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from $14 to eville, Langevin. olb Deat. and al} :3::'“. fur. hon of Coty. Mh..-u month ach month month. unt Forest., Kry, April, ‘lr’{cmhr. ding _ the ngeville, h month, y in s M-.’ tunnel work were put on day. â€" Thig ach month. uelph Fair Ipla, Weekâ€" AIRS, Fair. unds, the PAXY 1 l‘l;l i1 be ARS Yearby + three was on thig y in TO x, On® Yg white v, 187 ® 0 p. uie Manag of exch BRLT EE. in exel the of.-..: y miles, y it In all sizes on the most im , ods, latesi styles, on m-bormnfl::om-:g?i-fl.: doties competition. Gire him a eailand support nativeindustry. L. and Make Usa‘hn\ufien notice, and in Ake LatestStyle, Men and Boy‘sClothing. A good Atguarrantood. \ VERY important question for everyâ€" 4 one to consider as there is nothing more inâ€" jurious for healith thun cold feet, however such can very easily be remedied and everybody made to feel comfortable by calling on Wiltiam Johnâ€" stome, junr., who has all the applinnees for Glazing, Graining, and Paper Hanging promptly attended to. Fresco and Banner Painting a Speciality. Charges Moderate.â€"Orders left at J. F. Mownats will receive prompt attention. Knitting Stockings & Socks Kesidence at the Old Post Office, Lower Town, DURHAM. Is Agent for Wilson & Co. Bowint Wachine Manufacturers, Hamilton, which he is propwred to soll cheap for cash and on time. Those auchines arereliable and highly finished, it for any drawingâ€"roomm. How are you of for Socks? Look out for cold weather. PRICEVILLE, Oxt., ISS(’EK‘. of Marriage Licenses, Fire and Life InsuranceAgent,Commissionerin B.R. &6, Couvcyaucer, anud Vicensed Anciloncer or the County of Grey. WMFarmers, Werchants, and Land Sulos,attended bo with punstuality and charges made very moderite. IlTouse, Sign, and Ornamental Painter, DURHAM. 1600 Bush. Fresh Lime South End Bakery, Durham 1i PS OV AT . Lumber, Lumber, Shingles, Shingles, Lath & Lime, DUNDALK, Ont. Will be at Musting‘s Hot«l, Sholburne, overy Mon day and Friday, from 10 o‘clock a. m. to 5 p.m. A .-Avr-;t:.’l oronto. _ 8 we VETERINARY SURGEON, _ YÂ¥ _ am,. to Noom, Athome,2nd Con, N.D.R., WenSnek, after noon, . Mossages for the Dr. left at Lâ€"thorford‘s attonded to. 172 Oct.18th , 1980 wW‘tk® ] BARR ISTERS and Attorney‘satâ€"Law . Sollcitors in Chancery, Conveymneers, eto., Owen Sound, have rosumed at Flosherton, Offlce open every Thursday as heretofore. ALZFRED FROST, Conuty Crown Attorney Latost Fasklous Regularly Received Durhans, Murch 3rd, 1381 Advertisements, except when accoempanied by writteminstractions to the contrary, are nserted until forbidden, and charged at regâ€" nlar rates, J. TOWNSEXD. Q TTORXEY . AT â€" LA W, &c.â€"Orrics oppouite Purker‘s Drug Btore, Upper Town, wirhisna. Money to Loan. y10 Do. "siÂ¥Xmenths..."..%..~...!.. M Do. three months....... _ .... 18 Casaal advertisements charged 8 cts. per Line for the first insertion, and 2 eu.qur line tor eask subscquent insertion â€" Nopareil measure . Ordinary notices of births, . marriages, leaths, and all kinds of local uews. inserted ree of charge. STRAY ANTMALS, &e., advertised three weeks for $1, the advertisement not t exâ€" seed 8 lines. YHE subscriber is prepared to Receive Dandalk , Murch 20th 1979 P‘¢»iessional and business cards: one inch space amdunder, per year, ........ $ 4 T woinches or 24 !ine« Nonpariel measure 7 Taree inches do. pér Year.....2........ 10 Qaarter columm, pét yG4T.............. 18 Malt column, £% + Â¥enensrns sr 2s S OQus column, xÂ¥ «¥ue va‘s ae uc aan N Do. sikmonth*...".........; .. 8# _ MieBLLANEOUn _ ALEXANDER BROWN, Darham P. O., May 25th, 1880 t%.31.23if not paid withintwo months."&s * RADUATE of Ontario Vetrinary Col June 24th , 1860 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. â€"_ LEGAL Lower Town, Durhara. _ v7th, 1879 \+ the OMice,Garafraxa Street, UpperTown Durham, â€" â€" Ont. F. DOWNES, ~ WM.JOHNSTON, Jr T TITE ROCKVILLE MILLS. Al Alexander Robertson, .lu‘o‘unny of JOISTS. Lot 41,Con, 2 W. G. R. Bentinek. DR. LIGHTBODY, FILL be at his Office, Hanover,from 8 ‘THE REVIEW TERMS:â€"$1.00 per yearin Advance ©. 33. 3 A C T6 K 4, 16. A . TTORNEY at Law, Solicitor in Chanâ€" 1°. %Z. NIX O N, sery, Commissioner in B svery Thursday, 1 ALMER, Baker, has removed to RATES OF ADVERTISING TAILOR, Frost & Frost, w and Commodious Building, just uimes Brown‘s Store, where he will sp on hand a supply of Bread, Cakes, i Surprise Partics supplied on the co and at very low prices. Pastry . e would also take this opportu ng the ishabitants of Durham, and untry, for the pntrnru,r bestowad ; the past two and a half years, and upply bread daily ut any placein the E.D. MACMILLAN, MEDICAL. is rusUIsIED J. W. CRAWFORD, Lower Town, Darham. A. ROBERTSON J. W. FROST, LL. B R., Notaury Public fmâ€"116 v156 y116 y57 yâ€"64 val 20 eonhlnfxi;a LOVELL‘S Province of OntarioDirectory Classified Business Directory of the Business and Professional mon in the Cities \[R. LOVELL, at the ro?mt of severâ€" 4. al Merchants and others of the Province of Ontario, of the City of Montreal, M% to anâ€" nounce that his firm will publish & VINCE (‘ntario, of the City of Montreal, “,&_;_.; nounce that his firm will §ublhh a VINCE Or (\l.\'TARIO DIRECTORY, in November nest, aon#ainina an FOoR 1881â€"93, To be Published in Novem‘r, 1881, Price $5.00. Thesame care and attention m'u! Dominion and Provincial Direc of 1 be given to this work. Subscribers names ];(‘IX.DER, Durham,keeps on hand & 2 largestock of Sush,Doors and all kinds of Building materials,also & stock of Mouldings in Wainut, Rosewood,and Gilt. Plans,specifications and Bills of Lamber muce out on short notice. A fullstock of Coifins, Caskets, Shrouds and Trim mingsalwayson hand Remem ber | Business prompt and Prices reasonable. | _ Dundalk, Sept. 2rd, 1820 hâ€"136. A FIRSTâ€"CLASS HMEARSE TO HIRE Jopp Took Four First Prizes AT Will be happy to see all my old customers and as many new omes as will favor me with their patronage. & The very best matorial used, workmanship M{;erior to anything in the county, having maude prize workin the principal cities of Canadmund 'l‘lIE Durham Show, which proves that his men are "BO88" at Shoemaking. frbu- wurit‘in the i he United States RAILROAD OR NO RAILROAD Fommerly Moster Shoomaker in Her Muijesty‘s Huncdredth lsogiment. For Summer Trade, Fine Sewed Wellingâ€" ton Boots, only $6.00. Laced Balmor» als, Sewed, only €5. Low Shoes, Sewed, only $4.50. The best French Stock used. The Largost Exhibition ever held in the County. c10UTH RND, Durham, near Cattleâ€" b Yard Hotel, having commenced business in the abovelim« would respectfully solicitashare of the patronage of the public. W. CALDWELTL HE @3 per hundred puid for Hides J. C. JOPP. The same care Durham is bound to go ahead and so is ROCKVILLE. JAME S HANN A Blacksmithing & Waggon Making. Rockville Tamnery , Oct., 1940, Residenceâ€"Opposite the Canada Presbyâ€" terian Church.{ Spring and Summer Fashions reguler) received. JOEN ROBERTSON TAILOR AND CLOTHIER To farmers and business men on short date enâ€" dorsed notes or good collaterals. Sale notes purchased at a fair valuation. Draftsissued at usual Bunk rates, m.ble at all Banks in Ontaric and Quebec. Collections of notes n‘:xd wecounts on reasonable rms. Alphabetical "*Nowna, and Villages of Ontamio, wigha " Classified Business Directory or T=n CITY OF MONTREAL BBlind Fact ory. ROBT. BULL® And Interestallowed at the rate ofsix per cent, per annum . Office opposite McAlister‘s Hotel. Durham Planing Mill, SsASH, Doonr, 122 Durham, Feb.14, 1878. Cutting done to Order. Boot and Shosmaker, secured the services of a Uumlrrwr-u.;; munker. Vol. IV. No. 8. DURHAM $Sr., DURHAM. fimous Cavalry Horseshoer has J. A Halsted & Co., Deposits Received, MONEY ADVANCED his workt. Sllboé;il;‘;fim"m" ectâ€" d. Terms of Advertfsing madeknown upon application. f JOHN LOVELL & BON, Publishers, RT Der 18aN . the placeâ€"a short distance northo the Post Office. AND A THOROUGEH EJ â€"â€"ANDâ€" G. L. DAVIS, Manager, mt Netnicn We Bin tz ied t ue w0 . S of 1871 will Je Gteu Retviclo. Next morning the good woman got up as usual, and, remembering the feathers down stairs, dressed beâ€"times, for it was market day,and she hoped to get them off her hands at once. And then she bethought hor of the 10 plucked bodies lying in the porch and resolved that they should be buried before she went out. But as she approached the door, on these decent rites intent, and was turning the key, there fell on her ears the sound of a familiar voicoâ€"and then another and another, until, at last, the astonished dame heard in full chorus the wellâ€"known accents of all her plucked and poisoned geese. ‘The throat of the old ganâ€" der was, no doubt, a tritle huskey, and the gray goose spoke in mufflied tones sugâ€" gestive of a chastening headache ; but there was no mistaking those tongues, and the dame, fumbling at the door, wondered porson. Under these cireumstances their carcases were worth nothing for food, but, as the neighbors said, the feathers were not poisoned, and so they set to work then and there and plucked the ten geese bare. When geese take to drink, the result is '{prepnsterous. For nature never intended geose to get intoxicated. In the first place, they have no hands to hold on to lampâ€" posts with; while at the best of timestheir balance is precarious. Even when sober, a fat goose, if travelling on uneven ground, constantly cants forward on its Leak, or its tail ; but when inetriated it is utterly helpless. _ A short while ago a farmer‘s wife in Germany had been making some cherry brandy ; but as she found, during the proâ€" cess, that the fruit was unsound, she threw the whole mass, out into the yard, and, without looking to see w‘.at followed, shut the window. As it fell out, a party of geese, good fellows all of them, and secing the fruit , trundling about at once investigated them. | The preliminary enquiry proving srtisfactâ€" l ory, the misguided poultry set to and ate a | whole lot. No heeltaps" was the order of ‘the carouse, and so they finished all the |cherries at a sitting, so to sperk. The : effect of the spirituous fruit was soon apâ€" | parent, tor in trying to make the gate which | led from the seene of the debauch to a pond, they found every thing against them. l WietLer a high wind had get up, or what| had happened, they could not tell, but it‘ seemed to the geese as if there was an | uncommonly high sea running, and | the ground set in towards them with | a steady strong swell that was most embarrassing to progress. To escape the difficulties some lashed tkeir rudders and hove to, others tried to run before the wind, while the rest tacked for the pigâ€"stye, But there was no leaving in such weather, and one by one the craft lurched over and went down all stonding. Meanwhile the dame, the unconcious cause of the disaster, was attracted by the noise in the fowlâ€"yard, and looking out saw all her ten geose be lhnving as if they were mad. The ganâ€" der himself, usually so solemn and decorâ€" us, was balancing himself on his beak, and spinning round the while in a prodgious flurry of feathers and dust, while the old 1 gray goose, remarkable even among her kind for the cireumspection of her conduct, was lying sthomach upwards in the gutter, ‘feeblv gostulating with herlegs. Others of the parsy were no less conspicuous for the extravagance of their attitudes while the remainder were to be seen lying in a helpâ€" less confusion of feathers in the lee seupperâ€" that is to say, the gutter by the pig stye. Perplexed by the spectacle the dame called in her neighbors, and careful investgation was decided in council that they died of what it all meant. Hasa goosegot a ghost? Did any one ever read or hear of the specâ€" tre of a gander? ‘The key turned at last, We ought to love and cherish ! Then let us evermore be found In quiectness with all around, While friendship,joy and peace abound, And angry feelings perish! For ‘tis a sad degrading part To make another bosom smart, And plant a dagger in the heart That every one might know them ! Then would our villugers forget To rage and quarrel, fume and fret, And full into an angry pet, Wife, husband, friend und brother, Oh ! that the mis hief making crew Where all reduced to one or two, And they were painted red or bluo, Narrating everything they know ; And break the poice of high and low : Mixed with their poisonous mensure. And then they‘ve such a cunning way Of telling illâ€"meant tules, they say "Don‘t mention what I said, I pray, I would not tell another ;" Straight to your neighbor‘s house they go, What gives another pleasure. They seem to take one‘s partâ€"but when They‘ve heard our cures, unkindly thon They soon retail them all again, d the door opened, and there, quacking subdued tones, suppliant and shivering, And bt offended never, ‘Tis mischicf makers that remove Far from our heart the warmth of love, And lead us all to disapprove / For ever and for ever: There like a queen might reign and live, While every one would soon forgive The little slight they might receive Oh! could there in the world be found Some little spot of happy ground, Where village pleasures might o round, Without the village tattling ! How doubly blest that place would be, Where all might dwell in liberty, Froe from the bitter misery Of gossips‘ endless prattling. If such a spot were really known, Dame Peace might claim it as her own; Aud in it she might claim her throne, With things so much below them. Intoxicated Geese. Mischicf Makers, POETRYâ€" DURHAM, Co. Grey, APRIL 7, 1881 An Important invention has been made, consisting of a combination of a plough and harrow, by means of which the two operaâ€" tions of ploughing and harrowing are conducted at one time. The plough is an ordinary iron beam implment with jointer, and is equipped with two large whoeels like those on a riding plough. The one of theso wheols which runs on the unploughâ€" ed land is an ordinary iron wheel. The other runs on the newly turned furrow and pulverizes it. The pulverizing wheel is large and broad, but not heavy. Its conâ€" struction is a light iron frame, kept apart by transverse bars, between which are the tecth that do the pulverizing. It is Â¥aid that the pulverization is more complete than with any other harrow, and the imâ€" plement certainly has the advantage that it avoids th» trampling of the ground by the teams drawing the separate harrow now in use. The question to be decided is whether the addition of this pulverizing wheel lessens the speed at which the ploughing can be performed ; and if it does is the speed of ploughing lessened by so much that the saving of the harrowing is neutralized ? Newspaper trains stact daily at 5:15 a. m, from four railway termini in London I and deliver the metropolitan papers in all , the large cities of England before noon: ‘The ciroulation of the great dailies has been lates 250,000 copies daily, the Standard 180,000, the Daily News 170,000, the ‘ Tur First Ramwar m Caxapa.â€"The first railway not only in this Province but in Canada was the old Champlain & St. Lawrence line between St. Johns and Laprairie. It was opened in August 1836. Lord Gosford, the Governorâ€"General, and other distinguished gentlemen were presâ€" ont at the innnugural and participated in the banquet, which was served in thestationâ€" the timeâ€"honored building, which, defying the ravages of time, still does duty as freight shed. One of the promoters of the railway was the late Mr. Jason C. Peirce, father of Mr _ C. S. Peirce, of St. Johns, and associatâ€" ed with him were the late Hons. Peter McGill and Robert Jones, Mr, John Shuter, &e Mr. James Mecdonald, of St. Johns was also connected with the early raanageâ€" ment of the lino. ‘The road was originally built of serap ironâ€"that is, thin plates of iron nailed on to wooden sleepers, and the rolling stock was very light. For about fifteen years after construction the road was not operated in the winter time. Then the track was changed from Laprairie to St Lambert, and the line continued from St. Jolhns to Rouse‘s Point. The second locomotive used on the old Champlain & St. Lawrence Railway was called the J ason C. Joliette.â€"St. Johns N:ws, Axoturr Goosr Story.â€"A farmer of London township noticed one morning that m wild goose had joined his flock. Bomewbat surprised at this suddon change to domestic life, he carefully observâ€" ed the behavior of his visitor. He soon llearned that it had not actvally joined its | barnâ€"yard relatives, but only appeared at | meal time. Further investigation showed | that alter the goose had thoroughly satisfied lits own hunger she would pick up an ear of corn and fly away. Greatly interested , by the strange conduct of the bird, the farâ€" mer one morning watched the direction of its flight. It was but a short distance to the river, and he noticed that after cireling the ’ goose dropped apparently into the river. Going down the bank, he discovered his visitor standing by a companion who was lying on the ground and feeding on the ear of corn. â€" In order to understand this resâ€" turant project he walked up to the feeder and found that it had been so disabled that it could neither walk nor fly. Without disturbing it he returned, and morning | after morning watched the generous goose | carry away an ear of corn. Finally the| visits ceased, but shortly after the sick ganâ€" der himself wandered into the camp and gobbled up the corn himself. He has reâ€" mained all winter, and the indications are that he has made up his mind to settle down and go to housekeeping. | | stood all her flock. ‘There they stood, the j !hn miserable birds, with splitting headâ€" ache and parched tongues, contrite and deâ€" jected, asking to have their feathers back again. The situation was painful to both parties. ‘The forlorn geese saw in each other‘s persons the humiliating reflection of their own condition, while the dame, guiltily conscious of that bag of feathers and down, remembered how the one lapse of Noah, in that "aged zurprisal of 600 years and unexpected inebriation from the unknown effects of wine," has been excusâ€" ed by religion and the unanimous voice ef his postority. She, and herneighbors with ]hor. however, had hastily misjudged the geese and finding them dead drnk, had stripped them, without remembering for a moment that feathers are easy to get off butf are hard to put ou. So she called her neighbors in again, but they proved only sorry comforters, for they reminded her that after all the fuult was ber own: that it was she, and no one else, who had thrown the brandied cherries to the geese. As it | was with Job, these "oblique expostulaâ€" tions" of her friends were harder for the widow to bear "than the downright blows of the devil," and so, turning from her neighbors she gathered‘all her bald poultry about her round the kitchen fire, and sat down to make them flannel jackets.â€"Lonâ€" don Telegraph. a + he camp nudl 2. The sleep of flowers. Why, when, He has reâ€" and how do flowers sleep? In answer to ndications are |these questions, Sir John Lubbock thus rind to settle | writes:â€""I have elsewhere suggested that g. ,the soâ€"called "sleep" of flowers had reforâ€" ence to the habits of insects, on the ground C;:OA:;:}:'{,Z:I thai flowers which are fertilized by mplain & St nightâ€"flying _ insects would _ derive t Fohns nmi no advantage by being open in the day ; l.August 1836. while, on the other hand, those which are ‘General, ang | fertilized by bees would gain nothing by in were 'pres- being open at night. I confess that I sugâ€" icipated in the gosted this with much diffidence, but it may i the stationâ€"| 2° I think, be regarded as well estabâ€" hich, defying lished. Silene nutans, the Nottingham luty '" freight | catchfly, is a very instructive species from of the railway this point of view, and indeed: illustrates a irce, father of | Dumber of interesting points in the relations j n.n:l associat. | between plants and insects. Its life hietory Hons. Peter|has recently been well described by . John Shuter, | £6*P¢râ€" The upper part of the flowering ©i. Foune wu’ stem is viscid, from which it has derived irly ronpageâ€" its local name, the Nottingham catchâ€"fly. vas originally This prevents the access of auts and other hin plates of small crecping insects. Each flower lasts three days, or rather three nights. The P er;. andbth: stamens are ten in number, arranged in Ion :;earz:d two sets, the one set standing in front of rtime. Then the sepals, the other in front of the petâ€" Lap;airie io |als. Like other night flowers, it is white, ntinued fi and opens toward evening, when it also beâ€" n’}x;lue Cl | comes extremely fragrant. The first evenâ€" Chm; :;ci:n;l ing, toward dusk, the stamens in front of 1 5d thel Jason the sepals grow very rapidly for about two hours, so that they emerge from the flower; f the polien ripens, and is exposed by the s been made, bursting of the auther. So the flower reâ€" ‘a plough 804 | mains through the night very attractive 1e two OPEr®â€" | go and much visited by moths. Toward TrOWIng &I€ | three in the morning the scent ceases, the plough is an anthers begin to shrivel up or drop off, the with jointer; | glaments turn themselves outward, so as to e wheels like | pe out of the way, while the petals, on the The one of contrary, begin to roll themselves up, so he unploughâ€" | ghag by daylight they close the aperture of wheel. The | the flower, and present only their brownâ€" d furrow and | ;sn green under side to view, which, moreâ€" ing wheel is | over, are thrown into numerous wrinkles. vy. Its conâ€" Thus, by the morning‘s light, the flower + !:ept SPAYt | has all the eppesrance of being faded. It rhich are the | pas no smell, and the honey is covered + It is Shid | oyer by the petals. . So it remains all day. ore complete | Toward evening, however, everything is and the imâ€"| shanged. The petals unfold themselves, vantage that by eight o‘clock the flower is as fragrant as ) ground by | pefore, the second set of stamens have rapâ€" rate harrow | iqly grown, their anthers are open, and be decided is the pollen again exposed. By morning pulverizing | the plant is again asleep, the anthers are ; which the Lsprivelled, the scont has ceased, and the and if it does petals rolled up as before. ‘Thethird evenâ€" sened by 50 | ing again the same process, but this time harrowing is |it is the pistil that grows, and the long spiral stagmas on the third evening take Jy at 5:15 a.| the position which on the previous two i in London|had been cccupied by the anthers, and can papers in all| hardly fail to be dusted by the moths with before noon: | polien brought from another flower.. Anobâ€" ilies has been | jeetion to the view that the sleep of flowers | graph, cirouâ€" | is regulated by the visits of insects might he Standard | be derived from the cases of those flowers | 170,000, : the | which close early in the day,the wellâ€"known | It pumps water from the ground through the thousands of tubes in the stem of the tree, and sends it into the atmosphere in the form of unseen mist, to be condensed and fall in showers; the yery water that, were it not for the leaf, would sink in the eerth and find its way, perchance, through subterranean channels to the sea. Aud thus it is we see it works to give us the "carly and the latter rain." _ It works to send the rills and streams, like lines of silver, down the mountain and across the plain. It works to pour down the larger brooks which turns the wheels that energize the machinary which gives employment to millionsâ€"commerce stimulated, wealth acâ€" ‘ cumulated and intelligence diueminated] through the agency of this wealth. The loaf does it all. It has been demonutratedl that every square inch of leaf lifts 3.500 of an ounce every twentyâ€"four hours. Now, » large foresttree has about five acres of foilage, or 6,272,630 square inches. This being multiplied by 8.500 (the amount pumped by every inch,) gives us the result â€"2,258 ounces, or 4,276 pints, or 294 qzarts, or 8 barrels. The trees on an acre give 800 barrels in twentyâ€"four hours. An acre of grass, or clover, or grain, would yield about the same result. ‘The leaf is a worker, too, in another field of labor, where !we seldom lookâ€"where it works for the good of man in the most wonderful manâ€" ner. â€" It carries immense quantities of elecâ€" tricity from the earth to the clouds,and from the cloads to the earth. Rather dangerous business transporting lightning; but it is particularly fitted for work. Did you ever see a leaf entire ns to its edges? It is alâ€" ways pointed, and these points, whether they be large or small, are just fitted to handle this dangerous agent. These tiny fingers seize upon and carry it away with ease and wonderful despatch. There must be no delay ; it is "time freight." True, sometimes it gathers up more than the trunk can carry, and in the attempt to ecrowd and pack the baggage the trunk gets terribly shattered, and we say that lightâ€" ning struck the tree. But it had been struck & thousand times before. This time it was overworked. Science deals with the final causes of things as with the properties and laws of things. Of this, we have five examples in the functions of the leaf, in the sleep of flowers and in the vitality of seeds.â€" ‘ 1. The function of the leaf. What is the function of the leaf? Things Viewed in the Light of Science. with stove polish it will not take much / boundarics were eri rubbing to make the #tove bright, and the , ritory contains abs blacking is not likely to fly off in fine dust. about 6,250 whites. The late Czar of Russia left six children the eldest of whom succeeds him at the age of thirtyâ€"seven. ‘The brothers and sisters of the reigning Emperer are Vindimir, Alexis, Marie, Serge and Paul. Viadimir married a Princess of Mechlenberg, Schâ€" werin, who is called the Grand Duchess Marie Paulovyna. ‘The other brothers are not married. The Grand Duchess Marie is now the Duchess of Edinburgh. Serge (pronounced Bairgy) and Paul are fond of society, and frequentthe opera and the *"saloons" of noble famities. Thenew Czar Alezander is the most popular of the Imâ€" perial family, He is the favorite of the students who represent the aAvanced Libâ€" eral party, and from whose ranks many of the Nihilists have been recruited. These young men arosent to the tiniversities, and when their studies are completed, unless they have influence enough to obtain positions in the Tehinâ€"that is, under the becbofidutatninnntatiors d icamstntatvaticis swsc c h t BB .120 they can turn ‘their education except to beâ€" come agitators. If a little vinegar or some cider is mixed the body so perfectly that it appenred asleep rather than dead. ‘The miners were puzzled, No one in the district had been missed within their remembrance and at last it was resolved to bring the oldest inâ€" habitantâ€"an old lady long past her eightâ€" ieth year who had lived single in the vilâ€" lage all her life. On being brought into the presence of the body a strange scene ‘ occurred. The old lady fell on the corpse, ‘ kissed it and addressed it by every endearâ€" ing name of loving endearment spoken in the language of byâ€"gone generations. He was her only love, and she had waited for him during her long life. She knew he had not forsaken her. The old lady and the young man had been betrothed sixty years before. ‘The lover had disappeared mysteriously, and she had kept faithful during that long interval. Time had stood still with the young man, but had left its marks on the woman. The miners who were present were a rough set, but very gontly and with tearful eyes they removed the old lady to her house, and that night she died. \ One rarely meets with a more touching romance than is found in the following story which comes from Wales:â€"A number of years ago some miners, in exploring an old pit that had long been closed, found the body of a young man dressed in a fashion long out of date. The peculiar action of the air of the mine was such as to proserve an account of some experiments of | his on the vitality of the seeds Medicago Americana, a sort of clover. A vast quan tity of wool is received at Elbceuf, from Brazil; but itis in a very dirty state,and conâ€" tains amongst otherimpurities, the seeds of various plants. M. Pouchet was told by sevâ€" eral credible witnesses that the seeds mix ed up with this wool would strike root and grow up into plants even after undergoing a four hours‘ ebullition during the various } operations of dying. This was a startling sssertion, it being admitted by physioloâ€" gists, from Spallansani downwards, that the vitality of seeds is u‘terly destroyed in boiling water. M. Pouchet resolved to verify the truth of this alleged fact, ind acâ€" cordingly boiled some of these seeds for exâ€" actly four hours without any interruption. After this operation the seeds of the Mediâ€" eago were found to be enormously swollen; the water had become mucilaginous, and it was with no great faith in the euccess of his experiment that our author put these disâ€" organized seeds into flower pots containing earth utterly free from any seeds of the same kind. Nevertheless, in the course of from 10 to 20 days, several plants sprang up; and this experiment was repoated more than 20 times with equal success. After minutely examining all cireumstances, M. Pouchet at length found that among a large number of seeds in m state of utter disorganization, there were yet a few that had successfully resisted the action of boilâ€" ing water. They had, indeed, borne temâ€" perature of 100 deg. Centigr, for the space of four hours, but their tegument had provâ€" ed watertight by some unexplainable cirâ€" cumstance. Our author immediately conâ€" eluded that such must also be the case with other seeds, and he accordingly tried with wheat, barley, millet, &0., but without sueâ€" cess; tor the present the seeds of the Med:â€" cago are the only instance of this wonderâ€" ful vitality. _ O. 8. 8. The vitalhty of seeds. The vitality of seedsis designed to preserve and propoâ€" gate all kinds of plants on the earthâ€"seeds, enclosed within‘a muramy for thousands of years, grow up when cast into the ground. The forest, when cleared and left to itself, is soon covered with trees sprung from the seed long depositâ€"d in it and different in kind from the trees, which grow on it beâ€" fore it was cut down. Agninâ€"M. Pouchet, the celebrated physiologist of Rouen, gives Whole No. 161. spocies as Lapsana commumis, or Crepus pulchra, which open before 6 and close a gain before 10 in the morning. Bees howâ€" ever, are very early risers, while ants come out much later, when the dew is off the grass; so that it might well be an advanâ€" tage to a flower that was quite unprotected to open carly for the bees, and close again before the ants were out, thus preserving its honey for another day. at Noon," for instance ; still more such A Touching story. Ahere is little use to which t ‘boundaries wore extended. ‘The new terâ€" witory éontains about 8,389 Indians and New York city is worth very nearly as much as all the rest of New York State. In the tax assessmert list the city has $197,582,075 of personal property against $154,937,245 in all the reet of the State ; and it has $1,049,340,336 of real estate value against $1,877,329,477 in the rest of the State. The total taxable valtue of the Empire State is $3,679,139,133, and of the metroâ€" polis $1,249,872 411. Manitoba as now enlarged will be eloven times the size of the province before the their grandeur some 13,000 feet." Maps so far give scarce an indication of this seeâ€" tion of Wyoming, which Mr, Schurz thinks, surpasses the finest Alpine scenery in mamâ€" jestic grandcur. time, surpasses by far in grandeur all the sights in the parks. It is a crooked valley, which for oneâ€"hundred miles and more leads through & narrow and almost im« practible pass. Even the Yosemite, it is represented, hardly equal sit in its weird arâ€" tistic effect. At the bottom of the Clark‘s Fora Valley is the eannon, varying in ‘depth from 100 to 8,000 to 4,000 feet, and between its perpendicular walls rolls the winding river on its course toward the Crow reservation. This valley is virgin, and has appérently never been explored. Its access is very difficult. One of the gentlemen of the Schaeuz party writes "We had to trust to luck almost to get out of those imposing mountains, as there was no path, and not one of our seouts or guides knew the ground. No one in the parks, not even the superintendant,could tell us anything about the valley. For four Gays we hunted a paseagethrough these mounâ€" tains ; whose most remarkable pesaks are Index and Pilot peake, which rise up in A gentleman who accompanied Secretary Schurz on his trip through the Yellowstons region, states that the parks cannot compare in beauty with the mountain scenery of either California or Colorado, it is in the northâ€"west region of Wyoming that is to be found the most picturesque scenery in the whole country, Clark‘s Fork cannon, which has never been deâ€" scribed, and is now visited for the first ing, denounce it as a barren dosert. The tnctis there are three parts to Kanane., The State is about 600 miles long, ‘The eastern third of the State is good farming land, and will produce all kinds of crope and fruits ; the ceptral portion has some good farming land with a grent deal that is only fit for grazingâ€"crops are uncertain, becoming more so townards the West ; the Western two hundred niles rre not fit for farming at all, there not being rainfall enough to produce crops and no water for irrigation. Great destitution prevails now among the settlers in Central and Western sections. The crops in both ‘79 and 80 were entire farlures for want of rain. Very many of the farms are deserted, some hay« ing considerable improvement upon them, In other cases the women and children only remain, the men having left for the Colorado mining regions or other places, to enirn a little money to send back to the fumily, Of sourse this land should neyer have been settlea with a view to farming, but the railroad had lands to sell, their agents told specious stories, and many counties were settled which were only fit for grazâ€" ing, and judging by sone reports from our neighbors who took thcir stock there last summer, not very good for that. as follows regarding Kansas to the Huron Eaxpositor:â€"Our next neighbor, Kanâ€" sas, has suffered from the drought as well as Colorado. There is a great deal of misâ€" conception abroad regarding Kansme. As a greater immigration of the farming class is pouring into it now than in any other State, people generally should be better inform« ed respecting it. ‘The railrondland agents, who have land to sell, picture it as a par« adise flowing with milk and honey. Many disgusted settlers after being starved out on railroad land they were deluded into buy» Mr, Allan MecJ.ean, now Lrother of Mr. J. McLean, I as follows recarding Kansas s10!y containing some new "Star of South Africa." How many houses will be pulled down in the search for the diamonds upon which they are built it would be difficult to say. But it will be interesting to watch the future progress of a town â€"which owes its existence and its subsequent partial deâ€" struction and removel to the same causeâ€" the abundance of the diamonds in the midst of which it appears to have grown. sibly containing some was not equally diamondiferous. As the woodonlhmfiuluvogimphu to more substantial buildings it has been found that Kimberley itself has been built on a diaâ€" amond field, and that the west and resi< dental part of the town is as full of gems as the actual diggings themselves at the east« ern or working end of the town. New claims are being taken up in all directions, and land which was beginning to acquire considerable value as building sites, has suddenly assumed fresh importance as posâ€" TORONTO No town in Africa car‘ bodet such rapid‘ owth as Kimberley, the seat of ~the Gov» erament in Griqualand West, and tho hndqurmdthcsonthmm&m diggings. Eleven yoars ago uut a hut where now some 16,00 people, with atrade of over $2,000,000 a year, form one of the most thriving communities on the African continent. It is now discovered that the town is built upon land that prominss to b6 as productive of diamonds as the nsighborâ€" ing "diggings" which have> been the nonmoflhvnlthnllnv-y origin of its existence. Kimberley is identical with the "New Rush" diamond settlement of [lmo.flththomna'ho flock to the locality to secure a "claim" in the valuable‘ reefs, which have been worked further and further to the east of the site of the future town, were in such a hurry to seek their fortunein the diggings that they forgot to inguire whether the soil on which they pitched their tents or erectedâ€"their logâ€"bute A Town Built on Diamonds. Wonders of the West Dundas, writes