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HOUSEHOLD.
Ta11 Garb,
It is the fashion for girls to be tall. Thi
is much mom then saying that tail girls sr
the fashion. It. means nut only that the 111
girl has come in, but that girlo are tall, am
are becoming tall, beeaua, it is 1110 fashion
and because thele is a demand for that sur
of gild, There is no hint of stoutness, hider,
the willowy pattern is preferred, but Refthe)
is leannoes suggested ; the women of the
'period have got held of the poet's idea
" tall and most divinely fair," and are living
up to it. Pedlal)s this change in fashion is
more notieeable in England unit on the lion
tinent than in America, but that may be be
cause there Is less mous fur change in Atter
Ma, our girls being always of an aspiring
turn, Very marked the pllenomenun is in
Europe this year; on the street, at any
concert or reception, the number of twit girls
is so large as t.0 0)510.8701 remark, especially
among the young girls just coming into the
conspicuousness of womauhcod. The tend.
.enay of the new generation fo towards
unusual height and gracious slimness. Tho
situation would be embarassingto thousands
of men who have been too busy to think
about growing upward, were it not for the
fact that the tall girl, who must bo looked
up to, is almost invariably benignant, and
bears her height with a sweet timidity that
disarms fear, Besides, the tall girl has now
come on in such force that confidence is in-
fused into the growing army, and there is a
sense of support in this survival of the tallest
that is very encouraging to the young.
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at 41 111'11 ion 55111011 1,1)11)11' men and popular I
_tele inns deenla,
1 1)110 palmi 1)0 wrli1Om 1)y !u nup0pnna
luau, s , 110 olh+nee need be taken, or, if thee
is, 1)o harm will be dale, when we say Ilia
051)0in it is all maids, sohnol.tenehet'e, an
slow" ;;iris are generally unpopular wit
1 their sex 1 men of the 00.100 stamp are a
i I most invariably popular with men.
tl
S. Ills, kie hasak
si 1 " Life is an Darn
est b1) b ets, nod no man was ever mad
great 1)r goad by a dict of broad grins," T
awmnau, .tad especially n y'utulg lwon5
Ms 18 1101 05ident,
AFemale Mokauna.
• :1 1''5,10'11 amnia] deserlbes the case of
woman _'1 years of ago bat whose ply
slognmuy' is that of a womal fully ; U year
old, The eppenrance of the young wmna
is so decetvfug that her father, who is onl
50 years old, has frequently been asked i
she were not itis 111ot110)1, The anrfaee e
the skin is the only part affected.. The dos
tot's deecribe 1t afi a decrepitude of the )n
tltneous system, Beyond this the young
lady has nothing old appearing about her
Her hair is blonde and of ordinary length,
and her memory, judgment and intelligence
very good. l)t's. Charcot and Souquoz,
under whose observation the ease was
studied, state that the wrinkling of
the girl's skin began when she was
about eleven yea's old. Up to that time
she had been a rivacions and happy child,
tanking well in her studies at school, The
wrinkling was so rapid that her friends
were unable to recognize her after a period
of two weeks, unless they had sten her in
the interval. Dr, Charnot states that the
skin, during the early stages of the change,
resembled the scales of a lisp. Every pos-
sible means have been tried to improve the
young lady's condition, but they hale all
proved unavailing,
Tz3 I BRUSSELS
RICH MEIN FISHING. is cheap enough for the memo ion and sty!,
POST,
The .d 1I0naLv's wile Have 1t l Inb on A )le
t181111111, Nolte Bele,
d I div 1')11x» A, Beim
h PVT-1'4;131Y,1PVT-1'4;131Y, Nov, ti. --"Thirty t(5u thou
I' sand black 1)1104 caught with 1111 is els, Ire
and linos, which coat free) ttI25 to tee/ emelt
is the record lit "!'clue:"'
e Another fish story said 1 11) nly-self es m
friend who hail made that statement leen
01) to tell 1110 a still bigger' 01111.1' a aboutmysteriousnsterious pisoao'i5l ciubanchorc01 in Lek
Erie,, the nlenbos of which are all rich
among the richost Americans,
11 is the wealthiest and most exelus(v
- sporting organization in this country," 11
s tient o1), 1 he shares are quoted at $d,
n (100 etch; but noun could be bought fotn
Y doable that ss, and many 8. nlilliottair
I would be glad to bid 11'10,000 to got in. I
1 costs the 1/:1 members only $800npioco every
- year to fish roily weeks out of each 12
• months.
1'111'; tall talking, said I to myself as I
• caught my breath, which those figures had
fairly knocked out of me. As I recovered I
mildly tasked, who are these arlstocettic
sportsmen 5
• Not at all aristocratic," he said, "Just
wealthy ntet frons Nov York and Chicago
who wilt two weeks of recreation spring
and fall, and are willing to pay for it. That
is all, and if you multi see bow little style
they put on, and tory 1nnch fun they have
11'
f.it, you would say how little they pay for
what they get. That is from their pinnacle."
Think of men of groat alfhtirs like George
111. Pullman and /Marshall field being fisher-
men. But they,are, and among the leaders
of the "Pelees. With them General Sheri-
dan was one of the founders of the great
scheme for capturing bass and having sport
on Lake Erie that isnow it romance. Robert
Lincoln is one of them, and for this reusou
some of the natives call them " Lincolns;"
but this isnot in keeping with the spirit and
purpose of the assembly, for had an indi-
vidual name been acceptable, it would Have
been called the "Sheridan," The neme of
the island was chosen instead, and will
remain at the masthead. Chance gave Ino
an opportunity to visit it, and learn for
myself who and what tho " Poloos" are, and
the truth unfolds a story of luxurious sport-
ing with the finny tribe which will road like
an unreal story to the bulk of humanity,
he ;tete, and the ohanee this aaa,@iatmn
c, glue, hint to brag to 1)10 fr10u115 of his 10',
derful exploits as it 111,X5)11, '171 1.0 18 14
41/1;y deer privilege to it num 5vhose penchtult
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National Habit of Drinking.
This is a matter which coneerus 1wnmen
nearly as much as it concerns men. One of
the saddest facto is that a not inconsiderable
number of women do fail victims to alcohol ;
and there are one or two points in which
the vice is more dangerous for the weaker
sex. It is commonly said that if a man
reaches middle age without getting drunk
it is not likely that he will eve' become a
drunkard ; but it is not so with women.
Again, natural and proper leehngs of Memo
make a woman prefer to drink in secret ;
and a secret vice 1s always harder to give
up than an open one. But it is from an-
other point of vied; altogether that the sub-
ject chiefly interests women. It is the
woman's part to watch against the first
advauoes of this deadly foe, to pet forth all
her influence and all her wit to repel it, to
make him who is attacked feel that he is
not alone in the struggle ; and, alas! it is
sometimes her part to suffer all the pain and
ah0nle that falls to the lot of a drunkard's
wife. There are some who loot- to the action
of the Legislature as the one thing that
can put down our national vice. Ifo our
mind the mere number of public houses
'has very little to do with the matter.
If half the public -houses in London were
to be closed to -morrow the land -lords
of the remaining half would make their
fortunes in a very short space of time ; in-
deed, the overcrowding of the bars that
were spared would probably lead to an
increased consumption of liquor. On the
other hand, you wt1l find in the country
villages with fourteen orfifteo/ beershops, in
which a drunken man is never seen except
011 a public holiday, and rarely even then.
And total prohibition of the liquor traffic,
if tried on a large settle, would certainly fail.
There is, however, one point to which the
attention of Parliament might be directed.
Looking to the daugers incurred by the wife
and children of an habitual drunkard, it
might be desirable to declare inveterate
drunkenness to be a crime—to be punished
by lengthened periods of imprisonment, or
rather of forcible restraint, without the low
diet and hard monotonous toil of prison life.
The system would undoubtedly prevent
many crimes being committed, and would
thus lessen the expense of our gaols ; and it
might be urged with much reason that a
drunkard's wife and children have a right
to be protected by preventive measures
against nein¢ beaten and murdered, just as
householders have a right to have the streets
patrolled by police to prevent their houses
being entered by burglars.—The Lady.
Whom Women Love
What a source of never failing wonder to
the average man is the average woman's
admiration for hint ! Precisely what there
is about his hairy and cigar -scented person 1
that attracts a sweet -breathed woman, he °
cannot divine.
And the average mat is apt to laugh at
the average woman for the 0110100 she makes w
when she falls in love, For the man who is t
loved of women is he of fine manners, of 1
considerable conceit and a soft voice, and
of these qualities the average man considers
not the first and despises the other two.
He knows that good manners are a part
of good morals, but is apt to think that an
excess of this sort of morality clenote0 a
corresponding deficiency of some other sort.
The average man realizes, more than the
average woman, that without steadiness of
character in social life there Dan be no true
friendship, and that fine manners, conceit
and a soft voice are not essential to this :
and he knows that "he who holds ]oosely
the love of a friend ora brother is unworthy
to take upon himself any obligation more
sacred or binding."
All this accounts for the average man's
laugh when his woman friend falls in love
with somebody else.
The man popular with women' is seldom
popular with men. This does not seem to
be doe 80 muoh to any feeling of jealousy as
to tate fact that the man popular with wo.
men is rialto often a shade selfish, and will
seek admiration even if his friends are for
the time cut off from the sunshine of his fine
manners.
Moro than this, " moderato people—those
who ponder carefully, who see many sides
of a subject, who are able to appreciate the
good points of their enemies and the fail Mee
of their friends, who strive to be 510urale
and just more than to be effective and strik-
ing—are seldom so popular and so attractive
as those who put force and hrillianoe and
sparkle into the foreground ;" and the aver.
ago than dislikes to see real worth outshone
by superficiality.
And then often the popular man with
women is set down as a fool, h°cauee a fool
always finals some one more foolish than
himself to admire him,"
It has been said that if you want a man
to do his best, shut him up whore he'll never
see a woman, and, doubtless, it has been
thought that since the ladies' man sees them
so much he must bo a sort of a "poor stick"
when it Domes to a question of man's respoot
or man.
At any rate, " love trends not 101111 meek.
tion," and it is the .',tons man wham
amen lake, and that's 'Aso the amount
of it,
It is curious that the same bele does not
hold good for w0m.,n 1 • '1 mon: The woman
popular with men is, 1051; every ease,
p0p itlar with women.
Whether thio is d 1., '0 woman's superior
sweetness of eharautter, or to the fact that
woman's popularity with woman is based
upon qualities almost opposite to those
essential to man's pop111arity with man, Is
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is to must the line aiel wait fat' 0 hitt. '1
club hiin the very height of ids fall 11010i
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410140011410140011 m115•, which never equel8 then of rho
0111'11]1•.
Strange 0.8 11 any se°tn Pelee has its daily
y volume, mutat ea any other place wimre
t Nperle of the field 'and water are hill 1 , •'i
a
M. Early rising is the rule. 'Cha c\mhm•i-
e eau Eagle, a comfortable steamer with
, small boats and anMUM Elan I tor0001) 1181)1')•.
elan, to at the wharf, and every nand is on
c
hand for 1110 morning sport, The fresh,
e blueing 111r and freedom teem business hoe
- given them a gond appetite 0,11 away they
r 111 8o»0 00104110d 01101 to see who )tut cal
o the !nest bass. Frequent wagers Oro uta
t between members on the day's resells, a
many a good bottle le disposed of after t
day's sports. The steamer ]goes quickly to
lho spot designated, but the boats are drop.
ped oftand the members go to war](. 11
after a fait' trial the bites are not ntimorous,
the skill's are reloaded, and the fishermen
move to another place.
Thus the day is spent, a record being
kept of 010ry fish being taken, its weight,
temperature of the thernlonl°tee, etc. As
no bass of loss than half a pound's weight is
permitted to be taken by the Canadian
Government, the smaller fish are thtou'n
overboard, and only the larger ones kept as
a reminder of a gond clay's fishing. During
the nine yea'0' existence of the o1nb, :12,000
have been tauten, or 17 fish to the rod for
every day's sport its members have enjoyed,
Fishing is much the stone in its details all
over the world ; but there aro notnlany men
able to tis° tackle costing from $125 to $200
each, as the members of the Pelee Club do ;
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OU1t10 US LAKES, T1IE LAKES FILLIN:4,
.(n I:vlrnorillenvy hlinll/t !:oh '10 the ('n
urn))) Ili%0r Plateau,
'l'it're are i11 the world malty lakes an
ulau1
11(114, haviu)g 1v ter i11151101' t
1111)11. \los11'1111.01;. 011 al Miro is 1110110,1)1 111)
(1111:0' 810'1'ae0 is 1,100 feet below that of 111
T'0011111111 )l'lia:)0 depth l0 allntller 1,11111) feat
ho largest 18 1110 1'11111101 000, 1,1011 110105
Soh 101701, 1(1)11 with 1111 unfathomable bottom
l:xphnutoon of the American vonti11nt Ila
rev0al01 14 malar id saline and alkalin
lakes, all of which are above set level. Sol
lake, the largest atilt perhaps tltoOldest, ba
an altitude of 4,21111 feet. Lake t'utuo, it
the new "State of Wonders," is ;,0)10 feu
up in the mmlutain0, wale Tulare has 11)
g„ thou 3110 feet altitude. The waters of the
.ch last two aro 11 111)0 braeklelt, bet light coin.
de I pared telt)) Salt 111(0, whose 0111tenis are 20
1111 1 ler tient, salt, being but little lighter' than
110 end 000 water.
The waters of lakes Owen and Mono,
the eastern elope of the sierra, havenotb
analyzed], but they are euroharged with so
diem contpountie. Berme lalto, i1) 801)1)).
05510111 Orege1, 15 named from the boracie
oltt'ael.er of its waters,
All these lakes and seas 1)1)5'0 a visible 111•
lot, a fresh water' supply, that compensates
for evaporation, bot there is a little alkaline
and saline lake in southern Washington,
says the Sal h'reno1800 Chronicle, that has
no violblo inlet or outlet, the supply coining
from two hidden apriugs, It is 8ituat011 on
the great Columbia river plateau, 16 miles
'5outlhn'eat from Spokane and 2,300 fent
&hole the rim of the ocean, Prom the 10-
m0(11)11 virtues of the water it has been ap-
propriately 0011011 Medical lake. It 1188 in the
midst 01 ,, g, wit baaaltio region through
which the lrenite orops out occasionally, as
on tlhewoetsrushore. :Chelakched, too,issaid
to bo granite. A high basaltic ridge to the
westward is shaded by a pine forest. On
rho opposite side is the thriving little vil.
logo of \Medical Lake.
ivlodical lake has a maximum depth of 00
feet, is half a mile longandtwioe amide. No
plant grows close to or in the water, and the
quiet that reigns over the dark pool is im-
pr0saive, The water 1108 been damnified as
umber colored. If amber is dark with a
greenish tinge the description is good,.
Fresh water is to be found only a feats feet
below the endue, not more than 20 feet
from the hake shore.
An final life in the lake is not quite we 8011r00
as plant life, There is a bug which sports
on the Burtan°, a species of terrapin living
more on the bottom, and a curious anima!
called rho " walking 11811," which seldom
comes to the eurface, The last named, the
axolott, is quite remarkable 111 appearance
and one of the most interesting of American
reptiles,
Tl10 name "secretary tadpole" would be
asappropriate as " walking fish," for the
gills stick out behind the head in a way to
remind one of the secretary bird,and it much
resembles a large tadpole,being eight or nine
inches long. A finny melnbrano extends
along the back, continuing along the upper
and lower sides of the oomproesed tail. The
four fent hove four toes, the hinder five,
The eyes are strall and without lids. The
mouth, like the head, is large mod ugly'.
Our natural histories speak of the axolott 1(e
a Mexican reptile, and it has been given n
sepote to genus—siredon. It is 80 abundant
in b10010an lakes as to be a source of food
for the natives. Not until the discovery
of lake Como, Wyoming' was it known that,
the animal lived in the United States.
Professor Marsh took some of them to New
Haven from this mountain lake, and the
scientific world 0058 1urpri8ed to learn that
in these now surroundings they passed
through another metamorphosis, lotting their
gills and finny adornments, while their
hitherto undeveloped lungs expanded so that
they would live in the open air and their
°yea worn protooted with lids. In fact it ie
a true amblyetonla, and lead been wrongly
named, never having in its native habitation,
reached more m511010 existence than the
larval state, Tho existence of the axolott
in Medical lake or even t1)° existence of the
lake itself, is, perhaps, now to most
zoologists. It is also eau) to sport in the
fresh Water of lake Wasltatuona, Washing-
ton.
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A nit Tlielr Exist 14 Th modelled,
8110don4 eellll0111110 ttl'e being made by
0 Mont rein shippers 11)11)1 their' bolus are being
delay.) tit lriui.eit 1h1•.,ngh the canals owing
o' to the lowness of water, and that this low.
nese iv 11vliug to 1 lie falling of 1110 level of
• 111e lal(le. 11 in 0'.)111 111(1 the water level 1n
the lakes hes sunk graitiollly for many perm,
y amt th0t it. bas naw reached a levet u -hen
O g0\ 111 1lent, nand do something to remedy
t it or undertake such Werke 118 01m11 seellr0 0,
s 00110114111) 141111 5)01111;' 00pply of 'titer In the
casuals, '1'110 chaugee i11 the lower 111 bee
100)'0 11)51 1,°(1110,1 fn 1838, 811100 1.1101) 14
51( get4t change huts boon obsorl'od, (h° drought
td watel'sc'adily, though slowly determent/it.
Professor Selwyn being interviewed maid
"Thou id no doubt that the hakes are fill.
ing 1,p, very gradually perhaps, and it may
lie millions of yearn before 8ny serious
change may take place in the larger lakes,
but 111 the shallowest, hake Erie, which is
only 120 foot average depth, the °fleet might
be mach more 801101us at tel. earlier date, The
reason of the lake filling up is quite obvious,
When I wont up into the west in ]873, I
found that the process of filling up had
oontmenced, and in my rgport 1 drew the
attention of the government to the fact. 11
my interview8 with 1110111dian51.4mnd their
legendary lore contained traces of their
knowledge of the fact that the laltes wet°
filling up, and not only so, but I found, go-
ing back to their legends of time immemor-
ial, I haat some time or otter, perhaps many
generations ago, some of one great valleys
were Iakoe, which have been filled up. In
tide legendary story I hove every reaeo11 to
believe, as my own geological researches
tend to confirm it, and in my own personal
experience 1 have known trimly largo water'
holes completely filled up.
" On my eon's farm in the west there was
a pond, with a strata running through it,
of several acres, which, in 1881, was some
throe foot deop, •and off which this year he
took a magnificent Drop of hay. This filling
in is increasing. rapidly, and while much
more rapid now than in former years, will
continua to increase mere rapidly yet. Yon
ask the reason of this. 11 is olf.evideut
that while tiro mass of the territory drained
by the myriad et1eamis of the west, all run-
ning into these ponds and lakes, was thick-
ly wooded, the trees served not only to hold
the water, but to prevent the washing away
of the soil by 11105115 of 1(101r• nhlnlerola roots.
As the country becomes cleared, so those
safeguards are removed, and after heavy
rains the waters pour down unchecked air
thane lands and, percolating through them
5e well as running over them, carry with the
streams immense mud e1sr.increeeing vol -
1111108 of silt or soil. As Ione res this is borne
along by the velocity of the streams it has
no chance to eettle, but when the rivers fall
into the deep still lakes the law of gravita.
tion makes the silt sink to the bottom and
gather there. The sane thine has been seen
10 many parts of .Europe, where rapid and
impetuous 011•°0ms run into the sea, land thus
00/110 rho curious natural phenomena, which
are 000 affecting our lakes, When you
take the thousands of m11es of watershed
drained by 0ountless streams, all coming
into the great lakes, you can form some
small idea of what 111° proportion of 8111, in-
orea0ing yearly with dnareasod cultivation,
being deposited in these lakes must be."
Transportation of British Troops.
General -Passenger agent Nicoll furnish-
es interesting information regarding the
transportation of British troops across the
continent. This negotiation with the Im-
perial Government has been going on some
time and is now shout complete. Early in
December next the marines of the two war.
ships Pheasant and Champion, belonging to
the North Pacific naval station, will be paid
off and sent home to England, to their term
of service at that station will then expire.
Their places will be filled by new crews to
be brought out from England. Hitherto the
practice has been to transfer the men or send
thou home by an inward bound ship, bat
this ;eat• au experiment is to be made, and
the advantages of the Canadian Pacific line
as a new route to the East put to the test.
The homeward -bound marines will be land-
ed at Vancouver and taken 01)'058 10 Halifax
by a special C.P.R. tram, while the outgoing
force will be lauded at Halifax and token to
the Pacitie coast over the same line. The
whole force to be so transferred will be ;OO
men and others. The C.1', R. will provide
everything required for both transcontin-
ental journeys, cars, berths, meals at res-
taurants and dining cam they will take the
force up at one ocean and put them down
by the other, one ready to take up their
duties in the North Pacific squadron and the
other ready to sail across the Atlantic to
England. The lmmelliate purpose of the
Imperial authorities is to transfer their
marines and sailors, but beyond this there is
no doubt they have in view tho testing of
the Canadian Pacific line as 5 means of trans-
ferring troops to and from the East In this
connection a :Montreal Star correspondent
cables: "Arrangements have just been
completed between the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company and the British Director
of Transports for the trial of the Canadian
Pacific as a route for the carriage of Imperial
troops. The trial takes place 10 December
when detachments of about 700 mariners
and sailors each, with officers, will be ex-
changed between Halifax and Vancouver and
vice versa, The imperial authorities have
accepted the company'a terms. The neces-
sary preparations will be made forthwith.
This is the first full fotmal recognition of
the Canadian Pacific for Imperial military
purposes, and is sure to attract world-wide
attention to the route as a British highway
to the East and a rival to the Suez Canal,
The Early days of Telegraphy.
The art of telegraphy or communication
)etween places 0epar5ted, by distances more
r less considerable, other than the electric
elegraph, is no new thing. The ancient
Greeks and Romans practised telegraphy
nth the help of pots filled with straw and
wigs saturated in oil, which, being placed
n rows, expressed certain letters aouordiog
o the order m which they were ltglttotl ;
but the only one of their contrivances that
merits a detailed prescription was that in-
vented by a Grecian general named altno&s,
who flourished in the time of Aristotle, in-
tended for e0mmuuiclttion between the
generals of an army. It consisted of t1v0
exactly similar earthen vessels, filled with
water, emelt provided with a cock that would
dischargean equal quantity of water in agicon
time, so that the whole or any part of the
°entente would escape in preeis01y the same
period from both vessels. On the surface of
each floated a piece of cork supporting an
upright marked off into divisions, each
sion havinga certain sentence inscribed upon
it. One of the vessels was placed at well
station, and when either party desired to
comtnlnioate, he lighted a torch, which ho
held aloft until the other dill the stone, as
a sign that he was ail attention. On the
sender of the message lowering or extinguish-
ing his torch, each party immediately opei-
od the cock of his vessel, and so left it until
the solder relighted his torch, when it was
at once closed, The receiver then read the
sentence of the rdtvi0i811 of the upright that
was level with the month of the vessel, and.
which, if everything had boon 000cut511with
exactness, oorrespo sod with that of the
sender, 01111 so conveyed the desired informa-
tion. The first erletric telegraph at all
deserving the name Was invented by Messrs,
Cooke and Wheatstone, and was laid on the
London and Blackwall Railway in J11115,
1837.
Rer Great Objection to the City.
She tees a fresh -looking young onentry
girl, with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes,
and heed Dome to visit her olly, relatives,
She took a stroll around the neighborhood
and when she returned to the ]louse oho
eeemedtroublecd, "I uessI'll gohome to.
morrow,"she said, "What's the matter?
Don't yon like the city?" baked her' city maw
in."No,Idon't,"shesaid with deoi0io,, ''Do
you mi88 the green ileitis 5" queried tho city
cousin. "0, 110—it's not that," wail the
oo0nt'y girl. "The noise of the streets
troubles you, I suppose," 5ngg58(ed the
city cough). "I dont nand it at all," r0.
turned the 0ountry girl. " 0f course the
air is not as pure toil the soot ruins every.
thing," admitted the oily myosin, "O, I
don't caro about that,"saa id the country girl.
"And the cable ears don't irightnn me, and
I don't get bewildered by rho crowds, but I
haven't peen a front gate to swing 0)1 on
moonlight nights since I've' boon herr,
}Tow in the world do you city girls over got
married?
1'111.05 I0 ,5. 0.10,5111,10 ISLAOl),
There is a group of 114'0 Canadian island
toward the northern shore of Lake Et ie, and
Pelee, with its 11,000 acres of fertile lands,
is the largest. It is a 0001000 patch i1) the
water, and peopled by that strange Canadian
population which 10 move than half a mys.
tery i1) its customs and planners to the aver.
age American. Many of them live by fish-
ing, and (Abets tilt the soil 1 but they are a
quaint, shiftless sort of humanity that seem
never to have felt the touch of American
epil'it,
Point Sheridan is a queer little jut into
the lake, which shoots out of the mainland
of this big spook in the water. It seems so
singular to be writing !omit a neck of soil
named Sheridan on the Canadianisiand. But
11 is properly named, for as I said, General
Sheridan was one of the founders of the
strange and wonderful institution of nvhic11
T em speaking, and this was his pet place
for reereetion. Millionaires from New
York and Chicago are here 1)000 in the party
which are fishing from the 1st to the 15t11 of
October. But there is not so much interest
in the there act of taking the gamest and
most intelligent fish that runs, but in the
character of the men who compose the rank
and file about this point,
Millions, upon millions of dollars worth of
of property and mountains of influence are
represented in 111e Pelee Fishing Club. It
is one of the most exclusive institutions of its
kind in the world, and they pay more for
the sport they enjoy than any other club in
the United States, if not on earth. There
is also a lesson in the fact that men like
Marshall Field and George 111. Pullman, of
Chicago, take time enough from money
grubbing to breathe awhile the fresh air of
freedom from business here or elsewhere.
Molt rich moi do not. Gemmel Schofield
has taken Generol Sheridan's plane as an
honorary member, mod he spent a part of
this spring') fishing season here which lasts
from the 15th of May until the 1st of June,
He took in the spirit of the lour very real.
ivy and enjoyed himself.
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f1There are only 25 metnbers of this excite
110 club orangauization which has been in
xistence for nine years, The number Dan
of be increased for a0y purpose o• under any
retext. There are 2f) bedrooms in the hand -
one and rather unique clubhouse, ea011 one
f which is furnished according to the taste
and extravagance of the member wnoocon-
ins it, and at his expense. Che by-laws
squire thole to fish from the 15th of May un -
Utile 1st of June and from the 1st ot Glauber
Mil the 16th. 'Members may go there with
tlheir families for recrottioh during the
mm�lee months if they care to. But very
ew of them do.
The intent of the organization is for sport
and )'hiring the fishing season no ladies aro
]lowed on the premises to interfere wi th the
portiva 101(10110ies of those who are to
njoy themselves without restraint. Mem•
ors bringing guests most provide for their
omfort by an extra bed or cot in their own
Dom. No extra provisions ere made for
mote than the mystic 25, who play in the
great game of material life at home, and in
the still more interesting pastime whioll
lusters about Pelee Island.
Great stories of the pleasures 1(1 Point
Iheridan during the fishing season are often
old. When these immensely healthy men
re let loose from the exactions of their'
veryday life th8y simply become boys again,
tat they may take on now powers for their
abors at ho "e. There are no " don'ts"
ere, the utmost, freedom of action and
&price goes in 1)c the pool of the luxurious life
n this Canadian island, anal mel who are
all dignity in Chicago or New York pall out
to plug of restraint and let the better s1(
f life run at its will. These men arm in
ve 0!111 Week bass fishing, and no other
f the finny tribe is taken by them. They
are the money to enjoy this caprice, and
1e record of Pelee Island shows that men
ever enjoyed their outing more,
What does all this luxury and fun coat,
id yob say? 1\'1111, that is a stunner, 13111
y friend answered. the question asIbegan.
my one share of the stook has ever been
ralsferred, and that was on 50000011 of
oath, The quiet price was 113,000, The
ghost number of men who have over
lr0qwn a line under rho charter of the Pelee
C11111 is 34, and 102 people in tho way of
rvan18, attendants, etc., aro fed during
10 fishing 00a0On to keep :34 people of loss
mfortablo, '!.'here is no 11)x115; that
o110y can procure that is sot on the table
'mover °ailed for, and the larder is
aimed to be as complete 1(5 any 1)1 the
lifted Stator, not excepting Dclmolico's,
10 liquid department is never neglected
d the finest of winos 51111 liquors aro at,
term on halal, which is (1)8eovered by the
et tint the Canadian Govermnent gots in
000 and duties about $`1111,000 a year out of
in organization, Tie cost of a month's
fig;
for each member, while only ;1800,
and yet I do not know that the expensi
rod is of any particular advantage, for' ha
seen 1)t country boy go into the woods, cut
pole with a jacknife amt use a lisle that co
10 cents and catch more Sell than the tea
next hint with a costly rod and reel. Y
It adds zest to the sport when you eau boo
a game fish and then play with hind with loo
or tight line until you get ready to haul hi
in. The fish caught by tho Pelee Club a
taken only for sport, and are seat away t
friends in different oities, except those 111
are wanted for the table, All taken in (1l
spring are returned to the water.
Itis not until after the day's fun is ovs
that Pelee Is at its best, Then the light
are lit, and the place is oven more oheeef
that in the day, The members sit trout
on the porch or under the trees, and re
marvelous fish stories until dinner. Afte
n sunlptnous repast, which a day's sport ha
furnished an appetite for, members dispor
themselves as they see fit, playing billiards,
writing home, looking over their email, which
is brought down twice a day by their own
dispatch boat. .Even a hand at some famili-
ar game at cards is not waning, pokerbeing naturally the most popular.
Soule interesting stories are related 81 the
bouts at cards between these magnates,
who do not need to play penny ante and
never do. Each game contributes well to
the " kitty," for the benefit of the servants,
and popular boyshave been known to take
in 850 above their wages during the twoweeks they are employed there,
Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, that grand
character of the church, who [lied not long
ago, was the pet member of this famous
08seinbly, and he is sadly missed 51 this
year's meeting. One of his favorite sayings
Wag:
' Yes, I an the Bishop of Georgia, and
the Chaplain of Pelee."
"Nothing brit black base are taken orr
counted by our club," said Mr. C. L. Mills,
an interesting young man from Sandusky,
who looks after
the interests of the Pelee -
hes, and is Secretary of the club.
" 11'hy," I asked,
" Because," said he, " they are the gamest
fish for the lino that swims. Likewise they
are the most intelligent of the finny tenni.
It is almost impossible to take and keep one
in a net. Let them seta pound, and lot it
remain over night, and every black bass that
gets into 11 will get out, while every other
fishwill remain,
" 111 is also the only fish that arranges for
and watches its spawn. It is also the only
one tont protects its young after they aro
hatched, or the ' fry,' as the fishermen colt
B. If you have ever aeon a black base get-
ting ready for tho spawning season, you
will see how the male hunts the ground and
prepares the nest for the female, He watches
over her carefully during the season, and
when the young bels hatch lie !mope every
other fish away from them until they are
able to fight for themselves, which is at quite
an early age. They aro very combative, and
it takes a very remarkable fish of the other
species to capture e. black bass after it gets
to any size. Besides their intellectual qual-
ity they seem to possess more vitality than
any other fish thatswims. That is the rea-
son why it is such sport to catch them, and
the Pelee Club attends its, money for enjoy-
ment, and they find more of it, with the bass
than with any other fish,"
While I am fond ocoasionally of the rod
and reel, and of waiting for the fishto bite
whioh 1311 Mills has so eulogized, that
feature of the Pelee Island Cltb did not
strike 710 with such force as the commercial
relations 111111511 center around it, The fact
that after all 21 mon of ]nighty a6'airs prob-
ably representing a capital ,pf more that
8200,000,000eliould cental11tlhemselves with
fishing in the clay and the gayeties of an
exclusive olnb at night for ono month of a
year, rather indicated that theare at
least some wealthy mon who 11d some-
thing besides dollars and 00)118 to enjoy
themselves with. But there is still another
mystery surrounding the litre elysinm at
Point Sheridan, Why is an Amerioan olub
located on English territory? Tho answer wilder, is plain, The water is and there-
fore the fiebimg is better. Then again there
are no sumptuary latus or inclinations on
the Comedian chore to interfere with the
liberty of those who come away from the
exaotioes of a severe life for perfect, freedom.
There is no danger of law suits, nor any
petulantnoiglhbo•s t000mplahn.
Ouriosities About Gold.
Gold 18 8)1 Very tenacious that a piece of it
drawn into wire ono -twentieth of 01) 111011 111
diameter will sustain a weight of 500 pounds
without breaking.
Its malleability is00 groat that single
grain play be divided into 2,000,000 parts
and a oubia moll into 9,523,809,523 parts,
eao)) of which maybe dlatin0iy seen by the
naked eye. A gram and a half of gold may
be beaten into loaves of 0110 i11011 030000,
1011011, 11 intersected by parallel linos drawn
at right angles to each other and distant
only the ono -]hundredth part of a1 inc11, will
produce 25,000,000 little square), wall of
which may be distinctly seen without the
aid of a glass 1
The surfaoo of any given quantity of gold,
according to the ]hest authorities, may bo
ex ten clotl by the ham inor 310,81.41]°1)11. '.17ho
1117c1rne80 of the motel thus extended appears
to be 110 more than the 5135.020tht part of
an inch. Eight ounoe8 of this wonderful
1netal would gild a silver (vire of sofflclent
length to extend entirely around the globe 1
Remarkable Sagacity,
We take this 80000111 of an exhibi-
tion of the remarkable sagacity of a deer
from the Baniug, Cal., .Hernlcl : Last
Sunday C. Swootora and the welter were
driving up the Water Canon and 1(8 we
1111010d EL loud 100 sato' a doe ant r young
fawn ib -Inking from the stone ditch, $1.
our netn•aaah tits aldn1a15 were start led, and
in attempting to turn 1()d ren the pour
little fawn lass Its balance and fell ir to the
ditch. eke truly of one readers know, the
water rune very swiftly and 1.11 great volume
up there, and of (memo the fawn 1050 00.1,
clod. down stream. The mother deer seemed
to lose all fear of us and run along the edge of
the ditch trying to eeauh her °esp1•ing with
her hotel. Suddenly she ran ahead of the
floating fawn for 0001011tte e118tanc8, She
plunged into the Aitch with her head down
stream and her hindquarters toward the
fawn. She braced her fere feet firmly in
the crevices Of the make to resist the rush
of water. In a second the fawn was wash-
ed up on its' mother's bank and 1t iustino-
tively 1111ped ],ter nook with its fore lege.
Tho doe then sprang from the ditch with
the fawn on her back. She lay down and
the baby deer rolled to the ground In a1
utterly exhausted noodition. Mr. Sweetors
and myself were now not more than thirty
fent from the actors in this animal tragedy,
but the mother seemingly unconooloua of
our presence, linked and fondled her off-
epring.for a tew minutes until it rose to Its
feet, told the doe and fawn then trotted off
up the mountain eide."
Farming in Foreign ands.
The acreage planted to hops in England
in 1873 was over 71,000 acres ; fu 1880, 66,-
696 acres, and only 58,000 acres in 1800.
An asoociation for providing agricultural
laborers with employment has been formed
in the kingdom of Saxony by Dr, Von Frego,
deputy of the reiohstag, and others.
Tho *climate and soil of Now Zealand are
finely adapted to the cultivation of oats
which besides giving a good yield per acre,
hardly ever weigh loss than forty pouul0
per bushel, and often go as high as forty.
e1@ ht pounds.
No one has attempted torow coffee in
Fiji during the past outfit, or ton years, ahem
the plantations were ruined by blighe,
Fresh attempts will 0110014 leo made, how-
ever, ill order to dl000var wlosth10' tho 1(1)15111.
hiss become ext1not.
To 1882 the total exports of wool from the.
Australian and Now Zeolite(' colonies reach.
ltd 3112,815,000 pounds. the produet of 77,-
000,000 sheep. In 1889 the export, which
is now reektmed in bolos, has risen to some-
thing like 1.,200,000 bales.
:Phe latest available figures from Buenos
Ayres show a total of 60,701,097 sheep in
Argentina, of whioh 381,012 were pine blood.
ea, 24,322,214 ntttiv0 and 4:1,002,871 mixed,
The republic has aboutsoi sheep to every
8gtlaro mile of territory, and 172 )hoop per
capital of population
Formation of an Ooean Liner's Urew.
The average Atlantic steamer ha manned
by about 150 men, as follows ;--32 [leak
hands, 4ofilcers, 9 potty o113oers, 32 firemen,
-o., 8 01gilleer8, 65 stowards, The plaster
and chief officials—that lo, mates and en-
gineers—are chosen by the owners or mans,
gars, while the remainder of the crew are
chosen by the captain. First-class ships
muster from 12 to 15 men in each watch,
and all of those are shipped as seamen. Of
oonree the majority are so only in name,
though there is always a definite number of
sailors among them. Indeed, to iiy tho blue
flag, at least ten of the crew, in addition to
the captain, must be enrolled in the Naval
Reserve, and to be an A.B., one must hand,
reef, and steer deftly. 'Thos0 are thopsople
who in port eland by the ship; that is,
those who take, as required by law, their
discharges in Liverpool on the return voy-
age and continue to work on board at fixed
wages per day while the ship rofibs and
loads. All halide, from the skipper to the
800111 nei mate, must ship at the beginning
of eaeh run—must sign a111oles, 0e it in
called, before a Board of Trade shipping
)1m01e1'. As the law has always regarded
Jmelt he especially in need of its protection,
because he is particularly exposed to the
wiles of sharpers, great Estrus is laid In these
articles upon his treatment, and therefore
they exhibit in detail the character of the
voyage, the wages, the quantity aid quality
of the food, ail a dozen other particulars
which evidenu0 the safeguards thrown
around them by the Government.
How to Olean a Gun,
I think most sportsmen are ignorant of
the masie8t, beet, cheapest and simplest
method of °loaning guns,' wrltee "S. F.
A." " In the first place, and the most im-
portant, don't aloan the inside of your
barrels at all when you return from shoot-
ing, no matter how long the gun is to rest
in its ease Or 81alld in the corner. Merely
wipe over the outside of the gun lvith a rag
that has been 'saturated with melted eosmo-
elle (Or 001110 eaeh preparation from petro.
loom), robbing a little Hard. Then wipe
with a dry rag if the gun is left too greasy.
I3efore the gun 70 meal at all the lns!(10 work.
ing parts—the looks, ejectors, etc., -81)01)1
be warmed and meltec1 0000101one run into
every opening and joint. \!'hon 1110 parts
cool the grease hardens and stays, and it
will last for y0ar8 and preserve perfectly.
When you are toady to go shooting regain
swab and wipe out the barrels, which you
will find are perfectly preserved under the
burnt powder rust. They will look as 1101V
1L11 bright after the wiper as if jueb polished.
I have never known gams to rust oven fn
salt air and drizzle when thus oared for. I
have known °loaned and oiled barrels to get
rust spots inside in spite of every other pre-
0011tiol,"
Luggage Transport in England and Amer -
The English and American systems of deal-
ing with travellers' Luggage are entirely dif-
foront. In England the traveller looks
after hie own luggage, of which there i0 no
booking, and fools bound to keep a sharp
look -out after it at jmnobione wher
changes have to be Outdo from one train to
another, In America, so soon ea yon have
"checked" your impedimenta. by seeing 1110
officialhitult brass tickets upon the several
boxes a11111 trunks—the mob (hip/Mateo of
which he hands to you—all caro is over- As
you you opines -Oh yottt' destination an "eq.
ppressm011,"perambulating the long caret•
ago, will make note of your Hotel or resicl.
mime, Lake rho brass tickets, for which ho
hands you e, receipt, and your belongings
will then 1)5 delivered almost as )3010101y as
the carriage or omnibus 011)1 deposit your.
self,
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