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THE FARM. Selection and Bre iing of Shesp- As relatea to tiie development of tlio sheep indnst-y in the northern Slates, and partieuiarly MI New England, flie remark of Hon. .Ioh-> K. Kussell, of Massachusetts, before a gathering of farmers, U quite sig nihVaut. S:i.d Mr. Russell : " I keep my shrep first for U-nlu, secoml Inr maUon, next for the improvement of my pasture! and the manure I ..! t of my f. (hen it I get $125 or $1~>0 for the wool: that is MI much ad lition to my profits. I am glad to get a good price for my wool, ot course Ida not reckon the wool as an ab- solute necessity f my sheep-keepinir." The prnponifons lai<l down by Mr. Rus- <ell aa thj foundations of his system in sheep hunluiniiry are susceptible of a wide application, and Home variation to adapt to circumstances of environment by the average farmer and sheep owners. To carry ttati-n or i.'namVut landing tliaji their trau'porUtiou onsts thereat tar. During the lout census year American railways car- ried Ot million ton* of freight an average distance of Ms milei at an aver.i^n charge somewhat less than one cent for moving ona ton one mile. In the name year orer 53 million tout of freight were earned on the I ! rt at, Lakes an average distan e of -JS!) miles at an average chai'iga of ahnut one tenth of a cent for moving oae ton mio mile. There are no statistic* of the distance agricultural product* arc rnv,-ycd by wago.i or the i-ost of sm-li transport:! tion. In mil -I ites farm products must be hauled by va^ou 'JO ud even .'ill miU-i. ami even in Illinois, which ha* a, greater railway mileage than any other slats in tlio Union, there are three co'iniics that have not a mile of railway w.t'iin their borders It hits been calculated that wagon transportation coiU at least 'J.'j cents per ton per mile. Now. out i he principles laid down in the above system, one needs to start iimlerslandingly , and with a proper conception of tlie fun a- m nials that lie at the root of the business, to firry out such a plan successfully. I'l.iuilv, wool is a second-try objee., hence occupies a secondary place in the calcula- tions in founding nV-k of (deep. But need * mutton breed of sheep one whose '.','" i pounds is a good wag'-n-loutl on an first qualification, a* named above, is to 'urnisli good-sized, quick matin ing lambs foY- a fastidious market be so poorly cloth- ed with wool as to furnish but live or six pounds of wool per head? as that in what we understand Mr. Kns'ell to mean by the value he pats upon his wool, 100 s-eep pro- ducing from $125to $1.">U for the wool prod- uct. ~ The possibilities attainable in selection and breeding of a flock of sheep the ordm earth road in its best condition. To haul this load to the railway station or steamboat landing, )"> miles dixtaut, and return, is a good day's work for a man and two hunes, .11 d nearly always the farmer making this trip retuni!i with his wagon nearly or quite empty. Uuder men favorable condition*, transportation by wagon costs 10 to 15 cents per Km a mde. But oficner tlio dirt lug , way is in such condition tha not mure than 1,1'n.:- l,."iH) pounds can lie haule 1 ; not mireqiitully the. wagon itself in all that the team < an drag tlnoiuli the mud. Allowance bein g made lor sina 1 1 loads w hen the condition of the dirt highway U-H>S not admit of fall loads being hauled, and is it not plain that 25 cents per ton per mile i* not too hub .111 Pinnule of I ho average cost of waffon trans- portation? lint it will certainly be sale to say thai the average cost is only 1 5 <.ents ary small and medium-sifted flocks usually | per ttn per mile, compared to .about one kept on Onta.-io farms 13 increase the size, fattening quality and wool-beariiijj propen- sity are greater than most breeders ol sheep have as yet realized. I now have in n.ind one small flock of ewes, which last spring averaiied a tnfleoverj stables, small fruit*, poultry and dairy prod- pounds of wool per head, and each n.-ta are brought to tlie consumer solely jqnainted \\itll cent by rail and one tenth of a cent by water. A very large part of our agricultural prod- uct 9, grains, as well as meaU perhaps mom than one half of our perishable veg- eight pounds of wool pi roared a good lamb. I am this farmer. He has never" indulged in by wagon. Tne larger part of the consumption of man and beast in fancy breeds of stock at fancy price*, of any , villages, towni and smaller citici is brought kind. He has good stock, however, from by wagon, without the intervention of the rai'-sy, from tho farm lo ihe consumer. It w nd appear that of the farm products transported by horse-power, scarcely on* hall is transported by rail or water ; while practically all farm products transported by steam or wind are iranp< rtcd by horse also. This Iwing true, is it not true ih it wagon transportation of our farm pioduct* costs twice on much aa the remainder of their transportation to the cojsum-r ? The great magnitude and importance of wagon transportation is not generally < >m pii'ln 'iideil. Farmers have not realize:! that to get farm products lo railway or vessel cost* more than all lhirafl*rtr importation, and hence are often indifferent to the ncans of wagon transportation, being con- tent with miserable highways. Kvery effort hat been made tu promote railroads at the expense of waitou roadn. And though i Mi.ii-s will still further r-dnca freight rates by nil or water, II-MV mucli greater is the margin for savings in wagon transport r im by means of better roads. So long as wagon transportation costs twenty times aa inn h XV.- find ihe opinion- -properly founded, I w*tr transportation, ihe first named of I think prevalent th-vt no crosi witn the f'-rs the most promising tic-Id for economy. Merino is so potent as to cross with pun- 1 Farmers have only to closi-ly conaidi r these bred rams u on the native ewes, or ewes of "'' "'her points in elvod to find an allirma- hens to horms. He will tell you the direr eucc between the value of a lirubnia chick- en, the product of a cross b) a Brahma cock upon a Plymouth Rock pullet, or < cer*a. He does not expect his sheep to do their lust in growth and their characteiis- tic* from which profit ot-cn es in sheep keep- ing, while the animal* are covered with vermin, or are poorly fed and illy cared for. This fl<>ck of sheep is not composed of rep- resentatives of a pure breed. Cotswold, 'outhdown and Merino bluoil, nh an ad- nuliire of the common native stock, tormi n admixture of blood that has been carri- ed forward by the introduction of pure-bred aisles, beginning with ewes selected common *tock. I 1. 1< principle of selection and breeding has i|U ite a wide application. I thins if the farmer I speak of should give his opinion he wonld pay ti.r greatest advance in qua! ly in ! : flock has I ten made the last three years, since the iir.iodiietion of purebred Southdown blood in the males he has pur- chased. seiaon for oroni, be alsared laad or bnilt fouuoi. Hit used hii fodder and some oi his straw, too, for feed, by cutting it up into short bit* aud mixing it with other feed. And he ra sed some line stock, too, for in winter ho did not allow them to stand out without a good shelter. If yon wished to see II..H farming implements, and buggies and waggons, when not in use, you had to look in t ii.' shed or go into the biy barn. 1 never Sie-ird of bis being financially embirraeved, and i.c could afford to attend the animal County fairs, lie pitied those farmers who bad good farms ami yet Im 1 to advertise for teaming, spring ploughing, etc., etc. Neighbor farmer which man are you iniitht- in;;: lines your farm pay you? " Ii yo.i keep your shop your ahop will keep you." [I'raukliu. Gas 1 ! or Credit- Credit a a ba'.l and chain arouii'l the leg of tho buyer, the retailer, the jobber and all who are parties thereto. It is a load, a h-iiid which fetters all who practice it, and in the majority of cases inevitably ends in disastcC and misery. It is pe. haps impos- sible, in many cases, to dispense with it entirely; and yet we know that with tho oxeivn of i little patience and resolute sell-denial, even this has been done to the credit aud hippmessof all concerned. In buying on credit, one generally reali7.es timl he in pnyiug <i ore for his goods than lo cah customers, am) the dealer knows that a credit purchaser will buy much more than lin would if be were buying for cash. Herein is a double evil. One wanU only twenty dollars' worth of goods, and be- cause he hadn't the cah with which to pay for them, is called upon to pay -5 dollars. Then he sees so many things around the store that he has wanted so long, and which if he had them would add to the comfort and pleasure of his wifo and family, and he is tempted to add another twenty- five dollars' worth to his store ac- count, ami is on tho merchant's books for a full fitly. This is a large sum of money, bat he feels that after harvest, or after he has sold hii hogs or his cattle or bis corn, he can readily ana easily p.iy it. But when that tine comes he finds that ho ha'ii't a cent moro than u called for in the purchase of tilings absolutely necessary to run the house or tho farm, and ia very many instances in- stead of paying IHH stor.t account first he leaves it unpaid 'or ,i more convenient sea- son, and adds to it from time lo time as tho occasion requires. By and by he finds him- self so involved that a sacrifice of something has to be made, and is made, and in the sacrifice he is compelled to part with what is oce hur.dred and filly dollars for one hundred dollars, and here is another loss ; and u illustrates the manner in which m my urekept poor and full of I rouble al; the time, for want of prudence and self-denial. Let the motto be cash, as far as possible, all I along the lino, even 'hough we do not dress as fine or live as high as some of our neigh- bors. other breeds or their mixtures. The thorouolibreJ cross ol any of the mutton , _..!,._ tive answer to the question, wil pay ? { American Agricuituns . toads breeds upon Merino ewes has not generally been attended with satisfactory results. | Dlfierance Between Two Farms and Their The weil-bred Sonthdcwn is a good wool Owncn- Having be<>n brought up in a farming community, I have often observed thn vast dit1.-ren.-e in the appearance of two farms . 1 bearer. The fleece is thick snd fairly long staple. All acquainted with sheep know the characteritti.-s of the Merino for a c oro fine fleece. The Cotswold has a larger staple than either, and hen the combina- which lay along the roadside and which I Bltl)>< vn. in ei viler, nini vt u u LUC WIM**UW- , . .,, , , ,. ton is favorable it i. not strange Urge P< onmy way to the vlllag^hool Tn. ,, owner of the first 1 shall denignat" as r aim- sheep should be the result, which should produce a heavy fleece. Vow, where lambs nre of the first vonte- er A ignat The owner of the we >nd Fanner 15. Farmer A had a moderately si/e I farm well located, and a mated only a few miles from Farmer A was a compara- quence and irutton the necondary coiisidc-ra- a thriving city r..mci ^ w . >.onip*ra- tion, a sheep which will fill the bill in then* j tlv ,|y young man, probably forty.two years particulars and give a fleece worth $2 l o f age or thereabout*. Ho was' not a" la/.y the pievailing low prices_of wool, is the | man . u ,dcer, to have seen the way he kind to be coveted. .'.ml yet the geulle- .nan I speak of has put forth no extra u din- aai v efforts to improve his sheep other than ho exercise of the inherent thoroughness community. in the man to do well whatever he under- takes. worked and hnsdcd about you would hvc taken him to have beu a very induct ri"iu man. But yet his farm was a disgrace to the Tha Buiiuen of Faruiin; The requisites for the business oi farming ars practical knowledge, a wa'chful eye, a thinking active mind, and an untiring, euer . gcli'.' arm. XVe want an eye which can see when things are going wrong, whether it is in '.he manner of i-ating for our stocK, the methods used in growing our crops, or in tb way wo market our produce. XV o neo 1 a mind that is ever active in devising ways and means for correcting our errors and adopting ' methods that will lessen the cost of produc- ing crops. Wo want to plan our barns so that we fun do tlie greatest amount of choics, with the least possible number of. steps. \Vo must have an untiring, ene.r- : Se'iciirm, which will give a push to the; business and p'.a < it in a favorable position j among other occupations. InregnrJ to the cost of production of crops | I believe it can be reduced nearly in the I proportion that we manipulate the improv- ' ed farm machinery and also by getting onr farms into a high slate of cultivation. Take for example the hay crop which stands in a ; good sondition here in Dudley, aud which I am confident could be doubled in the amount grown to ths acre and thereby the cos*, of way he producing a ton lessened. As we increase , i i i His fences were in such a con A word in passing a* to this gentleman's method of keeping h:* flock rid of the two .iniioying parasites * hi.-li afflict sheep ,* and liiv. His heep barn is supplied wilh boxes win-IP salt u kept at all times in. winter, so ierp can help themselves at will. Hi. e boxes are used for nothing else. A supply of salt in kept constantly bef< the ewes, to which * vlded one part of tuilphur to three parts ot salt. At shearing time, he assure* me, not a tick or louse is to be found. ingh an these isolated cues of success in breeding have attained, of wlii. b mini btrs are frequently coming to noli , I urn not prep u i-J to say but that higher suc- cess in the direction of Mr. Kus. ; '.dl ideal, as laid down in the beginning cf this urti- clo, might not have been attained by tlr: in 1 I dltion thai a very restless cow could easily ramble anywhere over his premises. He had a large orchard, but it was seldom pruned. Sprouts grew all the way up ihe trunk : the dead branches were left remaining on the tn * until b!uwn oft by the wind, aud in con- sequence the fruit was small and scrubby, iiiniinishing year by year, anil tb.t hogs and sheep round about destroying the young trees if any there were, er A move about with Very often K.irm his old nags with harness that did not improve their appear once, hauling coal, di.mg the teaming for the community. He was trying -he thought to make his farm pay, anil also to get money lo p.iy faxes. When it wo* planting time he hired a boy or yonni{ man -if he could get one cheap to help him hurry to KOI Ins crops planted. His fields were nearly covered with stones, and not half In tili/r I, while the manure w s allowed to accumulate nl.oui lu.i barns and she. Is until tion of other bloOil than that named, they were almost unapproachable. After The Shropshire is having a well-deserved |,o threshed his grain, ihe straw, or a largo popularity among sheep breeder*. There i portion of it was allowed to be trampled a wide field lor experimentation and prac- ' under foot by the horses and cattle. His tic-e m crossing this breed upon the best of. barns.were s arcely worthy ol the name, the ewc 1-y which the Hocks of tho country [ hut, |, hadn't time nor money to renair are go .i.'V.-.l. '1 hi- possibilities ; them for lie v as busy teaming and he would in this direction, and with ihi.-i breed, are need the money to pay hn taxes, fo.r be great, as 1 have every roaion tohalievefrom tho examples noted at various limes among sheep owners, and from the samples of stock i at our aim. .a) fair*. The Shropshire U a noble breed of sheep, and has oomo among us at a time whr:i breeders are seeking for a (.lace hitherto not p on Mill was " land poor." I well remember what a charming appear- ance Farm, r H's farm picsantcd, not that it pojses.-ud any greater natural a I . .tn but rather because its owuer hud learned this maxim. "Keep your shop and your thop will keep you." Farmer r! was a hearty, robust man of some titty years. farmers and shee a breed that shall nil a piace nunerto uoi hoa - rt y > ro b u st man of some fifty years. A cccupied, oratlc*8t,oe,-.ir.i<<liiirv,oniaco number of preuy tree8 adorned the front wilh i,he demands and exigencies' of the ya ,. (I> oadi | v procurc ,| because he <h It was a treat to be allowoil to times. There arc many good ami paying flocks of sheep iu this part of the country, but none are so ethVicnt in thoao proclivities v form tho MifliMt merit in the scale of piofit they might be improved. Will thfl Shropshire do this? This breed in bfe/tg Hied and thus far ha* uot been found v,t.nt- ing Au rl okcd Item of Expemo : . HI A,'M -'i'.i -ir.il says : The .ition of farm product* 1* a .ispor- means. It coe's n> ; -oro the farm to tbu rail way have them. v/aik over his premises. His barnyard was 'i<l ui all filth as possible. His barus and all other buildings had as good tool's, as regards keeping out tho weather, at had his house. And such an orchard '. I w. I remember the luscious fruit that hcng just out of reajh inaiilc of tho hiijh picket tVn. c. "r 15 never did any teaming, ho was a "fannfr." His horses were not surpassed for working qualities, nor for beauty, be- cause well fed and properly cared for. :. spent veiy littlo time in tho "\ ill.i_' More." He never hired a man ex- cept in tlie busy sflftsnii, then he lured the best; i !!! ceMoiii com; lainod ui bad wealUer, for wlisu it Wai not the the fertility of our lands, we also increase not only the quantity of Ilia crops, but the certainty of them also. On<- ef Nalurr't t'rrako. A very strange fr",ik of nature ia report- ed from Koseburg, S.I'. It is a three-weeks- olii baby, whose right hand bears the im- print of a human face. The face occupies tho entire palm, and in as cleirly outlined as though painted on porcelain. It is the > countenance of a littlo child about three years old lying asleep, with the eyelashes ilrown in fine dark lines on the full checks. The mm 'h seems to be slightly parted, and the lips are delicately tinted. fhe baby whose hand contains this singu- lar portraiture is the o'.nld of Clarke (Is borne, n merchant of Knuehurg, and .Mrs. <>! ortie duultrsa that the fscu in the in- fant's palm is that of a little girl she lost about three months ago. Rol%tives and intimate fri.-mls profeos to be able to sec a fttrong resemblance to the dead shild. When the baby was first put into its moth- er's arms she looked at the hands, and with a loud cry fainted away, but on coming to herself exhibited the little creature's hands lo tho attendants, who saw at once the ftrange likeness to tho deiul and gone sister, i 's borne was at first much frightened over the singular circumstances, but at lost became convinced that the strange portrait wan sent to comfort her. The image on the palm was clearer the first few days of the baby's life than now, and it u thought to be gradually fading away. Hard to Get At Inquisitive city people in tho country sometimes find small satisfaction in catechis- ing little country boys about their names ami affairs. A tourist once said to a small bov dressed in a broad straw hat, a gingham waist, long trousers, and bare feet : " Hello, littlo boy ; what is your name !" " Same as father's, said the boy. " What, is your father's name t" " Same as mine." " I mean, what do they call you when they call you to breakfast 1" " They don't nuvver call me to bleak- fust. " Why don't they?" " Because I allus get thcie. tho fust one." mia ing employs l.SOO.UOO. TBB1THC HIWT A Pkjslessm Uajri Use Best Cars Is ts> Isisiere It. A wealthy and estimable citizen of a certain city who has been married about a year to a young woman who appeared al- together admirable to the eyes of the world, ailed on his family pliy-r.-ian the other day and said ' Dirtor, I wish you would come and look at my wife. She seems healthy, and can go about without diiiiculty, but she has hysterical fits." " Ah '. At what time do these fits overtake her " " When she is alone with me. Any con- tradiction or opposition to her wishes brings on a fit." " How long has she been troubled in this manner?" " Kvcr since we were married." " Were any of the symptoms show u while you were courting ?" "No, sir." " Ab : XV hat do you da during the preva- lence of these fits?'' " I loosen her dress, bathe her forehead, give her smelling salts and endeavor to soothe her." " Of course you yield tho point at issue that originally excited lier?" "Oh, yes. I invariably do tii.it at once. Otherwise the paroxysms become so violent that thy seem dangerous." " Humph t Next time she 1ms such a fit leave her alone and walk out of the house/' " Mir !" " You heard me. Now do as 1 tell you or don't come to mo for any more advioe." With a very red face the young husband picked up his hat and marched to the door. " Sir, yon are no gentleman !" he shout- ed. Then he marched away. " There goes another fool,'' said the doc- tor. " Two-thirds of this hysteria is sham- ming, and the < ure in many cases can only be effected by leaving the subject strictly alone. The half-insane desire to deceive becomes so strong by cultivation that in very fully developed hysterical subjects the mind vincvon such extraordinary triumphs over ths body that expert students of hysterical phenomena are constantly deceiv- ed. " Four years ago there came to this coun- try from Honduras a man who had develop- ed hysteria. He was U ieet in height and a magnificent specimen. He had broken his kneepan ;-nd netx'.ed treatment. .So ho claimed. Really there was nothing the matter with him except a desire to deceive the doctors. This desire had become an overmastering impulse, a sort of insanity. He did persuade many physicians who ex- amined him that hi* kneepan was fractured. Afterward he took it into his bead to make the doctors believe that he was paralyzed on one side. They applied burning matches to bis skin, they branded him with red-hot irons, cut him will) knives and stuck him with nocdles, but he nerer betrayed any feeling. They did not let him ee what they were going to do. In many cases one physi- cian would engage his attention by talking to him in 'rout while the other would stab him suddenly from liehin I wh<-n he was iu Uie midst of an interesting conversation. It made uo difference. Ho had made up his mind to be paraly/ed, ami to all intsntsond purposes he was poraly/.od. After two yean of this kind of thing he went to Kur- ope, found things in it interested him more than fooling doctors, and his paralysis and broken knee completely disappeared. XV'uen he came bark, a year later, lie was iu perfect health. He is now inarm 1 and is as solid a man as you would be likely lo incut unywhcre. "We had another very extraordinary continues the doctor, " not very long ago, in which a woman sued a wealthy man for damages for assault. She had come and IT ade a disturbance iu his house and he hod put her out. She claimed that she had received moU senous injuries and that she was para- ly/ed for life. Many experts examined her, aud all, except one, came to the conclusion that she really was paralyzed. They test- ed her every way they nould think of, pre- tending to attempt ,i cure, but really desir- ous of assuring themselves whether she was really paraly/ed. On one occasion they told her that they were going to sne whether scoring her backbone with a rod-hot iron would not effect a cine. They made a dis- play of the red-hot iron and suddenly drew a piece of ice dowu the backbone. There was not a twinge or a flinch. So it was when they tried her with concentrated essence of ammonia and with n -u lies plunged sudden- ly ir.to the feet when she was talking. Sb- never seemed to know what was done. All these experts testified that the woman was paralyzed for life ; yet when she got a big sum of money from the rich man the paraly- sis left her and she walked as well as ever. " My experience teaches me that nothing cures hysteria so quickly and thoroughly as for the person whom it U tho desire of the subject 10 deceive to pay no attention. As long as doctors or other people fuss with a subject, so long will the insane impulse lo deceive be fed and gratified, But if the manifestations be treated as not worthy of attention the subject experiences a painful surprise aud begins to think that he is not of the immense consequence he thought he was. If that woman's hnxluind would walk away from her when she had her next fit would leave her alone and go gome place where ho could watch her he would find that she would go on with the fit for a few minutes aud then stop, look cautiously round to assure herself that she had no audience, and, brim; quite certain of that, would pick herself upand beoo mo saue again mad as a hatter, but cured." t wrrriTsir. ** H.4O& ve am* Tsxtflklsui *** Wltk Thn Bachelor's Excuse- I live alone, Aud I must own That 1 enjoy it more that way. I likn my life Without a wife, No matter what tho world may say. I do not scorn The maidn foresworn, I love them nil, brunette or blonde ; Tall or petite, They all seem sweet To me ; of all alike I'm fond. But, as I've said, I am not wed, And matrimonial vows I shun, For maiden* fair Are everywhere. And why should I adore but one? Queen Victoria will go to Florence in March next, and will stay theie four or five weeks at the Villa Pa. Tb* sosne on the Castle Usplanada at K.iinlinrgii when ihu 1'rinixu Louite pre- IT'. I the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers with new colors was singularly striking and picturesque. The occasion was a memorable one. The colors that were about to be retired commemorated the pass- ing away of the old order of things in the regiment's history, and the closing scene was carried out with fitting iinpressiveneas and solemnity. As the. Highlanders swung through the old gateway from the castle, and were formed into line on the esplanade, every one in the vast crowd ot spectators must have felt wilh Burns that " a ti.le ot .iii prejudice bad been poured aloag his veins." Many of the historical and romantic associations that gather round Edinburgh are connected with the Highland clans ; and the esplausf)*, with the old l.awiuiiarket stretohmg away from it, and the Castle rock towering above, seemed a natural baokgionud for a scene expressive of all that ismovt inspiring in the country's military history. The trooping of colors U at all times an imposing ceremony, but on this occasion there was a peculiar impres- uivcnoas about it. Round the new colors associations can not gather with the Name glow of loyal devotion which attends thcwe old and tattered and weather stain- ed flags that have been Iwrne through the thickest of the fight. At the h?.it they con be hut symbols and memorials ef past devotion and heroism. The aentimrnt may remain, but tlieslroug personal link must be broken. As tho old colors were borne aloft, between the lines of the regiment to the pipes playing a quick march of " The Campbells Are Coming," all the pawiions and fire ot the Highland race seemed embodied in these faded ragr. Then, as the wild strains of the pipes died nway, the band struck up " Auld Lang Syne, and slowly, solemnly, for the last time, the colors were carried past the regiment whose fortunes they had shared and whose endurance and devotion they symbolized. Mtn and offi- cers Mood like a regiment turned to stoi.e, but amoug the crowd were many old soldiers who sainted as the colors were carried past to the most moving of all strains. Than they wore furled, and after the new colors had been consecrated with tilling solemnity and present*'! by the t'rmcess Louise, they were borne away, cased, and brought up in the re%r of the regiment, tbe new colors be- ing borno in front to tbe strains of the na- tional anthum, Thu dccibion that was made some years ago, that colors should no longer be **en ' into battle, was perhaps a wise one. It cer- tainly was not arrived at without much oon- imitation with those most capable of giving an opinion. But when tho theu Secretary ' of War announced in the House of Common*, on July JH, I MSI, that, ill consequence of the altered formation of attack and the extend- ed lange of tire, the colors should not in fu- 1 turo be taken with the battalion oa active j service, but bit left M the depot, an era in regimental lite passed away which can never be revived. The names on the old colors oi , the 91st Corunna, Orthes, Peninsula, Vimiera, South Africa and others are urn- bla/oned on the new flags,and their memory will not die. ID ltt.lt < Hlf,UBK> .<><i:i :u i 4 nil Tliru Wenl K.wii 4'ellar ..nil Masuied nvi-Miir. A Toronto despatch says: Klixabcth Butt, a widow, aged 4.~>. who resided at >Kt I XVood street, committed suu-ido yiwu-niay by hanging herself. She had supported herself and her two children by renting i furnished rooms to students aud hud grown ' despondent on account of the small uico-ne I she derived from that source. Mrs. Butt was last seen about s.:)-) Tues- day morning by William Hamilton, a : student- at the School of Pedagogy. She had just hidden her two children gnod-bye as they started for school. "Don't fret, Krnie, if I am not at home when you comu , for lunch at 12." They did not see her at { noon, and when she was still missing at 4 | they callod'on Mrs. W. S. .Juhuaton, who liven next door. Mrs. Unit was a frail weakly woman and might lie nn<;onaoinn in the cellar, so Mi. Johnston though:, XX'heu she went in searc-h she found the decease. i in the cellar hanging by a rope from Hie joist overhead. The rope was a braided quarter inch and wan tied double in a running noose. Mrs. Butt had no relatives in thin coun- try, but Mrs. .lohnsVin knew that she had formerly been a nurse in the family of Thomas .lolliffe of JollifTo & Co., so that gentleman was promptly notified. Ho has been on intimate t-.rms with the deceased ever since she Arrived from England four years ago, and in the absence of relatives took possession of the premises till friends could be cabled. i 'oroner Aikins was notified, but upon investigation concluded that an inquest was unnecessary. Mrs. Butt had been twice married. II i first husband was a Mr. Marshall and the second, Mr. Butt, was a hotelkceper, who livod but a short time. Upon his death she came to Canada. Nothing is known of her friend^ in Knglsnd, but Mr. Jollitfn hopes to ascertain the necessary information by searching through her effects). Swallowing Cholera Mlerot><. Two well-known Munich physician?. Pro- fessor 1'ettcnkofer, an. I Professor Kmmerioh, lm\e in Ihe interests of science, been mak- ing soinn dangerous experiments with the d cholera microbe. Choosing a time when they were both in full health, they swallowed a large quantity ot comma bacilli, and the result of the risky experiment ha* been to prove, at least so far as they are i.' these "edged tools ' may be playe-l with in comparative safety. 1'heir g-'iieral health suffered from .liar- Professor Pettinkofer concludes, th 'Mi-fore, Unit epidemic cholera ia induced not by any disposition towards the disease in individuals, but only by local conditions, win. Ii thorough cleaiiliuosH and good sani- tary arrangements can remove. Thn sultan ban .'((K) wives, the King of Dahomey '260, the Shah of 1'criti* (K>, the Kin of Siam (MIO, the 4 King of Ashani-o .'|.(HKI, and the Kmperor of Morocco about fl,0<)0. Young Indies who have got into tho habit of chewing bits rit writing paper may be in. tcriMte.l in knowing that tiie price of paper has gone np on atroiint of the setr-ity of rag from cholera count ries.