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HOUSEHOLD.
A Wee Dressing -Room,
A girl's ciyeet mg•rooln lea sure I1140X to
Iter eh arneter and habits. A clever woman
assorted lately that she could gain A bettor
knowledge of elle of hor elm sex by an iti-
speetiol of her ilesob(g room Lhnn after a
actual acquaintance of years, says the Now
York Press, "1(1 fact," elle continued,
"when one of my sons Inllemneea his en-
gagenenAl leave no tonne an turned to have
the girl under my oyo for her morning and
evening toilet, She is judged acnordingly,
and from what I see 1 can pretty well geese
the sort of a wife oho will make, How ao?
13etaueo we women think a thousand times
moreof ouch details than you men, mud every
thrifty or slovenly trait 30 sore to crop out
then, Why, I enonid make a black and
white (let for my marrying men friends
from this method, that would prove a tare
guide to future happiness in wedlock. For
instance, the girl's own room is all -omit an.
fellable 3ndieetion of her tastes and neves.
s1tios, I do not m0un',Mehr-mounted toilet
articles, a Incedeamel drossing•tahlo, or
full•longth mirrors. they aro well enough
if she can afford them, but the first things
to note are ler books and pictures, her
toilet articles. It is worth while catching
a glimpse of her closets and drawers, as they
speak volumes for or against their owner's
tlduoss. When gloves are rolled in a herd
knot, veils jammed tindersalvapots, ribbons
tumbled it with powder and hair pins, be-
ware. what kind of thing is element of
curl -papers of the breakfasts -table, muddy
soffec alnico's' biscuit to come."
To Set a Table.
Breakfast being the plainest meal of the
day, the arrengeutent of the table should
always be simple. She cloth should bo
epotleet. At each person's seat place a knife
ork, teaspoon or dessertspoon, tumbler and
napkin, and if fresh fruit is to be served, a
finger bowl if there bo no servant. If you
have a waitress, she will place the finger
bowls o11 as you finish with the trait. If
fresh fruit be serval there must also be plate
ed at eaohsent a fruit knife and plate. Tho
knives and spoons should be placed at the
right and the forks and napkins at the left:
the tumblers to be at the point of rho knives.
There should be space between tho knife
and fork for a breakfast plate. Have the
dish of fruit in rho center of the Welch Have
is, tray cloth at (sachem] of the table, Spread
little butter plates at the top of each plate.
If individual salt and pepper bottles be
118001, place tem at the side of eaeh plate,
If large once place them ab the corners of
the table. Put four tablespoons on the table
either i0 two corners, or beside the dishes
that they will be used i11 serving. Put the
carving knife and fotk at the head of the
table and the cups and saucers, sugar and
cream, caalm-pot, hct.water bowl, Oto„ anti
the mush (fishes at the other end.
County Gula in Ton,
If you whereat' this are a brown coun-
try lass, Incl should find that your fate leads
yon to rho city, carry withou all thelyon
have learned in the years ofychildbood and
maidenhood o0 the old term. You will
need it all in the feverish oily ; rho memory
of sky and upland, the smell of the clover,
the hum of the bees, the taste of the new
milk, the breath of the kine, the stteogth
which milking and butter-malciue have giv-
en you, the knowledge of nature's secrets;
which lilac leaves out first, which oak is
/ant stripped of its foliage, whore the ground -
sparrow hides her meet, when the black-
berries are fit to make into jam l Bring
the simple, healthy habits of early rising,
of energetic work, of out -door exorcise to
your city home, for you will need them now
more than ever before. They will help you
in gaining en understanding of the best
things oily lite can give yon, the broader
experience of men and idens, the love of art,
the epprooiation of literature. No matter
how rich you may become, never bo waste-
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How to Make Good Tea.
Three things are necessary to insure good
tea : First, that the herb itself should be
good ; (we believe the English Breakfast
tea is most generally popalar ); second,
that the water should be tet the boiling point
when poured on the leaves ; and third, that
it should bo served freshly teach. Tela
should never be boiled, The English, who
aro a nation of ton. -drinkers, are so par31icu-
Iar to preserve its first (aroma, that it is
sometunee made on the table two or throe
tinges during the meal, the oentent0 of the
pot being thrown out each time, In France
little silver canisters of tea aro planed on
the table, where it is invariably made, Ono
teaspoonful of the leavesis a fan' portion for
each person. Teri is boner made 33. en
earthen pot. The pot should be scalded
out always bofote the heaves tore put in.
Water at the fit's/ boiling point is generally
oousidorocl best. —u
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h161espnnmftile of cream, one 1333. 6 • teem/mu.
fu1 of flour, one 0npfol of cold water ; !laver
tvlth herein. Lino a pie plate with pastry,
prier in 1110 111113(13.0 and 11k0 114,;01100.
Ednoatlonel Mat et re in Ontario,
'1'1(0 report of the 971(110310' of 111081ti0n
for the yuan 1'401, with (310831(1.31103.1000234031
hue been presented to the Legislature. 1t in
33 vohlm(noee raper. (1(11tnlning nearly 400
pages, of wltieh the i,dl»wing summary will
be found interesting
The scbool population of rho province, as
tlocorlah(0c1 through the ttege03010, wall, in
1890; Boys, 210,519 ; g(rle, 237,096, or a
total of 4110,70,1. The average a, tena101t00 of
iteral pupils was 47 per cent. of the rags.
teed attendane0, while in towns it Was 50
per cent anti in chief+ 69 per cent. The
county of Ilaldlmand fnrnislms the highest
average, The other extremes are lialibur•
Intoe , 1)nlie ri (3IInn ga'ryCore Bay, North ,
Toronto, P8netan'ui0heue, Sandwich, Lon-
don, Belleville and Brantford.
Female still continue to gain on male
tonn11ef0, being 09 Imp cents of the entire
number emploeed. The number of toaohers
taking ndtantogo of the normal 0chool0 is
1,776 bettor than in 1877, and i0; j5 percent
of the total nunlhe' of pe1'0nn8 engaged. in
,Loathing the public schools. Waterloo pays
the highest average Salary, $947 t0 male
teaohero. Berme leads for female t0aclle•e
with $334 ; Irrmltennc rho 10tvo031 $200 for
male, and Han burton $209 for female teach,
eraer
Thorn aro note 5,768 school 110113)00 in 1 he
prcvleee and as a rule they aro (melted and
closed with prayer. The number of separate
0ahool8 has advanced from 17 5 to 259 In 14
years, the expenditure increasing $174,897
andthe number of teachers 235 during the
same period, while there has been a oorr0-
spen(liug, and gratifying improvement in the
numbers in the dillbrentbranohen of 3,103,3.00•
31100,
The high schools of the province now num•
ber 120 and oollogiato institutes 3L The
most gratifying feature in eonneotion with
the high oohooi system is the largo increase
in the attendnuce, the numbers 1111vmg more
than doubled in 14 years, The largest col- placed it under my head, yet I was utterly
le into institute is Hamilton, meth an en.I powerless to give any sign or make any et -
TWO DAYS IN A UOPFIIl•
Tont Teas /401`0011'r,Itu Ago, at"1 sine tan'
Beenin One since,
There Ileum in Washington a woman who
once went through the frightful ordeal of
being prepared for burial fwd lying in 11 oa-
th forty-eight11011114with,nit any signs Of
life, A31 the end of this time 8110 awoke and
frighteu,d the (('1180,13 of the watchers.
Seven years ago el re, Btu131e, was a
blithesome (formal 1na3de11 of 17 summers,
living with ber parent0 ie the town of
Batten, (lethally. She tells the following
trmp30 story of her experience with an
umlerhalter, 3101 how near the came to being
buried alive :
"Seven year0 ago I Was str3okon down
with typhoid fever, 33311, as is the 0118/001 fit
the cities of Germany, 1 Wall 00(133.0 rho 1100.
peal for contagious Mimeses. There I tan.
3;u3ahed between life and death for three
weeks, and at the end of that time what all
of my 1.110333)00 and (monde and 31100 Author.
Laos of the hoslti3al thought to be the end
maw, My heart, slopped boating, my
muscles relaxed, and, to all appeer,unces, 1
was dead. Tho ileo lital attendants proper.
ed 010 for burial, and, while I was perfoo3ly
0011001000 of everything that transpired
abort rite, I was totally everything
and unable
to tell nay attendants of my true condition.
" After being dressed for burial and plan.
ed in my eolith my mother and friends came
UMW me a last farewell. 11y eyes were
only partially closet( and I could see the
anguish depicted int my mother's face and
feel her hot tears drop upon my brow es site
gave wheat 0110 supposed to be her farewell
kiss, 1 was engaged to a young man, and
our marriage was to have taken place short-
ly ; wh011 1 was taken sick the great grief
that he manifested when he came to look
upon my face was heartteudin,e, and espe03-
]1 0 i•1( s �13d tri
Al y t to m1(, realizing a l ( my e
condition, yet 1 was o0abio to shote that 1
was alive and comprehended it all.
"In Ger:naty it is customary for the
clearest loved one to send, instead of flowers,
an embroidered satin pillow, to bo placed
under the head of the deceased. This my
lover brought, and, while I could feel his
caress and see his tears, as he tenderly
Reoeipts,
Bltowx 731110 irx180 sett Sour.—This is
easily prepared, is always rowdy, and will
keep a long title, besides which, it gives a
far rioller flavor than try other way of using
flour thickening. Pub bite small saucepan
half a pound of batter ; when hot stir Into
it half a pound of very dry flour ; stir this
over the fire till a pale brown, taking groat
care it floes not barn. One large tablespoon
thickens a quart of soup.
Rambo DoceRenTs.—In the morningtoke
0110 pint of warm mills, one cup of s0gar,olo
half cup of yeast, a little sett, and sot m
rponge, halting it rather thick. At night
add one cup of sugar, 0110 1101f 011p of lard,
and two eggs ; kneed up 01(1 let stand until
morning, Then roll oat thin, out round,
athd lob stand on the moulding board till
night. Fry in hot lard.
Senn Awns Same 0,0101, —1)3111031(1(3 stew
seer apples in it very little water until tend-
er, thou rub tllenl through a solve ; use no
sugar or Ilev0111ng, but spread over a coke
masa with ono quart of flour, min and le
half tetoponnfels of baking pre•do•, ate
tablespoonful of singer, one teblespolufnl of
butter; lalea30,1 soft old baked• quickly.
Serve with tee following settee 1
NA nem 1 ,131 831(urr (1)311,—One pint and 311
half of sWtob milk, the yolks of tour egg0,
tin•ee tablespoonfuls of vani3118. Lot the
milk c01110 310 a boil; then add the wolf.
beaten egg -yolks, sugar, and vanilla
take
Sn%rtes Snl.,vl.—:Cowman of salmon Lw
eight or ten stalks of celery ; cot the celery
into small pieties null mix with the 8nlmoe,
Which 8honld also be violets' 313100311(8111113.0 1
eprinklo over a little 333113(331(1 it very little
pepper, and pour of some good vinegar, A.
email onion may he /added if desired.
(lumina a 1'mnero0,--•:ren 0nplals of gra-
ham flour, one cupful of tn01,10000, one cop.
foil of sweet, milk, one otpfnl of chopped
relishes, two totemoonf010 of coda. Steam
throe h011re,
I3a1r(CAx1.1'le'v,---W1lites of two eggs, four
olmet of 077 ; then Toronto (Jere street),
with (134 ; Toronto (Jamieson avenue), with
•15.1; London, with 441 ; Owen Bound, with
423. The whole number of teachers em.
ployed is, 452. In 1877 the fees collected
amounted to only $20,753 ; in 1890 the fees
amounted to $89,014. The total number of
pupils who pes0ed a university matr1c1lu-
tion examination was 483. Of these the
Toronto (Jerrie street) Collegiate Instituto
passed thehiglestnumber, (31),a» dlian111Lon
the next highest number (21). The highest
salary of a }wadi -neuter was $9,500 (Toronto,
Jereis street); the average salary of head-
masters for the province was $1,138 ; of as.
sistent musters, $804; of all masters, $809.
Of the mestere 183 were gradulttes of To-
ronto University, 53 of Victoria, 37 of
Queen's )1 of Trinity, 2 of Mee ill and 4 of
British universities.
The efforts made by the department to se-
0nre the planting of shade trees and the cal-
tivation of flowers in the school grounds
have been heartily supported by teachers
anti trustees. Arbor day has now become
ono of the most interesting and profitable
holidays of the year. In 1885, 38,940: in
1886, 34,087; in 1887, 28,057; in 188e, 95,7 14;
in 1889, 21,281 and in 1800, 92,250 trues
were planted. In a very few years every
rural school in the province will have its
shady bower, where the pupils =find shelt-
er from the sun and where their taste for the
beautiful in nature will find some gratifica-
tion.
Tho total number of pnpile attending the
several classes of schools in 1800 (excluding
colleges and private schools) amounts to
517,319, and the total sum expended for all
educational purposes in I850 reecho the
high figure of $5,284,980. This result bluetit
encouraging and speaks well for the educa-
tional prosperity of tee province,
The following general diroot1ons to truant
officers hove been is0nadlly thedepartnlent:
Each officer shell endoevor to pro0r0 the
attendance at school cf all children 111 the
district assigned him, between 8 and 14
years, visiting then at their homes or places
of employment, or looping after then( 10
the streets for this purpose, and he shall,
by persuasion and argument, both with (3110
children and their parents or guaclian8,
and by other means than legal compulsion
strive to secure 30011 attendance, The
adhere shall not bo employed to enquire
into the occasional absence of pupils. When
a truant officer shall be unable, in a district
assigned to him, to procure t110 tlttendt1100
at aohool of any child who is an habitual
truant, or who is regnirsd by the pr0visi0110
of the law to attend school, it shall be the
duty of 0nc11 officer, after notice 0a regnir.
e,1 by the Act, to promo a warrant and
arrest such child, who shall bo brought for
ria) before a (11b 1$tr;ite having jnriedi n•
ton in the 0a9e.
.--....m,- 380 arta.- 8880..
Rural Courtship. •
There are many ways of setting about the
important process Of getting n wife, but a
have mot with none more deliciously simple
than the following, which I mane morose yes-
terday when glette)ng over the pages of the
diaries of the tate Mr. Cope, R.A., jibe pub-
lislled, says tam English 0xuhange. \1r. Cope's
sister-3n•law relates that " she net a farm03
friond'nnd 0aid to him : ' I heat•, John, that
you're;1ately married ; who is your wife 1'
' Woe', Miss 13onning, 1 doan't quite know,'
'>Hevee°? Where did you meet her ?'Aweel
ye see, miss, 113vett to t' market mod as I was
going I seed a coley lass warking along t'
road and I says : ' Will ye git cop and riche?'
Ay,' Days she. ' What mingle' to t' mar-
kol ? Ay,' says she. \Vitae for ?' says I.
"10 git a »levee, ' said she, So I sat her
down i' 31' market an(1 lett her 1 and as I
cam' i' t' evening there was tins sante lass
working t' ',mama way clop hill. So 10pah
to ho' %gram, and axed her. ' I•Ia,' yo gotten
yor pianets 1' ' Nay,' says etre, ' I Lamina,'
Will ye git cop and ride 1' ' Ay,' says site,
So she gat cop, anti /extol her, ' D'yo th3nd
my puce world snit ye 2' ' What place is
that 7 38)10 8hh, ' Why to bo my wife,
8(1730 1. ' j dolul'31 mind, says elm, fin we got
wed and she's a Aare good wife, but she's a
perfect stranger to me,' "
te'ance,
"After my friends and relatives had
taken their last sad leave I was removed to
the dead ward of the hospital In this
hospital, to guard against ally accidents or
premature burials, after the corpse has been
removed to the deed ward, a cord is Attach-
ed to its wrist, and the other end of the
cord 1s attached to a bell in 011e of t110 at-
tendant's room, so that, should life return,
the attendant is immediately warned of it.
This wag (lone in my case, and, after re-
maining in my coffin for forty-eight hours,
I suddenly regained the use of my muscles
and limbs, and sat upright in my coffin.
This movement on my part, of ammo, rang
the hell in the attendant's room, and gener-
al consternation prevailed, I was taken
from my coffin, and in a few weeks was re-
stored to health."
" What became of the lover') " tens tasked.
"Just one yens! from that time Ile 81100
stricken with typhoid fever and died, and
elle same statin pillow that he had so tender-
ly placed ender my hood a year before was
by hos request buried with him."
Mrs. Burette, soon after the'death of ber
intended husben3, came to this county and
married Mr, Burette.
What She Would Say.
Little Tommy 1'otorby, five years old, has
been poking at the mugs) and buruecl m holo
in his sleeve. Ills another says 1
" You will sm0173 catch a -fico, and there
will be nothing loft of youbut a little pile
of ashes. What. will I say then 3"
"You will slay 'Kate, shovel up those
ashes,' "
!Phoniest unhep3y period of menrlago, a0.
cording to1Sronohdivorce statiettoo, in for
the period MO 011.1 (rout 3110 fifth to the
tenth year. After that the figurers drop rap.
idly. Only i'3. 3.el' omit. of 0o8plee 0313130 3(3-
voreo between chair tenth and twontloth
years of union. Only one paw in ono hum
tired seek taunt the isnot after the period of
over thirty and condor forty.
Latest From Europe
The Gorman B,nperor'6 Speeoh---Iaontlon
Sel1003 Buildings.
Perhaps tweet' before lits any spen3l1 by
any m1133 In a great peblin po03tien olieit,d a
disapprove( 00 uuivereul 00 that of too
German Emperor last week to his faithful
dlradenbotrgera Ton Jaye have passed,
and the ill impression then recorded Bleep.
ens clay by day. The riots in Berlin were
one expression of it. Riots in Berlin, it has
been remarked, are unequal. They are,
and for a good reason, The Berlin mob 30
one of the roughest in Europe, but the Ber-
lin police aro ronghor than the Berlin mob,
and the mob knows it has little thence.
No civil force in Europe is so
military, and none 11808 the sabre
anti its horses' heels so freely. 'Phe mob lies
nothing to do but to get out of the way. No
mob leader has appeared. Thee hes been
no ol'gani od violence. Now, for the first
time, there are signs of organization, though
there is not a known ora vielble leader. The
Hatt lasted three days. They did not sub.
side till the leaders, wnoover they were,
had become convinced that it was ashless to
persevere. They are 0.1longht to hallo re-
tired to perfect their preparations, and to
wait for 331 mown convenient 0011001).
It was said ,n the House of Commons the
other night that in twenty years the Lon-
don School Board has erected 356 schools
ata emit of ;52,153,: 45, and that .163 of the
schools h,.v0 been found to be faulty anti
unsanitary, The blame is placed linen
8tvi11dling contractors and dishonest officers,
Capt. Grey of Peterhead, it Sketch whaler
of large experience, )las formed a small syn-
dicate with the object as testing the value
of the Antarctic region as whaling grounds.
Thofarnous explorer, Sit ,John Ross, altvay8
believed that plenty of whales may be fount(
in southern seas, and Capt. Grey is disposed
to agree with him. Capt. Croy hopes to bo
able to take two ships this season. They
will omit 124,000 to fit out, and they
thinks big profit may he made it there at•e
any whales at all in the Antarctic ((ecau,
Dr. Nordenskjold, sou of tine eminent, Arctic
explorer, will probably accompany the ex-
pedition as medical officer and scientific
searcher,
The Most diroumatantial Ilream.
It is difficult to decide the length of
dreams, and impossible to ascertain the
longest, but the historical Circumstances
oo0neeted with the following mattes it, per.
haps, the strangest and most important
dream aver recorded, Mr. Spencer Percival,
Prime Minis ter, was assassinated in tholobby
of the house of °ominous, May 11th 1812.
Mr. John Williams, of Seorrie• lionso, near
Redruth, in Cornwall, a man noted through
Et long life for his vigorous practical talents
11,8 a miner and mining speculator, bad a
dream representing the assassination of Mr.
Percival on the night tatter its oe0urrence
when the •fact could not be known to him
by any ordinary means, there being no
trellis or telegraph wires in those days. He
men toned the fact to many persons during
the interval between the dream Anil his re.
coivingnotice of its fulfilment, A minute
acermet of this dream appeared in the times
of August 98th, 1898• Mr. Williams
dreamt that he was in 1110 lobby of the
'House of Commons, and saw' at small moan
enter, dressed in a blue coat and white
waistcoat. Immediately after he saw a man
(Tressed in a,brovn coat with yellow basket
buttons, draw a pistol from tinder his boat,
and discharge it at the former, who108tent-
1 fell, the Mood issuing from a wound a
little below the left breast, and staining the
white senescent. He saw the murderer
seized by some gentlemen, who were pro.
sent, and observed his countenance, and
on asking who the gentleman w11.0 who had
been shot, le was told it was the C anceT-
loo (M1• Percival was then the Chancellor
of the Exohequor also.) Ile then awoke,
and mentioned the dream to his wife, but
she only laughed et hint, tolling hint not to
bo silly, and persuaded him to go to Bleep.
Three times repeatedly did tho sante dream
occur, and, not able to test any longer, not-
withstanding his wife's eltreatiee to lie
down c nietly and go to sleep; he entree and
cheesed himself, it being then between one
and two o'clook. Two days afterwards
news of the aseassitation arrived in that
part of the country, 'Phe olratgest thing
about it is that Mr, Williams had never
Been her. Percival, nor boon inside the House
of Commons in his life. About six weeks
after, Mr. Williams, having b31010080 iu
town, welt, accompanied by a friend, to the
House of Comments. lmino(liatoly he 0mmo
to the steps at the entrance to the lobby ho
said :—" This place is a0 distinctly within
my recollection after my dream as any in
my own house." Ile then pointed out the
meant spot where the murderer 0tood when
fired, and which ler, Percival had reached
when he was struck by the ball, and whore
and (now ho fell. .rho dross of both melt
agreed with the (108nriptlon given by Mr,
-Williams, oven to rho most minute parti0n-
lars,
WIFE'S LOST VICTIM.
An,twnlcenlu1 From sesilUUool1 and a Vile
I on oT tion Fut are the Utile one Spared.
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THE SIBERIAN MINES.
Aloes fhr ('nitt-ir,s m•e Treated.
Now mad again a telegram from St, lPetors-
Playillg with the euoLeurns a lovely child berg annnn11ce0 that certain Nihilists hove
sat 01033.'. At 13101 gre1471 weary the soft Leen condemned to death, but that the Gear
Bushed 111(1110 wan p(eeeed Apel a tiny 01111, lute b0e1 (,l01100,1 10 00nlnlnte their sentence
I and the little one was lulled to sleep by the
moaning of the restless waves.
It could not sleep forever, sonetning dim
taros its shnmhnrn, it nevus and slowly
1 opine Its beg Moe 3.73110, naw salt and sa'1.
What had ohauged the dear one? Who
Lad Kohn the bright, langhter•lnvin(�' darl-
ing, and loft instead this 11Ltte sac -eyed
stranger? Ali, who can toll? Was it not . In whist the conteete ere lodged. Sir. Ken -
the old grim•vi9aged "'Time Beeper " who I nen, who was anconp.uried on his visit by
whimpered ; "Thou host been a child long the governor, thee describes theme—
I ?" We en( 01ed, through it heavy plank door,
he tiny pulses beat more quloaly, the
blood surges throng), it0 veins, a faint rust•
/log sound is heard, and two strong arms
elaap the little thing convulsively, pressing
the golden head against a soft, warm breast.
Whose? Who but a mother could ailed such
bitter tears and hold the tiny thing with
such fierceness, as if to still the w•id beat.
Inge, of her p10rced heart --the 111(10/ faith-
ful, uu0e11i811 heart to be found in all the
world, the heart which when it Las once
erased to bent nothing can replace.
The thoughts that now surge through her
brain are these: it ho will rock. the baba to
sleep in years to Dome? Who tell, bathe its
veiling head ?
(11(, (rod, why roust she give it up? Will
ever hands cling more tenderly than hers?
Reason whispers " No." Life whispers,
" Shale ours, you have had her long enough ;
she Was only loaned to you for aBBtte while,
henceforth her home is with us, she i0 yours
only to look upon. She will seek stronger
arni0 than yours for shelter, only to Hurl in.
stead of your sweet and tender caresses,
lips burning with passion. She is like some
delicate, 80nsitiv0 plata, too frail to live -
through the scorching rays of the sun."
The little one 3s dazed, ',owns/ergo ; and
once agent the little tired head falls forward
and again sleep claims her for its own.
Has life no pity? Will it again roughly
grasp the tiny arm to aw01(ee it 3 All, yes,
it thirsts for a glance Iron thole wondrous
orbs now hidden beneath ltwosnowy lids.
Hark 1 The 010111 word Awake, is heard ;
the drowsy head once more is raised the
lids quiver, flash open and look at Life.
The little eyes see nothing thorn to strike
terror to the gentle heart, the rosy lips part
in a perfect smile. This awakening is
haunted by thoughts more pure, holler;
only for an instant. Then the little hands
are clasped upon her breast and for the last
hole the weary head falls with the whisper-
ed words:—
" Mother, rest."
Life willingly gives up the cold, still
Sgnro and hurries onward. to seek a new
victim.
The mother has it mournful duty to per-
form. She gently presses the lids over the
bine orbs, and closes the sw001. lips smiling
on her still ; the golden ringlets are placed
around the lifeless brow and -sadly, thought-
fully, lays her darling away to --rest.
Phrases and Their Origin, •
"Tipping the wink," generally regarded
as a vulgar phrase, is to be found in 11 grave
historical romance. It occurs in "\"aldrins:
a Roman Story, by John Gibson Lockhart,
Sir Walter Scott's son-in-law, and for many
years editor of the "Quarterly Review."
The origin of the, phrase "1 can't see it"
is traced to Lord Nelson, who, at the battle
of Copenhagen, ens told that it signal W118
given to oett10 firing end the direction point-
ed out to him. Seizing a telescope, he
applied it to his blind eye and exclaimed
"1 can't see it."
" Hauling over coals" dates six or eight
centuries beck, when feudal barons often
need harsh methods of extol ting gold 110111
the rich vows by suspending their victims
Minya slow fires until they paid ransom or
died. There is a scene of this in "Ivanhoe,"
in which the Templar endeavoured to extort
money from Isaac of York, father of Reber-
oa.
Anxious mothers often tell their handsome
daughters that " beauty is but skin deep."
The phrase probably originated with these
two lines:—
"Beauty 19 but skin (leap and so doth fall.
Short of those statues made of wood of
stone."
Which occur in the Rev. Robert Flenl-
ingg's poorn,poblished in 1691.
The term "blue stocking" wa0 original.
1 need in Venice about the year 1400, to
designate literary oleases by colours. lin
Mill's "History of Chivalry" we are told
that members of the various academies were
distinguished by the colour of their stock-
ings, blue being the prevailing colour,
The application of the term to women or.
iginaled with Miss Hannah Moore's admir-
able description of a blue -stocking club in
her "Bas 'Bleu."
" Corporations have no souls " is a much
older expression than most people imagine.
It originated with Sir Edward Coke, who
in the sixteenth century was considered 0110
of the best legal writers of the age. He
says in ono of his treatises, "Corporations
cannot commit trespass, nor be outlawed,
nor excommunicated, for they have no
souls."
Tilers 4W3. few such common-sense pro-
verbs as "Every man is the architect of
his Own forth e." Appius Claudine, a
Ronan censor, 11001 it in a speech delivered
by him 450 years before the Christian era,
'Better late than 'Inver"was used over
300 years ago by Thomas Tucker, In his
"Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry."
Later o1, 131ulyan used it in his " Pilgrim's
Progreqs."
Not a few of the phrases in use at this
clay originated with Lyly, and are found in
hit "Enphtles," a popular booit published
1080. Among then( might be mentioned
caught napping," " a m•ool(otl stick or
nota,' "brown st0dy," "catching birds by
putting salt on thew tails," &c. Wheal
people do not particularly like 0,1011 other
it is sometimes said "there is 110 love lost
between then." The. phrase 0001110 in the
old ballad of "Tho Babes in the Woods,"
and in a tale of the days of Shakespeare,
entitled " illontohanlay.'
He Ranieri too Soon.
Firs ChM `1m—Olt( MtGuzzle is mar-
ried.
Strom' Club lull --Yoe don't slay so.
" Yes, 11e married a beautiful flatly, 33.110
le i'01111t1'keble for her ,umplexi1m,"
"11,1s she Et creamy eoinplexion 9"
"She has."
"11)1073 ought to hallo waited unci next
sprite."
" Why 2"
" Rooansoher creamy complexion matches
ida rod nose, nod etrawber110a and 00011111
are not in season just now.
Manna with some show of hhclignal3nn.
-•-" 1 h;n•o enllo,i yyob throe tithes. 1 am
v311'11 much annoyed," Charlie (who is fond
of 1311,1e stories)---" 4\'0l1, the lard eellod
Samuel three tines and H0 d1du't got mad
about lt, (1111 I10 2"
to pe1a1 servitude in 311(0 (1(3011', of Siberia.
To what misery the Imperial isleme1010y con-
denies the nuh3pl3y wrolohes is told by Mr,
(leorge Reiman. The millets 1,e describes are
those 01. Kora, and are the private property
of the 17,or, for whose benefit they are work-
ed. No more abominable places of human
habitation could 10 imagined than the cells
I Wonder--?
In 313. v •n ,r 11 fog's mail, witch was an Mita
hie prodtlos ono In business way. there wa0
ono tiny note near the bottom, from a tender,
blc t and "helped ein rrs imucl,"t by oat no of been
y
hymns,—and .somehow the 1riotionandirri-
tation of rho jawndiecebusinese correspondence
31en,ed to vex mo and with a thrill 01.103' Paul's
hopo•text in that inepiring and delighful letter
of his to the people at Corinth rang In my
ems:—" The things that are tomporal, but the
nnd000 things are eternal,'
Tender, helpful, kindly word
From astrange. 1(r away,
Thou'rt a messnggormmn the Lord
'1.'0 my 1laraaa'd heart to•dny.
When my thought grille truth a wing
Sent it o'0r the lands afar
Unto enll'erin3f souls to sing
Of the Groot All•Fnther's care,—
Oft I wondered if its free
llnpefnl spirit some would learn ;
10'twoulel over unto me
With al " Onvo•branoh" return 1
So my snnl•song found a rest
Like the ar1000nt, weary dove t
Found within one gentle breast
Fellowship in Cod's dear levet
lliany another burdened ono
May have felt love's thrill divine,
In its teeth or light or tone •
They halo given me bale no sign.
It was love that sent It out,—
Love lukh neither bend nor lack—
(Loveeastlovo1canttend it back rill
Caro I not for praise or blare ;
Let the tt'nrl01 its plaudits spare,
But Vs Joy to have my none
Shrilled In one true,nother's prayer.
wouldratherwin smile
From some cella, •vt t1( a heart aflame,
Whore my soul could rest awhile.
Than the great world's fleeting fame.
013, the world 10 all too ninth!
False and no111014 Ito praises 1
801118 hallo sonic—along—in touch t
'Hearts urn love's immortal
Can 1 sing to reach your heart?
Load, inspire me by your word'
go we oath may do our pert:—
Each Colne nearer to our Lnrd.
PSI;,tool 310111 i00a1l'1g 11 itred,
Whore—for all otornity—
Sonmo shall teem the love of God.
Toronto, February 00, 1se21Yx A. I4foluttsoa.
"Foiro Aisy."
Two Nehmen were told off to guard a
ship, whilst the officers and 0(033. went
ashore. They had received atriot injure.
tions 310 fire offs gut if they eats any sign of
the enemy.
la31 suggested that theyshould fire oli'the
gun "just ate frighten billet fellers on
shote.
Mike objected, boeanse the officers would
bo Dross with their \vesting the ball for
/lotting,
Pet disappeared, pondering deeply.
Pro.eutly he returned carrying a large
caldron.
"lenth, and Pave it new," saki he. "Yon
cit 08331,le the Can and 1(13.1,1 Lhc• pot twin
the neneale and 1(lte)1 the hall when 1t 0011109
0811."
Mike tat hast consented, and took up his
p00it1o1 as directed,
"Aft ye riddy 2" Otis Pat.
" Via, said Spike; "hut foh'o ally, illy
away--f1Ire Mess"
Bamg went the gun, and hIike and the
pot disappearo,l,
Presently rho officers and crow returned,
and demi:a ted to 1111011 w1101.0 '1,11 enemy
Was,
1311107," says Pat c "I'nein sin'im."
" Where's year mato then'" they ask-
ed
\\'hat, did, ye ria meet him 3"
' Sleet him
" \Vell, that'„ strange, for lie's gone
(51(011, in the pot.'
Tho lolly dog of last. eight is rapt, to b, the
dog with a sore head of this mhruing,
a hug, low, and very clerk corridor, the
broken and decaying 1io0r of Whi0(3 felt wet
and slippery to the feet, end where the at-
mosplmre, although w13r111, was very damp,
and reiterated with the strung peculiar odour
that is oharaotoristic ,f Site:Han prisons. A
p1re0(1 Who has mice inhaled that odour can
1101,01' forget. it; and ye: 31 3s so unlike any
other 1,a1 omen in the world that I
hardly know with what to compere it.
To Onaocustome,l senses it seems so eat-
era•ed with foulness and dieeti,e 80 to be
al moat insupportable, 1Westepped:tcrues the
threshold into a room abort 24 feet long,
22 feet wide, and 8 feet high, which con-
tained twonty.nine emit-Mts. The air here
was so much worse than the air in the core
rider that it made me faint and sink. The
room 11118 lighted by two nearly square
heavily grated windows with double sashes,
that could not be raised or (Toned, and
there was not the least apparent prevision
anywhere for ventilation. The floor wag
made of heavy planks. Out from the walls
ou three sides of the room 1,1010eted low
sloping 1oedee platforms nboot six feet
wide, upon which the 0001.1010 elope, side by
side, in _losrly packed rows, with their
heads to the wail and their feet extended
towards the middle of the cell. They had
neither pillows nor blanket+, and were coot -
polled to 13e down upon these sleeping -
benches at flight without removing their
clothing, and without other covering than.
their coarse grey overcoats.
The women were rather better off than
the men a3. regards accommodation ; but
their cellsworo in the same imanitary con-
dition,
The floor was uneven anddeeayed, and in
places the rotten planks had either settled
or given way entirely, leaving dark holes
into a mem(/ space between the floor and
the swampy ground,
The cells in the women's prison had no
furniture of any kind except the plank
sleeping -platforms, which, of course, were
en tirely destitute of bedding. I olid not see
in either room a single pillow or blanket.
In those two cells were unprl0oned forty-
eight girls and women, six or seven of whom
were carrying in their arms pallid sickly -
looking babies.
The escape of convicts is often winked at
by the prison officials, who coo three to draw,
for weals or months, the clothing and the
mtiohs to which the runaways would have
been entitled. The flight commences when
the warm weather sets in, and for two or
three months en ahuo0t continuous stream
of e00apieg convicts run from the liars.
penal settlements in the direotiou of Laker.
Baikal.
The signal for this annual movement is-:
given by the cuckoo, whose notes, when first
heard in the valley of the Kara, announce
the beginning of the warm season. The cry
of the bird is taken as as evidence that an
escaped eouvict can once more live in the
forests ; and to ('011 away,- in convict
slang, is to go to " General Bukushka
for orders," (ho-knesllka is the Russian
name for the coolcua) More than 300
mea leave the Kara free command'
every year to jointhe army of " General
Kukuska ; " and in S eeria, as a whole, the
number of runaway exiles anti convicts
who take the Said in response to the sum-
mons of this popular officer exceeds 30,000.
Most of the Kara onnvi0ts who " go to
" i the earl
h for orders n
General Kukus ka y
summer come back to the 1011108 linden new:
names and in leg -fetters the next winter ;
but they have never had thew outing, and
have breathed for three whole months the
fresh free air of the woods, the lnotmtainee
and the steppes..
We made a careful examination often
prisons in the proven 0of the 'Prima -Baikal,
and in none of them did we find a bed, a
pillow, or a blanket.
Everywhere the prisoners lay clown at
night in their grey overcoats onbareplauka,
and almost everywhere they were tortured
by vermin, and were compelled to breathe.
the same air over and over again until it
seemed to me that there could not be oxygen,
enough left in it to support c0nlhustion 33.
the flame of a farthing rnahlhght.
human
d-
hunman beings put straw even into the
kennels of their clogs t but the Russian.
goverment forces men to work for ten or
twelve hours a d,w in its East Siberian
mines ; compels them after this exhausting
toll to lie down on a bare plank ; and then,
to console them is their misery, teaks op a
Scriptural text on the grimy wall over their
(leads,
Boating on the Sawbath.
A couple of tourists, staying at a town
Odell 3s in close vicinity to 10031 Ness, had
fancy one fine Sunday to go for a row cu
he loch. They accordingly sallied forth
0 search of tate boatman, whom they mot
est (caving the 1100100, dressed in a Com-
plete snit of glossy blank, with a long-
sleeved
o gsleeved hat on Lia head, and an extra book
ander his arm,
" We want to go for a row," said one of
the tourists.
' Din ye no ken that it's the Sawbeth,"
was the reply. " Ye'll no got a boat free
me the day, for•byo I'd flan yo tae ken Pon
an older in the kirk."
" Yea, yes," expostulated the tourists,
that's all very well for you, but we don't
require you with 11e, You can go to ohnr0h;
the can low Orn selves."
" ,Aty,8y, 'sand 1110 eider, " tell jig think
what would the m eenieter say?;
" Never ribitol the minister, ens the
reply," "ho will know nothing about it,
enol we well paw you well."
" Alb, wind," raid Lilo older, " I'll 310 lint
ye the boat, but I'll tell ye what I'll do for
ye. Dae ye ser, you gem b0atio aeon
among t.heruehen? \Feel, silos ready, tv1
the oars inside. Met ye gang demi there
ten row one tae the middle, an 1'11 come
then to the hank and sweat' like te ferry
teefel 1 but tither yo ntfnl, ye jis tow on,
aa' I'll call 'for the mmnhy on ,elotday,"
There ae oonv ld"raldy over a Innuired
thnnseud acres devoted to tobaeen in Vil
31131111.
110 ---"'rho sound of your 1,300 rvnlindm
int. of the muei(' of a brook." She (flattered)
•• Indeed r' Ite--"e'es; you ace, 331 rots
en forever,"
What Christianity Iia', Done.
Some gentlemen tell us very complacent-
ly that they have no need of religion ; they
can get along well enough without it, Let
,no tell you, my friends, the worst
kind of religion is no religion at all.
And these men who live in ease and
luxury, indulging themselves in the
amusement of going without religion,
may bo thankful t11at they live in lands
where the Gospel they .neglect Inas tamed
the beastliness and fel ocity of the men who,
but for Christianity, might long ago have
eaten/ their bodies like the South Sea 1s
lenders or cut of Choir heads anti tanned
their hides like the monsters of the French
Revolution. When the microscopic settee
of scepticism, which has hunted thelleavens
and sounded the 00x0 to disprove the exist
once of a Creator, has turned its at31entio
to 11111101 society and has found aplenet te
mile0 square where a decent ural can live it
decency, comfort and secet•i3y, snpportin;
and educating his ehildrhn unspoiled an
unpolluted, a place where age is reverenced)
infancy respected, womanhood honored an
11111ntie life hold in due regard— when 0•,11
sceptic eau, find mush a plasm on this gloht
whore the (tested of theist has not gone ant
cleared, the way, and laid the foutdation
end mode deoeu'y cud security possible, i
will then be in order for the sceptical liter
ati to move thither, and then and tier
ventilate their views. iBttt so long as tiles
men are dependent linen the 1011311on wine
they dieeard for every privilege they enjo
they may well hesitate a little before the
seek to rob the Christian of tris hope anis
humanity of fie faith in that Saviolr wh
alone Inas gixen to mal that lope of otern
1330 whiell makes life tnlereblo'and smileU
possible, and robs death of its terries nm
tho .grave of its gloom."—(,James Ru000
Lowell,
The tnhaceeniet recnguises the fitnos
things when 11e wears a plug hat,