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Tho famine in Rtuseitt graphieelly dc
scribed by the clover young correspoiiiient.
who personally and not withettt, vieit,.
ed the remote strielcon dietriote during the
late winter and early epring, lout now reault•
ea such a degree of inlimeity that many of
the more desperate vietints Mile lardy I re»
mit orimee that will call forth an order
arrest and a coed mit Datum -ill )IA141 MIMI' 1
Siberia. They ealeolato that 1 In•re et lens
there NVIII bo food and daily- ratione, hew
ever eoareo fuel meagre, I 0 them Slberi
1111B 10144 Inall only Om minus, the king week
Mg lemur II, eternal night, privet Mite, con
finemeol, tortures to be sileu tie borne undo
the watt:Mid oyc of itussian trieltmasters
and. yet Buell is their present distreee
it hes become a sort of promised la»ii
plenty.
In one respect, howovor, they are justfle.
in their new view of the eountry. Slberi
lf3 not whony the lana (if penal settlemoute
of barbarons captivity and servitude, It i
also the country of inintenee /moats, o
boundless Dimas of wild, free life, of wood
ed expanse uompared with withal the forest
of the Governments of Moscow and \lath
me aro ineee mince, alt hough it may take
traveller twouty-four houre to ride througl
them.
The Siberian forest bogies In reality be
yoncl Tomsk, though at theft it °frees to th
eye much the same vegetation the tneage
beeches and *mons aparsoly 'dotted witl
thin pinert and
THE 8014.1110Y UNDERBRUSH
THE BRUSSEL S POST.
longer t I ye /3: co goo e d tli 1 t, are
• of all races and nil types 1 Semites ena
Tzigatiesi, Volts and Little Rovitients, moon -
Minton% from the ilatteatme and Germane
from the Bettie, and they beloug to the
'' ;nee 1 1101'01'01111 0.1148808. The old Siberian
1 Wen 111 a 1101180 W1111 many wilidows, the
levilikis in a 1111 Where 1110 141/V01H IllerelY
hearth 111111 tho penes are 1.1alilete ; the no,
411'03 44.11141. 1110 1.11111;an and national furred
hoots, tho Taetitre have retained their fawn
• con IA and tall headgear. Math lead ail:Limit
livee, faithful to their net Meal ettetoins and
habit. ; they preserve their forme of moneelt
L atia address, and a/1 1 LIP trareller pldleleN 011
• from vitt:Igo to villago if he eonverece with
a the postilione, the die% ime, and piedmesters,
he will ti0014 be able to identify, rilassify, and
• recognize the real Siberien from hie 11880.
0 ciatef1,
; But after a while ono motet fail to bo
t etemels by a eingular fact ; with the (mean.
'Won of tho officials,
WII0 11 10:11A117 STRANGEBS,
arre le not single Russian element: In
, Lila ; nothing Russia» is ever soon or
s healed ; emoug 11,11 tho variouely :maned
dwellings there is: not a single one of those
- izabae so common on the Rueslatt froutlee ;
e among all the kaleidosieopie eostuines there
. 1101; ono podvielut or savanna 1 tho freely
, flowiug Russian oath aro ttot utheriel, nor
I the racy invectives familittr to the moujik
beyond the Urals, and yet, there is it wont uf
. absolute uutional indiviatudity among the
e born Siberiths which eitonot, be more (elec.
e Wally inhancea than by hosting that among
it population whose natural expreeeion is
f0111111 1// song, thoro is not one air or tune
which has not been hoard elsewhere and
must, therefore have been imported by the
y ellen,
e However there is ono characteristic boa-
; ture of the villages le the taiga which will
s eet them for a long time mournfully apart
- frotn any others m the world, and retnein
- their distinctive inarks-almost their brand.
a It is the recurrence at fatefully brief inter-
. vale of the dismal getig of eonvicte wendittg
their ilreaay way from One stage to another,
ancl etripping with hideous regularity at the
• tell spiked palisades. The men wear the
I long grits eaftane uoul plod wearily along ;
tho women :mil children are uremia' in the
t telegas, while tet either icicle of the convoy
glisten the letyonets of the solaiere in charge
t 01 the GOLIVIC18. )1 were well Hee lugubrious
a cortege was never allowed to emerge from
1 he do Humes and gloom of the great Siberian
forest.
of the lesser woods). It has the same marsh
sodilen solhand the open epacce aro likewis
intersected by ouensionitl oat lielde pieced
ing 11 miserable hamlet, till a region
reached where cultivation epparently coin
pletely CO:1808, and where the dreary moron
tiny 01 unintereoting Itritelt and coppice i
diveeeilied by no vestiee of labOr 11111/1 114
tion. Thal, such exist it4 pr011able, Ind they
som set:lively bii hien from the outward worli
in the clepthe of the woodlands 111111 there
fore ignored. The impreseiett upon th
strange!! is ono of unspenkable molambely
caused by the 901100 of immensity, fee i
000/1 heel/1110i impossible to fancy the 1. the
lomat will over end ; it is limitlerie, and ye
conveys the idea of a pelican. Further ou
le•tween Mariesk and Atelthisk-the greet
8therian highway -these characteristics are
slightly modified and improved ; the color.
ing becomes lichee end more intense ; the
twos lift themselves in more serried ranks,
and acquire size and breadth ; through open-
ings in tee more luxurious foliage glimpses
are at times obtainable of the distant east-
ern Siberian rango vaguely sillumett oil on the
deep, eohl blue of the horizon The road now
nieanders
TIIR0111 E VALLEYS AND GORGES
between steep acelivitiee thickly wooded,
but it is, however, oti/y near Ic.rasuiark
that the impressive -mil unutterable inejesty,
poweitend stately gloom of the " taiga' is
felt in all its desolate grandeur. There it be
conies magnificent anti strangety verdant ;
there it has broad open specem In, lilted in eter-
nal twilight; impenetrable thiekets, wide
avemies ana aisles, and deep cold shailewe
It stretches in its foolunnheis olincillity for
thousands of versts t •t isiatit sea; a hum
dred of these may be paseed over at a titne
without seeing a thighs human creature; 110
human foot has over penetrated to the cen-
tre of the taiga. The sombre cedars, the
black pines are rarely relieved by the Light.
or branches of the aspen trees or now and
t,hon by the red berries of the wild chem.), ;
more rarely still by the white bloom of
some strn lige looking tall and at long
intervals a 1101011e88 stream court:am under
the overhanging 'wenches, Without 011 ex-
perienced guide and a geed horse it wonlil
bo foolhardy in the extreme 10 venture
eveu upon the trails:Ind roads which ttre the
most frequented and the honer enown ; no
stranger could by any possibility lind his
way in those mysterious noel deluding laby-
rinths ; foe davs no sound is heard no song
of bird or Iturricel tramplieg of 11111111a' ; tiny -
light itself is chnotged aed veiled, end
when it 0011.80$ 4110 clear northern night
drops a chill, weird, whiteness over the tin-
inobtlo trunks and motionless branches,
while eeeetts to evoke subtle, penetrating
and aromatio porfutnes !thin the ceders and
the pines that wore not pereeptible before,
It is at that honr thitt, tho taiga sends forth
lugubrious sighs thitt on the startled
ear like.
A MOURNFUL, WAM ;
nothing else oan give an ideit of this noctur-
nal awakening of the Sibeehin forest, which
never changes to gladness. But even the
dreariness of those seunde is as nothing com-
pared with the terror of a :dorm suddenly
breaking (woe ; i to furious onset even
the stoutest heath might quail, for it seems
then as if the hitherto dumb and forsaken
depths wore alive with wild and fierce
beastsairearing and howling in search of
eome prey to devour. At such Dime, like
tho famine -stricken peasant of far-off Rus-
eia, the traveller wonders whether tho shel-
ter of some subterranean mine were not pref-
erable to the fateful freedom of the tempest
tossed taiga.
The Siberian forest Ints its deeizens end
visitors ; they aro the hardy hunters who
knoiv that those apparently desert solitudes
are lu same parte haunted by the reituleer,
affording a tempting victim to the bears,
who are the object of thole patient pursuit.
They brook them with brave per:severance
and at the poen of their own lives, frequent-
ly remaining absent, from theit; homes so
long that when they return to their villages
thew nature seems chained, and instead of
the smiling, singing, laughing, g,00rl temper-
cdpeasent they used to be, they. home becoino
silent, morose and misenthropes
A Siberiah village differs greatly from a
Potsdam one, and in nothing more than the
absence of cultivation. Tho forest invades
the single atreet ana commmenees ttgain at
the lost of the straggling row of houses
there aro no baths, no sheds, hardly a pateh
of kitchen gerden ; the houses itre built of
wood, and always in the centre or at the be.
ginning of the village stands the " stage "
or building eurrotincled by a court yard an.
elosed witit tall, sharply pointed stakes.
The etage is in faet tho wawa d'etre of tho
settlement, tts it marks one step on the high
rood
%.1111 ATINES;
and is Mend regolarly at an interval of
about thirty wires; ; hes boon established
with no other °Weill than to facilitate the
transport of convict; gangs. This origin,
curious in itself, 10 still ditieernible in the
general constellation ; the stem, proper has
genoritlly two stories, while the other bead-
inge heats hub one; it is also the oldest -
looking home° iu the place, its mtlieatles be-
ing blackened with ago and expos:tiro,
further tho awellings ate from it, 1110 neWer
4.110y b0p01110, marking the growto irt the
; they aro also anntlfor, ' olling
down to mere cabin; with lv e• !; ;:n1
window, awl lapeo into the ii; • , •
The inlutbilants ore all more o et-
ly commit:it with the etlige and have. it nor
seceded from it ur outgrown it when no
Buried Treasure in Dahomey.
A wellsinformed native gentleman of Ac-
emint writing on July 110, Pat, states as
follows :as." The French moan business with
the King of Dahomey. They hose nine
ships.of-war off Porte Novo, Whydalt,
Kotomi. They have landed meaty pieces,
le:shies n number of Maxim alla machine
guns. In short they are determined to de-
stroy the Dahomiturs body mid soul, root
and branch. On the lowest calculation of
missionaries, morchauts, and natives there
must be at least one hendred millions her.
ling in coined gold chiefly Spanish doubloons
of 1000 to 1780, lying m Abontey for the
first comer." It is believed on good grounds,
says a opereepondent of the Globe, thet im-
mense treasure, the (=emulation of up.
wards of two centuries, lies buried in the
Dahonnan capital. Allowing largely for
exaggerations, and for pounds sterling
reading dollars, one huntheil millions of
the latter would exceed 1/20,000,000. It is
well known that successive kings have
buried vast quantities of bullion within
the precincts of the palace in numerous
largo pito, ton 00 more, each stall to cant:tin
several millions. No doubt authentic re-
ports of the existence of tide immense tree-
eure have reached the French Devernment
through the missiouaries, traders, and
others, and this will account for their eager-
ness tu ettptut;o Abotney, reduce tho king to
submission, and sack hi$ palace. Whether
the report that King Behauzin has seized.
and caeried off a lumber of Europeens,
whom lie intends holding as hostages, will
damp the exam». of the Government it is
hard to say ; but with such an incentive as
X20,000,000 all solognateana well-equipped
force would probably quickly ovorcenne all
obstacles and obtain possession of the covet-
ed treasure, to slay nothing of other valuable
" loot," which may fall into the hands of
tho invaders:.
Pearls are Perishable.
Pearls are very perishable, They eannot be
ooneidered a first.rate iuvestment, like
mends, After a time they decay, Some.
times a fine specimen will lose tts Inetre and
beauty within a fow menthe, so that the
possessor of euoli treasures does well to keep
them put way in a sealed plaoe. They are
very clelioately made, consisting of thin films
overlaid ono upon another, with more or
less alibied matter between the layers, and
it is no wonaer that they deteriorate. After
being Ismied I» the ground for a while they
are retina wor Macao. Those which ore dug
out of Indian graves -some of them of geoid;
size anddoubtleas of wonderful beauty When,
they wero w -aro utterly valueless, even
when they aro not pierced. Nevertheless,
there is a pure and evanescent beauty about
them which seems better to become the
maiden than any other soot of jewel. No-
thing varier; so much in value as pearls.
With them feshion affects tho inatiket con.
stantly. Sometimes white ones are sought,
while other tints at intervals are in demand.
For some years past black pearls have been
the rain. A fine specimen woeth :0120 Nvill
faith 0200, peehaps, if another can be got
to match it perfeelly.
A Man Blown to Pie oes•
An extraordinary accident is reported at
Berlin. In the rite 1880 a number of Gov-
ernmenb experiments woro carried out with
shell filled with *rine. Several hundred
of thee° shelle wore fired into a target, eon.
raining of a Intuit of earth. Some of these,
it seems, failed to explode, and a number of
svorktnen who were digging on the spot a
few days; ago found still embedded in clay
five such unexploded projectiles, oath id
avhiell weighed about a hundredweight.
The shone WOr0 put aside pending their re,
moval. Miring the night ono of them wits
stolen by a rumple of peasiante, W110 at tempt,
ed to carry it Immo. but v.eve unable to do
so owing to its groat weight. When they
had dragged it some distance they conceal-
ed it in a wood. Retitrniug next day with
a hammer, they sot to work to break up
the sheII. While they woro so engaged tho
charge it contained eeploded with terrific
force, and ono of the men 11,110 blOW11 corn,
pletely topic:Qom, hist limbs noul fragtnents of
his flesh hoing senatered ovoe a radius of
fully 30 yards from tho spot; whom tho oic-
plouion oconered. Hie companion was at
the 0&1110 till10 sorimuily inturod, anti when
ea.:Islet= arrived he waif convoyed to tho
neared hospital.
The hi:story this ellain is not know:,
bat it is thought florman work
about ono bemired yeets ago,
12211
TALES OF MEBMAIDS,
Ilrealiseee Ttsal esoderti seiettee Can Sot
Popterp,
A uarrative of the minor anti eurione blob
dents of the deopotea, exploration, would
make an interesting t,,r)., 1 100 11101.11101110tPr
itow Inie Is:gill:IN the toinpi•ritone at tiny I
desired di:1)th by j00310) of Weigh], which j.8
8011 11011'11 ale lint/ at 1110 110;01 requireil '
end, Maiming the thermometer, inverts it,
A while itgo a small liat list: W110 ill wlitigat
ing the instrument at it dere it ef 1,c100 feet
when the weight ileiweeded and eaught the ,
;.t
extraordlitury tale relates of insider, who,
while on a voyage, is seen and belovea by 14
11101.1110.11; 110 1.4411'1111 a hole tlio ehip and
traneform$ her Mtn a 801rp0111, th118 enabling
her to excitor! theough the hole, after width
eliangee Mir tido a mermaid and makes
his tei fit in a StOry moidee
I trieteliertinely thrown hit. the sea is eatried
off by +1 1111.1.111alt Anil 0101000 1 10 Ilia tall. ()II
'Me 0001181011 14 1/014F11/1/ /Mid 1,0 /MVO 011alk•
ell a 111;038 upon Wa tor sprite 8 losek, pro.
venting min trout g,ang into InA natural olc.
mod, until tho eros Wa8 1.10110V18 1.
4 pally fiehermen 11/12.17 111112111 a, 1/11111)
of km in the Hal, 1111,1 gave it to St. 1 lien.
bald, bitduip, to hit gouty feet.
iteae,1 -yoke itidde, ,,11,1 nueeeetled,
saying tl,irty inasees, liberal ing and mite.
ing the soul of the epitit 1nsioe. Every
;eke, river, itiel porill in 01.111•7111y is 1..10.1) -
But beyond theire depths there may In
deeper depthe into wrath science has not, ye
cast its dragnet in seareh of font, Thor
ropey and imagination may mill 1'01111/, alld
the Midi in mermen ana mermaids and tit het
litimandike inlerobitants of the (mean whiel
have figured 111 song and HLary from the 11108
allOiellt tillION, may Kill linger a little longer
with us, Some of the accounts In thapect
mermaids are highly niecumstantial, 11011
Mare 00 than the stades of the mummer New
morpout. For instance, on one oecasion a
Shetland fisherinun 01414 u. group of meemaids
dancing on the strand. lie tun and peace('
up the sealskin belonging to one of them be•
fore she could seouro It. ',nen elio wee at
his mercy and he waft obliged te merry her,
Ono of her eh i Idren I ouzel the sealskin subsei
queetly noel showed it to Ilea 81:eh:I:neat,
atoly put it on and.
ESCAPED 1)190 WAVER,
being Afterward seen by her husbana In the
form of a Seal.
Mermaids have been said to emninonly
appear in the form of soale while in the
water, divesting themselves of the skins
when they come on shore, and, assuming the
aspect of beentiful girls. Sometitnes they
arc of an antiable disposition, while on other
Oel111.011018 they am extremely miechievons.
In Russia they ,i.re disposed to tinkle bathe
to death. Witt er sprites in that country
are imagined to be the ghosts of stillbori
and unbent ized children or of ilterweeil per.
80118. Hwy 11511 t the mysterious tack -o -
lantern. Sometimes they raise etornm, ana
ordinarily they have much influence upon
the Inch of liehermen.
Cobi nil us described three merniaide hich
ho himself 881.11, floating on the MATS. Many
other only navigators give similar fur-
cate:4s. In the wricingS Ifendriels. Red-
eem that bola mariner says ; " One of our
company, looking overboard, saw a mer-
maid. S110 ettine close to tile ship's side,
looking earnestly at. the M011. 80011 after 14
sea mule up mid ovetaturned her. From
her eaval no ber batik and breasts were like
a woinana, her body as big as one of us,
and long, black hair hanging down hoe
baok. When she dived we saw /ter tail,
which WaS like that of a porpoise, speckled
like a mackerel." Undoubtedly these Mer-
maids beheld by old.time voyttgers were
dugougs and manittees. Seals end walrus
seen by persons unfamiliar with these ani-
mals hey° given rise to many such toles.
Scoresby says that the front view of a
young walrus without tusks resembles a
human face no remarkably that " itrequires
very little etretch of the imagination to
mistake the head reared above the water
for that of a human being. The French
call the manatee
" sea WOMAN,"
P ;
lied by water sprites.
and the dugong is named by the Dutch
" little man." Stories of mormaide einging
or talking fluty have risen from hearing the
cries of seals, which resemble those of
children somewhat.
In a learned report respecting a mermaid
caught in Denmark, who wits taught to knit,
Dr. Kersehur describes the Oreatlire as
having a pretty facto, mild oyes, a small
ewe, fingers joined by cartilage like a
guose's foot and breasts round and hard.
He assertea that mermaids and mermen
constitute tt submarine population, which
partaking ot the skill of the ape and beaver,
build grottoes of stone in places inaccesible
to divers. In A1311 a sea woman was taken
alive near the Island limos She was five
feat long. After surviving four flays sl,e
died, not haviug eaten anything, Ilor head
wns like that of a woman, the eyes light
blue unit her hair sea green. The upper
parts of her body wen almost as white as a
woman's, but the lower part was like the
tail of a ash.
It is related that in 1403 a mermaid swim.
ming in the Zuyclor Zee during a period of
tempest and very high 1A1108 N4118 carried
through a hole in a broken dyke and could
not find her way out agaim She was cap-
tured and taken to tho town of Eaton,
where sho was washed mud cleansed from
the sea -moss which had grown about her.
Sho then appeared like auy women of tha
land, adopting proper dross mid partakiug
of ordinary food. She tried often to escape
and to Malta her way to the water, but WWI
°Mealy guarded. People 0141110 front great
dist:limes to iiee her. Supposieg this etory
to be true, the woman was either a fraud 121'
a demented outcast. In the Faroe Islands
it is believed that on every ninth night the
seals east off their skins, Resume hummi
forms mini dance on the beach, But if they
lose their sealskins in any way they can not
roeume the similes of 8411.410. NI11110r0118 in-
stances aro related of those
ISOV.1.18 Or THE SRA.
having carriea oil -human beings, oonveying
t(lioni Ode marl -lined geottoes in the
tenths. Mermen have in thei manner often
Obtained 111.11nall girls for brides, while inee.
feeble not infrequently seek to secure for
husbands good-looking youths from dry
lend. Sometimes the individuals who are on.
trapped orstaluoodinto taking asubmarine
menner of life have found it much more
enjoyable than their former terrestrial ex-
istenee; bub in a majority of the oases on
milord they have sought to eSeap0 8001101 or
later.
The .Arabs believe that certain fishermen
live on islands in the Indian Ocean and oat
drowned people, In a JELpalle80 story a
boy has his fishhook carried. off by a large
fieli. A merman appears and sets him aflona
in the basket, in which ho sinks to the
palaoo of the sem dragon, whose daughter lie
falls in love with and marries.
In the tole of tho Lord of Dunkorron be
encounters a mermaid,
For tt beautiful spirit of omen,
'Me Lord or Dunkorrou would win to his bee,
00D080
When by moonlight the waters were hushed o
711141, baltlal11.11 spirit of croon arose,
tier bah., full of luster, lust !loafed end tog
Wee her bosom, that; floored with a billowy
It is said that a rennet(' asked a Scotela
man who wits reeding the 13ible if hero tvas
any comfort the boolt for hen ldo replied
that there WWI mercy for tho sons and ditugh.
tern of Adam, whereupon she screamed and
disappeared. In the year 101 0 two eonneil,
Tore of Glirietian IV., of Denmark, whif
between Norway mei enve,1011, tibi-
a -1001'0d a mermen sWitutiling about with a
Innuth of gram on his head, They threw (int
a hook anti lino, baited with a :ditto of bit.
eon, which the inetinan eeisorl. Being
caught,
its I IIMI.VITN VIIN1111aNDE 011 Lornhy
A Hindoo Uow Story,
One of the greateet eitlantition which can
befall a Dimino is, says the corrompoodent
of an Indian journal, When 110 accidentally
kills cow. Soch a misfortune has befallen a
men of the Aide or eowitord mato. It ap.
pears t hat he was carrying a young ealf
slionlifere, whieli, having fallen down,
broke its :melt ittid (lied. The Brahmans
deelereil him to be a dOkili, and sentenced
him to the moverest, form of 1.1111(100 090017),
multication celled hatia for six months,
They futeliet told the Ahir that he could
not have committed a ;creator sin, but, tak•
ing into consideration that he is an unedu-
cated men, they have dealt very leniently
with him. During the period of 014 110111-
monleation the Allir was ordered to lead a
life of mendicancy, and with a rope round
bis neck and a portion of the cafe tail on
his shoulders& he was to perform•pilgrimages
to different Idind00 811ri1108, The members
of his family teem foi ;dation to supply him
with either shelter or food muter a penalty
of undergoing similar exemnimmication.
l'he AIM. has returned to his village, but
until the purification et:Nem:ides aro tiver he
must liVe in a temporary grass;thno cited
house width has been ereeted for his reel.
dome. It vow reinitiate for a man of the liasb,
manes caste, which It olio of the lowest ana
meet degraded, to purity hitn. A barber,
after shaviug the delinqueet end paring the
imils of his bands and tom, Will make oree
the ludo and nails to the Bitatuanus, who
will burn them and also set tire to the hut.
After Wes Aida boing covered with
eirw-dung, will tako e plunge into the River
Sada and oome oat purified. But his
troubles are yet by no meane at at end.
After lie lias feasted fifty Braidnins and ono
hen 'red of his brethren he will be readmit-
ted tato clone fellowship.
An Unexpeoted Question Popped.
" Mies 11—, 'may I ask you a very ire -
portant question?" said bashful young man
to a young lady to whom ho had been pay.
ing attention for soma time, and he spoke in
the most uneasy, sepulchral voice bought-
tIblieI 'Why," said the young lady, somewhat
startled at the solemn turn of affairs, " I
don't know tiott there would be any serious
objention if you have an important question
arawing a little closer, and in a
to, &
more confidential whisper, "do you think
this in a propitious time?"
"There's no one neer to hinder us that I
see," was the coilneetish answer:1s the young
lady glanced about the room.
" And do yo -do you think that -that
you cout 1 grant the request ?"
" Why, really, Mr.—, how can you ex.
tpleoerit ?1,1,10 to 0118Wer bofore I know the gees-
" Yes -true -really-- well I -well—"
" Well, what?" with jest the slightest
impatience in hoe veioo.
" Well, you see, I had been thinking for
some time that if -if there was really no
objection, 1 would like to ask you with what
-what sort of powder you clean your teeth?
I have notiaea how nicely--"
But the elammieg of a Joey as the young
lady left the room broke short the sentence,
and, after waiting her reply for ii fteen
minutes:, Ile took hi. hat, and in mild sur-
prise wandered homeward.
The 11ext day ho told Ins most intimate
fri end that .Miss 11-- was "a little off"
the night before, but he eouldn't think of
ithything he had mild or done to offend her.
Some Pretty Panoy Artioles.
Book mark -A pink ribbon with a pearl -
ad edge is the fouudittion ; 0000 this put a
piece of bolting cloth sv,th an appropriate
picture upon it. A cupid holding a book is:
a pretty device.
Pretty little pen wipers are inado of light
brown cheinois skin with sumo simple de-
sign cut out and. white kid put underneath,
showing through the opouing. In some the
design is outlined with gold thread.
A very handsome scarf to throw over a
lady's writing desk is made of light steel
blue sena with yellow panoies worked in
their natural shades in solid embroidery
aml finished with a long and short tussle
fringe to mistral all the colors used.
Two pretty table searfs lately seen wove
made, ono of rich, bright; shades•of mahoga
any ; ono ena le plain and the other has a
study of magnoliospainted on it. The other
send was blue pInsh, and on 0110 011d 1440111101411
painted on it. 'lliere aro seven of tho swal-
lows and they aro so tastefully arranged iu
ono group that they seem to be in flight,
A meo little present to give a young
mother is " Book." It; tias
cover of rough cream paper and is filled
with blank loaves. The oover is tied with
narrow blue ribbon and says "Baby's Book "
in gold lettees. This book is intended to
record all the bright sayings of tho child,
together with the data ot the first tooth and
when the first stops were taken.
A. very handsome window lamberquen is
made of 1110010 (any calm). Cut a piece the
required depth ond width ot tho window.
At some distance from otteh end make a
doop, porpendfonler sloth and draw tho por-
tion between the slashes -which should be
a little shorter thou tho ends -from the left
end and lilt high at tho right edge by foldieg
Win throe turniegplaits, tacking meourely.
Fasten a, bow of riblem over tho plaits and
finish the edge of the lambrequin with plush
balls', On tho end pieces mobrolder ft spray
of flowers. Line tvith eilesta, sideen or
e11111.011 flannel.
What is tho Qtteen's Name.
Afany ern in regard to the Queen's
Immo ; euppeso it to be " litelph," but
hab is not 00, although lir &mit), are
tuelphs aeeeent. l•fer Majeety'si mar.
teapot with Prince Albert, gave her his sur-
name, nf voutaia and that is •` \Vettin.'"1'
dominion of 8;111011y 0.11110 I a that family in
I eat Thou lore, tvithout her crime and
kingdom, Queon Viet erht woulti lie eimply
" \Its. Wet1m," If Ode e,opitry
ever become a ilowoughgoing flopnblio,
amnothiny may ho Jamul of a Int tire " 51r.
that ho was thrown beak Mto the sea. One and Mvs, Wettio,"
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Ton AS 'avowing it P 0111111 eloce.
,fieilitut Iatviee, (if Vie10118, 118,4; j1101;
VH[11'11011 (1.1101 the liontenay country and al
an interview with. a reporter of the c olomst
hiapleif more titan over imprison d
wi L11 tile pi, iS11010-41 of the 1, ireetion. 1 le sat B
1 1104 the travelling faeilitiee are aeything
lett good. 110 Went Ill by the Little '
mid foetid Um sLentiter Lytton tied up at I
Mitt mouth of the Kootemry, hot Int eotibi
.e. no reason why the (rem eliiiiild not await, I
f he err: ted of the eteamer end 81 art, pittirdit.
t 1101tead. Irls8PlIgers had
le t until Sereno'clook 111, 11,'N 1111011i141, :
and I hel: throngli driz.,:ling rain,
over a 1111 10 10 1D0 train. The C01111111101 11101
Iv/Plumy rvice, Irian Robson to N018011,
appear' to bo mu in on person'e intercede
greet:On I y not in the interests of tin:travel,
ling po1,110, Navigation from liovelittoke ,
to R01/8011 W11.8 eight days litter this your
than last.
Up to the date at whieli Mr. Dmitri ler
Lim diStriet 110 freight hail erime dOwn frog
Reveletolco, but Lite first boat oi 00158.
hail eerried. mem 150 passe/1,0.cm, Th
8101111101',4 011 the Jake arc the (Worm, the
Spokane, and the Nelson. Although the
laet is the brett 110111, F110 114 IlnpOpll LIU be-
came: of ber high clutroee. The other boats
have reaeonahle rates, eitil with regularity,
and are in very aceommodating hands,
is, by far, the ptineipal iravn
Koalenay, and if the Neleon & Jan teliopperd
railway wino in operation, it would add
much to the importanee mei prosperity of
die town. There aro a. great number of ex.
cellont buildiegs !being run up, but rents rue
high. (10volt-uncut wharf at the
foot of Hall street, is nearing completion,
and, when handed over tiv the eontra.040r8,
Will be substantial picec of work, over 500
feet in length. Indications ore that t he town
wi'l grathudly 11i0Ve nor1.11Warti, t0W,41'd the
lake, The betike ars doing a good luisine!,s,
and proving a great convenienee. Tim limn-
ei pat hotel, t he 1'11011, is also doing ‘4•4 11, bait
hopes to do leater. 'I'leire a good deal
IA 03 erns:time mai aoit 01 a e illfease,
am/ gseeforr. It caonot ,0; od by lees(
apples:1101.s, IL Deems ft 0. H4111110 .1110
remedy in e riur-,1 v:101111,, when,
wort • thrgeth bleo 1, ,gio, h 11 peretr.
eetit , cierrh. ,,rete :ding Il!,•
punt:, oomt, and pr the tliseete,
91 10 ojir' 0'; ut
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env r 1,:".neratvn, I; 14,1, 1111,01.1./
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ar'n
(th-kair-o t are Nevem 0011 18 per pound, so
that provisions ere dear. About 00 cabins,
ehitelts, hail been erected by the ntinere
on the townsite of El Dorado, and there is
coneiderable anxiety that, the property bo
put on tho market. Not emelt wril be
known of the out pnt of the mines nutil next
mouth, es the ground is covered with snow -
,N1 n Davies would advise parties intending
to go to the dietriet to keep aavitt for 50 or
00 days, ut least, when the course will be
clearer. There Is. abundance of lumber
, there at reasenable prices. Messrs. Duch.
anan & Yuji are building their tow boat,
! which will be SO feet long, and Irt of 45, 11.
P• Mr. I etviee' il1t i,lirn,t4 01 the Kootenay
Iholm; ry 10'0 very ta vordde, and thinks
that if the temple of B. 1", hail ns much faith
' 111 11Wir pr,V.rwe 101 1111Ve 1 be All1Pri08118, it
W1111 la lie well for the provInee,
of wholesome exeiteinent in mining 'mulcts, j .--"""'''"."
the Toad Mountain, the Silver King, the 1 66
Dandy., the Iroquois, the Sliver Queen, tunl '
00101'8, having been worked throughout the :
winter, with gond results. The Dandy is ,
Shill to bo improving us wore proceeds, but 1
operations are retarded by the heavy snow. :
falls. There aro said to be fano feet in 1
depth of the " beautiful "on themountainset I
present, Oleo feet of it having been con CI 1 -
bated since March, It is expected that the
rivers will be exceptionally high thio year„
when the thaw sets in. 1 Here is an incident from the South
is Ainsworth. The Hot, Spring oft,p,, are just, after the Grippe had visited. that
Mississippi, writtem in April, ago,
Tim priueipal town of the Lake Dietrict -..
proving as Hell 8.4 they are evtensive. They country. " I am a farmer, one of
were operated during the winter, the pay. those who have to rise early and
ron averaging $1,000 per month.
Tim Hetdryx Syteloette et the mouth of work late. At the beginning of last
Pllot Bay, have aboig 100 inen at work. Winter I was on a trip to the City.
'rho wharf, Lamm 7310 ant in length, has of Vicksburg, Miss.,where I got well
been completed, arid tho warehouses, hotel drenched hi. a shower of rain. I
(3 stories), offices, and tho men are now en- went home and was soon after seized
gaged in excavating for their concentrator, •
and middng the foundation lor the elevator, with a vdry, hacking cough. e. This
to carry thi: ore from the different works. grew worse every day, until I had
It ie te be 91) feet high. The works are ali to seek relief. I consulted Dr. Dixon
of a permanent character, and have been
of between 830,000 and Wtoho has since died, and he told. me
executed :Maio October, and at an expense
840,000. When ,,rg,,,e_t a bottle of Boschee's German
completed t 118 capacity of the smelter will bo ""J -P. ..Meantime my cough. grew
be about 100 tons per day, \ Vorktnen aro worse ana worse and then. the Gnppe
On the wounds, clearing for the survey came along and I caught that also
party, and it is expect eil the townsite will be very severely. My condition then
put on the market next month. I he loofa
tion is beautiful and is bound to prove an compelled me to do something. I
got two bottles of German Syrup. 1
attraction.
The Kaslo townsite is being rapidly clear- ' began using them, and before taking
cei, and many buildings are erected and in much of the second. bottle, I was
eouree of emotion. About one hundred mon entirely clear of the Cough that had
were waiting to get into the place. The
townsite hi al. the north of the Kootenay hung to me so long, the Grippe, and
Lake, with a fine harbor, and "rand pros- all its bad effects. I felt tip-top and
110,0:8. It IS, however, out of trre ordinary have felt Ithat way ever (esince."
uno of teavel. PE'ngR,T.BRIAI,S, Jr., Cayuga, Hines
Pilot Bey is another chitriningly sitttated Co., MiSS. ill
town site. Tho soil is eaudy, and the dis. saa„aassmassasss.
trict sparsely timbered.
The Present Moment.
It has It cotnmo•
diem bay, with every facility for ship-
pieg. Considerable property hes changed The present moment is dirinely sent :
hen flS Sinai the sales made by Mr. The present duly 10 1110 Masi er'S Will.
llusk, and tho general opinion is oh, thou who longest for 80111'3 nettle work.
Ito thou this heUr thy given task f Mill !
that the town will become a very important „end thou shalt f1nd, though small first in
ono. Kootenay Reclamation Co. are build. seemed.
ing their house -boat and dredger. There. It 18 1/10 worlc or which thou ott hest dreamed.
tion of soine 45,0(11/ acres of good land, in int•sion fields ot some far•di,tant clime,
stilt of their operations will be the reelatraa
Oh, think not, if thou are »ot railed to work,
which will be placed on the niarket, In the That thine is no grand mission. 1-.11-01`Ydeea
immediate district, some good iron ore has .,..litutttgr 4.0,11,1Act.4o84,10,,,(4),,It'stVii,ont,icoodutiljuboo,
been discovered, carrying a largo percent. ''Since that's high will appoInteth.11 to thee.
age of silver, a sample of which will be on
exhibition in the museum in a few clays, .A Conscientious Coal ,Merohaut.
At Gnat and Deck Rivers soma rich etrikes
have been made, etugyiug :diver and five Mr. Black, an eminent and wealthy Eng-
lish coal dealer, called 0110 of his oldest
per cent. of cooper.
Bonnor's Ferry, in Idaho, ts increasing, drivers iuto tho °dice the other morning,
owing to the operations of the (treat Nortli. and tendered him quite a latge sum ot
ere Railway. The freight rate from Sand 100,103%
" Whitt is thia for ?" staked the astontsh-
'Point to Nelson on the 1.'. 18 5:le per onl.,
while the charges tea the Columbia River ed driver.
" Merely a token of apprecultion for ser -
and Robson awe 82c per cwt., alr. Davies
thinks that 1.111 1080 the ColumLia and Knot_ vices rendered," replied -Mr. Black kindly.
entty Navigation Company are preparea " But, sir, you've always paid me
meet this rate, the bulk of the shipments 00011511."
" Thera is more than that in it, John,"
will ge by the cheaper mete, 'rho Columbia
is ery aillienit to navigate at low water, eontinuea the dealer. " really owe you
and the Federal GOVer1111101118-the U. 8, tho money."
'21itl 31r, Black -and
and the Dominion -might very easily ::ILtelionnletfoullleyrsottzllps.
straighten the ellannel to tho admit o of
all concerned- aeo
he stropped his voice to a whisper. " Ton
The opinion of the Americans is," sold l'ave boon wil'k ms for 20 Years, working
Mr. Davies " that the Kootenay country 300 days every rar, and averaging three
will prove die richest on the enntinent, They loads a day ; t iat makes 18,000 loads.
are convinced that the ore bodies are the Von weigh abont 150 pounds, J ohn, anu WO
have Devoe failed to weigh you in with
largest in the country -t,he largest they
111110 ever seen -and that all that, is needed every load of our superior cord ; that makes
2,700,000 pounds, or, say 1,200 ton, That
to develop its resources is better transport:1-
at 20s. per ton, John, represents £1,000.
uou fecilities. The cue thing that will
The packet yon hold in your band contains
open this cortatry more than anything else
:C120, or 1 0 per eenta which we think is
is the building of the Nelson and Fort
yours 11,y right, We are limiest men, John,
Shepperd Railway, thus giving theca am -
and don't desire to defraud any man out of
poling lines, ono of whioh at least meld be
mutt il. The Provincial whet is justly his."
operated the year
John bowed in humble submiesion, and is
Governmeet, nod the C.P.R.„ who aro the
owners of the townsito of Nelson should now anxiously welting for the next divi-
dend.
Rerom Lo elen, Eng.}
oa..11.01:4;r44,41,4717,
spend a portion at. least, of the proceeds of
Defer hues upon clearing the town and
making streets, The residents of Nelson
have abeling footh 1110 WWII., and their of-
fotes ought. to 1)0E300011,1nd by the Govern -
0110111 and railway company.
Mr, Carpenter assured Alt. Davies
that there Were fully 500 men on their way
to the Slocan Mille& The freight rates
,STJACOR S 01
" Wo reoommend this trnly wonderfu
rentody-St. hobs Oil -to every ono who is
suffering front pain. We aro personally ao.
quainted with many marvellous mires effect.
ea by its use." While the alum; is from
Modern Truth, it le an ancient foot that fot
tho cure of pain St. jaeobs Oil hes 110 01inal
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CakieginS PAM. THE:
iMEMIGIAMEMIlki :
'etillevEll la.' ''
The 11Pide's DPess
leferried in white, you have thoson all right;
Married In gray, you will go far away ;
Married In black, you will wish yourself baok ;
married ht red, you will wish yours:elf dead;
Married in green, Ashamed to bo seen;
Married in blue, he will always bo trnet
Married in pearl, you win live in a whirl;
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow;
Marriod in brown, you will live out of town;
Marrital tt oink, your spirits will sink;
Mart -ie.! ot out, you may have to toll;
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