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LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Irfaoketizie and the Cellege Ciermany
Spoiling for a Fight—The, Et Afrioan
War.
The censure of Sir Morel! Mackenzie by
the Royal College of Phyaioians for publish-
ing "The Fatal Einem Fretlericle the No-
ble" creates little comment in Lonclon where
the action was anticipated.
Months ago it was stated that the Thu-
preas Frederick had written a letter to the
vicepresident of the college willing him not
to preen the resolietien which she understood
be was topop, on the ground the.t quell
eerious expreleion of °Pinion tillght be re
garded as reflecting upon her and other ad-
whiersof the late Emperor, but little credence
is giveo to the story.
Diplomatic circles in London are agitated
concerning the Semoan Affair,. and the pos-
sibility of a rupture between Germany and
America is being canvassed.
A Sydney letter on the subject of the
Samoan troublea, which appears in the
"Fiankfurter Zeitung," declares that the
truth of the report that the rebellion
was instigated by Americans 10 frankly am
knowleclged by all English correspondents
in Samos, all of whom deeply regret them
notion taken by the Amerans. Captain
Leary, the America commander, is severe.
ly reproached for encouraging Mataafa.
The rebels, it is assorted, owing to the lack
of ammunition, would,. long ago have con-
sented to negotiate had nob American
tradera promised the arrival of a atoamer
from Seri Francisco with arms and ammuni-
tion. The letter also indicates that the
turning of the British Consulate into a
hospitel led ro the German complaint that
the British offieiele were showing sympathy
with the rebels.
The insurgents the other day attacked the
German missiou Station at Danies-Salem in
which were a number of natives who hadre-
cently been freed from slavery. After a
sharp fight the insurgents were repulsed. At
Saticlani there has been continuous firing be-
tween the war vessels and the insurgents on
the shore. At Lindi and Know, the insur-
gents have allowed the British and Indian 1
residents to leave, sant many of them have I
arrived at Zanzibar, There is no abetement
of the anti. German feeling among the
natives.
The Governor of Mozambique has return-
ed from Zambesi, where, after severe fighting
he defeated .Bonge. The whole province
remains in a state cif insurrection.
In the fight at Dar- is. Salem the insurgents
were defeated with great loss ; two Germans
were wounted.
A Monkey That Talks,
The New York Sun says: Charles El. Ball
of this city owns a monkey which is attract-
ing considerable attention. The animal is
5 ybars old and weighs 6 pounds. All of his
joints are double. Among the many accom-
plishments -of the monkey is his ability to
-talk; nof only can he say "papa," "mamma,'
and "caokoo," as well as any parrot, but he
will when hungry say, "Jack wants his
grub."
Mr. Ball is the proprietor of a shooting
gallery, and whenever he leaves his rifles in
o disorder Jack places them in their proper
' plates. He is afraid of drunken men, and
whenever one enters the gallery and begins
to practice withthe rifles Jack seeks a place
of safety behind the stove, evidently fearing
he Will be hit by a, stray bullet
A boy. hom Mr. Ball employs in the
gallery is often left in charge of it o For
some time Jack would scream as if he were
receiving a whipping whenever he was left
alone with the 'boy. Mr. and Mra. Ball be-
lieved the boy did abuse the monkey, but
upon watching him one day, they disccvered
that he was sitting in a chair screaming for.
his own amusement.
Jack is full of tricke, and likes nothing
better than to get at Mrs. Ball's paints,
when hemill daub himself all over, always
choosing red in preference to other colors.
Asphalt Pavements Kill Trees.
In connection with the repaving of Brook-
lyn streets, which has became a subject
of presaing concern through the recent out -
giving of the mayor, an interesting point
has been made concerning the effeoet of
asphalt pavements on the trees. Experience
bows that in streets where such pavements
have been laid the trees do not flourish, if
indeed they do not speedily wither. The
reason is not far to seek. Apparent on a
moment's thought that it is almost impossi-
ble for water to penetrate to the roots of
the trees beneath such an impervious cover -
leg, and hence their decline is inevitable.
No plans are now in view for increasing the
asphalt pavements in Brooklyn, but this
matter is worth keeping in nunctagainst the
possibility that the question may be raised
e at some time in the future. Asphalt
• pavements have certain undoubted advan-
tages, along with equally undoubted dis-
advantages. The drawback mentioned here
is doubtless seldom taken into account.
—Mew York Tribune.
Different Points of View.
A minister, with a rather florid complex-
ion had gone into the shop of a barber, one
• bif his parishioners, to be shaved. The bar-
ber was addicted to heavy bouts of drinking,
after which his hand was consequently un-
steady at his work. In shaving the thintster
on the occasion referred to, he inflicted a out
sufficiently deep to cover the lower part of
the faint with blood. The minister turned
to the barber and said, in a tone of solenin
sevetity, "You see, Thomas, what comes of
taking too much drink." "Ay," replied
Thomas, "it mak's the skin verra termer."
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should should chance to blowing et all
An Interesting lteserintien o all Interest. 1 hriablY the Progress of the ruin is incred-
, tug country. ibly rapid,
Deo prairtes in the vicinity of the Old- THE SWIFTEST ANIMALS
Wives, Lakes, ad for a long &amen beyond ion the plains being often suffocated by the
them' am
re covered with an exceptionally dense smoke or caught by the devonring
thicksward of meet luxerient graemis, be- fire in epite of their utmoat efforts to efieape.
tokening et once the excellenew of the soil Generally their must deetractive revagee
and sufficiency of the anemia rainfall. In- are confined to the still (Teo unoccupied
deed, the mere presence of so many land- wild lands ; but occasionally t'he farrn of a
locked, and consequently alkaline, sheet,' of settler is invaded by a fire borne onward
water Is proof euilicient of the existence of from the prairie by en unusually high Wind
the latter of therm conditions ; while they do in an exceptiouelly dry season, and then
not overflow their banks to any appreemble the chances are that his most strenuous of -
extent show e that the mean temperature of forts will prove unavailing, and he will have
the air is warm enough to keep teem within to bear the Agony of seeing the labor of hie
bounds by the evaporation of their aurplus hande sacrificed to the insatiate .oPPetti'e of
waters, Bitth of these conditions are emi- the fire demon. What °awes the fire to
neatly favorable to the operations of the start is generally unknown; n accidental
agriculturist; and, as soon as the much- sperk from the pipe of a soletery traveller;
needed . an unextinguished brand lefe smouldering
mon on itamoriewune in the ashes of a oamp fire; a still -burning
rises to the flood, the settlers on these cinder belched from tize smoke -tack of a
plains, when they have Beoured a eufficient passing locomotive ; a Rath of ligtning ;
aupply of eweet water for domestio lour- or even the quasiwpontaneous combustion
poses, will find thet tbe district is about resulting from the accideeteelly focused
equally suited to the growth of -ordps aid rays of the sun; any one of these, and pore
to the cattle induetry in all its brandiessibly many other, caueea may be the enigin
Nor need they fear then; the exuberant of some of the ntost widespread and des.
vegetation to be seen on all sides is a thing, tructive conflagranious that deve,etate the
of recent origin, due to some capricious prairie Section so often end so unexpectedly.
climatic change and liable to dist:appeal- The oarlessness of the native Indians has
without warning. A glance at the prairieg frequently had to bear the bleirrie ; but I
in any direction in this immense distriot have been aseureci by very many officere
will reveal to the most inexperienced eye a and men of the Mounted Polies that the
perfeot network of old buffalo trails, easily imputation is unjust, and that the aborigin-
distinguished from the more recent trails of es are, of all travellers on the plains,. the
the domestic and ranch cattle by their most
greaterwidth and depth, and by the direct.
sysrlitrandenwr CAREFUL
nese with which they invariably lead to tlae and cautious in everything relating to their
best watering -places in the neighborhood ; camp fires, never pitching their tents tilt
large areas are also fairly pitted by their they made the site fireproof by treading
"wallows," or mud bathe; and the whole down or burning the surroundiug grain, and.
surface of the country was, only a few years never leaving a fire still burning when they
ago, thickly strewed with their bones and strike their camp to move into other guar.
heves. On every side there is ebundant ten, Some time ago people used to think
evidence that this region was one of the that the prairie grasses were Improved in
favorite haunts and feeding -grounds of these 'quality and quantity by being burned oyer;
mighty monarchs of the plain, and therefore but this is now generally held to have been
thet it was especially distinguished for its an erroneohs impression ; it is seen that the
fertility in the dap of old. To -day the native grasses do not require tube impiov.
buffalo its a lordly roamer over his wide do-
) ed, and that there is, in fact, no room for
main, is a thing of the past; but other improvement; whereas the damage is un -
GAME IN ABUNDANCE deniable, not only in the possible deatruction
of crops or even of life but in the produw
tion of broad temporarily wasee acres of un-
sightly, blackened maim, over whioh dry,
scorching winds constantly blow, and on
which no dew can ever fall. Precautioes
of various kinds have, therefore, been taken
to guard against the common enemy; a fine
of, .0 believe, two hundred dollars is thee pen-
alty for starting a prairie fire by wilfully or
carelessly allowing the grass to become ignit-
ed by a camp or other fire ; around each
farm -house and barn -yard, or whenever
stacks of grain are built in the open country,
"fireguards" are made by ploughing a broad
strip of land over which an ordinary fire can-
not leap; all along the railway tracks simi.
lar fire guards have been ploughed, or else
the grass has been burned away for several
yards on either side and, finelly, the
ubiquitous Mounted Polio° are furever keep-
ing a
may be found to reward the adventuroue
sportsman who is willing to go in search of
M. Graceful antelopes may frequently be
seen gazing at a safe distance for a brief
space inquisitively and suspiciously at the
passing train, and then bounding off lightly
to reach a still safer vantage ground on the
boundless expanse. The thrill, sharp bark
of the cowardly coyote may occasionally be
heard, dying away into a most unzrzelodious
howl as he turns tail and fliee with lightning
speed across the turf. The gregarious
prairie.dog may also be seen indulging in
antic gambols with biendemure, sedate -look
ing fellows among the regularly laid out
burrows of their city -like warren. And of
course the ubiquitous gopher, or ground
equirrel, is to be met with here as eleewhere
all through the country, busily plying his
industrious little feet in utter disregard Of
trains, sportsmen and all such trifling causes
of disturbance. Near Morse station is an-
other pretty large alkaline lake, and a few
miles further on we come to Rush Lake, a
wide area of fresh, sweet water almost con-
stantly tenanted by
MYRIADS OP WATER PowL
of various descriptions. Ducks, geese, swans
and even pelicans in countless inunbers have
adopted this lovely sheet of water as a favor-
ite resort:, and the would-be sportsman must
Indeed be a wretched fowler who cannot se-
cure an exceptionally lenge bag as the fruib
of a day's shooting along its reed -lined
shores. The vast numoers of waterfowl to
be found in almost every quarter of the
North-west Territories, and the unknown
variety of their species and genera constitute
a marked and far from unimportant feature
of the country. Their principal food con-
sists of small fish, marsh grasses. and other
aquatic products, animal and vegetable, so
that in their natural, wild state the flesh
has a strong, fishy, unpleai ant flavor; but
wheneveri
their habitat s within convenient
distance of cultivated lands, they make
predatory incrusions into the wheat fields in
the fall of the year, and by picking up the
fallen grain among the stubble render their
flesh as deliciously pump and free from
fishiness as the most epicurean gourmand
would desire. Nor do these raids work any
serious injury to the farmer; sometimes
they are a decided benefit, because this
appropriation of the loose grain scattered
on the surface prevente it from being plough-
ed into the soil and thus coining up a "volun-
teer" crop to disturb the calculations of the
agriculturist, who may possibly have intend -
to sow an entirety diffrent kind of geed. And
In any case he is amply rapid for, the toll
levied on his fields by the -abundant sup-
ply of
DELIcIOUSLY PALATABLE FOOD
thus placed within his reach, whenever he
may desire to add some of the nhoicest wild
',fowl to the contents of his larder.
Another peculiar feature of thie part of
the country is the frequent occurrence of
alkaline and fresh water ponds, separated
from each other sometimes by comparatively
slight distances, and offering at first sightno
explanation to account for the difference, in
the character of their contents. Closer ex-
amination, however, reveals the fact that
the fresh water lakes and lakelets are on the
conree of some running stream which ultim-
ately finds its way bo the sea, while the sal-
e ponds and marshes are generally land -
eked, their alkaline properties being most
robably due'as I have pointed out in a
riner letter,th the fact that they have no
utlet. Each kind of stream or pond re-
ives the same proportion of alkali as the
her from the asheil of the burned prairies,
rid I do not know of any more eatistactory
planation of the difference between them
an that now suggested. No one who has
even once witnessed a prairie fire, and has
In
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dflt The Strength of Evidence, in
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Ac;i itudent said to a distinguished lawyet w
one ay, " I cannot understand how circiiin-
&Andel evidenee can be stronger than It,"
tive testimony." "I will illuetrate it,' said so
the lawyer. "My milkman btings me a can eu
of milk, and says, 'Sir, I know that is pure
' milk, for I drew it front the Cow, washed the
can throughly, strained it into the can, and
nobody else has handled It.' Now', when
eke the cover from the can, out leaps a bull
trog. Surely the frog 10 stronger evidence,
hem the man I"
arked the frightful havoc and deatruction
rought by one of thete terribly
4 DEVASTATING CONFLAGRATIONS
ill find it difficult to account for the pre-
noe of so much alkaline matter on the
dace of the grounds by attributing it to
The Tower of Babel.
The Eiffel Tower "at Paris has reached the
k great height of 200 meters, or about 660 feet.
A latge flag was rim up. to apprise Paris of
the eyent. The tenter is nein go high that,
stanching on abet:wily overlooking the Bout°.
Ward de Coureelles, t speetator is able to glee
it reaching far e away above the intervening
ttrooadero hill and the tall, houses etancling
thereob. As it stands it is 'far the highesb
erection in the world, The tOwer will prab.
ably be ready for the painters earlier than
the Contraotor en4aged to let Oetri haveit.
The intention is to carry the StrinSture to
unprededented height of 1,006 fedi
MOST VIGILANT OUTLOOK
to detect the first faint line of blue smoke
which indicates the commencement of the
fire, and, if peasible, to extinguish the in-
cipient conflagration before it has got be-
yond human control. Some unthinkiug
people, indeed, seem tto consider this the
sole duty of these hard-working nittn ; and
to hear such people talk one would imagine
that the police were in some mysterious
way accountable for every fire thab burns
across the plains, and that they ought to be
held responsible for all the damage that
may thus be caused, But, then, there will
always be some unreasonable people in
every communiby. Nothing, apparently,
can, for the present at least, prevent those
disasters; they will grow less and less
frequent as the country fills up with set-
tlers, and farms take the place of the cattle
ranges and unoccupied tracts of prairie.
Not greater vigilance, but:
MORE IMMIGRANTS,
is what the country wants, and until these
have been located in eufficient numbers there
will not be an end to prairie fires. But in
the meantime the present settlers might do
something to distribute the occasional losses
from this source, so as not to let the whole
burthen of fate fall on the heads of an odd
unfortunate here and there i a mutual associ-
ation for protection against loss by prairie
fires might be organized on a plan somewhat
simian- to that previously auggested for pro-
tection &gained loss by the early frosts in
Manitoba.
The settlements in this motion are neither
numerous nor large, though they are all
growing, and some few give signs of such
robust vitally as augurs well fordtheir future.
Swift current, 115 miles from Moose Jaw, is
an important railway divisional point, round
which a town is growing upto supply the
i
wants of numerous ranchers n the neighbor-
ing country. At Maple Creek, anothenessein
flatly ranch town, there are extensive yards
for tbe shipinent of cattle; and nob far from
the infant town is a police station and alio)
an Indian village orthe Cres. From orrer,
the next station, on to Dunmore, looks of
the geological peeiodknown as the Crete:moue
age occur, in whioh numerous specimens et
gigantic saurians and other extinct monsters
have been discovered.
The following story is going the rounds of
the United States press, whioh, if true, re-
flects veryseverely upon the state of tartan
in the vicinity of Montreal, and it untrue,
ehould at once be contradicted. The state.,
ment is that at Coteau Rouge, Quem diph-
theria broke (Wein a man's family early in
the inonth,of Deeember, and he could get no
physician to come into his house until four
were dead. No neighbour would go near the
cause, or lend any assistance.'The man took
the bodies to the cemetery, but the sexton
would not bury them, and he was compelled
to leave them on the ground—one of them
without a coffin and a mooted in a coffin too
small, go that Ito legit protruded. At lob a
physician from a neighbouring town volun-
teered his servioee, and the family were
the washing out of saliv oaredfor.aubetancee from
.
the ashes produced during centuries of simi-
MalagegyBible, on Which for several
lar osaastrephiere. On
several years past the Proteetant missionariee of
deuing trip 1 had opportunities of see-
ing the prairies onfire, sometimes close at
hand, sometimee at a long way off, in iso-
lated spots of small area, or embracing wide
tracts in their devouring progress, shooting
up to the sky in gigantic pinata of smoke
by day or illuminating the heavenswith the
lurid glere of their cloadoapped pillars of
Madagascar have been engaged, re now
completed. The reviaion has been carried on
at the expense ancltunder the direction of the
British and Foreign Bible Society. The
principal reviser won the Rev, W,E, Cleaning,
of the London Missionary Societe?. Engaged
n the work were delegates repreeentative of
the different miesionaty eocietiee and three
fire by night ; but no matter when; / native helpers. Eleven. emote have been
ommpied in the work.
where or how I Might chance to observe
then', however deetaly 1 might be fartoinat. The cruelefst neglect 'women ever receive
ed by their appalling beauty end magma
ficenoe 1 Wes alwaye, I think, far more
foreibly int teased y an overwhelming
:ftoni pieta Who etei Mani the gelfiele ab.
Berption of the latter in ether *omen. Clate.
and *neer se deafened the vision,net athilet
sense Of t eat te ttble deetruotinertoite , 'leafless
. ,
the ear. ,
and Of Merit's ineoteptitencly to grap, I A Chinese dealer in Fresno was Sent to
pie With Oita an all-powerful etigneel lett for eight days Lor plucking A live, tut
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Of deVeStation. Heat:Ikeda of sentare Mike I key,
are sOttletiineti bittited o'er by on�. of theseel 1/Iodified Ititecithire gOWeg gittv In favetit:
conflagrations, the Are nteking,o eliSeit itWeetep Plush and elOtliarti freqttently conibined
Of every .parthild Of vertinto hi the (Mike ' in long cloaks'.
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WOKENI ?BIWA.
T.here is no feature of Oriental life which
more forcibly attractthe attention and
stimulatethe curiosity of Earttpeans concl
Amerielins than the coodition of the women
of the Eeet. The pottier berriere which
have so long surrouuded and seotaded teem
in Turkey and Egypt are gradually yielding
te the pressure ot conteou with Europeem
rime% But in Persia these extraerclutary
limitatioes to the development of society
continue in full foroe and form one of the
greatest obstacles to the introduetion into
that country of the ineprovemeats which
mark the progress of oivilimidion in the Nice.
teenth Century.
Mauy estrum that the laws and cuetorns
regulating the condition of women in Orion -
totem& are due to the !nand etes of Mehemet.
There could not bo a greeter mistake. 14e -
hamlet /Amply continued in force and Maul -
°mad in a taeocratio code principles existine
on the subjeot for ogee in the liiast. It is
originally 5 quattion of race rather than of
religion. The ancient Greeks believed in
VIE SECLUSION OP WOMEN:
80 did the Zoroastrian Petsiens, so do the
pagan Bait Indians and Chineme, and even
some of the Asiatic ehriebiens, such as the
Armenians, while the Arabs of the desert,
aud the nomaelio tribes et Persia entirely' dis-
peuse with most of the regaletions °utile sub-
ject followed by Mahometans elsewhere.
At the outsee we may say than any sym-
pathy we may feel for women on account
of sucii enforced seclusior may be resetved
for other purposes, as they are not anxious
to have these customs abolished and feel
much sympathy ior their European sisters
and sometimes a strain.; aversion toward
customs which allow a wonia,n to show her
face or nook and arms in public. It is, after
all. a Matter of usege, or as the Turks say,
a,deb; all ot which is further shown by the
circumstance that, while the Persian i
analeten with horror at the idea of exposing
her face except in the presence of her 11114
hand, she is but ditele, disturbed sae is
seen walking throuvh the swats bare above
the lames. If a stranger is suddeuly die -
covered aPproitching when her mantle is
down she hastens to draw it tightly over all
but an eye, at the riek, perhaps, of display-
ing a large patient of her figure. After all,
it is a question of adet.
COST
The indol'our4cioNsptuwmReof PuemrEsian women,
from the princess to the elave, is one ot the
merit extraordinary ever invented. In the
nature of the ease it could only be warn in e.
warm, dry climate where the seasons change
with the slow, imperceptible movement that
marks the program of old age. Tnis eos
time consists of a jacket or cheinisette more
or less decorated with needlewm k. It is
eaughb on the bosom by a single button and
reachesto within a few incites above the
hips. The middle portion of the body is
uncovered. A skirt far more abbreviated
than that of a ballendaucer is attachecl to
the hips and, when starched, stands out in
a manner that plainly indicates ib is
INTENDED MORE FOR SHOW TITAN FOR
weneener.
Thab is all, excepting a pair of embroidered
slippers somminaes and long masses of
braided hair often reaching far below the
waist.
The Persian women are very handsome/
having a' Spanith complexion and a form
end expression that are more refined than
those of the pure Turkish or Tarte
races. The limbs are long, but shapely
trait which seems especially to mark
the Persians, perhaps because of the
way they have of sitting on the knees and
heels.
Until the age of nine or ten a Fenian
girl goes unveiled and wanders at will. But
about thab time she enters on what to all
Oriental wornands the chief and the inevit-
able condition of her life --matrimony.
Very likely ber husband. is some youth with
whom she has played in childhood. Per-
sian men marry at 14 to 16 and the wonaen
at 10 to 12. There are no old maids in that
country and very few bachelors. It is com-
mon to finel a. young gentleman, and some-
times one of lower condition, with two or
three wives before he is 20. This custom
has been followed there for thousands of
years, and the Persian race is still far from
effete, either physically or mentally. The
Persian women are, however, not very pro
lifio, and many of the children die young
owing to poor diet and ignorance of sani-
tary laws, and thus the population is kept
down.
As soon as she marries the Persian woman
enters an anderoon of her own. Thisis a
terin equivalent to harem and means literal-
ly the inner apartments. Clubs are not
pernutted in Persia, nor, indeed, would they
easily become popular, because in the and-
eroon a Persian has a club of whioh he
is the little god, while there the Nude me
men wield an influence as great, if not
greater,than
ANY ENJOYED BY EUROPEAN WOMEN.
After the day's work is done, after the visits
of ceremony have been paid, after the stroll
or the canter when the sun is drawing low
and his setting rays are tinging mountain
and field with a roseate glow, the Persian
gentleman retires to the seclusion of his
anderoon. Once there and the door closed,
no one eat enter but the eunuolis or the
laves. The master is alone with his family.
Sheriffs and creditors can not disturb him,
nothing short of an order from the Governor
Of the Shah.
_ Now it is that the woman exerts her in.
tluence. It is supposed there are many
hatreds and feuds among the various wivee
of a harem. Doubtless there are such; but
scarcely more than occur among women of
society elsewhere. And it naufit be remem-
bered that a polygamous life is a, custom to
which every Persian woman is habituated
from birthand looks forward to as a matter
of course. What would, therefore) be a
terrible indignity and curse to a Canadian
woman, and rouse her worst passions, pro-
duces no impression on a Berinan wife. It
should also be temeralterecl that Persia is
provided with a written code which, among
other mattere, prescribee the most careful
reeulations for the direction of married
people and the protection of the rights of
women. These regulations are Carefully
obterved by men as well aa %vetoer', both
because °women sense shows them the
importance of such observance and because
the code and custom alike allow suffi-
cient lioenee to reduce the butden of con-
jugal tite.
11 a man has three wines, he can not given
exclusive attention to one to the prejudice
a others, It is share and share alike, But
if he manifeetly prefers one to the others,
there are regUlationa prescribing a fair
exchange. Thus, if each of tile three is
entitled to an equal portion of his society on
anomaly° weeks, they agree to atcept
froin the favorite equivalentsthat compensate
tor
THE LOSS CP THE HUSBAND'S clouratit.
Ho in turn hale great libertn exercising
the forma of &verde, yet it intuit be done
with certain definite forms and phrases, and
the divorce is hob final until pronounced on',
three separate °deadens, He mit also '
return het dower to the divereedwomaii. On
the other hand, divorces work no injury to
her, and site may immediately re -marry.
un, esi es, a Persian woman has a
legal iight to form what is called a tempor-
ary ntarriage without a slur en her reputa-
tion, It may be for an hour or for ninety
years, hut the relation can on/y he dissolved
by death or the terminatioa of the period
oi title reatrimettiel compact lt differe from
the regular forni of marriage, io that the
brings no dower, tlae man giving her a
present instead, whigh he cannot recall.
Many Persien women undoubtedly praotice
his form of marriage for periods so brief,
but °theirs, on the other hand, torin life con.
tracts in this way in order to eyelid the an-
noyance of a divorce,
INFLUENCE OP THE ANDEROON.
The anderoon offers a Persian woman more
occupation than one would suppose. In
addition to the care of their children, of
whom they are very fond and froni whom
they reoeive great filial respece, they engage
in preparing conserves,. tit embroidering,
painting and maim in winch they sometimes
acquire rare profieiency ; and occasionally
they contpose poetry. - Although their range
of knowledge end observation, 18 committed,
THEY HAVE GREAT NATURAL INTELLIGENCE
and temperaments aottve and apt for affeirs
and intrigue. Hence the wives or a Persian
are of very great help te him itt the pursuit
oi the objecte of his ambition. ,aaInan re-
sorted to his anderoon and gought counsel
9f his wivee when he realized that his for-
tunes were tottering, Supposing then a
Persian deeires the favor of some personege
of rank or seeke to induce a neighbor to sled
him a gertain piece of land. Does he Beek
,nfitienee at his olub or go into the market
and donsult a broker? o; he first confers
with his favorite wife, or in a case of great
importance, with all of them in council as-
sembled iu the anderoon, while he smekes
the aromatic) weed of Shinn
A course of action having boon decided on
the wives call on the wives of the man it is
intended to influence or on the wives of men
whose wives can bring the necessary iefien
enoe to bear, if he be ot tar higher rank, or
theygo to the public bath, w.autr. is the
Persian way for cluba,ble people and while
having their tresses combed and dyed witn
henna or embroidering and chattieg, they
lead up diplomatically to the desired subject.
Influence, presents and bribes are offered,
and the treneaotion proceeds like a bargain
in the banyan. When . the criminal is
hauled up for judgment and hie life is
hanging in the balance, it is then his wives
rush to the anderoon of the judge or
governor and even of the Shah, arid urge
them co make intercessiou for him. In no
country are the women so mach
A PO wER BEHIND THE THRONE,
as in Persia, and they so well ampreeiate the
fact that they do not complete ir enter once
in the year their lord and master 14 eeen
walking abroad with therm This is at the
No Rau or New Year la the Ides of March.
Then the women appear in an entirely new
dress and the whole city goes fortn and
rambles in the gardens and the parks or
sits under the etievars and listens to the
professional story -teller arid musieian or
watches the uneouth dancing of beers and
the grimaces of hideous apes.
There is unhappiness and minery itt
Persia as elsewhere. Domestic life there
has its jealousies, jars and trogedies, bur it
also has its pletnaut side. There are true
and warm ami enduring affections between
husbandand wives there and I ha,ve yet to
learn that, so far as t9is life is connected,
there is not as much enjoyment got out of
existence among the vaileys of Iran as on
the slopes of luaty or on the prairies of the
West. S. G. W. BENJAMIN.
The Terrors if Caste.
The evening stars were rising slowly from
out the mist tnat lay wide over the Summer
Southern land. The twilight gloom was
gathering fast over the earth, but gathering
taster far over the heart of Riginald Font de
liceuf as these words, uttered in a low nausi.
cal, but determined tone, fell athwart his
ear. The bats circled in the heavy evening
air, the chimney swallows dived here a,nct
there after their prey. Old sow Sukey, the
pet of the household and the children's play-
thing, lazily scratched her spine along the
stoop and grunted forth her satisfaction
—all regardless of the agony pictured on
that haugety Southern face as he listened
to this more than, to him, sentence of
death.
"Celeste Silierkins, why won't young
marry weuns ? hairet I tuk yer ter every
, circus that kim alone' ? hain't I allus gin
I yer all the lemonade and peanuts that ysr
kin eat? hain t yer allus kept me com-
pany ? Why won't youns marry weans ?"
Celeste's face winced under this truthful
indictment, but presently her Southern
8aVoir fairs enabled her to regain her tumid
proud, indifferent look.
Her father, Col. Chalmers Cicero Siper-
kins, was a Southern aristocrat planter and
owned as many as 300 acres of good bottom
land, seventeen head o' stock, three inules
and kept a hired nigger. Celeste was his
only daugliter mid hear, to whom he denied
nothing. She had a right to be stuck up and
she was the stuckupedest maiden in all
the Southren land.
Celeste slowly drew off her new sun bon-
net, that day purchased at the fashionable
emporium of Jones & Cajobs, dealerin hats,
cape, hoots a,nd shoes, dry -goods, groceriee
and a complete stock of all novelties, as
proved by their printed bill -heads, and
gazing straight into Reginald's eyes slowly
maid :
"1 kaint never be gown. The blood of
the Siperkinses is the proudest; in all our
oouuun:.r: : I kaint never marry youns, Re-
ginald, kase—kase youns only wears one
gm
Caste reared itn horrid barrier end Re-
ginald fled outward into the night.
An Important Omission.
Said the retired city man in the oonntry to
his little nephew', who had come in with his
coat ripped up the back and his bat missing:
"I told pea, what to do if the bull chased you.
I told you that Gordon Cu/mangey the
Afrioen huoter, Saye that when chased by a
&Wage animal all you need to do is to turn
your back to it, stoop over, and regard the
beast from betweeit your knee. It will then
flee in terror from yen." "Did you tell the
bull that? "Tell the bull I You greeny, of
course not." "I thought not. 'Weil, you see
the bull wasn't onto the raellet."
A Trifling Miatake.
The door of Mr. 'Rambo's office opened
and a lady stood irresolutely on the three -
hold.
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W:311E,ETS,
Nathan Kennedy, wholesale oattle trader
of Montreal, has assigned.
Joe I3oef," of ItIontreal, died, suddenly
the °Vier day.
Mr. Edward 'Harrington has been re1ease1
from prison.
Port Arthur now rejoices in the drab
eleighing of the season.
Reports from Hayti give deteile of hon.
rible eannibalistiewmactices.
All the stores a -td places of business in
Port Arthur now close at 6 p. rn.
Johann Most has been denounced traitor
and coward by the real anarchists.
The tiver Denube is frozen solidly for a
distance of 8 ntilee below Vienna.
James Warnock & Op.'s tool works, at
Galt, wire burned on Saturday night.
Over $225,000 was expeuded in building
operationa in Sault Ste. Marie lest year.
The weather in Montreal /scold enoughoto
revive the spirits of the caruival mamegers.
A grand ball was given by the 40th North-
umberland Bettelion in Cobourg on Friday
nighMotre fighting has taken place in . Sent
Africa, in which the basurgents were defeat
ed.
Lieut. Wiegman has selected 25 edit '
service linutenants, most of them expel
enced travalers, to accompany hien
Alrihe"
TDetroit customs authorities ha -re pro-
mulgated an order te Mahe Canadian cars
runtutg on through lines nay duty at the
border.
General Grenfell's force of less than 1,900
fired over 50,000 rounds of small arma am-
munition in less theta half an hoar itt the bat-
tle of Suakim.
The British sloop Emerald has seized $5,.000
worth of smuggled opiura and twelve Clime -
men near the mouth of Port Discoveey By,
Puget Sound.
The Legislative Council of Quebec yester-
day, by a majority of one, voted Dr: Lanel-
lee out of his seat Hon. Henry Sterne.
gave the deciding vote.
George R. Parkin, of the Fredericton
Collegiate School, has aceepted the invita-
tion to go to the Antipodes and lecture on
Imperial Federetion.
Jobe F. Redmond, stationer, formerly a
moulder, ha.s been nominated by the Labor
peaty ia Montreal Center to contest the rid-
ing for the Local Legislature.
Scene Of the members of the Middlesex
Law Society object to the establishmenb of
the propoted law sohool in Toronto. They
would prefer soma other location.
Emigration and .Labor.
Congressman Ford's Immigration investi-
gation Commietee has unearthed some start-
ling fans at Pittsburg and Detroit. during
the pato two weeks. In one dayti Hesston
in the termer city it found than at least 500
pauper and insane immigrants liad reached
that parb of the country since thelaw which
was designed .so regulate immigration had
gone into force—a period of less than three
years. Evidence was produced to show that
men fresh from foreign workhouses and
criminals shipped to America by the author -
hies of their native land formed no Moon-
siderable portion of the immigration which
had reached Pennsylvania by way of New
York. In Detroit a similar state of affairs
was disclosed, with this difference, that Can-
ada was either the source or the medium of
this most undesirable immigration. 01 1,370
persons in the Detreib poor -house no less than
740 are foreign born, and, according to the
President of the County Board of Poor Com-
missioners, a, large number of the latter are
either Canadians or have gone to the United
States from across the ocean by way of
Canada. The same witness abated that"a
large number of Canadian and European
paupers and lunatics get letters from Cana-
dian ministers to church people here and are
relieved, but in the end come on the hands of
the poor authorities." Other witnesses testi-
ad that Canadian labour is largely employed
in nearly every business, native labor being
crowded out because the aliens are willing to
work for low wages. Forty per cent, of the
employes of the Detroit City Rahway Com-
pany are Canadians. Of 2,100 carpenters in
the city shout 600 are aliens, and there are
to -day 700 idle men in this 'trade alone, all
of them natives. The flood of foreign labour
has reduced wages -from fifty to seventy-five
eente a day. In one manufactory nearly all
the employes are Canadian girls, who were
engaged because they accepted lower wages
than Detroit girlie And so on.
Bribery in the Presidential Election,
That bribery and corruption in their grim -
gest forms heed high carnival during the
late Presidential election of the United
States seems established beyond all possi-
bility of reasonable doubt. The mote inde.
pendent papers have ever since been cry-
iag out for an investigation. The "Chris-
tian Union," one of the most influential of
these, now admits, torrowfully, that there
seems little hope thet any such investiga-
tion will be held. It sees, or fears it sees,
in various circumstances, indications of a
reluctance on theipart of leading politicians
in both parties to prosecute any vigorous
inquiry. The investigation by the grand
jury of Indiana is hardly commenced before
the Judge is called away, and the jury ad-
journed. The United Spates Distriot
Attorney undortaltee the prosecution, and
then suddenly resigns his post. In Congress
there is no prospect of an hivestigation,
because the session, it is said, will not be
tong enough.. No one of thou: promitent
party leaders who have been specially sing-
led out and denounced as the high priestin
of corruption is clamouring for an inquiry.
All keep suspiciously.quiet under the impu-
tations. A bill has" indeed, been introduo-
ed into Congreesi disfranolaising both bribe -
takers and bribe -givers, but it containee no
proviaion for the deteotion of bribery, and
none for this effective prevention. That
against which Di Tocqueville Warned the
republic fifty yore ego as its ohief danger
--the rule Of a plutooraey—seems to be
coming upon it, and the indifference with
which the great body of citizens apparently
look upon the aggression and usurpation of
the gross and debasing power of money, is
appalling, It is a, wondet that both the
Uhited States and Canada do not adopt the i
siniple and effeetive Engligh expedient of
limiting the amount of legitimate expenses,
and requiring morn becounte of the die-
bureements.
He Was Desperate.
At a reoent book auction in this city two
"Thunder and lightning, Nancy I Shut young husbands, married but a few months,
the door r exclaimed Mr. RityibOo glancing became considerably warmed up inbidding
hastily up from his account books, Were on is cook boa. Both were savagely bent on
you reified in a barn? Do you suppose 1 having it, and tbe pned tau run eip to a good
want to freeze to death on aecount of your figure. What do you seppose called for such
confounded -1 beg your pardon, madam, 1 strife, end what would the wives of the
/ thought it was my Wife. I was eXpenting young Mtn:, oily if they heard of such cm
-
her ab the nide° 40116 this time. Certainly, duet out in ? The husband that had
oertain13r, nii!doPie. I'll subscribe ler the been the longer married got the book. He
Magazine With Pletontire. Put fue down for WaS,reitutintbly) desperate.-401eaveand
two ettplea,".,--tChicagti Tribune, Ltader,