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"I Will Praise The Lord."
nY L, A. atomism.
" will sing of thy mercy in the morning"
—Psalm ix 16
My Fathher, this morning my epirlt is prais-
in
Tby Fatherly keeping eo bounteous and free,
en gladness a song of thankegtving is rain
mg
For p, rdon and mercy and favors from Theo,
Through the nightThou has shielded and
given sweet slumber;
Each pathway in Dreamland with angels was
trod
Ny soul for Tby blcssinge acd ,gifts beyond
number
With rapture adores Thee, my Father and
(sod.
Erich day that Thou giveet is token of kind.
nese;
Is proof cf Thy Fatherly keeping and love
Oh keep me from wasting, in ro11yadd blind -
toughen it, if gravy Is not desired jun:
add a bit of butter to the shaved meat and
noir until all in heated ; season, and it is
ready to serve orta hot platter.
A deliodous eon gingerbread Is made b
pouring on a piece of butter the size of a
walnut a half teacup of hotwater, adding,
when the butter hi well melted, ono on
molasses, one teaspoonful of eerie, one yea -
spoonful 9f ginger, and sifted flourto mike
a thin better. Bake in' fiat tin,, In show
oven, Ie very nine eaten warm: with
butter.
COLD WATER CAKE —0 le cup :of auger,
ore and a half oups of flour, half oup of
cold water, two eggs, butter the size of an
egg, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
half teaspoenfnl of soda.
Unpleasant Camping Out.
Tby bountiful gifts, that may crown me On the plains of Afghanistan, in Antral
above. •Asia, a joint commission of Eoglishmen and•
Russians is elosly laying down the eoctnd•
ni "g, ary line wbioh, it in hoped, will mare the
tartheet limit of Reesian progress south -
vi
ard ox the r rad tower.' the English poo•
sessions in India.
A correspondent who is with the commie.
sion writes to the London "Pioneer' au ac-
count of the cold weather whioh has keen
experienced. Those who have enjoyed the
delights of damping out in the long summer
vaoatlon will perhaps shiver a little at this
story of tent life in the valley of the Oxus :
�y /�1 � -r-�r••� Oa the night of the 23rd of December the
H nous ± 1iOLD. thermometer went down to 2 deg, below
zero. "One a breath froze' into ice on one's
pillow, and many of us found it-•diffioult to
sleep deepite•all the clothes we could •pile
on, I my;,elf 'was . awoke toward morning
by a loud report; whioh I found wan caused
by the bursting ofa bottle of what had been
drinking water, but whioh had turned into
a blook of los and burst under my bed, and
once awake the cold was too intense to get
to sleep again. At nine in the morning the
thermometer was still' only at 6 dog., and
it oontinuedtto freeze all the day through,
despite the sun. In the afternoon I was out
shooting with the sun full on my face, yet
my breath froze on my moustache the whole
time, The poor cook, I think, had the
hardest time of it. His eggs, he says, are
all frozen hard, andhe oan make nothing of
them ; and further, as feet as he roasts hie
joint on one aide it freezes, he says, on the
other. I confess, though, that I did not
witness the latter, Writing with ink, of
course, is an utter Impoaslbility—every ink
pot in camp contains simply a solid block
of ice, and it is no use in thawing it, ae it
freezes on the paper before it has time to
dry. I am writing this, therefore, in pen-
cil. It is wonderful how well the men and
followers are standing the cold, but a liber-
al issue of meat and tea and sugar seems to
make them all proof against any thing. I
must say, though, that they are precious
quiet in the meanings, and loath indeed to
get up ; their ablutions, too, I dare say, are
few and far. between, but really''I cannot
blame them. When it comes to our having
to thaw our tooth brush every time we have
to use it, and when everything around is
frozen hard, little wonder that the poor
Hindu is chary of touching water. The
bheesties, I think, I pity most, They can
fill'their mussucks certainly at the running
canal, although even that is frozen over,
but b
Household Hints. by the time they geffbaok into camp the
water they are carrying is frozen, and ab•
Everybody batt a cure for sore throat, solntely refasee to run out of the musanok
but simple remedies appear to be more again.
effectual. Salt and water is need by many
as a gargle, but a little rum and honey dis-
solved in sage tea is better. An application
of clothes wrung out in hot water and ap-
plied to the neck, changing as they begin
to cool, has the most potenoy for remov-
ing inflammatie nything we ever tried.
It should be kept p for a number of hours ;
during the evening in usually the most oon-
venlent time for applying this remedy...,
A small piece of resin dipped in water
whloh•ls placed In a vessel cn a stove will
add a peculiar property to the room, which
will give great relief to persons troubled
with a cough. The heat of the water is
sufficient to throw off the aroma of the
resin, and gives the same relief that 'is,af-
forded by a combustion of resin, It is pre-
ferable to combustion, because the evapor-
ation is more durable. The same resin
may be used for weeks.
If you wise to clean,; your spice infill,.
grind a handful of raw rice in it, The par.
tioles of spice and pepper, or of ocffee, will
net adhere to It after the rice has passed
through it.
Half a teaspoonful . of common .salt dis-
solved in a little Bold water and drank will
fnetantly relieve "heartburn," or dyspep-
sia, Dr. Vigorous recommends a glass of
hot lemonade every hour or balf-hour as
an easy, agreeable, and efficient treatment
for: diarrhea. Never wash the ; feet in
warm water except just before retiring'
cold water with a little ammon or salt
dropped in is mach pleasante and more
healthful. Coarse brown paper soaked n
vinegar and plated on the forehead is good
for a sick headache. If the eyelids are
gently bathed in cool water the pain in the
head is generally allayed.
Although it is a good plan sugar In oan-
ned fruit at time of sealing it is not maces-
ary to keep it from spoiling. The essential
thing is to exclude the air.: Whore this' le,
not done the fruit will turn. soot and
the additionalt sugar will only make the
vinous fermentation more active and thor-
ough. The. cane should be examined fre-
quently, but without being mach handled:'
Any that show loosecovere or any mold'
on the top should be' need` before spoiling
further. •
The gladn het coterie with the sunlight of
mor
g
That abtoea in the dew that be•ory stain the
hills,
Ia aeon in the dowers the meadows adorning,
Is heard is the song that the mead ow -lark
trills.
This gladness and sunshine and music and
eweetneee.
Oh grant me ! let love all my bring enthrall I
Then thought, ao' d and action, in blessed com-
pleteness
Shall praise the Beneficent Giver of ell.
Uousekeepinz In Japtbn.
A lady writing 'from : Japan : says :
" Housekeeping here has no trials. The
worn and vexed spirits of American chate-
laine ought to rest in Japan after death.
Capable and faithful servants are plenty
and cheap. Our establishment boasts five,
and for these wo pay about what two
would cost in New York. I do not visit
my kitchen once a month, never give an
order outside of a spoken wish, yet the
domestic maohinery moves with an ease
and perfection unattainable at home by al-
most any effort on the part of the mistress.
The manners of the servants aro amusing,
not to say startling, to an American ao-
ouetomed to the cheerful familiarity of her
native help. Every night at bedtime our
five retainers appear, prostrate themselves
in surcession to the earth, and retire. This
ie to with, me goodnight and to renew
their testimony ef profound respect and
pleasure over the privilege of serving me.
It was difficult at first to preserve the
necessary dignity for the ceremony, but
now I am as majestically gracious as any
other potentate, £he other day, on one of
my rare visite to the kitchen, a hairpin be-
oame loosened and dropped without my
notioe. I had been seated in my own room
only a few momenta when my houseman
entered, bearing a small salver, whioh he
presented to with many genuflections.
Fancy my surprise to see a little hair -pin
upon It, and to learn from my proud but
embarassed servitor that it had fallen to
the kitchen E �-.fe'om my head. After-
ward I found Vire had been a discussion
as to who should pick it up, and almost a
quarrel ae to whom belonged the inesttm
able honor cf bearing it to its owner 1"
Cr ce Recipes.
ROASTED Po Separate eaoh loin of
the joint and make'an incision into thick
part of the meat in which to plass the
staffing, made as follows : Mix one cup of
bread -crumbs with one chopped onion,
pepper, salt, sage, or summer savory, and
one-fourth ef a cup of hot water, Press in.
to the meat, sew the edges together to
keep It in place, and bake it in a quick
en.
A FARM DINNER IN FEBRUARY —Boiled
ham, boiled potatoes, hot corn bread,
pickles, celery, buttermilk' or mid water
no bettor, no denote. Rule for Dorn bread :
One heart of buttermilk, three eggi : t
thoroughly, three' epoonfulo of mlted
shortening, a good pinch of salt, soda to,
neutralize, the "acid of the buttermilk (the
quantity must be learned by experience)
one cupful of flour, and cornmeal enough
to make a rather stiff batter, Now I can
not say two or three cupfuls, for I do not
know the size of the cups or the kind of
meal you will use. By making corn bread
of one kind several times in suooeaeion one
learns how to proportion everything,
Bake l i a quick oven.
An excellent dish for breakfast or sapper
is made by shaving cold steak, pr (nicked
is just as good. Make a gravy by dusting
into the hot spider a tablcepoonfal of flour
and ono of butter ; when this browns, pour
about a cupful of water from the teakettle,
stirring briskly the while ; this 1s now ready
for the shaved beefy which will only re-
STODDARD'S MULE.
A Story of Bow It Broke Ferryman Dag.
get's Business.
•
Many years ago down in Idaho, during a
gold excitement, a good many men went
into the country to make money outside the
gold• hunting industry. Their idea was to
make the old fellows delve for the gold
while they appropriated it afterward, Rollin
Daggett, afterwards Nevada's congressman,
says the Carson (Nev) Appeal, established a
ferryboat on a email oreek and named the
plane "Death's Ford," at the same time in-
venting a ninety legend to the afoot tbat it
was thus named bicauee so many lives had
been lost in the attempt to arose it. Tne
stream was not over a dozen yards wide and
the water nowhere over two feet deep, but
he; rigged: up a flatboat and pulled lc back
and forth by a rope contrivance. Whenever
prospectors crossed be regaled them with
horrible tales of the treaohery of the stream,
and the remorselees quicksands which had
drawn so many 'men and mules to terrible
deaths.
In the night when he ferried people ever
he would caution them not to get too near
the edge of the boat, as a fall overboard was
certain death.- By letting the dim Mellen,
tern go, out and-; making slow, time'he fre-
quently impressed the passengers with the
idea that the steam wile half a mile wide;
For night trips he charged $5, but if the
wind was high and the weather bad he
struck eargnine prospecters for much larger
some. In the daytime $1 was his modest
charge.
He went along in this way for several
months, the men who rushed. to the hills
looking upon him as the benefactor to his
rape by tine conquering of so formidable an
'obstacle ttq;travel as " Death's Ford." Oae
day Charlie Stoddard, the promoter, ap-
peared on the bank with a mule and board-
ed the flatboat to cross, In the midst of
the stream, just when the ferryman was
telling ,now damnation's the place was, the
`mole grew restless and°fell overboard. One
leg',oaught'en arepe`and he got 'his "head
under water, and, stable to extricate him-
self, was.drowned, When he was out loose
holey there in -the middle of " Death's
Ford'half out of water so that all who
came along naw what a miserable ahem the
fiery was, and that any four -footed animal
could walk across. Doggett tried to get
the mule away but he was too heavy to
budge, and so he lay there in eight for
weeks, until D.rggett's business ae ferryman
was ruined. That's the reason old Dag
hardly ever speaks to Charlie S :oddard when
he media him, -
Celestials in British Oolumbia,
Tho Victorians have a very sharp way of
dealing with the cheap labor difdioulty, , rho
vessel le allowed' to bring to port more than
ono John Chinaman for every hundred torts
of its size. Consequently a ship' offourteen
hundred tone . would only be allowed to
parry fourteen of the heathen ones: We
have just seen in a file of Vioterlan papers
that a 'wised of that size wee' found to have
fifty Chinamen on board, and 'the captain
WAS muloted in a penalty. of $500, Every
Chinaman Doming to Victoria hoe to take
out papers of naturalization and pay a poll
tax.,. But' the Mete Caleetiale post their
nateraltzetion papers to their friends in
Chine, who come over with them, and thus
,escape the tax.
Lay not thy heart open to every one ; but
treat of thy affairs with the wies, and such
as fehr God, '
W e must have love toward all,. brit fantl=
quire to be heated through, at boiling will . Clarity with all is net expedient,
THE LIMEKILN OLUB.
Just prevlone to the opening of the meet -
ng Eider Juneberry Devitt and Judge Hold-
en* Johnson got intoa dispute as to
whether the orow-bar belonged to the Glee
del Epooh or the Drift Pellet and after
tome hot words had paned the Elder punch,
ed the Judge en the nore and reamed a
oraok on the jaw in'return, ,Brother Gard
nes name In as they were pulled apart, but
he seemed to take no notice of the affair and
nothing was said until the meeting opened,
Chen he looked around the hall and on•
ennead
" If Elder Juneberry Davis an' Judge
Holdback Johnson am in de hall to -night
I should like to spoke a few remarka to
'emu
$ Ith gentlemen walked forward to the
platform with anxiety depicted on their
faces, and the President continued :
"E'der Davis, when did dat Glacial Epooh
take place 1'
" 1 dunno, Rah."
"Judge holdback, what do youknow
bout de Drift Period?"
"I reckon dar' was a good deal o' driftin'
aroma', rah,"
"Yee, I repose ear' was. Didn't happen
to drift any Caters an' meat your way, did
it9
"No, sate"
" Elder Devitt, did dat Glacial Epooh pay
up any of your back rent or git new shoes
fur deohillen?"
"No, sah.•'
" Det's 'null; you kin boaf sot down.
While I blame two old members like yon
for Botha' a bad example befo' de club, I
mast at de same time acknowledge dat it am
only de weakness of human natur'. Moan'
of us would sooner fight over de alga of de
world dan to resent a straight insult.
i0 We would argy longer to convince a
man about de sire of N uah's ark dan to
convert him to our religun of de present
day.
" We let our ohll'en go bar'fnt while wo
hunt fur evidence to convict de Gauls of
shiftleeenees.
" We spend hours assertin' an' denyin'
dat de moon am inhabited, while fifteen min -
uteri used to fix de bottom hinge on de
front gait am looked upon as time frown
away.
" While we sot an' wonder why Sodom
and Gomorrah didn't behave delrselvee an'
escape deetruokahun, de ole woman scrapes
de bottom of de flour-bar'l, an' de fiah goes
out in de kitchen stave.
" JIet what aige de orow-bar belongs to,
or who invented it, cm why It was invented,
am queshune which needn't trouble any mem-
ber of die club De faok dat de crow -bar
am heah wld us should satisfy all. Let us
now purceed to attaok de bizueee which has
called us together.
THANKS.
The Secretary announced the receipt of a
Japanese newspaper called the Rom ji Zug-
ehi, published at Tokio. The erooeedinga
of the Lime•Kiln Club at one of its January
meetings was as follows :
"Brother Gardner konniohi no arisama
tarn kaki no gotoku ni gaikokn korai no
ehigeki wo ukete, bnmmei no ehlmpo wa hi
wo ote sumiyaka naru ni, abin-llbuteu no
masumaan wage ni puna shi kiteru wa
ikiol no ahikaraahimuru tokoro nari to su
Giveadam Jones ni wage kokumin ga sono
shin-jibateu ni menthe wo kndaeu of atari,
onoone katte shidai naru melt wo modifies,
onoone tekito no imi wo arawasn koto atm
wazern toki wa ; mei-jitsn aside, ni soi wo Servants in India.
shoznrn mono zokuzokn idete, sherd ni "In India," said a gentleman with an Or
ikanarn keka wo shez'nka bakarf ehirubek- iental tan on his faoe, "the customs with re
arozaru nari. Omou ni, ehorai wa masa- gard to the servants are somewhat peculiar.
mann bull jo no hanzaten wo rake, tsui ni When a man is invited to a dinner party, or
koeei no gakueha woyPickles Smith wa S .m- is sitting at the table in his boarding-house,
uel Shin keno kotob wa nenI to in imi wo his own 'bearer,or body servant, stands
shimeen mono narrt�fi}l•'6; kono kotoba ni wa behind his chair to wait upon him. The
b:il `'
euehn urn ga Izu beki ka nado to !chi exigencies of the feast often
make it noose-
ji ikku no tame iii" Bono imi wo eenaaku eery for a bearer to serve somebody other
earn ui hijo on knehin wo yosirn naran, than his master, but en such occasions the
Shika nomi narazu moji no nan-f wa Ikkoku guest is expected to overlook any ehertoom.
no keizaf ni oite tasho no kankef ari to au. Inge of which the attendant may be guilty;
Waydown Bebee oyoso ga gakumon wo thug- for in India the rale, ''Insult my servant,
yo sono ohishiki wo bantamBurn ni afar- and you !molt me,' Is acknowledged ev'ery-
ite, dal iohi ni sono shugyo hattatsa no na. where. Once at a boarding-house on the
kadachi tarn bunji ni eite tadachi ni sono Chouringee road, in Calcutta, I saw a bear -
nil we jubun ni akiraka ni Burn koto wo er who was serving a stoat, choleric Englleb.
ezurn togs wa. man with court y, spill a little of the Dopper
On motion of Judge Baldy Cabiff the Seo colored mixture on his trousers. Faricusly
rotary was instructed to return the thanks turning around, the angry Briton found that
of the club to Seko Naohlko, Tanaka Tope- the delinquent was not his own bearer, but
tare and Romaji Kai, the editors and pro- the empioyee of a gentleman sitting at the
prietore of the Romaji Zesshi. other etde of the table. ' Well, sir,' he said
DON'T KNOW HIM, this ; vie -a -vie, ' I won't kick your servant,
A communication from Talbot, Mich,, but, by gad, sir, I'll kick my own 1" and an
stated that : ' astonished and innocent bearer, who was
" About four weeks ago . a colored man twenty feet away when the offence was tom•
amok this town who gave hie name ae Gen milted, was ienominionely kicked out of .the
room•"
likely that he was one of the dozen impos• FEEDING ON HUMAN PLEB
tors, traveling around the country and using°
the name of the club to farther' their e
CHAroman Gagman.
A petition signed by sixty-four col
residents of Luneubur , N. S et lort
following foots : g ' s h
1. y B for 'Tutt ei hod o intellectual prog
snigionh,
t
2 Ts, bey had no place to hang on
3 They felt that they could do thew
continent good.
4. Their watohword was; "Da Ta
Candie Nebber Explodes "
And they would hhutbly petition that.
?hority be granted them to organize a Li
Kiln Clu`o, and a nharter granted the
work to the thirty-first degree,
Tee petition was recoommendad by
Warden and Couneellora of Luuenh
County,` together with Capt. A. J Wolf
Watson Oxner, F B Wade, Dr, C. 0.
ken and James Dowling; Oa motto
Judge Caewso the petition was granted
the S,oretary instructed to forward
charter.
Ws. Awful Sutierings of Four Canadian Fisher..
wen in an Open Roat.
orad Full dandle of the terrible
story of . mini'
the baliem have been obtained from only one of
the survivors who ie able to speak of the
res -affair'. The. boat lauded at Louisburg, N,
S., the other afternoon, with two exhausted
o' eurvivors. A ghastly sight met the gaze al
the crowd that. assembled about the boat
hole when from beneath ,the pleco'of oanvae Dov
ering them' in the" stern were brought to
ller light the remaine of James Muponald and
Angie McDonald. The former was in a
au. trfghtfully mutilated condition. The right
me ' arm was missing from the elbow, the throat
m to Was out and' hacked in a sickening manner
and two great pieces of flesh had been chop
the pad, as by`a'knife , from each thigb. In the
m
urg nottoof the boat in a pool of blood, which
,
S, washed' to and fro with the motion of the
Aft- waves, lay three
n of LARGO PIECES of RUMAN FLESH
and that had been bitten, partly masticated and
the then spat out. The spectacle wan of 'a na-
ture witnessed but once in a•lifetime, and
the feelings of those looking Oa were so
ung wrought with horror that ;be strongest in
the craved turned away, unable to stand it,
on, any longer; The two half -perished eurviv
0e. ore of the terrible voyage are Colin Ceishalm,
di. of Harbor Bouohe, N. S., and Angus Mi:-
nia Eechern, of Long Feint; Strait of Canso
Ohisholm told the following story ; " We
01 belonged to the American fishing soh000e`x
m- Cicely H. Low, Captain McKenzie, The
of veesel had fourteen hands altogether, and t
sailed from Gloucester` on Wednesday
March 15. After a fair passage we arrived [e
on the Western banks on the succeeding[
Arran, On the Monday following, about'
eight o'clock in the morning, McE tohern
and myself left the vessel to attend to our:
trawls in company with another dory con-
taining the two MoD inallsr While at liar
work tog suddenly shut down, hidings the
awls
ner,
ther
and
NOT: CARRIED,
Ways own Bebee then offered the follow
preamhle and resolution
" Whereas Medical eoien is haw dem
strated de hack dat de habit of drinkiu' i
water has a tendency to bring on heart
sense, lumbago, liver complaint, ineom
and Mr. Bright's disease; now darfore
"Resolved, Dftdie Limo•Kiln Club n
only abstains from ioe-water deco
in' summer, bat it advisee de cuil'd people
die kentry to do de same thing,"
Prof. Ambidexter Smith, Giveadam
Jones, Samuel Shin and Sir John Skinner
opposed the resolution, while Elder Toots,
Whalebone Howker, Cnear Johnston and
others favored it, and upon a vote being
taken a tie was the result. Brother Gard-
ner said he did not oare to take the' reepon.
eibility of a deoision on hie shoulders, and
euggeeted ae a compromise that Suniown
Davis be submitted to a series of experi-
ments from May to October to determine
the matter. The suggestion was accepted
and the resolution withdrawn.
MILITARY REPORT
Col, Emotes White, of the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported that his committee
had carefuuy iiveotigeted the subject of
defenses, as required by a late resolution
and had reached the following conclusion :
1 In caee of war the enemy's fleet could
eaity bombard any pity on the coast. We
would therefore suggest that all these cities
be moved back fourteen mile.
2. The enemy would have no trouble in
lending troops on our shortie. The only
trouble would be in getting any off them
alive again. The only suggestion we have
to offer ie that Ben Butler be notified to be
on hand early in the morning,
3 If a new Paradise Hall be erected it
should he placed at least twelve miles from
any spot accees•ble to the gunboats.
4. We don't want a war, but if one hap-
pens to fall out of a tree and hit ns we shan't
run away,
5, It is better to apologize than to get
licked. Ti.is advice is for such nations as
may feel like knocking the chip off our
"shoulder.
The report was accepted and adopted,
and all unfinished business being- planed on
a shelf to dry, the meeting adjourned,
Montgomery Scott, and claimed to be a
member ef the Lime • Kiln Cluh and a cou-
sin of the King of Dahomey. The General
was selling what he termed;' Soott's Death to
Corns,' together with, a cream tooth .panto.
With every: box or bottle sold for twenty-
five ciente he gave a photograph of Brother
Gardner.' . He was here about two `weeks,
and 'then suddenly skipped, Among , the
thirty or' forty colored` people ,wbo`purohas-
ed hie born -salve' every single man has been
rendered a cripple; those who and the
tooth -paste find their teeth "ready „ to
fall out. • Von will Poon receive a visit from
a Talbot lawyer, who will be authorized to
settle this ease with you- club for the num
of $40,000. We are good-natured and long.
suffering, but we propose to put a stop to
this sort of bus_inees.
TWO HUNDRED INDIIGNANT OTI'LE:76"
The Seoretary said that he had oaretully
consulted the rolls, but had failed to find
Four Year of Faithful Service. .
"Patrick, are you sure you can handle a
pair of horses tit they're a little vicious 2"
" Be gorra, I can, sur,"
"H.,w long wore' you in your last plaoo.1"
"Four years, sur."
"That speaks well for you. You don't
drink t"
" Whaisky, do yon mean ? Sure, never a
drop passed my lips durin' all that time,
sur, '
"Good for yon, Patriot. Oh, by the by,
where were you during those four years Y"
" I was in j ail, mo."
-+o -•— w
Phillips' Brooke, of Boston, when rector
of a cburob,in Philadelphia some years ago,
resolved en many palre of • slippers from hie
devoted young lady parishioners that he
the•narne of Gen, Scott thereon, It wee was popularly called theolerfoal centipede,
WBAT'S Atte Tats NOISE AIsD BUSTLE 'ABOUT 1
ro&EIGN ECHOES,
A ,mieelonarya wife writes fr�grn Jaffa that
there hi nothing in the miasitinary boxes
that more delights them tbantdreseed dolls
for the litttie girls in their schools, They
eau never have too many dolls.
An English dean, at the close of a pecten
in which he warned his hearers .of the
speedy end of all things, aeked,for a liberal
contribution to rebuild the tower of the
ohuroh in; which he was preaching.
There is something exquisite in an Ameri,
oan'e reply to the European traveler when
he asked him if he had just crossed the Alps
—" Wal, now you pall my attention to the
act, I guess I did pass stein' ground."
Count Loon Tolstoi, the Russian novelist,
has, it le reported, abandoned literature to
become a ehoemaksr, As a deeply religious
man he has determined to carry out to the
letter the preceptor of the Sermon on the,
Mount.
" Chambermaids" In Mexican hotels are
male Indians, termed mazes. They are
deft and quick, and will hire themselves to
a etranger in the capital for $3 a weak, giv-
ing their employer undivided and very wel-
come service.
A German scientist Herr Lnders, of Ger,
lii?c, has invented a "photographic hat."
It fe a hat which contains a small but cern-.
piete photographic apparatus.
mir pie opening in front of the hat inrwhich
inn lens. By pulling a string the wearer
r .a at any time take an instantaneous pine
of an object t
graph y j h3 wishes.
vessel from our view, Aa thou at the tr
were all set we started to find the schen
and in trying to de so fell In with the o
boat. No answer came to our seinen
we conoluded
WE WERE LOST
We kept in company all day and night and
nntIl noon of the following day, when the.
MoDonalds got into our dory and we set the
other adrift after securing her ears. We
observed a sail but could not attract their
attention. We had neither 1 oel'ner water
and began to suffer awfully. On. Thursday
evening James Mil) maid, whd was more
thinly clad than the rest and haid been grad-
ually growing weaker and weaker from
hunger and exposure, felt that he was dy-
ing, and looking at the three of us from the
stern where he was lylog, _said in a voice I
shall never forget, ' Good ,' by 1 good by,
mates ! I am dying." These were his last
words. We kept his body, thinking the rest
of us might yet be rearmed, We kept on in
the dii action we thought.the land lay, though
every stroke was weaker t an the Last, and
none knew at what moms t one of ns would
give up in despair. On F. day, after James
McDonald died, Angus h oDonald said he
was starving and thirsty, and that ae he
must have something to eat and drink he
was going
TO DRINK JIM'. BLOOD.
He had no sooner utters the words than
he seized his knife �t off vim'
a arm;
Backing some of the blend and eating
some of the flesh. Then looking at
me with hie month smeared and with
a piece of flesh in his band, he asked
me If I would have same, . remarking
at the .time that the blood tasted like cream,
I tasted it, and at once spat it out, saying
if I was to die within an hour. I would neith-
er eat the flesh or drink the blood. In the
afternoon Angus again turned to me and
said : 'I am going to out Jim's throat to
8et some more blood.' I begged him not to
do so, Baying :-" For God's Bake, whatever
else you no, don't out hiefthroat. Do what
you like, but don't do thane" In the morn-
ing we found he had out the dead man's
throat, and, not finding any blood there, had
also out pietism of flesh nut ef his left thigh.
His hunger and thirst not being then ap-
peased, lingua out another piece of flesh ent
of Jim's right thigh and during S 4turday
ATE SEVERAL PIECES.
Mr. McEachern attempted to cat some, bat
oould not. The taste made him 'sick, On
S.ttnrday nfgit, " having kept rowing, we
met a quantity of`drif1 ioe and we were then,
I should judge, sixty miles east poutheaet of
Guyon Island. By this time Angus McDon-
ald, I noticed, was becoming craze and going
aft to try to get him to lay down,, he picked
up an oar and struck me twice, bot not hurt-
ing me much. Sometime afterward McEa-
ohern and myself lay dawn to sleep. At
daylight we awoke, to find that Angus Mo-
Dcnald bad thrown all the oars overboard.
We took the thwarts and paddled through
the ice searching for the oars, and" at last
found five cf teem. All day Snnlay we
rowed through the Ioe ae best our weaknese
would permit us. About noon
ANGUS I IED:. INSANE,
never having spoken atter striking -me the
previous day. As evening drew near we
made out what afterwards proved to be
Guyon Island. but darkness coming on' and
squalls setting in we were then unable to
find it. We lay down to sleep but cold and
anxiety to reach land made sleep impossible.
All night long the waves beat over us, and
when dawn broke at last we were covered
with ice and bardly able to move, but land
was now close by, and by strenuous efforts
we managed to make gradual headway.
About ten o'olook on Monday morning our
dory grounded on the beach of the Leland,
and the;lighthonee keeper, who hail obeerv-
ed us through the ioe, camedownwith histwo
boys and carried us up to hie hoose. Neith-
er of us was able to "walk when we were as-
sisted to land ; the feet of both of us had
turned purple and raw and were' horribly
swollen. After we got into the ice we need
to suck it to allay our thirst, and that;was
the only thing we had in the shape of water
for over eight days. Now it is all over, and
I am very thankful to God' for having been
preserved,"
A Snake Story,
For six menthe a young man �Par-
guwon, who resided at Groat Faille, hae'been
in failing health, deopite the care of his
physicians. ' Among many odd symptoms
vitae that of a peculiar choking eenaatlon,;
.whioh was not understood until ono day a,
snake thrust its head tut of the young man's,
mouth, The sick man called his sister, and:.
elle, wrapping a cloth around her hand,,.
when next the hissing head hppeared, seized.
it, and With's' quick pall landed the venom•
oue reptile at het feet, Her action killed;
her brother. The tail of the snake had
grown into the yonng man's body, and in
tearing it away a blood vessel wae broken,
and the young man bled to death,
If your biography is to� be written, My
eon, do thejwork yourself. If somebody else
ahead write it he might accidentally wan-
der into truth now and then and spoil the
*bole thing. A biography is valuable in tn •
direct ratio to the amount of truth it eon --
tains,
The Presbyterion Church at Loch Kanza
Scotland, duds it hard to get th
kind of a minister it wants, The last can
idate,was dismissed in short order because
he walked with afrivolous gait, The elders
said that his conversation was all right, but
hie walk wae decidedly. heretical,:
A royal battle took plane between a :ball
and a buck, the latter weighing over 200,
pounde, on the farm of the Hon. Oscar Tur-
ner in B .11ard county, Kentucky. The two
were found dead. The bull had received.
three thrusts from the home of the buck, ,
the het being through the heart.
A very intereating df:covery is said to
have been made by tee experts who are now
examining the collection of papyri consist-
ing of many thousand rolls which were,
found at ElFeyoum, in Egypt, and were ac-
quired by the Archduke Rather, The ex-
perte declare that among the rolls aro
several autograph letters of the Prophet.
Mehemet.
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•
Justice of Peace Kurganoweki, of the
Province of Perm, in Remota, while holding
court, was twice interrupted by his wife,
once with the announcement that dinner
wae'rearly, and again that the soup was get-
ting cold, whereupon he fined her three
roubles for disturbing the dignity of his
court, and then paid the money from his
own pocket.
Sir Richard Garth, the chief jnetioe ef
Bengal, has left India, I11 health has
compelled him to retire from the depart-
ment a year before the roompletion of the
usual term. Sir Richard Garth was held
in high esteem, He was regarded as an
able andexcellent judge, and it is proposed
by some leading native noblemen of his.
service to provide a prominent memorial of
him in Calcutta.
Sealing -wax was quite the rage with
fashionable letter -writers six months and
even three months ago, but ultra -fashion-
able women nee it no longer. The rage for
decorating the backs of envelopes with huge
blots of red, blue, black, or green wax, in
which was impressed a monogram or halal,
spread among women generally. So fashion
has now tabooed it and has returned to the
habit of using ready -gummed envelopes.
An Alabama newspaper seriously tells ltee
readers that 4-year-eld Dillie _ Welsh and a
email Jersey calf are great friends. One
day Dille went to an unused well and peep.
ed over the low ourb. The calf" saw her,
and seized her dress in its mouth„ The lit-
tle girl lost her balance and fell over the
curb, but the calf hang on, and for half an
hour held her thus suspended until the child
was rescued. Then the calf was very happy.
Of late years many valuable products
have been got out of coal -tar, Sir Lyon Play.
fair announced lately in Liverpool, that it
has been discovered that a crystal can be ex-
tracted from it, an almost imperceptible
amount of which will fully sweeten a con-
siderable quantity of solid or liquid food, and
that this new sweetener has the advantage
over sugar of passing so rapidly away from
the digestive organs, that it neither fattens
those who take it nor encourages rheuma-
tism. This will be good news to the ditoiples
of Beating who still have a hankering after
en£ar.
In acquiring 'Burmah, England has got
poeeeeeion of vast forests of teak, which,
never plentiful in India, was becoming com-
mercially very rare, ' Of all the woods
grown in the East this is the moat valuable.
it is neither too heavy nor too hard ; it
does not warp or split under exposure to
heat and dampness ; it contains an essential'
it which oh prevents its rotting ander wet
conditions, and at the same time acts as a
preservative to iron and repels the destruc-
tive white ante ; it ie, withal, a handsome
'wood, of several varieties of colon and
grain and takes a good polish.
The Lsnoashire pit -brow girls do not want
to be forbidden from working at the pit -
brows. They say that they wear trousers
because they are moro convenient, that they
are more healthy than factory girls, and
that their work done not demoralize or un-
sex them, bccaue° they are neither de-
moralized nor unsexed. The Vicar of Pem-
berton, who bag taken up their pause,
threatens to bring up 500 of these girls in a
special train, and put them in evidence be-
fore the House of Commons, ' If the girls
like their work, why should they be legisla-
ted out of it?
He said : "Gentlemen of the jury, charg-
ing a jury is a new bueiness to me, as this
is my first case. Yon have heard all the
evidence, ae well as myself ; you have also
heard what the learned c-nneol have said.
If you believe what the counsel for the plain-
tiff has told you your verdict will be for the
plaintiff.; but if, on the other hand, you be-
liovo what the defendant's "counsel had told
you, then yeti will give a verdiot for the de-
fendent. But if you are like me, and do n't
believe 'what either of theta have said then
I'll be, hanged, if I know what you will d o.
Constable, take charge of the jury.",
An Unemployed World.
A fond husband was monkeying arout
the cook, who said, indignantly
"Go way veld yer. I heard yez tell
yer onld woman the other day that she
was all the world to yez,"
"That's so, giddy, but you know there
are two worlds --tile old world and the
new world."
The pay of a second lieutenant In the
French army in but $37,,80 per month, and
his sword knot ooste SSB_