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-wâ€"-w,.~m 1:i:~‘,' 6: .' .,.. n EOUSEHOLD. ‘ O l Mother. I “0h ! mother. I want my bonnet tied‘r “ My hat has lost a string !” ' 'Hust I be Bobby Barncs‘s horse i“ ‘ “ Is zis your pitty wing 2" . ‘ Say; will you-make us chicken pie 2" “ Somebody’s hid my slate!" _ “ See what an ugly rent. manima; 1 tored it on the gate! ” “ 0! mother, Maniie's coming in. \Vitli Moll, and Bess, and Fred; Can we have cream and calrc to-night, And send the boys to bed 1" “Dear mother, may I wear your shawl? I‘m going; for a drive, If Charley should propose, mamma, May I ask him in at five 5" “ 0! mother, send those children out, . They 111‘ch such fearful din ! I've got my sermon well along, As for as ‘ What is Sin 2‘ And can’t you bear in mind that cup Of strong tea for my lle'ld ; And mix a few light rolls and bake 2 You know I hate cold bread." 0 ! mother, mother, should you cease One little hour the care That day by day, year after year, For the dear brood you hour, It seems the wheels of life must stop, Rich mother-love! It springs, A free. sweet fountain: and it lends The. commonest duly Wings. ESTELLE THOMSON. â€"_â€"â€"- Renewing Old Chairs- Herc is an old set of cane-seated chairs very much the worse for wear and not at all ornamental to the room. The canes are split and broken, and the comfort of the chair is also gone. It will hardly pay to take them to a cabinet-maker to have them reseated ; besides, they can be very nicely done at home. Take some strong pieces of bagging or burlaps, out two pieces to fit the chair and long enough to wrap about the rounds that usually held the canes or splints. Thread a darning-ncedle with double twine and sew them on strong, turning a. hem on the upper one as it is sew- ed to place. When nearlyffitted stuff With Excelsior, shavings or fine hay, or theycan be cushioned with layers of old bcdquilts, out to fit and bastcd together. Spread on smoothly and cover with some pretty car- pet or woolen goods. Cover the edge With gimp to match the cusltion, and tack down closely with silver or gold-headed nails. The gimp and nails can be procuredlat the furniture dealers. \Vhen the chairs are done and revarnished they will be found to be handsomer and more comfortable than when new. 'riia LITTLE CHAIR. Is there a. very homely little rocking- eliair in the house, handed down from Master Tom to Miss Flossy? If so, I can assure you she does not think it pretty. But it can be made so with very little trouble. Take a piece of coarse sandpaper and rub it until the wood is smooth and clean. Then paint it a rich cream color and make a nice cushion, to fit the seat, filled with feathers or cotton batting. Cover this with some soft baby blue goods and tie at each side with pink ribbons or cord.Now make a little roll cushion for a head-rest and cover with the same. Draw each end up tightly and finish off with pink cord and tussels, which should also hold it to the chair-back. Women in Public Positions- ! have read and heard debated so much the advisability of our girls entering public life, placing themselves before the public in a clerical or like position. For like every other subject worthy of attention, it is open for debate. The objection is raised “ that in coming in contact with the world in general, with out the protection afforded them in their own homes, they learn too much of life as it is, and thus destroy their trusting simpli- city, that indescribable charm.” I will ad- mit that as one becomes better acquainted with the world and its transactions, it must follow, as' in the case of the lapidist, while he does not believe that every stone that ing to be put in a gilded cage and merely a useless ornament. She has the power to be useful and ornamental as well. The first aim of women should be to cultivate, as far as ‘lies in their power, the talents God has given \be something more than a. pretty bird wait- tliem, when that is accomplished, if they feel that they can lighten others’ burdens by earning their own money, in part or wholly, the experience will not harm them. The standard of womanly purity will certainly never be lowered by work. In the Kitchen- The best bread board is a plain piece of oilcloth with a hole in it to hang up by. The dough will not stick to this, and it is cleansed by simply wiping off. CANNED PAR'rmDuE.-â€"Clcun the part- i'idges and split them in two. Place them in a pan, the outside uppermost, and bake. Baste with melted butter. The partridge: can be baked either in the oven or on top of the stove, covered with a second pan, if late in the afternoon and the oven is poor. FARIN’A BANANA is a. dish of which “ Good Health” tells : For one quart of rich milk take four tablespoonfuls of farina, and cook in a double boiler one hour. Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and when it is slightly cooled, pour it over thin slices of banana. Serve without dressing, either warm or cold. Those who are fond of anice, pungent bit of green salad in winter, are advised to try young mustard. Take a. shallow cigar box, 01‘ pot, and fill it with earth with a little clean sand on top, and sow some mustard seed quite thickly on it ; moisten the whole and put it in a warm place. In two or three days the seeds will have germinated. and in a few days more the seedlings will be big enough to cut and cat. Between sowing and eating should be ten days, and one can keep up as many successions as l desired. GINGER Cumsâ€"Rub half a pound of but- ter in a pound and a half of flour ; mix in half a pound of brown sugar rolled free from lumps. Add a tablespoonful of powdered ginger,a teaspooni'ul of powdered cinnamon and a teaspoonful of powdered cloves. Mix well, and stir in a pint- of New Orleans or \Vest India molasses, and the grated peel of a. large lemon. Add a small teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in tepid water. Stir very hard with a wooden spoon, and add enough sifted flour to- make it stifi‘ enough to roll out. Roll very thin, and cut with a jagging iron into strips one inch wide and four inches long. Bake in a moderate oven. These will keep indefinitely in adi'y place. A Suns'rrru'ri: Fon MAPLE Svaur.â€"-â€"Desir- ing maple syrup for our batter-cakes when the store was too remote to furnish our need at short notice, we prepared the fol- lowing substitute, which was unanimously elected to a high position in the bill of fare. A pound of brown sugar was dissolved in the least water pessible, barely enough to keep the sugar from sticking fast to the porcelain lined kettle. It was then boiled one minute, removed from the fire, poured into a syrup cup, three drops of extract of vanilla added,and behold! nectar, honeymor maple syrup could excel our “ lueent sirop tinct with” vanilla. OYSTER. SiiourCAknâ€"Make the crust of la full pint o." flour, one and one half tea l spoonfuls baking powder, half a teaspoonful salt; sift and mix with it a tablespoonful butter, and milk to make a dougli just- stiff enough to roll. Halve it. and roll out to fit a deep'tin; spread a little butter over the top ; then roll the other half, and lay over the first and bake. \Vhilc baking, prepare the following : Drain the liquor :- from a quart of oysters ; place this liquor with one and one-half pints of milk in a saucepan, bring to a boil, then add a little thickening, a tablespoonful of butter, with salt and pepper to taste. Put the oysters in, and as soon as it boils up thoroughly, split the cake crusts apart, pour in the oys- ters, and serve at once. The delicacy of the glitters is a faultless diamond, does he valuel dish depends on eatiniz it at once before the a real diamond any the less because of the knowledge ? Ah, no, I believe Ihat a noble minded, well educated woman loses none of those qualities that God gave, and intended she should use for the upbuilding of that brightest refuge of mankind, home. Rather, when her time comes to exert her sovereign away over a man’s heart and home, she is better fitted to cope with those adversities that will come into everyonc’s life, and can sympathize more readily with others than if she had retained her Childhood’s simplicity and the belief that the world contains only happiness in which all my sport at pleasure. Then again I hear it said “she becomes bold and loses her womanly modesty ;” at that I most emphatically deniur. Because she can talk to men without blushing do you think she would forgive or forget one un- courtcous action toward her? No! but in the majority of cases she will never have the cause, for there is an undisputable stamp on a lady’s face that compels and re- ceives deference from even the lowest of mankind. As the eye is the window of the soul, so is a woman’s character stamped un- deniably upon her face; the world contains few men, that, without provocation would bring blushes of indignation to it. A young girl of good old family, well educated and refined, having been trained from earliest childhood by careful hands, completes her education in school and come back to her home in the dawning of woman- hood, fresh, bright and “ needy.” After a. time she finds papa‘s purse is not as well filled as it should be, and that uncomplain- ingly he and mother are denying themselves comforts that their precious child may not be denied those things which have become necessitites to her. Then there are two paths open to her. Shall she continue to receive means from the indulgent father and require mother to wear her one dress and bonnet until Mrs. Grundy wonders why the beautiful Miss L. ’5 mother can be such a fright, or, I am sorry to say, in sheer desperation or from a sense of duty to her parents, accept a. man in marriage, whom she is not sure that through live she can trust, honor and love. Is that young lady any the less noble be- cause slic fits herself for and occupies a re- munerative position? and by viewing human naturezmore closely, learns to distinguish the real from the counterfeit? Will she not make as good, even a better wife, by knowing the worth of money and realizing the difficulties her husband must encounter while winning home and luxury for her? Will she be as reckless in buying that “little darling of a bonnet, only fifteen dollars ‘1" Th; time has come when woman should under crust becomes soaked. DnLiCious CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.â€"-Tlie secret of success with these caramels is to boil to the right thickness, and the length of time required to bring them to this point depends on the quality of the sugar used. Fifteen minutes of hard boiling will usually be suflicient. Six tablespoonfuls of butter, three pounds of light brown sugar, one cup of milk, one cake of Baker’s chocolate broken into small pieces, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of vanilla flavoring to be added after taking from the stove. A half cup of cream may be used for half the amount of butter. Boil until thick, stirring constantly after the boiling begins. Flavor, pour into buttered pans, and when cool check with a sharp knife into squares. If properly made the caramels should break apart like maple sugar. __.____.. I. Why Beat Eggs? Since the introduction baking powder, it - has never been necessary to beat eggs. Let your materials be good, and after rubbing the butter and sugar to a cream. add the eggs, milk, seasoning and sifted flour, with baking-powder, and spend the energy you would have wasted on the eggs in thorough- ly beating the cake as a whole ; then if your material was good, your cake, no matter what its name is, will be good also. and if you grease your pans with sweet lard in- stead of butter, and line with paper, your cake will come out whole, no matter how rich it may be. Beating eggs is a superfluous labor handed down by conservative women since the days when cakes were “lightened” with saleratus, ammonia, or beaten eggs alone. Furthermore, in all cakes diode with butter, which are to have a distinct color and flavor, as fruit, coffee, ginger, chocolate, cochineal, pork-cake and cookies, eggs are unnecess ary. They are needed in cakes made with no shortening, or to which we wish to give the color or flavor of eggs, as sponge gold, and cream cakes, and doughnuts. Let us have more confidence in our baking-powder. I have trusted it, 10 l these many years, and it has not failed me. _______.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- Almost a. Hint- Slie : “ I saw somebody this morning for whom you have a. great admiration." He : “You did, eh? I guess you must have looked in the mirror.” A gentleman having a horse that ran away and broke his wife’s‘neck was told by a neighboring squire that he wished to pur- chase it for his wife to ride upon. “ I can- not spare it,” said the other; “for I may \marry again." THE MIR AOLE OI‘ THE NILE-- A. Sterile Desert Transformed at its Over- flow Into a Fruitful Paradise. By no one, perhaps, have the impressions prouuccd by the various phases of the river been so poetically described as by Osburn, who thus describes the low Nile : _ “ The Nile has shrunk within its banks until its stream is contracted to half its ordinary dimensions, and its turbid, slimy, stagnant waters scarcely seem to flow in any direction. Lroad flats or steep banks of black, sun-baked Nile mud form both the shores of the river. All beyond them is send and sterility, for the hamseen, or sand wind of fifty days diirction,has scarcely yet ceased to blow. The trunks and branches of trees may be seen here and there through the dusty, hazy, burning atmosphere, but so entirely are their leaves coated with dust that at a distance they are not distinguish- able from the desert sand that surrounds them. It is only by the most painful and laborious operation of watering that any tint approximating to grecnness can be pre- served at this season even in the pleasure garden of the Pasha. The first symptom, of the termination of this most terrible season is the rising of i the north wind (the lilptesian wind of the Greeks), howling brisk- ly, often fiercely‘ during the whole of the day. The foliage of the groves that cover Lower Egypt is soon disencumbered by it of the dust, and resumes its verduro. The fierce fervors of the sun, then at his highest ascension, are also most seasonany mitigat- ed by the same powerful agency, which prevails for this and the three following months throughout the entire land of Egypt” ' ‘ en at last comes the inundation : “ Perhaps there is not in nature a more exhilarating sight, or one more strongly ex- citing to confidence in God than the rise of the Nile. Day by day and night by night its turbid tide sweeps onward majestically over the parched sands of the waste, howl- ing wilderness. Almost hourly as we slowly ascended it before the Etesian wind, we heard the thundering fall of some mud bank, and saw by the rush of all animated nature to the spot that the Nile had overleapt an- other obstruction, and that its bounding! waters were diffusing life and joy through another desert. There are few impressions I ever received upon the remembrance of which I dwell with more pleasure than that of seeing the first burst of the Nile into one of the great channels of its annual ovcrfio N. All nature shouts for joy. The men, the children, the bufi'aloes, gambol in its refresh ing waters, the broad waves sparkle wit- shoals of fish a d l ' ‘ - - ' n fow 0f eVery wmg Hume} 0. rs and the rudder were lost. over them in clouds. Nor in this jubilee of nature confined to the higher orders of creation. The moment the sand becomes:The second (by one man died and the ' 3 moistened by the approach of the fertilizing waters, it is literally alive with insects in« numerable. It is impossible to stand by the side of one of these noble streams, to see it I every moment sweeping away some obstruc- tion to the majestic course, and widening as it flows, Without feeling the heart to expand l with love and joy and confidence in tlie great Author of this annual miracle of mercy.” The effects of the inundation, as Osburn shows in another place, “exhibit themselves in a scene of fertility and beauty such as will scarcely be found in another country at any season of the year â€"--the vivid green of the springing corn, the groves of pomegran- ate trees ablaze with the rich scarlet of their blossoms, the fresh breeze laden with the perfumes of gardens of roses and orange thickets, every tree and every shrub cove L'- ed with sweet-scented fiowcrs. These are a [few of the natural beauties that welcome the stranger to the land of Ham. There is | considerable sameness in them, it is true, for he would observe little variety in the trees and plants, whether he first entered Egypt by the gardens of Alexandria or the plain of Assouan. Yet is it the same every- where, only because it would be impossible to make any addition to the sweetness of the odors, tlic brilliancy of the colors, or the exquisite beauty of the many forms of vegetable life, in the midst of which he wanders. It is monotonous, but it is the monotony of paradise. “ The flood reaches Cairo on a day closely approximating to that of the summer sol- stice. It attains its greatest height and begins to decline near the autumnal equi- nox. By the Winter solstice the Nile has again subsided within its banks and resumed its blue color. Seed time has occurred in this interval. The year in Egypt divides itself into three seasonsâ€"four inciitlis of sowing and growth, corresponding nearly with our November, December, January, and February: four months of harvest from March to June: the four months of the in- undation completing the cycle.” W ‘ A Ride on a Oowcatcher- Before leaving Vancouver we had been given a permit to ride on the cowcatcher. There had been some difficulty in getting it, as the officials of the Canadian Pacific had rather discouraged the idea, and had tried hard to persuade us that- all purposes would be answered by our riding with the engine driver ; but then they were obliged to allow that the scenery could be seen far and away better from the front of the engineâ€"that given a. strong head the ride on a. cow- catcher was delightful, and that several ladies had done it already. \Vhat other ladies had done we felt sure we could do too, and so eventually our permit was given us. It desired the driver of the engine to let us ride in front of it between certain r named stations, and it stated that we did so at our own risk and took all danger to life or limb on ourselves. It was rather an alarmingly-worded missive, but we saw that the order was numbered far on into the second hundred, so that we were far from being the first people who had treated them- selves to these risks and danger, and we took comfort accordingly. We found the coweatcher to be an arrangement of iron bars fastened to the lower part of the front of the engine, and so miking a kind of blunt plough in front of it; and it was on the en- gine with our feet dangling over this cow- catcher that we found we had to sit, one on each side ;~and there we rode from the foot of the Selkirk Mountains till we reached Glacier House close to the top of the pass. A wonderful two hours’ ride that was ; the air whizzing past us, the huge engine pant- ing and grunting at our backs ; such a roar in our ears that we couldn’t hear each other speak, and mingled feeling of danger and security that were exciting and thrilling in- deed. Presently cameo. tunnel, and a tun- nel when riding on a cowcatcher is a thing to be remembered l I saw the narrow track in front of me vanish in a little black hole in the mountain side, and the next moment we were in that black hole and plunged into utter darkness. On and on the train rush: ed with a deafening noise through the aim- meriau blackness. I had a vague feeling that I must hold fast for my life, my only idea the confident one that 1 should see the light presently; the cold, heavy damp air whizzed past me; my ears were filled with the roar of the train, my eyes ached with staring ahead for the point of light which seemed never coming. Then a tiny flash like a. star appeared and in another moment we were out of the black darkness and into the sunshine, with the green trees dancing in the light and the blue sky above us! Was there ever sky so blue before, or sun that shone so brightly on green pine trees? Or would ever air again seem so fresh and warm and pure? We looked at each other across the huge engine, and, though we couldn't hear ourselves speak we waved our hands and laughed with joy at being once more out in the open.â€"â€"[From “Two Eng- lishwomen on America,” by Lady Grey- Egcrlon, in North American Review for April. â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€"°â€"â€"-â€"â€"‘- A PITIFUL TALE. Captain lbrummoiid of the Brltlsh Ship liiug James, Tells Ills Story. A Redondo Beach, Cal., telegram says:â€" Captain Druminond, of the ship King James, which was burned 250 miles off Point Conception, who, with four of the crew, was rescued off this beach by the steamer Los Angeles yesterday, was in the best condition of any of the men rescued. After being warmed and fed he began to recover his strength and was able in three hours to tell the following story : After. the fire on the King James was discovered it had gotten under such headway that it was impossible to stay it. \Ve began to throw over the cargo, hoping that when the flames had consumed what was then burn- ing We could put them out. Finding this impossible, we put out the two lifeboats. You already know of the escape of the first mate‘s boat and the men it contained. We left the ship March 30 at 4 o’clock in the morning. At 6.30 o’clock on March 31, in a heavy sea, my boat capsized. Eleven men including myself, succeeded in cling- ing to the upturned boat. For six hours we clung to the boat. It seemed six days. The men prayed for help. \Ve finally suc- ceeded iu‘turning the boat, when the sea. had calmed. Then, for 14 hours, we re- mained in water up to our waists. We bailed the boat out but our provisions and \Ve tore away part of the covering of the air tanks to make cars and improvised a rudder. fourth three men, including my son.” I Here the captain broke down. “Some of the men were like maniacs,” he added. “They cried for food and water, and we exhausted ourselves in trying to hold them down. Before each man died he had become incoherent in speech, and would , curse and pray alternately. We could not I go to sleep because we were afraid that some of the men in the moments of insanity would cut our throats. As the men died we threw them overboard. We could not have stood it two hours longer. \Ve knew we were near Huerenic, and if we had had cars we could have gone ashore. \Ve were drifting there when the wind blow us one again. Thank God we were saved.” ._______.oâ€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"- The Mysteries of Suicide- A Connecticut man took poison and pro- ceeded to make written notes of his sensa- tions. He was saved from death in the nick of time. His methodical manner of prepar- ing for death and his devotion to science prove that lie is a man of ability, who had no right to sacrifice a life with which he miglitl do good. It is possible to imagine condi- tions under which a logical mind could dis- cover some justi‘ication'for suicide. "ut it is not the people whom disease has reduced to the verge of abject helplessness, mental and physical that as a rule take their own lives. The vigorous, healthy people, whose ambitions are lofty and whose energies are great, seem most susceptible to the tempta- tion of self destruction. The intensity of an energatic nature makes the step from disappointment to despair the more easily taken. Theorists are interesting when they argue that people who are ready to leave the world should be allowed to do so, but as a matter of fact the laws which interfere with attempts in this direction as a rule reach people whose spirits recuperate almost as rapidly as they droop, and who live to won- der how they could ever have contemplated such a step. LEAFED TIIRO UGHA CAR WINDOW. A Lunatic’s Desperate Attempt To Coni- niit Suicide 0n a Train. As' the evening train from the north was approaching Dundalk, the other evening a lunatic who was being taken from Owen Sound to Toronto Asylum asked the guard with whom he was sitting to allow him to change place with him. He and the guard were occupying one seat, with the lunatic on the inside next the window. The guard kindly granted the privilege, but the moment the poor crazy fellow was at a. sufficient distance from the window he threw himself headlong through it with the train at full speed. The guard, however, grabbed his legs as he was making his exit and with the aid of several of the passengers suc- ceeded in drawing him in again. Beyond being badly cut with the broken pieces of glass, the unfortunate man sustained no injuries. We understand this is not his first attempt at suicide. ______~â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€". Grim sby Park. A Grimsby dispatch says that the park management have prepared for the coming season a programme of great attractiveness. Among the noted speakers from abroad are: â€"Rev. Dr. Talmage, Rev. Dr. McIntyre, now of Denver ; Rev. Dr. Willctt, Dayton, 0.; Rev. Dr. Morris, of Cincinnati, O.§ Rev. lV. F. Crafts of Pittsburg, Pa.; Rev. Chan- cellor Sims of Syracuse ; Rev. Dr. Lansing Taylor of New York, and Rev. \Vard Pick- ard of Buffalo. Some of the foremost of Canadian speak- ers will take part. The names of Revs. D14. Potts, Dr. Carmen, Dr. Briggs, Dr. Suther- land, Dr. Badgley, Dr. Burns, Dr. Antliffe, Prof. Wallace, Prof. Austin, Rev. I. (l. Tomlie, Mr. J. L. Hughes and others are on the list. ' Queer Methods of Fishing. The traps by which man captures other animals are the best possible illustration of his superiority to the rest of the brute crea- tion. Not the least remarkable of his achievements in this line are to be found in the varied apparatus he has deVised for taking fish. , In India. a huge funnel of wickerWOI‘k is planted in a stream below a waterfall, 911d every finiiy creature coming down drops Into it, the water straining out and leaving the flapping prey in the receptacle, all ready to be gathered in. A remarkable scheme for trapping eels is practised in the same country. Barrels loaded with stones and bait are pierced with holes and sunk in the water. Eels, smelling the food, find an entrance through the perforations ; they cannot easily get out again, and soon the interior is a wriggling mass of victims. The fisherman is sure to secure a couple of bushels at every haul. Another trap used in India for a like pur‘ pose is a funnel-shaped affair made of long thorn branches and set on the bottom among the weeds in which a certain sort of fish fi nd their favourite hiding places. The latter go in, but are unable to get out again, because the thorns all point inward. .lu Siam the natives utilise a curious wick< er contrivance for fishing in narrow streams. The device in question is in the shape of an inverted vase, flaring at the rim and with-o out a bottom. While one man devotes his attention t driving the fish down the. waterway, an- other stands ready to clap the basket over their heads when they come thickest. Hav- ing thus penned iii a number of them he thrusts his arm into the trap and pulls them out. The Japenese have a remarkable pound- net arrangement that scoops vast quantities of fish into anzenormous bag of netting hang- ing beneath the bottom of the vessel. In this receptacle something like thirty times the cargo can be conveyed to market than could be carried by the ship in the ordinary way. Furthermore, the merchandise is by this method brought into port alive. The use of fire in fishing is one of the curios1tics of that employment. In South~ qn waters mullet are taken in enormous quantities by boats which go out with wire baskets at the bows filled with blazing pitch pine. For the purpose in view the craft is so loaded as to bring the gunwale on one side down nearly to a level with the water, and the fish, attracted by the light,jump abroad by hundreds. Sometimes a big dip net is used to scoop in the scaly creatures which crowd in the water toward the illumina- tion. A machine for taking fish by the whole- sale is cmployed in North Carolina. It is called a “fish wheel,” and is worked like an ordinary water wheel by a narrow stream that is permitted to give outlet to a (lain- nied stream. But it is so constructed that in revolving it picks up all the fish that pass through, and throws them into a great box. In the same State is operated what is termeda “fish slide,” which is simply an enormous tray made of boards, with a bottom of open ' slats, set in the flow of a stream As the fish come down stream they pass on over the tray, and the water falling through the slats leaves them flapping about on the planks, whence they are seeopezl up in dip nets. Fish nets, by the way, are made from some very strange materials. The Esqui- maux manufacture them from strips of seal hide and from thin slices of Whalebone. By the Fijians they are constructed of human hair. Savages in various parts of the world plait the inner fibres of tree bark for fishing lines, and the Indians on the Pacific coast of North America use for the same purpose seaweedâ€"a sort of kelp which is strong enough to hold a finny captivepf 150 pounds’ weight. It is very interesting to observe the development of the fishery from its original form to the shape it is found in to day. You will find the Esquimaux using a. piece of bone with a bent nail stuck through 113, L115 lure lining rendered more attractive by the addition of two 0r three coloured beads obtained from a trader, and perhaps a couple of the red bills of auks. He knows by experience that certain sorts of figures carved in the wood, out of which he makes his bigger books, will catch the greatest possible number of fish, and. so he always uses those. Originally the hook and sinker of the fisherman were separate. Then came a modification, such as is seen in the “ mack- erel gig” which combined the two in one piece of metal. Next came the notion of making a. sinker book of a bright substance, so as to attract the prey. Later on the modern sportsman trans- formed the device iiito the likeness of fish of bright metal poured into a mould. Now in this country we have improved on this trolling contrivance by making minnows and frogs of rubber, and colouring them in as lifelike a manner as possible. But no such lure is equal to the bright, revolving, nickel-plated spoon, with a brilliant bunch of feathers to disguise the gang of books. However, artificial flies may fairly be considered to illustrate the highest develop- ment of the art piscatorial. the imita- tions produced in the shape of winged in- sects, grasshoppers, and the larvae of var- ious flies are really wonderful. In their manufacture materials are drawn from every part of the world. Furs as well as feathers are utilized in making them. Deers, bears, monkeys, seals, rabbits, sheep, pigs, squirrels; dogs, and. even rats contrib- “be. Agents are sent out from Paris to all parts of the earth to gather for this purpose the skins of the rare and gaudy-winged creatures. These plumes and furs represent chiefly the waste stock of the milliners and taxidermists, nearly all of them being brought from France. The gut snells to which the fly hooks are attached are made from immature silk worms drawn out to the requisite lengths. A Good Fit- Jollimanâ€"“Speaking of Timberley, his wife would be considered handsome if it wasn’t for her freckles, wouldn’t she ‘2” Follimanâ€"“ Indeed she would, and that’s why he calls her his ‘little trout.’ ” Jollimanâ€"“VVhere’s the fitness of that, Pray a!) H Follimanâ€"” \Vhere? ‘ speckled beauty '1’ ” "Why isn’t she a .1..â€"..::‘ Ana.“ 2*! 2"th _ .r.~_‘i-. 4.. - inr‘fily 3. o "prawns..- .13. \ a»