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/ USEFUL HINTS. began to procure then PERSONAL. supplies. Such flll enquiry would lead to Failure of a Philadelphia. Bogu11 Butter some vn.luable practicn.l augaestiona m "\VHITEW.ASH -Whitmg, four pounds of Abo1tt Prominent .P.eop!e-What 'l'hey are Say1ng and Doing. Factory-Bow It Is Made. many rnstances If the sh~ps ar~ to common glue, two ounces , Rtand glue m The vast host of admirers of gcnume blame then let the shops be cut off, for cold water over 111ght, mix wlutmg with P ~ge, the artist, hves on Staten Island, butter- good, old cquntry butter, which, they are certarnly not a necessity, even cold water, heat glue till dissolved, and m pnor health Make of Mahometan tradition says, was one of the m connection with a liquor license sys- pour it hot into the former It is said that Henry Villard's palace frnits upon the Tree of Life m the\, Qarden tern If the shops are not to blame, then, consistancy to apply w1th common white- will surpass the Vanderb1lts' mans10ns, of Ecijm-wm have caul;;e for reJOICmg m 111 ,ill JUstice to them, let the facts be wash and cost an even 1111111011 It is the first :t;1e closmg of one of the four oleomargar- made known, for veople are mclmed to To remove moths from carpets, wnng attempt made to pr<:iduce an ltaban palace Ji'1e facto:r1es m Plriladel phia, 'and the I lay the blame at their doo1 now out a ciash towel ,md spread it sm@othly m Amenca laxgcsL und oldest factory of them all ~-- --·~-·--on the carpet whenever moths aie suspected or detected, Then iron it !lry De Lesseps is eighty two years old, and The remammg factodes ::tre small con '!'caching Birds to Sing. eerns tlut have not m .tho aggregate the pew birds that a1e esteemed as pei s m wtt-h a hot non, repeatmg if neceasai;y the fathor of eleven children, the youngcapacity of the·u ie {v]1ose opernLwns have a household, says the New 'York Tvmes, The hot steam will penetrate the carpet est bemg born only two \rneks since No been thus mdefimtely suspended. smg then natural son!;( If they did they (not mJurmg the colur at all) aud kill both wonder he wants anothe1 Job of canal d1ggmg The ostensil;ile cause of the shut down wouldn',t be so htghly prized The canary, wo1ms and oggs "When a crack is discovorod m a stove Seven of the convicts 111 an Eastern was a scarcity 0f fat In. realtty, though, even, is traurnd to nis song,' and the a fixed drnmclinatiou upou the pait of young bu Cl is kept, hy the ca):'eful breed- through wluch tho fire or smoke penc- prison to whom l\'.IIss Kellogg lately sang Philadelphians to ea.t the so-ca.lled sub m, 111 the company of only the best smg tra;es the aperture may be completely "Homo, Sweet Home," wore so affected stituto for butter seems to have been at eis. closed m a moment with a composltion by it that they struck out for thou roof the bottom of the tiouble This, it is 'rherc lives m Roosevelt , Street, m t:o11sistmg d ·mod ,tshcs ancl common t rees on the same mght. urged, was not surpnsmg m VlC\j' of the this city, an Alsatian, who has aceomphsh ~alt made up ma paste with a little "aCl,ua Lomsc Kellogg has been srngmg fact Lhat 1ll no ottie1 :sect10n of th~ coun ed a wonder m the trnmrng of a commo1) ter, vlastered ovei t he crack. Tho goocl 'Home, Sweet H ome " to the oonvwts m tl-y, or 111 the world, for thGt m;i.tte1 is field 10bm The bn d was kept by hun m effect 1s cqu'1lly certam whet110r the stove the Auburn, N Y , pnson 'rh1s t11.kes re:i,lly good butte1--fresh, fra~nt, rich, a d::trk 10om, ,nth a srn::tll music-box set be hot or cold the cu.kc v.w:i,y from its recent possessor, W811 chmned-so abundimt and so cho,tp to pby only ono, tune - '· l\ly Muy Ahn:" RAT8 -'l'hose ,daosc houqos we mfest- the 01gamst m a church, "ho played "I "\V1thm a radrns of tlurty miles of the city A dozen times a q,tv or more the muslc- cd by that tlOublcsomo domestic ,;rnm,il am a Pir,ite :King" wl11le the doacon was therc are over 3,00G farmers and dany box g1ound out thls· one tune The owner the 1.1t, should heat plaster of !'ans m an takmg up a collection men w 1oso c 111"f somcc of revenue is of the bird is a go\Jd wli ., 11 i.;;t, 1ml some non vessel until it is done bo1lrng, then Mr Boumcault IS said to be such an buttet-maJ,:mg, Srlld theu· chur:nmg ls ac tlnng of a pmsiciau At "uch olld hou1·s mu 1t half ,tn half with lndian meal lt a1t1st m cookery that he could give pomts k11owledged to be unequaled. ·~ 'Vi th as ho cGmld get frorn ],!>; w1,, k he "e11t to 1s ' cid the rats will eat of tlus compound t o the best chefs rn the country Mr o}c(1marg~rme at' t,.,-venty-ti' eo:r tlni:ty five t lrn 1oom where the bn d wt~ c,onfinP<l &'111 fie ly, aud that iL seLs rn their hLtle J efforson i:s very fond of g11ddle ct1kcs, cents lJCl pdUn , and tho -genuine article wlustlcd the tune O"c 1s10rnilly he would atorn,whs and kills them, without the dan .:ial vnu, of mac 11 om , Cathenne and .Jcf.it thirty five to forty cents pe1 pound, take ~s violm. t o the room uml plci,y ,, l\fy ge1 of poison freys Lewis, of Ftankfort s.tusage , and · tlie labunng classes, tor whom espec1a;lly M try Ann " To:rIERING VASES -A t,ui vase filleLl l'attl h;:is a we 1kness fot omons-but "the The robm heaid 110 music bnt tlus, and was the beef fat bu~ti.;1 desigrtcd, ste;.1d1ly and upaqunously icfused to use it. From as a consequence 111 a couple 0f months with flowers and placed on a bracket is weakness is so strong " Tho claun of Dr W C Palmer, who the lJegmumg, the factory was driven to began to suig tlns song When he gcJtso very npt to be blown to the floor, if the To pre died n.t Ocean Giove recently at the age forn1gn marl~ets, and the scarcity· of fat he could >1lnstle 1t from the begmmng to doors <1re open tor vent1lat10n was but one item ,uuong the l!l<11iy caiies encl Ins unpr<wement ceased And uow vent tlus, fasten the vase to the bracket of sovent~ nmc Urn' he had lived a life which led to Jts clos'ng up. he smgs at mtervals tlus plamt1ve air 111 with fine elastic cord, w111oh M.ll allow it freo from sm for fifty ye,irs, may b e diffiIt was established m 1877 by~ a .Party rn u.lrj with the music b<:>x, and much to to be easily taken down and replaced If eult to admit, but lus devot1011 to the a light vase, holding dried gr,>sses or eve1- promulgation of the doctrme of perfect of ~cw York t;.ip1tal1sts, who boughp the the delight of its omier. iight ef maklnJ m the Umted States from The 111utativti faculty thus developed lastmg flowers, is easily pushlld over, put holmess and J-ns gift of $500,000 to the M111, the Fi'"ncbman, who was the 011- has clung to the bucl, who 18 now con- m an ounce of shot to mu.l,e it heuvy If work, shows that h e was n. man ef wonde1gmal pa.tent cc of the proparatIO\l· Im stantly pickmg up new notes, and has per- the vase is trnnsparent, co<1t the shot with ful smcei 1ty and self-sacrifice Prospective brnles may be mtm ested ,igmmg tlut they :possessed a monopoly, fected itself ma po1t10n of one of the airs flour and dry before usrng USE OF OLD PA.PER -Rubbmg with to learn that the1e <1Ie tlmty two days m the cornpa11y built large w01ks <J.Ud went from " l<'atimtza " It has also learned to to eat expense m oq1upp111g the plant speak th10e French plu.ises, and has paper is a much mcer w:i,y of keepmg ,t the yoar on wl11ch it is unlucky ta m,irry, Ifl- reliably stated that over $150,000 acquired the habtt of callmg out ma shnll tea kettle, coflee-pot, ,u1d Le 1-pot bught accordmg to a manuscnpt dated m the fif wairexponded 111 the pureh::tse of machm whistle, "Jules," the name ohts owner'o and clean i;han fho old way of washmg t.e<Jlith century These days are .January them m suds R ubbmg with pn.per is al 1st, 2n,1, 4th, 5th, 7th, 10th, 15th , Feb ery lone 'l'he oleomargaime was mtde son upon an improved plan :r'he only fats The method pursued by tlns Alsatian is so the best way of pohslung l,mves, tm- rnary 6th, 7th, 18th, March 1st, Gth, 8th, used were" hat is called the caul 11.nd en th,0t pursued by all t amern lil Europe ·w,uc, <Lnd spoons, they shme hke now April 6th, 11th, May 5th, 6th, 7th, June trail fats. 'rhe fat was first w,,shed clean, ,,110 m,1ke the E:1mc,,twn of sonrr-buds a 3ilver For pohshmg nunors, wmdows, 7th, 15th, July 5th, 1°th, August 15th, 0 and then grouncl, after the manner of sp.tc111.lty The bullfinch is their favonte lam1J chmmeys, etc , paper is bettor th,m 19th , Seprember 6th, 7th , <~ctober 6th, Presei ves and p10klcs keep N 01 embei 7th, 1Gth, and December 15th, ~ sausage, m huge kmves constructed cs- student, becar'twe it le<irns the most readily, dry cloth pecially for Lhat pc.1pus0 After bemg can rtcqune two or tluee t unes, :i,nd is a much better, if brown paper, rnstead of 16th, 17th Consequently January IBthe <1.r0und up to tho consistemiy of mmoe favoute m tho m<ukot These tramers, cloth, Is tied over the Jar. Canned fruit wor st month and October the best month me::tt, the fat w.is melted ,1t a low tem generally pen.sallt~, will fill a darkened Is nQt so apt to mold rf a p1oce._ef ,v11t1ug m the year for m,na1age peratme The oil was then extracted by 10om w1th cages of bullfinches, and ten.ch paper, cut to tit the cau, is laid directly Wilkie Collms, >1hen workmg regularmeans of hyd1 ,wbc piesses '.l:he oil was them by the use of what is known as a on the frmt Paper rs much better to ly, wntes about 1,200 words a day, cover 1nessed, finally, tluough heavy cloths, bud orgai.1, tp -wlustle some particular put under a carpet than straw lt is mg with them tluee laige pitges of letter and then churned "\V1th the q1l, when tune. The bu>d ol'gun 18 a baby 11<tnd- 1uiimm, thmnei, and makes lesa noise paper He wntes slowly, ancl. cuts and churned, there was llll.X(!d abou,t f},n e11ual oigan, and plays clnly the one song the wheri one walks over it sciatches, and iewntes and :mterlmes,and qmmt1ty of c10am The oleomargaune teacher desires his scholars to learn To PREPA.RE SHEEr , Krns FOR MATS adds sentences m the margin, 11.nd sp1111was" pa.eked for market m large tubs, This is g1ound out to them a dozen times - Make a strong lather with hot water, kles blots everywhere, until the man,u somctm1es m o-rdiHary punts, but mostly dMly, and m ,\ month or two the pupils <md let it stand till cold , wash the fresh script loo1rn like Chmese puzzle ma 111gl1t m bull, lt W<ts exported to Europe, the are gradu.ited, and apparently revel m skm m rt, carefully squeezwg out all the mare. Neanng the end of the book he West Indios, Mexico, and vast quantities then eduoati6n,, abandonmg their natural drrt from the wool , wash it m cold water "gets excited, and scribbles away like a we1e sent th10ugh the Southern States, song for the arbifical one The violm or till all the soap is taken out Dissolve a madnrnn, wntmg fo1 twelve or tourteen whe10 it gamed favor because it would not music-box rn often substituted for the pound eaeh of salt and alum rn two gal hours at a stretch without stoppmg, save become rancid A very smaJl quantity bud-organ, but 0110 of the t hree is always Jons of hot water, and put the skm mto a now and then to Jump around on tho an sccompam,rn.cnt to the education of a tub sufficient to cover it , let it soak for floor and act out the situat10ns was sold to retail dealers m this city The average cost of the fat m the crude song-bird. twelve hours, and then hang it over a After Fisk was killed and Stokes was :Wa& el!rhtcents per pound The entne cost The young cana1y takes its schoolmg pole to dram When well dramed, sent to pnson Josie Mansfield "ent to of manufacture, mcludmg the churmng, fwrn its male parent, and the young buds stretch it carefully on a b~ard to dry, Europe. There she :i,ttracted the atten added but nve cents per pound to tlus while lll tramm~ have no other education and stietch seve1al times wuile tiymg tion of a r;ich lace maker, who marued figure, and at eighteen cei1ts the product than bemg confined m a room with a Before it is quite dry, sprmkle on the her A eouple of years ago I was ovei m was sold at a large profit A pound of number of the best smgers .flesh side one ounce each of finely pul Fr,ince, and one day \I hile walkmg th10ugh fat was made to yield thuty per cent of venzed alum and saltpetre, rubbmg it m the 0 <>ardeus of St Cloud who should I .ml. The residue was converted m to THl]'GS THA'r ARE TOLD. well Try if the wool be fom on tho ancounter but Josrn, leanm" on the arm 0 . steoune and tallow Although the cap11 skm , if not, let it remam u day or two, of her husband He was a stout, 1 )ortly city of the factory was 300,000 pounds Peter Slunkle, 93 years of age, who el then rob agam with alum. Fold ~he flesh ma.u, much the build of Fisk, and looked per w¥k, from thuty to forty hands oped with a Cmcmnati woman last wm sides together and hang 111 the sh,1de tor to me more like a Russian rather than a bemg)mployed, the actual production ter, has dese1 ted her two or three days, turnmg them over Frenchman J 0810 was elegantly and averaged only 30,000 pounds - Ph1ladel A vessel recently brnught to New Bed e<1ch day till qmte d1y. Sciape the flesh most uchly dressed, but m plam black plua 1'1 es> ford an eagle winch alighted on tho mast side mth a blunt knifo and rub it with and laces She had grown thmner, had head 1,500 imles from land pumice or rotten stone lost the flesh that for a wlule made her Female Tipplins;". Not a nail is used m the construction look gross n.nd sensual, and W[IS radiant Both m England and the U~ited States of houses m Japan They are put tol;y beautiful Hei husband is enormousthe alarm is bomg m1sed that female gether by a method of mortismg. The D)namite Cure. Ji' wealthy, I am told, and is devoted to drmkmg ::tnd female drunkenness is A Rochester conple were hired to be One of the dynamite Irishmen hv111<r hei. alarmmgly on the mcrease In England The Pnnce of Wales, says a Mllllleap· the number of females a~rested for manied m the sho1' window of a clothmg m Buffalo, has been interview;d by : drunkenness is becommg so gi eat that house, m full view of a crowd m the <Jlobe reporter, and through that medrnm olis 'l'ribune London correspondent, is he wluspe1s to the world that the mten- not scary. It is dvubtful if he is m any men stand aghast as the crimmal statistic~ street D J Burke, of Shoal River, Jackson tions arn to n.venge the hangmg of O'Don- danger, for h e is very popular with all are published from time to time. It is county, Fla , rs the father of thirty-five nell with dynamite Toronto or Ottawa classes By his course m Parliament he pretty generally admitted that the li!ale of mtox1cants 111 grocenes has had very mu cl' boys and four girls. He married five or something or somebody on British soil: has shown that he favors the most liberal must be blown up before true happmess measures of legislation, and he IS even to do with all tlus. "\Vomen, with an tunes The smallest pony m the world 1s the can reign agam m the hearts of the Invm subJected to a desue to do JUStlce to Ire appetite for drmk, and somewhat debas· e_d because of that appetite, may be un- pet of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts Bart c1bles All this sounds terrible enough land Out m society he 1s "a hail fellow lett. He 1s five years of age :i.nd stands but the chances are that the Globe woulcl well met" among those of lugh rank, and willmg to go to the gm shop and drink not have given space for the report had he is not above fratermzmg with those of direct from tho counter. 'Dhat habit is tlmteen mche:s high. "Tom Thumb" weighed nme pounds at its news colunma been crowded. Dyna- lower station. In the sports and amuse said to be quite general m every part of England, but m Canada, thank God, few h'll! birth, and his sister, who weighed nme mite and blood and murder are the favor- ments of the people he makes himself one He eschews pomp and have ever witnessed anyjhmg ef the kmd. ana a half pounds, grew to weigh 'mor.e ite cries of these villams, but nme tenths of the crowd. of them are too cowardly to do tlrn mis- ce1emony whenever ~oss1ble, prefernng Nor would it have b~en witnessed m than two hundred. "\Vith a stick held 111 his teeth Manly chief that IS in their hearts. Some raise to move about as any private gentleman England had not· the women first found 1t These touches of humaruty an easy thing to purchasEj stimulants ~n Shotwell of Ann Arbor sends teleo-raphic the outcry for the sake of n otoriety, pre- nught do tlu;i ordmary prov1s10n stores qmetly an:l messages' at the rate of' seventeen° words ferrmg to have j;he world hear of them as make lns future subJects look very kmdly a mmute He has loat the use of hIB murderers m heart, rather than not to upon him, and lus mdifferenoe to danger often unsuspected. have the world hear of them at all. Pro- is perhaps his best protection Another cause of th1g unfortunate state arms. Two of the children of a Swedish cou bably bhe largest proportion of the dyna Duung the vmt of Lord Lorne and of thmgs is, undoubtedly, the encomagement there lias been ~l'~en to the pur ple who live near Sioux Falls, D,\kota, are mitefrs whho make the most noise raise tp.e Princess Louise to British Colum~a, says chase of :wmes and other light drmks. perfect Albinos, wlule the otl:ers are or· c:rfy orht e purpose of gettmg money out the New York 1'1mes, they were presentWell me._~1ng men favored the encourage- dmary fau haired children. One of the 0 ot ers, jhust as. the itmferant show- ea with a large number of valuable souman raiboses 1 this hvodice in iofnt of his vemrs by the Indian chiefs of that Pioment of mild drmks, hopmg m th:i,t way Albmos is a boy, the other a g111. canvas a ut e i eouimess o his great vmce. On acknowledgm!!: the recei~ of to supplai\t the use of' those more ~trong "Bridal tears," a spiced wine, is <l1upk au ~ake to see wh ich ~ that on . you are ask e d to them, Lord Lo1ne promlSed eir ly alcoholic, but expenence has pfetty to the health of the contractmg parties at give ten cents. For twenty years some return to Ottawa they would send out clearly demon,strabed that people accusStates some mementoes of the occaswn. Altomed to drmkmg at all do not generiiJ.ly a betrothal m NorwaJ. "\Vhen a child is blatant Irishmen m the Umted out of the though severa.l months have passed by go from stronger to n11lde1 drmks! 'rhe born a placard bordered v;1th r ed s1lk and have lived well and g1:own f at~ ·progress is almost mvarntbly m the other lace is tacked to the doo1, and friends money paid mto some "fund" of theirs, n.nd Loine and Louise have returned to om m and are treated to mulled wme raised on the cry o f murd ermg tlie England, the Indians have heard no moie 'd1rect10n. Those formmg an appetite f6r P and cn}namon cake. "BloodY S axon, " m some sh ape N o of the presents pronnsed, and natmally light wme dnnkmg, or light malt liquors, Joseph Saillard fell m love with Miss sooner does one of the e tl h s men see ie uotten. Havm!! ne.;xt feel the necessity of somethmg Martel, a school teacher at Aurora, Ind , ter in prospect than he and 1 f nd a lt feel they have been for 0 ~ us rie s a expres3ed then· dissatisfaction at the way iitronger m order to p1oduce tho same amount of stimulant, and the habit con- and annoyed her so that she gave up her ouce cry out that it was all a ma.tter of m which t hey have been treated, Sir Aland lvent to her father's home 111 necessary ~'self· defense, " and no h arm exander Campbell, Mmister of Justice, "tmues. wmes and the like give way to place .the spiritual liquors, and so the evil m- Montreal, Sailla.l.d }\ad no money, but was ever premeditated. It would not has taken the matter m hand, which will creases If no wmes were purchased u;i J1e walked to Montreal and pressed his take much of the1r own remed Y to cure probably lead to Lord Lorne reeeivmg a smt wit h such ardor that he was locked some of the worst cases of A ngl O·Ph obia remmder of his pronuse, which he ne the shops 111 the long run thern would be up. now known to exist. Let it be unde1- doubt has foJgottem less stiong liquors purchased m tho Some quee1 f;]ungs liappen dmmg to1 - stood thn.t dynamite is to be prescribed saloons :i;nd at the bars. If wouien could nadoes A gentleman t ravellmg m for the dynamiters and the fever would Let no strugglmg young professwnal not buy stimulants at the giocenes, the Louisiana was surpnsed by a tornado, and soon abate. It may have to come to that man despair John Swmi, a citizen of chances would be they never would buy t the Wost, began life as a lawyer, and immediately ;;1.fterwarq v,;aii J:lelted by ~t; ye findmg there we1e many m oments m -them at a more con spic1ous place. ....._...... wluch he was not bothered byh1s clientele The plam mference is that those who :fish. One or th fish kno ked him d,own) rm 11.wa Se er11 Tlie t urmng o f a woman mto a pl11ar of he devoted them to rag pickmg earnestlv desire to see drunkenness dm\- and andsl 1s ofhorse t h e fish fell . They h~ <ithous bee~ It was mished ·should set themselves at it to -· salt; was fair enough. Eve1ytl11ng was forty yea1s arro whe11 he berran this ., 0 scooped up by the wu~d from a lake near o · make the early sales to young begmners by. A shower of crabs fell m an l llmo1s done by Lot, and after the drawmg he had tlmfty dovetailm g of Ins mtervals of as chfficu1t as possible Cut off the sales f h a cli-anoo te get a fresh wife. hme . For thirty-five years, acco1dmg to ., ' · common report, h e has not slept ma bed, m shops and you may not cut off the sup- to;wn a ew rno;it s atro. ~ecenply a teli.derfoot from Cul1fotJJJ.!l> Seven elephants' tusks, one of wfach wluch is mentioned with the desire not so plies from many who have now unfortunately acquired an appetite, but you v; ill was m one of the a11d distrrcts of Arizona, weighs a hundred and eighteen pounds, much to set forth the habit of sleepmg certamly dunmish the supply of yo·mg and, bemg tluown m contact with a,r1 and is worth four hund.ed dollars, which" out of a bed as a mentorious example as moderate drmkers v;ho evidently go :;CJ hqnest mme1, endeavored to draw the t~e Afncan Kmg Menelek gave te the to mdicate how long and steadfastly h e native out "Little cloudy to day, am't Rmg of It~ly, have been sent to the Geo could pursue a given scheme The busifill tip the ranks of the drunl,aids In Canada, we have, unfortunately, a 1t?" asked the tenderfoot "Yes," said graphical Society of Rome by Count Ante ness wluch h e undertook as an mr1dental "Looks like ram , nelh, tha Italian traveller assistance to his establishment m life good many moie female tipplers than the honest mmer. there ought to bo. In Toronto the num- don't you thmk so 1" "No," sn.id the The New York Journal Mi asked "If gradun.lly overspread and swallowed up ber of fem~es arrested for drunkenness is honest mmer. "Indeed 1 ' said the tender- a youth if engaged to a young lady whose the one which he had mtended should be counted ~:vmany lrnnd1 eds each year. foot, "why, f10m tl1e looks of the sky, father 'shufiles off," what is the youth's hIS mam pursuit and for many years h e Tlus is a some h as been a lawy~r not at all, and a ragSca~c~ly ~ a day passes tha.t some are l'm certam it is gomg to ram," "Wn.ll, place at the funeral 1 " not before tlio Pohce Court charged with P.'r'rps it is, young feller, p'r'aps it lS," what difficult question to answer, but if picker agieat deal. As a lawyer there that crime. The appearance of many of replied the honest nuner, mdulgently, the yollth were to "shufile off" there is no tellmg what lns r eward would have 'them goes to show that they have seen "but I've been here ten years, an' it hamt would b e no trouble to determine his been ; as a rag-picker, he 'has come to much beLter days. It ought to be a sub- ramed yrt." The tenderfoot concluded position at the fune~l. He would fall in own several fl.no farms, and oo be wol'th immediately behind the clergyman, $200,000. j ect of very earnest enquiry where these it would stay dry. OLEOMARGARl]'E. I unfortunates first The Hon ors of Drunkenness. We were four We sat talkmg m a lobby of a Denver hotel. It was 11 o'clock pm. The talk was langmslung, when the wide doors opemng to the street were thrown apait v10lently, and a tall, heavily built man walked m. His soft hat was tilted backward on lus h ead. Hrs steps were uncertam He was drnnk. We recogruzecl hnn as Dalton, a mmer f1om the snowy r,mgo Seerng th8 g10up s1ttmg a10und the table, h8 came toward us, and, with a drunken smile, said "Howda, boys r 1 Then, before we could g1eet lnm, he turned away, sayma carelessly "It is cat rught for me I ~nay as well go sec the crcatme " Entonng the elevato1, he disappearnd Wondenng what Dalton meant by "c,tt mght," I asked one of my com1)a111ons the meamng of the plnaso He 1ephed, "A phantom cat comes to Dalton durmg the mght followmg !us thud clay of hard uunkrng It is a warmng to him to put on the brnkes " "Tell me of it," I said Complymg, he said "Dalton sprees He dunks at long mtc1 vals, and never m moder,it1011 "\Vhen the wild desue for aleoh,il assails lum, resistance is seemmgly impossible He tmns lns mmes over to lus foreman an4, comes to Denver He 1hmks excessively the first day, still more the second, and he turns lumself loose on the thud He is a he::tvy t1nd very powerful man, and can <lIJnk an enormous quantity of wlnskey befo1e succumbmg to it I have kno1vn ]um to drmk forty gl.tssea of liquor m one day, six of them before breaUast By the encl of the third da:i- D,1lton is ' ery nervous Soon afte1 he falls mto lus fhst clrnnken sleep on the tlurd rught he always dreams that he comes mto his 10om th:.it a norse, as though of smnethmg sciatchmg on the c.u pet under lus bod, attracts 111s attention , that, looking under the bed, he secs t1 large yellow tomcat, with a bristling tail as long as a rollmg pm The cat is tearmg the carpet with its sharp claws Indifferent to cat8 or dogs or any ammal that walks on e::trth, he undresses and <Yets mto bed Inst,l.ntly he is srrntten "~th paralysis He cannot move His brnm works without fnct10n and 1s v; onderfully clear. His vis10n is penetrntive He can see through the bed, and sees the eat on the floor m the coiner His clear sight pierces tluough the disguise of the creatme, and he reallies that it is an eye destroymg, flesh-eat.ng devil He knows t hat the fiend w 111 come out from under lus bed and Jump on the foot -board Stanclmg there with aiched b,wk and swelling tail, the creatme will utter fnghtful cries preparatory to leapmg with distended claws Olil his face and te iring out Ins eyes Dalton becomes afraid of t he ca.t. He tries to call for help Re strives to move His efforts are vam The cat leaps to the foot board, and gla1es at him with distended, fiory eyes. Agam he struggles to th1ow off the paralysis He cannc>t move The cat, w1th a horud cry, spr.mgs 011 his upturned faee Under bhe spur of this supreme horror he rallies, and with an exhaustive effort awakens. He is unnerved ffe trembles hke a tmud woman. His heart beats quickly. It takes three or four days of perfect rest and solitude to restore lus nervous _system He ili~nks no more for months " "Does he know, wlule suffermg from this alcoholic mghtmare, that it is a mghtmare?" "Ye.s," my compamoa answered, "he knows it. But he also kn0ws that 1f he does not awal~en, ::tnd so pi event the yellow tomcat from gettmg m his wotk, the cat will kill hirt1 He is m deadly fear of tlus cat, though he knows it is but an alcohohc -phantom. And underneath the d1ead of the cat hes the fear of death iesultmg from alcoholism. The cat is only a famt shadow cast by the approaching JlmJams that stalk spectre-hkem the vestibule of his bram."-N: Y. &n. The Grand Old Man. Mr Gladstone has JUSt passed his sev enty-fourth birthday, and he is yet, apparently, as strong and active m body and mmd as moat men at their prune England has produced few men equal to WilhamEwart Gladstone,-the "People's William," as he IS often deservedly called As a politician he has been wonderfully succeMful m holding the rems of power moro years than many able men of more graspmg propensities, and all have confidence m him that he has not done so by resortmg to the many tricks and manceuvres so often thought to benecessarytosuccess He has also been able to carry through great political reforms, such as will m the years to come make hIB name remembered with gratitude. Few men so much exposed to the allurements of the wo1ld, to its envy and to its oppos1tion, have been succeM!ful m mamtammg such an ummpeachable personal reputation. Indeed, one grand reason of Gladstone's success is the confidence the people have m his personal mtegr1ty and gieat honesty of purpose. Mr Gladstone has not only a reputation as a successful poht1cmn, but as a ChrIStian and a man of great literary acquirements. His hours of relaxat10n are often spent m translatmg Gr eek poems mto English, and sometimes m writmg Latm poetry. His able contr1but10ns to the leadmg English penodumls on a variety of sub3ects qmte outside of the quest10ns hkely to draw lus attention as a statesman shows the breadth of his know ledge and thought That the one small h ead should carry all h e knows, and carry it so long, is certamly a wonder not only to his friends but to the world. Mr Gladstone's longevity and contmued good health are, no doubt, largely attributab1e to the fact that h e has al>1ays been a man of remarkably regu1ar and temperate hab its. Hard work does not rmpa1r the health of one half as many of our pubho men as high h vmg and irregular habits. That able and conspicuous member of the Gladstone cabmet, Mr. Chamberlam, caused much laughter and many cheers by closing a pubhc address on th e present issue "between the peers and the people, b etween the privileges of the few and the rights of t he many," as follows . "I am mclmed to hope, m the words of that beautiful Church litany which is read every Sunday, that all the nobility 'may be endued with grace, wisdom, and uuderstandini. ' " He was Muscular. L::tst '.l'uesday, wlule five of the Pionee~ Club six-oar crew were s1ttmg m their shell and sweaung ngo1ously at the non· appe::trance of the sixth man, who was half an hour late, a well dressed and modest young stranger strolled mto the boai house and began mspectrng the equipments with great mterest "I'll tell you what we'll do, fellows," said the stroke "As No 4 isn't commg, suppose we coax: the dude there to take a. row and bust him all up 1 " The pei petrat10n of this time honored. Joke was rccoivod with approbat10n, a.nd. the new come1 was, with t1 grand show of hosp1tahty, mv1ted to take the vacant oar ""\Vell, don't know, gentlemen,' said the young man, lookmg at hrs watch doubtfully "I'm a stranger here Ids need a httle exercise, though " " ~' get m," said No 2, wmkmg al; lus compa111011s, "a httle sp111 will do yow. good,' and they finally persuaded the v1ctun of then kmclly scheme to take off his coat n.nd assume .t club cap. "Now keep your oy8 on me, and try to keep time," said the Captam "You'll never, never make an oarsm<1.n unless yti11 "atch the st10ko " "I'll do the best I can, gontlomon," said the guest meekly "Im always willmg to improve " The boat went <lown Loward Hunte1 ':s Pomt a couple of miles at an easy, threequa1ter stroke, the newcomer pullmg away manfully >11th the res t, and: wheJt they cased off to turn back they we10 su1prised to observe that tho stranger did not appear to be quite so much blown as they expected "Now, then, young feller," said the stroke, "\\1th a gnu, "try to keep up with the proccss10n. Hst her up, boys Hard all I" But, somehow, the stranger scratched along with the rest, and, though the pact1 was somctnmg hke forty-six as they passed Butchoi town, the v1Ct1m serenely sawed away, a.nd the bow man even imagmed that he splashed le~s than any oar m the boat When they finally drew up to the .float, t1ncl while the crew were pantmg for wmd, sp1ttrng cotton, and w1pmg their dnppmg faces, the "passenger" looked around witli a ch1lt1hke smile upon his unflushed face, and softly remarked "Why didn't you spmt her~" " Spurt I" p.intea tho strok · , "Why - - er - -what the-- 01 - - I say, young feller, whe1e did you come from?" "]'rom 1'0101 1to, gentlemen," replied the st ranger modestly, as he slipped on his coat n.nd started up the wharf "~'.[y name is Hanlan-Edwa1d H anlau-and I hope to see you all at ValleJo Thmsday. Good mornmg. " Striking Parsons. Strikes m 11caily evei·y brnnch of mdustry have become so frequent that littlesurpr1se is now caused by the announcement that one has taken place. Word comes from Italy of one not much oxpected, however. One hundred paroclual priests h::tve struck for mcreased pay We will watch with 111terest the sucIf the stnker:s cess of that mov::ement succeed, then the many underpaid clencalfl' m Canada may know JUst what to do next. For some time there has been an agitation m some pa.rta of the country for mcreased stipends, and the efforts m that direct10n have not always been as successful as wa.s desired. Should one hundred or more resolve to stuke it nught brmg mGny tight-fisted, small souled church goers to then· senses \.Ya1t, however, fol'" further developments from Italy. Resolut10ns for mcr011.Smg the pay of the mmISter, under the voluntary system anyway, are not always ummxed blcssmgs An esteemed mm1sterml friend, of a good many years experience, is often fond of tellmg a story somethmg to this purport -A minister who had labored very earnestly among his people had become so popular that they, at one time, notified him of their unammous resolution to mcrease his appropriation. When he was waited upon andmformed of their generous action, he replied something as follows "My brethren, I am much obhged to you for your thoughtfulness, but I pray you to reconsider your action about the mcrease. The hardest part of my labors here now is to collect the a.mount you have heretofore voted to me. Should it be necessary to undertake col· lectmg an mcrcaaod amount, m addition to my other pressmg duties, I fear my , health will give way before the year 18 :one." There was a reconsideratwn. The difficulty t hat women encounter in obtammg remunerative employment may be illustrated by the followmg case. Last week an educated and refined woman, with tho advantages of a good presence and a letter of recommendat10n from a Monsignor m the Catholic Church, succeeded, after much diligence, m gettmg the offer of a position as cle1k behmd a toy counter m a large fancy-goods store m this city, at a stipend of four dollars a week, the posit10n to be r etamed only durmg the holidays. We are assured that this case is a typical one. Perhaps one reason why the outlook m this direct10n is so dIScoumgmg appears m the fol. lowmg mc1dent A young woman of seventeen, attractive but needy, obtamed a situat10n as folder m a prmtmg-office through the exertion of a benevolent acquamtance. On the first day she appeared at 9 30 o'clock, and eamed a dollar On the second clay she appeared at 11 30 o'clock, and earned fifty cents. On · the thud day she did not appear at all. The kmd hearted person to whom she was mdebted for tlns opportumty of makmg an honest hvmg declares herself d1smclmed oo de anythmg more for the uresolute and careless damsel. In d1soussmg the r elat10ns of morality to religion, Professor A. A. Hodge, of Puncetou, obse1ves. "We do not deny the existence m this day of exceptionally lovely characters who are skeptical-often most sadly so-to all relig10us truth, natural anu revealed. We deny, however, that these prove that morality IS m dependent of relig10n. Morality m them, as mall others, ha.s its root m theology, and their oases are easily explamable on the scientific principles of heredity, edu· cation, and envuonment." I as