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REPORTS, + de y PAPER 1CTO®s * of the Advertisers 1 Grey. REF ‘tment, Promptitud 3 he ry nelg REIGXN hlition to out ork EDILTORIALS YPE, Ete ST ewspaper Annunt, & of il‘.“ for doing all other Town 1 with TING _ OFFICK r the 1 by leavit g t style, and _The cory best material used ; workmanship or to anvthing in the comuty, haviag nrede work in the principal cities of Cannda and United States. Formorly Master Shooviaker in Hor Majosty‘s undredth Regiment. Fine Calf Boots, sewed,from $5.50 to $6.50. w pegged,from $4.75 to §5.50. rl‘flE enhecviber beas to inform the pablic thiat he has â€"omoved his Blackamith business $ his old shop, near Edge Mills, where he will bo pleased to attond to the wants of his custome1s, ‘g # a, Maine vevancing, 4 $72 versity, Mow Lower Tow Jt It VETERINARY SURGEON, Nvil day of all kind A 2 Durha First class w *M best o new, can be reasonable to W. CALDWELL Sound . and Mortinces B prblic may d wnd ample ac :..l wmple accommodation, . 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Address Tnur & co., RATES OF ADVERTISD G MeFAYDEN & RISTERS. Soli Py Sash and Bli Trost & Frost. Nev.6th. 1879 Wood Turning, DR. LIGHTBODY a at his Office. Han« C. B. JACK Z8, 13. A. pr igust 7, 1870, UEA MEDICAL. D in rl »d in connoction with the Hotel. unces, either double or single, all ured at any thme on the most en thoroughly ¢ «LoDoNn, 13 FUCLINTED H J A MT KI where i #th and 9th of every month, lone. Head Offices at Elora v4 ind Attorneys at Law. ncery and Insolvency,Con: )u tan i. Mas 7th 3TABLISHMENT oxt McClean Bros.,Owen lay at Flosherton. J. W. FROST, LL. B. acli h UNDERTAKER, J. TOWNSEXND ol in it ROB itors NAN §ON JOHN HOGAN C, WATSON, Dromors P. 0 thio ns furnished for vate Dwellings. ma ARTS, J. T. Romants in Chancery, the Morchants 1879 Proprictor University 1 MeGill Uni h very Mon rV H 1 Hall rh mM *vi uled y10 nth ind yl $ 4 11 10 15 Cheap for Cash. These Machines are the best mude and give onun“ug_-‘l.eu-.n to those using rI'.nE «nbscriber is fix;‘epared to Receive zud Make Ug_iu the shortest ‘notice, and in the Latest Style, Men and Boy‘s Clothing. Agood ft giarranteed. 4A Murket, which has provailed for the last two years not only in Canada but in Great Britain, hns made the more substantial Loan Companies very cautious in their investreents, and very slow to adâ€" vance money except upon security known to the Directors.â€"This depression is now passing away and I am instructed by The London & Canadian Loan & Agency Commpany, Limited, (Whose Agent I am,) that they have about Ready for immediate investment and are anxions to place it at roasonable rates of interest upon imâ€" proved Furm Security. This (‘umsnn_v is one of the most liberal in Ontario, and I confidently recommmend it to those want‘ng money. Enterest hal{ yearly on Ist of May andist Novemâ€" Ler or may be made payzble oaceâ€"aâ€"year after RÂ¥arvest i{ the applicant dosires. The Borrower may arrange for the right to pay sums of money s# any tuime without notice in direct reduction of the principal of their mortâ€" gage dobts. These paymonts at emee stopping interest to a proportionate extent. Sewing Machines For Sale, Money to Loan ()N Real Estates at 8, 84, and 9 per _2 cent, according to privilages granted. Loans tepaynble BY Inst Imonts, or Otherwise Notice 2 Farmers No Finesâ€"No Commissior Bl'll.l)ER, Durham,keeps on hand a | large stock of Sush, Doors and all kinds of Builditg imaterials,also & stock of Mouldings in Walnut, Rosewood, and Giit. l’una,lrxacmmfiom t and Bills of Lumber made out on short notice. A ‘ illstock of Cofitus, Caskets, Shrouds and Wrimâ€" consisting of three ac eultivation, on which and a frame stable. nice homestead fo: 2 : No mingsalwayson hoad A PIRSTâ€"CLA®S HEAR®SE TO GURE. ty in the Romembcithe place,â€"a short distance nort® ot the Post Office. olsnb hnd c abuinchetitrcsessis Prireirwlilbrccandise Lot contains one acre 01 lakid. A goo rmnp. and a number of fruit treea, or th ‘or garden purposes the land is unea whole !mvperty will be sold cheap f otherwise as may be .;‘;crued upon. F particulars apply at the REviecw Ofice, House and Three Acros oi Land For Sals. A GREAT RARCGCAIN. 'I‘HE Subscriber wishing to leave this _A part of the country offers for sale his properâ€" THE Proprietor wishes to disp . No.3, on Albert Street, one Kange F afraxa Street, Lowor Town, Durkam. is erected a good dweliing House and 8 TRUST AND LOAXY CO.OF CANADA were lot LOT No. 20, Queen Street East, Purâ€" ham. Five cighths of an mere of land. Rough cast Houseâ€"eight rooms, halls. wunlrobe“. stone cellar, cistern, well, &c. Large Stable. Will be sold at a bargain. Apply to House and Lot for Sale in Durham. or Mrs. Tros. Btat®, of Glonelg Nov.6th 1879. House and Lot for Sale or to Rent. P 'r\\ ENTY acres of Land for Sale, being Woet }M of the first division of Lot number twonutyâ€"cight, in the ist concession west of the Garafraxa Rowd, Township of Bentinck. Theland wiljoins the corporation of the Town of Durham. und lies along a good Road, and has all the advanâ€" tages of being close to the Town and low taxes, â€" It is well eloared and in a good state of cultivation. Will be sold in lots of five meres emch, or in one parcel. For furthcr particulars apply to W. R. ROMBOUCGH, Durham, vesho Mine ofi e en s e TE chase such property. . They will be m"fid chen for cash down, or part on time. ‘Termsmade my’ WA R. ROMBOUGH. Durham , Dec. 2pd, 189. h9i A. ble Building and Park Lots situated in the Town of Durham, which he is desirous to dispose u{, and u:.licmt a call from those wishing to purâ€" Durham Nov 1876. July ith Lates* Fashions Regularly Received PRCPERTY FOR SALE. â€" Principle and Profit. Pricevi Durham,June 24, 1879 Durham, De HE great South Riding of Groy. ‘HE Sabscriber bas a number of valnâ€" V ol. II. No 48. Alexander Robertson, lence at the Old Post Office, Lower Town ViLLAGE OF PRICEZVILLE. LANDS FOR SALE. | t wasJudgo Loslington‘s own expres Half a Miliion of Dollars A faw frstâ€"lass PARCIAY‘ le 1d for & Apply t ROBT. BULL, TAILOR, To Suit Borrowers For Salc. 10 1 stringeney of the Money DURHAM. uu‘miu;i‘ and live in a village 0, which is only $25 per quartc the proprictor, or by lotter to NEIL MUNN Pricevilic P. O A977, F tâ€"a1, IN T Lower Town, Durnax s of .excellert land, under is erected a small cottege is property would make a echniie or ary one wisk MISS E. WALKER, Durhem P. 0. *304 ALEX. ROBERT JACKES, to dispose of Lot be Greo Reviclo. No Bonus d well and e premises. elled. The m eaih, or or furtb~x ast of Gi= Un the lot wble. The 4y ] "He told me he would give $500 if .1 ; would undertake the ease, and $1,000 if I & gained. â€" That wasa big feeâ€"far more than {I then made in all my pleading. It was tempting. And yet I saw that it was not | perfectly clearâ€"not entirely honest. The | probability was that thig William Acton was Philip‘s child ; and it was not impossiâ€" | ble that Philip had married Eetsy Totwood. ; It struck me that Laban Sarfurt was a , villain, and he fancied that he had young Acton so far ia his power : that ho could | eject him from the tit‘e. But what had I | particularly to do with that 2 If I had acâ€" lcepted a client I must serve him.. I had | no: business but to serve his interest.. I ] finally told Mr. Sarfurt that I would think | the matter over. I should probably have | business in Shiretou during the season of ! the court, and I would call:on him and.esâ€" | amine more fully. . I could not take his reâ€" ‘tainex until I had further light. . ; "**Bu‘,‘ said Sarfurt, ‘he is not a legitiâ€" , 9e ‘If you talk of more mate child at all. fis mother was Betsy | already received,‘ he said Totwood, at one timé a girl in Actons‘ emâ€" [me of the on‘y rolid ploy. Acton, I know, was never married. ; claim, merey ! If saving He brought the boy up and educated him, ) cherub is not enough of and now the fellow thinks he will step into : then hard is the heart tha his protector‘s shoes, I can prove that I | And,with moistened eyes, am the only living relative of Philip Acton. | a child of his own at hom He was my uncleâ€"my mother‘s brother ; | of very nearly the same a and to a lawyer as smart as you, there can | "I asked him if he we be no difficalty in proviag my title. 1 can | name. With a smile he : bring the witnesses to your hand.‘ name did not matterâ€"he "I told him if he would e&plain to me the case I might be Letter able to give him an answer. HMe bit an encrmovs quid of tobaceo from a black plug, and having got it into shape between his jaws, he went on with his story. "‘The case was one of ejectment. An elderly man named Philip Acton had died, leaving a valualle estate, There were nearâ€" ly 1,000 acres of land, with opportuunities of developing immense water power ; and ere many years that land would be worth more than $1,000,000. At presentupon the estate and claiming it as n son of the deâ€" ceased, was a man calling hiwself Wil iam Acton. "The, $5,000 was a strong argument. Was law really a game of chance, in which the strongest hand and largest purse must win 2 _ T told.myself, yes. Yesâ€"and I sat dewn and wrote a reply saying that I would take: the case. ~But I didâ€"not mail it at onee. That night‘L put it under my pillow and ‘slept overit,and on the following morning I threw it into the fire. I wonld not make up my mind untilI had seen other partiesâ€"uutil I had been on the ground; Aund I wrote Labart Sarfurt to wait. ., l t "Two weeks later L liarmessed .my horse to the wagzon, and with my wife and child ***But,‘ said he, ‘will you promise not to take up for the other side? ; "1 told him I would do nothing without further consultation with him. + ***Because," he added, "it you are for me I am sure to win. Acton can‘t find a lawâ€" yer that can hold a candle to you. Iknow them all.‘ "No matter whether I believed him or started for Shiveton: I had been married two years, and our little baby, a girl, was a year old, our pride, our pet and our darâ€" bad saved him from becoming a thief or a highwayman. I heard of him as a heavy dealer in the upâ€"river lands. ~He asked me il I would undertake a job which would call me to Shireton,. I told him I was open to anything legitimate that would pay. "**Mr. Lurlington,‘ said he, tapping me with a coarso fimiliarity upen the arm, ‘I want to secure your services ; you mus? not be engaged on the ether side.‘" "No matter whether I believed him or not, I did not feel flatterod. "Two weeks later 1 received a lettor from Sarfuit, promising me $5,000 if I won. "One day I was waited upon by a man who gave his name as Laban Sarfurt. â€" He was of middle age, well dressed,and at first sight appeared to be a gentloman ; but the illusion was dispelled when approrching business. _ Me was bard and unfeeling, and naturally a yilla‘r. Success in speculation "I was never teirpted from it but once," he replied. "I will tell you the story, if you would like to hear it," "Have you always followed that rule, Judge 2" Of course they would like to; and, having laid aside his pipe, the old man beâ€" gan : "It can," answored Lurlington, emphatâ€" ically. "It is a lawyer‘s firm rock of founâ€" dution, and the only sure point cf deparâ€" ture to the respect and confidence of his fellows." "Can this rule always asked one of the listeners "I mean," he added, "that you shall never advocate a cause in the work of which you cannot enter with a clear conscience. You shall never gecept a client whose cause you do not believe to be just." "Young men," he said,. "whatever may be your strait, never take a case before a jury or before a court, uniess you have your right bower for a head." ‘The youug men looked at Lim enquirâ€" ingly. If the reader surmises from this that the old judge was fond of euchre, he will not have surmised amiss. Hallâ€"aâ€"dozen lawyors, fresh from their studies, and just adwmitted to the bar, were listening to his advice. The old jurist had a bottle of wine :t his ellow, and was in a communicative mood. slon DURHAM, Co. Grey, DECEMBER §2, 1879. _ Whole No. 97. always be adhered to an "On the following day, Taban Sarfurt colled upon: me, and was about to spread his evidence for my inspection, when I inâ€" terrupted him. . I told him I could not seâ€" cept his confidence until I had made up my mind to take his case in hand. Something seemed to whisper that there was danger ahead. I did not feel comfortable in that man‘s presence. I felt as though he was trying to buy me. "The court would sit in four days. I told him I would give him a final answer in two days from that. cherub is not enough of reward in itself, then hard is the heart that can crave more.‘ And,with moistened eyes, he told me he had a child of his own at homeâ€"an only child, of very nearly the same age. "I asked him if he would tell me his name. â€" With a smile he answered that his name did not matterâ€"he was not sure that he had a name. I then asked him if he knew me. He.noddcd. and said he thought I might be Mr. Lurlington, of Walbridge. When I told him ho was correct,he said he must hurry home. And with that he turned away. _I was too deeply moved to stop him, and when he had disapperred I started to rejoin my wife with a dawning impression that the man might be slightly deranged. But my darling was safeâ€"her broa‘,fleecy cloak had floated out and kept her head abova‘waterâ€"and I went on my way rejoicing, resolved that the preserver of my: ehild should not be forgotten. "I will not tell you of the emotion of my wile when she held her child onee more in her arms. Wo reached Shireton before dark, and found quarters in a comfortable tavern. a ©That evening I madea confidant of my wife, and asked her what T should do. ‘If I take the case,‘I said, ‘I am sure of $5,000.‘ She bade me do what was right. ‘God has been kind to us,‘ she said. â€" ‘Let us look to him for guidance.‘ Es "After this‘ I called ‘on a clergyman of the place, whose son had been a classmate in college, and whom I had once before visited. ‘Ho received me heartily, and byâ€" andâ€"by I asked himi about William Acton. The result of all he teld me in summing up in his closing sentence. Said ho : OL, my soul ! _ I cannot tell you what I suffered during those moments. I could not help our darling. IfI leit my wife, she was lost. I clung to my horse, and clung to my shricking wifeâ€"shrieking to God to have merey for her child. In the distance, upon the bosom of the surging flood, I could see our little one, her white dress gleaming in the sun, being borne swiftly away. A moment more I saw a man plunge from the bank into the river. I saw this much, and then an intervening point of land shut out the seene. The horse was now rapidly nearing the shore, and ere long my wife and I were on dry land, with the horse and waggon.. As soon as I was sure my wife was safe, I left her to care for the horse while I posted off down the river bank in quest of the swimmer and the ehild, «*You may well understand that all this time I was frantic. I was a machine being operated by a surging and agonizing emoâ€" tion. How long or how far I wandered L do not know, Lbut at leugth I met a man,. wet and dripping, with my darling safe and . sound. . He told me that he had caught thc} child within a few rods of the falls,and that in Janding he had cleared the fatal abyss by no more than two yards. He was a young man, not more than Iwentyâ€"five, . handsome gud stalwart. . He said he had l scen imy waggon tip, and was coming to my assistance, when he saw the child washâ€" ed away. ‘I threw my life into the balance,‘ said he with a genial smile, ‘and. thank God, both the lives wereâ€"saved I‘ \ "I asked him how i should cver repay him. . He stopped me with an imploring gesture. "*If you talk of more pay than I have already received,‘ he said. ‘If you can :ob me of the on‘y solid_ reward I ean claim, merey ! â€" If saving the lite of such a * ‘I am sure William Acton‘ was Philip Acton‘s childâ€"iu fact I know itâ€"and I think the father and mother were married. Betsy died very soon after her child was born, And we know that Philip always trerited the boy as a legitimate child ; and that he loved him as such I can confidently [ "Arriving at the stream, the Wampatuck River, I found the water indeed risen, and the current strong ; but I saw that others had recently gone over, and I resolved to venture. I knew my horse, and had faith in him. My wife was anxious, but she trusted my judgment. A third of the way across, the water was uver the hub of the wheels. A little more and it would have reached the body of the waggon. I began to be alarmed ; I feared I had left the track. Presently my horse stambled and staggered. having evidently steregi on a moving stone. The waggon swayed and tipped, and the flood poured in upon us. My wife slipped, and in a moment more we were in the water. . With one hand I grasped the harâ€" ness upon the horse, and with the other I held my wife. _ I was thus struggling when a wild cry from her lips startled the air. Our child was washed away. ling. Shireton was distant about thirty miles. We had been having rainy weather for a week or so, and it now cleared off bright and beautiful. We stopped and took dinner at a wayside inn, four miles beyond which was a stream that must be forded. The innkeeper told me that the stream was somewhat swollen from the late rains, but that if my horse was trusty there could be no danger. ‘ yas | e for 700 years ; and some timber of an old bridge ‘discovered while digging for the ‘Y® | foundations of a house at Windsor which ind { maust have been placed tliere prior to the tly year 1396. As showing the durability of timber, the fact is cited that the piles of a bridge of Trajan ~were found, after having been driven some 1,600 years, to be petrified tour inches, the rest of the wood bemng in its ordinary condition. ‘The elm piles vonder the piers of London bridge have been in use more than 700 years, and are not yet materially decayed, and, beneath the foundation of Savoy place, London, oak, elm, beech and chestnut p‘les and planks were found in a state of perfect preservaâ€" tion, after baving been there for 650 years. Agair, while taking down the old walls of Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England, there was found in the middle of a thick stone wall a timber curb which had been enclosâ€" Tuzr Sourors or tus Nige:r.â€"A great geographical discovery is reported to have been made by two Frenchmen. A telegram from Sierra Leone states that MM. Zweifel and Moustier, representatives of the firm of M. Verminek, of Marseilles, succeeded during September in discovering the sources of the Niger. This great river,which waters the western Soudan, has hitherto hidden its cradle in the northern spuars of the Kong Mountains, a chain purallel with the (Gul of Guinea and one of the bulwarks of central Africa. Many explores had tried to penetrate into these unknown parts, but failed. The French traveller Caillie. following the Kong Mountains northward, was obliged to content h1msel{ with indiâ€" cating the course of the Upper Niger and its tributaries. Mesers. Laing and Winâ€" wood Reade tried in vain to explore the reâ€" gion of the sources of the Diolibah; the mistrust and hostility of the natives forced them to abandon the solution of the probâ€" lem. A French merchant possessing sevâ€" eral stores on the western coust of Africa resolved to attempt the dificult task. _ M. Verminck chose twoof his employees hard ened to the cliraate and mccustomed to trading with the natives; he sent them maâ€" thematical instruments, books, maps and money, and told them to explore the Niger, both from a scientific and commercial point of view. MM. Zweifel and Moustier forthâ€" with left Sierra Leone, followed the course of the Rohelle and attained the foot of the Kong Mountains. It was here that the greatest difficulty had to be encountered ; but they fortunately succeeded in overcomâ€" ing it, The warlke tribes who had hitherâ€" to refused to allow the white man to go further, this time let the two Frenchmen pass the chain and explore the three sources which, uniting at a short distance, from the great river of the Westeru Soudan.â€"Cor. London Standard. "From that day I never hesitated to reâ€" fuse a case to which I could not give my heart. Such a stand on the part of a lawâ€" yer becomes known, and the public feel it, and what the public feel,juries are sure to foel. "Concerning William Acton, L will add only that he. became my bosom friend. He always thought that he owed his title to his valuable property to me ; and I know that to him I was indebted for the home that was mine for thirty years. He was very delicate in the gift of that piece of property, â€" He.deeded it to my wife. The husvand of my eldest daughter is his eldest son. . Adherence to a right principle seâ€" cures success." "I have made a great many pleas in my life, but I think I never made a better one than I made to the jury on that occasion, They were out not over five minutes. By their verdict William Acton was the lawfal possessor of the estate his father had left. "*I did not mind Sarfart‘s wrath. He raved and swore and stamped, and then he went off and engaged two lawyers from Herkimer to take the case. I called on Acton, and told him I would defond him if he would accopt my services, as I had acâ€" cepted his. He took me by the hand and thanked me. right in helping you. I had concluded that I could not do so betore I had seen William Acton, to know him by name. I now know him to be a man who nobly risked his own life to save the life of a child. For that dleed I will reward him if I can. I have not, as yet, accepted one of your private disclosures; I have gained from you nothing whiclk you could wish to keep from the public. J cannot take your case ; but I tell you frankly, that if you prosccute, I will defend William Acton.‘ " ‘That is William Acton. Perhaps you have beard of the trouble he is likely to have with Laban Sarfort? "I said I had hoa‘d. f ,_** *I hope he may come out all right,‘ the host added, ‘but T am fearful, He has got a hard and heartless customer to deal with.‘ "I shut my mouth and held my peace until Laban Sarfurt called for the final anâ€" swer. I said to him : * *Mr. Sarfurt, I have been considering all this trume whether I could undertake your case with a clear conscienceâ€"whether I should be helping the side of justice and room, I saw coming down the street the Men of genius or men of mind are in man who Lad saved my child. He was |°%"° resPects inferior as well as superior walking glowly, dike â€"oste in trouble:) T to other men. There is a difference avnd pointed him out to my host,and asked him 1 oft?n a very wide difference in the mental ho he was: ! calibre of men ; but this : difference would * ‘That is William Acton. Perhaps you ; not appear so great as it does if they were have bheard. of. the trouble he is likely toito gxf-e t}xomsel\'es to the improvement have with Laban Sarfort» ’of their mind, . Newton said that the difâ€" "I said I had hoa‘d. t | 44 fe.re‘uoe between other men and himself was _ **‘I hope he may come out all right,‘ his mdus.lry. Within certain limits, a man the host added, ‘but I am fearful. He hul may, by industry, make himself{ anjything **On the following morning, after breakâ€" fast, as I sat by the window in the barâ€" a «tss w pathy with animals, thus deseribed by a writer :â€"His sympathies included all kinds oi animals,as they include all kinds of men, and he was rapid in kind. There is not, L think, a single instance of his having been: injured by any serpent or beast, however poisonous or ferocious, though much of his. life was passed in the company of animals. It is asserted that they have no language, but he found no difficulty in conversing with them, and they seemed to understand hira very well, adapted as his modes of communicating with them were to their different natures. There probably never was a naturalist who combined such a knowledge of their physical organization man of genins; on the contrary, it is equally true, that a man may be a genius and yet so illiterate, that he cannot even sign his own name. ‘This stands out with clearness in general as well as in particular cases; thence, th> mark which persoas who are unable to write are required to make instead of their signature is in the form of a cross ; and this practice having formerly been followed by kings and nobles is constantly referred to as an instance of the deplorable ignorance of ancient times. This signature is not, however, invariably the proof of such ignorance. Anciently the use of this mark was not confined to illiterate persons ; foramongst the Sazons the mark of the cross is an attestation of the good faith of the person signing, and was required to be a ached to the signature of those who could write as wellas to stand in the pluce of the signature of those who could not write. In those times if a man conlid »write or even read his knowledge was considered proof presumptive that he was in holy orders. The word clerigus, or clerk, was synonymous with pesman ; and the laity, and the peope who were not clerks, did not feel any urgent necessity for the use of letters, The ancient use of the cross was, therefore, universal ; it was indeed the symbol of an oath, from its holy associations, and, generally, the mark. On this account the ingenious editor of the Pictorial Shakspeare explains the expresâ€" gion of "God save the mark," as a form of ejaculation approaching to the character of an oath. This plhrase occurs three or more times in the plays of Shak:peare ; and hitherto it has been left by the commentaâ€" tors in its original obscurity. Genius may be lateat, but it can never be altegether reâ€" pressed. One man may be special in his genius ; another may be versatile. Both aspects of genius are set forth by Dugala Stewart when he thus speaks thereon with a special reterance to Burns. "Among the poets whom I have hbappened to know, I have been struck,in more than one instance, J with the unaecountable disparty between their general taleuts, and the occasional inspirations of their more favoured moâ€" ments. But all the faculties of Burns‘ mind were, as far as I could jadge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastre and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of comâ€" position. . From his conversation, I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities." Again, genius someâ€" times appears under a guise of mysterious, fascinating influences which capacitate its subject to prosccute peculiar lines of invesâ€" tigntion, as in the cuse of Agassiz‘s symâ€" [ he chooses,. Does the echo of many voices say it is impossiLle? The word **impossible" is the mother tongue of little souls. ‘The difficalty lies not so much in the thing to 'bo attained as in the person, who seeks to attain it, One wishes to be a man of Jearnâ€" ing, and there is nothing to prevent him from attaining his wish ; but tossed about in the attempt by tumultuous waves and adversé winds, he succombs without much effort to overcome the d@fficulties of his situation, and thus he fails to steer his course towards the attainment of his wish. Another has in himself the power to overâ€" come all difficulties that stand in the way of his becoming a man of learning, and to make his mark in the republic of letters ; but from various causes, io which he allows himself to be subject, he neglects his opporâ€" tunities, fritters away his energies, and, therefore, does little or nothing towards becoming a man of learning. Men, amidst the fluctuations of their own feelings and of passing events, ought to resemble the ship which currents may carry and winds raay impel from her course, but which amvist every deviation, still progresses onward to her port with unremitting perseverance. In the coolness of reflection, they ought to survey the lay of things with a dispassionâ€" ate and comprehensive eye, and having fixed on their plan, take necessary steps to accomplish it, regardless of the temâ€" porary changes of their mind, the monotâ€" ony of the same track, the apathy of exâ€" haustive attention, or the blandishments of new projects. The outcome of such a course is certain sucsess. For it is a fact established beyond doubt, thet one may be a man of great erudition and yet not a Men of genius or men of mind are in some respects inferior as well as superior to other men. There is a difference and Literary Facetiae. Parssyreria®tsr.â€"By a statement just published we learn that the Presbyterian Church in Canada contiins 860 pastor.J charges ; 1,850 congregations ; 75,000 famâ€" ilies ; and about 130,000 communicants. The average stipend :s $850 per annum. Its contributions for missionary and college purposes last year reached $241,000, while for all purposes including ministers‘ sularâ€" ies, ote., there was raised nearly $1,250,000. Six theological colieges are connected with the Church, besides the two ladies‘ colleges at Ottawa and Brantford. ~The mismonary work is divided into the home, Freach, and foreign departments, each under the care ot a seperate committee. The remains of one of the largest reptiles yet discovered have been brought to light in the Jurassic deposits of the Rooky Mountains, and a portion thereof added to the palmontological collection at Yale. The monster in questionâ€"whiph holongs to the Sauropodaâ€"was probably 70 or 80 fest Herod was called in and dressed the wounds. The little fellow is suffering conâ€" siderably from the injuries â€" Guelph Mercury. Provirar Accioexnt.â€"Robert Haugh, a nine years old son of John Haugh, City Hotel, met with a peculiar and painful acâ€" cident Tuesday afternoon. He was holdâ€" ing a revolver cartridge on the k‘tchen stove â€"which was red hotâ€"in order to see the contents discharge, When the cartridge exploded it blew off three ot the fingers of the lad‘s right hand at the first joiut. Lr. For Te Pextrextrary.â€"Jobn Whateg alias Charles Best, aged 28 years, and Matthew McDougall alias C. W. Willard, aged 30 yerrs, arrived at Guelph on Tuesâ€" cay night under the care of Deputy Shor & Depew,of Walkerton, en rowute for Kingston Penitentiary. They were commited to seyâ€" on years‘ imprisonment each, in that instiâ€" tution, at the Bruce County Court last week, for a burglary they committed at Wingham a short time ago. They left for Kingston by the Grand Trunk. PaxaMa, Dec. 6.â€"Advices from Lima, Nov. 25th, bring intelligence of an importâ€" ant battle at a place called San Francisco. On Nov. 18th the Allied Peravians and Doliviaus under Bundia, numbering about 12,000, aitacked the invading army of the Chilians in strongly entrenched positions, The Allies were defeated with a loss of 3,000. The ardor of the Bolivians is said to be cooling since the loss cf the Huascar, and discontent is repidly spreading in the Boâ€" livian army. The Chilian frigate Blanco Esmeraldo on Nov. 18th was captured by the Peruvian gunâ€"boat Pilcomay. The outlook for the Peruvians both on land and water is anyâ€" thing but favorable. soft words and a movement of the stick over the bristles o("dnautmhhw direction, the pig would lift its heud erect, its small eyes would listen with a vague inâ€" telligence, it would remain almust imotion less in a kind of pleased surprise, and emit a sound indieative of as much C>ntent and comfort as are indicated by the purring of a cat. â€" The ueighofaharuwhim_ was & more friendly neigh than any ever heard by a hostler or a jockey. He carried sorâ€" pents in his hat and in his pookets with a grand unconcern, and dropped them someâ€" times even in his bedroom, so that his wife was frequeutly troubled by finding them coiled up in her boots. Whemever he enterâ€" ed a menagerie he was eagerly weloomed by liong, tigers, wolves, hyenas, and cther beasts of prey, which corsidered even their keepers as stupid louts, but resoguized in him the one person that they could have a rational conversation with,. *Benuty," says the poet, "is its own excuse for being." Agassiz went beyond this tolorant mauxim to the extient of affirming tnat detormity has its own exouse for being. The fuct that any auimal existed was with him a jastifâ€" cation of its existence ; and after conversâ€" ing with it, and penetrating to its interior nature, he treated it as Shakespeare treated Dogberry or Auncieut Pistol, or Mrs. Quickâ€" ly,or any of the other queer blood relations connected with him through a comm n descent from Adam. As there was no forin of human existence which was too low to be beneath the Lhuman sympathies of Shakespeare, so there was mo kind of aniâ€" mal existence which was too low to engage the sympathies of Agassiz. Aud the mort evil members of the animal kingdom had no malignant feeling towurd him ; indeed, they cheerfully consonted to let him kill them, knowing that by such a submission to his will they were practically elected as representatives of their species in the grand legislative assembly of the animal kingdom gathered in the great hall of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, under the literal "speakership‘" of Agassiz; that is, under the man who was alone capable of being the interpreter of their language, so that its signs could be clearly understood by the human race, from wnich they were divided by peculiarities of organization and of soul. Oune can almost conceive of these martyre of the animal kingdom as rejoicing while enduring the death which insured to the specios to which they belonged an intellisent recoqnition of their merits from the memâ€" bers of the supericr race, to whom they were tius intcodaced through his friendly agency. Whenever I look at thein, preâ€" served so carefully in their glass jars filled with alcobol, I for one am delighted to find them in such excelleut spirits 1 maate creature in the baruâ€"yard is the pig, yet, with a stick in his bund, Agassiz would go up to the most unsuciable, *cantanierâ€" ous," misanthropic gruuter, and after a few demesticated avutmals. The ugliet, Slthicet, stupidest, most vureusonuble, most obstiâ€" he called their souls. He was, in the wstheties cf zoology, the dramatist of the animal kingdon., as Shakespeare was the dramatist of the bumian race. Whether he had to do â€"withâ€"a jellyâ€"fish, or a Whale, or an elephant, be knew each of them as Shukespenre knew the varicties of the huâ€" man kind, from "the beart cutward, and not from the fesh inward." It was curious to notice his behuviour in presencerof the with such a penetrating glanse into what Tae Cailiâ€"Peru War. it