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UN Life and Battles. !( <!/ torn H.v. genual h4el -lu.lrut. Mrbe.1 Traeher, Lawyer nn.l r*>Illlelaa-A Radical from Away- bark. The cablegram which brought to thou sand* of Manitobans and their sympathizers in older Canada, the news of the success of U'Alton McCarthy in his fight for ua tional school* in the Prairie Province, men tioned th. name of a mm who has been foremost in Manitoba's tight for provincial autonomy. *' Jo* " Martin was given well-deserved praise for hi* part in th. struggle. To lhe skill of the able lawyer headaed the convic- tion* of tb* patriotic cili/en, and doubtless, were the lr-.ith known, the man who look the < Government's large fee was much aided ly the ex Attorney-General in the prepara- tion of his brief. The abolition of Separate schools ha* been Martin's detire for years. It wo* th. rock upon which, say his enemies, h* wrecked his political future, but it has not been shown that Martin is possessed of any violent desire to remain within lhe cir- cumscribed arena of Mamtoban politics. Now that thi* great question ha* been set- tled a* far a* tb* Provincial Legislature i* concerned, the little Parliament can safely return to the betted discussion of grants to colonization railways and of the salaries of immigrant agents. Little els. have they to talk about iu the dreary days of a North west winter. The two soon members loaf easily through the session, happy in the consciousness that the stock on their farms is wintering well, and that tbe well-filled silo* an unthreatened by that "soaring" which U th* terror of the prairie agricul- turist. At Portage U Prairie Joe Martin, no long- er working Tor au unthankful people, fatten* hi* bonk account. Hi* law practice i* a large one, h* knows the personal affairs of most of hi* clientele, and i*, if need exiit, ready to advance them money at legal interest upon next summer's crop*. \Ni.en the farmer in the country about the Port- age needs ready cash he goes to Joe Martin, well knowing that he will get it from the rich lawyer with less troubl* than from any- body else. A II .11. Tnv BOT. It was in Halton county that Joe Martin was born, some 40 years ago. His parents were farmen, but it did not take long for their sou to lind that there were easier mode* of life than wresting a living from the soil of fertile Halton. He worked turn- mers and put in Ins lime during the winters at the village tcbooL By tbe title he was sixteen he had decided upon law as his pro- feuion, and, a* did many before him, and a* havo many since, he took up school teach - dutant. In those days Ontario ha Normal school, that at Torojto, and to this city he came. He was just such a raw coun- try boy as the old institution'* wall* bare often awed, bat he was determined to " get there." That obstinacy which has charac- terized him through life, first became evi- dent when he became involved in a serious nontroverty with the Principal, Rev. Dr. Davies, regarding his right, and the right of tbe men students generally, to engage in conversation with the lady student* There was at that time a very strin- gent Uw against any intercourse be- tween the two cl the reproof. The Speaker had hia little speech prepared.and all was ready. But lhe culprit with the utmost disregard of the day's programme, neglected to show up. Messengers were despatched to implore him to come and be reprimanded, but '.heir search waa in vain. Consequently tbe case wa* enlarged fora day, and the House ad- journed. Upon the succeeding afternoons Martin wa* absent, bat finally he reappear- ed, and, il is said that tbe Sptuker, having almost forgotten the nicely worded reproof which he had memorized, mode but a lame attempt at a reprimand. BI.Al-KBAJ.UBD AT " TUB KLBB." Between Acton Burrows, at one time Deputy Minister of Agriculture,, and Martin, lhre was great enmity. Rightly enough, Martin thought Burrows could not act as Deputy Minister of lh* province's most important department ana ran ths Winnipeg Tribune at the same time. He said to every session when the item for tiurr jws' salary came np in the estimates ; and he also objected to Burrows advertising himself at the expense of the province by having his name and official title printed upon the wrapper of every pamphlet that went out of the Government printing con- tractor'* ottice. burrow* bore Martin's non* too mildly expressed remarks until one day in the House his ene ny under- took to object because Burrows hod had cut on his wife's tombatone an intimation to the effect that she had been tho " wife of Acton Burrows, K*q.. Deputy Minister of Agriculture." Then Burrows got out hi* knife and sharpened it for his enemy's benefit. He had not long to wait for an opportunity of using it. Martin in- directly allowed himself to be put up for membership in the Manitoba Club, Winni- peg's swell social organization. Burrowi happened to be a director of lhe institution, and be pulled wires to such effect that Mar- tin waa blackballed. Then then wa* a tre- mendous rumpus. Martin's friends vowed that Ihey would resign, and start another club, and Burrows' parly sweetly told them that they were quite at liberty to do so. Martin was implored lo allow his name to be posted a second time, but h. very sensibly refused. His consent would have been nut* to Burrows, who would certainly not have allowed to pass an opportunity of turning the knife in a green wound. And now Martin, his great work over, ha* nturned to hi* law book*, and Burrow*, who ha* long since been out of the Govern- nipeg. Martin'* friend* affect to believe that he will sonic day-return to active poli- tics, buthe lays he never will jd experience has shown that he generally mean* what be y- Fast Train* Are the tare**. Superintendent Darlington of the Penn- sylvania lines is of the opinion that fast 1 are tii. safest, and unless then is a in the tra.:k an accident seldom hap- pens to them. *' Our No. 7," says he, " i* known to be an exceedingly fast train, and every on* keeps out of iu way. At Knights- , town, for instance where our faat train* r> -n BIM rn ntn - ON >i t u. I'r f. Heeler r Ihr Allegfcrnv Otitrrvalorr Mas,e lsuere*llas wbservallesu. A new steel tube for the great telescope in the Allegheny Observatory at Pittsburg was mounted Sunday afternoon, and Prof. KeeUru much pleased witn ths improvement in hi* pet instrument. The new tube, fifteen feet long, was made by Mr. Braibear. Sunday night wa* spent by Prof. Keeler in another study of Mars. Tne atmosphere was pellucid, and the planet wa* *eeu in unwonted splendor. Prof. Keeler is giving particular attention to the markings on the planet. He devoted himself on Sunday night to a certain spot, which, when of which compared hs made a map today with the don and Toronto daily papers should con- spire together they could make or mar the fortunes of either of the presidential can- didates by merely publishing laudatory notice* of the one or tlie o'.har of them for repiiblicitioii in the United States. THE -I i i> r.4LL i i . re LIvUs; Thlac ! Oar. ami Ike Same Will be True Ajala. Them \r\\ a t.m in the history of the worl-l w hen even Ihe animals iia-i no voica. There were i o sounds or noises but those made I y the wind* whistling about moun- tain tops and howling through primeval forests, or of the waves dashing an shores absolutely silent and dead. The animals of those geological epochs, being in the plan'i: state preceding the development of the plan of Schiaparelli and another map of the planet, both made in isxl, showed that great changes are taking plac*. _ The spot viewed waa on the border of | *eou3 structure that now gives form and the great Southern s<a where on the old , comelmesi to the human body, were just be map, there waa a well defined inland lake g"">">g to breathe ihe external air with a surrounded by a circular rim of land, on th* one side jetting into the ocean, and on the other separated from the mainland by can- alr At present this round island, with its little lake in the centre, ha* divided into two islands, each having a ceutral lake. This has taken place in four years, and denotes rapid alterations in land and sea. But this is not the only change observ- able. The land on Mar* appears of a clay color, while the ocean shows) a watery green. gende respiration. Ages, it should be said epocns, were passed 13 this minner. in the course of which the habit of respiration de- veloped the lungs. Then the use of the throat essential to tk '-ai ing of food produc- ed thoac organs necessary to speech, which are called the pharynx, glottis, and larynx. It seems that Provideacd, as a matter of supreme convenience, made the same pat- sige serve for eating, speaking, and breath- ing, although another arrange rent wa* possible, like the respiratory apparatus of The outr rim of land around the lake clo*- I the graashoppcr. which is placed at the sides. est to the sea does not reveal a clear yel- i Til'* is one of the very few exceptions to the lowish tinge, but is becoming gradually rule w| lic h applies in common to man and green, showing that the ocean may u* over- flowing the land. Out in the sea beyond this point, ihsre was, four yean ago, a bright little island, one of the mo*t distinct spot* on the marti- al landscape. This island has grown con- siderably in size, ami begins to take on tbe proportions of a continent. of the higher of these, until one sir.gle dead level is reached, above whi.-ti t.^. voice will be unable to rise. To this unfortunate voice music in all its form* will long have been impossible. For while a oof vena- tion, whore ghostly solemnity can only bt' imagined will l>e carried on. and then U' vocal organs will erase entirely to exist. r:i JTO;. most animals. When the upper part of the throat was in an advanced state of development the act of respiration Ugan to be aocornpaiued by cer- tain inarticulate sounds, at tint resembling the rough breathing of a person whose air passage* an obstructed by a bad cold. In ttmct soon taught the animal that these As the ocean retreat* frorr. it and leaves <" co ld increeed by forcing slightly it* surface larger and larger, the water en- croaches correspondingly on tbe low parts of th* main 1 Tke rreMeallal C.s It is amuing and instructive to watch from this tide of the border the trend of po- litical events in the United States during a presidential campaign. No sooner is a can- didate in the field than his attitude toward Gnat Britain becomes a matter of surpass- ing publ.c interest. His views on L'uited States relations with France, Germany, Russia, or the Central and So nb American State*, are all of tilth ral* importance at compared with even a suspicion that he is favorable to the maintenance of peaceful re- lations with Great Britain In fact all question* of fomgn or domestic policy are made secondary to this all pervading, blind and unreasoning prejudice against the Brit- ish, which gives color to .vary presidential campaign. The political readers recognize it* force and govern their conduct accord- ingly. A pn.idential candidate in France who wa* admittedly in tbe pay of tbe the m.pintion or expiration of the breath, or by contracting th* muscle i of the throat and so emitting ihevoicB in a rapid succession of indefinite sounds. \Ve have the right to suppose that the yelping of sea lions repre- sents very nearly vhe human voice in it* early stages of development. Th* oun<ls of the voice of the human being an, like those of all annuals and of all instrument*, the re- snlt of a vibration of chorda, and are grave or acute according to the size of these chords. BUYILTY Id - tsBfrlrasi TTjmru Ijr *! Frr.|Mrat Ravers. Those horsey young w >men win buy equestrian picture* of the Empn-M "i Au*- trta must tind it >li!lhult to reconcile ' h* dashing horsewoman of the photograph witu the grandmother of the suicide Crown Prince Rudolph's little daughter. The fact is that tlie Empress, now 54 on>l probably forever disablea from horsel>ack ruling, has not had a picture taken for the public since H | One of her earliest and least- kLown photographs shows her a young wife in rid ing habit, but as only her head and bust are visible and she does azl wear a ruling hat the presence of her favorite ature would hardly be suspected. Her late*r photo- graph, now quit* a quarter of a century oM, represents her in court robes and ciown a* Queen oi Hungary Af'.er tbe photographs of British royalties those of German and Auslian sell best, the Russian next, and perhaps the Italian next, tnough then i* a steady demand for royal babies of all nations, including especially the little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland in frocks and the tiny King of Spain in velvet garments that upon other than royal legs would be called knickerbockers. The rage for collecting roya! photographs which grows here and is found not among persons of for eitfn birth but among native Americans, takes many odd turns. Some collectors buy only photograph* of royal babies, and of court* aoquin a large stock of (jueen Vic- torias abounding progeny. Tlie lost addition , to this gallery is the fife baby, with father and mother looking down upon the mite of ' royalty. Those who do not can ior babies J buy royal beauties. The Princess of Wales, I who no longer pretends to ihe charm* of . youth, dues not show ths Kmpreas of . Austria'* unwillinzness to be photographed with increasing yean, and an* reappears ! year after year in the very gowns the orders far which a famous tailor of this town loyal- ly preserves in a aacred album. Reigning There in little reason todo>ibt that th* lint sovereigns are tbe special object* of other sound* made by animals were low down in collectors, while still other* gather in any- the musical scale, but as the voice, ' lhm< from th* loftiest autocrat to the humblest and most hopeluan of pretenders. Of th* latter tbe Bourbons and Bonaparte* uv INSTINCT, waa more and more uned, either for the pur- poe of amusement or to inspire terror. ate the most popular. One very mild pre- tender, Mr. Iturbid* of Mexico, who refute* no one know . a . through at nearly sixty miles an hour, OTe . rn M received rErl ,,, m th , voice , of ,,!,, Jottjnniue 1 ne has ever len hart. The people , " h '"-re ho*til. demonstration, than a , , \ , h , ir o! bllt Kencrlkl i y by lhe , th. tram, canno. be stopped inV.ec- 1 prs" lentl 1 "*^* to *" UmU>J . Sl ff cireufnsince, iu which they weri place-L they would naturally, m the case of many to stir about his title, has the good taste lo species in which there was a more pronounc- ' KM p on t of the picture shops. Then is ed development of the eraniuin, IM made < 80 me demand for his photographs, but deal- more in til. head and hecora- wha'. w* now (r> , n tucn thing* *ay that they nave iried call head lone*. Thi* change trrs m >n rapid i a vain to obtain u hen and in Mexico. in animal* living on the land, th* voice of tho** whoa, habit* continued to Iw amphi- bious remaining much th* same. There oame in lhe coarse of time to be a gnat N royal beauty has had a greater sale for the pa*t two yean than lhe Baroness Vtsva, the victim of the Aiutrian Crown Prince. Her picture in half a jojon pole* has sold enrmouly in the United Stale* and over most of the civilized world, but it ww huv niu .nww trw v|yw i *-.- i . i/irvuiuaiiiic iu wunu they were place*!. e%nnot be bought in the Austrian empire, cond and govern themselves accordingly. It I w b * v ' n * ' Ir 11 '"'' 1 * The different species of tbe ftline race liv- p jrlrmit sellers compUm that "-- is in towns when there an slow ordm- ' f * lln /"' mother of nalmns. This - jn , i)re(ti ,.,., ., .u- u ; -v _ I ance* tratth* people are hurt. Tliey know ! P' m of , hosliHy to Ureat Britain is en to run slow, and fouraged not only .n the press of the repub ll< =. bu ' th I * kuowlmlg,. readen, the srhool histories. and Martin writhed under the enactment which forbade him to pass the 'line of day to a fellow scholar. His attitude *et th* principal against him, and for a time hi* (ipuUion was talked of. Fir.ally, however, ha agreed to observe the ordinance!, and ths storm blew over. SCHOOL TCACHINU IX OTTAWA. There are many youn B fellows in Ottawa to-day who remember the time when the short, dark young man taught school in that ill-derlnetl district which is known in the Capital ai " out Naw K Imboro' way. " The little building iu whic'i he wielded j crayon and ferule has been replaced by a ' big red brick school home, but the time i* not so far remote that many of his ex-pupils cannot well remember the time when the school master used to walk down the road to Kockcliffe after school hours, and, th* PMi<ti<w th. trains are compelled take their time about getting across the track. Ths experience of railroad men us j that fast trains an the safest. In the | " d Vj* v * r l?i event of cattle on th. track it is better, too. especially for children, ar* all poison to hit them hard than easy. I was) on the pwently with no other object except to engine of a freight train once when we ran **P lh " f<wlln of "n<y ' into a flock of sheep. The animals were *neration to generation Ihepnjud thus early instilled into the mind.) p* prepared isoneii, ap ing in forest* cultivated the higher tone*, The lion adapted his vo.oe to in* vatl desert space* when he roamed and gained a scanty subsistence. The dog in Ins wild stale huddled together around the bell wether, and my hair began to rise. I thought sure- . - ly we would be thrown from thi track. Tlie ' engineer put on a full head of steam and ' ' struck the Hock at great speed. The engine thnw th* sheep to one side like chaff. Had ho tried to atop or run .lowly toe en- gine would have bean derailed." Two yean ago a cow wtr seen in the middle of the Nlonon tracks in front of the th U sft youth, u stered in later life by tl fren the press : until at the _ time the Uniled States can only he accurate- ly described as a nation hostile to Great Britain. Kven th* " bloody shirt " is lew ffective a* a campaign appeal than smew. I canvass which recegm/.es lhe existence of this intense hatred and ja!ouay of Great al me among resident foreigners can be de- pend.d on a* purchaser* of royal photo- graphs. The Italians purchase few of the Italian royal family, though thty and neo- probably confine i himself to lhe lower notes | pig o f U nationalities buy photographs of of the seal, and expressed his hostility only .roiling Pop. Leo and the lat. Pope Pius, by barking. Since his domestication, bar- : The French care little for pictures of their ing acquired a sort of human sentiment. | pnlenden and scarcely mon for those of he yelp, and whines in th. hijher tones to their Presidents. The small German royal- express feelings that are but imperfecl'y j ties are purchased chiefly by their former j understood. The cat imitates the high so- I mbject* resident here, *a"v* when some i pronoe. Th. horse having a long neck and Teutonic princekin wed* a British or Imper- a head nearly as long, imitates in hi* neigh- ' ,[ German prince**, wnen the collectors ing mo*t of th* modern tenors. The anima!* *-) publf begin t.i lake au interest in of the bovine tribe produce the voice from Pumpernickel. Republican rulen excite small interest. ' train. Th* engineer result was the locomotive waa derailed and the engineer killed. A few months) ago the writer was riding OB an engine on the Chicago divis on of the Pennsylvania, and a herd of cattle got on the track. Th* train robing in the heavy-branched cedars that I was running almost forty mile* an hour, but clnth* the Ottawa's precipitous banks, took i when the engineer saw them ho " thnw her a header in the River'* swift current. As ] wide open " and went into them at full an athlete he was a distinct failure ; in fact he never saw any reason in pursuing a ball tried to stop and the I Britain. Th. democrats ar. r.ow, by th. for- .Ur.iUI and tune* of war, the chief sufferers in cnnse- seventy-five miles an hour, was done except to " muaa up ' extensively The engine nun No damage the engine was ask<l all over a ten-sen lot, but Ins love of the water was strong, and his dips wen daily. But the six hundred dollars a year wliich j reply was that, had he been runniug .low, the future apostle of provincial right, wo* ! it was eight chances to ten that lie would paid by the Ottawa School Board went mainly in the purchase of law books. In four yean he passed his final examination, and in ISSj was called to the bar. Then he quence. The Yankee elector is urged to vote against the particular policy that i* presumed to be in favor in Great Britain ; and. strange a* it may appear, in three case* out of nve, h* votes accordingly without regard to th. .ffecl of that policy upon his own personal or political interest.. In the present campaign lhe alleged hostility of the British people to the McKmley tariff and their interest in the success of the V b^liai 1 S*U . Mi IIV VM)*MV III til w SBM BwM I. til \ 1 ] t I why he hl thrown on the extra speed. His democrat, will lose Mr Cleveland many have left th. track. Tsie riower-Matektlas; . -inn- Am! extraordinary trial, known as the vot*. The argument which is built up on this foundation is very simple, bat doubtless on that account all the more effective. For intianc-e, (J. \V. Smalley in a recent issue ot th. New York Tribune says: "From ' the moment the democratic convention d set oul for Manitoba, whom he has lived since. Settling at Portage U Prairie, after , Abortive conclusion a l-rief stay in \V miiiper. he soon Inn.t up a ' Judicial Gambling C*e, has just come to j clsred for a revenue tariff, and pracMcally .^ I ._ t l_ I- _ !_.... L. sT_ _* ._ m. law practice which was the envy of nil rivals. The money which he made h. salt- ed away where neither nulh nor runt doth corrupt, in Manitoba farms and Wumipeg lowi lota. When tho boom came along he mloade 1, and when it was pait, leaving ir.ndnds of financial wrecks behind, the as- tiro Martin liought back much property for halt th* money he had got for it. X0 IN TIIK l.BiilMI.ATl'KK. In lss.1 he was elected to the h..-\l legis- lature for Portage la Pisine, which he re- presented until he voluntarily left the legis In <in-i>n>ray made him General, and it was thru that be us. Hi* speech in introducing y Ge famo lati\e Attorne became the bill f >r the ulio'.iiion oi Scparule schools is accouutvd the ^reiteit oiatoncal effort ever rtuue in Manitoba. Martin'* manner, both in 'he Hae and In private life, was abrupt, almrt brusque, ami cousoii ueatly, ho never m&de many fneml*. He none of those men who have a \vry proper appreciiit um of the value of their own society, ami was scKlom seen in company. Btrsr It cannot he said that his speeches were chain. iiTi/cd '<y either diplomacy or regard tin I'.i'tui 'ii. If lie had anything to say aliout a man he said it, and when the Speak-r "called him down" ho grunted a re traction. Once, in Issii. he made use of re- marks which were nothing less than MM-. 'I ho speaker called U|K>n him to tetract, Iml the obstinate ,Te would not retract worth a cent. Therrupon thellu< the CiiiiMervativvn were in |mwrr in tliose il*y passed n motion lequestioa tho ,-r to rvnrimand Mr. M\i tin, ami theu *uljo"nr<i Nrvi <lay tin- ^i'Vnc wer <-U'-\u. .1 ami lhe House . tillfil l'\<-i\ wanted to ^ee bow Martiu wou d take lent unusual interest to at lokio. What the case was the fact that the defendants accused of illegal gambling were the President and six Judges of the Supreme Court. The allege*! offense with which they w.re charged consisted in playing card* in a teahouse with tome ot the dancing girls of the capital for part- ncrs. O*ing to the high position of the accused and the fondness of tliu Japanese for eu- phemisms, the case waa known in polite circles as the " flower-play matter." because the game of caul, in which the Judges are supposed to have been indulging was the Jspanese g*me of " hana-avan," or "flower matching," so called because the cards bear representations of various kinds of dowers which have to be brought into couple, by the play.ru. Owing to the grave scandal occasioned by such charges l-eing preferrad against the very admin istntton sunl inter- preters of the law, strenuous efforts were made to hush the matter up, but the accus- ed Judges, enpecia!ly Judge Kojinu Ikon, the I'roaideut of theSupieme Court, declar- ed their resolve to have the whole matter throughly sifted. I'lu- in "U eminent counsel on the Japanese bur wi-r- rrtamvil, ami a special triciinal, called an Admonition Tribunal, waionc!ifl in lh* Ailministrative I'ourt for th. mir- nose of conducting the inve.tigs.tion. The inquiry, winch was conducted with closet) doors, had rcsulti-d in the court pronounc- ing the defendants to be beyond the reach of prcsrcution. As an instance of tbe ex- traordinary excitement c* ised by the uhnli* alTair, it ma} be mentioned that the rn-- nt ii-s;^iitii<iii .'f Viscount Tanaka of the Mri- '.'iv of Justice was ru'imred to he in con- sequence of the ex Minister considering tlio occurrence of such a Boasxisloas in during IIH li-iiiire of t'i.- I'mitolni of Justice .-,I..-;K! lo I* iMn.is.eut wiln his rg in < lLc*> for free trade, the British manufacturer be cam. a hot partisan of Cleveland. He well knows thata tariff whicli did not discrin in- ale in favor of the American manufacturer would discriminate in favor of lh<* British manufacturer. The law n inevitable. It cannot be otherwi*.. H. therefore divides his hatreds. He hate* the republican and loves lhe democrat. That i. a qualification to be kept in mnul when you are consider- ing tho .late of British feeling toward Am- erica. J u.t so far as you, or any consider- able portion of American citizens, an ready to sacrifice American interests to British interests, just so far Joes the love of the lintnh inaiiuficturer extent). " The inte! ligenl (T) elector is further informed that tho Urilish free trader not only halca the republi- can, of whom in fact he knows very little, but that: "He heard with joy, with a sel- fish and inhuman delight, of the Hom<*tcad riots. Not that he wished anybody any particular harm, but thai he would have looked on complacently had tlie Carnegie mills been wiped off the face of the earth." Of course, this representation of the Bnu>h elector as an inhuman mon- ster, who gloats with iii<ndish delight over the massacre at Homestead, do,es not, strike th'i average Yank'e as an absurd carica- ture; for from early l>\ lu>od ho his been targlit to Iwlieve that John Hull is tyranni cal, bloodthirsty, and above all actuated by a morbid desire to aiigrandi/e at the ex- |<ci *e of the I'ritcd States. The result of tin i sort of education M that the United States is soexti.Mii.'ly seimiivc to whit i prutvntcd as British ciincism and Kritisli sen iinent, that a cindidate for public oriuv in the republic can hardly be elected, though he juwsess all other |>oi ticul citmliri.'aiioiu KM lie tlie embodiment of all tne virtues, if h. eli MI! I receive an appreciative notice in an Kn^lih journal oi nigli standing. In i wag o.i'v !. 1 wli it low down in the throat, only occasionally venturing on certain higher and exceeding ly unnatural notes. A great variety of tone and compass is found among the birds, from the shrill scream of those of a ravenous kind down to ill. parrots, among which are found the bassos, baritone*, and con traltos of the race. The singing birds com- bine the high and low tones with extraor- dinary flexibility of voice and a perfection of vocalism at which they arrived probably at a very remote { ariod of th. world's his- tory. Man inherited fro n his immediate ances- U>r*. the apes and monkeys, a voice of con- siderabl. altitude, in which ths lower tones) were almost unknown. Th. monkeys chat- ter. -.1 to their follows from tree to tree in shrill head tunes, the natural vocal expres- sion of a week and timid race, in whose physical formation lhe head lial begun to hold an important pUce. The upper notes of ill i register were characteristic of lhe tint men, as they still are of savage tribe* and peoples, a.i I of the half civilized mem- bers of modern society, whote voices have never been subjected lo discipline. The voices of country people accustomed to MMiMfl' K\T IM.sTAVttt and conversation at long range are, i! not keyed higher, oftener used in the upper rn<;e* than those of city people, who feel obliged by the necessities of good breeding to moderate their toues. W hen a man is self contained he uses the middle and lower lone* of his voice : when anrry the voice mounts gradually lo lhe head. If the gen- tler sex would oftener bear in mind the eulogie* of Shakespeare and Scott of that voice gentle and low which is an excellent thing in woman they would mon rarely hive occasion to wonder why they have ceased to be attractive. The music of lh- Chinese, Japanese, and of all wil-i tribjs is keyed hijlh and sung usually in falsetto, the lower note* being obtained by drums, tom- toms, or tome other instruments of the kind. Although their songs tre far from agreeable to the car, they still think they can ting, an illusion shared, it must be con- fessed, by a considerable number of ponons in the most refined modern society. These facts and ,11 ; -estions contain prob- ably the reason for tho belief expressed l.y a French writer that the human voice is gradually descending the scale. High tenors and sky-scraping soprano* are mcie and more ililnc-lt lo find, a great m stor t une in these times when the Wagner operas dem-uul such extraordinary vo.- \Ve have alreody endeavored to exp!am the awful consequences, of this theo.y earned to its logical results It has shown how the sopranos will gradually become contralto* . the contraltos tenors, regardless of sex : the tenors baritones. Mid tlie baritones bassos. It would In' well if the misfortune ended here, l-ir this n l>y no moans all. \VI., wli"!.! I, -mi in luce n only .inl 11 t . ifcctly true, tii.u if two ur three Lou- t ones there will continue lo li* a dcproaaiou an! since lv>m Pedro fled from Brazil no ruler on this side of the Atlantic ha* been a good sale with the photograph dealers. Even the bronzed soldier face of th. pic- turesque Dia/ of Mexico i* in small demand. and 11 is only when there is some anch ex- citement as that of the Chilian trouble that th* Presidents below the jeclsof interest. isthmus arc ob- *TOK1I li>- IT* TEKKvst* TO THO* Of CNwLKBl I* SU'MIA. *vi*red r*nl . t Klrt TBJ* Hospital al *lj*l Blown *>.wn -* rrr OB .in tfrlcHB Hall *leassh(s). A St. Petersburg despatch says- The horrors of a f rightful stotui have been add- ed to the misery and suffering caused by th* cholera at Nij u Novgorod. The storm wa* one of the imwt frighlful that has visit- ed that region. Il came sweeping over the town with a force and fury that many build- ings ward uuaWe tc resist. The cholera hospital was full of patients, many of Ihem in a dying condition. As they heard the foar of the hurricane some of them actually died of fright. The U-rrible noise of the approaching storm was soon followed by the storm iueit, which crushed in a large par', of the cholera hospital like an eggshell, hurling the beds and wooden walls into a mass of ruin. From llio debris came the shrieks and groans of the victim*, a number of whom died while the work of rescue vra* going on. Oilier building, were also crushed, and the tents of the traden who had remained, notwithstanding the cholera, were scaiu-r- cd, with their content*, in all direction*. The wretched people of Novgorod have had all the courage driven out oi them by Ihi* laleet visitation, and many of th* supersti- tious declared that tbe Almighty had deter* mined to destroy th* city on account of the wickedness of the people. Those who couid. riy have deserted tb* plac., while the pro- pi* who remain can be seen iu crowds al the shrines and in th. churches, praying for the mercy of heaven. The cholera epidemic appears now to be assuming a milder character throughout the affected region. A telegram from Nijni Novgorod received by the Nevosti slates that the number of patients there is de- creasing rather than growing, while tho convalescents are more numerous. Prof. Anrep. who was sent to report upon the outbreak, declare, that the cholera hat) generally appeared 1:1 a mild form, and is each day bouomiug less malignant. Why destroy present happinesjs by a di tant misery, which may never come at a/f or yon may never livn to see it, for every substantial grief ha. twenty shadows, and i lows ui your owu mnkiu_, - k i> diiey