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z" roams from The recent Bach festival at Albert Hall, 5 Modern, resulted in a loss of $3,500, which will have to be psid by the guarantors. Oko Jumbo, a \Vest African chief, visited the Tower of London the other day wit white plug hats and trousers. Inrd Salisbury, t is said, will allow Egypt to be occupied by lurkish troops, and allow them to bvpaid out of the Egyptian tres- sury. fr‘ranoe~ may not be so willing. Over $60,030 is v. be spent on the Stratford Church in which the bones of Shakespeare lie, I . h l VOL. The ancient doorway near his tomb will be opened to give access to the new vestry. The duke of Schlel lig-fiodtein-Augns Princess Louise of Wales. February. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, while speaking at Leeds, made the remark, "I know very lit- tle of Ireland," when Mr. Biggar jumped “lie jabera, but your father up and mid : knows less. ill to i‘arliarn nt is genera ly CODCeded to have been the result of the earnest work of his Yankee wife, Jennie, daughter of Leonard Jerome. Ellen Terry’s first husband, the artist “'atts, has declined the haronctcy offered him by the Queen. lf Ellen had stuck to “'atts she would have had a handle to her name ; but “'atts in a name 3 For some unaccountable reason English trout this year refuse to rise to the May-fly, and curiously enough with the refusal of the] trout the May fly itself has di appeared. This is the bait that is most imitated. Labouchere says anent the Irish policy of the Tory administrstl-m : “ All they have to do is to do nothing, and if possible do it civilly. Upon these terms Mr. Parnell is prepared to keep order for thorn until the general election." Acuording to the Daily Telegraph a rail- road in India has decline! to carry 10,000 monkeysâ€"sacred monkeys at thatâ€"which the Brahmins were anxious to transport from Bensres, the City of the Mods, to some distant spot. The \Vclsh language is dying out. CHAI'I'EP. I. â€"(Cosrxsuw.) “It wasa very sad thing, Anna says severely. couldn't get another wire, aunt Anna. " “ I dare say he could find plenty of girls The reelection of Lord Randolph Church- "’3' "dung '0 mm'y him-‘1 3°“: .“id be lut nobody thinks he Will over i could not. marry again."[ i “ And Mr. Errollâ€"what is he like ‘.’” “ Very handsome, but not so steady as his brother-â€"or at least he used not to be, though I hear he has improved very much since he went to China. He is at Velfry now, his mother tells me. She seems do lighted to have him back, poor womanâ€"Er- roli was always her favorite child.” “I think the scamps are always the favor- ites, aunt Emily.” To this unorthodox opinion aunt Emily does not see her way to agree probably, for she pretends not to hear it, snipping away at her dead leaves. “ We must take you to return Mrs. Iluth- erfurd's visit Very soon, Lisle, " aunt Anna says, putting on her spectacles again. " You will like to see Velfry ; it is one of the finest places in the neighbourhood. And Mrs. Rutherford spoke of having you to stay l there for a day or two. That would be an i amusement for you, now that Erroll Ruth- 'erfurd is at home." I suppose it will be an amusement, but, Fifteen never having met Mr. Erroll Rutherford, it years ag) 34 per cent. of too population does not fill me with any particular elation. spoke English, 43 English and Welsh, and Ulall the people whose names I have yet ‘11 only Welsh. It is believed that within heard I feel most interested in this clever, tw'enty-fivo years English will be universally cynical Judith Irving, who took the trouble spoken. . The orchestra at the coming bicentanary of Handel at the Crystal Palace, 1. :ndon,will . number 469 performers. Two hundred and: two violins (IU‘J s-vcumls), Iii violas, 60 collars? and .33 hassws, making 376 strings. There will be 2,752! voices in the chorus. “ Might I v. nturc," says Truth, “to re- , 'mind the ladies who attend Sundown that; they wear their dresses so short in front they would do well to exercise a little care: in sitting down, more especially as the ap- [ pendagcs at the back of their costum 3 seem to necessitate their balancing themselves on l the extrema front edge of their chairs.” â€"«â€"â€"â€"---.o.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" The Art of Keeping Oool- It may seem surprising, yet it is none the. lots true, that the art of keeping cool is un- , darstood in (lulu a hundred times better than I here. The very first thing that strikcs usi wht-n we got to Cuba is that all humanity ' seems to be bunt upon keeping cool, and , everything is directed to that end. We strung ' era in our cloth garments are the only ones who are hot there. The natives look as cool as they feel. They look picturesqucly cool. They wear suits of linen, of thin silk, of light-Weight, duck or drill. with light, low- ‘ cut shoes, silk or Llslo thread hoso and un- ' dear-garments; hats made of fine straw orI grass, that do not appear to weigh an ounce. - I cannot give to a gentleman a clearer idea of how cool they must fuel than by saying that there is not such a thing to be had in Cuba as a shirt with a separate collar. You say that such suits of clothing as I describe ' when we see them, look unshapcly, and oven unsightly. So they do ; bocauso our tail~ ors do not seem to know how to nuke them, I and our lnuudrcsscs starch them too still. I Experience and practice would overcome that. Havana is a very dressy and fashion- fearing city. The tailors make those thin garments as stylishly and as shapely as our suits. The women there do not dress so very unlike our own women : that is to say 1 that Canadian ladies dross more sensibly in Summer than Canadian men do. In both countries the result is rcuchcd by lessening the number and weight of undergarments and donning Summer silk: or other almost gossamer goods for outer wear. A $400,000 Fraud. l A matrimonial agent lately appeared like! amsteorand disappeared in Paris, taking off $2000 with her. bhu hired a room and inserted-n advertisement to the effect that a rich: heiress, the owner of $400,000, was anxious to find a husband who would be willing to overlook an error commilted in salry youth. 'On the day after this advrr tisement appeared twenty eligible suitors applitd quite prepared to bc indulgent for the bygone error in consideration of th- hmdsoum furtcne. The matrimonial agent received thcm sepanfely, told them all that she could not givenhcnuuc or address of tho beings gulps. $100 were paid down in ad- vance. Appueuily thus was nut a via.) man among the twenty applicants, for they all paid the cummiuion and were sent to various towns in France with false address- .“tsifiosqélgfmnd. Ninetecnof a... twenty victim; lacked the courage to comv inculcate with the police, bu: one I! thrm braved ridicule in order to be rsvcugcd, and the lady who obtained €2,104 so easily is be. ing actively inquir.d after. '“W‘. Cholera klixture. The following recipe has been in use for mom than forty jean, aidis raid obc Mums of the towels . i‘ , t-‘ we... ' ‘ "V, ._ av r erised. f lhls remecy u “ha In time, cholera need to! be feared. Take «goal tincture of opium, ml ptpgcr. r M‘s me" ' rim! and esuphoi, and mi: tfim for use. Inncam of disulm-a, . dos - of ten or twenty drops in fun or thin “bleep-souffle .1 mm. ans. do" a so i DIE. to carry broth to nourish the decrepit body of old Mollie, whose wicked old tongue cannot say a. word for her in return. I will make this girl's acquaintance, whether my aunts like it or not. I want to know what the now-lungled notions are of which Long- hurat does not approve. Everything is not wrong to which my aunts obj not ; old people always look askance at any novelty, and my aunts seem to me to be particularly sensitive on this subject. It was only last night that aunt Achore.ta tgok me to task for saying sometfi ng was “awfully” pleasant. But if I am not to say "awful" I do not know what is to become of me. It seems to be on the tip of my tongue every moment ; I never knew till now how essential it was to anything like fluency in conversation. CHAPTER II. “I want something to road aunt Anchor- etta." I am standing in the doorway of her room. having found the door ajsr as I passed down stairs. Aunt Auchorotts is standing in the middle of the floor, with a bundle of what look like magazines in her hand ; her ward- robc stands wide open, and the upper shelf seems to be stuffed full of periodicals in covers of every colour in the rainbow. “ I am afraid I have nothing here that you would care to road, my dear.” “ Oh, one of those numbers in your hand will do as well as anyth ng else i" “ But these are Reports of the Church - Missionary Society for 1870. I don‘t think you would care to study them i “ ” Oh, no, thanks I” I oxclaim hurridly. , “ But there are others up thereâ€"I think I .see some numbers of Temple Barâ€"in the = pale violet covers." “ Temple Bur !’ " aunt Anchorctta repeats. “ Inovcr know there was a periodical culled Tnnpfe liar! Those are reports tooâ€" either the Jows,’ or the Soldiers and Sail- ’ Very nteresting reading, my dear, if . you don't mind their being rather out of date." “ Thanks. I dont think I shall mind. But what do you keep them for aunt An- chorcfta? “ Keep them, Lisle l of our societies !" ” flit they are only rubbish. One might as null keep a lot of old almanacs." “ I have almanacs than: forty years old,” aint Anchoretta says, glancing up at the shelf uith a curious kind of obstinate satis- faction. “ Your aunt Theodrsia is always begging me to burn them, or to sell them as wasiepapcr and give the money to cue or other of the sccieties ; but that I shall never do. When I am dead they may dispose of them for th;t purpose : but as long as I live it shall never be done. If you want some- thing to read, why do not you go down to the parochial library 2 It is open every Thursd xyâ€"in the school-h;usoâ€"~and you can choose any volume you 1 kn there, only you must put down its number and your own name in the book they keep for the purpose." This is rather a good idea, and I carry it nut forthwith. It will be more amusing to ramble down to the village than to sit in the silent sunny drawing-room, with its ancient cabinets and china and faint smell of dried rose-leaves, all alone, as I have been sitting since breakfast. Iput on my pretty gray tclock with its big bows of ribbon, and the guy hst finial with blue which I have been told I! so becoming to ma though I am sure I shall meet no one to admire me In it. and sally out Int) the dusty road and the flickering shadow of the small young leaves. , .\s I pass the entrance to the lane leading . to old Mollie's cottage it strikes me that I may as well pay her a visit. The afternoon Is all before me to while away as I may; , and I am all cazious to hear more about ' Miss using. ’ The face is green with lrafahndawâ€"gmt bushes of velvety honeysuckle and pvt?“ The annual Reports Lisle, and nothing to make anybody laugh," aunt " I am only laughing at the idea that he FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1885 .' "1â€" i ‘ V ‘7- l A 't ': , find self' if: y. tenburg is a suitor for the hand of the‘ fitneefbfiiir-zgezted perJiIlcta udf lie;u:nut Heis a nephew 'â€" of Prime Christian, and came of ago last little garden. Here another sound greets my ears the music of a girls laugh, sweet and clear. At the same moment somebody comes tothe door of Mollie's coltagsâ€"a girl with her head turned back to speakâ€"to the old wo- man presumably, siuce I hear these words, spoken slowly and distinctlyâ€" “ Whenever I want to hear a catalogue of my shortcomings, Mollie, I shall certain ly pay you a visit 1 " Then she looks round and sees me, and I see her, a tall dark girl with a laughing faceâ€"or it is laughing nowâ€"and a pair of great, beautiful, golden brown eyes which open very wide at sight of me. “'e gaze at each other for a moment with- out speaking; and then Mollie who has fol lowed her visitor to the door, seems to feel it incumbent upon her to go through some form of introduction. “ Miss Lisle, this is Miss Irving, our Vicar's daughter. But ’tia a queer thing the pair of ye should meet first in my little garden 1 “ “ I have often heard of you,” Miss Irving says, taking the initiative as she looks at me. “And I have heard of you," I answer, smiling. “ Not from Mollie, I hope 2 " Miss Irving laughs, shrugging her shoulders. “Mollie and I are great friends, but I know she abuses me like anything behind my back. ' “ And to yourface too, Miss Judith, when you do foolish things." “ As if I ever did foo‘ish things l I must apologise for not having called upon you be- fore now, Miss \Varburton; but the fact is my father keeps me so busy copying his manuscripts, uni brushing his clothes, and paying duty visitsfor him allover the parish, that I sometimes have not an hour in the day that I can call my own." “I envy you i “ I laugh, looking at her. “The days at Usierhrook are so long that sometimes I fancy they will never come to an end." “ You must find it rather dull at Osisr- brook l” - " ball I I think i: is the dullest place in England I How my aunts have managed to exist there for the last half-century or so is more than I can comprehend.” " I should scarcely call it existence," Miss Irving says, looking rather curiously at me, or at my candour. “ But they think itis the only life worth living ; thatis what amuses me i ” “ They have never known any thing better, poor old ladies ! " “I suppose that accounts for it; but I am very glad I have met you, Miss Irving, for I was just beginning to feel Osierbrook in- tolerable ! What do you think aunt Anchor- etta offered mo by way of some light read- ing, just now 3" “I don‘t know I " she answers, with the same curious, amused look. " A Report of some Jewish mission, about twenty years all ." ' “ \\'retched girl l"â€"-raising her dark oys- brows. " Then she suggested that I should go down to the library in the village and borrow a book, and I was on my way there when I thought I would just turn down the lane to pay Mollie a visit.” “ It is fortunate you did, as I have the key of the library in my hand at this moment; if you had gone there you would have found everything locked up. You must know that I have the pleasure of presiding ovor the distribution of the said books for two hours every Thursday afternoonâ€"from half-past three to half-past five.” “ Then we can walk down together." “ Very well; but I must go now; it is more than half-past three alreadyfli “ I am quite ready; I can come and see Mollie another day." We turn up tlislane, laughing and talking, old Moll.e, standing inher doorway, look- ing after us. “ I have wanted so much to make your “ It seemed so odd that there should be two girls living so near each other in a place like this without being acquainted with each other I" “It does rather; but I don’t suppose your aunts will like you to care for any society but their own." “ Their own i " I repeat, laughing. “They can Marcer suppose that I should care for their socion !“ “Do you expect to remain long at Oder- brook 2 " “ I shall remain there always now." “ :is to behopednotl" Miss Irvinglaughs, looking at me. ” Four maiden ladies of the I name of Warburton are enough in any one parish l " " I assure you I have no particular fancy for being the filth ; but even o.d Mollie seems to think it is inevitable." “ There are so few bachelors here 2" “ I suppose she means that." " list you have not really oorne to live at I Osierbrook 2" “ If you can call it livinz. now that you scarcely could." You said just might notoare for any other kind of life; but youâ€"you don‘t look sixteen." " I was eighteen inApril.” “ You are so fair," she remarks, looking " Because fair people look young! " l " 0h, not that exactly ! But how old Ishould you take meta be 3 " l “About twenty-four,” I snswer, looking small the minus can be: caniul in a tiny 1,1 brawn, ,1,“ n 1,, 1,, u, m. add. or . round intoa mung, careless dark fees. “‘1 In “'9 ‘fllm‘ Md“: “1'5 I” ‘3‘")! Ip:inging arm and the pastures when the; at hand. --. ... .-.,... All AW PP" “3' a?“ ‘5‘ Mman humming of the bees, except it may be the; lambs are playing : there is no sound in all the air but the blessing of the lambs and the “Iain only nineteen." j “ Is that all: And don't you feel lonely Qtoo, sometimes. in untold Vicarage!" acquaintance," I My, 33 we reach the rout ymu with plenty of money and a fine old “ But do you like the people ! " I ask re~ “\tht nonsrnsel Those are onljv old membsring things Mollie had said of what Mollis's ltmies. I never heard my aunts people thought of her. “I don't bother my head about them. I am one of those people who never feel less .lono than when alone.’ “ I wish I could feel like that,” I sigh. “ But I have always depended upon other people for happiness,ever since I was a child. I was always devoted to one or other of my schoolfellows, and liked to be potted and made much of.” “ Perhaps it is the happiest kind of tom- perament." “ I don’t know about that. The other must be so much more independent." “ Independence isa fine thing, but it is very lonely sometimes," Miss Irving say: , looking straight before her. “ And it is a very lonely thing to be an only child.” “ I never minded that in the least, " I laugh. “ I alway thought if I had a sister I should be jealous of her, especially if she were prettier than I was, or more lovable.” “ Are you of a jealous d.spositil.n 2" she smiles, turning her head now to look at me. “ Of course I am; all women are." “ I am not.’ “ You would be if ycu cared for anybody." “ Do you care for anybody, that you know all about it so well 2 “ “ Not for any bcdy in the way you mean," I laughâ€"â€"“only for my friends at school." “ 0h l", Miss Irving says, with a smile of indulgent scorn. “ I do not think that the jealousies of men and women. One is the sting of a midge, the others the bite of a scorpion." “ I thought you knew nothing about it ! ” " I can evolve some idea of what it might be out of my consciousness,” she laughs, shrugging her shoulders. “But here we are at the school-house. I hope you admire our old village, Miss iVarburton." . “ Don't call me Miss Warburton; it re- minds me of the teachers at school." She does not ask me what she shall call me, as she opens the door and walks in. I'here is nobody in the long schoolroom ; nothing but empty forms and desks, a. pair of dilapidated globes, a. black-board with a sum upon it. The walls are covered with pictures of wild animals of hideous aspect, with descriptive letterpress underneath, with maps of the world and all the countries in the world. There is a large press at one end of the room ; this Miss Irving unlocks, and then, b .ving opened the doors of it wide enough to display the rows of books covered in gray holland within, and having laid an- other and a larger buck open upon one of the high (leaks with inkstand and pen be- side it, leans her elbow on the dark and her chin on her hands, and looks at me. “ I suppose your aunts will take you about a little ; it will be a good thing to give those fat old ,ponies something to do i" “ They are sure to take you to Velfry. Mrs. Rutherford is everything their beau ideal of a ‘ gentle-woman ’ ought to be. ” " I believe she is very nice ‘2 " " She certainly is very nice. never met her I ” “ Not yet. She came to see me yesterday, but I was out. She is my godmother." “ Is she reilly ‘: ”â€"â€"-“ So they told me yesterday. " “ I should rather like her to be my god- mother, " Miss Irving says, laughing. “ Velfry is a very pleasant old house.” " Have you ever stayed there ? " “ Not for a long time. I used to go there as a child ; May llutherfurd and. I were ex- actly the same age, and she had nobody else to play with. She and I and Erroll grew up together. Ralph was more than ten years older than iii-roll, and never conde- scendsd to take any notice of us." “ Was Mr. Ralph’s wife as charming as my aunts describe her? " “I don’t know much about her. They went to Algiers soon after they were mar- ried, and I bodeve she died there ; she was always delicate." “ My aunts think he will never marry again." “ Why do you laugh at that? ” “Because I think it so unlikelyâ€"u young Have you place." “He was very fond of his wife," Miss Irving says. looking at me. “Uh, so he might be! But other men who were fond of their wives have married again.” “ I am afraid you are very cynical." "No; but I can’t help laughing when people say things like that." " Don't you believe people could care so much for each other that nothing could make them forget I " “ Scarcely. " “ Oh, well, I do 1" Miss Irving declares, looking str.ight before her at the young elm- leavss outside the window. I study her face, lounging on the form opposite. It is rather a long face, or it looks lso under her sailor hat of black straw, with a broad crimson ribbon round the crown. Itis also rather a pale faceâ€"a clear dusky pallor which has nothing unhealthy about i;, and which contrasts rather oddly with the crimson of her soft curved lips. tum are not remarkable one Way or the other; her nose may be a little large, her mouth a trifle wide, but if they are I do not . life I never saw a more fascinating face, or |a pair of more wonderful, golden-brown, laughing, languishing, velvety eyes. “ Wont you come to Osisrbrook some- ;acquaintanca 2 " I ask at lastâ€"“ Perhaps." “And mayn't I come to see you at the % Vicarage!" l “ If your aunts will allow you.“ say one word agdnst you. " “ Have you ever heard them say one word about me, good or bad 3 " I cannot remember that I have, just at the moment. “ But what can they possibly know about you 2 " “ Oh, everybody knows everything about everybody else in a placeylike this! " Miss Irving says carelessly. “ If people say anything against you it must be because they are jealous of you,“ t xclaim warmly. “ I dare say there is a good deal in that. Well, don't you want a book? I don’t think anybody else in the village does to-dsy.” I approach the press reluctantly. When I have chosen a book I shall have no further excuse for trespassing upon Miss Irving's time. “ I don't suppose you will care much for any of them,” she laughs, shrugging her shoulders in her negligent way. “ They are only fit for parish ichool-children. I yon really want a book I dare say I can lend you something more amusing than anything you will find there.’ “Oh, thank you i” I exclaim, tuvning round. “ May I go with you for it now 2" “ If you like. There isno use in my stay- ing here any longer.” But, three or four young girls coming in just as she speaks, together with two of the servants from Velfry, Miss Irving waits while they put back t::s volumes they brought with them, choose fresh ones, and make an entry in the book on the table. Then she locks the press, and we follow them out into the May sunshine and the coo delicious freshness of the afternoon air. “ Is it far to the Vicarage 2 ”--“ Not very far." " Not that 1 mind what distance it was, I am back to dinner at six." " Oh, you can certame be back long be- fore six i" “In walk on through the village together and Miss Irving tells me who lives in such cottage, and. describes some of the "charac tei‘s ’ which seem to abound in the place in a clever good-natured Way, at which it ap pears torus, nobody could take exception, not even the individuals themselves. Her manner is very gay and sprightly and she can make herself very amusing ; but at the same time she is exceedingly quiet â€"nt least her voice is quiet, and remarkably clear and sweet. Her dre as is also quiet enoughâ€"a. simple chintz with a black ground strewn with tiny rod rosebnds, and a knot of crimson ribbons here and there. I had thought from Mollie's descaiption, that Miss Irving might be perhaps a little “fast. But nothing could be farther removed iron: “ fastness "â€"in appearance, at leastâ€"than this tall girl in her simple calico gown and black straw hat, with the k:y of the par ochial “library” dangling from the finger of her Chamois glove. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Frightening Children. \Vith painful frequency we hear of cruel “ practical jokes " perpetrated upon little children. Again and again comes to us the old story of a ‘child frightened into convul- sions by a. playfellow who “only wanted to have a little fun." One would think that incidents like this had. been enacted and told with ghastly iteration often enough from generation to generation to warn off the most incorrigible fun-lovers and fools from the dangerous ground. The progress of the witlsss plot is generally the same up to a certain point. There is neither origin slity nor variety in the favourite mode of ore, cution. It soundstrite in telling. A figure wrapped in the conventional shoot lurk- ingin the dark corner; a spring upon the unsuspected victim, selected because he is the mosttimorous or delicate of the fami- ly or school; dismay, shrieks of anguish blent with goblin laughterâ€"then a difler- ence in the ending. Sometimes no ap- parent harm is done, unless that one child is made more timid, another more cruel. Again, the nervous system is unbalanced so far that a swoon, or, as in the case be- fore us, convulsions ensue. Once in a while the innocent subject of the practical joke pays for histormentor s prank with his reason or his life. In a less flagrant manner incal- culabls mischief is done in many nurseries by tales of ghosts, bogies, the black man who comes down the chimney to catch chil- dren who will not go to sleep quietly, etc. The mother is culpable who, when she finds her child unduly timid, does not watch nar- rowly for indications that the nervous or- ganism of her offspring has been tampered with, and who, should her suspicions be con- firmed, does not follow the clue to its source and banish the criminals from th: house» l hold. Labrador Indians Starving- A correspondent writing from Bersimqis, Her fes- on the north shore of the St Lawrence, re- lates the most harrowing distress among the 1 Indians there, and says the reindeer, which i has been most plentiful in the large domain “ Perhap- if I were eighty you: old! notice it. Ican only think our in all mygofths Montagan Indians of Labrador lsal- linost extinct. The result of this, coupled l with the unusual severity of last winter,was lthat someoftbeBersimIs Indianson their ‘ inland boats, to avoid starvation,wero oblig- at me. “ I have always wished to be fair. " times, now that we have nude each other's ed to eat their furs, and that in one camp threedled of hunger, and that there are . dark rumorsof their havingoomrnitted canni- lbslism ere succumbinger terrible fate. I In addition, had luck of the direct sud u. j "My aunts!" I "pest. lwghing. “I tendedthoefl'ortluftho hunters to secure 1 shall sot consult my aunts." ' "But I would much rather you did." “ But they can't possibly have any ob» 50‘ bulb 1”“ 9“- " um l‘ ‘1”‘0 did doable note of the cuckoo now and than, I would rather live there than anywhere alas your coming to Oderbrvok." than would be 300550350“: but In With“ coming sweet snddroamy from the Velfry lathe world." scrmthouussndgrabtheportionsofall theotbsrbeardsn. woodsâ€"thus and my own foetal-pa, asI ,walk leisurely up to Mollis'l El“. ind- ; "Would you rull,f"â€""(‘ettainly I goodlsdlsalookuponms “rather ahlsck would." l "I 403" “0" ‘50“ m‘ l m u“ of the leading men of his tribe, are about to sheep." Hun, andontofmorethansloo who-tart» isdoutfromBersimisnottenonthelrrstur-a wmable topay their debts. Invisw of "A little lonely, perhaps; but still I jettionmmy goinwa Vintage, or to this deplorable stat. of slain, the new ignnd chief, Moi.» Bacon, and a delegation A RUSSIAN ssmw. A (spans! lunar] [Lanny Ending with a Pe. collar Kendulon era Prayer. “'0 rode at least a mile and a half, says Gen. Higginson in, Blackwood's, put the lino of tents, and must have seen 50,000 man, The ground is pruttily accidents, and alto- gether well suited for camp purposes. At the end we came upon the guard regiments and the I’reobrajansky regiment, with whom finished the inspection ; and here were as- sembled all the lunds and drums, to the number of $00, in one compact inass facing the empress's pavilion or tent, at the door of which she and her ladies alighted, and were joined by the emperor and grand dukes. We all dismounted and came inside the square, of which the royalty and staff form- ed one side, the musicians the opposite side, the other two sides being composed of bili- cers of the various corps who had hurried to the spot. In the Centre, on a mounu, stood the conductor of the united bands of music, and near him one drummer-boy, or per- naps a lad of 20. Woâ€"tho foreign missions â€"-stnod in line, and the emperor came down from the pavilion and spoke to each of the generals. He was very gracious to me, and inquired about my service and the com- mands I had held. 'Iliis over, he stood alone in the centre, and a detachment of sergeants in full marching order passed him one by one, each sergeant giving the svon~ ing report of his picket and of the usual “ watch-setting " in a loud voice, the czar thus fulfilling for the moment the role of camp commandant. We (generals only) were then taken up, one by one, to the empress, who talked to me about the Princess of \Vales, Uowes, Osborne, etc., and was altogether gracious and charming. Then too was hand» ed round, and the crowd of officers and of the troops generally kept closing round the square as the hour for " the retreat," or La- ria drew nigh. Meanwhile heavy clouds and gathered in the horizon, and. a. storm seemed to threaten us, though the view down the slope and over the valley to Krasnoo dis- tant about a mile, was not rendered less beau- tiful by the combination of waning sunlight and threateningcluuds. Eight o’c.ock sounds; each field battery fires an evening gun, three rockets shoot into the air, and the drums and bands roll out, with a solemnity and volume of sound not easily forgotten, the evening hymn. As the last notes die off the drummer-boy steps forward, the band-mas- ter descends, ond_thc little drummer, solo oc- cupant of the square, repeats slowly but with ptl‘ftct distinctness the Lord a prayer. Every head is uncovered and bows, from the emperorto tho furthumost spectator ; and I should in my heart pity the man who, as the little lads “ Amen " went up in its sol- itary simplicity, could scoff at or even be unimpressed by the silence which followed. There was a. total absence of all exagger- ation or straining for increased effect. The bands then burst forth with the Russians national air so well known to all of us, and the scene closed as night fell. Indian Graves to Order. So determined,indeod,are some of the fab- ricators of frauds that the following inci- dent is worthy of being published to show the ingenuity they exercise in their peculiar calling. To discover an Indian grave is, of course, a red-letter day for the archaeologist. Now, Indian graves are manufactufod to order, it would appear. At least, the fol- owing recently occurred in New Jersey. A Philadelphia Flint Jack secured a. half- decayed skeleton from u potter‘s field in the vicinity, and placed it is ashallow excava- tion on the wasting bank of a creek in New Jersey, where Indianrolics wersfroquontly found. With it he placed astoatite tobacco pipe of his own make, a steatite carving of an eagle’s head, and beads. With these were thrown numbers of genuine arrow- heads and fragments of pottery. The earth was blackened with powdered charcoal. This " plant" Was made in November, and in the following March, during the prevalence of high wafers and local freshets, he an- n ounccd to a enthusiastic collector that he knew the location of an Indian grave, and offered totake himthithsr for $50, the money to be paid if the search proved successful, which of course itdid. The cranium of that Philadelphia pauper passed through several cranioligists’ hands and was gravely 1' mark ed upon as of unusual interest, as it was a marked dolichocephaiic skull, whereas the Delaware Indians were brachycephalio. . The Russian Army- A company of Russian infantry of the line consists of 2l5 oliiocrs, non-commissioned officers and men. A battalion is composed of four companies, and three battalions form a regiment. A squadron of regular cavalry consists of 210 oliicers, non-commissioned officers and men, and I76 horses. The squad run is divided into four sections ; two squad- rons form a division ; and four field squad- rons and one reserve squadron form a regi- ment. A battery of artillery contains eight guns. A 4-pounder field-battery has 26l ofl' cers and men, 160 horses, and ‘M waggons. A 9-pounder field-battery has 332 officers and men, 2“ horses, and 33waggons. A 3' poundsr mountain-battery has 328 officers and men, 104 horses, and 112 ammunition bo xu, which are carried on pack animals A 4-ponnder horsebattery has 331' officers and men, 324 horses, and '24 waggons. A mitraillense-battery has 221 officersaud men- 140 horses, and 10 waggons. Tbs battery Is divided into two half batteries andjtho half; battery into two sections. Nature iss carefrd economist, who per- mits only those funnies ar muscles to de- velop which are used ; and, as every faculty andmnaclshasa use, it follows that that conditionlsnearut perfect when all are employed, and, per contra, that Inactivity lands to decay. Inthsmanwhouchfldhoodjhss known proceed to Ottawato Interview the Dex.“ wanes there is slwaysa fibre of my lm‘oilndhnAfialn, mtmhwuehdtozmlshsus. [v ~ SCIENTIFIOANDUSBI'UI. The Baud. Government oflieials are mak- ing experiments with a new locomotige tor- pedo steered by electricity from the shore. It is now claimed that birds as nearly as possible imitate the nests in which they were reared, and bring to the work a sort of rod. mentary mien. The oamphor laurel, a native of China, and the tree from which most of the camphor of commerce is obtained, has been suoosar fully introduced into Lalfornia. Scorpions and spiders properly food upon the juices “their victims lacera' ting them with their jaws, yet fragment: of in sect: have been sometimes found in their stomachs. Dr. B. You Lendenfeld found trams of glacial' nation on the highest peaks of the Australian mountains. No evidence of ice action was found at less than 5,500 foot above the sea. A Bavarian chemist ll reported to have Invented an onamcling liquid which renders any species of stone or cement harder than granito,and gives it the indelible appearance of any mineral that may be desired. An English writer points out the proba- bzlity that a smoky atmosphere is not a whol- ly unmitigated evil, since its carbon and sul- phur most absorb many germs of disease, and tend to prevent the spread of epidemics. A concentrated solution of bicuromatc of potash and glue makes a cement for articles of broken glass which wrll resist boiling water. It Is carefully applied to the surface, and when the broken glass parts are brought. together the whole is exposed to the tuition of the sun. “ Many soft timbers, especially walnut, are more destructive to the cutting edge of pianos than harder wood, sucn as'oak. '1‘ro reason is the presence of uxtromaly minute crystals of silica in those soft woods. These particles are of uniform size and uvunly dis~ tribumd through the tissue of the wood. Mr. F. W. Clark has exhibited Ill London a new system of gas lighting for privarc houses by means of recuperative lamps. By a ventilating method the lamps consume their own smoke, and the burners are so formed that the requisite air is heated to a high temperature and admitted to the lamps at the point of ignition. It has been noticed that boiler explosions are especially frequent in the morning. I‘ake, for example, an ouginc which Works during the day with steam at 6 atmosplioros. The workmen leave the factory at 7 o'clock P. M. ; about 6 o’clock the fireman roducos his fires and leaves the buffer with the gauge at 4 atmospheres. 0n returning the next morning, at 5h. 30m., bu generally finds tho gauge at 1.5 or 2 atmospheres ; with a line water level. Ila profits by tho rcsorvcd heat, which represents a certain expenditure of fuel; as an economist bo' utilizes it, and drives his fires, to be ready for the return of the workmen, without suspecting the dun- gors concealed in the water which has been boiling all night. He does not feed his boil- ers,because they are at a good level. In othur words, he prepares,unconsciously,tho condi- tions which are most favorable to superlxoat» ing, and a consequent suddun and torriqu - explosion, which will be attributed to some mysterious and unknown cause. OURI OUBLI‘AOTB. The giraffe has never been known to utter a sound. Swans have been known to live to tho ago of 300 years, and Cuvior thinks it probable that whales sometimes livo 1,000 years. It is said that tho crim of parricidc was unknown in one of the states of ancient Greece until a. law was enacted for the spe- cial punishment of such a crime should it oc- cur. On one of the Azure Islands, St. Michael's, the people invariably drop the family name, each being known by entirely different un- like titles. The same names arc also applied to either sex indiscriminately. Some time ago the two year-old baby of Owen \Valker, of Marshall, swallow ed a cop- per cent. All efl'orts to remove the coin from the child’s stomach proved unuvailiug, and the little one has been growing weaker day by day. Strange to say the child is turning blue. A heavy bluu circle under the eyes was first noticed. This began to spread and is gradually extending. A Monongahela, I’a., cat is credited with preventing the burning of a house last Win- tor. It is stated that the family all went out one evening, and upon their return found thata live coal had been thrown out upon the osrpst setting it on fire. For some dis- tance around the {lace the carpet had been scratched to shreds and tho blisterod feet of their feline pet showed that it was through his efforts that a serious fire was prevented. Italian antiquarians have discovered fabc teeth In a skull which has been excavated in an ancient Etruscan cemetery, with many other curiosities at present sfowud safely away at the museum of antiquities at Corn- to, in Tuscany. The sepulchrc out of which the skull was taken dates, according to ex- perts, from the fifth or sixth century ll. ('., and the false teeth are nothing but animal teeth attached to the human teeth by means of small gold plates. Joseph Robins, hailing from Chicago, is known in side show circles as " The liumufl Furnace," because of the peculxar properties of his breath. To prove his claim to the title, be, some time ago, lltsmstch by blow- ing his breath upon it ; set fin: to a piece of paper, and singed the hairs on the back of a man's hand in the same manner. But the besttest of all was when he lit a kerosene lamp three feet distant from hlrn by blowing his breath through a piece of stovepipe on to the wick. lie was unable to explain his pe- culiar faculty, further than to assert that be beams possessed of it while a child, when he was ill for several years, and the physi- cians gave him large doses of sulphur. fie asserted his ability to make water boll as easily as he could light a match. W Victoria's Wars. The wan which have been wagsdoy Great Britain since Queen Victoria ascended the throne, number twentyvfivs, which took place In the following ordar:â€"â€" is” M In. Wu. led: New bolus! Wu. ":9 face New lamina Wu 1W) Han War. fun Ab‘dnhn Wu. m1 Wu. lam mamas War. 1M1 w [m L971 Am“. Was. Lu) undo was. rm Zulu Wu. lulu It! War. 157‘! ughnnu. 1M1 wul'u. ml Teas-van] Wu W) “I Was. I“! myths: In. 1551 Barman Wu. tau Crimean War. 1534 aka War. I»? Pads: War. ' an initial: lull-1 as Win In. nuim‘,a,,,,, ,rh.,