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CHAPTER XVI.—(Cimerneenin). Xoodie wetly questions about the partriegea
During. the winvor of 36; we expei
rienced clife wthaeni°,0°duntotrkYLwatibdi,,i wargtngtoketete;ettthilevegrse,
n
many peevations. The raffien scmatter P ahie te dimmer their favorite hunt. Be.
-qu
---' from Cleer Lake, drove from the fme timoodio etuid hi
answer thie st ery a
emu a fine young bull we were rearing, and voice responded, through a large creek in
WI Noveral weskit ell trace of the azninal was th, gaveled mew minim sepergtew et from
man We had almost forgotten the existence the kitchen, "They always hides where
• ve Poor Whithey, when a neighbour called theyee trum.,, mill aultoutioeineat was re.
end told Moodie that hie yearling was at
P—
owed. wibh a buret of laughter that greatly aad that he would advise him to dinconcerted the neturel philosopher in the
get it baok as soon as porisible. httehm.
lYieedie Iiitil to tslm "me wheat t° On the 218t of May of thisi year, my sec-
Y----lti mill, and as the equetter lived ond. sou, Deemed WM born. The poor fellow
only 4 *le further, be called at his house; canto in hard times. The °owe had not
and Maximo sine enough, he found the loat calved, and our bill of fare, now minus the
•animal. With the greatest difficulty he deer and Spot, only mudded of bad pota.
succeeded in regaining hitt property, but not toes ana Mill worm bread. I was rendered
without rnany threats of vengeance from the so weak by want of proper nouritihment that
parties who had etolen it. To these he paid my dear hueband, for
my mato, overoame
no regard; but a few days after, six fat hop, his a.veraion to borrowing, and procured a
on whieh we depended for all our winter quarter of =neon from a Mien& Thle,
e3bore of "bud food, wer° driven hat° the with kindly presents from neighbors—often
ake, and destroyed. - as badly off as ourselvesma loin of a young
The death of these animals deprived us of bear, and a basket containing a loaf of bread,
three barrels of pork, and half starved us
some tea, some fresh butter, and oatmeal,
through the 'winter. That winter of '36, how went far to save my life.
heavily it wore away! The grown flour, Shortly efteremy recovery jacob—the
Mutated potatoes, and scant quantity of faithful, good Jacob—was obliged to leave
'anima1 food rendered us sli weAi and the us, for we eould Ito longer afford to pay
children suffered much from the ague. wages. What wile owing to him had to be
One day, just before tbe snow fell, Moodie settled by sacrificing our best cow, and a
had gone to Peterborough for letters; our great many valuable articles of clothing
servant was eick in bed with the acme, and from my husband's wardrobe. Nothing is
I was miming inn little boy, Dunbar, who more distressing than being obliged to part
was sleeking wtth the cold fit of his tinnier- with articles of dress which you know that
able fever, when Jacob put his honest, you cannot replace. Althost allimY clothes
round, rosy face in at the door, had been appropriated to the payment of
"Give me the master's gun, ma'am:
• wages, or to obtain garments for the children,
there's a big buck feeding on the rice -bed excepting my wedding dress, and the beauti-
near the Wand." Mk baby -linen which had beeu mede by the
I took down the gun, "Jacob you have hands of dear and affectionate friends for
no chance; there is but one charge of buck- my first-born. Them were now exchanged
4shob in the house." for coarse, warm flannels, to thield her from
"One °hence is better nor none," said the cold. i
'Jacob, as he commenced loading the gun. Moodie and Jacob had chopped eight
"What knows what may happen to oie ? acres during the winter, but these had. to
Mayhap oie may chance to kill 'un; and you be burnt off and logged up before we could
and the naeaster and the wee bairns may put in a crop of wheat for the ensuing fell.
have zummut ze,vory for zapper yet." Had we been able to retain this industrious,
Away walked Jacob with Moodie's "Men- kindly English lad, this would soon have
ton" over his shoulder. A few minutes been accomplished; but his wages, at the
-after, I heard the report of the gun, but rate of thirty pounds per annum, were now
never expected to see anything of the game; utterly beyond our means.
when Jacob suddenly bounced into the room, Jacob had formed an attachment to my
half wild with delight. pretty maid, Mary Pine, and before going to
"Than beast iz dead az a door -nail Ztue the Southern States to join an uncle who re -
dhow the measter will laugh when he ROOS sided in Louisville,' an opulent tradesman,
nile fine buck tbat Me a'zhait," who had protnised to tenth him his butiness,
4 "And have you really shot him ?" Jacob thought it as well to deelare himself.
"Come and zee 1 'TM worth your while The declaration took place on a log of wood
to walk --down to the landing to look at near the back door, and from my chamber
'un. window, I could both hear and see the par -
Jacob -got a rope, and I followed him to ties, without being myeelf observed. Mary
the lenlieg, where, am e enough, lay a fine was seated very demurely at one end of the
buckt faetened in tow of the canoe. Jacob log, twistizig the string of her checked apron,
moon Bemired him by the hind legs to the and the loving Jacob was busy whittling the
rope he had brought; and, with our united other extremity of their rustic seat, There
efforts, we at last succeeded ba dragging our was a long silence. Mary stole a look at
prize home. All the time he was engaged Jacob, and he heaved a tremendous sigh,
In taking off the akin, Jacob was antimpa- something between a yawn and a groan.
ting the feast that we were to have; and the "Meary," he said, "1 must go."
win'tn omit fellow chuckled with delight waen he "1 know that afore," returned the girl.
hungithe cercass quite close to the kitchen "1 had zumtnat to zay to you, Meary.
dooritiaat his "meaeter" might run against Do you think you will trios ole 1" (looking
it w en he mane home at night This actu- very affectionately, and twitching nearer.)
\ally took place. When Moodie opened the „
door, he struck his head against the dead What put then into your head, Jacob ?"
This was said very demurely.
4deer. e
a, "Ole thowt, may be, Meary, that your
"Whet ha,ve you got here . feelings might be zummat loike my own. I
"A fine buck, zur " said Jacob, bringing feel zore about the heart, Meary, and it's
forward the light, and holding it up in each all cern' of parting with you. Don't you feel
A manner that all the merits of the prize queerieh, too ?"
- imuld be seen at a glance.
"A fine one, indeed 1 How did we cieme "Can't say that I do,'Jacols, I shall soon
see you again," (pulling violently at her
by it?"
"It wan zhot by oie," said Jacob, rubbing
his bands in a sort of ecstacy. "Thee beast
iz the first oie ever shot in my life. Het
he 1 he lb
"You pilot that fine deer, Jacob? end
there was only one charge in the gun I
Well done; you must have taken a good
aim."
"Why, zur, oie took no aim at all. Ole
. jusb pointed the gun at the deer, and Meat
'my oeys and let fly at 'un. 'Twas Provi-
dence kill'd 'un, not oie."
it I believe you," said Moodie; " Previ-
te, deems has laitherto watched over us and kept
us from actual starvation."
The flesh of the deer, and the good broth
that I was able to obtain, from it, greatly
assisted in restoring our sick to health; but
long before that severe winter terminated
ee -were attain out of food. Mrs. had
given to Iraitie in the fall, a very pretty
little pig, whiitiki she had named Spot. The
animal was a reet favourite with Jacob
t
follow€d. them all over the place like a dog
\
and the children and he always received his
foodltin their hands at the door, and
We had a noble 'Melina called Hector, be.
tween whom and the pet pig there existed
the most tender friendship. Spot always
shared with Hector the hollow /og which
served him for a - kennel, and we often
laughed to see Hector lead Spot round the
clearing by his ear. After bearing the want
of animal food until our souls sickened at
the bad potatoes and grown flour bread,
we began—that is, the elders of the family—
to cast very hungry eyes upon Spot; but
no one liked to propose having him killed.
ast Jacob spoke hie mind upon the aub-
,
i've heard, zur, that the Jews never
rk ; but we Christians, dooz, and are
glad ov the chance. Now, znr, oi've
thinkivg that 'tie no manner ov use
eping that boast Spot. If he wor a
ow there might be zome zenze in the
and we all feel weak for a mond of
S'poso I kill him? Ho 'won't make
nice of pork."
odie seconded this • and in spite of
, ,
ears end prayers of Katie, her uncouth
vas raerificed to the general wants of the
y; but there were two members of the
*who disdained to eat a morsel of the
"poor Katie and the dog Hector. At
denial of the first I did nob at all
or ahe was a child full of sensibility
dike affectioti, but the gement-lent of
the brute creature to his old playmate filled
us With eurprise. Jacob lard drew our atten-
tion to the strange fact.
"That dog," he said, as we were pasaing
through the kitchen While he was et dinner,
"de teeth uz Chrietiana a lesson lieveoto
treat oUr friends, Why, mu, he'll not eat a
Mani of Spot. Ole have tiled end tempted
hint in all manner ov WOO, and he only do
neer and tuna tm hie ii OttO when I hould him
a bit to Metal" He offered the aitiniel a rib
1 the fresh pork as he Anished epeaking yard
he dog tutted away with en enpreesion of
e mote" and, on. a repetition ef the at,
ked frern the tabkli
ninon affection tiould namely heve elm -
see the love felt by this poor animal for
plaYfellovn Hie attaehmene to Spot,
eould overman° ithe range of hunger—
lite the rest of us, he was haltstarved
it have been strong indeed, '
re abtachtiient to un hi itti simplicity
elity, greatly resenthled that of the
, d sometimes, like the deg, ho woulcl
4.0e1f Ail *here he was not Wanted,
tv‘Nitiit ;Ay give his adVioe, and Make
l' 41 ch were riot required, ,
, from Clerkt iwas asking
For he slung to mine and nee
Like the old man of the sea;
And in spite of Mout and scoff
We could not pitoh him off,
Per the arose -grained, waspish of
Oared for ne, one but bimaelf.
Before I diemss for ever the troubles and
imerown of 1836, I weuld feta inttoduce to
the titmice of roy readers some ef the odcl
characters with whom we became acquainted
durtng that period, The grab thab starts
vividly to my reeellection is the picture of a
short, etimmy, thickset man—a British sail-
or, too—who mane to atey one ntght; under
our roof, and took quiet pownseion of his
quarters for nine months, and whene we
were obligee to tolerate, from the eimple fact
that we could not get rid of him.
Daring the fall, Moodie him met this in-
dividual (whom I will call Mr. Maloolni) In
the mail -coach, going up to Toronto. Am-
used with his eocenerie and blunt manners
and finding him a shrewd, Metier fellow in
conversation, Moodie told him that if ever
he came into his part of the world he ahould
be glad to renew their acquaintance, And
so they parted, with mutuel good -will, as
men often part who have travelled a long
journey in good fellowship together, without
thinking it probable they should over meet
again.
The sugar season had just commenced
with the apring theme Jacob had tapped a
tow trees in order to obtain sap ito make
molasses for the children, when his plans
were frustrated by the illness of my husband,
who was again attacked with the ague.
Towards the close of a wet, aloppy day,
while Jacob was in the wood, chopping,
and our servant gone to my sister, who was
ill, to help to wash, ea I was busy baking
bread for tea, my attention was aroused by
a violent knocking at the door, and tb.e
furious barking of our dog, Hector. I ran
to open it, when I found Rector's teeth
clenched in the trousers of a little dark,
thiokeet man, who said, in a gruff voice.
"Call oft your dog. What the devil do
you keep such an infernal brute about the
house for? Is it to bite people who come
to see you ?"
1 -lector was the best -behaved, beat -tem-
pered animal in the world; he might have
been called a gentlemanly dog. So little
was there of the unmannerly puppy in his
behavior, that I was perfeotly astonisbed at
his ungracious conduct. I caught him by
the collar, and, not without some difficulty,
succeeded' in dragging him, off.
"is Captain Moodie within ?" aaid the
stranger.
"He is, sir. But he is ill in bed—too ill
to he seen."
"Tell him a friend" (he laid a strong
stress upon the last word), a particular
friend must speak to him."
I now turned my eyes to the face of the
epeaker with some curiosity. I had taken
him for a mechanic, from his dirty, sloven-
ly appearance; and hie physiognomy was
so unpleacant, that I did not credit his as
eertion that he was a friend of my husband
for I was certain that no man who possess
ed such a forbidding aspect could be regard
ed by Moodie as a friend. I was about t
deliver his menage, but the moment I let g
Hector's oollar, the dog was at him again.
"Don't strike him with your stick,"
cried, throwing nay arms over the faithfix
creature. "He is a powerful animal an
if you provoke hitn, he will kill you."
1 at last eucceeded in coaxing Hector into
the girl's room where I shut him up, while
the stranger CAMS into the kitchen, and
walked to the fire to dry his web clothes.
1 immedienely went into the garlour,
where Moodie was lying upon a bed near
he stove, to deliver the stranger's message;
ut before I could saw a word, he dueled in
f ter me, end, going up to the bed, held ou
is broad, coarse hand, with, "How ar
ou, Mr. Moodie? You see I have accept
d yonr kind invitation sooner than eithe
ou or I expected. If iraeu will give m
ouse room for the nighM I shall be obliged
o you."
This was said in a low, m sterious voice
nd Mood. e, who was struggling with th
ot fit of his disorder, and whose sense
ere not a little confused, stale at him
ith a look of vague bevvilderment. Th
ountemance of the stranger grew dark.
"You cannot have forgotten me—m
name is Malcolm." .
"Yeo, yes; I remember you now," sal
he invalid holding out his burning„feveris
and. 'To my home, such as Mee, you ar
elcome."
I stood by in wondering astonishment
ookine from one to the other, as I had n
eo 11 otio f h • h
mention the name of the etranger ; but a
he had invited him to share our hospitality
I did my beet to make him welcome, though
in what mariner he was to be aocomtmodated
uzzled me not a lane. I placed the arm
hair by the fire, and told hitn that I would
repare tea for him as soon I could.
painfully aware of. thetfact, for arn eertiain
that, from thab firat honr of our aequain-
tenon deep -rooted ahtipathy existed be-
tween us, which time seeraed rather to
strengthen than clitniniehi
He ate of hie noel eparingly, and with
evident diegust i; the ouly remarks that
dropped from him were:
"ou make bad breed in the bush.
Stranithat you eau't keep your potatoes
from the frost 1 ahould have thoeghe that
you would hsve bad things more pomfortable
in the woods."
"We have boen very unfortunate," I said,
since we came to the woods. I am sorry
that met should be obliged to share the pov-
erty of the land. It would have given me
much pleasure could I have set betore you a
more comfortable meal,"
"Oh, don't menden it. So that I get
good pork and potatoes I shall be contented.'
(To BE comerettrann
Ants and Butterflies.
In a recent number cif the "Journal"of
the Bombay Natural History Society, Mr.
Lionel de Niceville detioribes the manner in
which the larwe of a species of butterfly
( Marcus theophrastus, Febrioius) are oulti-
vatted and protected by the large common
black ants of Indian gardens and houses. As
a rule ants are the moat deadly and inveter-
ate enemies of butterflien and ruthlessly de.
stroy and eat there whenever they get the
chance; but in the present case the larvae
exude a sweet liquid of some sort, of which
the ants are inordinately fond, and which
they obtain by strokino the larvae gently
with their antennte. ltrence the great care
which is taken of them. The lervte feed on
a small thorny bush of the jungle, the Zizy-
phut Jujuba, and at the foot ot this the ants
construot a temporary nest. About the
middle of June, just before the rains eet in,
great activity es observable on the tree.
The ientimare busy all day running along the
branaree and leaves in search of the larvae,
and guiding and driving them down the etem
of the tree towards the nest. Each prisoner
is gu.arded until he is got eafely into his
place, when he falls off into a doze and
undergoes his traneformation into a pupa.
If the loose earth at the foot of the tree is
scraped away hundreds ot lame and pugm
in all stages of development, arranged in a
broad, even band all round the trunk, will
be seen. The ants object to uncovering
them, and immediately aet to work to put
the earth back again; if this is taken away
again, they will remove all the chryea.lids
and bury them lower down. When the
butterfly is ready to emerge in about a week
it is tenderly waisted to disengage itself from
its shelleand, should it betstrong and healthy,
is left undisturbed to efread its wings and
fly away. For some time after they have
gained strength they remain hovering over
their old home. In one case a butterfly fell
to the ground before its opening wings had
dried, and a soldier -ant tried to rescue it.
He carried it beck to the tree with the tit
matt care, and made aeveral atteMpts to
.
assist the buttetily to hold on again, but
. finding his efform una,vailing he left the crip.
o ple to recover himself. On his return, see-
() trig no improvement, he appeared to lone all
!patience, and, ruthing in, bit off both wings
I and *tarried the body into the nest. But
m high handed proceedings of this kind are
d very unitsuaL It is said to be a curious
sight to watch the fragile and delicate
butterflies wandering about, all feeble and
helpless, among the busy crowd of coarse
black ants, and rubbing shoulders in perfect
safety with the ordinary fierce, big -leaden
seldiers. A larva anovher species thrown
downettemonn the& as an experlinent was
inuneniately set upon and torn to pieces by
the ants.
apron -string.)
"Meary, oi'm afoaral you don't feel hike y
aim"
" P'r'aps not—women cttn't feel like men. y
I'm sorry that you are going, Jacob, for you
have been very kind and obliging, and I t
wish you well."
Unary, cried Janob, growing desperate a
at her coyness, and getting quite close up to h
noa"?"
her,8?"
will you marry oie ? Say yeez or me
Thi was coming ctose to the point. Miley
drew farther from him, and turned her head
away.
"Meary," said Jacob, oeizing upon the
hand that held the apron -string, "Do you
think you can bettor yourser ? If not—why,
oi'm your than. Now, do jut turn about
Prot Huxley's Roneur.
The council of the Royal Society, in eel-
ecting Prof. Huxley to be the recipient of
the Copley medal for this year, have worth-
ily acquitted themselves of the annual trust
with which they have to deel. What may
• be considered a crowning honour has thus
e been oonferred upon one illustrious among
8 biologists, and illustrions during the years
of a busy life as an expouent to the people
o f I 'fi • . y tne a was
given to Sir Joseph Hooker, who was as the
Y "Life and Lettere" testify, lutimately con-
nected with Darwin's projects and work,
t" and it is appropriate that the succeeding
n award has been made to Prof. Huxley, if
e only on the score of his having token so iarge
a part in what he himself has termed "the
• reception of the 'Origin of Species'" The
0 Copley medal, by common consent, is re-
servaa for distinguished savants, who3 neoessarily form the select few. Certainly
Pref. Huxley is one of them. What is
peculiar to birn is the literary gift that he
adds to h' "fi
your head and °newer oie."
The girl turned round, and gave him a 1
quick, ,shy glanse, then burst out into a r
simpering laugh.
"Meary,. will you take oie ?" (jogging her
elbow.)
I will," cried the girl, jumping up from
the log and running into the aouse.
" Well, that bargain's made," said the 0
lover, rubbing his hands; "and now, Melt y,
go and bid measterand minus good.by I" '
The poor fellow's eyes were full of tears,
or the children, who loved him very much,
clung, crying, about his knees. "God bless
yeas all" sobbed the kindhearted creature.
" Doan't forget Jacob, for Wel never forget 1"
you. Good -by 1"
"And doan't you forget me, Meary. In'
Iwo years ole will be back to marry you;
and may be ole may come back a rioh max.
Mary, who was an exceedingly pretty in
girl, shed some tears at the parting; but in
a few days she was as gay as ever, and lis- P
toning with great attention to/ the praises t
bestowed upon her beauty by in old hache. "
lor, who was her senior by five and twenty se,
years. But then he had a good farm, a
saddle mare, and plenty of stook, arid waste
reputed to have eaved money. The eaddie
mare seemed to have great weight in old
Ralph wooing; and I used laugh-
ingly to remind Mary of her absent lover,
and beg her not to marry Ralph T h's
mare,
TED CANADIAN lioNTEICS SoNG.
The northern light e are flaahing,
On the rapids' restletes flow;
And o'er the wild leaven dashing,
Swift darts the light canoe.
The merry hunters come.
" Whet cheer 2—what cheer ?"—
" We've slain the deer 1"
"Hurrah 1--)tou're welcome home 1"
The blithsome horn ie ;rounding,
And the woodmenAmid halloo;
And joyous steps are bounding
To meet the birch manse,
"Hurrah laThe hunters 00810.11And the wooda ring out
To their merry hour
As they drag the dun deer home
he hearth ie brightly burn,
The rustle board is spread;
To greet the sire returning. ,
The children leave thole bed. -;
_With letigh And plioat they porno--
That merry band—
To grasp hie hand,
And bid hien welconsehrirae I
•
"11 may be en well to tell you, Mrs.
Moodie," said he, sulkily, for he was evi-
dently displeased by my husband's want o
recognition, on hie entrance, "that 1 have
ad no dinner."
I sighed to myself, for I well knew that
ur larder boasted of no dainties: and, from
he eminent exprcersion of our gueetn face I
ightly judged thee be was fond of good
By the time I had fried a rasher of salt
ork, and made a pot of dandelion coffee,
he bread I had been preparing was baked •
at grown Roar will nob make light bread,
nod it was unueuelly heavy. For the first
me I felt heartily /Ahmed of our humble
re. I was mire that he for whom it was
provided was not one to pass it over in
benevolent silence. "He might be a gen-
tleman," 1 thought, "but he does not look
like one;" and a confused idea of who he wits,
and whete Moodie -had met with him, began
to float through my mind. I did nob like
the appearance of the man, but I consoled
myself that he was only to stay for one
night, and I could give up my bed for
that one night and sleep on a bed on the
floor by my sick husband. When I re-
entered the parlor to cover the table, I found is willing to give ite consent to the adminis.
Moodie fallen Asleep, and Mr. Malcolm tredve union of Bulgaria and Eastern Rom
reading. As I placed the tea -things on mails provided no attempt is made to
the table, he raised his head, and regarded enrettett on Mnpeclonia, tn tem case young
me with a gloothy titan. Be was a tittange. prime weeeineedi whom, bout, have hog
looking creature; his features were tolerably so much riNeuled, would come out an the
regular, his complexion dark, with a good top after all. Indeed, he hes now reigned
colour, his very broad and round head Wee se long bY itefferemete that a foreign attempt
covered with a perfect mars ot oloae, Week,
curling hair, which, in growth, texture, and
hue, resembled the wiry, curly hide of a
Watendog. His eyeet and mouth Were both
well -shaped, but gave, by their sinister ex.
pression, an odious and doubtful meaning to
the whole of his phymegnomy. Mhe eyes states that in the &striae in which he re.
were cold, insolent and cruel, and as green melee, about two thousand pereone who are
as the eyes of a can The inouth bespoke it employed in cotton.factorieS ate in the habit
sullen, determined, and sneering dispositioni o drielting etrong tea to excites) and that
as if it belonged to one brutally obstinate, ti they, almost without exeeption, have had
one who tould hot by any gentle means be teeth ;” that Money of them, lose their teeth
pemivaded from his purpose, Such a fillit) at puberty; and that the disease, ' tvhien
in a passion, evOuld have been a terrple *wet be its Mete," Mimi te be heteditaryi
Wild bowie ; bat the curtail; of hie feehtigs ehildren during the teethilm petioe often
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k Volt tattrA
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Mee Wen es little ittean
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110 ne
was more alive to this than Darwin him-
self, "People complain," he wrote to Prof.
Huxley 20 years ago "of the unequal dis-
tribution of wealth; 'but it is a inutile great-
er shame and injustice that anyone should
have the power to write so many brilliant
essays as you have lately don.e. There is no
one who writes like yon."
Rather. Vagus,
The pacific utteranoes of Emperor Wil-
liam, while very creditable to him and satis-
factory to his people, are rather too vague
and conditional to be much relied upon.
They are counterbalanced by huge national
armaments everywhere, and the natural con-
clusion is that sooner or later these will be
put to use, even if only in order to give
them a reason for existence These arma-
ments are also continually increased, and in
tcomorrow's re -assembling of the Reichstag
a new naval loan and other budget matters
have the right of way. Possibly chore
may be some specific assurance of a legs
warlike feeling in Rusaia's recent declare -
Mon that she has determined to wash her
bands of Bulgaria, being convinced that she
could not have Germany's eupport in a posi.
tive policy there. This teems to &mord
With the statement that the Porte
to dislodge him might be justly called an
attaok on the peabe of Europe.
The Egeot of Tee, upon the 'Teeth.
A writer In the British Medical Journal
ANA BENCAAKABlai
T'AOTS,
Capt. 'A. 0, P, Haggard, brother of the
noveliate abeut to become pi writer of
fiction himeelf. He has alreedy published
rieveral military diaries.
Broweihm's Venetian palace was befit in
the mventeenth century and hs in remiss-
ance style. The primeval rooms are bean.
Wally treeomal and obherWisi decorated.
The canal four Miles king through the
isthmue of Corinth, in Greece, is just ap-
proaching completion. Ilistory tells ue
that work was begun on it under Emperor
Nero over 1,700 years ago.
Patti is announced to appear as irtdiet ab
the Paris Grand Opera, Edmond Yates
gloomily prophesies failure, and adds that
Paris, decadent as it is, is not yeb oompar-
able to Chicago or Buenos Ayres.
Mni
The Gerbille se Oe!ollizerg.
The Germane Morn to Make A queer Medi
dle et things Whenever tlaey attempt colon.,
ization. It is work for whieh apparently
they are ,not cut out, or it mem be simply
that hitherto they hem; had so little ambit
Mon for territoriel enlargement that sufficient
opportunity hap not been given them toleern
the sotenee and the art of colenization. For
natioee of course have to leern by experience
as well se individuale, and how best to plant
civilized colouiee amid uteeivilized surround.
ings, is one of the twin difficult of all arts,
and no ou e need feel surprise it comparative
tyros like the Gertnens meet with very great
discsouragement at first. There is no reasoa
to conclude that because their Afrin at.
tempts have hitherto been far Moto, sum
cessful, that therefore Germany can never
hope to attain a position of any prominence
on the Dark Continent. It. by no means
follows, Give the Germans time enough
The surviving officers of the battle of and they out do almost anything, Thet
Balaclava in the Crimean war held their have certainly been male droit in Zenzilear,
annual rewaion at Willis's famous rooms and are reaping the fruits of their bluncler-
in London reoently, when soldierly toasta big. Official blundering, by the way, in high.
were drunk and pabriotic speeches made. atatione and in low, seems to be rampant
just now, and makes on,e think of Cheater -
J, 0, Monford, of Baltimore, Md., had ei
field's 841110114i012 to his son—Cheeterfielcl
little celebration to himself thie year. He
is the only eurviivor of the Old Defenders'
Aseotiation. composed of men who fought
in the battle of North Point during the war
of 1812.
Jesse James, Jr., the son and heir of the
Missouri bandit, is at work in the real es.
tate office of ex -Gov. Crittenden, of that
State, the very neon who secured his father's
death. This makes a very good denouement
for a dime novel.
reedy Herbert, whose husband was in
charge of the British war office during the
civil war, has come to this country, anti will
interest herself in the condition of the
Southern negroea. She has a projeot for
building an orphan asylum for colored child.
ren at Baltimore,
Sculptor Boehm's next; work will be a
statue of Emperor Frederick. fie has
almost finished an equestrian statue of
Prince Albert, which ts to stand in Wind-
sor (Eng.) .great park. It used to be a
mantling gnevance with Englishmen that
the prince consort couldn't ride decent.
ly.
Beeides being able to get their fried soles
and chops in Paris, Englishmen will present-
ly bowl along the smooth pavements of the
French capital in their native hansoms.
The Shrewsbury Cab Company, of which
Lord Shrewsbury is at the head, are to
establish a plane of 300 hansoms in Paris,
drawn by English homes.
.
An influenztal paper of Buda-Peath, Hun.
gary, advocates reformin the txpper House
of that °pantry, making titles of nobility
descend only to the eldest son, and having
them inseparable from a seat in the lionise,
Euglish fashion. The reason is fantastio
enough,—that so-called barons and dukes
have been killing themselves Minty because
they hed no money to support their dig-
nity.
Two explorers who despended the Trinity
river in a boat from Dallas, Tex., to its
nueuth, say that for many miles the river
panes through den ee and. lonesome forests
where the foot of a white man has never
trod. Many other long stretches of unin-
habited river front are even deserted by
beasts and birds. They travelled as long
as fourteen days at a time without seeing a
human being except themselves.
Mastodons in Alaska.
That the maatodoa was once common in
words;—
their skeletons, found in the marshes and "There, lot them rot, ambition's honored fools!"
Alaska is certain from the great number of I snore elm biting, yet most truthful clay banks onthe Yukon andnorthern plains; Fools indeed, whose lives were east away by
thousands to pave the path to what was
but a dream. "We fightiug men," of
course, who deserve no such honors as might
we think it was—whom he advimed to see
with how little wisdom the affairs of men
are conducted, and to be comforted in con-
sequence). Yes, there is considerable com-
fort to all of UR who have not been
called to till positions of mat dignity
and influence, to wield the keys of State, to
guide tee destinies of nations, to give the
nod for which the world stands waiting to
censure or applaud. Our obscurity protects
us at lead from the universality ot reproba-
Mon which attends our blunders, For the
human heart profouficlly jernoue and noth-
ing delights it more than to catch a superior
in sone° stupidity which lowers him nearer
to mediocrity and gives the rest of men some
excuse for crying out, " Ha, ha, 1 thou also
art become like unto us." In Zanzibar clan
lizetion. and barbarism have come into bloody
cenflicn and at last acoomits civilization
seemed to be getting the vverso of it. There
is likely to be more or less fighting' through-
out the winter.
Signs of War..
All the great Europeen notentialitiee and
powers are preaching peace, but the trend of
things is toward war, all the same. No-
body hes any confidence in the continuance
of the status quo, and nobody pretends to
calculate how soon the change may come.
But that it will come before meny months
elapse, seems to be the general impression.
It is a terrible imputation, on modern civilize.—
Mon that such should be the case, but this
will not change the hard nits of the situa.
tion. , Whoever is to blame beers an awful
eespoinsibility, and perhaps, seeing that
thInfio,are as they are, the sooner the crash
awry", the better. It may clear the atmos-
phe. , at %Gyrate, and ma.y overturn a good
deal whtch needs to be overturned. The
human tools whose life blood is to flow
in the struggle are thought little of by those
who regulate the contest. "Food for po ceder,"
that, and nothing more. Shall there not
be inquisition for all that blood so needless-
ly poured out to help a despot; or a fool to
what is after all a dream? Why should all
theta millions look on each ocher with such
jealous, mutdercus eyes! There ie no rea-
son whatever, and yet the miserable game
goes on of drilling, fifing, drumming and
parading, till in due time comes the so-
called field of glory with all its hell hounclew
let loose, to be in dueitime lung and cele-
brated as one of earth's most intereteing and
historic 'mote, while the eynic repeats once
but then this hug,e pachyderm still exists
there in the living state has never been
deemed likely, or even coejectured, till re-
cent y. be given tho common butcher who wields his
This covjecture rests on reports by way of cleaver honestly and usefully to supply the
world with flesh in all its forms. And all
in the name of One whoee joy bells tell of
peace and whose mission and whose naessage
are to make the nationa of the world love as
brethren and learn the art of war no morel
War no more I Christendom is but an en-
trenched camp, and press and pulpit, each in
strewn along near which were brgein its otineway, flourishes the trutnmet and cries
b r ga Docuhoews no; ethemtbiroely for blood, as if it were the bath in which
for
these signs, they nations have to weigh in order to be either
at length heard the noise of the creature prosperous or strong. Yes, and when they
feeding, and preseetly espied a prodigious don't fight with swords they fight with tariffs
animal, as large, they assert, as a white and dream thut the God of righteousness and
main's house—meat:1km the trader's one-story lommeelights in geeing men trying to do their
store. nUjia/ZFR, all the injury they °Bin, and all
Its teeth, they declarea, were as long as a thMaile proclaim it to be patriotism.
means leg, and curved outward, while its
ears were likened to a seanskin. In color it
was represented to be dark brown. ID lean-
ed against a dead tree -stub, and soretched "Maria," said Mr. Jones, wooly, "I
its side and its body seemed to be covered wish to goodness you'd stop chewing that
with pc.tolies of coarse brown halm Terri- gum. Mei:lough to drive a rae.n distracted
fled at the sight of such enormous game, the to hear his wife smack, emetic, amok like
two hunters promptly retreated. that when he's trying to rest."
Other native huaters corroborate this "I'm not chewing gum.''
story . with sitnilen accounts of their exper. "What are you doing, then?"
knees ; accounts which they are reluctane to "Eating chestnuts."
relate for fear of ridicule, or for some super- There was a silence for a moment, then
stitious feelings regarding the matter. Mr. Jones asked meekly :—
Tee unoharitable attribute the apparition "Are they routed, Maria ?"
of the strange beast to the vieion-disturbing
effects of hoochinoo,—a particularly villain-
ous kind of whiskey distilled from molassee.
Others rejoin that these Indians never take
hooch's -we while on a hunt,—or in other
words, that they never go on a hunt as long
as there is any hoodtinoo left in the ranch;
erie.
This may be subjecting the varrative of
the natives to a soniewhat hareh criticism,
the more so when it is considered that ono
of the tveo who saw the supposed mastodon
is an Indian of known probity and good
character —lie with three others of his tribe
having brought down to the trading post the
body of the late murdered bishop.
Let us hope that these Indians have really
seen a mastodon, and that it may, in due
course, figure in the place of tint lamented
Jumbo, and nob only substantiate the theor-
im of the eavants, but delight the eyes of
every boy and girl in the civilized world,
the Stick Indie,ns on the White River,
a tributary of the Yukon.
The account is that while bunting on a
vvooded bottom, a few miles from this river,
two Indians oami upon a trail, consisting of
enormous tracks fully two feel across, and
deeply imprieted in the moss and earth,
Chestnuts Not Gum.
_Revenge.
A V7180 'ruin will make beetle to forgive,
because he knows the true 'value of time,
and will net suffer it to pass away in, un-
neeeseary mein. He than willingly suffers
the corrosions of inveterate hatred) end gimes
up hie days and nights to the gloom and
malice and perturbations of stratagene, data
not surely be Hale to tioneult hie ease. Ite,
Senttnent is a union of sorrow with maligi
nity ; combination. of a pa:31110a Which all
endeavor It, avoid, with a paasion 'Which all
concur to detest. The matt who retires to
meditate mischief, and te exasperate his own
rages—whose thoughte are eniployed only on
Metals of distress and tontrivancee nt
WhoSe mind never pauses heti the remelt.,
branoe of his own sufferings, but to Indulge
Retailed "to fiOW in te deep, ti, 'tel Ohalittlio looint their nest teeth betete the Uwe 'Borne hopo of enjoying the calamities of
nor*Odlie Vitrieta through the tete 0di it, The Vithite tub. thoe who Aire:gull* Withollt reit541* who,
rather than in a vitient ot impetuous One tOk e Orttption Of the ernlanent net altotker—tettY justly turribered amen;
040, like Vitilliare Penn,. *hen be realm. the Mime letbietablO, Of IttiMea helhAtir 4111011g
key die of . , ,.4‘0r,. I %eked to my titrangel bent in Meridea, Mien i A tellinelienice often. l'eii'V° neigiUnitheigledneee el Prpivo,ritY n"
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gue bp e Perhapa iny the only paper in woloogpotedited y the calm of Mooned,
Manner til,440 hitti volnylan, ' '1)41'
Iontraort.,
TheY Were Carefully Selected.
Dealer—I thought you said those Mpphe
were carefnlly selected, but they are little
wormy things not fit to use.
Boy—Well they don't look very mice,
that's so ; but they are carefully selected,
for I seleoted them from our cellar when dad
was asleep, and I had to do it carefully, for
if he'd caught me at it he'd a walloped the
daylights out of me.--(DansvilloBreeze.
Guessed She'd Try It.
Applicant for Place--" Well, 1 don't
know, mum. You have a very large ;fam-
ily and I'm afraid I couldn't do the work.
I suppose yea have great trouble keeping
girls, don't you ?" Sharp Iloneeltesper--,
"Yea, indeed. There is a big factory full
of handsome young men near.he end
every one of ney servant reale goes ett and
gets married." Oh 1 "en'ellt gseila nt
try 11."
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about his imipleaeanb expetientid At Waish-
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fisating last week, he feels a great eoute fur
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1301111trY, and that 1bays shaken off the dirt
of Anieriem soil,for goodi" "Le bail its Sent
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