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COURAGEOUS PRISONERS. The Brarj ofTwe EeslUh OssVrrs Whe Were Heist CaUve hf tsteChlasae. The most thrilling chapter in ths recent " Life of Sir Harry I'arkee" is that carrat- ing his captivity among th* Chinese, who treacbk.~oatly seized and kept him prisoner, with bis companions, whn the party bore flag of trace and were negotwtmg for peace before Pekin. He was immediately burled to his knees before the Chinese commander in chief, who pot him through a long examination concerning the English forces and their intentions, and threatened him with death upon his refusal to write a letter to Lnrd Elgin beseeching him not to attack the city. At midnight he was again examined, and was hsli upon his knew* daring ths inter- view by four men, who at a sign from hi* questioners repeatedly it ruck and kicked him, palled hi* hair, and twitched his ear. a* a bint to b* more compliant. But b* remained steadfast, and wa* consequently loaded with chains and placed in a foal ceil with sixty or seventy Chin*** felons. Here he was fastened to a beam overhead by a long, heavy chain, in wtaiub his neek, bands and feet were linked by an iron collar, handcuffs and fetters. After eleven days of misery he was reliev- ed of his irons and told that hs would b*> taken from the prison ; bat be replied loyally: "Not unless Mr. Loch go** oat, too. ' Mr. Loch was a gallant companion who, with an opportunity to escape, had ridden back to warn Parkes. Parke* had lost hi* own chance in th* same manner, in an attempt to eave the other*. He had had a glimpse cf Loch on entering the prison, and once during their confinement the two had tried to communicate by ringing " <od Save the yueen ' from their different cell*; bnt their voices had broken with emotion at tbe first not**,aad they could not go on. They were now given a room together, and supplied with reasonable comfort*. Many confsranos* took place, and Parke* wrote a letter to Lord Elgin, saying that they wen well treated, and that he hoped Hostilities would be replaced by negotiations. But Loo, who understood Hindustani. added a postscript in that tongue to the effect that the letter was written at their captor's command. They were allowed to receive a bundle of clothes from their friends, and finding in this an elaborate embroidered shirt and handkerchief, they examined the arcticlee, which seemed scarcely suited to their situa- tion, and found a Hindustani sentence worked in minute sti tehee, telling them when tne British besabardsnent weald begin and asking for the location of their prison, that it might be spared. Meanwhile, they had been informed by their jailer* that the first cannon firml would b* the signal for the execution. Tbe English on their part, had declared that should the captive* be murdered, Pekin would be burned to the ground. Most of tLe Chinese did not believe this threat, Luo fortunately one high commis- sioner, Hang-ki, who had observed that the English had "a curious habit of speak- ing the truth," did believe it, and eet to work to save them. Through a tpy whom he kept at court, he learned that a mandate for their immedi- ate death was on its way from ths emperor. This nsws he kept to himeelf, and with in- finite difficulty obtained from the authori- ties who were en the spot an order for tbe surrender of the prisoner*. Th* last interview between capton and captives was carious indeed. Hang-ki and sevenl mandarins called at the prisoners' quarters, and sat drinking tea and dis- cusing upon indifferent -objects; mainly upon the question whsther the earth revol- ved about tbe sun, or the sun about tbe eartt. Parks* joined in th* discussion as coolly a* if hi* life were not at stake, while Loch, who did not understand Chinese, bad to play th* still harder part of appearing indifferent while burning with anxiety to know what wae going on. At length a messenger appeared and spoke to Hang-ki, who presently announced that the prisoners should be released that afternoon. Parkes merely bowed and translated tbe message to his friend, with a warning to show no emotion. Loch, keeping all expression out of his countenance,' suggested that as the sun and earth must be pretty well talked out, it might be well to consider whether or not th* ntoon rotated on her axis, which wa* a doubtful point in Europe. Park**, resuming his Chinese, actually opened this subject and talked until Hang- ki'spatience gave out, nd heexolaimed that the Englishmen did not seem to can wheth- er they lived or died. 1'arkes replied that after their experience of the Thineee, they should not believe in their releass until it wa* accomplished : to which Hang-ki responded feverishly, rising and pacing up and down, that they could not be in any greater hurry for it than be Yellow Silk Evening* Blouse. This is a beautiful evening blouse of pale yellow silk covered w.:h yellow chiffon. The fall told* of t he chiffon are bald in place by wide ribbons of yellow moire. These ribbons are crossed in front and lied in a b<g bow, with a past* bocklein the cenue, while the eleeves are of chiffon to the elbow. The waiat band is of yellow moire. Toronto Ladies Journal. THE ENGLISH LOAFER. They Are arrant Cewarita. aad Prefer ss> Attack ** * ! sielpsees Western. Let some of oar reader* stroll slowly down Endell Street, in the direction of St. Martin's Lane, wandering into St. An- drew's Street, the centre of Seven Dials, London, let him keenly observe the loafer* in this district. There are many low taverns here, and standing outside he will notice group* of young men dressed in threadbare clothes of dark color. What are they doing T Nothing in particular, and there they loaf from hour to hoar, possibly discussing the fat* of a gang of roughs, now in penal servitude, who used to haunt tbeee alleys and courts, robbing and ill treating passers-by, the aged in particular, until the Common Sergeant ordered them wholeso-n* floggings and ling term* of intprisounu nt few m roths ago. Tbs reader need not. if young and vigor- ous, fear hi* perambulations in th -e si ims, foi th*e creatures ie arrani cowards, and prater onslaught* on drunkeu men and helpless women to attacking an able-bodied, person, strong though they may be in num- bers. If they notice a gold ctuin, one glance from the owner will cower them, specially in the daytime, for such loa/ers dread observation of any kind. Tbe ob- server will and an hour's walk in these alleys very inviting if be is interested in these matters, and his knowledge ot low types, and tbe difficult!** in disposing of such, much increased. He will notice a special class of loafers elderly men with red noees. fat bndiee, and thin legs leaning against the walls of these taverns. They do nothing all day, with the exception of an occasional visit within to drink with some generous friend, but lean against the doors or walla, apparently thinking of nothing bat the last drop of ram, and longing for more. This is the finished article, the alcoholic criminal. Too diseased for work, (criminal piTsoite.) they remain here until the union infirmary re- ceives them or the Charing Cross Hospital Ptovide* them with a bed. and thus they die, in moet cases enlightening medical education and alooholic pathology. This wa* doubtless true, for they after warde learned that they left the gat** of Pekin for th* British line* just fifteen minute* before/ the arrivsU of a decree for their execution. Ci vU 1 zatlon Six Thousand Y ears Ton* of tablets, vase*, inscribed brick, altars, toy*, wenpons, sarcophagi and other relics snowing the religion, government, habits or life and customs of men who lived 4000 year* before Christ have been exhum- ed from th* ruins of NirTer, near ancient Babylon, a* a result of explorations made by Philadelphia!* Th**e objoet* have been deposited in the mus-ium at Constan- tinople, and are to be the subject of study. description and translation, the result* of which will be given to the worU in sixty prmt*d volumes. Dr. Hilprecht, of the University of Pennsylvania, the distin- guished Assyrian scholar, assist*, I by Hamdy Bay, a learned Mohammedan, is engaged in the labor of translation and arrangement. The sultan, in recognition of the eervices of Prof. Hilprecht. has promised that the university shall r*o*iv* one of all duplicate antiques. The Riforma ef Re* anneunos* hat negotiations for a treaty of commerce between Itsly sad CaMMU will b* opened unmediately. PEARLS OF TRUTH. I am a part of all that I have met. Ten- nyson. Men of cold passions have quick eye*.- Hawthorne. A pale cobbler is better than a sick king. Bickers tall Hones* error is to be piued.not ridiculed. Cheeterrield. The golden age is before us, not behind us. St. .Simon. Noble women oft do great deeds in hum- bleneea. German motto. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clargv -Spanish proverb. The presence of those we love is as a doubl* life. Mrs. Jameson. To accept good advice le but to increase oee's own ability. Uoathe- Eloquence is in th* aeeembly, not merely in the speaker. William Fitf. slake life a ministry of love, and it will always b* worth living. Browning. Thedev.i never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed. Spar^eon. Prosperity is no jaet scale ; adversity is the on iy balance to weigh friends. Plutarch. Wast* of time is the moet extravagant and costly ol all expanses. Tneopnras- tns. The man that dares traduce because he can with safety to himself is not a man. Cowper. If a man takes DO thought abo-.it what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius. Childhood itself te scarcely more lively than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. -L. M. Child. \V net's property, dear Swift ? I see it alter from yon to me, trom me to Peter Walter. Pops. If the power to do hard work is not talent it is the beet possible substitute for it. Garneld. He wears his faith, but as ths fashion of his hat: it ever change* with the next block. Shakeepean. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. Hs is neither hot nor timid. Cheeterfield. EXERCISE IN OUTDOOR AIR. A MiBS>le stese*1y sar**lesl te tasTeren rr.m cnrenle thillln**. How some people ictfer in the winter ! They are constantly ha /ing chills ; a feeling of cold water trickling down tne back or some local stagnation of blood, with other nervous sensations, is experienced ; the hand*, feet, noee, or ears are especially likely to give inconvenience. Such indi- viduals cannot get warm even in bed, and as a coneequene*,oft*n suffer from insomnia for sleepleesnees is often caused by cold feet. Many such conditions arise from the fetrot taking outdoor exercise, because the weather le too cold. Hence the circulation is not kept going, and the blood, vitiated by the cloee, impure air of the house, has no chance offered it of being allowed to purify itself. The foulest river or stream of water is rendered par* by exposure to the air a* it comas along, and after a run of a tew mile* bee sens*, fit for consumption . Why, .hen, will delicate people deny the stream of life an opportunity to purify it- self a* it come* through their vtins Here is the secret of how to keep warm in winlor outdoor exereias in pore air. Many in* dividual* mistake the feeling of cold for "catarrh." But feeling cold and "taking a cold" are different things. A shiver from exposure to cold indeed, a half- frown condition is not in itself likely to end in a so-called "cold." so loug as tbe exposure has been In th* open air ; but we hold that by breathing the impure air of badly ventilated rooms a chill may be very easily contracted that will end in a "cold. In cold weather we distinctly recommend the ordinary healthy man or woman to try th* effect of outdoor exercise, especially when the feeling is strong that it is too cold to go oat of doors. Exercise under such circumstances will usually act as a tonic to the whole frame and brace up the nervous system, tbe special function of which is to regulate the beat of the body. The ekin should b* freely exposed to the air before dressing in the morning, and after the morning washing or cold or tepid bath, rub tbe body into a glow with a coarse towel, and you will be nearly cold and water roof. A TYPICAL CHINESE CITY. irr,u frees flvs le Mime Feel Wlete <se Cart-lane Beetle .mU e Carriages Searly Everjhesly Walks. To imagine a Chinese city you must try to fancy both city and country walled in ogelher ; denw city and irreen field* and frovee side by side witrin * long, gray bat- tle menced wall. Von must fancy the encios- ore dissected by canals a* wall as streets, uid the streetemust be pictured as only from five to cine feet wide, says a writer in Harper 1 " Weekly. As there are no carriage roads, there are no carriages. Tbe rich rids in Sedan chain, high bov your head, on pole* laid on the thonlders of coolies. The ordinary foik ride on wheelbarrows, if at all, and nearly everybody walks. Ihs travel out- side the cities is by boat, therefore there is nearly always a good-sized city at each point when a waterway joins the moat that surrounds the wait Tbe jam, the awful crush, at one of these gat* citiee (if it i* hesnde a large city) it beyond de- scription. Boats an there as thick as cut tree* on a logging stream. Junks, fiats, chop- boats, express-boats, kickaway boats, sampans, and flower-boats all lie in a seemingly endless huddle, with ju a narrow, shifting thread of a paeaage through the mas*. The shouting, the clatter, the dim of yelling, distract atten- tion from the delicate steering your men must do to work their way through the mass. In th* thick of ths flotilla an seen FLOATING HOUSES A5D SHOPS, whereon men, women, and children an at work, or an sleeping or eating. There an floating shops for the sale of fieri and baskets and vegetable*, rice, nuta every thing. Then an the fajrons flower- boats, all gilt and satin behind their carved exteriors with their showing of painted and powdered girls and divans and drink and pipes. The population is like that 0| an ant-hill, or the hold of an emigrant steamer. Over the top* of the boats on on* mii are seen the Jity wall, and i:s edging o< grass) dotted with huts of mud and bam- boo, and with grave* that roughen the surface like tbe mounds of prairie-dogs. ! ! On the other side are the shops oi the outer ! city, all open to the waterway, at the top* I of stone stairways, givun over to crawls >f ' men, esuing.drmkinic tea, shopping, selling, | buying, idl'ng, or rushing about. If YOU enter such a city by a waterway through an arched gat* in the wall you see many piesaure-crskft, called "piay-pidgin boats," of glass and lacquer and gilt work, and wherever then i* stone bridge will be seen a street of the dend walls of dwel.ings that show no windows or no long rows of shops. These shops are either wholly open, or disclose a little fanciful railing ending with a carved lion's heaxi, to separate the public from the shopkeepers. | The shopping streets are best worth a visit. I Every shop tun its signs hung across the I street or perpendicularly before it. The : number of shops for the sale of seals, made of wood or wiiite metal, brass or jade**tone, surprise* a stranger. The impreasof a seal is i M important there a* a written signature i* hen. The number of tea-shops, wh ion ccrres- ; poodto our her rooms. is.Uso prodigious, but tbsy show nothing but tables and chain ! and barber* at work while the --ustomxrs drink. Th* display of vegetable* is gaudy, and th* cooking ot cakes almost PmrCMS ENTIRE CITIIS. In th* stores for th* sale of silks or cloth- ing or cotton goods one sees tht stock on bnt in most shops very little Hood's Cured After Others Failed ftcrofula In the Neck-Bunch** Cone Now. ftangervtlle. MalD*. C. t Hood * Co.. Lowell. Mass.: vientlemen -I feel that I cannot ssyenong*) In favor of Hood' t SanaparUla. Tor five veers I hare bcn troubled with scrofula la ay nees) led tnroM. Several kinds of medicine* whlefe I tried did not da many good, and when I menced to take Hood's flarsapanlla there wer* large bunches on my neck so fora that I could Hood's^ Cures sot bear tne allfbttst toccn. When I had one bottle of this medicine, the tone, and before I nod finishes' tbe I bunches bad entirely disappeared." Arwooo. Saafrrrtlle. Maine. M.B. U you decide to take Hood's 8arsepe- rtlla du not be Induced to boy any other. Hood's WW cure constipation by resbs* ca ~c peristaltic icuun of tnes'imeuUrr < A CALAMITY AVEBTED. An Accident at St. Hary's with Al- most Fatal Results. AN IRON-LIKE STOMACH. lelpsle at** In* w n.i le f the Tear In MraslBi. Lsipeic has a sensation jus' now in ths person of Strazini, who has kept th* medi- c*l profession in a state of excitement ever since he made his appearance there. Stra- zini astonishes his audiences by first eating a soup which consists of sawdust, plenti- fully mixed with coal oil. The meee is set afire, and after the dames have been extin- guished Strazini eats the peculiar mixture ladling it oat with a spoon, write* a Leipsic correspondent. Hs follows tbis op by biting piece after piece from the lamp chimney, .-rushing the | glass between his teeth and wallowing it- He washes it down with a liule water. For deeert he munches pieces of hard coal, peat, washing soap, tallow candle*, pieces of plaster cast and bricks, boots, clay pipes, and seems to enjoy tbe conglomeration All hi* is eat en at one meal and in quiok succession. A little water is the only bev- erage in which he indulges during the meal. Strazini asserts that b* doe* not feel the slightest discomfort from th* unusual diet, ana he certainly looks it. When he has finished hie dinner of ceramics he pours down two caps of coal oil, throws his head back, and holds a lighted match to his mouth. There le a deep, porting sound, and a flam* S seet long leaps from his month. After eating, Strazini give* an exhibition of dancing a* wonderful as what ha* gone before. He does it with bare feet in a box filled with debris and shreds of champagne bottle*, lamp shades, wine glasses, etc. Into this he dives with his feet, jumps about in all directions, and ecde by burying his head in the broken glass. Th* strange pert of it is that be comes oat without a scratch. His cuticle seems to b* as impervious to such an onslaught as his stomach is to saw- dost and brick and burning coal oil. Medi- cal men from Dear and far have interviewed this curious phenomenon, but are unable to give an explanation of his wonderful per- form ano**. Chart** W. Mowbray, the English anar- chist, wa* indicted by the grand jury in PbaktiHlynii for making a seditious speech. The tlrilm Trreel for wee I he nrlic Whlrfc Time he w terrcel le> Ml In s> Chair ! t'aae Finally Pwiv/emeeel Hopeless stow ! Krtierailesi waa Rreevbl t IIIIHI. (From tne i-t. Mary't Aryan.) How ditisrent an the feelings that take possession of on* as they read the particu- lars ot some great nil way or steamship disaster where scons of lives with whom w have no acquaintance have been loet, and reading the particttlars of tbe runaway of a rpan of hnrses art armed to a carriage from which one of our acquaintance* has Deen thrown and k'iied. In tne former case, although the lost of life has been great, you say " Isn't it terrible ?"' but in a tew 'lays the affair has probably passed from mind, while in the latter instance months after you could recount tne nun r- eet part.cu.ars of the runaway. And so it is when we read the particular* ot curs* really remarkable, but because we an not interested in the person restored the facts an soon forgotten. But when a case can be submitted right st home, with which a large number of our readers are familiar, it will, we are sun, be of special interest and carry conviction . Our readers will nrcember that over two yean ago while Mr. Gideon Elliott, James stnet, St. Mary's, was teaming ashes he was thrown from a ioad *nd received such on- And th* wont goods are al- I fared great pain in his back. Kor long tint either because they ! months he lived night and day in a chair, not able to do the slightest thing to help himself. And with no prospect of help be- fon him hs began to feel that life wa* a burden and he had no desire to live. Two physicians attended him, bnt after exhaust- ing their powers Mr. Elliott wae told that "ifhe had anything he wanted settled he had batter attend to it at once," the last doctor telling him he could not be cured. To an Argus representative Mr. Elliott gave the above facts and said that attar having suf- fered a great deal of psun, and notwithstand- ing he was told hs wa* incurable, he deter- mined to try Pink Pill treatment, and purchased a dozen boxes of the reno jvned Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Inside uf three weeks he began to feel the effects of the pills and now most emphati- cally declare* that they have mad* him as well a* he is to-day. When he started taking them be wa* not able to help himself in any way, but daring the past fall he took up the potatoes in hi* garden, and can DOW do all the chores around his house . This is a wonderful change in a man who spent months in a chair unable to help himself or even to lie down and who was told by phy- sicians that Die case wa* hopeless, and it is another trophy added to the many victories of IT Williams' Pink Pills ovsr disease. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all tbe elements necessary to give new life and richnes* to the bloo*', and reston suettered for us* at prayers in the) nerves. They an an unfailing specific tor temples All the shop* display braziers ; such diseases ae locomotor ataxia, partial kept supplied with live charcoal for the paralysis, St. Vitas' danos, sciatica, Mural- use of smokers, who light wisps of paper at I g, a, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe; palpitation of the heart, nervous prostration, all diseases depending upon vitiated humor* in tbe blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They an also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppr use ions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness, They build up the blood, and restore tbe glow of health to paje and sallow cheeks, lu men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever natun. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills an manufactvr ed by the l>r. Williams' Medicine Company, Brockvill*. (.rat., and Schenectaly, N. Y , and are sold only in boxes bearing their trade mark and wrapper printed in red ink, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for *'J.50 t and may be bad of all druggists, or direct, by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Com- pany from either addr are a* are attractive. ' shelvee, bnt in moet shops very little 1* ' seven injuries to his spins that he displayed. Customer* must ask for what i able to walk or lie down in bed. He they want ways shown bring ths greater profit or bacauee it is de- sired to get rid of them. One needs great patience to get at what a merchant has to sell. Sometimes he ehowe his best stock only after many viaita to bis shop. Th* jewelry stores are splendid repositories oi beautiful things, but ths best, one I c*w in China displayed nothing but a counter and a few score boxes. Then are almoet a* many places for selling ornaments for woman's hair as there an seal-shops. Th* fac-shopj and th* lantern shops ' strange to the eye a* they ' In th* shops ths merchants generally keep themselves in tbe background, beside an ink-slab and brush or a cup of steaming tea. The clerks do the work, as you see when you notice the long curled- up ringer nailscf the master and tbe heavy jade-stone ring upon his right thumb. Th'is men cripple their right hands to give proof that they do not need to work. It i* fan to loiter in a drug-store tc watch the making up of prescriptions, for they are apt to call for dead beetles, dried enakee, toads stntched on frames, syee of insects, and everything that on be suggested by the ignorance of the moet backward pro- fession in China. Yankee clocks and lamps are sold in many shops, and en is kerosene oil. Coffins axs the basis of a tremendous trade, and then are plenty of sbope given up to tbe ale of red candles and tinsel - paper money for us* at prayers ths coals. These braziers are of a thousand shape* and sizes, and where one is missing there le sure to be a coil of smoking punk. The furniture shop* are irresistible to strangers, until they discover that the wood in us* is teak, and weighs like lead. The beds are like the four posters of our grand- mothers, with the si le* nearly all enclosed and carved, and backed by silk. Lor K eat SaJe In Canada DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND UkMKT SALE IH CANADA. FOR TWWTY HVB TEAM Emperor Willises has ordered from the Germania shipyard a tventy-rat* racing vacbt for the coming **,