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CANADIAN. Dr. Hector McDonald, of Kingston, was accidentally drowned Sunday in Cataraqui bay. Nearly two hundred German immigrants arrived in Montreal recently en route for the North-W'est. The steamship Avalon; has brought into port; at Quebec the shipwrecked crew of the barqne Magnificent. The Dominion line steamer Vancouver, which arrived at Montreal Sunday from Liverpool, was delayed two days in the Gulf by dense fogs. ' A farmer named Daria: Misner, living three miles south of Lyndeu, Ont., com- mitted suicide by hanging 911 Saturday last. It is said that he was insane. THE WEEK’S NEWS Mr. A. M. Burgess: Deputy Minister of the Interior, who has returned from a. trip to the United States, does not think that; Canada is behind in the handling of immi- grants. Reports from Manitoba. state that the conditions have been superb for seeding operations, and that the outlook for an abundant harvest could not. be more prom- Mr. George Johnston, Dominion Statisti- cian, is now correcting the proofs of the forthcoming census bulletin. which will be devoted to statistics relating to the defec- tive classes of the population, the blind, deaf, dumb and insane. The Quebec Telegraph is authority for the statement that Sir Ad-vlphe Caron will not return to Canada. as a. Cabinet Minister, and will be asked to exchange places with Mr. Chapleaul Lieut. Peary, who is at present at St. John’s, Nfld., says that the sealing steamer Falcon will be ready to sail in the middle of next month with his Arctic expedition. The same route will be taken as in 1891. The water of the St. Lawrence is excepâ€" tionally high, and considerable alarm is ex- perienced at Montreal at the prospect of serious floods. On Saturday. the water had reached the level of the wharves, and a. large number of teams were busily occupied in removing goods to safer quarters. A movement has been started in Ottawa to raise subscriptions from the women in Canada to purchase a. sleigh with complete appointments as a wedding present to the Princess Victoria Mary of I‘eck. The recent decision of the Montreal dis- trict of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, to amalgamate with the Canadian Order of Oddfellows has caused trouble, and Loyal Lansdowue Lodge and Loyal Concordia. Lodge-will go over in a body to the Inde- pendent Order of Oddfellows, better knowu as the American order. BRITISH. LeCaron, oncea. British spy among the Irish in America, is dying. The Bank of England has advanced its rate of interest from three and a half to four per cent. The English Government will shortly issue an order-in-Council prohibiting seal- ingjn Behring Sea. anti} neJEt May. ‘The propeliors ot the Cunard steamer Campania have been readjusted and the blades fixed at. another pitch, and the changes are expected to increase her speed. All the cattle by the Allan steamer Nu- midian have been slaughtered at Liverpool. The lungs of the animals were examined by the veterinary experts appointed for that purpcsz, and no trace of pleura-pneumonia. or oths 1' disease was found. The United States Government will pay 9.11 bllis presented for entertaining the Duke of Veragua. Home Secretary Asquith has refused to grant the petition for .the pardon of James Gilbert, alias Cunningham, who was sen- tenced in May, 1885, to penal servitude for life for his Connection w1th the dynamite explosion in the Houses of Parliament the previous January. Four thousand miners in the Pittsburg district are out on strike. About 5,000,000 logs have been swept down 'the Kennebec ri\ er in Maine by the late freshet. While Mr. Gladstone was travelling on Thursday from London to Chester 3. heavy missile was thrown at the compartment as the train approached Will esden. It missed, but broke the window of the next compart- ment, which was occupied by the Dean of Chester. Joseph T. Green, a. Ganancque tailor, has been arrested at Clayton, N. Y.. on a. charge of smuggling clothes into the United States. There was a. demonstration in Hyde park on Sunday afternoon by the lush National League Of Great. Britain, which is said to hr webeen attended by a quarter of a. mil- IE 0 1 of people. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule bill. The Presbyterian General Assembly. which is in session in \Vashington, passed a. resolution against the opening of the World’s Fair on Sunday. The negroes of South Carolina are making a concerted movement. to secure a cessation of lynchings. They appeal to the governor and the humane people of the state. The officers of the Brooklyn Tabernacle have arranged the financial difficulty wi‘h the creditors of the church, and the Rev. Dr. Talmaqe has withdrawn his resigna- tion. Prof. Pickering, of Harvard, says that the newly-completed Bruce photographic teiescope, which is to be sent to Arequina, Peru, is the most powerful star-finder in in the world. During thy 10 months ended April 30 453,958 immigrants arrived at the ports of the United States. The number arriving during the c::rrespondin? period of the pre- ceding year was 334,825. western Cof'dage bdiriiiéhâ€"f, ovr;e (v)? the Egg. est concerns of St. Paul, yesterday after- noou jumped from the high bridge into the river, 1'25 feet below. Reports from various parts of the North- ern States of the Union show that the re- cent hegvy rajins hav_e_ covgered a. wide ex- tent: of ierritory. The damage inflicted upon proper-fly pas begn widesgresd, at-‘A the loss entmlm serious. ’. Eoggrs, president of the North- UNITED STATES. A section of the flooring of Washington hall, one of the buildings In connection with the World’s Fair, gave way on Saturday, earring with it sev enty- -five women who were attending the Women’ s congxees. About. eight, of the women were seriously but none of them fatally injured. After a long Cabinet conference' in Wash- ington on the Chinese question, Secretary Gresham said that when Congress oassed a. law and failed to appropriate sufficient money to carry out its provisions that law became adeed letter. The Chinese Exclu- sion Act therefore will not be enforced. Baron Bleichroder, the famous German banker, says Germany will not adopc bi- metalism. It is rumoured at St. Petersburg that the Czar is suffering from a. cancer. Advices from J apan say the volcano Bandaisan has become active and that; wide- spread disaster haa been caused by its erup- t‘ion. The revolutionists in Nicaragua. are said to be in possession of Greytown, and practi- cally the whole country. Anton von Schmerling, one of the found- ers of the Austrian constitution, and some time Minister of the Interior and President; of the Court of Cassation, ls dying. The Mother Superior of the convent in Tapaleza', Hungary. has been arrested for cruelty to the pupils in the young ladies’ seminary and elementary school in connec- tion with the convent. A special cablegram says the young children were punished by being tied down to a. table, their mouths held open by blocks of Wood, and their tongues burned with red hot wires; while the elder girls were stripped, bound face dowmvards, and burned on the thighs and back with hot iron plates. The Russian Imperial Council has under consideration a. proposal to make the Rus- sian peasantry direct owners of the land which they now till for the commune. According to a special cable despatch from Berlin the Vorwaerts. the organ of the Social Democrats says that thousands of men are preparing to vote in favour of the Government and the Army bill, simply because they fear that the second defeat of the bill would cause the Emperor to recall Prince Bismarck to power. A landslide at Vaerdalen, just north of Trondhjem, Norway, converted twelve large farms into a. lake of slime, in which H: 13 feared many farmers’ families are buried. Copies of the report of Mr. Henry W. Elliott, United States Treasury agent in 1890, concerning the seal rookeries on the Pribyloff islands, have been distributed by the British counsel among the members of the Behring Sea. Tribunal. Africa is fast being subdivided into ”National lots.” Only a. few, comparative- ly, are left. Of its 12,000,000 square miles of area 11,590,000 have been partitioned off among the European Nations. France has the largest share, 3,000,000 square miles; but about two-thirds of it is desert. It in- cludes Algeria, Tunis, a large portion of Senegambia, a portion of the Congo terri- tory, and nearly all of the great desert. France also claims a protectorate over Mad- agascar and Dahomey. England claims 2,500,C00 square miles of the beat territory of Africa. It embraces the country at the headwaters of the Nile and the Valley 01 the Niger on the west, and everything be~ low the Congo Free State valuable for col- onization, and a strip of land reaching from the Red Sea to Senegambia. Germany owns the tract from Zanzibar to the Congo Free State, another in \Vest Africa and a large piece along the gulf of Guinea. The Congo Free State belongs to Belgium ; Ab- yssinia. to Italy, and Spain and Portugal have slices here and there in various parts of the continent. A high grade and in- telligent class of Europeans are colonizing the Dark Continent, and civilization prom- ises to spread with marvellous rapidity. Modern facilities for exterminating natives and developing natural resources are such that the making of a new continent requires less time than it did at the time of the dis- covery and colonization of the New World. A widespread and vigorous EthiOpian boom will transform the home of the “prozlounced brunette ” of the human family into the home of industry, commerce and education, and accomplish it all as by magic. Sir Charles Dilke is coming to the front again in British politics as the leader of the unoflicial Radicalsâ€"a. position for which his abilities and experience admirably qual- ity him. -His motion to deprive the Lords Lieutenants of the counties of the right to recommendâ€"which has been in effect the right to appointâ€"Justices of the Peace was timely and necessary. Under its terms the Lord Chancellor, who is a member of the ministry, will make the appointments of Justices of the Peace in future. He prob ably had the pdwer to do so before the resolution was adopted, but refused to exer- cise it. The privilege enjoyed by the coun- ty Lords Lieutenantsâ€"as a rule gouty old Tory peers and half~educated land-owners â€"â€"-has been the outgrowth of custom. They have shamefully abused it by appointing persons inferior to themselves in capacity to administer justice. They have taken their appointees from the squires and the persons with a sprinkling from the town plutocrats. Lord Herschell, the present Lord Chancellor, who is a. weak- kneed person with \Vhig leanings, doubtless now will proceed to name as Justices men who have some sympathy with the masses of the peo- ple. The House of Commons, the represent- ative body of the people, by a vote of 293 to 210 has directed him to proceed in the matter. The British Postoffice has given notice that hereafter the following articles, even if samples only, if sent by mail 9.0 Great Britain, will not be delivered on arrival, but will be turned over to the customs authorities to be disposed of as may be deemed proper: Cocoa, coffee, chicory, entrants, figs, figcakes, dried plums, raisins and apricots, peas tobacco (manufactured or not, including cigars, cigarettes and snuff), hydrate of chloral, playing cards and transparent soap, in the manufacture of which alcohol is used. The public is therefore cautioned against posting any of these articles addressed to Great Britain or Ireland, as they will not be forwarded by mail from this country. Articles of glass and liquids, oil and fatty substances are also excluded from British mails. Affairs in Africa. Sir Chas. Dulce. GEN REAL. Japan has 550 newspapers. Paris makes false teeth for horses. Great heat seems to cause melancholia. The world consumes 4,000,000 steel pens daily. Parrots cost; but Sixpence each to the dealers in South America. Japanese children are taught to write With both hands. Men on an average weigh 201%). more than women. Belgium is declared to be the most in- temperate country in Europe. In his jocular moods the Prince of Wales is fond of panning. ClergYmen come next in number to mechamcs under the head of inventors. South Australia has had forty adminis- trators in thirty-six years. The Speed of a wild duck is ninepy miles an hour. Thirty seven thousand women telegraph- ists are employed m the United States. More than a. third of Great. Britain is owned by members of the Hnuse of Lords. A man in Bwaria only needs to see a. play twice in order to be able to repeat it scene for scene. The first; king to whom the title pf “Majesty ” was applied was Louis XL, 1n France, in 1463. There are now 3,538 journals and {naggi- zines printed in Germany yearly, whxle m 1891 there were only 3,443. The Sultan of Turkey has the richest col- lection of gems and regalia. in the world. French florists are cultivating a. plant which bears a. flower that is white in the mqrning, red at_noon, and blge at pighb: Germ'any makes an excellent brand of “Scotch” whisky which finds a. ready sale in India. Since 18410, thirty-seven vessels, of which a. part of the name was the “City of,” have been wrecked or lost. Two hundred dogs are annually doomed todeath in the University of Buffalo for physiological experiments. The fourth verse of the twentieth chap- ter of Revelations contains more words than any other verse in the New Testa- menu. The Moors of Arabia. and Spain were the first to display coloured globes in drug- store windows. The editor of “ El-Ahram,” an Egyptian journal, isa. Favourite with the Khedive, who has, as his latest means of showing his approval, conferred the order of the Omaha.- kat upon the editor’s Wife. It is claimed that the longest floating dock in the world is at, Bermuda. It is 381 feet long and 123 feet wide. Only citizens who are able to read and write have the power to vote in Bolivia. and several ether South Americm republics. The nearest approach yet to perpetual momon is the discovery of a. European clockmaker who has invented a clock that will mix for ten years without. winding. The Chinese value an old pair of boots which have been worn by an upright magis- trafe, and the custom of wishing a “happy foot” is still observed all through Europe. Completed census returns for the United States indicate that in that country there are 3,000,000, unmarried persons over thirty years of age. \Vhat is called the “ vegetable boa. con- strictor.” a. species of climber which, it is said by romancers, twines about great, trees so tightly as to strangle them to death, is claimed to have been discovered in India. There are said to be more than 3,000 prehistoric buildings in Sardinia. They are almost all m the fertile districts, and are built in groups, whith are separated from one another by Wide and generally barren places. The wealth of the Russian State Church is almost incalculable. It could pay the national debt, amounting to nearly two hundred million pounds, and stlll be enor- mously wealthy. The first coins made in America were in Mexico, :in the mint established there in 15.35. The coin was called the real. They are now worth from six shillings to two pounds apiece. Rats in tens of thousands infested the Mercanmle Club building in St. Louis. All the efforts to rid the house of the rodents proved unsatisfactory, so the building had to be torn down. A rat-proof sbr‘JCure will take its place. Lobstcrs often travel in regiments seek- ing new feeding grounds. Then' migrating armies are always led by the biggest. and strongest; ones, while the maimed and weak- ly struggle along behind. Tobacco consumption is increasing in Great; Britain. For the last year is aver- aged one and six-tenths of a pound per head of the population. In France it aver- ages nearly two pounds. In England the consumption of tea. is rapidly increasing and coffee diminishing. Cocoa. has increased 34 per cent. in five years. About 250,001) canary birds are raisei in Germany every year, and ‘of these about 100,000 go to the United States and 50,000 to England. There is an old Mexican law which pro- hibits a. ninth marriage. A much-married American, in ignorance of the law, violated it, and is now in gaol in Colima. The price of mourning is likely to mlgance when the Emperor of Morocco shufiles off this mortal coil. He his 5,090 wives, and suitable moarning attire will be in demand for the bereaved Widows. Suspected persons, as they stand at; the paying beller’s window in the Bank of France reinsmntaneously photographed. A cam- era is always in position, and is operated upon a. signal from the teller. About four millions and a. half sterling are spent an hunting in (31'th Britain and Ireland, independent of the expenses of carriage horses, covered hacks, and travel- ing expenses. There are 330 packs of hounds,and about 100,003 horses are re- quired to follow them. A novel way of illluminatinrv a. tunnel has been devised in Paris. Refiectors throw the light from many electric lamps 16 feet above the rails to the sides of the tunnel, where it is again reflected by burnished tin, a. soft and agreeable light. The trains automatically mm the current on and ofi’ in entering and leaving the tunnel. BRIEF AND INTERESTING. seven per acre in the whole of the Metropo- lis, and did not exceed thirty in Lewisham, Wandsworth, and Hampstead, it was no less than 184 in VVhitechapel, 187 in St. George-in-the-East, and 191 in Shoreditch. A complete suit of knightly armour of historic periods contained the helmet. the cuirass for breast, epsulieres_for shoulders, brassarts. upper arms ;coudxeres, elbows ; avant-bms, lower arms; gauntlets, gloves; faudes for flanks; haubergeon, a quilted surcoat ; cuisssrts, thigh pieces ; genouilli- eres, knee guards; grevieres, leg pieces; solerets, shoes and spurs. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild of Vienna, has given his castle at Reichenau, at the foot of the Semmering, with the extensive grounds belonging to it, to a. society which is founding a. hospital for consumptives. The castle has been built within the last ten years, and is roomy enough to contain 400 patients, is in a. beautifully sheltered spot close to Archduke Charles Louie’s cas- tle of \Vartholz, and the gardens are filled with the finest roses in the whole neighbor- hood. The castle which Baron Rothschild so generously gives away is worth several million florins. Metropoliis' sfiows- sBme {emarkable varia- tions. ‘v.hile1ast- yea? 3t, aiverrage-d fifty- The manner in which trials are conducted in Chinese courts would be a startling sur- priseto all who have not personally attend- ed a. court scene. Torture is always resort- ed to in order to compel the accused to declare himself guilty of the charge against him, and to such an extent it is carried that it often results in either causing the death of the accused or else maimi‘ng him for life. , It is estimated that there are to-day in the United States and Canada. about 600 young men in every 1,000 having reached the age of thirty, who are single. The conjugal condition of the people in other countries is vastly different. In Russia. 373 men and 573 women in every 1,000 who marry are married under twenty years of age, while in England 766 men and 829 women in every 1,090 are married between twenty and thirty. In all countries. but particu- larly in Russia. and France, the marrying ages of women are much below those of men. In the cemetery at Marietta, Galena, there is an infant’s grave that attracts the atten- tion of visitors to that place. There is no headstone, but resting on the top of the grave is a. glass box containing the play- things the lit-tie one had amused itself with just before its death. There are dolls, rub. bar and chma, a. rubber ball, a rattler, and other toys. One of the curiosities to be seen at the Guildhall Library is a stone dug up in 1852 during excavations for a. warehouse in St. Paul’s Churchyard. This stone bears the figure of a. strange nondescript animal, like that of a. horse, with fantastic claws, and with a horned and tasked head. A dragon coils round the forelegs and rears itselt in front of the “ horse‘s ” chest. On the edge of the stone is a. clearly-cut inscription in Danish runes of a. far more distinct and fin- ished character than most of the extant Anglian runes ; it records that “ Kona. and Tuki caused lay this stone.” There can be no reasonable doubt; that this is part of an eleventh century monument, for Tuki of this descript-iOn has been identified with Tokig, who was a minister in Eugiand of King Canute. A writer in Forest and Stream says; My brother had a pair of buck elks two years and a. half old, the eldest of a. half dozen does and fawns which he kept in a. park. Those two bucks we separ- ated from the others, and we drove them through a. lane into the barnyard, thence into the horsestable, where they were kept a. few days and subjected to the halter. Af- ter that a. harness, which had been prepar- ed for the purpose, was fitted on and they were taken out and hitched up t) a. light one-horse sleigh. All this was accomplish- ed without much resistmce on the part of elks. But it required much coaxing and some whipping to m tke the first start. \Ve succeeded, however, in driving a. mile or two, but they did not take kindly to the hit and could not be guided much by the he s, consequently we made zigzag courses 8.11:1 frequently brought up against a, fence or some other obstruction. They were her- nessed and driven perhaps ten times during the winter with about the same result. They did not seem to learn anything, and we came to the conclusion that the elk were of that mind, so early in the spring they were driven back into the park. A Tennessee Man's Unique Team of Young Bucku. During the month of August, after they were four years old, they became ill-natur- ed and ugly, and one had become so furious that we had to look around for somewhere to confine him. If he broke through the fence we considered him very dangerous and no nun dare go into the park when the elk was in sight. I believe that I never saw an aninnl more aggressive or that Wtsmoze full of fight. He would go for any one who stood outside of the fence as far as the fence would let him, and he would ' stand punching with handspikes and prodding with pitchforks until his face would be a gore of blood and never flinch nor back an inch, while if he had broken through t! e punchers and prodders would have wished themselves anywhere else but there. The density of population in' ’01}? British The way I secured that elk from further} trouble was this : Taking twenty-five fat of cable rope and climbing on to the fence, ‘ thence into the top of a. white beech that was full of limbs and stood close inside of the fence, I tied one end of the rope to a strong limb, having made a. strong noose at the other end, and then worked my way down on the lower limbs, some eight or nine feet from the ground. By that time the elk had got there, even before 1 was ready. Just then I would as soon have walked into the grasp of a. grizzly beer as to have dropped from that limb. He soon gave me as good a chance as I wanted, and I was lucky enough to drop the noose over both horns. Then I had him safely tied up, when he was fed with hay and oats for three weeks, after which he was let loose, being then as quiet as the others, which numbered at thatjtime fifteen, does, fawns and young bucks. A strong man in ‘x'mma. made a. wager with an American that he could stand un- der a. litre of water while it“. fell drop by drop, upon his head, from a height of three feet. At tfie 426111 drop the strong man gave up, the pan; being intolerable. ELKS AS ROABSTERS. And How They Fight AM! They Take It- The Sulker’c Tactics. “A salmon 1106an take the fly as a. no“ does, and it never rises to one Whiie It, is d down a stream,”8a.id au ex» is filly while the salmon is King at rest in podlsfihe reposing water at afoot at so,“ swift. rapid, or the silent: starting place at such a. rapid, that it Will respond to the fisherman’s cast. Salmon may be moving along by the thousand in the deep stretches #L __ nauko-nu {hr a mi]- (£1ng U, uuv yuvuuâ€"__ 7 of a. stream that extend perhaps for a. miig_ between rapids, but the angler might drop \‘ his flies above them for a. year, if it Wen possible, without ever being rewarded by . single rise. The pool is the place to whip, and the time early morning or late in the afternoon. If the epicurean denizen of the pool is so inclined there is sport end for the angler. He drops his fly ligh y on the water, _and the salmon in the humor will rise to it and seize it at once, ' -wv Irv ,«v v...“ wvw‘ â€"_ w- “Then the excitement begins. It is d}- vided between the fish and the fisherman. The more the salmon tries to get out of trouble the deeper he gets the angler in. The fish no sooner feels the hook in his jaw than he seems to realize that he has got to get it out as soon as possible or it will be bad for him. Then things begin to boil. The first thing a. fisherman knows a hundred feet of line have spun from his reel, and he thinks heis in for a long chase down stream, when suddenly the salmon doubles and dashes straight back toward the boat. Then there is work for the angler if he expects to reel in the slack of the line and get it taut ,, again in good time. No sooner is the line taut once more than the salmon feels its tension through the hook in his jaw, and the chances are that he will shoot upwards and out of the water his entire length and more. Taking his header he dashes madly dOWn into the depths again, tearing this way and that way, darting around and around, and making lively work for the fisherman and the handler of his boat. After an exciting series of manoeuvres such as this, the mad fish may take it into his head to start down stream like a steam en. gine, putting the guide at his best to keep the boat along,' with him. The salmon may lead a chase of .a mile in this way, then stop suddenly and resume its leaping and doubling tactics. The fight may last an hour or more, and if the angler is skillful and cool, and his guide, or gafi'man, dexter-' ous and watchful, the chntest should have but one ending, and eventually the glitter- ing prize will be stretched at the bottom of the canoe. If the angler is not skillful and cool, the fight will also have but one end- ing. The glittering prize will not be stretched on the bottom of the canon, but in a very short time will be at the bottom of his pool, congratulating himself that his foeman was not worthonf his steel. “ The one thing in a. fight with a. salmon that the fisherman most fears and dreads is the liability of the fish to 81111:. A snlker is always a. big fish. He will not show fight at once, but will sink to the bottom and lie there. Whenever he does make up his mind to fight the fisherman knows that the fight will he a. good one. But the sulkinz fish may lie for half a. day or more, despite all the angler’s efforts to start him. No salmon fisherman can with honor retreat from a. fish he has once booked, and he must possess his soul in patience, and wait until the sulker concludes to open the perfor- mance, if he has to sit all night. It is on record that in 1883, in the Marguerite River, Quebec, 8. fisherman hooked a. salmon at about 7 o’clock in the morning. It was a. sulker, and it lay in the dumps until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Then the big fish suddenly started down stream and ran at railroad speed for a. mile without stopping. Then he quit run sing and fought the angler. by all the salmon’s known tactics, up and down and across the river, for two mortal hours without a moment’s rest, before he gave up and submitted to the gaff. The fisherman was almost as nearly played out as the salmon was when the end came. and would have been compelled to hand the old war horse over to some one else to finish if the fight had held out many minutes longer. That salmon weighed forty poundsâ€"the largest killed in that water.” Maudâ€"“ She is a woman who has suffer- ed a. great deal for her belief.” Eclxelâ€"“ Dear me ! What. is her belief?” Maudâ€"“ She believes that she can wear a No. 3 shoe on a. No. 6 foot.” Chollyâ€"“ Why did youâ€"awâ€"send you- ah man 03 ‘3” Alayâ€" “ He tied me fohU m- -ha.nd so smooth it looked like one of these weady~ made ones.’ VVillisâ€"“ That young man who plavs the comet, is sick.” ‘ Wallace “ Do you think he will re- covc-r 9” “ I’m afraid not. The doctor who is a» tending him lives next door.” The Rex. Dr Fourthly (making a. pastor- al call)â€"â€" “It has been a. long time, Mys. Upj ohu, since I have seen Miss Bella {mt church. Mrs. Up john (sh .king her head sadly)â€" “ I fear, doctor, Bella. xs incorrigible. I have had sex eral new elegant dresses made ‘or her lately, but she doesn’ t seem to haxe any desire to go to church toâ€"to loo‘a well in them, you know. I’m afraid shes get- ting hopelessly Worldly.” A German and a. Frenchman sat opposite each other at a table d’hote in a. Swiss ho- tel. r,” “ You are a. Frenchman, I suppose . en- quired the German at the commencement E the meal. “ Yes,” was the reply. “ But, how did you manage to find that out ‘2” ’ " -‘ 77L â€"- â€"â€"â€"-L 1.-..-1 n ..:.1 J.” ...... "a, ,, “ Because you eat so much bread,” said the German. There was a long pause. When the dinner was over the Frenchman in his turn questioned his vis-a-vis. “ You are a. German, I presume?” " To be sure; but tell me. pray, hew you made that discovery.” wré‘filiBecause you aie so much of oar-ery- thing,” was the dry retort. . now 9.1mm! mm: rm; I“. Suffered for Her Belief- Dlstressingly Worldly. Natural Characteristics. Too Good an Artist- Small Chance- It. was in me 30nd E"Pn€ng was a. still a! sun m verging tom crimson rays mtg-am deli, upon The vine-I van mphmheau-e of in that narrow and g imn ease mountains space, and On 3- SPG village green stretch there was dug a 8" yet living man : the hopped up on one s) turf and a rough d The soldier cast a. hasi it, and, falling upon hish‘ his face with his hands ‘ agony of prayer, from w .sroused by the seven 51 ‘hour he would ever hear from the dull-toned lell. His last moment was c: When the sound ceased fern and his field~oflicers their horses. which were provosbmarshal drew up soldiers opposite where knelt on the turf. - There wereltwo aged 1 Ferdinando convent of but. the highlanéer reins municabe with them ; y. determined not to abam hour, and, withdrawing they placed a. crucifix ag rock, and prayed earnesI lic fervour to that all-w: fore whom the soul of I heretic was soon to app! the height of man where crags and fa!" «tic spires, dm 0! .v from the lit mg amid such d soidiers, forsook the' (:6 together on theé to behold the flta-l *1 The troops formed square ; the rock up were com Near these stood Gordon Highlanders er-book lay open I Highlanders formed square. All was solemn sile Not a whisper w that dense array; m ear save the rustle of the evening wind stir or rich green corkâ€"tr: the black precipices. He was pale and em: finement. but his bead soldier-like as ever. There was no cupixin troops ; the prisonvr was venerable Dugald M hor, beside him, bareheaded under his arm. and as the hand of 'the preached the hour at whi to die, a deeper sadness i of the beholders, who, a customed to all the hear of war, had never before in so solemn and peculiax His eyes seemed unus times a red flush crosset ly_p_ale cheek._ He read portions of tin old dog-cared Bible, whic his sporrau molloch, and bones in which he read c4 heard by an, so very sti Many of his comrades n farewell of him ; and Evan he had given seven pound pay while prisoner at Cor parents at Braemar, retil the ranks with bear-less e3 had a. mistaken idea the signs of deep emotion wox manly. A The genérzzl, - the 5‘ were all on horsebau tionless. Mackie and his attend the hymn beginning with hour of my departure’s c‘ was concluded, the hand alcadc’s house wanted 1)! the hour. At last it was knO' man was approaching escort that conducted “I wad just- be sax-3.1 Sax-and-twenty ! OM dee sae young! 0, my be groaued aloud, “fan Scotlandâ€" and a.‘ I hat creel. It win be a. sail in Glenclunaad when t! the kirk doors 0’ Braen desesi wi’ diszsm .0.“ h He was clad in his I and kiln, and stood I; bonnet in his hand. Sir Roland Hill t aide-de-camp, who th troops at a. hand gallorj commanding officer; ' to fix bayonebs and sh meiiately given, and tones of the different the prisoner appeared : rounded by his escort. prgyost-marsha'x. ’ Bu; that night in his bi wept like a. woman for th rude and friend. inc; in the sunlight, as the hill-tops by the wiz led to zhe bottom at Ll â€" His own corps I havl and be moved slowly 31 with downcast eyes to‘ his grave and coflin lay During the bandaging Fusifern book 05 his bow down, commanded his re He drew new: the for: into its gloomy depti turned his had; upon i1 As one max-9 the Highl: bare knees to the sod, jo so, in the solemn psalm ' the prisoner had begun a It was a sad and moan one which every Santana: An ladder-l of THE BBSET