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Ry men end womeB. some bright 31in um, end others lean and miserable. 11!." no voice, but their thoughts on oats. and was watched with the t intereat. The iastest transmitting tor who could be ionnd was located in Now York, and Mr. Snyder was stationed thin city to receive the despatch. The selected was the speech 01 Mr. Bing- on reconstruction. and contained 2,510 , ,avsrsglng (our letters to the word. necking matter by the Horse instruments operator determines the letter by the . and transmits it to paper as test as comes in. Ordinarily the deepatch can be ‘ t much quicker than it can be received. tinthe ease of Mr. Snyder this was not The test deepatch was telegraphed in ‘ hounand onanaverage oi torty words {the-Match ItAwill be noticed; by w. 0! the 6.000 whites. 4,204 died. in! more then 200 oi the whole number oi rlllte pereone eeeeped without en utteek oi lever, end moot oi these had been vietime It in previous epidemics. AFermlngton (Me) men caught e young nodohuek iuet summer. end kept it until it utmeu e dog. Leet winter it took the ground end spent the winter like oi in kind. During the time the ii, moved to enother pert oi the town. t on going beck to the old piece. the other , the woodehuek no out and named ted to m hie old irleude. Therenever wee e hurt truly greet end moron! thet no not eleo|.ieuder end the medwa le 'wide enough for but teen. with I Iteep blot! on one side Ind m0 fleet ol _preoipioe on the other. The Tho dty o! the heaviest mortality in Mem- MI [at you was the 14th of September. thin the (lo-tho, as non u on: be «oer- M. oxoeodcd one hundred. out of I popu- M of shout 6,000 whites and 14,000 m. 0! the 6.000 whites. 4,204 died. “flint. “I hope you will etey there pi.” em hie tether. " 0, no, I don’t think ,Illl, pe.” an the thoughtful boy; “I t not too proud. opponent of eepitel punishment thinks ought not to hang. To judge from we hove Ieen henglng nound fellowe' pub st picnics. we entirely agree with the “men. They ehould heve their un- peu eommuted to imprisonment ior life. I“ oi the bgevep otthe Iterner eexl Do reee broke into a. med run down thet leer- ; ,deeoent,_the driver guiding them ee beet i could. while the peeeengere held their with In expectetion oi inetent deeth. At e In the reed e front wheel wee ehettered , t the roeke, throwing the etege egeinet 7 l)! . The pueengere were thrown to re ground, one being letelly injured. end ell II ’three more or leee hnrt. A women wee Iflltl towerd the precipice, but her clothing ' ‘ t, end she wee eeved irom being deehed v" e on the rocks below. lone Powelleon. oi Boeedele. Kem, hee meat deethiihe trenoee, leeting half en mar longer. during which ehe ehowe no no of llie. She thinke that she reelly going to heeven end then returning to . She Ieye thet ehe meets epirite, who her thet they bed to repent 0! their eine ' there beiore they could edvenoe, end m'nnheppy until they did eo. But ener- erd they ere engeged in learning end grow- hrlghter, end are teught by epirite hter then the rent. The epirite heve no Inge, but weer flowing robee. end ere ordi- lien] wan Awarded. L “W den ego the death 01 N. J. Snyder, ,hleguph operator In the employ or Dreul m. beaten. wee ennonnoed by telegreph. hureeelled to the telegraph men some {he temerhble (onto that gave him the , olthe hate-t receiving operetor in the ‘ try. Mr. Snyder, when a boy. leaned ‘ bulneu ln the employ ol the old an Oompeny. He soon roee in bin in. end during the war wee in lathe } Telegraphic Rent for which a Gold {K F ha 01 the period. He bee-me noted _ speed, and in the winter of 1867 wee ' to receive 3 test deepeloh {rem New «k by the Merle instrument. The teet to determine the eepeolty of the L-A,,,,,, Hr‘emember the first time you naked her, 'Wlll you take my arm 2” While you tabled oil over like the nmetive 0! e EDD-w dog. and experienced the eon-a- ll of lining ewollowed your Adam’s apple, ht did the do 7 Why, ehe took your arm t‘eoolly on line would out o pickle. The Turf Field and Farm eeye: “ A thin“: oi Little Falls, N. Y., heving melon to leeve home for A couple of deye. B being Ihort oi the needle]. hit upon the flowing expedient: “ He hired e livery I", end in the course of his peregrinetione honee eix different times, coming It the end of the eeeond day with the pi horse end 8100 in his pocket. “which write this number of words 3 “auto thnt ltls no easy task without the wt of detecting tho sound, while it requires double an o! the brain at the «me time. Ilil' wu thyme» rapid tolegnphing on bad“ Mr. Morse so appreciated the Elqnnmog thlt he struck cfi‘ a gold medal. Ilamioqrml 11;de Idventure in the I, to he! Itupld and tiresome odmirox. “it" :91! Ill“ 2” he anxiously naked. “ II," I "potted, “ I could get. box Inge enough the purpose.” ‘flofindy h_oq got to the hood of his 1... Tho hunt round bat in low crowned with night btim About tour inches in width; it ”be worn over the two on set back on the “to“ go ?" “ Don't know, air, ’tunt been 3'3”" linoo we lived here. " I. It thnt trees can put on a new {oil without opening their trunks? Be- mu the, [one out their manner cloth {More in t lugs and rapidly growing party Moll believes not only in the eight hours film”, but that lhexo should be no hours labor n .11. :‘I tould‘ box. you; _ em.” sold ‘3 young 938“ nh‘xer to drive a thoroughbxend 21m: mmsla-oa. .whm 4°09 "9° mm minutely engraved. and presumed It to r. “mienâ€"Philadelphia Record. unite Valley. Their stag o wuvdnwn by horn". and the mo“ of one of them hey yo (109011“! in 301313 d_o_wn one of the hills. motion». bumpers Md between quilts poueu snout hubretainlng power. Those who by {tom the cold will please bear this In“ FAST WIRING. Humorous. The G. IV. R. Ex-Enatnecr and Ilia Money; The other day mention was made in these columns 0! the loss oi 8700 which beiell a man named William Fenwick, in Rochester, N.Y. Fenwick had two men arrested on suspicion, but at the preliminary investiga- tion there was no evidence tending to impli- cats them,and they were honorably acquitted. Fenwlck gave testimony, says the Democrat, and stated that he was once an engineer on the Great Western road, but left the employ oi that company in November laet. He saved about $400 of his earnings, which he placed in the bank at Clifton, and since he gave up railroading he has passed his time between that place, Thorold, 8t. Catha- rine's and Rochester. The last time he went there was in March, and then he brought with him the money he had in the bank, and also 8500, which he had won from his brother on a horse race at Thorold. When ques- tioned as to this trial of horse speed which was so fortunate tor him, he did not know the names of the horses, the owners. the distance trotted, the time made or anything else connected therewith, which seemed rather slim for a man who risked 8500 on the uncertainty of a race. Perhaps it would have been just as well it the “ other horse" had won and Fenwick had lost his money in Canada, so that he would know just where it went to. One thing is certain, he seems to have lost some in this city and does not know where it has gone to. In all probe. hiiity Fenwick's $700 will never turn up in time, and perhaps not in eternity.â€"-London Adverticer. Lonmuuméng Ill nptho chlnh of your existence. bntnot‘vgho an» spun thmot. Fivesixths of all the people in the East End, it forced to listen to ordinary religious or moral teaching, raise no objection. feel no objection and go away neither assenting nor dissenting nor movedâ€"entirely without irri- tation. but wanting no more of it and not disposed to give even pence for its purchase. They do not care. Nor do we hear of much superstition. There is oiten a good deal of downright superstition among the “ Pagans ” of country places, a great deal of fear of the unknown, agrcat reliance on old practices in deience against evil powers. but in East Lon- don superstition seems as de ad almost as religion. You would no more see a horseshoe on a door than an oratory in a house. According to aFrench correspondent, some Bonapartieta have improved on the first storiesâ€"that the Zuius who killed the Prince Imperial were disguised Communists or else assassins in the pay 0! " PlonPlon." The present version is that “ Lieutenant Garey was brought up in France, that it was there he received his education, that when there'he proieaeed himaeii an ardent Bepubiioan,_end” -one can guess the rest. A Million of People \Vho Have No Church and “'aatt None. (From the London Spectator. June alv)‘ The working classes of East London do not go to church or care about religion in any way. But no one explains, or even mentions, the most striking fact of all. that no movement, or cry, or prayer comes from the other side; that these vast masses of :Engiish folk, male or female, no more ask ‘ for clergyman, or churches, or religious teach. ing of any kind, than fishes ask for iisher. men. We should all hear it fast enough if they did? indeed, it is diflicult to imagine if all these myriade wanted the tuition they are so eagerly asked to want, what the volume of the consequent roar would be. Suppose they only resented the absence of religious teaching as they would the absence of work, or called for clergyman as they would call, it they were inadequately supplied, for publicans. The sound would never cease from the ears of West London until the demand were granted and Govern- ment would be distracted by its own eager- ness to comply with the request. The multitude, however, remain quiescent. No crowds march through Pall Mall demanding ministers of religion and carrying banners with “ Pity the Onurchless ;" no meetings are held in Victoria Park to denounce the “ villain- ous monopolists of the means of grace,” nor are public meetings held to see if the want can- not be supplied by an infinite collection of pence. You never even meet men calling in the street, “ We've got no clergyto teach us i " Here are more than a million of people, upon whom circumstances have laid what used to he called in Catholic countries an Interdict, silencing all bells, withdrawing all priests, ‘shutting all sacred buildings, and not one in ‘ a hundred cares, nor is one in ten so much as fully aware of the diiiarence between the region he lives in and the rest of the world. It is this which strikes us so wonderful and is so little noticed. How does it happen that here in London, in the richest and most civilized oi capitals, peopled by a race perhaps as good and certainly as respectable as any other, the want which sociologists say is the most instinctive of humanity is so little feltâ€"or, for we must not forget that conceivable reply, appears to be so little felt? Here are a million of people, fairly fed, fairly intelligent, fairly orderly, who seem to care as little about the great problem of the “ whence and whether" as the animals do, or the fishes. to have no feeling at all about it, no desire for any special form of worship or mode of expressing religious leeling, no fear that if they neglect it utterly anything will happen to them. No other people except the Chinese seem to be in that frame of mind. It East London were addicted to odd heresies or to strange forms of worship, or were sceptical or superstitious, or given to Indoor religion or to the worship of goodness which prevails in some parts of Germany, it would be intelligible; but the continual apathy of millions on the subject, lasting for generations, and never disturbed except by efforts from without, is surely very strange. There are sceptics in East London, and fierce sceptics, but the body of the people are not sceptics, but none of the sort of irritable dislike of religion and the clerical order shown in Paris and Berlin. A very small proportion would declare themselves infidels, perhaps as small as the proportion among the private soldiers, among whom such an announcement is the rarest of events. They have to declare their faith on joining. and in the great gargison of Malta a chaplain who cared about t a matter found that in four years only one man had asked to be recorded as an infidel. The ofiicsr presiding, greatly surprised, asked the man twice, and twice receiving the same reply, entered him as “Member 0! the Uhurch of England." “ What else could I do 7" he asked, in answer toa subsequent remonstrance; “there’s no congregation of them." IBBELIGIuU! LONMN. 060110.006 pounds of alien-Ina no used “many in the Urlud 8m" to: mixing with hm. \ A St. Catherines paper says: A men while passing the Fifteen Mile Creek the other day saw some very fine. old cherry trees. hearing what is called the wild black cherry. He first stopped to admire the trait and theyn remained to pluck some 0! it. As he was about to ascend the tree, a woman came out of the farm house and warned him off. He came away irom the tree and followed the woman towards the house. Bald she, “ What do you want. “" " I want to borrow an axe, as I am about to cut down one of those trees and take it home with me. ” “What," she gasped. " not satisfied to eat some of the cherries, but want to cut down the tree. too. Go away. you terrible man. you ought to be ashamed of yourself." He emiledg wickedly and went awayâ€"to the cherry tree. The following problem at the present time masters the Court at Chancery. A widow, still in the flower oi womanhood, thin, thoughtful, and thirty, with six small children, was left by her late husband a dowry of £80 a year to he paid to her as long as she did not marry. The executors of the will being man- agers oi the estate do not want to prolong the business and to be responsible for a year- ly payment until the widow dies, and they have suggested that she should take a lump sum instead of an annual payment. Not only is she ready to consent, but the Court oi Chancery is willing to grant the modification oi the will, only it cannot discover what sum ought to be paid. A case has been ordered to be stated for the opinion of the actuary ; and be actually lound an English Law Court put- ting this question to him, “ What are the chances of a widow oi thirty with six children and a dowry oi £80 per annum marrying again ?" The actuary consulted all the tables ; be has been balancing the relative advantages and disadvantages of six children and £80 a year ; he has dreamt of that fair widow, but he has been obliged to confess that the problem is beyond him Perhaps the poetical mathematician skilled in figures, and ready to resolve love into the mechanical action of the brain, will give to the Court oi Chancery the muchneeded formula. There is a hell on board of the barque Moselle, of Charlottetown, P. E. 1.. Captain Daniel Carew, now discharging cargo. which could tell a atrange tale. As the account goes, it was sent irom Rome to the Roman Catholic Chapel in Loulaburg, Cape Breton, in the sixteenth century. When the British attacked Louisburg. the capital of the colony under French rule. the hell, with a number 0! other valuables, was thrown into the sea. At the commencement of the present century. during a raging storm. the bell was out up again and frightened the fishermen by ringing among the rocks during the night From thence it was sent to Anti- gonieb, N. 8., and placed in the tower at the old Roman Catholic Chapel there. When a large new church was built, the old bell, with all the metal fittings. was sold to a Pictou tin man. from whom Captain Carew bought it. It in over fifteen inchea in height, twelve or thirteen inches acroaa the mouth. and has a beautiful sound. It bears the fol- lowing inscription: “ 8 Nicolaeya Franco f to Pavia. A large 1 on each side 1 ol Bell. 1 Scideaalbador Loreneo Ano n ’r 1674.” The author of a series of papers on “Young London" in the Telegraph (London) records some of the changes 0! the hall-century. When he first began to remember things there were only two railroads in the United Kingdom. It took the best part of four days to get to Paris; and the postage ot a letter to that city was one and eightpence. There were no ocean steamers ; and five Weeks were often consumed in a journey to New York. There were no lucifer matches lighting on or all the box. and flint and steel. and the tinder-hex, and matches dipped in brimstone. reigned supreme in the kitchen ;oil was still burned in the street lamps of Grosvenor Square. There were no electric telegraphs. no post- ofiice money orders. no steel pensâ€"in com- mon useâ€"no envelopes, no perambulators. There were no cheap newspapers, no shilling magazines, no post-cards. no perforated stamps and counterioils, and no parafiine candles. There was not an hotel in England where a lady could dine in a public room. There were only two decent French restau rants in London. There was no photography, no benzoline, no chloroform, no glycerine. no collodion and no gun-cotton. There were no mauve and no magenta dyes. There were no preserved meats, soups or vegetables. There was but little chocolate and no cocoa. Boda- water was a shilling a bottle. There was no hansom cabs and no knifehoards to the omni- buses. There were no reirigerators and no sewing machines. There were no keyless nor crystal-laced watches; no Albert or Breguet watch chains ; no electro gilding nor silveriog and no electrotyping. The steel fork in ordi- nary use had only two prongs; " balanced " table knives were unknown. There were no stays that were not instruments of torture and no walking boots for ladies. There was no Balbriggan nor Balmoral hosiery. There were only a few velocipedes and there were no revolvers. There was no gutta-percha and very few cigars. “ Binâ€"It may not be uninteresting to the Sun'a readersâ€"especially to those who have a proneneee and taste ior sporting mattereâ€" to know how many glasses of lager beer I punished at Coney Island on iaet Sunday. I believe it is generally admitted by the Vrting fraternity, among whom I have many i ends, that I can drink more beer. without having my reason dethroned. or without fee! ing any qualms or inconvenience. than any man in New York or Brooklyn. I began drinking with a iew friends at the Brighton. and in an hour and a hall I had finished thirty-five giaeeee. Meeting with other ao- qnaintancee. I continued drinking. until. at the expiration oi two hours and a halt, I had gained fifty giaeaea. Between 2 o'clock, the time I began, until 5. I consumed reven- ty-five glasses. Of course. the quantity oi beer given at Ooney Island in a glaeeie email yet I am impressed with the belie! that, had the glaeeee been tall, I could have got away with them just the name." Seventy-Five Glnun of Beer in Tutu . “can. The New York “ Chomp lon Beer Drinker" bonus as follows, in a loner $0 the Now York Sun, 0! his capacity as a consumer of alcoholic liquol :â€" A GIIAMI’ICDN BEER DBINKEB. The Changes of u llalt-L‘mnury. A Bell 205 Years onge. (Quebec Chronicle.) The dwelling ol the Winee 13:11in at Merl- nette, Wie., got atlre in the night. and the lower part wee all in flames before the three children had eeceped from en upper room. The oldest. a boy. jumped from a window into a bedquilt held underneath. A younger led. only eight yeere old, was about to iollow. but the mother new that e three'yeer old girl was not at the window. , " Rnn beck and get Bis," she cried. The boy returned to hie room. but the fire out him off, end his llie- leu body wee iound with the little one'e eleeped in his arms. To prevent lameness and keep your horse‘s foot in good condition, atufl than: lroqnomly with unwed meal, mixed with no“ soup; Mr. Hamilton, a resident of the town of Ogden, quite near the village of Spenoerport, was quite recently the owner of a pair of cats, to which an incident occurred a few days ago that is worthy of being placed on record. The cats Were the father and mother of three little kittens, and Mre. Tom‘was in the habit of going out into the neighboring field and catching field mzce for the benefit of her little ones. While on a hunting ex- cursion of this nature, the poor animal met with a terrible misfortune, her four legs being cut of! by the reaper and mower which was being need in cutting the grase. The piteous noise which she made eocn brought Mr. Tom to her side, and he at once dragged his unfortunate mete all the way to the stoop of Mr. Hamilton’s house, and then called the attention of the occupants to the misfortune of Mrs. Tom by continuous mew- ing. rf.‘he family of Mr. Hamilton saw that nothing could be done to aid the poor, injured animal, and therefore threw it into the neighbouring creek for the purpose of drown ing it and putting it out of its misery. Tom's affection for his mute was so intense, how- ever, that he jumped into the water after her, and actually dragged her ashore. He had, indeed, to be taken forcibly away from the Ipot. Since then he has settled down into a Very exemplary Thomas cat, taking care of his three motherlees kittens as thoughtfully as if he had himself been the mother.â€" Rochester Union. Tm: anss we run Ex Eupssss.â€"Her Majesty the Queen has sent to the Empress Eugenie an exquisitely made work of picture setting, designed to enclose the last portrait taken of the Prince Imperial. The frame is composed of cmethysts cut out in flowers, chiefly violets. A garland which crowns the irsme is surmounted by an esgle. holding betweeen its claws a banner scroll in tricolor. on which is written in gold letters the wards, " Not lost. but gone before." The Empress has been greatly touched with this sympa- thetic present and has ordered copies of it to be made and given with the last photo. 0! the Prince to his and her own intimate iriends. A man was denouncing newspaper advertis- ing to a crowd of listeners. “ Last week,” said he, ” I had an umbrella stolen from the vestibule oi the â€"â€" church. It was a gift; and, valuing it very highly, I spent double its worth in advertising, but have not recoVered it." “ How did you word your advertise- ment 7" asked a merchant. “ Here it is," said the man. producing a slip out item a newspaper. The merchant took it and read. “ Lost from the vestibule oi the â€"â€"- church. last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella The gentleman who took it will be handsome- ly rewarded by leaving it at No. â€" Main street." “ New,” said the merchant, “ I am a liberal advertiser and have always found that it paid me well. Agreat deal depends upon the manner in which an advertisement is put. Let us try for your umbrella again, and it you do not acknowledge then that ad- Vertieiug pays I will purchase you a new one." The merchant then took a slip of paper from his pocket and wrote: “ It the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the wenbule oi the â€"â€" church last Bunday awning dose not wish to get into trouble and limit: a stain cast upon the Christian charac- ter which he values so highly. he will return it to No. â€" Main street. He is well known." This only appeared in the paper once. and on the following morning the man was as- tonished when he opened the trout door of his residence. 0n the porch lay at least a dozen umbrellas of all shades and sizes that had been thrown in from the sidewalk, while the front yard was literally paved with umbrellas. Many of them had notes attached to them, saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser to keep the little affair quiet. These instances of bad punctuation should warn every one who sends a telegram or writes a paragraph for a newspaper to we thm it is properly punomuted. Em Psmmss. " Our new school house which burnt last. week was large enough to accommodate 300 pupils lour stories high. The school house will be rebuilt by a brother of the former architect who died last summer on a new and imgroved plan.” A NeSm-skaâ€"newepapor mus punogflatgd a paragraph about their new school house : “ And accident happened to the family it John Eldexkin c n Main surest yestorday. One of his children was run over by a waggon 8 years old with sons eyes and pamalew on which never spoke ulterwud." Also this: “ A cow was struck by lightning on Sutur- duy bulonging to Dr. Hammond who LM 8 beautiful cal! tour days‘oid.’f . One morning and I had lectured in La- crosse. Wm, I took up the morning pfipcl‘ and was surmised to rand this startling puta- gtaph : “ George Peek, an inlempernle editor from Milwaukee. fell over the gallery lael night while Eli Perkins was humorously lecturing in a beastly state of intoxication. The coroner‘s jury brought in n verdict that Mr. Pcck’e death was caused by his an ting too long in a. cramped poeition listening to Mr. Perkin'e lecture which generally pro ducegv apoplexy in the minds of the jury." 1 loud the following paragxuph In a Win- 00min newspaper. ' The other day a Chicago newspupu re- ceived this telrgnm which. without any pupgipation. rem} very gugmxly} 7 V “ The proursaion u't Judge Orton'a funeral was wry fine and nearly two mile: in length no wag also the baauhful prayer of 1m. Dr. Swing 1mm Chicago." Some lmdlcrou- Blunder: That Have Como Under Ill- Observation. 00041:]! of the mistakes In ulegrama rosulslrom bad punctuation. Tue operator always runs the moasuge straight along. put- ting in neither owllala not punommion marks. ELI PERKINS 0N PUNCTIJATION. Judlclous Advertising. An Intelligent Cal. The first railroad in Palestine has been contracted for between Jam And Jernnlem. forty mtloo The contractor in ropo rtod to be G. F. D. Love“. 3 resident of Clnoinnoti. The legal position of Mr. Tracy Turnerelli, whose laurel wreath was rejected by Lord Beaconsfield, is. says the London Solicitors’ Journal, a little embarrassing. 119 under- took. on behall of the 52.800 contributors, to transmute their pennies into a golden wreath, and to ofier this wreath to Lord Besconsfleld. Whether he must be deemed to have undertaken to offer the wreath in such a manner as to be likely to insure acceptance is a point of some difiiculty. The pressing question is, what should he done with the rejected gilt? and the first consid- eration is in whom is the legal property in the wreathâ€"in the contributors of the 52,800 pennies. or in Mr. Turnerelli with a resulting trust for the contributors. In any case. it is ior the contributors to direct the manner in which the wreath shall be dealt with; and. apart lrom their direction. there does not appear to be any mode, short oi special legis. Iation. whereby Mr. Turnerelli can legally relieve himself oi the wreath. A rafle for it among the contributors would, unfortunately, be undoubtedly illegal. The crow destroys more gnuhoppon than. any other bltd. Of course your exhibition, on the scale you propose to hold it this year will not be cum« plete without a balloon, and the low terms I offer will be no object to you, considering the thousands who will attend. I Will give three ascensionsâ€"on the first, third and fifth days. or any days most suitable to you â€"for 8300 and gas. Should reqmre 10,000 feet of gas each time for the large and small balloon. and take up two persons. Ihave several fairs in prospect for the middle of September but would prefer Ottawa to any other place, although perhaps I could get more money elsewhere. I have a Weakness- for Ottawa. I like the place and the people. Should we arrange matters, I would like a lady to accompany me on one trip. It would be a novelty and excite interest. Our in- tended experiments with Oowau'a machine at Montreal were a failure, owing to the wind. It is proposed, however, to try it again in a week or two, probably at Montreal. The trip we made was too rough to be pleasant, and came near ending dlsastrously. I an: cor- responding with the West Hastings Agri- cultural Bociety at Belleville, 0nt.. in ragard to an ascension at their lair in September or October. The stranger had closely listened to every word. but he was more ooniueed than ever. Leaning forward with an anxious countenance he said " Really. but I beg your pardon." “New look a-here i” said anes, as he put down a bundle containing six pairs of new socks, “ you’ve begged my pardon three times hand running. and I can’t remember that we ever had any trouble. It you beg it once more I shall think you are the conscience stricken chap who stole my overcoat in this depot last winter. and when I light down on you this hul building will shake l" “ This iaâ€"ahâ€"really. I -Iâ€"." “ Don’t you dare do it i" exclaimed Tame, as he spit on his hands, and the stranger look- ed helplessly around and backed away.â€" Detroit Free Preu. Grimley. wno mode the recent dangerous balloon ascent at Montreal, writes to the Secretary of the Ottawa Agricultural Auro- oiatlon proposing to repeat the experiment at the coming exhibition. H18 letter is as lollows : At the Union Depot yeatorday. a young man from Tawaa waa strolling around to kill fifty minutes time, when he was accosted by a atranger who asked him the population 0! the city. The Tawaa man replied, but no in- diatinotly the other called out : “ Beg your pardon.” ' “Well, I'd forgive yo. though I can't to- membe; that we ever had any tuna." “Ah! beg your pardon,“ observed the “tagger. failing to catch the drift of remarks. "Hang it! I said I {ox-give ye." nnurlad the young man. “ I! you have ever need me mean well! let}: all go_an_d gay pormore about it.” ‘ ‘ ‘ When one belongs to a race of- soldiere. it is only sword in hand that one achieves a namc; and when one would learn by trsvel, one must go far away. Therefore. long ego, I resolved. first. to make a long journey; secondly. to lose no opportunity of seeing a campaign. \The disaster 0! Isandula gives me the oppor- tunity whichI have sought; the war in Africa developing itself on a large scale without bringing with it European compli- cations. ‘ ‘ ‘ Everything. there- fore led me to go. and I have gone. In another letter, either to ‘ ‘ ‘ or to you, I will give you details of the military opera- tions. Remember me to them. and believe in my constant friendship. A Letter from the Prince in Attica. (Paris Figaro. July 10.) M! Dean (name not given).â€"Since my departure I have not yet written to you. but \you must not think that I hsVe iorgotten you. as God. who reads in my soul. knows the place which the memory oi my lriends and my country holds in it. Although the second part oi the campaign has not yet begun. Ihave already donned my war harness since I was appointed three weeks ago. I am iulfilling at present the duties of an uificer on the stat! oi the General Command. ing in-Chiei. and this is for me the best way 0! seeing and learning and of making war. I have had the courage to reiuse the command of a squadrcu of men on outpost duty. However tempting the offer. Ihave thought that the position that I now occupy would enable me to gain more echri- once and render more service. ‘ ‘ As you are my iriend, it is for you to explain and deiend my conduct; and although my departure is already an old affair,I would return with you to the reasons that have prompted it. I took nobody's advice, and made up my mind in forty-eight hours. It my resolution has been a speedy one. it is because I have long considered such a contingency. and arranged my plan. Noth. ing has made me hesitate a minute. and this is natural for those who know me. But how many are they? Some- times it seems to me that there are none when I remember that I have been we ry nn~ justly judged by those who ought to know me best. ‘ ‘ ‘ I am really ashamed to have to speak thus of myself, but I wish to dissipate the doubts which have sometimes been expressed respecting the energy of my will, which. believe me, is and will remain innocent of all concessions or cowardice. Balloon Ascension Proposed. “ Beg Pardon.” NAruonu.