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â€"â€" -v'_-. There were ecercely eny neighbord to lure ewey Veuahen to croquet or erohery meet. Inge. or eeduee Oempbell with ohencee of cricket. the one temntetion he could not Eleeiet. But the Grenge iteeil wee " the We» pert." they eeid. “ oi the entertein- intent." It wee eo oldâ€"ea old ee the deye oi illieebeth in one pertâ€"re cool, with its moth bieck oeken floore. eo lull of rich tl through the green end yellowieh glen the nerrow pence. Then there wee e t etreggling gerden, lull oi cerved box- I end et creemy roles. with which ‘Veushen, w on he could find no other poni- bie term of idieneee. need to fill eome big blue chine bowie. the only omemente oi the honee. The piece hed belonged to e noble iemlly thet hee leit ite merk. not every deooretive one, on some of the derkeet pegee o! Englieh hietory. But the name hen item the mouse end whatever the t Lord Meynerd knew of the Overbury eleepe with him in the veulte oi the perleh church. Doubtleee the Grenge wee only pert oi whet hed once been it much nobler mention end might heve witneeeed e wild revel oi the court oi the Firet ileum. ButVenghen‘e erpreeeod desire to Meet the ghoet ot e iedy oi honor in the old “let wee never gretifled end Oempbeil hed (got over the Celtic eerineee which et Int op reeeed him when he wentto bed eiter en ’e reeding. ‘ Iveryth a. lo ier, hed been pleeeent. I wee eeeree older then my pupiie. both oia m hed my triende before I took my} . "I‘ll science, natural science, I pursue. I'm golng to take a class in â€"â€"â€"." Here he used the coarse. vulgar name that is elven to the school of Natural Science by y who should know better, took up his htterflymet, and went of! through the open window, humming, 1 lhe keeps the shadowy klne Lon. Keith 0! Bawlstone. the sorrows of thy line." , “ All the same 1 wish he would stick to his work.” I sald to my other pupil, Campbell; ‘33 he might do so well ll he would only try." ; 0am bell granted something, and went on _ y with his Ethics, like the steady hour-soda , sure-to-get-a-good-second- ,dass man that e was. It was my first reading party, and I Rough myself particularly lucky. both in lace and the men. Maynard Grange. whlc we had taken {or the Long. was an Idea] house for study. The country was petty. with plenty of trout fishing, and a good deal of irregular shooting among rabbits “rocks. _ Illden :11 in white I new you following lest week, that night when I come home late, Ilth‘ the one-pounder trout t” P .f'Ounpbell'e Heal“ in the capture of the do: trout,” uld Vaughan, not without 3 ,h; “ he detee everything from thnt tre- pendoul event in the history of eport." ' I eupfoee Ilooked a. little grave and en- med, or he went on, “"1uy. Jones, you won't mind if I take ”butterfly-net and go out- and look for the; there are some very rsre ones in I perm” ‘" Young Vaughan." I replied sternly, “ you P“ hopelessly indolent and desultory. An “unintenoe with the habits and ways of who. or even of glow-worms, will be of no kind of use to you in the first public exami- Iltlon or Mods. Why can't you stick to your Mk, like Campbell there ? " ~ ‘ “Oh I did an ewlul .lot this morning, [ones ; I read 3 hundred lines at least.” '“ This, sir," I replied. “ is adding studied unit to injury. I looked at your note-books M I beheld and saw that you were composing Inglieh verses." "The desire oi the moth for the star, I! the night {or the morrow, was that the lane 7" interrupted Cemphell. " You know rerywell, Vaughan. it is no use trying to leeeive me. I hove my cold grey eye upon nu.” here the speeker rsised from his book lpnirol very merry blue ones. “ end I believe hot you ere - the moth, end thst the light is nowhere not very far off, end that you will In}! your _lool_is_h fingers. Who was that 01w, IUK ll. HUI-I I VII, '“Koo {om-p pntemal mind It «so. Jones 0 'tis no milkmaidon thy pupil (01- m Bthrough the woldl. whotover wolda may I. Idon’t mind telling you thnt, alter Innis-non mode In the neighborhood, I In no‘ loan even a plain woman. No, ny'ro Ill hiQooul. tho mnjda 9! many Monk- " Th 000k mo smiling in my sleep, An a l' cquestricnne, sir: 11101 took me, posing as Bo Peep. And talking to owren. air. In abort. they took me evhry way Th“ fancy could suggest. sir; Ugfifl It lut,_to _my dism‘w.‘ And glancing round a door, 31:! 1110, look mo as Elaine the (air, And In the ‘ Gardener's Gm,‘ Hr; Th" took me letting down my hair, And with it 11121:: curls, sit. 15556653 in? iiié aébroiairi 113°1ka Inge. back'd_ by‘lndiap plats, flay took me on a. memo gate, They took me with a goat, air; They won me buttonan up my glove, And hugging my at png.air ; They too: mo Ins:- ug some dead dove, And wnpp'd in my fur xug, sir! ‘9'!th Wok me in a. dozen hats, Ant! Arman: hv zhn umrn, a}, 9 And outing filmy Luunl. lit ytook me kneeling on u cfiur. Tho‘wwo took me eating dam or; k me with diahov») '6 hair, And pop; ins 2mm a bumper! Tb; “HIRE urn nunfalr; The) 3 mg x1391!“ butlgred tout, " The! wok mo white with paper snow, Tho took me In a swing, air: Ltd c amongst the rushes. 0. Andpumnv on my ring, sir: my took main nnnmmook swung, And puk'd up in a. box. air: And to I. orou of putoboud hung. And feeding hens and cocks. sir I “2h” topk ‘99 any, @001} me Into, “ 1b.! Q0015 mo wandering 9n the coast, ”They took me 41:11 lengthâ€"standing up Thu '00: mol :1) down, sir : took me dr nk ngtrom a cup, And with a flonl crown, II! ' no, took mo in a. Yoomsn's int, And pooping o'er my muff. sir: took no cuddling up my on. ‘1'th took mo mung woman I “mt m. uxo'rn! wu rno'roanum or! or us: axons. (7mm London Tmth, Dec. 26.) " 0h. woo the day um um. I Int. Or rather. thus 1 flood. sir! II I ‘ud known what l was 5t. 1 never. never would. lit. '0! I!!!“ that umo I've had no xencc, No “mo to can my own, air; man I cuno with no nuceuo, um: u Alone. 31:. TEE Bireii'tobk flay 'réb't', 's'xr. " They took me early, took 11 9!: Inc! and in about! air; lea-I1 (Jud :- Booty. MASKED. (unfair rum nothing and I). mu; m n. o ‘o the «out: oi the hit two day a. Lord nynud Md discovered, or thought In a? dis- Years want of; the men took their degrees and went away. As the leaves in autumn are the generations of undergraduates. Camp- bell went to the Bar, of course; Vaughan did nothing in particular, distracted by the rival claims of a century of literary inven- tions. His last fancy was that he was the heaven born historian of the reign of James, First 0! England, and, as he would say with a sneer. ‘Sizth oi Scotlandâ€"fancy standing six of them! He had access to some family MB. and other curious papers, and really seemed interested, thong h one doubted whether his work would ever get beyond the state oi notes. One day I had a letter from him, saying that he was plodding gaway, ‘thoug hy that reign would have dlsg nsted Suetonius.’ He went on to say that he had just unearthed some letters of the time refer- ring to the last Lord Maynard, and throng h him he hoped to ' get aline’ as tothe Overbnry affair, thep death of Baleig h, and all themy a- teries of the reig u from the Gowrie con- spiracy downwards. What would I think it he could ever exp lain thedeathof the P of X, that mystery, as Mat Arnold says,I more than Eieusinian. ’ And, further, be was very ‘mnch afraid he had found a clue to the ap- pearance that he had followed in the wood, but 1, Jones. was to judge for myself. The letter went on to my: “ You must know that at all the scouudrels who at that time justified the saying ‘ Inglese Italianato. E uno diauolo incarnato,’ or, as Aseham has it, 'an Englishman that is Italianate doth quickly prove a devil‘ inearnate,’ Lord May- nard was the worst. He had lived at the courts of Florence and Paris and Rome, was as desperate a :padauin as Benvennto Gel. iini. as dainty a ooxeomh as the Mig none of Henri of Valoie. Such a character8 was sure to be one of the favorites of the English Bolo- mon, but it was well known that James feared him more than he liked him. The King, therefore, did not appear in favor 0! this great orgy of Maynard Gran go. the Last Tournament, as it were, and culminating shame of the Court. This was that “Masque oi the Deadly Sins." of which you have come across the name in the memoirs of the time. They only mention it vaguely, and with a shudderingy horror, and‘ it igs buyt now that I have come across some, details in papers and letters which Ihave been permitted for the first time to study. The “Masq us 0! the Deadly Blue” was a week‘s festival at the Grange. during which‘ no one was to be permitted to appear nu- mashed, and all manner of cum, hideous and extravagant costumes were the only wear. 0! the other scandals and shames of this revel nothingmeed he _sald; l_et us go to the “ And I tell you. old man," sald Vaughan,‘ very greatly moved, “ she wore ablack mask. covering the upper part of the lace, and when she saw me her eyes ehone through like the eye: of a woman gone mad with horror, and her lips were wrung with akind of laugh. and she called out " Maynard, again I " and pressed her hand on her heart. where there was a red stain. Then she turned and ran up the lane, and turned again and came straight back close to me, and her eyes were set, and her hair all push- ing up from under her visor. I don’t think she saw me this time, and I certainly followed her no further. The oddest thing is that Maynard is one of my namesâ€"Arthur May nard Van ghan, and seine at my people cayll mehy it. I remember they said I was like the portrait of an old Lordy May nard in the portrait collection last winter. I hope not: he _iooked a deeply stained one.” It wee not any to know what to say to this story of Venghen’e. There could be no doubt that hie agitation was real. and it was diflioult to see why any one should plan, or how they could carry out, so elaborate e hoax. 0n the whole. I wee rather relieved when Arthur eeid, next day. that he thought he would join hie people In the Highlands. He was succeeded by a “ huge barbarian pupil.” end, a the nights grow shorter and colder. no one was tempted to wander in the lanes ; end the October term oeme, end the end of this reading party, and of the first part olthe edventur. 0! the " Lady in the Meek.” “ I’ll tell you all about it now.” he said. alter fidgetting restlessly about the room for a law minutes, during which he managed to drink a glass of brandy and soda-water, which liquid, as a rule,- was his detestation. He went on thus: " The first night that he had gone out for a lonely stroll among the lanes, he had caught sight in the dusk of a figure in a white dress moving among the trees. She was a lady, he said, and she wandered about in an uncertain way. sometimes seeming to look for something she had lost, and again waiting as if expecting some one. Her con- duct was so odd. and her walk so graceful. that he followed her for sometime till he lost her in a deep lane at some distance from the back of the house. She had never gone far from the Grange. but went over a good deal cl ground in a desaltory way. His curiosity was excited, of course. and on the following evenings he had always looked let her, some- times not seeing her at all and sometimes pursuing her (or a considerable distance. but never seeing her face. On this last night 0! all he had been more cunning, had concealed himsell early at the spot in the lane where he generally lost her, and there awaitedher coming. The night was dark and rather cold, and he was just thinking of retn nning home, when the rising moon topped t ehedge above the lane. and lell lull upon a figure in white, advancing towards him. this time. and actually within (our yards of» where he stood. That night Vaughan eemo in very late. Campbell had gone to bed, and I assumed 3 tether Item demeanor. aka-care of himloli, 1nd that his Cute mgh‘ do some moral service where his conscience would hove been silent. Campbell’s account of his behavior had occurred to my mind belore, but his denial of the impeachment hed seemed unem- hernued. and, on the whole, I preferred to give up thinking of the melt. The luthority of e “ coach” over e pupil oi hie own use ie.ol couru. very alight indeed. Bealdee I had every reason to think that _Venghen cculd degree. Ounpboil won an nioo n oomponlon n ho was a Itudy worker. Ind Vuughon’n ohunotor nnd up were full oi Inrprisu oven to no who know him well. So we wore ‘not very much astonished whon he wont out one evening to gather glow-worn“, he laid. but did not return till we hnd given up hope- 01 him tor the night. But I beam to be an- noyed. though I had niwoyl known his deaultory indoionoe. at his sudden infatua- tion for noturnl history. It did not seem to Ifleot him in the day-time : he was not otherwise land of it than was shown by con- Itantly sending his dog in after water-nu. and this he mod to do before. ‘ Dr. Bethune was born in Montreal on the 23rd of August. 1800, and was consequently in his 79th year. He was one of “ Strachsn‘s boys." and distinguished himself early for his amiability of character. and for the ele' genes of his style in composition. Educated for the ministry of the Church he was successively ordained deacon and priest. and alter a long and peaceful life as Rector of Cobourg, where as the Principal of the Theological Seminary he left the stamp of his gentle influence and scholarly taste on the candidates for the ministry, he became Archdeacon of York. and received his doctor's degree from Trinity College University. When an attempt was made to elect a covadjutor to the aged Bishop Btrachan. after a wearying conflict of parties, the Archdeacon was pitched upon as a compromise oi exhaustion. and having the reputation of being an amiable and moderate clergyman, would. it was hoped. thOugh he did not wield the sturdy sceptre of Btrachan. pour the oil of geniality on the troubled waters and medi- ate between the contending parties in the Church. The following year. 1867. the venerable pioneer bishop was gathered to his fathers, and Dr. Bethune became Bishop of Toronto ; and now after a stormy episoopcte of twelve years’ duration. he. too, has fallen asleep in a good old age, and gone to " where bemd theae voices there is peace." Dr. Bethune, without being a very emi- nent theologian. or having any preten- sions to genius. was an elegant ser- mon writer. and a man of blameless life. very courteous in manners. a very good specimen of the English Church clergyman. who is before all things a gentleman. It is true he suffered by contrast with Bishopl Strachan. who was a born administrator, a; man oi sharply cut convictions. and of‘ indomitable wall. Dr. Strachan just suited; the country which he largely aided in opening ‘ up; Dr. Bethune would have been more at‘ home in an English country parsonage. The deceased prelate belonged decidedly to the‘ High Church party, and the Church As- sociation movement seemed to drive him into an ocoisional petulant self-assertion which gaVe him the appearance of a repugnance to theEvangsiical party which perhaps he did not really feel. Anxious to please. and some- what bewildered by the ecclesiastioai breezes and storms raging around him. he was apt to ‘ lean upon the advice of others. Circumstances ; having given him an excuse for throwing‘ himself into the arms of the party who professed an unlimited loyalty to an authority which the opposite party seemed to him to assail, the good Bishop became more and morea party mouthpiece. a lay-figure. pulled lrom behind by men of stronger energies and perchanoe coarser natures. Oo- casionaily he would assert himself. and. being before all things a gentleman, would dis- concert the plans 0! his iriends. as when last year he frankly told the Synod that as they would not give him the assistant he wished. they might go home. He was emphatically not a great bishop, his incumbency oi the chair was marked by no outburst of energy in Church matters; he has struck no deep stamp of individuality in the diocese as did his predecessor, and his successor will find plenty of scope for energy, and bya firm yet conciliatory attitude may take up and carry iorward towards comple- tion the work of the first bishop. Yet Dr. Bethune discharged his epis- copal duties with the utmost con- scientiousncss and with .commendable industry. and has left behind him the aroma of a pure life. a scholarly character and an unostentstlous benevolence. that will linger long in our memories. His clergy will not soon forget_h_is unisiling courtesy, his not noon forgot nu unmung comm”. hlolrud m smiotu mummy. und h1- undlnm to nindod‘ Dentin of the Bishop of Toronto. (Mail ) The Right Reverend Alexander Neil Bethune. D.D.. LL.D.. the second Bishop of Toronto. gently passed away to his rest early yesterday morning. On his return from Europe recently it was observed that he looked feeble and somewhat broken; and as winter came on he was obliged to leave the actual execution of his office in the hands of his Commissary the Archdeacon of York and the Bishop of Algoma. Cheerful and serene to the last. he may be said to have just faded out of the world. Last week eryeipelas set In, and it became evident that the end was not far off. It is expected that the body will lie in state in the Cathedral Church, and that it will afterwards he interred below the chancel pavement. Immediately after the funeral the Chancellor and Registrar of the Diocese will wait on the Dean with the summons to the Synod to meet, and by canon law the church parliament must be assembled and ready for the despatch of business within twenty days thereafter. That business will naturally be the election of a successor to the vacant See. This is the first time since its erection that the Anglican Diocese of Toronto has been left without a head, for when Bishop Strechan died Bishop Bethune was already coadjutor with the right of succession. The bishop is elected by the free votes of both orders, clergy and laity, and we lIrish them well through their responsible tas . Maynard Grange is an ideal place for a reading party . but Iomshow I prefer to take mine to Scotland, or the Tyrol, or, for that matter, to Zanzibar. covered. that his eleter bed a lover. and that Lady Amende ehould be such a one as him. sell was what he eould not brook. He learned the place of aesignetlon at which the masked gallant was to meet hie sister, and be deter- mlned to take an Italian revenge on a person too high to be reached by the law of the duel. It need not now to be told how the P. was prevented from coming to the place of meeting. or how lrom this moment the hope of the nation dwindled and leded to his early death. Maynard put on the R's domlno, a simple white one. and hle mask. and went at moon- ; rise to the rendezvous. there to astonleh, to rebuke, who knowsâ€"perhaps to slay, the woman who had brought shame on his house. They met. and a hidden comrade 3 heard her cell the masqued figure by the name 0! P. ;heerd her prey him to remove! the vlzor that (or a long week had hidden his ‘ lace. The meek wee removed; there was a terrible cry of " Maynard l” and the Lady Amanda clutched her brother's award and pressed it to her heart. Quid plural The old letter I quote trom is dated from Flanders. whither the witness of this tragedy. had the wit to flee without turning back hie head, when he saw and heard what I have described. Do you guess now what the figure was I followed through the wood and why she ealled my name 2' The mnn who got in n bubor'a omit. pinned n new-paper round his neck and hogan to rogdfip towel, mny inn]: he «fled mm- Tnn Tenn-3mm or Brennaâ€"Mr. Dacre Fox. an English surgeon to a large railway company. who has had considerable experience at this iorm oi injury, says that in the more severe cases he finds that after a few days oi {omentation the best treatment is regulated pressure by means 0! careiuily adjusted pads and large plasters of a special shape, varying according to the particular joint involved. By this plan he feels euro that it is possible to control the effusions into the sheaths oi the tendons and adjacent structures, to lessen the pain, and to shorten the duration oi treat- ment. A Seratcge youth who thought the world 3 fleeting show because his girl had gone out riding with another ieliow, tossed oil what he supposed wee e vial oi leudenum which he procured at e druggist's, and leid him down to die. But the divining spotheosry had given him s sleeping potion instead, end when he had slept for nearly twenty hours he woke up to find the thermometer et ten degrees below zero end his lendlord stending by hie bedside wondering why he didn’tget up. 1t 1s stated in the London Times that Dr. Boll has discovered that the phenomenon of vision is a case of veritable photography. and that subsequently Dr. Buhne has discovered the organ by which a purple pigment in the last retinal layer oi the eye is regularly depos- ited. Without in any way diserediting these discoveries, the Athenwum calls attention to a passage in a paper by Sir John Herschel, printed in the Royal Society’s “ Transac- tions " in 1842, in which he stated, drawing conclusions from some remarkable photogra. phic efl'ecte whichhe was then studying that the phenomenon of vision was of photographic origin, the images of external objects being printed by the solar rays on the retina or the choroid coat of the eye. A New Besrsusr.â€"Cosi-ermonr is the newest ides among Eng iish naval construct- ors. A cost bunker eig 8ht or ten feet wide, filled with coal, has been found to resist the projectiles oi the 4340a gun (nearly seven inches here), even) when fired under con- ditions most isvorsble for penetration, and experiments have been tried by exploding shells with increased bursting charges in the coal without setting it on fire. For eonverted merchant steamers and vessels, where the greater pert oi the machinery is placed above the water line, these bunkers are piikely to be employed. . Barren arm Beerâ€"Charm: nu'r Uapnorxr- ABLEâ€"Mr. Charles Ford‘s feat of writing with a pen the Lord's Prayer within seven-eighths the circumference of a five cent piece, 3 Que- bec correspondent says. is no doubt very clever, but he sends us a specimen of fine writing done by Mr. J. B. Lefrsnc. clerk at the Central House, in that city, which eclipses it. Within the same space he has written the Lord‘s prayer in French, the Ave Maria, the year. month, date and his signature. Mr. W. B. Taylor, late of Newfoundland, who passed through the city last week, brought to this oilice a still finer specimen of writing, being no less than the Creed twice, the Lord's Prayer once, and the year inside the cir- cumierence of a circle the size of a five-cent piece. This work was done with a glass. however, and the writing cannot be made out with the naked eye. He says he only occu- pied iaur hours‘ time in doing it.â€"Montreal Witness. The news of the suspension of Messrs. Gal- braith, Christie 00., wholesale dealers in hats, cape, and furs, in this city, was received with surprise as well as regret. The firm was supposed to have had sufficient capital for their business. and were considered shrewd and careful financiers, but from what now appears. we fear the facts will not fully sup. port this view. Neither of the partners can be charged. we think, with extravagance in living ; both worked hard to meet their bills, the junior partner was assidnons in looking after the firm’s outside affairs. It is to be borne in mind that high profits have not been obtainable in hats and caps of late years. that business having been overdone. Then the tar and robe trade has snfiared from de- creased demand and irom a lull in prices. But we fear that their difficulties are not wholly attributable to shrinkage in values and heavy losses by bad debts. Good hook keeping might have corrected some of their mistakes, and made known the real position of the firm at an earlier date, It is not possi- ble yet to state what the amount of the firm‘s liabilities is, or what proportion to them the available assets beenâ€"Journal of 00m- meme. A Buonr Mlanxz.â€"" Well, nurse. did you find your way all right to St. James‘ Hall 7" "Yes. thank you. sir.” " And how did you like the thiety Minstrels ?" “ Well, I was rather disappinted, air! There was one 0! them as played on the violingehenner beau- tiful. while three other: kep' on fiddlin’ as I thought they'd never leave off; and then a gentleman up and sang, and then a lady played on the pihenner. But norm of their faces ,wae blacked I" (With Mr. Punch‘s apologies to Messrs. Joachim, Zexbini, Biea, Platti and others.) Pauomou. Fnou T113 Wynnâ€"Mr. Smol- funguc has adopted into his wardrobe the title of a popular miscellany. Ho calls his clean ohm Once a Week. Funny Pmnn.â€"f3treet Arabâ€"“ They could- n‘t take my father up like thatâ€"it takes nix p’liuemen to run ’im in I” Flamingâ€"Tommy : " Oh. gran'pa,dear. I’ve been counting what my Ohtiutmas pre- sents will cost. and it just comes to ten shillinga. I've saved up one and aavenpenoe. Can you advise me where to ge‘ the rest ?" The sturdy little figure oi the herdgruiued ‘Aberdeen men. with hie keen eye. trotting l ewiitly along our etreete with hat tilted back on hie heed. stick under his erm,end eubJued whistle. has weighed down the dark road. The thin. almost ascetic. refined and mild old gentleman who succeeded him has faded away into the elxadowy land which yet is probably more rml than this. May he reet in peace! and mev that Church irom which many 0! us diil'er, but which we all reupmt, find a chlri pastor able and wine who will guide her on with ireeh vigor and in- creased success to the accomplishment oi her arduous and hencficent work. Fm, you Sums. SANDY lâ€"(A rebuke to Glasgow Bank autIorera.)â€"A hair of the dog that bit you. Starting a lonery to pay your losses at unlimited loos ! nflord them uny help which his puunoo and urvioea could bestow. ‘- l'uuch." Jul. ‘25. " In this a ieir 7" sold e “reuse: in lront of 5 piece where e ieetinl wee in progreu. end eddrening a citizen. " Well, "re lied the citizen, " they cell it inir, but they". e every- body in.” He probebly had invented in e ticket at“: oyeter-eonp lottery, end bed drewn e “ And you are really going to marry again, alter loalng um dear husband of yoursâ€"and you so young 3nd pretty yet I" “ My love, WI simply out 01 rolpoot lo: the memory of the Me. This in a Inndnona world.” It is related thst in a gambling trial in one of the Western States it was thought best that the] jury should be instructed8 in the practical working of 3 intro table, and the judge ordered the necessary eppsrstus to be brought in, end directed the deiendents to give an exhibition. All hands beosme so interested in the game that the sheriff. seeing how things were going went outside, sum- moned a pom. and arrested the whole room- ful. including the Court itself. All the bishops in the House of Lords but oneâ€"Dr. Mackarnees, of Oxford. a. prelate of Mr. Gledstone'e creationâ€"voted with the Government on the Afghan war question. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has deemed it necessary to explain his vote by publishing a letter. in which he says that he came clearly to the conclusion that the war wus one of necessity and not 0! injustice or of concealed design. To have acquiesced in the Ameer's refusal would have involved the danger of the decline 01 English influence in India, which also meant a decline in the advance of the Gospel. The Pope, considering the present condi- tlons o! the Church and society, has thought that the observance of too many lestivalr, especially in Italy and Spain. eausea both material and moral evils. Instructions have been issued to the bishops to study and report on this subject. Complaint was long ago made in Canada that the observance of so many holldays,in addition to the titty-two Sundays in the year, seriously hampered in his industry or business the Catholic trader, artisan or larmer in Quebec. Cooxmo 11! me Slcx Boonâ€"Cooking in the sick room is an improper thing to (loâ€"it not only irritates the enleebled brain and nerves of the patlent, but the odore arising therefrom render the atmosphere of the room more or less impure. No food of any kind, whether in the crude state or already pre- pared tor eating, should be kept in the [sick- room or in its immediate vicinity. In the first place. it such food throws out any odor it will annoy and injure the patient, and, in the second place, the unhealthy veporc oi the sick-room will pass into it, contaminating it and rendering it unfit to eat on account 0! its tendency to cause disease among those who uueit. The Court Circular tells a little story of a traveller whoâ€" But we will let him tell his own story : “ The other day I paid {or a rail- way ticket costing three shillings and six- penes with a sovereign. A minute after leaving the booking oifice I found the clerk had made a mistako, and, returning, I said to him, ‘ Yon$gave me the wrong change just now for a ticket to Bâ€" -â€" .’ ‘ Very sorry, sir,‘ was the reply ; ‘ you should have count- ed it at the time. We never rectify errors alter passengers have left the counter.’ I protested. but in vain. ' Very well,’ I said at last, “you gave me a shilling too much. Good morning.’ The clerk’s face was a treat. But I stuck to my shilling." While one of the Supreme Judges was re- cently staying at Paris, he went to visit a French professor. The Frenchman eeked him a number of questions, and among the rest. " Where do you live 7” “In Oalxlornie." " Well." asked the rude Gaul, “ what is your occupation 7 ” " I am a judge of the Supreme Court.” “ 0h, ah I " returned the Frenchman, "hthen I need not ask your nameâ€"it is Lynch, e 1 I) We are not abliged to believe everything we hear. Stanley was told at Karagwe of a. strange people “ who had long ears descend- ing to their feet ; one ear formed a mat to sleep on, the other served to cover them from the cold. like a dressed hide.” "I am convinced that the world is daily growing better." remarked u reverend gentle- man to a brother minister; “my congrega- tionie continually increasing." “Curious,” replied the other, who happened to be a penitentiary oheglain, " for no is mine." “ What is the‘roason," said an Irishman to another, " that you and your wife are always disagreeing 7 ” “ Because," replied Put. “ we are both of one mindâ€"she wants to be master, and so do I.” Bald anilroad engineer to an Irishman whose cow had been killed, " But she did'nt got out of the way when I rang the bull." “ Faith, thin." said Pat, " ye didn't ahtop when she rang her boll, naythur." “ I pte§nme you won't chum: anything for just remembexing me.” said a one-legged sailor to a woodonJeg manufacturer. When does the rain become too familiar with a lady? When it begins to patter on her back. A bankrupt was condoled with the other day for his embarrassment. “ Oh. I'm not embarrassed a: all,” said he. " it's my credi- tors that are embarrassed,” “ Why, Willie," sold his mother at dinner. “ you can't possibly mt another plate of pudding, can you ?” " Oh, yea, I can. ma ;. one more plate will in“ fill the Bill." Has a walking match any connection with a rugning candle ‘I It must be learnea! Loud {fill-03, Fan. Iitly. No help! Nay, 'tls not 30! Though human help be far. ch God is nigh. Who loads the ravens. bean is children cry, 119': near thee. whoresce'er thy lnotatepa roum,, Andhflo will guida moo, light thee. help that ome. Hard. 9 Well. what or that ? Didat fancy Illa one summer holiday. w ith lessons nonoto learn, and naught but nluy ? Go. get thee to (.115 task I Conquer or die ! It must be learno ! Learn is won. mu. ntly. Dark! Well. and wine of that ? 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