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Abort 5,000,000 fish poles ere imparted every year, or an evernge of one pole to each fish ought by amateur fishermen. Tworeces of men are dying outâ€"the [Ap- lnnden. who number 30,000, and the Masons of N ew Zealnud, reduced from 100,000 to 45,000 since the dsys of Captain Cook, and likely to be extinct by the yeer 2.000. According to ofii :iai statistics Paris last year consumed 4,000,000 eggs. It elm drank 87,560,000 gallons of wine, 3,217,000 gnllons of spirits and liquors snd something over 12,000,000 gallons of cider and beer. The Auetrsllens find it quite imnossihieto as} rid of the pie ue If rubies. Lew South nles has expen ed the enormous sum of “£09.46 ', or nearly 25 cents apiece, for killing 7,853,787 of thew, and yet, instead of decreasing, the posts appear to be i zeroes- ing in numbers. The number of sheep in the world is en. timeted as follows, according to the latest Itetietloe : South America. 1.000.000 ; Ana- trnlin, including New Zealend, 77,000.000 ; inrope, 212 000,000: Africa, 25,00”: 00 ; Asia. 5 l,000,0 I) 3 United Scales, 45,000,- 000 ; Canada, 3,000,000: all other countries, 5,000,0 0. Total, 517 0 0,0 0. In the United States the average yield of wool is nbont eix pounds per head. This mey be considered a favorable show- ing as there is choice even of evils. Were thoee addicted to the drinking habit to 8.1)- stain entirely from the use of whisky and confine their libstions to the wine cup or the beer mug, drunkenness would be less fre- quent than it now is. It is asserted that the police records of large cities show that the number of arrests for drunkenness has decreased quite steadily since 1840. A writer in an English review severely criticizes governmental control of public works in that country. This is beginning to be a very sore subject in Great Britain. England has invested over $45,000,000 in the public service; over 40,0 0 men draw- ing $l2,000.00d are employed in the branches. The cost of her nien-of-war is said to be a fair example of the poor econ- omy of Govermental public works. The hulls of the shi built at the Chatham Government var cost on an average 34“.- 42 per ton. and the engines $74 per ton. Private builders on the Clyde construct the same things for $378.36 and 363.54. '1'here is evidently a “ boodler's ” paradise in the Che them yards. It is calcufeted thet during the lsst twelve months the people of this country have in- dividually and severally put their tongues out 1,968,341,000 times to moisten the post- age stamps for the billions of letters and millions of newspapers, periodicals end par. eels that are carried and delivered by the governmenn And yet forty-five years ago tshsre wasn’t a postage stamp in the United um; . Fredericksbur , Va., has a big pickle fac- tory that is supp ied with cucumbers from the lands adjoining the city. This season the supply has reached 30,000,000 cucum- bers, those engaged in their production fur- nishing from 200,000 to 1,000,000 each. An acre will produce 100,000, and they sell in Fredericksburg at 80 cents per 1,000. The object is to get them an inch on an inch and a half long, and this requires active picking before they increase this size. A boy will pick 3,000 in a day. Picking them than early increases the productiveness of the vine, and while the season lasts others are appearing in place of those taken from the American Government statistics find that since 1840 the use of whisky has fallen 05 one-half in the United States, while the use of wines has increased about 40 per cent. The consumption of beer has increased from 1.36 gallons per capits in 1840 to 11.01 gsllons per capita in 1386. At the time of the census of l880 there were ten cities in the United States with more than 290,000 inhabitants each. They were New York. Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Biltimore, Cin~ cinnati, San Francisco and New Orleans. Their population aggregated 4,914,897. in 1887 the number of cities with more than 200,000 inhabitants had increased to four- teen, the four additional being Bufi‘alo, Cleveland, Pittsburg and Washington. The total population of these fourteen cities was estimated at 6,798,000. lt isestimated that there are in addition to the cities above enumerated, thirteen with populations exceeding 1( 0,000 each, as follows: Albany, Alleghany, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jersey City, Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minneapolis. Newark, Providence, Roches- ter and St. Paul. These thirteen have an estimated population of 1,750,000. There are also thirteen cities with over 60,00) each, whose combined population is 902,000. Al- together these forty cities have 9,450,000 inhabitants, or nearly one-sixth of the popu- lation of the United States. The superintendent of the \Voman a Re- formatory prison reports that: “ Out of u: exnminution of 244 inebrinto women 128 be n their drinking by the use of beer, 37 by fiinking whiskey, (as punch at first usually,) 20 began with wine, ei It with gin, and 11 could not remember wgat bever was first used. These young girls, mill an shop girls largely, began by going tosoms so-oalled re- freshment saloon with their triends, and the debutante usually began by sipping a little tonic (made of hops. sugar and water, charged with carbonic acid gss and colored with burnt sugar;) beer soon followed, and soon rioting, other kinds of intoxicsnts, rest- lesness and crime ; and what was an innocent foolish girl yesterday, is to-day a branded sriminul and all for a glass of beer. 0f the 204 inebriate women, 26 had been guilty of other crimes, and yet in but 16 instances did the first commitment of a ct ime antedate the habit of drinking. More than one had formed habits of intcmperance before they were 21 years of age, and more than one- third at the giddy age of from 15 to ‘20 in elusive. Twenty-seven began to drink in- toxicants before they were 10 years of age." It appears from a table compiled by the Railway A go of the most destructive railway accidents of the past forty years that the number of very serious accidents in the U nitcd States was equalled if not excelled b those in foreign countries. For exam; ple, those in which sixty or more persons were killed were in America as follows :â€" July 17, 1856, Philadelphia and reading railroad. at (Iamphill, Penn, 66 killed, 100 injuredzJuly if), l884, Erie railroad, at Port Jervis, N.Y., head collision. 60 killed, 120 injured;l)ecember 20, 1876, Lake Shore and Michi an Southern, at Ashtabnla, 0., broken bri go, about 80 kill ed, 60 injured : and tho (Inatswarth disaster with 77 killed and 130 injured. 0n foreign STATISTICS. The Soudnn is thy greet central region of Africa, exoending from Senegambia, on *the Wee: of the bile, or according to a common recent use of the name, to the Red Sea in- eell. It is a vast region barren in some parts and very fruitful in others, and inhabi- ted by a great many nations, some 0! which, eepwially in the West, approach a conditlun of oivihzation, and hove large end reaper. nus cities, where trade and menu noturee amended on. r‘llvnyn with the same period there were the followiu zâ€"Mu'ob I7. 1857, Great \Vuwrn of ‘anodt n the Den Jnrdiuoa canal, by a broken bridge. 6') killed and 3‘) injured ; Grand Trunk of Canada. at Rio-he. lieu Riyer. by an quu dpwbljdgohso k91- ed, “ hundredg" lnj and: December 28. 1879, North British nib". gt "19 bridge by (leuilmeut, 74 killed: Juno‘ El, 18“, hloreliu railroad, .0 San Antonia River. by a broken bridge, 200 killed; J uneS, 1885. n Koglett, Russia, train derailed by wreckeu, 70 killed and wounded. The French, in their operations upon the Soildan, have in contemplation the joininu ot the Western Suudnn to the F rencn poe- ecseeione of Sierra Leone and Senegal, which now extend tar inland, and then connecting the whole with Algiers and Tunis, and thus gradually establishing a French dominion over the whole of Western Africa, and giv~ in 1 France a foreign possession larger then In in ' [ha The French plans include a nilwey across thnra. to connect Algierewith the river 3y me of the Senequ and Niger, the flooding of a put of Selma, and the deve- lopment of a great commerce with the whole region. Operating from Bammskoo, a. town on the bank of the N iqer, Colonel Gallieni has traversed the Soudm as far as the Sahara, and as far down the Niger as Lake Debo, not. far from Timbuctoo. In the next campaign the French domin- ion will probably be extended as far as Tim- buctoo. for the commandant of the gunboet on the Niger bee ordersto descend togKnbara, the river port of the great Central African capital of timductoo, : and Colonel Gellieni has established such friendly relations with Chief Tidiani and the principle Sheikha of that city that he does not look for any to- sieunce. [he young captain returned to St Louis. in Senegal, and was not long afterward placed in commend of the entire interior region. He returned to the N iecr not to revenge himself upon Ahmabou, but to con- ciliate him and gain his friendship. The Sultan of Segou, who had probably acquired a high regard for his former captive, finally made peace With the French ; and not only was he won over, but Colonel Gallieni, by skilful and wise management, obtained a treaty with Samory, the most powerful atentate of the whole region no*th of the iger, ceding to the French the whole oouno try as far south as the Niger and the Tank- isso, its tributary. The conquest of the Western Souden, with less than a half, hundred men, will, if it is fully consummated, be more remarkable then Lord Clive’s conquest of India, or the Spanish conquest of Peru and Mexico, be- cause it will have been accomplished with- out bloodshed. In their movements into the Western Sou- dan, the French are aided by the Senegsl and Niger Rivers, which approach very near each othez. They have not only opened a road from the Senegal to the Niger, but have built gunboats upon the Niger. and are now descending that river, extending a peaceful conquest as they go. l'heir ex- pedition, whicu makes peace with the no tivss and not war, comprised at lost ac. counts, only five hundred and thirty men, of whom three hundred and two were Enr- opguns. Arrived at that capital, young Gallieni and his companions were thrust into prison by Sultan Ahmadou and kept there for one year. An expedition under Colonel Dee- bordes was sent. to relieve them. Ahmadou heard that the French had taken Goubanko, a. place which he believed to be impreguublo, whereupon he at once liberated Galiieni and hia_compauions. Pasteur has been mtde n Baron by the Emperor of Auntfll. If a crazy man is called a maniac why shouldn’t a crazy girl he called a girliac Y A six-yenr-old Guelph boy, whose father is a cornetist, was very restless the other ni ht, and couldn't go to sleep. Finally, as a fast resort, he called out : “ Papa, please pkgi your comet; that always makes me tit ." The expedition is under the command of Colonel Gallieni, who is still a young man. In 1870, Gallieni, then the captain, set out from the Senegal with a small expedition to go to Segon, a town on the Niger, and establish friendly relations with Ahma» don the sultan of that region. Before he reached Segou, his little party was captur- ed, and plundered by hostile natives, who, however, allowed him to go on to Sagan:- George Meredith the famous English novelist, is a handsome man between 50 and 60 years of age. His hair is gray, his features well cut and expressive, and his manner vigorous, unaffected and pleasing. Like many a man who has excelled in prose George Meredith considers himself a great poet. He seems blind to the fact that while he may be a giant in fiction he is a dwarf in verse. Three children, the eldest eleven and the youngest three, found a horse oaughtin a railroad bridge near Piedmont, Mo. It was toward evening and a passenger train was soon due; so the little ones made a small bonfire of brush on the track, and when the train caire in eight waved burning branches. The engineer stopped the engine, the horse was removed, the train went on. and few of the passengers knew how near they had been to an accident. Gen. Boulanger, in an address to the ofli- core of his command, after the mauwuvre by his corps at Clcrmont-l’errand, on Sat.- urdsy, strongly urged the necessity of giv- ing a wider exercise of offensive tactics which were proper to the French army. ”0 concluded hIs remarks as folloWs :-â€"" “'e have today more need than ever of the qualities of a warrior. The hour has not yet struck for the (“armament of ths‘peo Flea of old Europe. It {I albadnoss JO b.- ieve it, a crime to say ’it, for it points if) “peace at any price’ as the goal to which our country should aspire, and our enemies, who often appraise us at our real Value better than we do ourselves. know well that we have not got as far as that. More than ever we must continue the work. It is for France." A Wonderful Conquest. In a discussion on the strawberry, gt 3 recent meeting of the Columbu- Horticul- tural Society. one of the speakers declared that this fruit was particularly wholeso-ne as a corrective of the condition produced by malarial disease. At the same meeting the statement wee mule tblt the white of un egg contained a: much food as tWelve pounds of strawberries. BLACK imp \an'flc HARD ox THE IYES. Bnouuuc AS A Dnouomm‘. A Igiutioxxfafl Drawings 1‘)!“ proved unoix peotc me u 5 co orizt mm u “not yen-autionl, from whfofll‘ noxious smells emanate in thin ci '. Whogher it in :nu dWecmnt. or mere y a new» 0! lup- prouiuiunpleaunt odons, in a question an to whio unitary mthorilies differ. Several of the French railway companies and other public bodies have resolved on having their printing done on green instead of white paper. The reason for the altera- tion is that. they believe the combination of whim paper with black characters endan. gers the eyesight of their workpeople. Black on green has always been recognized as a good combination, and many railway tickets are so printed. The supenstition that human beings should sleep with their heads to the north is be- lieved by the French to have for its found- ation a scientific fact. They ntiirni that each human system is in itself an electric battery. the head being one of the elec~ trodes, the feet the other. Their roof was discovered from experiments w ich the Academy of Scienoes was allowed to make on the body of a man who was gnillotined. This was taken the instant it fell and placed upon a pivot free to move as it might. The head part, after a little vaoillation, turned to the north, and the body then remained stationary. It was turned half wa round by one of the professors. and again t e head end of the trunk moved slowly to the cardi~ nal point due north, the same results being repeated until the final attestation of organ- A writer in the Swiss Gross says: July 2, at 8 a. m., I bought two apples from a stand on the edge of the sidewalk near Adams St. It was directly over the gutter, and about ten feet from a sewer vent. The apples I bought had 'come into town that morning, and had not been on the stand ten minutes. At 6 p. m., same day I bought two more apples of the same lot, and per- fectly sound like the first. I scalded two pitchers tor half an hour, then rinsed them with cold water drawn from the lame faucet at the same time. Into each pitcher I put a int of milk drawn from the same cow he i an hour before. Into one pitcherI put the two apples bought in the morning, into the other the tvm bou ht in the evening. The pitchers then stoo side by side until l2m., July 3. At that time the milk con~ taining the morning apples was sweet, that in the other pitcher was sour and thick. This experiment I tried three times, with fruit of the same kind, and With fruit of (lilierent kinds, bought from difl'erent vend- (3th with the same result. I, then tried the same experiment with [wit bought from fruit depots, restaurants and the like, and found no difference in the milk in the dif- ferent pitchers when tested the next day. This seems to show that fruit is rendered unfit for food by remaining for twelve hours near gutters and sewer venb. From a chemical point of view, man‘s body is composed of thirteen elements, of which five are gases and eight are solids. If we consider the chemical composition of a man of the average weight of 154 pounds, we will find that he is composed in large part oi oxygen, which is in a state of ex- treme compression. In fact, a man weigh- ing 154 pounds contains ninety-seven pounds of oxygen, the volume of which, at ordinary temperature would exceed 980 cubic feet. The hydrogen is much less in quantity, there being less than fifteen pounds, but which in a free state, would occupy a vol- ume of 28‘0 cubic feet. The three other gases are nitrogen, nearly four pounds; cholrine, about twenty-six ounces: and florine, three and a quarter ounces. Of the solids. carbon sbnds at the head of the metalloids, there being forty~eight pounds. Next comes phosphorus, twenty-six ounces, and sulphur, three and a quarter ounces. The most abundant metal is calcium, more than three pounds; next, potassium, two and a half ounces; sodium, two and a quarter ounces; and, lastly, iron, one and a quarter ounce. It is needless to say that the various combinations made by these thirteen elements are also innumerable. ic 'movement. Canaan's Nzw BELL. An official notice has been published of the great bell for the Cathedral of Colo e, the solemn inauguration of which took 13 one a short time ago with great pomp. The bell weighs 27,000 kilos, or about 26 tom: 13 cwt. The clapper alone weigh-9 800 ‘kil'ooq or nearly l5} owt. It; perpendicular height is almost 14 1-2 feet; Ito diameter at the mouth nearly 11 1-2 feet. Twenty-two can- nons taken from the French were assigned by the Emperor William for its msnnfec~ true ;500 kilos. of tin were added. It was cast by Andreas Hemm. of Frenkenthal, and 2|,000 m. (£l,‘f»50) were paid for the casting. It will be known as the Kuiserglocke, or Emperor‘s hell ; and as the twa other bells in the cathedral hear the epithets resPec- tively of Pretosie (precious) and Specrose (beautiful), this one is styled Glorinsa. It bears «hove an inscription, recording-that “ William, the most august emperor of the Germans and king of tho l’russlans, mindful of the heavenly help granted to him where- by he conducted the late French war to a prosperous issue, and restored the German empire, . caused cannons taken from the nah boIhe devgted to founding o‘hell Q0 bun in the wonderful cathedral then iipproae’h g completion.” A likeness of St. Peter, the name patron of the church, is on the side, beneath which is a qustrain in the styleof the gnedimval conceits praying that sums Edam rise huvsnwsrd st hearing t 0 sound of the bell, so may the doorkee r of heaven open wide the gates of the cem- tiel mansion. 0n the opposite side is in- Tm: Gunmen. Conoslnox or Hut. Tm: S'ranvumu's Yuma. HEADS To THE Non-m. Coxrmmrran Faun. SCIENTIFIC. The bell was solemnly blessed in the ca- thedrul‘hy the Archbishop of Cologne. W3- ooflilu :tn the olsborate ritusl sor out. in the Pauli la Romuum. The ceremony in! very long, may palms being ensured by the clergy and ohoristcrs while the bell 1m being sprinkled with blossod wow and on- noimod with obi-ism. and the portion of St» Luke, x.' 3842, was chanted by a. deacon. 'nucnso and myth “one burned within it, andumuy sylubolicsl rites parlormed. The opinions of experts are divided as to wheth- er $30 note which the bell sounds is C sharp or . scribodtleltet in German, of which the aluminum: in: Lire Among the Siberian Nomads. The Ksrs-Kirghese areessentiellys nation of she herds and breeders of cattle, and think it a “ come-down " in life when com- pelled to resort to settled occupations. They are not so rich as their brethren in the plains. Very few own as many as 2,000 or 3.000 sheep. Also they have fewer csinels ; but, on the other hand, possess an excellent breed of oxen for traversing the mountains. Their cows s.e large, but do not yield much milk. Ysks are kept by them instesd. Their csttle breeding claims far less labor than agriculture, but is ex (1 to great risks. For the support of a 'omsd family for a year are required eleven head of large and ten of smell cattle, and to provide hey for the winter consumption even of this jnumber exceeds the Working power of one ; ho asehold. I was much interested to see some of the Kirghese on the much. Their wanderings are thus oonduated. When the pasture in n neighborhood is eaten, one or th1 of the oung men are sent to select a suitable spot or mother encampment, andto clennont the wells. This done, the women pack the tents and the men form the cattle in droves. The camp is ready and starts before dawn, the good womt n of the family riding in front. I met one old lady in this_honornhle Position, mounted sstride a bullock and coking anything but graceful. After her came the other women, variously mounted on the top of carpets, tea-kettles, tents, etc, the whole being nude to wear, as for as possible, n festive aspect. The length of 1 stsge is from 13 to 17 miles, and the and traverses about 25 miles in ‘24 hours. 0n arriving at the place of encampment it is the office of the Wife to at up the tent. I chanced to see a woman pbegin to do so, and would not stir from the spot till I had witnessed the whole operation. The prin- cipal parts of a kobillu, or tent, are large pieces of felt to cover a framework that con- sists of lintel and side posts for a door, and pieces of trellis-work surmounted by poles that meet in the centre. On this trellis~work are suspended arms, cloth: s, bags. basins, harness, and cooking utensils. Not that there isa lar e variety, however, of the last, for most of t 8 cooking is done in a large open saucepan that stands on a tripod over a fire in the middle of the tent. Crockery- ware is not abundant, being of hazardous carriage, and metal goods are not cheap, so that leather has to do duty not only for makin bottles (specially those for car- rying 'oumis-a) but also pails, some of which are furnished with aspout. I met with no small saucepans or tea-kettles of English shape, their place being supplied by kin-yam, or waterewers, somewhat resembling a coffee pot. Round the walls of the tent are piled bones, saddles, rugs. and bales of car into, ngtina't which he acoupants loan, the head 0 the household sitting opposite the door, and in front of him the wife in attend- anco. I we: honored with an invitation to dine in one of these tents, the dishes being put before us according to our rank. I heard nothing of grace before meat, but I never saw my thing to exceed the almrity with which the dgiehee were cleared. Hend- were knives and fingers were forks, the meat being torn from the bones so by the teeth of hnniry dog I. It is considered polite for Kir ese nupe rior to take a hand In] of pieces of meat end etufl' them into the in] of pieces 0? meat find stuff them into the mouth of an inferior guest, an elognnoy I saw practised on another, but from which, mercifully, I myself was excuuod.â€"â€"Dr. Henry Lancdell, in Harper's Magaziae. The numerous Rivers, Streams and Lakes of New anawick‘abonnd in salmon, trout, anfl‘qtpe‘r game fish. With few exceptions, all are accessible to he disciples of tha rod and fly, whether he be a stranger or a denlzw. From the early part of May to the end of September, he is free to go hither and thither and 90 in- dulge In his favorite pursuit without 10% or hindrance. The ulmost countless nuinber of Lakes in New Brunswick, scattered over its whole surface, teem with trout, togue, tulodl, bass pickerel, land-locked salmon, abinera, and other species of game fish. The Rivers in which salmon are taken with the fly, are the Reetigouche, Eei, Cherie, Jacquet, Ne ieeiquit. Miramichi. Upper Salmon, Big nimon nnd Tobique. These with their numerous tributariea, and the immense areas covered by them, emom- modete 3 heat of lame Weltonl. gua'aia, Buc‘t'éuche, Rwhfimcéo. Cocagne, Shedinc. St. Croix, Magagundavic, Lepre- an_x_: Ne_w River, an}! Muaqugmh. _ The trout River: and Streamn, in addi- tion to the foregoing. are so numerous that a complete list of them would occupy too much space; the rlnoipal are the Saint John, Nerepia. Sa mon, Oxomocto, Nash- waak, Tobique. Arooabook, Grand, Green, Madawaaka, Saint Francis, Allegash, Baas, Cara net, Pokemouche, Tracadie, Tabuain- tac, . rgibog, Kouchibouguec, Kouchihon- “And is this to be the endi’ said the decply-enumoured travelling man to the beautiful young lady who kept the hooks for one of his regular customers in the little in- land town. “ it is, M r. Mc'l‘hompson," she replied : “ I can never be anything to you hut a friend." “ Then," mid the drum- mer with tremulonu voice and n {we of Baby nlenesa, " It onl remains for me to my arewell. I shall 0 here again,” he contin- ued consultil his memorandum hook with “m, m n sell-possession, “in thir- ty days with a in [line of onmplea in millin- ery end drewgooda. Save me your orders, please. Good nitsrnoon.” New Brunswick. the Angler’s Paradise. " l mu oal'od the Emperor: bell ; I proclum the Ewpcmt'n honor ; 00 the: holy won-h $0ch [an phcod. I u tor the 003mm cumin. mace out pmtccsiou God ms: on: cum. to KL“ . It seems that the ancients had the brains to c mceive and the skill to execute even the reatest engineering feasts. A bridge 180 eet above the riVer bed spans a street at Nimes in Imly. It was constructed by An- gustus Cmsmr, and is a. model of beauty and strength. Its age speaks for durability. A Project over 'l‘wo Thousand Years (Nd. - The‘e was a singular enterprise begun and nearly or very lsruely executed by Darius the Great, half a down centuries B. C. It was a canal across the Isthmus of Suez on the general line and plan of the present cs~ nal. A stone is said to have been discovered by a French archaeologist, beari gen inscrip- tion in two or three languages declaringthst Darius had completed t e canal to that point, but on the judgment of his civil engineers had discontinued the work, as the difference of sea levels, it was believed, would work harm should the waters of the Mediterran- exn and Red Seas be joined. Precisely the same objection Was raised by certain civil engineers when D Let ep’s plan‘ was dis. cussed, but the 113th. II. V the fallacy of the buguboo reasoning on his opponents, and, nothing dsuuted, boldly pushed his scheme to a successful issue. The New York Sun comments on an en‘ terprise twenty centuries old as likely to be. completed this year. That is a canal through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, which eon-. uects North Greece with the Peloponnesust a work projected by Julius Caesar and pushed. to a. certain point by the Emperors Caligula» and Hadrian. \Vhether they found the en- terprise too difficult and costly for their means and exchequer is not. stated. It has. Y‘een reserved for this generation to com- p19}?- A woman, famous as one of the most kindly and most lovable among leaders of the best American society. once said : “ If I have accomplished anything in life, it in due toaword spoken to me in the right season. when I Was a child, by my old teacher. I was the only homely, awkward girl in a class of exceptionally pretty ones, and being also dull at my books. became the butt of the school. I fell into a morose, de- apairing state, gave up study, withdrew into myself and grew daily more bitter and vindictive. ” One day the French teacher, a grey- haired old woman, With keen eyes and a kind smile, found me crying. “ Qn' as tn, ma. fille ‘2" she naked. “ ‘Oh, madam, I am no ugly !‘ ! aobbed out. She soothed me but. did no contradict " Presently she took me to her room, and after amusing me for some time said ‘I have a present for you,’ handing me a scaly, coarse lump, covered with em th, ‘It in round and brown as you.’ “ ug y,” did you aey 1 ‘Very well I \Ve will call it by our name, then. It is you I Now you eh 1 plant it, and water it, and give it sun {or a week or two.’ “ ‘Ah,’ she said, aignificantlv, _‘;'ho would believe so much beauty and fragrance were shut up in that little, tough, ugly thing 2 But it took heart and came into the 8|"). “ It was the that time that it ever occur- red to 3n}: that,_i_n spite 9f "1’. ugly facg, I too, might be Able [0 win frienfii. and, to make myself beloved in the world." The Boalon Traveller prints the following among its paragraphs 0‘ police news in that e“! =_. “The police seized some liquor from a Hebrew named Moses Beershank the other day and he was arraigned in court, charged with selling intoxicating lwyerggu witliuut ' What explanation can you nuke in re- gard to the beer found in your place, Mr. 1;“?5’3‘5nkr qnidjho jndge. a special fix, as required by 1:17. Moses conducted his own cum and asserted his in- “0001100- “ I planted it and watched it carefully ; the green leaves came first, and at. last the golden Japanese lily, the first I had ever seen. Madame came to sham my delight. “ «Ah , nkn 543:1: ginngnnnntlu ‘nnkn ‘ I bought dot beer forumy family‘s own brivato mm on a Friday, and of course dsr was A lot. loft over for Suturday,’ retorted Moses. ‘Well, how about. the whiskey.’ Der viskey van a Christmas brosent,’ sald Moses smilingly. ‘ And the brandy l’ Moses at this oint assumed a serious as- Eect. and grave y remarked, ' Dot us not randy at. all your honor ; it vac sacred vls- key, used at the passover, made out of bodadoes in Jerusalem.” Th- yeu'a nut. bluuhlng mus. Were devoting the nmhio'u breast; And Ihe nummcr wax u o! beauty Undo tut the MM Normwut. It llurhed in the sedgy holluwu, And smiled in the woodlmd dell ; It “11‘ mm! In low. to" "pile" That mum! o'er the his. uud Ml. [low it glowed in the mystic Ibrahim U! the clear blue Northem sky: flow It ovlmaon'd Ind flushed iu ‘(nndeut In the uunw ’0 sweet good-bu- . And put!) lnrdu how we Soumlwd Made bri‘liau! Ibe poplur grove. And pl Aium‘c ml]: emu sounding. Pmm the taunts) here the plant mvo With drum notes in the gloamlw. The wind-mm swept the hangingâ€"- nggt mugs o! the distqqqflzegcheu. Whvra the "100w and bison browse. And We lny in our camp, and liutened, And {bought . l the mm untrod; O! the u isty. l'mely tuture, And the h men on the “ranger sod. Ard still o'er the wide, wide ooeuu. Our eager thoughts would atuv. To the human and. one». to the 1m es and hopes 0x the youth time, ta: away. Then we slept to dnum o! the morn-ow. " 'Twill he Sundav at home," we said ; “ But our church um»: be we Prank, With the blue sky overhead. ’ Th“ Salnlnth dulled In beauty. With a cum whoa. breath or pure, Made a solemn grand omnulrul 0f the wikd nut wilderne‘u The woods were the son. toned organs, And the winds. thro‘ their 1"va dim, Now raised some hiuh glad anthem. Now chanted some low H‘eoz h) um. We came lrom our tents together, And stood on the lone hill side, To join in the songs of Nature, Tmt Sabbath luutniug-t‘de. “ With one consent let all the earth," Swelled on the Bunny «if, And then how each home-nick heart went (01th In that strange hour of pmyer! And the text the preacher gave us Wu. “Rejoim III the Lord Always." Alike in the summer sunshine. And the g1 om o! wlme: days. And the ch uds of our L-loom were banished Like the mists from the mornin air; W: hat} apgength (0!: the uutxied cure For God h 61:13th e. A Word in Due Season. It V119, Sacred Vlskey. Sabbath on the Prairie.