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i, 1. i rim -. ,l A. / . HOUSEHOLD. At the Baby's Bedtiim This is baby's bedtime: My little one comes to me In her snowy little night-gown, And knee.s down at my knee. An d I fancy a swectchild-angel Is for a time my guest. As she says her little prayer ovcr With her hands upon her breast, “ Now I lay me," she whis rs, In low voice, “down to s eep: 1 pay the Lo ."â€"and the blue eyes i elo-xe.â€"-"m soul to keep. If I should die"â€" h! the shiver At my heart!â€"-“ before I wake, I pray the Lord." and the eycvlids Droop lawnâ€""my soul to take," Then I lift up the little one, ciasping Her close to my loving heart. And give her warm, good-night kisses Till the closed lids break apart As the leaves do, foldinga flower, And the violets of her eyes Look up in their drowsy fashion, And smile at me, angel-wise. “Deed-night." she whispers me softly Andaleeplly. with a kiss. Thatlm era with me in slumber, And s rs my heart with bliss, . As i think of the little one. dreaming .\\ 1th her head against my breast. Till my heart is as full of rupture As her dreaming is of rest. ~[Eben E. Rexford. _â€" Implicit Obedience. " It is frequently the case that a mother will pass over the disobedience of her child, if no unpleasant consequences are the re- sult, but let it involve work or trouble for herself, and immediately she becomes severe. ~ For instance. A mother is tired and wish- es to lie down and rest in the afternoon, but her little girl is uneasy when left alone, and it is almost impossible for her to do so. The child is laying with some water that she has been to d not to go near. Perhaps she will not get her dress wet this time, and it will keep her. quiet, the mother thinks, as she goes into her room. If the little one succeeds in keeping her clothes dry, nothing will be said about it, but if she comes in with her dress wet and muddy, she will be punished. The child may not understand her mother’s inconsistency, butinstinctively she will feel it, will affect her character, for she has learned this lessonâ€"that it is only un- successful disobedience which is punished. Implict obedience, lovingly enforced, and “ eternal vigilance” is the price that every mother must pay if she strives for some- thin beyond the physical Welfare of her chili ren. Protect the Children. If I pierce the young leaf of the shoot of nplant with the finest needle, the prick forms a knot which ’grows with the leaf, becomes harder and harder, and prevents it from obtaining its perfectly complete form. Something similar takes place after wounds which touch the tender germ of the human soul and injure the heart-leaves of its being. Therefore you must keep holy the being of the child ; protect it from every touch of the vulgar. A gesture, a look, a. sound, is often sufficient to inflict such wounds. The child’s soul is more tender than the finest or tenderest lant. It would have can far different with humanity if every individual in it had been protected in that tenderest age as bcfitted the human souls which holds within itself the divine spark. .â€"..â€".â€" Tested Receipts. Dav STEW.-â€"â€"Boil four pounds of lean lamb till done, in about two quarts of water, salted. Skim it out and keep it hot, leav- ing the liquor in the kettle. Into this put one quart of onions and one large turnip cut into slices, and halved. Pepper to taste. B011 ten or fifteen minutes, and add six or eight medium large potatoes pared and cut lengthwise into halves. Lay some dump- lings on top of those, taking care the liquor does not boil over them, as they are to be steamed through. When the vegetables are done remove them from the liquor, put- ting them into separate dishes, ready for the table. Thicken the liquor left in the kettle, which makes a delicious gravy. Beef can be used instead of lamb, if preferred. POTATO ROLL. â€"â€"Put one cup of cold, mashed potatoes into a sauce-pan, add one- quarter of a cup of milk and a palatable seasoning of salt and pa per, a tablespoon of chop ed parsley, an two well-beaten eggs. Iix thoroughly, take from the fire. beat until light. Put one tablespoon of butter in a frying-pan, when hot put in the potatoes, spread evenly over the pan, cook slowly until a golden brown. Roll like ome- let nnd serve smoking hot. VEGETABLE Tourismâ€"Bread, one pound, butter, one-fourth )uund, nut meats, one- fourth to half petui , one egg, seasoning and sage to taste. Either mash the nuts in a mortar or chop fine, then put bread, butter and egg into a chopping bowl, pour on the belling water and cho fine, season to taste and mix thoroughly. utter apudding-pan, cover the butter with bread crumbs; put in the mixture, and bake an hour or until well done. Tmmo Cumsrzv.â€"-Cut up and peel twelve large tomatoes, six onions chopped fine, one cu vinegar, one cup sugar, hand ful raisins c opped fine, salt to taste, one- half teaspoon ca'enno, one-half teas on white pepper. all one hour and a all, bottle or put in stone jar. SPICE!) Links): TOMATO PICKLLâ€"One- half peck green tomatoes sliced (unpeeled), one pint sugar, one and one-half pints vine- gar, one tablespoon cinnamon, one table- spoon whole all-pics, handful whole cloves, little nutmeg and dry mustard, two or three small green peppers, three large onions. Boil one-half hour, or till tender. “'e can in glass jars. It has been used in our family a number of years, and always successfully. Buccaneer PICKU.â€"Seven pounds of fruit, five pounds white sugar, one pint of best vin , and cook until the berries are done. its out the berries, boil the juice until thick as good syrup, pour over berries cover and keep in coo , not cold, place. These will keep a long time, and need not be mlo‘l up, as the will keep without. Rupbsr join will esp, too, if cooked thorough y in common earthen jars, simply covering to keep free from dust. The Mohammedan. it is said, consider silk unclean, bounce it is produced by a worm. NOT A DESERT. Siberian value” As venue is Those of Western, America. Siberia, coupled aaits name is with stories of Russian barbarity, is not the barren. terrible land of limitless deserts which fiction and the drama have pictured it: The building of the trans-Siberian ~railway and the extension of lines along the northern frontier of China Will greatly, change the entire drama of civilization. The railroad from Vladivostock to the Ural mountains will bring that great Russian naval station within fourteen days’ journey of St. Peters- hurg, and along this route stations will rapidly grow into towns and offer oppor- tunities for new and striking development- Russia’s enterprise, says the Hartford Globe, stimulates that of China. not only as a matter of competitive ambition, but for strategic reasons. The railways now being surveyed and completed within the celestial empire are numerous, and to this end many foreign engineers are employed. Soldiers and convicts are largely employed asworkmen, thus chespeniug the cost of laboras far aspossible. The traus~Siberian railway extends a length of nearly 5,000 miles, and is expected to cost $200,000,000. It is divided into six sections, each section comprising three or more divisions, and the contract for building is iven to these, thus employing a large num er of contract- ors for limited distances. It is a mistake to suppose that Siberia is a desert, or a lacier, or‘ a mountain fast- ness, or incapable of being made habitable. The valleys are level plains, and said to be as fertile as the,western portion of the United States, and it is not unlike the west in the variety- of its resourcesâ€"in minerals, timbers and in agricultural facili- ties. It is a marvelous treasure-trove of stored-up opportunities. lts wealth is practically unlimited. With the advan- tages of railroad communication and tele~ graph lines, a vast country is added to the world of civilization. The cultivation of the land and the‘ introduction of all the elaborate machinery of enlightened life will, as scientists depict, modify the rigors of the climate, although in Southern Siberia. even this obstacle does not exist. m Ready for the Attack- A young Malay officer on the coast of India. was one night returning from inspect- ing an outpost, when he began to suspect that a tiger was following him. It was dangerous to proceed, as any minute might bring an attack in the rear, and so he. paus- ed, and made what preparation he could for the encounter. He had a sword at his side, and a crease in his belt, a. weapon re- semblin g a dagger. ‘ Having scraped away the earth to give himself firm footing, he knelt on one knee and kept a sharp lookout, knowing the beast was near. Soon he perceived the animal’s glittering eyes, and knew it must be creeping towards him like a cat. The moment of suspense was a terrible one, but at last it ended, and the brute made its spring. Its charge was, however, received on the creese, which went through the animal’s breast, stabbing it to the heart, so that it fell mortally wounded. In its dying struggles it tore the flesh from the young fellow’s arn‘, but did him no mortal injury. As for. the victor, he calmly rose, and went into camp to report his sécond tiger slain that year. In Northern Mexico a company has been formed for the gathering of a root which is a substitute for tanbark. Nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds have been al- ready shipped to Liverpool, and it is a prof- itable industry. The king of Samoa has issued this order : “ No spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors, or intoxicating drinks whatever shall be sold, given I r offered to be bought or bartercd by any native Samoan or Pacific islander resident in Samoa. ” An eminent physician believes that savage races have better color-perception than civilized. Oi one hundred Indian boys .he found none color-blind; another group of two hundred and fifty had but two, while none of the girls were found to be color blind. Icebergs From the, North- It is a singular fact that although last year enormous fields of ice had begun to in- vade the so-called “ steamer lanes ” of the Atlantic at the opening of spring, there has been comparatively little ice this year. The ice, of course, comes from the edges of the Arctic regions, from the ice-bound coasts of Greenland and Labrador, where huge bergs, broken from the front of the glaciers at the point where they reach the sea, start on their long journeys toward the south, driven by the great current which flows down from Baffin’s Buy into the northern Atlantic ocean. Remarkable difl‘erences occur in the seasons of the Arctic regions,so that at cer- tain times, as ho. pened last year, all the channels of the orthern seas are filled and choked with floating ice at the breaking up of winter ; while at other times the same channels are comparatively free, and but little ice is seen along the tracks of the trans-atlantic steamers. It is a most interesting fact that similar vicissitudes evidently occur in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the planet Mars. The telesco eshowa that vast fields of snow exist aroun the poles of Mars, extending when it is winter at either of those poles, and contracting when it is summer there. But the olar snows of Mars appear to be noticeabF less extensive in some winter seasons t on in others, so that we might fairly expect to find there, if we could visit that planet, corresponding differences in the amount of ice carried towerd the equator at the end of successive winters. Our Arctic navigators take advantage of such open seasons as the present appears to be, whenever they can, to penetrate farther toward the North Pole. It is perhaps for- tunate for the increase of our knowledge of the Arctic regions that Lieutenant Peary and his rty, who started for northern Greenlan last year, are now in the for North. They may bring back most inter- esting accounts of the condition of things there, and perhaps be able to throw some light upon the cause of the remarkable vari- ations in the quantity of icebergs and ice- fields that come floating out of these mys- terious regions in different seasons. _ Electricity in its various terms of appli- 000 persons. HEALTH. Nemalgia-dfthe Toe. A neuralgic pain, more or less severe, at the base of the fourth too is not uncommon, but has attracted medical attention only within recent years. Doctor Morton, of Philadelphia, in 1876 was the first to de- scribe it, and to rope - He had himself suffered greatly from it. The attacks always came on suddenly. TEN YEARS 01‘ BLEGTRIOITY~ The llarveldus Progress Shown in asuzle Decade. Just ten years agoâ€"August, lSSQâ€"the first central station for commercial incan- descent lighting was established, and are lighting was beginning toaasume its present rt a number of cases. . form; yet a single decade has seen the use i of electric 1‘ lit and power advance from the experiments. stage to the very front ranks He was often obliged to remove his boot, of industrialenterprises. sometimes when riding in his carriage, and sometimes even when in company. \thu on horseback he has been compelled to dis; mount, tie his horse to a tree, and lie on the grass, unable to proceed further. He found the affection much more fre- quent in women than in men-a result, no doubt, of the greater delicacy of women’s feet and of their wearing tight shoes. Doctor Bradford, to whose paper on the subject, read before the Suffolk Medical So- ciety, we are indebted for our facts, says that his own investigations in respect to this ailment accord exactly with those of Doctor Morton; that the symptoms were the same, and the proportion of male and female patients about the same. One of Doctor Bradford’s cases was that of a young lady obli ed to stand all day. She was in excellent ealth, but for years had suffered from pain in her right foot, radiating from the base of the fourth toe. Her shoes were made with great care, but she suffered all the time,‘ and sometimes the pain was so intolerable that she would will- ingly have submitted to a surgical operation for relief. She was relieved by treatment and properly constructed shoes. - The following is, in brief, an explanation of this “ metatarsal neuralgia,” or “ Mor- ton’s affection of the foot.” The base of the fifth, or little, too is in a line with the neck of the fourth toe’s corresponding joint and by becoming pressed against the nerves of the latter, it irritates and inflames them. The pain which results is sometimes of a dull character, but sometimes is severe and throbbing, and may extend above the ankle An in other neuralgic pains, there is no in- flammation to be seen, nor any swelling. In most cases, protracted rest and the use for a while of quite broad-soled shoes will effect a cure ; but sometimes the excision of the head of the fourth metatarsal bone is necessary. Pure Air and Life. Exercise and pure air sustain us in our constant struggle against the poisons that we manufacture within ourselves, by driv- ing the blood charged with oxygen more thoroughly through the tissue, thus quick- ening the breaking down of dead tissue into its safe and final waste products which make their exit through the natural chan- nels. From this fact we may infer that the man of sedentary life requires of necessity pure air. Pure air and exercise are equal forces acting in the same direction. They both get rid of waste, and with it the poisons in the system which are depressing various organs. We need not, therefore, be surprised when we are told by Sir 1). Galton that after barracks were better ventilated the rations of the men had to be increased ; or by “the pathetic story ” of certain seamstresses whose work room was ventilated, and who then begged that the old state of things might be restored, as their appetites had increased beyond their earnings. The sameauthor gives another experience, illustrating the depressive effects of these poisons upon the functions of life. A medi- cal man rather cruelly shut up some flies without food, some in foul, others in pure air ; the pure air being constantly chan ed. To his surprise, the flies in the pure air ied first, these dying from simple starvation ; while the flies in the foul air died from poison, and with the tissues of their bodies inexhausted, indicating how the functions of life were carried on to the last where oxygen was available, but had been slowed and depressed by the presence of the poison, so that life was maintained longer in the foul than in the pure air. To (lure Warts- A very simple remedy for the cure of warts is the following: Pass a clean, bright new pin through the wart, and hold it so you can apply one end of the pin to the flame of a lamp ; hold it there until the wart fries under the action of the heat. A wart so treated will take final leave. A wart with a slender root may be easily destroyed by fastening around it asilk thread or horse- hair. After it drops off the roots should be touched with caustic to prevent it growing again. Hard warts should be cut smoothly off with a knife or sharp scissors, and then caustic applied to their roots to destroy them. Wart-s also may be cured by touching repeatedly with lunar caustic, blue vitriol or chloride of zruc. AN ICEBERG IN THE ALPS. A Phenomenon That Seldom Occurs Ex- cept on the Sea. Coast. When Lord Lonsdele returned from British America be excited somc' amuse- ment by telling of the wonderful icebergs he had seen pouring over falls in the rivers into one of the big lakes. It was thought icebergs never originated inland. It is a curious fact, however, that last summer there was in the Alps an interesting glacial phenomenon which may be compared with the caving of glaciers in the Arctic regions. In the valley of the Kaunserthal, about four miles from its junction with the Inn River, is the village of Nufels. The hi h read here crosses the side valley of t e Nufler, which has its source in the great heap of rocky debris at the foot of the Gall- rut glacier. Of late years this glacier had receded, and a lake had been formed at its foot. Gradually the lake, as its volume increased, extended under the glacier. lDuring two cold summer months the lake received but a small water supply, and its surface sank until at last the end of the glacier was actually hanging in the air above it. On Aug. 7 of last year the end of the glacier, a mass of ice cstimated at 70,000 cubic feet, broke oil. and fell into the lake, causing it to burst through the embank- ment and rush down the rolls , carrying rock. ' with it great masses of mud an The fish-book of thirty centuries back was pre~iscly similar in every respect to the fish-hooks of to-day, save on y in th in steel. 0 metal cation is said to give employment to 5,000,. employed, which then was bronze, and now The most recent estimate of the capital invested in the electrical industries in the United States is $700,000,000, and. of this amount $350,000,000 represents the propor- tion which electric lighting and power have attained ; $100,000,000 is also the estimated investment in electrical supplies, of which the electric lighting and railway appliances constitute a large proportion. The influence which the Edison and Thom- son-Houston Companies exerted in the de- velopment of the electrical industry will be further appreciated if we consider the slow progress made in this branch of science pre~ vions to the time of their organization. The telegraph was at that time almost the only important application to which electricity had been adapted, and, although electric lighting by means of the voltaic are had been accomplished by Sir Humphry Davy as early as 1810 by means of a battery of 3,000 cells, it was not until 1867, when Dr. Siemens announced his in» vention of the self~exciting dynamo that any material progress toward the science of elec- tric lighting was made. At the Paris Exhibition of 1878 the sys- tem of electric lighting invented by Jab- lochkof‘f, by means of which several of the streets of Paris were lighted by electricity, proved an incentive to inventors which re- sulted in the production of the modern type of arc lamp, which was in a compara- tively experimental stage at the time of the organization of the American Electric Com- pany of New Britain. The incandescent lamphad received less attention at the hands of scientists than the arc lamp when Edison announced his invention. The divis- ion of the electric current into small units had b en a long-standing problem before the scientists of that day, but all the ex- periments previous to Edison’s invention had been in the direction of a. filament of low,resistance, which obviously required a prohibitive amount of copper to conduct the current for a few lamps, even over short distances. The invention of a high resistance filament marked the turning point in the history of incandescent electric lighting. Thus we see that the whole of this great industry has practically come into existence within a single decade. The men who have been making history at such a rapid rate have been so engrossed with the present and the immediate future that they have .paid little attention to the preservation of records, &c., that would not only be of inter- est but-of great practical value to the great army of young men who have taken up the science of electrics as a. ‘field for their life work. In the work on the Richmond Road experiments were made with, perhaps, seventy-five different designs for a trolley. No memoranda or photographs were pre- served, and not even Mr. Sprague himself can tell to-day just what a half dozen of them were. This is only one instance out pf many where data have been irrevocably ost. £1ch DOLLARS A READ. The Sultan of Morocco Determined to Snp~ press the Anghernsâ€"‘l‘nngier Again Threatened. A Tangier despatch says :--â€"The nego- tiations between the Sultan’s officials and the leader of the Anghera tribcsmen look- ing to the submission of the latter have been broken off by order of the Sultan. The Sultan has directed that a grand attack be made upon the Angheras, and to stimulate his troops he has offered $4 for every prisoner they capture, wounded or unwounded, and $8 for every head they bring in their camp. It willreadily be seen that the number of prisoners will be small, as the troops will get double the money for a head that they will get for a prisoner. If the Aughcras ITBKS 0P IKThRBS'l‘. The London Standard says that a discov~ cry of gold has been made in the Murd- doch Valle , Wales. The gold-diggers at the Gwyn ynydd Mine struck a vein of gold~bearing quartz, said to be four feet thick. Specimens have been sent to the assayiats in London, and a yield of twelve ounces per ton is declared. The Crown it is said, granted a small plot near Gwyn- fynydd in December last to a gold~prospectâ€" in: Company withe capital of £500, and during t e six months ending midsummer they are said to have distributed £6000 u the result of their efforts, being- a return of £1200 per cent. upon their investment. The English Channel Bridge and Rail- way Company have modified their plains. A new route has been Zedopted which will considerably shorten the distance. The number of piers in the proposed bridge will be reduced from 121 to 72, and the space increased in size to 400 and 500 metres al- ternately from one end of the bridge to the other. The time required for the comple- tion of the bridge would be seven years, four of which would be occupied by opera- tions in the sea. The total cost of construc- tion and interest till traffic could be opened is estimated at £32,000.000. The executive committee of the Unionist Convention for the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connaught have resolved to issue in book form a report of the rocced- ings of the great meeting held recent y in the Leiuster Hall. The volume will contain a list of the executive and general commit- teesLa co upletc list of all the delegates, the full text of the telegrams of sympathy re- ceived from Unionist organizations in Great Britain, the letters read upon the occasion from the Duke of Abercorn, the Duke of Devonshire, Professor Tyndall, Mr. Leaky and others. To each delegate a copy of tilt report will be presented. An old man who occupied a filthy attic in Germany and lived by begging, handed his will to the clergyman who was with him in his last illness. The will ave his pos- sessions, ninety thousand ddllars cash, to the poor family in the same tenement who had given him food and nursed him, though themselves in want. A box containing a baby was left at a railway station in Spam. The station agent urged it upon a switehmau, being unwilling to take it himself. The switchman and his wife pitied the little one so much that they took it home. \thn the woman was mak- ing the baby ready for the night’s rest, she discovered money enough to pay for its generous support and thorough education. Abitration has ended a formidable strike in England. The Durham Coal-Owners As- sociaton proposed to reduce wages seven and a half per cent. The men struck. After a while, it was announced that further reduction was unavoidable to ten per cent ; and later to thirteen per cent. About eighty thousand men were in the strike. After more than two mouths’ loss of time, the trouble was referred to the Bishop of Durham and he decided for ten per cent, which the men were willing to accept. Cyrus W. Field, whose name is famous through his eminent service in laying the Atlantic Cable, had many tokens of recogniâ€" tion. Among them are six large oil paintings illustrating the laying of the cable, the gold medal presented him by Congress, the gold box presented by his fellow citizens of New York, and many other tributes. Shortly before he died, Mr. Field gave the colleen tion to the New York Museum, where they will be objects of great interest as long as distinguished enterprise for the comfort of man commands attention. The Lady Godiva show was revived at Conventry the other day after a lapse of five years. Miss Alice Sinclair, from the Royal Aquarium, London, rode as Lady Godiva through the miles of streets, and the proces- sion, which included half-a-dozen bands of music and the trade organizations, was of great length. The weather was cold and damp, but the city was crowded With strangers. A bust of Wm. Murdoch, the inventor of gas-lighting, contributed to the Wallace monument of Stirlin by the North British Association of Gas 1V anagers, was unveiled on July 29th by Lord Kelvin, better known as Sir Wm. Thomson. At a luncheon which live uP to their reputation. however: and I was given afterwards Lord Kelvin made al- havc to work hard for the sums promised them. The Angheras, in their mountain retreats, will be able to make a long strug- gle against any force the Sultan can place in the field against them, and, knowing the mountains as they do, it will not be an easy task to capture them. Neither will it be easy to secure the heads of those who happen to be killed in battle, for it is thought that if the An horas cannot carry off the bodies of their cad they will themselves out the heads off to prevent the troops doing so. Considerable alarm again prevails in Ten- gicr, as it is feared the Angheras, whose territory lies within sight of the city, will make an attack upon the place. It was thought that the troubles Were ended a few days ago when the Angiiera leaders offered their submission to the Sultan, but it ap- pears now that the latter would agree to none of the conditions the tribesmen insist- ed upon, and determined to whip them into submission. Office “ Kinder Foots Up." “ Well, you got the office ‘2” “ Yes.” “ What did it cost you ‘2” “ That’s a hard question. You see, I broke my leg running for it and that cost considerable ; then, my brother-in-lsw was killed making a speech for me and I had to bury him ; then I barbecued all my cattle, killed three males ridln’ around the country, mortgaged the farm and got a divorce from the family; so, you see, it kinder fonts up 1" 81m Yearned for a Sphere. "Charlie," the said, softly, “1 often think what a noble thing it is to have a sphere and fill it as you ought." “Have you 2”reiurned Charlie, after some study. “Yes; and I have often wondered what my particular work in life is." “Indeed,” replied Charlie, after some hesi- tation. "Charlie, tell me, do you think I am fit. ted to make a home he py 2" “I dunno," said he, a ntly. “Can you cook ?” . Newspaperadvertisements were unknowa until I652. there is not the slightest reason to suppose [usion to the gm“, comes; that, was sup. that they W111 not. the bun-1m,“ troops W1” posed to be imminent between gas and electricity. The chairman had said the gas managers Were not afraid, and he, as an electrician, was not afraid either. Just as gas had succeeded without snufiing out the sun, the moon and the planets, so he believed that electricity would succeed without snuf- fing out gas. Abreach of romise casein which the usual order of t iiugs was reversed, came up before the Haddington Sheriff Court the other day. An Edinburgh man named William Lenny sued Isabella Burnside, a domestic servant for £100 damages for breach of promise of marriage. The de- fender admitted the promise of marriage, and stated that she cancelled the engage- ment on account of the partner’s intemper- ate habits. She tendered a sum of £10 ills 1d in full of pursuer's claim, being the amount alleged to have been expended by him in furnishing a house in the Cow ate of Edinburgh. The defender has app‘licdto be admitted to the car’s roll. A gentleman whi e fishin near Wamp- bray. Dumfricsshire, hoo ed a fine sea trout. While running the fish to the land- ing place, his line was can ht upon some object in the water. On rowing in the line, he found one of his hooks had uotlixed to a fine one; The otter at once struck up stream with the sen. trout in tow. Noth- ing dauntcd, the fisherman held on to the otter and after a severe struggle brought him ashore on the gravel bed at the top of the pool. 0n atteinptin to kill the otter, it showed flight, and u timately escaped leaving the angler in possession of the sea trout. What must be regarded as a record ice- berg is reported to have been recently passed by the barqno "Dumfriesshire" in the Indian Ocean. She was going from Sharpness to Sydney, New South Wales, and on arrival at the latter place reported having passed three icebergs near the Crozitgronp of islets in the Indian Ocean. The largest of the floating dangers were perfect leviathan measuring, it was estimat. ed, ten miles in length and about 160 feet lin height. The second lamest is said to be about three miles long, cnd’the smallest one mile. The hardest known wood is said to be cocus Wood. It turns the edge of any’ are, however well tempered, so it is claimed. .02.): own-5......â€" amwdmvk- , -_‘~ - v v - v. M“. r-.