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mgrete. It was! probably too soon for us to win such a victory as we expected, and though we will Vow more alowi We will grow more sure y. I thou ht fore the election that our vote wond not be less than 70,000 in the citv. but instead of 70,- N0 we received but 37,000. That 37,000. however. repreeent principles, not mon This is not our Waterloo, bu. our Bull. Run.” By this he means that upward. 0130,000 of tho men upon whom he relied had been bought by his opponents, and that his party would henceforth be atron or without them. This is certainly extract ng " aunbeama from cucumbers." an?!» the floor, jarring the whole building and making it necessary ion .15 to stop our work on tho editorial, crawl under our oflico And welt tho critter along the side with scolumn rule. This intenupted our train of thought, and the editorial in not what We could wish.”â€"â€"â€"[Chicago Tribune Henry George does not attempt to conceal his surprise at the emtllnesa of the vote [led by his party in New York on Tues- y, buthe professes to be rfectly satisfied. In 5 I eech nt Webster ha I on the night of the eection he mld:â€"“The result we: a. surprise to me. I expected a much larger vote, but. I aim entirely: gatinflcd. Ighave no " We rently dislike to find fault with any of the customs of our beautiful little city," says a Leketm editor, " but we must nevertheless insist that peep ple kee their swine out from under the office of the Tri- bune and Palladium. While en 33 ed at our desk writing our leader on‘ he Sta- hility of Our Territorisl Institutiona’ for our paper this week oneof Senator McBride's Ivor-backed hogs humped up its spine and began agmt‘ohing‘ itg back on _th¢_x Mms Ehesaw me, and she finished the sentence this way: “ This locket is a keepsake, and I won’t even lend it to you.” Locket, in- deed l Fellows don't packer their mouths like that in asking for [octetsâ€"[Philadel- phia Times, One factory sprinkles tobacco with New England rum; another uses Jamaica rum, another moistens it with the rankest corn whiskey he can find, and each brand has its own peculiar essential oil. Some use fennel, others use ginseng, while the acid sumach, abounding in tannin, cheap and plenty, gives that peculiar burning of the tongue, which charrctcrizes much “ fine out." Astringent barks, wormwood, the refuse of the cinchona and others, give the bitter taste which some consumers like, and the twin or “ nigger-head," which is lai‘gely exported to tropical climates, gets a special absorbtion. “ Tommy, how are you getting on at school?” Tommyâ€"“First rate, ma.” “ Mention the names of some of the domes tin animals.” " The horse, the dog. the pig." “ Mention some more, Tommy.” “ The goose. the hen, and the duck." "Yes. I was thinking of four-legged animals. What animal is that which lives most» 3? in the house, but which often makes a ne_adfnl_ noise_ so that people cannot sleep !” “ Pour-legged animal?" “ Yes.” “Don’t let ople sleep ?” “Yes.” Tommy, tri- un nntly, “Thepluno.” (buttehip in visible on every hand of. Sat-logo. Its expects are various, but anally mild, though occasionally violent. Only lost evening I went quickly omnnd n earner of a veranda and caught 3. fellow struggling with a girl for a list. “ You that hsvo it." she said. “I will,” he Retained. “ N9, you ‘nlpp'bfr” und_here flu census of England 3nd Wale. records 7.”.000 women n wagoarnen. than one hu invented e new style of boye‘ trousers which in highly recommended. They hove 3 copper not end sheet-iron plea. ere riveted dowyn in the lean: 9nd Io latest cure ior oonmmption is that “hooded by M. Garcia before the Paris Andemio do Medicine, which consists in the int-lotion of fluohydric acid. The patient remain: for en hour daily in a cabinet of six cubic metres “polity, the air of which in hunted with fluohydrio toid. Iiree girls of Aroostook, Me, walked from Ashlnnd to Portage Lake, rowed me the lake, ate their dinner, and return- ed to Aahlnnd in the afternoon, having walked eighteen miles. The some girls can hovel on mowshoee, ride horses, milk, huh school end play the piano. . To-day we read that a -littie work tied " The Sate, or the Rudiments of New Zealand Sociology" has just been pub Ballad at Wellin§ton chiefly for the use of m8 Mam-is uh I: to understand easy Eng It is I» long step from cannibalism to tho Itu 1y of sociology ,but the Mantis have not been long 1n taking it. E. MoGlynn states that by driving him moi: single perish " the machine ’ has made the whole world his parish. Having devoted his attention so for only to the American section of this new parish, it is now his purpose to visit .hat rtion of it commonly known as the Unite Kingdom. He will sail for En land shortly after New Yen's and will a dress meetings in the Inge cities with a. view to propagating the land doctrines of the Anti Povertyites. He Ms that he will not go to Rome unless " properly invited.” “0 onion w7y to find out n glrl’u 336 in .0 ilk some other girl. lawyer (in wornâ€"Ludo boy. do you know the nature of An oath! Little Boyâ€" ch. sir. It's something my pa men to put up stovepipeo with. Now reguhtionl have been ndoptod. on tho mommandstion of the Minister of Cul- m for the imporution into Cansd. of tubal. for the improvement of “oak. 'â€"Now, tell me why'it was. 'Bobby, that you refused. Bobbyâ€"muse they wouldn‘t play to. keeps. meotricinns have discovered that the hu- man brain when at work evolves enough ham to drive an electric motor, through the intervention of a. thermopile. One of these dag: the ministers, lawyers and editors will lye given free_paasea on the railroads on 90n- (“in that tfiey we" thermopilea in their hm. trink hard, and furnish power for the locuotiven. When New Zenisml was first discovered by Europeans cannibalism was a common hnhit smong the natives, and it was not en- ticly done sway with until the introduc- tion of ghristisuity wighin the pfesent cen- Hinhtprâ€"Angi_so thg lime 1:qu ukeq by unrblelonSuudav. Bobby, and “mag? qubyâ€"Yea,_oi_r_. Mini-tor water-proof pockets to hold broken on»; um nuns. It was stated the other day on the nu‘hor- ity of the New York Herald, that about 40,000,000 ballots were printed for the elections in New York on Tuesday last. The Ti. as places the figure at 80,000,000 and says that not more than l,200,000 were deposited in the ballot boxes. For receiv- ing and counting these ballots the city em- ployed and psid 5,631 persons, of whom 4,060 werei ctora of election and 1,624 were poll cler s. It is estimated that besides these men paid out of the city tress- nry, each of the live parties which had tickets in the field, employed under pay forty-rive men in each election district, or 36,510 in all the 812 districts. This makes A total of 42,224 voters, out of 200,000, who worn under pay in the city on election day, snd were selected for their work by the party monsqers. The total amount receiv- ed by them, from either the city treasury or the party organimtions, was not less than $300,000, to say nothing of the large sums distributed in other ways. These facts of- iord on iusi ht into some of the methods of nation 0 the " machines" in the poli- tics of New York city. The Time? calls for reform in this nutter, and suggests that the ballots should be furnished at the public expense, and given directly to the voters. are being purchased by the hotel kcopem of New York, to enable them to comply with slaw passed at Albany last session. This law mukos it a. misdem-unor for hotel pro- grieton to neglect to place a. rope or other to escape convenient to each room above the ground floor. It will involve, it is es- timated. the purchuo of three hundred and fifty miles of rope and a total expense of many thousands of dollnm in New York City. It cost the Stewart nstntu ei ht hun- dred dnilnra. i‘hc coil; of rope wil be near the windows, one end being apliced to agai- vnnizod iron eve screw. which is fastened to tho’window irmne «hove the sill. It is ex- ted that by the end of this month over otel in the city will hue a rope in each, room. ~ etc. The educated farmer is in agriculture ‘ for all it is worth,’ and in using this cent hrese I moon it, with all that it implies. oney is not the onlv nor the highest object of men’s embition. The true aim of life for men is the development of all his faculties end powers to their hi heat capabilities. Make 3 men of yourself all around, my young friend. Develop all that is in you ; use your faculties for all they are worth: and in doing this, while you need not fail of worldly wealth, or at least of comfortable prosperity, you will develop values in your- self which money alone will never buy, and which you and those who know you will never think of estimating in more dollars and cents. " Now that I am entering upon old age, I am particularly desirous to excite in those ambitious young men who will soon occupy the eta e of action which I am leaving, a desire gor all useful knowledge, and to con- vince them that by the application of that knowledge fanning can be raised from a base drudgery to a pleasant, elevating and pro- fitable occupation. Farming not only can be but must be an intellectual occupation, requiring as much‘brain work as any busi ness on earth. The fine gentleman brought up todo nothing in particular, and‘educaled’ in the same way, who squanders a fortune in mnddling on a‘flaxm is not an educated iarmer whatever himself or others may think. The rule has been that men were educated away frornjnatead of_ into hurling. “ It is a moat singular and painful thing, this indifl’erence in so many farmers to the value of education. By a course of medical study I became familar with at least the elements of several sciences, and when. by an accident. I was made incapable of follow- ing my profession, and returned again to the soil fora livelihood, I found in my chemi- cal, geological and botanical acquisitions my greatest help to prosperity. Unqucstion- ablv these would have been of little use without work. I believe in work, but I see no reason why work should not have the help of kncwledge. ‘Iutelligent, continu- ous work,’ is what a farmer needs ; and the more intelligence the better. Dr. Hocking, 3 Vermont physician, who went from A farm to collefie that he might stqdy of: n physicign, wnse sey says; â€" The American waiter is a source of con- stent study to me whenever I am on my travels. and at no other time is he so in- teresting to me as when he has to deal with the lone woman at the hotel. I have been watching him, and ‘ have seen the 1“" w - man come into the dinin - com, a... down at the table and starve to eath, while every body elseâ€"thet is. every menâ€"body, who came in after her get their orders promptly served. The lone womenâ€"or any woman, in factâ€"does most mortal] hate to “tip" a waiter or e porter when s e is paying full retes anyhow. She won’t do it if she can sessibly exist without it, and when she oes give a fee, it is usually five cents, and ten cents she considers an enormous, e princel tuity. The waiter and the hell- boy en t e porter ell know this, and con. sequeutly the lone women, while she is never insulted. and is treated with the ut- most show of politeness end with genuine courtesy at the desk, is quietly ignored by the servants. and her hotel end railway lines have fallen in stony places. This “tipping" business has Wu to be an outrageous nuisance even in thee l nited States. Our citizens who trawl ebrosu .r 4; home the evil habit commercial travellers and people in all lines of the dramatic professions are much given t: it. end it isbeginning to be so that you are ‘ether neglected without it. Frequentl in mod hotels, where all the help iswel paid, the servant will remind you that he expects to be “ remembered.” A few weeks ago I re into Harrisburg .“ my family at a hotel, a ranging for them to meet me at another point in two days. as the intervening runs were too hard for the Prince. I got up at 2 e.m., carried my own vulise down-stairs. never saw hide nor wool of e porter. end went my way. Two days later, when the family came away, a freed- meu, whose shackles had been removed by mistake, urking about to car what few articles the guest could not ta e, told my sister that he had waited on me constantly, and that I said I would give him half a dollar when I came back. She gave the brigand fifty cents. I haven't been back there yet, but I am going. My work has been quite exhaustin this season, and I need recreation ; so have promised my- self the pleasure of attending a colored funeral. Gallantry of the American Walter Higher Education for Farmers. Where the Money Goes. mics «Twin? Then he remembers that he forgot to toll them. Then he “ hollore " for “ the boys" until he learns that they have taken the waggon on a trip in another direction. Ho says it‘s no difference, the train doesn't go till 4 o’clock. Yro tell him your train goes at 9:30. He looks inn-rdu‘ous and myu :â€" " That tmin goes to Berwick.” You say you are going to Berwick, and amazement sits upon him. Ho finallv gets another team. leaves the house at 9:25, assures you that you have plenty of time. drives you seven miles in two hours, and finding, to” his unspeakable astonishment, that the 9:30 train had gone by alremly, offers to take you back to the house for nothing. You‘ decline and he waits around the station about five minutes. in the vague hope that some unadvertisod and unexpect‘ ed train may come along with a. waqgon- load of passengers for him to take luck. tears down I last year’s California land ex~ oursion advertisement to hang up in his oliioe for n time card, and thus fortified against mistakes in future, he drives away and leaves you sitting disoonsolately on n baggage truck, waiting for the train new: hours away, a prey J melancholy and .10 station loafer, who chews tobacco incessant- ly 1nd stares at you unwinkingly, and says, “ Huh ?" the first time youfiask him n question, and unno” when you repeat it - anrdctto. book behind the desk," in which there has never been an entry made since the death of his father, who kept the tavern before him. You can see this book any time lying around among the candles and kerosene lamps and matches. What he sees in it besides the old entries made in his father’s stiff, regular chirography he must see with the eye of faith. Maybe he looks back till he finds an entry against some guest who stayed in his father‘s time about as long as you have. I think that must be it, because when at last he closes that book he tells you the amount of your bill. If you have been there one day or three weeks it takes just the same time to give you the amount of your bill. Then you are ready to 0. He says he’ll at you down to the stat on. Halt an hour ater you tell him you are all ready. He looks surnrised. ‘C ‘lnin O Ohnm Ln“:- an firhslnl‘ “:6“ 6L4. “ llain‘t them have come around with the W330!) 3" arpcarcd walking painfully in her tight, h gh heeled boots, her free motion checked by skirts and ‘ pull buckl,’ drawing her breath unsteadily from above her tiny pinch- ed waist, her neck tightly collared up to her ears, the bird wings in her hat reaching far above her head tun. ‘AAIIJDQ to the zenith. end her skirts hanging out a yard be hind her as from a camel a humpâ€"what Would the . «lien have thou ht do you eup- pose 2" Possibly what the Pfiew l'smpshire farmer said the first time he me. a full- flcd' ed “dude on the highway, “ \\ ell, wel : whet funny things a ieller seen when he hein’t got no gun ith him 1" What Would lle [lave Thought? ”If to an Ameuican Indian of the olden time," says the Boston Tammcript, “a wo- mm of o_ur mgdgrn cigilifqgion‘hmj suddpply The man who has had occasion to get to a railway station from a country hotel, has had an experience that lingers cup; in his memorv. Tho demands of tho lcommercial traveller, who is a wonderful missionary, has chan ed matters a little in this respect, but stil you occasionally find the old-time country landlord who is unable to understand the feverish eagerness of the sojourner to catch the 10:20 u..m. passenger east, when there is a freight going west at 7:30 p.m. You tell him you want to go to the station this morning. and ask for your bill. He chews a toothpick a moment, then looks at your name on the register a long, long time. _Then he sighs, and looks into a This is the situation. The Khediva lives in grand style and has an annual allowance of $450,000. He is assisted by a cabinet of five ministers and by a council and assembly. But all this machinery is under English supervision, and nothing of importance in law. finance. or military matters is done without the knowledge and approval of the English agent. ' But these si s of prosper“: were r- chnsed st frigate] cost. TheyfeIlahiugnor pennants, were already overtsxed, and the Khedive wu obliged to borrow money in France end England at an interest rate of from 12 to 20 per cent. The revenues fail ed to meet the interest charges. and the- French and English creditors of Egypt per- suaded their respective uovernments to in- terfere in order to check the reckless finen- cie! career of the sovereign. Ismail was forced to resi n and go into exile. Te“ fik Pasha. his el eat son, succeeded him August 8, 71879, Tewfik Pasha is known as a gentleman of refinement, afaithfnl husband and a good father. But his influence upon public sf. fairs is scarcely notibeable. Ever since his accession to the throne the actual ruling power has been In_ the hands of the agents of France and England, who collected the revenues, dividing them between the Khe- dive and the bond-holders. This European control irritated the natives and caused the rebellion led by Arabi Pasha in 188l. France refusing her aid, England put down the revolt alone, and since that time has had sole charge of the Egyptian govern- ment. But the British occupation has not been successful. In 1883 a religious war began in the Soudan under “ El Mahdi." The revolt was allowed to grow until it could not be suppressed without enormous cost of men and money. After great losses the British abandoned Equatorial Africa and most of Nubia to the rebels, but not until the expenses of the war had plunged Egypt more deeply than ever into debt. This is the situation. The Khedive lives in lar e "mic: were raised and the great equs- tor :1 region of the Soudau was conquered and brou ht under the rule 0! Ismail. Such activity ad not been known in Egypt for Mohammed Tewflk la the non 0! Ismail. who ruled Egypt from 1863 001879. 'lho father wu 3 mm of boundless energy. It was his aim to free his country from the sovereign! of Turkey and to make her a Bower'ul {iugdqnyn lie bought from {he Porto the title of K!‘ cdlve and a lerg e de- gree of inde udeuce, and then not gabout the worke 0 developing his realm. The old lows were revised and reformed. rail- roede, telegrnphe, end. corral! were bulilt Getting to the Station. Tun Kuxmvn or EGYPT. HISTORICAL. Four-fifths of the engines now working in the world have been constructed during the last '25 years. France owns 40,.'.90 station- ary or locomotive boilers, 7.000 locomotives and 1,850 honts’ boilers; Germany has 50,- (00 hotlors, l0,C00 locomotives and 1,700 ships' boilers: Austriu, 12,000 boilers and 2,300 locomotives. The force equiwlent to the working steam engines represents :â€"-In 'he United States 7,500,000 horse-pou'er, in England 7,000,000 horse-pow", in Germany 4,500,000. in France 3,000,000 and in Aus- tria. l,.')00,000. ln thiase figures the motive power of the locomotives is not included, whose number in all the world amounts to 105,000, representing a total of 3,000,000 horse-power. Addin this amount to the other powers we obtain the total of 46,000,- 000 liorso-pouer. A steam horse power is equal to three actual horses’ power; and a living horse is equal to seven men. The steam engines of the world represent, there- fore, npproximstely the work of 1,000,000, 000 men, or more than double the working population of the earth, whose total puls- tion amounts to l,455,923.(l)0 inbs itants. Steam has accordiugl ' trebled man’s work- ing power, onubl‘ng him to eeonomise his pb sical strength while attending to his in. tel eetunl dew lopment. Sir. J. B. Lewes, in his annual letter to Bell's \Veekly Messenger, Oct. 17, estimates the British wheat yield of 1887 at 67,534,- 200 bushels, from 2383 534 acres. But he deducts this year 2 bushels, instead of his usual 2.} bushels, per acre for the seeding. bringing out as the result a total of rather less than 8,000,000 bushels available for con- sumption. Tsking the estimnud eonsum - tion Ker head of the population at 5. 65 bus - els, 0 makes the requirement for the cur- rent year 211.359.6250 bushels, of which about 148,000,000 bushels have to be suppli- ed hy stocks and imports. He finds it more difficult than usual to form an estimate for the country at large upon the basis of the very limited crop of Rothamstcd. “The statement made by Canon Isaac Taylor at the recent Church Congress, that Islam as a missionary religion is more suc- cessfuithan Christianity, having been receiv- ed with surprise and indignation,” says the London Stan/lard, “ he contributes to a con~ temporary some of the facts on whizh his generalizations were based. After making all allowance for natural increase of popula- tion, the census returns show that Moham- medanism. which has no paid missionaries, is gaining in indie [140000 converts pcr an- nnrn. In Hindustan Proper, among a popu- lation of 2‘.’U,(H),0020 PHI English mission- nrics made. last year '2')? converts at a cost of £43,236 ills. id. In the extreme south, on the other hand. among the none-Aryan population, the numbers are very much larger, but in four cases out of five the native Christians are Roman Catholic and not Protestant. In the native home of Islam, in Arabia and its neighborhood, rc- suit were even less satisfactory. Last year i0” missionaries, at a cost at £1 l,000 pounds only succeeded in making one convert, and she was a girl, described as ‘ easily influenc- ed and requiring constant guidance. A picture of Niagara Falls, which is to be taken to London for exhibition, is one of the largest ever painted, being 380 feet in length by 45 in breath. J‘ho artist, Paul Philip poteaux, with a dozen assistants, has been engaged constantly on the work for the past six months, and some idea of is magnitude can be gained from the following list of ma.- terinls consumed : -â€" \Vhite lead, 3,000 pounds ; oil, 3,322 gallons ; essence (turpen- tine), 3.240 qnllc ns and a car load of colors. Tht value of the reel «tote confiscated from the Church of Mexico in 1859 by the J umz Government has been variuualy eeri- meted 3t from one fourth to one third of the value of 311 the real eetete of the country. representing not less than $300, 00.0 0. In the whole Russian Empire. with no less than 20,000 of the number dying tuna~ ally, a. third part of the obituary are up- ward of 80 years of age ; 900 are above 100 years of age. from 50 to 55 are above |20 years. 20 are upward of 130 years, 8 are more than 135 years of age. and ‘2 or 3 are reckoned on to reach xrom 140 to 155 years. First-class freight is carried from Mont real to Calgary at $3 34 net hundred pounds, but from Montreal to Vancouver at $1.89. Yet Vancouver is 644 miles farther West than Culqsry. The mason for the difference is the circumstance that Vancouver is a com- petitive point, while Calgauy is not. But this explanation does not satisfy the Cal- gsrians. The yield of diamonds from the Kimber- ley Mine alone. from the opening in 1871 to the end of 1885 is stated to have exceeded 17 5000 0 carats, equal to .3 tons weight of precious stones. in value about 0100, 000,- 000. To obtain this as many thousand tons of reef and ground have had to be ixcavat- ed. The mine is 450 feet deep, and the cu- bical contents of this huge cavity measure about 9,000,000 cubic yards. Four thousand Ksflirs are cmploycd at this mine. During the ten months of this year 128. 6‘20 immigrants hwe arrived in Canada. an increase of ‘26 196 compared with the curres pending period 1st year. Of these 67 701 settled in Canada, against 57,245 {or last year. The statement of the Bank of Montreal for the six months ending October 313:. huh- mitted to the directors yesterday. shows a decrease in net earnings of about 810 .000 compared with the corresponding period in Newfoundland has taken to a riculture It has produced th s veer hey am potatoes to the value of $880,000 and butter to the value of $60,000. The fishing industry is very precarious and the resort to agriculture seems to be the only hope for the colony. It is said that the late Lord Wolvertou's income smounbed to £30:I,O '0 a year, which would make him at. least a sixfold million sire. Millions have been falling into the hands of new owners pretty freely of late by four deaths of very rich men. nsmelv, Baron Stern, wholeft £4,000J 00 : Mr. Hugh McCslmont, £3,000.000; Mr. Russell Stur- gis. £2 000,000 and Lord Wolverton, £6,- The return of traffic of the Grand Trunk railaay for the week ending November 5th is as follows :â€"I’aasenger train earnings, $118,342; freight, 8261.667; total, 3380,- 009. For the corresponding week last. year the earnings were :â€"Pasaenger, $112,619 ; freight, $266,431 ; total, $379,050, showing an increase for 1887 of 8959. For the completed {our mouths of the current fiscal you the Dominion revenue amouuoed to $11 702 951, An excess over ex pendimre of 81.963 829. STATISTICS. gow, and after the duiryman had come to this port. ho was sent back under the pro- visions of that law. 0! coum, itin dair- nbie that the vineyard industry should he developed in (izdiiornia by the valuubio assistance of skilled workmen from the country where this imluatr? has been perv footed. hut the law stands :1 the way. So far as it prevents the importation of skilled labour, and especially such skilled labour as :annot he furniahcd here, it is positively detrimental to the interests of the country. Because Senator Stanford pro es to dia- place hundreds of the hated Ch nose no ona in California maybe willingto thwart hi- rurpoae by causing the law to be enforced n his case. but Congress will soon be in sea- uion, and the Senator should at least attempt to procure an amendment 0! the law betora he violates it.-[New York Timon. Dcapatchea from San Francisco any that. Senator Stanford, having become dissatisfied with the labor of Chinese in his great vine- yard, " is now making arrangement: {or hringin out 100 vineyardiats irom Bot- tleanx.’ But the Senator must be funnier with the law which forbids the importation of labour under contract. Not long ego the owner of a noted farm in Kentucky on; ed the services of a skilled dairy/{nap in G u- ‘Vhen the hunter has strapped on hie stilts, both his hands are lrec to handle his gun, and he is also at n sullioient height to see the fowl as they fly over the tall reeds, and along the intersecting lanes. Besides the gun and stilts. his outfit consists of n capacious gamebng slung at his back, and n light polo about five feet long. fitted with 0 net, something like n_ lmcrpsse but. Some fowler's provide themselves with an iron hook, but the net is more common then the hook, and by for the most satisfactory. Either implement in also carried slung serous the back by a strap fitting round the ri ht shoulder. A rough, hardy. long-la ed 03 completes the category. Breed is o no ac- count; if he retrieves well, is fond of wnter, and not so heavy as tot-fink in the mud, that is all that is required of him. A 'l‘hesc fowlers present n curious figure in n country landscape, and may be soon at any time, striding along: the hill-paths to that part of the marsh each one fevers, in the early morning li’ ht. or in the wnning twilight of evening, mking most uncanny and spectral, looming up, clearly defined against the horizon, like so many giants. -The stilts are about eight feet in length. and are made in the usual way, having the stirrup placed about sixteen inches from the top of the pole ; just above this is s strep to put round the ankle, and at the top, to fit round the upper part of the call, is our other strap. The lower part of the pole. about six inches from the bottom, is sur- rounded with wood arranged in hell shs extending about three inches on either si e, which serves to prevent the pole from sink~ ing too deeply. into the setter places. The very idea of shooting from a pair of stilts is ludicrous, but. still more so is the spgotaclgof the arnotcurrwha first tries in Boatfi or data could not make their woe through the turgleu. the shooting-standa- erccted proved of little use after a. week or so, and, be the summer ever so dry, the water and mud in the marsh never seemed t1 decrease in volume. vaoud turning a little blown at the edges where the sun cuked and cracked the mud, and a little stronger :mell than usual, there was no change winter or summer, and the interior of the marsh remained forbidden ground. Then, many ycnrs ago, some bright intellect suggested stilts, and. from then until now, the fowler of La Rochelle has used them in hiiprofession: Here and there will be foun l a clear spot, a miniature lake with water not more that twelve inches deep, the auriace covered over with duck weed. water‘dock, and other aquatic plants. Further on may be found another spot clear of reeds, carpeted with soft, aprinay turf, the grace of which ll so fine in texture that it looks like the meander licate moan, and makes one inclined to lie down there on the hot autumn days, and be shaded from the sun by the almost tropical growth that surrounds it. - A labyrinth of lanes runs from oasis to oasis. and, viewed from above, it would be deoiared a_pe_l feet paradise fox: the _hunter. a thick gmwth of tanker gran grbw about their roots tbi :k as a nut. lug Those will; have Been through its {namesa- ea would tell you it was simply a. vast tract of mud. In that green plot of mostly turf a mu: would sink up to his waist ; where the reeds and mat-like grass grows, he would sink over his ankles, and not be able to see his way a foot in advance through their waving atoms. he pools of woter are the only safe tink, for at the bottom of these the mud in but an inch or two deep. Mud is everywhere ; in cake: upon the dogs and sheep, on the wheels of cuts end the legs of horses, whilst men, women nnd children find brushes too scarce or life too short to be eternally cleaning themselves from the distinctive Imrk of the Province. Ls Rochelle Itanda, with a curious mix~ turn of aw unps and higher around stretoh‘ ing around it, within a small distance of the town. 'l‘nero is not the distinctive wet marsh, alternating with firmer, drier ground, which one finds in Gmony ; but in it. plnce, on either side of the roads interact- ing that pu‘l of the country. no tracts o marsh hind extending for uinny sores. groan. with tall nudges nnd rushes liftin their [moon five and nix {oat shove the love . with These tracts vary in s'ze from six to twen- ty acres, and are separated from each other by chains of small mounds, or hills, that. run winding in and out in an aimless way through the mar-asses, serving as footpaths for the pedestrim, and as grazing-ground for cattle. As one'would find but few fowl by tra- versing the “ hill-paths,” and if one beat the edges with a dog, he would only drive the fowl further into the marsh, human in« geuuity was not long before is fquud a way toymnpass the dilficulty. “ Who come. from LII Rochelle umelll of mud" in one of the homely rover-b0 of the Fneuch village", and, like u 1 old a) lugs, it couuips up certain amount. of true . As might be expected, these marshes form a great breeding-ground for duck, lo- ver, rails, water hens, and aquatic fow of every kind. Many wry rare migratory birds are found here during the spring and autumn flights, and as soon as the breeding season is over, and the market demand for fowl commences, the professional fou late of La Rochelle are on the ground, and reap the harvest that. has to find them in food al- most the year round. That Labor Law Again. Shooting on Sluts.