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Deo. 1, 18)31.
FARK AND GARDEN.
A Budget of Special Interest to
•Rural Readers.
if/emptied by a Practical Agriculturist,
;she Kilinetwee wen the Varna.
She menages well the farm,
Thiegfrl that, is geutly bred,
Though eaarce a score of bappy yore_
IXave passed o'er her boany head,
Fatherless, motherleas, young,
Left with a tender brood •
Of brothers and sisters ateall,
She works fox the children's good.
flo, up In the early morn,
.
She out with a steadfast will
She viaita tbe. gerden, field and farm,
And the orchard upon the hill.
The butter from yellow cream •
la made with ber own fair bench.;
She worka with a hearty will to keep
The home with its fertile lands.
Show me, a lovelier rose ,.
Than the flush of this maiden's cheek,
o As she gathers the appiearosy and ripe
Or ridee the black hones sleek;
show nie a fairer eight
Than tlus aanie.woman's ham%
Busied at daily household testis:,
As well as at tilling lanes,
Wiaat though no father's eye .
See that the work's well done;
Is not this woman brave and true,
Feithful as shinas. the sun?
Dressee in her homespun gown,
. Using a licauhfui life;
Sowing good Reed for aye,
Whether ats maid or wife.
•
She manages well thefarm,
This reaid.with the deep blue eyes;
With voice that charms like music rare,
• In her low and soft replica.
• Well will those children say -
In the distant years to come,
"Sister, you have done weN;
You &weans the dear cad homel" .
nearing Sheep for their Mee.
In the south of France, where the climate
.-is hot -and the country mountainous, rear-
ing sheep for their. milk to produce cheese
(Roquefort) is largely extending. The best
milking ewes •ought to have four or six
teat% the udder voluminous, the wool rare
and secreting much grease, ears long, head
small and without borne. Sheep with four
teats ought to he sought. In the Agrioul-
tural College of Montpelier there is aiewe
with two lambs and yielding nal& from six
teats. •So far the experiments have not
kuoceeded in obtaining An ' animal pro-
uoing much milk and a good fleece at
the same time. Counting milk, lamb and
wool, a ewe produces net about 48 francs
• yearly. Six quarts of,nailk yield one pound
of cheese. The (thilie,ns, to obtain special
skins, mhoh sought after, cross the sheep
with the goat. Experiments are being
conducted to the end of . similar crossing
for improving themillng capacities of
ewes. Goat farming does not pay. The
animal is destructive, its Xlesh held in little
repute and its offal of no value. •
, Apples for Cows.
Apples, like other • sucaulent •food, are
good for cows and increase their milk,
provided the feeding is begun oantiouslYin
the first place and gradually and regularly'
increased: But when cows break into
orehards and,over-gorge theanielves, fever
• and bloating may follow, aecoirapinied with'
-a• • •loss or ditninution of milk. .
• Peaches at the North. • ..•
Peaches can be grown very far north by
taking certain•precaittions to protect them
from the extreme cold.: of winter., In
Dakota, where the thermonieter usually
goes twenty below zero, and laid whiter
sunk to thirty-eight, a aerresponderit Of the
Country Gentle2nan annually:- raises goad
crops of peaches. The trees are planted in
a line at the foot.of 11.0 steep sloping bank
of winter, winter, a slight beading 'bripgs them
into contact with the ground, to which
they are held by a 'weight, .or • by
forked stakee driver' into the. • gronnd
They then receive a thiolecoyering.of ho.y,
• straw or cornstalks, which enables them.to-
obtain warmth from the ground. In spring
the covering is removed, and a few short
'Asko serve as props to 'raise the tree and
its principal branches to its original pod -
than. Another • method which has: been
successfully adopted is to plant the trees in
large boxes made of stout plank. On the
approach of winter the boxes are tamed on
their sides, and the trees covered With straw
• and evergreen briath. When ?Faring Bets in
the boxes are sot upright again Only the
dwarf varieties are 'suited :to this kind of
culture. .
Apples Every V' ear: • •
I do not know if keeping the orchardin
• hotter condition, 'manuring it liberally,
'picking off the fruit buds in the even year,
keeping hogs in the orchard to eat the
wormy fruit, eta., will have the desired
effect, but I do know that keeping hogs in
the enflamed to eat all the early fallen fruit
will certainly have•a mast beneficial effect
• In the destruction of myriads of insects,
alining the fruit to be much less knetty
and imperfect. -Many years ago aileighbor
• tried,an experiment on his trees with aim.
Vete success. • His trees, as •usuo;1, bore
more -apples during the even year than he
could make use of and in the odd yearnot
enotigh--so •with -a long pole he went to
work and gave his trees a, rough beating
on the south side when the apples
were aboutthe size Of hazel or hickory
nuts, knoeking off all the apples on that
side he -could see and breaking the little
twigs as well—the result was that his trees
for many years bore full crops annually on
alternate sides. As frequently .sew the.
• trees before and afterward, I ara satisfied
that it was a succese,ialais case: Prebithly
this operation would succeed best if per-
formed in the Oven year, or when'the trees
• have tee heavy a crop. breaking off so
many of the little twigs will no doubt have
a tendencyto cense the treep to producfrtlit e
bude for the following season.—. B,
Garber, in h'euit Moonier. •
Ornamental Shrubs. •
Of the fall treatinent of. ()immolate,'
shrub's( the Country. - GOntleman says :
sheabs, planted about dwell-
ings, are often 'neglected year after year,
and become dietorted in -shape and .stunted
in .groWth. They may be greatly improved
by manure and pruning: • The ,manure
lib:acne applied in autumn as a fop dress-
ing, extending at least as ' far from the
titan on each side as the height of the
•Ifrub: The soluble Parts 'of the manure,
ill soak into the ground ' and accelerate
• Ovvth nextseason. The Mulching effeet
the fibrous parts will be anieffil. Next
,before growth begin, Out back the
ishoots ate, fork; taking the' longer
er within of the branela and' leaving
ler, :will avoid any'stumpAtinging
hrub thus into handsome thane. If
.rowth ie too thick anywhere, thin it
• If there are any crooked Or dead
o branches, out thern off? •
Other Jotting".
g fairly to feed one cow on two
'm of soiling: A °gramma cow
• expected to produce 150 pounds of
r in a year; a goodeow ma.y,yield 250
•• The prodelot is moteaskid 25 to 50
t: by high feeding, hexane it is
opt reguldr, and' the Milk hi More
and richer, '•he beet feed fOr
, milk and butter ie coarse middlings and
cornmeal.
A, New Brunswick man claims to have
invented the perfect butter tab, The Out.
Bide is of wood and the inside is lined with a
thin coating of cement, and over thie again
is a ghee) lining.The tub when com.
pleted will not weigh much heavier than a
butter crock, and will oost about the Same,
The cover lite so as to make it thoroughly
air -tight."•
No farmer you ,meet seems more'oheer.,
ful than one with a bearing orchard. Any
sort of apples bring money, for many
people, used te the surplus of previous
Years, have grown to think them better
than medicine for oattle and horses.
• There was a man who thought there was,
a waste of labor in allowing choppers to
cord the fuel in the woecle in the old way
to dry or the summer, and so he hauled a
large arcel of it, green in the spring, and
stood it compactly in his shed, thinking he
kiad done a neat thing. Now he is cora-
plainhig that hie wood is soggy, a.nd is
willing to admit that the ways of the
fathers are worth studying.
Having to transplant some large ever-
greens in the midst of the recent cireught,
one of our first °area was to see that the
trees had a chance to drink before removal.
Whatever sap tree e may hold at the time
of transplanting is as valuable as if they
had taken it up afterward.
Scientific apple culture is likely to get a
laciest from the present eciaroity. There is
more money in it for Canada than there is
for orange culture anywhere,
A DREADFUL
A. Woman Accused of n Diabolical Crime.
A despatch froth Detroit says: The trial
of Mrs. Barnardlor the murder at Lapeer,
about a year since, of the wife of Rev. E.
Curtiss, an old. Baptist minister of this
State, by pouring kerosene oil over her and.
then setting fire to her *thing, is in pro.
gress at Charlotte, a change of venne having
been obtained, Mrs. Curtiss before her
death positively identified Km Barnatd as -
her assailant. The latter denies it as posi-
tively. There is a strong array of lawyers,
and the case is likely to become quite cele-
brated. To -day only one witnesswas exam-
ined, E. Arnold, who wits the first percion at
the house after the catastrophe.He was
Out weeping snow frem the steps
of Dr. Douglas' residence, saw the flames,
heard the •cries for help, and rushed
in to find Mrs. Curtiss, in flames.
He heard her dying 'statement. Mai. Bar-
nard, who has been here for several weeks,
appeared in the court -room for the firet
time this afternoon. Simpson Hall, in
•which court is being held, was filled with a
large crowd eager to catch a glimpse of the
woman accused of so fiendish A murder. A
large number 'of ladies was present, and
-manifested various evidences of sympathy
Or horror as the details were presented.
During the afternoon Elzer •Potter, of
Lapeer, insisted upon • standing in the
court -room, and got in the way of the jury
as •they were being , taken out, evidently
trying to. :communicate with them, and
struck an officer who pushed him back.
He was arrested and sentenced by the
•judge to the county jail for twenty-four •
hours for contempt. -
—DOorsti3p Babies
• On Tuesday, .morning, between 5 and. 6
o'clock, on going outside, Mr.patid Lee, of
North Dumfries, wae' not a little taken
aback to find at the entrance to the kitchen
a basket carefully wrapped: aroland with a
blanket aod a male infant conifOrtably
eneconced inside. ' • '
About three weeks ago. a fanner living in
South Dorchester was awakened by the
plaintive wail of a baby at his door. He
got, up and opened the door, and an infant
about a inoeth old • was 'discovered in a
-basket—together—with---.-a---imising :battler
outfit of clothing and •$20 in money, •
note --explained that eircumstancee pre-
• vented the parents of the infant from being
desirous a being known •as -such,. but if
more money witewantecl it would be forth.
coming. The old' farmer '.was much put'
out ,„at the • occurrencesbut the worthy
Couple now refuse to part with*the little
foundling.-• . , . ,
Girt .10costbOys.
• At every station in Finland .1. ha4 a
young girl for a driver ; and these children
of the north seemed not in the least afraid
of me. •My first driver's name was Ida
Catherine. She gave me a silver ring, and
was delighted when she saw it on ray
finger. Ipromised to brinrher a gold one
the followingwinter'and I kept my word.
She was glad indeed, when, at the end of
the drive, after paying, I gave her a silver
piece. Another driver, 12 years of age,
• was'named Ida Carolina. The tire of One
.of our wheels became loose, but she was
equal to the emergeney ; she alighted,
blocked the wheel with.a stone, went to a
farm house and borrowed a few nails and
a hammer, and with the aid of a farmer
made everything right in a 'few minutes;
she did not seem in the least put out by the
acoident ; she chatted . with me all the
• time, though I did -not understand what
She said, for I did hot then know the
Finnish language. She wits a little beauty,
with large blue...eye% thick fair hair and
rosy cheeks.—Land of the Midnight Sun.
Solith Durham, whioh has been recently
re -won by the Tories in England, was firet
won for the Liberals in 1832 by Joseph
Pease, a very remarkable Man himself and
seri otnvary-tenarkible roan, Edward
Pease, a Quaker, who was the man who
projected the first Englirib—railwa.y,- •the
Stockton dc Darlington, with • George
Stephenson, and, who, to his death in 1858
at the age of.01, was styled ',the father of
railways." Joseph Peaap created the town
of Middlesborough from 'What was a dismal
swamp, and Made it the centre of a great
'coal miniugand iron stone (saintly, until it
has now risen to a population a 70,000,
He Was elected to South °Durham du 1832,
again in 1835, and in 1837. • Being the first
member of the Society of Friendwho Was
elected to the House of Commons,, and
having sertples regarding the taking.of an
bath, he figured for a time in some such
attitude as Mr. Bradlaugh; but, • on the
motion of Lord Althorp, he was in the end
permitted to take his seat, and the Oath was
dispensed with—for- the first time in par-
liamentary history.
• The twelve largest landowners, • as
regards Area, in England and, Wales are
the Duke of Northumberland, Duke of
Devonshire, Duke of Cleveland, Sir W, W.
Wynn, Duke of Bedford, Earl Of Carlisle,
Mike of Rutland, Earl of Lonsdale, Lord
',Leconfield, Earl of Powis, Earl Brownlow
and Berl of Derby. • The two largest
owners in North Wales aro Lord Penrhyn
and Sir Watkin -W. Wynn ; .and in South
Wales, Earl a Cawdor and Earl of Lis-
burne,
Dr. Smith, of Rentuelcy, ie the oldest
Protestant and English-speaking bishop in
the world. He Wag cOnsecrated 49 years.
ago.
11/xs. Garfield vied probably remain in
Cleveland until May. and then goto Monter
for the Bummer.
Ex•Queen Isabella has returned ha Pals
from Spain.
WILD ON THE, ANTEDILUVIANS.
T1,plaoneai *d 1.oc.wot*res b* Those
Doys--Tite Ark ExuellY the Santo Size
PI the Greet Essetern—Verfeet COMM*
alien Tiatutg.
Bond Street Church, Toronto, wail
crowded, last Sunday evening, and any
had to turn away. Dr. Wild answered the
usual amount of correspondence. One was:
"What makes a man marry a woman who
is itheljth, faithicinable, useless and with no
morals to speak of, who can spend $70 in
four months on millinery?" Love in the
ancient piottires is blind.' Cupid is blind.
If a man keeps both eyee open, and a
woman, too, they would never marry.
(Laughter.)
The text of the perinea was Job xxii,
1016: "Hast thou marked the old way
which wicked men have trodden? which
were out down out of time, whose foupda.
tion was overflown with a tided." Accord-
ing to Dr. Gurney, there were eighty times
as many people living before the flood as
there are now. If I said this from the
pulpit 1 suppose you would think of my
name. (Laughter.) idome say man's ap-
pearance on earth was the result of evotu.
tion. These German thinkers say he is
fortuitous. I believe Adam was a fair,
square, fully complete man. No antedilu-
vian raan has been found among
fossil remains to have lived 2,000
years before. the &ed. There ie no
remains of a man like there is
of other animals, It has been said, on the
contrary, that some beast went round the
face of the with and eat•up men as fast as
they died. Antediluvian civilization was
very perfeot, as perfect as it is this very
day, The people were superior in longevity
and in stature. I believe they had rail-
ways and telegraphs and telephones aud
•fat:Aeries and everything, They built fine
holism had tapestry and furniture like we
'had. They were divided off into trades.
Cain was an agrioulturist ; Abel was a
shepherd; Jubal a. musician; Noah a
carpenter. • -But • you say he was
not • a -good carpenter. He built.' a
ahip just the size of the Great East-
ern, The ark was exactly .the size and
tonnage of the Great 'Eastern.They had
• as good an organ, I dare say, as 'this is (the
doctor turning round and scanning the organ
behind him), Before the flood there were
two neeans, one abeve and One below the
firmament. In antediluvian times there
were no diseases. The ocean above could
liok up every noxious gas, and the ocean
• below would purify every foulness that ran
into it. • When the flood oame: the firma-
ment opened and the ocean above poured
down its waters. The people prior to the
flood Were vegetarians, The clime was suit-
• able and adapted to Cale kind of life,,and
it was only after the flood that animals
-Were first eaten. Diseaaes are a thing of
growth just as -potatoes are. • There were
only one kind of potato hum. How many
are there now, you .potatoists that know ?
I shepose there are fifty now. Each
sin bronglit on mankind a new dis-
ease. • Abellists were duallarians,• and
worshipped God.e,nd the sun. In mention-
ing the pipe incidentally the rev. geotieman
remarked that we ,would like to see old
Abraham sitting with a pipe in big mouth..
On next Sunday Imillcontinue this subject
and speak on "The Lost Secret." •
!DIRE VALLEY Olf .
Skeietons of ' Victims Mormon
flittlice. •
•, • ' '• (Ruby Hill, News.) ••
The•Valley of Death, a spot almost as
terrible as the Prophet's valley 'of drybones,
lies just north of the old 2.1Orinon road. to
• California; in Utah -Le region thirty-five
miles log by thirty bread, andsurroundecl,
except at two pointe,_hy_inacmeesible.
mountains. It is totally devoid of water
and vegetation, and the shadow of it birdor
wild beast never darkens its White, glaring
sands. • The Kansas Pctoific Railroad'
engineers discovered it. and some. papers
which' show the fate of the "1st Mont-
gomery train" which 'came south from -St.
Lake in 1850 guided by a Mohnen. *' When
tear Death% Valley -seine came to •the
conolusion that the Mormons knew nothing
about the country, so they appointed .one
of their number a leader and broke Off
from the party. The leader turned due
west. Sp with the people end waggone
and the flocks -he travelled three days and
then :depeended into the, broad valley
whose treacherous mirage promised water.
Whey reached the centre, but only the
white sands bounded by scorching peaks
met their ga.ze. • And around the valley.
they wandered and one by one the
men • died. and. the • panting Seeks
stretcihecl themselves to death under ' the
sun. The children, crying for water, died
at their mother's breasts, and with swollen
tongues and burning vitals the mothers
followed.'.,'Waggon after. : • waggon was
abandoned and strong men tottered.o,nd
raved and died. After a week's wanderings
a dozen survivors found some wider in the
hollow of a niouhtain, It lasted but a idled
ime when all perished but two, who
soaped out of the valley and followed -the
rail of their fermer conapanions. • Eighty.
even families with hundreds of animals,
erished here •and now after thirty- years,
he Waggons -tend, still complete, the iron
work and tir's are bright and the shriveled
Metope lie s de'by. side. .
•
Eirpeotie its Doctors! Atisistnuts.
A phygician Of Erie, Pa., is training
homing pigeons for -Use itt..his practice;
Some Othis_y_oung birder_putzpon-the-road
to make reoords for distance, have made
very, good glue, "namely, fifty nailed iu
nieety minutes and sixty-six miles in
eighty-two minutes. • Honanigpigeohe are
largely used by country physicians bah
here and abroad. Ona doctor in Hamilton
County, N. Y., uses theta constantly in his
practice, • extending over, nearly two,
tewnshipa, • and considere ' them •an
almost invaluable aid. After visiting a
patient he seeds the necessary preserip-
tioxi to his dispeneary by pigeon; also
any other advice or instructionthe case or
• situation • may deixierid. He frequently
also leaves pigeons at places from whith he
wishes reports of progress to be dispatched
at specified times, or at certain crisis. lie
says he is enabled to ,attend to a third
more businessat least threugh the tiine
• saved to him by the tee bf pigeons. IC
criticel oases he is able tO keep posted by
hourly bulletins from the bedside betWeen
•daylight end nightfall, and he can recall,
'case after case where live ii have been saved
that must have beeu locit if he had been
ebliged to depend 'upon ordinary ineanii
of conveying information.
he neW British Minister at Washington
ie itt iseriote danger. The faseinations
Which Anierioan women have fbr the ,dipI0-
raatio wise ef 13ritain are such that when
Lady Derby saw her brother off she batist
have felt that she gazed on him for the lad
time as a bachelor. The very firetprorai--
• nent (tient on his arrival will, be the Mar-
riage of his Own Secretary of Legation to a
daughter of Gotham. Mr, Vioter Drum.
mend Maker's the fifth Member of the Britith
Legation who within a few years has
formed "international relatiOne."
LATEST GOSSIP FROM BRITAIN.
The Illiargula to be Timor o$ Ireland—
Poor Eugenie's' lieureheld Glade—
roldnedcier" Collonlic:r'egborcitc—wWoBlic7rit—oAn
DetigrationItolterts and the War
aBnnlies—allfilkoreer,./Rairerwo.1111611gunTrieut—ry anIvideethel:
Stage—Ocorgie Grave.
The Ateenceanesaye that Robert Brown-
ing will have a heW volumeof dramatic
idyta'Teady by New 'Year's, Sir Frederick
Leighton has becerae tine of the Vice -Presi-
dents of the Browning Society.
Among the interestingcoining events
i
noted by society papers s one connected
with the Duke of Edinburgh.% family
affairs, and also the visit of M. Gambetta to
this city at Christinas as the guest of Sir
John Dilke,
The Bishop of Manchester, preaching at
0,°nIdabsaantreferred to tkey, He feared. some forms whien
he visit of Moody
religion was taking among well-meaning
but fanatical meu were far from the spirit
of soberness which pervaded Christ's
teaching.
King Alfonso will pay a return visit to
King Luis at Lisbon about the middle of
December. Queen Christina will be unable
to a000mpa,n3r him. The auspicious event
in the royal family. is expected in the
spring. HerMajesty drives about fre-
quently in an open victoria with her little
daughter.
After all Mrs. Langtry is to appear on
the stage, On the authority of Mr.Cherles
Harris, the Cuckoo says that the lady has
deteemined to appear on the board. She
will assuredly make her. (iebutin New York
in January next. • She appears 0 -night in
TanwitiorkisetnobaraT
orat_ieadmwanteutr tialelin
mr
rfom
rane.0 atnatel4
comeclietta, 11 A' Fair Encounter."
The ex -Empress Eugenie is adding
eighteen rooms to her new residence at
Varnbovi', There. is to be a room filled
with the relics bf .Prinee Louis, and fitted
up exactly the same as the one occupieclby
liim.at Camden Plitoe. • The idea mama to
have been taken from the dressing -room of
the Prince Consort at .Balmoral, which
remains the same as When he was alive. His
hat andgloves are On the table, and an effigy i
of him s oleo on the table:
Mr. Yates eays•he visited George Eliot%
grave. at Highgate the other day, and was
struck by the many touching tokens of
affection in the number of beautiful flowers
that w,ere lying at the foot of the cold grey
granite pillar which tells wile rests beneath.
There is he grave in the cemetery more
frequently asked for, and persons frotti.all
parte of the world visit it •
'the Whitehall Beview is responsible for
the on dit that the Marquis of Lorne and
his illustrious spause may shortly repleee
Ban Cowper and his Cothatesi at the vice-
regal court of Dublin. •
-
The Princess Beatrice's birthday book is
published this Week. It consists of twelve
tastefully -arranged greups of garlands suit.'
able to the months they represent, with a
quotation from_the poets. The illustrations
are Her Royal Highnees' own designs.- .It
its 'greatly praised. The iftlienctamquoting
the lines : ••••• ' •
Lady'eursedln pomp and Pleasure,.
Whencelearned you that heroic measure,
asks, How did the Princeas Yearn to draw
so• truly and se we/I?" .
' The polithaelleveot of the weekhae been.
the -celebration ofijolan Bright's 70th birth-,
day at Reelidale,mliere he took occasion to
review' the•great reforme*.of the last forty
Ye • •
.Tarlise. Marquis of London‘der.ry,entering'
into the retail coal trade of I.Ondon, has
been wonderfully successful in a few weeks'
trial. So great bas been. the dethancl for
coaLsupplied-withont-the
inan.that the agents of the Marquis have
to engage other steatners than, his , own to
'jan. Walter, M. F. '(as already tele-
graphed), made ' anexcellent speech on
.Thursday .on his American teur.• • It
abounded with shrewd remarks as to the
wonderful progress of the United States
and with good advice to Englishmen. 'He
-recommends , emigration. BO strongly that
the 8'pectator, to -day suggests that he has
coma to the conclusion that England 18
" played •out," at, least for gentry. Mr.
Walter remained. in the town where he
made his epeeela in order to 'give informa•
tion about thebest, Parts of the comitry to
strike for;•and •many intendieg emigrants
called upon A greet stream of erni
grants next: Seasen • is . probable. • The
Cahediati Government and the :Syndicate
• which is -building •the Comedian' Pacific
Railway are making great 'efforts to seeure
settlers for the Northwest; and the Marquis
of Lorne will deliyer a number of speechee
on the subject. . •
. Sir Frederick Roberts deelines to be
• dragged into the 'War Office row, He has
been offered the post et Quarternleater-
' Gerierd,under 'Sir Garnet ' WOlabley, but
prefers to remain commanderof the
;Madras forces. It'may be doubted whether
theDuke of Cambridge is so unpopular as.
the Radical party believe, and the general
publio cannot Understand the extravagant
fuss made itbout Sir Garnet. The Duke is
terribly nettled at the fire of Chitin= to
which he is being Subjected. Shoul4he
• be driven from his post he will no doubt
be succeeded by the Duke of •Connaught,
whose god -father, the old Duke of Wellieg.
ton, advised Her Majesty " always to keep
the army in the family."
Ai...long Ithe • various_ articles,' of trade
exported, from New Zealand,- perhaps the
most curious is a specie of fungus which
grows on deqaying trees'in all parts of the
North island, but most plentifully in the
provincial district of Taranaki. In shape'
this fuugue resembles the human ear, and
it is ef a brown color and semi -transparent
when fresh. China is the destination qf
this .produet. It is mu.% prized there as
an article of food, forming the iihief ingre-
• dient of the favoritt3 soup of that country
oti account Of its gelatinous properties and
its peculiar flavor. The Europeans in the
colony, however, have • never acquired
a taste for it. To prepare this
funges for • export nothiug more
ie required than to pick ,it from the
trunks of the trees and dry it in the air or
under sheds. When dry -it is packed in
bags and shipped to Ohine; • by way of
Sydney or San Frahoiseo. •"
It is stated that the next oreatiort of
cardinals Will take place a week before
,Chrietmas, and will inchide the Arch-
bishops of Algiers, Cologne; Seville and
Vienna. Another creation will probably
occur• in March. The Patriarch of Venice
and the Arohblehops of Dublin and Naples
are mentioned for elevation to the cardin-
elate at that time.
Speaking of ono of Barrett's rota, the
New York Mirror gets off the following:
11 The rendering of the Scotch secant and
homely, Unselfish nature of Iiarebell were
most excellently rendered."
Ono ship and 'five officers are still in
existence, relies of the Trafalgar Bay tight,
which iniraortaliZed Horatio Nelson.
• Mr. Van Itonie, Superintendent 'of the
Canada Pacific Railway, receives a Salary
of 06001 •
.
The Eoligenian'i Let.
The policeman with his caubl
Bangs each youthful little cub,
InleginatiOn makes WM thine forth like the sun,
But when danger's in the way
Ee eayo " Thank you, not to -day,"
Decidedly bis lefe a happy one I
Freak C. Draper,,Chief Constable, Toronto.
The policeman en his beat,
In his uniform so neat.
Hears a say for help and straightway starts to
run
In the opposite direction
From those who neetiproteetion'
His ufe's a safe a;n4 wholly happyoxiet
D, Stewart, Chief Constable, Eetallton.
The policeman onthe street,
On his swollen weary feet,
Enows be should not rest until his duty's done,
Yet he'll stop and drink 4 glass
while he let's the Sergeant pass.
who says his lot ia not a happy one 7
Percy Sherwood, Chief constable, Ottawa.
I'm far better off than yeu,
• With so lime work to
Free &Wu% cigars and lots of 3ollY fee,
Note thing to de all day,
But to it and draw my pay.
The policeman's life intleed'a i hal*, one!
' Jobe Cumming, Chief Constable, St. Cath-
Earines.
. Every day upon mybeat
Some pretty girl I meet,
And with her walk a block or so for fun.
If I-eouid Page a mile,
And I can't remit a smile,
To think my life's such a happy one!
W. %%Williams, chief Constable,Londen.
Our city's peace and quiet
IS oft disturbed by riot.
Oh myl you ought to see my peelers run!
If a boy takes up &brick
They retreht at " double quick."
Youbet their life's a safe and happy one!
IlerculesParadis, Chief Constable, montreal.
MORE WOMEN WANTED 1 .
TIM Cry Which Comes front the Northives
Territories. ••
• A. • Winnipeg correaDon dent writes:.
Some one has oak' that without the
elevating infhaence. of the :airer sex, man
would retregrade into barbarism, and the
truth of this assertion is partially borne
out by the Rev. Aft, Robertson, Superin-
tendent of • l'resbyterian inissions in the
Northwest, who eatimates that there are
abut 1,000 or 1,200 young men • of other
denominations in a, similar plight to the
good young Presbyterians, pining in single
blessednees in the Northwest, making in
round numbers a neble army 2,000 strong.
That it is not good for man to be alone,
Mr. Robertson illustrates by a converse -
tion he had with a couple of young settlers
whom he visited on their homesteads
eeveral hundred miles from the city. In
reply to a question whether they ever
attended church a negative shake of the,
head was given. On being asked why, two
reasons were • assigned—first, that service
was held infrequently, and secondly, that
Sunday was cleaning -up day, when clothes
must be washed and mended, and besides,'
one half apologetically remarked, "When
our shirts are washed they are Scarcely
presentable for church going, consequently
we stay at home." This may not be the
experience of every one of this (less, but it
is of se many that an influx of a number
of the fairer" sex would be hailed with
delight, and -Would have . an . ennobling.
effect upon -the unfortunate youths. • Of
course, there are nriany who have sweet-
hearts in their old homes, and are merely
• preparing a place to which they can take
their brides, but etill there minit be many
• yet heart 'free, and these; I doubt not,
would eagerly seize the opportunity of
lightipg their lone cabins with the presence
•of some fair daughter of Vb.
. . , .
WONDERFUL • VITALITY.
"A •Young. Lady. with Two Hundred Shot
• end .Jeleees of • Corset in Her !Jody
• Still Alive. • •. • •
--riapher;' froeliererreilc.' says there IS at
present eyery.prospect of the recovery Of
Miss Melinda T. Jacobus, who was shot by
her lover .%,t Pent,' on the 25th of
()debar last. • It will be remembered that
John H. Wolfe, -a young Arian from :Jersey.
City, who •. had-, for some time beenpayjiag
ettentione- to • Miss Jacobus, called on her
• on •that day and playfully pointed a gun at
her. She told him it Was loaded, but he:
did not heed the warning and the gun went
off, lodging w large aliargeof shot in the,
right side of , Miss Jacobus. The .phy-
iiieians who • were summoned pro-
nounced. •the case necessarily fatal,
end and did not •• even think that . Misj
Jacobuti Would linger more than an hour or'
two. 'Instead of that she is still alive and
the case15 attracting considerable attention
among the medical freternity, Of New
Jersey. The wound was about nine inches
in diameter, but the greater portioti Of this
.was made by the ' powder and Stray shot.
The orifice was two and a half inches long
end—tWO —inchee wide. The tenth and
eleventh ribs woke fractured mild portions
a the bene (serried late the body:. • The
lung was perforated, the full charge titrik-
ing the lower Portion of ibaid laCerating it
terribly. besides the bones of the ribs
portions of the clothing and corset --
a part of the whalebone: of the latter--;
were phot into., the body,and, it is the
*hien of the physicians, clear through
the lung. •." The gun was loaded with a
charge; of 230 duck shot. There have been •
taken out of the•weiihd twenty-six shot, so
that still about two hundred remain. • None
of the pieces 'of dress • Or whalebone have
yet protruded. For a few days after the
shooting the -wound discharged air from
the . lungs, which issued with a 'gargling
noise,. but this had ceased and the young
lady le apparently doing well. No signs
of pyierera have set in and the wound is
gradually .closing up. • The dead flesh is
sloughing off and the young lo,dy% etre') gth
is aiding; the healing considerably. At first
Wolfe visited Miss limbos and • ineistecl,
on her promising to marry him., but she
became so excited that the physician Pro-
hibited her seeing him again. ,
Arnie rhenenteno:,
A temathable echo was noticed between
two mountains at Plover Bay; another,
noticed by our sledge party in a cliff, itt
Cape Onmann, Siberia, gives back more
than a dozen echoes •, and Baron Wrangell
relates that a pistol fired near some cliffs
on the River LONOA is echoed a hundred
times. The great distance to which small
sounds are sometimes transmitted is also
worthy of record. • The first, time this
acoustic clearness of the atmosphere came
under observation Was at St. Michael's,
where, a conversation carried on at in
incredible distance could be diAinetly
heard.' 'Amid the gribi silence and desola:.
tion of Wrangell Laud, at a time too, when
the air was acoustically opaque for thia
latitude distinctly heard our boatswain,
a email 'man with a smieriky..voice, giving
orders two miles away, while 1o:tighter and
sounds of the voice wheh any one spoke'
above the ordinary, tone Mere heard with
suck amazing distinctnese as to suggest
telephonic cOMMUniCation.—aorrespondence
blets'Yor19
•
41602 16,1.4116r1b, of • Italy is well
acquainted with Ai:aerie/al literature,. Haw;
thorne being her favorite ,romancer and
Longfellow her poet. She thinks of urging
her husband to sehd their son, the young
Prince Of aplea, to Americo, some day to
Study tho people and institutions,
A. ICRYIND ADE.
IllObbledebef end lAnclutdabilettlI
• Garb.
'Young people who are passing from child,
hood into rung man or womanhood grow
with surpnaing rapidity, and the amount
of awkwardness, of conceit, of shiftlessnese
and irresponsibility they develop is astonish-
ing to those who do not know its cause.
hey can play, they eau eat, they can
seep, and denothing with wonderful ease
a 4 facility; and they know—what do
they know? they know everything. —They
know more at this period than at any pre- '
vious or subsequent period of their Rom
They 'are ready to take charge of them-
selves, of their parents, of *moiety; while
at the satiae time they cannot be
depended 013 for the tnost trivjal
things. This is ,aot true of all
ehildren at this age, but it appliee to the
majority, and there are few parents of
grown children who will not recognize the
truth of the piottire. It is necessary at
this intermediate stage of existence to
exercise the greateat forbearance toward
these troublesome young creatures. They
should be givee only light and easy tasks,
and their shortcomings ignored or forborne
with patience aud hope. The age we Speak
of is the eentimeutal age. Girls at this
period love seueatioual novels, they are
"crazy" about sweethearts, and inclined to
be lackadaisical geuerally. They have
headaches, listlessness, dreaminess,. Boys
are "crazy" to go to ow, or go out
West and shoot buffaloes; they
affect a tall hat ahd carry a
cane. ,They are especially • arrogant
and superciliops toMard all small boys, and
think it manly to 'smoke a cigar. • In a, •
Lew 'years all this fermentation cease, and
the young woman becomes rational, sen-.
sthle, willing to be advised, aed willing to
apply herself to work and be respoosible
for its • well doing; the yoking man doge
what he ought to. Without being told, and
takes intelligent views of „life. and duty.
He settles down to hard' work .cheerfully '
and patiently. The Sophomoric age is
passed, and hope takes the place of • „
patience in the minds of parent and
teacher. In tiding youth over this danger;. -
ous transitional period ef their lives, .
parents, teachers and guardians must care-
fully combine grinness with tenderness, .
and above all have Plenty of hope and
patience.
Woman'sSrlf-Socritice.
"Oh, no, he never beats me," said Julia
'Connors, trying te look the jualge straight
in the face. "Martin gets fussy anol•noisy
sonietimes„ and . perhape be pushes me
around a little, but never auy aesault, sir."
The °Meer says he saw your husband
strike you on the ..ahciulder, and theh you
struck hina in the face with your fist."
The woman dropped her :eyes, fingered
• her shawl nervously for a. rooment—and
then looked up, fixed her black eyescalmly
upon the Court and said. : !' The officer is
mistaken. • Martin put his nand upon my
arm aed spoke to me 'a little Orose .about
something and then I pushed him away.
•I might have been excited, and perhaps
pueheil him harder than I thought. I'
might have struck him; but he did ,not
atrike•Me. He never strikes me. I plead
guilty, hilt he 1163 not doue anything. He is
only a bit ficeiy woe hi a while, but I don't
Charge him with an assault?'••
This Was the story.: ..8he pleaded
guilty' •le 'Save her husband, While he:
pleaded norguiltY and let, her. ,take upon
herself all the blame witheut saying it- word.
for her. That hi hutiem . iieture. The
woman is ever rdady to sacrifice herself to
save the map, and. the more.the is abused
the closer she clinge to" him. The man
Stands before the judge and says as plainly
by his silence as Adam did •by' Words,
," The, wenian is •the giiiity one; .she
teeepted me,"., and the :wonien•shares hie
punishment. • ' • • •
• The. ()part found Julia and, Martin Con.
-hare guilty of Mutpal assahlt end fitted the'
iiroman 31 without costs and the maxi $10
With costs; The woman paid„her
:spoke an encouraging word to the man and
• went out from the court -room. • She Went
home, drew forth the little -store tale had
pet by for coal hills for the winter, took
perhaps nearly ell her earnings and eanie,
back miiekly to pay hie fine awl take him
out Of the dock. It is the way of women,
arid men will. let them. have their
Boston Globe. •• :
. . . , .
. .
• Charles. Dudley - Warner .says that •
.although 'many people are ucahle to ' pa •
for a,newspa;per, he never yet heard of any....
body who thoughthitnself unable to edit one. .
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