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· HU'S WA.RON BmDSA..ND BEA.STS. tM Island of Mauritius killing them in mere wanton amusement, or to obtain Extwction of the .brctlc Sea. Cow, the thll legs for pipe stems, and the curious G:rea.t Au. a.:ud tile Dodo. stones found in the gullet. In our own FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1884. About 100 years ago the voyagers to tirne we have seen the buffalo crowded to the Arctic seas were familiar with a large the West. Civilization is also advancing and powerful ammal resembling our man- from there, and before many years the PLANE!J'S IN MARCH. a tee ; m fact, it was a northern repre- buffalo, the mountain sheep, the p:i:ong sent,,.tive of this ammal, called the Rhy- horn, and all the noble game animals of The attractlo118 for b\M·Go.zo s Durhuc the Piresent 111.onth. timt. It was extremely common, seem- the great West will be represented only ingly taking the place of the cloven- by the stuffed skms and dried bone of our Neptune is evening star, and rapidly fouted creatures among the milk.givers of museum. approaching coniunction with the sun, the s.:a. ln general aµµearance the Arc- -----·-· ..- - -- On the 27th at 9 o'clock in the evening, tic sea cow was a stupendous spectacle, The Russian Nihilists. he is in conjunjtion with Venus. Saturn attaming when foll grown a length of 35 The revival of the plots of the Russian is evening star, coming next to Neptune feet and a weight ot several tons. The Nihilists is one of the dark mcidents of in the order of rlSlng. He will be a gent'ral color wii.s a dark brown ; the skm beautitul obJeCt in the western sky dur· thick and leatliery, covered with a thick, the new year. After the assassmation of ing the month, rrfaking his transit now bristlinghairthatmattedtogether,fornung the Czar, Alexander II., in the sprmg of .about sunset, and lwlding a prominent a prottlctton from the ice and cold, and was 1881, although the threats of violence position between his bodyguards, the compared in appearance to the bark of a contmued, the stern acts of repression -0lusteiing Pleiades on one side and :red tree. The head of the sea ' cow was small seemed to be successful, the great conAldeoor-.m on the other. mipoition to the auimal's size, and, spll'acy sank out of sight, if not out of in 1 Jupiter is evening star. He makes his mstead of possessing teeth, was provided existence, and for more than two years .trarunt now about 9 o'clock m the evenwith two curious masticating plates-one almost notlung was heard of it. ing, so that he is n,early ha~f-way to th!l in the gum, and the other in the under But durmg the past few weeks, two zenith when 1t is dark enougQ for hun to The winter star-ht iifty to eighty feet }ugh, with a apiead jaw. The tail somewhat resembled that attempts on the ltfe of the present Czar become visible. The fore have ?een reported. It is .said that on of branches equal to its height ; the uf a whale, having two flukes. nights are superbly beautiful with V enua, trunk is often thirty feet in circumfer- fins ©r paddles were blunt and without , returmug home from 3: ~1;1ntm~ pa~ty, he J upitor, Saturn, and Mars to grace the ence. The wood of the Cedar of Leban- nails, having instead a thick growth of was shot at by some N ilnhsts, disguise~ as .ahow. on is perishable, and of little va!ue. The bristlmg hairs. Such was the general ap p~asa?ts.. More recently, a plot to poison Mars is evenmg star. He is stationary h in the nuddle of the month, and Jupiter cones are t ree to five inches long, and pearance of the ammals that when first lum lS said to have been discovered and frustrated at Charkoff. are very obtuse ; they are made up of discovered were Shortly before the latter event, Col. presents the same aspect later in the broad, flat scales, between which are the month. Mars is still a brilliant object PASTURING IN VAST HERDS Sudeikm, one of the principal officers of among the stars, but observer<! will note Hat, thm-winged seeds. amon~ the seaweed of the shore. They the Imperial gendarmes, was killed in his that hia lustre d\ni,s more rapidly than __________ · .,.. showed no fear of the men, even allowiug uwn room, after a most desperate and themselves to be touched by them ; but th.at of Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus is mornmg star until the 16th, Physical Comfort from Old Newspaners. wheu one was injured it is said that they bloody struggle with his assailants. In various parts of Russia, movements when his name is registered on the roll of To be able to get for a few cents a neat- displayed much bravery in its defence. threaten.ing open revolt ave been an· ta He · th · th h · ht ly printed daily 1·oun1al, having twenty- Such was the ~tate of things in the year nounced from tima to time. Thus Russia evenmg s rs. is en m e eig 1742. At this time a vessel was wrecked of his glory to observers m thls planet, three feet of surface, on' which, as a panenters upon the new year with a very dis· for he is visible to the naked eye its a orama, is spread out all the leading oc- in the Arctic Sea, the crew escaping and mal prospect of turmoil, and perhaps of atar of the sixth magnitude, the human currences for four and twenty hours just making their way to Behring Island. For serious convulsion. eye being able to scan this distant orb, passed," is certainly a great eomfort.-BJ.lt some time they subsisted upon fish and It was hoped, on the accession of the though he is nearly that is not the comfort we now have up· birds, but finally the game became scarce, present Czar to the throne, that he would JUGR1'EEN HUNDRED MILLION MILES Aw'.4.Y. permost in mind; it is rather one that and on the 1st of June in the year menproceed to mtroduce reforms, which The reason Uranus is visible is because may be enjoyed all over the land in these honed they began a warfare upon thti sea should partially, at least, lift the burdens cm the 16th at 2 o'clock in the morning, chilly days, and especially in the abodes cow that has since been named after Stel· which weigh down the Russian people. ,he is in oµposition with the sun, and at of the poor, in the dwellings out on the ler, one of the party. The animals were The Czar him.self, however, never prohis nearest poiut to the sun. After this bleak prairies, on the stormy hill elevations, killed with harpoons, and each was so mised or gave reason to believe that he event the five other planets a.re evening and in the frozen regwns of the North. large that forty men could scarcely drag it would make any changes. Indeed it was atars, and are all tra.vellin~ from oppos·- Let us illustrate by experience: Provi- throllgh the water. wiLh difficulty that he was persuaded even tion to conJunct10n in the followmg order: dence, or chance, placed the writer in a The men were finally rescued from to consider some reforms which had been Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Ma:n1, and farm dwelling on very:highlarn· butsositu- Behring Island, but in 1754 a vessel com· ptoposed to, and would probably have Uranus. There will be no more opposi- ated between the hills, tb.at the mid-De· mantled by a Russian, Ivan Krassilnikoff, been adopted by his father. tions to note until December, when N ep- cember western winds, gathered as in a arrived there, and destroyed large numWithin three months of his succeeding tune again t 11 kes the lead. funnel, swept through with terrific force, hers of the animals. In the succeeding to the throne, he issued a proclamatwn Uranus ruts been a known member of carrymg off the heat from the house faster year an explorer named Jakoolev, seeini;( which dispelled the hope that he would the solar family only since 1781, a little than a great box stove full of hickory and that they were about to become exter- modify the autocracy by giving the peomore than a century, a centenninl cele- black birch coµld produce it. But the minated, laid a pet.ition before the ple some share iu tha government, or that bration in J.is honor having taken place w'orst thing was, that the aged floor, al· authorities atKamschatka asking that the he would change in any respect the three years ago. He was discovered by beit of good matched pine plank, had animals be protected by law. He was official system of the Empire. This act accident., for Sir ,William Herschel, the shrunk until some air could and did sift not heeded, however, and in 1757 another he followed up by dismissing the semidiscoverer, thought he had picked up a 1in between the tongue-and-grooves ; and, expedition landed at the islands, and bberal ministe.rs, and appomting adher· atray comet instead of a world. The new driven as it was by hurricane force, the others in 1758 and 1762, and until 1780, ents of the absolute monarchy in thf;lir comet was duly announced, and math.em- thick hqme-made rag-carpet was often when the last living st.a cow was seen by stead. .r .aticians went to work trying to com- lifted high up, and it too sifted throuah a native of Volhyniii. Thus in thirby· The flames of the Nihilist conspiracy pute its orbit, but all in vain; their figur~s the"freezing air. hi fact, the only wayto eight years from the time th.,se mons- were smothered by harsh acts of repr'esswould not.work. Fmally, the theory was keep warm was to put on extra thick trous animals were discovered they were ion, but they were never extinguished. 1tarted t.hat the astronomical prize, care· clothing, and shielding the feet in arctics, totally exterminated, a.ud to-day not a Now they· are breaking out afresh, and it lessly picke<l up in the sky, was another keep them perched upon a supplement- suigle skin, and only will be nothing strange if we hear of num.A. NUMBER OF .SKELETONS, pie.net revolvhlg outside of the six µlanetii ary chair. ·with more such days in pros- ' erous attempts upon the Czar's life, in acthat had been known from time immem- pect, we had about decided to fly at once remain in the possession of the natural- cordance with the warning given to him ~rial. With this clew for a guide, com· to some more n;iodern house, with hot-air ists to tell the story of the-destruct10n of three years ago. _putations w0 rkcd like a charm, and soon furnaces and other convemences, when, an entire race of large and powerful beasts. Amid all his difficulties and perils, this the new comer w<i-s mar hemat1cally llll- on open.mg a closet, we found a large bun- Much interesting information concerning mighty potentate who rules over eightyNo quicker the Rhytina was obtained during the four millions of subjects, wl1ose empire :prisoned in an orbit whose deviations die .·f various daily papers. were to b~the means of sho\nngthe prc 8 - thought of than executed, the carpet was Swedish expedition to the north, and stretches across two contments, and whose ~nee of still another planet, N e 1 ,tune, the raised, and those papers spre d out ten to Prof Nordenskiold found numbers of de- office endows him with despotic power, ia.t~t,. though probably not the last, ad- fifteen th10knesses all over th floor, posits of their bones that are now utilized may well exclaim, "Uneasy lies the head ition to the suti's family as l:'een by mor· They were laid down promiscuously so as by the natives for various purposes, the that wears a crown." tal eyes. There was great rejoicing in the to secure thorough '·breaking of joints." ribs being used for shoemg the runners He moves hither and thither, painfully 1Cientific world over the advent of the Additional listing was put on the doors, of sledges. Wheq alive the fur or hide conscious that at any moment,, and in any new pl.1 nct. It was soon found that ob· and another two extra angles and joints of the animal was made by the natives place, an attack may be made upon his aervers had detected his presence and were added to the stove-pipe, giving it ll. mto bo11ts called baydars. life. Public order is preserved ii1 Russia. marked his position on the star m;; ps complete curve ~p and down and securing It is supposed by some writers that the by a force of little less than seven hunxo LESS THAN NINETEEN TIMES, some more heatmg surface. extennination of the great mammoth was dred thousaml agents of police ; yet the aupposing him to be a fixed star, never Result: We have Just now passed hastened by early man who was of neces- C?.ar's palaces have to be guarded by regidrt:ami11g 1hat the dim st!l.rry porn twas a through the severest cold ever experienced ' sity a hunter, and that the great elephant ments of Cossacb, and the most minute planet. Fla.111steed had seen the star five when a the1mometer was present to i·e- existed at the same timti with cur 1t.T1ces· precautions are taken at every instant of times, notrng it on his c·~talogue as of the cord it. Yesterday mornmg it was far tors is shown by the fact that in France the d-iy and night to p10tect him. Such 1i:x:th n1a!lmtode, the first observation be- below zuro, and did not get above all day, their bones, together with those of man 1m existence must be well nigh intolering in 1690, nearly a Ct'ntury bt:forti Her- while the winds were none of the quietest. and many animals now extinct, have been able. echel's di~covery. Lemouuier came But with one-third of the fuel used in the found. As late as 1834, Nuttall, the Yet it would be pel'llous for him to un. nearer to w·nnmg the prize, for he had previous cold snap, our room is and has fam11usauthority on birds, wrote concern- clertake reforms if he were so clisposed. observed the plaut:t twelve times, mak· been as warm and comforta.ble as any fur- iug the great a.uk ; His counsellors are strongly opposed to ing eevl'ral observations withiu a few , nace-heated city mansion. The extra As a diver hl:l is unrivalled, having al- them, smce they think that if any power weeks in 1768-69. lf he had taken the pipe helped a little, but those newspapers most the velocity of birds in the air. They is iutrusted to the masses, it will be used irouble to reduce and compare his obser· did the thing ! Why, even the most brit- breed in the Fa.roe Islands, and in lce- to continue, with greater force, the atvations he might have won the prize tle "wood-pulp" newspapers are more im- land, Greenland and Newfoundland, nest. tacks upon the Imperial system, twelve years previous. But he h~ no pervious to wind currents than the thick- ing among the cliffd, and laying but one Thus it is that the Czar is placed beaystem in his arraugement~, and his pa· est carpet. Three or four layers of them egg each. They are so unprolific that if tween two bitter alternatives. If he re-pers are said to have bet:n a very picture with the air spaces between, are as good this egg be destroyed, no other is laid fuses reform, he becomes a constant tarcf chaos. An mtricate observatwn of non-co:hductors as a plastered wall with <during that season. The auk is known get for the hidden assassins ; if he grants ihia very l!SUr waa reco1ded on a. paper its nunute air cracks, or as an ordinary sometimes to breed in the isle of St. it, he runs in danger of losiug his power bai;! th11.t had contained perfumed hair- bed ,s pread; and one or two placed be- Kilda, and in Papa Westra, according to as an absolute monarch, and of being repowder. neath the blankets are equal to an extra Mr. Bullock, for several years past no duced to the inferior position of a constiVe11us is evening star, and is during quilt, to keep in the warmth of the bodies more than a single pair had made their tutional ruler. the month a radiant repre11entative of the of the sleepers. appearance. The struggle is between his autocratic She seldom presents Tac~ed on the beams over a cellar, a To-day not a single individual of this pride, and the safety and comfort of his solar fraternity. more favorable conditions fvr observa- few thicknesses of newspapers are equa'I species of auk is alive, and the skin in life, and'the tranquility of his rule. No tion. She is moving rapidly northward, to an extra floor or ceiling placed there, the Museum of Natural History in Cen· wonder that he finds it hard to choose !fproaching the earth, approa.chrng her in keeping the rooms abov;e warm. Nailed tral Park, that is valued at over one between them, and that the life of no one eastern elongatwn, and remarnmg longer up so that they will not be wet by rain, thousand dellers, one at Vassar college, of his subjects probably, is mo1·e harassed e-V-ery IIight above the horizon atter the around the hovse and cattle stalls, or the and several others, probably not over and miscmble 1 fhan his own. 11un has set, 8peeding away from the great chicken abodes, or any buildings occupied twelve in all, are the only specimens luminary on the invisible wire on which by animals, human or otherwise, newspa- known in the world. Sixty or one hunA. Cnrious Bet. she seems to be strung persarewarmerthantheouterboardsiding, dred years ago they were extremely comLIKE A GOLDEN BEAD. rough or planed; and they can be renew· mon along the northern coast, coming as A peculiar gambling case ca.me before On the 27th, at 9 o'clofk in the evening. ~d at pleasure at n? cost, and ?e ~emoved far south as Nahai;i-t; but warfar~ was be- the Bow street Pohc~ Court in London, ehe is in conjunctioll w1th Nept.une as we m sprmg for additional ventilation. In gun upon them also, and though it hardly on the 16th of April, 1812. Two men, have already described. Venu~ seen short, th(l ' judicious use of newspapers seems possible, the extermination is un- jone tall and stout and the other short, through the telescope presents the phase may be made to save half the fuel in well- doubtedly complete, the last living bird were charged under the following re· cf .the gibbous moon when passing from to-do homes, and supply its lack to the having been killed in 1844 on a group of markable circumstances : A Bow street the full to the last quartel\: There are poverty st1·icken.. "Yfe call .tlrn attention islands called Funglasker, on the south- officer named Croker was passmg along the three points to be noted in regard .to Ven- of benevolent s?cieties to thIS fact. Far- west coast o~ Icelan~. In the last cen· Hamps~ead road when he observed the us during the month-her rapid progress mers may by usmg newspapers save much tury these bll'ds, which are large, hand- two prisoners at the top of. a wall. A northward, her progress eastward, and feed ?therwise used by . the animals in some and striking in appearance, were moment later. he saw. to his horror the her long stay abpve the horizon after sun- keepmg w'.'rm. Eggs will be far more very common at the Faroe . Islands. tall roan hangmg by his neck fro~ a lamp set. These aro easily discernable to the 8:b':1ndant ;f t~e hens are kep~ warm, by They were found to be good eatmg, and post att'.'ched to the wall, bemg that unscientific observer, and are all due to lmmg their wmter quarters with newspa- were mstant tied up and turned off by the short hex; apparent progress in her orbit as she pers, and 11tock poult~ go tlu:ough well SLAUGHTEitED BY THE BOAT LOAD, man. Croker rushad up to the spot, when advances from superior conjunction to on half the feed otherwise required. not only for immediate use, but to pre- the ta~l ma.n fell to the ground, the handeastern elongation. We can find no n~w serve or dry. They were finally driven to kerch1~f with which he ?ad been suspendwords to express the bewitching charm of a desolate rock that was considered ina- ed havrng f~rtunately given way. Croker her appearance as night after night she Dipbtlieria. ccessible, but 011 a calm day a Faroese produced his staff, said he.was an officer; sits enthroned amid the sunset glow, or There is no doubt that the source of vessel succeeded in landing, and the crew and ~emanded an explanation of the pr<?beams more brightly later in the evening diphtheria is a mystery ; that it does not destroyed nearly the entire rookery. A ceedmg ; tlle only reply he received to his from the dark back ground of the sky, necessanly arise from sewer gas would few escaped to sea and returned after tho inquiry being a violen~ blow on the nose amid the swarmmg myriads of stars. seem to be the case from the fact that departure of the men, and were for a time from the tall man, which nearly knocked Mercury is ,n'1rning star, and after the localities, in which similar conditions ex· unmolested, but as if nature itself was m him backwa:rd. The sh,ort ~an ran a>rny, 16th the sole planet enjoying this dis- ist as respects sewers, are very differently league against them, the rock was in a but the officer, procurmg ai~, managed tinction. He retains the hunor only un- affocted as respects diphtheria. Along few years engulfed by submarine erup- to capture both. They expl1t1ned to the til the 30th, becoming evenmg star, so the lme 0f one main sewer, it is prevalent, tion, The few remaining great auks as- bench that they w01·ked on canals. They thii.t the m<Jnth closes with every one ot along that of another, it is not apparent. scmbled and formed a rookery on a rock had been tossmg for money, and after<JUr brother planets congregated on the Yet while medical men and sanitarians c11lled E ldey, where for fourteen years ward for their clothes. 'rhe tal~ man, ea.stern side of the sun. On the 30th at may hold diverse theories regardmg the they lived a precarious existence. Dur- who was hanged, won the other·'s Jacket, $ o'clock in the afternoon, Mercury is in origin of diphtheria, they are all agreed ing tlns t ime suty of their number were trousers and shoes. They then agreed to superior conjuuction with the sun, pass- upon one tlung-that defective sewerage captured, and finally the last pair were de-1 toss up which should hang the other, and h\g from his western to his ea.stem side m is detrimental to the general health of strayed. The history of other localit1es the short man won. Tl1ey go~ upon the ifs fleet-footed circuit. the community where it exists. Noisome is very similar. '!'hat the birds were once wall, and the tall man paid his debt of ' The March moon fulls on the 11th, at smells are not wholesome ; a polluted frequent on the Maine coast is shown by honor by allowmg the short man to hang 40 minut.es after 2 in the evening, stan- atmosphere is not good to breathe. Pools their bones, that are found in the oyster lum. The:y b?th agreed m this; and the dard time. She is in conjunction with of stagnant water arc not desirable ad- shell heaps of that region. tall man said if ,he had won th~ to~s he Neptune on the 2nd \Vlth Saturn on the juncts of a dwellmg housP., and clogged At this time there lived in the same-lo- would assuredly have hanged lns fnend. 3rd, with Jupiter o~ the 7th, with Mars sewers, reeking with filth and sending calities j;he Labrador duck, a fine bll'd, ----~-~ tln the 8th, and with Uranus on the 12th, pestilential vapors, must be harmful to stuffed specimens of which are quite rare In all ages and m all countd.es the paying her respects to each outer planet; the .commumty. The voice of wisdom even in collection~. The last known !iv- ~cales have been the emblem of justice. in the orde1· of his distance from the sun. ·and experience admonishes cities to look ing specimen was lOlled by Col. Wedder- From this it is painfully evident that all On the 26th the moon is in conjunction well to their sewers, and citizens to be burn of Hajifax in 1852. In a similar fellows whose business it is to get up cmwith Mercury, the day before her change. exceedmgly careful in the matter of h·uae manner the curious dodo, a giant pigeon, blems have never traded much at grocery The new moon of the 27th commences dramage. was exterminated, the sailors who vlSited and pwvision !Stores. the same unceasing round, passing near Neptune on the 29th, and paying her respects to Venus and Saturn on the 30th. anywhere, a.re very rarely seen. When a gentleman of our acquaintance was ridiculed for marrying a very large lady, he replied: "You can not have too much of a good thing." Norway Spruce is a good thing, but we find it eas1 to have too much of it, and it is unpleasant to see this and Arbor Vitre occupy·ng fl.round that ~ight be filled by a great variety of beautiful and interesting species. Amol'g the trees very rarely; seen 1s the Cedar of Lebanon, which is desirable for its peculiar peauty, and especially mterestmg on account of the frequent reference to it m the Scripture. The young tree has a conical form, but when old it is remarkable for the great length of its branches, whi<"h spread in distinct layers, and give the head a mo2t striking appearance. 'fhe tree is quite hardy m the climate of .New York City, and in a well-dmmed soil would no doubt endure a much colder locality. When fnll-grown, it is from hf \tUif~tl· \t'tr ~f ~" -"'-"' -"'M- a;1 '" ttftr!ttt 'lt'U+ ~""'" Neede<l Seventeen Languages It was at a dimter, mamly of railroad men, recently where everybody was called on for a speech. Mr. Simon Stevens, late president of the Tehuantepec Railway and Cr.nal company, responded humorously, and apropos of a legal yarn that had just been related told the following as a true story : When I lived down in Pennsylvania thirty-odd years ago I knew James Buchanan pretty well. It was yeal's beforn lie was president ; he was merely a prominent lawyer who practiced in the courts of the county. One day ,he asked three or four of his rich clients home with him to dinner, among them Henry Musselman, a thriving German farmer from the next town. Judge Hopkins, I tlunk, was at the table that day, too. It was a handsome table ; the fine damask tablecloth reached nearly to the floor. 'l'hey had all been hel1)cd to turkey, sweet po· tatoes, cranberry sauce, and the trimmings, and were preparmg to assault the repast when Mussleman, who had set his plate very close to the edge of the table, upset it, hot gravy and all, into his lap. He sprang up m mortification and anguish and exclaimed : " Mein Gott'n Himmel! I vish I vos in Helium minute!" and made for the door, moppmg his hot face with his gravy-soaked nap· km and ejaculating in braken fMhion. In another mstant there was a general start of dismay around the table, as if thtiy felt the foundat10ns of the earth giving way. For Musselman, who came into town on horseback, had accidentally hooked his spur firmly into the tableclor.h as he turned, and as he rushed out the door he dragged the whole dinner to the floor with a jerk! When Buchanan had another dinner cooked and Mussehnan tried to apologize, he said he wished he understood sevenLeen languages. Our Western Rivals. The W estem States, will not, in the future, prove such a formidable rival in attracting immigration from Canada as they have been. It is now pretty well known that nearly all, if not quite all, the valuable farming lands of the Western States have been taken up, and already there is a complaint being generally raised that the young ·nen of the pioneers have no new wild territory to conquer. One of the leading American papers gives a sorry picture of idleness among the young men in the far West, simply because these young men don't know in what direction to turn themselves. They cannot strike out for themselves and "go west" as their fathers did years ago. There is no available land for that purpose. They cannot buy farms around them, simply for want of means. They cannot, engage in manufactures, because no manufactures of any consequence whatever have yet sprung up amongst them. These facts-if facts they are-have much significnnce for us. In the Dominion there is yet sufficient good land for homes for millions of people, and the supply will not be ()Vertaken by the leg1timate demand in this genemtion. The great danger to be avoided is to pre· vent our public lands falling too much in the hands of large speculators, who, in their greed to make the most possible out of them, may drive off many immigrants, and extort from others mscases in Vf'getables. One of the principle objections urged by vegetari11.ns ag,\inst the consumption of "flt:sh food" is the liability of animals to various diseases. Uuderthese circumstances it is argued that considerable risk to h'ealth is mcmred by eating meat. This may be true enough, but the fact appears to be overlooked that vegetables are subject to disease as well as animals. Some unpleasant information on this µoint was given at a recent meeting of the Hurt1cultural Mutual Improvement society of Manchester. A paper on "D;s ease and Casuahties of Vegetable Life" was read by the president. He pointed out that diseases in the vegetable kiug· dum frequently arise from a vitia1ied state of juices tending to injure the habitual health of the plant in whole or part. He then mentioned a few of the diseases that occur most frequently, such as blight, .flux of juices, gangrene, suffocation, contortion, and consumption. This is a truly uncomfortable list, and before mankind commits itself to vegetaria.uism it would be prudent to ascertam, if possible, the effect on health of a dinner of vegetables affiicted with some of these ailm.,,nts. Can, for instance, a dropsical cab!;iage, a consumptive cauliflower, a suffocated car· rot be consumed with impunity 1 If not, we are clearly no better off with a vegetable than with a meat diet ; for it must be remembered that we eat very much in the dark, and that there is no reason to suppose the green-gr00er's conscience more tender than the butcher's.-St. GENERAL 1 PLEASA.NTRIES. .A health 1·esort: The doctor. Japanese soldiers carry fans. These weapons are probably used in the hottesll of the fight. The face of the sun is covered with blotches again. The sun should take something for its blood. "Man wants but little e:i:-btilow," said the school-boy who got a sounding box on the side of his head. An article containing a dozen of hints on how to take care of a horse is gomg the rounds of the press, but there is not one hmt as to how to get the horse. A bill has been presented to the state legislature to regulate the manufacturing of cider. Is this not unwarranted inte~ ference with the freedom of the press~ "No," said the man who looked on with unconcern at a fight at the Phila· delphia board of 11,ldermen, "that seems nothing to me ; I've run an opera com· pany. James, who was trying toTsew a new button on his coat murmured : " They say there's a new yacht that makes fifteen knots an hour, but this thread makes twenty knots a minute." "Boy," he asked, as he stood at the foot of Woodward Avenue and looked across to the Canadian shore, "what is the depth of water off the dock here ~" The boy looked him all over with a care· ful eye and then slowly answered: "That's the way it's all us been ! If a fellow wants to commit suicide its allus someone so big that his clothes won't begin to fit me ! I won't tell you nothmg about it !" The Presidential Election. The excitement in the United States over the forthcoming presidential elec· tion will soon reach a fever heat. The election will take place in November and the National Conventions of the two parties will soon be held in order to nominate their respective candidates. The n.umber of men spoken of as eligible on either side is unusually large, and it ill quite evident that no one man now stands out sufficiently prominent to have all eyes turned towards him. Past experienl!e goes far to show that the prominent men, and the really popular men, are those standing the slimmest chance of nomina· tion when the hour comes. Some "'dark horse" usually secures the nomination as a compromise between the too ardent supporters of the men of great prominence. The chief danger in the way of success in either party just .now appears to be the chances of disaffection in the ranks. Party wire pulling has become a profess· ion in American politics, and the wire pullers begin to make their influence felt from the very outset in these campaigns. The "party hacks" are in bad odoul', and if they draw the wires too strong with one party or the other there may be enough bolting to bring about defeat. Parties are now pretty evenly divided, and good luck, or good friendship, will probably win the day. The Tammany men have, for a long time been a source of difficulty to the Democrats. It has recovere<l again much of the influence so potent in the palmy days of Boss Tweed, and its rmg·leader have not a much better repu· tation than the old Boss, so far as real honesty of purpose is concerned. In the Republican party the old feud between the Stalwarts and Half Breeds is not yet well healed up, and it may break out any hour. Such recognized leaders of public opinion among the Republicans as Carl Suhurz and Harper's Weekl?f, are already sounding an alarm and putting their friends on guard. The deve~opment of the next month or two will be watched with great inte1·est. ---··· .........-..~---- Jame.s's Ga;.ette. Harem ffgrrors. It would take many more pages to tell you all of that eventful night. 1 have seen much of Egyptian harem life aside from it. I visited a rich ha.rem with a school teacher who has access to these homes. We passed through court after court at· tended by two eunuchs ; and several Arabian guls stood here and there m white loose robes, low necked, covered with jewels (slaves they are yet, all are subject to the master); finally thruugh a l<wely garden with flowers and a fount.a.in We entered a large salon, with gay divans, and on the lovely 'l'urkish 1·ugs sat seven women, some smoki11g, sewing, lulling, all on the flo(J1, and as many alaves staudiug ready to do tlrnir bidding. They are the wJVcsoftworich brothers. Somewereyoung some were old ; one pretty little wife, only 14 years old, had one child 2 months old. She had a chance to say a wo1d to the tea,c:'ler some weeks ag_o, and tuld her she remembered when some men took her from her mother m Caucassia, about three years ago. She had been sold twice smce. She said the old wives beat her sometunes, when they saw the husband show any aff.;ction towards her. She 1s so sad ; was covered with jewels aud gay attire. '!'hey can't p'ut their heads out of dool's after marriage until. after the birth of a child ; it is a disgrace to do so. What a life is this harem l-Oleveltmd Leader. How Great Judges Make Invalid Wills. The case of the Earl of Cottenham against Pepys, another illustration of the misfortunes which proverbially overtakes the wills of gi·eat lawyers, came before Mr. Justice Ohitty, in the Cha.nce1y Di· vision recently. It will be remembered that the will of the late Lord St. Leon· ards was never found after his death, not· withstandmg that the ex-Lord Chancellor was ever pointing out in the numerous editions of his popular legal handbook the necessity of testators taking special pre· cautions for the preservation of wills. The late Lord Westbu1·y, again, took upon himself to alter the will prepared for him by one of the greatest and best known conveyancers of his day, namely. the late Vice-Ohancellor Hall, and such alterations gave i·ise to an important an,d diflicult question on the law of election. The present action was one having among its objects that of the adn1inistiation of the will of the Lord Oancellor, Lord Cottenham. The will waa in the handwriting of his Lordship, and by it he authorized his trustees to invest his per· sonal estate " as they might think most beneficial for his family or estate, excluding all personal securities except in aid of others." The question arose whether this direction authorized the trustees to retain among the investments certain shares of a. life assurance office, canal shares, &c. Mr. Justice Chitty made the order en· abling the tI'ustees to retam all the shares, It is worthy of remark that the late Master of the Rolls was called upon, during a penod of three or four years to decide U})Oll cases involving the testamentary dispositions of three Lord Chan· cellors.-b't. Jwmes Gazette. Thirsty Children. There is nothing from which infants and childrom suffer so much as from thirst. They require water, usually, ten times where they get it once. Infants Bhonld have a teaspooniul or more of cold water every hour, commencing when they are a week old. Infants often my so a.s to disturb every one present. If a sip of water is given to a child v1ho seems to be crymg w1lhout cause) it will stop instantly in nine cases out of ten. Thirst causes more bad tempers in children thn,n anytlung else. We ·pellk <'f anvthin!" being "as free as \\ ater." Let the children ahMe this freedom, and they w1il be better and healt.hier forit. The highest form of Christian liftf is self-denial for the go0d of others. ..... _,,...,~---