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.wagtiodiy, man. should sleep until lee ie
1'041140e The mietake triany persons melee
ittin a,ttmotptingtoeovere. whet xeust be a
=atter of Instinct by velitional control, When
wo are weery, wet eught oelee; tend weiett
WC wake, we should get up. There are tut
babite more vicious than acloptiug measurer:
to keep awoke, or employing artifices, or,
atilt worse, re:meting tuedrugs and other de -
'
Wes: iet indnee oproloug sleep. Diming in
the very deanoralizetion of the sleep funution
and Isom that pernicious habit arises melt
of the so-called sleeplessnees-more accur-
ately, woltefulness-from whielt multitedes
:suffer.
Thet day is not the thee o 1eep s evit
dent upon the face of the faeb that neture
has provided the ;tight, wherein no man an
or ought to work. Instead of trying to lay
arbitrary rules mg to the lengtb, of sleep, it
would be wiser to sly : Work while it ia
ay; sleep when you are weary, which will
lie at night if the cla,y has been spent in hott-
est and energetic labor, When you awake,
rise; and if the day's work has been suffi-
ciently well don; the time of waking will
not he earlier than aunrise. The difficulties
about aleop and sleeplessness -apart from
tireeons-are almost uniformly fruits of a
perverse refusal to comply with the laws of
mature. Take, for example, the case of a
„sten who cannot sleep at night, or rather,
who, having fallen asleep, wakes. If he
is what is called strong-minded, be
think; or rather read e and falls asleep
again. The repetition of this lays the
foundation of a habit of awakening in
the night, and thinking or readiag to induce
sleep. Before long the thinking or reading
fails to induce sleep, and habitual sleepless.
mess occurs, for which remedies are sought,
and mischief is done. ,If the wakeful man
would only rouse himself on waking, and get
mp and do a full day's work of any sort,
and not doze during the day, when next the
might came round, bis sixteen or twenty
hours of wakefulness would be rewarded by
a sleep of nine or ten hours in length ; and
one or two of these manful struggles against
a perverted tendency to abneritnal habit
would rectify the error or avert the calamity.
The cure of sleeplessness must be natural,
because sleep is a state of natural rhythmical
functions. l'eou cannot tamper with the
striking movement of a clock without injur-
ing it, and you cannot tamper with the OD
derly recurrence of sleep without impairing,
the very constitution of things on which the
orderly perfermence o that fuaction
Pq4s,
tard Study not trn.healthful.
The exermse of the brain, under tho pro-
per conditions, is no more unhealthful than
the exercise ef the area, or of any part of
the body. It was made for use. Its fun°.
tions are as eszential to lefe and health as
those of the stomach and lungs, and its full
and powerful development is essential to the
highest health and perfection of the bodily
powers. Like all other parts of the body,
the brain is seines:it to waste, and demaude
nourishment, more, in proportion to its
EiZe than any other organ of the body. The
fresh air, general exorcize, and proper all
ternations of repose required for the health
of all the other parts of the physical syste
are also requisite for a health -
and the withholding of th-
student as quick as P'"
quicker. The '
students 4-
,clos-
bo
and to
ace. Intellect.
promote health, and
,-,,'nen the other functions of
ere% not eacrifieed for them. We
__wennobadly constructed that in order to
--- be fat, we must consent Lobo fools; nor is a
dyspeptio etoma,ch the necessary companion
to a woe head.
Only the best and the wor&. students usu.
ally show injury, -the best bemuse of over-
work and insufficientrest, bad air, and mac
tion; the worst because of idleness and dis
eipotion. Students between the two claeses
lethally escape injury, except as they ap-
proach either one or the other of the classes
named. .
The marking system in our colleges, while
it has certain advantages which professors
are quiteready to perceree and use, is fraught
with so many dangers and positive evils
that it can scarcely be defended. The sys-
tem of college honors, which-tie:tally stands
connected -with and crowns the system of
marking, is another of those bad and danger.
ons images to which we expose college life.
It is questionable whether the pub.
lic exercises with which the school
year of our public high schools is
usually closed, have not the ammo bad
effects. And worstof all, the stimulation ex-
cited by these systems of Nvbich I have spok-
en is as unfriendly to sound scholarship and
real intellectual power as it is to good
health.
A New Edition of "Don't."
Don't keep the min out of the rooms in
which you live and sleep. Sunlight is abate
lutely necessary to aright condition of the
atmosphere that we breathe and for our
bodily well.being.
Don't sleep in the same Linnets that you
wear during the day.
Don't wear thin socks or light -soled shoes
in cold or wet weather.
Don't catch cold. Catching cold is much
more preventable than isgenet ally Eluppyscd.
A person in good physical condition ie not
liable to colds, and will not fall victim to
them unless he is greedy careless. Keep
the feet warm and dry, the head cool, the
bowels and chest well protected; avoid ex.
pesure with an empty stomach; take'care
not to cool off too rapidly when heated;
keep out of draughts; wear flonnele; and
with the exercise of a little common Betted
in various emergencies colds will be rare.
If colds were a petal Offense, we would scou
find a way to prevent them,
Don't forget personal cleanlinese, but use
the bath with moderation and in accordance
with your general. health. The daily cold
bath is right enough with the rugged; but
it ia a great tax on tho vitality of persons
not in the best of health, and should be
abandoned if the results are not found to be
favorable, and tepid water used instead.
.f.n these things each than should judge Thr
himself; that which is excellent for ono is
often hurtful for another.
Don't have too much confidence in the
curative nature of drugs. Remember that
Dr. Good•Habite, Dr. Diet, andDr. Ettereige
• are the best doctors it the World,-"Vtrhere
the sun does not enter, the doctor does."
The mystery which surrounds dtuga and
physic is greatly enhanced by the &Rothe-
eanea Latin. As we read the pregoription
hastily written by the family playsioian, the
mental query rises whether the wrong
tratslalion of one of those little marks
would make the difference of life and death
and as we band the otnitous slip to the
dreggirsee youngclerk, some of the fatal
m
mistakes adi
e n compounding mich pre,
eoriptions are uppermost in Mind.
TORTURING. iirrnE ONES.
Lady leurdett•Contte Neenieets on the fitiWert
Ines AntIlleted on London Children..
The Between Berelett.Coutia has written
anintrodtiction to a report of that:lewd years
work of the Landon Sootety for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Childree. The variety of
cruelty whioh the eenunittee has punished
and tried te punish is as foilowe imtnerS,
ing a dying boy in a tub of cold water for
nearly an, hour "to get thie dying done ;."
breaking a girl's awnt while beetiog her
with a broonweriok, thole setting her to scrub
the floor with the broken arm folded to her
breeet, and whipplug her for being so leng
about it; bulging uoked boy by tied heuds
from a hook at the ceiling, there flogging
him ; savagely beating with loin -bele, fell-
ing with fiats, and then kicking in the
groin, on the abdomen and face with work -
lug boots • lashine a 3 year-old face and
neck with drayman's Nvbip ; a 3-yearmId
haelt beaten with whalebone riding whip ;
throttlieg a boy, producing partial strangu-
lation to stop the ecreares of his pain; beat-
ing on scarcely healed. old • sores, and then
thrustiug the knob of a poker lute the lader
throat and holding it them "to stop the
row."
The committee find that this cruelty is
wholly independent of surrouuclings and I
wages. "it ie the work of hatere of chil-
dren; of cultivators of sullen, pitiless, in-
tolerant dispositions towards them; of men
whom there is no pleasing. At the slightest
provccetion such dispositions will attack,
with all the physical power in the limbs of
a grown man, the body of little more than
O baby, in a manner which, if shown by an '
officer of justice to a convict would excite
the indignation of the whole country. So
completely do some of them exhaust their
strength before they have had enough, that
it is not an uncommon thing for them te
take an interval for refreshment, adjourning
to the sideboard in the dining room or to
the nearest public house. The father of one
boy we have sent out to Canada took re-
freshments twice before he had done. An-
other -whom .we were uuterly unable to pun.
ish-sent his child up to strip, and before
following her to inflict hie tortures lay down
on the sofa. He was too tired then to pro-
ceed to his work. The child meanwhile
flung herself out of the %indent, and was
taken up dead.
.ftwea.41--ra-aviaa• •
A Chat About Gossip.
BY SELMA ELABE.
"And there's a lust in man no charm ran tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born to die."
-Juverusi
_Some time since Biehop Huntington read
O paper on "Talkiug as a Fine Art," to
some echool girls in Syracuse, N. Y., in
which he strongly rebuked the practice of
scandal -mongering. / give below a para-
graph from the addrees, which is not one
•whit too severe on this evil of idle gossip:
"1 say to you, weighing my (nen word -
that you would be less depraved- '
ege, would lese thegrace
be lege a curse +-
God is rightly w-
and His
to ^ wive 4
opain, than
and gloves, and
,A) house in your neighbor -
....mg absent acquaintances, drib-
calumuy, sowing suspicion planting
and watering wretchedness. stabbing charac-
ter, and alienating friends by repeating to
one the detraction that you "heard" another
had .spoken. I believe that before the
jideement scat of Christ the prize -fighting
man will etar_d no worse than the slander-
ously gocsiping woman."
Bishop Huntington might have added to
that last- eentence "or man," for I have
known more than one male gossip. It is
one of the vices which idleness engenders,
and into which the man. or woman with no
occupation -with no large aims or purposes
in his life -will be apt to fall.
It is not always what is said, as much as
how is is tedd. A lady whom I know slight-
ly once said, in speaking of a muitml ac-
quaintance :-"Oh, B. is sick to -day," with
such a peculiar intonation that I at once
concluded that "B" had one of thoae head-
aches with which men sometimes pay for
the excesses of the night before, although I
had nsver before heard of any such failing
on his part. Afterward, another lady who
was present at the thne commenced severe •
ly on Miss L's. remark, saying :-" That
girl can say a man is sick in a way to make
you believe he is lying in the gutter." This
is not an enviable quality.
Thcre is plenty of interesting &pies for
conversation without picking out friends
and their foibles to pieces. Indeed, the
faults of your friends should be sacred, and
with those of mere acquaintances you have
no business to meddle. It is popularly sup-
posed that a boarding house is the centre of
gossip, but I have lived in one for two years
(or rather in Veveral), and I have yet to beer
from any inmate the first word derogatory
to the charaoter of another. I think that
the people who hear so much gossip are
often these who are on the lookout for it.
Instead of repeating the unpleaes.nt, things
you hear, suppose you cultivate the spirit
which will impel you to tell only the pleas-
ant ones. A lady of my acquaintance, I
think, owes her universal popularity to this
trait. She never loses an opportunity to
repeat any graceful or kindly remark which
one mutual acquaintance may make of an-
other. Perhaps this is not esefecially desir-
able, and yot there is a love of approbation
in most natures that makes them take very
readily to a little honest praise.
Fill your lives so full ot imme earnest,
noble purpose that the satire of Juvenal can.
not be applied to you.
Being Passed By.
110 (to Miss Breezy) -What a wonderful
amount of aelf -possession your friend, Miss
Jarvis has, Miss Breezy.
Miss Breezy --Yee poor Clara I and I am
afraid she always will have eelf.poseeselon.
This is her sixth season you know.
How Modesty is Produced.
At A ball the following conversation be-
tween mother and daughter was overheard:
Mother-" Juat look at Miss Smithers,
Caroline." '
Daughter-" I see her."
"Just see how modest he muter/es to
look. " Whyglon't you look that way ?"
"tow simple you are, mother I Her
modest look is owing to her long vela:shoe.
That's the eeoret of it You cat't leek de-
mure when you have got short eyeleshea. I
have tried it too often not to know." .
Possihlv,
" He-Mndscome woman, that Major
Bold's wile; but Why will he wear suck
loud gowns ?"
She-" Out of consideration to the major,
fatmy ; he is so ithookitgly deaf, clou't you
know,"
MISOELLAN.E01)8
The later ammente received of the Chiecee
flow% nteke the story one of the moist eppal-
ling in history. What was a beautiful pop-
ulous aietnet ot ten thoueand square tatlee
ze owl: a rolling sea, At least three millione
of people are houselen eod all but /oodles;
while seventy-five millions at leaet have
been drowned, Three thotieend villages
have been swept away, and the desolation is
So overwhelnitag than no one cam truly give
anything like it correet idea either of its LX.
tent or its intensity.
How vapidly the biggest and most impor-
tant personages are forgotten! The Bailie.
tor NOPRIeeu IN. and his son the Prince
Imperial aro uot gate thoroughly forgotten.
The father in hie day did too much mischief
and committed to many crimes to be very
speedily either forgotten or forgiven, while
the son showed himself a plucky fellow, and
died in a way which secured hint a little
pity and some tears. But for all prootical
purposes they are as far away froin any liv-
ing iaterest as if they had been dead a thou.
Band years. Tbe poor Eugeniesehas for Rome
reason or other been inoviug their mato to
some other cemetery, and the world bas
therefore again thought of thein for a mo-
ment. Let them pass and let their memory
rot. Tee world gained not a little when
they went over to the majority.
A good deal of discuseion has been going
on lately over the question whether or net
farming in Ontario ie a paying businees.
Many insist that it is not, j wit as they heve
been doiug in all the years ot the past.
Others mueli more reaeonobly and truly in
eist that it is, even in these cheap thnes,
the most profitable end the most indepen-
dent occupation going. If it is riot pros-
perous, bow is it poeeible that way other
employment eau be? The king is fed by
the labours of the field. There is not a
worse or more discouraging sign in any
country than that farming should be looked
upon with something like aversion and that
formats' sons should ba so anxious to got
into some other way of making a liveli-
leood. A healthy, prosperous, farming com
munity will soon lead VO a variety of othet
opoupetions.
There is evidentally a boom in pugilism
all round. Sullivan is etarring it in Britain
and his movements are chronicled as if he
were a prirwe of the blood. No newspaper
can be without its sporting column and
editor and no sporting column can be looked
on as complete without the fraternity of the
prize ring getting " a fair show." Every-
where the race of bullet headed, low brow.
ed, pug nosed ruffians, is wondered after
as the great heroes of modern life. 'Legiti-
mate prize fighting has become ene of the
lawful callings of an ever growing number,
and to hold and wear the belt' as champion
of the world is thought among many to leave
nothing to be desired on this side of the
grave. Such is the boasted civilization of
the last years of the nineteenth century, aud
Tack Sullivan certifies from personal experie
'ase that the Prince is a real nice fellow.
'tt would stein as if the Crown Prince
e after all going to get better. Appar-
ay all the medical men about him are
taking a more and more hopeful view of the
case'and are even going the length of say-
ing that there ie after all no cancerous
growth. Nature has been left very much
to do its own work and is doing it well.
The heroic surgical operations that were at
one time thought of and recommended
would in all likelihood by this time have
been over and the Prince in his grave.
Surgical operations have no doubt often
cured, hut it need not be looked upon as
either cruel or uncharitable to say that they
have as often killed, The operation has
often perhaps always, been "beautiful,'
as the Freoch exporth ased it,
but the
patient has died all the same. Dr. Mac-
kenzie was in danger of beiug mobbed or
murdered because he opposed the " heroic "
work recommended by his German associ-
ates, but the feeling is chauging and the
conclusioia is general that his theory may
have been right after all.
How long is the debete to go on without
any practical result over the vexed question
why it comes.to pass that women are paid
less than mon for doing exactly the same
work and doing it equally well? There
must be some reason for the apparent in-
justice and anomaly. Employers say that
while women are steadier and more to be
depended in one sense, they are not in an-
other. Some who made no difference as far
as sex is concerned, have put the hardship
they suffewin this way. They take trouble in
training womenaswell as men. They pay thein
the same wages and exact the same amount of ,
faculty for their work and perfectness in it
But just when they have the women thor-
oughly trained and look forward to being ,
repaid for all the trouble and expense incur-
red, presto, the woman goes and gets mar-
ried and leaves work altogether. On the '
other hand, the men gets married, but in-
stead of that taking him away from work 1
it only lays an additiorml obligation upon
hi, to go at it with all his heart. There is
something in this, though how it should be
that this should prevent a woman doing the
same work, say in tsaching, Os a, man, should
be paid two or three hundred dollen less
per annum. Is she worth the higher sum?
then lot her have it. It is her right now
though he should never teach a day after
1888 bee run its course.
•
The war rumors are iegain quieted down,
at least for the moment. All the mighty
men whose words mean peace or war to
millions are protesting in favor of peace and
good will. Indeed, they are buy praying
for it and are using very strong expressions
to the Almighty in that direction. All ne
far well, but it would he better still if their
actious more fully accorded • with their
words and theywere trying to relieve the
burdens of their people by reducing the
burdens and the expenses of their armies all
round. It is a terrible commentary upon
the boasted civilization of tbe age aa well as
upon its Christianity that thiegis should be
as they are and that the lives and fortunes
of millions should be dependent upon the
foolish whims or personal vanities and
coveteousnems of a handful of these fellows
who some way or other hove come to
be looked on as little gods,. whose smile is
heaven and whose frown 18 purgatory at
least Oh the misery of that everlasting
distrust and injustice which draws multi-
tudes away from honest industry to swagger
about with butehera' knives at their sides
andrffles on their shoulders reedy to com-
mit murder on a wholeselo scale as aeon as
they receive the word of command. And
all this is ealled noble, timely, rolmet, pearl-
otio and much else in the delusive slang of
tho day whioh passes muster as patriotic
and publio spirited when it is all the while
the offepting of basetiete and the =thee of
all mariner of abomination:I.
What the Treaty Commissioners may do
at Washington atter the recess will be a
matter of inere speculation till a decirdon
in actually remixed. The genotal feel.
leg :teems to be that all which, can at
prezent be expected Will be en agreement
to leave the qttestion ofthe headlande and
rot.
the rights of the Causdieu fishermen to
arbitration. Well, if even this. is seeered 18
Will be a great: pointgained. •RYery 000e of
arbitration is s :steer adeenee In the rieht
way cf reason, judiee arid Chriettanity. If
Canadians are Se sure that their side of the
giteation le beyond all dispute the right and
reasonable one, they ought only te he the
readier to SUbtrlit 18 to a competent court
end to be rejoiced .to acquiesce in the de-
cision, oven though it sheet(' not turn out;
ell that they oould desire- • Isn't thot the
very idea of arbitration? Both parties to A
dispute aro generally persuaded that they
have the right end of the steff. If they were
not why dispote et ? Why ge towar ?
Why sty or do anything in "defence of
what is confessed WO be indefeneible. If
then, eamti is convineed that the right lies
with him, of oeuvre amy decision whatever, by
arbitration or war must be more or lees die -
appointing, but serely the settlement by the
former must always be more honourable and
more profitable than what necessarily flows
from a generel einreasoning and bloody
serimmage. By all means send the whole
Fishery dispute to a competent court of ar
bitration and let all parties bind themselves
by all that is honourable and sacred to abide
by the decision unless it can be ahown that
the arbitrators have been tampered with and
have notoriously not decided according to
evidence.
When IS the great controversy over tight -
lacing to be finished? The talk goes vig.
musty on, but it is said that there aie more
tightly.liteed women at the present day
then ever there were before. This is scarce-
ly to be teken as truth. Even the mascu-
line eye can take in the fact that there is
quite a number of ladies who have reason-
ably sized waists, and who look all the bet-
ter, and have all the better health on that
accouet. An eloquent divine not a hun-
dred miles from Toronto, seine time ago
put the whole case in the following
whimsical and not over -refined yet truth-
ful fashiten : "The old idea of female
beauty was straight up and down. The
modern is that of two islands and an
isthmus." And then came the grand
burst of significant warning and suggestive
directness in a mixed audience of young
men and women. "Young men, I say,
young men," and the eye of the orator flash-
ed, and the very outstretcl ed fiuger looked
funny. "Young men, when you are seek-
ing mothers for your children, choose the
old Greek fashion straight up and down,
not the modern ideal of two islands and an
isthmus." Just so. There is this, how-
ever, to be said for the modern ideal. It
makes the idea of metherhood an exploded
dream, or it adds grievously to the kind and
the amount of the suffering arising from
the first sin. Batter, however, die than be
outof the fashion, and so let the fools go on
and crush both their ribs and their feet as
p eames ',t em lbest. We would be orely
put out before it made an assault upon fem-
inine fashions. Only spider waists and
red noses don't seem to be either things of
beauty or joys for ever.
Cardinal Manning has said that a man is
perfectly justified in stealing to satisfy his
hunger. It may be so but there would need
to be a good many limiting conditions be-
fore it would be either sale or seemly to
endorse and defend such a doctrine. Sol-
omon thought that a man could not be des-
pised if he stole to satisfy his hunger yet at
the same time, he added that if he were
found he would have to restore seven fold.
Every lazy, idle good-for-nothing who helps
himself to his neighbored food, has exactly
this plea, that he was hungry. Surely he
would need to show that he had used all
reasonable endeavor to get work or ' to get
food honestly and by consent of the owner,
and much else, before the Cardinal's rule
would come in. Necessity has no law, and
certainly, a man who had done his best to
get work and failed, who bad not weakened
both mind and body by drink or licenti-
ousness, could not be held very guilty
11 he helpect hnnseli. As a general
rule, however, it is notthe sober, industrious
and diligent man who is reduced to such
dire necessity, and the question would need
to be settled whether in the case of utter
destitution he should beg first and only
steal after he had failed. But then comes
in the knotty point to be settled, whether
there may be eases hi which the ten coin
mandments, or at least some of them, may
for the time being be repeated, or whether
in such circumstances death should not
rather be faced. Are there times in which
to save one's life it is quite justifiable to lie,
to murder and commit adultery: Are there
circumstances in whioh it is perfectly proper
to deny God, and fall down and worship
false gods? On all these points there hes
been any amount of keen stank:deal noir
splitting and it world not be eaey to show
that there are stronger reasons for breaking
with impunity the eighth commandment
them the sixth or the ninth. Stealing in every
case is bad, but the grinding injustice. which
reduces men to starvation merely or chiefly
to make the rich man richer still is woreo
by far.
Warden M cClaughry of Joliet state prison,
whose speeches at the late International
Prison Conference in Toronto were listened
to with so much interest, lately told the
following very good story of a horse thief :-
It lA a remarkable fact that of all classes
of thieves, horse -thieves mom to be the most
inveterate. When once a mat has stolen
one horse, the desire to steal another ReeT/18
to become a mama Such thieves rarely
repent or reform, betas often as released from
prison they usually reeurne their nefatious
calling, 1 hevo known men .1.o be convicted
and sentenced for horawatealing OA often as
six or eight times. One man at Joliet was
first; eentencecl to the State Penitentiary
sometime in the 40s. This man is now
servirg his seventh term for horse -stealing,
and accepts the vicisnitudes of his vocation
as philosophically as an ordinary farmer
would the loss of a carefully cultivated crop,
or a broker the failure of a well -laid scheme.
of speculation. Just before the termination
of this man's sixth team he vowed reformation
end seemed to have determined to become a
better man. The prison officials really
thought he would lead a better life this time,
and on his liberation, when he thook hando
all round, he was pre8011ted with suffieient
cash to procure him a citizen's outfit and to
support him for a reasonable period until he
should find remunerative labor. A few
months paissed by, probably three or four.
One day, j aet after the close of a term of
court in one of the counties of Southern
Mimi; a sheriff was :seen entering • the
prison, leading this irreproseible convict --
again ;sentenced to five 3Mare for horse.ateal-
iug, "How is •this ?" said I ; " I thmight
foe were to reform elite this time and go
nto seine honest business ?" Well," re -
red the coilvict, " I waa just ready to
begin an honest business When they eaught
me. had picked up three buggies and
Mtn: horn; and wee ahnotit to the Missis-
sippi river, ready to cross over into a little
Miesouri town to gat a livery etabie and
lead an honest life, whet the officeris caught
um The truth is, warden, the cruel minions
of the Jaw give us pdor devils no ohm* td
reform. We are perseented. That'a what
it iew-poteeoutiot,"
'IRA ABYSSINIAN WAR,
„. THE 'EXETER TIMES.
Sluz ;elan ItlataAns Native Antes end Hee
Ulu idelnforcelueuts d.re tient Out,
Great excitement prevails in Rome owing
to the receipt of offloial newe from Maas°.
wah to the effect that Xing Menelik of
Shoe, and the Mithernoton Gallas have licit.
tied their little difficulties and announeed
their intention of joining forces with King
John against the invadiug Italians, The
Gaines are particularly feared, owing to
their mounted Aro, which is said to be
40,000 strong. Sir Gerald Portal, who has
just returned from tho eadip of Negus after
the feiluro of his mission of peome, saye that
the King, witheut counting hi a new
can put into the field 50,000 rnen armed
with modern repeating rifles, and as many
tune trregulars
Immediotely on reopipt of this grave news
General Bertole Voile, :secretary of war,
ordered the immediate embarkation of the
Abyssinian reserve of 0000 men now at
Naples. Thoy sailed on Wednesday, Ten
thousand men are being drafted from other
military departments to form a seoond re-
verse which, it le believed, will be despatch-
ed within a week to Massawoh. The &cote
newspaper, Milan, and other opposition
papers demand that at least 30,000 more
men be sent to strengthen the army already
in Africa, whioh now numbers 28,000 It now
appears that last week General San Marzane,
commander-imehief, was ordered to leave
his intrenohed camp on January 26, the
anniversary of the mammon nf the Italian
regiment near Hogali, but declined to exe-
cute the movement, owing to the smallness
of his force and the grave news from the
interior whioh had reached him.
La Riforwia and other government organs
say that Italy will never leave. Abyssinia,
that the death of 500 Men at Hogan must
be bloodily avenged, and that consequently
the army will take possession and keep the
Karen country, which is high land and snit -
able for Italian colonization.
A Triok in Aifie Shooting.
The Buffalo Courier reports the follow-
ing "No, sir I do not olaitn to be an expert
at fancy shooting," said Capt. Jack Craw-
ford, in answer to an enquiry. "There is
toe much trickery -a sort of sleight-of-hand
businees-connected with it. I do pretend
to be a crack shot, and to excel in acouraoy
and rapidity. with a Winchester rifle. The
Winchester Arnie Company have offered re-
peatedly to back me for $5,000 against any
man in the world in that eort of skill. I
have fired twelve hots in three and a half
seconds. But here let me enlighten you as
to one of the neat little tricks used in fancy
shots." Here the scout produced what ap-
peared to be as he held it at at a distance,
a braes shell tipped with ‘a leaden ball.
" Leeks like a bullet, doesn't it?" he said,
with a laugh. "Well, it isn't. It is simply
a papier-macho protuberance appropriately
oelored to looked like lead. Now I'll show
you what's behind it." Picking open the
and he disclosed to view a quentity of shot
-about two hundred he said were in the
shell, with just enough powder at the butt
to do the work. "Row are they used?
You have probably witnessed the feat of
cracking glass balls thrown in the air by
shooting at them with a Winchester, and
while riding a horse going at a gallop.
Well, that is the kind of a ball' cartridge
that is used, and the spe.otators look on with
wonder and admiration, suppoeing that it is
done with a single ball; and that is some-
thing, my boy, that no man in the world
has ever done or will do, becaus'e it is a
physical impossibility."
George's Good Luck.
' Henry George-" I had another wonder-
ful dream last night."
lira. Henry George-" Do tell I"
"1 dreamed that all the sea turned into
molasses and the land turned into one vast
buckwheat cake."
"Isn't that splendid I Now you've got
material for another book."
The Duke of Connaught will assume com
mend in Ireland in April
Paience Stapleton, of Denver, is a rising
young author of pleasant fiction of tho West
At a dinner e a-ty, one day, e certain Ot-
tawaepolitician whose character was consid
ered to be not altogether unexceptionable
said he would give them a toast; and look-
ing hard in the face of Mrs. M—, who
was celebrated both for wit and beauty,
gave "Honest men and bonny lasses 1"
"With all my heart, Mr. G—," said Mrs.
"for it neither applies to you nor
The number of joint-stock companies an-
nually registered at Somerset House ia very
great, and is increasing. ln 1863, the first
com.plete year after the passing of the Com -
pewee Act, the number wee 790; in 1113 it
was 1,241 ; ia 1883, 1,766; while 1815
shown a decrease, the total being only
1,482. This retrogression is however more
than compensated for in the return of 1886,
which is not yet published, but which will
show a, greed total of 1,891, being 130 more
than in any previous year.
The police-rr Ls of London is now fixed at
9d. in the II, of which 4d. in the £1 is paid
by the Trearsury. The total amount of po-
lice -rate levied on the parishes for tbe year
ended March, 1887, produced £704493;
and the Treasury contributed £559,245 to
the police -fund during the year. The pay
of the force, including chief conetables and
superintendents'inepectors, thrjeants, and
conetables, was 21,i 78,715. The rapid in-
crease both of buildings and populetien
which has taken place in the Metropolitan
Police diterict of late VearS has outrun the
increase which it has b3en posaible to make
to the police force.
The total number of ptroela posted hi
Britain during the year ending Marth imasi
was 32,860,154, an inereese of upwards of
24 per cent. on the previews year, appor-
tioned thus --England and Wales, 27,287,
000; Sootland, 3430,000; Ireland, 2,193,
000. Upvvarda of 24,000 parcels containing.
primroses reached London on the llith and
19th of April. The Parcels Post hits been
extended to over e5 colonies and foreign
countries. The total number of pereels
despatelied to the Colonita and foreign
countries during the year was 20.864, and
the number received watt 150,056 The
largeet number was tranemiti ed between
this country and Germany, India and Bel-
gium, tho number° being as fellows-- Ger-
many, deepatthed to 82,400, received from
62,2(10; India, &matched to, 40,000, re-
ceived from, l7,00; Belgium, deepatehed
bo, 14,000, received froin, 6,900.
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