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f, wateh- indteli Ottawa wasixrteaWtte Qnsen as the site of the cepttidofWnew sotted lis double, so haft iaa green MUr ami fiiturtw iWJfom am mr AUSIOK mart wtx.TOWN ftpMe the eottaga door she sits, _ < f̂cM*4)ua3bi ftnd si! vor«*I hair. , fllWHEriea pal* lnr world strati la, < A itnpte world, made sweet wttfr rhyrae, wtoft Uf», soft lulled by droning bees, Flow* totbe mill-stream'* Iaf>«tag rhym^' l^afsfsascaa'ass. *v Yet with a mnsfng gase, she sees •'» BiclwnMoltnte extending vide. • . •' •" .. ":-.N Gren slopes of hills, and waving flalAv, With blooming hedges set between, Slirough shifting veils of tender mist '•an*. MMf regaled, *ninglfcl sArife' •'** • »'• -All her^^-for lovingly she holds A friktmd packet m her hand, ; % ' - . • WfiOne ancient, ffcacd script procnttntf " . Bar title to this spreading land. v- §letters 1 On the trembling page p, unawares, unheeded tears. M f*e her title-deeds ; her lands . , tad through the realms of by-gone y*a». KATY'S TRIUMPH; BT AHDKB80N K. LOT** ' K \ ' Y' B 4*^bes lt please you, katy I*V "Oh, it issplendid! I could not have ssited myself half so well, had I been >« to choose." ' "But you have not seen the -wine- cellar yet It is a treasure of its kind. Let's go down again." They went down the stairs together, lie talking gaily, she with a troubled look on her face. After duly admiring the place, she put a timid hand on his arm, and said, "But, Arthur, dear, let's fave no wine in it." "Why?" he asked, in surprise. ' "Because I have resolved, if 1 am ever the mistress of a house, there shall be no liquors kept in it--no 'social glasses' for friends." "Why Katy, you are unreasonable. I did not know you carried your temper­ ance opinions so far as that. Of course I shall keep wine in my house, and en­ tertain my friends with it, too." She raised her face appealingly. "Arthur!" she said, in a tone of voice which he knew how to interpret Arthur's brow grew clouded. •But you cannot fear for mef he said, with half-offended pride. "I must fear for you, Arthur, if you begin as he did. And I fear for others besides--for the sons, and husbands, and fathers, who may learn at our cheerful boards to love the poison that flhall slay them." They wpnt up the steps and sat on a sofa in the dining-room for a few mo­ ments, while Katy put on her hat and drew on her gloves. The argument was kept up. It is un­ necessary that we should repeat all that was said on both sides. It ended at last as similar discussions have ended before. Neither was willing to yield-- Katy, because she felt that her* whole future happiness might be involved in it; Arthur, beoause he thought it would be giving way to a woman's whims, and would sacrifice too much of his popular­ ity with his friends. He had bought his house, paid for it, and furnished it handsomely, and in a lew weeks was to bring Katy as its mis­ tress. All the afternoon they had been looking over it together, happy as two birds with a newly-finished nest. But when Arthur closed the door and put the key in his pocket, in the chill, waning light of the December after­ noon, And gave Katy his arm to see her home, it was all "broken up" between them, and a notioe, "To Let," was put over the door of the pretty house the •ery next morning. It was the most foolish thing to do; but then lovers can always find some­ thing to quarrel about They parted with a cool "Good even­ ing," at the door of Katy'a lodging- bouse. She went up to • her room to cry; he went home hurt and angry, but secretly resolving to see her again, and give her a chance to say that she was in the wrong. He would wait a few days, however; it would not do to lather see that he was in a hurry to "make it up." ' 1 He did wait, nearly a week, and "when he called at {he modest lodging- house* where he had been want to visit •o often, he was told that Mia* Gardi­ ner had been gota three days. "Gone where? he asked, slow to be­ lieve. *%>he did not tell me, air. She said •he was not coming back. HOT aunt lives at Bristol." He then took the next train to Bris­ tol, and investigated; but neither there, nor in any other place, though he searched for months after­ ward!, did he find sign or trace of Katy -uardinez. ie east .... . of the ins girlish dreams. "Destiny, ta ̂ eMld,» anfcW*red Katy, stooping to repiaoa the little boot she had thrown off to rest her foot "But you might have been an author­ ess, or a painter, or a---a book-keeper, or ~ Lizzie's knowledge of this world was rather limited; Katy broke in upon her. "There, that will do. I was not born a genius, and I hate arithmetic.1* "But you did not always have to work for a living, Katy ?" said May. "You are a lady, I know." Katy laughed a short, queer laugh. "Yes," she said, "and that's why I don't know how to get my/living in any bother way but this. So behold me a healthy and honest factory girl." She rose, made a little bow, and a flourish with her small hands, and we all laughed, although she said nothing funny. ; "Milly," said she, "please light the lamp, and get the magazine, while 1 hunt up my thimble and thread. Ladies, I find myself under the neces­ sity of mending my gloves this evening. Oh, poverty! where is thy sting? In a shabby glove, I do believe, for nothing hurts me like that, unless it be a decay­ ing boot" Katv's gloves were a marvel to us. She never wore any but of good quality and always the same color--a brownish neutral tint, that harmonized with al­ most any dress--but just now a new pair would seem to be the one thing needful, from the appearance of the ones she brought out. She sat and patiently mended the little rents, while I read aloud; and when she had finished, the gloves looked almost new. The next day was Saturday, and we had a half-holiday. Katy ancl I went to make some trifling purchases, and on four way home st opped at the big board­ ing-house, to see one of the girls who was ill. When we came out, Katy ran across the street to get a magazine from the news-shop, and came hurrying up to overtake me before I turned the cor­ ner. She had the magazine open, and one of her hands was ungloved; but it was not until we reached home that she found she had lost a glove. It was too late then to go and look for it We went and searched the next morning, but could not find it Katy mourned for it "It was my only pair, girls,"saidshe, tragically; "and it is a loss that cannot be repaired.". AH this happened more tfen a year before I saw Katy; but we three "fac­ tory girls," who lodged at Mrs. How­ ell's with her, of course knew nothing •bout it She came to the factory and applied for work. The Superintendent thought her too delicate for such labor, bat she persisted; and in fact, she im­ proved in health, spirits, and looks •after she became used to the work and simple fare of the factory girls. She was a stranger to us all, and it seemed likely that she would remain SO. But one day Mary Bascom's dress caught in a part of the machinery, and before any one else could think what to do, Katy had sprang to her side, and pulled her away by main strength from the terrible dangej- that threatened her. ^After that, Mary and Lizzie Payne and X, who were her dearest friends, were Katv's sworn allies. We all lodged together then, in the big "Factory Boarding House." But Katy took it into her head that we ^should have so much nicer times in a "private lodging to ourselves; and when she took anything into her head she generally carried it through. In less than a week she had found the very place she wanted, arranged matters With the Superintendent, and had us ^sheltered under Mrs. Howell's vine and ifig tree. We four girls were the proud "possessors of a tolerably large, double- wedded apartment, with a queer little •dresaing-rooro attached--"and thelib- •srty of the parlor to receive callers in" --•proviso at which we all laughed. This was "home" to us after the labor *«f the day. Indeed and in truth, Katy made the place so charming that we forgot we were "factory girls" when we 'got to it She improvised cunning little wtoga-out of trifles that are usually iferown sway *8 useless, and the flowers igiWffing in broken pots in our window wen s glory to behold. She always luki a trash book or periodical on our tableland bettor than this, she brought tons the larger cultivation, and the which taught us how tc use within our reach. fer S* buft summons. m go, Katy," whispered I, in dis­ may. . "I cannot appear." Katy glanoed serenely at her own frizzy head in the looking-glass, gave s pull at her overakirt and a touch to her collar, and opened the door. Immediately afterwards I was shocked by hearing her utter a genuine femin­ ine scream, and seeing her drop on the floor; and that man, a perfect stranger to me, gathered her up in his arms, and began raving over her in a manner that astonished me. He called her "his darling," and "his own Ksty," and act­ ually kissed her before I cotdd reaoh her. I was surprised at myself afterwards, that I hadn't' ordered the gentlemen out; but it never oocurred to me at the time, and when Katy "came to," and sat up on the sofa and heard his speeches, she seemed so well pleased that I left them and took the children up to our room, feeling bewildered all over. What shall I say further? Only that Katy lives in the pretty house in the town known as Br. Craig's residenoe, where we three factory girls" have a home whenever we want it And there are no liquors found on her sideboard nor at her table. One day I heard Arthur any, "Yon were a silly child, Kate, to run away from me. I should have given up the point at last, I know." "But there would have been the splendid cellar and the ten thousand a vear," answered she. "It would have been such a temptation. We are safer aa it is, dear." What people call a "panic" had oc­ curred in financial circles in the spring after Arthur Craig had lost his Katy, and almost without a day's warning he found himself a poor man. He left his affairs in the hands of his creditors- having satisfied himself that they could gather enough from the wreck to save themselves--and set his face to Lon­ don. He had been educated for a physician, though fortune made a merchant of him. Learning from a friend that there was an opening for a doctor in Fen- wick, he came thither and began to practice. Doctor Sewell had gone off on a visit, leaving his patients in charge of the new doctor; and so it came about that on that Saturday evening he was on his way to visit Maggie Lloyd, the sick girl at the lodging-house, when, just after turning the corner near the news-shop, he saw a brown glove lying on the pavement He was about to pass it by; but a man's instinct to pick up anything of value that seems to have no owner, made him put it in his pocket He forgot all about it the next minute. But î en he had made his call and returned to his consulting room, in taking a paper from his pocket the glove fell out, and he picked it up and looked at it with idle curiosity. It was old, but well-preserved. It had been mended often, but so neatly aa to make him regard mending as one of the fine art It had a strangely familiar look to him. Little, and brown, and shapely, it lay on his knee, bearing the very form of the hand that had worn it And as he gazed at it there came to him the memory of an hour, many months past, when he had sat by Katy's side on the green sofa in the dining- room of "their house" (alas!) and watched her put her small hands into a pair of brown gloves so muoh like this one. Ever since that never-to-be-forgotten day, the vision of his lost love, sitting there in the fading light, slowly draw­ ing on her glove, her sweet eyes filling as they talked--quarreled, we should say, perhaps--had gone with him as an abiding memory of her, until he had come to know each shade of the picture --the color of the dress, the ribbon at the throat, and the shaded plume in her hat He looked at the little glove a long time. He had thought it might belong to one of the factory girls, as he found it near the lodging-house. But it did not look like a "factory hand's" glove. He would ask Maggie Lloyd, at any rate; so he put it carefully inhispocket until he should make his calls the next morning. He had suffered the glove to become so associated with the memory of a past that was sacred to him, that he felt his cheek burn and his hand tremble, as he drew it forth to show it to Maggie, who was sitting, in the comfort of convalescence, in an arm­ chair by the window,, watching the handsome young doctor write the pre­ scription for her benefit "By the way, Miss Maggie, do you know whose glove this is?" Maggie knew it at onon,. Stwss Miss Gardiner's glove. "Miss Gardiner!" 1 } The name made his heart beat «g"'" "Is she one of the factory hands ?" "Yes; but she lodges with Mrs. Howell, quite out of town, almost; yas here to see me yesterday." "Oh, I see!" said he, hot the most rel­ evantly. "And can you tell me how to find Mrs. Howell's 'house ? I sup­ pose I could go by and restore this glove to its owner." Maggie thought this unnecessary trouble* but she gave the required direction, and he went out, saying to himself, "It can't be my Katy, of course; but the glove shall go back to its owner." Mary and Lizzie went to church that Sunday morning. Katy declared she couldn't go, having but one glove. I stayed at home with her, and offered to keep Mrs. Howell's children for her, add so persuaded that worthy woman to attend worship with the girls. And this is how it came about, that while we were having a frolic on the carpet with the children in Mrs. i Howell's room, we heard a ring at the door; and Bridget having taking her- otfseibewhere,,there was no help Observations of a Hole. I am a hole. I'm a sociable, good- natured hole, and, although I have been pretty nearly everywhere, I can't help feeling rather dazed at having sneaked into print. B.ut I hope you won't think any the less of me for that You will find a great many worse things in print than holes. My importance in the world is greatly under-estimated People never think of me until they need me to crawl into. And when I do offer my services I am repulsed with scorn. A-man will dig two days to produce me when he wants a well in his garden, and yet when he finds me right in his pocket he is not satisfied, and gets rid of me as soon as possible. I am a very modest hole, too. I always try to seclude myself from the public gaze. Last summer I hid in the surf at Atlantio City, but a big fat man, who was going to bathe, fell right into me, and instead of apologizing as a gentleman should, commenced to swear at me. I then squeezed myself very small and took refuge in the bottom of an ooean steamer, thinking I would be out of sight there, but I was found out and driven away by the ship's carpen­ ter. We holes lead terrible lives. . All the great inventions of the world are largely indebted to holes for their utility. Cannons and rifles would be entirely useless if there were no holes to put the ammunition in, and even then would be harmless if they couldn't make holes in what was shot at Yet nobody ever gives holes credit for our usefulness. On the contrary, whenever man gets into trouble he blames it on us and says he is "in a hole." Although I look very innocent at the bottom of a flower-pot I am exceed­ ingly dangerous when I start out on my travels. I once stopped over night in a tin roof to study astronomy, but it rained very hard that evening and a man asleep in the room underneath got wet He jumped up in a rage and actually began blaming me, as if I, and not the rain, had wet him! A plumber came next day, and the man chuckled and thought he was rid of me. But he soon learned differently. I ran along under the bricks as he went to his office that morning, and the mud squirted all over him at every step he took. I then hid in one of his back teeth and he nearly went wild. The dentists couldn't dislodge me and the tooth had to come out I took pity on him after that and let him alone. Well, I have an engagement at the bank to-night, as some professional friends of mine want to get into a safe deposit vault, and they will need my services and a little gunpowder to ac­ complish their purpose. So I must bid you good-bye. But you will always find me during the snmmer at the small boy's corner of the ball ground fence.-- Tid-Biti. Causes of Sadden Deaths. I The number of sudden deaths is large, perhaps increasingly so, though the popular impression may be false, since the daily press and the telegraph have made a neighborhood of the whole land. One source of sudden deaths is acci­ dents, but many events pass under the head of accidents which might have been foreseen and guarded against Americans, particularly, are apt to take great risks; for example, in their eat­ ing, their clothing, their building, in crossing railway tracks, and in many other ways. How careless we are! No staging need ever fall, and it would not if proper care were taken in the choice of material and in construction. Think of the frightful list of deaths resulting from the use of oil poured upon a lighted fire to cause it to kindle more quickly! With many other causes of sudden death our own personal ills seem at first sight to have almost nothing to do. There may be a fatal break in the physical machinery at a point where weakness has not been sus­ pected. The heart perhaps, becomes unnaturally enlarged, or its tough, muscular fiber turns to fat, and sud­ denly there is a mortal rupture. i Or the enfeebled heart fails to send blood to the brain, and the man drops dead in the street, or at his business, ajr, more fortunately, perhaps, in the midst of his family. In other cases there may be a de­ generation of the cerebral artery, and high living, or a glass of wine, or an excitement of passion, may arouse the heart to send the blood to the brain with a force too great for the weakened arterial walls to withstand. These walls may give way at one or more .points, the out-poured blood presses against the nerve centers, and thus is cut [off the necessary supply of nerve force to vital organs. The man falls unconscious, and within a few days dies. We have not space to speak of other causes somewhat similar, but in most of them the weakness of the linlr at which the chain breaks is due to over­ exertion, to too continuous brain work, to excesses in eating and drinking, to passion, to worry. The weak spot being ascertained, the fatal result may be prevented for years, perhaps in­ definitely, by a carefully-regulated life. --Companion. A man named Plato has a oottags at A Crela* After the Meaitsr of Ut* Deep Filled wit* Many Fanny Inotdent* [London Bam Btta.1 It was on a bright June morning, In the year,of jubilee, that a stately ves­ sel of 206 ton* of 4 hundred-height and 2 ounces burthen sped down the Mersey. Engraved on a brass plate over the ice bow was the name of her captain, "T. Jonet, £riq." Her mission was the captnre of thit terror of the deep--the ! sea serpent The crew of five hands ! were armed to the teeth, illustrating the old proverb that forwarned is five- armed. He felt these noble tars, em­ bark on their perilous errand. Was there a man dismayed ? No, the sailor knew no one had blundered. A. Tennyson, P. L., thus aptly de­ scribes them. But to our story. Every stitch of canvas was sewed to the mast, the aft, mizzen-olieet hung over the skylight-backstay, the binnacle gayly waved aloft and" the compass, like a thing of life, bent to the foretop boom. All that wary seamenship could ac­ complish had been done. Suddenly Captain Jones came on deck and gave the word of command. "Ahoy there! Let go the floating an­ chor, splice the gangway, and tie the painter to the cook's back!" Swift and silently these orders were, obeyed. "Aye* aye, sir," came the stern re­ sponse, and each gallant sailor pulled the cabin boy's hair to show that all was well. Away sped the saucy craft with three men overboard and one clinging to the fog eandle. Too late. The captain retired to the main shrouds and, looking through a nutmeg grater, announced that the German ocean was where it was the day before yesterday. At this news all was dismay, for each brave seaman knew that there would be xain to-morrow and that he had come aboard without his life belt. The chief mate, after treating himself to three of rum, took the pledge and put the ticket in his pocket, for alias! pawnshops were many in the land. Where, oh! where was the G. O. M. and Lord R? The storm had ceased. "Sail, O," cried the man at the ere away?" answered the cap­ tain, through nis telescope. He was greatly agitated. Something must be done, and he ran to the man at the wheel and knooked him down with a chew of 'bacca. "On the larboard side of the port funnel," came the quick reply. At this moment the bell in the cabin lighthouse struck two--the lighthouse and the boy. All the crew looked at the back door of the steerage, for some­ thing told them that this must be a warning--a sure sign of the presenoe of the sea serpent and so-it proved. "Strike the foremast light on the Bryant and May," shouted the captain. "Throw the lightning conductor over­ board, and let England do her duty and take my poor old father out of the workhouse." Great confusion ensued, during which the mate coiled up the gangway, and the cabin boy brought the eighty-one ton gun out of the hold and stood it on the forecastle. The decks were cleared for action. Just then an enormous dark mass, three miles long, arose out of the sea and struck the vessel in its strength. It was the serpent The crash was awful, and stunned all on board. Recovering his senses, which lay on the deck, the captain borrowed a piece of twine off the chief mate and went aloft to hang himself. He was rescued with a hen coop. The serpent was seen climbing over the chimney rigging on the main rail. A rush was made to the captain's gig and two of the crew got between the shafts. The serpent was now on the deck. Captain Jones gave his orders from the anchor box and quickly the carnage began. They attacked the monster with all the daily papers they could lay their hands upon. For a time victory hung in the balance. At last Captain Jones gal­ lantly rushed forward and dealt the serpent a terrible blow with a bound volume. It stretched the fish monster lifeless on the deck. Bare headed the drew gathered round and sang the national anthem. The sea sarpeut was dead--dead as the big gooseberry. They lashed its carcass securely to the bobstay, and steering due north by westeast towed the monster into port and sold it to a marine store dealer fpr eighteen pence. Great honors were in store for them; the crew were all made policemen because of their strict ver­ acity, and Captain Jones, after being knighted, assaulted, and fined ten shil­ lings and cost, was provided for in his native work house, where he often use to narrate to the deaf and dumb in­ mates and the occupants of the imbecile ward the thrilling experience which befell him when engaged in capturing the se$ serpent. :,•> Lighting Mine?. fh&i#sirability of illumintttWg mines has long been felt, and scientists have given much attention to the subject; but the difficulties which presented themselves have hitherto proved insur­ mountable, and nothing practical has therefore resulted from the various suggestions and experiments which have been made. To enable the collier to follow 'his daily task he is provided with a safety lamp; but to light up the main roadways of a mine with a number of these lamps would not only increase the working expenses of a pit by the additional labor which would be neces­ sary to keep them properly cleaned and trimmed, but such a system would also augment the chances of an explo­ sion. When the Davy lamp was intro­ duced, the ventilation current in mines did not exceed a velocity of five or six feet per second, and in this the lamp was practically safe; but within recent years great improvements have been effected in this respect, and the current now moves at four times that rate, the result being that m the presence of coal dust or fire damp the lamp ceases to afford security to the miner, inas­ much as there is always the danger that the swiftness of the ventilating current may drive a point of flame out­ side the gauze, when of course the lamp would practically become a naked light, and all the disasters attending an explosion would ensue. Besides this, in case a mine were illuminated by safety lamps there would have to be faced the risk of their being accident­ ally knocked down and broken, and so a catastrophe occurring in that way, while there would be the further draw­ back that to light up an extensive mine some thousands of them would be re quired, as the flame of each would be only about a half-candle power. It is therefore clearly impossible that such a system could ever be adopted. Some time ago electricity was pro­ posed as a light-giving agent in mines, and within late years attempts have been made to introduce it as such, but without much suoeess; for, although it was found quite possible to illuminate the bottom of a pit and the adjacent SCI of the nuns s ao ̂toflwrs in the bowels of ths earth hsveeontinued to lose their lives to ths munbsar of something like 460 a year by the roof or sides of their working plsces falUag upon them, their safety-lamps not gmng a sufficiently good light to enable them to see the de­ fects* and protect themselves against accident from them. Almost a like number of deaths fakes plaoe among miners every year from miscellaneous causes (exclusive of explosions), and no doubt many of these are due to defi- ciency of light. Such a death roll is indeed awful to contemplate; and the fact that there is every probability of its being lessened will be hailed with gladness not only by the mining com­ munity but by the general public.-- Chambers' Journal. An Army with Pipes and Fang. In everything the Koreans lean more toward their western neighbors than to the eastern ones, and conservatism is stronger than any spirit of progress, except for coal oil and matches. Few foreign goods are seen in the open shops and out-door markets, and no Koreans are seen in foreign clothes. It almost cost a progressive minister his head when he had the big square sleeves of the soldiers' coats trimmed down to a reasonable bagginess, and although it saves 'yards of cloth and miles of cash strings to the king each year, the offense is hardly forgiven. The Chinese, says a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, taunt the Korean soldiers with wearing for­ eign dress; but a civilized tailor wonld die at the sight of it. A Korean soldier wears first his full Korean costume of white cotton, loose, baggy, and comfortably flapping in eaoh breeze. Over this undress uniform he puts a pair of purple cotton trousers and a short black coat bound with red worsted braid. His black felt hat is bordered with the same braid, and the red tapes tie it fast under his chin. He wears a cartridge belt and a tobacco pouch, and he carries his Remington rifle in any way that seems convenient to him at the time--at shoulder arms, up-side down or caught in the middle of the stock, like a dude cane. He car­ ries his long stemmed Korean pipe in the gun-barrel, and while marching through the streets or at a parade rest uses his fan vigorously. To see the Korean army in its glory one should witness one of the king's processions when his majesty goes out to visit one of his palaces or worship one of his ancestral tombs and tablets. Every few weeks there is a stir at the announcement that the king will leave the palace on a certain day and pro­ gress by a certain route. There is ex­ citement among the mandarins then, and the sheds and houses that have been permitted to grow up in the streets are swept away overnight. The streets re­ sume their proper width, and the king, being none the wiser, thinks that his capital always wears that look. A trail of red sand is sprinkled in the middle of the street to mark the route, and the army musters and the populace assem­ bles along that line. The king's pro­ cessions are as brilliant and picturesque in some ways as anything that other capitals can offer, and such a Korean fete day is worth coming far to see. The people alone in their white, pale- blue, bright-red, and green clothes give picturesqueness and color to the scene, and when every dingy wall, tiled or thatched roof, and every open space is kaleidoscopic with them it hardly needs the gorgeousness of the army, the palace guards, and the mandarins' suits to add to the scene. Toad <and Grasshopper. I once ssw an amusing instance of the process of ramming a grasshopper down his throat in the case of a young to^d (scarcely more, I think, than fifteen months old,) which I saw upon a smooth gravel yard in front of my barn. I saw that the little fellow would have no clod or stone handy to push the grass­ hopper down with, and I was eurious to see what he would do. I went to my garden and found one of the yellow striped locusts which seemed to be fully as long ae the toad himself. Cross­ ing the locust's legs over each other in such wise that it would take him some time to untangle them and get ready for a hop, I threw him cautiously in front of the toad. Before the locust could recover his self-possession and get his hind legs ready for a jump the toad had put him head foremost down his throat, leaving very nearly half his length pro­ truding from the toad's mouth. The little fellow then looked around, turn­ ing in every direction, and seeing noth­ ing against which he could push the locust, he bent his head down against the ground. But his legs were so short and the locust was so long, that it made a small angle, and it slipped along, making simply a furrow in the surface of the gravel. The toad then raised his hind legs still higher in order to increase the angle, but still in vain. At length, in his desperate effort to get his legs still higher, he threw himself up and actually stood upon his head, or rather upon the hind legs of the grasshopper sticking out of his mouth; he repeated this operation several times before he succeeded in getting the insect fully within bis mouth. The Fateful Message. In the winter of 1881 a member of Congress from a Pennsylvania district was in despair. He had failed of a re- nomination. He was in debt, though a man of good habits. The future looked black to him. During the six years he had served in Congress he had lost his law practice and he regarded those yp'-t'j.inrii'iiw •• II TT h . _ ^ . put in their itkj WIIMralkfIt keen between Upper and Lower Canada, as the position of the oapital would in­ volve at least the temporary predomi­ nance of ths English or Freneh ele­ ment The Quoen, to whom the ques­ tion was referred as being too difficult and delicate for provincial solution, preferred Ottawa, to the displeasure of course of every one of the other candi­ dates, and to the general surprise of Canada. Ottawa haa but lately emerged into notice from the obscure name of By town; it is the smallest of all the competitors, having only 15,000 inhabi­ tants, and is far removed from the great thoroughfare of traffic in the valley of the St Lawrence. The reasons tw seemed to have influenced the Queen's counselors were theso--all the other candidates were decidedly either in Upper or Lower Canada, but Ottawa is on the boundary of both provinces, the river Ottawa forming a marked division between the French and Englfrfr popu­ lations. It was therefore a compro­ mise by an arbiter, where the disput­ ants, if left to themselves, might have pushed the case to a disruption. In case of war, moreover, Ottawa is farther- est removed frcm the frontier of the United States, and is susceptible of be­ ing strongly fortified. Although in a part of the country that has not yet been fully opened up, it has a great ek~ tent of the very best land around it, and needs only some stimulus to become a thriving and populous center. The city of Ottawa, like the country of which it is capital, is to be judged more by its future than its present* There are many inhabitants in it older than its first house, and 1 have con­ versed with a good old lady who lived two months on the site of the Parlia­ ment House, in a hut with a barrel for a chimney. All was then unbroken forest, and she had to wait these two months till a road could be out to her husband's concession twenty miles off. Even now the primitive pine groves and cedar thickets can be seen close at hand, seals are seen disporting them­ selves in the river, and a fox who com­ mits nightly depredations on the poul­ try has his headquarters beneath the Parliament House, and defies dislodg- ment The town is already stretching out around, occupying at least three times the space that would be alloted to the inhabitants of the old country. Broad rectangular streets run far out into the country, many of them marked by two or three houses, some by none, but all appearing duly completed in the map. A good arrangement this, so far as light and air are concerned, when the sun is in the sky, but rather incon­ venient when night comes into the ques­ tion, and rain or thaw sets in. Light­ ing and paving then are felt to be at sad discount, or, if attempted on a comfort­ able scale, the pockets of the taxpayers feel the burden. It is doubtless this circumstance that makes the local taxes in Amtirican towns a more serious item than the contributions to the general revenue. Other things in Ottawa have commenced on a large scale. The hotels are metropolitan in size and ap­ pearance, and several daily papers wage fierce warfare with each other. In re­ gard, however, to these matters, hotels and newspapers, Ottawa is not dis­ tinguished from Canadian towns of the same size. A stranger cannot under­ stand how such large hotels can be sup­ ported in small towns, with no great influx of visitors, and yet they seem to get along and prosper. The system of boarding, instead of living in their own houses, seems to be that which supports many of them, although in Canada this does not prevail to anything like the same extent as in the States. As to the daily papers, not much that is eulogistic can be said. They are meager in general news, and pervaded by a bitter spirit of personal attack, that is happily disappearing frSm the old country.--Rev. John Ker, D. D. Hindoo Workmen. The Hindoos of British India, partly from the enervating influence of the climate and the peculiarity of their physical temperment, are generally in­ dolent and listless. They are most un­ willing to labor; and thus every species of it is portioned out, as if for the ex­ press purpose of employing the great­ est number of hands possible, leaving very little for each to do. Hence the vast horde of camp-followers attend­ ant upon our troops, whether in the field or cantonments, and the vast number of servants maintained by European residents for household duties, the absurd, yet immovable, dis­ tinctions of caste prohibiting one in­ dividual from taking part in that which is regarded as the hereditary occupa­ tion of another caste, from the days perhaps of Menou the Lawgiver. It is told, however, of Lord I)aThousie that, having requested a servant to pour some water from a basin, he declined, on the plea that it was contrary to his caste. The marquis sternly drew out his watch and said, "It is now so-and-so o'clock; if before so-and-so I am not obeyed, I shall discharge not only you, but every man of your caste in Gov­ ernment House." And this threat is said to have proved effectual; for in many cases tne distinction of caste among servants are carefully main' tained, because they favor avarice and sloth, or encourage in every way the disinclination to undergo fatigua Thus wages are low; and it is only by the ex­ ercise of the most rigid case and frugal­ ity that the Hindoo workman or laborer and his family can live; and they cer­ tainly limit their wants to suit their means; and so instead of seeking by harder work to better their circum­ stances, they are content to dwell in tits, to feed on pulse and chupatties, kgetables, and ghee or oil; tobacco and >tel-leaf being their only luxuries. • Illinois. 1 have now on hand a lot of Top Baggies, Spring Wagons, Lumber Wagons, all of my own make, which I will aell at Bottom And warrant them to be A Ho. 1 in every v*r. tlcular. If you want a bargain In this line call on ma. I also do a is dl %n puuiiunue. Jiut helTas bettered but slightly his condition, and he has always felt that he would have done well had he followed his impulse when he read that telegram.--N. Y. Mail. A RECOBD of the many drugs con­ sumed by Count Tolstoi during his re­ cent illness established the belief that there are a good many things to be taken into a count ENGLAND has about 80,000 blind - -:-n WEST KIcHENRY. NAPOXJCON Wellington. "'£i apple. IT may sound like an anomally, b*t the man discovered in |g j* a strait IT is difficult for a drinking man to hold his breath; it is generally tiip strong for him.--Texas Sifting*. IT is mneh harder to satisfy a m|||' who fights with his mouth than o£t who uses a gun.--Macon Telegrqgh. THE oyster is like a man in one &• spect. He is of little use until you git um out of his bed.--Boston Courier. A INEVADA man who started out to look for a grizzly bear found him in time for dinner--the bear's dinner.-- Puck. THEBE is an art in putting on gloves, says a fashion paper. Come to think of it you have to get your hand in, as it were, in putting on a glove properly. "WELL, old fellow, it's all settled. X am going to be married in two months. You will be one of the witnesses, I hope ?" "Count upon mo. I never dp* sert a friend in misfortune." WiFE (to seoond husband) -- Afcj James, you are so different from my first husband! Husband--Yes, thatfr so, whenyou come down to the fins point He died four ^ears ago, andlf didn't. -;y« BUSKIN is a modest man. He says of Charles Kingsley! "He was a flawed, partly rotten, partly distorted * person, but may be read with advantage lnr numbers who. could not understand !^ word of me." AN exchange Bays that James James, a colored man who residesr^t Rosa, Mexico, is the oldest nrau s9*the world, being 135 years old. But vis James James older and tougher than Jim Jams?--Texas Sifting8. 1 AN agricultural journal tells farmers "how to preserve a grindstone." It Is a queer notion. It would be almost i as hard to insert the teeth in a pre­ served grindstone as in some other things the women folks preserve. WE left our sanctum at midnight latfl night, and on our way home we saw a young lady and gentleman holding a gate on its hinges. They were evi­ dently indignant at being kept out so late, as we saw them bite each othlgr several times.--New York Journal. AN Eastern photographer has sue* ceeded in photographing the flight of s bullet discharged from a rifle at the rate of 1,300 feet per second. By and by he expects to be able to photograph, a base-ball as now pitched by the league teams, but he'll have to secure quiokeff chemicals than he now uses.^--Newmem Independent. A LADY lost a brooch which she prized very highly, and, being desirous to recover it, she advertised for it in ft paper. Her advertisement had ap­ peared but a few times, when, on going to her bureau drawer, she there saw the missing brooch, looking as natural as ever. We always thought there was efficacy in advertising, and this instance! is conclusive. A DISTINGUISHED diplomatist fnib; the United States of America, a veity" " genial and sociable being, soon after his arrival in London made the round of the sights--Madam Tussaud's among the number. "And what do you think of our waxwork exhibition?" asked ft friend. "Well," replied the General, "it struck me as being very like an or­ dinary English evening party."--JEn- glish Exchange. ^ "I GUESS I'd better withdraw from the church for two or three months,* said a Dakota man to the minister. "Why, how's that brother, what's the matter?" inquired the paator. "I feel three or four cyclone lies eort of work­ ing around in my mind and they've got to come out Just give me a leave of absence for say nicety days and I'll be back again with you next fall. I be­ lieve they will be some of the thunder- ingest cyclone lies ever told, and I don't want to disgrace the church."--- Dakota $ell. ; ? f ^ The Extinct Anstrallsn lifi It has long been a disputed point, iand indeed a vexed question, as to whether the so-called great Australian lion ever existed. Some interesting discoveries, however, have been recently made in the Wellington caves. New South Wales, of undoubted' remains of this animal. The bones are at present de­ posited in the mines department mu­ seum, Sydney, and consist of several very complete jawbones containing the teeth in an excellent state of preserva­ tion. Prior to being publicly exhib­ ited they were submitted to the in­ spection of Prof. Sir Richard Owen, of the British museum, and his opinion is that the animal was a marsupial or pouch-bearing lion, fully equal in size to the existing African speciea Dis­ coveries of leonine remains have ftt various times been made in New South Wales, and also in Victoria, and the specimens in question are well pre­ served. They have been excavated from poat-pleiocene deposits, and in connection with £hem were the remains of what are known as the Tasmonian tiger and the Tasmanian devil. An equally interesting fact is that Prof. Owen, when referring many years ago to the herbivorous characteristics of the "Australian Diprotodon," expressed his conviction that some large carnivo­ rous animal must have been coexistent with him, to keep the race in check, and that probably lions then inhabited Australia, a hypothesis which has been fully verified. These facts are inter­ esting, as helping to establish the fact of the existence in former ages of the lion in Australia.--Chamber#' JownQb j 4 •" . %. -V Hospital Children. Children are generally an element of brightness and innooence in hospital life; they so easily forget past pain, are ready to be amused and willing to re­ journ the love expended upon theqa. rVet even among the little ones there ^e sometimes patients who seem hope- ssly degraded, for whom it appeals sold out their dumber Yatf Jo ̂ possible todesire anything but death. Wilbur Lumber Com pan v, will now "•ytHach a one was Tommy, a little imp their entire attention to the saie of ^ wa8 banished from the childrenw ard as too mischievous to be retained HARD AND SOFT tommy was by the nature of his malady BRAN, SHORTS, OATS, ^.citable and the students delighted in -iking faces at the weird little creat- Lime, Stucco, Et And by keeping a full stock always on hafj jerk out an oath, and his delight was with weir patronage. .)wer or catch a fly, he pulled either ' , pieces with equal unconcern and IKf AMM tg as tat LQV8S|th counterpane and crib bore marks • ^ his mischevous propensities. When All persons knowing themselves »nl^®nUr,,e was attending to him she had to us are requested to call and settle the sam» keep a careful watch, or a bite OT without delay, as our old books must .lie °'oa,ratch, would repay her ministrations. . . ven after a two months* residencft, when his malady was much better, he showed no signs of gratitude or affeo- tion to those who had cared for him ao £$im*-~dU4h6 Ymr JtomM. ; d. Delays are dangerous. POPPING the queation has its oorollary --being questioned by the pop.--Louml ... » .l.ii 4-v 1... '> J}'/:*. . J, ~ " t ? t 1 » <!r ^ "V"*- *... . 4 ..lie. TjiVJ, ' It.