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LATE FoRSIGN NEws I iieh 1a,lan, a l�lav, xhntrx araC ate enbi tx
wlhle Lar ltnxKle (ehewetuun4 lushes In
i (1 t ire (l e rnuu, , 1'o11Hh, 3(1)1 ot1101' foreign art•
France's last: torpedo boat made twenty
three knots and a half nm a bad eta,
(Ion. Annonkotr is at work on the plats for
a canal between the Black Sue and the
piltll.
On Jan. 17, 1801, the wife of Mr. Daimler
of Kainaioht presented her husband with
twins. On Deo. 31. Inline year, elm blinded
him with a separate net of -triplets.
The Russian Government, is going to try
giving a curtain area of land in the depart-
ments of Saralow and Samara, to be cue
tiented in common by all the inhabitants of
each commune.
Fanners near Loedit,,,N. D., are complain.
ing of the depredations of a herd of auto -
lope that is destroying greet quantities of
the enthrashed grain, Ilex seeming to be
the favorite food.
The last few relies of the Maine mining
craze are disappearing, end soon nothing
will remain but the many holes in the
ground which disfigure the country side and
serve as pitfalls for unwary cattle and sheet.
The machinery of the. Douglass, .Illuehill,
and Stewart mines all, Bluehill, Hancock
county, has been sold to a Boston firm, and
is now being shipped as old iron.
Two strange fish were taken in a trawl
net, off the coast of Maine recently. One
the lappet:, is the only specimen of the kind
avers taken In Pastor waters. In shako it
is like a very large sunfish, and its weight
was about 300 pounds. Its back was of a
beautiful sky blue, the sides were snowy
white, and the fine scarlet. The other fish,
the cooler of the Canary Islands, is com-
mon in warm latitudes, but has never before
been taken so far north as in thie case. Both
were taken at a depth of 1,000 feet.
Major Yasunasa Fukushima, military
attaolte to the Japanese Legation at Berlin,
is about to undertake a riding feat which, if
accomplished, will at least equal the best
performances of the kind hitherto recorded.
He will start on horseback from Berlin, and
his intention is to rido via St Petersburg,
Tomsk, Irkutsk, across the Balkan Moun-
tains, and alone the Amur Valley to Corea.
There he will embark foe Japan.
A despatch has been received in Russian
Poland, 70 miles from Warsaw, which
states that in the house of a midwife, named
Josefa Bednarek, the bodies of 15 infante
have been discovered. The appoarauce pre -
seined by some of the bodies was such as to
leave no doubt: that violence batt bean re•
sorted to. Tho woman E'ednarek has, there-
fore, been arrested, charged with murder.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs :-A
few days ago au old lady with snow-white
hair cane to a well-kuown Vienna lawyer
and asked him to take the necessary steps
for the disinterment of her eistor's body,
buried in the great central cemetery ten
}ears ago. The old lady stated that she
had lost her husband, and with hitt the
means of enbsisteuee. Ten years ago she
was well off, and had he sister buried with
all her jewellery, which wee very valuable.
She had no other means of getting out of
her misery than by appealing to the dead
and taking the triukete out of the coffin
where they had lain for tett years. The
lawyer refused to act for her.
A law is abort to be iseued for the stricter
obsergance of Sunday in Russia. For some
years past the hours during which shops and
other places of business are allowed to open
have been gradually curtailed, until at pre.
sent they aro only open from 11 A, u to 3
P. OL The new law will close all shops and
places of business during the whole of Sun-
day ; but an exception will, itis understood
be made in favor of shopkeepers selling the
necesseriea of life, as butchers and bakers.
These will be permitted to trace for one or
two hours to the early morning. No ex-
ception is to he made in favor of public.
houses or kabaks.
A curious affair is reported.. in Paris, A
soldier named Gugee, who had fired at his
sergeant, wounding him dangerously, was
condemned to death by court-martial. The
President of the Republic, in the exercise of
his powers, commuted 1115 sauteneo to ono
of 20 years' penal servitude. But the sold-
ier now rofusee this favour, and insists on
being shot, according to military regulations.
The reason he makes this strange request is
because he considers that if ho is shot his
memory will not be dishonoured, whereas
penal servitude would oonetituto a disgrace.
on ]himself and hie family. He therefore
prefers death with honour. The military
authorities have not yet decided the ques.
tion
A crime has been committed at a house
in the Boulevard Magenta, Paris. M.
George Langlois had by his conduct forced
his wife to leave him, and she took refuge
in the house of her mother in the Boule-
vard Magenta, taking with her two chit.
dren. Dalziel states that on Thursday
afternoon tin woman's husband came to the
door, and on entering the first apartment
caught sight of his wife. She immediately
took refuge in the bed room, but ho follow-
ed her, and a moment later the mother was
terrified by hearing several shots. On
rushing in she found hoc son-in-law lying in
a pool of blood and her daughter dead, with
a bullet in her heart. The murderer had
attempted to committed suicide after shoot.
ing his wife. In this he was unsuccessful,
as it is expected that his wound will not
prove serious,
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs
The secretary and cashier of the Wiener
Club, most of whose members are million-
aires, died some days ago, and as he had no
family and lived on the premises, was buried
with every mark of respect and esteem at
the expense of the club. Touehing letters
de,fairs part were sent to the members, ex-
pressing 111e club's regret at the death of a
faithful sole mnt, and on Friday', almost all
the members were present at the funeral
services fn St, Stephens. On their return
the committee opened the deoeaeed seoro•
tary's taloa and drawers, and found that the
Man they had buried with so mach gym.
pathy and honour had boon robbing then
for a long time, and that they load boon de.
frauded of at least 20,000 ilorius.
An interesting question Ma been submit-
ted to tho bacteriological station of Odessa.
Tho Governor General of Kiev appointed
committees to gather the morsels that aro
left on the table after :nettle in the largo
cities, and to send thein to the fainhshing
peasants. A large portion of such morsels
come from comn'mnal institutions, much as
casorne5, hospitalsand social repute, Tho
question suggested' itself, how could those
morsols bo disinfected so that the contagious
diseases of the eaters who left them on the
table might not be convoyed to the poor
beneficiaries? The bacteriological station
flora 001 of the southwe-atern 10111(01 ))')) anti
to plant native Itusaiens in their stead will
(10 no good either to the land or to the set•
tiers, The prnsant from the interior ,•onuo1
oumpete sn0cossfully with Lite '.;crural, Po-
lish, and other ferment of the region, Who
work by modern nu'thode and aro more
cultural and imlu8Lrinus then hu_.is, 11115
land abandoned by these settlers will not
produce half 00 much as it does at, proleut
when peasants from the interior work it.
The peasants themselves, comparing, their
ill 0000080 with the stmceas of their Duman
and Polish neighbors =rose toe border lines,
will become despondent and more negligent
then they aro at present. It will take 0 lung
time before the aboriginal Russian farmer
will learn the modern methods of farming
and before he could be placed in contact
with his cultured fellow laborer of the ueigh•
boring countries with any show of success.
In the nletultime the land will be neglected
and the new mattlora deinoralized.
Australian Wool -Growing.
The history of Australian wool -growing
began in 1793, when Mr. John McArthur,
of Sydney, landed at that port a herd of
eight fine•woolled Shoop from the Cape of
Good Hope. The success which oroweod
his venture, in the shape of a rapid im.
prevenient, in the quantity and quality of the
wool that these sheep produced, was so
great that Mr. McArthur, ten years later,
sailed for Europe to secure some specimens
of Spanieh merinos, for which he believed
the hot, dry climate of pastoral Australia
was particularly adapted. The Spaniards,
however, knew the value of their flocks,
and had made the exportation of merinos
a eapital offence. Therefore the Austra-
lian Jason, disappointed in his quest for
Olio fleece, which, if not itself golden, he
believed would put much gold into bis
pocket, returned to England, where his
onthusiaetio accounts of Australia reached
the interested oars of the farmer -king,
George I1I. As McArthur's luck would
have 11, the king, some years before, had
beenpresented by his cousin of Spain with
0 pair of the finest of the merinos, and from
the increase thereof he graciously gave to
the Australiadlfour splendid animals, with
which he set sail rejoicing. These high.
bred sheep landed safely in Australia, and
fully realized ell the expectations of their
owner ; they improved the grade of wool,
and so increased and multiplied that, at the
end of 18140, their progeny had s spud all
over Australia, 'e'aemanmand New Zea -
I and, and numbered 101,267,, 084 individuals,
representing, with the land upon which
they pastured, at loaet :1400,000,000. -
[From "Station Life in Australia," by
Sidney Dickinson, in February Scribner
Patience in Convalesoenoe,
"' Keep a child in bed for fully a week
after every symptom of illness has disap-
peered,' le my rule in all serious diseases,"
said an eminent physician. " If you do this
you will greatly reduce the chances of a re•
lapse. When the temperature becomes nor-
mal and the appetite retinue the patient
naturally becomes eager to get up, and it ie
very natural to suppose that the change
from bed to lounge, or even to the next
room, would be beneficial ; hut it is really
most dangerous. This is generally the time
when a busy doctor feels that he aught to be
able to turn over his charge to those who ore
nursing hien ; and yet in many and many a
ease a relapse has occurred and the last state
is worse than the first. Therefore, aol say,
keep the patient in bed a week longer -it
does no harm, and an ounce of prevention is
worth many a pound of cure.
" In cases of grip where there is no com-
plication I tell my patients again to ' ste3
in bed for eoveral days after the attack is
over -and you -will avoid the more serious
results;' and hi cases of scarlet fever or
measles I deem this precaution absolutely
essentime"
A Wily Dog.
A true story is told of afarmer's dog who
had poen found guilty of Obtaining goods
under false pretences. He is extremely fond
of sausage and has been taught by his owner
to go after them for him, carrying a written
order in lois month. Day after day he ap-
peared at the butcher shop bringing his
master's order, and bye and bye the butcher
became oarelessabout the document.
Finally when settlement day came the
farmer complained that lie wasehnrged with
more sausage than he had ordered. The
butcher was surprised, and the next time
Lion camp in with s slip of paper between
his teeth he took the trouble to look at it.
the paper was blank, and further investiga-
tion allowedtheft whenever the dog felt a
craving for sausage he looked around for a
piece of paper and trotted off to the but-
ohor'a I'he farmer is something out of
pocket, but squares the aeoountby boasting
of his dog's intelligence.
England's Money's Guarded.
The Bank of England'tl,doors aro now so
finely balanood that the Merle by pressing
a knob under his desk, can close the outer
doors instantly, and they can not be opened
again except by special process, This is
done to prevent the daring and ingenious
unemployed of the groat metropolis from
robbing the famous institution. The bullion
department of this and other great English
banking establishments aro nightly sub.
merged in several feet of water by the ac-
tion of the machinery. In some of the Lon.
don banks the bullion departments aro con.
needed with the manager's sleeping rooms,
and an entrance can not be effected without
setting off an alarm near the person's head.
.1 a dishonest official, during day or night,
should take even as muoh as one from a pile
of 1,000 sovereigns, the whole pile would
instantly sink and a pool of water take its
place, beside letting every person in the es-
tablishment know of the theft.
Ono of the amusing itloidonts of the Stan.
ley Show was a triad between a "Beth"
pee unatieand a Dunlop ditto. Mr. Rath
got together a goodly umber of interested
spectators at the Crystal Palace trade and
rode the machines over broken bottles, tin
tracks std seals like, butneitherof the tires
would coudeseend to burst. As there was a
supposition that the glass- and other ob'
etruotioes Banta into the ground under pros.
sure, another trial was suggested and this
ofthe neumabio Tyro
ro roaeutabivo tl
Limo a t py
Co., was invited to attend, die slid so brim(-
ing with him a machine fitted with the 1802
ppettorn of Dunlop tire, and rode it repeated.
ly Deet' the broken glees, oto, Mr. Rath
of Odessa answered : " Morsels of bread got a boy to ride the machiuo 1Uted -with
loftoverbypersons fufectedwithdiphtllerbb, his tiro and the fun waved fast and furious,
typhoid, on other contagious diseases, bo. other riders making attempts to burst the
o,end-
'� all of i4
cone perEootly disinfected if dried in too Dunlop with fair riding, but
boat of 1000 Celsius, lint if such a degree' clen the tiro on the roar wheel of the Rath
of test cannot bo obtained in the drying machb1O,Went and of oourec the lar ghtivont
covets elle tnorsals cfore r in , must too, , 1 "
SUGOESSION TO TEN DROWN. 'were relteme alnion toaalateofstet vitt ion, THE PAIJ'EROR OF OHINA'S NEW
Origin or the sere Termly--" (Ir rel Itn0"s'I SNP 11011rrap )Ont.suak
Allton) 15tH Lull-'l0r seenllatl le. or a1) Art- clot only xe1,I hitt own corn 10 1110 pu or at re
res0, rot
111'1'30, Int at a pe)til.,uly Ices to
The (1lasgew .lfnft of a recent data gavel 11101101f of T:1o00 he imported several. ear
the history a1)1 pedigree of the, Fife fetidly f tetee of grain trent England for flu, saint:
now• ee neeu• the 11)of theme ;st•ilain, 11,p51'poso, lie allowed, besides, a dvdllet1),)
says t -The lamented death of the Duke of "f '2,1 per veil)'Irmatheir fouls to the tenants
Clarence has ma'lo 11tH eldest :sister, the 01 Iiia 11 i31 laud estates 111)1(13 these yea's
lluchess of Fife, the nearest hair to the of:maren3'.
'throne after her brother, Prince (Merge, His nephew, James, the fourth JIorl, in. Pole
Shu may
a Indeed iso said to 1.
s H(nndmg n„ hrritrd his gouvrcHfty and amiuh,)ity, 110 ing, hr 11,,,,a1118 30sse0001 With 14 desire to
the feotete ns of the Throne, as there is onl • Iongbl during the I'eninsirlar War with )onrn English, A few days ago he 5ummen-
one life -that of a youth of a by00 means great distinction in the Spanish army, in )id two graduattsfroin 1) . elartin's 1rupc•rial
strong constitution -between hr and the which he obtained the rank of Cenral was Thug -Wen (College to teach him. One of
hi host Oshton 10 the British l.mpiro. I1 Wounded et the Battle of '1'al(weria, and 11)000 former pupils of Dr, 9larliu has visit.
is igi signilfiu0ut indication that this is felt by again at the storming of Fart Matagorda, e'1 Europe six umes, and the other has
the Royal Family themselves, that at the and for hie services was mads a Knight of served as Vico Consul in Japan. Ono,
funeral of the Duke of Clarence the Prince (=rend Cross of the (lnelpphio Order and a Chang 'foil, is a Chinaman, while the other
of Wales followed the bier with his son Knight of the Think:, itis memory is still Shen 'l'e, 'is a Manchu, For snort reason
Prince 1100130 on his right hand, and his affectionately ohoriaherl in the Norte on ae- satisfactory to tho Chinese, they take turtle
eon -in-law the Duke of Fife 0n hie left, while count of the liberality with which he greet. in teaching the Emperor, one coating ono
Ids brothers and brothers-in•lew followed
od, on the most moderate terms, allotments
behind. In those circumstances considerable
to the tradesmen, r oohanics, and labourers
interest cannot but bo felt in the origin and on his estates. The Duke of Fife is the
history of the family which may not nem -0•
grand -nephew of this generous and bend•
bobby one day give a sovereign to our comp- volont peer, and, as it ns well known, has
try. inherited both the shrew,' business hcbite
The Dtt(fsAre said in the peoraa',o books to and the amiable and liberal disposition of
bo descended from the Thanes of Fife, one of his =castors.
the most ancient families in the United It is curious, and not a little suggestive
Kingdom, whose origin, indeed,
is hid to that the Duke of Fife's grandmother was a
thelmists of antiquity. The earldom of Fife daughter of William IV. by Mrs. Jordon,
was forfeited and annexed to the Crown by the notreas, so that should the Deehesa sue.
Tames I., and tho mein line of the family 000d to the throne as the daughter of the
became extinct. But the letter earls are said Prince of Wales, her descendants will have
to the additional regal gnalifieation of descend.
nxitrvs TIIEIn » HCRItT ants in a direct line, though with the " bar
from the ancient stook through one of the sinister," from William IV.
junior branches -the Duffs of Muldavit, a The proud and penniless princelings of
small estate in Banffshtre. which was in Germany may be disposed to look down
their possession for many years. It was sold, uron the descendant, of Adam Duff, as they
however, in 1626 to Hay of Rennes, and the did on the Marquis of Lorne, though his
family were scattered and lost sight of. Pedigree is more distinguished than theirs ;
Peerage makers and Baird, the family his. and probably some aristocratic snobs in our
torican, asserts that a younger son of the own country may share this feeling. But',
last owner ofeluldavit was known as Adam the groat mase of the community will not
Duff of Clueybeg, " a name that stands out regard their Sovereign with leas respect and
as one of the great landmarks in the line of loyalty should he trace his descent, not to a
Duff." Nassau or a Hapsburg, but to t de worthy
Scotsmen aro proverbially given to pride farmer of Clunybeg.
themselves on the antiquity of their noble
families, and it would certainly be highly Golden Thoughts for Every Day.
grutifyiug if we could claim for our country- 9Monday-
mean, the son-in•law of the Prince of Wales,
possibly the father of our future sovereign, Ospirit of the linin God,
descent from the celebrated Thane of Fife- en. all 111 plentltado o(' -race,
ti en. fie rho toot of man ]m111 trod,
the patron and protector 0f Malcolm Can- Doonend on onr apostate race.
more. But a regard to truth compels us to Givo tongues of deo all] at love,
admit that no evidence has yet been practise- To preach thorecanciltng word;
eel to prove that this was the case. As far Givo po•Ivnr and nnrtlon h•om Whose.
as is, therefore, kn'liwn, the pedigree of the Where'er the Joyful sound is heard.
Dales of (rife cannot be traced higher than Be darkness, at thy coming, lighht;
to the farmer of Clunyheg, part of the estate F llo withn(io order,ininspire with might,
of Auchendiren, in the pariah of Mortlach, gid mercy triumph over wroth,
Learning English Out of n Primer hent to
1,1m by a sitssinnlry's (rtluohler,
A lo ler leas receival from llareus L,
l'.hfl, a missionary fel China, under date of
l',dtiee, Pee, 15,'11(111, 11 says 1--
" A11")' the independent yenug Emperor
of China had given an andienee 10+t spring
tothe variola foreign ambassadors in o ,
in 1627. He is described by those who had Oonvort the nations 1 far and nigh
known him as amen of strong natural sense, Tho triumphs of rho era's recant ;
perfect integrity, and indefatigable Metes- The name or Jesus glorify,
try. It was he who laid the foundae en of Tllt every p50510 call atm Lord.
the wealth of the family. Two of Clunybeg's
-[Anonymous.
sons -tire first and second -fought with Tuesday -Neither lebmieta )'sand wrong
great gallantry under the banner of the fain- direction -of which every man, in his stud -
ono Marquis of Montrose. ies and elsewhere, falls into many-disoour-
William Duff, third son of Old Clunybeg, age you. There is precious instruction to be
was usually called the Provost, as he was got by finding that we are wrong, Let a
repeatedly Provost of Inverness, " and," man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he
says Baird, " was the most eminent incr. will grow daily more and more right. It is,
chant of the whole of the north of Scotland at bottom, the condition which all men hove
in his time. Indeed he and his nephew, to cultivate themselves. Our very walking
Dipple, and Sir James Calder, carried on is is an hneeasnnt falling -a falling and u
partnership almost alt the foreign trade catching of ourselves before we coma actual•
binorth Aberdeen for many years." The 'ly to the pavement. It is emblematic of all
Provost was an agreeable companion, and things a man does. -[Thomas Carlyle.
had W ednesday-
A GREAT DEAL OF AII1a0)00. Dread of Heaven, on then we feed,
Baird gives a good many specimens of his For thy flesh is meat indeed.;
Lotto molt,+, as he calls them, but local and WEver may our souls be fed
personal knowledge is required to appreciate Day this tomo and living broad;
p g I PP Thy u b l with strength who
diedSupplied,
their wit. Alexander Duff, eldest son of Through the Tito of him who died.
Koithmore, who was a W. S. in Edinburgh vino of heaven, thy blood supplies
in 1677, acquired the estate of Brace, from
This blest alp of sacrifice ;
which the first title of the family was taken. Lord, shy wounds our howling give,
He was a member of the last Scottish Par- Jesus,
shy cross wo loo000 be live;
Towns, may wo over a
liament, and strenuously opposed the Union Grafted, rooted, built in then,
with England. His training in the office of -[Anonymous.
an Edinburgh W. S. was no doubt of con- Thursday -It is both the curse and
siderable advantage to him, when, in 167 7, blueing of ono American life that wo are
he retired from business, and took up his re- never quite content. Wo all expect to get
eidetic° in Banffshire, where he purchased somewhere before we die, and have a better
a number of estates in Aberdour, Keith, time when we get there than we can have at
Grange, and ;Mortlach, which now yield a home. Tho bane of our life is discontent.
large rental. His brother, \0 illiulm Duff, \Ve say we will work so long, and then we
who had a patrimony of only £500 a year to will enjoy eurselvoe. But we find it just as
begin with, became a partnerwith his uncle, Thaokeray has expressed it: " When I was
Provost Duff, of Inverness. They both 00- a boy," he said, ' I wanted some tally ; it
quired large fortunes. William Duff per- was a shilling, but I hadn't ono. When I
chased Dipple, Pluscarden, and other es- was a man I had a shilling, but I didn't
tates in Morayshire, and ulbimately succeed- want any taffy." -[Robert Collyer.
ed to the estates of his elder brother. His Feeley_
landed property at his death in 1722 yielded Would'st thou from sorrow nail swoon relief:
a rental of £6500-a very large sum in those Oris tby heart oppressed with woos untold t
days, besides £90,000 in money -the largest Batnt would'tthou gather for corroding grief )
fortune in the North of Scotland. Pour obllleisings round. thee like a shower of
g. �Villinm Dub; his eldest eon and linot 'Tie when the rose le wraps in runny a fold
became the first Earl of Fife, inherited01oes to its heart, rho wont is wasting there
only the estates of the family, but their leer- Rallis: and beautyy not when all unrolled,
editor- prudence, carefulness, shrewdness, Ilreaeheet111 eweot perfume Carol gh the am.
and skill in accumulating wealth. In his Mont air.
youth he was trained in the office of his -[Carlos Wilcox.
Either, and was employed to collect the Saturday -The modern suientiste have
country accounts of the form; and from the clone two deeds at one and the same time ;
nickname of e' Creel Duff," which ho then they have indeed made the universe outgrow
received, it is probable that he carried in lois the early interpretations of Genesis, but
panniers some of the smaller articles for the they have made it too vast and too amazing
use of the customers. This may have given not to have come from a God. Even the
rise to the report that he was originally an slow development of animals and plants, and
Irish pedlar. He was chosen M. P. for the -newly found wonders of light and heat
Banffshire at the general election of 17 7, make the dotnand greeter for a mind which
Queen Caroline, who was Regent in the should arrange so teeny great means to so
absence of George Il., created hon a peer of many great entle. All that enlarges the
Ireland, 28th July, 1735, by the title of material kingdom must enlarge its cause and
Baron Braco of Kilbride, in the county of make the, argument for a Creator greater
Cavan. He nearly doubled now than it was when the sun was supposed
021E FAMILY IsminrrAt1OE to be drawn by horses and affected by sum -
by judicious purchases of the estates of mer and winter winds. -[David Swing.
Inners, Inohbroom, Spynie, Glass, Glon-
bucket, Braemar, &o., and may be regarded The value of Inventions.
as having completed the structure of which An English paper gives some interesting
Adan Duff of Clunybeg laid the foundation, statiebics as to the pecuniary reburn of a hew
In 1759 be was made End of Fife and
Viscount elecduff in the peerage of lrelend. inventions. The s0,000 a year
o pen for a
Wm. Duff wee a romarkabl euocessful eau, while brought in £,10,000 a -oar ; the India
y rubber tips to pencils, £20,000 ; metal plates
but he must have been a thorough snob. If for proteotiug the soles and heels of boots
lie did not originate, he was undoubtedly brought: in £250,000 in all ; the roller•skato
the first to bring prominently forwent the £20U 000. A clergyman realized £,100 a
claim of his family to bo descended from week by the invention of a thy, the return
Maoduff, the Thane of Fife. lie appears to
have kopt this in view at every opportunity.
He was advanced to an earldom on the ex•
press ground of uta alleged descent from that
powerful Marmaoo, anti, as if for the purpose
of serving himself as a sort of heir to the
Duffs of Muldavit,he removed the tombstone
of the last member of that family Rom the
churchyard of Cullen, whore The was interred
and deposited le in a mausolotim which lie
had erected in tho grounds of Duff House,
on the banks of the Deveron. His second
titin, Vie:munne ll aceufri was evidently taken
for the same purpose, and so was the cross
eregted in the seaport town note dono,ninat•
ad Maednff, in the vicinity of Boo,ff in imi-
tation of the cross of Maednff near Newburgh
hi
Vile, which was for centuries a piece of
refuge for the 9'leeduff elm), fu aclordence necessary to supply the need, The village
1n tho irivilud o conferred byMalcolm has the distnotiou of possessing an Epieeo- Every healthy girl is a tomboy by in.
trot 1al clergyman Who doolined a bishopric on sand. It is not till she learns that moil
Common on the famous Thane. P gy
Itis unnecessary to dwell upon the history the ground that his plain duty lay with the aro attracted by their opposite that alio un -
of " Creel Duff's" successors. His son, the small village parish over witch ho wee enol plans, or rather motomboys herself.
oocml,l Earl, Wes 0. poison of romsrkable i Midis set, Tho Greek Clthtr01 at 'tftlta, Aloolta, i
abilities, and wits no less distingniehod .for said to ho the finest church edifice in Ancor
day and the other the next.
Wishing to procure a suitable text hook
for the Emperor, they wrote to their former
instructor, Dr. Martin, asking him for a
finely illustrated primer, adapted to his im-
perial Majesty.
m•perialMajesty. Dr. Martin then wrote a
note, stating the fora in the case, to Dr.
Pilcher of our mission. Dr. Pitcher, know-
ing that we had brought out from America
0(1110 attractive school books for our little
daughter Frances, called on Mrs. 'Taft, who
gave hint milts an elementary work, entit-
led. " The 1,1511el First Reader,' handsome-
ly illustrated with colored pictures. Who
ever would have enpposed that the Emperor
of China would study one of Frances's read-
or's ? Yet, strange to say, such today is the
fact. Day after clay his imperial Majesty is
studying his lessons out of one of her books
as diligently, lot us hope, as any young
scholar in America,"
THOUGHT TRANSFERENOE•
Professor Ledge Says Alerts Pass Without
Speeell 1e.aween Allude.
A great deal of interest has been awaken-
ed by some remarks made at the last moot-
ing of the British Association for the ad-
vancement of Science by Professor Oliver J,
Lodge. Professor Lodge holds a high rank
among men of Science in England. What-
ever he says is, therefore, entitled to res-
pectful consideration.
Speaking of the limitations of man's know-
ledge of nature, he referred to tiro pheno-
menon known as " thought transference,"
and, after moaning tho fact, which of course
everybody knows, that a thought can be
transferred from one mind to another either
by the agency of sight, as in writing, or of
sound, as fn epealting, he uttered diose re-
markable words :--
" is it possible that an idea can be trans-
ferred from one parson to another by a pro -
(nee such as we have not yet grown aocus-
tamed to, and know practically nothing
about ? In this case I have evidence. I as-
sert that I have seen it clone, and am per-
fectly convinced of the fact."
Professor Lodge, who has devoted partic-
ular attention to this subject for a number
of years, suggests that the ether which per.
vades space and conveys the waves of light,
electricity, and so forth, may serve as a
medium of communication between mind
and mind. In this way many mysterious
and a;•parently miraculone phenomena
could be explained without resorting to
supernatural agencies.
Indian Sagacity.
After the clone of the Rovolntiouary War,
a great many of the colonists who had taken
the part of the King were obliged to leave
the United States, some going to England,
but most of them coming to the British Pro-
vinces in Canada, where they wore known
as United Empire Loyalists."
Among those who migrated to NOW Bruns•
wioh was Judge Joshua Upham, who had
been a judge of high repute m Massachu-
setts, and dnring the Revolution was colo-
nel of the regiment known as "Tho King's
American Dragoons." In Now Brunswick
ho became one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court,
At that time Few Brunswick was vary
now and wild, and great hardships were en.
yured by the settlers, especially by the set -
blue, especially by these American refugees,
who for a long sine were homeless.
On ono occasion Judge Upham was tra-
velling in the woods in winter, with an In-
dian for guide. The snow was so deep and
the difficulty of moving so great thee the
judge became exhaested and sitting down,
ho directed the Indian to go on and get
help, while he remained where he was.
Tho Indian positively refused, but after
mach persimmon he consented, on condition
that the judge should continuo to sit on a
stump which he pointed ont, and if he fell
off, should immediately get on again. After
some remonstrance, the judge was foroed to
agree to the strange proposition, and make
the required promise. He mounted the
stump and the Indian discppeared.
By and by the judge fell asleep, and, as
the natural result, tumbled off the stump.
Ile climbed up again, again fell veleep, and
once more tumbled off. Then he understood
why the Indian had made him promise to sit
on the stump -to prevent him from going to
sleep and being frozen to death. When the
Indian finally arrived with help, he found
the judge sitting on the stump, but with
grebe difficulty keeping awake.
Judge Upham lived for many years after•
ward, but never forgot theb ho owed the
preservation of his life to this simple ruse of
the red man,
A Woman's Wonderful Hair,
Mercedes Lopez, a Mexican women who
lives on the Rio Grande, is perhaps the
longest -haired woman in the world. Slue is
some five feet in height, and when elle stands
erect her hair trails on the ground four
foot and eight inches. Her hair is so thick
thee can [draw it around her so as to
completely htdo ]herself. .Ear present suit
of hair is only five years old. It grows so
ball, brought in an income of L10,000 ; the
heavy
100 paled to out ias to cause t froe equently,
and she is
"Daneiug Jrnt Crow,"£15,000 a year. The. p q y, and she sells
hnvenlor of a copper clap for ohildron'e boots largo tresses to hair dealers every month,
was able to leave his heirs £400,000, while She is en ignorant woman, the wife of a
Singer, of sewing -machine fame, left at his
sheep 100331033 and Is of Casthlian blood.
death nearly £3,000,000.
Brought It With Rim,
A Contente People.
John ,T, lbreelin recently visited an ie
significant town hi Tennessee, and was as
toufefied at the contentment of the people
'De use his own phrase, ho did not hone the
WOIVDERI'DL 9IACHINES.
Screws so Small 11,11) ':00.000 ere liege res.
In Wake 0 Pound. .
Not, the least i'orvolnusofthe. many
fn-.
all ei tic 1 ,ee1)i les -
,, ui u t um i r of the present
day (8 one for turning out the small 50rowe
and parts of a watch. The 1Iorologieat
Review says of it.: "acme, of the ecrewe
aro so 01)1(111 that the Ditead and scot for the
0erew driver can not he seen by the naked.
eve. 1 t takes Omni .2h0,I1110 et these tial
'screws, Made by the atitoinatte machines,
to make a Ironed, and yet they are porfce&
shape, They are marls thus : The wire
is fed 111 the machine antornal.icaily through
a swiftly revolving spindle, and is griped
by a cheek. Inmanb1y a °insular vapor•
comes into place and turns down the
Iscrew part. `\'Lilo the turning is being
dole a threading die is operating, and the,
instant the cutter is through with ire part
the die turns around on the turned part
and seems on and off litre a flash, nutting
the thread. At (MCP a steal arm is seen to.
swing over, marl just as the screw is being
cut off from the wire It is picked up by -
steel lingers and carried over to a spot,
whore a saw is swiftly running.
"Tho slot is then cut and another ado -
tion of the arm and fingers releases the
5orew, which is carried by a stream of oil
into a sieve among thnusande of serows just
like it. That part of the mechanism which
gripe the screws is called ' arm and finger,*
and the term seeme apposite because the mo-
tions accurately resemble those of a human.
arm and hand. That arm has an uncanny:
look as it works with ceaseless regularity.
The Rperation goes on constantly and tire-
lessly for ten hours per day, a el when night
comes each machine has made I0,000 of the
tiny screws- Ono motion follows another se•
quickly that a novice is tilled with wonder
and amazement, Oil is forced in tiny streams
with great pressure upon the cutting parte
and then run on' through a drip, to be again
pumped and forced to the machines,"
A New Flying Machine.
M. Delprat director of the Ecole Snperi-
cnre d' Aorostalion, is (says the Paris cor-
respondent of the (Standard) exhibiting
at the present moment et the Petals des
Beaux Arts, on the Champ de Marc, aflying
machine of his invention. It is very simple,
being a sort of aerial velocipede. The rider,
by the aid of treadles, moves a twin screw
placed above him, by means of which the
machine should rise into the air. When he
has arrived at the desired height another
screw, placed on one side, is also brought
into action, and by means of a largefan•likc
rudder, M. Delprat thinks the machine can
be made to advance in the required direc-
tion.
" I found something in my bed room last
night, madam, and
Lodging -house Kopper (indignantly) -
"Thorp ain't =oh a tlooiug in the house 1
You must have brought it with you I "
word dollar during lois whole stay, Haling. Lodger (coollyy)--" i was going to say,
ly asked some of the people if they stood in madam, that I found a sovereign m toy bed
need of anything, and on tioir replying the[ room lest night, and I won't disputa your
one of their few public bnilding�re woiild bo word as to liaving brought it with me ; so
the batter fora twerllo subscribed the enc I'll keep it,"
y b d y' g t rho Dunlop tiro whic o 1a tvti lou say.
pp50) the 1,,•s[ noumattc fro wo his public spirit 101(1 bonovoiencc, Tn filo A 1)1,11 11,10 just 11,0(1 11, (,ono ot)cut 80110 10a. 7.'110 nttotot' Is a mass of goad and e11-
degresubmitted for
I to 1ti cl11100 of stoat of Chart; ing ton m 1, p , ears of 1782 and 1.753, when, smoked 2,00(1 herring a clay. Worse than vole and the walls aro covered with initia-
1
for the duration of not loss than haus in tolseonnbry. [a3pottirrg Goods Gast calamitous y I
sixty minutes, tette, owing to the failure of tlno crops, the people, the tobacco habil, a wonder he died. loss paintings,
The Sabbath Chime.
The -mighty flood thatrolls
Its torrents to the main
Can neer recall its water lost
From that abyss again.
So days and years, and time,
Descending down to -night,
Cts henceforth never more return
Book to the sphere of light.
And man, when in the grave,
Can never quit its gloom
Until 111' eternal morn shall wake
The slumber of the tomb.
O inay I find in death
A hiding -place with God.
Bemire from woo and sin, tin oall'd
To share his blest abode.
Cheor'd by this hope I wait,
Through toil, and cure, and grief,
Till my appointed course is run,
And death shall bring net sf.
She saw him off upon the train,
And showed that parting was but pain.
" At every stopping place," she said,
"Be sure you write, the go ahead."
Mrs. Lonclman-" I do so wonder why
imitation diamonds are called paste." Mr.
Londman-" Don't worry over it. It's be-
cause those who buy them are generally
stuck."
First Boy (threateningly)-" Just wait
till I ketch yer arter school." Second Boy
(advancing defiantly)-" Why don't ye take
me now?' First Boy (backing off) -"Me
mind is on me lessons now."
" Time is money, my dear," he said host -
ling around in a greet hurry. "Nonsense,"
she replied tartly. " I've gob plenty of time
to go down street and buy a bonnet, but I.
don't get a bonnet just the same."
Mamma (with some show of indignation
-"I have called you three times. I ant
very much annoyed." Charlie (who is fond
of Bible stories)-" Well, the Lord called.
Samuel three times and He didn't get mad
about it, did Ho?"
A young Toronto lady, recently married,
wrote home at a pause in the bridal tour:
"We get along splendidly. They called
hubby a dude, but he's so nine I We are
two souls with but a single thought -and,.
by the way, I am the drought."
"I tell yez, Mary Ann," said Micky
Dolan, as he sat down to his supper. "1t
is nob for me to be onohoritable till me felly
man, but whin Dints O'Brien, widhiawood.
en leg, takes to carryin' a cane besides, 1t
looks to me loiko too much shtoilo and ex-
travel:anee."
The Mend Surgeon
Of the Lubon Medical Company is new at
Toronto, Canada, and may bo =milted
either in portion or by letter on all ohronie
diseases peculiar to man. Men, young, old,
or middle-aged, who find themselves nerv-
ous, weak and exhausted, wiho are broken
down from excess or overwork, resulting in
many of the following symptoms : Menta[
depression, premature old ago, loss of vital-
ity, lose of memory, bad dreams, dimness of
sight, palpitation of the heart, omissions,
lack of energy, pain in the kindoys, head
actio, pimples on the faro or body, itching
or peculiar sensation about the sorotum,
wasting of the organs, dizziness, spooks
before the eyes, twitating of the muscles,
eye lido and elsowhere,baslifnlness, deposits
in the urine, lose of willpower, tenderness of
the scalp and spine,woalt andfeebby muscles,
desire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep, ,
constipation, dullness of hearing, lossof voice,
desire for solitude,
exohtabilit f temer,
sunken oyes sorrouadedwith f,ueof
00000th,
oil looking skin, etc., are all symptoms of
nervous debility that lead to insanity and
death unless cured. The spring or vital •
force having lost its tension every function
lwanes in eonsequenco. Those who through
abuse eetimitted to ignorenoa may be per.
manoutly cured. Sand your addrose for
book on all diseases peculiar to men.
Books sent free sealed. Iioardisoase, the
symptoms of which are faintspells, purple
'01
51:1 eats
1 itaLo t
111 tB, numbness, pap , P
Ihnt bushes, rush of bleed to tho head, dull
!pain in the heart with beats strong, rapid
And irregular, the seond heart beat
'faster than the first, pain about the bressll
re
ono, y. Dead for book00 , be
Address, M. V.
mo ray.
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