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(Continued {tom third page.) band." In a. gentlemen 0t ancient lineage. One must own some timber beside one'a {will $190 to 39% that held in this sort of tamil tree to sec Nu Dmi iod reverence. U-â€"-‘-vvw -- . -___v- The Clyifards had lgnty of timber. and all things fitting hedge; that jewel of fancy price. their ancestry. was s lendidly set, and had a gorgeous casket. t had never. in the most perilous times. been strirped of its surroundin s. or even forced or a season to cause its far-darting ‘lustre. The sort of chivalry that had animated Norman Bryan had been transmitted through all his line; “ the good old rule, the simple plan. that they should take who have the power, and they should keep who oan,’ had been preserved in its integrity. The Clyffards had had no need to marry heiressee ; their shields bore no escuteheons of pretense; their rosperity had grown like a river, but, un 'ke it. had needed no foreign feeders to sustain it. There had been dry seasons when it had fallen a little, and there had been times of civil commo- tion, when it had even been dammed up; but the obstacle removed, the broad stream of prosperity had only poured forth in the nu ,u L-) ....a ”nude": v5 v-vurv.-â€"J â€"w‘ ....J ‘VW77 , greater volume. The bad cared nothing for roses. red or w1ite; but. each hm] smelled the sweeter in the nostrils of wise St. Mark. as it had prevailed over the other. They had loved King Charles and rnonegohy,_but not with such a. perfect love , Ln“ .: (1..-...mnll HAUUIIIUUJ' vu- uvv ---â€"_. _.e_,s , that it had cast out the fear of Cromwell and his Ironsides. Sir John, indeed, had made a wrong east in that matter, and defended Cl fie a ainst Lambert. The blood oiCava ier an of Roundhead had not refused to mix in the castle-moat, for long weeks of siege. The west wing had sorely sufiered. You mi ht see even now the scars u n the stu born stone. Many a. shooko battle had that front withstood, and often heartened to the roar of cul- verin and ring of steel, which now regarded the trim garden only, and the sleeping waters, and listened to the mowing of the scythe and the leap of fish. It had done With war ferever; and swallowmaunted, ivy-clad, it looked like one who, having had his days of trouble, hencef0rth spends a life of leisure among friends. Even the trouble had been short lived. Without storming and without surrender, the banner of the rliament had been quietly substi- tuted or that of the king upon the round tower of Clyffe Hall. and General Lambert had dined with Sir John at the same table, in the banqueting-room, under which the royal legs of the Stuart hwd condescended to place themselves only a few months before. It was of such ancestors as these that RalphuClyflf‘ard WE? proud; and of far _ _.... km “A manna o -I'O‘I" worse than these. He was by no means a bad man himself; there was not one of his long line, perhaps, who. being compared with him, would not upon the whole, have suffered by the contrast, There was really a sort of sublimity in his ignorance of the true state of the easeâ€"in his personal humility and in his outrageous family pride. “ I am nothing in myself,” he might have exclaimed, “but everything in virtue of my descent from an unbroken line of almost unmitigated scoundrels." He hoped, when his time came, as it must come to all (and death were its chief awe in his eyes. inasmuchas it had not spared those great ones whose proud faces frowned even upon him, from their canvas in the oak gallery) â€"-he hoped I say, to meet his end at last like a Clyfiard and a Christian, without being at all aware that that devout desire involved a contradiction in terms. And {at he was not without an impression that is forefather Guy had not behaved alto- gether as became a person of his Icondition. Many took it for granted. and with reason, that Ralph Clyfiard snflered no steal to shear his looks, and drank nothing stronger than water from the spring, in hopes to save that wicked ancestor at least some years of purging fires; for the old faith which had served the Clyfi'ards for so long was his, robbed of none of its pre- tensions save in one vital particular. Never since excommunicated Guy’s time had priests been harbored in Clyfle Hall. They had had the run of the place at one period, which had indeed, at certain troublous epochs, been, as it were, burrowed out for their convenience. There was a priest’s chamber between the ceiling and the roof, and at least one sleeping-r00. of state. The Clyffards had been not unwilling to run certain risks for the Church‘s sake, provided that the penalty was not extreme ; they made such a bid for heaven as they considered reasonable, but not to the peril of house and lands. They afiected religion much as a sort of Anti-purgatory Insur- ance Society; but they were not prepared to pay exorbitant premium. Some of them even thought it possible that there might not be a purgatory after all. The relation between the House of Clyflard and the Church of Rome being of this ticklish description, it surely behoved the latter power to be as Winsome and indulgent in all cases of pecoadillo as might be consis- tent with the security of the latter’s souls; yet in the above mentioned case of Guy’s favorite blood hound, which had suffered capital punishment by the king‘s order (“martyred," said his master) for child- eating, great complications arose. The riest most unexpectedly took the mew- 'sh view of the matter. "Another word, and I bur my dog in the chapel l" quoth irascible uy. " At your peril l" exclaimed he of the eheven crown. with a worse shudder than he had ex rienoed upon the occasion of the or' ”no.1 0 once. “ Beware of the thundere of t e Church." "Anathema. Maranetha to your heart‘s contentâ€"big words break no bones." replied the etqut squire oontemptuouqu- , _-‘_ ~_“ ,7 and he buried the dog where he had threatened, with all the funeral honors that laymen could ay. The priest left Olyfl‘e, shaking the net from his shoes; and at the very earliest date at which the fulminnting material could be manufac- tured. Guy Clyfiard wee excommunicated. They tuggedkin him in eating. they cursed him in The, curing:i mhixm in coughing. in sneezing. in w ins. Never wee heard such a terrible curse. But what gave rise. To no little eurpriee. Nobody seemed one penny the worse. Note attackdew m the western tower moulted a fee er. aided. bo‘h parties repentedheving resorted m such extreme measures. Guy Clyfiard did penanceâ€"having permission to boil his as very soft indeedâ€"and the Church of Reine took him once more under her pro- tection. Bm there was henceforth this 811‘ VIM-1m wuvsu um a.-- .. _.._ “fl upon her side to prove that he had died. it not in the odor of sanctity, at least in his bed, and not in Boden Pot. In expec- tation, doubtless. that he would be paid some scurv tricks of the kind, the deceased he left behind him in the most stringent directions to the Clyifards who} should come after him, that, in case he, should fail to receive his last sacramental rites, no lodgment should henceforward be given in Clyfl'e Hall to tricksy priests. The document which conveyed this posthumous mandate was a wonder in its way, being full of those identical “big words " mere threatenings and thundersâ€"«which he had himself set at naught in the mouth of one much more privilegedâ€"i! custom is privi- legeâ€"to utter them; yet, strange to say, they were obeyed. One or two of his des- cendants may have been swayed by the convenience of the command. it was more agreeable for many reasons that the keeper of the Clyi‘fard conscience, instead of being on the spot to watch its workings too minutely, should step over from the ham- let hard by. and perform the duties of his oflice when required; but Ralph Olyffard obeyed the injunction for its own sake. The ill-written, ill-spelled parchment, dictated by malice, and enjoying a mean sort of revenge, was in his eyes a sacred writing. He kept it in a vast iron bound chest, urnished with double locks, and con- taining a number of other family docu- ments, from the original deed of gift con- ferring the manor of Olyfie, incapite. of our lord the king, by the sergeanity of finding him a sheath of arrows and six loaves of oat bread whenever he should hunt in Ribble Forestâ€"down to poor Cyril’s mad will. not worthtbe parchment it wasflwritten on. A...) V'V‘ Nu VDV rwov-uâ€"nvuâ€"v â€"' -. ‘7‘. or , Looking upon Ralph Glyffard’s harmlrt‘ but not ill-favored face. and the pl m" ml hair that fringed it, one could not bur won- der what he could have been in his youth. Could he ever have beena trustful child saying his prayers at a mother’s knee ‘2 A light-hearted boy, enjoying the sports of the hour with all a boy'soapacity for enjoy- ment ‘2 A young man courting the smiles of beauty, his pulses throbbing with the fulness of the spring, had he never experi- enced those palmy days which. long or short. fall to the lot of almost all mortals ? Most of us have met such men, and tried to picture them in the cradle, in the play- ground, or at the altar with their bridesâ€"â€" and failed. Their passed is not to be imagined; and even those who witnessed it can tell us little. Of Ralph Clyfiard, men knew only that he had been a dutiful son under circumstances when it was not easy to be dutiful; that a kind heart lay some- where within him, notwithstanding his haughty and austere behavxor; and that in his first marriage he had pleased his father, and in his second had pleased him- self. He had been brought up at Clyfie from his infancy, but not. of course, as its heir. He had notdesired tobe so; and had driven the very thought of it away from him as far as possible. Not only did his childless Uncle Roderick look likely to live for a score of years to come, but his own father Arthur the youngest brother, was alive, a stout man, too; and what was still more to the purpose, there was Cyril, a halo boy. but a twelvemouth older than himself. Yet even then Ralph was fully persuaded that he should be master of Clyfle, for that the curse of the Clyffards mfiat heeda fall. Exciting Incidents 0! the Forest Fires. In Michigan the heat withered the leaves of standing trees two miles away from the fire, and seven miles off the beach at Forrester sailors found the best uncom. fortable. Luv-“v -..__ v...â€" A man leaped fram a bluff into the lake and found himself close behind a large bear. They remained in company under the bank nearly all night. and the bear seemed as humble as a dog. Deer sought the companionship of cattle and horses. and paid no attention to persons rushing past them. _ . 1 __.__L _ __:_.LL -...l .. When Charles Hempstead saw his intended wife’s house in flames he sug- gested a. home of his own at once for her, and, with her consent, they sought the house of a preacher between Huron and Grindstone cities. where they were soon made man and wile. r... Twenty-eight people spent a night and a day in a corn field above Richmondville. To windward of them was a field of peas, and when the flames got into this the party were pelted for hours with hot peas. which were shelled by the fire. Wet blankets, constant vigilance and the standing corn saved these people; but in other localities. where persons sought the same refuge, they were smothered and banned: A seven-mile ride for life under most extraordinary circumstances was the expe- rience of a farmer near Forrester. He gathered fifteen persons in his wagon. and started for the beach. The fire was close behind them as they started, so close that the dresses of some of the women and children were on fire from the sparks. It was seven miles of up hill and down. with corduroy. ruts and roots, and the horses needed no whip to urge them into a mad run. As the wagon started the tire of a hind wheel rolled off. They could not stop for it. and yet. even on a good road, the wheel would have crushed down in going twenty rods without it. The horses pushed over that seven miles of rough road at a wild run. and the wheel stood firm. A delay of five minutes at any point of the road wouidhave given fifteen more victims to the flames which iolloWed on behind. France has 100,000 lunatica. There are 230,000 goats on the island of Cyprus. Canadian 500 ieces are taken by Amen- cane on the Pen fie Slope at onl " three bits" (sue). and the British Co umbiana. who have more Amefinen silver than they want. threaten to retaliate. The annual raisin production of Califor- nm amounts to about 02.000 boxes. 76! the po Nation of Ireland 76.6 per cent. are Uat olica. It is estimated that thare reside in Lon- don, Eng" not less than 30.000 thieves. There are 100,000 anti-polygamy Mor- mons residing in Iowa. Canadian @00 piece} are taken py Angeri Some Facts and Figures. To be continued. CANADA METHODIST CHURCH Position and Progress of the Body in tin 99minlon. ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY REV. GEO. DOUGLAS. The tollowiug is from we address of Rev. Geo. Douglas to the Methodist Council no in 11:03:61»: 5. _ ‘ .- ‘I l ‘I A AL, -â€"‘-~ anPreeident. I greatly fear that the time of the conference hoe expired. and I hardly know whether it will not be an infliction upon you if I make any extended obeervatione on this occasion. (Cries of “Go_ron.") _Weli. sin. in responding v , W. W. Dickey, one of the wealthiest ; cattle dealers of the West. met Mollie Car- .ter in Kansas City. He fell suddenly in i love with her. {or she is s. beauty. and she said yes to his offer of marriage. for she knew of his wealth. She broke a previous eng ement in so doing. and when Dickey fem: that out he refused to make her his wile. She sued for 625,000 damages, and has just compromised for 910,000. to the words of Welcome pronounced by dyourself, words which own the wisdom an sanctity of age, I count myself happy in being permitted to bring greetings from some two hundred young ministers with their flocks, and to present them this day before this great historical conference. Although we be but little among the thousands. yea, millions, of our American Israel. yet we thank God that He hath given us a lace in our Land of the Lakes and of the orth Star, and that He hath opened for us a door of resplendent oppor- tunity in theimmediate future. This great empire throughout all its history has been sending out its intellectual and moral light over all the earth. The history of the great republic to which my honored friends belong is in the ascendant. advanc- ing with ever increasing power and combin- ing its influence with that of this mother land. The history of the Dominion of Canada, which indeed forms part of this great empire, and which, I thigh, _sir_.A is perhaps “more loyal to England's Queen than England itself â€"â€"â€"the history of this Dominion is but within the horizon, nevertheless it is full of prophecy and of promise of noble develop- ment. It is difficult, Mr. President. to rise to a conception of the greatness of that material heritage. that field for high endeavor. which God has given us. Ay. sir, from the sunrise side of our Dominion, where the bold Atlantic tosses her crested billowe against the granite heights of New- foundland, to the sunset side, where the broad Pacific tellsto the beach her sum- mer dreams in sweet low murmurs. faint and low. we have a. distance exceeding by a thousand miles that between the city of London and the city of Montreal in which we dwell, and still, sir, from the imaginary line that separates us_ from the great republic, we stretch away literally to the very ends of the earth. Rich in undeveloped resources in our older Provinces, the amazing development of our great Lone Land tells that our Hyperion of hope is throned in the empire of the flaming West, whose virgin soil will yet tremble to the tread of freeborn millions comprehending thousands of the sons and daughters of our British Methodism. Now, sir, this is the great material foundation which God has given us, and on which we are building, thus raising the temple of Canadian Methodists, which we believe will he a home and an asylum and blessing to coming and far-off generations. Already. sir, God has given to us a full measure of encouragement. Though confronted with the most richly endowed , the most aggressive and conservative type of Romanism on the face of the earth. making our Province of Quebec the Thermopylm of conflict on the continent, though we came after the Angli- can and Presbyterian Churches, yet, sir, this conference will be glad to learn that one out of every six of the entire popula- tion, and- one out of every four of the Protestant population, pay homage to the teachirgs “sud to the instruction of Metho- dism. ix‘pplause.) We lead the Protestant denominations for strength in this Dominion of Canada; and, sir, we are thankful to say, further, that the united Methodism of the Dominion has made its selection, and adheres to the old theology you so finely pre- sented. We are thankful to say that though not insensible to the conflict of thought that is abroad, to the questioning and unrest of the scientific atheism of this land, the transcendental and pantheistical philosophies of New England, and the so-called higher criticismsâ€"we are thank~ ful to say that that system of truth which was formulated here, which was pro- pounded in this centre, is our thecdicy. our reconciliation of God's ways, with which we confront all the assaults of adversaries. And, sir, we have planted ourselves upon this ground, and have made our solemn election in this matter. We rejoice that this formula of religious thought is rapidly becoming the mostcontrolling form of relig- ious belief in the Dominion, and indeed, sir (as our reverend bishops can bear testi- mony), over the entire American continent. From the flowery lands of the Saskatche- wan and the Assmniboine to the glades of Colorado, from the frozen regions of Labra- dor to the cane brakes of Arkansas and the ranches of Texas, from the misty isles of Fundy to the crystal peaks of the Sierra Nevadae, there is not a city, there is not a. town. there is not a Village, there 18 not a. neighborhood. where the influence of John Wesley's theology is not felt as a mental stimulus and as a force in our moral regene- ration. This, sir, I say with thankfulness before this great conference. ‘ Bank of England notes are made (rem pure white linen cuttings only. never from rags that have been worn. So carefully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each indi- vidual workman is registered on a dial by machinery. and the sheets are carefully counted and booked to each person through whose hands they pass. The printing is done by a most curious process within the bank building. There is an elaborate arrangement or securing that no note shall be exactly like any other in existence; con- sequently there never has been a duplicate bank note except by forgery. The stock of pailnotes for seven years is said to amount to 94,000,000. and to 111110.000 boxes. which. if placed side by side, would cover over three miles in extent. Bank of England Non-n. ---- ‘-V‘~__.- -_ ‘mede. He spoke of the timber interest as ‘aeeond only to that o! agriculture in this ponntry. The annual revenue derived from [the timber lands of Ontario aggregated ‘over 8400.000. The destruction by fires was dwelt on. and some surprising state. manta made in regard to this. More trees have been destroyed by theae bush fires then have ever been exported from the country. From the time occupied byuhard-wood in coming to maturity _ __ -L-.:A.... [low to Save and lacunae the Valuable 'l‘mbor m of“. anhee. At a. meeting of leading exhibitors and others at the Provincial Exhibition. held in London last night. the prize eeeeye were read. Two of these referred to torent pre- servation. Prof. Bucks. of Ottawa. was one of the eeeeyietefilfia pa r referred tothe immense destruction 0 (erect areas by the early settlers o! the country. At that time it would have been ridiculed if the_propg_sal tonne t‘he timber had been .9,.,1 ,_ :._A-_-..L -.. 'J â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" -â€" ~~ .. - â€"â€"80 to 150 yearsâ€"it “as obvious that the Government must become the producer. No private individual could undertake such a work. In the neighboring Republic great encouragement was given to tree raising, by free grants of land. etc., for that purpose. One of the largest exporters in the country expressed his opinion that in twenty years there will be no pine to export from Canada}. In conclu- sion. he stated that it was absolutely necessary that forest fires should be suppressed, and the Government ought to take steps for enforcing precautions having this effect in view. Secondlyâ€"The pine lands remaining should not be settled. Thirdlyâ€"Waste lands should be im- mediately planted. The destruction of the forests, he said, would lead to the gradual decrease of rainfall and other evils. The Young Children Over-taxed with Studyâ€"A Parent's Suggestion. A parent and friend of the school writes the Kingston li’hig: The impression is general among parents that the young children in at least some of the depart. ments of our public schools are over-tasked. The brains of young children should not be too savagely strained with long and hard lessons. Just imagine a‘child of tender years who can scarcely write at all, learning fifty-two hard words to write of an evening, besides other lessons. If a portion of this writing was done under the eye of the teachers in school, the child might make some pro- gress in the use of the pen, but the system has a contrary efiect.and has the tendency to prevent the child ever writing well. The home lessons, if any. should be easy, not of a nature to overth the young minds or discourage them. Surely this confine- ment in school from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. is sufficient, without long lessons to occupy the time that should be givento recreation. and what is very important and required from most children, home duties. I am sure our Inspector will give this matter his attention. It concerns every parent with the interest of his child at heart. A contemporary very properly remarks : It is a great treat for our sportsmen to get outside of the corporation to shoot; but it is no sport for the farmer whose land, dry as tinder, has been shot over during the day to remain awake halt the night lest a spark has been left to kindle into a flame and burn his fences and buildings. There is no sport in anything of that kind, and the shooter exhibits very little consideration who will indulge his taste at such a cost to his neighbors. For the past month there has been a good deal of uneasiness in the farming community growing out of this matter, and we beg of sports- men to bottle up their practices for a time at least until it shall cease to be dangerous. A fewdays ago a spOrtsman was remonstrated with by a gentleman who happened himself to be asport. but who refrained from a proper sense of the danger of indulging at this specially dry season; but nothing could restrain him. Shoot he would and did, and great consternation ensued, though fortunately no accident. If one of these gentlemen could be present at some point where forest and field fires have got a start to witness the appalling exhibi- tion of conflagration, he would learn a lesson he would never forget. He would see for himself the consequence of playing with this destroying element. “ Miss Mina.” the golden-haired. blue- eyed “ Lion Queen " of a travelling menagerie, lately visited the studio of a famous photographer of Strasbourg. “ I want to have my portrait taken.” said the fair damsel. “ I am at your service. pray be seated,“ replied the photographer with a deferential bow. " By your leave." she rejoined, transfixing him with a steady glance. “ I am not alone. Two friends are awaiting me outside our door.” So my ing she set a silver w istle to her lips and blew it shrilly. whereupon two stately lions walked into the a artment. greeting its proprietor with a s utation of growls that made his blood run cold. At a sign from their youthful mistress. however. the for- midable beasts sat down quietly enough, and Herr Schweitzer. gaining confidence from their peaceable demeanor. proceeded to group his appallin clients with tremb. ling hands. placing iss Mina on a sofa in a semi-reclining attitude with alion on either side of her. Seldom has a. newspaper been issued under greater diflioulties and amid less eon- genial surroundings than the News of the Camp, which was published during the 100 dsys' siege of Pretoria. The editor thus describes the conditions under which the feet was momplished : " A bungalow for a. printing office. with canvas thrown over its unfinished rcof, through which the rain freely penetrated. a gentle waterspout run- ning down the compositor‘s benches he stood winks bandolier of Martini-Henry cort- ridges over his shoulder. his white apron for a uniform. composing stick in hand and his rifle liiug suggestively near his printing frame; t e editor‘s quarters an army boll tent and a trans rt waggon, the s ace between in enious y roofed in wit 1 a tattered soi stretched on telegraph poles ; their work, editlni a paperh day and on guard up to the nee in mu at night, or sleeping in a pair of leather breeches. long LAAA- Aha €nnh onus-n " I‘n-On nnmhorn â€"---‘.._° -_ h boots and igckfiépura."WForty number-i were issued. ~ BXCEHSIVE HOME LESSONS. FOREST PRESERVATION. Photographing Lions. Sh oom- lune Practical Sumo-nou- Concerning 1h. [hoot Ila-lb Selle. Dumb belle weighin not over five pounds each are ”commend . which should be used regularly every morning and evening for half an hour {or a year. By this time it willbe found that the muscles of the umsJegs and body will have increased ver much and become exceedingly firm an herd. When this condition has been acquiredmneu. and not till then, can a man think of lifting heavy weights; for it he roanppt get_ ‘his mgpples and nerves in this healthy condition he can never become a lifter. even with years of rsctice. as it takes stren th as well as sle ght to lift a heavy weig t. Some ver good authorities recommend lifting at t e commencement. adding that “ you must not lift too much." But how can inex erienced hands tell when it is too much be ore they find themselves perms- nently injured. After the year's exercise with dumb bells or otherwise. as previously suggested. then a. man who is not ruptured or otherwise injured can commence a systematic course of lifting. starting with not over 100 pounds, which he can lift us many times a. day as he is disposed to do for one month. He can then add another 50 pounds to the weight to be lifted during the second month's exercise. and so on, adding an additional 50 pound weight each month for twenty months, when he will be able to lift the great weight of 1,000 pounds without any danger of injuring himself. This isa. general rule and a. result _sny mam with a. sound hody and a result any man with a sound body can reach if he follows the prescribed course, and never tries to overdo the thing. If the weight will not some up without too much strain stop. for it is too heavy for you at that point of your training. To lift cor- rectly and without danger, a person must stand erect, the heels on the same line, the toes turned out. the shoulders thrown back and the body resting square] on the hipsâ€"the arms hanging own by the sides. The legs should then be bent merely enough to enable the hands to grasp the handles or rings of what you are to lift; then lift by merely straighten- ing the legs. and not by the arms or body. If you have to strain. and the weight does not come up freely. then you are attempt- ing too much and should try a lighter load. When you have become strong enough to lift 1,000 pounds you are in reality a strong man and should be perfectly satisfied to let well enough alone, for of all who attempt to exceed that point there is not one man in a hundred who, at some time or other. does not injure himself for life. Some few do not. but they are rare exceptions. Terrible Slam of Aflalrs in Venezuelaâ€" l'lothers (“for their Children for Sale. The U. S. Consul st Marscsibo. Vene- zuela. writes that owing to the ravages of locusts and drought the Gosjiro Indians are being driven to desperation. Mothers come to the settlements to ofler their chil- dren for sale, saying they are dying of hungeg. Theexportation of 3111 articles of food is (prohibited, and additional taxes are levie to relieve sufferers. In some places the ground is covered with a thick layer of dead locusts. It is feared that deadly disease willbe produced by their putrefaction. A reward is offered for their collection, and as high as 8.000 pounds have been gathered in one day. Cattle are dying for want of water. The rivers are dried up, and the crops ruined. In Maracaibo, where rain is entirely depended upon for drinking pu oses. great distress is caused by the poorer o asses being compelled to drink semi-saline water. A remarkable incident occured recently upon a farm in Scotland. A farmer was ploughing in one of his fields, which was nearly completed. and was passing to within afoot or two of the fence wall, when suddenly and to the surprise of the farmer, one of the horses became restive and wild, and refused to proceed in his work. This was an unusual eiroumstance,and the farmer was puzzled to make out the cause of it. Seizing the reins in his hands, he walked toward the horse’s head, when to his astonishment, he found that a large weasel had attacked the horse by sprin ing upon it and fastening its teeth in the ri htened animal‘s neck. It was a moment 0 excite- ment and alarm, but the farmer was equal to the emergency. With a well-directed stroke of the reins the weasel was dislodged and killed. The horse soon recovered from his fright, and in due course ploughing was resumed. The cause of the daring attack upon the horse was explained upon the return journey. with the plough a breadth nearer the wall, where at the place of the attack the stock turned over a nest of young weasels, the object of anxious solicitude to the parent weasel. It was the well-grounded fear of harm to her young that had inspired the heart of the parent weasel to perform an act of daring that one could almost regret should have been so disastrous to itself and progeny. Sir John Lubbock, in his address before the British Association at York, gave his endorsement to the Darwinian theory. and said the evidence to show that man existed on the earth before the glacial period, or in miocene times, is not sufficient. He is convinced,however, that men did live in Europe during the latter partial glaciation. In discussing the composition of the earth he held thatit is now ver generally believed that the earth isasolid y instead of a crust filled with a fluid mass. Sir John accepts the theory of Hemboltz that the sun‘s heat is dueto its continued shrink- ing. When this process ceases the sun will become dead and cold. The time of this catastrophe is put off at 17,000,000 years. The bridal veil for the Princess Victoria of Baden. who is about to be married 20 the Crown Prince of Sweden. is being made at Wechselmann’e lace factory at Hirsch- berg. The ends of the veil display alter- nately the arms of Sweden and Baden ; the general design is com oeed of oranges and myrtlen. the bor era representin wreaths of various flowers. Every bit 0 the work, even the foundation, has been done with the needle. The length of the veil is 5; metres (six yards). -, Multles of dark lush will bel’ with quilted satin. p med HOW TO I‘lF‘l‘ L000 POUNDS. A lloue Attacked by a Weasel. LUCUSTS AND nauvan'r. The \Vorld's Age.