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The-glitheriena Bairn:
When alF ither beirnied ere limited to ttieir hame
By auntie or cousin, or treokly.grend-clame,
• Vas stands last an' lamely, anl-.naebody omit? • -
'Tie the puirdolted loonie-7, -the mitherless bairn
The Mitherless bairn gangs to his lane bed
Nane covers hirt canid WE* or haps his bar
= head;..
His wee liackit heellea are bard as the aim..
An' litheless the lair of the mitheriess. bairn.
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Ancath his maid brow siccan dreams hover
there
;0" handstiat Wont kindly to kamebis dark hair
'But mOrniag brings clutcher,a! reckless and
stern
That Ioe'lXae the locks o' the naitherlese
-Yon sister, that sang o'er tiiisaftly moiled bed,
• N r atblfl the moolawhete her =aroma is laid;
Tb• er toils pair their wee bannoek to earn
enanathe wrangs o' his 31:titherlese bairn.
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Her spirit that passed in von ho-tm o' his birth .
Still Watches his wearisome wanderings on
earth,
Recording ill:heaven the blessings -they earn
Wha conthilio deal the raitherless bairn.
Oh sPeakna him harshly—he trembles the while
He bends to your bidding an' blesses your errdle
In tueir dark hour Of anguish. the heartless shall
• learn : .
That God deals the bralv.for the reitherIess bairn.
. A Whilst/itwar rimy._
Henry J._ Savage, one of the Soldiers'
Home veterans, tells the.following thrilling
story of a war incident:
. - The oft -mooted ,questihn,. "Was ever a
desperately wounded soldier shot dead-, at.
his _own earnest -solicitation; . by a com-
rade 2" is answered -in the affirmative by
yo u
zrmble servant. It happened as fol-
io :-The writer, a member c.,4 G. company,.Firs Delaware 'Infantry, was then attached
' to the Third brigade (Weber'e), Third divi:
slat'', (French's), Second corps (Sumner's).
After wading Antietam --.Creek, plung:
.ing through ploughed fields, stubble -
fields 'and • cornfields, . his tegirnetit
--. was finally located within . plain view
of the _enemy, when the welcome . Om;
• mend rang along the line. to "load and fire• -
at will.' It was then that dur daily target
' practice 'at. Fortress Montoecame into
. expellent use, as many a- poor .devil of . the
Sixth Alabama teamed to--bia cost. After
ftringelevenrounds the writer was wounded
:and ordered to the rear. While retreating
in goodorder, but making most excellent
time, his route led him through a portion
of the With Brigade. • Herebe saw a- eight
that capped= -the climax .of horror. 4
member of that devoted brigade VMS. aim-
lessly - stumbling around with- both eyes
shot out, begging some one, " for the love
- of God," to put an end . to. his -Misery. A
lieutenant of the ' Fourth New York was.
. passing by, and, seeing the .poor fellow's
condition, andhearing his appeal, he halted
. before him and asked if he really' meant
what he -said. t• - ' " .
"0, yes, conikade," was the :nay, "1 Call-.
110t -possibly• live and my agony is unendur-
able."_ . . ..
• Without another word the officer drew
his pistol, placed it to thevictinfstright ear,
turned away his head, and pulled the trig- .
ger. A half -wheel; a convulsive gasp, and•
one more unfortun•ate had passed over to
• the silent majority. .? .. '
"-It was better thus,". ssidthe lieutenant,
• replacing hispistol and turning toward the
writer' :".for the ptior fellow could --0 :
- justthen a solid shot took, the lieuten-
ant's head off,'. and the - "subsequent vro-
-ftedings interested him__ no raorez"—Mi/-
tvaukte Sentinel. - _
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The - queenNi ito-o.
A book written by a Queen of England
- cannot fail to be read with curiosity and a
= kind of pathetic sympathy due to A con-
sciousness of the peculiar isolation of her
position. This isolation is by certain
-errors of taste in- the volume from her
. *diary which is just , &lathed by the
Harpers. There was probably no person in
• England who could venture to suggest_ to
the, -Queen that. the _publication of trivial
detailsofdaily h, fe and the reoord of her
. interest in servants' .bumps and bruises
could not be agreeable to intelligent Eng-
lishmen. ' But the - entire simplicity and.
good faith with which this is done is, as we
- say, pathetic,- and wins a kindly. sympathy
for the lonely WOMell who dos it.. The
• discomfort for Englishmen arises from the
fact that• the lonely ' lady is the
Queen, the .., ceremonial . head .... of
the State; and the More -, she
lea mere ceremony, the more desirable „it
is that the dignity of the cereraony be pre-
served. _A certain degree of glablour is in-
dispensable to royalty, and to this apertatn
seclusion isleceasarY. But this cis inborn-
' patible with the publication _ of a diary.
Yet the book will be widely read, and it
. will produce the same impression -that the
-... previous volume produced, theA the author '
is & woman of simple tastes _au& of g -good
felt% with limited interests and strong
• - a &tic attachments. '4:_te profo_und re-
gard for.Jahn Brown is grotesque, but it is
- evident that her intereetin him was very
• sincere, and that, too, is an illustration of
the solitude of mist -life. Soiety,. in the
sew, is practically closed to soy-
* ereigni, and a familiar attendant may;
acquire a kind of intimacy which is denied
, . -to- the highest nobleroan in the realm. • To
thosewho see only what can be seen aoross
theses, it would_ seem that Viotoria, more
Justly than Elisabeth, will be known as the
- good Queen.F—Harper's Weekly. . .
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A Trick ors clever Newsboy.-
: :The boy oils vendors on Szturday even-
ing hit upon a .happy device to seli. their
eveng apers: "Horrible attack upon
Mx. G li
tone in E'fccittlilly l't was shouted
by a young urchindoe to one of the °tuba.
Out rushed the potter to pnrohase the
•-paper andwhen it was perused the h.or-
rib's attatiktorned. out- -to be Lord ,Ran-
- dotplt Churchill's apeeob _at Poinoe's Hall,
, A gentleman in Harley street bearing the
' mime cry, aIsewent to -his dim to purchase
& paper. - He found on getting- it that he
- only had a half crown. The boy offerekto
get change. ' "No," said the gentleniait -;-
" ho* do I know that ritt-wou't run away
. -with my half crown?" "Oh, sir," Was the
_, reply, "-you hold my papers aseecctrity for
my honesty ;" with which he took the half
crown, thrust a. bundle of papers into the
- gentleman's armeand -ran for change.; As:
. the - bundle r only contained twenty -Mit
- penny papers, it is needless tO myths . boy
never keappeared.--London Tritli.
. Leo XIII. instructed his . almoner, Mon-
signor Sanininiatitili,--to distzibute 10,000
francs among the deserving toOr of !tortlik
on theroccasion of - the anniversary rlitit
coronation, on Monday, March 3rd.
Is she Queea luitttiaireast Rae the
Prince of Wales-- Inge eitaramOyie
seandat,tattektri
The vubhsheis of Dickene announce that
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the gale of .his bookeretilains steady..;
"The Liftt4 Chinese Gordon," by Archi-
bald Forbes, will be leaned' next. week by
Routledge. _ •1.
Lord Lorne is writing an .-'essay propos-
ing to give Ireland: Provincial Oottneils
instead of& central.Parliament m Dublin.
Lewd Lytton's- .biography of his lather
will be limited to four volumes. • He has
published - a. protelit! against .six volttoies.
- The Sun _ tan: George Meredith the
toestbrilliant and the least read of E'ngliali
novelists, will soon contribute a. 00* to
the Fortitightiy. •
_ _
- Matthew Arnold Neill give a disoottise on
Et:admion at the l Royal Instituticin on.
March 91st. His =purpose will be to show
the influence of • Emerson on American
thought. • - ••- ,;
-- The Memoirs of the Princess Aback will
be - published by Murray, The Prineese
Christina edits them. The book will appear
-the first week in April. It will contain'a-
number:of unpublished letters of. the Prin.
bees to the Queen.
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The warfare . in Egypt hailed to a con-
troversy --concerning the *Iteration .:: of
Baker Beebe to the -English* army. 1 One
journal professed to haVe tepeived lettere
from 200 -ladies advocating the restoration,
and was immediately inundated with Jet
ters from : -enraged ;emotes on the 1 other
side.'
t.. .
Reehet's Of the econd
Empire" has • been • submitted .te the
Empress Eugeine.i It is an exhaustive
work, -extending from the -coup d'etat ItO the
death ef the Emperor._ The Empress
eanotions the ,early publication, of that
portion whieh. covers the firet ten. years..
The "latterpart, will be withheldforthe
present.: • . - ,
The private feud between the Prince of
WELIE18- - and Lord-- RandolphChurchillbeen formally settled .- It arose; Out of
t4 relations between the Prince and the
Duke of 'Marlboro' •- while the latter . was
Marquis Of Blandford. Sir Henry -James,
the Attorney -General,:. gavea dinner in
order to effect the teconoiliation. -I.4td R.
Churchill, while renewing friendly ;elation's,
declines, at least so_ Vanity .kailialaya; -to
-become ._intilxiate ..With all ifie: iMoe'S
friends. : - .
- Lord Garmoyle7a defence in the lotion
for breach. of promise brought by Miss
Fertesene has been delivered to the -.Court.
He adMitsthe contract and breach of it
and ; leaves the jury to assess the daMages
.but submits -that £30000 is too mitchl, The
recreant lover is at -Constantinople lust at
present, *here be is the peat ofthe Earl
of Diifferin, the 'British Arobassador, On
leaving Constantinople he willhiake a tour
of the•East. •Miss: I FOrteeetle 18 showing
better-dtamatic -bapacityat the ,pourt
Theatre than ever heretofore Her Style IS
becoming more natural. Gilbert is blamed
for havingdrummed her -into an &radii'
style..
She has now nitioh less of Gilbert
and much More of herself; and gives prom-
ise of becoming a meritorious aotresi4
A teat- (Sunday) - :night's London
gram says It ul!.doubtfur whether the
Queen will be ableto gotoDarmstadt to
atteud the wedding pf -her granddaughter,
Print:emit Victoria of Hesse. • .Her condition
is pronounced to be precarious. She is in
apparently good. health: One day,. andthe
next she she suffereexttenie fits Of depression.
If she gees twophysitans will . accompany
her, and she will be attended. by a very
limitedsuite, consiatilig only pf the Right
HOO;- Sir Henry -- Ponsonby, • who ie- her
private seciretary, an equerry and twitladies.
A quiet retreat at kranichstein;thteenitles
from Darmstadt; hi Ibeing put in readiness
for her ,reception. 1 *The Emperor and
Empress of Germany- and, the Empress of
Austria will Meet the Queen there. The
Empress of Austria Sets out for Wiesbaden.
to -morrow, where she willtcy the baths for
her health. - The Czar Will join the circle pt
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royal personages late April.: - t -
.
Leprosy la the worth:veil,
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-The -COmparativety • recent . and alleged
discovery of. a case- of leprosy in Minnesota
and the consequent interest aroused, ren-
der the. precient Publication of information
in regard to the terrible disease in the
Northwest interesting and reassuring as
well. Dr. Charles dronvold,. Chairmen ,of
,the Standing Conimitteeof the State Board
.of Health, has 'investigated the • s bjeot
and presents the -following facts I 1864
twelve oases of leprosy were found, of
which -Awe -had originated in this country-;
while -one, Who came here leprous, had be-.
come well.. The condition of health Of the
lepers was betterhete than it ;Would have
been 'hadthey remained in--Europe.1-In
1869 70- a- distinguished medical -- g13 ntle.
man, the lite- Professor :William- BottOle
of Christiana, _ Norway, visited Amer*.
H� found it Wisconsin, Iowa and. Minne-
sota, eighteett oases,all of.vihom had Acme
from those parts of the ,Norwegian western
sea boast Where the disease is epidemid.
Innineit commenced in Norway, and five
of thee(' had had lepers in -their family.. In
the other nine caseethe disease -first poni-
nienced in this country, and the . disease
broke out from two -and one half . to ten
years after their . arrival. In eight leases
there -were tapers in the families. These
litter cases probably were the .restit of
heredity. Ten lepers of immigrants i have
died in Minnesota, since its settlement,
seven Of them in the last wen years, All
were males and had leprous- relatives. The
results of investigation' are that the dry
climate here is less lavorable for the de-
velopment and ponniunitation of the.
disease than that ofithe watt. The-ohances
of contagion are 'decidedly less than in
Europe, and there is -greater .cleanliness
tahmeodnigsetahsee: Oseems -to run .its renguceigar-aCqoilrget
without abatement.1 '
. .
- tie Lee-Stevensonmatch; for $200 a side,
will be rowed'over the Oakland three-mile
course, near- San Franoiloo,•on:. Tiesclay-
-next. - - - 5 -
Cardinal Hissunill.the Armenia.* patri-
arch, died a.few- weeks ago. •Iiie . is the
third cardinal whose death his oat:lured
within a short- period. • There is an Old
• omen, tradition.t that. three : -Cardinals
stWits gotogether.4.
are the two other Cardinals that died' re.
wady: _t
• ' 'kid'it "is
. apt w TISOUT EVE. _
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strange. xperzences, of a -_71fOlusig Man
:Elia& Apr. Teat Ilrears..' .
. (New York, Sun: .
." I oar.t pretend to explain how it is;
or - why, ;--n4 people laugh and say .I am
ha1ltiomit4e; but it is Ste -sober fact that
ever sitiqA lost my eyes, more than ten
years agf-xl,have.seethed to see. with my
brain. .1:1• -iii Ottly•-with a, certain region of
it, not tb,t7whole.": . ' ' . .
' The: atOker placed the tip of his middle.
finger 14.44 on his forehead, as 1! locating
a nervot- listurbance anitalowly dumbed.
4F • • -
*ith it t ii-, an
of-a. tract not larger
than th 1 I ir'i'palm of hand, commencing at
i
the sligkly depressiol in the frontal .- bone,
lust abotA and between the - inner margins
of the e .lorows, and drawing an irregu-
larly ova1;Agiire; the. uperior limit} of. 'which
barely tuied the curvature beneath the
roots of telair., - "
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"It ie 4is part of my !rain that I' seem
:to see lith,"' • he continued .placidly.
".It is n , erely that I know 'what is going
on abouthe, andithe relative - direction to
o t i.ig to another,' but I have in this
myself clIiersonti with whom I talk,. and
f one
part of tfeti, brain- just as . distinct and vivid
a .ploturtt of scenes, faces, figtiretAnd sur-
roundinti.as I -.ver • had .wheu in the full
possessi41 of • . ci y. senses. And -the
oddest tv. g about it is that my impres-.
aions ge " ally prove to be correct. You,
for exam: "7 -turning to one of the group
--" ere.light complexion, tall and: slen-
der, slig ly bald; with blue eyes, pale
yellow - 1ir, and a - j6211 . beard: slightly
. I - • -
darker. , ou wear a aunty gray sack coat,
of iiiinutt plaid, with ' vest of the same
material , d gray trousers, with narrow
..i..i,,
stripes 0 different shades. Youri matt is
a red ri4 d silk of the Lord Stanleypat-
tern„ wit it -diamond pin." .. 1 -:-.
The mnbers of the Igronp, fonr in all,
exalusiv f the.yotuig man with two glass
eyes, Bt: at one another in -
A BUNK AMAZEMENT -et •
The' _desl - ption iititild not have been more
aciourate itsternia if the blind man had.
been post:fished of a .doten pairs of .perfeot
eyes witklrhitili to Make bis observations.
They we:; gathered about the heater in a
large_ drq'store - hard. by :Printing Hotise.
equate the speaker, Who, notwithstand-
ing his k .rmity, has built up a tarp busi-
ness in o s, had joined . the . party not
five -mini es- before. He was a Slender,.
lithe,' mit tdar Man, • dressed in perfect
taste, Or. .: possesied, . and natural in his
, 1
, mann' e : . carried la light- walking
stick i - right hank .moved.: With the
easy .gr of a person in possession - of . all
his _kin' tr . :and . withOut. the • ;least
'vestio',' the • groping .. unitertainty-
ttod.. .- . lak#ion • • ,• .oty blind man..
On.clateiktlinspectiOn. an ordinary,obierver
Would h noticed -that his eyes Were Un-
natural,. to . he turned his headsonatu-
rally and'.,A., vacititisty from 'one"; te _another
itt - spe 94, - , and ...Withal 'behaved:T. so
thorough like- a person with two good
eyes in lirgl head, that one could hardly .bee_
belie thti4otli orbs had been-enuoleated,
leaving /.- 7o 'Stumps' only 'of - the optic
nett*. ' .0 • - • . .-
- "NowttAescribe,. ) me " ' said : one Of the
. ..
Party, a ti ubter of the medical profession„
who be 'ed. in . nothing but tissues: and
function land did not deny that :a :Man_
might . --;V'e .a aqui, :hut stem& - that
neither kfiseotion "or experiment: had ever
furnishe4A-,.i6y. evidence in support Of the
hypotheKk\,. ". Desaribe me,. and, I'll believe
:.
111 yourb17-1,iii 'Vieion." - _'. :'-' .- : - - - ..-.
The Abil. '.. man, turned his . glass eyes
_
tovititcleiae : sceptic'', .and -answered .With
the pronAitide and absence Of hestitanoy
of One. ting a fact . of. observation
"You - 1ark, .with every pale, .tranelii-
.
'cent, -. d loate: complexion;.dark gray
.eyea ;- * lnitnit bloc*, with :gray 'streaks
about ti temples; Greek" feattfrea out
like 11 eo ; . heavily bearded' on the
upper .1ij but -elsewhere _cleanly shaven.
You app ,* to be 35 years old,:-. Youareof.
slight fig- e, and you. wear 're, ' dark _but -
away co 1.1 with Nest of Material: the- sired
as the ode ; gray trousers, With stripes ,of -
different ' ades ; and a sear! of :pale -gold.
color,- coined at the throat by • silver
ring orn exited With a dog's head. .. .
- Unlesel, Onle kind of 'cerebral i ageof
surround: g- objeetS-. were fornied, it Was
absoltitel4 --' impossiblefor the. young Man
to give it etail such' an -accurate descrip-
tion -of1 medical man, c with-'•.aepessories
- . . .
. ..- i- , .
of drees, . . .... . , . .„ .
•-." It is ,-:-1-2exptioithle," he said': musingly,
'1. have ftett :heard blind men :declare
:that T the' .:Ccitdd ,Bee with --the. antetiOr
portion. c4 the.bratn, and Omens underthe
fullinfl ' de of .antesthesia often. say that
they ha ,. Seen' every ..movement of the
surgeon iuting the -Operation, not ,.with
their eyek,41attt. with the Middle part ef the.
foreheadr4 But I 'never : took- any stook in
su- bhss,ione,.. .iat:.s.ivci,i',e707h?7 teat -
them."
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Theb f,d manwent .
on to tell his story,
f • •
.11fore tik,# ten Yearal,ago, in consequence
,
of an Itikt, mbuttory 'affection; both -Oyu!
,f .
Were enS eated, He.was-:then 16 years of
age. . At rat he was perfectlybewildered
by the •14S, but gradually his . remaining
senses; Ict-- and I:wadi:1g , in partionlar
betAnie.Orvellonsly.acsute,- and so acurate,
that becitUld. _estimate ,distances ' and the
direottort',.i4f 'foreign -bodiee with the quidk-
neettandritx., aptitude of yision,;*: While with
- the . tips! il.., - his _fingere, be • could ditetinii-
nate co ,s and textures _. With 'wonderful
.1couracy,Different: colors have digerent
teinperaV ea to the ttained .sense, . but he
asoribes - s delicacy.of , perception inthis
respect an 'influence' the -existence of
which h hadneiotepicion. until he-lost.hie
.sight , -:xladually.; - also,- i' a -so-oalled• new
sense,:w tiAbit,e1Oped. He beoame- abnot
-Melly a -me to vibrations in •the atmos!
phere f/s m the - ground- beneath his feet,.
In this .. he enabled to distinguish
footsteps
. t - inotedible distances, oii•the
paveine and eyett inhundings. a squtre
.Or more vay. 13e:hag, -with - this.strange
sense, tr,tit owed the feeteteps of aiperson.
for threedequares,--and.-..heard the -petition
enter ..g-'4se. that distance : away, Walk Up
two flig -,.,T4 of, stairs; and enter a rbom, :•die-
tinguishka. every :movement, Paned, and
fluctustaot gait; as exactly - as though he
• t,
otiiild le t through brick Walla; - T. - ' - •
tA • - - -• . 1 • .
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A treti,Anent theatrical treasurer says
thattlieit.4ea that a Lenten season isbad
for theatfoiale- is erroneous. .." I. hayegone
Otier litypokiii". he 'said, "and have fotuid;
that it Vibe exception.' of. twoorthree.
"daysat -Ale=ixeninentiemerit 'Of 4*Lent'and.
hely-weetl the peniod of -Lent lethe best,'
.,finalleisi - of year for the theatre." - - -
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. •Alte' olio TDB cowsiititle.- • : ji,A.TE
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Earl -mei! —tiviltdre tfikathla
- and''Iririegia-
che Fasialoas, of tho manes
_Wkeu 1111e*Oines
--•The Kant --AYIesford-sibout it year -ow
found debt and
defendant -ti,a very ...disrepiitahlei;diyorce.
case. His lovely Wifeliatii-theTayMpathy
of everybody, and his oreditots• were pro-
tected . the ohne:- .The -watt), which
Was entailed, Watt placed in -the hands 'of. a
•conseriator for the 'betiefitrOf hie Creditors,
and.- the ;Earl was ::g4isti an -allowance of
$50,000 a year, with -which he -.came to.
&nee -Molest summer for rest - and muoli--
needed remitegation. -•
. At New York he marle,the s..41antantle .
�f Mr.:Gould, Who, at ;The -Ears it 14tilsion.,
itent-Dr. Ennis, •the land Comnneaymer of.
the. Missouri Pacific). Railroad, all over the
West With him, looking for a -rough. His
lordshiploUnd at Big Spriugs jot what be
was looking fcir, and selected a :tract of land.
twelve Miles north of the village, where he
commenced the' greet -nib Of -•8 ranch:house
last Angina: :The *Muse is a plain,- nn --
painted :board structure, one and a 'half
stories high, merely. comfortable, iwithout•
any sign - of luxury, oonvenience or deoora-
tion., It- only differa front. the . ordinary
ranpli headquarters by being plastered and
haying the ; walls- hung with a pretty Pat-
terned paper of ob000late and gilt. The
location is a good one,but there .ate many.
justes good and still unoccupied north„sOuth
and _.w.eat of this -point. The -Earl, bought
37,000 acres of land On* Credit,. but. so :for
has 40 Oettle. They. say—and by T't‘ they "
I mean the gossips at Big Springs—that he
has **money enough to *buy .oattle, but
secure a herd ae 'mon as his allowance
-for 1884.1s forthcoming; The tail: Iola
robust, iinety fornied man Of great
physical 'strength endurance,: and a
handsome face. 'He is fastidious only
about his food and dress, and usually wears
a sulb.of gray" corduroys, with the most
stunning neckties, . that the cowboys try
• their best to imitate; When be first
arrived he was" guyed" & good deal by
the natives, but took it so...good-nituredly.
• and dropped so. readily.. into tbe-- pasterns.
of • the. plebe - that they 'soon declared
him to -be a- " bog " fellow," and his
popularity is now unbounded, 'particularly
among the cowboys, Whose companionship
he melte, -and. in whose 'wild .andieckless
Sports he joins With ardor. The feminine
portion :of the community he studiously
avoids, and all attempts to drew him into
society have failed:: He will not look at or
speakto a woman, but among the men
folks- is always a johy good felrow, of
a joke or a Story, arid generally: "-standing
treat" for the whole Reptile& on When he.
clothes to town. T The only persons whoever
go to • thei:'raiiolh are strangers Who are
politely- but dignifiedty. received.',,by the
Eazt,- and ' cowboys, Who are alit** etit-
&idly welcomed. With them he "lets
himself," out as . it were, .and thereisn't
man of that calling in the country for a
hundred bailee around that doesn't know:
his lordship intimately and -Considers :him -
pelf his bestfriend. He . rides With them
in, shares their camp fire or -cabins ter'
the
. along the lines, hunts. and shoots with
days pt. a time; doeil his turn, it :Cooking,
and at night around the • 'estop fire entet-
titini4hem with his adventures ittEurope
rand, India,- at -7.toyat 'amids-. and: in.:the
jungles; • .
The cowbOys . believe him When he tells
them that he likes Texas better . than
London, and proposes.: to stay hare the
rest of his life, but the _citizens expect that;
when his debts are paid and the • lOommo-
tion:his.divorce nee caused dies down, he
4111 return to his estates in England. --Big
Springs (Tex.) cor.BQiton Herald.
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; Latest from Scotland.
. The death is announced of ex -Provost
Lindsay, of Leith, the ituthcir of the -Police
and Improvement (Scotland) Aot of 1862,
commonly known as the Lindsay Aot.
Lately on the top of Ben Nevis Mr.
°mond, the-observer,.was startled by being
iifted off his feet by the wind, carried in the
air about six feet onddashed &gab* a bank
of snow. . . . • ,
The late Mr. .janies . Moffat has- left
£3,000 for a free _ public library 'for Port
Glasgow, while the residue of his fortune of
2100,000 is to be devoted to the founding of
an orphanage on his estate of Carnegie,
near Port Glasgow. •
Rev..Dr.- Keith; of Stirling, is father of
the Churches, in Sciotland. Professor
Bryce, of Belfast, is the eldest minister of
the United Presbyterian • Church,- while
Dr. Peddie, of Bristo, is the Remind, and
Dr. Pani, of Banohory, . Aberdeen, the
eldest of the Established Churoh ministers.
Lord Dunmore was one of the performers
at a e011eert given inthe Musio Hall, Inver-
ness, on the 19th ult., in aid _of the
Northern -Infurmary. . There was a large
'audience, and Lord Dinimore's violin Solos
were warmly 'applauded. - The concert
realized 272, •
An unclaimed letter, addressed by Mrs.
Dick; of Farmers' Row, Kilwinning, to her
husband, . "0a board the barque Alaska,
British Consul,, NeW York," bearing the
Kilviiiming-Postmark, April 21; 073, was
returned on.the 1.5th tilt„ after a apse of
nearlreleven years. -
.. Mr. James Skirving, one of the best
agriculturists in Scotland, died at Luffness
Mains on the 26th ult., at the age of 77
years,' His ancestors had resided in the
county for generations, and he was the
grandson of the author of _o Tranent Muir,"
"Hey, Johnny Cope," and other Soottieli
ballads. As an agriculturist he was very
sucoessful, and his _was the first farm in
Eaat.Lethiiin,and possibly in Scotland, on
which drains were used fer drainage
purposes.
Aid Prom the .41r•
A visiting friend found Simkixte with his
(Mat off iitaiding on his doorstep the other
night and remarked:
"Suffering Caner, man, you'll catoh an
awful cold out here hi your shirt levies."
ig That's" what I want," . said Sirnkin�,
cheerfully. -
",Got toeing abase solo at an entertain -
Ment to -morrow night you know."—Wash-
ington Hatchet. 4
a:rmadin"ig•'—°0----"
The Countess ' Euphemia Balleitrem has
translated :the ;Queen's hookanto
man, and Victoria herself has:pp/121d and
corrected this editicin, whioli shortly will be
published at Stuttgart. Baron ..Tauchnitiz
will alte bring it out in English at Leipsic.
On TiieedC ebruary 26th, was can-.
elided an all- and 205 yazd handicap at
Sheffield in theiresenoe of 15,000 people. •
The trial lteafF,-0.,11 preceding days thinned
ant the fifty oil', sixty competitors to sixteen,
or whom H. go.,:tobene, the fastest man in
the wOrlditve4,,,.._*. In the semi-final least*
en February Hutohens had a want-
0141Vand 0140'40 the -scratch .fresia for the
final, in whiRtAlottr started. Although
nominally:yards, the race was.-prao-
tically 128 yeti ea Hutchens, teellY the
scratch man, 1d fi nominal - start of ni
'yarda. The tr- !hypo' star: ;z4 iii thu
fi1 v..er -kavaro.$1, t..:athertoe,
84i Yards :61851 . Ratcliffe, oi lioddere-
fieid, 87 yea and M. Johnson, of
Blackburn,. 8('elards. Rating the race as
one of 128 yet,* 'Ike Scale was: Hutthens,
quarter of a ills;rd start _Tattersall,' 71
yards- johnek,g,'"9i yards; and Ratcliffe,
10 yards.. T*.j!final was a magnificent
rape, and HtiOuens just failed to -catch his :
men, - Tatteti0.4.r Winning' by..a • foot froiu
Ratcliffe,' .tai elk inches. ahead -Of
Hotohene, wig, Johnson six hichei stilt
further laehink I
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R1.1146 NEWS!
estrlanisin.
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said :I
have the gm& PoOnwnfidielkos.
To arepor Pilkof;ngtoin..R.oss, though
- _ rt
I . do not 'bO.,J either; 1 simply. offer &
purse of 419,0) to be given to the winner.
With - the e-peption of Haitian, I believe
Ross to be thee4satest oarsman we have,
and in mect_ttg him Courtney Will have a
dance to red:Oon himself in the eyes of the I -
public. He :** have ' none of his OW11
money at st44,1pothing to toe and every- ,
thing to win. ti will be a grand Oppor-
tunity for, to demonstrate Mt.:1feet
that hecan*OP '
Hanlim's *Orb with the Australian
Lanoek, is for £1,000. The '
Toronto OarsOn will receive £830 for ex-
penses, and Ot4;third of the gate money.
Triokett; RuOkand Edwards are eager to
meet the chagtipteo, but their inducements
were not as as "Aycock's.
- The .g.0,17 Handball Hales.
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The Leagttesmd American Asaociationa
have held theXiMarch meetings, and. new
nothing remaZe to be done before the -open-
ing games bpcifA put the grounds in order
and engage 11 mrectice. It isto-be regretted •
,
that the .as o ations have -neglected to
Amend the sr governing the pitching and
batting so the work of attack and
defence might* made more equal., Under •
the new ru1e"-;i0f the league; though the
pitchers' lie unfair- balls has been
reduced fronEwen to six, he hakrebeived,
greater latit , In delivtify by hiebeing
permitted to ->� the overhand throw, This
will not . ino-4ase hia tweed much, but
it will enabl051“. to throw the ball in with
greater Recut* in direction, .and also
enable him tilr,g70 the ,down shoot - with
greater Wilt% the batsman, ' however,
is left to do_ fit' pest he can against the
increased i840418 given the pitcher, while
he- hes but th4tair bells to strike at before
he is' put out,"1
One result tilt be more ohanae hitting,
and mailer 'Kitting etiores vidll be made,
and the game.tie made more .of a contest
between twOreompeting batteriee than
between the to nines as a whole. .
In the -Antetiiian Association. the .pitolier
is limited toe underhand throw below
the shoidder.1.!-$16 the batsman being per-
he- is .allowed • to pitch
seven unfair
• witted -hilt *0 fair. balls to strike at.
The leaga0,11as Made batting evenmore
difficult than.,%fore. Those Who advocated
a change .in thity-tliatting rules so seto give
the hatemait-c.greater freedom in hitting,
argue that titotOtying the batsman six fair
balk to -Aril** instead of -three, and call -
log every otkev fair ball - only a strike,
instead of _evt4' fair.ball as now, the bats-
man . would able to punish the .sWifit
pitching witligitdifficulty,and the pitchers
=would have Lto, resort more to strategy for '
subdue ratheitIthan to intire speed as now,
and in °onset -Once s lively hitting would be.
added to .thwitelding - attractions of the
game:- As WO now, however, the proba-
bility that,* shall see more than ever
those ratherteditius trials. of speed; in the
game b-etwee4ffie two /Swift pitchers of the ,
competing .tOgigi.—Neio. York Bun.
:It isir{.mie'llist.r4-a';?'\tirviee Wto"n'olirtee tlIvedd°
i Hazen&
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'feelings witXieigich very riph persons are -
regarded by 44'poor, and indeed by almOs0-
the entire cOMmunity: Mrs. Astor, one
of the wealtbtAt women in New York, has
:been analtitittseriously ill. The news
of her oondit$4 hati been read daily by
thousands bt be poor- ia that bity with
heartfelt sorWtOde, the natural expression
of respect anoliqOatitude. It is not that she
has been beriWOlent, with her money, but •
btostiistrithe rl.,itt been benevolent in *:her
impulses amt. *Ogles—has felt and done
Slimething e poor—that she is thus •
esteemed. ' Astor has provided homes
iii the *est for -any hundreds of the waits
of New York,directing the enterprise per.
sotiallyv and 1:':40ploying .her - own .4igents.-
She has 111 4)0 ways done much, in a
personal anet Iniestentatious manner,- to
ameliorate 40.TAondition of the poor and to
assist those *,10 ane in trouble. And as it
raga no on :2018 14.1ter niches; the 000t
.pray for her *Ovary to -health, • Peter
Cooper was Oxi$ii- man, but he was not
hated and eiKed as many millionaires of -
the oletropotiOtre. In case Of an uprising,
his house troAlio'have been safe. He re-.
tained his tin*pithies for the working
people, and ffas a pure pleasure what the
Most of lass neglect even as an
obligation.tigOire are • similar exainples
wherever tIO:Til ioh and Ijie poor dwell
together. Tbof poral seems to draw itself.
--BOton Heraltik.
u:i. xadent: ogrpbflegis_:tesatdiingemen. statements,"
Baia
Wendell Phis once to a critic of One 01
his speeches -0"Z. simply rectified a fact
th,att,Bhuadvneebset4lieesoisetoerbe; ,,afyotto.
urtarta me --its
was misleadiW
"Did it
Well; . it ie
people _in o
Remember r
pigoue way
other•i!
a .
' ad you 2" was the etort;
:eoeBsary to mislead pottier
to guide them aright.
Paddy had to, drive Ms
'Qr,der to make him go the
Tie offielaK tatiard of thel3erkiley Street
Methodist CV I Toronto,, -hove unita-
rian* OBI An a oil to Rev. J. E•
Starr, of' Ont., to-stiooeed. Bev.
Isms° Tovell,.iii goeato Potorboro .
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