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Cive Them Now.
yOu have gentle worths and looks, my franala
Lo sparo fur mo—if you have tears to sbed
That a bave sonercia-- am? ahem not, 1 ray.
Veal 1 hear aot, sue not, aeingaleaa.
If you have Amara to giVA—fair lily buds,
roses, daisies mom:low-stars that be
My ovti doar tiamenakela—lot tam smile ana
maim • ,
Tie air, whits yet1 breatbe it, sweot for
For loving looks, though fraught with tenaornoss,
And ;away tear, though taoyfail thialt and
iAwoa
na r s of naisealas! eannauglit avail
fast,
To lift thu,sniulole from a lifo that's past.
Ana rarest bloasoms, what can thoy suffice,
chorea to ono Wu, van no longer gaze
Upon their beauty ? Flowers itt coalus Iota
Iola= ao rarectues., to departed days.
asp
CI 01)13 LAX it UOILIIE S;
111!
A fens** of Two I40Yol neOrls.
111 tho quiet street of one of the quiet
squares there is a tall, gloomy house, With
narrow, dimity windows and a massive
double iloort that still boars a brass plate
with tho wordsGourley Brothers engrav-
ed thereon.
• Tho lower part of the house was used as
an office, but tho blinds woro rarely drawn
up, the door aolamai swung back to tho
onergetio push of customers, the long pas-
sage echoed no hurried footsteps and Eli
Hoggart, the clerk-, waffato all appearance
• the idlest maxi in LonRou, till oue came to
know his mutate'.
The Clourlay 'Brothers wore .never any
busier than their faithful old sorvant—
uover huraloa, flurried or worried ; atvor
, late and never early. Every morning
at 10 o'clock ,they mitered their • office
together,
read their letters, glanced at the
paper, left instruetione for possible oallers,
and then wont to the city. They always
took the Sa1110 route ;, at 11 they might bo
seen pausing along the sunny sido of Cannon
street, at 1.30 v they onterod the same
restaurant, and sat at tho acime table for
luucheon. Wet or dry, shed° or shine,
summer or winter, evgry working day for
thirty years they had, gone. through the
samp routine, always exoeptin,g the mouth
of September, When they took:their annual
holiday: .
They were alderly•nien—jahn, tall, thin,
melaucholy.looking, with light grey' oyes,
scanty .grey hair andwhiskers, and a gone-
ral eapression, of dralabiiiese pervading his
whole face • and •faultlessly .necit attire.
Boger was skater, rounder'more oheerfal
and generally warrael eolor. His pervad-
ing hue was brawn, ; ken, reddish eyes that
must have been Marry ones; crier), auburn.
hair that tibiae had, not yet quite transmut-
ed to silver, a clemashaved ruddy face, and
brown hands. full of 'dents . and dimples.
John was the elder; still he looked tip to
a
they sat Over their desert John °Rolled
hi a heart to his brother and told lulu of
his hopes, dreanair and aimbitioue for the
future.
You will be surprised, and I trust
pleased, to hear, Roger, that I love Alice
Russell,' he said, laYlog his Lana on his
brother's arm ; I eau hardly remember
the titne when she was not clearer to me
than all the world beside. The bitterest
part of our misfortuno to me was that it
a
I love Lim,' Alleo replied simply, I can
not ado any more.1-
In thoir lodgiugs John Gourlay found his
brother pacing restlessly up 4azict down,
' Boger, I've found out your secret and
hers,' lie Said, laying both his hands on his
shoulders. 4Loyal, faithful friend, go to
her, she loves you, she is waiting for you.'
.fercePaotoir Alice, Low sho must Lave suf.
we all have suffered. But its
separated inc from her ; nothing else can nearly over now, Roger—the grief, pain,.
ever compensate molar tho ruin of all my • regret. , Its al clear and bright. Roger,
hopes awl glorious ambitions, 1 °nee 'clear friend, can you forgive mo?' -
dreamed of being famous, Roger; for .her 'Forgive you, John/ say rather cau you
sake I put that behind me, and have forgive mo?'
grubbed for gold like a raiser, We, Gour.'True to the last,' John nzurmured as ho
lay Bothers, aro on the high road to for- *wrung hie brother's baud. 'Now, Boger,
tune ; I may aspire to the hand of Alice go to 'her ; she is waiting for you. Silo
now I' .Joves you4--loves you, Roger Good. -bye,
Surely, Tohn,' and Om younger brother's and. may you both be happy
voice was husky, and his baud shook as Late that owning, when Boger Gourley
Ito took up Lis glass; 'I drink to your returned home full of a deep, quiet.glad-
sUccess.' nese, he found Lis brother sitting. bit an
Thanks,hrother. I should have confided easy chair near the window, apparently
in you, but I feared troubling you on my asleep. The full tnoon shone down on his
account; you would. have socn a .thousand pale face and showed a smile on Inc lips;
shadows acrose,. my path; yon would liavo Ins Lands were clasped on au open book
been, more auhappy than I was myself. that restod on his lmee. •Tho attitudo .was
And now I want you to promise that ip lifelike, but at the very first glance Boger
shall xualto an differonce between us. We felt that iiis brother was dead. The
shall be Gourley Brothers still.' doctors said ho had died of disease of the
Roger stretched his handacross the table heart. Perhaps tlfeY were right. More
end John grasped it heartily. peoplo die of that malady than the •world
Gourley Brothers to the end of the chap- 4tlIONV8 of.
ter,. old fellow, and may you be as happy as
you doserve. Gad bless you, John.' Doetaxang the Itiosauitoes. , •
John's face becathe a shade or two paler - mosquito time is come'and, of course
cmotion„. and he walkod up and, down tho afflicted want to know how they can be
the town a Sow times; then he stood be- rola:Vol. We Alia in Nature :what issaid to
. hind hisabrother's chair. ," , ••" • ' beta cure as sure as death and taxation.'
' Boger,you will think inc very woo,k, A sciontific nion after experimenting found,
very nervous, hilt I dare not *oak to Alice that quassia' would drive blight ' from
myself. I maid got endure a refusal from . poach trees. Satisfied thus far he then
her, ',hay° novor given her the -most die- \rout to work in another direotion, and.
taut hint of my feelings. I hey° not the gives the world the bonefit of hie investiga-
sliglitost reason to g,uppose that shoregards tions as follows: A young friend. of mine,
me as other thud -a mere .acquaintance, geverely bitten by mosquitoes and univilling
almost as Maudo's brother. Bogor, wo • to bo seen so disfigured,Oent for:some quassia
have aaways boon frionds as well as ehips ana had boiling .water poured upon
brotliers—staaul by inc in this; you . aro . them.- At night, after washiag, sho“dipped-
loss shy-and:mon .fitenatomaa to -women f lier hands into the quassia water and loft
see Alice for ino, Roger, and Dalt her to be it to dry on her face. This was a perfect
my wifoa. • • protection,and continued to bo so when-
.
'John, you'ro Mad! You do not moan ever applied. Tito pastilles sola in Fla-
. once and olsowhero,,whiali are aaamted to
' I de; it is my only ehaneo„ rival far be safeguards againatmasquitoes, emir=
my.liappinoss, brother, • as I would piend raY, own experience,' of no use. - At the
for yours. I am a roan of few words;butI approach of whitea, when flies and. kaats
feel deeply. A refugia fronf her :lips wpu1c get into .houses and ooraetimos bite • acne -
kill ; I dould hear it froin yOna mously, a grendchild of Mine, eighteen
As you will, John ; de my best, and: •months old, was time attacked. I gave the.
Roger 'leaned bis head on las hand and. nurse sonic of. my Weak solution of quassia
sanded hie face from thelight. I'll canon to be left to dry on his face, and he .was
Alice to -morrow.' .• • not batten twain. It is •innocuous to chil-
The next day was the longest of • John dren, aucl A may be • a prbteetion els°
• against bed insects, .which I have not had
tho opportunity of trying. ,
Gourlayap Iife--n briglitaiva,rin, happy day,
Itoget-witlagrave respoot, consulted him on that mado people in the city look glad and
every subjeot, ancl aoyor either in or out of ahoezful. He went about his business as
bilsiness took any step without his advico 'usual, a,to his luncheon and walked' home
OL approval,. And Itoger. was no less de- leigiirely: .• Boger was. standing at the win-
ferential ; without atny Profession of affec- dow watchinglor tin, and to kept his back
tion or display. of feeling, the GourlaY to him whenlio entered tho room. .
Brothers dwelt together in tho closest • ' Wall,' John said gently, 'well, Boger,
friendship and love; -their 'life waw a long have you.seen her ?' • .' • ' •
harmony: and. during all.the . years of their ! Yos, I've seen her,' said Bogor, facing
partnership nesluidew had fallen between. round suddenly. ',liana old. felloiv, it's no
than), and Clair public life was as har-
monious aa their private intercourse. . ' . ' Brother !' mai ho lifted•his hend as if
to ward off a •blow. . • ' .. •
,,Townships Named Auer into wogs.
In the biography of tho Hon. W. lifer-
•
ritt, Pa• by his. son, Mr. J. P. Moraitt, of,
St:•Catharinesa occurs the following pas-
sage I a The item circulated the papers
'that Sir• P. Maitlandbad called Oomo of the
townships after his lady's lap dogs is of
sitiall moment, as he 'had, no doubt, difia
oulty:in Making names, from the' feat that.
Iu business they.were successful; •• every .during thafirst yacia of his administration,
sgeenjetion'they made prospored ; every- It's no dee,' Boger went on in a bard in 1820,• tattoo now .toWnohips .were laid
' •••a-aattifig they-teitolflairturiodicagolaarentla as voice, ale 49.0...aaluove.a,a47,,eaeale"e „Mit. :,...,..Aalattor.azafareceivedalayaliar. T--Xera
'One Ona'aisda analiaaaa -;r1t.N.§,e1147.thelf'filM•qpr pfliFuods aadat.0.1,
—theitaaboloalvoaavora.spent iialgettiaga aota
• Oats, s
spending, they. warp believed, and with it; for thoro's no hope.' • a • •
fiaking permision:tor the Grown right
reason; to be immensely wealthy': • 4Cold, . -One 16w, stiflea, groan; and. then. John „Of timber tor towiishipa bearinaa. the names.
p"aa•
•••-,---aiiiiadastortaeatorpriaitganien-balleatlieina Metiposa,. gme, Zer0 Java
with_ an acutefiesa of vision and •a stoadi-
ness of purpose only to be acquired by a.
long and close application to business. Re-
servea in./tanner, simple. in their tastes, •
economical in 'their' :habits, the .Gourley
brothers wore the Ia,st men in the world
to be suspected of sandanenta- their •lives
the least likely to contain even the lomat
germ of a romance., And yet they had not
,always • been arnoro. business machines;
tho sole en a and .aint Of their existence
had not always been Money. In, early
years they liad brighter dromaig, nobler
ambitions. - • .
At • sohool John had ,distinguished
himself, and lila brief university . career a 4 * . * *. • *, , nal to the Hon. Evelyn •Pierroponta
gave promise 61 a brilliant 7future; Boger Twenty.,five•Years pao.s.Ocl'hy, ea,qnarter at ond sOnoaEaaaaitanners.':a0,strioh feathers
had • been a baight, 'ardent boy, With: iv:century of changes and Ohancea; and -still' • formed a new foatute in the • trimmings of
O taste, " mu.sio that avaa almost ...the Goarlayl3rotherslusia ;the even:. iloa the briclo's arose. Those of . the brides:.
.a passio, and a• talentlittle shortof geaius: of•their way.' Theywore rich beyond their: niaids were ;lot .naoro. booth:Mug., The
With his•deop eariiestnesa, •intense.stoad:,wishes or desires; ancr. netaaltogother un- dresses were so scantily made' that it was
ness of purpose, and clear, vigorous Intel-. :happy in their solitary .frie'nclahap. • with soirie • difficulty that tlie wearers
lect, John could seareely have failed:to .Aliocf. Russell seamed to have 'drifted struggloclato andfrom their knees. • Xlie
make a•diatingoished lawyer. ' • . complotely oat. Of 'their lives ; ..her •minae ,liata were of the now poke shape; with a,
P,ogaravasborii mr; artistaavitlisaostlesa, Wits•noveranioationial, arid whollieratheawas: nice cutioutait •thabaok: to- show, the hada...
lofty ambition. ,Life seemed .vorybright' mai:tied or dead they did not know... , •Th o 'shape most trying to the 'face.- I
for the brothera:;.:there wasnothing to pre- Ono morning about tho middle of Soptenia• .noticed that two of. the •bridearoaidathore
. vent and everything to assist each in 101- -boa they wero walking along.the lung Broad were six altogether—had sensibly turned
lowing Inc inclination,: But in the very • iit Brighton, whither they had gone.fea the poke brims back. The effect was over.
dawned, thoir eareor •their father died,' and their annualholiday.. ROger entered a so much better. 'The color Of both claessea
they were sialaoaly.aednixed liOm affluence shop to: parahase .,somotaing -and. John and bonnets was.pale- blue; thatihricapain.
to actual poverty. -Nothing remained froin. stood outside looking dreamily at the pas- Among the dresags•of the gnbats were some
the wreck ot ainagriifiont fortune but the . serealaY. 'Suddenly ixe ,tared and advanced effective .oc;mbifiatioaa—bright mauveaaiti.
bitter experiorith that aiwayi. accompanies ..a atop: Os a lady ma • an invalid ohair was palest Mae, Pale blue with green brOche
such reverses. Fine :friends failed them. ;. Wheeled by. Chancing 16 look up; she met and primrose with pit* gray. profusion
flatterers looked coldly on their' distress ;
those who litulanost frequently partaken Of
their. lavish hospitabey passed by on the
other aide. Not it friend aemanied itt
their adversity. but • one, and she had in-
deed the Will, but not. the power, to help
them.'
The boys left collage encia-turned their
thoughts to business. It Viaa hapoless to
attempt to follow up their professions with
an invalid 'mother andan idolized: only
sister .clepeading on them for support.
John secured a situation as •clork itt a city
warehoupe, Bogor aaceptod a deskaa the
offito of Bernera Ituseell, an Old friend of
Inc 'father's. They moved to eheap lodg-
ings, and for several years plodded . on
wearily, the only gleam -of • sunihino in:
• their ..alterod home being the ocoaaional
visits of Alico Russoll to their sister,
• Maude Gourley and Alieo hed boon
sehoolniates and ..friOncla ;., they usually •
.apent their Vactitions together, and:Alto°
felt the misfortune that had fallen on OA
family as if it had overtakenber own: 'Bat
sho could do nothing but pay thom flying .
visits, send trifling gifts•of fruit and flowera found himself seated boakle her in a plea,. • Thaw MINES IN .N.tIVAM.—T110 d(ipth
and writo 'pretty sympathetia . notes to . sant sitting-aoom ovorlooking.tho sofa as ;follows Tao llama Loaa,
Maude. •
_ A few yeas of litiadsliip and povorty told
on Mrs,. Gourlay's elite:ye 'feeble framo ;
still, for her daughter's. seko,.'sbe thing to
life with a' strango tonfibity. "Bat when;
Maiale's lover, who had. gone to Auatralia
to Make his fortune, returned', net wealthy;
but sufficiently so to claini his baffle ia her
attired circumstances, Mrs. G ourlay soemed,
to have ifo.otlior olacot to livo for, 111audea. Bogor levee you, Alice. •Ile las loved you
Marriage Was liastefied, and tho very arty • all these long, weary -Years, though you
miter the ceremony tae poor, weary, broken-
heartal mother ailed. Goorge -Lealio took
his wife baelt with . Min, to . Syanoy, and
John and Bogor Goliality, were literally
alone in the world.
---Ailaitain bitter mooltory of their lose ana
loneliness, imincaititoly after their mothor's
doath brothera inheritoil mall for:
tato. Dot it was too late for John to go
back to his stodies too lato for Itogot to
.rotarri to haa piano; thoy • had. fallen into
tin) groovo of business, and John at toast
Was seized, with a fevorish oagornoss
Goattley. wroag- Inc brothor'gabanclaarna
avellted ateadily, oat of the room.- What
he suffered in the boars that followed.' 11Q
one over knew, and when he appeared at
the .dinner table lie. avas calm mid self;
Dewn,liaana, Mara, Sol,•OpsaQiden, Oso.'
Qu this point the Orillia Packet says': Wo:
:Waal:owe are dorrect in saying .that the
naming of the townships aftor, a ',lady's lap
possesaed, but something had either oonie dogs was the ad of subordmato offload.
aint,G,overnor, Le needs no defence or opal,
ogy for the selection. Tiny, Tay Flos and
Vespra aro very pretty names, and quite
• Jack, old fellow, we're Gourley Brothers as appropyiato as nine -tenths. of. the.cames
into •his face 6): gone out of it that altered But oven if it had'teen done by a Lioaten,
• Mani But of the tilo Roger looked the
roost unhappy. The blow liad really. fallen
• most hoavily onban. * • •
' of places nathe. provinCea •
now to tho end of the chapter,' amid;
huakily, • 4 I. know you'll never marry, and
neither and somehOw JOhn felt that
Rocca inomit what he said. • .
Bariaia PRIN3S.ES.---011, Tuesday • at St,
,Georgeat, Haatover • eauare, 'Miss Sophia
lakwright, of Sutton Soarsdale, was .mar-
"
his glance with smile of recognition.
Goala,v, it must.bo you. I am soglaa to
see you."
Audi to meat yea,' john said with a
courteous bow: !I have not the aleasizre
of lace.wris worn with most of tho dregses.
--London Truth. ' • •
Hanons os• TrIt COLLISTON.—One •of the
clerks of :the Stianingtou Wig ail amusing
of knowing—' . story about one of the survivors \alio, being
My naine—I am .Alice Russell still;' she unprovidecl Nvith a life proserver, flung two
said frankly. •At that moment Bogor ap; cLairs ofterboard ' and followed with Inc
peered. For an inattint the blood forsook valise ' and umbrella. He, picked. up a
Inc ruddy .face, while a hot, crimson flush board, which he pieced betwoon. the ohairs -
rose to Alice's pale chook as she tried to
stammer Out soma words of .greeting. Roger
was no less confused, and the expression
of both faces was arevelation to John Gour-
ley. He felt as a the world had suddenly
drifted ,avaay from aiim and -•ho was, lett
-solitery in some Utilmown iafinitd elude.
But thereavaa nothing of that in his voice
when lie asked Alice for her Mamas., and
pormission to call -upon her in the plaza;
and seateaalninself upon it. When it began
to rain the prudent voyager hoisted his
urabrella. A.nother man, a commercial
traveller from Boston, hadnothing to cover
his nalteanesa but a very. small Undershirt
and a; high hat. 'a8alien a boat* With a lady
came up, he was. too luckiest to be saved,
but plumping. down ander the side asked
them to soot° the women, first Ho
got anacnig a boatload of men. The plugs
noon ; thou taltiog ado brag= by the arm were out and. the boat half full of water, so
IA led him away, and they continued their
walk avithout oxelianging it single word
&tout the afrango encounter:
. • In the afternoon John callod at Miss
Russell's • hotol; and in a few moraonts he
that dui • luckleas drummer '. was !feta to
use Inc cherishad hat for bailing.' A third
ioaividual in it night-shirt • was seen using
his bigh hat as a paddle „to propel tho
mattregs to, which he was oliEging.
' Alice,' ho said, pluagitig into the sub. led% the Siorre. larevecla 2,500, the • 'Onion
loot at once, 'do you reniembor a convor. Consolidated, Mexican, and. Ophir, ea,ch
Pietism you had witl! ray brother a along 2,500, consolidated Virginia and California
time ago?! • ' - 3,390 each, Bost . and Belcher '2,000,
' Yos, I am/Amber, Mr. Gourley,' she ro- Gonad tind Cary 2,200, Halo and Norcross
• plied, sadly, and • Sava,ge 2,100, . Chollar , 2,400; Ward
' II° mode a request for me theft which 'vertical shaft, 2,168, Conabination shaft
it was not in your . powor to grant ; I tun 2,400, Yolloiv Jacket 13,000; Belcher 8,000,
corm to maim a similar ono for him now. Crowia Poiat 2,800, Overtax and Caledonia,
"each 1,90a, Alta,' and 13entou etioli 1,950,
Silver. Hill 1,300, Consolidated Imporial
2,809, Bullion '2,300 foot. , •
.isair ream bolieve I did not kaow it
than.'
Poor Bogor!' Alice Aoki only,
Yoa caro about ? Yon will mak°
itho heppy oven et this lato hoar ? ' Tell
mo,-Aliteathat yott love my bother -1'
Yes, Gourley, I do. 'Why I
deny it? I havo loved him always, though
I did not know that he caved about Ino and
if tho littlo lifo that is left ino can malto
itim happior, will dovoto it to him glaalav,
proudly—poor Bogor!' You. Soo I am too
old for protonces, Mr. Gourley, and I fear I
to turn his small fortuno into am 'dying, therofore I toll you all.
a largo ono and become wealthy. • 'Dying, Alice ?,, No no 1 You will liyo
8o they went into business on ninny yoars yot, 1 hope, to mako lay doer
thoir own account as Goualay Brothers, brother berm—key°, loyal, gaeat-heartod
With the firm resolution of arotrioviag tho Bogor. Lot mo send you to him now and,
position their father had. lost, and it vary Alio°, for my old end long affootion s salco, Tho comma enumerator& oomplotoroturn
few years sa,w them osteblishocl in "Whitior make him happy. licadosoavos it and that' ' allow 'tho populatioii of Brooklyn, X. Yo
street, and fairly on tho high road to for,
in the. only, way I can over help to repay to be 550,000, against 482,000 ilvo years.
•taft pno quiet sinnuaor ovoningastho aovotion of his life.
lie, The. ' '
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• w .. a
The anther of it recent work on Portugal
says a Tho Portuguese are noithor 11,11
Orientiilapeolde nor a puroly northern, nor
porely southern nation, bat a ram blond-
ing the Character with the blood 'orthe
nath Ana the imuth—ti, nation ocittcatod iti
i•ts yooth by Moors and Arabs. Thor
dancesapartalto of that linocige mai of thoir
treating. They ilanco it jig and aro,a littlo
absurd.; thoy clancoit bolotetantare inter-
osting.'
It is announooa :that tho Philadelphia,
coalcomponios on Tuesday ctigroad upon
total Bastion:40n of production from July
the int to tho alth, 041a three days wookly
thoreaftor, as at Present. ' ' • a
•i •
Think Before yon 410. it.
The affixin„,a of the stamp is in the ma-
jority of eases the last stage of the letter -
writing. 11 is a kind of sealing, signing.
aud delivering. It would not be a bad,
moral habit for a man to pause beforo
affixing his postage stamp, and to consider
whether judiciously and coneeientiouely he
had not better save Lis money. When onee
lie has dropped his letter into the inttOr-
box, ho has committed ono of the irrevoc-
able acts of hie life. As you prepare to
affix your stainp,•give one final thought to
conscience, whether you, might not alter,
improve or altogether obliterate that let-
ter. There may be all sorts of wrong and
evil connected with letter -writing; but to
specialize an instance, you may have been
writing an angry letter. It may he a clever,
caustic letter, and you feelr other inclined to
regard it approvingly, considered as a liter-
ary production. But it may be a passion-
ate and Unjust letter, It may bo unrea-
sonablo and untrue. Thu may be giving
unmerited pain by sending it. You may
bitterly regret the moments whott your
hand obeyed the immoral behest of your
mind. You have heard of the physician's
prescription about the cucumber: to peel
it carefully, slice it tenderly, be gingerly
with your vinegar and plonteons with the
oil, sprinkle the pepper, brown or red, over
it—and then fling the moss out of the win-
dow. So when you sit down to your letter,
my clear and slightly excited friend, pile up
Your invectives, accumula,te your adjec.
tives, be caustic and cutting in your
phrases; but just before you post it give a
thought to the ethics of a 'postage stamp,
light your pipo with it, and save your
mouey.
. waft lost. .Frorn Quebec they went to San incladed in Boston,
•
A. TALE oclasoineo MUMMA
Ten ttthe drill ;bed on
Ali spin* of Paragraph:or.
One of Om worst vases Known in the -re eee colleer a
Thursday evening,
Dumas, June 5.—Tlie bells of St. Peter's. d 9
Ionhtin Courts,
After tho Raeee—The real Derbv drags
church, in rung.oat a joyous peal ea 'mime and empty Pure"'
Not fio gasy.—What shall we do with
on the bright May morning, eight years ago,
'Guide?' 'Wood her I —Punch.
on which Miss Caroline Thorp, the datigh-*
ter of a solicitor, was led to the altar by The society lady nevor Sheds tears. She
George Bacon, who there vowed to love kno se enough to keep her powder dry.
and cdierish her all the days of her life. .A.t this season of the you the patient
• Tho bride of eight yea,rs ago, for whom the angler 'svelte for bite with bated breath.
marriage bells then made meet musis,
Sankey's now Lyzn' Ift your lamp
appeared in the witness chair in the inv.tri.
burning ?' should bo,inseribed to Edison. -
monial court yestorday and told the story
of her wedded life. She is now it broken- -130,fTelizye anitolu,onrtteci31 epiolsliocue.rTeciriettiutesxhtabveatacrbrized
heartod looking woman, with three ehil-
leave about the 15tli of July.
ridrocultie, *aophotuncaanineityt,otoaskuntaloie tjggien,airnriathgee
Au Italian engineor has invented a eteam
that was celebrated in St. Peter's elinrch. bicycle; the boiler v,ncl maelliuery are
The poor woinan, in the midst of tears and directly under the seat of the rider.
sobs, related her piteous history to.,0this Thu are thinking of changing the name
effect. Soon after George Bacon became of Cape May to Cape l'une, as no OneWanta
her husband he took to drink, and Qom- to go there until the latter mouth.
menced the career of neglect awl !oruelty
It is said Miss Louise Pomeroy has a
which he consistently adopted tdward her
play written. for her by Miss Schiff. Now
in various parte of the world. Upon tho
elm will play the mischiof.
death of her mother she became entitled
to it sure of £400. 'With this the husband, It will be well to put tho tomato
wife and family proceeded to Quebec plants in sun -bonnets, Mr. Vennor says
On the voyage out George, having much there is going to bo frost.
leisure time on his band, devoted it chiefly 'Persons who •escape being enumerated by
to worrying his wife, according to his the census men may tbink they are not
custom. One day he f3tole her purse eon' worth the two cents allowed' for counting.
tainiug some monoy, which be expanded Mr;Georgo Fearnley, of the Gth emcee.
in whiskey and gambling.' no had a four sidu of London township, has corn. growing
days' spree ; ho was drunk the tinic, and oa his farm over five feet nine inches in.
got into delirium tremens, in which state aaigita.
he landed at Quebec, whore, owing. to his The TonsuS of Poston, Mass., slutwe v.
incapacity to do auything but stagger about
population of 30,000, B.n. increase of nearly
and swear, the luggage of the entire family 60 WO in ten years in the territor now
Vo'nei or war op iircikond Property.
'tato tg tell the London shareholders of . the
Lord. Claud Vamilton had a mournful
Lime railroad at the rocent fdurteenth..
annual mooting. :War, and the consequent
depression in trade,. haw reduced the nor-
mal aath of oxoliaogo from 3n0a the sol to
aud 6ad the sol. The ' result haa been that
'though' the noininal profit for the year luta
boon i',52000, tho exchange having. ouly •
averaged , is 2c1 pr sol, the net paolit itas
boon reamed to £482, as againot a.:14,867
itt 1873. The loss on exchange 'during the
yea,r has, ia feet, been £61,893, and
the present disastrous rato of 6acl per sol
meana for every :2100 rient over to England
O loss of X86.' las. It is no,edleas to pay that
mi hope of- a dividend was heal out, and
the chairmatt was Obliged to confess that
affairs-laul got to 'such a low ebb in Peru
that am if war were concluded it Would
take a long time to reach' again the pros-
perity which existed three years ago.
•
karin;AA'IELD Or A BLAST FinnlAOn.—Fur.
note 13 of the plant now in procoss of .com-
pletion at the Edgar Thdinpson Steel
Works, Pittsburg, Pa., has recently niatio
rocord unparallelea by any blast furnace in
the world. Tho following is tho yield in
pig metal for seven consecutive days in
May: Saturclaya148 toas ; Sonday, 150 tons;
araondey; .184 tone; Tuesday, 168 tone;
Wedneaday,•165 toile; Thursday., 166 tons;
Friday,' .154 :tons. Total 1,141 ' tous,
or tin average daily (24 hooks) pro-
duction . of 163. tens. Furnace Big 80
feet :high and 20 feet filo koplaaand,
fr aohanail esi a os not di oa asnatoixa Ty
an Italia -as front other blaar ffiaiiiiceg.Itt
-
its appoiamentsahowever, furnace B is os-
pecielly notable for thabeating capacity' of
theato.vea,:anathe power of tho blast. ,,Tho:
ores .need were MA especially rich aaVeiaging
less thaii 60 per oent. during the' period of
:this enormous run. Hitheato the• best re-
cord of the ' furnace, ,Pittsburg Paa
—142 tonsa-4..as considered a romarkhbly
good day's work, lint furnace • B, to .use tt
western • expressiah, ' takes the. borne.'
Dating March last the product of "the rail
✓ ill of the, abave•eteol works was 9,538 tons
finished steei rails, or jut about. 1,000
miles. ' •• • ' • • .3 "
The Italian cliet, as practiced by tho
Italian laborers omployed in building opera-
tions neer New Yob, is .frugal, and yet
filling for the price: ' Oatnioaadropped raw
anoold -Water and half a loaf of•broailaccim-
prises a breakfast. Half a loot of bread,
with lard as a • substitute for butter, two
smoked hearings and oald wator serve tot
dinner. Supper.is genorallya repetition of
"theme:tallied repast, and. this prearanaino
oontinues Withoift variation wook• after
week, tho,, making :X10 oxoepticin.
:These people; are thus enabled to live at a
cost of less thau ono dollar .por week;
probably -not More than hoventyl-.five °eats.
They pay bout Cellte per log for baead, one
goat °act for smoked. herrigg, and,a dime's
valet Of raw oatmeal lasts' them several
days. They grow fet oirallia diet, Which is.
apparently. about ea poor .as. that • indulged ,
inlay Chinamen.. • '• • '
Francisco, where, if possible, his treat/tient
y
of his wifo -was Worse than it had been in llepr,orts conic) from Scotland of oxtensive
„ it 4 .„ damaoo having been done to the turnip and
Dublin oi in Quebec, It wan GOO] 00 S
Othor earepe. by ' storms of dust.' "Whole
fitult that be wasn't the mem ratirderor of
hia wife and child iu San Francisco: When fields will have to bo sown over again. .
drunk ono clay Tie let fly at her from a ie. General Sin Garnet 'Wolseloy will soon - 4.
volver, and barely missed souding a ballot gd to Balmoral to receive personally 'the
into Ler head ; he discharged another bar- thanks of Queon Victoria for his services at
rol st one of his children, but missed his the Gape of Good Hope. Ile ':will also be
aim. Ile drank straight on untirdelirium Invested witlfthe ineigitia of the highest- - -
calne, as usual. En next resOlved to re: class of the Order of the Bath., :-
move the family to L'ondou, 'England, and Suppose kcal wore nlivt tapossass Loa
took ship accordingly,. During the voyage lier beauty ana all you desitea,
aer•Oss he kept up.a lfigli state of dolirium, now a9011YOU WOOkE OeaSO to eareSs nor,
How soon of her beauty be Urea.
and in one of his fits of fronzyit seems to Then sing a moro rosolind ineasare'
*.
have struck him that a practioal way of Iteoil'islainanirucli of a treat)*
in sighing tho day;
clagling the matrimonial trouble would be whaose onarinsivith possession deoay. •
to throw his wife overboard. lie pulled "One of the simplost ways to get rid of
the passengers iuterfpreGd
her from her borth by the and hair ; rats is to place within their reach a pan of
her away h
'
- '' took
swore flour Mixed with unglackod lime, .and 'a ,
,• 'ut eoi
pn of water placed. begido it. The 'lime
he'd do it. yet Moro the and of v ai
the voyage.). eausee thirst, Itud the rats did almost diregt-
In London he obtaioed a situation,. and
.^
ly they drink.
gave her but 3s. a week, sometimes- only . •
18d. for- tho support of' herself and throe It is -trite. that a drowning, man wilt each
children.. They livecl itt a dark ;.she at mi strawrhOf the puzzle is what does he
was half naked; for ho panedai1 her want with a straw ? len't big enough
for a life -Preserver mid' tia. man in no :
clothes and every portable artielo to got
•position to onjoy cobbler,.evon if he had
money for drink. All this. time he didn't
forget to abuse her. Ho ugually beat her* one IttUidy." : • • " '
With a polcor.,! until ' he pawned it. *In Leoturei(on The classical essayists of * •
September.of laat year he dragged her out the last .century'..,-tho,st interesting)—' We
of bed byaho hair and kioked her brutally. talk of food for the mind as well as of food. .."
At last she sumnioriacladm before the polio° for the body. Now a good boolt,--' • .
• magistrato for his violence and lidwas.gent Sporting 'man (interrupting—he ,found it
for 12 .months to Clerketwell prison; wherci: ra,thor slow)—' 'Ear, 'oar! Any gent. waut '-
he is at present. The Wife idstituted a snit to do ctuythink over the Easeot Curl?'
in the" Dahlia' Matrimonial* (.1ourt for 11, *
SITIMERY
.11414t9i.A1 S.(3PO,X.PitiC.3LIA,t1n4at14.0,brIlteaaa•ANZ410,11'^, in 77 •• - , •
the judao hoard this --ta,e of cghl *yams • . , Won't 5111 tho4inSf •,
Stiff&ing, liegaa6 a &foie° for separation, • Tis nut an idle oapdr. '
. So take it down
obaerviog tliat it Was about tIA worst ,no
: . - ' The d'eath:of tate. 'Bantle:y..1e ' •
, flounced by -the London journals* jugt • .
• A coil/. Juni Episcnie., • received.. Miss 'Salifloir was a native of
Germany, though her early lite was passed, •
Mociera scieoce haibrought the: oerk.leg
mostampossiblo for tho Casual observer to *Fe ..a./4-1111i'les
to a atete of perfection, -which roadors. it til-' n EnglaucL ciSuloies.,lictpaile.ipactbloottffrmisd, Warkitahluis7,
the legitimate drama. Atone timn she.
cletaatithe allterence between the .real and in
thonatificial. Talon whs. an eininent ser- appeared as jessioa to . Charles . Kean's, '
goant-at•laav some yoars ago who had a cork •Phylock. •
,beg that was a triumph of ,artistio decep- Copyheads for Voters that Will •
'ann., None but hiaiahnatos knew for eerp clear cariacieacialasts longer than a bread- '
• tain which Was' tlici real and -which Was the mod -hoof tiekota , Welanne. the electioneer-
shana linab: A wild, ayoung• wag Of , the :ing, agent, but do not burn his coals. Wish. •
utter'bar,'. who kiieva the . sergeaut pretty •ever' One's good health,but drinlanoboaaas. •
well, ence thought to utilizeathisaknoWlealge You can show your respect for your tarty •
of the sergeant's Seoret to take in a green,: flag without dressing your wile in it. The
newly -fledged young barrister. Tho set- sixpence that bitys tangle vote will ,somea .
geant was addressing. h• .special" •jury at. times. sell a whole 'lacironglia Accept the •
Westminster usual earnest and ache: 'candidate's assaraece, but refuse las now ' • ' •
meat style, and the wag whispereci•to his. hat. Never sell year political birthaight.
neighbor; .'You oee•laaw hot: old' •Buzfliz is .for a gallon 'of porter. Tell the' truth and ,.
ovorhis ease a now, Pil bet Ton sovereign
I'll ran this pia into hie log up to the head,.
and ho'llneaerinotioe it, lie's soaiibsabed •
in big base. Ho's a• most oxtraordinary
inan in that-waya.. This was more-the:a the
greenhorn emild SIVA11.0W, SO he took tab'
bet; .The Wag ,cireiv -a large "1 -.,in from Inc
waistcoet; leaning forward drave• at Up
to the head into the sergeant's leg.. A yell
that troao tho blood' of. all' Who beard it,
that maae tbe liaia jutY• stand on end
'nod baus'ea.theaudges wia abiaast to'. fall
. •
of married misery that ova/. camo tafore ri..anomatsociatoesthofoutilwicass papolv.
him.' •
• '
Ma. Goober was a gentleman who. lived.
itt tho Moamon country. He had but oho
wife, and noverthought of takinganymoro
till '0,110 day ' an older tackled hire .atid. told
him solemnly it ayes his; aoligious -duty to
seal uato himself h fow-othersiaahlr. Gavel=
went holt° anci Sealy inteamod his' wife of
'what '• the elder • had,' said, and Mrs.
Goober seal silo would have no objection .
providod the .elciet avealcl come round
end ...ague the case with her pioualy.
Goober told the older, and tha elder dropped
around.. smiled 'sweaty as Mr. Goo-
ber advaiiceato moot But, alaftl that
snail° 'Wits his last—for a week or two. The
mixt thing ho know he Was skipping around
tlio room with Ma coatalitupthe beak cual
his hat knocked into pi, whilo Atria Goober
whooped dp with a, broodastick. • lie
finaily junipodout of a windowattl oseaped
With his life, a' sadder mai a 'wiser man.
The neat timo ho met Goober „ho told'him".
he had had it celestial revolation by \vital
ho (Goober) 'was relieved, from tho necessity
of taltimainiy more wites, Thoouo he lia,a
(Mrs, Goober) Would. count. for almost it
thousand in the Now Seatsalemi : • •
Tho Winnipogcorreapondent Of the Hata
faa Chroniale„ writing on tho 21st, Of May
says': Tho dountry avithin 50 miles west of
this is **ad, SO 11111Ch SO that tho pasfieitaa
gerstehmor Margottola List Wook mad° a
straight, pours° eoross tho. prairie instead of
following the sorpontine course' 6.$ tbe rivor
Assitiboiao. It naust bo bane: in Inindthat
theso boetia. although carrying hundreas.of
passengers and an annionaity of freight, do
not draw so much water as our acoatago.
ing stoaniors, tho avorago arapght being
about 18 inches. .
aff, ran through the court. By Soya, it's
the wrong leg, and. I yo lest my nionoyr ex-
elaimod the dismayed and conscience-
stricken wag, quite regardless Of the pain
he had inflicted Upon, tho learned sea.
pant.
•
_ .
Theeffect of the Licenshig Act in ,On -
taxi°, if we are correctly informed, has been •
to throat flax liquor trade', to a groat extent,
into the hands of k.eopers of low dens,
which aro sald to abound. itt tho outskirts.:
'of Toronto', and which are Sao, to be far
was° in overy respect* than taverna kept
by responsibIo publicans; while at the same
time a patronage of • the most •unconstitaa
tional and clangermia kiiid is entrusted to a
patty. goyernmeat. The English bishop'
who, in hisaipoech against prolubitiou, said '
he would rather have tho peoplo fate than
sober, put his sontitnent auto euobjection-,
able Riau ; but if lie had paid' that tho pea'
Hada evils of sumptuary . legislatioli wore
a heavy set off to any good that it could do,
he would have. had .experionee on his .aide.,
IasPeetion and thoauso of -,detectives are in-
evitabla concomiteatit of the .iiyatena ; but
in communities such as oars9 inspection
foal the tiao ef detectivea mean corruption..
To incluce the whole human raco. entirely
to renounce the stimulants whioli have so
long formoa a part of ita mixed. and arti-
ficial diot, is surely a very difficult tinder.
taking. The introduction of light , and .
wholosomo, in pla.co of heavy and unwhole-
some bovorages, is far more fonaiblo. . In.
tho value -growing countries, the poopie, 05
a rulo, are temperate, to the ratiolial sense
of tho torm lind whialcey itt tho real lanai,
and no mean OX0ran; Wonla bOliativo wine>
if Canada could snooped. in At peoduction.
—Tho Bystander.
Ihrnt Suriaccaa Oaertatmaaa-A. raro RV,
gioal oporation Wag performed. by. 1)r.
Athens on a young wotnitn named Halmos
at the general hospital, Toronto, on Satur-
day. Silo .wits suffering. from a groat on-
bargement of tho rightantorior jawbono
Tho bone was reinovea and. tho pationt in
doing woll. • The operati* was withossoci
by it large number ot loading pliasiciaus
anti surgeons.
Whon tho consus-talter, wishing to• corn.-
plimont, said to a oitizon : ' Ali, sir, yeti'vf3
mt wifo Of a hundred la tho lady grabbed a
rolling -pin and healed ia on hitn, oying :
You villein; I told. you 'I was Italy 25.
Don't you daro to put it (Iowa as 1001'
,A. Froneli writer thinks that Akiaco and
Lorreino aro 05 littlo Germanized now. as
thoY weiotten yoare ago,
Limo juice .au d—what ?this hot woathor
Social clacks et Pittsburg wore much
intorested on Wednesday itt tho ennounco-
mcvnt of the marriage of John 'II. Shoon-
borgor, tho Iron -King,' to Miss Alico
Taylor, of Now York. Shoenberger's first
wifo died two years ago. Haig °Vier nialalo
age, end ha gave his bride as a wilding gift
O elioque for $1,000,000. • Sho iv, it noted
belle, and the mister -in-law ol tho rootor of
Trinity church.. Thoy go to Eurppo for it
yeara ,
lloodpt discoveries 'in Qationslana laivo
lod to • a determination to oxnapino tho
groat attach of country lying between
Cloncarry find tho nathern gold fields,
which is Bald to be a virgin district as far
08 gold minors aro concornod. A party has
rocontly started to exploro thoroughly the
auriforona Country at Willas creek.
or jglit laussiaa commending
cora tmt,,aa won have Gorman names.
AL.
astonish the coinnaission.—Punch. a• •
• • Sitiegi•.27 x,tx;faordionry:. • • •
• Most Of our' readers Rayon° doubt beard • •
of the sitedess 61 theaparacesa of skin -graft- •
lug. This is flap mode of healing ulberated '
surfaces by the application. of pieces of
fresh akin takeu front other bodice. • But, • a •
according to a stattment in the New York . , •
Herald, this remedial Method haa now ,ro-•
oeived. a degree of improvement which- '
vastly *raises its iinpertance.An evident • •.
dialoulty abont skin-grafting'lias been the a
pain causeil to the, subjects from whom the .
grafts are taken. la is now geld; hoivoVer,
diet Dr. fairdnor, house surgeon: of the •
13ellevuo HosaitaLaies discovered that the ';• '
althatakee from a freshly decoased corpse is .
perfectly.offeetive for the purpose of grafting. .
Our New York contomporary.' says this '
grafting is eoiatinually going on,at Bellevue;
•aud, give accotnits:of some Successful cases.
• •
- Sax Sroaa AND tam Eraacas.--aTho sun's '
fate is again spotted: A small spyglass
slime h row of spots north: of his•equatota '
ranniagin a noatheasr dfrectioll, and it
group of haat) Spots just coming into view'.
inound tao castern, edge Of the diso. With
O suitablo toleacopetho ricighigaf the sur- .
faca about the spots and the broken edges • ;
and gloomy deptbs of tho vaist ofiverns can
be studied. jupitor„ -now very, bright in.'
the emay morning skyais haoteniog toward.
liis perihelion or point of aidareat approach.
to th.0 Anna and sthrio tatronomors haaie "
conjectuaecl that it is his influent° that is
throwing the great oential orb into suoli it. • •
stato of perturbation: • The periocia 'of
greatest sun -spot activity; at any : rate,
correapond pretty closely with •Jupitoras „
perihelia. Whotliet the faction. • of these • .
forces causesacYolooeff and other atmos- • • .
plioridal disturbances on our ¬ itt an
unsottlea. 'question, but them tire* two
thifigs that the prcaonoo of the sun -spots •
promises with certainty, to wit, north-
ern •
aald of ono of tho lady Tory menabors in • 1
liahts and utusual elf:di:ice' activity.
A. .t0C.kti stiery "
tho Ontario Logislaturo Whicb haft not pre-
viously boon publialied. A frienct conVors-
ing with hini happened caautilly to allude '
to .tho proposal to construct the canal •
across the, fathoms of .Panaina, and poem,
hited 011 tho enormous 900 of tho iniclea-
taking. The Tory Loofa member --whose
anto-olection mind:seam weal that he did. ,
not know tho first thing ebout Ontario '
politics, but promised to do tho beat ho
could to learn if elected—am:ilea to hie
friend, and with amazomont hi his Oyes
remarked, You don't meau to say the
Ontario Govornitiont prop000 to do that.
as.
Their oxtravaganco IS becoming unbearable:
r fawn vote against Rio proposal when it is •
brought up in tho Logiolaturea Ana then
ho wondered why hip friond laughea.
Thor° aro morals in all things. A Tandy .
fernier Was saying to his man What a
mean looking chickon that 'Whet was
it ovor hatellea for ?' To prova'nt tho egg •
boiag thrown at a toaious,political spoakora•
said lie. .