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Address, THE NIt:WS,RECORD, Cljt..
ton, Ont.
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(Cr w'od out last week )
The Iocul li;,urd of Health of the
township of Hulleit held a meeting
at Lunde8bolu ou Tue.td' v, Nov
15th. The report of Dr. Young,
Aledical Health officer, was real
and showed that the sauitiry condi
tion of the mnniciptlity is very
good and excepting a few mild cases
Of typhoid fsver,l'asbeon rem aka') y
free from sickness during tW e year.
In the summer time quite a nuisauce
was ceased by p.0 ties le tving dead
anitnuls exposed on con 14, oppo
site the coporntion of Blyth, but on
being notified it .was abated at unci•
and no oilier complaint teas bru•)ght
before the !'wild slues theu.
The council of Hullett mei,the same
day and the Chairm1u of the Bowl
of health, fu conformity with
the provisions of the Pubic
heath Act, submitted his an
null repott which contains n
statement of the work of the 13J:u11
and the sanitary couditiou of th•
municipality as contained in the
Health Officer's report. On motion
of \lesare. • Llsham and Suell the
report was adopted. Accounts
amounting to $130 for township
improvements were presented and
paid. A circular from the County
Clerk askfug for a statement of the
kind and cost of bridges proposed
Io be built in the township this
year that would come under the Act
It. S
0.-C. 134, S. 533; also a cerci
tied statement show•iug the amount
paid out for bridges in each year
for the past ton yenre, for the iufol•
motion of the County C ,unci]; thin
will entail some extra trot k on the
township councillors. as the length
of the bridges is required as well as
�}1e kilid %1 a4 ri r•F•tvf' w}thTh`tTiej
areconstructed. Council adjourned
until Dec. 15th at 10 a. m.
JAMES CAMPBELL, Clerk.
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WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE.
- At the last session of Parliament
a bill was introduced .,entitled " A ti
act respecting witnessess and evil
encs," which was referred to a Belied
committee, reported to the 'House,
but not passed. This bill permits
personslthccused of crimes to testify
in their own behalf, allows husband
and wife to he used as witnesses for
or against each other under certain
circutnstances,and also provides that
no person shall be excused from am
awering any question upon the
ground that lie may incriminate him-
self, or tend to establish his liability
to a civil proceeding, evidence thus
given, however, not to be receivable
against the witness in 1lnbsequeut
criminal proceedings, except for per•
jury in giving such evidence.
The bill was printed, and as it in-
volves new and important points in
criminal procedure, the Minister of
Justice has caused copies of it to be
distributed to j u dges, magistrates and
others, with a view to obtaining their
opinions, in the same planner .as
was done with respect to the propos.
al to abolish granrl'juriee.
Consumption Cured.
An old phyeiotan, retired from practice, having
had placed in his bands by an East India miooton-
ary the lormnia of a simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent ours of Consumption,
Bronohitte, Catarrh, Asthma and all threat and
Lung Affections, also a poaitive and radical cure
for Nervone Debility and all Nervone Complainte,
after having tested ito wonderful curative powers
in thousands of oases, has felt it his duty to make
it known to bisenfloring follows. Aotuatedby this
motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I
• will send free of charge, to all who desire 1t, thio
recipe, in German, French or English, with full
directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail
by addreeeing with stamp. naming this paper.
W -A. NOYES, 820 Powers' Block, Rochester, N, Y.
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—J. W. Harrison. who has been
teaching in S. S. No. 3 Stephen,
for the past two years, has been
appointed as principle of Varna
Public school at a salary of $400.
Geo. Russell, eon of Rev. A. L.
Russel, has been engaged to
fill the vacancy in No. 3 Stephen at
a salary of $300.
RUSSIA'S DEFENDER.
1. lit.
DR• TALMAGYE CHAMPIONS THE CZAR
AND HIS COUNTRY.
Iutruatlounl Deramation-The Calum-
nies That Have Been Reiterated
Against Russia Answered by the Brook.
len HIvine—Itnssla Viewed in a New
Light.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 20. -Rev. Dr. Tal•
mage to -day fulfilled his promise that he
would again epeuk of his visit to Russia,
and correct many wrong imjlressiolls con•
corning that Empire and its ruler. After
an exposition of Scripture and congregate
ducal singing, he took for his text: II.
Peter, 2 ; 10 : "Presumptuous aro they, self-
willed, they are not afraid to speak evil. of
dignities."
Aniid a most reprehensible crew, Peter
hero paints by one stroke the portrait of
those who delight to slush at people in
authority. Nuw, we all have a right to
criticise evil behaviour, whether in high
places or low, but the fact that ono is high
up is no proof that he ought to be brought
down. It is a bed streak of human nature
now, as it was in the time of the text a
bad streak of human 'littera, that success of
any kind excites the jealous antipathy of
those who cannot climb the same steep.
'!'here never was a David on the throne
that there was not some Absalom who
wanted to get it. There never was a Christ
but the world had saw and hammer keady
to fashion a cross on which to assassinate
Him. Out of this evil spirit grow not only
individual but national and international
defamation.
There is no oountry on earth so misunder-
stood ae Russia, and no monarch more mis-
reptedeuted than its Emperor. 1Vill it not
be the cause of justice if 1 try to set right
the niinds of those who compose this august
assemblage and the minds of those to whom,
on both sides of the ocean, these words
shall come ? If the slander of one person is
wicked, then the slander of one hundred
and twenty million people is one hundred
and (0 0111y million titles more wicked. In
the Haute of righteousness and in behalf of
civilization, and for the encouragement of
all these goull people nvlio have been dis-
heartened by the seaudalizatiou of Russia,
1 m"w speak.
What ere the motives for misrcpresenta•
tion? Commercial interests and interna-
tional jealousy. Russia is . as large as all
the rest of Europe put together. Remember
that a nation is only a man or u woman on
a big scale. • \Vhy does not Europe like
Russia? Because she has enough acreuo
to swallow all Europe and feel she had only
half a meal. Russia is as lung as North
and South America put together. "But,"
says seine one, "do you mean to charge the
authors and the lecturers who have written
or spoken against Russia with falsehood?"
By no menus. You can tied in any city or
nation evils innumerable if you wish to dis-
course about them.
I said at St. Petersburg to the most em-
inent lady of Russia outside of the Imper•
ill family : "Are those stories of cruelty
and outrage that 1 have heard and read
about, true ?" She replied, "No doubt,
seine of them are true, but do you not to
Al.. erica, ever have officers of the law cruel
and outrageous in their treatment of of-
fenders ? ' Do you not have instances
where the police have clubbed innocent
persons ? Have you not instances where
people in brief authority act arrogantly ?"
1 replied : "Yes, we do." Then she
said : "Why docs the world hold our
government responsible for exceptional
outrages ? As sown as the official is found%
-'tcrbe-cr1Tel, 1ro^iYanieitiatelyId eshis- place.
Then I bethought myself : Do the people
in America hold the government at \Wadi- '
ington responsible for the Homestead riots
at Pittsburg, orJor'railroad insurrections,
or for the torch of the villain that con-
sumes a block of houses, or for the ruf-
fians who arrest a rail train, making the
passengers hold up their arms until the
pockets are picked ? Why, then, hold the
Emperor of Russia, who is ae impressive
and genial a man as I have ever looked at
or talked with, responsible for the wrongs
enacted in a nation with a population twice
as large in number as the millions of Ameri•
ca? Suppose one monarch in Europe ruled
over England, Scotland, Ireland, France,
Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Norway
and Sweden. Would it be fair to hold the
monarch responsible for all that occurred
in that mighty dominion? Now, you must
remember that Alexander the Third reigns
over wider dominion than all those empires
put together. As a nation is only a man or
a woman on a big scale, let me ask, would
you individually prefer to be judged by
your faults or your virtues? All people,
except ourselves, have faults.
It is most important that this country
have right ideas concerning Russia, for i
among all the nations this side of Heaven,
Russia is Americas best friend.
I declare before God and the nation that
I believe Russia saved the United States of.
America. Last July I stood before a great
throng of Russians in the embarrassing
position of speaking to an audience three- ;
fourths of which could not understand my
language any more than I could understand
theirs. But there were two ntnmes that
they thoroughly understand as well as you
understand them, and the utterance of
those two names brought forth an acclama-
tion that made the City Hall of St. Peters-
burg quake from foundation stone te, tower, 1
and those two names were "George Wash-
ington," and "Abraham Lincoln." Now, ie
it not important that we should feel right
toward that mighty, that God-given friend
of more than one hundred years? Yes, be-
cause it is a nation of more possibilites than
any other, except our own, should we cul-
tivate its friendship. There is a vast realm
of Russia as yet unoccupied. If the popu-
lation of the rest of Europe were poured in-
to Russia it would be only partially occupi-
ed. And now I proceed to do what I told
the Emperor and Empress and all the Im-
perial family at the Palace of I'eterhof I
would do if I ever got back to America,and
that is to answer some of the calumnies
which have been announced and reiterated
and stereotyped against Russia.
Calumny the first --The Emperor and all
the Imperial family aro in perpetual dread
of assassination. they are practically pris-
oners in the Winter Palace, and trenches
with dynamite have been found dug around
the Winter Palace. They dare not venture
forth, except preceded and followed and
surrounded by a most elaborate military
guard.
My answer to this is that I never saw a
face niore free from worriment than the
Emperor's face. The Winter Palace,
around which the trenches are said to have
been charged with dynamite and in which
the Imperial family are said to ho prisoners,
has never been the residence of the Imperial
family one moment since the present
Emperor has been on the throne. That
Winter Palace has been changed into a
museum and a picture gallery and a place
of great levees. He spends his summer in
the palace of Peterhof, fifteen or twenty
miles from St. Petersburg; his autumns at
the palace at Getsohina, and hie winter at
a palace at St. Petersburg, but in quite
different part of the city to that occupied
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by the \Victer Palace. Ile ridge through
the streets unattended, except by the Ent -
press at his side cud the driver on the box.
11101'e is not a person in this audietoe more
free frou'foan• of harm than ho is. His eub-
jecte not only admire him, but almost wor-
ship him.
But what au uMlertakulg, to rule 11c3,
000,4)00 people, made up of `100 tribes ail
races and apeakiug forty different leu
guagos. But, notwithstanding all tine
things there move oq narvellouely well
and I do not believe that out of 500,00
Russians you would find more than one per
son who dislikes the Emperor, and so the
calumny of dread and assaseinatiun drop
1.10 flat it can full no flatter.
Calumny the Second -If you go to Rus
spa you are under the severest espionage
stopped here and questioned there, and it
danger of arrest. But my opinion is that i
a man is disturbed in Russia it is becaus
he ought to be disturbed. Russia is th
only country in Europe in which my bag
j gage was not examined. I curried in my
head, tied together with a cord so tha
their titles could he seen, a pile of eight or
ten books, all of them from lid to lid curs
ing Russia, but 1 had no trouble in taking
with the the books. !There is ten times
more difficulty in getting your baggage
through the Amerie:tu custom house tliai
through the Russian. I speak not of any
self, for friends intercede for me on Alnori
can wharves, and I ant not detaine . I
was several clays in Russia before 1
asked if I had any passport at a11. •
Calumny the Third -Russia, ussut anti its rule
ere so opposed to any other religion except
the Greek religion, that they will not allow
any other religion ; that nothing but per
secution and imprisonment and outrage in
tolerable await the diltciples of any uthe
religion. But what are the facts ? I had
1 a long ride in St. Petersburg and its sub
urbs with the Prefect, a brilliant, efficient
and lovely eau, who is the highest office.
in the city of St. Petersburg, and whose
chief business is to attend the Emperor, I
said to him : "I suppose your religion is
that of the Greek Church 1" "No," Bait
he. •'1 am a Lutheran." "What is your
religion ?" I said to one of the highest and
moat influential officials of St. Petereburg
He said : "I am of the Church of Euglald.'
Myselfan Arnet•icau. of still another denom-
ination of'Clm•ist!aut, and never having been
inside a Greek Church in my life until i
went to Ruesi1- eouhl not brave received
more consideration had I been baptized in
the Greek .Church laid all my life worship-
ped at her altars, I had it demonstrated
to 2110 very plainly that a man's religion in
Russia has nothing to do with his prefer-
ment for either ofnice or social position.
The only questions taken into such consid•
oration are honesty, lidolty, morality and
a(laptatiou-
C'alumny the Fourth -Russia is so very
grasping of territory and she seems to
want the world. But .what, are the facts ?
During the last century and a quarter, the
United :butts have taken possession of
everything between the Th irteen Colonies
and the Puiitiu ocean, and England, during
the same length of time, has taken posses-
' of nearly three million square miles,
and by the extent of her donnain hat added
200 million population, while Russia has
added during that tune only one-half the
number of square miles and about eighteen
million of population -England's advance
of domain by 250 million against Russia's
advance of dumas:. by lie milliet. What a
paltry Russian advance of domain by IS
million as compared with the English nd-
ye1CO of domain by 254) million ! The
United States and England had better keep
still about extravagant and extortionate
enlargement of domain.
Calumny the Fifth --Siberia is a den of
horrors, antl•to-day'people are driven like
,..dumb.catklelnottaal=Fe-iiffri-R er to ffte-sate•
petted one ; they are pet into q.nieksilver
mines where they are whipped and starved
and some day find themselves going around
without any head. _Some of thein do not
get so far as Siberia. Women; after being
tied to stakes in the streets, are disrobed,
and whipped to death in the presence of
howling mobs. Offenders hoar their own
flesh siss under the hot irons.
But what a'•e the facts ? There are no
kinder people on earth than the Russians,
and to host of theta cruelty is an impossi-
bility. I hold in my hand a card. You
see on it that red circle. 'kat is the gov-
ernment's seal on a card giving ale per-
mission to visit all the prisons at St. Peters-
burg, as I had expressed a wish hi that
direction. As the messenger handed this
card to me, he told me 'that a ca•riage
was at the door for my disposal in visit-
ing•the prisons. It so happened, however.
that I was crowded with engagements
and I could not make the visitation. But
do you suppose such cheerful permission
and a carriage to boot would- have been
offered me if the prisons of Russia are
such hells on earth as they have been
described to be ? I asked an eminent
and distinguished Arnericafi : "Have you
visited the prisons of St. Petersburg,
and how do they differ from American
prisons ?" He replied : "I have visited
them and they are as well ventilated and
as well conditioned in every resect as the
majority of prisons in America." Are
women whipped in the streets? No ; that
statement, comes from the manufactory of
fabrication, a manufactory that runs day
and night, so that the supply may meet the
demand.
HIow about Siberia ? My answer is
Siberia is the prison of Russia, a prison
more than twice the size of the United
States.
John Howard, after witnessing the plan
of deportation of criminals from Russia to
Siberia, commenced it in England. If a
man commits murder in Russia he is not
electrocuted, as we electrocute him, or
choked to r3eath by a halter, as we choke
him to death. Russia is the only country
on earth from which the death penalty has
been driven, except in case of high treason.
Murderers and desperate villains are sent
to the hardest parts of Siberia, but no man
is sent to Siberia or doomed to any kind of
punishment in Russia until he has a fair
trial. So far as their being hustled off in
the night, and not knowing why they are
exiled or punished is concerned, all the
criminals in Russia have an open trial be-
fore a jury, just as we have in America,
except in revolutionary or riotous times,
and you know in America at such tunes the
writ of habeas corpus is suspended. There
are in Russia grand juries and petit juries
and the right to challenge the jurors, and
the prisoner confronts his accuser, and mark
this, as in no other country, after a prisoner
has been condemned by juries and judges he
may appeal to the Minister of the Interior,
and after that to the Senate, and after' that
to the Emperor, who is constantly pardon-
ing. As 1 said, the violent and murderous
are sent to the hardest part of Siberia, but
more moderate criminals to more propitious
parts of Siberia, and those who have only a
little criminality to parts of Siberia posi-
tively genial for climate, for you ought to
know, if you do not know, that Siberia is so
large and wide and long that it reaches
from frigidity to torridity, from almost
arctic blast to climate as mild as that of
Italy.
After being in Siberia awhile, the con-
demned go to earning a livelihood, and they
come to own their own farms, and orchards
and vineyards, many of these people com-
ing to wealth, and thousands of them under
no Inducement would leave those parte of
Siberia which are paradises for salubrity
and luxuriauce. Now, which do you t'a'lk
is the best style of a prison -Siberia or
many of our American priauus'! When a
Mall commits a big crime in our country,
the judge looks into the frightened face of
- the culprit, and euye : "You have been
d found guilty ; I sontenee you to the paid.
• tentiury for ten yearn." He goes to prison,
, He is shut in between four walls. No sun-
light. No fresh air. No bathroom. Bo -
0 fore he has served his ten years,, he dies of
• consumption, or is so enervated that for the
t rest of his life he sits with folded hands a
s wheezing invalid. In proferenee to the
shut-iu life of the average American prison-
. et, give ate Siberia.
The merciful character of the present
1 Emperor was well illustrated in the follow-
; ing occurrence: Thu Ulan who supervised
e the assassination of the father of the present
e Emperor, etanding in the snow that awful
- day, when the dynamite shattered to pieties
the logs of Alexander the Second -I say the
t man who supervised all this :led from St.
Petersburg and quit Russia. But after a
. while the luau repented of his crime, and
wr,Tgte to the Empel•ur asking for forgive-
ness for the murder of his father and pi•o-
anisiug to be a good citizeu; and asking if he
I ' might come back to Russia. The`Emperor
I pardoned the murderer of his father and the
lot•given assassin is now living in Russia,
untoes recently deceased. When I
1.1kod to the Empress concerning the sym•
path,,y' felt hi America for the sud'eriugs of
r ' the drought•struck regions of Russia, she
evinced an absorbing interest and a coulees -
'
Bien and an emotion of manner and speech
such as we men can lewdly realize, because
it seems that God has reserved for women
✓ ate her great adornment, the coronet, the
tear -jewelled coronet of tenderness, and
commiseration. 11 you say that it was a
' man, a Divine Mau that came to save the
world, 1 say yes, Int it was a woman that
gave the man. Witness all the Madonnas,
'taken, German, English and Russian, that
bloom in the 'picture galleries of Christen-
' den. Son of Mary have mercy on us !
lint how about the knout, the cruel Rus-
sian knout, that cones (town on the hare
back of agonized criminals 9 \Vhy, Russia
abolished the knout; before it was abolished
1 from our Amex -Men navy. 'ilii how about_
the political prisoners hustled off"to Siberia?
According to- the testimony of the most
celebrated literary enemy of Russia,
only 443 political prisoners were sent
to Siberia in twenty years. lfow
many political prisoners did we put in
. prison pens during our four years of Civil
- War ? Well, 1 will guess at least one
hundred thousand. America's 100,000
political prisoners versus Russia's 4.43
political prisoners. Nearly all these 413
of 30 years were noblemen or people
desperately opposed to the emancipation
of the serfs. Aud none of the political
prisoners are sent to the famous Kara
trines.
'But you ask, how will this Russophobia,
• with which so many have been bitten and
poieuued, be cured ?' By the God of Jus-
tice blessing such books and pamphlets as
I are now coining out from Prof. 1)e Armand,
of Wuehington; Mr. Horace Cutter of San
Francisco; Mt. \fol'iiII, of England, and by
the opening of our American gates to the
writings of some twenty-four of the Rus-
sian authors and authoresses, in some re-
spects as brilliant as the three or four Rus-
sian authors already known --the translation
of those twenty-four authors, which I an
authorized from Russia to oiler free of
charge to any responsible American pub-
lishing house that will do them justice.
Let these Russians tell their own story, for
they are the only ones fully competent to
do the work, as none but Americans can
fully tell the story of America, auk rs twee
but (4er_an-tan fully te'i'f""&r:�,^r r of-.
Germams-
ny, and none but Englishmen can
fully tell the story of England, and none'
but Frenchmen can fully tell the story of
France. Meanwhile, let the international
defamation come to an end.
• BEAUTY IN THE LIP.
Some Savages Pride Themselves on Size,
Others on Deformity.
Among the 13abines, who dwell to the
north of the Columbia river, a large under
lip is regarded as a type of beauty. A small
incision is made in the lip during infancy
and a fragment of bone inserted. '!'his is re-
placed from time to time by larger and
larger fragments, each operation being at-
tended with severe pain, and, according to
the Brooklyn Eagle, at length pieces of
wood measuring not less than 3 inches in
length and 1 niches in width, are inserted,
causing the lip to protrude to a frightful
extent, A similar custom exists among the
Paraguay Indians, and the.labnets -worn by
the Botocudos are inserted in a slit made in
the lower lip. A Botocudo has been noticed
to take a knife and cut a piece of meat on it
and tumble the meat into his mouth.
Among the Hydahs (Queen Charlotte
islands) it is considered a mark of the lowest
breeding to be without this labial ornament
of the lower lip. When a young woman
and an old one quarrel the elderly dame
will reproach the younger one with her
youth, inexperience and general ignorance,
pointing, were further proof necessary, to
the inferior size of her lip. This lip of
beauty is not, however, peculiar to these
aborigines, but is common among some of
the African tribes. The Berrys, for instance,
who inhabit Sanbriat, a tributacy4f the
Nile, insert in the lower lip a piece of
crystal an inch in length. The Bougo
women in a similar way extend the lower
lip . horizontally till it projects far beyond
the upper. The mutilation of both lips
is observed among the women of Radje
in Segseg, between Lake Tsad and the
Beuwe.
Zola and the Late Emperor.
M. Zola, in the Figaro, in reply to some
of the critics of La Debacle, insists that the
Emperor rouged his cheeks at Sedan. The
Emperor's friends, he says, have talked as
if to have done so would have been humili-
ating -"the role of a buffoon." "On the
contrary, this seeing to me a great mistake.
I find the act superb, worthy of the hero of
a Shakespeareanlay, heightening the
figure of Napoleon III. to a tragic melan-
choly of infinite grandeur." That ie a
oharacteristically French exaggeration. We
presume M. Zola means that it was noble of
the Emperor to take the trouble to conceal
from his troops his desperate physical weak-
ness ; but even granted that it was a pru-
dent thing not to show a cheek of ghastly
pallor, we fail to see that it was heroic.
M. Zola further attacks his critics for
being angry with him for stating the whole
truth about the war. To do so was, he de-
clares a duty. France was nearly ruined
because she believed in the French trooper
"as the conqueror of the world, singing as
he runs across fallen kingdoms." He re-
solved to teach his fellow -countrymen that
war was "a thing too serious, too terrible
For no to lie about." "I concealed nothing,
I sought to show how a nation like our
own, fter so many victories, could be so
miserably beaten, and 1 wished also to show
out of what depths we tad raised ourselves
in twenty years, and in what a blood bath
a strong people can be regenerated. My
profound conviction is that if the falsely -
patriotic lie begins again . . . we shall
again be beaten." That, at least, is sound
advice. -The Spectator. .
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NOT SUCH A GOOD JOKE.
Greasy Pippin. -Well, what cheek
"Beware of the Dog," Git outen de road
if yer don't want me ter step der life outen
yer !
Chorus of Pups. -Do him, Mama ! do
him !
WHAT IS PLUCK ?
A Bate& of Defltli.ion Sent to a British
Palter.
This is the one that won :
"Fighting with the scabbard when the
sword is broken."
The following are som0 of the best defini-
tions sent in :
Moral backbone. •
Tho power a man has to say "no" when -he
knows•his wife waits hits to say "yes."
Fearlessness free from foolhardiness.
The chivalry of nature's knighthood..
That which enables one, when lighting
against adverse circumstances and knocked
down, to rise and try another round.
The heart of a lion in the body of a man.
'1'he best remedy for despair.
The force which converts an ordinary man
into a hero.
Honest daring without caring. -
The absence of fear in the presence of
danger.
The courage to do tiie right thing at the
right moment.
Irrepressible stoutheartedness.
That which keeps a utas up when he is
down.
The offspring of courage and the mother
of success.
Moral grit. -London TId-Bits.
Parodies on Old Proverbs.
A correspondence has been opened in the
pages of the Daily Telegraph, on the vexed
question of marriage in general, and of Eng-
lish wives in particular, says "The Link-
man" in London Truth. As a bacholor my
experience of wives --in the plural -is ex-
tensive, and it is the more desirable, there-
fore, that I should contribute my share to.
lylirt?e U1ftd eras. edell-.. ,l.haa.e rrirtl:te.,cpn:.
dense the views which I hold upon this sub-
ject, and the more important of these will
be found in the followingdistorted proverbs
of Pall Mall :
Marrying is believing.
Two's matrimony and three's divorce.
Divorce is the mother-in-lawof invention.
A little matrimony goes a long way.
Infidelity begins at home.
Put not all your lovers in one basket.
Everything has an end -marriage has
two.
To marry is human, to divorce is divine.
Set a yaife to catch a wife.
A "smart" lover covers a multitude of
eine.
Matrimony breeds contempt.
A lover in time saves nine.
You must go to the divorce court to hear
what news at your home.
When•the lover preaches beware of your
wife.
When a woman falls every man calls.
Wives of a feather flock together.
Every "smart" woman has.her day in the
box.
Home rule often insures peace with
honor.
Where there's a wife there's a way to the
court.
A divorcing man will catch a straw.
1t is easy to marry down hill.
Wife, life and strife rhyme together, but
there is very little reason in either. -
Marriage is paved with good adventures.
What matrimony conceals divorce re-
veals.
In the Kitchen.
Those who like food highly seasoned,
which -is probably as unhealthful as it is
delicious, will find a broiled fish of delicate
flavor, with a tartare sauce, a most apper-
tizing dish for a midday lunch. The tartare
sauce consists of a mayonnaise dressing
seasoned with cayenne pepper and English
Mustard, and sprinkled with capers and
small cucumber pickies chopped quite fine.
If you wish to serve codfish inn new fash-
ion, try this lovely little recipe used by cer-
tain French cooks : Shred the fish very
finely, but do not freshen it much, and mix
with mashed potatoes. Make a cream of
thickened milk, eggs, and butter as for
creamed fish. Put a layer of the potatoes
neatly on crisp squares of the toast, dip
over each one two tablespoonfuls of the
'cream, and scatter with green peppers or
chowchow. Serve hot. Codissh balls may
be served in the same way.
An elegant and economical luncheon dish
mcy be made from potatoes and the rem-
nants of a roast in the following way :
Select large, long potatoes, wash them
thoroughly with a brush, cut off the ends a
little, and remove the centers with a tin
scoop. Do not leave too thin a wall in
taking out the center. Mince any coli'
meat, season it highly, and fill the potatoes
with it. Bake in a quick oven, garnish
with parsley or celery, and serve with a
sauce or the remnant meat gravy.
To Clean Lace.
To clean the most delicate lace spread it
out carefully on wrapping paper and then
sprinkle it with calcined magnesia. Place
another paper over it and then put it be-
tween the leaves of a book, or between two
table leaves if the lace is a large piece.
Leave it two or three days, then give it a
gentle shake to remove the powder, and
then the lace is fresh and clean, with every
thread as good as it was. The magnesia
can be had at any drug store. -Globe -De-
mocrat.
FAR AND WIDE.
M. Pasteur has comptetoly recovered his
health, sod is working hard in Paris at his
ex ',trim nts.
+*e
Elnilo Zola is now paid for' the right to
publlsll his tavola serially at the rate of
three Dents a word. That beats Alexandre
Duumas's seven cents a line.
• *,rt'
Tho Empress of Germany sent $12,000 ae
a' present, to the lying-in hospital fur poor
wolneu in Berlin on the occasion of the
christening of her infant daughter.
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games Stephens, the former Fenian Head
Center, is at present living with his wife
in a cottage at a seaside resort near Dub-
lin, which. with a small income, wee pre-
sented to him about a year ago by ills
friends and admirers. Ile is now sixty.
eight years of age.
At the recent ball hi the Mansion House
in London the Lady \Iayorese wore a very
becoming gown of pearly white satin, with
a foiled berthe anti short puffed sleeves of
lizard green velvet, which appeared again
as a narrow border round the heal of the
skirt, and she carried a bouquet of whits
flowers. •
tJ
M. Duvillard, late manager of the
Creusot Water Works, proposes to lead the
waters of the Lake Geneva to l'aria, which,
of course, cannot be done. But he also
t•econunends also that the k'eneh capitol be
no longer watered with the fluid of the
Seine, as the dust from its dried residue
is liable communicate coutugious diseases.
'.11;)te. Sacker, the wife of a well-known
Viennese restaurateur, collects autographs
by asking her guests to write their names
in pencil on the tablecloth, which she after-
ward embroiders. Her latest autographs
are those of the lung -distance riders, includ-
ing Duke Ernest of Schleswig -holstein,
who dined at the restaurant after the event.
***
The Savernake estate, which will now be
transferred to Lord Iveagh, is one of the
finest in England. Fancy being lord and
master of a property which includes a for-
est quite two-thirds the size of, Epping
Forest ! :4avernake !louse 1s reached from
Marlborough by wav of a neten11100nt ave-
nue of beaches four utiles and it half in
length.
*4
Queen Victoria recently invited Miss
Kate \btrsden to luncheon at Balmoral, and
conversed with her abouther strange and
sad experience among ti,e Siberian lepers
and her project fur fouudiug !tore leper col-
onies in Siberia. That Miss Marsden is a
veritable heroine there can be no disputing,
and the story of her journey throng') two
thousand miles of swampy and unhealthy
e(:ouutry in Asiatic Russia seems simply
Marvellous us u.h record of a woman's
pluck.
***
The French Royalist ladies do not like
the idea of having, when invited by the
Comte and Cuintesse de Paris on visits of
three days to Stowe, in England, to take
six dressy dresses with them. Three of the
toilettes•are to be worn in the daytime at
the rate of one a day, rind three in the cor-
responding evenings. The entertainments
at Stowe are not very entertaining, and the
Royalists have made up their minds that
nothing short of a war, disastrous for
France, can bring Royalty back.
In conferring the garter upon Lord Rose
bery the Queen has not followed the prin-
ciple of heredity which often seems to
_ gay exn thin_ appointment.. .None of-Lord----
Rosebety's immerlate ancestors. ayero. ,,- ,-
"7nlbhts el'i'terter:. -His 'hither•, `Lord
Lalmeny, died young; and though both his
grandfather and great-grandfather were
Knights of the Thistle, neither of them re-
ceived the honor of the garter. But every
one will agree that Lord Rosobury fully
deserves his newly conferred order.
Mme. Christine Nilsson has given £l,000
toward founding a hospital in Prance, es-
pecially intended for the cure of diseases of
the throat. Such munificence on the part
of the fatuous singer is the result of an early
vow. Mme. Nilsson, whose parents are
very poor, had often to shiver under the
°old blast of wintry Sweden. When she was
attacked with croup, and had to be convey.
ed to a small hospital at Chrisma. Such at_
tension was paid to her thatshe was able to
escape the danger which at one time
threatened her, Hence the vow and its ful-
filment.
Princess Louise recently had a grand re-
ception at Edinburgh Castle. A dais,
draped behind with Campbell tartan sus-
pended on a long tilting -spear, had been
erected at one end of the great hall, and
here Her Royal Highness, who was preced-
ed on entering by the gorgeously attired
Lyon King, with Heralds and Pursuivantt;
took her stand. A lady commenced the
proceedings with a short speech, and hand .
ed a silver key of the hall to Princess
Louise, who, in turn, gave it into the cus-
tody of General Annesloy ; and Lord Lorne
then acknowledged the presentation on be-
half of his wife.
*,ea.
Mrs. Mapleson, the prima donna, has fa:
vented an apparatus for concealing the.
beautiful little tailless, shaggy, black Rus-
sian dog given her by the Princess of
Monaco. It is in the shape of a Gladstone
bag, with a light, well -perforated canvas
cover. This drops down from the -handle
and reveals an inner case of network
stretched apart so as to afford comfortable
space for the small animal to lie down or
sit up, as he may elect. In this he is smug-
gled into hotels. Mrs. Mapleson caulk it
the "evader," and had some idea of patent-
ing the invention, but sylnpathy with other
dog owners induced her to give it publicity.
*5*
Tho German Emperor has given orders
that a portrait of the Empress is forthwith
to be hung up in every barrack -room in the
Empire. u A short time ago the. Empress
was walking alone at Potsdam, very plainly
dressed, and the sentinels at the Nene
Palais not only failed to recognize her, but
one of them presumed to address her as
"Frauloin." The Emperor was exceedingly
enraged when he heard of this heinous
blunder, and the edict for an extensive
circulation of Her Majesty's portraits has
since been issued, with the object of avoid-.
ing any repetition of so•exasperating a mis-
take.
***
'Lady Brooke, at whose country house the
Prince of Wales has just been visiting, is
possessed of a pretty knack of evolving new
and fanciful conceits, one of which seems to
me to be peculiarly happy. At Easton
Lodge she has established what is charming-
ly designated a "Friendship Garden."
There is a nice old-world ring about this
that pleases the cat, but its raison &etre is
even prettier still, for within its borders
grow only such enduring plants and shrubs
and saplings as dear and near ones have
been irevtted to set with their own hands.
As she gathers each blossom from her gar-
den she can thus recall some one whose
friendship or love has been or is still valued
by her. Truly it is a pretty and womanly
idea, from which endless others spring as
one thinks of it.
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