, with a somesvhat words to which she would give no ray of , sallow akin, hair brushed smoothly back hope. Loving him utterly she had resolved from her face and gathered in a heavy coil never to burden his brilliant career by glo- at the back of her head, locked at least five ing him an ailing, crippled wife ; never to years older than her gay sister. Both wore bear the misery of seeing his love turn to mourning dresses, but while that of Agnes Pity never to bear a reproach for loving was a heavy, unkroken black, her eisterai herself better than him. He had left he, was modified by white mines and trimmed left the city, and sae knew nothing more. profusely with glittering bugles. Another Was she to have another trial now? difference, more pitiful than all, Agnes was Probing her heart with a firm, „shrink. deformed. ing touch, she found there a respectful affec- Five years before this dull December night don for her kind friend; a sense of depend. Helen and Agnes Hastings, then just seven- ence upoo bis advice and leadership that it teen years old, made their debut into would be very bitter to lose. She knew that fashionable society as belle e and heiresses. it would cost her much pain to wound him, Beautiful, accomplished and graceful, be a sore trial to her to see hirn no more, daughters of a reputed millionnaire, they yet she did not love him. Too well she became at mace the centre of the gay circle knew the feeling where heart springs to in which they moved. They were mother- meet heart, too well ehe remembered what less /from infancy, but their father's sister dreams love had awakened in her young had filled their mother's place during their ilia, to mistake this calrm respectful friend. whole existence and still directed all house- ship for the tender passion. hold affairs. Yet, if Helen was right 1 If he loved her, The family history had been a rather odd and was seeking to win her love, what had one. Mr. Hastings was a twin, and this she done? In her gratitude for his kind - sister, born in the same hour with himself, nese, her real frankly expressed pleasure had never left ham Ono other child, a in Ms society, had she not encouraged him younger sort, had shared their parent's love, but for long years he had been a wanderer, k taking Ms share of an immense family estate tsibakavel in foreign countries, sending home '76tecasionally a box of curiosities, dresses, fans or playthings for bia little nieces, but otherwise ignoring the existence of Ms brother and sister. Two years after thoir debut the grave Agnes was betrothed to a young lawyer, poor but talented, with a heart full of devo- tion to Ms beautiful betrothed, and a head that promised in time to win him distbaction in his chosen profession. The engagement was satisfactory to relatives on both sides, and preparations for the wedding were com- fit 'need, when Agnes met with an accident crippled her for rife. "There, don't look astonished. Of eourse you knew what Harold eeme here for." "But, " Hoerr me out. He curie te melee love to me, and propope; well, he has propeseo, Arid I eaid yea, and la dantiary I will be his wifew," "Nellie 1" "Why not ?" and the young girl's head rose with a haughty look of deliauce, "He—he—you know, Nell, they hay he le not very constant." " Fudge 1 A parcel of old inaids who event to win him, and cannot, tattle for re egugg y tau you, Agnes, g em iiiek of tbie "Yes, Nellie, yes. Our own dear anole, Mogeuitoes in Chiea have 4 very Poison - life, "and elle epreu from her seat aid pae, Whe wanted to Win our love before he made QUO sting. In a Tientsin hospitel there ed the floor with quick steps, to and fro, to the hseillil ktnhoewni;ew4thnedu" sNe ehileie'htal,ise shegtutlBeedoint awn"aebsacteerIntihmiea ifaaSete134:121d eaV naetzilli:ra wwiittlhi and fro, like some beautiful Wild beast) upon me, with an income of two thoupend blood poisoning from the bite of the in - caged but untamed. "I'm sick of drudging a year gor life, only asking me to /et him be wets. over Stupid children, who can't or won't my guest thore,o It is reported that the English Church learn ; sick of hearing glorious melody tor- And you consent se establishment reeeivee yearly in tithes eboue tured into hideous sounds; sick of being He was them in the doorway, eating the 820,000,000, 01 tine $15,000,000 goes for chained to hour; siok of pevertYr ebeettritY question. and toil 1 Harold Granville is rich. tie salaries of elergyrean, and * the remainder Nell looked up with a comical look, half goes to hospitals, pchools, chureh buildings, levee me ; he will take me away fmin this terror, half penitence. and the like. reigned in. " Wretched village to a circle such as I once 44 no sorry," she Said, eayanehag to meet Lendeb,e "Ragged Sunday &dna:4,e " Do you love hid, Helen ?" le' . which are declared to be the great means of He kiseed her tenderly. "Never mind," reaching and improving the poor children " Well enough to get along. Ile adores he said, heartily, "perhaps I am a little of that city, are increasing fast in numbere me, and that is much more to the point." prosy.. You will stay: with us till you are and influence, They now have 40,000 Bohol- " 13ut Nellie—his—his--intellect, " married, and 1 promise you as handeonie a ars and 4,000 teachers. "Oh, he's a fool, I know. So much the trousseau as Toronto can furnish; but better—I will rule him, You may tell Old here," and he turned to Agnea, "1 look for In his autobiography the Rev. Philip Humdrum to -night, Agnes, and he can send some comfort after 4 lonely, wandering Hoffman, a German elergyman, who died my bridal present at Christmas." And she life." near Cassel not loug ago, claims that he dis- left the roorn, singing as she went a gay air She gave him 4 tearful but happy smile, covered the art of photography in 1833, or . from "Traviata." • "You love me, Agnes ?" be said, gently. six years before Daguerre s diecovery., but , . Agnes sank into a deep reverie. Her sia- "As fondly as you can desire." was unable to apply or utilize it owing to terns questions had touched upon bitter "Then you will accept ray offer. Come, Ms lack of knowledge of chemistry. memories and a painful present, Back, over the carriage is at the door, your home is A man clad in nothing but a shirt walk - intervening years, leer thoughts travelled to ready for you. I invited Harold to dine at ed up to the ticket office on the platform of recall the lover of her girlhood. She picture the new house today, so you will come at a station in Dublin, and applied for a ticket, ed again the frank handsome face, heard once) to make a home and the beginning of He had delirium tremens, and hal gone into again the tender loving voice, felt the ten- a new life for 'Old Humdrum,' " the waiting room, taken off his clothes, and left them there. He was dressed and arrest- ed, and fined 5s. and costa at the rolice court. There MIS a long pauae, than a cry feom Agnee—" God is very gocel to me 1" " Whet is it, Aggie ?" "Sit here, Nellie, Do you remember how The Gread RAM of India well firet prize often father and 11.1int Lizzie need to enealt the Itgth°14" Weddiag P'Ide reeentlY of our, miele se for the greatest ehow digunonde, His ex. "The one who sometimes sent us pre:setae hihit was W9n1 in his turbato and wee value ed at a quarter of a million FOREIGN' 1T,ElliS. rem Lump!, Asa% or Afriea, as the caee might be In "(aae—look 1" end she pointed to the eig- uature at the foot of the leeter. "Lawrence Haetinga," read Nellie. "You don't meen--" There is a Shakespeare Hotel ze Stratford- upon-avon, and Metead of nomheee the names of playa are upon the room doors. "Take the gentlemen's luggage up te Romeo and Juliet," is a common nrder, e was driving out with her lover, when the horse became frightened, and, making a audclen plunge forward, threw her from her seat into the road. Her injuries at flint appeared to be slight, but as time went on the physicians found the injury to the spine rold and I stand, and if he don't send me VMS twisting the figure to one side, and something hanclaome to -morrow, he's too making a limping gait and a curved back mean to live.' unavoidable. In the agony and horror di, "Oh, Nellie, don't talk so." discovering this Agnes dismissed her lover, f "Was he proposing, Aggie, when I came spite of his prayers and protestations and in? I did not see him till it was too late to then months of bitter repining proved' that • get away, or I should have kept Harold in even ber Christian apirit could sink under ' the parlor a while longer." her heavy burden. It was a still greater af- "Please,Nen_n ffiction that roused instead of crushing her, "Well, won't tease you. Yon are the and restored her faith, patience and hope. dearest of all sisters after all, and may be Her father committed suicide, after peril- sure of the best room in my future home, ling his own and his sister's fortune in one and all the love your madcap sister can give speculation and losing all; and that sister, you." deprived at ouce of home, fortune, and the "Thanks, dear; but I can never consent brother she idolized, in one short month to be dependent upon Mr. Granville." followedlim to the grave. Nellie was frantic "Stuff and nonsense. You may sew your under this complication of trouble, and now dear fingers off, if that will ease your con - Agnes, roused from her own selfish grief, thience. sure it will be as well to sew came out true and faithful in the storm for me and Harold as for old—Mr. Law - around her. rence." Frieeds came forward to offer counsel and "But—" assistance, from the wreck of the once noble "There, don't say a word. To -morrow fortune a small stun was secured, barely PI1 convince you by all the rules of logic sufficient to clothe the orphans in an humble that it would be barbarous cruelty to desert style greatly at variance with their once me, but now I am too sleepy. Good -night. splendid wardrobes. By the advice of their By the way, won't the old maids' tongues father's lavvyer, the girls left the city and run? Harold and I will be served up all went to a small country town, where, by over the village with pepper sauce. Good. their needlework, they earned a support. night 1 Pleasant dreams to you 1" They had been but little time in their new But dreams will not come without sleep home when a stranger, a gentleman past and sleep would not visit the cripple's middle age, came to reside at G—. It pillow. All night she lay thinking of the was not long before he became acquainted bitter tesli the felt sure the morrow would with the:young seamstresses, and in a short entail -upon her. Thinking of the true wise time so won their confidence that he became counsel solong offered her, of the the 'hours a fast friend. His meana appeared large, of pleasant intercourse so soon to end, think - for he bought a cottage for himself and two ing too somewhat sadly of a future of loneli- others, of which he rented one to the sisters, 'nese, or spent in the home of a man she and a large handsome stone mansion in pro- could not respect, and whose money. had cess of erection was soon known to be his won her frivolous sister's hand. future home. Having letters that made him And of what was Mr. Lawrence thinking at once influential in G—, he used that in- in those same long hours, when he too fluence to procure musie scholars for Helen, tossed upon a sleepless couch? He WM; re- wlao bore the drudger t oe sewing but badly, calling hours spent with the pale, gentle , and himself kept Agnes busy on the most cripple, when his own world -hardened heart exguisite of shirts, collars and cuffs at large had grown soft and tender in the light of prices, but of the most elaborate finish. her smile, the music of her voice. He was The music lesson over Helen caihe again thinking of her pure Christian patience, her to her sister's side. reeignation to suffering, her quiet industry, "Stihl at that handkerchief ?" she said, her unwavering cheerfulnees. Then he touching the dainty embroidery growieg thougekt of hie home, whose .large rooms under her sister's busy fingers. What a were furnished and ready for occupants, dandy old—Mr. Layne ece is," end he fancied her presence making the "I think Nell, dear, it is more the desire. house it home, her taste adorning the remiss, th aid me by giving employment than from her smile welcoming the master when he any dandyism of Ms own that he haa auch entered and, lose selfishly, he looked for- , Wonderful shirts and so many handkerchiefs with his initials embroidered in the corner." " Aggie." A long pause—then, again " Aggie is he in love with you ?" Staged and shocked, Agnea Id t the vvork fall from her halide. 1 "Noll, how can you V' ' "Weil, but, Ageee, SOO how odd it HereW6ftreperfe A etrangers, with no earthly claim upon hint and he takes tus much inter- est in our concerne as if he was our fa - then," "0, Nellie—noeno, a thousand gime no to your queation. He, rei good and Debi°, and 1, what am ?" and the touched the ehoulder that rose some inches above he natural place. "But, dear me, Agnes, heel as old as the hills, and as stupid ea poesible. Of mire° Why Don't They Vint Canada? Canadians very often feel sore over the faot that very few if any distinguished Englishmen or Scotchmeo when they mine to this Western continent think it worth while to give even a passing glance at Canada. The list is a long one of dis- tinguished Britons who have spent months in the States and never looked at Canada at all. The question is often asked, why iie this thus 9 And it would seem not difficult to answer the question. There is simply a great deal more worth the seeing in the States, and it great many more noticeable men and women to meet. They have sixty millions—Canada has little over four. Can- ada luta really little to exhibit, the States have a great deal. It in to be feared also that the leading people of the States are more hospitable and better able to make guests feel at home. The people who as a rule "run " visitors among Canadians are also often not remarkable for anything but pompous, fussy dulness. Toronto is by far the nicest place in Ontario, yet a day could " do " all that is worth seeing in Toronto; and what else is there to keep a visitor e to think he might win a dearer place stili? We are somewhat raw and rough yet. Hot tears were coinsing down her pallid By all means let not Canndians whim. checks, when her hands were taken in a • per, and not let them get down on their i knees and worahip before any notability firm clasp and a grave, gentle voice spoke her name, "Agnes, you are in trouble. from the old country. Parker came and She knew the voice, „d the hot bl„d I goodness knows he was not much to mak- rushed for a moment to her face; then she an ado about. Some wonder if Chamber- emd, hesitatingly: lain will come. Well, if he come good and "I—was—thinleing of the past" well, and if he don't, also good and well. Everybody can understand at once what "You must not think too, sadly," said her friend, seating himself beside her; sort of folks will try to get possession of and "perhaps the future may have bright days to run Joe. Dear, delightful, dapper little men who will wash, their hands with invis- too. I—you know tomorrow is Christmas, ible soap and eke in invisible water and will and I have an offering to lay at your feet, my little friend, that you may not altogether try to tell how honored and delighted they despise. I have long—" are and all that. For pity's r ake let Cana - Good afternoon r diens respect themselves and don't let them Nellie's gay voice interrupted them. she worry if Lord Coleridge did not come or if was followed eoon by her lover and the tete- Joseph Chamberlain spend months in the a -tete was not resumed. It was late before States for days in Canada, Let such people all the visitors had departed and Nellie come and go like any other quiet, decent threw herself at her sister's feet. travellers, unvexed by gaping wonderment, "Well, 011 Humdrum must see how Ha- uninterviewed and unmolested. Why should Canadians be so anxious to know what strangers think of them. Are they so aw- fully vealy ?" It would seem se Why One of the most successful missionaries in Oroonaiah is it blind Armenian from Harpool, Turkey. He knows the Bible thorouelly, and riding on a miserable little donkey, which is lead by a one -eyed deaf man, he goes boldly from village to village preaching the goapen His blindness protects him and the people crowd to aee the wonder—a blind man reading, When William Lawrence was Arrested in Chicago the other day for obtaining money under false pretenses he had a long flowing moustache. When he was taken from his cell to court even the policeman hardly re- cognized him. He had sharpened one edge of his watch case, and with it shaved off his moustache, hoping thus to map° identifica- tion. ;comiling 1280041th The herd having been found, Without ite being alarmed., the next thing is to sur- round it et Se (Betimes by a light cordon of men, and to guide ite unconecious steps to- ward the klieddah in which it le to be hie closed and eaptured. The gezieral edee, of a kheddah Ines" he taken from an open pair of ccimpassee, of which the roiled head or hinge represents the laclosure into which the elephants are to be driesee ; while the outepread Arms af the compass repreeent the long lines of obeteolee or scares, by which the elephants are prevented from etraying to one eide Or the other, eo that they advance through the purposely undis- turbed illogic) in the centre, betweeu the gradually converging. &lee of obstacles to- ward the kheddah or inolosure already men- tioned. The elephant is a timid and eau. gone animal. 11 11 meets with any chopped branches of treee or indicatione of the preeeuee of man, or anything to which its ayes are enacourstoined, it will not advanee in that direction. The real difficulty of the hunters lies in making their lateral lines of olaetaeles sufficieutly obvious to the elephants without alarming them too much. At this early stage of the proceedings not a man should ehow himself, lest the wild elephants !should be frightened and make a stampede, The animal should be left to pride himself on hie own cleverness at hav- ing detected signs of danger, in consequence of whioh he advances an what eeems a sefe direction. But as the devoted herd gets further and further into the funnel of the converging lines much strenger measures have to be adopted. Considerable pressure is put on them from behind to urge them on in the right direction ; and simultaneously the vieible obstacles along the sides have to be much strengthened and effectively guard- ed to prevent the herd from breakieg through them. As the elephants actually approach the kheddah itself there is no longer any concealment on the part of the hunters. The firing of guns and the beat- ing of druzns and loud ehouts and nolees with long hues of fires made out of the dried gram and brushwood which have been orrned when you take into consideration% that it would make seventy -'five careees. A GIANT R eneenno 0(110:tteorshoewtirrlii:, from Nov* $41 oe0A° tw?i ta, 1'41171 hi e e hai leTatil e'ltruoIaarntfh(173eQ0:11111:biYhw:is rNCdboivot the Joggine, has been constructed in a rig luoilleity weaaynedn Atbbnetin"BigiiasEs aolt.tellp)erzo, p3corry, oq)the:railinge'lnei! s ah s o 1u eld bebaere ereagebeaybitre: to a raft of the ordinary kind, The retie was corturzeuced October, 1885, but tha first venture vvas not a succese The waye. broke down so it had to be *taken SIMMS and built all over again, but the oweteree knowieg that perseverance would. eertaialye bring Aucoeon, began anent on a bettea peieciple and built this mammoth floating eagar-shaped craft this season. The rata was lsuilt front the original plans of the designer, Mr, H. R. Robertson, who has all his various appliances for conetructinee launchitig, etc„ protected by letters - patent. To give an idea of the magnitude of this work, imagine it large cigar -shape nlagS of timber containing 25,000 pieces,. varying in length from thirty to seven$y? feet, and making when completed a length of 560 feet, a depth of 35 feet and a width of 50 feet, tapering gracefully a each end, to about one-third of ite circumference,. with a due regard to floor or deadrise that is aurprising when built from round tim- ber. This news is held together first by a. heavy chola passing through the centre - from end to end, to which is attache& smaller chains at distances of ten feet, which project through to the sides of the raft and connect with larger chains that pass completely around the outside of the structure and are drawn up by a dragon screw eo tight that there is no possibilety- of shifting. The greeter the amount ofi strain there is in towing the tighter they - will be drawn together. No pains lia,ve, been spared to znake it compact and sea, worthy. Some estimate of its size can be - collected for this purpose compel the af- frightenecl animals to push onward until they finally enter the kheddah itself, where at &rat all seeme comparatively silent and safe. The Future of the World. Mats been the custom of late to disbelieve in the ancient estimates of the population of China ; but the North China Herald, a well - inform ed journal, publishes statistics which or a coasting schooner of 140 tone, .Arn ordinary boat could not possibly get some, of the timber of which it is compose& either into its hold or on her deck. Ther work bas been an iinmense undertaking, furnishing emplotment in building raft and ways for from thirty to forty naen. for sera eral months. The launchways are a marvel of solidity and mechanical skill, and are being constructed under the supervesion. of Mr. Martin Hawkins, of New Yorke who has been employed for years he the . strongly support them. It appears that A tramp recently called at a house oecu- the, authorities at Pekin have recently has been expended for labour about $80., ship -building industry of that city. Them by an old couple named Terry, at Fillong- taken a census for taxing purposes, and par men* awl for aptneg, Aziltmegoe ley, England, and asked for water, but that the village bailiffs, whose interest it iS finding Mrs. Terry alone said he would' have to understate the figures, return the lielni- launchways which can be utilize& irebnild-- Part of thia has been ler do et -noting food and money too. He was joined by lation at 319,383,500. Five provinces are ing other rafts should this one prove mo- t another tramp, and the two tied her arms omitted, and their population as recorded cessful. The object of this undertaking in - an legs together and rifled her pockets in the last census, brings the total up M to put into the New York market lumber of• decamped, leaving her tied. of 78. and took £2 from a drawer, and then 392,000,000. Even this figure is indepen- a larger size than heretofore, and to effect dent of the population of Thibet, Kashgar, Ili, and Corea, and the total number of it 1 n -, a,ving in freight and labor- rt takes nos Among the many proofs of the "strained souls ruled by the Emperor of China, there. more time to construct this raft ready fox- a. relations " of Germany and Ruseia is the fore, exceeds 400,000,000, and still disple,ys long sea journey than it would to sett& fact that restaurants on the frontier, pat- fore, tendency to increase. As the population retailer rafts off to schooners and there bet ronized largely by Russian soldiers, often of India exceeds 250,000,000, the Indians ceded. There is very little more expenses display placards saying: "Here no Prue - and Chinese together constitute more than in towing a large raft than a smaller one. shins are served with meat or drink ;" and By making the raft a proper sbape it is aloe - Bible to make it even larger gib VALI, present' one. Every stick that is adcirthis way reduces the freight by so much. The raft will not cost more than $4000 for towage, and when you figure vessel freights at from 2 1-2 to 3 cents per running foot it is evident there muebstewaw-ge- saving effected. Another pont is the, saving of a large amount of wood that mills now burn in ltelxis, aa they have MO OtilerWay of dieposing of it. If it can be carried in this way to the market on the stick of timber, at no, more cost than hoards or planks cut from the same, these edgings and slabs can be manufacture i into fuel in the. vicinity of large cities, benefiting every- body, whereas now it is melees. It is non generally known that after the tree has been cut down not more than 50 per cent of it is ever used. This raft bears no resemblance The True Condition in Utah. to any so-called timber ships of the t such as one built,in.1792 by a Dr. Tupper pas , The truth about Utah can be told in a at Swan Island, Me., nor like the timber , very small space. Its condition can be sum - ship Baron of Renfrew, bnilt in 1525 in Abstemiousness. An immense nugget of pure gold, wetgn- med up in a few words. In United States fenebee. These crafts were made of timber There is no abstemiousness in the world, ing fifty-one pounds, has been found at the Marshel Dyer's office at Salt Lake City there P guar ed for the purpose of showing in ships, and no thrift, like the thrift and abstemi- Midas mine, near Ballarat, Australia. It are over seven hundred indictments waiting and for convenience in Measurement, ousness of the average native of India. was 12a inches long in its longest part, 8e, to be eerved—all against Mormons who have ment, being known by the name of tort Almost alone among the working men of inches wide, and 2e inches thick, and, at violated the laws of the country and who are timber, and were fastened together with the world, he has raised himself nearly 8255 a pound, was worth $13,000. Other resisting those laws to their utmost efforts. trenaila and had masts, keel and above wants, has stripped himself of all the found in that vicinity. The largest weigh - nuggets far larger than this have been lawful cohabitation. They have not been The indictments are for polygamy and un - rudder to propel them through the water, impedimenta of luxury. Millions of men in and were much smaller and never arrived. India, especially on the richer soils and in ed 190 pounds, another weighed 184, an- served because the indicted parties are fugi- at their deatinations. This modern raft in the river deltae, live, marry, and rear ap- - other 134 and two or three weighed over tives from justice, and they are not the com. not at all sinailer, nor will its timber be hurt parently healthy children upon an. income e0 pounds. mon scruff of IVIormondom either; not the in any way by holes bored tbrough for tre- which, even when the wife works, is rarely Allison Marble and Lottie Roebuck of uneducated Danes and Swedes who are nails. Still, it is expected to pass as statch- above 2s. it vveek and frequentlysinks to brought into Utah in droves', bat the cream ly through a gale, if kept afloat, as oiae sin - 18d. The Indian is enabled to do this not ried, the day for the wedding was set, and Cobb county, Ga., were engaged to be mar - of Mormon intelligence and the highest dig- 1Y leg, and, if the weather IS favorable, so mach by the cheapness of food—for, nitaries of.the church. Seven hundred of will be towedley tee Powerful tugboats, Of though it is cheap, a European who ate the lots of friends were invited, but on the morning of the wedding she didn't conie them under indictment and in hiding; and ehe prospects and peesibilitiee of this new merely to feed himself—as by a habit of eame food would want five times the money down to breakfast, and when her motlaer thousand more polygainiets who were " on the Marshal told me there were about one venture little can be said until its safe ar- living which makes him independent of the went to call her Lottie's room was empty. the underground, " as concealment is called, rival in New York. But should it prove as The girl had run away, and at last accounts successful as the owners anticipateeit will ordinary cares of mankind. He goes nearly none of her friends knew where she was, and who were dodging, the law officers as open up a new system of transportation in half the entire human mace; a fact worth many of the shops in the large Russian the attention of these philosophers who cities announce that no German goods are sold there. study London and Paris, and then announce that W man believes" this and that. There Next summer there is to be held in Lon- are many races of men, but some of the don a Roman Catholic Congress at which foremost among thein—e. g., the French all English.speaking communities will be and the Arabs--searcely increase at all, represented. The three chief topics to be v, hile a few—e. g., the Ottomans --slightly discussed are : The attitude of the Catholic decline. If the process now going on con - Church toward education in general ; greater tinues for another century the world will co-operation of the laity in the work of the belong in the main to four races or rather Church, and the diffusion of Catholic liters- peoples—the Teutons, moat of vshora will tura among the masses. Walden- speak English, the Slays, the Chinese, and There is every reason why the the nativea of India. It is quite possible, sian and the Free Churches of Italy should however, that they may quarrel, and that unite, and yet they are kept apart by a their march toward. the mastery of the mere matter of name. The Waldensian Planet, which else will belong to them lihe naturally want to keep their historic name, a cheese to mites, may be seriously checked. —The Spectator. and the Free Church inmate upon some gen- send interviewers on the track of such un- of designation like the Evangelical Church f Italy. Sentiment favors the Waldensians, fortunatea ? The whole thing is abomin- able. common sense the Free Churches. It will be interesting to see which will win. without clothes, gives his children none, and dresses his wife in a long piece of the most wretched muslin. Neither he nor his wire pays tailor or milliner one shilling dur- ing their entire lives, nor do they ever pur• A spurious brand of red -currant jelly, manufactured in France, is now finding its way into America, and doubtless into 13rit- vigorously as if they too were included in the the lumber business that will effect a so v leg hunt. Fully fifteen hundred of the polygamic mildly, of thousands of dollars and make possible the are resisting the laws of the land, and dare citizens of Utah, to state the fact shipping of a quality of timber that now haze am also. It is prepared from it Japaneee not`shew themselves in public for fear of ar- suitable for the Ne es York market. Some - to be manufactured into sizes and styles un - is contrary to a semareligiou$ etiquette ever toxic acid, and an artificial " cesexace of cur- men in Utah who are living in polygamy, chase needles or thread, which, indeed, it seaweed, with the addition of glucose, tar- re,et. At the lowest estimate there are 3,000 idnigmleau,luitychbwtasyhoeoenn experiencedthe open sihuole, ce u as te r „ ti ju) ei as 1 containing a single covered room of the Alihea roseata. This compound is sold at tising the principal on the quiet and will not to use. The poorer peasant inhabits a hut rants," and coloured with cochincel and but nearly one-half of this number are prac- storm with the sea sweeping the shore fox - late season, when every few days there is it smallest size, with an earthern platform or about tvvopence-halfpenny a pound. acknowledge that they have more than one miles, and the owners may take into consid- pairs his own dwelling he virtually pays no rent, except for the eulturable land. twe oetside it ; and as he constructs and re- . . wife or that they are hiving with more than One time in Yonkers, a crowd hut col- lected ' d a body that apparenely had around peroatteionthtehelolautueonheisosg ofthespring; ; and ptohs_e one. never touches alcohol or any subetitute for He 1 been in the canal for several days. Each e ,d • forward,attemptingt raft is neerly completed, and in a few day& it. There is an idea in England that he on was erov. ing o when tides are full and latinchways are fin - recognize the deceased, but one after onother cets opium or hemp • but he as a rule I ished the attempt will be made. , , , turner away, motinf idly shaking their heads. swallows neither—firetly, because he re ards The Longest Railroad. English gentleman, and eecondly, because them with as much moral antiPathY " anY one beh ld • t" d ith an ominous 'sixty or seventy miles lona from Vladivo- Coroner Mooney was In the crowd, and as engineers sent to survey a line of railroad 0 SI men !One , a/ately arrived at Hong Kong, carried eleven The Russian transport Russia which . Afghan Traits- ' the he could net 1)y any possibility pay for articles which in India, as ceeryvehere else,. the Coroner very cooly replied : "No 1 he in the great trans -Siberian road, which is to ehake of the head, " I don't know him,' stock inland. This is to be the first fink . Badal, or revenge, is . soul of Afghan aro exceedingly expensive. He eats abso- don't seem to recognize you 1" reit of the Pacific. The scheme is the most Public and Private, put St. Petersburg within fifteen days by life. All the history of Afghanistan, both 1 one continued.tale of' lately no meat, nor any animal fat, • o g a . • ly, and DI It was found the skeleton of the gigantic nor any The g' .rav.e of a Viking was opened recent. in history, but not the most dif- vendetta. However, it chances that I lis,vo not expensive grain li co ood whe t , but lives cult. The Siberian road vela be ti ee as iu my collection any song of vendetta ills. an inflict or email rice, a little milk with the butter from the milk and the vegeta,- old warrior, who had evidently been hur- ried in a sitting osture, with his face to long as our Pacific lines, but instead of trating thie side of Afghan life in a manner tlae weet 11e had een clad in a a-oolencoat, bringing a solitude to connect two civiliza_ sufficiently characteristic to deserve .quotaa tion. Suffice it to say, that vendetta is with clasped with a golden clasp, and belted dons, it will traverse it more or less settled the Afghans whet it le with the Corsi cane, with a leather belt, with two gold buckles, comitry all the way: For the most part it the Albaniaus, all primitive mounteitteere ; Over his lap lay a leather shield covered will be laid in a plain, and the engineering it is hereditary and not to be preecribed. with bronze and rimmed with iron, and by difficulties will be prineipaily confined to Even on British territory the law is newer - his side in it wooden scabbard was a two- protecting the line from snow and &oat, less against the bailed ; if, is one of the crime edged iron ssvord, thirty inehes long, and The road can be built slowly, and the local for which no witness will be found to epeole economy by a religious rule which we have near It Were an xr°11 dagger and sPear' At traffic will support the completed sections. before the Judge ha kaehehri. here la never seen it Hind() break, and which 1 und doubthclly, like the rule against killieg bronzel such as the Saxons used to carry ma feet wee a eneent of wood and The part now to be eurveyed from Vladivo hardly tin Afghan in talc monotain who ha stock. inland, will do a good busitiese in tt oxen, it survival from a military law or ces- tl h`p . ' head he aims. It happens not seldom that tom of the meet remote antiquity. The ' neW feeble gun which is to be used tramporting the products of the coast region not a foe who aims at his head and at yeheeo to the ocean. The road is text to be ex an Afghan sepoy from Yaghistati—many ...w........,-.”......R01—wilDlitrml....a-*-...-• by the Freneh army" is deacribed as a very tended to Lake Baikal, where it will aecure Afghats from over the border ertilz6 in the effective weapon. 11 is a repeating rifle, ttrhiebutiomrpyooroleonnttryt.rade of Irkutsk and ita Tee wessene Geeseee. native contitgentesks for leave to, private The whale is upward of sixtyieet inlength, throwing it small steel pointed ball, which and would probably weigh when captured is propelled by a newly invented smokeless ment has already contracted wiil the vol. husineee - that means that there is up there ilotte we'll's head whieh he has to take.. between seventy add eighty tone. It is (me powder of great power. The balls revolve unteee fleet to carry the rails and rollittg Tilers is 0, story of ma Afiban sopoy, who., , of tho largesb of that spociee ever cantarea) at the rate of 1,000 revolutions, a minute, eteek' and the ach"lb Beer" to he fairly ee,eing.net joined his 2watan in due time, and would yield about thirty barrels of oil, complained bitteely el the iniquity of hitt Ceariey 13ates of Tremont, Massa claims e half. In recent Mete bullets at g00 yarde end are effective at it distance of e, mile and tinder ivaY' It fa flew time to revive the r suggestion of an American genitie to run officer, who had dienniesed him from Nor - Cod. His record was made this fall, when, it is said, that at a mile they will 'pass to be the champien cranberry picker oe Cape ponetreted it beide well eight inches - and Behring straits. a line up our aide of the oemee and bridge vice : g 1 bed a duty of butta to verforre ; r had a foe to kill. The ecamp Ascended for in nino and three-quartere hours, he pielced thrtnigh a man as easily as at ten pacee. ---easee—resseow-seees. Weeks; what could I do ?" 450 gnats; or five barrels. He has piekedone The eartridges am so small that ateildier ean "I ninSt; Show you my baby, Mr. Brown ; band ln ninety mieutes, met thee° barna% , carry, 200 rounds, One hundred and six, are You fond of them?" Brown (abeertt- in five hours, end eix gnats in three min- ',teen. rounds has heretofore been the maxi.. Minded ' " Yes—oh, yea l Mit I haven't ntos. bles he geows. Even of ihese he eats more sparingly than the pOarOSt TOS0/11. Once a quarter, perhaps, he will eat enough during some festival, but as a rule he knows accu- ward to the life of ease and rest he meant' rately whet will sustain him, and would be to offer her, restoring the bloom to her enraged with the wife who cooks for him cheeks and the light to her eyes. if she prepared more. He ie assisted hi this Christmas day dawned bright and clear. The eietere wore seated in theitlittle tatting- roore after breakfast, whsn Mr. Lawrence's servant handed in a small parcel. Upon being opened it WitS found to contain a set of cliamonds of exquisite purity,beauti- fully :Jet, a titty note for Helen and a letter for Aguee, 't0h, Aggie 1 are they not superb, And for ; see, my name is on the card inside. Dot "—end, at; the read her little, note her cheeks grew ceinteon, " not this epiteful ?" and elle reed aloud : " Miss Helen accept the aceempene-- ing jewele, if they ate handsome enough to save OW eferridrum from the charge of mean - ho cannot expect youth and beauty, too, ha nes V' a evife, tidbit be willprepose to yon, arid " &SA your letter, Agnes. Of OOU1'809 as SO does Harold." he Sends yen nothing, he offers yoo himself Harold V' for a ChriWeal nin in. eeteu any lately." Welhottlered Itixttry itt sometifileS loss pensive than false ec000niy.