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· ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~a~·~~~~~t~!NW~·~·~ft~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~s~~~~!~ij#~4~·~*~'~~~9~Mfj~t~$!¥~11~~~ <~!$!~!S~~=rn~;m~t~¢~ tu~l~®~ilt'llillt~~"""""' ~~G~4~L~IW~@~!lill~B~4·~iliMl~~=~4£d&P~~·~B~·~@il'f~4~M~""1!~·~m.:~liiU'il~~·llii&ii&~~~ MISCELLANEOUS HIS LAST COURT The F ench are not gome; to have 1t all t~ vn way on the Congo after all Md 1t 1s as well they should not aud a great deal better too The) are woikmg off the Pha!n x Park rrn aerers very expecl!tiously But will tl e org m zat on of Ii vrncil les be broken up aftei all· It is more thnn doubtful if it will p rhaps all the cont ary i:: It see ns q 1te possible that tl ere may be trot ble on the European Contm"nt dut ng the sum r er Everywhere theie 1s an unde fined restlessneis .I: eople are era\ mg for whAt tl e) uannot get and the heavy hand of B s 1 arck hes most depre·s ngly upon the Ge1mans while n 01der to keep thrngs qu et at I omc the gre:.t chancellor appean ready to make a figl t with Fra 1cc Po;~ bly if he does 1· w \1 not be with such results as n 1870 It 1s to be feaied t hat the news~apers ge nemlly give too much space to cases about w'itch the less said the better But are the papers the only offenders? Arent the people oi11te as 1m ch to blame 1f not more so lt ev l 1epoi>ts w"re not wanted they would not be stppl ed an i the very people wl o cry out airamst their appearance wo ild be tl e first to grumble about the want ot entllrprise and the necess ty for gomQ'. elsewhere if the tlung wanted we1e not fo thco nn g Many papers are no doubt often unfit to enter respectable houses but why then are they permitted Why a e hey rather sought for than the re\ erse 9 D,:m t blame the newspaper men altogetl e1 There a1 e al vay· two sides to a story and th s 1s not an except10n to the rule It v. 01 ld be d1tliculty to say how l)H ch trut.!1 or how m ch falsehvod 1s mvolved m all those stones about the consp1rac es -agawst the hfe of the Prmcess Louise &c It the Insh were to be Judged by ordmary rules 1t would of comse be at once con eluded that the whole was one absolute and transparent falsehood for 1t would be 'J ist ly affirmed that no men could possibly make tiU~ d1abohcal attempts agamst the 'life of an 1Dnocent and non poht1cal woman whose death could not m the least affect the fu ture of Ireland except to do mJury But ordmar,y rules and the mere thought of the fitness of thmgs ha.ve m this case no stand mg and nobody therefore can say when any fantastic stup1d1ty shall be attempted e'en tnough-as bad -and as foolish as the at tempted takmg off' of the Puncess would be Mis Carlyle bitterly iegretted havmi; mauie i an author and yet was as p1oud as a peacock b.,cause she was the mate of a succe·s ul one She was ill to please th_< ugh to be sure her hfe hke that of a policeman could not have been a very happy one It rs JUSt as well however for those who tlunk that they must ha>e their huobands ah ays fool'ing round them to !!!Ve all quill drivers a wide berth It 1s scarcely possible 1f all women were of tnat wav 01 thmkmg to see how reporters on a mormng µaper or proof readers could get wives ac all The wives of com 1 ercml travellers a1ealso to be 1<Ieat ly p1t1ed to say nothmg of sailors In all sobnety how can writers either make a name or keep one 1f they aie not to attend to ther bus ness and leave their wives for a good part of the 24 hours to their O\\ n rne d1tat1on· Carlyle may have been a very bearish man but lus letters doµ t show that he was tnat to his wife at any rate 1"hlle hers pl O\ e mcQntestibly; that ,she was not all that could be des red either m a w1fo vr-a woman Truth to teU she was appar ntly_§Q_mewhat coarse both m her ways "' ~words Clever no doubt ut with o i:e' e1ence and but httle thoughtfulness In fact rt 1s not so evident as some would try to make out that she was a weak long suffer1r.g slave and that her husband was a brute and a vew bad one a t that Queen Victona has been s long on the throne that 1t has come to be felt that 1t will never be other nse th_at ·he will go on and on almost as some court flatterers have said n theu good wishes as long as sun and moon contmue The feelmg may be that way while every one l nows how drffe e1 t lli 1ll be the fact .And 1t may be (One1 than most 1magme )Ve do not b heve there rs a smgle person who has a right to be o it of bedlau1 or gaol who '\\Oulu even m thought say Heaven shorten Victoria a happy !lfe 01 reign one day l ut forty six }'ears rs a long time ancl Vllnle wishes and prayers may all go m one d rect1on the great law ot human ife pomts m the other No doubt the Quee rs still not what may be called old an'.! her const1tut10n rs good but the last news ibout the late accident are n0t so re assunng as could be desired and the poss1 b1lit1es not to say probab1ht1es are such as to ca-use nt>t a httle anxiety 'Ihe gos s p about wanm~ popularity an:! so forth has been and rs very &illy where 1t has not had "' spice of ma igmty about 1t Let rt be understood that there was any thing 'e1y seriously the matter and there would soon be the most unmistakable evid ence that mstead of wamng the Queen s populaqty was st!;.9pger now than it had been dnrmg all those by gone years TRUTlI hopes that there may be many nore years i stoie for her and rf not that her son ~'.!:Y have the good sense and the nght pn1 c pie to follow m her stei:;s iather than m tho e of his great uncle lie may not thmk 1t but 1t 1&' still the fact tnat the Bnt1~h will not stltnd another George IV and t is JUSt as w~ 1 for all c0ucerned to make a note of 1t: The Hard Justice or Arltansas Old Judge Grepson a JUStlce of the peace was never known to smile Be came to Ar Kansas years ago befo e the carpet bag gers began ti en reckles'i sway and year after yea1 oy the will o! ti e voters he aeld his place as mag strate Tbe la V) ers who pract sed m hrs court never Joked with h rn because eve yone soon learned that he never engaged m lev ty Every mornmg no mat ter how bad tie weather m1gl t be the old nan took hrs plaue behmd the bar wh10h with his own hands he had made and every e' emng JUst at a oerta n t me he closed his book and went home No man eHr en gaged b m m private conversat on becausA he would tall to no one No one ever we t to h s home al ttle cottage among the trees m the city s outskirts because he had never shown a d spos1t101 to make welcome the vis ts of ti ose who liv· d even m the im mediate' c mty His office was not given hnu through the mfl e1 ce of elect101 eer mg because he neve asked a man for his vote He was first elected because havmg onte been sum noncd m acaseot arbitration he exh1b ted tlie <:lxec 1trve side of such a legal mmd that the people nom1 ated and elected h m He soon gamed the name cf the Hard J ust1ce and e\ ery lawyer n Arkansas referred to hIS decl8lons His rulmgs were never re ersed by the b1ghe1 courts He showed no sentiment n decis ion He stood upon the platform of a law wh ch he made a study and no man disputed !um Several days ago a woman charged with misdemeanor was arraigned befo e him The old man seems more than ever un steady rema.rked a lawver as the mag1s trate took h s eeat I don t see how a man so ol l can sta d the vexations of a court much longer I am not well to day sad the Judge turmng to the lawyers and any cases that you may have you w ll please dispatch thnm to the beat and let me add q urckest of your ab1hty Everyone saw that the old JI an was un usually 1eeble and no one thought of a scheme to prolong "' d scuss1on for all the lawyers hact learned to re\ erence him Is this the woman? asked the Judge Who 1s defend ng her? I have no defence your honor the woman replied In fact I do not thmk that I need any for I "'m here to confess my gmlt No man oan defe1 d me and she looked at the magistrate with a curious !!'aze I have beell arrested on a charge of d1sturbrn!! the peace and I m }"llhng to submit ID) case I am dymg of consumption Judge and I know that any rulmg made by the law can have but little effect on me and she cou!!'.hed a hollow hackmg cough and drew arcund her an old black shawl that she woie The express10n of the mag strateremamed un l anged but hrs eye hds dropped and he did not raise them when the woman contmued As 1 say · no man can delend me I am too near that awful approach to pass which we know is ever lastrnf dea h to soul and body Ye>.1rs ago I was a child of bruzhtest promi&e 1 lived w th a1y parents m Kentucky Wayward and lighthearted I was admired by all the gay society known rn the ne ghborhood A man came and professed h s love fot me I don t say tlu~ Judge to excite your sym pa.thy I ha\ e nany and many at me been drawn before «ourts but I never before spoke of my past Life She coughed again and coughed a flow of blood on a handkerchief which she pressed to her hps I speak. of 1t now because I kuow that this rs the last court on ea1 th be fore wluch I will be arraigned I was fi(teen years old when rfell n love with the man My father said he was bad but I loved him He came agam and again and when my father said he should come no more I ran away and matned h m My father said I should never come home agarn I liad always been bis pride and had loved him so dearly but he said tnat I must never agam cBrr e to lus home-my home the home of my youth and happmess How I yearned to pnt my head on hts breast My husband became l\dd1cted to drmk He abused me I wrote to my father asi.ed him to let me co ne home but the answer that came was I do not know you My husband d1edyes cursed God and dred Homele·s and wretch· d and with my ht tie bey I went out mto the Vlorl l My child died and I bowed down and v;eptover a paupers grave I wrote to my father agam and he answered I k1 ow not thos· who disobey my com mandments I turned away from the lette1 hardened I spurned myteachmgs Now! am here Several lawyers rushed forward A crim son tide flowed from her hps They leaned her lifeless head back against the chau The old magistrate had not ra sed hrs head Great God ! said a lawyer, 'he is deadl The woman was his daughter The Selftshne ~s of other People Talk of some folks bemg always 1 ght Ia that not the general way? When is there found any body almost whom g vi.ng so ne piece ot mcrdent m \\h1ch be or she flourished does not make t appear m a way qmte unm1 takeable who had the be;t end of the st:i.ff? There are sorr e dear good qmet modest people who don t but their number 1s not by any means leg on Some of the most selfish people m the world are always grumbl ng about the selfishness of other p<>ople Some of the most boastful and self conceited have an everlastmg mourmng and contemptuous exerc se ot mmd over other peoples brag It JS the same all round Any aay one nay hear folks s ghmg Did you notice that so and sos talk waH all :ibout herself and her own concerns The whole mortal hour she sat here was taken up with her own children nnu her own do ngs She ueve1 onf even enquired about 01 e of our boys nev r even eeme l to realiu that we hau anyb dy or anyth ng worth ask mg about And so on and so on It is s~dly and awfully tru But what a e neople to talk about 1t not of those hmgs ii wh ch they hve and move and ha' e their bemg 9 And then how qmet Jy and comfortably they throw m remarks by tne way which tend so n cely to their oy;n honor a id glory It 1s awhlly funny But then the !!reater part of peoples work seems to be er tic smg tha.t of their neigh bors and makmg fun of tt em m a cer ta n qmet good natured fash10n 'lhe Clock or Strassburg Tl elate transit of Venus c iriously prove l the accurate calc 1!at10ns of the anc ent makers of tbu.t famo is horolog1cal curios ty the Strassbu g clock fi_few days before the transit the .American Register tells us v1s1tors to the cathedral 1 ispectmg m the planetan un a ttached to the clock noticed that one of the small g It balls representme; Venus was gradually movmg toward a pomt between the sun and the earth and on the day of the IJassage tl e hall stoo 1 exactly be t" een them Old Conrad Dasypodms the Strassburg mathemat10 an supermtenden the man 1fact1 fre at the clock and its ac companymg planetar um some time hetwee1 1571 74 the dates d fformg accordmg to var ous authorities and 1t 1s mterestmg to note that after three h md1 eu years o! existence the clock fa1thf lly fulfills the calculat1ons of its dead mventor A correspondent send~ tlle foregorng wluch 1s quoted from the Londo~ Gra1hic expresses doubts of its correctness and asks for mfo1mat10n One of o ir astrono 11cal correspondents sends us the followrng notes The construct10n of a machme which would exh1b1t accurately the not ons dis tances and magn tud'es of the planets and could be kept m runmng order for three hundred years 1s au 1mposs1b1hty' Such a piece of machm1sm would req l re th;i skill of the Great Architect of worlds The history of the Strl\o;Ssburg clock and the planetan im connected w th it bears witness like everythmg else to the 1m perfect10n of workmanship and frequent necessity of change and repairs The clock stands ID the cathedral and dates back to 1352 when 1t was put up i nder the patronage of Berthold de Bucbek at that time Bishop of Strassburg As time passed on the clock got out i:>f order and m 1547 three dratmg u . hecl mathematrn ans were comnuss10ned to {!Ut rt m repau They aU died befoie the work was fimshed and Conrad Dasypodrns undertook the re sponsrble task wh ch he completed rn four years The clock worked well until \ 783 the year of the Great Revolution when 1t struck for the last time It wa.i left undrstux bed for nearly fifty years and fell mto a d1lap1datea cond1tion mournful to behold An effort wall' then made for its restorat10n This was found to be 1mposs1ble for THE WORKS WERE RENDERED ALMOST USELESS by rust and verdigris Fmally Schw1lgue undertook to rnpa r modify and remstate the clock He commenced the task m 1836 1md after workmg four years completed t Ill 1840 A mythical story 1s told of him which does not tedound to the honor ot his fellow citizens It 1s said that he had engaged to construct a similar clock for the capital of one of the Swiss cantons and that hrs un grateful townsmen put out lus eyes to pre vent hrs fulfillment of the contract 8chw1lgue placed the mechan sm of ti old clock ID the old castmg after skillful improvements and alterations w~ere it contmues to be a source of proud sat1sfac t10n to the nhab1tants of Strassburg and an unfa lmg obJect of attract10n to tra ellers from a.11 quarters of the globe Bes des the remarkable performances connected with t he regular clockwork it shows tho s denal time the movements of the planetary sys tem and the process10n of the equ noxes It 1s claimed that the mechamsm 1s so pe1 fectly elaborated that 1t marks the 29th of February m eve1y leap year It rs not impossible that the planetar um may have marked the transit of Venus on the 6th of December last for if the mclmat10n of the orbits of Venus and the earth to the ecliptic rs a curately represented Venus must sometimes be at a pomt directly between the. earth and the sun. and con sequently make a tranaLt o-ver his disk rhe poss1biJity of-Ba.·h an occurrence probably nwer entered the mmd of the an_cient Con rad Dasypodms much less bad he power to make the accurll.te planetary airai ge meJJt!!'""tU brmg about a result after a lapse of three hundred years dependmg on con It was not tmgAnmes then unknown until the seventeAnth century that Kepler so far m proved the planetary tables as to predict ti at a transit of Venus would occur on the 6th of December 1631 We have "DO means of knowmg what 1m provements Schwilgue made ru the ancient piece of mechamsm but rt 1s mfe to say that absolute perfectwu was not attamed If Venus did actually wheel mto !me between the eartll. and sun on the 6th of last De cember we are mclmed to t hmk rt must have been a simple comc1dence rather than a result of prolound mathematrcal calcul a hon If such \\ere not the case why did we hea1 Lotbmg of the transit of Venus m 1874 nor of the six transits of Mercury that have taken place smce the planetarmm was pit rn order m 1840? WORDS OF WISDOM an artist and mathematlc111n of Strassburg ____...... ~ ,,.. ..---- ----·~ ~··---Tne Oldest Bank Notes The oldest bank notes are the flymg money or convement money firat issued m Cl na 2697 B c Or gmally these notes wern issued by the treasmy but expeuen~e dictated a change to the S) stem of banks under government mspect10u ancl control Tne early Chmese greenbacks were mall essen t als s milai: to the modern bauk notes bea111 g the nan e of the bauk the datt: of issue the number of the note the a gnatt re of the offi.c1al 1ssmng it mdwatrons" of its value m figures 10 words and m the p1ctor al representations of cams or heaps of corns eq1 a l m amount to its ±ace value and a not ce of the pams an l per alties for cou11te1fe1trng Over and above all was a Jacome exhortat1011 to mdustr) and thr ft · Pioduce all you can ipeud w th eco 1omy The notes wern p mted m blue mk on paper Fetid Feet ma le from the fibre of the mulberq tiee One issued m 1339 n c 1s still preserved m A p omot remedy for this disgustmg af the As atrc Mu·eum at St Pete1sb rg fectron 1s found m washmg the feet with a slou t1on of chloral (o e pa1 t of chloral m ~ne The.L01 l nay call a mii.n to preach b11t hundred pa1ts o! water) and keepmg them envelcJt>cd m compresses wet with tbe same be goes out lectunng on his own account Another ef!icacro1 s JI ethod 1s to powder the A well known foreign correspondent M mtenor of the socks with a powder compos Iv:in de Wolstyne who will represent sev en(of one part of sahcyl c ac d and five of era! papers at the coronation '\\ r tes that the stu,rch c remon1es extend over nme Jays at St Petersburg and sixteen days at Moscow Mr Burnard s good natured ra1lle1 v 1s In the latter City householders a e a lready askmg 3 000 ro ibles (about $9 250) per fort said to ha'e killed the masher at least mght fo1 a s~1te of four or live rooms Houses m London round the Kremlm hired for the court are The Beihn Museum has purchased at the taken at$ 50 per day Cab fares durm~ the N ar1shkme sale a celebrated pamtmg by fetes a1e already up to $17 50per day Albert Durer for $150 000 ... Knowledge rn the treasure but JUdg ment the treasurer of a WJ.se man - William Perm Labor rids 1 s of three great ev1ls-1rk someness vice and poverty -Voltaire Nature has thrown a' eil of modest beau ty ove1 maidenhood and moss roses - Willis Those who school others oft should school themselves -Shake,~peare Go to the a nt thou sluggard. l earn to hve And by her busy ways reform thy own Smart Man 1s unJust but God 1s JUBt but final ly Jus tic e tuumphs - Longfellow Then au who cannot blush and has no feelmgs of fear has rea bed the acme o mpudence -Menan lei No hope so hnght but rs the begmn ng of its own f lfillment -Eme1son God hath yoked to gmlt her pale tor mentor misery -Br'!!ant Ah how uni ust to nature and h rmself 1s a tho ig htless thankless mcons1stent man - Yoing After hrn blood that whwh a man can next give out of himself is 41. tear- Lamar tine V hen a mon res sts smon human mot ves only be will not bold out long -Bishop wit. on [astes consist ln the power of J udgmg,. genrns m the power of exe utmg - Blai1 The tr ly wise nan should ha' e no keep er of !us secret but hrmsdf -Guizot The best so1t of revenge 1s not to be like h m who did the mJ i y -Mu1cus .Antonius The way to gam -a e;ood repu tat1on 1s to endeavor to be what you desire to appear Socrates Io be poor and to seem poor 1s a certam method never to rise -Goldsmith He who observes the spea!<er more than the sound of w01 ds vnll seldom meeL with dis appo ntments -Lavater The wor st of slaves rs he whom passion rirles -1£ Brooke No thoronghly occupied man was ever yet miserable -Lando1 Knavery 1s supple and can bend but honesty IS firm and upright and yields not -Oolton The oflic1al returns gives the value of the tobacco consumed m France m 1882 at ~6"! 500 000 fraucs C gars show a total of 60 500 OOOfrancs cigarettes 16 000 000 and chewmg t obacco 9 000 000 The heav est amount 278 000 000 francs wa.s for ord1 nary smokm~ tobacco There has been a case of cure by faith at Walpole Mass 1£ Mr Gardner 1s to be be heved His ' fe had spmal memng1t s and then r he imatlc fever set m where 1pon at m1dmght he lard his band npon her head and said Wife get right u.r and walk n the name of the Lord and sl e did The re mamder of the mght was passed ID smgmg psalms Home exper ments ha\;e been made by M Decaux: on the effect of the electric 1 ght on the colors of cloth and pamtmgs etc The The Fate or Cardinal ltlchelieu s Skull colors were exposed for 1 500 hours under Cardiinal R10hcheu the Kmg of the IDng th n g asses to the action at the air light at as the people had mcknamed !um was en a distance of 150 cm (aoout 60 mches) and tombe,d m the fulness of hrs glorcy the under these conuitions the effect of the vaults' oLthe Sorboilne Church One day electuo hgh was found to be similar to some ixteen years ago the Mayor of a little that of sunlight but only one fourth as village m Br ttany presented h1mse f before great the E nperor Napoleon III He opened a The d~nam1te scare still goes on though small box winch he brought under b s arm even the greatest fools amo ig t hose God unwrapped the parcel V1h1ch rt contamed save Ireland friends are begmmng to d s and drey; from it a human mask The skm cover that the assassmat10n role s a losmg was dned up a d wrinkled the eyes deeply game Instead of m that way brmgmg what buried m their sockets the mouth contract they profess to want any nearer 1t s mak ed ti e teeth perfect The beard moustaches mg the whole hmg more hopeless and 1m and eyebrows were sttll 1n the1r place~ '!Lnd j possible Jet them go on a little more rn the whole was covereci with a yellow varmsh the same way and the md gnat10n of the like au anatom10al specimen S re said whole c1v1! zed world will be turned upon the Mayor you behold alf that remams of them and they \\ill be hunted down as Car du al R cbeheu nox ous creatures that do not deserve to In the month of December 1703 when a live revdut1ona1y party pillaged the tombs of It is to be hoped that poor man Czar will the Sorbonne one ot the soldiers entered at last get safely crowned and be done with the vault which coutamed the body of the it It seems that 1t comes off on the 27th Card nal and find ng that the mask of the of next month Most of those who have face doubtless n order to facilitate some been mnted to assist seem to fight shy procesa of embalmmg bad beeu sawn off of the honors It is rather awkward to feel from the rest of the head possessed himself that one may be blown up at any moment of 1t and displayed it rn trrnmph to the and the satisfa< twn of goma up m comp.1.ny spectators who thought that be had himself with their MaJest es of ali the Russias 1s cut off the great mans head Subsequently but a poor consolation and not the greatest a hatter uameu Cheval possessed himself of of all possible honois Upon the whole the the trophy and h d 1t m a cupboard at the chances are rather m the youn14 fellows back of his shop The ll~h Thermrdor came favour He rs m for rt at any rate and the hatter m alarm gave the mask m courage and darmg are his only safeguards charge to one of his customers the Abby Armez who earned it with him to Br1tto.ne The proposed extension of the Domm1on al'.!d gave It tO bJS brother rhe brother fraochrse to women would scarcely seem 011 findmg that msects were attackmg the rehc prmcrple to go far euougb .as property rs consulted the "\1llage apothecary by whose taken as the basis of quahficat10n the "\Vo advice it was varmshed It was this gentle mens Ru;(hts As oc at10n naturally ask why mans son who brought 1t to Pans m 1866 unmarrred women and widows should be and rn December of that year rt was restored selected and their marued sisters who own with great ceremony to its place under the property 10 their own right omitted m con monument of the Cardmal m the presence ferrmg the franchise And wh 1st cour of the Archb shop of Pans Monsignor teously acknowledgmg the gracious actron of Darco:)' the Duke of Richelieu and a greab Sir John they ate press n:g him to act st ll gatbermg of notab1l ties Smee that day more grac ously rauTn 1s strongly of the the Emperor has died ID exile the Arch op mon however that fe\\ of the ladies mar bishop of Pans has been shot and the last ned or unmarried will exercise the nght of tae nan e of R10heheu has died w1thout even when conferred If there 1s to be a issue cha ce TRUTH would rather see our far sis ters flourish as M ss Jones of Halifax this Hard to Beat week does m havmg one of her pamtmgs A farmer came mto a groce1 y store the hung m the Par s Salon tl an see any one other day and exb1b1ted to the eyes of an of th.em throw ng mk bottles 1Ollnd a court admirmg crowd an enormous egg about six: room m the ex:erc se of their prerogative as mches long which he avowed to barn been members of the bar as a M ss Ka e Kane of laid by one of h s own hens He had rt M lwaukce the other day was dong After packed m cotton and wouldn t allow any all women sh ne most completely as body to handle rt for foa1 of breakmv the mothers and m lendmg those graces and ie pbeno nenon 1he groceryman exammed rt fine nents to svciety which make up half with the 1est and mtendmg to chaff the our c1 ul zation countryman said Pshaw ) ve got some The arrival of tne Prmcess Lomse at thmg in,,the egg l ne that will beat that Ottawa has been received VIth sat1sfact10n Ill bet you $a you haven t said the not less b:( the good people of t hat city than countryu an gettmg excited by loyal Canad ans every where The rea 'Iake 1t up replied the groceryman and son for'her absence has no doubt been the going behmd the counter he brought out a ave s10n of her phys1c1ans to the steadily wire egg bearer There s sometl mg m the cold climate of the country thollgh Tnunr egg lme that w 11 beat 1t I gu ss said be 1mag nes our cl mate rs someth ng they kno1v reachmg over for the stakes httle about She has certamly esc,.ped any Hola on there said the farmer let s see more such upsets as the one which has t you beat it and he handed it to the groceI seems so gnevously upset her nervous I be latter held out his hand for rt but drop system All will be glad to know ho veve1 ped 1t n s irp1se on the co mter where 1t that the trip across the contment and tne hroke two soup phtes and a platter It was rest ID the balmy climate of the Bermt dns of sohd iron panted white ha' e res 1lted 11 send mg her back amongst Some folks th10k they re darnation cute us the very p cture of rosy health Soc ety m itte ed the farmer as he pocketed the of the kmd the Cap1t:i,l affords has welcomed stakes and ht out but tan t no use buckm her effnsively ano even tne addiess nms agamst the solid facts ance has not been om tted 1he long yarn written by the goss1ppy cories1 ondent of Uncle1 the superv1s10n of Fathe~ Antonuc one of the New York papers concernmg her c1 a Ch nese Catholic m1ss10n has been relat ans with Lady Macdonald has been founded at San l anc1sco abundantly disproved already rhat she In Great Bntam the large sum of $40 000 may long contmue to grace Rideau Hall and 000 000 1s mvested m railways Some of the act the part she so steadily and worth ly engmeb weigh 45 tons and take a load of 90 fills of patroness of all the chant1es and tons at a speed of from 40 to 50 miles an amemt1es of our capital on the banks of the Ottawa, IS the fervent WISh of TRUTH hour Ontario Statistics Tho reg1strat10n of births deaths ani marriiges m Ontario is by no means as com plete as it ought to be st 11 1t 1s bee mmg more HO every year rhe births registered dmag 1881 were 4G 714 the marr ages 13 106 a d the deaths 22 821 Compared with tl <> ytar before the bu ths lave decreased and both marr ages and deaths notrcably mcreased 'I h s does not seem at all likely The deaths m Toronto were 19 5 m the thousand In St Thomas the deatl iate 1~ put oown at 11 n the thollsand Th scan 1 ot be correct If rt 1s St lhomas 1s to be cot ~iatulated for its superior bealthmess rh" u nber ot 1lleg1t1mate b rths IS alarm mgly o the mc1ease In 1873 there was one 1 µ e ery 12!l b rths m 1881 one m every u4 l l e County of Ca letor seems to have a bad p e emmencc m this r espect one m e' ery mne blfths reported fro;n that district bemi;r 1lleg1t1mate Toronto also ranks very h1gl1 m this evil and degr..d ng notor ety It a to be borne m mud however that many of ti cse poor un!ort mates are sent mto the city to hide their shame and to be lost if possible among tlie lost s1ste ho of the streets When iv ll g1 ls try to have some self iespect? lhey are tossed aside like rubbish by the r sedQcers ana the Wt etched tools that come after take no warnmg but If we go equa ly rapid to their doom could onl) get the ear of the s1 nplA gawky foolish mdchcateal'.!deas1ly hoaxed soft e But no! Thiiy have no self respect no p1oper womanly pride no knowledge of the fact that the ' ery men who take ad~ antage of them are the readiest and the first to desp se them Ill then hearts Girls girls do show somethmg like proper spmt and maidenly modesty Marr ages are often queerly mixed In one case the bndegroom was 81 and the bl ishmg hr de 32 In another the bride groom was 18 and the bride 15 A great many moie widowers than widows ma ry a!'.ld very hke for the best of reasons a.s many of the latter may never have a chance Among the causes of ueath Phtb1s1s &tands always at the head And m the maJonty of cases old age next One would have thought that typhoid fever would occupy a high place amone; the first ten causes but rt does not In some cases rt 1s not ment10ned amo1 g the ten at all and never above the 6th or 7th Uonsumpt1on 1s always k ng though the rate 1s ve1y different m different counties During 1881 twenty two persoUR died m Ontano who were a hundred years of age and upward Only one of those hved m a town and not one was a nat1vA of Canada Of the 22 as many as 13 were natives of Ire laud 5 Wtie Seo ch ~were English and 2 came from the States Three were farm er s wives seven were farmers and twelve were women The oldest was 106 years of age TRUTH suspects that the memory of some of these worthies was at fault while the 1 1magmat10n m gl t also have some tluug to do w th the result The longest hved people seemed to be sol drers and gentlemen but very httle faith 1s to be put m many of these retnrns Wh~ masons sl ould live so much longer than. br clclayers does not appear Why telegtap'h operators should have such a poOr-J!ihow tor hte 1s also somethme; which no fellah ean understand Farmers seem to aveiage a higher age than those at any other occu pat on-their average bemg flO while the average of mechamcs 1s o2 and mercha.ats &c 46 m1llmers and dress makers have the lowesj; average makmg only 31 I Bt1>illng Water When the author of G 1 Bia& r d1culed Doctor Sangrada for usmg hot , ater as a panacea for all diseases he probably bad an emprncal school of medicme rn his m nd whwh had many votau s m h s day llus bot water treatment has been revived m our time and bas become very popular Cer tam dyspeptics and other mvahds now a days dnnk cop10 isly of , ery hot water on nsrng m the morn ng and before then; meals and they declare that 1t agtees w th them Quite apart from the ti erape ihc efficacy or ho· wate1 1t 1s IBally an open quest10p whether all water shot Id not he boiled before bemg drank It IS natures great solvent but 1t unfortunately holn.s m solution many mgred1ents po1so1101 s to the h man system It s through air and water that come all the contag ou· fevern and foul a r diseases winch a:ffbct h 1 mamty Tl e p irest lookmg a d nost crysu>\llme spnng ofte 1 holds m solut 011 the lime that produces stone and gravel Wells anti ~treams tainted by sewage are as bni;:ht and sparkling as the purest aqueous fluid extant Tl e natnn with the densest populat on on the globe-Uhma-have Jong ceased to use water m the uncooked state It 1s not the mfus1on of tea which 1s the important part of the fan ous Chm se refreshment 1t rs th.e boiled water The tea ~as first used to make the hot water palatable The wmc drmkmg of the contment of Europe and the beer dr nkmg of the English people 18 par tially explamed and excused by the ev ] m e;i;ed1ents so f equently foun::l m the water of over populated countries This throws a new hght upon the hot water treatment m disease Heat applied mternally rs probabl} as useful m its way as when employed ex ternally ID steam and hot air baths It will not do therefore to follo\\ the exarr pie of La Sage m laugtung at the hot water doc tors They have their uses and rf they do httle good they do less harm than the dis pensers o! uorsonous drugs SWEPT OVER A DAM A Boys Lingering Deatll Witnessed by Hundreds on the Shore Vafn E:tr.c>rt11 to ltescue Him The Rising Generation Well observed a fomteen year old boy knockmg the ashes off his me;arette and. t 10wmg down a prmted rntalogue of a valuable pr vate library to be sold at pni>hc sale - well he must have l een a dry old stick Five thousand books ID hrs 1 brary and not as ngle dime novel abou t InJuns or pmi.tcs among em -Norristown Herald The gayety of t he Dublm season was this yea1 except10nally grea.t Off on a tear-The tail of a coat --Out at the elbow-A disconnected sto' e p pe Wilham Jacobus agec lt> a ~on of a tar mer hv ng on the Berger county side of Dundee Lake near Paterson started to cross the lake about 30 o clock one recent morn rng his errand be ng to engage a washer woman for the next day Thor ver wash1gh and the wmd was blowing a gale from the no1thwes The boat was a square bowed flat bottomed scow an l n spite of h s ef forts rt was swept down toward the Dundee dam This clam 1s 450 feet long and 1s said to be one of the longest of the kmd rn the Un ted States It 1s only 20 feet high It is hmlt of solid masonry 4u feet thick at the bottom and 6 feet wide at the top It widens the nver mto a lake wluch supplies all the mills m Passaic city \I 1th water Tl e boat went over the dam As it tipped on tl e b mk Jacob is was tbrnwn out and 1 e fell " th 1t bit appaiently so for away from tl\e curta n of water that be was not earned down to the rocky bottom of the abyss below lbe boat lodged on a rnck a. short distance below the dam where it lay bottom side up The boy made brnve ef fo1 ts to swim to the boat wh ch were wrt nessed by the occupants of several farm houses along th~ shore and by meu gomg to their work After half an hours strug gle m the edd es he s cceeded After cl1mbmg o l the bottom of the boat he stretchod himself aoross rt apparent! y com pletely exhausted The cold water was run mng over all but a small po1t1on of the boat After a short tune be recovered l11s strength, and called out to those who had gathered on the shore to come and save !um He said he was dying with the cold His parents and brothers and sisters were svon 011 the shore together with 600 or ~oo other specta tors all !rant cally encouragmg the efforts at rescue The nv.,r at this pomt is very rough be mg full of rocks for nu g dangerous rapids, but seve al bra e altlio urh futile efforts were made to save the l oy Wilham Dun m gan tbe gate k<.->eper and watchman at the aam · cceeded ID go ng out m a boa.t to with n twenty feet of him when h s boat cap>1zed and Dun Hgan hunself was nearly drowned before he was rescued Next a. rope was stretched across the r1 ver from shore to shore and about H.l o clock a man endeavored to walk across from rock t<> rock steadymg h1m·elf by the rope The c irrent washed !um fro n the reeks and he was swept down the stream but he man aged to pull hr nself hand over hand along the rope until he reached the shore exhaust ed Jacobus had kept up p teous appeals to !us fr ends to keep trymg to rescue h m but a httle after 11 o clock he fell over on the bottom ot the boat his cries ceased and for a short t me he was seen to sh1ve1 After th s he wa~ not seen to stir Ro had been over four heurs m the 10y water and cuttmg wmd H sfeetlaym the water wh h ran over the boat About noo a boat wa> gu ded o lt by means of the ropE> to where he lay He was then quite dead a ____ .............,. ~---- PERSONAL ITEMS Interesting Para.graphs about Famous and Other People Gilbert and Sullivan will now make So mahsm their target The new Fmance M1mster of France M Tirard was once a wo1kmg Jeweller Alexander Mitchell bas m hrs house m Milwaukee probably the finesG library m the West A grnndmece of Uharlotte Cushman s Miss :Hella Cushman Eaton has been g vmg acceptable dramatic readme;s They say that Mis Astor s d111monds are eclipsed by hose of Mrs D az who rn only mneteen and speaks English 1eadily Lady Wride tells us that it s not 1m poss1t>le that a new dialect wh1ch may be called Amencanese will be rapidly foi med Lord Beaconsfield s portrait now hangs near the entrance to the Quee 1 s prnate dmmgroo n under the admirable portrait of her great grandfather The two youngest Judges n England are Justices Cave aua Bowen aged forty eight and forty seven Vice Chancellor Bacon the oldest 1s eighty four An mv1tat10n to smg with the Bach Cl orr of L ondon before Queen V1ctor1a at Wmdsor Cantle m June has been accepted by Mr George Hens he! He was formerly a musw teacher to the Pr ncess Louise who called on bun w th her husband while m Bvston At a concert m Baltimore lately for the benefit cf P ofessor 1...rouch co nposer of Kathleen Mavourneen be accompamed the smger VI hen two of his songs were sung It is said that Her I love 1s the only song which has brought him any money m the Umted States Mr Pe~body d bequest to London was aoout $2 000 000 The propcrtv of the trust rs no" valued at over $4 000 000 It has been honestly and efficiently administer tod The tenants number 15 000 m 3 aOO separate build ngs of 8 000 roo!llS exclusn eoflaundnes etc It 1s the fash10n for royalty to be literary The Archduke Ludwig Salvator and the Crown P mce Rudolph have published sketches of travel the pen of ti e Queen of R ouman a 1s well known m song and story and apot egm Prmce George of P us>ia rs a dramatist of talent Prmce Elmer of Old euburg has comp0sed a comedy to be per formed at the \ 1enna Barg Theatre old Kmg O·car of Sweden rs a poet and trnns later a d we all know Queen Victor as good and ntcrest ne; books The Fngl sh National Gallery has been presented with a palette ised by 'l'mner, by a Bnghton art1s Mr R N :Nibbs The Insb Register Generals ret irns pre sent to the vis on of Engbna a contrast between the moral ty of its people and that of Ireland wh10h is not creditable to the former The percentage of illeg t macy m Connaught JS as low as 0 8 and m Munster 1 8 In Ulster it 1s 4 8 and m L mster 2 2 In the county Down the stronghold of Prote·tant1sm the T imes considers it re markable that the illee;1t1 nate b1 ths arn over 6 per cent the highest proport on m all Ireland In Lancash re they are over 20 A very mterestmg and amusmg essay m ght be wr tten upon the ~arwus modes of collectmg alms that are adopted m churches of different denommat1ons m England Scot land and Ireland :Not long smce a story was told of the favorite actor Mr J L Toole nsitmg the late Dr Guthrie s church and his bemg startled at the appear ance of the lang spoon or ladle that was pushed suddenly before his eyes and on hrs askmg what this was and bemg told that rt was for takmg up the ' collection Toole said Here how much is 1t ? Don t yon pay my boy I pay fo1 the lot This anec dote has been much quoted and great doubt bas been cast upon its authenticity but rt 111 h tera,ll y true