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“L “In! 5,},â€" Themikadpof minuthelrish. The namgires himany. w Muenopumps where the cocoanut me, which. perhaps. accounts for the milk ' Ont wattheagents take care of the lib diam, and the Indiana recipraially take hair i of the agents. They havenbnmlof whiskey in Ken-' eiity," be-g tacky as the "horn of p cause it will corn you copiously. "gamma, do you know that the largest ‘ of Iota an: 3 You shake your head. . 'ell. I'll tell you. They are elephants." Roman panch"issoalled because it in made of from; lemonade and Medford ,' nun, things entirely unknown to the Rom- ; ans. Tutor in Mechaaia-J'Ifa body meet a body~~â€"” Sophomore (in an undertone mechanically)~ " Coming through the; rye." “'hat is wanted in these days is not Hui much the elevation of the stage in the cm 5, largment of the means of exit from the uu~ f clitorium. A devilctish with ariiis.thirty-two feet3 long has been caught on the banks of New. foundland. What cashier he would have i made. What is the difference between an oldi and a feather'bed ? There is a inate- ' rial iffereuec. One is hard up and the oth- ; or is soft down. At the Opera, in Dublin, a gentleman sar~ caudally allied aman standing up in front of him if he was aware he was opaque. The other denied the allegation, and uh he was ! are I It migh would show as well own way the skill, taste am love of comfort. however, is proved by the rts of Ameri- t ing like what he expected O'Brien. . A Montana man spent seven years of his hfe to killelevcn grizzly bears, and he then found himself playing second-fiddle to a new arrival who had killed a man and shot at the Iherifl'inside of a week. “Ike has an irritatin skin disease," Mrs. I’srtington says: “Char otte russe broke out all over him, and if he hadn’t wore the Injun beads as an omelet he would doubtless have culminated fatally." to some of his friends. “Yes,” said Fogg, “It is tick. tick, all the time, I suppose." At a restaurant : 1"irst Dinerâ€" “ Here, waiter: I say, confound it, this game is too much so." Waiter (b1and1y)â€"-“Beg pardon sir, but you're mistaken, sir. It’s the other gentIemnu’s fish at the next table, sir." Armin ordered a s 't of clothes of a local tailor. The were to done on a Friday. When been led for them they were finished and done up in a neat package. The man‘s hair turned suddenly white. _“\_\'hat is your name?" asked the justice. “Siuitli,” replied the bihulous prisoner. “J ohn'.'" inquired the magistrate. “Jo,” .‘e spoiided the~prisoncr. “That's dcuiijohu, said his honor. “Well, you look like it; take ten days." Two Yankees were once describing the character of a third. One defended him, and the other disparaged his honesty. "Well," said the first, "you must admit that below lots of moral principle." “He orter to have," rotorted the second, “for he never uses any.” One of tho 1c vcuds upon the wall of the room in which t in Wisconsin Daivyiuan’s as- sooiation hold its recent nnnualmcctin I was: “Talk to your cow as you would to a lady." We suppose when milking time comes the dairyuiunpolitcly says to the bovine: “\\ ill you honor me with n ‘toatuhtcutl' " Things one would rather have left unsaid -â€"â€"-i\'crvo:is person (sneaking at last to his neighbor): “Do you know who that remark- ably ugly person is just oppositeâ€"talking to tho blac - mired lady, you kuowâ€"-muâ€"-ch‘.‘" Neighbor; “That, sir, is my brother!" Ner- vous -rsou: “Yes? Iâ€"-lâ€"-I hcg your pardon H-IT- «stupid of nu.- not to have seen the family likeness â€"aâ€"â€"nrâ€"uâ€"" (Collapses and disappears.) â€"â€"-â€"râ€"â€"â€"¢ w.” Bow to Make Peppermint Drops. Confection" and m... 'l‘nkc n convenient quantity of dry grun- ulatcd sugar; place it in a pan having a lip from width the contents may be poured or dropped; ndd ii very little water, just enough to make the sugar :1 still paste, two ounces of water to a pound of sugar being the right proportion; set it over the fire and allow it to nearly boil, keeping it comin- unll stirred; it must not actually come to a fu lboil, but must be removed from the fire just as the bubbles denoting the boil- ing point is reached he_ in to rise. Allow the sirup to cool a litf e. stirring n11 tho time-mild strong essence of peppermint to suit tho taste. and dmp on tins. or sheets of smooth white paper. The dro ping is is performed by tilting the vessc slight- ly, so that the contents will slowly run out, and with a small iiccc of stiff wire the drops may be stroked off on the fun: or paper. They should then he kept in a wanu place fora few hours to dry. If desired, a little red coloring may be added just previous 1:) dropping, or a portion may N! drop cd in a plum white form, and the rcmaiin er colored. There is no reason why peppermint should alone be used uith this foim of candy, but confectioncrs usually confine themselves to this flavor. Any flavor may be added, and a great variety of palatable sweets Made in the same manner. If desired, those drops may be acidulated by the use i of alittlc tartaric acid and flavored with lemon, piiieap lo, or banana. In the sea- son of fruits. i clicious drops may he made by substituting the'juico of fresh fruits,ctc.. for the water. and otherwise proceeding as directed. - mansâ€"doe 4-.) corâ€"~â€" < â€" ' Wild Beasts and Snakes in India. It is with somewhat more than ordinary interest that we have for some time past awaited the annual records setting forth the fearful ran-lair: wrou ht by tigers and other . and ' snakes. throughout our Indian empire. from the brief untiw which appears in the columns of a contem- porary, we now learn that there has been a steady devalue. from 1876 to 1530. in the total number of wild animals destroyed throughout Hindustan, coupled. however, with apro innate inert-me in the number of persons filed by wildaniuials and snakes. Thus, when!“ in the year first named there ‘ mduwyed in Hindustan no fewer than in“ wild beasts. in ISSO the fi urea di- ' milislwd to H.856; but, during ’ name ‘mL the number of human beings who have lost their lives has mountal u from minim 2|,“ ! One satiatactory suture amenabl- m the present annualreturus is tut relating to the great increase in the number of when deatroyul in the Bombay l’renidegtvy slough?! «gum. it must be a nutter Snipe-u ‘ I u suggest an anti- dote for the W‘Iujufiu inflicted by a wild heat such a the tiger: but there would auntie be good field now rated for the “a... .5. further prosecution of t experiments nigh already nude by Dr. he Luci-us in cannon .houin fort am one and en‘ wild aniu don nth a specific for snake bite. . mm " dioreat midi-nu in "W on .\\‘eil.aaday on be» . ' t delivered at m peace: were injured. “ii WWW hibernate-it- W witbthe outs-gel. which “Hinduism beeaproupted hyper 8. F 3 ...._ ....______.â€"â€"â€"_-.__â€".-_.â€"â€"â€" fillu slim Jones, Loyd a Go. unla- Society. The firm of Jones, Loyd & Co. has a ve‘ry ‘ Gambling Uni! ere-rm}, Ruhr. A I When Mme. de Mainfcnon asked the Welmgi “‘0 \‘L‘llmn‘ to assert that this is not ‘Gmnd Monnrque for money for the poor, he a ‘ “anion for Summon. but for planters mg a an: merchants to settle. In spite of the H-WEST ‘ NOTES.l gm This bark is now uni-5 m Inter to “aim _ h the London and Westmin-inc or 68‘ “nunde nu ster. It may be said to have conunenced, in a love affair between a young Dissentingj minister of Manchester and the daughter member of his congregation. yd reached so eloquently in his “Welsh chape , that Mary love with him. man at the Welsh chapc er and manufacturer. or some other merchant,was so pleased with the young preacher, that he presented him with a five-pound note; and the minister, in thanking him. said he would be happy to pray for him on the same terms every Sun- dayinornin . The young people, fearing that the fat er's consent could not he sc- cured, were secretly inarricd. The father- in-law was reconciled to them: but he thought that he could do a better thing for his new son-in-law than let him continue in the preaching business. ministers have a great advantage over the American clergy, in that the trade or business. or sit in I elected. Mr. Loyd became his father-in- law's partner, and went to London to open Iitan branch of the business. man for the banker'â€" erLouls XIV. HiLIIE ibii m‘Do. , me Laxocauiz. The farmer feeds the blesting u u. The sailor sails the c e. The gardener plants the p p. he does. The printer takes iii-i e e. t One tiny Learn by Going Away born Home. hill-4e1le mm. The theory of "locomotion" has also chan- ged within a few years. realizes the necessity of first seeing his own . g the Old World. Not long since the, New \orker, for instance, thought he was doing the proper thing in crossingtlio ocean even before he bad‘secn hingara Falls. Thomas for tho Englishman he to-day studies the rural and manufactur- ing regions of his country, and tries to com- prihend something of London and Brighton before crossing ridiculous when not able to talk intsl ly of his own country when in a foreign land. As an illustration, not long since an American visiting l’nris met one of his countrymen taking drives in the China Elysces and the llois who unhesitating confessed that helind never visited a single watering place in his own country, and when an English lady inquired of him concern- ing Sarntoga he replied with an air of confidence that it was “principally noted for its potatoes. ' As one goes about the world, too, one of t. on picks up a narrative which may illustrate a morality, and many are the curious inci- dents that occur; and in this connection we must recall the absurd story of the coiiiiner- cial traveller who, while journeying in Eu- rope, got into a railway carriage in which he found a gentleman sitting. exchanged glances, as is the manner of fel- Froni looks they proceeded to words, and in course of time there was much animated conversation. tiou of the travellers was a great northern town, and for several hours our two ti-uv- I ellcrs showed all the mutual amenities pos- sible on a railway carriage. the great station the Squireâ€"â€"for so he might be properly termedâ€"said to the commercial traveller: “\thrc do you happen to he put ting up in this place 1'" “ At the ‘ Golden Cross, ‘ ply. “Now, look here, .n’v friend," said the Squire, “ 1 live at rather a pretty place a few miles out of the town. a nice wife and some pretty children. have got on very well together. Just get into my dog-cart; it is sure to be waiting at I will drive you over with inc; we will put you up for the night, and I can bring you in any time you like tomorrow morning.” The commercial traveller thought that he was in for a good thing, and very readily Matters turned out precisely us Post a romantic history. algamated Wit i'said : “ A King gives aims b "spend roi fai ‘aumonc on i epensant beaucou .") If this was charity the financiers of t e time were eminently charitable. Bretonville, a farmer Recoiven General. bad a hotel so splendidly fumished that ibwas an object of curiosity to strang- ers. llis income was computed at £120,000 ayear. Fouquet‘s country house at Yaux was a foreshadowing of Versailles. He spent 9.000.000 livres (Colbert said 18,000,000) upon it, and razed three -vi11agcs to the ouud to round oil the domain. used for the pipes to supply the fountains and the images was sold by a subsequent proprietor for 500,000 livrcs. T he banquet to the King and Court at this place cost The service, comprising 30 doz'cn plates, was of gold. The imprud- ence of the display amounted to family, and, not content with rivaling his young sovereign in magnificence, be presumed to An object that fixed the myol gaze in goiuu over the chateau was a miniature of Mlle. La Vallicrc. of Fouquct was a foregone conclusion before the entertainment begun, and when his ac- counts \vcrc examined they showed that his personal expenses had annually amounted to many millions of livrca, without reckoning donations to lords and Indies about the It was a policy of Louis XIV. 'to “ The best mode 'rcat deal." ("L'u MAXITUIIA .u‘i» rm; xonrnwun‘. The Aiuerimn now Wuim'r is 83¢ per bushel in DeWingcu. Pounce-3‘ Li l’niinii’. claims a population of 2,000. BRANDON is surveyed for a city of the size of Philadelphia. D.inu.\'oronn will have a grist, saw and shingle mill this year. Tm: POILTMH.‘ is fitting up the office of its town clerk in an :csthetic manner. FARMS cixxo'r ur. BOUGHT iu the munici- pality of Louise-for less than $12 per acre now. Tum-.5 “:11, so for us ascertained by the Rev. Mr. I’inkliani, only four deaf mutcs in the province. IT is MENTIUXED somewhat boastfully that there are only fifteen prisoners in the Maui- toba provincial gaol. ’l‘iir. Wzixr or a Dacron is severely felt in the Rock Lake District at present. tlierin is very prevalent. Tm: ,l'oursur: Muuxo Commsv mpst mean business when they are already asking for 1,000 cords of firewood. A Joix'r Srocic Conmxv, with a capital of $10,000, has been formed at Dominion City to erect and operate a grist mill. AN INDIAN named llamsay has shot four- teen moose this season on the Icelandic River. That Indian ought to be at l’ilot Mound. The owl looks very y y At everythln The schoolboy And crosses all his 1 l. he 1 1. country before visitin aislilsii of a leadin Mr. James Jones fell in Her father was a 1, being both bank- On one occasion he, ROADS. n: Country Waggon Roadsâ€"Tho Dis- meoful Condition of Most 0! Then: - The Contrast in the Old World and in Some Parts of the New. About the first thing donewheii a new dis- 1 for settlement is to build The roads of a country ts oldest institutions. t be supposed, then, that its roads anything else in their iwcolth, That this the channel. one a pears I ‘ Iigent. gr The lead ltrict is "pencr 120,000 1hr”. roads through it. therefore, among i . Nonconformist rowth of a. country ii rival him in love. may go in arlianient if The arrest is not the case Diph- fnct that there are very few ca where the roads are any y should be, or whatmight leaves of prosperity and com- honiesteads and or from the that a metropo proved to be the very eminently sagacious, clear-headed, and hon- The Manchester firm regularly drew on the London firm; and for some years “ Jones upon Jones " was a well- knewu commercial-phrase. lie was the head of the business, which was transferred in 1864 to the most wealthy bank in the country-theLondon and \Vest- _ ministerâ€"that led the way in those joint (101688 for the head “ml tori-“rmg I stock enterprises which Sir Robert Peel de- clared formed one of the greatest discover- In 1844 Lewis Loyd from the cvii fort which characterize the 1 forms among whicl ‘ amount of wealth, “ Iveryu'ing is “3 "“rifulul‘ as clockwork have centred in t “Muff my house," said Brown, who was lead. In the summe “Wins the lplendors of his new residence is guy with lea tender blade, f . ous butterflyâ€"«the average road buried in dust and i they run, omb]e_ trade and industry he towns to which they l timeâ€"when all nature flower, proud stalk and cathered warbler and gorge- is a wean» bordered with I Court. encourage extravagance. of pleasing him," says Sf. Simon, “was to go in for it in dress, in table, in cqnipngc, in H0 thereby little by little reduced everybody to depend upon him fursubsis- The princes and uoblcs fell into the “hen Condo gave the wand cntcr~ taiumciit at Chantilly, immort. izcd by the death of Vutcl, his debts amounted to S.- 000,000 livrcs, including a tuilor’s hill of This entertainment cost 180,000 livrcs : there. is an item of 3,000 crowns for The rage for play required no on- It was as high as it could well be during the King‘s minority when we were told of llcrvucrt, Mnmrin‘s banker, losing 10,000 crowns at a sitting. the proper thing to pay in louisd‘or. llolmn, not having enough to make up :1 sum, offer- ed '200 pistolcs to the young King, who rc- fuscd to receive them. “Since your Majesty will have none of them,’ “they are good for nothing,” and he threw the whole of them out a window. on in the reign “lo jcu dc 1:1. Montespau" became proverbial. The favorite was known to win or lose more than 70,000 crowns iii a night; and the King as well as the lady grew angry when her stakes high that the courtiers refused to close with “Continue,” was the King‘s order to Colbert, “to do whatever Mme. dc Mon- On her wishing for n chateau at the gate of Versailles he bopght for her the ancient mansion of Cln iy, which at the first glance she (lcclnrei fit only for an opera girl and ordered it to be pulled down. Another property was added to it: n chateau, with plcnsiirc-urmnids to correspond, was constructed ; and she was finally lodged to licr liking for the exact sum of 2,861,728 livres, 7 sons 8 denicrs. rent lords and ladies cheated, and made ii The Duchess dc In h‘ci'fe invited her trndcspcoplo to sup er, ranged them round a. table and player n. kind of lansqn- She. whispered aside to Mlle. Ilclnunay, (Mme. dc Stool ;) “ I client them, but onlyout of what‘ they rob mo of." “ No one," says St. Simon, “was more to the King’s liking than the Duke de (l-â€"â€"â€"â€". or had usurped inorouuthority in the world. He was very splendid iiiall. a great games- tor, and not piquing himself on u very ex- Thc female gaincslcrs admit- ted to Mine. dc Muintcnon's cvciiing rc- ccptions, finding it impossible to break througha confirmed habit. endeavored to reconcile their cheating with their SCl'llpch. They came to an understanding that what was unfairly won should he paid back. may he shrewdly suspected that the ox- nmplc of Snpphirn occasionally suggcstci lligrcssing to the Spain of tho scv- I )1, 13:11,.lri11m-t hits it mcuts to the United States and Canada rc- 'l‘hc two For many years low travellers. f and The destiiia- PM)" tcncc. Form oizxsux'rioxs held high festival at trap. There were present a newly-arrived baby, its father and mother, two grandfathers, two grandmothers, two great graiidfatbcis and two great grand- mothers. some way, weeds, sha to the foot. Indeed, in the last pa the footpaths of ms contrived specially walkor's ankles out of join foot-beaten clay sloping broken away in places an Ivy by rain calling for the ag lkcr togot along them in safet e primitive road. w 1e are remarkably contented, the nearest to call (I sick- rticular Iliin Blufl' recently. my country roads seem *0 “Tend! the weary had purchased Overstono Park, four miles north-east of Northamptonâ€"a thousand or fifteen hundred acresâ€"where he resided un- He bequeathed three millions of money. the resultof banking and of success- ful speculations in Government stock. left an only son, Samuel Jones Loyd, who was, two years afterward, made Lord Over- Tbis nobleman is the greatest liv- ing authority upon the subject of banking. Wâ€" - A Wagglsh ankmnn. Sf. Louis Republican. A man stepped up to one of the lincknien at the Union depot yesterday and wanted to know where he could procure a bottle of “Jump right in, sir, jump right t peg city pound which has 1 into the yard ever since. is covered with about three. feet of iceâ€"u re- gular skating rinkâ€"and the well is still overflowing. ’I‘iis mos for the- supersfructurc of the new traffic bridge over the lied River at has arrived and is being carted glus to its final ies of modern times. AS they neared tâ€"â€"a incre rim of 300 000- into the ditch, , d when made slip- ility of a rape- Iii fall itli which jouquile. NEEI’AWA is the name of the latest Muni- courngeinent. The significance of the word is plenty, and is very appropriate, as the town is situated in the very heart of the mugnficcut farming district, the Big Plains. A conmxi is being formed to sink a salt well at Stonewall, thirty miles northwest Strong geological proofs d that a bed of salt underlies the rock on which Stonewall is built. . L.-iSTsL'.\|.\ll~ll’. a well was dug at the Winni- )ccu overflowing The pound yard til 1808. was the re- toba town. . and spring tli 330 many poop . _ is simply beyond description, . that can come to it, perhaps,' being wcarmcss an ax upon life and ty upon this conti- I have rather 1!: “’Ils . stone. we 5 » it a hog. The amount of ucss, wear and tear. and t energy, borne by humani ncnt of America on account of 1:.in ROADS that would startle the people if In some places, blc soil and scarcity of roads are harder 0 there is no difficulty in for want of science and f road-making has great in districts re favorable, in It has been said tion of n. country might be This the station. fiom \\ innipeg. exclaimed Ilohnu, have been advance Further is something ould only know it. whiskey. in, and I will take you where you can the finest kind of whisky very cheap." 'I he unsuspecting individual, in response to the invitation, jumped into the hack, and was bcin driven down the street at lightning. before he had time to collect his The mercenary hacknian drove out to Grand avenue and north on that thor- oughfare until he reached Washington aven- ue, when he tumed. east and directed his course toward the river. finally halting in front of a saloon near Sixth street. he jumped from his box and opened the door of his coach, when the stranger asked him why the “ mischief " he had taken him so far. “ \Vell," wanted me to take you to good whisky, and you can’t get that every- where." Seeing it was useless to pai'lcy with the hackman, the stranger then procured the whisky and asked to be taken. back to the depot as soon as possible, as he desired to take the train. The hackman said he had other (engage- ments and couldn't afford to do it unless he received SI for his trouble. As the stranger imagined it was five or six miles to the depot. he paid the dollar and said: “ “'ell, then, go ahead; I pr:- 1 same I must stand it." utes, to the man’s asfin halted in front of the depot. understand how it took him such a lopg time to reach the whisky shop and only a few brief moments to retuni. didn't altar the case any, as the liuckmnn had the dollar. while the stranger had no. thing to show for his trouble but n little ex- perience and a bottle of whisky. .*__...-_. they c owing to unfavora proper covering in to make than wher these respects; bu in the art 0 ovemcnt, cven consented. his new-found friend had said. snnt lodge and a shady avenue the dog-cart rolled up to a portion where there was a charming young wife waiting, with a child in each hand, for her husband. welcome was extended to the stranger. There wuss. capital dinner and a dcli rlitful bod- chambcr, undour tvnvellcrthoug itwith ticc that he was very fortunate. The following morning the Squire drove his guest back again into the town, as fur as The two puccd the platform for some little time, waiting for the train. “I am sure 1 am very much obliged to you for your great and unexpected and amazing 5 Ton my honor, never met with such kindness in all my life.” said the com~ inercial traveller. ' May I ask you what iii- duced you to ask me to come with you? Per- haps," he added, with an air of modest us- surnnce, “there was something in my style of conversation which took your fancy “Do you really wish particularly to know” asked the Squire. “I do, indeed." “In that case, my dear fcllou',‘ Squire, but not without einharrassinuit, “I I really should not have you had not But during the atcrial, plea. \VCI‘O 80 them. syste . room for impr where all the conditions 3 every quarter 0 that the CIViLlL'i judged by the was doubtlilss the time of railways, when mails and goods w 5998 A kindly thoughts. tespnu wishes. " f America. Winnipeg from the station at Point Don It is believed that. this bridge will be ready for traffic at n much earlier data than at first expected. A Vioxmxvc Connrr’rss has been formed protect settlers against The idea to make itii see- .ref: association was abandoned and the on struck out of the constitution. are invited to join. A rocu-roor scan of coal has been dis- covered cight miics this side of Fort Sas- katchewan, on the south side of the river, If. is to be worked ini- supplying residents of the condition of its roads. . . true to :1. large extent before ‘Iest'nat‘m' the carrying of as all conduct- roads, and it is still true It would be fair enough n different States, or Pro- ossessiug similar advan- ient and natural facili- according to the class of roads they respectively maintain: but it would be unfair to contrast the civilization of an old country like Switzerland. for in- stance. with its splendid Alpine highways with that of a new one by their roads other The States and Provinces of have been largely settled since the value and importance of roadswere y railways taking their long distances and part- he roads of Great Bri- on the other hand, were IIcrc passengers, the railway station. ed upOn ordinary to a limited extent. to judge betwec vinces. or counties. p togcsiu age of settl'en ties for road-making, at Edmonton to claim jumpers. ’l‘ho retortcd the hackmnn, got u bottle of joke of it. All settlers hospitality cnot with them. near Edmonton. niediatoly, vicinity. Grzsrznxi. Rosin-2n, chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway. on Monday ten- dered his resignation to Mr. Van Horn, which was accepted. actas chief engineer pending the app meat of a pcnuanent successor. chief engineer purposes remaining in “'inni- Peg- tlian railways. this continent treatly reduced b mm the I ' H place altogether for net lo) alt}, ly for short ones. tain and France, among the MOST IMPORTANT ixsrirurioxs feed will oint‘ The late Mr' S‘ B' will tell you. thought of mentioning it if named it so particularly. four or five years of my married life my wife, who is a very nice-looking little party herselfâ€"4' “ Precisely so, precisely so,” murmured the Commercial, in a tone of great iipprc- I cintion. “Ilas always persisted in telling iuc that licst man she hascvcr seen in all her life. 'Iomy own mind I have always thought that there was some truth in her hit it so happened that directly you entered the railway carriage and 1 fixed my eye upon you, I mentally exclaimed 2 ‘ Why, here is an uglier man than I am.’ It instantly occurred to me that I must carry" you to my place for my wife to look at you.’ “Really, upon my honor," quotli flu.- Cum- nicrcial. “Yes, indeed," said the Squire, not with- out a little shyness: “and we are both agreed that, so far as we have gone, you are by far the ugliest man that we have over soon. And I am sure I run very much obliged to you for abolishing my wife‘s injurious criticism." “'bat answer the commercial traveler made But there are thin as to bc learned in moving about that “'Olllf other- wise remain undiscovered. After all, to nearly every one the L'lfilf: for travelling turns out at last to be :i very tran- sitory one. \Vhon we start out we think we shall never tire, but we do tire often, and finally we realize that “home is home," In about four min- ishment. the back He couldn’t of their civilization for ages before America was entered by the races that now form the bulk of its inhabitants. To contrast Ameri- ca with old oountriesliko those named would, therefore, not he a fair way of proving that she is less civilized than they are. ‘ no doubt that, but for the invention of rail- ways. the older settlements of Africa would by this time have some first-clrss roads, and the main routes of travel would show high- not second to the smooth and gland. At the same time. it cannot be denied that the common roads of this continent have been far too much ne- d, and that the impo Women and Listening. But that itself. ciitecnth century, off in a sentence or two. “ Twu words desi- gnate it, money and misery: pomp and meanness are united at every turn one instance among many, he cites t sion for fine linen. Woman is primarily ii being who listens. She husinthcse days lost much of her origin- al touclmhlcncss, butjehc‘lias ‘not yet (“5- I I a", the “g carded the appearance of heiiig tcacliahle. In her capacity for hearing \vitnout obeying As a talker, she has her peers; as a listener, she is unequalled. If, as a French writer says,the conversation of women in society is like the straw in which chiu‘a is packedâ€"worthless in itself, but without which everything would be brokenâ€"the listening of woman is what saves us from a Babel of tongues that would bring the sky about our cars in no time. Not that woman is always, or, as a rule, unwilling to use her tongue (there is no need of being radical) but the listener who en- courages you with eyes and expression appreciative laughter is a woman. never lets a glance wanderin an absent inun- ncr to be brought back to meet yours at an important point with an effort of which you are both keenly conscious. you tempted to relate hits of curious per- sonal experience, the suffering caused by some random arrow of outrageous fortune, the fancies suggested by some hook, sonic To a clever sympa- thetic woman, whose eyes brighten with iii- tcrcst or sudden thh sympathy us she list- itm-cr so homely, ' ens, who seems to anticipate your next word with eager plensurc,nnd who, for some i reason or other just then, while you are in this confidential mood, has very few exocri- cnccs or fancies of her own to connuunicntc- ~â€"only hints at themâ€"just (-iimigli to keep you in countenance. There is ' Owned tarp.“ Rccord- remark. Ssllfah Tribune. The editor was sitting in his revolving cane-bottomed chair when Tornado Tom, the travelling terror of Texas, came in and demanded retraction of the statement that he had swindled an orphan out of Si. “ It's a lie clear through," said the ter. ror, striking the table with his fist. as good a man as smells the atmosphere in this section." “ Perhaps you are better," said the cdi- tor, meekly. " My rccord'll com lies her true power. “ llut it Was particu- lurly dear and rare. and a Spaniard, who might have had six shirts ruthcr than coarse, liked to have one very fine, nllil rc- innin in bed while it was washed, or dress . Caught a Husband. without a shirt at all." plate was accumulated till it was useless 1:);- The Duke of Albuquerque, besides some 20.0(Xhlishcs and plates, bad 40 ladders of silver, and there was nnothcr grandee who had a staircase of silver. Sonic-of them kept open tables, like the wealthiest grandee of our time, for their honpitnlify had no temptation for foreigners unused to The Duke do relates that the Marshal (lirainnionf) dined with tho Admiral of Castillo, “ who gave ii superb banquet in the Spanish manner, thii is tosay, umvholfisomc and iinrntnblc. saw 700 dishes scrvcd, all with tho Admir- al's arms. Everything in them was saffroucd rind peppered ; tin-ii 1 saw them carried away as they came in and the dinner [roiled four hours." The essential ingredient of Spanish dishes was and is garlic. 'l'lio ll‘lflf‘ or vanity 0f the grandeur: \v The Duke dc Mcdinn do in ‘ 3,000 crowns for one of the cni‘ringrs \vcrc ways perhaps solid roads of En rtance of having Gold and silver nadc has been altogether too It is gratifying, however, to know that in many directions there are sicxs or A.\' .iwsiuixmo to the great benefits that first-class roads n the country through rim and the villages and should connect with each other and also bring within easier reach of the delights of discussing the lators and municipa ning to ape the the e mum; 0 ous systems, and poo blic spirit arc gleotc them well i lightly estecmed- ccpt for show. “ I’m and She Spanish would confer u ‘ Duc dOssunn, which they sliou towns which they pare favorably with ” said the 'l‘crror with a spear; “ per- liorc are a few little back rackets that wouldn't bear a mi- tion." yourn, haps t in your life, sir, croscopic investi “0h, sir," sai the editor, visibly a itat- ated. ” don’t recall the up the memories of the led a hard lifeâ€"J don't deny it. Barnes, the Bowery Yorkâ€"diacked him all to I have stoned for it a thousand I blew off a man's head at have I t of in- their cuisine. (imminent The press is remains untold. science of road-making: legis- 1 councillors are begin- folly of wasting large sums of ally in maintaining lil-fashioucd. inefficient and ruin- lc of thought, taste ‘coming ashamed of d and dust, the fissures and rats, which characterize the roads of their neigh- borhoods. Reform in road-making and road- is being called for on all sides, and ed to bring it about are instruc- lion! in proper methods of building and maintaining mails, and the most improved lenient: for putting them in practice; al- ie cultivation ofu popular demand for the desired improvements and oLpublic spi- rit to carry them out as s sililc. The road of the future on this math and is the country. To whom past; don't tomb; I know I’ve I killed boy of New pieces with a 's money annu shorty view, some journey? and pu the uni knife. times. log-roll in Kentucky, and bitter] re nted of my folly. o ensive citizens of Omaha over :i jmltry t. simply because I got excit- ed. Oh, could I but cheat the tomb of the men I have placed in its maw I wouli But it was all owing to in raining. rd, wicked, and here and recall memories: but it's mean for obody with a heart would Don'tleavo, I sawed a man's . .4-.. . - - “I”. Hangman‘s Rope as a Talisman. >1, Loci- ltsjulduaii The popular pocket piece just no city is a piece of bnngman’s rope. hanginau's rope was taken from the pockets of superstitious St. Louisiana they would form a rope of considerable length. The five hangings recently taken place in this city have brought out again the superstition that linngmaii's rope is :i sure cure for rheumatism, apoplcxy and ever 'thing else. The rope is a sure cure for of the ills that flesh is heir to, if properly applied and adjusted ; but that is not the way that a great many St. Louis men and women look at it. In the po ' -c stations nearly every prison- cr who is s rclied carries a pivâ€"cc of rope, and a great number of pnmte citimns truisurc up the ghastly hex {hi to have “ I slew a fine horses. Torres gnvi- Andalusian costly. but they were liaruvssrd wit and the streets of were in such a state that thc Ambassador's conch. which cost 12,000 crowns. sank in the mud during a procession, to thc uttcr ruin of thi- vclwt and embroidery. royal family and n privileged IMP fin: filllllplif'illri lifter-i drawn by inuch shod uith slim-1‘. iv in this If all the keeping what is need four-dollar p0 brood. 'I'hi-ir into her lIflllUllfslillml‘.tfllf: could not hello“: I be. high know imp . . . “h'M-i'i/Ilm 4, ' so.tl . .a..~â€"‘.p .4»- »- The Doctor Who Went Abroad With the " Innocents." Many of our readers will easily call to mind the droll Doctor who was with Mark Twain iii the Holy Land, and who made the droll remark on the l‘lgvptiau mummy, ask- iug if it Was dead, and what he died of, l-‘cw know, however, that the genuine Doctor referred to by Mr. (.‘loiiwns is as droll and even more so than dcpictcd by this bu- Ilr. A ltccvcs. .laokson, the man who asked which was Columbus and which was the bust, now posich in Chicago, where he practices medicine. comedy when in the vein, and can carry on a COD\’l"I'!6-'itlflll without moving a muscle of while making statements that would lead the unacqnaintcd to believe that he hadn't sense enough to mmc out of the rain. Having met and convened with Dr. Jack- son, we can easily imagine the earnest and guilelcsa manner in which be convened with guide. and how he succeeded in convinc- in the total stranger that an American boy w io conidn't “Tito better than iColnaibus would be choked to death and thrown into the moaning Dr. Jackson is about 35, portly and good- natarcd. and many who know him say that the wonderful popularity cents Abroad" is due to his fresh and natural humor. happy- tempor and lack of early t that I have been waywa you have a right to come those unhap all that. treat a‘man like you have me. r: I'll tell you all. head off with an old army saber just forâ€"" The Texas Terror was down stairs and half around the corner. while the editor, ing a fresh chew of rattlesnake twist. efu‘. avocations quietly as eddy as pom consumption, heart discrete, A SHOUT“; \l’llhl‘. AVKSI'B : «0.4-.» o.»â€" The Wealth of New 'lorlt. Asonul piopwrtj now, w-l 1U 'rcgiifcs about two lullion . .u this your over last (if SSSJKXMXIO, nearly all on ri-nl mint-u floal estate is assessed only b") per rout. of its value, and an illl'li'Ji‘h: amount of pcimnnl - property swam» taxation by the the assessors to ill-.i:lI'-‘i’:|' it, or by the hold- ers swearing that Ill-.lf‘ debts exceed the value of their permmal effects. Manon the best known milliomim pay no [wrsonal tax. Church propcrt ' to the amount of $5,000,- 000, school, on logo and library pro xerty valued at $50,000.01), Mill prop. rty 1, United States worth ~5l.0-’M.0~‘)0,:iiv cxeznpt- The "Star Win Buck" tinted. cd from taxation. l â€"-â€"â€"~â€"-.ow “~w~ . -~ A liccinan rescued sir children from Ill u" "a" “0‘5" ""I)‘ “W ‘yiaru has ban the target of North Woods with good foot-paths on either side: lined ' with shade trees: at intervals cool groves with benches upon which the foofsorc way- farcr may rest, and supplies of water to coach his thirst: cleathcut and clear-kc t raiiuto keep them dry and toadmit of be ~ ldiiig limoks being turned in where and alumilt to last. with some attention. for alltiuic. Thisis no fancy dream. for roads in some nits of America are being after an i. cal that includes nearly 0 of the above description of the roe future. Bounties are being of shade and fruit trees by the road I the beautiful driveways in the borhocd of certain cities and towns are a? who acclaim hpwbigiuch ensure in ' e mi t ’ i p liga- thegalr: ae- eenitieaof usincnand travel were taken into account inconsiructing ordinary high- ways. strange ct '. k The real and IMX' New York city :. dollars, an inc: “‘3 tak continued his pear: a law-abidiuc citizen. merist. npcu incincnux's. i came-s one, and in the alleys iy the colored populace there are yards of rope with which Ellis and \Vard were cxu‘uted. yet exhaiutcd, and half an inch of the exe- cntion rope sells for the phenomenally low A gentleman with whom had a conversation stated that u very nice lady had asked him fora piece of the rope. She was handsomely dressed, and With recklessness he promised kinking she was she asked lfe strai htway pro- ceeded around among his frieni , but could not get any genuine. possible. livery tram frequented .. .. TM Late Lord We. The Earl of Lonsdale, who» death Ill an- nounced. was known to English society and the world principally as being the husband of Lady IAnsdaIe. one of the. most famous of the soâ€"alled professional beauties of 1.0m The deceased peer was a turfmaa, a great yachter, and from all ac~ rather an eecentn‘iaif not a somewhat nobleman. It wuduring one of the Western Continent that. a scandal arose in which, geared up to the e partus' mt Earl leaves achild. aadtho title therefore falls ton bother. the lion. H. C. lmther. lie is better than a . failure (if made Vcryitem d of the given for the The supply is not his fat-c. sum of five cents. a reporter planting don. prominent counts high iiv' pretty. too. to proccre her a pit-co, not t yment u we lie met her agar "he in earnest. about two years . for a piece of rope. connection with his beautiful wife, however,was mastermind-ode concerned. yptcd adaagbter. W Theda thazBrowufelloa the icy walk deheclhargow and ‘araica. .ittingil Mm uncallede the myofthe bari- ef Vesuvian ago, burning dwelling. weeks on the force. lly the time be has been there two ymrs he will learn to crime out of a burning house with a new ovorwai on and tho spoons in his pocket. When Farmer Iludgc read that a bull painted by Rosa Bonheur sold for $5,000 he remarked to his wife that he didn't see bmv He had to have a fees for that lady. however, and the bril- iant idea struck him that hecoclll give her any piece of twisted hemp. never know the difierence. of frayed and broken clothes line. train] of the rope, and the put it in he: pane and went away hop. 56ml parties have been selling the abOut town and hiring in the gullible u - “Tad .61. She would u The Inn“ He gave her a t. “’e do not I‘ piece . tpmbably whatisineaat saying that it runs oatheothertideoftheocean What, to the mdatbaof States hem covered with hiscbairthate cdcitieidnriagthedonpour " That. now," said Bron, "is Vish Mm‘ Vesuvius terashuon the blasted ~o« m»..- A Gamr Diaxov o. â€")1r. I'eter Rhode- is said to have declared that £100.00) would not induce him to diamond found at on Innate i ‘ scout of point could so great! ' enhance the value of the animal, but if an wouldn‘t _ chargemorc thanSlo he would 'et her to cd, weighed-(.00 pounds, while the snug: aims-.(Wimuoim. M Maputo-d his intentional la. : ‘muu hmwmmm pin! character rope people. A Ithodeisland baby swallowedran 8800 to a New York lady and 1,- precious darling. ‘i‘... at his bull in the spring. Am his econo cal wife re lied that the thought he imsclf and save his 8m. infirm: are now that the boil will bepaintcd. with his ' not claim in the initial,- mine, South Africa, although the stone is vetuncatandducribed as looking like a mane)” lump of alum, with a weight of 150 carats. Wy.vhichisatthcf theGovmtoltbeUalted Mythuhmtvuyhrtrentbemm .5; ma- sidewalks oini might The ashes. "at! Wilts. . 'nt it ithns became a ‘ n‘e “ Enhance Restaurant). came!“ Iarkct it! Well. Indian Sugar and tetanus. ‘ . We have received fmiii Messrs W. Ian‘ » no & Soilylimbudos. of the I-‘urbmbw llfl‘ ' old. frpm an article in which we take this following extracts relating to the MFF :itron between the Canadian and American » Husrkcts for sugar and that of the United : lunizdom. Alter referring to the compet- g‘ion between the Australian and West In. .‘ in colonies in producing 'aiigar.--thc for. J nicr having the advantage of improved ma- chinery and the latter of nosmrss to the ' musesâ€"ml llrmld says : ' * The solution of the problem seems to us to be, notin legislative interference. but in mining good sugar and getting it to the ‘ t market at the cheapest rate. At the risk of running counter to a stronu popular anti-bounty league. the plain fact rcmaiiur that the English consumer wants the best sugar for the lowest price, and whoever-can give him this will secure his custom. It is the ‘_‘ survival of the fittest" over again, and if any one is togo the wall, it is very probably the lluglish refiner, who will find is “Occupation gone.“ whenever the cob onist can produce sugar fit to go direct to the table, without his intervention. To make this sugar. he must have the pro ‘r appliances, and to get it to the mar ct economically must eventually he a uos- t-ion for serious consideration, and lea to a readjustment of existing arrangements. that is, licmust cease to my on on aver‘ age sixty shillings a too or transit to the London market. And this involves another question, whether the produce of Barbados for example. must necessarily co to tho London market, and whether there are not other and more profitable outlets in the Canadian Provinces and the United States. These seem to us to be the real points at is- suc, and which arc lost sight of in a cloud of words, and smothered in heaps of oflicinl incuiormida, and tho evanescent utterances of public speakers. The utterances of the French Minis-toi- or the llclginu minister linvc, iiflcrnll, very little to do with the final adjustment of tho quostion. If, in the march of one. of those inevitable Inn's which direct the course of cvcnts, and which mock at statesmen and their cxpcdieuts, the l'Iu-g- I' lisli refiner is ilOOlllelâ€"dlt‘. must disappear in spitcof fill the conventions and make- shifts in the world: but we do not sec for ii moment that the West Indian plantcr is iii- volvcd in his downfall. \\'1icucvcr the kit- tcrnltcrnativc takes place, it. will ho ho- cnusc in tho course of events some other manifestation of natural law as doprivoil him of his udvunfngcs, or he has failed to make the llltlni‘flf those advantages. 'l‘hin isuupulafnblc find an unpopular vicw to take, but it is our honest lliiln‘lnlll)“. based on the host thought we have bi-cu nblo to give to tho suhjcct, and we must be quite prepared for the unpopulurity which this expression of opinion may cngendrr. In connection with these remarks :1 stair- mmit of the disposal of tho crin of 1881 will not be without interest. "ho total shipments were 52,039 bogshends of sugar and 33,457 puiiclicons of molasses which were disposed of as follows :â€"â€" To the United Kingdomâ€"25,510 bogs- llelflS--3,I'_,i‘l firrces, 2,811 bni'rcls,'18,Sl-l bags sugar, and 575 niuchcons, ‘25 bugs- heuds, 136 barrels ofmolliisscs. To the United Statesâ€"10,992 bogslicndu, 962i ticrces, 1,055 hnrrcls, 10,82!) hiivs of sugar, and 16.019 puucbcous, 8'26 fogs- hcnds, (530 barrels of molasses. To the British Provincesâ€"(Canadal. 7.71 I hogshends, 517 ticrces, 4,241 barrels, 177 bags sugnr,-~15,319 punchcous, 1,310 hog» bonds, 1, HS hnrrcls molasses. These figures show first, the well under- stood fact that we have no market in thc United Kingdom for our molasses, which goes direct to the American and Canadian markcts; but it striking feature, and our which in preference to ourpreviousrcmnrks. we consider of special importance, is the large proportion of sugar which now finds its way to the latter ports. Out of u total of 55,031) hogshcads we find that 22,257 have been sent either to the United Stalks and to Canada. Tnkinrv the value of tho sug- arnt a nominal sum of. £15 per ho shend \n- have a total of £780,585, ninl of t iis 11333,. 855 represents the value of tho shipments to the foreign nmrkcts and £440,730 to the English. But we have 321,: 37 punclicons of iiiolnsscs at, any, £5 per puncheorgâ€"ro- presenting £166,785, and of this only 501 iuiichcons wont to the English market. l‘bcrcfori: WP. lizivn $333,555 the value of the sugar, plus £103,515, the value of tho llltr losses, equal in “117,670, against £446,730 for sugar, and £2,970 for molasses, equal to $149,700 sent to the English murkct. Those j are facts which are worth investigating â€" mos-specially when We remember flint ship- prcscnt hirgcly, orders executed on the spot: not only relieving the sugar grower of fi'cighfs and other expenses, but putting ii llflpug. lnrgcqimnfity of money in circulation on flic spot, giving us in short, many of tin- udvnntugcs v" ' h arise from the creation of ‘II lflffill market. I ‘00 v.» a.» In some parts of “1111th iiiiivi'iagcnhlo girls are accustomed to pluck, us they return lfl'ulll midnight mass on Christmas ievc, u sprig of npplc-troo, which they put iii u vi:il full of water. The viiil is hung in their bc-lchuinhcr, in front of the window; if one bud blooms before Easter. the iniotrczs it‘- siirc to be married before the your ends. Among the scrviiuts of a chateau near AIUII’ con was ncliiiiuhcr-imiid from lli'itiinny. Slin- was gcntlc, good-natured, quiet, piouii~iiii i'xccllulit creature every way. hut,~»-iibc was t liuiiclihnckcd. llcrimmouus Ursulc. 'l'ak- I iugudvnntngi- of the dark night who, tho plucked u sprig of upplc-trcc, sure that no- :odysuw her. She was mistaken. A ful low-Mervzint sziw her, and made servant's lizill ring with pools of laughter at poor Ur- sulo‘ii cxpcnsc. Still they kept the neon-t :ummg tin-unicle They all agreed to play trick on poor Ursula. limiter cvi: om,- of the jhllf‘lllfylnl'll giirdcnr-ini rcluovcd the old “I’ll?! "I “mile-true from the vial in Urunlv'n chdi-lmiiilmr, find put in its plm-ca sprig I‘ll‘f‘l'i‘il with bhmsoiim. When Uiiinli- wcnt llf‘l' rye-.4. She ri-turmnl to thc scrviiiifn' hull, bir fact: being rndiiiiit with Ilrliglit M hill‘ showed her trophy. 'l'lichiuglifvr, ji-erii, and Th» hootingn of lwr comrades revealed the trick 1 I put on llL’r.’ Slic- stood dumb, confounded, fri-iiibliiig. scarcely iiblc to restrain hI-i from. Just at this moment the mistress 011' ! tori-d the mrvnnts' hull. Au chiefly servant Ertpluim‘d thi- Hcmiu to lll'f‘. Thu inislri-m uni-1; “ Urnulmi the applv-trrf! sprig luff) llif‘ fiurtml: believe it; you nill bc i‘uurried , ln-fmu Christmas next; you arc a virtuous girl;l am sum you will iiiaku ii \‘irtuouv wife: all you want to got a husband in man» l'V; the money wantml 1 will live you." At 2hr, epoke, tlwiiiislrcu twiniu a 1,000-franc note around the sprig. and returned it to L'raulc. .\ fortnight afterward the journey iniin gardener who had put the trick on her asked her in marriage, but idic refused hint' (at which ho: was greatly jceredi and married another. u”: p» m-~ a ommâ€" o “mumsâ€"ouâ€" thuuton r... The bearer of the above name was a book of huge pmwrtiom which for six or seven sportsmen in the region of Star Mountain, near l’aul Smith's, but which until but seaâ€" son hurt: a charmed lilo, wretlxr with nume- rous rifle-bells. Then he ell a prey to the unening aim of T. Irwin, jr., of Oswego, who procured hi1 bead and antlers. to be beautifully "set up" by a New York fetid; ermist, from whom he has lately received the splendid trophy. The back. when kill- iiveight of those killed in the Adirondac in less than 200. This fellow, with his long splendid antlers, has long been the much- coveted prize of several Blew York sporty men.