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.01a. grandma slts in her oaken chair,
And in ilia Bessie with tangled hair-
' rra going tO be married, oh, grandma=
Pmgoing to be married! X.ia, laat ha, ha I
Olivgnuidma smooths out her apron string -
°Do you know, my des.r, 'tip a solemn thing ?
'Zs solemner not to, grandiuma.
Pm going to be Married. Ha,aI ha,
, Then grandma looks through her sixty years,
And sums op a wonaan's hopes and fears -
Six of -'em living and two of 'cm dead;
,Frfandpa helpless and tied to his bed;
NoWhere to live when the house burned down ;
Years of lighting with old Mother Brown ;
Stockings to darn and bteadtO,bake:
Plshes to wash and drosses to make.
But then the inusie,of pattering feet,
Grandpa's kisses so feud and sweet,
Song and prattle the livelong day,
!ley andhisses and love alwo,y.
04 grandma smooths out -her apron string,
Anil gazes down, at her wedding ring,
And still she smiles as she drops a tear-.
0 'Tie solemner not to; yes, pay dear.'
NvoNvorvs wong.
eensible girl,. oho tries to keep up Ler know-
ledge,. and in. many eases takes up bane
special eubjeot more thoroughlythan she
L F
could at sch000r a time thi
is s pleasant,
satistatort, work; but after a wlaile
with most comes that dreary ea bone.
The world seems so large • there is
so much to be done, and she oan'do sd little,
and so in, desperation,nine times out of ten,
elle gives it up -just takes things ata they
°era, driftingalong, and evatuallyspends
aimlessly Of innocently), a life which shale
help and enceuragernent might have made
so -lull of use and beauty to herself and all
around her. Thia may seem- exaggerated,
and yet how many tale could admit its
truth if they chose? The pity is that the
girl's friends too often cannot understand
this want,or when they do, fear to =eke
ha conscious of it. When first out of
school, the coming out' theparties, the
pretty dresses, the excitement, in short,
keep her going for a year or m ; then for
another year or two she takes to self-im-
provement But, unless exceptionally
gifted, that, too, becomes dreary from its
apparent aimlessness; she becomes rest-
less, discontented., unsettled, You soon
hear, How poor So-and-so as gone off 1'
and "'Who woual believe she is only so old?'
eto, •, • and. the next thing you hear very
likely is that, in 'her discontent, she married
some one (utterly unsuited mentally, but a
catch') for his money or position, or com-
mitted some other bevue, from 'which she
might hey° been saved by a little honest
work and an idea of her own real tudue.
Few women seem to remember their girl-
ish days, when with girls, but how very
popular are those women who can, and how
much good .they do. Don't he afraid of
putting too high motives before a girl; if
they help her on her way they must be
good. Show -her what her youth should be
training time for the work that sooner
or late; must come to her, as to all, when
she may learn leisurely and thoroughly so
many things she will need to know here.
after, though she will not have tin:Leto learn
them then, Put before hertavhat place God
meant woman to fill in this world, where
every life, laowever insignificant, however
common -place or weary, has work to do;
which, it done, thoroughly and honestly,
will be so much gain to the world, while
.itaneglact wilialeave all ea M.11.41 th9 P919F9.1.$
though unconsciens of the scairen either of
the gcied or evil. Were this more often
done, we should hear less talk of woman's
work, bnembre work would be done, and
the workers would be hopeful, helpfulause-
ful women, fit to be men's wives, if mar-
riage came in their way, but able to take
their share of •life for themselves if it did
not, and to live in any case noble lives, a
pleasure and a blessing th all around them.
• The countra; Editor.
A ChaPter of SPetlill intc,res; in these
Degenerate Days.
(Queen.)
Great changes are taking place all round
•ns; in every department of life; but per
baps in none is the change more marked
than in the regard paid nowadays to girls'
.education. A few ,years since any teaching
wee thought good enough for them, and
parenta who Would pinch and save in every
way to insure their sons 'a first-olass educa-
tion thought they Volleyed Most liberally to
their daughters if they sent them to a eheap
boarding school,where deficient food and
but very manly useful teaching were atoned
for by &few flashy attempts at accomplish-
ments. From these seminaries endaicade-
• miesthe youngladies tetairnedagenteelly deli -
cote, and most genteelly useless, with
- perhaps a bundle of sketches of a most
astouilding Mimi of art, and a very little
music. • Such was easid.ered aew years
ego's; niost satisfactory training for girls,
though for alr practical. purposes they were
latterly ignorant, and the much -prized ac-
complishments were. speedily lost by. nes-
lea. Thank goodness 'nous avoos change
-tout cela' ;:anclaaagial-hasmostiareatiairair
chance of general education as her boy
brother, and perhaps- in • time may be al-
lowed, as a matter of eourte,. to carry on
her studies as thoroughly • as he dap.
When leaving school he sets to Work at the
particular studies required' for his ‘future
profession. Stil1 oi great deal remains to,
be dono. just at present there is an edu-
cational etaze, as a few year Since there
was a cooking craze; and young ladies ' go
in for ;science and art,. and wear old gar,'
tants, and affect strange °Pillions, the
more advanced ' 'and outrageous the better.
In time these damsels Will very likely cool
flown, and develop into .admirablettives"
and mothers; but :thetransition stage is
• :not a particularly comfortable one fa the
relatives of the fair enthusiast's, it must be
• confessed, especially for the older foniale
portion, who probably are utterly unable
either to understand or appreciate the
tenets of advaneed womanhood.. ',Judging
from. • some dismal lettersin the.
newspapers, this new deyelopment has even
•..acared the stronger sex, itnd • greatly
alittined some quiet 'elderly %gentlemen
whose ideas of wennan are evidently those
•• of the stalwart old king in'Temayson's
'Princes,' and are quite as .much startled'
as be was wheo brought in antaa with
that erratielady. But under all thia frbtli
• there is a wholeteatte- residumia ; nothing,
. great was ever aellieved Without- prelim),
• nary/allures, ancl.ttnly thi5moVenient for
• the better education of Women is net the
least work of this .oentury.: :Let us hope
that the young lady Who scared her 'neigh-
bor at dinner, by' prattling of protoplasm,'
•a may end in becorhing a good. wife and
mother, whose hoys, asthey grow up; may
••learri the benefit of *amen, whd; in addi-
tion to being pleasant to the eyes,' can be
•
helps ineet"for menr Formerly old naaid '
was looked on as a title of reproach, and a
• girl not having succeeded in securing a
husband wee thought such adeoided failure.
' that her friends were always eeget..th
ac-
count fa her single blessedness by some
little history of romantic, but unrequited,
leve. Nowadays it Seemg • a reaction has
set in, and the tendency is to teackgirls to
look on marriage as a problematical I:doss-
ing, which the female surplus renders but a
veryuncertain chitnee, andivhich, if attain -
i .
ad, s decidedly unworthy to be the cause
• of withdrawing the Mind of advanced wo-
man' tam her nobler work to apply it to
the drudgery. of, aperintending the,house-
hold aid tending the bairniti • This'.may .
• not be put -into plain'wordsa yet it is ften.
• the spirit of the teaching. When not car-
ried too far tIng teaching is fair -enough.
-Women in these days cannot all marry,
but all roust live; so it is only just that a
• way . of ...lisingachould_bealounda..ilaenia,
Hitherto till girls, rich and poor, were
braght up in much the:same wayawithout
apparently it etrikieg•their friends that if
• - the poor things did not marry, and out.
their parents, in mam cases there'
was but little between theni and starva-
tion. ' Some disrnal results'of this system
• could be told by the eltapling and matrons
of the man); homes and refugee of this •
country were theyto give a toll account of
' their, experiences. &oat new, hardly. any
man's income is so thoroughly safe that he
can feel sure of his widow and orphans
being able to cations in the comforts he
could provide. when • alive. All the more
reason that girls' should; have as fair a
chalice of gainiog their livelihood as their
brothers; more espeCielly, as beingweaker,
the change must tell More severely fin the
• girls, even if trained and able to work.
• One thing must be reinembered, though
. that if real work has: to be done.' later: in
life, the, habit ,of.it must be learned yonng..
• A woman ean no more turn to Work when
the heed arises, and expect to keep !in at it
one Must ' do to succeed in"Miything)
than a man can hope to excel in athletieS
withonet,r,_, :ftveigli training. Ask those
• 'Wetietatint'perisons who tryto assist gentle-
women in reduced- clean:Stances :what
their groat difficulty is; , and they will tell
yeti it is the' fact that, though willing
enough ta do anything; • in too many
'cases the poor things who • coma to
them for help canna work. Teach a girl
to he thorough in whatever she undertakes,
and later on she will find that ono talent
, will gather many t� itself. A staattering
of anything is awaya dangoroos. Learn
Iese, but learn 'mere thoroughly, Should be
the rule for a girl's, education; and, were
it More tidally adhered An,. Vo should not
be distprbed by all these °razes for science;
art, ete. Tho more people really know, the
less thoy talk;torthe more clearly do they
• realize how much they. .are ignorant of• .
One cannot help feelhag that a gthat bale-
` take hi
i the bringing up of girls s that they
are not morethorotighlytanght their own
'value, It may etartle some . to
see it boldly,: stated that • at
this time girls hold themselies too cheap,
and yet a little thought Will enable them to
gee the truth of the. assertion. Naturally
this does net .tipply to all eitls, tot ittany
are but too ebiltimotis of their ovan import -
game, though it is a question if even they
realize the valuo and troportaaniet Of a (good)
woman's work in life. Whett a girl letwee
whoa; if the be an averagely healthy,
. .
The most defightful field a editorial:do- yet
is that of the : country nowspimer, whet°
the editor raoks with the minister and the
doctor in importance; andloads a' life • of
peaeeful content. There are exceptions,
but the regular country editor haa no
ambitibt and no care: He has no com-
petition hi his bailiwiok, and he is the Sir
Oracle of all the country round, He is the
most independent man in • the world.
Fluctuations tithe currency do not trouble
him, 'where wood and 'butter and potatoes
ere the eithulating medium in Which. his
sulsoribere Pay for their papers. His
columns are filledWith profound suggestions
on great matters:.- Nothing is.tho yast'for
him, and it would: seem his opinion alone
was needed to establish .wit 'matters • of
governnient or ef faith: Iante;yrbelie'sets
up his own leaders, for 'tis hi vocation, he
probably having servod hia time' in the
Office, married his masterat•daghter and
took the concern. He lives a quiet life,
but he is of importance. He sits on the
jury, serves as -school. coMmittee or select-
man, becomes, perhaps, • county commis-
sioner, is delegate to conventions, and ends
in the Legislature, wherePhii paper always
assures him the most reSpectful.attention.
His is really a delightful life. /le alweyS has
tirne to wander over the hills and go fishing
,with his friends; and once callingnpon
countrynditor, • in his office by the side of
a New Hampshire lake, he •Was found,
though it was publication day, fishing for.
pickerel from a back window of his amanita.
•In .such a position one in • quest of peace
plight say, The will that is humble may
seek for it here --Printers' Miscellany.
Provincliti .Appoinaments:
QUEBV(/ it,A11011• TB0113114E14.
Important Paatorni Dont airetibiehop
Iretieltereatz.
Qualm°, May ..-this teeming at grand -
mass th5 following pastoral was read frozn
the pulpits:
Gezear Alexandre Taseherean, by the Grace of
God and of the Apostolic; See, Archbishop of
Quebec.
To the faithful of the city of guebee andenvi-
rens, greetinganti blessing in our Lord:
We have laeard with grief, dearly beloved
brethren, that daring the last week serious
troubles have occurred in thia city and onvi-
Tone, and that in spite of the eanortationst of
your pastors, and of the warnings of the civil
authorities. these •troubles aro likely to
continue to the great detriment of souls
and temporal damage to our city. Let every one
remember that a man's labor is his °amend that
he is at liberty to sen it at whatsoever pricolie
pleases. He alas the same control over hit labor
that a man has over his 'own farm. Therefore
labor unions sin grievously against Justice when-
ever they attempt to form men to join these
unions or to work for the price mud by this
union. Mon who do not belong to these unions"
have an equal right to Ax for themselves the
price at which they will work. Wo, therefore,
warn Catholics not to be in any manner partners
in any citteropt to force others by violence, or
otherwise, to enter these unions or to work at
the prices fixed by them societies. Being de -
sirens to prevent amongst, the Catholics en-
trusted by God Almighty to our pastoral charge,
as much as lies in our power, such grave and un-
just attacks upon the natural rights of others,
and knowing that such mote offend God and bring
souls to perdition, having invoked the divine
assistance and using the .authority vested in us
by Jostis Gnrist for your spiritual welfare; we
rule awl ordain as follows 1. Any Oatnonewho;
in the course of the present year 1880, shall. at-
tack or conspire to attack any person belonging
ton lablir society, or not, or any member of 1318,
family, because such person works, has worked,
or is willing to work,nt a price which. Ina thinks
in, shall, by the vety fact of matt attack or con-
spiracy of attack, be excommunicated. 2. The
absolution from this sin and excomnannication
Is hereby reserved to us and our vicars-gibtieral.
We reining an guilty parties that according to
the eternal principles of justice, such absolution
cannot be granted unless duo reparation is
made for the damage caused by such attanit, 8.
This ordinance shall fake effect throughout -our
whole archdiocese immediately on its reading'
Item the pulpit at the throne of the parochiai.
maas in the churches of this city and environs. 4.
This nnstoral Audi be read at the 'throne oath°
parochial churches of this city and environs on
tile first four Sundays after its reception, and
subsequently on the first Sunday of the months
July, Aiwa, Septeaulantand.Ootebes,of abeam -
sent year. Given at Quebec under our signature,
the seal of the archdloceito and the counter signs.
tare of our secretary, tbe fourteenth day of Hay,
one thoosand eight hundred and eighty. -0.A.,
.4-1111.4thslP 9,Natikaa.. • . „
No trouble is apprehended;yett as the
steamship Brooklyn, of the Dominion line,
• passed through the harbor and proceeded
to Montreal. With the exception of the
fifty men from the 8t11 and Oth Battalions,
the railitia,whe were called out last week
have been relieved from duty. The mayor
• declares the next Dominion steamship that
comes here to be loaded shall be ladep at
the wharf opposite the city, and that the
Men of the Union Canadienne shall be pro-
tected at their work.
• The Lieuteitant-Goyerner has made the
following appointments, viz: Rodney Hatar
risen Abbot, Stoney point, IL D:Ite be an
asseciate corona for Essex ; Charles
Kreissman, of Thunder bay, to be deputy
Clerk, for Thunder bay:; William Findlay
to be bailiff pro tem. of the Sixth` Division
Cart of Wellington, itistead ofDavid
Findlay, who is temporarily absent from
the county; john S. Loomie, M. D., to bel
license conamissimaer for North Hastings,
Inateattathoirias-Crossaresigned.
'Who Govvrament'po ALiatt-Tenaperanco
PoIIcya
Conservatives new And it convenient to
deny that the bill areiending the Canada,
Tenmerance Act, an amendment in which.
by Ma. Boultbee aimed at destroying tlae
usefulness a the measure, was a Govern-
znent hill at all. The facto are that the
bill was first introduced into the Senate by
Hon. Mr. Aida, Secretary of State and
afterwards into the Comnions by Hon'. Mr.
Bewail, Minister of Customs. On the
order paper of both Houses the 'bill was4
entered- as a Government order. Aa for
Mr. Boulthee's amendment, there is
no denying the tact that Xt. Orton,
before he handed it over to Mr.
Boultbee's charge, interviewed tho Govern-
ment about it, and the Government agreed
to leave the question an open one if Mr.
Orton could obtain pledges of support to
ensure its adoption. Mr, Orton canvassed.
the House, both Ministerial and Opposi-
tion, obtained. the necessary majority of
pledges, informed the Government, and. the
consptracia•was at once put into effect. In
order to avoid the semblance a the move-
ment being too ,muph that a the Licensed
Victuellers, Mr. Orton ,hended the amend-
ment over to Mr. Boultboe.-Globe Cor,
"]he Latest elude Peer.
A IN atTRItit:ES.
Stirring Tinlea Along tile ltiontretti
• Wharves itesterday-Prontpt Action of
the Autheritics. ••'
MOuwasaa, 17. -Strikes seem to be
-
travelling westward, much as do other
prodnctions, of the 'N. P.' This morning
it was the hod -carriers of Mr. Decarie who
cornmeneed the ball and struck fer,an ad- -
yea° to one dollar from nplety .oents. 761-
low,ing the example of the Quebec rowdies,
the strikers added threathato.theit other
ante and intimidated those •whci would
have ,waked. aShortly after this trouble
•the laborers on the Donaldsot-Olyde lie
of Steamer's struck:. for 15 cents an hour,
end this- Was „given them. In the , after-
• own the tumid work- on the :Sheikh de -
'Mended an advance from 15 to 20 cents an
hotrawhich was refused, and they pot
their mete on iraniediately. They then
.marclaed in a hedy to the steamer Orchis,
of the Donaldson -Clyde line, and ordered
them to cease Work. Some of the /nen. re-
fusod and appealed Qhief MiliPlaY, of
• the Government police, who said he could
not interfere unless there were actual
violenCe on board the ship, adding that
there had been nci violence used.,.. The
etrikers by this -ante hdd Stopped work
noon all vessels that had refused to give
the advance of 20 cents.. • They then
stetted or the Allan's wharf, Where the
Moravian vaaat.tagpakioaded. Here .they
attempted to beard the veva, • but were
• repulsed by the stevedore en board, lalao
threw down - Several - pieces of Pig iron,
'caming adiversiott in favot of the willing
ti "th t
Mumma WiLT, 1874 a man
•
named VcIderzook was hanged in Pennsyl-
vania, on circumstantial evidence for
having •killed his brother-in-law, W. T.
Gess...He died protessioaa his innocence.
It appears, however. that he left a confes-
pion with the stipulation that it Ina not
published till the lame of the statutory
time which would free Goss' brother from
prosecution as a petty to an attempt to
defraud° sane • insurance . obi:genies.
The three conspired together, got :325,900
insurance on Goss'. life ,• • got a stiff'
and put it in his houSe, vvhich they burned
down. His wife, who really suppoped•him
dead, brought suit to celleet the money trom
the insurance companies ; but suspiabn
finally turned on Udderzooli and he wile
finaily hanged. Many people have since'
held a belief -in his innooence. The stipu-
lated time having expired his confession is
published. He tells how Goss,- in his
hiding; became dissipated;and fearing that
in otie of hi_s•drinaken.fitil he would divulge
the secret entleed ttab the woods one
day, made him drunk and killed him.
Barran -vs Dratioria,- The 'Nineteenth
Oenttry tells of a sleeve button, bearing a
rose diamond tvhich exploded wider the
•influence a surighilid. • It appears that the
person who wore this button was one day
startled by hearing a distant report, duo to'
tho sudden rupture of the stone. The dia-
mond was rat along a cleavage plane and
the fracture disclosed a dark article of
carbotiaceous matter. It is believed ,that
the explosion resulted from the tepid ex-
pansion of a volatile liqUtd enclosed in a
'Cavity. • Many aystals contain cavities
which enclose volatile liquids, such as
condense& cerbortic aid. Sir David
•Brewster found. that Mine diamonds con -
tan so many microscopic cavities that
they impart a dark color to the mineral.
it is probable 4hat the liquids and gases
pat
which aro t up under great tenaion
such cavities woad exert considerable
pressure ontward, end; indeed, the be-
hevior et certain diatnends under polarized
light 'Nora to show that parts et the stone
are in a state of great strain. It is easily
conceivable,. then, that the -tension of the'
enclosed fland'inight go on increasing until'
the diamond, no longer able to resist the
strain, would give way with 'explosive
'violence.
Xf yen are in public office, be punattal
-at all events loaYing.
agiLa
workers. ean me e ove rnmen
police bad been gathering, a and a pOSSQ in
charge of Sergeant Donohue kept the gang-,
way cleared. . The crowd at length grew
turbulent, and Chief Orniston came upon
the seeoe warinog the ctowd to disperse,
'which they refused to do. He then sent
for • the remainder of the, force; and
twenty men armed with the short Snider
and sword bayonets marched down upon the
• wharf, aodatook tip a positioebetween the
workmen and the Mob a -strikersiwhich
had by this time stalled to several huna
&edit, While tlid attentaithoYeatheawhinlwas-
•peopled -by several thousands.: The city
police, who had jorisdiction over the street,
were sent for, and a posse of sevihayfeeine
down and took possession, ordering • the
crowd off. At , 6 o'clock the rifles of the
Government police coaronted the turbo -
lent tramps and a struggle seemed
want, but all was quiet at 8 d'clock. At 9
oldie& the police sent down a squad th go
upon the Sheikla and giveprotealon to, all
who wish to 'work, so that the trouble is
nipped in the bud thus ter, and every
'man who wants to work receives adequate
protection. To -morrow i3ctorning the city
police will patrol the revetment wall, and
the Government police,reinforced, will take
care of.the. wharves. The strikers thus fat
• hive been foiled at every, turn, and had.
such stabagent measures been taken at Que-
tee there would not have been any trouble
there. Quebec emissaries are blanaed as,
the cause of tho treat& To -night the
clang of iron being unloaded is head trent
all yesaels in port. •
The elevation of Mr, Montagu Cprry,
Lord Beaconsfiela'a naost trusted private
secretary, to the peerage has called fatten -
tion in England to the fad that he is the
heir'of a handsome property at Rowton Cas-
tle in Shropshire. Oer London naxnesake
conathimicates this interesting feet to the.
'world in genera' in behalf of the 'initi-
ated few who know that Montagu Corryis
heir presumptive to a fine fortune from an
uncle who lives a very 'retiredlife in the
country and who is far advanced in years,:
This is quite carat, excepting that the
undo in question wits. not Mr. Corry's ulnae
eXeept by reartiagea and. that he sleeps a
very retired 'sleep in the country, having
indeed died and been buried seventeen
years ago. Mr. Corry is a nephew of Lady
Charlotte Barbara Lyster, a aster of the
Eartof She/tee:boa:La a ledy new ..neittly.,
80 yearsofage, • .who married' -1t1W
Henry Lyster, of Rowton Castle. • Mr. Lys -
ter died in 180, childless, and his estates,
valued -eta abonta46,000-8,..year, were be-
queathed by him th .Lady •Charlotte's
nephew, Idootagu Cdtry, after her death.
She lives no at Tunbridge Wells: It is
vts
said that Mr. orry's peerage was bestowed
a him of her wu motion by. the Queen and
not at the requeet a Lord Beaconsfield.
Senator Brown's Benin • .
A. Toronto correspondent a the London
Advertiser says Mr. Brown's brain has
been tomato have been one of unusnal
size and weight.: Ite rneasurermints I have
not ascertaited, but I believe it weighed
about fifty-six ounces, and had that par-
ticular conformation 'whieh, according to
certain popular and at the same scientide
•theories,supply the very largest amountof
intellectual power. The &involutions of
• Mr. B.'s brain were such, and its weight,
so in Correspondence, as would have led
scientists to - conchae°, priori that its
-owner had great force of .cheracter,' groat
clearness -and precticaiity . of intellect,
such natural' reverence, and a tenacity of
• pprpose which would lead hire not ally to
strike the iron when if" Was hot, but to
Strike' it tillat beezone •
HOW SONE' FEENCII •LAW,ES. BECAME
• '13EARS2-01C1 Mme. De Bailie -Meant is a
• catoeitytehe arst-afioyeet:girr in the
city; all she Makes are for charity bazaars.
Commerce Would give her talent any tame
• she demanded. There is a storytold of
her: One day :the English ambassador,.
Lord Normanby, called at the Elyime to ae
Painee-President•Lcruis Napoleon. . He Was
ushered into the eslon:; kept waiting a -few.
• animated too long he commencea to pace the
rooni, and hearing Merry laughter in an
adjoining apartment ' separated only by
. some tapestry he darew the latter aside, and
placing his finger on his lip Walked on tip-
toe towards the prinee;:who kneeling on one
knee had his face tovered with , his hands
concealed in the lap of 'Mine: De Banlein-
cart, While around' were Miss 1:10X780.7
Thne.'De Contades and other, all .playin
forfeits. . , Lord Normanby touched the:
,Pritites' hand. 'That's Pauline, I know,'
and on looking up 'saw his lordship; who,
was forced to join in the game for the even-
ing. On the news reaching the Exchange
that:theEnglish anabasSador was closeted
for hours with the president' funds tell 11
MOS, and. the ladies who had at '-once
'farmed' the game of forfeits, ordered:their
brokersto buy lip all stook offered 'for sale,
and so realized millions by propagating a
canard. •
• MINI COLUMN.
William Joshua Paul, XX., has taken
up his residence at Ballinasloo as maideiat
magistrate for that district.
Tile Attorney -General has appointed Mr.
Grerad,Crown prosecutor of Westmeath, in
the repro of Mr. Gamble, Q. 0.
• Rey. Hugh Hanna, the well known An-
trim political Pre.sbyterian minister, has
been appointed a Commissioner of National
Education.
Mr. ClOse, the Conservative member for
Armagh, is reported ill, and it is stated
that the prospeet for his recovery is conei-
dered doubtftd.
There is a small -pox epidemic in Newry
and Enniskillen. • The roilitary have been
ordered to avoid certain streets when out
of barracks to guard against Ito being in-
troduced into their quarters,
The inquest over Fronde Kelly, who
died under • suspieious circumatances im
Bell's row, Newry, elicited that the de.
eeased oncoming home under the infinence
of drink quarrelled with his wife, who, as
alleged, struck him a blow causing death,
The wife was arrested.
Very Rev. Dr. Cleary, P.P., Y.G., Dun-
garvan, has been, for the second time,
offered a bishopric io Canada by Cardinal
Sinaeoni and the Holy' See, and for the
secondtime he has declined accepting the
dignity. It is probable that Dr. Cleary
will be compelled by the Court of Rome to
• wept.
Patk. Lonergan, a Newcastle, died
while eating his dinner in a Clouniel lodg-
• ing house. The jury found that deceased
had been choked by a pieee of meat while
under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
He was 38 years of age; be was unmarried
and had been living with two other
brothers. :"
A egpach from Wellington, New Zea.
land, states that the Regent -General, the
Marquis of Normanby, Who is the goarnon
appointed hir the. 'Crown, has decided upon
Ordering from England anumber of torpedo
boats for the torpedo corps which is to be
organized for the protection of the colony.
Thita is understood. to be sinaply a precau-
tionery measure, as no danger from attack
by sea, threatens the colony. But within
the paataten or twelve yeas New Zealand
has prospered and beeOrne Much -.more
desireble than formerly as a possession for
any power, and it watt concluded -by the
Governor,with the °ascot of the General
Adam:obit, �f the colony, that further harbor
defence was modest in case of the breaking
out of war between England and other
maritime powers. The argument Was that
New Zealand is situated too far from Great
Britain to expeet aid trona he at- short
notice, and that the oolong is at an
additional disadvalitage in ease of an at-
tack, bybeing divided into three islands;
from fifteen to eighteen miles apart. It
has Auckland and Other excellent ports,
the most of 'which aro not now protected
in any wayagablet the appreabli of arnied
'easel%
• The dresses of the bridesmaids at a, re-
cent wedditag were of soft eream-oolored
skitts, with cutaway, coattail jaekete of
datk plum colored velvet.
• The Dublin Gazette advertises an offer
of 2200 reward fa information which will
lead to the conviction of the person or per-
sons who fired it,t and wounded Thomas
Croscadden,- near Manorhamilton ; also
4200 toward, fOr. similar infaamation re- lamed, the obieet of his search, and in a.__
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IOXIMEWD IMETSVICIVE 11701M.
One ofthe Tricks to Whielz Pollee titsieees
uwc illnped.
A man, was wantedby the:police, and his
skill in the arts making up' and dodg-
ing his would-be captors was p0 Consiaera. •
ble,,that for a long time be escaped detec-
tion. At length a clever detective was put -•
on his track, and. first of all he began to
inquire about associates. One of the
most intimate of them was, it appeared,
a certain young woman, andahont her he
Etat of all found out everything. He had
reason to euspect that ale was acquainted
with the fugitive's hiding place, so the first
thing to be done was to follow her on.
a Saturday afternoon, when she was free • •
from her employment. An inixocent young
detective, in the guise of a carpenter, was
told off to watch and endeavor to strike up
an acquaintance, in which design he was
not very successful, though be ascertained •••
that Kingston was • her deatination that 1
afternoon. To Kingston he went and traced
her to a house occupied by an old man. .
about whore the neighbors knew no mere
than that he was. an old man. He was an
elderly invaid, never went out, saw no-
body ; and how was he to be caught and.
examined ? There was nothing known about
him to justify the police in entering the
house and the detective walked round the
place in company with the , cerpenter,' won-
dering what to do next. • At. the back of t
the house was a garden, in which 'Was a,
kennel containing a 'big dog, or rather not "
containing him ter he was lying out in the °
sun at the end a his chain, No sign of life .
was visible in the house, jump over the
wall and kick that dog, then hide behind "-
the sunamer house.' a moment the
young- man wits over the wall, and the dog
was howling from the effects of a Wok in the.
ribs, Neighboring dogs jeinod in the
thorns, and at the window appeared the
old gentliiinan. No one was about; the
dog continued to howl, and incautiously his
owner came down the garden tome what
was the matter. Beneath e.
.the well -mad
gray wig the detective's keen eyes ,recog-
speeting the- Tiurder sir Walter Nichol; meraelat the. arrest was made. -London -
Sporting News. '
Iciantilini -is-having a most melancholy
time in,his wife's millinery establishment . •
in Paris. In January last a lady, atitranger, .
gave an order for a hat of the Pamela,
shape, but of singularly exaggerated propor-
tions. It was • to be felt, thickly furred;
with it broad cr'
own . an immense brim;
heavily .trimmed withostrich feathers, and.
an immense stuffed bird of pretralhe man -
milliner might have almost .suspected that- •
he was being hoaxed, but fashion has such , •
• strange caprices that he perhaps da not
justice O'Brien and Justice Fitzgerald
gamekeeper, nearDromoroWest, Co. Sligo.
The will of. the late Alexander Thom
shows that the businesa of aQueeniprintert
is a profitable one. I;le left to his wife
,Dennyca,vney House, thgether with allthe
furniture, jewellery, plate,etca, all his Bank
of Ireland stock, ameuntint to £1i,000;
his Great Southern 64 Western railway 4
per cent. debenture stock, 420,500,' etc.
Among the annuities he bequeathed ,is a
singular one to hia son Robert, the terms
being that he shell receive the 'annuity' of
4200 as long as he remaips out of Ireland.
Eating in the Queen's Bench division to
hear motions before them, the case of,
Anthony vs. Percival came up. The plain-
tiff, Miss Anthony, claimed 42;900 damages
from .Mr. Percival, a, jostle° of the peace
for the County of Waterford, fox having
illegally and maliciously refused her a
summons against ozie Henry' Sullivan for
an alleged offence. The lady argued her
case and was frequently applauded.. After
a hearing the judges rearved their deci-
sion.
•. 'Yesterday,' says the Irish, Times of the
241h Henry A. Lee, sub -sheriff for the
county of Kildare, with sub -Inspector
Derrnat and twenty-one police, proceeded.
toatake poaseasion ef a•house and about an
acre of grand: from' an old man named
•Prenderga;st,- at Kileoo; .aboutatwo miles
from .A:thy, Pessetaion having been for -
rally demauded'and refused, six wakme
of. the • Duke of Leinster's broke in the
windows and door with:pick-axes and then
Preceeded to level the hpuse to the grand.
A goodly crowd ' hild assembled torwitnalt
the distressing episode.!- •
' •
•
The:new member for the county of Done-
• gal, Rev. John Kinnear, LaD., of the Manse,
Letterkeony; elected as a Liberal member
in the place of the Marquis of Hamilton, is
the wend sou of thelate Revajames Kin-
near, of Clennaaneese, near Dungalano.tit
county of Tyrone: Hewes born in -the year
1824, and was educated at the -.Royal Col-
lege at Belfast, where he tdok the, usual
degrees; he received hiardegree. of D. D.
from . Washington and Lee University,
America, 1874. He is it Presbyterian min-
ister at Letterkenny, thir charge of which
be has lield for thirty years. ' • •
• Lien: Ewa Lavar.,:-We understand that
-
the canal cannot this year be fed frotnLake
Erie district, and. that it will be necessary
to drew the wafer supply from the -Grand
• river via; the feeder. • The upper lel will
renuire to -be raised -a -fataancl-a-halfaby-
this meens of supply. Inlet year it was
announced that the Lake Erie level was an
accomplished feet;; but experience . soon
proved that the aelam was made in baste.
It is to be hoped that the work yet to be
done will riot be allow Q4 to drag along
in the future as in ,the past; In 1872 -Mr.
Page estimated that three or 'four yea's'
time would be required in which to am-
plete all the Werke on the .enlarged Canal,
including•the aquedoct end lake Erie leyeh
Eight.yeers have elapsed and AM lake Erie
level is in the distant tame:* Indeed, for
the past twenty yearothe people have bane
with patience of a most exemplary charm -
'
tar the delays and blunders' Of engineers
and. others in thizi connection ; but there is
an ad adage whioh says, that even patiende •
ceases to become it virtue. -St. Catharines
zatithal. • •
"• The late Lad Derby end Mr. Gladstone's
favorite author was Homer. The present
:Lord Derby said recently of his father that
the only thing lie knew perfectly was
Homer, and even at that Mr. Gladstone
• beat him.' Mr. Bright's favorite Mather is
Milton, a copy of.which he always • mania
in his pocket. Mr. Lowe,- in his , great
speeches on the reform debates of 1868,
laid Virgil and Ovid heavily Under cOntri-
button. •
The mother of jenny Wade, who was
killed by a stray bullet duringthe battle a
Gettysburg, while she was beking bread for
Union soldier, has been refueed a pension
on the ground that her daughter was nOt
oblige& to bake the lathed, and may have
Veen doing it for gdin, . ' .
- Max Paletski was buried at Warsaw late-
ly, and the papers remark that he will; 118
yenta ad, arid that no fewer than 235 of his
children and'oliildren's children streamed
into the cemetery to his funeral.
Mr. A. T. Ortton, 'secretary, has received
through Walt", H, Taylorsfrom Mr, (Joachim
Vanderbilt, is father donation of 4100 fot
the betefit of the 0. S. R; reading rate, et
St. Themes..
alley. 3. 11, Jones, f Viralkerville, Was in-
terviewed by a reporter and stated that he
intended to join the RoMan Catholiex Chtitch
as a lay member and would, seek another
vocation as it ineanis of livelihood.
Mr. Augustin St. Hilaire; Of Quebec,
attained on Saturday lest Lis 103rd year,
He is still quite vigorous, rand sews and
Splits Very day the Wood Minted for
tardily 'use, o
At a Meeting of the Tipperary Board Of
Guardians the laborers of the town de-
manded work or bread. They emphati-
cally ,declared that they woutd not leave
the room until soinething _was done.fer
them. The chairman said the board could
not tolerate such intimidation, and sentthe
relieving officer to the sub-inapectotaMr.
W. LOpdell, to send down a body of police
to put the men out • The laborers quietly
lett before the Polite arrived. . A deputa-
tion of two from the laborers then "appeared
before the board and stated in most peel-
tiveatertcarthatthey -wersin aastatenfab-
Sohitedestitotion. After some diamssion
it was arranged that the adjourned sewer -
•'Age Works of the eaten should be re -opened
and that they be done by task wotk. •
The terrible destitution which prevails
was shown at' a recent Meeting of the
Sehtill .(Cork) Union, at which Michael
Coughlan, the relieving officer, .reported•
that the day pt,evioue he had been Stopped
by a large gang of men who said they were
starving; that if they did not get relief
they would take the breed out of the houses
of laillydellob, it neighboring town. The
men were called before the board and the
• chairman said: 'What is it you want
'Spokespaan-' We wait Mmething to eat.'
Chairman-' Dia yoll not get any of the
relief?' Spokesman-What'4431airteen
stone, of meal to fifty-two familia It kit a
• very hard thing fa, pa to be starving in
this way when We are able -to Work.'
Charman-' The workhouse is open to
you. We are detetmined to pt this law-
lessnesa clown.' Spokesnami--'And are we
to starve while we are willing and able to
wok? But we won't:Wail° there is bread
in Ballydehobi a•-aal:Wata,•,:ata
At the- weekly: meeting of the Water,
ford Boitrd of Guardians, it letter .was
read froto the Local Government
Board relative to the death of it. woman
named johanta Lee, • tho dram:
atanees connected with whose death are
reallyshocking. The letter stated -that
Captain Hamilton; P.L.held an investi-
gation into the death of johattne, Lee, and
from his report it appeared that deceased
lited with ha aster and her four 'children
in lbdgings. That so Shockingly, destitute
late they that for five months they had
lain on the bare hoards. That during that
time neither bed,' bedditg, nor furniture
Wits in their miserable room. Mrs. Lee
hemline seriously ill. Bev. Ur. Sheehan,
0. C., was sent for, and his report was that
he found the dying wonian lying �n tho
floor, With it flour seek Over her and a soap
hot under her head as it Pillow. Ho at
once reported the ease Id Mr. O'Shea, city
relieving officer, Who some hours after.'
werds gave it tioket for sixpence worth of
sttave, but ne 710UriAhnlent ntil eighteen
hours afterwards, just it far minutes hefere
the woman died.
Baia t110•VNgliSh brewer, uses 2,000 acre§
Pa hops and makes a million barrels of boor
yeatly,
see anything strange in the article "de.;
mended. The hat watt - made, but on its •
being sent home- the address given was ,
found to be a false one. The hat appeared
aikelyto reniain long ina stock, as all hie
athanipts to pass it off on casual customers
as the newest thing out' was rad with
look's of incredulity. Pacing on the boule-
vard, one day, he thought he recognized hia
mysterious customer in a. Smartly dresited
yotilag person before him. Here was au
opportunity to avenge,the Wrong and ridi-
cule hp had. been made to bear. Following
" her until he met an officer he gave her into
custody. 'When taken before the commissary
• of police she proved to be an easistantat ;
rival establishment. She was inarnediatalY•
mint liberty; but didmot allow the matter
to end there and at once brought an action
• for falso inapristaiment; den:tainting -6200 '
damage's. The famous hat being produced. '
itratirt.excited mingled waidiar and adL:
miratiOn as it was handed abal fib= bench '
• to bar for inspection. ' The court gave a
_verdict for .660 damages and the costs, and,
• as the defendant could riot prove that tho-.
plaintiff was the eostomer who gave the •
order, the hat still remains on his hands.
TEST FOR PXPLOSIVENESS 'IN PETROLEVIL--
Petrolewn., may be tested •es to its explo-
siveneus by planing a. layer a it about as• ,
thick as the thumb in a porcelain ,crucible
zabout 2 and a, ainolaesastideatoad warming
it With a Smell Spirit -lamp to 950, and.
• then ' temoving-the lamp„ and when the -
thostieratute has fallen to 89a 0, throwing •
into it, a, burning match aboutan inch long..
The latter should sink in.the petroleum '
and become.extinguished without ingniting '
• it, If petroleum ontains but twenty -tine
per gent. of oils that 'distill at from 230 0
.246 0 , it is unsafe: The .antetint of these
may be 'determined by Placing about two
and three-quarter fluid drams of the petro-
leum in a, test-tube about an inch in:
diameter closed. with a bent tube leading'
intoa graduated babe, and heating it in it
bath of one part of dry crystallized cal'aurn
chloride in six parts of glycerine untilvdaite.:
glycerine va,porsbegin te appear,indicative of
it temperature of 257 0 . With good petro-
leum, scarcely tadropwill pass over. .A.clula
teration. with coal -oil can :be detected by
mixing it with an equal volume of :concen-
trated sulp-Wric actd,Whemviitli good petro-
leum,the increase of ternperatme will be
abont 90 0 andwith the adulterated erticle,
from 860 to 000 ;. the former will else' be
tinged but slightly yellow, whilst the latter,
will assume a clerk broWn color. •'
-Maranzemen GENEEALstur.-The connu-
bial Management of American mothers is
• said to be more skilful than that of the
practiced dames of the old world.' The
following story tends to strengthen the
boast An elder daughter hAa sailed from •
• New York with it party of friends, made "
the grand tar of the contineot and finally' ,
"settled•dOwn i,n Paris for a few thenths of
rest and recreation.. In that. gay •ogital ,
She had many suitors, turn of whom were
coospicuously eligible. . They were so a 1,
evenly matohed in every respect that the
yang lady, feeling that She could be per-
feetly bappy.with either wete Vother way,.
*rote totter maranixt that she was in the
famoos dilemma of the mule equally placed
between two equally attractive bundles of
fodder.,Mamma, cabled lier instructions r
with Ccsarean brevity and Napoleonic
ptomptiess I sail. th'-morrow. Held,
both till I come.' Sequel: Not long t"
• after marnmatattended the Wedding of her
Iwo daughters on the Bata morning at the
American chapel. She and her daughters
still hold both.' -blew Otleana Pieayunea
This little storyreveale sonic, of the ad-
YoMages of belonging • to an archery club:
Oh, I can't shoot, can't 1?' he said, when
twitted about his archery. 'Give me that
bow,' he added, snatching it out of julia's.
hand. 'Now,' he added, striking an atti-
tude, tallow mo 8°1:nothing you want ,
poameda what is it?' 'Y'es,' said, joint's
• friend, ' tlazetaa the question:. You hateful
thing,' said julisa .With an Italian sunset
face, it ain't neither, never speak to
you agaima •Itut dolibtless the • infloodnt
blunder of julia's friend • will hatre ite ef- -
• fe°Pt. ork Slioula never be eaten" except in the
'fell and -Winter. ,Veal should be avoided in
simanterJa Beef and /Mitten ere the staple..
meats. When Meat Wines into the house
it ahould itt ace boahung Up. in e, cool, dry
'plage.until wanteda,stra atea tax
His Fillft Coursa.-Untrzavelled Engli-sh-
man (etudyilaga the carte at a Perla
restaurant). Itricanaau it l'oseille-filet
do 130311i aux ettehois-orttelette aux coal
-
tures.' Water-' What BlatallI bring, Mon-
p.--. Olt -ash -a Vrench diol
tionary.' •