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The Good -Night Kiss.
main with pipe and einitiers.
In my own obi enewahair.
no days long work. welt over.
And. the eh flare it gathered, fair
JO their radiant mirth ;mil Lanny.
1 end no hour wo bright
As the ono they till with frolic
Btfore they soy goutl4Aght•
Right is the chime that sends them
scampering up the stairs,
"With gleeful shouts and
ushed at their evening prayers.
Then, Rushed =tweet as the liowers,
On the snowy pillows
TheY will arta to the islee dream -lend,
, Rath dem. little lad and maid.
And that "Will you lase pe, mamma
Be Kure eat 'thin forget.
Clear and eweet 12 the mandato
02 mien dainty household pet,
And " waiting, Mamma, darling,
So hurry end tuck mein;
And though I'm asleep why kis. nes'
They cry wtth merry dim
.Ana If .weet blue eyes grow heavy
_Before the mother's love
in the kiss of good. night blessing
J A dropped the brow above,
Next if:1y I win hear the question,
"Prity when did yon ktts me t" fall
From the rostsbod lips of the baby.
Sweet es enamors een,
Sit tine with nipe and slippers
I listen, and overhead
1 hear Else prattle of children
Merrily going to bed :
And .1 envy not the monotreh
On his gold and lvoev throne.
As 01,1g11 in my little kingdom
With every heart nix own,
In the Siok Boom.
Do ina select a gloomy room Mr au inve
aid. If the patient am be moved. at all, a
•change from it cheerless itpertinent to one
where there le warmth and brightuess is
better in its effects oftentimes than meet
medicine, The sun should he able to come n
at the windows, and there 5110111d be blinds
and shutters also, whereby his too glaring
beams may be tempered, or, if necessary.
shut out altogether. But the sun should
still be allowed to shine upon the tenter ease
ments,for the thought of his golden beams,
even though the room, for the titne beingas
'carefully gearded from such setae intrnelon,
is cheering to a sufferer. A dell, gloomy
room, where the snnlight can never pene-
trate, is depressing to even a well person—
how much wore depressing must, it then be
to those whose sufferings confine them with-
in the disuffil walls? Brighten the rooms
with pretty ear:Odes. Invaliile arc even a
bit childiela and a new toy now and then
does infinite good. Change the objects in
the room as you have the chalice, tool do not
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any quantity—but no other flowers.
ever begin to change the clothes or the
sick until you Etre sure that you have e) y.
thing requisite in readiness. The body
linen of hetalying patients shouhl be chang-
ed twice a week at least anil in many ceses
oftener than that. Observe carefully before
-beginning to eliange a patient's clothing
that 110 dianglas can tench tile bed. Let
all the linen he properly aired and warmed
beforehand—mo much caution in this case
oannot be observed. In changine the eloth-
ing not move nor uncerer the patient
more than Is absolutely necessary.
Begin by removing 1.111 sleeves from oue
arm, them without moving the patient, on
all that is to go on thie arm. Now raise
the head and shoulders, removing the soiled
and adjusting the clean linen well ilown
under the shoulders. The patient may now
Be down again and the other arm be deemed,
After this the hips can be slightly reieed,
tbe soiled clothing removal and the clean
garments arranged. Nevet• let a patient
belp too much, as such action is very ex-
bausting ; on the other hand, see that they
alo such things as they can and ought to do
themselves. After the change in linee has
been made enforoe strict quiet for a tittle ;
then interest them with some happifying
bit of news—some rinnor that will cheer
them—but bring no ill.ticlings to a beaside,
In giving to anyone who is sick drink of
-water, wheu the draught should be limited,
band the patient a small glassful, This, be
it ever so small a quantity, cannot fail to
satisfy thirst. It is much better thus to
limit the draught than to present a thirsty
person a large goblet of water and direct
that only " so many swallows" must be
lakea. The patient will not be so well sat.
hfied as if he could drink all that was offer-
ed him.
If you make a poultice in the kitohen
place a plate in the oven to heat. After the
plaster or poultine made plase It on the
heated plate, and it will retain its heat un-
til it is applied.
Never keep anything eatable in the sick
room. This is one of the greatest mistakes
made by amateur nurses. The sight of fruit
'always before the invalid robs it of its nov•
elty, and the esprit:ions appetite refuses to
enjoy it besides the impure atmosphere of
any siok-room renders the fruit kept tlierein
unfit for use, as it, is more or less an absgr.
bent. If you would have it mama retnove
it and fetch it to the patient in different
; shapes and sizes of dishes.
Keep oompany out of the sick room. More
1 harm bas been clone by such inaltreatinon t
than has resulted from wrong inediclues
given by experimenting physicians, Let
quiet reign—mot the suppressed ()wet 00
ear -inspiring, hated breath mul steal -
a -thy footfall, but a, cheerful quiet that is full
of tranquility. When addressing an invalid
e do not lower your voice to an affectoil
• whisper, or put on a solemn cast of mute-
s tenance, The more neatly an invalid is
s treated as though Ile ware 111 perfect health,
t the sooner will he reach that perfeetion,
• Speak to the ailing in a gentle, 0110erfol,
usual voice converse briefly upon every
clay topics, as if he wero an interested
• member of eoeiety still, smi glad tidings,
metters of manna interest to him. Keep
e his thoughts from develitng upon himself as
t nulch as poseible, yot do not weery 11 iin with
b 'tool/melt chottee. A bright smile is better
o than a lond laugh in it sick room—but the
d laugh is infinitely to be preferred to the
laohrymose sympathy shown by tentless
friends of the afflicted.
Give Girls a True - 'Work,
• You may me continually girle who have
have indeedbeen the better 101, her day, and
the powerless miaow of her enthusiasm will
transform itself into it majesty of radiant
end beneficent poem.
When it Young WOuntu is Wise.
The question ns to the suitable ego for a,
woman to marry ie. one that c011eer115 alike
the al,. ilieapher, he politital oconentat, the
moralist osid the physicien. It in videos so
nutny inatheees and neeas to be etudied un-
der such ilifferent aspects that it not
arenge the answers are sometimes widely.
different,
In general it may be stated that a WOniall
is wise who delitys her marriage until she is
24 or 25 years of age,
—
Thine's the Queen Oan't Do,
Her Majesty, not having boon born a
queen, probably learned to read just like
other persons. lint af ter she beeame afflict-
ed with royalty she found that a queen is
not olloweil to have a great many peivileges
that the humblest of her subjects met boast.
For instance, she boat allowed to handle a
newspaper of any kind, nor a magazine,
nor o, letter from itny person except from
her 01211 family, and no member of the royal
bunny or household is allowed to speak to
her of any piece of news in any publication.
All the 111 formation tho Qneen is permit-
ted to have must first be strained through
the intellect of a 111111 whom business it is
to cut out from the papers melt day what
lie thinks she 11'00141 111;0 to know, Thee°
scraps lie fastens on a silk sheet with a
golE1 fring,e about it, and presents to her
unf mist e males) y. This silken sheet with
gola fringe is imperative for all communi-
cations of the Queen. Any one who wishes
to send the Queen a personal poem ern corn •
munieation of any kind texeept a personal
letter, which the poor lady isn't allowed to
have at ail) must have it prieted in gilt
1 letters on one of these silk sheets with a gold
' fringe, just so inaity inches wide ana no
wider, all about it, These gold trimmings
will he returned to him in time, as hey ota
exaenstve, and the Queen is kindly and
tht if y, lnit for the Queen presence they
' are imperative.
The deprivations of the Queen's life are
pat heti, illustrated by an incident which
oecurred not long ago, au American lady
, sent her majesty an immense collection of
the flowets of tlds cowary, peessed and
mounted. The Qtlean WAS ilelighteil with
the collectiim, and kept it for three months,
turning over the lent-ce frequently with
great delight. At the end of that time,
which waS as long as she was allowed by
court etiquette to keep it, she had it sent
bad: witli letter saying that, being Queen
of England, she was net allc»ved to have
any grfts, end that she parted from it with
1 ) • g t
'never been taught Ledo it (tingle neeful thing
Ithoroughly, says Ruskiu, who cannot sew,
who cannot meek, who eamiot east ap ae.
. collet nor prepere it inediffine, whose whole
b. ; life has boon passed 00121,10 play or in pride;
you will find girls like these, whim they are
ettrnest-hearted, oast all their innate passion
of religious epirit Which Wait meant by God
Rapport them thronoll the irksomenese
daily toll, into grievous and vain meditation
1 ovi the Meaning of the great book, of withal
no syllable wws (Nei vol. to I a, in alert:I:owl lint
through a deed: all tlie insthictiv. wisdom
and mercy of their wonieuhreel mosle vein,
and the glory ot their pure oiniseienoCri warp.
a' oil into fruitlees ugoity neneernieg Eptiatione
a %Alai the laws of minions, mortioeithlo 140
Would havo either solved for them in on in.
65 rant, or lord out of their way. Give moll
a girl any true work that will make her .10..
blVo in the dawn mei walla nigl.t, with
the conecioniatess that her fellow creatures
How to Make Charlotte Ruse,
Homes...mule elle riot 1 0 rnsse is ninch pieee
thau that bought at the bitkera and is eaey
and simple to make. The following recipe
will make dessert man= for family of five
Say2 the 11 ribune.
Half a pint of double cream. eteaspoonful
of vanilla, ana third of a cupful of gratin-
lateil sugar. Whip these togethee end when
stiff add 1 he beaten whites or aye eggs and
mix tharougly. Line the bottom and siilee
of a limey molding dish with single lady-
fingers nice mesa ones.
tit will take about 1 8 double ones giving
you 36 single strips. It is better to buy these
at a good nonfeotioner's than to make them.
Pour in the tripped eve= and set aside in a
cool place. There are ways more involved
for ;flaking charlotte ruse, but the above is
entirely satisfactory.
A Helpful Virginia Girl.
In the family of George Munday, liying
, between Waterford and Wheatland, Va.,
I the father, mother, a soa, affil daughter were
all clown with the grip, leaving only the
youngest deughtenklorenee, ahout 18 veers
of age, to aid the rest. She attended. to the
hoteethold duties and the sick, and foe two
or three de,as fed and curled six horses, fed
,1 and 01111(0E1m cows, and alsowalked through
the SnOw about a quarter of a mile carrying
corn, and when 0110 ratchet] th.em, feeding
it witli straw. and fodder to thirty heed of
cattle. Haveng to go to a neighbor to send
for a, dector for one of her sick-, their
tom Was discovered, and of course there was
plenty of help afterward.
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Things Worth Knowing.
When a chimney catches fire throw salt
upon the tire below, shim olf all the drafts
possible (a piece of old wet carpet held be-
fore the grate is an exeellent thing to use in
shutting off the draughet.), and the fire will
slowly go ont of itself.
For ivy poison apply sweet oil.
Kerosene oil will remove rust let iron.
Use whiting moistened with kerosene to
scour tins,
Melted snow produces ono -eighth of its
bulk in watets
To remove a tight linger ring, hola the
hana in very cold water,
If boots squeak drive peg 111 the center
of the sole.
01 1 paints last longer W11011 put on in
Datum)),
Morocco feather tray be restored with the
varnish of whiae of au egg.
amils dipped into soap will drive easily
iuto hard WOhd.
A cement made of sand and white lead paint
will stop leaks in the roof.
To keep off flies paint walls or rub over
picture frames with laurel oil,
Oil door latch» and locks occasionally.
Sealing wax is made of two pane of bees.
Wak arid one of eosin melteil together.
To clean eemine and all white fur, rub
With corn meal, renewing the meta as it be.
comes soiled.
The Logical Owl.
The owl took his hal. and his gloves one
night
His sweetheart for to see.
When 1115 daddy asked him where he weet,
"On a definite object intent,
To wit, 1.0 woo," seld he ;
" Too wie, to wft, to woo 1"
But he scarce Mel stepped outside the door
When he could not fail to set
That the iiky with ebenam was all o'creast,
The rain Wail falling hard and Met.
" Too wet to W10," Said 1
" Too web too wet, to woo 1"
He The Not Joking.
"Are you married or rangier' asked a New
York justies of a, pri.soner.
"ain not married, but my wife is," said
the doomed Mali in a husky tom, of voice.
"Nov, if you get ell nay 10,0 jokem in
this coma room, I'll look you ep for 0011.
te)11111 of emir),"
"Win:V. amigo', I ain't jolting, though
Pm a lit t ight. I WM trlartied mid f get
divoree, aly wife merriiel made, lott
Effiliat I know when I've got enough of
lents Miens), Eilthough Inity take 100 11111211
whisky, NO yoll moo 1 in Mit Mat hilt my
is„ Von don't each ine Hails 011 any I
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BRUSSELS P Q S Af..\ itcli 4, 1.892.
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WHY SOME DREAMS ARE PRO-- Relittie wave; and thie, before (welling, was
A WHITE GIRL'S TERRIBLE 11TORY.
Allothee telilinirLis—ItEN;eigater to Starry a
diepatch from 1 00118 Rays The
hearime of the evelenee t he divorce snit
of Nle.ry A. Jackson, pretty white girl oi
about Iti, against William II. Jackson, a
burly eoloviid man, by Judge St atter:nett,
in the St. Clair Counts tI110 Cirreit, eoerl
et Belleville, developed a most revolting
"1„,117•Cosiling to the evidence the girl, whose
maiden name was Mary Maloney, was 11
yettrs old Ett the time of her marriage to
Jackson. She was hireed to wod tho 0010r.
011 1`,1111 by her mother, who six months
previously hail marrieds voluted man. Ilor
mother and Jackson Went to the onion of
County Cleris Itheiti, in Belleville, on idlty
5, 1 81M, without the girl, and secured a
license for the marriage of hor daughter
awl the colored man, swearitig that her
daughter was 1 7 years of ago. Jackson
gave his age as 21. Mrs, 1)&0011 W110 does
not look over 1 years of age, told
her horrible story* in die coma -room
at Belleville, She said that she
was compelled by her mother to
many the colored num, who claimed
to have considerable motley anti who egreed
tE) pay off 11301) of a uffirtgage which rested
On 001110 ptopeety in Fast ett, Lords owned
by her mother. They wore married ie
gast St. Louis on the sante day the
license {Vito 1,511011 by Rey. want ,1 ackeon,
it colored minister. That night they Were
chariveried anil nava- every pane of glas.s
in the house broken. The next any bee
hneleutil took her to a eo1oreu boarding
house kept lEy 3hek, on -.Meson
steeet, 81. Louie, where the stayed one
week. He then look her to a house on
(Maths. street, and afterward to the liouse
of one Glory, on alorgen street, and endea-
voured to hare her lead a life of shame and
aml supply 111111 with money, so that lie
might hve without work.
At the copelusien of Mrs. Jackson'sates-
downy her attorney, Capt. \Main H.
Bennett, stated to the (ain't that a white
man who desired to marry her before she
wedilea the colored man wee still willing to
marry the poor W01111111 etter her dis (nee.
Judge Wilderinan add it was the most re.
milting ease he bad ever heard of, end the
teetitziony showed thra her coterie:Thu(010nd
Wm worse than a brute, Ile therefore
granted the divorce,
Gems Found in Canada.
Mr. 0. W. Willitnot of Ottawa has issuecl
a pamphlet on Caniolian genie and precious
stones: I he real genie, he snys, are repre-
semen by the diamond, sapphire varieties,
cluasoberyl, sanest, 1,eryl, topaz, aroma
garnets tourmaline, iolite, =tete and chry-
solite. all others arc considered as 001111.
precieus stones. Bees 1 ie fouinl in Berthier,
Que., the out stone) pro,luced aro some -
Unice intrialtteeil as 0 t•iontal, which eta
Mince); their value. Tomenaline is found
in the et, Lawrence reatini, soino trystels
being 1 8 inches in length and a quarter of
an inch through. The zireou, which oon-
stittaes ench gems as the hyacinth, jacinth
mill jargon:I is found in Ontario and
Quoin), t) great freiptency. Forty dollars
hes I wen pai.1 for a sinffie cryetal from
Brudenell, Ont. Carnet is commen in Can-
ada as a miueral. As agent it is found pvin-
cipallyneas Ottawa, the variety being the
Syrian or "Pretious ( " of the jewel-
ers. (Simms noteria is mu= dwelt upon by
Mr. Willineat, and is, from his desceiption,
101001.9.1 veriety of quartz cut in a special
trey. In British Columbia and Nova Scotia
rose and smoky quartz ere common, but
have not yet been reduced to gent material.
Amethyst is found in Nova Socalit end On -
Mao, though most of the wetly specimens
come from the letter. In gold quartz Can-
ada gives little. Agate winos from Nova
Scotia, Oe tario and British Co eembia. Onyx
comes largely from the same localities. As-
per smite common, Canadian serpentine
is often rich hued. There is much of it at
Grenville, Que.
'Tis bed to he mit by old frienas, but it's
worse to be dropped by the sheriff'.
As an instance of acute hydrophobia it is
ditlionit to surpass the story of the Scotch
boatmao •who, while crossing the loch, was
naked if he would take some water with his
whisky, and veplied "Na, there was
horse drooned at the head o' the 10011 twa
years ego." The head of the loch was
twenty.four miles distant.
" Doeen't Mrs. -Alex well I believe in mamba
cation of tha sexes 7" " Co-ed in:talon ? 1
should say not 1 Why, she believe), that a
girl might to be raised 00 carefully that
when sho Seell a man she will say, What
is that anima?'"
The Mershal do Bassompierre was em-
ployed by Henry the Fourth on several em-
bassies. Ho onoe told the king that when
Ile went as ambassador 8pain, he rode
Into Madrid on the mosb beautiful mule ho
bad over seen, which had been sent by the
elpanish monareh for hie special use. "Ha,
lut, what a 00alleal sight 1" laughed out the
boieteroue king ; "an ass upon a mule 1'
' Yes, sire," sold Bessonipiette, coolly ; "
ropvesen tad your majesty,"
" Girls, we ars just twenty-one and are
' hoax? whole and fancy free '" exeleims
the editor of the Heinle (fie, ) 'Post. " Our
father furnishes us with free board ; our
mother 090118 a gold mine and we ' stand in'
tolerably well. The may thing that we
possess that willalo to 'nag on is a hewn,
end it 10 big enough to love whole family,
if mammary. Coll early thatyou may avoid
the rush,"
Calcutta is quito excited over the foot
that a wily and supple laindoo, in the per -
13011 of Karim Box a naillt, Oil of 20 wrest-
lers sent thither by the Maharoje ot jodporo,
has proved more than a match for a profes-
sor of the art, who Is described as " Tom
Cannon, the chatnpion English wrestler."
The challenge mid the preparations seem to
have been mimic with great cam and deliber.
0,1,100, Cannon on entering the ring, is de-
scribed as walking looklins " like Achilles,"
while his opponent humbly lititved his re.
mamas to the amorally. On receiving tho
afloat, according to the account of an Anglo.
Indian spectetor of the struggle, the oppon-
en te 0111110 immediately to close quarter» and
the native, by a dexterous movement, 8110.
moiled in throwing Cannon to nix knees. The
lotto» appetteed to be nimble to obtain a grip
ei his opponent, nail the tnateliadthongli pro -
treated te nearly 101111)1111es by Cannolia de.
fence, was prautically ambled (luring the
first few fumonaa, Finally, 111 spite ef his ual.
Veristry'Sstaibliorn osistance, Karin HtlX, 00.
wading to this aceonnt, seeural the. threw
with a movement, which exhibited not only
his great • phymcal eteength, Ina bore test I.
meaty to his science o.nd skill as a wrestler,
Dludian Item, however, who Eanime to hold
the world's eintinpimi modal for mixed wresa.
I leg, hes ohallengoil the victor, so that, in
spite of the mauler' of two Maharajas that
it is In vain to try conelusiona teal, Indian
wreetlers till their method)) liat been
etudied, t Ile Eurepost muse has ,»20 more
1 t e
sneh serious subject es matriniony, e
}B.ETIO, developed into wolf marked eciatio.
w 111' 2111;1 P1201.11 Ern',
1 1 10001d hi. may. eamy to pursue the soli.
ject, thither, 10)11 enough been to
ellinv lett t he Bo ealloil '` pi oplietie el veitilea "
like all ot ;lave their origin either in
impressions made upon some one ntore of
the special senses or in recollections of pre.
010,,,, an/1,0801am „lag.
od to dismiss. as without any route h111011
feet, tile nutlet) that dreams have anything
of the nature of true phophoey Ethiett them.
As to other alleged extreorilinary dreams,
Snell 11.5 those Militating the occurre»ce of
evente of which tho levant has no actual
knowledge, I can ouly say that without
denying the possibility of seta occurrences,
may have not yet been shown to be real.
I have said before in other relations
were 15 nothing impossible outside the do.
main of mat heinat Ms, but them aro a gees t
ly thinga apparently possible winch
ha yet been setisfantorlly mtablislied, and
ni 11 proven it is well to hold our ecouptanee
of heir reality in abeyance.
WILLIAM. 11.• H AMNION') 3:%1, D.
Doeteas Investigemine HIP MindoWs
Resitm areatea by cafe Awakened
Brava,
Impreseians made 11[1011 1110 Sollsoil ria'e he.
quent•ly the Binning point. of (4001110, but
though ell 'lath= lime, to a greater or less
extent., lit all ages of the world, believed 111
the piophetie nature of ilrenins, we now
know that the relation, instead of being one
of prEiphecy am 1 fullilment, is simply that
of CUM And effect. 'Very al iolit impressions
made upon Ow anise)) duff% sleep 0.0
aggeratea by the partially au akent d IMOD.
The first °video se of approaching paralysis
may be a very minute degree of numbness,
so minute that the brain, when atvake and
engaged with the busy thoughts of active
life, fails to upprechtte it, During sleep,
however, the brain is quiescent, till name
excamg eituse sots It 111 uncontrollable ne.
thin. and drowning results. Seel) a _Canso
may be tho inei ient numbness of 11011),
A dream of its *mg turned into stone, cr
ent off, or violently streets the conse-
quence. The disease goes on developing and
soon =lee its presences munistakitble.
For several years past I have made in.
(mimes of tattooist ana others relative to
their ilreams, and hove thus collected isle:eta
amount of matevial bearing upon the sub-
join. With reference to the point under
vonsideration, the data in my poesession are
exceedingly Important and interesting.
Among the eases which have thus come
under my obserattion of diseases being
/receded by morbid dreams arc the follow-
ing 1—
DREAMED UE 1048 CUT TWO.
A gentleman, two days before an ititaok
of heiniplogia, dammed. thitt he AWLS (int in
two exactly doWn tho mesial line front chin
to the pormeurn. by some means onion a
1110 d101110,1 surfacog was obtained, hut he
could only move to one elite, on awakening
little 11 linitniess existed in the side whinh
ho had dreamed was attralyzed. This soon
pissed off, and °eased to engage Ids atteia
Hon. The following night he hail 0 seine -
what 01)11111as (mown, and the next day, to-
ward evening, Was seized with the o'ttatik
which rendered Iiini hemiplegte.
Another) dreamed one night that a mee
dreseed in black Wearing a bleek mask came
to bit» am? struck bine violently on the log.
He eeperieneed no pain, however, and the
man continued to beat, him, In the morn -
log lie felt nothing, with the exception of a
slight heaslache, Nothing unesnal wits ah-
em:veil about the log, and all went on well
until, on the fifth day, he had an npoplectio
attack, tweiimpanitel with heiniplogia, in-
elteling the leg which in his amain he had
imagined to have been struck.
A lady aged fort y, who had been a great
sufferer from rheumatism for many years,
dreamed one afternoon while sittiug her
chair in front) of the tire that a boy threw a
stone at her. which, st liking her on the feee,
initiated a asey serioes injury. The next
day violent inflammation of the th1Slies
around the facial nerve us it emerge)) from
the style -mastoid foramen sot in and
paralysis of the nerve folieweil, due to effu-
sion of the serum, thieltenhig, anti eonee-
(meet; pressure.
A young lady dreamed Oa slut was seized
by robbers end compelled to swallow melted.
lead. In the moreing she felt as well as usu.
al, but teweed the midslle of the day VMS
attaoked with seem tonsilitis.
PULLED 1.1TS 1142111 OUT.
A young mom informed mo theta dayor two
before being attach:cat with emits meningitis
he had dreamed that he was seized by ban-
ditti tylille teavelling in Spain, and that they
hall taken his hair out by the roots, causing
him great pain.
A lady of decided good sense had an
epileptic) seizure which was preceded by a
singular dream. She had gene to bed feel-
i»g somewhat fetigued with the labors of
the day, evhich had consisted of three or
finir morning receptions, winding up wi a.
dinner party. She lad scarcely fallen nsleop
when eh° dreamed Wet an old num clothed
in black apprnaohed her, holding an iron
crown of greet weight in his heads. AK he
earns nearee she perceived that it teas her
fathev, who had been dead eeverta years,
but whose features she distitualy
ed. Holding the crown itt itrina length lie
said 1—
" daughter, during my lifetime I was
forcea to wear thie crown. Death relieved
me of the burden, but it now descends to
you."
Seying he placed the orown on her
head and disompearod greaually hem hee
sight. Immediately she felt a grett e weight
and an intense feelmg of constriction in her
head, To add to her distress she imagined
that the rim of the 01,01211 Wahl R1111.1dell on
00 inside with sharp points, Wiell 070111111 -
ed ber forehead so that the Wood streamed
clown her face. She woke with agitiaion,
excited, bue felt nothing uncomfortable.
Look at, the clock on the mantel -piece she
found thee she had been in bed exactly
thirty-five minutes. She returned to bed
and soon fell asleep, Ina WILS again naval:on-
ed by it similar dream. On this 00014010/1
the appavition reproached her for not beim"
willing to wear the crown, She had been
in lied this last time over three hours before
awitking. Again she fell asleep nald again
at broad daylight, 0110 11,11,8 nevekened by a
like dream,
She now got tip, took a bath and proceed.
ed to (mese herself with her mitld's asds,
team. Recalling the particulars of her
aream she recollected that, she had. hoard
her father say one clay in his youth, while
being in Engleml, his native ootintry, lip
had been subjeet to epileptic convulsious,
consequent on a fell from a tree, and that
he lincl been oured by having the operation
of trephining performed by a distinguished
London surgeon.
Though by no ines,n0 soperetitious, the
dreams made a deep impression npon her,
and her sister entering the room et the time
she proceeded to detail them to hoz. While
tints engaged she suddenly gave a loud
sereffin, became unconsoions and fell upon
the floor in a true opiloptio convulsion, This
paroxysm was not a macre ono, 16 was
followed in (dam a 100010 by another, and,
strange to say, this was preceded as the
other by a (Roam of her father placing en
item crown On her head and of pun being,
thereby produced, Since then several
months have (hips= and she has 110(1 no
other attack, owing to the influence of the
lisomide of Dammam which she contfintes
to take.
Ito the case of n, gentleman formerly under ,
my treatment for epilessey the fits 11,11. in- I
variably preeeded dreams ilifficultieii
of the host I, meth 00 dueopitation, hang ng, 1
perteretion with ee auger, &o,
A lady, pretraitin (.5 al) lo,,/tek of nation, I
deo:tined Hint Ric had (alight her tout, in a.
living trap and that before 0110
freed it, WAS noensettry. to ainputath the
nimnbor. Thn operetion wee portant:mil,
1111t 118 0113 relewind 11 1:11140 dog sprang
at her and fastened his tomb hor thigh.
81111 screamed slonil and arii 110 in her terror.
Nothing 111111004 Was abollt 1,110
leg, hot goltime up in the noffining theta
eves slight, pain atong the amuse of the
Why Men Don't marry.
The cultivated bachelor of thirty.throe
has rot b any meant) hat his Mine for the
society o women ; but beauty is no longer
all.praterful, and he is attracted by good
sense and 001111 qualities as well. Men of
his sort know aims 'arable bores ignorant
girls Call be, how utterly nu reamonalile. they
often aro, a.? how =eh more liable they
aro in middle life to grew acrid, enappish,
or positivels' illtempereEl, There is no one
so perverse as 1 lio woman without intellec-
tual intereete whose sit (maim happeps to be
at 000161100 Willi her ideas of comfort, or
who, beiug comfortable, is conecions of the
faint contempt, or rather slight avoidance,
of those around her. Stamen am per.
tautly well aware W1100 men listen from
politenees shine, and those among Meet to
whom that lot fells grow as bitter ',ono
disappoi ted spinsters. Companiontilitp is
impossible between the able and
Thoughtful men, too, Etre aware that it, is
the olever girls, not the simpletons, who ere
free from the se»soless extras-agate:0 whielt
is, periems; of all foibles which ere not ex-
act ly vices, the 1111,01. permanently imitating
in Wives, Phat thirig, at least, 001 ture has
done for the majority of 0111211(0E1 wometi—
it has atuahl them how to count. has
monee Insanity of cultivatea girls ma emeo.
inical. Frugality is the road i nilepiel den cc.
They could not live their lives ir they
coet their fathom too much, and they learn
to know the value of money, and to Imola.
debt with homer. 'flies, aro not, perhaps
devoted to " housekeeping" ati boinil of the
nniettered are, meanhig, three times init of
five, endless and haressitig terferenee with
their servants ; bet they tan keep himse,
when t hey know their breams, al tut telt
lay well within them. en know what it
is to be bored. Thine 15 no bort, 011 ear 11
equal to the 100111011 0010 11a11 1,011.11.1' talk
, or listen, who has no limits? interest. in
common with her landaus]. It is true Oita
entailed girls may be 100 frank of speech
and esEntralict a man too openly, causing
him to tliink that she is trying to " put him
down." The habit is a mere gesture in
reality, a effit's kick of plonsure in the free
field, and not n. sign of viefons temper het
constinaly ruins a bright girl'm eheneee,
veal has (lobo much to ereate in a wiety an
impression whieh is, on the evidence of fitets,
entirely unfounded. Cnitienteil gi t•Is Intro,
in fact, a trick of thinkiug that 'tegument ia
conversation, and that contradiction show,
niental foarlessness—a ,,,rick which men
001311 tolerant men, never gene like.
Wanted to Eat Live Rabbits,
A Paris telegram says :—A eonnniesary
of police at Abervilliees had to imams on
Saturday that he was Way astoniahed,
Hie st upefactIon was nausea by a glass.
blower, who came to ask permission t.0 eat
in public five live rabbits in neighboneing
cafe, in order to settle a bet, The com-
missary, having first, satisfied himself as to
the sanity of the visitor, informed him that
the Jew against enmity to animals woula
not allow the fent, but it he would first kill
the rabbits lie could att them raw with the
skins on. The glass-blower was (mite
sati.fied with this errangement, and in the
presence of a large number of spectiaors at-
tempted to Win his bet. lie gob through his
first iabbit without apparent difficulty, but
the second disappeared less quiekly, and
before commencing his thiril comae the
wegerer fell heavily in a state of uncoil-
sziousness.
A Knowing Horse.
The otli,.r day, while Mr. G. L. Emery of
Doneybrook, Pa., was away from home, his
horse got loose in the stable, a ild. gaining [W-
OWS tO the feeilahmt, overlotiliel lite etre
withesail things, and pretty soon Nate
crazy with the pains which collo brings on.
He broke out. of the stable and riin art mat its
his feet woad carry him through thestreets
to the Patt erson 11011Se, Where he had been
doctored some time liefore. The horse by
his (anions sonn showed hini to be a. pretty
siek horse, it»t1 Was taken in (Marge by Dr.
Beehart, who brought him around all right.
Ione mad surgeon
Of the Lollop aleilical Composts,' is 11010
Toronto, Canada, and may be consulted
either in person or by letter on 1211 chronic
diseases peculiar to men. Mt it, young, old,
or middle-aged., who find themselves 110(9-
0115, weak and exhaueted, who are broken
down from exoese or overwork, restating in
many of tho following symptoms Mental
depression, promotes() old age, loss of vital.
ity, loss or inemory, bad deepens, dimness of
sighe, pelpitation of the heart, entissione,
lack of energy, pain in the kiffileys, heed -
ache, pimples on the face or body, 11011111g
or peculiar sensation about the sorottim,
wasting of the cygnets! dizeiness, speaks
before, the eyes, twitching of the muselee,
oyo lids end eleewhore,beshfuluess, deposits
mithe urine, loss of willpower, tenderness of
the scalp and Emilio, weak mid flabby muscles,
desire to sleep, failure to ha rested by sloop,
constipation, dulthessof hawing, leaser voice,
dash* for solitude, excite:batty of temper,
sunken oyes surroun dedwi 1,nAlikk (1T ROTA,
oily looking skin, 1)21., aro all symptoms of
nervous dehility that load to insanity and
death mama mired, The spring or vital
fore° 1114911)g lost 1 1.8 tension mows( 1011101(101
W111100 in consequence. Those who through
iambi) comtnittecl ignmentee now be per-
nirtnently cured. Solid your addroes fors
book n11 diseitsee vomiter to eats
Books Sent awl
esenptinns 01 which aro faintspelle, maple
numbiffies, palpitation, skip 'Mate,
hot Ilusbee, rush ef Mood to the Mail, dull
plan in the hietrt, with bottle Lamina rapid
seil irregoline the mond /Wart hist/.
fester than the firsts peen ale= the Iwo ort,
eas , can liositivoly hemmed, No elire
no pay. Seed lor hook, AddrosS, 11, V
(J alacilonell Ave, Toronto, On
1,Ivorythinu luta to pity up emotion)
oven tho chit:kens ham to shall out,
LATE CABLE NEWS
The Fall of the French Ministry--Eugland
Still Storm Swept.
'rho fall of the French Alibietey is 4100110 -
Am? es if it were due to the religious, or
va thee to the eueleeinstical, dillieulty, now
of long stamlini, anil 'Moly more mom/Ding
110111 ever, Thitt was the remote muse.
The immedittte 0111100 ;vas ale Clemencean.
Ho had eialbroil Freyemet and his eol -
leagues to hold olliee, and to some extent
power, for nearly two yearli, The situation
WM becoming monotonous, and the Itixery
of overthrowing nne more Otivernment was
one ho could no longer deny himself. al.
flomenceee is a sort of Warwick tinned in-
side out, 10 11 a it 10 I llg.inaker, but a king -
hawker. ile lute broken up hell a dozen
ministries already : or peehape this complet-
ed the half a dozen. His method is simpll-
city iteelf. walts till some gnoetion
turns up on which Radicals and Reaction
evicts can be made to unite. Theta out goes
the ministry.
The snoivstorm which hint prevailed with
great severity throughout, then! Britain for
the past tWO days eontinues to.tlay With on-
,
elated rigor. 'l ho peckete from Ireland ere
four hems late. At Mayhem? and other
plaoes 1 here MN SUOWliliftti twelve feet deep.
In Ireland the snowfall ham boon so great
Hutt inany villagem are isolated, and the resi•
dente are doubtless experiencing mueli hun-
ger and affirming. The storm bas prostrate
the land telegraph line), toul at 501110 Of
the cable. stations on tile coast coniaillnieft.
lien is irregelar and uncertain.
The wership Shannon Iwo boon dispateh-
ale!. of C.., iiril Fii ea iner Sir.
'Walter Italeigh, Captain:Smith, fi oni Phila-
delphia for Plyinenth, Which pealed the
haweer w111011 at tached her to a, tug in Ban-
try Bay drill (41 .eametril.
If. 31. 8. Triumph has also lieen metered
to proceed in search of tile missing vessel.
Heir of the House of Stuart.
There is a historical blonder evlach ever
end mem eonnte up, end which, though c f no
pritedeal significative, yet cannot be without
an imaginative influenee ou Anglo-Saxons.
t teapot:Ls the question --W ho is the repreS.
(Illative of the StuartsS The statement is
often made that it is the King of haly, but
this is a mistake. Its latrat appearance is
in the stay interesting article crti Queen
Margaret " The 1.011/1i./1 Compa11100- for
Nevem sa 5, wide) I :411)0111a but for the law
01011114g I loinini Cti.tholie lines, King
II Holbert and Queen Margaret would now
be Meg and Queen of itligiand. It is worth
noting that 1110 1111111C111 hietorim, 31r,
' Frt•enien, him fallen into the same
error io an i nei ,1 allusinil, knowing that,
by female snet,ssion, the Sumo represeuta-
aim hail peemil into die honee 01 SaVirly,11.1111
11.1 having c lone:cal to 0 oto that 1,y felnale
succession it had passed out el die hollse of
81"1.3(!ribil ay death of Henry Stuart, Cardin-
al Verk, in 1807., tho house of :quest, and
with it all the heivs of tunes If, beceme ex-
tinct, then as his elder sister Mary had no
grinuleliffilt•en, the avian representation
(bivalved on icing Viator Emmanuel L of
Serilina, as the hole of James's younger
sister, Henrietta, Duchess of thleaus. to-
ter Emmanuel's heir for the throne of Sar-
dinia, as he heel 140 sons, was his brother
Charles Felix, but for the Stuart represen-
tation, which of course followed the Eng-
lish retie, it was his °West daughter, Mary
Beatrice. Her heir was her eldest son,
Francis V. the lest Duke of Modena, 10110111
THU/1011, " Entlymien," represeets as
itoeutaly receiving the homage of some Eng-
idiote as their true soveriegn, A.t his
death without issue in 1875, the Stuarts
claims (now of memo purely ideal) passed
to his next In other, Ferdilialkl'S only child,
the Arelialichese Slarin Theresa, wife of
Prince Lewis of Devoe* wile is thus the
reptagentative of the Stuarts, 1 he Tedors
and the Plantagenets. The eldest of this
lady's four or live sons bears the sign of his
famous descent in his Mine Of " Prince Ru-
pert.' Thus the ideal claim of the ancient
English royalty., having passed from the
how* of Savoy Into the 11 odenese branch of
the house of Hspaburg-Lorraine, will in the
next generation be settled in the House of
Wittelsbach mid ascend the throne of Bava-
ria, supposing that monarchy to be then in
existence,
On the death of Charles Felix in 1831, the
Sate-1101ml crown linseed to tho branch of
Savoy•Carigiumo which parted feom the
eliter liee a generation before Henrietta
tuart was born. King Humbert, therefor°,
and hie mufti and wife, Queen Margaret),
aro not only not the representatives of the
Steams, but, as pointed OUt Chambers'
Eneyelopitedia, they aro not descendants of
tho Steams.
Queen Victoria is guilty of a singular al.).
One of her books, erlicie she
proudly calls herself, with tame royal and
feminine Toryism, " the representative of
the Sweets." Hee house was chosen for the
vevy reason that ite elevation signalieed the
national rejection of the Statute The Aet
of Settlement shows that she is not only not
the representative of Charlet) the li'irst, hub
ie not evon the reprosontative of his taster
Elizabeth until all the posterity of Eliza.
bath's sons shall be extinct, for tho nob
passes over the sans and over the oklest
daughter, the Abbess of itiaubleson, and
fixes o» the youngest daughter, Sophia, as
being a Protestant. The present danasty,
therefore, reigns by no antiquated right of
descent, but ay . a true act of wtional elec.
tion. Victoria, is not the representative of
the Stuarts, but, which is aninfinitely:high.
or dignity, she is, by a freo act of national
choice, the representative of the inejosty of
migaty England. And *haps the now de-
eaying 13ritish monarchy would do well to
close its long and bestained, but yet illustri-
ous history, with this long and illustrious
end virtuous reign.
may remark that the prosentrepresenta-
the of Klizehel.11 Steam, Qin= Viotorhae
lialanstrees, is maid to no, curiously enough,
the Count of :Pavia
A ,Good Remedy,
Woula'et dine from Hereon, and sweet relief
Ana is. thy heart onproesed with Wsios untold?
wouidat thou gather for the deepest;
. grief?
P000 blessings rinthil thoe liko a avower of
gold,
"Ns when the nem IA wentipod in Inouye Coll
Nose 10 11, bean the Worill is eating there,
Not 101,011 1111 11111.0110d, its blimp) Mai 0 na fair,
Sonde forth its perfumes 011 the i/111h1011E
Itoitso to 1401111) work of high and lovo,
And 111011 on angers Intmilnoss shalt know,
1-thelt bk.,: the earth, while lo the worn) above
The good begun hy thoo 401 onward flow
In many anemia ) ing stream, end widergrow.
am, mail that in I lose few unit bolirs
"111,1 bands Unwearied. itlid Unsparing soW,
81141 oroW11 thy grave welt amarittithino
Anil shad the raffia Maine 111 heavoita innuort.
• al bowers.