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 vw^Q^in^^vH '^u-C^'f^^!'-^, 'mmmm jjUTSHELL. ne oft South V^ remedy, "'I pursuit. R„ ' "ty a; a °"' '^Paia, liver jj "npuritie,of|1 .gjtBCT AEAOXNG. " thing -A cj -;. W'Jl give rJ lanser of fafij ° 7"te poetryl ^•Jttoth.irso' "do.red by me^ Slcod BitterJ Pelas, saljry e blood. CarJ Jilionsness, cod plaints head] *;ea,{nt63 and, in time, (icj er of Lynn haJ i'^i just mJ e aie uov/ adv] it Cut" 1 saw as savaJ "giuntout" lor nervousnei • They don'l ay. The takj 'iood Bitters! Whitwc ic lias moret 3ti; :r, November I red for the liA Complaint arJ -1 kin^ the VeJ care for a ij My friends a began usiagt d effect from three bottles I ntinued tiJiia ul3' say I am] '0 given it to J access. Sinci have recomir c all beengred pectfullr, I HITH. '4S.fJ 'est Avenue. J )w dealer insj in business iif ight in ). Ont.. June| ston, Mass.: uaded by a t for Kidiuyj roubledforiof n it afairtria id to such a work with i rived of foroj inenofTorof .)e!c.= s. I isf h^ve ever or. Anypeq same terriDlj olrr Vegett estifyjtliat 1 ne on record able to won living for t.hrough •! its weiplit i ly give VegI benefit thitl ectfuHv, „r ucdijine, 35 Adclaiii^ J]Jr MissonnM T)n and 'glJ Idress K-m XANI _, pomMtlc and War l/r'^^y and Pointed. .^licrman I'as 'la'l papers P^ false arrest with mab- rne is said to have ex- l"".)- tbistf' in of ottice should Hf' 'her y^^^' ""trrestcJ f^r bigamy for mar- m""" ., Hamilton, served a feras.AunieDelma^e. 'formerly of Toledo but re _° committed suicide by cnt- ^i^itharazor. School of Medicine and Snr- " Victoria University, is •^ te order of the Archbishop. ' ^Y J White, police mastia- J Thomas, slipped ou a piece of Ijavil.v. breaking his leg. n named Frank Overy, who '^Ilbv -S, Cunard Co.. of iS^ ' â- ^^"' """y '^^^ °^ iiepartment at Montreal has iitrthaffis, tobacco manufacturer I ;L' costs, for omitting to put Psaropoua package of cigar- Jo a i-'^stomer. fSlTED STATES. abite'iicnt i the srrallpox at Lea, one ot the pi neers in rail- .â- ,,i'n lu America, is dead. ehnniirt-d t.'iousand bushels of -jj^iiig tlK'openin? of navigation tMleaeral Josxpli J5ai-ncs, late Laraluttlie atniy, is dead. • Artliurandtli'j Secretary of the iiive ;^or.e to Florida. .â- ;:ion:stsgiin ground in Ecuador, •rii'jally being established in â- â- â- ;-,[ raft hands uot drunk at t:j Ky created a riot, defeated k' poj;e and deiiiolished the Vork, Barnum' elephant Pilot, Jiiiiibo, was shot. His killing ^;::ary for the safety of the pub- ;v, N. v., cespatch says John A. r.;e an ' two daughters were burned lahfiLise three miles from Hart- KoCuunty. iTi.iler. son of an ex-Assembly- .ef County, M-aa arranged at aargelwith uttering forged ;:.' Mo., a colored man and bis ;.. church, locking the children k. The building was burned and inJJren perished. Isach of promise suit of Herman |i.Mst Miss .McLean for $10,000 I'etsbcid testified had it not ::j attendance the plaintiff would ate o: an insane asylum. i;E.vf;i;At.. |:veswcre lost by the exolosion |:-wiltr depot at I'aiso, Corroso, [.•.â- fmenta will be sent to join [jatiieCjcgj by the f3elgian Gov- iias Ijcni destroyed at Iquique, â- â- â- â- i- ix'a'at a two million pounds Htrajtintr tJovernnients have sign- ttvaty between Germany Imager of the Xational Theatre, l-cve3lha: he has'proof that the (^â- â- esJiiry. P5f;-5:an barnuc I'oseidor, Balti- F'-ojahjem, 'ur^vay, is aground at I^Jw.il probably become a total "Jts nave broken out between the '^Ms and Jamaicans employed on P^ Waal, and twenty of the latter K-red. ^3 of Prof. Palmer, who, with iiODs, were murdered by Bedouins [oier, were interred in St. Paul's ' wndon, ^Caief of Police at St. Peters- Kfler persons who contributed to t-f merabers oj:' the crews of the aud Pog3rs have been decorated f-sr, l^perUl Badget for 1883 has been lie revenue of the past year I 'ae estimate by £4,000,000, ripen.liture was £88,000,000, leav- Pf'« "' revenue over expenditure of ^^'t Seem Possible. i^'^f Detroit who had been to Lan- iption. lUfc »^ tfarket- ^foroes" Baj |.|. '^23 returning the other day T"mer, going East with his "ie next seat back and opened CS\'"" ^^^^^^ almost into the ue happened to mention some- ' tarope which the farmer deuht- .f^ebeen there and know." ^0" bmto Yurup?" ^^?°g-aa,^ and France " «ti, â- cme and seen the ruins ia Paris " /*» ^ftied ♦; -^' • ' s-id the old map '^^ytefoi i**darrt^'"P andrides with US f"li«BL;k:"°^!=^e let's on a word! iHi t\^] ""t go no farther than ^thoKn "'g^* ttiey eot home '"""«tot! ^^" "P ^^ 2 o'clock in wii about pavements and pic- l**lloorV?,P^"a houses, and rtreet N lot bra Wall, wall jSting over it " which g6« to^^tWthfrt*^' Wi!» are not past Th«^ .***y °* câ„¢W^ A )^,^^rTr. ^^f 'tow m brief ♦k?7. »re not past. Tha .».. -.~-j" "t cniTairy A barenet i?We Jf*£^. "» brief is ^., Eogland had C l^t^^ coanti«.|« w^ somewhat disl^'lS^' ^â- ""^^ with a cook. Who i-r«»LJ?®.*®V"» »«»â-¼â€¢ evidence of S^SLiV.SS" Sr«*' man made known to 1iI.*!*ki.-"^T*'"»8 nant. and d^,,f^ \. '** "**»«" was indi«. son buWoJ tt^tLif T°?i4 «ii»i»beri?S» him. The yJuJ^S' t"« ««««aed m married the ^rLT^\ c^°*«^«^. "ecretly toDubuTW^'^^^S^S the pair wen? birth to a dan J^tpJ w*^* ^°°^ «»'« affair to i Snf J^ Wuhmg the whole to Kingsto^^'Sd^'dlJ* *??^f« " of clothincr «»r P'**" " With It a snpply menton fhe dS„r'"/«°"' "^^ » '^^^ The KbII »„ aoorstep of a worthy woman. from a SaTd'i^^ "" ^^' motherVaS SrthehonJe*^rhen^ '^^"^^ " En;?land, wWe fh/.'^r°i^- ^^^ ^«°* *° for twelve yS^* SLv r^ " qaiet way whprA tL„ -J T y *^®° ^^^ to Rome hiSnet^UT^^^"' 1877. when the old however li!I;^- ^â- =' ^.^"' ' ' »«». dete^^^:, T *P""'^°y " ^°"8- He:employed aetectives to hunt up the child that had th« .h-5 • ^°'""'^^- The failure to^ find health of the parents that they both died nearly at the same hour. As it was not known whether the young baronet left an heir the disposal of the estate was left to the executors. In the event of hU Isavine no heir, the estate would belong to the younger broihcT of the deceased, who \* as a colonel in the British army. He, learning froTti servants that there was a child whosi whereabouts were unknown, resolved to had her if possible. He employed experts who reported that the chdd was dead and produced a certificate of her burial that the eiecutors believed to be genuine and con- clusive. The colonel, however, was not satisfied. Getting a clew from his father's diary, ho had the anarch continued. It re- sulted in tracing Ihe girl from the time she was left on the doorstep to a public work- house, to a foster-mother in ttie country, and to a house near Dublin, where she was employed as a servant. The gallant colonel obtained leave of abtenoe, procured proofs of his niece's identity, paid all the expenses, brought her to England, and put her in possession of her title and estates. Declining an offer of half the property which his niece urged him to take, he quietly returned to his regiment. The knights of old went about with the avowed purpose of rescuing damsels who were unjustly deprived of their rights and liberties, and in this pursuit tbey performed some heroic acts. Nowhere in the annals of chivalry, however, is there record of a man in armor hunting up at great expense and trouble a child that had been abandoned in the street, and had served a period in the workhouse, in order that she might enjoy a princely fortune that but for her would be- long to him. It is a proud thing to sit in the British house of lords, and a property that yields $70,000 per year is a very com- forting possession to enjoy, to say the least of it. A man who will voluntarily deprive himself of them is a hero. It may be said that cases of this kind are rare in any country. As long as aoe occurs in one een- eration and in a single country in the world, we should not despair of human nature. Persons who believe in total depravity, and are convinced that the world of iiumanity grows bad as it grows old, would d j well to keep this story to fall back on when they get discouraged. ^Wtn' ^^^""^°'^^*^ "?^ ^^ Bin to Causes of Fire. It is now known that when the air in a confined room becomes densely filled with any fine dust of an organic nature, there is danger of an explosion if a flame is intro- duced. Scientists declare that when any combustible substance, such as sugar, grain or wood is ground to a powder or flour fine enough to float in the air, the rapidity with which it may burn is greatly increased. Their expression is that the rate of combus- tion is inversely proportioned to the cube of the size of the parcels. This signifies an incOEceivable rapidity of burning which is so rapid that the gases formed cannot es- cape fast enough by rdinary vents in a room, but they may drive out the windows, or even tear strong walls to pieces in their escape. In this manner the famous Wash- bum Mills in Minneapolis were destroyed in 1878. One of the processes used m these mills consisted in separating eourse from fine flour and driving the fine through a flume into a chamber where it was held m sus- pension in the air until it settled and could be gathered. When an accidenti.1 fire oc- curred, and the flames reached this room, full of flour dust, there was a most disastrous explosion. i. Finely powdered wood dust had to a great extent the same inflammable quahty that flour dust has in mills, and a number of fires in wood-working shops have been traced to the ignition of such dust on the roof or roof timbers and walls. T here is an especial accumulation of such dust on the roofs near the room where the shavings are drawn from the wood-working machmes and used in firing. The blast used carnes a large quantity of the dust through the ventilating shaft and scatters it over the surrounding buUdings, where it is ljaW« J" take fire from the sUghtest spark. The Pennsylvania road, in their Altoona shops, have obviated this by roofing the top of their shaving room by a series ot porns can- ttrbags whfch. whill allowing the a^from the blSst to pass away gradually, V^J^^^ the wood dust from following. This sys tern is said to hive given the best results.â€" Winnipeg Commercial. smokAT oammaifck- KUIB.! WifeiwhohasbeenBittingnpfordelinqaent, who Mters with an umbrella over bis head) ""Srl^ crazy? Have you been gomg )oat the arlight i Â¥Su1ht^^?le^ou^d^S!ink'f was intoxi- cated if 1 didn't. Wife-If yon didnt what? •Tiled" One-T-Dan no.â€" Xii/e. Wigjn. inT^ Wower .than old Barea*. Ungtatifahw^ hood. ' -• :i3Ki«ua â- ; is the Teiy pdi^3«H»f 1 ,„i,„^^w»ghly occnfi«l man was ever h^^^J* "'^PP^*' *°d can bend, but •""J*^ » fiâ„¢ *«1 -Pright and yieWi not, TK I!.^ ^* y**'" '^*' ortnm yonr ohftriiv. divL?"^*' " human. th« Utter is Put this restriction on your pleasures: Be guuoua that they in jure to being which has He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the perform- ance of it. Devote each day to the object then in time, and every evening will find something A bad temper always manages to act on the theory that two wrongs will somehow make it all right. When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. The way to avoid the imputation of im- pudence is, not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. Whatever busies the mind without cor- rupting it has at least this use, that it res- cues the day from idleness and he that is never idle will not often be vicious. Friendship real and true is that which suf- fers even death for its friend that no hardship, or trial, or adversity can shake oft" using plain and outspoken admoni- tions and warnings in prosperity, and kind and gentle advice and assistance iu adver- sity. .fmi:iwffisi^»is Croup. Is inflammation of the wind-pipe, which causes it to be contracted, making breath- ing difficult, aud sometimes impossible. Croup is the result of cold, though there is generally an hereditarv disposition to it. It comes on with au increased frequency in breathing in the evening the next morn- ing the child is better, and at night worse again, and on the third or fourth night, or sooner, it is regular croup. The c(.ild is restless, breathes hard, wheezes, and has a dry cough. If proper remedies are applied the first or even the second night, but few children will die of croup. Give two teaspoonsful of Epsom salts and put the child to bed then apply mustard draughts, or " mustard leaves " to its feet. Wring out a flannel cloth in hot water, and wrap it around the neck as warm as it can be borne, protecting the bed with dry cloths. If the breathing is not easier, and the skin not getting moist m 3 or 4 hours, mix half a teaspoonful each of powdered alum and ipecac in half a glass of tepid water and give it. If it does not vomit in ten minutes lepeatthe dose with a teacup of warm wa- ter every five minutes until there is free vomiting. If the bowels are constipated use a " Nelaton Suppository for Children " every 3 hours, until there is a free pass- age. If this treatment is applied early, it will seldom fail. If, however, the disease is well established before treatment is com- menced, and the above plan of treatment should fail to afford relief in i2 hours, then give ten grains of calomel, mixed with one drachm of saltpetre, called nitrate of pot- ash divided into twelve powders and give one every two hour^. Recapitulation. â€" When a child under seven years or age presents symptoms of croup, give two teaspoonsful of Epsom salts, put it to bed and apply mustard draughts and cloths wrung out in hot water around the neck. If no decided improvement in three or four hours, give an emetic of half a tea- spoonful each of alum and ipecac in half a glass of tepid water, repeating every ten minutes if necessary, until free vomiting is produced. Every mother should keep on hand for such an emergency a bottle of syrup of ipecac, and give two teaspoonsful every ten minutes till free vomiting is induced. This treatment, with good nursing, at the com- mencement of an attack of croup, will ge- nerally be sufficient to effect a cure. Dur- ing convalescence the little patient should have good nourishment. â€" Hall's Journal of Health. Encourasing a Young BEan. A young man, 22 years old, had, by strict economy, laid by a couple of thousand dol- lars. Feeling that he needed advise as to how to invest it, he called at the office of a capitalist, and philanthropist, and stated his case. " You have done well â€" exceedingly we.l, replied the philanthropist, "you should in- vest tliat money in a suburban lot, and profitby the rise." " I've thought of that but where can I find a lot?" " Oh that's easy enough m fact, 1 have several lots myself in the market, and I will give you a bargain." ^i. The map was consulted, but when the young man saw the location of the lots, which had a soap 'factory on one side and a tannery on the other, with a ravine at the back of both, he thought $2,000 too great a a tittfe giri. RWH^fecrnirti) sIm haalheen abaid of death. rSracy fibre of Iter body "IWt let medM.^'i3M^^ ^^£?tlH me die. HM me lu*. Oh. I «an*t gow" "Jouy." I sMd. "y«« have tw« iStk bro th e rs in the other world, and tbsresite thon aa tds of tapdcr-hearted people over there who inll kve yoa and take care yon." Bat she cried oat a){un despaiiui^T, "don't let me. go; thfy ar^ strtn^rs over there." She was a little country girl,stronj limbed, fleet A foot, tanned indie face; she was raised m the frontier; fte fields were her home. In vain we tried to reooneila her to the death that was inevitable. "Hold me fast," she cned, "don't let me go." But even as she was Reading her littie hands relaxed their clinging hold from my waist and lifted themselves eagerly iJoft; lifted themselves with snch straining effort that they lifted the wasted little body from its reclining position among the pillows. Her face was tomcd upward; but it was her eyM that told the story. They were filled with the litrht of Divine recognition. They saw something plainly that we could not see; and they grew brighter and bright- er, and her little hand qnivered in eagerness to go where strange portals had opened upon her astonished vision. Bat even in that supreme moment she did net forget to leave a word of comfort for those who would have gladly died in her place: "Mamma," she was saying, "mamma, they are not strangers. I'm not afraid." And every instant the light burned more gloriously in her blue eyes until at last it seemed as if her soul leaped forth upon its radiant waves, and in that moment her trembling form relapsed among its pillows and Ehe was gone. â€" Chicago Woman's World. Ihs Language of Umbrellas. 'One of the "funny writers" oF the day has said that there is a language of umbrel- las as well as flowers. For instance, place your umbrella in a rack,and it will indicate that it is about to change owners. To open it quickly in the street means that some- body's eye is going to be put out; to shut it, that a hat or two is going to be knocked off. An umbrella carried over a woman, the man getting nothing but the drippings of the rain, signifies courtship; when the man has the umbrella and the woman the drippings, it indicates marriage. To punch your umbrella into a person, and then open it, means I dislike you. To swing your um- brella over your head signifies I am making a nuisance of myself. To trail your um- brella along the footpath means that the man behind you is thirsting for your blood. To carry it at at right angles under your arm signifies that an eye is to be lost by the man who follows you. To put a cotton umbrella at the side of a nice silk one signifie t exchange is no robbery. To purchase an umbrella means I am not smart but honest. To lend an umbrella indicates lamafooL To return an umbrella might mean so.'nething if anybody ever did it. To turn an umbrella in a gust of w nd presages profanity. To can y your umbrella in a case signifies that it is a shabby one. To carry an open umbrella just high enough to tear out men's eyes and knock olfmen's hats signifies I am a woman. To press an umbrella on your friend saying, "Oh, do take it; I would much rather you would than not," signifies telling a fib. To give a friend half of your umbrella means that both of you will gjt wet. To carry it from home in the morning means it will clear off. t**-*" To Core a Cold. A bad cold, like measles or mumps, or other similar ailments, will run its course about ten days, in spite of what may be done for it, unless remedial means are em- ployed within forty-eight hours of its in- ception. Many a useful life may be spared to be increasingly ustful, by cutting a cold short off, in the following safe and simple manner. On the first day of taking a cold, there is a very unpleasant sensation of chilli- ness. The moment you observe this, go to your room and itay there; keep it at such a temperature as will entirely prevent this chilly feeling, even if it requires a hundred degrees of Fahrenheit. In addition, put your feet in water, half leg deep, as hot as you can bear it, adding hotter water from time to time for ,a quarter of an hour, so that the water shall be hotter when you take your feet out than when you put them in; then dry them thoroughly, and put on warm thick woolen stockings, even if it be summer, for summer colds are the most dangerous; and for twenty-fours eat not an atom of food; but drink as largely as you desire of any kind of warm teas, and at the end of that time, if not sooner, the cold will be effectually broken, without any mtdiciue whatever. Efficient as the above means are, not one in a thousand will attend to them, led on as men are by the hope that a cold will pass o£f of itself; nevertheless this article will now and then pass under the eye of a wise man, who dees not choose to ran the double risk of taking physic and dying too. price. But pbilan the title," protested the throphistâ€" " the tiUe is without There is where you gain." "How?" "Why, when yotf come^to' efte six mofttbs from now to mortgage that lot for $1,200 it wouldn'tftake tis ©vfcr half ankour to corn- nlete the whole business. As a philanthro- mst I'd advise yoa to mvest M 8Jid repl ietalib; " As a capitalist' I'm always wiUing t3 take a mwtgage where the tide is per- fctly dear." This is what we call characterâ€" a reserved force which acts directly by presence and without means. InuikenBess In Oemiany. Germany has long been held up as a model for moderate drinkers, and wine and lager beer offered as substitutes for rum and whiskey, and antidotes for intemperance. Bat the serpent has begun to bite there as well as elsewhere. The Nation published a, Berlin letter upon the alarming increase of intemperance and the use of alcoholic drinks in place of, or addit'on to the use of beer. Belgium lias since 1S61, more than doubled the use of alcohol, aud in the industrial counties has a dram-shop for every seven per- sons. In Germany the dram-shops increftsed in two years 12.261â€" about 10 per cent. The l^'RfiSKK4^£i9t?nuu^«:inius late addrftsjito hiBri^Sament,~called attention to the serious increase of crimes and misdemeanors com- mitted by men in a state of dronkenness, and f arli^ment has soqght, to limit the mvsafter fd licensed drawshopt. It is appacent that wiaend beer are no prevent- ives of dronkenness. Bathw they awake ind stimulate the appetite for stronger drinkiw~,,"i...,-. .,':.â-  ' .:,' :i .â-  J â- ^ â-  â-  "' ' "' /fV-V T ' 'â-  " "l â- ' !Fke strawberry- vtendiDP u anexpert malae- bra, benose he deals in unknown qnantLues â€" tiislis t^eahe si^yea a quart atttmw- berriaa yoa don't kvow aajvdng fike the evaet qaiatity yon have mi ybor haoadi. â- oa«fagrsKtaodholri«ysheald be toadugo thaM«*aa4 enohU tt» life. Surely to be traly happy should make one noro tender to the sorrowfaL Iheie is a gi a alili P aftfi iiii tflofsntd withdraw lii|i|i. sdvea from other iatereats, to make the parents^, and brothers, tnd ttstws, who have tovod a idt hw life fed tbaV- they are no hwgw necessary tohcr; thHt her heart if gone frqm tiieas, while her form is in their miist Bat it woold be a nobler love, and one that would promise more future happi- ness, that would only hold the old ties more dearly because of this new one, dearer than them all which woold be Mdaloos to spare the home cirde any slight, any sense of Iocs bsyond the inevitable one of parted p: esence. Love is the best gift of God, but it should be crowned with honorâ€" a sovereign who exalts his subjects, not a tyrant who de- bsses them. A nc^le-minded girl who will be careful in no least thing to hurt or slight the home of hearts she is leaviog, she will show that she could afford to wait a little even for her happiness, rather than grasp it with unseemly eagerness. Stsp-Kothers. How many books do we still take up in which the plot turns on the cruel machina- tions of a step-mother, and surely writers ought to be wiser now. They make the very name hateful it seems to ring with unkind- ness and injustice, and far be it for us to saythat the prototyps is nowhere to be found. Cold-heartedness and oppression towaids the children of one who has preced- ed her iu heart and home are no doubt at times to be met with, but canuot many households tell another ta'.eâ€" a tale of love aud gentleness, and mutual affection and peace And cannot, too, some homes tell a third story, where the sufTerer is the one who is looked on as an interloper? Are there not cases where a man, whose hearth has been early desolated, and who is left with little ones whom he cannot look after, with a heart still yearning for afTcction, brings home sonie warm-hearted girl ready to pour out no stinted measure of love on the moth- erless ones and what d; he and she find on settling down to their daily life That foolish relatives or ignorant servants have already poisoned the baby minds against their second mother, and that all her efforts to win their affection and trust.are blighted by the unholy influence that has been wielded. An/! when other little children come, too often, instead of being w elcomed with brotherly or sisterly love, they are greeted with feelings of bitterness and jealousy. Nor is this only so where the children, naturally perhaps, have a feeling that they may be deprived by a stranger ot part of their birthright. Cases there are where hundteds have been added to the in- come by such a marriageâ€" hundreds not even settled on the women who brought them to a oomparitively poor household and yet she was set aside us a " nobody,' treated with cold insult by step-children, and undefended by her bus /and. We might tell of sick beds watched with all a mother's devotion, with dying hours soothed with alia mother's faithful self -forgetf ulness of the young spirit sinking to the grave, clinging with fond affection to tlie representative of that real parent whom it was soon to gie?t in the spirit land; and we turn with just anger from pictures laid before ua as false as they are ill-judged. Into how many house- holds must the second mother be brought, or they could never hold together V How many families must consi.st ot the children of the one lather but of two mothers and is it well that young ininda should be pre- judiced against a state of things iii so many cases a necessity ' But in the novel or the tale a youthful heio or heroine is the more interesting the more he or she suffers under the domestic roof, ana that suffering is sup- posed to be most easily wrought by tfie "stepmother." Let us hope that a truer view will be taken of this relationship; that the vulgar feeling with regard to it (a feel- ing showing itself so plainly in some locali- ties thas the name of step-mother is given to the most painful thing on the finger some- times called a hang-nail), may ere long pass away from atr.ongsc us and that, as at last the long despised " old maid" is meeting with justice and kindly judgment, the same may be meted with no stinting hand to the often long.suffering and inuch-slandered "step-mother." A Strong Love-Letter. Here is a love-letter endorsed as authen- tic by the Gainsville, (Ga.) Eayle :â€" "Dear- est Amelia â€" My love is stronger than patent butter or the kick of a young cow. Sensa- tions of joy go through me like cohorts of ants threugh an army cracker and caper over my heart like young goats on a stable roof. I feel as though 1 could 1 ft myself by the boot straps to the height of a church steeple, or like an old stage horse in a green pasture. As the lean pup hankers after sweet milk, so do I hanker after your pres- ence. And as the gosling swimmeth in the mud puddle, so do I swim in a sea of delight- fulness when you are near me. My heart flops up and down like a chum dasher, and my eyes stand open like cellar doors in a country town, and if my love is not recip- rocated I will pine away and die like a poisoned bed-bug, and you can cume and catch a cold on my grave." Reappearance of the Star of Bethlehem. The reappearance of the star of Bethlehem is predicted by astronomers for this year or the next. On Nov. 1 1th, 1572, Tycho de Brahe discovered a star in Cassiopeia which equalled Sirius, and even Venus, in bright- ness for a month, and then fell back into its former insignificance. Conjecture has sought to establish a connection between this ephemeral phenomena and two similar apparitions in 1624 and 945. A not un- natural inference was that the same increase in volume of this remarkable star occurred before 94i5, which would bring us to about 630 and 310, and to tiiedate of the Nativity. This star is now again doe. "Every doud has a silver lining," it is said; Imt the oohwed clergyman who hands around the hat at a camp-meeting does not believe the saying as worthy of ^1 acceptatien. J- â-  --n â- j?r.oit-*\v â- fjjt nu^- ^:.- f^ 'â-  ' ir ^f\ \ti ii^i 1M ^fiO:-- ^-^ •oVj* it:t .a •'£/!. .e'^48^^-^^#^-:^:^ A a^ dttiGw jjO"il