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Baildlnx Konamcnta. Through life we build our monumenui Of hoDor iuid, perbapt, of f&me; The liltln and the great event* Are blocks of glory or uf shame. The modest, humble and obscure, Living' unnoticed and unknown. Hay raise a, Bhaft that will endure lionger than pyramids of stone. The carven statue turns to dust, And marble obeliakB decay ; But deeds of pity, faith and trust No storms of fate can sweep away. Their base stands on the rock of right. Their apex reaches to the skies ; They Rlow with the increasing light * Of all the circling centuries. Our building must be good or bad : In wi.>rds we speak, in deeds we do; On sand or granite must be laid The shaft that shows us false or true. How do we buildâ€" what can we show For hours and days and years of toil ? Ii the foundation tirm below '/ la it on rock or sandy soil '.' The hand that lifts the fallen up. That heals a heart or binds a wound. That gives the neede<l crust and cup, Is building upon solid grou jl. li there a block uf stainless white Within the monumental wall. On which the sculptured skill can write : " He buUded well ; so should we all ! ' â€"Chriatian InteUigmicrr. A. Fish Jewel Case. Giles Buaby, a Tolodo fishmonger, was dekning a whitH ilsh last Monday, and in the larger intestines of the fish he found a diamond ring. The ring had engraved upon its inner surface "J. A. B., Chicago, *69." Busby forwarded the ring to the Chief of Police in this city. Yesterday Mrs. Julia A. Lennox, of 12 Lennox place, identified and recovered the ring. She tells an interesting story of its loss. lu 18(>'J â- he, as Miss Bennett, became engaged to Xr. Lennox, and he gave her this diamond ling, for which he paid 94;50. Upon their bridal trip in 1871 Mrs. Lennox lost this ring ; while she was washing her bands in the toilet room of the Prllman car the ring â- lipped from her finger and dropped through the waste pipe. As the train happened to be crossing the bridge over the St. Law- VBDce iUver, near Montreal, just at that time the bereaved bride had no hope of re- oovering the ring. There are no white flah in the St. Lawrence ; the theory is that a small tish seized upon the ring, and thatatg^me future time this small fish, while cruising about the lakes, fell a prey to the white fish in which the long-lost ring was discovered. Giles Basby, the Toledo fishmonger, received from Mr. Len- 90Z a check for 9100 tor bis honesty.â€" L'Ai- eago Sctct. Is a Bustle u Garter 7 Mr. Justice Kekewich was occupied yes- terday with the bearing of an action relat- ing to patents in dress improvers. The court was strewn with various specimens of these articles, and considerable amuse- ment was caused by the spectacle of a judge and several leading counsel, includ- ing the Attorney-General, argaing gravely on (he intricacies of the various designs for drtss improvers. Mr. Justice Kekewich, after looking at â- everal designs, said : I hope you are going to produce another of these articles, Mr. Aston, which I do not see here. It is calle<l the Jubilee. (Laughter. I Mr, 4*taD-^I have nev«Mr heaid ot it, my I^ord. His Lordship â€" It is one which when a lady sits down plays the National Anthem. (Great laughter.) Later on Mr. .\ston argued that a dress unprover was virtuallv the same as a gar ter. His Lordshipâ€" Do yoa mean that seri- oosly. Mr. Aston â€" Yes I do, my Lord. They are the same, though not in size. Uis Lordship â€" Very well, Mr. Aston, I van see I shall want a jury of matrons on this case before it is done. â€" Fall Mall Oazette. The City Man as a Farmer, (From Our Country Home.) CAPIT.U, STOCK KIHBT VE.tll. \^J Conceit. O Money. O Farm. O PracticwA Knowledge. O Experience. CAPITAL 8TOCK K.NU OF TEN TKAItS. /| Experience. O Practical Knowledge. O Farm. O Money O Conceit. ^ Attacltsd by attteer, Mr. Andrew Aitken, of Paris station, was attacked by a steer on the road the other day. After dodging the first charge, Mr. Aitken made for the fence, but before he got there the wild steer was upon him, threw him to the ground, and began a sav- age attack on his prostrate form. Mr. Aitken is not only a courageous man but a man of cool nerve. Ue kept his presence ot mind at this moment of deadly peril and managed by a series of quick movements to avoid a thrust from the long, sharp horns. Finally the opportunity he wanted arrived. Turning quickly on his back he grasped the nose of the beast as it made a blind lunge at him, and held it by the cartilage in a vice like grip. His extraordinary strength enabled him to retain his hold, which he increased with the other hand, and so he held the steer until the drover got a rope and tied its horns to its fore leg. A DIABOLICAL CONCERT. Hon. 8. 8. Coz Describes the Bang of Che DoDlieys of Frlnliipas. The^ following is an extract from the Hon. S. S. Cox's recent Tammany speech : Last summer it was my plsasure to live in one of the islea of the princes. It is called PrinkipoB. It is a few miles below Con- stantinople in the Sea of Marmora. It is a sort of Saratoga for pleasure and health seekers, set on a mountainous island of pines â€" a paradise â€" a new South, bursting out of the old harried Propontis ! There was one drawback to the pleasnres of Prinkipos. The isle, like that of Shaks- peare's "Tempest," was "full of strange noises" â€" not the nightingale in the even- ing, nor the cocks at dawn, nor the shep- herds, nor the vendors of fish, nor the dry cicada, nor the dap of the American flag in front of our legation. These were pleasures, and they did not interrupt my morning dreams, but hark I when the sun paints in gold and purple the Asian mountains, I hear an e<iuivocal sort of bruit. Is it the distant thunder of Jove from Mount Olympus, in sight of our isle ? la it the rolling of the Ismid train across the channel ? - It starts afar ! It approaches ! It isâ€" No 7 Yes ? It is the grand diapa- son of the jackasses. (Koars of prolonged laughter.) It frights the isle from its pro- priety. Ba it kT<ovrn that the isle is full of donkeys. They carry water and vegetables â€" and tourists â€" up and down and over the mountains. I am not unfriendly to the donkey. He has a good name for patience and industry. I was familiar with them in and out of Congress. I admire their courage. They can whip a California grizzly. When Jack salutes Jermy, though miles apart, then the jubilee of noisy atlection begins. It is an mrernal concert, amorous, jocund and ear-benumbing. It starts with an exaggerated case of asthma. (Laugh- ter.) This rasps your soul. The beast loses, then catches its breath with a harsh, stjueakish sibilation, until a roar as of forty hungry lions comes toits relief. (Laughter.) All the powers of wheezy, whistling, gasp- ing suction are exhausted. Then follow terrific expirations ot the bellowing mons- ter. (Laughter.) Suction and emission â€" repeated with "damnable iteration' â€" u^til the noise dies out in an agony unutter- able. I used to hear when a boy the creak- i.ig of the untarred wheels of the Conestoga waj^gon from Pennsylvania. I have >ately heard the screaming shadoof, turned by blind baffalos, pumping the Nile upon the fruitful laud of Egypt, but never before or since have I heard such a diabolical concert as this braying of the donkeys of Prinkipos. How the Monkey stole the .Huney. In a house on the Boulevard Napoleon of Toulouse, a woman locked up her money in a desk and went out shopping ; on her return she missed three napoleons, a gold five-franc piece and a franc in silver. There was no trace of a burglary. Very much bewildered by these losses, the good woman was deep in reflection over the matter when she heard a roar of laughter from her neighbor's garden. " Oh, the thief '." cried several penons at once. " Where has he stolen this ?" The dame descended instantly, ran out and said : **-Ob I my'Qoney, messieurs ; where is-th* thief ?" " He is up a tree, madame." pointing up to a monkey in a high branch above them, " but here is the money I" The monkey, who certainly would be an in- valuable assistant to a burglar, had been seen to climb Into the window of one of the good lady's rooms, hiui tmlocked a drawer, found the money and, concealing it in his jowl, had brought it to his master. I find that no less an authority than Buffon de- clares that a female chimpanzee who went out to service at Loango made the beds, swept the house and so far assisted in the cooking as to turn the spit. M. de Grand- pre, an officer of the French navy, tells of another chimpanzee, on board a French man-of-war, which assists the cook and turns the capstan and furls sail as well at any of the sailors. In China monkeys help in the tea picking, and Lord Monboddo used to gravely contend that apes could talk readily enough, but that their superior cunning told them to hold their tongues lest they should be put to hard work. â€" Leedt Mercury. • A Life Wasted on Perpetual Motion. George Johnson, aged 78, died at the Bristol Town Farm on Sunday. He was an interesting character, his chief notoriety being in his effort to perfect perpetual motion. He became so engaged in this sub- ject about 40 years ago, at the time of the perpetual motion craze, that his mind be- came unbalanced, and since that time he contrived several ingenions devices which are curiosities. Mr. Johnson was a me- chanic of more than common skill in the use of tools, yet he was never able to use his ability to accumulate any property. â€" Hartford Timet. Slow Starvation. Rev. D. Frank CuUey. missionary to Labrador coast of the Society for the Pro- pagation of the Gospel, has published a letter in the St. John's (Nfld.) Mercury, in which a painful account of the slow star- vation of the people is detailed. He cites instances where villages had to subsist on rock cod for months ; where men walked hundreds of miles for flour and could only get one barrel. Louely Jacob's Ladder. On Mount Whitney, the highest moun- tain in California, at a level 14,000 feet above the sea and 1,500 feet above the tim- ber Uue, where there is no soil and no moisture save snow and hail and ice, there Srows a little flower shaped like a bell ower, gaudy in colors of red, purple and blue. It is called Jacob's Ladder, and its fragrance partake.s ot the white jasmine. It blooms alone, for it not only has no floral aasociatc, but there is no creature, not even a bird or insect, to keep it company. â€" Surtka (Nev.) Sentinel. Driven to Desperation. Jack â€" What ! Are you smoking cigar- ettes ? Harry â€" Yes, dash it all I Cora refused my offer of marriage last night, and I don't care now what becomes of me. â€" Tid Bit). , 8*und Advice. An innocent Cheyenne man wrote to a Denver sport the other day and asked the question : " How can a man get rich at poker?" The sport promptly replied: " Don't poke." â€" Denver Neies. It is only within the past 600 years that women have danced publicly with men. Italy first began the custom, but the Chorch condemned it. A Cheerful Believer. A farmer stood at the Ithaca gas well yesterday and sadly declared it was just ruining Bible nropheoy to dig such things. On being asked to explain he said: "If the oil and gas is all pumped out of the earth, don't it stand to reason that there will b« nothing left inside for the final burning up of the world. It is just spoil- ing Bible prophecy, and ought to be stop- ped."- A' /miro OoMttte. HALTEB OB ALTAB. A Samia Man Prefers Deatk t« Blatrimony. A passenger who arrived here last even- ing from Sarnia tells of a staffi'ing tragedy that took place in that town yesterday. It would seem that a carpenter named Frank Howard has recently been paying marked attentions to a Miss Lafarge, whose friends are said to live in Tilbury Centre. Matters finally came to a crisis, and the pair were to have been married yesterday at the Farmers' Hotel in Sarnia. All the prepa- rations were made, the would-be bride, the witnesses and the clergyman were on time, but the bridegroom was missing. After waiting for a considerable time a general search was instituted, and the dead body of Howard was found suspended by a rope to one of the beams in the barn on the hotel premises. It was evidently a case of suicide, the motive for which has not yet transpired. â€" London Advertiser. Latest from the Northwest. Superintendent White, of the C.P.R., who has just returned from the West, says the trestle bridges between Calgary and Donald, B.C., will be made to give place to iron bridges. Mr. Burgees, Deputy Minister of the Interior, has returned from his Western trip and will await here the arrival of the Minister of the Interior. Gophers are doing considerable damage in some portions of the Territories. Mr. Crawford, a member of the Northwest Council, says that the municipality of Indian Head, which offers a bonus for their destruction, in the month oi May last paid for seventy-five thousand tails at three cents per tail. The United States authorities having granted the extradition of Fant, Chief Mc- Kae's assailant, he was brought to the city to-night. Mr. Daly, M.P., was banquetted by bis constituents at Brandon to-night. The general tone of the speeches shows that the Province is entirely united on the subject of disallowance, though a portion 3f the West does not like the way in which Win- nipeg has been, according to their views exclusively running things. A Victoria, B.C., despatch states that the Grand Trunk Bail way will apply to the British Columbia Legislature at its next session for a franchise forarailway through Vellowhead Pass and Chilcoutin county via Bute Inlet to Esquimalt. Already between five and six miles ot the Red River Valley Railway have been graded. Captain W. C. B. Graham, Dominion Immigrant Agent, has received a despatch informing him that 822 Icelanders left Glasgow I'n mute to Manitoba on July 7th by the steamer Buenos Ayres. The party is expected tu arrive in Quebec on Monday and to reach Winnipeg at the end of next week. The Icelanders who arrived last Saturday have not yet taken up land, but have nearly all secured situations. Hon. Alexander Mackeizie and Mr. Duncan Mclntyre passed through the city for Banff this morning. The ex- Premier appeared to be still very weak. A)x)ut 9100,000 will be expended this year in the construction and re|)air of Northwest Mounted Police barracks. It is believed that ther* is every likeli- hood of the conatructioft<tt the Northwest Central Railway being deftrred for at least another year. ♦ The Scribe at the Ciraa*. Oh, the drums were heard and the pic- colo note, as the circus up-town paraded, and the shorn-off mule and whiskered goat and the elephant umber shaded. I followed it calmly at early morn, my work and my labors spurning, and I harked to the sound uf a rusty born with a wild sou unhallowed yearning. Few and short were the tunes they played, and they paused not at all to monkey ; so I slowly followed the route they made at the heels of the lop-eared donkey. I bought up a seat at the show that night, and looked at the limber woman, who tied herself in a knot so tight she seemed more like hemp than human. And I eagerly looked at the wondrous b!oke who Hwallowod some cotton blazing, and blew from his nostrils a cloud o( smoke till I thought he was sheol raising. And I watched the clown as be ran and rolled and stood in a dozen poses, and worked off a string of jokes so old they oame from the time of Moses. â€" Atchitvn {Kan.) Globe. The Address of Venus and Adonis. The nondelivery of a telegram sent from Manchester to Lichfield a week or so ago was attended by some amusing circum- stances. Some old ta|io8try was lent by Mr. Litchfield, an art dealer, to the Jubilee Exhibition, and, re«]uirii)g the return of a certain panel, he particularized in his tele- gram by stating the size and subject, " Venus and Adonis," ending the message with sender's name " Litchfield." A clerk at once replied to " Venus and Adonis, Lichfield," and after making every effort to deliver the message, the Post-Oflice officials were constrained to wire back to Manches- ter that no Venus and Adonis could be found in the cathedral city. â€" Electrical lievietc. French as She is Spokti. Mrs. A. (who is taking French lessons) â€" " Now, Bridget, when Prot. Blanque comes you must say * entrez ' to him, and he will know what you mean and come into the parlor." The bejl rings and Bridget goes to the door. It is the professor. " Ontario," says Bridget. " Wud ye walk into the parlor, aur ? ' The professor walked in, and Bridget reported her triumph to the cook. â€" lliirper't Bazar. Wav t* the Knife. Miaa Shawsgarden (of St. Louis to Miss Breezy, of Chicago) â€" "Well, how is every- thing in Chicago? Dull, as usual, I sup- pose." Miss Breezy â€" " No, things are looking very bright. How is the pasturage in St. Louis "- -Charloton Seicn and Courier. In a series ot experiments made by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station on cabbage worms, the most eflicaoious remedy was found to be a mixture of one ounce ot pyrethrum with buckwheat flour. That ia the last novel 1 ahall ever read," said a gentleman, throwing the book down in disgust. " What's the matter, dear ?" inqniredhis wife, " doesn't it end happily ?" N0| they were married." A Care for Whooping Coafh. Maryhill is a largo and important suburb of Glasgow. On Thursday a travelling candy-man and rag-gatherer, with a cart drawn by an ass, drew up in front of a row of houses known as Pirrat's row, a little off the higbway at Maryhill, Glasgow. Two children living in this quarter are suffering from whooping cough. After a short con- versation with the proprietor of the ass, the mothers of the two children took up a posi- tion, one on each aide of the animal. One woman then took <:)ne of the children and passed it below the ass'a belly to the other woman, the child's face being toward the ground. The woman on the other aide caught hold of the child, and, giving it a gentle somersault, handed it back to the other woman over the ass, the child's face being toward the sky. The process having been re- peated three times, the child was taken away to the house, and then the second child was similarly treated. While this was going on two other children were brought to undergo the magical cure. In order that the operation may have its due effect the ass must not be forgotten, and at the close of the ceremony each mother must carry her child to the head of the animal and allow it to eat something, such as bread or biscuits, out of the child's lap. This proceeding having been performed in turn by the four mothers, the prescribed course was concluded. When it began there was not "nany people present, but before it was finished quite a number of spectators bad gathered. From inquiries made it seems the mothers are thoroughly satisfied that their children are the better of the enchantment. â€" .\'otes and Querits. Ecyptian Street Cric,. The street cries of any city are full ot interest, but those of Eastern thorough- fares are particularly significant. The Muskee, of Cairo, its great native street, is a singular. Oriental looking place, always crowded with strange people, calling some- what after this fashion : Seller of sugar and water â€" Refresh thy heart ! Quench the heat '. Seller of raisin waterâ€" It is well clarified. Oh my aon ! By the life of thy father, it is well clarified ! Milkmanâ€" Let our morning be white ! Pretzel seller â€" O all nouriaher ! all good I O determiner ! O omniscient pretzolii 'â-  Beggar â€" I am the guest of Godandof the prophet. I have not yet breakfasted. Passer-by (in reply)â€" God opens to thee the hearts of men ' Another ( to one sneezing) â€" Praise Oud! Thank God 1 All presentâ€" God have mercy on you ! The sneezerâ€" God guide me and you ! God reward you Muezzin (from a mostiue) â€" God is greatest '. I declare that there is no god but God ! I declare that Mohammed is the prophet of God! Come to prayer ! Come to salvation I Prayer is better than sleep I God is very great I There is no God but God! Seller of wheat cakeâ€" These belong t* thee, O fasting man ! How they did Itnead thee in the night, O cakes 'â-  Rose seller â€" The rose waa a thorn ; she bloomed from the sweat of the prophet. And thus the cries continue, hour after hour and d^y att«r day. Kthics of Gauiblinic. Paterfamilias (at the breakfast tablet â€" " Mabel, I have learned that young Goit bard, who comes to see you, gambles oc- casionally." Daughter (composedly) â€" "Oh, you mustn't believe all you hear, pa. " P. â€" " Well, Iknowho has been seen play ing billiards, and you must drop him. Nice way for a young man to begin life. Let me have the part of the paper with the stock market, please.' D. â€" "Certainly, pa. I don't think there is a great deal of harm in billiards." P. (warmly)â€"" The loser pays, and what is that but gambling, eh ? (Consults bis paper.) Yes, gambling. That's the only word for it What '. hello ! Big drop in Sou'-sou' west-half-west'little-western ! Grtkcious gimeni ! Five hundred gone at a single slap ! Whew ' I was an idiot to risk it. " D.â€" " What's the matter, pa ?" P. â€" " Ah â€" a â€" a â€" nothing, nothing. A little disappointment ; that's all." â€" Phila- tUlphia liu/itirer. Why Uannah Left lh« Cliurch. .\ lady was relating to mo tlie other day her trials and tribulations in the matter of arranging the household machinery so that the inevitable hitches and jara of the inner workings should not be apparent to the out- aide world. In describing the various idiosyncrasies of servants which had come under her notice she aaid : " Some yeara ago I had a g<xxi settled white woman as house servant, who, though ot most ex- emplary deportment in every other respect, seemed to consider Sundays as in nowise different from the other days of the week. Finally I aaid to her : ' Hannah, why don't you take your Sundays off ? You should take some advantage of the oppportnnity to go to church.' Y'ou can appreciate my feelings when she replied ; ' Well, Mrs. , I used to go reglar to church, but I never jined. My next door neighbor was a shoatin' member, and I tell you what the done â€" she scalded my dog. Tbat'a ben twenty years ago and I ain't never went to church since.' " â€" H'ofhimiton Capital. The Old Maids at the Jubilee. An elflerly maiden lady, living near Sid- cup, wrote to the Lord Chamberlain a few weeks ago saying that abe believed every class of Her Majesty's subjects would be represented at the Abbey excepting one, " the old maids" of Her Majesty's Domin- ions, and ahe aaked for two tickets to have the honor of representing the " old maida," wishing to have a lady friend to accom- pany her. In due course she received a polite reply from LordLathom, saying that he was "quite unable to resist the force of her argument," and would, therefore, send her a ticket for the Abbey, whither, ct conrse, the old lady went on Tuesday week. â€" London Court Journal. The PaasinK Crowd. Did you ever stand in the cr.jwded street. In the liRfat of a city lamp. And list to the tread of the million feet In their quaintly unisical tramp ? As the surtjiny crowd goes to and fro, Tis a pleasant sifjht between. To mark the heures that come and go In the Hver-ohauging scene. Hero the publican walks with the sinner proud .\nd the priest in hia gloomy cowl. .\u<l Dives stalks in the motley crowd With Lazarus cheek by jowl; .Vnd the daughter of toil, with her fresh youni; heart Ad pure as her spotless fame, Keeps step with the woman who lUtJtes her mart In the liauuts of sin aud ^.hame. When time shall liave beaten the day's tattoo. And iu dusky ariuur night Is treading with ticholess footstep throui;li The gloom uf '.he silent night. Some few of these Hhuii be daintily fed And sink to slumbers sweet. While many will go to a sleepless be<l With never a crumb to eat '. .Ah. me '. when the hours go joyfully by How little we stopped to heed Our brothers' and sisters' despairing cry In thi ir woe aud bitter need. Yet such a world as the au gels sought This world of ours we'd call. If the brotliorly lovo our Father taught Wtis felt by each for all. A Cat aud a Parrot. The Danbury .V, «â- Â« says : Dr. Snow baa a very fine cat and a parrot. Both occupy prominent quarters in his office, the cas most of the time monopolizing his chair, and the parrot confined in a cage hauga beside a window. Aa is natural, the cat and parrot have become friends and taka great interest m each other. The other day the doctor returned from his rotmd of calls, and on entering bis office waa met by his cat, which seemed to be evincing great uneasiness. She ran on before him and kept looking up and mewing ; ahe would advance a abort diatance ahead of him and then nm back. The doctor concluded that ahe was hungry and went and procure<l » piece of meat and offered it to her. Sha refused to touch it, but kept up her run- ning back and forth. Finally ahe apraui{ upon the aill of the open window and looke<l out and mewed. This called the doctor to the window, and he looked out. and then discovered the cause of the cat's distresg, the parrot, which was walking majestically about the yard in the grass. He had escapee! from his cage and flown out ot the window, and the cat was trying to tell her master about it. She succeeded by her aign lan- guage. The parrot waaeasily capturedand returned to his ijuarters. Lord Palmerston used to aay that one of his best services to the country was the pur- chase of the camp ground at Aldershot for fifteen pounds per acre. Since then, and largely as a conae<inence of the establish- ment of the camp, land at Aldershot baa been sold at the rate of a thousand pounds an acre. A Turonio Boy's Romantic Adventures. Four years ago Willie Noland, then age<I y. ran away from his home in this city, bent on striking out for himself. UiS family made every effort to locate him, but without avail. His brother, Mr. Richard Noland, of the Montreal House, never, however, gave up the search, and as late aa Wednesday last wrote to a friend in th* States inquiring if he had seen or heard anything of the adventurous lad. By » strange coincidence the youngkter turned up at the hotel yesterday â€" well dressed, healthy and with more than " 515 in hia inside pocket." The joy attending the la- union between the two brothers may bo imagined. Young Noland has been nil over the continent since he left Toronto, ha vinyl, got into die sirauB boainesa. Uia presence in the city at this time is due to the fact that he is travelling with Burk'a show as a oontortioniat. His professional name ia Willie Leronx, and his perform- ances are wonderfully clever. There was f\ happy time at the Montreal House last night over the lost having been 'otmd. â€" Voronto World. Two Midsnuimer Love Stories. A young German carpenter was marrie<l te a pretty Bohemian girl in Omaha tho otherday after a six months' lourtship, which must have been conducte<l entire^ i:i pantomime, as neither can speak a word of the other laiii^uage. The services ot an interpreter were needed at the altar, but the young couple seemed as happy as if they had talked sweet nothinga into each other's ears all their lifetime. A romantic wedding took place at Ed- wardsville. 111., the other day, when Prof. James O. Duncan, ot Vandalia, a widowor, was married to Mrs. Lillie Carroll, of Springfield, a widow. The marriage was the culmination of a aeries of coincidenta in the lives ot the wedded pair. The Rev. J. B. Thompson, who performed the cere- mony, ofiiciated in the aame capacity at Prof. Duncan's first marriage and also at Mrs. Carroll's first marriage, and preachetl the funeral sermon at the death of Prof. Dtmcan's wife and at the death of Mrs. Carroll's husband. It was this atranga fatality of circumstances which induced the couple to seek again the servicer of Mr. Thompson. A ilnbilee Story. Two Scotch fishwives in London were talking about tho Jubilee the other day. " Eh, wummsn," said one to the other, " can ye tell me what a jubilee is, for I hear a' the folk apakiu' aboot it ?" " On, ay," repUed the other. " I can tell ye that ; ye see, whan a man and a wumman haa be«n marrit for flve-and-twenty year, that's a siller waddin' ; and when they've been marrit for fifty year that's a gonden wad- din' : but when the man's deed, that's a jubilee !" ♦ Cute J oil n. Chinamen entertain very exalted ideas of justice. The other day a citizen, who left a shirt at a Chinese laundry to bo washed and dressed, was told when ho went to get it that it h»d been lost. Tho Celestial washerman said he might, perhaps, find the missing article someday! " But I want it now," said the owner. " Belly good. Don't be aflaid," was tho reply. " If I no find shirtee, you no pay for waahee." -Toronto Mail. Knew Their Friends. A young physician who had recently hung out his sign came home one day in high spirits. " Do you know, my dear,' he said to his wife, " I'm really becoming (juite well knov«n here. The undertakers bow to me Iready." ♦ " Does Mr. Stirling live here ? " asked a mechanic ot a woman he met at the door. " Yes, sir." " I have come down to clean out his furnace". •• You're just a littlet at« ; the sheriff hai juet been here."