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m^ BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. The Oolonial and Inditn Exhibition. I By Tbomu C. Watklot, IHN6.1 This is the youii»>e8t, though by no means the most insif^iiifioant of the numer- ous pro|{eny of the grand old mother land. In December, ltj77, and January, 1S7H, Mr. Ueut and a few other gentlemen (lugntied in the eastern trad« obtained tlie cession of the whole of North liorueo, from the Kimanis river on the west to the Sibuuo river on the east coast, which, witli the recent cession of the Pandas district, stretches over a territory containing about !tl,OOU s<juare miles, witli a coast line of COO miles, and several of the finest harbors in the Eastern seas. It is asserted tliat Kudat, in Maruda Bay, the most northern point, is so favorably situated that it will be able to obtain all the trade from J'alawan, Ualabac, Sula and Cagayau-Sulu. which now passes westward through the Mallawalli passage ; and probably a large |>urtion of the trade of the Houthern Philippines also. Amongst the great harbors which give importance to North Borneo, iu view of the vast trade in the Chinese seas and future eventualitiesin time of war, are Uaya and Amboug on the west coast . Kudat. already named, to the north, and the nearest to the great gateway of our trade between India and China, Japan and .Vustralia. Thf last lies in close proximity to the Palawan passage and lies nearly midway between (long Kong, the Straits .Si-ttlements and Au^itralia, being ^ within tive days uf each by steam. { Chinese colonists. British goods are being shut out of the European markets more and more every year. Hence, in view of the present changes taking place in Europe and the United Btates, where British man- ufactures are being shut out by the large quantities of goods produced in nearly all those countries, which were until lately large customers of Great Britain, but are comjietitors now, and are offering their own manufactures to Britain at present, and hence the necessity of the British manufacturers finding markets for their enormous productions amongst the Oriental nations, where, owing to the slow, anti<|uated processes of manufacturing, Britain can undersell the native manufac- turers. The markets of the East are still open, where Russian tariffs do not exist, and no prohibitive or hostile duties are likely to be imposed under native rule. If Britain does not waken up fully to the great danger affecting her commercial and manufacturing interests she will, before the lapse of many years, lose her rank as the greatest manufacturing and commer- cial nation of the world. The French, the Germans and the Americans are her com- petitors now for the trade of the world. She should OIVE I'P IIKB ANTlgt'ATEIl IVKkS, send agents or consuls to the countries she desires to trade with, and ascertain the e.xact patterns and styles of goods that will suit them, and then they can manufacture with a good prGS(>«ct of success, llur Eastern trade will beiucreasedenormously, as it is now only awaiting develupmont. The shackles and semi-barbarism of ages are being broken off. The great strides of the West in civili/.ation, in religion, in the Handakan B»y, ou the cast coast, arts and sciences, are being felt in the most where the Government hasits headcjuarters, ' remote Eastern towns and villages. Those has been described by a late writer ] nations are now moved as they were never iu a report to Sir Stamford Uanics as •• the moved before. God has opened up a grand finest iu the world." This colony was opportunity to the missionaries, to the founded by the "British North Borneo philanthropists, to the inventors, to the Company," under a royal charter bearing manufacturers, to the shippers; and if date the 1st November, 1981, so that it is ] Britain accepts her great, hor God-given res()onsibilityâ€" sends forth faithful, honest men and women, full of wisdom, of love to God and love for the souls of men â€"they will win those nations to Christ and hasten on millennial glory ; while the artisan, the but I AN INFANT UIANT yet. The recent excessive anxiety on the part of Germany and France for the aoijuisitioii of oolonial possessions in the East, and the numerous annexations made in furtherauce of this object iu Africa, in the Pacidc and in the Eastern seas, give increased importance to the aojuisitiou of North Borneo by the British at the present time. From its central position it possesses important advantages, both commercial and strategical, which no other island in the Eastern Archipelago affords. And uuder existing circumstances, consider- ing the aluiost invaluable possessions held by Britain in the East, and the enoruious interests she has there, its vstue iu an international no less than a national point of view cannot well be over-estir.ia'<Kl. Its past history shows that at one period it had a dourishing trade with Chinr. and the adjacent archipelago, and a large and industrious |i<>pulatiou, until tlu advent of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Spaniards into those regions, af .vr the dis- coveries of Bernardo Dias ai i those of Vasco di Gania round the Ca|ie, 0|>enod the way to India and China by sea four cen- turies ago. The cupidity and ruthless policy of all the first settlers in the Eastern Archi(ielago, amongst islands so rich and populous, lU'Stroyed all security for life and property amongst the natives. With the loss of security their commercial and agri Ciltural pros|ierity disap|ieared rapidly, anil Borneo was reduced, in common with many other most productiveand flourishing islands, to a wilderness, and the inhabi- tants coiivitrted into pirates, and murderers by the barbarity of those tyrannical (IhriH- tians, who drove the inoffensive islai.ders from the more iwaccful and productive pursuits of agriculture and commerce to latY ri'oX TIIKIK rKI.LnW CBKATl'HKS wherever they could catch them in the nei,{hboring seas. Large territories in Borneo, rich in all the natural products, with ranges of mountains to the tropical climate, and numerous rivers to afford cheap and ''ssy means of transport from the interior, have thus riMnained for two centuries a jungleâ€" a wilderness, with a very scanty population, a standing monu- ment of the cruelty of their former tyrannical (Miristian masters I The land came into the possession of the original grantees in 1H77, and was only transferred to the present company in IHHJ. Judging from the great variety, beauty and perfection of the products shown by this colony at thi' grunt family gathering in the Exhibition, great progress must liavu been miide in siich a short period, ami the efforts made to intrixluoe civil governini'iit ill harmony with British laws must have boen conceived in wisdom anil carried out with great energy to develop the resources of a country reduced to such a ruinous â- late into such [lerfection in such a short period. There was not sufficient time to enable the resident officials to make a com- plete and exhaustive exhibition of even all the natural products spread over so large an area, much of which has not yet boen fully explored or settled. But great exer- tions must have been made to bring to- gethei, at such short notice, such a mag- niticwnt display of the indigeneus products of that fertile land. If some may think this colony to be of little conseijuonoe to the trade of the world, let them refer to the smallnesH, un- promising and iiisignitioant trade of Hong Kong and Singapore in the first perioil of British ownership, though now forming the groat centre of a trade which encompasses the whole world in its circuit. Fifty years has not yet elapsed since Hong Kong was a biirren island, a hare rock with only a few llshurmeii for its inhabitants. But at present Victoria rises as Queen of the seas in that island, with many British foreigners and 100,0OUChine»e resi- dents there, while ships of almost every nationality crowd its capacious harbors continually. A similar history has been wrought out for Kingaiwre and the Straits Battlements. The commenuemeiit of the present century saw those places poor and insigiiihcant, and it is only during the pre- sent half century that the OHEAT ri.nilMIATKS or TIlAtiR AND I'lIilHI'KIllTV have flown in upon them. From the geo- graphical position and great natural ad- vantages of Borneo there is every reason to believe the same prosperity will visit her people e'er long. The united imports and exjiorts of Singapore in IMHO were £2.5,740,174, which was ohiofly due to its position, an honest Government and a plentiful supply of cheap tabor by the manufacturer, the merchant, the shipiier and in fact all classes in Great Britain will make an immense amount of wealth from the trade which will without doubt spring up amongst those Orientals, while the Christian will have his heart rejoiced to see the great, the noble, the grand iiodeatal of glory on which God has placed ner as mis- tress of the seas, to blow the gospel trumpet over every land. The ordinary jungle products of the Eastern Archipelago form the chief trade of the colony at present ; being gutta|>ercha, India rubber, rattans, camphor, birds' nests, beeswax, timbers of various valuable species. Tobacco, sago, fiepper and gambler have been introduced ately. Ou the sea coast i>earl oysters and heclif de mer alxjund. The colony has not many settlers, and no great lighting tribe like those in other i>arts of the island. Gold and some traces of tin have been found in several of the rivers. The soil and climate are considered by competent (leojile from Ceylon, Sumatra and Australia to be well suited for the cultivation of sugar and other tropical products, especially tobacco and popper, whioh TIIK NATIVES HAVE Cl'LTIVATBD r0» AOEK. Ne irly 200,000 acres of land have been selected for plantations, but owing to the dulness of trade there has not been much progress made yet. By the com]>any's regulations the price of land is flxed at a dollar i>er acre, and under S[>ccial circum- stances at iO cents. The valuable bilian or iron wood tree is abundant. The Govern- ment is a Oown colojiy, administered by the Governor, assisted by a council com- I>osed of the Colonial Secretary and resi- dents. The rainfall is very ei)ually distributed over the colony. There are mild tyiHss of wet and dry seasons. The rain falls mostly at night, and a continuous wet day is seldom seen. The temperature varies little during the year, Ixdiig about an average of <i7..'j to 77. ft degrees Fahrenheit. The nights are cold, the coldest time being from 2 to a a.m. The highest temperature recorded is '.•H.u degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest period in the year is from November to March in ilusivu, wIuIh in the middle of the warm season the temperature falls in ,lnne and July. The tuniperature deiiends greatly on the rainfall, if it is heavy the weather will be cooler. It is never oppressively warm, a straw hat at any hour of the day is a siiDioient protection against the heat. The southwest monsoon pri'vuils from April to November, and the iiiirtht3ast from Decemlier to March. The first and last months of each monHoon are variable, sometimes the wind is stronger and Htotli-jr times lighter. The changes of the monuoons are the most unhealthy periods of the year. Sgl AI.I.S OCCUK OICASIONAl.l.V in the evening or at night, but they are not severe. Hurricanes do not xccur so near the eijuator. Some parts of the colony are unhealthy, but will no doubt improve as the country is cleared up. When the forests are chopped down and the wind gets free access the sea breezes will purify the atmosphere, and North Borneo will in all probability be oiioof the healthiest climates of any tropical country. There has not been any bank established yet, but a pa|>er and a copper currency are issued under the guarantee of the company, with proper reserves, and the banking facilities afforded by the Government Treasury assist in providing for the rei|uirementn of the country, as the oompatiy's notes .^re aya- ble by their agents in Hong Kong and Singapore. North Borneo is greatly blessed in being out of the lino of typhoons and earthi|iiakes, which cause such devastation and havoc in the Philippines in the north and the Dutch possessions fur- ther south. The forest trees of British North Borneo comprise seventy- eight varieties, the iiuantities of which are vast ; many of these are valuable the world over, particularly in China and Australia, each of which are onlv about 1,10<) miles distant by sea, and will rotjuire enormoiu ijuantities of them. The colony has 700 miles of sea coast, dotted with creeks, har Wbrs and large rivers, affording great facili- ties for carrying on enormous luinhering establishments, which would he sure to pay immense dividends if skilfully managed. The colony contains 81,000 sijuare miles, the greater portion of whirh is covered by dense forests, containing trees up to ten feet in diameter, and. 10<) feet to the lowest branch. Soma of the woods are very handsome, and have received from cabinet-makers the names of nails were the same semi-rounded form as my own, only black like the aboriginal IIOB.SEO lUHOOANT, Borneo walnut, Borneo cedar, Borneo iron- wood, etc. The woods shown at the exhibi- tion were as follows, and exist in large ijuantities in the colony : The billian wood, or Borneo ironwood; it grows on low, swampy ground ; as it is seasoned it turns a dark red, is very hard and durable : it grows from one to three feet in diameter and fifty feet up to the lowest branch, and is proof against ants, teredos and sea worms. Mirabou is a heavy, dark yellow colored wood ; it becomes darker with age; has a fine, regular grain ; is very tough and durable ; it makes beautiful furniture and takes a fine polish. Kiempas, or im- pas, is a reddish, coarse-grained wood, dis- tinguished from mirabou by i ts coarseness and a curious cross-grain ; it attains a large size and makes excellent beams, joists, etc. The massive, four-inch planks, of from four to five feet wide, of these and many other beautiful woods, polished like mirrors, had a surprising effect on the mind and plainly told the vast trade that must spring up e'er long between this colony and the neighlxjring nations, for these beautiful timbers for furniture, house building and many other useful purposes, as the supply is large enough to last for a century or more. The jungle pro<luce consists of an immense variety of articles, amongst which the following were very conspicuous in the North Borneo Court : Mangrove bark, l^amar tanah,Damar mata kuching, gutta- susa or india-rubber, tepi, sulang putch, gutta-merah or gutta-percha, tortoise- shells, beclie de mer, Armadilla scales, beeswax, clams, rattans, sugar, sagama (used for collecting birds' nests), camphor, camphor wood, camphor oil, tobacco, alluvial gold, black sand or mundie, found with gold. The juogle sea produce was rei)reseiited by batu tepi, sharks' maws, ,, black birds' iiests, white birds' nests, land I a Australians ; bis head, like the latter, had a large, base- retreating forehead, very little brain to represent the perceptive faculties, none to represent the moral faonlties â€" the Ood given reasoning powers of mind had no place in his brain to correspond with, to manifest the soul â€" all was animal on close inspection and immensely inferior to the wild Australian aborigines in the moral faculties and reasoning powers. I took hold of his hand and said, "How are yon, brother?" but from the miserably small development of brain, and its purely animal shape, I felt that God had never breathed into the mon- key race the breath of livesâ€" the immortal spirit He breathed into man â€" the never- dying soul. Ornaments for the aidornment of the fair sex were shown largely. Pearl breast pins, a diamond and pearl bracelet found in Bornean waters, gold cloths, mother of pearl shells, pearl oyster and other shells, also warriors' dresses and caps with feathers, shields with human hair, Malay execution Kris, Saribus Dyak instrument for procuring fire, Milanow in- strument for flattening the heada of child- ren ; coal, a native wooden hat ; shells, black sharks' fins, white sharks' fins. Amongst the native manufactures on exhibition there were silk handkerchiefs, silk trousers, silver tobacco boxes, silver betelnut pincers, silver finger rings, brass finger ringsi brass sirih boxes, brass tobacco boxes, knives for splitting rattan, cocoa scrapers, Malay knives, Malay perangs, or axes, Malay chandong, Malay billiongs, or adzes, Malay mats, bed cur- tains, pillow case and dish cover, Sulu plaim. aad embroidered cloth, Sulu pipes, turbans for men and for women, dress trousers, Sulu dress coat, woman's shawl and alippers, Sulu Chief's coat, and MALAY OBNASHNT.-. EOB CHILl'BEN In native musical instruments there were several Bornean tlutea (one of which was played by the nose), and jewsharps. Native implements of husbandry and household implements were represented by a rice decorticator, harrow, reaping knife, rice crushers, distaffs, lumbar leaf cloth, a Dusuii hat, guitar or •iiidatonn, reed and gourd instrument called a lampoumg , a bamlHX) lyre, rojw made of the timbaran tree, female waist ornaments, sago flour, sleeping mats made of pandau grass, native hood worn by the female aborigine, native baskets for carrying burdens on their backs, aborigii.al ropes, rice (Munding macbiia^ and {>ounder. Samples of petticoat^orn by the Dunsan women made of the fibre of gunob jackets made of the bark of the timbaran tree, worn by the Dunsuii Dyaks of the Upper Kamanis, bv Iwth men "and women, who make them by heating the bark to make it workable ; other jackets worn by the men and women of the Upper Kamanis, made by the Kijows of cotton giown by themselves ; iietticoats worn by the Dunsun Dyak women of the tlm)er Kamanis ; ropes made of the bark of the ijok tree, used for cables ; tobacco cases and Hints for striking fire ; ijuivers for holding THEIB POISONED IIABTH, bolts made of the bark of the ijok tree, and other articles of dross worn by the Dunsun women round their hips like our ladies' bustles ; Dunsuii bracelets, hats, knives worn by the Togas and Kijows of Papar 8UB|K'iided by a string round their necks ; bear skin hats, baskets made by the Kijows. and used by them and other native triU's around the coast for carry, iiig burdens, war jackets (burghats) and (leatulesj war hatu and bajow shields used by that tribe, ornaments worn by the DuiiHun and Tegai women round their ankles. Vanti, liuao dresses worn by the Dunsun prieHtesites when performing re- ligions riles, (iold embroidery made by the Itruiioi Malay women for covering dishes, water bottles and other utensils. Coal, sago llour, seed pearls found in the pearl oyster shells, vegetable tallow. Brunei sashes, DunHuii knapsacks, pearls, ele plninls' tusks, lllanum swords, Brunei swords, Dyak swords, suit of mail,|)oiBoned arrow ijuivers and hundreds of other curi- ous articles used by the various native tribes for dress, household pur|K>ses, war, travelling, religious rites, etc. Quadruiwds were represented by elephants' teeth, arma- dillo skins, monkeys, wild cats, squirrels, rhinoceros' skull, horn, foot and tail, buffalo horns, an immense stuffoti otirang-outang skin, which might be styled a biiied, as it stoo<l about five and a half feet high on its feet, with its arms extended so as to be in a position to give a rather loveable embrace. I had just been e.\aiiuning the aborigines of Aus- tralia, one group in particular, composed of a man, a woman and infant, and a boy of perhaps 1,'i years of age, exhibited on a patch of white sandy ground, the lad lying naked on the sand, the man and woman in sitting postures, he with a raw bird in his handd, which ho apiivared to bo eating, whilu the woiimn sat by his side with the baby in her arms. The parents dressed in the heighth of primitive fashion, with scanty loin clothes only, and the baby and boy in mother nature's full dress of very black soft hides. The whole (i)ii( cmembte of the group was low and animal in the ex- treme. The man's face, almost to the eyes, was covered with exceedingly black, bushy hair, with the bird with its feathers on held in both hands, which ho seemed about to devour, the high cheek bones, the sniikeii ferret like eyes, the villainously low forehead, the long slight fingers, with black nails, the broad, open mouth, all THE LAST PIBATE FLAQ taken by the British in Darvel Bay ; model of the pirate Depong. of Darvel Bay ; bark of the Russack tree, used by the Dunsans for mixing with their toddy to make it in- toxicating. The sources from which the revenue is chiefly drawn are licenses for fiurchasing andretailingopiumforsmokiiig, icenses for selling spirits and other ex- cisable articles, all of which are farmed out to private individuals ; 10 per cent, royalty on jungle produce exported, a poll tax which is an established source of revenue among the natives in lieu of land taxes, and stamp duty. The land revenue com- prises the proceeds of sales of public lands, juit rents and fees on transfers. There re, in addition, judicial fees and post office stamps. These and a few remaining miscellaneous items make up the various sources of revenue. A THltlLL or aOBBOB riLLS MY SOUL when I see that men from Englandâ€" sons of Britain â€" with the blessed Bible in their hands, which teachea them to love Ood supremely ; to love their fellow creatures as them- selves ; which commands them to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them ; which tells them l;o love their enemies, to bless those who curse them, to do good unto those who ^ hate them and despitef uUy use them and persecute them -that they who have prob- ably attended church all their lifetime, who have promised before God and man at their confirmation t) renounce the devil and all his works, that they, for the sake of a paitry revenue, would license a lot of fiends in human form to procure and sell to the poor ignorant inhabitants of a heathen land, over which they have become the rulers and ought to be the protectors of the people, those foul agents of death, those poisons which weaken their brain power, make them imbecile, or madden (heir brains, excite the foulest passions of their nature â€" iuibruit them -make them murderersâ€" and then hang them, because they killed their fellow creatures while bereft of their reason by those very alcoholic poisons that they licensed an army of fiends to go forth aud sell to them', well knowing that those poor aborigines would drink and smoke those deadly drugs until they would be ijuite unable to control their brutish passions. Certainly the North Bornean judges make fearful mis- takes in this matter â€" they should have the members of the Government arrested, roil TMEIII LIVES AND UANUKD accesaorios before the crimes TIlIEli for being were committed. But while condemning the North Bornean license system, permit- ting hundreds of the vilest creatures who ever wore the human form to murder the poor aborigines by the thousand, we are led to look at our own most degrading system -our own wretched laws, which grant licenses to thousands of saloons, and tens of thouHands of taverns in our Domin- ion, to sell the distilled damnation to mil- lions of our boys, young men, old men and women too, well knowing that alcoholic liquors impart no strength to the hiinian system, they merely excite the brains of the du|K's who diink them, and make them feel strong mid rich while under the excitement ; the next inormng their b\ stems are quite uiiHlruiig, weakness and lasHitiide prevail until the morning glass is taken to raise the excitement again. Every time it takes n little more to satiKfy the morbid ciaving for the i>i)ison. The quantity of liquor which wiuild make a \oung man drunk one '*y would (i( he firacticed drinking a glass or two daily) lave no visible effect on him a year later. Every glass creates an i ; petite for another, and hundreds of oiir young inon have be- come drunkards before they are fully aware of the fearful danger which is threatening them. They fancy they can take it or let it alone, as they wish ; but, alas ! they will not let it alone. They feel a forbid burn iiig thirst for something to buoy them up. They take heavier and still heavier draughtsof the deadly poison, which imparts no strength, but which prevents the natural discharge of the effete matter from the bodies of its victims, which, were it not used, would pass off through the skin, and good health would be maintained, but the [lores of the skin of the face being ob- structed, the alcohol, fusel oil and other poisonous drugs in the liquor cause dis- ease to attack the liver, the NOSE AND rilKEKh ABE SOON PAINTED UKD, the skin of the face becomes glossy, as if rubbed over with oil, the nose grows redder and still redder as the disease of the liver advances, the heavy drinkers make them selves walking advertisements by their evil practices, telling every one who studios human nature, and looks at their faces, that they are drunkards. Disease still fed by poison fastens more fatally on the vital parts, a slight cold, a hurt from a fall or a contagious disease sei/.es them, which a |)er8on whose blood was not poisoned would throw off in a few days, hut it inevitably carries their poisoned and generally bloated carcases to the grave some twenty, thirty or forty years beforethey would have died had they never taste alcohol, which biteth like a serpent, which atmgeth like a scorpion. Many of those who get saloon and tavern them into their bar-rooms, to drink th« aocarsed thing. Then on Saturday nighta and Sundays there are many places where all the initiated who are thirsty, by giving a certain kind of rap at back doors, can get in and get all the liquor they wish. The drinking habits of society are wrecking thousands of once happy homes in oar Dominion. Idleness, sickness and death are wasting our resources and carrying off thousands of our people in every Province thereof, v^ry many years before their time ; filling our jails with criminals, our charitable institutions with orphans and helpless beggars, our penitentiaries and lunatic asylums with thieves, murderers and madmen, all on account of licensing places to sell poison, to destroy our people. Thousands of poor drunkards .ABE KILLINO TUEIB WBETCHED WIVES and miserable children by inches in this fair land, though kind and affectionate when free from the effects of alcohol, that curse of Canada, whether in beer, whiskey, wine or brandy, it is the devil in solutionâ€" it maddens the brain â€" it fires the imagination into frenzy, and all the ire of the demon falls upon his miserable, heart breken, half-starved wife and terror-stricken children. Twice in my Ufa I have known those poor victims of saloon and tavern keepers, whose companions were the idols of their hearts e'er they fell into the awful snares which imbruted them. When married they were the kindest of husbands, but, alas, as the love of liquor increased their pooriwive's sorrows increased also â€" at last, worn out with misery untold, they died broken heartedâ€" kind friends called to see those who should hive fteen their protectors, to try earnestly, if at all possible, to rescue them from destructionâ€" to pluck them as brands from eterual woe. Supposing that coutrition had reached their hard hearts upon the death of those they had formerly loved so well, they thouglit it a favorable oppor- tunity, while they expected they were crushed down with sorrow for their past conduct towards the poor and helpless children, to try to draw them to review their past livesâ€" to think of the happy days that they and those who now lie peacefully folded in the arms of death, where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are forever at restâ€" had spent together in early wedded life â€" to think of the sorrows they had brought oa them and themselves â€" to think of the miseryâ€" the inexpressibla woe which these dear ones who were the best of wives â€" who had kept their houses and children clean, neat and pleasant looking through all their agony. CTirriL THKtR POOB HSABTS BBOKI with the weight of woe which crushed their weary spirits from their frail tenements â€" to think of these things â€" of the sad conse- ouences which had resulted from their fall, olVthe fearful conseiiuences which would still result to their poor children, and the awful consei|uence8 to themselves if they (.till continued to drink. But Oh ! horror of horrors ! Let the frightful revelation spur on thousands, yea, tens of thousands, to fight the drinking practices of the day â€" to fight the license system â€" to fight for an absolutely prohibitory law, which shall at once and for ever banish alooholic liquors from Air. Dominionâ€" from the rock-bound stormy shores of the Atlantic to the placid bosom of the Pacific on the sandy shores of Western Victoria. The heart-broken wives died in the morning, the husbands were lying in drunken stupors for many hours later, quite unconscious of the awful tact. Sunie Old Loudon Lwiy Celebrities. Lady Colin Campbell looke<l extremely handsome in black, with yellow flowers and orange velvet introduced into her black lace bonnet. It rose in a peak above her forehead, a shape which suits her admir- ably. Orange velvet strings were pinned back in loops under each ear with its won- derful diamond earring. A bunch of daffo- dils in the front of her dress matched exactly with the flowers in her bonnet. • • * Mrs. Oscar Wilde remains an exjionent of the school departed. Her dress made her look " straight up and down," as children say, like the " human " figures in a Noah's .\rk ; and the contrast of a very largo hat (very becoming, by the way) was one of prolixity with brevity. This Udy has given up wearing birds. I am very glad. I do wish every nice woman would. IlKTOKKSKD THE ANIMM. MlUlE than man. Passing from them I came into the (\)urt of North Borneo, and ciiiiii'/ji ^ _ ._ „„ with His Majesty, the orangoutang above | licenses, when times are a little dull, stand named. I examined him carefully, his , at their doors and accost every likely per- handa, arms, feet, legs, body and head. His son they see passing, in hoiies of drawing l*hotusrM|ililn|{ Iu C<»lt»ni, A new process of taking photographs in colors is thus described by a writer in l.ife : " I think it but just to Mr. Mayall, the eminent photographer of Bond street, that I should place on record his wonderful dis covery in colored photography, which he exhibited to the press for the first time on Tuesday. Mr. Mayall, who is a member of most of the learneii societies in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, took advantage of the occasion to detail at some length his fifty years' ex|>erience of the camera, and expreaseil great pleasure that at his advanced age he could still look forward to the development of the idea which would make colored photographs as common as those at present in vogue. Magnificent specimens of the new departure were inspected." ^ . A Man to l>e Pitied. Here comes a man whom I wish to ob- serve. Behold him. His face is pallid and his eyes are lusterless. His lips are set in pain. His steps are slow and the dull throbbing of a heavy headache beats at his temples. His days are heavy and his nights are sleepless, aud life is a weariness to him. He is a mere wreck of his early manhood. His friends avoid him. When he goes home his children hyiltfor the dark corners, and his poor wife wishes she were dead. What has wrought all this ruin and misery? Uuni? The demon Hum? Oh, no, IK it exactly; pie and hot bread and fifteen minute (liiiners did it. The poor man has thodyspepBia,that's all. But that s enough.â€" Burdette in Brooklym f.aijle. A merino ram at Middlebury, Vt., pro- duced a weight of 2!) (wunds and 11 ounces of fleece from 37»') days' growth, although the carcass weighed only 100 jiounds, the wool beinc nearly HO per cent, that of the carcass. Another ram, which was sheared of his sixth fleece, gave 38J pounds of un- washed wool. It is better to build up than to tear down. Harmony must rule, or we will all be the sufferers.â€" CV« ftirnan. ^ f r"4~> €^