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THE NEW INMATE OF HILFONT. A THRILLING STORY OF OLD ENGLAND. :HAPI K.I; I. Ws have been married torne yean. All mjr youth, and all iu hopes and disappoint- ment*, are BO far off from me, that I could almost thick tliem part of another life. I forgot the loag Mparajtion, th* partiog, which we once thought a parting forever, which wae made between Derwent and me. What did it matter? Rut now. though we are together, we are (till tolitary peo- le, with little natural occupation in thii ple, Dui gathered there, that I rather feared to find mytelf ridiculous when all my good revolu- tions fled before Derwent Croi'ton's familiar voioe; but nobody laughed at m after all for everybody .remembered, what I tup- posed all the world to have forgotten, that we were betrothed in our youth. When we left Eatoourt, *ix IttUe orphan girl* kisasd m* at th* door my children whom I bad taken to my lolitud* U> share) my i> world. Derwent will be eucceeded by in* brother'* *on only, and not hi* own ; and a* for my Eatoourt, it ha* ne kin. If any one thould chanoe to remember Clara N upent of Eetooart, that friend will not need to hear ny story over again. I am Derwent Crofteo'* wife, at toe head of the old 0*1 family in the county (or Sir John U of the younger branch I have brother*, eietera, nephews, and niece* beyond number on my husband's tide ; but except eon* old oousin* and diatant kins- folk, no friend* on my own. We are both rich, perhap* we are *ull richer now, that U, in a modest country faihion, the richc* of our own land*; but in all tbi* greatfbouse, sav* when we have visitor*, there it nobody but Oerweut and me Duly Mr Crofton and myself, and eome score of servants, in- door* and oat of-doon, attending to u* two, our houve, our garden*, and our poieeuion*. All the thought* of all thii little colony of people revolvs around the all-important quMiivn* what ihall be placed upon our table when we din* ? what fruit* and flow er* (ball make cur room* fragrant * when we will ride! how we shall amuse our telve* ? wh u we (hall put on ? I go and mt the eld people in the ullage, and the housekeeper nss daintie* made lor them when they are lick, and flannel* when the weather U cold. And Derwrnt hunt* a , little, ride* a good deal, doe* aome mild miguterial duty a* seldom a* he can, and take* care ( me. And the country think* very well of ui.an.l give* u* high credit, and o we spend our life. I* auy body in thi* world ever content ? Once upon a time we two having everything elat we wanted, broke our heart* for eacn other. Now we are married, and breaking of heart* i* at once and forever totahy out of the question ; at leaat, after that fashion. But if *ll the reit of you are content, yon good women who dwell at horn*, and take oomlort in your life, you are not like me. My huil *n>! i* I believe indeed without rrtiality the beet and kindest of men. cancel truat myself to speak of Der- went ; but then he is *u good that hit very gnodnee* trouble* hi* impatient wife. At the bottom of my heart I am happy ; but I am not content. He ha* what people call a great Hake in the country he it a great proprietor a man of perfect leitnre, and of very gootl talent*. When anything routet him, hi* energy i* fiery. I have never seen any one to prompt, *o audden, so sure ; but then nothing doe* route him nowaday*. Th* greatest effort he make* at ai y lime i* * nay'* ihnoting. A mind more liberal, or a kinder heart, it cot in ChniUndom : but then I tupnoia ifter all, and in brief, It i* jutt tn.t - Derweut i* content. Which i* a very great deal more than I am. There it nothing much to be expected from me, and ne i* eat lifted ; but there I* a great dral to be expected Irumhim, and lam quite the reverse. He ought to be in Parlia- men I, he ought to take a great place among public men, ne ought to beap'jhlicilringtn and inccor, a name for the weak to take refuge m. l'erb*p* few people know that he i* able to be all that, if he would but put forth hi* t'rength I at I know and it chain m every day of my life. For I think, perhap*, if he had children, young facr* blooming up along hi* path, that Pi-i wi-iit would bare had a motive for such exertion, which h ha* not now. I used to fancy that I hoped we should have no children ; I used to periuade mytelt that I did not with to have the dangerou* joy of on* tuoh child a* I wai, a child of old age, and love too great so that when tha>. hope came, a* it did come, I wa* amazed at lha very flood and deluge ot eeoret delight which over. powered me almott againit my will. I never told any one of tint hidden aud mex- preeiible joy, thi* joy that wa* to brighten out of hop* into reality, only, Hravnn help me, for one day ; but when it wa* pait and gone, Mid 1 knew that wai all over for me, then thi* cam* to my mind about Derwent. What reaaon hail he to route hi* heart into the dm and 'oil of common life, what motive to seek fame ' We were alone, we two, in thii world, when all the people thought u* so rich and fortunate ; alone, far away down beneath that heaven where my child wa*. For we have a rhil.l, thank (lod I w are father and molhrr, >>ut not here. And thti thought niaket me still more anil more illaoontonted. Our free vacant live*, our niimli without care, our great U*, are all unoccupied and uaeleii ; anil when 1 *lt an hour with a *ick old woman, Derwent and all hi* neighbors think me a Lady Hountlfnl anil he, so far from teeing how muuh our Mist- ence lack* of attaining tie true end of all enitrnre, think* honeilly that what he call* my oharilie* put a touch nf perfection and beneficence, quit* complete and satisfactory upon th* good order nf our life, I do not *ay that the eiUts* are badly managed. I do not tay that anything ti I'oltivsly neglected -only everything mnvs* along at lie own tweet will and I do nut feel that even the mil on M hi. h we. itand wIM U any the belter fur in, when 1 anil Dnrwr.it lie with all the Croftoni in th family grave. And tin* make* m* feel all the more trmigly, too, that I am not a Ooflmi, lit a Nugent. 1 have no children in thi* world, I am not thus charmed to the other houte, which no inn of mine will ever rule. I havs to think of Kelrourt, win. h it my very own, and where I wa* born. Yet why *pak of all theie tioondary trouble* Hut for tln, that we have not the natural dul- ls* ol family, and that Derwent I* some what Idle, anil doet not rare to rxtrt him self, I .In not nppfii* I have a trouble in my life, for we are itill and alway* on* heart and one ul. We rame In IMIi.nt when we were mar- ne.l, and great r. i i met were made uvrr i ., I am I. ..iiinl I. -. i. !', i<v 'i i. Mi linm.U. I had mad* ii|>my inin.l ...U. ; .l. .iiv l>sfor that time tt> live military at F.tloqiirl nil my Illr. and nivupy i.iy |.ri i an. I 1-imrr wi h the orphan children whom I had older orphanage and then I left them in THE SUPPLY HT SL ELItABWtn STOABT I'llXI.PS, I " Tll undisputed pot*e*aion. These seven year* have seen them aJI grow up to be almost woman; they are all my family it ill, ami tier* are more of them now; but at Hilfont Mr. Crofton and I have lived for year* alone. Hilfont i* a greater houte than Eatoourt It stand* on a hill a lordly, gleaming whit* house, not picturesque, bat rather what i* called imposing for it has no antiquity to boast of, but was built grandly and not without ostentation, by Derwent'* grandfather and may be wen by half the country, 10 linking i* it* pontimi. The gardens are terraced, hanging oa the sunni- est slopes, the wonder and pride of the neighborhood; and even the duke's park is not finer than ours. From my morning room, which is still all white and gold, and bridal-like, and which Hciweni will not have changed, I oaa as* some twenty mile* of open country, ana can watch my husband coming home, almott in any direction, an hoar before he reach** me. Since that tune when our great jay wa* quenched in a day into lorrow and loneliness, far more poignontthan if that hope had never been, I do not think any trouble has croesed our threshold for D*rwent't brothe-a and sister are protpercui, and 1 have neither. We live in thi* great beautiful houie. which i* the mott cominodiou* and convenient of houses, nearly all the year through. We So up to town generally for a few week* in une; sometimes we itretch our journey a little further, aero** th* Channel. At Christmas three or four Crofton families, and some of my ancient kinsfolk', com* to Hilfont, and all the year through I go often for a couple of days at a time to Kstoourt, tr> lee my girls. The girl* are good girlt affectionate and promising, so that estab- lishment thrives. \Vebavc good neighbor* tolerable lociety. friends who love us aud thus we livs. It is not like the life ofa woman that one imagines in one's youth that Lraml impossible existence iu which the ideal two of a young fancy live like per- sons helping each other to all unthought-of achievements. It is far too *ay. too leis- urely, too luxurious for that; but it U what the other never comes to be, th* com- mon life. If Darwent wer* but to exert himself, tad take in public estimation the place he deterve* ! Rut we am lonely our heir* are other people'* children we have attained all that man like* to attain in thi* lit*, and have nothing to look for. Where- fore it follow*, hy a natural consequence, that the thing* which we do here, leave at lean one of u* restless, and that I can not accept entirely, and b* satisfied with, our placid aud gentle lot. (TO UK COXTIXI'ED.) BRITISH NAVAL NOTES. According to a service journal the British Admiralty have directed that on the return of thn Channel squadron to England ths battle "hips Royal Sovereign, Empress of India, and Resolution ar* to be supplied with cordite charges in ths place oi black powder charges for uss with the six-inch quick-firing guns. Thsir lordship* state that, a* th* cordite charge* for these g ins arebeiugiuplied for experimental purpose*, they are to bo used exclusively for practice. The new charges are to b* stowed in the holiest msgaxlnee of each ihtp in order that the tsstof the cordite may be as severe as possible. The Repulse, battle ship, and ItUnheim, cruiser, are also to be supplied with cordite chargesfor their six-inch quick tiring guns when they join th* channel t|uadron. At the end of six months after being supplied with the new ammunition, the Captain of eaoh ship is to furnish the Admiralty with a special report on th* cord it* uied, and that remaining under hi* charge. Contracts for Inr'dingsix new cruisers of th* second class have been awarded by the II. it ith Admiralty. The construction of ths Veniii and the Diana has. been intrusted to tin- r . i. r tii-ld Company, at Coven. The 1 1. .I., and the. Ilia will be built by the Lou- don and Claegow Knrmeering and Ship- building Company, and thn other two, the Juno aud Horn, will b* oonitraoted at th* Harrow in Fumes* yards of the Naval Con slruotion and Artnamsnts Company. These ship* will, In thoir main features, follow the design! of In* Talbot, which is being completed at Dovonport. Their displace- ment I* fi.llOO tons, length .'i -u feet, and breadth 5.1 feet Inches. With engines ot U.UtXl indicated hone power, they are ex- pected to attain a speed of over nineteen knots an hour, and, thsir coal-carrying capacity being large, they ought to form a valuable addition lo Ureal llritain'* naval establishment. In a recent lecture, Sir K J. Reed, mem- ber of Parliament, said that In his connec- tion with naval construction it had always been hit sndsavnr to guard an-t protect the lives of men and ollicers In ths new era against the imagination and fancies of msn wno had lometlnifi been too little mindful of modern condition*. At the present tlm* they had lo us* a material that sank more swiftly than a atons Iron and steel and U neidid no o!*noe, but only common hu- manity to IM.III < a person responsibly con- nected with mi nr i n ie.t upon wnich otlioer* and iriMt wrr to proceed to battle to keep t brni afloat by any moan*. 1 here wore two way*, he laid, of keeping an Iron ship afloat in battle. On* was to defend Ihe vetiel w'th Imptnetrabl* armor below th* water line- and s* far abov* a* seemed desirable, and tiis other to subdivide the structure ml .. V. llnl.tr ilmslonr. A projectile, he admltu.l, would penetrate every cellular division that might h* pub tr*n*v*r**ly in th* loiignst tluu they could construct. Ths only MI* way in hi* opinion, wa* to clnlh* ss much of a war ship as possible w armor which could not bn penetrated hyall clashes of funs, an I which could only bs broknn by the Urges! and moat powerful, an. I therefore tho rarest gun* ihe wailikelj to m net with nl sea. (CONTIKVID.) The church, as we say, was packed long before the preacher appeared. He came punctually to his appointment, like any ordinary man. It was mid-afternoon, and th* sun was declining when be glided across the chancel. Already thvJowt wers lying heavily in th* corners ol tbe church and under the gtlleriei on the darker tide. A fsw lights were glimmering about the chancel, but the** served only to illuminate tbe stranger's form and face ; Ihey did not lighten the mass of hushed and appealing humanity before him. The choir, with bowed head*, just above the breath, began to chant : Who shall lay anything lo Ibs charge Of Ood's sleet ! It is Cod thatjuslifieth. It ii Cbriit thai died. While they sang the preacher stood quit* (till, and looked at the pe >ple that ttrauge and motley mass, the rich ard the pour, the ick and the well, the disgraced and the reputab'e, th* pampered and th* starving, the shameful and Ihe clean of life, Ihe hap- py and Ihe wretched together. When th* singing ceased, h* spoke as if be talked right on; he read no prayers, h* turned to no ritual ; he did net even use the great Bi Me of Saint Agatha's but only spake in a quiet way, like a man who continues a thought begun : " For the Lord," he said "if the maker of you all. ' There wai no *trmon in Saint Agatha's that afternoon. Ecclesiastically speakinr, there was no service. But the preacher spoke to the people : and their hearts hung upon his words. But what thoee word* ware no man may tell n* at thi* day. It ha* been whispered, indeed, that what he said took different meaning* lo Ihe mem- bers of that strange audience. Bach heart received its own message. Wide as the earth were the gulfs between those hearer*. But the preacher's m swage bridged them all. From his quivering lip ana melting voice each soul drank the water of lifs. Afterward each kept its own secret, and lold nol of thai thint, or of its assuegmg. "He speaks to me," sighed the patrician, with bowed head. "How happens thii, for I thought no man did know that luner hit- tory ? I have never told " "To me '. To me !" sobbed the pauper and the castaway "tbe preacher speaks lo me, My mitery. my shame the whole world knows, but no man ever understood be- fore." Tbe afternoon waned. The shadows deepened under the galleries. The great houce clung like one child to Ihe voioe of tbe preacher. It was as ttill as the courts of Heaven when a iuul is pardoned. The tranger ipoke in a low but penetrating voioe. Not n word was lost by the remot- est. H* spok* of th* love of God Ihe Fath- er, and of th* life of Christ tbs Son. H* spoke nf sin and forgivenew, of sorrow, of shame and of pence. H* spoke of sacrifice, of patience, of purity, and of hope, and of the eternal life. Not once did he allude to the petly dif- ferences among Ihe people whosal bowed and brealhless before him. Such paltry thing! as ri jhes or poverty , or position or obscurity, he did not recognize. He ipoke to men and women, the children of ( iod. He ipok* to tinners and to sufferers, and to patient saints ; hs laid nothing about "class**" ; hs talked of human being* ; b* rebuked them for their line ; hn comforted them for their nitseri** ; h* smote thsir heart ; ne shook their soul* ; he pa**ed ovsr their livss as conflagration pisses, burning to ashes, puri- fying to new growth. As he spoke, the manner of his counten- ance changed before them, like thai of any great and holy man who is charged with the burden of souls, and who persaadeth them. A fin*, inner light glowed through hi* features, as a sacred lamp glows through alabaster or somssvquisile shell Hi* plain- tive lip trembled. His deep eyes burned and retreated as if they vailed themselves. An expression daxxling lo behold settled upon his f.> 'e. His white garment gather In th* Monday morning's paper, th* ves- tryman of Saint Agatha's observed a line or two of obituary notice tacked away in on* of the spaces reserved for the obscure. It s*t lortb th* fact thai the old oletgyman who had failed to meet his appointment died on Sunday morning, of pneumonia, after a brief illness, aged sevsaty-two. [THI BSD.] A MIRACLE OF TO-DAY. The Startling Experience of a Young Lady In St. Thomas. A r*n*tant Terer for Mere Tka I'lre Tears- Her Bi<i kail Tsmrel le Water Pbvslelani Brie] ( * *f Her eeevery lew Ber life Was aaveel A TfeBdrrfal Merr. from the St. Thomas Journal. "The Angel of the Lord encampetb round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them." Such is a verss of holy writ made familiar to very many residents of St. Thomas by the well-known evangelist, Rev. J . K. Hunter. In letter* of gold on the itained glass fanlight over the door of his residence. No. 113 Wellington street, is th* text " Psalm xxxiv, 7." Thocgh we live in an age noted for its energetic, zealous Christian endeavor, this idea of Mr, Hunter's to impress the truths of the scriptures upon the** who re.d though they run, is altogether so original and so novel that it at once excites the curiosity. Those not familiar with th* Ult mak* a menta; not* of it, and at the first opportunity look it up. This is just what was done by a representative of the Journal, who bad occasion to visit Mr. Hunter's retrience the other day. Bat with th* object of the . and the information obtained the defraud and should b* avudeu. The nob 1 lie are cautioned against olhc so called blood builders and nervs toiiica, pot op in umilar form intend**! to deceive. Ask for Di. Williams' Hick Pills for Pal* People, and refuse all imitations and lubttaute*. Can b* bad from all dealers or by mail from th* Dr. Williams' Medicin* Company, Brock v ill*, Ont, or Schenecta.lv, H. Y., at 50 cent* a box or six boxes for Ji50. IT IS A BIO CONCERN. reader will be more concerned. The reporter wai assigned to investigate a marvellous cure said to have been effected in th* ease of a young lady employed in Mr. Hunter's family, by that well-known snd popular remedy. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. And it was a wonderful story that the young lady had to tell, and is undoubtedly u true as it is wonderful La*t .1 une the same re- porter interviewed Mrs. John Cope, wife of the tollgate-keeper on Ihe London and Port Stanley road, who had been cured by Pink Pills of running ulcers on the limbs after yean of suffering, and after having been given up by a number of physicians. Th* old lady had entirely recovered, and could not say ton much in prait* of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which had given her a new lease of life. A* it was wilh Mr*. Cope, so il was with Mits Edna Harris, ths young lady in the employ of Mr. Hunter's family who h%i been restorsd to health and strength by Pink Pills. Miss Harris has just pasted her twentieth year, and i* a afcetU Ik* esu Bern starch* In ran. To provide three meal* a day lor over 3,000 men and women is both a costly and a difficult business, yet ts.it is what is donf by the huge Parisian dry goodi firm known a* th* Bon March*. Each of th*** 3,000 employee r*o*iv three substantial meals a day without charge, and a staff of 130 servants is d- pated to look aft T th* ci Unary arrange- ments alons. Every day 3,600 pound* of bread are eaten, and every morning for breakfaet 200 pounds of >off** are pat into two hag* coffee pots and exhausted by ths time the meal is over. The day before my visit, says a traveller, the menu inoluded stewed rabbit, and in order that every en* should have a taale of it no fewer than 1,900 rabbits wer* placed in th* sUwpans. Whenever omelet* ire provided for breakfast 12,009 eggs have to be bought for this single meal, and when chicken is the staple article no fewer than 1,000 are roasted. -^~ : The other day ttewed bar* was oo* ol th* r.*mi. During this meal 450 hare* wer* eaten, and two large barrel* of r*d wine were actually contained in the making of sauce. Fifteen or sixteen casks, or 6,000 bottles of win* and 1,-JOO bottles ol be*r are drank by the staff evsry day three bottles each is the allowance. Three thousand six hundred pounds of potatoes are eaten every morning for break- Yarmouth Heights, and is employed by Ueo. Boucher, florist and plautaman. " I believe Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved my life, and I am quite willing that everyone should know it," was ths reply of Mis* Harm when asked if she had been benefited by Pink Pill*, and if so would he make public her itory. Continuing, he said, " When I was twelve or thirteen years of age I was first taken sick. Ths doctors said my blood had all turned to ed light and shone. Suddenly pausing, he strelched forth his hands. U hat delicate arrangement of the channel illuminated them Tit wa* noticed by many, and ipoken of afterward below the In cat h For, as he raised them in benediction upon Ihe people, there scintillated from tho palms a light. Some said that it was reflected from th* radiance of the man's f so*. Some said that it had another can**. Only this is sure, when he did uplift his haudi to bless Ihsm, all Ihe people fell upon their knees before lim. It was now almost dark la the ohuruh, and no man could sse his neighbor's face. The choir, on their knew, began to sing "Holy, holy. holy "When thsir voices fell, the preacher's rose : And now iry the grace of Qod the Peltier, and Ihe love of Jesus Chriit his Son, your Lord, and th* peace of the Holy Spirit be upon you : for there is Lif* etsr- na! ; and Cod u the Light thereof ; whos* children ye' ar* forever. Amen, sod Amen. Hit voice ceased. The hush that followed it was broken only by sob*. Th* electric lights sprang out all over th* church. In Ihe suddsn brilliance Ihe kneeling people lifted their wet faces to ths stranger's, thinking to catch a last sight of htm fur lifelong treasure. But the uhanoel was smpty. At silently, a* at raiiu'ly , as hs had oornn, th* preacher had gone. It was tho fashion of the man. Such wai hit will. H* was n.-ver seen at Saint Agatha's again; nor, though his name and fams were widely sought, were they sver learned by any. The great, stiang* crowd of worshipers melted mutely away. No man spok* to his neighbor ; each wa* busy with th* secret of his own soul The sick rslurned to their suffering! ; th* b*r*aved to their loneliness : the poor lo their Strug* gles; the rich to their pleasure* : th* erring lo il.eir temptation* I and Cod want with thorn. Down th* avenue. In tbe room olthe life- long tmnii.1, th* teceiver fell from a wo- man's (baking hand. All the**, all they, th* saddeet, the sorest, of them all had bran preferred before her. "Oh, to have teen hi* face I" iks cried. She held her thin hands before her eye*. Then Hashing by that inner llrht win. h burn* in th* brain ef thn **n*it.vs sick, th* fso* of the stranger swam before her for an insiant r ' was no* i lor the had lecognUed u. last,- and on th* day of my viait 2,400 been eaten at the water. For five yean I suffered terribly, and was so weak that I could barely keep alive. It was only my frit and strong will, the doctors said, that kept me alive at all. If I triad to stand for a short time, or U ] got the least bit warm I would fall over in a faint. My eyet war* whit* and glassy, and I was 10 thin and pallid that svsryon* behaved I was dying of consumption. During ths five years I was ill, I was at tended by live physicians in St. Thomas, iwo in Detroit, ons in London and one in Aylmer. and none of them could do any thing for me. I was so far gons that they had no hope* of my recovery. Towards the last ray feet and linbs swelled so they had to b* bandaged to keep them from bursting. They were bandaged for three months, and my whole body was swollen and bloated, and th* doctors said there was Dot a pint ol blood in my body, and they held out no hopes whatever. Twc years ago I saw in the Journal atx ut a man in Hamilton being cured by taking Pink Pills. I thought i? they oould cur* him they would help me, and I decided to try them. Before I had finished three boxes I felt relieved : the swelling went down and the bandages wer* removed. I continued taking Pink Pills nntil I had taken ssvsn boxee, ihen irregu- larly I took three more, one of which Jar. Hunter brought back from Brockvill*. 1 am perfectly cored. I have not been ill a tingle day iiooe 1 finished the seventh box of pilla. I cam* to Mrs. Hunter's a year ago, and ih* will tell you I hav* never been ill a day ilnoe coming here, and I always feel strong and able to do Ibe work. I can and do nrngly reoommend Dr. William*' Pink Pillt," eaid Mis* Karri* in coucliitior. Her appearance i* certainly that of a strong, healthy young woman. Mrs. .1. R. Hunter, wife of the evange- list, told th* reporter that Miss Harris was a good, reliabl* and truthful girl, and that perfect relianj* could b* placed in her statement*. " Shs looks liks a different girl from what ehe wai when the came her* a year ago," aaid Mrs. Hunter The facts abovs related ar* important to parents, as th*re are many young girls just budding into womanhood whose condition is, to say the least, more critical than their parent! imagine. Their completion i* pale and waxy in appearance, troubled with heart palpitation, headaches, shortness ol breath on the slightest *x*roi**, falntnesa, and other distressing lymptoms which in variably lead to a premature grave unless prompt itept ars taken to bring about a natural condition of health. In thii emer- gency no remedy yet discovered oan supply ths place of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which build answ the blood, strengthen the nerves and restore the glow of health to pale anil sallow cheeks. They are certain core tor all troubles peculiar to the female system, young or old. Pink Pills also cure not diaease* ss rhum*tiim, neuralgia, partia paralyiii, looomotor aitaxia, St. Vitui tlanee, nervon* headache, nrrvou* prostra Him, U* ftr effect* of la g'ipp*, an. sever* colde, diseases depending on humors In the blood, luch at scrofula, chrome *ry ilpelas, ete. In th* cat* of men tlisy effect a ra tlcal onre in all cases arising from m*nta worry, overwork or oxoeasei. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are seld only i boxes hearing the Arm's trads mark. The) are nsver sold in bulk, and any dealer who ofTsr* substitute* io tall form u trying to pounds of beefsteak had same meal. Ths kitchen arrangements are on a most slsborate scale. I saw three huge mar- mitres or stewpans at work, each contain- ing 400 pouadt of beat and 466 pint* of water. Each pan weigh* elose on a ton. Seven hundred pint* of spinach in one stew- pan were also being prepared for the meat The apparatus for beating the plj cost $1250. It should be recollected that ail this it absolutely free of charge. There is also a speaisJ hair-dressing establishment reserved for Use staff. A few fact* about this remarkable firm may not be without interest, for they are now given for toe first time. Tbe total income laet year was 30,000,000. On th* whit* goods sals day last February (on* day only) 9400,000 was taken in in ready cash, and then there were over 60,000 coe- tomcra. Th* stock is valued at 100,000,- 003. Five hundred shop-lifters are detected by shop-walker*, who look down from tit* upuer noon, in the course of a year. The Ben Marche is governed by twelve directors, all very wealthy men three el whom ate bound to be on tbe premise* from S :15 in th* morning until 8 o'clock al night a very different proceeding to the Kngliih directorate system. Ten thousand dollars' worth oi goods are returned every day on aconnt of ladies being aliened to change their mini*. There ii a buffet where any one, no matter whether a par- chaser or not, may bave a glass of port wine, soms iherry, brandy, or lemonade, and cakes free of charge. Th* Anglo-Saxon word bv lignifi** a beech-tree. Before paper came into general use, the wood of this tree, being close- grained, wa* used to write upon ; and from this fact come* th* wood book. When Mrs. Mary stoltifns died, nine can ago, at Nathville, Tinn., her body ly weighed 125 pounds. It was recently liiinlerred. ind it weighed over 600 pound*. The body bad become petrified. Mr. J. W. I>ykrm<iia 81 George. New Brunswick. After the Grip No Strength, No Ambition Hood'n Sarsaparllln Cnve r**MrfwCt HMlth. Th* following letter I* from a well-known nirrhant tailor of St. George. N B. : -. I. Hood A Co. Lowell. Mas*.: Gentlemen I am ilad to say thai Horn!? Sarsapjullla and H.HxI't Pills have done m* al greet deal of good. I had a severe attack of th* grip In the winter, anil after setting over the fever I did not seem to gather strength, and hs4 no sjnbltlon. Hood's Sarmparllla proved to bt> Jmt vli.tl I nef.l.-d The results wore very SaUsfaclorT. anil I rv.ininen.l Ihlt mtvl trine to all who are afflicted with rhcumaUsui or otbar Hood's^Cures ante lion* caused by poison and poor blood, f always keep Hood's 8arsa|rtlUi In my hous* anil us* It when I need a tonic. W* also k**p Mooo < nil* on ham) and think Mhly of the*.* J W. in k v m. )*ori*. New Brunswick. Hood'n Ml)*) are purely v*tUbte, sad do not i>ur av. lulu or rrilN. bU b v all drunUU.