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Accusations of witchcraft and maltreat- ment of supposed witches by the illiterate country people are still things of frequent occurrence in Germany. A recent num- ber of the Damiger Zeitung tells of an incident of this kind in the village of Stangcnwalde. where an old lone woman was accused of havingbewitched an invalid widow. because, ast e latter was driving past the other‘s but the horse suddenly came toastop. This was assumed to be owing to the old woman‘s occult influence. and to prove that the widow’s illness had been caused by her. The old creature. frightened out of her senses. was dragged to the widow‘s bedside and subjected to various terments to coerce her into expel- ling the devil from her victim. This mode of rocedure failing, she was compelled to in ict cuts in three of her fingers, and permit the widow to suck her blood. after which the invalid immediately began to feel better. It was then proposed to hang poppy-syru stop the cough by lethargizing the irritabi ity and thus preventing the discharge of the phlegm till its accumula- tion produces a second and far more dangerous paroxysm. These second attacks of croup (after the administration of palliatives) are generall the fatal ones. When the child is conva eseing. let him beware of stimulating food and overheated rooms. Do not give aperient medicines ; costiveness. as an after-effect of pleuritio affections, will soon yield to fresh air and a vegetable diet.-â€"Dr. Felix L. Oswald, in “Popular Scimw Monthly" for October. Many traditions of romance met together in the marriage of the Crown Prince of Sweden with the Princess Victoria oi Baden. The bridegroom is a great-grand- son of the French soldier of fortune Berna- dette ; the bride, through her grandmother, descends from the exile dynasty of Sweden called the " House of Vasa." As'the child- the witch, and a rope was fastened around i less sister of Charles K“ was the last of her neck, while the crowd beat her about ' that house, the claim must rest on political the head and face with slippers and shoo- succession rather than on blood relation- makors‘ lasts. She was finally rescued, ship. but it is sufficient, no doubt. for a but in a dangerously injured condition. court genealogist at a wedding festivity. perienced in taking a sun bathehiy sunburn- mg the skin. This is avoid by oiling the bod first, and gradually acoustoming one's-se f to its rays. Care must be taken not to overdo the bath at first. or injury will result. The temEerature of the body may be raised two or t rec degrees in an hour.anda delightful feeling of comfort had by managing just right. By wrong management great discomfort may be pro- duced. The head. as said before, must be protected from the sun‘s rays. In sum- mer, when on the seaside, rheumatic patients are often improved by lying cov- ered up in the hot sand during a part of the day.â€"Dr. IIoIbrook. dry atmosphere often proves most ser- viceable in this disease. The warm. dry air stimulates the skin to greater activity, and this organ then, no doubt. throws off those poisonous products of transformation of tissue and imperfect assimilation, and the relief from it is very great. In many cases a perfect cure results from this alone. But it is not always convenient to leave one’s home in such cases, and so the sun bath may be used as a partial substitute for a change of climate, during a portion of the year at least. It may not be generally known that a person may produce aconsiderable sweat- ing by lying with the skin ex sed to the sun for an hour in the month 0 November. Of course the patient should be in a room and the sun let shine on the body only from the neck down. It may come throu h a large open or closedâ€"according to the sat â€"window exposed to the south. The body must be protected from currents of air: There is _a little danger‘to theinex- Sunshine as a. remed for rheumatism must not be forgotten. 0 all know that erohan-ge from a cold, damp, to swarm, “ that horrid old maid,” Miss Snipe. who is to marry her pastor. Makes her will and cuts off all her relatives by leaving her entire fortune to the heathen. 45 to 50â€"Sees no harm in'a. little more rougeâ€" particularly at night. “ Soraggy. fretful and desperate." A preacher with half a dozen responsibilitiesâ€"all boysâ€"she wqqld n93 cum to-. 50 to 55â€"Thank heaven she was never married. All men are brutes. More rouge. Terribly startled by a remark from her widowed pastor that “ it is the duty of all Christians to marry.” More startled next day to hear of the good fortune of (I that hnrrs'r‘ All] "“33 " Mu.an Qn€nn "L“ :n 40 to 45â€"Would accept a. preacher of her own denomination without responsibility. Takes a large interest in the Sabbath School, and in cute and emery birds. 87, 38, 39~Allows boys of 18 or 20 to take her to prayer meeting, as " intellect. nullity dlefieaill qqusidergtions of_age.”_ _ 84, 35, 36â€"As general thing despises men. “ They are all so silly; but of course there are exceptions to all rules." Elected President of the Children’s Aid Society. 30, 81. 32. 38â€"Wonldn't mind a. widower if not too old. Willing to manage oharades and tableaux, but won’t take a prominent part. Begins to turn charitable and hunt out the poor. _ Joins the churoh. _ 27, 28.29â€"Takes the lead in oherades and tableaux. Begins to tease her pa about the springs. Subscribes to How Journal for society news. Uses cosmetics sIQiDBU; , 24. 25, 26â€"Astoniehed not a little at gemajniug single. Why don't the men pro- 20, 21, 22â€"Modeaty begins to take its departure. Abh_ors aimglioity: i3â€"Laces tighter and wiEhes to marry for rankâ€"a colonel, Congressman or Sena.- tor would do. 19;D}ops love in a cottage and thinks of Al: brgwn_ gtone or presgedpriok front. , lBâ€"Joins an archery club. Affects intellectual repeats, such as “Reading Clubs." Dances every set and rejects all love proposale. Sweet l6â€"Builds castles and dwells on 102g in_09ttage. OI God, Thou livest whose lives or dies, Ol God Thou re neat when the rulers fall ; Around Thee now. t e clouded darkness lies. Yet Thou art in the darkness, and we call To T‘gee, ?our Sovereign I ah! doth blood a us His guiltless blood is shed. our fated one. All goodly gifts Thou igivest to the land; Peace greatest in ts borde harvest storeâ€" Barth'sgolden aln and fruitâ€"ti lthe filled hand, With more t an plenty needs, can grasp no more. Yet ltrut Thou smitten where we were most » oug; Thou hast rebuked us, show us now our wrong. Not from the dust could our great sorrow mount The serpent that did poison this true life, Sucked he his venom from the deadly fount 0f faction swollen to hatred, till the strife That is unreason, save for common 00d. Becomes a curse, because of right w thsmod. This man (3th rose to serve through patient as â€"- Heroic purpose steadfastly pursuedâ€" To fall. even in achievement, is his meed : Thou rulest, shall we ask Thee, wherefore, Lord ? Nay rather how the head and bend the knee And say, or (food or ill, it is of Thee l Of Thee. for evi Thou dost still control. Making its endin help to mould Thine end ; S rinkle this blom upon the nation's soul, his martyr blood, so henceforth it forefend Against the peril lies in faction base, 80 will he serve his eople, though his place On earth no more sh 1 know, that still, death- shrouded, face. Ass-1m A. MULLON, Lincoln, Nob. Sunshine (or Bhenmnulm. An Old Mald'o Lite. (September 19th. 1881.) Dic- presence. Bronchitis, nowadays perhaps the most frequent of all infantile diseases, makes no exception to this rule; a draught of cold air may reveal the latent progress of the disorder, but its cause is long con- finement in a vitiated and overheated atmosphere, and its proper remedy ventila- tion and a mild, phlegm-loosening (sac- charine) diet, warm sweet milk, sweet oatmeal porridge, or honey-water. Select an airy bed-room and do not be afraid to open the windows; among the children of the Indian tribes who brave in open tents the terrible winters of the Hudson Bay Territory, bronchitis, croup and diph- theria are wholly unknown; and what we ‘call “taking cold ” might often be more correctly described as taking hot ,- glowing stoves. and even open fires, in a night-nur- sery, greatly aggravate the pernicious efl'ects of an impure atmosphere. The first paroxysm of crou can be promptly relieved by very simp e remedies: fresh air and a rapid forward-and-backward movement of the arms, combined in urgent cases with the application of a flesh-brush (or piece of flannel) to the neck and the upper part of the chest. Paregorio and poppy-syrup stop the cough by lethargizing the irritabi ity and thus preventing the discharge of the phlegm till its accumula- tion produces a second and far more dangerous paroxysm. These second attacks of croup (after the administration of palliatives) are generally the fatal ones. 1 When the child is oonvalescing, let him beware of stimulating food and overheated rooms. Do not give aperient medicines; costiveness. as an alter-effect of pleuritio affections, will soon yield to fresh air and a vegetable diet.â€"â€"I)r. Felix L. Oswald, in “Popular Scirnm' Monthly" for ()clobcr. Some of the uses to which this piece of apparatus may be at have already been stated, and many 0 ers will suggest them- selves to persons employed in different avocations. It will doubtless be found very convenient for keeping cooked food warm when there is occasion to remove it some ydistance from the fire. It may be advan- tageously employed for warming beds and sleeping-rooms in which there are no stoves. It can be laced in a carriage of any kind and used uring very cold days in winter. It may be rendered very useful for warm- ing cellars in which fruit and vegetables are kept on the occasion of severely cold wea- ther; and may be suspended in a poultry- house when there in danger that fowls will ‘ freeze.â€"-Chicago Tintcs. ‘ i The vicissitudes necessarily incident to an out-door and primitive mode of life are never the first causes of an disease, though the! may_ sometimes tray its The time required for the apparatus to store up all the heat it is capable of will depend on its size, and the period it will continue to discharge heat will be in pro- portion to the quantity of the salt employed. A heater suflioieutly large to keep the hands warm for an hour or more can be charged by immersing it in hot water for five minutes. A foot~warmer. however. intended to be put inasleigh, must be immersed in boiling water for about twenty minutes. A toot-warmer that on removal from the water-bath indi- cated 153 degrees of temperature, at the end of eleven hours registered 111 degrees. The most sudden fall was at the end of two hours. It then rose two degrees. after which the temperature gradually subsided until it became as cold as the surrounding atmosphere._ if. Anoelin, of France, also brings out an ingenious apparatus for storing heat F that is adapted to a great number of prac- ‘tical urposes. It is based on the princi- ple t at metallic salts, especially those that are alkaline, absorb a large amount of heat when they are dissolved or melted, retain it while they are kept in a fluid state, and evolve it when the salts pass into a solid torm. The substance he employs for storing and giving out heat is acetate of soda. The chemical heater con- sists of a metallic flask filled with the above-named salt. and soldered airtight. The flask is made of thin copper or brass. It has a loop or handle for suspending it in a vessel of hot water, from which the sup- ply of heat is obtained. It the heater is‘ not injured one charge of acetate of soda is 1 sufiioient for all time. \ Foreign papers during the past few months have contained accounts of appara- tus designed for storing electricity, so that it may be transported and made an article of commerce. It is suggested that batteries may be charged with electricity generated by the power of wind or falling water, safely conveyed long distances and em- plo ed for surgical purposes,producing light angler running small machinery. Some think that electricity stored in this way may be used for lighting railway cars and for illuminating parks, public buildings and private houses on special occasions. It is also suggested that batteries charged with electricity will be furnished private families for running sewing machines, and that they will be recharged as occasion reguires at small! cost. \ Telegraphing this (Monday) afternoon, our Ottawa correspondent says: Advices received in this city state that the fishing on most parts of the coasts of Labrador and Anticosti has been aboVe the average, but in some places where the catch was short. owing to the want of bait. great destitution prevails, more especially in some parts of Anticosti. In these places many of the people are ill with low fever, owing to the want of protier nourishment. Some twentleve o e inhabitants, mostly children. have already died from this cause. At English Bay and Strawberry Cove, on the west end of the island. many of the families are utterly destitute. At Thunder Bay, Labrador, the fishing village of Messrs. Boutellier Bros. was destroyed by fire. The Bad Experience cl Gulf Fishermen. The Management of Sick Children. PRIVATION AND DEATH. image of Real. Sm,â€"On seeing the article in last Satur- day’s issue on “ Immediate Action Needed," and noticing that it referred to forest fires, I searched it through expecting to find some reference to Canadian sufi'erers, but was sorry to see that there was no thought or feeling expressed, except for our “neigh- bors, if not brethren, in Michigan." Now, I beg to submit, Mr. Editor, that to help the Michiganders is no duty of ours. St. Paul’s dictum is, “ If any man provide not for his own, he is worse than an infidel,". and while it is all we can do to provide for our own, there is no nation better able than the United States to provide for its own. If Sir Hugh Allan were to lose a spar or a few yards of cable off one of his floating palaces no one would come round to poor men like you and me, Mr. Editor, to be a little assistance for him, yet that woul be a precisely parallel case. If there is one thing more than another that our “ Ameri- can cousins" and their admirers are fond of it is flaunting their enormous riches in everybody's faces. We are constantly reminded how they are paying ofi their debt at the rate of $100,000,000 per annum; let them take what is necessary out of their surplus revenue and send it to Michi an. We are constantly told how many of t eir citizens reckon their fortunes b millions, ;and indeed do not take t e trouble to remember whether they spend five or ten million dollars ; let some of them give their cheques and settle this matter at once. We are often told how many times over New York could buy up the whole of Canada; let it buy up the whole of Michigan and pension off the “ suffering brethren." If, however, Cana- dians are determined to squander their hard-earned savings on people twenty times richer than themselves, they ought, in view of past ex erienoe, to choose some nation where pubic funds are honestly administered. I challenge you to give the names of a dozen sufferers from the Chi- cago fire who received one dollar of Canadian money out of the many thousands we sent, nor could a hundred Chic onians be found who ever even hear of the Canadian relief fund. Of course I would rule out of this count those who handled the money and to whose fingers it stuck. No doubt there will be numbers of our people who will try to relieve our wealthy “ American cousins” of doing their duty toward their suffering brethren; the good Book tells us that “ The eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth," and no doubt many will sub- scribe who Will not give the price of a stick of firewood for our own pectin the comin winter, and who did not even think 0 giving a ccnt for our burned out brethren in Quebec. However, if it will be any con- venience toany one I shall be happ to give you a number of addresses where collectors, should there be any, need not call, for they would not got a cent if they should. Axn-limmua. In the Germanltown of Herxheim there were such hordes of mice that a reward of a fourth of a. cent for every one killed was offered by the municipal authorities. U nder. this stimulus proof has been furnished within ashort time of the death of over 310.000. An Indianapolis man broke a matri- monial engagement with a plain woman in order to marry her pretty servant girl, and has been sued by the former for damages. Some ingenious persons have given a meaning to the location of a postage stamp on a letter. For example, they say that when a stamp is inverted on the right hand upper corner it means the person written to is to write no more. If the stamp be placed on the left hand upper corner and inverted, then the writer declares his affection for the receiver of the letter. When the stem is in the centre at the top, it signifies an mative answer to aques- ‘tion, or the question. as the case may be; and when it is at the bottom, or opposite this, it is a negative. Should the stamp be on the right hand corner, at a right angle, it asks the question if the receiver of the letter loves the sender; while in the left hand corner means that the writer hates the other. There is a shade of diflerence between desiring one’s acquaintance and friendship, for example: The stamp at the upper corner on the right expresses the former, and on the lower left hand corner means the latter. The learned in this language request their correspondents to accept their love by placing the stamp on a line with the surname. and the response is made, if the party addressed be engaged, by placing the stamp in the same place but reversing it. The writer may wish to say farewell to his sweetheart, or vice versa, and does so by placing the stamp straight up and down in the left hand corner. And so on to the end of the chapter. There are in the world about 6.000 varieties of stamps. Michigan Fore-t Fires. To the Editor of the Montreal Witness : a law student admitted at Osgoode Hall on the 10th of February, 1877. An envelope addressed to J. B. MoGur-n. pub- lisher, 36 King street east. Toronto, and a letter addressed to C. A. Wade. of Parkhill, were also found upon him. The latter was written u n the office paper of MoDougall and ordon. barristers and soli- citors, asking Mr. Wade to let the writer have the German school certificates from his trunk in order to enable him to earn money to pa what he owed Mr. Wade. It is thought t at, footsore, weary and hun- gry. after a long tramp on the track, unable to get work, repulsed on all sides when he applied for work, the poor student ielded to a sudden impulse to put an on to his miseries on earth. Dr. Flock will hold an inquest on Monday. A despateh from London. 0nt., dated Saturday, says: About 5.30 this evening an unknown man, who was walking along the Great Western Railway track towards the city. suddenly threw himself before the engine of No. 7 express for the west. A relief party was sent out with a hand-ear and brought the bod to the Great Western depot. in a horriby mangled condition. Search in the pockets revealed that the deqeased's name was _ H_ugo Schlieleir. All [anomalou- sludun Commu- Suicide by Throwing maul! Before n [.00.- motive. The Lana-lane of Postage Stamps. SEEKING DEATH. \VIIAT NEXT ? An amusing story is related concerning Mr. Bradley. the new Dean of Westmin. ster. He was once staying with the Arnolds in Westmoreland, when a picnic was arranged. Lots were drawn as to who should stay at home and " mind the house." and the ofllce fell to Mr. Bradley. 0n the return of the picnic party he remarked that “ it was a very good thing he had stayed behind, as a tramp had tried his best to get in through the drawing-room window, and would have done so had it not been for him.” The tramp. as most people endowed with imagination would have guessed. was the poet Wordsworth. so distant from anything ricultural, even when he talks of crops an stock, that the farmers like to listen to him. He patron. izes the countryman by saying that the sons of the soil are as good as other ople. Rev. Mr. Beecher used totalk about eifers and peers and posies in a manner that caused the farmers’ wives to smile when they discovered how little he knew. Ex. President Hayes shook hands. kissed the babies and wrote commonplaces in albums. The agricultural orator is an ornamental hero at country fairs, and the less he knows about the things he talks about the more he is sugposed to know about every- thing else. ortunately. in Canada, the orator is scarcely known at our country fairs ; the longer he remains so the better. Wilkie Collins, who Is recovering from a severe attack of rheumatic gout, which necessitated his confinement to a darkened room for three weeks. his eyes having been seriously affected. has been' ordered to abstain from all work for at least six months. A warning to tailors has just been given by an able English judge, Robert Malcolm Kerr. to whom lawyers owe what is reputed to be the best edition of Black- stone. A London city tailor named Richter sought to recover the value of an overcoat ordered and supplied to a defend- ant, a Mr. Reed. who was “something in the city,” and who contended that the cost was two inches too low in the collar. and infect such a garment that no gentleman would oondescend to wear. He returned the coat to the plaintiff several times. who finally threw it in at the defendant's oflice door. The coat was produced, and His Honor, amid the merriment of the court, requested the defendant to put it on. This was done, whereupon the learned judge said that the defects were obvious1 even to his unprofessional and unsartorial eye. Indeed, he added, the defendant might as well have gone to Hollywell street an purchased a second-hand cost from the shop dealers. He accordingly gave judgment for the defendant with costs. Tar. greatest curiosity at a. country fair is the‘orsttgr. Be iiqauallyjnhhis gpeech The following notice has just been issued to the Inspectors from the office of Mr. F. Witcher, Commissioner of Fisheries : Pickerel, maskinonge and bass cannot be caught from 15th April to 15th May; speckled trout, brook or river trout cannot be caught from 15th September to 1stMay; salmon trout, lake trout and Whitefish from 1st to 10th November. Net or seine fishing without licenses is prohibited; nets must be raised from Saturday night until Mon- day morning of each week; nets cannot be set or seines used so as to bar channels or bays; Indians are forbidden to fish illegally the same as white men; each person guilty of violating these regulations is liable to fine and costs, or in default of payment is sub- ject to imprisonment ; no person shall, during such prohibited times, fish for, 3 :catoh, kill, buy, sell or have in possession * any of the kinds of fish mentioned above. In reference to game the penalties are unusually severe, and all who are lovers of ‘ sport should keep the laws. Partridge ‘ shall not be killed between the 1st of1 January and the 1st of September. Quail shall not be killed between the let of January and the 1st of October. “ I come w your parish clergymanâ€" it is my duty to know all my arishioners. I know you don't attend ohurc . but that is ‘no reason why we should not be friends.” To which the tailor responded: “ I dinna regard ye as a. minister of Christ, but as a servant of satan’s, if ye come as a gentle- man well and good, but as a minister I refuse to receive you." which could hardly be called courteous, but the tailor’s polite- ness was outrivaled by his minister's. who, rising, said: “ My good fellow, be pleased to understand that it is only as your parish clergyman that I ever dreamt of waiting you ; when I visit as a gentleman I don’t visit persons in your position in society," with which he departed. A story is told of an exchange of courtesy between a Scotch minister and his parish- ioner which is characteristic of both. The minister was but lately inducted into a country living, and in his round of parochial visits called at the cottage of a little tailor. Taking a seat uninvited. he proceeded to talk, but found ithard work, as he met with no response. The tailor sat upon the table, stitching in sulky silence. At length he spoke. “ Sir," he said. “ I regard it as an unwarrantable intrusion your entering my 3 house. and I ask you in what capacity you‘ come?" " My good man.’_’ was the reply, alleged (plot of a madman to revenge the death 0 Garfield by murdering Conkling has been discovered. The plotter is a dper- son residing in Utica. where he has one business for fifteen years. The informant of the police is Mr. Jackson, a shi ping merchant doing business in the East iver. Mr. Jackson received last Wednesday a letter postmarked Utioa, mailed on the 27th. written by a man he had known and worked for fifteen years ago. The message conveyed by letter startled Jackson very much. It was a calm argument apparently to justify the assassination of Ccnkling. who, the writer alleged. was the direct cause of Garfield’s death and of the eleva- tion of Arthur, who the writer said was not half as big a man as Garfield. In three ages and a half of note paper he ar ed that Conkling deserved death and oug t to be shot. Mr. Jackson gave the letter to Police Commissioner Mason. who, after studying the letter carefully.was convinced that no assassination was intended. A vac. Madma- Au-In. In Favor o! Centaur- Lawn-non. A tele ram from New York says an alleged p at of a. madman to revenue the Protecting Flu]: and Game. The Exchange 0! Count-lea. A BABUAL'! PLOT. ’l‘nllon’ Minna. LINES ON A PLUMBER. Most modest of men is the plumber, No rival has he save the drumber; Though the world e‘er maligns, Yet he never repigns. And thriveth in winter and sumber Give him but an order to plumb, And his bill straightway reaches a snub That depletes your exchequerâ€" Would equip a three-dequerâ€" And makes you most awfully giumb. â€"When the earth in which a plant grows is much warmer than the air. the plant grows very thick. ceases almost altogether toincrease in hei ht, and finally shows deep transverse ri ts which make further growth an im ossibility. These effects were produced yM. Prilleux. who used a large dish of earth. in which he lanted the seeds. and kept the earth 10 egrees warmer than the moist air of the chamber. The autumn leaves were falling last As gavi to the stables passed A man u spurs and top-boots (light, Who shouted with a stmn e delight-- " lo I Tally-ho i" â€"Electricity is now employed in the rectification of inferior alcohol. The electricity generated by a voltaic battery and adynamo-electric machine is passed through the alcohol so as to disengage the superfluous hydrogen. By this means beet- root alcohol, which is usually very poor. can be made toyield 80 (for cent. of spirits equal to that obtaine from the best malt â€"The Ottawa. Free Press says Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, recently taken possession of by Lieut. Hooper. of the United States. on behalf of the United States Government, is really part of the Dominion, having been formally trans- ferred by the British Government during Mr. Maokenzie’s regime. MARRIEDâ€"DEAD. In the columns, side by side, Stand these captions. Married, Died. What flne irony is this That shaded with death our nuptial bless That bends beneath one earnest gaze The story of two wondrous days ? The kiss of death, or blushin bride. Sarcastic blend in Married, ied. â€"A lady is anxious to learn “ why it is that a man entering, alone. a church of empty pews, and seating himself, always puts his hat in the pew in front of him instead of laying it at his side. the front pew being as liable to befllled asany other." She thinks it may be for the same reason that, as has always been noticed,when this animal comes out of a saloon wiping his month he goes one way and looks another. â€"-A letter in the Evangelical Churchman triumphantly points out that High Church- iam in high places is gradually being eliminated from Toronto and its neighbor- hood. Firat, Archdeacon Palmer had to go, then Dean Geddea (Hamilton), then Provost Whitaker. and now the Rev. W. 8. Darling. â€"-Never let a. child bang a. piano. The first impression of treating the instrument as a toy may do lasting damage to later musical instruction. A clear. firm touch- ing of a. note at a time should be all that is allowed, even to the youngest children. â€"Meyere has a bad voice, but is all the time humming a snatch of some song. The other day he was talking to Gilkereon about himself, saying “ that he would on]- tivate his voice."' .4 That’s right,” said Gilkeraon, “ plant it deep." â€"-When the girl who has encouraged 3 young man for about two years suddenly tells him that she can never be more than a sister to him, he can for the first tune see the freckles on her nose. -â€"A contemporary asks: " What does enoore mean ‘2” It is only one phase of the universal desire among the sons of men to get something for nothing, and 170 get it at once. â€"Ae this is one time of the year for refurnishing and refittin . it is important to remember that the we s and carpet of a. drawing-room must have a proper contrast. If the walls are dark the carpet must be light, and vice versa. â€"The amount of litigation going on this fall is ver light, the people. judges, re- porters an jurors are thankful, though the lawyers are grumbling at the stagnationi n -â€"Oyster shells, a. Paris aper says, are reduced to powder and us in the manu- facture of artificial seltzer water, so that the same shell may appear twice on the same table of a. restaurant. first in its natural state, next as part of the contents of a. siphon. â€"“ Subscriber."â€"It would be diflicult for you to secure a genuine Egyptian mummy unless at an enormous cost. You might secure a semi-modem substitute, that can scarcely be detected, so perfect is $0 igitatiou. by applying to the Board of or . â€"-A London journal thinks that when women begin to work they will smoke also, and that doubtless there will come a day when Worth will always add to his dresses a dainty little tobacco pouch or cigarette pocket. â€"At Battleford. N. W. T.. salt is quoted as selling at $75 per hbl.; kerosene oil never less than 82.75. and sometimes as high as 88 per gallon ; sugar 250. per pound. â€"-Alwaya tonoyâ€"the voice. -â€"A hard caseâ€"the oyster's. â€"Wild turkey and quuiloan now be shot. â€"A pound of pluck is worthu ton of luck. â€"A man seldom mend: his fortune by darning the odds. -â€"â€"Mora squeak than poetty in nine-tenths of our salonâ€"New York News. What you want is 3 30-1500. â€"The matriculation examinations of the University of Trinity College opened on Saturda last. Twelve candidates pre- sented t emaelvea. “ Go not. molaat," Old William said, “ Don't mend the Knee and break your head; The fences are at! , the streams are wide," llutloud as tho chem-y born he cried. "no! Tally-ho!" " 0 stay." the maiden said. " and play M tennis in the hull today." No twin-Ind his fair moustache a. while, But still ho shouted, with a smileâ€" " Ho! Tally-ho " Beware tho horse's tronchemus flinch ; Beware the tbniblo bull-finch." This was the faithful groom‘s good-day ; Fm- nfi a voico cried: " (inno awn i" " lio! 'i‘si y-ho l" M. eve, n laborer homoward bound Beside a ditch the huntsmnn {mimi- With broken leg and injurod aide. Who Mill In mmwst accents cried H Ito! Tally-ho I" TEA TABLE GOSSIP.