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 ^^J^. i'^i'S'i «• TIFIEI am is »._ companJ l5e8^_0nt. ronC( aXTTo, I'PPed with m t experienced^ tested at i uality. eir patrons. froJ ow for tlieirfj r^-y kind. RivS â- achine Teetti. ;e the only BafJ or due requirl e Hat for the dJ e kinds wanteJ IN A NDTSHELL invt nOf^^"^^ SEUCT RSAOIMO. „r of Foreign. Dome8tle and War **j_^oiiclse, PItliy, ana Pointed. THE DOMINION, ggjtor Langevia ia not going to visit 5»rth-«eit this fall. Tfcp Maso;ii^ difficulty ia the province of Uec has betn settled. iL Mon-'ton, N. B.. sugar refinery has ' JaJividendcf U per ctiit. j.re are ^t present 230 pupils in the •jii di""^^ institute at Belleville. .eXapanee, Tamwjrth Quebec Rail- L'ttack is to be finished by ISov. 15. Alfx. Mackenzie's health has been (ly benefitted by his tnp to Europe. Allans have two new ocean vessels ^(t construction â€" the Siberian and Nu- ^ilton has remitted $G5 000 to Lon- Y £[.g., on account of interest of city de- »j;are.' j^eph Marorans, four years old, was |.^lviratigled by a G. T. R train at Lon- L Oat., recently. Pe Kingston and Pembroke Railway tapany intend to prohibit the sale of fjor on their road. McCutcheon, a farmer near ^h's Corners, was gored by a bull re- Dominion Government has under- sea an nnuual inspection of children Lnsht to Canada from aoroad. Ilae Cleveland, 0., syndicate has purchased I immense mining property north of Tren- (jiit. The syndicate's capital is $2,000,- [ash McDowell, a carpenter who had jjn drinking heavily, WfS -found at Co- ;:rz, fatally stabbed ia the abdomen and i;iie neck. harlington Canal is to be dredged to a l;thof thirteen feet at a low water mark. tierDment engineers are now making the (jessary aouudings. I i deer scared by a ballast train O'" the laariu and ^laebec railroad at Sharbot lake :ine entangled in the thickets and was inured by some tourists. Ilhere are indication of a split in the cotton Tne L'oaticook, Qae., company have Ijen action adverse to the recently iormed Inbination. jlheodore H. Kand, M. A.,D. C. L., chi^ Iserintendeut of education in New Bruns- s, lias resigned to accept a professorship icaiia collc'L'e, Xova Scotia. Iio timber limits, one in the county of :s:i.ae, and one in the Nipissing district, hreoffereil by auction at Ottawa recently t;withJr:nvn, the upset price not being i refractory bride, at Kingston, Ont., â-  horsewhipped in the public streets by irate rather. She was a gipsy and at :al:ar Iff used to marry the man of her ::ce. The steamer, Queen Victoria, burnt near jtham, Oct., recently, was insured :jlO,000, The crew lost all their person- property and barely escaped with their I J â- liUUllo^Or. Ryall, medical health oflicer of Ham- M, has invited the corporation and citi- generally to take into consideration indu:ementB' °'thy state of the streets, alleys and icivards. rchants ask frj hey are t iff: 1 and ijuped e stock of with certifi ced fare?. RCo. bronto. n iia\s.\ 1883. for the I (everal I •roprle- 1 proMpt I BCO. 188S.^, i.lthoa-l • paper. I t In an I r. The I trice Ml r««uiiffl iojr, 8S3- B morel lown "I it oaee I And It 1 er», of I iltnr^r «:» 883. ASVl liaa a*! LA.ll- 888. tioiurl 88S yo«rl •«yl re »rl b»*e| use* I irr. isa. [^ II. The Hamilton hackmen are in arms against ylaws refjuiring them always to have their Lips burnmg at night and making it com- i:ory to till an engagement made 24 hours advance. ite^ Princess Louise has presented a ^gnificent painting four or five feet in agth, at present on exhibition in Boston, "^3; to the people ot Canada through Sir â- â- ^torLangevin. Ine committee on temperance reported to :i Methodist general conference that the itc had come for the forming of a solemn ^e and covenant against the sale, use 1 manufacture of intoxicants, Jte Methodist Conference at Belleville ~ck out the clause in the discipline re- JiDg young ministers to consult with their â- â€¢'f brethren previous to entering into a *iage contract. ilr. Caldwell, the defendant in McLaren Uldwell, has nearly a million logs lying â- â€¢ae Upper Mississippi and its tributaries ;5'lie cannot get down to his mill owing to recent decision against him. Hesa street school, Hamilton, has what is «a the fire discipline down fine. Six ^(Ired children on the watch for an alarm 4 out in exactly two minutes. Ho*- would s m case of a sudden alarm ^^trend Rural Dean Bell has given no- ,* of a motion m the Episcopal Synod at f "utreal for a canon discipline for the laity, piatking at the time of giving the notice •*'atthe Reformation the clergy lost all f*er of discipline over the laity, even in T'^Ue of a man living an immoral life. I "5 Methodist general conference has de- ""1 in favor of one large university to ../'^^'^I'shed as soon as practicable, in To- I" p Of elsewhere in Ontario. At present T thurch has six or seven educational in- '!«tions with 101 professors, 5,000 pupils r^SDdowmenta exceeding §400 000. Chi UNITED STATES. icago physicians predict a cholera visi- •*^n next year. J com crop was notEo badly injured by fecent frosts as reported. ^â- ^iaety men are on strike st the Detroit ;j' ^orks against a proposed reduction of 'percent, in wages. i^*y Gould is reported to be working his ,i?y schemes with a view of obtaining a ixiard outlet for his railways. 'tien\*^^u°° "Collapsed at Pittsburgh, Pa., flu ^} " ^^^ ^^' ^^^ descended so slow- I u ** occupant unhurt. ^ger Ledyard, of the Michigan Cen- «5^ 7* given notice that no freight trains L^ *°°se carryini? perishable «ods shall ' ""ounday. H W^" ^*^tun, of South Carolina, testi- "«ore the senate labour committee that "^gro in the South was indolent and i^»w1!: " »'«W««t«l that hi, interest. t^ Sâ„¢ 'f^^' ""^.' *»-• to^SioS: tMm from federal poUtics of the so-called to time and the reduction of taxation. THE OLD WOKLD. Bismarck is once more seriously ill. The FrancD-Chinese outlook is improving. wo12*â„¢Tlw ?^* T becoming worse and worse. Martial law has been proclaimed. theV^f-^ Legitimists intend memorialising the Vatican rsgardmg their future course. Important witnesses against O'Donnell Carey 8 assassin, hcvve arrived in Eagknd. ' The rnmber of visitors at Wittembere Germany, attending the Luther celebration 18 placed at 50,000. "â„¢"on, The powers are not irritated against 2;«T„ ^T..^' ^*'°.^ " Bulgaria, at least so the North German Gazette says. EngUsh detectives have returned to Lon- don from America with valuable information regarding the Fenian conspiracy. • "^1? "^^,?T° ,Norwegian vessel was sunk m the English channel by a collision, twelve persons being drowned. King Alfonso assisted at the laying of the comer stone of the new town hall at V ieuna oy the Jimperor of Austria. The health of the present membew of his African expedition being bad, H M Stanley is calling for more European volun- teers. ' O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, arrived at Madeira recently. He said he was indiflFerent as to his fate, but was sure he would not be hanged. Great precautions are maintained tor his safety. At the trades union congress in Birming- ham, Joseph Arch gave it as his opinion that radical changes in the English land laws are necessary. A resolution was passed calling upon the Government to confiscate waste land. British Pacific Colonies. As for Australia, that great country can now hardly be called a colony, says a cor- ro«pondent of The London Standard. The different communities there together con- stitute a vigorous young nation, which from national and patriotic motives remains in strong alliance with the mother country. An Englishman landing for the first time in Australia is bewildered at finding on the other side of the globe an almost exact re- production of his own country he sees cities as large and as prosperous as Leeds and Manchester, whose streets ajre thronged with English crowds, differing in no respect, ex- cept perhaps that of a better average phys- ique, from crowds at home. The very ve- hicles and street cries, the drivers and the newsboys, leem miraculous apparitions of the Strand and Oxford street. It is non- sense to talk ot the retention of these pro- vinces of the empire as adding to the re- sponsibilities of the taxpayer in Eagland. There is no nation on the earth that could now venture to attack Australia with im- punity. Melbourne is well and scientifically defended. Even a powerful ;i- unclad fleet would run immense risk in venturing an at- tack. And Sidney, in a month or two, will be one of the strongest naval stations in the world. Twenty-five ton and thirty-one ton guns frown down on the lovely harbor from every available point, and in the forts are a body of regular artillery four hundred strong, recruited in Australia, and paid for by the colony, but in discipline, drill, and appearance undistinguishable from the stal- wart gunners of the English Army. Thus do the Australians maintam for England, and free of all expense, stations for her n.wies as strong practically as Malta or Gibraltar. Indeed, the authorities at home might well take a lesson from New South Wales and Victoria, and endeavor to arrange that their own crown colonies and important naval centres shall be as effectively protected as are Sydney and Melbourne, A couple of seven-inch guns are deemed sufficient for Port Louis â€" the Malta of the Indian oceim â€" and Hong Kong, where any day may be seen in the harbor scores of English steam- ers and ships, for which, in time of war, the place ought to be a secure refuge, does not possess a single piece of armour-piercing ordnance. Yet Hong Kong boasts of one of the most magnificent harbors in the world, and that conld be rendered almost impregnable to a naval attack but, as a matter of fact, it is at the mercy of any second or third class enemy's iron-clad that might elude the Bridsh fleet. It would al- most seem to be a pity that some of our strong places can not be make over to the custody of the Australian colonies. Coast- ing round from Adelaide in the south to Port Darwin on the north of the southern continent is a voyage of over fourteen days' duration. That is longer than from London to Alexandria. And along that great extent of coastline there are over a dozen thriving towns, two of them at least taking rank among the great porta of the world, the others all hoping to do so some no very distant date. A frequent topic of conversation when I piSsed through Australia was the then recent speech of a well-knowp statesman at home, wherein was calmly discussed the .supposed advjtntage of a separation between the col- onies and the mother cotmtry. In Austra- lia, so fax, they indignantly refuse to even contemplate such an emergency and, that being the case, there is surely little good, they say, in broaching the subject at home. From Port Darwin to Hong Kong the numerous islands of the Eist Indian Archi- pelego are continually in sight, scores of them almost unknown, but far exceeding Mauritius in size and more than equalling ic in richness of soil. In -British hands these islands would be the seats of flourishing commerce. As they are, their populations produce littl?, and take less, of the goods of other nations. Those which belong to Spain are as stagnant as is Spain herself, and Java seems to monopolize the energies of the Dutch of the eastern seas. Excepting Java, the possessions of Holland are mostly un- developed. Not until Singapore and Hong Kong are reached are ports again found with all the signs visible of a great trade. Saigon as already pwnted ont, is a distinct failtire. In short, frwn Aden to China, along the route I have indicirfed, the reflec- tion constantly reoors that the colonial policy of France is aa far beyond the capa- city ot her citizens to sniipcHt as the.pnTate enterprise of Englishmen is in front of the ideas of English statesmen. In any reference to the physical history of the sun, the stupendous magnitude of its sphere mast be kept vividly present to the niind. With a diameter one hundred and nine times longer than the earth's, the solar orb looks out into space from a surface tiiat is twelve thousand times larger than the one which the earth enjoys. The bulk of the sun is one million three hundred thousand time that ot the earth. If the surface of the sun were a thin, external rind, or shell, and the earth be placed in the middle of this hol- low sphere, not only would the moon have space to circle in its usual orbit without ever sretting outside ot the solar shell, but there would be room also for a second satel- lite, nearly as far again as the moon, to ac- complish a similar course. The weight of the sun is three hundred thousand times the weight of the earth, or, in round nnmbflrs, two thousand millions of millions of millions of tons. The mean distance of the sun from the earth is now as well ascertained, through in- vestigations which have been made in sev- eral ways, that there can scarcely be in the estimate an error of five hundred thousand miles. The distance at the present time given, is ninety-two million eight hundred and eighty-five thousand miles. This meas- ure is m itself so vast that, if any traveller were to move at the rate of four miles an hour for ten hours a day, it would take him six thousand three hundred years to reacb the sun. Sound would traverse the interval, it there were anything in space capable of transmitting sonorous vibrations, in four- teen years, and a cannon ball, sustaining its initial velocity throughout, would do the same thing in nine years, A curious illus- tration, attributed to Prof, Mendenhall, is to the effect that an infant, with an arm long enough when reached out from the earth to touch the sun, would die of age be- fore it could become conscious through the transmission of the nervous impression from the hand to the brain, that it had burned its fingers. In order that the earth, thus moving around the sun with a chasm of twenty- three million miles of intervening space be- tween them, may not be dravm to the sun by the preponderant attraction of its three hundred and thirty times larger mass, it has to shoot forward in its path with a momen- tal velocity fifty times more rapid than the swiftest rifle ball. But, in moving through twenty miles of this onward path, the earth is draw out of a straight line something leas than the eight part of an inch. This devia- tion is properly the source from which the amount ot solar attraction has been ascer- tained. If the earth were suddenly arrested in its onward flight, and its momentum were in that way destroyed, it would be drawn to the sun, by the irresistible force of its at- traction, in four months, or in the twenty- seventh part of the time which a cannon ball would take to complete the same journey. The Truly Honest Juror. Some difficalty was experienced in obtain- ing a jury, and the court was getting tired of the tedious proceedings. " Call the next juror, Mr. Clark," said the solicitor for the hundredth time. The clerk called out the man, and an old man with an honest face and a suit of blue jean clothes rose up in his place, and the solicitor asked the following customary ques- tions, â€" "Have you, from having seen the crime committed^ or having heard any of the evi- dence delivered under oath, formed or_ex- pressed an opinion as to the guilt or inno- cence of the prisoner at the bar " "No, sir." " Is there any bias or prejudic3 resting on your mind for or against the prisoner at the bar?" "None, sir." "Is your mind perfectly impartial be- tween the State and the accused " "It is." "Are you opposed to capital punish- ment " "I'm not." All the questions had been answered, and the court was congratulating itself on having another juror, when the solicitor in solemn tones said, â€" j "Juror, look upon the prisoner â€" prisoner, look upon the juror." The old man adjusted his spectacles, and peeringly gazed at the prisoner for full half a minute, when he turned his eyes toward the court and earnestly said, â€" "Judge, I'll b3 condemned if I don't be- lieve he's guilty 1" It is useless to add that the court was con- siderably exasperated at having lost a j uror, but the most humorously inclined had a good laugh out of the old man's premature can- dor. â€" ^â- â™¦Â«-«.^^»-»»^^^ Pawnlnjc a Girl. Moses Ham her, of Hamberg and Co., of No. 1,209 North Tenth street, had a hear- ing before United Spates Commissioner Elmunds the other day on the charge of loaning money on pension certificates, in violation of tne law. James Lafferty, of Second and Oxford streets, a hunchback and a cripple from rheumatism, said he was in receipt of $24 a month pension and was m the habit ot pawning the certificate frequent- ly with Hamberg Co. He pawned it on June 7, for $2.50, received $10 on June 9, and $5 on Aug. 31, and when he drew his money he was hande j $12. This made the interest on the loans, aggregating $17.50, $42 50. On several occasions, when the pawnbroker could not accompany him to the pension office to draw his money, he left his daughter, a girl of 15, as security, and she was released when he brought back the certificate. This fact the witness spoke of as if it were in the usual routine of business. The daughter, Ellen Eugenie Lafferty, a bright girl, said that her father and mother always spent the pension money fcff drink and she obtained no benefit for it. She had been used as security several times and did not seem to look upon it as a hardship. Once, when her father handed her over to Hamberg to be locked up until he re- turned, he said, " Now you are in prison, you know." Hamberg was held in $300 bail to answer at the next term of coon, and care will he taken to prevent the disappearance of the witness. â€" Philadelphia Tima. In the past forty, yean $4,000,000 has been spent in bnilding and restoring ehorohes ir Wales.] rouA BAMOBB. Mr. Jamea Watta Bnrvlwa Variena At tempta to Dlaloeate Hla Vertebras -Bla WonderfU Knperlenoe. This is the story told b? a man named James Watts to C^pt. George Burton, of the steamship British Prince " I was bom in the town of Falmouth, ComwalL My father was a sail-maker, doing a fair business. I was an only child. My mother I do not re- member. I WAS sent to the grammar school learned to read, write, arrange books, and other matters in keeping with iny station. At 15 my father took me into his store as assistant. The Cornish coast abounds in rocky cliffs, where thousands of gulls build their'nests. I often used to go egg-hunting with my boy friends. There was plenty of excitement in it. We used to fix a stick in a knot of rope some twenty feet long. One end would be fastened securely to a stake in the ground, and then we used to lee ourselves slowly down over the cliff and swing back- ward and forward, seated on the stick, along the face of the rocks, frighten the old birds away, and fill our wallets with egn. It was a little dangerous, as the rope mO(ht cut at any time on the rough surface of the rocks, but we wereF generally in parties of a dozen, and one division of us kept a sharp eye on the ropes while the rest hunted. " I loved the sea in those days. One morning I started out alone with my coil of rope. I expected to find some comrades by the shore, but none were there. However, thinking they would soon arrive, I let my- self down, not on the seat, as usual, but with the rope in a slip-knot beneath my should- ers. Directly my full weight was in the noose, it began to tighten to an uncomfort- able extent, so I placed my foot against a small ridge and bsgan to loosen the strain, 1 got one arm out and was gradually pulling the rope over my body so as to sit in the noose, when a dozen gulls fl^w out and be- gan to attack me. My foot slipped from its hold as the rope closed rapidly round my neck. I had time to place my right hand to my neck, an act which saved my life, for, although the pain was severe, I could breathe. I shouted for help, but no help was near. 1 hung there for hours to me it seemed years, losing consciousness from time to time, and having the most horrible visions. Finally the agony was so great that with an effort of despair I freed my hand and suffo- cated. I recovered consciousness to find myself on my back in a fishing tent, with two men bending over me. It seems they had discovered my dilemma and were draw- ing me up within half a minute after the rope closed round my neck. My windpipe, I hav^e since had reason to discover, is pretty strong â€" I can take a good deal of hanging. My first experience nevertheless, gave me a bad attack of brain fever, during which I must have acquired the fear and aversion for the sea I have felt ever since. "When I recovered my health I became wild and disipated, and, although I managed to remain on friendly terms with my father, for the next five years I was regarded in my native town as a quarrelsome fellow, fore- most in every row and ready to get drunk whenever I had a chance. Looking back, I believe I suffered in my brain several years after my first hanging. One night in a general row I killed one of my pot-house companions with a blow on the head de- livered with a heavy pewter vessel. I was arrested, tried, and condemned to be hang- ed. The verdict should have been man- slaughter, for the deed was done in a tree fight but I had no friends on the jury. The foreman was a near relative of the dead man, and, although the judge charged the twelve good men and true in accordance with the lesser crime, they found me guilty, without even a recommendation to mercy. The judge put on the black cap, and ' hoped God would have mercy on my soul.' "The day arrived for my execution. Meanwhile I knew my father was making strenuous efforts to have my sentence re- versed, but up to the day fixed for my death, without success. My hands were pinioned, I took my last look, as I supposed, at the sun, felt the white cap drawn over my face, and begged the hangman to pull the bolt when I arrived at the supplication in the Lord's prayer, ' forgive me my tres- passes.' I had hardly finished the first words of entreaty to heaven when a loud tumult fell on my ears, and the word ' Be- prieve'l was shouted from mouth to mouth. The next moment I was unbound and the royal message of mercy read to me. The death penalty was commuted to ten years' penal servitude. " Never mind how I passed the next ten years. They were not altogether unhappy. The facts of my crime were known in the prison. I was not a thief and my docility and intelligence gained me favour with the governor. I was made messenger clerk, and the last two years of my confinement schoolmaster to my fellow-convicts. Every- thing was on the model system then. Trans- portation had been abolished shortly before I became a convict. Finally I was once more a free man. England, however, is no place for a freshly released jail-bird he must live things down a year or two, and so my poor old father gave me £200 and his blessing, and I shipped for the Cape of Good Hope and the diamond fields. On the long sea voyage I suffered like a child in a dark room who is afraid of ghostsâ€" an infirmity, of course, and a relic of my first hanging. "Well," Watts continued, after a drink of whiskey, " I landed in Cape Town and found the city full of excitement. Dia- monds had just been discovered afresh in old fields, and untold wealth, so it was sup- posed, was in the grasp of everybody. To reach my destination, the Kimberley mine, I had to travel a distance of eitiht hundred miles in a stage drawn by uxen, a journey which took up ten days and whish was full of adventure. I arrived at the fields, and, in partnership with an acquaintance I made in the waggon, I onrchased a share of a claim for £150. For a few months we found next to nothing, then success crowned our work, and within six msnths of leaving Eagland, I was worth £2,000. I returned to Cape Town, but could not make up my mind to cross the cceam Iiome, so I took rooms at a crack hotel and beijan to enjoy myself. Those who find fortune eaqly spend freely in a short time i^amblin^ and drink left me with jost enough to retnrn to the fields. This time I had no money to buy a claim, so had to work for a percent- age. Luck favoored me, and again I was the p o ssessor of serctal hnndrada, aaffioi- ent to join aoomymy of ten in the pur- oha»e ot a large cl|ttm. " There was an- old Oatdiman at the settlement who sold liquors and mining im- plements and other thm^s to the diggers. He had a daughter, a handsome eirl, the only young woman for hundreds of miles. She and I became intimate. The Dutchman did not spprove of my attention to his daughter, and the way in which she favored me roused the jealousy of my companions. The Dutohman determined to get rid of me. One day he accused me of robbing him, aud, certainly, a package of loose stones belong- ing to him, were found iu my coat pocket. I had been talking to Gretchen and had thrown off my coat because of the heat, and thedevilish Dutchman placed the plant on me. These is not much justice in a mining camp. As I said, I was disliked because of Gretehen's preference, and my partners, no doubt, were willing to have my share of the claim to divide among them so I was tried and condemned to be hanged in lose than an hour of the old man's accusation, by a lynch jury. I was allowed two hours to prepare for death, and then taken to the nearest tree, where a rope was placed round my neck and I was jerked by a dozen willing hands into the air. But before strangula- tion ensued I fell to the grouod with a thump. Gretchen had not bisen idle. Her entreaties brought a crowd of opposition diggers to my assistance, and, though they permitted me to be jerked iu the air just to see how it looked, they would not allow things to go any further in fact they squarely expressed their opinion that the Dutohman had lied. The tide turned in my favor, and I believe the old villain would have been burned in his shinty but for my intercession and his daughter's tears. Gretchen jilted me, nevertheless, shortly afterwards, and, as I bad next to no luck in my search for diamonds, I left the field for Cape To ^-n, this time with only £200 or £300 in my pocket, I found a letter await- ing me at the postoffice, from a friend in Falmouth, telling me my father was dying, " After again enduring the miseries of a sea voyage, 1 arrived in Enecland, only to find my father dead and buried. He left me a small sum of money and his business. There was no peace for me in my native city, hoivever blood wa? on my hands, and coldness met me oh aU sides. I sold my father's effects at public auction, and journeyed to London, where my identity was soon lost among the many millions. But the brand of Cain followed me. I tried several kinds of business and employment, but no luck was mine. J took to drink again, and a fight with a policeman landed me once more in a prison cell. I was com- mitted to hard labor for fourteen days. Despair seized me, I twisted a rope out of the strands I was given to convert into oakum, made a noose for my neck, secured the other end to the bars of the window, kicked away the stool, and lost conscious- ness. To my dying day I shall reirember the sensations of my last hanging. I was transported to a beautiful paradise of mead- ows and flowers, where lovely forais of children greeted me, and delicious music sounded in my ears. It seemed to last for an age, but it could ouly have been a lapse of a tew moments, for gruff voices sue seeded the gentle music and the faces of the angelic children faded into the stern features of a pair of prison warders, who cut me down just in time. I was sentenced to three months longer for the attempt at self-de- struction and watched night and day to pre- vent a repitition," I had, however, no wish to end my life again on the contrary, the desire for new scenes and fresh adventure were full on me when my release from pris- on arrived, I still possessed a little money, so I purchased a ticket for Colorado, and I leave EoglanJ, I suppose, forever to-mor- row. The anticipation cf t^e sea voyage tries me terribly this time. I will never make another journey by ocean of that I am determined. In the far west, with a new name, new associations, and a clean shave, for I am younger than I look. Providence may yet send me happiness and fortune." ODDS AND ENDS. "Ma, which milkman gives the most cream, the one that has the best cows " "Hardly, my child 1 It is the one who has the best conscience." â€" Yonkers Gazette, We saw a specimem of modem politeness, the other day. Two gentleman were going up in an elevator, A lady came aboard, and both men took of their hats, but continued to puff the smoke of their vile cigars into her face, Longfellow said "In this world a man must bie either anvil or hammer." Longfel- low was wrong, however. Lots of men are neither the active hammer nor the sturdy anvil. They are nothing but bellows. â€" Philadelphia News. A Peruvian living in Milan has made a clock entirely out of bread. In this country many persons are trying to make bread out of paper, but they have only been partially successful. They complain that subscribers won't pay up. â€" Norriaton Hera'd. When the minister is pretty severe upon human shortconsings in the pulpit, every man leans back in his pew, smiles, and says to himself, "Now he's giving it to 'em." Satisfying thought, isn't it, that the minis- ter always has reference to somebody else? Chicago Inter-Ocean. A piece of lime which a boy carried in his pocket was the cause of his death from blood poisoning. It is the first instance on record of a boy's pant's-pocket going back on him. To think that brass wire, rusty old knife blades, decayed fruit, cobbler's wax, fish hooks, putty, mice, hedgehogs, can be carried with impunity, yet there's all this tnss about a little bit of lime that looked as innocent as a piece of chalk. â€" Chicago News. A short, middle-aged colored man can be seen any morning coming out of Steinway Hallj New York, sometimes led by the arm of a kindly old gentleman, and generally grimacing and gesticulating in a strange faithion. This is Blmd Tomâ€" once a great phe'nonienon, and about whom more diverse criticisms have been written than any othw musician in the oonntry. Music is still a mania with him, and he has to go up in Steinway Hall and work off his mysterious vaagj ever^ morning at a concert grand. And it ii laid that hiu imjiranaing draws a crowd of cnrions experts abont him yet.â€" Hr. Y. Times. u I i^