HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1881-12-01, Page 3Deo. 1,1881.
The Old DroVOL Sehool.110tete.
It stood on a bleak country corner,'
Thu houses were dilatant and few,
A meadow lay back in the distance,
Beyond TOSe the hills to our view.
'The road, croseing there at rlght angles,
Dnthwersed by POMP an array,
Were cropped by the BOWB in the eummer ;
I've watched them. there =any ilaY.
memory's hall hangs the picture,
And years of sad care are between;
It hangs with a beautiful gilding,
• And well do I love it. I ween.
It stood on a bleak country corner,
But boyhood's young heart made it warM
It glowedth the onnehine of summer,
'Twas cheerful in winter and storm.
The tectoba, 0 well I remember,
ety heart has hong kept bim a place;
.Perhapsby the world he's forgotten,
His memory no touch can efface.
.He met us with smiles on the threshold,
And in that rude temple of art,
He left, with the shill of a workman,
His tench cu the mind and the heart.
• 01.11 gay were the sports of the noontide,
Whoa winter winds frolicked with snow;
We laughed at the freaks of the storm -king,
And shouted him on all aglow.
-We dashed at his beautiful sculpture,
Regardless of all its array;
We plunged in the feathery snow -drifts,
And sported the winter away.
Wasat an the oltbfashioned benches,
Beguiled with our pencil and shale; •
We thought of the opening future,
And dreamed of our manhood's estate.
cast a fetid glance o'er the meadow.
The hills just behind it I see,
Away in the charm of tho distance,
Old school-housel a blessing on thee.
TRANCES.
1110consethus Sernpone-Sleeping Oratory-.
,necord of filinallato Cases.
Art BITHOADINABY C1SE F sowasnuust
Banns, Oa Nov. ----The citizens of thie
quiet little hamlet are now laboring under
intense excitement over tamest remarkable
ease of fiomnambulisna. A. young man
named john Oplinger goes into a trance
every. day about 8 0'01001a freils which he
does not emerge until late the following
morning. Thee() somnambulistic ate begin
by violent nervous twitohing and convulsions
of the °Ritmobody, which continue for
about three hours. At about oeiloek in
the evening these ;Tams cease- and
he fella into a deep sleep, his features
having all the appearance of death and his
body remaining rigid. But the most singu-
lar part of this reittarkable case ie that after
Caplinger had remolned in this rigid state
• about one hour he announces a hymn, and
during its singing gets up. At .its close, he
delivers a sermon without notes or. raesnu-
eoript. This discourse is muttered in very
illiterate and incoherent language, and, like
the prayers of the Pharisees, is full of a vain
repetitions,", After talking for about an
hour, during all of whioh time his eyes re-
main closed,he assumes the rigid state and
opinions asleep. He never awakes until
the not -morning, and then seethe well.
He works during the forenoon, but is again
interrupted about 3 o'clock by a recurrence
of the nervous spasms. The case is attract-
ing considerable attention, in the neighbor -
'hood, and is certainly very remarkable:
Some superstitious people are disposed to
explain the peculiar operationsd Oplinger's
mind by -attributing them to a supernatural
e,geney, but it is doubtless caused by
intense nervous .excitemea. Such Oases
are on record, though they are not of fre- ,
quelit occurrence. In this connection we
mention a s few of the most remarkable
•insteinces . similar to the case of young
Oplinger. A gentleman woe once annoyed.
by thieves entering his hen -roost, and each
night stealing several 'choice chickens, A
peculiar feature of the theft Was that his
large water dog, stationed at the door of
the °Woken house, gave no alarm. The
. gentleman. finally Bet servants to 'watch,
and the first night they captured the thief,
who turned out to be none other than
the gentleman himself,. In a somnim.
bulistio 'state he had been nightly com-
mitting depredations on his own hen -roost
Another more remarkable instance is
recorded by the Arelabithop of.BOrdemix.
A young minister of Bordeaux was .knoesn
to be a sorananibulist, and the Archbishop
repaired to his room every night after he.
had fallen asleep in order to study the -
nature of the strauge disease: The young
minister would presently arise, takepen,
ink and paper, and begin the composition
of a sermon. Having written a page or
two in a legiblehand he Would read it .
aloud to himself with great accuraoa,
"erasing peaniges that did not snit Win, and
inserting corrections in the proper place.
When the Archbishop iiaterpoeed .a piece of
panto board between the young man's eye's
and the manuserial it gave the writer no
inconvenience. When his paper teas
replaced by another bf the some Mae he
was not aware of the change, but when a
,peper of a different size was substituted he
at once 'detected ita thowing • that his sense
of feeling Was,,astive and served as a gUidea
Another still more' rerciarkable .ease is
related. In a French &thee' of. art- prizes
had 'been offered for the: best •nailatings.
Among the competitors was a young and
hashful girl who very much desired to vie
the prize; though consoions of her inferi-
ority -as 'an-artistaardia-tiate she was very
much diselPased with her : haintiega but
after a while she' began to notice in the
meaning that something had been added to
her Work dimingthe night which greatly.
improved • it. She observed this every
morning and her oureeity•was aroused, -as
the- additions seemed tobe made . by "a
superior artist and far excelling her fawn
workmanship. She accused her classmates
with entering her studio at night and
improving her work, but they all denied'
.any knowledge of thematter. She
placed' artioles of furniture against her
door in order -that the noise made by the
suppoeed intruder Might awaken , her, • In
, the morning the' furniture remained midi&
turbecalint the.piettire continued to receive
the mysterious impressment. 'Hey olass-
mates guarded her door at night to see that
no One entered, but still the inysterioue
additions' to the pititura Were noticeable in
the. morning. At last her' companions
watched her movements, and lo 1 the arias-.
tety•wae explained, for they saw her arise,'
-evidently sound asleep„ drese; take her
pencil and begin her work. It was her :Own
'hand , that, nficonsoiously to herself, haat.
nue:late:1 the masterly work which in her
waking hours she could not approach. Her
picture.took the prize, though she protested
it was not her painting. '
Should young Oplinger continue to
improve in his sermons he mety eat succeed
in bringing some of the sinners in the back
woods, of Holmes to repentance.
EcOltomv in Dress.
(Verper'e.Bagasine.) '
. A dress that is se; peculiar as to be •strik-
ing, either from its brilliancy of color or
•any other cause, should be adopted only by
a. woznon who ,has many changes of raiment
and BO may wear it only ocoasionally, or the
sight of it becomeea bore, even if at first
it is interesting from its, novelty. . The
woman who has ina,ty dresses can afford
also to give it away or convert it to ,some
•other use before it is worn, while the utiob-
trueive dress easily lends itself to 130010,
different, adjustment, .which gives it all
-entirely new aspect. A wonie,n who has
but onebeet gown - can "wear it with a
difference," like the rue that Ophelia
offers to her brother', 'so as to make it
suitable to many occasions, especially
.if . she haae two waists, or "bodies,"
as the English call them; One skirt will
easily outlast two 'waists, and therefore
:this is a real: saving. . But suppose that
there be but Mae waist, or the dress be
made all in one piece (than which there is
ne prettier fashion), ond it shoula be wpm
one day high in the neck, with collar and
:cuffs, on another day with the:neck turned
in and a lace or Musliu .achu gracefully
adjusted with bows or flowers„ and 4 bit of
lace at die wrists, a pair of: long gloves
and a more elaborate claiming of the hair,
it will he soancelysteaignizable. But the
dress must be Of a very general character,
like black silk, or some dark color, or the
pleasure of the .neW impression is lost.
The-WMO perinea with &email capital never
:buys any but , a good . and , lasting thing.
Each:year' she adds ohe or two really solid
possessionslo 'her wardrobe, which, treated
with care, lent her Many years. .Thns 011
a' really small punt, she May dress yeey
beautifully. Withoutaoispitat ouoisoftu-
Obliged-te :15Tly what eon • lentabut.ea fa*
months, but there is :choice even here.
There is certaiply a great economy . in
woman's adopting for :waste:ins of Orel,.
,enony one -drese from. which she never
divorgu,. 11 becomes her characteristic
. and there it. even, akimi• ofatyle auctbeauty
ma the idea. The changing fathanis
and material pass without affecting her.
She is never inditeed : to. buy anything
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because it in new. aShe is always the shine.
The dress in this caee mat have' a 'certain
sidapticity; It costs herlittle•thought and
little tinie,ana wheli the:oldeditioe, becom-
ing worn, give e way to the new, the change
is not perceived, nor is it noticed when the
new in its turn; becomes old. Such .dreeis
a as this must of course lie within certain'
limits. Suppose it to be a bleak 'velvet, it
would lad, withcare, at , least five or
.six 'years. Suppose it to s be 'A White
citshmere-a :drees , 'of small 7 cost -it.
could, with care, loalt tare seasons,and
then, cleanedalast anotlieraseasoa Or two,
'• and then, dyed, be turned into.a walking
drees to last two seasons -more. • at a dress
is put on with grace' its owner • alone is
aware of its defects, and it is a kindness to
• thespectator if . she will •lieep her own.
secret, In France; :and 1 believe also in
Italy, they have a poetic fashion of 'dedicat-
ing for a certain number of years (five, ten
or twenty years; according t� the parents'
fancy) young gitle to the Virgin. X do not
know in What way they demonstrate this
deeicatithaexcept hatlasicolor Of their dress,
• which is •always, for all occasions, summer
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or winter, 'bine oravhitei or White and blue
mixed. ,. Thi fi afforda mote variety than 'at
first thought it would seem to be capable of,
for any shade of blue may be used. There
is a great economy in deciding on e1.
few becoming colors in their. ' saves,
and shades, . and confining . one's'
dress to these. Choosing Made •that
harmonize.with each other, like gray, black,
_rattle, bltie, yellers, white, and never buy-
ing any other colors, one may, in making.
over garments, uee one with -another so that
nothing in wasted, ' It is also important to
knew.what , point of dress to emphasize.
.For instance, onemay expend aloage Baia
on a gown; and if the shoos are shabby, or
ill made, the gleVes Worn,' and the bonnet
lacks style, the gown iffi entirely theovai'
away. But the gown may be no longer
new ; it Mild 'how be carefully bruehe.d
and well put on, the collar andouffe, or
other neek and wrist trimmings, must be
in perfect order, the hoots well made and
well bleaskedaeven if at new, the gloves
faultless, and the bonnet neat and stylish,.
The effect is of it well-dressed woanart ; no
man and very few *amen, perceive that
the dregs is not a new one. •
aarievelloes ebehibltion.
The sun's iso now presents a marvellous
spectacle. An immense number of spots
are visible; consistingSnainly of two widely -
extended .groups. One spot, pow slowly
disappearing by the bun s rotation, ie of
onormoue diMensions and nearly round.
The nucleus is intensely black, While about
it stretchee it broad ° and weladefined
penumbra. A great group following this
spot is badly broken up, indicating that the
solar storm producing it was quite recent.
The tendency of ragged ana shattered
groups of spots is to coalesce end form
circular or oval spots.' A storm region that
precludes spots ueually indicates its locality
by faoulae or white ridgee, • a ,group of
minute'black 'Hike subsequently apppear.
ing. In 09.80 the storm ia very violent,
great rents May be BUM at once in the sun's
photosphere, which run together as the
tempest progressee. 4In it brief *space of
time °bongos ()weir which require -motion
of ihconceivableVelooitya The sun promisee
to be an object Of deep interest during the
winter,
". Spirits in itlanulactUres.
New regulations touching the =ratio;
ture of extracits have been issued by the
Dominion Government, the 13ubstance of
which is as follows • • ' '
Alf tinctures, essences • and extracts
Manufactured in bond, and from•whichlhe
alcohol or spirit can be extracted in a•
portable state by the usual process of re-
distillation .or rectification, shall, when
entered for coneumption, pay the same
duty of excise as the :alcohol or spirit
which they contain would pay if entered
for consumption in its pure state. Extracts,
essences and tinctures manufactured in
bend shall onlybe entered for consumption
at the following places, viz.: Quebec,
Kingston, Hamilton, Montreal, Toronto,
Loudon, Halifax, St. John, N. B,, and when
so entered shall be subjected to such teat
for ascertaining 'the quantity of alcohol
which they contain; and the possibility of
eictra,oling it in a portable state, as the
honorable the Minister of Inland Revenue
may approve • and the result of Bitch tests
declared by the officer or operator entrusted
therewith shall be final and conclusive as
to the amount of day which stash „goods
than pay.
EOE 0 Or THE eremesoatetrifia.
Hew Hisillaltiela Benno, Diladami'Mo.
Pilaus*, WPM!, and .Spiders Doetroy
the Wires.
Muth and Pleathre.),
If you will kick orapound an it telegraph
pole or place- your ear against one on a
'windy day, what will the noise reraind you
of la hive of beee? Precisely. So it
doee the bears in Norway.. Bears are pas-
sionately fond of honey, and when in one of
the wild districts Bruin hears the bumming
of the wires he follow the sound to the
post where it iEl loudest, and begine to tear
away the stones, heaped round the poles in
rocky Boil to steady them, in order
to get at the hive which he hnesSittele
to be there. In his disappointment
and • disgust he many leaves savage
marke of his ohms in the wood. Nor is, he
the only victim of the wires. In the Elec-
tric Exhibition at Peale they show the top
of a thick pine telegraph post through
which a woodpeoker has drilled it hole sev-
eral.
inches diameter. Tho bird had
apparentlyperched On the pole and taken
the humming of the wires for the buzzing
of a nest of insects in the wood, and had,
set himealf manftilly-aor birdfully-to dig
them out. Wolves will not stay in Norway
where is telegraph line has been built. It
was formerly the custom to protect, farms
by planting poles round them strung with
cards, something like rabbit -snares, and
gradually the wolves came terespeot these
precautions, so that a jine -dretehed:
aorose the neck of a peninsula would pro:
teat the whole distrigt. The wolves _take
the telegraph ior.a new and inaprovea snare,
and promptly leave the conntraawhen a
line is built. On our treeless plaine the
buffalo hails the s telegraph pole on an in-
genious contrivance for his own benefit.
Like all cattle, he delights in watching
aimeelf, aud goes through the performance
so ehergetioally that he knooks &rein the
post. An early builder of telegraph lines i
undertook to protect the posts by nserting
brad.awle into the wood, but the thick-
skinned buffalo found the -bradawl
an. improvement, as affording him a
neW, sensation, and scratched down more
poles than ever. tn Sumatra tbeelephants
Are systematically opposed • to 'telegraph
flues, and at least twenty times a year
make raids on them, In, May, 1816, the.
elephaute tore down the poles for a dis-
tance of several furlongs and hid the wires
and insulators in the cane jungle, and for
three iiighte in suooession they repeated
the perforinaned as regularly as the
repairers rebuilt the line during the day.
The moekeesand apes are about as for-
midable enemies; as they use thewires for
swings and trapezes and 'oarry off the glans
insulators as valuable- prizes; then; when
the repairer goes to correct the misehief,
he may be pounced upon by a tiger or driven,
the post by it mad buffeao. . In
Japan the special enemies of the telegraph
are the spiders, wait* grow to an immense
size and avail •themselves of the •wiresse
excellent frameworks- for their webe. So
thick are the cords the Japanese' spiders
spin that often,•espeaiolly when they are
covered with dew, they serve to conned the
wires with each other or the ground, and
so to stop them faona'svorkipg, In the gees
the Wires arencit any safer, as &small worm
has developed itself since :cables came into
fashion -Which bores its way through iron *ire
and gutta.perehalets in the water and so de-
stroys it line worthanilliens of dollarsa,When.,
a great storm conies en 111 the centre of the
:ocean and the .cable breaks while it is
being laid or three.tens to break, no one is
alarmed. They fasten the cable to a buoy
and come baokafterwords and pick it pp,
or if inti at the bottom of 'the ,sea they
'drop a dredge, Willi a 'mile or so of rope,
,and fish out the precious thread, as large
:as one of your fingers, almost as mealy as •
,you would:fish Up a penny from the bottom
,of it tub of Woad With the tonge. :But the
little Worm no bigger than a needle is more
formidable than the elephant on . shore ,o.r.
the•hurricane at see,. • •
Chisininen Buying Wives.
A • Chinaman, when anxious to have a
wife of Itis own nation, sends a letter to an
agent in Hong Kong. A reporter ben eine
of 'these epistles, but itis prietioally
impostible• to translate it into English'.
The following, however, • is it condensed •
translation: "1 want a wife. She must be
a maiden'updee 20, years of age, and 'must
net have left her father's house. She
Must' also hive never read 'a book,
and.. her eyelashes ' Must a be • half an
inch:in length. Her teeth must be as spark-
ling as the pearls. of Ceylon. .Her breath
must, be like unto•the scents • of the .rnag.
niffeent odcitoue groves of leas, and her
attire Mat be from the silken Weavers of
'Ka -Li -Ching;. which are on the abanks of
the greatest river in the world -the- .ever
flowing Yank-tee.laiang,".• The price Of a
Chinese women, delivered in :Sydney, is
138; bub • two Chinese Women only emit
152.Therefore,the heathen Chineseim-
port the women n couples., Theimpeder
never sees his women before they arrive,
and then he generally selects 'the:beet
looking oue: The • other, • is Ohown
round to a' nuihber of Well-tcadm • Chinese, -
and alter they hive inspected . her she-
itt anbmitted to what may be called, public
auction,. The 'writer happened to be pee -
dent at 'one of these sales. 'A. young girl,
aged about 19, was offered, and after some
spirited bidding -she was purchased by a
wealthy Chinese stere;keeper,,whose place
of businefs is hone of the leading" towns
of Now South' Wales, for The
melancholy Ospedot the celestial girl. as
shi
e Went away n company with •the man
who purchased her was deplorable' to the
last degree.-Nerth China fterall • .
A Paradise ler SPOrtsmen.
A correspondent writing from Vert
111oLood, N. W. T., says the Reeky Moun-
tains in this Within do not hem any true
glaciers inch as cause the milky opacity
of some of the rivers flowing from those
further to the north, and the innumerable
small streams whioh cease eastward ate
therefore clear and bide, deriving theit
sapply from tile Melt* snowfields of the
higher peaks throughout the. sutnmer.
They are ,filled with fine troutwhichltre
as yet so utesophisticated that the art of
the &dentine angler is thtewn away On
them. A few days ago one of my party
caught in the middle fork of the Oldhani
over fifty •pounds of fish in a couple of
hours with e,cominon strong hook and line
baltedawith a piece of bacon. .
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All the London newspapers except the The TUttle Mouhtain eleation for the
Daily News ptiblish congratulatory articles Pro/inch/1 Legielature ref:111144 in the re.
On the betrothal et Prince Leopold to turn of Mr. or. P. Alexander, not Mr,
Princess Helene, of WalcleOla Waugh, as reported by telegraph.
7$1411.11r4Lvropis,.
The Demoralizing Effect. of of NO Mid"
nessel Special Erlends1011P•
It was probably the primary design that
men and women phoulel live together, and
not he arbitrarily eepariftedtlike the " coal.
sonttlee " and "broad -brims" on the
benehee of it Qttakea meeting.: And there
is a peculiarly maidinuff ohirm abeut this
irresponsible eanzaraderie, It is very
delightful for a mon whose cireumstances
or inclinations do net admit of his marry-
ing, to have AB much as he wants of the
society of a charming girl without the fear
of beirig pounced upon to be questioned
about his " intentions." It is doubtless
vera pleasant, too, for the :sham-
ing girl to find heron on easy,
friendly, informal terms with a
man whop(' eociety she likes, with.
out being obliged to think about him in the
practical light of "for better, for worse."
and without !scandalizing Mrs. Grundy.
"There are 130 many men," said 01111 of
thew) charming girls, "for whom we • can
have it great penchant, and find interest-
ing and delightful, but who would be very
bad investments aahusbonds; and no many
admirable husbands of fifty must have been
unbearable at thirty. And matriniony is
such a dear price to pay for a caprice,"
But the sort of inters:oars° in question,
and perhaps the more dlingeroue because it
seeme so innocent, is not on the ordinary
44 flirtation " basis. There are now so many
sabjeots of common interest between
men and women, that there are,
many reasons Nvily they should enjoy
each other's sooiety, apart frorn love-
making. A girl is not necessarily less
interesting 'because she is clever and edit -
(sated and independent, especially if she
contrive at. the same time to be pretty and
to have retained some of the 'old-fashioned
desire to please :which seemed to be it por-
tion ol Eve% share•of the primal ease ;
' Ah, Plato! Plato! you have paved the way
With yciur confounded fantasies to more
Immoral conduct by t14 fancied sway
Your system feigns o'er the controlless core
Of human h arts, than all the long array
Of poets and romancers.
'Bloodhounds in the Itiussian Army.
The Russians have strengthened their
army by the novel addition to each corn)
pony of a pack of powerfaaand carefully.
trollied doge. These watchful animals aro
sent aut with the sentinels ou picket duty,
where their sharp,ears and still keener
scent willproveEta impregnable barrier to
the lurking -spies of the enemy. The doge
'used are a species of bloodhound from the
Ural 'Mountains. The 'dog is selected
because of its habitual;eilence. It growler,
but - neverbarks-a matter . of the
aid importance toseldiere near an
emany's camp, The -Ural hound .is
gifted with an exceedingly fill0 sense
of moll, keen ears and .is ever alert.
Moet comforting of all to the lonely picket,
the dog is said to •be espeoiolly courageous
itt defending his master. It is curious that,
with the example of the King Charles span-
iels beforo. a, no one thought before of
tieing these intelligent anitnele as sentinels.
The value of the 'plan is self-evident. The
Muscovites have gone further, and are
training min hound& as well as these
same Ural dogs, to act en despatch bearers,
intich as the carrier pigeons were employed
in 1871. They certainly would be hard
messengers' to catch when sent stealing
through, the woods at night. .
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The proceeds of Prof. Tyndall's .leottires
in thie noantry.were set Aside to found
aoholatehip foiAinerican students in Ger.
man universities, aud lirsLuoiarl L Blake,
son of Bev. Dr. Blake, paean of the
Winslow Church, of Tatintron, Mons, is the
trat t� reeeive the benefit Of it, at the
Royal University of Berlin.
It is just this "controlless bore of human
hearts" that interferes' to spoil all. Co-
education itself has failed to annihilate sex.
Even though a girl should take an honest
interest in biology, mathematics and Greek
philosophy (not the Platonic) ehe still
roe:tains a woman -and sometimes. an at-
tradive one; and, though it man may
enjoy discussing with her politics and
social problems, and such safe and serious
subjects, there generally 'comes a" time,
especially if the environment be favorable,',
such as moonlight or rambles through
&thump eroocle, when the conversation is
apt to take it less impersonal turn. Gradu-
any there come little imperceptible en-
croachments and little unconscious con
cessions that a strict • cenveution;
ality would scarcely sanction. There.
if3 110 question of trifling wantonly with
feelings on either side; the game is played
fairla and evenly, and may end without
any very seeipne beattache to any one, and
may have filled very 'pleasantly the idle
hours of s summer or winter. But, even it
alt ends thin, a girl who had.seteral Such
experiences may • have acquired an exhumes
tive knowledge ef . it certain side of human
nature and have become perfect mistress
of the arts of pleating; but she will not
bring to the man whorn.she finally marries,
if she does marry, that freshness of feeling
that she would havedone if she -hada not
frittered away eo much of her capital of
sentiment in small change. The constant
little preoccupation and excitement of such
"
friendships" are injurious beth to men
and women, and consume energies: that
mightaLe better employ e
• An Mistorioal Thoroughtare.
Cline/10a° street, Edinburgh, isone of
the most historically important streets in'
Grea'alltitain. Narrow:and dirty as it now
is, with rough sturdy fisherworeen -jostling
the passer-by at every itep, with elleaVietys
reeking with odors of stale fish and decay-
ing vegetables, it wag once the leading drea-
d Edinburgh. Its oldhouses, which rise
." grand, gloomy and peculiar," eleven
stories in height, on each side of it, were
once the homes of the noblest and most
wealthy of her citizens. In. one of thein,
Moray House, once lived for a time the great
Protector; from the window of another
the stern denunciations•of Sohn Knox have
often rung out to the crowd below; in
another Dr. Johnson condescended to spend
an everting drinking "tea with his adoring
Bestiell • . this old mansion, With the
frowzie.haded man smoking his, pipe at
one of the windows, wali the palace of Maks;
of Guise; the queen -mother. Haile, the
historian ; Blair, the . rhetorician, and
hosts of others -have lived in the narrow
" closes " and tod the stone pavement.
Down this street Once &me • Retied
Burns to try his fortune among the
Edinburgh 'critics, and here, fifty years
fad, Walter Scott; standing by a heart -
shaped 'figure in the pavement, which
maxim the site of the old Tcilbooth, wrought
in fancy " The Heart of , Midlothian."
Down this street it motleyagrowd followed
the brave Montrose as he ,was dragged on
a hurdle to his doom. In .the eia gray St.
Gilies Church Jenny Geddes once surprised
the worthy Dean of Westminster by 'hurl-
ing her steel at him .when attemptinglo
introduce the service of the -March of
Englanda Probably the reverend gentle:
man never tittered " Good Lord, deliver
us 1" with more fervor than when he saw
that strange missile come hurling through
theAir,
Mitts Worn Over Gloves.
Thti latest importations in • handween
show a large variety of mitts and :mediate
knit of silk. Mitts knit like the old. -
fashioned chain -stitch knitted purses are
among the handsomest of these. Unlined
they begin in price at §1.50 ; at $lag they
are lined with. • tinted plush. The colors
only show when the mitt is on the hand,
when the fine line of gold, cardinal or
white, which accents the darker stripe of a
seal brown, black or navy blue, is visible,
Shotaailk mitts are in black silk, shot with
rod and lined with plush.: They are a1,80
a, pair. These mitts are equal to six -button
gloves in length, but the 'wrists are closed,
clinging to the wrist of the Wearer in the
style of the Jersey -top glovee.They.are
worn over kid 001/08, and are of eufficient
warmth to wear on the hand in winter
without further cumbering it with it glove,
if a muff is carried. -New York Beetling
IlIail., '
a100 IT VOILT013161.41p.a
41,Hiet so Xostog WoMeR Whose Minds
aro Idle. .
(From the London Queen.)
It IS wonderful how much may be done
At horde by willing hands and clever brains.
The present style of furniture offers plenty
of soope for amateur taste and work. Still
it is not given to every one to start with a
new house and the power othuying new
furniture. Many people, willing and anxious
to have bright, dainty purroundinge (by
the way, brightness is hardly the great
oharacterietio of the present taste), can.
not afford to disinies thesolid, ungainly
old furniture that came to them with the
bowie, and is far too good te get rid of, and
yet too utterly out of date to be saleable
at anything like a fair price. The famous
"drawing -room suite,"- covered in rep or
broohe of some, to modern taste, excruciat-
ing shade of green or magenta, which was
once all but universal, 1f3 fast dying out.
Enough specimens still remain to harass
nnluoliy owners, who are gradually awaking
to a taste for lees decided colere. The
thinge are good, nay, even handsome of
their kind ; but, oh I that covering; which
no amount of 131111 -to be got in our climate,
at all events -can apparently fade to any
lode trying shade. Your walls, fresh
papered or painted, may be perfect. Papa
has stretched a, point, and allowed the
Brussels drawing -room carpet,with its
astonishing bouquets, to be superseded by
Persian, or Indian rugs and stained floor;
but you know quite well it is hopeless to
think of that furniture. Few good uphol-
sterers care to be at the bother of re-cover-
ing old furniture, unifies antique enough to.
be a curiosity. They frankly tell you it will
cost earnest as much as new, and certainly
make good their words. What then can be
done? The answer is simple. Do it your.
self. It 'may (sound 'alarming to speak of
re-covering with your own hands those
chairs, sofa, eta.; but, honestly, the sound
is the word of it. Begin at first niodestly
with a separate chain and try your hand
at covering it with some cheap•material, so
that even if you fail; the remit will not be
disastrous. Proceed as follows: Over
the cushion of your chair pin a piece of
thin, tough paper and cut out an exaet
pattern, carefully niarldng all the plaits
and little nicks required.to make the cover
lie smoothand even -the great secret in
this work. Lay thie. pattern ona your
material and out the latter out exactly by
it, marking all the required plaits and
nicks. Then strip off carefully the gimp
binding from the chair you intend 'operat-
ing on, brush the cushion thoroughly and.
remove any stain with benzine, or you may
'change to see your old enemy reappear
through the new cover,- taking' care to. get
it to sit quite evenly everywhere before
fastening it. This done, nail it on care-
fully with tiny furniture tacks made for
the purpose, and finieb it all off withit
gimp or it band of the EitEMO Material,
etretched firmly ali. around to hide the
rough edges. '
'11110 Prima Boman and the Banquet.
-Patti sung, for the relief of the Michigan.
sufferers the other night in New York, the
platform being occupied by Mayor Grace
and other distinguished citizens. During
the performance it Man tabled, Salinder13
brought in an immense Wire), wreath, with
Whir% he proposed to crown Patti queen of
bong of two continents. She cibjecited„ and
Saunders not being able to jean it on her
head alone, the Mayor came to his assist-
ance, when Patti broke and ran. The
Mayor and Saunders, took after her, and
tore about the stage amid hode and yells
and hisses from the audience, Mingled with
cries of " Kill him I" "Throw the fool out
the, window!" etc, rinally the Mayor and
Siunders were compelled to give tip, and
Patti Went eff without her OrOW11.
anturaaa Evening mosaics.
Reason convinces, but faith &insole&
, No man is more miserable -then he that
bath no adversity. „ •
Strong language utterty fails to bolster a
weakhrgument ' • ,• •• • •
He who is•perfectly.vanquisheld by riches
,ean never be just.' •
It is the enemy whim *rade not stishegt
Who in the most-dangerous.Hall '
s.
the me we hoard in our hearts araille
because we hoard theni. ,
An effort made for the happiness of
others lif ta• up above ourselves. .
Labor is the divine lam Of our exidtence ;
repose-is-desertion-ana-suicide. :
Ona.half of the world must sweat and
groan that the other half May dream. ,
The qualities we possess never Make; a
so ridicultms as those we pretend to have.
withTinisconduet and economy:one can
always get on in the world.' s
Calumny is what is said of us-carelesa.
ness.what is said by us..
Cowardly as an honest Man" would be
it good proverb. '
Common Kanto is one'0 own sense, be-
lieved to: be uncommon. ' • •
One needs a 'deal Of wit to afford, to be
witty not at the expense of the heart.
Genius finds new ideas, Wit ridicules
theta and coriambri semi rtdoots them..
. We do good most willinglyIb those who
have lead alaiin liven us.
'13evseze of that • reason which 'always
seems reasonable ' • • • •
A friend ot one's own age keeps his youth
long. •
. One is. rarely philosophical with one's
tielf-philosophy• in•A•couet-ha,hit.
A friend gives whealie has too much; a
woman, even when she has not enougla
A, woman's beauty.aanot.a source of a
Much satisfaction to her as another
woman's ugliness. ,
Whenat is a question of our vases how
all men seem human! But when of our
yirtiles.--1 • ' •
In friendship the :strongest attachment
yields to residence ; in love it ia the
contrary. :
-Nature is rich in her very pavertiee-she
dowers fools with presumption -to :insure
the preservation of the rage. • ,• ,
Promising is sometimes a reason for not
•giving -the promise may have produced its
.effect. ,
' Devotion to friends is meted less by the
esteem we have for them than the fuss they
make over us. 'Whence comes it that we
are so often deceived? . .
• Women's 'Bead Decorations.
Among the countless varieties of birds
which are brought from every point of the
globeto adorn the hats and bonnets of the
daughters of fashion none are more beauti-
ful than the intoner tropical birds Which
come from the West India, Islands. One
large hex eihibited, which‘oame from Trini-
dad, contained•no less than:twenty different
specimens; some With bodies of golden
yellow and wino of bright green, others of
gold and brown, and a dew aimed entirely
covered with scarlet feathers with deep
orange -tipped wings. Twirl very handoome
birds were covered with a mixture of bril-
liant eolored feathers, like fine mosetica, and
one larger bird, already placed upon it
" heatmourning" hat, had it body and wings
of rettren black, with breast and , head of
purest white.
.mmumpaiworrit- lirom moicw.
Au (prphim Store Girl the "OW Ones
Henry P. aburneay is it Brooklyn
mullioil-
airo in the 'dry goods business, and bea
been looked upon as a contirmed old
bachelor, rie is Without relatives and half
led a solitary life, although engaged in a
business requiring many employees. Mrs
jourpeay, between ten and. fifteen .year
ago, had a Serious dispute with his partner
in business, and as a result of it he refused
thereafter to speak to him. All communis
cations between the two were emulated
through. the medium of a third: party.
Last week Bit, Journeay (sleeted his bride
from among the young women in tlae
uuderwear department of his dor..
Her name was Miss Kate S. Penbton. She
was an orphan, modest and gentle in
demeanor, and simple in her drape. After
the wedding trip Mr. journeay approached
We partner, The latter was quick to fadae
the favorable opportunity, and, grasping
Mr. Journeay% hand to congratulate him,
received back it friendly pressure, which,
with it kindlier look of the eye, indicated
that the past had been forgiven, and that
they could once more be friends. The
news ran like electrioity down the long
counters that the partners had broken
their long silence toward each other. The
clerks in lir. Jouineay's employ say ho isa
changed man; and the solepwomen have
forgiven the bride laer good fortune, since
she seems to have made the millionaire
happy.
ADVERTISING EXTRA ORDINART.
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A New Tether who Distributed Bilis on •
A Brooklyn policeTatk
ni,has mado an arrest
under novel oireumetancep. The proprietor
of it museum sent out a man who walked
on very high stilts to distribute bills. The
unusual iipectade caused it horse to run
away, and the policeman decided to arrest
the stilt walker. "Come down said the
policeman, "I want to arrest you." "Ma".
said the gymnast, "come up and arrest
me," and he coolly seated himself on the
roof of it two-story building.. The police.
mairotuted him to capitulate by threaten-
ing to saw off the stilts in instalments till
the wearer reached the ground. The justice,
however, refused to, convict, as he held that
hathe disgraceful condition of the streets
it was not only justifiable but commendable
for men to go about on stilt&
The ex -Confederate General jubal Early
looks like the ideal Rip Van Winkle, with
hehisig
ea,ren.
ysbeard and: _flowing white hair, his
drooping shoulders, and the staff on which
His Highness Rainpal Singh; Rajah of
Rampur, now resident in -England, intends
contesting one of the metropolitan boroughs
at the next vacancy on "independent and
constitutionalprinoiples.a
Murder will out, so will -the fact that , - •
Carboline, a deodorized extract of petro-
leum, the natural. hair renewer and .
restorer, is the beat preparation ever
invented, and excels all other hair dress-
ings, as thousands of genuine certifientes
now in our possession abundantly prove. ,
IVER POWDER '.DRIVES AWAY BEG- .
LIOUS headaches, dyiipopsia, rheumatism.
piles and desire 'for' liquor. Sampler 10 cents
.xnailed anywhere. W.. HEARN, Druggist
.TorOnto. • '
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33r.vans,
In Faris it few days since, on All Saints'
Day, the decoration of the graves of tho
dead, as is customary; took place. The
ptinoipal objeotiVe point of thie annual
pilgrimage is the famous cemetery of Pere
la Chola°, whither this year 150,000 people
went From 1 o'clOck in the afternoon
until 4 it Was inepossible to force one's way
out of the cemetery, as the incoming orowd
was so great. An enormous number of
Wreaths were placed on the tortabs Of Thiers
and of Ernest 13oreohe, and many abated
the bombe of Alfred ae mum* Illiohelet;
Balza° and of Charles and Francis lingo.
The Wonted throng pad their respeote to
the meretoryof the ideal lovers; Helene and
.0aletrd'
,
'the American dentist in
Paris, has ensureed the title Of Baron
D'Oyley, and the Pope offered to make him
Marquis, but he declined farther heats
while pre/stiffing his profeseletts
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Six hundretl dollars are hereby offered in special
prizes at the leading fairs in Ontario and
. Quebec, lt382,,by
Thorley Horse and _Cattle Food Company
...-
HAMILTON Ont.
As follows: $150,cash at Canada's Great Fair,
Toronto; $00 Great Central Fair, Hamilton;
$30 Western Fair, London ; $20 Port Hope ; $15
Sherbrooke, P. Q.,: $15 •Ottawa ; $15 Chatham;
$15 Guelph; $10 Kingston ; $10 Walkerton ; and
$10 et county fairs in the remaining counties in
Ontario. • For particulars, see circulars.
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spending your money,' satisfy yourself that the
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Weak Momor
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harm. Each boa eontai1is. sufficient for two,
week's medication, thus being much cheaper .
than any other medicine sold -and while it is
tho cheapest, it is much better.
Full particulars in our pamphlet, which We
:desire to mail free to any address. .
fflack's Magnetic Medicine is sold 135 •
druggists at 50 cts, per box, or 12 boxes for $5,
or Will be rnailed free of postag$ on violet of
the nionnexya, cbkysmild;inesasn.iweegtiine
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0,or 1700 Stammerers have been cured i
during the plot throe years. Testimonialf '
all parts of the U.S. and Canada. Addrof
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