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I wil] uot U8li Illy uiii|<lihor of hiR cri'wt, Nor wiiat ii« ijhhiuho] dnt-irimi old nv new ; Nor wliFit riu's Iub houuet sim) iimv Ufwi To worship I imi^ tiii^ diily wiso ami true ; Nor wiuii iiH ihiukK of !hn Hiioii,tfU Christ ; Nor wilL niitti, buptlHUj tie Uaa lieou liupli/.oil. I aak Dill wlmt tHuiptiUlons liave ooset His Liiiiidiit) iioart, now selt-ilebaseil and sore ; Nor liy what wuy"i<iii well the Ijord Im uift ; Nor wrinre :vilk iitti'rMil, "tJo unci ain no more.' Between liis HonI and (ioii that IniKtuesii lies ; Not mine lo cuvil, iiuesliou or despiBO. I aak not Liy whiuh unnie amoog tlierest That Cliristiana go by. tie iii tiauied or known Whether his laith has ever been " pvnfesBud " Or whether proven L y nis dueds alone ; Bo there he (.,'hri«lhood in iiim alliK well ; He in uiy Drollier, and ui peace we dwell. If grace and patieuoe in nls actions speak, Or^ill 111 wordaot kindness from his tou»;ue, Whieh nuhi- Uie fallen, fortify the weak. And Ileal ihe heart hy sorrow u m and wruu^ If he f^ive i^ood for ill. <Lud iovo (or hatoâ€" Friend of the friendless, poor and desolate â€" X find in iiiiii diseipleslufi so true, So fill', thai uoihKii; fi.riber 1 demand. Ho may be boudiiiitii, ireeiimn. (ienlile. Jew. But we Kry broT hers â€" walk wo hand in hand. In his white life let me -lie Chrislliood see, It it) enou^^h lor him. tuiUKli for me. Sh«*l' rr Iteitfi ami Sereeun. New that the -jeason for traiisplantiny trees is on it. may oe well for owners of f&rms ill reyions liable to be swept by hard winds to note the advantages of providing shelter for their Helda in the fortn of belts of timber treen. This protection, says the Cuuntr'j (â- â- inlt'imm. would be of threat use where land bau been reduced in valne and its crops by atrippina it entirely of the original foreatH. By aettiut^ the ri^ht kind of trees, valuable timber will bu afforded in twenty years ; and, by plautini^ the belt two or tnren yards wide, one. half of the width may be cut at alternate periods, and thaa always have a belt (jrowiiiK. We haveueen several striking instances where sach shelter has pr(;vod of great benetit, by increaaini; the growth of crops, and by pre- venting their deatrnction from the sweep of storms. They are also a benetit to the animals which graze sach farms, and they would often add greatly to the picturesnue appearance ol the country. The tornadoes and wild bli.r:/anis which have swept many portions of the country the past winter have afforded an e!oi;uent argument in favor cf this prcttctiou. \ few years ago s westfrn town was nearly destroyed by a cyclone, with the exception of the few buildings which were amply protected by a grt)ve of large trees. On these buildings the cyclone made little or no impression. It is well worth while for all towns and cities in regions liable to the sweep of such storms to provide on their windward sides ample bells or groves of dense and rapidly growing timber trees. They might prove worth many times their cost, to say noth- ing of the protection to human life which they woillii afford. Or. Tn lmaf;« aud His UtieHts. A New Yci k despatch says : liev. T. de- the DeWill Talniage. of Brooklyn, before livering bis sermon yesterday, made following personal statement ; " An in- famous falsehood has gone into every city and neighborhood of this country and been discussed by hundreds of newspapers, the report saying that recently entertaining the officers of the 13th Hegiment at my house 1 gave them four kinds of wine. There was not a drop of wine or any kind of intoxi 'ating liii'.icr. the tweiitylive gen- tlemen liien prusenl bring witnesses. 1 will give 81.000 reward to any one who will prove that one drop of wino was offered, or will give that amount to any chariliibie institution that may be named by any respeclBble ilergymaii, lawyer or detective, such person being the judge in the whole matter. That which 1 supposed was told as a joke is being used all over the laud to give the impression that temperance men are hypocrites. I respectfully ask that the newspapers wbi> n have been misled by the report correct it." fUMPlNG A iLAKC DRY. Huw n 8eotclimuu is K«*e tal lu i e g; a Vant Aroaof Hubuiereed Land in K({ypt. Mr. Grant went on to say that ho was ijoing baok to I'Jgypt to finish the reclama- tion of Lake Abukir. â- â€¢ What, Lake Abukir ? That lies to the northeast of the Manmndieh Canal, of .vhich we heard so much during the year 1883?" " That is the lake. It lies on one side of the railway and canal ; Lake ilareotis lies on the other." " Juat so. Hvery o::e remembers it from the maps pulilished during the time when our ironclad train was skirmisiiirg in front of Arabi'a lines before Ale.xaiidna. But wliat are you going to do to the l»ke?" " P'lmp it into the sea !" " V/how^that is a large older ! Why, it is miles and miles across.' "Thirty-one thousand acres in exact tigures. But we are pumping it dry. We began on March Sth with a pair of (iwyune a pumps, and at the rate they are going nt it they will empty the liiku in a month Just think ! These pumps lift lliO tons of water ti feet H inciiea high every minute. We burn li cwi. of coal per hour, so that we lift out of the lake into the sea nearly '.)(), 000 tons of water for every ton of coal we burn. In twenty-four hours we lift over tiOO.OOO tons cf water. ' " W'liy are you emptying the lake ?" â- ' Because it ougiit uot to be a lake. If Egypt had bteu la English hands tifty years ago it would have been dry ground long since. Oace it was not a lake, but where the water now stands was found some of tho richest soil in Egypt. The land lies below the sea level, and a great Sturm nearly 'MO ;, ears ago swept tho salt waters of the iloditerranean over this tlat suburban land. Our troops in 1801 made things worse by cutting the embankment. The land became saline and useless, tn winter it tills ; in summer it dries up. But the salt cnrses tlie land, and antil it can bo got out nothing .;aij oe done.' â- ' How can you get the salt out of the land ,' ' " By putting It in steep. If the lake could oe puuiped dry wnen it is full in winter the water wojld carry off the salt, for water standing in salty laud sucks up the salt as if it were a sponge. Instead of being pumped uti, it has evaporated, and the salt has lieen regularly redoposited, With tho result toat the laiui has laid barren. Now we expect that after the pumps empty the lake t will only need another drenching to -eiar off all the saline matter. ' " How will you drench it .' ' " .\s soon as the water is off the land we shall canali^.e and liraiii ilie area formerly under water. Then at next liigh Nile wo shall flood It from the Mahmudieh Canal. After allowing it to stand in steep for a few weeks wo shall pump it off again, and then we shall have ready f-ir settle- ment .! 1.000 acres of the richest soil in F.gypt, close to the great city of Alexan- dria, and capaple ci bearing a rent of L'lO an acre.' " What do you reckon the value of the estate which you have thus created ?" " Last year, before we began work, it was worth nothing. We have spent and shall spend i.'.'iO,000 .n its reclamation. I reckon n> will then De worth a clear million sterling. By the terms of my concession the ijgyptian Government refrains from levying full land tftx for a term of years. Aiiogeiher, the euterprise has been a most successfnl one from every point of view." â€" /'ii.i' .l/,ii'/ ila;i'll,\ CURRENT TOPICS. A.M.'MALS HAVE LANUUAOK. The Hiiekiiiiiu'H Perple.\tty. .\ cab was called recently to tho door of a hotel in Princes street, I'ldiuburgh, at a very late hour. Three gents were helped ont of the hotel into tho cab, all pretty much the worse of liquor. Boots explained to cabby that the one sitting on tho front B«at was to be set dowti at No. so and so in such and such a street : tho one on the off side on the other seat was to be sot down in another street, and the third was to be set down at another given address. Away the cabby drove, but in a short time the hotel bell was rung again, and on Boots opening the door be discovered the snnie cabman standing in a state of great per- plexity. "These thiee gents," heexplained, "you gave rae have all tumbled down in the bottom of the cab and got mi.xed and I want yon to come out &nd put a ticket on them for me." Southorn Htrawberrles. The strawberry shipping season ia now in full activity in Florida ; probably SOO bushels left Lawley atatioii, Bradford County, last week for various northern cities. We had frosts as late as March 34th, which destroyed a good deal of bloom, »nd the yield has been much reduced be- sides by the rust, a disease whose cftuaes are not yet well understood. The diminished yield and the increasing warmth in the North have given an upward tendency to prices : loc to .">i)U a quart is our last iiuotatioo from Bhiladelphia, and 50o to tiOo from New York. Two weeks ago 30c was about the average price. Your correspondent shipped his tirst bushel of early Ohio potatoes this season, April ith. Orange trees have uot bloomed yet in this section of the Htate, and it is believed that we are to have an "off year." So many late frosts also reduced tho amonnt of bloom on the pear and peach trees, although enough were left to produce an average crop. Peento peaches are now about as large as hulled walnnts. â€" m A Shlpwreek Likely. Goslinâ€" "Yes, iVliBa Smith, I expect to sail for llnrope.' . MisaSiiiith (innocently)â€"" Indeed. What on?" Goslin (embarrftBsed)â€" " Well, erâ€" to tell you the truth, Miss Smith, it's on borrowed money. ' A little toy named Uainmer, liviut4 in Bellaire, 0., ate twelve hard boiled egga on â- Easter Suiidfcy, and a fe^-' days ago he was bnried. Jim Jordan, a young darkey in John H. Keith's employ, at Griffin, Oa,, ate twenty-tour bananaa'at a sitting last week, bat so far as heard from ia atill alive. flow SntitriH Maile. In the manufacture uf snuff in this cuuii- trv the tiuost Virginia leaf tobacco is used wilich is couBideratiJy iModified by carrying the feriiieutation uiucu further than in tobacco intended for smoking, and issimply ground and sifted. " In our factory, ' said a prominent dealer. " we have about si.My nulls, resem- bling large cotlee mills. The ground tobacco falls upon an "ludiess band of broad canvas, which conveys it to four sots of mechanical stoves. The sfiuff which passes through IS received upon an endless travel- liug band, which carries it tiience into a close chest. Tlui particles which are too coarse to pass throtigh liie sieve are re- ground. The immense varieties of siiiilfs are formed by iiiixiugtogether and grinding tobacooa of diUerriii growths, and by vary- ing the nature of the same. " For the suutf known as Nearoco, forty parts of genuine St.Umer, South American, tobacco, forty parts of George and twenty parts of fermented Virginia stalks in powder are used. The whole is ground and sifted. Then two and one-half pounds of lose leaves aro mi.\e<i with powdc led Virginian stalks, and two and one half pouudu of rosewood in tine powder, moistened with salt water, are added. It ia then worked up with one pound of cream of tartar, two pouiida of salt of tartar and four pounds of table salt. This snuff, which is highly scented, t^iust bo preserved in lead and brii.gs S-1 per pound. Tho other brauds of snuff manufactured here are Bulungare, large grained Parish and Scotch snuff, ranging in price from S3 to 1(10 per pound.- .Villi mid hj-rpme. Thk Canada Club, of London, will enter- tain Lord Stanley of Preston, theGovernor- (ieneral-desiguate of lianada, at dinner on May 2nd. KossiA is blessed with the highest ' pro- tective tariff " of all Europe, and yet labor is starved, the money of tho country is worth only 30 per cent, of its face value, and the C/.ar cannot borrow a penny any- where, so poor ia his credit. TitK Chinese colony in Chicago consists of '2,000 soids, of whomonly two are women. .Vbout 100 of them are mereliants, several of whom have fortunes of from ; 100,000 to >"200,000. Four hrms, dealing in tea, coltee and Chinese groceries, have an aggregate capital of S.500,000. Pot'E Li:o dines at 1 o'clock, after the Roman fashion. His dinner is always simple, consisting of soup, with macaroni, a course of roast moat, with gravy and fried potatoes or one other vegetable. There is some fruit for dessert, and perhaps a glass of old Bordeau.x afterwards. lie never cats boiled meat or pork in any form, ot cheese. An English seer â€" Baxter is his name, we could bet â€" has discovered that tiie numeri- cal value of the letters of the name " Boulangor " in Greek ia jttst tiiiij, and prophesies that the melodramatic leneral 18 to play a leading part in affairs between this timu and the second advent of Christ, which 18 to occur at 3 o clock iu the after- noon of March .Jih, IH'.lti. Of (100 tornadoes of which record has been made in the United States, not more than ir> were east of the Allegheny Moun- tains. The warm airtempestuously ariveu up the Mississippi Valley ia caught by the polar winds and driven in gyratory tor- nadoes across the prairies. Tho Appala- chian range serves on the Atlantic slope as a barrier against storms of that -ort. TuERi: is an alarming scarcity of water in mauyof thelarge towusof Great Britain, and Liverpool and Manchester aro threat- ened with a water famine. In view of this state of things it is proposed to bring sea water in pipes from the coast to the inland towns, tho sea water to bo used for baths, closets, watering streets, iliisiiing sewers and exiinguishing tires. The scheme meets with much favor. TitoMAS N.iST told a San Francisco re- porter that when ho was in Bismarck, D.T., it was 80 cold he could not give his illus- trated lecture, for the paints fro/Ai stilf.and the spectators were in a fair way to do the same. In Tacoma the manager of the .Alpha Hall wouldn t permit Mr. Nasi to lecture becaase there was an ' I'ucle Tom's Cabin " Company in town, anti the mana- ger didn't liiink two performances at a lime were just tho thing. Tin: great panorama, " Niagara in Lon- don," has proved an immense success in the British metropolis. The enterprising proprietors, six of whom, it is said, planked down iii.OOO each to carry cut Mr. John llollingshead's experiment, are beginning to tind themselves recouped. They aro cer- tainly so far encouraged that Pans and Berlin aro also to have their " Niagara. ' Mr. Philip Porteaux has been engaged at sliipenduua fees to paint duplicates for these two cities. What has added to its popularity ia the recent visit of Mr. Glad- stone. Foil the lirst time ill tho world's liistory a Mr. Confucius has within tho last few days arrived in London. .Just -', ll'.l years ago tlio wife of ' tho ancient teacher, tile illustrious and accomplished, the all com plete and perfect sago, " presented him witii a son and heir. In recognition of tins auspicious event, the reigning duke sent tho sage a prtisent of a brace uf caip, auii, lo mat k his sense of the favor thus shown him, lie named the infant Li â€" i x., "carp. " The gentleman who has now arrived in London ia of tho 7l8t generation in direct male descent from Mr. "Carp " Confucius, and he furnishes an illustrious instance of hereditary genius. Uo is a member of the Uanliii i'oUege, admission to wl'.ich is grantol only to a small proportion of those scholars who pass the highest competitive eiaminatiuu in the Empire. â- VfonUeys Called Together iiiKt -tddressed tiy i in CouveiitioD I Lon|;-'r.4ile<i f HtriHi-eli. A SIX-VEAB BRIDAL TBIP. of Mr, Katlier Ueceutrie. A shocking discovery was made theothor day at Morland, a village near Penrith. During the night a lady named Miss Jane Leadsome loaded a gun and proceeded to an outhouse. Having rested the gun on a box, she placed herself before it, and pulled the tricker with a stick. I he top of her head was blown islf. Her boily was discov- ered in the morning lying over a bucket. She was an accomplished, hut eccentric, lady, mildly comments the London .S'tun- dard. * Kreot and Soldierly. Faahionable mother â€" " ilow superbly Jamea, the footman, carried himself to-day while wo were driving. I waa (juite proud of him." Fashionable daughter â€" " Yea, Parker saya he has a stiff neck." Mother â€" " 1 wish ho had a stiff neck all the time.' â€" lipoch. « â€" Genersl Booth, of the Salvation Army whoBO daughter was married the other day in Loudon, gold 7,000 ticketa to the wedding at #.5 apiece. Clarence Thompaon, a young lad in Find lay, O., found a bird's neat on the railroad bridge, aiid, on examining it, discovered in place of egga a silk handkerchief in which three dozen aolid gold rings were wrappec*. up. They were evidently some thief's booty. AKiiiu Those Ktisy Henri. .V short time ago the conundrum was asked in print if a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will six hens lay in seven days !â-  The Hev. Mrs. ("rossley submitted the conundrum lo a young lad in Long Kidge, Stamford, and ho sends her the following answer : Ukah Mhh. Ciiosst.uv,â€" I liave not seen you in a day and a half, but 1 have got the answer to that puz/.le and a half about the hen and a half that laved tho egg and a half in a day and a half. 1 have really earned a dollar and a half, for I have worn out a pencil and a half, and covered a slate and a half to get tho answer, which is thirty-one and one-half eggs. If you own that hen and a half that layed tho egg and a half in a day and a half, do in my behalf kill her and send me half. It is now six and a half and I have got an hour and a half to linish this side and a half about the hen and a half that layed tho egg and a half in a day and a half. It secma very queer lo mo that a lady who had taught school before tho war can- not get Iho answer to such a simple pu/.- /.lo. 1 f you have any more of tho same sort aend them along (if this is right). From one of your Long Kidge Sunday Bthool siliolars.- Vniilunj }i(Us. The intellectual superiority of civili/.eo man over hia savage brethren is duo to the greater multiplicity of his objects oi thought, says the Gentlemen'. i .Uui/u-im- ; and precisely so is it with tho intellectual superiority of tho savage man ovor his simian ancestors. 'The actions of all iiave the same aim, viz., the supplying of the wants of physical nature and thegratifjing of the desires aroused in tho iiiind. I'lieold theory liiat speech was altogether limited to the human race has now to bo given up once aud for all, for such a statement can- not stand against the scientific evidence brought forward to oppose it from ail quarters. Language is but a product of rellection and experience, aud originaied, ill .ill pro bability, iu interjection or tho itiatinctive expression of the suhjectivo imiiri isiciis derived from external mitiiro ; and jua'- ' the reflective powers oi llie race were i veloped ami siiowii more brilliantly as en. stage iu the evolutionary march oi intt le- was patstd, so did lani;uage |ias8 from i .e simple moiiosj liable cries of tho lower animals and savage men to the complex dialects of modern civilization ; and it is worthy of note that at the present day, or at least very recently, tiiero were races of savage men inhabiting the Barth who pos- sessed uo proper language at all, and could not, on ajcouijt uf their manner of living, oe placed on a iiigher intellectual level than the higher apes , while we have the autho- rity of the leading philologists of the day in support uf the fact liiat tiiemonosyllaoic cries ol some ot tile lower luiiiuiii tribes are well 'Vilhiti tue grasp of the ape's voice. Travellers whose veracity and ability cannot be aiipugned have desen'oeil long conlerences held by monkeys, where one individual addressed the assembly at great leiigtii. tixmg the attention of all upon him- self and luelliiig every disturbance by a loud ami r.arsh cry, 'vliich waa at once recugniztd and abe\ed by tho multitude . and ne need no traveller to point out to ua the many notes of .;all and recognition [luesesbed by birds of ail kinds, who thoroughly mderstaud each other's expres- sions, and, moreover, are able to produce quite a string of ditl'itrent notes con- secutively and without any hesitation. In fact, the organ of voice in some of the lower animals far exceeds in power that of some tribes of the human famih . The Euphonia iiiusica of tiie ICast Indies can perforin the seven notes in tho scale . tho chaftiiuii uot only sings real songs, but invents tiieui, one of his songs containing as many as live long eiroplies, while the songs of many savage races of men never run to naif that length, and when i'ook visited tiie Fiji ari hipelago the native women could only sing from la to mi. Asia appears to have oeeii tho birthplace of stringed inatruments, uo southern tribes ever having been discovered using such musical appliances. We see. therefore, a gradual improvement taking place in vocal apparatus as we rise in tho aiiitiial scale, which results in speech and song, and, in- directly, ill instrumental music of various degrees ; ami we linii fresu proof that there is as wide a dillerence between the develop meiit of civiii.'eii Eurtipean ami the sa\age man as between that of the savage man and nis br'.ile ancestry. .\ lliKatiM-n a» >lilllllery. We have seen birds, frogs, kilteiis, rab- bits and juippu'b iieads, t;* say nidhing vi ail the llovvers there are, all the kinds oi feathers ever worn by any kind of bird, and fruits as well as gram and grass, and ail the segetables, from tiny .:ucumbers to .ar- rots ami jabbages, so that now it would almost seem as if there >vere nothing olse in the world that I'oulii be utili,-,ud as a now garniture for hats ami bonnets, and yet there 18 a ;iew style of trmiining which has already captured the female heart, and that IS baby alligators. The young alligators which are v.sed for this style of trimming are from six to ten luclies long and must be the real thing, sl.ilfed and with bright glass eyes and ar- ranged so aa to appear to be crawling up tho front trimmings of ribbon bows. â€" Schiiitclady Star. .Vcvel Slair monial lixperlences and Mrs, ijigoamey. George i^igi nri.ev married Miss Imogene nennques in Buffa'lo in 18H'.'. Mr. Sigour- aey is the son of a wealthy Californiau, while Mifs Uenriques' pariints, though not poor, were m only comfortable circum- stances, and lived in a small town near Buffalo. What led to the attachment I do uot Know, out It is said it was_ a esse of love at lirsi signt, with a speedy marriage. The cards .'ead after marriage: " .Mr. aud Mrs. Sigourney. .A: home Thursdays, in Sacramento. California, begiuiiiiig May lOtb, in the year IHHH." From 18H2 to Iti'HK is a long time to catch them "at iiome. but they have been upon one per- p.-tual uridal tr:p for six years, arriving in New 'I'orli last Monday. Five iays after tneir marriage they were. â€" -. -le hirl> seas, bound tor England. ut ley bad plenty of money, and olaiii.ed a six years' tr'p with ., and pretty wife. Wliec tliey oudou uot'ti wrote lior ,o their s tnat tiiey would not be back for six .iv and Mr .Sigourney made arrange- meir with r;is uaiiker to forward their mail si trever they might be. .\fter going tnrongii Eneiana, Ireland and Scotland they fairly covered every point of interest in France. Germany. Italy. Prussia,. Vuetrta and Russia. They visited Greece, Denmark, P.ome. fiirkey. China, Japan, sailed along the Nile, visited the t.'anary Islauds, Borneo, New Guinea, Persia, and spent a }ear :ii travelling through .Vsia. They went to Australia, ami from there to Africa, ana tiience over to South .-\raerua. Commeiutng at Patagonia, they travelled iiortu, .isitiiig all the principal places :n I'eru, Chili. Bolivia, Brazil, .â- Vrgei'.iiiie lu(.'Ublic and the other coiintriea of South America, and re-irossitig the Paciiic L'l-ean again took up their journey to England by another route. While abroad Mrs. Sigourney became the mother of twin bi'vs and two girls. 'I'he twins w re Dorn at St. Petersburg, Kussta, ouo oi tiiu girls lU China and the last child in Brazil. " * â-  Bismarck told them there was only one place in .Vmerica he would hrie tc set, and that svas Niagara Falls. Mr. Sigourney tnld mo it was impossibie to even estimate the rnimber i.f miles ne nad travelled. When 1 asked nun how much it had cost aim iie said : ' Somewhere iu the neighborhood of yTo.OOO. " as unconceruod as if it had oten 7.', cents. When he married ins wife, in IHhJ, sne weighed but 10'.' pounds, aow she weighs lli.'i. Both are darkiy oron.ed -n face from their long journejings :n hot countries abroad, but arehealtny, and, as Mrs. Sigourney said archly : • We ran up to .VIbany this week to see your capitol, leaving tlio babies at our hotel ill New York in oare of a Uus- siau ilurae. wno manages tho twins, while the Brazilian nurse looks after tho girl born 111 cer .o'.iniry aud the girl born in 'hina." s'n Saturday they left for their noiue in Sacramento, taking with them the aged father and mother of Mrs. Sigour- ney to see the parents of her liubbaiid. â€" .1.7(111.7 I .V. y I ..riiuc. OrderiiiK a Meal. Young man (in a loud tone of voice) â€" Aw- -waiter, have you quail on toast ? Waiterâ€" Yea, sir. Young man (in a low tone of voice)â€" Bring me aoino of the toast. â€" Life. Henry Reeves, the Niagara Falls creok, has been sentenced to three years in King- aton Penitentiary. A subscription of more than SI, '200 has been raised in Boston for tho plucky Nebraska school- ma'am who buffeted tho bli/./.ard with her pupils tied to a string. It is proverbial that country doctorshavo a hard time to inako both ends meet, but their lot would be much harder if all men were like an old resident of Fallaasburg, Mich., named Foster. Just after hia 8'2nd birthday, which occurred recently, Mr. Foater waa taken with a slight illness, and it became necessary to call hi a physician, the tirst that has visited him professionally during hia long life. Fafhiun'ri Tai.lv in TIhim. That was a queer lot of greens and helio- tropes that fashion made popular last year ; but this year's colors beat 1H87 out of sight. The names of a few may give some faint idea of their respective characters. M. Worth announces that tho following will be the tints most in voguo : In green we are to have " diseased ghost," "weary watermelon ' and " retired cheese. " " Spoiled moon " will also bo considered very chic. .Viuong tho mauves and helio- tropes " forgotten lobster" is to bo tho favorite, although " faded apoplexy" will please many. Tho rouge to ho worn with the new shades should be qualified with a touch of purple.- I'lick. Au liuprouiptu Dldaetle. Mrs. Annton L'llke (the distinguished iCnglish advocate of female sulfragej and her friends dislike very much to have that lady's dress ues^ritiea in the reports of her juiblie cqieecties. I hey say tho papers never lake the trouble to tell liow a male political speaker -i- ^loliiwi and they do not see why women si;ouid lU't be tntitled to the same [lainlese omission. roucliing this matter ;t is related that a young reporter who attendtHl the meeting at the i'lr^t Methodist Church last Wed- nesday uiglit approached one of Mrs, Pilke s friend*', a lady not unknown tt* fame, and said : " We men, you know, aro green about such things. V,':ll you pleas*" tell me wiiether iliat drebs of Mrs. .-X.shton Dilkey't IS silK or nut ' I'he lady oil her lip a little, and then, after a tiioineiit, trok the rejiorler's [lenoil and pad aud wrote : Wlielfier tier i;»»w n lie really silk Or only ^oiiietlitlij; silky. Her nauio ,s Mrs, Ahiuoii Dilke. .Not Mrs. .\shton Dilkey She tnen dismissed tiie young man as only a woman can diaiiiissa fresh young man and he has been tiating salt ever since to thaw himself out. â€" C'luui/o Tnnef. A Lonic Kuii. The I'urham Krvnic says: .-^ son of Robert Haw, of Egremoiit, went a week or two ago to Port Hope, driving all the way and taking a hound with him. When near Port Hope the dog was missed and a letter sent to his father in Egremoiit about the dog being lost. The dog arrived in Egre- mont as soon as the letter, having run I'lO miles, the time both ways being about six days. . « Fuljdt AdvcrtiHinK> lUv. Mr Learoyd, in tho Bridge Street Church, Belleville, after reading some half dozen notices on Sunday last, said : " Brethren, I think I have read anneunce- ments enough. I shall ho glad of tho tiino when thoy will send aniiouncemeiits liUo these to the papers instead of tho pulpit to waste time. That's what newspapers are for." Some Tall KoRlioh. It is impossible to fabricate a pecuniary silken receptacle from the auricular organ ot the softer sex of the genus swine. A diminutive argenteuus triiiicatod cone, convex on its summit and semi -perforated with symmetrical indentations. Uo that 18 accessible to auricular vibra- tion let him not close tho gates of hia tympana. i>ii'i»t., Multitudinous aasemblages are provoca- tive of cachinnatorv htlaritv. Hreach uf I'ruiiilho, A breach of promise case was tried at tb« Cotaourg .\ssi;',e9 on Tuesday and Wednes- day. I'he [ilaintilf was Miss Ada Uiordan, a school teacher of Toronto, who sued a young farmer aaiiied Galbraith for breach of promise of marriage made on tho 'Jfith of October, 1884. The evidence was of the usual character, a whole stack of senti- mental love letters being presented in court to prove the case. Wednesday afternoon thi^ jury brought in a verdict of ?l,u'f)0 tot the plaintiff. A 4jtiestii>n of .Size* Among other indications of German feel- ing cables tho Berlin correspondent of tho Now York lliriild, comes a renewed bitter agitation against the use of foreign words, no matter how long or how thoroughly they have oeen assimilated to tho German language. Laws are being strongly pressed which would exclude all worda not of strictly Gorman origin from oliicial use. For table use French is to bo entirely superseded â€" at least so say tho Prince Kegeiit of Bavaria, Prince Keiiss, the Crown Prince of Saxony and a large Teacherâ€" The object of this lesson ia to following of royalty and commonality, inculcate obedience. Do you know what ! Among other changes now gloated ovor by obey " means ? Ajit pupil- -Yes, ma'am, 1 tho German p'lrista aro arfriflchiingshaua my father. Teacherâ€" Yes ; that's for restaurant, gasthoftafol for table d'hote. Now tell me why yon obey yonr ' mittelripjienstuck for entrecoto,ge8pr«ngene j)(pt pupil â€" 'Cause he's bigger'n kartolfoln for pommee aautees, and karthan- I serschiiapps for chartreuse. • Rev. W. Claris, of Frorae, lost a tyear. Jack Goodfellow'e small brotherâ€" Jack, old daughter by diphtheria on Thursday, is there any past tense of due ? Jack and now several other membera ot the (gloomily) â€" Yosâ€" dun, family are suffering from the same diseaae. I obey right, father me ! V'^,*' **^. aii^r C 4 fM