The Advocate, 1887-09-29, Page 3OVREENT TOPICS.
Tun results of the survey and lash non,
sais of India aro that tae area of the
Peninsula of Hindostao i ta382,624 square
miles, and the population 253,891,f121.
Although immense tracts a country are
annually cultivated, according to the most
recent survey, 10,0004009 acres of and
suitable for cultivation, have not as yea
been ploughed. At the Rome time,
000,09Q a acres are raturneff aa wage Irda.
A Moruite lately purchased at the Amp
of a general dealer in Camsberwell, London,
was submitted to Sir Frederick Burton, of
the National Gallery, who, notwithstand-
ing its dirty and dilapidated condition,
was struck by its beauty and evident value.
The picture, which is a landscape with
figures, measuring 69 by 45 inches,. turns
out to be by Claude Lorraine and m that
master's best style.
IN " Pilgrim's Progress," as translated
into Japanese and illustrated by native
artists,. Christian has a olose-shaven Mon-
golian bead, ywnity Fair is a feast of
lanterns with popular Japaneife amuse-
ments, the dungeon of Giant Despair is
one of these large wooden ()ages in which
Eastern criminals are confined, and the
angels waiting to receive the pilgrims on
the further side of the bridgeless river are
dressed in Yokohama fashion.
A ammo of seven children throws some
light on Dr. Hammond's discussion of the
decline of the maternal instinot as illus-
trated by the increasing smallness; ot
f snaffles. She says she has been hotisehunt-
ing in New York and Brooklyn for two
months, and when she tells landlords that
she has seven children they raise their
hands in holy horror and say they would
rather the house was unoccupied a year
than filled by suck a gang.
Miss A ONETA RAMSAY, who was senior
classic at Cambridge University, has re-
ceived the fellowing letter from Sir H
Ponsonby, accompanying a portrait engrav-
ing of the Queen: "Sir Henry Ponsonby
°presents his compliments to Miss Ramsay,
and is commanded by the Queen; to send
her a print of Her Majesty in appreciation
of the high honor gained by het in the
recent examination." The engravingbeare
in Her Majesty's own handwriting the fol-
lowing insoription, "Given to Miss Ramsay
by Victoria R. and L, 1887."
THEY tell a story of a recently enriched
woman going to a jeweller to have the big•
diaraonds she has worn in her ears out in
two! She said smaller stones being now
fashionable she would like to have one of
the solitaires made into earrings, while the
other conld be set for a ring. When it
-was suggested the stone might be exchanged
for two smaller, but that it would be
imposeible to carve it up, the lady was
much offended, as she said: "The jewels
were a wedding present, and be did not
propose parting with them for nobody."
Somn months ago the floors of many
Austrian garrisons were painted with tar
and the results have proved so uniformly
advantageous that the method is becoming
greatly extended in its application. The
collection of dust in cracks is thus pre-
vented, and a consequent ditninution in ir-
ritative diseases oa the eye has been noted.
Cleanliness of the rooms has been greatly
facilitated and parasites are almost com-
pletely excluded. The coatiug of tar is in-
expensive, requires renewal but once a year,
and presents but one disadvantage, namely,
its sombre color.
Da. FELIX L. Osvia'ao declares in the
North American Review that "in sixteen
different European languages the word cold
has become a synonym of an affection
which the absolutely conclusive evidence of
physiological facts proves to be a result of
vitiated warm indoor air, and to be curable
by cold outdoor air." He uses one of the
sixteen languages with great force to plead
for cold air and plenty of it, and his obser-
vations ought straightway to be translated
into the other fifteen.
Tun Paris Figaro says that if you wish
your children to have pretty teeth you
----must begin with the second dentition to
press back with the finger every morning
the teeth which have a tendency- to press
forward and to pull forward those which
tend backward. As a wash, boil in a
tumblerful of water a pinch of pulverized
cacao. It strengthens the gums and
• whitens the teeth without injuring the
enamel which covers the bone. Wash the
mouth after each meal with lukewarm
boiled water.
Important to Tecuasers.
Next year new candidates will not be
allowed to write for and class non-profes-
sional certificates. In July, 1888, only the
following will bo eligible to write for 2nd
class:
1. Those who hold 3rd class certificates
and wish to obtain 2nd class.
2. Those who wrote in July, 1887, for 2nd
class, whether they then held 3rd class or
not, and failed.
3. Those who at any previous 3rd ex-
amination obtained the aggregate required
but who failed in ono or more subjects.
A Woman's Economy.
Economy is wealth, but sometimes the
two do not closely connect. A woman at
the station recently glass two small boys
10 cents each to go up on tho hill after a
small trunk. The boys forgot to come
back. She then gave another boy 5 canal
to go and find the other tyre,• but the third
chap's memory also foaled him, and
neither the trunk nor the boys returned
to report. Subsequently she hired a
hackman to go after the truok, and he
fulfilled the contraet. Some people manage
to save money by throwing it away, but
this woman didn't.
The Coen." Way.
Mrs. Van Coovor (to caller) -I have such
o splendid eoola and she is such at early
riser. The ice Man kayos tho ico at 5
o'clook and sho is always; there to bring it
in. She 1.8 a perfect. *Mitre. 1 amat
klatita What I should do Without her.
SplendicliCook (opening the deitr)-Phiee,
mum, it'e a wake's notice -oat given yea.
Oirn to marry Dennia, the ice man, in a
month come Thoorsday.-Neto York Sun,
Mutdoelt McCauley, for some years past
o clerk bit Deltith, Went to ,Levi, Qno.,
day or two ago intandiag to Sail for Eng-
land to -lay by the steamship dimeassiata
Yesterday meriting he was found dead in
bed at the Matthaei Hotel, wherei be
boaaded. Death resulted freati disease Of
the heart, •
ST3n[41S IPOR LAMES!,
Watist peatiacsa Prescribes for statleaery
1141,1 Jew019.
Very !stylish handlserohiefs are now
marked with a small monogram, finely
embroidered in a shield, or star, or circular
piece, in colored cambric, stitched down to
the corner of the hatulketchief. This de-
yice must be of a hoe cootrasting with that
of the handkerehiet, If the Shield is corn -
Rased. of blue or red cambric the mono-
grams Mild be worked in white. On a
handkerchief of pink cambric the shield is
pale blue, and the monogram is emaroid-
ered in pink. On a pale blue aandliorchief
the device is in red, and the monogram.
may 13e either in bate or white. When the
handkerehief is striped or spotted the shield
or star must be of the color of the printed
agign, and the monogram in that of the
groundwork. As will be seep, these com-
binations may be indefinitely varied. The
monograms now used on letter paper, RS
well as on lingerie, are much sinaller than
heretofore.
TIM LATEST MING IN NOTE PAPER.
Thq. RoYfost deVioe for stamping ladies'
note paper is to have it simplympaked with
the owner's Christian name in heavy script
letters, set transversely at the left hand
corner of the sheet, in a new style of •gild,.
ing, whicb gives the letters the appearance
of having besets sanded with pill sand.
Colored note paper in mush flashing hug as
scarlet, dark blue, eto, has gone entirely
put of fashion. The latest effort in this
style was a deep sago green, but it failed to
take the public fancy. The latest chic in
writing appliances is to have the blotting
book stamped to match the paper. Blotting
books cotared with cream colored or gray
coarse linen and painted by band with
devices of flowers, or birds or landscapes, or
grotesque scenes and personages, executed
in water colors, are very popular.
NEW COLOR.
The prettiest new color of the season is a
pale yet vivid green, like the tint of a light
colored emerald. It has a name AS pretty
as itself, being called "fresh MOBS color.'
A very pretty and elegant watering place
dress in this new tint has just been sent
down to Trouville. The plain full silk skirt
is edged at the hem with a rowof large pale
green beads. The skirt is covered with two
overskirts in silk gauze of the same shade
of green, slightly draped at the sides, and
each edged with a row of beads. The cor-
sage is in gauze, made without a basque
and with a very long point, a row of beads
outlining tho waist. This corsage is lined
with silk and is out square in front. A
collar necklace of three rows of beads is
clasped around the throat of the wearer.
NOVELTIES IN JEWELLERY.
In jewellery the most noteworthy change
to be recorded is the return of the emerald
to popular favor. This raost beautiful of
all colored precious stones has been hereto-
fore neglected in favor of the sapphire and
the ruby, but has now regained its bygone
popularity. Any person now owning a
really fine emerald possesses a treasure, for
one that is of perfect color and is relatively
flawless is exceedingly rare and always
commands a high price.
Opals, too, are recovering from the neg-
lect into which the veryfoolish superstition
concerning them had plunged them. Their
renewal of favor is probably owing to the
great beauty of the Hungarian opals, which
aro far finer and more brilliant than those
from the mines of Mexico.
Cat's-eyes and moonstones are much less
sought for than they were last season,
though the latter are always popular when
worked up into fantastic designs for scarf
pins or lace pins. Enamels in imitation of
the Byzantine or mediceval enamels are
much worn in the shape of br000hes and
bracelets. Many of these last cited orna-
ments are veritable works of art.--Galig-
nani's Messeneer.
"1 Ain Never Merry When I Hear gweet
Music."
Like a katydid singing a mandolin's
•ringing just two doors above with its
zum-zum-zum;" and out in the; street
half a dozen boys beat on the head of a
cask for a big bass drura. In the room
just below at the big piapo, a maiden is
playing the tra-la-la-loo ; and the children
up stairs in trios and pairs are Practicing
songs that are noisy and new. And over it
all, through kitchen and hall, too bass for
a shriek and too shrill for a squall, like a
calliope yowling our Bridget is howling the
one line she's mastered of " Lanigan's
Ball." "Oh, Phosbus Apollo 1 they warble
and henna they shriek up to Izzard and
growl down to A; they start in the morn-
ing without any warning and their second
wind comes at the close of the day. Why,
the very deaf mute makes a noise with a
flute, and a blind man see saws on a loud
viobin; and the people born dumb still can
tinkle and strum on things that are rat-
tling and noisy as sin. So their musics and
songs go it hammer and tongs, old women
and maidens and old men an boys; and
I'm mad with delight from morning to
night -I was born in a mill and am fond of
a noisca-Bardette in the l3rooklyn Eagle.
Ode -ions.
Anther (timidly).-" I see that the price
paid for Tennyscm's Jubilee ode was $10 a
line. I don't expect, of course, that this
little effort of mine would be—a" Editor
(sarcastically)-" Oh 1 you don't? You aro
t6o modest, sir." Author -"But if you
will kindly insert it in toonorrow morning's
paper /al willingly pay you the regular ad-
vertisisag rate of 50 cents per line. Hero's
the money -610."- Editor (with deep feel-
ing) -a My dear air, on looking over the
Poem I find it full of merit. I'll take it."
The author, having made a bet of $50 With
the rival publisher around the corner that
his pOom would be accepted, walks out of
the (Aso 640 ahead.
The following, called a railroad prob-
lem'is going the rounds : A freight train
Orns Mile in length stopped With the caboose
Psi opposite the depot. The conductor got
orders to MOVO his train to the neat station,
which Was just Ave miles distant. He gave
the engineer the order to Move, Whichthe
latter did While the eohductOr Walked over
ahead on top of tbd cars and got there just
as the engine omitted at the neat station,
'where he got OM The question is, how far
did ho wabl4 or AS he was walking during
the °Satire five rnileedid he ride at all?
,M1(015ada,co Dore° has been engaged by
Mrt.Langtry to play Felice, the maid; in
Ad ixi a LOokiiig Oleg."
44,484.*P, AT TIM FAIR.
g3CtIMerdlnary Ceremony and 0.411
WeI-
dliig Prcsen ttl.
At the East Aurora, N.y. Fair yester-
day, Clarence Lamb, a jeweller, was mar,
rind to Louise Bodman. The reward for
consenting to eo public a wedding was the
receipt of the wedding presents named be.
low '1400 lbs. land phosphate, by the Rev.
Ja B. Olcott, ate offloiating clergyman' 2
&men silver 81399na Bop. Pena P. Butler •
Art Garland parlor etoye, Mad cart, bed-
room set walnut furniture, barrel soft soap,
baby carriage, 5 lbs. fine-cet, 6
bottles croup cure, ton of hay, 10
bushels potatoes,barrel of flour, Oa in aold,
oil stoye, set of dishes, toilet sets, lamps,
fancy articles, articles of furniture and pro.
visions, groceries, eto., to the value of 4500
more. Ten thousand persons witnessed the
unique ceremony,. after Which a proems -
Bien was formed' in the following order:
Two colored men on donkeys -Head
marshals. Four Percaeron stallions ridden
byPtiwonoegera4nadrum rgarsehoarals.
(Average age 71
years.)
w
) heelweeldelkvesmeT
Hdrawn by elk g.Ohoho
(2.40) and driven by tlae Rev. J. B. Olcott.
Open bamuche containing lir. and Mas.
Lamb.
Four ox carts, well steered and contain-
ing the latesident of the village and Town
Coulwimei.
nity-one
road carts and sulkies carry,
ing distinguished guests from elsewhere,
county officials, Buffalo aldermen, mem-
bers of the Boomers' Association, etc.
Thirty horses and colts each lea by a
colored. groom.
Eight Shetland ponies.
The Seneca Indian band.
D Company Buffalo City Guard, Capt.
Frank H. Bliss, commanding.
Hubbard Zouaves, forty strong, Major
All commanding.
Kidingn.
rig,
the handsomest horse
thxetyotrld.
Sihree thoroughbred stallions each
by a colored greom dressed in white.
From the Jewett, Hamlin and Yeoman's
stook farms.
Advertising waggons, supernumeraries,
no-goodpeople, freaks and fakirs.
Two goats.
Musical and Dramatic.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, who is now in
Paris, sat six hours on Saturday for photo-
graphs at Van Bosch's. She had seventy-
four new attitudes taken.
Edward Lloyd, the English tenor, has
just signed an agreement to come to
America next April for the Cincinnati
Festival. He will be absent from England
b arely six weeks, receiving for his trip the
sum of 025,000.
The Brooklyn Eagle has robbed the stage
door dudes of a good deal of romance by
publishing nearly five columns of names of
actresses who are billed as missos, but who
are in fact married ; some of them, accord-
ing to the Eagle's list, have been married
three or four times.
London Vanity Fair states that George
R. Sims is going to write a drama for Mrs.
James Brown Potter on the subject of his
pathetic popular poem, "Osler Joe." Mrs.
Potter will of course play the .tatt-Of the
misguidea wife, a role which Mr. Sims may
be relied upon to suit to her undoubted
capabilities.
And now Reub Fax has gone over to the
noble army of comedians. He has given
up his Woodstook business and goes to New
York very shortly. to go on the stage. Reub
is certainly possessed of much low comedy
talent, and has a capital voice taassist him.
-Brantford Expositor.
The following modest epistle from an
ambitious young woman was received by
the comedians Robson and Crate a day or
two ago : I have resolved on a plunge
which will determine the color of my
future life. The stage is my passion. I
have never acted,but have rehearied before
good judges, who assure me I shall soar
above all competition. I should like to
play Juliet and Ophelia, and haverewritten
and altered those plays to suit my own
conoeption. My figure IS faultless, my hair
and eyes of the raven's hue, ana myartiee
melodious. I have seen most of the
actressesnow on the stage, and think my
appearance would be accepted bya critical
public against any of them. If tie part of
Ilenrietta in your new play is as strong as
Lady Macbeth 1 should like to laser from
you, naming terms; for the above (panties."
A Wretched Failure.
A Wayne County farmer who lad a little
time to spare during the cirouth went at it
and created seven artificial mounds to re-
semble graves in a field close to le road.
Sign boards were put up and labelled:
" Tramp No. 1," "Tramp No. 2," tnd so on
through, and when the work was finished
the granger went up to the hewn with a
grin on his face and said to his wile:
"That 'ere dodge will beat all Ile laws of
Michigan to keep tramps away."
Breakfast was not yet over nextmerning
when there was a knock on the kitchen
door, and the farmer openea it to find five
gaunt tramps standing in a half crde.
"ton here!" he yelled, as scon as he
could credit his senses. 1' Didn't you see
those graves down by the road?"
"We did, sir," answered the oldest tramp
for all. "That's just why we stoped. We
wanted to know if they came to tleir death
by over -eating." ---Detroit Free Pre,s.
• -
The Age of Specialists.
Alleged Physioian-" You've go a very
bad eye there -a very bad eye, sir'
Ficit,ter
Patient-" 27hat would you adv:se doing
fol
Alleged Physician-" Go and Eee Prof.
Curia of NeW York. Two dollariri please,
for the advice." -Puck.
In a Parisian casino -a Is it true, sir,
that you said I ought to be sent to the
Clutrenton Insane Asylum?" "lo, sir;
Simply said you were let out d it too
so"-Piactro.
Samples of oeffee cost a firm 61 Now
York coffee merchants about $5,00( a year,
but they aro resold at a profit n neatly
65,000.
miss Murfrons 11 Prophet of tie Great
Smoky Mountains " is published ii Pane
by Firmin Didot, Fria as "Le laophote
des Montagnes Fumeuses, iouvelle
Anaerintine cl'Egbork Craddock ic),
saspteo l'auglaiso par Jn
ane do Va.
,
was.
ser
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Ifosp1calTkqs1041k4 itY1.1 There le no 1e4 S.41Y-41f. XPetknee ,Of Pagal Attaeliment
Ho Gaeta* eeee of 'hag ?lkti.e.S.S. to Its Pala!, 4ietiese.
"Put Mtn ip a hammock and relegate
the bed to tlia inPerP400 Taoeseee of the
garret !"
Strange advice to give, and as bold as it
was !strange, says the New York Mail and
Express. The art of the practice of meda
eine, however, is nothing if not proms -
sive, and the young Sawbones who
delivered 114;2801f of the above order ipeti-
tuted a reform in the sick roma which, it
is believed, will scam become general in
hoepitals as well an in private practice.
"Pub him ip a hammeolt," Only those
who have spent three or four months ha
bed or pants a water couch can form any
idea of the relief that oomes from even
anticipating such a change.
The "him" referred to by the doctor
was a helpless paralytic. Months of coo-
finement to the bed had made him almost a
wreck. "I recommend the hammock,"
said the doctor in explanation of his extra-
ordinary advice, "not only because Of it
undeniable sanitary excellence, but because
of all places of rest, of all couches or beas,
I think it the one that conforms best to the
various curves and outlines of; the humao
form. It has advantages that no otherhed
can give. Between it and the ordinary bed
slept upon night after night there is no
comparison. For bedridden people I belieye
it invaluable. Consider. The hamrdock
requires only a stout blanket and a woollen
sleeping dress. The sanitary differ-
ence between it and the bed becomes
startlingly apparent at once, even to
you who perhaps have netter con-
sidered the subject before. ata ts so
woven that it yields readily to everylmovea
ment and projeotion of thebody in every
direction, except lengthwise, in which the
weight of the body establishes its own suta
port. Then, again, a person unable to get
in and out of bed unassisted canaroll in and
out of a hanamook without help. The posi-
tion in a hammock can be varied in many,
ways to give rest that cannot be had in a
bed. Swung about the same distance from
the floor as a chair they make excellent
seats, and one can make his hammock
reclining chair, a seat or a bed at will.
Sitting down, the back can be drawn up to
any desired height. Having no heat gener-
ating mattresses to absorb the foul air or
bad odors of a room, the hammock is
always cool, sweet and readyfor occupancy,
and to my mind is a bed fit for a king.
Therefore I recommend it in.this case."
4 Nap With a Level Head. , '
A man registered at a seaside hotel.' :He
asked for the proprietor and warmly argued
with him in regard to terms. He was to
stay for some time, and succeeded in get-
ting a reduction of $5 a week from the
regular rate. When he went into the
dining room and was placed at a table he
handed the waiter a $5 bill. This Agreed
a curious transaction from a man who was
so eager to secure low terms. A boarder
who had overheard the conversation with,
the proprietor asked Why he tipped the
waiter so liberally.
"Nothing strange about that; the waiter
is always your best friend at a summer
hotel. I make it always a rule to beat
down the proprietor. What is saved I give
to the waiter. I lose nothing and.make the
waiter my friend." -Boston Traveller.
A. Pointer for the Parson.
An amusing typographical blunder was.
perpetrated in Carson'ta
Ne,„„ recently.
Rev. Van Deventer sent
to theiribtose his
theme for the followingSunday'atdiscourse,
"Receipt fertile Cure of Hoodiumiera."
This appeared in print as " Reoeipt for
the Cure of Rheumatism," and it had the
effect of crowding the church with people,.
many of whom had not attended divine
worship for a quarter of a century; and a
considerable number of whom were
stiffened more or less with rheumatism. -
Omaha lice.
'
The Salvationists in England.
A number of Salvationists, sentenced to
twenty -One days' imprisonment for street
preaching at Stamford, have been con-
veyed to Leicester Prison. The Army
assembles and kneels at the prison gates
every morning. General Booth, undis-
turbed by 'such events, has just issued an
appeal for 500 persons to go as Salvation,
Army missionaries to Zululand, Jerusalem,
British Guiana, Jamaica, Canada, Austra-
lia and other parts of the wOrld.
Life in the Arctic Circle.
At 150 below zerd a steam, as if from a
boiling kettle, rises from the water. At
once, frozen by the wind, it falls into a
fine powder. This phenomenon is called
sea smoke. At 400 the snow and human
bodies also smoke. At this temperature
the trunks of trees burst With a loud
report, the rocks break up, and the earth
opens and vomits; smoking water. To talk
ie fatiguing. -St. Nicholas.
A Good Investment.
Dunaley-What a bore that young Brown
is, He makes me sick.
Featherlya-He never bores me.
Darnley -You are better natured than I
ara, then,
Featherly-No, I lent him $500 a year
ago.
•
It is reported that the Frontal Govern-
ment is preparing a reply to the Manifesto
of the Count Of Paris, explaining the policy
it intends to pursue in the coining session.
The Temps, commenting on the manifesto,
say: " The clOeunient will have no dis-
quieting influence on the country. It will
only eaoite and embarrass the Right; owing
to their reapprochement taith. the Govern-
nient. It indicates between the Count's
views and the Ccosarian doctrine of the
Empire that the monarchy can only be
'restored through a violent internal crisis
; and the triumph 6f anarchy. Republicans,
s whine political experience continues to
inereatte, will not afford the mtinarclay that
chance." The Vnivers says that the mani-
festo amounts to a renunciation Of the
traditional monarchy and that the Ceitiet is
becoming an emulator and imitator of
t Napoleon.
A race between a greyliMind an a coyote
as t� be ono of the °Matto ions atahe °Veda
State Fair.
Voreat flroit aro still dothg a great deal of
,
damage in California., '
The looms of eight Of the Li:satin theatres
'are noW held by wonien,
'Seaeaitla`alsars ago a bay in this plape
me to ooe of Mr. a. T. Owen's children
posdle ffog, which proved to be a very
affectionate creature, and from its first
eateaina,the house ,j.t. beeame YerY Mu*
attached ta Mrs. Gwen. It was elwaya
plityfot and dialfAtea in nothing so mach
beina ;maned, receiving the catesses
*Atom glaaly as a child,and seemed gifted
with:reason., During the protracted illncss
of Mrs:" °woo th9 little pet would, at meal
time, go to its mistress to be fed, where it
;solved itsmeals regularly from her hand.
Duriogthe last few days of Mrs. Owen'a
illness, When she Was unable to give it the
acectstemed attentioa, it was noticed even
by those who had been visiting' he house
thatatBessie a had lost her spirit of play,
f alness and located dejected. When her
mistress died, ,on the 18th of April last,
Bessie took a position under her bed, and
when aer body was placed in the coffin she
then changed her position and remained
underthe coffin until the remains were
taken, from the house. For clays afterward
she clung to " that room, lying ill a chair
beside the led, and, although She had never
been, known to. get on a becl .before, slag
Would,' after the death Of her mistress,
jump, on the bed, and scratch down
the cover, evidently hooting for her
best end lost friend., refusifig most
of the same `, to eat for aaya at
a time, eating so little that it teemed she
must necessarily die of statvaticht Occa-
sionally 4she made an effort to Ally, but
woold in a sbort time release into the same
state of gloom and ffespondenoy. For the
last few weeks she had" almost entirely
ahstained frem feod, until she became a
liviagakeleton. On last Sunday morning
when the -fondly arose and opened the door
ltttle Bessie crawled from lair comfortable
bed on the back piazza, and softly ()rept
into the Mom of her young mistress and
stretehed.herself upon the floor under the
foot of the bed and died without a struggle.
Hei action from the day she lost her MIS-
trese showed plainly that she was grieving
deeply, and oalled forth much tender sym-
pathy, and added grief to those who already
had their loacato bear, but who had reason
to support them. -C artereville (Ga.) Courant.
' -
Deer, and Not Men, in the Highlands.
The rage for creating vast oxpansestof
artificial solitudes, which are jealously pro-
tected, is growingao rapidly that very soon
°upload of thealligalands will be isolated
in order to afford six weeks' enjoyment to
the seions'of dukes, to successful brewers,
aoa tp Opulent 'strangers. The prices they
pay for their "pleasures are astounding in
raagnitride, amounting often to more than
'doultfie,tlia rent* a pastoral farmer could
afford. For insta.uce, Mr. Cooperathe son
of se rettiiiied Atistralia,n, pays 54,500 to
Lard Wimboorne fog the use of his forest,
while Mr. Winans, the American, whoso
domain stretches across the island almost
from sea to sea; giag three or four tin2es
"that sum to as many different proprietors.
It is a selfish, fibitrary and impolitic cus-
tom, winch Will have a short-lived clay, but
may be productive of serious mischief
while it lasts. • No one questions that the
higher altitudes of the country may well
be left to.deer ; but ibis a reversal of civi-
lization to fence off a country almost as
Pig as Yorkshire from the foot of man, and
to buy venison at £60 per carcase, even
with the gratification of pursuit and
slaughter throtan in. -Scottish American
Journal,
Not Quite Soon Enough, Though.
A friend n the, South asked a negro girl
her tame: 41 Matilciaa" was the answer
"But that isn't youi only name?" said the
lady. Thus encouraged the girl glibly re-
.
cited, " Matilda Malvin's. Minerva Virginam
Victoria, Jane.? (Here iny memory fails
me, for my friend reported the entire num-
ber of manes sits eight.) At the end of her
recitation the girl said proudly: "My
grandmother named me." "But haven't
you any more names than that ?" askedher
mischievous; interrogator. Conscious of
having rae.de,icia fair showing the girl was
pnzaled to angrier so unusual a question.
At last she said slowly: "My grandmother
died."
'-' Assignments.
The following assignments were reported
yesterday: OntariO-Barrie, John Clayton,
shoes ; Mitchell, Stark ca Jewell, bakers;
Port Perry, Tate & Lanigan, millinery.
Quebac2-Montreal,"13essette, Lefort & Co.,
wholesale fancy goods; Irving & Suther-
land, oils, etc. ; Richard Swalwell,
plumber ;° W. S. Thomson & Co., whole- ,
sale fanoy'dry goods.
' It haattanspired that the noo-releaao of
Canadian. vessels ,seized last season in
Behring's Sea is aue to the ignorance of
the authorities of Sitka„ who. refused *0
complywith a telegram from Secretary
Bayard directing the restoration of the 'me-
ads and 'Skins to their owners, oti the
alleged ground that the telegram might not
be authentic.
oN'T'EE bOWN-NEARTED.
Dianaheartiai Pshaw there'S seldoin Soon
A lane without a turning;
tadli desert has a spot uf green,
In spite of bright Sol's burning,
Your friends have failed you? Well, what Mail
noinembor changing Peter;
Sorrow has tried tho best Of men,
And Me is all the sweeter,
What adds a zest to Summer's joy,
Is it not Whiter weary?
Peace Would ho tame without alloy,
Peet grietinakee solace cheery,
All cannot win, though all must ran
"
When once life's race iS Staripa
Yet all may hear the wordS : Woll done,"
So 'miler be down -hearted'.
A mooting 61 the Council of the Domin-
ion Rifle Association will be held shortly to
memorialize the War Office for the retort,.
tion of Wimbledon common for tho
annual matolma ofathe National Rifle .A.00,
oisitiOn.
IThe latest :fad An Franco its to "g�
ballooning," Ascending high molintaint is
getting to be too slow. As a prOoa the fol.
lowing dialogue heard on the Betileaara the
other day: " I tee you know that gentleincin-you bcaved to ban ?" " Yes, we met
the other day in the air. Iii balloon was
gRing in the samo direction ne Ours, andiay
n
'eed Jovis gave me an intrednotiO10
,Nows has been received at Beitibay that
Ayoub „Elam had taken refuge hi Eel
jarnani; lielooehistan. If he remains be
will bo surrendered to the British anthori.
tioS.