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) Â¥-.^ ^ ^ • ' y %<fe CRUEL EVICTIONS. Bodykn TeniuiU FIfhtliiK for Their Iluium â€" Cayeuno I'epper, Itulllnie %V»ler, Baca, Ktc., Vted lu We»pons ofWHrfare. A Dublin cable eayu : The evictions at Bodyke continue. The tenants arc offering all the oppoHition in their power to the Sheriff and his yuard of police and troops, and find varioas means to seriouHly annoy the officers. In some of the houses from which the occupants were to be evicted cayenne pepper was burned, the fumes of which nearly choked the bailiff. Boiling water was also thrown from the windows D>xin the evicting force. At two houses wlierc evictions were effected collisions occurred between the police and tho people and a number of arrests were made. AVhen the bhcriff's force arrived at the house of tenant I^iddy and ordered the family to leave, a dauf^hter of Mr. Liddy threw an iron hoop ut the bailiff who attempted to force the door. The hoop missed the bailiff, but struck a police inspector. The girl was arrested. A brother of tho girl was also arrested for inciting the crowd to violence. Another daughter of the tenant, who de- nounced the treatment her family were receiving, was struck by a policeman and felled to tho ground. This maddened the crowd, and they advanced for tho ptirpose of attacking the officers. Michael Davitt, who V s present at the eviction, pleaded with tne people not to use violence and barely managed to avert a collision. After the Liddy family had been evicted the police made an attack upon the house of a man named McNasiara, which was strongly fortifi'-u. Crowbars were uaed and a hole wac made through the wall. McNamara's wife and children were in the house and cried piteously until Mr. Davitt shouted words of comfort to them. McNaniara was arrested for pelting tho bailiffs with dung. The bailiffs smashed tho furniture of the house out of pure malice. The force, after leaving tho boose, proceeded to that occu- pied by tenant Huasey, for the purpose of evicting him. It is thonght the police have extremely warm work before them. ^'hen the evicting force reached Ilussoy's house they were received with a shown of boiling water, stones and bottles and a swarm of bees were let loose u\x>a them. Tho tenants desisted frem pelting tho bailiffs only when the troopa threatened to fire. The bailiffs demolished a wall and entered the house, but were repulsed blood- ing. The eviction was effected only after a struggle of two hours and a half. The male defenders of the house were arrested. A meeting of tenants was afterwards held, at which Michael Uavitt repeated the ad- vice ho gave them yesterday, to resist evic- tion by every means, and defied the Gov- ernment to arrest him. Ikxiyke is in county Clare and the ovic- tioui are on the estate of Col. O'Callaghan. I'AHTLKN IN TUK Allt. New Vurk Mjicnat«ii tu Ilulltl a Grauil C'ntlittilral. A New York despatch says : New York was astonished today to learn that a pro- ject was on foot to build iniheKmpireCity a mammoth Protestant Kpiscapal Cathe- dral, a second Westminster Abtcy or St. I'aul's Cathedral, in fact. Bishop I'otter is RX'Officic I'roiidert of tho Trustees and of b1.\ the committees. Tho Board now includBu among its prominent members llcv. L»r. Morgan Dn, Dr. William K. Huntington, Hev. K. W. Oonald, Hamilton Fish, Htepheii 1'. Nash, Ueorgo MacCulloch Miller, Kainuel 1). Babcock, William W. Astur, J. I'ierpont Morgan, ('ornelius Van- derbilt ami Kichard Anchrnutyâ€" names which in themselves are a guarantee that a building done under their direction will be worthy of the city they represent. The plan is to erect the grandest church build- ing in Anicricft, and one of the greatest cathedrals in the world. It is only Met- tled that the Cathedral of Ht. John tho Divine- US the edilice is to bo known will bo Hituated cm Manhattan Island, and, if possible, on a lofty and conspicuous [>OHi- tion, where its monumental cliaractcr will dominate the entire island. I'or this pui- pose a plot at least four times tho size i<f that on which Kt. I'atrick's is built will be needed. lliHhop Totter will issue it cirouliir letter in a few days giving the plan of liiu official sanction, and subscriptions will be called for to carry forward tho work. The proposed cathedral, it is estimated, will cost about 9l'>,000,(K)U. A ltIUAMIKr'8 KUMANCK. Strange Story Ilroacht to Light by the Uaughtar of a Canadian Kallway Euglue Driver. A Halifax, N. 8., despatch says: The recent death of an engine driver on the Intercolonial Kailway, known as Joseph McLcllau, has led to the discovery of a romance connected with his life. lie came to Halifax from Kdinburgli, Scot- land, thirty-five years ago. His real name was Joseph McGill. Ue deserted bib wife and seven children there. On his arrival here he assumed the name of Joseph McLellan. Shortly after- wards he obtained a position on the Inter- colonial as driver, and was engaged on the road for the third of a century. His deserted wife and family never heard any trace of him. Twenty- five years ago he was married again, to a Halifax girl named Sarah Tobin, by whom he had four children, who survive. Last year the aged bigamist, ap- parently struck by remorse in his old age, revisited Edinburgh and sought out his first wife and children. They were all dead ex- cept two, a daughter, now Mrs. JaneFraser, and her sister Sarah. These he told the story of his shame and crime, and i romisod to make provision for them out of property he had accumulated. He returned again to Halifax, but never revealed his romance to bis second wife and family. Uecently, while oiling his engine, ho fell off the step of the locomotive and struck tho sharp spout of his oil can, which entered his head above the ear and killed him instantly. A few days ago his daughter, Mrs. Jane Fraser, arrived here from Scotland, made affidavit of the facts of the case to Judge Shannon and has obtained administration of tho estate of her late father. Thus she and her sister will secure his life insurance and all his property, and the second wife and her family are left oat in the cold. IN IIKATII NOT UIVIUKO. rathetlc .Story of »n Aged Couple who Chose to Die Together. A Jersey City, N.J., despatch.says : Pro- fessor Charles Siedborf and his wife Matil- da, aged 'Jl and <J2 years respectively, tired of a long and futile struggle with aestitu- tian, committed suicide this afternoon at Union Uill. Siedhorf, it is said, was a professor of chemistry at one time at Heidelberg University. He came to Union Hill about thirty-five years ago. He sup- ported himself by writing for the newspa- pers, making translations and occasionally lecturing upon chemistry and electricity. In INVU ho oixinod a boarding school, which preB|iered for several years, but his patrons gradually deserted him and the school was closed about eight years ago. An invest- ment in a patent cooking utensil cost him several thousand dollars and he gradually became despondent. The couple had been living in poverty for some time, and the authorities had decided to remove Siedhorf to the county hospital. Ho was granted a week to arrange his affairs, and to-day when the poormaster culled at tho apart- ments occupied by the couple Siedhorf asked for an hour longer. When the officer returned he found the couple lying on the floor. The woman was dead and the man died before me<lical aid arrived. They had taken cyanide of potaaainm. Siedhorf left a number of rambling letters bemoaning his circumstances. He leaves his scientific books to Columbia College. Flghtlni In South America. A Panama despatch says : A veritable •' funeral party " recently took place near Meriden, Yucatan, Mexico. A general row broke out among tho guests who had as- Hcmliled to celebrate a marriage ceremony, and (luring the fight seven persons were killed, the groom lieing among the number. The following cable message addressed to the Consul of Fcuador at Panama from Uuai|uaguil, under date of May iiltli, has l)cen roceive<l : " A fight took plar« in Ks- moraldas on the iMth inst. between fifty regular soldiers and two hundred moun- taineers under Sandoval. The latter were defeated. They lost twenty men, had several of their numlxir captured and lost thirty rilles and a number t)( oarbinei." AVenrliiK Apparvl In a Iloltlo. Pretty Annie Pixloy, a New York favorite, is ijuitc as delightful and droll in private life as she is on the stage. I remember crossing the (,'anadian border once in comjiany with her and her philoso- pher husband, to wit. Hob Fulford, whose presence at my ellH>w reminds me of it. Homebody ha<l presented Hob with a bottle of choice brandy in case of sudden sickness on (he train. With woman's characteristic thoughtfulniss, the little I'ixlcy stored the bottle in her handker- chief. In due course an offioer of tho customs came along and spying the handbag asked the mischievous owner what it con- tained. Without an instant's hesitation or con- fusion she replied: " Wearing apparel." " Will you open it, please? " "Certainly," was tho ready response, and giving it a Ilip tho bottle of brandy was brought to view. " Call that wearing apparel?" asked the astonished official. " Yes, sir," demurely answered tho little wcmian. " It'smy husband's "night-cap." No, my son, tho bottle was not con- fiscated. l*enMinaI I'olnti). Itev. Dr. MoCosh, President of Princeton College, is ill with bronchitis. Haggard's ))est novel haa had a curious experience in an Knglish public library. " King Solomon's Mines " is placed among tho works on mineralogy. Calvin H. Drice, who was a poor school- teacher at Lima, O., a few years ago, has leased Jaiiies Gordon licnnett's gorgeous villa at New|H)rt for tho summer. Mr. Itrice has made his fortune as a railroad consolidator, and his traiiaactions have tho merit of being legitimate. An amusing incident ooeurrcil recently in London at Buffalo Dill's show. JUr. Justice liope/i was stroUingt about tbu Indian village and fell in with a paiiobiio, age<i :i years, wlio promptly lasoed him round tliu neck with a roiie and refused to let him go. I,oud was the laughter of all who beheld the judge bound by an Indian baby. _ « A Chinese gentleman was a(Imitte<l as a firactising lawyer to tho bar of New York ast week. The Tklno of tho produce of tho fisheriea of the Dominion for IHMli was »lH,()7!t,aMH, an increase in tho value of the produce of lil/)(>,000, compare<l with 1886. Northwest Food I'rodiiolii, At Senator Schult/.'s Committee of i;n(iuiry into the Northwest natural food products, ill) evidence of Mr. Forget was concluded yesterday. He slated that the Indian can eat three times as much bh a wliiteinan. liaeon was unhealthy food for tho Indians, and in time of scarcity the Government should supply fresh beef, (Kitatocs, wild rii!o and barley. Tlio Indians should be encouraged to ,>;row barley, for which a market might befouinl. Hops might also becultivated, as they uro easily picked by children and scpiaws. In the rivers running into the Saskatchewan from tho Uonky Mountains man with a pan and a ahnvol coulil make 81.. Ml per day washing for goh!, with occasional rich finds. Kven the Hecond-llnnd Were Ton Dear. " I reckon we'll have to give up the iden (if puttin' pictures in our parlor, Miranda,", remarked Jeremiah Turnipseed, as he threw the bridle under the table. "Why?" asked Miranda. " Too dear. Why, I priced one at tho city to-day, and tho dealer suz, so/, he, 'That's an old muster; its price in »r),000.' ' Why,' Boz 1, • looks like a second- hand piotur'.' ' Yes, it is,' se/. he. Then, thinks I, if a second-hand piotur' costs that much, it's no use to i)rice a new un. So, Mirtndy, I reckon we'll have to hang n)i a few mottoes, ' God Illess Our Home,' a.,. I the like, and let tho pioturs go." -y'i((ii6iin/ C'i)Him«rcin/. lie Didn't Catch the Word. Mutual Friend (to travelling Yankee) : I want to introcjuce you to Count Allegro Pianti ('onosse^^i, ^^f the old regime. Travelling Yahkee : Glad to meet you, Count. I haven't got any razors to hone, at prcHont, but if you'll give mo your card I'll remember you. â€" Tid-lliti. W TEIiEGRAPHIO SUMMARY. The local sobscription to the Qaeen's (Kingston) endowment amounts to 839,000, exclusive of Mr. J. Carruther's 810,000. Thomas, the 7 year-old son of James Kavanagh, of Kingston, fell off the wharf there on Saturday night and was drowned. A deputation from the Montreal Bar will proceed to Ottawa to-day to urge on the Minister of Justico the necessity for an in- crease in tho salaries of judges. Tho specifications for the railway to the boundary have boon prepaied, and tenders for its construction are being called for by the Manitoba Government. The wife of J. W. Bell, M. P., has received a letter from him at the Toronto Asylum, and it speaks of his recovery of health and probable early return to his home. The body of Mr. Gillespie, a young mar ried man who disappeared from his home at Clifton about a month ago, was found in the Niagara Kiver at Youngstown on Friday afternoon. St Jean Baptiste Society of Ottawa has adopted an address to the Queen, and, in the name of tho French population of Ottawa, congratulates Her Majesty on at- taining to the fiftieth year of her reign. A memorial from Quebec and Montreal shipping agents and leading captains of the St. Lawrence urging the desirability of providing a harbor of refuge at Father Point will shortly be forwarded to Ottawa. On Saturday afternoon a farmer named Wm. Kirkpatrick, while driving across the Grand Trunk track ten miles cast of King- ston, was struck by an engine and killed. His b(}dy was carried several mites on the cowcatcher. A burglar went through four of tho boarders' clothes in Mrs. Graham's board- ing house on Park avenue, London, yester- day morning, and secured three watches and chains, one gold and two silver. The back- door was left unfastened. No clue. In reply to an iiKjuiry whether Lord Lausdowue could accept an invitation to visit Montreal on the occasion of the jubilee celebration, Uis Excellency states that owing to previoas engagements for the same event he is unable to leave Ottawa. On Saturday afternoon the body of a female infant was found buried in the gravel on the river bed near Kensington Bridge, London. An inquest was held and a poit mortem made, but owing to the de- composed condition of the body it was dif- ficult to determine whether the child was born alivo or not. The iuquest was adjourned for a week. Efforts are being made by the city of Hull to compel the new Eddy Manufactur- ing Company to pay the Koman Catholic Public School tax. Previous to incorpora- tion, Mr. Kddy, who is a Protestant, paid the Separate or Protestant school rate, amounting to 8800 a year, the Catholic sch(X>l rate amounting to 84,000. Tho company will contest the [laynient. William Emblodon, aged 21, a resident of Harvey, Y'ork (,'ouuty, N. B., was instantly killed on Saturday afternoon on the New Brunswick Itailway, near Maga- guadaviu Station. He was coupling oars loaded wilk log*/ BlandinK between the cars. Tho coupling link missed hold and the cars camo together, jamming Kmble- don's head to a jolly between the ends of two logs. The Greek Government intend negotiat- ing for a gold loan of 8^0,000,000. The filial estimate of the victims of the Paris Opera ComiijQe places the number at i;io. Prinoo Bismarck is anxious for a renewal of the Triple Alliance on a firmer basis than the last. The Hessian Government are following the Prussian Government in abandoning tho conflict with tho Vatican. Two oflioers, said to have belonged to tho United States army and navy re8(>ectivoly, have committed suioide at Monte Carlo. Dr. Morell Mackenzie, of London, will iierform a second oiwratiun on Crown 'rince Frederick William's throat on Wednesday. Gen. Ferroii, the new French Minister of War, has offered Gen. Boulanger the com- mand of an army corps, but Gen. Boulan- ger has asked for a few months' rest. Prof. Stein, the eminent political econo- mist, of Berlin, has issued a pamphlet showing tho milit >ry imi>ortance to Great Britain of the Canadian Pacific Itailway. The Empress of Germany is greatly on- fecbled. She does not venture to walk, in the grounds of the palace any moru, lier daily exercisu being limitecl. to that derived from being wheeled about in a chair. King Christis'i IX. of Denmark has paid a visit to his daughter, the Duchess of Cumberland, at tne asylum at I'en/.ing. The condition of the Duchess is unchanged. Tho King, passing through Vienna incog- nito, visited the Emperor. The Ameer of Bokhara haa dismissed all tho officials of his Government found in- triguing against Kiissia. Ho has informed the Governor of Turkestan that ho and his subjects arc impatiently waiting for tho groat link which will connect their country with Russia and diffuse civilization throughout Central Asia. A considerable amount of Central Asia proihic.e, especially cotton, is being sent to noasia over tho extension of tho Trans- (laspian Kailway to Samarkand, in Asiatic ItuHsia. Iluasia bus forbidden that Chinese shall aiKjuiro land in towns on tho I'acifio coast. They will only be allowed to lee.se estates outside of towns. The Now Ziialand Government, Sir liobert Stout, Premier, was defeated in a test vote taken in the Ciolonial Parliament on Wednesday. The Ministry at once resigned. Parlinnient was dissidved and an appeal to the country taken. Tho regular elections have been sot for Septem- ber next. There Ims been general dis- satisfaction in the colony for some time past over Sir JuIiuk Vogel's land nationali- zation Bcheiiiiancl Ins general inunagoment of the Department of Finanoo, and it is very probable that Major Atkinson, tho popular leader of the Opposition, will be returned to power. Hir Charles Dilko's remarkable article in " Tho Fortnightly Uoviow " of tho mcmth, coupled witli Lord Uandolph tlhnrohill's speech atWolverhanipton Friday night, have ended by scaring Juhn Bull seriously con- cerning the lamentable state of his de fences. Sir Charles, speaking from diplo- matic knowledge acquired abroad, asserts in the most positive terms that any war between one of the great European Powers and England would involve a foreign inva- sion of the latter. On the other hand, Lord Randolph, speaking from knowledge actjnired as Cabinet Minister, asserts that Malta, one of the principal strongholds of GreatBritain in Europe, is not provided with provisions or ammimition for more than three weeks. Mr. W. Eeid, editor of the New York Tribune, has been dangerously ill for the last few weeks of typhoid fever. He will recover. The annual meeting of the American Medical Association will be held in Chicago on Tuesday, June 7th, and will continue in session until the Friday following. From 1,000 to 1,500 physicians and surgeons are expected to be present. A New York despatch says the report that Walter P. Phillips, general manager of the Vnited I'reu, has been drowned in the St.Lawrence, is an error. Mr. Phillips is at present in New York and in his usual health. A Texas il' Pacific express train was robbed by four masked men, eight miles west of Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday night, and 81,300 was taken from tho ex- press car and three registered letters from the mail car. The passengers were not moleated. A State ball is to be given at Rideaa Hall on June 21st in honor of the Qaeen's Ju- bilee. The License Inspector at Kingston is prosecnting the keeper of a militia canteen for selling liquor on Sunday. Bishop Walsh on Sanday blessed the corner stono and foundations of St. Philip's (11. C.) Church, at Petrolia. The building will cost about SU,00O. Tho Governor-General and Lady Lans- downe will go on a fishing trip to Metapedia at the close of the session, afterwards visit- ing the citadel at Quebec. The annual meeting of the Bank of Montreal was held in Montreal yesterday, tho reports being unanimously adopted and the old Board of Directors re-elected. The London Board of Aldermen last night voted 83,000 towards the expense of the railway demonstration and Queen's Jubilee celebration on the 20th and 21st inst. The schooner Alfred, Capt. Longmere, has been seized at Annapolis, U. S., for smuggling oil from tho United States. It is stated that other seizures are likely to follow. The body of an unknown child was found yesterday morning at tho end of Percy street, near Stewart's bush, Ottawa. Death had been recent, and evidences of foul play were evident. It is rumored in Montreal political cir- cles that Mr. Coursol, M. P., has been offered a seat in the Dominion Cabinet in view of the reiiorted resignation of Mr. Chapleau, and that Mr. Girouard, M. P., will bo asked to accept it if Mr. Coursol refuses. A daring robbery was perpetrated yes- terday morning jip the Montreal Post-office, a package containing from twenty- five to thirty registered letters being abstracted through the wicket of the registry office while the clerks' backs wore momentarily turned. The thie^ got safely away with his booty, and so far no clue has been ob- tained. The Department of Marine at Ottawa has received advices that flv»» Newfound- land fishermen, picked up at sea in a small boat by the baniuentine Maria, were landed at Little Glace Bay, Caiie Breton, yester- day morning. They were almost famished and had been adrift on tho ocean for seven days. Their sufferings were terrible. One of them had his toes frozen, which will have to be amputated. Tho Oenmtnia admits tho truth of the report that Duke Paul of Meeklenburg- Schiverin has returned to the Koman Catholic Charcb. Emperor William caught a ccld during his visit to Kiel last w(«k,and is oomiwUed to remain in his apartments. There are no serious symptoms. The London Timet says Gladstone audaciously triumphs in his own wrong. His apology in his speech at Swansea for the obstruction methods in Parliament of tho opponents of tho Government Irish Bill, it admits, gives the Government a grave difficulty to confront. A despatch from Lagos says that a rather serious dispute has arisen between the English and tho French with reference to tho ownership of a portion of territory on tho coast near Porto Novo. Tho Eng- lish and the natives had hauled down the French flag. Tho King and Queen of Italy yesterday attended tho ceremony of unveiling a monument to tho Italian soldiers who fell in tho recent battle at Dongoli with the Abyssinians. A number of survivors of the battle received demonstrations of sym- pathy from tho people. A collision occurred in tho St. George's Channel yesterday between the British bonpie Hamburg, from New York for Liverpool, and tho steamer fern. The steamer was sunk, and her captain and four seamen drowned. Tho Tern was CiO'.l tons burthen, and was from Mediterranean ports. The House of Commons re-assembled yesterdayâ€" the anniversary of tho defeat of Mr. Gladstone's Government last year on th« budget proposals. Business is so much behind that a drastic step must soon bo adopted. The House went into committee on the post-office estimates, and Mr. Kaikes announced a now system of patterns post which met with general approval. A Calcutta cablegram says: It has been proved beyond doubt, by tho picking up of tho captain's chest, that tho steamer Bir John Lawrence was lost in the recent cyclone off this coast. Tho steamer carried 7fiO passengors, and it iu believed tho whole number were lost. The largest part of tho passengers are native ladies who were going to Juggernaut, ill Orissia, to celebrate tho Juggernaut Festival. 'The catastrophe has cast a feeling of gloom over tho Iliniloo coninuinity hero, and all the beat families are in nunirning for relatives or friends who were among the passengers. A (iueenstown despatch says : Tho Plan I of Campaign has scored a victory cn-V Ponsonby estates by the landlord's accfol ance of the terms offered by the temnttV scores of whom have been evicted wtthiA the past fortnight. Ominously enough the > tenantry on the Ponsonby estates were* the first to adopt the Plan of Campaign. It was their priest, the Bev. Father Keller who was incarcerated, and on this estate young O'Hanlan was killed. The victory for the Plan is regarded as one of the greatest importance, because this landlord has been supported by the Landlords' De- fence Union and the Orange Clubs in re- sisting the tenantry. The French and Russian ambassadors- have lodged the objections of their Govern- ments to the ratification by Turkey of the Anglo-Turkish Convention relative to- Egypt. M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambas- sador, in communicating his Government's objections, hinted that if the Saltan rati- fied the Convention such action might cost him his throne. He also indirectly charged England with bribing the Grand Vizier with £1100,000 sterling and other palace officials with large amounts, to secure their approved of the Convention. The Sultan after his interview with M. Nelidoff immediately simimoned Bir Henry Drummond Wolff, special British envoy, and questioned bi'm as to the truth of the charges. Sir Henry indignantly denied that he or his Govern- ment had been guilty of bribery. The Turkish officials who were said to have re- ceived bribes also warmly protested their innocence. Half a million has already been raised for the purposes of the new Protestant Episcopal Cathedral at New York. A Chicago despatch says : Just one ward declared yesterday in favor of boodle and a«»rchy. Except in Chicago's Sixth WadI the vote throughout the county averaged 3 to 1 against the twin evils. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the aged million- aire, of Washington, philanthropist, was suddenly stricken with paralysis in the left arm and left leg yesterday afternoon while at the dining table. His condition is not considered serious. Flirtatious at tjea. Courtesy to fellow-passengers at sea is- Imperative. Nevertheless, it is most unwise to form intimacies with ship acquaintances. Adventurers of both sexes abound on the ocean vessels, and unfortunate indeed have been some of the complications I have known to arise from an indiscreet disclo- sure of family affairs to these persons. Re- specting the flirtations which are so preva- lent on shipboard, I wish I could " meet the eye " of every decent girl who is about to traverse the ocean, and warn her, as she values her good name, to beware of the many fascinating male foreigners whom- business or pleasure calls on shipboard, and who are ever wont to beguile the tedium of tho trip by indulging iu any amount per- mitted of dirtation, intrigue, or whatever you choose to call it, with any nice-looking woman who will lend herself to their wiles. I recently made the trip on a vessel with a vory respectable family from one of onr large western cities, an invalid mother, a grown daughter and some small children.. A very handsome young British officer, go- ing out to join his regiment in Canada, was among the passengers.and the girl's infatua- tion fur him was so marked as to be at first ludicrous, then offensive to all the rest of the passengers on the vessel. With diffi- culty she was prevented from accepting bis invitation to join him in his proposed trip to Niagara Falls. The purser of the ship, as honest a soul as ever lived, took the mat- ter in his own hands, and never lost sight of the girl until he had put her on board tho far west train and seen her start home with her mother and small sisters and brothers.â€" U/it;« I.oi;an. A Sacrllloe to the Devil. When tho writer of this article was a parson in Yorkshire he had in his parish. a blacksmith blessed or afflictedâ€" which shall we say ? â€" with seven daughters and not a son. Now the parish was a newly constituted one, and it had a temporary licensed service-room ; but in the week before tho newly -erected church was to be consecrated the blacksmith's wife pre- sented her husband with a boy â€" his fitst boy. Then the blacksmith came to the parson and tho following conversation enioed: Blacksmith â€" Please, sir, I've got a httlo lad at last, praised be, and I want to have him baptized on Sunday. Parson â€" Why, Joseph, put it off to Thursday, when the new church will be consecrated ; then your little man will be the first child christened in the new font in the new church. Blacksmith (shufflingwith his feet, hitch- ing his shoulders, looking down)~Please, sir, folks say that the t' fust child as is baptised i' a new church is bound to dee (iUe.) The old un (tho devil) claims it. I've seven lasses and but one lad. If this wore a lass agin 't wouldn't a mattered ; but as it's a lad â€" well, sir, I won't risk it. â€" Cornhill Maijaiine. Deceived by a Crow. A letter from Tuscola, 111., says : A few days siuco, while John Van Dyke, a well- known nurseryman of this city, together with a friend, were riding along in a buggy near Newman, they hcanl, as they passed Martin Epley's barn, what thoy took to be tho pitiful cry of a child proceeding from that building. " Oh, pa !" " Oh, pa 1" the child seemed to say, and Mr. Van Dyke, thinking it in distress, gave the lines to his friend, leaped out of tho buggy, and went tu its assistance. On opening tho barn-door no child was to be seen, but instead a (wt crow which tho family had conflned during their absence. Ho was still satisfied there was a child around until tho crow with a peculiar twist of tho head and nock, would bring out the cry, plain and distinct, " Oh, pa," several times. It is said to have learned the words from hear- iu(; the children repeat them. It is also asserted that, by splitting a crow's tongue, he can be taught to talk plainer than a parrot. « JiiRt Five Minutes Too Late. It is related that upon one occasion, when Commodore Judkins was in command ol the Scotia, a fussy little gentleman cam* to him just as tho steamer was leaving Liverpool, and asked if he thought the Scotia wotdd arrive in Now York upon a certain day in time for him to catch the •oon train for Philadelphia. Judkins looked at him a monuiit in silence, and ttien, taking out his watch, replied : " I fear, sir, wo shall be five minutes too lats /' # Hr>/ "'%*'*l .M a.i