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 MOyOG iDTLS. They were movine not the ordinary and ifgalar routine of May 1, when diatresaed lauiJlies flock from une tramped and incon venient dwelling into another of the same tjpe, but this was a going "Out of the old house into the new," gnd the mother's face waa seriooa, for there was one of the little flock missing, not lost, but gone before into the new home, in the city whose walls lie four-^qnare. Thus it happened that one little room waa left to the last, and as a rough workman laid bis hand en the door, and pushed it open, the mother cried out as if L« had struck her a blow ' Oh, not there 1 Not there I I will move those things myself. You cannot touch them 1" "That was baby Grace's room and she died m that little bed," said one of the older children, T( e Toufih workman stayed his foot on the tbrdsholJ. Then he touched his hat, and his voice was husky as he said "It ye please, ma am. 111 hanule them thiDgs geutly. I've a little one of my own in gloryâ€" the heavens be htr bed â€" and it's moelf will see them not a bit damaged, and 111 settle it beyond with you." It was "the one touch of nature" that "makes the whole world kin." THE HELPING HAND. Men are geneially conspicuous by their ab- sence during moving time, and shrewd busi- ness men have actually been known to have sudden calls by bogus telegrams to distant parts of the country, not getting home till the new house had been thoroughly warmed for their comfort, or discomfort as they sometimes And, So it usually happens that the man of the house at moving time is a woman who drives sharp bargains with the draymen and tackhammers and initiates her family into boarding off barrel-head tables. But the wcman is not usually an object of pity, because John has given her his mantle of authority to back her and his pocket- book is at her dispcsil, and she rather glories in a little brief authority. But there is a class of women to be pitied â€" wo- men who are widows, who must do battle single-handed against insolence and want and a host of evi s whose little children canuDt run and "tell papa," as happier child- ren can, when anyone abuses them, who are dependent for every comfort on the one slender, fragile, black-rabed figure, who stands between them and distress. Such a woman moved last week from one plain house with a moderate rent into anoth- er that waa plainer and more moderate. When the first night found the new family in its strange quarters all was confusion and disorder. The stoves were down, and there was no one but the tired mother to put them up the beds were not made, there was no supper, and the children, who had exhausted their curiosity over the new place, wrre hungry and sleepy. Then they all crowded around the poor mother and raised a dismal cry. "W^e want to go home 1 we want to go home " And as the mother looked at them she wrung her hands and sobbed. "Poor children I in all the wide world yon have no other Jiome than this." But that mother heard, as in the whispers of a secret intelligence higher than that of earth, these words that thrilled her soal with new life. "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has not where to lay his head." She told the story of the Babe of Bethle- hem to her little ones as she undressed them and put them to bed. When they wakened in the morning, hungry but rested, they saw the table set and the room in order. Moth- er had done it all as they slept, but who had helped her Ah 1 who 1 The children only knew that it was mother, and here was home. DIALOGUK A LA SAISON. "Are you going to help me put down the carpets, John " "Spose so where's tack hammer "It's in the barrel of dishesâ€" no, it isn t â€"yea, it isâ€" oh, I know now I put it in the band-box with your new Sunday hat. ' "Just like a woman never knows where anything is; hat ruined, like enough; where is the handle of the hammer T" "Oh, I packed that up with the china set you'll find it, dear, at the bottom of the box." "Now, who's going to stretch this carpet, hey?' "Me dear." "We'll, stind there. Gracious, I can't pul a hundred pounds of dry goods along with the carpet. Oh, dear, I'm going to have a fit, I believe." 'I'll make you a cup of tea, dear. xou can drink it out of your shaving-mug. It 11 be just like a picnic." ^, t k„ Bat when she got back with the tea, John was missing. .-_ "Poor feUow It was too much for him 1 he's gone to get the air. He looked pale John-at a counter covered with e»taW«^ salads and th-.ngs 'Two fingers of old crow, and a dash of bitters to l^g"» J^^'*^: I'm nearly starved 1 A hot beefsteak J,^! help me out.^^ I teU you, boys, moving m *°Life hM^ta oompensationB. Jo*^'« sits on a roll of carpet and djmks her ' Poor boy 1 I wish he could have waited for it; it's so refreshing. He'll be half starved by supper time 1 I know he will. Not much, little wcman. How a Herd of Cattle Were SaTcd. "One of the braveat things I "a^ {R.â„¢/ travels," said a passenger from the VVest, "was a cowboy stopping a cattle stampede A herd of about six or eight h'f iF«f^^J got frightened at something, and broke away pcli-mtu. with their toiU in the air, and the bulls at the head of the prcwession. But tne cowboy did not get excited at aU wbf" ^e saw the herd were going Bt"'g^*/°" ^fi bluff, where they would certainly tumble down into the canyon and be killed, ^ou know that when a herd Uke that gets to goiEg. they can' stop, no matter whether they%u8h to death or not. Those in the rear crowd those ahead, and away tuey *°' I wouldn't have given a dollar a heid for that herd but the cowboy epurred up ma mustang, made a Uttle detour, came m ngM ia front of the herd, cut across their P»tn a^ a r.^ht ai g!e, and then galloped leisurely on to the edg« ot the bluff, halted and looked arounJ at that wild mass of b^ef comirg r ghl trr^ard h m. He was as cool as a cu- umil tf, though I expcctei to see hita aui WMit to atop and Wh«Tik "" a^maed to them atoD iuad £™m«i.^".*"Pâ„¢^ â- Â« Then tte whnU ^^!?** "bble gran. cl*^ to eat wherTthe'Si Jffl'C" "You see, that oowho^ i!. J^^ ^* b«g of «jt' ^hS^^T^ i^ ranch to give the cattl. oSn "" *be herd's cofnJ.r/:2i'u^'S^*«"« *!• broke up the stampede. ButltoU yS^Uw^ a queer sght to see that chap out ther. fn^P^***' "^*° â- Â«Â«'°«d M if he'd be roll* X^r two hundred tonsof beef in about a mmute and a half."â€" "P/oia Tait'il Chicago ffera'd. " " Women as Photographers. "I took up photography from choice many years ago," said the fair arfst, a tall, fair wonaan, attending to the details of her work as she chatted. -I wt rked for my employer nme years, becoming practically the head of the business. Then I told him I was noing tosta'^t a gallery of my own. He looked shocked but recovered himself shortly and made me a proposal of marriage. Nine years ofhim^asquito enough. I was idh for a year and then bought this place. A man CMi never realize how nice it is for a woman to be absolute miatresa of her own affairs. I keep my own books and attend personally to everything. My greatest sucoetscs have been with nervous and exoiteable subjects. Last week a lady brought her son and dauffhter to me. She had tried several of the leading photographere,and none of them had succeeded in making even a passable picture. I appointed a morning for the sitting, and it took just five hours to photo- graph these two children. The girl had a twitching eye, and- at first she could not keep still two consecutive minutes to save her. I looked at that twitehing eye with such a professional gentleness, and treated her with such a vast amount of patienoe, that in the end she gave up completely, sat still and was photcgraphed with thorough success. I had just as much of a struggle with the boy. Bat I succeeded at last. I have really more work than I can attend to, and my success is mainly due to the faot that I am a woman. Every woman has little points about her fac3 and figure which she knows all women observe, but which, she has learned by experience, men never notice. When women are chatting together thay rafer to any unfortunate blemish in quir« an ordinary way, but they never mentioa them to men, for fear of drawing attention to the defect. They even dread men photographers. They taks a woman into their confidence at once, and the two chat about the effect of a cast in the eye, a crooked nose, a big ear, large teeth, or a scrawny neck, as though they had been CiOnies for life. This renders a satisfactory photograph easier to accam- pliah." A Cigar Factory. A journalist writes a letter from Seville describing the government cigar faotory of Spain, seven hundred feet long and almost as wide, very dirty, and in the vestibule two hundred and fifty young girls making cigar- ettes, all talking as loud as they want to one hundred girls in the next room doing the same, and on the next floor th'ee thous- and womei. as close as sardines in a box, in a single room, making cigara, some having their babies with them not a mcnth old, and dogs lying on the tobacco stems. Thp wo- men were divided up into sevens at each table, three on each side, and the mistress at the top. Around each table* were shelves against stone pillars, on which lay children's shoes. Eooks and clothes. Thera were stone jars of water here and there for drmking, aid the air waa stifling, and the buzz of conversation only broken by the wail of the babies. Tae flooring was dilapidated, and it was possible for an incautious visitor to fall through. Two other side apartments one hundred feet long were both packed with laborers. The factory consumes about ten thousand pounds of tobacco a day, and employs over five thousand persons, who re-^ ceive fifty cents a day for twelve hours' work. The matron at each table gets her pay from the women she commanas. The girls and the superinteadente had very little is so great, resoorccs compara- manners. The Work of a Single Hair. In the base of the Capitol at Washington is the enginery by which the House, the Sen- ate, and the committee rooma are warmed and ventilatid, and the gas lighted by elec- tricity. It is altogether a big apparatus, consisting of three immense fans, four en- gines, and eight boilers, with the necessary appliances for regulating the temperature and moisture of the air supplied to the na- tion's legisUtors. The instnunent which tolli whether the air ia too moist or too dry, ia operated by a single humam hair, A perfectly dry air is put at saturate l air. that ia fiir carrying all the moiatnre it will hold, is put at 100. A dial with a hand like that of a clock, represents the different degrees from to lOa Tne human Iiair ab- wfbs moisture like a rope, and hke a rope ?^ W,me« shorter when wet. The difference n length between a hair six "ches long when wet, and the same hair when dry. is made to represent the hundred degr^ of mJfstuw oS the dial and the hand, or Minter moves backward or forward as the S^^ltheair varies. « i* b^^""*- diT more steam is thrown m if too "^o"*- leis steam is aUowed to escape, and thus the 2moVp^«e for the nation's stat^men « reg- nlated and kept at the healthful pomt, which is about 50 " Lime-Klln Club Mottoes. As the meeting opened, the President ao- ing week "Pay cash. „ '•Deal on the squar. •"IfiSa^c^^lit on defence an' plant on. '°^me wasted am shillin's los' out of a hole '^lf^amVoUyiicks 'gainst taters, takede ** ȣ"hour wid a saw buck am m^oah v.lu- abledananhotrwidastatesman ^^ "De man m deot am a awimi"' butes on." AnstralUii DefeBces. The area of Soatk Aostralia Mid ita popolation wd resoar r J ?-!!l".-'** "JudevBloped, that no attanust to defend the ooantiy distriota or the nimer- ons small tows on the sea-board oan at pre- sent be contemplated. The heart of the country beats in Adelaide, which ia at oooe T?.^"***? Government and the repository of the national wealth. It ia eatimiJed that 2.=*^ J^* **»ds of aa enemy the sum of ts.OOO.OOO aterling oonld be levied from it m a few hours, by pUcing Governments wnka, and private mdindnals, alike, under rigorous contribution. The whole duty of local defences have been thown upon the oolonista themselvts. Under noocligation to the Imperial Government to protect themnelves, bound by no tie of federation to inter colonial uniformity of aotion, and im- bued with a touching bilief in the ub'quity and omnipotence of the British fleet, the etiffetent Anatoalian Governmente drifted on vaeueiy for several yetrs. This state of apathy ras rudely dispelled by the Russo iurkishBcweof 1877, when the Antipode- ansBuddenl, awoke to their defenceless oon- dinon. Sjldiering is very popular in South Australia. Tuere is a steady and everin- creasing flow of recruits into the ranks of the Mihtia. so that, notwithstanding a severe medioal exaiPination, the inevitable waste is amply provided for. About 30 p r cent, of the time expired men r.'join for a second term of three y« aw, for which they receive £1 bounty. Many more enrol in t,he Reserve, where they annually attend twelve drills and fire through their classes to keep up the knowledge acquired with the colors. Between Militia and Volunteers about three thousmd men have passed through the ranks, and are now moie r less trained to the use of arms they Jorm a considerable, though unenrolled, reserve upon whom it would be safe to rely ii case of emergency. The rising generation are also being steadily drilled at the State (atglice School Board) schools throughtout the Colony. All teach- ers have to pass in company drill before ap- pointment, and so well do they train their boys that more than once six or seven hundred lads, collected Irom various schools, have been marched on to the parade ground and have gone through a long battalion drill with great success. Throughout the force the phyiique is excellent. The infantry in height, build and ai;e, are decidedly su- peiior to the line reginents of the present day, and the Artillery can hold their own with their brethren at home. Of the remarkable loyalty and affoction for the Old Country «rhich prevades not oily the South Australians, but all the Australasian troops, ve will give one in- stance. Within four hours of the arrival in Adelaide of the news of our defeat at Ma- juba Hill three hundred men from the small defence force, we have been describing, hpd volunteered lor active service in the Trans- vaal, "to help our chaps against the Boers." The offer had already l^n telegraphed home when the other colonies hearing of it, instantly began to follow suit, and in tweniy-four bourse 2,000 sturdy Austral- ians had placed themselves at the service of the Home Government, eager to help to avenge the honor of the British flag. It is greatly to be hoped that the colomes will lose 10 time in federating for military and naval purposes. At present each member of the Australa- sian group works independently, without concert with her neighbors â€" a state of things which in time of peace is expensive, and in time of war might become danger- ous. Even more. pressing is the necessity for establishing a colonial government manu- factory of small-arm amunition in some cen- tral locality, whence the magazines could be replenished without need of constant ap- plication to the British authorities. Out of the population, which we may roughly estimate at 2,900,000, there are more than 16,000 men who voluntarily un- dertake military duties. The capital sums spent, or about to be spent, on permanent fortifioatious since 1877 (without reckouiug naval defences) amount to a million sterliug; while the estimated annual military espeuili- ture is calculated at £272 000 In the faje of these figures no one can accuse the Aus- tralian colonists. of too exclusively relying on Imperial protection in case of war. The Unexpected Vistor. The uninvited visitor drops upon us at most incouvenieottimes andseatoas.quiteas a matter of coarse, hke a poor relation, and proceeds to make henelf tho. oughly at home without more ado. Naturally we do nos expect any great amount of diffidence on the part of a pereoa who is bold CEongh to ij- trnde upoa the privacy of another withoat special request, and we are therefore but little surprised when we find her investigat- ing the upper storey of the house, or devis iog means lor invading the lOOOM that have been c ojed to her, or interviewing the se. • vanto when she deoiands eatables not upon the table, and tells us about the luxurious surroundings of h«r hwt hostess: when knowing the breakfast hour, she wilful'y liea in bed till that meal is spo'ded, till all the delicacies prepared for her deleotatioa have lost the'r leUsh and become indigeeti- tie when she is impatient if somethinft is not beirg done for her entertainment when she tompliins of the temperature of the din- ing loom in warm weather, and the tcrment o whe flies, the persistence of the mo quit ei, withoat MemiBg to realize that they are annoyancs to which she has voluntarily subjected herself; or when she is curious abo at o or w o rk. At the same time that she aggravates us with her peculiarities, her audacities interest and amuse us we find ourselves wondering what the will do or say next, and if she has exhausted her im- pertinences. And her peculiarities afford a instant theme for mirthful thought long aftei- she has left ui. E^Iah Freaehers. GanoD Liddon and the Bishop of Peter* borough stand out aa nnqneattonably the two finest preaohen at the Established Ghnroh. There is a story of a private sol- dier having gone to St. Paul's on an after- noon when Dr. Liddon was to preach. The pk-inted paper with the hymn was handed to him, Lut not nnderatanding that it was offered gratis he refused it witl^ a shake of the head, aayiog: "Ton don't suppose I shonld be here it I had got any money?" Mot of the people who go to hear the ido- quent Canon are different, from Hua soldier, tor they would pay â€" and very liberally â€" to ;et seais near the pulp t. Oa the af te.uo :t.^ ut the Sundays when Dr. Liddon is in resi- dence, the cathedral presents an extraordin- ary sight with ite huge uave aisles densel/ thronged. So far the preacher's voice will reach, people stand, straining eyes and ears, and fortuuately Dr. Liddon's voice le- aonnda well undor the dome, though now and then it becomes iudistiuot through the preacher's speaking too fast in his exsite- ment. Two other things occaiionally mar Dr. Lid lou's delivery. Shortntsss of sight makes him ctten stoop to oousult Bible or notes, aud agiin he bowothe head io a mark- ed manner when he utteis the holy name, but wheu he thus bends he troei on spealr'ug, 80 that his wcris tall on the pulpit cuihicn and are deadened, which producei upon p'to- plH who are at some lictle distance off the effect of continnal stDppiigea and gaps in the Hermon. No other defecte behide% these, however, cm be noted ia orations which for beauty of language, elevation of thouyht, and lucidity in reasoning could not be sur- pasbed. We have heard Dr. Liddon manf timea at Oxford and in London, aud hava observed that the impressiou produced by his eloquence was always the a\Me, no mat- ter who might be listening to him. vVe re- member in particular, a sermon of hii on the texi, "Tne kingdom of God cometh not with observation. ' It was absolutely mag- nificent to hear him propheby the gradnal progress of the world toward a higher state. Erei'v man, from the greatest to the le?s.' was made to feel his share of the respouiiibil ity in advauciog or retaidiiig the evolulio i ot mankind, aud while the cousequcucas of evil were pointed oat as extending to incal- culable leogtbs, there wa^ a sublime hope- fubiess in the promise that thesmalleiit good offei'iug brought to the Creator would.be multiplied by him aa the "five loaves were multiplied." How to Handle Bees. Ajscicntifio paper announces that in ite next issue wUl appear an elaborate arte e, entitled. "How to Handle Bees^ Now a hie L not a difficult thing to handle. He is as easUy picked up as a strawberry, and is ?^Xablyli«btard compressible. To han- dle him is therefori a mere song. Any man Ji^do it. In fad. the more ignorant of h^ a man is. thejnore easUyhe can handle onT The main .ifficulty seems to lie in nnietir g the man wwn afttr he has bandied TsmaU but frolwome bee. Tuere have been men known t» race around a ten-acre 1^ and eventuailsdoae their solvation after haAdline one bee br the tenth part of a tec ond The scieutift journal means well to doubt- but what tie country really needs is an article on how » avoid handUng bses. WHAT MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT WOMEN. The man who cm govern a woman can govein a nation. â€" [Balz x:. The mi^tpke of many wonen is to return seiuimeut foi* g.illaatry. â€" [Jony. It is ea'iier to make ^U Europe agree than two womeu.â€" rr.onis XIV" God oi'eated the coanetlie as soon as He had made the fooLâ€" [V!c:,Ox' Hugo. A woman who has surrendered her lips has surrendered everything. â€" [Viard. Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased tslove. â€" [Lemontey, Woman is a charming creature, who chan?es her heart as easily aa her gloves. â€" [Balzac. Who t.kes an eel by the tail or a womrn at her wuixl, boon finds he holds nothing. â€" [Proverb. How many women would lingh at the fo- ner^ of their husbands if it were not the custom to weep? Women deceived by men want to marry them; it in a k'ud of revenge as good a any other.â€" [B^umaaoir. An asp would render its bting more venom- ous by dipping it into the heart of a oo quette. â€" [Poiucelot. Rascal 1 That word on the Ups of a wo- man, addreinsed to a too daring man, often means â€" angels. We meet in society many attractive wo- men whom we would fear to make our wives,â€" D'Haileville. A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid.â€" [J. J. Rosaeau. Women swallow at one mouth'ul the lie that flatters and drink drop by drop a troth that is bitter.â€" [Diderot. She is the most virtuous woman whom nature has made the most voluptuous and reason the coldest. â€" [La Beanmelle. The Russian and the Horse. Paul's hoises were admonished and chas- tised if they forgot the respect due to their owner. Once he convened an extempore court of justice on the streets to try a horse which had just stumbled with him the brute â€" the ridden one â€" was sentenced to receive 50 lashes, and after the castig'^tion it was rebuked by the riding one "Taat, Sir, is for having stumbled with the Emper- or," While nourishing his cane in one of his uncontrollable fita of anger, he accident- ally struck the branch of a lustre, and broke it. Indignant at the lustre interpoaing it- self as an obstacle in ite way, he attecked it in right earnest, and beat it to powder. or English Origin. The practice of whittling is consi lered so distinctive of a genuine American that any attempt to claim for it an Eaglish origin would require ample crrroborati6n. In a little work published in Lmdon in 1794, en- titled "The Sentimentel Exhibition; or. Portraits and Sketehes of the Times," we find the following statement: "Monsieur Grosse or some other Frenchman remarks that when we English have no other employ- ment we are sure to do mischief, and there- fore when » parcel of Sailors go into an Ale- house at Wapping, the Landlord delivers to each of them a stick and a knife to amuse themselves with while the Flip is preparing, that they may not destroy his furniture." More Than He Conld Manage. "I say," said a busy drayman to a tramp who was holding himself up with a wall, "can't you come and he'p me load this dray?" "Naw," said the loafer, "Hain't got time." • Haven't noi time What in thunder are vou doing ' "N.ithin'" '•then you ought to have time to spa- e, if y lu're a^in^ !io;hin^." " Thar's waar you're wroDg," replied tho tramp. "Tn :r's !r. ore of i' taan I kiu 'tend t (." qUAINT AND CURIOUS. Lake Ooanbnnagingamaug (Maine p-^pers please oopy ham't been so full in five yean as it is now. The lake (not the name) forms a part of the boundary line between Masaa- chneetta and Gonneotioutt and is in the town of Webrter. Public atory tellera earn a (^ood livelihood in Japan. In Tokio alone over 600 of theae street improvisators ply their trade, provid- ed with a Btnall table, a fan, nnd paper-rap* por to illustrate ait emphasize the points of their tales. Travnlers rave aboutithe fo't parpl" litht .vl.icli fil s Ita'iaa skit^s an I givti«i a peculiar beauty to Italian m3tmtaiiis. This light has now been discovered on the mountains of Southern Cilifomia, and tonriste a-e so infi-rmsd by the railroad compauiea inter- ested. The craz3 for painting hoises all sorts of fancy colors in Atlanta has received a set- back. A demented citizen had a paintei- imitate the pattern and colon of a crazy qiilt on his houre. After the first coat was fiitahed the citizens rvwe as a m in and oom- p riled him to whitewash it over on pain of death. This was more thaa even a Georgia populace could stand. There is a man in Berrien Co., Ga who has not slept in a house since the war. He carries his eutira wardrobe with iiim where- ever he goes, as well aa his paotry aud kit- chen utensils, and spauda the night where- ever dark may overtake him He is a verit- able curiosity. He never reads newspapers, claiming that to read the B hie a it ihould be read occupies all of his time. Several days since he inquired of the edii/'r of a pv per if Germany and France were btill at war referring to the war of 1870. The soda deposits disnovertd 'n Wyom ' ing are rnique. Oae series is on the old Laramie Plains, fourteen miles from Luamie City, where there is a chain of o-called lakes five to tweut.y-five acres in area, aver- aging fifteen feet in depth. These deposite ara sulphate of co^a. It cuts out in chunk i like ic3. When wells are dug the watei' is so impregnated wilh soda that they are fill- ed up in a few days. In the Stveatwater Valley, n'ar Indeptnlenca Rock, are thirty- four deposits varying in siza fiom three and four acres up to thirty-two acres. A few of these are simply bodies of water highly charge i with sulphate of soda. The First Cotton Bale. Tais is the way the first bale is made: A number of planters within a radius of from five to ten miles meet and agree on one of their number who shall father the first bale. Then, aa the bolU open on their respeciiive plantations, each leathers the 8t..ple, and when he has a small bag full caniei it to the member selected. The "father" then weighs the cotton and enteis it ia a book to the credit of the contributor. This process is continued from day to day until suffisient cotton has beeu obtaiued to make a mer- chantable bale. It is then ginned, baled and forwarded to the market offeripg the highest pi-eminm. On the arrival of the first ba*e in the market selected, it bears the cer- tificate that it was raibed by the member of thelaa^iie who had been selected as the fa- ther. Taen it is decorated with fl^gs and flowers and p;;raded about the city. The pre- mium offei-ed is p:;id to it^ father, and the bale is soM at public auctio i. aud invariably brings a fancy price. This amount is also one of the perquisites of the father. Then that horn St husbandman returns home and divides the profito with the members of the league in proportion to the cottoi contribu* ted. The Taildng Talent of the English. I found an abundance of good talkers in England. F(0in Lord SaMs'om'y on the p'.vifo.m in "Pailiament out of Session" down to the humblest political rei'o "ner harawguing a motlsy crowd on t'ae band bill at Newcaotle-upon-Tyne, or the earnest young womsu o" the balvatioa Aficy warn- ing a Lo-tdon throng of the coirJ.'g of the com'ng oftlisday of judgme-it, the public speaLeiS of the Kinglom seamed to me to be fluent, direct, effective, and perfecdy at home on the sfcuiap. Thtr i is., of cou ise, a class of highly cuiiiured. reiy btudious and scholarly mea. specimens of which have visited thi country as lectiu-ers, whose homes have for a lifetime been ia the study, whobe long habit of ncn-iuteroourbe with the masses, and puisuit of au'ohoi'ship seems to have completely uufltled them for pablic spdakiug, and who are when they attempt it, but awkwar^, shy, stammering speci- mens of tediousuess. A Good Idea. A New Orleans dressmaker, who em- ployes a large force of workwomen, hai be- tiind her house a large, old-fashioned garden, in which her workwomen dig, plant, grow flowers and otherwise amuse themselves dnring their mid-day rest. Every day at 12 o'clock the girls ul hurry through their lunch in order to spend th 3 most of their hour at their beautiful and fascinating re- creation. Mme. H. does not require her workwomen to keep garden, but she tells them the garden is there, and they may cul- tivate in it anything they choose of course, the fmita of their toil being for themselves. The lady argues that the changa of work is most grateful to her seamstresses that they work Detter and are better natored, and are improved in health since her garden project. S le herself, by the way, is very proud of her own pateh in the "community garden." Mme H.^ wisdom may at least gi\re a sug- gBstion to other employers. Just for Fan. It was a Toronto street car. A woman was runniog after it with frantic haste, jumping up aid down at every step, waving her parasol in the air, and shrieking "C^r Car " at the top of her voice. To her said the conductor slowly, as he roached for the bell: " D-o y-o-u w-a-n-t to r-i-d e " "Oa, no," gasped the woman, as she swung herself on the platform, "I want to walk. I want to follow this car to the end of the route I I want to make a spectacle of myself fot the amusement of the pissen- geri who do ride 1" !»!., I â- " ^li m A Detroit river fisherman says that the pike of the Straits fs a very deiiruativefish. One that was recently speared had swallow- ed another pike and that pike had swallow- ed a perch. The tnuble with the whola bui^iness is absut swallowing the story. Hnll