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San Salvador has had a very brief season ‘I quiet, if the Panama news be correct, ince its last previous revolution, which oc- urred in the spring of 1885. At that time ’rosident ZtldiVln', who had distinguished limself by successfully resisting the imm- ion of B trrios, was compelled to resi n his ”ice by the revolutionary party, hem ed by lenendoz. The latter also quickly defeat» d the forces of Figueroa, who had succeed- d Zaldivar and established himself in the residency. Now a revolution has in turn een excite<l_agninst _Mencudez, who has teadiiy lost his popularit , and is accused i imprisoning, beating an forcing into the mks of the army some of the sons of the est Salvadorinn families as a punishment hr political opinions and offences. The re- ortcd defeat of the Government trees at a Union nmkcs the situation serious for [edendem President Bogran is equally npopular in Honduras, where he is accused Fpiotting to secure his re-eleition in next i0flth’3 hallotinqs, while the bold seizures :' authority by President Bariilas in Gusto. ‘31“ threaten trouble there. The anti k if Central America just now is rat 1‘ ormy. Among the (Jhauncy collection of auto- raphs recently sold in En land was the 'iginal warrant under whie Bunyan was 'rested for the third time and imprisoned 1' six months, during which time he is said rhave written the first part of “ ’i‘he i’il- -im's Progress." The warrant is dated March 4, 167445," and is signed by twelve isticcs six of whom were members of i‘ar- Iment, and three of whom had "initially ,mmltwd him for the previous twelve yenra’ lpriaonmont. Bunyan in it is described as “ tynllor." 'cal inventions. For instance, one of the ateat patents is a. holder for keeping the 16 born earpiece up“ one’s car without avihgto tire the arm holding it there. An- ther new invention is an arrangement for inding clocks so that the require no at- ntion for a. year. The evice is part of he clock itself. Still another is on anti- agnetic shield for watches to protect them hen. worn near dynamos or in other places here they would be ruined by the electric luid. It is computed that the death rate of the orld is 67 a minute and the birth rate 70 a inute, and this seemingly light percentage f gain is sufficient to give a net increase of pnlation each year of almost 1,200,000 A professor claims to have discovered hat a grain of alum in a gallon of water ill reduce the colonies of bacteriaâ€"if the ater is sufficiently infestedâ€"from 8,100 to bout 80, and that the remaining bacteria ‘11 be the large ones and can be easily tak- 3 out by filtering. The required amount f alum, he says, is too small to be detected y taste and is not harmful to health. With the aid of science, even the desert f Sahara is becoming inhabitable and colo- imtion is encouraged. The Lower Sahara s an immense basin of artesian waters, and ;he French are forming fresh oases 'with kill and success, so that. the number of cul- sivatefl _tm<_:k_s‘ i_s_increaeing rgpitjljy. After Lsol ofdectricity a field for their ingenuiix mt they are turning their attention to de- ices made ugeful in_9on_uequcnce of the elec- The recent overflow of the Nile, it is said, destroyed about $3,000,000 worth of proper- ty. The Khedive is just now making a tour of the country to inspect the ravages of the flood and to satisfy himself as to the feasibi- lity of the project for the restoration of Lake Moeris, proposed by Mr. Cope \Vhite- house, and approved last year by the Egyp- tian Minister of Public Works. This lake, hich is described by Herodotus as being 450 miles in circumference and 300 ‘ feet e_ep, was for centuries believed to be mythi- ‘ period of thirty yyears forty- three oases mve 13 000 inhabitants, 120, 00 0 forest trees uetween one and seven years old, and 100,- Asoc'r Licurmxc Runs. Many accidents are upon record which have been due to the bad construction of lightning conductors, churches being the most notable suti'erers from this cause. The history of St. Bride’s Church. Lfludoni 3‘- fords a curiously complete illustration of the need of lightning conductors for lofty buildings and of the need also that those conductors shall be good ones. On a Sunday afternoon in J une,'1764. NJ intensely ViVid flash of ii htning struck St. Bride’s steeple. The metaflic weather vane end the iron bars by which it was supported safely conducted the current some distance down the steeple, but at the spot where the bars terminated a number of hu 0 stones were shattered into in ments. ther metal work afforded a bro en path for the current, but the inter- vening stone-work sufl’ered great havoc. Ninety feet of the steeple had to be taken down entirely, while great and expensive re- pairs were required for the rest. Many years afterward the steeple was again struck, and alt-lieu h alightnin conductor had in the intervag been erecte , it was so faulty in construction that at various iuts thei church was once more damag . In the storm on July 15 last, St. Bride’s third time proved an attraction to electricity. Fortu- nately, upon this occasion the church itself was uninjured. The conductor conveyed the current to earth, but the contact was insufficient. There was a bad joint just be~ low the spot where the rod entered the ground, and, as the dissipation could not take place with sufficient rapidity, a number of flagstones and a portion of the earth was torn up and sent flying to some distance. A French scientific man, named Le Bec, rays that civilized man is gradually losing #10 sense. of smell, and th it, through disuse If its functions, the nose itself must finally liauppear. of the Nile, which is now believed to have been the ancient bed of the lake. The pre- lent project is to restore the canal leading From the river, which is said to have been lug by Joseph. and thus utilize the lake for :he purpose of receiving the Nile’s surplus looda and_§toring them for web the _dry won. The dunger from inundations vould thus be removed and an immense re~ ervoir for irrigating purposes created. It a estimated that; the coat of the work would >6 only $5,000,000, and an offer has been node to the Egyptian Government to accom- tlish it by private enterprise. )0 fruit trees. Invention} P9}; only find in the growing ”I1. a1: 7 Some years ago, however, Mr. \V'hite- xouse discovered a great de tension, south.- {eet of_9eiro,rarnd 3J0 feet elow the law] Rxs'roxwrmx UP Luu M03315. SCIENTIFIC. “It is interesting to work in the field and \ sheet over a. thoroughly broken snl intelli~ gent dog. He ranges just uhend, working up the wind, and when he scents the birds he stops, points with his nose in their direction, and becomes as motionless as a. statue. If you know the dog you can tell very closely how far ahead the bird is. When the dog lifts his nose rather high and sniifs the air, the bird is quite a distance away. If he stands with his nose poked straight ahead, the bird is not far away. If he stands ri- gid, with his legs braced and muscles tense and his head turned to one side, the bird is lying closely by, perhaps within a yard of the dog's nose. I have knOWn dogs to get exeited and eager on it close point and cstch the birds them- selves, but a steady dug will stand per- fectly still if the bird is within a foot of him. So long as the dog remains motion- less the bird will not attempt to escape, Jmt will lie still and watch him. Sometimesl have stepp d forward and picked a bird up from the grass or out of 1; hole in which It was trying to hide. When the bird rises the dog chargesâ€"that is, he drops ilnt upon the ground and remains there until ordered to hie on or fetch desd birds. A good dog watches the birds that are shot nnd remem. hers where the fall. When ordered to fetch he goes quickly to where a bird drop “ In all this shooting the satieinotionm a sportsman does not consist in killing the birds, but in watching the work of trained dogs and in the exercise of skill both in find ing the birds and in hitting them. After making a dog realize thntyou must be obey- ed, the only thing necessary is to make him understand what you require of him. Sot- tei‘b and pointers are the breeds used in hunting hirds. _ _ Two or three birds in a day’s cramp ought to satisfy anybody who hunts partridge for love of sport, and that is about all he is likely to get. The partridge is a quick, sharp flyer, rises suddenly. and shoots away wi_t._h9ut any prelimioary _fl()11riss_h§8. _ in the first winter months. Then you must know the ground pretty well, because the birds take rather long flights and are not so plenty that you can let one go and feel certain of findim7 another. “ The best woodcock shooting is after the first frosts in October. The birds are in the cover until August, when they scatter and feed at ni ht in the corn fields. Then comes their men ting season, and they take to the brier patches. In August and September you don’t find them. After the frosts they begin their flight South. If the cool weather comes on gradually, the birds linger along the route, but if the frosts are sudden and severe the shooting lasts only afew days. The woodcoek then are found among the white birches and on side hills, where the shooting is difficult. Their flight is very sharp. You hear a whistle of wings and just catch a glimpse of a small object whizzing among the trees. There is no time to look along the barrel of your gun and take aim. You just fix your eye on the small, whizzing object, throw up the gun, and let1 drive. Perhaps you get a bird and perhaps you don’t. A man who had never shot any- thing but prairie chickens would lose sight of a woodcock before he was half ready to fire. Although the woodcock is hard to hit he is easily killed when you do hit him. After the woodcock have gone anrh the leaves have fallen from the trees partridge shooting begins and lasts well into the Win- ter. Early in the fall the birds go in large coveys, but later they get scattered and go singl . Of course they are shot a great deal hefore snow flies, ut the real sport is ” The prairie chicken or Einnated grouse rises easy and has a steady ight. It is not difficult to shoot them, and it becomas rath- er dull sport. "0 Almost anybody can kill them in the o n country. In the corn fields it is a litt e quicker work, but while a sportsman accustomed to Eastern shooting makes little of it, the native prairie shooters think it almost useless to go into the corn after birds. Late ii the season the chickâ€" ens go in packs instead of coveys, and take long flights, and then it is harder to get them. But prairie chicken shooting can not compare with quail shooting. In the South where quail are plenty yet, the shooting is comparatively easy. You 0 on horseback in wide country and fin the birds in coveys. The dogs range ahead, and if they are steady and your horse is used to the work, you ride up to and ahead of them when they point. If on get Only two er three birds out o a covey you ‘are satisfied, because you can find any number of coveys during the day, and are sure of getting a good ‘ bag. In the North, however, quail are not so plenty, and, as y'on may not find but one or two coveys in a day, you must do more thorough work. You don’t use a horse in this shoot- ing. Twenty years ago the quail were found in low brush, and would rise above it when flushed,s‘o that the shooting was com- ; paratively open. But they have become‘ educated. and taken to the wooded hillsides. Their flight is “very sharp and swift, and they frequent thick cover. \Vhen flushed they go straight away like bullets. You see where they drop, but they are likely to run on the ground and fly again, and then it is hard to find them. en retty near them before they fly. They wil take short flights, and it is eas to fol- low a covey and 33 nearly the w ole of it. When the birds are plenty it is no dif- ficult thing to just about fill a wagon in a day's shooting. Much depends upon the dogs. 'Ihey must be steady, because they may have to point some time before you get to them. Badly broken dogs would flush the birds in their impatience. The prettiest part of the sport is the work of perfectly broken dogs. When one dog points birds the others will stop and point him, and all will stand motionless until the birds rise. While ranging they also watch one another, so tliat one may not interfere with the other’s wor . with dogs are prairie chickens, quail, wood- coclr, and artridge. The shooting usually begins in . eptember, when the birds are in coveys and are feedin in the cornfields. You go after prairie o ickens, in a farm wagon and take two or more dogs, setters or (pointers. You want do a that will range wi e and keep well ahea of the wagon. As you may get over a good many miles of prairie during the day, you will stay in the wagon until your dogs find the birds. When a do points, you drive up as close as you thing proper, and either alight and flush the birds or stay in the wagon and shoot them as they rise. Early in the season, before they have been shot at much, a wagon can be griv- Mr. W. Tellmen, of New York, has prob- nhly had as wide a range of experience and is u thorou hly familiar with the ways of bird: and oge u an?! Irorteuun in the ceuptgy. He says} f‘ T .e_b rde meet: hunted Sport with Do: and Gun. Conviction is in itself 0. power. The man Who is sure of what he says, gives assurance to those who hear him. President Cleveland’s journey to the Western and Southern States will cost him perhaps more than $10,000. 110 has engag- ml :1 special train for the entire distance, consisting of an engine, ' n baggage and sup- ply car and two palace cars. This train will convey him for about 4,500 miles. He says: “ The rule I would lay down for a young men is, never do a. mean thing for money. Be prudent and saving of your money. Be careful to have u ) interest ac- count running against you, unless you have an equal or greater interest account running in your favour. Work diligently, and you are sure of a. competency in your old age; and as early as possible, if you can, find a swing, prudent girl who has been brought up by a mother who knows how to take care of a house, and make a. wife of her. She will aid, and not hinder you." He will become interested in it and snvo his money to meet his notes, and he will dir- ectly come into a considerable possession of prr)perty, and hardly know how it came to mm. When a young man has a. very little money. let him buy some property, accord- ing tohis means, of improved real estate that is paying rent. He had better bu it when sold at auction, paying in cash w at he can, giving his notes for the b:lln08 in small sums coming due at frequent intervals, secured by a. mortgage on the property, and then use all his extra. income in paying up those notes, Gen. Benj. F. Butler advises all young men who earn more than the expenses of moderate living, ‘to invest their surplus cash in property. “Nothing is as safe,’ he says, "for an investment, as improved real estate.” “Nothing islikely to grain in value faster.” At first he seemed to like it, but he did not go on long with the job, for witha mighty yell, which would have startled anybody except an Indian out of his boots, and which drove me out of the room, he dispossessed himself of his spoil, whilst the ancient dame proceeded to fill her pipe with what remained. understood boa wrinkled squaw, a veivet. eyed youngster, with deft fingers, snatched n ci arette out of my hand and proceeded to evonr it. “ pnpoose” will Eat, 'or endeavor to do so, anythin he can lay his hands bu. Once, whilst_ wzag endeqvpyiug to make myhlf Bibles appeared to be plentiful, and, unlike those in other places, they seemed to be both healthy and well nourished. Their lungs were certainly of the strongest, and their a petites were truly prodigious. An Indian Baby will yell at the slightest pro- vocation-â€"â€"and, for the matter of that, without provocation at all. It is also equally remarkable that a ‘C “nuns-sun” up". nab nu- AntIAn‘vnn I... A- -A Children, like little brown rabbits, were squatting about on the ground, appearing to be, even at that early age, too solemn and taciturn to romp or indulge in childlike games. When they saw me approach, they were of? as quick as rabbits to their holes, and now and then I could catch them watch- ing me with large, black, wondering eyes from behind a bout, a tree-stump, or a half- closed door. The natives of Vancouver’s Island are described by Mr. Stuart Cumberland as su- perior to other tribes along the Northwest coast. He praises the beauty of some of the children ; but, owing to the manner of living, this beauty fades early. An Indian is old at thirty. Even the children seem older than they really are because of the gravity they__ maintain. 'l he children took the wounded boy home, and the neighbors set out to hunt the cou- gar. They found and killed it near the lace where it had attacked the children. t was full grown, and measured nearly nine feet from tip to tip. John Rodenberger, eight years old, had been walking just in front of Jesse, carrying a big bottle, in which had been the milk that formed part of the children’s luncheon. He threw himself upon the cougar, grabbed him by the ear with one hand, and struck him with the bottle as hard as he could. The animal raised its head from its victim, and Johnny gave it another blow with the bottle. It reared to attack the brave boy, but another blow nearly knocked it over, and with n‘yell it turned and fled. The little boy was dashed to the ground, and the heavy paw of the cougar aled his scalp down over the right side 0 his face, and lacerated the cheek and car. But the cougar had no chance to _do further: haym: The other afternoon, while the children were going home, they were startled by an awful acreeoh, and the next instant abig cougar-ianpched himself_f{om the overhang ingTimb of a big tree, right upon nix-year} old Jesse, who was sturdily tramping be‘ bind the other children. The Manitoba Free Press contains the fol- lowing account of a brave little boy’s de- fence of a. wounded brother, who was at- tached by a. cougar. John Rodenberger is a farmer who lives near Shelton’s Point, W. T., and .his four childrenâ€"the youngest four and the eldest nineâ€"go to school. The school-h woe is on the road between Bip (mg Littlo Shookum Bays._ __ pod, picks it up carefully to avoid tearin it, and brin s it to his master. He wil hold it in his mouth until his master reaches his hand out to take it. When the dog cannot see the birds fall, he can find them by scent. A keen-nosed dog can tell the dill‘erence between live and dead birds, and will not point the latter. if several birds have been shot and the dog has diiliculty in locating them. he may be directed by motions of the hand. lie kee I one eye on his master and goes straig t ahead or to one side or the other in obedi. ence to indications given. An old dog, well trained when young and carefully handled for many seasons in the field by a man who understands dog nature, will hunt as intelli- gently as a man and require little if any in- struction. He will range wide in an open field and close in the brush, quarter up the wind, and never go over [the same ground twice, charge at the rise of the bird, and seek dead as soon as his master gives a sign. Shooting over such a dog is perfection, and the filling of the game bag is of minor im- portance.” A What a Boy in Manitoba Bld. now to Become Rich. Vancouver Papooscs. “ The heat testimony we can give to the influence of the dead In to continue and ex- tend the work in which they delighted while they were yet with us. There is to be no mere nzing up into the heaven. There are to one fruitless tears. In cryln for the absent We may in reality be indu ging our own eelflishnese. There is no sorrow thet is not divine and therefore not useful. The Lord is e risen Lord And we should know the poweltv bf Hie “infection In shah a degree as will enable us to feel that “ On the basis of these reflections we are entitled to establish two or three prac- tical suggestions. For example, the only influence worthy of cultivation and enjoy- ment is spiritual. That alone abides for- ever. We forget duty, we ceaseto remember the exact amount of wealth, pleasure itself is a vanished cloud, but thought. the mental enet‘ry that effected our intellectual life, the moral ministries that nourish and in- spire the soul, these are remembered with a clearer memory, and they seem to be magnified day by day by a larger recol- ‘lection. No man knows what he is really doing. “'6 sit down in disappointment and say, ‘ The end has come, death is stronger than life,’ while at the very moment God is working out some great miracle of love. We say of such and such a life, it ended cloudily, it never came to perfection, it failed almost at the last moment. ,We thus talk unwisely. Men eh i come from the east and from the west, om the north and from the south, and shall testify that the life which we thought was fruitless abounded in all the fruits of the apirtual. Let us cheer ourselves with these words. Let us drink of this well by the way, and. lift up our hands and be glad. H 'l‘lln “nut tnafinnnnu nu. "an ":Ivn ‘n 4|...i “ We know somewhat of the difficulties of incarnation at many points of life. For example, we know how perilous it often is to be admitted to familiar intercourse with some men who have swayed us by their thoughts or thrown upon our whole life the spell of their genius. So long as they stand far off clothed with their spiritual house and working with their spiritual functions we gave them homage, but when they come near us We may be disappointed or surprised or annoyed, through some personal infirm- ity, some conceit ox manner, some eccentric- ity of habit, and we may come to regret the day that ever we saw in the flash the men who, by their genius, enchanted and bless- ed our lives. So dangerous is incarnation. The spirit always suffers through the flesh. . ‘Here and now they can never be united so‘ as to cease all controversy and live a life of mutual understanding and appreciation. Incarnation in every form and sense of the term is an abiding difficulty. It is so, for example, in the matter of the expression of thought. Speaking of Jesus Christ, the angel said : “ He is risen.” That is real- ly all we want to know. If we carry that word up to its highest significance it will suffice at once the reason and the imagin- ation. It is the best word that can be chosen. It points toward a definite direct- ion. but it makes no attempt to localize and define. Who can measure and state in plain figures the significance of this word " risen” ? The bible is wonderful in its choice of terms in describing the indescrib- able. ate, or burdensome is not here, is forever done away, and the immortal quality, the radiant ssintliness, the loyal spirituality, are alive foreverrnore. To be here in any bodily real sense is a greater wonder than to have risen into some higher and brighter sphere. To be here, indeed, is even more a painful burden. It is felt to be so heavy that men cry out: ‘\Vhence came we? What are we? Whither go we? What is this burning, awful, fevered life, so full of ghostliness, so material yet. so spiritual, so ubjecn yet so august ?" - “ The angel in the text is speaking of J esue Christ, and in; declaring that He was not in the grave he declared the sublime doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Negation, even in its hugest denials, is only a gigantic cipher, an infinite emptiness. Thiatext begins negatively, but ends posit- ively, ends indeed in a tone of triumph. He is risen, and, therefore, is more here than ever, here in fuller personality, in richer in- fluence, in tenderer sympathy. That which was local, liniited, physical, disproportion- i “In discoursing upon the mortality of ‘man the preacher is apt to be regarded as ‘ speaking only that which is the veriest com- monplace. To declare that man is mortal ; that death has taken him out of our sight ; that wsmust all die, is to be condemned at once as speaking truisms, trite and compara- tively worthless. There are some men who have a genius for the degradation of all life to the level of the commonplace. They can soon run through all the miracles of life. Are there not some men who could walk through the loveliest landscape and see nothing in it, or who might see somewhat of beauty in it during the first pilgrimage, but afterwards everything would be com- mon, familiar, and disregarded? What is true of the landscape is true of art. A hurried .ipointing out of the finger to some masterpiece and the whole miracle is gone forever. What is true at the landscape and of art is true also of what we are accustomed to regard as the miracles of holy scripture. They soon cease to be miracles’to those who look upon everything with an eye which does not see the true unity and meaning of the universe. Having seen one miracle we want to see another, and having seen twe we think we have seen all ; and, unless miracles come upon us in showers, and thus cease to be miracles, our surprise lies un- awakened. ‘ Beyond this there lies the possi- hility'of outruuning even what is known as the inspiration of the bible itself. To many men the bible has become a book of common. places or a book of absurdities. “ We have not assembled under ordinary conditions. For nearly forty years this par- ticular Sundayâ€"the first in Octoberâ€"bu been signalized by the reappearance of an honored and illustrious pastor. In a sense full of monruful suggestiveness he ‘is not here.’ We feel, indeed, that he isnot, with- out any words being spoken to remind us of the feet. We know it by the coldness, the loneliness, and the sense of desolation which is upon us all. Sermon By Dr. Joseph Parker. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker of City Tem- ple. London, who is to pronounce the eulogy on Henry Ward Beecher in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Monday night, prewhed on Sunday in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, in the pulpit where his friend had stood for forty years. Hie subject was, “Not Here, but Risen." The Iermon, which won deli- vered without manuecript, was largely a memorial discourse. It was, in substance, as follows : IN MEMORY OF BEEI’HEB. tht: Le isluivo Counéil of Vlotéfla, is picai: dent o tho Canadian Society. ‘ Thereis on old legend which declares the, Scotchmen ers to he met with everywheret and further that when the North Pole is discovered a Scotchman will be found com- fortably seated on the top of it. Canadians, it would seem, are becoming as omnipresent as the sons of Auhl Scotio. The last place in which they have been found is Melbourne, and they are there in such goodly numbers that they have formed a Canadian Society. It is interesting to read that at the last meeting of the society the acting secretary read letters of apology from Canadians of position in Melbourne and the suburbs who were unable to attend, and announced that communications had been received from Canadians resident in other colonies making enquiries: lion.“ Simon Fraser, member of A little girl who wanted to describe the absent mindednesq of her uncle mid : “ Hi5 remember is so tired that he 118.3 to use his forget, all the time. " ‘_" The hotels in Mexico are so bad that those who have to remain there any length of time invariably go to housekeeping, and can thus live as comfortably and economic- ally as anywhere in the States. There is no aristocratic quarter in Mexico, and it is fashionable not only to live on a business street, but to have a saloon or a meat mark- et on the ground floor. Everybody lives in flats ; the houses are usually three stories high, and the top floor is considered the best. It will rent for $100 amonth. while the second floor rents for 8-“. When a a house is to he let in Mexico the OWner sticks a newspaper in the window. Servants are cheap and plenty, and you are pretty sure to have scvoral descendants of the; Aztec kings about the house if you hire one, for it is the rule here that the whole family go with the father and mother when they go out to service. Your cookbrings her husband, her children and pretty near all her relations, and they are fed from your table and sleep under your roof. The bus- band may he a shoemaker or a saloon-Ree - or or a hackmnn, but he-livm where h s wife works. There are usually enou 11 rooms in the house for them all. and t 0 only food they wantlis plenty of beans and what is left from your table. showed the most lively concern in the per. formance, and laughed at the grotesque con. tortinns of the condemned culprib. The amateur actor played his part very well. Here came the squad that; is to execute him. “ Fire !" orders the lieutenant, and the amateur dropped down dead, his breast pierced by seven bullets. No makebelieve â€"buc dead indeed. Whereupon the Em- peror dropped his incognito and addressed those assembled :â€"“ A soldier of my guard who committed a robbery must die. If he did not steal, why did he boast of it and soil his uniform? It is I who ordered the loaded rifles to be given to the men. I henceforth forbid my soldiers to play the trade of mummers. orâ€"” The Czar did not complete his sentence. But the drift of it was understood by all. It is related that Peter the Great, strol- ling incognito through a camp, came upon a. party of non-commissioned officers and grenadiers enacting comedy. All at once his brow became clouded. In the piece a soldier, in the uniform of his guard, commits at a certain moment a. robbery. Neverthe~ less, he allowed the play to proceed; a court-martial was summoned on the stage and the thief is sentenced to death. The spectators, composed of oificers_ and men, The bill was paid and the man who got the worst. of the affair has not only resolved to consult the calendar in future, but also to avoid being “ as funny as he can.” “And yeaEerday was'the eleventh,"roâ€" iterated the keeper, again smiling and tendering his bill. “ Folké have to be mighty particular not to make any min- ;akea about dates, in legal matters, you now.” “ Are you pretty positive your almanac», ain't out of order 2” The other re arded him with scorn. “ Look here, ’ said he, producing his '9 “ this stops August 10th, and”â€"a.n alar iug doubt began to creep over his features. “ Anr‘ vnnfnrt‘n" nmu f‘mn n‘uun-‘GL " an “ No, you don’t, 1” he said, empfiaticalry. " I haven’t gota pass to-duy, but yester- day I had one. It run out at twelve last highs, and I didn’t go near the bridge after inn ’ . Inviting a. boon comp‘hnion to accompany him, he drove back and forth over the bridge all day long, varying this monotonous occupation by deriuive remarks addressed tothe kee r. The toll-taker said nothing, but looke as if he knew more than he choee to say, while he kept an exact tally of the number of his neighbor’s trips. Nnxt day a bill for toll was presented to the man who had so abused hte privilege. ten. There was once a. men who, in return for some services tendered the town, was given a pass over a certain toll bridge. He had used it freely, but apparently with no great amount of retitude, for, on the day ‘when he e‘upposeg it to expire, he resolved tomeke the tnoat of his privilegee. Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Parker eat to- gether in the pastor's pew. The church was never more crowded. In the evening Dr. Parker preached from Acts x.. 6. The ore.- tory of Dr. Parker is simple and unaffected. There is an cecasional betrayal of English idioms in his speech. As a rule the opinions of his hearers were favorable to him. and is was predicted by some that a call would be extended to him by the church. Dr. Park- er has declined to say whether he would or would not accept a call. 1 “ When we mourn our sainted dead it in our inlirmity that mourns. Our faith re~ juices, our hope sings, our love keeps bless- ed festival, for we say that they shall hun- ger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them. nor any heat. When we think of their joys we forget our sorrows and call upon all men to praise the Lord for His goodness in giving rest to m- weary ones. ‘Preise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the psalter and harp ; praise Him with the timbre! and dance; praise Him with stringed instru- ments; praise Him upon the loud cymbals; raise Him upon the high-sounding cym- is,’ for He hath opened the doors of he» van and made them glad who knew once the bitterness of infinite tribulation.” they who are dead in Chris: are alive In Him evermoro. Peter the Greatâ€"and Comedy. Housekeeping in Mexico. The Worth of Ills Money.