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A ROMANTIC
A Torouto Voting Man in Airiest—The
DOCUI114•11111ry Kequ tremens.' of the
•.0 w. of listhoon eturpriee
sappy Ito er.
A letter that came to it gentleman of this
city u. short t, WV ago emit/due the account
of a marriage ef LI; rather rotnantic turn;
About a year :Lgo Rev. A. W. Marling, a
young man wellknowu in Toronto, weut
as a missionary to the Cahoon inioion, 01.1
tile 51.t..st cotv-a. of Africa,. For a year or
two prai}s 1.} sating out for tide distant
- celiac Mr. Niatling had studied theology at
l'rineeton, where he met Mitis Janet B.
Cameron, his future wife and helpmate.
Under thij. anapiees of the American Prete
byteriati 1111roilt111, M. Darling and hie
affianced aet out fOr Africa. Sometime
after their -arrival alley were about
eclebratc their Marriage, wheu it
was diseo‘ area that jii Gaboon, which is
under the l'alawl} law, no marriageis valid
unleas sanetamed b the documentary
consent of the parentsi of the coutracting
parties. \:Isa u the.iotir th. nice was met- for
a partivula.t day 10 the immediate future,
how wenthe parties to write, the one to
Toronto, tha other to Princeton, to obtain
their parents' c.,tisent ,'"? Such a proceeding
would haat' Lit'llryeti the marriage for half a
year. The till,renta %las got over in the
, following wtt, : A steamer conveyed the
parties to u. p }int 11loo than three miles
from Lite 1L.t, where'they Were out of the
dominionef an, Fame i laity . and it docu--
mentary rilttirettient There on tlie high
seas Ray. W. \Valker, ()Mar of the Ameri-
can Presbyterian Mis ion, perfortned the
marriage ceremony.: ' t is said the ring
was the workmanship of a black African,
made from tiativo gold melted in a
-Liberian crucible. The young missionary
N ig a son of taw -of the Vigil school -inspectors,
- and -is it graduate of T routo University.-
1Vorb I. •-
. mfrottlisti( Nevem.
- • The live atock of itt ltoss-shire crofter
-trebled itself the ot}ier week. Ile ewned a,
COW, 0. A.-. - linkrq TULA It : ewe aud each bore.
couplets, .
..Aamery.supe.esstut tial trip of it torpedo.
3fboat( built; at. l'aisle , to the order of the
. Greek Govertinient, Was Made a -`frair days
ago. % -Tile s pee -4 ettti nod:: was Close: 011--.17.,-
'.-_-knots-aii hour; -. --_ -:- ' - -----. - --; -.- -' - -- '--
Agricultural - priispecta- in 7geotlatiul -.are.
-hot Vt.i.'iY Iiiiperal,-lkild 'ilitI ishattah wanted.
, The sheep -are ititahneidettbetter condition,
-
but et„.0isiderable 1Ihei ill lazabS- have dis=
cottraged fartnerte - ::-___. -'1 ... '-.-.- -_ , .'•
l‘tr, Parnettr i1. L'., _and_ Mr, O'Connor;
M,P„'atifire.1.4-,ed7,e. me ting of several then,.
kind peraotta in Glasg W..' ia,tely,- bath gentle.-
Men receiVed a Moat .,,itiattsittstic welcome;
i
" iteaolutiinisa were pit:i
tied eendeinning.the-
- ,arreat of Mr. Davittt and - the threatened
evictionain the flight Inds ef Scotiand.- .
' AC-it:recent nieeti4 of. a `Meet edurtin-
Invexness„ Mt 11 '1qLirrttitit'lor a theatrical
liCenae was.apposed b.
. tevisit..avito-'satil Met
. were objeetiotiableott.
• the Rev. John,Mac-.
Shakspettre's plays
tcceunt of '- tlieir pro.-
_ faulty. .1 Lo ttrliIti, 1_ earneetly pray that,
'backing at _the matter in the . light -• of
eternity, tie jtistieea ,INvill-ef.itrihute to the
- ..- glery-of tiod. by refusing- the' application."
The libense was grantibdiiy.lp. votes to. .
- . At Olasgeiw last we41c,two Warder's were
elv#ged with the-inurder .of a patient who
,WAH. uttd_er .thei-i-Charge'.1e- _an aityluin. - -It
waa- proveti, that' thed_eceiteed. had . had
twelve rihs. broken - and that yielence had
been_ uked to the eliesti and abdoinen,-- The
-.. •
jury :eetertaitted a_ difficulty in findiegthe
' - pritionbas guilty of _murder and brought in!
one of itskatilt.- On this latter: ehatge: tho-
.-prisoners. were gentended to :three months'
iMpriseument each; ' -
. i While it. coachmen alied Nicol was sit:
• inagawitlebia Wife itt thc kitchen _ortheir
` house, at Lassodie,,near Diinfi3rin1ine, the
. ether, night-, they were . startled, by -a loud'
noise. and -Shock. C.o.:search. being made it
' .-appeared an explogio4 had. oectirred in the
. _
„-garden,___ where _the-lil.i_ri_tt. , wee- repettere4
_ about- and the remaina Of a tin canister,
. charged with tlyna.naite orgunpowder, were
found, to which a fuse had 'been -attached..
It was'evident eat_attittnet. had *been Made,
_-.6.- *throw: the ean--into the house, but it
`struck tile window ifranin and rebounded-.
- Itevenge• for filetiap_.littely given .in. e
- criminal eaae ii4. the stipposed: motive-. -
•- --VillfzIng Niiiiraira'rellis.- -
The-Buiraio Cfettrte 't.- London .correspon,
dent -says': "Three y 'Ors-. ago, when I was
_-a, resident in Ruffalo:Ithere was much talk,
- ,gerterally_'or tile imbelievingsort; about the
41ine- OE a -celebrated 'Frenchmen -who- Pr6--
poied to utilize. the force- of the Falls- of
- Niagara -either for lighting or ..inebbantetil
-,-:-,PUrpoSes' through -, the empIoyinent of
, eleotra,dynainie ritacifinery. That:the plen-
a
was -net beyoudithe pbasible has.- been do:
--„monstrated bythe sheeess attending the
opening of the nowtelectrical railway in.
Berlin: I'-ntil new anotiva..powei could
only be traiismitted a* hurt distance. 'Steam.
- may be taken- ali OM eiratripla, with electri-
- city employed as .-he iirantimitting mediumi
: -DiftterM018-COtr
. eratiyely of littlo. impel.-
ol
fence. • 01.18- -hundred mileis. practically'
- the Plana aft orie hhudred .yards.. • Once
establish _:the principle, -.which heti admit-
- tedly been done, and ithere is no teataan, aS
' one of our scientific papers- here-. suggests,
.-: Why siifficient- motive force could not be
- .- .
- - g,enerate.d,„ Say "_at Niagara 'Falls; by the:
- inexpensive meansof water Power;- and
. conveyed by -electricity- all over New York
.. State and the-P-roVinde of Ontario." ' '
TERRIBLE 'EXPEUIENCEPS.
An African Expedition Famiehed with
Banger—Dead Bodice Eaton to ttlave
Litc —Derain ting Pestilence.
A German correspondent writes: Gessi
Nadia, the late Governor of the Bahr el
Ghazal, recently returned to Khartoum
after a jouruey of the most terrible horrors
and suffering, and has since died. Having
effectually broken up the ni#eroum slave
trading stations in his provinee, he left
Port Rek, on the Gazelle River, on Sep-
-tember 2.1t1t, with a sidewheel steamer,
having four large barges in tow, filled with
over five hundred soldiers, their families,
liberated slaves and others. They took but
one -inontli'm provisions alopg, as the trip
to Khartoum, even for sailing vessels,
usually' lasts only twenty days. This
flotilla. however, was soon -stopped from
advancing by the vegetable darns of thickly -
matted grass, papyrus and ambatch
reeds, which, as so often before, completely
obstructed the river, and will, therefore
always prevent the Bahr el Ghazal from
becomiug a permanent waterway. -For over
three and a half menthe the expedition was.
kept prisoner in this terrible position, all
efforts to free it were ineffectual. and the
far distant shores could not be reached on
account of impassable swamps and bogs.
The provisions wore soon exhausted, and
famine and pokonoug fevers began to deci-
mate the people. The dead bodies would
neither Hiuk. nor -float away, bet remained
near the boatiii tilling the air with pesti-
lential stench. Lu this dire extremity
many of the bodies were need as food by
the fauthilied survivors, besides such
grasses ascould be gathered. Ono
of tlie barges flied to be broken
up for firewood. - At last- succor
arrived on January 4th in the shape
of a powerful steamship commanded by
Marna, who had been despatched from
Khartoutu to their delivery, Ile litieceeded
in breaking tlireugh the thick felt Of vege-
tation and ;rescued Gessiand about 250
men, ali who bar surVived, from a certain
death- lfeperts say that the Italian:Paella,
formerly one of the strongest- men living,
looked, like n. skeleton when he returned
.-
lie- brought, with him- a: nephew of King
:Murq,a,- Of Moninittu, as well -.toe three
0611011s ,who Were to -serve as- witnesses
against' Yussifir -PaCha,- the -Govern-or .of
Senaar, Wife* hi 1876 hadtheKing and his
brothers killed, their sons emasculated and
- their daughter's sold as -hareinslavee. - •
?MN puma re,
Exhiblifola op the Muni* Mar-.
- (0e*. at the 'review Time.- -
. A remarkable -sun „spot, which with
slight telescopic aid is resolved into a con-
geries of hpot'4 of all, shapes.- 'and sizos„, is
-now Visible not -fax from the sen's-equater;
The etteiest and safest _way.. to View it;.
Where: exact :dethiitien.of details 114.110t
required, is to throw -the ithage of the stm
from the eyepiece of the telescope upon,
-the Ceiling of adarkened room by moans of
or Upon a white -screen placed
baek of the .eyepiece.._ -in the, latter: case
ii6„ prism is noided, and a good spyglass
will sufficeto sic* thespot if
well steadied. When . 'the great, spot
is thrown upon the ceiling, ita slow -for-
..- ' Ne -any allofthe religious periodicals in
the Vnited States belie lately published it
• -long article-beaded-1Th° True Test -The
Merit of ReligiOn, Government,' Persons
:and :-Things Must Rest upon -ti, Batas of
Worth." The first paragraple.is as follows:
• "'Ile true test otani religion is the effect:
it produces upon the lives of those who
profess it.: --In thfite a Of : the world men
are not itidged -4-:`,,' what thoy claim to be
able- to but by Wit t:they can do; .not by
- what they are reputed to bo,- but 13y what
they, are. Here is Where - the'. religion- of
,, _ . .
- our own country rises euperior to the faith
- _ .
of Maliammeden- oir-Itindoo- lands,' :A
column ie filled with ;that kind of niatteti
_and then the article proceeds to ,apply its
'arguments to a certaln:patent -medicine,
..-- but With 110-Kliall( to tiildielikte,‘ that _it, is .11,
-paidiadvertisethent.'10'-
- - A new set of Adventists lute° sprung up
- in _Indiana. They are called Soul Sleepers.,
and believe that: the body -sleeps till the
. resurrection, the soul being in a. state Of
• • quiescence till that t'me. ' - ' -
_
-
_
Ward movement and _the trailihg etrings ,of
small spots -and:- faculie -:'eurratinditig it
make it -resemble a gigantic insect, with
legs and antentue of outlandish Proportions.
Under algae- telescopic scrutiny with high.
powers, its structure is se Coto plea as almost
-
to defy sketching. Thetremendentaenergy
Of -the forces at work May be appreciated
when_ it is -stated that the area of disturb
--
:thee exhibited is senie 80,000 • miles -long -
by ;10,000- _bread:" Besides, what. is seen by
direet-Vieiv is only'a portion of the The,
nothencin; The great chaems. thatiook like
dark Spota-_are nobody knows how- rattily
thonstinil miles deep, and above the iUfl
apparent surface -the disturbance. extends
.threugh•gaseeuster, to equally ()nor
-
moue distances,
_ - .
•
Miling 111*- Brother -Cot- itllouey.- 'Received
Omit the - Attic o 111.Wilts.
despatch from- Ithinebeck. (N.
a suit has--jinit :been. instituted 'in the
Snprenie. Court of this Connty which revives
a cnrieuti:and alinost forgotten story. The'
parties to the'aetien,- ate brothers and live
near -Lithgaw. About a dozen- years, age
Georgia Sinith,-'who. limed near .Copake,
Celtimbut County, Married Charity Miller,:
ohp of the liandsornest giris itt_ the village.
-They- lived together several years, and
had four-- children, - Smith- never pre-
vicled fiverY liberally for his fereilY.
Wealthy---bachelor-Wha visited at 11114
house became greatly: attached to Mrs.
SthithEand in_ a- joVial *ay offered lierlititi7-
-baud 2,000 if he vioulcl tranefer her to bine' .
Smith Aceepted-,;the- offer, and papers- were
drawn up by a lawyer transferring.: ell
right end title to the wornanto the wealthy.
-bachelor. George then -wept to -the home
Of his 'brother - Abner, _ . Wealthy feriner
near Lithgotv, lititchess-`Connty, where ;he
bus lived until a short - time ago assistapg
his brotherin the mauageinent of. his .fatm:
A 16W:week's ago George:wag discharged for
stealing. smell quantities pf -produce and
disposing of it: Ilo now "brings Snit for
the 6%000 -which, he received for -the sale
of his wife, and which he:Joel:led to bus
brother, and also for- labor and eeivices for
'amount._ _Abner, 'HA -an offset, puta
iu- a (110.1111 for for board; Washing and perspnal
'property taken, •-ai.? -alleged; by his brother.
It iarumOred that he, Will also instituto.
criminal proceedings against him..
PRINCE LEOPOLIL
The Queen'm Darling Blade Duke of
Albany—Ills Lite and Characteristic*.
It is announced by cable that Mr. Glad-
stone has created Prince Leopold, the last.
of the Queen's sons, Duke ot Albany,
reviving a title sadly associated with the
unhappy race of the Stuarts. Prince
Leopold is by all odds the most amiable"
andreputable of the royal family. Ile
has been a delicate boy since his babyhood.
Notwithstanding this he has been all his
life -he was born -in 1853-a diligent,
unremitteut student. He pass3d -through
all the terms at Oxford with more than
the average credit, and proved himself an
original thinker in some of the profounder
branches of the collegiate curriculum.
The new peer takes his title from Scot-
land, like his brother, the Duke of Edin-
burgh. Albany is associated with the
earliest Scottish kings, but is more dis-
tinctly it survival of the Stuarts, an offspring
of which died only the other day, known
allover Europe as .the Count of Albany,
who is conceded to have descended from
the pretender Charles James.
Ho is in many respects ET clever a man
as his father. Ile `has avoided -a formal
marriage because of his unhappy health,
and it is doubtful Um his present condition
he is ever permitted to make _ a legal
marriage. The Prince long age desired
passionately to enter the Church, but the
Queen wouldn't hear of such a life for her
youngest and best .beloved. He has been
her almost inseparable Companion since his
childhood, and it is frequently -asserted that
this motherly tenderness, afi much afil
thing -else, hes kept the lad front marriage.
Unlike the Queen's other eons, Prince
Leopold has ito separate establishment, but
generally lives with the Queen. Many
romances hey° been associated With the
young Prince, (me particularly involving an
amusing rencontre of the Prince, a -charm,.
Mg American girl and the Queen in the
Had of Portraits of: Windsor, is, perhaps,
the most piquant. When Leopold was at
school neer Windsor he niet the young_girl
incidentally. - Ile was very much -delighted
with her, and took no painsto conceal bus
admiration. Findingone day that the lady,
and her Way were going to Wiudsor to
see the castle, be chided' his tutor, and_ as
the_.#'fitnaily „Were , passing-, ., through. the-
" Chow" :rooms-, he appeared- and; took
charge of bus his "clittruaer, acting tis
a guide_ in :the ,intricacies. of the
-
royal apartments. • :Haying" the _advan-
tege of the rest _of the -partythe Prince
gradually lcd his conipanion into one °f-
ate reams not: generally open to. :Visitors,
where -he -began gravely to, point out the
pictures of his ancestors. he was talk-
ing the curtains were drawn aside and his
mother, the Qneee; entered, naturally
enough very much surprised. The Prince,
nothing daunted, -presented the young girl,
evidently expecting the Queen to -take as
lively an interest itt lief' as- liiinself. She
didiu't, liewever, and disinissed the intrader.
with Some asperity' , _Pending her off .With
lackey, and -marching Master_Leopold to
his ewn apartments. The Prince lit fond
of joking his - brethren by. the assertion
thet if .Eugland should hecoine.a-repuhlic
lie could support the familyby his wits 0.14
'a -music and language -teacher.
. -
THE- :JAPANESE 'AND - TNEIa FeOu.-Miss
Bird, the authoress of the interesting new
bet*, "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, re::
rnarke-7".-The faetiathet unless One can
live • On rico; tee and eggs, food must be
taken, is the fishy :and Vegetable :abonlinea-
tiOnS-known.aa ‘-Japitaiese Feed' can Only
be swallowed and digeeted by e few, and
that after -long .practice.--- - After. .several
menthe travelling itt 3391110 of the roughest
Parts in the interier -I-shoUld,advise a per.
Ron-- itt. average liealth-7-end'_none others
shouldtravel in Japan -not to --encumber
hirnsolfwithtinned meati, Seurat, claret, or
'any-etitables;or cltinitablee _except- Liebig!s_
Extract of Meat.-11./Orailig Pust., -
. _ .
. 1 A curious bet illustrating -the gkitions-
iindertelnty of -whist was made .itt the
. Whist. Club hi London recently,- Recording,
-to the London' War/ff.:, -A-playet on taking
-hie "seat bet an edverattry; who had been in
very bad Wok latoly, Z200- to£5 that he
would -not. Win -six rubbers- in -succession.
This, howeifoi, he' succeeded' doing, and
netted-. altogether £270.: , -
- The reamer:Ince Blovtilient.s.
In the columus of the Boston .-Adrerfiaer
_ - -
we find the details of a. plan,..under. the
direction Ofleading 'men. inth-e-.11Protestent
Episcopal Church,. for _the promotion of
temperance reform; The general features
of the movetnent -are .to those- of
an.osgenization-, that has. • existed in -...the
Church of -England for a naniaber of. years.
At the_ head is the., senior bishop ; upon:
the hitt of Vice:President-a are _the . nanies
of .fourteen Of the leading bishops, and most
enament:men .amongthe-1-YE, clergy and
comprise .the Executive, Cs:iminittee.-
The--organizaticat is to be called the
“ Church -Temperance - Society"- For
what -are called- '-‘ secondary- means ,the
society will -adapt Systetnatio._ teachingon
the -phySical, - social . and Moral evils of-
intemperence, bv meens of 'sermons,. lee,
turegi:and. the .press the formation of
diceesen and perochial. societies on the
general phial of thie:society and iu affilia-
tion with it ; eauntor _ attractions ; the
promotion'. of . coffee4muses-, Workingmen's
benefit societies and associations and read=
ing-_roorns,with social gatherings_ for amuse.
inpnt as well as. instruction, -
" In furtherance'of the -society's work it.
Will askof its inenibers_to subepribetO one
of 2.six pledges, , Which- are believed -to hit
almost --everybody's caso. Thoiirst-pledge
hi, that "1- will-JbYthe help of,dod,--which.
1 will :seek- by prayer, abstain from ell-
iutcixicating drinks, -:except under medical
-order; -or- for 'religious' purposes:" - The
second itt •." to abstain .ifrotal all intoxi-
cating drinks in -.public -houses or bar-
ro.ores.," -The third Ceara 'nething - abo
drinking,' but _is- to do my nth -lost both
by example_ end precept, to promote- the-
objectsof the -society." 'The fourth it "to
.abstaire wholly from the use of intoxia
eating liquors, except nyder 'a,-.pliyeieittn's--
order, or for, a gacrarn-piital pnrpose;". The
fiftli-is to- ".abstein wholly _froin the prao--
tie° of drinking -.-intoxiciting. liquors- .at
public bars, or anytniere when 1 ant alone:7.
The lut4,.“.neither totreatnot be treated;
whether in public or'in-privete; -andneyer
•to indulge in . eolitary drinking." Each
pledge concludes with the:sentence : -"This
'pronante itt to bind pnly:So long ilf3I retain
My card. of ..membershipin thitt .society."
The 'intiveniont - is ip good hands, and
doubtless will --report betterxesulta than
can be,seeured by politipel teinp'e.rance
fanatics-, or through the agenCy- of prohihi-
story logiellition.•
AN EMPRESS IN OVERALLS.
Dom Pedro and Ulu Wile Given a
Banquet in the Bowels of Brazil.
A letter from Rio Janeiro says that from
the 41h to the 6th of April the Emperor and
Empress of Brazil were at the famous gold
mine of Marro Velho, in Minas Gorses. As
the Emperor is never satisfied, without
going to the bottom of everything, he and
the Empress donned brown linen overalls
and leathern hats with it caudle in the front
in proper mining fashion, and descended
into the mine, which is already over a
quarter of a mile under the -surface, and
where solids and liquids were laid out and
utilized in toasts to the guomes and
other distinguished miners, including the
lawyers; but, whatever the Emperor may
have thought, it is certain that -all the
members of his suite blessed their stars
fervently when they reached the surface
and saw the sun 'again, for who could not
be certain but some exalted Britisher or
Brazilian of the Nihilist persuasion might
not have the unlucky thought of firing a
dynamite mine and giving royalty a golden
grave in the bowels of the earth? Fortunately
nothing of the kind occurred, and the only
mishap was that as the Emperor was riding
off to another mine, some nine leagues
away, his superstitious horse, alarmed at
the meeting with an elderly lady of bewitch-
ing aspect, started suddenly and left his
surprised majesty gasping for breath on the
broad of his back in the dusty road.
Fair Play Oat West.
(Detroit Free Press.)
• They give a man a chance out West. In
Deadwood, Custer, or any of those new
Weatern towns, the spirit of fair play crops
to the surface even in judicial proceedings.
In March last,.a Michigan man who keeps
an eating -house at Gunnison, was over
particular about taking a Counterfeit half-
dcillar, and in a row which resulted he was
considerably battered. Ile therefore
called on the Justice of the Peace and
stated his case and asked for a warrant.
"1 guess I wouldn't make a fuss over it,"
replied the official. .
"But he meant' to kill me."
a
"Yes, 1 presume so, but he'll leave town
and that will end it."
"But he's a dangerousman."
"Yes, they Bay HO; but no one is afraid
of him." . z. -
," Judge,- do -you -know what he said
about you when I told him I'd have him
arrested ?" _
"
"Well, he said you were a blamed grassa
hopper, eater !"
." Yes, but be didn't mean it." _
"And he called you a reptile."
_ Well, lie was mad, I suppose." -
"Yes, and he Was mad when he said
you • didn't know enough to write your
own name, and therefore couldn't issue a
,warrant!"
“Did he say that?"
He did."
"Then I'll issue on him like a ten ton
avalanche on a yeller mule' - Tho. man
who sneers at my larnin' must have a/con-
tempt for the judiciary." '
The warrant was issued, the party
arrested and tried, and the verdict of • the
Court was
"Gunnison William, the verdict Of this
court is that you are guilty, and the sen-
tence is a fine of $25 hi cash.- This court
can't getoyer the fact that you vilified its
mental calibre.* It is also aware. Of the
fact that, you haven't a red to pay your
fine --with. Now; then, if you will meet
this court back of this building on the level
it will either git away with you in six and
IL half minutes or remit the fine. ' I want
to prove to the citizens of Gunnison that
in electing me to the judiciary they have
cast Weir votes for a man who can spit on
his hands in, six different languages and git
away with a hog pen full of roughs with. -
out having au ear scratched.- Prisoner e.t
the bar, have You anything to say?"
The prisoner had: He said he'd rather
go to jail, and to jail he went._
TEA TABLE GOSSIP.
- Tbe keisiest cooks do not always give
the best 4inners.
- At Eilmonton (N.W.T.) oats are scarce
at $1.25 1•43r bushel.
-Is a lax -buttoned kid any relative of a
sick buttin' goat?
-It isisaid theta good English tolonist
never kn ws what it is to be beaten.
-The tnan who says, "Take the gworld
as you fln1 it," usually wants to find it for
you.
-Wat rcresses, before breakfast, have
been prer4nibed for bilious people.
- The 4lowest of people usually manage
to intrudi into the busiest of places.
- Only a spring chicken can crow four
years ahad of a boarding house, landlord.
--The
punish
like the
oaten Transcript says that parents
eir children for being so much
elves.
uisson, of Paris, cured himself
of hydro thobia by trying to suffocate him-
self in a apor bath.
- It i expected that about 2,700 men
will mus er at the annual camp at Niagara
this year
-At anaimo (13.0.) the Chinese Free-
masons ave opened a lodge and initiated
seventee of their countrymen.
--It i estimated that 250,000 persons
witness° "Hazel Kirke' during its rut
in New •'rk,
-The day wore on. Well, what did it
wear 7- xchange. Wore the close of the
day, of c urse.
-A XI] dieal journal has said that "more
deaths a d illness occur -along the lines of
the great sewers than elsewhere."
-A su scriber asks if wecan recomme'nd
a cheap nd popular wateting place. Cer-
tainly; rli e town phinp.
- Slan intrudes even into love affairs.
She aske , "Am I Your little lamb ?" and
hereplie , " Well, you just gambol." •
ers say that cow's milk when
given te babies should be diluted -with-
water, a d milkmen take us all f5r babies.'
-
- If 'w could only persuade SOMateople
to like h nsework inetead of doting on fancy
work ou -homes would be happier.
amilton dentist had his feelings
terribly., iarrowed up the other day when a
farmer me in and asked for a drag tooth.
r ---An experiment' on the possibility of
raising tI e sugar carie in this country is
about • be made in the vicinity of More
treal.
-Loy as said to resemble the butter on
bread1 ithout butter the bread is dry
and her. to Wallow. Seat iswith love and
life.
_-Wh ti a thermometer fails to reach.
ninety i weather as sizzling hot as that of-
yesterd afternoon it _is useless for any
one to ti k -about figures not lying.
-A ung poetess writes, "Two fainies,
were 13 «hng far over the sea." And we •
believe at if the fairies could not fly, and
really h d to take it vessel; they went on a -
fairy bol t
The catechism question, -which threat-
ened t _split the Reformed • Episcopal
Church n the States in two, has been sen-
sibly set -led by allowing each party to adopt
its own tersion:
- Th question is asked whether it is
worse r the Chinese to admire a Small
.deforine 1 foot than for the French and
Englih o admire a small, deformed Waist.'
-Rev Prof'. Shaw, of theMethodist Theo-
logical liege, Montreal,- says that it will
take pro ably thirty years for the revised .
New Te tament todisplacethe old.
kiss?" he said pleadingly, no
kiss fro my darling to night?" "No,"
she sal' emphatically, "no kiss. I hear
that the 1e is mumps in your family."
,
- Ta s life easy -the hangman.-
-
}Tanker? Gaze.tte. Prefers, we suppose, the
fhaal vl eaa s
success
-Th
March
Mr.- He
' -Faidsliton Fronts.
_One_ of the ladies at Queen Victoria's
latest drawing -room was dressed likea
zpursuiVant or herald, emblazoned allover
with her own.coat-ofaatma. I:ler gown was
-of a sort of lavender satin, with a train of
the same hued with bIack-ielvet. All down
het back were heraldic devices -coat sup-.
portete,- -crest, motto- and . all. „Across her
breast she wore a sash;.repea,tingthe _coat-
of-arme timelier.. The wholeturn-out is
Said US have' been." ft trifle loud."-- -
'At a recent'lball in _Patis,_Mrs.,J..:W::
Mackey, the California millionaire'? Wife,-
waa'attired 0.8 an Oriental Jewess. A
,bodice of pale -._blue velvet, embroidered
with :geld, was worn above draperies of
pale yellow _silk, interwoven with gold and
oped- With clasp formed of large diamonds.
lie caftan ef "loose -robe :was in pale and
lue;sa,tin., embroidered all - over With
tropical ,fieviers and birds in their natural
celois. Her dark tresses were, braided
with di -intends and surmounted by toque
in Pleb -Velvet, einbroidered with gold.
. .
Tliepieture of " Chritit in the Pretorium,"
just completed by Munkaciy, is interesting
all the art loVersin Paris. The head ol
the Saviour is intenselybeautiful andmeleai:
choly, and the general conception is one of.
the _ loftiest .expressions Of ideal - beauty.
That
That Mhnkaczy hes not attemptecitopaiet
What is called e divine figure has given Hite
to discussion.- “ I shouldnever have...Nen-
tured to paint a divine figure," he says.,
"ler Whet is dithie cannot be painted; if
it could'i it would Cease to be divine. I
wished to paint e Gad who has assumed
human fOrrri, p,nd whecOnldonly assume 11
in its trait petfect aspect." This is the best
reply to those who reproach MhnkaCay with
hewing tried to modernize the physiognomy
of -
:lames Moore, of 1,1ronton,. Ohio,
thinks he hail discovered a specific for
small -pox in lemon Mica:Which he used in
his oWn. osse with Such results as to make
him "So strongly am I convinced of
the power of lemon juice to abort any and
every Sae of smallpox that I look upon it
RS a speeific of as Much certaintyand
si
power ne
mall,pot as quinine _lain nter-
mittent•feVer. • I therefore publish anY
experiment, hopingthatevery_ physician
having:a case of small -pox will 'give ita
fair trial and report the result to inc."•
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:A '.1-4ohdop paper tells us that the Set --
&ant -et -Arms and his assistants had some
misgivings in tackling -Mr, Bradlaugh • on
the floor of the ' liblIS0 The- hotiOta,ble
member is one of _the most stalwart and
moonier men on eithor.the Liberal Or -the
...Conservative . beeches,: and iii' • a .phyeiccil
.struggle-in:which he ctoce- toput forth his
strength iv01114 be a.. match '.forany half
ileenof the "waiters " .Whem -the-:-Ser;
gaant" can call to his aid. Mr. Bradlaugh
dragged irconple of these wetter& eking the
floor of :the -: Hollae the-.`Othet night With
the ease with - which a transatlantic liner
under way may occasionally be Seen -.drag-
ging a couple ,Of diminutive steani,tugs:''.
An attempt is being made to introduce
English pheasants among the Rocky Moun-
tains, and I:aird.- Morley has 'lately- des
--
patched '-a number of *line healthy birds
to I friend who is settled in that quarter..
n.-Pliihicielphia, Sun.- He likes to
10(1 spring, for upon it depends the
f the f all work.
Edmonton', (N. W. T.) 13ulletin, of
st, says : " A small poplar tree at
derson's place, near -the Little ,
Mounts n, is in leaf, and in some other
places e poplarbuds are beginning to
burst."
er lifts were, so near •
hat—what else could. I do 2
oull be angry, I fear,
ut lier lips were sauear—
Well, I can't make it clear,
Dr esplain it to you, -
but—her lips were so near -
That -what else could I do?
jValter-Leonard in -Scribner for,Tigu3.
I annot sing the old songs," shrieked
. .
&mama eursoprano the' other night, and .
while si e took in breath for the next line 'a - -
young an Who hlid looked for a moment .
_wait hea to remark, casuadly but emphati-
" feu -just bet, you caul." It broke
hp the encert on the spot
- -Sh -.‘‘ Why don't You grow-, a mus-
tache, dwin? You would look 80much
better." He-" Well, but I don't want,
one. L e _got a. pair of cricketer's whis-
kers." she-" Cricketer's whiskeral What
are th 2-" He-" Eleven on each side,
dear."
it is reported that the Right Hon.
Hugh C. Childers, British -Secretary of War,
will shortly beeome Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
N WE ARE OW A GRAY.
n We aro old and gray, love, •
hen we are old and gray, •
n_itt last 'tis all over;
o turmoil ofthe day,
In ho soft still hours of even,
I 1 our life's fair twilight time,
NV 'll look upon the vaorn,love,
on our early prime, -
nk God for all the sweet days!"
ell whisper while we may,
W en we are old and gray, love,
• ?hen we are old and gray. .
n one who boldly challenges hum.
bug is ',deserving' Id _praise. A mutual
admire ion society,when long established
and w. it has acquired a rpoogn. ized _offi-
eial at ding,- 'peonies, in _the mindsof
many, sactedinstitution, with which it is
almost 1.rofanity to compete„:,_ .
ittier wrote the following: •
what wotild_the world lte to us
; the children were no Mori)? -
should dread the desert behind US
one than the dark before.
Tioy are better the,11 all the ballads
hat ever were sung or said;
they areliving poems, _
nd all the rest are dead.
0 of the churches in Patchogue, _
L. . las made a •novel addition to its
mimic ?y introducing into the church two
dozen &nary- birds in .cages. They sing
with t e choir and also when the choir is -
not ii ing, and their music- is not com. -
plained of by either _the minister or tte
congre ation.
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