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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-2-16, Page 6y:CYLTNO. FOLKS. Some Winter Fun. Teddy wan ceded up like O little bear on the mat befere the fire, with a dieh o Temp - ea cern en oue Bide, wed, his newest sitory. bode en the other When ntalliMA COMO en, "Teddy," Said ;he, "I want to fine*, the beby's dowel aeons this morning, and I've broken my last needle. Do you liaPpriae rti can run dawn to the to and buy 4 parr?" " g.guese so," answered Teddy, 4 little reletcicontly, it must be confessed. Ile didn't want to go one bit Out of doors the wind blew cold, seta the eiky was gray with real snow donde they were too—and it nail already beeu Suotring for two nights and a day, until there won't a it, and Well measure them gut after dunier, house in the villago bur what wee drifted in So the new half-dellar went into pape'a V p ite tweet nendeee-eille.. A-013.EY Far. wallet; and before the oats were one, Ted- rar'a house was balf-boxied, Teddy could' 4 and Star and Bright hat i earned enough sea; bar, thee was down he a bellow, mid to buy more. But that wasn't the end of it; very small., besiees, for one day, atter the last snow-atorro of the " Anyhow, 1, wouldn't wonder if the sieason ha4 eome and melted, away Again, enow'a over my Iwai in acute places," he papa brought a big euvelope froin the post. mad, poueleg a liztle ea he pulled on bia Offiee With Teddy% name on the outside. In lezgings and pot on his can. "And. it's the envelope waS a book—O little blank moat a mile down to Mr. Bean's mere mein. book, which wase't all blank, because on the seCOnd page waa writtea, Theodere "Ob, ne*" wiszmus4; $411(4 more Meeliew, io aeceuut with r Sevieg than half e mile, Teddy.boy. Alla they're Beek, Credit, by deposit, .F,2 15." breaking Oat the reeds, see 1 You. Wen"Ob, it a ray oats moirey cried Teddy, have a int Of tremble." operieg wildly armed the roore---"mine "Ole, geody I" There was lao more bother and Star's and Bright's 1" with those eer-lapeets geeting toteued. If ' "That's just what in is," said, pepe laugh- theze wa-s one tbtog Teddy did enjoy above in. another, it was rinieet OP a enowplough; aud befere the long line of lioreee. was fully Bellowed Vislen oppeeite the beinee, he WM out beside the The nann whn, when hi.3 edot resteu. roe,d woltiofi to goo set .°4 the flulaY ea, aaW "men. aa tree3 walking," waedoubt. 4415Ped "' wMeh' w44 ap 1.1)wded. leee, ter tirtle MUCII eillieOrrOSeed by the vilth mea 4'4bevs that it 414 net tieem etrengeriese of' the world. unfolded to hie told yea this morning ; but after tide it won't 'be so hard, Ana 1 will pey you fifteeu eents eeeh time. ROW Will that do ?" Teddy's eyes aperkled. "Oh yesen— thank yon --pretty well 1" he aeswered, getting things e geed deal mixed up in his plosure and exeitement. But he (lichee forget to take off hitt Cop and make a very polite little bow when, he went away. And didn't hie eyes sparkle, too, when lie showed pars Me fifty.emit piece at din - near -time, and Wel hem how lie had. weed it "It's going to be to buy crate for Bright and Star,' )ceid he, "'cause they helped get it Hadn't thin ought tri buy 'most two bushels, pepee," I think had," answered. pap e neavolY; At any rate iv you two bushels for iiasll there W°23 mite re9°1 feir vialon as delighted with ite weeder% btu. That there was: the oven peke ef A hay who bee euffered for yore from het tight Abug' but eel" a the. an affection of tlie ewe, which, tit POW yield. jaily Uta° °°Wd t'tt the fii/nW Plough °al:104 tog to lieleAtigealdU1eisys that ehe itt every held of Teddy, and pulled him on too, mid day entertauled by new end am ng ex- 11waywewtkth° "at' et7alght to pomace, atecedaue oa the recovery of her eight Site lied beetz wearing for several weeks a dreaa eeleeted for her by a rues friend, and lad talon greet comfort La the thaeglit that it Ivo of a +sober hae. One morning, how. ever, es she put it on, she glanced down at it, stauding m a tiooa. of sunlight, gazing at it with eyes diet had not Seen as dearly for yeere. "Why, Eihve die cried, suennoeing her daughter front theilext room. I've been 'aeries a bright purple drees all winter, and. never knew it." The lady gen besttell another crpertence in her own words. "The firat morning that 1 actually noticed au improveccout in my eyea," elle says, "I looked in the elms, and wee petfectly aumeeed to Foe haw old I'd grown ; but I WAS in good humor beeetele my eyes were better, and so I nodded to myeelf, end aid: It's a long time einee 1 ve Men you au plainly. Why., bow ugly you've grown? It rooms to me 1 neves' eevi FO natty weinki." But doubtless we should all prefer to find. our facee furrowed by age, rather then re - Unquiet' the pleaeur.o of ecefug thetn at all. sa Mrs. Beau was behind the counter, and gave Teddy his needle& " Yoe hail a eke ride, dielu't yoft?" elle asked, eating ploontly, and loaning after the suew-plougn. Weil, M glad. to /see tile reads molten out, but I with they could, menage to break out our demeyards. give tweety-five mei to have zziy trout walk brokea GO." "Weal you, heneetr heeded eagerly ; and thee he lime his bead and Welshed, be- eartee be want very well azgunititerl with Mrs. Beau, and he knew thaz won% epelite wayell`Jak.,, if he boa beee. Met Ilre, Been may laughed. "Yee, I would, honeet," she raid. " Bet it entail the you a week to abovel a path from the the rend to Cur holm, little reeve It's a long, ways, you how." Yee, Telely Item It was a then cuz hem the bad; deer of Mr. Been'e home to the hack doer of his etore ; but the front walk was u very leug one. Sometlinee, 1*2 Um Bean eaid, it tlielede get dwelled Gut more than u ice in a whole winter. "Md. I am aided it would be too hard work for a little fellow lilies you," elle told ; "but I'll give you the:mutter to do it, hut the same." "Yeelm," eaia Teddy. And then he made Mellott:ow mash= the etereeloor eereful- ly behind Lana and On home as feet es he could run. He rushed into the house like e cciaU whirlwind, gave mainme her needles, and rushed out agsin, etreight to the berm Teddyde calves were in the berm They were twins, and you couldn't have told there apart 11 18 hadn't been for the little white sprat in "Star's" forehead, which "Bright" didn't have. Grandpa Iluetinge had given them to Teddy for his very own the :man before. "You may have them, if Toonfl take eare of them yourself," he had scud; "though I don't believe they 11 ever amount to much. But Teddy, delighted beyond all nieasure, had felt cure then they would amount to o, great deal; and he had fed them and petted dim anti trained. them, until now there was not a pair of celvea in Grandpa Heeting'a own barn, to compere with those he had gm - en away, Teddy was proud emu& of Ms property, you may ba sure, and was never so happy as when tending thorn. But this particular time he only stopped to pat their necks and give them a handful of oats apiece. Then he event into the workshop, and mamma heard him pounding away for a lone time bsfore she thought to wonder what he was doing. She didn't have time to wonder, much after that. Pretty soon ahe beard a knock at the backdoor, and. when she opened. it she just sat down in the nearest chair and laughed. and laughed. For there stood Teddy, flushed and smiling, ruid there stood Star and. Bright, harnessed into something that looked for all the world like a minia- ture snow -plough. And before she could say a word, Teddy himself was talking very feat about Mr& Bean's front walk, and what he wanted to do. " Mayn't I, please, mamma?" he begged. "'Cause, don't you know, papa said this morning it cost as much to keep Star and Bright se it does the oxen, 'cause I feed 'em so much oats. And. I'll buy oats with the money. And they'll go just as nice as any- thing, you know, 'cause I've"driven 'em so much. 0 mamma, mayn't I?" "I don't care," Mamma said, laughing a little still because she couldn't help it. "Only be careful, dear." " Yefem," Teddy answered back. "And I'll only ride where it's easy going." Then away he went. Mrs. Bean wasn't in the store this time ; she was sitting at the The Large Deer 10Statee of Scotland. It is alleged thee astag has lately been shot in the Duke of Portland% foreet at Longwell, be Caithnessthire, under nonillion circumstances, says the London Telegraph. Inside the 44 muelde beast" were discovered, when the stomach was opened, no fewer thee eleveie coea of certeidges, which must have found their way into it when the stag eves alive, It ie to be presumed that the cartridgen after being discharged trom a ride, fell upon the gromd and were licked by the stag!, which, like all eAimala of the bovine, ovine and cervine ?polo, was doubtless very fond of salt, The saltpeter, whieh is One of tbe chief ingredieets in gun! powder, was apparently so grateful to the stag's palate that it swallowed the paper ceses containing it. There are indeed few things wbich the digedtioa of wild, isubiale net• capable et aesmileting. eltleagh it was said. by Dr. Johneon that the storesehe of emu aud of the pig, which bear a close reaeroblance to each other, are stronger than those of any other creatore, whether tame or wild. A man In the highest condition, who has passed day after day for some week e in deer etalking, is probably able to carry and digest almost as much food as the staghe buena The poem, for deer stalking is now -Ppm, us mad ie wider - awn], that the Preece of' Widest will SOOn pay a visit to Mar Lodge as the guest of Lord Fife, who hese also had the honer of ro. centlY entertaining Prince Albert Victor, window, sewing; and when she saw Teddy and his funny little team plodding soberly up her front walk, she let her work fall in her lap and laughed until ehe had to wipe her eyes. But Teddy didn't see her. He walked ahead of lais team up to the front door, so they would be sure .to keep the path ; besides, it would be easier going back. Then he turned them around, got on the little snowplough himself, and Star and Bright pulled away sturdily down to the road again, scattering the snow to right and left, and making a nioe, broad, smooth path. Mrs. Bean felt like clapping hor hands. She was standing in the store door wait. ing for Teddy when he came up to go over the path a second tine; and I am sure if Star and Bright had. not been already so red, they must have blushed at her praises. Teddy's own face glowed like a rose. "You won't need to go down but once more," she said, dropping a new hall. dollar into Teddy's mittened hand; "and I'll pay you now. It 18 worth more than 1 the eldest son of the heir apperent There are said to be upwavel of 100 deer forests le Scotleed, oecupymg between them au give, of nether lees than 2,000,000 acres, Five of these termite exceed 4000 aerea lit eXtentt the largeet of teem being that at Mu, which coven not made leo than 100,000 eeree of grouncl. Next in order come ropeetIvely the Bleek. Mount, in Argyllehire, with about 72,000 agree; the Forest of Reay, ip Sutherlaudehire, with 65,000 %erect. Viet of Glinstrethiar- rer, iu Iiiverueselireg with 24000;0end that of Aechnethelleeli, tu, Roo and Crone gety,, of &bent the aeme extent. It is u the cooritie.e of Inverimee ROSS, and Crorogoztb that, according to an autheritee tive aecouut publithed lest yeas Mere than three fourthe of the Scottish deer foreete are to be fauna. Not to a thallosv or ecantily filled puree does it fall to own or rent a deer forest Evecea omen slomaiu of the kind. will command a, rent of 000 per anuum, oud for the Malmo aereage of which an Antericeu gentlemee, ‘Viusees, ia the losee, an eenuel rent, of more thau X12,0110 paid. ELBR0B8 AND XAB,TidaS OF INVEN- Them has been en ornery re:eta means . Winona 'maxim he ineludee four o of the fiuot foreets irc Sentinel within n ate, and, being, uaturally +amble to Ye in more than one houee at a time, love he °there etnoecupled. Yet 18 18 amiutain. ed, on the other handl by his friends, thal the Baltimore millionaire spends more reeziey in eleetland than four or five wealthy Eng. nehmen would. collectively disburse under (limner eireemeintsees. There appeers to be bettertoundation for complaint egeinat Mr. Wine= if it be true that be attempt; by absorbing and occupying an enormoua area ground to confine the deer to his own hills, or, in ther words, to pro, whole ranges oi mountains as sauctu. u. In the winter of lat a body of hill —or, to give them the right name Naehera—broke one night into Mr. WI. eanetuttry at Kintail awl killed men. teen of Ids deer. It was alleged that on the ground eo invaded the American lessee had net allowed a shot to be fired for four or five years. The onslaught melte upon it by an organized band of trespassers was regarded as a protest against the system of sanctu- aries in deer forestu which has always been tupopular in the Highlands. Much would it autonish tho lairds and clansmen who were "out in the Forty five' in other words, took part in the Jaco- bite Rebellion of 1745—eould they be made aware of the amazing prices now paid for barren hilisides, mosses, heather clad slopes and lonely forests, which in their time could not have been let for W. a aquas° mile. Sir. John Ramsden for instance, 18 said to have expended nea.:ly g200,000 during his resi- dence in the Highlands. There are many English lessees of moors and deer forests who apetul £5,C00 a year or more for the pleasure of killing moor game and, deer, or hooking selmon and grilse in the "Lend o' Cakes." Swift express trains, which con- nect Aberdeen, Inverness and Perth with the British metropolis, lame added bleated - ably to the value orestates in North Britain which were once abandoned to the scream of the curlew and the undisturbed reign ef the golden eagle. George and Robere Stephenson. were born; TION. and the other yet mere wonderful, is the Britannia Bridge, which at Menai Straits, on the Welsh coast, leaps higia across a broad inlet of the ocean at Beth an elevation that vessels of large burdens in full, sail eau pass beneath its lofty arches. ROPE= STEPEENSON, TEE IniinclE.noiLDEE. It will be remembered that while George Steplemoon, the noble -hearted mventor of • the railway locomotive, Was still struggling 411 these bridges were bailt on What is for a livelihood, he lost Ins young wile, who left behind an only infant son. • A famous father is seldom, followed by a son equaIly femme. But tb,e little boy who was thus left motherless became- in course of tittle not lees eelebrated th,an Ceecirge Stephenson The two names stand eide by side in the bright roll a the benefactors of their age, ttetas they two worked side by eide for many years, together laboring upeu and finally 34:Idyll.% the problem of the loponeo. tive, and. winning many other brilliant entitle euceesses. The storyof Rebert Stephenson, indeed, le i not less nterest/up- and. /Aspiring than thee of his father. Lft without a. mother's render ore, the boy se a very earlyage be. germ hie father's intimate companion, and was the joy and pride of hist father's life, Prom the first he reveated a quick, bright mind, and to hie father's great delight show- ed a tote for study, mei especially for me chanice. George Stephensoie had not yet become rick or Menem. le waa still plod- ding, with cheerfol indaatry, at his shoe. mening end doelemaktog, varying these occupations with reading eeimatifie hooka and cooetructiug made. He bed leateed by his' own experience whet aa obstacle ignoratiCe of books was to getting on in die world ; andsq, nal aa Seen al Robert was old emeugh to go to recline!, to imbool bewae Itoroarlably Gaoa Bass Fishin. Fishing throngh the ice in the numerous small lakes in the northern part of balm% is indulged in by roany for plenum and profit. .ilue the residents at "The Lakes," five miles west of here, have dropped on to a plan that makes the building of a gbh dimity unnecessse7. The =duet, which le a. numerous quantity in the largest of the two lakes, has honeycombed tho peaty eon on its meant with dens, fromeach of whieh he has dug a email canal a little below its level into the lake. One of a petty broke into one of those muskrat dens the other day, when it was found to be full of lake bees, Over a bushel of the finest of fiah were taken out of the den. The report of the remarkable find sent others there, and. the seareli bee been iirce waited with vigor and varying auceess, some of the done having yielded even more than the anat. Opinions as to the cause of the fish seeking Mimeo in the holes along the bank vary. Some weed that it is the nature of the bass to hole up in this way, while others claim them 181s a liah trap made by the muskrat, who closes up his canal when the trap is full of fish and uses them for food during the winter. In either case, the residents at the lakes are living fat on the gamiest and best fish in Indiana waters. A SHOCKING FAT ATJTY. An Unconscious thisplial Patient Marled Down an Elevator Shaft and Etlled. NEw Yon, Feb. 2. —Charles MeLene, a young Scotchman, entered the Roosevelt hospital on Monday to have an operation performed on his knee joint. Yesterday be was them from the ward. to which he had been assigned to the operating room, two floors below, where he was put ander the influence of ether, and the knee was attend- ed to. After the operation, and while the patient was still under the influence of the ether, the orderly in charge ran oub the stretcher, which was on wheels, and on whioh the patient lay, intending to take McLane on the elevator to his ward, two floors above. Thinking the elevator was at the floor where he had his patient the order- ly pushed the stretcher into the shaft, and the elevator not being there, :McLane, still sound asleep, was hurled to the cellar with the stretcher. He died a few hours later. Last evening while MoLaue was dying, his friends were informed that he was doing well. • A Brutal Assault, BARBIE, Feb. 2.—Rev. Mr. McConnell, Presbyterian minister, Graigvale, was the subject of a brutal assault the other night. The rev. gentleman was returning from the Presbytery, Barrie, and had just left the train to go to his house which is only a short distance from the station, when he was fol- lowed by a man'narned John. Gregg, who knocked hini down and kicked him about the body so that he is badly hruised, and it is believed one of his ribs is fractured. Mr. McConnell was picked up and taken to the house ot Mr. Crow, close by, and was fol- lowed by Gregg, who tried to break in and renew the attack. Gregg is one of a number who went into the church at Craigvale about a year ago and made a great disturb- ance, nearly frighteuing a lot of women to death, and for which he was given six months in the county jail. The aseault upon Mr., McConnell is therefore in the na- ture of revenge tor that imprisonment. kent. Bat this Was not all the early education 18 haa. A.t NeWettetle,. a few Milea from thein home, there wee a nbrery for working people, to which George Ste barmen get ad- inittauce tering SOO. Oat o eeleed incurs, them you miglit /ewe aeon litIle Ronsee 11 was after the introductlen in 1813 of celled the "tubular principle—an idea, vented by Robert Stepheueon himself. The main etructure of the tubular bridge come prises a tunnel of wrought -iron, within -Which the railway trains pass toa4 fro, The Brittamia bridge has four of these tun- nels or tubes, each two bemired and sixty feet long. Besides these bridges Stephen. smibuilt one over -the Damietta: bele of the Nile, in Egypt, and another at Beleat- al.Saba, 18 th18 same couutry. Even such vest labors did not eithaust Robert Stephelumedi energiee, Wbile su. perviaing the beildieg et his bridgea 18 had lime to st_uoly various systemsof waterworks, to help Sir Joseph Penton iu his designs for the great first World's Exhibition 18 ayde Park, and to take his seat in revile- ment, where his soieutifie knowledge enabled him to be especially useful, He was also a member of many learned and. selensiee (moieties, in all of whdeb he took an active park Nor amid all hie teem slid he for, get the Mixable place of leis birth, He took down t1se. cottage in which he woborie,and caused, buildinge to be ereCted On the spot where it hail stood, which -were used as a school for poor baye and girls, and. fora Me- Clittnies' inetitute, This great and good man died at the early aged fifty-six, and was la4 to ret In Weatniinieter Abbey airmeg the meet famous kluge, nobles, pieta, and scientieta of the Englaud lee hed, 80 nobly eerved, The Birth of Bowing. trudging on the teed to the big town, ra. pairing to the library, reerlieg for an hour or tWQ, and then retureling home again. IA the winter oveubge he would Mt dove, at the cozy coal, fire eppeeite hie father, mid would carefully repeat to him whet he had been reeding at the library, Si the boy in e way taught ille hardeverking tether, wbile impressiug upoa his own mind the results of his reading. Not only did they eteely together, they also made inotlels and plane ter ineehinery together. Robert pro. ved to be amazingly quid; and ept in hie praetleal work. Ouce he made a ve • rate emelial, which his fetherdeliehted d ea the well over the door of his little cettse. ea hen Roberti was Afteee he went to work in the eame colliery where his father eves now employed aeeugineer. After he &lie work was over, every eveuing was apent by the two in etuilying, or la clicseues. higuseM eubjecte with each other. They bad very (adding eigurnente GM to the power of bttaio, and as tJ tbe possibility of applylog is to loeemotiou. Already in both minile the locomotive.was be:Oujda; to mire The Central Bank's Viethns. As in .all cases of bank -wrecking, many instances of suffering calmed are reported. If it were mile the rich and well-to-do that were injured by these smash-ups, the reason for regret would not be nearly so apparent, but it is the poor that experience the pangs. In one instance we know of an office boy whose savings and scrapings of three years, representing a hoarding of half a dollar a week, were swept away. In another, we know of a poor woman who had invested her all, with the fond illusion that some day her innocent little children would be happy in reaping the benefits of her frugality. In another we know of the collections of a firm, wile were behind with their employees, being limb just when they had scraped up enough to divide something between their men, and twenty fatnilies were given more misery to endure. Instances of poor people having lost money intended to make payments on houses, furniture, pianos, etc., are umerous. And while this has been the result, theNvreckers'the causes of all this misery, thanks to thelaw's delays, have sought safety in flight mad will probably never be brought to account. If the moral of the thing were to be heeded and poor people would be cautioned henceforth not to trust their money to any but absolutely safe repositories, we could almost cease to re- gret that the calamity happened ; but it will not, and the next bank that goes up will re- veal exactly the same state of things. What, then, is the good of hoisting the danger sig- nal if people persist in disregarding it ? • The Far Reaching. the Coe:seek trouser as a presentable rneut for society that tile dandy began te look /epee a wager boat as an accede/ea ep- endage to a MAP of faccleion wile might not 0 able 18 keep a yacht, or who had a. pre - formica for exerelee taken on die water to that On foot or horeebaok coudned to terra firma. It Is easy to see that it would aome. times be more convenient tojoie with °there le the use, of a beet, aed so gradually elute would be formed and a rivalry spring up, For several ye= the favourite form winch tide emulation took wee that of the attempt w a groat Aumber of Mike in a given -generally for a wager. The old domes of the Seoteing .114agaz..im reeord 11 exploite hetweeu 11520 and or iustance, Lord Newry, with lite, rowed frOnl Oxford to 15 caueecutiva Were, and. in 152$ /Beers of the Guards cavered the same (Betel:co in 15 Imam 45 minutes. 4. grew of Weetreineter boye, be 1$23, rowed from their boathouse to Winamie and bed; 18 21 hours, seven of wbieb were emieutried in hake and refretionent Probably the great. animeompliehed form d obelus. Ludo so o by little (ma et feat lu this him was thee Steplieneon cerefully horded his exviogie by a weterman named William, who rowed until he bad enough to sewt Bohed to Elio- from N%atericei Bridge to Oreveeena, up to burgh, to the weiversity there. It is true Redmond, aud down again to Waterloo, that the pupa man only resneinea at see nithout getting out of his beet, In 50 se- Perfume of a good name heralds the claim that Patnam's Painless Corn Extractor is a sure, certain, and painless remedy for corns. Fifty imitations prove it to be the best. At druggists. univeratty elE months t but during that brief time he la sad to have done ea mush timely. bag as meet college boys do in three yearn Proud. indeed was his father when Robert returned front Edinburgh with the prize for mathematics. It is said that Robert teemed how to write ehorthand before going to Ed- inburgh, and that while at the unworthy he took down every looters that he hoard, word for word. George Stepheneen had now matured his plan for a reitway locomotive, and had es- tablished a factory for banding locometivea at Newcastle. Rebert now jawed him, aed, for two years worked hard. to make the ma- chine a practicable one. Then his health broke down from over -work, and he took a long voyage to South America. But Ile did, not spend tits time while aevey iu idleness and pleasure molder*. Ever earnest of pur- pose, and 'Menai:11 interested in the pro duets and forces o the world, he visited the gold and diver mines, fouuded a mim- ing eompany, and planned the machinery tw After an absence of three yore he return. ed to England to find his father prepFing to rnalto the great experiment of running locomotive by steam. He threw himself with all the energy of his nature into the project, and did more perhaps than even his father to perfect the first successful locomotive the Rocket. This engine receiv- ed the prize of five hundred. pone& offer. ered by the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. It may well be auppos. ed that Robert exulted as greatly as his father when at last the little Rocket sped lately with its first train from Mantheeter to Liverpool. But though the world is probably indebt- ed as much to Robert as to George Steph- enson for the inestimable gift of steam loco- motion by land, the son won yet greater renown by Ins later triumphs as an engineer. For some years he devoted himself to lay- ing out and building railway lines in his own country, Belgium, Norway, Switzer- land, Germany, Canada, Egypt, and India. Honors and wealth were showered upon him by the grateful nations which he thus serv- ed. By the time he had reached middle age he might have retired to a, life of ease and enjoyment. But Robert Stephenson loved worm ; idleness would have been torture to his vigorous and untiring brain. He now turned his youthful energy to the construction of great bridges, and in this pursuit he achieved many very remarkable triumphs. Those of my readers who have trevelled in Canada, and have visited Mont- real, cannot have failed to gaze with won- der at the mighty Victoria Bridge which spans the St. Inwrence near that historic city. This noble structure, with the graded roadways leading to it on either bank, Cov- ers a space of but little short "of two miles. It has been well said that " in its gigan- tic strength and majestic proportions there is no structure to compare with it in ancient or modern times." It really consists of a series of twenty-five great tubular bridges, with a vast central span springing more than three hundred feet. The iron work which the bridge easily uplifts in the air weighs no less than ten thoueand tons, and the piers comprise stone -work each of eight thousand tons weight. Ibmay be safely de- clared that thie Victoria Bridge, designed and built by the bold genius of Robert Ste- phenson, dwarfs all the mightiest works of . Roman engineering. Two other bridges of world-wide fame were built by Stephenson. One is the "highland bridge" which spans the river Tyne at Newcastle very near where both ende leo than twelve hours. The style of exhibition wee not, however, likely to a :tidy the ambition of boasting men, and, before Iougonatedies were of eon. stant °commie, not only in eiogle bolo, but in pairs, fours aua other verietiee of racing craft leos generally known in the prom's day. The orlieet eight oared race would aeom to be ono between a Lendon crow and Chriet Church, Oxford, for Z200, in 1628. It WaS rowed from Weetmineter to Putney, and wouby London by 70 yards. The following year the first race between Oxford and Cambridge IThivericities took oleo ou Henley Rene.h, a dietance of two milea and a, quarter, aud was won by Ox - turd. itt the winning crew wore Words. worth, Bishop of St. Andrew's; Gander, the late Dean of Norwich ; Canon *ea. mantle and a gentlemen who died this year, full of age arid honour, as un exeellent clergymen and a, skilled 1recler of ;tattle— Mr, :Stauitorth. ln the Cambridge eight were Chancellor Bayford, Memel°, the historian, the Dean of Ely and Selwyn.— .81aerecood's bfagaTine. Goa is Gooa, nr L. A. MbItIMOS. God is good, and Love eternal Thoy, who trust Itisiruice, shall win Promised rest, diviue 1 blown:tail Victory over self and Sin ; Find the hoods of bondage Shout, the "Detert-joutney " o'er,— Gala the " Promised Land" of Itenven,— Dwell with Him forevermore Exasperated Wife—" What do you mean by coming home at this time in the morn- ing ?" Inebriated. liusband—" Taint my fault, m' dear. The fellers had all gone ; didn't have any one to talk to." Bradstreet's reports a total of 347 failurea throughout the country for the week ending January 13th, against 308 for the week previous. Thirty-five of the number were in Canada, twenty more then the preceding week. A Philadelphia grocer advertised to give every thirteenth customer the amount of his purchase free. The plan seemed a success at first and business thrived, but one day the boys put up a job on hint. Twelve of them walked into the store, and each made a trifling purchase; the whole oill for the dozen was lesa than a dollar. Then the thirteenth man walked in and ordered a barrel of su zar, ten pounds of tea, tonpounds of coffee, and. a box of cigars. The grocer faced the music like a men, but at once took down the sign and put up another saying that the offer had been with drawn. The CoMmissioner of the Labor Bureau of Michigan has just made a report which gives some startling statistics of the condition of the farmers of that State. His figures indi- cate that probably one ball the farming lend in the State' and possibly more, is heavily encumberedwith mortgages. Of the 90,803 farms invesggated 43,079, or about 47 per cent., were in whole or part, plastered with mortgagee. Worse still, the mortages amount to from 55 to 60 per cent. of the assessed valuation of the land. The rate of interest averages as high as 7.2per cenk and a commission 0110 per cent. is usually charged by the agents who secure the loan. Thus if a farmer borrows 51,000 he actually receives • only 5900, though he has to pay interest on $1,000. Many a man before making a mort- gage feels as if he were soon to own the Na- tional surplus; but it dosen't take long until he feels as if he had soon to pay the Nation- al debt.