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“ My dear,” said Mr. Nevill, “falling in love is not nonéense. It is very serious ; esm chilly to women, who arejudged chiefly by the way they (‘0 it. They teach nothing about it at. Girton, I think ? That. is my chief : emson for not. sending you there. But 11 this is irrelevant. You need not study the question in the abstract. You are to marry your cousin John, and the sooner (Mr. Hobson, the curate, had made a. sud- den prosposal for Jessica two months ago, and had been declined with a. few tears.) “ Papa, you know I hate Mr. Hobson.” “ I know nothing of the sort,” said her father testily. “Are you thinking of Sir Edgar Lee?” x‘“_,,, (V,,,1'n1 1 - “Papa, Sir Edgar has never so much as asked me, and I hate him worse even than Mr. HJbson.” Mr. Nevin put on his spectacles and star- ed. “Jessica, are you thinking of Mr. Robson '3” Jessica grew very pink. “Papa, I could only esteem and Worship andâ€"and” -here she blushed furiouslyâ€"“love any one who was quite my ideal in every single ‘I’fl" ,’ v ' J essicéf tried again. “ But John Far- quhar seems quite an ordinary person,papa., and I don’t suppose I shall find it the least. possil‘fle to estqem find to worship higp.” Mr. N evill explained that she was at full liberty to worship John Farquhar, but that she must not. keep him ten years waiting for his money ; and then he advised her to go_on wigh he; letter. to cry. unen it came out. “ I don’t want to marry John Farquhar,” sobbed Jessica. Mr. Nevill bit his lip impatiently de- manded reasons, and Jessica found it supremely hard to make them intelligible. -" I don’t want to marry till I’m at least looked For snow is nothing more than crystal- lized water, and its beauty in mass is sur- passed by the beauty of some of the individ- ual crystals which catch on one’s coat- sleeve or fall on the ground, when examined closely by the eye or, still better. when at through a magnifying glass. twenty-eight P3P?" I shouldn’t mind if I ' Multitudes of forms of all degrees of com- were an Old maid. I want to go to Girton, papa; and. to beâ€"to be cultured. I mean, I want to be superior.” ’ You must try to express yourself more clearly.” said Mr. Nevill. “Papa,” said Jessica, who till this moment had imprisoned her aspirations in her breast, and who though she loved her father dearly, was not much in the habit of talking to him â€"“ papa, plexity from the slender, straight needle to the most complicated star-like figures have been drawn and described, but in spite 03' this great diversity they are all absolutely uniform in their primary design, that of the thexagonal prism. The ordinary form is that of six straight needles of the ice radiating from a common center, and the straight needles occasionally seen are re- . garded as broken or incomplete specimens Lady Sterne was married at my age, {of this class, but each of the these needles and now she is so stout, and has so much to do, and she always seems so tired E of her husband, and so tired of babies, and every one thinks her so stupid. ” 5 “You have not yet made your meaning' clear, Jessica,” said Mr. Nevill. “ I should much rather be like dear Miss Snow, who is always so nicely dressed, and , is capable of throwing out other needle- like branches, always at symmetrical dis- tances and always at an angle of 60 or 120 degrees. Occasionally little plates are seen, , but these also are invariably 6-sid ed planes ‘ 5 the angles of which are still 120 degrees. What is the meaning of this rigid adher- . i n ' 9 ' ', who reads so much, and writes for t’hegence to a certa.n g.ometrical form. Ev1 Sunday at Home, papa. I mean, what is,l the good of marrying at all '2” cried Jessica. l “And if ever I do get married, I want to marry aâ€"personâ€" whom I esteem andâ€" worship. ” Here Jessica colored. Mr. N evill explained that she was at full liberty to worship John Farquhar, but that she must not keep him ten years waiting for his money ; and then he advised her to go on with her letter. J essica' tried again. “ But John Far- quhar seems quite an ordinary person,papa, and I don’t suppose I shall find it the least possible to esteem and to worship him.” “Then you had better love him,” said Mr. Nevill drylyâ€"“that will doas well.’ Jessica grew very pink. “Papa, I could only esteem and Worship andâ€"and” â€"here she blushed furiouslyâ€"“ love any one who was quite my ideal in every single way.” ' Mr. Nevill put on his spectacles and star- ed. “ Jessica, are you thinking of Mr. Hobson '3” ‘ (Mr. Robson, th_e curate, had made a sud- dently the result is the action of physical force on the individual molecules which make up the crystals, and ev1dently also this force is either all-pervading or else inherent in the molecules themselves, for the crystals figured by Arctic explorers and those found in the mountains of the Andes are practically identical. There is scarcely a possibility of a doubt that the force, whatever it is, which determines the form of crystals is inherent in the mole- cules of which the crystal is composed,and, perhaps, represents the position of the atoms in the molecules themselves. The theory of crystallization has been so elabor- ately worked out that it is second only to those of mathematics and chemistry itself in exactness. So accurate is it that the crystalline form of a substance unknown in other than a liquid or a gaseous state, and even that of a substance entirely unknOwn, but whose existence is possible, can be pre- dicted with accuracy. This is the last and greatest test of a scientific theory. To most minds it is a complete proof of the nAâ€"_--L_-.._ “ L‘A_L A‘ , “Papa, ’ said Jessica, who till this! moment had imprisoned her aspirations in her breast, and who though she loved her father dearly, was not much in the habit of talking to him â€"“papa,‘ Lady Sterne was married at my age,! and now she is so stout, and has so' much to do, and she always seems so tired E of her husband, and so tired of babies, and ‘ every one thinks her so stupid. ” f “You have not yet made your meaning clear, Jessica,” said Mr. Nevill. l “ I should much rather be like dear Miss ' Snow, who is always so nicely dressed. and 7‘ I don’t want to marry till I’m act’s least twenty-eight papa. I shpuldn’t mind if I were an md maid. I want to go to Gil-ton, papa; and. to beâ€"to be cultured. I mean, I want to be superior.” ' You must try to express yourself more clearly.” said Mr. Nevill. “ f don’t want. to marry John Farquhar,” sobbed Jessica. Mr. Nevill bit his lip impatiently de- manded reasons, and Jessica. found it supremely hard to make them intelhgible. ." T AAn’fi moni- fin inn-nu 9:11 I"... “0- 1..-...4. ‘-‘ Very proper,” commented Mr. Nevill ; “could not be more proper. Every word John says is admirable. You are to be congratulated on your husband, Jessica. Sit down, my dear, and write him a. cordial response.” Jessica. obediently took a pen and wrote “My dear Cousin,” with a full stop after it. . “ What, my love, is the matter?” inquir- ed her father. Jessica threw down the pen and began to 9'3: Then it came out. 7 “yofir' daughtér is perfectlj willing; at} present, and when we shall have become acquiinted.” Spain, and the next clani‘oring to pack it all up in a parcel, and send it off by post to her cousin John. Clearly, however, there was but one comfortable solution of the difficulty ; the heiress must marry John Farquhar, and so restore to him his inheri- tance. This project was the simultaneous invention of both Mr. Nevill and the widow. It was propounded to John, who, after a little hesitation, and having no fancy for the workhouse, agreed. Provisionally that is: ianessica’s interest he inserted in the treaty a saving clause. “If,” he wrote, “nnnr (IgnrDRQ‘nl {a “A“;AA‘IH ":11:-‘n. -4. this time was eighteen, pretty, and the apple of her father’s eye ; rather a clever little person, who, having left school,want- ed now to go to college. But she did not- understand money matters, and became, under the present ciscumstances,just a little annoying to her papa. For her remarks were perfunctory and childish ; anc one moment she was building will. her wealth some extravagant castle in It was scandalous. Of course gentle Mrs. Farqnhar cried herself ill, and said it was all her fault; and of course young John was aghast, and be- lieved himself on the workhouse threshold. But Mr. Nevill took the matter more to heart than did either, and his very hair stood on end with dismay ; for he was an extremely high-smiled gentleman, horrified to think a member of his household should pro- fit by such monstrous injustice. J essica at who had never offended his father 5111 a year ago, and then only by over-warm in- teroession for his motherâ€"found himself cut down to a. pittance of two hundred a ear. While. on the other hand, Mr. evill’s daughter, little Jessica, whom no one knew, and who was totally insignifi- cant, .beeame the possessor of a. house, and mrs. Farquhar was thirty years younger than her husband. The fact, originally a pleasure to him, became afterwards an ofi'ence, and he quarrelled with her for no better reason. At least, so said Mr. Nevill, his cousin ; and so said every one at all acquainted with the harmless lady. Old John Farquhar died "at seventy-six). and left his widow not one penny of money. And her son, young Johnâ€"as good a boy as ever was seen, a smart young soldier, Oh 9. huidred thousand pofinds. CHAPTER I. OMEDY 0F. ERRORS. . , - _ _____ r v; yuys' xcal and chemlcal forces of the umverse and each represents in its perfect form the unalterable character of the laws of nature which remlatealike the shape’of thegreatest globe of the earth and the tiny feathery flake which falls on a coat sleeve on a dark Winter d83- The little crystals which make snow agettherefore, the resultant 1 Crystallized water assumes the form of a hexagonal prism, not from chance, but be- cause it is compelled to assume that form on account of its molecular arrangement. due to the forms which the atoms them- selves assume within the molecule or rather to the restrictions of their several ranges of movement through their mutual attractions. This is the basis of the present theory of ‘the formation of crystals, and it, will be seen that given the character and number of the atoms and their arrangement in a. molecule it is perfectly possible to predict the range of their movement in a molecule ‘ and thence the probable character of a crystal which would be built up of many molecules. It is needless to say that it is unnecessary to carry the investigation of any compound back to the atoms, and that the fact of a certain number and character of atoms having been established in the molecules of any substance, it is possible at once to predicate the arrangement they would assume and the crystalline form the molecules would take. ‘ correctness of that theory: The Crystallized Water Is Really Blue, Not “'hite. The first snow of winter is always hailed with mingled feelings of pleasure and ap- prehension. The youngsters welcome it with unalloyed delight, but their elders realize that it is but the harbinger of many and more severe storms which will bring misery to some and discomfort to all. But even these cannot but admire the beauty of the little crystals of water as they fall so softly and gently from the skies. Even in the mass its pure whiteness and its soft feathery character give snow a charm peculiarly its own,which has been celebrat- ed in proverb and poem in all ages of man- kind. It came rather as a. shock to learn, as the realistic painters showed and the philosophers corroborated, that the snow was not white, but blue ; a. faint and deli- cate blue it is true, but one well marked in deep shadows and exactly that of water] when viewed in large masses. Pure water in small bulk is almost perfectly transpar- rent, but in large masses gives a. distinctly blue tint to white objects when seen through it. So the whiteness of the snow, due to interference of the light by the reflection and refraction of the innumerable facets of minute crystals, is found to be tinged with blue when these interferences are sufficient- ly numerous. Th-e weddin-g was' fixed for file auumni,‘ and the cousins were to be introduced m the summer. Just now it was spring. And, alas Iâ€" In the spring a yqung mah'sfiancy lightly turns ' t6 thoffghm of love. ' John Farquhar. the engaged map, was 13°” sufliciently alive to this springtlme danger in which he stood. NOW, it must he confessed, the young man did not altogether like the part he was playing in this affair, for he felt himself turned into an object of com- passion, the role least suited to an Eng- lishman ; and, moreover, the male animal relinquishes with a. had grace his privilege 0f wooing. Still, he hoped for the best, having heard that Jessica was pretty ; and he was enamored of getting his position re- stored and his few debts paid; besides which, he wanted to please his mother and to make her comfortable. For John was lomantically devoted to his mother, and she was in ill health, and altogether unfit togppe with poverty and disappointtment. J vâ€"_ â€"vvvv-, _ -vv -- Jessica. could not make her father under- stand that he was trampling on the finest sprouts of Der delicate soul. She submitted; and in the summer John Farquhar waste come to Nevill Lodge to make his betrothed bride’s acquamn- ance. you fall in love with hiu ngteyour lqtper, my 40w.” (TO M: CONTINUED.) A SNO‘VELAKE. with him the better. F13) the The remains of a. Roman watergate have been unearthed at Nimes. There are two openings of 13 feet span. Afghan Postage Stamps- ‘ The collectors of stamps may like to know that Ameer Abdur Rahman has had three issues of stamps. When he first came to the throne he had dies struck for two post- age stamps, both round in shape and of a. dull red color. One of these was valued at one abasi, or four annas, and the other two abasis; the former was used on letters weigh- ing one miskal, or half the weight of a. Gab- uli rupee: The latter carried a. letter up to two miskals. The inscription on these stamps is “Darus Sultaneh Cabul” on the margin, and the price is in the middle. Three years ago a. small black oblong stamp about an inch long, valued at one abasi, was issued. This was merely inscribed “Masul Kagaz Dak Khana. Dowlat-i-Afghanistan fi miskal ek abasi.” This has now been superseded by a much larger red oblong stamp, which bears the same words, but. has in addition a mosque and two flags. If the twelve million able-bodied men composing the armies of Europe should emi- grate, their loss would be a. great benefit to the countries on whose produce they are now praying. If they should leave the camp and return to the fields and workshops of their own countries,they would probably bring down the level of wages appreciably, but by their stimulus to production they would also bring down prices, and thus bal- ance the tendency of lower wages to lower the standard of living. Then the produc- tion of wealth which had been unproduc- tively consumed by the standing armies would be available as capital to employ the labor released by the breaking up of the armies. New enterprises would be started. and though over-production might result, that condition would be incomparably bet- ter than the state of things subsisting at present. Further, emigration still afi'ords a. safety-valve for superfluous lflwur. Just now the military requirments of Germany incline her to discourage emigration, and at the same time are an impulse to it. There are other motives besides the desire to es- cape military burdens and military service that urge emigration. Artisans and labour- ers can get better wages inAmerica or South Africa than they can at home, for though the army takes away many labourers from industry,it also takes away much capital,so that there is a smaller fund to be divided among the fewer workers. l International peace is not the only thing lthreatened b the arma t f E y men s o urope. ‘Each of the great Continental powers has its own festering social disorder, to which its standing army is a constant irritant. } War tax es and enforced military service are nursing internal discontent which may impel war before it has really been provoked. Italy is in that situation. The tremendous strain of supporting her army must reach the breaking point if it is not soon eased. That country may choose the horrors of war as a means of preventing the miseries of revolution. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and France are able to maintain their huge military establishments, but at a cost not entirely measured by the vast financial out- lay. Their armies have brought into exis- tence SWarrns of Socialists and large num- bers of those criminal malcontents, the Anarchists. The full force of the reaction of the armed peace upon society in the countries maintaining that paradoxical attitude is not to be gauged by the visible signs of discontent. It is only the more indiscreet that in such countries as Germany express their spirit of revolt against the military taxes and service. In all those countries, however, Socialism is gaining a strong foothold, and political leaders find it necessary to bargain with it in order to carry on government or efi‘ective opposi- tion. His disappearance coincided with the departure of Mme. Nâ€"â€"-, a. French woman of Rangoon, and it is thought the couple left together. At Bombay he bought two tickets for Paris, but he had already reach~ ed the French capital before suspicion was aroused, as he had cunningly applied for three weeks’ furlough. The man who secured accurate plans of the fortification of these four Indian ports was known as Wald. His real name was De Boulanger, and he came of a, prominent family in Marseilles. He was educated for the army, and when still under age served in Pondicherry, but a quarrel over a. woman forced him to leave the colony. lie was this hard life, he came back to India. and obtained a position as corresponding clerk in a. Bombay commercial house. ~ While there he tell in with some British officers, and, as he went by the name of Wald and claimed to be a. German, he was induced to enlist in the Royal Artillery at Calaba, Bombay. This was six years ago. He was The Plans Indian p0 Ad vices of Four Important Anglo- rte Taken by a French Spy. ‘ust received from Rangoon, British Bulmah, show that -the British Government defences at Aden, Kurrachi, Bombay, and Rangoon are probabiy as well known now in Paris as they are at the army headquarters in London. The plans of these most important defences of the Indian Empire were secured by a. Frencb~ man, W110, under a. German name, obtained emPIOYment as an engineer in the British India. service. Last September he obtained leave of absence at Rangoon, but when he failed to return an investigation was made, which revealed his treachery. The dis- closure created great excitement in Ran- goon and Bombay, and there was much cabling between those cities and the Home Office In London, but it was a. case of lock- inggthe stable door after the steed was BRITISH Europe’s Armies. DBPBNOES UNMASKBD- Both of these are positive religions. Each claims to rest upon a. divine revelation wh ich is in its nature final and unchangeable. yet the one is stationary and the other pro: gressive. The one is based upon What it believes to be divine commands, and the other upon divine principlesâ€"just the dif. fez-ence that there is between the law of Sinai and the law of love, the ten command. ments and the two. The ten are speclfic and unchangeable ; the two admit of ever new and progressive application. ‘[The Contemporary Review. Mohammedanism has been identified With a stationary civilization, and Christianity with a. progressive one. There was a time, from the eighth century to the thirteenth when science and philosophy flourished at, Bagdad and Cordova under Moslem rule while darkness reigned in Europe. But Kenan has shown that this brilliant period was neither Arabic nor Mohammedan in its spirit or origin, and, although his state. ments may admit of ._' some modification, it is certain that, however brilliant while it lasted, this period has left no trace in the Moslem faith, unless it be in the philo. sophical basxs of Mohammedan law, While Christianity has led the Way in the Progress of modern civilization. In their origin, Christianity and Islam are both Asiatic, both Semitic, and Jerusalem is but a few hundred miles from Mecca, In regard to the number of their adheren both have steadily increased from the be- ginning to the present day. After 1,900 years, Christianity numbers 400,000,000 and Islam, after 1,300 years, 200,000,000: but Mohammedanism has been practically, confined to Asia and Africa, while Christi. anity has been the religion of Europe and the New World, and politically it rules now over all the world except China. and Terkey- It is a. part of the irony of our fate that this returned blatherskite or miscreant should take a wild and absorbing interest in local politics. If he has learned nothing good abroad, he has at least acquired a shrewd acquaintance with the tricks and machinery of the “caucus,” and he knows how to put himself on the Town Council of Galway, or make himself a poor law guard- ian in a smaller place, in the teeth of all the soberer elements of the electorate. There is a certain vigour and unholy activ- ity about the fellow, a. kind of brass imi- tation of the golden resourcefulness he has seen abroad, which make him the natural ring-leader of the slower and more timid stay-at-home loafers, and he gathers them up and propels them along as a force for confusion, waste, and wrong which no one knows how to stand up against. -â€"['l.‘he Fortnightly Review. It is a. significantafact that the Irish-} man returned from America. or Australia is} one of the worst elements in this misl chievous and dangerous class. I suppose‘ this is logical enough; if he had not had! the seeds of worthlessness in him, he would have taken root in the soil of a. new conti- nent, and remained there. I could name from personal acquaintance a. dozen small towns and villages where the home-coming of a. single sophisticated loafer or rufiian from foreign parts has wrought the whole difierence between a. tolerably quiet and well-ordered community and a. place visibly going, with loud turbulence and vicious abandon, straight to the devil. The Fate of Irish Villages- It is the wholsale dry-rotting of the boys growing up in the Irish towns and Villages, merely through contact with this ever-swelling army of loafers and vagabonds, which makes one ask, with a. sinking heart, what hope there is of the new generation. We are still raising many good boys, in spite of this contaminated environmentâ€" steady, pure-minded, ambitious, diligent lads, who are not shamed to be regular at mass, and at their studies or work, and at their beds in good time. It is our curse that these exceptions will not remain in their maturity to help us combat the nation- all evil. They will sail off for America or the Antipodes, weakening steadily the minority which strives to better matters. As things go now, this always-shrinking minority cannot much longer keep up with a decent show of resistance. It must be overwhelmed by weight of numbers. wwwv '- . . _ dimensions havmg been considerably exag- gmwd, greatly exceeding in size the larg- est living giant tortoises of either the Mmrene or the Galapagos Islands. The latter rocks have also yielded the remai s of. long-snouted crocodile, allied to t e g‘vifil of the Ganges, which probably "measured from fifty to sixty feet in length, eas it is very doubtful if any existing member of the order exceeds half the small- or of these dimensions. If, morever, we took into account totally extinct types, such “the megatheres and mylodons of South America, and contrasting them with their ooutnei‘n crates me great Industrial com- panies depend more for defence of their property upon hired forces than upon the police or militia. Even the railway compafl' ies of the Northern States do not dcspile the aid of Pinkerton’s forces. In the South- ern States the white people take all the punishment for certain crimes on the put of negroes entirely from under the hand 0f lawnand authority, and summarily execute Justice or anuSthF, as it may happen. It is certain that the United States needs to give more attention to the properly consti- tuted administration of law and justice. Just now there is a great deal more atten- ' . . . nearest living alliesâ€"in this instance the tion given by congresses and legislatures . . and the public generally to the work of sloth! and anteatersâ€"the discrepancy in enabling people to make money easily and sizBWOUId be Still more marked, but “Ch rapidly than to the lawful security of either .wmparison would scarcely be 3113-1080“ life or property. The. condition of things tothe above. is a disgrace to civilization and, what is To every rule there is. however, an ex- worse, a discouragement and a hindrance caption. and there are a few groups of liv- to progress throughout the world. ing large mammals whose existing members “ppear never to have been surpassed in size by their fossil relatives. Foremost among these are the whales, which now appear to include the largest members of the order which have ever existed. The so-called white, or square-mouthed rhinoceros of South Africa seems also to be fully equal insize to any of its, extinct ancestors: and the same is certainly true of the giraffe, which may even exceed all its predecessors inthis respect. Whether, however, The Fate of Irish Villages- It is the wholsale dry-rotting of the boys growmg up in the Irish towns and Villages, merely through contact with this ever-swelling army of loafers and vagabonds, which makes one ask, with a sinking heart, what hope there is of the new generation. We are still raising many good boys, in spite of this contaminated environmentâ€" steadv- “lire-minflnfl ammumm Jilinnnf. Where Law is Not Respected - Quite recently two freight trains on “19 kill-air” lave leached the Height Boston and Maine Railway were stopped “e of Eighteen “5°" by bands of tramps, who broke open the d with their extinct allies of seals of some of the cars and attempted to ’ compare‘ods of the earth’s history, it may rifle them. Before they had accomplislmd affine” per! ”a, eneral rule that the large their purpose in either case the arrival 0 ,ud do“; regsent day are decidedly in another train reinforced the captured train Wis Of t : pf size. During the later por- hands sufliciently to enable them tomake ferim‘mpm:I oitorial eriod for instance, a. successful fight against the tramps, wb° tion°f the fin. min 5f the’glacial epoch were finally routed. One of the train hand9 More the moi; a g ear to have attained was badly wounded. The deepatches said when mamma pp - ximum development, there lived that none of the tramps had been arrested, their 3‘; alongside of which or dmary 1n- and the are uite silent as to an measure“ b“ - ' ' being tallten lily the officers of theylaw. The grinds of the exxsétlng fifizcifixgidgeif despatch recounting the second atteml’t 9d almost dwar s, g: ' ed considerably states that the company has armed tl'te witheeave Pym: “diagr- living represen- trainmen of all outgoing trains 0n the ,WdlmeusmnSt a: 81111 -toothed ti ers section of the road on which the attempted "es’ a'n(11,z2:1”20015315123:1,)lyelantgel”thangthe robberies were made. It is a. very remark midst liazefri can lion or Bengal lion. Again, able fact that in the United States more , . - than any other European or American rheumains ofred deer, bison, and wad oxen nation the defence of life and ro rt find ‘ ‘nterred from the caverns and othersur- the punishment Nof crime ispungfertyakenv 5:31 depomts 0f thm country indicate with little protest on the part ofthe properly constituted authorities and powers, by the individuals, companies or mobs who are in- terested or who interest themselves. In many Western States mining camps are ap‘ parently expected to administer justice for themselves, with little assistance from any legal or responsible authority. In the ‘great manufacturing and mining Middle and Southern States the great industrial con}- ' iar W18 SUPERIOR IN SIZE ‘ m their degenerate descendants of the present day, while some of the exâ€" tine“ pigs from the Siwalik hills of northern India might be compared. in stature to a “pig rather than to an ordinary Wild boar. The same story is told of reptiles. the giant mise of the Siwalik hills, in spite of its -- .-_..:.m.: havino' been considerabiv exag- Both Rehgions Asiatic. our knowledge is not very likely tobi remedied. By some writers the heightof the male giraffe is given at sixteen feet,a.nd 1thatof the female at fourteen feet, but this is certainly below the reality. For in- ‘stance, Mr. H.A. Bryden states that a. fem- ale he shot in Southern Africa measured seventeen feet to the summits of the horns. From the evidences of a very large though badly preserved specimen in the Natural Hiatory Museum it may, however, be in- ferred that fine males certainly reach the Imposing height of eighteen feet. A woman got into a. street-car in Toronto on a. recent Saturday afternoon. She was ’oarryiag a. sweet-faced baby, which was not ‘more than six months old. The car was detained at the corner where the woman got on, and she shifted round nervously in her seat for a. moment and then began to toss the baby about. Here isa true description of what she did with that child while the car was going 250 yards : Made a cradfe out of her arms and jump- ed in up_a.pd down s_ix_§i[nes. Kid it on its back in her lap and then mined it} t9 lay_ on its stomach. 7 Held it up to the window for the third, time, and then, when the canductor came after her fare, laid it m a. lump on the seat beside her. yards. But. Placed it; on her left knee. Then put it .On_he1: [fight knee. Held it up on one knee for thirty seconds. Then shifted it to the other knee. Pulled it up against her and hugged it twice. Tossed it on her left shoulder and then lifted it to her right shoulder. . Held it up to the tram window again, then pulled it. over her left. shoulder, shifted it to her right shouldef, and wound it up by dumpingjt into her lap: 'Tosaec'l it' into the air afdozen times and hugged _it foug- or_fiv§ pimps. 'fi't't'éd 'it'w'ioT £"m'i'£££;':nd hummed‘ “Hush-a-bye, Baby,” although the child Wagn‘t_maki_ng a_ sound. Put it on he} knee and joggled her knee {1p and down, shook it in front of her, hold- !ng it out. at arm’s length, and then hugged 1t ecstatically three times. Held it up to the window and then stood it up on her 1:39. . Laid in'on its stomach in her lap. Hugged it to her bosom and patted it seven times. THE FOSSIL GIBAFFES, of which more anon, were or were not the equals in height of the largest individuals of the living species, there is no question butthat the latter is by far the tallest of all living mammals, and that it was only riv- alled in this respect among extinct forms by its aforesaid ancestors. Moreover, if we exclude creatures like some of the gi- gantic dinosaurian reptiles of the secondary h, which, so to speak, gained an unfair vantage as regards height by sitting on their hind legs in a kangaroo-like manner, and limit our comparison to such as wall: onall four feet in the good old-fashioned way, we shall find that girafl'es are not only the tallest mammals, but likewise the tall- est of all animals that have ever existed. As regards the height attained by the male of the tallest of quadrupeds, there is, ,unfortunately, a lack of accurate information 1and since itis probable that the majority of those now living are inferior in size to the largest inidv1duals which existed when the species was far more numerous than at pres- ent, it is to be feared that this deficiency_in Patted it some more, jogged it some more, foossed it some more, and flopped it. down on its stomach again. "--.. . Held it outua§s_$rm’s length, and gazed at It. rapturously. 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