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The Sentinel, 1882-01-27, Page 2Only a Onille. Only a smile that was given me , • In the erowdeastreet one dayll 4 - eentet pierced the glop " mysicrdened • 'Like a sudden sunbe• • 8 ran _ The ahadow of doubt hung over me, - And the burden of ps,intzbore, ' :And the voice of hope I could not hear Though I listened o'er and o'er. art 4 But there;canie-a_rift in craWdabaut. Ands: facethatI knew'passed. by, - -- And the smile I caught was brighter to me - Than the bite of a_ summer sky._ •• For it gate me back the sunshine, _Ana:scattered:each sombre thought, And My heart rejoiced Hz the. -kindling warinth 1V.hieli that kindly smile had wrought. • Only a smile from aliiendly face •On the tansy street that day Forgotten as snort aigiven, perhaps Asthe donor -went her way. • But straight to my heart -it went speeding To gild the clouds that. were there, Anal found that of sunshine and lita's blue - - also might take mY share:: ' . alm-4.F C -0111010N Allr*sTA.IK. ES . * - • The Necee-eliefor a New teeeermation 'ger - ' • - - '. - 'Feria. .' '- : • -- The first impressions Of our senses are. often Verona: To all, appearanceathe On rises in tal ..east, the ,‘eartili ia.flat, and - when ea -'stick is put into a glass Of. water : it: seetai crooked. - But, as a matter of - . ' fact, the earth moves: and not the sun r the farmer is, not fiat, and. the stibledeeinet .becbme crookedby being - inunereeai- It is • this incompleteness -of the -sense Of sight -which is the secret of :the sleight-of-hand perforrcier and oftentimesa the -spiritual.: • .ietio medium. Biit we make quite as . ' &beard, mistakes in our dress ann habits. .. Many peeplee brush their teeth in the • Morning, ten or twelve hours after they haespartaaen of food; yet dearly the ',toper - e tinee to cleanse, the -teeth is after a meal, otherwise the - operationis performed for beautifying and not for cleansing the teeth: Then -dirt clothing is very absurd. In this • clineate„ where throat and lung-diseaseeare- partiottlerly preve.lent, we exposethethroat to the cold night- air with but slight pretaq- tipn. Veliilieve cover it securely in the day-. time; Women, who suffer from catarrhs and colds- itthe..head, wear hats which are- - purely Ornamentals and afford no pretec- ' . tion, They tut warm elothing over the - - body and, are generally iusufficiently ' dad- • about ..the limbs. The Weight of their •_,..glothes ie on diehips instead of on the ' shoulders; which hes a tendency to. agkra- vete 41 the, diseases peculiar to the see: Instead of wearing Opea .to protect the. feet, high -heeled aborainatiets are worn = which cripple the movements and plague the -wearers with -hi:miens and coins: .*Un- :doubtedly, the bioneeie the • tnoet sensible •gitement worn by many members` of the : heathen dice: It protecte. the peck , ail(' 4hest. as well j as the beck e : it :aeee.: not 4rapecle ,motion,. and is as useful for work, • as it Pati be made ornamental for care- mouitytts oCcasions. -Theehinese, Japanese ., and the European workmen- who use the blouse have a great- ad neagethe the *.y, - . . of health and orator , .ver i people .who efface the cn.1 oat avst. lierodotek the father of. history; iu a well knoWe chapter hieh te• hardly quetable in a modern riociloai, tells - et the different ways in Mit, certain thiage • were aene by the Eg, ptiaiis as - compared With the Greeks. The ebatraet was' amusing, but the habits of the modern man end wo_mati are often • as ()pease& to the waysof common sense ti . e- :Wera the confrastitigpracticee of the Gteeks .. .eaa legyptians in the time of •Itereaptus. - °eel:tenni, the. famous Swedish chancellor, ' Whe told his -son to go forth and see with ECM_ little wisdom to world. Was governed, mighthave passed the earne criticism upon the clothing aid habits of. the great Mass 0 -mankind; In all the • e.nipeal creation ,- sleep folleive feeding, and in waern: °pone tries people take a sleet& after a meal; but 'the niodede man and Woman 484from the diener table to the theatre,- bell, or • club, and brink all their powere of 'tuned: to :.bear- at a time when the process Of diges- tion end assimilation is going Oh. Indeed, eansidering the wiltul. serreee we coniine in- ' diet, 'attire and general habits, cirewe not • all syinpathize with. the men who, said he • believed iia- :the -doctrine of -Metempsycho- ses; for he could' -distinctly rercietn.ber the titaawhen he was,: en, ass. z • rafhlosi's The Uniforrnity of toiletwhiell has "new. become the fashion:in London Aand Paris -owes its etigin to the Queen of Italy.. a special ball got upfor her onher recent • Vielt to Vienna, the: young beauties of that , -graceful capital all wore -White in her: . honor, and she hereelf was draped entirely, wleite satin, trimmed with silver gauze, •• looped - with ' gardenias, and , Set off • by, strings of • the seed pearl, which, . • the . • latest - fashionable_ . revival. :The- White Austrian -uniform, too, chirued in appropriately: So in remera- •• brenceofthecomplimentQueen-Merguerite; • at the -first ball on her return'made it lerioern that her fair gaeste tvereto- imitate the- beauties of the Austrian capita And •2 so at the latest belle in -London Nee Paris - 'the e uniform toilet" is the rage, andlidies -. are expected to appear in eonie statedlinte ••The Princess of -Wales Was once almost • 'Eue teetelese in areas as her mother -iii -law. Even yet her example of screening a neck - • of rather lengthy --proportions has given a ride:elle-ushabit of Muffling* England to - many of the tshort and most aporeetic of denies: But. the visits of this -eharming . lady to. Paris have. gradually deve/opd, genuine nue taste, and. the P.rincees of- . Weles is fest becoming as Much of it • .eovereign dictator in dress as Eugenie was. • When 1-ast in Paris she appeared almost always in black. It is- the fashionable 'ecitOt of the moment, aad, with the qinfaa'. of lace worn, - transforms -Parisian lidiealehnoet into, Castilian da.rees of the •Oat:dent-Li ceatury; when Spain was under the severe influence.- of the-- gloomy Philip The Princess usually wears peads. end ,catIoeyee,Which the superstitious suppoeie bring good - _ • • Julian P. Scott one of the beet known _ • . • citiiens. of Scott County,' Tem:le:Who was- ' drowned on Saturday, while attempting to • Lord the EneoryRiver, wae. the original of 'Nark Twain's Colonel Seltere. Ere was a _Schoolmate and personal, friend of, Mr., Clemens, e: •4 prudent_ theatrical Compapere, tele - to. Springfleld„XasS., to learn: if 'easafe froin small -pox he that Physician replied " Out • efelfloagedin thelfceipi: •• 'em care to atte,nd your TH1141;011 WIRE. — eistesareauseiteirieeertes•aerebe Ieph.onle::Ditatiessade. lithe telephone was Ord *Posed intalleiboffed -at the idea of_71transmittieg, sound by Means Of a Wire and a battery. Leiter it was proposed by 4 European - dee: tritilau-taandeavor to transmit,ecenesein the Same way; and this idea was Met by even a 'wider ' incredulity; For the past three „years experiments have been,thade to attain this pude but With the 'excePtion'. of 'those _ of Mr. - Shelfprd ' Bidwell, a London engineer, they have been unsuc- cessful. - At the recent electrical exposition .at Paris Mr. Bidwell exhibited an ingenious 'instrument which he calls a, clic:amp. The apparatus consists Of asmalt objective lens fixed' so as to command the object or scene of which an impression is to be. submitted. This lens is connected by -a wire with asmallvehite glass plate. Teti' darkness having luien-obtainedniehe rooM, furnishedwitha dioseope, it is chained' that a- perfeet reproduction of the -image . shown in tbe lens will he.'prOcliMel on the glass. The distance ' is ininetAatial. - So far, all that has been acepmp Tehed with this instrument has-been to -niake visible several letteraof the alphabeteeeStill,, the more enthusiasticclaim that Wel time is net far distant when the owner of a tele- phone supplemented - by a -diodeope ..can spend, the evening at e the opera.in his - dressing -gown. and slippers, seated in -his easy.- chair, with , one -eye and one ear dosed. Mr. Edison was feund.. at the office of the, Edison Electric :,- Light Company; at No. 65 Fifth avenue, and in reply to a question 'Otte what he thought of the dioi3cope; said: "The ready imagina- tion of the French has tinctured Most that: has appeared in .the papers regarding Mr. • Bidwell's invention; but I must admit that he attitined, whatever emcees he claimed for his instrnmeut. Still not enough is promised to justify the wild rumors that pzevail ineome quarters. In turning- sound into electricity you areable to move matter, but to turn light into electricity is &very different thing, especially as it would. be necessary to transmit all the • hues of a picture or a -scene of an Opera: .' 8d1.1 it is not -. an unreasonable - plan nor one irepoeeible . ' of . accomplishment. • Eut- should-it site -deed; -what -geed Weida it do? it has no conemeedial. Value, but is Merely a luxury. --Until satisfied that it csiil do some, goad I am unwilling ID tackle sunlit a thing, but so goon as Fara convinced that it can .be useful I shall Want nothing better:" -Mr. .L. E. Guide, the Secretary of the -United States Electric 'Light Compani; Who; has-. just' returned ftone-theeelectricel; Congress in Paris, saysthat there were &great many electrical toys exhibited which L'e:bovved- a. great ,ingenuity in coriatruction,144Were of -no re} or permanent Value, and pOnItithe diascoRe must have belonged to Oils class.. Ile clid not see the dioscope, n4,4.- has he read any account of it in the re3olls of the congress, and is inclined to believe thatit has not attracted rOuoh attention' atnpng eleotricians.-Xeto York World. . • Ilvelithm: of Noted -Ill - TELE death is announced- by cable of Sir Richard Moline, the well-known -legal authority. „He was born in 1805, was edu- cated- at Cambridge, and Was .called to the her at:die:Inner Temple: in 1830 ;became Q. Celled Bencher of Lincoln's -Inn in 1849, and was first eeturnea for -Wallingford in the Conservativeinterest in July, 1852: He was re-elected in March, 1857, and iti 'April,- -1859, but lost his Beet at the &nerd Eilec tion. in July, 1865. , He was appointed Vice -Chancellor December 4th, 1866, and was knighted February 2nd, 1867. _ Sreeeoa WAGNEn, ehe originator of the Wagner Palace Car, Which has contributed Iso. much to make;railway travelling com- fortable, was one of thieviptinis of the rail- way catastrophe On. the New Teta Central onFriday.night. He had a most remark- able career. _Born of humble parentage lia managed: to mount to wealth and position and his. 'emcee"; was achieved byeourage and determination, . His parents were Germans and - he was bore . at ,Palatine Bridge, MoritgOniery. county, N. Y. State; in 181,17.- Educated in the common- :Schools her was a, mere boy 'when. he was 'appren- ticed to his brother .James; wife was a :waggon and .:serriegis Aft.0, this he. beeame 'a'station agant., on- what Wes tbeu. knoWi, as die Utica- & Schenectady Rail- road. Efei hadoonsiderabIe inventive faculty- caarwhile. he was station agent -4e made- , .several eineprovernents in raileoading Clevices. He invented several sereteinifee sleeping aid drawing room Oars, the;,restilt of which was the Wagner Sleeping Car _Company„' a which le was President. In this way he acquired a large fertuntil As 4 legislator, lie Was also a success, havizzg been in publialife for the Iasi 12 years. At the time of hie death- he was 64. - Me. jortea Cliener„. 0130 f the pioneers of Upper Canada, and a veteran of 1812; died at his son's residence yesterday (Sunday), in his 93rd year. Hewes -born on the banks Of the Eidson, Newrerk, and, came to the *Met -nese of Upper-- Canada :with his father, -a: IL D. loyalist; when 1 years old: At the close ofthe war of *1812 he- settled in Thuile*, neatthe site of the -present city of Belleville. His life waseliaracterized by great energyand industry; and :in the cultivation of his farm And the erection of his mill hecontributedlergely-in hie day to 'create: the prosperity of: the County of Hastings and the ciey. of. Belleville.' Few men stood so high for sterling integrity and Upright Christian character. The last three yearsofhis life have been paeeed in Toronto with. his -son, where he died. His remains will be removed -to 7136110Ville for interment.. * . • . A Toronto, Judge trillet4a COUnkl $100. - In the-Prebert- Monity, case,. *era by Judge Mackenzie: yesterday afternoon,. • slight breeze_ resulted between the Bench and Mr. Murphy, counsel for Probert. The judge claimed that the counsel had insulted. the eourt by statingthathe would kpeal the ,decision against the defendant tag higher. court. A fine of MO and toramitMent to jail was imposed on Mr. Murphy, but 'after some explanationonhis part, sentence was revoked. " During the few days the eruption of Mount. -Vesuvius has assumed larger pro: portions. -Copious at -rising of lava, pow in an: assterlye direction. 40 le ,noteworthy diat this increased activi4, Was preceded by sensible sismic agitation of the soil -in the neighboring provinces: • _ • Sv= POISONED BY Door LATEST SCOTe la - ia-- te ...A. Prof. Davidson, ea- theTSOcittiehee'Free •, • Ch*eh, denies thatiliesheek---47-1-01)., is the -Mediee-ia MenWhoHave 33 eldest in Ihet-witorit, i- Hereataitnkis it was -- -written between andthe return from eine. ' * r The Maittnnaas rents 40 1-h-e-1?-nka::1) InVerareyjestateivisreteolletited_ recently: The tenant farmereiteeeiVedeno abatementoffentliii the oCcaiion,_nor did, they ask far auch.--.- Andrew::Clunie, a' foreman lithographer in Glasgow, was arreeted-In'thateeity-- Oneia charge of forging gl netese-of-the-Boyal Bank -Of 'Scetland.-.24'quantity ." of forged Mites was found in his possession, and the lithographic stoneshaveteetedisecrieredelte his father's house. - - Lordliciteetoun, Who came of age a few mouths ego, is aboutetiver•talliTtojediseere tail the whole Df his estates. All Scotch' proprietors - born alter August, 1845, can posses their estate e •in fee, Simple,' by obtaining the sanatiOnefethe Court ot Sege Bien, the petitioning fermi:dahlia:if course, mere form. -•• e . . Said London_Truth IlpnfieSepre,- tery would do well to jliquire'r_int,o-the-caee- of Marionne-MiLof 12, was *sentenced lalet---week-at Levilic(Hebrides) by. the Sheriff Substitute to ten days' imprison- ment and three years 111 a_rfiformatory, for having stolen -a gar of sthokingsAhis-heing, her first offence. This "mins very hard upon the child; and byeno--_-_ineansasatie ea- tery to theratePaybee7The-esentenee.Trof- three years 14 the reformatory -Wards cancelled by • nowt. - •, _ _•- The annual ineetinge-f_theeeiderietion of Celtio Societies was held :-.in-Perth--latelyse at Which -Dr. Carairon,--M.P:, and Professor -331aolde.tvete present. Beth speakersoelled attention to the land agitation in :Scotland, *reeking particular -allusion to the eviCtion of crofters in the rEtighlentlie7.-Ret-efehiticifac milting that in anye'lleM-reforin that takes place the Highland crofter_shopld_haie a permanent interest in soit he cultivates, that Gaelic should be taughtinthe echo -Olt ,and that thefranchiSO-744tild----bsextbn-ded, to the crofters, tvere agreed -to--- , • -- -inOlit ,extraordinary instance, Says Glasgow paper, of the lengtleto-which_boY- eating operationerean be carried' has just mine to light. Dayid-Garey, Statch Steward on the Rostellen_estateififeMreFranke-Wieee ownig to 3ainily'allictien, committed suicide. - Mr. G_arey,------veae- Very -much_ reepeoted„._ but during hissajourneet Hos- tellan had the misfortune- to 1)8 With a .certain. section. Ile was to have been interred in . Middleton, but a large crowd collectede-:audeetzorathikehaving -Committed aniCiderie;sh-ouldjuor be -inferred - on Irish soil._His-rnatailialwere_theiiljEdn----- veyed by aeotber course, guarded by pollee,- -and were buried at Douglas. The will of a-reeentl.---deceatiede•ID_ frieshire laitdehesebeegecansing consider- able discussion in the south i of Scotland. The testator iieetaatelnieveleeen--9,--Maiit-sece centric person, for; .a. leer months before his death, he threw-- a-pareel-.7te his forester which contained staole-e-tee-etWatiseefeinteoa £17,000, on -which that fOrtunete'seivantr is eow living itt luxury. He, in the-eame- easy way, give his coachenenja cheek for. auly-28:0L--4 Was strongly suspect .£3,000, his .sheplierd spdp for £13,000, and Pritchardealseepoispned:a • servant -g _a check for R3,000 to the aforesaid or two members of a secret sodetyt herd's brother. ShDitly-after_heediedaand le_belonged, anclatwo„tradesiiiezi ine on his Will beingepenedeit-Wasefounclethat --lifeinserance he had an :interest, -the_ goadluckof _the-shepherd'-wasfar_froin effiCial-investigation was exhausted, as, except legacies of '26,000 stanesonee ease the popular euspieic. each to the coachman...and the !brother, he he: hasmurdereda number of pert0e:is was left the, wholepropertiaabaut.2°80,000, borne out in Some degree the, diseVaitery: - _ He- now findsluraselfepoiesesser of the ese tates.en which he commencedehiseeras_ "-the wee heralladditelind-iti-right- there _ ofaieleast been aappointed a ,Commissioner of Supply for the eaunty,-____• - Oscar -: Their TruSt SOME FAMOttS,---*)&b-ItItEA s---.41-he_fiet-thet Dr. tamiion, the ▪ charged'evith the •murder of Percy John, bus brother-iialaWe at Wi has--bieulound:gnilty by . 4,-ooron kasievived"-interestin the mks% great -.eaditenient created* . England by is case is attributable in some meaSure t 6 fact that the accused is .1,- medical : and that, as was said by Lord CaMpb -.1 in the 'Pelmet ease, "Me opportunities fbilleittreee ing life and avoiding detection hav.ebeen so great that there ism, knowing the -number of his victinia.'.'',i Paltner • Was a aboter of "Rigeley„. in Staffordshire. ' "He was - the owner of two three: race horses,and it Often happenedthatpersons who had Won bete. frornliini did not live- to collet:it them on. settling day, •Qn:-Novenkber.. 210, 1$55, Jolene Persona Cook, ' e racing mate was --taken ' suddenly - ile 'at .- 'Shrews, Iii-tr,---L-Taces , .while •drinking,i with Taliner: , Cook, Palinet'eauggeatl tti was remaieti-to Beigeley, and there IA/ did in peat' egonYsefrDen tetanus: reel' le had administeredetrychnifie - in. pilleine niurdeter, was r arrested, tried in doe andeliangecl at Stafford on June 14 851: B. ered: ALS, dein Mcolta eclon, ti jury, GOSSIP. • -Therees but sure way, to. keep trom.being that never to .:ann: tO debt.- , -e-There ' ter all, only one real_ bone f' &intention 1 the world, and that is the - • jaw -bone. - ••:,'••-e-If !you . ehienkte-have jdat what you really: deserve -to more, --less-Would you be as happy as yen are now?: : A traveller •says ,that . -no. esPO, table -man iti--Edinlidigh he ever seen On S inlay- . morning with a cigar in his Men,. - -The Detroit Neepseilies ta 'meet that an overworked Indian agent is thingtoo rarettud-too utterly good for this world. -11 you well "fcilipW this eule you will Save yourself many a heartache:ever bite -till you find out whether it.is-ht ad or stone." - .1 -It_ expected that the. Innis Dregoone will :proceed to India iseason, taking the place of ethe _lath IS:nci rs ;at, 1,4110knOw, who V.ill-returil to -The 'Kingston Chief Of Pollee eiye there are no houses of _ ill -fame in that 04, and - the Chief of Police -of Ottawa says he knows ' 01 none in that city. Loire is the title f the latest song -- written . by 'a young " an in Beaton. Of Course this is rough, but; as Benjamin Franklin Said, "The absent girl • betis- no oysters." - - - -There are three prcanitiont pha es Of . a young woman's life all visibly corm oted : • 40 it- b4 by-, lugged. e' As a young - woman: she's-hu.ggede As a -wife 'she's • humbugged. dein, potatoes, equashes ab- bages and turnips were.unktioWn 'in Eng land tillehe opening of the tenth - centtiry. The peasants subsisted upon bread made of barley and ground in a band mill.' _ next: •HuS- Eng- •The.heedies of his Wife and brot exhumed, and it was proved d '-de-Ubt that he had poisoned theme- mei hadgivena number of bilis of etc ige to JIltagedWicle, the leviathan" boot. ker, who died some . time ego, as sec ty for advances. These purported to be eletea -hypealmer's mother; a:ledy of Me ei but -whensPadwiele brought suit on -e non- payment, _Palmer then, under in ent for murdering Cook, was taken to • Nisi Prius, sitting at 'Westminster, 'w - he -ewers that -his wife had_forgee.•the ept- ance. It is .that Palmer Oiled at:et:emit-thirteen -other persons, tfee of then:Th.-local tradesmen and _ten racitj,inen to whom he owed money.- - On August 115th, -1859, S thirst was putsoietria1 at 01 mile • bi the murderbyslaiteepoison of - Miss ahkek _with-vehoni'hee had contracted a b teens marriage, and atwhosedeath he as to -obtain a considerable sum of .thOne The trial. ateT a -Week, and he•was fon • guilty andl3entenked4o be hanged. TiLord Chief IiareneWhieheitra -the . Case; 1 ought the evidence did net Warrant the fiff ing of the jury, and 'ultitciately, Stnethutilt was pardonedeetelthough there Was na Moral -doubt of his guilt. - Eie was: sentefieed to twelve neonthe' imprisonment for bitlaniy-.. Itt April, 1802, he brought an action n the Probate Court to recover the* stint o •1;800' 'bequeathed to bine beeMise 13aeae Her • -Mrs..- MaryAnn Brown, wife et htoll- 1 - gateeeper on the Coltunhia pike roa , near Quebec, :died a few- days ago of eiryai else. She.weighed,425 pounds, and has h d to - - sleep in a cheat for years on account of the - asthma from whieleshe Offered. --To be peer because wee. is too: lazY to _ work, or has wasted his fortune; or ; • a loose rein to indulgence, is a disgrace, but to be poor because one Will not cheat or - adopt dishonorable -means to make Morley, is a crown of glory - • 1 - r. John Jameson, the: 'midi -rated distiller of Irish; Whiskey, has just died hi - - Dublin, aged 78.. The London Werkt thus -; • writes his epitaphe - GA.Tag, alae! from us hail gone The Barley King John Jamieson' - The -Maiiis dead, but still survives . 'Thei_sOrit sent to cheer our. lives - reletiesesopppeedtheelaine but 8 • , iihrse was successful. • At the trial it wasitioildly hinted that Snietlitirst had- poison tont 'Other eereene, - ' • On July aedt 1:845,' Dr. :Pdtclis: Glasgow, was --tried: • at •Ediiitoutg poisoning his wife= and .mothei-iii4 latter with aconite and the form lartarizea ,entienciny. . He. 094434W -his -guilt before his execution at Mae —.on that one Joh: hose •_n:o' that , of for the ith - This.is hoW-Oscar Wilde, the English - aseehete, looked when -ha andeliis-teatenew York audience 'nide ettreeeacqueiatientai7P-f- each other; The iy6iit wasi-tall,butm_odifia: his height- to 'se due meaeuie-byetenending- - - his shoulders. His hair, brown, -waving-- and fliffy, was pattedieeein---the-middle, and fell,elnike_ thateeine--_-theeepieturees of Charles IL, to his shoulders; His faCIT loolreit 'forth Tas hetween-ItH-.setif_lioft: window curtains, white,- beirdless,sniilingT. and The features were of Irish, -nitiche toneddown,eprominent,e_b„ Parc& strong., ,The 'brew tlieelittle-triangn ar- .erea-- to be a eeli- of jt -=WiCs wholly Placid and unnuirltediantr._-:.the:.e_y_e_brows: were neat delieate-and--arched, of - the - sort-. coveted by woman,----7--Ile.t-±_wore_ fiWal 161i9:talle a -coat of the ordinary pattern white- • Waistcoatl-Ow---z--:„--ent: and double-biittoned, a pair 01 black knee -breeches, black silk steekingeamdlb* counter elieete aliebroadvipaneeef-shirt front was pun -awed in-_ theeeeactleentre-*--, a diamond eetul; -andel), -fine handkerchiefwee . thrust negligently itThetweeifeite,aid his Waistaaate-"•:-:Aribbon-andeseal:edeenglede below the latter‘igarnient.--His:collar;.tiiiPed-- down, not 'Very wide,andnot out verylow andea white silk_ tie -eveas etelitk-jkkOtted= -beneath it. Iliaupper.and lower -parts -;:-.to SAM pp, were pietatesneik_anaelneeMeddlie section mathematical and-oemteonplacee__- ; Fool and His_ITIone • ---- • A few days ago mention--waszernadee-* the "porting notes Of this paper of aTorento man named .Forbes, who some time ago made a bet of ae00eagainste--$75-that he would Walk - adroit(' - Toronto-Bity-=ene7thee 17th °instant. He started__ off:his-perilous, journey Tuesday. -eArmed with v. long Role, he left from the_TNOrthern--elevator, where a number of f riends- were -.aseinbled to witness this exhibition ofjoollairdiness. He had only -gone ee-efeevie"yarde-when he broke through the Joe,._:blit-_-_-sudoeeded-___i_ii: extricating himself by meansofthe pole, and made another result. • Seeing there was no pasibility7Of his winning th-e bet, he tertedbackebreak- ing thee -Ugh -twice _beforcie-reatheigtethe: wharf. Hewasalmost .pteitilie-X!With-Pekt when his -Mande helped and tOoklaim-home; _ • _.-- • - _ • , that Percy John's brother died Odd the -prisoner's house. • ese-etalata-ta **item_ gsTaittlits Humors ofa Western New -simper:- • Man. ' --_Robert .Eurdette, the bright and.ptticu. lar _Awed the *Burlington .-Hawkey lee- tured in:New- York the other- evetaig • -on • Home ; dr, Advice to •Young Meld 110 diligently z forbore. from advising affeAleing. &nag LL t eveind no haa ef. viaa lrer at --Many persons find it hard work tit held their own, but a- good many au:doled heldina their- neighhora. •Well, - if their neighbors are Young and pretty; and of the feminine.geader; we are net"suipeised.ehat - they holdthena.* r - -Choleric old -, gent -.7A! Christmas box! - Why, .,-yon aren't- -tho. -..regular-- -sweeper." Arab --"-No, 'air ; bat. I -mind ' .the ge'tle- : man's 'broom, sir, while he'd 'gone for :his --'alt.pint.'': (Exit oiti: gent), storming, with symptoms ofappplexy.) . .' . ' - • . .: • - -.A. discussion One vierean'S .. rights.— Algernon . (to his -sister?, his codeine -end his aunts)-" My dear ereatures; if you *kit equality among the sexes, you newit .' learn ' to be independent of us, as we are '0, you. Now, we-rneeelive -,chiefly, to ' please our- selves first, -Oa then each .other ;;W °reap you women live -entirely -. to please iiii."e--. POO/. • ' . '-. . " • - - - _ . . - -Mr. 'Henry- Leboechere : .", Pore nallY : I CorifeSa tios itkuth:is i-skould tegre,t the • loss. of a relative through .1death, : I-ehould • --.: be -Very indifferent to the tasaof a relative's : corpse, for, after all; :what. can it signify - Whether ont4 relative is; aeconippse. into .-- gage-le in One plate be eriethier ? . .. The. body.., . is - but • a Bait of • clothes i Worn -alerin 'life -. and thrown .avvityZ' - '.1. -1 - s ." , ..• e. -:The Tlinber Tr&clq ,Toarno,l, OfrZo don, • England, says the MarquisofLorneand And yet- helid'say spmething about :Princess Louise visited. the-, eatablis dont --„-Men- going vest. They ought_ to, go of Messes.: Aa*ea Freala.litilaye- at 'IMO and ' it Was only to -experience what. . , ,e. , -. _ . ._ . ordered. several , pieces of .furniture in 7 'Storm was like. -PeoPle in the eest-' American to take with thein. -on - . , . idea:I:if-Wind,- at least, not until the . , - , . . their return to Canada. . Her :Royal High-- leardelim - lecture. 'He described • . , . . tics§ Said that whole of the fur' ienre • '. -hie s.visits to Qmalia When.- the WI they had taken out with them - est time shaking :that epety: up: As .s-... _ ,..strt for: koci.goneAopecsa'in - consequence -- f the - . . • liairhiell .whetidie11/4vas to liptitiklieVeitift ' kOd-: dlit-inate;lanassertion'Aidt.very c9inpl naen- • :-IO.-ther, -agent- aoOetu.PatiYPeg ,h_ina. LORI' tary to die fiiiii that Stipplied thego de: Win-&---ierather demonstrative'. thiait Ciren.,.. : ,,•:---, .; -• , --,,- ..- - - - .: - : ._ . _ . , .2ine,--____Not • -:,this-" . The ager . ,.t. did. --. -=-430e or the araUsilig sigh* in t 1„old: not say that ; ,i'Jie was '. going e. sut weather is afforded by the man Wh walks e .4 inauSOn- the ether side of -the.- tset- carelessly and quite - uunconcernedly along iikiltat- . 1 'Fitil:',Iie reaches therthoineter which is •• him.,He remarked „ instead • e 1 at it -4as--.I.Mti'.blpviiiig- very hard at thei• :_,tinie, exliOs-OCttO Vidte,eir thestreet,Tfe y..) ks at and-kist-at he -.finished - he: was ts4.4 up-: At 14110-111ent.- 406 that the ineecuree is Very - .leteee_wliiiseelina and never came dc**Alf. 'kw; Pullw idEr6011a*up to his ears, shrinks - ,Btircletteneiv he never °ante dOwin-t-ecliva-,.. ,vg iA---h4 ow, - 7Peijils- frigidly away and _c!)., ,l IS_ - eahadgho: his.tttle: bilna:shti s I 3 ip ollitteitt.i Ile e'Wiar is: then; 43.7_,_bi4Tipairl:-,...;:iiG-thrlt:ini.o:rss:e'tee::fo.iii:4:Ntii.:; :igh.,.. _ p - - -49_610i:01--_,I_Ii..tie :right- -diateat,itai, .412, . 04§..har lights in .the bed -rooms of -childain 'Of, weell• • --;egt9hi-4,the-1014,1-ktomacil.? '.,4-Pgd--411A.R14-:, Wit- tri -do- parents is' cle-Precated by D. r-, obert - While General Tem Thutaletticlineteire wrinkle of his lounge,tellehis_friende about his travels and Urgee_the claims of Spiritualism' to which he is a reuenti-COnw vert, Captain MartinVan 'Buren Batesan °his Wife, at -their firmilionkienear Seville, - 0149_,ton feet high, ride in a gigantic warden drail b i go in and out „of_doorways4 -six stout Norman horses, and sleep tu a ' = _ - bed as big as a wheat.field. - '--6-P't#7;,-t_bt--_Sag.,9,031; One in till : 014' 11,Bakewell ee EfesSaye dietet has. a most . q Iheltesavoa-ta,proVe to kis auditors- t . t ib:e: ::itiitifolis'dfedt :Upon' -al.:nerve-10 - stem:. could lls 014w4S-4:-oven byetAttOts. of .young children:. -•‘,.- InSteacr of -- the - per- - 'Of Olinaliee - ire- taanagSfl,tckIorget end 'feet iest tlierOptiC'' ;leek -a °tight to have, - elkOf his lecture, enel. kW., sU • iug• and which - nature provide for b the and 41114 kept on - blowingpoahtil- d'ariiegs; of -1.thco 441 :Iii-e4i4leit_ *re. in:ne____ari,tilo,e3ritii,a,duitdifleie_i.oinleut,..iavidt.h7vseean-±17dmeluediiirulTilipi_gukeellivliiteealfrit: . perpetuallysuffer f fbrainet i,,i 1.10tisieltdirreesit ivte 8-1fli tie, 6 i i,_. .dbi -1;reoroutbgb4'uOtsdi _IS #ttael it system ilic'dOnClusi011-.-of%Ilie :speaker's -re rks, _eeeeeseeeveraiia.-43-iai 84t.or. ii, .giong. -him. selfeee-Mr. Buidette- hatted; the e4liere • - 7 '744. _OrreSp0Pdg..Rt . Of the New Yerle_ weulefelloWeand that the- ignitore-Weuld eTaMeandhand•hita the key and ask 'M to Ei3phetts*ei:P,,aisnt inlatinj.han'ict Lhyi4Itiiiatrillii;i10‘ 81'1.1401 4 lociti.:-:_up,:liheii, he got through. N e ot. appear to know thattheplaisse -"toe lain -7 : Iliese:thiliga =lappet -03d,, hoWever, bet- - the ' is purcly,and distifiCtly Shakspearea, .,: and : jnelinsevelitioWnea the,ball name and aet -Bet quotes "Hinge ikteniy:n11.-e. ;act-Aetacetree. fo-iti-,:liasyrisliotain-extraVagant mai, but eiVeleiretlitekinatiliteprdaarefeaeite aatTresea 7E0-could:better affead. ta.builci anothekehall :-- thanto_Pay_taiies• en ihaf One 7untikethat ,iiig Gardiner asfollows: e . • •• . • Ut-Viwas-oorotelled to go-: 'Ont. •ibury, litO4he,dark,"": lecture Waacoinplked. You word evergood0;K-end:den commendations - 131shopAr WM-eh-After. Bet know,ti ccrac nt. " _• •TO hear such flattery now; and in ray ..-1* sendo : .Mell-Matipiteb ,General Director the etaieseumsin Egypte has prepared, - the resitiest--eofethe ',Egyptian .Govern - e report of ----theereniarkabla extbeelgieal saiecateriegi at bet eeles:Bilearie- The mt =nil& dietoeered itte-abOutfortyer,- eandeere shown by .the-:-.-juscriptions- be -:thatieefitiage and queens-kuotenin, ey. Theeeeppeittetter belong- lerineiptelly • • the geventeentheend tweetioth dynastic -s. and Lthil'iforesfeLdifelforri absent •2989- bf-th� "iSheph�rd King') t� 1C'0 or Laterthese have beent tindl Tniatt7 libitionee-lisettelie 'bronze, !pther ohjeistal-Coiiiiooted.---with the inter tit of 7theilltistriptiSIOatle.„' ' They -are -toe, thiplitn51 base to hide offense: - .-:-A matter of greet iramediate concern tO,. the learned, ;t1a-e,;initionS, -the':,-id , the '- epicurean and' clisgesta is the 'value f the -- teocodile asap article :of -feed:. . Oro ii.ailie •- -- steak, 1ric4,2toastea,, -0404,1-, smoked, par,-. . :boiled,''Or. baked in the ; One howeie t 'Feted; - anditwentyotheri#Spocts.- and ace;40'.te of . 'the reptile Carrion,. are expanded. on, glizi"mt 140: 911f4 r'40flaF'4111P2iga"11n49r.sdllidilfilOtritiee'; iv_heiA he gai.O.iig?iiiiNvoitoicrj.ifi order to - - ieftlki0200;taaetjtiirfiiptivxiyes. growirgore --, the London-TVites- over -the savory roisti,-- II -elOquent- over -.1*.illeet and, cabbage :than .e" ; . settle_ Of the Government correeponde teof ,- Of4e-oroCodile: • :- -••• ' , ..•