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“Ms... , NA,¢~,»~»-... W4. A . . HOUSEHOLD- lfother's Ronni. Let us reverently enter. where slaving pres- ence waits, Not far away from heavenly fields, with open, Roldan gates ; Tread lightly. hours are precious here on this seeming hon ground. _ Dear Mother's ltoom. where patient love and blessings rare abound. Speak softly. for unpleasant tones should never here be heard. _ . No thought of strife, no angry vorce, no bitter. burning word . Be uttered ’neoth the healing Wings of trust, and hope and peace “'hich hover over Mother's Room and rest without surccaae. Bo gentle when in Mcther’s Room,tor here true gentleness . Hath reign supreme. and here is known the soothing. sweet impress Of devotign at the cradle, at the altar and the tom . â€" Makin of this a world of bliss in restful J other‘s Room. B: thoprghtful hero of word and deed where a ection deep holds sway. \thre :1. Mother‘s prayers for her dear ones lime utterance each day; Where pleadin 3 long with‘wuyward ones mingle \vit heartfeltpridc I For noble deeds. Where stricken hearts are soothed and team are dried. thrc'cr we are, where'er we roam, whether on land or sea: Reflect-ed back in memory‘s glass,how pleasant ‘tis to see . That room where all that‘sdear in liteis nursed to bud and bloom. 0h! earth has not a charm more dear than that of Mother's Room. â€"[Clark \V’. Bryan. Autumn Jackets- It is still rather early to predict what style ofgarment will be most popular for Autumn wear. The difference between autumn and sum- mer jackets is to be seen both in color and in cut. Probably the most popular gar- ment this summer has been a jacket with open revers rolling from top to bottom, with not the smallest indication of a button or other means of’ fastening. A girl wearing one of these jackets has a jaunty air, but as it leaves the throat and the chest exposed it cannot be worn late in the season. Sum- mer jackets have been made of white cloth, or oflight and medium colors. Black and dark shades will reappear as the cooler weather of autumn sets in. Single Beds- If these were more numerous than they are, a great many people would be better off. \Vhen one is tired, sick, cross, restless, out- of-sorts he or she ought to sleep alone and not communicate by proximity the maladies that affect him. The brute creatures when sick go away by themselves till they die or get over their troubles, and this instinct a greatmany human beings have ; those that have it are best if indulged in it, not to the slightest degree of neglect, however. Left to themselves, they can compose their inter- nal disseusious,rccovertheirlosthuilibrium, and set back their habitual rate of “ vibra- tion” ; whereas, if continually disturbed, and “ crossed,” and interrupted, they are a long time'in getting back to the normal. Where two childreniu a family must share the same room, in a great many cases they would be better off to have two single beds rather than one wide double bed. We can share agreat many things with those we love, but solitude clings to us from birth to death. We come into the world alone, we must go out of it alone, and we live in it . alone, in a certain important sense, and to get and keep our “ bearings" we must some- times be left alone. It is good that we should be. He who has his bed to himself may be essentially alone fora portion of the twenty-four hours, may have himself to him- self, and adjust his internal mechanism to his own satisfaction. For a great many were l and ills, solitude is a. balmâ€"what we call solitudeâ€"for when alone the immaterial ! asserts itself, the actual fades, the real is' present with us. _.._..â€"_ Overwrought Children’s Emotions- Physicians are protesting against the un- natural emotional development of girls by certain home influences. Let them alone and their sympathetic feeling will be acute enough at the worst ; but give them stimu- I Ins, and that excessive, bring them out on all possible occasions, out of season and un. called for, and there stands over these girls one of the greatest dangers to the per- ection of womanhood, physical and mental, An undue sensibility of the cent-res of emo- tional feeling can be maintained only at the expense of sound health of body and mind. The illotending influences are often seen in the household. The girl is housed closely she has few outdoor sports and those are not interesting, and her dress is alimitation to her freedom. Such restrictions to herl liberty, and constant reference to the factl that her sex denies her this or that employ- ment or pleasure, tend to make a child self- couscious and emotionally overactive. Then again the family discipline often appeals to the emotional natures of children, with un- happy results iu the way of mental com- motion and harmful unrest. Children re- quire an even atmosphere for the mind as well as the body. Upon children, and especially girls, there are often made undue claims for the demon- stration of their affections. It is said by a physician, after full observation, that the stimulation of the emotions among children is condusive, not- only to disease of the spine, but also to dental caries. He says: I “In my lar c practice among children, I am certain 11a: scores are literally lulled by the excessive amountof emotional excite- ment which they are forced to endure. All this hugging, and kissing. and talking to. them is to exotic responses of the same ; emotional nature in the child for the l pleasure unl gratification of the parents and friends." A Breast of Motion Comparativel ' few housekeepers seem aware of the v us of that cheapest of all' meat-cuts. the mutton breast. In our West- ern market they may be had at five cents each (they are not sold by weight), and I doubt if the cost in any city market would exceed ten cents. We have just dined, our family of six, on a most delicious stew made from a singlol brunt, and have left for the morrow a bowl; of pressed meat for lunch and broth for a, lice stew-41m to mention the crust of sweet ‘ fat which will shorten the next " Johnuy- ' coke " or ingerbreudâ€"and all this for “ a ’ nick'ie." The meat was stewed (slowly) in “ just water enough to cover, until no tender that the bones could be easily slipped, and that gelatinous condition so essential to nice pressed meat wis reached. The broth was then poured off and the meat allowed to brown in the kettle in its own fat. The grease was then poured off and a part of the broth â€"-now settled, skimmed and strain- edâ€"returned to the pot, a little fiour hav- ing been dredged over the meat to thicken the gravy. Regulate the quantity of broth at be used,by the individual taste as regards stews, whether they be liked thick or thin. W’s like ours “ nottoo thick or too thin "~â€" above all, not sloppy. They can be spiced, flavored with onion, or seasoned simply with salt and pepper; which last we think best, because the meat on the breast of mut- to is the sweetest flavored of all mutton cuts. ' After dinner was over, we returned the “ left over " part to the pot with the re- mainder of the broth, just long enough to reheat it ~having first carefully removed all bone and intermuscular tissue. It was then put through that handiest of all kitchen, utensils, the “ combined fruit-press and po- tato-masher,” the enriched broth se‘: away in one bowl, and the meat pressed firmly ‘fnto another, from whence it will slip out when wanted in erfect slicing condition. A. cupful of rice Foiled in the broth will make a toothsome entree .for the next din- ner. What more can you desire for five cents. Why Your Bodice Sets Awry- Said one woman to another, anent her new gown : “ Itmust’be bewitched. I cut and fitted it myself by a pattern that is just perfect, and see, the back seam crawls to- ward the left hip, and the side forms are apparently trying to climb to my armpits. I assure you I am quite desperate over- such manifestations of textile total depravity. From the looks, anybody would say I cut the thing out on Friday. ” “ You did worse,” said the other, eyin‘g the garment critically. “ You out each piece so the threads run the wrong way.” “ What difference does it make how they run ?’ _ . . “ All the difl'erence betwixt a perfect fit and the thing of wrinkles and puckers you have on. Let me tell you a secret I learn- ed from a London dressmaker. In cutting out a bodice, always shape each part so that the woof threads will go as straight around waist as the belt tape does. That puts the warp perpendicular and gives almost a per- fect bias on the scam in the back, Look at your back form. You cut them, did you not, out of any piece that was big enough? In each the threads run differently, and all ways but the right one. “ Then in fitting you gave no thought to symmetry or proportion. Like these dress- makers, in fine, you took in your seams in any way that promised to make a smooth, tight fit. In consequence your back forms are hardly an inch wide in the armhole. In a. well-cut bodice they are as wide there as at the waistline. The swell of bust and shoulders is accommodated by the back and front figures. “When stuff is cut on the cross you should be careful to have a true bias around the waist and up the fronts and the back seams. Another thing, if you want your gown to sit smooth over the shoulders, be- fore basting it up stretch each front piece as much as you can half way from the neck to the armhole, and hold the back full to it it for the same distance. Never mind the apparent pucker. Pressing will banish it and give you an easy seam that will hug the curve of the shoulder almost as a man’s coat does.” “I see,” said the other. “Tell me, did you learn that, too, from the London cut~ ter ‘3” The other nodded yes, adding after a minute : “And she spoke as one having arthority, for she was forcwomau at Elise’s, and enjoyed the privilege of sticking pins in the princess of Wales and half the duch- esses in the kingdom. In fitting an arm- hole, if it needed taking in, she either set the forms higher on the back or changed all of them, bottom as well as top. And you could not have bribed or coaxed or bullied her into cutting the fronts to hem, as you have done. “Instead, she curved the edge to your figure and finished it with the neatest of fac- ings, with a fly for hooks or buttons. She kept me standing, slowly turning like a hair-dresser’s dummy, three dreadful hours but in return I got a gown as easy asifit had grown on me, to say nothing of the wtsdom that has been oozing out for your benefit these last ten minutes.” ' Housekeeper‘s Corner. Keep flowers fresh by putting a pinch of soda in the water. Boil the clothesliue, and it will not “kink,” as a new rope is apt to do. Keep a small box filled with lime in your pantry and cellar it will keep the air dry and pure. Soda is the best thing for cleaning tiuware; apply with a damp cloth and rub well, then wtpe dry. Prick potatoes before baking so that the air can escape; this will prevent their burst- ing in the oven. For sore throat beat the white of an egg stiff with all the sugar it will hold and the juice of one lemon. When baking cakes set a dish of water in the oven with them and they will not be in any danger from scorching. Grease spots that, have been ‘onrnt and he- come hard on the stove, may be removed by a few drops of kerosene oil on the cloth be. fore rubbin them. To mend urge holes in socks or in merino underwear, take a piece of strong net over and darn through it. The dam will be stronger and neuter than without‘it. To clean a stove zinc or zinc-lined bath- tub, mix ammonia and whiting ton smooth paste,apply it to the zinc and letit dry. Then rub it off until no dust remains. A teaspoonful of alum will make clear four gallons of muddy water. Boiling the water is necessary to remove disease germs when a farm pump or town reservoir his a bad name. â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"..â€"â€"._ Inquisitive Party (to hod-carrier)â€"“ And do you go up that ladder all day long ‘:"| Patâ€"“ No, sur; half ov the toime 0i comet down.” After gathering in their crops in Utah 500 rmou families will move to Mexico in th ‘ utumn. A fragment of the “ holy cross," which Marie Stuart were during her imprisonment and on. her wa to the scaffold, has recently been presented to the treasury of the Catheo drul of Muycnce. CURIOUS WEDDING IROIDBRTS. A Sesth llnlster Tells of Unusual flap Denim ,ln Ills Experience. I have observed that marriage, especially among the working classes, is greatly.“- fected by the state of trade. When trade is good marriages increase, and are less fre- quent in times of commercial depression. This fact indicates that the romance of life among a class who are generally regarded as reckless in the matter of marriage is after all restrained by dictates of common pru- dence. During the Lancashire cotton fam- ine, early in the sixties, I had a church in Dundee. The failure of cotton occasioned an abnormal boom in the jute trade, and Dundee was the principal emporium for the import and manufacture of the flexible fibre. It was then that that town laid the founda- tion of its wealth and greatness. In those prosperous times marriages were frequent, and in the course of a few years I united in the sacred bonds of matrimony a greater number of young couples than in any sim- ilar period during my ministerial career. A favorite fancy of the millworkers was to be married at the mouse, and 1 was often amused at their lavish expenditure and love of display. - One evening I had arranged to marry a couple at the mouse, and at the time an eld- erly friend, recently retired from a suc- cessful business, was staying with me, and wished to see the ceremony. Three cabs drove up to the entrance gate, and my room was immediately filled with half a dozen couples, who constituted the bridal party. The men wore in full dress black suits, white kid gloves. buttonhole flowers, with ample display of linen and jewelry. The ladies were dressed in white muslin trimmed with lace, and decked with flowers and coronets of glittering beads. ' It was indeed a gay and showy scene. My friend leaned back in an armchair in a corner of the room, with his big fingers dovetailed into each other lying across his capscious waistcoat, and, transfixed with simple as- tonishment, gazed through his spectacles, that seemed to ‘surround his eyes with phosphorescent circles. When the cere- mony was over and the party had retired my guest pushed his spectacles on to his forehead,and slapping his hands on his knees exclaimed : “ Well, that beats all ! \Vhat are the working classes coming to? I had to be content with a humble wedding in my day, and I reckon I could now buy up the whole mill where these people work. Mark my words, these daft youngsters are begin- ning at the wrong end of the tether, and that they will find out some day. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” I could only smile at this bit of philosophy, and say: “That is the order of the day in Bonnie Dannie.” On another occasion I was asked to marry a couple in a curious out-ofâ€"the-way place in another part of the country, about three miles distant from the town where I then resided. I found the house full of wedding guests, and there were evident prepara- tions for a night of festivity. The bride was a modest, shy-looking damsel, with dark drooping eyes and graceful pose of figure. _ followed. As soon as the marriage eere~ mony was completed, the bride asked me in a soft, timid voice : “Please, sir, will you baptize the baby?” and at the same moment one of the women lifted a child from the cradle. In my innocence I asked: “ Whose baby is it '2”. and the bride, with a face scarlet with blushes, meekly answerâ€" ed, “It’s mine, sir.” Vtht could I do ? \Vhy should the innocent child be denied the Christian sacrament? The infant was placed in the arms of the bridegroom father, and, with an extra touch of pathos that I sincerely felt, I solemnly commended the baby to the care of Him who said “Suf- fer little children to come unto Me.” I have had some experience of marriages south of the Tweed. Here there are no home marriages. The ceremony takes place in church, and is often witnessed by a large congregation. It is the etiquette for the bridegroom to be first on the spot to wel- come the arrival ot the bride. I once ofii- ciated at a marriage in the north of England in which a bride was placed in a very try- ing position. She was led down the aisle of the church by her fut-her, a venerable, hand- some looking gentleman, followed by a bevy of bridesmaids, and they- took their places in front of the communion rail. But the bridegroom was nowhere to be seen, and no one could account for his absence. The church was full of eager, interested specta- tors, and I observed the rustle and flutter of a growing excitement as the whisper went round, “ Where is the bridegroom?” I suggested that the ladies should retire into the vestry, but the bride declined with a gentle firmness, as much as to say, “ I have come here to be married, and I am not going to run away. Besides, I am sure my beloved will be here immediately.” But minutes that seemed drawn out into un- usual length passed away, and he did not come. It was a time of intense and painful suspense. The father and mother fidgctcd and flushed, the bridesmaids were in the nervous borderland between laughing and crying, and the congregation talked in buzzing whispers. I engaged the bride in conversation, and indulged in a little divert- ing pleasautry. “ Be brave,” said I : “keep up your heart; don’t faint on any account; but if you wish to indulge in that innocent luxury, do it gracefully. Lean your head gently on your father’s shoulder, and take care not to disarrange that lovelvareath !" She bore up splendidly, and was the most self-possessed of the whole party. The crisis was passed as the congregation rose to watch the entrance of the bridegroom : and he and the best man beaming with l satisfaction, walked down the aisle utterly unconscious that they had been the cause of any awkward waiting,and they were both astonished to find the bride had already arrived. The ceremony roceeded in the usual way, and all code happily. The blunder arose by the driver muddling his orders. Instead of going first for the bride- » groom, according to his instructions, he i went to a different part of the town for the bride. The putting on of the wedding ring is an important partpf the ceremony in the Bug- lish scrvice. The ring is placed on the book out of which the service is read: and the minister, handing the ring tofithe bride- lgroom instructs him to place it .half way I on the third fin er of the left hand of the bride, and, hol lug it there, to re t and- ibly the following formula: “ "th this .ring, a token and pledge of the Vow and covenant now made betwixt me and thee, I thee wed, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holv Ghost." It is a ‘curious fact that though this formula is I was utterly taken back by what ‘ usuall broken up into eight fragments for the so e of repetition, it is rarely ro- pested with perfect accuracy. The great stumbling block is the phrase, “New made betwixt me and thee.”e'.l.‘hough the words are put immediately into the mouth of the bridegroom, it is invariably rendered “Be- twixt thee and me." This is the rule in my experience. It is an exception when it is re- ated accuratelyâ€"“Me and thee." The ridegroom is then asked to place the ring fully on the finger; and this is not always easily accomplished; I have seen it done with such facility and neatness as indicated that there must have been some previous practice of the art. But sometimes the riuc .is very obstinate anzl difficult of manipula- tion, and I have seen the finrried pair got in an excited packet in their desperate efforts to usn the refractory symbol over the second joint. I remember a case of this kind once occurred in Lancushire,where I was marrying a couple of mill workers. The ring seemed wedged with little wrin- kles at the second joint, and the combined efforts of bridegroom and bride to slip it down the finger were unavailing. The man grew red in the face with his exertions, and I was really afraid he would dislocate the finger. I whispered, “ Leave it where it is and let us proceed.” No, he was not going to be beaten with abit of a ring. Baffled at all points he at last- said, “ West it, weet it!" The bride at once stuffed the finger into her mouth, as if it were a delicious sweetmeat, and thus lubricated the stub- born ring was at length satisfactorily ad. justed. ‘On another occasion, when we came to the ring part of the ceremony, the bride ex- tended her haud and there was no third fingerâ€"it had been amputated. The bride- room had given me a hint of this singular not before the marriage. The ring was placed on the second finger, and I have not heard that anything dreadful happened in consequence. It must be some comfort to our lady readers to know that even the loss of the marriage finger is no bar to mat- rimony. V_ â€"â€"â€"â€"o___. SEAPARING SUPERSTITION S. Birds and Sailors; Their Odd Faith in ‘ Falnllly. Of superstitions there are no end. Here, however, I have‘noted down a few connect- ed with birds and sailors. That is to say, the birds hold the same superstitious as the sailors only the other way about. The magpie considers it unlucky to see a sailor. The kite, on the other hand thinks it lucky to see a sailor, but a raven would fly a dozen miles to escape seeing a sailor, and a swallow crossing the sea despairs of getting safe to shore again if it passes a ship. A flight of curlews presages cast wind. Manygulls show that herring are about; when gulls cannot get herrings they eat shooting stars. No one must kill an alba- tross. If on want to know the direction of the win , you must catch a kingfisher and hang him up to the must, when he turns his breast to meet the breeze. A shorter way is to compare the flag with the compiles, and not to trouble about catching a king- fisher ; in fact, I never knew anyone who had ever caught a king-fisher. When a sailor is drowned, his soul goes into a stormy getrel, and would have a very good time in- eed if there were any ruin about. Lastly, do you know where sea birds-â€" such as puffins slings, and the like are bred? Out of eggs you think. Nothing of the kind. They are bred in the decaying tim- bar of wrecked ships ; they grow in the wood like fungi; when the proper time ar- rives they drop off into the sea ; the moment [they touch the water they receive life. All these notes I find in a piece of paper. I do not know when I found them, but, to judge by the appearance of the paper and its companion sheets, I should say it was fifteen years ago at least, and where I found or was told these interesting facts I do not remember. A DOZBN AND ONE- In Japan the women load the vestels. Lemons are being used in soap making. The Arab horse is not broken in until its fourth year. Four men in every six use tobacco. Transparent parasols are now the fash- ion. There is a hotel in New York nearly a quarter ofa mile long. Cowper wrote “John Gilpin" when suffer- ing from a terrible fit of depression. Fifty-seven thousand five hundred and eleven letters are written in London every day, requiring thirty gallons of ink. The essence of orange blossoms is said to make a capital drink during the hotter months. Agold double eagle of 1849 is worth $100. The Fijiaus make fish nets of human hair. A woman in Nebraska has a. nose four and three-quarters inches long. At Bombay all the Hindoo scntrics salute any passing black cat, thinking it may possibly be the soul of an English officer. W A New Jersey man gives as a. new cure for hay fever the smoking of pine needles with tobacco. A corncob in Georgia is shaped like a human hand,having four well defined fingers and a thumb. An eel that is ordinary in all respects ex- cept that it has a skin of a “beautiful golden color,” has been added to the col- lection in the London Zoological Garden. life, marry, for, as a rule, married men live longer than bachelors ; yet we are told that out of every thousand persons in England more than six hundred are unmarried. It may surprise many observers of the late switchmcn‘s strike in New York State to learn that there exists in that State a statutory b)dy known as the State Board of Arbitration. Its special task is to arbitrate between employers and employ- ees in cases of disagreement as to wages. It was never in sight d"ring the late unpleas- antness. It appears that it can only act when both parties are pleased to submit their differences. In the strike recently closed the railway authorities declared they had no differences with their employees: the only trouble was that some outside", ! to wit, the men they had just discharged, were molesting their employees. The people lof the State think theBoard of Arbitration is in farce and should be dissolved. i If you wish to increase your chances of â€"â€"_ >” . Sense of the Land-ark: Left by the Great- : uplorer. : Mr. \V. 1). Lighthall,ofhlontreal,writing : to “ The Week," says :-â€"-Some weeks ago an interesting caller entered my door in i’ Montreal. He was a tall, pleasant English- ; man of perhaps forty-five years, and upon , his visitingcard wasanameof unusual attrac. : tion to anyone acquainted with the history iofllontroal, or indeed of America. The name was Amherst, and its bearer was of the family of the famous Sir Jeffery who commanded the armies which captured l Montreal in 1760 and brought about at the same time the capitulation of all “ Canada and Cape Breton.” In the course of con- versation he described to me " Montreal" in Kent. his owu English homeâ€"tho estate which Sir Jeffery named from the town of his great capture and which passed, with the title of “ Baron Amherst of Montreal" to his no how, and thence directly to the present ‘arl, whose brother the speaker was. ' It was a rare pleasure to take such a man about the town and show him the encamp- ment site of his ancestor’s army, the house which tradition asserts to have been his headquarters. the gate whereby he entered the town, the Square where the Frcnoh army laid down its arms before him, and other scenes of a hundred and thirty years ago. During the day a drive was arranged to the landing-place of the army at Lacliine, nine miles away. The others in our car- ringc were not unconnected with history. They were Gerald E. Hart, the author of “The Fall of New France,” and Charles Mair, author of“ Tecumseh ” and veteran of. both the North-West rebellions, and the conversation naturally run much on histori~ cal subjects. The Lower Lachine Road, along the Rapids, was chosen, and a stop was made to see the elm embowered “ La Salle Homestead,” the ancient building owned by the hospitable John Fraser in that neighbourhood, situated, he contends wrth much reason, on the very grant of 400 acres originally taken for his private domain by La Salle during his years at his settlement of Lachine about 1666. Mr. Fraser’s claim is disputed by D. Giromrd, Q. C., the historian of Lachine, but is set out with some concessions yet much force in a late pamphlet on “ The La Salle Homestead.” However it may be as to La Sallc, Mr. Fraser now claims that at any rate the chimney of the house is an extreme- ly old one. .He admits the body of the dwelling (now considerably ruined) to be the erection of a merchant named Cuillcrier about the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury. The chimney, however, he claims stands separate and was the chimney of a dwelling built by Champlain in 1616. It was to investigate this assertion that we made our stoppage. We found the walls of the house in fair preservation, showing a strong rubble exterior of one storey. faced with cut-stone about the doors and win- dows. The roof and floors wore half fallen in. The great chimney, Mr. Fraser pointed out, was separate from the walls, and stood {by itself in the house, adjoining, instead of, mm as usual. being part of the gable wall, or standing directly in the centre, us' in several early “forts.” This part of his claim we admitted,namoly,that the chimney appeared to be part of a former building on the site. But, was it enough to carry the place back to the time of Cham )laiu ? That was still the question. \Vhi e wandering inside, however, something peculiar, and therefore unnoticed, struck me in the wall adjoining the great chimney. s‘cvcral tiers of brick seemed to be inserted in the wall, as if to repair it towards the bottom. A second glance made it evident that these bricks were built in curved form, makin the segment of a circle. Looking closersnd picking up one of those which had fallen out, I discovered that it was of gray, un- cooked colour, and crude shape. Calling the attention of the rest of the party,we quickly came to the conclusion that they were sun- dried bricks made by hand, of a flatter and larger pattern than those of present times. Their position, too,showed them to be built into the wall during its constiuctiondnntcad of added to patch a breakagc,and their line of construction seemed to indicate their being part of a turret or round oven, built at the time of the great chimney which they adjoined. Now, though familiar with historical French-Canadian buildings, I do not know that brick enters into construction of any other house in the province of Que- be: of early date. Only one man is record- ed to have used brick for construction. That man was Champlain. The place where he made it was the Island of Montreal. During his visit of 16“ to the site of the future city, he writes : “ There is also much meadow-land of Very good rich pot- tery clay, as well for brick as for building, which is a great convenience. I made use of it and built a wall there four feet thick and three to four feet high and ten rods long. to test how it would keep during winter, when the waters descend." Such bricks would not stand the climate, however, which is very hard upon even the kiln-dried article of to-day. If Champlain built a house around the old chimney, it is quite natural that he should have used them; and if, therefore, as is possible, they were made by Champlain, they axe perhaps the most in- teresting and precious rclicsin Canada. W. D. Lmu'rou. Montreal, August 12, 1892. m Killed by Leeches. A horrible story comes to the Lam-ct from Vallombrosa, “ Mi-ton’s Paradise," m it has been called, a favourite summer resort in the Appenines for the residents in Flor- ence. Among the inmates of the Hotel do la Savoie there was the Commendatoro Git ordani, Director-General of Mines in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. On the evening of the 14th ofJuly he went out for a walk. and, being known to suffer from impaired health, his friends were very anxious when, after the la .e of some hours I he did not return. A pro ongcd search was imsde by a number of domestics provided ’ with lanterns, and they were about to aban- don it as fruitless when one of them heard a feeble moan coming from a pit at the foot of u stee incline. A descent was made to the spot, on there the unfortunate gentleman was found, still alive, With no injury to bone or limb, but " literally beset by a my- riad of leeches.” He was at. once removed to the hotel, and attended by Dr. Cesare Paggi, afterwards assisted b Professor dol Grcco. But the loss of bloody inflicted on an enfeehled constitutiuu proved fatal. and, in spitoof assiduous care and skill, the Como mendutorc died withi : three days of hi: rolling down into the pit. .sV'Tv