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LIFE IN A BENIGHTED balls. M times a day you think
— son by name, has j at y
Uurlous IM eomr u t gand brought with hips a clog that would have
trams you, A rend Phe follow ug p y Fermenta in hte phonograph l "Sorter
tVtern exahu0ge, showing 1115 geuorosity cots soca to be able to transmit the sound
to a raw reeruu, maybe nese o ma y of the human veto across c
our readers' le .van a drizzly tiny, only n aceta. Su that for shoes of 0o who atm af• I Carlylean contempt for the frippetiee of
Amu limo before General Grant drove the, ford it we ma 0x i°0t to Uo oblo to listen 1 oiviliaatioe and the usulese enurement of
enemy from Petersburg end moved toward to Air, Glad°ton° eamolfnhi a en opponent' °loth°°• Mr. doWg En cont Nugget, the dog, to
Five Turks and Appotnatox. A chill north• in the House of Cannnota, or to Any other board with a dog fancier in a 0401/10 board -
that gale made ever:mate comfortable even man who becomes celebrity enough to have . iug•houat, and then Wont to a olathfng stare
there, and more man who weld wore thins people caro not only far what ho says but, and exchanged his colvbny's rig for new
Chap Loft them elf the very manner of epeeult iu which he Bays olothos of the latest Cut. Tho next day he
A sentinel down toward the river near it palled on Nugget, but Nugget would have
acme storehouses shivered 00 he ethane to Canadian editors foul tempted none of him, .the master whistled effort
the
Whenever the
clog, petted him, and made every o
and fro on his pact, his gun -luck under his to ratable at the hnrduoso of their ]ot, let l make him anderstaud that affection was not
o
nein. to keel off the wet. 1io was a raw re• this thought uondert then and •ratio notes of •I ahau ed even though 0lothee had been. Tho
trait from "down East," sent out to help fill thnnke ' o,,, in Chair hearts—tins, namely, changed, g
g dog looked up at the silk lint whioh had taken
Grant On Guard, 1 VARIETIES,
The Dog Disliked the ]lode Snit,
ENIGHTED LAND, moat a change ' b h thought
d m oattla•man from Arisunu, William Wit -
es
u tome down to thouft
arts stet with In uu e• a lima rolls on you nee f foci tent re Orted b a p that ho ex-
wain, but two Maines open to you, either to or delighted the heart of the author of
nY TRAl-ELLER, SINK INTO A UTS1'EPTIO S nitArlt t n of p 110 At talo•a Resartue. Far the hnimul fl mute a truly
let her go with the money, mad nay 0enemau
When once olfthe few - short miiwaye of would let her go. It ie a lottery, in which
Central Atnorioa treuopartation beeezn°s a you pity for the ahaaoe of drawing a took.
serious oubjeut. Tea engineers who plonnud The pewee are even fewer than in ordinary
tate roads a,• l trails seem to have seiectea lotteries ; so avoid the speculation and have
the sherteet liccs between point°, with:4o a little less worry at a hotel, The preppie -
regard to grade or water courses, and iu the for then shoulders the trouble, and he 58 a
Six mouthu' rainy 0040011 the mountain reeds fortunate man if it be the (medicine of his
be some impassable reeky streamewhile these t: able thee se;nreshim gueacs,for too often
or the loo uouutry besonw lakes of man. In the oueot'e eheiee 0530 is between evils. Thii
dry weather wooden :arts are used, drawn of coarse dooa not apply to the hotels of the
by two unshod Oxen, who are mea00r1 to lirgcet cities, such as tlnetemala, where they
exert themselves by :sharp pointed prod iu' are sxoelleat, but is door refer to some:
the hands of the driver ; bat they carry only whioh are not epee fled, as I inay want t0
1,500 pounds and Agood day's average is 10 return to them some day A roast is never
or 12 miles. .souk mule are also unites- seen except in the new and .urger hotels.
sally used ; but the reel animal of burden of There ere fries and stews and hashes with.
the country le the Indien " mora," who out member. The " olla podrida" is a dish
travels aIe eenteutediy up hill and down, made of everythiug eatable that might other-
tu rain or sunshine, carrying from 12;, to wise spoil. A Spanish dictionary says it is
175 pounds: on his bank. Muth of the heavy " A dish composed of different sorts of meats
p and vegetables boiled together," but I stiok
:toffee mauhintry has been carried in sections
by"moria" over mountain trails that in to my definition, Meet, fish, sausages,
other eountrics would be considered difficult wanes, raisins, onions, cabbage, and every
paths for deer. Tee time and labor expoud- other vegetable that may be on hand is
521 in such eluwand d.iiieultcarrying deubfes put into a pot to boil, and the
the pri,,e of all commodities and prevents result is not so bad as when the
the establiehnient of many industries which the cook's attention is moietred on one par
.with reasonable facilities would flourish. In tieular article, and in the "podrida" the
different constituents may be said co "got
off easy" with only a share of her attention.
What would an Ontario housekeeper say if
she saw one of these kitchen 1 A raised
trench holds a charcoal fire, and on this
stand the pots and kettles. The light en.
ters only at 0110 door ; there is no outlet for
smoke, and the accumulation of years has
formed layers of soot on the rafters and
walls, and I tauuot find it in my heart to
blame the poor cook if fifes do form a cons
stitutent ot every dish.
When the traveller is direoted to go to
the town ot San Juan ho cannot always
be sure that he will reach the right
one. 1n a radius of 50 miles one may find
three or four San Juane, and so numerous
are they that these towns are given sur-
names such as, San Juan de Lea Lsproeos,
San Juan de Ostunceloo, San Jean de Sada
tepequez, &a. So it i0 with the name Don
Juan. Leaving home, where "Don Juan"
may be prohibited reading, one may
RETAIN A REMEMBRANCE
you will eeety- coeke but the
Any ioosdont whioh shows the noble or That wizard 192115053 10 beontningmore en
of that twentydollar d habflita0ion'' res generous nature of Gonernl (1rant f5 eigerly more of a 01(8000. Hp le making 813011 fm
..addition to this, merchants regard a profit
of ft OM 75 to 100 per cent. as nothing more
,than the proper aim, and the general de-
pression in every class of business is not co
be wondered at.
The heavy import duties imposed by the
Government here would astonish even. a
"Canadian proteeticniot. It is only the
nens08 OF THE von? WEALTHY
that are comfortably furnished ; the others
are barna so far us any attempt at comfort
or adornment is =corned. Only the other
day I heard of the oaae of a man who wish.
ed to start a barber's shop, and desired to
send to the States for his chairs. Their
price in Naw York was $25 each ; but when
placed on this coast, with freight, duty,
wharfage, and other expenses paid, each
one would have cost him $70. He did net
have so much money, and had ho borrowed,
'heavy interest would have eaten up more
so with every desire to ,vork he wee obliged
to relinquish his intention. The people
themselves take little interest in govern
mental affairs and seem content in a condi. of the name inspiring him with an avoidance
tion that in Canada would be slavery. The of it, but this feeling soon wears away in a
word "thrift" is not in their vocabulary. country where there are se many. How
Whenever 0t ey get a little money ahead muoh more attractive Byron's title, than
they feel obliged to give a ball, er a "baile," had he used its equal, the plain English
as they call it, and seem never to be so "John1'
happy as when firing off noisy rockets at Strangers visiting the coffee -growing
all hours of the day and night. A rocket coctntry soon perceive that they drink more
flying through the air is as common a coffee than the natives. There is an 011000•
eight to Central Ametioa as seeing a street ally delicious flavor and aroma to the Gust -
oar pass by in Toronto. Why they burn mala coffee, whioh fa not dose alone to its
powder in this way no one knows, not even preparation, because the French or "drip"
them ,elves ; but with 50 cents in the house coffee i0 universally used. It is not made
they will for each meal as in private residences in
Canada, bat an intensely strong es
sauce is obtained by pouring.' a little boil•
ing water through a large quantity of
ground coffee, About one-half of an inch of
;he essence is poured into the bottom of an
ordinary coffee cup, which in then filled with
hot milk, producing a better drink than had
more water been used, and, indeed, it is
the custom in some families to use no water,
but to pour boiling milk'through the ground
coffee. A native woman for $1 wil menu•
facture; from the "cacao" berry 10 pounds
of chocolate in a day. The berry is roasted
with great care in removing the outside
shell, because the slightest overburning
ruins the flavor of the ohncolate. The meat
while warm, is ground bet veen atones with
the proper quantities of sugar, vanilla, and
cinnamon. When reduced to a pulp a little
"achote," a red vegetable, is added, which
gives a brown color to the almost black
• cacao" of this country. The mixture is
then planed in thin layers between sheets of
"petate" (native mattine,) and beaten flat
with clubs. On cooling it acquires
the expire of a regiment whioh had loot one -
that a kind Providence ha° not called on them
half its men encs the otunpaign began, to heir the harden and hoot el the day in an
with sow a man in a but
wittiun overcoat and editorial chair in Germany. The iron hand
a sleuth bat, but with the steady car,
teases heavily there on all alassoe, bub the
tinge of U veteran, passing along a few fads editor, poor wight I feels the rigor of its
away, and he culled out to him: "Say, friend,
have?" The weight more than others. The editor of
y the Colo: ie Gat did was recently aentoneod
passer-by was smoking a cigar. Ito three month's imprisonment for inoor-
"No," he replied. "f ane give you a cigar, redly saying that a landlord had refused to
but 1 don't thew.".o sell to the Government tome land on which
t And l don't smoke, but Ile starving101o0 far it was proposed to °rest a statue to Emperor
u thaw," replied the sentinel, as ho William I. Thera wsuld need to be plenty
over to the other wistfully. Axi' 1 ohaw,
and dusp't smoke on post. bay, couldno't you edoath honour
Germany editorship to juatitty even
en
:wand. post a minute till I run over to the
sutler's sootier Z"
is bold man in undertaking its terrible re-
" I well," said the other, with a grim sponsibilibiee.
smile on his face, and then he added, " I Quito a speculation is going on in some
will. Give me your gun and orders." quarters over the late marriage of the Duke
"There isn't no orders, only to hail any- of lalurlborough with IJ1rs. Hammersley.
body going a -nigh them stores, and to stop
'em as has no bualnese there,"
So the oeutinel, relieved of his post hurried
to the sitter's for the desired tobacco. Re-
turning promptly, he took his gun and quiet-
ly said :
"If 1 git a chance I'll do as much for you,
friend. What regiment be you in?"
" Not any. I belong to head-quertere."
" What, to the general's guard? What's
your name?'
The quiet -looking man puffed out a cloud
of smoke and said : "My name is Grant."
"Great Jerusalem 1" gasped the sentinel ;
"I've been relieved by General Grant him-
self, and didn't know him."
How could he when not a mark of the
general's rank was in eight, and the poor
fellow was yet too green in service to know
what a fault he had committed in yielding
post end gun to any but his regular relief.
EXPEND IT IN ROCKETS
and go hungry the next day. When ne
danc100 or burring powder (in fou) they say
it is "0tuy triad,' or "very dull." I ask•
ed an Englishman who hes lived here for 3U
years if he knew what there was in this
rooket firing. He answered : " I don't
know, and eonsider it the worst nonsense in
the world. Why, they burn enough powder
in one day to feed half the population," and
I think he was right.
Among other disadvantages the Pacific
Mail has its grasp on the country. The
passenger fare from New -York to San
Francisco is $75, but from New -York to
San Jose, a little more than half that die-
tanoe, the fare is $150 ; and it is the same
with freight. They charge just what they
please, and 11 you object they tell you to
carry your freight m•"rland. Only a few
months ago the Marquis of Cempo's.
Spanish line of steamers was put on in com-
petition with the Pacific Mail, and the Pana-
ma Railroad Company retused to handle
its freight and it had to be withdrawn. It
would have been cheaper in the long run for
this country to have built another railroad
across the isthmus and to have subsidized
the new line rather than to remain where
she now is, in the clutches of the Pacific
Mail. There is a railroad from San Jose on
the Pacific to the city of Guatemala, and
another has been surveyed from there to the
port of Livingston on the Atlantic side, a
distance of about 175 miles, which if built,
would afford through rail oommunioation
tram ocean to ocean, and for the purpose of
supplying Central America and Western
Mexico would be a shorter and more eco•
nomical route than by the Isthmus, as a
A SIMPLE GLANCE
at the map will show. It is true that the
New -York owners of the line from San Jose
to Guatemala might decline to handle freight
for any other line than the Pacific Mail, and
such action might be expected, but with a
man at the head of the Guatemala Govern.
went who had at heartthe interest of his
own country and that of the rest of Central
America this piece of railroad would be
forded to carry passengers and freight with.
out diecrimfnabioo, and it may be presumed
that a Government has some rights over a
railroad within its limite, even if owned by
foreign re, and that the railroad may be
forted to comply with its mandates, and
that such Dation on the part of the Govern.
ment would be anstainsd by international
oonfersnce, especially, were it shown that
the railroad was disoriminatiug to the dis-
advantage of the country whose hospitality
14 enjoyed.
It us said that he who comes to Central
America end relishes the "tortilla" will re-
main in the country, and that he who does not
will leaver From my own experience with
that corn Dake, I have concluded that the
emigrants who settled must have been very
hungry. The Central American nook is
usually an Indian woman, who can boil eggs
and cook rice. She has heard of such things
as sauces, add if she has her own way (and
she generally has) she never lets any meat
go to the table unless swimming in a lardy
gravy. All tit : meat left from to -day whioh
ehe does not give to her own family she
snakes intolne0t balls forte•morrow. At first
one can stand them once a week, but 1 would followed, in an idealized manner, by a fem.
like to wager with any profeeeional quail. mine acceptance of paper ohoiniseta. The
eater that he couldn't "meat•ball it" once paper looks exactly like eoft, unlaundered
a day for 20 days. Cinnamon ie used to I linen, and is quite tough enough, it is well
season or flavor nearly every dieh, and, the to say, to prevent easy aoeidonte in the way
natives like it. Next to whisky I think of runts, Patterns are ingenious imitation,
they prefer cinnamon. When you wish not only of plain fine muslin but of lane.
to engage a odokthere is always one who That is, timely, because there is a tendency
is ready to come if you will advance her to use lana moth genero0ely with demi-
$15 or $20. This is called en "habilitation" toilets for the afternoon. Some ladies aro
—it might just as well bo called is gift, returning to the handsome real lanes no long
She deaoribee herself as an accomplished laid aefde, while the merchants still find
"artiste," and according t0 her own state- their best profit in the fine hand-woven im•
ment.thole is nnthin1 that she can't 000k— Ration lanes so long popular, Gauzes, net,
until she tries, She brings you an excellent blonde, and silk mistime together with rib.
reference from Senora Dona 00 and so, who bons, ate oombined with frills and jabots
i8 probably anxious to get rid of her, She of lath in plastron's, vests, and fiohue of
808981000 you the first morning with coffee various kinds, Even for 1ull•drees toilets
inado with lukewarm water, and eg08 as the senorita jackets are Worn with a full
h and as roake, hue with a plate of smoking blouse of oroam•whlte China crape.
"tortillas," whioh she likes hereelf, The '•
dinner i0 poorer, and having by that time 1 I1 a man is to reap what ho be sown he
got 8 fair start on meat, the tommena05 on , will want to tow moth wild oath.
About American Railways,
1. How many miles of railway in the
United States? 150,600; about half the
mileage of the world, 2. How much have
they cost? $9,000,000,000, 3. How maty
people are employed by them ? lolore than
1,000,000. 4. What is the Lastest time made
by a train? Ninety-two miles in 93 ninety-
three
inetythree minutes : one mile being made iu forty-
six seconds on the Ptnneylvenia & Reading
Railroad, 5. What is the coat of a high
plass, eight•wheel pasienger locomotive.
about 8 500. 6. t1'hat is the longest mileage
operated by a single system? Atchison,
Topeka & Sante Fe system about 8,000
miles. 7. What is the that of a palaoe•sleep
ing oar. About 515,000, or $17,000 if "ves
Libeled." 8. What is the longest railway
bridge -span in the United States. Canti-
lever apan in Poughkeepsie bridge, 518 feet.
9. What is the highest railroad bridge in the
United States ? Klnzua viaduct on the Erie
road, 305. feet high. 10. Who built the first
locomotive in the United States? Peter
Cooper. 11. What road carries the largest
number of passengers? Manhattan Elevated
Railroad, New York ; 525,000 a day, or 191,•
625,000 yearly. 12, What is the average
daily earning of au American l000mobive?
About $100. 13. What is the longest Ameri-
can railway tunnel? Hoosac tunnel, on the
Fitchburg Railway (45 miles) I4. What ie
the average oose of oonetruoting a mile of
railroad? At the present time about $30,•
000. 15. What is the highest railroad in
the United States ? Deaver an Rio Grande ;
Marshall Pass, 10,812 feet, 16. What are
the chances of fatalaccident in railway tra
vel ? One killed in ten million ; statistics
show more are killed by falling out of win -
lows than in railway accidents. 17. What
the of railway extends furthest east and
west? Canadian Paofna Railway, running
from Qnebeo to the Paoifiu Ocean. 18, How
long does a steel rail last with average wear ?
About eighteen years, 19. What road car•
ries the largeet number of commuters? Illi-
nois Central, 4,828,128, in 1887. 20. What
is the fasted time made between Jersey City
and San Francisco ? Three days eeven hours
hirty minutes and sixteen seconds, Special
theatrical train, June, 1886.
Some allege thee, after all the precautions
taken, the marriage is not legal according to
the laws of Yew York. It is e, matter, how-
ever, of no possible importance to any bub the
parties themselves. The Duke's rerord has
altogether been too unsavory to interest any
respectable person on Dither Bide of the
water. Let hint go hie way and reap
as he hat sowed, whatever may he the na-
ture of the harvest. The world is too cad
and serious to make it worth while to bother
with such unwholesome subjects, though, to
be sure, army will talk and fool about meth
a fellow simply because he happens to be a
lord.
the plane of the broad brimmed 8100011 to
which he had been 4t0u0tomed, sniffed at
the dude -like oath, and surveyed the light
trtuse'e from several poiuta of view, and
then walked off to the corder of the room,
lay down, and gave a long moureful howl.
Mr. Wilson tried to coax hint out of the
corner but could not. Nugget would look
up at him with a knowing expression in his
eye and occasionally give the feeblest little
wag to the end of his tail, but 17e could not
be induced to reconsider his evident deter-
mination not to recognize his master in any
such ridioulone attire as that. Mr. Wilson
went to his hotel, donned his cowboy's rig
again, and then returned to Nugget's quar-
ters. The instant the dog saw him he was
almost wild with joy, and his delight ab see-
ing his master again clothed as he thought a
man ought to be was almost unbounded.
High License, to whioh so many pin their
faith as a remedy against the evils of the lie
quer br,ffl , does not seem to be proving a
success in Minnesota. The St. Pant Globe
at least says so, and gives figures of which
there is no reason to doubt the trasbworthi-
nese. When the Low License regime came
to an end, says the Globe, there wore 1,243
saloons in Minnesota. The High License
Dame into effect July 1, 1887, a little more
than a year ago, that is to say, By
that, saloons have to pay mininum
fees of $1,000 In the largest cities and $500
elsewhere, and severe restrictions and pan.
allies for violations are provided for. When
this, then, Dame into effect a year ago, there
wee an immediate drop in the number of
saloons, from 1,243 to 828, a deoroaee of 411.
But now in is found that the saloons are
fast reoovering all their old numerical
etrangth, and to day, according to the St.
Paul Globe, there are only 73 fewer than
there were under the Low License.
THE BRITTLENESS OF CHOCOLATE
and is then ready to be eaten. This is e
crude way of making chocolate. and not•
withstanding the superiority of :the Gate.
mala " °aoao," the Freach product, due to
its excellent manipulation, far surpaeees it
in rainless and delicacy. In Guatemala
chocolate has always been made in the:form
of round cakes of varying thiokne ss, and
during the administration of President Car-
rera, who governed from 1840 to 1865, the
fertile Jesuitical brain diem:verod a new:use
for these chocolate cakes. At this ti me
throughout Central America the Sesta
ites were very wealthy and powerful ;
seeing the clouds gathering which burst
with such fury upon them in Barrios'
rise, they determined to transfer their
immense stores of gold to European and
other foreign stations of their order, but
there existed a heavy export duty on gold.
To evade this they dec Ided to ship ch000late,
end in the secrecy of their own hoaxes they
molded 32 ounces of geld into each Dake of
oh000lato, planed the cargoes on pack mules
under trusted men, and Bent them to Living
:ton, the nearest port, for shipment to
Europe. A vigilant officer at that port die•
uovered the fraud and the Government con-
fiscated the entire lot, over 5400,007, and,
etrangely enough, had strength enough to
refuse to return it. The tomo idea was not
tried again, but who knows how many time,
it had suooeeded before Z
Masculine Economy,
There lived not very many years ago, says
the Pittsburg Despatch, a short distance
from the town of Beaver, whioh, by the way,
is looking like a young bride just now in
her boudoir of green hills, a man of extra.
d' Id don'tt ld
Paper Lan,
A New York oorrespondent says that
paper fabric will actually take the plane or
genome cloth to soon extent in the forth-
coming summer toilets. The rather startling
novelty about it is that the ohomieot, or at
lead that portion of it disclosed between
the front edges of the jacket, is composed
of paper, et:s iped and out in imitation of
lad and embroidery. I am told that this
innovation was premeditated, to the extent
that an offer was sunt to China more than a
year ago for the manufacture of the stuff
in the fibrous sort of paper produced only in
that country. Thus it is that the =define
example of paper Dollars and cuffs has been
AUG, 3, lass.
eleuergentroilliciali
PERSONAL
Wilkie Collins is wild to be a most pone.
tilfous and prompt oorrespoudenb, itis
lettere are not brief dhsputehes, but aro
of a flattering length and carefully written,
0110 addrens is stamped in ono corner of hie
letber•pepor, and hie :monogram, pierced by
a quill, oruamcnts the other.
L. 11, Hudson, a florist of Stunner, W, T,,
recently went on an exploring expedition
near the fest of the glaoiere or Mount Ta.
coma. As he stooped to pick up a stone hie
revolver fell from his 1100ket, and when it
etruok the ground wee diaoharh,ed. Tho bul.
let passed through his mak, lalling him ins
stembly. His eompaniOus buried him forty
miles from any settlement,
Mr. Irving has given HOMO very realistic
touehee In his interpretation of Robert
tlausire, one 0f whioh ne to jump through
a window of real glass, whish if/ shivered
to stoma, the fifty or sixty panes having to
be remit for °ooh portermance. This is not
only reeliotio, bub it is more or less danger-
ous, which adds not a little to the blood-
curdling pleoeura of the audienoo.
Herr Tisza, the Austrian primo miuieter,
is a Hungarian end was tern in 1830, Ile is
a very wealthy landowner, having inherited
a large estate from his father, Ordinarily
Tisza is not a striking looking nen, He
drosses in such poor teed that his tailor
recently pat an article in the newspapure
saying that be was not responsible fur the
Premier's lack of style. Tisza is a tall,.
loan man, with strong features, bright oyes
and a long, white beard.
The Russian Gov,'rumc'nt has just made
a oontratt with M. Knell, the engineer, for
groat irrigation worke in the r'semis, acquire
ed Murghab valley, Kozell was the com-
mander of a battalion of Pulieh insurgents
ie 1363, and was taken prisoner end sentenc-
ed to death. Be eecaped to France and be-
came famous as an engineer. After the
F ranee -German war, in which he fought
against the Germans, he returned to Russia
and was pardoned, but sentenced to serve
a° a private in a Coseaok regiment for four
year°.
George 13 Hazard, a wealthy citizen of
Newport, Rhoda island, finds a groat deal
of solid pleasure in giving away houses and
land to his less wealthy follow -citizens.
Ile reoently gave a valuable block on one
of Newport's principal streets to ex•Post-
master Thomas Coggehall. Mr. Hazard is
seventy -flue yeare,of age and iu feeble health,
and he is anxious to dispose of ni0 property
before be dies. There are any number of
worthy though impecunious citizens of New-
port who are net only willing but anxious
to have him carry the his intentions, and
not t0 delay about it either.
Miss Amalie Rives is now Mrs. J. Arm-
strong Cnanler, and its hor husband has in.
herited sense of the money of the Asters (his
grandfather being John Jacob), she will not
have to write for money. It wee not money,
however, that induced Miss hives to write
for publication, as she always had a goodly
allowance of that desirable article. Vir.
Chanter is a man under thirty years 0f age,
of fine physique and handsome features. He
is a New•Yorkor, but spends a groat deal of
his time abroad. It was in Paris that he
met his wife for the first time, and he is
said to have been interested in her from
reading her stories,
A Story of Royalty.
At a party in Berlin Prof. Curtius, an in.
timate friend of the hate Emperor, related a
story which had been told him once by his
august patron, illustrating the character of
Queen Victoria. The Emperor, than King
of Prussia, but an exile iu England, had wit-
neesed the tremendous enthusiasm displayed
by all London in front of Buckingham Palace
after the well-known attempt on her Ma-
jesty's life, when she was slightly wounded,
and was present the sante night in the
Queen's box at her Majesty's theatre when
the ovation of the audience on seeing her
Majesty enter know no bounds. Boreal by
his own anomalous position—an exile ab the
bands of his own subjects, and his kingdom
on the point of destruction—tire King could
not restrain his tears ; but the Queen, see-
ing bis great emotion, seized his hand, and
with true womanly inatinot divining its
cause, said in an affectionate and sympathe-
tic voice : "Your Majesty will live to ex.
perience a similar demonstration toward
yourself from your own subjeote." Prophetic
words which the Emperor never forgot. The
King of Sweden was, on his ,last birthday,
the recipient of a pretty little letter from a
Swedish girl six years of age, who, beginning
her epistle " Dear King," informed him that
as his birthday coincided with her own 011°
had written in order to congratulate him,
particularly as she " loved her dear King so
very much." He wrote bank : " 1 thank
the little Miss S. A., six years of age, for
her letter of congratulation on my birthday,
whioh is aleo hers. May she become a aeon
woman, arid;thus afford pleasure to her Ring
Oscar." The letter was accompanied by a
handsome gold bangle.
A very pretty quarrel le now going on
among the doctors over the late Emperor's
throat. Every one, as usual, blames those
who did not take up his ideas and work out
his plans. For wrangling and profeaeionel
jealousy, there is not a class of educated
men that will compare with doctors the
world over. They are always saying nasty
things of brother leeches and always cure
that all their rivals are either knaves or
fools. The German doctors are now sure
that Mackenzie murdered the Emperor and
that had the little operation on which they
had set their .hearts been bub performed
the patient would to day have been alive
and well. It remains to be seen what the
Englishman will say in reply. But the fact
is that h is the same everywhere. The
one-half of the dootors of the world will not
speak to the other half, and all are con•
tithed that if they only had been called in
this brother and that " would not have
died." Lawyers are different. Offiliaily
they wrangle with each obhor at a great
rate but privately they are as thiole as
thieves. The why of this may be a mystery
but the fact itself cannot be gainsaid. Per•
haps the old half joke, hell sarcasm may
have some truth in it, that they are like
the blades of a pair of scissors which don't
cut nos another but whatever comes be•
tween them.
Certain New York coffee dealers having
manipulated that article so prettily as to be
able to play Jsok Horner with his Christ-
mas pie, Mr. Powderley, of the Knights of
Leber, is trying to checkmate their game
by organizing a coffee boycott on a gigantic
scale. He has written a letter intent "Jour.
nal of United Labor," in which he strongly
urges " mechanics, laborers, miners, farmers
and Knights of Labor generally" so abstain
from this beverage, and in this very of•
:trainers meanness, on i woo festive way break the " corner." Ivir,
be unjust to say he was 4 miser, Moat of Pohe nnley'a advice fs expellent, and if
you would enjoy the story more if r_ gave ter can
oeople bettade ties tffict nt num-
n oonsary
you hie name. But I won't do it.
One day as ho was starting out for Beaver
to do his weekly shopping—for even he had
to buy something for the support of hie fain•
ily—his wife came out and asked hint 10
buy her a darning needle.
c What's the matter with the ens I bought
you lest winter ?'
" The eye's broken out," she replied,
" Bring the needle hero," said he ; "Ian
not going to allow any suoh oxtravaganee.
I'll have the needle mended,"
The woman was wise, and made no pro.
teat.
The economical farmer rode into Beaver,
and stopped first of all at the blaokamith'e
shop. Ho took out the needle and handed it
to the blacksmith.
"I want that mended," he said
The blaoksmith knew his customer ; and
keeping his face pperfectly straight said that
the eye should be made whole in an hour's
time. The farmer rodeaway, and the black.
smith walked aorosh the street and bought a
new needle for a oent or two.
When the farmer called again the blank.
Strange Burials of Military Heroes.
The funerals of military heroes are ahvays
peculiarly impressive. It is said that the
conqueror Alario, after having captured
Rome, died while en the march for Sicily.
His army buried their chieftain by turning
the river Hesitate from its bad, in which his
grave was dug. After platting the king and
his treasures there, the water was turned
upon its former course, this having been
d no in order that the 1l.omans should never
find the grave of their conqueror. The bask
was performed by the captives taken in war,
who were aftororwards slain in order to pre
vent disclosure of so important a secret.
attila, who led the Huns to many a Gold of
slaughter, reached at last the most murder-
ous over known iu European history, a
plane near Chalons, A.D. 451, This was
Atbila'e last battle, and two years afterwards
he died in his own capital of apoplexy.
Three coffins, it is said, were made, ono be-
ing of iron to enclose the corpse ; this was
placed in another of silver, while the out-
side coffin was of gold. He was buried at
midnight, in secret, vita muoh treasure,
and, as at the funeral of Alaric, the prisoners
who dug the grave were slain. This tools
plaoe near Buda, in Hungary. Charlemagne
was buried ab Aix•la Chapelle, where his
throne may still be seen in the cathedral.
It fs one of the oldest in Europe, having
stood ten centuries. Many years after his
death, when the cathedral wasbuilt, the
tomb was opened, and his body was found
seated on the throne and clothed in the im
pedal robes. Tho latter are still preserved
at Vienna, and are the oldest garments in
the world.
self-denial, no possible "combine" could
stand against them. And suuh a boyootb
is perfeobly legal and altogether justifiable,
If there is a coffee corner, and the operators
get badly nipped by the adoption of Mr.
Powderley's plan, tiro universal verdict
ought to be ' served them right." There
wail said to be a Montreal corner in lemons
a week or two ago. The price leaped up
at any rate vary markedly all of a sudden,
and the advaneo was explained in this way.
The little game must have proved disap.
pointing, however, for prices ars down
again to about what they were before.
It take° a very vivid imagination to real-
ize the magnitude of railway enterprise on
this continent. Considering our opportune
ties we Oanadians havonothingto be asham-
ed of, the very opposite. We can look
the world iu the face and point with soma
pardonable pride not to our transcontinental
road only, but to othor evidences that we
are abreast of the ego. Bub it is in the
States that the most striking display of
of aotivity in railway building is manifested..
smith gave him the needle. The farmer According to the Railway Ape there wero)in
looked et the emooth, polished surface of the he United Statue during the sremonthsending
steel, and remarked that it was a good job with June 30th last no less than 3,320 miles
How much will it be Z said ho. of new railroad, Just lob the mind dwell
" Ten cents," said the blaoksmith, and on that fact lung enough to allow something
the farmer, as he paid it, remarked that he liko an adequate idea of what it merles to
knew the needle could be mended, but his be formulated. Last year thews were 148, -
wife would have gone to the expanse of buy. 987 miles in operation, and to -day there aro
tag a new ono if he hadn't interfered, mo than 150,000 miles. Just think of it.
1at100,000 miles of these parallel steel trades,
Poultryand Milk , with all thee they involve. On them run
. • soma 31,030 locomotives, more than a mil -
Aunt Dinah••—Die yore thicken am just lion freight care, soma 23000 passenger
eplendW fid d7480 b '1 i
Unelettaotus—Ijtolloyo', honey, do priced railroad buildleg of thepre00nt year f8 that
ahiokone ase roostin' borry high, but We poo' a largo proportfun of ie fe in the Southern
folks mus hob em. Hi, hi, hr, yah, yah, States. The Now South, purged by ender.
yah I ing, is rising rapidly toafor nobler develop -
Aunt Dinah—Yah, yah, yah,'wow 1 Whit' meth than it ever attained in the paimi008
yo' gib dat pint 0' milk, Rufus : lb's hal days of aiovdry, or ever would have attain•
wabah f ed had that enreed cancer nob been cut Out.
TJnole 'tastes (seriously)—I get ft ob dat All the rest of the world oombinod has
yeller milkman wit freoklee; dist manyaih't but one•fifbh more miles of railroad than
honee', dood he yard the Vatted Stelae,
There has just been placed on exhibition
a Windsor Castle a pun with this inscription
on a tablet on its mahogany mounting:
"Tbis gun formed part of the armament of
his Majesty's ship Lutine, totally lost off the
coast of Holland on the 9th of October ,
1799. On the oonclueion of peace, the
wreak whioh contained a large treasure was
handed ever by Dutch Government to the
corporation of Lloyd's, where the treasure
had beeninaured. The wreak was embedded
in Band in nine fathoms of water. lu 1886
this gun was salved, having lain nearly 100
years below the sea, and wee presented to
her Majesty Queen Victoria, who was gra-
oiouslty pleased to accept it from the corpor-
ation.
Her Oomments,
Those astonishing people who speak all
their thoughts aloud I If their numbers were
multiplied, the delicate structure known as
society would surely come to ruin, One of
these, an old lady, described by an E •glish
biographer, wouldprobably never make mise
chief in the un00neoione outpouring of her
feelings, but she certainly might furnish food
for laughter.
Ono night, when she was entertaining a
small party, a young lady consented to sing
for the attests. The hostess eat very near
the performer, and commented audibly upon
the song, with a simple unconsciousness
whiok would bavo seamed laughable to any
Nestor. The song began :
" Kathleen Maw:erneon"—
" 011, what a charming name I"
"'I!he gray dawn fa breaking,"
"Yes, I've seen ib often, ooming home
from a ball."
" The horn of the hunter is hoard on the
"Oh yea, I know, in Switrorland."
" The lark from lir light wings the bright
dew fe shaking,"
" Oh, the door little thing I"
"c Kathleen Mauvourneen, what, slumber-
ing still 1f0
"Perhaps she was up late, poor dear 1"
" It may bo for years and it may bo forever,"
" Oh graoioue what a long time I"
"Thou wake from thy slumber, thou voice
of my heart."
"Get up, you lazy hussy 1"
It was with extreme difftsulty that the
singer could 00ntitlne, and when the last
interruption Dame, tho oudienoe was quite
bird 1icioue, Rastas, of you pay o dat °are, an ng, le at nut about the 00nvulsed.
bird aura, 0 0� oti attic feature Cha
Exaeperating Stupidity.
PEARLS 01' TRUTH.
Let a woman have every virtue under the
sun, if she is slatternly, or even negligent
in her dreea, her merit will be more than
half obscured. If, being young, she is un•
tidy, or, being old, fantastic, or slovenly, her
mental qualifications stand a chance of being
passed over with indifference.
The joy ofwell-doing is pre eminently an
individual possession, to be disturbed by
no one. Neither the mistaken kindness of
friends nor the malicious efforts of enemies
can touch it. It is a joy that lives in one
of those deep reoesses of the heart where
no one but ourselves is ever admitted. It
is the richest reward of a noble character
and a righteous life, and one of whioh no
untoward oircumetancoe can ever deprive
its possessor.
If a man be of a patient and contented
spirit, moderate in bis desires, temperate
in his appetites, diligent and faithful
in his labors, affectionate and generous
in his disposition, calm mid self•poe0essed,
interested in good objeots for their own
sake, and glad to aid them by hie own
efforts, he posseasee more of the materi-
als of happiness than many a one with
double bus external advantages, Ib is life
in its best sense whioh mattes ns happy, and
happiness, in its turn, norishes life,
Children who aro honored by their parents'
confidence and aeoustomed to add their
quota of assistance and to bear their share
of self•saorifioe whenever the good of the
family requires it will rarely be guilty of
ingratitude. They are not opposed to, bub
in quick sympathy with their parents, not
beuaueo they aro gifted with specially
sympathio natures or aro in any way super.
for to ordinary young people, but simply
because they have been made sharers with
their parents in the Dares and hopes, the re.
eponsibilities and labors of the family.
Slooplcin (as an illustration of the rapid
growth of Manitoba downs), " Why, Brook.
ly; only sovon y0ar0 ago a band of Alaokfeot
Indiana held a war donee right hero on this
lawn I Think 0f that, sir 1
llroakly (not to be astonished). " Why, I'd
thought they'd broken the vane, and train
pled all the shrubbery down."
Java.
Java, whioh is about the same size as
Ireland, is by far the most important of the
East Indian colonies of Holland. It is the
granary of the Asiatic Archipelago, and is
supposed to bo capable of supporting many
times its present population, as not one-half
of its surface is yet under cultivation, The
alienate is healthy, except in the marshy
regions of the north, and the scenery i0 both
grand and pioturooquo. The lsland ie tray
creed throughout its entire length by a chain
of mountaiue of moderate elevation whioh
elope gently to the sea; those are crowned
by volcaroeo—whioh indeed eontitute a
prominent feature of tide region—from eight
to twelve thousand feet high. The rocks
aro chiefly basaltic, and the soil is extremely
fertile, the island, like the root of tho group,
being covered with a sombre vegetation and
luxuriant forests, The population t0 over
nineteen millions,
into•-�m�wm'.—i¢em.�+•--'—•
The French Aoaderny has ethnic a gold
modal in honour of the Queen of Roumania
for hot" Chant de le Fora,"