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 STEAJttBOA.TS IN VEaTICE. AHcdem lonoTation. The little steamboats that now ply on the Gr ind canal are the first thingB.toarrebt the tra- veller's attention when he vieits Venic?. Tiik BIOSS2:i.S POS SUNDAY C0NTK3aPi.A.- TION. IV al at Venice has always be«ar »go3d man whoso ultimate Jiff- unuj'Je and fascinating, itr.; indeed, thought the fascination M-. »Iien, iM.eadcf Bj^alingjp â€"' now some Rusk the ci*^io-a g)nd«|»acie(M thi^o^en Bgo^r he wMi4ri\-eikby stecni; and Oocld only aW i the nrtte landscape of «5)roa^ as .the efc|;. gine sBilWteued its ru6hi%- on fUg '^^°Hi Bat c4^onpl«ce peopH^l4oun4ijB.g*pa d^^ to sasJfWi ti£^ather-^f ^^'l?^ JHdII nes3 o^the Aatrast, aTwe steppe* out » the railway carriage into a boat to be rowed down the r.ntroddfn streets of the island city, perhaps entfenced the chann and 8trengtiien*id the iuifaression. Lord Jieacons- tield wai certainly right in sing'ing cut the strange quiet of the canals as tnepitrticn.ar qualit°y which made Venice unlike »U oth-r places. But these "vaporetti di \eii(za have chaiiged tlid aspect oi.tliinaa. TlicV have two coursesâ€" one from th3 railway station to the {.ublic gardens, thcotiier troin the ilialto to the I'laztttaj and they run every tea or Ijfteen minutes, calling^ at seVe.al intermediate ttations. Forthe hrst day or two they were not popular, and their enemies even bagan to hope with some couti- dence that they would die a natural death but the Venetians were seduced by the con- venience of them, and niw the boats are always well filled. So far. then, they must he adiritted to have justified their existence, but it is a pity that they do not bear then- success m..ie quietly. The ciptains seem to delight in turning on tbe s'.cam-whistle as if thevwere children playing with a iiew toy, and the whis ties themselves are ccrUinly miracles of shrillness. Mr. lluskin diversi- tied the pages of one of the earlier chapters of " Fors CI .vigera" by keeping count of the number of whistles that proceeded from a steamer about to sUrt for the Lido and ha c'junted seven duricg the writing of one page, pair, Notbing grf at was ever achieved without enthosiasin. You may depend upon old to lie-" ilulgent fault com- NSome of tj/em v.hen he £avc up his wilting in uca- But if he were to revisit his old quar- ters on the Grand canal nov.' !.c v.xuld pro- bably liud.it impossible to write l t eU._ The ttcaincrs vihistlc in the improved fashicn on arriving at and deparlir.g rom each st ,tion they whisMc as they approach the ferries, tl " • "â-  come m )re me mitted that I have not comtnitted myself. â€" v Goethe. Said cycieal.Tnrgallairt DiderDt r 'W(5mea tv.-allow at one mouthful the lie that flat- ters, and drink drpp by droptke truth that i, litter." ' ' • " There are many men who a^peat to-be struggling agilnst poverty, ana yet are liap- PV biit y*t niw^.iyho, altboogh abQund- ing in weiith, r^ huaferable. " .- 'j 5* C.iOTSe for your friend him that a wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things whicti haA e a latitude, use your own liberty. Though a so'.uier in time of peace i-s like a ehiniiiey in summer, j'et wliat wise man would pluc'c aown his chlxmey be- cause iii:! aliiiiiiao t8 Is him 'tis the middle of June Men of g-eat parts are ofcefi tiiifcTTrrhate in the management of public business, because they^'iirE api t^ ff) out pi tlrti cani- mon road ivy ^;h8 qtrckri*;fs of thefr iiiAgiiia-' tion. As in a man's life, so in his i^tudies, I thiak it is Uie most beautiiuL and humane thing in ti;e woill so to luiugie gravity witti pleasure that the one may not sink into melancliuly, nor the other rise up into wau- toimcis. â€" Fliny. .^ Equality ij one of the mcaij cpn-somv^it^^' scoundrela that ever crept ifbul tlie" ]3r«iji of a political juggler â€" a fellow vv'So thrusts „„... V,. ^... ^uld hit heavily against the uipdiiiiinill'i light and fall stunned to the ' -au«l*M'Ot!B' fell into tne faces of the inen aaa ;»«»« kBoek«d «kwi -wiefe -»*»««â-  •^• canes. In all, several hundred were secured Tt(irty-six -(j-ere^und parts of tjie'lcabm tlili Bucks Seated By An Eectrto Ugtt. As the steamer Emma C. Elliott was com- ing up the river last night the cabm pasaen- gers and the crew were startled by a einsru- lar whistling sound ia the air all aDO'i*^p|^*» '" ^:^^o one could account for the """ â- ^d the ifcore they tried the more nnao able ili.#ep:ed Capt. Pes al Went ' " lachine and turned on the lower. lu a m was flooded that the noise colony of wild Tne bli isintr in ight at was litera' Ttonght Himself A Woman. v knelt It his tSKo sue for h .s -of thcoM A Huga nolo. Tbe largest well in theworlij dug_ in Wilmington, Califomi'a," ty-live feet in diameter, and is v" the bottom ifl^jnuch wider \\' *fQr,Btoe thitt,1 a port near by. There is work. Th^ that the wl ied, Ad ^hfihii; le" :ey whistle ac often as they happen to sec a boat ahead, and tiiey whistle at other times in caic there in'glit be a boat ihea.l. Altogetlier they have imported a very noisy element into the lif.- ot the canal and one need not be cursed witli a peculiarly sen- sitive ner\ous organization to teel how un- pleasant the change i It can no longer bo oaid, as it was said in " C ntarni Fleming," that in Venice "no rude sound diiitracts the ear" or.that " to ili'di there is nothing to put f.-.: TtiraBiiuiR Floors. It was in tlie nortii of China tha: «-e iir.^t ;a\v the tiirasliing-iloor of ti-.e i".a.-.t aad of the Bilb. When we v.-ere trav-d'ii .; to scmo out-stat;onsin Manchuria, the i-,:-.d mnded on both Kid.33 by rudlets fields *:! ;.igantic milh.t, there would coiv^e a fanner's house and a farm-yarJ, or a small iiaml.t, and on tlie skii-t of it, the trodden spot of ground hard end snicoth as stone, l^ut it v.-as not till some v.ceks later, as we were journeyini: slowly up to Pebiii, and the harvest was now gathered, that we saw it in use. The cTaiu was laid on the floor, and a pair of \en were driven leisurely over the cars, a:ul treading out the corn. Another form of thrashing was the stone roller, which wa? drawn over the ears by cxea or mules and there was another still, \\hcre a flat board, furnislied with some piojectioni, was drawn over the eais by cxcn er mules; and tliero was anclher sti'l' where a flat board, fur- iiisliod with some projoc ions, was drawn ia he same way, th? driver or children ])er- haps sitting on the board to lend it additi(.'i;al weight. Sjmetinies the ^rain was piled up in a large heap in the centre of tiie oor, untiitjd and then the men with the winnowing shovel tthe Bible fan) would toas the gr.nn into the air, or els2 into a fl.t basket, from wldch the man who held itflurg up tlie cjrn, and tbe wind carrying tho chali' away ililcd the air v, i:h du.-^t. One FiMe pl^â- a^c aft.-r anotlcr v.-r;a recalled tons. It w.-scavyto tec how the Fh;litlii: .s could .1) th." thrajiji;ig-iloor3 at Keilah, these in the liold on which t!-.cab;enc3 his hand into the pocket of indiutry and enterprising talcat; and squanders their hard- eirnel profits on profligate idlenes and in- dolci.t stupidity. Kvcry mind seems capable of entertaining a certain quantity of happiness, which no i'.istitutioas can iacrcaiC, no circumstanoei alter, and entirely independent of fortune Let any man compare his presfnt fortune with tlie past, and he will probably fiud h mself, updii tha whole, neitlier better nor wors3 than formerly. It is well known that a black object on a v. hiie ground v.'ill appear to be much larger tliari it really i.'s. A white stripe, for instance, on a black surface seems broader than a black Etripo cu a v.'hitc surface, although b'.th be otthe same width. This phenoaie op'.-n ^p â-  CCS 01 CUV rain in'luced tl'.e farmers to the be pile up their wealtli of grain; or how .•pen Ik'or, open to tl:c tky and. smooth, tam^ the natural pha.'c to test the dew upon Clideons flec:c whi'o all the icit tf tho "roan i wa^ drv or irw, when tlie two Uiii"-- '-hal) of i-raei and Jcl.o inphat of .luLUih, i:.:m;n" 'cd the proph et, th p-aec to the smoot'.i and sot the royal t nones was on empty thrashing floor juit alc.vc the Samaria or linw no bettor plajc t;i, com i he found on which to ,, .;.r i:-cd l);iild the that David raised when he had purch Ihe site of the temple from Araunah the ilebusite, and found in tho thrashing in- struments â€" tl;c wooden fans.-.iul beards and oxen polesâ€" the wood for ili.; s.icrifleo. It would be easy tor the o.xen to stop in the midst of the ab. ndan:e they we; e treading cut and cat the merciful .Jewi.sh law pro- vided that they should cat if they would there should be no muz/.ling o. their. "thou shalt not muzzle the ox whm Le trciulvtii out the corn."â€" GocJ Words. Tbe Transit of Vcaus. Tids event, which is to take place ia De- cember next, is attractins' unusual attentioa to our neighboring planet, which 13 now so evening sky. 6 coaspicuous an object in the Venus is nearly as largo as the earth, and, like cur planet, tiaveis a'.ound the sun con- tinudly, but makes its a. mual revolution in seven and a half of our months. Each of its four seasons, therefore, lasts eight week;. Venus is so near th; sun that if it is iuhab- ited it must be by beings that can stand a continuous heat double that of this eerlh. Venus is surrounded with an at nosphere filled with moisture, and must be much more cloudy that is the sky of this earth. It undoubtedly has continents, islands, oceaiB, and rivers. It must have some forms of of life, for where there is heat and moisture thee must be some vegetable growth, and, in all proba'KTIty, some of the fower forms of insect life. The cwming transit is an interesting event, and astrono- laars everywhere are getting ready to witness it from every point of view possible on this earth. canes. In all, ,.„ ,. d concealed p oiliiirefct parts of tJie'lcaWn tliis moraimiji when tie ^i boat came into the wharf at St. Louis, Utli- â- ers-wcrefdaaa abodt tffe bdHefS-aiurin tHe engine-room, and a great number were killed by the whe Is. The diijcks were mostly in the water when the boaffr.r.au into the im- mense flock, and Wfa^: the electiic^^I^t was tttfied on tl^n -they 8««meil to -grow crazy wHh fear, they rose ia feteat droyfis and whiri^arpund in tshe^ir before dashffig themselves against the Jamp..-|rii|j ii»-n dfo. the Elliott gay that never'on, Vt iTvef liavc there been so many ducks wid»^j»?« as »" prescat. Kvery slough and cr^k between hereijni Cairo had leveral hundsed duol^ floating oh it" this morning. The total catch on the Eiiioft viili ariiount to; several huii- .dr. d. A great many of the ducks killed fell back iuto the water and were lost. Kciitai|cifc44^#^i*5ii4*^.^|- It is notewoithy as a curious ye" ea.si.y (Ixplicable fcict tliat few persons take cold fV'iio are not either Eelf-coii£c;ous!y careful or fearful of the consequences of exposure. If the attention Ije wholly diverted from the i 'existence of dduger I .y some supreme coiiceu- t ation cf thou:nt, a'«, ;or example, when escaping from a house on lire, or plunging into cold water to save lite, the effects oi "chill" arc seldom expeiien3:d. T^is al.one shou'd so-veto stiggest ;that tlifi joflasflco exerted by colds fulls on the ner\-ou3 sys- tem. The immediate etfects o a displace- ment of blood from the surface and i;3 de- tvrm!3at;o-Vto the irst rnal o-gacs .i-o cot-, as was 0I.C3 sujiposed, s-lficient to pruducj the sort of congestion that i-sues in inflani- mation. If it w'ere so,an inQainmatory ci ndi- ticn would.be tke^common characteristic of our bodity state. XVhcn the vacular s-yi- tem is.healthy, and that part of the nervous apparaus by which the cahbre of the ves- sels is controlled pcrf irttis its "properfurc- tions normal y, any disturbance of equili- brium in the circula'Oi-y system which may have been produeol by external cold will be therefore on the non of -simultaaccus contrast is physiolog- ically explained by I'ater Schcriflcr in this way: U hen cne of our senses r- ceives a dcuble Lensation, one of which is active end strong while the other is vreik, it will be found that the latter is not felt. This must be particularly the case when both impres- sions ere of t:'.e came kind, or when a strong eliect from the cbjact on one of the senses i.s followed by another of the same kind which is milder and weaker. and working sliari' ;isi7ors t^ the asylum. Althou^ nearly by making lac eeventy very 1 ' vears of age when he died, to the ofi|ftt|Dn. efitafi.lhe worJcj â-  fiieanJitoJioHerc â- Construct a ;( the word is properly ute 1. Scholarâ€" " The baby excavates I gets hurt." ' ' font," ^â- ;^entci,cj| Never .charge anv. ' -Tie Great City. ' London has a larger P='P'^l^fl°l^^^^;f a Enrope-n. State '^*^»^*7?^urare^ ParUa^t. At the census of 1S|) the area cf metropolitan Jax-ation a^d P^^^f f ^*f„ ed 4 :gt.%r2 person?. Thus ther* ^c^ va London more than dou !« t^^^ "°°^fnd people in Denmark, iadudng Greened nearly three t mes. as mmy as in l^f^e-^ ' more than eighteen times the populatioa ot Mo.tenegi-o; some thousands more than Portugal, including tb^ Azores OtdMadeixa, nearly treble the population of Serna more than double that or Bulgaria j three-quar- ters of a million more than Holland, more than Sweden or Norway or Switzer- land. tl« pacific sini^hicli hecoife.sjjj;:* meeting for, though h"e Le prone •' Send Mo a "Taleplieme." We shall ask a dispensation, says an ex- change, to jeanit' us to. intoodacfi new word mlo the language. It is " telepheme. The use of sach phrgsfS as " telephonic com- munication," "telephonic m'sssage,' news by telephone," and the like, seems a little clum- sy, and a tingle word xpressiug their mean- ing has become a desideradum. ^\'e submit "telepheme" as a word properly made from the Greek, and a vocable which will con- veniently serve our hurrying speech.^ Its formation is analogous to " telegram, " the termination ia both cases representing the result of the verb's action. Thus "to tele graph" is to writs from a distance, and a ••telegram " is that v/rittcn from a di-stance. Xh2 u-w v.ord '.e'-c-phcmo' is siniilrly made. Recently, inqiLries appeared in oar corre- spondence columns as to whether a trioycle cculd be lighted by electricity. We now learn that the impro â-  ements in the storage of tle;tric energy and electro-motors has so far advanced tha' tiicyclea can not only Le ligiited but propelled polely by electricity, as was seen f cm the tricycle ridden last week by Prof. Ayrtcn in the city. The Fatire aecunnilat ors, in which the energy was stored for the lighting and driving, v.ere j l.'.cod on the fooE-board of the tficy- cle, and the motion was produced by one of I'roTi-. Ayrtou and Perry's newly pat nted electro-motors placed under the seat of the ridir. Using one cf these specially made tricycle electio motors and the newett type of tne Fame accumulator, the total dead weight to be added to a tiicycle to light and propel it c eetrically is 1^ hundred-v.x'ight- a litilj more than that oi one additional per- son, lu the tricycle ridden by Prof. Ayrton the ordinary foot-treadles were entirely ab- sent, so thai: thc.-e coidd be no question as to e cet.icity leiag the solo propelling ageacy, but with ordinary electric tiicyclcs it may be desirable to leave the tread ha, so that w hile electric pr."pulsion alone is used level thcrider ca;i, ongoing u i a steep on Ih hill, .suppl'.meut it by using the tread.les in s'.cad ot, as at present with tlie ordinary non elect; i-^j tueycles. having to get ou; i-.:' oniiidoutly push the tiieycla up tli^ \.\ â- â- ^â- la Iri:;!. â€" Londcn Electrician. and Lid Coalla China. Tile g.olo.ieal investigations made bj- Ba- ron von ilichchofen in Cniaa show the exis- tence tf vast ccal distiictsin the west and northwes:. Tae whole surface cf norbuern China is tovcrel by rich yellow earth, to a deptli of l.OCO and •2,000 feet, which ov. r- Irs all the coal fields and the great plaia of China is bordered on the wc«t by a vast litn-.stone wall, 2,000 to 3,000 feet 1 igh, on th;top ot v.hich extends a plateau cf coal in a superior state of preservatioo, owing to its cpping of hard limestone, which has re- sisted denndaion. There are here 30,000 Eq -.are miles of coil-bearing groanj cf the beii qualitj' in which tlie coal beds lie p r- fett'y hcrizontil, thirty feat thick, for a length of 200 miles. Ace. rding to he bait au- thority, the e coal te s wcrs dep^ited pri- marily around mountains of mttiniorphic and pimary rocks, which thon constituted the land, and have lain horizo; t dly and un- disturbed ever since. Ac -ordiag to A rchi'.ald Forbes, Sir Garnet Wolscley possesses "audacity, ekn, buoy- ancj-. debonnair aplomb, a strain of well- timed recklessness, alert dexterity, finesse, nimble aappleaeass, and warmth of heart," resulting from his Celtic blood likewise steadfast constancy, doggedpes ^^inst in- trigue, calm maal-ness, linjSaraleTled equani- mity, cool, steady^ ranoc-r against en mies, and unfaltering fidelity in friendships," re- sulting fnHSdhx^Abldod Xo%ohdejhe|o^ai) manywpn^ds; he miut ha-ac been aa anl cotnmbniy'protnb^rint object to aim at. quick'y adjusted, It is tlieretorc on state o:" tlie nervous .system that everthing dep nd;, andittis, aa w^ ha%c said, o:i tlie nervous systeai-tlie Bteesa:'f a "clifli" falls. Consciousness is oHi; eJemea^^ thO produc- tion of a cold, ahdf .when "th^ii*- "'â- 'anting, the phenome.ioa is not verjr'Bfee^ to ensue. It is in this way, thit persors who do net cultivate the fear of cold-catching are not as a rule subject to this infliction. This is one reason why the habit of wrapping up tends, to creat, a morbid susceptibility. The mind by its feaf-b^etting precaution keeps the nervous system on the ahrt for impressicais oi cold, and the oentres-Sre, so tp siy, panic-stricken, when even a sH^t sensatron occurs. C Id applied to the surface, even in the form of a gentle current of air sonewhat lower in temperature than the ^kin, will produce the "feieling" of*"chiil." Oonversely,- a thooght will often eite rise to ihe "feel- ing" cf cold applied to the surface â€" for ex- anipb, cf "cold water running down the back." Many cf the sensations of cold or heat which aro exrperienced by the hyper- sensitive have no external caas3. Tney are pjrely idc»t;oaaJ.. in- their, mode of oiigiuatio'J, and i'ieal' in '^act,â€" l-onrfan Lancet. The Word " Wife" Mr Pwuskin says: â€" "What d'l you think the beautiful word 'wife' comes fioin? It is thegrcat word in which the English and Latin languages con- quered the French and Greek. I hope the French will some day get a word for it instead of tiiat oifemmr. But what do you think it eotnes froai The great value of ihe Saxrn woi ds is that they mean something. Wife means 'weaver.' You mutt either be house- wives or house moths, remember that. In the deep sense, you must either weave men's f jitares and embroider theoi, or feed upon and biiag them to decay. Wherever a true wife comes, home is always aroimd her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worm ia the night's cold grass may be the fire at her feet, but home is where she is, and for a noble wonoan it stretches far around her, bitter than bouses ceiled with cedar, or painted with vermillion â€" shedding its quiet lig t for those who also are homeless. « 'i his, I be ieve, is the womaai's true place and power." Fresch Jenlonsy of lEssland. The French press cannot keep its temper when wr-ting ofthe English successjn Egypt. Th re is great fun in the irony with wtiich they critize Sir Garnet Wolse:ey's military tactics and the reward of S^250,000, and they ask whether any French Gen i at was ever rewarded in a s'mlarmi^ner. The example of Montauban. is givei^ for whom tfiff. Emp-;ror tried in vain to obtain a .dotation after the Chinese expedi ion, but who could not even obtiin a pension Jrom the Cham- beis. The General was forcad to Content himself with tlie handsome share of loot awafrded him by fortune and the heavenly smile with which the beautiful young Empress of China saluted hjia as he met her flying thorough tha narrow. posEagee of the Summer Palace insuch wjM haite that^ho was forced to diop the ciskeb' whica con- t lined the splendid jewels, and cvhich be «ame the property tf the torqucror, but which he would have willingly restored had she not fled with such speed. A ;-iarro;f EsiaiJ'ij for Koyalty. Lord Charles Bercsford, finding after the bombardment tf Alexandria tliat one of the "Condor's" shells had goneright through the roof of Fort Marabout, and thinking that it hid not been charged, thagallant command- er thrust a lighted candle into the fuse hole. Lord Charles then determined to present the shell to the Princo of Wales, and gent it to the Nordenfeldt works to Lc e.it in two. Water was pouied over it and w. .: stirred in with a copper rod('bnt fJie Elidl'liad put up with a good deal and felt that it must really draw the line at be ng stirred with a copper rod. So it exploded, and the stirrer was ;.er- ionsly, if i,ot fatally injured. IIio Ferecan £^se. Pyrcthrum rose, the insecticide iJiant, is pcrfectly^hardy in this climats, anU may be raised as easily £S tha coneflowtr or may- weed. The value of the powder made from the flower as an insecticide can hai'dly be es- ti I ated, since it is sure death to many of our ntoiS d struciive pests, and yet utterly 1 arnil.83 to humatiheings and tlulargcr ani- mals. prone â-  A very oM lady on her death-bed in peni tcntuil mood, said " I have teen a Kieal great sinner «»£8ttiai eighty jeaw,. iad, didn't know it. An old ' ciolored woman who bad lived with her a long time, exclchned. Laws, I knon ed it all the time " â-  ' 4 lIic London Truth says " Wherecs thco Roman woman and the women ofthe middle ases spent perhaps more money on t' eir adoruw cat than modern ladies, they did so more judiciously, for they puroliascct what was iutrin-icj.aUy valuable and which could be h.auded dcwii from generation to genera- tion." A Scotchman who has lately writtea a volume .f "American Xotcs ' concerning Ids travels herp, -fayacf the OQUection taken up in a Ciiicago chuicli, that "ifallcjenuine, it mist have anionnteJ to mbny dollars." â-  'i'his is the unkiudest cut ever yet published on Cnicigo, and mnst rejoioe the St. Lo lia- ims mightily. The Scotch estimate cf the magnitude ef a dollar is also txc^uisite. A telegraphic experiment of .t. singular de- fcription was lately tried at the Trccadero, Paris. It couiistcvi msrelyin the reading cf large silvered zIdc letters, a square metre in size, fixed on a blackened board, by re- fracting telescopes. This method has suc- ceeded very well from the Troca ero to the Pantheon, a distanc- cf about three niiLs. Tne inventor, an oiHeer in the French ser- vice, thinks that he wi'l succeed in reading messages at a distance cf sixty mdc3 in fav- orable circtunstaaces. One ev"ning at my father's residence, re- lates Mrp. Kemble in hir " ll-cords," the comparative cheapness cf living kb.oad and in England having been discu5sed, hydney Smith declared that, for hii par he had never found foreig i quarters t-o much more rciasonable tlian home ones, rr foit ii»n hotels lessexorbitaat in their charge?. "Ikcow I could never live under fifty pounds a week," faid he. "Oh, bat how do you live?" was the next question, "Why, as a Canoft should live,' prouJlyrettorted he^ '» and they charged me as an enemy's orai- uaine " "If I were a girl," said a we l-known New England clergyman recently, "I would'nt parade too much in pu' lie places.' He mentioned a^iumbflr of other thinrs that he would not d6. fie would not thmk too much about /ircss, or about parties, or about fashionable ecciety. But in regard to the folly of parading in pubU^ places he was particularly emphatic. A good raary girls acquire the habit of parading the streets boxorethey compreherd how objectionable it 18. 1 neir motive at first is simply amuse- meut; afterwatds thsy like thus to dniw upon themselves the notice of others But notice so attracted is seldom respectful, and the very young man who wUl look admir- iQgiy at the girls he meets under such cir^ cumstiucss will probably rejoice in hia own heart that his sister is not among themr Thereis too much pf this ,aort o^ tbing in ma yofon^nnaUettown and villaS and we are glad that the pri^tice -has bX^pui; h^lvdeaouuced from, the puJpit.-.Ve«7 Vork u... the sparks are to fly upuara for liSS^he nc^t moruing. If the comet should colliile witi,.! says dn amateur astronomer ofthe Tl Gazette, "its coma would .â-  e aubsiiiJ a lull stop." Exact y as its tail v, broken off fcr a period.â€" X ' Con^ lieer: Presicely. And at that point- dash us all into eternity. --iif^ro,' The proposals to build a tidal cai Liverpool to Manchester have coui^J point cf practical adoption, aa,] course of two or three years siiJ-L America will be moored by the raiUjCf Chester. One eSTect this will have saving the cost of transhirincnt pool, and that is, it will enable a co- Ecl, for instmca, to sail straight irjj Orleans to Manchester, without iX transportat'on oa this continent s New York will lo^e coni.lcr.qbleo;;" tic she now has. SivGCLAU Incident at \\%.i,t,, rather singular circumstance has rj at a wedding at the parish cliuroL Yarmouth. The wcdd ng ring was Avhen wanted, and a share i for it iruitles?. .laventually the bri(le::ro-: duced another for the completion 1 ceremony, aod the bride was in ti.;| fitting it upon her riuger, when which had been purchased for tlis ' was discovered concealed within i;;"J tute, where it had accidentally ssttleil bridcu'rooni's pocket. Ax I.VTELLIOEZCT CuU.lK.-O^i irj. of the mail train about five o'cioeic a;| rcEs tiijB Village L-tter-bags are tat the station to the P^J.'^t Ollji'c b;! har(' ome collie. The rlog ^zik leaches the staiioa aboitt tivc mi:-J foro'tlie train rtrfives, aa.l wd-.entheul thrown from the van, tal;est!:cni mouth and sets o!T without del them. Few wculd dare to obstrcctj h's duty, and his daily moveine::, much interest to the railway travti. ^â- i.â- ^itors, while the residents a;c •â-  their cffieial. A CcRIOi".S LlBIlAKV. â€" A Cli:\;.'.:i tion cf books is contaiu'^il in ili- h. Warsteustcin, near Cassil, in Gi. Thc.=e books appear at first sigld tu of wood, but each volume is really a history of the tree it reprcscnl.s. Tti] shows the barl ' i which a si: all ji;.tj to write the ientific and liie name as a title. One side shows tiuukinits natural state, aud tbe poli.'^hed and varnished, inside a; the leaves, fruit, fibre, and insec; p; to wrhichisaddcd a full d-i3ciip;ij:; tree and its products. I-Jir.n Faluti.v. â€" Er3;;!!ij '«:. connngioto eoujt one d y, that M four, a brother barrister, liavl h:.=:,^nV:i up with a silk haodkcrohitf. " W!.: matter, Ealfour ' he ii:m:inil. I:| fertr, v, iiosc mode of exj-re.-^sii.gi.ia.'-.: always very clabcrat.-;, rcplii-'u- taliing a romantic r.ini!jle- in my I.' grcuiius, when, lomin:; to a gate, 1 climb over it, by wiucli leiiuc-i.'., with the first bar, and graznl the ipii:^ mylcg, whicliliasca-asedasliglitextrt of blood." "You may thank youM stars," tbscrvi'l K -ki-io, '•Vni; brother's gate -w as not ;; lo;ty a* y;: oryoti must have broken your neck. c/o.'t Society. Another painting has been iliiccvci Pompeii. The Judgment cf Sc'lorr.:;j story it tells, and unusual inteifst to it since it is the tir^t pictr.n; cas^ subject ever found in the buriod citi* picture is live and a half feet longM teen inches in height, l.iordere 1 I'V ' line about an incli in widt.:. Tnc; lail upon a teiracc in irorit ft 2 AIove is a white a'.vningLii 1 eretjaM wiiile seated upcn a dais is tlie );:-â- â€¢ in white, bearing a tcoptre. tl'i ti:^-| of him are six soldiers -uiilir arirJ king leans forward to\vard a -.wpi-aD ' green robe, with I air di-'dicvc led ail- ing with out-stretched liands befs'l Upon a thcc-logged stool a stri;:;^ fant is cocliaed in a recumbent p^5" female wearing a turban. A scdJu met and plume holds in one laud thf"l infant v hile with the other Le raa«| chion tl cut thi little fonn group of spectators nineteen iu 'â-  w»^\ plete the blood- Curdling picture. Tti ing is Eaid to hz bad but the colorini;?' in an excellent state of preservatioa-J painting has been placed iu the Museum among the Pompeiian fres The Peogeess cf TEMrEr.A'c^ temperance movement, initiated fi'^J ago, has, at leas'-, arrayed the clergy. ^j intemperance. Fifty years ago a ^^ cleric, especial y iu the couutry was by no means rare. To-uay scandal is almost unknown. '^^ class of artisans are more s. her tt 1 were, and there are signs that I Manning, "General" Booth, auU t^J Ribbon Army are beginning to r* 1 masses, whose intemperance " " remained untouched. On the '""'ji we nrast notfor.et the dai-k '^^^°\I more cheering picture which is Pf ^3 the indisputable increase in "â- '"^l amon^ women. It will be but ^,\rl to t^ ojiuse~4J temperance to g*?^â„¢ nomatUr how influential, and *° J On the whole, 'the chief claim tb^T made for the temperance movenieBt^|l has E own msbh valuable eeed, ba' ' ' vest haa gtiU to be garnered. J « CDDS ANP ENDS. ^c that last.^The love oi r en Englishman, ha? j-a: wife will be talf-aud-l .good swimmer the rnoi B kept shut. Women ' Imniers. Lularmarri.%ge" i^ the tnh in one of the daihcs. fa gimethat two played (exceptional truthfulncs.' edns his advertisement «ble services to all who C as to require them. Iprcnch speak in the nor,;^ the throat, and the Liign " Either of which ir. n u speaking through the te fer watch has boencshil watchmaker. The pap I such a manner that th L ae serviceable as thcsj i irr. H and Serge ant arm in-arm, a wag sar. 1 two are just equal to on r'Wh.V" was the re.-po 1 is a Uwver ai-d a ik â- ri/our life-" leais from tiie annual re til nal acquirements of the n Beers and men in the_: I twenty years ago o5, i-ead nor wiito, tli.i;^ av [that ignorant conditien. rsation turning one day ppper beeches, a ladv reii td m her f-chool days I ind tangle "trees when F'Oh, but I can never rei; Inies of things 1" Ideclares that his wife i £^om n he ever knew. " tly exclaimed, " fhe bn brk quilts during the la^l ^bemhorself, sir, c t of t cted iu her shoppiag t.- I) Jjng a few drops of di-at imixture of equal par:a ' |lled water, and then's li: pace .of lime or lead w ill L hrgcipitate. T^e la^nr ir Jbtfydiie acifl, mi..:i Ite black. lisville negro, after steali 'iekeiis one night, t.o;k morning, and sold th-:n igate. --You see," he I didn't want to deprive )ickens, you know. 1" m " Lwer animals ni-fe easily i P by the 'vapors of n:tpb I used for a long tiiii;; a noths, both, in museum; tions cf b.ctlca, aal in eccp.tly it has beep usi Jie itch, and iu g2'j'ralit Inds of vcrinil and ir.sec pmcr. Iwerc talking about r;'.; the tabic of their 1; Ire already .11 a-.vai: to his own un.a^i'led e x;:_r of llossiai?' akedl ' Pasiiouatolv," rep'.ii. iLi 1 ' P.ai Ik-.- ' "No, 1 patronized the man- |rthe last forty years." many gendera are tl blmapter. " Thro?, sir ^ttle blue eyo.-^â€" "masc neuter." " Give me a aid tiie master. " N\ \e, because you aro ' ma 1 because I am a girl." ' 1 don't kiiov.-," p: ktl reckon Mr.Jenkin; kid bachelor." the time when it wa: ^riou3 warrior wliofc r.; da has endured mort llaccs which date from The attack made upc fcently was the last ot i ints of a similar natur 'celebrated in history, (the minor sieg s from â-  1 consequences tesu ted al. A Tonsil Bear Stor sday evening George ' |rou!?h the woods to field, N. B., was attac â-ºr. ELaving no other parafiine oil, ho stn te tho bottle of oil ov. rA sprung on him am him, when George ha: Ito light a match and s Btt-vnt old Bruin wa? Eo of him, and in l°s= ' I all consumed but t Georee then comi • in his hat to quent Enout, Bo as to get tl Pors had never be "ore fentures with bears, hii aed to doubt the accu at when they remcmi cently rotle home w J R live bear, a ja Id, thfty will .=ee then ^sed ai in' this his 1 :» r t..^. MNG A PyRAJ«ID â€" Ti [Egypt, wtiose baw cres, and which rises required 100,000 i build it' while a DBumption of only j [coal, would hive lift i B p'ace. iBtolen a cot," eait "andlwani't you t Du can prove me inno [yes. We can prove ijoining township len, and that the pre much will you chai t sort of a coat is it rate never been Vi I wont charge me the coat." ion, oostiveness, Bdiately cured wit' It Btunolates and g It increail'es the Itomach, ai^l cans ^- â- â€¢"â- â- V U -â- "â-  1 V; r:?;t4i 1 'v^aSi^J*' j-i-'vJ'Ci-