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HERE ANIS THERE. one wants a good price for ooneenbfug to The Marmoset. That the victim sullarod much pain I -
YOUNG Yl 01 iS1h7• i the snow fialde with Katie, well bundled, —, I undergo: It is also an entirely new foatnrn Tj qr those who aro fond of kis in eta hardly think likely, 1 believe bin erica
• roay•cheeked, holding on to bhe sled -rail Ib tutus out that too ditch whish the in a miner' mareh•paat, p g p ware i nuocl rmo lay lits dieappointmonb
FRIENDS. and shouting encouragement atter him, Chicago people propose to make in order to No [ower than 40 leelandars were inarriod there is no mato engaging and intnreablus at sooting ether madreys oohing a tail, which
When, on their return trip, they rbopped eh carr their sewage from Lala Michigan to in Winnipeg law year, or 13 per cont, of the little follow in the world than the Brazilian he ]tad oalanlatad on oma day Anjoy fug
m7ts tnouss, the house on Wight Common, Kittle looked they Miesiseippig will oat $26,000,000, total number of persona who aeaumed tee a ttrue, but d hi
dimarmeinutive size,, Meanly yhabite memos.alall novas forget his exprofiaton of faoe
By sawn ur like vnmo pink and white Christmas fairy, Better Dead fur De Leseope at once, or else yoke matrimonial. Tho clergyman who per. and affeetionete die usitlun, make hint the
P as h. watuhod, \vich hie Lcad turned book
beau ideal of what a pot should he. over kis shoulder, his toil getting mealier
There is no butter plata in tlto world to and timelier', cud the ludieruuely aliened
_Mrs. Raahol Willis, who longed for fame show Dither that the ce mn st a are a observe hie i auliaritiea in uuptivity than 00 way ie whiob he behev.'d when the were
ss a writer, obeli and killed herolf ab St.
board one of the great oouu steamers that auou of the last j nuc gave him again win-
es
on Tuesday, Mre. Willie left a letter, Manitoba, or are oxoeptionelly entorprieing ply between the Beath Atnerioan and lauro• parubive and lite.rully curtuilud liberty.
Witting that her early education had been in matrimonial ndventureo, Many of the poen porta, for none of thew big ships ever Thee little ett:17aas monks halon e1 bo a
+ neglected and that she had worked fur marriages aro between celandere and weth whish leave Rio de Janeiro for the Old World purtuguuaa pasaon;,ar buuad for gLiebon.
the bead with stripe of old pipers, end whew
y etre to overcome her defeats and failed, an h h petiole, and Inde the
r a ln000be that thio without many of tae little animals on bo.ird. On the ship arriving in port rho man oould
the bed, under want out pitifully
a boy, h She had written badly.epolled poems and P For an hour or so before the dupe leave nowhere fled hto munttoy, and had to land
great nyoa looked piti#ully from hie stories, and mlwaya mot with disappoint. sturdy Norco eohtlnre, despots the strong nil- port on their .homeward voyage, ono or bwO Without et Two days efretrward we pub
bun face, menti. ti,nai halts their intoroatiug hbolory and of the never failing bumboats come along. bite PauilIte on Oho River Gironde, twenty
"My 1" the fur robed baby said gaspingly. A new remedy for skin disoneoa, says The surroundings have induced amongst them, Nide loaded up tet two or torte Foch above miles from Bordeaux, whore the French
Sho had never seen anything so dreadful in Hos ital, ea a continual bath, the ya The I aro Iikely to bo moodily assimilated by the. the gnowelo with a mixed-up heap of oranges, mailbags are lain,
all her little life, P with Canadians. bananas aro Some paaeongera for England came on
" And I had thought Stokes making it eameating, Onnkintgand ean has beenike there ouch The wbito man will tell you that Ib to die- of the boats Is inchargesof to couple board, and ainongas them three Eogliohi
up," Harold said meahoniaally, pP Ralik to diatinguieU different montbors of of blank half-breeds a man and b wo•
He could hardly wait to get home, that he a bath fur 386 days, He ie tied up always too aamo mitered race, too eienilariby of color mut, Icer hid chi ' buys with their tutor. They had bean•
might tell of the pitiful plight of these un- at night to prevent him from ,lipping so haviu the teeob of reuderin lees n &rent Y P+ who never weighs spending their holidays in the1Pyrenees,
as to lin drowned. The alma and solea gg s PP leas than three hundred prelude, is net omit. and were looked upon by the a [111111 as good
frtunatoo whose destitution, whose tidiness P the dinalmliar ['salutes Now, the colored wonted, but in her double eta.cit of she•
doaptte their raga, and whose suffering had beoomo much shrivelled, but the refit of the pecpin find the same difficulty with the iceman and boat ballast is useful enough, ouscomarof for choir monkeys.
touched him to the heart, Before noon he akin is unchanged, Tho water is kept at 08 ..white brash." A curious metanoe of thisoe s o Each youngest, too two older Rous eight oar,,
had returned to the common with bright• I degrees. has ocurrod in India, Some members of Ae soon us too bumboats rings its thedaye ohs onowho was about sight years
eyed Mother Daley and her friend, Miss, A Wtndoor lady appears to have outwits. the Lanoahire regiment stationed at Bon• hep,. which lion boat hern a out for to the bay, old and one df the ban t ono
done I ever
Dicks, and this time Kittie's place on too od the Ousters ofloals, Coming torose area broke into a native oho and plundered
the than in the eengs out for some ono to saw,. aa[d ho didn't want ono and refund to
sled was filled with bundles and baskets from Detroit with her carriage aha brought p P throw hire a ropy, T'hu rope is always bn
gg it for the liquor it contained, Some of the thrown, and he et once taken a large !mica While talking to the boyn on deck after
pileMagam "too thin widow said, het volae wwith
toher
a ca parcel of d of chargingods. ate offondero were caught, but others escaped. filled with orangos and bananas on naoh arm, dinner, and standing a running fire of gnes-
, y In order to oapture the remainder the regi- aeazsa rho rope in bio hands, oti;ks hie great trona from them about raindrops and parrots
trembling, " I had thought starvation at upon the goods, aoiza; the oarriage and mnnt was paraded that the owners of the blaolt faab aguensh the amcobh nide of the shop, and other then sof boyish
our very door. I had begun to think tha horses, but subsequently released then. on robbed shop might select the rest of the men g y' h interest, you, I asked
God was deal to his creatures' ra ere. But the receipt of a cheque for $100. Alter lv. s throws himself backward eg o a nearly bane me my pi O boy, " Why didn't buy a
p y p q s from the ranks. Thoy could no, however, zontal poeibion, and, pulling on the rope band monke +
now—how cm I thank you both, and thio Ing theht qua the lady stopped payment at pack out a single mac. and a native paper over hand, wale as easily up the aide of the " Oli " he said "I'm going to have one
kind, good boy 1 Whet mothers you must the bank,ond now the rflaia,e ate unable thee explains the dlf&nulty: "Ono of the hue shipas a white man would walk u n ' s +g
have in Chapin to have such sons I He is collect it, moot difficult feats under the Nun is to Iden- ladder. P thein nmgkotbny awe monkey
months water!'
not the only one." The Paris Exposition ie likely to have an ttfy Europeans—they are so much alike, It takes but 0 short time for the man to I'm going to tiny n monkey without a tail.
Sho stopped an instead and her three important hearing upon the peace of Europe, with their loud, glaring white oolor, We ooll hie fruits and then ho at once begins The may I'm going to but et from sere • in
guests puzzled. The London Times thinks thab the clava- wonder whether their friends end relations ' K Oho only out of the Bort rheic ever been
g p the solo of his parrots and monkeys, caught."
" He came first," the widow resumed, tion of Boulanger will be in the long ran, aro at a loss fie t0 Who'd who." which are all this tomepiled in a contused,
" but after he left, there Dame another, a disturbingelemenb in Europe ; but it says The attention of the Amerioan preen is eon• thad
hcourse the monkey was the one that
P , y wriggling mase in the bumboab, sorenming, bad bpd hie fuel eaten off, and the man who
with a heart so like, that they might .have that the view generally taken in European etantly occupied with the ever. present and ohaetsring, fighting and struggling with all sold it to the boy was the grizzly old Irish
been brothers, This other had blank eyes, oapital& is that if he oamo into power after ever growingproblom of the aomilet of races their might and main,
and he said he had lived here but a short a dissolution he would nob, for many mouths in the South. Ib is as pressing a question, Q fireman, who stole it Oho night before the
time. Ho nailed strips down the door there at all ovento, be a menoo to the peace of and threatens to be as difficult a one, as that
Tho monkeys aro never more than sown ship gob into Lisbon.
where the crank was so wide, and fastened the Continent, because he would not venture of the relations bebween Ireland and Great to eight inches in length, are deep gray in 1 have known two instances of too mor-
a &rout square across the broken pane. He to imperil toe success of the Exhibition, Britain. The latest phase the difficulty has Dolor, with a brushy tail from twelve to moat breading in captivity, and am told
fairly creed when he saw Jim there, and Although the New York, Brookl n Min assumed is that the negroes are nob only in fourteen inches long, and aro clothed in a that when the interesting event done wear,
Said he'd bring a blanket from his own bed, nen olis, and other strikes have brought the numbers, but also in intellieneo and inThe soft, woolly fur. the family arrangements and dioipline are
st; thing
and—mad some chill medicine," The widow subject into preminsnoe of late, thebfaeb is financial and political influence, rapidly be- human-likeythan that of anession of y monkey faces I have the s more little mothers doesnissto indulgeeher can -
Woe half laughing, half crying as sbe spoke. that, as oompared with Last year, 1889 is coming superior to the whites. The Rev. J. ever seen; but let them be ever 00young,uibsl propensities bycutin as math of one
He hasn't muub himself, poor fellow, I fortunate in its comparative freedom from G. A. Clarke, of Georgia, a presiding elder the alba s b to ono the idea of beingiittlof her
afoot monkeys as eating
will
guess. His clothes were patched and hie strikes. The January of 1888 caw more of the Methodist Church, has aeaertod in
withered odd men. In a wild .tato n thepermit. [toi y P
overooab thin, but he had n heart warm than forty thousand men on strike. In the publio addresses that, his own observations, woods the much resemble a utrrela in their She usuallydevours about half of Dna of
enough to change the very air in the room I' fireb month of 1887 there were nearly rmmforoed by reports from other ministers,
movements and habits, and ilrreto , small them, always beginningwith too head, be-
" We'll change it in ,uruosb 1" Harold seventy-seven thousand strikers, whereas convince him that a census of the children birds, a sand fruits supply them with food. fare her hnobaod interferes. He then me
said, breaking some kindling With hie strong during the pub month the number doge not born since the war in Dome oeotiono of Goor- Ae the titan die oauapofyh[o monkeys, b P
young arm and beginning to stir the ashes reach nineteen thousand, and seven thou• gin would show a greater amount of illiteracy throws a smell line over the ship's clda to pore to have no inclination from
boon to huh her lit -
in the small 000k•stove. sand of these belonged to the short-lived among white than among blas children, hie fat companion, who tied a batch of some tie ones. Tho infant entail usuall at fled
How quickly the gray room grew bright New York oar affair. Those are curious, not to say significant, facts P Y y
under the touch of their busy fingers 1 How if facts they are; and from the serious eon- half•dezen of theca woolly little animals consists of three, reduced by eannibaliem to
too fico crackled and the kettle sang, end A curious phase of the color queoteon has adoration they receive at the hands of the Altogether to her end of it, and the man two. Almost the only attention the babies
how appetizing the fend smelled. Tho sick appeared in one of the schools of New York press of too North one is warranted in ooa- draws them up, get la from their father; the mother does
ba felt new courage in his hearb,'aud the State. A laborer and his wife, both claim- eluding that the North dose believed teem bo They don't like it, and every monkey in nothing for her babies but supply them with
little children clapped their hands over the ing to be white, had four boys attending the bo facts. If the negro should continuo to evidently Impressed with the idea that each food, When they are satisfied, the monkey
warm dresses whian Kittle and Julien had school. Two of the boys were light in color progress at this rate the seine of political of his fellow -prisoners is in some way or babies are instantly handed back to the
outgrown.
I'il be well in a week 1" Jim said, with
were dark and were not interfered
expelled on the ground power
might ere long change hands in the monkeyher satnonce pitoheo into situation,sible for the eery othfor er father.Thelittleolady at those times treats her
eager gratitude, " I feel warm, as I haven't) that they were Negroes. It appears that monkey, and bites, screams and makes the lord with studied disroopeot, and often vim,
for days, and the other one said he'd bring the immediate cause of the dismissal was fur fly in all directions. lanae,
the chill medicine this afternoon." that some of the children were in the habit As soon as the ship is at sea, the owners of Tho qac of common sense will enable any
"Iwonder of our visit can have done them kissing the teacher before going home, and Y g+ these little wretches have a bad time of it. one easily to keep thcoe lebtl. pets, as they
as much good as it has done us," Mies Dicks sho did not want to receive this mark of af- E l h h f d In h Eaoh ono of the marmosets has been will readily cab any fruits or vegetables ;
said meditatively, coming moray. faction from the two dark•okinned boys. bought as a apeoulation, at from one numb can only be neglected with one result,
" One thing I do want, mother," Harold The seizure of a New Eoglend whaling to three dollars each, and when land- and aa the marmoset is a doliote little tro-
burst forth suddenly, " and that is to give vessel off the Azores by the Portuguese be- b hi th od eafely in Europe is worth from fifteen Pical animal, the tomporeture ho hao to live
them a real Cbrietmas•eve of it to -night. cause it had been guilty of smuggling and to twenty dollars. Inasmuch as three of
in moot never be lower than eeventyaix de -
Those poor little young ones will bo sure to fraud seems to be regarded as an outrage in Egyptian b Th English, h, yp P them, if they live, will reimburse Oho own- gram Fahrenheit.
hang up their otoobinga, if they have any, the United States. That the seizure was [ b t g t unwilling t er the amount of his paooage-money,hardly a
and I'd j0s0 ;ike to give them all a jolly our- mado, according to the story of the delinqu- eteeragepassongeratartsonhis veyagowithout
prize 1" Mother Daley smiled approvingly, ante, eleven or twelve miles out at sea Th d d th having two or three monkeys under hie care;
The Way a 4rizzly Figured.
' I'm with you 1' ohs said gaily. " Them is, appears to render it in the eyes of our neigh- y' k b h and as very few have had tho forosighb to "Folks ie altos talkie' about the intelli•
in spirit 1 I shall have to be at church with bore an unheard of atrocity. When they B gyp provide themoelvea with oagea to keep them genas of hooses, dogs, and oats," said the old
the ohildren. but I'll help you get ready, and seize Canadian sealing vessels one hundred yU h d h f th stick
in, they do straps and bite of roperound thoir man in testy tones, " but I go fur to deolar'
ao will the girls," miles from shore, and not having even been s syp s captives' stomachs, and fasten them to rings bbab grimly bars know more'n any other mil -
It was a dark night, in spite of the snow within United Staters jurisdiction, they ap. h and bolts all over the foredoak. mal you can Hams."
and the stare, and Harold, oreepiag noise- pear to think it all right, but anything like E Note -book,"
These wrinkled, old men are v01y cunning. "How de you arrive at that conclusion Y"
lowly around. the house on the common, turning the tables upon them is apparently 'll h t ' About half of them manage to clip through was asked.
dragging his sled behind him, bumped into beyond their understanding. f h f their chains before the voyage is many hours "By experience and observation, of course,
another somebody laden with bundles. There has been recently imported into pH' d k y b y, it t d old, and are to be seen cutting their capers I've put in twenty years whir Ephraim is
Hullo I" ho said under his breath. England butter from New Zealand. Ib is , on the meets and yids of the ship far up most numerous, and Piro seen
all eider of
Hullo I" came the reeponae, and the aloft. him."
not only the foot that it is possible to send
low•epoken word, in the familiar volae, too article so far, and that ao prices as low
Hassan, all same we, go along yon The men of the Drew never buy either "Have you any particular instance to oite
caused Harold to start and drop one knobby fie home-made, but there is the further foot h b C +'I monkeys or parrots, bah before ahoy have in proof of his intelligence?"
package in the snow that the season at the Anti odea is the re- been many days at sea are +he owners of " A dozen of' om, but I was just .•thinking
"Are you the other ono?" ho said in- verse of Grant Britain's; and tuna the pro• yourself, 1!' tttree•fonrttta of the monkeys on board, fie of an adventure I had on Red Top Mountain,
orednlonsly, 'Are you the knight of the auction will be largest there when ib is leash ' M plenty y b i those in the rigging are looked upon as the Colorado, about five years ago. I hada lune
.hilt•medicine?" in the mother country. Those is Dna other legitimate spoil of any one daring enough to Damp and was hunting fur pelts. I had my
" Well, I don't know. I carried chill- foot whioh shows rho acuteness of the New 'f y' d " etch them, shanty built on the edge of a ravine, so that
Zealand shippers • their packages were not U When the marmoset has once fallen into if 'attaoked I could lower myself by the back
Harold had been lying for many minutes her fete aglow, her chubby orate full of the
,on the old lounge to t.e library', with his green boughs, and snow danefug from her
fano to the wall. lha little stators st pp furry olcak with every step of her nimble
softly by him, though they knew ho did not feet. Her blueeyoe opened wide with won.
aleep. Presently Mother Daley looked u der, at the eighe in the unpainted cabin,
from the hail, sad the girls notued bow u Bare floors and walls, shivering children, a
usually bright her obetks and eyes were pale thin wotttan vainly trying to keep out
under her demure brown bonnet.
" Harold, I'm ready," ohs said in her
obeerioob tone, and Harold, dashing hie
hand morose hie hot head, jumped to hie feet
mud hurried to her.
lb Wa6 Oho week before Christmas, and
rayer-meeting night. All the way over to
the old church Mother Daley chatted like a
bird of bright omen, but Harold, though he
touched her glove with hie own in a sort of
mute "Thank you," lost none of the gloom
that shadowed his handeome fade.
"It's no nee, mother 11 can't get over it,"
be said. " I've lost madame in the whole
world 1"
Why, Harold 1" reproochfully,
"Oh, not in you, deer, nor the girls, but
—.you know, you know 1 I loved him,
mother, as dearly as I could bane loved a
brother. I was 00 erne of him, eo sure that
we should bo friends always 1"
And then they bad reached the church,
and Harold, sitting erect beside the sympa-
thetic mother, tried hard to keep his
thought upon the earnest address of 1)r.
Jewett. In vain all such attempts, for over
and over again through his hot head were
ringing the words, "False to himself I :False
to me 1 Oh, Lyell, Lyell 1 How can I ever
trust anyone again?'
How proud he had been when rho boys at
school palled them Danson and Pythias and
how sure he had felt that all through their
lives they would be loyal, helpful friends,
Lyell and he, while now—" False, false,
false 1"—rho words kept ringing until and-
denly Dr. Jawott seemed to have naught
them too. " False," Harold heard him say,
and found himself listening fur the rest.
"If Christ, God's gift to man, be false, ib
matters little what else be true; if true, lit-
tle matter what else be babe,"
"11 Christ be true," Harold echoed the
thought, "it natters little what else be
false," If Christ be true 1 A slow Dolor
dyed his oheek. " 1,1 a Christian," ho was
saying deep in his heart, "not to have re-
membered in all my trouble the truest Friend
of all. He, the Elder brother, tried and
faithful and never -failing. It 15'1 who. have
been. unloyal, here."
Mother Daley felt the change in Harold
before they left the lighted vestibule. His
depression seemed to have vanished, his stop
was quick and his f aoe alight. "It's all
right, Mother," he said, brightly. " There
is a Friend you know. I had forgotten."
And Mother Daley wondered jest how this
new " remembering" would effect her big
boy.
Harold himself hardly knew. No woe
only sure of one thing, that the natural way
for him to prove his loyalty to a friend was
to love end honor that friend, to defend his
name if need be, and to work for him with
might and main. Work 1 Ah, yes 1 And,
in working for the true, he would forget the
untrue. Forget Lyell! What a sharp
little pain struck his heart et the thought,
and yes it could only be harder to remelt!.
bar. As to the work, there was plenty of
thee when ono he had opened his eyes to
it. There was stupid Sam Todd, to help
with his lessons; there was the honest thought
to be spoken at the "Endeavor" meetings,
whioh might, perhaps, help the other boys
toapeak as they feltfor hioFriend and theirs
and on Saturday night there was a funny
little martyrdom, in the way of taking Meta
Grimm to the candvpnlling—Meta Grimm,
who was ngly and "dowdy," whom the girls
ridiculed and the boys snubbed, and who,
under his kindly Dare, had the happiest
time of her short life and grow almost pretty
in her delight at being, for once, "in the
good times like other folks."
The day before Christmas, Harold opened
his eyes upon a world of snow and wondered
that he could feel so full of energy and life.
He oould nob have thought it possible a
week before, knowing that Lyell—"
" Hawold 1 Hawold !"
"Yes, Kittie. Is it breakfast ?"
""Most, I emelt it I But I meant ole
Stokes. 'E's kown beggin' again."
" The fraud 1" exclatmed. Harold, as he
,began his hasty dressing. "I'll be down in
a minute, Kittle," and ho heard her vanish-
ing foototeps on the stair.
" Old Stokes, the fraud," was shivering
at the book stoop. The good people of
Chapin had long ago lost all confidence in
him, the laziest gond-for-naught is the town.
Harold had given him old clothes a time or
two, for Stokes found it easier to work upon
the sympathies of the oohool-boye than their
wiser parents. Harold, knowing that the
old idler could get work if he wanted it, felt
little patience with him now.
"Stokes," he said, "you've no buaineos
begging any longer. A great, strong fellow
like you ought to be able—"
"Leen 'ere, Mr. Harold. I's not beg -
gin' for myself this clay. I got work, an' it
don't take much to feed an old body like
me, but there's some folks out there on
Wight Common as needs everything. You
never saw anything like how much they The most remarkable ease that has come
haven't got 1 No duds, no grub, nor a spark under the observation of the medical frator-
o' fire in the house I" pity in he city of Harrieburg,Pa., for s
Who are they Y' long time is that of Mary Yuntz, aged
"Law I Idon't know their names—
Brown, I believe. Widdr an' five kids 1 paralysis. Th s affilation iswho is idue to thawing from
Bighin thought he'd gitwork here, bit he's utn,he having employed the use of her
down with chillo an fever. Mis rablc orowd, jaws so constantly during the Taut three
oartin I' months arab the muscles of her face are
" And you want me to give you money or powerless and her nerves are in a dilapidated
clothes for these people, and you'll toe it condition. When she laughs her facie pre -
yourself I I'm sorry I can't believe you oonto an amusing eight and yet there is
Stokes. Id have to see that house on Wight much oympathy telt for the little girl, as her
Common first." condition is regarded as a serious one by the
Herold was almootleughing to think how physicians who have been called upon to
clearly he had seen through the old fellow'o
echeme, and was rather astonished when
Stokes said, in desperate earnest: "Indeed
Ws true, and if yo'IL see the bouo, that'd all
I want far puttin'tbem folks in clover, though
it's a rare time o'bhe year for olovor, to be
srre," with a laugh at hie own humor.
"Stokes, I almost believe you I"
"Will ye go out to the Commcn, then 4"
" Well, I will that 1 I was going across
to the woods for mistletoe, any way, and I
paid right by there."
" Pats near enough to look in, then 1 that's
all I say," and vagabond Stoked ahamblod
off aoroes the yard and down the street.
"I do believe he has a heart after all, un•
der his rage," mused Harold, as he turned to
go in.
An hour later he was asking blithely)
Ig Who goes with tee for the mistletoe 7"
"We are not moll good for that," Ella
amld,langhing. We oan't climb trees."
"I moan to do the olimbbtg myself," Har-
old answered,
"Bub I must finish this scarf for mamma
and Julia has errands to do."
"Take me, Harold," baby Kittle pleaded,
"1 can oawwy heaps !"
" Of cense you oan," Harold assented
golly. " Geo into your hood and mittens
WEA• I go for the sled."
abanclon the filthy Drenthe of defiling the formed the greatest number of marriages,
Water supply and put the sewage on land, Rev, lir. Marson, is au Icelander, The fauna
h I l d• e limner.
oils population in and around the oapital of
The Konrbash.
The old sa in Itis hard to teach an old
dog new trioka " is verified by the difficulty
the English ave ono abolishing t o
kourbaslt in Egypt. It is a time-honored
Egyptian institution, for the whip ande
stick appear in the paintings in the oldest
tian tombs. e o ie ver proper-
ly. thought it brutal and degradingto use a
etick for extracting axes from unw m ax -
payers, or true testimony from reluctant
witnesses. e therefore, or ere e
total and immediate abolition of rho our a&
throughout Egypt.
The decree as made the use o e s is
ills al but the Egyptian peasants regard
ire abolition a a doubtful blessing. Canon.
Taylor gives, in hie "Egyptian
an amusing illustration ofthe peasants'
opinion o the reform.
His one o a we • o• o married
man of forty, said to him one evening: "Mas-
ter, you want me to morrow? My brother
"Well Mehemet," replied t e anon,
don't mind takingHassan tomorrow; bub
whyoan't you go ours& , as none '
e got end ofus ness to-morrow,—
very tickler business. Me not go tomorrow,
i m master not mind."
" Well, what sort of business to it that is so
articular 4"
Me want to go to prison.
Mehemet had been fined six piastres
(three dollars), with the alternative of two
days' imprisonment, for allowing his donkeys
to standat some forbidden spot n Cairo.
If the Canon would consent to take bis bro-
ther Heenan, he lvlahomel, would go to pre•
son and save the piastres; but rather than
let the job go out of the family he would pay
the money.
Mr.Taylora ren to take Hansen, an
Mehemet went to prison. When he oamo
out Canon Taylor asked him about the o
times, when the stink was used. He would
then, he said, have hada dozen strokes of
the our ash an the whole uainess would
have been over in ten minutes. a prefer.
red the kourbaah to either the fine or the
prison.
oreover, is wife n insistedon e
piastres being saved, and she had reward-
s her goo mane compliance ny n mg o
him in prison the best dinner he had eaten
for many weeks.
An Egyptian peasant does not like the ap•
plication of the stink to the settee of his
naked feet, but he likes oven less to pay flaw
or baxeo. In the old days a follah with
plenty of money thought himself bound bo
take a certain number of obrokea before pay
ing big taxes, He also knew Slab if he paid
them forthwith, his wife would be likely to
administer the stick herself to cxpreea her
contempb for her husband's want of frugality
and courage,
medicine this afternoon," the other one re.
plied, of the ordfasry firkin shape—they were p the hands of any of the firemen or aailom, way on a big grapevine and be off. Thar
' That boy, warm of heart, kind and gen- 'mitered off, to allow of a better use of the " be is safe for the rest of the voyage. These was a heap of Injure and bad white mon
.roue, cannot be the boy who—oh, Lyell, cbic apace in ships. sixty men thoroughly understand him, and in-
stead of oaging him or tying him up, parry tioue. On the second night of my stay
'I could have explained it eo long ago, The German Emperor is still crowding a him about Weide their jackals, and fondle Ephraim Dante prospecting. I found hies
Harold, if I'd only known 'the wherefore' of good dotal of enjoyment into hie period of f b'dd p i and talk to him. In a few hours ho is a bracket in the morning. I found whar ho eat.
ib," Lyell said slowly. "Was it—" mourning. Last week he gave an audience fast friend; nthiug will drive him away down to think and plan. Ho figgered out
" 10 was Harry Allen who told me. You to the envoy frau the Sultan of Morocco, from the man. the lay of nhingsand said to himself . "'That
can't call Barry untruthful?" who brought a misoellaneouo sssortmenb of Many a time I have pub thea little fel. felley is sharp, and I oan'b get at him while
"No, not untruthful, but oh! so very preeenta, consisting of Arab horses, gold and Iowa into the most ungovernable rage by he it in bis house, I'lt hov to lay fur him
much mistaken. May I not tell you the velvet clothe, rich orpets and rifles. The simply talking to their protector. These at the spring."
whole story, here, now, Harold?" Empress received silk dreoes, +ilk girdles M y d b k d little monkeys aro so outrageously jealous " When I tnr,ted onb in the morning I gob
It was not so long a story, nor so connect- and embroidered shoes, and the little Crown s that no one who understands heir nature on to the big track right off, and when I
edly told, but it left two big, glad•hearted Prince was made proud and happy with y k d h' b h old ever attempts to keep more than one at a went for water I took my gun. Old Ephraim
boys fairly hugging enol other, bundles and a couple of ponies, a sabre inlaid with gold, time. They expend all their love and loy- new that I had it, and he shambled off fig
all, out in the snow and the darkness. "You much taller than hie tiny self, and a gorgeous k alty on one object, and will freb themselves gating :
never saw such hilarious Santa Clauses I" belt, The young Kaiser received the envoy h k b , d b b to death ander fancied neglect. "' Has got a gun, and We a Winchester
Harold said afterward, in s burst of cons- seated on a throne and wearing all his g P f Although in a wild state marmosets are and he'll fill me with lead before I kin gib
dance, to Mother Daley. "The child- imperial fiery. Pretty speeches were ex• no more oarnivoroue than the squirrel, if 1? him. 1'11 lay fur him as he gees over the
ren found dollies and candies and hoods ; changed and the envoy want away hapyy they are not supplied liberally wick animal hill'
bub we—we found each other and Damon and and decorated. pl , b' f h d the food fn captivity, their toile will be found
Pythias it still shall be, though my new y to get shorter and shorter day by day. I
Friend ,hall bo Damon's friend, too, and now by b U ' d d d 1' b k' b have often watched them sitting in their
we can work together I" once, with their tails drawn up between
their lege, the end of it alutohed tightly in
what we will call their hands, and chewing
away at the tips of their tails ae if they were
the greatest delicacies in the world. They
will peel off with their teeth all the fur and
shin, and when they have exposed a half-
inoh or so of raw tail•tip, will amputate the
joint with a few vigorous bites and tugs,
and go through with rho severed joint mush
as a squirrel does with a not, ejeoting the
flesbleae vertebras from their moubhe to the
bottom of the Dago.
I remember well a scene I once witnessed
on board a homeward -bound chip. I was
standing on the bridge talking to the officer,
when we wore both attracted by the most
boisterous laughter from a orowd of passen-
gers standing in front of a row of monkey
ogee.
On going down to see what all the fun was
about, I found that throe monkey!, confined
in one ;age, had managed to gab hold of the
tail of an unfortunate monkey in a cage next
to them. When I !rat caw thorn, all three
had braced themselves, and were holding on
with all their might.
They had pulled their vlotim tight up to
the bare of his own cage, and had fell pos•
nasion of hie tail from ono end to the other;
Oho screams of the poor little wretch could
bo heard all over the ohip. In the midst
of it all a grizzled old Isiah fireman, who
was looking on, said to ne, "Nob a j'fnt
will he have in hie tail when they've done
with him," And so ib proved. This fiendish
trio hold on to the tail aa long as there was
anything left of it to hold to, Thoy nibbled
off the vortobris till thorn was net one left,
a promos which 000upied them oeveral
hours,
The onlookers would allow no interfer-
ence, and, as 1 had no interest In any of the
monkeys, I was powerless 00 prevent what
seemed to mo a gruel oxhihitioh, but any
one, who hoe over mado long voyages ab
sea, will understand with What delight any.
thing is hailed that helps to break the
monotony of enforced idleness,
Alaska in rho year 1867 was purchased
from Russia he Unity States Govern-
ment for the sunt of $7,200,000, Three
years later the Alaska Commercial Company
Paralyzed by Chewing Gum. was formed for the purpose e£ embarking in
the sealskin trade. It was obliged by law to
limit the number,of scale it destroyed yearly,
and to pay a tax on every hide, A report
of a committee of Congress calculates that
in the twenty years that have since elapsed
a sum exceeding 88,000,000 has been paid
into the treaoury by the company. This
means that though a single company, and
by means of a single trade, in the space of
two decades, Alaska has repaid the whole
of the capitol ieveated in her purchase, .. -entaotese.
together with interest ab the rate of about 11 What to Pry With,
per cent' Lard, if used for frying, should be tried
The Public, schools in New York re arts out at home, but beat fat is cheaper, and if
faring, very much as we are in many parte nicely prepared no ono can obyeot to the
treat her, In whatever position the is able. of Canada, from want of accommodation for taste.
to twist her mouth the musoles remain, and Pupils, eepeaiallp in thojunior forme. Theta Cub the fresh suet in pieces and cover
the face is thus in a contorted shape until one are in the city of New York about 150,000 with cold water ; lab it stand a doy, ohang-
of the members of her family aesista her Pupils and Owo•thirdo of these are primary in the water ono& in the time. This takes
y L g
with oheir hands to place ib in proper oondl• scholars, For this largo number of children out the peculiar tallowy taste. Now put It
tion. Her chin drops, and it frequently numb
nhere umber of pupilae so few teachersolasa in the loot the ses in an iron kettle, with a half teacup of milk
beoomeo necessary to tie a baudage over her , „ to each pound of euob, and let it cook very
head to keep the lower jaw in the proper York "Times," Tale to mimosa that ans y teach• in New color,
the and fat is °tear the hound snd of Oo light brown
cooking
pisco• Melly is now under the oaro of Dr. er, however gifted acid skilled Dai deal fair. '
Hltoa, who is applying plasters to her face, ' s + has trusteed. The pieces may be loosened
and under this treatment she seems to be ly with such numbers. It 1e simply, fin• from the bottom with a spoon, but it is hot
improving, though very slowly. possible. And, moreover, these teacher, are to be stirred. If it borne the taste ie ruin.
not the beat, bat with the hbrdeeb work to ed, Now let it stand and partly oo.il, then
do, under the most difficult conditions, they pour off into cups to become cold. Ib smells
Saved from E'xeezing to Death, aro the youngest, least experienced, least as sweet as babies, and eon in many otos
Tucuman, Ont., Feb. 28.—William Nev trained, and poorest paid of all. be used inotead of it, Tho fat left still In
in, living ono mile and a halt west of Tooum- To speak of the fierce light that boats alio pieces may be pressed out for lose parbi-
se , was returning home from Windsor on i upon a throne is otter o mera auphomiem to Outer twee. Any clear fat, even mutton, has
Saturday night the worse of liquor. He was' express a dangerous state of affairs for a its uses in cookery, and should be tried out
overtaken by some pray or parties unknown ruler. Take the recent escape from asaaseina• 1 and kept nicely,
to hien and beaten in a moat fearful manner, tion of rho Amor of Afghaniobau. He was 1 There aro oils now sold which but for
receiving several eoalp wounds which may inspecting a military parade, and was seated prejudice we would always neo. Pure cob•
prove fatal. Nevin was found lying on the on a platform with the British en.oy beside . tousoed oil Is a fine oil, with a dolloate
frock of the G. T. R. on Sunday morning him. As a regiment weed by, a 0cpoy In favour; rapeseed oil, which is Maid 'Axton.
and woe pioksd up by Conciliate, George the fourth rank suddenly faced about, do. 1 lively abroad for thio purpose, is also a pure
Smith, of a freight train bound west, who liboratcly took calm and fired at the Amor. I vegetable o 1, but aomewhet rank in flavor. It
The bullet struck his chair, and ho only es-' Ie treated thus :—A raw potato (e out up and
caped from having leaned forward to speak 1 pub into the kettle, hoabing with the oil and
to one of hie Armee, The Amcor remained t cooking till it ie brown ; it la then taken out
quiet and cool and ordered the maroh.paat ' and the oil used like lard, The potato has
to continue, Thio le the sort of oxporionee absorbed the rank flavor.
kindly took him to his home, thus saving him
from freezing to death.
•
Lord. Beaoonefiold'o hat was 6e, Lord
Salisbury's is 8,
"I ouspeeobed what he was staking on, and
1 went the other way, mado a oiroaib and
got above him, and he looked up in disguise
and walked off, I could imagine how he figg-
ered as he went. He said:
"'Here's the meaueet rue I've tackled la
ten years. He hasu'b got the least accommo-
dation about him, and he wants all the ad-
vantage. I'll lay fur him behind tomo of the
big lumps o' rook.'
"Fur two hours I had my eyoo pooled fur
that b'or, and ib was just as I got tweaking.
that I turned a bowlder and ran dead on to
him. He kinder grinned, run out bio tongue,
and said to me oil plain as Englioh:
"'Old man, you or' my mubtonl I hoin't
bad no breakfast, but thar'o nubbin' mean.
about me, and I'll give you two minus fur
prayer I'
I woo too upset fur half a minib to think
of my rifle, but as I started to raise it old
Ephraim started fur me, and I had got a,
sniff of his breath when the gteund sudden-
ly slid away with us. Its wont firot and I
followed, 1 caught a bush and was whirled'
out of the elide, but a hundred tons of
rook and earth rolled over him, He gave
one look bank at me as l grabbed the Buoh
and checked up, and I'm dead gamin he
was eayin'1
This 'ere feller io *he meanest) galoob I
ever Duni aerobe, Ho won't neither fight
aquas' nor take half the chancel, and 1' l be
hanged if I don't hope that he'll get done
up by some miserable opeeimen of the oina-
mon tribe 1"
" Yes, Dir, Slab b'ar flggerod exactly all
the way through me I hey bold you, and
when I onm to think it all over 1 was 00 ,
whetted that I couldn't look another
Ephraim in the face fur six months."
What he Would Have said.
Papa (obaffllgly to Bobby, wbo is down
for escort)—" flave an orange, Bobby !"
Bobby (knowing he is not allowed to eat
fruit ab night, makes a virtue of n0000gityy)•
—"No." Old Mr. Pr000r—" I1 I Waite molt-
ed that question my little man I think ]:
should say 1 "No thank you,l' Bobby—
"Ob, no, you wouldn't you'd say t tr Yost.
please,"