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 "tf^^^^'^^S^^ eyes J*^«it. ^S IN A NT3TSHELL ^irrES- SEUICT RSASXib. nade new k and are Worn by ,»*t«it, :d ^»ery and p"""" ne, feef ' ^^w d nordri^e'V"'^^^. f ForeiSD" Domestic i,„ri,p. Pithy, and Polatcd. DOMESTIC. r " I ecil Colonization Cj#ipaai^ ^^ "(effitt, sr., druggist of ^^ctoiia, J, a^ the advanced age pf eighty^ jjlr E. Hackett, M.P., for Prin(^ yjro'ADfcJ rtcintly. while bath- l.ictric li^'ht ha? been used on the f [,„jr ;inpro,-einents for the first woman earned Stevenson, hailing „',ltun, ^as nysteriously disappear- 5lontreal, nual meeting cf the shareholders of jitioril Young Ladies College was ^liit city recently. n Cote, of Ottawa, was found ly. J the inii'.dle of the road ou Coa- [^treet, recently, -al shows nearly double the surplus vat city on this continent or in eit Toronto, of births over Baptijt church youfl cintJ â- "entioa of „ „ ;^e church fo^ I' has been comniitted for trial o: shooting Benson Sills with ,itr at Th'.irlov/ township, Lj^^ni"ti o: Hamilton have held a l.j;:.iorga;i'/.eu 1 a'ur.ion. with rules of to tiicse of the Toronto ^re Fram. es, 3 KenerailT *T?°" ollars. •^• pamphlet, Dresden o ;?,'"' prize Adelaide-8t Ea Cheap, London. 11 fhcni KairwaV."ckoil ^. J'HXLEYS;*^ leac^sSept. 1st. sts department. Prep, and Lniversities, ad 's for teachers' ceni urpassed facilities (7 â- ting Excellent supeM, :!3. Fees $14 a yw en t, address Principa " E. BKl A.\T. MA jiti'thaii, for i.Tiniinal assault at on a little girl nR.nied Gerrie, and Q Mrs. Geirie, was sentenced to one ;eLu::imou gaol. Biwio was r.rrcsted at h-g dwelling- 'ji;ie, as in acces.-^ory t'.i the murder [Jail MacdonalJ. There is strong ;!!at he aided his son. ase ot Maria McCibe, charged with -jder of her child, came up in court at ;:on reeeutly. The prisooer was com- â- cr trial. eator Johnson, who was responsible Soutn Kaitern railway accident, is old. He was on duty all a.m. had not been relieved. ;aii na.ned O'Leary, who had been tat Montreal on a cajnas for a debt by Ros3, was liberated by order of -jt, as he was more than 73 years old ;:nDt; man named Lafontaine, while i;kmg at Beloeil with two brothers, ilied in their presence by a boulder crashed liown from the mountainside. Joseph Hickson, accompanied by iiis :e -ecretary, Mr. Reed, tiaa gone east llontri-al to meet Sir Henry Tyler, ;eEt ot the G. T. R who visits Can- Mississauga Indians of the^. Credit iing up evidence in support of their 3 the possession and valuable tracts ia Toronto and the Hamilton and ad dijtricts. csme Elunie Columbia Mondelet has ;he Court at Montreal for a separation it husband and an interim alimentary BofslOO per month during her life- Essex Centre recer.tly Simon Cunning- w:ie, and child attempted ta cross the ii. The waggon was struck by the e.Cancingliam was killed and his wife iDJured. Demers, of the Quebec Canadian, ml Boiler Punjtr " cablei,'rams from his brother at â- , ititing that he and other Canadian ha 1 an interview with the Pope, eiveil the communion at bis hands. I an imported Frenc the figure; very sty ice, and approved Manutactured only b r CORSET CO. T. TORONTO. IPPTIES! 'L'XDliY FACLVG lES, FOUXDRY N'un Sts., Montreal.' ruiyE. -n Uilj lUp to tfcal enti in itampt oi worth 10 time* 60 to clear from 95 to aded to tnj oaa dli- 1 CO., AL, CANADA. LR|LYJEW; Frt.,erwag Corset. • nrpl aiTa^sementnt i wiiv sprinss^lii'^- liily to every move- ;lio wearer, the ruosS KCT IITTIXG fortaDlo corset ever iecured. â€" ^-^ â€" :D EY best PHYSICIAJI?- e bv leadins retau Hauuiactiired by 3RUSHBR0. Toronto. 'SYMAaSI.75« t is the only liiralien that wUl. ce of AbwW* the ^orld.oM ^^ILVKiDOBSEI^ iTATRTBI-tl leFrSTHoof lers aBd Colic cTTwiIte'to "•• • T 4(Il Avf.. â- â€¢ r-NITKJ .STATES. Doniiell, Carey's murderer, is an Ameri- Kzen, a native of Ohio. i Customs receipts at New York for itiow no reduction on account of the ariff. 338 been ascertained that hot winds in â-  Dadiy shrivelled the wheat in many "Mcf California. isecas been great rejoicing among the Tganizations of Syracuse, N. Y. over the â- i of Carey. Thirty-nine guns were 56 hundred and sixty cases of giant '^•; ignited by heat from the forest J'5w out every pane of glass in Yale, '^Y Ford, the murderer of Jesse James, ^1 arrested at Kansas City on an old ^snt for the Blue Cut train robbery. :3 stated that the Nova Scotia Bank of 'â- 'tcck ia heavily involved by the failure "'" Bros., Boston. The Bank of St. â- -'â- ^ is also a heavy loser. ',ig"eement has been reached between I -f ork Cigar Progressive Union and l^anufacturers, and the strikers have re- ^w:rk. [POise sent to cap'.ure the negroes who FH Wyatt in Hempstead county, ..'""^ght with them, killing three, ""g two, and capturing'ten. â-  Semig, Assistant Surgeon of the tates army, was found dead in a ' " San Francisco, with a bottle labelled '^y his aide. 'oat containing Pat Quinn, George F^^?«(lli;, and his sister, 14, capiia'-d r'lver at New York recently. Quinn â- â- ^6d and the others were drowned. j.^'=f-year-o!d son of Hon. E. Topliff, 'going home from school in Brookfield ^•^'P. Mich., was bitten on the bare rattlesnake, and died before morn- N f ed^Atf, a ^t. PetersburK ore^ sL. ";:rr4St^,4--- "' Ass mp-detnabha*ebeenre8ume«. " "f .The ^dest son of Jamea Bereufprd Hope. daJhU .n"° ""^^'l in L^don to a daughter of General Frost, of St. Louis. The Cologne Gazette places the number of lives lost at Isohia at 8,000. nfr^^^ ' 1*®*° introduced into the House a;2^?°^' ll centralize the hospital man- agement m the event of an outbreak of cholera m London. The widow of Lord Frederick Civendish. who was murdered in Ph.enix Park, Dabiin; will be married again hefure the terminatioA ot the present year. A Dublin despatch says some of the citi- zens again attempted to light bonfires in the streets as a token of their rejoicing over fered" ^^^^' ""' the police again inter- Parnell has submittEd to his colleagues lor their judgment the pressing invitation he received to visit America. His colleagues generally are of the opinion that he will be urgently needed in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone stated in the Commons that the Imperial Government were not pre- pared to make treaties for submitting iiuea.- tions of differences with other nations to in- ternational arbitration. In the Commons recently, ilr. Ashly, Colonial Under Secretary, stated that the papers relative to the indemnity for vio- lence done to the American fishermen at Fortane Bay were being prepared. Tbe Sbadow of a Hand. In the year 1846 the inhabitants of Dieppe were thrown into a state of the utmost consternation by a series of robberies and murders, evidently the work of one man. No trace of the perpetrator could be dis- covered, though one of his intended vic- tims, who had narrowly escaped, averred that he had only three fingers on one of his hands. The Government offered a large re- ward for his apprehension, and the police displayed the greatest activity. In the out- skirts of Dieppe there lived an elderly lady, of the name of Beaumaurice, alone with one servant, in a rather solitary house. She was the widow of an ofSoer, and noted for her strength of character and personal courage. The excitement prevailing in the town made no visible impression upon her, though the contrary might have been ex- pected from one in her lonely position. On the 30th of April, Madame Beaumaurice, who had been suffering all day from nervous headache, retired to her bed-chamber about ten o'clock i^ T^e evening. Feeling very tired, she sat vvn in an easy chair to take a little rest. Before her stood the dressing- table, draped with curtains reaching to the fioor. A lamp was burning behind her, on a little table. The lady had begun to undress herself when she saw something that stopped the beating of her heart. There appeared on the floor the shadow of a man's hand. The hand had only three fingers The position of affairs was clear enough the murderer was concealed under the dressing-table. The lady kept perfectly still and considered what was to be done. After a fevv moments re- flection, she went to the door and called her servant, and asked her, as soon as she made her appearance â€" " Marie doyou know where M. Bernard lives ' "Yes, madame." "I had quite forgotten that I have 500 francs to pay to-morrow morning. You had better go at once and get the money." "Very well, madame." "And lest he should hesi- tate about giving you the notes, I will give you a written order to take to him." The girl waited, and her mistress wrote â€" " Dear M. Bernard, tbe murderer of the Rue des Armes and the Rue Grenard is in my house. Come immediately, with two or three gen- darmes, and take him into custody. â€" Helene Beaumaurice." She gave the note to the servant maid and sent her away. Then she sat down again and waited. Yes, the lady sat a whole hour in the room, in the pres- ences of a notorious murderer who lay con- cealed under her dres=ing-table. There she sat â€" calm, cool, and resolute. The ehadov of the hand appeared from time time on the floorâ€" the only token of the dreadful pres- ence. When at length the gendarmes ar- rived, Jacques Reynauld was taken prisoner, after a desperate struggle, and shortly after- wards paid the penalty of his crimes under the axe of the guillotine. ^= 1^. Rojd, of Brooklyn, who had an "'°' i7."),000, was recently found dead °^ t-n Smith's Beach, L. I. It is al- teat ahb was enticed from home by her ,),".**â-  Crawford, whose wife was her OENEEAL. t'=aoIera has been declared epidemic in r'*|il persons have been arrested at â- Of plundering corpses. i'^-'^Peror William is still at Gastein, " aeriving much benefit from the n "'â- Eal, Belgium, the trial of Canon •me Real Worth of tlie Vacation. The superior man is the man who makes the best uses of his natural forces the in- ferior person is the one who uses up his vitality in the shortest space of time. This may be a slow way of approaching a great principle, but it is perhaps the most oure method of showiug the way to that conserva- tive and rational hving which has character- ized the wisest people and those who have used life to the best advantage. There w vast power in keeping an equilibrium of forces. The vacation is the time when na- ture repairs the waste tissues. It seems like idleness to be lolling around listlessly by the seashore or at the country farm or bv the mountain side, but it is just that seeming torpor of the faculties, on tbe part of the brain workers, which does most to re- cruit wasted energies, and is the best use to which the swiftly fleeting hours of vacation can be put. There is nothing like the ex- treme of rest to balance the extremes of strain to which bright persons are subjecUng themselves in daily life. It can only be met in all of us by such a return to nature that her thousand ministrations to the nunds and hearts of men may not be thwarted by our own indiscretion. The great thing is to maintain an equable life, to keep the nerves steady, to hold ourselves in check, and, U vacation can be used in snch a way that professional and business people and busy brain workers can find rest for themselves m 1 July and Angnst, the whole community gains by their renewal of the chief forces of bfe This is what a wisely-used vacation means for those who are now takmg it. It means a mind and body in ghod repair on the first day of Ssptember. *3» Vwsa tliatkas bwa MetMl Ont to TlMatiB.th»Autt. The fate of Bi^ey, who was murdered in ?oi?**[" â- ^'y* I^nblin, in the latter end of 1S81, should have taught Carey how little dependence he eould place upon police pro- tection when his services were no longer re- quired. This Bailey gave information to the anthoritiea which enabled them to make one of the most extensive seizures of arms and amunition ever achieved by taem in Ireland. Twenty.five rifles, ten revolvers, 12,000 rounds of ammuDition, an immense store of dynamite, fulminate of mercury, detontating caps, and gunpowder fell into their hands through Bailey's instrumentality. How did the Government reward him After a fort- night they WITHIXREW POLICE PROTECTION from him, but prpffered to pay his fare to London, a generosity which would have less- ened the British Exchequer by about $5. The wretched man begged to be sent out to some distant colony, pleading that his hfe would be in as much jeopardy in London as in Dubhn. The representative of the Crown in Ireland could not dream of becoming re- sponsible for such an extravagance. Bailey was turned adrift, his landlord would not let him back to his miserable tenement. His employer would not give him another hour's work. He was forced with his family into the workhouse. Even there the paupers turned against him and rendered his exist- ence 80 unendurable that he ventured into the outer world again with the desperate re- solve to beg or steal as much as would take him out of the country. Three days after this his body was discovered in Skipper's alley, and two bullets in his head told from what quarter his death sentence had come. No clue has ever been found to justify an arrest for the crime. Other Irish informers, too, have been UNIFORMLY FOREDOOMED from the moment they appeared in the wit- ness-box to tender evidence against their former frieads. Pierce Nagle was the first traitor of importance in the Fenian ranks. To his revelations were due the conviction of the staff of the Irish People newspaper, and the firs' executive of the Irish Revolu- tionary Brotherhood â€" Luby, O'Leary, Kick- ham, O'Donovan Rossa and the rest. After his nefarious work had been accomplished he disappeared, and for eleven years nothing was heard from him. But the vengeance and hatred of an Irish conspiracy is ever- lasting, and in 1875 (eleven years after his treachery) it overtook Pierce Nagle. One cold gray ai^tumn morning his icorpse was found under a London i j,ilway arch, and a huge cheese knife driven through the back and penetratmg the heart told that he had not died from natural causes. Warner, the Cork informer, who was the first to reveal the existence of the seditious spirit in the army, was attacked a year or so subsequently in Clontarf He was severe- ly wounded, but did not die then, and his assailant, who was taken on the spot, got off with twenty years' penal servitude. War- nerfs wounds hastened his death, and added to the agony of his last moments. Talbot, to whom the life-long imprisonment of Ser- geant McCarthy and other military Fenians was due, escaped for five or six years, but it was only a respite, not a reprieve. He was eventually shot through the head in Hard- wicke street, Dublin, after leaving a brothel. He died in terrible pain, which was intensi- fied by the bungling of surgeons who att^id- ed him, and who, in probing tor the bullet, explored every inch of his cranium. Anoth- er niilitary informer, named Meara was shot dead in a public house in Bishop street, Dub- lin, before he ended his appearances as wit- ness in the court-martial. The last informer who suffered the death penalty previous to Carey was a man named Clarke, who was traced all the way from Mayo to Australia, and shot whilst engaged in ploughing a field. â€" Philadelphia Press. i Iilfe on High Olympns. "Mars!" The colonel lifted his eyes from the inap of Gen. Crook's Mexico campaign and said, with an air of celestial weariness, as he caught the gleam of her Tremont Temple spectacles " All right, Minerva make it short and not too hard. March on." "Why did the State of Massachusetts re- fuse to sell the syndicate one-half of the Hoosac Tunnel " asked the blue-eyed inaid, holding her fingers in Emerson's " English Traits " to mark the article on " Song and Dance Business Without a Master," she had been reading. The colonel rubbed his helmet of the shin- ing bronze and awful plume and said he hadn't taken much interest in Massachusetts politics since the Parcse had refused to make Ben Butler a double ell dee, but he suppos- ed they would sell it because there was some sell about it." "But Hebe said " But dun't talk so like a mouthing para- grapher. Mars you make Minervas." However, Athene pressed the question, and said "Juno know the reason yourself, white- armed Hebe?" ' ' Oh, don't Boreas with fourth grade ex- aminations;" replied the ox-eyed queen of heaven, ' ' If they cancel it they can't sell it, of course." " But all the gods shouted, " Construe, construe " and Hebe said she would not guess anymore if she was to be Saturn in that way. Ganymede, the barkeeper, coming in for orders, said he didn't know that he caught on just exactly, but he thought it was be- cause one was sellin' a hole, and the other was hole in a cell, whereat all Olympns howled, and told him to crawl up into the hayloft and sleep it ofiEl " But say, Athene," said Apollo, the cele- brated inventor of the nans water which bears his name, " why can't they sell one- half the tunnel?" "Because they don't half to " suggested Mercury but the immortals told him if he couldn't do better than that he'd better go back to the drug store and stick to the thermometer business. And then Athene said "Because they have to sell the hole thing if they sell any of it." A hollow groan, mingled with low caUa for "police," swept over the hill.â€" 5a» Francisco Argonaut. OMtttfcv The five MezMti Wmen and one child reeaptored iroip the Apachea by 0«n. Crook wero nupriaed by a biuid of Apaches under the per^mal ' command of Geronimo, about the 10th of May. The Indians, with their; «i^tivea, travelled inceaaaatly the remain- der of the day and all nijght. They calcu- lated that the next ^onnng after the cap- ' tnre they were at least one hundred miles distuit, though they cannot tell in which direction. For three days they were with- out water, but after that it was found in abundaoee. The country through which they passed was wild beyond description. At times they were compelled to crawl upon all fours. Their thirst for the first three days nearly drove them crazy, and the In- dians would whip and lash them up, and compel them to travel. Toward the last of their captivity their food commenced giving out, and they were put upon ration a small piece of raw beef heing all that was given them. This had to be divided among the six. Mrs. Antonia Hernandez all this time carried her little child in her arms. The Indian children took great pleasure in tor- menting him, pinching him, and jabbing sharpened sticks into his sides, giving him great pain. When they remonstrated, Geronimo or his men only laughed at her misery. The last two days of their cap- tivity they had no food at all. There was snow on the mountains. The cold was in- tense, and the women suffered greatly-, al- most freezing. The Indians never remained quiet in one spot a day, but were continu- ally moving, They travelled nearly 100 miles a day, going in every direction, but tending generally nearly westward. The captives were abused and maltreated in every possible manner. They were made to work heavily whenever camp was made, and were a general object of abuse and ridicule. The Indians would take up Mrs. Hernandez' little boy, threaten to kill him, and would throw stones at him to the great mental anguish of ' his mother. One of the women was sent as a hostage of some sort to Chihuahua to make peace. The exposure to cold, thirst, famine and exhaustion from travel and fear of torture was having an effect on the poor women. The first thing they knew they were hustled one day fur- ther into the mountains. The next day a brother of Chief Chatte delivered them up to Gen. Crook. As one of them expressed herself when she saw Gen, Crook and the soldiers: "It seemed as if the sky opened and Heaven appeared." â€" San Francisco Morning Call. The Horrors of New YorK City. Dwellers in the lake cities, or in any free and open city, with access to the air, have little conception of the suffering of the labor- ing population in New York. New York has its sea breezes, but t.iey cannot pen- etrate the narrow streets nor modify the retained heat of the brick walls. They are literally ovens, where the baking is done not by direct fire but by radiated heat. A New York physician says the best place in the world to bake a baby is New York. They melt away every summer. People are so thick iu the tenement houses that they breed discomfort and disease and inflict them upon one another. There is no water- on the upper floors; or if there is it is tepid. In small rooms six, eight and even ten peo- ple are huddled, and they cannot get a draft by opening their doors through. They are handiworking people, tired out at night, and the irritated children keep them awake. The streets and roofs are thronged with wo- men striving for a breath of fresh air. Sometimes the mother falls asleep from sheer exhaustion, and policemen have re- cued their babies from the gutter in which the little ones tumbled from the mother's relax- ed arms. The vermin swarm on hot nights with special virulence. Exasperated by the heat, and vermin and want of rest, the inmates of these places quarrel, and often come to blows. The promiscuity of the sexes driven into a herd to sleep or rest, is the source of immorality. New York, according to the census, is the greatest manufacturing city in the United States. Nothing that the New York Tribune's protection agent, Mr. Porter, can find to say of the Eoglish workingmen is more horrible than can be told of the ten- eitent districts in New York. And if any English people should care to advocate free tr^e as the Tribune advocates protection, it need only have one of its representatives write up these crowded New York streets in the great manufacturing centre of the United States. A PRIZE STORY. It Entitles its TeUer to be Called Chief laar. It is related that Mr. Sam McCnrdy of Louisville, Ky., was sitting 'neath the shade of a tree talking to some friends, when his attention was called to a hen with a brood of young chickens and a large rat that had just emerged from its hole and was quietly regarding the young chickens with the pro- spect of a meal in view. As the rat came from the hole the house-cat caught slight of it. At the appearance of its ancient enemy, the cat, a Scotch terrier quietly made for the place were the cat stood. At this mo- ment a boy named Andy Quaid came upon the scene. The chickens were not cognizant of being watched by the rat, nor did the rat see the cat, nor the feline the dog, who had not noticed the coming of the boy. A little chick wandered too nigh and he was seized by the rat, which in turn was poi:nced upon by the cat and the cat was caught in the mouth of the dog. The rat would not cease his hold on the chicken, «nd the cat, in spite of the shaking she was getting from the dog, did not let go the rat. It seemed to the boy that the rat was about to escape after a time, and getting a stone he hurled it at the colony. The stone struck the dog right between the eyes. The ter- rier released his grip on the cat and fell over dead. It had breathed its last before the cat in turn let go of the rat and turned over and died. Tbe rat did not loner sur- vive the enemy, and beside the -side of the already dead chicken he laid himself down and gave up the ghost. The owner of we dog was so angry at his death that he is said to have come near mak- ing the story complete by killing the boy thAt killed the dog that shook the cat that caught the rat that bit the chicken in a yard on Clay street â€" Louisville CourierJoumdL Whea 1^ was asked to exjfnm' an opin« ioOiOii jfapi^tr^viBL mattersiie kx^ed timidly round witn her clear gray eyes upon each oi the msaculine penona and said •'Mayjr* Here we hid thp. ivy a.2d the oak reduced to.practic Every man in that group grew an inch or two in stature and iu girth without knowing it. A new magnanimity stirred in him and he cried " Certainly certainly " I have met that "May I" woman a good many times since, and she always walked over the stoniest places of life with sylph- like comfort, for all the masculine persons put their necks down for her to step upon. She is the superb phantom of the social circle, the mistress of the mo ' the empress of the masculine persons everywhere. Your ordinary masculine person doesn't want to be con j ured. He w.ints to be ca- joled. And in every set of pietty women who tj'ranize with their black eyes and coerce witii their aaucy conduct there is one gray-eyed "May I" c-eature w ho locks up all the men's hearts and then iu her own sweet and doci e way, tortures and pawns and bums them afterwards, without so much ad a protesting equeak. Don't ask me to name tnem all. I have one in my mind now who clnng to an ob- server with the delicacy of a tear and the sweet softness of an odor. But she put $200 a week in the bank and always said to the receiving teller with a winn ng pathos "May 1?" And the receiving teller, feeline a thrill of masculine sympathy, always responded with an assuring "Certainly." Such superb women are created to keep alive the masculine ideal of woman. It would utterly die out if men could not go at intervals and refresh their memories with the angelic, impalpable character, set like a Jambent flame on a mos-., palpable physique. I admire the "May I" woman. She not only wears an expression that, as Emerson says, appears to be looking for something better than she has ever found, but her in- nocent conduct always assures us that she has found something b^tt r than she has has ever looked for. â€" ^^ewYorl; World. A Plncky Fool. A curious bet which was made by two Ne\» Yorkers one day this week il ustrates, as well as possible, the point which has been reached in dressing at the Branch. During the afternoon concert at the West ']nd the SDn of a wealthy banker appeared in a curious combination of clothing which at- tracted attention from everyone. Not to be outdone in this respect, another young fel- low immediately repaired to his room, and shortly afterward emerged in an entirely different suit. The coat was a seal brown, with a large green collar trimmed with braid full two inches wide, while the trousers were "polka-dot," but so large were the "dots" that they might easily be mistaken for saucers. His appearance created a general laugh among the people assembled on the veranda, and he indignantly aked one of his friends tc explain the cause of it. In reply the young man offered to bet fifty dollars that he dared not enter the dining-room that evening in such a dress. The bee w.is made, and, as it soon became noised about, every- body was looking for him during the dinner hour. The doors of the diniog room had hardly opened when he made his appearance, looking somewhat nervous and sheepish, but nevertheless dressed in the same suit. After gazing anxiously around the room as if trying to gather courage for a fiaal effort, he walked boldly down the room and took his accustomed seat in the rear. It was in- deed a victory over the crowd, and as he walked from the room two or three people applauded him. â€" Long Branch Letter in Phil- adelphia Press. Joaquin Miller on the Model Farm, On- tario. The Province pajrs $30,000 a year to main- tain a school for the practical education of farmers. This school turns out annually from 200 to .300 well disciplined and splen- didly equipped men to take charge of the most important, healthy and altogether hon- orable pursuit on earth. We, in the States, are accustomed to think if a man is fit for nothing else he can settle down on a farm and get on. We have made the farm the last refuge of the tramp. They here are making the farm the first place for the true gentleman. And this is right. We must have one of these institutions in every State of our Union, a dozen if necessary, to dig- nify and make easy and intelligent the office of the farmer. The trade of war is out of date, the lawyer's office is of doubtful call- ing, for what does it give to the world in re- turn for his bread The doctor's place is hardly desirable for a refined nature but the Canadians have decided that the farmsi s hold the wcrld on their shoulders a ad are standing truly by them. They have alto- gether more than eighty associations devoted to the culture and development of stock and grain. The Province of Quebec has an institution not widely unlike that of Gaelph, Ont., only on a smaller scale. I did not visit this, but am told that it is conducted entirely by a lady. The Province pays $5,000 botmty towards its maintenance. As against them we have only little to show ex- cept the school in Michigan. Yet it is true that we have many institutions that profess farming. But I fear they do not practice it as at this model farm. Of course I cannot en- ter into details or attempt to digest the big book making their annual report on this place. But I may say as a cardinal idea they seek to be solidly practical severely so to keep the feet of the students down firmly down on the hard earth. They ig- nore Greek and all snch nonsense, and try to teach common sense. Yet no ignoramus is admitted here by a great deal. Each ap- plicant must be at least 16 years old, must be of sound morals and good health and pass a very severe matriculation examination if not a graduate of the many high schools in the country. Joseph Cook hopes the day will come when "we shall have only one postage-stamp for the whole world." And then a nice fix we'd be in if some fellow should fold that one up in his vest pocket, and perapiringly fuse it against a small square of hard tobacco and two or three newspaper olippings. And that is just what would happen if the world got down to its last etamp. =#i' h 3'i I -I 'â- ) hi m.m