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Lucknow Sentinel, 1887-02-11, Page 346.olud of 0004 St, V1144.11140* • • St. Valentine at Peter' e Mite ••• ' Hid ktieek With Might and main, Let me eat for once, ere too late; timeliaa eofne 484o." • " Then Peter slewly turned tbOkey, . And Jet the good saint ,p. • • . It was the u ' nareer-P.- Alfeine grelln Was WhitawithelleW. The saint lie smiled 413he,pacedBroadWaY. His teeth gleamed:clear and Pnarly„ For lie actually hadn't:oboe/A Out in; broad claY:t„ ' Since in the third Centnry-early. BUt love," thought he, do- and life and yotith • Are surely the same as of yore, I'll just go around and discover the truth, AO make things as nice, if not.more." :ITe really expected to bo amused When he: paid his first moniihecall ; But the ladies ‘',1 begged:to be excused," Tb'eY'd been all niglit at WOO/ fleih4 s'aintin Wender' tatnedaway, dbravely tried once morel But bore they all had visits to pay; . And tbe footman Showed blin the door. • But he still kept on, and tried all kinds- , The good. the grave„the busy ; , • ' Ile saw all sorts of brains and minds, Till they fairly turned WM dizzy. Vor one was prontishig Mendelssohn Alone in her maiden bower; • Anothe.r...wat carving:an-.-olcl-drrhOnei - a third read Schopenbctuer. A fourtb in water and oils Could paint. All things beneath and above ;. • "• 4 fifth in geed. works wasit perfect saint.; But they'clzione of ',ern gime to love. SgDY St. Valentine floated bank To the.gate of good St. Peter. • ""Alas I" cried -he " of girls there's no leek,. And I must pay I seldonrsaw sweeter.' • 41 They're Odd and pretty,*„-cay and, • They're nothing if not pedantic ; ••• They know what they like and what they despise, • . Hut they don't seout to be romantic!' • '. ' Then St. Peter clanged the brazen gate, And let in the dear old sinner, :Who'd been lip early and stayed out late, • .A.ud probably wanted biti'clinner, • , sweet. maids and youthe:bewitre, • 'And mind what you re about ; • ' • on t let him,',4 find You. init." ••, A KING IN H!Fi CAA.Lei,E, • . The -Little Pinik.-Toed Vwerity:-Pounder, at The baby_king of Spain is'n' .fine, hond: child who enjoys robust health; , and does Credit to the immense 'amount of care with which • he is surrounded. ,Though •- ,court etiquette' requires that the six-. .menthi-old. Alphonso XIII. should be ' treated -with the •most rigid ceremony, his • mother wilf.never call Itim "the king" Matiss on Very strict State occasions,. but uses the simple tertn,ef "my child:" :„ His Kitiestylas his own 'vast suite of lapart- t.. ments'next to those of the Queen Regent; and a special guard keeps his bed room door ai night. •• • His foster mother,- the sturdy, Peasant. • Raymiingla,, feeds •and amusesqlie baby; but he is washed and 'dreeincl .Occorcling"to traditional. „cereniony •. by a bevy of ladies of 'honor; under the -4irection of his ." governess," who held that • same office tple,rds his father.. Doctors visit the baby twice, daily, and every 'day , he drives out with 'his governess and Raympnllo--sonietimes . ;with the • Queen. • In court ceremonies Raymunda •ranst not , carry the king; that is the duty of the. Mistress:of the Robes or Of his aunt, the ,Infanta Isabella. Queen Christine is a most devoted mother' spending •all her . • time With her boy, and the Infanta Isabella is .,. equally • attached to • her ' nephew- . • Zendea Graphic. • , • , ' • , ,;.l'arionfc'Odd.'frees.' . A' 'Kentucky coffee -tree". bears a brOO.d. . , . . . flat pod, .something like the tamarind pod, andie_saidla make a-fitir-scirtpf-eaffee:L-- The Cornelian cherry, from 'Italy, has a , scarlet drupe old- fashioned Covheart: cherry. • Gerrie' oaks, front ' ,Turkey, ,IteeP their .•,.. green leaVee rate. These. outlast 1301)*e. of • the green English oaks, and have even now • only reached the falling' stage that meet of Our indigenous trees reached More thafi•a •:nionth ago._,. This Turkish ;oak bears a huge, acorn: It is long, ' uncl grows on a long stem like a cherry. _The, liquid •ainber tree and•the'Siberian: ...pea grow in this country. The pea le in it :little podnet, bigger than .the .pod of the • sweet pea, but its • yellow bloom in spring, • on.'a tree near the -lake, makes ;one of the „oliarming sights:of the parkin • May. Bad •-tboys break off.. its branches in winter for .1.1Se as ", shinny 'sticks in their games on• • the ice;and thug' mar theeyninietry of ilho, The jinko i a tree from Japan. It grows to a height of Joining:is thirty feet, • d bus fan-like' leaves,with serrated dges,-and; without . any Mid -rib' or fibro, being a fiimPle large expansion of the ,,, Not until. these laves had .fallen, in the , year 1868, was it discovered in this 'Country ." that the Puke. ivas. bearing fruit as well as. Jetties. Its fruit, When found, Was spoiled bv frost but hilt it waS of a pale purple, look. . ing something like a good-sized crab-apple, ' Without the ••crab's bright " hues; 'In its overripe • and half -frozen state it hail an , unpleasant-oclok*- But ite.large,,glietening, satin -sheeny seeds, as broad as pumpkin seed aid elm firms plumper; -are really handsome, Softie have been planted to see What will Conte Of theni. ' . • flow'to *ink Wat• er. : • The leading niedical journal Of Franee . as published a paniphletprotesting,against • he extravagant: use of artificial' mineral 'iirateri4 which, it sets forth, do' the double clains,go of cooling the stoinach, thus lityirig . the folindatiOn for gastric Catarrh, while • ,the lintesione hem an- deposit ' in ,the Car- botated•Vatere, finds its way' to the •kid- •' ,aleys •,fincl eventually preduces Bright's .disease. The pamphlet 'aloe protests aganist ice.water as a prOVeiative,ef.catarrh..in the stomach.. It•furthersdys " Water should be drunk cool, but not iced, with the juice of A (pis:tier or half ,alemon in it. Mineral Wete'r 'should also be drank with*. dash of • lemon; 'Water Should always Jae swallowed ,alowiv. It is not the etomaelf which, is dr • • ,init the Month and threat. • If you toss off a 'drink, of water yea throw it throughyotir Mouth into your 'stomach,' withont doing the former any geocl, whilo you injure •t•he latter by loading it with what it -does not •, Drink' slowly, awl ites.p the, Water : in your month .10r....itv .inonient ;when yea ' begin!. If :YOU work in a' hot read in hot weather tie a 'demi) cloth arotiod your tem, 'ples,ahd you will not 'experiencc'. half the -Craving for drink you otherwise . Atkinta Conatftution. „ FaaldonNates,, The latest fancy., from Paris is a, :little iii pom n of crisp tulle, from. whch,. rises a Wren s p unies to be worn in the hair with dancing toilettes. • ••• The newest „cloaksfor little girls have waist's reaching only to the arm-pits,niore like a deep yoke than a ,Waist, and skirts. falling to the anklee. • Pleated fronts to bes'quea are worn by persons, who have very slender figures, even in the heaviest velvet materials. • They have two pleatsat the top of the ehoidders 'next the :collar, and then „drawn to the middle, becoMing plain at. the Waist line. ' Thenew overcoats for Young.,girls turned out by Redfern . have the high, military collars fastened .with a little irregular shaped strap, that is loose and buttons to a large button on either' side of the collar. • . • For wear in wet'weather are shown silk rubber clothlong wraps, with sling sleeves. These are in indefinite plaids, with the Pre- vailing eider shades of dark blue, red, green, brown and .•.. Nearly- all the l newt*, 'wraps have the fashionable " sling" sleeve, and those wraps made of the' same material as the suit show, when the arm is raised; a lining of soft, striped surah; this same lining is employed for the little fancy muff, also matching.the suit. , , • • The ,tendencieii in draperies- is to make there longand full and ' quite dissimilar to anything hitherto faehioneble. These draperies have heavy, pointed fan folds and very little looping. • The effect is obtained by thevarying length of the 'pOints in whichthe drapery • hangs. rather than by. loops. Thesemodes are Seen: with plain skirts and large' tournure. Instead of folds or ' . • eck,'-aod- s eeves;.nlo istes•now Fiend hoiniteach drees "Waist finished off, With, ribbons, which may or- im'- direcrcozjtrast with the dreisi.material; such as rose -Pink in . Moss, green dresses, Or red, or orange in those of dark brae. .The gauze ribbons, with orpicot edges, are used. They are folded. over not .quite double so that both the. fancy edgeswill shim just above the cellar of the dress; . • , • • : All .the French waists ShOW-itii.-43ffort to make the shoulders as high and square and, the Waist as long and slim as possible.' This effect is gained by A• shirring .aeross' the cheistand on the 'shoulder seared, and thefulnesS drawn down ite far las. possible to the Waist and thetie shirred More closely again., This gives ' the .slim effect seen .in Vreneh, fashion Plates, and while giving an improved: SteriderneW and grace to thin* angular 'figured, bides all the pretty curves of geed nes. •• '• • . • • '' The tailor gowns .of . dark copper red, trimmed With. the • Same shadeof phieh', are Worn to afternoon teas by • yenzig women With small 'red.:Velvet turbans 'witliout&brim, and . Adoined-,-witir-gray•Or 'brown Wino and .breastsof :birds. The:hoe& are not 'used. With these are worn withloVely 'effeethreait. knots of pink reiee; .For Oar, *rage wear red becomes 'inere . and Mere popular. „ Severaldark red snits are shown <with iiiranaings: of black. mink, and bOn7 itete of red velvet and jet. ' • - • . For. wear to the theatres by those ladies Who are prepared to adopt the English fashion of appearing withouthonnets, are 'shay/IA:little Marjo Stuart coifs of silk en& plush, the face being surrounded by pearl beads matching.. Abe hue the- coif: Attached to hi a long Scarf Of 'aural that is drawn •around the throat. These can be worn without • disarranging the hair. and thrown off • and en -thore---eititily-than it Iaco scarf, While thoroughly protecting time head andthroaffrotifthe .night air. • . • , Shoes for balls -ere still very open otkop, the ends aro pointed and ' they are Worked With beads. , are trimmed with •a small bow or ','Eltrass.c.' buckle.' Thee° shoes are of satin to match the dress, Black satin and velvet sheep' for dinner wear are workedwithgeld beads or tinsel. Those .used by .young •girls 'under lighk, Wool or: gauze dresses Arad ,orearn; 'blue or bronze kid. They,. either.. match the dress or 4in:in:tinge iri cOlor.;,•:....4tis net necessary the stockings.- should :Match the ihe • favorite colors ; are rose 'color And ack• • •••• some Rec!Pes• Lemon Cake.: --One and a half • oafs of sugar, one-half, capof butter, one-half cup of Milk, two cups of flour, , two eggs, juice and grate thernid of one lemon, ons -half. teaspoonful of soda, ;, bike in small square tins and fee on 'dace and top. , emon Cakes, -Ru toot er in a dry statethree-cluartisrs of a pound of flonr,tWo ounces of butter;.then add ihree-qoarters of • a pound of ,Pounded sugar,. the :juke and Hod of one lemon and two eggs; mix well together with half a winegliesful of hrandy,. and make into sinall.,eakee; bake' in tine (prel/lowly, battered). for about .26 minutes: Ginger Cakes. -Beat to a create half a pound of lbutter With four eggs, add half, a pound Of flour,' half a pound ef powdered loaf sager, two,: Ounees'Poivdered ginger ; Mix.theep in by degrees'; roll, out,and to the thickness of abouta quarter of an inch cut into biiculte with A tin euttet ; bake in a rather cool oven for twenty..Minutes:-:- LinnOn Turnovers: ---Three deesertspoOn-' • fuldof flout, one of poWfieixid-43tigar, rpid'of one lenient*, two' Onnbes of butter,' two edge and it little Milk. •'ilihf the:flour, Sugar and the grated riOd of lemon .With. the Milk lo .61 ceneiateney onintteri• then oda the ego A 110 1 -beaten miclithe batter Melted: Butter Atha tinmincers, pour in tlif3 mixture and bake theni in a rather quick oven. When. done take thein out of tIme. tins,cut, them aerost fOi4 ;them together and place then on a. napkin with' oifted sugar sprinkled. over. them., . • 'ChottilateTarts.7-.A qintrier''of n guifik of chocolate, one tinnall stick of 'chinas:non, peel of .ono. lonion, two • spoonfuls of flour; sue' eggs, two spoonfuls of milk, Sugar to take, a pinchef salt, puff page,. Rasp a quarter of a 'Mid of ohoeolate, :the chino. .mon, and alf the lemon.peel• grated; then the'Salt and 'sugar, .Well heat the yolk of eggs with two spehnfuls ,Of add it to, the other ingredients. end set 'than Over the fire imi a stewpan for about ten minutes, add poor of half a lemon cut ernall, and that set it.to cool... Put ths mixture into a tart dishlined with puff paste, cover with the whisked whites of eggs and bake it. When done gift Sugar over it, • TAKINO COLD. "Old Soldier 'Relates' Ms zi•ierienee During- the'etar. Writing to the ,Scieniffie .4meriegn: Cincinnati, Andrew Van Bibber Reading in a recent Wine "O'f'yeur paper article of Dr. l3roWn Sequerd. on it occurred. to Me that colds wieldier to civilized life and to our c fortable, Wartri reel:118. I havo1d cold frequently perhaps as anyone, but do one•period of my life 1 was entirely from them, with one exception.' -Vee Ahrotighthe war in the 'Fifth •Ohigeava beghfiling at:Shiloh and eliding my Ser with the march, to tile sea. We were active regiment, always at the front therefore always remarkably uneueanibe With tents or coniforts. We iv exposed to all Weathers. and all ..s sone.: Many a time We'were rained on a week. or more: :When the gun Cams, the next week or the' Week after, it 'dr :118.• ATailly a time, long rata' dirk, afte „march rain and; mad "all. day, wa, h been flledinto Miry vie ds, Where we el in: thei, rain with the Tinning:Neter via inghOween. ue4itatlin lankets: • seen men" wake in the with .th hairfrolen '1177. none of Caught cold, We swain the Tennes river • after midnight, When the reereu was at, zero arid. among floating ice, a came out with our clothes to our armp frozen like, sheet iron, and then-Ma:Mb tilt morning... • In the cold winter .•of 186 64, we were in the mountainbus country East Tennessee,,*where it is as cold :Ohio.. We were there from Novena, initit March, without, any tante Or shelt ettiny kind; reeving every day and aleopi Ina different place every, night, with -t temperature . frequently below. zero: .have, with my Coinrodes ridden bpi) the skirinish line. when f could no_tlift „eartridge,outr70f .-tar• bbs-x-priX even "1).176r,i carbine,cair, I. have:been on night pie ete!,tnean,ted,-W1114-the-pieliets.A1147tat Yelieved every fifteen minuteii; 'because left longer the men could not load.and fir But We never caught the slightest cold; no Aid X,everintimes:ef cold andexpesure •t wet seea soldier:with a cold. But 1 di "catch one Cold. in, the army, and Inever bit Amen a One before or' eirice. came froth excessivh Somfort.or,whEit: seemed comfor to nil, We • were: at ' CaniP -Davies, Miss, the southern taltpiiiit. Of the great fortress COrinth.• Having been there some :months 01.1.nhineggii.sefotre .dbouoirlsdannlawt intodgoweastifinso; witb glass or doors, Of -course:. One of our mess being a young bricklayer, we:theught le...surprise our neighbors' , in style and comfort, and . we 'sent for brick; and he built ' us' large chimney and place,' and ' we built a .gobd; fire. That settledue. Pour of ds had to: go' ie. the hosnitel, With: tremendous: Colds Ptv our Chests and in Our -*ads). ,We never had such heavy 'colds . This • Was about the middle of our three years of ger, VicerandbefOreandafter that Inever'eaci an exposed soldier with a mild. Of course a few days after our ..cabins :Were finished ivegot• riaa' ing.orders. . believe: all old tioldiers.Wij ear me .cut . that'. in -active canipitigiter Where there was great :exposiire to the Weather, no one had tyield, etc:I:think of it, in my experiences in eom Colorado ::and. Utah, in recent years, I never saw in Indian with it: cold, *00m. they stand more exposure than 'our. Cattle do.. It is ;Mir het rOtan's that give us our colds: . If a person'ivOuld :camp out frora fall till spring; exposed the weather of severe winter; he YO'Ould. never take either a sold; pleurisy:me pneunionia, and -Would be. ithsOlutely free fronr•theni. BUt'when .You arein,RoraeyonmuStdol,:asi'the-'-lioraans -do,'and take warm rooms Mut colds, • ' rout ays an king are s ae ring free rved vice an and red ere ea - for out h3d r ave ept sh- ve eir us see ry nd its ed' a. of as, er er ng he 11 a k- •s - if e. , • •' The Greatest lyfen:' • , A prize: waereCentlY: offered by the editor Of`Vasse/P8 -Saturday. Journal for the best list Of.the twelve greatest 'living: men:. , The result. was decided by the votes of the •CoMpetitore:; and, as the : Pell was •eicep, tiro:tally heavy; the .follovving,'Oittalogne of• the distinguished names that headed, it-inay. be Of 'general interest,• should be stated, that Mr, .G.ladstane's nitine found a place in about as Per Cent. of the Voting papers: The ,figuresishow the nutober of votes ,given., to each celebrity 1 '• • ' , 1.. Ht. Hon. W. E. Glinistare* 4544 2. Prince von Bismarck ,...,,.: .. .. 32,245 3; Baron Tennyson. , • • 23,064 F, de Lesseps •••:-. . .. ..,.....,., ... . . ........ 19,776 5. Gen, Visnount Wolseley ' * , 17,952 6. Marquis cif Salisbury ' • 17,592 7. Count von Moltke.. - 13968 S. At. Hon. John Bright 13,741 9. pordmandoiph Qhurchill 13;117 •10. John Ruskin ' ,,. 12,389 11. HefirY Irving • 12.41„ 111. Stanley' ; . ; 10,560 10,141 13.• Lottia Pasteur 10,116 14. T. H. Huxley 15. IteV..*C.,It. Spurgeon ' 9,108 ). en' 0 .-..,04••• • •••i••••••• 16. The -Emperor of. GqinanY •',., 4 .7,800 17. T. A. Edison, .... 2 • 6,648 18. Rev. 11. W. Beecher' 5,295 19, Grover' Cleveland • 5,280 20. H: st.. ki. the Prince of Wales'• 21. Sir J: E. Millais , 4,981' , 4,885" 22. 'Charles Gounod . . • ' . -, , 4,680 24. Rt. Hon,. J. Chamberlain ' 23. C. 8.•Parnall ' . ' ' ' • .4,512 25. The Czawof Russia,. -' 0 . 4,152 26, Sir Arthur Sullivan- ' 27. His Holiness tbe' Pope 31912 ' 3,744 28.• Marquis of 'Hartington ?, 3,552. 20.• Sir Frederick Leighten . 3264. 36; Jules .GreVy:a . • * . 3,133 31, Sir Gen. Frederieklloberts. ' . 3 070„ 8g.„Cardinal....lifalming ,. 33. •Ear1 of Dufferiii 2,821 '2;629 34. John , Tyndall 2,592- 35.'Carilinal Newman 2,437 36. Baron Rothschild .'" 2,256 37, ,Oliver 'Wendell llohnes.., ..., ,4 1,837' as: Canon Farrar . , ' ' ' 1,704 39, Archbishop Benson . . .1. , , 1,560' 40, RobertHrowning„,, ' " • 1,16$ : No other distinguished :man received • a• thousand. r,-' • : • . • , . .., , Full of Silteltes.. ', 'A yiehtia taihor,-says •the RelAenber'llo. Xiqtung, Wagered 'rebently that it took more than forty thousand' stitches to inake' a Winter overcoat, To decide the qiieittion mi ,CQLtt-wasOrdcrc&1 And a committee of,txppits eat to sup3'7iiiteiid the Work, as Well as to SCO that no•ttinleoessary stitches were blade. The result wasannouriced as:follov;vBody of thecoot, 4;7.811 stitthes ; 'collar, 063 ; sewing collar on, 1,763 ; buttdilholeS, 2;520 ; sleetioewith lining, 980';' pockets, 924 ; silk lining of body, with.lining interior, 17,863 ; braiding, 2;726... 'Total, 89,610 stitch. When a wornan geta on a street car !tri'd Spreitd.a out her skirts SO that 'she' occupies ,two seats, you cnn make tip your nuinclthat her linShatiC1 alWayeAits on the edge, of, his Chair kit/4 Sake "'Yes, !, Ni. in'tn,.'! tOltef,r- - • , • 't • .VIRP,IniTSTA* A Boy, ft, Mau, a Gun and the conise quence.. 4lo matter how strong may be every hi* Ina chain of circumstantial evidence there is always _ doubt, a lank of certainty, tha shotild wealtenit and Cause us to dietrus it. 1 remember a- story my grandfath used to tell of it case in which an innocent life was sacrificed for a guilty person. A boy On a farm, for seine:misdemeanor, WAS sentenced by his father, a stern man, with an eye to saving a half prig() ticket, to. be deprived of his annual circas privilege, and, in addition, he was to hoe 80. many rows of corn while the rest of .the family took 9n the lady's pad act, the bare back riding Of: Jack Robinson, the club that killed Captain Cook and other attractions of the great moral show. The boy watched the waggon drive away, with tears in'his eyes, and then he went At his corn rows with a determination R.?' roake* short' crop, if ,it could be worked' without detection.' But he grew hungry after awhile and went into the hones and. inicstigated the pantry. There were seyen.piesti:ow. As-itit-Ante hOtieehold--iieven blackberry pies, baked for Sunday. The ,heY, who'was not feeling very well himself; 'soon placed. his person anterior to six :of tbe pies, but paused thoughtfully, and with keen regret oinidway on the seventh. One-half of that he left. 4e then, caught the family .eat, thrust her. nose and feet into the remains of the pie, and dropped her on the clean, white Sanded 'floor of the pantry that .she might track around on it. Then he went back to his cern rows. Evening brought the family hodie. The boy saw there climb Joyously. out of the big waggon. He noted how the•Overripe applesfell from tbe trees ...whenhiSsieter-jiimped over the side and lighted • flat-footed on the ground. • Re saw hie father -let ;himself -MOM' over the double -trees and get himself kicked twice J4y.:.tile.:...rean'-,cult.- Ile. saw his Patiently 'Until some- body had inn° and inelination to take the baby. He saw his -grandmother perch her. sell on the hub Of tbeAind . wheel on one • -fe-4J, whilc slmeMadev:gae,,eircnmlerenalyanderigex0arsioxtotthewdeVidi- - ,world witis the other. He saw his brothers let themselves down over .the tailgate and sneak away to avoid doing any worle.:° At ls.et the waggen:wae empty,andthere ware 'visible Signs of excitement alxiiit the house. '.4•The raid is discovered;" said the .boy, Cutting the rote Of a healthystalit of corn arifi carefully hilling, tip a vigorous large weed. 'Presently,be sit* his father omit out of the house with the gun over his shoulder and Vile eat under his arrn. ".The culprit arrested," calmlY,reriturked the young .robber, as he leaned thoughtfully upon Ilis hoe, add' Watched hie father dis- appear behind the barn. Thslittip report of a gun rang out upon the -quiet :of the sun- set hour., • "There," said the boy,With the soradent ,..expression of one who knows what he is taiking about, -"there -gOei' another victim to.cireumstantial evidence:" -Bob Hurelette. ,; • *60 Walt "r04' COVErcurr:' Don't Scrub the /leer Till You ADM Through it Into the Cellar. ' "Recollections of My Mother," by Susan T. Lesley, gives an. interesting picture of t life in Northampton fifty years age. The t mother waA Mrs. ',Titian famous (qr., her hospmtality and ievoton to reading- . Here is a suggestive bitfer, housekeepers • " One day a friend came in who had just ' visited la.re.. who was one of the exquisite heusekeepers. She began to tell ' my mother about the 'Perfect condition of that house from the garret to cellar, and, rang the changes on the brightness of the brassie, the admirable shine of the .014 and silver, the entire absence of dust on , every carpet. My'rriother stood it just as long as she could, though fidgeting uneasily in her choir. Theu, she exclaimed : I think MIT: isethe dirtieseperson I ever saw in my life,' r Oh, •IYIrEiti..Lymaii, .what can you mean?' cried the friend..: say is true,' Said' my Another,- bringing daft her hand with 'Audi Race on the table. ' From the ristrig_opf_the-sun-teLth -going down of the samethat mind' Is on dirt- She thinks.: dirt, sees, dirt, is fighting dirt the, livelong day: New, would rather see more of it on the carpet . and hies of it on her Mind,'."-.--BostonBecorel A Great Slave -Hunting Region., -;.,. The country between the 74112/11)013i- River • and the lake regions of Central Africa is one of the great elovesliMiting grounds: of • that dark continent, An English traveller who recently journeyed through the -min, try Says that -every villageshowe the'fami- , liar sight of the slate in the yoke awaiting the departure of a caravan. This • yoke is made from the forked branchesof a tree; about five or six feet long -some are much Jtinger*--and, from 'rthrtretifildrir Triage: in diameter at the thickest t. net tueimn.- - in. d Ming.nt.- the -fork it,,hole is -bored"loe.,-:- eceptien of an iron p This rea a Soft fibrous bark is wrapped -round until time:whole &mins a thick Collar of bark, making absort of pad much rougher than horse's _collar.- - It -iii-often'alloWed" to r • main n upon a slave for • ' months a year, night and day, without, beingoncetaken Off. When .a caravan -1k ready to Start the men are coupled by the yoke lashed- being.. led io. as to • form a rigid pole, binding the pair neck to neck together. • `With loads on their heads, they. -then turn , their faces to the eastward . and, leave the hordes ;forever.--Pittaburgh Comniercial gazette'. e Death of o Mini' Rescued by Grace Darling. On Tuesday, in the little village of Whitburn; the graVe. closed over the re, Mains of 4airies Nicolson, was,perhaps the only remainingsuryivor of the crew. of the. steame?Forfarshire, who were.. so lantly rescued by the Efiglisli heroine,: Grace Darling, in 1638: • •Nicolson'weithen all yonng Man of 22, and. :acted as fireman an 'board : .phe. steamer, : •was noty fre ei nkceldi .itoh 935'.. voerrnyei ,c'e.Irpilan.intinds.ie8;11tivee;w4ins. rin the subject Of the disaster, ,and 'never re, :rca .calledLthe:•-stibjeet77iiitheut--being deeply7 • affected y the recollection of the Sufferin • modern &Onion* ." Some • of. those Westero. desperadoes , must be Very strong' teen," observed' Mrs.:. Snaggs.. ..- . 2 ', ,!' .• , .. ".... ; ' • "Why?" asked her huShand. '. "The paper to -day says that two Of them :. held np a train yesterday" • ,`' ' • "' Obi that's nothing: Even a weak woman,. 1 likeytat.canholdUp*train' when 'thercio . .„' danger ,Of : soine , one's treading On it."=-- ' Pittentre.. Gitreniele.:.Te/egreiplr.-'•.. ''',-7",: ' ,.. . • • . • • You Can't Read Thli withoht,wishing to 1fivefitigate: if you are wise. • Send your address to Hallett:. & Co. 'POrtlando maim), and you will ' receive, free; fUll informs - tion about' work, that ,, you .can do,' and live at • hoine, wher.ever you are: located,. at whiOn.Y04 • . tifilsolimeearnht ti 0 f el' at ) 1 lir i t e 4" O i rtle i • 61:5'90a11.1na.4"d*ayar.Cs'aPallitaYE'.:.:'.: notwroorqkueitore.d.. on a, ' ,t„... . . , e , 11 . 7. 77. , Both sweeps.; al ages, , Snug littlerefOrtAnnes -iiviiii . : : --.-4-7-7-:-. : , :" • .., ° • , • • ., Herr ...Kruk) :payi'' tax on :On, ineeine :Of . ,250;090. a year. :There is 'Money for Bonn) . °pie in the •: armed-cani;p,...ionditiOnh,ef ..i„r.),;,.: . i: I . . . . ......:, .......,., • . , , ...L.„.•______, ,:. ,rs,i,dier co.!, • ••• lie 'and ierribt. :Soft corns', COrnfii of all rent Ved WI night. It was gathered from him' .that for three hears he hung onto a rive, using his teeth and nails' as, in a death -grip. He afterwards got, a faoting on the 'reek, and 'on exploring it in the :darkness was :glad- dened by fin•ding a sea -fowl's nest contain::, ing the -rim -mine of..-egge Which had been. hatched. • This gave the UOA4Pliy MBA, a ray of hope that they had gained an eleva, tion the sen -washed •fsland where the devouring element ' would not•reach them. He else related the ' first impression of the unfortunate Men otr..seeing a boat with a Woman in it approaching them throfigh the morning inisi;•itua over the.. feaining bil- 'ewe.' ' They ". thought' it Was ' angel," and this eufficiently indicate the .severe 'strain their -••:ruindit had endured through the • long, dark hours of night: After the occurrence. Nicolson gave up:the sea. Ile was twice! married, and is survived bya growntup.family-, : • • A‘..stayor ucinored: One of the penalties of greatness ' is :,the obligatien of .sharing tnie!;e::, name With' a. new invention or fashion'. BrOugharn&Ve lia'name to a Vehicle, Wellington to,boota, arid the•late Preinier to a hag ; but all thie hi nothing to the, fate.of the Mayor •, of Rotten. ATioncesin ,thenagerie tecently gave birth to three cubs at Beitort,'and, asis . ofterithecase With :the liuman rue, a difficulty' arose .:as; to. .,naniirig the new- comer's. Ilk-Orittlally, while one wail:, Called Stella (probabl y, tthe instance of the circus proprietor) and..another Oeinmerdial• .(tit the iiiatatie6,•let its .saY, Of the adVisers' who drof)ped in :to share the ' diScilasiOn Wirer the festive glee*, it • was clepided to namathe third lion 'Fletcher's, after the Mayor of , Bolton, This • gentlerntin is. doubtless now "as pr'otid af3 toostgodfatirers, althongh .,,areal•diflietaty1s likely to arise; as he can:hardly Preieut the infant with a• fork and spoon ,cir a drinking niug.,--5Jame't. , ic.ttd • •4tCIllp.„ • o Devoted mother-” dear little bey, you mtiat When you get. bigger ana, older ma umall take you to church with her.i'. .A1101 01111(1— " put, Mamma; vhon 1 det ol(1 and big, 4 like papa, Inehbo I:won't want to go..*".: It costs the taxpayerj3:, of Boston on an ayerageN10,000' a' year to ...settle claims against the city 011 aecotrat Of 'people Who are hurt by falling Onicy sidewalks.. .11lies,tlizabeth ifillart, a Christian gitli recently Joined the Jewish Chureh in Nev York city,in,, order to hurry her IIebrew Lord Tentysoo's eyesight is failing him to Eitieh an extent as tO eatts0 serious alarm among fall htmerotia circle of frimuls. Out pain or sore Spots b3FPutititm's Painless Corn Extractor, Xhousands teptify that it , is certain, painless aimd prompt, • • DO not be imposed upon by substitutes offered for the genuine: ":Flitnaihrs"--..EztraCteff ". safe, .harm_less. • jusr what France wants to go to war . is very clear. From the lat of :January: to the end of June; 1886, there were. enly„:", fonr•mere births than deaths in Paris. In Marseilles, Lyene, Bordeaux, Toolouse and •. 'Arnim -lithe number 'of deaths was largely in excess of tiirths; Peace and matrimony • ' are what Frmince tiee.ds, not war and ivideiv- hOod. was so bad witli lumbago' and sciatica three years ago that 'I conld scarcely' rise .•. from a chair or walk, tither treatment failed, : and 1 was entirely . cured: ".hy taking' McCollOra'S :Rheumatic, •Repellant, W. Lowrie, TilSonbur,g • His St: Patti' 'job. • No, "don t eare for hard work, said, a . tramp; as the manager of the Provident' ' 'WoOdyard•pointed himle it isaWand an axe. I'm not very strehg,' and. •I haireto work eitey or none at' all' A.Tp in. St. Paul I . applied fer„the jet)) of driving Aide out of the ige,palftee; but a Snoozer from Vergo gotinallea'cl of me. You di:mit happen to have an .: Marv'eflous'Mein or" •DISC9VERY6: whasuni I It o ArtitIciai teraiii-Cure Of /died NVaa- (factious ror postal classes, • Prom) tit_ en *nth Opin- dering-A h yr 000k letimea, tubite g; Reavr re- ' hm". Of Mt. RI300TOR. the •Agtrononi Oions.,w, , AnTOR; JUD'AIT .BH.N.felilDip'•Dra. Mmoii, Wein and • Others, scattost rroit hy • PROP. LOISETTE; i•• , 237. Fifth, Attenue; Nes,v.1"Ork.: Nu> TI 34*44 posIt I e evret41 "liir the nINIVodlinnitte ass n6118,01,4 of 6tnoli-or the ...orst klud Rh .1 ori0OfellnalDdille , hard 'IAN% cnrelli stfonk In' zir faith In On onlenvi, Onvi I will 00nc3 TWO ROTTLE$ 'FREE, tegstlier with .a, VAIA/AttLE -TIMATIRE on 011n dteisse le any sufferer. • eive Ornrepr anttl"..O. fi4,1rinsO• ' • ,BratiOh Ooe, 37 Yotige St, TorositO , C N et- • •-••••