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by far the
The 189.2
argent biro,
bushels less
dentiy pre -
Kansas ecrt
short Props
r,he surplus
d '-« _e ded
;urvpe, and
500,000,000
:tire to look
'n where the
it wrought.
,OC`= bushels.
urposes took
ls. The seed
amnureed tc
s of wheat,
;re 2'24,831,-
tal used and
lie's, leaving
year 3100,-
busheis were
a,r, so that
lar with 50, -
op.
Lite prophets
azines with
the farmers
they would
)ushel, No, 2
'ork atabout
)er the aver-
tober, 81.04i
Deceenber,
'8 ; in Febru-
l9 cents ; in
in Je'.ne, 87t'
was 98 3-8
vas 06 cents,
ween the two
'arch to June
difference of
e i `330 crop
le average for
'for the 1891
he 1390 crop
Top for sale,
idedly better
itions except
ore or less
npe that thi:
.riret for out
year will be
iels. During
,America ex -
137,000,000
i the unusual
d about 225, -
le of the sur -
11 be needed
1ply " is like -
the current
es, therefore,
'el, although
iional flurry,
ring little in -
re the wheat
p of the cur-
s no unusual
>1us, which is
prices.
remember ed
but when we
)eing flayed
olish confess,
employment
—[ Paley.
ightbe play -
given in the
trip to Nor-
icket on the
:he ball was
If stout line,
t to sea the
, which gen-
this critical
ed efforts to
piled up the
,sman would
to the ball
travel him.
en will in all
rnor-General
ion. He has.
and during a
this country
lar with all
expel ted at
;made Lord
eitiou which,
term of office
e obtained a
ons of Irish-
rnor-General
are not very
en been filled
played after
of been put
usually been
good sense,
of them has
;the preroga-
its or acting
'risible advis-
e grumble a
maintaining
other griev-
could use as
office. Lord
heartily wel-
successor of
.lis the cffice
ow burdened
summary of
Here it is :
iitelope, elk,
caribou, of
.anted, trap -
e 1st of De -
The grouse
partridges,_
d the 1st of
r, snipe and
of January
1 kind o1'
:°eon, teal,
pt the snow
1st of May
ter fisher or
ble between
of October.
Aril, and the
f the animals
anted,, trap-
unday. No
bearing ant-
any swiv.
ts, he used
or shall any
destroyed at
oisonoas bait
= r
bird. No
may at any
ion. This
on 'lheir re -
tion shall at
mats or birds
• domicile in
license, ern t -
mala or !Di i •
grantia free.
p.v;a prat -
HEALTH.
A€avow Exhaustion.
Of late years we hear much about this
disorder. Itis more prevalent in the United
States than elsewhere. Indeed, Beard abort
twenty-five years ago called it the " Ameri-
can disease."
It is mot i3i,ya product of civilization,
but of civilization run'mad—crazed by its
everlaathtg rush. Doctor Edward Cowles,
chief of the McLean Asylum, Somerville,
Mass., and Doctor George F. Jelly, former-
ly of the same institution, have brought
their large experience and signal ability to
bear on the ist..dy of this disease.
All intelligent persons are familiar with
the fact that the body is in a perpetual
state of assimilation and elimination—nutri-
tion and waste. The two processes balance
each other in a healthy and normal physical
condition.
Unless the waste product is regularly
carried off, the system is poisoned by its
accumulation. It is this self-poisoning which
brings on the fatal result m Bright's disease
and diabetes.
The ultimate nutrients of the body,
whether of the muscles, membranes, nerve or
cerebral substance, are the cells. These cells
select the appropriate nourishment from the
blood, assimilate it, and throw off the debris
—the poisonous waste, -always fatal if un-
duly retained.
Now no other organ is so constantly in
action as the nervous system. It is never
fully at rest, day or night, The cells of
every tissue must be kept incessantly, at
work. Every thought, feeling, purpose,
volition, every excitement of pleasure, pain
or passion, all concentration of mind in
study, business or are, uses up brain sub-
stance, and transforms it into waste pros
net.
In normal mental action this waste is
taken care of and duly eliminated ; but in
prolonged excessive mental activity the
waste accumulates and, according to Doc-
tor Cowles, acts as a poison to the nerves
themselves, interfering with their normal
action.
An early result is simple fatigue of the
brain, which rest may soon relieve ; at a
later stage, the over activity being longer
continued, there is excessive irritability
and weakness of the nervous system. The
tendency is always toward grave mental
disease, often merging into insanity.
Among the physical signs are tremor of
the face, tongue and hands ; but the earliest
and most important signs are mental
symptoms—melancholy and mental depres-
sion. The disease, to be easily arrested,
should be treated early.
Ancient M. D's.
The ancient ';reeks, in their desire to
honor the healing art, cherished the myth
that the first knowledge of medicine c me
from gods and demigods. The Romans,
though in general more practical than the
Greeks, evinced less sense of the importance
of the healing art, and for centuries held
practisors of medicine in small esteem. For-
eigners who tried to establish the art at
Rome were looked on with contempt and
suspicion.
The elder Cato said that these doctors
came co Rome to put an end to the people.
He cautioned his friends to let them alone,
and preferred to treat his family and
neighbors from an old hand -book of medical
recipes which had probably been delivered
to him by his father, who in turn had re-
ceived it from his progenitors.
Romans of means had physicians in their
own houses. These men were slaves, for,
odd as it seams, many Roman slaves were
accomplished in literature, art and science.
At one time the selling price of a slave -
doctor was about the equivalent of three
hundred dollars in our money.
After the time of Julius Caesar, who en-
couraged physicans, the art began to' ` lift its
head " in Rome, and later men of character
end position though generally foreigners,
entered the profession. Some of them ac-
cumulated large fortunes, and one made
the equivalent of at least five hundred
thousand dollars in a few years.
In some conntries, where physicians did
not thrive, sick people were placed on the
road -side, that travellers who had suffered
with like maladies might suggest remedies.
Such crude efforts were supplanted at
Rome by shops, in which various drugs and
medicines were sold Then as now quacks
abounded, and the government, for the pro-
tection of the people, ordered that all reme-
dies should bear a label declaring the- char,
acter of the medicine, the name of its in-
ventor, the sickness for which it was pre-
pared, with a list of its ing. edients, and full
directions as to the way in which it should
be taken.
-For disorders of the stomach a favorite
prescription was to the effect that the suf-
ferer should read aloud, in a clear, distinct
tone, some book or speech, and then take
moderate exercise.
Physicians were divided, as now, into
various classes of specialists—doctors for
the eye, for the throat, etc. Even in those
old days women practised medicine, .al-
though they- did not reach prominence in
the profession.
Surgeons used various instruments, re-
sembling in some measure those of to -day.
They had earprolbes, syringes, instruments
for cutting bones, and the like. In very
early times dentists came into notice, and
en ancient author refers to "gold fillings."
PROFESSOR A. P. MONTAGUE.
Over -Eating.
It is perhaps true that most Americans
eat too much. The person who oats ranch,
yet is hungry and gxowa thin, s not. suffer-
ing from lack of food, but from lack of
mower to digest the fool taken into the
stomach, or from an abnormally rapid tissue
waste, and should consult his physician. -„,
Every one puts into his stomach more
food than is digestedYby it, but in many
cases a great deal of the material reall—
digested does -noir do >tte Egli share a=
ins V
yd elive idation 9 fOod.
- teV 1 oxtore —if it is food'
-:pin the true . sense, is capable of .being
changed . into a more oxidised 'material.
This chemical change mast go on in a more
or less active way, or death ensues,sin
the oxidizing of food is necessary fr the
life of the individual cells, whose aggrega-
tion constitutes the whole of our complicat-
ed structures.
Now if more material is supplied to the
system than it can itherori in other words,
more than it cancombine with oxygen,
much of the supply must pass out of the.
body in a state not fully exhausted of ite
vitalizing power ; and it is highly probable
that these unoxidized products are the
causes, direct or indirect, of many troubles
of a somewhat obscnre nature,_to'which we
have applied the names of rheumatism, gout,
litheamia, and the like.
Such per tally oxidized materials circulate
in the blood and are carried to all parts
the body, and are known to be more or
irritating to its delicate structures, or
and tissues
In the case of the habitual ever -eater, the
presence in the.blood of such materials,
which are constantly acting as irritants to
the organs, may easily. produce :changes in
the tissues so irritated. _ As time goes on
these changes become greater= and greater,
and finally result in permanent .conditions
of disease, or in an .-appreciably' hastened
death.
Exercise, by promoting oxidatiea, lessens
the dangers of over -eating i WI* habit of
rapid eating, especially whendial nal oyer-
eating
yer
eating is indulged in, results in au - inability
to digest the amount of food necessary' to
keep in active condition the various func-
tions of the body. -
Boyhood.
Sweet boyhood 1 How happy the liours!
What care can a young laddie know?
In Summer be gathers; the flowers,
In Winter he scatters the snow.
See now how he hastens away
To fly his brand new paper kite
His heart is se young and so gay,
His days, 0, how full of delight !
He romps on the meadows so green
Where buttercnps nod to the sun,
And daisies all blooming are seen,
And frolicsome leverts run;
There often he plucks the wild flowers
Nor thinks of the troubles of men ;
So happy and joyful the hours,
What care does a young laddie ken?
The loud piping song of the thrush,
The sky -lark's sweet voice in the air,
The linnet's wee tune in the bush,
The nightingale's music so clear—
All these are the joys of the young,
All these and eke others beside ;
And many a poet hath sung
Of boyhood, when tempted and tried,
Alas! b -it all's vanity here:
The pleasures of youth pass away,
Ard manhood's,rough.pathways appear,
And age travels on decay
Butman hasa soul ttia.will live
Which Death cannot even destroy—
While boyhood short pleasures can give
Heaven grants as perpetual joy.
Dalesboro, Assa. JOHN ROWLAND.
On the Stair.
My,little laughing daughter,
Cliinbing slowly towarthe sky,
Throwing kisses froth -the stairway unto all,
'Carols sweetly :-"'Dood=nightp`apa'F ,,,:
I will tiss'oo by -an' -bye,
In de mornin' when I hear do 'parrows tall."
Refrain :
" I will Liss 'oo by -an -bye !"
O what Love -light lingers nigh
When the children toss their kisses on our
care!
O the trust life, undefiled,
- Of a loving, happy child!
What a music in the "Dood-night" on the
stair!
Like a white-rob'd angel vision
She had calla on every one,
Dropping sunbeams, smiles and kisses,dtnstch
chair ;
Leaving " Papa" in his sanctum
Q,.ite coquettishly alone
But I caught and kissed " The Rascal" on the
stair.
Refrain:
"I will tiss'oo by -an' -bye !"
O what love -light lingers nigh
When the children toss their kisses on
care!
O the trust -life, undefiled,
Of a loving, happy child!
-What a music in ;the " Dood-night" on
stair!
We are growing old and sober, '
So we sometimes sadly say.
And have burdens' int+re. than heart or
can bear:
How the children's -cheery chatter
Chases chafing gloom away !
There is more than rest and sunlight
stair.
Refrain :
" I will tiss'oo by -^n' -bye 1"
O what love -light lingers nigh
When the children toss their kiss
Bare!
0 the triustlife, undefiled,
Of a loving, happy child!
What a music in the " Dood-nig
stair !
So we climb our Father's sta
To the restful realms above.
In his infinite protection, here an
We have hope to see the mo
And the fullness of his love
Lo 1 we find him close beside us
our
the
brain
on the
a on our
ht" on the
irway
there ;
rning
on the stair.
Refrain :
When the light, beyond
Flashes on immortal sigh
In thh glory of the Home boa o
By our ways, the Father
Shall have perfect para
As we laud his tender keepin
o night,
dcompare,
s praise,
hrase,
g on the stair.
LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON.
" The Elms," Toronto.
The N earest Duty.
My sell was stirred I prayed- i 3' Let me
Do some great work so purely
To right life's wrongs. that I shall know
That I haveloved Thee surely:'
My lips sent forth their 'eager ery,,
The while my hurt beat faster,
" For some great deed to prove my Iove,
Send me, send me, my Master!'
From out the silence came a voice
Sayings- "If God thou fearest,
Rise up and do, thy whole life through,
The dutythatlies nearest.
The friendly word, the kindly deed,
Though small the act in seeming,
Shall in the end unto thy soul
Prove mightier than thy dreaming.
"Tho cup of water to the faint,
Or rest unto the weary,
The li;jit ttiou,givest another's life
Shall make thine own Less dreary.
And boundless realms of faith and love
Will wait ft r thy possessing;
Not creeds, but deeds, if thou would'st win
Unto thT"soul a blessing."
And so i wait with peaceful heart,
Content to do His pleasure.
Not caring if the world shall mock
At smallness of the measure.
Of thoughts or deeds or dailv life
He knowsthetrue endeavor
To do His will,.to seek his face;
And He will fail me never. -
-[Sarah A. Gibbs.
What Will it Ming?
?
What shall the New Year bring thee?
Silver and-goal-
Freedom
nd gold l=-
Freedom from toil's grim bon age?
Pleasures untold -1
Days•full of dretsm„y eisurc ? "
Nights of delicious reset.. .
Never a breath to rutile
The of hfe' cid eras?
w$dst thou boiling it bring thee
d nme.s z
- , em e victor 1
rt A mighty
Pante*,
-Teaches of burning- enius?
hegift ofthe_t golden tongue" .
e pen, by whose magic- power --
The world's great heart is wrung t ' -
..! would'stthou pray'tw,u1d beat thee
Love's rosy dreams;_`
Days when thy life with wildest
Ecstasy-ieems t
(foments when i#ps will meet thea
-Warm with a waning kiss . 1
'Hours that bizgh teb Se --h
Laden with p
What will the New Yeas bringthee?
'Crowned desires
Hope' -s un€nlgllmen Grief's
Ravening fires?
Riches, or love, or laurels?
Whate'er to thy lot be sent,
God grant the New Year'il bring thee
Peace and a heart content!
—[Glandis Tharin in New York Ledger.
— The points of`tile_ compass can be told
from trees by the following simple observe -
of tions. ' The. side of a tree on which most of
less the moss is found is the horth. If the tree
-be exposed tittle inn, its heaviest and long-
est limbs will be 011 the south side.
THOUGHT IT Atilt,'
JOKE, -
But the Justice Was tunable to See It.
"Between both the two undersigned we
agree that we can no longe get on together,
and thatconsequently I leave my wife free
to quit me.and to adopt the existence that
will Bait her, as I shall do in my own
case, without having anything -lo re-
preach each other with." Such was the
somewhat confused document which a
couple in Paris drew up together, in No-
vember Iast year and to which they append-
ed their names: At least, they understood
what it meant, or thought they did, which,
as has justturned out, did not amount to
quite the same thing. The lady firmly be-
lieved that she was thenceforth' at liberty
to -follow her own devices. The husband,
however, put a very dfferent construction
on the -agreement, declaring when it was
appealed to in court that he had simply
intended to set a trap for his "bet-
ter half." Under the iinpression that she
was entirely her own mistress, the wife pro-
ceeded to take up her abode with a gentle-
man who had already paid her some atten-
tion, but when the pair found themselves
in the nnenviable position of defendants in
the lawsuit which followed, and the lady
calmly informed the Judge that "she was
guaranteed by her paper," she was prompt-.
ly enlightened on the subject. "What
paper?" inquired the magistrate "My
paper of separation."
The Judge then asked whether she had
obtained a decree of separation, and after
some further explanation the . famous docu-
ment was handed to him. As soon as the
magistrate had read out the contents which
had been drawn up between these high con-
tracting,parties, the wife cried, "Now, you
see that I could live as I pleased !" and was
much put out when she was informed that
at the moat the paper might serve as an " ex-
tenuatingcircumstance," for the law did not
authorize these "separations amiables."
Here the husband—his face beaming with
delight—broke in. " That is just • what I
always raid . her, ._so' I persist in, my_ comp -
laint."
He
when
ntori
thou
j eke
obse
fen;
fro
im
ght it was all a joke," he faltered. " A
a
looked, however, rather crestfallen
the magistrate remarked that he had
ght to display much severity. "
which ends ina court of law," gravely
rved the Judge. Again the female de -
m the audience, that she had fondly
agined that she was perfectly free. It
as then shown that before the document
as actually signed she had written to her
iend, putting him au courant of the affair,
letter te that effect having been found, and
he husband now explained that he had
sinitity agFeed tohthe plan in order that he
might catch his wife tripping. As the
magistrate was reflecting on his conduct, he
exclaimed : "If you ineen me to take her
back, I don't want her !" " Nor I either !"
cried his wife. Finally, however, the ledy
was condemned to a week's impriscriment
and a fine of £1, her friend being sentenced
to the payment of 100f.
The Ancient Yew.
The yew is the oldest of British trees,
specimens being still alive which, according
to De Candolle, are not less than 2,000 years
old. In many places throughout the coun-
try, especially in the westotEueland and in
Wales we may still stand beneath the flour-
ishing branches of yews which were nearly
full grown at the time of the Conquest. At
Aldsworth, in Berkshire, tt ere is still living
a yew which measures at the present time
twenty-seven feet in circumference, and
must be atleast 1,000 years old. This fine tree
is referred to in Moore's "Berkshire Queries,"
under the date 1760, where it is recorded
that it was " vine yards in girth." So that
for at levet 130 years it has not increased in
size. At Bucklebury, in the same county,
stands another thin -scarred patriarch, which
also measures 27 feet in girth where the
brarches spring from the trunk.
An interesting group of fine yews exists
at Watcombe, on the road from Hungerford
to Oxford. The trees are planted in the
shape of a cloister court with a pond in the
centre, on the side of a pre-Reformatitn re-
ligious edifice connected with the Benedic-
tine Monastery of Huxley, to which house
it was given by Geoffrey de Mandeville
about 10S6 A.D., and referred to in the
"Pipe Rolls" under the date 1166 A.D. The
inclosure is still called by the people of the
district " Paradise," the origin of which
name can only be conjectured. It is proba-
bly a relic of some ancient monastic symbol.
The same name is givea to _other groups,
such at Gresford, near Chester ; at Chiches-
ter, and at Winchester. — [Chambers's
Journal.
The Southern Opossum
In day:dame by the southern section of
the Union was known far and wide for hos-
pitable peeplee and it has been said that one
might travel for a week over the hills and
val eye of that eection without having to
spend a dollar for lodging ; the traveler hav-
ing to stop at the farmers' hones, as there
were few public lodging houses at that
delighted to see before their visitors was
opossum meat with sweet petato dressing,
and it is said it is one of the richest and
most delicious edibles that can be had in the
southland. We are forcibly reminded of the
" possum and taters" by receiving an invi-
tation to attend an old time 'Possum Supper
and Banquet, to be given by the Southern
Department at the Buffalo Exposition on
the afternooa of August 17th complimentary
to the representatives of the Northern press
and Railroads.
There will be present a number of prom-
inent Southern gentlemen and no doubt the
occasiOn will be pleasantly remembered by
those forainaae fellows who are included in
the invitations sent out lehr Hon. J. T.
Patrick, Secretary of the Southern Inter •
State Immigration Bureau, Raleigh, N. 0.
Progressive Tax on Bachelors.
The bill for staying the depopulation of
France which M.. Le Roy is preparing to
lay before the Chamber, is by no means a
laughing matter, as the Freneh bachelor of
the future may discover. For among its
provisions is a proposal to put a progressive
tax upon bachelors, while on the other hand
creating a eliding scale of tanation, to be
reduced in proportion to the number of
children in a family. M. Le Roy proposes
to follow English law in reducing the legal
age at which a man becomes his own mas-
ter to twenty-one and in giving a woman
the right of compelling the father of her
illegitimate child to recognize and provide
for his offspring. It was none too soon that
this last provision became French law as
well as,English law, but M. Le Roy goes a
long step further when he proposes to ren-
der a husband comniitting adultery liable to
imprisonment. We confess we should not
have thought France to be the most favor-
able country for tic Iterini :at
The despotism of custom is on the wane ;
we are not eontent to know that things are;
we ask whether they ought to be.—[John
Stuart Mill.
Pursued 'With a Esokleasneers and La*
orPorethought That Amazes British Bt.
Our Oyster Fishi WillSoon be Extinct
—Sure Death For the Bivalve .
A Moncton despatch says ..--Mereirs.
Frederick and Earnest Kemp, experts in
The Varese is Soinetinies Loafled to Seittdte
music entreated me to the window, and
bind peon (peasant), carrying on his head
and outstretched hands a plank about five
feet long and on the plank.* dead child.
Many ineniii4ve bier' 'capable of doinf
There are 360 mountains in the Unite:
Statesseaeh exceeding 10,000 feet in height
The band in any hut a West -end theatre
usually consists of from eight to ten mei:
oyster culture, who were brought here from The little corpse was that of a girl, appar--- onF-d"rrin-evek orinl,four• a hslibifiliaenlingsnysrienetxpeinrEndrIdlacAnci
England by the dep rtment of fisheries for ently about five years old. It vvas atii$11 •
the purpose of exam:fling _and reporting on in a short frock of red -calico, the legs in, Ellen Terry, the eum actress, is fam--
the oyster beds at the maritime provinces, casedsin coarse white hose n a world tot ous as a lover of cats. She will frolic with
has left here for Ptince Edward Island. wide for the shrunk shank ;" aboee, the litrefeline pees for hours.
The Messrs. Kemp have examined all the jet-black hair smoothly braided and ertimmi
and the once famous beds at Shediae hive the cheeks horribly daubed' with ver- Germany has a boarding- establishment
beds in Westmoreland and Kent counties ed by a jaunty wreath of paper roses and
been surveyed and put in readiness for million to stimulate the hue of health. for birds, where the feathered ones are
re -stocking. For this purpose it is pro- The plank -bearer was closely followed by taken care of while their owners are away.
The largest steam hammer in
good Buctoeche ot P. E. Island oysters. grandmotherof the deceased, and they walk: the huge piece of machinery in Woolwich
England is
posed to purchase about 600 barrels of two woman, evidently the mother and
To a ' Herald eorresnondent the Messrs. ted with an air of conscious importance, as Arsenal, by means of which the monster
Kemp stated that the oyster fishing in bec,omes those who have furnished otra angel force is 1,000 tans.
Woolwich Infants are forged. Its striking
this country has been pursifed with a ter ("another little angel, " as here a dead Bismarck is as fond of dogs as " Ottida."
recklessness and lack of forethought beyond child is universally ealled), to Swell the His inseparable companions are two large
anything ever before brought to their heavenly host. -Behind the woman march. Danish hounds. At dinner they eat beside
observation and unless a change is made in ed twO men, playing with might a.nd main, their master, and occasionally he feeds them
the methods of fishing total extinctiOra of, pie on a fiddle, ehe other on a guitar, eaeh with his oWn bands.
this most Important fishery muiteresult. intent on a tune of his own regardless of The largest turret ship in the world—
At the extensive Buctouche bedd-fishing the other's performanee ; and the rear perhaps the largest battleship in existence
has been especially improvident, and large brought up by a dozen or more laughing —is the British battleship Hood, which was
areas that formely teemed with the lus- and chatteriug men, women and children, launched at Chatham on July 30, 189h,
cious bivalve are now of little or no value. most of whom gave indubitable evidence of The Hood his a displacement of 14,150
The Messrs. Kemp experimented atvari- unwise generosity on somebody's part in tons.
ous places aud in one raking, which brought the way of chicha, the Chilia,n low-clasi in- Several years ago there was a law in Po -
up fifty merchantable °esters, there were toxicant. land which compelled every slanderer to
nearly 200 that should be returned to the They were on the way to the Pantheno to walk on all fours through the streets of the
water. The practice of the fishermen, inter the " little angel ' over whom they town.
however; is to carry off everything, sort out had been dancing for several days, and The biggest steam ferryboat in the world
the larger ones and throw the iebase away. which possibly had been loaned once or is the Cincinnati, built by the Pennsylvania
But by far the greatest havoc is worked on twice in the mean time to friends who were Railroad Company to ply between New
the beds by winter fishing through the ice ; not so fortunate as to have a corpse in the Yerk and Jersey City.
being left on the ice to fall on the beds in Chilians it is the general custom to make A whale, recently captured in Arctic
all the dead shells, small oysters end mud family. Among the more degraded class of
the spring, the result being sure death to death an excuse for orgies wild and ri- waters, was found to have imbedded in its
side and Other parts OLP, -Eheleland. sevorvaicewnheaalinrlyg
everything maderneath., The Messrs. diculous,and the body, especially ot a child,
Kemp will examine the beds 'at 'Summer- is sometimes kept for festive purposes un-
til it becomes offensive to people passing half -a century.
- . THE ENERGETIO'7POLICX'-- the house. , more than a year without bemgh polished,
A single glass eye can rarely be worn
being pursued by the department at Ottawa for the surface becomes roughened by the
action of the tears, &a, and irritatee the
looking to the preservation and extension lids as they rub over it.
cannot fail to be productive of much good his head that the girl in the case is likely
It is when &young fellow in love has kst
of the oyster beds of the maritime provinces
aud add very materially to the annual to mercifully lay her own on his shoulders.—
wealth of this important fishery. It is a [Philadelphia Times.
which were at one time noted for the " Cool as a cucumber," is correct scientifi-
well known fact that a great many localitiee
quality of their oysters as well as for the cally. Investigators claim that that vege-
table usually has a temperature one degree
fertility of the beds from which these fish less than the surrounding atmosphere.
- Chinese doctors mark the intervals be -
were taken, have of late years become
hausted, owing chiefly to reckless and tween doses of medicine by bending a stick
greatly depleted, and in some cases ex -
inordinate modes of fishing and the utter and lighting it. The patient takes the medi-
cine when the fire -reaches the bend.
absence of any artificial aid in the propaga-
tion of the species, or care in the protection Iddisease peculiar to Japan is known as
and cultivation of the grounds to which kake, which is thought to be theresult of
they were indigenous. Among the beds a rice diet. The disease ie a slow degenera-
a.
once famous but now of no value whatever tion of the nervous system and steadily
increasing weakness of the patient.
are those at Shediac known at the Peiries
beds. Senator Poirier, whose forefathers The tramways in London consist of 117
fished these begs, shortly after his eleva- miles of line; but these are shared by several
tion to the upper house made a speech in companies the North Metropolitan owning
which he urged the matter of restock -
Great Plains of Canada -
No one, I think, who is acquainted with
the great plains of our own western contin-
ent lying north of the great lakee cau read
the narratives of the expeditions sent out in
search of the Jeannette explorers, or Air.
George Kennan's account of Siberia travel,
without being impressed with the likeness
suggested between the Asiatic steppes and
the " Great Lone Land " of the western
hemisphere. Many of Mr. Kennan's des-
criptions of the country through which he
passed on his memorable journey to the
penal col enies and the prison m'nes of east-
ern Siberia are equally vvell suited to the
most boundless tracts west of Eludson'sBays
and northward to the region of the Great
Slave Lake. Indeed; I know of no more gra-
phic and truthful portraitures of many part,
of what used to be marked on the maps as
British North America, and is now more
commonly known as the British Northwest,
or the Canadian Northwest, than thee() same
narratives but I am mire no word or pic-
ture can aelequetely convey to the mind. the
real impressions which these regions make
upon one who lives among and travels over
them in long journeys in summer and win-
ter. It is one thing to talk of vastness and
solitude and silence, of transparent air and
illimitable sunshine in summer, or of fierce,
howling winter tempests shutting down
about the lonely traveler as he struggles
forward, the only spot of color in the wel-
tering waste of snow, with no friendiy shrub
or tree or sheltering hill greeting his tired
sense, only to find an enforced halting-pIace
where darknees overtakes him, from whose
frozen torpor: and death no morning may
arouse him—it is quite another to have
experienced these things in ones own per-
son.
Among the mountains there are grandeur
and solitude • mists wreathe the lofty sum-
mits, a,nd lie ;long the valleys where the
rivers run ; morning and evening bathe the
snowy, ice -clad peaks in floods of golden
and crimson glory ; from moment to
moment shadows, tints, and tones of
colors come and go to mark the elaps-
ing hours ; and climb where you will,
tne prospect is always limited, bound-
ed, ,varied. Even the barren, unsociable
sea is not without changing aspects and
motions, fraught, indeed, at times with
danger anti terror ; but the traveler who has
paseed many seasons in the grandest mount-
ain scenery, or has sailed on many a sea,
has yet to find, in an acquaintance with the
great plains, a new set of novel and strange
41 miles, tbe London nearly 2'2, the Lon-
ing these run out beds and preserving there don Street about 13, and five other com-
that are still of vslue to the government. panies 41 miles between them.
His speech had the desired effect, and one The pa.ssage through the Suez Caney
of the results was the conference of fishing grows shorter every year. According to the
inspectors held at Ottawa last year. annual report the average duration is 23
hours 31 minutes some 35 minutes less
than twelve months ago. This improvement
AT THE CONFERENCE
a number of recommendations were made as is due to the electric light enabling the
follows : No winter fishing on depleted vessels to continue their voyage at night.
beds ; small oysters to be immediately re- A strange custom is followed by Mexican
turned to the water ; productive beds to be farmers. They use oxen of one colour in the
fished alternate years ; prohibition of mud morning, and another color in the after-
diggiag and the inauguration of a system of noon. They do not know why ; but they
leases to parties willing to engage in the know that it must be the right thing to do,
cultivation of oysters, similar to ,that of because their forefathers did it.
European countries, and some of the United There is, perhaps, no more curious place
States. As a result of these reconamenda- on the Pacific seaboard than Iquique, which
tions parliament voted $5000 for the pur- was bombarded by the Chilian fleet last year.
pose of surveying the oyster heels and. plant- It stands in a region where rain has never
ing new ones, in accordance with which a been known to fall.
survey of Shediac habor has been completed Nottingham Market Square is one of the
and already 270 acres of water area set largest in the kingdom, occupying five and
apart for the purpose of carrying on natural a -half acres, all of it uncovered, and sur -
and artificial reproduction of oysters. Thie rounded with lofty buildings. The houses
ie the area upon which the Messrs. Kemp round it have projecting upper stories,
have been working since coming out from forming a colonnade it front of the shops.
England. Petitions have also been received
by the department, asleng for the survey, The tallest policeman in the United King -
setting apart and restocking of the follow- dom is C,onstable Daly, one of the members
ing waters : of the Royal Irish Constabulary. He is 6
Shediac harbor, Baie Verte and Tignish feet 8i- inches in height. Another member
in the province of New Brunswick. of the same force, Sergeant Moffett, off
Eastern Harbor, Cheticaanp, Fader's Pond Ballyshannon, stands 6 feet 51 inches.
on the south side of St. Ann'sBay : Sydney One of the fastest voyages ftom China to
River, Linean Bay, Mira Bay, Catalone New York was made in the sninmer of 1890
Bay, East Bay and Big Glace Bayin the pro- by the steamship Glenogle, of the Glen Line,
N ince of Nova Scotia. Glasgow, which arrived from Amoy in
Summerside Harbor, Orwell Bay,Emegor forty-six days. The fastest time was by
West, and Winter Rivers in theprovence of the Glemshiel of the same line—forty-three
Paderewski, when travelling, has his
piano in his bedroom, and immediately on
A Tree That Is 3,000 Years Old.
In the churchyard at Darley Dale is the
most, venerable yew tree in the world. Many
authorities claim for it a fabulous age, mak-
ing it as much as 3 000 years old. It is 33
feet in girth, but its trunk has suffered not
a little from the modern Goths and Vandals
who have cariredtheir namee in the herk
and hreployedother methode of Mutilation.
The tree is now fenced round to save it from
further insult ; " and whatever may be its
precise age," says the Rev. Dr. Charles Cox,
" there can be little doubt that this grand
old tree has given shelter to the early Bri-
tons when pianning the construction of the
dwellings that they erected not many yards
to the west of its trunk ; to the Romans who
built up the funeral pyre for their slain
comrades just clear of its branches ; to the
Saxons, converted, perchance, to the true
faith by the preaching of Bishop Diuma
beneath its pleasant shade ; to the Norman
masons chiseling their quaint sculptures to
form the first stone house of prayer erect-
ed in its aicinity, and tri the host of Christian
worshipers who, from chat day to this, have
been borne under its hoary limbs in woman's
arms to the baptismal folt and then on
men's shotdders to their last aleepipg-place
in the soil thatgave it birth.—[London Pub-
lic Opinion. h
-On Their Own Account.
Two Irishmen fresh from the Emerald
Isle, recently joined the police -force. Dur-
ing their first week's duty they managed to
secure a lot of cases, an.d all of them being
triffing offences, a large amount of money
was taken in fines.
They were just on the point of promotion,
when they resolved to leave.
The superintendent was greatly surprised
when they gave ir their notices, and asked
them whet they intendededoing, and if they
could better themselves.
are going to start a police -station of our
own. I am going to run them 'in, and Mick
will inflict the -fines 1"
Pound Out.
Mamma : di_Which of the children hid my
slippers ?"
Nurse : " Little Johnny hid 'em, ma'am."
Mamma : " Then Johnny is the one who
upset that jam downstairs."
Uses of Glvoerise.
A writer in the August number of Peter-
son's Magazine calls attention to the numer-
ous purposes for which glycerine is useful.
It moistens and softens the skin, and,
when properly diluted, both prevents and
cures the painful and unsightly cra,cks
known as "chaps" on the hands. It will
allay the excessive thirst of a fever -patient
which nothing else could effect. Two or
three drops given to a baby will often stop
its stomach-ache, if wind be tne cause.
It will frequently soothe an irritable
cough by moistening the dryness of the
throat which gives rise to it. It is the
most efficient means at onr command for
the prevention of bed sorea.
lt has been found excellent as an enema
in treatment Of constipation, and belle tea-
spoonful every half-hour will relieve Sum-
mer complaint, weter-braele, or dyspepsia.
In household medication, it must be pure
and wholly unadulterated.
Another use may be added, which is not
generally known. When you are about to
seal fruit jare, drop in half a dozen drops
of glycerine, and it will help to keep the
contents and prevent mold from gathering
on the top.
If you want to show your husband a lit-
tle attention, place a bottle at his hand of
equal parts of glycerine and bay rum, for
use after his morning shave, and he will
rise up and bless you. I have tried and
can recommend it.
Glyeerine_is also excellent for rubbing
into shoes as a preventive for wet feet, as
well as to soften the leather end keep it in
good condition.
The Harriness of One Woman in View,
recting that boy always, Sarah. Let nature
take its course, won't you?"
Mrs. S. (laying aside the shingle)—"
do nothing of the sort. I don't intend that
any woman shall have such a husband as
I've got, if I can preventit."
Since to -his children God's unbounded love
Hath promised ail things, nothing can be ill ;
But till we reach our final home above,
All things shall work out for usbfessings still.
Each earnest longing of our soulsior rest,
Each a-spiration—all of which we Pray.
These will God give us when He sees -tis be t
Or lead to better things in ilis own better
wayl
of great difficulty to get him away from
it. When he was at Manchester in the
wiater of 1890, he remained there exactly
forty-eight hours, and out of that time he
was at the piano twenty-seven.
The largest advertisement in the world
is that of the "-Glasgow News," cut in the
shape of flower beds on the side of a hill
back of Ardenlee, Scotland. The words
"' Glasgow News " can be seen and plarnly
read at a distance of four miles • the length
of each letter is 40 feet, the tota91 length of
the line 323 feet, and the area covered bei
the letters 14,845 feet.
is at a prison in Pennsylvania. II eiv a -
nightly concert is given by what is proba.blf
the strangest orchestra ever known, cone -
sisting of about three hundred performerit
who never see one a-nother. This prison is,
perhaps, the only one in the world where -
the inmates are allowed to cultivate:the art
of music and the privilege is deeply appre-
ciated them. The music begins preciee.
ly at six o'clock every evening, apil ends at
the stroke of seven.
Stole One of Beecher's Sermons.
- Henry Ward Beecher once went
search of a brief rest to a small fishing vil-
lage, where his appearance was appareatly
unknown. When Sunday came aroundle
went to the morning serviceut the Cong,re.
gational Church, and was not a little sista'',
ished to hear the preacher for the day, a
very young man, rattle off tale of his -
(Beecher's) best sermons as an original dis-
course. At the conclusion of the service -the
great preacher waited. for a chat' With the
young man. Might I ask you hove lankit
took you to compese the sermon you -preach-
ed to us this morning ?" inquired ite real ,
author. " Oh, about six or eleven Vours,"
as the rejoinder. " Yon enlist he a very
smart young man," said Beecher, '.f.ler
took me just_five days to -write that telf-
same sermon." After a careful hut unblitsli-
ing scrutiny of the great- pulpitorator, the -
youth remarked : "I guess you're Ward
Beecherg then ?" A grave nod wee -44,3 only
responm Then the juvenile nixie -11i 13 out
his hand, and grasping that of las -eel rat -
Beecher, you just go ord se
like that. As long ea rut* r/ vet
oat
he -ashamed ba urn& thain.1*—