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Hoth Onfarin Qseruer. WEEKLY POLITICALSAGRICUL- TURAL § FAMILY NEW APER, y ONT. DRNING, 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT EVERY THURSDAY BY J BAIRD & PARSONS. TERMS. --$1 per annum fi paid in ad- vance ; if hot $1.50 will fecharged. No subscription taken for less 0 six months; wad no paper discontinued 1 arrears are paid. RATES OF ADVEBSTISING. For each line, first ingertigo. -......$0 08 'Subsequent insertions, per pe ...... 0 02 Cards, under 6 lines, 37 a ar 5 bi 8 Lette 1 A H . ui d and regester- ts meoasupd by Nonpareil, wad charged according tof space they oc- eupy. i Advertisements receiv] without specific instructi until forbid and chi advertisement will be ta A liberal discount alld and others who advert! for publication, js, will be inserted \ccordingly. No out untilpaid for. to Merchants by the year or Fin all cases be fment. s, Posters, Pro- Bik Forms, Receipt ear. B&F These termsw strictly +. e~vd to Job Depa Pamphlets, Hand grammes, Bill Heads, Books, Checks, Books, Creulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and lor, executed promptigind at lower rates +han any other establishfent in the County. B&F Parties from a difknce getting hand bills, &o. printed can hay them done to take tome with them. J.BAIRD. H. PARSONS, rofrasioy REEeesr os H. SANGSTER, « geon and Accouc Coroner for the @lanty of Ontario PORT PRRY. Office over Noti's Fuhiture Store, corner of 'Queen and Perry Stres. Office hours from 9am. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied By Mrs, Geo, Paxton LTarys. D., Physician, Sur- Fs . ¥ -- jor for the County of Ac- WARE, Coro} pi, Surgeon and R. Ontario, Physic coucheur, fice, opposite tha Port wn hall. Ferry. F, Physolans, Surgeons, i . ILL & R i Ri Mo il Residences, King st. &c., &c, Office WM. M'GILL, MT. FRANCIS RAE, M.D. | LR. UC. 8, Guy's . F. MCBRIHEF, M.D, M. Mp. n, England. The liye R. FTospital, Lon 9, H. 1, @hawa, ,, LL. B.,, County Crown jtario, Barrister, Attorney, py #ublie. Office lately oc- mrane, Esq., Brock street, Whitby. E. FAREWE] 's) . Attorney for Solieitor, and Not cupiad by 8. H, Cd rr eres kLISH_ LL. B., Solicitorin rney, Conveyancer, &c. Dshawa. pet, opposite the Post Office eee eee YMAN I. E Chancery, A OMee--Simcoe & -- < YOUNG S| . torney-at-| and Insolvency, OMmee--McMiil WTH, LL. B.,, Barrister, At- iw, Solipitor in Chancery, Jotary Publle, &e. b's Block, Brock street, VOL XXIL ¥0. 5. (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licfnses as heretofore--at Port Perry. eres Business ears. : ONTARIO BANK. CAPITAL $3,000,000 PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINCS DEPARTMENT. A Savings Department issnow open in connection with this Branch. Deposits of FiveDollars and upwaids received and intep- est allowed thereon. 'No notice of withdrawal required. 31s A.A. ALLEN, MANAGER. Weare Tontuat Moneta: Insti! nrg stit up Capital $1,500,000: PProm 1 to 2 years. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 45:4 OHN CHRISTIE, J TOWNSHLP CLERK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester, . T C. FORMAN, . I1SSURR OF Marriage Licenses, One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having been re- appointed Marriage License Agent-- R. RICHARDSON Re-appointed Issuer Marriage Licenses. Under the New Act, Office, lot 10, in the 1st con. Brock. Brock, Aug. 5,1874, [ ENRY GRIST, Paren SOLICITOR AND DravenTaay, Ottawa, Canada Transacts business with the Patent Office 33 Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1872, MONEY The party srmit repay on such repayment. 2 property. tion. Uxbridge, May 17, 1877. and other departments. of the Government Copyrights and the Registration of Trade Marks and Designs procured. Speci sary in receipt of the to secnre Patents of Invention, prepared model of the Invention. Whitby. a \ WwW. rice Cochrane, iF ~ A TTORNEFAT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan Aly Nofey Public, &c., &c. Office hours pfctually from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. } Money Loan at 8 per cent, on all \ kinds of goodjscurity. Office, Bigelgiy IRSON, (late of Beaverton.) unl Attorney-at Law, Solici- tor in "hander, Conveyancer, Notary Pub- Ale, &c., &0.° . Office over} Fown & Currie's Store Port Perry. « McGILLIVRAY, Barristers § Notaries Public, &e, Port Perry. amount of money to loan at 8 0 ILLING BlEoiicito ZA la per cent. John BilH | John A. MeGillivray. and Solicitor Attol v at Law, " P. A boy. Office in the Royal Arcade, 4 2 wr - ei LW JEA. MURRAY ATE Berson & : Fenta Dentist. Corrigan bell's . Peny. Some Tn Surgeon fice over Camp- Port § work N hu uv very Iatest andl cot style and warranted to give _satisfactiy Ma rel N. V. EET HB aserted ples dfhe art, 28, 1877. ARS, IL. D. 8. on all the latest princi- d as cheap as the cheap- est, and fzood as| the best. Teeth filled with Gd and Sliver. Teeth extracted without pin by producing local anzsth- esia, Metical Reoms--in Cowan's' mew ©» 'mlocky Atkinson's Drug Store, King _Btreet, WA. Port P HE Shbscriber wonld beg to inform T +0; 'of Hotes and Cattle that having compel & Sesgiot in the Ontario Veterin- a dlige, Toropto, he has now in Por Hs for the practice. o bis pro= fessionfind is Do red to give se $ A ig all diseases to . tle are liable, From long stily and ¢ investigation' of the natare'hd habithof Horses and Cattle and ce in og the Diseases of such ethek with thé great advantages derived on af the Ontario Veterinary | 'oronto, If ttaguvestfenat parties heir Forks Cattle under my wifl finflit to their advantage. der ar cnmunication for me left ison's Ong Store will be promptly to. i |. D.BATEMAN. Port Phy, MarcHfer, 1878; RINGTON, Te: NS Tos or in pe 'Avenue, e¢ Compuny edn, vs» HAMILTON. of the best companies and parties having do well to consider 'insuring with this [I = thanks for the very liberal patronage be- stowed on him in the past would inform the public generally that having bought a pro- perty and moved into the Village of Prince Albert, he will in foture give his whole attention to his business as Contractor, anc now ready to undertake Stone Work, Briel WH RP. YOE, Co... rraCTOR, BUiLDER, &cC. Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit _| the borrower. | Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Lands for sale, cheap. Any number of Mortgages for whic Set pgures will be allowed. also Appraisers for Building Society, TO WANTED TO PURCHASE, h the high. Fd Qunada: Per. cheapest and tation in Canada. Paid pay JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, General Agents, Office In Mr. Ross' Ontario ANTEP. : a Port, Perry, §- 6, 1878 / Port Perry. JAMESLUND, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE BROKER, (ONVEYANCER, Commissioner for taking Afdavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &c. LOAN In any manner to suit borrowers, Morigages Bought, Accounts, Notes, &ec., Collecte prom pt remittances made. borrowing. money can get it without commission, at the Lowest rate, and is allowed to fix his own time for payment of interest once.a year (not in advnce), and he can at 'any time, just as circumstances art or all of the principal, he Com pany binding themselves inthe mort- gage 10 accept such sum, whetber large or small, and apply it as a direct reduction of principal, immediately cancelling the interest on the sum pald.: No extra charge is exacted Abundance of comfortable Stable and Loans made from 2 to ears on farm, or good productive town In all cases where the title is perfect, the cost will be very slight to the borrower. am acting both as Agent and Valuator for several Companies there can possibly publicity in the transaction. If the title is perfect the money will be paid here in two weeks after making applica JAMES LUND, roker, &c., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and Bascom streets, Uxbridge. MONEY TO LOAN, The undersigned has any amount of Money to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at Drawings, ' Unusually Low Rates of Interest! ifications, and ether Documents neces- | find in and ix Shy ~ As I erry, April 20, 1876. no T PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY. J4 ome Style. try. Fare $1.00 per Day. ILWAY HOUSE, (Opposite Fi PORT PERRY. ns, Investments made in Municipal Deben L4.4i0n Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Broker, lis Whitby, April 10, 1873. The Subscriber in returning his sincere tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks. EVERE HOUSE, MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCK. &e. Laying, Plastering, and everything therewith, which he will executeon the short- est notice and in the best and most durable style, and at the very lowest figure at which a Sood Jub can Ye dole. Re best maternal nd fire lass workmanship. nate fra. spENCE. Prince Albert, April5, 1875. W. M. WILILCOX LICENSED AUCT ETURNING my sincere thanks to my numerous friends and patrons for their | R would now beg to offer my services to all in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright, My long and extensive practice as Auc- tioneer has enabled me to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to none in the County, and this is of import- ance as it the Auctioneer is not a good judge of the value of Stock he may soon lose far more than his fee in any sale, Bill stamps always on hand, Sale Bills nrranged and notes supplied free of charge. Days of Sale may be arranged at the Omserver Office, where a Sale Register will be kept. "Parma Liberal. W. MW. Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. B. MAJOR, ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties LIL wishing his services. can call at the "Qbgerver" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Siles. Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876. 'WM. GORDON, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &e. R the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, : BEF Parties: entrusting their Sales to me may rely on theutmost attention being given to their interests. WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. soit on T. HH. WALSHE, CENSED "Auctioneer for the Township 'T'h of Brock, Tey RDLE WORKS. | NOTICE TO FARMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. T= undersigned would say to the owner 1 ofReal Estate, that he has in his hands laige amonnt of private funds which he prepared to invest for periods to suit borrow ers--interest at eight per cent. | and most reasonable terms assured. liberal patrouage bestowed upon me as | | Auctioneer during the past eight years, I one to twenty years, Agent for WesterN Caxapa Loan who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or g§,yinas Company, { other property to sell by Auction anywhere 8, H, CHRISTIAN. Manchester, October 17, 1677. MONEY .TO LOAN Expeditiqg Having leased the above excellent Hotel will be my endeavor to conduct it in ery particular so as to merit the appro- htion and patronage of the public. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. PORT PERRY, PROVINCJOF ONTARIO, THURSDA MONEY TO LUAN | MORTCACES W [VHLE Subsoribors have large sums of mon. pends Spon fhe cradle) the choicest n their hands 5° on neti : : Tey proce Farms, Village perties, and p ction of her skill in grass and other Securities in 'this and adjoining Counties wollen weaving, the neatest needle at the lowest current of interest. As we VTE Subeg Ir having now fully ecuipped } - 4 have funds on hand CX ly mond Bosowers a his new fLiansive Livery Stabiss with | Work, and the richest Lead embroid« n su; ol rses Carri: : . has ne mossible ray. ropa to fish first class ages ery that she can devise and bestow LIVIRY RICS ©Offoderate Terms. ©. MCKENZIE. [Faotels w_pURNHAM, olerk ofthe Turabivi | Lands Bought and Sold. |~ ese There MEd. fog... bovween oo ear hice in Bigelow' Block, vente BEA THE ALKER HOUSE the Indians of Alaska and 3 PO Ere W farm . A those far to the south in Mexico.-- Omce hours from 10 a. m, to3 p. m. ZB Agents for several frat olass Fire In- [PORT PERRY The Esquimaux are the exception, ---- T. C. FORMAN, Collections made and a general agency busi- HE Sifiber having leased the above however, for they use. no cradle INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS & MEASURES | ness transacted. hotel Jill be his endeavor to conduct | Whatever, carrying their infants y xX . #8 DEBENTURES BOUGHT."®R ' |jt in evdparticular so as to merit the [snugly ensconsed i For the County of Ontario : approbatiind patronage of the pablic, gly Heed"in the hoods: of WALKER HOUSE wheth tent or quality of accommo- dations fJqualled by few Hotels in the Provi surpassed by nome out of the best cit ; * Comal Travelers, the Traveling ners and othérs. doing business e and the general public will WALXER HOUSE 11 thn be required in the matter of tion and moderation in charges. The §rges are No Higher at the er House than at any her Hotel in Town. ouse is fitted up throughout in ST CLASS STYLE. 'ables and Bar supplied with the hoff the market and the utmost atten-- tionfl to the convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. commodation, and attentive hostlers, W. B. McGAW. V. THOMPSON, - PROPRIETOR. above House 'is now most comfort- jurnished, and Guests are cared for in Good Liquors and Cigars, first class Stabling and good Ostlers.-- ions have been made which maker this rgest and best House in this section of the Railway Station,) his House has been thoroughly over. led, fitted up and arranged with a view he accommodation and comfort of guests. hls and Refreshments on the arrival of First-class stable and shed accom- C. HOLT, Proprietor. . AND GEN[RAL ADVERTISE Indian Mothers. The love of an Indian mother for {her child is made plain to us by the |care and labor which she often ex- are lavished upon the quint-looking cribs which the savage mothers nurse and carry their little ones in. This cradle, though varying in min- or details with each tribe, is essen- tially the same thing, no matter their parkios and otter fur jumpers. The governing principles of a papoose cradle is an unwielding board upon whith the baby can be lashed at full length on its back.-- This board is usually covered by softly dressed buckskin, with flaps and pouches in which to envelop the baby ; other tribes not rich or fortu- nate enough to procure this materi- al, havo recourse to a neat combin- ation of shrub-wood poles, reed splints, grass matting, and the soft and fragrant ribbons of the bass or linden tree bark. Sweet grass is used bere as a bed for the youngsters tender back, or else clean dry moss plucked from the bended limbs of swamp firs; then, with buckskin thongs or cords of plaited grass, the baby is bound down tight and secure for any and all disposition that its mother may see fit to make of it for the next day or two. Indian babigs as a rule are not kept in bed morg than twenty or twenty four consecutive hours at one time; they are upually unlimbered for an hour or two ¢very day, and allowed to roll and tamble at will on the blanket or in the grass or sand it the sun shines warn and bright. But this liberty is copditional on their good behavior when free, for the moment it begins tofrejor whimper,the mother claps it backinto its cradle, where it rests with | emphasis, for it can there movenothing save its head ; but so rom disliking these rigid couchps, the babies actually sleep betterfin them than when free, and | positifely cry to be returned to them hen neglected and left longer than hsual ut liberty. This fact is certailly 'an amusing instance of the force & babit. When the papoose is put pway in its cradle the mother has litle or no more concern with it, othq than to keep it within sight or heafng. If she is engaged about D WHITBY, stands 1 up in the lodge corner or T. MASON, - - PROPRIETOR. |hangs will please feel at home. 'Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. UEEN'S HOTEL Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. HE Subscriber is prepared to lend mon) on improved property for terms fr D. CAMPBELL, . . . He has also been instructed to invest § travelers large amount of Private Funds. 5 ain for Inter-st Eight per cent. No Commiss AE Tmt class Sample Rooms. Livery for fish, Pott Forty, Maz 20 song F- PATERSONY Gannington, Oct. 20, 1875. 43| therein {re slang upon the mothers' i : backs ald carried, no matter how H gages bought at lowest rates, Notes, &c., collected on reasonable Cd mission.: Apply personally, or by letter t CLEMENT DAWES AS Money to Loan on Farm security any manner to suit borrowers. Mi PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, ni terest. November 21, 1866. (Private Funds,] To Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent LYMAN ENGLISH, BARRISTER, & (LATE ALBION,) incantatid. A papoose becomes Qshe WHITBY, ONTARIO. ill; it refges to eat or be comforted; A| E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. |and after jeveral days and nights of £ anxious, pnder endeavor to relieve THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insuance Head Office, Whitby, This Company is now fully organized prepared to accept risks on Farm Bui and their contents, conntry School Prince Albert, June 12, 1875. JA RMSTRORG HOUSE, ENSON 8 Street, Lin a QUEEN'S HOTEL, WHITBY, ONT. NTARIO HOTEL, The public well cared for, and all Guests CANNINGTON, Oxr. This Hotel is now furnished in the best style, and offers every accommodation to [errand JA FELO-AWERICAN HOTEL, PROPRIETOR. Having purchased the above pleasantly situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired and renovated the entire premises even to C DAWES, [the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished Auctioneer, &c., Port Pe}! in First-Class Style and Stocked with the March ¥, 1878. best Liquors and Cigars! Strict ion paid to the eomfort o guests. MONEY The table and bar well supplied, W. H. PARK. The Only First Class House in Town. QUSE, late Jewett House, Kent deay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. McCANN & TAYLOR, ProPrisToRS. Every accommodation for the traveling the wi in the nf the wo PROPRIETOR far, hoy rough the road, or how dismal fe weather. * * °¢ Indian babies ap born subject to all the ills that balr flesh is heir to, but with this grey difference betweon them Y, JANUARY 1 vals to night, pended{at some point within easy reaching; if the baby is ill it is kepc|and ins at her dde, or she sits up all night|of an st orthodox fashion. When | weight and to undergo rapid and | miles away. hen leave village on any |continued exertion--a combination hich as going to the mount. | not existing in any other quadruped Lrries or to the river canon {to anything like the same degree, the cradles with the babies |and fitting him precisely for the purpose for which he was given to man. At present we have said mmm, Natural History. : i fact, says a trupper, that among the beavers there are some that are lazy, and will not work at all either to assist in building lodges or dams, or to cut down wood for their winter stock. The industrions ones beat these idle fellows and drive them away, sometimes cutting off a part of their tail and otherwise injuring them. The ¢paressenx' are more easily caught in traps than the others, and the trapper rarely misses one of them. They only dig a hole from the watter running obliquely toward the surface of the ground twenty-tive or thirty feet, from which they emerge when hungry, to obtain food, returning to.the same hole with the wood they procure, to eat the bark. They never form dams, and are sometimes to the number of five or seven together; all are males. IL is not at all im- probable that these unfortunats fel- lows have, as is the case with the males of many species of animals, been engaged in fighting with others of their sex, and, after being con- quered and driven from the lodge, bave become idlers from a kind ot necessity. The working beavers, on the contrary, associate, males and females and young together, The Horse. The London Magazine of Art says: His nature is eminently courageous, without: ferocity, generous, doeile, intelligent and, it allowed to be so, almost as affectionate as the dog.-- In his structure, the ruling charac- teristic may be said in one word to consist in obliquity--all the leading bones in his frame are set obliquely or nearly so; and not at right angles. His head is set on with a subtle neck, which, at the shoulders take another subtle curve before they become the dorsal veterbre, or back- bone; which end in their turn, with shoulders slope back more than those of other quadrupeds, the scapula or a shoulder blade being oblique to 'he humerus, which in its turn, is oblique to the radius or up- per part of the foreleg. So, again in the hindquarters, the haunch is set obliquely to the true thigh. the thigh at the stifle joint to the upper bone of the hind leg, which at the hock makes another angle. The fore and hind quarters form so large a por- tion of the entire length that a horse though a lengthy animal from the front of the chest to the back of the haunch, is comparativ very short in | the back or actual 'saddle back.'-- | wam or in the village, she | Then his hocks are much bent, and his pastern joints are rather lorg to some convenient tree, |and again are set at an dngle, suc- | taking|t down at irregular inter-|ceeded by a slightly different angle arse, When she retires at [in the firm but expanding hoot, thus o baby is brought and suse | completing the beautiful mechanism which preserves tha limbs from jar lady showed her pluck by setting ures elasticity in every part animal destined to carry nothing about his head, every part of which is equally characteristic.-- His well shaped delicate ears are capable of being moved separately in every direction, and every movement is full of meaning and 1879. : 8 Lazy Beavezs.--It is a curious curve of the last veterbrm of the] another curve forming the tail. His | her child the worst, alarmed, tals due to their wonderful their fearful system of he mother begins to fear pnd growing thoroughly he at last sends for the yor adoctress of the tribe, and surre ors her babe into his or her mer man' at ess hands. This 'sha. nce sets up oer the and Churches. Those wishing to public. youngsteria steady howling; and | pits their food directly with the teeth, or IX ershy support » Home Tnauranc Z thon anon whispering conjuration, | grasp and hes the tongue, Whish is y 5 h, y shaking a ledious rattle or burning | prehensile, and with more or less to th of E. LEBEAU ang 8 2 aol i te othe 2 Be mo of 1 wisps of giss around the cradle.-- | Power of prolongation ; but the horses func- giganto lo | ANTER, PAPER BANGER, Tif of op ihe a dey wt 12 Sin 2 EL Head Office--Opposite the Royafotel A io the baby yllies or dies, one doctor |. + and no horseman, who haa let favor- Brock 8t., Whitby. = re ieving tle other until the end isi, pick up small articles of food from the YE HOVE SOURSE, seerdly. | I A T.SO MIN E R |attained, 4d the result death niné| palm of his hand, can have failed to be . H, , General Agent. ; : times out { ten. struck with the extreme mobility. and also A a = WD. oo ty fnfoem ie public ¥ Pe the sensibility and delteacy of touch with -- RE Ee a er The grajiest and strongest na-| which the lips are endowed. Ask Your Drug ist reasonable rates Al he nest designs in| tures aro opr the calmest. A fiery re 'or Dr. Carson's old established angever | 8ign Writing, O tal Painting, &c. 1 ilti Sagaci the Bear. # failing Worm Symp. Sole man 'Orders left at Hallets Hotel, Queen Street, | "°%* the symbol of frailties fy of Martin & Co., Oshawa, Pert Perry will be promptly attended to. not yet oukrown. The repose of i Agent, A, M. PENTLA} ; : E. LsBEAU. |power is if richest phase and its Several) anecdotes, which were ' Druggist, Pofoercy October 9th, 1878. clearest tesfmony. related to me by our guide, concerns : . ig v 2. . . a ame ETI i i a > in sympathy with the eye, The eye is pro: minent, full and large, and placed laterally 80 that he cau see behind him without turn- ing his head, his heel being his principal weapon of defence; his nostrils are large, open and flexible, and his lips fleshy,though thin, and exquisitely mobile and sensitive.-- The large, open nostril is essential to him, as a horse breathes solely and entirely through it, being physically incapable of breathing through his mouth, as a valve in the throat actually precludes him from so doing; hence the mouth of a horse, without a bridle in it, is opened only for purposes of eating and biting, but never from excite- ment or from exhaustion, like that of most other quadrupeds, except the deer species. -- The lips are perhaps even more characteris tic j they are his hands as well as part of his mouth, and the horse and others of the family, alone use them in this way, The ox the sheep, the goat, the deer, the giraffe above all, and, in fact, we believe all graminivorous animals except the horse, would seem to entiile him to a high- er position iu the scale of animal Jinpstinct and sagacity than that of almost any other quadbuped. For instance, he says that before mak- ing his bed to lie down, the animal 'invariably goes several hundred yards with the wind, at a distance from his track. Should an' enemy now come upon bis track, he must approach him with the wind; and with the bear's keen sense of smell, he is almost certain to be made aware of his presence, and has time to he is himself seen. Ho aleo states, that when pursued, the bear sometimes takes refuge in caves in 'the earth or rocks, where the hunter often endeavors, by mak. ing a smoke at the entrance, to torce him out; but it not untrequently happens that, instead of coming out whon the smoke becomes too op- pressive he very deliberately ad- vances to the fire, and with his fore feet beats upon it until it is extin. guished, then retreats into the cave. This, ho assured me, he had often seen. Although these statements would seem to endow Bruin with something more than mere animal instinet, and evince a conception of the connection between cause and effect, yet another aneedote which was related to me would go to prove this curious quadruped one of the most stupid of the brute creation.-- My informant says, that when the beast cannot be driven out of the cave by smoke, it sometimes be- comes necessary for the hunter to take his rifle, and>with a torch to enter the cavern in search of him.-- One would suppose this a very hazardous undertaking, und that the animal would eject the presumptu- ous intruder; but, on the contrary, as soon as hesoes the light approach ing, he sits upright on his baunches and with his fore paws covers his face and eyes, and remains in this position until the light is removed. Thus the hunter is enabled to ap- proach as close as he desires without danger, and taking dendly aim with his rifle, poor Brnin is slain, These facts have been stated to me by threo different Indians, in whose veracity I have much confidence, and I have no doubt are strictly true,-- The Far West. -------- Romance of the Press A gentleman of talents and means is connected with the prcus on the Pacific coast. At the house of a friend, newly arrived, ha saw an album filled with portrates. The editorial gentleman was attracted by the picture of a New York lady.-- A correspondence was opened, rer© traits exchanged, an vngagement entered intr and a contract of marri- age made before either had seen the other. The gentleman showed that he meant business by sending her a royal sum to pay expenses. The out for the land of gold, all alone, for a husband and a home 3,000 ety Robert Titzwaltor, Lord ot the Manor of Dummow, England., in 1224, enacted 'That whatever marri- ed couple will go to the priory, and kneeling on two sharp-pointed stones, will swear that they have not quarried nor of bacon.' claim for the bacon wes in 1445, since when to 1856 it has only been demanded five times. A flitch was again awarded in 1860, 'Se-- What martyers to fashion worhen have been in all ages of the world! Madame de Genlis, in her irs, describes the training she under- went to fit her forParisian society in the last century: I had two teeth pulled out; I bad whalebone stays, that pinched me terribly; my feet were imprisoned in tight shoes, with which it was impossible for me to walk; I had three or four thousand ourl papers put on my head, and 1 wore, for the first time in my life, a hoop; in order to get rid of my county attitude I had an iron collar put on my neck; and as I sguinted a Ittle at times, I was obliged to put on goggles as soon as I awoke in the morning, and these I wore four hours. I was, moreover, not little surprised when they talked of giving me a master to teach me what I thought 1 knew well enough aleady ~ towalk I' et A-- ee. When Sir Walter Scott was urged not to prop tbe fallen credit of one of his acquaintances, he replied :-- «The man was my friend when my repented of their mariage Within a year and day after its celebration, shall receive a flitch The earliest recorded Lays S944 Woklier ta girl, 'if I was a little girl like Il those should pick up hips. 'Well, mamma,' answ ie » ain't you glad you are not little girl? For Conscience Saxe.--An eldor- ly dandy who was more noted for running into debt than paying his {radesmen made an exception in favor of his wig maker that he might be atle'to say that he wore bis own hair. 7 . Two Irishmen were in prison-- one for stealing a cow, the other for stealing a warch. ¢ Hullo, Mike, sure - an' what o'clock is it?' said the cow stealer. Sare an' I've no time-piece handy," replied the watch stealer, ' but I suppose it's just about milk= in' time.' Dear. Richmond once asked an ap. plicant for a deadhead pass what were. the grounds of his request.-- 'Why said the deadhead, 'simply this: I don't want to pay for travel- ing if Ioan help it." The crusty old railroad king took the féllow to his heart, gave him a pass, and said in ecatacy : 'Sir, I admire you.-- You are the first deadhead that ever told the truth. > Tt would seem that in the United States in addition to existing diffi- culties in empanneling juries, an additional mode of escape has been discovered by a member of the Re= formed Episcopal Church, who objected to service on the ground that inasmuch as God was not ag- knowledged in the constitution he could not conscientiously incorpor- ate with the Government. The objection was sustained. The experiment of heating the city of Detroit by steam has been so far successful that the company pro. poses at the opening of spring to ex« tend their mains in all directions supplying manufactures, as well as private residences and public build- ings, Steam was turned on for the first time last week, and the test is described as highly satisfactory in its results, showing that steam could be carried a long distance equally as gas, With a pressure of fifty pounds at the works, it was found to be nearly the same at the upper end of the main. The practicability of the schemo has been before amply shown, for a large manufacturing firm had for years been supplying their neighborhood with steam as a commodity for heating purposes.-- The eaving of fuel is said to be con- siderable. A Hoxoanias Honenea¥--In a book re. cently pubti-sed entitled ' History of Sport in 2zeangray,' the author relates that Count Maurice Sandor, who flourished some thirty years ago, once in the neighborhood of Vienna, rode forty-seven miles in an hour und thirty-four minutes, on two horses only, being at the rate of a mile in two minutes all the way | One of these miraculous nags was an English thoronghbred and the other au English half.bred, On another occasion he drove 300 miles in less than nine hours, nunber of horses not stated, His first great feat was leapiug the first saddle horse be ever owned over a cart-team of three horses abreast in the streets of Pesth, Another time he drove four green horses in a phaeton down a staircase of more than thirty steps. Dogs or Damascus, -- Damascus, the cape ital of Syria, located; in the centre of an extensive plain, beautifully watered, swarms with dogs. Their number is past ficding out They are not of the variety which associate on friendly terms with men. They could not be domesticated to become companion- able,and yet they always cluster about human habitations. Were it not for the refuse \ crumbs and scraps of food thrown on the streets, on which they principally subsist thousands of them would inevitably die of starvation in a single week. As it is, large numbers undoubtedly perish in that way, since they scramble and fight so furiously for a morsel, the strong must succeed better than the young and weak, Detested, they are i bes cause they are the scavengers to remove every morsel of meat bread and bone, which would otherwise accumulate to the public detriment, as offerings of pity for the wretched looking creatures, They could not be driven away nor could they be exterminated without actually perilling the public health, under d ag a y Charitaby disposed Mussulmen throw intothe streets an occasional supply the ordinary municipal arrangements.-- - Through the day they are sleeping or at least keeping quiet ; but with the approach of evening shades they astonish the specta~ tor with their numbers and ferocious appears. ance, These dogs are small, of a dingy yellowish color, with sharp snouts, bright fierce eyes, and the sharpest, whitest, wicks edest rows of teeth ever seen in any jaws. : Boots are made on the Pacifio coast with pockets for their tops. Sea . 'A dandy on shore is dis many people, but a swell