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. with the heaven . Indians in the far northern regions of the , die deluge was due to r-BJJSY BEAVER. Indian Legends of Canada‘s Thrl'ty Nu- lloual Animalâ€"The Yellow Knlvcs' h Story of the Deluge. Should you ask me whence these stories& \Vhence these legends and traditions? I should answer, I should tell you, In the bird’s-nest of the forest, In the lodges of the beaver." . How many ladies comfortably wrapped in their beaver furs during the past winter gave a, thought to the wonderful little ani- mal, now fast vanishing from its last home on the American continent, of whose doings Longfellow thus sung? Yet there is attached to the beaver far more of romance of natural history than even Sir John Lub- bock can claim on behalf of his favorite ants. The tales with which it has been associated in the Indian mind furnish an interesting index to the mental fertility of the aborigines of North America, and as one listens to the accounts which northern travellers bring from the Indian encamp- ments, it is difficult to believe that these red-skinned subjects of Her Majesty ought really to be classed 'as savages.‘ There is about the records they hand down from generation to generation a wealth of imagery and beauty of thought hardly less than that with which the white man of Eu- rope and the East surrounded his own early religion. ' In his “La Decouverte des Sources du Mississippi” Beltrami talks‘of the beaver in his own romantic way. The beavers, he gravely asserts, “ are divided into tribes, and sometimes into small hands only, of which each has its chief, and order and disâ€" Cipline reign there, much more, perhaps, than among the Indians, or even among civ- ilized nations. ' EALH TRIBE has its territory. If any stranger is caught passing he is brought before the chief, who, for the first offence, punishes him ad f? '1 (D m correctionen, and for the second deprivesl him of his tell, which is the greatest mis- fortune which can happen to a. beaver, for this tail is their cart upon which they tran- port, wherever it is desired, mortar, stones, provisions, etc.; and it is also the trowel, Which it resembles in shape, used by them in building. This infraction of the laws of nations is considered among them so great an outrage that the whole tribe of the mu- tilated beaver side with him, and set off immediately to take vengeance for it. In this contest the victorious party, using the rights of war, drives the vanquishel from their quarters, takes possession of them, and places a provisional garrison, and fin- ally establishes there a colony of young beaver.” But some Indian records go furth- er than this, and declare that the example of the beaver played no little part in stimu- lating thrift and industry among the early red men and white men of the North Amer- ican continent. In the mind of the Indian the beaver was a far more remarkable being than anything that the human race had yet evolved. His beaver encampment was more wondrous than the lordly halls of the an- Cient Aztec race. “ Not a listless brain nor an idle hand “’as there in all that town ; But strong defences the people planned, And hewed the great trees down." All this exaggeration is easy to explain. To the Indian the beaver was both food and clothing, and given an ample supply of these rodents he needed nothing more. Hence the beaver became invested with a degree of admiration and superstition such ashes centred round very few other animals. Beyond all doubt the beaver has played a wonderful part in the history of North America. Dr. Romanes places him higher than any other animal, not even excepting Sir John Lubbock’s ants and bees, and declares that instinct has risen in the beaver to a higher level of far-reach- ing adaption to environment than among any other members of the animal world. Whey engage, he tells us, in vast architec- tural labors with what appears to be the deliberate purpose of securing by such very artificial ‘means the special benefits that arise from their HIGH ENGINEERING SKILL, and he finds it difficult to infer shat these actions are due to anything else than. an intelligent appreciation either of the bene- fits that arise from the labor or of hydros- ‘tatic principles upon which this labor is so clearly based. But the natural wonders of the beaver were not enough for the Indian, and hence we find this rodent playing a large part in the tradition, and even religion, of the Aborigines. Among many Indian tribes the story of the deluge is closely interwoven Thus the Blackfeet and the Micmacs and other tribes assign to it the place given to the dove in the Biblical narrative. Under the great Spirit, they say, there-was a secondary creator, and on the vast extent of waters which had been formed by the Great Spirit, this secondary was sitting on a log or canoe accompanied by a wo nan. The two were surrounded on every hand by animals, and a discussion having arisen as to the matter which must undeilie the water, four animals were sent on a mission of investigation. Three of them failed, but the fourth, the mule rat or beaver, returned with seine mud in his forepaw. This the woman scraped off and began to work round in her hand, when it rapidly grew, and being placed in the water so increased in size that the earth was again raised above the water. The legend of the Ottawas, as related by Dr. McLean, leaves the woman entirely outof the question, and represents the musk-rat as returning to the surface apparently (load. The demi-god took up the dead animal. and finding a lump of clay on one of its shoul- ders pressed it between his hands until it became thin, and then laid it gently on the surface of the water. In a few days it became a large island, and grew until the earth assumed its present dimensions. Mr. \Varburton Pike, moreover, who spent the autumn in 1890 in the Barren Grounds of Northern Canada, was told the stor of the deluge as held by the Yellow Knife Dominion. The Yellow Knives told us that A HEAVY FALL OF SNOW, l ; stars through a trap door to lighten the world and melt the snow which by this time covered the tops of the tallest pine-trees. They themselves then returned to the earth, and it was during this descent from heaven that the moose flattened his nose and the beaver split his tail, splashing the blood all over the lynx, so that ever afterwards, until the present day, the beavcr's tail is flat and the lynx is scotted. In his interesting “History and Tradi- tions of the Canadian Beaver,” Mr. Horace T. Martin gives this legend in the form it assumed among other Indian tribes, and there is much to be said for this plea that While the Indian cannot justly be classified among the spirit worshippers, yet he should be regarded as much above the range of fetichism, and may most properly be con- sidered as a nature worshipper. In reason- ing out the problem of the world’s creation, he believed that in the beginning the earth was covered with water, and he peopled it with the beaver, the musquash, and the ot- ter,whose aquatic habits must- have impress- ed him. But as the building of the world was a prodigious task these animals were all OF A GIGANTIC SIZE. They dived and brought up the mud with which the Great Spirit, the Manitou, made the earth, and left it to the giant beavers to build its mountain ranges and carve out its cataracts and caves. When the time came for the introduction of man the ani- mals were endowed with speech, but show- ing themselves unworthy of so high a priv- ilege, man was brought forth from the spirits of the departed animals and in time became the chief among all living things, “smoothing with his hand the giant be .ists, making them gradually smaller.” From such legends has giown the much discussed question as to the reality of the giant beavers, of which the early and rough records of Canadian history speak. Indeed, three-quarters of a. century ago an English scientist, Mr. Charles Fothergill, was so impressed with these Indian legends that he actually undertook a mission to Canada with a view to searching the great North- west provinces to see ifperchauce he might 2 still find living evidence of “ the mammoth, the great elk of the antediluvians, and the giant beaver.” But Mr. Martin, who has evidently given the subject careful study, is probably right when he says that the accumulated experience of fur traders and explorers in the far north have exhausted the barest possibility of the existence in the flesh of the great beaver. To this (lay, however, the Indian clings to his beaver legends, and it is not without sad regret that he sees gradual extinction creeping over thisâ€"to himâ€"sacred animal. It can only be a few years before the last beaver has been killed on the North American con- tinent. Even the reserves which the Hud- son’s Bay Company has attempted to estab- lish in the Hudson’s Bay region ii'iust be worked over before long, and the efforts of the Marquis of Bute on his Scotch estate show that it is hopeless to attempt to per- petuate the species apart from its natural surroundings. Greed indeed has proved too much for the thrifty beaver, as it has proved too much for so many other good things in i this world. TERRI FIG HAILSTO RM. Lives Lost and Many Hundred Thousands of Dollars’ “'orlli of Property Riesiroy cil Around l'iltsburg, Pu. A Pittsburg special says :â€"â€"-At 3.50 [ A WIPE'S FEARFUL cams. now a Spanish Widow Get Rid of Her Husband. ‘ Few murder trials have caused such a sensation in the old world as the one recent- ly' committed in Spain. It will long hold the field for horror against all similar stories of ancient or modern times, says the London News. A young and pretty widow marries a second time, and her husband is awealthy landowner, still younger than herself. They quarrel, and she determines to get rid of him. She incites one of her men servants to murder him while he lies asleep, promis- ing to reward him with her hand when he has made her a. widow for the second time. The deed is done at midnight, and for the lost touch of horror the woman lights the murderer to her husband’s room, and holds the light during the butchei‘y. The other servants come into the scheme of crime in a subordinate capacity. One, a man, is posted in the diningroom as a. sort of reserve, while the murderers-in-chief CREEP T0\VARDS THE SLEEPING CHAMBER. The other, a maid, had to wash up the room after the victim has been hacked to pieces with an axe. The poor creature is not much more than an unwilling accessory after the fact. She retains her reason just long enough to give particulars of the crime at the preliminary inquiry, and then be- comes hopelessly, insane. The details sur- pass “ Macbeth” in horror and are barely paralleled by the “Agamemnon.” The Wife used the stronger brute for the blow, but hers was the master mind from first to last, She received her husband on his re- turn, sent him to bed, and contrived an excuse for sit-ting up, watched until he was fast asleep, and primed the murderer with drink before she led him into the room. The first - BLOW WAS NOT ENOUGH, and it only roused the unhappy creature to a knowledge of his fate. He madea piteous appeal for mercy for the sake of the children, and for one moment that seems to have shaken her iron nerve. She fiercely told her future bridegroom to let him speak no more, and thereafter it sim- ‘ ply rained blows, while she still held the 1 light. The last operation was to throw the ibody intoa. neighboring alley, us though i the man had been robbed and murdered on i his way home. But that was as stupid as i the murder was brutal. It was only sur- passed in ineptitude by her next suggestion that the deed had been done by an over- sympatliized with l l . n ! obliging neighbor, who her domestic sorrows. l An Indian Bunting Story. A very strange incident is reported from the Godra districts in the Pancli Malials. A large panther had for some time been caus- ing much injury to the cattle of the district, and the superintendent of Police, Mr. J. V. Cooke, went out in pursuit. He succeeded ; in getting a shot at the animal. and bowled : him over, the bullet going right through the . pantlier’s heart without touching a bone. : The panther fell close to a hole or den'with- in which, unsuspected by the party, a female pan thcr lay ensconced. The bullet after I passing through the body of the male panther struck the second animal in the forehead and entered her brain, killing her at once. The whole episode of the proximity and accident- : al death of the second panther was un- lknown to the shooting party, and it was ‘ not till the next morning that the body of o’clock this afternoon Pittsburgh and vi- lthe female Panther was found 1“ the den cinity was visited by the most violent hail- With 9: bullet in the brain- It W05 3 mOSl’: storm ever known harm The effect was ' providential accident, as the panther whose mast disastrous, both to life and property. Ipresence was unknown and unsuspected Heavy black clouds suddenly obscured the 7 would in a“ Pmbnbliity have Charged the light of the sun, while the air became op- pressiver hot. Following a terrific electric flash came the crash and rear of thunder, shaking the very earth. Before man or beast could seek a cover the deluge of ice came in all its intensity, and for five min- utes there was a war of the elements most terrifying. Telephones and telegraph wires were prostrated in every direction ; electric and cable cars were stopped by broken wires or debris choking the conduits, and for a time traffic was suspended. In the east end if Pittsburg and upper wards of Allegheny l City nearly every window glass on the south side of the buildings was shattered, while all c *0? both the cities, skylights, green- houses, pt-iivate and park conservatories were shattered and foliage ruined. In the Phipps conservatory in Schenectady park 900 lights of glass were broken. Enter- tainments were in progress at all the theatres. At the opera and Bijou thea- tre seriJus panics were narrowly averted and several women fainted from fright. The stinging pellets of the bail caused a number of serious accidents by frightening horses, that broke away from their drivers. John Downey, the driver of one team, was dragged several squares and fatally injured. Michael Dunn, aged fourteen, was almost electrocuted by stepping on an electric light wire. The funeral of Joseph Craig was proceeding along Stockton avenue, Allegheny, when the storm broke. In an instant there was terrible confusion. Some of the teams ran away, crashing into the carriages preceding them. The hearse was badly damaged. It is reported that the casket was broken ‘open. Many of the ladies in the party fainted. The funeral was postponed. An almost identical ex- perience befell a funeral cortcge as it enter- ed the gates of the Allegheny cemetery in Lawrence. The money loss will be very great, various estimates placing the damage above half a million dollars. On Neville island, in the Ohio river, the damage to garden and farm products is estimated at over $100,000. The storm came from the north and passed westward, carrying dc- struction along its way. Despatches from many surrounding towns tell of the ruin wrought. At Marietta, Ohio. a number of buildings were destroyed. Great destruc- ion is reported in the Belinont,Eureka and Sisterville oil fields. -.____..._. (ionic ssion of 3000 Murders- According to a telegram from Calcutta. the Khan of lilielat has admitted to the Goveriior-Gciiei-al’s agent that he had killed 3000 men and women since his accession 3 years ago. He appears to have behaved and when spring should have come. the fairly Wen during the me Of Sir- R" sande' snow instead of melting awa‘ grew ueepcr and deeper. At last the animals on the earth decided in grand council to send a dep. utation to heaven to enquire into the cause of these strange events; and the bearer Canyon, Cal. took no small share in this important mis- sion. Unfortunately the deputation became rather unruly when it reached the heavenly spheres, and the animals, birds, and fishes actually threw down the sun, moon, and man, but he has killed 50 persons since that officer’s death. The Lunatic Oil Spring flows in Wheeler It begins to give 011 when the new moon appears ; as the moon increases, the supply becomes greater, and the yield is three barrels a day when the moon is full. The flow Ceases when the moon is at its last quarter. = party while taking away the male panther l which had been shot.â€"- [“ Times of India." How the Money Goes- The caustic criticisms which Sir Griffith ; Evans has been making on the lavish scale 2 upon which the India Office establishment iis kept up seems to have awakened some .interest in the Empire. He instanccd the I Correspondence Department, where there Iare six secretaries at £1200, six assistant secretaries At from £800 to £1000 a , year, a special assistant and visitor to the ‘ Indian Museum at £800 a year, who has the assistance of a clerk at £400 a year, and a , specialtechnicalassistantat£350 pcrannum. j ‘here are eleven senior general clerks and Esix “reduntunt” senior clerks, while the juniors and their assistants swell the total to forty-nine. Then tliereare the allowances. Three clerks are specially paid for editing the Indian list, and another for preparing the Sanitary Blue Book. The lower branch- es are made up on a similarly liberal scale, for there are noless than twenty-eigh thouse- imaids, and the messengers get extra pay {for posting letters and attending on the Secretary of State.â€"[Truth. Distress in Russia- In the provinces of Saratofl“, Limbersk_ Samara, and Voronash, the distress result ing from the bad harvests of the last two years is still very great. The rural popu- lation can hardly find means of subsistence, and in some parts is decimated by the ' mortality arising from privation and sick- ! ness. Many of the landowners experience as much difficulty as the peasants in pursu- ing farming operations, being unable to commence the spring sowiiigs, as they lack l the necessary cattle, and have not even a sufficient supply of seed. In the villages a cartload of straw, which can usually be bought for 50 copecks, now fetches three roubles. There is great mortality among cattle and horses, especially in the Don territory. An African I’rinos Put to Death- ‘he Royal Mail steamer Angola, which hasjust arrived at Liverpool from lVest Africa, brings iieWs of the death under shocking conditions, of Prince Konu, of Kotcnou. \Vlien the French were operat- ing against the King of Dahomey they ar- rested Prince Konu, and delivered him over to King Tofa, of Port Novo, who cast him into prison. The report just received is to the effect that the unfortunate Prince was put to death by strangulation. This hap- pened about the end of February, since which time the tragic affair has been a' secret. It is further reported that the body of the Prince was wrapped in a white cloth and placed on a pedestal in the Fetish or Ju Ju House. Prince Konu, it is said, was loud in his protests against the country be- coming French, and on that account was subjected to all sorts of indignities before being murdered. The poor Prince was 0.1- so tortured in a shocking manner before death ended his sufferings. TRADE AND COMMERCE- Iutcrestlng Items on Business Alfalrs in General. It is estimated that the colored people of Virginia pay taxes on property valued at $13,000,000. The amount of Dominion currency in cir- culation on May 1st was $18,414,C00, which is $335,003 more than in March, and $700,- 000 less than in February. Labrador, a country which we always associate with Arctic snowdrifts, icebergs, etc., has 900 species of flowering plants, 59 ferns and over 250 species of mosses and lichens. ' Montreal is to have a fruit exchange, the first of the kind in Canada. Hereafter all western dealers will have to purchase through this body, and all sales will be by public auction. It is estimated that 150,000,000 feet of lumber are jammed in various streams in Northwestern Wisconsin. Ice is still among the logs, and drivmg three weeks late on account of the cold spring. It is said that a canal 21 feet deep, con- necting lakes Erie and St. Clair, can be constructed for $4,000,000 ; and the Toron- to News considers not only that the carry- ing out of this enterprise would shorten the distance between Port Arthur and the sea- board, place the best waterway, Lake Superior and the Welland Canal, wholly within Canadian territory and nulify the importance of the ownership of the channel in St. Clair flats,but also that the Dominion Government would be justified inspending more than the sum named to complete the canal as a national work. The formally published prospectus of the United States Leather Company, known as the leather trust, reveals a preject of mam- moth proportions. The Boston Transcript, iu referring to it,says : “When the capital- ization is complete there will be $60,000,- 000 eight per cent. cumulative preferred stock, and $560,000,000 of common stock, besides an authorized issue of debentures to the amount of $10,000.000,of which $6,000,- 000 are now offered for subscription. Here are certainly millions enough first and last to impress the imagination and to test the power of the market to absorb more ‘in- dustrials.’ ” One of the most interesting features of the World’s Fair auxiliary series of congresses will be the world’s con- gress of bankers and financiers, which is to be held at Chicago from the 19th to 25th June. Outside the United States and Canada nearly all the European countries, as well as China and Japan, will be repre- sented. All matters relating to banking and clearings will be discussed at length with a view to a better understanding of all that is best in the different systems, and a closer union among clearing houses in par- ticular. The keenest interest will be taken in the proceedings by financiers and commercial men throughout the civilized world. The wholesale merchants of New York have formulated a novel scheme, which is expected to revolutionize some of the pres- ent methods of doing business. The pro- jectors say their plans will result not only in an immense gain to the retail dealers, but will also re-establisli the entire system of commercial credits on a different and substantial basis. The wholesalers who are already in the movement have affected a temporary organization and have named it the New York Mercliants’ Discount Com- pany. Two hundred of the leading whole- sale merchants of the city met on the 16th inst. at the Metropolitan Hotel for the pur- pose of discussing the scheme. A perman- ent ciganization Will be made, and a. com- pany under the name already given will be organized with a capital of $500,000. The present prevailing method employed by manufacturers and wholesalers is to formu- late and publish a list of prices more or less in excess of the prices at which they will sell their goods for spot cash, subject to the sale of discounts or reductions to meet the abilities of those who purchase. The New York Merchants’ Discount Company proposes to advance cash to the weak re- tailers and thereby put them on a par with every competitor. “Bad roads” is a never-failing cry, a veritable thorn in the side of commerce every spring and fall. They retard busi- ness and they are a menace to our prosperi- ty. \Ve never know when we are to be at their mercy; and yet no universal and na- tional attempt is being made to treat high- way engineering on alsoientific basis any more than we try to arrest the blighting frost in the Northwest. Nationally we fold our hands and deplore the existence of both, but are slow in realizing that the roads at least could be brought under subjection, and it would pay. There is not a paper or journal of any importance in the land that has not had a slap at “statute labor.” It would not be far amiss to call it “statue” labor. Every farmer and business man surely now realizes the money value of good roads. It is estimated that it costs the ordinary farmer more to carry two bushels of wheat‘than it does the ordinary railroad to carry a ton. Consequently to the west of Lake Huron it rarely pays to grow wheat more than twenty miles from rail or water transportation. Having been con- vinced of the enormous odds against him in his competition with the rest of the world, the farmer is helpless to equalize the con- ditions, so far as reaching a market is con- cerned. Good roads require something more than the labor of farmers measured out in the spring payment of a petty poll tax. It is not more work that is needed so much as better plans â€"scientific methods of construction. As the elevators in our high buildings are found to pay and a distinct advantage over the old slow climbing sys- tem, so would good roads, though perchaiicc at first expensive, be of iiiJalculablc benefit, profit and satisfaction. Mrs. Nancy Cosby, of Geneva, Ga, Whose age is 85, is the mother of 11 living chil- dren. She has 65 grandchildren, and 171 great-grandchildren, and 18 great-great- grandchildren. The origin of “ a feather in his cap ” is thus explained: In Hungary, in 159%), it was decreed that only he who had killed a Turk should wear a feather, and he was permitted to add a fresh feather to his cap for each Turk whom he had slain. Laughing gas was taken by Mrs. Eliza- beth Lipp, of Buffalo, N. Y., who was about to have four teeth extracted. After three teeth had been removed the pallor of the woman alarmed her husband, and it was .3 discovered that she was dead ALPINE RECORDS BROKEN. Mr.Conwuy’s Feat in Cllmblng the Tull Peaks of Kashmir. The news of Mr. W. M. Conway’s achieve- .inents in the exploration of the vast moun- tain range on the borders of Kashmir will stir the ambition of the Alpine Club and its rivals or oopyists all over the world. Fol- lowing closely upon Mr. \Vhyiuper's re~ niarkable contribution to the mountaineer- ing geography of the Andes, Mr. Conway’s work brings into prominence as a practical question the possibility of ascending and surveying the very highest peaks that are known to exist. It appears from the tele- graphic account sent us by our Calcutta cor- respondent that Mr. Conway has met with no insuperable difficulties, such as have been apprehended in some quarters, from the extreme rarefaction of the air. though he believes he has “broken the record ” as a climber having reached an attitude’greater by 1,000 feet or more than Sclilagintweit’s crowning ascent in Nepaul. The actual measurements are dependent on the verifi- cation of Mr. Conway’s instruments, for which purpose he has now gone to Leh, where a British and a Kashmir Commis- moner have joint authority and where prop- er standard sare kept. If, however, Mr. Conway is not mistaken in his data, he has attained a height considerably exceeding 23,000 feet, or between 7,000 feet, and 8,- 000 feet higher than the summit of Mount Blane. But. this record-breaking adventure is really the smallest part of what he has done. He has explored for the first time a mountain range of which the representation on existing maps is little more than fanci- ful, and in which the peculiar phenomena associated with the word “Alpine ” are ex- hibited on a scale so gigantic as to leave all European experience hopelessly behind. Mr. Conway does not seem to have suffer- ed so mucli as Mr. Wliymper during his explorations at a lower level in the Andes, but probably the atmoapheric conditions were different. The difficulties that are really formidable do not arise so much from the rarefaction of the air as from the exag- geration of some ordinary incidents of mountaineering. The mountaineer in all countries is at the mercy of the weather. Even in the Alps, close to all the appliances of civilization, and with a large supply of trained guides, an unexpected storm, or even a sudden fall or rise of temperature, may turn quite an easy expedition into a. very dangerous one. In the mountains on the northern frontier of India these dangers are increased not only by the actual height of the ascents and the length of time spent upon the ice and snow, but by the complete absence of local guides and trustworthy maps and the inaccessibility -of supplies. The Alpine climber is rarely out of reach for -twenty-four hours at a time of some place where he can obtain food, fire and shelter. Mr. )onway’s party plunged among the glaciers, parting with all hold upon civilized life for weeks together, and carrying with them everything that they required for their subsistence and preser- vation during that period. Any one who has slept in a but in the Alps can im- agine what it must have been to camp 20,000 feet above the sea level. To establish and victual one such camp involved an expenditure of four days days before Mr. Conway could venture to move on, just as he was going to make his final effort to reach the Golden Throne. Bad weather came on_upon the 27th of August, precisely two months after the start from Nagar, but, even if this had not been the case, the exhaustion of the provisions would have compelled the party to descend. On one occasion, during a snowstorm, Mr. Con- way was obliged to pause while the coolies were sent backâ€"no doubt, to a very great distanceâ€"to collect firewood. It is satis- factory that in spite of these formidable difficulties, Mr. Conway has been able to make such good use of the eight or nine weeks that weie available for exploration. There is nothing in his experience so far as we can see, to discourage the hope that the Hindu Kush and Himaylayas will be forced to surrender their uttermost secrets to the enterprise of mountaineers. It is curious to reflect that barely two generations ago the Alps, now “the playground of Europe” were universally regarded as hardly less mysterious and dangerous than the unknown regions into the heart of which Mr. Conway has so lately penetrated. Educated in Quebec. The politeness of the French Canadian is proverbial. The children are well be- haved, although their demure manners and the absence of robust romping and vigorous games make them unattractive to Anglo- Saxons, The Frenchâ€"Canadian ‘ boy is brought up like the boy in the old home on the other side of the water. He does not re- ceive the physical cultivation that is care- fully bestowed upon the English or Amer- ican boy. Occasionally, especially in Que- bec, where the great Laval University is situated, you will meet a procession of lean and white-faced youths, clad in long freck- coats, girdled with green or blue sashes, and wearing old-fashioned caps. They walk demurer and slowly, two and two, and behind them walk loug-cassocked priests. ’ The boys .of the university 02 school are taking their exercise. It is for all the world like a young woman's semi’ nary-in this country, with the exception that the American young woman walkr with a brisker step than the French-Canaw dian university student, and one would not be surprised to discover, if the test were possible, that an issue at base-ball or the; ear between Laval and Vassar would be doubtful. It is almost inevitable that Olll should associate with so much physical in- activity the over-cultivation of certain sub- tle qualities of the mind that tend towards astuteness and cunning rather than frank- ness and courage. “'hen we further con- sider the character of the education given to the Canadian youthâ€"which is rhetorical, ornamental literary, theological, and from which all but the most elementary branches of science are excludedâ€"one is not surprised to find that the educated French Canadian who does not enter the priesthood is most likely to be come a lawyer and a politician. The art of oratory is carefully cultivated among them, and by common consent it is admitted that the leading orators of the two political parties in the Dominion are French Canadiansâ€"MM. Laurier, of the Liberals, and Chapleau, of the Conserva- tivesâ€"[Henry Loomis Nelson, in Harper’s Magazine. ‘ Bogus maple syrup is made by flavoring common brown sugar with an extract of hickory bark. Vast qurtities of it are sold.